#1.03 version

[mostlyfate]

At the end of your long journey. I'll lend you my shoulder to let you rest. And give you this song. So I'm still waiting for you.

[scoobydoodean]

[b0tster]

Nightmare Kart Version 1.03 is now live!

This update is primarily focused on scoring, but the biggest visual change is the mini map now displaying more useful information during some battle modes.

Get the game here!

[starogeorgina]

𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞

Paring: Jacaerys Velaryon x Targaryen reader , Aegon II Targaryen × Targaryen reader

Warnings: Swearing, smut

1.03

“If you come to Dragonstone with me, I promise I’ll never let anyone hurt you again.”

Your lower lip wobbles. You wanted to leave with him, but realistically, it wasn’t plausible. “And what happens once we arrive at Dragonstone? Your mother and Prince Daemon just accept me with open arms?”

Jacaerys looks down at his feet. He knew they wouldn’t trust you, nor would they likely wish for you to be in their home. “No, they wouldn’t at first,” he gulps down. “But we could make them see you played no part in the plan of usurping my mother's throne.”

“I didn’t even know my father had died until servants were sent to help me get dressed for Aegon’s coronation. How can I prove that?”

He shakes his head. “I don’t know.”

“Whatever road I take, I’ll end up in the same situation.” Feeling uncomfortable, you unconsciously pick at the skin surrounding your finger nail until it bleeds. “If I return home without Stark’s backing Aegon, I will need to face the wrath of being a failure and disappointment to my family. If I go with you to Dragonstone, and I bend my knee to Rhaenyra I’m leaving my sister and her children with the vipers.”

Suddenly your hands are pried apart. “Stop hurting yourself.”

The authority in Jacaerys tone takes you by surprise. Like most dragons, he had a fiery temper, but this was different. It was as if he was putting all his built-up rage aside to protect you. Meekly, you say, “habit.”

Jacaerys inspects your fingertips, frowning as he takes in the older cuts along with the newer ones. He turns your left hand over and runs his thumb over your palm. “I remember playing outside in the gardens when you fell and cut your hand. I’m surprised it didn’t scar.”

“I remember…” Despite your eyes becoming glossy, a chuckle escapes your lips. “My mother somehow blamed you for my falling, and you hid in your quarters for days.”

“I hid in my quarters because Ser Harwin saw me attempt to kiss your hand; I thought my mother and father would be mad when he told them.”

You smile; this was the first time you heard his version; all you remember clearly was your mother yelling in the privacy of her apartments that the ‘eldest bastard’ was to blame. “I’m guessing they weren’t?”

“Once I explained that I wanted to comfort you, she went to visit King Viserys and proposed our betrothal.” He lets go of your hands and moves his own up to gently cup your face.

“Things could have been so different if my grandsire hadn’t gotten into my mother's head. Do you think we would have been happy?”

“We still could be.”

You feel as if the air has been sucked from your lungs, making it hard to breathe. “Wh-what do you mean?” Jacaerys couldn’t possibly be implying what you thought he did. “What do you mean we still could be?”

“Marry me, here in Winterfell.”

“You have more courage than any knight I know for even suggesting such a thing.”

A smile curls on his lips. “It’s not a jest. I’ve loved you for as long as I can remember; if you say no, I will respect that. But if you agree, for the rest of my life, I will spend every day loving you and keeping you safe. Nobody will ever be able to hurt you again.”

His eyes follow your movement as you bring his fingers to your mouth and plant a gentle kiss on them. “My sweet prince, we cannot. Aegon told me, If I betray him, then it’s your life he will take.”

“It’s a risk I’m willing to take.”

—

Since Northern wedding vows were shared in front of a weirwood tree in the presence of the old god that they believed in, you wanted to be careful not to offend them with your Old Valyrian custom, so Jacaerys purposed you did the ceremony yourselves, outside, surrounded by nothing but the moonlight and your dragons flying above.

You cut each other's lips with a blade made of dragonglass. Jacaerys cuts his hand and rubs a mark on each of your foreheads to signify the continuation of your bloodline. You pledge to each other, “one flesh, one heart, one soul, now and forever.”

“I’ve va moriot jorrāelatan ao.”

