#the police are being sus af

[no-justice-no-joy]

Interview? Or Interrogation?

After being Taken in by the Police for Questioning After the discovery of Meredith's Body, Knox and Sollecito were Ruthlessly Interrogated for 4 Days, without any Interpreters (for Knox, whose Native Language is Not Italian) or Lawyers [9, 10, 12]

While in Custody, Knox Claims to have been Abused and Bullied by The Police [9, 12]. Because of this, she was Coerced into signing a written confession stating that Lumbumba (her boss at Le Chic) killed Meredith while she stood there and Watched [9, 10, 12]. (This is, Obviously, Very Sus.)

Knox and Sollecito were then held in Prison for the Next 14 Months, Until their Trial Began on January 16, 2009

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[hastalahamon]

Now that I've slept on it, i gotta say, I don't think New's plan ever involved any of them surviving this, including him. I think his plan was to make them all admit to it, kill them, make Phee admit to his role in it, kill him, and then kill himself.

If... and that's a BIG if for me, since i'm still on my white is sus agenda, but if white is truly innocent, maybe he gets to live.

none of them are redeemable. some of them don't exactly deserve to die, but as an older sibling, i understand the rage New feels. in fact, i'm finding it a tad difficult to grasp how tame he's being about it.

and i see nothing wrong with him doing this for selfish reasons. this happened to him too. he lost his brother, his whole family because of these assholes. he gets to be angry and sad because of it. and he gets to deal with it in a way that helps him. it wasn't some sad accident that cause the ruin of his entire family, these cunts did all of this on purpose.

his comment that it doesn't matter what non would have wanted is valid af. non is dead (or is he), they made sure they ruined that boy completely, they don't get to weasel their way out of this piggybacking on his kindness. they don't get to use him for their own gain, AGAIN

AND JIN. do not even get me started on jin. mr nice guy whose first reaction after NOT confessing his feelings and finding out his crush has a boyfriend and then seeing said crush being raped by a teacher is TO FILM IT. even fluke was like wtf man. you know you're fucked in the head when even fluke judges you. fluke's been silent the entire time, about EVERYTHING, but this was the hill he decided to get judgy on.

jin was instrumental in getting non to go along with all of their shit. he was the nice friend who'd put his hand on non's shoulder, bat his eyelashes, and get non to do whatever the gang wanted. he talks big game about how they're mean in calling non greasy, and yet he never, not once stopped the others from bullying non. even fluke calls him out on it when tee drugs non and takes him away. jin get's all oh no they're taking non away and fluke outright tells him to do something about it if he has a problem with it... and surprise surprise, jin does nothing.

and phee, phee doesn't get to forgive jin. it's not phee's place to understand and forgive, phee washed his hands of non, he was done with him, and just cause he feels guilty for his last words to non doesn't mean he gets to absolve himself of his guilt by finding someone who's done non worse and forgiving him. that video ruined non's life. and even if he could come back from such a scandal (he was coerced (read raped), what fucking scandal, but that's a different conversation), that video was directly used to stop any chance non ever had of being found by the police or the police even looking into his disappearance.

and even if jin wasn't the one who leaked it, he was the one to film it. in fact, i repeat, it was his first reaction to seeing his UNDERAGE crush being raped by a teacher. had jin not been a colossal dick, that video wouldn't even exist in the first place, and no one would use keng to make it seem that non ran off with his lover.

also, i don't think non is dead. and i don't think white is there by mistake. and i'm sus of that friend of tee's. he got way too much screen time for someone who's supposed to be there just for exposition.

and that bob haired thug, the one that's all i don't know i don't know. SUS. last time someone didn't know didn't know nie huaisang took down meng yao and exposed all his crimes.

[textbook-dinner]

hi hiii you seem very goofy hello /lh I was wondering if you have any utauloid headcanons you want to share 👀 I love hearing about other people's ideas!!!

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT MY WHOLE LIFE ;3 /lh

❤️Kasane Teto:

•Aroace agender

•Likes all kinds of bread, not just baguettes

•Probably autustic

•Has a million random facts stored in her head

•Likes snails (yes this is based on that one talkloid lmao)

•Causes chaos and blows stuff up with Namine Ritsu

• A little silly :3

🩷Momone Momo:

•Lesbian

•Secretly dead inside

•Bullied by Defoko

•Has a lot of pent up anger that she never shows

•Likes cats and yoghurt

•Scared of a lot of things including, but not limited to, spiders, her friends, Sukone Tei and heights

🟪Defoko:

•Ace icon (she's literally the flag hello??)

•Carries a weapon with her at all times

•Rarely shows emotion

•Basically raised her siblings Defosuke, Defo Imuoto and Defota

•Has a part-time job as a police officer

•Doesn't know her own birthday but would never tell anyone

•Hates her real name (Utane Uta)

❤️💙Yokune Ruko

•Genderfluid

•Really intimidating on the outside but a total softie on the inside

•The most mysterious utauloid, and very few people really know them

•Swears a lot

•Very mature and responsible, usually assumed to be the oldest because of their height

•Tired all the time because they drink coffee at night, and drink coffee at night because they're tired all the time

•Platonically dating Ritsu

•Theme song is Pools by Glass Animals

🧡Namine Ritsu

•Oriented aroace

•Permanently scowling

•Gets mad at literally everything

•Faints when he gets angry, which makes him angrier

•Has a teardrop tattoo on his cheek

•Has extremely good aim, and can hit a target from 50 metres away (with his boob missiles)

•Annoying little kid who won't SHUT UP about geopolitics

•Hangs out with Teto, Tei, Ruko, Defoko or Haruka Nana depending on the day

•Theme song is Battle Cry by Beth Crowley

•His Kire outfit puts the fun in funeral lmfao

•Platonically dating Ruko

🤍Sukone Tei

•Bisexual

•Dating Mayu

•Often makes sex jokes

•Albino

•Drinks tomato juice and tells people it's blood

•Has hemophobia (fear of blood)

•Secretly Yowane Haku's daughter (no idea how that would work lmao)

•Jealous of Miku and vocaloids

♦️Rook

•Ruko's brother

•Gets bullied by Ruko for being a furry

•Has a fursona

•Colour blind

•Gay af and dating Scott

🤎Ooka Miko

•Ritsu's and Hakaine Maiko's adopted sister

•Is secretly a wolf

•Has an excellent straight face

•Silently angry at everyone

•Allergic to apples

•Kuudere

🟥Kasane Ted

•Also gay af

•Teto's older brother

•Works in an office somewhere and rarely interacts with the other utauloids

•That one sus friend

•Almost universally hated

💚Scott

•Aroallo

•Alien that lives on earth disguised as a human

•Dating Rook

•Him, Ted and Tei should start a club called Sus Friends Anonymous

✳️Haruka Nana:

•Bullies Gachapoid

•Roasts everyone

•Hangs out with Ritsu

[mariana-oconnor]

The Norwood Builder pt 2

Last time absolutely no one had any chill at all. We met a very excitable solicitor who had been told he was to inherit a substantial fortune, then framed for the murder of an old family friend (confirmation pending), all within 24 hours.

The body recovered had been burnt beyond recognition, which I only mention because my current theory is that the dead guy, whose name I cannot currently remember, had beef with the parents of the solicitor, and therefore faked his own death and framed their son in revenge.

It's a very convoluted plan, but as mentioned previously, everyone in this story is working at chill level -9000.

“My first movement, Watson,” said he, as he bustled into his frock-coat, “must, as I said, be in the direction of Blackheath.” “And why not Norwood?”

Because so far no one's actually inquired into what the connection between our young friend and his mysterious (and possibly dead) benefactor is.

Like, if the guy has faked his own death, but somehow dies over the course of this adventure in a way not connected to Mr McFarlane, would the will still be held as legally binding? Because that sounds just the right amount of karma for me to get behind.

Clearly in that case the will was not intended to be taken seriously, and also it was written up by the beneficiary, which is sus af, but still...

"No, my dear fellow, I don't think you can help me. There is no prospect of danger, or I should not dream of stirring out without you. I trust that when I see you in the evening..."

Guy gives up his job for you, and you just leave him at home like a sad little puppy.

This probably means that he's about to learn something that would give the game away, so it must not be exposed to the reader through our narrator. Or something.

It was late when my friend returned, and I could see by a glance at his haggard and anxious face that the high hopes with which he had started had not been fulfilled.

Oh no. So he didn't discover anything important from the McFarlanes. No epic rivalry or previous vendetta.

“Yes, Watson, I went there, and I found very quickly that the late lamented Oldacre was a pretty considerable black-guard. The father was away in search of his son. The mother [...] would not express either surprise or regret over the fate of Oldacre. On the contrary, she spoke of him with such bitterness that she was unconsciously considerably strengthening the case of the police [...] ‘He was more like a malignant and cunning ape than a human being,’ said she, ‘and he always was, ever since he was a young man.’"

Oh... so that's exactly what I thought. The old guy was horrible, they all hated each other. He seems the exact kind of person to take revenge for an old slight by faking his own death and framing his 'enemy's' son. I don't know what you're talking about Holmes.

Also, if you're going to just relate to us what happened, moment by moment, why didn't Watson just go with him, ACD?

“‘Yes, I knew him well; in fact, he was an old suitor of mine. Thank Heaven that I had the sense to turn away from him and to marry a better, if a poorer, man.'"

