#work: fields of arcadia

[inkblackorchid]

You mentioned in your last answer that you can never really tell how much you have left to write for Embers because the length keeps getting away from you. Out of curiosity, what to this point would you say is the biggest offender as far as “this ended up longer than I thought”?

I’ve had some duels I’ve written end up longer than I thought because it was just too easy to write banter between each move so the characters hammed up an already long duel but it was too fun to cut, and I’ve also had minor characters I only included to fill out a scene suddenly inspire entirely new subplots because they were so easy and fun to write

Basically, in a simpler way: is the story getting longer because of things being longer in the transition from outline to actual writing, or is it longer because as you are writing you are getting inspired to add more? I know how the creative process tends to look for me and I’m curious what you tend to run into more

My biggest offender for "this got way longer than intended" is the entirety of Fields of Arcadia, lmao. I love that story with all my heart now, but the original idea I had for it was supposed to be one, at most two extra chapters at the end of Be Careful. But the fic completely got away from me because there were a lot of things canon left unaddressed about the Arcadia Movement that I desperately wanted to take a stab at myself, so the ideas kept coming and I kept writing. Then the initial planning stages for Embers began, too, and suddenly, I realised FoA was going to have to set that up, which ended up making it even longer. And now it's kind of a centrepiece of my Aki arc, which. Well! Didn't expect that when I was initially workshopping the idea.

That said, I absolutely relate to the other things you listed, too. Duels especially also have a tendency to get away from me because I love mixing banter and snazzy cardplay descriptions, and before I know it, the chapter is over 20k words.

As for Embers, it's a mix of two things: One is what you mentioned—the story gets longer as it transitions from outline to actual writing, because I love my outlines, but they're never so strict that I don't let the scenes breathe a little longer when I feel like it. Two ties into the first one—where big setpieces and especially action sequences are concerned, I'm a logic freak. I like to set situations up in a way that leaves very little room for questions of how or why. It's a personal preference based on how I interact with literature in my free time. I like it when things make sense. Well, turns out, often, in order to communicate to an audience that can't read my mind why something makes sense, I need to write more scenes for it. Embers is the prime example of this happening over, and over, and over. These are my main two issues with the fic length getting away from me atm. Which is not to say that inspiration doesn't play a role (in stories like FoA it very much did), but this particular story has a solid outline that doesn't feel like there's anything I need to add to it anymore.

So there you go!

[cryptotheism]

Lilly: Good morning New Babel, you're listening to Screw Loose, your favorite early-morning exo rig and rig maintenance rig show this side of the white river, I'm Lilly.

The Bear: And I'm the Bear, and you- are on the air. What can we help you with?

Caller: Hello! Hi! So, uh, first time caller. My name is Zuri. I run a barley and flesh farm about an hour south of Isin. I'm in the market for a new rig. My last rig kicked the bucket. But I have an, uh, odd request that I was hoping you two could help give me some guidance on.

The Bear: Welcome to the show doll, we'd be happy to help. But first, I gotta ask, what were you running before and what happened to it?

Lilly: Yeah! We gotta know what we're dealing with here.

Zuri [beginning to laugh]: So we had an Arcadia Y-400-

[both hosts erupt into laughter]

Lilly: And it broke!?

The Bear: Doll what in the hell did you do to this thing!?

Zuri: [laughing] Listen! Listen! It was my grandfathers! We had been replacing parts on this thing since before I was born! It was its time!

The Bear: Lilly, is she dodging the question?

Lilly: I think she's dodging the question, Bear.

The Bear: Okay okay, so what exactly did you do to destroy this extraordinary museum piece?

Zuri: [laughing] Oh gosh I don't want to say it now.

[The hosts erupt with encouragement]

Zuri: My sons will play this game, where I'll be out working in the field. You know, rigged up, focusing on tilling. They'll sneak up behind me with their rigs on, jump up, curl up into a little ball, and try to lock themselves to my back-jack in the cargo position...

