#looking for signs in the snow

[greywoe]

"The she-wolf laid into the squires with a tourney sword, scattering them all. The crannogman was bruised and bloodied, so she took him back to her lair to clean his cuts and bind them up with linen."

[comickergirl]

Every year I like to do an illustrated ''List of Comics I Enjoyed'; I missed last year due to work deadlines and this year I likewise had a bit too much IRL stuff to take care of to make a full list. So! Here is but a small selection representing my goal to read more Shoujo and Josei! I liked some of these more than others, but overall, had a good time with 'em. :)

[dilutedconfusion]

I did a thing…again.

Just realized that ya’ll need to click for better quality for some reason this post looks especially bad 🤚

[and-corn]

I am following you because of your recent dragon comic, and I want you to know that saw it and was like “oh shit I should probably go outside”

I did and immediately infinitely felt better, thank you for helping to drag me out of my cave

hell yeah!!

go get that fresh air my funky dragon friend!

[seafoampuddings]

Signs Of The Past

A @carry-on-big-bang collab with @palimpsessed

Find the art here

Rating: Teen and up Word count: 11k Tags: Alternate Universe - Historical, late 1890s England, not historically accurate, cursed!baz, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, Slow Burn, haunted house vibes, Insomnia, mentions/discussions of death

Simon lifted his shaking hand, pointing the switchblade at the man slowly backing away. “That man—He—The cabinet—” Simon stumbled over his words, unable to get a coherent sentence out. Ebb’s gaze followed the pointed tip of the blade, but as she turned back to him, her brows only creased with worry as she slightly shook her head. “Simon, calm. There’s no one there,” she said, her voice meek as lowered his hand. “What, no—He—” As Simon’s gaze snapped back to where the man had just stood, all he had been met with was an empty kitchen.

Simon is a down on his luck twenty year old, struggling to survive on the streets after he was thrown out of the orphanage with no higher education or a job to fall back on. So, when he stumbles onto an ad, promising a handyman job at the Pitch Manor, one that offers him not only money but also a place to stay, Simon takes it without a second thought. But as he begins his work for David Cadwallader, the owner of the estate, things quickly begin going sideways; the house is never quiet, groaning at night as if it is alive, lamps lighting up with no one around, and most unsettling of all, a ghostly figure that seems intent on scaring Simon into an early grave.

A massive massive thank you goes out to Pal, who created incredible art for the first chapter, as well as the cobb mods for putting this entire even together. Putting this together has been a pleasure :)

[elegyofthemoon]

wait actually this one post makes a good point i wish there was actually tags to separate between hsr and hi3 bronseele and on that note actually any of the overlapping characters alskdjfha but the search engine sucks ass on this website so you'll always have overlap either way i think :I

[abirddogmoment]

bitches love an empty trailhead parking lot and other shots from our lunchtime 12km walk

[dirt-str1der]

What ive learned about the yakuza community is that you guys are way too hung up over that scene in y4 where he pinned haruka to the ground then started panting really heavily , that didnt happen for me , that scene wasnt real to me i forgot about it.

[hauntingblue]

Why only kiku against kanjuro??? They should gang up against him I don't believe in fair fights

[has-brain-rot]

Another secret spamton/mike mystery page?

This is a bit of an walk-through on how to get to it, some things that might be important, and some thoughts, but I haven’t seen anyone mention this yet either so here we go!

SO if you go onto the TV page (https://deltarune.com/d_a_m_n_y_o_u_t_e_n_n_a/) and click on the TV it’ll bring up all the static. The webpage title is “DELETE THIS!“

Next (I’m using firefox so it might be different on chrome) you need to inspect the page. Inspecting it will give you the option to remove the static image from the background. Then do ctrl+A to select everything. Doing that results in this:

Then scroll down to the bottom of the page (it’s a long page). It will give you two options. The webpage title is now “YOU’RE EARLY!”.

By pressing one of these it’ll take you to more hidden pages. The bottom one takes you to here, ramb/the Green Room. (other people have found this already. From what I could tell there was nothing new here).

