#and then using weird shadow powers because let's be real his powers can do anything if you BS it enough

[aroaceleovaldez]

secondary thought from Camp Jupiter Confidential: Claudia got her SPQR tattoo from her mom, rather than through the normal ceremony. Love how this implies sometimes, Romans just spontaneously get their tattoos from random sources and no one can verify it so it just becomes a “Source: Dude trust me” about where it came from. I now suspect this has absolutely been exploited before.

[fansids]

Hi so I saw some your anon asks about lmk s4 and SWK so I am curious about what you think of the special and if I solved anything about not seeing SWK POV and him always the one with mistakes

The special does nothing to remedy any of my issues with the show and especially with season 4. Even though it places the 3 Demon Kings as firmly (mostly firmly?) villains, it's also kind of weird about it.

But my main issue is with SWK and Macaque.

Oh my God. If my biggest issue is how the show treats SWK, and my second biggest issue is the world ending after world ending stakes, then my third biggest problem is Macaque. Or, more importantly, his relationship to SWK and the rest of the cast. Like the more Macaque becomes a good guy the more I hate him. But that's besides the point, let's talk about the show's weird framing around these two to put some context to my problems with the special.

When Macaque is first introduced pretty much everything about him is meant to scream deceitful. From his appearance as looking like SWK, but not (to the point where MK mistakes the two until he gets close), to his very powers which are shadows (which tend to symbolize mystery, deceit, and general evilness) that are also very similar to SWK's powers. His purpose in that episode is gaining MK's trust so he can betray him. Okay, fine first episode, lesson learned.

The second time he's shown is in Shadow Play. The way the story telling is framed (through use of shadows, Macaque tricking the gang into thinking he's someone else, and later forcing MK to fight his shadow-fied friends just to push a message he projects onto MK for the crime of being SWK's apprentice and vaguely similar to him) would say that Macaque was either outright lying or twisting the details about his and SWK's past to put himself in a more favorable light (or more importantly, to put SWK into a less favorable one). MK defeats him, and we're still meant to not trust him. Fine. Cool.

Skipping over S3...

THEN WE GET TO THE SPECIAL. Macaque is not only shown to be completely in the right, but SWK is even worse than what was shown in shadow play. TF. Mind you, the whole point of the scroll was to show SWK's past, AND WE NEVER GET TO SEE IT FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE. It is only through Macaque's telling of the story that we see it, and this time it's framed as being the honest truth. It is SWK's fault for being so power hungry and full of himself that they have their falling out. Bro WHAT??? Mind you, since SWK is literally trapped under a mountain Macaque is also the one who leaves instead of the other way around. WHAT???

Let's put jttw aside entirely. This is just poor storytelling because it makes Macaque as a character not make sense. Why is he the one obsessed with SWK? Why does he want to be shown "the real Sun Wukong" in S1? Why is he upset that Sun Wukong abandoned him? He didn't abandon him. MACAQUE left.

And all of that really really begs the question WHY DID SUN WUKONG KILL HIM??? You can at least infer that if SWK was the one who left, and knowing the violence Macaque is willing to enact on others to get revenge, then Macaque likely did, or tried to do, something to the jttw crew that SWK was not too happy about. But Macaque was the one who chose to leave the relationship, so... what happened??? Why was Macaque even there? Why would he care?

Not to mention, for me at least, it destroyed what was left of my interest in Macaque after S3.

Sorry for the rant, but to answer your question, no, the special does not fix anything about the issue with SWK's lack of pov. It makes it worse.

[brainyrot]

Small little things I imagine bendy does, because we don't see much of what he does aside from the quest itself or training

- he draws. He likes to doodle a lot. people, clothing, backgrounds or new things to build, he likes to doodle.

Sometimes he enjoys drawing his friends in "the weird style" (aka: our realism.)

- whenever he builds, it's like if he was playing with Legos. He created so many things simply because it's fun.

- sometimes he likes to talk to his shadows. just, simply talking, about the weather, opinions, anything.

- he likes to imagine things, when he doesn't know. He has questions books don't answer, and hat has no time for him, so he doodles his questions.

He could be doodling different forms of demons, how some types of demons he has never seen works, certain powers he saw from books and so on, and so on. He lets his imagination give the answers, or theories.

Sometimes he likes to doodle demons he saw from hell, they look intimidating and probably most are aggressive but they look cool in his opinion :)

- he likes to dance, while humming. He does simple dances, like a small piroette or just swinging around.

- he likes to do things in his room with the lights off. He can hear the shadows better, and it feels comforting.

- his sleep schedule depends on the day, usually though, he stays awake all night doing homework, then at 6 he goes running, then at 7 breakfast, then sleeps and then wakes up.

Sometimes he stays up during the day but usually 11-12am hits hard and he just goes to sleep.

- he always wants to try shapeshifting, so he uses a mirror to just try and see what he can do, but only small things. He always ends up doing something but never understanding how do it again.

In the end, he is always teaching himself to do things, because no one bothers to properly teach him.

- He once did try to change himself completely, by making himself taller and such, but he figured he is not comfortable in it, so he changed it back, it's real handy when you can change things at will. Maybe he'll only be tall to tease Cuphead.

- he likes to snuggle in his bed a lot, he figured that since he now lives in a house, with food and people without having to worry about the money, or food or taking care of everyone he can just relax, so he does. He snuggles and sleep. He likes taking naps, he eepy.

So he just does things from his bed, unless it's about building things. If he can lose a pencil in his bed imagine all the small things he has to get to build stuff.

- he steals stuff from others. At night, if he has no homework, he just sneaks out and steals things to build other things, like with toad's clock.

[thelemoncoffee]

okay so this is a bit of a mess but imma try and write it anyways.

so- fantasy au where Kaito and Kokichi are brothers who go from town to town thieving, one day they end up in a town that claims to be tormented by a cursed being. This being they refer to as "Kage, the prince of Shadows" is a man in a dark cloak who lives in the forest area just outside of town, never speaks, and is always follwed around by one of three animals. they even had the misfortune of seeing Kage come into town to the dismay of the towns folks durning their second day there.

The stories about Kage claim he's a supernatural being born from shadows who curses those who cross him; his supposed powers include cursing anyone who looks him in the eye with misfortune for the rest of their lives, and using his animals to curse entier towns if he manages to get withing the town boarder with one. he has three animals, a wolf, crow, and snake; if he enters a town with the wolf it's said to bring famin, if he enters with the crow the town will have a money crisis, and entering with the snake will bring betrayal and backstabbing. To ward him off, every month the townsfolk set out offerings on the edge of town for him to take, and in turn he leaves them alone.

Kaito and Kokichi hear about this guy and get two very different ideas; Kaito- unsatisfyed with the life of a criminal- wants to try and become the town's hero and defeat Kage, Kokichi however wants to find Kage and use him as a destraction to pull of his greatest heist yet. Due to their vastly different ideas for the future, the two end up getting into an argument that causes them to simply ignore one another and go it alone this time.

Kokichi decides to sneek out that night, going to look for Kage to try and persuade him into helping him. He manages to find his house and plays himself off as a traveler who needs a place to stay, and will offer to go into town for him in trade for a bed to sleep in. it works and Kokichi's in, and in the process learns Kage's simply a name given to him by the townsfolk- his real name being Shuichi. Kokichi's plan here is to use the time staying with him to; 1- persuade him into helping, and 2- use the time in town to scout his target. he gets and added bonus when Shuichi gives him money to use in town and he decides to simply steal the goods he's sent for so he can pocket the money for himself.

while there he learns Shuichi actually is just an alchemist who lives on the edge of town, and all the weird curse stuff the town came up with was simply paranoia spiraling way out of control because they didn't like that he was a quiet loner who didn't like making eye contact. any curse effects were simply caused by the town people over reacting and accedentally causing their own fears to natrually occur (ex; famin curse paranoia makes them hog food, which in turn causes a food shortage). Shuichi doesn't like that it happens and wishes to change it, but is far too nervous to do anything worth while. as for the animals, those ar simply his emotioal support pets; Sherlock the wolf-dog, Wattson the snake, and Moriarty the Crow- he take one into town with him to calm his nerves.

Kokichi hearing all of this, and spending alot more time with Shuichi than he intended, starts to feel sympathy (and a phat crush) for him and lowkey wants to protect him and help him knock the bad rep. this desire grows stronger when one day Shuichi says he's going to town to collect their offerings for him because "if i don't go they'll panic more, i don't want to make them worse". Kokichi jumps to stop him because he knows Kaito is there waiting for him, and he doesn't want either to get hurt. Shuichi promises he can defend himself and goes anyways, Sherlock tagging along.

while all of this is happening Kaito is loosing his shit because; 1- he convinced the townsfolk to let him try and stop Kage a week ago and he lowkey is scared as shit to fight this freak, and 2- Kokichi went missing almost a month ago now and hasn't come back. Kaito knows he probably went to find Kage, but because he hasn't returned Kaito assumes the worst and is now set to try and both stop Kage and save his brother.

As you can probably guess shit hits the fan- but i'm not gonna keep writing this, this is where y'all go nuts. this has the potential to either be an amazing badass Shuichi moment, or an angsty mess- or both if you really wanna.

[practically-an-x-man]

not so nice OC asks for Nik and Jasper! betrayal, bound, desire, ghost, and torture

Thank you!!! <3333

Not-So-Nice OC Asks

betrayal: Has your OC ever been betrayed by someone they thought they could trust? Has your OC ever betrayed someone who trusted them?

Nikoletta: No, because usually she doesn't let people get close enough for her to feel betrayed.

Jasper: They felt betrayed by their parents when they came out as transgender and genderfluid - their reaction was less than great, and that definitely hurt (especially since they were some of the first people Jasper admitted that to)

bound: Has your OC ever been imprisoned or captured? What happened? How did they get out? Did the experience leave any scars?

Nikoletta: Technically she was captured in Belle Reve twice. The first was for B&E and thievery, and she was there for about a month until her power dampener glitched and she escaped by shadow-jumping. The second, of course, is how we know her as the Queen of Belle Reve, and she didn't bother escape. It definitely left her with scars, though, since she hardened her heart so much she still isn't sure she'll ever recover fully.

Jasper: Thankfully not - their story definitely isn't mundane, but it's a little less... directly violent than most of my other ones.

desire: What's one thing your OC wants more than anything in the world? Are they open with that desire? Why or why not? What would they do to fulfill it?

Nikoletta: She just wants to feel safe, more than anything, but she's lived such a tumultuous life that she's not even sure she'd know safety when it came to her. She feels safe with Abner, especially once they've settled into living together and all, but there are still times where she feels like things are going to spontaneously fall apart.

Jasper: They want to be accepted for who they are, to be loved unconditionally. Love in their family feels very conditional, and though Kyle loves them with everything he has, they lost him and then had to go through that rough recovery period when he was brought back, so at this point they just want to have someone in their corner no matter what, who they can trust without worry.

ghost: Who or what haunts your OC? What happened? How do they live with their ghosts?

