#ty deej :^)

[cyberaxolotl]

Tricks Over Treats

two versions woo hee

and then the writing piece to go along with it

“An Alternate Desire”

For an all popular DJ, he had a lot more to know about him than what was known to the public, some of which stayed shrouded in mystery to even his boyfriend and closest friends. One of the things he did make very clear to anyone who saw him around that time of year was that he was a HUGE fan of Halloween. Spooky jack-o-lanterns, sweets, costumes, he still thoroughly enjoyed it, even as an adult. He loved remixing classic Halloween tunes to add a more techno vibe to them, and that wasn’t going to change any time soon. And finally, he loved the scares; he was willing to be a bit sick around that time of year with his jokes, as anything scary was widely accepted and usually expected.

Especially not now, when there’s a Halloween party for all the musicians in Rhythm Heaven to attend, as well as any plus 1’s they might wish to have with them. Hosted by the rap men (obviously) and having as many different types of music as you could think of playing one after the other in the main hall, it was going to be a great party to have a good laugh. And for everyone to see any friends they had made since the Battle Of The Bands.

DJ Yellow, of course, had Blue with him. While his boyfriend wasn’t the biggest fan of that scary time of year, he still enjoyed talking to some of the others and seeing them all happy.

“I need to put my costume on in the car, but I’ll be inside in just a moment!” DJ Yellow said, nudging his partner while they were in the entrance hall.

“…Why didn’t you just put it on while we were at the apartment?” Blue asked, turning around. His costume itself was rather plain, he was just dressed as a vampire with a little bit of fake blood on his chin, but he was perfectly happy with that. It was one of the few times of year when he’d go out with his dreadlocks down, too.

“Cause! I wanted it to be a surprise for you too!” Deej gave a quick finger gun, before slipping out the door. His boyfriend sighed, feeling only mildly inconvenienced that he’d need to be alone at a party for a few minutes, and moreover very anxious. He never was one for direct social interaction.

As he walked into the main hall, he was immediately addressed. “Heeey, Blue!” A happy sounding, higher pitched voice called out to him, and he immediately knew who it was. “Where’s Yellow?” B.B. Rocker asked him, standing shorter than him and only around his chest height.

“Yellow’s in the car putting his costume on. Chances are, he just forgot to put it on at home.” He replied, looking down at his friend. They wore a costume that was… on the stranger side, but not out of character for them. It was an orange-white tabby cat suit with a denim dress put on over it, a pair of matching cat ears sitting in their ginger hair. They looked rather cute, if Blue’s bisexual ass could say so himself.

“Ah, so did J.J. He’s getting changed in the bathroom.” They turned away, looking down another hallway in the back of that room.

Blue sighed. “Oh boy…”

“What?”

“J.J.’s here, Yellow’s gonna be here soon. Chances are sometime in the night that is not going to end well.” He folded his arms, glancing away. There were certainly a lot of people there, like MC Adore and her love posse all in matching costumes, the Pop Singer Yui in a cutesy zombie outfit, and apparently even the rap women had managed to slip in, as Rosebud and Sapphie were happily talking to a trio of ghosts. What stood out to him, though, was the fact that the rap men were nowhere to be seen. If they were hosting that gig, they should’ve either been in the entrance hall greeting people, or in the main hall talking.

“Oh, you’re right. Guess we’ll just have to hope they don’t directly cross paths and say something shitty to each other, huh?” B.B. sighed as well, holding the back of their neck.

“You know it’s more likely for J.J. to say something shitty than for Yellow to. Yellow’s not an asshole, he’s just a…” Blue went quiet as he lost his words.

“…A snarky asshole?”

“That.” He motioned in confirmation to them. He looked back over at the rap women, noticing that the Big Rock Finish ghosts were leaving. “I’m gonna go ask the rap women where their brothers are, if Yellow comes in, tell him I’ll be right back.”

“Alrighty!” With that, he walked away, leaving B.B. by the entrance.

As he got closer to the snack table, he was able to tell what Rosebud and Sapphie were wearing as costumes. They were matching, as expected from the two of them, and had gone for a western theme. Rosebud was dressed as a saloon dancer, a crimson skirt falling to the back of her ankles and a corset tied around her waist. It also seemed that she had taken the opportunity to wear something only a bit more revealing than her usual outfits. Sapphie was dressed as a cowgirl, hiding her eyes in the shadow of a ten gallon hat, and wearing open bottom pants. The two certainly matched, but had their own ways of doing it, the mutual color palette between their costumes tying it together.

“Excuse me, girls?” He asked, and the two turned over to face him.

“Oh, hi Blue.” Sapphie humbly waved at him, smiling. “Do you need something?”

“I don’t, but I want to ask- where are your brothers?” The two ladies' expressions tensed.

“Jasper and Goldie? Uh…” Rosebud’s eyebrows furrowed. “…I don’t know, actually. Sapphire?” She looked up at her girlfriend.

The taller woman shrugged. “I haven’t seen either of them since they left the recording studio, but they’re probably somewhere around here. Sorry, Blue.”

“Hm.” Blue looked skeptical, glancing behind him. “Alright then. I need to go back to B.B., you two have fun.” He turned around, his dreadlocks nearly whipping him in the face.

“Bye-bye!” Rosebud said as he walked away.

When he got back over to his rock student friend, they looked confused. “Is something wrong, B.B?” He asked, and they turned to him.

“No, no, nothing. Just… JJ is taking an awful long while to put his costume on. He went in just before you arrived.” They put a hand behind their head, “We’re supposed to be a cat and a dog, so he might be struggling with the suit or something.”

“Now that you mention it, if Yellow is taking this long to put it on, then he really should’ve put it on at the apartment-“

As if on cue, the door opened, and DJ Yellow slid in overdramatically. Since nobody noticed him except BB and Blue, he got up in one quick motion, turning over to them. “Hey guys!” He said happily, walking over. His costume was made of… really dark colors, something completely out of character for him. It was all black with a dark red cape that made his neck completely covered, looking completely out of place while paired with his unaltered hair and headphones. For reasons neither of them could decipher, he also carried a lit jack-o-lantern.

“Hey Yellow..?” BB raised an eyebrow, giving a short wave.

“…” Blue spent several seconds trying to decipher what his lover was wearing, before sighing. “Yellow, what are you supposed to be?”

The DJ walked over and leaned against his taller counterpart’s arm as though he was trying to lean against his shoulder but was just too short to do so. “A surprise.”

“That’s what you said when you were putting ON the costume.” The sarcastic remark made Yellow chuckle.

“Yes, but what I’m gonna do in this costume is also a surprise.”

“Just tell us what the costume is, Deej!” The rockstar leaned in, and mysterious refusal after cryptic refusal soon descended into laughter and casual conversation. It was rare for Yellow to oblige to interact with BB, but Blue was glad that they could get along on a night like that.

But… he still couldn’t downplay it.

Something was wrong.

Or off.

Yellow didn’t sound like himself, nor did his mouth follow his words. His mouth had a delay compared to his words, as though his head and his voice box were working as two separate parts rather than as the same body. His voice sounded less like his smug and casual self was talking and more like some kind of modulation, as though a robot with his voice was reading from a script and trying to sound like a person.

Blue chalked it up to one of two things. One idea was that the tragedy striking Heaven World had hailed itself down to Earth World and struck the man right before him- they were called Alternates, and they took the places of people, making themselves look completely like them- except they had the ability to do things that were biologically impossible, like rip their head off and live, or be engulfed in flames and come out without a scar. Both of those things were examples that Heaven World had given out across the entire land, as they were things they had tried to do to kill Alternates. So far, though, the only way discovered to kill an Alternate was to stab it in the third eye, which appeared somewhere on the body and was usually a spot like the arm, neck, or leg.

What Alternates did with people was unknown, but all that was figured out was the disappearances of many, many real people, and the replacement and spreading of fake versions.

DJ Yellow was either an alternate… or pulling a sick joke and pretending to be one. It wasn’t far fetched to expect him to pull a downright awful joke like that at a Halloween party, so Blue shrugged it off like nothing, knowing that he was probably the only one at that party who paid attention to news from Heaven World. Considering that the DJ hadn’t started acting weird like that until they HAD reached the party, it seemed more logical than just immediately assuming the person before him was fake.

