#part 6 or something of wild robot content

[wrongonthecusp]

baby brightbill and his momma

[summers-art]

I think I can figure out why but I just want to see you explain I/Me/Myself

🎵Song #6 I/Me/Myself by Will Wood 🎵[Full playlist]

Smile so widely. It's kinda wild that spotify was the one who recommended me this song as I was making the playlist. Like, I did specifically want the F/F flavor of Metamy for this story and they just knew LMAO. Trans girl Metal HC my beloved, though I can never be consistent with the pronouns but I usually default to using He/Him or It/Its for Metal in my own writing.

So far, Metal got it's ass beat, fell in love, and now needs to get repaired. It's in this state that the identity questions pop up, being the Real Sonic, Gender™ thoughts and also doing something about the big fat crush it's got on that darn Pink Hedgehog. I'm sure this will go well and without a hitch!!! (Don't look at the playlist length, don't worry about the 29 songs left, literally don't worry about it)

This song is rated Explicit; references dysphoria/body image issues/eating disorder LYRICAL BREAK DOWN BELOW 👇

I've been feeling lightheaded Since I lost enough weight to fit back in my skin Flower petals and feathers tether me to the ground (Pound for pound) Take my tea with formaldehyde for my Feminine side since the day that I died While I whittle my bones until I'm brittle Am I pretty now?

Since this is for a robot I am taking this very literal, as in Metal is a state of being repaired that is literally missing part of himself until it's been reattatched, fit back into "his skin" and that he literally did "die" when he got defeated in battle and all banged up. But this is also very much about body image issues/dysphoria as well

For some reason I find myself Lost in what you think of me And too confused to choose who I should be And now you've got me thinking

YEA? You are worried about what the cute pink hedgehog thinks of you? For SOME reason... if only we knew why... couldn't be because of the massive crush you have on her. Also that's funny that Metal would think he has a choice, he's Sonic! There shouldn't be anything to be confused about🙄(laugh track)

I wish I could be a girl, and that way You'd wish I could be your girlfriend, boyfriend Am I pretty enough to lie to? I wish I could be a girl, and that way You'd wish I could be your girlfriend, boyfriend

Speaking as a lesbian... a girl boyfriend is such a gender. I'd fight to hell and back for butch lesbian he/him Metal Sonic. Also, caring about your appearance to appease your crush, and also also; perhaps being a Girl Sonic doesn't invalidate the mission of being the real Sonic if being Girl Sonic is actually an improvement to whatever that faker loser copy thinks he is doing. (Transman Sonic is also real and true btw)

Just little old me in a big, big world Little old me in a big world I wish I were a girl

The "little old me" part makes a perfect call back to song #2 Puppet boy with it's lyrics "Little problems little minds / Little points of view / Little things like you." like that song is a perfect theme for Metal Sonic. My poor little robot, I'll fight everyone for you Metal get behind me girl.

I've been feeling lighthearted Since I gained enough weight back to cover my bones I get dressed up in shadows one leg at a time (We're so alike) But if the shoe fits, then I won't try it on You'll be walking out early, but the show must go on No, I know that I'm wrong But I love how you're on my side when I cross that line

AGAIN with the cover his bones/skeleton with literal machine parts LMAO. Though he's not happy with how he looks (dressed up in shadows), something aint right... you should try HRT girl that might help. Except it's hard to override the programming that no He is Sonic so like, why even bother? That's not important, gotta keep focus on the mission replace Sonic as the true version. Even if Amy or Eggman or whoever would be totally supportive of Metals new gender. Better to not think about it... 🙃

It's been a point of contention between myself and this Body that they stuck me in The privilege of being born to be a man

^Like the previous part, but so much louder HELP. Not even robots can be free from being assigned a gender at their creation, wtf... hell on earth.

Eating your prosthetic, meet your anesthetic criteria Pathetic seeing you become acetic Say my name like a slur, but I've been called worse And I've heard it all before, no this isn't a first

AGGHHH- this makes me insane. The fact that Metal Sonic, doesn't even have his own name, it is just Sonic but with the "Metal" prefix just to hammer home that he's a robot. And like, everyone (me included) just shortens it to Metal, never Sonic, to rub it in that we all think that it's the faker that is the original and not him. Pain, agony, suffering even.

Let me be the void you fill with Taxidermy fingerprints, taxonomize our differences I am quantum physics My witness brings me into existence

These ones also drives me insane (affectionate), it just goes hard as hell with the robot existentialism. Again, a robot- but what's the difference? Eggman is unfortunately enough of a genius to bring his creations to life and this sure gives us a lot of existential dread. Fucking hell, man.

I wish I could be a girl, and that way You'd wish I could be your girlfriend, boyfriend Am I pretty enough to love back? No not yet I wish I could be a girl, and really I'd prefer it if you would use I, Me, Myself Am I pretty enough, am I pretty enough To fucking die

PUNCHES THE WALL- NO BABY GIRL, YOU ARE PRETTY I PROMISE!!! It's going to be okay!!! Never kill yourself!!!! Auughh, falls to the floor. Also omg title drop- another banger for the identity crisis crowd. Like I said before, pronouns? Hard. Why make me pick ones when what is important is that that's totally Sonic the (metal) hedgehog and who cares about the rest?? WHO CARES?? Haha, amirite ladies? Don't fucking worry about it.

Little old me in a big world Well I would give you my whole world Little old me in a big world I wish

Woah, okay girl- that's kinda gay, damn 🤨😳

All identities are equally invalid Don't you think that there's a chance that you could live without it (repeated)

WELL? COULD YOU??? Sure would save you a whole lot of trouble if you could throw out the whole "being the real Sonic" identity war, but nothing in life ever comes easy now, does it? I do like that this part fading out is very whispery, like some part of him knows this at the back of his mind but just can not accept that as an option at all right now. We just suffer instead!!! Yahoo, yay, yippee!!!!

[ameliasoulturner]

What to Do Instead of Using AI Art (If You Still Want to Keep Your Soul Intact)

Let’s talk straight for a second. AI art is having its moment—and by “moment,” I mean it’s invading everything from children’s books to Instagram feeds. While there’s no denying the technology is impressive, there’s a growing chorus of voices shouting, “Wait a minute! Is this really what we want creativity to become?”

If you’ve ever scrolled past an eerily perfect AI-generated painting or read a blog post that felt a little too robotic, you're not alone. Many creators, hobbyists, and everyday folks are wondering whether we’re losing something sacred in the process—like authenticity, soul, and the joy of the creative mess.

So if you’ve been tempted to use AI art tools or writing bots just to keep up with trends, slow down. There’s still a whole world of satisfying, soul-feeding alternatives. Let’s dive into 12 totally free (and dare I say, more human) things you can do instead of relying on AI-generated content.

Because yes, AI art can be cool—but it can also be a slippery slope.

1. Start Doodling in a Sketchpad (Even if You Think You Suck)

There’s something magical about putting pen to paper. No fancy tablet, no expensive brushes—just you, your thoughts, and a blank page. Doodling can be therapeutic, and the more you do it, the better you get. Forget perfection. Embrace the ugly, the weird, the crooked eyes and off-center suns. That's what makes it yours.

2. Write a Poem on Your Notes App

Instead of prompting ChatGPT to write a poem for you (ironic, I know), try writing one yourself. Bad poems? Still beautiful. Rhyming is optional. Just put your feelings out there. It can be about your dog, your ex, your cup of cold coffee—whatever is real to you.

3. Take Analog Photos

Grab a disposable camera or dust off that old digital one from the early 2000s. Go for a walk and start snapping. Unlike AI-generated images, every shot you take is rooted in reality—with quirks, imperfections, and spontaneity that no machine can replicate.

4. Paint or Collage Using Old Magazines

Channel your inner child and create some tactile art. Dig through old magazines, cut out interesting images or words, and paste them into something completely new. It’s part storytelling, part therapy, and 100% handmade.

5. Journal Your Thoughts Without Editing

Writing without the intention of sharing can be incredibly freeing. Forget grammar. Forget structure. Just write. It’s like a brain detox, and it’s way more satisfying than asking AI to regurgitate generic wisdom.

6. Try Origami or Paper Crafts

All you need is a few sheets of paper and maybe a quick YouTube tutorial. Creating something with your hands taps into a completely different part of your brain than clicking “generate.” Plus, the pride of folding your first decent crane? Unmatched.

7. Start a “Real Life” Mood Board

Skip Pinterest and grab a corkboard. Pin real fabric swatches, ticket stubs, dried flowers, anything that brings you joy. This becomes a physical expression of your aesthetic, your memories, and your mood—something no AI mood board can replicate.

8. Join a Local Art Jam or Open Mic

Creative community is a powerful thing. Whether it’s painting together at a local cafe or reading your poetry at an open mic, human connection adds soul to art. It’s messy, real, and full of energy—not just pixels and prompts.

9. Learn an Instrument (or Relearn One)

Don’t underestimate the emotional depth that comes from strumming a guitar or plunking keys on a piano—even if you’re not good at it. AI can compose symphonies, sure, but it doesn’t feel anything while doing it. You do.

10. Design Your Own Album Cover or Poster

Even if you never release an album or host an event, designing a poster is a fun exercise in creativity. Use free tools like Canva or even good old Microsoft Paint. Let your imagination run wild. It’s about the journey, not the polished perfection AI can pump out in five seconds.

11. Write Fan Fiction or a Short Story

AI can imitate storytelling, but you live and breathe emotion, plot twists, and personal voice. Whether it’s fan fiction, a sci-fi tale, or a story about your dog saving the world, it’s your unique view that gives it heart. That’s irreplaceable.

12. Reconnect With Nature and Sketch What You See

Step outside with a pencil and a sketchbook. Draw that oddly shaped tree or the bird chilling on a wire. Nature doesn’t ask you to be perfect—it just wants you to notice. And that presence is what fuels real art.

Why the Overuse of AI in Art and Writing Feels... Off

Okay, so here’s the real talk. When AI creates art, it doesn’t feel. It doesn’t have heartbreak, nostalgia, fear, or joy. It mashes together existing data—patterns of beauty and meaning—without actually experiencing anything. That’s what makes it kind of soulless, no matter how cool it looks.

Art has always been about human expression. It’s how we process the world, understand our emotions, and connect with others. When you remove the human from that equation, you might still get something pretty—but you also get something hollow.

There’s also the ethical side. A lot of AI art is trained on real people’s work—often without consent. That means artists are seeing their unique styles get copied and diluted by tools they never agreed to feed. Yikes.

And then there’s creativity fatigue. The more you rely on AI to fill in your creative gaps, the less motivated you might feel to develop your own ideas. Why practice drawing when you can just type in “cyberpunk tiger goddess” and have a masterpiece pop out? Because mastery—and messiness—is the point.

When Should You Use AI Tools Then?

Look, AI isn’t the villain here. Like any tool, it has its place. Need a reference image? Cool. Want to brainstorm blog titles or jumpstart an outline? Go for it. But the danger comes when we start letting it replace us instead of just assisting us.

Use AI to support your creativity, not to substitute it. Think of it like autocorrect—you still need to know how to spell. You just get a little help along the way.

In Conclusion: Be a Human First, Creator Always

If you’re feeling burnt out by the AI wave, you’re not alone. The good news is, your creativity doesn’t need to be flashy, fast, or “perfect.” It just needs to be real.

Every time you choose to paint something badly, write something from the heart, or sing off-key in the shower, you’re claiming your place in the beautiful, chaotic tapestry of human art. And that, my friend, is something no algorithm can replicate.

Stay messy. Stay real. Stay human.

[kwispayne]

The Top 10 Films Of 2024

Sadly because of my illness and life in general I haven't been able to go to the cinema as much. Thankfully streaming services are more succinct and better than ever now.

So here is my top 10 films of the year. I haven't seen as much as I would like to have had, but I tried my best.

10. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (George Miller)

George Miller’s filmography is a weird thing to look at it. But one thing that cannot be denied is his masterful approach to this film series, which seems to be very much his pet project for life. Taking his story further, the direction in this film is fantastic, with some of the greatest action scenes ever put to screen, along with a keen eye for detail, where every shot is like a bloody grindpunk renaissance painting. Good cast too, but the real clincher is Chris Helmsworth’s overly garish performance as the films protagonist. Hopefully this isn’t the last that we see from this world Miller created. 

9. The Wild Robot (Chris Sanders)

Chris Sander’s creative output is gargantuan. Whether it is working with studio’s to create classics, or adding material to other films, his creativity, humour and emotional touch is a fantastic addition to this lovely animated feature. With a great voice cast, the film easily could have been a Wall-E carbon copy, but instead its a very creative take on a has been told story but with twist and turns that children and adults could love. The animation is also fantastic, looking rustic but keeping a futuristic edge to it.

8. Dune: Part 2 (Denis Villeneuve)

While Part 1 was the meat and bones of the plot, Part 2 is very much the full skin, hair and eyes. Taking the plot further without lacking the artistic flair and imagery of Villenueve’s style, as a whole, the film is a fantastic representation of the original source material. The cast do a fantastic job at bringing the story further, but the real highlight is Timothée Chalamet’s lead performance, highlighting him as the true blockbuster king of the modern era. The film itself visually is a sight to behold, with a lot of creative liberties taken throughout.

7. Immaculate (Michael Mohan)

Horror films with nuns are for some strange reason very popular. But this film (and the Omen remake) are examples where this type of film can be done very well. Taking things into more creative yet realistic territory, it slowly turns into a very dark and twisted slab of horror, with bloody results as it climaxes. A great cast, with an absolutely fantastic lead performance from Sydney Sweeney. When it finally gets to the ending, this film will drive a cold needle into your bones.

6. Deadpool & Wolverine (Shawn Levy)

he third Deadpool film was something that we thought we never would see. The idea of Deadpool finally moving into the MCU was a wet dream, but we finally have an R rated MCU film with no punches being held. Incredibly absurd, widely creative and jaw busting hilarious, it takes multiple re watches just to digest all the jokes within it. Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman easily carry this film with incredible chemistry and a great sense of humour. I hope this isn’t the last we see of this team up.

5. Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos)

2 films released this year, and they are both as absurd and interesting as each other. While Kinds Of Kindness is unforgettable in many ways, Poor Things is the more contemporary, yet utterly bonkers dark sci fi comedy. How Emma Stone won the Oscar for this I’ll never know, as well deserving as it is, it’s an incredibly mad performance in an utterly bonkers film. But even though it’s utterly bonkers, it’s utterly bonkers in the most fantastic ways. Another great addiction to Yorgos Lanthimos’ already eclectic fantastic filmography.

4. Destroy All Neighbours (Josh Forbes)

Shudder is a streaming service that has an abundance of new talent. And Alex Winter has been secretly creating and producing a lot of great content. And with this new film where he plays the protagonist, it is not surprising how fantastic this project has emerged as it has. When I was told a comedy horror film was made about prog rock, I already was in love with it., and thankfully the finished project is as perfect as I thought it could be. Incredibly funny, bloody disgusting and absurd as hell, it is an incredible hilarious piece of work.

3. Civil War (Alex Garland)

A career as successful as Alex Garland’s is one to marvel at. And not just in connect, but his ability to move between genres and roles with such ease. This time, taking an unbiased political narrative, Alex moves into territory while not fully foreign to him, but stylistically more contemporary yet emotionally brutal. With a fantastic cast, with a fantastic lead performance from Kirsten Dunst (not surprising as her talent is very underrated), the film goes into interesting twists and turns with a succinct but powerful message.

2. Love Lies Bleeding (Rose Glass)

Kristen Stewart has really done a massive sea change with her recent roles, as if Twilight was a distant memory. A film with a complex plot with many twists and turns, the film is masterfully spearheaded by the lead roles. One of the most interesting aspects of the movie is it’s daring to go into territory where there is a fine line between symbolism and reality, which can be jarring to some, but creatively I think it’s fantastic. This being her second film, Rose Glass is a director to watch out for, with both of her feature lengths being incredibly underrated masterpieces, especially when it comes to imagery and plot.

The Substance (Coralie Fargeat)

2 women take the top spot. Take note fella’s. Body horror is a genre I absolutely love. The creativity behind it is always outstanding, and Coralie Fagreat’s venture into this genre is as bloody and creative as shown through her debut film. An interesting cast and a creative premise, it moves into utterly bonkers territory with incredible imagination, practical and special effects. There is a lot of discussion to be had when it comes to the plot and the themes brought up throughout, but the discussions don’t retract from the impact left from this film. You will find it hard to forget this one.

[crystal-in-nagasaki]

crystal NOT in nagasaki, singapore: part three

Hello, and welcome back to part three of my Singapore and Thailand travels. In this part I'll pick up where I left off on day 6 in Singapore (of about 10).

This morning, we of course went to get breakfast at a hawker center. I found at my breakfasts with my Singaporean host family that it's pretty normal to eat what I would consider lunch or dinner foods for breakfast, like soup and noodle dishes. With the exception of obvious breakfast food like kaya toast, it seemed that breakfast food could really be anything.

For this breakfast we ate a noodle dish called cheung fun, originating from the Cantonese province of Guangdong in southern China. It's made by filling a wide strip of rice noodle with meat and/vegetables then served in broth. The cheung in cheung fun means intestine, not because it's made of intestines, but because it looks like them. The more you know! Anyway, it was of course delicious.

After our breakfast of hot noodles, my friend's mother brought us a sweet treat which ended up being one of my favorite foods of the whole trip. It's called pisang goreng, meaning fried banana. It was soooooooo good. I still dream of it even now.

After this delicious breakfast, I split off with my American friend again and went to Singapore Botanic Gardens to see the tropical flora and fauna (and try to hunt down some wild otters.)

I admittedly became obsessed with these grass-cutting robots, which I nicknamed "grass roombas," so I feel the need to include a picture of one here. They were all over the park and I thought they were so cool and really shows how advanced Singapore is technologically!

Despite it's reputation as a city-state, Singapore is home to a lot of interesting wildlife including huge monitor lizards and wild otters. I found this big monitor lizard sunning himself by a pond, and I saw many more in Thailand as well.

I heard stories from my Singaporean friend that wild otters could be found in the nature reserves of Singapore, so I was really excited to find them. She said they can even be pests to Singaporean residents, sneaking into public ponds and pools and even eating pet fish. I finally spotted a huge group of them in the Botanic Gardens swimming and playing in a big lake. The little chirping noises they made were so cute! I'm really glad I got to see them in their native habitat.

At this point we were sufficiently sweating from the tropical heat, so we met back up with our Singaporean friends to grab a lunch of Indonesian fried chicken, called ayam penyet. I got coconut milk to drink, which came in a large coconut. You could also scrape out the flesh and eat it. It was so tasty and refreshing!

After this, I broke off with another Singaporean to go to something I had really been looking forward to: an ice cream museum. This was basically just a ton of colorfully decorated rooms with all-you-can-eat ice cream (and a little bit of educational content.)

At the entrance, you can create your own nametag, and making some kind of ice cream pun was encouraged. For example, I saw names like Kanye Zest and Brad Pittstachio. I can't remember what name I chose, but I remember trying really hard to come up with a pun and couldn't think of anything. If you think of a good one, let me know!

After putting on our nametags, we continued into the first room which had a beach-y vibe. We also received our first ice cream. There were two choices and I picked pink guava. It was really good!

