#and with that spelling the only real-world thing that comes up with a google of it is an Icelandic word. I can live with that

[sheliesshattered]

My window to order was starting to narrow, so I finally pulled the trigger on the Captain Accreditation License prop I'd been eyeing for my Batuu Bound birthday outing coming up. It's such a silly little detail, but the reviews are filled with people talking about getting to use it in Galaxy's Edge when the Stormtroopers stop them to ask to see some identification, which sounds like a fun interaction. And like, I can make a great deal of soft kit, I can even put together my own greebles out of foam -- but laser engraving is way outside my wheelhouse and tool access.

But before I could order it, I had to come up with a bunch of info to go on it, like name, home planet, ship type, that sort of thing. I had a basic idea of what sort of character I wanted to portray with my outfit for Batuu, but filling out the info for the pilot's license really made me lock down a bunch of details, which eventually evolved into full on original character creation.

It also got me started in learning to read Aurebesh, the Star Wars transliteration alphabet, but that's a whole other rabbit hole, lol.

Character wise, I started with my absolute love of piloting the Falcon in Smuggler's Run (my desire to do so again was one of the major reasons for deciding to do this for my birthday) and my fav in the sequel movies, Benicio Del Toro's "D.J." character. (The very brief political commentary about weapons manufacturers profiting off both sides of the war, and his little "live free, don't join" axiom are just so amazing, I still cannot believe we got that in a Star Wars movie.)

I also took into account that the timeframe for Galaxy's Edge is between Ep 8 and Ep 9, in roughly 34 or 35 ABY (years after the Battle of Yavin, at the end of Ep 4), and that I want to do the lightsaber building activity at Savi's Workshop the day we visit. The Etsy listing for the license also had an interesting little note about choosing a homeworld, calling out that 'because of well-known galactic events' Alderaan would only be an option for characters over the age of 40 or so. That comment got my mental gears turning, and sent me down the path of researching the year that Disney's Batuu is set in, etc.

At that same time, I was trying out different potential hairstyles for keeping my waist-length hair controlled during a day at Disneyland while still looking Star Wars-y. I tried a couple of Rey inspired hair styles, but eventually settled on something much more like Leia's looks in Ep 5 and Ep 6, with multiple braids wrapped around the crown to form a full circle. It's easy and comfortable and will keep my hair from tangling and works well with my hooded wrap thing, so I decided that hairstyle would be part of my look, and part of my character building.

So at that point I had: pilot, politically unaffiliated, soon to own a lightsaber, emulating Princess Leia and/or Alderaanian hairstyles, and grew up mostly after the fall of the Empire and probably wouldn't remember (or only just barely remember) the destruction of Alderaan. On that last point I was splitting the difference slightly -- if I translated my real age now into the Star Wars timeline (and Galaxy's Edge being set in ~35 ABY), then I would have been roughly 8 years old when Alderaan was destroyed. But in reality, I was born shortly after Ep 5 came out, and my earliest memories of Star Wars are knowing all about the movies, playing Star Wars make-believe with other kids in the neighborhood, and being excited that Ep 4 was going to be airing on TV.

After a lot of noodling on this, while sewing or driving or trying to fall asleep, the character started to come together in my head. Her mother was born and raised on Alderaan, but around age 20 (in 2 or 3 BBY, roughly) met a dashing young pilot on a freighter passing through, fell in love, and left Alderaan to be with him. They got married and lived mostly in the hyperspace lanes for a couple years, jumping from place to place. When she found out she was pregnant, she temporarily went back to Alderaan to be with her family and have her baby there. In the last year before the Battle of Yavin, she had a baby girl she named Samæni Ray, and after a few weeks she and the baby left Alderaan to meet up with her husband again.

So none of them were on Alderaan when the Death Star targeted and destroyed the planet. In the wake of the tragedy, the Alderaanian diaspora would have pulled together all across the galaxy, trying to get word of anyone who might have survived. And then, a miracle: Princess Leia somehow survived! The princess that Samæni's mother had grown up idolizing from afar, someone similar to her in age and physical appearance (pictures of my real mother from the 1970s bear a striking resemblance to Carrie Fisher in the same time period) -- the princess that Samæni's mother had loved for as long as she could remember, she not only survived but she stepped up to lead the Resistance against the Empire!

You know those people in real life who like, collected merchandise about Princess Diana? Yeah, that's Samæni's mom, but with Princess Leia, lol.

The war to overthrow the Empire only lasted for another 5 years or so, ending with the Battle of Jakuu in 5 ABY. So I figure Samæni might have vague early childhood memories of her parents celebrating the end of the war. They weren't actively members of the Resistance, and Samæni's father was much more politically neutral, preferring to focus on his work as a freighter pilot, but as far as Samæni's mother was concerned, anything Princess Leia did was a blessing on the galaxy, so it would have been a big deal for her, both during the war and in the years after as the New Republic was established.

During those early years of the New Republic, Samæni's father's freight business continued to do well, and she mostly grew up in her family's Gozanti-class cruiser, as they moved things from one planet to the next. She learned to pilot at her father's side, eventually sat for a pilot's license exam as a young adult, and then struck out on her own. Samæni's first job as a pilot was for a company that operated light freighters as party ships, allowing those with modest disposable income to see the galaxy in style but without the expense of a yacht cruiser. (The company probably had a ridiculous tagline like: "From here to thar with an open bar!")

Since those early jobs-for-hire, Samæni saved up enough money to buy her own little light freighter and start an inport/export business in which she (and her partner Jack) go to outer rim worlds to buy antiquities, oddities, and rare objects and bring them back to an upper-middle class clientele in the core worlds and inner rim. Their current ship is a bit of an antique itself, a Kazellis-class light freighter that is flashy enough to fit in in the nicer areas of Coruscant, but hard-working and easily repairable enough to take Samæni and Jack to all those far-flung worlds with treasures to acquire. Their ship has room for some larger pieces, but most of the cargo area has been converted into full-time living quarters, since they rarely stay planet-side for very long.

Their home-port is the ecumenoplis planet of Denon, an inner-rim world that sits at the intersection of two major hyperspeed trade routes. Denon was the closest thing to a homeworld that Samæni had growing up, and her parents have since retired to the equatorial area of the planet, in a community with a lot of other retired pilots and haulers and ship mechanics. (Her father's favorite local cantina is named for the CEC catalog part number for a replacement hyperdrive lever. He and all his old pilot buddies think it is hilarious.)

Samæni's mother continues to talk about Princess Leia like they are close friends (despite never actually having met her), and keeps informed on the rise of the First Order and the resistance to it mostly because she has set up HoloNet news alerts for General Organa. But Samæni takes more after her father in that regard, doesn't particularly care about politics or taking sides in any civil war, other than how it impacts business. The destruction of the Hosnian system by the First Order's Starkiller Base is enough to push Samæni towards siding against the First Order, but she still isn't about to rush out to join the Resistance, either.

Her pilot's license lists Denon as her homeworld, and it would take some dedicated digging to find that her planet of birth is actually Alderaan. She only lived there for the first few weeks of her life, and her only memory of it is how sad it's always made her mother. The traditional hairstyles and the stories about Princess Leia are really the only parts of the culture that she inherited. Samæni has never wanted to talk about being from Alderaan with anyone, and as the Empire's successor has come to power in the last few years, it's seemed even more dangerous to let anyone outside of close friends and family know that she is technically a survivor of the last time a galactic power was going around destroying planets.

Samæni and Jack are heading to the outer rim world of Batuu to visit Dok Ondar's Den of Antiquities, and follow up on a tip about Savi's crew of 'scrap metal' gatherers, in case there's something there that might sell well on a core world. Arriving to find that both the Resistance and the First Order have a presence in Black Spire Outpost will be less than ideal, but Samæni and Jack have been to enough rough ports across the galaxy that they know how to keep their heads down and stay out of trouble.

And hey, if First Order troopers stop to ask them for ID, Samæni will have a genuine pilot's license to show them. ;)

[moonlightazriel]

Son of the Darkness IV /// Azriel X F!Reader

Summary: Hidden for so long The court of shadows thrived, and things were great until the high lord's death, now the next in line should assume the crown of high lord of shadows, will he accept his duties?

Warnings: Some fighting and mentions of blood.

Word Count: 2,2K

Notes: I struggled to get a language for the witches and ended up using Esperanto ahahahah thank you google for helping me with the translation

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As soon Y/N got back to the townhouse, she asked the twin specters for candles, a bowl and silence, they were the ones home, she needed to focus, going to her room, she closed the curtains, she dragged her dagger on her palm, the blood falling on the bowl until it was full, she dipped her index finger in it, she started to create a circle, her blood tainting the floor, she kept drawing until she finished the symbol that Evanore taught her, she lit all of the candles around her and started chanting:

“Al la arbaro ni preĝas, al la naturo, kiun ni pretendas, bonvolu doni al mi la potencon de la sep, lasu min vidi kaj lasu min diri.” ("To the forest we pray, to the nature we claim, please give me the power of the seven, let me see and let me say.") She repeated those words over and over again, for those outside, they would see her sitting on her heels, palms flat on the ground, her eyes turned white and a blank expression spread over her face, but in her mind, she walked into the forest calling for her best friend, she walked a few feet away, finding Eva in their usual spot, a large tree that had some pretty red flowers in between the leaves.

“Kion vi faras ĉi tie?”(“What are you doing here?”) Evanore’s blue eyes lifted until she was staring at Y/N, her pretty light blond hair dancing in the eerie wind that surrounded the two. “Mi ne vidis vin dum kelka tempo, ĉu vi fartas?” ("I haven't seen you for a while, how are you?") She was concerned, Y/N had disappeared and all people told Eva was that she wasn't available.

“Mi estas en oficiala misio, mi ne estas en la tribunalo, mi bezonas, ke vi venu preni min.” ("I'm on an official mission, I'm not in court, I need you to come get me.") Eva looked at her, she had stopped playing with the grass, Y/N never left the court before, that could only mean that something was wrong, a few days earlier Rune, the leader of the coven was called over by the High Lord, she came back saying that things were about to change and made Eva and the others start researching traveling spells.

“Kie vi estas? Vi maltrankviligas min. Unue, la alta sinjoro petis vidi Rune kaj nun vi diras al mi, ke vi ne estas hejme, kio okazas Y/N?” (“Where are you? you worry me, first the high lord asked to see Rune and now you're telling me you're not home, what's going on Y/N?”) She lowered until she was able to grab Eva’s hand, rubbing circles on her skin, reassuringly.