“My sweet Jacaerys, I feel the same way.”

Your breath catches in your throat, and saying everything you wish becomes difficult. Jace leans down, pressing his cold lips against your own. An electric spark you’ve never felt passes through you; it was strong enough to make the snow nipping at your skin momentarily disappear. You wanted this; you wanted him. Jacaerys finally being yours felt surreal—a dream you didn’t want to wake up from.

He pulls back slightly and mumbles against your lips, “We should go back inside. I don’t want my bride to catch a cold.”

—

Nervously, you walk towards the bed covered in layers of fur and find yourself almost digging at your nails again, but when you feel a gentle kiss pressed to the back of your neck, the tension you're holding eases slightly, but the butterflies in your stomach aren’t completely gone.

“We don’t need to do anything,” Jacaerys says quietly. “We are married now; there is no rush.”

You did want to be intimate with Jace, but now that you were standing here, you felt unworthy of him. Bruises from Aegon holding you tightly still lingers on your skin, and it made you feel disgusting.

“I do, but... I’m afraid of what comes next,” you admit. “The repercussion of—”

He cuts you off with a kiss and says, “Whatever happens next, I’ll protect you.”

For once you hold your tongue, not wanting to loudly question how impossible that would be, You sigh, “I wish I could turn all the thoughts in my brain off, even for a short time, so I could revel in my husband's warmth.”

“I could help with that.”

Curious, you lock eyes with him. “What do you mean?”

“I could make you feel good without having sex, but only if you wish it.”

Chewing on your bottom lip, you nod. You weren’t entirely sure what his plan was, but you trusted Jace enough to follow through with his words. Taking your hand, he guides you to lay back on the bed. He kisses down your neck. “Promise me, you’ll tell me if you want me to stop.”

“I promise.”

Jacaerys kisses down your clothed body until he reaches your thighs. He pushes your skirts up to your waist, then slowly pulls your small cloth down. You await the stinging stretch of Jace pushing his cock into you at any second, but instead you feel his hot breath on your core. “Wh—what are you doing?”

“I’m going to taste the sweetest thing the gods ever made.”

“Do you mean—oh fuck!”

Jace spreads your folds open with his fingers, then dips his tongue inside of you.

“Gods, that feels good!”

One of your trusted ladies in waiting once told you that a gold cloak had ‘eaten her cunny’ and shared how good it felt. Ever since you had been curious about the act, this was far better than anything you could have imagined. Jace hooks his arms around your thighs, holding you in place while turning his attention to your clit and flicking over it with his tongue.

Lewd moans fall from your mouth as the coil in your stomach snaps, and you reach the first climax a man has ever given you.

Jace wipes his glistening lips and chin with his sleeve before moving up the bed and laying beside you. He presses a soft kiss to your lips, then gently caresses the soft flesh of your thigh. “We don’t need to go any further.“

“I want you, Jace; I want this.”

Hearing those words fall from your lips, he quickly lowers his breeches until his hard cock springs free. Jace rolls over, lines himself up with you, and slowly begins to push inside you. His thrusts are gentle as his touch is soft, making you feel cared for, almost safe. Jace peppers your neck in kisses while bringing his thumb to your clit and starts to rub it, taking great pleasure in how tightly you squeeze him. “Gods,” he moans. “You’re so perfect, my love; I think you were made for me.”

Tears threaten to fall from your eyes, but you fight to hold them back, not wanting to ruin the moment. Jace notices and immediately stops his movements. “Am I hurting you? Do you want me to stop?”

“No, keep going, please, please!”

Slowly he starts to thrust into you again; he seems unsure until you wrap your legs around his waist, which encourages him to go faster again. It doesn’t take long for you to reach your peak for the second time, and Jacaerys isn’t far behind.

—

Your fingers glide over Jacaerys bare back as he nuzzles into the crook of your neck. The both of you were sticky with sweat, but you’d stopped caring hours ago.

While being so caught up in making love, Jacaerys hadn’t noticed the bruises on your body until he collapsed, panting and gasping beside you. If it wasn’t for exhaustion overtaking him, he would still be expressing his fury.

“What are you thinking about?” He asks, his voice laced with sleep.

“How the sun is rising.”

