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nualaofthefaerie · 7 months
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Hello!! I come with questions for Madame Nuala President 🎤✨??
So I can see how Sandflower could be established since it has a solid foundation on canon BUT what about Immortalflower? Or Immortal Sandflower? ( hope I’m not mixing ships names! I mean Hob x Nuala x Dream)
Do you have any Headcanons as to how those ships come to be? I would be interested in knowing more about them!
Thank you 🖤
You are so not mixing them, dear. It is ImmortalSandFlower, ISF for short.
We have come to it! The idiots at the end of the road. My creme de la creme of polycules.
Okay, so before Miss Madam President gets too excited, this post will be structured in the following way *puts my big girl glasses on*:
Why do I think ISF works so much more for me than any other trio?
My personal headcanons for them
Note to the people: I too have some Dreamling inclinations, I just love WOMEN damn it. Also, she is not my self-insert (that too has been in my inbox). I too want to be a man who is not an idiot and WILL LOVE miss Nuala like she has never been loved before. She is my wife, my girlfriend, my muse. I have no interest in those men. I am in love with her. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
ALRIGHT! It's all under the flower line so I don't do the thing where I clog the tag.
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Why ISF works so much more for me than any other trio?
In the short of it - they have such compatible personalities. It's insane. I have a picture I send to my friends every time I try to explain Morpheus - Hob - Nuala.
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This is how they exist in my head. When they are in couples, their dynamics LARGELY differ, but together, they share the emotional burden of each other - Moon/Star/Sun dynamic. Morpheus is the tired moon, Hob is the bright star, and Nuala is the warm sun, and together they make the whole sky.
It's a very warm triangle, and to me, they are a real love triangle because each loves the other and they stand alone as couples. When they are a polycule, their power dynamics also equal out if that makes sense. Morpheus does not necessarily hold more power over them anymore, so I like that about it as well.
To illustrate their couple dynamics better, I will give examples. I love to give these examples so people see how versatile they are. (happy screaming).
Dreamling
I will not go into details, but my quintessential Dreamling is 1789 Dreamling.
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I think this is the era that really summarizes their dynamic quite well - Morpheus doesn't really force himself on Robert but still holds a considerable amount of power that could equate to him having influence over Robert's life decisions. Robert on the other hand is also very independent, he respects Morpheus, but is not afraid of him anymore. So I enjoy 1789 Dreamling a lot.
2. Sandflower
I won't use the comics to explain what is THE Sandflower dynamic because the real summarized Sandflower dynamic is them:
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I can swear this on my soul, when Nuala and Morpheus begin to act like Elizabeth and Darcy in the show, remember, you heard it here first. Their opposite views on the world, their stubborness, the way he treats her in canon as if she is no more but a mere inconvinience but in reality he constantly does things to protect her, is very Darcy and Elizabeth of them. And as I have always said, Nuala has always stood her ground and protected who she is and where she came from.
3. Immortalflower
There is one perfect media that encapsulates Hob x Nuala's relationship SO good that there is no reason to explain further to people because they usually get it from the get go.
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THEM. Hob and Nuala have THEE Eugene and Rapunzel dynamic. Consider the fact Nuala has never been to the Waking world, she knows nothing about it and Hob is this Immortal man that has been to every corner of the planet already. Her enthusiasm about everything she doesn't know about sparks back his love of everything he does know. So they are very gentle, loving, fluffy, a bit silly, goofy.
Separated, each couple can stand on its own and be entertaining and complex, while being something completely new and interesting when together, which is VERY rare to me. So they compel me TERRIBLY.
ONTO HEADCANNONS
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I have DOMESTIC headcannons the most. If anyone wants spicy HC, you'll have to ask separately. But just so we know, we do offer the Spicy version of the menu.
SO! This is based on the concept of Retired!Morpheus:
The three of them live together in the inn
Morpheus is either a children's book author or a librarian
Hob owns the Inn and does his little Professor gig to the side
Nuala transforms a part of the Inn into a beautiful patissiere, full of pink mugs and live plants and fresh bread, pasteries and wonderful unique blends of teas she learned from her fairy home
They play a board game together once a week
Read together on the couch every night
Saturdays are for movies (Nuala adores animation and Morpheus doesn't understand the appeal of cinema entirely)
When they do go on dates, they usually let Nuala pick where she wants to go because it's her enthusiasm about seeing something new that is more precious to the good old Dreamling who has seen all there is to see from Earth than being on a date per se
Hob cooks, always
Morpheus is a wine mom
Nuala runs around the kitchen to entertain more than to help at any capacity, but she has a talent for vegeterian dishes, but Hob is not a big fan, but they compromise, they compromise
Each of them kind of has their own room, but also they always end up sleeping together in someone else's room.
My hc are all primarily domestic, or maybe my mood is like that right now.
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I will now do something very shameless and admit I have already written an ISF one-shot. It's called "Set Me Free" and it's a Sea AU - Dreamling Pirates and Mermaid Nuala. It's one of my favourite things I have written and it's quite fun short story!
I hope my answer was interesting! If there is any other questions, inquires or suggestions or thoughts, my Asks and DMs are always open!
Love,
Li 🪷
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ocd-kenobi · 2 years
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Hope you guys are ok! Don’t have any fun asks but just wanted to tell you that I think you both are the absolute GOAT, creme-de-la-crème, amazing power couple of Obikin and honestly everything in this fandom seems secondary to both of your headcanons/fics. Obviously it’s subjective but the quality of writing AND in characterness of the stuff you both think/write is unparalleled. And then to top it all off THE NUANCE. I can’t even. I probably would have moved on by now to a new ship if it weren’t for you guys.
Oh my goodness, thank you! Disney should clearly hire us lol. Honestly, WE (or at the very least @predator-padawan) would have moved onto another ship by now if the fandom weren’t so awesome in general! The enthusiasm and willingness to discuss so many aspects of their characters have made it such a great atmosphere. The last fandom I was in was like, the total opposite experience and I thought I might not write fic again after that. So this has all been so lovely. I’m glad 30 years of Star Wars obsession has been good for something!
And yes, we’re doing ok! I’m having to miss work today because we’re still on alert for evacuations, but I’m fairly certain our house is in the clear. So, broke, but safe! The way to be.
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hpowellsmith · 2 years
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Your latest ask made me think... if you played Dragon Age (especially part 2), you know that you can have romance your LIs on friendship and on rivalry. So, what what would rivalry romance (against their better judgement) for CDLC and RA ROs look like? How would they feel and act about it, what would feel safe and unsafe to trust MC with, how would they confess their love?
This is really interesting! I think there are a few that wouldn't be so into a rivalry romance, and others who are more so.
Creme de la Creme:
Hartmann doesn't go into a rivalry romance on purpose but will end up doing it a little in Creme if you're in the Starlings. They'd be noisy about trying to push you to be more sensible.
Max is very into a rivalry romance: they enjoy a sparky kind of relationship. But if it became too repetitive or sad, they'd be out of there.
Blaise is fairly rivalry-romance ingame anyway; a friendship romance might look like getting closer over time, and them letting down their prickly exterior. I always think that Blaise and Hartmann's friendship where they were competitive with each other could have turned romantic under some circumstances.
Florin's relationship ingame can feel more rivalry or friendship depending on the MC's approach. But I think a friendship romance is a friends-with-benefits situation where they feel comfortable with each other. Florin enjoys a rivalry romance as long as it doesn't get boring or sad for them.
Auguste would enjoy a rivalry romance with intellectual sparring and a meeting of the minds - but they wouldn't be so interested if things had a lot of emotion behind it.
Karson, Delacroix, Rosario, and Freddie wouldn't find a rivalry-romance very comfortable and wouldn't want to have that sort of dynamic.
Royal Affairs:
Beaumont is fairly into a rivalry-romance: I could see them having a pretty robust, debating sort of relationship with someone. They might start out thinking that it's not a very feelings-heavy relationship, but then find themselves increasingly thinking of the MC.
Dominique's rivalry-romance could work in a variety of ways: maybe they resent the MC for being fancier than them, or maybe an MC is someone trying to push them to be more sensible.
In a Javi friendly-romance, they'd enjoy being a power couple; I'll keep quiet about how their romance goes because it's a bit spoilery for how things go later!
Trevelyan is definitely into a rivalry-romance and is really keen to change someone's mind if they disagree. If an MC was to totally go against their ethical framework though, they'll cut things off (and may during the game...)
Asher and Hyacinthe wouldn't find a rivalry-romance comfortable and wouldn't want that kind of dynamic.
Noblesse Oblige:
Danelak is more into friendly-romance; a rival-romance would look more like an intense physical attraction where they don't get on outside of that
A successful Pascha rival-romance would look like the MC criticising their beliefs and pulling them back from doing something bad (I'm thinking a bit of the Anders rivalry-romance)
A Rys rival-romance would be a sparky, chasing each other down, sabotaging each other sort of dynamic
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miggydiaz · 3 years
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For the ask (trying to keep you from getting roasted lol): Why do you think Migueli isn’t popular?
People are afraid of their power as the most ferocious and most stylish couple.
I’m only half kidding.
I would guess it’s because people have an affinity for long-time-friends-to-lovers type couples, and so the default ship for Hawk becomes Elimetri. Which is cool, but idk man... to me, Demetri just kind of ran roughshod over Eli before Miguel showed up, and doesn’t respect Hawk’s transformation from Eli into Hawk (his derision about it is pretty clear in season 1/early season 2) and that’s not really a great basis for a relationship IMO?
Also, the show has done a pretty thorough job of putting Miguel in the middle of the Sam/Tory feud which is sad because like, their dynamic is actually more interesting when there isn’t a boy in the center of it. So I think it’s a combination of Heteronormativity Strikes Again™️ and Elimetri having a nostalgia factor that Migueli doesn’t have.
(Also a factor: all the Hawk hate... which, that’s a novel unto itself, and you know where I stand on that!)
That being said, Hawk is ready to throw hands at everyone who breathes wrong in Miguel’s direction. Miguel was genuinely concerned enough about his and and Hawk’s status to check in with him after Coyote Creek. Neither of them thought twice about forgiving each other. And they coordinate their wardrobes. Also, we have the creme de la creme of ship armor: Xolo and Jacob ship it 🤷🏻‍♀️
They might not be popular, but they’re clearly the best.
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saber-of-dreams · 4 years
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Dead as a Dodo (Birds of a Feather pt. 5)
Part 1     Part 2      Part 3      Part 4
“Welcome home, Daughter.”  
The heat washed over her first.  And then the acrid, sulfuric smell.  Raven didn’t bother to say anything.  They’d played this exchange out many many times, and she was too tired to humor him.  Besides, his over-pleasant tone told her everything she needed to know.  Trigon was still imprisoned, and still trying to wheedle his way out.  