“Mi estas ĉe la nokta kortego, en Prythian, Loralen mortos baldaŭ kaj mi estis sendita por preni la novan altan sinjoron reen, ni ne havas la tempon por fari la tutan vojaĝon reen, ni devas alveni tien baldaŭ, la milito venas Eva.” ("I'm at the night court, in Prythian, Loralen is going to die soon and I was sent to take the new high lord back, we don't have time to make the whole trip back, we have to get there soon, the war is coming Eva.") Her voice a few tones down as if talking about the war made it come faster, she didn't want to drag her friend into this but if the high lord already spoke to Rune, the coven was already involved.

“Mi pretiĝos kaj mi…” ("I'll get ready and I...") Evanore’s voice was cut in the middle of the sentence and she was dragged back to the real world, her orbs going back to normal and she had a little bit of blood coming out of her nose, she felt tired, the connection needed a lot of energy, especially since she wasn’t a witch, her necklace stopped glowing, being the source of the connection, she heard a voice but couldn’t focus on anything, her head hadn’t stopped spinning yet.

Azriel snapped his fingers in front of her, he called her name but she didn’t answer, her eyes slowly closing as she collapsed on the floor, he got desperate, placing his hands on her back and under her legs before lifting her and carrying her to her bed. He placed her gently, at least she was still breathing, he finished blowing out all the candles and looked at the weird symbol on the ground, his heartbeat starting to get normal again.

He was walking to his room when he noticed the dim glow of the candles and the cobalt light coming from under her door, he never saw such a thing when he opened the door and to be honest if that was what witchery looked like, he hoped he didn’t have to see it anytime soon, his heart was beating incredibly fast and his shadows danced frantically around her like they were also worried that she might be hurt. He didn’t know what to do, so he just kicked one of the candles out of the circle, which seemed to work as her beautiful brown eyes were visible again as she breathed with difficulty.

Azriel stood by her side for a couple of minutes, watching her chest moving up and down, his eyes scanning her features, the way her lips slightly curved down, almost frowning like he did, her thick, black eyelashes and the full eyebrows, she had a red blush on her cheeks and some freckles on her defined nose, her long hair a mess around her, she was so beautiful but Azriel couldn’t stop the feeling that was growing on his chest that this female was nothing but trouble and he should keep his distance.

She blinked a few times before her eyes focused on him, she tried to sit on the bed, her head pounding with a migraine, he quickly got up, his scarred hands holding her as he helped her, they were so close, he smelled like night and stars, the kind of smell she had never felt before, she blinked a few more times, her throat dry as she tried to speak.

“No one was supposed to enter the room.” Azriel scoffed, why she was so interested in putting herself in danger? First Bryaxis and now this.

“Are you serious? There was blood coming out of your nose and you looked like you were in pain.” She wiped the dry blood with her sleeve, but it was useless. He got up, walking fast to the bathroom, getting a wet cloth, and handed it to her as he sat again, she wiped once more, this time removing it.

“I didn’t mean to scare anyone, but the magic has its price. I was talking to Evanore, with Rhysand’s approval, she should be here soon to escort us back to the court.” Azriel nodded, he knew the moment to meet his new home was coming but he was still a nervous wreck every time he thought about it.

“But we still need to find Feyre first, I told you that.” She rolled her eyes at him.

“With Eva here, she can find your friend faster than anyone, she would gladly help.” Azriel looked at her, she had been nothing but honest with him in these past few days, if her friend could help, he would bring her here, anything to help relieve the pressure on Rhysand’s shoulders.

“I’ll talk to Rhys later, now you should rest.” He said, getting ready to leave.

“Yes, my lord.” He sighed, running his fingers through his hair.

“Don’t call me that, please.” She nodded and he left her room.

3 days later

“That’s a beautiful place.” Evanore’s eyes roamed around again, her blue eyes scanning the dark wooden furniture, she had arrived only 2 hours ago, Azriel had asked Rhysand if she could go to the Night Court, as soon as Azriel told him she could help find Feyre, he was more than willing to allow it.

The female that materialized in the Townhouse had kind blue eyes, a soft airy voice, and hair so light that it was almost white, she was wearing a green dress and some chains with crystals on it, she had a lot of questions, the small female asked about every little thing she could possibly ask.

“She doesn’t get to leave the forest much.” Y/N whispered to Rhysand as they walked to his shared bedroom with Feyre, he giggled, he could see why she had so many questions then. His violet eyes stopped on the small figure shivering, she walked in silence to the study desk in the corner of the room, her long fingers grabbing Feyre’s discarded sketchbook, flipping the pages, her eyes closed, the temperature in the room dropping significantly.

“Malvarma! Frostas, ni devas esti rapidaj aŭ eble tro malfrue, ili ne plu povas batali kontraŭ la senfina aŭtuno." (“Cold! It's freezing, we have to be quick or it might be too late, they can't fight the endless autumn anymore.") Her voice was rushed, worried, and Rhysand didn't have to understand what she was saying to know, Feyre was in danger.

He yelled in his mind, calling his brothers and telling them to meet at the town house, Y/N had disappeared and the witch was sitting on the floor, a bow she had conjured in her hands, the Illyrians almost broke the door on their way in, their swords in hands and siphons glowing.

"I saw a frozen lake, and fire and they need help." Her eerie voice sounded, she wasn't looking at anyone in particular, which made Rhysand more terrified. "I can take us there." At the same time she got up, Y/N rushed downstairs, swords behind her back and her hair in a ponytail.

"She's probably in Winter, I cannot go but I'll be waiting at the Moonstone Palace, bring her back to me, please." Rhysand was on the verge of tears, his mate in danger and he couldn't do anything to help. Evanore nodded and instructed them to hold hands.

“Iru.” (“Go.”) And with that they were gone, it was like winnowing but the difference was that they could travel long distances, the smell of magic was pungent and strong, making their stomachs spin, they had to take a moment to recompose as they landed on the lake, Y/N watched the red headed figures and the fire.

"Damned autumn rats." Cassian growled and started to run, the other three hot on his heels, an arrow flew close to his ear, and a low whistle ripped through the air, finding its place in the middle autumn heir, the Arrow pierced his skin, making it bleed violently as Evanore got another one ready, the arrow a perfect distraction to give both Feyre and Lucien time to increase the distance between them.

The days of running away were weighing heavily on them, they barely had the strength to keep standing, Feyre almost sobbed as she saw the red glow rushing past her, Azriel, and an unknown female walking past her like smoke.

"Oh Mother, Lord Rhysand will be sooo happy to see you." The voice was soft and as Feyre turned, a female was looking at her, the tears already spilling at the mention of Rhysand's name, she missed her mate so much, she needed to see him, to feel him, she wanted to go home. "Y/N, CAN I TAKE HER BACK?" The female yelled, startling Feyre.

"GO, WE CAN TAKE THOSE ASSHOLES DOWN." Y/N yelled back, her sword hitting Eris's side, he was so surprised to see her back, as always, he was right and she was working with the Night Court.

"Let's go then, are you joining us?" She turned to Lucien who politely declined, ready to join the fight again. "Alright, see you later." The blond female blinked at him, before disappearing with Feyre. His eyes landed on the fight in front of him, or better, the lost battle, Eris was on the floor, the female stepping on his chest while she held her sword to his throat, Azriel had disarmed Aubron's, the second youngest autumn heir had his hands up, afraid to move and Cassian had knocked Zeno out.

"Let's go home." Cassian commanded, Azriel knocked the male in front of him and Y/N lowered her body, punching Eris, leaving them unconscious so they wouldn't cause any trouble. As the males looked around and spotted Lucien still there, they shared an annoyed look. "I take him." Cassian said through gritted teeth and Azriel breathed relieved for a second. Y/N was cleaning the blood off her sword in her sleeve before she shoved it into the holster in her back, he approached her slowly, Cassian already flying away with Lucien.

"I'll fly you back." He said uncomfortably, she didn't say anything, just waiting for him, he pulled her close, his cheeks reddened as he lifted her, trying to keep his hands in respectful places, they flown, it was hard to focus with her so close, her sweet scent mixed with the metallic scent of blood intoxicating his nostrils, she looked around, clearly impressed by his ability to fly.

"Is this your first time flying?" His voice sounded awkward, she looked up, slightly jumping with the sudden question.

"Of course, we don't have winged people in Court." She giggled a little, and Azriel knew from that very moment that he liked that sound, really much. "It's quite an impressive view, I could do this often."

"I can take you flying anytime." He blurted, feeling his cheeks turn even hotter, embarrassment filling his chest.

"We can discuss that." She agreed and Azriel relaxed a little, the rest of the way was spent in pure silence as they reached the Moonstone Palace, the place was beautiful, the residence on the top of the mountain, the dark stone walls, everything perfectly matching the aesthetic of the place, Y/N liked that place.

Feyre and Rhysand were still hugging, ever since Evanore had brought her to him, he managed to explain everything Feyre missed while she was away, as Y/N and Azriel stepped into the living room, Feyre rushed to hug him and thanked Y/N.

"Thank you so much for rescuing me, I'm Feyre." Y/N accepted Feyre's warm embrace, the female seemed nice, the type of person Y/N liked.

"I'm Y/N Daera, General of the Nightfall army of The Court of Shadows, and now that you're home, it's time for us to get home." Azriel swallowed dryly, she had fulfilled her part of the deal, it was his turn now.

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[melodymay-k1tty]

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1. I don't usually accept requests, because I can only write if I have my own inspiration. So, DON'T rush me or keep demanding something from me (please, I lovely kindly ask). But my question box is open for any ideas.

2. Please don't ask me for disgusting themed stories. I do NSFW, but as long as it doesn't involve some gross stuff I don't even need to talk about (I'm not talking about NCS or anything like that, but about really gross stuff).

3. Don't get your hopes up on character x character stories written by me. If there are any, they will be rare exceptions, as I'm generally not a big fan of this type of writing (except in some VERY specific cases). And I can probably only write that kind with Nico Robin.

4. I can't write (which includes mostly NSFW) about these characters: Franky, Brook, Jinbe, Tony Tony Chopper, Trebol, Señor Pink, Buffalo, Shiryu, and countless other characters, most of which in this extensive list include a few minor characters or extras.

5. Definitely NOT (for now): Franky, Brook, Jinbe, Tony Tony Chopper, Trebol, Señor Pink, Buffalo, Shiryu, Machvise, Lucky Roux, etc...

6. I kindly ask you not to ask me for fanfics Frobin (Franky + Robin) or Jinbin (Jinbe + Robin), I just hate those two ships, but I respect your opinion if you like it. Anyway, I will forever be Zorobin (Zoro + Robin) and Lawbin (Law + Robin), and I can write about them with great pleasure.

