#knowing what happens to the.......... witch guy. i forgot their name

[uniquezombiedestiny]

forgot to add. um.

autism and also bella featured

OHHH THEM <3 ive been thinking of playing in stars and time... might start on it bc of this. i love them <3

[parasolemn]

jesus christ im so fucking tired of people hating on jean vicquemare for literally no reason... pardon me bc im gonna go on a rant about this

he's quite literally one of THE most important characters to the story, he's the bridge between current harry and harry before he drank the amnesia potion, having been one of the closest people to harry for at LEAST two years... y'all r always saying "b-but he only has 10 minutes of screen time!!! how can he be important?" as if the damn game wouldn't have even happened if the necromancer wasn't there, and he's there for even LESS time than jean 😭

so like, excuse me for being fucking interested in what's going on between him and harry I guess??? there's just enough vaguely hinted in the game to be interested in what's going on there, like in EDC passives that show him at the radiant conglomerate of magic talking to the other witches about harry, the stuff you can talk to him about in-person when he's wildshaped outside the cottage,,,, he's literally just. A Sad Man. who cares about his partner. you guys will find literally any reason to hate on him lmfao. also I'm sorry but he's more interesting to me than the tarot card maker and the cat's owner and literally everyone else you guys keep going on about lmfao, sorry I forgot their names that's how much I literally do not gaf about them

alsooo like. ppl are always going on abt what he does and calling him a bad person for it, but like . everything he does is completely fucking reasonable for his situation???

if I was just trying to help my best friend be a better person and he fucking turned around and BROKE my favourite cauldron over it in front of our whole club and (basically) told all of us to screw off?? after two YEARS of what is practically psychological abuse??? i think i'd snap and leave him there as well. it's not HIS fault harry chose to break his broom and his spellbook and trade his wand for the potion. they're both grownass men lmfao. you guys would say "prioritise your mental health!!!" if this was happening IRL but i guess it's different here.

and YES he CAN leave harry behind in the alps AGAIN if kim gets turned into a frog in the tribunal. but like. if we're going by theoretical scenarios. then wouldn't that make harry a bad person too? you can call kim a big nerd and make him really upset if you fail the cottage check, be hostile to the hardie familiars for literally no reason, you can STEAL THE FIVE GUARDIAN GEMS FROM THE CAT... but y'all aren't ready for that conversation I guess lmfao. also see it from jean's perspective too, if my slacker partner said he'd found the culprit who put the cat in the tree and it was the last necromancer left in the alps and the pheromones from the only known magic-less man who came from a different fucking world made him do it I probably wouldn't believe him either lol

btw he's the only queercoded character in the game (yes i know about Judit, you can be queer and in a straight relationship ffs) so y'all are just finding reasons to be homophobic lmfaoooooo 😐

my pookieee <3

[monsoonceroom]

New Spy x Family chapter! Let's Gooooo!

So Damian & co (but mostly Damian) are studying when the above drops. I did google this & apparently 'Mitera' means 'Mother' in Greek, so this is likely their version of Ancient Greece. Pretty neat imo.

With Ostania's economy probably in shambles after the war, I wonder if this boom was partially because of the country's citizens hoping for a way to get back on their feet financially by selling some sweet ancient relics.

It's nice to know that they had twitter in 1960/1970's Ostania. Weak joke, I know.

Anyways, treasure hunting happens & while the boys are in proper attire, the 3 butlers are in suits in the middle of a freakin' forest. This would be absolutely miserable in real life. However, with this being Spy x Family, I automatically assume they're much too professional to allow even a single speck of dirt to sully their clothes & will be vaporized immediately.

Also, it looks like their hair colors are inversions of the kids? Instead of 1 brunette & 2 blonds, it's 2 brunettes & 1 blond. Also that Egeberg butler does look pretty fine.

Shush you! Damian already knows his family life is shit; let him be happy!

It's cute to see them explore the wonder's nature has to offer. Also did they not bring enough water, so they had to resort to drinking from waterfalls? Props for getting it from fast running water rather than a stagnant pool though.

STRRRIKE! Maybe I'm just exaggerating, but I lowkey wonder if Jeeves can give Martha a run for her money when it comes to physical prowess. While not much in terms of what we've already seen throughout the series (especially compared to Yor) I imagine not many people would have been able to use an acorn like a bullet.

:(

Have some food to cheer up, Damian!

Hold up; wild-caught venison? Did the butlers hunt deer while treasure hunting? They probably brought the food with them but the image of guys in suits stalking a deer is hilarious.

Lol, Ewen & Emile are like 'Did he just call us peasants?'.

Damian is calling upon the spirits to guide him.

Oh crap, it backfired & now he's possessed!

Not to worry! A kind spider has come to help!

Maybe the real treasure was the big ass flower we found along the way.

A quick google search says that 'Geschocran' when translated into English means 'Projectile Crane', so nothing too crazy there considering the pistil on that thing. I checked to see if maybe the name 'Witch's Crib' had any real-world equivalent although nothing came up aside from baby cribs & witch hazel. I wonder what the in-universe lore is on the 'Witch's Crib' name?

Goddamn kids these days & their helicopters. Back in MY day we had to wait hours in the car to get somewhere, uphill, both ways in the snow in 180 degree weather.

More sad Damian & Jeeves trying to talk to him about it. Also no one else is home? Where the frick did everyone go? Let's see; Melinda has her own place so she's probably chillin' there, Demetrius is likely studying at a library, & Donovan is, I don't know, concocting evil schemes in his lair or something.

Yooo! Damian's accusing Jeeves of being a snitch! At least Damian forgot he was sad.

KSKSKSKSKSKSKSKSK Looks like Damian tried to impress Anya & then complained to Jeeves about it later. I wouldn't doubt it if Jeeves is feeding Melinda info, but alas, we have no proof.

[startanewdream]

Prompt: "Are we going to talk about it?" "I'd rather not".

That's me, finally writing something for @jilytoberfest!

*****

A door bumps somewhere in the castle — it could be on the North Tower or right next to them, she cannot tell — and Lily breaks apart. She takes a moment to reorient herself: Lily Evans, that's her name; she is a witch, currently in her last year in a magic school — an excellent student, Head Girl and all; her lips are burning; James Potter is in front of her — and, oh, she just kissed the guy that's been popping up in all her dreams lately.

The guy, incidentally, who has just bent over to pick up her scattered books and is now offering them back without meeting her eyes.

"Ah—"

She accepts the books, staring down at the covers as if they are written in a foreign language. Did she forget how to read?

"Er—" Perhaps she also forgot how to speak. God, she is a mess, right? And all because...

Her lips tingle. She can still feel the taste of his mouth — the hot cinnamon tea he enjoys every morning, with a drop of lemon —, can recall the movements of his tongue. It had been perfect, the way no other kiss had ever felt; no one else had the added bonus of making her heart soar, all of her claiming for more—

She's nearly reaching him, adamant on kissing him again, when he turns around.

"I'll get the Potions books," he says, continuing a conversation that Lily has no memory of, and vanishing out of sight.

She watches the place where he was, urging him to appear, and when James doesn't, her glance falls to the books. Transfiguration books. Right. This sparks something.

They were talking about a joint assignment that would get them extra credit in two classes that they didn't need any extra points but they both enjoyed. They were picking the books they would use, and as always happened when Transfiguration was involved, James was sparking: his eyes shone as he compared authors and discussed theories; hands unable to stand still as he would pass the books to Lily, running up through his hair not out of nervousness, but excitement; and sunshine came through one of the high windows of the library as if the sun wanted to greet him, and Lily had thought... Actually, she hadn't. The books had fallen from her hands as she threw her arms around his neck and proceeded to kiss him as if her life depend on it.

And James had answered with an intensity that didn't match the way he was now walking back to her, shoulders slumped and avoiding her eyes.

"There's a place for us there," he says, pointing to the middle of the library, where all the other students were. Public place.

Lily blinks. "We've just kissed."

"Yeah." His fingers itch, but he cannot move his hand with all the books he's holding. "I've noticed it."

Her lips tingle even now. She wonders if they are as raw as she feels.

When James just looks as if he will walk past her, something snaps inside Lily.

"Are we going to talk about it?"

"I'd rather not."

She purses her lips for a moment; it doesn't help with the tingle.

"Oh, right." Her voice sounds off. "Just forget it."

"I'm trying, I mean—" He looks around before lowering his voice. "I am sorry, okay? I shouldn't have grabbed you and—"

"What are you talking about?"

James shakes his head, looking guilty. "See, that's why I didn't want to discuss this—if we can just move past, please, Evans—"

"Are you insane? You didn't grab me, I was the one who pulled you!"

He blinks. Twice.

"No?"

"Yes."

"But I made you drop the books."

"No, I did. Rather rude of me." She stares at him. James looks nothing but confused. "Do you remember what happened?"

"Not really, I was talking and then we were—you know—and, to be honest, a hippogriff might invade the library and start tap dancing and I wouldn't notice anything but you." Her heart jumps, especially because James sounds only earnest. He tilts his head like an owl. "Did you really kiss me?"

"And I thought you had noticed it."

"I mean, did you really mean to kiss me?"

"I didn't plan it," she mumbles, which may be only half-truth. Somewhere in her dreams, there had been elaborate plans of how to snog him — her last one involved the locker room, hot steam from the pipes, a black dog she had seen around, and a singing coral. "But I'm not regretting it. I've wanted to do it for some time." She bites her lip. "And you?"

"Hmm." There's a smile at the corner of his lips. "I need you to return those books you're holding." He nudges his own pile of books. "I'll do the same, be back in a few."

"James?"

"The new librarian has been giving detention to people who don't return the books," is all he says, vanishing again.

She is sure he lost his mind, but she returns the books all the same. In what seems seconds, James is back, all grinning now.

"All done," he announces proudly.

"Why the urgency?"

"I really cannot afford a detention right now."

"James Potter actually doing an effort to avoid detention?"

"What can I say, Evans? You bring the best in me." He offers his hand. "Shall we?"

"Where?"

"Anywhere, really, but I was thinking about someplace bright." He waves his hand and Lily takes it. James' hand is as warm as his lips. "I was hoping to notice every detail this second time."

"Oh." Her cheeks flush, but Lily doesn't mind. "I might jump on you again."

"Thanks for the warning." He beams. "I've been waiting for you to do it for quite some time now."

No more lost time, Lily thinks, with a feeling this might be her last coherent thought for some time now.

[sweetiecelin]

About a Tot

For that one Anon who requested little brother!reader but taking place during 'About a Boy', and instead of Dean being aged down it was reader. I really had fun writing this and I hope y'all like it!

Summary: basically Sam and Dean were able to baby their baby brother once more.

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Sam and Dean were very confused when they got a call from the police station about a 4 year old who claimed to be their brother. Hell, the kid even gave the cops the right phone number too. Having to face the inevitable, they headed out.

You were sitting there kicking your feet back and forth, waiting for your brothers to come and get you. Dear lord, you remember being this age and it was kind of shitty. It was the year before Sam left, he started distancing himself from you and your family. It hurt because you didn’t know why he was doing it but in retrospect you understood he didn’t want it to hurt you too much when he left. But then you had to grow up with Dean and your Dad bickering over the smallest thing. Sam leaving hurt you more than he expected, growing up you had to watch John drinking himself beyond recognition and Dean finding any excuse to get away, even if that meant leaving you with the drunkard of a Dad you shared.

You started crying, tears swelling in your eyes and lip quivering. Shaking your head, mentally thinking to yourself ‘Man up, you don’t get to cry’ as you’ve heard so many damn times growing up. You snapped your head in the direction everytime the door to the station opened, but this time it was them

“Sammy! De!” You jumped out of the chair and started running towards them with your arms open. They looked confused at first, but then a recognixed you. There was their little brother; looking the same as when Sam left(for the first time) and Dean had taken care of when he could.

Dean bent down and picked you up, “Hey buddy,” glancing around at the officers that were staring at the scene. “We’re gonna take you home now, alright?”

“You’re going to need to sign a waiver and sign him out. What were you thinking letting a child walk around all by himself?” The snippy secretary cut in.

Sam apologized and signed what he needed to while Dean carried you to the impala. He placed you on the hood just staring at the sight. Why the hell would a witch do something like this?

Sam walked out and joined the two of you over by the impala. He looked between you and Dean. You were just so little, he forgot what it felt like to see you like this. You just sat there with a pissed off look on your face, which was really hard to do being a 4 year old.

Clearing his throat Sam and called your name, “Did you see anything it’ll help us? Did you see who- or what- was doing this?”

