#insane takes brought to you by delusions of grandeur

[ihatethiswebsite77]

Watching "it's a Jersey thing". I am beyond confused and in disbelief as to what prompted Cartman to say that

"Deep down you're a monster, but you're my little monster" line.

My working theory is that part of the reason Cartman hates and constantly rips on Kyle for things about him that he can't inherently change, and why he paints a narrative where he assigns those traits a negative meaning even tho they aren't negative in nature is because he is subconsciously annoyed that there is nothing "naturally" negative about Kyle. Kyle is pretty much a well adjusted kid for the most part, but his negative personality traits do come out a LOT when he is interacting with Cartman, but there's nothing about where he 'comes from' that's negative. He has a happy and healthy family, he knows his dad, his parents have respectable jobs, etc.

As opposed to Cartman, who is deluded about being "naturally big boned" which is something for which he is constantly being ridiculed, as well as his mother being a "crack whore" which is also something that he is constantly being ridiculed for. He can't change who his mother is, (and while he could lose weight) he doesn't really believe that cuz like I said he is deluded by his mother into thinking that that's just how his family is.

So when he finds out Kyle is from new Jersey, he immediately jumps to ripping on him about it. Because it's something that Kyle is just "naturally" that everyone in town actually considers to be a negative trait.

But then, when Kyle actually shows that Jersey side to everyone, and it stops being just a way for Cartman to do his usual thing of assigning negative traits to things Kyle is, even tho for once he actually has ground to rip on Kyle for, Cartman is very chill with him.

Almost like, knowing that deep down inside Kyle actually has that "monster" in him brings comfort to Cartman, because now he feels like Kyle is a bit more similar to him.

The "he's just like me fr" of it all.

Or maybe I'm just reaching for the high heavens with this analysis. Who knows.

[sonicasura]

The Grotesque Sentinel

" Within the far reaches of the Hollow of Plague, rests an Irrefutabel Ruler

One who leads the Damning sickness and insanity that travels these cursed lands

However the pompous blinded by delusions of grandeur seek to usurp the Ruler of the Plauge and sit high upon the throne.

So the foolish brave the depths, seeing the rotting remains of those that once were and the damn who wander, nothing more than puppets to the plague the billows throughout the halls

As the depths are finally reached, they are met with nothing but a mountain of corpses, no Liege or throne resting at the the Hollows depths

That confusion is quickly dispersed as the Mountain of the Damned quakes and soon begins to fall, giving way to what the throne turly is

Standing atop the corpses that make it's mighty throne, stands a nightmare made manifest, a horror covered in the ever rotting corpses of the fallen, O so similar to Regal garbs that adorn Royalty.

With a sickening clicking sound the nightmare turns to the foolish one, who dares challange there reign. The pompous goes to strike but is knocked back buy the ever worsening plague under the control of it's Ruler, the plague gathers before a blast hits the would-be uspur head-on

The foolish uspur laid beaten by it's own delusions and soon the plague takes grip, warping there mind and all that remains is nothing but a puppet

The Lord does not spare another glance to the new Jester of the Court as they go back to slumber upon there throne of corpses, a morrbid reminder to all that this Emperor shall suffer no insolence in there Empire

Sovereign Of Isanity's Plauge

* Snap*

Rider: So that's the little poem that goes along with Vaal Hazak, what did you guys think? * Smiles Brightly*

The entirety of Division 3 who were beyond curious to hear about Rider's world's monsters were all wide eyed at the story they were told.

It was Reno who broke the silence

Reno: Ummmm.... is all that actually real???

Iharu: Ya, a lot of it seems to insane to be real, especially that * Gulp* plague part.

Rider: Actually it's all accurate, the Rotten Vale in which Vaal Hazak inhabits, is aboundant in Effluvium. It's a bacterium that grows rapidly there and cause dead tissue to decay more rapidly. It even causes monsters to act more agressively. Though Vaal Hazak is immune to the Effluvium's effect and can even control it. Though they are unable to produce it, so that is why they were the corpses of rotting monsters, to have the Effluvium growing off of them. There is also the fact they can manipulate monsters affected by Effluvium making them the absolute apex of the Rotten Vale.

Hoshina: * Nervous* I'm a bit scarred to ask but what effect does it have on humans?

Rider: On humans, well the effects aren't as bad as it is too monsters, but it will slowly but surely drain you of your energy. Thankfully the Guild has items and rquipment to negate the Effluvium effect.

( It was at this point Hoshina would start wearing his mask more)

Mina: Well that is definitely insane, to think a Monster like that exists and for it to be part of the natural enviorment

Rider: Yup, it's an important part to the safety of the Rotten Vale due to helping with the Effluvium levels.

Rider: Anyway I'm gonna go check up on.... hmmppphhh!!!

Getting grabbed by the scruff Kafka dragged Rider back to the nest he ended up building.

Kafka: That's it your not leaving the nest for awhile, my heart can't take it!

Rider: WHY?!?!? I DIDN'T EVEN DO ANYTHING DANGEROUS!!! NOOOOO!!!

Reno: Poor guy, there they go.... Well time to get something to eat

LMFAO When an educational story time goes wrong especially if Rider brought up illustrations of Vaal Hazaak and the Rotten Vale.

Reno is just used to Kafka kidnapping Rider while everyone is probably confused at the start. Not the first time this has happened considering the multiple blanket nests scattered across the city in hidden spots. Kaiju maternal instincts within Kafka are quite strong, even moreso since Ai is an enabler.

His Rider snatching record will be broken once the Fatalis story is told. Iharu is definitely the little shit who would time the whole thing.

[smokeybrandreviews]

NBA Rant: Delusions of Grandeur

Respectfully, f*ck Steven A. Smith for dismissing Kobe Bryant. Bean doesn’t deserve to be in the GOAT conversation? Are you f*cking kidding me? Are we talking the Kobe who dropped eighty-one of Jalen Rose and the Toronto Raptors? Are we talking the Kobe who lead his team to three consecutive Finals and two titles, with only Pau Gasol as the lone Superstar caliber talent by his side? Are we talking about arguably the keenest, sharpest, most brilliant basketball mind to ever step foot on a court? Look, I understand that Stephen A., and his industry as a whole, are out here feeding the trolls and stirring the pot for a living, but, my dude, stop. Just, stop. Dismissing Kobe Bryant from the GOAT conversation is just stupid, especially when you take into account that, long before LeBron entered the league, the GOAT conversation was between Kobe and Jordan almost exclusively. Kobe is, and always has been, the Air Apparent and for good reason. Gilbert Arenas made a great f*cking point. Cats always throw LeBron in there at number two because of his insane stats but Players don’t go by that. They go off of what you can do, with what you have. Every great on the list has a god given advantage. Jo0rdan had a forty inch vertical and gigantic hands. Shaq is just a whole ass tank. Bron is an athletic freak of nature. Magic is a 6’9” Point God with unlimited court vision. Kobe had none of that. What Kobe had was straight up tenacity. He was driven. He had work ethic. He had Mamba Mentality. If we're really going to sit here and asterisk Kobe’s first three titles because he played with Shaq, then we have to do the same for ALL of Bron’s titles, right? If we’re being fair. Bron won his first two on those Heatles squads alongside a revolving door of Hall of Fame talent but, more specifically, he ran the court with a prime Chris Bosh and just-outside-his-prime Dwayne Wade. The next two came after teaming up with Kobe’s number one Apostle and heir apparent, Kyrie Irving, and a Kevin Love who was putting up Double-Doubles like they were an afterthought on a middling Minnesota team for years. Even that Bubble Title can be written off because it was won in the goddamn Bubble! To take it a step further, I would even say, with my whole chest, the path to all of Kobe’s titles was far more difficult, considering he played during the era of the Super West. However, there is one, single, aspect, which puts Kobe over Bron and that’s the fact LeBron makes his teammates worse.

Kobe played alongside Shaq. Doing so freed Shaq up to become the Diesel. HE was able to find his most dominate self with Kobe. Pau Gasol found his most efficient self, playing alongside Bean. Metta World Peace won a whole ass title, tagging along with Bryant. We saw how ineffective Derek Fisher was when he left LA for Utah. Guess who didn’t play in Utah? The list goes on and on. Lamar Odom, Shannon Brown, Rick Fox, Nikola Vucevic, Luke Walton; Tons of players came through LA and found a place alongside Kobe to brilliant effect. One could make the argument that the Triangle had way more to do with that than Kobe, but I’ll raise you USA Basketball. After that Bron led team brought home Bronze, who did Coach K go and get? Kobe Bean Bryant. And what happened? The Redeem Team was born. Ask anyone on that team who the most important piece was, and they’ll tell you it was Kobe. On a team full of talent, stacked with first ballot Hall of Famers, including LeBron James, it was Kobe Bryant who turned the tide. His ethic, his mentality, changed the entire dynamic of that team. He made those guys better. Imagine how dynamic of a presence you have to have, in order to make guys like James, Anthony, Wade, Williams, Kidd, Irving, and Bosh, better. These cats are already giants in the league, superstars unto themselves, but Kobe’s leadership and work ethnic naturally made them better. His presence pushed those guys to an entirely different level, lessons they carried forth into the rest of their careers. LeBron James directly benefited from playing alongside Kobe Bryant. No one can say that about LeBron James. Quite the contrary, actually. Every talent peer LeBron has played with, outside of Kyrie Irving (probably because he had that Kobe in him), has had their game severely hampered. In order to win with LeBron, you have to defer to LeBron. If you don’t, you’re either shipped out or your game suffer severely. I mentioned the double-double Machine Kevin Love was right before he got traded to Cleveland? Yeah, alongside LeBron, he was a spot-up shooter. Love is a Power Forward by nature but couldn’t bang down low like he’s used to because that’s the space Bron works. King James can’t shoot like Kobe so he drives a lot. You can’t drive when you have a body in the key, eating up rebounds. Wade had to become a facilitator TO LeBron in order to make the Heatles work and Bosh contributed less to those runs than Ray Allen. Dude was THE Raptor after Vince left. On the Heatles, he was kind of just a body. I’m watching it happen to Anthony Davis as we speak, which is absolutely devastating because he’s my favorite active player. Cats talked about AD being the best PF to ever play the game, strictly based on his potential. Now, the chorus of NBA talking heads are out here chanting about his fall. Why? Because LeBron exists. LeBron James is just Russell Westbrook with better PR. They have the exact same issues which hinder teams. The only difference is that LeBron has been the face of the NBA since he was a teenager and Russ drove KD out of OKC. LeBron makes his teammates worse just by the nature of how he plays. Kobe made them better with how he prepares and leads. The former  facilitates egregious stats and superficial arguments of greatness. People who don’t understand the mettle of a champion will point to those longevity achievements in Bron’s body of work as proof he’s the best. Those who know basketball, who have played the game and understand the intangibles, will point to Bryant as their GOAT because of his impact on the game, overall. Statistically, LeBron is superior to Bryant in almost every way, outside of tiles. Ask this next generation of players who their GOAT is, and they don’t say LeBron, they say Kobe. Because the Mamba is one of, if not THE best, to play this game.

For me, as a fan, both Bryant and Bron are on my Rushmore. In order, I have Jordan first, Magic second (Magic Johnson is my all-time favorite NBA player), Kobe and Bron in a A-B situation. That’s my personal ranking, mostly because I watched Kobe play. I watched Kobe win. I am familiar with his work and how he got to that point. Listening to that man talk about the game, the way he saw basketball, is absolutely fascinating. His show, Detail, is a perfect example of what I’m talking about. You don’t get that same energy from Bron. He doesn’t have that tenacity or understanding. Few do. Mike did. Magic did. Bron doesn’t. If he did, his teams would be better in execution than all of the other cats I mentioned on this list, but they’re not. Only on paper. As a student of the game, that order shifts dramatically. I’d put Mike, first, then LeBron, Cap, and Magic. The difference? Kobe isn’t a freak of nature by any means. He is the median Shooting Guard, the generalization for that position. Mike is Mike. LeBron is LeBron. Cap developed the Skyhook and played into his eighties. Magic is THE best Point God to ever play the game of basketball. These four gentlemen are the archetypes for the BEST version of those positions, all-time. Everything Kobe had, he earned. He learned. Practice, preparation, attention to detail. Kobe is no one’s holotype for the Two, and yet, he is, arguably, the best to ever play that position. Arguably because I’d still put Jordan over him, personally, but I wouldn’t fight you if you slid Bean in that top spot.

[smokeybrand]

NBA Rant: Delusions of Grandeur

Respectfully, f*ck Steven A. Smith for dismissing Kobe Bryant. Bean doesn’t deserve to be in the GOAT conversation? Are you f*cking kidding me? Are we talking the Kobe who dropped eighty-one of Jalen Rose and the Toronto Raptors? Are we talking the Kobe who lead his team to three consecutive Finals and two titles, with only Pau Gasol as the lone Superstar caliber talent by his side? Are we talking about arguably the keenest, sharpest, most brilliant basketball mind to ever step foot on a court? Look, I understand that Stephen A., and his industry as a whole, are out here feeding the trolls and stirring the pot for a living, but, my dude, stop. Just, stop. Dismissing Kobe Bryant from the GOAT conversation is just stupid, especially when you take into account that, long before LeBron entered the league, the GOAT conversation was between Kobe and Jordan almost exclusively. Kobe is, and always has been, the Air Apparent and for good reason. Gilbert Arenas made a great f*cking point. Cats always throw LeBron in there at number two because of his insane stats but Players don’t go by that. They go off of what you can do, with what you have. Every great on the list has a god given advantage. Jo0rdan had a forty inch vertical and gigantic hands. Shaq is just a whole ass tank. Bron is an athletic freak of nature. Magic is a 6’9” Point God with unlimited court vision. Kobe had none of that. What Kobe had was straight up tenacity. He was driven. He had work ethic. He had Mamba Mentality. If we're really going to sit here and asterisk Kobe’s first three titles because he played with Shaq, then we have to do the same for ALL of Bron’s titles, right? If we’re being fair. Bron won his first two on those Heatles squads alongside a revolving door of Hall of Fame talent but, more specifically, he ran the court with a prime Chris Bosh and just-outside-his-prime Dwayne Wade. The next two came after teaming up with Kobe’s number one Apostle and heir apparent, Kyrie Irving, and a Kevin Love who was putting up Double-Doubles like they were an afterthought on a middling Minnesota team for years. Even that Bubble Title can be written off because it was won in the goddamn Bubble! To take it a step further, I would even say, with my whole chest, the path to all of Kobe’s titles was far more difficult, considering he played during the era of the Super West. However, there is one, single, aspect, which puts Kobe over Bron and that’s the fact LeBron makes his teammates worse.

Kobe played alongside Shaq. Doing so freed Shaq up to become the Diesel. HE was able to find his most dominate self with Kobe. Pau Gasol found his most efficient self, playing alongside Bean. Metta World Peace won a whole ass title, tagging along with Bryant. We saw how ineffective Derek Fisher was when he left LA for Utah. Guess who didn’t play in Utah? The list goes on and on. Lamar Odom, Shannon Brown, Rick Fox, Nikola Vucevic, Luke Walton; Tons of players came through LA and found a place alongside Kobe to brilliant effect. One could make the argument that the Triangle had way more to do with that than Kobe, but I’ll raise you USA Basketball. After that Bron led team brought home Bronze, who did Coach K go and get? Kobe Bean Bryant. And what happened? The Redeem Team was born. Ask anyone on that team who the most important piece was, and they’ll tell you it was Kobe. On a team full of talent, stacked with first ballot Hall of Famers, including LeBron James, it was Kobe Bryant who turned the tide. His ethic, his mentality, changed the entire dynamic of that team. He made those guys better. Imagine how dynamic of a presence you have to have, in order to make guys like James, Anthony, Wade, Williams, Kidd, Irving, and Bosh, better. These cats are already giants in the league, superstars unto themselves, but Kobe’s leadership and work ethnic naturally made them better. His presence pushed those guys to an entirely different level, lessons they carried forth into the rest of their careers. LeBron James directly benefited from playing alongside Kobe Bryant. No one can say that about LeBron James. Quite the contrary, actually. Every talent peer LeBron has played with, outside of Kyrie Irving (probably because he had that Kobe in him), has had their game severely hampered. In order to win with LeBron, you have to defer to LeBron. If you don’t, you’re either shipped out or your game suffer severely. I mentioned the double-double Machine Kevin Love was right before he got traded to Cleveland? Yeah, alongside LeBron, he was a spot-up shooter. Love is a Power Forward by nature but couldn’t bang down low like he’s used to because that’s the space Bron works. King James can’t shoot like Kobe so he drives a lot. You can’t drive when you have a body in the key, eating up rebounds. Wade had to become a facilitator TO LeBron in order to make the Heatles work and Bosh contributed less to those runs than Ray Allen. Dude was THE Raptor after Vince left. On the Heatles, he was kind of just a body. I’m watching it happen to Anthony Davis as we speak, which is absolutely devastating because he’s my favorite active player. Cats talked about AD being the best PF to ever play the game, strictly based on his potential. Now, the chorus of NBA talking heads are out here chanting about his fall. Why? Because LeBron exists. LeBron James is just Russell Westbrook with better PR. They have the exact same issues which hinder teams. The only difference is that LeBron has been the face of the NBA since he was a teenager and Russ drove KD out of OKC. LeBron makes his teammates worse just by the nature of how he plays. Kobe made them better with how he prepares and leads. The former  facilitates egregious stats and superficial arguments of greatness. People who don’t understand the mettle of a champion will point to those longevity achievements in Bron’s body of work as proof he’s the best. Those who know basketball, who have played the game and understand the intangibles, will point to Bryant as their GOAT because of his impact on the game, overall. Statistically, LeBron is superior to Bryant in almost every way, outside of tiles. Ask this next generation of players who their GOAT is, and they don’t say LeBron, they say Kobe. Because the Mamba is one of, if not THE best, to play this game.