DO NOT ask me for!

1. As I already mentioned, stories involving disgusting stuff.

2. Stories involving incest, necrophilia, cannibalism, cruelty to animals, and other terrible things like that. Please don't ask me for this!

3. Stories with racist, bigoted, homophobic, xenophobic themes, these terrible things...

4. OOC characters and stories set in the real world. I just manage to write just for the OP world. Of course, I can open exceptions from time to time, but I don't guarantee anything.

5. Fanfics with male!reader or gn!reader (okay, maybe someday I might try it?! but for now it doesn't work, and it's simply bcs I can't write for that type).

6. Stories for non-binary people (I'm sorry, I'm serious, I just can't write for non-binary people). I swear I already tried it, but it was just awful. So, for now, that's my decision.

7. Character x Character stories (I've only managed one so far, with Nico Robin — and she's just the only one I've felt good doing it with).

8. Fanfics with LGBTQIA+ themes (I'm really sorry, but I can't. Especially those involving characters like Zoro, Law, Doflamingo, Rosinante, Eustass Kid, etc... It just doesn't come out of there). But I can do things like that between women (orange/lesbians).

WHAT CAN I DO?

1. Yes, I can mix races and write reader with fishmen, minks or something else.

2. NSFW content (I definitely can and want to, once I have good development in the stories of course).

3. I can also do size kink, I just don't make it if that will be with characters like Whitebeard, Kaido, Blackbeard, Bartholomew Kuma and others like them...

WARNINGS

1. English IS NOT my first language and I'm not fluent in it. Therefore, I write the stories in my native language, and then I translate them with the help of Google Translate. Any spelling errors should be explained by this.

2. My blog is NOT FREE from spoilers, +18 content, dark content and things that might make you feel a little uncomfortable maybe (like angst, NCS, etc...).

3. This blog is focused on One Piece, but I still don't know if I'll gather all my stories from different animes and doramas here, or if I'll create a secondary blog for that.

Now, I'm going to create a “list” of characters and the appropriate colors inserted will define whether or not I can write about them.

Color Green — I definitely CAN write about this character.

Color Red — I definitely CANNOT write about this character. At least not these days.

Color Orange — Maybe I can and maybe I can't write about this character. And it is very likely that there will be regulations for this.

Color Purple — These are my favorites characters to write about.

Color Pink — Just Fluffy.

Color Blue — I can definitely write about this character. But there will be PROBABLY little or no fluffy/romance and it will likely be +18 Only.

Akainu. Alvida. Aokiji. Arlong. Bartholomew Kuma. Bartolomeo. Bellamy. Boa Hancock. Brook. Buggy. Caesar Clown. Capone Bege. Camie. Carrot. Cavendish. Crocodile. Diamante. Donquixote Doflamingo. Donquixote Rosinante “Corazon”. Dracule Mihawk. Enel. Franky. Hody Jones. Inuarashi. Izo. Jewelry Bonney. Jinbe. Kikunojo. Kizaru. Koala. Marco. Marshall D. Teach “Blackbeard”. Monkey D. Dragon. Monkey D. Luffy. Nami. Nekomamushi. Nico Robin. Nojiko. Paulie. Pedro. Perona. Portgas D. Ace. Rebecca. Rob Lucci. Roronoa Zoro. Sabo. Shanks. Shirahoshi. Silvers Rayleigh. Smoker. Tashigi. Tony Tony Chopper. Trafalgar D. Water Law. Tsuru (Young Prime). Usopp. Vinsmoke Ichiji. Vinsmoke Niji. Vinsmoke Reiju. Vinsmoke Sanji. Vinsmoke Yonji. Viola. Wadatsumi. Yamato. Zeff.

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[carlosfruitsnacks]

yeah so I just saw your requests open and wanted to hop in! (English its not my first language so apologies beforehand!!)

A CamiloxFem! Reader.

Reader comes from one of the most powerful families in the encanto(They're just behind the Madrigals and they're a BIG BIG family) And, ofc! Alma and Reader's Abuelo got Cami and Reader together by arranged marry. (Idk how it is spelled srry)

Soo, being the youngest cousin, daughter, grand daughter and niece Reader is SPOILED ROTTEN by everyone in her household (even outside of it since she is Alma's favorite out of all of them), BUT, reader is sweet, really, really sweet. And it doesn't match with her reputation as a spoiled little princess. At first, camilo is NOT happy. Who would want to marry a whiny and annoying person like her? (The thing is... HE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW READER AT ALL, because she doesn't leave her house that often)

She wears pink in every outfit possible and she has a white fluffy ball for a cat which she pick ups in her arms all day and night. said cat its the devils spawn but she doesn't realize it. In their engagement dinner, Camilo accidentaly steps on her pastel pink-snowflake-print dress, his shoe leaves a mark and he is nervious as one can be, he expects a whole tantrum with yells and cries. (And scratches from her cat ofc) He is blatantly surprised when Reader gives him a soft smile and cleans off her clothes without even glaring at him wrong.

He blinks once, twice, even thrice before Reader says that its okay, accidents happen. After that, he is kind of guilty, since they met, Reader was nothing but nice and Cami was there, talking shit about someone he didn't even know. Few days later, Reader and Cami got super well together and are good friends even tho they will be husband and wife later in life. BUT, Reader's older brothers find out that Cami talked bad about her in the past. And guess what? They ready to fight him.

The rest is up to you! (Sorry if it is too long!)

"under all the pink"

summary:

— Abuela Madrigal has set her youngest grandson, Camilo to marry the daughter of one of the most powerful families in Encanto. Camilo isn't fond of the idea, thinking that she's just a spoiled brat but it turns out she was different under all the pink.

genre:

— aged-up & fluff

notes:

— female reader. I do not speak fluent Spanish and all of the Spanish here is translated from google, feel free to correct me.

warning/s:

— none

a/n:

—  hello thank you for requesting, sorry it took too long, i hope you enjoy anon!

When Alma Madrigal received her first great-grandchild from Dolores, she knew that the time had come for one of her grandchildren to marry. Ever since the rebuilding of the Casita, Alma has become more mellow and understanding of her family. Though one thing that hasn't changed is her insistence on arranged marriage. Both of her daughters' marriages weren't sabotaged by her, it was only Isabela did Alma try the arranged marriage. Unfortunately, it doesn't work out for her eldest grandchild but she knew it doesn't have to be.

After some pondering, Alma decided to give arranged marriage one more shot at her oldest grandson, Camilo. The moment has arrived when he was the appropriate age to marry, also, Alma couldn't wait to stop Camilo from slumping around and avoiding responsibilities. He needed to know what it's like to live in the real world for he is no longer a teenager.

"Ah! Glad you have made it Señora Madrigal!"

Alma smiled at the old man she paid a visit to on the other side of town. She politely greeted him as the man lets her in. She has come to discuss marrying Camilo to the old man's youngest granddaughter, [Name] [Surname]. Alma has known the man for decades, she is also aware that he belongs to a powerful family such as hers. So, she decides why not? Alma and the old man talked for a few hours, settling on their agreements as the events sets in place. Camilo is to be wed to [Name] soon.

"I ought to tell my grandaughter the news later. Oh, will Camilo be alright with this decision of yours Señora?"

The old man asked. If Alma was being honest, she wasn't sure how will her grandson will react. Nevertheless, she smiles.

"He'll be fond of it"

Camilo Madrigal is not fond of the news. Alma did her best to gently drop the news to him but he reacted negatively. He was complaining, gripping his hair while pacing in circles, and his shapeshifting was out of control.

"Cálmate, nieto-"

"¡No puedo calmarme, abuela!"

"Ay, you're being dramatic, Camilo"

"Abuela, I love you, but why must you do this to me?!"

"You need to know your way in this world, nieto. You can't be stuck living in the same way!"

Alma said. Camilo huffs and crosses his arms, he understands his grandmother's point but it feels as though she was taking his freedom away. Here, he thought things would change after Mirabel saved the miracle.

"Camilo, you must understand why I'm doing this to you"

"I do! It's not like I don't like the arranged marriage, I just don't like the person I'm being married to"

Camilo admits. Alma's face displayed puzzlement. Camilo didn't like [Name]? Why? Whatever the reason is, it wasn't enough for her to call off the engagement.

"Nieto, it doesn't matter. You must marry her"

"But Abuelaaaa! She's nothing but a prissy, pink-obsessed, and pampered to the bone princesa!"

"Ay cállate, Camilo. Hurry and get dressed nicely because [Name] and her family are coming over for dinner"

Before Camilo can complain, Alma turns and leaves. The shapeshifter muttered a curse and runs a frustrated hand through his hair. He begins to think of ideas, ideas to help him ruin the engagement. He couldn't afford to get married to [Name] [Surname]! Camilo has heard of the stories swarming around town.

He heard that she liked to keep an evil cat around that would scratch anyone's face off if they dared talk crap about her. And that she liked wearing pink and expensive clothing. Camilo knew what privilege was like but he didn't abuse it. He thought she was the type to have everything fed to her with a golden spoon.

Camilo resorted to just ditching the dinner but her mother Pepa caught him climbing out his window and proceeded to give him an earful. After he was forcefully put in his best outfit by his mamá, he goes down. His cousins were preparing the table as he watched.

"You look you're going to choke somebody, primo"

Mirabel walks in. Camilo sighed as he buried his hands in his pockets, he genuinely thought he was going to be the last of his cousins to get married.

"Dios, Mira I absolutely hate it here. What if I just shapeshift into someone else and sneak out?"

" ¡Oye! Don't you dare, hermano!"

Dolores exclaimed from the kitchen, Camilo knew he shouldn't try what he just said, his sister is notorious for spilling secrets at the wrong moments, and he didn't want to cause a scene.

"Who are you getting married to anyway?"

"Señorita malcriada [Name]"

"Oh, her! Heard she's obsessed with pink"

"Tell me about it. I bet she has everything laid out for her since she was an infant. I'm talking major spoiled brat, Mirabel"

"Hey don't say that, primo"

"Why not? Everyone in town says so! I imagine if you don't give her what she wants, she lets out an ugly cry and throws a five-year-old tantrum. I hate people like that"

Camilo frowned, Mirabel gives him a comforting smile she joins the others in preparing. The moment evening arrives, a knock on the door was present. Alma goes to answer it and welcomes the guests in. The Madrigal family greeted everyone as dinner begins. The table was long enough to make available spaces. It seems like nobody was on Camilo's side when the Casita itself literally pushed him into a chair and sets it beside the woman he's supposed to marry.