A few hours passed. Music played, fatty and sweet food was eaten, and musicians and their plus 1’s spoke to one another. Only a few minutes after their conversation had happened, the rap men entered the main hall from the back, dressed in matching costumes that looked like zombies. It depended on the person whether or not watching them question how the fuck their sisters had gotten in was entertaining or not, but the girls weren’t kicked out either way.

Everything seemed to be pulling together finely, until…

JJ and Yellow hadn’t seen each other at all that night, until at one point, the DJ was asked to get an alcoholic drink from the kitchen. The alcohol wasn’t out freely at the snack tables, just to make sure nobody accidentally drank liquor or beer over dyed punch, so people would usually ask their partner to get a drink for them from the back.

JJ was returning from the back hall just as Yellow was descending down it, and it seemed the rockstar couldn’t resist a small remark. “And what are you supposed to be?” He said as the two were about to cross paths.

DJ Yellow stopped in his place, a cocky smirk on his face. “The headless horseman, obviously.” He held up the jack-o-lantern, holding it in front of his head.

“You have a head, DJ.” The other musician glared, raising an eyebrow.

There was a sudden tension in the air as the two realized they were alone in that hallway, and the door to the main hall was completely shut. “You think so?” Yellow turned his head and raised an eyebrow. Before JJ could even say anything-

He thrust the jack-o-lantern backwards.

It slammed into his head and he fell backwards, the lit candle squishing against his face and setting his hair on fire, hot wax falling onto his skin. JJ was stunned silent as he watched DJ Yellow’s body stand up without his head, leaving the smoldering wax and flesh on the floor. “Isn’t this a funny costume, JJ?” All of the remnants of his original voice were replaced by the whispering, fake voice of an alternate person.

“Wh- wha- what the fuck-?!” The rockstar couldn’t scream, he could only let out hushed curses. What he saw didn’t feel real in the slightest. As the other man stood up, he could see that the place where his head and his neck had separated held no arteries or bones, but only one bloodshot yellow eye. Blood leaked down his neck as his head smoldered in flames, melting as though it in itself was made of wax.

DJ Yellow stood back up. He turned around and picked up the pile of wax, human flesh, and pumpkin flesh, shaping it back together with his hands. “The look on your face- I don’t think I’ve ever been more entertained!” He laughed, “You’d never believe how long I’ve been waiting to pull that trick. I love being in the body of someone who finds jokes funny!” With that, he put his head back on his neck, tying his cape carefully so that the blood of his neck was veiled.

He walked right up to the rockstar’s face, leaning close.

“Be lucky this isn’t Heaven World.”

so yeah there’s your “yellow becomes a fucking cryptid” writing piece lmao

[bqstqnbruin]

Family Dinner and Paranoia

Here’s the original request!

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Every once in a while, you and the rest of your friend group tried to get together and have a family dinner and catch up. It was usually a whole thing; everyone would bring something, which means you would have at least three different pasta dishes, two salads, maybe some sort of protein, plenty of alcohol, and one plate of cookies. The family dinner went into the next morning since everyone would stay over the house of whoever hosted, and go to the diner in town for breakfast. After that, you would part ways, text in the massive group chat that contained the seven of you, and do the same thing next time all of you had a free night and next morning.

The hardest person to get was Tyson. Him being in the NHL meant he constantly had morning practice, afternoon games, or night travel somewhere in the country. His was the schedule “Family Dinner” revolved around. 

This one was at your house, which thankfully, meant you could sleep in your own bed.

“Ty, what are you doing?” Emily calls to him from across the kitchen, breaking the conversation she was having with you and DJ. You look over to him to see him staring at the kinds of pasta sitting on the counter. 

He turns to you, his face scrunched in frustration, “I don’t know what pasta to eat.’

You burst out laughing, “I got this,” you tell them, going over to him. You turn him around back to facing the pasta, “Ok, we have three kinds: this one is a pasta salad with cherry tomatoes, mozzarella cheese balls, and Italian dressing; this one is some sort of pasta bolognese made by DJ so I’m not sure I would trust it; then this one looks like...” You take a spoon full and hold it between your faces, “This looks like some sort store-bought mac and cheese that’s been sitting on the counter since everyone got here an hour ago.”

“Which one did you make?” Tyson asks, smirking, clearly trying to hide the laughter knowing you just roasted DJ and Emily’s dishes with them standing maybe ten feet away.

“The pasta salad.” 

“That’s all I needed to know.” He laughs, taking a spoonful of pasta. “Do you still have my stuff from last time?”

Last family dinner was at Kyle’s house. Tyson had to leave early because of a roadie he and the team were taking and he ended up leaving his pajamas there. Since your place was next, you took them. “Yeah, they’re in my room, I figured when we all decided to get ready to go to bed I would give them to you.” 

“Sounds good,” he says, winking at you. He goes in the living room to talk to everyone else, leaving you with DJ and Emily. 

“When are you guys going to fuck?” DJ pretty much screams, taking some of his pasta.

“Deej, Jesus,” Emily scolds him, “But seriously you two are going to get together at some point, right?”

“What are you talking about?” Tyson was one of your best friends. In the friend group, you were closest to him; he knew everything about you and you knew everything about him.

“You two were literally just flirting,” Emily says, bluntly. 

“No?”

“Yeah? You guys clearly are in love with each other.”

“Again. No.” You start to walk away from them to head into the living room with everyone else.

“You’re actually oblivious,” DJ says, him and Emily following you. 

“Y/N, come join me!” Tyson calls, patting the seat on the couch next to him. Ignoring DJ and Emily, you take the seat as they gawk and sit down on the floor next to you, “We’re going to play Paranoia.”

“What’s that?” Carter asks.

“You whisper a question in the ear of the person next to you, and they have to answer by telling the group the name of someone in the room. Then we flip a coin, the person who answered calls heads or tails. If it lands on what the call, then we don’t get to know the question asked. If it doesn’t, they have to reveal the question.” you explain. You had played it a couple of times in the past, and honestly, the name fits

“So like, I could ask Cammie who’s the most oblivious and she could say Y/N?” Emily asks, DJ choking on his food. You roll your eyes, “Like, yeah, but rude.” 

“Alright, so we’ll go clockwise? We’ll start with Carter, asking Kyle, then go to Cammie, Emily, DJ, Y/N, me, then Ana.”

Carter starts and whispers a question in Kyle’s ear. “Ana.” Carter flips the coin as Kyle calls, “Heads,” only to have the coin land on tails.

“What’d Car ask you?” I say, smiling as Kyle turns bright red.

“Who’s most likely to get lost in the city they’ve been to a hundred times?” 

“Hey!” Ana yells, throwing lettuce at him. 

You and Tyson crack up, knowing that everyone would eventually get a little mad at each other for something. The game could be cruel: you could be asked about anything and have to reveal it. At a party, someone once asked a guy who they’d take to bed, for him to answer with a name that wasn’t his girlfriend, who was right next to him. Brutal.

Tyson at one point steps away to get more drinks for everyone, slowly getting everyone more and more tipsy so that the answers wouldn’t upset everyone. 

So much was revealed; Carter said that DJ would be the one to drink the most, Emily said she thought Tyson would be the parent friend if one of you got too drunk to take care of ourselves, Ana admitted that if she had to kiss someone of the same sex, it would be you. 

“Flattering, Ana, but I have to pass,” you say, laughing.

“I think my boyfriend would want me to pass, too.” 

So much wasn’t revealed, too, like Cammie answered you and Tyson for one of the questions, Kyle gave your name a couple of times. Not knowing was also nerve-wracking.

By the sixth round, no one wanted to stop playing or drinking. You were already a few drinks in and were more than tipsy at that point.

DJ whispered to you, “If you could sleep with anyone in the room, who would it be?”

Without even thinking, you say, “Easy, Tyson.” 

“I knew it!” DJ yells. 

“Flip the coin.” You say, rolling your eyes, “Tails.” You never wanted the coin to be tails more in your life.

“Dammit. It’s tails.” You release the breath you didn’t realize you were holding.

“Alright, Y/N, ask Ty something.” Emily eggs on. She and DJ want nothing more than for you to admit you have feelings for each other. Which you don’t. But then why did you say his name?

“If you could sleep with anyone in the room, who would it be?” You hear yourself asking Tyson. 

His eyes grow wide like he doesn’t know what to say. “Fuck,” he whispers, just loud enough for you to hear. “Y/N.” he says, looking at you. 