Sometimes she thought she was being paranoid, for coming back to hell every single day.  But then she looked up at the demon that had sired her and realized she probably wasn’t being cautious enough.  Hadn’t Azerath been lesson enough for her?  Weren’t her visions of that other life proof enough?
Raven opened another portal and returned to Earth.  
The daughter of a demon seeking refuge in a church was the creme de la creme of ironies, in her book.  But she had no where else to go.  She’d considered trying to join the Titans, but she feared what would happen to them when the inevitable happened and her demonic father broke free.  
She shouldn’t have approached Damian, either.  But of all the memories she’d seen of that other life, it was the memories of him that had come with such powerful emotions.  Respect on a level that was almost frightening.  Trust so strong she was convinced even the literal end of the world couldn’t shatter it.  And...love.  Although, she had to admit to herself that the last one might just be her own wishful thinking.  Probably her own unrequited feelings for him.  
But she was an empath, and much as emotion for her were like trying to juggle chainsaws on a tightrope, she’d also spent the last who-even-knew-how-long in hell.  She was emotionally starved.  So when she’d sensed Damian’s familiar presence...he was the flame.  She the moth.  
Though, she had to admit even to herself, Damian’s brief flair of embarrassment and pure joy right after he’d offered her his hand was a positive sign.  She sensed that he was probably just as drawn to her as she was to him.   Perhaps they were both moths, then.  Problematically, that made Trigon something like a metaphorical bug zapper.  His coming would be the death of everything she’d ever cared about, and if her father learned that she had feelings for someone...  She shied away from that thought.  
If they could defeat her father though...she sighed.
Like Damian, she too had gaps in her memory.  She remembered meeting him.  Healing him after he’d provoked Blue Beetle in a stupid fight.  But her last clear memory was of an encounter not long after that where he’d (sort of) thanked her for healing him, and then he’d mentioned seeing into her mind too, and the man he’d seen.  Just recalling the memory made Raven shiver.  Everything after that was a jumbled mixture of disconnected images and a riot of feelings that she had no context for.  
Right now her sole hope was that she’d gained these memories early enough to prevent the end of the world.  Surely now that she knew (mostly) what was coming she would be better able to stop it.
That night her dreams were fire and destruction and death.  She woke in a cold sweat, to find she wasn’t alone.
“When I said I’d see you at 6, I meant pm.”  She muttered.
Damian looked up from the copy of the bible he’d been scanning.  “Oh I know.  I had questions about why you ended up...here.”  His eyes flickered over the bare room, the empty pews surrounding her.
“How did you know I was here?”  She demanded groggily.
“I put a tracker on you, of course.”  
Raven groaned and sat up.  It was wwwayyy  too early to be dealing with interruptions.  She hadn’t even had...
Damian held out a plastic coffee cup.  She wrinkled her nose, a refusal on her lips.  Damian beat her to it.  “It’s tea.”  
“Oh.”  She said.  
“I remembered you wouldn’t drink much else.  Hopefully it’s steeped long enough.”  
She took the cup and took a tentative sip.  It was a bit over-brewed, but she much preferred that problem to the opposite.  
“So.  How come you’re not living with the Titans.  I noticed you dodged my question last night.”  He kept his posture casual, his eyes on the page in front of him, but his interest in her answer rolled off of him in a wave.
She took a long, fortifying drink.  Then she gave him the truth.  “You know my father...what he is.  I believe in that...other life...he escaped his prison, and that the destruction that he wrought is what brought the world to its knees.  I think it will happen again.  And when it does...I don’t want others to die fighting my battle.”
Damian scoffed.  “Ridiculous.”  He didn’t look at her.  His eyes didn’t leave the page.  
“What is?”  She demanded.
“If you couldn’t defeat him with the help of the Titans and I would assume by extension the Justice League...you have no chance in hell on your own.”  Damian snapped the book shut.  “Besides.  That isn’t the truth, is it?”  
“Excuse me?”  
“You aren’t staying away from them just because you fear for their safety.  If that was the truth, you wouldn’t have even come to this world.  But you are here, and you’re the one who reached out to me - “
“I shouldn’t have done that.”  She admitted.
“Which means” he continued, ignoring her, “that you didn’t go to them because you were afraid of something else.  I would guess you were afraid that they will remember more of this other life and that they’ll blame you for it.”
Raven looked away.
“Which,”  Damian concluded, “as I said earlier, is ridiculous.”
Raven opened her mouth, but suddenly found herself incapable of forming words.  
“No one can blame you for your parentage, Raven.”
“But they can blame me for the destruction of everything they hold dear.  You don’t understand, Damian.  This has been my destiny from the moment I was conceived.”
“Raven, the only person you’re destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
She raised an eyebrow.  “Emerson?  I had you pegged as a Thoreau kind of guy.”
Damian shrugged.  “I like variety.  Now stop deflecting.  I know you’re afraid, but I swear I will be there every step of the way.  And we can’t do this without the Titans.”
Raven looked at the stained glass windows on the opposite side of the church.  The light that spilled onto the aisle was appropriately red.  “I close my eyes and all I see is death.  People I loved and innocents who were slaughtered for no damn reason at all.  I caused the extinction of life on Azerath, Damian.  I don’t think I can bear it here too.”
“Then we’ll just have to stop it.”  He carefully placed the bible back into the holder in front of him and stood.  “But before that, we’re going to go get breakfast, and then I’m going to see about getting you a room at my hotel.”
Raven stood up.  “I can’t let you -”
“Do you honestly expect me to just let you live like this?”  He asked, gesturing around them.  “Really, Raven?”
She flushed.  “It’s not your problem.”  
“Your comfort and happiness is most certainly my problem.  Now, let’s go.  I saw a bakery a couple of blocks over with fresh-baked croissants.”  He walked up the aisle, stopping about halfway to the door when he noticed she hadn’t followed.
Raven groaned, knowing a lost battle when she saw one.
To his credit, the croissants were delicious.  And the tea was divine.  But then he’d gone on to try to book her a suite the size of his own.  She’d put her foot down, insisting that all she needed was a simple room with a single bed and a small bathroom in it.  He’d equally insisted that she would be more comfortable in something with more amenities and space.  Eventually the helpful (though bewildered) desk clerk had helped them find a compromise in a much smaller room with a large king-size bed and a massive bathroom.  
He gave her a few blessed hours to take a scalding hot bath and rest in the comfort of her new room, saying he had other business to attend to.  He knocked on her door at a few minutes to 6 pm.  
“Ready?”  He asked.
“Not particularly.”  She muttered, shutting the door behind her.
She took him to an arcade that she remembered Garfield and Jaime being fond of.  Damian looked around at all the flashing lights and loud noise and sighed.  They knew that it was unlikely they’d find the Titans on their first go, so they knew that would probably have to come back a few days in a row.  They played a few uninspired video games and then Damian demanded they go somewhere else.
The next place Raven remembered was a cafe that she knew Starfire liked to frequent for dinner dates with Dick Grayson.  This was where she’d learned that Nightwing and Batman had been out of town.  Starfire had come to pick up a to-go order.  The clerk had asked her where her boyfriend was because he hadn’t seen him around for a while, and Starfire mentioned that he was on a business trip with his father for a few weeks.  Raven translated that pretty easily.
But they struck out there too.  
But fortune was with them, because as they were getting ready to call it quits for the night, they heard screams and loud explosions a few blocks over.  
They exchanged a look and bolted for the source of the commotion.  They ran opposite to the crowd, up a few blocks to the busiest part of the city.  She was so focused on reaching her goal that she almost missed the ice.  The entire city block was a sheet of it.  
Raven gasped as she went sliding, grabbing onto a streetlamp to steady herself.
“Ugh.”  She groaned.  Farther up the street, Captain Cold was having a megalomaniac moment, covering every visible surface in sheets of ice.  
She’d lost sight of Damian in the crowd, but she knew he was careful and could take care of himself.  Right now her priority was to stop Cold.
Overhead a familiar green bird swooped into view, closely followed by a flying Beetle and Starfire.  As they swooped in to neutralize Captain Cold, three other members of the criminal family appeared, engaging them.  
Raven watched as Damian swept in, engaging Mr. Freeze while Beast Boy took on Killer Frost, Blue Beetle battled Icicle and Starfire went after Captain Cold.  Raven joined her, teleporting just in time to throw up a shield and block a streak of Ice headed for Starfire’s head.
Starfire’s eyes widened when she saw her, but the alien princess’ attention was quickly claimed by their opponent.  But between the two of them, they managed to subdue the ice villain.  Behind her, Damian had already knocked Mr. Freeze out and Jaime had tied up Icicle.  Beast Boy was wearing Killer Frost out.  It wasn’t long before she too was subdued.  
“Raven?”  Starfire said.
Raven turned.  “Hi, Starfire.  Do you...do you remember me?”
Starfire smiled.  “Yes.  Yes...I thought it had all been dreams...”
“I think a lot of us are experiencing that lately.”  She admitted.
A Tiger’s roar and Damian’s snarled curses shattered her brief moment of happiness.  “Wait!”  She cried, seeing Beast Boy and Blue Beetle starting to attack Damian.
“Stop!”  Starfire commanded.
Reluctantly, the three teen boys looked up.  
“He’s a member of the League of Assassins!”  Beast Boy protested, pointing to Damian’s garb.
“Damian.  Take off your hood.”  Raven called.
Slowly, Damian did as she asked.   Raven watched as the confusion and partial recognition distorted Beast Boy’s face as he tried to place the other.  Jaime had clasped his head and fallen to his knees, groaning similiarly to how Damian had the day before.
“Damian...”  Starfire said.  She sounded relieved.  Damian looked up, surprised.  “You remember me?”  He asked.
“Yes.”  Starfire said, simply.  “Though, I expected to see you dressed as Robin, not...as a member of the League of Assassins.”
“Who is Robin?”  Damian asked.
“He...uh...doesn’t remember everything.”  Raven explained.  “We both have some pretty big gaps in our memories.”
“Yes, I feel holes in my own memories as well.  Perhaps we should...compare notes?”
“That sounds like the best idea I’ve heard all day.”  Raven agreed.
Damian sheathed his sword, but watched Jaime and Garth warily.
“I suppose some things never change?”  Starfire remarked, following her gaze.  The animosity between the three was like a charged battery ready to explode.  Raven doubted they’d do anything, but she was still frustrated by the machismo.  She’d hoped that they’d be past the grandstanding at least.
“I guess not.”  Raven said with a resigned sigh.