Speaking of, Camilo looked at you. He takes note of your overly pink and puffy outfit, including the cat on your lap that's hissing and glaring daggers at him. Camilo tries to get on with the evening though it also appears that his appetite has vanished. To keep himself entertained, he goes to bother Mirabel who's sitting on his other side.

"Mira look at her"

"Hmm? Wow, that's a lot of pinks"

"I haven't seen her eating any of tía Julieta's food. I guess she would rather starve herself than eat anything that isn't made by her personal chef"

"Seriously, Camilo, I think you're judging her way too much"

"And look at the cat on her lap! It's literally dressed in pink too and is probably allergic to peasants like me-"

"Camilo, is there something you want to say?"

The shapeshifter chokes on his saliva and clears his throat, Alma raised a brow as the male shook his head. Camilo conceals the roll of his eyes as he decides to look at you for a while. He was cringing at the ridiculous amount of pink on your outfit. You looked beautiful, but not enough to make him swoon. He can smell your expensive perfume and see the glimmer of your jumbo jewelry. Camilo sets his eyes away before they got sore from looking at you.

The dinner ends eventually, Camilo really couldn't figure out anything to stop the now inevitable engagement with you. As everyone stood up to clean up, Camilo pushes his chair back to stand but he feels something under his shoe. To his astonishment, he stepped on the end of your pink dress. He winced when he removed it to see a prominent stain on it. Horrified of what will happen, Camilo gulped to look, his heart dropped when he caught you noticing the stain on your pink dress.

Camilo braced himself for the worse, a loud cry, a tantrum, an angry spitting fit. However, none of the worse things he imagined occurred. You silently reached down with a napkin to wipe the stain off your dress. Camilo blinked several times with his mouth agape, he believed that you were going to make a fuss over your stained dress. You turn to him with a sweet smile that made his knees weak. He deeply inhales.

"¡Lo siento, [Name]!"

"Oh! It's nothing, Camilo. Dinner was amazing, Señora Julieta's cooking is splendid"

"I..yeah, glad you enjoyed it"

"I'll meet you again soon, yes?"

"¡S-sí!"

"Adiós Camilo"

You softly greet him goodbye. Camilo's heart skipped beats as he felt like he was looking at heaven incarnate. You acted nothing as he imagined. You were kind, soft-spoken, and downright making butterflies swarm in his stomach. Before he realized it, guilt came flooding inside. Camilo can feel the bad taste in his mouth after shit-talking about you. He shouldn't have judged you that quickly. He needs to make it up to you somehow for painting you into something you're not.

Out of all the things you were expecting, Camilo Madrigal showing up at your home with gifts is not one of them. You assured him that he shouldn't have but he insisted. You and he got to know each other pretty quickly and became close friends despite being wed soon.

It was fantastic to know Camilo Madrigal, you were glad to be given the chance to see who he was. He was what everyone said, charming, handsome, and selfless. You couldn't ask for any other man to be engaged with. He was considerate and fun to be around, you want to know what it feels like to spend a lifetime with him.

Today, you and Camilo took a stroll in your family's large garden, chatting. Your wedding was due in two weeks, you were stuck between excited and nervous. You wanted to feel worthy to be Camilo's wife.

"I can't believe we're getting married soon, [Name]"

"Yeah, it's quite an odd feeling"

"Nervous?"

"Kinda"

Camilo looked at you with worry. He carefully brushed a stray hair out of your face, you gazed at him with flushed cheeks. He inhales.

"Wanna know something [Name]?"

"What is it?"

"When I first saw you, I thought...I thought you were a spoiled brat who's obsessed with pink and is extremely selfish"

He confesses. You couldn't hold back the snort and laugh that came along with it, you wiped the tears in the corner of your eyes and looked at him.

"You're kidding? You believed those rumors downtown?"

"Yeah, don't worry, I very much regret listening"

"It's fine, Camilo, really!"

"When I stepped on your dress that night, I thought I'm about to meet my doom but then you just...wiped it off and I kinda fell for you then and there"

Camilo shyly looks away, bashfully. You felt your heartstrings getting tugged by this, you reach to caress his cheek, it catches him off-guard.

"You're really sweet, Cami"

"Mierda, are you trying to kill a man?"

You laughed at him as he joined in. It was bizarre for Camilo to be so impatient to marry you, he can't wait to slip that ring on your finger.

"Man, I regret talking shit about you back then"

"Oh? That's interesting, what did you say about me, Cami?"

"You know, I called you shit like Señorita malcriada [Name] and a prissy, pink-obsessed, and pampered to the bone princesa-"

"You called her what?!"

Both of you flinched at the unexpected booming voice. A couple of men jump out of the bushes and looked at Camilo with scowls. You gasped.

"Hermanos, what are you-"

"¡Oye chíco! You don't talk to our hermanita like that!"

"This is a misunderstanding! I didn't mean to-"

You watched in horror as your brothers decided to pick a fight with Camilo for something he said long ago. You try to deescalate the situation by calling your mother, your mamá marches in with a chancla in hand and scolded your brothers. You rushed to Camilo and checked on him.

"I'm so sorry about that! I didn't know they were eavesdropping"

"Está bien, [Name]. They're right I never should've talked about you like that"

You pout as you rested your hands on his shoulders, he gives you a grin and placed his hand on your cheek, and leaned in. He gives you an unexpected kiss on your cheek as you stared at him wide-eyed.

"I should've known you were more under all the pink. I can't wait to marry you"

Camilo says. Marry you, he did. As he slipped the ring on your finger and you took his last name at the altar, Camilo spent the rest of his life in pink with you.

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[ardenwritesegos]

The Entity Comes Out to Play

Intro

Every once in a while, the entity gets antsy. It has, after all, been confined to a single manor for centuries. A spell ensured the epicenter of it could never fully escape. It didn't, however, prevent the thing from spreading its madness to the outside world. That much was proven over 100 years ago. But we don’t need to get into the details now. What’s the fun in giving everything away? No, the readers want to see the good stuff; to see the pain, whether it be physical or emotional. And it so happens that the entity can do just that. Well, what are we waiting for? Let’s get started. And who better to start with than a certain guilty engineer.

Chapter 1

It was just another night of work for engineer mark. The googles needed yet another addition to their devices, forcing him–at least, in his eyes–to pull another all-nighter. Chase tried his very best to get him away from his desk, but nothing would do it. Sometimes, not even the threat of carrying him to bed would sway Gin’s stubbornness. The desk was strewn with blueprint paper and coffee mugs. Still, even all that caffeine couldn’t stop his eyes from desperately trying to close. He shook his head in an attempt to keep himself awake. Regardless, his lids were feeling heavy, heavier than they ever were during an all-nighter. Well, there’s a first for everything. Another cup of coffee would surely do the trick. The instant Gin stood up, everything seemed to spin for a moment, before weighing down on him. The weight pushed him back into his chair. He tried again to get out of his chair. The slightest movement up triggered yet another bout of dizziness. What the fuck was happening? Whatever it was, there was no way he was getting out of his chair. If anything, he could probably call for Chase–

No voice.

No noise.

The engineer tried to open his mouth, but found it was bound shut by…something. Certainly nothing he could feel. He was stuck in his chair, slightly lower than one would usually sit. And now, he couldn’t even call for help. This had to be a dream. It had to be. Otherwise, he was going insane. Gin knew nobody with powers in the house would mess with him like this. There was no other explanation than him not being awake.

So quick to think it’s a dream.

So quick to think it’s not real.

You’re wide awake.

Do you know what’s real?

The whispering voices were quick to overwhelm him.

You are here.

We are here.

We can help you.

Let us in.

He felt as if they were burrowing into his brain from his ears.

It’s weighing on you.

The Guilt.

You’ve hurt so many.

You want to forget.

He…he did want to forget. It always lingered in the back of his mind, all of the actions that lead him here. He can hear the crystal powering up.

You can forget.

You can be happy.

Let us help you.

Let us in.

This was insane, he was going nuts. What-? Why did he almost consider it? Why…why wouldn’t he? He wanted to be happy. He wanted to forget. He could open his mouth again.

Your voice is returned.

Say the words.

“I let you in.”

Repeat.

The engineer opened his mouth, speech still a struggle.

“I…I…”

“I let you in.”

Repeat.

The voices increased in volume, but only by a hair.

“I..” He breathed.

“I let..I let you–”

“How’s everything in here?” Chase came in through the open door, making Gin’s soul jump from his body for a moment. Within seconds, every sensation from seconds ago was gone. He turned around, giving Chase a look at him.

“Oh my god, are you okay?” Chase could see the pure fear radiating off Gin’s face

“Uh..” Gin hesitated to say what happened, not sure himself what it was.

“I’m..I’m fine. Just a bad dream,” due to exhaustion, and overall fright, he wasn’t trying his best, in terms of lying. Luckily, Chase bought it right away.

“Must have been a really bad one,” Chase replied, quickly making his way to the engineer’s desk.

“You haven’t looked like this for a good bit,” he leaned on the chair.

“Do ya wanna go to bed?” Engineer looked at the analog clock across from him. It read 3:00 am from his bedside table.

“I don’t…I don’t know…” he looked down, resisting the urge to word vomit about whatever the fuck just happened to him. For all he knew, it could’ve just been a–

(So quick to think it’s a dream.)

He shook his head, trying to erase it like an etch-a-sketch.

“Maybe you just need some company right now,” Chase suggested.

“Like, I don’t know, some snacks and a game of ‘who wakes up next’?” he added, trying to lighten the mood. Well, it worked causing a small smile to form on the engineer’s face.

“It’s not that hard,” Gin began.

“It’s always doctor german or doctor ‘you’re dying.’”

“You never know, it could change up,” Chase replied.

[thethirdgenesisbooks]

Five Ways to Name Your Characters

One of the most common problems that authors, especially new authors, complain about is how difficult it is to come up with good names for their characters. Over my many years of writing, I’ve developed a few ways to name characters in stories. Here are a few. Bear in mind, some of these pieces of advice are genre-specific.

Babynames.com:

The site babynames.com is a great source for names from different countries and cultures. You can also look up name meanings or look up the names by the letters that are in them. In general, I recommend against having two main characters in your novel who have names beginning with the same letter, as this can cause confusion. For instance, you shouldn’t have both a “Robert” and a “Roger” among your main characters, because readers will mix them up. Also, while name meanings can be important, I urge you to consider the other factors as well. How does the name sound when spoken out loud? Does the name have negative connotations because of famous people who shared the name (for instance, the name “Adolph” means “Wolf,” which might be cool for some characters, but I strongly recommend against using that name because of its association with a certain, hated historical figure). Also, consider what nationality a character likely has if they have a certain name. A Caucasian boy living in modern California should not have a name like “Shinji,” unless he happened to be raised by Japanese parents, just as a native Japanese boy living in Tokyo should not be called “Stanley.”