Nikoletta: STAR Labs, and everything she experienced while she was there. For a long time she was terrible at living with those ghosts, she just blocked them off and tried to ignore them (which is part of what led to her becoming cold and distant while in Belle Reve), but once she has a real support system in place she slowly, gradually begins to open up a little more and acknowledge what happened.

Jasper: Everything surrounding Kyle's death. It's a weird sort of grief, since he was brought back and by now things are almost back to how they used to be, but they can never forget how it felt to feel his emotions suddenly vanish from their empathic sense, or how it felt to find him broken and sewn back together with the witches. Sometimes the grief still hits them like a cannon in the middle of the night, and it's hard to reconcile the intensity of those feelings with the warmth of Kyle still sleeping beside them. It's just... hard.

torture: Has your OC ever been tortured? Would your OC ever torture someone else?

Nikoletta: Traditional torture, no. STAR Labs was certainly torture from Nik's perspective, but the scientists didn't set out just to hurt her - they didn't care that they did, but it wasn't their goal. As for torturing someone else... no. She can be cold and immoral at times, but her methods are much more succinct.

Jasper: No and no. Again, their story isn't mundane, but it's not really the "kidnapping and torture" type.

[em-writes-stuff-sometimes]

How long have you been reading fanfiction? How long have you been writing it? What made you take the plunge and start writing for HotD? (Horny answers are absolutely acceptable lol)

Hey, nonnie!

I've been reading fanfiction since I was maybe 11? When I was a kid, I had a weird fixation on Draco Malfoy from Harry Potter (I know, I know, there's no accounting for taste there), and I was obsessed with Dramione. Absolute basic bitch of me, lol. Back when the Harry Potter Fanfiction site was a thing, I used to read age-appropriate Dramione fics there all the damn time. Until my parents got annoyed with me for spending so much time fanfiction-ing on the family computer, so they 'banned' me from reading it. Joke's on them - they gave me a Nintendo 3DS and I could access the internet on that baby, so you bet your ass I continued to read fanfiction on those piss-poor screens. Over the years, I've read a metric FUCKTON of fanfiction. Here's some of the fandoms I've read for:

Harry Potter, Twilight, Star Wars (just - you can assume ALL of it), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Narnia (Caspian was a reeeeal hottie), Star Trek (original AND reboot), Vampire Diaries, Batman (Christian Bale, obvi), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Glee (I knoooow), Fantastic Beasts, Mortal Instruments, DCEU, Shadow and Bone, Dracula, The Tudors, Outlander, American Horror Story, Hunger Games, Little Women, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Famous Five, Battlestar Galactica, Once Upon a Time, Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit, Game of Thrones (duh), House of the Dragon (double-duh), Vampire Academy, Divergent series, and the Witcher. Probably forgetting half of the fandoms I've read for, but this is.... well, it's not a bad start. Recently (as in, post-teens), I've tended to vacillate between Star Wars, Marvel and ASOIAF.

My first ever attempt at writing fanfiction would have to be Caspian x adult!Lucy fanfiction for Narnia. I vibed with Lucy more, and keep in mind I was like 13. I wrote it in a notebook, and from what I can recall it was fucking abhorrent. I've blocked most of that out. I attempted to write a Peeta x OC fanfiction (Hunger Games), but again - shite. Blocked it out. I then wrote a short series of Harry x Hermione one-shots (three in total) that don't COMPLETELY suck in around 2014-2015; uploaded them on FanFiction.Net back in the day and re-uploaded to AO3 earlier this year for the sake of recording writing that marks the first time I was genuinely proud of something I produced. I don't really plan on going back to HP, though, cuz J.K's a raging piece of shit nowadays and HP was a lot more appealing when I didn't realise the extent to which it plays up really hateful and racist rhetoric. Grotty! I've been reading smut since like 13, lol; absolutely shocking, if my parents had found out they would've sent me to some sort of institution. Not religious, my parents, but DEFINITELY conservative.

House of the Dragon has been my first real, decent attempt at writing fanfiction. I do really enjoy how dark and gritty it is, even with it's inherent problems when comparing to the real world. The fantasy, the politics, the rampant sex and violence - excellent. I'm a longtime Dany fan, so when I heard the Targs were making a comeback I had to sit down and watch. When I tell you I felt things in my pants at the sight of Matt Smith's Daemon sitting on that Iron Throne.... hoo, boy. Didn't get any better from there. I broke after seeing Peepaw Daemon in Episode 6 - his shoulder-length hair and his stern Daddy vibe made me want to lay myself over his lap and let him spank me until I cried, honestly. He hits all my main kinks (I pray to anything and everything that this is restricted to literary kinks, because WHOA) - powerful, amoral/violent, intensely obsessive/passionate, older, seksy voice. So I had to exorcise my demons by writing a smutty one-shot as his baby niecey getting railed on the wedding night. THEEEEN I had all these ideas about what would happen right after; theeen what happened before. And now, we here, lol.

Woof, this was a long answer. I hope I responded to all your questions! Thank you so much for the ask, nonnie!

[thedragonagelesbian]

Guilt, hate, secret, and skin :)

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oc asks: not so nice edition

guilt: What is your OC guilty about? How do they handle their guilt? Do they try to avoid guilt, or do they accept it?

Any time someone else gets hurt on his watch, he's going to feel responsible for it and feel guilty about it. For DA2 Cyrus, big moments include Carver and Leandra's deaths, Bethany being taken to the Circle, and the entirety of The Last Straw and its fallout.

BG3 Cyrus doesn't shoulder as much of that just because he hasn't had any close interpersonal relationships since leaving Baldur's Gate (or, in the case of Ranger Cyrus, since killing [redacted] and leaving Iriaebor). He still feels a little bad about leaving Baldur's Gate in the first place instead of staying after the orphanage burned down, but it's been decades at this point, and he's been able to mostly put that to rest.

The real moment of guilt for pallybarb Cyrus comes with breaking his oath-- he feels so awful for letting everyone down, for falling short of his expectations for himself, and for taking time for himself to process and deal with that instead of swallowing it down to focus on stopping the Absolute. He doesn't want to face that guilt because he doesn't want to face any of it.

Similarly, Shadow Sorc Cyrus feels guilty any time his Came Back Wrong weirdness takes up any time or space that could've been better spent trying to get the tadpoles out of their skulls.

Ranger Cyrus is the only one of them who has any legitimate reason to feel guilty, specifically for the harm he perpetuated as [redacted]'s right hand. And he does, but he already came to terms with that culpability, accepted that that guilt wouldn't do any good for anyone without action, and for a time worked to redress it.

hate: What does your OC hate? Why? How do they act towards the object of their hatred?

Any version of Cyrus is going to hate people who use power to hurt others and the institutions that they represent-- whether that's the templars and the Chantry in DA2 or Gortash and the Steel Watchers in BG3. Injustice, exploitation, cruelty, and, of course, hurting people he cares about are easy ways to light the fire of his righteous and violent fury.

He also hates feeling powerless, specifically powerless to take care of others. This relates obviously to the sense of guilt that this inspires. His Whole Thing is protection, and he doesn't understand himself as having much value or identity beyond that, so when that protection fails or is insufficient, he can get quite angry about it.

Adjacently, depending on the timeline, he really hates being lied to with the intention of manipulating him and taking advantage of his giving and trusting nature. This is the case for DA2 Cyrus from Act 3 onward and for Ranger Cyrus.

secret: What's one secret your OC never wants anyone to know about them?

That he hurts. That he's tired. That he has doubts.

skin: How comfortable is your OC in their skin? Do they grapple with anything that lives inside them—a beast, a curse, a failure, a monster? How do they face the smallest, weakest, most horrible version of themself? Are they able to acknowledge it at all?

He Isn't. The intensity of his alienation of his body varies from version to version, stemming from understanding himself first and foremost as a tool for saving others, from being unable to separate himself from his armor and his titles.

I don't know if you count oathbreaking as a curse, but if you do, all versions of him are cursed! Pallybarb Cyrus is filled with divine absence and silence, Ranger Cyrus lost at least a century of his lifespan in a life transference spell that aged and weathered him, Shadow Sorc Cyrus Came Back Wrong, and DA2 Cyrus is so cursed in such weird noncanonical ways that I just call it the Problems for ease of reference.

As you might imagine, Cyrus struggles a lot to acknowledge his weakest self, as he struggles to acknowledge any self. Any version of him will come to rely on friends, loved ones, and partners to help him with that process-- to be able to hold onto him when he can't hold onto himself and help ground him in the world through physical intimacy.

[lampmanliveblogs]

Episode 19. Let’s go, go, go!

I don’t know the name of this episode yet and at this point I know better than try and guess what’s gonna happen, because the opposite of that will inevedibly… inevetibly… unavoidably happen. Still, it’d be nice to see what happened to Luz, Eda, King, Lilith, and Hooty.

Right off the bat, something weird is happening. King is glowing. Oh no! Now he’s radioactive! That can’t be good!

Anyway, he’s glowing. It looks like he’s still on the ship, but where is the ship? It looks… strange.

What is going on, is King dreaming? Hallucinating? Astral projecting into another dimension or plane of existence?

Oh, of course, the in-between or whatever it’s called. I ought to have recognized it. The real question is, how did they end up there? Titan’s blood can pierce dimensions, including into the in-between, but King’s not bleeding as far as I can see. And I don’t see Luz, Hooty, or Salty either. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense for King and the boat to be transported there without them.

Of course, The Collector is involved. Somehow. Though judging by their reaction to hearing King, they were not the one behind this.

The Collector is… trapped inside some ball?There are rocks orbiting the ball, like moons around a planet.

This… I’m just gonna keep watching, because I’m a bit confused right now. Let the scene play for two more seconds and maybe then I’ll understand what’s going on.

Nope! No explanations yet!

Okay, calm down Lampman, think about it…

King fell asleep and projected his consciousness into the in-between, or some similar dimensions where The Collector is either trapped or can project their own consciousness to. It is possible that The Collector, being a god (maybe) can exists on multiple planes or in multiple dimensions at the same time. I guess the boat was just something King’s mind made up. As for why King awakened this ability right now of all times… plot convenience is one strong contender. There is also the possibility that now that he knows he’s a Titan, some of hit titanic abilities have begun awakening properly. Or maybe when the titan Trappers were trying to do that ritual, some of The Collector’s power leaked through the mirror/plate thing and pulled King’s soul towards him.

At this point I’m just throwing ideas at the wall, hoping something, anything will stick so I will look smart. Although that’s an endeavor I should have given up on a long time ago.

Let’s rewind a little to something The Collector said.

”I won’t be alone.”