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fuckwritersblock · 4 years
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I’ve seen a few posts asking for recommendations for romance interactive/visual novels and finally I decided it would be better to just post about it rather than replying. Note that I have been playing this genre for years but I also am picky. There are some games that I have played which I would not necessarily rec*.
Interactive Novels (Purely text based)
The Wayhaven Chronicles (Mobile, Steam)
Creme de la Creme (Mobile, Steam)
Tally Ho (Mobile, Steam)
**Fallen Hero: Rebirth (Mobile, Steam)
Visual Novels
Arcade Spirits (PS 4, Switch, Xbox One, Steam, itch.io)
Choices (Mobile)
Dream Daddy (PS 4, Switch, Steam, Humble, Mobile)
A Rose in Winter (Steam, Itch.io)
You should also watch out for “Best Friend Forever” (Switch/Steam/Itch.io) and download the demo. I also personally have not yet played “Butterfly Soup” but I hear great things about it.
If you want to know more about the games along with the pros and cons are for each game (in my opinion) check under the cut. but it is. Long.
Interactive Novels
The Wayhaven Chronicles - Fantasy/romance. You play as a detective who has been tasked to solve a murder in your small town of Wayhaven. You have been tasked with agents from a mysterious agency, Unit Bravo, to help you. But are they all that they seem? 
Pros:
Sexy vampires. (This is not a spoiler it’s literally in the description of the game.)
The writing is incredible. Mishka Jenkins knows the tropes and uses them expertly.
The romances are all very good in their own unique way.
All of the characters are well developed and interesting.
There are two books of this series out!
Cons:
ACAB. And you play a detective at a station where there’s literally a state where you either are “by the book” or “bend the rules” so like. Not great.
There are two books out of seven for the series so know you will be left wanting more.
You can play as non-binary and there are a couple of background non-binary characters in the story but there are no non-binary romances.
Creme de la Creme - Adventure/romance (if you’re into dark academia, this is for you). You play as a student sent to a finishing school and are expected to bring prestige back to the family name.
Pros:
This plot takes some turns y’all.
You can play as non-binary and there also can be non-binary romance options!
There is aro/ace representation!!
Hannah Powell-Smith is married to a woman so like nice.
Cons:
There is some commentary that sometimes works well and sometimes falls flat. Mainly the critique on power and the upper class works well until the endings where many still benefit from this without characters putting much more thought in it.
Tally Ho - Comedy/Romance. Inspired by Wooster and Jeeves. You play a servant living in London during 1930′s. You work for Rory Wintermint, and must accompany them to their Aunt Primrose’s estate. Hijinks ensue.
Pros:
Light and fun and adorable.
Romances 
There are some really funny moments in this.
Cons:
This was one of my first interactive novels and I have spent hours and hours on this game and there are still achievements that I have absolutely no idea how to achieve.
It’s a light and airy game so know that if romance is your thing, it doesn’t delve as deep into those relationships as other games on here.
You can play with they/them pronouns but there is no other non-binary characters.
Fallen Hero: Rebirth - Action/Superhero. You play a former hero that has started acting on your plan to become a supervllian. You must work against your original crew and that gets. Complicated.
(**Heads up, this is a very good game it’s not romance-focused. I also have not replayed it in some time. and other people could describe it better than I have. So if this short description sounds interesting, I recommend looking it up on tumblr + other areas.)
 Pros:
Immersive and thoughtful small details.
The romances are complex and certainly not easy, but that’s certainly a strength of the writing.
Malin Rydén self-describes as “unapologetically queer”
Cons:
Not so much of a con but something yall should know! This game handles heavy topics as your character descends into villainy. Your character experiences depression and a variety of Rough Stuff. Keep that in mind if you are also in a rough place mentally rn.
I’m gonna be real with ya fam and I think this could just be me. There were multiple parts of this game that I felt lost in. I could not fully understand what was going on. BUT I also feel like in many places that is the intention for the character to feel disorientated so take that what you will.
Visual Novels
Arcade Spirits - Dating Sim/Comedy. You play as a depressed person who was just fired. You are convinced you are suffering from a generational long curse. Your phone matches you with a job at the Funplex arcade with various characters. Will you ensure the arcade survives? Will you find love along the way?
Pros:
this is GOD-TIER visual novel content y’all!!
The system that they use for stats are unlike anything I’ve ever seen but it’s leagues ahead. You do not have to be constantly monitoring your stats as you would typically for other games.
Made with so much love for the content and attention to detail. 
Diverse cast that are all so fun and lovable in their own way.
You get to create your MC’s hair/skin/clothes color and then you’ll see them throughout the game?? WILD.
Cons:
BECAUSE this game was made with love and and attention to detail, if you have absolutely no interest in the world of video games you may feel detached.
The character creator is very limited. Which I do get to a certain extent with all of the different shots they draw the MC in. But I hope you want your character to be thin with a lot of angular facial features 
Choices - An app where there is a series of stories you can play “chapters” of using keys, which replenish every couple of hours.
Pros:
It’s a very focused on modern romance stories, but there are also such a variety of different genres of books! Fantasy (Blades of Light & Shadow), Historical fiction/romance (Desire & Decorum), Thriller/Horror (It Lives in the Woods). I have PLENTY of recs if you hmu.
There are...Many a good romances in these tho like I have blushed and sighed and daydreamed about these stories.
Cons:
You need patience for this game. It’s a free app and therefore has a system where you need to understand the key system and be patient to collect “diamonds” to purchase premium choices.
Many of the books are gender-locked where you can only play as a woman.
Choices has been criticized that they need better treatment/more screentime for their characters of Color. They have said they are committing to do better, but we will see.
Same has been said about their wlw romances.
Just as there are good stories, there are also stories that have something to be desire. I have varying issues with some books that have plot holes, unengaging writing, etc. These are good for you to play to earn more diamonds though.
Dream Daddy - Dating Sim/Comedy. (This game was the talk of the town when it came out in 2017 but in case you weren’t in the genre at the time!!) You are a single dad who is moving with your daughter Amanda to Maple Bay. You meet other single dads and date them while also trying to be a good father to your daughter.
Pros:
This writing is sharp as a tack. The comedy is on point and this game does a great job transitioning into serious moments.
There are awesome little mini-games that you’ll find in these!
The characters of each datable dad first seem like caricatures, but their backstories are complex and have depth.
The character creator is chef’s kiss v good. AND you can play as a trans dad like how neat.
Cons:
There have been plenty of conversation about cons for this game but frankly I don’t truly believe it has a con for what it is.
If you’re not a pun person this game will be. Difficult.
A Rose in Winter - Romance. You are playing as Rose, a girl who determined to prove herself as a knight. She has found herself at an inn and must choose between a series of Princes to help on their journey.
Pros:
Cute stories!
Except for the green prince which is heart-fluttering. (and if you play, I recommend playing last)
Adorable art.
Cons:
This reads more like an ACTUAL visual novel. Your choice (besides the initial choice you make on which prince you pursue) means little, if there is choice at all.
It’s definitely simpler than other games on this list but that’s not a bad thing as much as you should know!
*Please know that I did not include The Arc*n* on purpose! I used to really love that app but the way certain things were handled (both IRL and in the plot) I would not recommend it now.
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Ooo, whats Nyxs plans for Adam? How do the others feel about their Roman counterparts (and whats Lances reaction to Alluras bf)? Do the romans tell Allura about Lotor?
Voltron x PJO AUpart 1 | part 2 | part 3 | Part 4
As always, i am sorry for my writing, i am no writer. and sorry for taking so long in updating this AU.It is written the same way I narrate to myself but the general of the story is all there! (and I think this is the longest part to date)
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RECAP TIME:
Shiro, Keith, Lance, Pidge and Hun are Greek demigods, Allura is a Roman Demigod. Their quest is about finding Matt and getting to Mount Othrys  since it is appearing because rough demigods *cough* Lotor guiding the Romans *cough* are siding with Kronos because the Gods have gone radio silent for WAY too long. Reah helped Allura to get to Camp Half Blood and meet the Greeks because she doesn’t want his husband to pit demigods against the gods anymore  but she made Allura promise to not reveal the the thing about camp Jupiter existing… They parted on their quest, had a couple of bonding moments *WINK*  and when they got to the Gods Junkyard they met some roman demigods who were scrapping for weapons and who attacked team voltron only to be saved by MATT (accompanied with other demigods  surviving away from any of the camps). 
Under the cut is how it all follows
FIRSTLY lets move to Tartarus:Adam FELL…into tartarus only to be found by Nyx on her flying chariot and Adam convinced her that he was more valuable alive. 
Nyx took Adam as errand boy in tartarus in exchange of the death mist thing and you know, not dying. Doing that he found the hermes shrine and he tried to contact his father or anyone without much success for MONTHS but at least there he got some food, so…yeah, it wasn’t all that bad. But of course the more he tried to contact his father , and after not getting an answer, it really seemed the gods couldn’t care less about their half human children and it can make anyone feel angry and unimportant.
Every single soul on tartarus has a thing against zeus and demigods and he always said like “ im just the messenger i dont care”, but since everyone is so bored they kept asking him about what got him there. But he had to be careful af bc telling dangerous ancient souls about how much he missed his bf a son of zeus (or ex boyfriend he is not sure) was SO not an option. BUT was by meeting these ppl that he met one of those kings that have escaped tartarus in the past and BOI did that gave him faith. It was possible. The thing is  being in tartarus is weakening for a demigod, repeating yourself enough times that you are NOT dead is not enough to believe.. you are not dead. He rly wants a way out and, after all, Adam is the son of Hermes, god of travellers and the only god to be able to travel from the land of the dead to….anywhere so he had to channel he had that in himself, he only needed a way to get OUT. One of the days he is in the Hermes shrine he gets a dream on how to get out there: One of the non guarded, full of monster, secret doors to the mortal world through the labyrinth.
That is when he sets on that journey and finds in the entrance to the labyrinth/ exit from tartarus. He also finds in that exact point a adamantine sword: perseus sword (not percy riptide. Perseus,) a harpe giving to the olden hero by hermes, (The harpē  was a type of sword or sickle; a sword with a sickle protrusion along one edge near the tip of the blade made of the indestructible metal adamantine , check it out it is pretty cool). The sword is cool and all but as always with demigods, when something good happens it only means something worse it’s on its way. And finding a weapon is bad news and everyone knows it.AND THAT is how Adam got out of tartarus. By then a year or so has passed and it is basically in the same moment hour 6 heroes start their own quest.