[The hosts are howling with laughter]

Zuri: They're- They're damn good at it too! My oldest, Zair, can do it in on solid motion. Its like one moment I'm minding my own business, the next moment I have a whole kid in a 100 pound work rig locked to my back!

Lilly: What a riot! Oh this is just dangerous to put on the air.

The Bear: Ahem, to all the parents at home we apologize in advance, please don't sue us.

Zuri: So- So one day- One day my youngest tries it, but he doesn't twist around fast enough, and the aux battery on the left arm clips an exposed spinal neurohelix. Zap! Neuros are fried. My legs and arms lock straight like stilts! Now I'm swearing up a storm, you know- "You little rats!" But I'm hobbling like a circus performer trying to chase em down and they're just dying. Musta been the funniest damn thing they've ever seen.

[The hosts continue to laugh uproariously at this]

The Bear: Doll we gotta get to advice part of the show or the network is gonna give YOU a show.

Lilly: What a way to go! You hit an aux to the spinal braid? That's fried. Done. Kaput. You gotta scrap that thing.

Zuri: Yeah, we've already gutted it. Old girl is rusting in the barn for parts now. Zair is a whiz, so I'm hoping he can get some good use out of it.

The Bear: So we hear you're looking for a new rig?

Lilly: What's your price point love?

Zuri: We've got a good chunka cash built up. We're looking at something in the 600 to 700 washer range.

The Bear: That's pretty good for a work rig. You've got a lot of choices.

Lilly: I have a sneaking suspicion that this price point has something to do with your special request?

Zuri: So, my oldest, Zair. I recently learned that he's been uh. Well gosh now I'm embarrassed about this too!

The Bear: Doll c'mon don't hold out on us!

Lilly: You called, we can handle it!

Zuri: I learned that Zair had been using the Arcadia to race on the weekends. He and some of the local kids would run street races at night. He's been rigging a grapple harness to the waist-jack, and stripping it before I need the rig for monday morning.

[The hosts laugh at this, though not as hard]

Lilly: Ha! So what you're saying is you want the biggest, slowest, beached-whale rig you can get? Something just impossible to race?

The Bear: I'm thinking an HR&R Pauldron, Heavy Industrial. With that type of money you can get the new 900 series. Ask for the high-stability option-

Zuri: No no! No you don't understand! The damn kid keeps placing last because he's been racing in a junker! What I'm lookin' for is something I can use as a work rig for the days, that's easy to strip and good to race on the weekends. I want it safe, you hear me? I can't stop this kid from racing, so I might as well get something that'll keep his skull together.

[The hosts explode into laughter again]

Lilly: You! You're a good mom! What I wouldn't give for a mom like you!

The Bear: Ma'am, one day, when I grow up, I wanna be like you. I wanna be that typea mom.

Zuri: So, can you help me?

[The hosts can be heard stage whispering for a moment, followed by the sound of cracking knuckles.]

The Bear: Okay. You've got a lot of good options here. My friend here wants you to get a sport rig, but that's not gonna have the torque you need for farmwork: Here's what you're gonna do-

Lilly: Would to! Have you seen what the Roadrunner 600 can do? Six point neuro uplink! Eighty pneumatic helices per leg! Tell me that's not good enough to rig a plow!

The Bear: The dirt Lil! We need solid-body articulation! Using a pneumo-helix for farmwork is like pouring sand into clockwork!

Lilly: You replace the dermis with a synthetic sheathe! I get no respect around here!

The Bear: Zuri, doll, here's what you're gonna do: You're gonna go to your local Post Office outpost. You're gonna ask if they have any old courier shipping rigs. You want middlegrade. Ask specifically if they have an Albatross W-500, or if you're lucky, an LH-640. These are long-haul light-load shipment rigs. They're ugly, but they're sturdy as hell, built for carrying things long distances through rough terrain.

Lilly: The kicker here is that they're both light-combat certified. Built-in medical and shock response treatment. You'll need to replace the medical gel canisters every few months to make sure they're fresh... And if a certain someone wanted to maybe engage in a little bit of light illegal street racing...

