#i feel like if they went with that one though we wouldnt have gotten a lot of dialogue from him tho

[engie-the-profit]

infinite doodles 31-40. i cannot for the life of me remember who designed that eggman empire general au infinite but it was someone on twitter. a good amount of all the infinites i drew for this campaign were based off of user requests actually, which im very thankful for bc sometimes its hard to think of poses or subjects to base doodles off of every single day lol. i definitely reused poses quite a bit whenever i had to scribble out a drawing before going to work or something. you can usually tell when i was rushing bc its like. standard 3/4 angle, standing, looking somewhere in the distance or at the viewer, arms crossed or at his sides or with one hand up. old reliable tbh

part 1 part 2 part 3

[saturnxlust]

HEYYY :P ik its been awhile my bad😔

Injured!Proxys+ben x Doctor! Reader

Tim Wright/ Masky

So this man is closed off, all of the proxys are😞

But hes not a idiot, he knows when his body has had enough and when he needs help

The only way you’d be able to help him is if its a severe wound or if your close with him

Im talking at least 2+ years of either dating or being friends..

Lucky you if you’ve made it this long!

Now actually helping him is difficult

Hes stubborn and doesnt like to admit hes in pain so when you stitch his sorry ass up or disinfect it, he winces but swears hes fine

Hes not fine

He also complains the entire time about how he could do it himself

Knowing full well he couldnt he just likes to be a pain in the ass

Brian Thomas/hoodie

Hes more lenient, he’ll let you help him even though we all know this man could do it himself

It wouldnt be good but as long as he isnt bleeding out he doesnt really care

Although hes the more lenient one hes still closed off and it takes atleast a year or more to be able to help him

The first time you actually clean up a wound he falls deeper in love

Its not covered in dried blood or anything!

Hes amazed at how gentle you were and found it cute if you were concerned about him

It gets to the point where he would make small bruises or cuts just to have you put a little bandaid on his finger or put pain cream on his bruise

He would totally make you kiss the bandages after, no matter how big or small😭

He has dinosaur bandaids and unicorn bandaids.

Toby Rogers

Oh boy buckle up

So he cant feel pain

Good luck☺️

He doesnt know hes hurt and most likely you wont either

If you somehow get him to wash his fuckass sweatshirt and seem to see a wound, he too, would be confused and surprised

He would find how concerned you were funny and laugh as you clean him up

If you yelled at him while he laughed he’d tell you to relax and that hes fine

Hes not fine

Like brian he would make small cuts and or bruises to have you patch him up

Back tracking a little, it would take a few months but not because hes closed off

He trusts you completely to not hurt him physically

It was just getting to see him without his sweatshirt on that was difficult

He keeps that thing on all the time no way your getting a peak at his scrawny ass unless you rip that sweatshirt off him or if you get…spicy.. with him..

Eyeless Jack

HAH

Good luck

He went to medical school

This man knows what hes doing

But like the others finds it funny that you want to help him

He doesnt need it but honestly

Hes too smart to get too badly injured, if he does it’s because he went awhile wothout eating and became reckless

I think that if he were to go more then a fee weeks without eating he would get reckless with how he got the kidneys

He wouldnt leave the victims alive and leave them in their bed naked with incisions on their stomach

When that happens he usually comes home with a bruise or scratches from the victims fighting back,

If you’ve gotten to the point that you know about that and accept it, not only will you be helping clean him up

You’d help clean his clothes up

Hes a clean guy dont get me wrong but after eating i think he would just need to sleep

And if your like me theres no way that 7’ tall demon is getting in my bed soaked in blood and possible guts ☺️

Jeffery Hodek

God i wish you luck if your with this man

He will let his wounds get infected for fun and he will enjoy it when you get upset (COUGH COUGH MOUTH CUTS COUGH)

He honestly couldnt care less and again, finds it amusing when you yell at him

Lets be honest his story is written awful so im gonna tweak it a litte

He did not get bleached, there was a explosion and some of his hair burnt off, it has since grown back a little but the burn scars are still there

So if you want to help him clean his mouth he’ll complain and tease you and taunt you but he’ll let you do it

..if you even want to after all that.😒

Benjamin Lawman

So he can’t actually get hurt…i mean unless hes like a zombie but he isnt, this guys a ghost

So i mean, unless he has some power to be human magically theres really nothing that can hurt him

Even you..

But you should find a way to hurt him, whether it be physical or emotional causr hes a jackass

And will make fun of you just to see you cry😒

Either bring up something from his past(he might get a little angry at that🥰) or threaten to throw him into a lake

You can’t actually throw him but..he..doesnt need to know that😇

[a-sad-machine]

The Truth (part one)

So as a nice anon once asked for it, here is the first part of my thoughts on which people would find out the truth in the friendly!Impostor sagau, and how/why they managed to do so! :D

 i will probably split this up into multiple posts bc i am kinda new to writing, and also im probably just gonna do general stuff now and specifics later (i really gotta figure out how to work on my posts n stuff as well, i dont even know how to do the ‘read more’ thing qwq)

Mondstadt

so first off the city we all began in, cuz its easy to start with uwu

the ones whomst i think would notice that you are actually the real creator: albedo, eula, kaeya, lisa, rosaria, mona, and maybe venti

albedo, eula, kaeya, lisa and rosaria know because they’re all pretty observant, weather it’s because of their instincts and knowledge ganed throughout their lives (eula, lisa and rosaria) or their paranoia born from wanting to protect their home from themself and/or outside forces (albedo and kaeya)

mona would know because of her ability to see the future, she probably tried looking into yours once and suddenly saw the devine creator on their throne, not hard to connect the dots at that point

i think all the archons would know something is off about you from the moment they meet you, thought they’d take different amounts of time to realise what exactly is going on. I believe venti would be the second of the current archons to know, only beated my the archon of knowledge herself. Afterall, he is all about freedom and creativity, so he has an open mind as to why he feels so weird about you, which leads him to the truth earlier than the other archons

the ones who would think something is suspicious, but either wouldnt think of you as the creator or not have proof woud be: amber, bennett, diluc, and jean

diluc and jean notice because they’re also quite observant, thought they are too devoted to the creator to actually think of you being the real one as a solid theory. they might have spend some moments thinking about it, but dismissed it just a few seconds later

amber and bennett are a special case. they mostly notice because of the time they spend with you. i imagine as an outrider and experienced adventurer amber spends a lot of time showing you the best spots of mondstadt. during these times there are bound to be moments where you are just too lucky, which add up to make her question if you are really just a blessed human, or even more. bennett has kind of the same thought process, but mostly since you are able to protect him from all the incidents his bad luck causes. you can’t just be a normal human, anyone else would’ve already gotten badly hurt being around you! maybe you’re just really special, blessed by the creator to be even able to be near him wtihout any unfortunate incidents.

the ones that are too devoted to find anything off with you are: barbara, noelle and succrose

barabara of course is fully devoted to her archon and the church of the divine creator. the thought of Impostor-chan lying or posing as you would never even crossed her mind, since they could never lie to their followers like that (you did tho lol)

noelle is very similar, though less focused on the church and more on just wanting to please people. she has never been able to say no, and probably went to church at leat every sunday to attend the ceremonies in your name. so it’s hard to connect such an unreachable and seemingly perfect being to you, who doesn’t even know how to survive in the wilderness and always returns from expeditions covered in dirt with a smile on their face

sucrose might seem weird at first because she is more into science, but she believes that this is all part of your grand plan. her experiments are only using what was given by the divine creator after all! So while she might like you for your likeness to the ‘divine being’, it takes a while for her to see past the surface and see you for your actual self

the ones that either don’t care or don’t really seem religious are: diona, fischl, klee and razor

diona and klee are honestly just wayyyyyy too young to really care about religion too much. they’re more interested in blowing up fish or creating a horribly tastig drink, so when they meet you, they don’t have too much of an opinion about the divine creator, and just see you as another fun and slightly reckless adventurer

fischl has too much of a chunibyo syndrome. she has always been enraptured in her own fantasy, which didn’t leave too much room for the divine creator. though she has made up a few scenarios with you in mind, they’re all outlandish enough to never connect to you, which means she will adress you as another one of her followers (and freak out if she ever realises who you actually are)

razor just simply doesn’t really know about you. his lupical taught him of a divine being that created all of the lands, far and near, even those which he and the wolves live in! but he thought that the being would be another wolf like andrius, not a human like you, though you do smell kind of strange... he might not think too much of it thought, since he doesn’t know too much of humans yet

(so uh, yeah! hope this kinda was a good thing to read for ppl! if y’all have any requests or questions, send ‘em in and i’ll try to answer to the best of my ability! :D thanks for reading if you’ve even gotten to this point!!)

[axel-skz]

You’re not funny…

Part one

A/N: I’ve decided to make this a mini series… I want to update a massive amount at once but it would be too overwhelming and id never get it out so… small parts! Woohoo 🥳 today’s song shuffle gives us… SIDE EFFECTS!!!

After he learned it was a prank, you guys had spent the weekend with atleast one point of physical contact the whole time. You could feel he needed it but you definitely knew you did. Your heart broke later on when he told vou that a tour was coming up.

That weekend was even more important now because of it. He would be off to the states in three weeks. You were so excited for him because the oddinary era had been so amazing already, the tour would make it absolutely phenomenal. You had been through him being gone before and you guys did well in getting through it. You were able to get some time off work and go with him.

You weren't too sure how this was going to go though. He had been busier and you guys had already been spending less time together.

He always use to make time. You could see how tired he was but he came through anvwav because he knew he had to. It had been so much harder now to do that. The work was much more official. Brand deals and appearances. Stuff he couldn't miss.

It would be even harder now because not only were you going to be so far apart, there was a time difference too. There would be a lot more to get through. A lot more preplanning and if he was moving around the states, there wouldnt be a set time for him to talk to vou.

It was the week before he left, he had gotten 3 days off before they'd be leaving. He spent a day with his family and now, he would be spending 2 days with you.