That's your motive. Right there.

"...she produced a photograph of a woman, shamefully defaced and mutilated with a knife."

That's creepy and exactly the stalker-like behaviour of a man who bears a grudge and who will absolutely take it out on your son decades later.

But whytf did you keep the photo? Just burn it.

"The blood-stains were very slight, mere smears and discolorations, but undoubtedly fresh."

So there's no real sign that someone was killed in that room, then?

"But it seemed to me that all the papers were not there. There were allusions to some deeds—possibly the more valuable—which I could not find."

Two theories: either they never existed or Mr Oldacre took them with him as he absonded.

"Mrs. Lexington is her name, a little, dark, silent person, with suspicious and sidelong eyes."

Three theories, the housekeeper took them.

"She could tell us something if she would—I am convinced of it. But she was as close as wax. Yes, she had let Mr. McFarlane in at half-past nine. She wished her hand had withered before she had done so. She had gone to bed at half-past ten. Her room was at the other end of the house, and she could hear nothing of what passed. Mr. McFarlane had left his hat, and to the best of her belief his stick, in the hall."

OK, so the police theory is Mr McFarlane left his stick in the hall, went in to see Mr Oldacre, came out to get his stick (specifically for the purposes of killing the man) then left the stick and went out again?

The real question is where is his hat? Did he leave that behind or did he take it with him, because if he had the opportunity to regain the stick for murderous purposes, then he had the opportunity to get his hat as well. No hat was mentioned at his first appearance, and Watson does like to describe a good hat, but he technically should have taken it off as soon as he entered the house.

Also, she's covering for the 'dead' guy. She knows he's not dead.

"I fear that the Norwood Disappearance Case will not figure in that chronicle of our successes which I foresee that a patient public will sooner or later have to endure.”

Tell us how you really feel, ACD.

Every time Holmes is dismissive of Watson's writing (or flat out insulting like he is here) I just see it as ACD projecting and it's a lot funnier.

“Surely,” said I, “the man's appearance would go far with any jury?” “That is a dangerous argument, my dear Watson. You remember that terrible murderer, Bert Stevens, who wanted us to get him off in '87? Was there ever a more mild-mannered, Sunday-school young man?”

oh my god. omg omgomg... is this... is this a passage in a Sherlock Holmes story that outright states that appearance is not linked to criminal behaviour?

Do my eyes deceive me?

Watson's still plumping for the physiognomic view, and yet shot down immediately.

"On looking over the bank-book I found that the low state of the balance was principally due to large cheques which have been made out during the last year to Mr. Cornelius."

That sounds like an...

No, really. Oldacre is Cornelius, Cornelius is Oldacre. Everything makes sense now. He's been funnelling money into accounts under a different name so he can have funds when he takes on his new identity.

The carpet round his chair was littered with cigarette-ends...

Really Holmes? That's just nasty. I'm sure you have an ashtray somewhere. Do you expect Mrs Hudson to pick those up?

“Important fresh evidence to hand. McFarlane's guilt definitely established. Advise you to abandon case. — Lestrade."

Lestrade, my guy, I'm pretty sure that's going to turn out to be evidence that definitely establishes McFarlane's innocence.

Oldacre won't have been able to resist doing his own little 'cock-a-doodle of victory' and he'll overplay his hand. Or he'll be playing the part of a tramp who 'saw the whole thing happen'.

"After all, important fresh evidence is a two-edged thing, and may possibly cut in a very different direction to that which Lestrade imagines."

Holmes and I are on the same page, it seems. Even if he hasn't caught up to my masterplan of Oldacre and Cornelius being one and the same.

I have known him presume upon his iron strength until he has fainted from pure inanition. “At present I cannot spare energy and nerve force for digestion,” he would say in answer to my medical remonstrances.

Between this and the cigarette butts I'm just...

Within the gates Lestrade met us, his face flushed with victory, his manner grossly triumphant. “Well, Mr. Holmes, have you proved us to be wrong yet? Have you found your tramp?” he cried.

OK, now Lestrade has also lost his cool... we are all dramatic bitches in this story. No one is free from it.

Calm down, Lestrade. I'm sure you've been through moments like this before where you thought you'd beaten him but hadn't. In fact, I know you have because I've read some of them. Just take a deep breath and count backwards from 100.

"Step this way, if you please, gentlemen, and I think I can convince you once for all that it was John McFarlane who did this crime.”

I bet you a shiny new sixpence that you can't.

“This is where young McFarlane must have come out to get his hat after the crime was done,” said he.

OH MY GOD, It's the fucking hat. Did he have a hat?

Well, it's a fingerprint. Which wouldn't be accepted as evidence in the British court system until 1901. This story is set in 189? although it was published in 1903. So Lestrade is actually ahead of his time here. This is Cutting Edge Victorian crime fighting, people. Lestrade is a modern, forward-thinking law enforcement officer.

As he held the waxen print close to the blood-stain it did not take a magnifying glass to see that the two were undoubtedly from the same thumb.

Very impressive eyesight everyone has to be able to accurately compare and identify a thumbprint with the naked eye so quickly. My guys you are killing it with your perception rolls. And people say that the police in the Sherlock Holmes stories aren't very perceptive.

“What a providential thing that this young man should press his right thumb against the wall in taking his hat from the peg!"

I need to know if he even took his hat. Because if his own story is to be believed, then he went out the back way and left hat and cane behind. So if he didn't have his hat then this is clearly evidence he's been framed.

Admittedly, having the wherewithal to fake fingerprints when they're not even a legally accepted piece of evidence yet is some high level framing. Pity you wasted it on the hat story.

“It was the housekeeper, Mrs. Lexington, who drew the night constable's attention to it.”

Not suspicious at all. Look at this perfect bloody thumbprint that you missed. Right next to the hat that I absolutely did not remove.

“Only this: that I know that that mark was not there when I examined the hall yesterday."

You could have said that to Lestrade. He might have taken it as sour grapes, but I really feel like you should have mentioned that to him.

Finally, on the top corridor, which ran outside three untenanted bedrooms, he again was seized with a spasm of merriment.

Is Mr Oldacre hiding in his own attic? That would be impressive.

“I think it is time now that we took our friend Lestrade into our confidence. He has had his little smile at our expense, and perhaps we may do as much by him if my reading of this problem proves to be correct. Yes, yes; I think I see how we should approach it.”

Just waiting to be petty and dramatic about it, I see.

Also, I will be taking that sixpence, now, Inspector Lestrade.

I've gone back to double check and there is no mention of a hat in the first part, although they don't specify that they didn't go back out into the hallway, it certainly implies that they didn't. So if Mr McFarlane did not get his stick, he did not get his hat. That hat is somewhere around.

Or it's been burnt with the body.

Whatever, Oldacre's not dead, although he may have killed a random innocent bystander and burnt their body to cinders in order to effect his own escape. Oldacre's a dick, the housekeeper's in on it. I don't know how they got the fingerprint. They would have had to get Mr McFarlane to touch something soft enough to retain the mark, then make a cast of that, then use that cast to make the mark. Although this might all be based on Victorian understanding of fingerprints, so who knows.

[lustforthecrust-blog]

🖤Mīćhæls info🖤

I have alot of knowledge of there lp and security measures since I used to work there💀 but anyway the only working cameras are in fine art, jewlery, receiving, registers and the inside of the cash office (have seen locations with cameras in vinyl and t shirts, depending on the area). The big dome cameras, fake af. The working cameras are almost never watched but if a large theft occurred they are able to rewind and find out who it is. Lp is basically nonexistent, we had people literally walk out with $1200+ worth of cricut machines and baskets full of jewelry, when we reported it they didnt even care or try to help us prevent future theft. Due to how shitty corporate is they cut everyone's hours so it's usually understaffed. However if a SA sees you conceal they can't chase or even mention that your stealing, if you hear "extra customer service needed in (your location)" over the radios they know your stealing and are going to watch you from a distance but thats all. We were allowed to call police after they left but it never happened and no one tries to get a plate number either. So all that being said the best way to lift from there is to bring a medium structured tote (for the love of god,no backpacks) grab a hand basket and go shopping as usual and throw some extra stuff that you don't really want and double of some items in there too. Head over to the floral, framing or yarn departments and just start discreetly slipping stuff into your bag, as long as no one sees you conceal there is no way for them to know. (Dont forget to peel off rfid stickers) We do know where blind spots are and if you go in with a full basket and come out with an empty one it's sus so leaving doubles and unwanted items in these blind spots make it appear that you've just changed your mind. It really doesn't matter if you buy anything or not just keep in mind how long your spending in store, like being there for 30+ minutes and not getting anything is odd. I'll wrap I up by saying PLEASE be sweet to the SAs they are tired and deal with so much bs, don't trash the store and be respectful. So go wild, steal to your hearts desire! Feel free to ask any questions!

[sunshine-overload]

[BSTS] Main Story S4CH5 'Follow the Rainbow at the Seafloor' - Chapter 6 + EX Chapters

originally translated these chapters when they first came out but never posted here, so, enjoy nekome being sus af

Chapter 6

-street, night time-

maica: Shinju!

shinju: Oh? Hey Maica.

maica: Good work today, you’re probably heading home right? I have something I’d like to talk to you about though, can we?

shinju: Yeah sure.

ran: Hold up, if you’re gonna talk lemme hear too!

shinju: Huh, Ran? Why?

ran: Lately Macia n’ I have been gettin’ along well~ Anyways, since ya talkin’ let’s go chat in a cafe!

maica: Good idea, we’re just standing around out here.

shinju: W-what? Ah, wait up!

