#i want to patpat them

[mrd0ll]

[Well I wanted to do a 3rd but the time I was taking, I couldn't because the parents want me to rest]

[I will do Fresh tomorrow with two others skeletons then- So hereee :D!]

[Little kitty hehe]

[Ccino belong to Black nyanko]

[Abyss belong to Meta-Kaz]

[sasukimimochi]

more coi sketches on the way! coi is medicine for when my friend feels bad v - v so i did a bunch while they watched haha

i'm going to do the usual color blocking treatment for them but a couple need to be cleaned up some more before i get around to posting them hmmm

previews! lots of needy lan zhan (give him a break 100 years may not be 800 but he needs his husband's affection like water haha)

[verystrxxwberry]

MY CANDY LOVE; “Could you hug me?”

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𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭: fluff, MCL routes (all of them), comfort. ↝ 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞: Well, as promised, here it is the last part with mcl! Sorry if it isn’t the best content, I’ve made this while being sick :’)

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❖ CASTIEL ;; His eyebrow rises the moment he hears you say that, and you see him hesitate for a few seconds about why you need such a hug. Still, with a neutral expression, he shrugs and says "sure, if you need it". His arm reaches out and invites you into his embrace. Castiel is not very good at comforting, but he cares about you and is worried. His hand rubs your side gently. His scent of strong deodorant, mixed with cologne and tobacco essence is somewhat comforting in a way; it reminds you that it's him. And that he is also allowing you to be in an embrace with him.

❖ NATHANIEL ;; A small smile breaks out on his face when you ask him, plus his cheeks painting in a reddish color. "Oh, does anyone need some cuddles?" He would say in a slightly teasing manner, coming over to wrap his arms around you. He loves having you close and being able to smell your scent. Nathaniel loves to feel the shape of your body against his, caressing your waist, back and shoulders. In fact, it would be on your shoulders where he would take the opportunity to leave some delicate kisses. "Better this way?" he would whisper, while only separating his face to look at you, probably sticking his forehead against yours, keeping his eyes closed and waiting for you to be the one to initiate the separation of the embrace.

❖ LYSANDER ;; Lysander's hugs feel like an event capable of renewing your life towards a better one. The moment you ask him, a concern shows through his eyes, and by a hand on your hip he draws you into his lap. Then he hugs you carefully not to squeeze you too tightly, as if you were a delicate flower. "Is there a specific reason for requesting a hug, my dear?" He would ask, but not even showing discomfort. One of his hands caresses your hair, while holding you close to him, he would even begin to sing some secret soft melody he has composed, trying to get you to relax.

❖ KENTIN ;; The things I would do to bury myself in those pecs.... The proposal makes him quite shy, but his gaze would soften and he would undoubtedly draw you in for a hug. "You don't even have to ask." His grip is firm and warm, while remaining static so you can enjoy every second of the moment. At some point his hand cups your cheek and he plants a small kiss on your lips. "Everything okay?" he would ask you, checking your face down to the smallest detail to see that you are really okay. 

❖ ARMIN ;; The hugs with Armin are spontaneous and crushing, just like those with Alexy. It is very common that while he or you are playing on the computer, he sits you on his lap and hugs you with one or two arms around your waist. But the moment you ask him for a hug while he is in the middle of a game, he doesn't bother to pause the game (unless it costs him sweat and tears) and holds you in his arms. "Do you want to pass me this isaac run?" he would ask you with a playful tone, as he pulls you to him to invite you into his lap. His way of comforting and cheer you up is to offer you his games for you to enjoy and play while he spreads caresses and kisses all over your back.

❖ RAYAN ;; He would close his book and patpat beside him for you to sit down, then he would put his arm around both your shoulders and draw you in to rest on his chest. "Close your eyes and rest, I'll be here" As he holds the book with one hand, with the other he strokes your head to relax you. He is worried about you, but he prefers give you enough time to organize your thoughts as long as you talk to him about it later. He likes to help you with any issues or overthinking. A pretty and smart brain like yours shouldn't be wasting time on other unnecessary stuff.

❖ HYUN ;; His heart skips a beat the moment you ask him that question, and he nervously starts to laugh. "Oh, how sweet! Of course yes, I couldn't say no to something so adorable." He says as he reaches over to squeeze you for several seconds. He'd mumble a few questions, but generally keep his smile full of love knowing that you've chosen to turn to him when you needed something as comforting as a hug. He loves them!

❖ PRIYA ;; Her presence is already enough to give comfort, imagine her hugs. In addition to the sweet scent of her perfume and the affection of her touch, her soft and low voice in accordance with the environment. Priya also often resorts to hugging you to release stress, asking you in the same way so she can spend a few good minutes cuddling with you. So in the same way, she would take you somewhere private if you are not already, and spend the necessary time snuggling you against her. "You're doing great, honey" she whispers to you from time to time, kissing the top of your head; whether something has happened or not, she wants you to know how proud she is of you.

✩; remember to reblog and like to support my content, I hope you enjoyed it!

[naffeclipse]

ruin spoilers below!!!

Woke up randomly at 4 AM and found a playthrough of the new DLC LET'S GOOOOOOO

I am so many emotions but the heart-stopper is Eclipse. Oh my gosh, he's so sweet and protective! What a cutie pie, augh! He's so messed up and terrifying to look at yet he's so calm and I love the way he folds his hands over his chest!!! I want to hug him so bad ah!

Another big thing is Bonnie. I really wanted to know what happened to him and how he plays into the story of Security Breach. I watched this video claiming his location and oh my gosh, the poor boy. My brain is buzzing over him and his remains because he is destroyed but still somewhat intact. Also how tragic and ironic that he's right behind his own bowling alley the whole time!!! Ahh! I'm not sure why they did more of a blue color for him with purple accents but he's still pretty.

I really am itching to write about poor Bonnie and why he ended up like this and how. It still doesn't add up for me yet but I'm hoping more secrets will be revealed. I assumed his body was used as a basis for Burntrap but there's still so much of him left that it doesn't seem like that's the case. Oh gosh, I want to fix my boy up and make sure he's okay. My boy Bonnie ;-;

OH THE PATPATS! Those have me so skeptical ahhh! I think they have to be connected to Glitchtrap, maybe acting as his eyes and ears. I also got so wigged out seeing them surround Bonnie's ruined body. There's so many thoughts I have but I'll leave it there for now ahhhhh!

Also... man... Gregory just stone-cold, huh?

THE MIMIC IS TERRIFYING AHHHHH I LOVE HOW FREAKY

ROXY IS AMAZING I'm super invested in her and Cassie being close and adorable ahhhh I love that she protected her for a while against the mimic!!! I wish there was a way to not have to shut down her security node ahhhhhhhh

[thebunztalk]

Mimic story in sb theory!!!!

Uh spoilers maybe…it’s been 3/4 weeks tho

Before I start, I wanna say that I don’t believe Tales From The Pizzaplex is FULLY canon.

Yes, Mimic does exist but I don’t think his backstory and personality from the TFTP is canon, maybe there’s some aspects that Steelwool put into game!Mimic.

The proof for this, is that game!Mimic is slow. When Cassie gets chased by Mimic, she runs but her stamina drops faster than Gregory and runs slower while Mimic is even slower than Cassie. And book!Mimic hunted a group of teenagers which are faster than Cassie and yet Mimic killed the group like it was nothing…

Another proof is in TFTP, book!Mimic rips people heads and limbs off and in Ruin, Mimic’s jumpscare shows him grabbing Cassie’s head to rip her.

But when you actually look at both Mimic jumpscare

It looks like he’s trying to wack Cassie on the head instead of trying to grab or rip her and for the Mimic jumpscare without the suit, it looks like he’s putting his hand on front to Cassie’s face instead of his whole palm.

I also don’t believe GGY is canon, I mean sure, amnesia is a thing and Gregory could forgot about what he did

but then again…him being NATURALLY good at computer tech and hacking doesn’t really match to SB taken from his dialogue…

“I don’t know, it looks pretty complicated…”

It’s not that complicated actually, it’s just so much memorizing.