You don’t even flip the coin before running to your room and shutting the door. You don’t need everyone to know that you just admitted the two of you would sleep with each other. Even though no one besides Kyle knows you admitted that. And it was a fifty-fifty chance that everyone would find out what you asked him. 

“Y/N?” You hear Tyson on the other side of your door. He doesn’t wait to respond before coming into your room. “Can we talk about that?”

“It was just about people in the room.” You blurt out, “Would I really sleep with Deej, Ky or Car?” 

“That’s why you said my name? Did you ask me the same thing DJ asked you?”

Fuck. You forgot he didn’t know the question. Blame it on the alcohol, blame it on DJ and Emily, blame it on anything. “Yeah.” You can’t make eye contact with him, but you know he’s walking closer to you, “Emily and DJ got in my head about how we’re, like, in love with each other and we don’t realize it.”

“Cammie and Kyle were saying the same thing to me.” he admits, running his hand through his hair. 

“It’s crazy, isn’t it?” You ask him, not realizing he’s standing right next to him.

You take in a breath, not able to release it when he puts his arm around the small of your back, pulling you in to him.

“Before today I would have thought it was.” He gets closer to you, whispering, “But I want to find out if it’s not.” 

Before you process what he says, his lips find yours. Your body melts into his as he pulls you closer, a rush of surprise, relief, adrenaline, every emotion that you could fathom was in that kiss.

“Still crazy?” he says, finally pulling away.

“I don’t think so.” 

The two of you finally leave your room after way too long considering your friends were all in your living room.

“Well you have a new hairstyle, Tyson Did Y/N give you some help there?” Kyle says, causing the group to burst out laughing.

“I am this close,” You say, holding up your fingers, trying hard not to laugh, “To kicking you out of here.” You can’t help but smile as the two of you take your seats back on the couch. 

“Are we still playing?” Tyson asks. 

“We moved on to truth or dare, and it’s actually Tyson’s turn,” Emily says, smirking.

“Truth?” he cringes, both of you praying they don’t ask about what just happened.

“Is it true that you and Y/N just hooked up in her room.” 

“We know if you’re lying, I was on the other side of the door!” Kyle says, everyone laughing again.

“Get out! Get out of my house!” You yell, laughing. You bury your face in Tyson’s shoulder, him wrapping his arm around you, kissing your head. 

“Fucking finally!” DJ yells.

“Give us what we want!” Emily pushes.

The two of you laugh, kissing again. Thanks, Paranoia.

[thewitintwit]

NSR I(S) TROUBL(E) for the letter ask with DJSS :)

Fun!!!! :) ty!!

N - Nickname what are some names they like to call the other?

Supernova - sunbeam, dearest, darling, kitten

Callisto - Deej, S S, Nerd, kingpin(jgjdjdjfj), MACHOman (this is way funnier to me than it should be, MACHO as in dark matter), darling

S - Selfies do they like taking pictures together? Do they keep pictures of the other?

YES. Many many many selfies and pics. It's a bit rediculous, actually.

My lockscreen? Some galaxies with a pixel chara over it. My homescreen? Him (think like me pfp)

His lockscreen? Him. His home screen? Me and him

R - Routine what’s something they do together like clockwork?

Boozy milkshakes once a month. No jokes, boozy shakes and a movie night once a month. Also got a morning routine, but I cannot remember it for the life of me. Lotta dancing around each other, and mutual assistance

I - Imagine what do they imagine their futures together like?

Him? An untouchable legacy that will last to the end of time and he is content and not feeling empty and I am way too embarrassed to finish the train of thought but we're both happy and maybe holding hands.

S

T - Touchy do they like PDA? How do they like to cuddle?

Supernova isn't a very touchy person UNLESS he initiates it or is asked. So for PDA, it's usually just a quick ask and something small, like a kiss or holding hands. Sometimes when he's more.. confident is the best I can think of, sometimes when he's more confident he'll do something a bit bolder.

He doesn't really? Like cuddling? Unless it's before bed and we're sitting together taking/ doing our own thing, jus leaning on each other.

R

O - Object what’s something they have that reminds them of the other?

I have a rocket music box that Supernova gave me! It's a lil golden metal one. It's very pretty.

He has a lil galaxy dodo keychain with a big ol star on it. It's very cute

B - Bashful what’s something one finds embarrassing about themselves but the other finds adorable?

It's less he's embarrassed, but more frustrated that when he's talking about a passion or a subject, he can get very long-winded and others find that boring. I, on the other hand, ADORE when people get long-winded and very rarely get bored unless the speaker doesn't care either.

I find it embarrassing that I blush SUPER easy, and when I say super easy, I mean he could tell me my hair looks nice and I blush. And he finds it very adorable and kinda funny.

U - Unaccustomed what’s something they had to get used to once they got together?

Going out? And doing things? Out of the ordinary? To spend time with someone? Laughable. except now we're both doing it. The first romance-point conversations are really rough someone help

L - Love when did they realize they were in love?

Callisto realised it VERY quickly. Like STUPID quickly, first time they saw him? "Oh he pretty" first time they heard his music? "wow he's skilled" First time they heard his voice? "Oh no" genuinely interacting with him? "Stars above, did it seriously have to be him? Not someone NOT famous?"

Supernova's so self centered he unfortunately did not pick up on it for the longest time. Like, a STUPID long time, and it was only after Cal said something and it was a fucking "oh." Moment

E - Encourage how do they encourage each other?

What I've found works? Remind him that he's DJ Subatomic Supernova, the man who'll never be forgotten. Also it's always big brain time when it comes to him, so he doesn't need to stress it. He can do whatever he puts his mind too.

What he's found works? Frankly him telling me that he believes in me and that I'm intelligent and competent and got this.

[ldarchive]

21 qs

ty for tagging meeee @danceryoongi i love having an excuse to do these LOL

nickname(s): dj / deej / des

real name: desmond :3

zodiac: taurus but my chart is pisces-heavy (moon + rising + lilith) so i id a lot w pisces as well

favorite musicians/singers: fall out boy, tool, los campesinos!, brockhampton, baths, new order, interpol, swans, black marble

favorite sports team: i guess the dodgers purely by default but 

other blogs: bosselot is my trash blog, epsilonunit is my (rarely updated) ref blog

do i get asks: does anyone? im not on this website to interact w ppl adbhglkjdg im here to win

how many blogs am i following: 165

tumblr crushes: shhh

lucky number: 14

what am i wearing: an old rvb shirt and camo running shorts

dream vacation: berlinnnn......

dream car: i think some cars are kinda cute but i dont really have one. i have a 2010 hyundai and i love her LOL.

favorite food: tacos. i live outside the delivery range of my fav taco place & it’s killin me during social distancing...

drink of choice: water normally, cold brew as pick-me-up, hot tea as a calm-me-down, pepsi as a treat

instruments: i play bass (& normal guitar technically i guess but im worse at it lol) but im out of practice... ive been messing around w a bit lately but i would love to start practicing seriously again

languages: english; french but once again im out of practice 🥺

celebrity crush(es): james ransone...................pl

[tomeandflickcorner]

Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure

I’m actually approaching these next two reviews with a sense of trepidation.  While I remember loving the Ewok movies as a kid, it’s been years since I last saw them.  I think the last time I watched them prior to this moment was in the early 90s when they’d air on television.  So I have absolutely no idea how they’re going to hold up now, or how they’ll come across to my adult brain.  Before I begin, I am aware that the Wiki page states this movie is supposed to take place before Return of the Jedi.  But something happens in the movie that makes me feel as if it makes more sense for the events in this film to have occurred after Return of the Jedi rather than before.  I’ll explain what I mean when we get to the scene in question.

The movie begins with a prologue of sorts, with a mother and father searching for their missing children.  Throughout the movie, it becomes apparent that this family of four, the Towani family, were traveling somewhere in their star cruiser, but something went wrong and they crash landed on the moon of Endor. Because they didn’t know where they were, they could hardly send a transmission for help, so they were pretty much stuck there until they could get the ship repaired.  But on the night the movie opens, the two children, 14-year-old Mace and 5-year-old Cindel, have apparently wandered off, despite their parents’ instructions to stay near the star cruiser.  While the parents, Catarine and Jeremitt, are out looking for them, they are ambushed by a giant troll-like being called the Gorax.  The Gorax ends up capturing Catarine and Jeremitt for reasons that are not made clear.  Did the Gorax plan on eating them?  Did he just want to keep them as human pets?  It’s never really addressed.