The Bear: Well the Albatross line is built to be constantly refitted for different weathers and terrains. So someone, not saying who, might have a real easy time stripping the plating for speed. That sound good doll?

Zuri: That sounds perfect, thank you so much girls!

The Bear: Perfect! Thank you for the call, you'll have to tell us how it goes!

Lilly: Please love we beg you! Call again! Toodle-oo!

Zuri: Thank you again!

[The caller hangs up, the show transitions into a commercial break]

[moonchild-in-blue]

Even if it hurts me, even if I can't sleep, even in Arcadia

What if Eden was *his* (Vessel) paradise/ time of innocence before the cycle began/ fields of elation etc etc. And Arcadia is *their* (Sleep) heaven, the one they were cast away from, the one Vessel swore to bring down. What if he's there to fight Sleep in their home turf OR however else is there. The Gods above, the angels.

What if in order to break the cycle, he's heading straight to the source of all things and making them right. What if Sleep and Vessel are now working together again and teaming up against Their enemies (who are now Vessel's too)? Much to think about.

[randomfoggytiger]

It just occurred to me that in One Son, Scully is pissed because she is finally realizing that Diana is a B*.

She has Mulder tell her "stop" as she is confronting Diana after they have just been humiliated with that shower and they are in their patient garb while Diana is dressed to the nines, Scully and the boys try to explain to Mulder that Diana is untrustworthy but Mulder defends Diana and pushes Scully away to the point that she says she can't help him anymore, AND THEN when Scully calls him to tell him that she is going to pick him up to get Cassandra, HE IS WITH DIANA! Well, how did Scully not just lose it right there and then? Why didn't we get to see the conversation of "uh, Mulder what were you doing with Diana? After everything TLG and I told you, you rush over to her?" Sure, he could explain that he went to find some truths, but I want to see the explanation of how he convinces rational Scully to believe him. Did she roll her eyes so hard that she pulled an eye muscle and gave herself a headache? Was she so angry that she had to hold back tears? Did she give him the silent treatment? C'mon freakin' writers! This could have been storyline gold not just in terms of MSR but in terms of working partnership! Tie it back to Wetwired and Scully's internal worry of Mulder's betrayal. Ugh! I Hate that so many of these stories seemed to have been written in a vacuum. Even sitcoms tried to have some thread of continuity with their big episodes.

A missed opportunity, for sure.

It's hard to know how Scully and Mulder would have cleared the air (or did clear the air); but... I don't think it was, canonically, dramatic.

Having dug around the scripts in Season 6, there doesn't appear to be any intent after One Son to explore that (or a possible) rift-- except, possibly, Field Trip (and even then it was to examine Mulder and Scully's mutual conflicts and faults.) Anecdotally, both Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny have described Season 6 and 7 as "comedic" or "funny"; and both have stated, continuously, that the show is episodic-- i.e. The X-Files is most accurately explained by realizing nothing follows through. So: if the writers dropped that thread, and the actors' drew directly from the source-- i.e. working from the insulated scripts rather than carrying over lingering or bitter feelings-- then the characters themselves deemed that moment inconsequential to their progressive pace forward. (And by the time Diana shows up again, Scully doesn't jealously or enviously react to the other woman's presence: the matter, then, was already resolved, in typical, baffling MSR fashion.)

We can glean a few things from Agua Mala-- namely, that it is humorous and unifying. I wrote a fic about it here, but, in short: Mulder's aside to Scully in One Son was an acknowledgement of where he went wrong; and Scully, though still angry, sided with, not against-- or separate from-- Mulder to Kersh. They were a united front; and she, Agent Dana Scully, "wouldn't bet against him." From there, Scully follows him down to Florida (holding his arm and other tells, here) where they bickered (without malice) and quipped and continued, per their words and mannerisms, to display a united front despite a few human, wonky edges-- edges which tested but did not tear apart further. (Even Arcadia, which was originally slotted in as One Son's successor, is lighthearted: Mulder teases Scully, Scully teases back; he crosses a few lines, she does so in return; Scully passes up a private master bedroom to bunk in a smaller room adjoining Mulder's bathroom, post here; Mulder and Scully exhibit reciprocity in spite of personally confining circumstances; etc.)