OK! Now let’s get officially started.

Staffbot Silo/Post it room

In my theory on Mimic, I said he’s the one writing these notes, Vanny created him for the purpose of a physical body for Glitchtrap but didn’t work, him kicking Freddy out of the main system and Mimic spying on Gregory through the caution bots/Patpats.

I’ve also talked about Mimic is the one scattered the retro cds for Gregory to find and him waiting in the fake Michael’s living room for Gregory to come see him because Mimic wants to get to know him better.

And from what you guess on the title, I want to tell about Mimic’s story before SB and in the middle of SB but let’s talk about this first.

Specifically the language. In TFTP The Mimic, a young kid named David and book!Mimic decides to make a hand sign language for Mimic to communicate

and when their father wrote in of what the language looks like…it looks like the image that I just showed you. Hopefully! I dunno, I never read TFTP but from what people said, the writing is very similar to the wall code.

Since I said that Mimic’s backstory isn’t canon how does this work? Well I said Vanny could’ve created Mimic and she is very smart, Vanny could be also the one created that hand sign language for game!Mimic to communicate better. But why?

Because in Ruin, you reach closer to the underground, Grimic’s voice sounds less human and more of a bunch of words that stuck together and when Cassie meets the real Mimic, he doesn’t speak (other than “I’m Gregory”) so that’s why Vanny created that language and in the notes you can read that was talking to someone. Like this

Now, was Mimic got put in the endo warehouse?

Maybe. Maybe, after Vanny realized that Mimic is its own being, she putted him in the warehouse with the other endos and from their walk/run cycles, it looks like they have a mimicking feature of their own…that they able to copy the Glamrocks’ AI and the wall/door to teach them. My proof that Mimic was there.

This would make sense, in a way that Vanny is trying to make Mimic just like Glitchtrap.

So I said in the beginning, that Mimic’s run cycle is very slow and he doesn’t copy the Glamrocks’ or Gregory’s.

So maybe Mimic is a slow learner when he was in the warehouse and from the post it notes, his writing is progressing to be a more steady one. So he just needs to take his time on learning how and what is surrounds him and that causes him to be a slow learner (autistic robot real).

Vanny notices this and decides to move Mimic down to Staffbot silo so the employees won’t get suspicious about Mimic and to learn at his own pace and give a lifetime supply of post it notes to Mimic.

From the look of the room, Mimic has been in the Staffbot silo for a while and he has of a more developed mind but he is still a child, he just wants to be grown up.

Connecting Caution bots

While Mimic have been staying in the Staffbot silo, employees starting to get a little too close to the truth then Vanny kills them, with her recent action being the message “All staff meeting”. That also happened to Glamrock Bonnie.

He must’ve trying to investigate about all the strange stuff that happened like the disappearances of children and the staff. The question is who Vanny used to kill Bonnie? Was it actually Monty? Roxy? Prototype Freddy? Or Mimic. If Mimic killed Bonnie, he either gotten pressured or told to just “decommission” Bonnie by Vanny. In the end, Mimic able to connect to the Patpats or he already did get connected and they’ve decommissioned Bonnie because he got to close to the truth.

Which I wanna say that the reason why, Bonnie’s eyes stopped glowing when you deactivate the Patpats is because Mimic must’ve felt guilty about killing him and decided to connect Bonnie with the Patpats too.

The start of SB

Mimic saw Gregory at his stay in the Pizzaplex through the Patpats. Mimic watched Gregory a few times when he’s trying to be in shelter, Gregory must’ve been staying in the Pizzaplex for at least two days that Mimic gets curious about him and his behavior.

Sadly, that has to end when Gregory gets caught by Vanny or Vanessa BUT Mimic has a plan, he wants to help Gregory get out of this mess then Freddy had an error moment when he saw Gregory and Vanny/Vanessa in the crowd but then he had full shut down because something kicked him out of the main system. Mimic kicked him out. That distracted Vanny/Vanessa that Gregory able to get out of their grasp.

Mimic wants to know Gregory more so he can’t just leave then he knows how to make Gregory stay little longer. Make a scavenger hunt! That’ll keep him busy. Mimic leaves the Staffbot silo but when he got out, he crashed into a bunch of boxes

He tried to put boxes in its place but he doesn’t have the time do this right now. Mimic searching for something to use in the scavenger hunt.

Now the retro cds can only be found by using Roxy’s eyes and since the Glamrocks and Mimic is connected to the AR system, Mimic could have found a bunch of data that’s complied into a cd and somehow Roxy’s eyes can make it into a reality.

Mimic found the retro cds through the AR world and scattered all of them in the Pizzaplex for Gregory to find.

Fake SL living room

Mimic is staying in the fake SL living room while Gregory’s doing his 6 hour adventure. He’s been watching Gregory in security cams and Patpats through the TV. Why did I said he watching Gregory through the TV?

Because in ruin, we can see a security footage of Gregory and Vanny so there’s a possibility that Mimic can see Gregory like this too.

Now does Mimic just sit and wait for Gregory to come and that’s it? No. I’m sure, Mimic helped Gregory along with Freddy but how?

The messages

Throughout the game, you can collect messages in the shape of a duffel bag that can help you or for lore reasons. So how Mimic can send the messages despite that in game, you’re collecting them yourself? Simple, that’s just a game mechanic.

In one of Freddy’s unused dialogues, he mentioned about one of the messages on how to get to the catwalks. So in game, you have to collect the messages but in story, Gregory got messages at random times but in certain places. And there’s this one place where you get the “PQ 1 maint” message. The first message that Gregory founds out about PQ

The same place where you can find Bonnie in Ruin (I’m on the 10 images limit but you know what I mean).

If Mimic send all of those messages to Gregory then why he sent the message about PQ despite the arcade machine could free Vanessa.

Maybe the Bonnie and all Staff meeting incident made Mimic realize something that what Vanny’s doing isn’t good or normal. Maybe he wants to free Vanny because he knew something was wrong and the only way to do that is playing PQ but it didn’t exactly work…

(I think the “HI DAVE” and “Better Employees” message was a message misread speedrun send accident or Mimic thinks it would be funny)

A challenge message

Back to fake SL living room, there’s this message behind the TV and I said that the language was created by Vanny so ONLY Vanny and Mimic knows about this language but what if i told you Mimic1/Glitchtrap also knows about it.

When you think about the translation of the message, it sounds like a taunt, a challenge.

Taken from the quote

“Break and mend, i built the breath. They hunt now, drawn to life. Not real, still keen. And frit and fraught with thought and zest and gest no blunt woes. Dodge, duck, flash, shoot, crawl, run, crash the vile band. Cry not, try not, do not hold out hope, no. Your life, your aim will save those with soul.”

“I built the breath. They hunt now”

That would make sense for Glitchtrap because he built the virus and Vanny put that into the Glamrocks causing them to be aggressive. Obviously, this message is for Gregory but it’s not message…it’s a challenge. A challenge for Gregory. Glitchtrap is taunting him to fight through the night and destroy the Glamrocks which Gregory did just that.

But how Glitchtrap able write that challenge despite he doesn’t have a physical body? Mimic also got affected by the virus in which cause Glitchtrap to control him and wrote that message. So here’s what happened

Mimic was helping and watching Gregory through the TV then he got glitched and errors, he dropped his popcorn (yes, I think Mimic was the one who carried two popcorns and eating it) Glitchtrap took control and wrote that code then he leaves and Vanny founds him.

Vanny hides Mimic to somewhere below the Staffbot silo and that place is Freddy Fazbear’s pizza place, that’s where Mimic’s story ends and y’know how it goes next,

Gregory and Freddy goes to Fazer Blast and Vanny disassemble Freddy, Gregory plays PQ 3 and freed Vanessa and which also “freed” Vanny and they eat ice cream together with Freddy being a head and Mimic saw that and he’s all sad, the 3 star fam are gone for awhile then they came back with Vanny created MXES and modified the AR world.