After finishing our first round of ice cream, we moved into the next room, in which all four walls were covered in letter magnets that could be moved around. There were prompts on the walls like "where are you from?" and "what is your dream?" My friend arranged the letters into "live in Tokyo" and I put down "open a cat cafe." This is earnestly my impossible dream that I daydream about when I pretend money and other obstacles don't exist. But anyway, this room was really fun, and I liked reading what other people had left as well!

The next room was set up to look like a retro diner (but still pink of course.) There was a bar, jukebox, and fake vinyl records hanging on the wall. In this room we chose to eat a twist of peppermint and vanilla frozen yogurt. This was easily my favorite ice cream of the day! Frozen yogurt is much more popular back in the states, so it had been a long time since I had it. It was delicious.

From there, we walked down this aesthetic hallway and grabbed some instagram-worthy pics before heading into the next room.

The next room was decorated with huge colorful popsicles sticking out of the walls, and we received a similar size and shape of ice cream to enjoy. These ones came in traditional Asian flavors like pandan and red bean. I got pandan since I was learning to love the flavor on this trip.

In the next room were some swings and playground equipment. Am I an adult? Yes. Did I enjoy swinging on the giant banana-shaped swing? Also yes.

My friend also told me that the playset was designed to be a cute version of another famous playset in Singapore that's shaped like a dragon! I'll post the other one for reference.

Next we walked through a few more aesthetically pleasing spaces, like this dimly lit one, and a banana tunnel.

Then we entered another room which offered a Barbie-themed ice cream. It was vanilla flavored, but colored a bright pink. It was yummy!

One of the last rooms was arguably the museum's main attraction, the giant ball pit filled with (non-edible) sprinkles. I haven't been in a ball pit in a loooooong time, so I did admittedly flounder about a bit, but it was really fun to throw the sprinkles around and pretend I was in a giant sugary wonderland.

That was about it for the ice cream museum. It was a bit expensive, about $50 and mainly existed for instagram photo-ops but hey, I loved walking through all the pink rooms and eating copious amounts of delicious ice cream. I did find the place a bit...dirty. There were lots of kids running around and climbing on stuff, so I wish it was cleaned a bit more often. But overall it was fun and I recommend it!

I'd like to talk briefly about just two more things before I wrap up this part! That night after the ice cream museum, my friends and I went to the Night Luge, where we could race carts down a big colorful hill. The carts aren't motorized and you just use gravity and a brake to control it. You can take a ski lift to the top and then ride down several times. It was really fun!

The next night I went to the Night Safari, the world's first ever nocturnal zoo. Have you ever visited a zoo during the day and found that all the animals were asleep? At the Night Safari, you enter the zoo after nightfall and can enjoy seeing various nocturnal animals up and moving about. It was very dimly lit so the visitors could see without disturbing the animals, so I wasn't able to get many pictures. The pictures I did get were very blurry because of the slow camera exposure at night.

My favorite animals were the fishing cats, a type of nocturnal wild cat known for their fishing ability. I spent an almost embarrassing amount of time watching them stalk up and down the river banks, trying to eye fish to catch. They were so cute! Here's one very crappy picture of one of them:

I also got this cute picture of a sleeping tasmanian devil. I guess nocturnal animals aren't always awake all night!

Okay, that's all I have for part three of my Singapore travels. I think there will be one or two more parts about Singapore, and then I'll share about my time in Thailand, which was much shorter. Thanks for reading and stay tuned for Singapore part four!

[hiding-bliss]

Emotions - Sims 4 Challenge

This challenge is a whimsy challenge. Filled with chaos, excitement, and emotions, you will never be bored. Basically. (Idk, don't quote me on that)

RULES:

1. No mods that could effect your performance of the challenge 2. CC and MCC are aloud 3. The only way to lose the challenge is your gen dying without completing the qualifications 4. No bringing Sims back to life in any way 5. Life span must be on normal unless gen rules say otherwise 6. This challenge uses all packs, if you do not have the ability to complete a gen because of your lack of packs, you have my permission to override it ;) 7. HAVE FUN. now.

NOTE

For the child aspirations, you do not have to complete them!!

GEN 1 - Happiness

You were born into this world with no care in the world, and are a little naïve. You grew up with positive, loving parents, and feel that positivity is something everybody needs. You're the type of person who walks around feeling bubbly and pumped all the time. All you want to do in life is spread your joy, and bring everyone you can with you.

Complete Aspiration: Big happy family Aspiration as a child (do not have to complete): Social Butterfly

Your sim has the traits: Cheerful, Childish, Family Oriented

Trait as a toddler: Silly

Max out the career of: Education

Max out the skills of: Parenting and Charisma

- Have three toddlers at the same time (if you need to temporarily move your sims lifespan to long for this, you can) - Have next gen kids visit every Saturday - Read your child to sleep every night - The only way to have fun is watching kids TV or playing with kids toys - In retirement have this gen have 4 pets. Two cats, two dogs. (they can be un-played)

GEN 2 - Sadness

You had the best childhood anyone could ever ask for, but always seemed to be down, and overall negative. You like a lot of things, but have never really loved anything. You don't really know what you want to do in life, and even though being raised in a house where you always have a plan, you have none, and that's the way you like it. All you know is that you're an emotional, creative, mess.

Complete the Aspiration: Bestselling author Aspiration as a child: Artistic Prodigy

Have the traits: Gloomy, Clumsy, Loner Trait as a toddler: Independent

Max out the career: Writer

Max out the skills: Writing and an instrument of your choice

- Have at least two failed relationships           - Have the first relationship fail because they cheated on you           - Have the second fail because you cheated on them - Have main next gen from random hookup - Have four children overall - Get into at least 3 fights with your spouse in your lifetime - Write in journal everyday as a kid - Age up with uncontrolled emotions

GEN 3 - Disgust

You grew up with a parent who was afraid to voice her opinions, and a father who made your life extremely easy. In result of this, you live your life comforted by money, being posh, and insensitive. All you did as a kid was argue until you got your way. But then as a young adult you're dumped in the city with zero simoleons, and all you want is your old life back.

Complete the Aspiration: Fabulously Wealthy Aspiration as a child: Social Butterfly

Have the traits: Self-Assured, Ambitious, Snob Trait as a toddler: Charmer

Max out the career: Law

Max out the skills: Gourmet Cooking and Violin

- Move to San Myshuno with zero simoleons as a young adult - Have all A's as a child - Age up with good manners - Age up with insensitive trait - Don't get married until career maxed out - Only have one child - Become best friends with the grim reaper - Make a club where you argue every week

GEN 4 - Fear

You grew up with a parent who was a little rough around the edges, and tried to get you into the lavish lifestyle, but you just weren't for it. You don't like to argue with people, and want to keep the peace. You're the type of person who's scared of what's around the corner, whether it's violence, or other people. You never voice your emotions, save for when you're painting.

Complete the Aspiration: Painter Extraordinaire Aspiration as a child: Artistic Prodigy

Have the traits: Creative, Squeamish, Paranoid Trait as a toddler: Angelic

Max out the career: Painter

Max out the skills: Painting and Wellness

- Never break up with anyone (to end a relationship, kill them or make them break up with you) - Leave someone at the altar as a young adult - Age up with the mediator trait - Age up with the polite trait - Have one argument with your best friend - Paint a painting in the mood of previous gens (as close as you can get) - Get married to two people (have the first marriage divorce you) - Live in a tiny house for all of young adult life (mid tier)

GEN 5 - Surprise

You grew up with a simple, loving lifestyle, and all throughout your childhood you were just kind of... bored. The only thing you ever enjoyed was food. You don't like the idea of settling down, all you want to do is explore the city, and lead a pointless, reckless, life.

Complete the Aspiration: City Native Aspiration as a child: Rambunctious Scamp

Have the traits: Non-committal, Foodie, Adventurous  Trait as a toddler: Wild

Max out the career: Food critic

Max out the skills: Cooking, Dancing, Mixology

Get to level 5 of: Bowling and Singing

- Go half way into the food critic career before owning your own restaurant - Sell restaurant once adult - Go back to level 5 of food critic as adult (you may use cheats for this) - Have one boy and one girl (you may use cheats for this) - Cook dinner for your family every night - Age up with no bonus traits - Get married as an elder - Live in every district of the city - Have six cats

GEN 6 - Pride

Your mother always taught you to have fun and be confident... but eventually you became a little lazy and too confident. You know this, but don't know how to fix it. You decide to lose all the fun, go to university, and be a doctor. Maybe you'll lose your arrogance if you're good at something?

Complete the Aspiration: Academic Aspiration as a child: Rambunctious Scamp

Have the traits: Goofball, Lazy, Ambitious, and Self-Absorbed Trait as a toddler: Independent

Max out the career: Doctor

Max out the skills: Knitting and Robotics

- Have D's as a kid - Go to park every other day as child - Host at least three parties at your home as a teen - Go to Uni for biology - Go into florist career as an elder - Have the lazy trait has a teen, trade it out for ambitious as a young adult - Max out knitting as an adult/elder - Drink milk every day

GEN 7 - Shame

At school, kids would always tease you for your mom being rude and rich. In your childhood, the only happiness you found was with video games. You were always ashamed of yourself, and the way you lived, and could never find good people that didn't judge you. Once you move out, all you're looking for is someone who can finally understand you, and to lead a simple life in the country where you can play games to your hearts content.

Complete the Aspiration: Soulmate Aspiration as a child: Whiz Kid

Have the traits: Genius, Geek, and Lazy Trait as a toddler: Clingy

Max out the career: E-Sports Competitor

Max out the skills: Media production, Programming, and Video Gaming

- Live in Brindleton Bay from young adult to elder - Age up with polite trait - Age up with emotional control trait - Play games after school everyday - Never have any friends until young adult - Meet all your friends online (from work) - Only ever have one relationship (the one you die with) - Get cancelled for having your spouse cheat on you (story flipped)

GEN 8 - Embarrassment

As a child, your parents were always loving and "with the kids". Your life is everything you've dreamed of until your mom gets cancelled and your parents split. Once they've split and you've moved to a whole new world, you bury yourself in music and books. But in the end, all you want in life is to move on, and pretend like you're something you're not.

Complete the Aspiration: Master Actor/Actress Aspiration as a kid: Social Butterfly

Have the traits: Outgoing, Music Lover, Bookworm Trait as a toddler: Clingy

Max out the career: Actor/Actress

Max out the skills: Acting, all toddler skills, and get to level 8 of 3 skills of your choice

- Age up with the responsible trait - Have three different part time jobs - Have a part time job while in the actor career (tiers 1-3) - Never be broken up with - Have three children - Have all your children enrolled in drama club - Never pass level 3 in parenting - Say something to someone from a different category every day - Have your number leaked (you may use cheats) - Move to a new world as a child/teen

GEN 9 - Excitement

Your mother was always embarrassed due to her past, and in so never really talked to anyone. You've grown up in the spotlight and find it exciting, but don't think you want to be in it forever. Your life was always fun and exciting, and once you move out that's all you want, light-heartedness and fun. You’re a messy, private, jokester.

Complete the Aspiration: Joke Star Aspiration as a child: Rambunctious Scamp

Have the traits: Goofball, Slob, Un-flirty

Trait as a toddler: Charmer

Max out the Career/Branch: Entertainer/Comedy

Max out the skills: Comedy and Mischief

- Spontaneously adopt a child (next heir) - Never get married - Never have a fight - Never move - Have a party every week - In your final house, have a full-on stage to practice comedy - Age up with the in-polite trait - Witness three deaths (you may use cheats, or make them your own)

GEN 10 - Anger

Your parents always tried to make you laugh as a kid, but every hint of laughter just made you more angry. You're naturally angry, and don't care. All you care about is your career, and not how other people see you. You're a little emotional and stubborn, but who isn't?

Complete the Aspiration: Public Enemy Aspiration as a child: Whiz Kid

Have the traits: Hates Children, Evil, Ambitious Trait as a toddler: Fussy

Max out the career: Criminal

- Age up with 3 negative traits (parenthood) - Kill 5 sims from your work (you may do this in any way, whether through violence mods or MCC)  - Go to work for one day in Law Enforcement - Get in a fight at every place you go - Have six enemies - Each time you age up, invite someone over just to fight them (for toddler, child, you may just do a mean interaction)  - Don't have any kids - Die from someone poisoning you - Go to your local park every week to yell at kids

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Wordgirl Fanfic Recommendations Masterlist

Thanks for 250 followers, guys! I appreciate you all very much!

At long last, here it is! A full compilation of my personal favorite Wordgirl fics! All fics are complete and in English. Please don’t forget to reblog and review to support fanfiction writers!

Additionally, this blog will post and promote all fanfiction links submitted to it. 

Wordgirl & Doctor Two Brains 

Title: The Doctor Is In | Author: otempora16 | Words: 23k | Rated K+

Becky Botsford may be an alien, but she's never had any trouble living on Earth - until she's struck with a bizarre disease that no human doctor can cure. Only one person has studied Lexiconians enough to have any hope of saving her. Unfortunately, he's trapped deep within his own mind, under the control of a malevolent mouse...

This is the best Wordgirl fic I’ve ever read. It hits everything I wanted to see from this show--the bond between Wordgirl and Dr. Two Brains, Dr. Two Brains struggling against his own darkest impulses--coupled with fantastic writing and pacing. Everyone is in character while balancing a more sophisticated and darker tone. I’ve read this one at least five times. 

Title: Awake in the Night | Author: Laura Latts | Words: 10k | Rated: K+

Two-Brains is fighting with himself again. The results? He's losing. But how could Steven be coming back from the supposed dead? And how can Wordgirl help him win before the sun rises?

Absolutely heartbreaking fanfic centered around Wordgirl’s relationship with Steven as Dr. Two Brains attempts to stifle him. Steven can only take control at night, and attempts to build a machine to separate himself from Squeaky, only for Two Brains to wake up and stop him every time. It’s brilliantly written, very in-character, and it just might make you feel. 

Title: Much Abides | Author: otempora16 | Words: 3k | Rated K

Before she heads off to her first year of college, Wordgirl has a few loose ends to tie up. Oneshot. Sort-of sequel to "New and Subtle Shades."

Wordgirl’s last conversation with Two-Brains before leaving for college. Sweet and heartbreaking even if it could’ve gone a little deeper. Brief mentions of past Steven. As their last WG fic, it’s a nice send-off. 

Wordgirl/Tobey (or Tobecky)

Title: New and Subtle Shades | Author: otempora16 | Words: 6k | Rated K+

Growing up is hard, and growing up a superhero is harder. But amidst all the stress and struggle of her freshman year of high school, Wordgirl starts to realize that support, friendship, and fun can be found in the most unexpected of places. Oneshot, focusing on an older Wordgirl's relationships with her villains.

Once again, the otempora16′s dialogue is on point. This fic focuses on WG’s relationship with The Butcher, Leslie, Dr. Two Brains, Chuck, and finally Tobey. It’s incredibly sweet and charming, and shows Wordgirl and Tobey in the earliest stages of a relationship in an entirely believable way. Also featuring Dr. Two Brains as an overprotective father figure. 

Title: Green World | Author: otempora16 | Words: 3k | Rated K+

Becky Botsford's superhero duties have run her off her feet lately, and she knows she needs to crack down on schoolwork if she wants to finish junior year strong. But when warm summer breezes are blowing, the carnival is in town, and Tobey McCallister is standing outside her window ... well, some nights are just begging to be seized. 

A fun and delightful fic of Becky and Tobey having a good time. 

Title: From Good to Rotten | Author: Laura Latts | Words: 25k | Rated K+

After the amnesia ray, what if Two-Brains didn't forget everything? What if he was just waiting? Waiting for the perfect moment to get Wordgirl once and for all... 

Dr. Two Brains remembers Wordgirl’s secret identity from a previous episode where it was revealed, and uses a special ray to turn her evil and use her to do his bidding. Highly interesting, and written in the style of the show (with a narrator, defined words, and a similar style of humor). Features the rest of the villains saving Wordgirl from herself and Dr. Two Brains being a bit of a jerk.

Title: Something Hidden | Author: HibiscusAngel15 | Words: 137k | Rated K+

Tobey just can't shake the feeling that Becky is WordGirl, no matter how many times he's been wrong before. The only question is of how to prove it.

Nothing to add. Just a great fic. 

Title: Have You Seen My Robut? | Author: HibiscusAngel15 | Words: 3k | Rated K

Today was just not Tobey McCallister's day. After his latest robotic creation to help the city malfunctions and runs off on him, he's left with no choice but to work together with his nemesis WordGirl to find it. But how can the two even hope to work together, especially when she's a supervillain? An AU one-shot where Tobey and Becky's roles are reversed.

Interesting concept I’d love to see explored more. I’m always a sucker for Wordgirl as a villain, and Tobey as a hero was nice to see. Additionally, Wordgirl is the one with the crush on Tobey in this universe. I thought it stayed true to both characters and was well-written. 

Title: Saving Tobey | Author: Night_N_Gail | Words: 92k | Rated: Gen

“I’m telling you, WordGirl, that kid is a time bomb. You think he’s a menace NOW? Wait until he’s a teenager and his emotions are running wild. Wait until he’s an adult and he’s not afraid of his mother anymore. It won't be pretty, I can promise you that." -:- Post-series

Slowburn relationship with Tobey gradually going over to the good side. First part of a three part series by the same author. I have not read the sequels, so I can’t recommend them, but if you like “Saving Tobey” give them a try.

Dr. Two Brains/Lady Redundant Woman

Title: A Provocloniversary | Author: Unbalanced Enigma | Words: 3k | Rated: K+

A Dr. Two Brains and Lady Redundant Woman fluffy one-shot taking place at a villain convention. It works off the assumption that they've already been an item for awhile, six months to be precise. The doctor wants to celebrate the events, but awkward and silly interruptions ensue. This features a wide variety. Rated K for a little suggestive romancing.

This fic is really cute and well-written. The characterization is spot-on for everyone and has plenty of humor. I especially enjoyed Tobey getting back at Two-Brains for the events of Mousezilla. As someone who did ship Provoclone back in the day, this fic is a definite recommend. 

Dr. Two Brains, Squeaky, and Steven

Title: Descent Into Madness | Author: Laura Latts | Words: 1k | Rated: K+

No one really knew what happened. What he went through during the incident. What happened when Prof. Steven Boxleitner became Dr. Two-Brains?

An interesting exploration of the time between Steven’s “Oh no, this is going to sting” and him running into Becky and TJ. Short but dark and interesting.

Title: A Science Experiment Gone Horribly Wrong | Author: 3LNR | Words: 2k | Rated: K+

This fanfic is a detailed description of Steven's thoughts and feelings before, during, and after his fateful experiment. It includes Two Brains' and Squeaky's viewpoints as well. The day starts out very normally, but gradually becomes more creepy and intense as the story progresses. Rated K+ for somewhat disturbing but non-graphic content.

For a fic I wrote 6 years ago, I think it holds up pretty well. Give it a read if you’re a fan of Two Brains.

Title: When I Don’t Remember You | Author: 3LNR | Words: 3k | Rated K+

Dr. Two Brains goes on a mysterious trip to a place he had almost forgotten.

Another angsty fic I wrote six years ago, where Two Brains briefly reunites with Steven’s parents. It does not go well. Song title is inspired by the song of the same name from the series “Adventure Time”.

Title: Take Care of Them | Author: orphan_account | Words: 1k | Rated: Gen

After a stupid mistake, Two Brains and Steven have a heart to heart while Two Brains dies. (Squeaky dies too)

Sad fic in which Steven gets his freedom at the expense of Dr. Two Brains’ life. Short but memorable enough to earn a spot on the list.