For me, as a fan, Bryant both Bryant and Bron are on my Rushmore. In order, I have Jordan first, Magic second (Magic Johnson is my all-time favorite NBA player), Kobe and Bron in a 1A-1B situation. That’s my personal ranking, mostly because I watched Kobe play. I watched Kobe win. I am familiar with his work and how he got to that point. Listening to that man talk about the game, the way he saw basketball, is absolutely fascinating. His show, Detail, is a perfect example of what I’m talking about. You don’t get that same energy from Bron. He doesn’t have that tenacity or understanding. Few do. Mike did. Magic did. Bron doesn’t. If he did, his teams would be better in execution than all of the other cats I mentioned on this list, but they’re not. Only on paper. As a student of the game, that order shifts dramatically. I’d put Mike, first, then LeBron, Cap, and Magic. The difference? Kobe isn’t a freak of nature by any means. He is the median Shooting Guard, the generalization for that position. Mike is Mike. LeBron is LeBron. Cap developed the Skyhook and played into his eighties. Magic is THE best Point God to ever play the game of basketball. These four gentlemen are the archetypes for the BEST version of those positions, all-time. Everything Kobe had, he earned. He learned. Practice, preparation, attention to detail. Kobe is no one’s holotype for the Two, and yet, he is, arguably, the best to ever play that position. Arguably because I’d still put Jordan over him, personally, but I wouldn’t fight you if you slid Bean in that top spot.

[magioftheseas]

Gundham & Yasuke

Summary: The Forbidden Tanaka’s FTEs in the SDR2 Protagonist Matsuda Yasuke AU. YES.

Rating: PG

Warnings: Language and blood/injuries.

Notes: Unsurprisingly, Tanaka was the winner of the poll for which FTEs were to be done next. So his FTEs, quite hilariously, are getting posted on the anniverary date for sdr2′s initial release. That feels pretty...fitting. Writing Tanaka’s dialogue was really hard but I did my best. Despite my best efforts, these two don’t get along the best that they could. Cursed.

Read this fic among others HERE

Main story is HERE

Commission? Donate?

It went without saying that he didn’t have a normal middle school experience so he didn’t interact with a lot of people who exhibited the so-called eighth-grader syndrome. But he knew that once kids had the cognitive ability to identify their lot in life and long for more, such desires could get...twisted, to say the least.

Just about everyone wants to be fucking special if they’re not too focused on surviving. And most people grew ashamed of the lofty aspirations and special interests they developed in that delicate era. Matsuda understood that much, even if he was considerably detached from it. In some ways, those people were like animals. Strange beasts that acted on impulses and instincts. That still had intelligence but not, like, awareness. When it came to engaging with these types, Matsuda had no choice but to accept them even as he shook his head at their delusions of grandeur.

He understands he’s supposed to do that in theory.

In practice, however...

“Sharp-tongued fool!” Tanaka bellowed. “You draw too near to the barrier of the Ice Kingdom!”

It’s a beautiful day outside. It’s always a beautiful fucking day. Clear, sunny sky. Warm but with a pleasant breeze to keep it from being too sweltering. It’s such a nice day—and Matsuda Yasuke does not want to be here.

Without another word, he turns on his heel.

“Aha!” Tanaka sneered. “To think just the warning prose would be enough to make you turn tail and run. A cowardice I did not expect, but perhaps... I should have.”

While walking away and listening to that guy cackle to himself, all Matsuda had in response was to flip him off.

He proceeded to avoid Tanaka for the rest of the day—and would’ve avoided him for the rest of his life had fate not had something else in store.

--

It was another beautiful day. The perfect day for a walk. He was thinking by the ranch so that he could admire the chickens as he passed. Unfortunately, he not only came across chickens but also the cow that used to be a chicken he quite liked.

Also Tanaka Gundam.

And their eyes ended up meeting.

There’s no real point in reasoning with someone who exhibits grandiose delusions, he reminded himself. It’s no good to denounce them, but it’s also no good to enable them. It’s a delicate line that I do not want to fucking bother with.

Matsuda does look away, intent on ignoring the other. Despite that resolve, his thoughts don’t shut up.

I didn’t have any peers in middle school for obvious reasons. I never actually spoke to someone my own age who felt this way. I was too busy being fixated on my own goals and lofty aspirations.

A couple of steps forward. It’s fine. If he continued the way he was already going, he can just pass Tanaka. It’d be easy. Simple.

...

Fuck.

He pauses. He turns. Tanaka has already turned away, but as if guided by the third sense of a fucking Evil All-Seeing Eye, he turns back to Matsuda. His brow quirks.

“Has the barrier truly weakened so?”

“I don’t know,” Matsuda replied intelligently. “For some reason, I feel too worn down to go through the effort of pretending you don’t exist.”

Tanaka cackled lowly.

“Such an insolent remark. It seems you do not truly know your place. But that is just as well. Even now, your true name is one that seems out of my grasp.”

“I’m Matsuda Yasuke. Nice to meet you.”

Tanaka clicked his tongue, scowling at Matsuda’s blank expression and his deadpan tone.

“That,” he snarled. “Is merely a brush against the surface. It does not encompass the deepest depths of your rogue soul.”

Alright. So he wants to know what makes me tick. If I had to guess.

“Your true name,” Tanaka requested impatiently. “I have no need for superficial titles.”

“That’s cold,” Matsuda huffed. “The name my mom gave me isn’t superficial.”

...even if it is ironic.

For some reason, Tanaka does perk up. He gives a nod of approval.

“A fair retort,” he concedes. “That maternal bond is its own scarring shackle.”

That admission was the first true crack in the wall between them. Or so Matsuda supposed, and he felt himself slip just a little bit further.

What a headache...

“Anyway,” he went on with a wave of his hand. “It’d be incredibly foolish to give you my true name, right? If telling a demon my name gives them possession of my soul and telling them my birthday gives them control of my life... Then telling someone like you...”

Tanaka nodded again, grinning so widely it was damn near grotesque.

“I see...the sharp-tongued fool is still retaining a sharp mind...”

I shouldn’t have played along even in jest. Fuck.

“What special abilities do you possess?” Tanaka purrs, drawing closer now. “What hidden capabilities have you acquired?”

Tanaka stalks even closer, his eyes are flashing with curiosity and hunger. Probably because this fucking weirdo wouldn’t understand a normal interaction if it bit him in the face.

I still hate that stare. I fucking hate that stare.

“You already know that,” Matsuda snapped, forcing himself to stay relaxed. “Neurology is my talent. You even know my name and birthday because of those damn student files...”

Calm down, calm down. It’s just fucking Tanaka—

Tanaka does halt. His head tilts quizzically.

“Hmph.” With nostrils flaring, Tanaka seemed to duck into his own scarf. “I suppose you are human after all.”

“What the hell is that supposed to mean?”

“Simple.” Tanaka chuckled. “I sensed your apprehension, Matsuda Yasuke. I sensed—and yet, I could tell it was not a chill brought about by the Ice Kingdom.”

Matsuda does flinch at that.

“I shall take my leave for now so that you may re-gather your peace,” Tanaka declared. “Till next time, sharp-tongued fool.”

Tanaka gave him a salute. Matsuda barely had a chance to wave back before Tanaka flipped his scarf and coat so that it would dramatically billow behind him as he made his overly dramatic exit. So fucking extra, and yet—

He left so that I could take the time to calm down.

And how the hell was he supposed to feel about that?

--

“Even now, I can hear the crackling of the Ice Kingdom’s barrier.” Tanaka was cackling. Another beautiful day. Yet somehow this weirdo was set on shrouding himself in asinine mystery as well as his own dark layers. How the hell was he not burning up?

Tanaka noticed his staring and merely smirked. “What brings you today, Matsuda Yasuke?”

Aah. Even with that pompous fucking tone, it’s an understandable question.

“I don’t like things to be unbalanced,” he said which was a bald-faced lie but sounded persuasive enough. “Since you interrogated me last time, I thought I’d ask you a few questions of my own.”

“Hmph!” Tanaka snorted. “You seek a comprehension that may underlie a deep terror that cannot be contained! Do you not fear for your sanity?”

“No, I’m insane already,” Matsuda said flatly. “I drove myself insane years ago.”

“Is that SO?!” Tanaka boomed, incredulous or admiring, Matsuda wasn’t sure. “Your humanity is one that only hangs by a thread, then?!”

I...can’t disagree with that, huh.

Matsuda shrugged.

“We’re not supposed to be talking about me. Let’s talk about you.”

Tanaka remained guarded but gave a nod.

“Very well. Demi-human or no, I shall not lose to you.”

That’s more like it. You’re much less annoying this way.

“What talents do you have?” he settles on since it’s only fair. “Even if it’s not the full roster, I’d like to know some...special abilities.”

“You shall only get a portion,” Tanaka said, sniffing. “Despite my appearance, I’m an active fiend. Between sorcery and human hunting, I manage my website.”

Matsuda blinked, trying to imagine this guy at a computer. Actually, it was really easy to imagine. There’s no way Tanaka learned to talk like an edgelord on his own.

I bet he spends a lot of time looking up stupid shit like Norse mythology. But, if he has a website, then...

“I have encrypted my research with magic,” Tanaka informed him. “Thus, only those worthy can gain access.”

...if he means through password then I could probably hack in with ease.

“If I had to guess what kind of research it was,” Matsuda mused. “Then—probably something like a pet diary, right?”

There were a series of muffled squeaks from Tanaka’s scarf. Tanaka burst into a boisterous boom of laughter.

“Even with your wits, you would only be able to access the dummy site!” Tanaka grinned victoriously, even though no conflict had taken place. “Your skill level would only open the gates of the Exciting Breeding Journal.”

“...Alright. That’s fine by me.”

You’re literally here because of your talent in animal husbandry.

“Favorite food?” Matsuda asked next. Tanaka stiffened. Growled, even. Because he was pissed off about getting such a lukewarm response? Matsuda didn’t bother inquiring, instead pressing, “Do you have one?”

“The orange melon that bears the face of the devil,” Tanaka huffed, put out. “No other food compares in terms of high nutrients or versatility in cooking methods. More importantly, its seeds are the most effective food source for my Four Dark Devas of Destruction.”

...a pumpkin. He’s talking about a pumpkin, right?

“However! Those seeds must be carefully washed, carefully dried, carefully peeled,” Tanaka rambled on. “And lightly fried.”

“How meticulous,” Matsuda muttered. “But nothing less for...them.”

“Indeed. A difficulty that beguiles pain and pleasure alike matters not in the face of a grand purpose.”

I can agree with that even if I hate how it’s worded.

“There is more when it comes to the caring of beasts,” Tanaka rumbled. “Shall I lead you deeper?”

“Uh.” Matsuda waved his hand. “Next time. Let’s talk more next time.”

Tanaka gave him a truly wicked grin. For once, it actually felt malicious.

“Take as much time you need to prepare yourself, sharp-tongued fool.”

Matsuda made a face but bit his tongue.

Piece of shit.

--

Tanaka wasn’t out and about today at the ranch. He wasn’t in the diner, either. It went to reason that he was likely in his cottage.

It’s only because I found some pumpkin seeds that I’m even going...

When he knocked on the door, he found it unlocked. Since he wasn’t an animal, he was going to wait for Tanaka to answer the door rather than barge in but...

“Ku—!”

He heard a noise. A sharp, strangled sound that was undeniably made through gritted teeth. Matsuda opened the door immediately.

“Is everything alright?”

And indeed—Tanaka was holding his bloodied hand in a death grip. The hamsters were chirping and chittering, but unaffected. What happened was clear, especially in how Tanaka’s shoulders were hunched.

Thankfully, Matsuda carried around packets of wet wipes. He rummaged through his pocket for one, stepping forward and reaching out.

“Let me...”

“NO!” Tanaka shrieked, and like a startled beast he scrambled away from his hand. He was panting, still gripping his injury with a wide and wild-eyed stare. Seeing Matsuda there did little to calm him down, as he growled, “The blood that flows through my veins bears a fearsome curse. You must step away now to spare yourself their potency.”

Thankfully, Matsuda carried around disposable gloves. He slipped them on, tearing the wet wipe packet open, and made his way closer.

“Come on. We really don’t want that bite to get infected.”

“This is not my first blood sacrifice,” Tanaka snarled, even showing his teeth. Gross. “I have no need for your medical sorcery. And furthermore, that meager covering...!”

“Oh my fucking god, shut the hell up.” Matsuda snatched up his hand, prying the other off as Tanaka shrieked some more. Thankfully, Matsuda was able to pull it away and got to work dabbing and cleaning the wound. Tanaka had completely frozen now, but Matsuda was still fuming.

“Don’t ever fucking call me meager,” he snapped, and thankfully Tanaka had spare clean bandages for him to re-wrap his hand with. “Crude and foolish I’ll take. Meager I won’t.”

Tanaka finally scoffed as Matsuda made sure the bandaging was secure.

“A demi-human like you has such pride.”

Look who’s fucking talking.

“You should not have endangered yourself, however,” Tanaka went on. “I was not telling falsehoods about my poisonous blood. It is only by a thread that you have not already deteriorated. As crude and foolish as you are, I do not desire your demise.”

“I’ve dealt with my fair share of poison, so you’re worrying too much,” Matsuda replied but winced from a sudden headache. As he rubbed removed his gloves to rub his temples, Tanaka stood up.

“You once again face the ramifications for your hubris!” he exclaimed and rushed back to deal with his hamsters. “I grant you relief, and I advise you to take your leave immediately.”

“I’m fucking fine, it’s just a migraine,” Matsuda griped and disposed of the gloves and wipes. “Should you really be handling those hamsters again so soon?”

“They are not mere hamsters!” Tanaka bellowed. “The fangs I have taken are that of the Crimson Steel Elephant, Maga-Z!”

Maga-Z blinked its bright beady eyes at Matsuda.

“For the sake of the Invading Black Dragon, Cham-P,” Tanaka went to coo over the largest hamster which was orange, not black. “A golden demon, one who understands fear all too well... Much attention should be heeded to make sure they do not get overly stressed out... While many devil beasts of this ilk are aggressive and fearfully territorial, the golden variant is the most docile and intelligent. They recognize me as...”

He trails off. It’s as if he’s too moved to speak.

I have heard hamsters had an unnaturally high rate of cannibalism, Matsuda thought. But I suppose like with dog breeds, they come in all sizes...and temperaments...

It was obvious Tanaka knew his shit, being an Ultimate at all. But seeing it firsthand, watching him dote on the beasts with a cottage interior largely dedicated to their cage and tube, the guy definitely loved animals. Like, a lot. Despite his delusions of grandeur, he at least seemed to love animals a healthy, non-obsessive amount.

“They’re living well,” Matsuda commented blandly.

Tanaka scoffed at him.

“For demons that live a mere 1095 days, the luxuries in life mean everything. I would never settle for less.”

“I see...” He scuffed the end of his shoe against the wooden floor. “That’s good.”

Shouldn’t have worn open-toed shoes, but I don’t have any alternatives. Oh, right.

“I got pumpkin seeds.” He tossed the bag and it landed on Tanaka’s lap. The hamsters jumped, and even Tanaka flinched. Matsuda, however, turned on his heel. “Sorry. Bye.”

With that insincere apology, he headed out. He could feel a disproving stare on his back but that didn’t lessen his steps in the slightest.

--

His favorite chicken-turned-cow was in a good mood today. She was accepting pets and even nipping at his fingers. All he had on him was candy. Not any fruit much less hay although...

“If you plan to feed that creature, you should be wary of apples,” Tanaka rumbled from behind. Where the fuck he came from, Matsuda wasn’t sure, but he wasn’t surprised to be hearing from him. “You can risk over-eating which will cause a bloated stomach for the animal.”

“Ah, thanks for the advice,” Matsuda said sincerely, turning back and frowning when he noticed the other’s own hanging head. “What’s with the long face?”

“I would hope that you do not consider that creature to be your familiar, Matsuda Yasuke,” Tanaka murmured sullenly and solemnly. Like he had come across something truly pitiful to the point of depressing.

Although he seems more focused on the cow itself...

“I don’t have a familiar,” Matsuda huffed.

Tanaka quirks an eyebrow at him. Furrows it, even, as if Matsuda is the one not making sense. How seriously annoying. But rather than inquire further, Tanaka just shakes his head.

“Creatures like that one are born to be slaughtered,” he said, turning on his heel. “What a wretched fate, one that cannot be escaped even with the use of the Evil All-Seeing Eye. If one is to form a bond with such an unfortunate beast, they will invite only calamity.”

“That’s...” Not necessarily true. There is livestock out there allowed to live full lives. But they’re exceptions that prove the rule, I suppose. And the fact that I even thought to use a word like allowed... “Woof.”

Tanaka barked back. “This sentimentality only arose because I have not encountered any new beasts. I shall go searching as to put my mind at ease.”

He walked on, and Matsuda found himself following. Tanaka didn’t seem to mind at all. The opposite, in fact.

“There are many creatures I’ve tamed, sharp-tongued one,” Tanaka went on to say. “The Cerberus. The Phoenix. Even then Midgardian Serpent.”

Looks like I was right on the money about him looking up Norse shit. That’s just another fucking word for Earth, asshole. I’ve read enough shitty fantasy manga to know.

“I saw a toucan one time,” he commented in lieu of verbalizing his thoughts. “And I guess there are the seagulls. Or those mascots.”

“Those uncute fiends cannot be trusted with their speech,” Tanaka hissed. “As for the others... Ah, the ravenous, feathered beasts.” Tanaka nodded sagely with approval at that one. “They are a perilous project as they are quite fearless and impulsive. Even when greater threats arise, they gather like a court waiting to hand down judgment.”

