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Season 6 - Kai Winn invites The Emissary to a ‘Murder Mystery Dinner Party’ she is hosting on Bajor. However, Benjamin is of course busy with the Dominion War at this time, so Jake offers to go in his stead. Concerned for the young man, Odo insists on coming with him. 

Surprisingly for Kai Winn, the party is genuinely good-natured and the murder mystery fun and engaging, however, much to Jake’s dismay: between so thoroughly learned not to trust the Kai and still being unfamiliar with a lot of “solid” traditions, Odo misunderstands and believes a genuine murder to have occurred at the dinner party and unwittingly ruins everyone’s fun when he brings the party to a halt to conduct a “professional investigation”.

As it turns out, a Bajoran by the name of Raelk Eelah was attempting to assassinate the Kai, the constable puts a stop to it just in time.

The episode was cancelled because nobody could figure out a justification for why Odo would want to save Winn’s life, even in the name of criminal justice.

Disclaimer: this is a fan-made parody account and is no no way representative of actual unaired Star Trek episodes.

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I know you love me

But knowing and feeling are different things.

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I'll gladly play the fool if it makes you smile

I'll gladly play the fool if I get to see you smile

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4:03

Fuck off with your daybreak

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I lost my fantasy worlds

Where did they go

I can't flee to them anymore

They're not real anymore

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The good parts of my days have names now

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"This heart beats voluntarily"

Well this one beats

Purely out of fear

Of the alternative

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I love you

I love you so much my chest hurts

Platonic or not

I love you

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I'm content

To resent you from a distance

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I whisper "I love you" to you in crowded rooms

Maybe one day you'll hear it

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It's hard to be jealous

When all the people you kiss are so nice

I just wish

I was one of them

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I like seeing myself surrounded by people

It makes it looks like I belong

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4:21

No daybreak yet

Good.

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Life is busy and infuriating and I continue it purely out of spite and fear

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Living is a puzzle

Unfortunately all the pieces are jagged and don't fit together

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I'd follow you to hell and back

Even though we're already there

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Thriving(we're both doing terrible)

(And I wish I could help)

(But I can't)

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I'm a mosaic

I consist of parts of others

This time it's comforting

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I don't want to die

I just want to be alive again

Was I ever?

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There's something so inherently validating to someone being excited to do something with you

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I'm not unwanted

Just slightly less wanted than everyone else

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hold on a fucking second. delaware is a state?? i thought it was a river? or is the river more important than the state? why don't i know this? (i should mention i don't like in america, i'm just confused)

there is delaware (state) and delaware (river) 

both are equally strange

the state is a tiny little cryptid thing

the rive is a monster that spans new york, pennsylvania, new jersey and delaware. also washington crossed it once and that was like kinda a big deal i guess. like crossing the rubicon in rome.

the state tries to me more important with its “im the first state!!!” bs (seriously its even on the fucking license plates) but we all know. its the river.

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Compared to a player Grian is an extremely powerful coder. But compared to his old fellow Watchers he's one of the weakest Watchers in terms of control over his power. He escaped the Watchers before his control could be improved. Until Pearl (a fellow player turned Watcher) joined Hermitcraft and helped him improve his control over his powers he couldn't use his wings to fly. Opening them would show him so many visions he would at best feel sick and at worst completely pass out and shut down.

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Whumptober 2023 | No. 4

Alternative prompt: Examination

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds s01e03: “Any closer and that could have hit the carotid.”

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JOE HAS READ HOMESTUCK????

Joe... what?

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I mean Joe knowing what DNI means does not suprise me that much, the man has a Tumblr account

Joe... what?

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Joe... what?

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Day 1: Swooning

Prompt: Swooning

Jimmy's wings emerge.

Read it here or on ao3!

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A scream tore through his throat as the second wing forced its way through the skin on his back. Red blood mixed with newly formed yellow feathers. Fresh cartilage and hollow bones creaked and snapped as they slotted into place. The sharp pain was nearly enough to make him pass out. He jammed his fist into his mouth to try and prevent any more screams. Tears were flowing freely down his face at this point. The first wing was twitching spasmodically, and with every spasm the pain renewed and increased. The second wing hung lamely to the ground. 