Title: A Late Night Chat | Author: Donotquestionme | Words: 1-3k | Rated: Unknown

“Remember, whatever I say, don’t open this door until morning, got it?” The henchmen shuffled their feet anxiously. They never quite understood what went on behind that heavy, padlocked door, and they weren’t sure they wanted to. All they knew was that, every once in a while, their boss would lock himself in that room and, for the next few hours, muffled shouting could be heard coming from behind the door. Even stranger, sometimes they swore they could hear crying.

This might be the first WG fic I ever read, so it holds a special place in my heart. It was also written by someone with a fantastic ask blog that’s been on hiatus for years now (ask-dr-two-brains) who has a perfect grasp on the character. This fic is about the unanswerable question of whether Steven could bring himself to kill Two Brains if he had the chance to set himself free. I wish this person had written more, but it's fabulous nonetheless. 

[nxsmss]

Movies I watched in February

fyi, I have zero knowledge on how to professionally rate or review a movie. I am not gonna pay attention to every little detail. these rating are simply based on how much I enjoyed/liked the movie

Follow me

Unhinged

In Time

Avengers Age of Ultron

Songbird

Star Trek

Step up all in

Project Almanac

Ant Man

Space Sweepers

Christiane F.

Jurassic World

Jurassic World the fallen kingdom

1. follow me

A social media personality travels with his friends to Moskow to capture new content for his successful vlog. Always pushing the limits and catering to a growing audience, they enter a cold world of mystery, excess, and danger. 

starring: Keegan Allen, Holland Roden, Denzel Whitaker, Ronen Rubenstein, Pasha D. Lchnikoff

the end was very predictable and i pretty much already knew halfway through the movie what was gonna happen. but it still was quite thrilling and I did enjoy watching it

6.5/10

2. unhinged

After a confrontation with an unstable man at an intersection, a woman becomes becomes the target of his rage. 

starring: Russel Crowe, Caren Pistorius, Gabriel Batemen

hm idk, I didn’t really like it, my sister didn’t really like it but my mom did, I think. it just seemed so, no overdramatic but just too much in a way

3/10

3. in time

In a future where people stop aging after 25 and need to buy time to live, the rich become immortal while others cease to exist. So, Will is on the run with a hostage in a desperate bid to survive. 

starring: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy, Olivia Wilde, Alex Pettyfer

yes, such a good movie. Ireally like the concept. can recommend

7/10

4. avengers age of ultron

When Tony Stark and Bruce Banner try to jump-start a dormant peacekeeping program called Ultron, things go horribly wrong and it’s up to Earth’s mightiest heroes to stop the villanious Ultron from enacting his terrible plan. 

starring: Robert Downy Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johanson, Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Paul Bettany

hell yes, one of my favourite marvel movies. Wanda and Pietro.. Hawkeye.. all the little jokes throughout the entire movie and of course the scene where everyone tries to lift thor’s hammer, what’s not to love about this movie

10/10

5. songbird

In 2024 a pandemic ravages the world and it’s cities. Centering a handful of people as they naviagete the obstacles currently hindering society: disease, marital law, quarantine, and vigilantes. 

starring: K.J. Apa, Sofia Carson, Demi Moore, Bradley Whitford, Peter Stromare, Alexandra Daddario, Craig Robinson

I really enjoyed watching this. yeah sure, the ending was obvious but I was still glued to the screen. I also felt super weird watching this, kinda surreal because we are basically living a more harmless version of this rn. I really liked seeing sofia carson in such a movie, I’ve only seen her in the descendants so this was a bit of a change haha. I’m not that big of a fan of kj but he was great as well and i really loved his characters style.

7/10

6. star trek

The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father’s legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful Romulan from the future creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time. 

starring: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy, Carl Urban, Eric Bana, Bruce Greenwood, Zoe Zaldana, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Anton Yelchin

I put it on because I wanted to have some background noise while playing sims but I ended up playing like 20 minutes and then just watching the movie haha I forgot how good it was, and the others as well, aaand I totally forgot carl urban was in it, so that was a little surprise. anyways, can recommend watching them if you’re into sci-fi action movies but at the same time, if you’re into that I’m pretty sure you’ve already watched them.

7.5/10

bonus: I also watched star trek beyond the other day but this time I was barely paying attention so I can't really say too much, but it's also quite good👍🏻

7. step up all in

All-stars from the previous Step up installments come together in glittering Las Vegas, battling for a victory that could define their dreams and their careers.

starring: Ryan Guzman, Briana Evigan, Adam Sevani, Misha Gabriel Hamilton, Sephen Stevo Jones, David Schreibman, Mari Koda, Alyson Stoner, Izabella Miko

definetly one of my favourite dance movies. highly recommend it!! I’d like it more without the romancde but it’s fine, I guess, I can live with it haha and the last performance... wow just wow that’s all I can say to that. y’all go watch it

9/10

8. project almanac

A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.

starring: Jonny Weston, Sofia Black-D’Elia, Sam Lerner, Allen Evangelista, Virginia Gardner

okay... I did enjoy watching it! the beginning was a little slow imo but then it just got more and more intense which was kinda nice. god, at some point the main guy kept making the wrong decisions and that was very frustrating to watch. the ending was alright, spoiler ahead (I guess) I would have liked the ending more if it was the exact same as the beginning, meaning that the movie is just one big time loop and the events from the movie were about to repeat themselves. but that's just my opinion🤷🏻‍♀️

6.5/10

9. ant man

Armed with a super-suit with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, cat burglar Scott Lang must embrace his inner hero and help his Mentor Dr. Pym, plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.

starring: Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll, Michael Pena, Bobby Cannavale, David Dastmalchian, T.I.

another one of my favorite mcu movies. it's just fun and easy and doesn't have a lot of pain in it. the giant ant it's my favorite part haha I want it as a pet

9/10

10. space sweepers

Set in the year 2092 and follows the crew of a space junk collector ship called The Victory. When they discover a humanoid robot named Dorothy that's known to be a weapon of mass destruction, they get involved in a risky business deal.

starring: Song Joong-Kim, Kim Tae-ri, Seon-kyu Jin, Hyang-gi Kim, Richard Armitage, Ye-Rin Park

I really loved this movie. I cried like 6 times haha, which came unexpected. (or maybe it's because I'm suppose to get my period any day now) I did not think I was going to enjoy this movie as much as I did, at all. it was fun, it was exciting, it was sad (even my dad said that) the plot was good, the visual effects were amazing, it did feel like I was watching this movie for like 5 hours but not in a bad way and I am now kinda emotionally attached to the characters haha (I might do a rewatch). another thing I really liked was the language/synchronization. in the original version they speak mostly korean and english but also some other languages and it's the same in the synchronizations. the dialogue of the main characters is in the language you pick but every other character (I guess) is a different language and I absolutely love that. I highly recommend watching this!!

also, its was super weird seeing Richard Armitage not as a dwarf hahaha

10/10

11. christiane f.

A teen girl in 1970's Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.

starring: Natja Brunckhorst, Thomas Haustein, Jens Kuphal, Christiane Reichelt

I binged the series the other day and after the last episode this movie was in the "watch next" thingy idk and I thought "well, why not" and watched it. good movie, definitely!! I really liked that they didn't show the highs of doing heroin but focused on the negative effects it has on someone and what it's doing to your body. it is a super realistic but very very dark movie. the actors were all about 15/16 years old and looked very young which was a good and kinda disturbing thing because christiane and her friend were like 13/14 when that all happened and it made you realise that there were kids doing all that stuff

9/10

12. jurrasic world

A new theme park, built on the original site of Jurassic Park, creates a genetically modified hybrid dinosaur, the Indominus Rex, which escapes containment and goes on a killing spree.

starring: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty simpkins, Nick Robinson, Irrfan Khan, Vincent D'Onofrio

13. jurassic world fallen kingdom

When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event.

starring: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Rafe Spall, Justice Smith, Daniella Pineda, Isabella Sermon

I am tired and don't really want to say all that much other than both of them are very good and I do like them. good action/adventure movies. can definitely recommend them. I definitely like the first one more because it feels like (just a little bit) that the main story in the second one is the same as in the first one, someone creates a new dinosaur species to make more money and something goes terribly wrong along the way. but it's still entertaining!

jurassic wolrd: 7.5/10

jurassic world fallen kingdom: 7/10

[vintage-story-time]

Family Games by Ray Todd

Chapter 6

Glynn wasn't used to whiskey. He'd only had three beers in his life, and the

drink he'd taken with his sister was a fire in his belly. He wanted another one,

but didn't dare swallow it because he might get too smashed to go upstairs. And

Lorena hadn't been putting him on when she said she'd never screw him again, if

he didn't help her with the plan.

He couldn't hack that, couldn't go back to jacking off, after he'd fucked his

sister and her friend a couple of times each. And the blow job that Lorena had

given him last night -- that had almost melted his backbone. It was everything

he had ever dreamed of, and now he was anxious to taste her little pussy.

He looked up the stairs. It was quiet up there, and his sister had been out of

the shower for a long time. For a second, he thought she might have given up on

the whole thing and gone to bed by herself. Then he knew better; Lorena was

pretty stubborn, and when she set her pretty head to something, she carried it

through.

That meant he had to go try out his part. There was no noise up there, nobody

yelling, although once he thought he had heard low voices murmuring. So his

sister must have gotten away with her imitation of their mother; Lorena must

have already fucked the old man.

Oh wow, he thought, reaching down to touch the ultra-hard prick that was

threatening to split itself in his jeans. Lorena and dad; his sister all naked

and hot, taking his dad's cock into her wiggling pussy -- the image made him

squirm. He'd like to see that.

Glynn climbed the stairs, his hard cock bulging, his hands shaking a little when

he reached the second floor. He went into the bathroom he shared with Lorena,

peeled out of his clothes and took a shower. The hot water and soap made his

shaft ache even more, and he climbed out of the enclosure to dry himself off.

Putting on his beatup old terrycloth robe, he walked barefoot down the hall and

paused at the door to his father's room.

Pressing his ear to the panel, he could barely make out the whispering inside,

and drew back quickly. Lorena had scored, that was certain; she was talking with

the old man now, and nobody was raising hell. That left the next move up to him,

so he went on to his mother's bedroom and quietly opened the door.

The bedside radio was playing softly, and its dial light was the only light in

the room. Stepping inside, he closed the door behind him and saw the shape of

her body. She was lying on top of the covers, stark naked from head to toe.

Taking a deep and steadying breath, he shed the robe and moved carefully toward

the bed, his heart pounding.

All these years, he thought -- ever since he was big enough to know what to do

with his cock, he had had a thing for his mom. She was so damned beautiful, so

sexy, and there was a special bitchy look around her eyes that made a guy think

she would really go wild when a piece of meat was put to her box.

Glynn had started peeping early, looking to catch a glimpse of his mother's big,

glorious tits, trying to see up her dress. He had hoped to catch her naked in

the bathroom some day, but she always locked the door.

And a couple of times, he had heard them screwing, his mom and dad, heard the

squishy noises of a man's prick moving in a woman's hot, juicy pussy, heard the

moaning his mom made and the panting of his old man as they fucked. Both times,

he had rushed into the bathroom and closed his eyes, trying to picture the

scene, while he beat his meat and pretended that it was him in there between his

mother's surging white thighs.

Now he was standing over the bed where his mom was asleep, smashed on whiskey.

He was staring down at the delectable body spread so innocently and unknowing

for his eyes, and Glynn wished that the light was better, that he could see

every gorgeous detail of that magic flesh.

She had one knee lifted as she lay on her back and the dim light played over the

heavy cones of her tits, but when he looked on down the sweep of the magnificent

body, he couldn't make out her pussy, only the general shape of the dark mound

hidden in shadows. But he could stare to his heart's content at the beauty of

her legs, so long and molded; he could gaze hungrily at the melons of her firm,

tip-tilted breasts, and he drank in the sights.

Glynn thought of how many times his old man must have seen her like this, of how

many times -- thousands, maybe -- that his father had crawled over on top of

that beautiful body and fitted himself between those soft pale thighs. Glynn's

prick pulsed, and he soothed it with his hand, gripped it as he began to move

like a robot to the bed where the most unreachable, the most forbidden, object

of all his sexual fantasies lay.

Cautiously, he eased his weight upon the bed and lay down on his side, his

breath hanging in his tight throat and blood drumbeating in his ears. He

listened to her breathing, and now that he was near, could see the smudge of her

black lashes lying against her cheeks. She was so lovely, so desirable, that the

closeness of her was like a sharp knife in his guts.

He was going to fuck her. A jolt of knowledge jumped inside his head as he knew

that, for the first time, really knew it. He was at last going to fuck his

mother. The impending divorce, the plan he and his sister had to stop it, even

the screwing he had shared with Lorena and Jean -- all paled beside the fact

that he was about to put his meat into his mom's precious cunt.

No matter what the hell happened, no matter if the whole world blew up in

Glynn's face, he was now determined to fuck that dream pussy, if he died for it

afterward. She might wake up and scream, but he would cover her mouth; she might

kick, but he would force his way in between her flashing legs. He was too close

now, and the greatest prize of all was within his reach.

Reaching out one uncertain hand, he put it softly upon her tit. She stirred, but

the rhythm of her breathing didn't break, so he cupped the wondrous mound gently

and rolled the long nipple between his thumb and forefinger. She felt spongy and

firm, felt fabulous and wild, and he pressed down, knowing the give of the

breast, allowing it to spring back so that the nipple hit his palm.

Sliding over, Glynn lowered his mouth to the nipple, and licked over it. It

tasted like honey, like love, tasted like all the dreams that had ever raced

around inside his head. Drawing the resilient nub into his teeth, he chewed

delicately upon it, then sucked it hungrily. His mom didn't move, deep in her

alcohol-ridden sleep, so he opened his mouth as wide as he could, and tried to

take the entire sweet tit into it.

His hands strayed down, sliding tenderly over her rib cage, down to the satiny

planes of her stomach, and parted to caress the padded shapings of her

hip-bones. Only then, with the flavor of her breast perfumed in his mouth, only

then did he dare to move one hand on down to the taboo place, to her pubic

mound.

It was rich and warm beneath his fingertips, the black hair piled kind of crisp

and crinkly against his palm. There seemed to be a special kind of life in it,

and Glynn shuddered as he fondled the thick, furry bush. One finger eased into

the clinging excitement of the pubic hair and discovered the smoothness of her

pussy lips.

Lingering there, Glynn stroked the velvet soft lips, ran his finger slowly up

and down them, trying to imprint the shape and feel of them forever upon his

feverish brain. His mom's cunt; his lovely mom's pussy, his daddy had pumped the

meat into it, and now he was caressing the fantastic snatch himself. He was

feeling up his mother's pussy, and it felt like satin, silk, all downy and

cottony, all hot and tickly.

Glynn nudged his cockhead over so that it touched her thigh, and another flash

of erotic pleasure shot through him at the contact. She was so warm, so ripely

shaped, and he moved his prick up and down the full perfection of her thigh,

from hip to the knee. His finger hesitated against her labia, then began, of its

own accord, to work gently inside.

The tip was in her, in his mother's cunt lips, and the heat it found there was

succulent, an alluring inner warmth that moved right up his wrist, on up his

arm. His mouth was dry now, and he took it from the opulence of her tit,

breathing harshly, his brain whirling with keen excitement. His finger probed

deeper, moved on up into the wetly clinging grip of the pussy itself, until it

was buried to the knuckle.

For awhile, Glynn just lay there with his rigid prick thumping against the

velvet flesh, holding his finger full length inside the most fascinating cunt he

had ever thought about. She felt impossibly soft and rich inside, hot and

slippery with a special lavishness that shook him to the core.

He couldn't wait any longer, or his throbbing cock would spurt semen over her

thigh; his balls ached with the pressure that had built up within them, and he

was wildly turned on by the thought that very soon, he would let go his load

deep within the treasured confines of his mom's pussy.

Removing his finger from the gripping of the enfolding tissues there, he stroked

the abundantly haired pussy again, before lifting to his knees and crawling

around to poise himself between her outflung legs. Glynn couldn't resist running

both hands over those enticing legs, so that his palms and fingers would forever

remember them. They were so long, sleek and lovely and slim. Smooth and

graceful, they were the sculptured gateway to his personal paradise; he moved on

his knees between them, using his hands to spread them even more, to open the

hairy target of her crotch to him.

Bending, he caught the rise of a fragrance from her cunt, a spicy, musky,

stimulating perfume that was his mother's womanly essence. She moved then,

mumbled unintelligible words in her sleep, and crossed one arm over her eyes.

Transfixed, he crouched without motion for what seemed forever, until the

urgency in his balls pushed him on.

Glynn was beyond stopping now. If she came to and screamed, he meant to fuck her

anyhow, even if he had to fight her off the bed and down onto the carpet.

Trembling, he used one hand to steer the flexing head of his prick into the

shadowy bush of her mound, and when the tip of it pressed into the crinkly

hairs, fought down the need to let it go all over her pussy.

But it was hotter inside, unbelievably rich inside, and he had to get there.

Slow and easy, Glynn hunched his belly forward, and helped his prick with his

hand. It shoved into the slick lips, slid thrillingly into them as they

stretched to admit his cockhead. Not slow now, but driven by his inflamed

passions, Glynn gave a jab that sank his prick into his mom's cunt.

All the way inside that enchanted pussy, it went, into that sizzling hot snatch

that his daddy had fucked so many times and that was now, at last, his.

He shuddered as it went home, as his iron-hard prick slid greasily to its entire

length inside her vagina and his balls came to rest in the fluffy crack of her

shapely ass. Glynn had his meat packed in her cunt now, had it stuffed all the

way up her, and the sensation was fantastic. He stroked her, lifted his ass to

make his pulsing cock slide back to the head, then pushed it in once more,

grunting with pure joy.

She wiggled slightly on the first thrust, and swung her pelvis more on the

second one. Glynn reached both hands down under the smooth cheeks of her ass and

held on as he worked his aching prick in and out of the wet gloving of her

marvelous pussy. Her vagina grasped his shaft, caressed it with velvet

bubblings, with hotly soaped strength, and he lay down on top of her then,

blinded to any danger, needing only to fuck and fuck this most erotic of all

cunts.

Her arms lifted around him, and she hiked her crotch to take him deeper, a soft

moan escaping the lips now placed at his ear, her warm breath tingling. "Oh

darling -- it's been so long -- oh, how lovely. Your prick is so hard -- "

The words centered in his lunging prick, turned him on even more, and Glynn

began to hammer his cock into her pussy, to force it strongly with every

powerful stroke. The bed shook and they rocked together, glued at the crotch.

His balls slapped damply and softly at her ass, and now his mother's long,

fabulous legs raised to wrap around him, crossing themselves at the ankles.

"Fuck me, darling. Fuck me hard and deep -- yes, like that! Feed that cock into

me, darling. Oh! Lovely, lovely -- "

Blindly, his mouth sought for hers and found it. His tongue pushed between her

open lips and discovered the wet squirming of her tongue. She sucked on his,

pulled it toward her throat, and her teeth clashed along his as she groaned in

rapture.

Then suddenly, her body stopped its whiplash movements; her ass ceased to heave

up and down, and her beautiful legs dropped away from his body. Glynn could feel

the shock that rippled through her, feel the stiffening of her pussy around his

stroking prick. She pushed both hands against his chest and gasped.