I think...that’s more something that crows do rather than seagulls.

He does think about it though, birds judging one another. If he looked up, he’d even see a seagull or two soar overhead. A phrase rose to his mind, unbidden.

When the seagulls cry...

“Hm?” Tanaka paused when he noticed that Matsuda had stopped dead in his tracks. He turned, and whatever expression was on Matsuda’s face—whatever that was had Tanaka clicking his tongue. “What is on your mind?”

“Something stupid,” he grumbled, shaking his head. “Even in peaceful times, I can’t help but worry about how easily things fall apart. Sometimes for something as petty as a broken promise.”

Is it speech alone that gives us the means of betraying one another?

Tanaka did stiffen.

“It sure is fortunate for us that we’ve yet to deal with any storms,” Matsuda went on to say. “In fact, it’s perfect weather every single day. Isn’t that strange? It almost doesn’t feel real, and if it’s not real... Does anything that happens here matter?” He paused again. “Like I said. It’s stupid.”

“Your inane ponderings still have an air of malice,” Tanaka muttered darkly.

Huh.

“Are you saying I’m someone to be on guard around?” He cracked a dry smile. “I’m not that fucking interested in messing with people. I just lack patience.”

Tanaka gave him a look. Wordlessly, he shook his head.

“I think... I will seek solace elsewhere. Do not follow me.”

Matsuda didn’t. Simply watched the other go. It might’ve been one of those annoying situations where the person was saying the exact opposite of what they wanted, but even if he could tell that was the case, he still wouldn’t have followed.

After all.

He lacked patience.

--

Tanaka seemed especially moody today. Although no matter how sullen his air was, the island sun wouldn’t let up in the slightest. In a way, that was pretty cruel, right? In that much light, it made it difficult to hide. Or something like that.

Wonder what he’s being so fucking temperamental about...

Matsuda makes his way over, waving as he does. He stops, however, when Tanaka regards him coldly.

“Matsuda Yasuke,” he rumbled in a gravelly tone of voice. “The sharp-tongued fool whose practices engage in the constitution of the mind... Would you like to duel?”

Huh?

Matsuda dropped his hand.

“...have you finally fucking gone actually insane?” He sighed. “Don’t answer that. No, I don’t want to duel. And if you push it, I’ll leave. I don’t have time for that bullshit.”

Tanaka’s cold stare became more of a glare.

“I’m afraid I do not have such luxury around you,” Tanaka said sharply. “You grind down my defenses with this continued, unsightly association. Despite wearing the face of a human, you, Matsuda Yasuke are...!”

“I’m just human,” Matsuda replied before he could finish. With an unimpressed shrug, he added. “And if you wanted me to stop bothering you, all you had to fucking do was say so.”

“I allowed these exchanges out of a sense of curiosity, arrogantly unheeding the danger,” Tanaka went on, muttering as he did. “Truly, I have been foolish.”

The sun shone down on him. On a day this bright, there wasn’t anyone to hide. Tanaka ‘Gundam’ looked a bit ill. When Matsuda took a step closer, however, he recoiled. With a sharp hiss, Tanaka held up his hand in warning.

Like an agitated cat.

Matsuda drew back with a sigh.

Someone like this—really is so needlessly fucking difficult. And for what? An inflated sense of importance? Wasn’t getting into Hope’s Peak enough?

...if he complained too much, he’d veer uncomfortably close to hypocrisy.

Hope’s Peak was just another step for me, but I wonder what it was for someone like this? Where the hell would he be if he didn’t get in? Honestly—I doubt it would’ve been all that significant.

“Alright,” he said. “Did you get anything out of our interactions at least?”

Tanaka stared at him, but being a normal fucking person without magical powers, Matsuda was more than capable of staring back, unaffected. For some reason, Tanaka did shy back a little.

“I have keenly observed you,” he said lowly. “Namely how your regard only shifts when directed towards creatures already marked for death. I suspect—you are a creature of calamity. The eye of the storm.”

“So, what,” Matsuda drawled. “Like a demon?”

Tanaka hummed, seemingly considering it. “No... That is not quite right.”

“I’m not sure what you mean, then,” Matsuda huffed, waving his hand dismissively. “But—I think I get what you’re saying. I just think it’s funny coming from you—and that you don’t understand.”

Tanaka’s stare blazed with an offense, and Matsuda paid no heed at all.

“How I regard creatures marked for death...” Matsuda snorted. “I’m a fucking doctor. Obviously, I treat them differently. It’s part of my fucking job.”

Although he’s referring to the cow, isn’t he? Seriously...

“I guess it’s weird,” he admitted. “With how shitty of an attitude I have. But I take my job seriously. If you can’t get something that simple, then your Evil All-Seeing Eye is pretty fucking lacking.”

“You...” Tanaka growled. “You’re truly impertinent. You wield your blade recklessly and foolishly. You and I both know—that it runs deeper than mere duty for you, Matsuda Yasuke.”

...so what if it does?

He supposes he should be impressed that Tanaka isn’t that fucking dense. That the animal freak is, in fact, a little perceptive.

Smiling mirthlessly, Matsuda reached out to pat the flinching other’s shoulder. He gripped him for just a moment.

“That’s all you need to know about me,” he murmured into Tanaka’s ear before pulling back. “I think we’re at enough of an understanding. Thanks for your time.” He gave a salute as he headed on his way. “We don’t need to talk again. We especially don’t need to duel. Have a wonderful fucking day.”

“One day,” Tanaka swore. “You will meet your cruel, disastrous end. That is the decree of the Tanaka Kingdom!” As Matsuda got further away, Tanaka boomed after him. “Mark my words, sharp-tongued FOOL! You are MARKED for des—!”

It was such a headache that Matsuda tuned him out. But as he found himself alone, he did wonder.

Marked for destruction? Or something else? Despite all that time, rather than growing close, that weirdo is now convinced that I’m hopeless. He might be right. Actually, I’d still consider us closer if he can recognize that. I still don’t really care. I don’t.

He walked on, moving forward because he had nowhere else to go.

Decree. What a fucking riot. If I do die, it won’t be because of an idiot like him. But whatever makes him feel better I suppose.

Matsuda shook his head, brushing the whole thing aside except...

If I die... It won’t be until I reach the very fucking pits. I won’t settle for anything less.

[evermorehaikyuu]

Day 12

Title: The Pressure of The End

Note: I won’t lie, I like the title to this one. Anyways, here’s Shirabu’s angst, this takes place after the timeskip because I thought it’d be a little fun to write it. (Yes it was, it was very fun to write it.) There are warnings though, there are mentions of blood and there is a surgery, not in detail, but it is strongly implied. Proceed with caution.

˜”*°•.˜”*°•.•°*”˜.•°*”˜

Surgery was both a miracle and a curse. On one hand, if everything went well, you got out of the hospital room, back to full health. However, one little misguided position and the whole operation was off, the doctors having to tell the family of the deceased one that they hadn’t made it. 

It was an awful job and yet Shirabu Kenjirou had chosen it. He was incredibly smart and he hadn’t chosen to continue volleyball after high school. He had chosen one of the hardest fields in any industry and he was pulling it off greatly. He was at the top of his classes and when push came to shove, if any surgeon had had an accident, Shirabu would be the one everyone would choose.

He had studied until he couldn’t anymore. Every single day of this new life offered him so many opportunities and he would be damned if he didn’t take it. Shirabu learned to take a break only because of someone. 

Y/N L/N was in one of the top classes as well, but her job wasn’t as complex as a surgeon’s, she was a pediatrician. Both of them had met in their first year of med school and knew each other from Shiratorizawa. They had never talked; they had seen each other around the school though, so in this new environment, they only had each other.

Before long, they found themselves looking out for the other, making sure the other was okay even though Shirabu tried to deny it. 

By their third year in med school, he had fallen for her and they started going out together. Their job allowed them lunch breaks, which they spent together. It was difficult to go on dates but they were determined to continue their careers and stay together. 

“Kenjirou, you need a break, I know you want to keep studying, but it’s 3 am.” Y/N yawned, rubbing her eyes as she walked into the living room in her pajamas. Wrapping her arms around him from behind, she put her chin on his shoulder sleepily.

“I need to know this, Y/N, just in case I’m supposed to know this.” He rubbed his eyes with one hand, also knowing that he was getting tired. He had skimmed through his old textbooks until coming upon something new that he had never learned before: craniectomy. He didn’t think he’d need it, but nevertheless had studied it at least a little bit before. Just the basics, because he never thought he’d actually have to operate on the brain. 

“I know you like to study at this hour, but it’s not healthy.” Pressing a kiss to his shoulder, she buried her face in his neck. “Come back to bed.”

His eyes started drooping at her melodic voice and he agreed, going to bed with her and leaving the textbook open. The next day would be his day off after all. He’d have enough time to study what he needed to study. 

Or so he thought.

6 am brought news he hadn’t expected and he dreaded with all his heart. A phone call came in and he reached for his work phone, holding Y/N closer to him as she put her head on his chest, stirring slightly. In a sleepy voice, he answered, “Hello?”

“Shirabu, we need you at the hospital right now. Our best surgeon’s out somewhere else and it’s craniectomy. You’re the only one we know that knows at least the basics for this, everyone else is one level behind you.”

With that last word, his heart started racing in his chest, almost dropping his phone. He hadn’t studied enough for this. He only knew the basics. He was replacing the best surgeon. Shirabu cursed softly as he wished he hadn’t listened to Y/N and kept studying. “I’ll be right there.”

Quickly getting out of bed, Y/N turned over in their shared bed. She didn’t have to worry about being called immediately, he thought. She got to sleep in without any worry. Just the thought made him feel a little envious, but no matter, he couldn’t think of it right now.

Racing to the hospital and entering the room, he started getting ready for the procedure.

~

Blood was on his hands. Literally and figuratively. It was all his fault. It was his fault the patient had died, he was not prepared enough, no matter what anyone had said. If only he had actually studied and ignored Y/N, he wouldn’t be in this position.

“You can go now.” His supervisor said solemnly. Shirabu could feel the disappointment radiating off of him as he hurried out of the hospital and into his car. He got back home to Y/N sitting on the couch, reading a book.

She heard the door open and merely said, “Hey, honey, how did it--”

“I’m a murderer.” He whispered, staring at the floor as he collapsed against the door. “I should’ve studied more, I should’ve stayed up studying.” He looked up at her, desperation in his eyes. “Why did you stop me?”

Y/N set her book aside, standing up but not moving over to him. “What? Kenjirou, it can’t have been that bad--”

“Yes, it was! Because I didn’t study, I killed someone innocent, someone that expected to get out of there alive and I wasn’t able to do it!” Shirabu was grabbing fistfuls of his hair, hyperventilating. It was a normal thing in a doctor’s life for some patients to pass away under their hands, but Shirabu was brand new to that scene. 

“Shirabu, calm down, it was your first craniecto--”

“DON’T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN WHEN I JUST KILLED SOMEONE!” Shirabu screamed, his eyes becoming bloodshot. Never once had Shirabu lost his cool and yelled at her like that. She stepped back and stared at him, wringing her hands. Already, she was feeling guilty for what she had done, but how could she have known?

“You didn’t kill anyone, you didn’t know.”

“Which is why I should’ve paid attention and studied beforehand, but I didn’t do that, so now I’m a murderer!” Shirabu was losing his common sense and nothing could calm him down, except himself. Which is exactly what he did as he glowered at Y/N. “Why did you stop me?”

“Kenjirou, if you didn’t sleep, it would’ve been worse for you.”

“But they would’ve still been alive.” A dark smile came on his face. “So it’s not my fault. It’s yours.”

Y/N looked at him as if he had gone insane. “It’s MY fault for me wanting you to get some sleep?! I’m sorry, but what kind of logic is that?!”

“Sorry doesn’t fix everything.” Shirabu told her, clenching his fists. “Sorry doesn’t bring back a dead person and sorry does not fix this situation! Because of you, now my job is on the line!”

Y/N couldn’t take it anymore. “Because of me? Shirabu, are you even listening to yourself? You’re being delusional, you’ve been suffering from delusions of grandeur for all of your life and now that I try to help you once, the blame is on me?” 

“I guess it is.” He said bluntly, not even looking at her. “Just go. I don’t want to see you.”

Y/N was taken aback at his words and she swallowed, the lump in her throat growing bigger. Her voice came out shakily as she said. “So this is it? After all we’ve been through?”

Shirabu didn’t say anything as she left the room, going up to their bedroom and slammed the door. The sound brought him back to reality and he immediately felt guilty for what he had done. 

Hours later, after he had calmed down, he went back to the bedroom to try and apologize. But she was gone. Every trace of her, except for picture frames was gone. The bed was untidy and all her things, gone with her.

No. No, she can’t have left, I didn’t mean for her to leave. Shirabu rushed around the room, trying to find a hint as to where she went. But seeing as he was a doctor and not a profiler, he did not have the slightest idea as to where he had gone.

Sitting on the edge of the bed, he hugged her pillow to him, trying to get the comfort she used to give him before he blurted what he could never take back. He buried his face in the pillow, stifling a sob that was rising in his throat. Her familiar scent was slowly leaving the object, a metaphor for her leaving him. 

Why was I so stupid? Why did I tell her to leave? All of these years together and she left, because I was ignorant and stupid and believed it was her fault when it was neither of our faults. 

What felt like a century later, he looked at the clock. 8 pm. Something glinted off of the cabinet. He stood up and picked up the shimmering object, followed by a long trail of gold. A promise ring on a necklace.

“Here.” Shirabu handed the object to her. “It’s a promise ring. I promise to never hurt you and never leave you and never cause you to leave me. I promise to protect you and be by your side whenever you need me.”

She had also given him a promise ring the next day, promising to always be by his side.

Some promises were never supposed to be made.

~

Taglist: @skyguy-peach​ @jovialnoise​ @versatilewindow​ @tsukiibaka​ @jaegersblogh​ @kodzuken-pie​ @sugusho​ @kara-grayson04​ @erialexerz​ @attixca​ @volleybloop​ @selca11​

[sunflowersunshinevol6]

Forbidden Fruit

Drug cartel!Harry x OC

Warnings: mentions of drugs, prostitution, violence, mental hospitals, gangs, mobster harry

Summary: Nina'a been burnt out on her job as a psychologist, that is until infamous drug runner and mobster Harry Styles is sent to her prison for drug and murder related offenses. Slowly she becomes seduced by his charm and is willing to risk it all to set him free.

New York City Present Day:

"In other news, crime boss and drug runner Harry 'Kiwi' Styles, was sentenced to thirty years in Maxwell's State Prison for the Criminally Insane. He could be facing more charges in the following weeks across different states-" Nina shut off the radio as she pulled into her parking spot. She sighed, resting her head against the steering wheel for a moment.

She'd worked at Maxwell's Prison for two years now. The once bright eyed grad student had become somewhat disillusioned by the job. These patients didn't change. They didn't want to. It left her unsatisfied. Unhappy. But she couldn't quit. She worked too hard for this.

Slamming her car door she walked up to the large brick building, sliding her key card into the slot before entering a small 'click' accompanying her movement.

"Good morning Doctor." Her assistant came from around her desk, just outside Nina's office. Nina said nothing, entering the room and leaving the door open for her assistant to follow. She's too tired to deal with this today. "I'm assuming you heard about Mr. Styles?" Nina sighed, setting her bag down.

"Alexis not yet..." she rubbed her temples, a slight headache coming on. "Could you grab me a cup of coffee first and then we can talk."

"Sure...be right back." Nina sat down at her desk, blowing a kiss to the portrait of her late father before looking at the large file sat on her desk. H.E.S written on the front in large letters, a sticky note attacked reading:

He arrives at 9:30 am. You are to assess him and report back to me. -Kirk

Kirk. Her boss. Who handed every patient he didn't want, off to her. Probably as revenge for her not wanting to sleep with him that one time.

Alexis came back in, handing Nina a steaming cup of black coffee, just the way she liked it. Nina took a small sip, letting it warm her bones.

"So I see Kirk didn't waste any time passing him off on me." Alexis smiled sympathetically.

"I think it's exciting. Be nice to have a fresh face around here don't you think?" Nina raised her eyebrow, Alexis's wording sometimes was strange. But she decided to overlook it.

"I need you to cancel all my other appointments for today. I have a feeling Mr. Styles isn't the most cooperative person and there's so much to do."

"Of course." Alexis stood again, leaving Nina alone in her office.

She began to flip through the file, scanning the pages and reading up as quick as she could on her new patient. Around nine thirty Alexis knocks on the door again, opening it slightly.

"He's here Nina. They have him ready for you."

The interview room isn't comfortable. Nothing like a cliche therapists office. A steel table sits in the middle of the room, florescent lights making it glint. Two steel chairs, a camera and a tripod set up. No more.

He sits at the table, a guard standing in the corner, eyeing him closely, his head is down. Nina walks over to the camera, turning it on and angling it towards him.

"This is Dr. Mason, here with Patient 072310. First session. " she heard him chuckle as she sits down out of the way of the camera. She crosses her legs, holding her pen and clipboard in her lap. "Hello Harry."

He looks up, finally. Two bright green eyes focus in on her, staring intently as plump red lips curve up into a devilish smile.

"Hello Doctor." Nina knew he was from England. But it still didn't stop her from being surprised by his accent, the roughness of his voice, how low it was. She cleared her throat, straightening her glasses on her face.

"Patient has been prescribed 20 mgs of Ziatropin and Noxicin, to be taken twice daily-"

"They already gave me that love." He interrupted cheekily. Nina rolled her eyes, scribbling furiously before looking back up at him.

"Please address the camera during these sessions...." she looked down to see the restraints on his wrists the cuffs chaining him to the table. "Are you comfortable?" He shakes his head, looking into the camera lenses.