Now, if this Grand Huntsman has been trapped for as long as I think they have been (a few thousand years, give or take a couple millennia) then it makes sense he’d be a bit lonely by now. Especially since his only company in the last four hundred years is Belos (and maybe Bill one time). Being a literal Shadow on the Wall probably doesn’t make things better for the guy who used to be a god. Belos and The Collector did seem pretty friendly with each other in the flashback we saw in Hollow Mind, but keep in mind, Philip made friends with Luzura, and we all know how that ended.

What I’m saying is this, there may be something to what I said in my Conspiracy Corner 3.0 post I made a couple of days ago. If Belos wants to wipe out all life in the Demon Realm and The Collector wants company (or even just some puny mortals to entertain him) then… those goals really aren’t compatible. So once The Collector is freed, they may end up betraying Belos and stopping the spell before it can burn the witches.

O Titan, Where Art Thou

Getting a bit Shakespearian up in here, are we? I think that’s Shakespeare at least. I dunno, haven’t seen any of his plays.

Any predictions based on the title and what I’ve seen so far? I think Luz, King & Hooty will reunite with Eda & Lilith. After that, maybe they’ll try and figure out more about the Titan I call Ymir. In the process we may also learn more about the mysterious Collector, this Lord of the Fireflies.

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

What if Arthur was fixing something on the train and the depot agent who was supposed to be in the car with him stepped out real quick right before Vivi came in, so she thought *he* was her opponent and tried to battle him? She was really, really sorry afterward, because he had gotten really freaked out when she tossed out a pokemon to try and battle poor little Galahad. They became friends after she insisted on making it up to him, maybe by taking him to Lewis's restaurant? Yes, let him feed the zoruas!! That's so cute, him being like well now I gotta feed them, they're family. I don't think Ingo has like a full kitchen or anything, though I could see there maybe being a communal one in each of the clans and Beni has one in Jubilife, but he's still gotta make food. He probably has like pots and utensils and a way to make the snacks wardens apparently make for their nobles, at the very least, so I'm sure Lewis could figure out how to do something with that.

Oooh, I love the idea of Mystery getting frenzied and changing type because of it! They probably didn't do anything like that in the games because they thought it'd be too much to have bosses that are both new variants and gain a frenzy form the player can't get. But for Mystery, we could say that the reason he does but they don't is because he's an ultra beast, so power that strong didn't mesh well with him, as he's not native to this universe. Or maybe he's just a regular legendary not an ultra beast, but the original nobles were given a sort of divine tolerance to it that was passed down to subsequent generations.

Okay, so, if we go with Ingo disappearing in the middle of a work day, what could also have happened was that something broke and Ingo called Arthur to ask about it, but Arthur was being possessed by Giratina at the time and was kinda fading in and out, not really sure what was happening. Giratina/Volo was like this is great timing and used Arthur to tell Ingo to come see him in his office or wherever. Ingo goes and doesn't tell anyone where he's going or bring his pokemon, because why would he he's not leaving the station or doing anything potentially dangerous, and when he gets there Arthur is nearly unconscious, just barely aware enough for Giratina to tell when Ingo approaches him to check if he's okay, and completely passes out when giratina pulls more energy from him to open the rift under Ingo. When Arthur wakes up, he doesn't remember telling Ingo to come see him or Ingo arriving, but he does think he vaguely recalls Ingo calling him for some reason. Maybe he goes to call him back, but Ingo never picks up so he's like, okay guess he didn't after all and it was Arthur's imagination, until it turns out a little later that no one knows where Ingo is at all. I don't think Arthur is like, a suspect or anything, but chandelure can probably get a sense of giratina's ghost residue on Arthur and in his office, and so is weird about him for a while, which makes him nervous for a number of reasons.

My guess for what keeps giving him away, given what he looks like and does in the videos vs what zoroarks look like and can do, is that he tends to get wispy around the edges, especially his hair, like how the zoroarks have wisps coming off of their bodies and wispy manes. That and he's pretty open about using like, shadow ball and, when taking about Arthur, bitter malice. I thought I remembered reading on bulbapedia that the zoruas can make illusions of a person's worst fears and make them so scared it drives them insane or something, which I think is where that fanon that they can read minds comes from, because otherwise how would they know what shape to take. It's not there anymore though, so I could be wrong or misremembering things. But if he could, yes I think he would try to see if he could do something to help. Although I'm willing to bet Ingo's Alakazam has already tried that and failed.

Lmao Emmet would be so offended. They seriously think that he couldn't take *Arthur*, who is so visibly exhausted he looks ready to fall over or nod off at any given moment and only has a single, level 4 pokemon. Not to say that Arthur doesn't have some strength to him, he's a mechanic he kinda has to, but this is definitely not Arthur at his best and in any case no matter how strong he is he's no match for any of Emmet's pokemon, let alone all of them. If he did somehow manage to kill Emmet I'm pretty sure he wouldn't even get two steps before chandelure flash fried him with a full strength overheat, to say nothing of what the others might do.

I bet Emmet has to spend like half their trip just taking breaks to make sure Arthur eats the snacks he packed and drinks plenty of water, so he doesn't pass out. Arthur wants to go go go, and so does Emmet! But Emmet also wants his employee to not die, so he has to be a responsible adult and rein Arthur in. Both are chafing at the idea that this is wasting their time, but unfortunately Arthur can't be trusted not to work past him limits, which is dangerous! The upside is that all the extremely hostile pokemon around make Arthur very disinclined to wander off without him, so Emmet doesn't have to worry about him doing something stupid like sneaking off in the middle of the night. Arthur's insomnia is so bad though that Emmet is probably tempted to catch something that can learn hypnosis, just so Arthur can get some *sleep*.

Oh man, the distortion bubbles must freak Arthur the fuck out then, even just seeing them from the distance. But yeah, I can definitely see Arthur's trauma getting swapped to both distortions and giratina. Even if he doesn't quite know what giratina was doing or that it was giratina doing it, he was possessed by it long enough the first time that his body probably still remembers what the thing draining him felt like, even if his mind doesn't. If he ever got close to giratina again he might be able to tell that this is something that hurt him before, and even possibly that it's linked to the distortion world, if his connection to ghost vibes is strong enough to sense it.

arthur panics and gets his wires VERY crossed and just full force throws what he's holding at her which happens to be a whole ass wrench. it's fine tho bc she parries it flawlessly. and it DOES make for a great conversation starter. and yess!! ooh that's true about the wardens making offerings for their nobles, i forgot about that. if we've all agreed to collectively pretend that the ride pokemon are nobles then it would stand to reason that they also have somewhere to prepare offerings. (although... iirc iscan does have you make food for basculegion and he just does it like, outside his house. but still)

YESS!! idk how i feel about him being an ultra beast, bc those are like... beings from outside reality and idk if that matches him very well? i feel like a normal legendary/mythical makes more sense with the fact that he is a mythical being in canon. anyway though. yeah i get why it didn't work in canon but augh it would be so cool... maybe there would be some kind of mechanism where like, if you go into a space-time distortion you can forme change them? or there's an item you can collect from the distortions that works like the other forme change items do? OR you literally just use the griseous core on them.

ok yeah "arthur, while possessed, called ingo over to look at/deal with something, ingo didn't bother bringing his pokemon or anything bc it didn't ping as unusual at all, then he got rift-grabbed but since nobody really noted his going at the time and arthur has no memory of it happening, nobody really connects arthur with him disappearing at all" that's a good explanation i think. and re: chandelure hmmm what i was more thinking is if chandelure knows what happened it would probably be trying to just tell anyone about it, and if arthur's spirit sensitive then he'd probably be a primary target for the HEY HEY LISTEN, but chandelure actually sensing that he's been possessed and being unable to tell anyone that is also very fun.

ooh yeah, him sort of becoming wispy/looking like spirit flame around the edges would be a very fitting tell. that and the moves yeah lol his shadow does some Funny Stuff when he talks about arthur. and. man, yeah, now that i'm thinking about it i have no idea where the idea that zoroark can read memories comes from. why did we all just absorb and accept that as fanon?? is it an anime thing that unovan zoroark can also do?? did one person just make it up for the angst and then it got perpetuated throughout fanspace? is there some throwaway trivia line that i'm forgetting?? i feel like it predates daybreak which is the only time they're mentioned in the game to my knowledge, so what gives?

anyway. yeah lol. not that lewis wouldn't just hear that and go "NO, that's what he WANTS you to think, he's using deception and getting you to let your guard down-" but emmet's like. that requires a level of brain function that i don't think he currently has. and yeah if he was actually going around murdering people chandelure would have IMMOLATED him by now, i think it can probably tell if a person's done a murder

qhqkjhqjk yeah. i feel like they're sort of on opposite ends of the spectrum here where arthur's on a 24/7 rollercoaster and emmet's just like. temporarily suspended emotions.exe so he can be a Functional Adult and find ingo and not get killed by a stray garchomp. so he is very much the one herding arthur at this point lol. bad news if the universe does manage to separate them, though

yeah i mean. i feel like... if arthur punched a hole in spacetime to get to the past, he probably already knows about giratina and the distortions to some extent? bc otherwise how would he know to like. do that. he might not have figured it out until the second possession, but he must have some idea what he's doing at this point, right. BUT. yeah. that's not gonna be a fun time

[mlobsters]

supernatural s13e7 war of the worlds (w. brad buckner, eugenie ross-leming)

au!michael putting lucifer in an iron maiden-ish thing ok, why not. in front of a big jesus on a cross. is this the michael that rides up on dean's junk? i know nothing about that plotline other than it exists

CASTIEL Dean, you can't accompany me. My contact is already anxious about meeting and won't speak in the presence of a stranger. DEAN So introduce me. Then I'm not a stranger. I'll bring a six-pack. CASTIEL Dean, I swore I would protect this boy. Let me do this. DEAN Don't do anything stupid.

don't be rude, dean. but also, cas doesn't have the best track record. but tentatively seems like they're making him less prone to really bad decisions?