"N-no! You -- you're not Eric, not my husband! Why -- what -- "

Glynn let go of her ass and reached up, just in time to catch her wrists as she

tried to claw his face. "Easy -- take it easy, mom!"

Her hiss was pure outrage: "No! You -- you! Glynn, you c-can't, we mustn't -- oh

please, please let me go!"

Pinning her arms above her head, he forced his prick solidly within her wet

pussy, held it there while she wiggled and tried frantically to work it out of

her body. But he had it socked to her, and as long as he was firmly between her

legs, she couldn't get free.

She kept struggling, her tits bouncing against his chest, her pelvis surging in

movements that were about to make him come. He whispered harshly at her: "Stop

fighting! I have my prick in you, mom. I've been fucking you, and you dug it.

I'm going to finish screwing you, and if you keep yelling, you'll wake up dad

and sis."

The last thought was a good one, because she fell limp beneath him, only tugging

weakly at her arms. "Don't, Glynn -- oh please don't. You're drunk or something,

and don't know what you're doing."

He jammed his prick hard against her womb and gyrated his ass to move the

cockhead around, feeling very strong and conquering. "I know what I'm doing --

what I've always dreamed of doing. I'm fucking you, mom. I have my prick shoved

deep inside your beautiful hot pussy, and pretty soon, I'm going to come in it.

I love you, mom -- I love your cunt so much that it's been driving me crazy. Now

it last I'm fucking you, and I won't stop for anything."

She lay still, but he thought his cockhead sensed a tremble in her vagina]

walls, and his prick responded to it. He said softly, "It's happening, mom, and

nobody can stop it. Please fuck me back; please come with me."

She made a strangled noise, and words came tumbling out: "I -- I can't, but --

its been so long, and I'm a passionate woman. Oh please -- oh my sweet boy, why

me? H-how could you -- oh, Glynn!"

Her pelvis lurched against his, and he let go her wrists so that she could hold

him in her rounded arms, so that her big, soft tits could flatten themselves

against his heaving chest. The nipples were hard, boring into his flesh, and

Glynn's heart leaped with bliss. His mother was laying her pussy up to him! She

was fucking him back, trying to come with him, this first magic, crazy time they

were screwing.

Those terrific legs webbed him in again, and she rolled up on her shoulders to

open her cunt wider for his now feverish strokes. He fed her the hard meat,

socked it deep and pulled it out, only to shove it balls-deep again.

"I'm, t-trying to hold back, mom," he panted, his hands taking another

delightful grip upon the hot cheeks of her bouncing ass. "But I need you so

much, I -- I can't. I'm going to come. I'm coming!"

His prick swelled, and the flexing head suddenly poured forth a hot, hissing

stream of semen. Glynn shot off inside his mother's softly receiving pussy,

pumped his come in quick, spitting jets so that it splashed against her cervix

and inundated the quivering walls of her vagina. Again and again, globs of his

semen fountained into that, hot, trembling cunt, and he ground his balls

lovingly into the cleft between her cheeks, reveling in the farout sensation.

She gave a tiny shriek. "Oh! You're coming in me, dear -- you're flooding your

mother's pussy with your littleboy come, and I love it, love it! Keep fucking

me, darling -- oh keep fucking me!"

He laid the meat into her steadily, still hard as a rock, still eager as ever to

screw this exquisite cunt, and his prick made sloshing noises as it worked back

and forth in the hot bubbling lubrication of his own semen. She rolled her ass

and scraped his back with her fingernails, clamping her long legs around his

waist and trying to lift him off the bed. Her crotch pounded up into his, and

her pussy seemed to wiggle violently over his moving cock, seemed to clench down

upon the head of it as it reached home time after time.

Glynn was delirious; he and his mother were fucking, fucking, and she was

digging his prick as much as she loved his dad's. She was screwing him hard and

wild, sledging her belly up to his and dropping it back, twisting her greasy hot

pussy all over his rod.

"S-sweet boy -- darling boy! Your cock isn't as big as your daddy's thing, but

it's so hard, so hard and so young! Ooohh, how I love it, love to feel it this

far up my pussy -- oh, Glynn, my baby, my darling, your mother would like to eat

you up. Ah! Ah, that's good, so good! More and more of this lovely young prick,

and -- and -- oh yes, I'm coming, coming, coming!"

He felt the vibration of her cunt, the frantic gulping as his mother came, as

his lovely, hot mom came on his prick. It was too much for Glynn, and he let go

with yet another load of semen that had built up hurriedly within his balls. Not

as strong, not as copious, there was still a gush of come that added to the

fiery liquids already there.

Sagging, he collapsed on top of her, the strength draining from him, but

reluctant to have his cock leave the beautiful intimacy of his mom's spasming

pussy. She cradled him with her legs, hugged him close and stroked his hair,

crooning words of love in his ear, licking the tip of her tongue into his ear

every so often.

"My baby," she murmured. "My sweet child. You've turned into a young man, a

horny young man who had the nerve to sneak in here and practically rape his own

mother while she was sleeping off all the liquor she drank tonight. And I'm very

glad you did, dear. I suppose I've been sublimating my own incestuous desires

for ages, and I'm so happy it finally happened to us."

"I love you, mom," he whispered, stroking her fabulous body, holding his slowly

melting prick within her cunt while the mingled juices of their bodies leaked

out and puddled in the feathery cleft of her ass.

"And I love you, dear," she said, running a soft hand down between their bodies

so she could cup his flaccid balls. "How did you ever gather the courage to do

it?"

He was on the verge of telling her about the plan, balanced for a ragged moment

upon the edge of exposing the fact that her husband and her daughter were at

this very second down the hall in probably the same general position. But Glynn

held back in time, and didn't say that his dad and sister were fucking now, too,

that incest in this family had suddenly become a game for four players.

Were they as happy as he and his mother? He supposed so, knowing Lorena well

now, knowing the strong lusts that moved within his sister's young cunt. He

stirred his softening cock into his mom's pussy, and she squeezed his balls

lightly.

"It was so wonderful," she said. "I haven't screwed anyone for too long. Your

father and I once had a good thing going, but it disappeared somewhere along the

line. I've been so lonely, so damned frustrated. But now, darling -- oh, now I

have you."

He felt his prick slide limply from the pussy he adored, and she helped him lift

himself from her hot body. He lay beside his freshly fucked mother, sated for

the moment and content, proud that he'd really gotten into her, that he had let

two big loads of come off into her beautiful cunt. He had made her come, too;

she loved his prick.

Glynn said, "Has dad got a bigger cock than me?"

She came up on one elbow and kissed him, her big tit brushing warmly against the

side of his face.

"Yes, your father has a tremendous penis, but that doesn't mean I can't get just

as much, or more, pleasure from your sweet thing, darling. In fact, you excited

me more than I think I've ever been, in all my life. Maybe it was the idea of

being screwed by my own handsome son, of having my own child's prick in me, but

whatever the cause, you were a marvelous lover. Imagine -- coming twice, in such

a short time."

He said, "I want to fuck you forever. I always wanted to, ever since I got big

enough. I used to hear you and dad making it in here, and it drove me right up

the wall. I used to go into the bathroom and jerk off while I pretended it was

me between your beautiful legs. I guess I was jealous of dad."

She kissed him again, and ran her tongue warmly into his lips. "Well, you don't

have to be jealous any more. You can do it to me all the time, in oh so many

ways. There are so many things I want to do to you, do with you. But we'll have

to be very careful, dear. What with the divorce so close now, if your father had

even the slightest suspicion that there could be anything sexual between his

wife and his son -- "

He didn't want to hear anything about divorce, and said, "We can be careful,

since you and dad don't sleep together any more. Oh mom, I -- I never went down

on anyone, but I really want to do that to you. I want to taste your lovely

pussy, but you'll have to show me how. I don't know anything about that, only

what I've seen in pictures."

"How wonderful," she sighed. "Your father has always been just a little stuffy

about oral sex. He did it to me a few times when we were first married, but I

always had the feeling that he didn't really like it. Yes, dear, I'll teach you.

We'll make all kinds of exquisite love together, my handsome, stiff-dicked son

and me."

He turned his head and kissed the nipple of her tit. She lifted the big mound

with one hand and fed it to him, rubbing it into his mouth and across his teeth.

Glynn worshipped it with his tongue, licking first the nipple, then all around

the spongy melon of his mother's breast, thinking of sliding his cock between

those big tits, of titty-fucking her as he had done the night before to his

sister. Would his mom react the same way, and lap the sliding head of his prick?

Both of them froze in place; they could hear the sound of a shower going in the

bathroom that divided this bedroom from the one Eric Johansen slept in. Glynn's

half-hard cock dropped again, even though he had a pretty good idea that his

father wouldn't be coming in here; not with Lorena in his bed. But what was the

old man doing, taking a bath at this time of night?

Probably making himself tidy for another round of screwing with Lorena, Glynn

thought. But whatever the cause, it scared hell out of his mother. She pulled

away from him and whispered, "You'd better go, dear. Tomorrow we can be together

again, just as soon as possible, I promise. I'm not about to let my young lover

go, now that we've discovered each other."

He slid out of bed, peeped into the hall, and split for his own room.

[thewrongexecution]

thinkin’ ‘bout final fantasy

I go by Not The Author for exactly the reason that I ain’t no expert on any given work of fiction, but I do like to make connections what make me seem smart: an illusion, haphazardly crafted by incident accident and supplemented by precocious pretentiousness. All the same, here are some fun thoughts I had that you might also enjoy!

I do have a point, that I do get to. I feel like I should say that ahead of time, all things considered. Like, I can appreciate if you can’t appreciate a shaggy dog story? But there is a point to all this.

...Eventually.

Spoiler Warning:

Final Fantasies 1, 6, 7, 7R, 13 and 15

Content Warning:

Discussion of death

Cussin’

Length warning:

5621 words

13 sections

16 digressions

Let’s dig in.

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Final Fantasy 1 was not my first Final Fantasy experience, but I think it was the first I ever played by myself? The remaster for the GBA, came bundled with FF2 on the same cart, which I played briefly but did not complete and do not remember, except that it had Cid.

FF1 doesn’t have a Cid, but I really loved the narrative anyway, straightforward as it was, because it was very specifically about spitting in the face of an uncaring god who would doom the world for a laugh. Take these chains that bind us to darkness and, though we be forgot to history, strangle with them that selfsame darkness to bring an end to its tyranny.

((it is a terrible curse, to love time travel. so many grand expectations, so few ever met. play ghost trick, chrono trigger, radiant historia, majora’s mask, outer wilds. have you any recs yourself, lemme know! I digress.

((I digress a lot, as I may have mentioned. they’ll be noted in parenthetical, like this.))

This is the foundation upon which Final Fantasy is built, and while any student of architecture could tell you of many and varied perfectly valid construction techniques, it resonates. Grappling with an immutable past to course-correct an uncaring future is, too, an apt description of personal growth; a theme as universal as being alive. And I, as an impressionable youth, ate that shit up.

((I assume I was young, at any rate. my love for time travel, be it era-spanning or moment-stretching, is, I suspect, not entirely coincidental to my terrible temporal memory.))

And that was the tale of the studio, too. Final Fantasy was so titled because, the story goes, the developers knew they would shutter if it didn’t make bank. Staring your imminent demise in the face, knowing your fate is doom, and giving it your all, all the same.

And then they made another twelve, plus two-and-a-half MMOs, and god knows how many mobile games and spin-offs, and now the Fantasy is that there could ever be a Final one. so say I: life parodies art.

((the half-an-MMO is FF14 1.0, which no longer exists and is a fascinating tale, a rally against bleak futures all its own. I’ll [link] Noclip’s three-part documentary covering the developer’s side of things, because that’s the one I’ve seen. there’s plenty other material to hunt down, though, if you wanna.))

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Final Fantasy VII is a game about fate, too. Particularly Death, that most ultimate of fates. Tragic, to be sure; preventable, or at least delayable, in many cases; necessary, at times, for the growth of something new.

Unrelenting. Unstoppable. Inescapable.

Death, and the fights against it, take many forms. There are the fascist death squads that hunt down your ragtag band and any dissent against their cruel masters, but these will only truly stop by cutting off the hydra’s head and building an entirely new society; eight dudes and their dog, faced with a corporate private military, can survive but never win. There are such disasters as do slay that hydra, be they natural or man-made. There’s the space alien and the apocalypse it ushers. There’s literal illness and injury, physical or otherwise. There are the deaths of loved ones, friends and family, that lead to some subtler deaths within those that survive them. The deaths of relationships, by neglect or abandonment. The ideological deaths we inflict on ourselves, accepting ever-growing lesser evils in the name of some impossible ideal.

Every day, the person we were becomes the person we are, and soon, the person we are will give way to someone new, and this, too, is a sort of death. In this sense, we tally Cloud’s deaths at least five: failure to become a Soldier and rebirth in shame, the massacre of Nibelheim and rebirth in grief, arrival at Midgar and rebirth in delusion, his cratering at the Crater and rebirth in nihilism, and his death and rebirth in the Lifestream of Mideel.

((you could prolly hunt down another two if you wanna be cheeky, but I lack the knowledge, motive and patience. frankly, this whole thing is to create a leading line of logic and probably isn’t, uh. academically ethical? or whatever the term is. I’m not necessarily wrong, but I’m definitely scuttling nuance. oh well!))

Now, I say “rebirth,” because that’s how deaths of identity more-or-less work. There’s usually some new identity waiting in the wings to take over. And rebirth is itself a notable theme, inasmuch as it is one outcome of death. But death is oft more final than that, and what people do in its imminence and wake is key here, too. Wutai’s collapse into an insular tourist trap. Avalanche’s vengeful fervor, in general and post-plate drop. Bugenhagen trying to pass his knowledge on to Red. The whole party’s ongoing post-traumatic depressive episodes.

Ultimately, death is the inescapable fate of all things. It’s what we do, in light of that, that makes us who we are.

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Final Fantasies 13 and 15 are the only modern Final Fantasies I’ve beaten, and I bring them up because both deal very prominently with fate and death, and as Square’s most recent mainline FF titles, Remake can’t exist without comparison to them. Here’s what I remember:

Final Fantasy 13 was a game I enjoyed. The stagger system mixed up my casual FF tradition of Get The Big Numbers by putting a prominent UI element onscreen that says You Can’t Get The Big Numbers Unless The Bar Is Full. Suddenly there’s a natural-but-enforced ebb and flow to combat built in, where you gotta juggle chip damage, survival, and crowd control while keeping resources enough to burst down a staggered foe, but maintain situational awareness to swap back into survival mode if you’re not gonna down your enemy, all in something close to real-time. Very obviously a direct precursor to the combat of Remake. I didn’t realize the depth of it, but it was still super fun.

People at the time didn’t like the linearity of the game and, I can see that in retrospect? I think it’s closer to, there weren’t breakpoints, there wasn’t variety. It was cutscenes, combat, and the stretches of land between them; the only real thing for the brain to get a workout on was the combat, and eating only one kinda food is gonna make that food taste bland.

((I didn’t mind, but I like idle games, and, also probably had depression around then. Take that how you will.))

The story, though, I loved. You got your uncaring gods forcing mortals to do their increasingly-impossible bidding, cursing them to agonized unlife if they take too long, and with blissful, beautiful death if they succeed. It sucks! And here you have a ragtag band of incidental idiots trying to rebel against a system that, actually, wants them to? Like that’s the plan? Have mortals kill god and summon the devil to destroy all life, because god, doesn’t.... like life anymore?

((The lore gets more than a little impenetrable, and I remember bouncing off it a couple times. The throughline of God Sucks And Makes Zombies was good though.))

The biblical parallels are obvious, and if they weren’t, the final boss’ design will clue you in, god that’s a good design. hang on I can add pictures and already tossed a spoiler warning, here, look at this:

(per the Final Fantasy Fandom Wiki [X])

That’s literally The Holy Trinity But A Sword The Size Of A Building. It’s perfect.

Anyway, I love this game, because the heroes win, which is what God wants, so in winning, they lose, as was fated to be, right? Fuck All That, say the lesbians from space australia, as they turn into satan and, as satan, stop God’s shitty metal moon from crashing into space australia and destroying all life.

((this awakened something in me, though, as is becoming a theme, I wasn’t aware of it at the time. actually hold up I’m gonna rewatch that sequence.

((yeah okay wow on review that was aggressively cheesy and had a whole bunch of weird emotional whiplash that just leaves a super-bad aftertaste. I don’t really like it as an experience, but big bazonga lesbian satan with arms for hair is still a look-and-a-half.))

The whole thing is not entirely unlike if meteor was also Midgar, and there’s more than a few points where I went, hang on, are they trying to evoke 7 here? “Lightning” is ex-military and bad at emotions, Sazh is a black dad w/ guns and emotional trauma and I love him, quirky pink healer girl who might be an alien is here, the game starts on a train and leads into a robot bug fight; obviously it’s not one-to-one but the connections are there for a brain like mine to make, and only more prominent for the fact that FF7 was the more satisfying game.

((I cannot speak to 13-2 or -3; 13-2 was fun up until the enemies were abruptly 30 levels higher than me, more or less a mandate by the game for me to do all the side content, which I was not on-board with. I skipped 13-3 entirely, especially when I learned the whole game is on a timer. did not and do not need that stress in my life.))

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But okay, FF13 was “too linear” and wasn’t doing super great. Enter Final Fantasy Versus 13, by which I mean enter Final Fantasy 15 actually, we don’t need any more of this 13 crap. And once again, I enjoyed it! ...Right up until it was bad.

Final Fantasy 15 was not a finished game, and we know this for certain now, because all its DLC was to make it a finished game. At the time, though, there was uncomfortable and inconsistent story pacing, only one playable character, relatively sparse combat mechanics... but it was open-world, and hey, that’s what you wanted, right? open, non-linear environments? I picked it up because, Teleporting Swordsman With a Motorcycle Sword. I am of simple pleasures, and those are they.

Of the little I remember, one point that’s stuck with me is the sequence following the Leviathan fight. See, we’ve been talking about fate and destiny and how Final Fantasy likes to spite them. Here in 15, our main man Noctis doesn’t want the destiny he’s been burdened with, to Become The King and Save The World from the Coming Darkness, or whatever. He’d really rather be doing, anything else? like hanging out with his buddies or actually getting married or, I dunno, grieving the death of his father. Nope! You don’t get to do that. Go find the ghost armaments of your dead ancestors so you can ~saaave the wooorld!~ I would have been in college around then, so, eminently relatable.

Now, on this journey, you meet a guy called Ardyn. He’s the sort of character that was built as an attack on me personally: sleazy, charming, possessing airs of casual familiarity with people he’s never met, kinda helps you out in tight spots, and also, by the way, vizier to the empire that killed your dad and wants you and your friends dead too. But not in the “secret good guy” way, he just likes fucking with you! he’s perfect.

Right up until the Leviathan fight.

See, Lunafreya, your betrothed--

((I’m so mad about this stupid, stupid garbage. I love Lunafreya on principle, but the game doesn’t bother to give her screentime. you only ever hear about her incidentally, which can be cool if you then meet the character and get to compare/contrast what you’ve heard, but the initial release only has her show up for this one chapter, and your party doesn’t really get to interact with her that much.))

Your betrothed is here and she’s some symbol of the peoples’ hope, right? she’s got light magic or something, and can actually commune with the gods. the gods are on your side, but you can’t actually understand a word they say, but she can, and that’s sick as hell. anyway.