“No, I was-was leaving a bar and then this f-flash of wight, SHIT. I can’t speak right,” You struggled to say while trying to sound serious. “A bright light just happened and then I’m like this!”

Dean chuckled a little, “So what, big flashing light and bam you're a tot again?”

“Well, yeah! But that’s not all, I woke up in this woom. Dammit. And there was this guy, a big scary guy. He took the girl in the other room next to me, she was kicking and screaming.

Sam was following tentatively but on the other hand, Dean was trying to control his laughter, “Dude you can’t even speak right! It’s hilarious!”

“De, now is not the time. We’ve got to get to everyone-” You tried to continue but again were cut off by your older brother.

“No, you’re not going to help with this one. You’re literally too young to handle this one,” Sam ordered, raising his hand up, “You’re a four year old for god sake.”

You threw your head out of frustration, starting to kick your feet up, “This is so unfair! I didn’t ask to be turned into a kid!”

“Yeah, well you’re actually throwing a temper tantrum right now,” Dean retorted and cocked his head to the side.

“Can we just go to the motel room and discuss this there?” You pleaded with them.

Sam and Dean nodded. The three of you hopped in the impala and went back to the motel. There, you discussed the case with your brothers

You yawned, stretched and then rubbed your eyes. Sam and Dean shared a look and quietly chuckled. They missed seeing this; their little brother just being a kid.

Dean walked over and placed you on the bed, “Alright champ, get some sleep. Looks like you need it.”

“I don’t wanna. We were getting close-”

Sam shook his head, “No, seriously you need to sleep. Gotta be well rested if you want to grow being and strong.”

“Now you guys are just being assholes.” Muttering you laid down on your side, trying to keep your eyes open, “Can we get lucky charms tomorrow?”

Your two older brothers shared a look, then Dean softly agreed, “Yeah kid, we can make sure you got lucky charms in the morning.”

“Good, we can share ‘em,” you yawned, finally getting some sleep.

[theneighbourunderthebed]

Uhm. Have a note I made whilst sleep deprived a few like.. weeks ago

Yes, I did edit it. A lot

Favorite longform characters because I can't sleep

(LONG POST!! ↓)

Father Andrews

A Christian with Buddhist beliefs? Normal AJ shenanigans. No but tell me a time where he hasn't mixed two things together, confusing the crowd and the other guys.

I'll wait.

Alexa

Look, Tom characters always have my heart, soul and wallet, okay? Alexa is just so :) I love her :)

Don Cicicio

Was torn between the two Tom characters. I absolutely adore Jimmy but ough Don Cicicio my beloved... He's so morally wrong but he's so silly I love him. Fucking indirectly liked AJ's head.. So silly.. So evil..

André Betroot (+ his tutu wearing assistant)

The only reccuring character I can think of. He's so iconic that he just materialized into a different play. I'm his biggest fan I adore him so much!! (Somerset Beetroots! & Bobsleigh Bobsleigh! have been stuck in my brain to the point where I have to blurt it out every time I remember it and I blame Luke for that)

Witch Finder General

I don't make the rules. The one with the most lines that end up stuck in my brain becomes my favorite. I love WFG so so so much he's so so so silly yet so so so morally questionable.

Inga

Became my favorite because she knows what to do with wolves and is the only character I can think of that isn't German in this play. Her different accent gave me mild whiplash and I love that.

Mary

WOMEN IN STEM!! LOOK I DON'T MAKE THE RULES. THE MOMENT A CHARACTER IS MY TYPE IS THE MOMENT THEY BECOME MY FAVORITE (+ she also has the most lines I have ingrained in my brain). I LOVE MARY SO SO SO SOOOO MUCH!!

Mario The Sheep

Again, the moment a character has the most lines stuck in my brain is the favorite. Mario has me baa-ing almost every time I talk. I blame him for all the weird looks my mom gives me when I go "🐑Inbred?🐑"

Philip + Derek

Philip spoke one time, never appeared again. I love other assistant Philip so much. That one audience member has my wallet because I willingly gave it to them. But of course, assistant Derek has my heart. Love the Woodmans so so much.

Troll Mother

Obvious pick was Troll Son BUT I love Troll Mother purely because she appeared twice and only spoke in one of those appearances.

Juliet

Obvious pick. I love homocidal women who are pretty :) She's just so :)

Sherlock Holmes

Shirley Houses is my favorite detective!! Or was it Sherry Lots? Uh... BASTA!! THEM!! MY FAVORITE!! That's all :)

Priscilla's Mother

I forgot her name but I love her so much. DO NOT INSULT HER STAGECRAFT!! She's doing her best :) But anyways, most lines remembered = favorite :)

Marty jr.

First character that I've thought about for hours after watching the play, probably because TEMAWK is the first play I finished. So so chaotic and so so homicidal. I love that little bastard :)

Derek

The way I went "DEREK SPOTTED!!" when he was introduced should be concerning. No but he's so silly and I love him. We love a man that isn't toxic like his best mate is :)

Justin Willoughby

I already put André so!! More Tom characters!! Justin is coping terribly and I want to give him a hug for it. He's just so :( I love him so so so much :( My poor boy :(

Peter Steven

This is the 10th Tom character on the list. There are currently 16 characters as of writing this. I'm not sure if I just love Tom or just really love Tom. Anyways, FREE MY MANS!!! HE JJST WANTS TO PLAY OUTSIDE AND BE A HEALTHY CHILD :((

Johnny + Janae

Look, I know this is supposed to be favorite character and not favorite characterS but.. I love both of them so so so much they're my bebes.. You cannot have one without the other and you cannot convince me otherwise. They're just so me-core I lav them :)

Mrs. Xavier

Certified 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴 seven days a week </3 She just put the thought of her child fucking her other child's husband in her mind, let the chaos happen, and then just took the thought back in her own because "it's good".

James James

He's like. The only character I genuinely remember from The Prime Minister's First Day (I definitely need to rewatch this one) but he's just so sillaye I love him.

Theresa May

Important character that knows how to defeat the antagonist, dies immediately. I don't know why but a character being introduced as important but then dies almost immediately is so funny to me and bumps them up to favorite character status.

That one person who scrum

Genuinely the only thing I remembered from The Ingredients is the scene where Sam just SCREAMS.

Marie-Claire

Was only mentioned, but Cliff and Chip talking about her death immediately shot her up to favorite character status. No but the idea of her just going "wee!!" when she threw herself off a cliff, while depressing, is incredibly funny to me.

Persephone

ANOTHER Tom character. I'm so so sorry but I love Tom so so much he's just so good at any role he assumes and just.... Persephone is not an exception to this.

Fullset O'Hands (+ Caravan Hutch... Or is his name Lots?)

Okay. These two freaks are just so :3 I'M SORRY BUT YOU CAN'T JUST GIVE ME TWO WEIRDOS AND EXPECT ME TO BE NORMAL ABOUT THEM. THEY'RE SO ME-CORE I LOVE THEM SO SO MUCH.

Andrew

SAVE MY BOY!!! HE DID NOTHING WRONG!!! HE WAS JUST A BIT EAGER!!! FREE HIM!!!

Magnus O'puss

Don't give me Tom playing a character like THIS and expect me to act normally. I'm sorry but sometimes I can't tell if I want to be them or if I want them. Tom playing the fandom's queer icon definitely makes it harder for me to decide.

Pointy

Again, you cannot give me a weirdo and expect me to be okay about it. He's just so :) I lav him :)

Scottish Batman

YOU DON'T TELL SCOTTISH BATMAN TO FUCK OFF!! HE IS THE NIGHT!!! HE IS VENGEANCE INCARNATE!!!!

That fucking kid

I'm sorry but that little "Rapier!! :D" got me. WHY ARE TOM'S KID CHARACTERS SO :3 YET SO D: I'M SOBBING ON THE FLOOR HE CAN'T DO THIS TO ME

The barkeep

"Be careful™". That's. That's all. That's all you need to know (PS. The way he fucking fell omfg)

The French kraken

It's uh. The only character I can remember at the moment so uh. Half-mime half-giant octopus my beloved 🛐

The blond dog

Again, only "character" I can rember atm. Luke was 100% going for horse. Nooo noo, that's blond dog 👍 (was this even in this play? i don't know)

D.I Mannering

You can't just give me a character that goes against their sibling and ends up killing them because they're on opposing sides and expect me NOT to imagine terrible tragedies happening

The witches

Fucking freaks. Absolute weirdos. I love them mfs </3

Amanda

I don't really remember this play but I remember really liking Amanda for some reason

Don Juan's wife

I forgot her name but I LOVE HER SO MUCH RGHHSSGHD. She just slays so much ough.......

Xavier

The obvious choice. 19th Tom character on the list btw. Anyways. C'est Xavier!! C'est Xavier!! Aaaaaah!! *fains cutely*

[dayseedrawz2]

My thoughts on episode 3 + theories!!

I'll talk more about this on my YT, but for now here's a tumblr version

(SPOILERS BELOW)

Okay so starting off, my unfiltered thoughts throughout the episode

-They actually spend time together when outside the adventures aww! (Not like they really have a choice, but still neat-)

-Jax being a bitch

-"Zooble turns Straight" Welp, the whooooooole fandom was right!

-Bubbles reversed dialouge. Damn they really don't want those content farms no more.

-CAINE AN POMNI INTERACTION YEAAAA (It was one piece of dialogue I'm so delusional)

-He made this adventure JUST for Zooble cuz they never go and he really wants them to GUYS HES NOT A VILLAN SEE?

-Jax being a bitch

-LUIGIS MANSION REFRENCE FUCKING YESSS

-Wow the visual here are super pretty :o

-...and horrifying

-Jax being a bitch

-I haven't mentioned yet but the lil quirky powers or whatever are cool

-Wow the lore Caine writes for these stories is just like your average artist who torments their OCs (he so me fr)

-2D ANIMATION!!! Also Kinger and Pomni being like the funniest duo ever

-HOLY FRICKLE FRACKLE THEY DEFINITELY DID NOT WANT CONTENT FARMS TO FIND THIS EPISODE

-the monster is awesome looking tho

-THE THERAPY SESSION SEGMENTSS AAA

-Also Caine has a Trans flag hanging somewhere in the circus neat

-He forgot he could use his powers to just teleport Zooble to him lol

-Back to the spooky stuff

-Wow Kinger can actually use a gun! (Never thought I'd be saying that sentence-)

-KINGER AND POMNI GO TO ACTUAL HELL WHILE THE REST JUST HAVE A TEA PARTY WITH MARTHA

-Also JAX IS TIED UP BAHAHAHA

- "You know how men are, always having the silliest priorities..." "Heh, dont i know it!" I think the bunny doll shippers really like that scene

-Zooble has some sorta body dismorphia and has opened up about it to Caine multiple times seems like

-Uhh Caine... you okay buddy? CAINE YOU GOOD BRO? CAI

-CAINE HAS EMOTIONS/SELF AWARNESS CONFIRMED???

-Pomni gets fucking posessed ok

-now we know why it looked like kinger was hitting Pomni with the shotgun

-KINGER AND QUEENIE WERE MARRIED CONFIRMED???

-Father daughter bonding aww...

-I love how the whole fandom took one good look at Ragatha and went:

GAY GAY GAY HOMOSEXUAL GA-

-also Pomni and Ragatha are on good terms now aww...

-Caine and Zooble Should Pass that pipe from ep 2 and legitemently vent to each other

-Jax is pissed because the Jester actually had a good fucking day for once lmao stay mad

-NOW WE KNOW WHY HE STAYS IN THAT PILLOWFORT IM GONNA FUCKIN CRY NOW

Overall, this was definitely my favorite episode so far! The team is getting better each and every episode! SOOO much happened here!! I'm super excited to see what happens next!!

Okay, THEORY TIME!!

-Okay so to start lightly, so far, all the episodes we've seen contain:

Gangles mask breaking

Jax breaks the 4th wall

A cute/sad heart to heart conversation or interaction

A reference to angels or god or Christianity in some way

Interesting right?? Wonder if this keeps up...

-On the topic of Christianity, I saw a theory saying that if it's true that the gang developed the game (which may be true because of that computer science line), When Pomni says "I knew it would end up like this... He just wants me to suffer..." she may not be referring to Caine, but her Boss at CnA.

If that boss exists and is NOT named able, Imma be mildly upset-

-Okay, Alot of people have been talking about Jax being an NPC, and I wanna bring up my opinion on this:

As I mentioned earlier, he always breaks the 4th wall, witch could be seen as a character in a game being like "What do YOU think?" *Insert Game Options here*

I saw another theory saying that if this is true, Jax might be self aware or sentient to some degree, and This is why he tortures everyone. He knows that this world Revolves around the players and nit him so he wants to make them more miserable.