But anyway, the movie then cuts to the star players of the movie- the Ewoks.  Specifically Wicket and his family, which consists of his father, Deej, his mother, Shoudu, his two older brothers, Weechee and Widdle, and his baby sister, Winda.   (Incidentally, you might recognize Widdle as one of the two Ewoks who hijacked the Walker with Chewbacca during the Battle of Endor in Return of the Jedi.)  On this day, Weechee and Widdle have also gone missing.  So Deej decides to go off looking for them, utilizing a hang glider to search the forest.

So, remember how one of the biggest issues with The Star Wars Holiday Special (not the only issue, but one of the biggest) was the fact that they were mostly focusing on a family of Wookiees and didn’t give us any subtitles, expecting us to just figure out what was happening on our own?  Well, in this TV movie, they did learn their lesson.  Sort of.  While they don’t give us subtitles in this one, either, we did get a narrator. Yeah, they got Burl Ives, who you might remember from the Rankin Bass version of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (among other things), to narrate this movie. Unfortunately, this really doesn’t work to the movie’s advantage.  There are times when it feels as if the Narrator is talking down to the audience. And at first, the use of a narrator makes the movie seem more like a nature documentary on Ewoks rather than a plot-driven movie.

Deej eventually locates his wayward sons. They were apparently climbing a rocky cliff but got stuck halfway up.  After Deej helps them get out of their predicament, the three Ewoks start making their way back to their village.  But first, they have to make a detour.  While he was gliding over the forest on his hang glider, Deej saw something glittering in the sunlight through the forest canopy, so he decides to take his sons with him to investigate what it was.  And that’s how they discover the crashed star cruiser.  They step inside to investigate their discovery, and thus end up finding Cindel hiding behind a panel.  Not sure if we’re supposed to conclude she made it back to the star cruiser after her parents ran into the Gorax or if she’d been there all along and the parents just didn’t look hard enough.  Either way, Cindel, being 5-years-old, instantly decides the Ewoks are friends based on how cute they were.  Her brother, Mace, on the other hand, is less trusting of the little teddy bear Aliens.  Instead, he charges in and aims his blaster at them, stating that they might be the beings who took their parents.  I’m guessing it’s been a few days since the events of the movie prologue. Eventually, the Ewoks take the two kids back with them to their village.  Though they take Mace back by tying him up and carrying him.  Rather similar to how they initially treated Han, Luke, Chewbacca and R2 in Return of the Jedi.  The Ewoks must really not like human males.  That, or they just don’t like the hostile ones.

Now, I gotta pause to talk about the two kids. There’s no sense in denying that neither of these two give a good performance, even by child actor standards. In fact, with the kid who plays Cindel, Aubree Miller, this was her first acting role.  And believe me, it shows.  But I can forgive her for that because, again, she’s only 5-years-old. Mace, on the other hand?  I don’t think he’s even trying sometimes.  There are some points in his performance when he seems to think all you need to do to convey emotion is to shout your lines. Also, I sometimes get the feeling that the movie was trying to make Mace a discount Luke Skywalker.  Sure, he shows no indication of being Force Sensitive, but his costume throughout the movie bears a strong resemblance to Luke’s X-Wing pilot outfit.  Even his haircut seems similar to Luke’s.

When they get back to the Ewok Village, it soon becomes apparent that Cindel is sick with a fever.  Fortunately, Deej and his wife, Shoudu, are able to give Cindel some medicine that helps her, but when Cindel is still ill in the morning, they have to go out and gather more medicine for her.  To get the key ingredient for the medicine, they have to travel to this tree in the middle of the forest.  Because this specific tree emits a special kind of fluid that the Ewoks have used to treat their ailments for eons.  (I wonder if this is the Tree of Life they mentioned in The Star Wars Holiday Special.)

It’s at this point where we first start to see how much of a dingbat Mace is.  While the Ewoks are harvesting the tree’s curative sap for Cindel’s medicine, Mace spots a large hole in a nearby hollow tree.  And there appears to be some kind of cute little fuzzy critter inside this hole. For some reason, Mace decides to go over and stick his hand into the hole in order to get this critter.  Yes, I know Mace is supposed to be 14 in this movie, but at the same time, he’s presumably grown up in the Star Wars universe. You’d think he’d know better than to go about touching random fauna like this.  The moment he reaches inside, a larger creature ends up biting down, latching onto his hand.  Apparently this creature is a predatory animal called a Temptor.  The fuzzy creature Mace saw was part of the creature’s tongue.  I guess this creature is a bit like an alligator snapping turtle, in the sense that it lures prey to come closer with their tongue.   So the Ewoks have to drop what they’re doing to come to his rescue.

Despite Mace’s stupidity, the Ewoks are able to gather up enough tree fluid to manufacture more medicine for Cindel. The following morning, the medicine seems to have done the trick, as Cindel is feeling all better.  And right away, she develops an instant friendship with Wicket, possibly because they’re supposedly around the same age.

Also, it’s here that I noticed something a bit off-putting about the movie.  This is supposed to take place in the Star Wars universe, in a galaxy far, far away.   So can someone please explain to me how the Ewoks share their home with animals commonly seen on Earth?  I’m not kidding, here.  By this point in the movie, we’ve seen the Ewoks have ponies, goats, rabbits and ferrets.  Is this movie is suggesting that those particular species are actually native to the moon of Endor and somehow ended up on Earth as an invasive species?  I mean, the events of the Star Wars films are supposed to have happened a long, long time ago.  So maybe, by the time then became now, the native people of the Star Wars universe somehow found their way here to the Milky Way and ended up colonizing Earth, bringing with them an assortment of critters that we now associate with our planet.  I guess that’s as good of an explanation as any.

Anyway, Cindel starts trying to communicate with Wicket about how they ended up on the moon of Endor, explaining how their star cruiser crashed.  Out of nowhere, Wicket starts repeating Cindel’s statements in comprehensible English. Or Basic, to use the Star Wars terminology.  Yep, this movie shows Wicket starting to develop the ability to speak Basic.  By the time the sequel, The Battle for Endor, comes along, he is able to speak Basic fluently.  And that is why I take issue with this movie supposedly taking place before Return of the Jedi and therefore think it makes more sense to set this movie after the Original Trilogy ends.  Because if this did take place before Episode 6, then there is no reason why Wicket wouldn’t have been able to actually engage in a conversation with Leia.  Or why the other Ewoks seemed to be so hostile to Luke and Han upon seeing them.  If they’d already met Mace and Cindel by that point, then they must have noticed the fact that Han, Luke and Leia were from the same species.

Because of her newfound friendship with Wicket, Cindel suggests to Mace that the Ewoks could help them find their parents. Mace, however, isn’t convinced, dismissing the Ewoks as animals.  Which is weird, because he must have realized by this point that the Ewoks are sentient beings.  And, being from the Star Wars universe, he should be at least somewhat familiar with non-humanoid Aliens.  Regardless, Mace decides to take Cindel and sneak away in the middle of the night so they could continue the search for their parents.  Which was really stupid on his part.  Once again, they’re on a planetary moon they’re not familiar with and therefore don’t know what nocturnal fauna there might be.  But that’s what Mace decides to do.

After traveling for a bit, Cindel insists that they’re lost and she can’t walk any further, so Mace sets up camp, building a campfire to keep warm.  As they’re sitting around, they start to discuss their parents, and whether or not they’re dead.  Mace then starts to confide in Cindel how he wishes he’d been a better son.  I guess the implication is that Mace sometimes misbehaved.  And it’s possible that this is basically him saying that he shouldn’t have wandered off the night Jeremitt and Catarine went missing.

At that moment, this wolf-boar creature suddenly appears and starts to chase the two kids, forcing them to take refuge inside a hollow tree for the night.   When morning comes, we see the Ewok family had managed to track them down, as they are trying to fight off the wolf-boar.   And there’s no denying the stop-motion effect they used with the wolf-boar did not stand up against the test of time, as it looks really dated.  Nowhere near as good as the Rancor.  Yes, I know this movie was made on a considerably smaller budget, but even so.  Eventually, the wolf-boar is brought down by a well-aimed poison dart from Wicket. And, when they get a close look at the dead wolf-boar, they see he’s wearing a collar. Meaning he belonged to someone.  But what really catches Mace and Cindel’s attention is the fact that their father’s Life Monitor is stuck to the collar.  Life Monitors, from what I gather, are a type of bracelet that you can wear, which is used by groups of people to keep track on the life status of everyone else wearing the bracelet.  Since Jeremitt’s Life Monitor states he’s alive, the children have a renewed hope that they’ll find their mother and father.  