NOW..There are romans demigods with Matt, they recognise Allura  and don’t really trust her because they kind of think she is with Lotor, but Matt is like, NAH she is with MY friends , with MY sister and they trust she so, she is alright and while they are camping in some safe part of the junkyard Matt explains to Voltron team about how camp half blood is not the only camp, and that there are…more ways a demigod can survive away from camp, there are the amazons and the hunters and all kind of side places created by demigods for demigods where they can feel safe. 
They all then look at Allura who is relieved she can come clean to her quest mates, but then then she is confused by why Romans are attacking them, and some of the demigods who are with Matt say it is Lotor (who..it really is but Allura didn’t know is siding with kronos) and Allura is like “No no, it can’t be, Lotor is thoughtful and charming and a great leader who will always have his reasons and wants the best for Camp Jupiter and he is a real Hero “ half flustered and Lance sees that Allura actually...like-like this Lotor. Who seems to be La creme de la creme in the Roman camp while Lance is a rookie demigod, not really a fighter, on his first quest and he has been about to die most times than all of the others together in the past like 3 days.. 
And Lance just goes by…oh because he wanted Allura to like him because he was really liking her and the way she seems a full flagged fighter and leader. BUT still in a very Lance way he sides with Allura in front of everyone including the demigods who are not trusting her, “ of course she is not doing this to harm other kids, she has risked her life for us and she could enter camp halfblood so she is good and full of good intentions and Reah herself guided her to us so she is great”. AND Keith is like….oh because it seems Lance really likes Allura  and even if they were hitting it off with the Pegasi maybe it was all in his head and Lance would like more someone like Allura who is actually thoughtful and not him who doesn’t know where his head is half the time :’)So..how to get from Arizona to Mount Othrys without being spotted by rough demigods, the romans AND all kind of monsters ON TIME? The only answer they find is The Labyrinth that is equally dangerous but could keep them away from revealing their position and their plan to the Romans. The idea is that Allura gets to camp Jupiter and confront Lotor …without being detected so she cant be stopped by Lotor….right handsMatt navigated trough it enough to suggest it is possible to get everywhere from there, Shiro is having a mental breakdown because he doesn’t want to get inside it again but he is good at hiding his feelings and be a Good Leader ™ But Matt is gonna keep with the demigods trying to slow down the romans and monsters while mount ostrys just gets more powerful and to distract them from the real quest with team voltron.
…And Pidge. Pidge is like NOUP I promised Athena I will bring you back alive and I found you and I wont Let You Go Again, We are heading back to camp because that is the only logical solution. Nothing says WE have to keep in this quest and we can go back regroup in camp half blood and live to fight another day with a better plan.But Matt has changed a lot since he went out on his quest with Shiro and Adam and he has met these amazing demigods and  he tells her there are many things worth fighting for that thinking with her heart is equally important, and that they will meet again in camp Jupiter.In the Labyrinth!So yeah everyone kind of say their good byes and goes separate ways entering the labyrinth, technically they were set on following monsters (brilliant plan) because they are being kind of called by mount Othrys. As you know, the labyrinth is a fucking mess and without a real way to navigate it it is impossible to be completely sure what is going on, It changes and it seemed it was fuckin with them. After an incident with some flesh eating horses and trying to get away from rough demigods and monster trying to get them to the gladiator arena, a big attack from a Kampe it all goes to hell. 
They found themselves in a REALLY  small passage where SHiro is having a problem with his mechanical arm and hunk is trying to see what made it high-wire so much ,Lance started to get on his own, because he is brave and he could get them out of there and maybe he just have to knock on that weird rock door with a strange painting. That is when the painting in the wall started to look more than real and the Kampe spotted Lance first of course, and while he froze at the giant horrible monster who was destroying the walls and the floor and everything in the small passage materialising in front of him, Allura saved his sorry ass (again) controlling the mist as well as she could, but since she has been more worried about the entire Lotor siding with Kronos thing, it is not…as effective as it should. Pidge is trying to REALLY work up  an exit, and thinking quick she tells allura to distract the Kampe with copies of them while they escape from the roof. BUT the Kampe is not fooled and When Allura and Pidge  are the closest to the improve exit on the roof, Shiro and Hunk are about to get decked, Lance in one of his hero complex things gets the full attention of the monster again and Keith goes by OH No. Not. Again. and gets Lance out of the way. Lance is getting really furious with Keith bc it is the zillion time Keith takes him out of the way  of a fight, as if he was not able to do things himself. The beast is attacking Keith now, frustrated that his precious prey got away and makes the floor crumble with Shiro and Hunk sliding further down, Allura Pidge and Lance got into the way of the roof and keith is channelling all that energy, the one that made him get to shiro back in his first quest, and he is able to step on the rock doorway disappearing from the monster. 
Shiro and Hunk end up together in one of the most ancient parts of the labyrinth, dark, smelling like wet earth and little breathing space….,and poor shiro who was trying so hard to keep calm is 5 minutes into losing it completely , he, a son of zeus is underground, feels trapped and thinking they can end up in the gladiator arena again is driving him a bit too insane. Hunk is seeing this and does what he does best, try to get how the current problem works, bu this time is not some piece of metal but it is Shiro’s entire existence. ANd for all that is worth, Hunk is really good at coming trough for others in pinch moments.
Lance Pidge and Allura end up together navigating the most tedious part of the labyrinth. dumb monsters marching to the same place  and they cant do anything but follow them with the help of allura’s mist to disguise them and praying Lance natural monster magnetism doesn’t get them killed…and the only door they find ends up in the middle of a GIANT field, so no help. It is tedious af and it just gets MORE tedious by their current situation: Allura is  trying to get the mist to work for her but she is having a hard time concentrating after learning her family, the romans and…Lotor are behind Kronos getting stronger. 
Lance is  trying his best on keeping not only alive but showing he has everything to be a hero, but honestly he is debuting everything he knew about himself, He has been about to drown, he froze in front of a monster, he never knows what is going on. He has no quest experience like shiro and keith, he is not good at solving puzzles like Pidge or repairing stuff like Hunk, not to mention he had no idea about the romans or any of the problems Allura is having but he still tries hard to be the charming demigod who is no afraid of anything and is there to support her every move. Even tho he knows…it has been Keith the whole time who has been taking him away of fights the entire time, even fixing his mess of waking the Kampe, probably for the best because maybe…just maybe…Aphrodite kids where not mean to be on quests after all.)
Pidge, is just looking at the horizon like she is in the office. Matt might be her beloved brother, but seeing how they all are thinking with their hearts and that is making them terrible for this quest is another level. And Lance,…lance is ranting to her how he could totally go against Kampe if Keith did not interfere again and again. BUT Pidge knows that Keitth has a problem with Lance being in danger and it is not because Lance is not capable exactly and more with Keith crushing hard on Lance, So she yeah, she is trying to side with Keith here out of solidarity and convince Lance that Keith is not trying to sabotage him or any of those things. That maybe Lance could learn from keith and spend more time with him maybe (wingman pidge ftw)
Keith ended up alone in the labyrinth and after being able to use again his  doorway powers he finds himself in a room with two doors and a doorman in the middle of them. The two faced doorman is Janus himself ask him which is the door he is gonna go, which decision is the correct one since he will have to make The Choice of His Life in the future….and inpatient Keith start asking Janus ALL the questions at once starting by “what was that?”, “what does his coin means?”,”what was his mother relationship with Janus?”, “that he knows about the romans and that it is unfair he didn’t knew before” and blablabla. And janus is like,one of this doors give you all answers, the other takes him to certain death and Keith goes by coin flipping decision time in hopes he could trick Janus into revealing the correct one since he figure out Janus is just trying to fuck with his head. And surprise! the moment he flipped the coin it transformed into an imperial gold gladius and keith basically surprises janus, Keith goes to stab him and janus just disappears through one door and keith in a moment of good judgement goes to the other because Janus of course went trough the door that would kill Keith. SO…he gets to the door with the answers BIG GASPSO
Back to Hunk and Shiro are in one of the ancient marts of the maze and they start walking thanks to Hunk who was prepared to go into a really dark place and has scraps from Hephaestus Junkyard. And in one of those rm=emote parts of the Maze, they start hearing talking, HUMANS talking, to be precise demigods and it means it is the same kind of demigods that are working with monsters and trying to get Kronos back and Shiro is like protector mode ACTIVATE and is ready to fight them as soon as the turn one corner but the  demigods sound like they are..discussing between them SO they end up getting as close as they want to hear what they are talking about and SHiro just stops dead on his trail as he recognises one of the demigods….it is Adam.
and Shiro NOW stops breathing. So hunk resolves that the best approach is NO fighting so he kind of goes in making himself appear he is on their side  playing innocent and that some leader needs them BUT Adam recognises him from camp and Adam gets Hunk is Lying. He is about to knock Hunk out and… shiro interferes. So you know this is the first time they see each other after their fight back before Shiro was captured and made a champion, before Adam went to tartarus and Back. (their fight was about how shiro is always playing the hero and getting himself and everyone around him into dangerous shit and how Adam was playing it safe and never wanting to risk more than he should. BOth were correct) Adam: I thought you were dead Shiro: I thought YOU were deadAnd it ends up being the Most Awkward Reunion in the world. like Hunk thought they were gonna be fireworks and tears and a kiss but it  is nothing like that. They fall directly into quest mode because talking about their feelings is recognising their previous fight and that they separated.Adam stares at shiro new scar/arm/hair all the time and Shiro stares at adam new sword/dark circles under his eyes and he is always On Edge. Both look tired and terrible. .Hunk is like, OKAY good the update but we should be thinking on getting to the others!! and Adam tells them that the baddies have a way to navigate the Labyrinth accurately : clear eyed mortals who are in danger and shiro is all like, we HAVE TO go for them. And it is actually the only plan they have. Anyway, Adam has been with the rogue demigods for some time now and knows a weird lot about their plan, he is totally aware that those are demigods tired of being the pawns of the gods and after his field trip to tartarus he honestly sees why.  of course shiro and hunk tell him , about the Romans and about mt othrys  and how Kronos is gaining power from the rogue demigods and more monsters and titans and everything is marching destroying any minor deity or nature spirit who is on the God’s side and how even then…the god’s have been silent. surprising no one.
Allura Lance and Pige arrive to the place the monster are marching to inside the labyrinth: It is an Arena and they recognise it as Shiro’s gladiator arena and MMMM they are starting to also see rogue demigods and minor deities and things are starting to get dangerous but they can’t turn back or they get more attention than they want so they go inside the arena where everyone is  reuniting for something and trusting the mist to do its job BUT before getting in they get spotted by a girl in a cell: She tells them how weird is to see a purple shirt (Allura) with two orange shirts (Lance and Pidge) and even more that they are disguising themselves. The girl looks like she has been in the cell for LONG time: Surprise it is Shay, (a clear eyed mortal) but they couldn’t open it at all so they moving inside the arena for what seems a BIG meeting promising her they are coming back for her.