You were nervous and had been building it up in your head. You wanted the time to go well because you had this paranoia that when he went away, he may forget you. It wasn’t a fear he had instilled in you in anyway but… self consciousness lead you to feel inadequate.

A/N: I know this is short and I’m sorry but little bits everyday is better then possibly nothing in ages so :) here we are. Somedays may have more, somedays may have less.

(A/N: Writing another part is taking some time and I’m sorry 😭 I hope people aren’t like silently waiting and getting tired. I have terrible mental health days and I physically cannot get myself to write anything. All my energy goes into dealing with my real life and just getting through it.)

Part 3

[mikeyelistsukasa]

YOU ASKED FOR IT-

YANDERE HANAKO, MITSUBA, TERU, KARMA, AND ITONA WITH A TSUNDERE DARLING???

DARLING JUST GOES FULL ON TSUNDERE ON THEM (not physically tho) AND HOW WOULD THEY REACT???

HEADCANONS PLEASE!!!!

Yes yes and again yes i have finally finished this request. ALSO ME AND YOU DISCUSSED PRIVATELY AND MADE THE TSUNDERE DARLING BE BULLIED i did them all in order like in the request (14th request) i did not proofread!

Yandere!Hanako Mitsuba Teru Karma and Itona with a bullied!tsundere Darling

Awwww his sweet darling is mad at him again and he is clueless why as always ☺️

Seriously why are you mad tho he just hugged you from behind >:T

He suprised you? Ohhhhhhh okay he totally wont do that again :D

*hugs* *smack* “worth it”

Wdym you don’t like him too😢what’s with all your mood swings

“Are you on your period? :0”

*smack* “YOU IDIOT IM NOT”

You do have some sweet moments though like when you bring him doughnuts(i refuse to say donuts)

Or when you once brought him lego to build a space ship so cute

Its really hard for him to catch you sad because you’re either all grumpy and flustered or happy and relaxed

(He actually always watches out for you like everyone else but to make it more spicy we will pretend that they all were busy with something)

So why did you enter the bathroom with a frown this time? :(

“S/o darling whats with the sad face? :(“

“It’s nothing…idiot”

Ok now he is really concerned you would slap him already and you sound so tired

Did something happen in class ?he only wasn’t there to watch over you at math

So he approached you slowly

“Can it be that someone hur-“

“DONT TOUCH ME”

…what in the world has gotten into you?

Thats until he noticed a small bruise on your arm and that alerted his yandere side

“Okay…who was it?”

“W-what?”

He took your arm slowly

“Tell me who did this to you”

You stayed silent feeling scared

Are you seriously protecting the scumbag?

“Three…two…o-“

“IT WAS (Bully name) THEY DID IT”

“I see…should have thought so i noticed how they glared at you in class lately”

He gave you a kiss on the cheek

“Don’t worry I won’t kill them.ill just make sure they change school”

That had calmed you down

Litte did you know that what he said was a lie<

He is a bit softer with the insults as a yandere

But only a bit :)

“IM NOT BLUSHING YOU IDIOT”

“YOU ARE THE IDIOT FOR NOT NOTICING”

Its his duty in making your hair

And you reward him with some cute bento you made 🍱💖

Would take so many pictures of you that it gets concerning

„STOP MAKING 10 PICTURES OF ME IN THE SAME POSE“

„I ONE DID ONE PHOTO“

„OH SO NOW YOU‘RE CALLING ME AN IDIOT AS IF I WOULDNT NOTICE?“

„YEAH UH YOU ARE AN IDIOT SINCE LIKE I SAID I ONLY TOOK ONE“

*sigh* How did you two even end up together

Anyway

When you came late to the broadcasting room he was ready to scold you in his own tsundere way

That is until you came in with a sad expression and a wet uniform

„Hey you s/o what happened???“

„Its none of your business…“

He didn’t feel like arguing so he just let it go

I mean he still went on his way to find out on who upset you

„Did you see the way they/she/he cried???? That’s so pathetic and all dad because i spilled a bucked of water on them/her/him“

„I never liked them/her/him anyway they/she/he always was like oh you stupid idiot for no reason and not to mention she talks to herself like a creep“

Target found

The next day when the girls/boys went into the classroom when suddenly a cold bucked of water fell onto them

„WHAT THE HELL WHO DID THIS!?!?“

The girls/boys have suspected you as a revenge for what they did so they glared at you ignoring the laughing from their classmates

As the class ended the bullies decided to corner you

„You think your so though by embarrassing us infront of our class??!!!?“

„Please i didnt do it!!!!“

„Yeah right. Girls/boys grab them/her/him by the shoulders“

Suddenly the bully felt a could arm on his shoulder

„ugh Okay what punk also wants to get beaten u…“

It was mitsuba! Though he looked kind of scary

„Leave before I’ll kill you and your little buddies“

„A-A GHOST HELP“

The bullies eventually ran away

Mitsuba wanted to add something but thought thats good enough…for now

„Thank you mitsuba..i should’ve told you sooner…“

„Yes you indeed should have…but it’s alright i forgive my little idiot“

You laughed a bit at that

„You’re the idiot♥️“

This boy babies you tsundere or not

Honestly im not sure if your relationship status is private or not. Since he wants everyone to know who you belong to

But at the same time he is afraid that someone could take that as an advantage on hurting you

Buuut you insisted that you want everyone to know about your relationship

So he decided okay sure he will just have to look after you a bit more than usual

And by usual i mean he is litterly following you everywhere

Need to get some notebooks? Dw he will come with you.

Need to use the bathroom? Dw he will wait outside. Especially for any signs of you meeting honorable n.7

He kind of doesn’t want you to talk to yashiro because of that

But since kou is friends with her you end up talking with her time to time…under his watch☺️

„Lets go Honey we can go to my place do homework :]“

„YOU DUMBASS DONT CALL ME THAT AROUND EVERYONE“

„Sorry? :]“

„YOU DONT EVEN SOUND SORRY IDIOT“

You still went to his house to make homework and ate some of kou‘s delicious meals

„I think the answer is 24“

„Really? I think its 34“

Smack

„ARE YOU CALLING ME DUMB NOW!?!?!?!?“

*raises hands innocently* „not at all lets just write 24 ☺️🥲“

„Thats what i thought“ you scoffed while blushing

After walking you to your house he told you he will pick you up at 7 tomorrow

Oh how wrong he was

He forgot about his sister 🤦

He sended you a messege that you should walk to school alone and that he will be there in 20 minutes

Gosh if only he knew what in those 20 minutes happened he would’ve hurried more or told you to stay at home

After he came to school all exhausted from all the running

He saw you! But you looked different

Messy hair,dirty uniform? Oh no did you fall? :(

„Oh darling be more careful while walking next time,did you hurt yourself?“

„You think im clumsy or something?!!…“

„Im sorry! Heh its just it looks like you fell and that’s why-„

„I DIDNT FALL YOU IDIOT…and keep you crazy fans away from me“

„What was the last part?“

„NOTHING“ you yelled and ran away

Ofc he actually heard the last part…so who’s ass does he need to beat up?

„Minamoto senpai!!!“

Yashiro came up to teru

„Oh hello yashiro…sorry i cant talk right now i need to take care of something“

„I-uh ofc it’s just its about S/O senpai and-„

„Im listening“

„0///0 uh so i was wondering if you maybe could help S/O senpai with those girls“

She pointed at some two girls

„They haven’t left S/O senpai alone for a while and they always make fun of her…“

So those are the pigs that did that?

„I see…thank you for telling me yashiro i will take care of it“

„You’re welcome!!!!!!!!!! ^\\\\\\^“

Phew he is glad that he didn’t had to search around for the answer

Now its time to take out the trash…

„Hello you two“

He greeted them with a calm yet chilling voice

„Oh hello minamoto senpai!! Is there something you need????“

„Yeah could you two lovely ladies follow me to the cherry blossom tree?“

„OFCOFC!!!“

The two girls were fighting on who minamoto would confess though what they didn’t expect is for it to end up ⚰️

After killing them and burning the corpses

He went back to you <3

„Where were you idiot?im waiting here with your bento for like a half hour!!“

„Sorry dear akane needed my help with something~“

*squishhhhh*

„STOP PULLING MY CHEEKS“

„Nahh they are too soft to stop~“

„Stupid…stupid karma akaBAKA“

„Cute :>“

He wish he could squish you cheeks longer but the bell rand and you had to go to your class

Honestly he would just go to your class rather than staying in his but it helps to relieve stress by fighting koro sensei every time he thinks of people that were too close to you.

He still sneaked into your class to check on you but stupid asano snitched so he had to leave

Its litterly hard to not catch you two not together on break

But today seemed to be different because karma did not come to lunch

And some people took that as an advantage….

They threw all your notebooks on the ground

Pushed and/or kicked you around

You were just hoping karma would show up soon

But noone came…

So after they had their fun with you you decided to sit on the bench cleaning with some wet tissues you had your bruises

After karma came to the rooftop just to see you all crueld up in a corner

His First Instinkt was to rush over to you

And that’s what he did

„S/o what the hell happened?? Who did it?!?? Who should i beat up!!???? And don’t lie to m-“

„I won’t… its (bully name)“

He was a bit suprised by that but happy with the answer

„I was hoping you would come dumbass…where were you?“ you said like you’re done with everything

Well he won’t just say „oh i was beating up some people that talked to you lately“

So he lied

„I had to rewrite a test thats all,im sorry that i wasn’t there for you“

So he started to help you clean up your bruises and guided you home

Now for the real deal

God the way he killed him is so disgusting because of how much blood there was

He had no mercy on that person

Noone gets away with hurting his beloved without a punishment

Now he isn’t one to tease his darling

But he’d be also clueless on why you act that way

„Why did i fall in such a weird person?“ he said with a blank face

*smack* <3

„YOU CANT JUST CALL SOMEONE WEIRD FOR NOTHING YOURE NOT BETTER YOU HAIR HAD TENTACLES“

„True“ he said without even fighting back

„Idiot you don’t just agree with people that easily…“

„Okay You’re wrong for calling me weird“

*smack* 😬

„YOU ARE GETTING ON MY NERVES ITONAAAAA“

You decided to to go home he wanted to come with you but there is something koro sensei needed from him so before he went he checked to see if your phone is turned on ect.

