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hellmouth-manor · 8 months

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i have shed my skin, look at me now | effigy.5

Ah. This is more like it. This is what he was expecting, what he had prepared himself for. The bitter rage, the derision, the betrayal.

Thank you, Hisashi. Thank you, Poppy. Thank you, Nike. You truly are putting on a hell of a show.

Micah has to quickly sidestep to avoid Poppy's spit on his hooves (gross), and he sheds the Party City jacket in the process- it gets bundled up and chucked back in Raoul's direction, now a little bit goopier for his efforts. There's a worm in one sleeve. Enjoy.

"Wow. Rude, Hisashi. I'll have you know the bait and switch was my idea, thanks. After someone got into somewhere they weren't meant to be, my master was worried that there might be a repeat performance with the Vault. Furthermore, all of you were getting a little too full of yourself. Leading you on and shooting you down at the last moment was the best way to fix both of those problems."

He tilts his head to look at the nearest camera. Raises his eyebrow. Vaguely wonders if, depending on how the rest of this trial pans out, that's going to be turned into a gifset on Tumblr by the end of the night.

"Also, can't you read? I was responsible for giving out those trinkets from past contestants, feeding my boss info on what you were doing, keeping an eye on the perimeter with the imps, testing the minigames and helping finetune the executions. I kept beating the shit out of that fake brother in yours, by the way. After a while they just assumed that you'd lose the fight and got me to move on, even though I thought he was still weak enough that you'd overpower him. But you didn't. Sad."

Now he tilts his head to look at Poppy. It's true, isn't it? There are so many parallels you could draw between them. But that's the thing about parallel lines- they never connect.

"Treacherous to the end, yes, yes, that's me. Why are you surprised? You realize that Cinnamoroll suit had a grown man in it the entire time, don't you?"

But no point rubbing salt in the wound. Nike, next.

"This is all pretty much exactly as planned, yes. Nothing anyone has said and done here is changing the course of things. If you want to take a swing at me, feel free. You can join Touji and Poppy in punching my teeth out. That also isn't going to change anything. Except, of course, just leaving a lot of teeth littered around the place. Gross."

(Micah wonders who's going to have to clean the teeth up. Then he thinks about squeezing the imps into tiny proper Victorian maid costumes and giving them tiny dustpans. It's a brief bit of levity in an otherwise endless ocean of misery and he is grateful for it. Something tells him that nobody would appreciate it if he spoke his vision out loud, though.)

#mm trial #micah

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wildewinged-fr · 7 years

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zweis-fr replied to your photoset: of course ahnvahr is doing well, why wouldn’t he...

kiss the goopy boy

u can’t see it through the goop but he blushes

#zweis-fr #he just keeps getting goopier

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bruhhhh-huhhhhh · 3 years

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no thoughts head empty, just gardener reader leaving flowers on the doorstep of their crush cause they’re too shy to actually give them to said cruse physically-

so can i get some headcannons with quackity, slimecicle, george, eret and wilbur with them catching reader in the act and teasing them for it?

yours truly,

gremlin anon

Yes. Lovely. Perfection

I didn’t know if you wanted platonic or romantic for them, so I did both-

And I got lazy at the end lmaoo so I just did platonic-

Also I’m sorry this took so long schools a bitch 😩

Quackity

Romantic

He was coming home from dealing with schlatt when he saw you placing flowers on his doorstep

He’s been getting them for weeks now, without any clue of who was giving them to him

Constantly he would go to your garden and ask you who had bought flowers recently, and every time you would tell him that all purchases were confidential, knowing that he was trying to figure out who had been giving him flowers.

You heard footsteps behind you, so you turned around to see your crush, Alex, staring at you dumbfounded.

“It was you!” He exclaimed with a smirk on his face. You simply just nodded in response, and he walked up to see what flowers they would be today.

You had picked out the new Lily of the Valleys you had started growing about 6 months ago, which happened to be his favorite.

The two of you just sat on his doorstep and talked about how long this had been going on, your crush on each other, and how you too wanted to move forward.

You both settled on going on a date, that you plan, and going from there

When you to are actually dating, he will always bring up the flowers to anyone who will listen, and every time, you elbow him in the side as your face heats up from the way he describes it.

Platonic

He was coming home from dealing with schlatt when he saw you placing flowers on your crushes doorstep

He just so happened to live next to them, and would always see the flowers on their doorstep after work

So when he finally caught you putting them on their doorstep he busts out laughing

Which may or may not cause your crush to come outside and see it was you-

Good news, everything ended well, and you two are dating now!

Alex will tease you about it every time he sees you two out and about

Charlie

Romantic

Charlie was always oblivious when it came to anything regarding feelings, especially other peoples. So when he started getting flowers daily, he just thought someone was just being nice to him, not trying to court him.

It took Alex telling him what was going on for him to realize what he was missing.

It just so happened that the same day Alex sat him down and explained to him what was going on that he left early and caught you putting poppies on his mailbox

“Ah y/n from the sky! Are you the one whos trying to uh, what was the thing he said, get in my pants and take me away from my work? Ah yes! That’s what quackity from Las Nevadas said.” He said as the goop from his body slowly dripped down, causing him to have to keep himself in check, and compel the goop back into solid form on his body

One little unknown fact about Charlie was that when he was flustered for feeling romantic in any way, his body gooped up and started dripping a lot.

You felt your face heat up at the words, and you had to sit him down inside his house (Hole? Idk where this man lives) and tell him how you felt about him, and how it was more that just “getting in his pants” as Alex said. You also had to tell him that you didn’t want to tear him away from his work, and that he didn’t have to go out with you if he didn’t want to.