Historical Records:

If you are writing in a certain place and time period, it can be helpful to look up names from that place and time period to create your character names. For example, when I was writing my westerns, sometimes I’d do a Google search for names of people who lived I the Old West. Then, I’d take the first name of one person and the last name of another and put them together. One instance of this would be to take Billy the Kid’s real name (Henry McCarty) and combine it with the name of another Old West outlaw, John Wesley Hardin. Together, we get the names Wesley McCarty and Henry Hardin. If you’re writing a modern story, you can also do this with the names of people you know, or other interesting names you see and hear. When you go to a restaurant to eat, pay attention to the nametags of the people serving you, as you might find a name you really like there.

Mythology:

I recommend only using mythology as a source for names if you are writing fantasy or science fiction stories. If you write a modern murder mystery and your detective’s name is “Thor Odinson,” a lot of readers are going to roll their eyes. I’d also recommend not using terribly well-known mythological names either. Names like Thor, Odin, Apollo, Zeus, Horus, Osirus, Aphrodite, Artemis, Athena, Freya, and Isis are far too well-known to be used, unless you have characters in the setting specifically point out the namesake. Names Fenris, Morrigan, Dorian, and Mordred are also far too common, and their inclusion in fantasy might well pull readers out of the story (again, unless your intention is to specifically invoke parallels to these mythological figures). However, names like Nikke, Selene, Eris, Argus, and Dia are a little more obscure and are less likely to take your reader out of the story. You can also look up the etymology of these names and find alternative ways that they were pronounced and spelled, because names in mythology certainly changed over time.

The Bible:

I know, this one is a touchy subject for a lot of people, but bear with me. For one thing, a lot of names in modern America (and in the Western world at large) come from Biblical names. Peter, Matthew, Joshua, Caleb, Paul, Aaron, John, Michael, Luke, Thadeus, and many others all come from the Bible. You don’t need to have Biblical themes in your work in order to use these Biblical names, because a great many people named “Peter” came from secular families who just happened to like the name, or who wanted to honor a loved one who had that name. Also, if you’re looking for names that sound a bit exotic but also feel familiar, the names listed in the various “begat” sections of the Bible (where it’s just one name after another) can be helpful. I’d just recommend looking up what the name means before using it. I made the mistake of not looking up a name meaning once, and named a villain in one of my stories “Zadok,” a name which means “Righteous.” Those who knew the name meaning would likely either laugh at the irony or just consider me ignorant. Thankfully, I never finished or published that story. In any event, the Bible can be a great source of names.

Alter Real Names:

Sometimes when writing something futuristic, you don’t want real names for your characters, either from modern times or earlier, neither will mythological or Biblical names work in your futuristic setting. We can’t all be Frank Herbert, who’s coming up with such names as Muadib, Atreides, Harkonnen, and Feyd-Rautha, or words like Bene Gesserit, Kwisatz-Haderach, Ginaz, and Faufreluches. Some of us are a little too grounded in reality for that, and often overly-complex words and names such as these end up confusing our readers. So, in order to make a futuristic name, perhaps start with a real name that exists today, and then change a few letters. Maybe remove some letters, add others, and rearrange some. Just as popular names in the real world change over time (see the various ways of spelling such names as “Sean” and “Geoff”), so too would futuristic names change over the years. Even so, your main character probably shouldn’t have too exotic of a name. Maybe give the main character a name that’s one, maybe two syllables long, but spelled slightly differently from its modern equivalent. For example, you may want a main character named “Nick,” but in a futuristic story it might be better to spell it “Nyk.” Or perhaps you want to name your character “John,” and a futuristic version of that name might be “Chon” or “Jahnn.” In any event, changing or rearranging letters in an existing name can be a great way to make your character feel more fantastical or futuristic.

These are just a few examples of how to name your characters. There are still many things to keep in mind, such as cultural context, the way the names sound when spoke out loud, negative connotations or associations of a particular name, name meaning, and whether the name is setting appropriate.

[beevean]

hi, i set out today looking for fellow haters of the netflix castlevania show and it was honestly so tough, but amidst all the "why do people hate castlevania?? it's so great!!" circlejerks i finally found you. and thank god for it. i never played any of the games, so it's good to know at least that they make more sense in terms of characters and plot than that netflix shitshow

a friend who really loves it sat me down about a year ago and we watched the first three seasons or so together before i could finally escape it and never touched it again. i do like the animation and some of the fight scenes, but none of it comes even close to balancing out the corny dialogue, the lackluster character dynamics, and oh GOD the cultural faux pas. like?? why did they not google a single one of the romanian names they very frequently say? i heard at least three different mispronunciations of "târgoviște" and "greșit", and "țepeș" they somehow managed to get approximately half right (it's pronounced "tzeh-pesh", not "teh-pesh"). it's absolutely mind-boggling to me. wikipedia includes standardised phonetic spelling and google translate can just read it out to you. idk how it is in the games, but considering how big on alleged wokeness the netflixvania production team seems to be, they could at the very least have looked up these very basic and frequently used words once or asked a singular romanian for a pointer here and there

i am romanian, so obviously these things tick me off much more than they would someone who isn't. i just think that if they weren't going to pronounce anything right anyway and wanted to use a very generic western european backdrop (note: romania is in eastern europe), they could just as well have set the whole thing in a fake fantasy world and spared themselves some trouble. the houses look german. the priests and churches look catholic. there are way too many blonde people, especially for southern romania. i just don't like it at all

i hope you have great day btw 💞 thank you for lending me some new faith in humanity

Oh 🥺 I'm glad you sent me this ask <3 I feel that there are very few people who outright dislike NFCV (for the right reasons, at least), because you hear left and right about how not only it's excellent on every front, but So Much Better Than The Stupid games, Best Adaptation of All Time, and it kills me inside every time because am I stupid for not buying the hype? So yeah, thank you <3

I'm vindicated that you didn't like the show even without playing the games. The most common rebuttal against antis is "wah you just want the adaptation to be 1:1 with the games!" (or "wah you're just a bigot!", which drives me mad), but I always insist that the show fails on its own product as well. It's exactly as you say, and yes, I was also bothered by how every "foreigner" has an appropriate accent, but the Romanians speak in perfect British English. It wants to be inclusive but it ends up being confusing and lowkey xenophobic - what, Romanian doesn't sound sexy enough for you?

(also count your blessings that you managed to escape S4. Some of the plotlines enraged me like I can't convey in written word :) )

Eh, if incorrect pronunciation bothers you (and as an Italian who has seen what the English language does to their native tongue, I fully sympathize lmao), the games don't do much better. In one game the translator of the manual didn't know that Wallachia was a real place, they thought it was the fantasy town of Warakiya (which is how it's spelled in Japanese), and in another it's pronounced "woh-LAY-sha" lol. The chapels also look very Catholic for the aesthetic, even though the Orthodox Church exists (I'd wager that in Japan they're far less familiar with it). Overall, the settings in the games tend to be vaguer than in the show, rarely namedropped, except for two games set in Wallachia (the ones the show takes "inspiration" from) and two other titles set in Japan. The show tries a little harder, but hardly hides the historical inaccuracies and just went for the aesthetic as well :P

Same to you, anon 💕

[feckcops]

Artificial intelligence is coming for creative workers too

“It seems inevitable that machine learning will replace many of the tasks involved in creating things like games, novels, films and series. This will start with the replacing of seemingly lower-level tasks – think translating code in programming or writing initial drafts of dialogue for a script – and progress from there. Hence the screenwriters’ demands – which are explicitly aware of how AI will improve over time.

“Rather than the rise of the robots wiping out entire professions, machine learning will remove entry level positions in dozens of industries – meaning these jobs still exist, only there will be fewer of them. This is not only an issue regarding employment, but poses deeper questions about how to sustain the conveyor belt of future human talent ...

“The idea that capitalist competition creates consequences beyond the intentions of capitalists is nothing new. In The Communist Manifesto, Marx wrote how capitalist society had conjured up ‘such gigantic means of production and of exchange’ that it was akin to a sorcerer ‘no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.’ What Marx had in mind when he wrote those lines were the rising ziggurats of the Industrial Revolution, dotting the skylines of Europe’s cities. Yet more than 170 years later they read as even more apt in the unfolding race for AI. If the sorcerers are Google, Microsoft, Apple and Meta, then the key question is this: if any of them create a new form of intelligence can they control the consequences?

“But we don’t need to go as far as speculating whether AI would, as Hinton muses, mean humanity is merely ‘a passing phase in the evolution of intelligence’. The fact that striking screenwriters are arguing against recursive learning in their industry is significant enough. If machines are set to swallow ever more creative work, as well as the repetitive data-crunching that will cost millions of jobs in industries like accounting and legal services, then the conclusion should be obvious: we will need a radically different kind of economic system. Recognising that doesn’t require the emergence of a real life Skynet.”

[phanfictioncatalogue]

Florist!Phil Masterlist

A Bouquet of Love (ao3) - orphan_account

Summary: Phil is a florist sick of his usual schedule. When a new bakery opens across the street, the new baker brings everything he's ever wanted and more to his life.

Finding a Prince (ao3) - orphan_account

Summary: When Dan's parents decide that they have had enough of their sons fruitless search for a Queen they set him up with the dreaded countess of Perinia. In a desperate bid to escape the life he is destined to face, Dan leaves in search of someone to marry. During his travels however the young prince comes across a certain raven haired florist who seems more than he appears to be.

Flore Luna (ao3) - strawberrysunflower

Summary: It’s been eighteen months since Dan returned to the Wizarding world, and he’s making real strides. He’s living in his own tiny studio flat. He has a job in a failing bookshop. He’s relearning spells that kids as young as eleven have already mastered.

And he’s developed an unhealthy grudge on the irritating, black-haired florist across the alley.

florist (ao3) - dnovep

Summary: Phil's a florist - he hates it.

Flowers - phillestatos

Summary: Dan moves in to Manchester to study Law at University. Phil is his neighbor who happens to own a flower shop and he likes to flirt with him via flowers. The only frustrating thing is that Dan has to google the meaning of each flower and the boy can’t take a hint.

flower tattoos (ao3) - cityscaped (touchofgold)

Summary: AU where Phil's a florist and Dan's a tattoo artist.