MEANWHILE, Keith finds himself in the door with the answers. He is now in a warehouse in the middle of a meeting. Of several romans. Who are now looking at him like he just insulted them and their mothers. And They are all “noooo this cant be that door was enchanted” and keith is all “YOU ARE MY ANSWER? WHO THE F ARE YOU ALL? WHERE IS JANUS?” They are seeing a young demigods with a CHB shirt  wielding an imperial gold clearly roman sword ready to fight. Not Normal at all. And a clearly old guy with a scar in one eye and the BOSS  is all “kid, you are a roman” . Things start computing in his head the coin, the weird way he was able to find SHiro, his past encounter with Janus… but keith goes “I am a son of Ares” From the group of romans a woman calls his name: “…Keith?” and… that is when Krolia appears.
Reunion Time! Krolia is a Janus Legacy and went to Camp Jupiter back in the day, this group is an Olden Elite Roman Secret Group part of the old Preatorian Guard, who never ceased to exist and that has been moving parallel to Camp Jupiter for centuries. They are the Speculatores Augusti, dedicated mostly to avoid the secret of the existence of the romans demigods to go out there  and keeping the roman problems…roman, it is like a legend inside camp jupiter but they still exist in the shadows. and right now they are trying to calm this nonsense. They Know about Lotor, and they know that the plan is to turn demigods away from the gods and that it would revive Kronos.
Some Backstory:
Krolia is not a demigod directly, she is a Legacy but an incredible good fighter and then she got with Ares. Krolia met Texas after being pregnant with Keith. (insert here an incident Texas going all, wow pregnant lady you alright?) And wao, they hit it off really, enough to Krolia consider to have a mortal normal life…normal as it could be. And Keith was born and they were a family for little time but then rumors started about Kronos awakening slowly  and that Keith would be in the middle of the THAT war and that the Romans where starting to not hear from the gods and suddenly it all started to be more than rumors so she decided to leave them and try to stop whatever was happening from inside. And she left them with  a janus coin so he could know something about his roots and , making texas promise he wouldn’t let keith go to any of the camps and Texas was like OKAY but he died when Keith was 10 or something and Keith ended up in camp Half blood anyway…. And she didn’t know until this moment when her son was in front of her and now she knows texas is dead and everything is a little bit too sad.
Keith tells them what he knows from his quest, about shiro about the arena about allura about the rogue demigods and about the other good demigods working with Matt he is basically full of good info and it gave them the ultimate details to do finish their STRIKE the  that has to be ASAP before that whole army marches to mt Othrys  and puts in danger the entire world. And Keith is like….but for Kronos to gain all his power he will need more time…that is what Matt said. And they explain that the one danger in Mount Ostrys is no other than Atlas himself and if someone takes the sky from him The General of Kronos would be Free and that would mean The End. 
And that is how the entire secret roman group Keith is now part of goes to the place where the big army is reuniting: The Arena (btw this is the group that has Ariadne’s String and that’s how they can use the Labyrinth )
THEN
We have the three groups all reuniting in the same place.Adam Hunk and Shiro want to rescue the innocent mortals Allura Lance and Pidge are there to know what the in the hades is going onKeith is there with the Speculatores to stop the armyThe monsters are all ready to  part and in the podium there are Titans are guiding the army and some demigods allura recognises as ex- roman campers, and they say the found a way to navigate the labyrinth and that they are going to san francisco immediately to liberate their general and to meet with the Romans who are also tired of the god’s nonsense, between the horrible noises monsters did in agreement. Allura is seeing how this only could be possible with the help of someone INSIDE camp Jupiter but she doesnt want it to be Lotor. and asks herself why Reah didn’t say anything when she send Allura to CHB. Lance and Pidge see that the mist is really wearing off and that Allura is tired to the bone so they start to head to the exit but it is cramped with monsters, and a random demigod spots Lance and they are in REAL problems now that the baddies are have seen him, but not…them SO…..Lance does the sensible thing and tells Pidge that it is important to get Allura to Camp Jupiter and he directs the attention to himself. 
 Adam Shiro and Hunk are using a moment when all the baddies are distracted with something to open the cells of the mortals (thanks lock picking  Adam abilities via hermes) and they get to Shay, she tells them that Allura Lance and Pidge are there..NOw the monsters being distracted and furious make sense and it is horrifying . SHiro jumps to go to look for them despise Adam telling him to wait that he feels something is Not Right and he is getting really frustrated with shiro because of his hero complex and there is when HUnk tells Adam that probably is because Shiro  has more of a survivors complex since the moment he arrived to camp half blood without them, that probably even when he was in the arena he felt more lucky than matt and  him since he was alive. Adam is like, damn him, and HUnk is like MAYHAPS if you too talked you could get somewhere YOU KNOW, being under heavy circumstances can really make anyone  have a crooked perspective and that it is what always happens with old machines that often people dont know it but they work like that too. and you just have to be kind and  work with that new perspective to be able to see the present and what is happening and not what it is supposed to be happening. 
Shiro finds Pidge and Allura first and send them to where adam and hunk are close to the cells, and Pidge tells him that Lance did probably the most stupid thing ever  but there is a WALL of monsters and is being really difficult to get to where Lance is and curses his entire existence for being underground and not having the space for flying or lightening or nothing and he feels USELESS AF
Keith is with his new roman secret organisation intending to work again from the shadows, after hearing the plan or the army heading to mt othrys the plan to take as many monsters down right there right then is the best. They plan to blow the  arena and send the majority of monsters direct to tartarus or some pit deep down. But then, there is the shift in the monsters attention and when Keith and others go to investigate from one of the upper levels of the tribune before, you know, blowing the whole thing up. From there…He sees is mother fucking Lance and his heart stops or beats faster…Lance is alone  surrounded by so many monsters that it is ridiculous and holding a number lance is in “who wants to go against ME first uh? maybe this is the lucky day any of you get to kill a beautiful son of Aphrodite OR maybe I could kill you?? who knows!!”and “That telekhine thinks he is better than all the empousai look at him! he is gonna strike first! are the empousai so weak they are gonna let him win? really?”and pinning the  monsters against each other and it is ridiculous and charming  but over all dangerous because it is obvious to Keith Lance could not go if 3 or more of the monster decided to attack together. So he tells the other speculators to wait 5 minutes so he can save Lance, they say 1 or they might miss the opportunity to blow the most important titans.  So that is the best he can get. Keith starts going down to the arena where Lance is, resolved to his bones to WIN and pulverise anything that dares harm his… friend
Lance has been streaking of with his bow any monster who is falling for his taunt and pinning some of them against each other but arrows are limited and he lost his sword back with the Kampe. Monsters seem to be picking up that too because the circle is getting tighter and there is no way out but if he is going down he is going down fighting. Keith gets to him 
-queue to some serious Ares Blessing Moment-
 Lance shoots his last  two arrows and starts hitting monsters with his bow …and then Keith is in front of him , red glow around him and practically…invincible. Lance is half jealous, but also half in awe. Keith is more than a natural wielding not one but two swords (his spatha and a new golden gladius) (was that even possible??) The monsters who were all focused in Lance didn’t see Keith coming at them Keith passed him his spatha in the middle of the fight and it was even better than when they were sparring at camp. They didn’t need words to know what to do and they were holding it well against the monsters and it felt that, at that rhythm two demigods did had an opportunity to come out alive. A second later shiro’s metal arm appeared harming  a monster, and Keith just yells at shiro “The floor!” and takes lance, holds on to shiro and BAM-
There is no more floor! the explosion takes half of the Arena , many monsters start falling and shiro is concentrating the entire power he is channelling from the very deep of his gut into not letting these two demigods and himself fall with the rest of the confused monsters. The explosion gave him enough wind to fly a bit and it is the best he has felt since entering the damned labyrinth. And soon gets them to their even larger group.
- NOW they are all reunited!
They are all happy to be reunited again, but it is Big Awkward tm. Lance was SO close of dying so many times it stopped making sense, Keith  is a roman Legacy,Adam is alive but spend a weird amount of time on tartarus and then with the baddies and that mess up any demigod,  shiro and him have a silent treatment going (weighted by all  the things they want to say to to each other that have been accumulating for they time apart) Allura is a bit heartbroken and confused because everything she knows is going down, Pidge literally let Lance distract the monsters because it was the only logical thing to do but he is also her friend and it was…not a good decision and she knows it. And Hunk, the Hephaestus child is trying his hardest in keeping them going somewhere. while taking the rescued mortals out of the labyrinth.So they head to the next exit they find to regroup and think what they are going to do.
Allura met the boss speculators augusti, Kolivan , and she is shocked something so secret has been running alongside her camp for so long…but she is relieved not all romans are on the bad side and gives her hope that camp jupiter has survived so many things They tell her to not open suspicion to lotor when they get to san francisco…so they have more of an element of surprise to defeat him.The Roman BoM is down to closing any doors from inside the labyrinth, rescue any other mortal that could be helping the army and Get to camp mt othrys, after all they have ariadne;s string to navigate that hellhole.
Lance is decided to follow Pidge advice and reallt talk to Keith, after all they were working well together, it has been a life or death situation but somehow it felt just right , being with keith, fighting side by side, it felt like they could do anything.
“Hey man…Thanks for saving m- “and keith interrupts him angry and welp, that is so not what lance was expecting “are you insane? WHAT? what the fuck where you thinking, are you a martyr? do you have a death wish? if you ever get in some stupid situation like that again I….” and keith shuts up but Lance follows anyway, “you what? UH KEITH? you WHAT!? “Keith: “just get out of the way and let the others do their job” and thats is the last drop for lance,”am i in the way? YOU are on mine. you are always on my way. I know you think i cant do this , you think so low of me that i cant survive on my own, we all know you are so good , a Natural, well, you are not the only capable hero-” Keith :”ï dont care about being a stupid hero! “ Lance: “WELL, I DO” lance is about to cry and is when  keith knows he cant keep being around lance, he doesn’t want him in danger and Lance will only keep heading first to complete that damned quest. Keith  knows lance is good he is what heroes are made of and honesty that scares him. Heroes don’t have happy endings, right?.  Lance just stands up and goes. It all was a mistake, going to Keith was a mistake and he was a fool for believe he and keith were even playing on the same field because every time it seems they have something going it ends up even worse.
and keith is not even surprised it all ended up badly he knows the demigod way and it is that for every good thing that happens, something worse is coming: adam is alive - he seems like he’s seen death, he found the truth about himself - the romans are this close on bringing Kronos back, he gets close to lance fighting side by side - apparently lance hates him, SO…ketith decides to go with his mom , “after all adma is here, you are six now for the quest , and…we will find each other again at mt othrys or camp jupiter”  he tells them 
And the guy just…LEAVES. everyone is a like “don’t be a stranger, see yah soon,  BYEEEE” well, Keith found his family his entire legacy thing so…they  show all the support they can . BUt Lance, he cant believe Keith is quitting! now that is betrayal even so…he was the one who tell Keith to leave(him alone).