Now here is the interesting part

A story about a Mother and a Son

I’ll tell you one thing…there is not a single mother and son duo in the FNAF franchise. So either the mother and son is most likely a metaphor or it’s about Vanny and Mimic.

“Now i will tell you a story about a Mother and a little boy who lived alone in a cabin in the dark woods”

Vanny and Mimic lived in the Pizzaplex which they hide in dark places and the animatronics there seems aggressive.

“There was a monster in the woods but the Mother caught it and kept it locked in the basement”

The monster is Glitchtrap. Tape girl and Vanessa tries to trap Glitchtrap in different ways but the one thing about tape girl, that she had the option to delete her audio logs that was used as Glitchtrap’s hiding spot but she never deleted them…

“The monster always made scary noises at night. But the Mother would tell the boy not to worry because it could never get out. Then she would sing the boy a lullaby to sleep.”

The virus affected Glamrocks is seen killing their targets through the Patpats, Mimic asked Vanny about the disappearances but she told him not to worry/gaslighting him to not think about it.

“One day, the monster stopped growling. Instead, listened and learned the lullaby.”

Glitchtrap watched Mimic and learned the language that Mimic communicates with and used it to write the message.

“The next day when the Mother went out to find food, the monster sang the lullaby from the basement. The little boy heard the lullaby and opened the door…”

When Vanny got “freed”. The 3 star fam came back to the pizzaplex and put MXES in the underground.

MXES who is oddly similar to Glitchtrap is now the monster luring Mimic to the underground and trapped him there.

But wait…

Did MXES lured Mimic?

From most people’s theories, Gregory lured Mimic there because Mimic wants to meet Gregory. But what if Mimic’s messages to Cassie IS true.

In his first dialogues to Cassie, that SOMETHING grabbed him and he’s under the raceway and when MXES first appeared, Mimic told Cassie to “stay away from that thing”.

Then when Cassie talks to Mimic in the Monty gondolas maintenance room, Mimic said this

“I’ll explain it all when you get here. That thing is back! I gotta hide!”

It’s the fact that Mimic sounds very genuine when he’ll explain about how he can see what Cassie’s doing and he called someone “that thing”.

Was he referring to himself or to MXES because it would make sense that MXES is physically near Mimic.

Now, the very last thing to talk about

The elevator ending

In the chase scene, Mimic kept trying to run to Cassie. Maybe the reason why Mimic knocked Cassie out of consciousness was because he was desperate to have company especially when Gregory said that he’s been trapped for really long time.

Then if Mimic cut the elevator (as in destroyed the conduit) either he didn’t think that the elevator would fall or he’s so desperate that he’ll let Cassie get hurt on the way down…but I think I’ll choose that first one.

Conclusion?

Mimic is so tragic actually…same thing with book!Mimic. Anyways

AlsoiheadcanonedVannycalledMimicJimmysoMimic’sactualnameisJimmy

This theory is helped by @chaosnightgal

[okenki]

i love sharing my work, i really have hope one day it will reach someone that would like it and maybe it wil bring something positive and maybe meet some nice people along the way, become able to express myself all that

i wish i could do better, i dont even want to be known or anything i guess i just wanted to make some friends and all but everything feel super cold and lonely and i want to give up everything

i will keep making comics you can find them for free on my comicfury and some on my itch.io again most are free i know its not making it anymore appealing aha sorry

if you support me on the patpat i will keep sharing there and all, its not even to push you on there, its litteraly 4 of my friends i am extremly grateful for

thank you for the time you gave me, sorry i am so tired, i will stay on there and maybe keep doing stuff i dont know i just dont feel like sharing art anymore, for now at least i dont know

its probably nothing and im probably overdramatic as everything around me fall apart i guess i just kind of wanted to express something here too

i often joke about deleting everything and leaving i dont know

i dont know anything anymore

im sorry

[anxiouslyfred]

The Best Animal

so according to my note for this idea @lostcephalopods suggested it, probably months ago.

Summary: Virgil and Remus are arguing over which is best, spiders or octopuses. The rest of the sides have to escape them by heading into the real world and confusing Thomas by their presence.

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Thomas blinked as his Creativity appeared in the living room, looking cautiously around the room before sighing and collapsing across from him. “Hi Roman, pretty sure I'm not asking for ideas or motivation right now. Why're you here?”

“Sheltering. They got into Patton's room earlier and mine was basically taken over immediately because that's what Remus does now. Janus thinks you're the safest place to stay right now.” Roman explained looking at him, before checking the room around them again. “Given it's Janus we're dubious over that accuracy especially since he's actually sheltering in Logan's room now.”

Before Thomas could ask just why his sides needed to shelter, as if Remus wasn't a decent start to the explanation, Patton appeared on his lap, only to jump off and shove him forwards to hide between Thomas and the sofa.

Logan and Janus were soon to follow now, both just brushing off their clothes before looking around the living room in a calmer fashion than Roman had done. “Being in the real world should limit Virgil's summoning abilities even if I'm dubious that it would impact Remus's transformations as you're suggesting.” Logan was commenting before nodding to Thomas.

“I would love to know just what you need to shelter from, or have you all decided we need to do an impulsive video?” Thomas asked, looking at the three he could without twisting.

“Creepy crawly death dealers.” Patton half wailed from behind him, explaining nothing except that spiders were somehow involved.

Janus just nodded, “Indeed, there are a lot of spiders around the mind space currently. Virgil and Remus are debating the best eight-legged animal and while Remus has been transforming in order to make his point Virgil prefers simply summoning them and both were trying to recruit us to support their choice.”

***

Inside Thomas's mind, Virgil turned from the argument for a moment, snickering. “I think the others are hiding in the real world now. He's getting worried about us. Wonder if he's amused by them all too.”

“I'll go check when you admit squids are the best multi limbed creature.” Remus grinned, form shifting as he glided closer to Virgil's head.

“You were arguing for octopuses! Don't change animals for no reason and stop lying. It's always going to be spiders that are the best and you know it!” His attention snapped back to the argument at hand, a mixture of spiders and frogs now falling on Remus. “They keep pets! They're like the only animal other than us to keep pets. And you want me to believe loners lost in the sea are better than that?”

Remus cackled at that, “Is that why you like Patton so much? You can't just decide to be a light side cause Patpat turns into a frog.”

“I didn't – Fuck he really did that, didn't he?” Virgil went to argue only to stutter in realisation.

“Yup, maybe he's insecure and thought doing that would make you stay with him when I showed up!” He cheered his words, excited at the idea.

Virgil smirked, “So you're happy that spiders keep pets? See. They are the best.” He gestured to the spiders and frogs from before, now on the floor and clearly moving to find each other, forming their own families.

“Octopodes are not loners! They literally gather in hundreds to nest and die. They're so fucking community focused they die together!” Remus countered, immediately returning to their original argument.

“Communal death is not community! In humans it's a horror. It's society failing.” Virgil snapped back.

Neither of them noticed Roman quietly popping up, keeping to the edge of the room where there were fewest spiders. “Or maybe you should both admit that the greatest animal that actually exists is the platypus.”

With that he was laughing as Virgil and Remus were promptly on the same side, arguing for both animals.

He carried on laughing when Virgil summoned two foot of water into the room, starting about knee height to part way up their chests with octopi and squids swimming through it.

The laughter stopped and Roman very quickly vanished back to Thomas when Remus turned into a giant spider, now dangling from the ceiling.

“Both brilliant?” Virgil said after watching Remus's cackling for a moment.

Remus grinned over at him, “For reactions like that, definitely. All the creatures in here are brilliant.”

***

Thomas blinked at Roman's abrupt reappearance. “So you weren't successful in getting them to stop arguing?”

“I was, but I don't recommend going back to the mind-space for a while.” Roman insisted after a moment checking Remus hadn't followed him.

Janus smirked over at him. “I told you you'd only get Remus to transform in support of Virgil.”

“No, you said I shouldn't try getting them to support each others animals against one I chose.” Roman protested. “You never mentioned Remus becoming a giant spider!”

“It was implied.”

[essayofthoughts]

Gently patpats, what do you think are Percy and Kash's respective strengths and weaknesses as parents?