Looking out the window, you can see the orange and pink hues of the sky, and the snowfall is becoming heavier. You take a deep breath, feeling the cool morning air fill your lungs.

Whatever happens next, you must remember that you’re the blood of the dragon, and you must be strong.

I’ve always loved you — I’ve va moriot jorrāelatan ao

[vidavalor]

Ok fine, I brought milk and chocolate chip cookies this time 🥛 🍪 and also some eggs from my lovely chickens! 🐓 🥚

I hope you accept this apology, and I’ll try my best to behave 😜

So, I wonder how you interpret 1.03 where, just before the flood, one of the unicorns makes a run for it and Crawley says ‘you still got one of them’? Some people seem to believe this means she didn’t understand the process of procreation (at the time). Do you have any thoughts on that?

Please don't behave. Why would you want to do that? Would make this all very boring lol. 😂 Thank you for the very fun ask. I love this question.💕

I think the scene you're talking about is more than a funny aside about whether or not Crowley had finished reading Demon's Guide to Reproduction of Beings on Earth yet... and that might not be the question the scene is really asking. I think it also has a ton to do with the Final Fifteen of 2.06, too, so *slices pie* let's get into the unicorns and the professional midwife/cobbler and what, imo, these two moments have to do with one another:

In S1, in the scene set just before the beginning of The Flood, we have two questions emerge from Crowley's dialogue, both of which are then picked up again in S2. One is what Crowley meant by "kids" when he said "you can't kill kids" after looking at a group containing both small goats and children. The second question is the one you're talking about, which is whether or not he understood at the time how human reproduction works. The question is born out of the fact that, on the surface, he might appear to not exactly be grasping the concept of Noah's Ark when he says that Shem's "still got one of them" after one of the pair of unicorns takes off and doesn't get on the boat. Both things show back up together again in S2 in the Job minisode and that sort of continuation of story, in a way, might suggest that there's going to be a third layer to this that emerges in S3 as well. I think, though, that we might have enough to look at some potential answers already.

While the "kids" bit is, essentially, answered and was always more of a language joke anyway-- Crowley wishes to kill no kids, be them goats or humans-- the fact that this question returned in S2 and was tied once again with a plot centered around sex and reproduction shows that the questions raised in The Flood scene in S1 are interrelated and pretty important overall. The entire Job plot ultimately comes down to who knows what about human reproduction. Saving the kids comes down to fooling Gabriel and fooling Gabriel can only be done because Gabriel, at least at the time, did not have the first clue how human reproduction normally works. He had only seen this one, initial, very atypical version of it that has basically never happened since and because he didn't spend time on Earth at that point in the story, he didn't know he had it all wrong. This whole story is built around what someone's understanding of reproduction of another species is and it isn't Crowley who doesn't know how it all works by 2500 B.C., it's Gabriel. But what does this have to do with The Flood and Crowley and the unicorns?

In the Job minisode, we are told that Gabriel was in The Garden at the start of it and witnessed Eve's birth from Adam's rib. We find this hilarious because we know that this isn't how sex works and this time, in this scene, Crowley is more than in on the joke with us. What makes the scene funny is actually Crowley's knowledge in it of how human sex and reproduction work. Unlike Gabriel, he wasn't there for Eve's super-weird birth and so he's visibly trying not to be like what the actual fuck? this is how Eve was made? at Aziraphale as Aziraphale's gestures lead Crowley to telling Sitis to pull out one of Job's ribs-- absolutely not a feature of any sex Crowley has ever had or seen. Aziraphale then is flirting with a Crowley who totally gets the joke when Sitis pulls the ox ribs "out" of Job. It's very evident between this scene and the prior night in the cellar that, circa 2500 B.C. at least, Crowley absolutely knew how human sex and reproduction worked.

The key bit here to understanding what Crowley was saying about the unicorns back during The Flood is actually in the reminder in the Job minisode about The Garden that the minisode gives us through making the plot equally about what Gabriel saw in The Garden-- Eve's weird conception and birth-- but also about what Gabriel didn't see-- Adam and Eve have more human-typical sex-- which is something that Crowley set into motion and then something that he and Aziraphale both witnessed.

