#luna x mercury

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woah!!!!!!

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Look at how she reacts in this scene…Ami your gay is showing….

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Episode 8: The Girl Genius is a Monster: The Brainwashing Cram School of Horrors

“Failure after failure,” she said coldly to the general kneeling before her. 

“Your Majesty-”

Queen Beryl of the Dark Kingdom didn’t allow him to answer. She wasn’t in the mood to hear any more of his excuses today. Instead, she allowed her power to flow through her into her dark staff, creating a streak of black lightning that sent him flying across the room. A loud thud was heard, but Queen Beryl didn’t care if he was injured or dead. He was a fool who embarrassed her several times with his pathetic schemes. She probably should’ve just gotten rid of him already. He was easily replaceable, but then who would she take her frustrations out on?

A loud cough resounded, followed by his struggling to speak, “Please...Your...”

She quickly silenced that with another black bolt. It caused him to scream and pain before he fell to the floor. Queen Beryl could barely stifle her laughter. Serves him right after all. “Do you believe I should be lenient with you, Jadeite?”

“Y-your…” he began to speak again only to be struck again when he couldn’t. 

“I asked you a question, Jadeite. Our Great Queen needs human energy. Energy you swore to deliver and yet every time you bring back merely a fraction of the promised energy and every time your youmas are defeated by a mere girl so why should I let you continue to live? Why shouldn’t I just reduce you to dust or take your energy as a gift to Our Great Queen?”

“B-because,” he began as sparks and bits of electricity appeared around his singed body, “despite Sailor Moon, I have brought back energy. It might not be enough but I swear it will soon be corrected.”

“Sailor Moon,” Queen Beryl growled, hatred and disgust obvious in her voice. 

“Yes. Sailor Moon,” Jadeite continued. “It’s her fault! My plans always went perfectly when she wasn’t there, and it was only when she was that it went wrong. I don’t know how she finds out but please, Your Majesty, give me another chance, and I won’t fail. Sailor Moon will never know this time!”

“You said that the last time and the time before that, and she still discovered and defeated your plots,” Queen Beryl said, amused by how pathetic and desperate he was to keep his worthless life.

“That is true, but I’ve discovered something about the humans if Your Grace wishes to hear it,” Jadeite blubbered. 

Well, she could use a good laugh. “Proceed,” she said.

“From my research on humankind, especially those in the country we’re targeting, the guardians of younger humans emphasize their academic abilities, and we can exploit this. I even scouted out a potential base while Derella was trying to gather energy for our Great Queen. Please, Your Majesty! Allow me another chance, or you can siphon some of my energy for our Great Queen.”

Queen Beryl stroked her chin. Hm…Jadeite made a good argument for once. And if he fails, well, then Queen Beryl can just take his energy. “Alright then, but remember, I will ensure our Great Queen gets her energy one way or another.”

“Yes, Your Majesty,” Jadeite said as he kneeled before leaving the great throne room. 

Queen Beryl smirked as she watched him exit. Jadeite was such a fool.

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“You are not to leave this room for any other reason than school until I see above 60%!” Usagi’s mom cried as she held up a history test with a huge, ugly 41% scrawled across the top of the page in bright red ink. 

“But mom-!” Usagi whined loudly as she sat in the middle of her bedroom floor, bawling huge tears.

“But nothing!” her mom continued. “First, you bring home a 30%, and then we find you sneaking out to go who knows where and joining a contest that nearly got Naru seriously hurt instead of studying and making sure to keep your grades up! So until I start seeing real improvement, you are not allowed to go to the Crown or hang out with your friends,” her mom took a deep breath. 

“But mom-!” Usagi continued crying. “I’m trying!”

“Have you even cracked open a book once today?” her mom asked in her mom's stance, folded arms and all. Usagi’s blush turned deep as she had opened a book at all today but instead had fallen asleep in class, which infuriated Sakurada-sensei and sent her to stand outside her classroom. Then she went to the Crown after school with Naru and Umino. “Exactly,” her mom continued before taking a deep breath. “I’ll bring you up for dinner, but you must take care of your homework and classwork. Your father and I don’t want you falling behind.” With that, Ikuko quietly closed the door, leaving the sad Usagi to haul herself over to her stupid desk to study for stupid school, leaving a trail of tears.

However, just as she was about to open her history textbook, the paw of a certain black feline stopped her. “Usagi, we have to focus on the task at hand,” Luna said disapprovingly.

“I was just about to until you stopped me,” Usagi said, annoyed. 

“I’m not talking about your schoolwork. I’m talking about the princess and her crystal and guardians,” Luna continued. “It feels like you haven’t even attempted to search for them at all, and our enemies are growing stronger each day.”

“No offense, Luna, but they can’t be that strong since I’ve defeated every one of their goons before they could cause any real harm,” Usagi asked as she tried to pull her huge textbook away from Luna who just threw it onto the ground with impressive strength. “Hey!”

However, Luna didn’t listen to her cries of indignation. “Usagi, just because you defeated some of their youmas doesn’t mean you can take them all on, and you didn’t defeat that Dark General when you were face-to-face with him. We also don’t know how much energy they’ve collected or how close they are to finding the Moon Princess. It was honestly through sheer luck we happened onto their schemes so far, but that might not continue if we leave it up to chance.”

Usagi sighed before saying, “I get what you’re saying, Luna, but I can’t do anything if Mama decides to keep me grounded. Besides, I probably would’ve had more time to study and find all these people if I didn’t have to moondust youmas every other night.” That might of been a small lie on Usagi’s part since she had never been good at studying even before she was Sailor Moon, but she definitely hasn’t gotten better now that she was. That and her oversleeping habits, but could you blame her? Being a superhero was so hard in reality! And she isn’t mainly alone. Usagi glanced over to the beautiful red rose still sitting in its vase on her desk, and a blush came to her pale cheeks. Well, not completely alone. “Hey, Luna. Do you think Tuxedo Mask was one of these guardians?”

Luna gave a small look of annoyance before saying, “He couldn’t be. The princess’s guardians were all females.” 

“How do you know that?” Usagi asked. 

“I just know,” Luna said, sounding only half-sure. That didn’t seem very convincing to Usagi. “Besides, I already told you that trusting him could be bad.”

“But he saved me,” Usagi countered.

“He could be just trying to use you as a means to an end. For all we know, he’s allied to our enemy and they stage these entire rescues together,” Luna continued, distrust and anger obvious in her voice. However, this only made Usagi mad. 

“I don’t believe that. Tuxedo Mask has come to my rescue so many times; each time, it gave me the strength to fight on! Heck, he bandaged my ankle when he could’ve just left me there,” Usagi angrily said.

“We still don’t know his intentions, though; getting too close to him could be disastrous in the long run,” Luna continued. 

“Who really are these enemies we’re fighting anyway? I know they said they belong to the Dark Kingdom and that general and keep mentioning something about a ‘Great Queen,’ but I’m not sure what any of that means,” Usagi asked. Everything lately has just been so darn confusing.

“All I know is that allowing them to stay on this planet will mean disaster for this world and everyone who lives on it, including your friends and family,” Luna said.

“Well, do you know what the princess or the guardians look like since you haven’t exactly given me much to go on?” Usagi asked again. 

“I’ll know, so don’t worry,” Luna continued.

Usagi gave a questioning look before thinking back to when she and Luna first met. Luna did recognize her as Sailor Moon after Usagi took that stupid bandage off her forehead, so maybe it won’t be that much different with the other guardians? “Fine. But I need to study tonight,” Usagi said as she bent down to grab her textbook and ripped it open to chapter four. It may be hard, long, difficult, and unyielding for Usagi, but she will accomplish this task! For her friends! For the Crown! For her precious video games! Oh…and for the princess and the guardians. Those too.

“Well, alright. Continue with your st-” Luna didn’t even get to finish her sentence when she heard a loud thud at Usagi’s desk. Worried, Luna spun around and saw…Usagi, fast asleep, drooling all over her textbook.

Luna sighed in defeat.

They were never going to find those guardians at this rate.

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Usagi loudly yawned as she was about to enter her class. She had gotten basically no sleep last night since she had to spend it studying to get a good grade in the class. Unfortunately, all that studying seemed to do was make her tired and give her a headache. This had to be proof that studying was secretly evil and just some cruel way of torturing beautiful and innocent children. 

“Usagi!” Luna whispered from inside her school bag. Oh yeah, and then there’s that. Luna insisted that she come along today in case of youmas trying to drain energy from people. However, “Can you stop walking so fast? I’m about to be seasick in here,” carrying cats in schoolbags proved more difficult than they first thought. 

“Sh…Luna someone will hear you and I’m not supposed to be bringing my cat to school,” Usagi whispered back, bringing her bag to her mouth as not to be seen. “And it’s not like you had to ride in my bag.”

“Well, this was the only way to sneak me into your class and keep an eye out for youmas,” Luna continued. 

“Why couldn’t you have just followed me or something?” Usagi asked. 

“More risk of getting caught and thrown out,” Luna said without a care.

“And this isn’t? At least with the following thing, I won’t get in trouble,” Usagi angrily demanded. When did she become the voice of reason? She didn’t like it.

“Usagi-chan?” a familiar female voice asked. Usagi and Luna nearly had a heart attack at hearing the voice and Usagi quickly shoved her bag behind her back so there was no way that Naru could she was talking to the cat in her bag. “Why were you just talking to your bag?” Naru asked. No! She knew! 

“Uh…I…um…An ant?” Usagi said before giving the worst fake smile known to mankind. She could just hear Luna smacking her forehead in disbelief.

“Ok?” Naru said. She was clearly not convinced but not really caring since she said, “You’ve gotta see this!” as she grabbed Usagi by the hand and roughly dragged her inside the classroom, causing Usagi (and Luna) to yelp. The first thing the blonde teenager realized about the class was the commotion they were making and how they were all crowding the wall behind Sakurada-sensei’s desk and talking about something though Usagi couldn’t quite make out what the others were saying. This was also when Usagi realized this is where Naru was dragging her to. They managed to push and shove the other students out of the way until they were at the front, where Usagi saw Umino frothing in anger with his face all red and Usagi could’ve sworn she saw steam coming from his ears. What was his problem?

“What’s going on?” Usagi asked Naru.

“Some evil, heinous witch took my place at the top of the class!” Umino growled with anger and hatred.

“Wh-what?” Usagi said out loud, very confused.

“The mock exams came out today, and this girl got the highest score in the whole school,” Usagi’s black-haired classmate Yumiko said, pointing to the name at the very top of the list, which read Mizuno Ami. Mizuno Ami? “Who’s Mizuno Ami?” Usagi asked out loud. She’d never met a girl with that name before. Then again, she could just be new. 

“She’s just some smart snob who happens to be loaded,” Yumiko said with a shrug. 

“And she managed to score higher than me,” Umino continued to whine from the background, now in tears. “This girl has to have an IQ of 300 or something!” 

“Not surprising. I was in the same class as her last year, and all she did was study and look down her nose at everyone else,” Yumiko continued. 

“How do you know that’s all she did?” Usagi asked with her head tilted. For some reason, Usagi didn’t like hearing Yumiko talk about this Mizuno girl like that. 

“Well, I never saw her with anyone, so I don’t think she had any friends,” Yumiko answered. 

“Mizuno Ami?” Another voice piped up this time. This time, it was Kuri, another classmate with short brown hair and brown eyes. “Wait, isn’t she that girl who goes to that crazy famous cram school or something.”

“Yup. I bet her mom just bought her way in since she’s a doctor,” Yumiko responded. 

“I didn’t know we had someone like that in our class,” Usagi said. 

“She probably went on some super fancy vacation or something. Probably assuming that the rest of us peasants have to go to school while she can just breeze right on through,” Yumiko said with a bit of bitterness. Why did Yumiko know so much about Mizuno Ami anyway?

“Wow. It must be great to be so smart and rich,” Naru said with stars in her eyes as she stared at the name on the paper, Mizuno Ami. 

“You know the teacher will be here soon, and I don’t think she’d want you all out of your seats.” The new voice shocked the crowd and Usagi away from the paper as every one of the students whipped around to see a girl that Usagi had never seen before. She was a pale girl about their age wearing the typical sailor uniform that every girl at Juban Middle School was assigned. However, the blue in the uniform perfectly matched the navy blue of her short hair and the azure blue of her eyes. Blue was definitely her color. However, Usagi felt a ping of familiarity in her chest as she stared at the girl. That was weird. She didn’t even know this girl…Right? 

Usagi couldn’t dwell on this much as the girl turned away from the group and took her seat at a desk in the front row and started to remove her books and supplies from her bag elegantly. Usagi never realized you could do that elegantly. Usually, she just dumps everything out onto her desk and searches through the mess.