-in cafe-

shinju: So um, what is it you two want from me exactly?

maica: Right now we’re in the middle of investigating Nekome, and so, we have something we’d like to ask you.

shinju: Huh? Nekome…

ran: Yep yep, we’ve teamed up. Though, the main thing I’m interested in is the black cards. So Shinju have ya ever seen Nekome with a card that’s completely black? Like before he disappeared n’ such.

shinju: A completely black card? Sorry, I have no idea.

ran: For real? And here I was thinkin’ for sure Nekome would have one.

maica: Ran, don’t derail the conversation.

shinju: I get that you two are investigating Nekome and whatever that card is but, why do you want to know about Nekome from me?

maica: …Shinju. I can tell that you’re avoiding Nekome. Why you’re avoiding him, what you know about him, that’s what I’d like to know.

shinju: …That’s….

maica: I’m of the belief that Nekome had something to do with the disappearance of Starless’ previous owner and the director couple.

ran: Me too! They all disappeared and yet only he came back all chill like nothin’ happened, it’s definitely suspicious! The reason he’s got his eye on Nee-chan has to be related as well!

shinju: What… Really?

maica: We don’t have any conclusive evidence though, that’s why I’d like to clarify the truth. At first I was just looking for what the cause of your discomfort was, but now I’m not just investigating for your sake anymore. The previous owner and director couple are still gone and I’m starting to worry some people can’t be trusted.

ran: And the key person in all of that is Nekome.

maica: More than anything, I just want to make sure Saki isn’t targeted.

shinju: For Saki-chan’s sake…

maica: That’s why I want information on Nekome, could you tell us what it is you know?

shinju: …… (thinking about it)

shinju: Ok. I don’t know how useful it will be, but I’ll tell you my story. That day, it could’ve just been me misunderstanding it, but—

—end

EX 1

-still in cafe-

shinju: I’ll talk about what I saw. It was around the time Team P was first formed. Rindou had been having trouble on stage… 

-flashback, old starless backstage room-

shinju: (That was a close one, I’m so glad I found my house key here in the store. That could’ve been real bad if I’d dropped it on the street somewhere… Hm? Is someone else here?)

-shinju peeks into the storage room-

nekome: Well, I guess you could say it’s like a simple type of therapy?

rindou: Sorry Nekome, I’ve even made you concerned about me…

nekome: No worries, to make sure Team P’s on the right track, you’re necessary no matter what, Rindou.

nekome: (on computer or something) Ok, the card’s all set up, how about you?

rindou: I’m fine.

shinju: (Nekome and… Rindou? I wonder what they’re doing… he said something about therapy.)

nekome: Here we go, put these headphones on now.

rindou: Ok.

nekome: Okay, concentrate real hard on the sound that’s gonna come from the headphones, I’ll start it now.

shinju: (I wonder what they could be talking about, a new show maybe? I wish I could hear it too but I’m just the understudy…)

-rindou jolts in pain-

rindou: Guh— graaahhhh!

shinju: !?

nekome: …Hm? (he notices shinju)

shinju: (What was that, what, what happened? Nekome noticed me, shit, I need to run!)

rindou: Gua… Aaaagh…!

shinju: (Rindou I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I’ll call the police as soon as I can…!)

nekome: ………

-flashback ends-

shinju: After that… nothing happened. The police did come to the store, but they said that no one was there.

ran: Woahhh~ What a frightening story that was.

maica: So was Rindou ok after that?

shinju: He was there at Starless the next day like normal and looked just fine. To the point where I thought I’d just imagined everything. Both of them acted as though nothing had even happened except…

maica: Except?

shinju: Up until then, Rindou had been a bit unstable, but that gradually settled afterwards…

ran: Hmm… So in other words, Nekome’s therapy was a success?

maica: It can’t be that simple.

shinju: I don’t know… ever since then I’ve been afraid of Nekome. Rindou took notice of it and adjusted our shifts to be different as much as he was able to.

maica: I see… Thank you, Shinju. Ran and I are going to discuss this a bit more so you can head home ahead of us. Sorry for dragging you along with us.

shinju: Ah, right. I’ll be going then.

ran: See ya~!

-street, night time-

shinju: Sigh… I’ll head straight home and rest tonight…

nekome: Nice work today, Shinju.

shinju: (very shocked) !? S-same to you, Nekome.

nekome: You heading home? How about we walk to the station together?

shinju: Um I…

nekome: My really, what a coincidence this is, I’m glad that I ran into you. Let’s walk and chat till we reach the station hm?

—end

EX 2

-rehearsal room-

maica: Hey Rindou, can I ask you something?

rindou: Sure, what’s the matter?

maica: I was thinking that we have a lot of unresolved problems that we’ve set aside. So… what are you going to do about them?

rindou: …Fufu. 

maica: Why’d that make you laugh?

rindou: Sorry, the question was just unexpectedly abstract. Usually you speak a lot more straightforwardly so it must be something you’re quite worried over.

maica: Ah… well, yeah I guess.

rindou: So, this is about our team’s unresolved problems then?

maica: That’s right.

rindou: …I think the only way to handle them is to put them into order of priority and go from there. Time is limited after all.

maica: Hm, true… But, what if it was something that could be a really big problem but you yourself have forgotten it? Then what?

rindou: Is something wrong Maica? Today you’re really… Did something happen? If possible I can help you out.

maica: Oh, no, it’s not like that. It’s like a hypothetical question I guess? I’d like you to answer thinking of it like that.

rindou: That so? That’s fine then… Hmm… A big problem that I myself have forgotten. If it’s not something that’s related to our team, the stage, or our guests, then right now I would not be prioritising it.

maica: So you’re saying you’d leave it be?

rindou: Yes.

maica: If left neglected you may end up not being able to resolve it. Would that not make you uneasy or anything?

rindou: I guess it would make me uneasy. If it were someone other than me, I’m sure they’d rather work towards solving it, bit by bit. But if it’s me we’re talking about, then I’d be fine with it never being resolved. Since to me right now, the stage is my everything.

maica: …I see.

rindou: Everything ok?

maica: Ah, yeah I’m fine. Sorry for asking you something strange.

rindou: No worries. Since it seems we have some time before the others arrive, how about we rehearse the basics?

maica: Sure thing.

rindou: Let’s go.

—end

EX 3

-outside starless, night time-

saki: (Today was a lot of fun… It’s already gotten dark out, I should carefully make my way home.)

nekome: Nice night out tonight isn’t it, little lady?

saki: (Is that man calling out to me? If he’s trying to hit on me it’s better I don’t address him…)

nekome: Hey wait it’s me it’s me. Nekome. Won’t you look at me?

saki: Oh, so it was just you Nekome-san. I thought I was being hit on or something, sorry for ignoring you.

nekome: Hmm well, you weren’t too far off the mark I guess.

saki: Huh? …You mean you were hitting on me?

nekome: To an extent. You’re headed to the station right? I’ll escort you.

saki: Eh, you can’t do that.

nekome: It’s fine it’s fine, rather if I can walk beside you for even just 10 minutes I might even pay you.

saki: I don’t need money.

nekome: I’m joking don’t worry, so, can we walk together?

saki: Ok, then, thank you.

nekome: No prob, alright, let’s go—!

-street-

nekome: By the way, are you familiar with the ‘five minute hypothesis’?*

-choice: I know / I don’t - (if you say you know it he just skips the explanation and calls u knowledgeable)

saki: What’s that?

nekome: Uhh let’s see, it’s a philosophical theory that was proposed by a philosopher called Mr what’s his name.

saki: (Mr what’s his name…)

nekome: It’s said the earth was created 4.6 billion years ago, when in actuality it could’ve been created a mere 5 minutes ago. There’s no real way to prove whether that’s possible or impossible, that’s how the theory goes.

saki: How come you brought up this theory?

nekome: Well, I just thought it was interesting. For example, let’s say Starless was built today, but everyone was implanted with a fake memory that it had existed for 10 years. It would be quite shocking, no one would realise it and start celebrating the store’s tenth anniversary. And just like that they’d reminisce about the past, unbothered by how strangely new the wallpaper is.

saki: Uh, umm…

nekome: Oh, sorry sorry. What I wanted to say was, what if right now you and I were kidnapped by aliens, they might implant the memory that we’ve been dating for a whole year!

saki: …What?

nekome: If that were to happen, this irritating distance between us would be erased, would it not?

saki: …Sigh. I thought you had been talking about something more serious.

nekome: Huuh? I was talking very seriously though.

-time pass, outside train station-

nekome: Talking so much in between we’ve already reached the station.

saki: Thanks for walking me all the way here, Nekome-san.

nekome: No problem, thank you too for the enjoyable time. I’ll find something even more interesting to talk about next time, so let’s walk like this again some time.

saki: Ok, sounds good. See you next time.

nekome: Bye~

—end

*from wikipedia- The five-minute hypothesis is a skeptical hypothesis put forth by the philosopher Bertrand Russell, that proposes that the universe sprang into existence five minutes ago from nothing, with human memory and all other signs of history included.

also note for those unaware, the shinju nekome chat cliffhanger was resolved by takami also stepping in out of nowhere, they all parted ways without incident (and here I was thinking nekome was about to memory wipe shinju)

[skiplo-wave]

I don't know if this is true. Take this as a grain of salt. But there is a Bratz book that is suppose to come out next spring that is intended for adults. It is by MGA. It's based off the 1st edition of Bratz dolls when they first came out through before they got sued. It's suppose to tell the true stories of what was happening in the collections if that makes sense. And there's cussing lol.