-OKAY, NOW WHAT (I) WEVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR... THE WHOLE DEAL WITH CAINE GLITCHING OUT AN' STUFF!

As one of many Caine angst connisuars on this platform, I really enjoyed this scene...

Caine knows that he only exists to make adventures and if he can't do it well enough than he serves ZERO purpouse and his existence is useless... (he's just like me fr)

This has SO MUCH POTENTIAL FOR A SERIES FINALE.

Since in each episode we've (mostly) seen a character being comforted (mostly Either Pomni being comforted OR someone being comforted BY Pomni)

What if the last episode had Caine and Pomni having a heart to heart?

(Shutup this is not about showtime I swear let me have this-)

Someone abstracts, (Ragatha or Kinger probably,) and it's Caine's last straw. He finally breaks and the circus goes into ruins. Pomni does her best to comfort him. This could go one of two ways:

Either she sucseeds and happy ending for everyone :D

OR, they fail and The Circus is destroyed, Taking Caine down with it.

Maybe then that would be how they escape cuz if Caine is emotionaly attached to the circus, it would be completely destroyed or erased if Caine finally broke...

The angst potential is crazy...

This is terrifyingly close to what I wanted to do with R-M AU UHHH I MEAN-

Anywayyyy I believe that's all! If yall have anymore theories lemme know!!

[cookieshipshowdown]

/KICKS DOOR AS ENTRANCE

i just stumbled with the pure chaos this account is, and I want to share the rarepair I got attached because of multiple tiny reassons pulling up and dragging me there:

✨ Caramel Arrow x Red Velvet ✨

This is actually good, I swear if you think about it is everything at once:

They are enemies, but they could be friends because they do have compatible characteristics and personalities

they have dark Choco in common, they can talk about that

they are low-key child soldiers who base their whole life to serve to an specific líder even if it hurts them in the process. And that has left a mark on them but different in each case.

Miss Earthbread x Husband of the year. Celebrity AU. I hate it but there is even a fucking Taylor Swift song that fits with this.

Caramel Arrow has issues with the CoD because of what happened with Dark Choco + Affogato is there

Red Velvet for obvious reasons has issues with the side of the ancients + he already has dealt with an blindly loyal woman with arrows before and that didn't went well

Both even with those issues, I feel they would have a certain respect for each other if they are ever crossed in the battlefield because they both have moral codes. They are not inmediatly violent, they both wouldn't attack unless provoked. If the circumstances made it, the could TALK before jumping to battle. And that.... OOOOOH GOD.

This is screaming enemies to friends to lovers to doomed by the narrative

DOOMED BY THE NARRATIVE MY FAVORITE TYPE OF DOOMED SHIP!!!!!!!!!

CHILD SOLDIERS MOMENT ACTUALLY. No ok oko ok ok ok ok ok listen listen listen listen.

Caramel Arrow finds Red Velvet in the snow while doing a patrol. She brings him back to the citadel, but as soon as he's well enough to leave, he's gone -- taking supplies with him.

She thinks that it was weird he left without saying anything, but it passes from her mind quickly enough. He didn't seem especially dangerous, considering how badly dressed he was for the weather.

She's doing another patrol when it happens again. She finds him. Talking to Chiffon. And she just kinda... watches. Because there's this strange guy in the woods who doesn't know how to keep warm, and he has a cake hound as a pet.

It's weirdly endearing, watching this stranger play with his dog, unbeknownst to the soldier watching him from the treeline.

Until he looks up.

And their eyes meet.

Red Velvet, of course, bolts. Caramel Arrow, naturally, chases after him. Eventually catches him and pins him to the ground. Asks him what he's doing all the way out here.

He mumbles something about a mission and "stupid Choco.."

Consider her interest piqued. None of them had seen hide nor hair of the prince since he left after betraying his father. Dark Cacao was itching for any sort of news, but never stated it outright.

They talk, she lets him up, he shares news of Dark Choco, and waves as he disappears into the snow.

She forgot to ask his name.

She forgot to ask for his name! Oh, Witches, she's dumb.

They keep meeting. He keeps sharing news. She keeps bringing dog treats and snacks from the citadel.

Caramel Arrow never asks about his arm; she's seen stranger. Red Velvet appreciates it more than she knows.

...Dawg I'm about to write a wholeass fic. Dawg you can't do this to me.

Anyways. Top Ten Best Rarepairs APPARENTLY???????

........Do I have time to write the fic. I. Ouh.

[lillymakesart]

foxkin lore pt1

HI i wanna talk about my OC foxkin!!!!!

originally i was gonna do series of illustrations for his story but capitalism has thwarted my plans once again this week 😭 work was absolutely insane and i was creatively dead the last few days BUT i still want to talk about him and this is my art account so im gonna talk about him!!!!!!!!!! i hope that's okay with u guys!!!!!!!!!!!

this is foxkin:

his design is fox derivative

he is very much human but definitely very HAIRY for a lil guy

if u ever see him without the hairy chest and happy trail it's because i literally forgot 😭 it's already happened once it's probably gonna happen again

he works as an assistant for a witch in the woods, and helps her forage, prepare spell ingredients, keep their cottage clean, fetch water, alphabetize her spellbook, etc etc

this is his witch, lilith:

she is very much mother

her wand is a three-pronged stick, which can grow and shrink in size (because it's magic✨) she carries it everywhere she goes

foxkin sees her as beautiful, kind, generous, and very very wise

he listens to most things she says and works hard for her approval

lilith the witch is very much preoccupied with her work most of the time

a typical day in their lives entails lilith sending foxkin out into the woods with a list of chores - collecting herbs and fungi, retrieving animals from traps, helping her refresh various protective spells/charms she's left on the forest floor

every evening, lilith spends a few hours teaching foxkin how to read words and spells from her spellbook

foxkin generally obliges, although sometimes he can be a little sassy and complain

lilith is very patient with him, and finds his lil quips very funny and enjoys his company

at the end of each day, lilith holds foxkin until he falls asleep

he is very happy and loves her very much

things go on like this, and life is good for a while

but one day, things start changing

foxkin notices that lilith has started to say strange things: "i won't be here forever", "do you remember what i've taught you?", "i just want you to be safe" and similar things, and foxkin doesn't know why

foxkin can sense she is growing anxious, but when he asks her she would just smile and avoid the question

she tells him everything will be okay. he believes her

one day, after foxkin has been put down to sleep, a terrible storm rocks their cottage

lightning splits the sky and thunder bellows so loud that the shutters slam open and bang a terrible ruckus in the night

foxkin wakes and screams for lilith, but she doesn't come to him

he wants to go to her but the thunder and lightning is loud and he is terrified

he cries himself to sleep listening to the rain and thunder and wind and rain, his room is cold and all he wants is lilith

the next morning, foxkin catches a cold from sleeping through the storm with his window open

he feels terrible, and finally gets up to search for lilith

but she is nowhere to be found

he searches everywhere, he calls her name from the cottage door, he goes to the creek, the cliff, the forest clearing, and every place he knows that he has ever been to shivering and sick

he comes back to the cottage and decides to just wait for her

days pass, then weeks

foxkin eats cold scraps from their food store, but it's not enough. eventually, he runs out of food.

the witch was the one that would cook for him and set traps for animals. foxkin had never done it himself

for the next few days he forages and tries desperately to trap. he is hungry and malnourished

he finally snares his first rabbit

he has collected animals from the witch's traps before, but he has never killed before

he feels sorry for the rabbit, and his stomach churns. he doesn't want to do it

but he looks again at the squirming animal, the blood on the neck from the snare

something awakens within him buried deep in his subconscious

he remembers that he has seen this scene before, but in a different life. once, when he was a creature on all fours with sharp teeth, he has eaten rabbit before

but the memory is foggy and odd, and makes him feel strange and not quite himself

his stomach growls and he can no longer control his hunger. he puts the rabbit out of its misery

he cuts the stomach open and eats the organs raw

it makes him feel sick but at least he isnt hungry anymore

okay that's it for part 1!! foxkin's story is more of a tragedy so it'll get gradually worse from here. i'll do a part 2 whenever i have energy

[eowynstwin]

if we're gonna be talking about myka again, I just need everyone who hardcore harrased Madi over this to know: you guys fell for someone lying about military service and when she faced the slightest bit of criticism over a very real pattern in the fandom, she pretended to kill herself. You went on a witch hunt in the name of someone who was lying to you from day fucking one. Go outside and touch grass.

I’d rather if we didn’t—I need to, because the few times I talked about it directly did not really solve how I feel about it. I feel a bit like people forgot that she did this specifically to me, because I criticized her. Yes, it affected many, many other people, and their feelings about the situation are valid and they deserve to express them, but I was her target, first and foremost. Sheheal made dozens of posts specifically going after me. Bunny and Ikea led a witch hunt after me.*

Because here’s the thing—I’m aware of at least one blog who has been dragging the Myka scheme around even all these months later. They’ve namedropped my old url (soapskneebrace) and referenced what happened to me several times now. But they have never, not once, contacted me directly about any of the shit Myka did following her initial suicide fakeout. In fact, the only time I can remember that blog speaking directly to me at all was to berate me for the post I made that started the clusterfuck in the first place.

That’s only a case study, but it’s exemplary of how it all played out. A lot of people talked about what happened, at the time and after, both to criticize and support me. And for the people who supported me, I am so grateful, don’t get me wrong. Early, Ceil, Lev, Lexi, Dee, and everyone else gave a voice to what I was feeling but was not safe to say aloud.

But at the time I had no voice. I couldn’t speak to what I felt myself. I spent a week watching everything happen, unable to say anything, because adding my voice to the discourse would have only encouraged my own harassment. I could only wonder if I would EVER have a safe place in the fandom again. I wasn’t sure I would, so I decided to leave.

And then, when I decided to come back, it seemed like everyone wanted to move on, and I still couldn’t say anything. Everyone else was done with it, but I had barely figured out how to process it even a month later. Everyone else got to talk about it. I didn’t. I couldn’t explore what the hell I felt after being gaslit by an entire community over something that didn’t even fucking happen, because negativity is the death of engagement, and I wanted to be here, back among people who supported me.

So, to your sentiment—yes, you’re right. What she did was fucking crazy, and the mobbing that followed beggars belief. And I’m not trying to attack you either, anon, I appreciate your sentiments very much.

I just want to be clear—I am not trying to stir the pot, or start up the discourse again. I just need to talk about it because I never really did, and it’s been eating me up for months.

*Not at all to say that racism didn’t play a huge part in the situation. But I believe it had more to do with my breaking white conformity to point out a fellow white person’s bad behavior, rather than Myka’s desire to escape accountability. After all, she trolled later on about Gaz, using various sock puppets, to court the exact same attention.

[countrymusiclover]

20 - "Tiny" the Giant

Part 21

Princess Red Thief

Tag list - just ask to be added @mystrey101 @melvia-ito @kmc1989 @tallrock35 @onentaien-kwar

Snow, Charming, Grumpy and I grabbed Hook from the hospital and took him out to the dock where his ship was set up. Hook winced, eyeing the former queen. “You didn’t even ask me about my recovery.”

“You shot me and could have left my children without their mother so no. Unfortunately I have no curiosity to know about your recovery.” I remarked back with my arms over my chest.

Snow chuckled asking with concern in her voice. “How are you feeling, Hook?”

“Come closer and feel for yourself.” Hook joked back at her.

Charming hits Hook where he winces, bending over in pain. “You want to lose the other hand? Where’s the ship? Come on. Archie told us. It’s shielded somehow, isn’t it, mate?”

“Aye… That it is. Follow me. I don’t know what you expect to find. Cora won’t be there.” He responded walking up into the sky a little bit above the dock before he disappeared through the cloaking spell.

Once we walked onto the ship he showed us someone trapped inside a small cage. Hook handed Snow the key where she crouches down and touches the guy on the shoulder and he startles awake. “Hey… It’s alright. You’re safe now. What’s your name?”

The larger man crawls out of the cage. “Anton. Where’s that witch?”

“She’s gone.” Snow answers.

The man raised his hands looking over his body. “What did she do? She made me small.” Tilting my head to the side I began to believe he used to be much taller like maybe a giant or something.

“Come on. Let’s get you out of here.” Charming offers his hand to the guy wanting to lead him off the pirate ship.

The stranger sent him a confused face. “You.”

Charming asked him not recognizing the guy. “Me?”