DEAN I guess we're stuck in idle. SAM So… What do we do? Just – just sit around here and wait? DEAN Well, we could work a case.

dunno why this strikes me as so like. unnecessarily heavy handed? oh no we can't do anything about the major plot arc, whatever will we do. i know, let's work a case to pass the time. i think this is a sign that i'm losing patience with the show :p there's only so many ways you can rearrange the parts before you start repeating things/the parts become very visible

LUCIFER Hey, you try interdimensional travel sometime, pal. Definitely no frills. And just to be clear, I never claimed to be God. Or a god, okay? Where I come from, God is a paradox. He's everywhere, in your mind. In reality, he's nowhere. He left. I, on the other hand, am the real deal. I am everything humanity thinks I am and worse. That's who you're dealing with, pal. But, hey, congratulations to you for being king of the hill of this dead rock.

nice little speech where he's not over completely over the top. i like him over the top, but it's nice to see this too.

was curious what osric was gonna be doing in this episode. handy i guess having this au, can bring in whoever. and he gets to play a very different kevin who gets to make a nexus

lucifer too, has to get back to the nexus. and back on earth without powers so we can have our quirky music comedy moment

eyes glazing over with this mr ketchup in a beard and rowena thing. two supposed to be dead people. evil twin but for real omglol. bleh

started laughing out loud at this shot, wtf is going on. it's so odd it looks like they pasted two shots together so they could both artificially be in focus together. gives me... tarantino???? vibes?? something. it's familiar. anyway. directed by richard speight jr apparently, gettin creative 🤪

this is so strange, man. it feels like it's gotta be a reference because it's so out of left field

sam where are you looking (ok i cranked up my brightness and i see he's looking at him now, but the way his head is angled and the shadow on his eyes makes it look like he's looking offcenter). why are y'all sitting like this. wtf.

just sayin. script directions definitely more what i'd expect

and offbrand mr ketchup looks like matthew rhys a little bit with the fluffy hair and beard like he's in a disguise in the americans

DUMAH Castiel, the angels… Our numbers were greatly diminished after the fall. No one's made new angels since the dawn of creation. We're going extinct. You would need a powerful force to make more of us. CASTIEL You mean Jack. Even if he had that power, what makes you think he'd cooperate? DUMAH He may not have a choice. CASTIEL So you're planning to enslave him for some kind of experiment?

i did not have trying to enslave jack as an angelic broodmare on my bingo card.

i like the new fit, lucifer. find it kind of weird though how he has now changed outfits a couple times past the original one and yet he still keeps the vessel's wedding ring on

LUCIFER Yeah, I'm clearly not myself. But, oh, cowboy, I'm not that weak. And you and I need to talk. CASTIEL I have no interest in talking to you. And if this is about your son– LUCIFER Okay, I get it, I get it. Custody of my son is a non-starter. But if you can please just shelve the eternal enemies thing for a second, we have a situation. And by “we,” I mean everything alive. We're sorta… all gonna die.

feels like sliding lucifer into a crowley-like role

i don't hate it. i'd rather have crowley be crowley and lucifer be lucifer though. it was a good scene, they play well off each other and they're letting cas be snarky and reasonable this week

SAM You get a name? DEAN Nope. But... from his description? Evil Colonel Sanders. Asmodeus.

(wiki)

Colonel Sanders was an Southern American business man, famous for creating Kentucky Fried Chicken. The name "Evil Colonel Sanders" was attributed to Asmodeus by the Supernatural fandom soon after his debut, due to his southern drawl and white suit.

well it's cute when i find out i was also picking up what they were putting down same as everyone else (my desc: the white suit and the thick accent and the speechifying, it’s giving confederate general slash colonel sanders vibes. the foghorn leghorn knives out treatment)

oh no surprise it is namebrand mr ketchup after all 🙄

KETCH She was captured by the British Men of Letters some years back. I discovered she'd sewn a powerful charm into her body that could bring her back should she be killed. I struck a deal wherein she did the same for me in return for allowing her to escape.

sure why not

dun dun dun mr ketchup is working for general sanders. whatever, man.

[thessalian]

Council Deputies vs Deceptive Appearances

In Coparann

Jallira: All right; let’s go see who’s in charge and find out either where the gem is or where we go next.

Guards: You can go in if you want, but things are weird in here lately.

Mychae: You’re basically in the Badlands. How much more ‘weird’ do you want than that?

Guards: Just ... go talk to Joris Nikannen before you do anything.

Alisaie: Do we have time to get supplies first? And maybe some food that wasn’t cooked over a campfire?

Jallira: ...Did I mess it up?

Alisaie: No! Best rabbit stew I ever had! Just I’m kind of jonesing for bread at this point. That kind of thing actually needs an oven.

Jallira: Actually, I know a recipe but it is unleavened so...

Kythaela: If I have to be in a place with free dwarves, I want to sit in an actual chair.

One meal, a bit of shopping, and several overheard conversations later...

Joris: So, I understand you’ve been hearing some things around town. And the Baron went back to being formal at me, which is weird. And the whole thing where you brought me the effects of a man you claim is dead but who turned up from patrol last week. So I wondered--

Mychae: You do know your Baron and probably like half your guards are Soraks now, right?

Joris: The what now?

Mychae: We’re dealing with shape-shifting infiltrators from beyond the Planes here. Them getting into a position of power somewhere out of the way as a foot in the door was inevitable. Honestly, I thought the first I’d see of it would be Princess Silverflower because she is so very weird but apparently, no, she’s just Like That.

Astrid: What she means is ... well, you clearly have an imposter in your ranks. The guards are acting different. Abandoning their sweethearts without a word, that kind of thing.

Jallira: And as I understand they hold the people they’re imitating for weeks to learn their habits, it sounds like your Baron lied about what he calls you just enough to give you a chance. And he’s probably still alive. So that’s nice.

Joris: So now what?

Alisaie: I guess going in there and hitting them isn’t an option.

Mychae: Nah. Need to be sure of what prisoners, if any, are still alive. We turn ourselves into bait. Go in there with our shiny Legacy Council credentials and heroic status--

Astrid: Not to mention the promise of elven treasure or one of the gems, or maybe even the crown, though I guess they’re literally having that over my dead body...

Kythaela: Excuse me; I am not giving dwarves--

Mychae: Of course not! Just, when they show their true colours and try to take us, then we hit them. A lot. With sharp bits.

Kythaela: Since when did my people get so ... so ... uncouth?

Mychae: Lady, this Empire shit is getting old. Though I really kind of want to take you to meet that Arcaneum weirdo. He would soil his smalls at an actual Imperial elf giving him history lessons. Though the racism’d probably put him off too.

Kythaela: And is this ... Arcaneum ... ‘weirdo’ ... appropriate?

Alisaie: Talks fancy, but spends his time in a dingy pub that serves donkey-piss ale. And yes, he does that by choice.

Kythaela: ...The world is a mess and I want my Master now. But I suppose bait first.

Down in the dungeons

Mychae: You were serious about your secret room full of Stuff being down here?

Kythaela: It’s not my fault a Cataclysm and some uppity dwarves remodeled the place!

The ‘Baron’: Honestly, this is really convenient.

The Real Baron: *is sitting sulking in a cell*

Soraks: *step out of the shadows*

Alisaie: Finally!

The ‘Baron’: ...wut.

Mychae: I’m with her. It’s about time you tried to spring this one.

The ‘Baron’: But ... I...

Astrid: She is very good with traps. She can see them fifty yards away. And I am going to try something new now.

The ‘Baron’: I--

Astrid: *THUNDERWAVE*

Fake Baron; Fake Guards; Soraks: *go flying*

Alisaie: Great. Now I have to go all the way over there to hit them.

Jallira: It’s good for you. Neglecting leg day is bad.

Joris: You people are insane. ...I think I kind of like it!

Kythaela: They’re infectious that way. Like plague.

Stabnation: *ensues*

One freed Baron and some dungeon exploration later

Mychae: Still no gem. Unbelievable.

Kythaela: But I found my spellbook! And got some of my memory back! And I think I know where we need to go for the Master now!

Jallira: And we did just save an entire town from Sorak occupation. That counts for something.

Alisaie: That counts for a big honking pile of pay, is what.

Mychae: Oh, fine. I just really want to find this damn gem and move on already. The living breathing history of my people is giving me a headache.

Kythaela: If it helps, I’m starting to see that not all other species are complete wastes of space...

Astrid: *sigh* Let’s ... just ... go over your spellbook again. And ... where did you say we were going?

Kythaela: Wizard’s tower and library.

Astrid; Jallira: ............*squeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*

Alisaie: Don’t get too excited; the last one was full of Soraks.

A few days of travel later and...

Tower Grounds: *are full of defiler spawn*

Astrid: .............at least it’s not Soraks this time?

Mychae: At least we’ve had practice with fighting a defiler now, right? Which we would not have had without--

Jallira: Yes, your burglary gave us some practice and the chainmail for Astrid has been invaluable and the mace is glorious but can we please just kill the undead abominations now thank you?

Alisaie: *waving blessed sword around and wreaking absolute havoc* WHEEEEEE!

Mychae: Yeah, yeah, yeah; nag nag nag...

Inside the very spiffy tower

Kythaela: The Master’s in there!

Astrid: The gem is in there!

A giant honking dragon: *is in there, apparently fast asleep*

Alisaie; Astrid; Jallira; Mychae: whaaaaaaaaaaat the fuuuuuuuuu--

Kythaela: Master! *collapses*

Jallira: The dragon seems to be ... absorbing something from her. Should we do something about that?

Razan, a defiler: Oh good, you unlocked the door! Now I can kill you and take your stuff!

Mychae: Dude, we have taken shits scarier than you.

Razan: ...I don’t feel I’m setting the proper tone here. I have backup.

Jallira; Astrid: *Banishment cast on two of his three bits of backup*

Mychae: You were saying?

Razan: Oh my god go fuck yourself!

Alisaie: YOU FIRST!

Stabnation: *ensues*

Stabnation: *ends as dragon wakes up and chases Razan away by attempting to eat him*

Alisaie: What the-- I had that!

Jallira: She means ‘thank you’. I mean, I’m assuming you’re not hungry for sapient meat...?

Adrasteia the Dragon: Yeah, no. Besides, part of me is Kythaela. I sort of stored a bit of myself in her when the Cataclysm went down. Sorry about the racism; apparently it went with the species back then. If it helps, I like you more than she did and she liked you more than she wanted to admit. Anyway, here’s your gem, here’s some other spiffy shit, loot the place all you want; if I’m going to fight with you to avert the next Cataclysm, I need to rest so off you go.

Mychae: ...Need to rest? But you were asleep for--!

Adrasteia: Oh, and can you get that undead asshole for me, please? He is the worst neighbour.

Alisaie: GLADLY.

Mychae: Yeah, you kind of ... erm, what’s a version of coitus interruptus but for, like, monster-slaying?

Alisaie: Still gods-damned rude. Let’s go.

[the-firebird69]

We're going ahead and letting you know my son is exactly pleased with a shattered on going into our possession and the timing and the speed of it it's ecstatic and he's part of the participants and he's pushing and pushing and pushing very hard his statements combined with nuata Ariana and Zeus's wife himself a Hera they're amazing powerful and potent nuana Ariana had a statement to Blue everyone's socks off and her son's last statement was ridiculous we almost choked to death my comment was ridiculous too and they started trying it I don't have any objections to anybody who wants to volunteer to take over this afternoon any Walk of Life we have jobs for everybody from being a janitor and an associated hospital to being a secretary to being an errant person courier to delivering food to us or making food for our agents all the way to bomb expert. It's going on now. Another shatteredome has fallen to us thankfully and willfully we have taken the shadow dome in the Sahara desert and we are clearing it now and it is massive we are mining The ore and we have tons of sensing equipment and machines looking for any device that might be in it we have safeties and protocols and we're following them but we must figure out if there's anything in there we can see the whole object and my detail what we're making sure we like our son's idea and we energize the thing a little bit so I'm going to check it out and see what we can do and test first and send it back or developing a system and it works

The Sahara is a humongous shatteredome it is humongous it's gigantic there are no more in Africa there's only a cavern to take and that is Madagascar but under the cavern is a gigantic diamond

There's no real way to explain how big this shatteredome is the one on Australia is slightly smaller there's no shattered on this large on Earth it's 850 miles across it's just like spaceships or ocean vessels 500 or 700 doesn't look anything like an 850 it looks like it's twice as big when it's not it's very very odd looking at it and it's shaped the same almost round.