Part 1: This is what is in the leak: It starts out with Cloe, Sasha, Yasmin and Jade. It's set in the early 2000s and they are almost finished with their sophomore year. They are normal teenage dirt bags doing teenage shenanigans lol. They go to a beach party for spring break (Beach Party Dolls), where there is a bonfire party at the beach and they are drinking beer for the first time. There is a lady named Barbara which I assuming is the Barbie-Karen that snitches on them. They get chased by the police in Cloe's red convertible and was able to get away but unfortunately Dylan didn't. He refused to snitch out the girls. The girls feel guilty and they start seeing stuff on the news about the police chase. The only person they and Dylan told about it was Cameron. Cameron has a older brother that is very into cars and without telling him, they end up paying to have Cloe's car painted blue and get new railings (Flaunt It! Dolls). Cameron paid for it all lol. But also he is in love with Cloe but you gotta have that slow burn. Jade repays Dylan with a date that turns bad lol, because Meygan turns up at the club they are at. She is his girlfriend of 2 weeks. Meygan see's him dancing with Jade. Jade wasn't to bitter because she really didn't want to go out with him (Funk 'N' Glow Dolls). All the girls end up showing up and just dance together lol. They have a girls night out. Dylan goes home sulking. He kinda did it to himself on that one. Now Meygan joins the gang (Xpress It! Dolls) and she introduces them to some cannabis. They get high. Meygan is revealed to be bi-sexual and previously dated a girl that died in a car accident before Dylan. It was super sad. Cloe's parents divorces and there is a huge custody battle between her and her younger sister. Her abusive mom takes them away and she is gone for almost over a year until her father finally got full custody of them. The girls, now junior year and it's prom (Formal Funk), and Cloe makes it back just in time for it except she doesn't have a dress. But her mom's old wedding dress is still in her dad's house. So her and Jade came up with a idea to tweak it. They cut her dress up and dyed it black. (Now I really want the Formal Funk Cloe lol). At prom this is where they are introduced to Dana. She is the new girl, new meat. The boys want her, even Cameron. Cloe's happy triumph moment is shattered when Cameron walks into prom with Dana. Also Koby, another new student, is revealed to be Dana's brother and gay af. (I use to make them as a couple when I was a kid lol). There is a after party where they are all drinking. Eitan and Meygan hooks up. Meygan was not at prom but she was there at the after party. Meygan ends up pregnant and has a abortion which upsets Eitan. They break up. A week later, the girls go out to their favorite club (Funk 'N' Glow 2nd Edition Dolls). It's awkward because Jade invited Dana. Cloe is still upset with Cameron taking Dana to prom. There was a lot of tension in the air as it's described. Cloe starts being a bitch to Dana which it wasn't her fault. She didn't know Cloe liked Cameron. Sasha, Yasmin and Jade gets pissed off with Cloe and how mean she's treating Dana. So Cloe leaves the club early. The girls try to follow her out to get her home so she didn't have to walk in the dark by herself but Cloe refused. Dylan, who is also at the club, offers Cloe a ride and she agreed to go. They end up making out in the car and they almost have sex but then she realized it was wrong. She apologized to Dylan for letting that happen since she really didn't have feelings for him like that. Eventually the girls make up and Cloe apologizes to Dana. Meygan hosts a slumber party with just the OG 4 (Slumber Party Dolls). They are smoking bongs and drinking wine coolers. All is good.

To be continued:

….

Sounds like a creepy pasta

[tempesttragedya]

@helreisa sent ¡! for three plot ideas with Chloe & three with Veronica!!

So for Chloe, I would love to do...

A plot pre-Life is Strange where they go to another concert together (is it a date? Chloe sure doesn't know!), and of course they took Chloe's beat up old truck that is SO not road worthy. So maybe they have car troubles and have to spend the night in a motel somewhere, and shenanigans ensue! They're never coming back there, so what do they have to lose?

Chloe coming to visit Rachel in the hospital. She brings all the comics that she's collected in Rachel's absence so they can sit and read them together, and naturally Hawt Dawg Man is in there.

This is more a concept than an actual plot but just ... the general recovery period I'm p sure Rachel needs after the game, and Chloe tentatively testing where the boundary is even though she wants to just jump right over it.

as for Veronica...

Right off the bat, Stranger Things Verse? Veronica is a community college student, 20 going on 21, and could use some friends as she recovers from Heather shuffling off the mortal coil and copes with the fact that nothing is as it seems...

Back to LiS:BtS, Veronica being friends with Rachel and Heather having NONE of it, so Veronica tries to be lowkey. Heather finds out, goes apeshit, and bans Veronica from the Vortex Club. (bc of course the Heathers are in/leading the Vortex Club in this period, it's my canon, I do what I want.)

This is all before JD even arrives, he shows up like right before Rachel's disappearance (totally sus, the police considered him and he's sketchy af but no leads there) so I'd love to see Rachel reacting to shithead mcgee and Ronnie dating and also pls tell Veronica what a loser he is! (or whatever opinions she has on him)

[shijiujun]

WHY YOU SHOULD WATCH MISS S | 旗袍美探

OKAY FINALLY ANOTHER REPUBLICAN ERA DETECTIVE SHOW THAT LOOKS FUN AF AND HAS ALL THE NICE COSTUMES IN IT!!!

Summary: Su Wenli is a rich af lady that just returned from Paris in the first episode, and she chances upon a mystery immediately at the docks where she meets Luo Qiuheng, the cool-headed, tall, handsome af lead detective at the central police station (there’s a name for this, but I can’t remember). Her inquisitive nature leads her to butt into like the case immediately, and throughout all the cases she and LQH fall in love!!! Despite LQH going like “why is she here again” for the first few episodes.

Subplot: Su Wenli’s younger sister disappeared 20 years ago, and the man suspected of the crime was put in prison but no body was ever found so he’s also trying to appeal to get out after so many years, so I guess they’ll find out what happened to her sister.

Where to watch: NO SUBS - Duboku.co and any other Chinese streaming sites tbh, I’d recommend kankanwu but a user told me it’s a problematic site for them so do proceed with caution as always | SUBS - WeTV I suspect has it because the official platform for the show is Tencent

Broadcast schedule: 34 episodes, APPARENTLY 2 episodes daily from Sundays to Fridays, 1 episode on Saturdays 

Here are the pros of the show:

A+++++ COSTUMES!!! AND SETS! Okay not gonna lie the CGI is a little off at some parts BUT the costumes are frickin lovely. SWL (Miss S) rocks both European-style and Chinese-style outfits, and she has ALL THE HATS, ALL THE DRESSES, and gosh when she’s in the qipao even LQH is like whoa wow what a goddess (not that he says it but he’s a little dazed for a bit) - She has a GORGEOUS BLUE CAPE THAT I WOULD LIKE TO STEAL!!!

The cases aren’t overly complicated and it’s pretty easy to guess who the possible murderers can be, but we’re in this for more than just the cases

GAO WEI GUANG!!! Jfc, my Dijun is back!!!! And he’s got that cool, cold, stoic feel about him BUT he’s totally bribable with delicious sweets!!!

Ma Yili who plays Miss S is gorgeous as well, that short hair cut?!!! That hair pin?!! The way she walks?! The way she talks?! She’s a soft, shameless woman and I LOVE THAT.

GWG and MYL have chemistry in this one.

The camera work is hilarious?!! Usually I hate the cliche romance movements like bridal-style lifting at inopportune times but THIS ONE THE TIMING IS HILARIOUS, SPOT ON, and very romantic

There’s a gay couple in the episode 5 case and they’re being blackmailed but they’re kind of out which is pretty amazing considering the Republican era XD

CHARACTERS!!!

SU WENLI - GORGEOUS, RICH SUGAR MOM (IDEK WHERE HE MONEY COMES FROM IT SEEMS LIKE SHE PRINTS THEM OUT OF THIN AIR)

Honestly, she’s been back a total of like less than a week before she adopts THREE PEOPLE. A servant from the family where the first murder happened at, and two young men who were about to make trouble but were accosted (hired) by her as her chauffeurs. She’s shameless, knows exactly how to pout and bribe to get her way, is sassy and takes no nonsense I LOVE IT and she has LQH wrapped around her finger

Within five episodes she has:

1. Adopted cute little Tao Zi as her assistant who now lives in her luxurious house with her 2. Adopted the two young men as her legit chauffeurs and also informants, giving them A MERCEDES BENZ FOR THEIR GOOD WORK ON THE FIRST CASE 3. LITERALLY ADOPTED a young girl who was a suspect in the second case 4. Moved into a mansion that looks like a frickin palace!!! 5. Kidnapped two suspects from LQH and raced LQH in her brand new sports car back to the city, leaving LQH and his old car in the dust

And look at her gorgeous outfits and hats?!!

