#and then i remembered The Beach Episode

[felikatze]

talking abt The Beach Episode of a webnovel i like cuz why not. sure man let's make The Beach Episode about the protagonist trying to cope with the trauma he endured in the previous arc. sure man

like goddamn i love The Beach Episode of the demon prince goes to the academy cuz it just. the contrast to the previous arc being the darklands arc

like in the previous arc reinhardt and ellen are in a harsh environment with few resources and these two schoolkids are forced to kill. yeah, this is a fantasy novel, but the previous darkest moment of the series was the beginning, where reinhardt fled the demon castle to not get killed, but even THAT didn't have any on-screen murders

when reinhardt and ellen wipe out the bandits in the badlands arc, the narration (reinhardt's narration, in first person) points out how disgusted and scared he is. he has to do this or fifty innocent people will be ruthlessly slaughtered. but he can hear the bandits scream. he can smell their blood and bodies.

the motion reminds him of cooking. take the knife, and make the cut.

the zombies don't help. taking those you've killed and killing them again.

ellen and him can barely sleep. after they return to temple, they have nightmares, constantly. they cling to each other because nobody gets it.

they're literally offered therapy by the school! the novel literally says this experience traumatized them, badly! and they refuse the offer because of course

they're kids!!! ellen is seventeen!! sure, she's stoic, and she's strong, but she was still scared. and she has to face that she was ready to lay down her life. just like her brother.

AND THEN COMES THE BEACH EPISODE!!!! let's go hang out at liana's beach house, everybody!!! let's go swim!!

like. oh my fucking god. the novel took the beach episode and made it abt how trauma alienates reinhardt and ellen from their peers.

like. let's make silly small talk! what did you do on your vacation? i heard you went to the darklands? how was it?

and ellen and reinhardt don't want to tell "look at me wrong and i'll cry" harriet about That Time An Insane Quasi-Immortal Zombie Almost Killed Them, so they lie about it and say nothing happened

because they wish nothing happened. the experience made them stronger, and they hate it. they went there of their own volition, and they regret it.

so everyone else is like, seriously? nothing happened?

everyone goes swimming but ellen can't enjoy the wonder of the ocean anymore. reinhardt sits out on most activities. he just wants to rest.

everybody else is not stupid, though. they can tell something happened! why are ellen and reinhardt so goddamn moody? why are they refusing to talk? harriet may be sensitive but she's smart. liana is a people person. just heinrich is an asshole

and like. you're gonna resolve this plotline of the two traumatized kids refusing to tell anybody anything by having everyone get drunk and have an asshat yell at reinhardt for being moody despite "nothing having happened?" bruh

ellen really deserved to snap and threaten to kill heinrich. casually invalidating all her recent trauma!! great!! of course she's super mad!!

i just. hrgjth. i could go on but i was just so pleasantly suprised that the series actually went and addressed how traumatizing experiences affect the characters in casual life. something else i'm thinking abt is how charlotte is said to be a picky eater, because nothing is ever gonna be as delicious as the one biscuit she ate while she was starving

a fantasy isekai webnovel making the protag do fucked up shit and then dedicating the beach episode to just. pointing at him + ellen going look at that bitch he got ptsd now!!!

[arsoniiii]

Movie night!!

[glitchy--demon]

Toontown corporate clash beach episode:

[threepoint14art]

Little redraw!!! original under the cutt

I would die for her

[sirompp]

[ef-1]

idolatry | august '23

[safyresky]

Hullo bestie, it me. So sorry for the late(ish) ask but since the weather's been warming up I have a question about CS. Specifically about how a Beach Episode would go lol.

Cause Away with the Fae is kinda almost like that considering that they go to a beach at one point. But I wanna get inside your head and wanna know how a true to form Beach Episode of Crystal Springs would go.

Considering that the Frost Fam aren't exactly beach people (I wouldn't think) this has gotten me curious as to how this would play out. Would there be snowball fights at the beach? Would the twins try and make glass by super heating the sand? Would they make it such a mess for every other beach goer? Idk, just a fun thought that I thought you could answer 😌

ANDIE GET OUT OF MY HEAD! I HAVE BEEN THINKING OF A BEACH EPISODE OF CS ALL WEEK! (probably bc of the post I saw earlier this week that mentioned how gr8 filler episodes are tbh)

And this isn't the FIRST TIME I have thought of the Frosts at the beach >:). this shit's been BREWING!