Is it narratively satisfying? Perhaps not. But it is canonically consistent. I think it would also prove-- and did-- how little effect Diana Fowley had on Mulder's (then) considerations and happiness, despite her best efforts. And I think it fits with Mulder and Scully's unspoken pattern-- they express an extraordinary amount with exceptionally little communication, yes; but they are also conflict avoidant and prone to suppress rather than express their own vulnerabilities (while also pressing the other person to openly disclose his or her struggles....) Their silence and move forward, in that light, falls in line with past incidences (e.g. Never Again's "Yeah, but it's..." and Small Potatoes's "You're not a loser, Mulder" and Fight the Future's "But you saved me!" and Triangle's "I love you" and Dreamland's "Get out of the car, have something approaching a normal life" and HTGSC's "I wanted to be out there, too")-- there would be too much to admit to (i.e. feelings and emotions both were still dodging on some level) to have a thorough, freeing discussion.

But at the end of the day? Everyone's answer is going to change depending on their read of the characters and the show. Because so much is never built upon, it leaves moments like this open for interpretation and speculation-- which, while genius for many different reasons, is highly unfavorable to final, resolved definitives.

[fatehbaz]

They’ve built a “Great Wheel” on the Seattle waterfront [...].

The small timber village became a military outpost in the Puget Sound War [...], [and] soon evolved into a trade gateway, with timber tailings and other industrial trash from Henry Yesler’s mill used to fill in the marshlands [...], atop which migrant laborers raised tents and shanties [...] now working to feed raw materials into the furnaces of the Second Industrial Revolution burning in the East. [...] The first nationwide strike ripped across the country’s railways in 1877, but in Seattle the unrest took on a grim character, as thousands of unemployed white workers rioted against their Chinese counterparts [...]. Meanwhile, [...] local elites rebuilt [...] downtown [...] from scratch, hosting the tallest building on the West Coast alongside other new constructs [fueled] with money gleaned from the supply chains linking eastern capital to Alaskan gold. [...] Today the city - again rebuilt [...] - is seen as one of the primary beneficiaries of the “Fifth” Industrial Revolution in information technology, outshone only by California’s Silicon Valley. [...] The digital was increasingly thought of as somehow "immaterial," sustained by intellectual labor more than physical toil [...].

Silicon Valley myths of [...] "immaterial" labor disguise a more gruesome dynamic in which growing segments of the global labor force are being deprived even of the basic brutality of the wage, instead forced out into growing rings of slums, prisons, and global wastelands. [...]

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Perched alongside a downtown business corridor [...], Seattle's Great Wheel seems to peer out over [...] [the] prophesied “cooperative commons,” an infotech metropolis abutting the beauty of an evergreen arcadia. But travel below Seattle’s cluster of infotech industries and the image appears much the same as that of a hundred years prior - a trade gateway, squeezing value from supply chains by selling transport and logistical support. The southern stretch of the metropolis bears little resemblance to the revitalized urban core of the city proper. Instead of the “cognitive labor” of Microsoft, it is defined instead by the cold calculation of companies like UPS, founded in Seattle when the city was one link in a colonial supply chain built first for timber, then Alaskan gold, then World War. [...]

In south Seattle, this logistics empire takes the form of faceless warehouses, food processing facilities, container trucks, rail yards, and industrial parks concentrated between two seaports, an international airport, three major interstates, and railroads traveling in all directions. Meanwhile, the poor have been priced out of the old inner city, moving southward [...]. [T]hey can be found staffing the airport and the rail yards, hauling cargo in and out of two the major seaports, loading boxes in warehouses [...]. And, beyond them, the shadow stretches out to Washington’s rural hinterlands where migrant laborers staff a new boom in agriculture and raw materials [...] - and further still into America’s long-depressed interior, where the Great Wheel meets its opposite: Memphis, the FedEx logistics city, watched over by a great black pyramid [the infamous Bass Pro Shop pyramid]. [...]