“See, I told you she was a snob,” she heard Yumiko whisper to Kuri, who agreed. That was Mizuno Ami? Usagi looked back at the girl who was now quietly reading some really hard-looking book with a lot of pages and gave a questioning look. She didn’t seem like a snob, at least to Usagi. A little bit of a stickler for the rules but not snobby. She honestly seemed more sad than anything if her face had anything to say. 

“Good morning, class,” Usagi heard Sakurada’s voice from the doorway. “If you’d all be so kind as to take your seats so we can begin today’s lesson.” The class all did as she asked without much complaint. However, Usagi noticed that everyone focused on Mizuno Ami instead of today’s lesson. 

Including someone she didn’t expect. 

“Keep an eye on that girl.” It was Luna who said that. 

Usagi was just about to harshly shush Luna for trying to get her in trouble when the reality of what she said finally struck her. “Why?”

“I just sense something strange around her, and with our enemies attacking the city, it would be in our best interest to be on guard,” Luna whispered back.

Usagi looked back up at the girl, Mizuno Ami, quietly writing in her notebook. “Are you really sure, Luna? She doesn’t seem that bad,” Usagi replied.

“How many times have you fallen into the Youma’s traps?” Luna asked back with a raised eyebrow and an annoyed look.

Usagi gave a very embarrassed blush and a huge grimace on her face before she peeked back at Mizuno-chan. “All I’m saying is that-”

“Tsukino Usagi!” Uh oh! “Since you’d rather be talking to your bag, I can only assume you already know the answer to this question,” Sakurada-sensei said before pointing to a super hard math question with a fraction and parentheses and letters (seriously what are letters doing in math anyway!?)

“Uh…” Usagi said, trying to make sense of the evil problem in front of her.

“The answer, ma’am, is -18,” the voice of Mizuno Ami softly said. 

“And how did you reach that answer, Mizuno-san?” Sakurada-sensei said, turning her attention towards Mizuno Ami, now staring down at her hands. 

“It’s not that hard. Once you divide the distribution and multiply it by a fraction, x has to be -18 logically,” Mizuno Ami whispered.

“That’s correct,” Sakurada-sensei replied with an impressed smile. “Well done, Mizuno-san.” 

Mizuno Ami quietly nodded before going back to her notebook. However, Usagi just stared in wonderment. She didn’t see Mizuno Ami pick up a pen or anything so did she just solve that problem in her head? How was that possible?! Was she a cyborg or something? That was the only thing Usagi could think of for someone to be able to do the math so quickly. Stranger than that was the fact that Mizuno-chan helped Usagi. Why, though? Usagi could tell she wasn’t a snob but she also seemed very quiet and shy so why help Usagi? 

Usagi stared at the back of the blue-haired girl’s head. 

Maybe Luna was right about keeping an eye on her.

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“I’m never going to be able to leave my room,” Usagi says to Luna, staring with anger, hatred, and sadness at the evil piece of paper in her hand. The school day had just ended, and somehow, by some miracle, Luna wasn’t discovered. Sure, there were a few close calls, like at lunch when Luna meowed for Usagi to go spy on Mizuno-chan, which nearly alerted Naru to her existence so Usagi had to rush to the bathroom to silence her or during class when Haruna-sensei was staring her down for her homework and was just about to grab her bag but thankfully Usagi just blurted out that her cat ate it. This got a lot of confused looks, but it worked, though her teacher looked thoroughly done with her and her excuses. That made Usagi sad, by the way. However, she was not as sad as she was now. “How am I ever going to show this to my mom?” Usagi asked herself as she imagined her mother with sharp teeth and looking very angry and evil as she loudly yelled about how Usagi could’ve done this badly on all her subjects.

“There are more important things to worry about, Usagi,” Luna said as she poked her head out of Usagi’s bag. “Like-” Luna stops before jumping out of Usagi’s bag and running away onto the school’s wall.

“Luna!” Usagi calls out as she quickly chases after the cat, only to see her land on top of Mizuno-chan’s shoulders. It looked like she had been reading a textbook when Luna landed on her because there was a book on the ground, and she looked super surprised by the cat. Then again, people don’t usually expect to see cats while leaving school. 

“I am so sorry!” Usagi cried out quickly and genuinely, meaning it. It’s one thing to spy on someone, it’s another to jump on them while they’re walking. “My cat can be a little…um…friendly?” Usagi hoped she bought it.

“I-It’s okay. Though I don’t think you’re supposed to be bringing pets to school,” Mizuno-chan said as she gently grabbed Luna off her shoulders and handed her to Usagi with a gentle pet to her head. 

“Please don’t tell! I’m already grounded and probably dead because of my report card, and if my mom finds out about Luna coming to school, I’ll be double dead!” Usagi frantically said while crying a bit, which scared Mizuno-chan or at least startled her if her face was any indication.

“I-It’s okay. I won’t tell,” Mizuno-chan said. “Honestly, when she fell like that, I thought she was an angel.”

An angel of hell, maybe. “Oh…Well, I am super, duper sorry for her,” Usagi said while bowing repeatedly. 

“It’s alright,” Mizuno-chan said again. “My name’s Mizuno Ami.”

“I know! I saw your name on the board in class. You’ve gotta be like a genius or something!” Usagi said with genuine kindness, though it only embarrassed Mizuno-chan. Did Usagi say something wrong?

“I wouldn’t say that. I just study a lot, so I know many things,” Mizuno-chan said in a small, awkward voice. Aw, she’s cute!

“Well, maybe you could teach me some of those things,” Usagi said as she looked back at her evil, Usagi-hating report card before showing the paper to Mizuno-chan. “I kind of suck at school.”

Mizuno-chan looked in shock at some of the things Usagi failed in. “How did you fail at Japanese History?”

“I’m kind of asleep during it,” Usagi said as she awkwardly scratched her neck. 

“Well, that certainly doesn’t help your chances of succeeding in the class,” Mizuno-chan answered. 

“Anyways,” Usagi said, grabbing her report and throwing it into her bag, “I was just going to head to the Crown Arcade.” This caused Luna to stiffen in Usagi’s arms before looking at her with a shocked look, which Usagi noticed but chose to ignore. “And I was wondering if you’d like to come with me.”

“Y-you want me to come with you?” Mizuno-chan asked, looking severely shocked by Usagi’s invitation.

“Sure! It’ll be fun!” Usagi said with a smile. 

“But I don’t even know your name,” Mizuno-chan said as gave a bit of an awkward smile.

Did she give her name? “Well, it’s Tsukino Usagi,” Usagi said, holding out her hand for Mizuno-chan to shake,, which she awkwardly did by grabbing a single finger and shaking it. Usagi ignored that, too as she said, “It’ll be super fun! They have games and food and milkshakes!”

Mizuno-chan paused momentarily before saying, “I suppose I have time before my cram school starts…” 

“Great!” Usagi said before walking ahead and making a ‘follow me’ motion towards Mizuno-chan.

However, Luna was still very confused by what was happening. “What are you doing? Don’t you remember what I said? Aren’t you also worried about your mother?” she asked.

“You were the one who wanted to keep an eye on her, and what better way to keep an eye than to become her friend? As for my mother, I don’t think she’d be too mad if I became friends with a genius girl who could tutor me on all my tests and assignments. I might even be able to become a genius girl, too! Bwahaha!” Usagi said with a bit of an evil cackle. She was pretty sure she grew an evil tail and horns, too.

“Why are you laughing like that and talking to your cat?” Mizuno-chan asked, looking at her strangely

“Uh…No reason! The Crown awaits!” Usagi said before grabbing her by the arm and dragging her to the Crown.

“Motoki onii-san!” Usagi loudly cried out as she entered the Crown with her new companion. 

“Hey, Usagi-chan!” Motoki Onii-san said as he finished serving a couple of teenagers at the counter. “Care for a milkshake?” 

“Two actually! One for me and one for Mizuno-chan here,” Usagi said as she pointed to the blue-haired girl, who blushed before trying to hide her face. Huh…weird.

“Is this a new friend of yours?” Motoki asked with a super charming smile. 

“Hopefully! We actually just met today,” Usagi said, giving the most adorable smile.

“Well, it’s a pleasure to meet you, Mizuno-chan,” Motoki said, turning towards Mizuno-chan with the same smile which made Usagi visibly jealous. How dare one of her crushes to notice another girl? “How about some complimentary milkshakes on behalf of Mizuno-chan’s first visit?”

“Oh no. I couldn-” Mizuno-chan began before Usagi slammed the palm of her head against the blunette’s mouth.

“She would love a free milkshake, and so would I!” Usagi declared with great joy.

Motoki gave a bit of an awkward smile before saying, “Well…uh…Great! Let me go get started on those milkshakes for you guys.” He then left to go into the back of the kitchen.

Usagi turned to Mizuno-chan, “Isn’t he awesome?! And super nice, too!”

“Well…um, yes but don’t you think we should’ve paid for those milkshakes?” Mizuno-chan said, obviously unsure about what just happened.

“Like I said Motoki Onii-san is super nice and always does stuff like that. Besides, you need to save your yen!” Usagi cried out before dragging Mizuno-chan over to a specific arcade machine. “This is the Sailor V video game!” Usagi cried out as she showed the incredible game to Mizuno-chan, who just stared.

“Oh, um…that’s nice,” she said, twiddling with her fingers. 

“Do you wanna give it a try?” Usagi asked with excitement in her voice.

“I don’t know how to play,” Mizuno-chan shrugged. However, to Usagi, that was no excuse.

Without another word, she grabbed Mizuno-chan’s hand to drag her over to the machine and sat her down. “While it can be super hard, it's pretty easy to get the hang of. These buttons let you move and these buttons let you use your wand. See simple!” Then, without another word from the blonde, she fed the machine a yen coin and it started for Ami. “Now, don’t be sad if you don't get it on the first try since even I always get a game over super fast-”

“Hey, look at that girl!” someone yelled out from a crowd now starting to form around her and Mizuno-chan. What the-?

Pew…Pew…Pew…Tap…Tap…Tap… Usagi spun around and couldn’t believe what she was seeing! On the screen was Mizuno-chan, already on the next level! On her first try! That took Usagi like eight tries just to get! It didn’t even take her that long!

Usagi stared as her jaw hit the floor since Mizuno-chan seemed to have a razor-sharp focus on beating the game. Enemies went down in seconds, bosses were barely a challenge, every jump was made perfectly, and the score just kept rising! And Mizuno-chan never played before?! She wasn’t just super smart; she was a prodigy at video games! 

WINNER! The game loudly declared as the crowd cheered in the background while the defeated body of Tsukino Usagi lay crushed on the floor.

“Uh…Tsukino-chan, are you alright?” Mizuno-chan quietly asked the broken secret heroine

Said the secret heroine, jumping to her feet before grabbing Mizuno-chan and shaking her while screaming, “TEACH ME YOUR WAYS! I MUST KNOW!”

“I’d…love…to…if…stop…shaking…me!” Mizuno-chan pleaded as she gently tried to pull Usagi’s hands off her shoulders.

“Oh, sorry,” Usagi said, quickly removing her hands. However, she still adamantly said, “I’ve been trying to beat this game for a couple of weeks now, and I always end up with a game over and an empty purse.”

“Oh, well I…” Mizuno-chan began, obviously a little awkward about the whole encounter.

“Usagi-chan, Mizuno-chan, your milkshakes are ready,” Motoki Onii-san called from the counter. 

“Maybe we can talk more after,” Mizuno-chan offered, to which Usagi happily agreed. In less than a minute, the two had gotten their milkshakes and took place at a secluded booth so Usagi could learn all of Mizuno-chan’s ways of getting good grades and beating good games.

“So spill it!” Usagi said as she put her milkshake down a bit rougher than she thought, making a bit of chocolate splash onto the table. However, there was no time for that. “How did you beat the game on your first try? It can’t just be beginner’s luck.”

“Of course not. I just used the same method of logical deduction that I use for academics on the game,” Mizuno-chan revealed as she took lady-like sips of her milkshake, which stood in stark contrast to Usagi’s huge gulps and half-empty shake. 

“Like in class earlier?” Usagi asked. 

“Exactly,” Mizuno-chan replied. “Being logical is how I solve all my problems, except for…” she didn’t finish as she took a long sip of her milkshake.

Usagi thought back to what happened today and could probably guess what it was from the sad expression on her face. “I-I…wanted to thank you,” the blonde said as she set her milkshake down. “You really rescued me this morning.”

Mizuno-chan looked up at Usagi before saying, “Well…you seemed like you were having trouble, and I just knew the answer anyway.”

“Yeah, but it was super nice of you anyway,” Usagi continued. “I would’ve been super embarrassed if you didn’t.”