You lose the fight against Leviathan, because you’re a shitty emo teen who doesn’t know how to use your ghost swords, and she got beat up earlier when Levi got all pissy at being summoned. And then Ardyn shows up in his magitek dropship.

Now earlier, Ardyn had Luna as his captive, completely at his mercy, and right now, he who would be king of kings, destined to save the world from darkness, is clutching at rock in a hurricane, beaten, wounded and dying.

Of the two, which do you think he stabs to death?

if you thought, “the protagonist, which will allow him to win, and subvert Final Fantasy’s themes of defying fate by having the villain be the one to do it, forcing everyone else to scramble for some alternate solution and deal with the fallout,” congratulations! You win disappointment, because that idea’s cool as hell and they didn’t. fucking. Do it.

((Ardyn, before this, had given me major Kefka vibes, and thinking on it now, the world descending into darkness in the 15 we never had could have played with even deeper parallels to FF6... but I never played 6, and that FF15 doesn’t exist, so... I’ll leave that analysis to better scholars.))

now, with the benefit of hindsight, that was never going to happen. too long in development hell, game had to ship, had no time or budget for mid-game upheaval. but at the time? made me lose any interest I had in Ardyn, made me mad at the developers for passing up on fulfilling the themes their series had explored in past, made me almost stop playing the game. I’m still mad about it for crying out loud!

((thinking about it gets me tensed up, coiled, with that sort of full-body thrum that’s best conveyed with letters that jitter around. best I can do here is bold italics, but it doesn’t have the right energy. it’s a fleeting feeling, but when it’s here? god. given the men that wrote this scene I would fight all of them and win.

((inhale...

((exhale...

((and move on.))

We, the player, never really meet Luna, so there’s no real... impact, no substance to it. It’s sad, but impersonal. villain kills damsel to inflict manpain on hero. that’s it. we’ve seen this song and dance before.

But kill Noctis? The character the player’s been controlling all this time, who they know intimately? Now it’s personal. Now your party members’ grief is a mirror to your own. And now you get to play as Luna, maybe? give the game time to flesh her out, have her bond with your old companions over their shared grief, and maybe use her connections and public speaking skills to rally the people of the world, in a perhaps-vain attempt to resist the oncoming darkness, while simultaneously using that public-facingness to drive her to hide her own fear and hopelessness...? That’s a complex character ripe for drama and tragedy right there! And then her, at the head of a story about people coming together to solve a global calamity themselves, rather than await their appointed savior?

Even then, but especially now... You can see the appeal, right?

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Lemme step back and zoom out for a moment, because there’s one more kind of Fate to discuss before I finalize my thesis. Yes, I promise, there is a point besides being mad at FF15, this is still ultimately about Remake. Bear with me a little longer.

See, Remake’s premise is that it’s not quite FF7, but that itself is predicated on Remake being essentially FF7. Certain things must be in the Remake series, or it will cease to be the Final Fantasy 7 Remake series. The developers have gone on record saying as much, that they’ll still cover the thrust of the original, and that makes a lot of sense from a development standpoint. Building on an existing framework saves loads of time, and lets them focus on details as they have in Remake.

((I think they've already set up an in-universe justification for this, too. The party may have defeated the Whispers at Midgar, but the Whispers are the will of the planet. The only way to truly defeat them would be to defeat the planet itself, which: kind of the goal of the villains!

((a bit ironic, because the villains are the Whispers’ means to keep manipulating events. Remake backends a very large portion of the plot, and I don’t think Rufus seeing the Whispers is a throwaway detail. The party chases Sephiroth by chasing Shinra in the original, so even if the party has shaken free of the direct influence of the Whispers, manipulating Shinra should in turn manipulate the party.

((on top of which, Rufus prizes power, and the power to change or control fate-- something both the party and Sephiroth have seized-- would be as enticing as anything.))

But this begs the question: How much of Final Fantasy 7 is necessary before it stops being Final Fantasy 7? Do you need all nine characters? The Weapons? Rideable chocobo? Breedable chocobo? What about locations? Can you drop the Gold Saucer? or Mount Condor? or Mideel? How many minigames am I holding up? These are necessary questions, but so is this:

“Would a one-to-one recreation of the original game have the same emotional impact as when it released, twenty-three years ago?”

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Now, the phrase “emotional impact” is necessarily kind of nebulous and subjective, so lemme dig into that a little bit.

The first significant chunk of the original FF7 takes place entirely in Midgar, which is one huge city. Every screen is densely packed; movement is typically constrained to narrow corridors and industrial crawlspaces. The whole world is deeply claustrophobic and visually hostile, by design.

This is FF7 for the first few hours, before a motorcycle chase deposits you outside city limits, and then... you hit the world map, and everything changes. The world is rendered in three whole dimensions, now! (Then, a technological marvel in its own right.) There’s a sky! There’s a horizon! Grass, mountains, the ocean!

Boundless, terrifying freedom.

From a mechanical standpoint, there’s only one real destination, an A-to-B with random encounters before a small enclosure with an inn and shops, no real change from what you’ve already been doing. But the mood? Everything’s fresh and new, now. Everything’s an unknown.

So, how do we do that again, two-and-a-half decades on?

Let’s say, something like this: Remake 2 starts with Cloud and Sephiroth en route to Nibelheim. For new players, this provides immediate intrigue: why are these mortal enemies hanging out in a truck? how did they get here, where are they going? For veterans, it’s familiar: oh, we’re in the flashback sequence.

For both, it provides mechanical familiarity. We just finished last game hanging out in Midgar, a bunch of town squares with shops and cutscenes connected to hazardous corridors. Well, Nibelheim’s a town with shops and cutscenes, connected to a monster-filled anthill and capped with a reactor. We know this. We’ve done this. We can do this again.

And when the flashback ends, we’re in Kalm. Another town, maybe with sidequests this time; Midgar looming in the distant skybox as a reminder of how far we’ve come.

And then you leave Kalm, and the camera zooms out, and out, and out...

Remake is essentially 7, and you can’t have the impact of 7′s world map reveal if Remake isn’t functionally open-world too. Square has plenty of experience with open environments, however successful their more recent attempts have been; I’m confident that the have the ability, at least, to craft an expansive world that feels appropriate to FF7.

((I’d like to take a moment here to talk about FF14, which mixes both compact twisty dungeons and wide-open overworld zones, and is necessarily wildly successful to still be operating as an MMO... but though I have played it briefly, I don’t claim knowledge sufficient to go in-depth. The point is, Square not only can make a game like that, they have, and are, and apparently possess non-zero competency. I have worries, but I’m not worried, if that makes sense.))

So, can you recreate a given kind of emotional impact? Yeah!

Can scenes from the original Final Fantasy 7 be rendered into a new context, more-or-less as they were? Absolutely!

Would a one-to-one recreation of the original game have the same emotional impact as when it released, twenty-three years ago?

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Aerith dies.

If you opened this post and didn’t know that, well. There were spoiler warnings up at the top, the game’s more than two decades old, and the spoiler itself is basically a piece of pop-culture, up there with space dad and wizard killer. There’re probably plenty of people who know next-to-nothing about Final Fantasy 7 except that Aerith dies.

Everyone knows because, at the time, it was so big a thing. This was a title that Square hyped to heaven and back to push JRPGs into mainstream western markets, and it worked. And this was before major death was so common and arbitrary as it is today; even now, Game of Thrones and its ilk are a relative rarity. The death of a protagonist or love interest wasn’t a new thing for games, or any media really, but usually you knew it was coming, or it served some purpose. Aerith’s death was sudden, arbitrary, you’re almost immediately thrown into a boss fight so you don’t even have time to process it right away, and it’s the first stone in an avalanche of other pointless arbitrary tragedy. It’s an obvious narrative setup for the endgame confrontation with Sephiroth; instead, Cloud has a breakdown, Meteor happens, and now there’s an entire Disk 2.

Fandom has always been fandom, even before the continuous immediacy of the modern internet, but... people wrote letters to Square, and got sad on message boards. There’s an entire subset of forum signatures, back when those were a thing, that you could sort as “people fucked up over Aerith dying.” And again, this was the world. Not just Japan, or Asia, but everyone.

((Or, everyone with the finances to have a PS2 and/or an internet connection. Gaming as a pastime remains way expensive, whether played or watched. But you know how it is.))

And that’s the problem with answering that question.

See, FF7 is a lot of things, but for better or worse, it is defined by Aerith’s death. It’s one of many factors, but you can’t... leave it out, right? or it wouldn’t be FF7 anymore.

Aerith dies in FF7, and everyone knows it.

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But Remake has promised, repeatedly, that things will be different this time. Everyone is coming together to defy fate, and Cloud in particular is here to keep Aerith from dying. Bodyguard jokes aside, Cloud repeatedly has flashbacks (flashforwards?) to Aerith’s death and the events leading to it. When he meets her in the church, when they cross into Sector 6, twice in the final battle. Hell, the very first time they meet, Sephiroth taunts him about not being able to save her. Even from a metatextual standpoint, since everyone knows Aerith dies, that’s like, The Most Obvious Fate To Change.

If, after all that, Aerith still dies? It’s not just tragedy, at that point. That’s the developers, actively lying to the player about their intent in making this game series. That’s frustrating, and immersion-breaking, and when said death is likely to still have one or more entire sequels to come after? maybe not great for sales! I know I didn’t bother buying the complete edition of FF15; I couldn’t bring myself to care enough about a game that set up this cool possibility, and then just, failed to deliver on every count.

And, Remake is being made for two audiences. I’ve said “everybody knows Aerith dies,” but that’s not really true, is it? It’s been 23 years, after all. Remake could well be someone’s very first Final Fantasy experience. That’s why they’ve been telegraphing Aerith’s death so hard. Not everyone knows, but at least everyone can guess. Is it fair, then, to this new audience, with potentially no knowledge or understanding of the legacy of this flashy new action game, to foreshadow tragedy in the future, have everyone come together to say, We’re Going To Stop This, and then... not? Is that good writing? Is that satisfying? When this is a multi-game and potentially multi-console investment of time and money, is this, as a newcomer, a story you’d want to keep playing?

And then on top of that, it’s 2020.

I don’t mean that in the current-year-fallacy, “we’re better than this now” kind of way. Rather, the way I felt about Final Fantasy 15 is even more relevant now. People, in real life, are realizing that the powers-that-be are failing them, have failed them, have been failing them for far longer than twenty-three years. The people that already knew that are actually showing up for each other, to spite what felt and feels like inescapable fate and finding that, together, they might just be able to ruin God’s day.

Game development is, of course, its own whole beast, and projects in motion tend to stay in motion; deviating from a plan takes time and money that Square may be unwilling to spend. But, under current world circumstances: is making a game where the hero sets out to save one specific person from their fated death, and following that with a game where that one specific person dies anyway, aside from everything else, a good business decision?

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So... Aerith, shouldn’t die, right...? But, FF7 requires Meteor, and so requires the Temple of the Ancients and the Black Materia. And, Meteor can only be stopped by Holy, so FF7 requires the Forgotten City.

FF7 is a tragedy. FF7 demands blood.

...Hey, actually, hold that thought. How come Cloud can remember Aerith dying in the first place? He’s not from the future, right? He’s got a connection to Sephiroth, who is from the future... and Sephiroth can manipulate his memories...? but, why would Sephiroth let him, or make him, remember that?

Hey, how come Zack is alive, but like, in the “narrative scope” sense? Wouldn’t his presence circumvent Cloud’s delusions about the Nibelheim incident?

Hey, how come Cloud had multiple big climactic Sephiroth confrontations at what’s essentially the end of the prologue, including one that mirrors the very end of the original FF7? Shouldn’t that still come at, like, you know. the end?

Hey, how come--

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Remake has these... Callbacks? Refrains? Like my favorite, when Sephiroth throws a train-- you know, The Fate Metaphor-- at Cloud, who absolutely shreds the thing. Or, for a more direct example:

And it frequently uses these to show that people are changing, that things can change. You know, the whole Running Theme the game has going on.

Sephiroth gets a refrain, too.

At the start of the game (give or take a reactor), in his first real appearance, Sephiroth philosophizes at Cloud, makes sure Cloud hates him, and tells Cloud what he wants.

At the end of the game, in his last appearance, Sephiroth philosophizes at Cloud, tells Cloud what he wants, and makes sure Cloud hates him.

Structurally, these encounters more-or-less bookend the game; thematically, it doesn’t exactly indicate change. Barret may or may not have come around on Cloud, and his admission that Cloud is important to him after all is, itself, important. Cloud, on the other hand, was always going to defy Sephiroth. He stands resolute, now, ready to fight rather than flee, but apathy was never on the table.

Now, Sephiroth’s whole Thing is psychologically manipulating Cloud to get what he wants, and as part of that, what Sephiroth wants is usually not what he says he wants.

All throughout the original FF7, Sephiroth riled up Cloud so that Cloud would pursue and defy him, culminating first in the Black Materia incident, and then again in the Forgotten City. None of the Sephiroth clones could survive the trip through the Northern Crater, so Sephiroth had to lure Cloud, with the Black Materia, to him, and then also convince Cloud to give up the Black Materia of his own accord. Mind control, memory manipulation and illusions were involved, but if Sephiroth could maintain those indefinitely, he probably just. Would have done that instead. Way easier,

The point is, in Remake, in addition to all the intermittent retraumitization sprinkled throughout the game, Sephiroth goes out of his way twice to directly ask Cloud, “hey, you hate me, right?” And, as part of that question, he tells Cloud, “this is what I want.” And Cloud? He hates Sephiroth, and will do his damnedest to keep Sephiroth from getting what he wants.

So. What does Sephiroth... say he wants?

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One last aside before we cap off: This post would not exist without the valiant efforts of one Maximilian_dood. His devotion to the series kept myself and many others engaged and excited and, frankly, hopeful, in the leadup to the release of Remake, and his correlations between the rest of the FF7 series and Remake were enlightening and entertaining.

and had he not the gall to identify defying fate as a device to make aerith’s death more tragic, I would never have been angry enough to write this.

((I know, I know. Gaming and streaming and lit analysis are all hard individually, and I don’t begrudge losing one for the other two. And it was a first playthrough! I might have seen these lines sooner than some, but collating all this info was certainly not instantaneous. And Square can be hack writers at times-- see again my rant on FF15-- so even then, I can’t discount the possibility.

((but, still.

((Really?))

So, while I would like to believe that I have, by now, made my thesis on Remake’s narrative direction abundantly clear, here it is spelled out anyway:

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At the bottom of the Forgotten City, at the shrine on the pillar in the lake, Cloud will find Aerith, who believes her fate immutable.

Sephiroth will descend, and Cloud will sacrifice himself, that Aerith should live.

This is Sephiroth’s plan.

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Hey, thanks for reading this far! With my conversational tone and rambling tendencies, I’d have preferred to make this an audio post or, god forbid, a video essay, but I got a keyboard, and that’ll have to do. Diction is important to me, as the capitalization, italics and use of punctuation may have clued you in on, so... maybe you’ll get a dramatic reading sometime in the future? but, don’t bet on it.

Feel free to riddle me with questions, or point out inconsistencies with this big ol’ thing! I’m not exactly an expert, and I’m sure I glossed over, heavily paraphrased, completely forgot, intentionally ignored and/or aggressively misrepresented some stuff, but I love learning and teaching esoteric bullshit about The Vijigams. On that note, anything that sounds like it should be sourced is sourced from “I heard about it on social media or in a stream or youtube video one time, but if I actually had to hunt it down this whole thing would never see the light of day, and it has already been like three months,” which isn’t to excuse my lack of due diligence, but I do, lack diligence, so, tough.

Oh! but the Remake screens all come from [here]. Don’t care much for that splash screen, but, I Get It, so, whatever.

There were some other things I wanted to touch on but couldn’t really find a spot for. FF7 Remake as a metaphor for its own development, for example. Or, some of The Possibilities, like how Cloud’s death could very literally haunt Aerith, or how Remake sets up a more fleshed-out Midgar revisit that Cloud’s death specifically would make infinitely sadder.

On that note, if it was not yet obvious, I love speculation, and if they do go this direction, it’ll probably be their justification to go completely... off the rails? Remake only has to be FF7 until it doesn’t, after all. If there’s some wilder implications youall see for like... I dunno, a Jenova more fully-regenerated from also having Cloud’s cells back, getting into proper Kaiju-on-Kaiju battles with the Weapons, or anything like that? Feed me your brain juice, etc.

And, once more, for the road: this is interpretation; subjective, opinionated, and very much in denial of any kind of author-ity. Nor is this a claim on how things should be, or an assertion that this would be good or bad. Everything ultimately rests on Square's narrative design team and, we’ve touched on them already.

((but, for your consideration: I’m smart, and right))

Here’s hoping, whatever happens, we get the game we deserve.

thanks for coming to my ted talk, have a great day

[lunarsodasims]

Sims 4 Marvel Challenge!

This is a 10 generation challenge. If you have a specific expansion or game pack that would make the challenge more interesting, feel free to change it up a bit. It’s sort of a legacy challenge, but not quite. Naturally, because the Avengers aren’t related, this is going to be a little strange, but I tried to organize it chronologically for the most part. 

Beware: there are some spoilers.

Generation 1: Steve Rogers “I could do this all day.”

The First Avenger. You’ve always been sickly and weak, so when you see someone being treated unfairly, you just can’t let it go. You might get hurt in the process of helping others, but that’s alright. You could do this all day. 

To start, create teen Steve Rogers and his mother Sarah. Storytellers may start out with steve as a toddler or child. When Steve becomes a young adult, the challenge begins. 

Must have good trait

Must have ambitious trait

Must meet and befriend Bucky Barnes 

Mother must die when he becomes a YA

Enter the secret agent career and buff up

Reach level 10 of the secret agent career 

Have a romantic relationship with one of your coworkers (and an unknown child)

Must fake your own death

Must outlive all coworkers

Alternate: 

Strangerville--Steve must join Military career instead (defeat the mother if desired) 

Parenthood--Steve must age up with every positive character value 

Generation 2: Peter Quill “Dance off to save the Galaxy”

You were abducted by aliens when you were a child. Since then, you’ve been kept alive and raised by the aliens (and maybe, you’re happy), but you can’t help resenting them a little. You want to make a name for yourself. (You’re not trying to prove anything. Not at all). This story begins when Peter becomes a teenager.

Must live in one of the hidden worlds with adopted caregiver

Must only leave the realm at night until YA

Not allowed to see “other humans” (other sims besides caregiver) until YA 

Must have a slightly poor relationship with caregiver

Max dance skill 

Dj on the side as “Starlord” 

Become an interstellar smuggler 

Marry an ambitious Sim with something green (preferably skin, but may be hair or eyes)

Have a child

Alt: 

Get to work--Caregiver and coworkers are all aliens, Peter mustn’t see any other humans until YA

Parenthood--Must age up with poor manners 

Get Famous--Become famous for something good

Generation 3: Bruce Banner “Hulk...Hulk like real fire.” 

You have a good life with loving parents (even if one of them happened to be an alien) but you care more about learning and inventing than spending time with family. This story begins when Bruce becomes a YA. 

Must join the scientist (Astronaut if BG) career

Master the logic skill

Master rocket science skill (Handiness if BG) 

Mid-life crisis: get fit and get “green” (skin, hair, (vegetarian? Off the grid?? Whatever you like:))

Must be hot-headed

Must have no children

Must travel to space during lifetime

Alt:

Get to Work--Live on Sixam for a week

Jungle Adventure--Vacation frequently

Generation 4: Thor “Because that’s what heroes do.” 