Charlie told you that he thinks he feels the same way, describing the feeling he gets around you as “Feeling like goop, but goopier.”

Yes you two end up going on a date, yes it goes amazing, yes you moved him into your house that’s next to your garden. Yes, on multiple occasions, he had gotten goop on your stuff, garden included. Suprisingly, his goop actually speeds up the growing process and makes the flowers and foods last way longer than they normally would. The flowers also have a dramatically increased scent.

Tbh, he honestly will probably forget about the whole flower situation, considering all the new memories you two are making together, so he doesn’t tease you about it. Even if he did remember, he still wouldn’t tease you, thinking of how that would be mean and he wouldn’t like it if you teased him about that.

Platonic

So he had just come back from whatever he was doing idk-

And he saw you placing fresh flowers from your garden on your crushes porch swing

So obviously he goes over and asks for some too

You take him to your house and explain what the flowers mean

And he’s all like “oooooh”

Yea he accidentally tells your crush while the 3 of you are talking

And uh

Your crush likes you back!

Yay

George

He was not expecting that, that’s for sure. He had just woken up from a nap when he left his house and he saw you placing the flowers on your crushes doorstep

Lots of teasing when he’s actually awake

Mans most definitely will try to help when he can

Key word is try

He isn’t great

But he’s trying!

Acts surprised when you tell him you and your crush got together

Eret

They’re very helpful after they find out

They’re actually one of your crushes best friends, so he slowly starts playing match maker

Still gonna tease you tho

May or may not tell your crush who sent the flowers

Wilbur

Good god, have fun

Depending on what version of Wilbur we’re talking about

It matters-

Like, regular Wilbur will tease you in an older brother sort of way

Insanebur won’t even care because he a bigger and boomier things to think about

Ghostbur won’t tease you, he’ll just think it’s cute and help you out

Revivedbur will tease you to the point where it hurts your feelings, and then apologize and do it again

He’s mean

#dream smp #quackity #charlie slimecicle #platonic wilbur soot x reader #quackity x you #quackity x y/n #quackity x reader #charlie slimecicle x reader #eret #I’m so sorry this took so long-

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aj-is-typing-18 · 3 years

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So I got.....more brainrot for the cursed candy man au thats been made pretty much by @shadeswift99 and @red-rose-gown ,,,,,but- yknow, maybe if impulse was bad? We'll see where this goes! :]

Tw: body horror, bit of kinda, mindcontrol :]

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Grian felt the world dance.

No, he hadn't ever been one for sweets, oddly enough. Since the watchers, he hasn't really eaten any. Nothin' ever really,,,,made him not want candy, it was just....too sweet.

That was when impulse and pearl approached him.

He should've known something was wrong.

Pearls smile was a bit brighter, the sight of her made him feel fizzy. It was really odd, she didn't seem as animated before as she did now, she didn't seem as......lively? No. Pearl was very lively! It just....didn't make much sense she was with impulse? That may be it. Not to mention the fact She didn't seem....normal. Not in the 'this is hermitcraft' not normal, but in the 'something is off but I can't put my finger in on it', not normal.

It was the way her hair seemed goopier, like....he wouldn't call it pudding, but is smelled like it. Her skin wasn't exactly melty, but he could see some purple shards peeking from her skin and melty brown splotches of what he could only assume was skin on her arms and legs.

Impulse wasn't any better.

Grian knew the other had wanted fantasy, but he didn't have to be melting with candy. The brunettes hair looked like chocolate itself, and , a big patch of it melted his eye, and it seemed his very sweat was also.......melting him. Larger crystals were on the redstoners elbows, and his eyes were a striking purple, almost.......entrancing.

They had talked, like normal good neighbors do. Impulse was way more saturated too, his eyes seemed.....purple? His hair also seemed to me milkier, or was grian imagining things? No, he thought to himself. Something isn't right here.

Maybe it was the fact impulse and pearl were in matching suits? Impulse in a full one that was mainly yellow with purple accents, and pearl having a purple one with yellow accents. They were in sync, pherhaps too in sync. They also seemed to smell like all the candy in a candy store at once.

"Anyways," impulse said, fishing a something out of his pocket. "I Wanted to give you something to try! Pearl said they were great. But I want your opinion too! Scar sadly he wasnt feeling up to it....so..."

He handed grian........a chocolate bar? The builder was a bit confused. The thing that was....making all these problems was a small piece of chocolate?

"You'll try it right?"

"Of course!" Grian promised.

And now he was dancing. It had been days? Weeks? Grian didn't care anymore! He twirled and danced in the rtthm of everything, it all had that natural glow. Sure, his feet and body were sticking to things! That was okay......just a small hiccup from those candy bars of.....of uh- grian was puzzled.

He shouldn't be here.

He doesn't belong here.

But that sweet buzz kept pulling grian under, kept keeping him unaware of the changes. He was happy here. With his boxes of chocolate! It didn't matter....

He knew his hair had gotten more liquidy, like a syrup, or that his body had started melting. It didn't matter! Impulse knew what was best! It didn't matter when he saw his wings start to turn to goop, when he couldn't remeber his own- name. He was just content eating his chocolate.( And the wings, felt nice! )

But this felt so so wrong. He shouldn't be here.

A hand gently held a candy bar out to him, and grian couldn't stop himself from taking and starting to eat it as the hand gripped his shoulder. A voice laughed.