Fritillaria meleagris (ao3) - TsingaDark

Summary: So far this whole thing with Phil had felt like a ride on a rollercoaster that would never stop and he had the feeling that he was losing control.

But maybe, just maybe, he was beginning to enjoy the ride, revelling in the exhilarating freedom. And maybe, if Phil was there by his side then they could both be in control, sharing the responsibility of deciding where their journey would take them.

or the one where Tattoo Artist Dan moves and opens up a tattoo parlour opposite Phil's flower shop.

I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange? - howell-gif

Summary: dan is a poet and phil owns a flower shop

I'd give you a flower for everytime you've cried (ao3) - LoserLife592

Summary: Dan went in to buy flowers for his mom's birthday. He ends up having a meltdown.

Phil wanted to go home early. He ends up dealing with a crying stranger.

Neither of them mind that much in the end.

Of Paparazzi and Succulents - botanistlester

Summary: Actor!Dan is running away from a mob of fans when he runs into a flower shop. There, he meets a quirky florist who has an absurd liking towards succulents, seeming to think they have feelings of their own.

The cure for a broken heart - my-secret-phan-blog

Summary: Dan was suffering from a broken heart and from what he knew, flowers cured broken hearts. When he enters Phil’s newly opened flower shop he quickly learns that the boy inside is a better cure than the actual flowers.

Yellow Roses (ao3) - FoxyAtlas

Summary: Dan has a wife who just loves the bouquets of flowers he keeps getting for her. Unfortunately, she doesn’t know about the attractive florist who sends hidden messages with each bouquet that her husband might just be falling for.

[serendipitous-mage]

in summary

while spamton was the one running it and we did also get some more details about him, the deltarune sweepstake lore updates seem to heavily revolve around noelle, but also? dragon blazers. which is a real game set to release on steam in april 2023. i have no idea what this entails a fun little thing i found though, the developer for this game is hugo guerrini, or 'sylph'. a quick google search says in mythology a sylph is "an imaginary or elemental being that inhabits the air and is mortal but soulless." there are links in the sweepstakes descriptions leading to an abundance of "secret" pages....but one in particular is linked back to in multiple places: '/code'. this is a post noelle has written on her "game secrets, glitches, and theories blog!" about the dragon blazers site being updated with weird secrets that don't seem to amount to anything. the comments of her post include berdly being a cuck and trying to become a mod/admin, and someone called "sports" asking if the game has sports we see some things noelle has written when she was obviously much younger, with a lot of spelling errors and that sort of Rawr XD lingo. we learn of a couple things she was scared of: an ice e pizza box that she went to get za from in the night that she says winked at her and she screamed and was terrified (dess believes her and burns the box, then they, azzy, and kris all go to bury it in the graveyard. kris spooks noelle with the box and dess hits them for it)
 she also had a fear of electricution.. "It only made me cry more that I had to plug the game back in by myself. I was so scared that I would get electrocuted and die from the wires. I was actually always afraid of electrical sockets too because I thought they were looking at me XD (Come on I wasn't a weird kid I promise... XP I got over it after that)". the same page also talks about her very unique and suspicious repeated ability to overcome a well known glitch in the dragon blazers game that doesnt allow you to leave a room, and she finds a locked door that she can not open both pages we get this information from have "ice" in the name.. '/icee' and '/icepalace_glaceir' the link present on the icee story to 'sister' goes to a broken page for '/december', but '/dess' works just fine. this page has a red guitar, and the song playing is titled "findher.mp3". presumably this means dess is still alive somewhere, maybe in the dark world, and maybe somehow 'cursed' like susie mentions your sister being as a plot in dragon blazers 2 another blog post from noelle, '/the_n3w3st_g1rl_g1rl' linked from the wristwatch description "THERE LIES THE NAME OF THE [angel with the tattered wings]!" is about an incident with kris and susie. noelle details how susie seems to really hate kris, and kris seems oblivious or uncaring about it (she is also extremely gay and keeps trying to get them to swap seats so she's in front of susie)
one day at the end of class, kris is asleep on their desk, and most everyone leaves quickly when the bell rings. susie remains, "staring at Kris's head. Sniffing it...???" and noelle initially stays to help alphys, but does eventually also leave. she only goes into the hallway though to keep an eye on kris susie goes to alphys' desk and takes an apple berdly had given the teacher prior that week and yells at kris to wake them up before saying " 'Nice shampoo. Apple flavor, right? Better be careful about wearing that around me.' Then she BIT THE WHOLE APPLE IN HALF!" kris laughs at her threats, which causes susie to throw the apple at them, but they deflect it off their notebook and catch it midair...and take a bite. susie is pissed, runs over and grabs kris by their hair, says how their mom is going to get sick of them and they'll disappear, and she'll be happy
 noelle says it looks like kris's mouth moved, but she doesn’t know what they said if they said anything, but susie's attitude completely changes and she runs out of the room. noelle had hidden in her locker once susie started to leave, and shortly after she had, kris opens noelle's locker, before slowly shutting the door on her and leaving as well from the "YOUR BEST [$#&*]' HEART LOCKET" link, '/kris_dreemurr_kris' noelle talks about how kris would come over to play almost every day, and after a while, they would suddenly get very still as if remembering something before going to the dining room to "get a snack", after which noelle would hear the piano. if she tried to watch them play, as soon as they realized she was looking they would shut the piano and go back, so instead she started staying on the living room couch, just lying there and listening sometimes for hours and sometimes until she fell asleep. she says it felt like a concert just for her '/egg' and then '/bluecircle' from the pipis rug desc "[they're multiplying...!] [they're multiplying...!]" are noelle blog posts that detail some strange happenings in her cat petterz game. she had installed several mods, and was trying to get a rare egg in game. one day one shows up completely white that says "SPECIAL". the egg never hatched, she wasn't able to move or throw it away despite deleting and reinstalling the game. eventually she started raising it like a normal pet, but the next day the egg was gone with just a message that it "left home due to happiness", despite the game normally saying "(pet left home due to sadness" if you neglect them. she also mentions that the egg had a name, but she cannot remember what it was additionally, when checking her spam mail she found one that was just a string of random numbers and letters. she has the thought it could be a cat petterz 2 mod (for some reason lol) and tries it. 
it loads
 the pet it shows is a singular blue circle floating in the air, and it did not move at all aside from occasionally glitching out. she says that "All of the stats were really bad and all of my pets really hated it except for... certain ones .... lol… I couldn't explain why anyone liked it, but it was really funny to see who did XD" (i desperately want to know what this means and why it was funny some of them liked it-) this pipis sounding pet is able to multiply on its own, and crashes the game from creating too many of them i saw people speculating that the white egg was spamton and noelle was his 'mother', someone asked this on twitter during the q&a to which spamton replied: "YOU THINK THAT [Hochi mama] IS MY [Mama Hochi]!? NO!!! SHE'S JUST THE ONLY ONE THAT EVER READ MY...THAT EVER READ MY...THAT'S WHY I GAVE HER A [Little Blue Gift]!!! IT WAS THE WORLD'S FIRST [Charity]"
 from some other quotes, 'hochi mama' is what he refers to noelle as(and one of the things she mentioned was normally in her spam folder). another post i saw said that the white egg had been *from* spamton, and as thanks for taking care of it he then sent her to code for pipis pets, which seems likely

[doctor-looneys-remedy]

Related to the last post but on a different tangent:

When I was a kid I ended up wearing the hand-me-downs of every kid in our family. If it was gender-neutral enough to pass, I wore clothes intended for boys also. One of these was a sweater with a college football mascot on it.

I think I was about 7-8 when I was wearing it. I remember the kids at school asking me about it. I didn't watch football at that age and I didn't really even care much about it. I just wore it because it was a sweater, and in my mom's mind, it got her out of buying something for me.

If you have parents that can't or won't buy clothes for you a good chunk of the time, you end up wearing some odd shit and making it work as best you can. Between this and my older cousins introducing me to heavy metal and the whole Satanic Panic of it all, I wasn't really a big symbol respecter to begin with.

Being in the later end of Gen X did nothing to help this. If you were to transport us all to the dark ages, a good significant portion of us would die-- not from disease or being labeled a witch, but by disrespecting people's religious icons and wearing someone's coat of arms upside down and finding it hilarious to paint Bart Simpson over an image of the king.

I think modern society though is getting to the level of dark ages/medieval society with the symbol thing though. Every time I turn around someone has invented a new thing that means a thing that they could have easily just spelled out. A large portion of the time its a meaning that only five percent of other people know about, and then they get offended or act self-righteous and make it a whole thing.

Let me introduce you to a concept: It's called a sign. With words on it.

Signs and words are real things that get your point across clearly. Signs and words aren't going to make you mad because an 85-year-old grandmother doesn't know what that purple spinach leaf means and you somehow assume she would and she should.

I'm being silly here, of course, but it feels like that sometimes. As far as I know there is nothing with a purple spinach leaf as its symbol. YET.

Before you create a symbol about a thing-- ask yourself if it is needed. Or - whether the creation of it is going to result in people in Walmart buying a t-shirt on clearance with something on it, and ultimately, with you huffing about how they should be screening all symbols through google before buying anything. Because, people don't have time to do that, by and large.

Unless of course, you are the kind of psychopath that wants to create symbols so that you can purposefully deride people or look down your nose on them in some future setting for not knowing what it is. Because I ABSOLUTELY believe those people DEFINITELY exist.

When you assume someone is down with a symbol they are wearing or have around in some way, you are making a few assumptions:

1-that they know what the symbol means.

2-they made a choice to have that thing, and didn't have it simply because someone gave it to them and now they have to use it, or they are poor and it was what was easily obtained for free or cheap, or that they had to borrow it from someone else for some reason

3-they care about it one way or the other. I have been stuck in places where I got something spilled on my clothes and purchased a $10 t-shirt that I wouldn't wear regularly. I would think by now we have all seen an exchange where someone says "Did you know that is for... " and the other person just shrugs.

What if you own something that didn't have a meaning when you bought it, but now it does? The multi-colored pumpkins for Halloween come to mind. I have a purple ceramic pumpkin that I bought 15 years ago. Is it supposed to be on me to investigate the meaning of things I already own that have been given meaning years after the fact? I'm not calling out people's causes-you should do whatever good you can in the world. I'm calling out the incessant symbol creation.

And I have to say- pop culture isn't making it better.