Good question! I think you'd have to look at the kinds of people they are to really figure that out and one of my first thoughts from that is that I feel like Percy is much less overbearing or hovering?

Like. Percy is someone who puts a huge stock in respect and trust - it's why he isn't overbearing or overprotective with any of his friends, even the ones he loves the most, like Keyleth or Vex. He respects their skills and trusts their judgement and so while he'll raise his concerns he very rarely directly intervenes without their first giving the okay - to do otherwise would be to imply he doesn't trust or respect them.

So I think Percy's very willing to support his kids in trying new things! I imagine he'd always put in reasonable safety precautions and explain why, and would be much more cautious until around the age 5-6 mark, when they start really being conscious and able to think and reason a bit, but I think he's very supportive of them trying new things and, once he thinks they're old enough for whatever they want to attempt, I think he's pretty hands-off in letting them get on with it? They have to learn their lessons one way or another, and practically is often best. He'll make sure they have what buffer and safety he can provide, but letting them try things out for themselves, make mistakes, learn what they do or don't like by trying out a new food or activity... I think that's something he's very supportive of.

I think his weakness is that... he isn't always great at seeing other perspectives? He tries and he especially tries when it's friends and loved ones (see again: his relationship with Keyleth. They're very different people but despite their different perspectives Percy still values her opinion and she his - they don't always understand why the other thinks the way they do but they do try) but he doesn't always succeed and can be both very stubborn and set in his ways. I think he does sometimes struggle to connect with his kids, especially once they hit teenagedom, and I think it's a bit rough on everyone involved when it first happens. No kid likes feeling misunderstood or inadequately listened to by a parent, and I think for Percy not being able to understand his children's perspectives and therefore limiting how he can help them is something that hurts him too. He wants to be there - he just can't bridge that gulf.

Thank god there's Vex there.

As for Kash - I think his directness makes him very very good at explaining things to his kids in ways they understand. Never overly complicated or even all that nuanced, but simple enough they understand and with enough detail it might make them curious about it. I think that directness and, especially, his growth thanks to Zahra's help, means he's both very very firm on his own boundaries and encourages his kids to be firm on theirs. His kids say "No" and he listens, even if it's a silly meaningless child-who-only-has-a-handful-of-words-no. I imagine he never wants his kids to feel like they don't matter or won't be listened to and while that means that sometimes resolving things with stubborn children might be trickier, I think it engenders an awful lot of trust.

As for his weakness ... I mean, I don't know if I'd necessarily call it a weakness but I absolutely think his kids learn to swear within a few months of starting language acquisition. I am also inclined to think that he doesn't stop them from using what swearwords they know, which means probably you get kids dropping a cup at the table, water spilling everywhere, and the kid going "Son of a bitch!" If he personally doesn't think it's a problem and if Zahra doesn't think it's a problem, I can't see him really going out of his way to stop or curtail a behaviour, and I think that means that it might seem to others that his kids are kind of undisciplined, just because he gives them a lot of free rein.

I think his weakness might be when he has to limit that free rein. It's one thing when it's boundaries - that he can be firm on - but I think even after Zahra he sometimes struggles to deal with kind of... cases of authority (i.e. him trying to get his kids to knock it off when they're being loud or doing something dangerous) being challenged (energetic, riled up kids who want to do something, inherited their dad's stubbornness and pottymouth, and are perfectly willing to talk back) without kind of being a bit shit and stubborn? I think there's sometimes some nasty parent-kids fights over that kind of a thing, at least early on before Kash gets a handle on it - but I think he's not always the best at like... defusing conflict even after that, because it doesn't come naturally to him.

Thanks for asking this Blorb! That was really fun to think about.

[icedmetaltea]

Hi! I just finished reading Special Treatment and I wonder, do you remember how you planned to end it? You can ignore this ask if you don't feel like talking about it.

It's all good! No worries no worries *patpat*

Pretty anticlimactically tbh... No matter how many times I wrote out the draft it didn't seem right. Not good enough for the amount of time I put it off ya know?? Like there was too much hype and I wasn't equipped with the know-how to make it, ya know, good.

There was gonna be two endings: 1. One that was gonna be a sort of crack fluff ending where y/n gets tricked into marrying them via some contract. They stay at the daycare and decide against leaving (well not like they can but they're more cool with it) and live happily ever after~

2. Another that was the "canon" ending where there was gonna be a play. It started out with Y/n waking up to some ready made breakfast and getting to chill while Sun was down setting things up, and since they wanted to surprise Sun/Moon since it was their "last day" n all, they decided to go back into their room behind the platform (weird floor plan) to do some cleaning, as it is strewn with toys, craft supplies, dust, all that jazz... low and behold they find their broken phone/keycard in the closet while looking for a mop and put the pieces together. Sun/Moon find them, mess with communications so the daycare remains closed but Kai gets an email that they're holding a special play just for y/n to see them off since it's their last day so he comes... Wondering where y/n is (they're tied up upstairs lol) but remains unsuspicious. The curtain draws, boom y/n is up on the castle platform, their arms tied above their head with a flashlight strapped between their wrists so it's pointing down toward the stage. Sun/Moon would be acting out the scenes via the use of said flashlight (... since they were shakin real bad watching Kai fight for his mcfucking LIFE they had a pretty hard time controlling it). Sun would act out the scenes of the "daring prince" while Moon would be the "evil wizard" or something and each time Moon got his moment in the not-spotlight he'd creep toward Kai and eventually "accidentally" break a couple of his bones with their bare hand and possibly (probably) kill him.

Ofc in the end no matter if it was Sun or Moon in control, that guy would be toast. Rip Kai but tbh you were a pervert to y/n anyway sO IT'S FINE (Author justifies murder more at 5)

But yea after all that, it's kinda implied y/n is just gonna be kept there from now on till le good old fashioned Stockholm syndrome kicks in and they can be trusted to go back to helping out with daycare stuff. Sun/Moon again messed with communications so they like sent an email to management and the outside world that y/n changed their mind about quitting.

Rather dark! But I (and I take it some of ya'll) happen to have the specific fantasy of wanting to be kidnapped by yandere robots and have all my needs taken care of and never deal with any adult responsibilities and be loved to an obsessive degree SO it all works out~

[krackkokichi]

Masterpost of Glamrock Bonnie evidence

I wanted to compile all the information we know for sure in relation to Bonnie’s fate, as well as a little speculation and possible debunking. I do not own a copy of Security Breach though, so if there’s something I missed, please let me know! Under the read more

The dufflebag messages from the base game are the first, most obvious clue:

First of all, Bonnie takes a ridiculous amount of time to leave Rockstar Row and enter Gator Golf. The second note says Bonnie is “out of commission,” which could either mean that he is still missing, or that they found him, and he is too heavily damaged. Next, we see that this question of an officially approved response was resolved with the Monty’s dark ride. (Most of the Bonnie art being removed may be the explanation for why Bonnie has his classic appearance in the bowling alley. Perhaps all the glamrock art was removed, and in an effort to make the kids stop asking, they left his classic appearance in tact? Though this is just speculation)

Speaking of, here are the cutouts from the ride:

Notably, Monty is looking up in awe while the band performs, and Freddy is suspiciously cast in shadow. Some have said that he is looking at Bonnie while others allege that he is instead looking at the star. You be the judge.

Here we have a scene that is hidden in the shadows of the ride, depicting Bonnie falling or perhaps caught up in Monty’s cyclone:

Given that this one is hidden, I find it a more credible piece of evidence than the “official response.”

Backtracking a little, a hole from the base game Gator Golf machine depicts this scene of Monty’s ambition:

It might seem like I am trying to paint Monty in a bad light, but I regret to inform you that that is just where most of the evidence, circumstantial or not, points.