But before they can hope to reunite with their parents, Mace and Cindel have to figure out where the wolf-boar came from. Because knowing that would most likely help determine where the parents are.  To help Mace and Cindel, the Ewok family take them to Logray, the village shaman, in the hopes that he could help determine the parents’ location. Thankfully, Logray can help them. Because he has some kind of magical spinning top thing that can enable you to observe things in other locations. That’s right, magic now exists in the Star Wars universe.  Even though it’s never mentioned at any other point in the Star Wars media.  Though I guess it’s possible what the Ewoks call magic is actually the Force.  Does this mean Ewoks can be Force Sensitive, too?  Anyway, Logrey’s magic top helps them learn that the missing parents are prisoners of the Gorax.  Upon seeing the danger her parents are in, Cindel begs Deej to help them rescue them. After some hesitation, on account of the fact that the Gorax lives in a Forbidden Fortress that no Ewok has ever returned from, Deej ultimately decides to accompany Mace and Cindel on their quest to rescue their parents.  And his three sons, Weechee, Widdle and Wicket also volunteer to go along.  

Here, we do get a rather nicely acted scene, considering the actors are wearing Ewok costumes.  During the night, we see Shodu mournfully looking around at her family while everyone is sleeping.  It is clear that she is fearful about the safety of her family and is terrified that she might not see her husband or sons again.  After all, the Gorax is suppoed to be very dangerous.  Eventually, Deej wakes up to comfort her, even though he is probably equally as scared.  I don’t know why, but there’s just something about this scene that I really appreciated.

When morning comes, we finally get to the whole caravan thing this movie’s title promised us, as Deej, Weechee, Widdle, Wicket, Mace and Cindel prepare to leave on their journey to the Gorax’s lair in order to rescue Mace and Cindel’s parents.  And it only took four days in the show’s timeline for the actual plot to begin.  Before they leave, Logrey performs some sacred Ewok ritual, in which each of the travelers are given a special totem.  According to the Narrator, these totems were all once owned by the Legendary Ewok Warriors.  (Shame we couldn’t get more clarification on who these Legendary Warriors were.)  The first three totems are all basically feathered headdresses, with each one supposedly representing a different attribute. Deej gets the White Wings of Hope, Weechee, the oldest son, gets the Red Wings of Courage and Widdle gets the Blue Wings of Strength.  The other totems have a bit more variety, however.  For instance, Wicket is presented with a magical walking stick and Cindel receives a candle that’s called the Candle of Pure Light.  As for Mace, his totem is a rock.  But because Mace is a twat, he dismisses the rock as useless and purposely drops it as they leave Logrey’s hut.  While I understand why he might not see the significance of a rock on this journey, it’s not as if Cindel’s candle or Wicket’s walking stick had an obvious significance at this point.  And at least a rock is somewhat useful.  What did Deej and the two oldest Ewok sons get?  Feathered headdresses.  While I’m sure they are ceremonially significant to the Ewok culture, they’re not going to be of much use in a fight with the Gorax.  Anyway, the last two totems in the ceremony that Logrey performs are an ivory tooth and a crystal.  Deej brings these last two totems with them in order to present them to two other Ewoks, in the hopes that they will join them on their quest.  With the totems all gathered up, they all set off. Though, since Cindel and Wicket are the youngest ones there, they are allowed to ride in a special tent-like compartment strapped to a horse’s back.

The first Ewok the group end up seeking out is Chukha-Trok, who I gather is a renowned Ewok warrior who works as a woodcutter, considering how the movie introduces him.  He ends up felling a tree that just narrowly misses Cindel.  Which immediately puts Chukha-Trok on Mace’s bad side.  So Mace isn’t pleased when Deej offers Chujha-Trok the Ivory Tooth, offering the Ewok woodcutter a place in their company.  At first, however, Chukha-Trok doesn’t seem willing to go, until Mace starts insinuating that he’s not a real warrior.  Which obviously is a huge insult to Chukha-Trok’s pride.  This leads to Mace challenging Chukha-Trok to an ax-throwing contest.  A contest that Chukha-Trok quickly wins.  As a result, Mace begins to respect Chukha-Trok, and he asks him to help them find their parents. This time, Chukha-Trok decides to join the caravan. I do have to give Mace a bit of credit here, to be honest.  While his transition from being dismissive of Chukha-Trok to respecting him as a brave warrior might have occurred a bit too quickly, this was obviously the movie’s attempt at giving him some character development.

Next, they visit Kaink, an Ewok Priestess and the only female apart from Cindel.  Her totem is, of course, the Crystal.  Kaink agrees to join, on one condition- the children have to pass some kind of magical test.  But this test is not exactly clear.  Kaink places the Crystal totem in Mace’s hands and it transforms into a lizard, which he drops in shock.  Then, when Cindel picks the lizard up, it transforms into a mouse.  Apparently, this is enough to convince Kaink to join the rescue mission.  But it’s not clear what this magic test was.  The crystal becomes a lizard and then the lizard turns into a mouse?  So what?  What was this supposed to convey?  The all-knowing Narrator is completely silent on the matter, offering no explanation.  So if anyone from the die-hard Star Wars fan base can offer any insight on what this was, I would love to hear it.

Of course, that’s not the only time the Narrator fails to explain things.  At some point, the group stops to rest and Mace notices a nearby lake.  For some reason, the sight of his reflection in the water makes him curious and he tries to touch the lake.  The moment his finger makes contact with the surface of the lake, he’s instantly trapped beneath the water.  When Cindel sees her brother is in trouble, she calls the other Ewoks to help. They try to extend a rope or a tree branch for Mace to grab so they could pull him out, but the rope and branch are also zapped into the lake the instant they touch the water.  But Wicket has the magic Walking Stick he got from Logrey. Only that is able to successfully penetrate the surface of the water, enabling them to successfully pull Mace out. Like with the magic test Kaink performed, we’re not given any clarification on what this lake was, or why it trapped anyone and anything that came in contact with the surface of the lake beneath the water.  It’s just something the movie included to add some tension.  And to give Wicket’s Walking Stick some significance.

Speaking of scenes that only exist to provide tension, we then get a scene when the Ewoks are getting ready to continue on. Wicket is swinging around on a tree branch, but when he’s told the others are about to leave, he abruptly lets go, which ends up scaring the horse carrying Cindel, prompting the horse to bolt.   So Chukha-Trok has to chase after the runaway horse and keep Cindel from getting hurt.  Once that crisis is averted, they can continue on their way.

When night falls, the Ewoks end up setting up camp. Out of nowhere, there are a bunch of fairy like creatures flitting around.  These creatures are apparently called Wisties, and I guess they were featured in the animated TV show, Ewoks, at some point, but since I only remember watching one episode of that show, I couldn’t say for certain.   The Wisties end up catching the attention of Mace and the other Ewoks.  Well, all except for Widdle, who steps outside his tent, looks around for a second and then decides to go back to bed.  Needless to say, it’s at this point that I found myself really liking Widdle.  Anyway, when Cindel comes out of her tent to see what’s going on, the Wisties start to flit around the Candle of Pure Light, which she just happened to be carrying at the time.  Noticing their interest in the candle, Cindel places it on the ground, and the Wisties, I guess, get absorbed into the candle and merge into Izrina, the Queen of the Wisties.  Once again, we get no explanation as to what just happened, but Queen Izrina ends up joining Mace, Cindel and the Ewoks on their quest.