So after you said your goodbyes you left

Thats when you suddenly stumbled on some of your classmates

„Hey its S/O! I heard they/she/he is dating a class E student“

„What why???? That’s disgusting they/she/he is above them so why would someone date someone like a class E student????!!“

„Dunno they/she/he we’re always weird“

„Okay first of all im NOT weird-„

*kick*

„Shut up...you’re talking too much“

„Hey (name) come let’s teach this traitor a lesson“

God why didn’t you run away when you had the chance you thought

You couldn’t stand up because those brats broke your leg

At lest it feels like its broken

You reached for your phone trying to type itona‘s number with your blurry vision from all the crying

„H-hello? Itona? Please…PLEASE HELP ME IT HURST“

„Whats wrong s/o ?!? What happened?!? What hurts!?! Where are you!?!“

„Just c-come near to my h-house BUT HURRY“

„Don’t hang up I’ll be there in 5- no 2 minutes“

When he saw you he rushed over to you

„tell me s/o love what hurts?“

„My leg…they broke it i think…“

„…they?“

„Yeah some of my classmates broke my leg b-because im dating an air head like you…“

„I see…im sorry that this happened to you.I’ll take the blame“

„YOU BETTER. N-now help me stand up and bring me home“

„Right“

„By the way what are their names if you don’t mind me asking?“ (he would’ve forced you to tell him anyway)

„Hm? Oh its (bullies name) there was also (name) but they didn’t do much harm“

„Ah alright thank you for your honesty“

„Whatever weirdo -_-“

After bringing you home he went on search right away to find them.

And after finding them well

I think it’s obvious that he killed them but not as brutal as karma would

„I won~♥️“

Phew after like 2 days i finnished it that was fun! Hope i left you satisfied please visit again! <3

[the-heaminator]

Oh can you write ukfrain? I thought like a love triangle (real one) and they're all too dumb to notice they're in love with each other. I do like Frain being very close and lot of PDA dispite them not saying and England feeling jealous because he/she isn't between them.

Oh wait. It can be nyo if you want 👀

OH, OH ok apparentl;y this turned into the horniest thing ive ever written. maybe im just feeling gayer than usual. A lot of this went into describing what i like about women im so sorry

Y E S. These shits being oblivious and England being jealous and all being very gay

Names bc Nyos: Isabella (Spain) Francene (France) Elizabeth (England)

Dammit why was Isabella so pretty!

This was the simultaneous thought of more than one very gay women in the conference room as Spain flounced up to give her speech.

Spain in a suit could turn most women gay, let's be real here, but if they were already gay, that could be a small problem.

As she droned on about agriculture most people had tuned out and were busy doing various things, like being on their phones, irritating someone or staring at Isabella's hips, luckily for Isa, only 2 people were staring at her hips. But unluckily for her, it was Francene and Elizabeth, one was her best friend (and fuck buddy) and the other was her past rival (now occasional fuck buddy.) 

Now you could argue that  Francene and Isabella's relationship had long surpassed being just fuck buddies, looking after each other and cuddling in the rain, being there when the other was down, kissing eachther goodnight, while sleeping in the same bed.

Normal homie behaviour at its finest.

After that it was Francene, she gave an actually well delivered and structured speech about strikes and why they happen and how to prevent them to avoid major closures. Most people were listening and to some extent Isa and Elizabeth were too, but they were also getting occationally sidetracked by Francenes clothing choices. A very close fitting waistcoat that left little to imagination and even though the skirt reached the knee, it showed her stocking clad calves and if she stretched, parts of her thigh and it was really sending Elizabeth around the bend.

She knew that Francene was mostly occupied by Isabella, but she really wanted to be held dammit. Preferably by either or both of those 2.

When it was finally Elizabeth's turn to speak, she pointedly avoided looking at either of the two. After all she was not wearing anything exactly provocative and her bodily dimensions left a lot to be desired, so she wouldnt have to worry.

At least that's what she thought.

Her bin provocative clothing and her overall dimensions did nothing to stop the two romance nations imagining things that would have gotten them flogged in centuries past.

I mean Elizabeth has done it before, so why not again.

Elizabeth's presentation on urban and rural development was the end to the incredibly long meeting.

Most nations had agreed to go to the pub before going to their hotels and probably sleeping, though some noises occasionally said otherwise.

Elizabeth walked to the canteen, avoiding Isabella and Francene like the plague, even if that meant being around Julchen and Amelia, two women who had no idea what being quiet was.

Except today, they were mostly silent, only muttering to each other under their breaths.

After an infuriating 5 minutes she asked "What is wrong with you two, neither of you have said awesome or dude yet and you're being awfully quiet."

Julchen, being an absolute beast at covering up her tracks and 100% wanted to torture Elizabeth said "We were talking about how I'm pretty sure that Isa and Francene have a thing going on."

"Oh you think I dont know that? I hear ✨sounds✨" she said, quite disgruntled as you would imagine.

She looked over at the two who were being so sappy that she couldn't look away defo not imagining herself in some questionable positions .

Elizabeth stopped her beer while Julchen did as well, Amelia was being a pussy in the corner and drinking coke.

But a couple of beers later, everyone is understandably a bit tipsy and whilst Amelia was stuck with dragging a mooning Elizabeth and a very depressed Julchen out of the bar.

Amelia looked on in dismay as Elizabeth sort of walked (she wasn't stumbling but like still a bit wobbly) over to the very passionately making out duo in the back.

And her tongue being plied with a generous amount of liquid courage says "Can I join you?"

The two considered it and debated for all of a minute and said "Sure, but this commitment lasts the night, kay?"

Oh and indeed it did

[queenofbaws]

thinkin about the au where the ud kids are also councillors at hacketts quarry..... wouldnt it be just Such bad luck if one of Them got werewolfified?? dealers choice who, i just thought it would be fun :]

((uh oh, this was just supposed to be six sentence sat(or)sunday!!!))

“So…anyone else getting mad déjà vu right now, or is that just me?” Save a few furious glares shot over shoulders, no one seemed especially interested in dealing with Mike at just that moment. He shrugged the worst of it off, then went back to circling the lodge, rattling doorknobs and window frames to make sure everything was locked up tight. “Just me then. Cool. Cool, cool, cool. Good talk, team.”

One might’ve expected that the lodge would feel empty with all the campers gone for the season, that the railings and dark eaves above them might’ve given the place a hollow, echoey feeling…but empty tables and vacant coat hooks be damned, the lodge had never felt smaller. Panic and confusion had narrowed the space until the woodgrain became smothering, choking, a prison smelling of pinesap and industrial grade disinfectant and, now that they’d gotten Nick laid out, blood. It was a madhouse. A charnel house.

Or it would’ve been, had the older counselors not been so nonchalant.

Sam was the first to step forward (surprising no one), tying her hair back out of her face with a few snappy twists of her wrist. The Hacketteers had seen it happen a few times during the summer, the imaginary switch that occasionally got flipped inside of her, transforming her five-foot-nothing frame into the towering presence of a military official; she knelt down beside Nick alongside Abi and Kaitlyn, and as she got a better look at his leg, her cheeks hollowed in thought. When she spoke, it wasn’t with the calm, sunshiney voice they’d all grown accustomed to, but an authoritative snap that left little room for argument. “Nurse Kelly’s office,” she said to Kaitlyn, making sure to hold her gaze as she gave the assignment. “Hydrogen peroxide from the cabinet, gauze from the bottom left drawer, and then bandages. If you can’t find bandages, get tape. Go.”

After one last sympathetic look towards Abi, Kaitlyn was off, bounding towards the nurse’s office with force enough to make her sneakers squeak on the hardwood. Sam wasted no time; she turned first over her right shoulder then the left, her lips tracing the silent headcount she was running. “Eleven,” she muttered, tapping her own chest before running the count again and coming up with the same thing. “Eleven? I—okay, wait, who’re we missing?”

“Um, um Emma,” stammered Abi, her voice shaking like a leaf in a windstorm and her body not much better off. Her bare knees poked through the tears in her tights where she knelt on the floor, the skin red and raw from where she’d fallen, though that seemed to be the worst of her injuries. “E-Emma’s down at the…at the lake, and Jacob went to get her. I…right?” Her stare had been so far-off when she’d come tumbling out of the woods and into the circle of the firepit, and only now did it seem to focus, or sharpen at the very least, as though having four walls and a ceiling surrounding her was what it had taken to wake her up. Even though she kept both of her hands tightly wrapped around one of Nick’s, she wrenched her eyes away from him to look at Ashley instead. “Right?”

At first, all she could do was nod, her lower lip was so deep in her mouth. When she let it go (with an almost audible pop! at that) it was red and inflamed from her biting it. “Right,” she picked up, nodding with a tense sort of precision. “Jacob went to get Emma at the lake, and Matt and Jess went with him just in case he ran into that…um, guy he was talking about. The hunter, or whatever.”

His circuit complete, Mike gave the front door one last heave-ho before joining the rest of them. “So I’ll say it again: Déjà vu, table for however-the-fuck-many?”

From one of the tables, Chris lifted his head out of his hands. “Dude. Let it rest, okay? A-a-and that’s coming from me, all right? Just…drop it. Seriously.”

“This is bad.” There was the sound of footfalls as Kaitlyn came running back into the main room with her arms full of supplies, and even still it was Dylan most of them turned towards, Dylan who had been hanging back near the fireplace since they’d gotten in. “This is bad, bad, bad…look, I’m telling you guys, okay? You can call me crazy, whatever, I don’t care, this?!” He stopped his anxious pacing long enough to slice a hand through the air in Nick’s direction. “This isn’t normal. Guy gets attacked in the middle of Buttfuck, Nowhere by some…thing Abi draws to look like my sleep paralysis demon on steroids, it’s oozing black shit, and we’re just…what? We’re just not gonna say it?”

“Dylan,” Sam and Kaitlyn warned, sounding less a Greek chorus and more a couple of exasperated mothers.