"There we go." Impulse said, as the haze returned to his friends gaze. As that smile became full once again, as the spiraling thoughts came to an abrupt halt under the sweet and muddled buzz of the confectionary, as it covered and snuffed out all those pesky worries and doubts from grians little head, covered like waffles were in syrup.

The hand helped him up as it wrapped around him more, and the warm and welcoming hand pulled him to his feet and helped get him into his new outfit uniform.

"Now, let's get to work."

#hermitcraft #impulsesv #au #grian #pearlesentmoon #pearl #impulse #Candy curse AU #Candy man curse AU #more to come!#i aint done yet.

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halfusek · 4 years

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a while ago i talked with some friends about redesigns of the batim cast and we also talked about the projectionist

now i really like the design of the projectionist in the game so its mainly just some ideas i wanted to try out just cause

- since norman has been a person that is kind of a reanimated corpse there [probably something going on with magic and engineering], he has sort of clothes but as they have been cartoonified [picture how audrey's clothes look like] they got inked,

- he gets inked a lot because he likes to spend time in deep dark down deep dark areas,

- maybe his body could get deformed too due to this like his forearms get longer and goopier because he keeps ripping out hearts and sometimes the victims fall into the ink,

- the ink is supposed to make you lost like a drop of water in the ocean therefore maybe his original feet got messed up and got replaced with tripods that dont melt off? i just wanted to see if i can include a tripod in there somehow tbh,

- i dont see a reason for him to have cartoon gloves but he could have gloves that mechanics have because he kinda also needs to carry heavy equipment and mess with it so maybe he could have some to wear,

- he doesnt have a human neck, the projector itself has a support beam that is stuffed into his body, maybe the power source is inside of it? assuming he doesnt have a heart or the heart is in it if he does but id go with doesnt,

- the speaker is like the ones we see it in other places in game - blotchy - and the corners of it are sticking out because chests are more round so some corners would be fitting to stick out,

- some wires pierce through his body and also the reel tape,

- as for the reel tape maybe he could have one stuck partially in his "eye" which kinda makes it less easy to stuff a reel into his head because someone would first have to fix that and not die,

- if he didn’t had a reel stuck in his “eye” then he could play a reel normally which would kinda look like he’s eating the tape with his “eye”. slurp.

- chains on him seem to be connected to the wires so maybe they used to have an imprisoning use and now its an empowering one

#bendy and the ink machine #norman polk #the projectionist #halfart #bright colors #body horror #i suppose

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pureangleda · 4 years

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Owo i'm curious can we get info on a certain flower for your au? >;3

YAS! Someone finally asked!

Trap!Flowey, ohohohoho this bitch, is no longer the flower you know and love. After the “incident” with Gaster, Flowey has turned into a strange, hulking Void Beast. He still has his conciseness and can think for himself, but has been fully warped by the Void, gotta think Omega Flowey but goopier. Strangely, while the reset button is still there, it no longer does anything (which absolutely pisses him off, he says he can’t feel anything but he’s still an anger boi -_-), Of course, that changes when Frisk arrives, but not in the way you except, and no I will not elaborate cause spoilers >:3c

Anyways, Flowey is still his sadistic self but is now driven to infect everyone with the Void, just to see what’ll happen. Thankfully, he somehow got himself trapped outside of the barrier, so he can only send his vines through the cracks to cause mischief... However, he CAN control certain Void Beasts, though certain conditions have to be met for that to happen. One, he has to have a vine connected to them, and two, they previously have to have been a monster. He’s not sure why that has to be a factor but he thinks it has something to do with souls...

And speaking of souls... Well, I think you can take a wild guess why Flowey looks the way he does :)

...Oof, there’s so much I wanna talk about with this boi but it’s gonna have to wait, I got some plans in the works so be on the look out... Although, said plans are gonna take a little longer than I thought due to life reasons, but there are plans. In the meantime, feel free to keep asking me stuff! I’m more than happy to answer them :)

#Void Trap

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ask-atwr · 4 years

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What’s it like for a normal skeleton to get something in their eyesocket? Also Noot, you say that as though you e gotten something in your eyesocket before? (Also also: what makes the goop in your eyesockets any different from the rest?)

Nightmare: You see, when a skeleton gets something into their eyesocket, it’s incredibly irritating. It’s like when humans get something in their eyes, except that much larger objects can fit in a skeleton’s eyesocket than a human’s eye. Skeletons also don’t have eyelashes to keep foreign objects out of their eyesockets. Also, skeletons can usually get foreign objects out of their eyesockets easier than humans can.

(During this part of the explanation, Dream manages to get a strike. He is currently in the lead by 12 points.)

Nightmare: This is not the case with me, as objects get into the goop, making them exponentially more difficult to remove. And yes, things have gotten into my eyesocket before. This includes glitter.

(Blueberry takes his first shot, getting nine points.)

Nightmare: As for what makes the goop different, it’s just the goop covering my right eyesocket - wow that feels weird to say - that’s, like, seventy times goopier than the rest of the goop.

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thehorde · 7 years

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Congratulations! I am so proud of you for getting 300 and I highkey love your blog! If it isn't too much trouble could I request number 12 off your prompt list between Roman Virgil and Logan? If not don't worry about it!

@seas-space-and-stardust, Thank you so much! 12. “I was… thinking.” / “Well, do less of that. It’s depressing the whole room.”

This got longer than I intended but… here you are!