“You!” The stranger growled, getting to his feet charging at the prince. He punches David in the face, causing him to fly backwards.

Snow cried out for her husband. “David!”

Grump attempted to charge at the guy but he knocked him down with a punch in the gut. “Hey! Hey, over here, you big-“ Grumpy is thrown down the stairs of the ship.

“Grumpy!” I screamed, raising one of my hands trying to blast the guy with my magic but nothing happened. I stared down at my hands feeling helpless at this moment.

The stranger lunges at Charming, who has drawn his gun. But it gets knocked from his hand thankfully an arrow launched beside the strangers head so when he looks at Snow she has another drawn out on her bow. “Step away from my husband.”

“You may have me outnumbered, but this isn’t over. You think I forgot what you did? I didn’t. You’ll pay for your evil. I promise! You’ll pay!” The guy named Anton rushing off the ship and somewhere into town.

A few hours later I heard the shop door opened revealing my mother Abigail carrying the twins in a car seat holder while I was digging around in the various hiding places for magical objects. “Everly, I brought the kids like you asked. What - what are you looking for so heavily?”

“A magical object to stop the giant before he destroys the entire town.” I explained to her snapping my fingers dropping down onto the wooden floor. Lifting up one of the floor pieces I cheered seeing a round gold mirror laying inside the hole until I picked it up. “Rumple, you traveling soucier genius.”

My mom tilted her head curiously. “How is a mirror going to stop someone trying to destroy the town?”

“It’s spelled to trap whoever it is pointed at.” Running one of my hands over the side of the mirror I remembered something Henry had told me about this mirror and how it was somewhat connected to Jefferson otherwise known as the Mad Hatter. Suddenly as the twins were waking up from their naps my mother and I nearly collapsed onto the floor when the whole ground shook from something happening outside. “Woah - what is going on out there?”

“Uh Everly you need to see this now.” My mother grabbed my attention once she had pushed herself up to stand. My mother noticed Snow, Charming and Grumpy standing outside where I moved beside her looking out the pawnshop window.

“We’re on your side, Anton! We’re good! We’re here because of you. You know our daughter Emma. You gave her the magic compass.”

“Oh my god. He’s really a giant.” I gasped in shock seeing the guy from the ship had grown nearly as tall as the clock tower.

Anton stands a few feet away from them. “Emma? Let me talk to her. She says you’re okay, then I’ll stop.”

Snow looked very worried in her husband’s direction. “She’s kind of out of town.” The giant quickly got angry and began chasing them, coming in our direction.

“We’re out of time.” I snatched the mirror waving my mom to follow me outside and into the town streets.

“So let me get this straight – you got a twin brother? His name is James?”

Charming replied. “Right.”

Grumpy was confused. “Well, your name is James.”

“ No, actually, it’s not.” Charming corrected him while they kept running from the giant.

“It’s Charming, then?” The dwarf asked.

“No, that’s the nickname I gave him.” Snow entered the conversation.

Grumpy still wasn’t following. “Hey, hold on. What the hell is your name?”

“David.” Charming answers him.

“Your curse name?”

Charming sighed heavily, still running for his life. “My real name!”

“What, you’re David, James, and Charming? Is David like a middle name?”

Charming shouted back to him. “No! It’s my name-name.”

“You know what? I’m going to call you whatever I damn well please! Is that okay?!” Grumpy throws his hands up in the air utterly frustrated with the conversation and they didn’t stop running until they saw me and my mother run out carrying my twins in each of her arms.

Snow came over out of breath seeing the giant was getting closer and they had no clue how to stop him. “Everly! We don’t know how to stop him.”

“I have a plan or 12% of one at least.”

“No offense Everly. What’s a mirror going to do?” Grumpy questions me seeing the object in my hands.

Running a hand through my hair frantically I sharply turned my head in the direction of where the giant was charging at us. Stepping a few steps in front of the three I called my mom’s attention. “Mom, being the kids over here. Place their hands over mine and when I say so get them away from me.”

“Got it.” She responded by putting Robin and Valerie’s hand over mine that was clutching onto the golden mirror handle.

The twins' hands slowly turned red siphoning some of the magic. Closing my eyes I sucked in a calm breath doing the best to control my mind when I felt their magic moving into my veins for a brief moment. “Now. Anton! If you want to fight someone then fight me.”

“I’m going to kill you, human.” He growled back at me, beginning to charge directly at me.

Raising the mirror up in both of my hands the mirror glowed bright white and shot off a magical blast right at him that he ducked from. I pointed it more at his feet, gasping in relief when a portal began opening underneath his feet. The giant stumbled looking like he was about to fall into it when Snow gasped in horror, pointing towards the nearest sidewalk beside the giant. “Everly! Robin.”

“No!” Bolting into the fastest run of my life I needed to meet up with my son who had slipped from his grandmother’s arms and was crawling on the concrete ground and was heading towards where the giant was nearly about to fall into the open portal.

Tackling my son I rolled him away Anton who fell backwards near the portal but he didn’t fall in,like I had planned. Anton grabbed my ankle with his hand once he had returned to his normal human size, yanking me away, causing me to lose my grasp on my infant son. “You challenged the wrong guy, human.”

“No! Rumple! Help me!” He threw me into the portal and I couldn’t do anything to not fall through it a second before it completely closed.

Emma, Henry and Rumple had taken their seats getting ready for the plane to take off in the search of his son he had lost. Rumple was tapping his fingers on the armrests until he winced bringing a hand to his forehead feeling a sharp pain all of the sudden. “Ahh!”

“Mr. Gold, are you okay?” Henry asked the man sitting beside him.

Rumple began to reply but a vision flashed through his mind. “Just a slight headache-“

“No! Rumple! Help me!” Everly was dragged into the portal by someone right before it closed and disappeared quickly.

Rumple gripped the armrest nearly turning his hands white as a ghost with his chest tightening where he thought he might have a heart attack. “Everly!” He prayed that whatever he saw wasn’t true otherwise he would return home and hurt Snow White and Prince Charming.

[damnfandomproblems]

(mod note: this is an older submission from 2022, and is a follow-up from the person who submitted Fandom Problem #3680. They submitted an additional follow-up which I will be including here as well rather than posting as its own problem. I'm not going to attempt to fit the entire text body into the image this time, the majority will be included under the cut.)

Fandom Problem #6719:

So, Book 2. It starts with Anne and Betty back in their village. Anne’s doing a play for their one year anniversary of going to the school. When they first came back, they got statues built and they had interviews and autograph sessions, started by Anne of course. Anne was surprised Betty came to all of them. But then people got bored and less people came to the autograph sessions. Betty was ok with this but Anne wasn’t. She needed the fame from being the one of the first 2 people to come back from the school because if she couldn’t be a princess, this was the closest she would ever get in this village. And Anne’s father and stepmother is getting married. The stepmother also has 2 sons that I forgot to mention that Anne’s father treats as his own. Father is Keith and stepmother is Luella. Apparently I misremembered, they’re not married in Book 1, they were in courtship or something. They’re getting married in this book. Anne is upset and the play is her plan to talk her father out of the wedding. There was apparently a scene where Luella is portrayed badly. I don’t remember how and the wiki doesn’t say how but I know it’s meant to be bad. She learns that they’re getting married tomorrow so her plays plan are gone.

Meanwhile, Betty is thinking about Cornelius but her mother tries to get her to talk about the evil school and even tries to get her to brew some potions with her. The true story of what happened wasn’t told to the villagers and so they think Anne went to good school and Betty went to the evil one. But Betty refuses and her mother gets mad. She sees a fairy tale book and stars crying but manages to disguise it by chopping onions.

Betty sees Anne visiting her mother’s grave because in case you forgot, her house is located in a graveyard. Anne tells Betty about her mother. She had two sons that were born dead and it was thought she would be unable to have any children until she had Anne by some miracle. And how she feels like her father would have liked a son more and wanted to name him Mitchel. Her complex about her father wanting a son more may have been mentioned in Book 1 but I’m like 60% sure it happened in Book 2. She said that her mother knew her father and Luella, who was her best friend, were seeing each other and that she doesn’t want to end up like her and that she would do anything to see her again.

When Anne goes to sleep, she gets too super special villain dreams where she dreams she is torturer and kills her soon to be stepbrothers. She gets scared because she also gets these symptoms that come with these dreams and she thinks she saw a glimpse of her witch self in the mirror.

This village is ruled by council of three old men with beards. A conversation between Betty her mother tells us that marriages used to be forced by them and that Anne’s father suffered the most from that. During the wedding, Anne makes a big effort to be good and happy for the marriage because last night’s nightmare scared her and she doesn’t want to become a witch again. As for Betty, the entire wedding feels her with regret of what could have been with Cornelius (Girl, why do you like him. You guys barely had any nice and normal conversations. You literally just decided to like him after your “makeover”). Just as Keith and Luella were about to kiss, arrows fly out of the forest. They’re magic arrows who attack Anne who takes shelter in the church, the only place where the arrows wouldn’t attack her. Long story short, she stuck in church, Luella tells her the marriage won’t go on without her so it’s delayed until everything is over, people visit to bring her food, she is happy about the attention, eventually they lock her in along with Betty who wouldn’t leave her to keep her safe, there’s this pillow where she stitched Betty’s face over the prince’s face so it’s two girls on the pillow now, Betty sees some things that make her think Anne is becoming a witch again, half the town is destroyed by the arrows and there are signs telling them to give them Anne.

The three old men tell them that they are going to bring Anne somewhere safer but Betty realises they are going to sacrifice her so she tries to stop them. She chases after them following a trail of face cream Anne left as a trail. She’s mistaken as an attacker but luckily Keith realises it was her when he tries to attack her. She confesses it was her wish that caused this. He threatens her to bring his daughter back no matter what and she promises him.

She runs into some danger in the forest. She reaches a moat filled with crocodiles but she notices they spare the female deer, so she takes a chance. She finds Anne tied up and cover with blood. The attackers see them, and they run away. They follow some blue butterflies because Anne thinks that they are beautiful so they wouldn’t lead them to danger. They make it to the magic train station except the trains are magic vines where they went during their field trip. Betty threatens their way into getting on the vine. They notice a bunch of good women talking to each other while the men don’t talk to each other. The attackers almost catch them, but they make it to the school where Professor Fairy and Lady Ivy find them. They hurry them into Professor Fairy’s office and tell them one of them made a wish that caused their story’s ending to be undone. Betty admits it was her and Anne feels betrayed. They learn that things they have changed since they left this world. And this is also when the series starts going downhill and about when I started hating it.

Basically, after they went home and their story ended, everyone around the world read their story. As a result, princesses started kicking their princes out of their castles and becoming friends with the witches that were once their enemies (not in a gay way, this book makes it really clear that they’re just friends), changing their happily ever after. (There were certain lines in the first book that implied most of the villains die at the end of fairy tales, but I think that detail isn’t important. But I never forgot the world building details that were never delivered or contradicted. Were all the teachers at the evil school just losers that survived their fairy tales or they just became teachers? Is there a teacher school in this world? I never get an answer for this.) The world became what far right misogynistic nutjobs think the world would become if women had equal rights. One day, the girls from the evil school were ejected from the school by a magic force so they went to the good school for shelter. The good girls took a page from Anne and Betty’s story and let them in, which lead to the boys being ejected from the good school and they went to the evil school instead. Instead of the good and evil schools, it’s now the girls and boys schools. Cornelius also got a hold of the headmaster’s tower and is now the headmaster and he also has the magic pen. He wants Betty and there’s a high chance he will go to war for her. The teachers urge Betty to pick either him or Anne. If she picks Cornelius, Anne will go home and the world will go back to normal. If she picks Anne, they will both go home and war will at least be avoided. But first, they need to get the magic pen to write their ending. If neither happens, a war between boys and girls will happen.

They are suddenly interrupted by their dead history teacher’s secret half sister no one has ever heard nor did the first book ever foreshadowed who is apparently now the dean of the school of girls. I can’t remember exactly how she took the position but I think it was something to do with the magic school approving her. She takes them to a welcome ceremony where a bunch of girls in blue pants and veils (I don’t remember the colour of the shirts but probably blue.) dance for them and give them gifts. Anne being Anne and apparently having learnt nothing from last year starts to think maybe she and Betty should just stay here because they’re treated like celebrities here. The dancing girls then rip off their veils and it’s just their female classmates from last year. Except for this newcomer who has red hair and covers her face with a veil. She’s said to be tall and has muscles. She doesn’t speak but makes weird squawking sounds. They’re told she’s named Nila. The good girls have now given up makeup and fashion and some even have gained weight (to Anne’s horror). Genevieve is basically bald now because she hacked off most of her hair. The evil girls are now experimenting with makeup but they’re not really good at it.