You and your brother have always been opposites, but that’s never stopped you from getting along. But he’s been distant lately. You’re too busy to wonder why, taken in by thoughts of future glory. You’ll be head of the family business soon, and you can’t wait to be in charge. This story begins when Thor becomes a teenager. 

Must have self-assured and good traits 

Must be good friends with adopted younger brother and lose relationship over time

Must accidentally cause a disaster for the family (start a fire, etc.) 

Be kicked out of the house to live in another world

Redeem yourself, but family falls apart due to dysfunction

Run the business 

Generation 5: Natasha Romanoff “Just because it’s the path of least resistance, doesn’t mean it’s the right path.” 

All you’ve known is hard work and hard truths. You’re willing to do whatever it takes to make things right, but you might have to give up more than just your reputation. This story begins when Natasha becomes a child. 

Must be adopted

Age up with emotional control character value

Reach level 10 in Fitness, logic, programming, and charisma

Enter the secret agent career

Must have no children

Generation 6: Bucky Barnes “I’m with you ‘till the end of the line.” 

You can’t remember anything, but that’s just fine. You’re content to live in apathy, with no real ties to anything except the ambition of climbing the criminal career ladder. However, when one mission puts all of that in jeopardy, you must choose between what you know and what you...know? This story begins when Bucky becomes an adult. 

Must enter the criminal career

Must live in a household with two other sims (adult or elder)

Max fitness skill 

May only leave the house when working or when both housemates are gone

Must meet Steve Rogers in the wild

Generation 7: T’Challa “It’s time to show the outside world who we are.” 

Father must die when T’Challa becomes a YA

Must not travel out of world until reaching level 10 of career

Max charisma skill

Must enter business, law, secret agent, or police career

Household must volunteer frequently

Visit the ghost of your father (as a spellcaster, at a tombstone or urn, etc.)

Alt: 

City Living: Become leader of the free world

Generation 8: Stephen Strange “Dormammu, I’ve come to bargain.” 

Being rich and showing off is the greatest part of life as far as you’re concerned. You’ve never been happier than you are now, and you’re sure you never could be. You don’t need anyone but yourself. This story begins when Strange becomes a YA. 

Must have Mansion Baron aspiration

Must have noncommittal trait

Max logic still

Reach level 10 of the doctor career

Lose job unexpectedly

Lose all money

Travel to a different world and become a spellcaster (or a different life-state)

Must have 1 child

Generation 9: Tony Stark “I am Iron Man.” 

You love your parents but have a hard time showing it. You’re certain all that really matters is getting rich and having as much fun as possible. That is, until you’re all alone. Now what used to be good times have become distractions. This story begins when Tony becomes a teenager.

Must have fabulously wealthy aspiration

Must have Materialistic trait

Parents must die before Tony becomes a YA

Must have a near-death experience

Aspiration change to friend of the world

Change a trait to good

Marry and have 1 child

Must die while child is a toddler

Generation 10: Peter Parker “Everywhere I go, I see his face. I just really miss him.” 

You’re smart, but that’s not enough to keep you from getting picked on. As things keep changing, you start to wonder if you’re the reason everyone you care about dies. You’ve never been less certain of yourself. This story begins when Peter becomes a teenager. 

Parents must die while a child

Must be cared for by aunt 

Must age into YA with three character values

Straight A student

Max programming and robotics 

Have a rebellious phase and get in fights

Have gloomy trait

Fall in love before YA

Gloomy trait becomes self-assured

This is the current set of rules for the challenge. If you have an idea you’d like to see added, please let me know! Many of them are somewhat similar (since these kids all have a somewhat similar profession ;) so I would love to hear other suggestions. 

I will also be updating the challenge with more alternates for storylines to swap out, such as Carol Danvers, Eddie Brock, and Sam Wilson, so stay tuned! 

[crepuscular-gloom]

Poptropica Island Ratings

okay I saw a post on here a while ago and someone rated the Poptropica islands. I remember agreeing with a lot of them, but they only went so far so a lot of the newer islands were missed out. I came across it again recently and got hit by a wave of nostalgia so I’m gonna do my own now. Unoriginal content very good. i’ll put a keep reading link to stop it from taking up too much space

Early Poptropica - mega nostalgia but kinda boring. I like the original Poptropicans being pixely and there is a goth gf in the sewers however the giant green spider scared the shit out of me as a kid and the idea of an aircraft graveyard made me sad so 6/10

Shark Tooth Island - also nostalgic but I didn’t complete it for a long time for some reason.. very short. it has a story but its there is nasty shark and people stuck on an island so make a calming potion. the medicine man looks like he is from viva pinata so 6/10

Time Tangled Island - VERY GOOD AND FUN AND HISTORICAL FUCK THAT AZTEC THO DICKHEAD. quite lengthy for an island but this is good because that means more time periods to explore. it’s also educational but i just care about restoring time. very legendary the iconic just jumped out - 10/10

24 Carrot Island - stupid pun point taken off. introduces Dr Hare and people are THIRSTY. you can dye your hair with milkshakes. i thought it was creepy as a kid honestly. i think its mind control or something. but i like it, it still has nostalgia value 8/10

Super Power Island - very legend like. i loooove the antagonists, especially copy cat but i think i had to look up a guide to beat her because i was dumb af. you need a licence to be a superhero but you are a superhero!!! very fun i like this one a lot 10/10

Spy Island - i remember sucking at this one as well as a kid.  i think it fucks with peoples hair and i only remember because my character looks fresh 100% of the time and this island fucked it up i think. i don't really remember it tho. 5/10

Nabooti Island - it’s based on a Choose Your Own Adventure book so good premise. go around the world is also good. you have to get jewels i think. ngl i didn’t finish this one because i sucked at it so i’m just going off the wiki and how far i got into it. fuck the animal puzzle 7/10

Big Nate Island - who the fuck is Big Nate. i only remember the school climbing frame and a stink bomb. fuck you big nate we don’t have your comics in England 1/10

Astro-Knights Island - medieval knights.... IN SPACE?!?! COUNT ME IN. crazy jester bard guy antagonist. people are thirsty for him too. i’m pretty sure you end up in another dimension or something. cyborgs and shit 9/10

Counterfeit Island - bruh i loved this island. pretty sure antagonist is also making people thirsty. you have to go back to Early Poptropica Island to complete it, very cool. investigating crime is cool idea it’s l.a. noire in poptropica. the wiki says there is a glitch called anti-social clown and i have to say relatable 9/10

Reality TV Island - i think i completed this like twice and i remember jackshit. you get to see past characters tho so very good. it’s just doing challenges. 4/10

Mythology Island - VERY GOOD. LEARN ABOUT MYTHOLOGY. you can fight hydra and other creatures, you meet Zeus you meet Hades, Aphrodite is a bitch. 9/10

Skullduggery Island - pirates are always good no matter what. apparently it is one of the hardest islands which explains why i never completed it but you fight other pirates and sea monsters for doubloons or some shit sounds cool to me 8/10

Steamworks Island - steampunk is good. i remember completing this and thinking it was interesting and weird to look at. i think the atmosphere is was lonely tho. there’s a boss battle against a plant i think. otherwise i don’t fuckin remember 7/10

Great Pumpkin Island - it’s Peanuts so it’s nice. very nice and simple. it’s just about the great pumpkin except you’re there. 6/10

Cryptids Island - GOD TIER. CRYPTIDS IS SUCH A GOOD IDEA. some of it is scary tho. the jersey devil just fucking staring at you from the window was a shit the bed moment for a kids game. also before the islands got rebooted, it was one of the only islands to have sound effects, i.e. when the chupacabra bursts out the box. honestly because of the balls on this kids game to scare children and also being good island 10/10

Wild West Island - the only thing better than pirates is cowboys. i don’t really remember it but you do go against an outlaw gang. i like cowboys 10/10

Wimpy Wonderland Island - Jeff I know you made doawk and poptropica but did you have to show it. ngl i liked it because i like doawk. but it’s kinda... creatively bankrupt i guess. 3/10 2 points because Rodrick is there

Red Dragon Island - i think more time travel but just to old Japan. you have to save a girl. that’s all i remember. also i think there is a nasty samurai guy. but also evil dragon. i can’t remember because for the longest time this was a premium account only island so i never got to finish it for the longest time. that was a dick move 7/10 for that alone.

Shrink Ray Island - cool premise but this island expects me to learn morse code 3/10

Mystery Train Island - detectives? on a train? very nice. basically murder on the orient express except no murder and thomas edison is there and also various other 1700/1800 nerds

Game Show Island - basically Reality TV except it’s to save the world from robots. 5/10

Ghost Story Island - wow iconic. this is the only island with voice acting and it’s to fucking jumpscare you i shat myself.  ghost hunting, very cool 10/10

S.O.S Island - it’s basically Titanic mixed with Moby Dick. it’s ok 6/10

Vampire’s Curse Island - i reaaaally like this one. i like vampires. it has a vampire daddy in it so. he kidnaps a teenage girl tho because he thinks its the love of his life who is dead. kinda weird. he does stop being insane at the end tho and says sorry and dies. the girls bf is a dickhead tho. 9/10

Twisted Thicket Island - i think you’re saving a forest from becoming housing. i really like it because it introduces various folkloric creatures like the nokken. i only remember the nokken because i went on akinator to see if he knew what it was and i don’t think he did so i added it and it’s photo to his database. or maybe it was just his photo but i remember uploading something to akinator. 8/10

Poptropolis Games Island - i don’t think i liked this one 3/10

Wimpy Boardwalk Island - Jeff. 2/10 1 point added because Rodrick is also there

Lunar Colony Island - space is good. do i remember this island tho? no. i think theres aliens tho. 5/10 because i like space and aliens.

Super Villain Island - it brings back the most memorable villains like binary bard and black widow. you find out why they are evil. pretty chill 8/10

Charlie and The Chocolate Factory Island - what do you expect 5/10

Zomberry Island - the last of us except i think people are just eating nasty berries really. i like it it’s spooky 7/10

Night Watch Island - Paul Blart Mall Cop 6/10

Back Lot Island - you make a film. i can’t remeber it like at all. 6/10 because it sounds ok

Poptropolis Games Island Part 2 - fuck off 2/10

Virus Hunter Island - i don’t think i completed this one either. however it is one of those inside the human body things which is always cool if cliche. 8/10

Mocktropica Island - very satirical what if about if poptropica was run by assholes. ironic since a bunch of islands were made premium only for a while. pretty sure the bonus missions still are too which is why i’m not mentioning them. funny tho 7/10

Monster Carnival Island - spooky yes. people thirst over the ringmaster raven guy too. theres a spooky clown on the ferris wheel. i don’t remember much other than i liked it because it was about monsters in a theme park. 9/10 i remember it was surprisingly short tho

Survival Island - castaway except it’s you. i don’t remember it either lmao. i got out of touch with old poptropica real bad by this time so my next ratings might be unfair sorry. pretty sure it also becomes the most dangerous game tho and some guy wants to actually fucking kill you. ballsy. 7/10 because it sounds ok i should maybe play it.

Mission Atlantis Island - i like atlantis but i didn’t play this one either. you see deepsea creatures which are spooky so extra points 8/10

PoptropiCon Island - poptropica’s answer to comicon. now i did play this one for some reason but i don’t remember it too well either. i was 14 when it came out so. sounds like yu-gi-oh so good. 7/10

Arabian Nights Island - didn’t play it i think it’s just telling the story. it’s a cool story so 7/10

Galactic Hotdogs Island - what the fuck 1/10

Mystery of The Map Island - vikings are cool. island seems very short tho. 5/10

Timmy Failure Island - who the fuck. this would be more impactful if i read these fucking things but i don’t. who the fuck are you timmy. i guess it’s called failure for a reason. (that was mean sorry) 1/10

Escape from Pelican Rock Island - prison break, nice idea. you have like a twin in this one. seems a bit repetitive sometimes tho. theres like 7 days of doing similar things. 6/10

Monkey Wrench Island - it was created to be the new tutorial, i.e. an actual tutorial rather than Early Poptropica. very fast and boring, especially if you already know everything. 2/10

Crisis Caverns Island - i know nothing about this. even the wiki is incomplete. maybe that means its shit then. 1/10 the wiki doesn’t even care too much about this one.

Greek Sea Odyssey - more ancient greece is always good. you get to beat the shit out of zeus this time 8/10

Snagglemast Island - all you do is collect coins. another tutorial one. 1/10.

bonus: home island. legit just a hub. points added because you can do a lot of customisation here and pick up a pet that doesn’t cost credits. 4/10

DOUBLE BONUS: the little haunted house mini thing. very good because spooky costumes, spooky house fun little monster party. 10/10

[espship18]

Kpop ship for littleflan

Hello my sweets! I’m back with another ship, it feels so good to be getting back in groove of things too! I have a ship for @littleflan who has been so patient with me, bless your heart! I’m gonna stop the chatting, and let’s get to shipping!

Based off your request, I learned these things about you: 

You’re 5′8 with lightly tanned skin sounds gorgeous if you ask me

You love to dye your hair!

Loves to make the people she loves happy

Likes taking on different activities, but can take on too much and can get frustrated 

Favs: documentaries, Disney, and horror movies

The sassy and playful friend

And I think this is cute, you’re the fun aunt 

And in your request, you asked to be shipped with Monsta X, NCT 127, and Seventeen! Shall we? :3

Monsta X: Jooheon

Okay so, since you’re playful and you seem like an absolute doll, I could NOT pass up this opportunity. I honestly think you and Jooheon are so perfect together, because you’re both so playful and lovable, that you two are just adorable and I stan. I get vibes that you and Jooeheon are the type of couple that is care-free and since you’re young, the world is your oyster! You’re also both smitten kittens for each other, so there’s not much that you wouldn’t do together. There’s no doubt in my mind that you would keep Joo company when he would be working. We all know Jooeheon is a very talented artist, and the appreciation for what he does is only amplified when you get to see him work. You would have so much admiration and adoration for Jooheon while he works, so you’d love to watch him work. You’re also like the head cheerleader for Jooheon stans so like, you’d be tight with Monbebe too! Also, since you’re such an active couple, I can see you two taking on projects and activities together for fun, you like to learn together and bond as a couple. Which thanks to Joo, you two pace yourself so you don’t get overwhelmed and have fun. Speaking of which, this boy is a freaking king at taking care of you. He’s so freaking considerate and thinking of you, and he’s not ashamed to be vocal about it either. He makes it his job to make sure that you have the best stress free and happy life. I’m also wanting to screech about PDA so bad, but I’ll hold back for a minute. PS, you’ll always know that boy loves you because he will always pour his heart out to you! Moving around, imma call it, you’re the fun aunt of Monsta X, and you’ll help out Shownu if he isn’t around. However, since you are so soft for the boys, you aren’t super parent-ey on them, so you let their crack-head energy shine through and you guys have fun sorry Shownu it’s hard to say no to them, ya know? I think it would be super cute if you two took turns having date night, which always somehow ends up being movie night, lol. It’s also fun to see how many documentaries you’ve watched and how many topics you’ve covered. Finally, I can screech about PDA! Again a fucking k i n g. He does this thing where he loves to hold your hand and admire it. Like, he loves the way your hands connect together, how soft your skin is, he’ll legit sit there in a trance by just your hands. He would highkey love there wouldn’t be much of a height difference between you two, so like, he loves to cup your cheeks and give you kisses all over, I STAN SO FREAKING HARD. 

NCT 127: Taeyong

Okay so I feel like you two would have that soft puppy love type of love. You’re like always gushing over one another and you can never get enough of each other, it’s so cute I’m gagging on my muffin! Your aunt style of love would change to a motherly type of love bc ya know.. Taeyong has so many children, but you love all of his children so much. Compared to Jooehon, I don’t think you two wouldn’t be as spontaneous, you just go with the flow and prefer to be together with your boys because they’re every ounce of entertainment that you need, and you can also get some time alone if you need it. You two very much put one another first. You much rather prefer to take care of each other, which is good, since you two always have each others backs, but you can’t forget to take care of yourself for you. You also have a bunch of children to take care off too, don’t forget, lol! Overall, I think you two are so content with each other, you don’t mind to be with each other all the time. We all know Tae has so much stress on his shoulders, he would need you to help bring him tranquility and to heal. Then sometimes when you two really spend time together, your wild sides come out and you two can be so random. Like, you two can be having a normal conversation, Tae makes a weird noise, then after some giggles and more weird noises, you two start making your own robot language. Which it actually comes in handy to have your own language because your plans always gets busted because there are just so many people around you lol. I also really really love the idea of you two dying each others hair. We all know Tae’s poor scalp is always dyed, so why not do your hair together! Like, imagine nights together just dying each others hair, some nights there are successes, and sometimes there are fails, hehe. And like, OMG IMAGINE YOU MATCHING YOUR HAIR COLOR WITH HIS FOR HIS COMEBACKS LKFJG!! OR, you’ll like, dye your hair a lighter or darker color to contrast Tae, but also to be a supportive girlfriend! TELL ME THAT’S NOT ADORABLE! You’re the queen of date night, especially when it’s comeback season because the bub is stressed, and he needs some nights in every now and then. Date nights are super simple too, just you two spending time together with some snacks and a crime show. PDA is SO SWEET omg. Simple gestures that promote relaxation and happiness. This includes: soft hand holding(sometimes unexpected), cheek pecks, and hair playing~ :3

Seventeen: Wonwoo

Totally your chill lover boy, and I’m here for it! To say the least, Wonwoo would be very whipped for you, and he would adore every part about you, inside and out! I also really love the visuals here, I personally have a guilty pleasure for tall couples as a 5′6 gal, lol. Also, Wonwoo being a blunt and honest type of guy can REALLY come in handy from time to time. Reason being, Wonwoo is an observant type of person, so I wouldn’t have any doubts that he would be able to pick up on your mannerisms and the way you move very quickly. Wonwoo is a protective type of boyfriend, especially since he’s whipped for you, he wants to take care of you! When you’re starting to get stressed, he can sense it from a mile away. Wonwoo is also very logical, so he knows how to sit you down and talk to you about being stressed. He will never let you get overwhelmed, because he wouldn’t want you to have any unesseccary stress. He has this nice “need v. want” and an “one at a time approach to taking on new activities or hobbies. He also wants you to do what you love more first compared to something you don’t love first. He wants you to shine and do your best work, so Wonwoo is your saving grace! I also think this is really cute, listen up. You two would play tag. Starting out, it would be an inside joke that you would tag one another and say, “you’re it.” After a few times of leaving it at “you’re it”, you each would want to raise the stakes. Sometimes you would poke him back, but then it would escalate to you two starting to chase each other, and it would be a continuing game. Legit, you two would chase each other around the apartment/studio and would jump over furniture and wrestle each other to determine who is and isn’t it. It’s honestly such a fun time and you two would get extremely competitive, hehe. Date nights would be very traditional, upon Wonwoo’s request. You two will dres up and go out for a nice dinner. I also don’t wanna cause issues with people, so you both split the bill as even as you can. Then after dinner, you two will either go on walks, see a movie, or simply just go home to snuggle in bed together. PDA is Wonwoo is a bit more lovey dovey than you give him credit for. He much prefers to have your hand in his, and keeping a hand on yours as much as possible. He also loves to lift your head by your chin to give you kisses. Where he’s protective over you, he wants to keep you close to him so you won’t get lost, which sounds a little childish, but it’s actually super sweet! I don’t make the rules hehe~

~STA

[httpjeon]

❝ hot bot: gift ❞ kth ― m.

taehyung/reader | android!au, hot bot!au | fluff, smut, light humor

wordcount: 3.8k contents: MULTIPLE ORGAMS (like inhuman), overstimulation, filthy dirty talk, size kink, cum eating, taehyungs big dick

― synopsis: your parents have a gift for you, however, there’s been a mistake.

note: this was wild to write. i was gonna take out some of the...orgasms but...in the end i said nah. if it’s too much then i’m sorry but i am who i am

blog masterlist ― series masterlist

THERE WILL NOT BE ANOTHER PART.