AND THIS CAPE?!!!

LUO QIUHENG (Aloof, stoic, rational detective who has a sweet tooth and is obviously not immune to SWL’s charms)

GOSHHHH MY DIJUN!!! I love him in this one too, he’s all “you shouldn’t be here”, “you’re not the only smart one here”, “be good and don’t intervene on the investigation” but then SWL bribes him continuously with sweets and it’s amazing to watch!!! He threatens to arrest her all the time (and she kind of is arrested once) but he always sounds worried about her. Everytime he finds her in trouble he’ll LITERALLY PICK HER UP IN BRIDAL CARRY HAHAHA and he’s half resigned, half exasperated and a whole lot fond of this Miss S I AM TELLING YOU!!!

GWG in a leather jacket is a crime!!!

Him eating something that Wenli gave him:

And his brain cannot fathom her wealth, but I don’t blame him, I can’t fathom her wealth either. This is when he asks the single butler Xiang Shu if it’s tiring for him to clean up such a huge place on his own and he says, “Someone else does the cleaning. Me don’t clean.”

Cue LQH going ????:

Other characters include Tao Zi, SWL’s cute assistant WHO HAS A CRUSH ON LQH’S DEPUTY OFFICER SHEN, and Officer Shen likes her too AND BOTH LQH and SWL try to matchmake them and give them (misplaced) advice

Ahhhh this show is honestly amazing and the humour is right on point!!! I’d watch Gao Weiguang in anything but REPUBLICAN ERA DETECTIVE IN SHANGHAI?! Sign me up!

[atlantis-scribe]

Okay I really do love Atlantis, but the amount that some people woobify Rodney actually drives me crazy. And I actually love Rodney as a character but like my boy's an asshole sometimes!! like he's not a perpetual victim, let him be wrong about stuff and grow and improve as a person!! (also the recurring theme of having random women in his life be abusive for... no textual reason?? is a little sus) like I'm getting to the point where I can hardly (1/2)

(2/2) enjoy hurt/comfort with Rodney bc I'm so wary of this... which just makes me sad 😭 Really sorry for ranting in your inbox you are my fave Atlantis blog and I like your take on Rondey

hello there!

please don’t apologize for ranting. my inbox is always open to rants. they’re encouraged, even! (long as I get to rant back lol)

and my oh my is this one of the topics that also get me going, particularly because 1) Rodney is also my favorite character, 2) I, too, see this woobification tendency, and 3) it’s complicated af & touches on several running themes not just in Stargate but in almost all fandoms.

• the Rodney Woobification is ancient practice. the SGA (specifically McShep) fan community has been around for a while now, and the Stargate fandom as a whole is even the birthplace of many established tropes that people still use to this day (Daniel Whump, anyone?). I understand the appeal. hell, I love angst and hurt & comfort for reasons almost exactly the same as other people who woobify characters love to do their thing. I don’t always comment on it (I don’t wanna be That Dick raining on other people’s parades) because it’s a slippery slope that so often leads to outright gatekeeping. there’s really just a fine line between being critical of fic characterization — being ‘true’ to the source material — and having fun with fannish works (specifically, using art as an outlet to do the most bizarre things polite society would ostracize you for)

• that being said, I am also not a big fan of woobie!Rodney. there’s a reason why I had such a visceral reaction to the Post-Trinity Phenomenon & the Lemon Chicken trope.

you have to understand, I came into the fandom a little over two years ago. about a decade too late, really. all the stories have been written, the takes taken, and the discourse over & done with. it’s pretty lonely, but the fun is in trying to sift thru what the OG fans left behind. so to stumble upon such a treasure trove of fics with the same running theme and have such a fierce ‘Nope!’ reaction was pretty memorable. I love Trinity because the Rodney in that episode was allowed to be his most obnoxious, his most arrogant, his most unlikable, but still remain layered & nuanced & complex, and that’s pretty damn good writing there. I saw the ‘asshole’ label when I bought it, after all. I certainly don’t want it erased or buried under a rug. I want it explored.

• canon writing is a-whole-nother problem altogether. it’s hard to justify exactly what makes Rodney (& Sheppard & Weir & everyone else) genuine or true to form, because —  let’s be honest — SGA is not a prime example of stellar TV writing and/or storytelling. it’s addictive as all hell, but it’s severely flawed, and that includes how it handled consistency in characterization. this brings us back to the dangers of gatekeeping and yelling at other people for how they write (however beloved) ‘public domain’ fictional characters.

• what I want to advocate now in terms of woobie!Rodney is for other fans to maybe examine why they like Rodney. is it because we are all just weak for white, asshole geniuses who are shippable with other white (often same gender, often male) assholes? if that’s the case, and you want to continue making your content, go ahead. it’s frankly a pretty boring reason, but we’re all boring nerds here. some more than others. just, you know, tag properly & don’t be rude to other fans who may have different reasons.

me? I love Rodney because yes, he’s a white asshole genius (that archetype is like crack for real) but portrayed so wonderfully by a very talented actor that it left me with a nuanced character whose gaps I can fill with attributes I want to analyze as a lifelong fan of the human condition who occasionally writes fics for popular media. woobifying him would be a disservice to how I see him & the things I love about him, which would then render me unable to enjoy the Rodney I ‘stan’. that would defeat the entire purpose of why I engage with the fandom, because at the end of the day, I’m here to have fun.

• so no matter how much I (and you as well, I suspect, my dear anon) would want to police this practice, it just isn’t our place. the best (and the right) thing for us to do is curate our fandom experience and create the content we actually want to consume. who knows, we may just convince / inspire enough people so there’d be more of the same kind of things we enjoy out there :)

- kit

[s1utspeare]

@staidwaters asked for Li Cu and “selcouth” (in reference to this post; send me a prompt!), and since someone ELSE requested selcouth for a character I gave you an extra word lmao. THANK U SO MUCH FOR THE PROMPT!!! I LOVE U!

Also I will put these in a whole collection on ao3 at some point lol. 

selcouth—unfamiliar, rare, strange, and yet wonderful hiraeth—a homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home with maybe never was; the nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for the lost places of your past

There’s a time, when he returns, when he realizes he doesn’t know where home is. 

Objectively, of course, he knows where he lives. He knows that there’s an apartment with his father in it and his bed and clothes and things are there, but that’s different. It never quite was a home, but it really isn’t anymore, because it’s just… it’s so small. He’s spent weeks with the stars as his ceiling, even more looking at the same four walls of his room in the Wang compound, so an apartment with beat-up furniture and storage closet that was never used for storing things isn’t that much different from any other apartment he could be in. 

He tries going to Su Wan’s first. Part of him wants to because he missed Su Wan, but it’s mostly because he didn’t know for weeks if his best friend was dead or alive, so when he wakes up in the middle of the night with a short, sharp gasp, all he has to do is listen, and he can hear Su Wan breathing next to him in the bed. Also, Su Wan will cuddle him whether Li Cu wants him to or not, so that’s nice. 

It doesn’t last, though, because every morning he has to go downstairs and say hi to Su Wan’s parents, and Su Wan’s parents tolerate him, but they don’t really like him, and they really don’t like him now, after he filled their garage with packages and dragged Su Wan off into the desert. Also, sometimes he doesn’t want to be cuddled because that’s like arms pinning him to the ground and it takes all his willpower not to punch a sleeping Su Wan in the face, but to instead lie stiff as a board until morning. 

So he packs up his stuff and moves to Hao-ge’s, which is different, but not exactly better. Hao-ge is dealing with his own grief, his own loss, and Li Cu feels in the way of all that fury and rage. He knows, logically, that Hao-ge doesn’t blame him anymore, but he can still see Hao-ge’s face, streaked with tears, his fist pulled back, his voice strangled with anger and pain. Li Cu’s leg throbs. 

He stays for three days, just to be polite. He watches their shop while Hao-ge goes out of town to visit some relatives, to figure out what they’re going to do with his grandmother’s things. He knows Hao-ge is probably going to sell the store. It’s not just because he doesn’t want to run it; he honestly can’t, financially. Hao-ge’s not ready to let it go, quite yet, so when he gets back, Li Cu lets him have the space back, to trace over and memorize the corners of his home before he has to leave, makes a mental note to bring Su Wan over to help him pack, to keep him distracted. He didn’t sleep well at Hao-ge’s anyway, especially when he was gone. It was too quiet then. 

He can’t couch surf, after that. All the rest of his friends are dead. 

He uses some of the stupid money that Wu Xie paid him at the very beginning—and it’s really not even enough, Wu Xie should be putting him through college—to rent a hotel room for a couple nights. That’s nice at first. He has his own space, a big shower, cable tv. But he doesn’t know it, his body can’t relax in an unfamiliar room with big, wide windows and only one lock. He spends two sleepless nights lying on his back, on his side, on his stomach, pacing the carpet. He gives up after night two, when everything’s hazy and dull in the back of his head, and checks out. 

He spends the afternoon wandering around the city, toeing past the restaurants and coffee shops and arcades that he used to hang out in, the soccer fields and schools and parks he passed every day. There’s the manhole cover that broke and the city’s never gotten around to fix it, so there are perpetual orange cones around it in a cult-like circle—no, no, don’t think about cults, cones can’t have cults, it’s just a circle, Li Cu, come on—and there’s the statue of a dog near the center of the park near his house and he likes dogs, even more when they’re—not attacking him, they didn’t attack him, the dust of Wu Xie’s grandfather is ground into your bloodstream—and there’s the library that he and Shen Qiong used to go to for story time when they were really young—and now she’s young forever, a bullet in her brain between her eyes she died angry with you she died alone she died at the hands of her family—and eventually he’s on the soccer field and he’s lying flat on his back in the grass but there’s too much light and he can’t see the stars. 