It's completely gone from them completely gone and it's not coming back it's simply no way to explain this except to show you no but a quarter of the or to half is left, it's almost a half because huge chunks weren't touched because when you did it made radiation come out and you didn't have the protocols or procedures and that meant that you cannot be trusted to mine the uranium it's impossible to do if you can't do that simple task and Tommy f you're a failure your father is saying in current time you are not allowed into his office he doesn't want you near him you're a f****** you're sitting there saying I look like this person to yourself cuz you're Chris and I was the weird s*** just like your John remodeled we can't stand you he says it too our son says wow that guy is weird in this baby stuff we're going to have it cleared and mind the iron out by the end of the day in a special system will be operational this afternoon and we're doing it very fast and we're doing it in all the shadow dome that we possess the ones that we don't we're trying to do on the exterior and we're making some progress it's a must to figure out if we're safe we have to

Thor Freya

We're doing that now we're calling in Galactus and Galactica something happens to us here he says the rest of the solar system universe won't be affected including his wife that was pretty quick shut up she says I'm moving the pyramids in as well

[miraculouscontent]

“Sentibubbler” summary? “Sentibubbler” salt?

Why not both at the same time?

Something a little experimental, though also somewhat reminiscent of some of my past videos. Calling it “summasalt” for now, based on the word “somersault” because this episode was an exercise of my patience.

It’s basically just me going through the episode with my usual episode summary, but salting along the way instead of making you guys read a wall of text without any images or clips or me making snarky comments.

(By the way, yes, I did in fact have caffeine before recording.)

script below for anyone who wants/needs it:

"Sentibubbler" begins with Marinette having food with the Cesaires and I already know this isn't real because Marinette is actually getting to interact with her best friend's family. That's only happened, like--when, two episodes of Season 2? [”Sapotis” and “Anansi”]

Marinette sees Trixx and points out how they're supposed to be a secret, and Alya asks why while calling Marinette "Ladybug." Marinette plays dumb but is told by Nino that everyone already knows her secret. Chloe is also there, chiding Marinette for her identity rule - it's not Marinette's rule but after "Reflekdoll" I've just gotten used to Marinette being blamed for things she didn't do - and Marinette goes to question Chloe's apperance when there's a knock on the balcony door. Alya invites Shadow Moth in and--[Shadow Moth has to duck to come inside]--huh, I thought Sole Crusher was seven episodes ago.

Anyway, now obviously, Marinette is just being ridiculous and overemotional as usual, because why would Marinette ever think that Alya would reveal any information to--["Feast"]--oh yeah, that's right.

Tikki doesn't transform Marinette and says that Marinette shouldn't have trusted Alya with her secret. Enter Chat Blanc, who says that they can be together now without any secrets. Not really sure what this episode is aiming for with the mixed message of "your identity rule sucks" but also "your fault for trusting someone instead of having a mental breakdown," but a’ight. Trixx also gets another dig in on Marinette for giving Alya the fox miraculous.

Marinette wakes up from her nightmare and panics, but Tikki reassures her that Alya is loyal. [”Chameleon”] Mm. Also, that kind of support might've been nice from Tikki literal seasons ago when Marinette could've used a confidant.

Wayzz - I swear, they've had eyelashes more often than not in this season - points out that Trixx is mischievous and Xuppu talks about Trixx being the cause of the Loch Ness monster rumors, which worries Marinette further. Marinette runs out in her pajamas and I can already predict that neither Tom nor Sabine are going to check on her later or care.

Marinette finds the Cesaires looking for something, their words vague enough for Marinette to think that they're talking about Trixx. Alya brushes Marinette off and tells her to help with looking instead of lecturing her.

Marlena makes a comment that reminds Marinette of her nightmare, only increasing Marinette's stress. A tarantula crawls up a ladle and Marinette freaks out when she sees it, which Marlena has a laugh at because Marinette's anxiety, fear, and panic is hilarious, guys!

This is my laughing face. [not a laughing face]

Nino exits, having been too afraid of the spider to leave the room, so Nora compares Marinette to him. Nino tries to play it cool, then changes the subject to point out Marinette's pajamas. Alya wonders aloud why Marinette showed up and Marinette tries to act casual, but Alya sees through it and states that she doesn't usually lose things when someone lends them to her.

I presume the exception is Marinette's trust. OH-HOOOOHHH, we'll get there.

Nora takes a jab at Alya for losing the spider and Marinette drags Alya away to talk. Nino tries to join but Alya states that it's between her and Marinette, which makes Nino sad.

Nino, does the phrase "guys' time" ring a bell by any chance?

Marinette is explaining her nightmare and is simply told to calm down by Alya, though Marinette is briefly startled by a phone ringing. Marinette puts together what she knows that Shadow Moth knows, including that Alya is Rena Rouge, adding on that Shadow Moth could steal the fox necklace if he figured out that Alya has it permanently. Alya reassures her that no one will ever know and Marinette states that this must include Chat Noir. Alya agrees and brings attention to the fanny pack around her waist, which Trixx has been hiding in, and Marinette has Trixx promise not to show up at the dining table like in her nightmare. Tikki tells Marinette that everything will be fine and Marinette admits that it was silly of her to worry, which it was! ...If you ignore all the anxiety, mental scarring, and constant pressure to be perfect or risk Paris lighting itself on fire, much like I presume they accidentally did with their original script for this episode.

Alya tells Marinette to trust her and also herself - I'll be sure to keep that in mind, Alya, thank you - then Alya loses her temper at the phone continuing to ring. She leaves to find an empty living room, then answers the phone only to hear Shadow Moth on the other line. Alya turns upon hearing Marinette scream to see that Marinette has been trapped in a bubble. Cue the reveal/return of the Bubbler, who is definitely Nino akumatized and not--like--a sentimonster, because the episode didn't spoil it at all with the title of Sentibub--

show, this is freaking embarrassing. Why even bother akumatizing someone when you can mold a sentimonster with the exact power you want?

At least they reveal it quickly, though that also means I have to live with the knowledge that Shadow Moth wINKED AT ALYA, NO.

Anyway, Shadow Moth tells Alya that he wants her to betray Ladybug. Marinette, meanwhile, is panicking over being unable to transform while in public, whereas Tikki remains calm and reassures her that Alya will figure something out and it's why Marinette gave Alya the fox miraculous in the first place.

Weird, I thought it was for the show to continuously validate Alya as a worthy choice for a confidant despite repeatedly covering up her sINS and so the show can push for more anxiety on Marinette's part while simultaneously not having to make a new hero model for Alya, which they would have to do if the realistic decision had been made to give Alya a different miraculous due to Shadow Moth knowing her identity as Rena Rouge.

Marinette texts Alya to inform her that the Bubbler is a sentimonster and so Rena can tell Chat not to use Cataclysm on him or the bubbles will burst due to the sentimonster's lack of control.

Hate to burst the show's bubble but Alya could literally see Nino up in the sky and they could see her; the bubbles are in viewing range. Did this even go through a quality check?

Alya goes to look at Marinette's text, but the phone is bubbled away by Sentibubbler. Marinette sees the phone floating by and panics, only to be reassured again to trust Alya and at this point I vaguely wondered if I was watching this episode on repeat. Tikki also adds that Alya has never let her down - [”Ladybug”] MMMM - and Marinette agrees, also certain that Chat Noir will show up soon.

Oh yeah, he exists. Oh no.

Cut to the Agreste mansion where Adrien is watching the news - dude, how is there never anything better on when you need to be told that there's an akuma? here, look, I'll show you [”Silencer” Lukabug clip] there, much better, see? - and it's pointed out that the bubbles are identical to the ones Bubbler had, yet Nino is in one of the bubbles. Adrien readies himself while Plagg is - for once - okay with leaving since his cheese isn't "edible" yet.

I feel like he should be a little more concerned about Marinette being in a bubble.

Meanwhile, Shadow Moth is explaining to Alya that Ladybug will come to give her the fox miraculous due to the bubbled people in the sky - plenty of other choices that aren't within breathing range of the obvious danger zone, but a'ight - and SentiBubbler will catch Ladybug. Alya brings up Chat Noir saving her but Shadow Moth states that she'll create an illusion of Ladybug and Rena to lure Chat Noir, who won't see Sentibubbler coming, at which point Rena will hand Shadow Moth her miraculous. He adds that her loved ones will only be returned once all three miraculouses are in his possession, though if she tries to warn the heroes then Sentibubbler will send the bubbles into space, too far for any hero to save them.

[clip of space power-ups] Hm.

Also, I would've just let her keep the miraculous as an extra bribe since he doesn't need the fox and she wouldn't have time to recharge anyway - at least to his knowledge - but that's just me.

Marinette is relieved that Alya still hasn't been captured--TIKKI, I KNOW, YOU'VE BEEN PARROTING THIS ALL EPISODE, I KNOW--but Marinette changes her tune when she sees Alya blindly calling out for Ladybug's help, unaware that Alya is buying time. Marinette laments the idea of transforming there and having using the rabbit to go back in time to reverse, as that's never a good thing (seconded), but gets the idea for Tikki to take her miraculous to someone else. Tikki rejects the idea, as the earrings won't go through the bubble, and Marinette realizes that Chat Noir is their only hope.

I mean, it was nice knowing them. Sure is interesting how Marinette has only been getting herself into these situations where she requires saving when the show needed to present Alya as a valid choice for a confidant.

Meanwhile, Chat Noir is leaving a message for Ladybug about the bubbles in the sky, saying that he'll wait for her; I already see where this is going and I don't like it.

Alya mutters to Trixx about how they need a plan to release Marinette. Through Alya Vision, we're shown Sentibubbler, a bowl of fruit, and the bathroom door. Alya tells Sentibubbler that she needs to go to the bathroom and - wow, we're really doing this, aren't we? - which Shadow Moth rejects. Shadow Moth is also on top of a building holding a coffee cup which honestly makes about as much sense as the rest of the episode, so whatever. Alya claims that she can't wait and that it'll be awkward for Ladybug to find her like that, which gets Shadow Moth to relent but also remind her of what's at stake if she tries anything. Alya states that she can't do anything without a miraculous anyway, then purposefully falls onto the table, concealing her long enough for her to transform and allowing an illusion of herself to go to the bathroom while she escapes. She detransforms in the twins' room and feeds Trixx with some grapes that she'd picked up.