"No....no not at all." He taps his fingers on the table and shrugs. "But I suppose that's what happens when you get caught....they put you in a cage."

"You don't think you should be here?" He leaned forward, taking his eyes off the camera to address her once more.

"No." He looked down at the nametag on her shirt. "Nina....my, my that's a pretty name." She cleared her throat.

"Please refer to me as Dr. Mason." He chuckled again, sitting back in his seat.

"Whatever, look. I provide a necessary service....some people, well, they just can't handle it. That's not on me sister."

"You run a drug cartel. You've killed people. And you don't think you're responsible for that?"

"I come with a warning sign." Harry said, leaning in again across the table. Nina saw the guard out of the corner of her eye step forward slightly. "People...they know what they're getting into when they do business with me....they know the consequences if they betray me."

"Then what are you doing here?" Nina was genuinely curious. He seemed to know what he was doing wrong. Why bring him here if he knew he was wrong. Harry smirked, tilting his head.

"I don't have a conscience sweetheart. That makes me sick." Nina narrowed her eyes. She was annoyed with how cocky and arrogant he was.

"Not having a conscience doesn't make you insane."

"Doesn't it." Nina slammed her note pad shut, standing abruptly. Harry seemed amused, she knew that he knew he was getting a rise out of her. And she didn't like it one bit.

"These sessions are being recorded. Everything you say will be filmed and reviewed. If I can't find you mentally incompetent they will give you the needle....I'd lose the attitude and get a little more serious." She turned to leave when he spoke, his words sending a chill down her spine

"I like you....this could be fun.....I know I still have time left with you darlin' sit back down. I'll be good." She doesn't know what kind of game he's playing but she does, sit down again. "That's better....doesn't do well for my narcissism when people leave before I do." He said approvingly. He thinks he's in control. He needs control. Nina makes a mental note to mark that down later.

"Patient suffers from delusions of grandeur, narcissistic personality disorder-"

"Lots of big words to define me....you haven't even scratched the surface darling."

"Dr. Mason." Nina corrected. "And these are your diagnosis. These are the conditions that brought you here."

"What if I told you I liked the disease," he smiled at her again, a flash of white as his teeth were bared. "I'm true to myself. I don't want to get better if it means I can't be me."

"Well being you is what got you here." She ran her hand through her hair. "We're getting off track."

"There's a track?" God she could slap him.

"Tell me about your family." She said, ignoring what he had said.

"My mother and my sister never abused me. They were good to me. Still back in London.' His tone changed, his words softer as he spoke about them. "Isn't that a trademark of sadistic bastards? They're abused? Well I wasn't."

"Why did you leave them?"

"We were dirt poor. I knew America was the way to go until I got here. I got a job but wasn't making enough. That's when I started running. Made enough to send quite a bit back home to mum." He licked his lips, clearing his throat before he continued. "Worked in a strip club for a while, selling speedball to VIPs, keeping the girls in line....then I started moving up. And once I started climbing I didn't want to stop. I didn't want to go back down." He watched Nina take notes. He noticed her hair falling from her pony tail and into her face. He wanted to reach out, to fix it for her, but he couldn't.

When she looked back up he was staring again, green eyes gazing intently at her. She shifted uncomfortably.

"Do I make you nervous?"

"No," she lied, thankful when her time went off. She stood again, putting her notepad under her arm and shutting off the camera. The guard walked up to Harry, unhooking him from the table and cuffing his arms behind his back. Nina stood to the side, letting them pass, as Harry walked by her he winked.

"Same time next week doc?"

[userseokkie]

In defense of Daenerys' spiral into madness

I see a lot of people upset and disappointed in Daenerys' ending last night not because they stan her blindly and want her to be the badass queen, but (rightfully) because they believe this sets a dangerous, mysoginystic precedent that teaches us no woman can be powerful or strive to be powerful without it blowing up in her face. It kind of reads as a cautionary tale that says women in places of absolute power, of agency and control, will eventually go insane because well, they're women. I have also read it interpreted as saying that the only possible ending for a woman who has been abused, raped, sold into slavery, and tossed to the side is for her to go insane. Because trauma damages the inherent worth of women, apparently.

these are all valid concerns, because d&d are not known for being the most capable writers and to be honest, this ending WAS tinged with mysoginy and poorly executed. but if these concerns are true for you, then yall should turn to Sansa Stark.

Sansa is the proof that this show doesn't always shit on women. If you really think in this show a woman that's been through hell and back is cursed by the writers to have a trauma porn ending, then look at Sansa and realize that SHE is the direct parallel to Daenerys, with a completely opposite outcome.

She has been traumatized

She has been abused

and married against her will

She has been beaten and sold off like cattle

she has been manipulated

She has been raped.

And yet, she has come out the other end a good person, a brilliant strategist and a dedicated Queen. She vows to always defend her people, and she has shown resilience at every turn of the story.

She hasn't come out unscathed, but she is proof women who are traumatized do not always become evil, or go insane or start abusing their power.

She has a lot of power, as Lady of Winterfell, as the last hope for the North, as the link with the Tullys of her family. She used to be a spoiled child who dreamt of becoming Queen, but now that she's seen what power can do to people she no longer wishes to be Queen for the sake of being Queen. She wants to be the leader of her House, and to protect the people that have pledged to defend her and her family because that's what a kind leader does. She's stared cruelty dead in the face and has chosen to respond "I will answer cruelty with mercy."

If that means becoming Queen, then so be it. She doesn't claim to be the leader all people want and cheer, she just wants to see justice be served and keep the North safe.

Want more examples of women not getting corrupted by their past? Take a look at Arya.

At Brienne

At Yara Greyjoy

All these, powerful women that have suffered at the expense of men and of other people who wish to see them fail. All with similar backgrounds to Daenerys'. And yet, they have not turned out to be mad. Because power IS corruptible, specially when it's the only end and the only mean you seek. Which is what Daenerys did.

But do not pretend that her ending was something made purely out of spite and hatred for powerful women, because it isn't. Daenerys had a lot of opportunities to turn the other way, to realize with great power such as the one the dragons gave her, you need to be held accountable and you need to be responsible for that power. D&D are not the great writers they believe by any means, and all the female characters have suffered at their expense because they do not know or do not care about how to write women. But not everything is black and white, and some of the most important and iconic characters in the show ARE women. Women who do not go fucking batshit crazy when things have not gone the way they planned.

So yeah, if you're angry about Daenerys' ending, that's valid and you are allowed to grieve the characters you love. But you need to face the truth and accept that not everything you don't agree with about a story comes from a place of bigotry or mysoginy. Daenerys was always going to end up like her father. Not because she's a woman with power, but because she only cared about the power her name brought her, and what that could get her. Delusions of grandeur always come at great expense. If you want to turn this mysoginystic views around, then support Sansa Stark, and support Arya and their ending, because they are strong women who will live to see the end of the game of thrones.

[royalreef]

(( Okay, so. Important lore piece here. I’m finally fully stating it now, since with the rpc generally being smaller and quieter, I’m not sure if people will even get to the point where I can discuss it, plus my own pickiness in who I roleplay it with.

If you would like to go about slowly discovering my Miranda’s lore with your muse and enjoying that slow-burn investigation into everything, like how I’ve generally been presenting this blog so far, then skip over this. It’ll come up again in time.

I just have a lot of passion for this one piece of Miranda and I want to be able to say it somewhere.

                                                          -----------

Truth be told, this might not come as a huge shock to those who have been around longer, since I’ve definitely used the tag as a CW and have teased it before, but I want to do a full confirmation and discussion of it.

My take on Miranda involves her having childhood-onset psychosis. I myself have schizophrenia, and while I definitely wonder about making it so that Miranda also has schizophrenia - for now, I just use Psychosis NOS as my general going-off point. 

She hallucinates. She has delusions. She experiences negative symptoms. This has been happening with Miranda since she was a child.

Particularly, her delusions are delusions of persecution and delusions of grandeur, and one delusion I know I’ve brought up before is her having latched onto Polly’s joke that Hope is an evil version of Miranda herself, thus generally making Miranda think that Hope is a creature from merfolk mythology that is trying to steal her image and take Miranda’s place. Which is why Miranda is very adamant in her fear and dislike of Hope, because of the delusion - which itself is based upon how I know I form delusions.

I’m very picky about how I present Miranda’s psychosis. I’m all too aware of the ableist stereotype of the “””insane ruler”””, along with the ableism around psychosis and violence. Honestly, I know Miranda isn’t a great muse to add a psychotic headcanon onto, since she is described as genocidal so many times and is so bloodthirsty, but at the same time... I guess I just really do want to see her with psychosis. To have that discussion. I do fear that it’s encouraging armchair diagnosises of other evil people, but at the same time, I do have a passion for the idea of Miranda as dealing with the same thing I deal with.

So... Hence when I’m roleplaying it and discussing it, I really want to make a distinction between when Miranda is being affected by her psychosis and when she is hurting others. Her urges to hurt and be violent are far more complicated - being as she was effectively encouraged to have that reaction by both the abusive system and the abusive family she was born into, first goading her into taking her frustration and emotions out on others by harming them, and then rewarding her when she did act violently. She wasn’t born violent, even as a merfolk, with them being highly specialized predators, but it’s a far more complicated issue of her being melded to think that hurting people is good, and she should do it, and being given no other outlet for anything, just further pushing her into that loop until she feels, subconsciously or consciously, like all she can do to deal and cope is to be violent. For that reason, even getting her to realize that, hey, she probably shouldn’t be hurting people, will be a long and painful road that won’t be enjoyable for her to go through, if necessary. But no one ever said healing from such severe abuse would be a painless path.

But when Miranda is having a psychotic episode, she isn’t violent. I’m very careful about that, and the only time she would be violent is when she’s terrified and basically backed into a corner, and it’s for the same reason a scared cat might scratch you. She wants you to go away, to pay attention to all the signs that she is terrified, and she just really wants her space. For that reason, it’d be much more limited and far less dangerous. Speaking as a schizophrenic person, yeah, I can absolutely say I’m far more dangerous to myself than to anyone else while in a psychotic episode.

Mostly, Miranda’s just afraid while in a psychotic episode. Reality is so much more difficult to navigate, and it’s confusing, and the amount of paranoia that delusions can dump on you and the unpleasantness that comes with hallucinations make it all the harder to deal with.

Likewise, Miranda knows about the ableism thrown at people with psychosis. Hell, she even has to deal with internalized ableism herself. While she’s never seen any kind of psychiatrist (or, she has, but... well, let’s just say it wasn’t for good reasons), and really doesn’t know that the term psychosis fits her, she has a pretty good idea that something happens to her that distorts her perception of reality. She has no name for it, but she can see the similarities, and it freaks her out, due to how she knows the treatment of herself would change. She’s always had psychosis, but she knows that others learning about it would make them think differently of her, and the sheer thought of the depersonalization that comes with how ableist people treat those with psychosis is enough to make her desperately want to hide it from everyone.

And, functionally... yes, she does feel shame for it, all due to that internalized ableism and her feeling like it’s some kind of character flaw that she has, instead of it being just how her brain is. The abuse doesn’t help either.

Not to mention how the Merkingdom would react. I don’t want to spoil too much, but yeah, the other royals definitely would use her psychosis to manipulate and abuse her and discredit her, including saying she’s unfit for her title due to being psychotic, and she knows what being unfit for the title would mean for her.

But... There’s still quite a lot I don’t want to spoil so freely, not yet.

[space--cadet-glow]

Theory Series: “The Odd Headcanons of Vaati“, Parts 1-60 (MASTERPOST)

This is the Masterpost to the first sixty parts of my “The Odd Headcanons of Vaati” theory series! More to come eventually. And, in case you missed it, HERE is the Masterpost to my entire “Irony of Vaati” theory series.

1. THE MINISH DIET In which, I theorise about what a Minish eats. Yes, Vaati. You count, too.

2. VAATI’S MUSICAL ENDEAVOURS In which, I theorise about the instruments that Vaati plays.

3. FIRES, COLOURS, AND SHEIKAH, OH MY In which, things about the Mountain Minish's clothing, why the Minish seem to hate the colour yellow, and why Vaati is not a Sheikah are brought up.

4. THE IMPORTANCE OF EYES In which, eyes are the window to the soul for Vaati. Literally.

5. WHY THE JABBER NUT IS NOT A VOODOO SHARK In which, I explain why the Jabber Nut is not one huge Plot Hole, and vaguely explain off a grammatical error on Vaati's part.

6. VAATI AND MIGRAINES In which, I bring up one of my first-ever headcanons, now with evidence: Vaati (quite possibly) had headaches and/or migraines for many different reasons.

7. FUR AND SHAVING In which, I theorise about the Minish may or may not having fur, and why or why not Vaati shaves his legs.

8. RANDOM OBSERVATIONS In which, I point out several things that people may not have noticed with Vaati's over-all design.

9. MAD WITH POWER In which, I speculate not only if Vaati was insane from the beginning, but what was it that he did that prompted "The Minish Cap"'s Game Over.

10. FESTARI’S INCLUSION In which, I speculate the slight possibility that Vaati once worked for Festari.

11. RETCONTINUITY In which, I speculate that if the Goddesses punished Vaati for his actions, then they probably picked the one punishment that would torture him the most.

12. POSSIBLE ALBINISM? In which, I speculate that Vaati could possibly be the Minish equivalent to an albino, among other things.

13. LASER-GUIDED AMNESIA In which, I speculate how/why Vaati's apparent "amnesia" in "Four Swords" and "Four Swords Adventures" works, if at all.

14. THE HIERARCHY OF HAIR LENGTH In which, I point out why there are female Minish, and give a few possibilities on why Vaati has long hair as a human.

15. LIMITED WISHES? In which, I point out how the Magic Hat works, wishing-wise, especially when in Vaati's possession.

16. FINGERNAILS In which, I wonder if the Minish have fingernails- and if so, how they clip them, and what this means for Vaati.

17. VAATI’S HEIGHT In which, I try to headcanon Vaati's exact height, only to accidentally create a paradox involving an older theory of mine. Oops.

18. IF HE COULD MAKE A WISH In which, I try to figure out which of Vaati's forms would he prefer to get stuck in permanently.

19. THE UNLUCKY COLOUR PURPLE In which, I continue speculating how/why the colour purple is unlucky in Minish culture, and how that affects poor Vaati.

20. SPRING-HEELED MINISH In which, I make the argument that the Minish are good jumpers and what that means for Vaati, and briefly accidentally psycho-analyse Vaati's thought processes.

21. A TOAST TO THE MAGE OF FAIRYTALE ENDINGS In which, I compare the characters and events of "The Minish Cap" to many different fairytales. Poor Vaati is caught in the cross-fire of them all.

22. TWO TAILS TO RULE THEM ALL In which, I speculate how/why the Minish Elders ended up Elders and go on a brief colour analysis of Minish tails in general (Vaati is different, of course...).

23. A SACRIFICE OF SELF In which, Vaati sacrifices Vaati to become Vaati. It makes sense in context.

24. IN THE NAME OF POWER In which, Vaati's name helps with his infamy and technical power-level, and Vaati in return potentially doesn't use other people's names.

25. THE FOREST ALL ALONG? In which, I speculate where in the Minish Realm Vaati and Ezlo are from, and it has a rather bizarre answer.

26. THE MINISH AND TEMPERATURE In which, I speculate how the Minish would react to being hot or cold and the like, and vaguely critique Vaati's fashion choices.

27. PENITENZIAGITE In which, I wonder if and how Vaati would/could repent for all of his terrible actions.

28. PROPORTIONS In which, I go into great detail on the physical appearance of my version of both Hylian and Minish Vaati.

29. PERSONALITY QUIRKS In which, I go into great detail on the actions/behaviours of my version of both Hylian and Minish Vaati.

30. FINGERS AND TOES In which, I theorise on the anatomy of Vaati's Hylian and Minish hands and feet. For science.

31. THEFT OF THE LIGHT FORCE In which, I wonder how the Light Force's power level works when in Zelda or Vaati's possession.

32. THE CURIOUS CASE OF MAZAAL AND VAATI’S PALACE In which, I ask a bunch of dumb questions about Mazaal, and then rant about Vaati and castles.

33. TO LOVE AND TO HATE In which, I list off everything Vaati is implied to like or dislike, among other things.

34. BODY LANGUAGE In which, I try to see how Vaati's body language conveys his mood and things of that nature.

35. A ROAD-BLOCK In which, Vaati struggles to over-come a very ironic road-block. It makes sense in context.

36. TIME OF THE SEASON In which, I try to figure out what Vaati's favourite season of the year is.

37. THE BIGGER, THE BETTER In which, I realise a certain pun with part of Vaati's grand wish and how it potentially helped doom him in the end.

38. A DREAM IS A WISH In which, I compare Vaati's "wishing" aspect to all the "dreaming" imagery that pops up in "The Minish Cap".

39. MINISH REMNANTS In which, I realise that Minish Vaati was technically never fully destroyed. It makes sense in context.

40. THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS In which, I try to figure out which kind of flower symbolises Vaati and his actions the best/most.

41. BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR In which, Vaati quite embodies a well-known phrase pertaining to magic and miracles.

42. KEEP IT AT THREE In which, I explain why Vaati should never, under any circumstances, be put in another game. Calm down.

43. MINISH HEALING In which, I speculate that the Minish might have some inherent healing abilities, Vaati included.

44. AN IDENTITY CRISIS In which, Vaati somehow loses his identity despite keeping his name. It makes sense in context. I think.