This middle dufflebag message is often used to refute the idea that Monty wants to be the star, but it neglects to take into context the other messages showing that this is highly unusual behavior for them, and Monty is not unique in this regard:

Despite being missing from his cutout in the dark ride, Bonnie’s sign proves that Monty’s glasses were originally Bonnie’s. (Also since Freddy’s poster is here, I will just go ahead and mention that Freddy’s lines “There is no rabbit at the Pizzaplex. Not anymore.” and “I do not come up here anymore. I miss him.” only really tell us that it’s been a while, which we already knew)

The sign is also the means by which Cassie electrocutes the shit out of Monty. This is especially notable due to how rare Bonnie’s sign is, and that the sign is uniquely broken.

Next we have Bonnie’s actual model (somewhat reconstructed), depicting large claw marks or cracks across his torso and what some allege to be green paint surrounding them. The piñata reflects this damage, but seems to show brown marks, notable due to the highly saturated colors on the rest of the piñata, which makes me doubt the alleged green paint.

Additionally, this dufflebag message is used to refute the idea that it was Monty, which makes sense; however, I would be remiss to not point out the contradiction. The message says that Monty’s claws allow him to play bass, yet we see very clearly that Bonnie has no claws. It might not mean anything, but there you go.

Now for the scene we find Bonnie’s body in:

Notably, there is a suspicious impact mark on the wall, broken bowling ball pieces by Bonnie’s head, his eyes are still glowing, and a few patpats are surrounding him. Upon deactivating them, his eyes go dark. It’s strange that Bonnie’s body is collecting dust in the back of Bonnie Bowl when his last recorded location was Gator Golf, especially since he was seemingly killed here.

Except, an examination of the “tarp” Bonnie is lying on shows that it is the very same carpet you see immediately after entering Gator Golf:

It is also highly strange that Bonnie’s eyes are still glowing, and his location is only revealed by deactivating the patpats, and that his eyes go dark when the ones in the room are also deactivated. This could mean nothing, but I can’t help but draw connections to this bizarre message on the UI:

So what did happen to Glamrock Bonnie? I don’t know, but I find it hard to believe Monty wasn’t involved in some way, but a lot of the evidence that points to him is circumstantial. Maybe Bonnie’s murder was never meant to be solved. It compels me though.

EDITED TO ADD: Bonnie's charging station is also damaged as though something was trying to get in. Image limit does not allow me to add it, so it's in the reblogs.

[nyashykyunnie]

Nyashyy 😭 I was babysitting my cousin, and I turned around for like 5 minutes to make him lunch and when I finished he had "something to show me"

😭😭😭he put my $300 headphones in the toilet 🤧 after cleaning them I dunno if I should laugh, cry or- $300 covered in toilet water wtfff

Sometimes I think I want kids but then this kinda stuff happens lmaoo 😓

NOOOOO:((((, I HOPE YOU CAN STILL REVIVE THE HEADPHONES BECAUSE THAT IS SO EXPENSIVE AAAAAAAA :(((((((, PATPAT BB!!!

[maya-chirps]

Celebrating Christmas in the Philippines: The Christmas Capital of Asia (Part 2)

A parol shop selling other Christmas decorations posted by yeowatzup (2005) via Wikimedia

This is a second part of a longer post on Christmas in the Philippines. Part 1 can be found here.

(Also I know this is a little late, had some personal stuff this holiday season so sowwyy)

Practices in the Present Day

Christmas traditions today are a mixture of both traditionally Hispanic and American practices with some new and additional modern things added in from the past century. Most of these traditions are still done by a lot of Filipino families today and continue to be icons in Filipino culture.

The Longest Christmas

An image of a calendar posted by Benham Norouzi (2021) via Unsplash

It is well-known that the Philippines starts the Christmas traditions on the 1st of September, making it the earliest start of the any Christmas season in the world. This comes from a lot of factors, primarily because Filipinos love the idea of counting down the 100 days before then (which start at the 16th of September), and was later on used in other settings like when people would put up decorations in their own homes and in businesses encouraging the later commercialized holiday to also start early with sales and other deals (Handong, 2017). This later made it sort of official that Christmas would start on September, earning the season the colloquial name "The Ber Months" or "The Ber Season".

As I said in a previous post, however, actual celebrations often start after undas and more specifically after the start of Advent and more intensely during the start of Simbang Gabi or Misa de Gallo on the 16th of December and you would be hard-pressed to actually find people celebrating before then.

It doesn't stop people from having online count downs with Jose Mari Chan's infamous Christmas song "Christmas in our Hearts" in the background (that had been memed on in the Philippines on the scale of "All I want for Christmas is You" in America) on the 31st of August to midnight to greet the 1st of September though.

24th as the Day of Celebration

Other practices that Filipinos inherited from the Spanish from this time was the practice of mostly celebrating the holiday on the eve of instead of the actual day of the 25th. This comes from an older Roman Catholic tradition of having Christmas mass from night time to the next day based on the traditional belief that Jesus was born on exactly midnight on the 25th (The Pillar, 2021). Celebrations like Christmas Eve dinner (the Noche Buana) and gift giving happen during this time with gift opening happening during the stroke of midnight.

Personal side-note, since I'm not gonna add a final section detailing more personal stuff here because it's getting too long: as a kid, I was always confused at American TV shows that showed people sleeping at night before opening up presents in the morning. It never really registered and I always questioned why they had to wait 'til morning for them to open presents. because of this, the whole Santa Claus thing didn't make sense to me either.

Simbang Gabi

People attending Simbang Gabi captured in St. Anthony de Padua Parish Church, Iriga City, Camarines Sur uploaded by Patpat Nava (2015) via Wikimedia

Similar to most Christian countries from the 16th to the 18th Century, the Philippines celebrated Christmas as a religious holiday focused on prayer and masses, often seen in the form of Simbang Gabi or Misa de Gallo which I had discussed in full detail with its history and current practices here. The basics of it is that Filipinos would celebrate Christmas and the lead-up to the holiday by going to church every day for nine days until the 25th starting on the 16th. The practice was brought over by the Spaniards as it can be seen practiced or some form of it practiced in Spain and a few other Hispanic countries.

Other than just church-going, Simbang Gabi is also famous for its many foods that had come to be strongly tied to the event, mostly rice cakes that are sold outside of churches early in the morning and late at night like Puto Bumbong, Bibingka, Sapin-sapin, and many more.

The Parol or The Star Lantern

A photo of parols displayed on a store credited to Sagisag PH posted by Behold Philippines (2021).

One of the most recognizable symbols of the Filipino Christmas is the star lantern known as parols that often can be seen decorating the houses of Filipinos of all different backgrounds. According to Giselle Tong-Walters of the Association for the Advancement of Filipino American Arts and Culture or FilAm Arts, the parol predates Spanish colonization as precolonial Filipinos would often hang lanterns on their homes at night to tell any traveler that may have seen it that they are welcome to seek refuge there (Dormido, 2023).

Others note that the parol had taken inspiration from the Mexican piñata which had originally come from Spain that had come from Italy some time in the 1300s and was said to have been first used in the Philippines as a light-source to guide people early in the morning during Simbang Gabi which remains the popular origin for the parol today (MyParol, n.d.).

The modern parol is said to have been first created by Kapampangan artist Francisco Estanislao in 1908 by using the traditional five-point design by using Bamboo strips and Japanese paper which was later done with the use of the newly created material cellophane as well as the increased use of electric lights that made the star lanterns that Filipinos are familiar with today (Tapino, 2018).

Today many variants of the lantern exists including more and more complicated designs with even the use of sea shells being fairly common.

Seashell lanterns are also a fairly common sight during the holiday season. Image posted by Tapino via Spot.ph (2018).

The Nativity or Belen Display

Capas Municipality’s 13-meter tall Belen takes on Eiffel Tower as the backdrop for their winning Belen, made of bamboo, recycled materials and decorated with LED lights. Image posted by Christine Dayrit via PhilStar (2018).

Like a lot of religious Christian places or former religious Christian places, the nativity is a common sight during the Christmas season with some families owning their own personal display and communities typically having larger ones in their centers. Some people create more handcrafted versions if they don't have the money to buy their own set and some communities may even hold competitions to see who could make the most creative ones.