“Well, you’re welcome then,” Mizuno-chan said in response. The two teenage girls then quietly sipped at their drinks as Usagi stared at Mizuno-chan. She knows what her classmates said. She knows that Luna’s suspicious of her. However, Usagi had a feeling that Mizuno-chan wasn’t a snob or an enemy and so far Usagi had been proven right. She seemed really, really sweet. “Oh no!” Mizuno-chan cried out as she glanced at a watch around her wrist. “I’ll be late,” she said, quickly grabbing her bag and leaving some yen on the table. 

“Wait…what?” Usagi asked as she stood up. Where did all that come from?

“I’m sorry,” Mizuno-chan said, respectfully bowing to Usagi. “I have to go to my cram school now but thank you for the milkshake and the game.”

“Cram school?” Usagi asked, horrified by those words. Why would you ever want to do more school after just going to school?

“Yeah. Sorry! Bye!” With that, Mizuno-chan raced away from Usagi and out the door. Usagi and even Luna (who popped her head out of Usagi’s bag) were shocked at how quickly Mizuno-chan took that; for a minute, they just stared at the door until something shone in Usagi’s eye. What the heck? She looked down to see a blue floppy disk lying on the floor. Curious, Usagi bent down and grabbed the disk with the words Property of Crystal Seminar. Crystal Seminar? Wait…was this? Was this Ami-chan’s?!

Usagi quickly raced out of the Crown to see if she could catch up to Mizuno-chan to return the disk. However, she was already gone. 

At this point, Usagi was in full panic mode. What was she going to do? What was Mizuno-chan going to do now?

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Ami carefully sorted her materials and school supplies next to the computer. Her mother always told her that being organized was the first step to success—that and punctuality, of course. 

Her need for punctuality was why she had to leave so abruptly despite how kindly Tsukino-chan treated her today. Ami looked down at her lap. She quietly prayed that Tsukino-chan wasn’t offended by how quickly she left. In truth, Ami had no sense of etiquette for a situation she had just experienced because other people, especially students, tended to avoid her and then talk about her behind her back. She knew that, logically, she shouldn’t care what others think. She knew that logically, in the grand scheme of things, their opinions shouldn’t and wouldn’t matter. She knew what her mother would say, that they were simply jealous of her intelligence and that trying to fit in with an unappeasible crowd is the pathway to ruin. Despite all this, though, Ami still felt and still wanted to have friends outside her family. She stared at her reflection on the black screen and wondered, was it indeed so difficult for her want to come true? To be able to be friends with someone else without being judged? 

“Greetings, class.” It seemed there wasn’t any more time to ponder her thoughts as the class’s instructor, Garo-sensei, finally arrived. Ami didn’t know much about Garo-sensei, not even her name - not that it mattered, she supposed - or why she suddenly took over for their former sensei, Yusuke-sensei. She knew the official reason was that Yusuke-sensei suddenly quit without explanation, and while that could be logical…Ami couldn’t help but wonder. Yusuke-sensei never seemed unhappy with their position and enjoyed their work. It was also a bit strange they just suddenly found a new teacher in a matter of days it seems. Then again, it might’ve been sooner they found her. Ami had just arrived home in the mountains with her father after a week. However, something about the situation still seemed strange. “Mizuno-chan,” she heard a voice. It was Garo-sensei.

“Y-yes, Garo-sensei,” embarrassment prevalent in the meek voice she managed to utter and her cheeks were now a vibrant crimson. How could she let herself get caught in her thoughts?

“Do you have the disk?” Garo-sensei said, her bright smile still on her pale face but her chocolate eyes unreadable.

“Th-the disk?” Ami asked in a way that was very much unlike herself. 

“The Crystal Disk that was handed out to the class yesterday,” Garo-sensei replied in a sweet voice, her smile never breaking as she started to run her fingers through Ami’s lazuli-colored hair, which made Ami feel somewhat tense. “You do have it, right? I’d hate to have such a bright and promising student fall behind for such a minor infraction.”

Ami looked down with a strange emotion rising from chest to throat. “I-I sh-should,” Ami said with a slight quiver as she hastily pulled up her bag. Now that her mind was slightly clearer, she remembered that she had put her diskette into the front pocket of her school bag after Garo-sensei handed it out to the class after yesterday’s lesson. Yesterday’s lesson? What was yesterday’s lesson anyway? 

Gh. A twinge of pain assaulted Ami’s mind as she tried to think back. It felt like a horse’s kick. What was happening? Did she suddenly develop a migraine? That couldn’t be it, though. She wasn’t feeling sensitive to lights and sounds or displaying any other symptoms associated with the disorder; it was only when she started thinking of…Gh! 

There it was again.

“Mizuno-san!” it was Garo-sensei’s voice. “Do you have the diskette or not?”

“Y-yes,” Ami said as her migraine suddenly disappeared. She would wonder a bit more about this, but she also knew her instructor was becoming impatient by her unintentional insolence. Guilt started spreading throughout her body as she dug through her first pocket, but that guilt soon transformed into horror. 

Her diskette wasn’t there!

Ami felt her eyes widen. She knew she put it in her front pocket!

Perhaps it had fallen into another pocket! She searched through the rest of her bag, but it wasn’t in the back pocket or her side pockets either. It was just gone.

Panic was rising throughout her body. How could this have happened? Ami knew she had put the diskette in her bag this morning! Where could it have gone!? No. No. Ami knew better than to overreact to inconsequential events. She might not have her diskette now, but she can search for it later or receive another. All she needed to do was explain the situation in a calm and steady tone of voice.

“Forgive me, sensei,” Ami began, careful to choose which words would leave her mouth and in what tone, “it seems, I’ve forgotten my diskette at home.” The air felt colder at that moment and when Ami saw her instructor’s face, a chill ran up her spine. 

She was still smiling but there was something…off. Ami knew that was a rude thing to say about an authoritative figure but she couldn’t lie either. The smile felt forced and even a bit cruel and the look in Garo-sensei’s eyes was worse. Cold and sharp as a blade that seemed to cut into Ami’s soul. Frankly, they didn’t feel human. 

Ami gulped. Maybe she was just being foolish. This was her instructor after all. Of course, she’d be displeased by the fact that the supposed prize student of the school didn’t do something as simple as bring a vital piece of her studying into school so it would only be logical that Garo-sensei would feel frustration and irritation towards Ami. Hopefully, it was still somehow possible to mend the current situation.

Ami took a deep breath before bowing her head in reverence and mentally steadying her words inside her mind before carefully releasing them out into the world. “Garo-sensei. I’m terribly sorry but I’d be happy to self-study or…”

“That diskette is imperative to today’s lesson,” Garo-sensei said in a voice without a hint of empathy and dripped with venom.

“Maybe I could have a replacement?” Ami weakly asked in a small voice.

“I didn’t make extra because I expected my students to be smart enough not to lose them,” Garo-sensei replied as her words cut Ami like a knife. Was she saying Ami wasn’t smart enough? Ami supposed her teacher was making a reasonable assumption given the current situation but…it still made Ami sad to hear. “And since didn’t bring the required materials, I will have no choice but to exclude you from this lesson so for the duration, please stand in the hall.”

Ami silently nodded and stood, as she felt the eyes of her peers. Pity? Happiness? Mocking? A mix? She didn’t know. She just knew that she had to keep her head high and her eyes staring straight ahead. Other people’s opinions shouldn’t matter.

One bad day won’t destroy her. It didn’t destroy her mother. It won’t destroy Ami. She’ll fix this.

She left the room.

It didn’t matter.

Other people’s opinions didn’t matter.

Ami knew this. Logically, Ami knew this.

So…why…were tears coming from her eyes?

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Usagi was in frantic mode right now. She usually was but right now it was super frantic mode as she narrowly avoided falling into the street, into buildings, into people. 

Unfortunately, that last thing was utterly unsuccessful. Instead, all she did was bump into a random passerby and the force of hitting them caused her to land on her rump. 

“Ow!” Usagi whined as she rubbed said bruised rump. “Ugh…Why is this Crystal Seminar thing so hard to find!?”

“Well, maybe because you’ve been running in a straight line instead of watching where you’re going?” Luna whispered as softly as she could. “We really shouldn’t be doing-”

“Odango Atama?” a familiar male voice rang out, interrupting Luna and making the two look up to see that across from them was HIM!

“You! Where did you come from?!” Usagi demanded as she quickly stood to make herself seem taller. However, the baka didn’t answer. He wasn’t even looking at Usagi, which was just very rude in her opinion and just made her more annoyed. How dare this baka not look at her?! “Well?!”

“Your cat…” he said instead of an answer to her very reasonable question, “has a very interesting bald spot.” 

Usagi stared at him momentarily and saw his sapphire-blue eyes staring deeply into Luna’s before flashing towards Usagi, who felt frozen by his stare. Those sharp sapphire-blue eyes pierced her cornflower-blue eyes with such intensity that it almost felt like she was being scanned. It felt so…so…

“What’s your problem, baka?” Usagi said as she ignored the bright red stain that had emerged on her face as her heart pounded in her chest. “And stop staring at my cat!”

“Who were you talking to Odango Atama?” the baka asked as he rose to his feet, those darn sapphire-blue eyes still staring deep into her soul.

Usagi and Luna felt their jaws drop as panic started to rush through their bodies. Did he…did he…did he HEAR Luna talk? Usagi quickly gave a very loud and very obviously fake laugh, “Wh-what are you t-talking?! No one was talking?! I was just talking to myself! That’s all! Nobody else!”

“No one was talking but you were talking to yourself?” the baka asked raising an eyebrow to show that he in no way believed her story.

“Y-yes,” Usagi said while staring straight at him. There was no way she would let this jerk find out that Luna was actually a magical, talking alien cat. What if he found out and told someone and they decided to abduct Luna and perform evil experiments on her?! The flash of Luna tied to a laboratory table with evil scientists crowding around her with sharp tools and drills invaded Usagi’s mind and from the look on Luna’s face, Luna’s too. 

“I heard someone speak. Another female and I know it wasn’t your voice, odango atama, so who else could it be?” the jerk continued as he stared deeply into her eyes and his face became very close to hers before those darn eyes shifted over to Luna’s. “Was it your cat?”

“I…uh! AHHHHH!” Usagi ran as fast as humanly possible away from him. Usagi didn’t know what else to do in that situation. That darn baka. His assumptions. Those darn eyes! Now, he might know that Luna can talk! 

Usagi didn’t know when she stopped but knew she was far away enough to take a breath after a non-stop sprint. She could still feel her heart in her ears and she could still see her enemy's deep, sapphire-blue eyes staring at her with such intensity. She also remembers how close his face had been to hers. So close… Heat began to blossom on Usagi’s face.

“Usagi!” Luna cried through her teeth. 

Usagi snapped out of her thoughts and stared at Luna whose eyes were filled with worry. “Do you think he knows about you?”

“It’s possible and even likely, but that’s a bridge we can burn another day. We need to focus on that Mizuno girl now,” Luna said. 

“What if she’s not our enemy, though? You would make me look like a creep for no reason,” Usagi said, throwing up her arms. 

“We need to cover all our bases, and even if she’s not, she gives off a strange energy that I would like to know more about,” Luna replied. “We should also check what’s on that diskette in case it has some clues.”

Usagi stared into Luna’s determined red eyes and realized there was no changing the cat’s mind, loudly sighed. “I guess if we hurry we could go to the computer lab at my school.”

Luna beamed at Usagi before grabbing the diskette with her teeth and gesturing at the blonde to follow her before she took off in the direction of the school. All Usagi in the meanwhile did was loudly sigh before dragging her feet. She could tell Mizuno-chan was a good person so why didn’t Luna?

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After like 25 to 30 minutes, the pair made it back to the school without too much trouble, and thankfully, the computer lab was empty. Usagi sat at the far back as Luna put the diskette into a machine. The blonde teenager turned to the cat and said, “Just to warn you, I don’t really know much about computers,” Usagi admitted before she started messing with the keyboard hoping at least one button turn on the computer. Unsurprisingly, it didn’t. Luna visibly facepalmed before she scratched at Usagi to move who said, “I told you I don’t know much about computers.” Luna only loudly sighed as she started to tap on the keyboard in a much less chaotic motion than Usagi and the computer roared to life. Or at least they think. 

It was indeed on but the screen was still black. Usagi stared at Luna for a moment when Give yourself to me. What? “Luna, di-” Give yourself to me. What? Was she hallucinating? Usagi looked back at the screen to see the black was now flickering. It was soft, almost soothing as it continued to whisper Give yourself to me. Give herself… Give herself to what? The flickering became stronger and the voice changed as though to answer her question To our great ruler! Join our great queen! Great…Great queen. Join the Great Queen. Join…Give yourself…Join…Give…Join…Give. Join. Give. Join. Give. Join.