“Oh god, oh god, OH MY F-” Jimmy cut the swear off with another pained cry. This couldn’t be happening. This wasn’t supposed to be happening. Not here. Not in a hubworld known to be hostile to hybrids. He couldn’t be fletching. He couldn’t be a hybrid! Both wings were out now, which was a small mercy on his ruined back. Ruined. He was ruined now. His parents had imbued him with that knowledge from birth. Well, look where that got him. Fourteen and whimpering on the floor of a hostile hubworld, having been abandoned by his parents years ago. And while he no longer thought of other hybrids as horrible creatures he knew he certainly was one. The thing was that he was all alone. He knew no other hybrids. If he did they’d certainly hidden themselves well from him. So here he was, all alone on the floor in agony. 

The room he was hiding in was small. A basement of sorts. As soon as he’d realised what was happening he’d fled the area he’d been in and hid in the nearest place he could lockpick his way into. His communicator had been pinging on and off as well, but he hadn’t been able to check it since the pain had started in full force. With extraordinary effort he raised his arm to look at it. 

Grian: Jimmyyyyy

Grian: I have to show you something!Grian: I learned things

Grian: fun things

Grian: to do with code

Grian: Jimmyyyyyy reply to me

Grian: wher are you

Grian: are you okay? 

Grian: getting a little worried 

Gasping with pain he forced himself to sit up. Moving up further made his legs wobble underneath him, and he swooned against the wall. It felt like he had a fever. Hot and cold flashes kept shooting through him. The pain was making him feel nauseous again. Earlier in the process he’d already thrown up. Leaning his arm against the wall and his head on his arm he reached out a shaky hand and touched one of the wings. White hot sparks of pain shot through it. Still, he knew what he needed to do as soon as possible. So he forced himself to continue touching the damned things. As soon as he could move a little more without his vision blurring or fading out he reached out into the bag he’d dropped on the floor when the fletching had begun. He pulled out two rolls of bandages. Then, he paused for a second as he realised he didn’t even know how to move the wings on his own. He’d heard somewhere that it was supposed to be instinctual. He called, well, he doubted that was true. So he reached back and used his arm to flatten the yellow appendages against his back. Then, he unrolled the first roll and set to work. 

But folding the tender wings against his back and securing them was agony. Both physically and mentally. New instincts screamed against him. Wrong, they said. Stop this, why are you doing this. 

But he didn't listen. The bandages restricted not only the wings on his back but his breathing as well. Red blood stained them within seconds of putting them on. Vaguely he wondered why had his wings not stopped bleeding yet. Wasn’t that supposed to stop quickly? The pain of the tender wings pressed tightly against his back was making him see stars. Still, he groaned and pushed himself away from the wall. But his legs swayed again and he sunk to the floor. His stomach was twisting from the pain and he nearly threw up again. Not that there was enough left in his stomach to be thrown up, but still. He stayed on the ground for a minute before slowly rising again. With slow breaths he managed to slowly start moving away from the wall and back towards the stairs. Time to head out. 

Solidaritygaming: sorry for the delay

Solidaritygaming: i’m fine

Solidaritygaming: on my way

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I know everyone always jokes about the Life series members speedrunning their divorce archs with past alliances each season, but Bdubs and Cleo are really out here having the worlds longest slowburn divorce in history.

They start out together in 3rd Life as each others ride or die. No matter who else pokes their head into their team, it’s ultimately always just been the two of them - Bdubs even tells her as much. When Cleo is making alliances with other factions, he looks her right in the eye and tells her that even after all of their other alliances break apart, he will always be loyal to her. They both agree that even if everything falls apart, they will always be each others ride or die.

When Bdubs comes back after missing a session to discover that Cleo has made an alliance with the ONE group he could not stand, he swallows his pride and sucks it up. He isn’t happy about it, but he does it for Cleo.

It’s their partnership together that costs Cleo the one alliance she truly wanted. She wants an alliance with Flower Husbands, but Scott refuses to part ways with his alliance with Desert Duo, and Bdubs has a vendetta against Grian, and so Cleo walks away. Because of Bdubs.

It’s Cleo’s unwavering loyalty to Bdubs that ultimately ends up killing her in the end. When the Red Army attacks them, she wants to hide. She tells Bdubs to hide, but he wants to fight, and so she reluctantly follows after him. She apologizes to the other people she’s with, telling them that she’s sorry but she has to go after him because she promised she would always stick by him. He’s her ride or die, and so she follows after him. And she dies. A death which would have been easily avoided if she would have stayed hidden like she wanted to do from the start. Bdubs makes her a grave in their backyard - one of the few people who ever got a tombstone. He buries her under a spruce tree in their backyard with no less than four bouquets of flowers that he uses to decorate her grave.

