#I also wanna go on record and say I've been warning about discord for a while now too- she's reaching critical mass

[soumic]

About once a day I go through the mental gymnastics of going "god I should probably make an art insta, for ~professional purposes~ and ~networking~ and ~cultivating an audience~"

And then I scrunch my face up so hard my features cave inside my skull thinking about conceding to using an algorithmic social media platform in 2023, let alone a facebook product

(please don't take this as a call to suggest alternative social medias to me sdlkfjs I mega super promise you I am aware of them)

[dendro-bunny]

Digital Flowers

Time skip!Kenma Kozume x FEM!Reader

Genre: Fluff

Synopsis: [Fist time for everything] It's been a hot while since you and Kenma got to talk face to face due to work. He takes it upon himself to give you a great date even when far away.

Warnings:

(a/n): low-key can't get blue period out of my head so I don't wanna start spamming that kinda content and write for other characters before I go on a writing binge for Yotora... *Does venti laugh*

The clock on your phone read 2:39 am. You should have been asleep in bed, however a certain pudding head was up streaming and this was the only way you had to communicate with him till his breaks. However there was something special about this stream, you were in it, The discord call read almost 12 hours. You wanted to help with the 48 hour charity stream. this was the second day of the stream and you decided to join in the last quarter to give him some motivation.

Your character runs past his with a baguette in hand. "HON HON HON IM GONNA WHIP THIS DOUGHHHH!" Sleep deprivation was getting to the both of you.

The joyful sounds of his laughter blesses your ears as Kenma brings his farming to a stop. "P-pudding! Why did you- hahahaha why did you spend all of our money on-" he gasps for air. "God dang strawberries and bread?!"

You cover your face as you laugh loudly going quiet. "Pudding?"

A snort breaks though the silence and Kenma laughs even harder. The chat is absolutely loving it. The donation goal was hit a long time ago but of course Kenma promised this.

HatterBatter26: Omg such couple goals!

Everything Girlboss: WHY CAN'T THOS BE ME AND MY INVISIBLE BF!!

Kodzukeeeeeee: I've never heard @(y/t) and Kodzuken Laugh like that before

MadderCadder: Tubucas

"WHY DID SOMEONE IN THE CHAT SAY TUBUCAS?! WHAT IS TUBUCAS!" Just as either of you think you've calmed down you just start back up in the laughing fits. After a while though things do calm down. You hear kenma's phone buzz loudly on your headphones.

"Excuse me! I didn't know you had bees Kenny! With all that gosh darn buzzing!" You lost what you were going to say half way through that sentence but just kept talking.

"It was Kuroo, He told me your surprise was ready." You can hear the soft smile he gave and also see it on your second monitor. Yeah you also game and stream but you are currently on tour all over Japan. Right now in Osaka you were luck enough to be graced with access to a pretty powerful computer thanks to an old friend of yours.

"Surprise? What for?" You head tilts as you look at the face cam for the highlights, you are also recording game footage.

"Well as your viewers and mine know... You are away traveling around Japan.. on tour for about a month... And though it's ending soon in 2 week.. I uh.. don't think I can wait to take you on, on on, on a date so uh... Uhm... Wanna get off Stardew and get on my Minecraft server?" The chat explodes, Kenma's twitter is already blowing up with a clip of him blushing while stuttering to ask you on a date.

"Awe kyama~ I would love to go on a Minecraft date with you~" He can hear you claps your hands and hear you smile as you talk. A small smile slips it's way onto his lips as he switches the stream to an intervention screen and face cam.

"why do you have to call me that... Ugh it reminds me of the guys..." He sighs obviously ticked off at the thought of Yamamoto Screaming that at him while jumping on him. Soft giggles fill his ears... Oh how he wishes you were actually with him. So he can hold you and hear that in his left ear as you try to break out of his hold while he tickles you.

"Ahhh spawn is decorated! It's like an Smp! Oh god I'm getting flashbacks of the war...s." He laughs that uncommon soft laugh only you get to hear... And now 678k people get to hear for tonight only.

"War...s? How many prank wars have you been in pudding?" He turns is character towards you. When you slowly turn to face him and say nothing he loses it.

Loud music plays through both of y'all's headphones.