Not many people knew that Virgil did, in fact, enjoy nice things. He liked calm colors and gentle smells and quiet breathing. He liked to sit with his eyes closed and listen to his family interacting around him. And maybe the reason he enjoyed it was just that. It was his family. They were all right there and no one was telling him to go away before he screwed something up. He could hear Patton whistling off-key in the kitchen a room away. Roman was under the table in the dining room drawing, scratching something on the bottom of the table with a pencil, and Logan was above him surrounded by a conglomeration of papers, his knees bouncing and occasionally prompting a swat from Roman, who’s arm kept getting jostled.

Virgil was curled up on the couch, headphones dangling from his neck, just… watching.

But something was off. He could feel it. The room grew colder and the evening yellow glow from the windows flickered and faded to cool blue of a winter storm. Virgil curled his toes in distaste and wrapped his arms around himself, searching for the source of the sudden change in the room’s temperament.

He narrowed down to Logan.

Logan was chewing the top of his pen (which was uncharacteristic in of itself) and his eyes were glazed, eyebrows furrowed, page… blank.

Blank pages? What had he been doing this entire time if not filling the pages in front of him with schedules and plans and notes and whatever the heck Logan usually thought was important to do?

Logan had yet to blink, staring sightlessly at… Virgil followed his gaze. At a lamp, apparently. Okay, whatever.

“Logan?”

No response.

Roman continued to scratch on the bottom of the table.

“Logan, what’re you doing? Logan!”

Logan finally blinked. He shook his head slightly and glanced at Virgil. He looked very tired in that moment. Quiet and sad.

“I was… thinking.”

Yes. He could see.

“Well, do less of that,” Roman grunted. He tried to sit up and knocked his head, which only pissed him off. Cursing, he crawled out from under the table and flopped boredly on the floor. “It’s depressing the whole room.” He gestured in a vague way at the living room. The temperature had dropped several degrees, it was stormy outside, and the shadows seemed to get goopier. Thicker. “I can’t create when it’s freaking Adams Family in here.”

“Are you feeling alright, Virgil?” Logan asked him. A raised eyebrow and a small dry swallow. He tapped his blank page with the chewed pen.

Okay, so did he really think he was going to fool anyone?

Virgil snorted. “I am semi-okay right now, which is pretty great for me. If what you mean is, ‘Virgil, why the heck are you screwing with the room?’ I’m not.”

Logan processed that and Roman grumbled and tried to get under the table again, but this time Logan didn’t let him. He kicked out with socked feet until Roman backed up. “Please find a more appropriate place to ‘create’ as you say. I have work to do and you keep hitting my knees.”

Roman huffed and stood. “Only because you’re vibrating!”

“I am not vibrating!”

A cold wind rushed through the room, scurrying the papers off of the table.

Logan didn’t even bother to catch them, he continued glaring at Roman until Roman threw his arms in the air and sat suddenly in the chair next to him.

“I didn’t mean here-!”

“Well, this is where I’m sitting! It’s a public place and you’re not doing anything anyway.”

Logan’s mouth dropped open. He sputtered. “I am working! Thomas needs his weekly schedule finished and I am transcribing new information about the solar system and… all of that.”

Virgil pursed his lips. “Then why are the pages blank, Lo?”

Logan ignored him. “I cannot be held back in this way!”

“Held back!” Roman squeaked. “I’m literally just sitting here!”

And Virgil thought he’d have a pleasant day… This was why they couldn’t have nice things. But the room was getting colder and bluer and darker and his breath frosted before his face. He had had no idea Logan even could had this effect on the physicality of the mindscape. He doubted Logan knew either.

Brain freeze came to his mind.

He stood and walked to the table, and despite his natural reservations, and placed a hand on Logan’s stiff shoulder.

Logan stopped mid-argument and stared up at him. “W-what are you doing?”

Virgil gestured at the room. At the ice forming on the glass windows and the mist in the air. And very slowly, Logan saw it all.

“Is… is that me?”

Roman opened his mouth, but Virgil shot him a glare and for once, he shut up.

“I don’t know what you were thinking about, Lo, but I think you should take a break.”

Logan shook his head. “I-I can’t I have far too much to do-”

“And you’re doing none of it. You’re overwhelmed. I know what overwhelmed looks like. Don’t sweat it. All this stuff will be here when you get back.”

Logan pursed his lips, obviously not convinced, but before he could speak, Roman interrupted, eyes on the table. “Patton and I made a new room. It’s… warm. It might…. warm you up as well?”

Logan stared at him, shocked. Roman and he only occasionally got along, and they very seldom did anything to help the other. Virgil smiled on the inside. “Just an hour, Logan. Take a break.”

Slowly, Logan stood up. On impulse, Virgil reached up and loosened his dangerously tight necktie. Logan jerked back, but he didn’t fix the tie. “There. Come on.”

A long pause.

He glanced reluctantly around the room but nodded. His shoulders relaxed.

“Alright.”

#fanfiction #fanfic #fan fiction #fan fic #sanders sides #sandersides #ask #prompt #:)

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aion-rsa · 4 years

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Star Wars From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back Review

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From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back is a fun anthology of Star Wars tales. Like its predecessor, it offers a variety of stories rather than simply evoking the dark second act of the original movie trilogy in particular. Here are slapstick comedies and lamentations, space battles and alien conclaves. Although some of the stories lack structure or feel unfinished, there are enough good ones here to please just about any Star Wars fan.