© httpjeon 2019. do not repost or modify.

“Hello dear!” Your mother’s gentle voice floated through your phone, making you smile.

“Hi Mom! What’s up?” You asked, looking at your laptop screen, not really registering what you were seeing as she spoke again.

“I was wondering if you could make time to come over today? Your father and I got you a present and we’re both really eager to give it to you!” Your mother even sounded excited and you could picture her excitedly grinning at the idea of seeing you.

After agreeing, you hurried to get ready, knowing your dad did not enjoy it when you kept him waiting. The last thing you wanted was a lecture about how you should be more efficient lest the androids overtake the planet.

The second you stepped onto the front porch, the door flew open and you were surrounded in your mother’s arms, making you laugh at how extra she was.

“Come inside!” She grabbed your hand, ushering you into the living room where you dad was watching the news, as usual. When he saw you, he greeted you with a little head nod before turning back to the television.

“You said you had a gift for me?” You asked, setting your purse down on the coffee table.

Your mom nodded excitedly, calling your dad’s name to get his attention before telling him to go get it. Your dad huffed but did as he was asked anyway.

“We know you’ve been having a hard time with housework since you broke up with Sanghyuk and have been living on your own, so we decided to get you something to ease the burden and make you less lonely,”

“Oh no Mom…” You already knew where it was going and your fears were confirmed when your dad came out of the back room leading a man.

An android.

“His name is Taehyung and he’s called a Help Bot!” Your mom exclaimed, taking Taehyung’s hand and bringing him up next to you.

He was incredible good-looking, not something unusual for androids, but this was another level. He had ashy-gray hair that hung in his eyes and he possessed endearing round eyes. Suddenly, he grinned exposing the most charming boxy smile you’d ever seen.

“Hello _____, I’ve been told you’ll be taking care of me,” He said, still grinning. You were shocked by just how deep his voice was, you don’t know what you were expecting but with his boyish charms it wasn’t a voice that deep.

“Taehyung, be a dear and take _____’s things to her car,” Your mom asked, waving him off.

Taehyung hesitated for a split second, meeting your eyes before he shrugged and grabbed your purse before heading out the door. You watched him until he was out of sight, shutting the door behind him.

“Unfortunately, I think he’s a little buggy,” Your dad sighed, taking a seat. “Figures the robots they make can’t even function properly. He can’t even clean like he was designed to do.”

Your mother just laughed your father off and turned to look at you.

“He just needs to learn, that’s all. The more you use him, the more he’ll improve!”

After bidding goodbye to your parents, you stepped out of the house to see Taehyung standing by your car, swinging your purse side to side as he stared up at the sky. He looked rather...cute.

Once he heard you approach him, he looked back down and grinned at you.

“Hi ____! Ready to go?” He said almost mechanically. In a way it made you grimace, reminding you that he was simply a machine. No matter how lifelike he appeared...he was still just a machine.

The drive back to your house was uneventful, Taehyung making the occasional comment in his low timbre about your neighborhood.

“It’s different from your parents...more lively, huh?”

“Well yeah,” You responded, keeping your eyes on the road. “They live in a retirement community. This is more people my age.”

“I see,” He responded just as you pulled into your parking garage. “An apartment?”

“Yeah,” You said, opening your car door and grabbing your purse and the keys from the ignition. “I can’t exactly afford to buy my own house. I’m just a struggling college student, you know?”

“I understand,” He said, voice echoing in the garage as he followed closely behind you.

You hadn’t realized how long you’d spent at your parents until you got into your apartment and looked at the time. As you went into the kitchen to start dinner, you watched Taehyung out of the corner of your eye in the living room as he looked through your stuff.

“Oh! You like classical music?” He asked suddenly, picking up one of your records.

“Y-Yeah...do you like music?” You asked, not really thinking of the question until it left your mouth. “Well...I guess you don’t, do you?” You backtracked, shaking your head as you remembered robots weren’t programmed for small talk like this.

“No, I do like it,” He responded easily, placing the record back on your shelf before joining you in the kitchen. “I had a friend once who dabbled in music.”

Just as you were about to question him on his concept of “friendship”, your timer went off and you had to take the ramen off the stove.

“Can you clean the pot for me, Taehyung?” You asked mindlessly, silently thanking your parents for a robot that would clean. However, when he didn’t do what you asked, you turned to look at him to see him staring very strangely at you, almost as if you had grown another head. “What?”

“I think there’s been...a misunderstanding, _____,” He stated, taking a seat across from you at the table. “I didn’t have to heart to tell your poor parents the truth but I’m sure you can take it.”

“Y-You’re kinda freakin’ me out, Taehyung,” You admitted, leaning back in your seat to put some distance between you. “You’re not like secretly a human who’s being sold as a robot and you’re here to kill me or something, right?”

“Oh my god, you sound like your Dad,” Taehyung groaned, putting his head on the table as he laughed. “No, I’m not a Help Bot like your parents said...I’m a Hot Bot.”

You choked as the words escaped his lips, missing the broad grin that spread across his face at your reaction.

“A-A Hot Bot?! You mean one of those sex robots?!” You shrieked, standing up and completely forgetting about your ramen as you escaped to the living room with Taehyung hot on your heels.

“Well, yeah, it’s what I’m built for but-”

“So you expect me to have sex with you, is that it!?”

“No-”

“Oh my god, how can my parents be so dumb! They thought you were a service bot and now here I am with a living sex toy! Well...sort of living. But still, you can’t just expect me to have sex with you. I guess that explains why you’re so fucking hot though, I will admit that I was stunned at first-”

“You think I’m hot?”

You paused in your ranting at his words, blushing as you realized what had slipped out. It was out in the open already and you decided that there was no point in trying to lie about it and carefully nodded.

“I think...you’re pretty hot too…” He admitted, stepping closer and licking his lips.

“P-Please...you’re just programmed to say that, Taehyung…” You muttered, but there was no bite in your words as you met his eyes.

“No, it’s not that at all…” He whispered, not elaborating on his words as he leaned down and pressed his lips to yours. You were shocked by how warm his lips were and how lifelike they felt.

You didn’t have time to question what he meant because soon your mind was completely consumed by the feeling of him kissing you. His spit, when he slid his tongue into your mouth, was like bubblegum; sweet and candy-like. You found yourself craving more, moving onto your tiptoes and lacing your fingers through his hair to pull him even closer against you.

In your haze, you didn’t notice him urging you towards the couch until he broke the kiss to sit down, big hands gripping your waist to help you straddle him. Beneath your hands, his chest was firm and you could feel the best of his artificial heart, an organ that kept all the machines inside him running. It felt just like a human’s heartbeat.

As if he could tell your thoughts, his hand slid over yours on his chest, lacing with your fingers as he met your eyes.

He opened his mouth, tempted to speak, but quickly closed it and instead pressing his lips against your neck. You whimpered at the feeling, almost foreign by how long it had been since someone touched you so sensually.

His fingers, shockingly gentle, lifted your shirt up until he was able to drop it on the floor. Bottom lip caught between his teeth, he reached up and cupped your bare breasts, moaning at how the felt in his hands. You whimpered, panties soaking from the vision of sin he portrayed as he leaned forward to envelop one hardened nipple into his mouth, swirling his hot tongue around it.

You needed to hold onto something, have something to occupy your mind from the oddly-overwhelming pleasure his mouth brought you. He was just laving his tongue over your nipple and it had already made your body so sensitive. So your hands became busy, reaching between your bodies to pull up the white t-shirt he was wearing. It made his shoulders stand out, wide and manly, and his chest seem even more inviting. However, once it was removed you were shocked by what you saw.

You had expected 6-pack abs and defined muscles but instead Taehyung was lean. No pudge but no abs, and that was even more inviting to you. You had always enjoyed a man who you could tell worked out but not to the point of bodybuilder status.

Running your hands over his chest, you could feel how smooth his skin was and, even better, feel his heartbeat even clearer. His skin was soft, almost baby soft, and you flicked your thumb over his nipple, making him groan against your nipple before dislodging himself.

“Feel that, princess?” He asked, now using his thumb and index finger to pinch your abused nipple.

“Wh-What?” You whimpered, eyes hazy as he continued to punch your bud.

“My saliva is a special kind. Only my model possesses it, it contains a type of enzyme that makes my partner hyper-sensitive. Your little nipple must be tingly right now, huh?”

“Y-Yeah…” You agreed, jutting your chest out to gain more of his touch.

“So cute,” He muttered before encasing your other nipple in his mouth, causing the same tingle to erupt in that bud.

The throbbing of your cunt in your panties was becoming too much and you couldn’t stop yourself from grinding down to achieve any kind of friction. It shocked you when Taehyung groaned and, once again, released your nipple. The cool air made the bud feel even more sensitive and you whimpered, grinding down some more.

“You want cock, baby girl?” He asked, reaching behind you to cup your ass to help you grind down.

“Yes, please…” You begged, mins turning hazy at the pleasure you were feeling.

“Go ahead and take my cock out for me, baby,” He cooed, tone not at all commanding but you rushed to do what you were told. The button of his black jeans stood no match for your desperate fingers before you reached inside to grasp his cock, freezing once you felt it. A smirk grew across Taehyung's face at the debauched look that took over your face.

When you failed to pull it out, he reached into his jeans to wrap his hand around yours, continuing the job for you. Once his cock was in the open, you realized just how small your hand looked in comparison. You could barely fit your entire fist around he was so thick.

“Like that, sweetheart?” He cooed, using your hand to jerk himself off. A bead of previn developed at the tip before dropping down to slide between his skin and your palm, aiding in your ability to move your hand. “I think babygirl likes seeing such a fat cock, huh?”

He chuckled when you didn’t answer, allowing you to simply jerk him off. Soft moans came from his lips as he tilted his head back into the back of the couch. You could feel your hole clench pathetically around nothing, your sticky juices causing your panties to stick to your lips like a second skin.

You wanted them off.

As you shifted uncomfortably, Taehyung seemed to realize what the problem was and chuckled again. He pulled your fingers off of his cock, helping you move up onto your knees so he could start pulling down your leggings.

When they stretched around your knees, you used his shoulders for balance as you lifted one leg up, letting him pull them off before moving your weight to the other knee until you were left in nothing but your panties.

While you were still poised on your knees, Taehyung took the opportunity to shove his jeans down until they pooled around his ankles, not bothering to kick them all the way off in favor of reaching up to touch you though your panties.

His touch was exhilarating, making you tremble where you kneeled, having to cling to his shoulders for support. He located your clit with extraordinary ease, using your soaked panties to aid in his stimulation. It felt phenomenal and you couldn't suppress the lewd moan you released into the air if you tried.

It was so much, so sudden that you went tumbling into a mind-numbing orgasm that left you panting and trembling until you couldn't hold yourself up on your knees anymore. Taehyung let you drop down completely into his lip, holding onto him as you felt the trembles begin to ease out of your system.

You were left a panting mess in his lap with your cum in your panties no longer being soaked up, instead dripping through the fabric to reach in clear strings onto his bare cock. The sigh was lewd and absolutely sinful, the sight of your cum coating him and mixing with his own juices.

Taehyung gripped your hips in an iron-tight grip that could leave bruises the next day, but you didn't mind because he was suddenly positioning you directly on top of his cock, the thick vein throbbing directly beneath your swollen, hard clit.

Ever so slowly, he used his grip on your hips to grind you back and forth on his huge cock. Your lips were spread beneath your panties, the fabric sticking to your clit and making the exposed bud even more prominent and vulnerable to the movements.

You swear, you'd never been thrown into another orgasm as fast as you were now. With his cock grinding against you, hot and so thick, right against your clit, you were cumming again. Your panties were ruined without a doubt.

When you came back down, you looked to see Taehyung, eyes heated and dark, staring right where you were still seated on top of his cock. Taking a glance down as well, you were shocked to see how wet he was. You slick cum oozed everywhere, making an absolute mess of everything you touched and you felt your clit throb again at the sight.

"Get those panties off," He growled, helping to support you as you worked to panties down off your hips. However, instead of letting you drop them to the floor, he took them into this hand.

His fingers touched the crotch of them, immediately being covered in strings of your slick. Your eyes widened when, instead of popping his fingers into his mouth, he laved his tongue over the copious amounts of your cum that were staining the fabric.

He groaned, shoving more of the panties into his mouth, making obscene sucking noises as he attempted to taste everything the fabric had soaked up.

The sight was too much to handle and you found yourself grinding on his bare cock, this time making direct contact with your slit. It was filthy, the way his absolutely massive cock spread your cunt apart, the head catching on your clit from beneath its hood, making yours thighs quiver with every movement.

"Look at that," He groaned as he took the panties out of his mouth, dropping them onto the couch as he gazed at the way you ground on him. "All your fucking cum and that fat little clit, absolutely aching to be touched,"

You had never heard such filthy words come from someone's mouth and you were whimpering at the nastiness of it all.

You couldn't take it anymore, your hole needed to be filled, and you weren't going to waste another second. Taehyung held your waist as you held yourself above his cock, it looked so massive compared to your pulsing little hole and you were almost afraid it wasn't going to fit.

"Go ahead and sit on it, baby," Taehyung cooed, holding your waist tighter as he urged you to slowly sit down on him.

Your walls burned as you took him in, completely overtaking your mind. He touched every spot inside you that any human man could never even hope to touch. You were halfway down on his cock when you were cumming again.

"Jesus Christ, again?" He growled, watching and feeling as you pulsed around him in your orgasm. You couldn't even make a noise as you finally sunk completely down in the middle of your orgasm, which only sent you spiraling deeper into the pleasure.

Suddenly, he was circling your clit with his thumb. Your eyes nearly bugged out of your skull at the feeling, being thrown into an ever stronger orgasm. This time, however, your juices erupted from inside you, coating Taehyung's chest and abdomen in your cum. You went to pull off of his cock but his strong hands kept you speared on him.

By the time you came down, you were sobbing with tears dripping down your cheeks.

"Look at you," Taehyung cooed, cupping the back of your head to pull you into his chest, where you wrapped your arms around him and trembled, "Do you need to stop, babygirl?"

"J-Just for a...a second..." You slurred, almost unable to even understand yourself. However, he seems to have and simply nods.

So you sat there, still trembling from the overwhelming pleasure you had just felt, still stuffed with his massive cock, pressing against your g-spot and your sensitive clit pressing against his pelvic bone. His fingers trailed up and down your back, calming down your racing heart and trembling.

"I-I've never...cum like that...before..." You whispered, burying your face into his neck fore more comfort, which he eagerly supplied.

Part of you was confused about the comfort and care he provided with you. You were sure that robots couldn't be in tune like this to human emotions and needs, but Taehyung was touching you so tenderly and carefully to calm down your overwhelmed body that you were tempted to ask him. However, before you could open your mouth to ask, he spoke.

"Squirted, you mean?" The dirty term ignited a heat in your cheeks before you nodded.

Sure, you had boyfriends before in the past but if you were honest, the sex was mediocre at best. A lot of the time, they couldn't even touch your clit correctly, treating it like a scratch-off in a way that had you whimpering - not from pleasure either.

There was a comfortable moment of silence as you began to calm down, your heartbeat returning to a semi-normal rate. Taehyung seemed to sense your chance because he leaned back, letting you sit up and see his face. He smiled gently, brushing a stray strand of hair behind your ear before leaning forward to press a kiss against your lips.

Your arms, wound around his shoulders tightened as you began to slowly grind against him. It still astounded you how big he was and that you had managed to fit him inside you.

You leaned back, using his knees to keep you stable as you bega to ride him in earnest. Taehyung moaned, eyes rolling back in his head from the tight, wet heat of your cunt around him.

“W-We’ll make it quick, baby,” He growled, using his thumb to circle your clit, making you toss your head back in a pleasure-filled cry. He was going to make you cum again. This was too much. He was literally going to kill you. “One more, sweetheart, give me one more,”

At his urging, you exploded once again. He held your waist to keep you from toppling off him as you trembled and shook on top of him, bottoming out on his cock as you came hard.

The feeling of your convulsing walls signaled that he could cum as well.

His cum was hot.

That’s the only word you could describe it as. Hot.

It trickled out of your hole and down his shaft, too much of it for your cunt to hold.

“Messy,” He playfully scolded, scooping some of his cum onto his fingers to show you. “Open your mouth,”

You hesitated, not wanting to eat cum but the heated look in his eyes had your jaw dropping open for his fingers entrance.

The taste shocked you.

It was sweet.

Taehyung chuckled at the bewildered look in your eyes.

“It’s pineapple,” He said, making you raise your eyebrow. “Hot Bots come with flavored semen. Makes it better to taste.”

“That’s a good gimmick,” You noted, smiling at him.

“Alright, let's get you cleaned up,”

You winced when he helped you pull of his cock. You noted that it was technically still hard but he simply pulled his pants back up.

Maybe it just stayed like that?

Shrugging it off, you allowed him to pick you up, groaning inwardly at the mess that smeared the couch where you two had been sitting.

That was going to be a pain to clean up. But, you pushed it to the back of your mind for now. You instead focused on how nice it felt to be carried to the bathroom, a blissful smile spreading across your lips.

“BREAKING: HOT BOT INC. RECALLS DEFECTIVE BTS900 MODEL BOTS.”

“Shit…” Taehyung mutters, sitting up in the bed, the blanket falling from his chest.

“What is it?” You asked, furrowing your brows at the look of complete horror on his face.

“That’s my model. We’re being recalled,” Suddenly, he turned to look at you and your heart nearly stopped by how scared he looked. “Don’t turn me in to them, _____.”

For a moment you could swear his eyes were getting watery but, robots couldn’t feel fear like that and they couldn’t cry emotionally…

Right?

[eggoreviews]

E3 2019 Nintendo Direct - BREAKDOWN

Oh wow. That big ol direct sure was something. So now I’m here to break down everything that happened in unnecessary fashion and give my personal reaction to everything that happened with my tried and true Excitement Rater. Want to see my heavily scientific and not at all arbitrary process? Then click down to see the deets.

Before we kick off my (very very scientific) breakdown of this year’s packed direct, I thought I’d briefly go over how I rate things:

A random string of letters/numbers = Immeasurable excitement

YEEHAW BABEY = Big excitement

Heck Yeck = Vague excitement

Yeah! = Not really excited, but still could be good

Sure, why not? = I’m more confused than excited but sure

Oh = The excitement isn’t there

Oh no = Used on the rare occasion I really don’t like what I’ve seen

The Hero from the Dragon Quest series in Smash!

After a brief montage of some games that already came out I guess, the direct jumps straight into an ominous shot of World of Light baddie Dharkon, followed by a seemingly hopeless fight between Link and one very possessed Marth. Then the Luminary turns up gloriously on his horse. With all the leaks that had been flying around for so long, I think pretty much everyone had accepted the presence of Dragon Quest at this point and I was totally stoked when this happened! I love Dragon Quest! And my boi from 11 is here, along with a few other DQ veterans as alt swaps and a pretty awesome looking stage overlooking what seems to be the land of Erdrea and the World Tree. Now to wait until summer and hope the Smash team have some sick ass remixes for us when the time comes!