"Ah! God! My ears!" Kenma presses the head phones closer to his head while you hold yours over your ears.

"Heh?! What'd you say!?" Your eyes and nose scrunches as you (fake) shout through the mic.

"Someone just Subscribed for their 3rd year in a row... Bro... I'm old now huh?" He shakes his head and continues on.

"Anyway though, this date... Welcome... I actually hired a professional builder who is one of my admins... Adikons the tech Wizard... Who is also an amazing builder and well you'll see what I asked them to do." You look your screen in awe as he breaks some wool that acted as a curtain to the world.

"oh... My... Kenny... Wh- this couldn't have just happened... And wait why did Kuroo tell you it's ready when-" You try to wrap your brain around the beautiful scenery. The both of you use the same shaders and texture pack, you found the shaders and he found the texture pack. The way the light cast off of the building and onto the water. The way the big trees and their leaves sway were mesmerizing.

"Well you'll see in a second uhm... Yk Kuroo is good at redstone and stuff... Somehow..." He throws shade to his friend knowing that he would have complaints later when he sees the clips on YouTube.

"Yeah? Oh my god don't tell me that's what he had been doing for a couple of days!" You look over at him while you walk over a bridge to a small little cafe area.

"Well he isn't the only one who did something on the server." God why does his chest feel so tight all of a sudden.

Ok calm down Kenma just do as planned and everything will go smoothly... Hopefully...

"IS THAT MUFFIN! MY KITTY!" You awe and immediately start doing baby talk to the look alike of your kitten back home. What you don't hear is Kenma trying to explain why she is there.

"I should have killed it will all the others... You're not paying attention to anything I'm saying anymore..." There is an evident pout on Kenma's face.

"NO DON'T KILL HERRR! I'll listen I'm sorry! YouknowIlove.... You.... Morethanmycat!" You rush your sentence making it even less believable. So much so where Kenma slowly turns towards you like you did to him earlier and pulls out a netherite sword.

"KENMA I SWEAR I DO!" You crouch up to him and push your character against his repeatedly making kissy sounds.

Chat explodes with "Don't kill her please 🥺", and Things along the lines of "I want kissies from @(y/t)", and "DO YOU KNOW THE MUFFIN CAT!" It's an inside joke you have with your chat.

"hehe ok.. ok.. I won't kill her but we have a lot of things to explore...." You hear his keyboard typing as I'm chat appears 'PULL THE LEVER KRONK' just like that.

Suddenly the floor underneath you disappears and now you are falling.

"HOLY! OH GOD! WE'RE FALLING!" You look around and on your way down you can see how beautifully decorated the way down is

"Well I mean, I fell for you so..." The blush is evident on his face. Silently he is typing to Kuroo and Bokuto cursing them out for making him say that. However what he doesn't see is that you're wide eyed staring at his character blushing.

"i- uh- ANYWAY WHAT'S THIS WAY HAHAHAHAHA!" Nervous laughter funnels out of your mouth as you run away.

I will make a part 2 cause this is too long and my brain juices are over. This was supposed to be for new years.

... it's 3 days after and I started 2 days before new years 😃

[viostormcaller]

Discord Chat Room Analysis

Yo Seán I'm gonna do an analysis of yesterday's "Discord mayhap" (or, "Discord discord", if you will) if that's alright?

(The following screenshots are not mine, they're just like the only screenshots I've seen going around, and if anyone knows the owner feel free to tell me please and thanks!!)

Firstly, I just wanna say that this is the very first time we've seen all the Egos in one place, interacting. This is HUGE. You'll notice the lack of introductions, questions of "who are you?", which means they all know each other/know of each other. At the very least, they all have interacted before without our knowledge. Hooray for context clues!

Onto the next thing. Jack. As a new server owner with many many users and a lot of potential for things to go wrong, I can only imagine how confused he would be (especially as a person with a glitch being on his tail). And I'm certain he wouldn't interact directly with any of the Egos unless he knew it was completely safe. As you can see, it was not, in fact, safe. That's most likely why instead of talking to the Egos, he was trying to get the mods to shut down the text channel as soon as possible. They weren't supposed to be there, and that is not supposed to happen.

Next, the Egos. Wherever they were transported to, it was someplace where they could not see one another nor could they see their surroundings (hence Chase's panicked "I can't see!"). Even though Chase was the only one who pointed out that he had no visibility, it doesn't mean that the others did. They probably couldn't see, either.