He held both his hands up as if to acknowledge their scorn…and continued anyway. “This is horror movie shit. Legit fucking horror movie shit, and I don’t care if you guys think I’m a maniac or whatever, but I am telling you, we shouldn’t be bandaging that, we should just be cutting it o—”

“Dylan!” Kaitlyn snapped a second time, throwing him a frantic glare from where she bent over Nick’s leg. “You’re not helping!”

“No one is cutting anyone’s anything off,” Sam piped in. “Completely glossing over the fact Nurse Kelly never stopped to give any of us pointers on impromptu amputation, I’d just like to go on the record as saying immediately chopping body parts off when freaked out is a bad idea in general.”

She wasn’t looking anywhere near him, but Mike was more than happy to take the opportunity to flip two of the fingers he did still have Sam’s way.

“Fuck,” Nick breathed, his spine arcing impossibly when Sam splashed the hole in his leg with peroxide. He grit his teeth, squeezed Abi’s hands until she squealed – though from shock alone or pain, none of them could immediately tell – and screwed his eyes shut tight as the blood and tissue exposed to the open air sizzled and bubbled and foamed. “Fuckin’…I’m right here! Don’t talk about this shit like I’m not here!”

The pain in his voice should’ve been enough to end the conversation full-stop. It would’ve been enough, had it only been the younger counselors in the lodge.

He hadn’t said much since the firepit, and for that most of their number were grateful. When Josh did deign to throw his two cents into the mix, though…gratitude was the farthest thing from anyone’s mind. “Ives is right.”

“Shocker,” Mike muttered under his breath, joining Emily over near the windows.

“Josh. Don’t—”

“No, shut up. The facts of the matter are these: One.” And because he was who he was, he took two steps up onto one of the open tables, somehow managing to bring the audience’s attention to himself despite Nick bleeding out on the floor. “There’s something attacking people out in the woods. A bad start, I think we can all agree. Two. Whatever it is, it’s hungry, or at the very least, it’s teething. Now I don’t know about any of you guys, but I’ve seen my fair share of hickies and love bites in my time, and whatever the fuck did that…” As Dylan had before him, Josh pointed towards the wound Kaitlyn and Sam were trying (and failing) to dress. “…its mouth was a little bigger than we would like. Fair to say? Three. I’m sorry Nicky-baby, but you’re not looking so good right now.”

“Josh!” That time Sam got up, pushing herself from the floor to stomp over towards him. She grabbed the hem of his shirt and tugged, throwing off his balance and causing him to stumble to catch himself before he fell off the table entirely. “This is so not the time for – ”

“So you’ve got an explanation for all the black gunk, then? That what I’m hearing, Sammy?” He lifted his arms in a theatrical shrug, then let them drop to his sides. “Look at him. Look at him. We can see every vein in his goddamn body because of that crap. He looks like an anatomical model of a zombie plague victim. What’s the point in pretending – ”

“The point is,” she interrupted, each syllable clipped and final, “until we know what’s going on, we shouldn’t be scaring people.”

For a moment, brief and shining, it seemed maybe Josh was going to back down. Then he held up another finger. “Four,” he continued, looking away from Sam to search out all the others’ eyes instead. “Any of you aspiring astronomers take a gander up at the sky tonight, perchance? Notice anything…interesting, maybe?”

On the floor, Nick thrashed, succeeding in shoving Abi away from him, but not quite managing to throw Kaitlyn from his leg. Other than that, there was silence as the counselors fought to make sense of what Josh was saying.

“I mean…it’s a full moon,” Ryan offered. “But I don’t – ”

“Oh my God, it’s a full moon!” Like someone had stuck her with a pin, Ashley’s whole body shot back, back, back and away from Nick. She moved with the lightning speed of the truly panicked, nearly jumping the full length of the lodge to join Chris, Josh, and Dylan over by the fireplace. “It’s werewolves. Oh my God, it’s werewolves. It’s…oh jeez Louise, this is…” Only once she’d been enveloped by the guys did she stop raking her fingers down her face. When finally she spoke again, her voice had taken on a terrifying calmness. “We’ve got to cut his leg off.”

“Thank you! This is what I’m saying!”

“I—will you guys shut up?” Pushing himself away from the far wall, Ryan threw his arms out wide. “Do you hear yourselves? Werewolves?”

There was nothing especially friendly in the look Josh leveled at him as he asked, “What? Not, uh…bizarre or bona fide enough for you? Is that it?”

Nick’s injured leg spasmed as if it were a dying animal struggling to fight off a hunter, and the impact knocked Kaitlyn’s breath from her lungs. She went sprawling, moving her hands towards her ribs as if to grab at them, but hesitating to actually touch them once they began to throb. “Jesus Christ, Nick!” she gasped, using the rubber soles of her shoes to push herself along the floor, putting more distance between them. “I’m trying to help! I know it hurts – you gotta…”

He didn’t have much to say to that, it seemed, except a succinct, “Fuck off, Kaitlyn!”

As Sam and Abi both rushed to help her up, the others continued their grim debate; unfortunately for Ryan (and, in all honesty, Nick), one side was clearly louder than the other.

“In what world do you think werewolves – actual freaking werewolves – are real?”

“Uh, point of order,” Chris interjected, “you seem to be forgetting who you’re talking to, so hey, just real quick, ahem…hi, I’m Chris, this is Josh, this is Ashley, and we survived a cannibalistic monster attack back in 2015! Jesus Christ, did any of you guys listen to a word we said during ice breakers? Holy shit.”

“Not to take away from the argument or anything, buuut just FYI, we were all very much in agreement you guys were making that shit up completely.”

“…you what?”

“Yeah,” Dylan nodded. “We laughed about it after lights-out and everything. I mean…whoops. Obviously, whoops. I’d like to go on the record as saying I owe you guys a big old ‘my bad’ once we’re out of this shitshow, but…yeah. Definitely…definitely thought you were making that stuff up.”

There were a million things they could’ve said to that revelation. A million things between them. And still what ended up actually coming out was: “Mike cut two of his fingers off!”

“It’s true. I did. And look where it got me.”

“Really moving up in the world, aren’t you Michael?” She hadn’t had the slightest desire to join in the reindeer games, but there was only so much theatricality and tension Emily could resist. She turned away from the window and took the scene in with her arms folded tightly across her chest, one of her hands tucked neatly away beneath the crook of her elbow. There, near the fireplace, was the witch hunting committee; there, in the middle of the blood-streaked floor, were Nick and his three would-be nurses; and smack between the two factions was Ryan, dour and exasperated as always. “Mike’s right,” she said, and was then forced to deal with the indignity of him grinning and pumping his fist beside her. “This shitty one-act is familiar. And I for one am not dealing with it a second time.”

“Emily,” and man oh man, Sam was wondering if she was going to get to say anything tonight that wasn’t just her sounding out her friends’ names in increasingly frustrated tones, “look, I know things are weird right now, but – ”

“It’s not werewolves.”

Josh’s eyebrows went up. “Oh? Oh! Well, by all means, your majesty, please! Inform us lowly peons of the esoteric knowledge you’ve been withholding from us. I mean, after all, it’s not like any of us are experts on the subject or anything. Not like anyone in this room was literally raised on horror lore.”

They were too far away from one another to do anything about it, but when Sam and Mike locked eyes, it was immediately clear they both knew what was about to happen. There was no reason for that, nothing that could explain the bolt of understanding that ran through them, and yet there it was, plain as day – déjà vu, serendipity, kismet, fate, bad luck, whatever you wanted to call it, they both saw it rear its ugly head at precisely the same moment.

The moment, as it turned out, where Emily pulled her hand free from under her arm. “Whatever that ugly motherfucker was, it got me too.” The lights were off, there was hardly any illumination to speak of, and even so, there was no missing the jagged, shallow teeth marks jagging across her hand. There wasn’t as much blood as there had been on Nick’s leg, though there was a fair amount, and whatever that black stuff was, her wrist seemed to be shot through with it too.

“Guys.” It was only the stunned silence that had come over them at Emily’s admission that allowed Nick to be heard; his voice was a wet, phlegmy gasp caught deep in his chest. “Guys? I don’t…”

“It got me too,” Emily continued, “and look at me! I’m fine! I don’t feel sick, or infected with anything, or – ”

“Oooh no. Oh no no no no no! You are so…no!” As quick as she’d been to hide herself behind them, Ashley burst out from behind the guys to round on them instead, pointing frantically towards Emily as her words spilled out of her. “This is what I was trying to keep from happening last time!”

“…last time?” Ryan asked, only to be spoken over.

“They’re both bitten! They’re both infected! They’re going to change, or turn, or…or whatever, and when they do, you know what’s going to happen? They’re going to kill us! They’re going to kill all of us, and I didn’t make it off that stupid freaking mountain just to die here in the middle of some awful, sweaty, mosquito-filled woods!”

“Ashley…”

“You. Have. Got. To. Be. Kidding. Me.” Mike made a swipe for Emily, meaning to hold her back. Whether it had been a real effort, though, or one just meant for show…that was anyone’s guess, because she easily evaded him and marched her way over to the others, countering each of Ashley’s moves as though trying to bully her in a narrow school hallway. “How many times do you think you get to spearhead the ‘Let’s kill Emily’ committee before I haul off and wipe the ground with your sorry ass?”

“I really, uh…” Nick’s gasps had turned to panting, each breath uncomfortably wet on the inhale. “I really don’t…feel good…”

Ashley took a step back towards the guys and Emily took two forward; she sidestepped and Emily turned with her. “I-I was wrong last time,” she admitted, and while her eyes were huge and glassy with fear, her chin was high and her voice was resolute.

“You don’t fucking say.”

“But this is what I was afraid of! You become a werewolf when you’re bitten by one! That’s how it works! Everyone knows that’s how it works!”

“Oh yeah?” And before anyone could react, even to breathe, Emily lashed out with her uninjured hand, grabbed Ashley by the wrist, and brought her hand to her mouth. She bit down once, hard, letting go before she could taste blood but well after she felt the meaty crunch of tissue damage. “Then welcome to the party, bitch.”