Keith disappears through the labyrinth with his mom and the Speculatores and the rest of the team is left to get to camp Jupiter and try to stop Lotor  before Kronos Army gets to Mount Othrys and free the titan Atlas.
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BONUS DOODLE because you made till the end!
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THANK YOU SO SO MUCH FOR READING! you all deserve another golden star!!
Hope you are enjoying this story, also I think there is only one update left!!
and if you have ANY question, i am Happy to solve anything
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Also, another pull through for @monthlyklance in their Klance AU Month
Disclaimer: 
SO YOU KNOW, the speculatores Augusti  existed and were distinguished by special secret boots, all is super secret and i thought it fitted perfectly to the Blade of Marmora.
I use Kronos even when referring to Romans because changing names too much confuses me :T
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Glitz Style Awards 2019 Red Carpet Review: Best Dressed List
The Official Red Carpet Review
Red carpet reviews in Ghana have been on uprise and it is a trend that excites me. Writers are now criticizing what people wear on the red carpet and this is a useful tool to help designers to see their creations from a different perspective. Let us hold each other accountable and that's how we will grow the fashion industry in Ghana industry.
The Glitz Style Awards is an annual award show created to honor people in the entertainment industry for the strides they have made in fashion. We are here for fashion or lack there off that was served on the red carpet and I know you can’t wait to see what we think of everyone’s ensemble.
Welcome to KFV's best dressed list.
In no particular order
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Debbie opted for a simple white strapless gown with white pleat details on the waist. White was appropriate since she won stylist of the year and most deservedly. I love this outfit on her. Everything she is wearing works. She is wearing her hair in a big afro, her skin is moisturized and the outfit is right. I would have opted for a different color shoe and the length of the dress should have been a tad longer. That would have taken it to the ultimate level but this is very beautiful none the less.
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Deborah Vanessa, the African mermaid, gave us a very beautiful dress. Floor length gown with a beaded midsection and a nude illusion fabric that matches her skin tone. Even though this is a feat designers here don't know to match the nude fabric to the color of their clients' skin. This outfit worked for her but if she had kept it to the beautifully beaded short dress it would have been perfect. Less sometimes is more. This dress is by The House of Paon who has been very incognito recently. Looks like he might have been fine tuning his craft.
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Our first male entry into the best dressed like is designer Atto Tetteh. This is a beautiful double-breasted green suit. Would have preferred a shorter length because he is not tall and long jackets lengthen the torse and makes you look shorter than you are. The shoes are not the best pairing but they work.
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Claudia makes this best-dressed list 50% because of the dress and 50% because of this photo. This photo shows the dress beautifully while the photo she posted on her personal Instagram page wasn't the most flattering for the dress. Is it just me or is the makeup is a bit off? It doesn't look bad, it just looks a tad weird. Correct me in the comments if you think I am tripping.
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I have two major questions about this photo; why are there paper bags in the frame and also why is her head tilted that way in all the images of her from the red carpet? But that is neither here nor there because she has every woman green with envy in this beautiful dress. I love the dress. Her hair and makeup, on the other hand, is not the best. Girl blue hair? ugh ugh!
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Before you rip my head off this dress is not that bad. If that stiff, shiny, cheap fabric used to make the bow was taken away this is a very simple column dress. But she had to go and add a bow and ruin everything. She still makes the list.
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I like this tan suit on Pappy Kojo and that is the only reason he is in this best-dressed list. The suit looks well-tailored and ironed, it will surprise you the number of people in Ghana who go on the red carpet with crumpled clothes. Now let's get into those ugly ass crocs. Why would he do this to such a beautiful outfit? We didn’t even like Balenciaga crocs why would we like the plain ones on the red carpet? Men are truly from Mars. smh!
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Everybody loves uncle Chester. He's fun and this look is a perfect representation of him; fun and fashionable. This black ensemble works for him and works for us.
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Maia Tafo is only on this list because of his upper body. That black jacket with gold pieces on it is so beautiful to look at. I wish he had paired it with pants of the same color that didn't tapper at the end. Men want to be cool so bad that they will tapper, literally, anything. GIVE IT UP!
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I like this dress on Sacha and I see where she is going with this outfit. If she had taken away the tulle at the sleeves of the dress this outfit would have been perfect but the tulle on the sleeve is not working for me.
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Anne and Shawn (described as someone's cool friends on the Glitz Africa Instagram page) were the power couple of the night. I think this is the perfect couple outfit. The cutout and high slit on the dress are perfectly placed and show off her body beautifully. Shawn looked dapper in a black tux, black shirt, and a black bow tie. I would have loved a little color to break up the monochromatic nature of the ensemble but this also works fine.
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Using horizontal stripes and polka dots in one outfit is daring but I think it works in this instance. Does this look need to be edited, yes definitely, but somehow I do not hate it. I think it is a good enough dress for the red carpet and she looks radiant and comfortable in it.
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Zynell "do the MOSTEST" Zuh is one of the people that always want to grab your attention with an over the top outfits on the red carpet. This outfit is the only outfit where she didn't use over 20 yards to create and it is the only outfit that has made it to a best-dressed list that I have written. I have never been so proud. If only she could do a little more editing and left the bag at home but we take our wins where we can.
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This a beautiful dress on Lharley and she looks radiant but this is a great example of making sure your dress fits correctly and knowing how to pose in your outfit before you hit the red carpet. For women of a particular size, cutouts are very tricky because if the outfit is a bit tight your body looks like it is spilling out of your dress. You can either get it to fit right or elongate yourself when you are taking photos to smooth out the side.
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I love this look from head to toe. The hair looks good, the dress is well fitted and hugging her body, the slit is high and her shoes are tasteful. PS the images on her Instagram are even better than this image.
So there you have it. The creme de la creme of the night. If you didn’t make this year’s list work hard to understand the fundamentals of fashion and then bring a gorgeous outfit to the runway next year. If Sarah Jessica Parker plans her MET Gala outfits months before the first Monday of May, you can do same.
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Images Courtesy Glitz Africa
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An Array Of ROs
A little overview/teaser for the ROs in Curious Cuisine:
For the Parent MC:
Ian Rattray: Local history-buff and gentle giant. Says he’s looking into the city’s history, but is hunting down Odium’s origins
Lesley Arcs: Intrepid reporter extraordinary. Works at the Chronicler, making them Mr Montgomery’s favorite rival. They are currently hunting after the mysterious cat-burglar Miss Gotten, and her connection to the technomancy turfwar currently shaking up Hart’s Station and the Tesla-Coil-District.
Fay/Frank Haggerty: Part of the creamiest Creme de la creme of Cornucopia, Haggerty is by all means a douchebag who seems to have it in for the MC for unknown reason. They’re one of the judges on the cooking contest the MC joins.
Valentine Patenaud (Heatstroke): Local pyrokinetic veteran and food vendor. Outspoken and with a great heart... and a dark secret? She’s currently investigating disappearances on the lower rings of the TC-D.
Plus a handful of secret ROs
For the Kid MC:
Francis Montgomery (Prestige): The mayor’s oldest son, and an utter douchebag. Or is he? He seems to harbor a secret that involves The Gloom. This might get dangerous.
Marcus Hayes (SnapShot): Francis’ Archrival, and master of puns. Is trying to come to terms with his powers, and is looking into the disappearance of his father ten years prior.
Trudie Doherty (Starlight): An orphan who deems herself to have lost the power-lottery. She’s shy with low selfesteem, but nevertheless uses what she can to find out what is causing various classmates of hers to fall sick.
Izzy Bishop (Ace of Spades): Eccentric and a bit of a cloud-cuckoo-lander, Izzy is an oddball, but extremely focused when clues about the death of their mother surface during a ghosthunt.
Madison Scrivens (Synchronicity): Meek and with as much selfesteem as Trudie, Madison is just as eager to find out what is causing their classmates’ illness
Fern Andreas (Lady Ariadne): Daughter to a hero/villain couple, Fern is headstrong and a little weird and is out ghosthuntig with Izzy. Although she might have her own agenda going.
Taiki Orikasa (Turmoil): A grumpy and nasty piece of work, but loyal beyond compare. Or are they? They are very keen on helping Trudie and Madison with their investigations.
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I've wanted to try La Roche- Posay's Anthelios sunscreens for the longest time, but they pretty much all contain Oxybenzone and Avobenzone, both of which I'm allergic to. I noticed that LRP have some mineral based options now, so I ordered a couple during a 25% off @skinstore sale, plus 15% cash back at ebates. In many areas of my life, I can be the most impatient person EVER, but I can/will wait months for a sale to come along. #patienceisavirtue and so is saving money, lol ________ I've used Anthelios Ultra Light MIneral Sunscreen SPF 50 a few times and am ready to share my thoughts. This is a Titanium Dioxide (6% ) and Zinc Oxide (5%), Broad Spectrum, oil free and unscented sunscreen. The consistency reminds me of Asian sunscreen milks, but I don't love the feel of this because I can really feel the silicones in action. It’s slick/slippery and I try to avoid products that are silicone heavy because they tend to get slimey on my very oily skin. Especially during the hotter months, it can get so gross on my face. Anyway, enough about my weird skin issues, haha...This sets semi-matte and worked well with my other products and makeup. BTW, it has a white cast. Even after massaging it in, I could still see some faint white cast. Also, while it didn't pill up during my morning routine, on the occasions that I re-applied this in the afternoon, it pilled up a lot. I also noticed that this made my face a little greasier, so my base makeup in my t-zone disappeared by lunch time. Boo ________ I'm bummed b/c I was so hopeful that this would work for me! I'll likely just use this for my body and move on to something else for my face and neck. Have you tried any of the LRP mineral sunscreens, and WDYT? ________ Here's my morning #skincareroutine for Wednesday, 6/5/19 Lait U Serum Placenta Complexe Iribiole Paula's Choice Power Berry Serum*, NP Creme Dermopurifiante Allies of Skin 1A Anti Pollution Repair Mask* La Roche-Posay Ultra Light Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50 By Terry Baume de Rose ________ * = PR/Gifted #biologiquerecherche#alliesofskin#paulaschoice#byterry#larocheposay#beautygram#skincarediary#beautyroutine#instaskincare#frenchbeauty#frenchskincare#beautylover https://www.instagram.com/p/ByVjzGHAz8Z/?igshid=1gltu302p5i5f
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La France avant la folie 🇫🇷 Revisiting France in March 2020 🇫🇷 Partie deux de quatre
After truffle, cheese and wine-induced dreams, I woke to the view of the castle. It was even more impressive in the daytime. In the kitchen Andy was making coffee fresh back from his usual early-riser walk routine. He’d bought pain au chocolat from the local supermarket and we ate them toasted while we spoke about the plan for the day. We packed up all of our stuff and headed to the car that Tom and Andy had begrudgingly parked up the hill the night before after touring the newer part of town after taking a wrong turn.