Pop stars have teams of PR people who drop Easter eggs on their behalf and coach them into these dangling thread behaviors for their fans to figure out. The cutesy clues about who they are dating or their next video. It's fine for them. They want to keep fans engaged and tapped into their lives, eager for the next project.

Pixar and Disney are pros and inserting Easter eggs into movies, and some other franchises have also done similar things.

Religions don't help.

I was raised in a religion where everyone was always looking for the thing that meant judgement day was at hand.

It doesn't help that a remarkable amount of the adults I grew up around never made it past the middle school levels of maturity about adult romantic relationships (or even teen romantic relationships, if I'm perfectly honest).

I guess all this is to say, it almost feels suffocating. If you are around people who assume that everything you do/say/wear/own MEANS a THING that they are supposed to draw some kind of deep interpretation from, what the hell can you do? How can you just exist? And then society just keeps inventing new shit that means a thing that could easily just be a damn sign.

I'm not autistic. I'm not asocial. I'm not anti-social.

Every society has symbols that mean things. And yes, its necessary for the ongoing functioning of a society. Its important to respect some things. But why is it every SINGLE THING?

And why does every single thing I do have to be taken as having some weird hinty-poo meaning? Why are you as a human being looking for drama and soap opera levels of shit where there probably is none?

Most of us, unless we are really waayaaayyy convinced we are social media important (and trust me, YOU AREN'T) are just paying the bills and making lunch. We aren't doing a thing that means a thing. We are just surviving. We are just exhausted from work and people and things and problems.

Someone wiser and far more respected in history probably has a warning about a society that is too steeped in symbols and symbol creation, and seeing (ahem, creating and spreading around) meaning in every little thing all the damn time. But nothing springs to mind at the moment.

I'll just end with Freud: "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

[poorly-translated-wagyan]

Wagyan Paradise (Super Famicom, 1994) Part 8

After taking out the space station, Takuto finds that the sinister shadow’s real job was to hide an ocean base for the Namers. He decides to swim inside and investigate it.

...So, this is probably the most shocking screenshot to get. After swimming through the ducts of the base to get in, Wagyan Paradise shows off the next gimmick level it has, being a minecart level similar to what you’d find in Donkey Kong Country (Though not nearly as hard). Onward, Takuto, on the poop trolley to go to school!

After a ride on the poop trolley, Takuto finds that Dr. Devil isn’t the only guy trying to impersonate Dr. Wily. This fishman isn’t all too pleased about the destruction of his machine that was making the sinister shadow cloud from earlier.

After defeating that mad doctor Namer, we find his name is Namerstein. Because of course it is.

The next stage follows another cool gimmick where Takuto can yell into a bubble-blowing pipe, and his voice comes out encased in a bubble that slowly floats in one direction and can be used as a platform. This series is so creative, it's a shame it tends to have very short simple levels. It's a bit like if Super Mario 3D Land/World was a third of its actual length.

So it’s about at this point of the game that the narration before levels starts to give up on any kind of actual story and just points out stuff that’s happening. It’s a bit of a shame, though it does pick up again later on, and I still appreciate the presentation trying to tie it all together. It really does make me think of the Klonoa games.

At the end of this stage, Takuto runs into Namerstein again, only this time he’s turned himself to a cyborg. That's a bit much considering Takuto only beat him at a baby japanese word swap game.

Honestly, if I cared enough, I could actually use these Wagyan Land games to probably learn Japanese. In this game, the kana slowly spell out at the bottom of the screen and you have to pick the image that corresponds to it. In this case, it's a lion. Unfortunately for my higher education into learning a new language and jumping fully into weebdom, I only play Wagyan Land games for the plot.

Of course, being a dumb American whose knowledge of Japanese is next to none...it's time to just spam choices til I get it with the power of Rewind!

After winning a game fair and square, the mad doctor spouts gibberish and explodes, and it's back to the water for Takuto! I assumed that Google Translate was messing up here, but I firmly believe he really was just spouting gibberish as the loss to a baby robot kaiju thing at a baby Japanese game was too much for the mad doctor robot to handle. This is the second time you've blown up a robot today, Takuto!

Takuto’s expressions just say it all.

Something else to note, I don’t think Dr. Devil is actually in this game at all. Maybe he’s on vacation, maybe it’s on the fact this game is probably done by a completely different team. First Wagyan is written out, and now Dr. Devil isn’t the bad guy? My childhood is ruined! I hate change! Namco, how dare you do this to a series I’ve been invested in for a week at this point!

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What is Web 3.0 technology and why is it important?

Maybe these questions might be triggering the curious child inside you. Well, why not? After all, it's a matter of the next revolution in the web world.

In this article, we are going to talk about what web 3.0 really means and why it might be a scam or may not be.

Today, a lot of people are talking about it, but few really know what it means, or even if it’s real or just an old scam making a comeback.

So what exactly Web 3.0 is? Or has it already arrived? Lets get into it.

Has Web 3.0 already arrived?

If you’re just getting started, you may have never even heard of Web 3.0 and what it could mean for your business (and online marketing).

The concept has been around since 2007, but it’s recently been gaining more traction as businesses ponder whether they should be incorporating it into their own practices.

While there are still some who believe that Web 3.0 hasn’t yet arrived, I think that it has—but many businesses aren’t aware of what exactly it means for them. To help clear things up, here’s a breakdown of what Web 3.0 is, how it differs from Web 2.0, and what impact it might have on your future marketing efforts:

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In fact, most online search functions require users to enter search terms into fields before getting any results at all. This process may seem efficient enough, but it means that people often make mistakes entering their searches.

For example, someone might type pizza instead of the pizzeria, leading them to a bunch of results that don't match what they're looking for. Even if you get your spelling right, if you use slang terms like Google instead of a search engine, your results will probably be more limited. That's where semantic technology comes in: Instead of entering plain-text queries like search engines do today, future versions could interpret our requests through machine learning—and suggest what we meant by them without us having to spell things out so precisely.

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Deltarune Chapter 2′s secret alternate route:

(img credit to u/lightiggy on reddit)

I haven’t seen any posts on Tumblr about this yet, so you guys should know that there is a REAL, VASTLY DIFFERENT genocide route in chapter 2 of Deltarune. I will provide details below, but first, be warned:

In my opinion, this route is massively more disturbing than the Genocide route in Undertale. If you can’t handle this sort of thing, please stop reading — I’m not kidding, it’s seriously fucked up.

Also, I did not discover this route, and this guide was written mostly with the help of this google doc and this video (which is where I got the screenshots from).

So, one of the big differences between Deltarune and Undertale is that in Deltarune, enemies run away instead of dying when you reduce them to 0 HP. This means that even if you try your hardest, the best you can do in chapter 1 of Deltarune is make a lot of people angry, since they’ll run away before you can do any serious harm.

Enter Noelle.

When Noelle first joins your party, you’ll notice that she has two support spells similar to Ralsei, but interestingly enough, a very powerful ice damage spell...? Well, if you use this spell to reduce an enemy to 0 HP, then instead of running away, it is frozen solid. This is the key to unlocking Deltarune chapter 2′s alternate route.

STEPS:

1. I’m not entirely sure how much your actions in the first chapter affect this route, but I’m pretty sure you’ll be fine no matter what. In any case, you can just start a new file and it’ll work.

2. When you enter the dark world, defeat every enemy in your path until Noelle joins your party. Now, you must backtrack as far left as you can go and interact with the locked door to Spamton’s shop.

3. On your way, encounter every enemy you see, and be especially careful to defeat them with Noelle’s ice attack only (the easiest way to do this is to block with Kris, then use the spell with Noelle. Do this every turn). You can tell whether or not you are on the right path because at the car room, no cars will appear and enemies will spawn instead.

4. Continue until you reach the room with the ferris wheel. AFTER killing all of the enemies running around with Noelle’s ice and BEFORE doing anything else, interact with the ferris wheel. She will comment about wanting to ride it with Susie. Choose “I will ride with you”, which will make Noelle decline politely, and then “Noelle will ride with me”. (As the video succinctly puts it, “act like a weird clingy abusive stalker” at all the dialogue prompts and you’ll be okay.) She will comment on your weird behavior, but dismiss it as a prank. EDIT: It appears that interacting with the ferris wheel is actually unnecessary for this route.

5. After talking at the ferris wheel, interact with the NPC at the far right, who will offer you Dating Shoes. When Noelle hesitantly says that you are just friends, say that “We’re something else”. As you try to walk away, the NPC will stop you and instead offer you a powerful FreezeRing for $1 more than you have. Noelle will decline at first, but just continue selecting “Get it”. Noelle will ask what you’re telling her to do; keep insisting, and...

Noelle kills the NPC (it’s a fade-to-black) and takes the FreezeRing. Instead of being horrified at what you have coerced her to do, she rationalizes it as “becoming stronger” and thanks Kris.

6. Equip the ring, and walk down, progressing normally until you reach the lightning gate. Unlike in a normal run, she will offer to stand on the switch so you can walk through and let her across. Afterwards, she says that she considered stepping off the switch and killing you as you walked through the gate, but tells herself that “it’s horrible” to think that. Tell her “It’s natural”.

At this point, a slowed-down version of the City theme should start playing, and enemies will begin to run away from you when you see them. Continue, killing everything as usual.

7. When you come across the next car room, there should be no cars. Like in the normal route, there is a secret room here (if you can’t find it, go to 14:00 in the video). You will not encounter Toby Fox, but instead continue to the following room. Interact with the dumpster to speak with Spamton, who should tell you “4 LEFT”. If he says a higher number, you have missed some enemies, or you may have not cleared out the current room yet. If you clear out the car room and Spamton says a number greater than 4, backtrack and look for any enemies you might have missed.

8. The next room is the mouse puzzle. When Noelle asks you what to do, instead of acting like a normal human, only say “Proceed”. Continue selecting “Proceed”, slowly backing her into the force-field.

At the very last moment, she will freeze the puzzle over (in a fade-to-black), letting you proceed without solving it. Noelle rationalizes Kris’s behavior as “just making me stronger,” and you hear an audio cue to let you know you’re on the right track.

Continue onwards, killing all of the enemies in your way, until you encounter the next puzzle (the one that Berdly monologues over in a normal route). Noelle will offer to do the puzzle herself, and the screen fades to black. She tells herself that she “can do things I could never do before” as long as she listens to Kris, and freezes the puzzle over. Again, you will hear an audio cue.

9. Continue as normal until you have killed enough enemies to satisfy Spamton (it should be 2 encounters after the previous puzzle), then return to the alley and buy the ThornRing from him for $1997. This ring hurts Noelle gradually, but halves the TP cost of all spells, making it essential to continue the route.