By bringing up how Gabriel doesn't know what human sex and reproduction normally look like because of what he saw (and missed) in The Garden of Eden, the show is also reminding us that, after Gabriel left, Crowley was sent up into The Garden and tempted Eve into eating the apple. Eve then shared the apple with Adam. Adam and Eve figured out sex not long after that, during a period of time in which both Aziraphale and Crowley were also in The Garden and Eve's pregnancy was one of Aziraphale's motivations for giving them his flaming sword.

Mah point is that Crowley absolutely knew about sex and sexual reproduction during The Flood because Crowley and Aziraphale essentially watched the first humans have sex on Earth in The Garden of Eden.

The show also has about a half-dozen jokes about Anthony J. "Can I watchchch?" Crowley's voyeuristic tendencies and roots some of it to the fact that he's the Serpent of Eden and gets off on watching his temptation labors bear fruit. (It's been a long day. I have earned that joke😂). Ya know, such as:

This whole unicorn and sex thing is also part of the Job minisode by way of the ox ribs, further making it all kind of part of the same story. The inclusion of unicorns in ancient history in GO feels like a nod to the re'em, an animal mentioned a few times in The Bible (including in The Book of Job), which has been frequently translated as "unicorn" and is part of the origin for from where our idea of unicorns comes in the first place. The same word has been translated as meaning other animals-- among them? The wild ox.

Making things even more interesting is unicorn lore. The unicorn was said to be a wild, secretive creature who lived in the forest and who could only ever be captured and tamed by a virgin maiden. Aziraphale, in 2500 B.C., is shown to not eat or drink before the night in the cellar began so odds are also good on the food-and-alcohol = sex show that Aziraphale definitely qualified as a virgin maiden when he went to absolute town on those ox ribs. Anyway...

...what I'm saying here is that it feels extremely unlikely that, by the time of The Flood in 3,004 B.C., that Crowley didn't know how human sex and reproduction worked when he saw it play out in The Garden. Other than Eve's speedy stages of pregnancy meant to get the ball rolling on humanity, Adam and Eve's sex was typical of humans. So, Crowley knew about sex and sexual reproduction when he made the comment about the unicorns... but then how does that make sense, right?

In order to think that Crowley didn't know how reproduction works during The Flood scene we've seen, you would have to assume two things are true: 1) that unicorns reproduce via sexual reproduction and 2) that unicorns went extinct as a result of one of them making a run for it and not making it onto Noah's Ark, right?

The thing is... the show might be subtly trying to show that unicorns do still exist in GO. But before you say 'but, Vida, seriously?! We've never seen an unicorn after The Flood!', I'm going to argue that maybe we actually have one as a major supporting character and this S2 scene might be hinting in that direction:

The parallel to the "Oi, Shem!" scene is Nina-as-Crowley telling Aziraphale-as-Shem that that unicorn (The Bentley) is running of its own accord. Unicorns are magical beings. How magical beings present, as God pointed out in S1, is up to them. Human forms are just one option, right? I don't know exactly where this is going but this bit in S2 was a direct tie to The Flood's unicorn moment and it would explain a thing or two about Chitty Chitty Bang Bang if it were somehow tied to the unicorns. Can Crowley actually make them, the way Beez can make flies? Can Aziraphale? We really have no idea how the unicorn thing works in GO so we can't really use it as an example that Crowley didn't know about sex when it's more that we don't know about unicorns...

The unicorn that we saw during The Flood tracked with what we think of as the mythical being of an unicorn in our real world so we could make the assumption that some of the same aspects of them are/were true in GO. Unicorns are magical horse/donkey-like beings (which couldn't possibly be more Crowley and Aziraphale if it tried.) They are few and far between, are hard to spot and mostly keep to themselves. Human beings have no real actual proof that they ever existed in the first place and generally consider them mythical beings but Good Omens shows us that they at least did exist in GO ancient times-- and might still. In modern times, unicorns have become a LGBTQIA+ symbol and, for that reason and that reason alone, it seems unlikely that they actually went extinct in the world of *Good Omens*...