At long last, after crossing the Desert of Salma (because there’s now a desert on this forest moon), they reach the mountains where the Gorax is supposed to live.  But the entrance is hidden from view.  That’s when Kaink gestures to Mace, pantomiming him to use the rock he got from Logray.  Mace sheepishly admits he threw the rock away, much to Chukha-Trok’s exasperation. Fortunately, Wicket then reveals he’d picked up the rock after Mace dropped it.  When Mace thankfully takes his rock back, he finds out that it’s actually hollow and that something is inside the rock.  He throws it to the ground, revealing this arrowhead.  The arrowhead, as if pulled by a magnet, slides across the ground and slips under a particular stone on the base of the mountain. Which indicates that this is where the entrance is.  Mace ends up using his blaster to blow up the stone blocking the entrance.  Okay, who gave this 14-year-old kid a blaster so powerful, it can blow up a stone?  And if they had blasters with this much capability, why didn’t they ever utilize it during the Original Trilogy?

So they enter the cave, and it’s decided that Widdle, Wicket and Cindel should hang back, on account of them being the youngest members of the caravan.  Widdle in particular isn’t happy about being left behind, but he still abides by the group’s decision.  As such, Deej, Weechee, Chukha-Trok, Kaink and Mace continue on while Widdle and Wicket keep Cindel company.

Deej’s group soon come to this seemingly bottomless chasm. Taking note of what is so obviously a spider web stretching across the crevasse, Mace decides to use the web as a bridge, and they start to cross. But as they neglected to observe, where there’s a spider web, there’s most likely a spider.  Sure enough, a spider attacks them.  Mace strikes back at the spider with a knife, and the spider falls into the abyss.  But as Mace and the Ewoks are crossing the divide on the spider web, another spider appears and stars to attack  Deej.  This time, it’s Kaink who comes to the rescue, as she uses her Crystal totem to hypnotize the spider, resulting in that one to fall into the pit as well.  Meanwhile, we see a third spider has found his way to where Cindel, Wicket and Widdle were waiting.  This third spider is quickly dealt with thanks to Wicket and Widdle, though.

Eventually, Mace and the Ewoks find the lair of the Gorax, where they see the parents trapped in a cage suspended from the ceiling. But the Gorax is also there, currently eating something.  Weechee, partially inadvertently, ends up luring the Gorax out of his lair, allowing the others the chance to free Catarine and Jeremitt.   The rescue attempt involves using the Gorax’s ax as a catapult and providing the parents a rope to climb down on.  But while the rescue is still being carried out, the Gorax, having lost interest in Weechee, returns.  So everyone has to make a run for it.  But Chukha-Trok stays behind to face the Gorax, repeatedly striking at the Gorax’s leg with his ax, despite Mace’s attempts at urging him away.  

At that moment, Queen Izrina remembers she’s involved in the movie.  She’s been hanging out in Mace’s pocket this whole time.  At Mace’s request, she flies at the Gorax and disorients the giant by darting around his head.  As the Gorax is flaying around, he ends up hitting the sides of his lair, causing a bunch of rocks to fall.  Chukha-Trok ends up getting hit by the falling rocks, much to Mace’s shock and horror. Mace runs out to try and help the fallen Ewok, but Chukha-Trok was too gravely injured by the falling rocks and ends up dying in Mace’s arms.  Before he dies, Chukha-Trok ends up giving his ax to Mace, which was probably meant to indicate that the two have come full-circle in their relationship and now consider each other as friends.   Mace momentarily grieves his friend’s death, but, due in part to the sub-par acting, he gets over it relatively quickly, and he hurries off to rejoin the others.

Meanwhile, the Gorax is trying to go after the other Ewoks, but Catarine and Jeremitt and the Ewoks team up to create a makeshift trip-wire that they use against the Gorax.  This almost results in the Gorax to fall into the bottomless pit, but he lands just short of the edge, so he doesn’t fall.  It takes the combined efforts of Kaink, who uses her Crystal totem to drop a stalactite onto the Gorax’s head, and Catarine, wielding Mace’s blaster, before the Gorax falls into the crevice to his apparent death.

At this point, the movie seems to be wrapping up. Mace, rejoining the others at this moment, embraces his parents before showing Deej Chukha-Trok’s ax, explaining the warrior’s sacrifice.  And then, Cindel appears on the other side of the chasm with Wicket and Widdle.  And she’s overjoyed to see her parents safe, and vice versa.  However, it turns out the Gorax still has a few hit points left, as he reappears at this point, trying to climb back out of the pit, right in front of Cindel.  When the Gorax tries to grab Cindel, Mace jumps into action and throws Chukha-Trok’s ax at the Gorax.  The ax lands home in the Gorax’s back, forcing him to fall into the abyss once again.  This time, the Gorax is defeated for real.  So Cindel is safe, and the Towani family can be properly reunited at last.

The Towani family then travels back the Ewok village with the Ewoks.  After Mace bids goodbye to Queen Izrina, thanking her for her help, he rejoins the celebration going on.  Because it’s not just the Towani family that’s been safely reunited, but the Ewok family as well.  And because of the friendship between the two families, I guess, Deej gives the White Wings of Hope to Cindel.  The movie ends with the Narrator delivering one of the cheesiest closing lines ever. About how the movie’s protagonists all learned what they already knew- that courage, loyalty and love were the strongest forces in the universe.

So that was the first Ewok movie.  While I can see why I liked it as a kid, now that I’m an adult, I realize that a lot of this movie didn’t make a lot of sense. Obviously, Kid Me was a lot more accepting of stuff.  Not only that, it dawned on me how this movie might actually be seen as boring.  For the most part, it’s just these two kids interacting and walking around with some Ewoks.  In fact, I think it’s safe to say that if you threw Lord of the Rings and Care Bears into a blender and mixed them together, this is pretty much what you’d end up with.  But at the same time, this movie is clearly meant for kids.  And it must have kept enough kids entertained back in the 80s, because a sequel was released the following year.  Check back next week for my review on that one.

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July... Oh, July

Where did you go?

Seems like it was just the other day that I got home from that weekend trip and tried to find my routine again. Yes, I didn’t post much about my Nano camping or victory, but that editing work got done. The book itself isn’t finished, but I need a break!

Where else did July disappear to? Some good things came with my minor query attempt... I am waiting for more answers and managed to find myself an AMAZING editor to help me get this massive series into some shape. (Seriously, message me about her, I will be glad to share!) So yeah, that’s where I’ve been, plus or minus a sugar coma birthday weekend... 32 years old now, and that was way too much food. Well loved and over fed for sure.

As with any of my month end wrap-ups, I do like to keep those hashtag games in one place... For the above-mentioned reasons, I didn’t finish all my games this month so I will try my best next month...

More after the jump...

#wipwordsearch

1- Woods started tuning and testing his guitar before finally deciding on the one he wanted, a wicked little smile of his own forming. Two could play this game.

2- Pulling into the parking lot of Woods' building, Remmy stayed silent again, about what was ahead for Tweet.

3- Malta went in bounding search of Remmy, flying at the man for the second time that day.

4- Unfortunately, Malta took his compliment, despite his eyes traveling Tweet's form as discreetly as he could.

5- "He's certainly got my attention, cute little fishy he is." When both girls gave Tweety a look, she shrugged "You know like plenty of fish in the sea?

6- Tweety wanted to be Woods' muse, his sexy little siren, the thing he didn't take his eyes off of and drew inspiration from.

7- NO TURQUOISE

8- Rounding, she held the giggle at Brandon's confusion, even as the show went on. She felt a bit like those streakers that ran through sporting events, the way she was disrupting things. Though this time it wasn't her fault, but if you're already making a spectacle of yourself, might as well go full on.

9- Grabbing his music player and speakers, she continued on, shirt starting to climb up her back as she walked to the bathroom, tossing it just inside the doorway.

10- Woods wasn’t helping the cause, leaning against the door he held open, a mix of dented pride and cat with the canary.

11- NO BLOSSOM

12- She started to move again, softly swaying to the song.

13- He could tell Bebe was the type to do as Tweety wrote, and now Sly wondered if that was the reason miss Tweety sponged down that particular table so.

14- In Frost's mind, this was what a successful operating business looked like; something he'd been trying to have happen in the years he'd been the manager.

15- He had to think a moment to make sure he hadn't said anything other than a comment on food. He couldn't help but smirk, she looked as if he just said the smartest thing ever, and he knew himself well enough to know that couldn't happen.

16- That left Malta and Tweety to finish attempting to send the men on their way. Of course they were not being forced out, but the party had wound down nicely, and those boys needed to be up early to ship out, so they were trying to be mindful of this.

17- It could be called pretty, even if it sorely needed some updating. She looked past him, down the row of empty spaces, her own history easily meshing here too.