Sharp claws clashed with her skin, followed by a voice shouting, “USAGI!” Usagi woke up and looked around her. The computer was off, and the voice was gone. It was just her and Luna alone in the computer room. What was all that? Was she really thinking about giving herself to whoever this ‘great queen’ was? Wait. Great queen? Didn’t the monsters sometimes mention something about a queen they served? Ugh…Her head was pounding, and she felt so weak. “Are you alright?” Luna asked.

“I think so?” Usagi said in an unsure voice. “I heard a voice. It wanted me to give myself to a queen, and if I’m correct, this queen might have something to do with the youmas.”

“You’re probably right, and I’m sure we’ll find more answers if we head to the Crystal Seminar,” Luna said as she jumped and pulled out the evil diskette. 

“Do you still think Mizuno-chan has something to do with this?” Usagi asked as she stood up from her chair and followed Luna. 

Luna stared up at her with an unreadable expression before bolting out the door.

For her part, Usagi gave a very long sigh. Why won’t Luna trust her on this? Something inside tells her that Mizuno-chan isn’t bad, so why doesn’t Luna listen?

Well, whatever. Right now the important thing was stopping the monsters and their evil queen.

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The pair had sprinted back to the Crystal Seminar building in record time, so instead of making it there in like 30 minutes, they made it in 15. However, this did cause Usagi’s lungs to burn and lean on the building for support. “Usagi! Remember to be on your guard for whatever we find, alright?” Luna said.

However, Usagi was more in the process of breathing heavily and trying not to faint. “Y-yeah…S-sure, Luna…” Usagi managed out between breaths. Luna could do nothing more than facepalm at the sad state of her charge. As Usagi caught her breath and her panting became quieter, she heard something. It was super quiet so even she wasn’t sure how she could hear it but she did and it sounded like…crying? Who was crying? And why?

“Usagi?” Luna asked, but Usagi ignored her as she bolted into the building. Who was crying? Usagi looked around the super expensive-looking entryway when she heard that crying again. It was coming from the hallway, she realized. “Usagi?” Luna asked again. It seemed like she had followed her in, but Usagi ignored her again as she ran into the hallway. Who was crying?

She looked around until she saw a huddled ball of a person by the third door on the left. She had blue hair and seemed to be wearing Usagi’s school uniform. Wait a minute…MIZUNO-CHAN!

“Mizuno-chan!” Usagi called out, which seemed to momentarily shock the bluenette, who was stunned by Usagi’s sudden appearance before it turned into embarrassment. Quickly, Mizuno-chan wiped her face of tears before giving a weak smile to Usagi.

“Tsukino-chan? Why are you here?” Mizuno-chan asked as she struggled to put on a stoic and dignified face, but it looked like it could crack at any second.

“I…” Usagi began, feeling like she could cry at seeing the broken look on Mizuno-chan’s face. “Are you alright?”

Mizuno-chan sniffled a bit and her eyes began to fill with tears before quickly saying, “I’m fine. I just got in trouble with the instructor, that’s all.”

“It doesn’t seem like it,” Usagi said with empathy. She, out of anyone, would know what it’s like to be stuck in the hallway after being in trouble. “What happened?”

“It was my fault. I-I lost a diskette I was supposed to use for class and so the teacher got rightfully angry at me,” Mizuno-chan said with a look of shame and heartbreak.

 Usagi stared at the broken and guilt-ridden face of the blue-haired girl. It was so different from her logical, strong, and even stoic face from earlier. It made Usagi want to cry with her. However, that’s not what Mizuno-chan needed then. “I don’t think so,” Usagi said, smiling. “Besides, you’re super smart, so who cares if some mean old teacher kicks you out over something so stupid?”

“I CARE!” Mizuno-chan loudly yelled, which shocked both Usagi and Luna. “All my life, my mom taught me to be respectful to and obey my instructors and teachers and to be logical and always use my intellect to get ahead in this world, but now here I am, missing my entire class and disappointing my mom because I couldn’t do something as simple as remember a stupid diskette! I’m supposed to be the smartest! The best at school! I have to be…” Mizuno-chan fell to her knees again, her hands covering her face.

Pain and guilt hit Usagi. Looking back at her own life, Usagi had it easy regarding grades. Whenever she came back with a bad grade, at most, her mom would lock her up in her room to study or kick her out for an hour, but she was never stressed to the point of breaking down because she forgot something. Did Mizuno-chan always feel this way? Usagi remembers the harsh words people spat about the bluenette this morning, her being a ‘teacher’s pet’ and ‘only caring about studying’ and how Mizuno-chan heard it all. It must’ve made her feel even lonelier and stressed out than she already was. Then you have Usagi, who wanted to use her brains to get good grades. She was no better than them, was she? No. She was terrible.

Usagi bent down and pulled out the diskette. “Here you go,” the blonde said against the glares of  Luna. “This is the diskette, right?” Usagi watched Mizuno-chan raise her head as her blue eyes widened upon seeing what was in the blonde’s hand. “You dropped it at the Crown and I tried to follow you but you had already left.”

“Why would you want to help me?” Mizuno-chan asked, generally confused.

Usagi smiled before saying, “Because that’s what friends do. They help and care about each other.” Usagi meant it genuinely.

“You want to be my friend?” 

“Of course. You’re very kind and sweet and super smart. Anyone should want to be your friend,” Usagi said as she placed the diskette in Mizuno-chan’s hands.

Mizuno-chan stared at the diskette for a moment before looking at Usagi with wide eyes that were confused, then unsure, before relief flooded into them. Tears welled up in her eyes but these weren’t tears of sadness. These were tears of joy and Mizuno-chan flung herself at Usagi in a tight hug. Usagi was shocked at first but happily returned it. 

They both had a new friend. 

And Usagi had some unfinished business.

“Mizuno-chan. There’s something you should know about that diskette, though,” Usagi began but was quickly cut off by Ami’s shouts of thank you and rushing feet. Oh no! “Mizuno-chan! Wait! The diskette’s evil!”

However, she had already disappeared into her classroom when Usagi’s words left her mouth. Usagi was about to start running after her when she felt sharp claws on her ankle that sent her spiraling toward the floor. “We can’t go rushing in Usagi!” Luna yelled as Usagi gave her a dirty and angry look. “You should transform into Sailor Moon beforehand; that way, should anything happen in there, we won’t have to worry about being caught.” Unfortunately, Luna made sense but that still didn’t make Usagi any less mad a the cat. That scratch and fall really hurt! However, she could yell at Luna later! Right now, she needed to worry about Mizuno-chan and her class!

“Moon Prism Power MAKE-UP!” Usagi shouted and instantly felt engulfed by her magical henshin as streams of pink ribbons surrounded her body, transforming her normal uniform into her fuku. Power began to surge through her as the strong and awesome sailor senshi of the moon, Sailor Moon, took Usagi’s place. 

“Sailor Moon. We need to hurry,” Luna rudely said, interrupting her famous pose.

“O-” Sailor Moon started to say, dejected, when screams rang throughout the hall. Wait a minute. Those screams! Mizuno-chan! Quickly, Sailor Moon raced towards the classroom, where she saw a horrific sight that stopped her dead in her tracks. 

Everywhere, as far as the eyes could see, were bodies. Some were slumped over the table while others were laying in misshapen heaps on the ground with lifeless pale skin and bloodshot eyes muttering something about giving themselves to the ‘Great Queen’! However, that wasn’t even the worst part! The worst part was what was going on at one of the desks! Mizuno-chan was struggling to free herself against what seemed to be an invisible chain and screaming in pain as a woman forced her to stare at one of the computer's screens. “Stupid brat! Why can’t you just make my job easy and give yourself to our Queen!” the woman…the thing cried before she violently slapped Mizuno-chan across the face, leaving a prominent red mark across her face! Screams for help and pain faded into whimpers. At first, Sailor Moon could only stare in shock at Mizuno-chan and that evil woman. How could somebody do that? Especially to a kid! That wasn’t right! Sailor Moon clenched her fist. It wasn’t right! And she would do something about it!

“Let her go!” Sailor Moon cried out, which quickly attracted the attention of Mizuno-chan and the evil woman. “How dare you brainwash innocent students with your evil floppy disks and make a super smart girl feel scared and insecure!? I am the Pretty Guardian who fights for love and for justice! I am Sailor Moon, and in the name of the moon, I will punish you!”

“Sailor Moon? I was expecting you,” the evil woman said with a wicked smile before she ripped Mizuno-chan, who screamed bloody murder in fear, from her chair before dragging her kicking and screaming to a rafter in the ceiling. 

“Mizuno-chan!” Sailor Moon cried as the monster gave a heinous laugh as their human appearance literally melted away to reveal a creature with blood-red skin on her chest, arms, and head where a strange beetle-like thing sat in the middle of her forehead. The rest of her body, on the other hand, was pitch black that Sailor Moon could’ve sworn that she was wearing a leotard but when she looked a little closer, she saw that it had fur and veins pulsing throughout and that made her skin crawl. Her eyes were completely yellow with only two black slits for pupils and a wild nest of blackish-blue hair. Her long nails turned into sharp claws that she held to Mizuno-chan’s throat that could slit it any minute Sailor Moon didn’t do something! What could she do?! 

Sailor Moon looked up at where the youma was gleeful as she leered down at her while poor Mizuno-chan desperately tried to free herself. However, this failed when Mizuno-chan’s neck scraped the monster's sharp claws, drawing a bit of blood. Oh no!

Wait a minute! She was just sitting there…maybe… Sailor Moon touched the red gem on her forehead as she shouted, “Moon Tiara Boomerang!” The command transformed the tiara from a dormant accessory into a powerful weapon Sailor Moon sent flying toward the youma. 

However, it would never make contact with the youma. Instead, the youma gave a cruel smirk before it raised its hand, summoning wires and papers that wrapped and twisted themselves around the innocent and brainwashed students, raising them towards the ceiling to act as a messed-up line of defense. Sailor Moon screamed in horror as her tiara sped toward the students. She needed to do something fast!

At the last battle, Luna said she could redirect the tiara if she concentrated. However, she can’t focus on the monster right now! Not with all these kids in the way. Maybe she can will it back to her? Sailor Moon concentrated on the tiara and practically begged it to return to her before it could hit any of those kids. Luckily, just as it was about to drive itself through the neck of a middle school boy, it stopped. Sailor Moon cheered at this…until she noticed the tiara spinning toward her now! And like that, she started running around like a rat on a sinking ship as she continued to be followed by her traitorous weapon while her screams mixed with the vile laughter of the monster, who sounded very amused by Sailor Moon’s suffering. 

“Just stop it, Sailor Moon!” Luna shouted on Sailor Moon’s eighth run around. 

“Oh right,” Sailor Moon said before turning around to face it and loudly shouting, “STOP!”  This stopped it and returned to its dormant state of being a usual, magical tiara, not a weapon of destruction.

Sailor Moon couldn’t grab it because she felt something metallic and rubbery grab her wrist, and with a loud cry, the superheroine was ripped toward the ceiling as she heard Luna scream, “SAILOR MOON!” 

“Let me go!” Sailor Moon yelled out as she tried to free herself with her free hand. Unfortunately, that just got tangled up in the wires as well. 

“I’m going to be honest: I expected more from you after your previous victories. Aw well,” the youma said before snapping her claws, and immediately, papers began to float from desks, chairs, and floors and shaped itselves into deadly paper airplanes with razor-sharp tips. 

Sailor Moon screamed in fear as she thrashed around, trying desperately to free herself, but the wires only seemed to tighten every time she did. She heard another sickening snap of claws and saw the evil paper airplanes speeding toward her as she kicked around, trying to stop at least a few. However, there was nothing she could do except scream out, “HELP!” And as if on cue, a crimson-red rose came flying through the air and sliced through the wires that held Sailor Moon captive before any of the evil paper planes could cut or slice her up.

However, she still had been hanging from the ceiling and was now failing. Sailor Moon screamed before she realized that she was no longer falling but was instead surrounded by warmth that made her feel safe and protected. Wait, that could only mean! “Tuxedo Mask!” Sailor Moon cried as she looked up to see her beloved masked savior with a handsome smirk on his lips. 

“You didn’t believe I would let you fall, right?” he asked in a sultry way that made Sailor Moon blush red-hot. For a moment, Tuxedo Mask stared at Sailor Moon in a way that made her giggle cutely before he turned an ice-cold gaze toward the villain, “How dare you take advantage of innocent schoolchildren who just want to improve their minds and turn them into batteries for your evil ambitions?”