So, let's presume that Crowley said the existence of unicorns would continue even if Shem only had one of them on Noah's Ark because he knows that unicorns are not like other beings on Earth. Think about what else Crowley is then saying here with this line to Shem:

Noah's Ark, to us, is a story about continuing the existence of life for beings on Earth, right? It's about pairs, about mates, for the purpose of continuing species on earth via sexual reproduction. That's why we consider what Crowley's saying in this moment of this scene through the lens of it being entirely about sexual reproduction. When it comes to the unicorns, though, you could argue that Crowley is not actually talking about reproduction but about romance. We don't actually know how unicorns work-- but Crowley does.

What Crowley is actually telling us in this scene is that paired unicorns can survive the death of one of them because they're a part of each other. What Crowley is actually saying is that the pair of mated unicorns in the scene are two beings who share a single existence.

You couldn't permanently kill one of a pair of unicorns without killing both of them. So long as one of them still exists, they both do.

One unicorn could make a run for it for any reason and bolt away from his mate and die in the storm but Crowley knew the bolting unicorn was a part of the one that Shem got on the boat and so could be brought back.

In S2, we see something like this with other magical beings-- Ineffable Bureaucracy.

Oi, Shem, that purple-eyed unicorn's gonna make a run for it...

It's too late, too late...

Oh, well, you've still got one of them...

The Fly is Gabriel and Beez together; it's their shared existence. Without it, Gabriel would not have survived. The one of them still left-- Beez-- is the one who can put it together and bring Gabriel back into a full existence.

Ineffable Bureaucracy are unicorns who parallel our main two, though, and Oi, Shem...

...that bow-tied unicorn's gonna make a run for it...

Oh, well, you've still got one of them...

[tawaifeddiediaz]

EVAN BUCKLEY + character profile

(for @madamewriterofwrongs 💞💕)

(eddie’s version)

[Image ID: five gifs of Evan Buckley from 9-1-1. The gifs are all themed with blue, black and white.:

GIF 1: A color gif of Buck grinning at Maddie as he tells her that he was the first kid she raised in 5.15. Everything except his face is colored a light blue. The white text is in an uneven Scrabble letter font, and horizontally, reads "Buckley". Using the e in his last name, vertically, it reads "Evan."

GIF 2: A black and white gif of Buck looking at Eddie in fond amusement in the doorway of Eddie's house in 4.03. A second gif of the same scene in blue is overlaid on top, displaced slightly towards the left. Multiple arrows point towards Buck's face, leading to the following roles: brother, firefighter, co-parent, uncle, partner, friend.

GIF 3: A collage of four gifs.

The top row has the first gif black and white, of Buck smiling widely at Maddie as they plan to run from Hershey together in 4.05. "Evan" is written on top with blue-and-black text. The second gif is colored blue, and is of Buck watching Maddie and Chim at karaoke stoically in 2.08. The white text reads, "God is Gracious."

The bottom row has the first gif blue, of Buck grinning widely at the man who'd just become a father in 2.14. The white text reads, "Herdsman". The second gif is a black and white one of him cocking his head at Eddie to prove a jinx exists as the bell goes off before they can eat again in 4.06. "Buckley" is written on top with blue-and-black text.

GIF 4: Two gifs blended: A black-and-white gif of Buck explaining Carla's qualifications to Eddie in 2.04, and a blue-and-black gif of Buck laughing with Ali at the end of 2.08, telling her he's glad she called. The graphic on top is of a crab drawing with the zodiac symbol for Cancer on its body. Underneath is the name "Cancer" and a crescent moon. Underneath are four bullet points: emotional, protective, moody, obsessive.

GIF 5: A black and white background gif of Buck teasing Eddie about his love for telenovelas 5.09, not believing his excuses for loving them. There are multiple hexagons scattered around the gif, with color gifs inside some of them.

In the top left corner is written ENFP, with "The Campaigner" underneath. In the center of the gif, the acronym is written out: extroverted, intuitive, feeling, perceiving."

On the top right, in two hexagons, is a gif of Buck suggesting names to Maddie and Chimney, all various versions of Evan. On the bottom left, in three hexagons, is a gif of Buck watching Taylor leave in 5.09. On the bottom right, in one hexagon, is Buck grinning as Chim indicates he can do the manuever in 1.03. The other characteristics in the hexagons are "strong, dramatic, moral, creative, kind, playful."