“Déjà vu check?” Mike asked the room, and that time, Chris raised his hand. “Yeah. Yeah, that’s what I thought. Okay, look, shit’s…shit’s pretty fucked right now, I’m not even gonna lie, but Sam has a point, all right, you guys? Until we have some kind of proof that something spooky’s really afoot, then I don’t think we should – ”

It was Abi who screamed first, bringing their attention back to Nick. By then, it was too late. They turned just in time to see a tear, then two, then three, open in his skin, stretching wide to show the wet, raw muscle beneath as though he were simply wearing a human-suit several sizes too small for him. With one final heave of his body (and the horrendous sound of gore hitting the floor and walls and, God help them all, ceiling), something hulking and monstrous and sharp burst out of him like a moth from a cocoon, spreading not wings but limbs so long and so large as to defy all logic. It stared at them with eyes that winked gold and red in the darkness, then threw back its head and let out a sound like none of them had ever heard before.

Only then did Sam raise her hand, already starting to walk backwards. “This is starting to get familiar,” she admitted, grabbing Abi by the back of her shirt and hauling her to her feet, “this is starting to get really, really, really familiar, now that you mention it.”

Shock alone rooted the younger counselors to the spot, the older ones held still more by muscle memory and the hope what had kept them alive before would keep them alive now…but then Emily snatched Ashley up by both of her wrists and yanked her close enough to act as a human shield, breaking their stunned silence with a shrill, “Someone shoot her before she turns into one of those things!”

“You bit me!” she shrieked in response, struggling to reach behind herself and get a handful of Emily’s hair. When she couldn’t wriggle out of her grasp, she settled for stomping down on her instep as hard as she could, and if it hadn’t been for Mike and Chris both grabbing them and physically dragging them away, the thing that had very recently been Nick would’ve likely sliced through them both with a furious swipe of its claws.

“Holy shit, holy shit!”

“Yeah, welcome to our world,” someone said glumly, either Chris or Josh, it was honestly hard to tell.

“There’s a…there’s a fucking monster…right there!”

“Wow, gee, thanks!”

“And they’re just…going to fight each other?! Even though it’s…it’s right…”

“Like we said,” and that time it was Chris, his voice strained as he tried to physically slide himself between Ashley and Emily to keep them apart, “welcome to our fucking world!”

“Fuck me, I sure hope Mr. H has this place insured,” Mike said, and though he knew it did more harm that good, he let go of Emily to let Chris deal with her, choosing instead to pat himself down until he found the lighter stashed in his pocket. “Because I don’t know about you assholes, but I sure remember how this part goes.”

[t0r1b34r]

So quick question bc to me your galetakes are godtier (and I'm too scared to come off anon) but enquiring minds need to know!

Would Gale ever suck off one of his mirror images? Would he ever let of them suck him off?

And it's been rattling around in my head like a rock tumbler and now it's worn all shiny and smooth but what would the audiegalevajra threesome look like?

SORRY IM JUST GETTING TO THIS QUESTION NOW ive been spreading democracy on helldivers 2 for the past two days and then before that i was pretending I couldn’t read for three weeks because im at a Very Precarious point in the fic where i have to be REALLY CAREFUL about what i write

ANYWAY

FOR YOUR FIRST QUESTION:

I like to think that Gale as I know and understand him tends to prefer intimacy and romance with little or trivial magic involvement, and probably only for assistance with the the actual act with someone else, if that makes sense.

like he wouldnt Rub One Out with a mage hand by himself when his hand’s totally fine even if he wants to feel like someone else is doing it for him, but he WOULD encourage his partner to Yank Him Off with a mage hand while they played with themselves.

I feel like after his affair with mystra and his difficulty with the orb and his sense of self in relation to the weave, his attitude towards the weave probably changed from “magic is my life” to “magic is an important but not the most important part of my life” which is a huge difference and big character growth, especially in the Audieverse.

bc like, in my brain, he went from being the Magic Guy Gale of Waterdeep whose girlfriend was Literally Magic to Gale Dekarios Illusions Professor at Blackstaff Academy. so with that progression in mind, I like to think that he probably WOULD HAVE had sex with ONLY MAGIC in the past, especially considering he was involved with mystra. like he would have had sex with a mirror image of himself or gotten astral freaky with mystra in a weird and fucked up way

But NOW I feel like in his sex life, he uses magic less as a live companion and more as a tool. and I think that would also mirror his detachment from mystra and the weave as a conscious, living thing. it’s now just an aid for him when he needs it, which is, in my honest onionpinion, a much healthier way to view the weave. also i hate mystra

ANSWER:

so in my Audieverse,

he wouldn’t suck off nor be sucked off by a mirror image by himself, but he WOULD bring in a mirror image to help pleasure his partner if and when he feels like he Doesn’t Have Enough Hands for the Cool New Position he read about

AS FOR YOUR OTHER QUESTION

the AuVaGale threesome (which sounds like a French wart medicine) would Kind of Go Crazy in my honest opinion because look. the three of them are wizards. and they have so many spells that they can use as tools to help them go insane.

How would it actually occur though??

As we know, Gale has certain feelings about group sex and sharing his partner. Many fanfic writers like myself are of the belief that he’d really only be willing to share his partner with a mirror image of himself, and that’s that.

HOWEVER, I personally believe he’d be more willing to temporarily share his partner with someone sentient further down the line, the more secure he feels in himself and his relationship, so long as he’s involved.

because we know that he’s not okay with the idea of “sharing” tav with someone whom he isn’t attracted to in an open relationship kind of arrangement (as per the reaction to halsin’s offer). though we don’t know his attitude towards polyamory, where all partners are attracted to each other and in close proximity, or group sex, where dynamics can vary and the arrangement is temporary.

we know he gets turned on by the sight of his partner having sex with someone else even if he can’t see himself participating in it (citing the scene with the drown twins in SC) so he’s not ENTIRELY uncomfortable with it. my assumption in that moment is that the group sex there involved 1) too many people that 2) he didn’t know and 3) didn’t trust, coupled with the fact that 4) his confidence still wasn’t very good by that point.

so what if the group sex now is

Only three people total

Two of whom he knows and trusts very well, one of them his partner and the other a close friend (during post main plot timeline ofc)

Taking place during a time in his life where he’s confident, secure, and self assured?

I think he’d be willing to try, especially if Audie and Vajra bring it up to him from a place of safe experimentation. neither of them would pressure him into anything of course, they would simply present the offer and leave him to either accept or reject it. and I think he’d feel safe and secure with them enough to accept it.

WITH THAT SAID

let’s start with the stats

First of all, Vajra (as I interpret her) has a preference for women with no dislike for men. would she be attracted to a man? sure. but she mostly finds herself attracted to women. as such most of her experience has been with women. and she has Extensive Experience.

as I interpret her, vajra has always been a busy woman. as the blackstaff of waterdeep, she’s never had much time for romance, especially early on in her career. It’s certainly gotten easier now that Audie is her Heir and they both run that tower like the navy, but for the first ten to fifteen years, vajra didn’t have much time to breathe. but she still had needs! so she’d have one night stands or FWBs or whatever, and she’d drop them once they got too attached or they wanted more.

SO VAJRA is an incredible giver. That is to say she eats cooter like she’s starved. her strap game is insane. And her favorite spell to use in the bedroom is Vajra’s Purple Tentacles (a modified version of Evard’s Black Tentacles, with EXCELLENT improvements). So every woman who has ever had a sexual encounter with vajra has likely called out her name while having sex with someone else. Overall, TECHNIQUE focused.

AUDIE’s stats are funny. She tends to receive, but she switches. This is just fact. Currently canonically she’s not experienced at all. But after the events of the main fanfic plot, she gets a LOT of experience with Gale VERY QUICKLY because now the world isn’t on fire so they can fuck like rabbits. her cooter is a hypergrip supersoaker, she’s flexible, and she is DEXTROUS and HANDSY. So her handjobs and her fingering is A1. Shes good at giving Gale head, but she has no experience with cooters, unfortunately. She’s also adventurous and creative, so she’s the one that’s going to bring in the mirror images and the mage hands and the aphrodisiacs and the whips and chains and all the assortments. So she’s DYNAMICS focused.

As for GALE, he prefers to give, but he can receive as well. as we all know, hes waterdeep’s number one yapper, which means that his tongue is second to none. and the man is SEDUCTIVE, especially with two other nerds who’d be seduced by his specific brand of sweet talk. all his whispering and slow movements and most importantly, his wandering hands. He’s all about the FEELING of the moment, the actual pleasure that’s being received. so I like to think he also tries to coax multiple orgasms from his partners as a result. So he’s SENSATION focused.

now, what are the attitudes to pairings?

Audie can top Gale

Audie can top Vajra

Audie can bottom for Gale

Audie can bottom for Vajra

Vajra can top Gale

Vajra can top Audie

Vajra would prefer not to bottom for Gale

Vajra would prefer not to bottom for Audie

Gale can top Audie

Gale would prefer not to top Vajra*

Gale can bottom for Audie

Gale can bottom for Vajra**

* I feel like Gale, despite feeling comfortable and secure in the threesome, might feel weird about actively pleasure someone who wasn’t Audie. Since, in my eyes, he views giving his partner pleasure as his priority, it’d be logical for him to want to reserve that for his partner.

** But on that note, it is impossible to look at Vajra’s Purple Tentacles with the Ribbed Shafts, Extra Wide Bulbous Heads, Size Adjusting Tendrils, and Precise Internal Navigation and not spread your legs while your wife sits on your face. so

with those pairings in mind, the combinations are virtually endless, even with restrictions. Audie could bottom for vajra while sucking off Gale. Gale could bottom for Vajra while eating Audie out. Or fingering her. Or even ALSO TOPPING her. the both of them could get topped by vajra AT THE SAME TIME with her tentacles WHILE Gale tops Audie OR Audie tops Gale.

if we could describe the threesome in one phrase, it’d be this: Vajra gives Audie and Gale the best night of their life. And of course Vajra enjoys it very much as well, especially because she got to teach Audie how to eat cooter and DAMN she’s a fast learner. So everyone walks out happy

do they repeat it? Probably. Gale got a lot of inspo to modify Evard’s Black Tentacles for his own preferences. Audie learned how to eat cooter and found out she LOVESSS to suck Gale off while he’s getting plowed by someone. and Vajra found out that Audie has an entire bottomless chest for her sex toys.

so everybody wins ! And THATS how I see the AuVaGale threesome

I hope this lengthy explanation was to your tastes

[what-the-hayl]

It's been a minute.