Every Seattle is capable of creating an eco-friendly, “cooperative commonwealth” tended by apps and algorithms only insofar as there is a Memphis that can provide human workers to sort the packages, a Shanghai to build the containers that carry them, and a Shenzhen to solder together the circuits of the machines that govern it all.

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All text above by: Phil A. Neel. "The Great Wheel". Brooklyn Rail. April 2015. Published online at: brooklynrail.org/2015/04/field-notes/the-great-wheel. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Text within brackets added by me for clarity. Presented here for commentary, teaching, personal use, criticism purposes.]

[shkatzchen]

Have you ever wanted to build an art gallery or museum?

Lamented having too many portraits and not enough wall space?

Wanted to hang a painting despite odd wall shapes?

Then perhaps the Hanging Chains are for you.

You can see the chains in use here, where I've used them with a customized version of the Arcadia Wall Niche to hang a painting in the niche.

These chains come in three lengths and allow (some) wall decor to be hung from the ceiling. The photo above is with medium height walls. The longest chain length does not work on the shortest wall height.

So what can you hang? Anything which is "ctnm compatible." What's that?

Well, that gets into how this particular object works. Once upon a time, qolygonal over at S4S made a mini-tutorial on how to add wall deco slots to items. These chains have that slot in between them. As such, objects which are designed to go in that slot, such as any item whose SlotTypeSet is 6FFE3FB4DB6337E0, will work.

Also tabletop TVs with 356D5A044DD97242 will slot. So you can have hanging TVs in places that wouldn't otherwise work with them.

Some of the paintings that I've shared (especially anything from the last few months) are marked as such. A variety of in game objects also work, though fewer than you would expect. However you can add this to many objects which don't have a SlotTypeSet, thereby making them work. Changing the SlotTypeSet to that number doesn't prevent them from also sticking to walls, it just gives them this handy little extra ability.

You may need to adjust the item's mesh to get it to connect where you want it to.

With the move objects cheat you can stack the longest and shortest chain lengths upon one another.

Without the move objects cheat you can stick them this close back to back.

Base Game Compatible. Comes in 3 lengths, and 3 swatches each.

Download the Merged file from SimFileShare here.

Need stuff to hang? Try these previously posted items:

Gilbert, Jeune Femme Lisant

Monet, Path in the Wheat Fields of Pourville

Payne, A Derbyshire Idyll

Friedrich, Wanderer Above the Sea of Clouds

Cole, The Course of Empire

Stillman, Love's Messenger

[saythatuwill]

yknow maybe to make myself feel better i should talk about some good things that have happened lately?

so for one i just got the okay for therapy twice a week, which i think is going to do WONDERS. PLUS im looking into extra treatment which is called TMS?? it's like some sort of magnet related thing thats said to treat/lower depression symptoms in like 93% of people.

it looks like i'll be getting treated for adhd and i feel like im being taken way more seriously about autism too. it's all really good, i've been making progress on my own but if i can really keep it up i want to.

bpd stuff is really hard. i think i'm getting a little better at keeping my head above water! bro if me last year could see me now man. what mood stabilizers do to a motherfucker!!!

EVEN IN ARCADIA IS REALLY SOON? that's not a me thing but that's like super fucking cool right? I AM PRAYINGGGG i get accepted for the listening party thing. i heard last time it happened vessel just sat there and stared at the camera the whole time. which like... me too brother.

my work is doing super well! i've never felt so alive in my inspiration! feels like home! i can't wait to share more with you all.

i just redid my whole resume and am job huntingggg! plus apartment hunting!!! i can't believe i finally have a chance to get out, live on my own for a change and really start making some progress that i feel i kinda can't due to my living situation. unhealthy home situations make trying to break some cycles hard.

i'm struggling a lot lately but in hindsight, i'm happy to be alive. i'm happy to make new friends and explore my passions and really figure out who sherry is. i think i like sherry so far.

where i'm at now, it feels like. running through a flower field. and sometimes there's thorns and sometimes it rains really hard. but i'm still here and maybe life is beautiful.