He can’t see the stars. 

He can’t fall asleep if he can’t see the stars. If he can’t see the stars maybe he’s underground again, maybe—

“Kid, you can’t sleep there.” 

He lifts his head, wearily. It aches, heavy on his neck. It got dark at some point, except not right now, because there’s a police officer shining his flashlight into his eyes, and he squints into it. 

“Come on,” the officer says, “Go home.” 

Li Cu laughs and flops back onto the grass. The police officer mutters something that sounds like a swear word under his breath and comes through the gate, marching over to Li Cu and hauling him, albeit gently, off of the turf. 

“You been drinking?” the officer asks. Li Cu shakes his head. “Can’t smell any on you.” The man scoffs. “Jeez, kid, no offense, but you look terrible.”

Li Cu just blinks at him. He’s really tired, actually. 

The officer sighs. “Come on, I’ll drive you home. You got an ID?” 

Li Cu remembers that his ID is in his wallet which is in the pocket of his backpack and he knows it’s there because he had to use it to pay for the hotel.

 He hands the entire thing to the officer, who sorts through it, glancing at Li Cu every so often in concern, and clicking his tongue contentedly when he finds what he’s looking for. 

“Alright,” he says, “Let’s get you home.”

Li Cu’s glad this officer knows where his home is, because Li Cu has no idea.

Never mind. Li Cu is pretty sure this isn’t his house. 

The police officer rings the doorbell, and unfamiliar chime. A loud, deep voice inside says, “Yeah, yeah, I’m coming!” and then the door is flying open, and a large man with wild hair is staring down at them. 

Li Cu frowns because he has no idea who this guy is. 

The guy seems to know him, though, because he rolls his eyes, turns back into the house and shouts, “TIANZHEN!” 

Li Cu winces, cause his head kind of hurts now, and that was not helpful. 

The man turns back to look at them. “What did he do?” 

“Uh,” the officer says, because he’s shorter than Li Cu, actually, so he must be feeling very intimidated by this large man, “He was sleeping on the soccer field at the high school.” 

The door man snorts. “Of course he was.” He folds his arms, leaning against the doorframe, looks Li Cu over. “Yeah, you look like a mess, Ya Li.” 

“Wha?” Li Cu says, because that’s weird, that this strange giant man with large arms is calling him Ya Li. 

“That’s what Xiao Wan called you, right?” the man asks. “Su Wan? Your best friend?” 

Li Cu gapes. “How do you know Su Wan?” He backs up a step. “Is someone stalking me again?” 

The police officer looks very alarmed at that. “Again?” 

“He’s joking,” the Person-Who-Calls-Him-Ya-Li says, “No one’s stalking him. His friends came to me for help a while back, but he wasn’t with them.” 

The police officer does not seem convinced, but at that moment, a familiar face appears in the doorway behind the Person-Who-Calls-Him-Ya-Li. 

“Wu Xie?” Li Cu asks.  

Wu Xie looks just as surprised as Li Cu is. “What did he do?”

“Nothing,” the officer says, “He was trying to sleep on the soccer field. Which is actually illegal. So I brought him home.” He frowns. “This is his home, right?” 

“I don’t know,” Li Cu says. 

“Yes,” Wu Xie says quickly. “Yes, you brought him to the right place. Sorry, he’s been a little out of it lately. Stress at school, you know. Not sleeping very well.” 

“How’d you know that?” Li Cu asks in surprise, because as far as he can remember, he hasn’t seen Wu Xie since before the Wang compound. There’s a fuzzy memory of an apology, of being carried, but after he’d been thrown out the window, he woke up on a train. 

He glares at the windows to the side of the house. He does not trust them. 

Wu Xie gathers him by the shoulders and pulls him through the doorway. “Thank you, officer. I’ll make sure that it doesn’t happen again.” 

“Okay…” the police officer says. “Um. Get some rest, kid.” 

“Mmm hmm,” Li Cu mumbles, even though he knows that probably won’t happen, and Wu Xie shuts the door. 

“What’s the matter with you?” he asks. “You’re supposed to be at home.” 

“I dunno where it is,” Li Cu says. He yawns, widely. How long has it been since he slept? He has no idea. 

“You don’t know where your house is?” Wu Xie says slowly, like he’s trying to figure something out. He’ll be able to do it. Wu Xie has a Big Brain. 

“My house is where my house is,” Li Cu says vaguely. “I dunno where’s home.” 

Wu Xie goes silent for a moment. “I see.” 

Li Cu blinks himself into less of a stupor, figures out where his hands went (they were on the end of his arms). “I’ll go back there, I guess. Sorry.” 

“No, no, wait,” Wu Xie says, which is funny, because Li Cu hasn’t moved. “It’s late. You’re… really tired. We have a couch.” 

“Good for you,” Li Cu congratulates him. 

Wu Xie closes his eyes for a second, gritting his teeth. “The couch is for you.” 

“You’re giving me a couch?” 

“Oh my god,” Wu Xie says. 

The Person-Who-Calls-Him-Ya-Li laughs. “You sure chose a good one, Tianzhen.” 

“Shut up, Pangzi,” Wu Xie mutters, because apparently he is this Tianzhen person. 

“Make him take a nap for an hour,” Pangzi says, wandering off down the hall. “Then dinner’ll be ready.” 

“We had dinner earlier,” Wu Xie calls after him. 

Pangzi stops, looks at Wu Xie pointedly. “Nope. Dinner. In an hour. So the kid can join us.” 

“Oh,” Wu Xie says. “Oh, right. Yeah. Dinner.” 

Li Cu might puzzle through this if he were more awake, but he’s really not. “What?” 

Wu Xie sighs at him. Li Cu should really stop making him do that. “Alright,” he says, “Come with me.” 

Li Cu dutifully follows Wu Xie down the hallway, because he’s followed Wu Xie into worse places. 

They come out into a wide-open room, full of books and random vases and boxes of papers and bits and bobs. Sure enough, there’s a couch there, and Wu Xie steers Li Cu over to it, pushing against his shoulders gently to make him sit. The couch is pretty soft, a well-worn type of feel to it, like someone has sat here every day for years and years and filled it full of memories. 

“I’m not going to ask if you need to be hom—back at your place, because I really doubt it,” Wu Xie tells him. His voice is coming from below Li Cu’s ears, so Li Cu looks down to see Wu Xie pulling off one of his boots, so Li Cu flops over his knees to pull of the other one, but his fingers get tangled in the laces, and he gives up and lets Wu Xie do it.

Wu Xie sighs at him. He takes Li Cu’s backpack and puts it next to the coffee table, where Li Cu can see it. He appreciates that. It’s good to know where things are. If you know where your things are, you can’t lose them. If you know where snakes are, they can’t bite you. If you know where Wu Xie is, you don’t have to miss him. 

“Lie down,” Wu Xie says softly, and the couch really is comfortable, so Li Cu tentatively pulls his legs up and sets his head down and gazes at the lamp next to an armchair. 

Wu Xie drags the throw blanket from the back of the couch and settles it around Li Cu’s body, which might be a little overkill, because Li Cu isn’t going to be here that long, he’s just going to rest for a moment, and then he’ll leave. Then he’ll get out of Wu Xie’s way. He’ll go back. Just a few minutes. 

Wu Xie straightens up, grunting a little bit, and Li Cu almost says, don’t go, but he bites his tongue.  He can’t ask that much of Wu Xie. Wu Xie’s already giving him a couch. 

But then, Wu Xie doesn’t leave. He goes over to the armchair, picks up the notebook lying tent-style over its arm, flips through it. Someone’s glasses are on the end table, and that someone turns out to be Wu Xie, because they go on his nose as he takes in whatever the journal says, chewing the inside of his cheek absently and tapping a pattern out on his knee. 

Li Cu blinks, slowly. Wu Xie is warm and marvelous, he thinks. He’s fading into a soft glow, backlit by a warm light that reminds Li Cu of something, something good, something he thought he lost, but maybe not. Maybe not. 

He falls asleep and dreams he’s home.

[rens-room]

hypnosis mic thoughts:

I wanted something fun and lighthearted to binge that wasn’t a romance show. don’t judge me. also disclaimer this is just my opinion. 

you cant show the guy with two different colored eyes first. of course he’s gonna be my favorite.

I dont even like rap that much idk why I’m watching this.

it’s like loveless but with rap and idk how to feel about that.

where do these giantass stereo sets come from??

loveless style team battles meets (kpop) idol anime.

ok I love the blue fire and skulls...but the guys with different color eyes had a better sound (in my opinion). 

so far I’ve seen edgy, edgy, and sugar sweet. what’s the last guy gonna be like?

tamaki suoh when did you get green highlights?

so the last group features two tone hair and a doctor! and a host lol. and a brunt out worker which same bro I’m tired too.

ok so the visuals for the last group in the first episode, kinda fire with the giant gold circle stereo and the neon light train. (matenro I think)

i feel so bad for doppo, having extra paperwork and then going hime to find a dead body. 

also the implication that matenro lives together? perfection.