The monster said nothing before giving out a wicked little chuckle. “It seems Sailor Moon’s little boyfriend finally made his entrance.” Wait,   did she just say boyfriend?! Sailor Moon felt a big, goofy smile come to her lips at the thought of Tuxedo Mask being her boyfriend. “I guess this does make it far easier to kill you both,” the monster continued. Wait, kill? Oh, right! There was still in the middle of a battle. Sailor Moon heard a sickening snap of claws, making the paper planes redirect themselves until they launched themselves straight at her and Tuxedo Mask!  

“I always knew homework was evil!” Sailor Moon screamed as they sped towards her and Tuxedo Mask. Oh no! Now they will both end up like sliced cheese (…or something)!

However, that didn’t come! She felt a rush of air and saw Tuxedo Mask twirling his cane and warding off the evil paper airplanes. “Quick, Sailor Moon! Use your tiara to take out the monster!” 

“I can’t without hurting those innocent people!” Sailor Moon cried as she pointed at the hostages still hanging from the ceiling in a dazed and broken state.

Sailor Moon saw Tuxedo Mask stare at the hostages with an unreadable look before he muttered, “Well, that’s annoying,” under his breath. She had to admit that was a bit of a strange reaction, but she didn’t have long to think about it when she heard something slithering behind them and the ruffling of papers. “Tuxedo Mask! Watch ou- AH!” It was too late, though. Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask were trapped by those horrible wires that wrapped and tightened themselves around their entire bodies so every limb of theirs was trapped in place. With a wicked laugh and a sickening crack of claws, bolts of electricity were sent through the wires that painfully electrocuted the duo, causing them to scream out in pain.

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The screams of pain from the two mysterious superheroes filled Ami’s ears as the cackles and cruel words of the monster continually tortured her. “How pathetic!” it cried as it gave another snap, causing more electricity to be shot through to the superheroes, who howled in pain before slumping over with heavy breaths. From Ami’s calculations, it wouldn’t be long until those superheroes died from an electric overdose, and if they died, then not only she but her entire class was doomed. There had to be something she could do to stop this, but what? She wasn’t magic. She didn’t know any combat skills. She was just an ordinary girl with a high IQ. She couldn’t fight a monster! Especially one that defeated two superheroes already! She was useless in this situation! 

Tears began to pour down Ami’s cheeks as the words from earlier started to reverberate around her mind. I was in the same class as her last year, and all she did was study and look down her nose at everyone else - There was nothing she could do! Maybe she might not even be in this situation if she hadn't studied so much. I never saw her with anyone, so I don’t think she had any friends - maybe if she had friends, there’d be someone she could call. No. She was alone. A lonely, pathetic, friendless girl who was going to die alone and helpless to do anything to stop it.

 You’re very kind and sweet and super smart. Anyone should want to be your friend, Tsukino-chan had said to her. Tsukino-chan… Hopefully, she got out alright. She did come all the way here to help me. Because that’s what friends do. They help and care about each other. She had wanted to be her friend. Maybe they could’ve been real friends had this not happened. Maybe they could’ve done the things Ami had seen other teenagers her age had done like go to the movies or ice cream shops, but she’ll never know now. Tsukino-chan was hopefully gone and Ami will die along with her class and the heroes. 

Ami glanced over at the heroes and saw they were mentally preparing themselves for more volts of electricity and through tears, Ami saw a detail she missed. The female had odango hair with two long ponytails. Wait, wasn’t Tsukino-chan wearing that exact same hairstyle as well? 

Was the female superhero Tsukino-chan? Logically, it didn’t make sense to think of one of her classmates as a superheroine, but that distinctive hairstyle and the fact this hero - Sailor Moon was it - appeared right after Tsukino-chan arrived. And then there was the admittedly klutzy and loud behavior from both of them, it matched. Tsukino-chan was a superhero? The thought was still rather illogical but the evidence was undeniable and nothing about this situation was logical. 

Ami looked back towards Sailor Moon, Tsukino-chan, and her heart broke at seeing how broken she looked. Another volt of electricity was then flooded causing her to scream out. No!

Ami NEEDED to do something! She might not be able to do much, but Tsukino-chan was her…friend! And friends help each other! She wanted to help Tsukino-chan! She wanted to help Sailor Moon!

At this, something felt like it burst inside of Ami. It wasn’t an uncomfortable feeling. It was very familiar. Soothing like a gentle wave even. It was as though it was a part of her that she had forgotten. The burst grew and grew until it transformed into a beautiful, lake-blue light around her chest until it moved to hover right in front of Ami. Ami heard the monster scream and let go of her, but she didn’t care. All she wanted in that moment was that beautiful light.

Ami held a hand toward the light until she grasped it. She felt how it became solid in her fingers until it burst into a bright light that nearly blinded her. However, this light was only for a moment. In the next, Ami stared at what looked like an ornate pen with a bright blue barrel and golden cap decorated with a planetary symbol and four jewels of red, blue, green, and orange at the center. However, something in her told her it wasn’t just any pen. Something in her told her what she needed to do. She knew what she needed to do!

“Mercury Power Make-Up!” she shouted as the symbol for Mercury appeared on her forehead, and a flood of power flowed through Ami. Her normal school uniform was replaced in a rush of watery blue. Her skirt was now short, a teal blue ribbon sat on her back and chest, her ears were now done up with pearls with three on her left and one on her right, white gloves over her hands and fingers now painted with blue nail polish, heeled boots in blue lined with white were on her feet, and a tiara covering the symbol on her forehead with a blue gem at the center.

“What are you?!” she heard the monster screech from behind.

She wouldn’t give this monster the time of day, though. “Shabon Spray!” she exclaimed instead, and heavy and thick mist descended upon the classroom, hiding everything and everyone from view.

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Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask were just barely coherent at this point. Too much electricity, and the only thing keeping them upright was the need to defeat this thing and save the hostages. “Tuxedo Mask,” Sailor Moon slurred out, “I’m so…”

“I know. We need to get out of here,” Tuxedo Mask said in a voice a little stronger (though not by much) than Sailor Moon, which should be impossible in her opinion. “Where did this fog come from?”

Fog? Sailor Moon opened her eyes and saw she couldn’t see her own fingers. Now, you could chalk this up to being electrocuted 6 or 7 times, but no, her body and clothes were also damp and heavy. So the fog was real? Where did this fog come from?

“Wait…this fog?” Luna said as she paused, trying to free them with her claws. It wasn’t like it worked anyway. “I recognize this fog,” she continued in shock, but why?

 However, they didn’t have long to ponder this when a shadowy figure appeared walking through the fog. It didn’t seem like the youma, but one can never be too sure as they braced themselves for a fight - though how they would accomplish this tied up is anyone’s guess.

Thankfully, it never came. Instead, the figure continued walking towards them until she was in full view. It was another girl dressed like Sailor Moon, except her uniform was just shades of blue instead of a mix of blues, reds, and pinks. She looked like a sailor guardian, too! 

“Sailor Mercury?” Luna asked in disbelief. “Is that really you?”

“Sailor Mercury?!” gasped Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask. They watched as Sailor Mercury tapped the jewel on her tiara to cause some kind of magic, high-tech lens to lower, and a cute, blue portable computer with the Mercury symbol appeared in Sailor Mercury’s hand. She tapped a few keys on the computer before she stared at the screen. With a nod, she walked over to the duo and grabbed one of the wires, causing the whole thing to become untangled and fall into helpless lumps at their feet.

“So you’re a Sailor Guardian too?” Sailor Moon asked, catching her breath as Tuxedo Mask rushed over to catch her (he was so sweet) 

“Yes. I am Sailor Mercury, and I’m here to help Sailor Moon,” the blue-haired girl, Sailor Mercury, said with a warm smile as she locked eyes with Sailor Moon. Wait, blue-hair!? Was she-

“Are you-?” Sailor Moon began.

Sailor Mercury cut her off, though. “There will be more than enough time to discuss that later, but we must fight off this enemy right now. And try to keep your voice down so we don’t alert the monster to our location,” she said in a low whisper, to which Sailor Moon quickly shoved her hands over her mouth. 

“How are we going to be able to stop the monster and save the hostages with the fog this thick?” Tuxedo Mask asked in a low whisper.

“Don’t worry, I have a plan,” Sailor Mercury said before she gestured towards her computer. “My computer can show me where the monster and the hostages are due to their heat signatures. I can guide Sailor Moon’s hand, but you will rescue the students,” Sailor Mercury said as she showed the computer to them. 

Sailor Moon looked over at Sailor Mercury and couldn’t help but be in awe and even a bit jealous of how quickly she seemed to have gotten this whole Sailor Guardian thing while she struggled to do anything without help. Why were they so different? Weren’t they both Sailor Guardians?

She didn’t have long to think about this when Sailor Mercury shouted, “Watch out!” Sailor Moon was quickly snatched up by Tuxedo Mask, who saved her from being attacked by another squadron of evil paper airplanes. 

“Thanks, Tuxedo Mask,” Sailor Moon said with hearts in her eyes as she stared up at her masked hero, who gave a gentle smile in return. 

“We don’t have time for this,” Luna harshly whispered. Rude. There was always time for this. “Sailor Mercury’s plan should work, and if Tuxedo Mask wants to make himself useful, he will start by freeing the hostages so they can’t be used against us.” Sailor Moon felt Tuxedo Mask stiffen before sighing and turning to Sailor Mercury.

“I’m on it. Where do I go?” Tuxedo Mask asked. Sailor Mercury nodded before using her computer to scan around before she pointed toward an opposing ceiling. 

“Be careful, Tuxedo Mask,” Sailor Moon said to Tuxedo Mask as we were about to leap away.  

Tuxedo Mask turned toward Sailor Moon with a small look of shock before giving a small smile. “Don’t worry about me.” Then he disappeared into the fog, far too soon, in Sailor Moon’s opinion.

“Sailor Moon! Focus!” Luna harshly whispered. Oh right. They’re in the middle of a battle.

But where was the enemy?

A small, low beeping began to ring out from the computer, which caused the hairs on the sailor guardians’ necks to stand on end as they caught the barest glimpse of a shadow in the distance. It wasn’t Tuxedo Mask’s. This one was too animalistic and looked like a predator ready to pounce as it blindly searched for its prey. Sailor Moon quickly and clumsily got into a fighting pose as she tried to calm her panicked breathing until she felt a tap on her shoulder. Sailor Moon was ready to strike for her life and her friends’ lives and Tuxedo Mask’s life…but this was not needed as it was Sailor Mercury who had touched her.

Sailor Mercury placed a finger to her lips before gesturing at the monster as it walked in another direction. “Quick, use your tiara,” Sailor Mercury whispered.

Sailor Moon nodded and went to touch the jewel on her forehead but only found the smooth skin of her forehead. Well…that was not good. That was very, very not good. Sailor Moon gestured at her forehead to Luna and Sailor Mercury, confused at first before their eyes widened in fear. 

“Where is it?” Luna whispered harshly as she began to look around the floor.

Sailor Moon recalled the last time she used it and remembered it was by the door. “The entrance. I didn’t get the chance to grab it.” Luna and Sailor Mercury looked on in disbelief which Sailor Moon was very offended by. She was kind of busy, you know. “It should be okay, though,” Sailor Moon whispered back. “I can just summon it back, right?”

“The youma might catch onto what we’re doing, though,” Luna said.

“Maybe we could cause a distraction,” Sailor Mercury pointed out. “The monster will be drawn by us, allowing Sailor Moon time to get her tiara back.”

Luna paused before thinking about it and saying, “You’re right. I’ll cause the distraction while you two get the tiara back.”

The feline then disappeared into the fog before they were allowed to agree or disagree with her. Loud thuds and clunks could be heard from the other side of the room, followed by growls and roars from the youma. Sailor Moon gasped as a hundred scenarios about Luna versus the youma went through her head, and none of them ended well for the cat. “Quick, Sailor Moon, get your tiara, and we can save Luna,” Sailor Mercury whispered. She must’ve noticed how worried Sailor Moon looked. 

Sailor Moon nodded and clasped her hands together, focusing on her tiara. Tiara…tiara…tiara. A small shuffle of something could be heard. Tiara…tiara…tiara…come here… The shuffling got louder until he distinctive, magical buzzing floated through the air. Tiara…tiara…tiara…fly into my hand. The magical buzzing became louder and louder until a shining white light pierced through the fog and charged right towards Sailor Moon when the memory of what had happened earlier flashed through her mind. She didn’t want to end up as moondust. Wait a minute…the tiara does as she asks, right?

Tiara…tiara…tiara…land safely in my hand. Hopefully, that worked. Sailor Moon then felt something cool and metal land in her hands. She opened her eyes and saw that her tiara was no longer a spinning weapon of death but just an accessory. Well, that’s good. 