Noche Buena

An image of a Filipino Noche Buena spread posted on Lessandra.com (2020)

Just like the Spanish, Filipinos celebrate Christmas with a Christmas feast on noche buena (en. the good night) or Christmas Eve with itself as noche buena instead of referring to it as the dinner on noche buena. This particular naming quirk extends over for New Year's Eve Dinner being called medianoche despite the word simply referring to midnight.

The reason for this may come from the fact that Filipinos had gravitated more to using the literal terms with Bisperas ng Pasko and Bisperas ng Bagong Taon (en. The day/night before Christmas and The day/night before the New Year) which made noche buena and medianoche redundant, later tying them to specifically refer to the dinner, although that's more speculation on my part.

The practice, of course, had come from Spain some time during the 17th Century when it was first exported the empire's colonies through Roman Catholicism (Paz, 2022). The dinner was marked with lots of food and may include multiple families eating together.

Typical food found during Noche Buena include the hamon (glazed ham), lechon (roasted pig), lumpia (spring rolls), leche flan (milk flan), graham cake, and queso de bola (a special cheese ball), among many other foods. These food are also the same or similar food that are served during medianoche or New Year's Eve Dinner.

Gift-giving and the aguinaldo or the pamasko

Photo of people giving each other gifts posted in an article by Lumina Homes (2020)

Gift giving is often done on the 24th, typically after either Christmas Eve mass or Noche Buena. Most families would wait until midnight as the date goes to the 25th in order to open presents with the typical Christmas gift giving flair.

Besides the gifts themselves, it's tradition for godparents to give money to their godchildren in red packets we call ampao, with this being called the aguinaldo or the pamasko. The practice originated from Chinese-Filipino communities who would often do this for Chinese New Year's which later spread to non-Chinese communities who instead would give the red envelopes during Christmas (Ki, 2019). Although some may think that the money giving stops after adulthood, some godparents

Two Red Hang Bao or Ampao typically given during Chinese New Year posted by Mikhaila Archer via Cosmopolitan (2022).

Christmas Caroling

Video of children caroling posted by Rauselle Pascua (2023) via YouTube

Christmas Caroling in the Philippines typically start at the beginning of the Simbang Gabi and ends on the 24th, with some caroling much earlier, where children to full adult groups may go door to door to carol for candy, food, or money. Children often go in groups and sing the typical Filipino Christmas songs with makeshift instruments such as tambourines made out of cans and small metal bits to make sounds, while teenagers and adult groups may go around from house to house with guitars and other portable instruments in order to receive cash.

The songs that they sing may range from traditional Filipino songs or modern Christmas songs from both local and international places.

I don't have a source for this one since I do want to look more into the history of Christmas Caroling in the Philippines maybe next year so enjoy this other video of a group of guys dancing Jingle Bells posted by SG TV (2019).

Side Story: I used to spend Christmas with my, honestly, wealthier grandmother and it wasn't uncommon for carolers to go up our door and just sing for candy or money. It often started on the 16th because caroling wasn't allowed any time before that. We used to have a weird little rule that children would get candy, while teenagers and adults will get money. Teenage boys would come around as whole groups with guitars and sing for money, while kids didn't mind the candy. After a while, there would be times that different people in the house would give candy away so we weren't able to keep track of which kid had already gone to our house. It wasn't until one of the people who worked for my grandma recognized a couple of kids that we realized that they've just been going around the neighborhood before doing another round when people may had already forgotten them. Honestly, I'm a little impressed.

Panunuluyan

Photo of a Panunuluyan posted by Philippines Tourism (@/MorefunTourism) (2018) via Twitter/X

The Panunuluyan is a traditional play that reenacts the night of Jesus' birth where Mary and Joseph were trying to seek shelter (NCCA Official, 2015). The name comes from the Filipino word tuloy which although typically mean "to continue" is used in this context to mean "to allow in" or "to enter in" referring to guests or visitors entering someone's home. Schools and churches typically do this play as part of their Christmas festivities but it isn't as common as it was in the past (Tan, 2016).

Panunuluyan is also called by different names such as Panawagan (en. announcement) in Cavite and Batangas, Kagharong in the Bikol region, and daigon, pakaon, and patores in Visayan speaking regions (NCCA Official, 2015).

Side story: I had a queer classmate who played Mary in one of these plays against their will in a seminary house production because their mom just said so and the place didn't had any afab people (because seminary house obv), and they ended up falling in love with the guy who played Joseph, serving as the only male crush they have ever had. Hilariously, on a seminary boy meaning a dude who wants to be a priest. I feel bad for them...

The Feast of the Three Kings

A photo of the reenactment of the Epiphany story in Gasan, Marinduque showing the three magi meeting with King Herod. Photo posted by Eli J. Obligacion (2011) via the blog Marinduque Rising.

Observed every 6th of January, the Epiphany or the Feast of the Three Kings is a religious observation that marks the formal end of the Christmas season in the Philippines. In the current day, most communities simply go to church to celebrate the epiphany, it was once a common practice to have a large celebration during the day which involves three people dressed up as the three kings, riding horses to the local church, distributing gifts to the townspeople. This practice is still done in some communities in the country today (Primer, 2021).

From photos I've seen of some of the festivities, two members of the three may put on blackface and/or redface to symbolize all three magis who are typically shown as having different skin tones as seen in the previously linked article from Primer, although some places instead have children play the parts of the magi without any blackface or redface.

Closing

As a kid, Christmas has always been special to me and now that I'm older, it's gotten a lot less cheery as all young adults may feel with the season getting less about joy and presents and more about either work and expenses. That sorta happened here when I was initially rushing this even when I was not in the mental headspace for it so taking a break was almost mandatory. I definitely feel a little bummed that I wasn't able to finish this the day of, but I can't really change it as much.

To those finishing my late extremely long-ass infodump about Christmas in the Philippines, thank you so much for reading and have a Happy New Year!

(Part 1: Etymology and History)

(Reference List)

[hqmillioncorn]

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

Poppette packed the very last things they needed into their bag and ran out the door to her room. Her dad was waiting to see her off at the front door. "Do you have everything?" He asked. There was a hint of nervousness to his voice. Poppette knew exactly why. It was probably because she was traveling so far away by herself There was probably the part where she was visiting the part of her family that had been purposely forgotten about because of the whole dragon blood thing. Regardless, Poppette assured him that everything would be fine and in turn her father agreed with her. "Besides dad I don't think the Warrior of Light has ever eaten anyone!"

Lalapril 4/2: Season i think its probably spring or something!

Cherrypit watched as a butterfly flew past and landed on a dandelion. It was a fairly windy day which threatened to blow the poor butterfly off the flower. Cherrypit crawled over to the flower and stared at the butterfly. “Hello! Butt fly!” He leaned in closer and stared.

The butterfly flapped its wings lightly. 

Cherrypit waved his hand at it, “Go way’!” he urged the butterfly. The butterfly refused to relinquish its spot for a few seconds before finally giving in. Cherrypit watched as it flew away, getting smaller and smaller. “Bye-bye!” The butterfly had already flown out of view by the time Cherrypit finished waving at it.

Then Cherrypit sat in silence for a few seconds, staring at the flower.

“Is anywa gonna ea tis?” He pointed at the flower and echoed a question that he had heard many times during dinner. Right before plucking the dandelion from the ground and sticking it in his mouth.

“Yummyy! Yummyy!!” Cherrypit chewed the flower in his mouth and looked around. His sister and this other strange person were still busy looking at the water behind him. 

Cherrypit would have happily joined them but the new person and Babycorn were talking about something that sounded kinda boring to him.

He would much rather run around and look at flowers and rocks and bugs and anything else that was fun to chase around. There was so much energy in him that had to go somewhere! He couldn’t just stand around talking! He had things to do!

Cherrypit finished eating his flower and crawled around the ground to look for any things that looked tasty. A Brina doll that had been following Cherrypit around since they had all arrived at their picnic spot walked carefully behind him. “Yip-yip-ho! Don’t wander off now!” She warned. 

The danger of Cherrypit running off was almost non-existent but it didn’t hurt to remind him to stay close once in a while. 