^followup: it’s just the two of them live together, no hot doctor. 

he’s a doctor and a detective on the side and he’s way too old for me. in other words he’s perfect and I’m in love. the long silver hair is actually what I like lmao. 

jk I think doppo is my favorite character so far. too relatable being unremarkable compared to his friends (I too am a brainless water flea)

but his mic is a flip phone so I’m deducting points for that.

claude faustus not only learned to rap but also joined the police. not sure which one of those is a bigger surprise. 

mad trigger crew more like adult, edgy, rappers gokudera and colonello from katekyo hitman reborn. 

I like the visual aesthetic of two out of three members of mad trigger crew, but sound wise, they are not my favorite group. 

so to summarize the groups, theres the punk teenagers who are brothers, the young adults with wildly different aesthetics, the adults with weird jobs who are edgy and like skulls, and the less edgy adults with real jobs and two toned hair. 

I can’t believe the halloween episode was released on halloween. wow I am just so surprised. (this is sarcasm) 

worst way to die: trampled by fangirls. 

I feel like this was just an excuse to make pretty boys with 10 different aesthetics (the buster bros all kinda share the same one). 

YOU CAN’T JUST BORROW LIQUID NITROGEN!! and now you really can’t return it!

I really thought doppo made a friend/that guy had a crush but no he was just using his coworker to commit crime. 

should he really have police equipment backstage? anyone can hear that radio buddy. 

you dress like a million dollars, how are you just a police officer?? like the red gloves? the gold accessories? how do you look so sharp? 

do you think that as a cop...it’s a little sus that your best friend is yakuza? 

half of this show is detective work. which is fine, but not what I was expecting. 

also what is going on with the wack politics/government situation?? the whole concept of rap battles for conflict resolution could have been introduced in any number of ways including “welcome this this fictional universe where rap battles are used to decide conflicts” instead of all this weird government stuff. because the government is shady af and I really don’t care for the political subplot. 

kinda want buster bros or matenro to win. 

over half way through (episode 9) and we finally get to just the straight rap battles I was expecting. 

why is there so much tension/unresolved conflict between these four?? watch it all just be a misunderstanding. 

never trust a pink haired bitch. 

please stop abusing the doctor, he has the most important job out of all of you. 

samatoki has both the looks and the voice for rap though. not to mention the blue fire and skulls. overall I really like his aesthetic. 

like all spicy tournament anime, you can’t forget about the extra battle the audience totally isn’t expecting. 

double damage for excessive english lyrics lol. 

overall thoughts: very entertaining. and probably the show that I learned the least names after 13 episodes. no really, I remember Minimal names. I did not like the slowness between the first episode and the rap battles or the evil government plot line. 

[chococrab]

tekken characters being hoasts of chilean programs because im bored af

idk what im doing

Julia - Lugares que hablan

lugares que hablan is a tv show that is about knowing and enjoing the different part of the country by their nature and culture, i was fighting over put jun or julia but i think julia get this nature vibe so much more,,,a lot actually, is lit pacho saavedra maybe she laughts the same who knows, she would be a great hoast tbh would watch it 8/10

Law - Pesadilla en la cocina

show bout helping restaurants that are like bad ya know, he have a restaurant and loves it, even tho hes well,,,broke so he feel it, he have the feels in there to help, but he can be rude, really rude, when bad food is incoming, would be funky to see him getting angry 7/10

Lei - Alerta maxima

is a show bout polices getting delicuents, have to say more? like cmon lei is a police retired or not it works good, would be really dramatic but have some funnh moments with weird calls to the cops, i love this show and with lei more 9/10

Anna - Manos al fuego

stuff where people participate for money by putting their partners in a test of fidelity, lots of tears, lots of drama, something that anna would love to hoast and be involved in see that kiki, is fucking funny this but kinda cringe because people are stupid 6/10

Paul - La Vega

ninis go to the center of work that is la vega to,,,work, a place that open at 2 in the morning and ends at 1 pm where people sells a lot of like supplements for ya food, paul would actually make it better because he is more intense and he always say "no pain, no gain" he would make the contestans really feel that like suportive energy and maybe hate him because they are ninis and lazy af, i fucking love the participant suffer because mostly they are idiots 9/10

Lee - Espias del amor

this one is bout find the people lovers that meet on internet, I PUT LILI BUT ACTUALLY LEE IS BETTER, he would work hard in that these people find the love but most of the time failing probably, hes doing his best in make the person feel better tho, he have hoast energy alredy so ye, is kinda funny but not the best show imo 5/10

Claudio - Psíquicos

here is like a reality show bout people with supposed paranormal powers competing, man im- idk how to start is just funny af, claudio is a person with these powers so i see him in there evaluating with lots of care everything from this persons, is funny af idk if is the best but is funky 6/10

Asuka - 21 Dias

show where the host experiment for 21 days the lives or experience of other persons life, like 21 days homeless or 21 smoking weed, i didnt knew who put who could be experiment or wild but cares and is interested by persons life, was thinking bout hwoarang but it wasnt the right vibe, asuka would really put herself into that experiences just to like know what they are passing, she can be stubborn but really cares and probably wanna inform so yeah, dramatic and touching and funny sometimes 7/10

Sergei - En su propia trampa

ngl this is kinda of a bias, en su propia trampa is bout catching shitty people like thiefs, scammers and much worse things in their own traps and methods to fuck people up, i was thinking in leroy or feng for a moment but i think sergei have that vibe of wanting to give justice also by the fact that the hoast of the show is like fucking voldemort, you name him and all are like scared, sergei gives me that vibe too, also he can be funny in some moments so is really cool, fucking love this show 9/10

Zafina - El dia menos pensado

here is more dramatic since are irl paranormal histories apparently, zafina have a more serious and misterious aura and it looks shes into some of that magic with weird arm, i would love hear her voice narrates the histories like oh good, kinda spooky and really dramatic 8/10

Bryan - Mea culpa

is a show to tell the most shocking murders of the country with also some interviews to the victim and homocide, i dont like bryan a lot but if he acted in a serious normal template telling the history it would be so cool and would be a great show, more when bryan was probably into that things since hes a chaotic bitch 9/10

Fahkumram - Nadie esta libre

show where rebels goes to jail to know the lesson of what their action can end in, i see him doing that show specially to show them that jail is no fun, he have the experience and teach them change before they experience something worse, good show, like la vega but we see idiots suffer more, we love it 8/10

thats all bye

[penstrokes]

TFATWS Episode 6 Thoughts

More like CAATWS

Spoilers below:

- It'll be weird not hearing the Marvel fanfare for a while

- The police officers addressing Bucky as Sergeant Barnes is so nice

- "Sharon there?" "Unfortunately" ASKHDKEKD

- also return of the nano masks!!!

- "I hear pardons are not all they're chalked up to be." "Depends on the therapist" hahahaha

- SUIT, WINGS AND SHIELD

- "You're gonna remember all the ones you killed" oof

- Sam speaking French to Batroc just like Steve

- THE CAPTIONS CALL HIM CAPTAIN AMERICA

- The new wings are so slickkkk

- "Give him someone to rescue" yikes Karli knows them too well

- Bucky getting thanked awww, bet he isn't used to that

- (Sharon is soooo sooo sus)

- Lmaooo the app

- Walker and Bucky working together is weird af????

- Sam's whole speech :)

- Zemo's butler may be 1000 years old but he still ruthless af

- I did not expect another Val appearance! She's still so funny

- US agent!!!!

- "Come in before someone calls the cops" XDDDD

- Sebastian Stan's acting, when he is trying not to cry while he admits he was the winter soldier, give him an Emmy already

- Bucky playing with Sam's nephews !!! Bucky smiling!!! Sam and Sarah being happy!!! My heart

- CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE WINTER SOLDIER

- The parallel between the post credit scene and Walker's scene in court

- Sharon faking those tears ahahaha she about to be such a good villain

So was Sharon always the Powerbroker (even from before the blip) or did she like kill the previous one and usurp their position? Does Zemo know this?

Also US border security literally sucks? I mean I guess post-blip everything is still a mess but not only did all the flag-smashers get into the US but Sharon too? Like????

[theglasscat]

Dark Crytal/Age of Resistance Human/High School AU

HEAR ME OUT Thorn Hill Ridge Academy (THRA) 

PTA moms:

Mayrin Vapra (PTA head, connections to the School Board)

Fara Stonewood

Argot Grot (Deet’s grandma)

Laesid Drenchen (a doctor)

Mera Spriton (Kylan’s aunt)

Seethi Dousan

Ethri Sifa (teen mom who thinks she needs to go to these meetings as she’s a parent now)

Ordon is a cop doing a teen outreach program or a school security guard, haven’t decided which The kids:

The Vapra Sisters: 

Seladon- Prep, senior, class president, debate team, preparing to be valedictorian, secretly enjoys metal

Tavra- Prep/jock, junior, on several sports teams, skater by day but still gets top grades, has a secret girlfriend, hangs out with different kids at school than her home life suggests

Brea- Prep/nerd, freshman, excited to be at school and spend her time reading books her reading level, makes friends with the librarian.