What was not good was the loud cat yowl of pain. “Luna!” Sailor Moon cried out before quickly silencing herself. What was that youma doing to her feline guardian?

“Don’t worry, Sailor Moon. I know exactly where they are,” Sailor Mercury said before showing Sailor Moon the computer, which showed two figures covered in oranges, greens, blues, and yellows. One Luna and the youma who was holding her up to her claws. “Just remember the plan.”

“What about Luna?” the Moon Senshi asked before looking back at the computer, where she saw another figure. Wait, Tuxedo Mask? He was done already. Maybe he could save Luna? Sailor Moon looked at the screen again before remembering all the times Luna told her not to trust him. 

However, Sailor Moon couldn’t agree with that. He’s saved her many times since the beginning when he had no reason to and helped save all those hostages, so why would Luna be any different? Armed with this thought, Sailor Moon placed her tiara back on her head and touched the red jewel in the center. The tiara began to glow once more as Sailor Moon listened to Sailor Mercury’s words. “Remember you need to aim your tiara at a degree of 67 degrees to hit her spine before she moves,” Sailor Mercury said. 

“Uh…” Sailor Moon said, not understanding.

“Just aim for the right, or you’ll hit Luna,” Sailor Mercury repeated in easy terms. Much better.

“Moon Tiara Boomerang,” Sailor Moon said, and she threw the tiara to the right.

A scream of pain howled before cursing Sailor Moon and crying how their ‘Great Queen’ will defeat her someday. Sailor Moon and Mercury both sighed in relief before they wondered about Luna. Was she okay?

A shadow appeared in the mist, this one tall and cradling something. It walked closer until it was revealed to be “Tuxedo Mask?!” Sailor Moon cried joyfully at seeing her masked savior holding Luna in his arms. She seemed a little beat up, but okay otherwise. 

“Your cat seems to enjoy trouble,” Tuxedo Mask said as he returned the cat to Sailor Moon.

“Not really. Usually, she’s the one keeping me out of trouble,” Sailor Moon said with a blush as Luna started to stir in her arms.

“I-Is the youma gone?” Luna asked a bit dizzy.

“Yeah. We got them, Luna! And Tuxedo Mask saved you,” Sailor Moon excitedly said.

“He did?” Luna asked before staring suspiciously at Tuxedo Mask. “Why?”

“You were hostage and I was saving hostages,” Tuxedo Mask continued. “Besides, how often does someone meet a talking cat?”

“Are the hostages safe, by the way?” Sailor Moon asked with worry evident in her eyes. 

“Don’t worry. They’re in the hallway, and emergency services are on their way,” Tuxedo Mask said. “However, I better head off,” he continued before grabbing one of Sailor Moon’s hands and bringing it to his lips. “Until next time, Sailor Moon.” Then he disappeared into the fog, and Sailor Moon felt like she could float on air. If she died at that moment, she wouldn’t even care. Oh, Tuxedo Mask…They were so meant to be.

“Sailor Moon…Sailor Moon….Sailor Moon!” Luna cried, being horrible and breaking Sailor Moon out of her Tuxedo Mask-filled daydreams.

“Huh…what?” Sailor Moon said.

“We need to get home and explain all this to Sailor Mercury,” Luna said.

Oh right! Sailor Mercury! Sailor Moon turned to her fellow sailor guardian and asked, “So you’re Mizuno-chan, right?”

“Yes. And I know you’re Tsukino-chan,” Sailor Mercury replied. 

Sailor Moon gasped in shock. “How did you know!?” She’s always so careful though!

“It’s really not that hard if you know where to look,” Sailor Mercury said.

“Sailor Mercury,” Luna said in a serious tone. “Do you remember anything about your past life or our princess?”

“Unfortunately, no. All I know is that when Tsukino-chan was in trouble something inside me told me that my mission was to help and protect her and everything else was essentially muscle memory,” Sailor Mercury sadly said. 

“This is unfortunate indeed though at least we found one other senshi,” Luna agreed. “Maybe we should continue this conversation at home, Usagi-chan.”

“Yeah,” Sailor Moon continued before realizing how late it was and her mom’s words. “My mom’s going to kill me!” Before quickly racing out of there, followed by Sailor Mercury and Luna.

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“Where have you been, Usagi?!” Ikuko yelled, half-scared and half-angry. 

“I’m sorry Mom! I got sidetracked!” Usagi cried out in sadness with tears streaming from her eyes.

“Sidetracked?!” Ikuko continued. “You were supposed to be home three hours ago!”

“But, mom-!” Usagi whined.

“No, buts! I’m exten-” Ikuko continued scolding.

“Excuse me, ma’am. You really shouldn’t be blaming, Tsukino-chan,” Mizuno-chan said as she walked into the house. 

“Who are you?” Ikuko asked confused at the sight of the unknown girl.

“My name is Mizuno Ami, and I’m in Usagi’s class. I’m sorry she wasn’t home on time, but I was helping her study today and time just got away from us,” Mizuno-chan continued winking at Usagi who quickly understood and nodded in unison. 

“You were helping Usagi study?” Ikuko continued, confused. 

“Yes, ma’am. Tsukino-chan said she needed help on her assignments and thankfully I’m well-versed on nearly every subject, so I decided to tutor her in the library before we came back here,” Mizuno-chan said.

“Is this true, Usagi?” Ikuko asked her daughter.

“Uh…yeah!” Usagi quickly cried before intertwining her arm with Mizuno-chan’s. “We’re just going to head up to my room now and continue studying so bye!” With that, the two girls waved goodbye to Ikuko and headed to Usagi’s room.

The two sat down as Luna began to speak, “Now that Sailor Mercury has found us, we still need to find the other three guardians and the princess before our enemies, this mysterious Dark Kingdom does. I also must apologize to you Sailor Mercury. I had misjudged your energy as belonging to our enemy instead of an ally and for this I am deeply ashamed.”

“It’s al-” Mizuno-chan began but was cut off by Sailor Moon.

“It looks like I was right too! I mean I was the one who pointed out that Mizuno-chan wasn’t evil,” Usagi proudly said. “By the way, thanks for saving me from my mom and the youma.”

“You’re welcome,” Mizuno-chan said before a small blush came to her cheeks. “So are we friends now?” said in a way like the concept was so foreign to her. 

“On one condition,” Usagi said as stuck up one finger. “You have to let me call you Ami-chan!”

Mizuno-chan or Ami-chan looked shocked by this before she gave a small smile. “Alright, but only if I get to call you Usagi-chan.”

“Well, we’re friends now!” Usagi said, before throwing her arms around her new friend and fellow guardian. 

“We better get to studying though,” Ami-chan said which made Usagi cry out in pain. 

“Why?!” Usagi cried before falling to the ground like she’d been hit on the head by an anvil.

“We did tell your mother we’d be studying up here. Besides, friends help each other, right?” Ami-chan said with a knowing smile.

“That’s mean,” Usagi groaned. How dare she use her own words against her? Especially in order to study. “Alright, fine. But I won’t enjoy it.”

Ami-chan then pulled out their textbooks which Usagi, begrudgingly, tried to follow along with. 

The two didn’t even notice Luna leave through the window.

Luna did as she did every night and made her way inside the Crown Arcade through a small crack in the alley. Luckily, they closed early on weekdays, so no one was bound to catch her breaking in and making her way toward the Sailor V video game. She still didn’t understand why Central Command insisted on using this game machine for important discussion. Then again she didn’t understand a lot about Central Command, other than what they told her. 

Hopping onto the seat she quickly typed in the code for Central Command when she heard the voice.

“Luna,” came the garbled tone. “Do you have any news for us?”

“Yes. I am pleased to say we’ve located Sailor Mercury who has been reincarnated into a middle school girl named Mizuno Ami,” Luna said as pictures of Ami and Sailor Mercury appeared on the screen. “Unfortunately, outside of combat and her abilities, she doesn’t remember anything like Sailor Moon.”

“This is unfortunate indeed,” Central Command said back. “For now, keep an eye on them both. Make sure they continue to grow as Sailor Guardians and guide them. They will need it.”

“Yes, Central Command. I also have other news,” Luna said as she took a deep breath. “Someone heard me talk today.”

“Who?” Central Command asked. 

“I’m not sure of his name but I know he’s a male with black hair and blue eyes,” Luna continued.

“Do you believe him to be a threat?” Central Command sharply questioned.

“He doesn’t seem like one,” Luna honestly answered. 

“Ensure he doesn’t hear you speak again,” Central Command said. “And what of the Tuxedo Mask situation?”

“Inconclusive. He saved me today and Sailor Moon has the utmost trust in him but I can't shake this feeling about him,” Luna continued.

“I see. Just watch him for now. He could be a valuable asset to us or a deadly enemy, but definitely a wild card,” Central Command said. “Anything else for today?”

“No.” 

“Good. Central Command signing off.” 

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And like that, they were gone and Luna was left in the dark, empty arcade with more questions than answers. Then again that’s how it always was with Central Command.

“Are you sure about this? Keeping them in the dark like this?” 

“It’s the only way. With the Dark Kingdom causing trouble and the other guardians unknown in this lifetime, we can only be careful.”

“But why wait for the other other guardians to reveal themselves?” 

“If we’re discovered now, it might be too late.”

“Whatever you say.”

[nerdysleepybunny]

what about a fanfic where the feline family decide to settle down from what they usually do to celebrate christmas and new year?

Of course, this sounds super cute! Thank you so much for the request, hope you enjoy!

🩷☁️N E R D Y S L E E P Y B U N N Y☁️🩷

Fandom(s): Sailor Moon

Character(s): Luna, Artemis, Diana (ft. Sailor Guardians)

Reader: None

TW: Mention of catnip, other than that just fluff!

Style: Hcs

Summary: The Sailor Guardians along with the feline family decide to take some time off to celebrate Christmas and New Years.

It was Usagi’s idea to take a few weeks off of their usual duty. At first everyone was against it, but after about half an hour of Usagi explaining over and over that there were no current threats and that they all needed a break, everyone finally agreed.

They all decided to take the party to Haruka’s house. So, on Christmas night, the Sailor Guardians, the Outer Solar System Sailor Guardians, Chibi Usa, and the feline family all gathered into Haruka’s fancy home to celebrate together.

“Who wants apple cider?!” Haruka being the rich girl she is of course had plenty of bottles to go around, since none of them could drink alcohol (I’m not sure about Japan’s rules on alcohol so if they can drink it just pretend they chose apple cider instead for Chibi Usa’s sake 😭) Haruka instead stocked up on the next best thing.

Since the kitties can’t exactly drink, Usagi gave Luna and Artemis some catnip and Diana some of her favorite treats. Chibi Usa of course lectured Usagi but the older girl rolled her eyes and distracted her future daughter with presents.

Karaoke night to Christmas songs all night long!

Mako of course made everyone a delicious Christmas meal, and they all munched away whilst enjoying some Christmas movies.

After eating, it was present time! Everyone got plenty of presents that they were all happy with and thankful for.

On New Years, everyone went onto the roof of a building with blankets and snacks as they watched the fireworks. Luna and Artemis definitely shared a smooch when the countdown was done, along with Usagi and Mamo.

Everyone had an amazing time, and were glad no enemies interrupted their time together. Everyone seemed to have gotten closer to each other, and these events would definitely become a yearly tradition.

🩷☁️N E R D Y S L E E P Y B U N N Y☁️🩷

This was more about the guardians than the cats, but either way I hope you enjoyed!

[sailor-comet-emily]

My fiancée got me these for our three year anniversary, but the brooch on the back, so cute. The bag I bought myself.

[the-red-planet-mars]

what space blogs are there?

Heyo! There's quite a lot actually- lemme share the planets first (some are side blogs of some blogs btw):

@the-lovely-planet-earth @planet-king-jupiter @the-ringed-planet-saturn @the-speedy-planet-mercury @the-chill-planet-uranus @the-adorable-planet-neptune @totally-neptune-official @venus-the-morning-star @the-enigmatic-planet-x

oh and there's pluto- two of them:

@official-planet-pluto @truly-pluto

then the dwarfies:

@haumea-the-dwarf-planet @makemake-the-silly-dwarfie @the-real-eris @asteroid-belt-resident-ceres

we also got galaxies:

@the-amazing-andromeda-galaxy @i-am-the-alcyoneus-galaxy @i-am-the-milky-way-galaxy

then we got da moons:

@the-serene-moon-luna @moon-of-fear-phobos @the-panic-moon-deimos @pizza-moon-io @speckled-callisto @charon-of-pluto @golden-moon-titan

our suns:

@the-radiant-sun @truly-the-sun

a totally tiny star:

@big-fucking-sagittarius-astar

and here is the list of constellations!

also there's the same pic of planets and moon blogs asw like @same-pic-of-the-blood-moon and @same-pic-of-mars-everyday and a lot more

I might've missed some but I hope this helped! :)

[pinkhairswagtourney]

please give a warm welcome to the 128 contestants of the pink hair swag tourney, part three !!

we have 57 new contenders and 71 returning competitors vying for the crown !! starting on 06/21/2023, we'll start voting to determine which of these pink haired characters is the swaggiest of all time !!