When everything was secure, we carried on by foot to the entrance to the castle walls. We paid the fee and found our way up to the ramparts. From the view two things were clear; it was once a vast fortified city perched high above the surrounding lands, and it was freezing. The rain of the night before seemed to have brought an icy wind along with it and we were exposed to it at our dizzying heights. We worked our way along the wall, stopping to admire the countryside on one side and the various buildings within the city walls on the other. We passed an amphitheatre, a monstrously impressive cathedral and tower after tower that had been added to and upgraded to the decor du jour over hundreds of years.
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Halfway along we had an opportunity to climb down from the rampart to see a little bit of the city contained within the walls. It seemed like a good opportunity to get out of the wind and somebody suggested we stop for an early lunch. We found a little square where a surprise sun shower drove us into a busy little restaurant. We were ushered upstairs and handed menus. Carol and Andy both opted for onion soup followed by cassoulet, a sumptuous casserole of white beans, sausage and duck meat. Andy even had a beer, but I thought I’d give myself a break after the excesses of the night before.
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Appropriately revitalised with the calories we’d burned (and then some) in the sub-Arctic breeze, and with the rain gone, we walked off lunch with a little bit of retail therapy. I was still chilled to the bone when I spotted a display of sheepskin aviator hats outside a shop. It was the vivid red and blue-dyed, long-haired, soft-as-silk sheepskins that drew me into the sales bin. With no prices, it looked like I had to go in to find out more. I turned around to see that everyone else had carried on into the next shop, but it was too late - I wanted one of these hats. The inside of the shop was warm and smelled of leather. Aside from hats, they had an impressive array of jackets and coats. I tried on a couple of hats and enquired about the price. I’d done it again... fallen in love with a hat before realising that with great quality comes an equally great price. It was the Cambridge hat debacle all over again. I opted for a racy deep blue number with Tuscan lambskin on the outside and soft Merino on the interior. I sheepishly carried my bag out of the shop and into the next one, where Carol and Andy were having an argument about which one of them would get the fetching ladies hat. Carol won the battle after she berated Andy for being a hat upstager and threatened divorce. She settled on a black and red number and we carried on. The boys ended up with beanies and we worked our way up to the ramparts for more sightseeing.
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We arrived at Le Petit Cochon, greeted by Saskia and Andrew’s usual warm hospitality. Showed up to our rooms, we all took a break to recharge and get ready for dinner. Andrew graciously dropped us off and we said we’d walk back, perhaps via the pub.
Dinner at La Ferme de Flaran was as magnificent as it was the first time we visited. It was nice to show it off to new people and a good opportunity for me to practice my French. I had gotten a little better, with a few more words in my vocabulary and the waitress understood what I was saying this time. I hope that next time I will be able to understand her responses. Andy ordered two French staples - escargot and foie gras. Tom and I each tried a snail, which was smothered in garlic butter (making it tasty by default). Tom flat out refused to try the foie gras based on his fear of offal. I wasn’t sure I agreed with the process by which it is derived (force-feeding geese in their final days to fatten their livers), but I was curious to try it. I wish I hadn’t, because it was one of the most incredible things I have ever eaten. It had been seared and the inside was a delicate and silky smooth texture. It was fatty and buttery and rich. I don’t know if I can say that I won’t eat it again, even though the practice is barbaric. So conflicting. We carried on into dessert (all of the usual suspects - creme brûlée, tarts tatin, etc.) then started a slow walk into the cool evening. I wasn’t sure I was up for a drink in the pub, but it was England v. Wales in the rugby and the pub owner was Welsh, so it felt rude not to.
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I ordered a creme de menthe, wanting to replicate the perfect end to the previous night’s meal. What came out was not at all like I was expecting. A glass of green syrupy liquid was placed in front of me. It was the teal green of mouthwash and tasted about the same.
Despite Wales losing the rugby, everyone was quite jovial. I went off to the loo and came back to discover Tom had devised a new mannerism not unlike his extended “come stai” greeting from Venice. This time it was an elongated “bonsoir”, complete with a deep bow from the waist. Lucky everyone was in a good mood! Such a good mood that, minutes later, everybody broke out into a inpromptu sing-along of “The Power of Love” by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. And here I thought Littleton was the only village that did group singing.
We sat outside and got chatting with the locals, including an Englishman who had spent decades in Valence with his French wife and their children. He relished an opportunity to speak English, so we relaxed into it. By the time the second drink came out - this time a lager that somebody had been drinking, it felt like a bad idea to carry on. I called an end to the evening when the son of the mayor of a neighbouring town asked me about how we all knew each other. When I said that Tom was mon mari (my husband) he paused, mulling it over. He replied cautiously in his French accent, “It is okay. I am, how you say, bisexual.” It had all gotten a bit too strange, so I necked my pint and rustled up the crew for a long overdue sleep.
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andawaywego · 7 years
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for those of you who asked
here’s the Tommy and Rita backstory from you gotta fix yourself up (before taking off) because you guys deserve it and lots of people asked. I briefly considered writing the prequel that included all of this, but i just don’t think it’s worth it because it’s Depressing and so pre-Trimberly (AND they have to go through all the angst in the story anyway) 
FIRST THINGS FIRST:
this operates under the assumption that our Children (aka Zack, Billy, Jason, Kim, and Trini) had some difficulty when fighting Rita in the movie canon (i.e. they couldn’t SUPER control their Zords and ended up, ahem, killing some people).
so things are a little quiet after that first fight with Rita. a couple of residual putties (via Goldar, as in the Aftershock verse) but nothing too bad. The town rebuilds, etcetera, etcetera. Jason and Billy graduate. Zack drops out of high school to take care of his mom.
during all of this Tommy Oliver moves to town. child of divorce stuff. his mom lives there (she’s a journalist for the local paper) and he’s coming to stay with her indefinitely. He’s Trini and Kim’s age and is in their grade.
he stumbles upon--GASP--the green coin, which was “lost” after they rid the earth of Rita that first time. It’s sorta like the One Ring, though--which Trini references in the story, too--because it finds him and all because, you guessed it--Rita isn’t dead.
nope. she’s back on Earth after rejuvenating for a year at an old ranger base on the moon (lame, i know, but also MMPR canon sooooo). Anyhow, the coin is actually attached to her, not Tommy. But because she isn’t at her full strength, there’s room in its power to share with him or, well--
take him over and make him her soldier of darkness so that she can defeat the Power Rangers for good AND finally get her talons on that darn slippery Zeo crystal.
problem is--she knows who the Yellow Ranger is under the mask, which means Tommy does, too. And that makes it pretty easy for him to track down the other four as well.
thus begins his tearing their group apart. 
Rita knows that the only reason she was beaten last time was because of their unwavering loyalty to one another (“what you have...it can’t last” anyone?) and she believes that the easiest way to make sure they’re not a problem is to completely alienate one another (via a Yoko-esque technique).
basically, Tommy scouts out their weakness and preys on them.
as their friend.
that’s right, he briefly befriends them and because he knows who they are, he knows all the right things to say (you have a lot of responsibility on your shoulders and it must be tough etc.). Eager to have someone not burdened by their secret on their side, each and every one of them eat it right up.
fortunately, the guys (well, all of them except Trini at first) respond pretty quickly despite the fact that they were angry at one another. Unfortunately, because Trini isn’t there and is still angry--still doesn’t trust them--their morphing doesn’t necessarily stick as well as it should.
meaning, their armor keeps flickering on and off and they can’t control their Zords, which basically makes is super easy for Tommy to take them out--which is alluded to more than once in the story--and Trini, who is watching all of this on the news at her parents house (awkward) finally runs to help.
she gets there, has a brief heart-to-heart with Rita--who basically says the same stuff (you can’t win and blah, blah, you suck) and Zack briefly comes to in order to help take down Tommy, Trini wrenches the power coin from Tommy’s armor and Rita is so surprised that Trini kills her.
except for Trini. Trini who doesn’t trust outsiders in the same way she barely trusted the others when she first met them. She steers clear, which is fine, because it works. It starts to push her away from the group
 which makes it all too easy for him to convince:
- Zack that he’s holding them back with his self-pitying attitude
- Billy that the others look down on him
- Jason that everyone views him as worthless and that he’ll never be good enough
- Kim that she maybe isn’t as good a person as the others tell her she is 
he’s also an incessant flirt, because Trini is pretty transparent and that’s his main way of getting to her--following Kim around like a lost puppy.
and then, the creme de la creme--
he outs Trini to her parents. and it does not go well (let’s just say that fight at the beginning of you gotta fix yourself up is not the first one she’s had of that nature with her mother, also why her mother doesn’t trust Kim at all because, when your daughter has been talking about a female friend of hers for like a year and a half and then turns out to be gay? yeah)
worst yet, she doesn’t know that he knows and thinks that it’s one of the others. so, basically, she splits. gets angry at them. yells a lot and basically straight up leaves the group.
things come to a head and this basically isolates all of them from each other which super sucks.
especially because the entire time this is going on, Tommy is also doing his part to take down the Power Rangers savior images (sorta like in A Bad Reflection on You in MMPR) and it’s super easy to do when they’re:
A) wanted by pretty much everyone in power in the United States 
B) accidentally did a lot of damage during that first fight with Rita and 
C) the town is still reeling from the loss of life and property.
He does it with 6 words said to his reporter mother--
who were they trying to help?
pretty soon every newspaper and broadcast station across the country is covering the Power Rangers and how they destroyed the city. Everyone is scrambling to sue them and the manhunt by the government is that much worse.
all of this leaves the group really bad off and that’s when Rita finally strikes.
she’s located her old Zord and gets it to destroy the recently rebuilt Krispy Kreme, trying to unearth the crystal again.
straight up.
cold-blooded.
the coin then attaches itself to her, Tommy’s armor is gone and so is his memory (which will be explained more in the sequel, no worries, lads) and everyone comes to and they all cry and forgive each other.
so on and so forth.
it’s Kim who sympathizes with Tommy, actually, because he wasn’t in control of his actions and she has a martyr complex about the Amanda thing and never feeling good enough so she makes an effort to talk to him in school and all that stuff, but Trini never really forgives him (obvs).
they graduate and then cue the start of the story.
and all of this is a big montage to Believer by Imagine Dragons.
the end.