45. SIGNIFICANCE OF COLOUR In which, I do a bizarre Vaati-and-"Minish-Cap"-centric Colour Theory/analysis.

46. FREE AS THE WIND In which, I point out ironies with Vaati's Wind powers.

47. DON’T TRY TO SPOIL MY FUN In which, I wonder why in the world Vaati bothered sparing Ezlo.

48. GLAD TO BE YOU In which, I wonder just what it would take for Vaati to stop being considered "Vaati". It makes sense in context.

49. DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR In which, I see exactly what broke in Vaati's mind to make him think that he needed to be perfect.

50. VAATI ICARUS In which, I compare Vaati's display of hubris to that of the display of hubris by Icarus in Greek Mythology.

51. ON EZLO’S HEXING In which, I speculate on why Vaati thought it best to curse Ezlo into the form of a hat instead of literally anything else.

52. LOVELY LILAC LOCKS In which, I wonder about the physics/science behind Vaati's hair colour. Because reasons.

53. NOT THE WAKER OF WINDS In which, I explain why Vaati has absolutely nothing to do with the Wind Waker.

54. ALMOST HUMAN In which, I wonder just how human Vaati's wish made him.

55. SMALL THINGS In which, I list off several random things about Vaati and the other Minish. Quite silly, really.

56. SING A SONG OF SIX-SINS In which, I list off way too many songs I associate with Vaati and give reasons as to why. God help me.

57. FAKE IT ‘TILL YOU MAKE IT In which, I expand on the "mask" theme Vaati sort of had going on.

58. AN UNWORTHY HALO In which, I point out something about the design of the Magic Hat and why it's ironic for Vaati to be wearing it.

59. ETERNAL In which, I wonder if the Minish, Vaati included, really do have incredibly long lifespans like people tend to think they do.

60. NOBODY’S FAULT BUT MINE In which, I wonder if the Magic Hat had anything to do with Vaati's terrible behaviour.

[hindbodes]

The Floods: Lost ...its structural integrity somewhere back there

Colin Thompson has been a great illustrator for children’s books, and occasionally a very neat author. But don’t let that cloud your judgement, because this novel is exactly as bad as it looks. The illustrations here certainly aren’t his best work, but lately they have been his only work, as his art style has morphed into this flat, computer-generated collage of photos and gritty rubber humans.

By the time it was over, this book put into me more than four instances of something in the narrative being overpowered, at least one pretty big continuity error, numerous typos, and even that thing the author sometimes does where he uses the wrong name to address a character. It also, of course, had the usual Belgian racism, because Colin Thompson still hates Belgian people for some reason.

If you’re not familiar with The Floods, it’s a gross children’s novel series about these morally dubious witches and wizards - a family - who do gross and sometimes epic shit, with very few reality-limitations put in place. I’ve been following it for quite some time.

Within the first two pages of the main story of Lost, Colin Thompson abruptly establishes that two of the main characters - and I’ll get back to you on how “main characters” is a weird concept in this series - got married and had a kid, who not only was very developed for a baby, but could literally talk in every word of the English language within a month of birth. Which is something that I expect by the next book to become another thing Colin Thompson completely forgets.

The book is about two women, Edna and Maldegard, keeping themselves occupied by traveling all over the country of Transylvania Waters and giving streets, towns, and mountains their own names. Because there weren’t any before. Which concerns me. I don’t recall the third-book-prequel having no names for anything, and I hope I just didn’t notice. In short, they’re mapping Transylvania Waters for the first time.

One thing I’m quite grateful for is that sometimes Colin Thomspon does designate things that The Floods are incapable of. The list is short, but the things that are on it really help. One of them is this thing in The Floods: Lost where Winchflat is super powerful at creating technology and can make a machine for anything, but there’s a really bizarre shack in the middle of a courtyard that he can’t penetrate or even use X-rays to look into. It’s one of the more Douglas Adamsian parts of CT’s bibliography. One time a paper booklet in a library told me that if you’re looking for more authors like Douglas Adams, try Eoin Colfer or Colin Thompson. The way I see it is more “Eoin Colfer is the poor man’s Douglas Adams, and Colin Thompson is the very poor man’s Eoin Colfer. Colin Thompson is also a very rich man’s surreal weirdo and therefore quite often worth it”.

Colin Thompson has a serious problem with “show, don’t tell”. I know that sounds crazy, because of how this is a book and “that’s how books work”, but I assure you that Colin Thompson still manages to abuse saying what happened instead of describing events like they’re actually happening. The last four Colin Thompson novels I read felt like almost the entire thing was a timelapse of seasons passing, and things end up being incredibly dialogue-driven.

100 pages of saying what happened later, interesting events in the story start to happen. There seem to be a number of villains in this sequel, and an asshole shapeshifter who’s in the form of a house, with a downright cannibalistic monster wife of his who he wants freed from prison, is the first one to make an appearance.

I don’t want to spoil how they take this man down, but it’s partly redundancies in writing and partly some pretty funny ideas that didn’t end up fully-fledged in my opinion. It sounds like a spoiler that I reveal he’s disguised as a house, but don’t worry, the book makes it incredibly obvious before telling the audience the reveal about four paragraphs later.

While that’s going on, there’s this subplot about how Mordonna and Nerlin, the parents, are trying to set up parliament in Transylvania Waters, to give the illusion to tourists that the country is a democracy or something. They live as kings and queens in a castle, and it’s not, but that will become clearer soon.

For some reason, CT goes ahead and chooses nerds as the acceptable target for narrator’s abuse, and the minor characters for the role of trying to set up a political party of the people.

Colin Thompson makes a pretty good point about how parliament sucks, especially when he says it’s because one party spends 3 or 6 years doing one thing, and then somebody else gets voted in and spends the same amount of time doing the opposite, but I don’t think the scene where Mordonna’s seven grotesque children suddenly walk in and get rollcalled just to form a bigger political party - The Royal Party - than the nerds’ one so that the nerds don’t get to have any say, sets a better precedent for the future. These characters? Well, the Floods are a pretty established large family, but they only used to get the spotlight. Nowadays, Colin Thompson always pushes his original main characters out of the spotlight, and other characters become “main” characters, purely as a freak accident. The book doesn’t give a single line to Valla or Merlinmary.

After the shapeshifter thing is resolved, the next villains are all Winchflat’s fault. Using a bunch of bones they found, this overpowered joke of a scientist character uses his cloning machines to bring fossilized creatures back from the extinction of time. Somehow, they are developed and aware enough to function in this new world quite quickly, not going into shock from the changes made to the world or having to relearn the alphabet.

First, Winchflat brings back an intelligent chicken, who starts a conversation with Winchflat. Of course this means Colin Thompson is gonna throw down that Ethel reference, because he sure loves his Chicken Named Ethel. He also brought back a whole bunch of regular chickens, oddly enough.

Basically, the chicken Ethel has delusions of grandeur and wants to be the rightful leader of everything in sight. This is a pretty funny prospect, but if the joke was handled right, it would still be spoiled by the overdose of characters-finding-it-funny-themselves-and-laughing. So I guess it wasn’t handled right then...

Naturally, the chicken gets totally dominated by The Floods, because of course it did. That’s how it works. Winchflat’s next mistake is to bring a four headed accountant - homo calculus - back to life, which actually ends up being a lot scarier than one would expect.

Good Stuff, Bad Stuff

This book isn’t perfect, but there’s at least one thing in there that considerably had an effect on me when I read it. I’ve already said a lot of bad stuff about this book. There is good stuff in it. I will tell you that thing.

As it turns out, that four-headed accountant from the pre-historic ages that Winchflat reanimated wasn’t just a joke about how “accountants suck” but actually something quite sinister, even bringing up a few dark implications about how the world used to be.

The creature’s name is Fiscal Matters, or just Fiscal. He has four bald heads, a cut moustache on each one, and pairs of glasses. Kinda looks like a caveman. His complusion is to count things, regardless of the value of what he’s counting. All homo calculus do that, and earlier on it’s said that many species went extinct because this behaviour bored them to death.

Winchflat talks to Fiscal for a bit, and then some pretty scary revelations happen. First, Fiscal thinks Winchflat is a servant to him, because apparently in the past, all witches and wizards were servants to his race. You can only wonder what kind of batshit insane forces were powerful enough to subdue the race that Winchflat comes from, but anyway...

Fiscal, second, wants Winchflat to open the strange room in the middle of the courtyard. You know, the weird one that Winchflat can’t open. Winchflat tells him about that, but then Fiscal says “I know how to open it.” So whatever’s in that crazy fucking shed, Fiscal knows what it is and wants to get in. It’s made worse by the fact that Fiscal Matters is getting increasingly aggressive with his “servant”.

The last one is that inside the weird room is a thing called The Ark of the Incontinent. The book never reveals exactly what it is, what it looks like, or how it got its name, but Fiscal wants to go in there so he can contact the rest of his species in outer space. They’re still alive and out there.

The resolution to this arc is pretty anticlimactic, but still unsettling. Basically, after Winchflat tells Fiscal to stay there and not open the door so he can walk away and consult his family, he gets back to find Fiscal counting stones on the shack. Counting how many stones are in the wall is the only way to access The Ark of the Incontinent, and Fiscal can’t, because the amount of stones changed over time and there’s no longer as many in the wall as there are supposed to be.

By the end of the book, Fiscal is still there. He’s still counting, and still hasn’t got into the shack. The Flood family just leaves him to his own devices, and feels perfectly secure about letting somebody with membership of an advanced, dangerous race keep trying to open the one doorway to contacting that race and unleashing war on the planet. Mordonna messes with Fiscal by changing the amount of stones in the walls randomly every now and then, but I think you can imagine how eventually that might turn out to be a bad idea. The probability involved sounds very dangerously high to me.

Lost

Guys... I don’t know. I have been reading this book series for a very long time, and wonder sometimes why I put so much effort into it. I always tell myself “this book will be the last one I read” but it never sticks. I guess I just still think there’s something in there that’s entertaining for me, and maybe there is. I don’t know if I want to continue reading until the very last book or not.

Bottom line is, it’s SBIG. SBIG at best, really. You read what I said up there, you know what’s wrong with it. And I think previous Floods books were better. But lately, as I finished reading this book, I’ve felt more interested in reading the next one. Colin Thompson finally gave continuity nods to things like The Knights Intolerant, which is a really big step forward for this series and means future books might have something I want to read. Read the book if you must, but I’ve been down the path of reading a sequel book before reading its pre-books. It doesn’t go well.

Your alternative is to read 9 big-text-novels until your quest to read the comedically-bad Lost pays off, but I think you have to be a pretty big Colin Thompson fanperson to want to do that. You either read one book in the middle and feel confused, or you read all of them in order and feel disappointed.

You know, fuck it. I’ve been told that books will set you free, and my eyesight and quota-for-consuming-fiction aren’t getting any better - I should just borrow the next book. I should borrow The Floods 11 and do something with my time that involves entering a weird and fantastical story. No more days of nothing but videogames, browser feeds and let’s plays...

[theliterateape]

I Like to Watch | The Walking Dead

by Don Hall

I have this great idea. At the end of Return of the King, following the battle to destroy Sauron, we follow Aragorn and Gandalf as they continue battle lesser evils in Middle Earth. You know, maybe like a Balrog with delusions of grandeur or an evil faction of dwarves. In the meantime, Sauron, instead of being destroyed, is held captive and we get to know him a little better. Maybe we extend the saga to show his backstory and exactly how he became evil?

Hell, we could milk the battles for years!

No?

How about this: a The Princess Bride follow-up wherein Count Rugen survives the sword fight between he and Inigo. Then, later, the two form a bond and travel the countryside looking wrongs to right.

NO?!

OK: After Luke Skywalker kills the Emperor and we spend three prequels on the backstories of both Vader (as a kid) and the Emperor (as a Senator), we jump forward in time. There is a new threat with a bad guy not quite as bad as Vader because he's so openly conflicted and kinda horny for the female Luke. Then, when things come to a head at the third sequel, we bring back the Emperor so we can kill him AGAIN!!

No. You're right. That is a shitty idea.

At the (long) tail-end of the pandemic, the rest of the 10th season of The Walking Dead resumed airing and I found myself undeniably un-inspired. I didn't really care much for The Whisperers and after they bumped Rick Grimes off and then carted him away on a helicopter, the show sort of fizzled. I couldn't figure out what was missing (besides Rick) so I decided to go back to the beginning and watch the whole thing again.

The zombie trope goes back a ways into horror history. The concept of the dead re-animating and going for our living throats has elements of the Golem, aspects of Frankenstein's Monster, and a historical basis in the slavery practices of the French in Haiti.

The zombie archetype, as it appeared in Haiti and mirrored the inhumanity that existed there from 1625 to around 1800, was a projection of the African slaves’ relentless misery and subjugation. Haitian slaves believed that dying would release them back to lan guinée, literally Guinea, or Africa in general, a kind of afterlife where they could be free. Though suicide was common among slaves, those who took their own lives wouldn’t be allowed to return to lan guinée. Instead, they’d be condemned to skulk the Hispaniola plantations for eternity, an undead slave at once denied their own bodies and yet trapped inside them—a soulless zombie.

In 1968, George Romero shot (on a budget of $114,000) what was originally entitled Night of the Flesh Eaters and later renamed Night of the Living Dead. He didn't refer to his walking dead as "zombies" but as "ghouls." 

The grainy black and white film was far more than a gruesome horror flick—it was an allegory for the protests of both the Vietnam War and the riots of those fighting for Civil Rights. Later, his sequel of sorts, Dawn of the Dead, is another social satire disguised as gore flick with the zombies (he now called them zombies) acting as stand-ins for the suburban consumerist ethos. 1985's Day of the Dead is an allegory about the mindless authoritarianism of the military. Land of the Dead was a satire of class division; Diary of the Dead spoofed the age of blogging and YouTube.

What were the zombies? How did they come to be? Romero gives us a comet. A cosmic incident with no more explanation. This gives the satirical representation the foreground.

Along came more zombie apocalypse movies: Re-animator, Dead Alive, 28 Days Later. Certainly a lot more including Night of the Creeps and Zombie. In 2004, we get Zach Snyder's brilliant re-make of Dawn of the Dead. This list of the undead had as much in common with the classic atomic monsters as they did the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park—these ghouls were created by man. These were the inevitable result of humankind's hubris and god-complex. We created the end of the world and now must make sense of our creation.

In 2003, Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore co-created a long-running comic series published by Image Comics: The Walking Dead. In 2010, AMC picked up the comic for a television series of the same name and what set these zombies apart from the previous strain is that one didn't have to be bitten in order to turn. These zombies represented a natural human-wide disease that re-animated anyone who died. Like a bizarre metaphor for Purgatory, becoming undead was inevitable for all living people. This created a completely different dynamic for those surviving.

Which brings us up to speed.

I was hooked to TWD for the first four seasons. The conclusion of the Governor arc was satisfying and everything about the prison was exceptional but I was exhausted by the time they arrived at Terminus. The thing became taxing to follow and I believe I'd hit my limit. I dropped away until I was talking to a friend who loved the show and she told me that Negan was the best villain she'd ever seen.

I rejoined the Grimes Gang with Season 5. Terminus cannibals. Again, I got sucked in. The tragic end of Bob. The back-and-forth conflict of Gabriel. The whole Beth in the hospital with the corrupt cops was weak but that may have been because I don't find Beth remotely interesting. Then we get to Alexandria and the dynamic between the people so blind to the world that they're having cocktail parties and the group who have endured almost comical loss and tragedy makes for some excellent storytelling.

Then came Season 6, episode 4 He's Not Here. 

Both loosely connected to the journey of our merry band yet set completely apart, this standalone episode finds us with Morgan (the extraordinary Lennie James) being brought back from the insanity he's afflicted with by Eastman (an equally wonderful John Carroll Lynch). Eastman slowly brings Morgan back from the edge.

A psychiatrist, Eastman tells the story of his prison practice. He explains that he has worked with over 800 incarcerated patients and only one was irredeemably evil. He tells him of that patient, Crighton Dallas Wilton. While a model prisoner in the eyes of the prison staff, Eastman saw Wilton for what he was, an evil, manipulative psychopath. When the time for Wilton's parole came up, Eastman was the one to interview him and it was here that Wilton realized that Eastman had seen through his facade and attempted to kill him. 

Later, we find out exactly how evil Wilton was and how Eastman came to be who he is in this apocalyptic world.

This episode is beautifully done and, upon re-watching the whole thing all over again, stands out for one important aspect. Eastman tells us that in this world of heroes and villains surrounded by the undead, there is only one truly evil person to watch out for.

The Governor isn't evil. He's an asshole. An authoritarian. He's also insane from grief which has driven him to become a villain. He's no more or less brutal in many ways than Rick. The Terminus cannibals are likewise justified in their choices as sickening and horrifying as they may be.

Eastman is warning us of true evil on the horizon.

That evil is Negan.

From the moment we see him (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and his barbed wire bat, Lucille, he is the embodiment of gleeful malevolence. He is brutal and he fucking loves it. He kills both Abraham and Glenn with such casual smug pleasure that the fact that he just offed a beloved character who has been on the journey since the second episode of the entire franchise only hurts more.

Negan is the anti-Rick. No conflict within himself, convinced that he is righteous in his path with so little regard for even his own Saviors (his 'relationship' to Dwight is a thing of remarkable cruelty). It isn't even the body count (both the Governor and the Terminus gang kill more onscreen) but his enjoyment in brutalizing people, teasing them into submission, then gutting them on the street is Hannibal Lecter territory.

Negan is the one truly evil man Eastman warns us about.

In my marathon from the start, I realized sometime during Season 8—I had no interest in seeing any more following Negan's defeat. Having seen the episodes before, I didn't want to see the character redeemed. I didn't want him to be at all relatable. I wanted Rick to kill him and for a sense of closure.