Cherrypit hunched over and sniffed a strange shaped looking rock. He lifted it up and revealed a wriggling worm that had been hiding away. “Womry!” Cherrypit yelled out and swiped at it. The worm burrowed itself underground to escape. 

“Bye-bye wormry!” Cherrypit gave the dirt a patpat and pushed himself up onto his feet. His clothes were pretty much caked in dirt now but that was okay because he knew that they would get clean later when he got home! 

Cherrypit decided he wanted to go and be with Babycorn again. 

But found himself surprised to discover that there was no one there. 

Before Cherrypit even had the chance to panic he heard the sound of splashing water. “Huah?” He ran over to get closer to the lake, with Brina trying her best to keep up with him. Once he reached the edge of the railing he knelt down to get a closer look at the water. 

Cherrypit grabbed onto one of the railings columns and the Brina doll grabbed onto his coat, making extra sure he didn’t fall in. He looked down to see the person he didn’t know very well standing in the water. 

“Oh! Hey Cherry!” She waved up at him. They were carrying Babycorn under one of their arms, just like someone would carry a popoto sack. Babycorn was soaked from head to toe. It was almost as if she had tripped and fallen straight into the lake. 

“Your sister just tripped and fell into the water! But don’t worry she’s fine! Just a little wet!” 

Babycorn crossed her arms and puffed her cheeks out. “I thought I saw something shiny in the water and I wanted to get a closer look!” She grabbed a wet leaf from her hair and dropped it back into the water. “Not my fault that some dumb fish jumped out of the water and pushed me in!” 

What had really happened was that while a fish really did come out of the water it didn’t push Babycorn into the water. Instead it had smacked Babycorn right in the face, causing her to lose balance and fall straight down into the lake. 

“Thanks for saving me Poppy!” Babycorn wiggled happily. She really was grateful. The lake was a scary place to be trapped in, especially because of all the different terrifying fish swimming around in it.

“Poppy?” Cherrypit didn’t recognize that name. He climbed up to the top of the railing and stood on it. The person he didn’t know was knee deep in the water, so they were really tall! Just like a lot of his other friends and if his tall friends were nice then maybe this person was nice too.

“Poppy? Poppy poppy poppy.” Cherrypit repeated to himself. 

Poppy giggled, as she started her walk back onto dry land. “Cherry we already met, remember? It’s me Poppette!” The Elezen plopped Babycorn back onto the dock and struck a pose.

She grabbed the brim of her sun hat and did a twirl around and despite her hat (and entire outfit really) being drenched in lake water, she was looking just as stylish as she had been on land. 

It was no surprise, since Poppette had made it herself.

Despite Poppette’s reassurance that they had met before, Cherrypit remained confused.

Poppette slouched, “ Aww…Do you really not remember me?” Their eyes started to water up. Had her first introduction really not made an impression on her new younger cousin? She had shown up early and everythiiing. 

Up on the dock Babycorn gave Poppette a reassuring pat on the back. “Don’t worry! Cherry probably doesn’t remember you cause he fell asleep a little bit after we got to your house!!”

Both cousins distinctly remembered the problems that Babycorn had run into getting to Ishgard. 

“I remember we had to help a knight with a monster attack. Then we had to help a little kid find a missing pair of earrings they lost. And then Cherrypit really wanted to make a snowman before we got there so we stopped and did that and then I ended up falling down into witchdrop again!” Babycorn laughed to herself. “It took me a long time to climb my way out of there!” 

“Woah!” Poppette was amazed, starstruck and even at a loss for words despite having way too many to say about this. “You climbed your way out of witchdrop all by yourself?! And you survived the fall?!” 

“Yeah! I’ve fallen in there lots of times!” 

“That’s incredible! No wonder you’re one of the Warriors of Light!!”

Cherrypit laid down on the railing, since he was small enough to. Something about Babycorn’s story sounded familiar. Especially the part about making a snowman and falling into witchdrop. Except he didn’t remember the part about Babycorn climbing out by herself. Instead he remembered calling Lunya by linkshell and asking her very nicely to help fish an unconscious Babycorn out of her precarious situation. 

He would have gladly gone down there himself but ever since they first re-visited Coerthas around seven years ago Babycorn had asked him to avoid using any of his powers there as much as he could. 

After that he remembered being really sleepy, since it was almost night. This didn’t used to happen. Ever since he woke up in that Old Sharlayan place, things had been just a little bit different. 

Cherrypit watched as Babycorn and Poppette ran back to where he was. Babycorn had shaken off most of the water off of her, though her clothes were still a little damp. It was a pretty hot day today so that was part of the reason Babycorn didn’t really mind all that much. 

Except that whoever’s turn it was to do laundry at the mansion was probably not going to be very happy with her. 

Babycorn walked up the Cherrypit and stretched her arms out. “Bebe!” Cherrypit jumped into Babycorn’s arms without even a moment's hesitation. “Can wa eat now?” He pointed at the picnic basket that had been carefully set near the patch of flowers.  

“Yeah! Of course we can!” Babycorn declared. Falling into the water had really made her hungry. Well, most of everything made her hungry but that’s neither here nor there. 

Poppette was so excited she skipped over to the basket ahead of Babycorn. She had made this lunch herself as a gift to the Starsinger siblings. In actuality it was a sort of apology gift to both of them for how her own family had treated them when they came to visit. 

That night Babycorn and Cherrypit had been yelled at and blamed for pretty much all of her family's problems. While it was true that they had fallen on some hard times ever since the end of the Dragonsong war, Poppette was adamant that most of those problems were not Babycorn’s fault, let alone Cherrypit’s.  

Poppette had herself, left the dinner in tears, running outside into the cold and convinced now more than ever that absolutely none of the heroes that she looked up to would ever want anything to do with her. 

Poppette carefully knelt down and opened the flap of the picnic basket she took out the picnic blanket she had made especially for today. It was orange in color and had patterns of all different types of mandragoras on it, one of Poppette’s favorites. 

In Poppette’s concentration and Babycorn staring absentmindedly at a dragonfly flying past her, neither of them noticed Cherrypit staring right at Poppette, his eyes starting to turn a slight shade of purple.

‘It was a cold scene. The wind was blowing colder than ever. The snow was almost up to Popette’s knees. A part of her blamed this all on Babycorn and Cherrypit. She knew she shouldn't but the snow was much too heavy. To blame all of this on them would make her no more right than her grandparents were.’

As Poppette began to unfold the picnic blanket she recalled more on what happened that night. 

Just as Poppette had given up hope, she turned around to see Babycorn calling out to her. She was carrying a sleeping Cherrypit on top of her head. By the time she caught up she was almost completely out of breath.

Babycorn tried to crack a joke about what had just happened but fumbled it so hard that the joke looped back around to making Poppette laugh about it. Poppette could barely bring herself to apologize for what happened. Especially since it was her who had invited the siblings here in the first place.

Poppette was sort of glad that Cherrypit didn’t seem to remember a majority of that visit. 

‘Why are you sorry!? You didn’t yell at me! Besides, I’m used to it! I’m just glad you and your dad are nice to us Poppy!’ 

Poppette decided then and there that maybe her visiting Babycorn would probably be the better move on both their parts and that was how this picnic plan came to fruition. Making sure to ask ahead of time what each sibling’s favorite food was a genius move on their part.

Poppette carefully knelt down, the phase of caring about her clothes was long past her, considering they were already covered in dirty lake water and mud anyway. 

“Do ya need any help?” Babycorn sat down and plucked a flower from the ground and took a bite of it. “Mpghh I’m realph good at picnics you know?” It wasn’t too long ago that she had put together a feast much like this for her friends at her own home. 

The only difference in this case was that Poppettes food was actually edible. 

Poppette’s eyes lit up. “I would love your help!” She dug into the basket and pulled out some cutlery she swiped from the kitchen of her home. It was the extra fancy kind. “Here! You can set these up! It’s easy I think!” 