I’m really hazy about the events that come next, and the wiki is not helping. But the school has changed, there are now new paintings (it used to be just your typical fairy tale fare) that depict princess being friends with witches and girls being strong warriors and boys dead in the background. I think what happens next is that Betty gets dragged by Anne’s old roommates to a bathroom. The leader of the three (also the one who almost defeated Cornelius last year in the competition) is mad that the evil school is gone. She’s Onyx and the other girl I barely mentioned in my previous rant is Pamela. Pamela actually appears a lot. I know her powers (controlling her pet white rats) and what she looks like (pale white skin with white hair and red eyes) but I genuinely cannot remember anything she does in the series but she’s close to Onyx. Onyx and Pamela are still wearing their old uniforms because their old teacher taught them a spell that gives them rashes if they wear the new one and the dean reluctantly let them wear their old ones after a while. Onyx is mad because she wanted to be the top evil student which she can no longer do. Eli is also there but she’s now pretty and thin and her magic changed from turning things to chocolate to turning things to vegetables. Eli likes it here but her friends bully her into agreeing with them. Onyx says that they hate boys but they think boys are necessary for the balance of the world and wants Betty to choose Cornelius. Meanwhile, Anne is with the new dean Queenie Rose (the dead history teacher has the same last name) who is showing her around the school. Anne grows more and more sure that staying here is the best choice. She ends their tour showing her a giant mural depicting girls ruling over boys. Princesses and witches are like sitting and holding hands while boys are slaves doing work while being whipped. Yes, like that one propaganda art that is being memed on unironically. Yes, this entire scene is as stupid as it sounds. Seeing this, Anne realises this is in fact the future she wants and promises to the dean that she will make it happen.

Classes start and there are now classes for girls. Instead of learning stuff like beauty and posture, they now learn sword fighting and weaponry. There’s also nonsense about how blue was “kept” from them by the boys even though Betty literally wore a blue dress during the entire fight scene last book and a teacher was punished for wearing a pink accessory because it’s now a colour of weakness. Their old teachers struggle to teach them these lessons but they comply anyway because they’re scared the dean will get rid of them. The heads of the two headed dogs can separate, the good one is still part of the staff even though he’s male because he sucked up to the new dean. He no longer has the body as it’s with his brother, the other head. The students weren’t sure if he was male or female at first but the wiki says he is male. The old good teacher who teaches talking to animals refused to change her classes to be about hunting and she was fired. She was ejected into the woods surrounding the school and they think she was killed by the boys school’s guards or the homeless princes who were kicked out of their castles camping out in the woods surrounding the boys school. The guards were the same one who were hunting Anne, they don’t have names but they all wear red cloaks so they call them reds. And they’re apparently led by this random evil boy who’s extremely vicious and  who wasn’t there last year and is now Cornelius’s right-hand man. History class has also been changed and is taught by the new dean. Instead of using the old history books, hers is a revised version all depicting girls as heroes and boys as villains. The history book’s title literally starts with “A revised version of”.

During class, Betty sees Cornelius appear to her in spirit form telling her to meet him. She asks the roommates for help and says that she worried that Anne is becoming a witch again because she thought she saw a wart. It disappeared after a second. They were a bit unconvinced until they see a pigeon she accidentally killed in class. Unlike getting expelled and turned into slaves for the school like last year, the girls with lowest scores just get sent to guard the gates of their school at night. So Betty and Eli fails together and Betty sneaks off into the boy school. She gets through the same way as last year by tricking the barrier spirit but with the new five rules for being boys and girls that replaced the rules for good and evil. I forget how but Anne manages to find out so she turns into a bird and follows her. But the shield makes her fall into a snake pit and she uses her magic to turn the snakeskin into a cape that can turn her invisible. I’m about 70% sure she learn this in class yesterday because there’s no way this girl would remember anything that isn’t recipes for beauty products for that long. She manages to get there first.

The good boys have become incel frat bros. There’s this scene where they’re throwing a house party and everything’s a mess. They’re no longer well-groomed or polite but now they’re belching, and I think one of them said they haven’t bathed for a while. The evil boys are mad at them because their parties keep them up at night and they’re making too much of a mess. And they say that there’s no point in taking care of their appearance if there’s no girls and they started chanting how they want girls. Then Betty appears. She and Cornelius begins to talk. She tells him she came like he asked but he's confused because he never asked her to. He’s still happy to see her but he’s paranoid that Anne’s secretly with her. She is in the same room with her invisibility cloak but neither of them know. He tells her that he at first accepted her choosing Anne because he wants her to be happy. But then, the world starts to be ruled by radfems and he’s ridiculed for having his princess choose someone else. He still accepts her choice though but then he senses her wish and decides to get her back. They’re about to kiss but then he stops because he still thinks he needs to kill Anne first or this entire scenario would repeat itself. (He’s not wrong) They start arguing and he accuses Betty of being in cahoots with Anne because only witchcraft could have let her through the barrier. Cornelius, don’t be blinded by what happened at the big battle last book, she’s not smart enough to figure out how to do that. Her intelligence is based on plot convenience. Anne, seeing her chance, shoots a pink spell at them. They think each other cast it and starts fighting. Betty escapes and swears she will never love him because she’s evil. For a series that establishes that evil and good is just different sides of a story, it sure does treat evil as, evil. Betty finds Anne fast asleep in her because she somehow manages to make it back before her.

Cornelius tells his right-hand man, the new evil boy Sedric to let the princes outside into the school because they’re going to war. He tells the dean that there would be competition like last year where each school’s top ten compete. If the boys win, Anne and Betty will be executed and if the girls win, all the boys will become slaves. Betty is 100% on Anne’s side now and she tells the roommates that and she also says that she hasn’t seen a wart or any other sign so maybe she was just seeing things. Onyx isn’t convinced. In the middle of this, Anne cuts in and says that as long as they are together, she will no longer be a witch. The dean accepts the deal and everyone starts training. Anne, Betty and the roommates decide they need to sneak into the boy school to get the magic pen. They realised that the female gnome teaching them is the same gnome from last year who taught them for the mixed good and evil class. Gnomes can change sex when they’re young but they usually settle into just one sex when they’re an adult. They find out that Jim is taking this sex change potion to be a woman so he could stay in this school. He doesn’t have a lot of it, only enough for one person until the competition starts. They decide on Anne because based on the five rules, she’s the closest one to a boy. She needs to get the pen and find Betty during the competition. Anne is reluctant at first but realises that this is the best chance to stay with Betty and not turn into a witch.

Cornelius has put a price on their heads offering half of his kingdom’s treasury for the bounty. He’s King Arthur’s son (yeah, it’s not a fairy tale but there’s a lot of artistic liberties taken including changing some of them to fit the lore of the world-there’s stuff I want to say about that) so he’s apparently super duper rich. Richer than the average prince (even though we learn that Camelot is heading towards ruin in Book 3 after the whole Lancelot and Guinevere thing and Arthur dying but apparently, it’s waiting for him when he becomes king? I don’t know) so even when the princes weren’t homeless, they wanted his wealth. He’s now hated by the boys because he essentially offered them as slaves to the girls without their consent and he’s now realising that they’re not exactly well-equipped to handle this competition so he decides to wake the male teachers. They’re in the dungeons asleep under a spell. The boys found them like that when the schools changed and couldn’t get them to wake up. After doing some research, he realises he needs Harry to turn into a wolf because his special talent is that he’s a werewolf and howl at them to wake them up. He says he’ll do it in exchange for a spot in the competition because he wants to get revenge on Anne for breaking his heart and using him. He realised that after she left that he was used and is mad at her.  Cornelius agrees and he wakes the teacher up. It turns out that although the teachers were asleep, they could hear everything, so they know what’s going on. Cornelius loses his control over the school and now also has to compete for the chance of a spot.

Anne decides to use Mitchel as her fake name so she can finally become the son her father always wanted. She drinks the potion and shows up as the prince of Luella Valley competing for the bounty. She gets away with the name because this world is apparently endless so nobody knows every kingdom. She gets stuck in the dungeons because they think that she’s too girly. Cornelius is also there because of the slavery thing. He’s in a bad emotional and physical state because of Betty’s “betrayal” and being whipped everyday. They don’t get along but that changes after she manages to get Sedric to stop whipping him. She makes friends with Harry again who also has to compete for a spot because the spot he was promised became null and void after Cornelius is no longer the headmaster. The leader gets to pick the last spot so she promises him that spot if he helps her cheat. She and Cornelius grow closer and he considers her his first real friend. She tells him she wants to see her mother again and he tells her his father put a bounty on his mother’s head and he will catch and kill her. It’s mentioned in the Wikipedia article that he will do this once he become king at 16 so he was 14 last year during that stupid bathroom scene. She begins to feel her old feelings for him come back. I don’t understand why this book acts as though she had always had genuine feelings for him when she clearly liked him because he was the best prince and also the handsomest one. Time passes and useless as ever, Anne realises she had made zero progress in getting the pen. With Harry’s help, she’s the leader and she picks Cornelius because she couldn’t bear to disappoint him, screwing over Harry again for the nth time and signing her own death warrant. It was at this point I started getting incredibly frustrated at her bullshit. She never learns, her intelligence fluctuates based on the plot and she always seem to get away with everything with a slap on a wrist.  

Meanwhile, Betty covers for Anne by saying she’s sick but that she’ll be ready for the competition. She realises she still wants Cornelius (WHY) because she keeps dreaming about him. She also finds the snakeskin cape Anne hid. I’m really hazy what happens in the next scene. Lady Ivy is suspicious and asks what they’re planning. She avoids her questions. She gets a hint to go to a cave at the corner of school’s grounds. I don’t remember if it was the butterflies or Lady Ivy giving her a clue. I don’t know why she would give her a clue because it doesn’t help her but my blurry memory says that that’s the more likely option. She goes to visit Jim first who’s just cross-dressing now that he doesn’t have any potion left but finds it on fire. She thinks he’s dead and runs to the cave. I don’t know, something happening in that sequence. She gives to the cave and realises Lady Ivy was a mother. Evil teacher are meant to give up everything when they become part of the staff but she kept her child and raised him in the cave until the old headmaster found out and told her to leave or to abandon him. She abandoned him.  Betty realises at this point that the dean controls butterflies (it was really obvious but thanks for finally noticing) and she was the one who lead them to the school. She is chased by them and falls hitting her head.

She wakes up and realises she’s been unconscious until the day of the competition. She’s supposed to go in as a pair with Anne but the dean seems to let her just go in alone. Realising that she knows their plans through eavesdropping on them using her butterflies, she hurries to find Anne. She finally puts together all the clues and realises that Anne was the one who shot the spell at them.

Anne’s potion is wearing off and she’s slowly turning into a girl again but Cornelius hasn’t noticed yet. They encounter a dying Nila who was stabbed by Sedric. She says some cryptic things and Anne realises she was actually Leonardo, the guy who dyed his hair blond to try get Genevieve to pick him and the guy Kira liked. He’s been drinking the potion to stay in the girl school and it’s now wearing off because he’s dying. The reason Nila never spoke was because the potion doesn’t change your voice so he never spoke to avoid losing his cover. He was mentioned to be missing earlier in the book but no one really cared where he was. He went to the girl school because he was bullied by Sedric and he thinks that their school was so beautiful. The dean knew and let him but I can’t remember why or if he was ever given a reason. I mean, considering the state of the boy school, I can understand why. Anyway, he realised that Mitchel is actually Anne and then he dies. Cornelius is confused about everything. Boy, are you in for one of the stupidest sequences of events ever. He thinks he’s imagining things form the blood loss from a previous encounter (I can’t remember) because he thinks Mitchel is becoming more feminine. So he tries to kiss Anne because he thinks he looks like a girl and is so pretty.

Betty sees them, not long after realising Anne’s ruse. Cornelius acts like a guilty boyfriend who was caught cheating. She starts screaming at Anne and Cornelius is confused how they know each other. He doesn’t understand anything but then starts talking about how he finally understands the value of friendship and why Anne and Betty treasure each other so much now that he has Mitchel as his best friends. Betty tells him to look at his best friends and he sees Anne, now fully a girl again. He also realises her trick in the tower at the same time. Anne begins to defend herself but she realises that they’re no longer listening and Cornelius has Betty in his arms, looking like a lovesick couple.  Anne starts crying because she realises she has lost her best friend and the chance of getting back together with her ex again. Lady Ivy appears because she was worried that Cornelius hurt the girls because of some disturbances with the barrier over the competition area and realises Anne was the cause for the trouble. Because she broke the rules, the barrier between the boys and girls break and war is minutes from happening. She is swept away by butterflies but before she’s taken away, she tells Betty to kiss Cornelius.