I started a new job, and i love it. I feel like when i spent months and months searching for a job it was always in the back of my head that this headache would go away with a great opportunity, i just have to be patient. I work with all guys of all ages, no drama!!! The job is SO physical which i also love, keep my self moving everyday again.

I am sitting at 144 days no alcohol, thats cool. I told myself i could have a drink today if i wanted, i went to lunch with my best friend so i told her i was gonna have a drink and it would be our secret. I had a pep talk while getting ready today. If i wanted to get drunk today i could, if i wanted to have a drink or 3 --i could. I'm really practicing not letting the opinion of my family get to me anymore, and to stand for myself. Always.

But, anyways we went to lunch, i had already forgot i had toold myself that i was allowing myself a drink today, lol. Lately, ive been going out and sometimes ill get a non-alcoholic beer, and so far i dont miss it, the carbonation or something... i was looking at the drink menu and said maybe ill just go balls to the wall and get a rum n coke.. lol. My goal today was to taste liquor and see what kinda reaction or taste i get from it. After looking at the menu for a min--i decided im not gonna get a drink cause i have set myself this goal and i want to achive it, i feel ONE cheat drink wouldnt count anyways.. i said "im not getting a drink today, nothing is screaming at me to have, if im gonna have a cheat drink i want it to be something different, new and something damn good.

I'm proud of myself, its so crazy what such little time with a disciplined mind can achieve. I've come so far, and im so excited to see what successes i gain by the end of the year.

I'm currently down 43lbs as well, im excited but i already knew i could do this weight loss thing again. I'm not turning back around this time though, so this go around is gonna be one for the books.

Relationships with my parents is growing stronger, by the day. Which is neat, dad came out and smoked with me one night. I felt a big wave of energy shift away from me, like something reminding me its okay, and everything is going to be okay.

We are working on getting my custody back with little man, i thought id never see the day, but id be damned to be "one of those moms" im waaaay better than that.

Ive been gaining relationships and conversations with my co-workers at work. My boss is a real dope dude, but he has gotten in to opening up and talkiing about hiss past addiction problems and how hes over come and hes doing well in life now, and thats really cool. Motivating.

Life's what you make it, so make it great!

If no ones told you today,

im proud of you.

[transfemininomenon]

You're making me want to watch Midnight Mass again because i watched it with friends when it came out and we Hated it but you seemed so hype that now i wanna watch it again just to see if maybe it was better than i remember and i was just influenced by my friend's opinion?! I'm very curious to see it from someone else's perspective, what do you think made it so great in your eyes?

OKAY spoilers for the show so if youre planning on watching it sometime look away because im gonna mention some very big spoilers for the show lmao theyre very intrinsic to what im gonna talk about

the primary reasons i like the show is that it really does use like, SO many story elements/tropes that i really like, and ones that i especially like when it comes to horror. starting at the very beginning the theme of returning home after an amount of time has passed and finding it suddenly feeling so unfamiliar & different is a trope that i already went insane over, and currently its a theme that also personally is something im experiencing very vividly. combine this with the trope of old friends reuniting after years apart and kinda Going Through It together is ALSO one of my favorite tropes and is done very very well in the show

it continues with just. i think the absolute ultimate Horror Setting is "small town where weird stuff happens." to probably nobody's surprise one of my favorite shows ive watched in recent years is twin peaks which does the same thing. having a Small Town helps make the entire thing feel a lot more intimate & personal, especially when it comes to characters because like. these people all know each other So Well. theyve grown up in the community, their parents lived in the community, they all know each other. theyve raised their kids together and worked together. it immediately creates such a good dynamic and intimacy with the characters and imo does such a good job of making you Care about them a lot quicker, which benefits a short series like midnight mass very well

that also helps to set the stakes because these are all people you care about, these are people you KNOW, these are people you can identify with. it makes the inevitable horror & tragedy that you know is coming all the more powerful. especially seeing them already dealing with every day horrors that All of us can relate to in some way in the current day like capitalism ruining a now dying community, religious persecution, alcoholism, misogyny, health issues, growing older, homophobia, and disillusionment amongst others. you can understand the desperation & sadness in all of them, and it makes what is to come make a lot more sense

then. a mysterious religious figure arriving in the community. "miracles" beginning to happen. people beginning to become more and more fanatically connected to this mysterious religious figure, and why wouldnt they! theyve all had such struggles in life that seemingly are fixing themselves daily since his arrival, and he promises more. cults have always been a storytelling subject that has gotten to me Every time and one ive incorporated into a lot of my own d&d writing because theyre endlessly so Interesting and scary and the slow build up of the one here is so well done

speaking of the religious aspect, this is the most important part of why i like the show truly. obviously the first big Twist of the show is learning about the Angel, and if i hadnt already been invested in the show this is probably what would have sold me immediately. the linking of Angel to Vampirism is in my honest opinion simply genius - blood in christianity especially is such an important spiritual thing, like linking the "blood of christ" with vampirism is. incredible. its genuinely incredible. vampires have always been intrinsically linked with religion, though are almost always portrayed as being Repelled by it. flipping it around and having a vampire be an Angel & having a priest turned vampire leading his flock slowly leading them toward that same vampirism believing that it is a form of divinity is. its insane. its genius. im obsessed with it.

the show REALLY leans into the religious horror aspect of it too, which i feel like a lot of other stories that have tried to do similar things too often like. back out of it. they pull a "oh see actually it was some SATANIC person tricking the poor unsuspecting christians" or something like that. midnight mass keeps it up throughout the entire show fully leaning into no, from beginning to end it is the christian religious leaders of the community who bring and then continue the Horror, and to the end all in the name of God

religious horror is truly what ends up being THE scariest part of the show, with Bev ending up being both the true villain and scariest figure in a show that has a Literal Horror Vampire Angel. the insidious way in which she helps to slowly poison her community and drive good, honest people into bloodthirsty monsters both figuratively and Literally is terrifying, and the way it ultimately turns into a community literally tearing each other apart through sheer religious & societal pressure is. terrifying. the second to last episode of the show where this all hits its peak at the end is, honest to god, THE scariest thing i have ever watched, and ive seen a LOT of horror in my time

and most importantly, it does religious horror without like. coming across as anti-religious. im someone who does not really buy into religion as a social construct, but i both very very deeply believe in a great big capital s Something & also respect that religion is a very important, and for many a very Healthy, part of many many people. religious based horror ive found too often ends up just coming about as either some disguised satanic panic OR as "religion all bad", and midnight mass i think did a perfect job of like. both calling out religious extremism particularly of the christian variety while ALSO being very religious in tone

like. there are characters who to the end stay very devoted to their faith and to god and that is shown to be their Strength and a good thing. i think one of the absolute strongest and most incredible moments in the entire show is with Annie Flynn as she confronts Bev, during which time Bev tries to bring up her son Riley (someone who both accidentally killed someone and who also is an atheist), as she says:

"God loves him. Just as much as he loves you. Why does that upset you so much? Just the idea that God loves everyone, just as much as you?"

this, to me, is one of the best quotes in the entire show, showing that she still very much believes in God and his love while simultaneously calling out that very particularly american fanatical christian Horror that so much of the story is based on

in the end too, after so much horror has happened, after so much death and bloodshed, it ends not with the townsfolk all casting their faith aside after being so led astray and turned into such horrible creatures. it ends with them one final time coming together as a community, as friends, as family, as neighbors, as sinners who in their final moments ask each other for forgiveness and reassert their faith Together and its. its genuinely beautiful. the ending is to me one of the most beautiful, albeit sad & bittersweet, things i have ever seen. im actually going to insert it because it. man it gets to me

especially!!! especially!! all of the characters despite all of their own sins and the way they fucked up throughout the story. they all end in peace. they all end together with those that they love, theyve forgiven each other, theyve again found Peace. all of them except Bev. the one person who absolutely does NOT deserve to have any peace ends with her so full of fear, frantically trying to struggle against the end coming, the end that the people she played a part in ruining the lives of have found their own peace with. its so beautiful, and poetic, and i love it so so much.

there's other things i really like about it too - the twist that riley, seemingly the protagonist, dies in episode 5 of 7. the slow build on the horror, especially compared to mike flanagan's other works. the INcredibly well foreshadowed twist that sarah was john's daughter. john's story arc of villain turned antihero. the incredible soundtrack, with it being i think the newton brothers' best work yet. these are all things i could also write paragraphs about, which i probably will do in time, but ive only just seen the show Yesterday and still need time to fully formulate thoughts on stuff

also! the show is scary! really, genuinely scary! as mentioned the horror is a slow build, which as said is a stark contrast to mike flanagan's other works. both the haunting of hill house & bly manor are a LOT scarier in the beginning and then gradually get less so, both in the way that horror naturally gets less scary as you get used to it and also in the way that like. with those stories the Scary Things end up just becoming kinda sad. meanwhile midnight mass really lets the horror simmer and build up before, as i mentioned above, it reaches a head in episode 6 when it becomes what i genuinely believe is one of the scariest things i have ever watched. the entire lead up to the fateful midnight mass for easter, the reveal of the Angel to everyone else, the painful dyings and resurrections, and then the ensuing bloodshed.... its terrifying. genuinely, truly terrifying

then, of course, it does also end up becoming Sad too but. its a kind of sadness that just like his previous works feels so earned & carries so much more weight after everything that has happened

theres def more i have to say about the show but again i just watched it yesterday & gotta have more time to think on it but. these are the things that immediately stood out to me!