One sure crowd-pleaser is “Rendezvous Point,” a Rogue Squadron tale by Jason Fry. This is a fun jaunt back into the spirit of the old X-Wing books, down to the pilot slang, jokes, Z-95 Headhunters, and “uglies.” The dialogue is funny, sincere, heartfelt, and expresses exactly what it means to. It also provides a sweet look at the leaders of the Rebellion, whose disappearance after the Battle of Hoth in the movie provides the stakes. As Luke and Leia follow the journey on-screen, Wedge and his new squadron try to buy time in the hopes the twins will re-join the Rebel fleet. “There’s nothing in the galaxy that could keep Leia Organa from her duty, or Luke Skywalker from his friends.”

Fry’s story also acknowledges the characters’ worries and how hard the mix of open warfare and tense waiting has been on them. “It’s been what, three days? Wedge had to think about that for a moment — time had become a smear of anxiety and waiting for news that didn’t come.” I often found myself thinking about this line in the days leading up to the U.S. election.

Another stand-out was “There Is Always Another” by Mackenzi Lee. On the surface, this story explains why Obi-Wan Kenobi never told Luke that Vader was his father, especially as Luke was about to leave Dagobah against both of his Jedi Masters’ wishes. In part it’s a darkly humorous story about Obi-Wan’s long-suffering patience with Skywalker dramatics, but it’s also a story where Obi-Wan is forced to confront how much he loved Anakin, and the fact that Anakin intended to kill him. Luke is “the dumb, beautiful son of my dumb, beautiful friend who could never be talked out of anything he set his mind to.” A raw wound lurks underneath the laughter, and the tragedy of Obi-Wan and Anakin continues to be one of the greatest stories in the Star Wars saga.

On the darker side is the unflinching “The Final Order” by Seth Dickinson, which sometimes evokes Vietnam War fever dream The Things They Carried in its brutal, political look at an Imperial officer’s death. Later in the timeline of both the movie and the book, Martha Wells explores Ugnaught life with an authoritative voice. The second half of the book is overall stronger than the first; see also “The Man Who Built Cloud City” by Alexander Freed, which goes deep into the perspective of a Bespin vagrant. Like the best stories in the collection, it goes from grim to humorous without missing a beat. For all I’ve praised the second half of the collection, the very first story, “Eyes of the Empire” by Kiersten White is also a competent and optimistic tale of an Imperial intelligence worker switching sides.

Another standout is Catherynne Valente’s tale of the exogorth, the “space slug” that swallows the Millennium Falcon in the movie. Valente gives her all to this stylized epic that stretches far beyond the limits of the movies. Instead of feeling like a twee talking animal story or a human voice that happens to inhabit an alien body, the perspective is truly skewed and weird. And wonderfully softly so. The exogorth’s society prizes individuals who can nurture entire ecosystems in their cavernous guts. The story’s main character, Sy-O is mocked for merely containing mynocks. Sy-O’s melancholy and aspirations are deeply sad and beautiful. Valente took her commission to write about the space slug with deep seriousness and poetry, like a trapeze artist: skilled and theatrical. And the brief suggestion of Ben Solo growing up inside the belly of an exogorth, Han and Leia still alive and cared for but trapped forever in the space-faring monster, is exactly the kind of Star Wars spin-off weirdness I love.

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Star Wars The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark Review

By Megan Crouse

Speaking of the Sequel Trilogy, the Palpatine story weirdly dodges around any implications from The Rise of Skywalker. The story itself is a cool glimpse of an alternate universe.

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Unfortunately, most of the other “talking animal” stories are a bust. Admittedly, they have some leeway because of Star Wars‘ always flexible attitude toward sapience. What is the difference between a monster and a person? But the stories based around the wampa and the tauntaun never convincingly get inside the head of their subjects. When they do, the result is schmaltzy, goopier even than the most dramatic swell of music in a nature documentary.

Like in the first book, some stories are tonally adrift, without a voice or a clear direction. Especially in the Hoth sequence, several in a row felt more like descriptions of a single scene than complete story arcs, leaning far too heavily on exposition.

The one thing you shouldn’t expect from this collection is for it to match the tone of The Empire Strikes Back at all times. The movie’s tragedy-tinged adventure and relatively deep character relationships are considered the best in the saga for a reason, and some of these stories simply left me wanting to see more of Luke, Han, and Leia. It may not live up to the movie, but it certainly is an effective advertisement for it.

With a range of styles and characters, there’s a lot here to talk about. The From A Certain Point of View series, tied around the 40th anniversary of each movie, continues to be a fun event and a way to see Star Wars takes from some of today’s top authors. If you liked the A New Hope installment, you’ll get a lot of bang for your buck from the second book.

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purplesurveys · 4 years

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what was the last movie that you watched, and what did you think of it? I haven’t been watching movies during quarantine, actually. The last one I watched was Two for the Road, last April. It’s my favorite movie ever so I loved seeing it, as always. I’ve been watching shows a lot more and the most recent thing I watched was the Shut Up and Dance episode of Black Mirror. It’s an okay episode but it just makes me paranoid so there are other episodes I love a lot more.

can you sit through an extreme chick flick? I like romcoms as long as the acting is ok, like The Proposal or 13 Going on 30. I can’t deal with straight-up romance movies with acting or screenplays that make me want to stab myself in the throat, like The Notebook or A Walk to Remember. Overall they’re generally a hit or miss to me.

does gore in movies bother you? Nope. Whenever I catch gory scenes I just say to myself that the blood is ketchup and that some of the other goopier effects are just peanut butter and chocolate to make it easier to stomach. Also. Dude. I watch wrestling – the blood and dislocated body parts over there are as real as it gets, so fictional gore shouldn’t be a challenge to me.