Their breakup starts at the beginning of the next season. It was a mutual decision, so nobody is hostile towards each other, they’re all on good terms, they just seem to have drifted apart. Last Life is like the grace period following a mutual breakup where your feelings for each other haven’t necessarily changed at all, they still care about each other, but they’re separate now, so it’s different. The kind of feeling that’s sort of along the same lines of they’ve agreed it’s better that they are broken up, but they don’t really treat each other any differently. They still hang out, they’re still on good terms.

They do get jealous when the other person introduces them their their new partners.

Cleo goes to visit Bdubs during one of the first episodes and they are both absolutely delighted to see each other. One of the first things Bdubs says is that seeing her had felt like coming home, and Cleo agrees.

And then Etho walks in.

This is like the early stages of the Ethubs pairing, and so Bdubs isn’t as secure in their relationship, and Cleo is safe and familiar and comforting. In his own words “it’s like home”. Etho makes a joke that he had turned his back for 5 minutes and Bdubs had immediately run straight back to Cleo, and Bdubs laughs, kind of waves him off, but Cleo takes ONE look at Etho and just goes “Oh…” and her face drops because she realizes that he’s with someone else. And like, to the point, so was she, but it’s to the same point of it was a mutual breakup, but they still care about each other, and it still hurts a little seeing them with someone else. A sentiment that Bdubs echos later when he sees Cleo with Lizzie.

Bdubs walks into the Fairy Fort and starts yelling at Lizzie about the Enchanting table, making demands, and then Cleo steps in. He’s not yelling at her, but he is yelling at her teammate, and she just very calmly steps up to him before very quietly going “Bdubs, back down.” I don’t even think she had a weapon in her hand, her voice is soft and quiet, she sounds almost sad in a way, there is altogether nothing threatening about her and yet he stops immediately. He hears the tone of her voice, stops, glances between her and Lizzie, before taking a BIG step backwards and going “I see the dynamic here” as he realizes that she is ALSO with someone else. And he sounds almost betrayed, like she had gone behind his back or something, and this is like the big moment where they both realize that they still care but they’ve both moved on, they’re not each others ride or die anymore.

Cleo teams back up with Bdubs the second she goes Red for the first time. After BigBs betrayal, she angrily leaves the Fairy Fort, and thus everyone else in that alliance. She tries for Scott first, but she goes Red not even 5 minutes after joining him, and so she’s forced to leave him too. And who does she go running to? Bdubs. Because, in her own words “when you’ve been betrayed, you go with the people you trust.” And Bdubs takes her with open arms.

When Bdubs tells Cleo that Etho’s been trying to kick him out because he’s red, she marches all the way over to their house to give Etho a piece of her mind. Etho is the ONE person she didn’t want to cross during 3rd life, but the SECOND she hears Bdubs might be getting mistreated she is OFF, threatening the man in his own house for messing with her buddy.

When Scar gives Bdubs a life, Cleo is furious. Reds aren’t allowed to team with other colours, and so they are no longer allowed to work together and she’s FURIOUS. She literally crosses the entire server just so she can yell at Scar because “you took my friend away!”

The fact that Cleo was with Etho when Bdubs dies. Etho, who is in shock and heartbroken, and Cleo has to console him. The two of them teaming up after his death. Cleo, who had never trusted Etho. Called him a “Wildcard”. In 3rd life she expected Etho to turn on them at any moment. And yet, when faced with an alliance with him, she goes “I’m trusting you because Bdubs trusted you.” Essentially saying that she still didn’t particularly trust him, but she trusted Bdubs, and she was going to choose to continue to trust his judgement. Her saying she felt the need to protect him for some reason, feeling guilty when she doesn’t tell him about Pearl’s trap.

Double Life was almost like the acceptance period. Again, they are still on decent terms, but some of the niceties have gone. They are both still around, but they kind of leave each other be, not having a need to meddle in each others business.

Until Bdubs makes a crack about Scott.

Bdubs and Impulse are going around trying to drive a wedge between other couples, and he comes after Cleo and Scott. The first real argument they get into. Bdubs lies to Cleo, saying Scott was saying bad things about her, and she calls him out on it. She scolds him, telling him he should be ashamed for lying to her of all people after all they’ve been through. She tells him he should feel bad about it and he does. He apologizes, walking away with his tail between his legs and promising to never to it again.