[bridgyrose]

Yang goes into Weiss' grimm induced nightmare, only to find herself not only as Weiss' bodyguard... but her wife as well! (ice Queendom AU)

Yang opened her eyes and started up at the ceiling of a large, white room. She sat up and looked around the bedroom with a bit of a sigh. “So, this is Weiss’s dream?” 

“Ah, Lady Yang, you’re awake.” 

Yang paused for a moment as she looked towards the mechanical butler. “Y-yeah, I am. I’m… looking for Weiss?” 

“Yes yes, Mistress Weiss is this way. Follow me.” 

Yang nodded and started to follow the butler as she walked through the halls of what she could only assume was Schnee Manor. Though, none of it seemed like anything she’d seen before. The stone halls were covered in vines and thorns, a cold breeze blew through the halls and moved the tapestries and curtains that lined the walls. Even with the jacket, the cold air gave her a chill as she continued. 

The butler finally stopped at a large door at the end of the hall and moved to the side. “Lady Weiss is just through here.” 

Yang nodded and opened the door to what she could only describe as a command center with Weiss at the end of a table as she watched a SDC train get derailed and robbed by the White Fang. She cleared her throat and softly spoke. “W-Weiss?” 

Weiss almost seemed to relax as she stood up and gave Yang a smile. “Yang, you’re finally awake.” 

“I’m glad I found you. We need to get out of here-” Yang was swiftly interrupted by Weiss rushing over with the help of her glyphs and pulling her into a deep kiss. Her body wouldnt pull away, no matter how much she wanted to. Once Weiss broke the kiss, she finally was able to pull away. “W-Weiss? Are you okay?” 

“I’m feeling better now that you’re here.” Weiss went to sit back down and motioned for Yang to follow her. “The White Fang is starting to get more open with attacking the dust supply chains and I’m not sure what to do anymore. Nothing seems to work.” 

Yang slowly nodded and watched the recording as it played again. The longer she looked at the White Fang that attacked the train, the more she thought they looked like grimm in White Fang uniforms. “Have… you thought of maybe trying to make peace-” 

“There is no place in Atlas for faunus,” Weiss said as she slammed a fist on the table. “They have shown over and over that they do not belong here. No matter how human they look, they’re not.” 

“What about Blake? You’ve gotten to know her, you accepted her-” 

“And she betrayed me!” The command room started to shake as a few glyphs opened up around Weiss. With a deep breath, she started to calm herself and the room stopped shaking. “She made it clear that she no longer belongs here.” 

Yang sighed and sat down next to Weiss. “Please, you need to listen to me. Everything that’s going on here, none of it is real. Its all just a manifestation of a grimm that’s making you see what it wants you to. I need you to come with me and wake up.” 

Weiss was silent for a moment as she thought over Yang’s words. After a few silent moments, she finally spoke. “You just want me to… wake up?” 

“Yes, I want you to wake up and come back home with me to our team. To Ruby and Blake so we can be a team again-” 

“So you’re going to betray me for her, arent you?” 

Yang took a step back as a few glyphs started to form around Weiss again. “N-no, I’m not, I want to help you.” 

“You want to help me by bringing me to Blake?” Weiss slowly stood up, a scowl across her face as she drew Myrtenaster to her hand. “The one who betrayed me? I had to expel her from Atlas, and you want me to go back to her?” 

“To the real Blake, not the Blake that this nightmare has provided to you.” Yang took a few more steps back and found her back right against the closed door. “I want to save you.” 

“Save me? I dont need to be saved. Humanity needs to be saved from the monsters that are the White Fang. Starting with you.” 

Yang felt the thorny vines start to wrap around her legs and arms and pull them tightly to the door. She watched as Weiss walked closer to her, unable to use her coins for help. “Weiss, please, think about what you’re doing here.” 

Weiss stopped in front of Yang and gently put a hand on her cheek. “Dont worry, my love. Once you wake up, you’ll be free.” 

Yang struggled against the thorns that held her in place as the wall behind Weiss started to open up. Her eyes widened as she watched the nightmare grimm move closer to her and start to wrap a few more thorny vines around her, each thorn pierced into her skin. The pain started to dull as she started to feel numb as she was picked up and held upside down as the red grimm eye started to glow. A voice started to fill her ears as her eyes started to close. 

“Blake lied to you, just the same way dad lied to you about your mother.” 

Yang tried to speak as she saw herself walk around the thorns that held her. “That’s… that’s not the same-” 

“Its all the same, and you know it.” The second Yang stopped in front of her and smirked as she slowly started to fade. “Can you really trust anyone who leaves you in the dark?”

[nerves-nebula]

yeahh my parents have forgotten me too, same with teachers. My one teacher forgot me at school when the rest of the school (it was a school wide field trip) went to a local baseball game. There was a small group of kids left at the school and they put us all in the library, but it was really awkward waiting before a teacher found me and took me to the rest of the kids.

I've been left behind by teachers, I've been left in the hall, left in the car, left at the store. I've gotten good at directions so I could just walk home lol

My father even forgot my age and was telling people I was 2 years older than I was? Even though my parents forgot my birthday before so really they realistically they should have thought I was younger?

People be wild, but benefits of being forgotten is that people have, rarely when I was younger, forgot to ask me to pay for something, so I've gotten free stuff (I don't steal I promise, just when I was younger)

i wouldnt mind if you stole from businesses anyway, im not a fuckin cop. my little sister would wait for a nearby gas station to close up for the night and take home the extra/stale pizza leftovers. they gave it to her cause she was cute and really really good at manipulating people (I love her, shes so cool). i never saw her do it but I think she had a "Hungry Street Urchin" act going on. it wasn't even really an act though, its not like we got enough to eat from mom lmao.

i was terrified of being forgotten/left alone so i always stuck to the group unless i was upset, in which case I'd often intentionally stay behind to see if they remembered me (they usually didn't lol)

i have a very vague amalgamation of memories of waiting to be picked up from a lot of activities (that i usually didn't want to go to anyway) my mom was often late. and sometimes I'd be in the car when she went to pick up one of my siblings and she'd rant about how she was an hour late or something. it doesn't feel good to be the last one left with the coach/teacher or whatever. but i tried not to complain cause i felt guilty that mom was always busy with work.

ive got a very vivid memory of being on a field trip in some kind of waste or water treatment plant, and i was terrified of walking over the metal walkways high above these huge empty bowls where the water would go or something. i tried to follow the group, but just stepping on the see-through walkways made me panic. so instead i hid behind a door until they'd all gone so they couldn't make me. i don't remember who came to get me, but they walked me across the walkway holding my hand while i closed my eyes. i was terrified i'd fall and drown or break my neck or a million other horrific things. sometimes when my dreams get bad i have that same, vivid feeling of standing at the edge of something and knowing im not going to fall off, but feeling like i'm going to DIE if I move.

ANYWAY you're parents kinda sound like shit.

[warrior-u-preservation]

Ambrosia Pg 52

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Concept by: Aisha Thani

Illustrated by: Worldismyne

Written and Colored by: Coffee

*excerpt from "Life and Nature" by Archibald Lampman

Myne: "I'm going to miss drawing tall majestic Ambrosia. It was fun drawing something outside of my comfort zone that didn't have to look like a specific thing.

There's also this poem Coffee wanted to incorporate during this scene that makes an appearance here. I kinda wanted to do the visual equivalent of background noise. Like how in horror films, sometimes you hear children singing in the OST. The poem's lines were specifically picked out with Ambrosia in mind, so I had them echo is line art. I think the end result turned out really neat!"

Coffee: "i really wanted to include those lines from 'life and nature' because they reminded me of the life worship that goes on in unicorn religion according to some formspring asks lol. i also just really love this poem, but theres another reason too! i had some downtime at work one day while i was trying to figure out how to approach this flashback, and i started doodling. suddenly i remembered this poem and was inspired to go in the direction we went with for the final cut. in a way i feel like this issue wouldnt have gotten finished without it, though that probably isnt true lol XP"

[neomedievalist]

sorry for being a rando popping into your inbox but wrt your posts about smt5 and the acnh effect, as a lifelong fan of animal crossing i hard agree on nh and it's kind of depressing to see so many people say it's the best animal crossing when it isnt even CLOSE. id say the downfall of ac started with new leaf since thats when they started lobotomizing the villagers, but acnl actually had tons and tons of content that kept me playing for literal years. meanwhile with nh i only popped in to check out the new updates then stopped playing. i could write an entire essay on how they completely gutted the original tone that animal crossing had with its writing and overall vibes and basically sanitized a fun, unique quirky little game into being The Relaxing Game.

with smt5, i think the problem is something different though. if you read the interviews from very early in v's production, the devs mention things they wanted to be in the story--namely, they wanted v to touch on themes of extremism in modern society and how in the face of the world being on fire gen z and millennials feel utterly hopeless and like they have no future. none of that was in the final product. granted, i have very little knowledge of game development but since v was in production prior to and during the pandemic, i have a theory that there was meddling on the part of corporate that really messed with the development process with the pandemic on top of that. according to a friend of mine, someone data mined v and there were a ton of unused assets and concepts, which seems to support my idea that there was a huge shift mid development that squandered v's potential.

one thing though, is that new people getting into smt though v means that they're more likely to play the other games in the series and see what it's like when smt's potential is realized, whereas this doesnt really exist for animal crossing since animal crossing is generally the same all around where each smt game has a vastly different story and tone from the other games.