/end ID]

[captainofthetidesbreath]

Thoughts on parallels between the scene where Phineas beats Sherman and where Imelda tortures weepe?

Jonas Spahr is there, and he's also not having a good day. 😔

So, I initially meant that as a joke about how I'm a huge fan of Jonas and will obnoxiously take any opportunity to talk about him. I do think there are many parallels and resonances between these scenes, and there is much to say about the four characters named and the central action of nearly killing someone for the sake of the Trust, but those angles are more obvious and more likely to be recognized by most. (And I'm willing to talk about some of those as well, if asked again. Or, if there's a specific aspect you'd like to hear about, let me know.)

In terms of my interests, it IS a pretty interesting point to be made: Jonas Spahr is there, watching. It's integral to both scenes that Spahr is a witness; he's even the ONLY witness in the Arca. His role as such is also explicitly recognized by the active character in each scene:

Since this is about the cabaret and Arca scenes specifically, I won't spin off into an entire commentary and analysis of Spahr's role as an observer and witness. For now, we'll have to content ourselves with the short version just for context, but I can go into it at a later time.

The heart of it is: thus far, his role in the narrative is a generally passive one that largely centers on watching and observing. It's the first thing he does as a player in this story. He steps back and watches how Phineas handles the Ginsberg situation, and the narrators remind us four separate times in 1.03: Mica:

Deeds of Valor—and Caenum, apparently—need to be witnessed, after all! Thing is, Spahr does a lot of watching but, until more recently, doesn't really SEE all that often. He is for a long time a passive, immovable, unreadable observer to events as the eyes of the Trust. He is that witness for much of events he's involved in, for better or (more likely) worse.

After Phineas attacks Sherman, Spahr himself is quick to identify this problem with himself in 2.02: Ascendancy, that he is watching and looking but he is, perhaps intentionally, not seeing and noticing:

The incident in the cabaret and the incident in the Arca are directly connected and bound together by Spahr as witness. Phineas attacking Sherman and Imelda torturing Weepe are moments that Spahr is truly seeing, bearing witness to events and comprehending them, their context, and their implications.

In both, he bears witness specifically to the damage that the Trust causes and the ways that it harms people inside and outside of it. Phineas and Imelda believe that Spahr will witness something else—Phineas hopes that Spahr will not be witnessing a failure where Imelda hopes that Spahr will be witnessing one—but what he is seeing instead is the raw brutality that the Trust and its systems and pressures naturally engender at their logical extremes. He immediately recognizes it to be a horror:

Spahr experiences a dread born of comprehension typically reserved for moments of understanding in eldritch horror. Sucks to be the guy whose role is to see things and you end up actually comprehending some of them! And comprehend them in these two scenes he does.

Spahr doesn't do a ton in terms of active action in either scene—the cabaret scene is notably set off by his mere presence, and he ultimately freezes in the Arca scene—but in each, he does ultimately move to attempt to stop what is happening. And, notably, he does so under his own power and motivation.

That said, he fails to prevent a significant amount of the damage. He moves fast enough to prevent Phineas from killing Sherman, but too late to prevent the harm done to Sherman and all the spiraling consequences of this. He is frozen into a paralysis by Imelda's threat, so he fails to follow through and stop her, stop the harm done to Weepe, and again stop the spiraling consequences from this.

Twice, once in each scene, he fails to meaningfully prevent the harm done here. He attempts to stop them when he is standing here in the room with them, but by then it's too late. ("Too little, too late," as Sherman will eventually say.)

Obviously, Spahr is not the sole bearer of responsibility in either incident. Phineas and Imelda have an immense amount to answer for there, and the system of the Trust itself created the conditions that one way or another pushes them and Spahr to do as they do. However, both are incidents that he in some way has allowed. He reflects on having not seen, or even ignored, the signs of what was brewing inside Phineas and what he was being pushed toward; he helps engineer this intervention and stands by while Imelda locks Weepe in the Arca, never asking enough questions.

He has allowed both to happen. When he begins to feel the emotional aftermath of each, in 2.02: Ascendancy and 2.17: Compensation, the narration of his internal monologue even uses that wording:

They're both critical scenes to Spahr's development as someone whose role is largely passive, both within the Trust systems and within the narrative. Just as much as he is to be seen, he is also very much here to see—and to refuse to see. To stand by as a passive witness to horrors and allow them, silent and impassive and watching. He can try to intervene, but he's already facilitated this.