He’s not necessarily hostile towards her after that, but he’s not particularly civil either. He shoots her multiple times once he goes Red, but he’s not really TRYING to kill her. He hits her once and she just LOOKS at him, goes “Bdubs, no.” And he just goes “Ok.” And walks away. He’s still attacking her, but his hearts not in it. He’s not really TRYING to kill her because deep down he knows he doesn’t really want to. It’s more just a formality of being Red, and Cleo doesn’t even fault him for it. She doesn’t ever retaliate either. She tells Impulse that this is just what he gets like when he goes Red, because she knows. She’s seen it before.

Limited Life almost feels like the true start of their divorce. They’re teamed again, but not in the same way. They still care about each other, but Cleo doesn’t fully trust him anymore, as is evident by the amount of times she’s concerned he’s going to leave them for Etho. During the last episode when Cleo asks him what their plan is, he jokingly says he’s going to leave them and team up with Ties, and the FIRST thing Cleo does is pull out a crossbow and aim it at him until he says he’s just kidding. And he has to reassure her that he is in fact kidding. And it’s not really her fault. She’s been betrayed before, and so she’s a bit skeptical of everyone now. But she doesn’t take his word at face value anymore.

She also has good reason to be paranoid. Bdubs has been consistently sneaking over to see Etho, and he has definitely not been subtle. He’s told them right to their face that he’s got an alliance with Etho, and so Cleo already KNOWS about it, and she also knows that their team in particular has issues with everyone else on team Ties, and so there is really no way Bdubs can ever realistically be part of both teams. He needs to choose between them, and Cleo is rightfully concerned Bdubs will pick Etho.

The fact that Bdubs really does pick Etho. During a conversation he has at their tower, he tells Etho he would betray Cleo and Scar in an instant if it came down to it. He says “I feel like it’s still you and me.” He picks Etho, and yet when Cleo falls off of Sky Net, he SCREAMS her name with such a desperation. He’s told Etho he would betray Cleo in an instant, and yet when he calls her name, it is the exact same tone of voice he used when Cleo was slain by the Red Army in 3rd Life. That same tone of panic, of desperation. She falls off of Sky Net and he panics. He’s scared. He tells Etho he would betray Cleo, and yet he doesn’t want her to die.

And like I don’t think he’s lying about Etho. Given the chance I still think he would team up with him, but this season was more about denial. He says he would betray her, but he could never. He says he doesn’t care, but he does.

The fact that after all this time, they both still care. One season after the next they grow a little bit further apart, but they never stop caring.

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Joe: Hermits are like ghosts, we can't cross yellow lines - that's not canon or lore, if you're coming from a place that has lores or canons

[Submitted by catgirldragon]

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incredibly niche and also cursed but it came to me in a vision

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Like every other eftbk fan rn I am going to recommend it to everyone into mentopolis!!! Lord of the rings workplace parody about the villain’s high ranking advisors after the villain dies. They’re all freaks. Mike Trapp is there! He’s absolutely fucking hilarious and plays a freaky guy with a freaky creature unbeknownst. Matt Mercer spends an entire fight scene trying to kill a hafling with a frying pan. He is so pathetic and I am obsessed with him. He has a pirate bf and I personally have a giant crush on Ify so reason enough. Matt Mercer co parents a demon baby with his rival turned bestie who is so girlboss and has a giant hammer. There a wet elf and an even wetter elf and a spider mom who just wants her kids to be happy.Found family. Freakazoids. Absolute losers.

Bonus:

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You know, I adore the name "Bell's Hells" but a little part of me still wishes they'd gone with "Focus Group" as the c3 party name. It just has so much joke potential while still working as a serious name.

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Critical Role Hunger Games AU where Percy, who is from district 3, just straight up builds a gun in the arena and shoots most of the other tributes.

The Briarwoods are the presidents of Panem. Ripley is Percy's district partner who despises him because her family died as the result of an accident in the factory his family manages.

Yes I'm writing this here's the link

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Mcytblr help me out I swear I remember a clip where Wilbur says something (possibly in tts) about forgetting to eat for three days straight and then eating a lot, and Phil responds that when they meet up he's going to go full dad mode and feed him. It was on a Philza hardcore stream and I'm pretty sure he was walking though the nether. Anyone know where I can find it?