The top one takes you to here (same link as the TV, so I can’t link you to it). The webpage title is now “AREN’T YOU FORGETTING SOMETHING?

Interestingly, the class titles for these various screen options are “Tenna” (at the very start with the TV), “Snow” (with the static. Another interesting note is that Snow can refer to both the weather and the visual or audio static tvs get!  There’s also a vision condition called snow vision, or static vision.), and “Ocean”.

The “Ocean” page has a background image to it called “ice.png” and also has a different background static noise than the other pages! The audio is set really low so you need to turn it up to listen. (Link here: https://deltarune.com/assets/audio/ocean.mp3)

NEXT (bear with me here I know it’s long) if you click the black rectangle (code refers to it as “Entrance”) it brings you to Noelle’s page: https://deltarune.com/icepalace_glaceir/

I checked the page out and there wasn’t any additional hidden links other than https://deltarune.com/code/ (which other people have covered)

The last thing I’ll mention is that Noelle brings up “eating too much fruitcake“ here and here, perhaps that’s important in some way?

(feel free to share around! or don’t, I’m not your [parental figure])

[firingbeams]

you seem very cool and all around pleasant to be around tbh

it's all thanks to viewers like you 🫰

this being anon makes me feel some ways

mostly curiosity about why you felt like you had to be anon to send it

love u......... take care..................

[narutomaki]

where did the concept of the snow leopards being Tobiramas summons come from?

any way makes them Choose Sakura and comes up with an au for all of it

[sanguinaryrot]

I’m so excited. I know how to have one (1) extremely specific interaction in Irish now. someone ask me how I’m doing and what the weather is like quick /j

[othercrossee]

WHAT DID RHEY DO TO HIS SWAG!!!!!!!!!!!

[novelconcepts]

the fact that amazon cancelled both the wilds & paper girls despite their popularity, acclaim, diverse cast, and sapphic characters makes me worried for a league of their own

I dunno. The assumptions for Paper Girls are that Amazon didn’t want to foot a bigger S2 budget (I call bullshit, they fully could have afforded that, but whatever) and the claim that PG never broke the top ten Nielsen Ratings in its first few weeks (I dunno anything about that, but it WAS in the top ten Prime shows for the first month, so). If ALOTO doesn’t need a crazy budget, it might be safe; I know it’s been getting a decent amount of attention. Fingers crossed for y’all.

[figtreeandvine]

I want to write a movie that is sort of the flip side of a Hallmark holiday movie. Not an anti-Hallmark movie, just like the other side of the same coin.

It starts with a well-dressed professional woman driving a convertible along a country road, autumn foliage in the background, terribly scenic. She turns onto a dirt road/long driveway, and stops next to a field of Christmas trees, all growing in neat, ordered rows, perfectly trimmed and pruned to form. She steps out of the car--no, she's not wearing high-heels, give her some sense!--and knocks on the door of a worn but nice-looking farmhouse. An older woman, late fifties maybe, answers the door, looking a bit puzzled. The younger woman asks if she can buy a Christmas tree now, today. The older woman says they don't do retail sales--and the younger woman breaks down crying.

Cut to the two women sitting at the kitchen table with cups of tea. The young woman (Michelle), no longer actively crying, explains that her mother loves Christmas more than anything, but is in the hospital with end-stage cancer. Her doctors don't think she'll live to see December, let alone Christmas. Nobody is selling Christmas trees in September, so could the older woman please make an exception, just this once? The older woman (Helen) regretfully explains that they have a contract to sell their trees that forbids outside sales. The younger woman nods, starts to stand up, but the older woman stops her with a hand and asks her what hospital her mother is in. After she answers the older woman says that "my Joe" will deliver a tree the next day. "Contract says I can't sell you a tree, but nothing says I can't give you one."

Next day "Joe" shows up at the hospital in flannel and jeans, with a smallish tree over her shoulder. Oh, whoops, that's Jo, Helen's daughter, short for Joanna, not Joe. Jo sets up the tree and even pulls out a box of lights and ornaments. Mother watches from hospital bed with a big smile as Jo and Michelle decorate the tree. Cue "end of movie" type sappiness as nurses and other patients gather in the doorway, smiling at the tree.