18- NO CHISEL

19- She somehow had bags of stuff again but knew the last stop she needed to make before getting to work; ordering two boxes of assorted cupcakes from her bakery boys, who seemed a bit surprised (she) came back.

20- Tweet just felt it more, the enormous mistake this would be.

21- That didn't quite help because he gripped the edge, and sunk down a little. "Maybe you should take ten first? You don't look so good."

22- Returning her attention to the drinkers, who had abandoned all the empty bottles, moving instead to the couch, swigging from some dented flask.

23- NO ZOOM

24- She'd lost count of them all now, and that probably wasn't a good thing to admit to. Just because she chased after one man, didn't mean she wasn't being tailed by more than enough of her own.

25- "Maybe if I could get another drink? I guess I can't drink through my skin." Deej gave the stink eye to Roger, before shrugging and rubbing the back of his head with a chuckle. "Anyone got an extra shirt?"

26- Woods laughed with a nod to the rest of the group, stepping a little closer to the microphone "I do believe the naughty nurse Trouble just issued another challenge, one we intend to take on."

27- Malta started to sway to the music, causing Tweet to do the same, and then they covered an ear each when the club could hear the way Frost boomed "Lass!"

28- Making a face as he downed the drink, Collar figured partying too hard wasn’t as bad as alliteration. "Good luck sir." He saluted and then wandered off, finding a nice table of random people to bother.

29- She could write a book about how to divert attention from yourself.

30- NO HAPHAZARD

31- Her back ached as if she had jumped into a pool and met with the solid wall of water, stinging her all over.

#CharactersTell

1/7- "Ballentine Rajneesh Siyamak, but you can call me Sly for short." In an old school fashion, Sly bent at the waist. "Pleasure to make your acquaintance, and welcome to Soulful. Are you here to see Tweety about the Red Letters series?"

2/7- Sly- "Back in the old country, I slept under the stars, or in a tent a time or two. Now? I suppose one might consider me a hotel camper, if one sees the club's bedrooms as a hotel, even if I hardly use it…"

3/7- Sly- "I know my way around a few things, been around a while. I once managed a spider infestation with a loo brush and pail."

4/7- Sly- "I love the outdoors, big fan of walking around at night, contemplating life in the darkest time of day."

5/7- Sly- "I don't get scared, so I must be telling them? I am not aware I am telling scary stories though, given that I am already often told how terrible I am at noticing flirtatious behavior aimed at me."

6/7- Sly- "Cooking? I am more of a concocter. I make a mean milkshake, and have been known to mix up some drinks and make something new."

7/7- Sly- "I like music, I do, but I don't sing. Not unless it will lighten the mood, and that is a last resort option."

8/7- "Oh? I've never been to camp! Hey fellow campers, I'm Raven, and I'm in a cabin all by my lonesome, stop by for a visit won't you?"

9/7- Raven- "Stargazing? I mean there was this one time, in an outdoor hot tub," *blushes* "We were under the stars but I didn't notice them much…"

10/7- Raven- "Why do we talk about me so much? I want to know about you. What's your favorite activity? I'll try anything once, twice if it's a good time…"

11/7- Raven- "Why ask me something like that? Do you want me to follow you? Because I totally would."

12/7- Raven- "Depends on if I'm taking that dip alone or not. Will you be joining me? I'd do it with you."

13/7- Raven- "Of course I am, anything you want, I'm willing to do, even change for you, so long as you love me."

14/7- Raven- "The bar that was home changed, so that sense of home is gone for a while now. But if you're offering to have me move in with you, of course I will!"

15/7- "Cop" Collar- "Hm, the Intel said that scumbag was here. Better let Nira know Tim's still out there." *texts back and forth* "What do you mean go camping for a while? I wasn't prepared to camp here…."

16/7- "Cop" Collar- *chuckles while unloading car* "Depends on the mountains… More of a poolside camper lately, but apparently I'm stuck in this forest for a few days."

17/7- "Cop" Collar- *finishing pop up tent* "I flirt all the time, ladies love the man thong, men too. Unless you mean a different kind of tent?" *pulls half deflated blowup doll from trunk into tent* "Leftover from a prank, but a good mattress you pervs."

18/7- "Cop" Collar- "I really shouldn't because alcohol starts the party… but I am off duty for a few days before the big bash…" *Chugs a large high proof bottle*

19/7- "Cop" Collar- *bleary eyed* "Always… Where's my thong? WHO TOOK MY THONG?" *spies a guy lost on the path* "You! You must have taken it!" *gives chase to poor guy* (this author spares some details for PG purposes)

20/7- "Cop" Collar- "Oh, great with knots, not so great with shelters."

*finishes hog tying guy with only man thong as rope*

"Collar, dude, it's Nathan Winners. Chef Nathan, you know, your buddy? I never stole your thong! You gotta stop that. Man, Deej owes me for this mess."

21/7-"Cop" Collar-"Usually I'm great at weathering a storm, but in this case, I gotta head back, someone has to help with club security. The big bash is a big deal. If you can get free & bring my man thong, you can get home Wieners." *pats hog tied man & leaves.*

22/7- Chef Nathan Winners- *struggles to get free* "It was a cute joke or pet name the first time. Haha, Chef Wieners. I am never helping Deej by delivering a meal to the woods again. Never stole the stupid thing!"

23/7- Chef Nathan- "I like walking thru the parks and taking the scenic route on my 4am supply runs. It's calm and quiet, plus who doesn't love getting the freshest food to cook with?"

24/7- Chef Nathan- "Did… did you not see what happened this time? That's the worst it's ever been for me. I prefer going alone and wandering the farmer's markets. No danger there, just me and the ingredients."

25/7- Chef Nathan- "I am not adventurous beyond my food. Unless you count navigating the strange people that are my friends, like Collar and Deej."

26/7- Chef Nathan- "I wander and take the long way home on nice days, but never get lost. Probably why a certain cat man calls me whenever he's hungry or lost but not lost."

27/7- Chef Nathan- "Urban legends? Not that I know of. I know a lot of food legends, and there are myths about some of the wilder things that happen in the bar's front of house."

28/7- Chef Nathan- "Is anything weirder than getting hog tied with Collar's man thong? Like seriously… I better get it back to him before he comes back to torture me more."

29/7- Antag Raven- "OMG I SING!!"

MC Sly- "… I suppose that means I shall be forced to play music?"

30/7- Yes! NO!!

SC Collar- "What do you mean no?"

BG Nathan- "You are not someone I want to turn my back on, let alone close my eyes around…" *returns the rope thong*

31/7- Sly- "Tell stories?"

Raven- "Karaoke!!!"

Collar- "Can't we just drink instead…?"

Nathan- "Time to pack, definitely time to leave camp."

#WIPJoy

2- Quick pitch? A women's journey through a life that is 'Cheers' crossed with 'Animaniacs' and surviving mostly sane. That's the Red Letters series!

3- Tweety took a breath before a gorgeously wicked smile spread her face. "Wouldn’t you like to know deary?" Shoulder lifting in a halfhearted shrug, "Probably will have to stick around to find out."

Song- Trouble for me/Britney Spears https://youtu.be/DQNm-P_1VVY

4- Woods started tuning and testing his guitar before finally deciding on the one he wanted, a wicked little smile of his own forming. Two could play this game. #RedLettersTeasers

5- Side char love?

-Malta the Cockney with a bold streak.

-Bebe that crazy friend who makes you do things.

-Roger the lynx cat with an attitude and cupcake addiction.

6- #1randomques Tweet's sorta done this before. But she'd say "It's just a woman's life, full of love, friends, and some legendary stories. It's up to you to believe me or not."

7/8- Tweet's care package includes:

-purple and red pens

-fun notebooks

-new music for her player

-cupcakes

9- Tweet likes pancakes and bacon or chicken fingers with french fries.

10- Tweet's got some food issues, being a picky eater… But Woods, another MC is allergic to cherries.

11- …close enough lol…

"He's certainly got my attention, cute little fishy he is." When both girls gave Tweety a look, she shrugged "You know like plenty of fish in the sea?" #RedLettersTeasers

12- Cupcakes. Thank goodness there is a temperamental cook or two that can make real food too…

13- #1randommques I'm a Gordon Ramsey fan. So, one char would be in trouble for the "herbs" in his brownies. Another might have a distance contest about flinging food, while a third would just be trying to figure out how to frost the chef…

14/15- Tweet has a chef to cook, but left to her own devices, it's candy. Or basics learned as a kid- cereal, quick processed foods, the no cook, doesn't expire for 5 years types of things. So, might be going to the diner to eat.