First off, surprisingly, the Frosts are beach people! 5/6 are, of course. Three are Summer Sprites and enjoy the day spent on the sunny shores of the Southern Province; and for the other two, the summer sprite blood gives them a penchant for occasional tropics, and this includes beach days :)

The only Frost that ISN'T a beach person is Winter, but she goes anyway because she does enjoy her beach ritual. BUT I AM GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF, OF COURSE! FIRST THING'S FIRST.

WHAT. DO. THEY. WEAR.

I HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT THIS FOR SO FREAKING LONG, BEHOLD!

I cannot decide for sure if both Blaise and Jack wear that old timey stripey shorts tank top one piece swimsuit, or if it's funnier if only Jack does and Blaise goes for the swim trunks and open Aloha shirts, or vice versa, or they BOTH go for the funky shirt and swim trunks combo!

The mental image of the pair of them in this number absolutely sends me tho, tbh:

Though when I picture beach episode they are both in the funky shirt and swim trunks :)

but GOD if the old timey trunks aren't funny as FUCK

Winter covers tf UP. She wears a HUGE sunhat, absolutely GINORMOUS, and just as big black shades, probably like Gucci or Prada or something, to shield her eyes. She burns SO easily (being made of snow and ice and love would do that to a gal, she supposes) so she covers tf UP

Something victorian-esque for her as well, like this:

but with longer pants and a longer skirt, if not a full on bathing gown from way earlier like the lady behind the first one there, lmao

Jacqueline is ALSO in big sunhat mode, but not as big as Winter's. She does not burn as easy as Winter does, but does burn--usually the tops of her shoulders, her cheeks, and her nose! Her aviators are PLANTED on her face, they do NOT come off

She and the Twins are more modern in terms of swimwear. She wears a one piece, with your typical asymmetrical long beach sarong

The Twins are pretty versatile! I think usually they BOTH wear swim shorts and tops, though Fiera will switch out for a swim skirt every so often! she deffs prefers the shorts, though, since they are always running around on the beach and in the water like the wild hellions they are

SO LET'S GET INTO BEACH DAY ITSELF! AGAIN! SINCE I IMPLODED THIS ASK LAST NIGHT IN MY EXCITEMENT AND LOST THIS PART COMPLETELY!!!!!

AND UNDER THE CUT SINCE I WENT AHEAD AND UH, GOT EXCITED ABOUT ✨✨FASHION✨✨ AND THIS WILL BE V LONG

but in point form because I'm not that much of a monster!! ANYWAY, BEACH DAY

Winter's beach day ritual is as follows:

bundled up as breezy as can be when you burn as bad as she does, she finds a nice, shady corner, preferably up against a rock side or cliff face

sets up her umbrella, which Blaise has enchanted to keep her out of the sun at all times (like moving solar panels but opposite)

lays her blanket down beneath the umbrella, sits down with a good book in one hand and sunscreen ready to attack all four kids with it if necessary

She stays put in her shady corner ALL DAY.

Blaise, meanwhile, goes to the bar, gets himself a drink, plants his reclining beach chair with attached umbrella that is never deployed down right beside his wife, sits down with drink #1 (tells the bartenders to keep them coming when they see it empty) and does not move at ALL.

he sinks into the chair, kicks his feet out into the sand, and BEACH BUMS. He melts into the ground. he becomes one with the beach. he is in MAXY RELAXY mode and the ONLY THING that could move him is if Winter, in a moment of cloudy weather, asks to go for a walk or swim with him

he'll be out of that chair SO FAST

But that's IT

Some say he COINED the term beach bum; he INVENTED it! He is the OG beach bum

He will also on occasion substitute the sand for the water, and his chair for a beach floaty

these leads to a fun game Jacqueline, Fino, and Fiera enjoy called TIP DAD INTO THE WATER! They never win. Unless Jack plays. Jack always wins

(Both of these Blaise scenarios work best picturing him in the trunks and funky shirt >:)

If Summer finds out that her sister is at the beach, she will put everything aside to go hang out with Winter! The pair will spend the ENTIRE day chatting up a storm (literally on one occasion. the resulting tsunami was surfed by Jack and averted by Summer being the literal season and the one with the fastest reflexes) and lounging about together for the day while Blaise melts beside them

I never thought about the twins trying to make glass out of sand, but I am thinking about it now! Summer shows them how. They have yet to master it, but they're getting close!

(Summer fears the day that they learn she can do much the same but with diamonds, as they both will want to learn it immediately!)