Excitement Rating: YEEHAW BABEY

Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Definitive Edition

In a move that makes it a lil obvious that DQ’s Smash addition was more than a little commercially minded (not that I really care I’m still big hyped), a trailer for the expanded edition of the series’ latest installment follows. Seeming as I’ve already played this, I doubt I’ll be picking it up again but I still heartily recommend the game to any JRPG fan. Admittedly, the fact you apparently get to explore worlds from past games is pretty exciting.

ER: Heck Yeck

Luigi’s Mansion 3

In a way I thought was surprising, Nintendo’s first proper focus of Luigi’s Mansion 3 actually took up more time than Animal Crossing, but I guess that’s because it’s further along in development. We now know that the game is set within a haunted hotel and had some new gameplay features shown off, including the various ways Luigi can succ a ghost. Most exciting I think for me was the various multiplayer aspects, such as the local co-op option to play as Gooigi and the seemingly challenge and minigame-based ‘Scarescraper’ which I think incorporates online co-op too. Overall, this is looking to be a creative and well thought out entry in the series and I’m here for it.

ER: Heck Yeck

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance - Tactics

A licensed tie-in game for a thirty year old film feels a little odd, but I suppose stranger things have happened. This looks to be a sort of top-down tactical thingy involving the various characters from The Dark Crystal and for some reason Netflix is involved, I don’t know, but I guess it could be interesting.

ER: Sure, why not?

The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening

The adorable remake of this classic Game Boy title seems to be coming along great and this direct’s extended trailer gave us a good look at what we’ll be exploring come September 20th. The overhaul Koholint Island has had is phenomenal, giving us designs for Link and various other characters that we’ve never seen before and that makes this remake look especially unique. Another very exciting aspect for me was the dungeon builder that looks like great fun! You collect different dungeon parts as you go and then you can build and explore your own! Am I a goblin child or does that sound like the best thing ever?

ER: YEEHAW BABEY!!

Trials of Mana / Collection of Mana

I’ll admit I’m not really familiar with the Mana series, but from what I was shown in this direct, it looks to be a fairly standard JRPG. That’s definitely not a bad thing, as most JRPGs are amazing, but nothing in this trailer really stood out and came into its own. That being said, the gameplay and graphics look pretty solid and I’m sure the Mana fans have been fairly starved for content for a while so that’s something to look forward to. On top of this remake/new game with the same title as an older game (I really don’t know), the Collection of Mana containing the series’ first three games is being released real soon on the eShop.

ER: Yeah!

The Witcher III: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition

Following a few scattered rumours, we finally have confirmation that a Witcher 3 port is in fact in the works, coming packed with all the game’s DLC. This basically legendary RPG is not one I personally had a great experience with, but I’m sure a lot of people are gonna be happy to play this in handheld. I’d keep expectations tempered however, with the likes of Assassin’s Creed 3 and Saints Row the Third proving that these ports don’t always function brilliantly on this platform.

ER: Yeah!

Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Yet another and probably our last Fire Emblem trailer was shown in this direct, giving us a better look at how the story might play out and what our villains are going to be. With most of the gameplay features explored in the previous February direct, it’s good to have a slightly better idea as to what’s actually going on in terms of story and, to me, the results seem pretty damn good. Definitely one to keep an eye on!

ER: Heck Yeck

Resident Evil

In a slightly unnecessarily convoluted advert, we were given a two minute reel of two teenagers playing the original RE in tabletop mode in an abandoned house (??), along with the kind of less than exciting announcement that we’re getting the two weakest entries in the series for Switch, RE 5 and 6. I probably wasn’t the only one who felt a little passive about this whole thing. That being said, definitely not complaining about 1 & 4 being ported over.

ER: Oh

No More Heroes III

After the very slightly disappointing Travis Strikes Again, I really wasn’t expecting them to drop a trailer for the series’ third mainline installment so soon after. What we’ve seen looks pretty much like classic Travis, with a smidge of gameplay seen that looks just a bit more like what we’re used to. Of course, with this being the first reveal, there’s still a lot to find out but this looks very promising.

ER: Heck Yeck

Contra: Rogue Corps / Contra: Anniversary Collection

I’m not gonna pretend to be familiar with the Contra series, but this doesn’t at all look like what I’ve seen in the past. Honestly, this seemingly tactical shooter didn’t elicit much excitement from me and neither did its rushed character drops or its oddly rough textures. I’m unsure of actual fan reactions to this, but in my mind this one kind of sits in the ‘guess this exists’ category. As well as this, we got a shadowdrop for the Contra Anniversary Collection, whereas Rogue Corps comes on September 24th.

ER: Oh

Daemon X Machina

In what seems to be almost a mainstay in Nintendo directs, we’ve got another vague trailer for this mech shooter that finally has a confirmed release date of September 13th. The gameplay looks harmless enough, with the mechs seeming to be a blast to pilot, but beyond that, I can’t really see a lot of substance that would draw me in beyond the cool robots. I’m sure it could be good, but not really one for me.

ER: Yeah!

Panzer Dragoon

I was completely unsure of what this one was, but it looks a bit like a cross between The Last Guardian and those bullet hell sections from Kingdom Hearts 2. They’ve certainly nailed the smooth graphics and the cool looking creatures, but this one is mostly a case of needing to know more.

ER: Yeah!

Pokemon Sword & Shield

This one’s obviously a title so monumental that it consistently needs its own directs, but there wasn’t any *real* news about it in this direct. We were given a brief explanation as to how the Pokeball Plus works in conjunction with the games (something to do with taking your Pokemon for a walk) and the fact that we’ll see more gameplay during Nintendo’s Treehouse streams. Still, excitement remains pretty high for these titles.

ER: Heck Yeck!

Astral Chain

This game, to put it bluntly, looks awesome. The newest Platinum Games IP seems to be set in Blade Runneresque futuristic city with an alien threat and some cool ass looking fighting police people. Our second proper look at this game has cleared up a few murky doubts as to what exactly is supposed to be happening, so now we’ve got a much better idea of what this game is going to be. The story seems pretty full and polished, the gameplay looks like brilliant fun and I’m definitely not mad at the cool monster designs. This is one I’m definitely watching.

ER: Heck Yeck!!!

Empire of Sin

I know very little about what this game is supposed to be, but it looks to be a 40s gangster XCOM, substituting alien fighting marines with gun toting mafia dudes. The trailer went for style over substance, giving us an edgy visual thing of some burning playing cards and broken bottles, but the little gameplay we saw looked decent enough and may just end up injecting more variety into this genre.

ER: Yeah!

Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order

An obvious pick for any Marvel fan, this hack-and-slash is jam packed with various heroes and villains from the comic series’ rich history. Ghost Rider and Elektra were among those revealed to be playable, while the likes of Mysterio, Hela, the Destroyer, Doctor Octopus, Surtur and MODOK are seemingly part of growing cast of villains. Looks like a good bit of fun if nothing else, though the immediate presence of a season pass is a tiny red flag.

ER: Yeah!

Cadence of Hyrule

In an unexpected but greatly welcomed crossover between Nintendo’s RPG titan Zelda series and the indie developed Crypt of the Necrodancer, a new rhythm based dungeon crawler with some brand new Zelda remixes and the presence of Link and Zelda as playable characters. This game’s retro graphics look totally adorable and the addition of the Gohmaracas were a definite highlight.

ER: Heck Yeck!!!!!

Mario & Sonic at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

Tell you what, this definitely looks like a Mario and Sonic Olympic Games game. There looks to be a decent amount of variety in terms of what sports are involved and with its online multiplayer, there’s no shortage of vaguely cartoon sportyness to be had with friends both real and virtual. I’d be lying if I said I was totally disinterested because it does look a bit fun, but we all know it won’t be anything groundbreaking.

ER: Yeah!

Animal Crossing: New Horizons

In a fairly drastic formula change, Nintendo have decided to strand us on a desert island rather than move us innocently to another village, but Tom Nook is still here and oh yes he’s coming to collect his bells. From this surprisingly brief trailer, most of Animal Crossing’s core gameplay seems to be intact, with the return of craftable items from Pocket Camp, and the sudden bombshell that the game has been pushed back to March next year. Never going to be a bad thing if the finished product is all the better for it, but I guess that just means more info is to come!

ER: Heck Yeck

Highlight Reel

In what looks like a list of honourable mentions, Nintendo gave us a laundry list of other titles coming to the system:

Spyro Reignited Trilogy is joining Crash on the Switch with his acclaimed remaster trilogy.

Hollow Knight: Silksong, the prequel to the original game, looks just as charmingly dark as its predecessor.

Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch is showing up I guess, but I’ll come out and say I know nothing about it except that it looks cute.

Minecraft Dungeons looks better than it has any right to be and looks a bit like blocky Diablo I guess

The Elder Scrolls: Blades sure exists and I’m unsure of what it’s trying to be, but whatever quells off the need for Elder Scrolls 6 I guess.

My Friend Pedro, another strangely unique title from Devolver Digital, looks like it somehow incorporates banana peels into its combat system.

Doom Eternal looks like Doom always does, but a distinct lack of gameplay may put its dual release with the other consoles into question.

The Sinking City with its Lovecraftian inspiration looks totally brilliant and looks to be a unique experience for sure, so eyes firmly open for this one

Wolfenstein Youngblood definitely looks all Wolfenstein-y, but rumours of Dishonored-like sandbox levels has definitely piqued my interest.

Dead by Daylight still looks unfortunately a bit eh, with its slightly not great graphical quality from what we’ve seen in the trailers.

Alien Isolation was an extremely odd one, but I’m not gonna say no to more good horror content on the console.

Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles seems to be continually delayed, but they’ll probably get round to it eventually.

Dragon Quest Builders 2 looks adorable and I’m very into the idea of Dragon Quest Minecraft, so sign me up.

Stranger Things 3: The Game looks a little more SNES-like in terms of graphics than its 8 Bit mobile predecessor, which is definitely a decent step. An obvious pick for fellow fans of the show.

Just Dance 2020 is definitely a Just Dance game. Yep, sure is. I even checked. And it is.

Catan is a tabletop game of sorts, but I really couldn’t figure out what kind from that few seconds of vague footage.

New Super Lucky’s Tale looks like Bubsy, but actually good and worth real money

Dauntless looks like a bit of a Monster Hunter clone, but you know, doesn’t look terrible.

And lastly, Super Mario Maker 2 was tacked on the end there to remind us all that Nintendo is taking our money in 2 weeks.

Banjo-Kazooie become Smash Ultimate’s 3rd DLC Fighter

Just when we all petering out a little and the hype seemed all but dormant, they go and drop this on us out of nowhere. While I personally don’t have an attachment to the bear and bird, I’m fully aware of their significance and how much they mean to a lot of people out there. And that excitement ended up being contagious, so this fact coupled with a pitch perfect reveal trailer has got me hugely hyped to see these guys join the fight come autumn.

ER: YEEHAW BABEY

Sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

And now, dear reader, for the reveal that removed my scalp and cut out my eyeballs. At first, I was totally confused as to what this could be. And then I recognised the symbols, and then my perfect lil Hyrule eggs come on the screen and it’s all spooky and there’s dead Ganondorf and I don’t clock the fact that I’ve just screamed out loud. A direct sequel to my absolute favourite game of all time is happening and it’s real and I get to live another adventure in the best game world ever crafted all over again. I think it’s safe to say I have transcended the definition of hype when it comes to this one.

ER: AAA!!! AA!!! GFFGF!!! THIS!!! ZELDA!!!! HGGGG!!!!

So there’s my probably a little stupid breakdown of everything Nintendo bestowed upon us this E3. Guess I’ll jump in after the next direct to give you yet another heavily scientific analysis of its events. Or I’ll babble at you until I start punching the keyboard. Either way, happy trails my dudes. Don’t let the hype bugs bite.

[true-halloween-tales]

2018: #5-MAD SCIENTISTS

A common character type in horror films is the mad scientist. Mad scientists are the geniuses who create the problems the films are about. Mad scientists also appear in many novels and tv series. Mad scientists allow for easy Halloween costumes; all you need is some sort of lab coat. The mad scientist is a Jungian archetype, a familiar reoccurring character type. They usually hold some form of degree in biochemistry, medicine, or robotics so they qualify as being a scientist. They primary want to build, create things, or make scientific progress. Mad scientists often have wild frizzed out hair, wear white lab coats or protective gear, are eccentric, and old. They always have good intentions – advances in science or knowledge! They are convinced to the point of fanaticism that they are benefitting humanity. Sometimes their goals are narrow, to just help one person, such as a family member, often from an illness, resulting in terrible consequences. It is important to understand this distinction of mad scientists: they usually think they are working towards good. They always believe that the ends justify the means. They are cold people. Mad scientists have existed since there was science. They represent an insane misuse of the scientific method into creating terrible things.

A misuse of science and technology is an issue we are slowly drowning in. Global warming is the largest product of this misuse. Global warming exists because of a willful ignorance in harnessing natural energy. Of all of the possible energy sources, from the tides to wind and solar energy, focusing only on obtaining power from sources that produce toxins is crazy. Freud called that Thanatos, the death instinct. Real mad scientists are responsible for animal testing, the nuclear arms race, etc. Thomas Edison, sure made achievements with electricity, but why would he electrocute an elephant? The unconscious motivation of the mad scientist is Thanatos, or death and doom.

Previously I ogled over the 1974 Doctor Who seven episode story, Inferno (see 2018: #2-GUIDE TO DOCTOR WHO). The Third Doctor, Jon Pertwee, is shot into a parallel world in which England was a totalitarian communist country. The Doctor deals with a Professor Stahlman who is managing the deepest drilling project ever. This deep drilling brings up a mysterious green ooze. The green ooze was extremely hot, turning people insane and devolving them into green werewolves. Professor Stahlman ignored all of that and continued working on his drilling project to discover a new energy source. He was “hellbent” on seeing his project succeed in penetrating the Earth’s inner crust at all costs, yet doing that would doom the world to a quick destruction as the uncapped power of the core of the planet was released. Mad scientists are insane because they are drawn to doom, death and destruction, likes moths to a flame.

Dr. Frankenstein from the original 1931 Frankenstein film is perhaps the most recognizable mad scientist. Dr. Victor Frankenstein was portrayed by Colin Clive including in the sequel, Bride of Frankenstein. Colin Clive may be the primary mad scientist, but he was not the first mad scientist to appear in film. Rudolph Klein-Rogge delivered to us the mad scientist of Rotwang in the masterpiece Metropolis from 1927. Claude Rains in 1933’s The Invisible Man sure seems mad! Bela Lugosi portrayed many mad scientists (see 2018: #1-GREAT HORROR FILM ACTORS). I particularly prefer his twelve-episode serial from 1939, The Phantom Creeps, in which Lugosi portrays the villain who constructs a ridiculous-looking metal golem with a fantastically fat head (see 2012: #3-GOLEMS). The most frightening mad scientist from early film sure seems to be Charles Laughton’s Dr. Moreau from 1932’s The Island of Lost Souls. Bela Lugosi also appeared in that film but as an experiment of the mad doctor. Dr. Jekyll is an excellent example of a mad scientist with a multiple personality problem. There are many film adaptations of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The original 1931 film with Fredric March is probably the best but I also like Dan Curtis’ 1968 production of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with Jack Palance.

Mad scientists in horror fiction have a clearly specified niche they tend to be interested in. Sometimes they are mad doctors testing new surgeries, medications, or serums such as in 2007’s The Rage. Other times they are experimenting on living or dead people or upon animals as in 2006’s Black Sheep. If not messing about with animals or the dead, mad scientists start building things like robots and androids which may even end up destroying the entire universe as in the Lexx tv series. Other times mad scientists are building strange technologies and hyperspatial portals to other places or realms. Some mad scientists just want to break new barriers and travel somewhere forbidden as in the films From Beyond, Doom, or Event Horizon.

Mad scientists have appeared in many television series. Doctor Who was originally going to be about an old human mad scientist from the year 5,000 who built a time machine. Fringe was a tv series focusing upon one mad scientist chief character, Dr. Walter Bishop portrayed by John Noble. The enjoyable 1960’s The Avengers spy series often featured mad scientist villains (see 2017: #4-SPIES). Walter White from the popular Breaking Bad series was something of a mad scientist chemist. Quite a few superheroes are mad scientists or victims of mad science: Spider-Man, the Hulk, and the Fantastic Four (see 2017: #10-SUPERHEROES). Hannibal Lecter may hold psychology degrees, but he does not have the tactical goals of a mad scientist. Vincent Price’s Dr. Phibes may hold multiple degrees, but he focuses on theology. But – The Human Centipede’s Dr. Heiter is indeed a mad scientist, with interests quite similar to the feces-feasting Indian vampire, the bhuta (see 2009: #7-THREE LESSER-KNOWN VAMPIRE LEGENDS). There are so many, who are the top three mad scientists from film, having made multiple appearances as the same character?

One of the top three mad scientists from film is “David” the android from Prometheus and Alien: Covenant. David experimented upon, developed, and probably released across the galaxy the deadly species from Alien. Michael Fassbender portrayal makes one strangely sympathetic to his mad scientist activities. His specialty is bioengineering. There are theories that David is basically a human-created Satan figure in the Alien universe. It will be interesting to see if he appears again in a future film.

A second familiar mad scientist film character is Dr. Herbert West from the Reanimator films. Dr. West was portrayed by career mad scientist actor, Jeffrey Combs. Dr. West was predominantly preoccupied with bringing the dead back, their cats, and sometimes just their body parts. The four Reanimator films are based on a H.P. Lovecraft short story, and Jeffrey Combs career includes many appeariances in films adapted from Lovecraft and Poe stories.

The third mad scientist is Dr. Emmett Brown from the Back to the Future films. He was portrayed by Christopher Lloyd who is ready to make a fourth film in the series. Dr. Brown built a Delorean car time machine, and he was distinctive because he was not an evil destructive, Thanatos-pursuing mad scientist; he was actually a good mad scientist. Christopher Lloyd is also credited for his decent portrayal of Uncle Fester in The Addams Family films.

Have I ever encountered mad scientists? Yes! In earlier tales I mentioned my nightmarish experiences while working for Miskatonic University (see 2011: #3-INDESCRIBABLE HORROR AT MISKATONIC UNIVERSITY). It turned out I worked in a building with a massive secret animal laboratory. For the short time I remained working there, I carefully studied the psychologies of the animal researchers. I learned that they are all budding serial killers. They are indoctrinated to value life less, and some have subconscious drives to hate animal life. One of my job duties was to write a lengthy newsletter. One quarter page was empty of all content. A worker in the office suggested that a Save the Dolphin promotion could fit into the empty quarter page. When I mentioned this to one of these cold, indoctrinated mad scientist animal researchers, her eyes bulged furiously and insanely, and she demanded that the dolphins are not saved in this publication! She yelled to publish the newsletter with that page blank, and then she dissolved into a gelatinous stain of stupidity.

The best mad scientist films to watch for Halloween include: Island of the Lost Souls, 1977’s Island of Doctor Moreau is good too, the Reanimator films, and the six Resident Evil films. Sometimes I have served as a mad scientist, creating new monsters for my Dungeons & Dragons campaign (on Monday see 2018: #6-STRANGE MONSTERS I HAVE CREATED)…