(i might be misinterpreting but one criticism i have of your addition to that one post if you describing this phenomenon as Kirby On The Switch when as a lifelong kirby fan the most recent kirby game was unironically a near perfect game and most people seem to be in agreement on that and it was clear that hal labs put a TON of love and work into making it. but sadly kirby and the forgotten land is an exception to what you were talking about on that post)

sorry for the essay lol i just have Thots

HI YES thoughts appreciated! everyone always welcome to drop essays about video games in my inbox i love writing them and i love reading them

i wouldnt call myself a lifetime ac fan but i played the FUCK out of new leaf, i think i got it in 2014 and i have about 1000 hours in it, which is why i was so dissapointed with NH...and ive heard and understand peoples criticism of NL so it must be really really rough for old ac fans to see NH just double down on all that.

that's really interesting about smtv though, i hadn't heard that about the datamining and stuff? and i guess the original interview i hadnt seen because i wasnt into smt then LOL. i actually am gnna go look at that because it really does feel like a game that went thru development hell and had to rush things, i remember before release being really worried that we hadnt gotten any story trailers or english va announcements...esp since the game was announced at the same time as mario odyssey LOL

and yes thats very true that people might get into smt thru smtv. i definitely agree with that point but at the same time, someone is equally likely to not really click with it then drop it and not touch the series again... but well. not the point.

about kirby i was honestly thinking about that when i was posting it, i havent played the forgotten land but every kirby fan i know loves it (i was actually thinking of picking it up myself as a 3d platformer fan) so yeah i can def see how thats an exception. it is true that really good games with passion behind them still can come out which is really heartening, i wish it wasnt such a surprise when it happened!

but yes i think animal crossing really embodies this point. the way its become a cultural icon and people dont know what the series USED to offer so they think that NH is good and what they're all like is so dissapointing, especially as a life sim that youre meant to put tons of time into... it frustrates me to no end when i see people joking abt AHh i have no motivation to go back to my island its so much work i havent played in so long.. like this wouldnt have HAPPENED if the game wasnt shit!! i never had "no motivation" to play new leaf because it was an actual game and not a halfway between life sim and sandbox game that is the worst of both worlds! i checked in on new leaf EVERY. DAY. after school when i was in high school and id play for an hour each day. i dont think i missed a single day in maybe three years.

in new horizons i told myself id go back to it if they ever added cooking. then they added cooking and i went back to it and it sucked so i stopped playing again

there is literally no reason to play it other than customizing your island as a sandbox game but the sandbox elements are so fucking miserable to play that you have to be, excuse me for saying this, unemployed to actually find the time to make your island look good. the game coasted on the fact that it released right before the pandemic and everyone had the free time to play it.

[richardsphere]

Leverage Redemption Log: The Bucket Job

Title makes me think "bucket list"? either that or Keeping Up Appearances? (had to google "that show with the bucket woman" to remember the name) --- bells are playing and there is a giant semi-hollow pipe-structure of a snowman outside the building we're in. Its Christmas Special Time.

Librarian is giving the children some classic reading recomendations based on his knowledge of their likes (the girl likes pirates, which is a nice little gender-stereotype breaking to sneak in there without drawing attention to the subversion. Love it when shows feel confident doing that without the need to detract by boasting about it.) Young Man used to get Sherlock Holmes.

And the librarian is having a heart-attack... --- Harry is calling his daughter. His daughter doesnt want to spend the holiday with him because Mom is going on vacation to some resort (I think Aspen is a resort town in the states?) Ok either he has a son as well as a daughter, i am misremembering him as having a daughter, The daughter might be trans, or Nick is short for Nikita/vero-Nic-a, or Nick is more gender-neutral as a name then i thought (wouldnt be the first time, i went years thinking Sam was exclusively a female name because the only "sam" i ever heard of was from Totaly Spies). I am not sure which is the case. (im gonna place money on its a shortened-nickname though) Ok Sophie confirms its a daughter.

Elliot has been cooking, Parker is taking the long-distance part of Long Distance Relationship a bit hard around the holidays.

Knock on the door: its Doyledude. He's asking for Elliot by full name (sus). --- Doyledude's gay and his dads a preacher who didn't aprove of "woke" books like Charlie and the chocolate factory. (Yes Christians are that bad. Source: My dad got a chainletter that refered to the antichrist as an "avatar" of satan once and "The last airbender" and the blue smurfs were both insta-banned from the household forever).

--- "I am totally fine with revenge it allows us a range of outcomes the mark deserves". good line.

"Guess theres a lot of maurice's out there" KNEW IT, the moment they named him "blanche" i suspected we were gonna be getting a Maurice Leblanc reference. (of course they'd go for Arsene Lupin in an episode about the importance of libraries)

Harry's "so do I" is a simple joke but it lands well. 8/10.

I think we found todays villain: Its the guy harassing a homeless man for using the library. (fuck that guy) Ok ominous cut of someone taking pictures of Elliot. --- Sophie is walking around the theatre loading 100 checkov's guns at once (confetti cannon, Parker is booking a helicopter, red sportscar, Harry has a cane)

Sophie does a speech about the team needing to remember that this is a good person.

Elliot has gotten some of his old budies to work stuntmen. Parker is asking the very crucial heart-attack related question. Our safeword is Winnebago (google says its a campervan? Honestly, if it werent for the whole "automobiles are deathmachines I dont trust myself with" angle, i'd like one.) --- Librarian dude takes one look at the red sportscar and just thinks "dafuq kinda spy are you?" before stealing a regular car like a sensible person on the run from crooks would.

So, clearly the guy is either a someone bad upbringing who brought himself around, or an actual retired spy himself, who reads those books primarily out of nostalgia.

Ok its misspent youth, also the way he casually tosses the phone out the window. Love this guy. --- Im gonna be honest, while i apreciate the consistency of parker still being the Christmas Monster, the way her characterisation has mellowed out to using store-brand santamugs after she was first introduce as off-the-wall enough to use priceless jewelry as garlands is weird to me.

Breanna carelessly dismisses an attack on their own firewalls and servers. Harry's moustache is bad but the eyepatch is worse. --- Four stars? Comeon man. (good improv)

Actual Goons are here! "take spencer" knew it! no way that Doyledude would know Spencers full name. Mr Blanche has stolen a sportsbike. --- Turns out yeah, he was a former spy. Its RIZ bitch (did we get a name? I dont remember) she's looking for "the ledger" (presumeably a list of secret identities. We're looking for a book kept by a librarian. Its in the library. Probably that book samurai book he's been reading regularly) Ok so this is definitly becoming a recurring thing with the way she first used Elliot to find which guys to hire and is now talking about making him an instructor. Is she the secret person he's been phone-ing that breanna was asking about this whole episode? (i thought it was the Supercop from Arlo) --- Blanche has a gun pointed at our heroes. PTSD in a bottle, cause thats a thing that exists now. Wilson is still holding old job secrets from them? Thats... weird. --- Wait, Elliots dad is alive? But I thought that the episode ending implied otherwise? (Might be me being bad at understanding the subtext of that scene, might be a retcon) --- Mr Blanche has already beaten all the guards in the time it took a drugged out Elliot to break a chair. (Pretend to be the new guy, classic "heavy object in a sock" prison-improv weapon. 8/10, guy knows what he's doing, but is also a bit rusty and forced into improv mode) --- Turns out, he didnt retire because he wanted to retire but because no one would believe the ledger was destroyed. Luckily floppy disks suck at long-term storage.

Harry is talking with his old boss, trying to be the angel on his shoulder while the boss is trying to be the devil on his. (still really odd that we went through the trouble of establishing our heroes broke in to find Harry's ledger of old sins and that we're now going the "Harry wont tell them his old sins" route.) --- Copperhead and Elliot are talking. Copperhead does not want to go out by cancer. (we're faking his death and assigning him to International arent we?) --- Confetticannons are a go-go! (they're meant to simulate pages being shot by guns)

Blanche got disarmed and shot with his own gun. (definitly a death-fake) --- Huh, RIZ-woman doesnt actually kill the guards who fail her objectives. She just blackmails them into following their NDA's. (profesional)

Yup it was in the big samurai book. (obviously) and he's getting the rental.

OK so Hardison sent the library boy. (explains why he knew Spencers name)

Ok So Elliots dad is alive just not around for the holidays ever.

[ghostcrimez]

On August 3rd (guessing) 2022, I woke up to find one of my mom's weird fan-tailed crochet needle things on the counter in the bathroom. this was strange for a couple reasons - im p sure it was in her room, and cas was sleeping in there. it hadnt been there when we'd gone to bed, and cas had no reason to have put it on the counter in the middle of the night. theoretically our cat could've put it there, but it was positioned p straight (not discounting it though) and i wasnt sure where the hell he couldve gotten it anyway if it'd been in the room and i hadnt seen it Anywhere so i dont know that it was just. floating around. theoretically could’ve come from the kids' room ? maybe he reached under the door bc he saw smth and gabbed it ? not sure. point is it seemed weird that it was there, but not out of the realm of possibility. the weird part is what happened later in the day. bc ive been Hoping for ghost activity (esp since ppl moved back out again) i was standing in the bathroom looking at it and i was talking. i was like 'hey if theres someone here with me and this was you bringing it in and NOT the cat, can you move it to a noticable degree?' i was sitting there mumbling about how i prob wouldnt even know if it was them for sure actually bc if i leave and come back it couldve just been the cat walking on the counter or something, i would have no proof that it was a ghost and not just him. im PRETTY sure i was looking directly at the needle and it hadnt moved at all , but theoretically i couldve moved it while washing my hands? but i hadnt noticed a position change at all, and later i tested this by slamming all around and on the counter and it didnt move from my movements, so idk. anyway im like maybe ill grab the spirit box and try asking a couple thigs, so i leave the room for like. 30 seconds. in this time the cat is in his bed, unmoving, sleeping away in the bathroom. i went back in and he was still there, but the needle HAD been moved to a noticeable degree. instead of sitting almost straight against the edge on the counter, it was now pointed toward the sink. i stood there wracking my brain trying to figure out if it actually moved. i walked in and out of the bathroom and back to my room etc multiple times, moving doors and stomping a little to see if vibration moved it. the needle did not move from the spot.

i didnt get any responses thru spirit box (thugh its hard as hell for me to tell anyway) and nothing else happened, but that was Weird. not necessarily unexplainable, but writing it anyway.

after this happened i said something along the lines of 'if you're here feel free to make noises around the house to let us know youre here and maybe we can try to communicate with you. make thumps or something?'

since then, three different times, we've heard a random noise around the house and found pixie not to be in that area so it wasnt him making the sounds. theoretically we're hearing stuff outside, but it seems odd. just writing it down so that i like Know

-von