[esoteric-chaos]

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[spooked-skull-studios]

the fandogs I keep mentioning in our rp au posts, drawn back in October

i love these things I had a lot of fun designing them :>

AU RP rambling and original concept designs below the cut

Errrmmmm so yea these are Wesker's dogs,,,

Sutekh and Tyrant are "cured" (pose no risk of infecting others and are for the most part healed from infections) and Chris is currently being treated

Sutekh:

Twigs and I thought it would be funny if Wesker was a whovian (because we're British like that) so I decided to vaguely base his design on Sutekh during 'Empire of Death' but he was named after the god.

Sute is one of Wesker's first actual 'pet' dogs, having decided that the tall-looming blonde man that had been hanging around his area might make for good company (He followed Wesker around and fended off some opposition so Wesker thought 'why not' and brought him along.) (Timeline-wise he was taken in somewhere RE Afterlife. He avoids being killed on the Arcadia due to Wesker thinking better of bringing him along as well, after becoming oddly attached to the particular dog.)

After becoming more attached to Sutekh, Wesker refines a sample of Uroboros in hopes of stabilising the rot before the events of RE5 (He had already given Sutekh an antivirus after a while, however the leg and muzzle were too badly decayed)

Sutekh's face can split like the dogs seen in Apocalypse but can no longer spread infection.

Archie:

Archie (short for Arch-nemesis, though he would never tell) is a similar case to Sutekh in that she found a strange fascination towards Wesker leading to him taking her in.

Archie is a very disturbing dog, from her human-like, stare-into-your-soul eyes to her skull being partially visible. She's the most protective of the pack and isn't afraid to maul those she considers a threat to her brothers (she is especially protective of Chris and will often herd him if he stumbles in the wrong direction).

In regards to timeline, he took Archie in some time before RE5 but because he was unable to care for her during his time in the volcano, her infection progressed too far to heal without Uroboros though he didn't want to take the risk of her body rejecting the virus after his own original body was unable to survive.

Tyrant & Chris:

After reforming from Uroboros outside of the volcano, Wesker decides to lay low, returning to a safehouse and deciding to work as a connection rather than a main player in the bioterrorism field (aka he 'retires') on the condition that he will not test on domestic dogs (there was a whole thing in the RP). One such contractor. did not listen to this. He seized both dogs and left, destroying all research he helped to progress.

Tyrant was cured early into infection, though not before the virus mutated his face, permanently scarring him.

The virus burned through Chris leading to his eyes beginning to rot. While his sight will never be restored, his treatment is going well.

[saatmans]

Some time after the long-awaited release of Emergence, I can come here to talk about my feelings about this new song.

Discovering Sleep Token last year was the best thing that ever happened to me. It's the first time I've really felt part of something, part of a community, and I've said I'm a fan.

It's also the first time I've followed someone's work in the music field, previously only with literature.

Sleep Token has become a part of my life, a considerable part. 2024 was not an easy year, but it was possible because I had them and everything that came with them, including one of the best fandoms

When the first signs of a new album appeared, like everyone else, I was euphoric. And all the publicity was magical. It made me love the band even more. Vessel and the crew are amazing.

I love the fact that everything is connected and thought out down to the smallest detail. It's incredible.

Emergence is an amazing song. It's a new chapter that is directly linked to Take Me Back To The Eden. Right at the beginning Right at the beginning when the music started, I had the feeling of entering through a portal. It was as if I had finally arrived in paradise, but found it corrupted.