ROUND ONE MATCHUPS

PART ONE - 06/21 Iris Lovefeather - Tales of the Rays VS Lightning Farron - Final Fantasy Molli Pop - Candies n’ Curses VS Lily Tabacchi - Lily’s Well Yuyuko Saigyouji - Touhou Project VS Kasen Ibaraki - Touhou Project Madoka Kaname - Madoka Magica VS Aya Maruyama - Bang Dream! Vivian - Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door VS Anne Faulkner - Paradox Live Reona West - Prism Paradise VS Mirai Momoyama - Sparkling Prism Channel Crona - Soul Eater VS Chibiusa - Sailor Moon Satsuki Momoi - Kuroko no Basket VS Alice Asmodeus - Mairimashita! Iruma-kun

PART TWO - 06/22 Meninas McAllon - Bleach VS Neon Nostrade - Hunter x Hunter (1999) Shima Renzou - Blue Exorcist VS Szayelaporro Granz - Bleach Ln'eta - Sucker for Love: First Date VS Miyako Shikamori - Shikamori’s Not Just a Cutie Hot Pants - Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure VS Yasuho Hirose - Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Sheena Murphy - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles VS Scary Girl - Total Drama Cleo - Dragalia Lost VS Amy Pile - Grand Chase Mashiro Nijigaoka - Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure VS Nodoka Hanadera - Healin’ Good Pretty Cure Rina Tennoji - Love Live VS Mei Hatsume - My Hero Academia

PART THREE - 06/23 Mizuki Akiyama - Project Sekai VS Utena Tenjou - Revolutionary Girl UtenaSakura Miku - Vocaloid VS Goku Black - Dragon BallRose Quartz - Steven Universe VS Bonnibel Bubblegum - Adventure TimeLilim - Puyo Puyo VS Harpy - Puyo PuyoUlala - Space Channel 5 VS Jerrica Benton - Jem and the HologramsKohaku Oukawa - Ensemble Stars VS Ramuda Amemura - Hypnosis Mic Sara - Tales of Link VS Meido - Heaven’s Design TeamNatsu Dragneel - Fairy Tail VS Marluxia - Kingdom Hearts

PART FOUR - 06/24 Popuri - Harvest Moon VS Lyla - Harvest Moon Ramsey Murdoch - Epithet Erased VS Yoomtah Zing - Epithet Erased Trixie Roughhouse - Epithet Erased VS Giovanni Potage - Epithet Erased  Estellise Sidos Heurassein - Tales of Vesperia VS Sophia - Stardew Valley Expanded Clover Field - Zero Escape VS Zizel - Witch’s Heart Nikki - Love Nikki VS Zero Two - Darling in the Franxx Nana Hiiragi - Munou na Nana VS Amu Hinamori - Shugo Chara! Maggie Pesky - The Buzz on Maggie VS Jinmay - Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!

PART FIVE - 06/25 Reo Maruyama - Paradox Live VS Kazuichi Souda - Danganronpa Seraphine - League of Legends VS Violet - Arcane Jewelry Bonney - One Piece VS Koby - One Piece Perona - One Piece VS Shirahoshi - One Piece Minato Aqua - Hololive VS Himemori Luna - Hololive Mina Ashido - My Hero Academia VS Anya Forger - Spy x Family Kaoru Sakurayashiki - Sk8 the Infinity VS Nadeshiko Kagamihara - Yuru Camp Molly - Bubble Guppies VS Toadette - Mario Series PART SIX - 06/26 Hitori Gotoh - Bocchi the Rock! VS Mitsuri Kanroji - Demon Slayer Hinako Mishuku - Your Turn to Die VS Nao Egokoro - Your Turn to Die Riamu Yumemi - The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls VS Miyu Sakurada - Dig Delight Direct Drive DJ Sucy Manbavaran - Little Witch Academia VS Chuatury Panlunch - Gundam: The Witch from Mercury Ran - Urusei Yatsura VS Akira Kogami - Lucky Star Ilima - Pokemon VS Pastille - Starry Flowers  Kumatora - Mother 3 VS Amy Rose - Sonic the Hedgehog Setsuno - Toriko VS Genkai - YuYu Hakusho PART SEVEN - 06/27 Aubrey - OMORI VS Iris Sagan - AI: The Somnium Files Muku Sakisaka - Act! Addict! Actors! VS Tori Himemiya - Ensemble Stars Ribbon - Kirby VS Strawberry Crepe Cookie - Cookie Run Cotton Candy Cookie - Cookie Run VS Rambutan Cookie - Cookie Run Narciso Anasui - Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure VS Diavolo - Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Yanagi Hanabusa - DREAM!ing VS Shion Mikekado - DREAM!ing Delta - Honkai Impact VS Elysia - Honkai Impact Kory Anders - Titans VS Gamora - Marvel Cinematic Universe PART EIGHT - 06/28 Sakura Haruno - Naruto VS Euphemia Li Brittania - Code Geass Kipo Oak - Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts VS Tom Lucitor - Star VS the Forces of Evil “Big” Jack Horner - Puss in Boots VS Princess Poppy - Trolls Machi Komacine - Hunter x Hunter VS Chika Fujiwara - Kaguya-Sama: Love is War Slurpuff - Pokemon VS Tinkaton - Pokemon Hilda Valentine Goneril - Fire Emblem: Three Houses VS Yae Miko - Genshin Impact Ortega - Pokemon VS Nurse Joy - Pokemon Tenebria - Epic Seven VS Tecna - Winx Club

[ultimate-anime-tournament]

THE ULTIMATE ANIME TOURNAMENT BEGINS! featuring 384 shows spanning 60 years!

all matchups are listed below the cut, and the first polls will be going up shortly 👍

edit: made a google spreadsheet documenting all matchups and their wins/losses!

left side:

Majokko Megu-chan VS Soul Eater VS Turn A Gundam

Noragami VS Ranma 1/2 VS Shadows House

Captain Tsubasa VS Barakamon VS Ojamajo Doremi

Dr Ramune: Mysterious Disease Specialist VS Joshiraku VS Concrete Revolutio

Maya the Honey Bee VS Bocchi the Rock! VS Senyuu.

Angel Beats VS Golden Kamuy VS Initial D

Lucky Star VS Mononoke VS Assassination Classroom

Go! Princess Pretty Cure VS Shirobako VS Space Pirate Captain Harlock

Golden Time VS Death Note VS Ao Haru Ride

Food Wars VS One Piece VS Space Battleship Yamato

The Disastrous Life of Saiki K VS Blood Blockade Battlefront VS Poco's Udon World

Space Patrol Luluco VS Yu-Gi-Oh! VS Your Lie in April

Slam Dunk VS One Punch Man VS Candy Candy

Doraemon VS Akame ga Kill VS Black Clover

Space Dandy VS Sazae-san VS Bloom into You

Show by Rock!! VS Pokémon VS Restaurant to Another World

Uchouten Kazoku VS Tetsujin 28 VS Miracle Girl Limit-chan

Sally the Witch VS March Comes in Like a Lion VS Ground Defense Force! Mao-chan

Day Break Illusion VS Heidi, Girl of the Alps VS Zombie Land Saga

Yuri is My Job! VS Kimagure Orange Road VS The Seven Deadly Sins

Akudama Drive VS Future Boy Conan VS Land of the Lustrous

BanG Dream! VS Rin-ne VS Serial Experiments Lain

Snow White with the Red Hair VS Juni Taisen: Zodiac War VS The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

Ranking of Kings VS Osomatsu-san VS Odd Taxi

Flying Witch VS Bodacious Space Pirates VS Shugo Chara

Yuki Yuna is a Hero VS Super Dimension Fortress Macros VS Spy x Family

Magic Kaito 1412 VS Kaguya-sama: Love is War VS Kingdom

Aikatsu VS Cells at Work VS New Game!

Blue Exorcist VS Sound! Euphonium VS Ashita no Joe

Re:Zero VS My Hero Academia VS Pani Poni Dash

Ouran High School Host Club VS Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai VS Children of the Whales

86 vs Erased vs Demon Slayer

Mashle vs Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt vs Bakemonogatari

Skip and Loafer vs Shiki vs My-Hime

Laughing under the Clouds VS Naruto VS Sakura Wars

The Vampire Dies in No Time VS Dragon Ball GT VS Fist of the North Star

Shadowverse VS Blue Lock VS Tamako Market

Legend of the Galactic Heroes VS Lycoris Recoil VS Tanaka-kun is Always Listless

Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple VS Sonic X VS Samurai Champloo

Cutie Honey VS Tokyo Revengers VS Parasyte

Kaiji VS Deca-Dence VS Clannad

I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss VS Digimon Adventure VS Charlotte

Kageki Shojo!! VS Majuu Senshi Luna Varga VS Stars Align

Love, Chunibyo, and Other Delusions VS Gintama VS Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits

Bubblegum Crisis VS Air VS Made in Abyss

Touch VS Fire Force VS Love Live! Sunshine!!

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer VS Sket Dance VS Himitsu no Akko-chan

Zatch Bell VS Little Witch Academia VS Gal & Dino

Parappa the Rapper VS Life with an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout (Fabiniku) VS Talentless Nana

Nyanbo! VS Bomberman Jetters VS Do It Yourself!

Kochikame: Tokyo Beat Cops VS Nobody's Boy Remi VS Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury

Chika Ichiban VS Squid Girl VS Anne of Green Gables

Ikkyuu-san VS The Case Study of Vanitas VS Free!

Birdie Wing: Golf Girls' Story VS Chihayafuru VS So I'm a Spider, So What?

Aggretsuko VS Hakumei and Mikochi VS Mou Ippon

What's Michael VS Kimono Jihen VS Kiratto Prichan

Mushishi VS Uma Musume VS Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

Sabikui Bisco VS Dorohedoro VS The World Ends With You: The Animation

Un-Go VS The Case Files of Jeweler Richard VS Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure

Sonny Boy VS Tiger & Bunny VS Black Butler

A Place Further than the Universe VS Lupin III (all Parts) VS Tsuritama

Tari Tari VS Maoyu VS Buddy Daddies

Horimiya VS Akiba Maid War VS Cap Revolution Bottleman

Helck VS Play it Cool, Guys VS Revolutionary Girl Utena

right side:

Gegege no Kitarou VS Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood VS Urahara

D.Gray-Man VS Bakuman VS Devilman

Violet Evergarden VS Death Parade VS Speed Racer

Skull Face Bookseller Honda-san VS Mazinger Z VS Planetes

Aim for the Ace! VS Futari wa Pretty Cure VS Saiunkoku Monogatari

Comic Girls VS Galaxy Express 999 VS Dr. Slump

Wedding Peach VS Ronja, the Robber's Daughter VS Haikyuu!

Saint Seiya VS Mahoutsukai Chappy VS Yuri on Ice

Hikaru no Go VS Yona of the Dawn VS Mega Man NT Warrior

Black Lagoon VS Nichijou VS Space Cobra

Ms. Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles VS Stop! Hibari-kun VS She and Her Cat: Everything Flows

Space Brothers VS Gakuen Alice VS Dragon Ball Z

AKB0048 VS Kino's Journey -The Beautiful World- VS Musashi no Ken

Flip Flappers VS Hamtaro VS Daily Lives of High School Boys

Another VS Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju VS Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon

Gurren Lagann VS Hana no Ko Lunlun VS City Hunter

Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water VS Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun VS To Your Eternity

Kiteretsu Daihyakka VS Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun VS Noir

Bungo Stray Dogs VS Soreike! Anpanman VS Moomin

Hajime no Ippo VS Paranoia Agent VS Mobile Suit Gundam

Maison Ikkoku VS Yuru Camp VS Sherlock Hound

Great Pretender VS Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress VS World Trigger

Little Princess Sara VS Ghost Sweeper Mikami VS Keep Your Hands off Eizouken!

My Next Life as a Villainess VS Kirby: Right Back at Ya! VS Air Gear

Saint Tail VS Haibane Renmei VS Astro Boy

Crayon Shin-chan VS Tokyo Ghoul VS Hell Girl

Heaven's Design Team VS Neon Genesis Evangelion VS Kiznaiver

Servamp VS Akane-chan VS Yo-kai Watch

The Vision of Escaflowne VS Tsurune VS Sk8 the Infinity

The Promised Neverland VS Hime-chan no Ribbon VS Fruits Basket

Urusei Yatsura VS Dr. Stone VS Shaman King

Star of the Giants VS Cardcaptor Sakura VS Angelic Layer

Berserk VS Kodocha VS Ping Pong The Animation

Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's VS Boys over Flowers VS Otherside Picnic

Monster VS Sgt. Frog VS K-On!