Ordon’s Son:

Rian- Oldest of three. Jock. Junior. On several sports teams.  Expected to go into army after and then be a cop like his father. Would rather just make out with people and go to college. Goes out with Mira when she’s not going out with Gurjin. Best friend is Gurjin.  They are NOT gay, they only kissed two times and he’s only touched his dick once!  They’re just really close friends man! Probably the best friends in the whole world, man! It’s not wrong to love your best friend!

Mira- Jock. Junior. On several sports teams.  Slacks at school but it’s fine cause she’s going to join the army anyway.  Family has higher expectations of her.  Can’t decide if she should go out with Rian or Gurjin and the social drama she brings so she can date both (but never at the same time that would be, like, mean) is legendary.

The Drenchen Siblings:

Naia- Junior. Jock. On the swim team. Parents want her to go to medical school, twin sister to Gurjin. Best friends since elementary with Kylan.

Gurjin- Junior. Jock. On all the sports teams as Rian. Parents want him to attend police academy after graduation and he is considering it but he might want to go to college too. Goes out with Mira when Rian isn’t. Best bros with Rian and bro it’s not gay to cherish your best friend and think he’s hot and kiss him when you’re alone right? They’re just bros.

Two younger sisters in middle school.

The Sifa Family is a large family with lots of cousins and second cousins and siblings.  They include:

Onica- Junior. Tavra’s secret girlfriend. Skater. Sometimes stoner. Likes to read tarot cards and palms. Witch-core af.

Tae- Junior. Jock. Onica’s best friend. On same sports teams as Tavra. Believes in Onica’s prophecies.

Ethri- Senior. Had a baby with Staya and now she’s a parent? Which is why she’s too busy for school work so why don’t teachers understand that? And isn’t the PTA supposed to be like, so Parents and Teachers can talk to each other? Not like, these weird conversations with these judgy moms?

Staya- Unrelated but Ethri’s baby daddy. 18 year old drop out who has a van.

Freshly transferred to the school is:

Deet- Sophmore.  Homeschooled/”Unschooled” by her two dads on a farm on edge of town until recently.  Very bright so it wasn’t just her Grandma being a teacher and on the PTA that got her in.  Would love to make some new friends because she really likes talking to people, but doesn’t get why everyone needs to split up into cliques and be so mean to one another.  Makes friends with the janitor.

There is also: 

Kylan: Junior. Band geek. Naia’s best friend since elementary school.  Really into comic books and drawing potential covers for his potential folk metal band’s first album, that is if he can gather enough people who know what folk metal is first.

Amri: Junior. Not trying to be in any clique.  Deet’s cousin. Wants to be a doctor like Naia but a homeopathic one and because of this they butt heads in science class a lot.

Staff

Principal: Aughra

At least one of the teachers is: Argot

Teachers: Mystics (Mr. Su, Mr. Sol Mr. Swim Coach San, Archery Coach Va, etc.)

The janitor: Hup  

School Board Committee:

The Skeksis: Seemingly ancient and wealthy patrons of the school but are *record scratch* still aliens. Still sucking the souls out of teens. One day Rian is skipping practice to makeout with MIra but she’s not there to meet him at their usual spot and when he sees her going somewhere else he follows her to the detention room, which is fair enough, she probably just didn’t have the chance to tell him she had detention, until he peeks through the window (you know the sort with criss cross over the glass) and sees the members of the board sucking out Mira’s soul. Now it’s up to Rian to convince his fellow students and their parents to what the board is up to.  But with everyone separated into different cliques and family ties, how will they ever unite to save themselves and their school?

The Garthim: Security guards approved by the board to quell the rumors that are spreading around the school.  Actually robots.

Years later:

Jen is a teenager living on the edge of a big empty town.  One day he finds out his math tutor being put into an ambulance and on his dying breath tells Jen to go to Aughra and get the key to the old abandoned high school to save the world.  Aughra gives him the key and Jen goes poking around the abandoned high school.

There he meets Kira, a girl his age, and her dog, Fizzgizz who explore the building with him.  Together they escape the clutches of the barely hanging in there school board and their still operating robot security guards.  The key Aughra gave Jen was also the key to the spaceship that is also the central campus building.  The remaining Mystic teachers and their school board counterparts fuse and thank Jen and Kira for helping them and then activate their spaceship home.  Jen and Kira run out of the campus and watch the school blast off into space from the overgrown football field.

Roll credits

[yasminsqueendom]

Antique the Vamp Geek Pt 1 Ep2

CWs: Violence, death, blood consumption (again obvs), gov’t being assholes

A/N: More fucked up shit happening in the world. I promise it gets better. Please don’t just me harshly.

W/C: 1101 (another shortie)

Hey guys. It's Tique again bringing my fellow baby vamps updates on our….situation?...as I get them. So here's the news: by official federal gov't proclamation private institutions and corporations are now allowed to screen their members/students/employees etc. for the sanguinilis virus (aka vampirism). Related articles can be found on the station’s website.

What does this mean exactly?

Well, it isn't clear yet. Screening people for a medical status to determine employment or acceptance into an institution has, until now, been very much illegal. 

One thing can be certain….it isn't just people with vampirism that are gonna get hurt by this. There are a lot of folks with medical conditions that, if disclosed, might face difficulties with seeking employment or even receiving benefits. 

Let me give y’all some background. How did we get to this point?

So, as I’m sure many of you know, about 2 and a half years ago there was this video floating around of a homeless person being harassed by a group of asshole high schoolers. It was broad daylight and the man was wrapped  head to toe in worn out dark clothes. They ripped his clothing and saw that his skin was burning underneath. He tried to run, but the kids chased him down. They continued to rip his clothing and laughed while he cried from the pain of his flesh burning in the sunlight. 

Up to this point, this video is just a sick video of some fucked up bullies doing things that people have been doing since the beginning of time. Badass kids and helpless people are neither new, or particularly shocking. What happens next is what kicked off a bunch of shit that never had to be….

This old man, he got pissed. He popped off and bit those kids. Knick-knack patty wack, social media sucks. Now all of y’all know what’s up!

Excuse my morbid humor.

Anyways, he didn’t kill them…..intentionally. One of them managed to dial 911, but all the operator heard was the screaming. Yeah, that video haunted people’s nightmares for a long time. The kids were taken away in an ambulance, but the homeless man was gone by the time help arrived. All the kids were dead within 48 hours of being bitten. 

Now, this may seem like random info, especially since the assumption was made that the cause of death was severe infection of their wounds. In another decade, this incident would have made local news, or maybe even a nightly news mention. INSERT THE AGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA! 

Suddenly, everyone everywhere can see this incident. And people started talking. Particularly, baby vamps. There was this outcry of help among the newly infected, who had experienced similar acts of violence, but survived. They needed to talk to someone, anyone, about what had happened to them. Groups and forums were formed online. And then, someone decided to prey on that need. 

With the rise of “vamp” culture on social media platforms, there was an equally overwhelming uptick of religious push back. There were groups whose entire purpose was to condemn “vamp culture.” 

Then, there was the blacklight party a year or so later where it was planned that the club lights would go out and UV lights would turn on at midnight to bring in the new year. None of the guests had been notified, and it wasn't on the event page either. Three vamps began to burn under the lights. Several people were recording for their social media, and that sparked a whole new wave of outrage. Two of the vamps were beaten to death and left unattended for hours until the party was over and police arrived. The other managed to escape.

People still weren't totally convinced by this either. However, again, in the age of social media things come around repeatedly. It's almost impossible to forget an event with yearly reminders of all the places you've been and all the things you've seen. 

Lastly, the event that put the icing on the muthafuckin cake. A video surfaces of a man and a passed out drunk girl. Now, everyone assumes that he is going to assault her sexually. But what he does next is just as bad, as far as I'm concerned. He flashes his fangs and bites her on the wrist. She squirms a little, but otherwise doesn't react. He licks the open wound on her wrist, spitting on it and rubbing it in. Anyone who knows what it's like, is well aware of what he is doing. He is not starving,or he would have been actually sucking her blood. He just bit her to infect her. He's a fucking troll.

Naturally, the video goes viral, and everything is just fucked up. He leaves the unknown girl outside of a clinic. They pick her up and she immediately starts displaying similar symptoms to the boys from the year before. She survives, but she can't go outside when they release her the next day. Her blood tests are showing weird results and her wrist has already completely healed. 

Things only get more complicated from there. Words like “zombie” and “undead” floated around for a long time. The poor girl was taken away to a “medical” facility. Her family was never allowed to see her again. They are still in the process of suing for her sudden disappearance. The state they live in has been pussyfooting around with handling her case. I pray they get some closure in that situation. 

This whole thing is a shit storm. 

I'm so sorry fellow baby vamps. We came into the game at a bad time. 

I just think about people predisposed to certain hereditary conditions, or have family history of certain illnesses that may be overlooked because of a stupid blood test. Because of stupid people!

Im so fucking mad rn I can't see straight. And guess the fuck what? I'm thirsty af and my plug is not answering my calls and I'm scared because I've heard rumors about what happens when vamps go without blood for too long. And I'm so scared. I'm scared as hell so like if you know anybody that can help please share that info to help out other baby vamps. We really need that shit.

Umm

So I guess I could open the floor to my listeners..what do y'all think? What do you want to know. I'll try my best to answer. Send all your questions to the email listed on the station website. 

Ancestors bless y'all.

I just can't tonight.

Love Tique