what is honestly one of the best movies you’ve ever seen? Good Will Hunting.

have you cooked anything today, if so, what? Nope, though I did have a cinnamon roll from Cinnabon for breakfast.

what is a food that you are absolutely craving? Pad thai and banh mi.

have you ever been on a cruise before? Yes, around East Asia. It was a gift from my parents for my 18th birthday.

what would be your ideal vacation? I’m honestly good with anywhere as long as the place is swamped in a rich local culture and has many museums. I probably wouldn’t enjoy a city as much if it only has buildings and towers as tourist spots (which is what Manila is, so if anyone’s planning a trip here it’s smartest to go to the provinces lol).

what do you wish that you had more time in the day to do? Oh god, free time is all I have now. This question would definitely be more answerable if everything was still normal.

how many hours of sleep, on average, do you get per night? I would say it ranges between 4-6. Doesn’t matter what time I’ll sleep, I keep waking up at six in the morning. Been that way since my fever last month.

is it harder for you to fall asleep or stay asleep? Fall asleep, because I sleep like a rock. Though these days I also wake up easily now because of Cooper’s whines when he wants to play, do his business, or is hungry. Maternal instincts kicking in, lol.

are you currently sick with anything? Nothing other than period cramps and headaches. Though when I got that nasty fever last month I did get scared because it came with a cough and slight chest pain. The hospital I went to actually gave me a Covid symptom test and asked me a bunch of questions about my travel history, which made me all the more paranoid. Thankfully we could tell early on that it wasn’t Covid because the virus required dry cough, and mine definitely wasn’t dry.

do you know anyone who has had the swine flu? No, but my school had to suspend classes for a week because someone else in the community got it.

are you going to watch any of the nfl playoff games? I don’t care for American football.

who are you rooting for to win the superbowl? I just pay attention if Beyoncé’s showing up at the halftime stuff, man.

do you have an older brother? Biologically, no. But I view my favorite cousin, that I grew up with, as my older brother since it really feels that way.

do you ever play board games, or have you grown out of them? I definitely grew out of them very early on. Just never became my thing.

did you ever own a pack of gel pens? For sure. The glitterier, the better.

what were the worst fashion trends that you witnessed in school? We had a uniform and a very strict dress code (in the rare days that we had to come in casual), so no one got to dress up in just whatever way they wanted. I never liked when people covered their entire arm in those rubber wristbands though. I always thought the look looked kind of cheap.

do you know what snooki’s pouf is? Of course. Aw man, I miss her haha.

do you celebrate christmas? Yes. Christmas gives me depression more than anything else, but I’m present at all family gatherings. The reunions distract me, so when it comes down to it they’re a good thing so I don’t complain.

what is a goal that you set for yourself in 2010? 2010 was a bad year, so while I don’t remember any specific goals I made I think I just made it a point to not kill myself.

did you kiss anyone since the new year? Yeah, but only until March.

do you still purchase cds? Not anymooooore. I bought my last ones in 2013.

did you see the movie avatar? Nope. Not a fan of the genre. When I saw blue-skinned beings in the little snippets I’ve seen, I was out lol.

have you ever broken any bones, if so, which? I haven’t.

were you a quiet child or a loud child? Definitely a quiet kid. A little too quiet, actually. I was too shy to ask for permission to go to the washroom so I’d hold it in and always end up having accidents.

how old were you when you learned to ride a bike? I still haven’t learned how.

what do you think of the conflict with the show jersey shore? Never saw anything beyond the pilot because my dad didn’t allow me to watch the show. I was like 11 or 12 when it first came out, so the ban was valid.

do you put product in your hair daily? Yes, conditioner.

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17 delicious foods you can thank immigrants for.

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Immigrants are in the spotlight lately. And not in the good, Patti LuPone/Audra McDonald duet kind of way.

LuPone (left) and McDonald (right). Photo by Drama League/Flickr.

As promised, the Trump administration is advancing its plans to boot millions of immigrants from the United States — and reviving its order to stop them from coming here in the first place.

To hear all your Sean Spicers, your Stephen Millers, and your Kellyanne Conways tell it, the measures are necessary to stop, well, pretty much everything bad currently happening in America — from job-stealing to crime to terrorism.

Convincing Americans that immigrants are more than the sum of their worst stereotypes means winning back some hearts and minds, but these days, it can feel futile to appeal to America's heart or its brain.

But perhaps — perhaps America's stomach is still willing to listen.

Immigrants don't only make America great; they make it delicious. The people who risk their livelihoods and occasionally their lives to come here are often more than happy to share their secret recipes with us. Without them, we'd have nothing to eat ... nothing good, anyway.

Here are 17 of the top contributions to America's culinary scene by refugees, ex-pats, and immigrants.

Try not to drool on the keypad.

1. You wouldn't know about pretty much all the Chinese food you like if it weren't for refugee-turned-immigrant-turned-master chef Cecilia Chiang.

Chang and kung pao chicken. Photos by John Parra/Getty Images and Sodanie Chea/Flickr.

Chiang, who survived the Japanese invasion of China before immigrating to San Francisco in the 1960s, introduced America to the delicious, umami, stir-fried meat pile known as kung pao chicken at her restaurant, the Mandarin.