10. Equip the ring and return to where you were. In the next room, you encounter Berdly, whom Noelle will offer to freeze for you (thinking that he is another enemy). Understandably shocked, Berdly will ask what you are doing with her. Respond only with “Proceed”. A fight will begin.

In the battle, Berdly uses harder versions of his normal attacks, and only targets Kris. Noelle will also have a new spell called SnowGrave, which normally costs 200% TP. This makes equipping the ThornRing essential, as otherwise you won’t be able to cast it.

11. Once you reach 100% TP, tell Noelle to use her new spell. She will at first tell you she doesn’t know it, but persist, and...

Berdly fucking dies. Noelle acts confused as to what happened, and declares that she’s “going to go home” before walking upwards out of the screen.

And you’ve done it. There’s no way to back out now, so the rest of this post will just be dedicated to showing what happens next.

You follow Noelle’s path and see a manhole, which you enter. This takes you to the entrance of Queen’s mansion, where you reunite with Ralsei and Susie, who have been wondering where you are.

When you enter the castle the music playing is significantly slowed down, and the petrified Rouxls Kaard is blocking the cafe, so you can’t buy anything. An NPC comments that “a strange force has taken over the mansion”, and the staircase path is blocked by a forcefield, meaning you must take the secret passage (which is unblocked by default here) straight to the 3rd floor.

All of the minibosses (Mauswheel, Tasque Manager, and Werewerewire) are found in different locations, allowing you to encounter them despite the abnormal layout. All of the portraits have Spamton’s face on them, and the giant room of trays is instead filled with strange blue dots, which trigger an encounter with “Pipis” when you touch them. Interesting...

It generally continues like this until you pass Noelle’s room, which Susie enters to try to talk to her. Ralsei tries to get you to shift to Susie’s perspective like in the normal route, but for some reason it doesn’t work.

Susie returns from her date with Noelle, which we skipped this time, and says that, like in the normal route, she has told Noelle that everything is a dream, greatly reassuring her.

You continue to the top of the mansion as usual, but both Queen fights are skipped. Ralsei reveals his story about the “Roaring” before instead of after the fight, so after a brief conversation she decides to come with you to the Dark World at school.

Susie leaves to talk to Noelle and Ralsei stays to talk to Queen (blocking your path backwards), meaning you must continue to the fountain by yourself. Right before it, there is a save point and a convenient vending machine selling CD Bagels, which you will definitely want to stock up on.

When you reach the fountain, you get ready to seal it, but suddenly...!

Spamton swoops in to save the day (from you)! He explains that “YOUR [Total Jackass stunts]” have allowed him to achieve his NEO form, before making you fight him. Alone.

Obviously, Spamton isn’t really looking for mercy, so you have to FIGHT him. He gives some very interesting alternate dialogue, so go watch the video if you want to read it (though the player goes through the text kind of fast).

Finally, after a very long and difficult battle, you reduce Spamton below 10% HP, at which point he activates his “[Bluelight Specil]”. In this form he takes only 10 damage from each attack, recovers HP every turn, and only uses one move (which you can easily dodge).

Your only choice is to ACT. You call for Ralsei...

You call for Susie...

Finally, you call for Noelle, just barely whispering her name. Spamton mocks you, but suddenly realizes that it’s getting kind of cold. The screen fades to black, and...

Spamton fucking dies. Your soul arises from the darkness, and suddenly everyone wakes up back in the computer lab. Noelle is immensely happy that she has woken up, calling her experience in the Dark World a “nightmare”, and is further relieved when Susie denies having a tail (as Noelle saw it in the Dark World). Except, not everyone seems to be so lucky...

Berdly refuses to wake up. You gather up all of the stuff in the lab, and leave him there by himself.

The last major change happens when you visit Noelle’s father in the hospital. Noelle and her father are playing a game together like normal, but instead of listening to her father and using Fireshock, Noelle first suggests Iceshock. Hmm, sounds kind of familiar, doesn’t it?

The conversation continues as normal with slight changes, but just as you leave, Rudy asks Susie to stay behind. You leave the room without Susie, and one final fade-to-black cutscene occurs.

Noelle talks to herself, still shocked from her experience in the Dark World, and says that she is hearing “a voice unlike Kris’s” telling her what to do. She also comments on your strange behavior, at which point you can interject. Regardless of what you say, the following happens:

No matter your choice, before Noelle can respond, Susie interrupts after finishing her talk with Rudy. Noelle quickly leaves, and the rest of the chapter continues as normal.

And that’s it! Congratulations! You’ve successfully traumatized your oldest friend, possibly murdered your fellow classmate, and basically massacred the entirety of the Dark World.

What I love about this route is that it doesn’t change the ending significantly, which means it technically satisfies Toby Fox’s promise of “only one ending”. In any case, I’m sure this route will have massive story implications down the line, but for now we can only wonder. I hope you enjoyed! (Or didn’t enjoy, which is honestly more reasonable.)

[utilitycaster]

Wizard Breakdown Tracker, #135

Each week I think “man it would have been cool if I had thought of this idea, in which I make jokes about how stressed out the wizard NPCs are, during, you know, the Vergesson heist or something when we were interacting with more than one wizard NPC instead of during a dungeon crawl with only one wizard NPC, emphasis on crawl” but you know what, I persevere, because where else am I going to put song parodies about the death of Vess Derogna that are literally only funny to me? Twitter?

Anyway while I am personally team Jester, in that the faster Lucien is simultaneously disintegrated, run through in the chest with both a vestige and a holy avenger, shot through the heart (and Veth’s to blame), beheaded with a hand axe, banished, punched in the face, and sent into a black hole the better, the party has other plans. Thanks to the long rest though it has been about 12 hours, plus the 4-ish from last week, so I guess we’ll check in with a few of our other wizard friends as well.

As a reminder Caleb Widogast is a PC and thus excluded from this list.

Currently sidelined

Presumably having a good day: Pumat Sol (blissfully unaware of all of this); Allura Vyesoren (saint-like patience and a wealth of experience with disaster adventuring parties; at least this one has a cleric at more than 0.33 FTE, a wizard, and some lesbians), Ludinus Da’leth (this miserable pile of power plays wakes up every morning and is like Isn’t it Grand to be head of the evil wizard council and no one realizes I probably destroyed the first non-drow elven civilization on the continent to arise after the calamity! Fetch me more pastries!).

No idea but here’s hoping he found the cat portion of ScryTube: Oremid Hass

Lady DeRogna, taken off the scene, sorry that your murder happened while off-screen.

Trent Ikithon: I’ve established that I think the only real things that can damage Trent emotionally are Caleb paying too much attention to him so as to destroy his standing within the empire, or else Caleb ignoring him. Honestly if Trent would not continue to torture students and spread propaganda if left unchecked I think he could be slowly murdered solely through Caleb expressing apathy. So despite the amulets of nondetection I like to imagine that somehow, somewhere, Trent felt Caleb reaffirm to Essek that his top priority is still stopping the city from returning, not Trent, and it necrotized just a little bit more of his liver.

Conclusion: 7/10. I went to the OG evil mageocracy and no one knew who you were.

Essek Thelyss: Well on the one hand he’s still flirting but on the other imagine spending a literal century being like “what if we’re wrong about how we approach the fundamental basis for our society” and he just got proved right. I have to imagine he’s got that kind of stress where suddenly everything becomes dead calm and also this explains why he unnecessarily cast a 3rd level spell, which he knows could in theory cause him to lose all his hair, to impress a boy. I didn’t even get into the conversations he had with Caleb, the bad dreams and eyeballs, Fjord teasing him, Yasha being like “ALRIGHT ALREADY”, the horrible Aeorian creatures, the fact that robots might be back(?) or his ongoing terror that the Assembly is after him!

Conclusion: 8/10 but he’s like, kind of having a good time. Essek is in all ways but physical in a Hawaiian shirt right now drinking a Mai Tai and going Nothing Matters; I presume he will have a full breakdown following the boss battle and honestly he deserves it.

Astrid Beck: Others have already established the parallels between Essek and Astrid but honestly I want to highlight it because really, on the one hand we have Essek, whose world is crashing around him because he was right all along and is in terrible immediate danger but surrounded by friends, and on the other we have Astrid, whose world is crashing around her because she was wrong all along and she’s probably not in immediate danger but Eadwulf is the only person she can trust and we don’t know all the details about that either.

Conclusion: 8/10 but in the bad way, not Essek’s kind of fun way.

Wulfpupy:

Conclusion: 3/10. You know that tiktok with the blonde woman with glasses who has a lot of highlighter on her nose who talks about how sometimes if you have guy friends they will say something deeply fucked up and you’ll be like “oh my god do we unpack this right now” and then you look over at them and the only thing in their mind are the lyrics to Kokomo? That’s Wulf. He will activate the second Caleb comes back in town or Astrid actually falls apart but until then he is on Island Time.

Yussa Errenis: I wonder if there’s a small part of Yussa that is part of the city’s awareness and, moreover, can see what Beau and Caleb at least are doing, and he’s like “I’m so simultaneously proud and impatient, also we live in a world that does not have IV fluids so like, hopefully my body still exists in some kind of functioning state when I am rescued” (note: did I google “how were coma patients kept alive in olden times” for this? Perhaps.) Anyway if he is aware he’s also just like, watching all this like “I WILL GET YOU SO MUCH PAPER OH MY GOD CAN YOU JUST KISS THE OTHER WIZARD SAVE ME FROM THE EVIL HIVEMIND CITY.”

Conclusion: I mean still infinity/10, he is still trapped in the city of madness and also if he does have a small part of his mind that is sane and able to observe the material plane he also is aware that Trent and the Volstruckers broke into his tower.

Known Gem Wizard Hotsauce Lutefisk: I know, I know, weird that I brought him up. However consider: Yussa’s wizard tower now contains two wizards in suspended animation, their consciousnesses trapped in eldritch astral sea-related spaces. This is incredibly funny to me. We’re in a real Old Lady who swallowed a fly scenario except it’s centuries-old wizards getting sucked into traps because of their own hubris. The reason why mageocracies no longer exist isn’t the lack of magical knowledge or even because power corrupts absolutely, it’s because literally just put some lightly fried forbidden knowledge under a box with a stick propping it up, add your parody of Long-Term Nuclear Waste Warnings above it, and a wizard will be like “that sign won’t stop me because I CAN read and what’s more I’m better at reading than you are!” And then they get trapped in a box.

Conclusion: what is a breakdown tracker to a man whose mind has been stuck in a gem for, from his perspective, at minimum about 35 years?