Now take a peek at Season 8. The writers wrote the end of the series in this one. The alliance of Alexandria, The Hilltop, and The Kingdom against The Saviors. Eugene finds his safe place and Gabriel struggles to redeem himself. Fucking Carl dies! Rick beats Negan one-on-one in a field and cuts his throat with a piece of stained glass. FINIS. OVER. DONE, for chrissakes.

Carl's death means nothing if the ending isn't peace. I'll be honest, the first time I watched Carl die, I didn't much care. He wasn't a heavy weight character in my mind. The second time, I bawled like a baby because, in a few weeks, I watched him go from scared kid in the camp when Rick (presumed dead) strolls in to the young man sparring with Negan. Carl's vision of Rick's future is the end. Except for the Negan part. FUCK THAT. Negan doesn't get to survive.uck that

Rick cuts his throat. He doesn't instruct Sadiq to save him. Negan dies. Maggie gets her revenge. Rick makes his "a better world" speech. Cut to black.

HBO’s Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, The Leftovers. All could have continued following their obvious and arguably brilliant endings but they didn’t. Game of Thrones could’ve just stopped as soon as the Night King is defeated but they couldn’t help themselves and tarnished the legacy of one of the most watched television series in history. I loved Lost all the way up until they explained everything poorly.

I get it. AMC needs the cash cow. Lots of people employed so they just have to continue the tale but, man, when you get to an ending that good, walk away.

[tryaddump]

TheKojiIsHere

1- KoR/TFO weapon Elias Alderaan isn't enough to wake him up When the Empire crumbles he's sorta just abandoned, maybe a shuffled around asset among surviving moffs and generals and the like before ending up in one of the groups' hands Feral but still trainable 2- Fully dark Elias At some point comes out of his stupor on his own, but is no less angry and vicious Ends up turning on his masters and takes over a cell or the empire for himself when the top two fall. Now hes the one cracking the whip, and he's even crueler to his subordinates as those who made him And he is always angry, like the kind of angry that shoots past flailing tantrums into eeerie seeming stillness, but you can't mistake it for calm when he casually snaps a neck or cuts someone in half for any minor inconvenience or failure

hackett. chinhands

TheKojiIsHere https://youtu.be/hL5zv4mN1xA Batman-Under the Red Hood Black Mask Montage

From beginning to 2:06

Except the punch would have been a saber thrust through the face

darth porgeius ooookay that’s some unhinged darkness right there

hackett. kor elias would be a fucked version of his tryad dynamic with ben. the kor were brothers / dark side teachers for kylo. it was a frat cult fully dark elias is giving vader a run for it

TheKojiIsHere But also imagine like Full dark Elias scoops Ben before snoke can

hackett. ..... The Resistance is now The Attempt because fucking hell

TheKojiIsHere Couple immediate differences: Ben never becomes a KoR bc Elias wouldn't even send him therr He also doesn't become a Jedi Killer bc even dark Elias has certain boundaries snoke does not, and no more Jedi need to die pointlessly Ben, and I cannot stress this enough is so much more of a powerhouse/threat holy shit Bc he's been kinda raised by Elias, taught proper forms, and how to utilize his raw power more effectively He's a better dueliest, more disciplined, and more knowledgeable Also Elias isn't borderline torturing the kid I wouldn't say he's kind But he's a very different kind of cruel

hackett. Duuuude, now im picturing this kylo concept art https://images.app.goo.gl/2BE5WHechxB78f7L8

darth porgeius super spook

hackett. Im curious to explore the differences because the kor are such a huge influence. Kylo ren's face is based on their style. That mask is so tied to his identity.

TheKojiIsHere Elias also wouldn't have tolerated such adoration of Vader Fuck I imagined him finding the helmet in Ben's quarters And making Ben watch as he crushed it with The Force Brought it in on itself until it was just a small metal sphere

hackett. ...... I think i just felt ben die inside

TheKojiIsHere Elias: You do not celebrate his works. He cast aside himself for the sake of an old fool with delusions of grandeur, and stole the selves of his brothers. He is not worth your worship, and you have already surpassed him in so many ways. Do not let the the short sightedness of the past blind and rob you of the future's promise, Ben.

hackett. ......i

TheKojiIsHere

I'm sending this here bc I don't wanna interrupt what you're typing in tryad chat BUT PALPATINE NEVER GETS INTO HIS HEAD ELIAS HAS MADE SURE NOBODY EVER GETS INTO HIS MIND AGAIN AND MAKES HIM SOMETHING HE ISNT SO HE MAKES SURE BEN CAN DO THE SAME Dark Elias doesn't get Ben by twisting his mind into servitude He makes Ben a better offer than anyone else is

hackett. In other words, his crimes are truly his own

TheKojiIsHere Yeeeeeup

hackett. There's no headworm that has convinced of his path Whats elias like as a master in this au

TheKojiIsHere Harsh but fair. He beats the shit out of Ben regularly, but never pointlessly. He's ruthless because those Ben will face are so, but there is always a lesson to be learned Example: Ben learned mental defense bc Elias would day take time each day forcing his way into Ben's mind whole instructing how to stop him He kept doing it until Ben got it Until his mental defenses were like walls of beskar Dueling, they used shock batons so it wouldn't be lethal but it would hurt Every slip in his form would come with pain But Elias always made sure he knew that with the pain came knowledge, with knowledge, strength I got to stress this allies is not insane just angry Which means he is capable of moments that are not the black mask video I showed you To be honest and this au with Ben is probably as soft as this Elias gets And he definitely gives been praise when it's due. It's hard fault but when Ben gets a form right, or makes progress, he makes sure Ben know that it is not unnoticed Above all Else, he may be harsh but he will never be Vader He will never push been to a breaking point. He will never Rob Ben know who he is. He will only test him and have high standards for Passing

hackett. Ben would develop so differently. Less reckless, still calculative but more discerning before he strikes and when he strikes he's already plotted out his next moves

TheKojiIsHere Seriously, such a difference this'd make Hell, the galaxy would be wildly different There'd be a third power at play Though Elias isn't much interested in huge expansion or conquest. He basically takes a world with the force he has and refuses to let it go. This ofc makes him an enemy of the New Republic So his group (idk the name yet) is essentially dealing with defense more than offense, but people are sent out to destabilize TNR on a major level And when TFO pops up, they're competition Plus, Elias will sense Palpatines hand in things So where TNR is met with cold, apathetic disruption TFO is targeted with extreme prejudice OH MAN IMAGINE THAT'S HOW REY FITS IN! SHES SCOOPED BY TFO She's  the Ren But yes Elias would have been a harsh but fair teacher/father. He also, as an interesting contrast to smoke, doesnt leave all the work to underlings Ben would see Elias fighting alongside him And his Vaapad variant works even better There's a lot more internal darkness to tap into and start the loop OH MAN I JUST THOUGHT OF A DUO MOVE THEY COULD HAVE USE EACH OTHER Rather than rely on the potentially waxing and waning emotions of another

hackett. Dark side circuit

TheKojiIsHere They link up an essentially become both generator and amplifier for each other And since both sides are aware of the transfer and letting it flow freely It's way more potent They'd be fucking unstoppable and terrifying sweet christmas TFO: sends a fleet with star destroyers and fighters aplenty towards Elias' planet Elias and Ben: link up and destroy them from the surface while the ships are still in orbit

hackett. That's messed, i dig it. They basically sound like an event horizon of power, once they link they just devour enemies with the force

TheKojiIsHere ^^^^

hackett. Like kylo ren in that resistance clip i sent is far as fuck away from his two underlings And he uses the force to make them aim at each other So thats him on his own Imagine with elias linked

TheKojiIsHere They could control the entire crew, on multiple ships Okay, so question Bc I feel like there is room for debate on this and I wonder where you stand Do you think each person like Has a set level of power in The Force that they are capable of from birth They may not be able to utilize all of it right away But there is a definitive, insurmountable cap Or do you think it's more of a soft cap that can be expanded with time and practice? Bc dif people def start off with varying levels of potency Re: the Skywalkers all being natural powerhouses But do you think that's it, or people can improve if they deign to try?

hackett. So i think its a little bit like that line from ratatouille. Anyone can use the force. Powerful force users can come from anywhere, be anyone. Even if its genetic for ben solo, doesnt mean thats how it happens for everyone. Like disney changed the canon that everyone is sensitive to the force but not everyone is force sensitive. It probably manifests in different ways. I think everyone can improve, heighten their awareness and control, but everyone has a cap. Not because theyre weak or pathetic or meagor, their strength is just elsewhere like all talents and abilities Which is why elias in any verse being able to compete with ren makes sense without it feeling like a "god mode"

TheKojiIsHere Another terrifying idea for dark verse They find the gauntlet Figure out how it's made then make their own With Empire assets Elias could have beaten TFO to Illum by decades

hackett. conduit dark siders with a pair of those gauntlets [8:14 PM]

TheKojiIsHere They turn the whole thing into a conduit over time The space weapon is them OH SHIT WHAT IF ILLUM IS THE PLANET ELIAS TOOK OVER Spent years turning it into a base/civilization

hackett. I WAS THINKING THAT like imagine just that planet becomes amp and battery pack

TheKojiIsHere And battle station/civilization And you know what? The people who live there live live well

hackett. i imagine, i don't see elias being the type to set himself to be hated by those under his indirect control but live under his influence

TheKojiIsHere Oh wow I must have pocket called you my b But yea he wouldn't be needlessly cruel

hackett. also not a fool, you don't make the people who surround you and know your home turf your enemy

TheKojiIsHere ^^^^^

hackett. leave them alone, ingratiate them at least a little bit. make their lives comfortable and protect them and they won't want a regime change

TheKojiIsHere His direct subordinates, however, he definitely rules through fear. He doesn't tolerate failure, and it's gratifying to be the punisher rather than the punished He offsets this by giving due praise to those who perform satisfactorily, and even more so exemplary

So there's a big dichotomy in treatment Ben, ofc, is judged most harshly but also performs most exceptionally In Elias' eyes

hackett. it's gonna interesting cause with snoke he gave benlo a direction and told him to find his own way there it's not the same with a dark elias, there's more expectations. more guidance. more discipline.

[lunagalemaster]

Danny Phantom Pairing Names

- FrDP has weird pairing names. I’ve seen a few lists floating about but they’ve either been incomplete or not up to date. One night, we were talking on the slack and one of said lists were brought up... and I may or may not have got annoyed at the organization of said list, made my own list, and then updated it. 

This was the result of said mess. Enjoy, phandom!

(Updated as of April 17, 2018)

Organized Alphabetically Based On the First Ship Name in Each Section

Sections: 

(M/F) Human Pairings [25 different combos]

(M/F) Human and Ghost Pairings [24]

(M/F) Ghost Pairings [14]

(M/M) Human Pairings [15]

(M/M) Human and Ghost Pairings [35]

(M/M) Ghost Pairings [14]

(F/F) All Pairings [23]

Poly Parings [21]

Misc Pairings [34]

All Pairings With Danny [77]*

All Pairings [204]

*I may have missed one or two of the Danny pairings. Excuse me if I did. 

(Note: The first name is usually the more well known name for the pairing, and for the purposes of organization, halfas are being counted as humans. Original chart and names came from here (x). Many pairings names taken from this (x) fic. Other name changes/additions are from phandom conversations, private decisions for a new pairing name, and/or new, recent trends for pairing names).

WARNING: This is just a list of pairing names and whether I condone said pairings is irrelevant. That being said, some pairings listed may not make you comfortable. I am including all pairings for information purposes. 

If you want to add any names or if there are some alternate names I’m missing, submit them to me, or message me directly. I will not be taking names in the tags anymore. 

With that, I hope you guys enjoy!

(M/F) Human Pairings

Amethyst Ocean, Violet Haze, Fakeout-Makeout- Danny/Sam

Brains Over Brawn- Jazz/Dash

Carbon Copy Quarterback- Dani/Dash

Cloned Romantic– Dani/Tucker

Cream Cheese- Vlad/Dani

Dumb Founded- Dash/Sam

Gothic Vampire- Sam/Vlad

Gray Ghost- Valerie/Danny

Hunter Silly- Tucker/Valerie

Jock Goth- Kwan/Sam

Makeup Honor- Dash/Paulina

Misplaced Faith, Secret Disaster- Valerie/Vlad

Moronic Genius, Brain Cookies- Maddie/Jack

Phantom Satellite- Danny/Star

Psycho Cereal, Obsessive Meddler- Vlad/Jazz

Restrained Romance - Danny/Pamela

Pink Astronaut- Paulina/Danny

Sibling Secrets- Jazz/Danny

Sports Satellite- Kwan/Star

Spurned Affection- Vlad/Maddie

Sue Killer- Dani/Danny

Teacher's Pet- Lancer/Jazz

Techno Smarts-Tucker/Jazz

Twinkle Techno- Star/Tucker

Veggie Burger, Ghost's Absence- Tucker/Sam

(M/F) Human and Ghost Pairings

Circus Freaks- Freakshow/Lydia

Classic Cliche- Jazz/Ghostwriter

Dark Gray- Dan/Valerie

Evil Goth- Dan/Sam

Ghost Envy- Jazz/Freakshow

Ghostly Menu- Danny/Lunch Lady

Haunting Desire- Danny/Desiree

Mama’s Boy- (Romantic) Danny/Maddie

Maternal Instincts- (Paternal) Danny/Maddie

Misery Motivated- Vlad/Spectra

Oedipus Complex - Maddie/Dan

Pandora’s Ghost- Danny/Pandora

Phantom Dragon- Dorothea/Danny

Phantom Feline- Kitty/Danny

Phantom Rocker- Danny/Ember

Pitiful Delusion- Dark Danny/Paulina

Purple Prose- Ghostwriter/Sam

Phantom Psychology - Danny/Spectra

School Spirit- Spectra/Lancer

Techno Babble- Jazz/Technus

The Freak Behind Blue Eyes, Dark Fire- Ember/Freakshow

Timely Intelligence- Jazz/Clockwork

Young Bloodthirst – Dan/Dani

Young Love- Dani/Youngblood

(M/F) Ghost Pairings

Black Cat- Johnny 13/Kitty

Girl in the Tower, Timeless Love- Dora/Aragon

Guard Granter- Walker/Desiree

Hunter's Flame- Ember/Skulker

Insane Asylum- Walker/Spectra

Melancholy Assistance- Spectra/Bertrand

Night Sky, Destroyed Satellite- Dan/Star

Packaged Food- Box Ghost/Lunch Lady

Pirate Food- Youngblood/Box Lunch

Punk Poet- Ember/Ghostwriter

Punk Rock- Youngblood/Ember

Retro Movie Do- Poindexter/Dora

Talkative Treacherous– Technus/Desiree

Traps Desired- Desiree/Skulker

(M/M) Human Pairings

Badger Cereal- (Paternal) Vlad/Danny

Go Packers- Dash/Vlad

Lance Lancer- Lancer Thunder/Mr. Lancer

Literature Lovers- Danny/Lancer

Not So Useful Distraction- Kwan/Vlad

Nu Goth- Elliot(Gregor)/Danny

Pac Man- Jack/Vlad

Phantom Fumble- Danny/Kwan

Pitched Tent, Publicity Stunt- Danny/Freakshow

Pompous Pep, Endangered Species- (Romantic) Vlad/Danny

Quacker- Tucker/Kwan

Savant Par, CyberSpace- Danny / Tucker

Swagger Bishie, Locker Bruise, Teddy Ghost- Danny/Dash

The Wrong Sick- Danny/Jack

Tight End- Dash/Kwan

(M/M) Human and Ghost Pairings

Anonymity Park- Danny/Amorpho

Boxed Phantom- Danny/Box Ghost

Callous Query- Danny/Skulker

Cosmic Cyborg- Technus/Danny

Dark Side, Control- Dan / Freakshow

Dark Times- Freakshow/Clockwork

Doubly Evil, Bitterly Broken- Vlad/Dan

Halloween Phantom- Fright Knight/Danny

Haunted Past, Enslaved Exemplar- Dan/Danny

Heroic Amusement, Great Divide- Super!Danny/Fun!Danny

Iambic Prose- Danny/Ghostwriter

Jail Bait, Ghostly Prisoner- Danny/Walker

Lactose Intolerant- Vlad/Dairy King

Locker Buddies- (Platonic) Poindexter/Danny

Lost Time- (Platonic) Danny/Clockwork

Lucky Accident- Johnny 13/Danny

Mad Scientist- Dark Danny/Kwan

New Master - Vlad/Fright Knight

Noodle Nerds- (Romantic) Poindexter/Danny

Oreo Cookie, Phriendship, Pitch Pals - (Platonic) Fenton/Phantom

Phantom PDA- Phantom/Tucker

Phantom Shadows- Shadow/Danny

Pitch Pearl, Photonegative Narcissus- (Romantic) Fenton/Phantom

Red Pearl- (Romantic) Fenton/HypnotizedorEvil!Phantom

Rich History- Vlad/Clockwork

Royal Pain- Danny/Aragon

Spaghetti and Meatballs, Hypnotic Shadows- Freakshow/Johnny 13

Striking Fear- Masters/Plasmius

Techno Geeks, PDA, Technological Advancement- Technus/Tucker

Teenage Dream- Nocturne/Danny

Temporal Trust- (Romantic) Danny/Clockwork

Tireless Dedication- Ghostwriter/Vlad

Tyrannious Hope- Danny/Pariah Dark [I don’t know if the typo is intentional or not]