Alya explains her plan to trick Shadow Moth and Sentibubbler since they don't know that she has a miraculous, though she also has to make sure that Chat won't ruin things. Rena then proceeds to call Chat Noir and claim that Ladybug wanted her to call him with her plan, but adds that it's a two-person plan and Chat himself isn't needed, so he needs to wait for further instructions. Chat demands that Ladybug call him to tell him herself, but Rena insists that she can't, as Ladybug is very busy. She warns him not to use Cataclysm if he sees the Bubbler, as he's a sentimonster, then promises to talk to him later before hanging up.

She uses Mirage again, making the Alya illusion reappear as well as creating a Ladybug. Chat Noir, infuriated at being left out, destroys part of a building with his baton. He then dismisses the action because Miraculous Ladybug will fix it.

Spoiler alert, it will, which is a very fascinating detail! I mean, I can't imagine another situation where a hero did something while there was an akuma going around and Miraculous Ladybug decided to help 'em out, but it just goes to show what happens when you're the writers' pet. Just look a little pitiful and they'll give you all the sympathy in the world.

By the way, didn't expect them to actually confirm my theory that Chat Noir does Chat Noir things because he knows that Miraculous Ladybug will fix it anyway, essentially allowing him to earn brownie points from Ladybug via sacrificing himself regardless of how it affects her mentally, yet here we are and I don't know whether to be sad, angry, disappointed, or a mixture of all three.

Chat Noir sees the Ladybug illusion jumping off and gives chase, refuses to stay where he is. Marinette, seeing that Rena Rouge's illusions are active, panics at the sight of Chat Noir, as the illusion will vanish if Chat touches it.

I like to imagine the immediate concern is the idea that Chat Noir will try to take Ladybug's hand while trying to flirt.

Anyway, Marinette flails inside the bubble in an attempt to reach Chat Noir, while illusion Alya and SentiBubbler get into position. Chat Noir watches what he perceives as Ladybug heading into the Cesaire house with Alya, but Marinette gets to him in order to tell him not to go anywhere. Chat complains about everyone telling him to stay put, but Marinette explains Rena's plan to him. Chat is skeptical of how she knows that, to which Marinette insists that she saw it from where she was. Chat Noir relents with a sigh and stays where he is.

SentiBubbler watches as the illusion of Alya and Ladybug talk to each other, Rena making it look like Ladybug is piecing together what happened and refusing to give Alya a miraculous ever again due to Shadow Moth knowing her identity. She claims that she'll find another holder and give them an even more powerful miraculous, which interests Shadow Moth and gets him to follow after the Ladybug illusion. Once Sentibubbler leaves as well, Chat sees this as his chance to stop the sentimonster, as the Ladybug illusion will vanish if it's touched. Marinette strokes his ego for the token love square moment of the episode, and Chat Noir fights SentiBubbler while Shadow Moth goes after the Ladybug illusion.

I'm noticing a real lack of tension in this episode. Once Alya has her plan, it's kind of a clean sweep from start to finish with no interference or unexpected roadblocks in the way. Even Shadow Moth following the Ladybug illusion goes fine, with Shadow Moth even punching a building thinking that Ladybug actually got away from him.

Dude, it's fine, Miraculous Ladybug will fix it, just put on your best sad face. Maybe Chat Noir gets it from you actually, is treatment from the writers a hereditary thing?

Sentibubbler and Chat Noir are still fighting. Shadow Moth shows up and Marinette tries to warn Chat, but Chat gets caught in a bubble and Marinette apologizes; she doesn't have anything to apologize for but after "Reflekdoll" I--wait I already did this.

Chat Noir uses Cataclysm to escape, only to get caught in another bubble. I'd just like to throw out there that this guy's a hero three seasons going and the love interest for the main character, yet his role in the episode has amounted to complaining about the authority of a hero Ladybug chose, throwing a property-destroying tantrum over being excluded, and wasting his power without a single thought which just got him captured again.

Chat, does the name "Syren" ring any bells by any chance? I'm just sayin', you could always quit. In fact, wasn't it you literally one episode ago saying that you understood if Ladybug couldn't always come get you? Then, after seeing the jump from "Glaciator" to "Frozer," I'm about as shocked as rubber.

Back with the competent one, Alya notes to Trixx that Rena Rouge can no longer be seen by Shadow Moth or else the jig is up. She transforms and texts Marinette to be ready, creating an illusion of Marinette that simultaneously hides the real version, allowing her to transform into Ladybug.

Chat Noir's bubble gets dragged down and Shadow Moth gets SentiBubbler to mute Chat Noir's bubble.

[clip from “Silencer” where Ladybug takes amusement in Chat being muted]

Ladybug uses Lucky Charm and receives a pot, her Lucky Vision spotting Shadow Moth's coffee cup, then SentiBubbler, then the tarantula trapped in a bubble. Ladybug deduces that the cup is the sentimonster's object, then pulls the horse miraculous out of her yoyo and unifies it with the ladybug--oh.

Oh my.

You know, it's times like this where I'm reminded that the show knows nothing about fashion... or girls... or good writing actually--there's just a lot of stuff they don't know.

Sentibubbler does a countdown, then starts sending the civilian bubbles up into the sky. Chat Noir is about to de-transform while PegaBug notices of Shadow Moth's two miraculous, up for grabbin'. She notes that she won't be able to catch everyone, so she forms a portal behind Shadow Moth and goes for the coffee cup first, thus putting her in control of SentiBubbler, who happily brings the bubbles back down at her command.

Shadow Moth erases SentiBubbler from existence though, causing everyone to fall, but Chat and PegaBug manage to catch them. PegaBug de-transforms and presents the Cesaires with the tarantula, which had been trapped inside the lucky charm. Ladybug and Chat Noir watch Shadow Moth escape and Ladybug laments that it could've been the end of Shadow Moth once and for all because it's not a Miraculous episode without Marinette being at fault or feeling guilty in some way! Chat Noir reassures her [*by “reassure,” I mean he might as well have said, “Well, you saved ME, so you did great!”] - wow, that's two token love square moments for the price of one episode, don't I feel spoiled - and Ladybug leaves to retrieve the tarantula's tank.

Rena Rouge is waiting for her and they hug, with Rena repeating that she doesn't lose something that someone gives her. Ladybug states that she never should've doubted the idea of giving Alya a miraculous and Imma just give you guys a counter real quick. [counter that shows that Tikki has complimented Alya four times, Alya has complimented herself/told Marinette to trust her thrice, and Marinette has said that she was wrong thrice]. Miraculous Ladybug is cast and everything returns to normal, with Alya explaining what she did and Marinette being relieved that Shadow Moth won't be going after her anymore. Alya confidently asks if she was smart and Marinette is happy to praise her, confirming it and stating that Alya is a real superhero and honestly? If the narrative wanted to marry Alya this badly, they should've just used some of the budget to buy a ring instead of projecting onto the other characters.

Then again, the apparent budget can't even afford a new hero model nor new akuma to a very noticeable degree, so I guess they're taking what they can get.

Alya praises Marinette as well for her work as PegaBug and they do a fistbump, thus ending the episode. There's also this ever-so-lovely post-episode scene with Gabriel and Nathalie where Gabriel laments the fact that Ladybug never makes mistakes which--I... has he even watched the series at all? Gabe, babe, Babriel Agreste, it's literally part of the show's formula that Marinette makes a mistake in every episode and she felt guilty like a minute ago over not yoinking your miraculouses when she had the chance, where have you been?

But, yeah, anyway, the episode.

Needless to say, not a fan. Like I said, the show seems so intent on immediately validating the choices they make with Alya in order to make her look like a better character. "Gang of Secrets" basically replaced her with someone different at the end of the episode, and the episode immediately afterwards in chronological order, "Mr. Pigeon 72," did everything it could to push Marinette out of her guardian position long enough for Alya to figure out the grimoire despite having zero onscreen experience with it, the episode even trapping Ladybug in a situation that forced Rena Rouge to come into play to validate that decision as well.

And now we have "SentiBubbler" here following immediately after "Optigami," desperate to reassure its audience that Alya is cool, smart, truthworthy, and that not needing to make a new model--sorry, I mean Alya continuing to have the fox--was a good decision. All the while, they continue pushing Alya's flaws under the rug [Note that it’s not even considered that Alya is even remotely at fault for Shadow Moth going after her specifically after her stunt in “Optigami” when no one else but Ladybug and Chat have ever given out a miraculous], hiding them instead of Alya actually acknowledging them, the only reason she did so in "Optigami" being the same as in "Gang of Secrets"; to make her look good while Marinette makes a big decision in their relationship.

The episode tries so hard to drill in this idea that Alya is a good friend who can be trusted, and I'm just not here for how much they try to hammer it in. Marinette's very real anxiety over Shadow Moth's power and ability to plan things is played off as her being silly instead of something to be concerned about, and instead of giving her a hug and trying to help her calm down - [clip from “Heart Hunter” of Luka hugging Marinette] I miss Luka - she's just told to trust and believe and hAVE fAiTh in Alya.

Shadow Moth is an adult; he has abilities that the teenage heroes don't. I'm not even saying that Marinette isn't overreacting [Basically, her concern about Shadow Moth is valid, especially after “Optigami” where her identity was almost found out], but she has anxiety and some obvious trauma over "Chat Blanc." I was already upset that Alya got a free pass to Marinette's identity, but the constant stressing over how much Marinette should trust her just doesn't affect me when I know Alya and I know the kind of stuff she's done that the show blatantly ignored in favor of pushing for her.

But okay, show, I'll give Alya the benefit of the doubt that she doesn't deserve. Let's say that she's turned a new leaf, and has become the reliable, trustworthy, and loyal partner that Marinette deserves. I'm sure that Alya has Marinette's back, and will never go behind said back in order to do something completely unsurprising and wholly indicative of the character I actually know her to be.

Especially not a mere three episodes later...

[thefallenbibliophilequote]

The Asgardian Way

Loki x Reader

Summary: you get your period on the most unfortunate time- on date night with Loki. Embarrassed as you are of the topic from past experiences with boyfriends, Loki shows you that unlike mortal men- Asgardians view this time of the month for women in a much better way.

Word count: 1,849

Warnings: period talk, fluff, shade on Christianity, some shade on human men, Loki being the ideal boyfriend we all deserve.

A/N: this was requested by @the-departed-potato and while I do not take requests I just really had to do this one because this was like just perfect for me specifically to do. Sorry it took so long! Sorry if this sucks!😅 I also truly had to hold myself back from giving even more shade on Christians of old times because damn I could write a whole essay about those people and how they spread misinformation that changed real history to fake mainly bc of witchcraft. This is not beta read so all mistakes are by yours truly!

No one is allowed to repost my writing or steal or copy my work! Reblog on tumblr is fine.

Masterlist

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It's been going on for months now, the shameless flirting, the gentleman behaviour, and the devious looks he sent your way that completely contradicted his actions and left you a blushing mess even when he only opened the door for you- then he would wink at you.