He is coming to understand his part in this, in brutalities such as these, with horror. In the aftermath of the Arca incident, we see him increasingly discontent with his role in the Trust and desperately in search of ways to stop what he can. He is not yet successful, but his vision is very much clarifying. His arc turns around these scenes as paralleled experiences for him in his narrative, as moments that he witnesses, allows, and fails to stop against even his own belated efforts. These two scenes bookend his growing comprehension and self-reflection throughout season two.

Twice now, it's been asked of him: What are you refusing to see, Jonas? What horrors and brutalities are you allowing to happen? Will you always be intervening much too late?

Third time's a charm, perhaps.

[aniraklova]

Since I'm about to turn our damn game (screw you ts4 slkgjsdlkrfh) into a cp77, I decided to recreate a main menu overlay, using the original cp77 screenshot as a reference and what do we have here

The original:

I think 1.03 is outdated version, so I gotta change that ig ljdsnhldfjhll

[cryotrash]

Dates & Wires 1.03 is out - an intermediate version addressing some of the games' existing issues while we work on that extra content :)

[touhou-memories]

Yukari's spellcard 式神「八雲藍＆橙」 Shikigami "Ran Yakumo & Chen" from Antinomy of Common Flowers was changed in ver. 1.03. Ran and Chen are now leaving coloured trails behind them and they deal more hits than before.

If you cast the spellcard from afar, Ran and Chen would just fly off the screen in older versions, but since ver. 1.03 they eventually fly towards the enemy and hit it.

[girlbenson]

thinking about HER (an early version of one of the scripts in season one where kendall was holding stewy’s hair back as he was throwing up. i presume when they meet again in 1.03 and stewy is hungover)

[mostlyfate]

Shirasawa Mami + hiding with her hands*:･ﾟ✧

Hamabe Minami as Shirasawa Mami Talio Fukushu Daiko no Futari タリオ 復讐代行の2人 2020, dir. Kimura Hisashi, Yamamoto Toru.

[armoredcorelegacy]

Notice for Armored Core: Verdict Day on PS3/360. As of May 14th, PVP via P2P for Playstation 3 is no longer available and the unavailability of Patch 1.03 (1.07 for Japan) for both consoles. Free Battle is still technically available on X360 side but is stuck on 1.00 (no patches).

-Armored Core: Verdict Day servers closed on March 31st 2024, but PVP Free Battle was still possible via P2P as long as players were logged into PSN. -Attempting to boot the game will revert it back to 1.00, and the Free Battle menu will be greyed out for PS3 players.

-on May 14th, patches no longer applied when booting up the game. This meant that when players booted up ACVD, even if they were logged into PSN they could not access Free Battle

-Patch 1.03 (Patch 1.07 for Japan) was also no longer available meaning players would be playing the game with stats from launch

-This also affects old versions of PCVD but has been fixed in newer ones

-Part of the issue arises from the fact that ACVD did not get EoL patches like ACV did, which included the patch data so players could still PVP via P2P even after the servers closed.

-Armored Core Legacy has reached out to Bandai Namco (who pinged From Software) and have indicated that the behavior experienced "is as expected based on the ways the separate consoles handle server closures on their respective platforms."

-Armored Core Legacy also reached out to members of the JP community who reached out to FromSoftware directly and received a similar response.

-Oddly enough, the X360 side is not affected and can still do PVP Free Battle via P2P but are stuck on 1.00. It is unknown how long it will stay available. We have reached out to Bandai Namco for comment, and also asked the Japanese community to reach out to From Software directly, and they have indicated this behavior is expected, and that there is no plan for a fix.

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TEKKEN 8 — Eddy Gordo Gameplay Trailer

DLC character Eddy Gordo will launch on April 1, 2024 for Playable Character Year 1 Pass owners at 4:00 p.m. PT / 7:00 p.m. ET and April 4, 2024 for all users.

Eddy Gordo will launch alongside the game’s version 1.03.01 patch, which adds the following:

New playable character Eddy Gordo

*72-hour early access made available to owners of the Playable Character Year 1 Pass.