Babycorn nodded, carefully taking the cutlery from Poppette’s hands. If there was anything in the hundreds of things she had learned over the years it was that plates tended to break very easily so you had to be careful. ‘Okay I got this!” Babycorn began to carefully walk her way over to the side. By taking the longest and slowest step known to man. 

“You don’t really need to be that careful!”

“I really do!” 

Lest she trip on another pebble and send an entire stack of plates careening towards the ground again just like last time she helped serve food at her friend's restaurant. 

“Surely you’re jesting!” 

“No, I'm serious!” 

Cherrypit blinked, his eyes were purple. 

‘The snow around Poppy began to melt as her father apparend next to her, assuring her that everything was going to be okay. The entire world felt just a little bit warmer. "That's right! If dad can change his mind then everyone else can too! I just have to believe!" Their family would be closer than ever after this!’

Suddenly Cherrypit’s concentration was broken by a familiar scent, the next time he blinked his eyes were back to their familiar white emptiness. “Woah!” He sniffed the air and recognized that smell immediately. “Choca!” There was no doubt about it! There was chocolate cake nearby!!

Cherrypit looked around. In front of him he could see Poppy with a plate in her hand and Babycorn lying flat on the ground. Clearly he had missed something because the chocolate cake he had sniffed out was now lying on the grass and surrounded by flowers. 

“I’m s-sorry…” Babycorn managed to muster out. She had tripped on her own foot and in turn had fallen backwards into Poppette, which caused her to drop the cake and then bump Babycorn forwards to falling on her face.

“Nooo! I apologize!! Forgive meeeeeeee!” 

Cherrypit didn’t know what was going on but he wasn’t wasting any time on eating his absolutely favorite food ever. “Choca! Choca!” He ran past Poppy and Babycorn with a high pitched squeal and used his tiny little hands to dig into the cake. He would have just bitten into it but he remembered Pancake telling him once that it was funner to eat using your hands. 

Babycorn sprang up from lying on the ground with a gasp. “Cherryyyyy!” Babycorn whined very loudly, “Save some for me too!” She ran ahead on all fours and used her own hands to start eating the cake. 

Poppette could do nothing but stare ahead at both siblings devouring the chocolate cake. “I’m pleased you’re enjoying it…?” She was happy they did but it was still a little surprising to see them eat it just like that. There was a warm breeze in the air and Poppette couldn’t help but giggle. 

“...You both are so funny.” 

Cherrypit heard Poppette laughing, turning to look at her he noticed the pretty hat on top of their head. He pointed his chocolate covered hat up at her and smiled, “Pre’yy haa! You have a pretty hat!!” Cherrypit moved his hands around his hair and imagined himself wearing a hat just like it. 

Poppette adjusted their sun hat. “You like it? I can make one for you when I come visit again!” 

Cherrypit smiled as wide as he physically could. “Yeah! Yeah!”

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*hugs* ik i cant do much but sweetie take some breaths. if someone co fronting try to let them front. i dont want you to do anything bad. you can message me on discord if u need to and if u got anything to hug fucking hug the shit outta it (unless animal then u go patpat on the sillies) me and tom are here for you and i love you so fucking much. i promise ill find a way to help ya out of this situation istg..

I forgor to answer this but

[adrianasunderworld]

Aaah! Hello hello! I am, like, just… vibrating for your AUs… all of them, really. I also can, like, really relate to Riddle but not exactly? I mean, like, having been told that someone you thought was good and was doing the best and did what they thought best but found out later that it was abusive is… it’s a shock. There’s no pretrauma for Riddle ;-; and yeah. I can also get how Riddle is torn with his mom and not wanting her to die, but also not wanting her to be there, and also feeling guilty for it. Riddle needs patpats.

Also. I’ve been wondering… what has happened to Ignihyde? That dorm is based all around technology so has Mrs Rosehearts just… banned it? Put, like, a child lock on everything? And what of Ortho? I am asking this for a particular reason hehe… I’ll save that thought for when you hopefully answer this!

It's always been very complicated with Riddle. Because after his Overblot he recognizes his mom is a helicopter parent. He's the one who is unhappy about going home for winter break because he knows what's waiting for him. I do think he loves his mom and doesn't want anything bad to happen to her, but also gtfo of the school. She some how found a way to ruin boarding school for him.

Also Ignihyde is miserable. There is no more smart devices. Most stuff is blocked on the schools wifi. Ortho is still around, but only because she cannot legally have him dismantled. It's in his and Idias file that he has to be there. But she made it a rule that Ortho may not leave the dorm. So our poor baby basically under house arrest. I've mentioned before in a post from a while ago, the idea of what is essentially the Ignihyde students running a tech speakeasy. They change locations often and every other night set up a small movie projector, have video games, and a phone to call people with and check social media. Along wit h sneaking Ortho out so he can see everyone. Because a lot of them are techies like Idia, so making controllers and projectors and hacking the system is simple enough, it's just a matter of not getting caught.

[jules-has-notes]

The Chicken Song — VoicePlay live performances

For this post, I want to let you do a bit of compare-and-contrast. Below are two performances of the same piece, two years apart. As with a lot of VoicePlay's more theatrical skit-songs, every iteration is a little different, and delightful in its own way. Especially in comedic numbers like this, "Elvira", and "Road Trip", where the guys are trying to make each other laugh almost as much as they're trying to entertain their audience.

Details:

title: The Chicken Song

original song / performers: American novelty song also known as "The Rooster" ; first two verses included in the New Christy Minstrels' "Bits and Pieces" medley (1962)

arranged by: VoicePlay

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version 1

This video was recorded during VoicePlay's concert at The O'Shaughnessy theater at St. Catherine University during the 2014 Arts Midwest conference in Minnesota.

performance date: 19 September 2014

My favorite bits:

Layne playfully admonishing the videographer while clucking

Eli's tokyo-drift skibble at the end of each chase

"Anybody wanna milk me?" ::delighted pointing at the audience response:: "Oh, okay!"

"Big guy." ::patpat::

::half-heartedly points at his raised hand:: "’T’s’muh branch."

Eli's smug grin at Geoff's reaction to him taking over, "And an awful lot of it."

Layne, Geoff, and Eli's startled smiles at one audience member's distinctive laughter

Tony repeatedly trying to refuse his assigned role, only to get annoyed when the others don't immediately back him up. "C'mon!" 😠

"I don't think we have that."

Trivia:

Tony's improvised dialog, "Hey, my name is Maggie. Welcome to Matt's," is a reference to Matt's Bar in Minneapolis, where the guys had been very excited to go for a lunch of "juicy lucy" burgers before the show.

Since they were in Home Free's neck of the woods for the conference, the guys had a chance to catch up with Rob Lundquist and Tim Foust.

Tim live-tweeted the show in his typical wry fashion, including some arboreal appreciation for his fellow bass singer.

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version 2

This performance was part of a benefit concert for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation hosted by the Alpha Epsilon Phi fraternity at Stanford University. Tony got stuck in Florida because of Hurricane Matthew, so their old friend Paul from Vox Audio agreed to pinch hit. Which made it even more chaotic than usual.

performance date: 7 October 2016

My favorite bits:

Layne shaking his tail feathers

Eli and Layne's little finger wiggle high-five

Earl and Layne cracking each other up with livestock jokes, then everyone giggling even more when Geoff calls them out on it

Eli laughing so hard he has to take a knee

::elbow bump::

Geoff asking the audience, "D'you guys know what Chiclets are?" only for Earl to immediately pull one out of his pocket

Paul accidentally skipping the second refusal gag and grumbling about not getting paid enough

::wolf whistle:: "Shaddup."

Eli doing his darnedest not to laugh at Paul's waitress antics, to the point of angling himself away from the rest of the group

Paul's incredible scream

Trivia:

The "California cow" / "happy cow" / "best cheese" banter was referencing a series of ads from the California Milk Advisory Board that aired in the early 2000s.

The Chiclets gum question was asked at least in part because that brand had recently been discontinued.

Young lads Layne, Earl, Geoff, and James May recorded a live audio version (without the waitress verse) for 4:2:Five's album "Time Machine" way back in 2004.