The Twins are the most active people you'll ever see on a beach! They spend a LOT of time swimming, mostly splashing the crap out of each other (and the cold front if they join, but Jacqueline is really good at splashing them BIG TIME)

They make HUGE sand structures and run amok, with NO concept of beach spot boundary etiquette which means a lot of people have to deal with, you know, messy blankets, sand flying up as the pair rush by, sparks threatening to set fire to their dry beach towels, and so on and so on. The lucky ones only have to deal with a sand structure potentially cropping up beside them!

Aside from that, most people actually don't mind too terribly when the Frosts hit up the beach! Which is gr8, bc they be in situations a LOT, and Blaise deals with the dumbest people sometimes, so they're more than happy to see them chillin'

A lot of magibeans are quite happy when the twins are in the water! It warms up NICELY. Not that it's FREEZING. I mean, the South is HOT so the Arctic Sea can be refreshing, and Summer pulls some strings to take the edge of that portion of the CS shoreline--it's just nice to have warm water knowing it is because of magic children gifted with fire manipulation and not, you know, PEE

Though Fiera sometimes snickers when people say that, which gives Fino cause to be SUS

Fiera gets buried in the sand at some point by Fino and hangs out there, watching her twin wading in the shallows, trying to catch some minnows with a little net

Like. The Twins try to do ALL the beach things at once!

ALL OF THEM

And if they make rivals via sand castles or any other beach sport, it's an EXPERIENCE

Since Blinter is checked out, Jack usually takes up the "parent" part, but in the most big brother way you could imagine: very irresponsibly, encouraging the rivalries and participating until all four kiddos end up defeating said rivals

This has happened more than once. Jacqueline has lost count.

SPEAKING OF THE FROSTY BASTARD HIMSELF, He camps at the bar! He gets ALL the local gossip on beach days. ALL OF IT

Later he shares with Blinter and when Blaise gets into work the next day, my GOD do people get OWNED and does shit get DONE.

Everyone's like wow Blaise! Relaxing looks good on you!

And Blaise chuckles like thanks, but inside he's just a gossipy old man and so is his son >:)

BUT ANYWAY Jack deffs wades into the surf, ankle deep, sipping his drink and freezing the water as people drift by. He gets a kick out of it; it's very amusing, even more so when they can't tell why it's happening, AND DOUBLY SO when he does it to the Twins

who THEN proceed to warm it up again, only for him to freeze it again, and it goes on and on and Jacqueline watches from her chair like "Fino and Fiera are two halves of a whole idiot"

Jacqueline would be the person roped into a volleyball game and kicking ass with her new magibean pals

She also will go for swims too! And beach walks! And she'll hang out in the shores with Jack to shoot the sleet as he antagonizes the swimmers

That's how Jack gets his Legate gossip >:)

Joke's on him, bc that's how Jacqueline gets the latest goss on the Legends

>:) >:) >:)

SOMETIMES DITE APPEARS! And when this happens, it's bc she heard there was a beach day and jumped at the opportunity to stare at her beautiful curvy lil girlfriend in one of her fave locations

Jacqueline LOVES when this happens bc then she can spend the entire time staring at her strong gf bc Dite goes full bikini and Jacqueline is positively ENTHRALLED with her all day

And vice versa with Dite @ Jacqueline 😂😂

On these occasions, Winter scoots closer to Blaise's chair, rousing him from his zen mode to try and once again figure out where on earth Jacqueline gets her curves from

"You're curvy," says Blaise. "Well yes, but also, not quite; I have some unfortunate lankiness here and there. Perhaps she gets it from your mother?" To which Blaise SCOFFS and says "That woman was ballroom gown shaped, I am convinced. She may not have even HAD legs." And Winter giggles and says "Well, it shall remain a mystery, I suppose."

the things parents discuss about their kids! (my parents have this discussion about my nose quite often. I think wedding photos finally put that debate to rest tho)

Jacqueline, funnily enough, actually gets the curves from her maternal grandmother, the Snow Queen.

She was a very curvy woman, so much so that the Winter Warlock called her "Bodacious Bianca", and, well, Bianca simply didn't have the heart to tell him that "bodacious" doesn't quite mean what he thinks it means.