It wasn't until one night that you gathered up courage to ask him out.

You were staying late at the Avengers Tower, you wanted to finish working on the new gadget you had built with Tony at the lab so he sent you to bring the two of you some coffee- he knew it was useless to tell you to go home and sleep- last time he tried to do it you called him a hypocrite and conditioned one of his suits to blast him if he gets close to you. You found it hilarious. He made sure to update the security of his code.

You went to the kitchen when you happened to overhear a conversation of two gods.

"Why have you not taken her on a date yet, brother?"

"I wish to court her properly, she deserves to be treated like a lady." You heard Loki respond to his brother. You leaned on the wall, trying not to get hopeful and to get the butterflies to calm down.

"Y/N is a fine lady, however, I heard from Stark that midgardian women might mistake courting like ours as mere jest." You smiled a bit at the scoff they both let out.

"Mortals continue to baffle me." Came Loki's comment, before Thor continued- not letting the subject go.

"Ask her on a date, I'm sure she will appreciate it." He encouraged his brother who wasn't as sure.

"I think, brother, that she is different- she will appreciate the old delicate arts of courting." He was not wrong- you were always old fashioned. But now at his admission, you stepped out of the shadows and into their view.

"While I do appreciate the courting, I'd love it if you would ask me out." Loki turned around at the sound of your voice.

"How long have you been standing there, darling?" he fidgeted with his hair.

"Long enough," you stepped down the stairs to stand in front of him. "What do you say about this Friday night at six? There is an art exhibit at the museum, I think you'll like calling out all the inaccuracies."

"Yeah, I'd like that." He gave you a small shy smile, and you completely forgot about Thor who stood on the side, watching it all unfold.

"This is great," he said. "You two are finally going on that date, see brother I told you-"

Thor stopped when he looked at Loki who sent him daggers at ruining the moment. You only chuckled.

"I have to go get Tony and I some drinks, so I guess I will see you then." You were about to turn around to head towards the kitchen when Loki took your hand in his, making you turn around, then he kissed the back of your hand lightly, bowing with a small smile at the blush on your cheeks.

"I look forward to it."

It took you a couple of second to function after he did that, mumbling a quiet goodbye you turned around and refused to look back at the smirking god.

•

You have gone with the god for a couple of dates now and then, sometimes you didn't see him for a whole week because of meetings in Asgard and while you were sad that you didn't get to see him-you were glad he was gone on that exact week every time.

You have been seeing him for about 2-3 months now and it was great- up until your period decided to come early. Right on your scheduled date.

You were nervously pacing your apartment thinking how to tell Loki that you can't go out with him tonight. You didn't want him to see you like this- he is a god, and you- you are a mortal woman who was having trouble getting out of bed because your body decided to punish you for not being pregnant this month.

Your body was so sexist.

Suddenly, a knock on the door.

Groaning, you got out of bed and headed for the door, checking who was there you were puzzled when you saw Loki there, dressed to the nines. Surely you didn't waste so much time, he must be early.

"Dear, are you okay there?" he called you.

"Yes, I'm fine- just a moment!" you tried to make yourself look presentable in a rush just so you could open the door to the dashing prince who was awaiting you.

You opened the door with a smile, which he returned.

You were used to acting like you were okay while your cramps were killing you from the inside but it seems like the god of lies could not be so easily fooled.

"Hi Loki, I was not expecting you this early." You laughed courtly, "And I was actually meaning to call- I'm not feeling so well today, I'm afraid I have to postpone our date tonight."

Loki walked into your apartment, kissing you on the cheek before pulling back to study you.

"I wanted to see you sooner, so here I am. But now that I am here- well tell me what is wrong, dearest?" he frowned when he saw you slightly clench your fists.

"Oh, I'm just not feeling well, I won't be good company and I won't be able to enjoy a lovely night with you I'm afraid."

"I'm a healer my love; you always seem to forget my magic," he smirked slightly causing you to laugh- which was not good right now for you.

"I remember your magic powers very well when you prank me." You countered. "But no, this is not something you need to worry about."

He reached out and took your hand with a small laugh. The door locked itself with a wave of his hand as he took you to the couch.

"I'm afraid you will have to do better than that to fool the god of lies." He took both of your hands in his and you were sure he could see your embarrassment with the way he was gazing into your eyes, "Now tell me, what is wrong?"

"You really don't need to- it's kind of embarrassing-" you started to mumble, lowering your head.

"I'm still here, aren't I? What kind of man will I be if I am not taking care of those I care about?"

You pulled your hands away from him, embarrassed as you mumbled something he couldn't quite put together.

"What was that?"

"I'm on my period." You closed your eyes- not wanting to see his disgusted look. "See, so you don't need to be here, I can take care of it myself and we can reschedule our date to a week from now."

It was not a problem to you- you knew the drill- but having to explain it to a clueless god felt humiliating to say the least.

"Is that all? Why didn't you tell me sooner?" You opened your eyes to a puzzled god.

"Because it would make you uncomfortable," you replied, suspicious of his reaction.

"Why on Odin's beard would it make me uncomfortable?" He frowned at you and looked you over. He started peppering kisses on your hands.

"Because it is my period?" You knew he is a god, but maybe asgardians women didn't get that. "Here on earth, men tend to be disgusted by it, they don't like to get involved in it or talk about it."

He huffed out in surprised anger- that you did not expect. The god in front of you did not know how human males could be so awful.

"Well that is preposterous! Women are to be worshipped at those times!" you stared at him-he had always treated you differently, unlike anything you have seen on earth before. You knew Asgardian ways of manners were much old fashioned and yet so different all the same.

"Then tell me, how do asgardians see it?" you leaned on the back of the couch, facing Loki and pulling a blanket over you. You liked how safe he made you feel, but this still felt weird to you- you were not sure how to react- to what extent it goes. So, curiosity got the better of you, "because if I'm being honest, this is kind of embarrassing."

Loki sent you a smile with a twinkle in his eye.

"Darling there is nothing to be embarrassed of! You are naturally as powerful as a thunder storm, a tornado- lightning cowards before you and your power!" he was going to make sure you understand it, he had never been so baffled by humans before. "You hold the ability of life- eternal life- in every drop of blood that falls from you- from the most powerful being in all the realms. For a couple of days each month- you are being shown your true power even through your suffering- and in that time you, my dear, are more powerful than a god. You should be nothing but worshipped. That is what the gods of Asgard know it to be true."

"Do they really all think that?" you felt a sharp pain suddenly and Loki came closer to you, put his usually cold hand on your stomach and you felt comforting warmness ease your ache.

"They know it. The people of midgard knew it too at some point, but then some people who thought themselves gods- I think they called themselves Christians- decided that the bleeding was a show of witchcraft and called it a sin and spread many lies about it, which now I see are still believed to this day. You see, they were quite stupid." You laughed at the disgusted look he gave you, which in turn made him smile. "You know, I probably shouldn't tell you this but…"

"You never obey such rules." You laughed and put your hand over his one that was comforting you on your stomach.

"In one of Thor's travels he bathed in a river filled with the menstrual blood of the powerful Giantesses. That was to give him enlightenment and eternal life."

"Ew, did he actually do it?" you scrunched your nose and Loki kissed it.

"That is not disgusting- that was powerful and very well respected. When he came back, he was the smartest I have ever seen him."

"I hope he took a good bath after it…" you chuckled and smiled at him, "Thank you for this, the Asgardian way of thinking is way better than that of earth."

"Now, dear, while I do have a preferred way to help take away the pain-" you blushed under his gaze. "Tell me, what is it that you desire? Tell me, so I can worship you as I should."

You kissed him then and you knew right then when he kissed you back that the Asgardian men are way better.

•

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[honorary-knight-of-favonius]

One-liner #17 [Kaeya]

Warnings: M!Reader, Sub!Kaeya, Power play, Kaeya is fucked dumb, face fucked, rimjob, blowjob, kissing, teasing.

Sure I was weird, well I can understand why people thought that included the people of Monstadt however knowing that this snarky, smirky knight wasn’t at all weirded out by me and instead insisted on being my. . .friend -yeah that sounds right, friend- Anyways as he insisted on it Chief Albedo had always made sure I was escorted around by him whenever I was suppose to study an outside element. What I never understood was why did the cocky yet somehow always calm knight want to be around me let alone my friend.

You see, I had a not so good reputation in Monstadt. My family used to be slave keepers, and so not many people including most of the knights of Favonianus liked me, in fact they did their very best to steer clear of me. However the cavalry captain was the only person who stayed beside me.

“So, what cha suppose to be studying?” He asked bending over me so his frame covered mine.

“I’m studying animals.” I said

“Why?” He asked, crouching down behind me.

“Because Mr. Albedo wants to try and see if he could reclipcate the. . .ugh, what was the family name again?” I asked, pondering to myself, “ Oh! The Kätzlein blood.” I said

“Are you sure it’s not because you wanna look at the cute fluffy animals?” Kaeya poked my side in a teasing manner which only resulted in me sighing before moving his hand away.

“Yes Mr. Alberich I like cute fluffy things, mostly dogs, however I’m here to work and learn.” Kaeya moved into my view and tilted his head.

“Mr. Alberich? You do know I like it when you call me Kaeya right?”

“I read in a book that addressing someone by their last name makes them feel respected.” I stated, Kaeya’s expression change from a confused smile to and upset frown, “Now I should most likely change my target to a cat otherwise Mr. Albedo’s experiment will be ruined.” I got up from my crouched position and moved to where the cats were, when we got there Kaeya huffed leaning against a tree.

“You do realize that Albedo makes you leave the lab because he doesn’t like looking at you.”

“I am fully aware that most people do not like looking at me, hence why I stay in the shadows. So no one has to look at me.” Kaeya pushed himself off the wall with his elbows before waltzing over to me. He took my clipboard and held it up out of my reach, “Mr. Alberich please give me that back.”

“Kiss me.” I flushed red.

“W-what?”

“Kiss me and I’ll give it back to you, so hurry and kiss me.” I gave him a quick peck before I tried getting my clipboard. However, he didn't like the kiss I gave him so Kaeya pushed me into a wall, one of his hands on the back of my head and our lips clashed together. Kaeya licked my bottom lip before catching me off guard and slithered his tongue into my mouth exploring it, I felt hot, bothered, the sensation wasn’t something I’ve never experienced before so it was all a tad overwhelming however as quickly as it happened Kaeya pulled away from me licking his lips once fully parted.

“Now that’s a kiss, until you can do that and give me a real kiss you won’t get this back, “ He waved my clipboard, “Now I need to get going kitten, I'm still a knight.” I felt weak, I didn’t understand anything that happened or why my heart was beating out of my chest but I knew it was all because of him and I wanted nothing more than to have this same feeling again.

I went to the Favonius headquarters where I rushed to my room and locked my door before jumping in bed and covering my hot face. When I had calmed down I began studying when I heard a knock on my door, I wondered if it was Noelle trying to drag me to the dinning hall and eat with the others. So I stood up and opened my door to see Kaeya with a smile.