(sorry if that was super anticlimactic but it is what it is)
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dazstormretro · 5 years
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My Gaming Passion Grows - Jan 1989
It was now January 1989, the Christmas holiday (my favourite holiday as a kid and still to this day) was sadly over and it was back to school. Still revelling in the power of the Amstrad I was excited to tell my best mate at the time all about it and what these new fangled computers could do. The best mate in question was Rob, a boy I’d known since nursery and who lived in our village. Up until this point our only experience playing a video game together was Robs copy of the Donkey Kong Game and Watch which he’d brought into school on a number of occasions. Turns out for that Christmas he’d also received his own special electronic surprise in the form of a ZX Spectrum. We then spent the rest of the day comparing games and joystick details and decided to meet up over the weekend and try out each other’s systems.
Having spent an unhealthy amount of time at Robs house over the coming months I started to get a good taste of the variety of games available for both computers though secretly I preferred the Amstrads detailed graphics over the Spectrum’s comical colour clash. Some of my favourite games on the Spectrum included Robocop, R-Type and Ghosts n Goblins whilst on my brothers computer (which I had basically inherited by this point) were Bruce Lee, Renegade and Barbarian.
Thinking back I suppose it was a bit of a strange choice to buy my brother an Amstrad over say the ZX Spectrum or even a Commodore 64 as this would have been the least popular of the three in 1988? Maybe the store manager was on some kind of commission when my dad marched into the store that day or maybe my dad just got the decision completely wrong, either way my child like brain at the time was convinced we had the superior computer and I was very happy.
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After our eleventh birthday’s had past it was decided both Rob and I were mature enough to venture alone into our local market town unsupervised. Every Saturday armed with our weekly pocket money we would venture out on our skateboards (the latest craze at the time) to spend the morning wandering around Woolworths, Toymaster and the little independent video game shop in the centre of Hyde (I wish I could remember it’s name).
The shop was a small square shaped room, pretty dark and decorated with various gaming posters. On all four walls and down the centre were racks of Amstrad, Spectrum and Commodore games all priced between £1.99 and £2.99. Rob and I would eagerly flick through the latest releases from Code Masters, the Hit Squad and US Gold, eyeing up the gorgeous artwork and imagining what these games would actually play like. Next we would turn our attention to the far wall where the coveted £9.99 games were on display in their beautiful square cardboard boxes. These really were the creme de la creme of video games, the posh kid games which we could only hope for on birthdays and Christmas. Double Dragon, Batman, Chase HQ. I fondly remember the box for Robocop which was the size of a hardback book and came complete with a pullout poster. Sat behind the counter would sit a zit infested teenager watching a small black and white television and smoking cigarettes but if any gaming advice was needed, he was your man.
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Being poor eleven year olds we didn’t often have enough money to actually buy the games in question, just hold and smell them! On the rare occasions we did have enough money for a game (usually thanks to a generous grandparent) we would spend a good hour choosing the right title (you didn’t want to mess this part up). With new game in hand we would nip to the chip shop for a spot of lunch then sit down in the indoor market hall to lovingly read the foldout instruction inlays. Next would be a couple of credits on the ever changing arcade machine which sat at the entrance to the market hall, during this period it would be the money guzzling Robocop.
Finally no shopping trip to Hyde would be complete without a visit to the local newsagents to read the latest video game magazines off the racks. For Rob it would be Crash Magazine to wet his Spectrum whistle but unfortunately for me all I seemed to get hold of was Amstrad Action which compared to Crash always felt a bit boring. The idea was to read as much as possible before the owner of the shop caught us and threatened to chuck us out which happened on many occasions. The best bit about these magazines had to be the cover tapes. If you were lucky you could find a cracking demo cassette on the front which was often more worthwhile purchasing then an actual game as it could contain four games in one which for an eleven year old boy was mind blowing.
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citizenscreen · 7 years
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This week marks the anniversary of the death of animator, producer William Hanna (July 14, 1910 – March 22, 2001). For me that can only mean one thing – it’s time to reminisce about one of my all-time favorite cartoons – and sitcoms, for that matter – The Flintstones.
William Hanna and partner Joseph Barbera became one of the truly legendary pairings in animation history. Together Hanna and Barbera created The Flintstones and a slew of other iconic characters that have been hugely popular and influential since the 1950s. To show their sustaining power here’s an entry on DC Comics from last year focusing on new comic books to be released based on reimaginings of several Hanna-Barbera characters and stories. I’m not much into comic books so this launch may have already happened. As I perused a collection of classic Hanna-Barbera comic books though I realized I’d absolutely love to own some of them. Practically every single classic character had his own comic book series with the Parade series featuring all of them.
Anyway – the characters that launched Hanna-Barbera Productions in the 1950s include Yogi Bear and his Emmy Award-winning series (1958-1962), Huckleberry Hound and Quick Draw McGraw. In the 1960s they brought us The Jetsons in a prime-time slot during the 1962-1963 season, The Magilla Gorilla Show, Ricochet Rabbit and Droop-a-Long, Punkin’ Puss and Mushmouse, Scooby-Doo and many more.
Of all the shows produced by Hanna-Barbera, however, my absolute favorite is The Flintstones, a sit-com-style animated series influenced by The Honeymooners, another show I adore. I grew up watching Fred, Wilma, Barney and Betty along with their prehistoric surroundings and still enjoy watching them whenever time and opportunity allow.
The creators of ‘The Flintstones’ holding a drawing of Fred Flintstone on August 1, 1980
The collaboration between William Hanna and Joseph Barbera began in 1940 when both were working in the animation department at MGM Studios. The two worked on Tom and Jerry cartoons with the first being Puss Gets the Boot (1940). When MGM closed its cartoon department two decades later Hanna and Barbera decided to continue the collaboration with a focus on television.
Having gained a solid reputation in theatrical shorts, Hanna and Barbera approached Columbia’s Screen Gems television studio with a storyboard for a cartoon about the adventures of dog and cat pals Ruff and Reddy. At that point Tom and Jerry cartoons were already enjoying success on television by way of recycled theatrical vehicles so the careers of Hanna and Barbera were on solid ground. The Ruff and Reddy Show followed suit in the popularity department and the two animators were well on their way to making history.
Ruff and Reddy
In 1957 Hanna-Barbera launched The Huckleberry Hound Show, the first cartoon series to receive an Emmy award. Huckleberry Hound marked a huge step in the careers of Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera in several ways. Huckleberry served as a platform for the animators to introduce many characters, several of which became stars in their own series later. In addition, Huckleberry Hound proved a huge hit with audiences, but not the demographic one would think. In 1960 a survey revealed that more adults than children were watching Huckleberry Hound on a regular basis, which prompted Hanna-Barbera to focus its efforts on a primetime animated series. Enter The Flintstones. YABBA DABBA DOO!
  The Flintstones ran from 1960 to 1966 and proved such a big success with audiences of all ages that Hanna-Barbera created a space-age family to join them in prime-time. That family, of course, is The Jetsons. I enjoy The Jetsons as well, but The Flintstones are the bomb diggity with their stone-age “modern” appliances that talk and all else that make it a terrific comedy for people of all ages. The premise of the show parodied popular domestic situation comedies, a familiar, winning formula with the added bonus of skits based on the prehistoric theme. One of my favorite gags is when you see the characters step over a crack in the ground that millions of years later was to become the Grand Canyon.
You might enjoy this brief video, a history of The Flintstones:
Through the years la creme de la creme of voice actors worked on The Flintstones, including the legendary Mel Blanc and radio and television great, Bea Benaderet. Take a look at a complete list of the talents who voiced these characters here. I should note that – for me – the series lost some of its steam in its fifth season when The Great Gazoo started appearing. I’m not such a big fan of the alien in Bedrock. Gazoo was exiled to Earth because he created a doomsday machine on his planet. To me that story line is The Flintstones version of jumping the shark, but The Great Gazoo is voiced by favorite Harvey Korman who also voiced several other characters throughout the series’ run.
1960: The Flintstones voices: Fred Flintstone – Alan Reed Wilma Flintstone – Jean Vander Pyl Betty Rubble – Bea Benaderet Barney Rubble – Mel Blanc
As pop culture icons The Flintstones rank among the most recognizable in the world. They are still referenced in television shows and animated series, like The Simpsons and even became the subject of a hit song by The B-52s who recorded a version of the series’ theme song.
The characters in The Flintstones have also been used in the marketing of different products since they first aired. Among these, vitamins, cereal and beer. I can’t resist sharing the following classic commercial, which aired during the series’ first season. Here we see the characters advocating for Winston Cigarettes, the show’s sponsor on ABC. I’m not advocating smoking, by the way.
Testament to the popularity of The Flintstones is the number of Hollywood and television stars that voiced themselves and/or their characters on the show through the years. My favorite episodes are the ones that featured Hollywood stars. I post the examples I could find below, but among the popular personalities that guest-starred on the series were Ed Sullivan, Elizabeth Montgomery, Raymond Burr and Jack Dempsey. Click on each of the following movie star names to watch a clip:
Ann-Margrock
Stoney Curtis
Rock Quarry
Jimmy Darrock
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a clip of my favorite of these, Gary Granite, but here’s his picture from episode 6 of season 1, “The Monster from the Tar Pits”
  Another favorite is when Fred does the “Bedrock Twitch”
My favorite cross-over was when Darren and Samantha Stevens from Bewitched appeared on The Flintstones:
Can you blame me for loving this stuff? When classic greats cross-over into classic greats it’s a mash-up made in heaven.
After The Flintstones’ initial run on ABC concluded the show became even more popular as part of Saturday morning cartoon line-ups and in syndication. That’s when I ran into them. Perhaps nothing illustrates The Flintstones popularity, however, than the number of movie adaptations – both animated and live-action – and the spin-offs it begat starting with Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm (1971-1972 and 1975-1976) followed by The Flintstones Comedy Hour (1972-1974) and finally The Flintstones Kids, which appeared in 1986 and ran through 1989.
Without a doubt, The Flintstones is one of the all-time great classic television shows. I put it up there with The Munsters on my list of favorites and I’m sure millions feel just as I do about it. It’s as funny a situation comedy as many consider its live-action counterparts with great scripts and voice acting the likes of which no longer exist. It’s time you revisit this legendary and enjoyable series. I need to spend more time with them myself.
  Hanna-Barbera and The Flintstones This week marks the anniversary of the death of animator, producer William Hanna (July 14, 1910 – March 22, 2001).
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