(had she, he would've replied like so: "Ah, yes, but you see, that's the beauty of words! They can mean whatEVER you want them to! And that's why I'm one of the best Warlocks there has been >:)" and she would laugh in kind at her silly little warlock)

(Queen Frost probably HATED him, given that she considered herSELF the best Warlock and did NOT appreciate this man in dress pyjamas and bunny slippers and pointy hats bouncing around claiming to be better than her)

(it was a very one sided rivalry, for certain)

(Unless Winter Senior knew she hated him and hammed it up just to piss her off more, which, goofiness aside, is highly probable)

BUT YEAH

BEACH DAY

I think that about cover all my musings! Honestly, a CS beach episode would go SO well. The Frosts would just have a very good time, probably at the expense of a couple of disgruntled magibeans but hey, can't win them all, Blaise always says.

but yeah! It'd go VERY well! An enjoyable day for them all! I think in an actual beach episode, Jack would be gossiping, Jacqueline would be chilling, the Twins would have a BEACH DAY BUCKET LIST and try to do it all, upsetting a few people on the way. By the end of the day, they have a small angry mob and Fino and Fiera look at each other like >:) because guess what the last thing on their list was?

When it's time to head home the Twins are soaked (crowd tossed them into the sea and they love every second of it), Jack is burnt af bc he BURNS BAD, Winter is chipper, Blaise is seven shades darker and so relaxed he's actually slouching, and Jacqueline has a first place volleyball trophy in her hands, a group of magibeans waving bye to her, one of them miming CALL ME.

They return later once the beach is clear to collect abandoned/forgotten sand toys, bc I used to do that with my cousins and our grandfather and I can see Blaise walking on the beach in the sunset, twins skipping ahead and collecting loose toys, tossing them into their big red bucket!

When they get home, the Twins pass out bc long, energetic day, and Blinter enjoy a quiet evening with Jack, who they chat with all evening while Jacqueline sleeps on the couch!

[sonknuxadow]

does anyone know if there are any solid rules regarding underwater animals in the sonic universe and if they need water to survive or not? i know later issues of archie sonic had a lot of characters who were from the ocean but i cant remember if this was ever clarified or not because my memories on some parts of archie sonic are a bit fuzzy

[moregraceful]

kinda eating drywall abt the karlsson trade but it is what it is

i consider it a win in that i didn't lose nick cicek in the trade honestly, which probably says intensely worrisome things about my priorities in the sharks org AND my perception of nick cicek's trade value but. yeah no we got fleeced not only by pittsburgh's most eligible president of hockey ops slash gm AND kent hughes, which is an ego blow on unforeseen and sloppy levels. like my mom could sell me to kyle dubas and i'd be like fine, whatever, but mike grier is a whole ass nhl gm. he should have protective charms in place against that man so i gotta ask. i gotta ask. mikey you good. you good babe??? you need some electrolytes???

congrats to sid crosby for adding another boytoy to his dman harem tho. personally cannot wait to see what happens when karly (mean cat), tanger (evil cat), and gravy (anxious greyhound) get in the same locker room. the sparks...they're flyin

[they-didnt-last]

just woke up and no joke, i dreamt jatp had three seasons. i was very disappointed when i woke up

[pissfaggit]

*gently and tenderly places this into your cupped hands*

[fairywinds]

i need to scream more about it MASHIRO AND SORA LOVE EACHOTHER SO MUCHHHHHCHHFHCJ it's the way they always think about eachother first when theyre in trouble and they always support eachother and they koghehsjdbff fkajf djfbtjidnr. D. 4o,..r,

[alexiethymia]

I love the vibe of the new bleach anime. It’s dark and noir and you really feel the gravity of the war soul society is going through (plus the awesome soundtrack). I also appreciate how the normal rank-and-file shinigami are also getting the spotlight. It does make me miss the lighthearted fillers though. I mean imagine? Missing the chance to showcase the dynamic with the new vizored captains like shinji with momo, rose with kira, and kensei with hisagi etc. Not to mention the new captains at the ends of the series. Maybe if the anime does well, we can get some lighthearted filler as a treat.

[zorkaya-moved]

𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭, 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘩𝘰𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐'𝘮 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶  //  𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘐'𝘮 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘵 𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘯 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘺 𝘣𝘰𝘰  //  𝘊𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵  //  𝘠𝘦𝘢𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰  //  𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘩𝘰𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘴, 𝘐'𝘮 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵, 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘦𝘴.

DO NOT REBLOG. DO NOT REPOST. DO NOT REUSE.

[felikatze]

froggy hat beach crew for @thefairywithfandoms !! you only asked for frog hat girl but i couldnt leave her alone. love for the beach crew <3

[ejzah]

Me: Gets hung up on one tiny detail in a story that no one will really notice or care about.

Somehow misses five essential details and half a dozen typos.