“Hey kitten, mind if I come in?” I shook my head going back to my desk. Kaeya came to me and held me close though I was sitting.

“Want this back?” he asked, putting my clipboard in front of me. I nodded and it left my vision so I turned to see Kaeya on the bed using his fingers to motion me over to him. I did as instructed when I got in front of Kaeya. He pulled me on his lap and ran his hands down my sides only to rest on my hips.

“Kiss me,” He looked at me so I covered his eyes with my hand and gently put my lips on his, once I got comfortable I took my hand away and hugged his shoulders. I vividly remembered how he kissed me and copied his kiss though with Kaeya he fell back onto the bed, which alarmed me. I pulled away and Kaeya whined, “Hey~ why’d you stop you were doing so well~”

“Y-you fell back!”

“Anyone would if you used your weight to make them fall back, it honestly seemed as you were eager to kiss me again.” he groped my ass and I glared down at him, “Oo, someone’s angry.” he was pushing my buttons.

I took his hands in one of mine and put them above his head going ahead and kissing him again, I felt something in me turn feral subduing the cocky captain though he could easily break free. I pulled away and Kaeya was left panting.

“Hehe, seems someone likes to be in control,” Kaeya stated, looking between my legs. I followed his gaze, seeing a rather embarrassing sight. I took my hands off Kaeya, covering my face. Suddenly I felt the plushieness of my bed under me and Kaeya’s hands on my thighs.

“It’s been a while since I was last controlled, you’re lucky I’m spoiling you.” Kaeya smiled, having his finger slip under my pants, I stopped him from continuing whatever was going on in his mind.

“What do you think you're doing?!” I ask

“I’m about to take off your pants to relieve your little problem.” I was baffled, but Kaeya continued and once my cock was free from it’s prison Kaeya faltered. He gulped as he stared, “I-I’d like to correct myself. . .” He said, “I’m about to relieve your rather large problem.”

One of Kaeya’s hands wrapped around my cock while the other was between his legs, “I-I didn’t think you were this big. . . I thought you were way smaller than this,” I used a finger to make Kaeya look at me.

“Backing out already kitten?” His face grew red.

“N-no! I-I. . .would you be disappointed if I did?” He looked to me

“A fair bit, though if you did I wouldn’t mind caring for myself.” Instantly at that Kaeya shot up.

“No! You won’t take care of it yourself, it's mine to care for! S-so Master please let me please you.” I raised an eyebrow.

“Are you sure that’s what you want?” I ask

“I want to please you.”

I took Kaeya’s Ponytail in my hand and forced him down on my cock, he whined, though I didn’t feel anything, nothing good at least. I tried to push him down further but something stopped me. So I pulled Kaeya off.

“You cant deepthroat my cock,”

“I-I can! Here, fuck my throat this way!” Kaeya got on the bed laying on his back while I was standing in front of him. Kaeya put my cock back in his mouth and I began moving and I suddenly realized that his body was stopping me because his throat was bulging. I smirked and pulled out but due to the knight's now slutty demeanor he stuck his tongue out.

"No! Come back~ Isn't my throat super warm and makes you feel like you're melting? Come on fuck it!" I looked down seeing how unbelievably desperate the knight was.

"Well you said you wanted to please me, and it seems I'm doing all the work." I teased, Kaeya flushed red and bit his bottom lip before his hands found purchase on my hips. Kaeya whined trying to get my cock back in his mouth. So I lined up my cock with his mouth and I felt myself pushed forward into Kaeya's mouth. He was moving my hips so I wasn't doing any work. I looked at the knight's throat seeing it bulge and I wondered if I placed a hand on it and suddenly Kaeya pushed me away and panted.

"Did I hurt you?" I asked, the knight shook his head.

"I-i felt fuzzy, w-when you put your hand on my throat." Kaeya sat up and held his throat so I creeped behind him, gliding my hand from his waist to his throat squeezing it slightly. Kaeya looked up to me, the red tinting his cheeks and the sloppy expression on his face somehow made this whole thing so much better.

"If feels so good~" He whined, I went down and began kissing him which made his cocky manner disappear, " Y/n please no more teasing,"

"More teasing? You sure,"

"N-no! No more! Just fuck me, use me to feel good!" I removed my hand and began kissing his neck.

"On your back, captain." I whispered, Kaeya's body moved faster than I could process, he was on his back holding his thighs to open himself. I took his hands away from his thighs making his legs rest on my shoulders.

"Kaeya, if I start hurting you, say hot cocoa." Kaeya blushed and nodded, I pushed into Kaeya feeling his tight ass hug my cock. He stopped me from bottoming out.

"W-wait, it's a lot bigger than I thought." I bent down cupping and kissing his face.

"Your almost there kitten, just a little more and you can relax." Kaeya looked at me crazy.

"Y-you mean it's not all in?!" I measured the length out of him and showed him. He blushed profusely, "I h-haven't even taken all of it and I'm already going crazy. I began pulling out making Kaeya freak out.

"I didn't say to stop! Put it back-" I cut him off with my mouth wrapped around his cock. I used my fingers to open him up more and I began feeling him twitch, "wait if you keep going I'll cum~ fuck it feels so good." Kaeya shoved my head down and I looked at him all the while. When he met my gaze he bucked into my mouth like mad.

"Y-your gonna make me cum! Fuck, fuck make me cum gods please!" With a kitty lick to his slit he came in my mouth. I pulled off with a pop and moved further down his body using the cum I had in my mouth to lube Kaeya.

"W-wait I just came! Fuck oh fuck your eating me out!" Kaeya's hands were in his hair as a way if him trying to cope with the feeling of me lubing him. I pulled away when he began twitching. As I pulled away Kaeya's body began to relax which made me feel achieved.

"Now kitten ready for the main event?" I ask

"Y-yes master~" He slurred, I lined myself back up this time going all the way in. I stayed encased in Kaeya as he got used to my size, "m-master I can't take it anymore I need to feel you fucking me~ please!" As the words were said I began fucking him which led his nails to sink into my back. I repositioned Kaeya's legs to show a nice bulge. I pushed on it and Kaeya came with the pressure.

"That feel good, kitten?" I asked, he nodded, "stay with me, I need to cum too" Kaeya whined but nonetheless didn't say the word so continued. As I trusted my cock deeper into him he finally lost his self-control and his moans filled my room and I can only assume the Favonius headquarters.

Soon after he lost control he went limp, which was the ending point for me to just cum and pull out. As I put on my boxers I noticed Kaeya's limp body leaking cum so I grabbed a bucket and rag cleaning him up. I wiped him down before putting my shirt on him before moving him under my covers. I was going to go back to studying when Kaeya's hand caught mine and snuggled into it. I sighed and lifted the blanket sliding under it. Kaeya immediately clung to me snuggling into my chest as I cupped the back of his head.

"Good night kitten." I said kissing his forehead before following after him and falling asleep.

[thesoulspulse]

Danny Phantom Randomness ~ Hell’s Kitchen Edition

Ok, I’m gonna rant a little about this episode because I cannot believe this is canon. I tend to try to mentally erase this episode from my memory since it’s so bad and makes so many great female villains in the show act really...off. Not to mention Kitty gained the random power to banish men with a kiss which she totally would have used on Johnny 13 sooner to teach him a lesson.

Anyways, this rant is about Spectra in particular and one other character that deserves to be mentioned since I think she should have been included in this whole thing despite not being the same “age” as the other ghost gals.

I’m probably going to do a full “regarding” segment about Spectra later but lets just say, when I was talking to some people, I brought up my feelings about the weird changes they made to Spectra not only visually...but as a character in general cause she really started off strong and was honestly pretty terrifying! To be fair, it was early in Danny’s ghost hunting career and teen misery is no joke, so he wasn’t really equipped to deal with a ghost that could mess with his head like that.

Now, before I get sidetracked too much, let me just point out a few things real quick:

I will never understand why they turned Spectra into a generic shadow ghost when her first design really popped with the colored ghost aura, green mouth, and purple highlights. When compared to her second shadow form, it’s so bland!

Her human form has the sort of opposite effect since the new human form’s outfit is so...tacky:

I didn’t notice her eyes and hair are different too. Wow.

I will give her this, Spectra’s second appearance in the show and her plot were still IN CHARACTER unlike the part I’m about to get into. From the beginning they established that she’s obsessed with staying young and beautiful by any means necessary which was originally feeding off teen misery and later she decided to skip all that by creating a new body using Danny’s DNA and by copying the best traits from a bunch of other teens. But, I’ll get into that in a full character analysis post another time.

Ok, so backtracking a little, it’s already weird that Spectra can still switch between her shadow form and her human disguise when we know the first body was reduced to an old lady and the second...let herself go a bit after ending up using Jack’s DNA instead of Danny’s to complete the new body. That’s not the worst of it though...

The worst of it...is this!

Her expression says it all, “Why the heck am I doing a cooking show right now? This isn’t like me at all and I have no idea what I’m doing.”

Nothing about her character suggests she’s has any interest in cooking or getting her own hands dirty. If anything, I could see her as a television make up artist or maybe a talk show host since that would sorta go along with her fake therapist background and obsession with beauty, but a chef? Really? No, that’s why a member on my own discord server (who totally deserves most of the credit btw since I love this inside joke of ours) and I have decided as a new headcanon is that the honor of being a food critic/professional chef belongs to the one and only...

Lunch Lady!

It would have made infinitely more sense for the Lunch Lady to have a cooking show, not Spectra. She’s a misery ghost! What could be miserable about cooking delicious food?! Sure, it can be depressing when it doesn’t turn out right but in the episode Spectra’s still all cheery about it which I always found creepy for all the wrong reasons.

That’s not who Spectra is at all.

Ok, I’m done with my rant but hopefully you get my point.

The Lunch Lady would have been fun to use as a sort of Hell’s Kitchen reference and a ghostly food critic since she does have 50 years experience cooking food under her apron. I bet when she was alive, the Casper High lunches were something to actually look forward to. She obviously has a lot of pride in her craft even after death which is why she got so upset when Sam changed the menu.

So yeah, let the Lunch Lady enjoy girl’s night out too guys! Don’t exclude her since she’s a granny! I personally think it would have been adorable to see more of her playful side as a person doing some sort of baking class and handing out cookies to all the well behaved little girls since all the men had been banished.

Then again, I dunno, I just have a soft spot for the Lunch Lady despite her mood swings since I have another headcanon she was extra friendly to Poindexter when she was a cook at Casper High since they were both alive at the same time 50 years prior.

You can read that post here: https://thesoulspulse.tumblr.com/post/639775040884375552/regarding-the-lunch-lady-and-sidney-poindexter

Now if you’ll excuse me, now that I’ve gotten that out of my system I’m going to try and go to bed again. Been feeling kinda restless lately and I don’t know why. Hope you enjoyed my little tirade regardless!