*Playable Character Year 1 Pass is included in the following:

**Tekken 8 Deluxe Edition Upgrade Pack

**Tekken 8 Ultimate Edition

**Tekken 8 Deluxe Edition

New feature Tekken Fight Pass added to Tekken Shop:

*During the specified period, players can increase their level by completing daily and weekly missions in online matches, allowing them to obtain various items.

*In the Premium tier, where items are even more luxurious, players can also acquire Tekken Coins, which can be exchanged for various items in Tekken Shop.

New items added to Tekken Shop:

*New costume sets “Cyber Pack 01” and “Cyber Pack 02” available for all playable characters.

*A legacy costume for Yoshimitsu

*Eddy Gordo Avatar Skin

Eddy Gordo Avatar Skin Functional improvements and bug fixes:

*A feature has been added to Ranked Match, Quick Match, and Group Match modes to allow for the termination and invalidation of matches if the network connection quality falls below certain specified conditions.

*An indication has been added to the versus screen in Player Match mode to display when the stage has been randomly selected.

*A Quit option has been added to the Main Menu to allow the game to be exited from sources other than the options menu (Steam version only).

Behavior / properties of moves will be adjusted for some characters:

*In version 1.03, continuing from the previous version 1.02, focus was placed on correcting unintended move behavior.

*Work on an update focused on battle system balance is underway, but we are undertaking this with utmost caution by carefully evaluating user play data collected from around the world. Version 1.04 is scheduled for release in May following the conclusion of EVO Japan 2024.

*Version 1.04 will primarily focus on buffing characters who haven’t been able to fully showcase their uniqueness. However, adjustments to certain moves that exhibit significant strength will also be made.

Scope of Update

The application of the update data will result in the following impact on each mode and feature.

“Downloaded Replays,” “My Replay & Tips”: Replay data from before the update will be unavailable for playback.

“Online Replay”: Replay data from before the update will be deleted.

“Super Ghost Battle,” “Ghost Match”: Character behavior and move properties will reflect that of the post-update state.

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THE WALKING DEAD 1.03: “Tell It to the Frogs”  

Color version

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S, I can't take this anymore, I cannot believe people don't talk about this Chris: https://www.tumblr.com/ashilesun/616306787311828992/chris-evans-defending-jacob-103 (the first gif specifically) with this Sebastian: https://images.app.goo.gl/wWuhE12gm6k6JMrv6. The idea of this fucking version of them has been eating me from the inside for more than a year, and I still don't see anyone coming up with this. And okay, it's a bit too vanilla but that's what's soo hot about this pairing in my head. No kinky stuff involved. Just a newly, happily married couple -who make me feel like throwing my phone at the wall sometimes, because I can't TAKE IT,- Andy Barber Chris is so fucking dreamy, and then that Sebastian as his husband? Oh my lord. And I imagine it as an AU (no shit) where Chris's overall attitude and personality is just Andy (without the pain) and Sebastian is some theoretical physicist, or some badass engineer (I dare you to laugh) or something, the soft spoken polite yet professional sweetheart. A lawyer and a scientist. Married. Looking like this. And I know, it's silly and all but that's my thing, alright? think about it. Oh and their KID would grow up so sophisticated, educated and cultured, but I won't embarrass myself more than I already have for now, thank you very much.

Ugh it's finally off my chest. Thank you so much for reading this rambling of mine, I couldn't keep it in anymore.

(Ps: You can totally ignore this, it's completely fine by me!😂)

related, first, to Chris as Andy in Defending Jacob 1.03

related, second, to Sebastian at the Hugo Boss Party for I, Tonya

Aw, baby! We do lots of kinky stuff here (mostly because... that's me, I'm very much kinky, lmao), but that doesn't mean we can't appreciate vanilla stuff, too! There's nothing wrong with vanilla sex. Not at all!

And I love this! It's so cute, it actually reminds me of this fic that is an AU of everyday, non-celebrity evanstan:

"If I know what love is (it is because of you)" by hellobeautworld

Overall, this is adorable. I can only imagine how happy and stable and cute they would be. Thank you for sharing! <3