Then, the dean appears, carried by her butterflies along with the magic pen. She uses magic to make Anne start turning into a witch. Betty tells Anne she can’t trust her anymore and that she’s turning into a witch again she kisses Cornelius. But before the pen can write final word, she stops it. Betty notices that Anne no longer look like a witch and it was the dean all along. The dean then reveals that it was Anne’s wish to see her mother again that undid their ending. She conjures up the ghost of her mother and tells her to kiss her because true love’s kiss can even revive the dead. Anne kisses her and then realises that the person she kissed was actually the headmaster. The dean was actually in love with the headmaster the whole time and came to the school to revive him because he promised he would be with her afterwards. He kills her almost immediately and lets the magic pen write the last word. Betty starts to fade as she’s sent back to her village and he tries killing Cornelius but she manages to take him with her at the last second. Both schools turn black and the book ends.

I feel like there’s a message in the first and second book but I cannot for the life of me figure out what the author is going for. It feels too disjointed and incoherent. In the companion book that’s a school handbook released after the third book, it’s mentioned that the good students’ classes are no longer separated by gender so there’s a message to this mess but I cannot see it. And I’m sick of deaths of characters no cared about but we’re supposed to be sad over them. The history teacher just gave Betty a few hints and then just sacrificed himself to protect the balance of good and evil. Leonardo doesn’t have much screen time in this first book or the second. That was literally the first and last time we hear him speak properly (if we exclude the scene where they realise that Nila can actually speak when she was talking to the dean and I am). The coolest and most interesting parts of the first book that I liked despite its lukewarm plot were the setting. The classes for good and evil were interesting and I liked the competition and talent show events because they were had some really cool scenes. Everything about the world felt magical and had enchanting atmosphere. But this book had none of that and it had a stupid plot with a confusing core message so I didn’t really enjoy it. I knew I wouldn’t enjoy the third book and that it would suck but I thought it was a trilogy and despite everything, I was curious about the ending. And hey, it just one book. If it was a longer series, I wouldn’t buy it. Little did I know that it wouldn’t be a trilogy. And despite my efforts, look like this rant isn’t any shorter than the last one.

I think the only thing I forgot to mention is the dean’s backstory. She used to be the history teacher for evil for about 2 months. She told the headmaster who was still looking for a way for evil to win that she was his true love and that her brother’s prediction that someone who’s not part of the fairy tale world is his true love is wrong. For some reason, she uses her butterflies to eavesdrop on the good students and spread chaos by telling them the secrets and insults they spoke behind their back. Lady Ivy tries to stop her but she blackmails her telling her that she knows that she is raising her child in secret. For the first time ever, Lady Ivy and Professor Fairy decided to team up and tried to convince the headmaster to fire her. He agrees and tells the Professor Rose that he would need to take over her classes and asks why he asked him to give her a position. He says maybe it was too early for her. When she’s about to be evicted, she tells him he will die if he’s wrong about her being his true love. So he promises she will be allowed back to the school if he does die and revive him.

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Somehow I still managed to forget stuff: There was this history class where the dean decided to show the story of Cornelius’ dad. It’s basically the King Arthur legend but biased towards Guinevere and has some shots at Cornelius.

This is the last book that I have read of this story. I had only bought this book because I thought it was the last book in the series and I was pretty curious about the ending. I would not have bought it had I known there were more books in the series. I legitimately cannot describe about how frustrated I was when I learned that there was a fourth book, and I will admit that a lot of my bitterness at this series was because of the money I spent on it. I’m not from America or the UK so the price on the books tend to vary from bookstore to bookstore so I don’t know how much it cost in those countries, but I remember noticing that it was a bit pricier than the past 2 books and I thought that might have something to do with the fact that it was around 650 pages instead of like around 500 pages like the other 2 books. During writing the past 2 rants, I relied on the wiki to fill me in the holes of my memories of the story but the third book’s wiki is incomplete but Wikipedia had a longer summary. It was changed to have a shorter summary not long after the first post so I like to think that someone read my rant and decided to change the Wikipedia article to stop me from complaining further. But unfortunately for them, I just used the older archived version of the article.

So, both the schools are now evil. The difference is that one is new and another is old. The former girl school that was the former good school is now the new school. The headmaster still needs to marry Anne so he can destroy good forever, but Anne is procrastinating because she now has attachment issues due to Betty and Cornelius not choosing her (which was her own fault, not that she acknowledges it). But she eventually accepts the proposal after 3 weeks, but the magic pen still doesn’t accept this as a happy ending. I can’t remember exactly but I believe the storybook won’t close and the magic pen is still hovering over the book even after it already wrote “The End”.  The sun gets weaker and if the story is not over, the entire fairy tale world will be gone because of this stupid indecisive love triangle.  Anne also becomes a teacher for the new evil school because the headmaster. . . I don’t remember but I think he wants her to be his equal or something and to show him being blinded by his love for her because she is not qualified in the slightest. And he is genuinely in love with her because the plot says so. My memory of this book is the spottiest, but I swear no real reason was given as to why he loves her. Because she’s so evil?? Because loving her will get him world domination?? A mixture of the two?? But I feel like it’s genuine because we later learn he reopened the old spa room so he can spend time in there so he can impress her and there’s like certain comments by other characters about he seemed to have regressed in mental age to like a lovesick teenager.

Meanwhile, Betty and Cornelius are trapped in her mother’s house. They can’t leave because after half the village is destroyed, the village kind of became a dictatorship under the three old men with patrolling guards and everything. There’re bounties on both Betty and Anne’s heads because the old men branded them as witches. When they first arrived in the village, Betty was dragging an injured Cornelius to her house because her mother’s a doctor and she was fantasizing about her future dates with Cornelius at the village and I felt this was OOC even when I first read it because I thought that, despite everything that she did, she would be worried about Anne especially after realising they were both played in the last book. But anyway, the couple was happy for a few days despite being stuck in the same house but then they got frustrated with each other and started fighting. I can’t say for sure, but I think I remember a line where Betty was wondering why she even liked him in the first place. There’s now this scenario where now BOTH of them miss Anne because she was their best friend and they kind of fight with each other sometimes throughout the book about who’s her best friend. This is probably to make it come full circle because Anne and Betty both wanted Cornelius in the first book, Anne and Cornelius wanted Betty in the second and now Betty and Cornelius wants Anne. This doesn’t quite fit though because the friendship between Cornelius and Anne wasn’t ever properly explored after they reunite later.

They were eventually caught by a guard when they found out her mother was stealing food for them. And they found out that her mother and Anne’s father were made into guards as punishment. I don’t know why her mother didn’t tell them, it’s not like it would change anything. Cornelius puts his foot into his mouth by revealing that he’s the one who destroyed the village, getting them a worse sentence where they and Betty’s mother were going to be burned alive. But her mother saves them by revealing she can use magic (you can’t use magic in this world so this is added to the surprise) and sacrifices herself so that they can escape. They were told to go to a grave. It was Anne’s mother’s grave. They went through it and ended up in a graveyard in the fairy tale world. They also meet up with Betty’s old teacher who talk to animals who was presumed dead after she got kicked out of the school last year, Princess Tora.

She explains everything about the world ending and how a bunch of dead villains are now zombies that are hunting down the heroes of their stories to change the endings of their original fairy tale. She’s taking them to meet up with a bunch of old heroes who have gone into hiding who were assembled by Merlin, who Cornelius has an abandonment issue about.  They’re attacked on the way by some undead villains and Princess Tora is petrified so they had to carry her there. All the heroes are old and not really capable of fighting anything and their first appearance can be summed up as a lot of fat and old jokes. Jim the gnome is also there because he wasn’t shown explicitly dead off screen. A lot of them aren’t happy to see them and even suggest giving them to the villains so that everything can go back to normal.

And Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk and Sleeping Beauty are dating. This is not really important to the plot but I was very curious as to whether they started dating recently or not because I distinctly remembered a comment about their honeymoon being delayed and also, like how many times finding your one and only true love is emphasized in this damn story, I wanted to know how remarriage would work in this world. Peter Pan is also there but he’s old and so is Tinkerbell. There’s also a couple other fairytale characters that didn’t have romance in their original story there but I’m focusing on him because I vividly remember him being unmarried. I had assumed every good fairytale characters had like a romance (and if they didn’t have one in the original, the story would be tweaked in-universe to fit the lore) because the entire reason the headmaster wanted marry Anne was because evil can’t love, and he believes that it would make evil win again. Like, you literally have no idea how fucking hard this story pushes about how every fairytale has a prince and princess happily married. And from how the story went, it very much seemed that he would correct in that assumption had he succeeded. The whole fucking riddle in Book 1 about what good always has and what evil doesn’t. And no, platonic love doesn’t fucking make sense because there was a whole scene where the book shows that both the evil students and their parents love each other very much and it’s very much referring to romantic love. Romantic love is literally taboo for the evil students! If there are fairy tales where good wins without romance, then it means that there’s a different reason as to why evil keeps losing and therefore a different solution.

Anyway, Merlin arrives and breaks up the argument. He tells them that in order to stop the headmaster they need to specifically get Anne to destroy the ring he gave her with Excalibur (something about it the strongest good weapon or whatever). So, they and Merlin set off to the school to rescue Anne and get the sword because Cornelius dropped it when he was sent to the village. I literally cannot remember most of this trip except for Merlin being your usual stereotypical eccentric wizard, some relationship troubles and Betty’s loss of her powers to grant wishes (a plotline I have completely forgotten most of the details of that didn’t really play a big part in the plot anyway). They sneak into the school with the sex change potion and some hair dye as like transfer students. Cornelius won a trivia contest between who knew Anne better, so he rescues her (yes, the Anne-is-MY-best-friend plotline is still present) while Betty has to get the sword in the old evil school. This was to make Betty wonder if she ever properly got to know Anne but I feel like this would have been better to showcase this in book 1 to show that this friendship isn’t entirely horrible because of Anne and not in book 3 after she tried killing her, ruining her love life and getting hitched with the evilest guy ever after her friend got angry at her for lying to her and also failing to do her one job. On another note, I expected to experience interesting morality because they basically said that good and evil are just perspectives but we’re just straight up having the headmaster be evil but like, even worse than usual evil.

Meanwhile, Anne is trying her hand at being a teacher, taking over her mentor, Lady Ivy’s class. Her mentor is still there, just doing other things and seemingly on evil’s side now, disregarding her friendship with Professor Fairy and all her ex-classmates hate her for obvious reasons. Her ex-roommates seem to be thrilled with evil though and have let bygones be bygones. Harry is also hot now because yes, if you’ve noticed the pattern by now, he is now going to become a main character and a possible love interest of Anne. He’s been working out and going to the spa room. He seems to hate her which upsets Anne because she’s now a bit attracted to him because of how he now looks. She’s also attracted to Sedric, the new evil boy from the last book, who’s actually Lady Ivy’s son that she abandoned. It was hinted at so not a surprise.

The ex-roommates however were secretly working with the old heroes and snuck the couple in. Betty does her obligatory trick the barrier spirit with the new five rules thing and gets the word and finds out the old evil school is filled with zombified old villains and Cornelius ends up getting to Anne. Before all of this, Anne was starting to doubt her decision to marry the headmaster so she asks the ring who her true love is and something weird happens and it shows Cornelius’s name on it so she’s been hiding it from the headmaster’s view. He reveals his identity and manages to convince her to leave with them (Betty’s also there) agreeing to her demand to give her another chance. Betty realises that Cornelius is lying to get her to leave. If you’re not sick of this love triangle yet, you will be and so they and Harry (the ex-roommates stay behind as spies) all escape with the headmaster letting them go when he can stop them. He tells Betty to remember his ring. I am so fucking convinced the author wrote the entire Anne becomes a guy and Cornelius’s best friend plotline in book 2 so there’s an explanation as to why he doesn’t hate her anymore and to continue the love triangle so that Anne’s chance of getting with him isn’t 0. But like, it totally is because no one would actually believe he would pick her.

