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guess which idiot was writing a 'short' weird fanfic about Castle Crashers dead princess theory that is no longer short because of chronic worldbuilding-itis and chronic shipping?

it's me.

I'm the Idiot.

here's a sneak peak, because i need outside validation or i'll explode:

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Your rooms in the Home Castle hadn’t been touched when you came back, but they had still felt empty and strange when you returned home.

The feeling hadn’t gone away.

You were ready to wear them in again.

As it was… well.

You swept your gaze along the room, not looking for anything in particular.

There was an armor stand that was currently empty, a bed, a chest which mostly held things to clean your armor and weaponry with, a new, magical terrarium for your animal orb, and a door to a private bathroom.

Your gaze landed on your weapons rack and stayed.

You kept your lollipop on you at all times, because people got weird in funny ways about a high-spec Agility weapon being an enchanted bludgeoning lollipop of all things. Also because you couldn’t stand not having weaponry on you anymore, but, small details.

On the rack hung the nifty, glowing yellow sword you found behind a house, a weird Agility sword stolen from those pirates, and… your mouth tightened. And the Necromancer’s blade.

You hadn’t wanted to keep the twisted black wand, but there was no time to destroy it, and there had been no time to mess with it since. You had dumped it on the rack then got swept up in the party.

Your thoughts stalled.

Necromancer.

Ghosts.

Bodies.

(An entire room of corpses and blood and skeletons hanging from walls.)

You blinked.

You were holding the blade.

You turned it around in your hands. It was made of some dark material that glinted in the light. There were no debuff enchantments on it. You really had to wonder who had smithed it. You were sure Blacksmith would love to meet them.

You hadn’t cleaned the blood off yet. It was dried and flaking in your hands. The Necromancer was… well, you were an archer, then a mage, and only then an up close attacker. But his ability to block your arrows while deflecting Red and Orange’s melee and harassing Blue with magic was insane. Red had nothing but respectful words for the fight after, even as Orange hissed and mourned over the sea of bodies they had to wade through...

So the blood on the blade was Green’s. From the shoulder wound that took him out of the fight.

You set the blade aside and began to strip off your armor.

You didn’t know what to do with it.

You didn’t like taking trophies.

You rubbed a hand between Frogglet’s antlers, who had settled in the terrarium, and resigned yourself to a sleepless night.

Maybe the lack of sleep was why you decided to take blade with you, in addition to your usual loadout.

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Mobei Jun knows what a transmigrator is.

Stay with me on this- I'll explain. The concept of multiple worlds is a normal thing in PIDW. The human and demon worlds are conjoined but also overlap and occasionally there's rifts that open between them. Multiple worlds? Well there's already two why not more?

Why specifically Mobei Jun? Because he can portal. We don't know how or where he got that skill from (I headcanon it's from his mom, not the Mobei clan directly because we don't see his uncle used it) but it stands to reason that whoever developed this portal magic (also maybe Xin Mo? Who the f made Xin Mo??) would have, being aware of multiple worlds, considered the possibility of someone portalling farther than intended. Maybe some poor bastard even did it before.

Maybe when Mobei Jun learned to portal he got told the cautionary tale of some poor ancient demon who accidentally portalled to a world besides the conjoined PIDW ones and got hit by a train or something.

(Binghe didn't get this warning because he found Xin Mo in Hell's Lost and Found the Abyss.)

So like, he doesn't know the word 'transmigration' but if SQH said, "I'm from another world" he'd just be like, "Oh cool, makes sense."

Heck SQH isn't subtle, maybe MBJ's already figured it out.

SQH and SQQ sniping at each other in English.

LBH, to himself: What're they talking about?

MBJ: Presumably the other world they're both from.

LBH: WHAT

SQQ: WHAT

SQH: HOW

MBJ: ...did you think you weren't obvious?

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in my head the star wars equivalent of tswift is some human woman named tay’lor spiff or something and her stans are losing their minds over theories that she’s secretly a jedi singing about the horrors of war, even though she’s from a neutral system that hasn’t seen so much as a moral panic in 50 years

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"There are more than 20 million fewer children in child labor today than in 2020...