Cut to Michelle sitting in her dark apartment, clutching a mug of tea, staring out at the falling snow and the Christmas lights outside. Her apartment has no tree, no decorations, nothing. She starts at a knock on the door, goes to open it. Jo is standing there, again holding a tree over her shoulder.

Plot develops: the second tree is a gift, because Michelle might as well get it as the bank. The contract for the tree sales was an /option/ contract, which prevents them from selling to anyone else, but doesn't guarantee the sale. The corporation with the option isn't going to buy the trees, but Helen and Jo can't sell them anywhere else, and basically they get nothing. They'll lose the farm without the year's income. Michelle asks to see the contract and Jo promises to email it to her.

Next day at a very upscale law firm, Michelle asks at the end of a staff meeting if anyone in contract law still needs pro bono hours for the year. No one does, but a senior partner (Abe) takes her to his office and asks about it. She says the contract looks hinky to her ("Is that a legal term?" "Yes.") but contract law's not her thing. He raises an eyebrow and she grins and pulls a sheaf of paper out of her bag and hands it over. He reads it over, then looks up at her. "They signed this?"

More plot develops. Abe calls in underlings--interns, paralegals, whatever--and the contract is examined, dissected, and ultimately shredded (metaphorically). It's worse even than it looks--on January 1st Helen and Jo will have to repay the advanced they received at signing. The corporation has bought up a suspicious number of Christmas tree farms in previous years after foreclosure, etc.

Cut to Abe explaining all this to Helen and Jo while sitting with them and Michelle in a very swanky conference room. The firm is willing to take on the case pro bono, hopefully as a class's action suit for other farmers trapped by the contract--but there's no way it can go to court before January. Which will be too late to save the farm's income for the year. They might get enough in damages to tide them over, but….

After Michelle sees Helen and Jo out, she comes back and asks Abe if there's anything they can do immediately. Abe looks thoughtful for a long moment, then gets a really shark-like grin on his face. "Maybe…."

Cut to Helen wearing a bathrobe, coming into her kitchen in the morning. She looks out the window…and there's a food truck stopped in her driveway. She pulls a coat on over her robe and goes out--two more trucks have pulled up while she does this. Driver of the first truck asks her where they park. Another truck pulls up behind the others. Behind that is a black BMW--Abe rolls down the window and waves. Helen directs the trucks to the empty field/yard next to the house. Abe pulls up next to Helen's car and Jo's truck and parks. He and Michelle get out--Abe wearing a total power suit, Michelle in weekend casual.

The case will be easier if the corporation initially sues them for violating the (uninforcible!) contract, rather than them suing to corporation (damn if I know, but it's movie logic). So they're going to sell the trees now, and rounded up some food trucks and whatnot to draw people in.

Cue montage of Jo and Michelle running around helping people set up while Abe and Helen watch from the kitchen table. The table starts out covered in file folders…and slowly gains coffee cups and plates of cinnamon rolls. It becomes increasingly clear here that Abe and Helen are becoming as close as Jo and Michelle.

Everything gets set up and a very urban, very motley crowd appears--tats and studs and multiracial couples and LGBTQ parents and everything--and everyone is having a wonderful time eating funnel cake and choosing their tree so Jo and a bunch of rainbow-haired elves can cut it for them. At which point someone shows up from the corporation (maybe with a sheriff's deputy?) and starts yelling at Helen, who's running checkout. And suddenly Abe appears from the house and you realize why he's wearing that suit on a Saturday….

Cue confrontation and corporate flunky running off with their tail between their legs, blustering about suing. Cue Jo kissing Michelle. Cue Helen walking over and putting a hand on Abe's shoulder and smiling at her.

I want the lawyers to be the heroes because they are lawyers and know the law. I want a lesbian who lives in the country with her mother. I want urbanites to turn out as a community to help someone who isn't even part of their community. I want Michelle to keep working at her high-power job, loving Christmas and grieving her mother.