But Anne won’t destroy the ring because the headmaster’s her backup in case Cornelius won’t love her. So they go to a safehouse for this entire relationship drama to play out. Harry’s also her guard now even though he told her that he hates her earlier because he didn’t really mean it. Princess Tora is fine now. When they arrive, they learn that Guinevere and Lancelot have always been living there and no knew except for Merlin because he put them there and Cornelius has to go work out his issues about like everything. During the trip and the stay at the safehouse, the following series of events play out and probably not in order: Betty gives Cornelius and Anne space, Cornelius is pissed but tries to give Anne a proper chance, some plotline about her talent, Princess Tora tells her how she manages to kill her villain without her prince and how that emasculated him to the point that they broke up over it and this somehow relevant but I don’t remember how, Betty starts feeling kind of ok about Anne and Cornelius getting together, Betty asks how Guinevere is fine with not being able to interact with anyone for years and she says something something about love fulfils you or whatever, Harry uses a plot device from book 1 I forgot to mention that shows an all-black wedding between him and Anne and wants Betty to get her and him together but she says that it just shows wishes and not the future, Betty realises that she’s ok with giving up her love because she doesn’t want to become Camelot’s queen.

Anyway, it all culminates with Cornelius kissing Anne and feeling nothing, so he literally tosses his sword to her and tells her to destroy the ring and then immediately runs off to kiss Betty. Anne is initially going to destroy the ring for tricking but realises only the headmaster has never lied to her so she summons him and he takes her away. And also, she feels used by Betty and Cornelius. Girl, Book 1? Book 2? Also, you couldn’t have just fucking stayed until she destroys the ring, Cornelius. I think he’s made up with the Lancelot and Guinevere by this point and now he and Betty finally get together but for real this time really.

They start preparing for war. Betty’s the leader for narrative parallels with Anne who’s the queen of evil now. Anne tries executing her ex-roommates for being spies as she’s now ultra-evil now but Merlin saves them at the last minute. The old and young pair up to defeat their old villains with several of the villain kids team up with the ones that killed their parents. Cinderella is with Betty. Cinderella is ugly, fat and unpleasant because why are you surprised at this point. She has tough time getting along with Cinderella but they eventually see eye to eye. An the true story of Cinderella is that her stepmother was evil but her stepsisters weren’t and she was forced into becoming a princess because her prince loved her since their school days and he killed her stepmother and stepsisters. I am not even going to re-complain about how the lore works. Anyway, the last battle takes place in a forest and Merlin has gotten all the students on their side with Lady Ivy’s help because she was a double agent because good and evil are like yin and yang.

Now for the stupidest fucking plot twist in this series, Betty and Anne were twins all along. They found this via the dead blind history professor’s magic device after they each were separated from their armies. And this was so unnecessarily convoluted. Betty’s mother used to be an evil teacher but she was pretty and wanted to fall in love so the headmaster was interested in her. Meanwhile, Anne’s mother was bitter and jealous that Anne’s father loved Luella, the most popular boy in school- uh, I mean village. She was plain, this shocks Anne who remembered her as beautiful, and didn’t have blonde hair like Anne. She tried befriending them to get between them but she failed so she wished for a way to make him love her. This coincided with Betty’s mother running away from the headmaster and she heard her wish so she was able to go to the village. Anne’s mother made her make a love potion that would only last for a day which she used to rape Anne’s father and managed to get herself pregnant. He took responsibility for that but he never stopped loving Luella. All her babies died in childbirth and he started to hang out more with Luella even though she was also married. So she panicked and asked Betty’s mother for another potion. She managed to give birth to twins, one ugly with her features and one beautiful with his features. She told Betty’s mother to get rid of the ugly one but she took her as her baby because she was her one true love (familial). But it didn’t work, Anne’s father still didn’t look at her so she tried to make herself look more like Anne with beauty products. There’s this little scene where he smiles at little Betty playing. She eventually gave up getting him to love her and died of a broken heart. Betty’s mother also tried to make herself look like Betty so she could pass as her biological mother. This is why the third book is more than a hundred pages longer than the others. Why was this necessary? Couldn’t they just be given some generic backstory that’s also intertwined with each other instead of whatever this is. Sometimes, boring is better. I also feel like this is when the ship died though I won’t blame those who only watched the movie to ignore this. As much as I loathe Anne, I genuinely think that she and Betty had the most strongly written relationship. I know, the bar is on the ground but there’s nothing better.

 After learning this, Betty tries to get her to come back but this just reaffirms her belief that only the headmaster could ever love her. Anne runs away with Betty chasing her, but they get separated again. Cinderella gets killed by her undead stepmother while she was attempting to reconcile with her undead stepsisters, and this caused the barrier to the village to be broken. The headmaster takes Betty’s father and tries to get Betty to kill him with Excalibur (Betty and Cornelius got captured) because this was like the last condition to get eternal victory for evil. In his evil speech, he implied that this village exists in a bubble, with no one who exists outside the village. And this has haunted me for years, way more than it should, because literally how does this village exist with no trade and no new blood with two kids taken every 4 years. The village is small so incest? And everyone in the series has acted that there’s something out there other than  this village. Questions that will never be answered aside, Betty tells her that she will always have their friendship which makes her switch sides and finally destroys the fucking ring. He dies and all the undead go back to being dead.

In the midst of that nonsense, Anne’s father learns that Betty’s his daughter and he’s like, I always cared for her and felt this mysterious affection for her. NO YOU DID NOT! I don’t care if you smiled at kid her in the flashback, that is a retcon and loads of people smiled at kids, ugly or not. You casually disparaged her in Book 1, and you straight up threatened her to save Anne in Book 2 with zero care for her well-being. You could tell he felt that everything that happened to Anne was somehow Betty’s fault in Book 2 and early on in Book 3. You could easily tell that he loved Anne but he showed nothing resembling care for Betty. You know what, I take back what I said. His and Anne’s relationship was the one that was written the best and most consistently actually. But all the fairytale characters all disappear from the village before anything more could happen so whatever.

They coincidentally find Sedric fatally wounding Lady Ivy, with Professor Fairy (the good teachers were locked in dungeon all this time by the way) killing him right after. And Lady Ivy wasn’t mad at her for killing him?? This confused me because this kind of goes against the grain for most villain parent-child relationships in the series and also one of the few details we know of her character, which was that she did loved him even though she abandoned him. Also, why does this plotline. Like was this necessary? Sedric barely does anything in the two books he was in. We only know that he is hot, sadistic, evil in a bad way and hates his mother. Reading the wiki tells me he is more relevant posthumously in the next few books but I don’t care, what exactly does his presence contribute in the two books he’s in? Anyway, before she dies, she tells Professor Fairy and Anne and Betty her first name, something that she always kept mystery. Because Professor Fairy and her are supposedly best friends even though we don’t see much of their relationship and Anne’s like her protégé, that she cares about and Betty’s just there. We also barely see her and Anne’s relationship. I cannot stress how little Lady Ivy and Professor Fairy appear despite them being important to the plot. I know her and Professor Fairy’s relationship are meant to parallel Anne and Betty’s but I thought a major part of Book 1 was how special and unprecedented their relationship were and I think this just undermines that especially with how little it was utilised. And also, the mentor-protégé parallel is kind of weak here with her basically doing nothing in Book 2 and Book 3 (except stabbing her best friend’s son) and her role as mentor kind of being relegated to Cinderella. Anyway, they say goodbye to her before she dies.  Other students also die but no one with any substantial screen time so who cares and Cinderella was the only old hero who died. Who we honestly didn’t know much of so  again, another case of no one we care about die.

The school goes back to being good and evil. But, Betty and Cornelius prepare to go to Camelot, along with Guinevere and Lancelot because Cornelius managed to work out his issues earlier. Anne is supposed to go with them but just before they leave, she finds out that Lady Ivy made her the dean of evil in her will so she stays behind, having finally found a place she belongs. And also some character development at last because when Harry asks her out, she says no because she is complete as herself. And Anne and Betty parts ways. This sounds like a really nice and touching moment. If only the build up to it was actually good. A mentor-protégé relationship we barely see, Anne sucking at evil both as a student and teacher-literally the most unqualified person to be the dean of evil and did she even enjoy being in the school of evil? This story should have ended at Book 1.

And so, for a year or so, I thought this series was over. I did see a spinoff book for what happens to the school after Book 3 but I didn’t read it because I swore I would never buy a book from this series again but I wasn’t bothered by its presence. Until, a little over a year later after seeing that spinoff book, I see Book 4. It was the start of a sequel series and it made me so mad because I wouldn’t have bought Book 3 has I known. I did remember in Book 1 that we were told that education at the school was 3 years of schooling and 1 year of questing but I really thought Book 3 was the final one with how final it felt. And as I’m writing this, there’s also a prequel series.

I actually read a bit of the spinoff when I was in the bookstore, just a few chapters. So here’s stuff I want to highlight. Anne is a terrible dean like we all knew she would be, with narcissistic decorations and events about her. She knows nothing about teaching. She also changed the evil uniform which isn’t bad by itself, but she made it to honour the headmaster. She’s literally learned nothing other than that she doesn’t need romantic love. Also, she also holds some bitterness towards Cornelius. So much for that best friend plot, I guess? All that effort to make it to complete the “love triangle” was all for nothing. Also, feminism is a thing now (no more gendered classes for good and a feminist society was set up in the fairytale world) and you can apparently change schools if you don’t’ want to be good or evil and be the opposite instead? Which kind of makes the messages of Book 1 and Book 2 even more confusing. It’s honestly hard not to read the message that you can’t change from being good or evil and Book 2 just seems to say that if you even slight disrupts traditional gender roles, the world goes to ruin. Something I managed to stumble across about the sequel books were that the background prince who asked Genevieve, that good girl who was a mean girl in Book 1 and shaved her head in Book 2, to the ball is Cornelius secret half-brother?? And what do you mean that the new antagonist is the son of the headmaster and the dean of girls from Book 2??? And what do you mean he has a secret twin brother???? Is the author trying to get a secret family reveal every book?????

Okay, I’m done complaining. And to whoever read this from beginning to end, why? I wrote this for me to vent my hatred so it’s barely coherent. Why did you subject yourself to this.

[arry-katt310]

Ok POV: Maddie being the youngest of three children, one of the youngest in the Hellcrew, not having a single thought of having children and raising a family, but somehow being the "mom" of everyone in it. (Except the creep in the basement)

Andrew: *walking weirdly down the hall *

Maddie: *doesn't even turn to face him* Andrew did you take your pills this morning?

Andrew: Dad forgot to give them to me.

Maddie: he's high in the ADHD spectrum. He'll forget. Come here.

They walk past Sullivan.

Maddie: I'm going into your bathroom to get Andrew’s medicine. Also you left the cabinet open, don't hit your face on it.

Sullivan: what? Maddie, I can my son his medicine. *walks into the cabinet door that they left open*

Maddie: *already in their bathroom hearing the smack of the door* I told you the door was open.

*a couple hours later*

Vivi: *comes over to the living room* funny story guys, I accidentally sliced my arm open on my axe-

Maddie: again? The bandages are on the top of of your closet and in the first aid kit.

Vivi: ok mOm. *rolls his eyes*

Maddie: *not even looking at him* don't roll your eyes at me, also please disinfect the cut, that's gonna be bad if you don't..l

Devlin: *comes home completely high*

Maddie: *not even phased* go lay down for a while and don't come out of your room until you're sure you're sober.

Devlin: *looks at her* what?

Maddie: the only thing that helps people sober up is time.

Devlin: what makes you think I'm listening to you?

Maddie: do you want to trip over the dishwasher and get your eye almost plucked out again?

Devlin: uh-

Maddie: or lash out at your boyfriend again?

Devlin: my fiance, Maddie.

Maddie: hey I'm just as surprised as you are that you can actually hold onto a relationship. Go.

Devlin: fine.

*another hour later*

Killian: where the hell is it?

Maddie: I thought you left it on your desk.

Killian: do you even know what I'm looking for?

Maddie: you're looking for Mercy. Yeah it's on your desk.

Killian: *turns to his desk and doesn't see it* no, it's not there.

Maddie: ayaye. *walks over to his desk*

Killian: Maddie, it's not there.

*he turns away for half a second*

Maddie: think fast.

Killisn: *turns back just in time for his revolver to hit his face and grabs it as it falls* what the hell...Maddie, did you seriously throw a gvn at me?!

Maddie: its yours.

Killian: no its not...*looks at it the shoots up at Maddie* how the hell did you spawn this out of thin air?!

Maddie: I didn't spawn it out of nowhere, it was on your desk.

Killian: no.

Maddie: it was under the file about a guy named Steve Woodsman.

Killian: What?! Girl I've been looking for that!!

Maddie: well it's on your desk, so...

*some time later*

Maddie: *in her father's workroom as he's pacing back and forth*

Maddie: *her eyes are still glued to her phone* what's wrong?