This reduction is especially welcome news given that so many development trends, including child labor, stalled or reversed during the pandemic. Experts weren’t sure if or how quickly the world would get back on track.

Here is the even better news: since 2000, there are 108 million fewer children in child labor, even as more and more children were born during that same time period. 

To be clear, the child labor I am talking about isn’t your teenager pulling some shifts at the local ice cream shop. These are kids as young as five in poor countries who are out breaking rocks or working the fields when they should be in school.

Per a joint report by UNICEF and the International Labour Organization, since 2020, progress has occurred across all global regions and also included a substantial dip in hazardous work, defined as work that is likely to compromise a child’s health, safety, or morals.

The global goal was to end child labor by this year. With 138 million children still engaged in it worldwide, we are clearly far from success. But, the report says, “most regions could see the near or total elimination of child labor in the coming decades,” with the exception of Sub-Saharan Africa, where birth rates remain high, conflict rife, and economic growth slow...

If the current pace of progress continues, child labor in Asia and the Pacific will be eliminated by 2060 and near zero in Latin America and the Caribbean...

What is behind the downturn in child labor? One big factor is that old, familiar song of economic growth—parents who aren’t cash strapped don’t need an extra pair of hands. A second is better access to schooling, and a third, social protections for children like healthcare and cash transfers."

-via The Progress Network, July 3, 2025

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Note: Something that article, which is pretty short, doesn't get into is that progress WILL increase and speed up significantly in sub-Saharan Africa. A number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa are undergoing huge revolutions in access to basic needs, economic development, and quality of life. Child labor rates in sub-Saharan Africa are NOT going to continue declining at the current rate, they are going to increasingly decline at a FASTER rate as access to clean water, plumbing, electricity, and sanitation will all drastically change the labor landscape of Africa and reduce child labor. These trends are already happening in a number of countries, as they have in the other regions of the world.

Every single one of the factors in the reduction in child poverty listed in the final paragraph of the article is improving already in a number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa, albeit in fits and starts, with uneven progress that will almost certainly even out further as African nations and activists and governments etc. all learn from each other and are able to offer pockets to stability to move forward. (x, x, x, x, x, x)

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They should add "On Horseback" option to Google Maps. For writers.

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headaches should be water soluble this is bullshit

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i am the chlorox i speak for the bleach

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didn't know tumblr would show <10 things on trending.

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I laughed until I cried.

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this experience still exists within the average range actually. methinks the proper word here is 'median'

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assuming box pets are closed technology, then there is definetely a rumor that natsu exists because of leon.

I like to think that there's a popular conspiracy theory in Flame Society that Reborn is actually Tsuna's father, not Iemitsu. At first it starts out as a joke. Iemitsu has a reputation of being not the most competent, while Tsuna is the Vongola 10th, who is a renowned diplomat, incredibly strong in battle, and has a list of accomplishments to his name including breaking the Arcobaleno Curse. So people start to joke that, well, it's just difficult to believe Tsunayoshi came from that, you know? And I mean, look at how Reborn acts around Tsuna. Clearly they're related.

And people joke that, sure, Tsunayoshi looks very Japanese, and Reborn definitely does not. But hey, even ignoring that genetics can behave in unexpected ways, would the man who doesn't even let anyone know his real name actually be open about his real appearance? And he's so good at disguises! Maybe Reborn and Tsuna actually look pretty similar!

And people also joke that, well, Reborn can mind-read, right? And Tsunayoshi always knows what people's intentions are. Are they actually different abilities? They do behave quite similarly, after all. Maybe Reborn's mind-reading is actually Vongola Hyper Intuition! Hahahaha. Ha.

And people point out that, hey, Reborn got to interact with Tsuna so much while teaching him, and Iemitsu interacted with Tsuna so little over the course of Tsuna's whole childhood, isn't that a little suspicious?

And of course it spirals until people aren't actually joking anymore.

Nothing Tsuna or Iemitsu says can halt these rumors. Reborn, of course, is absolutely smug and is of no help at all.