Aria VS The Rose of Versailles VS Beyblade

Natsume's Book of Friends VS Planet With VS Detective Conan / Case Closed

Nodame Kantaabire VS Kyou Kara Maoh VS Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans

Duel Masters VS Shounen Ninja Kaze no Fujimaru VS Hunter x Hunter

Mahou Shoujo Lalabel VS Carole & Tuesday VS Powerpuff Girls Z

Big Windup! VS Heartcatch Pretty Cure! VS Fighting Foodons

Gosick VS Ace Attorney VS Inazuma Eleven

Given VS The Prince of Tennis VS Cowboy Bebop

Code Geass VS Teppen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VS FLCL

Wolf's Rain VS Reborn! VS Princess Tutu

Magic Knight Rayearth VS Romeo x Juliet VS Oshi no Ko

Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo VS Bakugan VS Jujutsu Kaisen

Yu Yu Hakusho VS Love Live! School Idol Project VS Trigun

Kimba the White Lion VS Waccha Primagi VS Toradora

Ultra Maniac VS Mahou Sensei Negima VS Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight

Visual Prison VS Steins;gate VS Inuyasha

Vinland Saga VS Assault Lily Bouquet VS Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day

Pop Team Epic VS Gingitsune VS Tokyo Mew Mew

Blue Period VS Higurashi When They Cry VS Fairy Tail

Chargeman Ken VS Shin Sekai Yori VS Chainsaw Man

Beyond the Boundary VS Silver Spoon VS Hyouka

Stitch! VS Mobile Suit Gundam SEED VS Symphogear

Kuroko's Basketball VS Pokemon Horizons VS Gatchaman Crowds

Ghost Stories VS Non Non Biyori VS Samurai Flamenco

Fushigi Yuugi VS Psycho-Pass VS Azumanga Daioh

Bleach VS Dragon Ball Super VS Ace of Diamond

My Neighbor Seki VS Mob Psycho 100 VS No. 6

Full Metal Panic VS Princess Principal VS Ya Boy Kongming!

Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei VS Puella Magi Madoka Magica VS Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song

[transacewithapan]

You wouldn't believe this, but...

I have more SolarBalls playlists :0

They're still being updated, sorry if some are short

SUN

MERCURY

VENUS

MARS

JUPITER

URANUS

PLANET X

Part 1 - EARTH

Part 2 - LUNA, NEPTUNE, SATURN

Part 3 - You're already here :)

[creature-wizard]

Is it true that Friday the 13th was a day of veneration to Freyja before the church started associating it with the devil?

Edit: Made one mistake in the original reply; Friday is named after Frigg, not Freyja! So this is edited to fix that.

So the thing about all of these cutesy little "did you know X has pagan origins??" memes, is that pretty much all of them are basically wrong. They tend to come about because people just kind of assume that if something doesn't have a Biblical basis, then it must be a carryover from pre-Christian paganism. People have spun all kinds of conspiracy theories out of this.

Moreover, many people have attempted to find a historical basis for the allegations made during Europe's pre-Christian witch trials, proposing that accused witches were actually cryptopagans gathering in the woods to worship some pre-Christian deity. In reality, the accusations were based on what Christians of the day imagined paganism to be like based on centuries of demonization: orgiastic, violent, and ultimately satanic; as well as a full-blown mockery of Christianity. Within the logic of the witch panic, if Christians have a sacred day of worship, then witches must also have a sacred day of worship - just evil. It's important to note here that Christians believe that Jesus was crucified on a Friday.

If we look at Wikipedia's article on the witches' sabbath, we can see that the idea of the witches' sabbath isn't extraordinarily old; in fact, it's a product of Europe's witch panic.

Also, Friday isn't named after Freyja; it's named after Frigg. And the whole claim that Freyja was worshiped on Fridays because Friday is named after her shows ignorance of the actual reason why the days are named the way they are. The whole thing actually goes back to ancient Rome. Sunday was dies Solis (day of the sun), Monday was dies Lunae (day of the moon), Tuesday was dies Martis (day of Mars), Wednesday was dies Mercurii (day of Mercury), Thursday was dies Iovis (day of Jupiter), Friday was dies Veneris (day of Venus), and Saturday was dies Saturni (day of Saturn).

The Romans, of course, were big on the idea that everybody else's gods were actually the same as their own. They associated Tyr with Mars, Odin with Mercury, and Thor with Jupiter - do you see where this is going? Friday got named after Frigg because in the Roman way of looking at things, Frigg is just the Norse version of Venus.

Finally, as far as I am aware, Freyja was never historically linked to the number thirteen, either. Every page I can find linking Freyja with the number thirteen is repeating the claim that Freyja was venerated on Fridays, and offers no explanation of why Freyja was associated with the number thirteen. If you look into myths about Freyja, you won't find her associated with thirteen of anything - and it would be very strange if you did, because the main sacred numbers in Scandinavian thinking were three and nine (three times three).

On the other hand, thirteen is an important number to Christians. Jesus plus the apostles made thirteen. The thirteen of them gathered at Passover shortly before Judas betrayed Jesus.

In conclusion, Friday the 13th has nothing to do with Freyja; this whole idea that it was historically associated with her is nothing more than a post-Christian conspiracy theory.

[craigyisprettygay]

YOOOOO!!!!! hello!! my name is minty and i like x readers….

and I want to let you know that these are the fandoms i write for!!

Solarballs ! (main interest!!!!) (+ solarballs ocs)

Twisted Wonderland ! (main interest!!!!) (+TWST ocs)

Honkai Star Rail ! (main interest!!!!)

If any of the creators of these fandoms are problematic, do note that I do not support them and only enjoy the media and not the person/people that is problematic.

Boundaries, guidelines and notes before requesting.

I will not write ANY smut or nsfw content. I am a minor and that makes me uncomfortable.

Please be mindful to give tw before requesting about the content, some people may not be comfortable. I will not write reader / characters actively self harming.

Please no pregnancy, scat, piss, watersports, agere or yandere requests. I genuinely can’t write them. Yandere makes me uncomfortable to write. Also I don’t write toxic relationships between s/o and reader. Reader can be mentioned to be in one or was in one but never a toxic relationship with s/o

All teen/child!reader requests will obviously be platonic.

Do note that when I write my readers they will usually be the less dominant in the relationship, as their s/o will be the one doing the moves of romance!! :) Does not mean they are weak at all— just less the one making the moves in the relationship! :3

I only write female and enby readers!

If I do crossovers, this is a list of fandoms I will accept for crossover ( Like ex. Jonah!Reader, Alt!Reader or Wally!Reader )

The Mandela Catalogue

Vita Carnis ( this one is more rather caretaker!reader with mimics or trimmings and things like that.)

FNAF / DSAF

Welcome Home

DHMIS

Characters I write for ! (* = my favs :3 )

sun(sb)

Mercury(sb)

Venus(sb)

Earth(sb)*

Mars(sb)

Jupiter(sb)

Saturn(sb)

Uranus(sb)

Neptune(sb)*

Pluto(sb)

Luna/The Moon(sb)

Titan(sb)*

Ganymede(sb)

Io(sb)

Triton(sb)

Callisto(sb)

Europa(sb)

Titania(sb)

Phobos/Deimos(sb) PLATONIC!!!

S.A.R(sb)*

Planet X(sb)

Iris(sb/ghe)

Kinito(KP)

Sam(KP)

Jade(KP)

Sawyer the Seastar(OC)

[celticcatgirl2]

They should kiss….

[dailytuxedomask]

[cerezatodd]

Okay. Hear me out.

SAILOR MOON (90's) X SCUM VILLIAN SELF SAVING SYSTEM

Where:

- Shang QingHua = Usagi (Sailor Moon)

- Shen Yuan = Rei (Sailor Mars)

- Shen Jiu = Artemis

- Qi QingQi = Luna

- Yue QingYuan = Minako (Sailor Venus)

- Liu QingGe = Makoto (Sailor Jupiter)

- Mu QingFang = Ami (Sailor Mercury)

- MoBei-Jun = Mamoru (Tuxedo Mask)

- Luo BingHe = Yuichiro

- TianLang-Jun = Rei's Grampa

- Ning YingYing = ChibiUsa

With a mix of the mythos and the stories. Maybe making SQH the protagonist, or him and SY being co-protagonist.

I have yet to decide about the rest of the characters. Sugestions?

EDIT:

- Sha HuaLing = Zoisite

- Liu MingYua = Kunzite

- ZhuZhi-Lang = Nephrite

- GongYi Xiao = Jadeite

- Old Palace Master = Queen Beryl

The OPM kidnapp them!

And TLJ is more that what he seems.

And SJ and QQQ can take human form.

[bringmefoxgloves]

i want to get more into saw/saw blogs b4 X comes out - what r some of ur fave saw blogs

Hi! You caught me at a good time (one where I have energy) so let's see if I can pump this out. I am in no way an authority on the entire Saw fandom so I will only be talking about my little corner of the internet. Please forgive me, my beloved followers, mutuals, and other owners of posts I have loved in this very small fandom-because I may forget some of you. The brain fog sometimes gets the best of me and if I did a full complete list, it would be.... It would be so long. This is in no way in order of best or worst, and sometimes I just have no words for why I love a person's blog.

@turnipoddity - Oh, what an artist! Every single post I see, love it. So excited to see an artist acquiring the Saw brainrot.

@bloodcoveredgf - Luna! Also just all around funny & good posts in addition to the Saw insanities.

@dracofelin - Jay has such good writing, and will make you love the ship of Mark Hoffman/Peter Strahm (coffinshipping).

@thefoulbeast - Simply put, Will's art makes me want to bite my own arm off. If you're interested in the video game Pathologic, his blog is worth a follow for that too.

@bathroomtrapped - I sometimes get the honor of previewing Larry's art mid-construction (because with all those colors and layers, it looks like building a house) and even half finished, it blows my socks off <3

@sawtrapz - Kaz, oh Kaz (!!!), Kaz gets my brain clicking about some of the rarepairs of this fandom and I will always spin your boygirl Adam in my head.

@cl0wnb0yyy - Will is just a great person in the fandom, also if you like Midnight Mass or NBC's Hannibal.

@ispyspookymansion - Kora looms large in the Saw fandom in my mind so it would be impossible to assemble this list without him.

@3razyswfangirl / @kiramillet - Kira's pixel art is amazing!!! Bunny <3

@tibby - Take a look through Tibby's saw meta. You won't be disappointed.

@allegedly-writer - Contrary to Jack's url, Jack can sure damn write! He just posted a fic and guess who it's for <3

@hansy-pansy-art - OUGH another amazing amazing artist. Also currently in a Red Dead Redemption moment, which I love.

@piddgeon - Speaking of RDR.... Mercury! Ah, just. (Chef's kiss) of a human being.

@samwis - Jami, who hears all my most insane horny thoughts who is such a mainstay in my corner of Saw fandom.

@romanromulus - Adam writes fics that will make you scream and cry into your pillow at midnight.

@tapeworrmart - Just. Ough. Art that I dream of one day hanging on my wall.

@vanilladella - a.m.'s art is my discord header. Enough said.

@carouselcometh - Remy is hilarious and also you need to read his series on Ao3.

@onehandkilling / @fatmasc - Shlomo... What do I say? Just go. Follow. Also threw in their fat fashion blog because YES!!!

@angel-trapped - Téa, you absolute legend. Origin of angelshipping (to me) (aka Lindsey Perez/Allison Kerry)

@sawtrapx - Liv, such a fun human being!!!

@starlightsailfish - Star's Saw Warrior Cats makes me dance in excitement.

@iinsawdious - Adrien is the best champion of the Adam & David (Saw 0.5) & Specs (Character from the Insidious franchise, also played by Leigh Whannell) are family hc. I love his enthusiasm!!

@adrianicsea - Adrian! Just. AH!!! Adrian's Sleeping with Ghosts series was perhaps my first introduction (outside of Adam romanromulus) to the sheer brilliance of Saw fandom writers.

@dodddraws - Dodd's art is.... I'm just at a loss for words, scrolling back through his blog. So much nsfw goodness.

@sawvhs - Rar's art is so so so iconic.

Okay I have to cut this list off here, jfc. There's others I should probably put on here but I'm getting tired and sweaty and my hands are hurting. Follow these people, check who they're reblogging from or who is reblogging them, go forth, prosper anon. Welcome to the Saw brainrot.