Julius: Uh, nothing.

Maddie: Dad, you're stimming.

Julius: I don't even know what that is.

Maddie: its a thing people with autism do to reduce exess stress.

Julius: dont tell me what I'm doing.

Maddie: dad, I've known you for seventeen years now and I can tell clear as day that you have autism.

Julius: shut up.

Maddie: have you tried the candles I gave you.

Julius: Maddie i think you're forgetting that I'm the parent, you're the child.

Maddie: so?

Julius: I tell you what to do, you follow my command.

Maddie: *calmly* will not be happening

Julius: Oh so you think testing my authority is funny?

Maddie: you don't have any authority over me. If anything Octavian is the one with authority over me bc he took role as my guardian.

Julius: then I'll get him over here to come get you.

Maddie: dad are you gonna try the candles or not? They reduce anxiety and stress

Julius: Madison Emma, you don't tell me when im stressed or anxious.

Maddie: *flickes her fingers and the candles she had put in the room flicker into flames*

Julius: Witch!

Maddie: you'll thank me later. *gets up* I need to leave.

*she leaves*

*twenty minutes later she comes back to the pocket dimension*

Maddie: hey Killian, wheres my dad?

Killian: he's in our room, doing his nails. Also I have no idea why, but he's actually calm and relaxed..

Maddie: you're welcome.

Killian: ...

Killian: did you do something?

Maddie: just lit some candles.

Killian: Your father is gonna kill you.

Maddie: he can't. Also he's too attached to me, so.

All of this is MY AU!! NOT CANNON!!

Also, I really want to make a post about my headcannon of Vivi having ADHD. BYEE!

Vivi, Sullivan, Devlin, Killian, Julius @sanityshorror

[mysteriouspersonrambles]

Live listening to the new Malevolent episode so long post:

Dude fucking medieval Britain being Kayne’s bind spot is so funny - like what a loser

Alexander!!!! My Boy I love you so much

This peace is not going to last

Oh a weaved basket let me guess the village is going to be totally destroyed and that’s what causes the foul taste in the river or the bad river taste came from the witches nest dumping into the river supple

You walk a path with devils- bestie you guys run had fist into the devils on a regular basis don’t act like all those run-ins aren’t your fault

Nooo Yorick - get bagged idiot I suppose

Arthur continues to be the most conspicuous guy of all time. Congrats buddy nobody does it worse than you

Do you still have your lighter remember the magic lighter

Arthur you trespass on the Daily you where a fucking PI dude

Oh never mind Arthur got his spooky sense and being touched by ghosts apparently he truly is beloved

Arthur was a Boy Scout oh man I forgot about that. What a mental image

Oh yeah Arthur’s super dead parents

Oh man friendship let’s go. Wait Arthur what happened with your friend did die or something. Oh who am I kidding it’s malevolent of course he’s dead

Ohh what else is in the pen. Is it bones I hope it’s bones.

Aw boo it’s just a weird figure dudes you guys encounter those things all the time

Bewildered Englishman I love that

Yeah dude he’s different it’s the trauma. Remember he had to eat a man

But your Kayne’s favorite boytoy that should mean something

Dude I hope they run into their other self’s that would be so fucking funny please 🙏 or like a Catbox situation (does anybody get that reference)

Yeah dude fuck the narrative

You might fail but also like you’re the MC’s so plot armor

Huh difficult to see anything else but the fire- this better not be foreshadowing

The Guy is back hell yeah ohhh what a voice

Arthur does not know how the deal with the fay

Arthur this village is fucking dead there is nobody here

Yeah guys this guy has been through some shit

I think he’s warning you dude you know there are monsters about

Yeah dude the Fay the one you don’t know how to handle

I like this guy he speaks in riddles

I this guy talking about the prince or another Arthur or just regular Arthur

Welcoming is a dangerous thing Arthur

Dude not his biggest trauma

This man is not up to date with modern law procedures man

Ohhh spooky ghost man is a story teller

Dude the foul taste in the water

Self hate for the win 🏆

He is the boy’s vengeance

Oh shit was I right or half right but I knew this guy was ghost guy. I think that’s actually so cool

The witches child?? Or Faroe

Arthur these noises are not the ones I would want to hear when talking about children. Like I know you’re morning but the noises man

Good choice Arthur I would want the truth too but it could be something you know but still

That’s so cool that the ghost kids are so powerful good for you ghost kids

Scratch!!!! Or the goat lady the one who was mentioned in the 1st season I can’t spell her name but I was talking about her the other day

Or maybe just another spooky ghost lady either way in hyped

Fuck indeed you just murder one of her kids and she got a good look at you and who you’re traveling with

You can’t destroy the darkness idiot

Oh fuck is Alexander evil please I will cry if he is

You don’t get a weapon you chose a truth

Yeah man you can’t escape the darkness idiot

Is she why Kayne can’t be here. Is Kayne scared of her please that would be so funny

“He is not what he seems” I can’t tell if this is about Yorick or Alexander the owl it could be both but I love them so much.

Also where was Yorick this episode I missed him he’s not evil just kinda dumb and a plotter and he wants a hand of glory but he’s just a little guy

Arthur are you going to sleep on the ground the forest is going to eat you

William aw what happened to him how did he die horribly

I’m sad this episode was a feeler though I’m glad Arthur got a little peace of mind when it came to Faroe. I can’t wait to see the absolute shit show that must be next episode this one was much too fluffy something terrible must be coming.

[rainfallnightmare]

Chapter 2

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Curse Sun and Moon x Curse Y/N

Curse AU

Warnings: None

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May 10

Y/N POV

“Do you think they’ll wake up soon Moon?” I heard a rough yet soft voice somewhere around me. I didn’t know whose voice was that as it was unfamiliar to me yet for some reason I felt calm and at ease. “I don’t know Sun, humans are very fragile and can be easily broken”  I heard another voice as this one was rough and more serious. I felt my body being lifted up cause me to quickly open my eyes. "Oh, you're awake, that's good" A tall being with a sun shaped head said as he gave me a smile that shows their sharp teeth.

"W-where am I and what are you?!" Normally I would be freaking the hell out cause of being surrounded by two tall ass things. But my main concern was what was going on right now. "Now now human, my brother and I saved you from being taken by the dark witch. It would be a polite thing to at least thank us before we answer any of your questions" The moon-like creature said as he bends towards me and looks at me with his beautiful red eyes. "Be nice Moon, give them at least a little pity since they obviously don't know what's going on" The Sun-like creature said to their twin-like companion as the Moon-like creature just rolled his eyes.

That was right, I didn’t know what was going on since I literally woke up to a new place with these two strange creatures in front of me. “I-It’s fine, I do thank you guys for saving me even tho I don’t know what’s really going on” I said while I did say my thanks to the creatures which was enough to please the Moon-like creature enough. Looking around a little, both of the tall creatures notice my curiosity.

“Your in our safe hut human, it one of the place where the witch can’t get you”

The Sun-like creature pointed out as the twin went around and lit all the candles that were in the place. I never thought such place like this existed let alone that there were being like the twins in front of me. "Why is this happening and who are you two?" The twin turn their gazes to me as I realized that I was still in the arms of the figure with the tiger mask. I could feel my face warm up quickly as this was very new and a bit uncomfortable being hold by a stranger let alone it being a being I never seen before.

"You got cursed" The Moon creature said bluntly, earning him a smack on the shoulder by his twin who glared at him annoyed. Cursed but how and why, I was so confused and worried to how this happen. "How, I didn't do anything...Did I?" The Sun creature moves to me over to a sofa and sat me down on it before it crouch down in front of me and gave me a serious look.

"You got cursed because of this" The Sun creature in front of me left it's hand up and held the pendent that I forgot was still around my neck. "The necklace, what about it?" I looked at the pendent wondering what they meant before it suddenly click. The necklace was cursed and I was the fool who decided to put it on to not lose it. "Seems like the Human finally realized the mistake they just made" The Moon creature said as he sat down in a weird looking chair while I panicking and was trying to removed the damn pendent. "Why won't it come off!" Pulling, yanking, even trying to unclip it wasn't doing anything as it was just making me get frustrated.

"I wouldn't bother trying, that pendent has magic to prevent it from being broken or be remove til the curse itself is broken" The Moon creature said while the twin sighed and placed it's hands on my shoulder to get me to stop. "Moon is right human, I suggest you calm down and save your energy so we can help you" The twin said gently in that rough tone voice of his as I grumble annoyed an did what he suggested. "You guys still have told me your guys names and what you are yet" The two figures looked at each other before I felt a strong wind blasted around me an it made me close my eyes and cover myself til it was over suddenly.

"If you must know human, I'm Sun the first son of Axora of the ShadowKins. That one is my twin brother Moon son of Axora of the ShadowKins as well" Sun Introduce him and his brother as if they were like royals. "Wait wait, are you guys some kind of royals or something?" Sun nodded his head while Moon once again rolled his eyes before getting up from the chair he was sitting in and took my chin between his fingers an had me look at him. "Now that you know our names and where we're from, Why don't you tell us who you are and why you were in the witches Mansion" Moon said in both curiosity and demanding tone that makes me want to smack him.

"It's Y/n but just call me N/n, and to answer your question as to why I was at the mansion. I foolishly let my friends drag me to treasure hunt as it was supposedly be abandon in his words" I said while removing Moon's hold on my chin as Sun was sitting to my left hearing my story. "Very foolish I do agree with yet what I don't understand is why this friend of your would drag all of you to the mansion. When it was declared off limits to the public cause of the whole rumors and incidents that happen there" Sun spoke cause me to look at him all wonder of what he meant by that. "Rumors and Incidents? Lucas never mention that there were such things happening there" Hearing this from me, Moon and Sun looked at each other before giving me a serious yet concern look.

"N/n, your so call friend "Lucas" was it? He might have doomed you along with whoever else who went into that building with the witches curse" Moon said in a very stern tone that tells me that he was very serious. What is this curse they keep mentioning about and why is this witch cursing the innocent people for it. "What is this curse you bring up?" I ask not knowing since their really familiar with this curse. "Look at your hands N/n" Sun instructed as I looked down at my hand. My eyes widen in disbelief as I saw that my fingers to halfway  down from my palm was cover with dark shadowy black color.

"Your cursed with the Black Heart Curse”

To be continued

[1----qaz]

Final and third rant :D

Alright I'm breaking this into sections or id just keep going in circles and this is giving me a nice break from putting in my new hair extentions lol

The time-line

WTF IS going on if they want dante to not know vergil is alive it would have to be before 3 but then he shouldn't have met lady yet,[if I'm remembering correctly] even if I'm not ot still wouldn't make sence due to the age revel of vergil being alive in the games the only way that dante not knowing he was spardas son would work is if it happened before the games but then he can't figure out vergil is alive agghhh I'm so confused at this

Lady

I actuly do dislike her characet as much as I was scared I would and they kept her backstory relatively the same [Yuppie :D]

However still confused on some parts of her like the organization I already forgot it's name lol

White rabbit

Alice in wonderland theme was actuly pretty cool but why did the guy have to be human honestly I would have preferred it if he stayed mysterious with no known motives as I feel it makes him a more compelling villan sure his backstory makes sence with his actions but how did he open the portal between the demon and human realm without the amulet why not just keep doing that why the while villan slick ...... also why sew you rabbit head costume on IT DOESNT NEWD TO BE SEWN ON

Also I'm amazed they didn't redesign the devil trigger it was actuly pretty cool, same with the introduction of lady's heavy power gun but was missing something.......SOMENE GETTING A MOTTERCYCLE CHUCKED AT THEM [dmc, dmc5] where was it

Also where was Trish she's from the first game and was one of the first characters introduced but I guess she didn't make the cut????

Vergil

Ok I got a lot on this one lol

His ass would not give away his side of the amulet it was the last thing his mother have him he wouldn't just give it up sure it's destroy the barrier between the demon and human realm witch is sumtjing he's tried to do before but he still heald on to the amulet not Arhum [i can't spell his name] it just does make any sence to me why not open the relms yourself and cut out the middle man especially cuz the white rabbit is human and he believes humanity is weaker the demon kind why would he trust this task to the white rabbit it seemed Hella weird to me also idk that he dot 5 seconds of screen time I needed to see him slice someone with that katana lol ,

So much of this storyline made no sence and seemed like they didn't really try to relate it beack to the series at all aside from some one liners [ the re joke cuz say it with me now " devil may cray was origanly a resedent evil 4 " ]but beyond that seemed lack luster at best

But I'm a deprived dmc fan so I'll take what I can get : /