2. This giant paella wouldn't exist if chef Michael Mina hadn't moved here from Egypt.

Today was one for the books. #MinaMoments

A post shared by Michael Mina (@chefmichaelmina) on Sep 24, 2016 at 6:26pm PDT

Mina, the guy with the oar, was born in Cairo, immigrated to the U.S. and settled in Washington state, proceeded to open over a dozen restaurants in cities across the country, win a Michelin star, write a cookbook, appear on Gordon Ramsey's "Hell's Kitchen," launch a media company, and, in this photo, somehow managed to combine rice, shellfish, and nautical equipment into something so appetizing you would probably win a free T-shirt for finishing it.

3. Without lax 19th century immigration laws, America would have been denied its birthright: the Bud Light Straw-ber-Rita.

Anyone who watched this year's Super Bowl just for the commercials knows that Adolphus Busch was a hardscrabble German immigrant who trudged through miles of mud and ominously high grass to found the all-American beer company that makes the U.S. the perennial world leader in drunken high school reunion softball games.

4. You'd have to travel to an Eastern European war zone to enjoy these perogis.

Photo by Veselka/Facebook.

In 1954, Ukrainian refugees Wolodymyr and Olha Darmochawal came to New York City and founded Veselka in the East Village, serving these soul-altering fried meat, cheese, and potato pouches by the crock-load to NYU students who have crushed one too many Bud Light Lime Straw-ber-Ritas.

5. This ridiculous pulled turkey burger with Indian spices, candied bacon, and masala fries wouldn't be available in Elvis country.

Maneet Chauhan and the turkey burger. Photos by Theo Wargo/Getty Images and Chauhan Ale and Masala House/Facebook.

One great thing about being alive in 2017 is that you can find South Asian-Southern fusion sandwiches for less than $20 in the middle of the Bible Belt like it's no big deal thanks to immigrants like Indian-American chef Maneet Chauhan (you might know her as a frequent judge on "Chopped"), who opened Chauhan Ale and Masala House in Nashville in 2014.

6. We wouldn't know the gastronomic perfection that is surf and turf served over two cheese enchiladas.

Richard Sandoval and surf and turf. Photos by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images and La Hacienda/Facebook.

Before Richard Sandoval was a "Top Chef Masters" contestant, Bon Apetit Restaurateur-of-the-Year Award winner, and international food star, he was just a Mexico City kid with a dream. That dream? To put fried onions on top of steak on top of enchiladas with some lobster tail and risotto getting freaky on the side, as his La Hacienda in Scottsdale, Arizona, did on Valentine's Day 2017.

7. Anything with Huy Fong sriracha in it would have to be seasoned with a far lesser hot sauce.

Photo by Steven Depolo/Flickr.

Thanks to erstwhile humane values of decades past, America's hottest condiment was given unto us by a refugee — David Tran — who fled his native Vietnam on the ship Huy Fong in the 1970s. Had he come four-and-a-half decades later, it's likely he would have wound up in Canada and invented spicy maple syrup or whatever. (Actually, to be honest, that sounds pretty great. Please, immigrants from tropical climes living in Canada, invent spicy maple syrup.)

8. The Swedes might have chef Marcus Samuelsson's La Isla Bonita all to themselves.

Samuelsson and La Isla Bonita. Photos by Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images and Red Rooster Harlem/Facebook.

With all the problems in Sweden that are totally so real that everyone knows about them, it's no wonder that Samuelsson (who was born in Ethiopia and is another frequent "Chopped" judge) skipped town for New York City, bringing his brand of soul food to Harlem's Red Rooster — including this otherworldy mashup of tres leches cake, rum, passion fruit, and banana.

9. Detroit would be bereft without its iconic chili-onion-mustard dogs.

Photo by Steven Depolo/Flickr.

The precise origin of the Michigan-favorite Coney dog has been debated for decades, but pretty much no one contests that it was invented by Greek immigrants, notably brothers Bill and Gust Keros around 1919, when they discovered — after millennia of flailing by the best chefs in the world — that the ideal condiment for meat was goopier meat.

10. You wouldn't even be able to dream about Jose Andres' ibérico bacon cristal bread uni.

Jose Andres (L) and tapas (R). Photo by Larry French/Getty Images; Jaleo/Facebook.

It's also known as coca con arizos de mar — or "expensive ham 'n fish pizza" — and Andres serves this magical creation at his D.C. tapas restaurant Jaleo. The award-winning chef, who hails from Spain, was one of several dozen who closed his restaurants on Feb. 16, 2017, in protest of the Trump administration's immigration policies.

11. Vending machines, bodegas, and gas station convenience stores nationwide would be thousands of dollars poorer without Flamin' Hot Cheetos on the shelves.

Photo by Calgary Reviews/Flickr.

More than "The Great Gatsby," more than "Rudy," even more than Katy Perry's "Roar," the story of Flamin' Hot Cheetos is the story of the American dream. Working full time as a janitor at a Cheetos factory (!), Mexican immigrant Richard Montañez took home some defective, un-dusted Cheetos after an equipment breakdown, sprinkled some chili spices on them, and presented his creation to corporate bigwigs, who promptly put them into production. The tangy corn tubelettes quickly became the company's #1 selling snack, and Montañez was promoted to executive vice present of multicultural sales and community activation, having successfully pulled himself up by his sticky-dusty bootsraps.

12. Cronuts would not be a thing.

Dominique Ansel and a cronut. Photos by Noam Galai/Getty Images and Chun Yip So/Flickr.

Assuming you could get a cronut, you would be first-born-child-level indebted to Dominique Ansel, the French-born chef who debuted the monstrously scrumptious croissant-donut hybrid in New York City in 2013. Unfortunately, four years later, you still can't get a cronut.