White Fang- Wulf/Danny

(M/M) Ghost Pairings

All the King’s Men - Pariah Dark/Fright Knight

Blood Red Ink- Dan/Ghostwriter 

Dark Dark- Pariah Dark/Dan 

Delusions of Grandeur- Pariah Dark/Nocture

Dream Time- Clockwork/Nocturne

Electric Hunter, Sparks, Generator- Technus/Skulker

Esperanto Code of Conduct- Wulf/Walker

Goodnight Moon- Nocturn/Ghostwriter

Gun Magazine- Skulker/Ghostwriter

History Books- Ghostwriter/Clockwork

Meddling Minutes- Dan/Clockwork

Penslammeter- Walker/Ghostwriter

Science Fiction- Technus/Ghostwriter

Tricky Pseudonym- Amorpho/Ghostwriter

Unlucky Author– Johnny/Ghostwriter

(F/F) All Pairings

Butch-ers, Steak Sit-Ups- Lunch Lady/Tetslaff 

Burning Buds- (Platonic) Dani/Ember

Dora^2, Panned Doras- Dora/Pandora

Dragon Tattoo- Dora/Lydia 

Famous Satelite, Shallow Orbit– Star/Paulina

Feline Grace- Jazz/Kitty

Goth Princess- Sam/Paulina

Gothic Dragon, Medieval Gothic- Sam/Dora

Hide n' Seek- Sam/Valerie

Hot December- Desiree/Ember

Hunter's Facade– Paulina/Valerie

Hypno Therapy- Ember/Jazz

Kith Kin- Sam/Jazz

Mythical Wishes- Desiree/Pandora

Painful Desires- Spectra/Desiree

Perfect Pitch, Pitch Perfect- Paulina/Ember

Platinum Punk- Dani/Ember

Posh Scientist- Maddie/Pamela

Psycho Analysis- Spectra/Jazz

Pussycat Dolls- Kitty/Ember

Royal Wishes- Dora/Desiree

Somber Sear- Ember/Sam

Vengeful Babes- Valerie/Dani

Poly Pairings

3D- Dan/Danny/Dani

Bittersweet Redemption- Dan/Danny/Vlad

Blacks and Blues- Ember/Jazz/Sam

Enchanted Circus- Desiree/Dora/Lydia

Everlasting Trio, Eternal Trio- Danny/Sam/Tucker

Family Breakfast- Jack/Maddie/Vlad

Ghostly Time Machine- Danny/Clockwork/Ghostwriter

Halfas Just Want to Have Fun - Masters/Plasmius/Fenton/Phantom

Hourglass Chess, Chaotic Chess- Clockwork/Dan/Freakshow

Just the Right Amount of Crazy- Clockwork/Dan/Danny/Vlad

Misery Punk Rock- Kitty/Spectra/Ember

Personalized Gift Baskets- Vlad/Maddie/Danny

Phantastic Four- Danny/Tucker/Sam/Valerie

Pitch PDA- Phantom/Fenton/Tucker

Pompous Pearl- Danny Fenton/Danny Phantom/Vlad

Rebel Riders- Danny/Johnny/Valerie

Rocker's Boys- Dash/Ember/Kwan

Striking Pep - Masters/Plasmius/Danny

Technical Star Player- Star/Tucker/Kwan

Triple Blossom- Danny Fenton/Danny Phantom/Sam

Misc Pairings (Mostly Not Organized Alphabetically)

Clone Conspiracy- Dani/Wes Weston

Cryptid Hunting- Valerie/Wes Weston

Overbearing Redheads- Jazz/Wes Weston

Spy Satellite- Star/Wes Weston

Unidentified Flying Ship- Danny/Wes Weston

Employee of the Month- Vlad/Walter Weston

(Daniel Masters in whatever context whether he be from another timeline or a clone son or your choice. As long as the original Danny Fenton and him coexist in some way or at one point had separate identities.)

Bad End- Dan/Daniel Masters

Clone Wars-Daniel Masters/Dani 

Perfect Clone-  (Romantic) Vlad/Daniel Masters 

Perfect Son- (Paternal) Vlad/Daniel Masters

The D- Danny/Dani/Dan/Daniel Masters

Paranormal Facade- Wes/Daniel Masters

Ectodragon- Danny/Draco Malfoy [Harry Potter]

Ectoham- Danny/Randy Cummingham [Randy Cummingham: Ninth Grade Ninja]

Going Dragon- Danny/Jake Long [American Dragon: Jake Long]

Halfworld Royalties- Danny/Raven [Teen Titans]

Invisobilly- Danny/Billy Joe Cobra [Dude That’s My Ghost!]

Ocean Spirit- Danny/Moana [Disney’s Moana]

Spooky Nerds- Danny/Jimmy [Jimmy Neutron]

Spongeboo- Danny/Spongebob[Spongebob]

Ghost in the Shell- Danny/Jenny [My Life as a Teenage Robot]

Robot Techie, XJ-PDA- Tucker/Jenny[My Life as a Teenage Robot]

Green Ecto Splat- Danny/Lee Ping [Detentionaire]

Cold Hands, Ice Ice Baby, Phantom Frost - Danny/Jack Frost [Rise of the Guardians]

Pastel Corpses- Danny/Lars [Steven Universe]

World Wide Web- Tucker/Peter Parker [Spider-man]

Spider Phantom, Radioactive, Friendly Neighborhood Phantom- Danny/Peter Parker [Spider-man]

Delsa, Frozen Core- Danny/Elsa [Frozen]

Fourth Wall Portal- (Platonic) Danny/OC

Ghostly Touch, Phantom Kiss- (Romantic) Danny/OC

Cream Soup-Danny/Fenton Thermos

Love Sucks- Ghost Weasel/Fenton Thermos

Pink Pearl- Danny/His Pink Pants

Technical Difficulties- Tucker/His PDA

All Pairings With Danny

3D- Dan/Danny/Dani

Amethyst Ocean, Violet Haze- Danny/Sam

Anonymity Park- Danny/Amorpho

Badger Cereal- (Platonic and/or Paternal) Vlad/Danny

Bittersweet Redemption - Dan/Danny/Vlad

Boxed Phantom-Danny/Box Ghost

Callous Query- Danny/Skulker

Cold Hands, Ice Ice Baby, Phantom Frost- Danny/Jack Frost [Rise of the Guardians]

Cosmic Cyborg- Technus/Danny

Cream Soup- Danny/Fenton Thermos

Delsa, Frozen Core- Danny/Elsa [Frozen]

Ectodragon- Danny/Draco Malfoy [Harry Potter]

Ectoham- Danny/Randy Cummingham [Randy Cummingham: Ninth Grade Ninja]

Everlasting Trio, Eternal Trio - Danny/Sam/Tucker

Fourth Wall Portal- (platonic) Danny/OC

Ghost in the Shell- Danny/Jenny [My Life as a Teenage Robot]

Ghostly Menu- Danny/Lunch Lady

Ghostly Time Machine- Danny/Clockwork/Ghostwriter

Ghostly Touch, Phantom Kiss- (Romantic) Danny/OC

Going Dragon- Danny/Jake Long [American Dragon: Jake Long]

Goodnight Moon- Nocturn/Ghostwriter

Gray Ghost- Valerie/Danny

Green Ecto Splat- Danny/Lee Ping [Detentionaire]

Halfas Just Want to Have Fun - Masters/Plasmius/Fenton/Phantom

Halfworld Royalties- Danny/Raven [Teen Titans]

Halloween Phantom- Fright Knight/Danny

Haunted Past, Enslaved Exemplar- Dan/Danny

Haunting Desire- Danny/Desiree

Heroic Amusement, Great Divide- Super!Danny/Fun!Danny

Iambic Prose-Danny/Ghostwriter

Invisobilly- Danny/Billy Joe Cobra [Dude That’s My Ghost!]

Jail Bait, Ghostly Prisoner- Danny/Walker

Just the Right Amount of Crazy- Clockwork/Dan/Danny/Vlad

Literature Lovers- Danny/Lancer

Locker Buddies- (Platonic) Poindexter/Danny

Lost Time- (Platonic) Danny/Clockwork

Lucky Accident- Johnny 13/Danny

Mama’s Boy- (Romantic) Danny/Maddie

Maternal Instincts- (Paternal) Danny/Maddie

Noodle Nerds- (Romantic) Poindexter/Danny

Nu Goth- Elliot(Gregor)/Danny

Ocean Spirit- Danny/Moana [Disney’s Moana]

Pandora’s Ghost- Danny/Pandora

Pastel Corpses- Danny/Lars [Steven Universe]

Personalized Gift Baskets- Vlad/Maddie/Danny

Phantastic Four- Danny/Tucker/Sam/Valerie

Phantom Dragon- Dorothea/Danny

Phantom Feline- Kitty/Danny

Phantom Fumble- Danny/Kwan

Phantom Rocker- Danny/Ember

Phantom Satellite- Danny/Star

Phantom Shadows- Shadow/Danny

Pitiful Delusion- Dark Danny/Paulina

Pink Pearl- Danny/His Pink Pants

Phantom Psychology - Danny/Spectra

Pitched Tent, Publicity Stunt- Danny/Freakshow

Pompous Pearl- Danny Fenton/Danny Phantom/Vlad

Pompous Pep, Endangered Species- (Romantic) Vlad/Danny

Rebel Riders- Danny/Johnny/Valerie

Red Pearl- (Romantic) Fenton/ [Hypnotized/Evil] Phantom

Restrained Romance - Danny/Pamela

Royal Pain- Danny/Aragon

Savant Par, CyberSpace- Danny / Tucker

Pink Astronaut- Paulina/Danny

Sibling Secrets- Jazz/Danny

Spider Phantom, Radioactive, Friendly Neighborhood Phantom- Danny/Peter Parker [Spider-man]

Spongeboo- Danny/Spongebob[Spongebob]

Spooky Nerds- Danny/Jimmy [Jimmy Neutron]

Striking Pep - Masters/Plasmius/Danny

Sue Killer- Dani/Danny

Swagger Bishie, Locker Bruise, Teddy Ghost- Danny/Dash

Teenage Dream- Nocturne/Danny

Temporal Trust- (Romantic) Danny/Clockwork

The D- Danny/Dani/Dan/Daniel Masters

The Wrong Sick- Danny/Jack

Triple Blossom- Danny Fenton/Danny Phantom/Sam

Tyrannious Hope- Danny/Pariah Dark

Unidentified Flying Ship- Danny/Wes

White Fang - Wulf/Danny

All Pairings 

3D-  Dan/Danny/Dani

All the King’s Men - Pariah Dark/Fright Knight

Amethyst Ocean, Violet Haze, Fakeout-Makeout- Danny/Sam

Anonymity Park- Danny/Amorpho

Bad End- Dan/Daniel

Badger Cereal- (Platonic and/or Paternal) Vlad/Danny

Bittersweet Redemption- Dan/Danny/Vlad

Black Cat- Johnny 13/Kitty

Blacks and Blues- Ember/Jazz/Sam

Blood Red Ink - Dan/Ghostwriter

Boxed Phantom- Danny/Box Ghost

Brains Over Brawn- Jazz/Dash

Butch-ers, Steak Sit-Ups- Lunch Lady/Tetslaff

Burning Buds- (Platonic) Dani/Ember

Callous Query- Danny/Skulker

Carbon Copy Quarterback- Dani/Dash

Circus Freaks- Freakshow/Lydia

Classic Cliche- Jazz/Ghostwriter

Clone Conspiracy- Dani/Wes Weston

Clone Wars-Daniel Masters/Dani

Cloned Romantic– Dani/Tucker

Cold Hands, Ice Ice Baby, Phantom Frost- Danny/Jack Frost [Rise of the Guardians]

Cosmic Cyborg- Technus/Danny

Cream Cheese- Vlad/Dani

Cream Soup-Danny/Fenton Thermos

Cryptid Hunting- Valerie/Wes Weston

Dark Dark- Pariah Dark/Dan

Dark Gray- Dan/Valerie

Dark Side, Control- Dan / Freakshow

Dark Times- Freakshow/Clockwork

Delsa, Frozen Core- Danny/Elsa [Frozen]

Delusions of Grandeur- Pariah/Nocture

Dora^2- Dora/Pandora

Doubly Evil, Bitterly Broken- Vlad/Dan

Dragon Tattoo- Dora/Lydia

Dream Time- Clockwork/Nocturne

Dumb Founded- Dash/Sam

Ectodragon- Danny/Draco Malfoy [Harry Potter]

Ectoham- Danny/Randy Cummingham [Randy Cummingham: Ninth Grade Ninja]

Electric Hunter, Sparks, Generator- Technus/Skulker

Employee of the Month- Vlad/Walter Weston

Enchanted Circus- Desiree/Dora/Lydia

Esperanto Code of Conduct- Wulf/Walker

Everlasting Trio, Eternal Trio- Danny/Sam/Tucker

Evil Goth- Dan/Sam

Family Breakfast- Jack/Maddie/Vlad

Famous Satelite, Shallow Orbit– Star/Paulina

Feline Grace- Jazz/Kitty

Fourth Wall Portal- (Platonic) Danny/OC

Ghost Envy- Jazz/Freakshow

Ghost in the Shell- Danny/Jenny [My Life as a Teenage Robot]

Ghostly Menu- Danny/Lunch Lady

Ghostly Time Machine- Danny/Clockwork/Ghostwriter

Ghostly Touch, Phantom Kiss- (Romantic) Danny/OC

Girl in the Tower, Timeless Love- Dora/Aragon

Go Packers- Dash/Vlad

Going Dragon- Danny/Jake Long [American Dragon: Jake Long]

Goth Princess- Sam/Paulina

Gothic Dragon, Medieval Gothic- Sam/Dora

Gothic Vampire- Sam/Vlad

Gray Ghost- Valerie/Danny

Green Ecto Splat- Danny/Lee Ping [Detentionaire]

Guard Granter- Walker/Desiree

Gun Magazine- Skulker/Ghostwriter

Halfas Just Want to Have Fun - Masters/Plasmius/Fenton/Phantom

Halfworld Royalties- Danny/Raven [Teen Titans]

Halloween Phantom- Fright Knight/Danny

Haunted Past, Enslaved Exemplar- Dan/Danny

Haunting Desire- Danny/Desiree

Heroic Amusement, Great Divide- Super!Danny/Fun!Danny

Hide n' Seek- Sam/Valerie

History Books- Ghostwriter/Clockwork

Hot December- Desiree/Ember

Hourglass Chess, Chaotic Chess- Clockwork/Dan/Freakshow

Hunter Silly- Tucker/Valerie

Hunter's Facade– Paulina/Valerie

Hunter's Flame- Ember/Skulker

Hypno Therapy- Ember/Jazz

Iambic Prose- Danny/Ghostwriter

Insane Asylum- Walker/Spectra

Invisobilly- Danny/Billy Joe Cobra [Dude That’s My Ghost!]

Jail Bait, Ghostly Prisoner- Danny/Walker

Jock Goth- Kwan/Sam

Just the Right Amount of Crazy- Clockwork/Dan/Danny/Vlad

Kith Kin- Sam/Jazz

Lactose Intolerant- Vlad/Dairy King

Lance Lancer- Lance Thunder/Mr. Lancer

Literature Lovers- Danny/Lancer

Locker Buddies- (Platonic) Poindexter/Danny

Lost Time- (Platonic) Danny/Clockwork

Love Sucks- Ghost Weasel/Fenton Thermos

Lucky Accident- Johnny 13/Danny

Mad Scientist- Dark Danny/Kwan

Makeup Honor- Dash/Paulina

Mama’s Boy- (Romantic) Danny/Maddie

Maternal Instincts- (Paternal) Danny/Maddie

Meddling Minutes- Dan/Clockwork

Melancholy Assistance- Spectra/Bertrand

Misery Motivated- Vlad/Spectra

Misery Punk Rock- Kitty/Spectra/Ember

Misplaced Faith, Secret Disaster- Valerie/Vlad

Moronic Genius, Brain Cookies- Maddie/Jack

Mythical Wishes- Desiree/Pandora

New Master - Vlad/Fright Knight

Night Sky, Destroyed Satellite- Dan/Star

Noodle Nerds- (Romantic) Poindexter/Danny

Not So Useful Distraction- Kwan/Vlad

Nu Goth- Elliot(Gregor)/Danny

Ocean Spirit- Danny/Moana [Disney’s Moana]

Oedipus Complex - Maddie/Dan

Oreo Cookie, Phriendship, Pitch Pals- (Platonic) Fenton/Phantom

Overbearing Redheads- Jazz/Wes Weston

Pac Man- Jack/Vlad

Packaged Food- Box Ghost/Lunch Lady

Painful Desires- Spectra/Desiree

Pastel Corpses- Danny/Lars [Steven Universe]

Pandora’s Ghost- Danny/Pandora

Paranormal Facade- Wes/Daniel Masters

Penslammeter- Walker/Ghostwriter

Perfect Pitch, Pitch Perfect- Paulina/Ember

Perfect Clone-  (Romantic) Vlad/Daniel Masters

Perfect Son- (Paternal) Vlad/Daniel Masters

Personalized Gift Baskets- Vlad/Maddie/Danny

Phantastic Four- Danny/Tucker/Sam/Valerie

Phantom Dragon- Dorothea/Danny

Phantom Feline- Kitty/Danny

Phantom Fumble- Danny/Kwan

Phantom PDA- Phantom/Tucker

Phantom Psychology - Danny/Spectra

Platinum Punk- Dani/Ember

Phantom Rocker- Danny/Ember

Phantom Satellite- Danny/Star

Phantom Shadows- Shadow/Danny

Pink Pearl- Danny/His Pink Pants

Pirate Food- Youngblood/Box Lunch

Pitch PDA- Phantom/Fenton/Tucker

Pitch Pearl, Photonegative Narcissus- (Romantic) Fenton/Phantom

Pitched Tent, Publicity Stunt- Danny/Freakshow

Pompous Pearl- Danny Fenton/Danny Phantom/Vlad

Pompous Pep, Endangered Species- (Romantic) Vlad/Danny

Posh Scientist- Maddie/Pamela

Psycho Analysis- Spectra/Jazz

Psycho Cereal, Obsessive Meddler- Vlad/Jazz

Psychotic Sues- Danny/OC

Punk Poet- Ember/Ghostwriter

Punk Rock- Youngblood/Ember

Purple Prose- Ghostwriter/Sam

Pussycat Dolls- Kitty/Ember

Quacker- Tucker/Kwan

Rebel Riders- Danny/Johnny/Valerie

Red Pearl- (Romantic) Fenton/ [Hypnotized/Evil] Phantom

Restrained Romance - Danny/Pamela

Retro Movie Do- Poindexter / Dora

Rich History- Vlad/Clockwork

Robot Techie, XJ-PDA- Tucker/Jenny [My Life as a Teenage Robot]