16- Tweety- "Things were rough growing up, but I always enjoyed chances to be near the water. Pools, oceans, it always called to me.

17- Antag- Brandon- "That's simple. Get off the stage, drink until that night's groupie is ready to play, and pass out around dawn."

18- Collar stepped up to the sink, like he would wash out his shirt, careful to slur his speech as well. "Swell party, til your drink ends up on your gut, not in it." #RedLettersTeasers

19- Tweety- "I can't tell you that. I have a few regrets in my life, but I also try to be a private person, even in the middle of a crowded nightclub."

20- #1randomques - Let's see… My chars are glad that I have managed to overcome bouts of depression, and that I am progressively working on the crippling anxiety. But they are still concerned about what part of the brain "Tim" comes from, and the things he does…

21- Antag- Lady S- "I hired her."

22- Most tech savy- Nira, considering he runs and watching the security system

Least- Deej fries his fur on the jukebox regularly.

[gawaine]

What’s your zodiac sign and what are your friends zodiac signs? Are you guys a clique?

I guess we’re kind of a clique? The same way the back row is seen as a ‘group’ (... w/e), we’re referred to as the “front row crew” (aka the most unimaginative name ever) so people do sort of see us that way? Whether we agree with it or not, apparently?

My extended ‘social group’ (?) is 12 people, the ‘inner circle’ is 6, and then the people who I’d consider my ‘squad’ (??) are 4, I guess?

I’m a Leo; Ty is a Capricorn; Alana and Deej are Aquarius’; Kelly is a Pisces.

[webkitvn]

DEEJ – NHÀ MÁY DƯỢC HAY KIỆT TÁC KHIẾN AI CŨNG PHẢI TRẦM TRỒ

DEEJ là cơ sở dược phẩm mới được xây dựng tại Thượng Đông, Trung Quốc, trực thuộc Công ty Dược phẩm Shandong Dong-e e-jaio, vốn nổi tiếng là công ty chuyên sản xuất các sản phẩm chăm sóc sức khỏe có nguồn gốc từ y học cổ truyền hàng ngàn năm của Trung Quốc.

Đây vừa là cơ sở sản xuất với hệ thống công nghệ hiện đại, vừa là phòng trưng bày, nơi người tiêu dùng có thể tận mắt chứng kiến cách thức sản xuất các dược phẩm, đồng thời có thể tìm hiểu lịch sử của công ty cũng như E’jiao (a dao), loại dược phẩm được quảng bá là thần dược 2.500 năm tuổi của Trung Quốc và cũng là sản phẩm át chủ bài của công ty.

Đơn vị thiết kế 5+design bắt đầu công việc với bản kế hoạch tổng thể để giải quyết vấn đề bố trí của khuôn viên trước, sau đó mới đến khâu thiết kế cho phần còn lại, bao gồm năm nhà máy và văn phòng tiếp khách.

Giống như những sản phẩm của mình, kiến ​​trúc của DEEJ là sự pha trộn vật liệu truyền thống và hiện đại, tạo ra một ngôn ngữ gắn kết xuyên suốt. Kính, bê tông và một bức tường kim loại gồm các hình lục giác liên kết với nhau bao quanh văn phòng tiếp khách. Đây cũng là sự đồng điệu với logo hình lục giác của công ty.

Bức tường lục giác này còn tạo ra những hiệu ứng ảo giác và pha trò với chiều sâu ảnh trường (depth of field) bằng cách hiển thị nhấp nháy khi có người đi bộ hay xe chạy ngang.

Vào ban đêm, bức tường được chiếu sang, tái hiện lại cảnh mặt trời lặn.

Chuyến tham quan khuôn viên sẽ bắt đầu ở văn phòng tiếp khách, tiếp theo là nhà hát, hội trường bậc dốc và các cửa hàng, rồi di chuyển thông qua một loạt các cây cầu thủy tinh để đến năm tòa nhà lớn nằm riêng biệt, được dùng làm nhà xưởng.

Bên trong mỗi toà nhà, khách tham quan sẽ được hướng dẫn đi trên một chiếc cầu hộp bằng thuỷ tinh, điều này sẽ giúp họ quan sát tốt toàn bộ quy trình sản xuất.

Hệ thống thực vật vừa được sử dụng để sản xuất dược phẩm vừa tạo thành lối đi dẫn ra ngoài.

Ở mỗi nhà xưởng sẽ có một giá treo nguyên khối lớn đề tên nhà xưởng. Nội thất mượn các hoạ tiết của bao bì thương hiệu, tạo nên sự đồng điệu nhất định.

Đây quả là một công trình ấn tượng, không những mang nét đặc trưng cho thương hiệu mà còn tạo ra cảnh quan thú vị cho cộng đồng.

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[bellamy-ooc]

Hi Everyone!!

When I went to the Unity Days convention in Vancouver, I had gone with gifts for the actors. I had made comic books for them!! Unfortunately, due to previous travel arrangements, I didn’t have the time to print them. I talked to Dan, for those of you who are familiar with IDDs Management (Dan and Lanie are agents for the following actors from the 100: Lindsey Morgan, Luisa D’Oliveira, Richard Harmon, Jessica Harmon, Christopher Larkin, Chelsey Reist, Sachin Sahel, Jarod Joseph, Erica Cerra, Ricky Whittle, Ty Olsson, and Rhiannon Fish), and asked if there was a mailing address I could send them to. He saw pictures of the pages on my phone, and he LOOVEEDD them!! He wanted to offer them at conventions as alternatives to the actor’s headshots!! He really gave me the confidence in them, as I am not overly public with my graphics!! I sent him ten copies of each one, and they will be offered at an upcoming comicon at the actor’s tables!!

I wanted to do something for the fandom, to help spread some positivity and offer some The 100 merchandise!! For those of you who are familiar, I did the Project Positivity for Bob Morley 2016 which was a wonderful success!! It was a fanbook for Bob, and I had over 60 submissions from all you fantastic fans! So with that said, this is what I had in mind!!

I have one extra of the above comics, and thought to do a draw!! Which means, for anyone who wants one, send me your name and a way to contact you. I will put all the names in a hat and draw one out! Whichever one I get, I will mail you the comic book! It is totally free of charge for you!! Consider this a gift from a fellow 100 fan!!

These are the following comic books I have so far (see picture above for the cover page and the other two images are examples of what the first pages look like from a couple of the books):

Miller/Bryan

Bellamy/Murphy

Clarke/Niylah

Octavia/Lincoln

Raven/Sinclair

Murphy/Emori

Harper/Monty

Jackson/Abby

How do you enter the draw?? Send me your name, which comic book you would like to enter the draw for (there can be more than one), and a reliable way to contact you! You can send this to me via tumblr on my EUPHORIC-DEEJ BLOG if you’re able to (if not then on this blog is fine), to my Ask Box or through Submissions, you can send it to me via Instagram (my url is girl_with_the_blue_hat) or you can email it to me (am.euphoria1001@gmail.com). I do not have a deadline yet for submissions! I would just like to see how much interest there is! With each comic book,you will also recieve a character postcard!

Depending on the interest level, I may be printing/making more that could be available for purchase! I would love some feedback on what you guys think, how much you would like to pay for something like this, and so on!!  

Do you have requests for certain scenes you would like to see as a comic book? SEND THEM TO ME!!! I am currently accepting ALL requests! The only thing is that they MUST be canon scenes, rather than manips or AU based ones. Other than that, you can select any scene from any of the episodes!

For updates, follow me here on tumblr (euphoric-deej) or Instagram!! I do NOT have a twitter account yet! I will try to tag everything as The 100 Comic Books so you can track that tag if you like!

Thank you for taking the time to read this and am truly looking forward to hearing what you guys think, as well as taking in names for the draw!!! Message me any time if you have any questions, comments, suggestions and so on!!

- Deej / Khudija

[gawaine]

plans for tonight

- veggie lasagne, cheesecake and Cards Against Humanity with Ty, Deej, Blonde-Pop and Ty’s GF - Halloween dress-up and night out - dying whilst sober before waking up for a 9am hospital shift on the neonatal ward

pray for me xo