13. Your airport layover would be 1,000% less tolerable without this margherita pizza from Wolfgang Puck Express.

Puck and pizza. Photos by Michael Kovac/Getty Images and Jeff Christiansen/Flickr.

Stuck in Downtown Disney World or delayed getting back to Milwaukee? You could do a lot worse than this gorgeous bubbly cheese pie by Puck, Austria's greatest gift to America since the toaster strudel.

14. You'd have to eat this mouthwatering soft-serve in a cup instead of a cone.

Photo by Mark Buckawicki/Wikimedia Commons.

If there's one thing certain cable news outlets will never fail to remind you, it's that Syrian immigrants are very, very, super-duper scary. Perhaps nothing in history illustrates this better than their most terrifying invention to date, the ice cream cone. The edible frozen treat vessel was created by Abe Doumar, who debuted his creation at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904, the culmination of the Middle Eastern migrant's dastardly plot to improve mankind and delight children of all ages around the world forever and always.

It's not just that immigrants invent food we like to eat. They pretty much cook everything we eat too.

Roughly 20% of restaurant cooks are undocumented, and an even greater share are foreign-born — up to 75% in some cities. That means that immigrants are responsible for feeding you even the down-home comfort food you enjoy, including...

15. This cheeseburger from Hardee's...

Photo by Mr. Gray/Flickr.

16. ...this stock photo apple pie....

Photo by mali maeder/Pexels.

17. ...and this American flag sheet cake.

Photo by Eugene Kim/Flickr.

Immigrants deserve a place in America. And not just because they fill our tummies with tasty victuals.

They enrich our communities and keep our culture varied and interesting. They do the jobs most of us don't want to do. They pay hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes and contribute to our economy in countless measurable and immeasurable ways.

Immigrants and refugees don't come here to get Americans fired, steal our wallets, or blow us up. Most of them come here for a better, safer, more secure life.

They make all of our lives richer — and more delicious — in the process.

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17 delicious foods you can thank immigrants for.

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Immigrants are in the spotlight lately. And not in the good, Patti LuPone/Audra McDonald duet kind of way.

LuPone (left) and McDonald (right). Photo by Drama League/Flickr.

As promised, the Trump administration is advancing its plans to boot millions of immigrants from the United States — and reviving its order to stop them from coming here in the first place.

But perhaps — perhaps America's stomach is still willing to listen.

Here are 17 of the top contributions to America's culinary scene by refugees, ex-pats, and immigrants.

Try not to drool on the keypad.

1. You wouldn't know about pretty much all the Chinese food you like if it weren't for refugee-turned-immigrant-turned-master chef Cecilia Chiang.

Chang and kung pao chicken. Photos by John Parra/Getty Images and Sodanie Chea/Flickr.

2. This giant paella wouldn't exist if chef Michael Mina hadn't moved here from Egypt.

Today was one for the books. #MinaMoments

A post shared by Michael Mina (@chefmichaelmina) on Sep 24, 2016 at 6:26pm PDT

3. Without lax 19th century immigration laws, America would have been denied its birthright: the Bud Light Straw-ber-Rita.

4. You'd have to travel to an Eastern European war zone to enjoy these perogis.

Photo by Veselka/Facebook.

5. This ridiculous pulled turkey burger with Indian spices, candied bacon, and masala fries wouldn't be available in Elvis country.

Maneet Chauhan and the turkey burger. Photos by Theo Wargo/Getty Images and Chauhan Ale and Masala House/Facebook.

6. We wouldn't know the gastronomic perfection that is surf and turf served over two cheese enchiladas.

Richard Sandoval and surf and turf. Photos by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images and La Hacienda/Facebook.

7. Anything with Huy Fong sriracha in it would have to be seasoned with a far lesser hot sauce.

Photo by Steven Depolo/Flickr.

8. The Swedes might have chef Marcus Samuelsson's La Isla Bonita all to themselves.

Samuelsson and La Isla Bonita. Photos by Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images and Red Rooster Harlem/Facebook.

9. Detroit would be bereft without its iconic chili-onion-mustard dogs.

Photo by Steven Depolo/Flickr.

10. You wouldn't even be able to dream about Jose Andres' ibérico bacon cristal bread uni.

Jose Andres (L) and tapas (R). Photo by Larry French/Getty Images; Jaleo/Facebook.

11. Vending machines, bodegas, and gas station convenience stores nationwide would be thousands of dollars poorer without Flamin' Hot Cheetos on the shelves.

Photo by Calgary Reviews/Flickr.

12. Cronuts would not be a thing.

Dominique Ansel and a cronut. Photos by Noam Galai/Getty Images and Chun Yip So/Flickr.

13. Your airport layover would be 1,000% less tolerable without this margherita pizza from Wolfgang Puck Express.

Puck and pizza. Photos by Michael Kovac/Getty Images and Jeff Christiansen/Flickr.

14. You'd have to eat this mouthwatering soft-serve in a cup instead of a cone.

Photo by Mark Buckawicki/Wikimedia Commons.

It's not just that immigrants invent food we like to eat. They pretty much cook everything we eat too.

15. This cheeseburger from Hardee's...

Photo by Mr. Gray/Flickr.

16. ...this stock photo apple pie....

Photo by mali maeder/Pexels.

17. ...and this American flag sheet cake.

Photo by Eugene Kim/Flickr.

Immigrants deserve a place in America. And not just because they fill our tummies with tasty victuals.

Immigrants and refugees don't come here to get Americans fired, steal our wallets, or blow us up. Most of them come here for a better, safer, more secure life.

They make all of our lives richer — and more delicious — in the process.

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