Rocker's Boys- Dash/Ember/Kwan

Royal Pain- Danny/Aragon

Royal Wishes- Dora/Desiree

Savant Par, CyberSpace- Danny / Tucker

School Spirit- Spectra/Lancer

Science Fiction- Technus/Ghostwriter

Pink Astronaut- Paulina/Danny

Sibling Secrets- Jazz/Danny

Somber Sear- Ember/Sam

Spaghetti and Meatballs, Hypnotic Shadows- Freakshow/Johnny 13

Spider Phantom, Radioactive, Friendly Neighborhood Phantom- Danny/Peter Parker [Spider-man]

Spooky Nerds- Danny/Jimmy [Jimmy Neutron]

Spongeboo- Danny/Spongebob[Spongebob]

Sports Satellite- Kwan/Star

Spurned Affection- Vlad/Maddie

Spy Satellite- Star/Wes Weston

Striking Fear- Masters/Plasmius

Striking Pep - Masters/Plasmius/Danny

Sue Killer- Dani/Danny

Swagger Bishie, Locker Bruise, Teddy Ghost- Danny/Dash

Talkative Treacherous– Technus/Desiree

Teacher's Pet- Lancer/Jazz

Technical Difficulties- Tucker/His PDA

Technical Star Player- Star/Tucker/Kwan

Techno Babble- Jazz/Technus

Techno Geeks, PDA, Technological Advancement- Technus/Tucker

Techno Smarts-Tucker/Jazz

Teenage Dream- Nocturne/Danny

Temporal Trust- (Romantic) Danny/Clockwork

Tricky Pseudonym- Amorpho/Ghostwriter

The D- Danny/Dani/Dan/Daniel Masters

The Freak Behind Blue Eyes, Dark Fire- Ember/Freakshow

The Wrong Sick- Danny/Jack

Tight End- Dash/Kwan

Timely Intelligence- Jazz/Clockwork

Tireless Dedication- Ghostwriter/Vlad

Traps Desired- Desiree/Skulker

Triple Blossom- Danny Fenton/Danny Phantom/Sam

Twinkle Techno- Star/Tucker

Tyrannious Hope- Danny/Pariah Dark

Unidentified Flying Ship- Danny/Wes Weston

Unlucky Author– Johnny/Ghostwriter

Veggie Burger, Ghost's Absence- Tucker/Sam

Vengeful Babes- Valerie/Dani

White Fang- Wulf/Danny

Young Bloodthirst – Dan/Dani

Young Love- Dani/Youngblood

(Again, if you want to add any names or if there are some alternate names I’m missing, submit them to me, or message me directly. I will not be taking names in the tags anymore. Thanks for going to the bottom of this long list! See ya next time, dudes!)

[knoxxukv123-blog]

How To Start A Business With Psychologists

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder seen as disintegration of thought processes in addition to emotional responsiveness. It most often manifests as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking, and it is associated with significant social or occupational dysfunction.

People with schizophrenia are likely to own additional conditions, including major depression and anxiety disorders. A person informed they have schizophrenia may experience hallucinations (hearing voices), delusions and disorganized thinking and speech problem. The latter may cover anything from loss in train of thought, to sentences only loosely connected in meaning, and incoherence generally known as word salad in severe cases. Social withdrawal, sloppiness of dress and hygiene, and loss of motivation and judgment are common in schizophrenia. Impairment in social cognition is associated with schizophrenia as the signs of paranoia on account of which social isolation commonly occurs. There can often be an observable pattern of emotional difficulty, for example lack of responsiveness.

Late adolescence and early adulthood are peak periods for that onset of schizophrenia, and the are critical years inside a young adult's social and vocational development. In 40% in men and 23% of ladies informed they have schizophrenia the situation manifested itself prior to the day of 19. The average life expectancy of men and women while using disorder is 12 to 15 years less than those with out them; the effect of increased physical health problems as well as a higher suicide rate.

Causes of schizophrenia:

Combinations of genetic and environmental factors are likely involved within the growth and development of schizophrenia.

a. Genetic - Estimates of heritability vary because of the difficulty in separating the end results of genetics and also the environment. The greatest risk for developing schizophrenia is a first-degree relative with the disease is 6.5%

b. Environment - Environmental factors associated using the development of schizophrenia range from the living environment, drug use and prenatal stressors. Parenting style seems to own no effect, although individuals with supportive parents learn better than those with critical parents. Other factors that play a crucial role include social isolation and immigration related to social adversity, racial discrimination, family dysfunction, unemployment, and poor housing conditions. Childhood experiences of abuse or trauma are risk factors to get a carried out schizophrenia later.

c. Substance abuse - A amount of drugs have been associated using the development of schizophrenia including cannabis, cocaine and amphetamines.

d. Prenatal - Factors for example hypoxia and infection, or stress and malnutrition inside mother during fetal development, may result in a slight increase inside the risk of schizophrenia later. In the ancient texts of Ayurveda, there are detailed descriptions of mental disorders known as "Unmada", and schizophrenia could be correlated with lots of from the kinds of "Unmada". According towards the classical Ayurvedic texts, defined this disorder as, "the perversion in the mind, intellect, consciousness, knowledge, memory, desire, manners, behavior, and conduct". It is denominated as insanity because it really is madness (mada) with the mind caused by a deviation of the humors".

Ayurvedic classifications of Schizophrenia

a. Wind type of Schizophrenia (vata): an emaciated body; inappropriate lamenting, shouting, laughing, and smiling, too as dancing, singing, playing music, talking, posturing, bursting out; repeatedly and tunelessly imitating the sound of the flute, veena, or another instrument; frothing with the mouth; constantly wandering about; ceaseless talking; using things which are certainly not ornaments as decoration; looking to travel on things which usually are not vehicles; being greedy for food, but spurning it once many experts have obtained; bulging, Bloodshot eyes, and illness after foods ended up digested. May have various wrong imaginations, hallucinations or delusions, like hearing voices. High vata in the mind manifests as fear, alienation, anxiety and possible nervous breakdown. There is insomnia, tremors, palpitations, unrest and rapid shifts of mood. Insanity from the manic depressive type or schizophrenia can be an extreme vata imbalance.

b. Fire Type of Schizophrenia (Pitta): Choler brings about threatening behavior, fury, and charging at those with fists stones, and the like. The patient craves coolness shade, and water. He goes naked, and possesses a yellow color. He sees thing which are certainly not there, for example ire, flames, stars, and lamps. Pitta insanity is a result of indigestion, way over hot, pungent, sour, or burning foods and liquids, excesses Pitta afflict one's heart of the person lacking self-control. Agitation, irritation, anger, and possible violence. The overheated body and mind seek release in venting the build-up tension. Pitta types can be domineering, authoritarian or fanatic. When disturbed they many have paranoid delusions, delusion of grandeur or can become psychotic.

c. Water form of Schizophrenia (Kapha): Phlegm causes the sufferer to lose any desire for food. It causes vomiting, as well as a reduction in motivation, appetite, and conversation. It leads to a lust for girls. It causes the person to enjoy solitude. He dribbles mucus and snot, and is also very frightening. He hates being clean. He sleeps, and contains puffy face. It is stronger at night, and just after eating and enjoying, attachment and not enough motivation lading to depression, sorrow, and clinging.

d. Schizophrenia caused by loss: A person crushed through the unbearable loss of his possessions or of a family member becomes pale, depressed, and swoons frequently. "Oh, oh" he groans. He wails for no reason at all. He loses consciousness. He thinks a great deal in regards to the qualities products he's got lost. His thoughts are Distraught with grief and the man cannot sleep for worrying. He thrashes about.

e. Schizophrenia brought on by poison: Poison makes all the face dark the complexion, strength, and senses are all ruined. Patient is delirious even just in between fits, and has bloodshot eyes.Ayurvedic treatments of Schizophrenia

Ayurvedic medicine is really a holistic system of medicine that treats mental disorders from mild stress to severe condition, including Schizophrenia. Ayurveda employs whole group of yogi and spiritual therapies, including meditation, pranayama, mantra, prayers, visualizations, and rituals. Ayurvedic treatment plan is primarily aimed to balance the biological humors through appropriate physical remedial types of diet, herbs, and exercises. One in the best Ayurvedic control of schizophrenia includes detoxification therapies (Pancha karma Chikitsa). All psychological disorders, including psychotic disorders reflect imbalances of the three biological humors.

Personalized means for Schizophrenia

For mental disorders, including schizophrenia care is similar that neurosis type and Pancha karma treatment methods are recommended as a stronger method.a. Vata type insanity: Nourishing and sedating herbs are essential, Other therapies recommended are oil and ghee therapies, including oil enemas. Oil and ghee if the air pathways are not blocked and laxatives which are given with all the oils and ghee to take out the blocks.

b. Pitta type Insanity: purgation is usually recommended, in spite of strong purgatives, can often be helpful. The more violent type, the more purgation is needed. Oleation and fomentation therapies are recommended, then purgatives, then emetics.

c. Kapha type insanity: is usually recommended spicy brain-stimulating herbs. The therapy is mainly expectorant, in order to phlegm from blocking the channels and obstructing mental functioning.

Other Therapies for Schizophrenia

1. Abhyanga - Medicated oil application from Head to Toe accompanied by medicated water bath

2. Shirodhara - Third eye therapy

3. Shiro-vasti - Filling of medicated oil over head for 30 -45 minutes with bag

4. Intake of ghee to stimulate the mind, intellect, memory and consciousness

5. Application of thick ointments.

6. In addition, other Ayurvedic treatments recommend kinds of nasal medicines combined with mustard and oil. It is also recommended face and head massage with mustard oil and also the inhalation of mustard powder.

Conclusion

The available treatment is aimed at alleviating symptoms in the disease and following natural schizophrenia cures can assist you to to avoid schizophrenia signs and symtoms . Still, most people must live while using symptoms all their life. However, aside from the patients, it is important that their families the stand by position them because they require support and patience.

[alexiswgni667-blog]

Fascinating Psychologists Tactics That Can Help Your Business Grow

Schizophrenia is often a mental disorder seen as disintegration of thought processes as well as emotional responsiveness. It most often manifests as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking, which is associated with significant social or occupational dysfunction.

People with schizophrenia are likely to own additional conditions, including major depression and panic attacks. A person clinically determined to have schizophrenia may go through hallucinations (hearing voices), delusions and disorganized thinking and speech problem. The latter may range from lack of train of thought, to sentences only loosely connected in meaning, also to incoherence generally known as word salad in severe cases. Social withdrawal, sloppiness of dress and hygiene, and lack of motivation and judgment are common in schizophrenia. Impairment in social cognition is owned by schizophrenia as signs and symptoms of paranoia because of which social isolation commonly occurs. There is often an observable pattern of emotional difficulty, for instance not enough responsiveness.

Late adolescence and early adulthood are peak periods for the start of schizophrenia, and the are critical years in a young adult's social and vocational development. In 40% in men and 23% of women identified as having schizophrenia the situation manifested itself ahead of the day of 19. The average life expectancy of individuals while using disorder is 12 to 15 years lower than those without them; the effect of increased physical health problems and a higher suicide rate.

Causes of schizophrenia:

Combinations of genetic and environmental factors play a role inside the continuing development of schizophrenia.

a. Genetic - Estimates of heritability vary because in the difficulty in separating the results of genetics and the environment. The greatest risk for developing schizophrenia is having a first-degree relative while using disease is 6.5%

b. Environment - Environmental factors associated while using continuing development of schizophrenia are the living environment, drug use and prenatal stressors. Parenting style seems to possess no effect, although those with supportive parents fare better than those with critical parents. Other factors that play a crucial role include social isolation and immigration related to social adversity, racial discrimination, family dysfunction, unemployment, and poor housing conditions. Childhood experiences of abuse or trauma are risk factors for the carried out schizophrenia later.

c. Substance abuse - A amount of drugs are actually associated with all the growth and development of schizophrenia including cannabis, cocaine and amphetamines.

d. Prenatal - Factors like hypoxia and infection, or stress and malnutrition in the mother during fetal development, may result in a slight increase in the risk of schizophrenia later in life. In the ancient texts of Ayurveda, you'll find detailed descriptions of mental disorders called "Unmada", and schizophrenia can be correlated with many different with the forms of "Unmada". According towards the classical Ayurvedic texts, defined this disorder as, "the perversion in the mind, intellect, consciousness, knowledge, memory, desire, manners, behavior, and conduct". It is denominated as insanity because it can be madness (mada) from the mind caused by way of a deviation of the humors".

Ayurvedic classifications of Schizophrenia

a. Wind sort of Schizophrenia (vata): an emaciated body; inappropriate lamenting, shouting, laughing, and smiling, too as dancing, singing, playing music, talking, posturing, bursting out; repeatedly and tunelessly imitating the sound of an flute, veena, or other instrument; frothing with the mouth; constantly wandering about; ceaseless talking; using things which usually are not ornaments as decoration; trying to travel on things which aren't vehicles; being greedy for food, but spurning it once many experts have obtained; bulging, Bloodshot eyes, and illness after foods was digested. May have various wrong imaginations, hallucinations or delusions, like hearing voices. High vata within the mind manifests as fear, alienation, anxiety and possible nervous breakdown. There is insomnia, tremors, palpitations, unrest and rapid shifts of mood. Insanity from the manic depressive type or schizophrenia is an extreme vata imbalance.

b. Fire Type of Schizophrenia (Pitta): Choler gives rise to threatening behavior, fury, and charging at people with fists stones, and also the like. The patient craves coolness shade, and water. He goes naked, and possesses a yellow color. He sees thing which are not there, such as ire, flames, stars, and lamps. Pitta insanity results from indigestion, overabundance hot, pungent, sour, or burning foods and liquids, excesses Pitta afflict the heart from the person lacking self-control. Agitation, irritation, anger, and possible violence. The overheated mind and body seek release in venting the build-up tension. Pitta types can be domineering, authoritarian or fanatic. When disturbed they many have paranoid delusions, delusion of grandeur or can become psychotic.

c. Water form of Schizophrenia (Kapha): Phlegm causes the sufferer to get rid of any desire for food. It causes vomiting, and a lowering of motivation, appetite, and conversation. It causes a lust for females. It causes the patient to enjoy solitude. He dribbles mucus and snot, and is also very frightening. He hates being clean. He sleeps, and possesses puffy face. It is stronger at night, and simply after eating, attachment and deficiency of motivation lading to depression, sorrow, and clinging.

d. Schizophrenia a result of loss: A person crushed from the unbearable loss in his possessions or of your cherished one becomes pale, depressed, and swoons frequently. "Oh, oh" he groans. He wails for silly. He loses consciousness. He thinks a great deal about the qualities of what he's got lost. His mind is Distraught with grief and that he cannot sleep for worrying. He thrashes about.

e. Schizophrenia brought on by poison: Poison helps to make the face dark the complexion, strength, and senses are common ruined. Patient is delirious even just in between fits, and contains bloodshot eyes.Ayurvedic treatment procedures of Schizophrenia

Ayurvedic medicine is often a holistic system of drugs that treats mental disorders from mild stress to severe condition, including Schizophrenia. Ayurveda employs whole compilation of yogi and spiritual therapies, including meditation, pranayama, mantra, prayers, visualizations, and rituals. Ayurvedic procedure is primarily aimed to balance the biological humors through appropriate physical remedial strategies to diet, herbs, and exercises. One in the best Ayurvedic treatments for schizophrenia includes detoxification therapies (Pancha karma Chikitsa). All psychological disorders, including psychotic disorders reflect imbalances from the three biological humors.

Personalized way of Schizophrenia

For mental disorders, including schizophrenia care is similar that neurosis type and Pancha karma therapy is recommended as a stronger method.a. Vata type insanity: Nourishing and sedating herbs are expected, Other therapies recommended are oil and ghee therapies, including oil enemas. Oil and ghee in the event the air passages are certainly not blocked and laxatives which are given with all the oils and ghee to take out the blocks.

b. Pitta type Insanity: purgation is suggested, despite having strong purgatives, is often helpful. The more violent type, the more purgation is needed. Oleation and fomentation therapies are recommended, then purgatives, as well as emetics.

c. Kapha type insanity: is usually recommended spicy brain-stimulating herbs. The treatment methods are mainly expectorant, to phlegm from blocking the channels and obstructing mental functioning.

Other Therapies for Schizophrenia

1. Abhyanga - Medicated oil application from Head to Toe then medicated water bath

2. Shirodhara - Third eye therapy

3. Shiro-vasti - Filling of medicated oil over head for 30 -45 minutes with bag

4. Intake of ghee to stimulate your brain, intellect, memory and consciousness

5. Application of thick ointments.

6. In addition, other Ayurvedic treatments recommend different types of nasal medicines combined with mustard and oil. It is also recommended face and head massage with mustard oil and the inhalation of mustard powder.

Conclusion

The available treatment aims at alleviating symptoms with the disease and following natural schizophrenia cures can enable you to to avoid schizophrenia signs and symtoms . Still, most people ought to live while using symptoms each of their life. However, besides the patients, it is important that their own families the stand by position them because they require support and patience.