Now, my current theory is the end of Observation is in connection with this: there was some sort of tear in the fabric of reality. Whoever was recording that video, we saw transported before our eyes. It took a few hours, but eventually they ended up in a digital space, the discord server. We know this was Anti's doing, because the title of the chat room said "watching", encoded in a Caesar cipher (Anti is using codes now, we have to watch for that. There are MANY ciphers, believe me) and zalgo-ified, which was the biggest giveaway. I wouldn't be surprised if last year's Stories Untold first episode ending was foreshadowing for being trapped in a digital space (remember Jack/possibly Chase being stuck in the computer after someone opened the door to his recording room?) The question is: are they stuck there now? Or have they since been brought back upon the deletion of the chat room? We have yet to find out, but as of now, this is just a theory (a gA-- nah lemme stop there).

Next, we have Marvin. His first words are "This doesnt seem right". This leads me to believe that, as a magic-user, he's probably encountered some really weird shit and had some strange experiences, but in this situation something feels off for him. Also, as people have pointed out, Marvin is the only Ego with a recent profile picture, one that is not from his appearance video. I am assuming this is because either A) Marvin's first video wasn't truly Marvin, because it was US that made him an Ego, B) the video in which his profile picture is from was actually Marvin recording, hence why he pulled out his mask, or C) both A and B.

Jackie is the one who figures it out.

He probably saw the zalgoed code in the title, decoded it, and upon finding what it said went "Shit this is REALLY bad, I have to warn the others but I can't let Anti catch on that I figured it out". So when Jackie says "Ah fuck, people are watching this. Everybody shut up!", he's not talking about US, he's talking about Anti. Remember, Anti was brought into existence by saying his name. Saying his name in any form is extremely dangerous, and in a digital space where a glitch would have the upper hand, a direct warning against Anti would be way too risky, so he generalizes it hoping the others would get the message. Sadly, amidst the panic and confusion, they didn't.

Then, there's Chase and Schneep. Evidently, these two are close; Schneep gravitated towards Chase almost immediately for some sort of guidance or reassurance: "I dont know what happened here, Chase?". Their friendship must run deep. This was hinted at before: Henrik saved Chase and is his "good friend". Both of which are close with Jack. Seeing them interact like this pretty much confirms it.

Now this is where I laughed. See, Chase's response was immediately, "What do you want from me?" which is Chase's infamous line from Dark Silence. Marvin's immediate response is "Alright, thats enough" as if he knew that Chase was going to say something of that effect and went "Oh god not this shit again". Of course, this got Schneep started, because towards the end both of them began repeating lines from Dark Silence, Stories Untold, and Kill Jacksepticeye, respectively. Even though they were panicking and clearly trying to get in contact with Jack here, you have to admit they're both dorks. They could have said anything else and yet said that. I found that hilarious.

And little Jameson. Bless him, he silent even in digital form. This leads me to believe, however, that he may be mute in canon. If the Egos are not typing and are rather speaking in a digital space and their words appear as text in the server because of the coding, then it would make sense for Jameson's only "words" to be an ellipse.

This entire situation told me quite a bit about the Egos' interactions with each other. With Marvin and Jackie, as the two oldest Egos, they seem to be the "heads of the household", so to speak. They're like the two older brothers babysitting all the younger ones. They both hold a sense of authority (which was a surprise on Marvin's end for me, admittedly). Whether the others will actually listen is a whole nother story. Chase and Schneep are close and they gravitate towards one another. Jameson, being the newest, understandably looks like he feels out of place (communication barrier, perhaps?).

One thing is certain, though, is that Anti is their common enemy. He brought them all there against their will (kind of as if he gathered up all their strings and pulled). And Jack, according to Chase, is still comatose. So maybe Jack's consciousness is trapped in a digital space, which is why they were able to talk to him (even if Jack didn't respond), and why Marvin and Jameson were able to send him messages through videos (like in Try To Fall Asleep)?

In any case, I feel like the next episodes of Observation will give us more answers as to where the story is heading, just as Stories Untold did. Whatever happens in Observation will most likely hugely relate to this plot, so that's important to keep in mind.