The song follows a melodic rhythm that is like a confession, a recognition of the imperfections of relationships. A memory of a perfect time that will never return.

I like how Vessel invites you to emerge into memories like hugs, while also fighting for freedom. It's not about fighting for the relationship to go back to what it was, but for it to be something new.

For me, the triumphant part of this song is the melody. It's very immersive, Vessel's voice is harmonious with the instruments. The bass is wonderful, the drums are like a beating heart.The guitar is a spectacle. The saxophone invites the listener to stay in that broken Eden and see what will happen.

About the saxophone, I remembered the same reaction I had when I heard the final part of The summoning (A curious detail is that Emergence and The Summoning are the second songs on their respective albums). A welcome surprise.

Emergence proves ST's potential as a legendary band. Within a milieu that insists on not wanting to move forward in the name of silly nostalgia. As I read a while ago: the ones who hate metal the most are metalheads.

I'm very curious for this album that has an Arthurian legend energy. Would Vessel be talking about finding his holy grail? Could he be looking for an Excalibur that will free him? Even in Arcadia sounds like a D&D-style heroic journey to me.

I simply loved the music and the new phase of my beloved band.

[hellsitedotcom]

✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ OC Introduction : Helios ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧

''I will be the spark that will light the fire that will save the Arcadians'' - Helios to [REDACTED]

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Rarity : ✦✦✦✦✦ Combat Path : Remembrance. Combat Type : Fire. Weapon(s) Of Choice : Sycthe; summons a burning humanoid silhouette.

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— C O M B A T —  Since I have no idea how the numbers and multipliers in the game work, there ain't any numbers here for now. Also, I have no idea how the path of Remembrance works (yet), so this might completely change after the first Remembrance playables drop.

✧ Normal Attack 

– Executes a single strike dealing Fire DMG to an opponent. – When Memosprite is on the field: Executes a Follow-Up ATK to the same opponent, dealing Fire DMG, blasting the damage to adjacent targets.

✧ Elemental Skill 

– Upon triggering their Elemental Skill, the character’s Memosprite is summoned onto the battlefield as an additional ally that fights alongside its summoner until the Memosprite is killed. – After summoning the Memosprite, triggering the Elemental Skill restores the Memosprite's health by a set amount.

✧ Ultimate Skill 

– Upon triggering their Ultimate Skill, the character’s Memosprite - if not previously having been summoned - is summoned onto the battlefield as an additional ally until killed. – The character’s Ultimate Skill triggers the scenery to change in a cutscene, moving the scorching sun to be positioned right behind the character and their Memosprite, drastically increasing both their DMG before the characters execute a single-target attack and deal increased Fire & Crit DMG to the opponent.

✧ Technique Skill 

– When triggering their Technique Skill, apply the ‘’Sun’s Descendant’’ effect to the character, which automatically kills any low-HP enemy upon being struck; high-HP enemies will take a certain amount of Fire DMG upon entering the battle while the character’s Crit DMG increases for (2) turns. 

✧ Passive Talent

– For every enemy that gets defeated by the character, triggers a Follow-Up ATK by the summoned Memosprite to a random enemy.

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— L O R E — 

species: arcadian entity. age: 100 years old; appears to be in his late 20s/early 30s.

title(s): Arcadia's Sun, the Founder's Heir, Emanator of Remembrance, Messor's Successor, Neaera Reborn. fraction: the Arcadia Clan.

✧ Appearance

Helios is a tall, muscular man with deep orange eyes (hex, #c94000) and red-appearing pupils. He has long, dark brown hair (~hex, #120400) that he keeps in a messy bun and a visible scar across his right jaw.

He is commonly seen wearing black-brown armour of unknown origin (at least to the Arcadians), with scaled shoulder plates. Upon closer inspection, one can spot fine engravings on the armour that all seem to resemble symbols tied to each planet within the Arcadia System, alongside a sun in the middle of his chest armour. In the rare instances in which he is seen without his armour, he wears a lose-fitting shirt in a light brown color, and a pair of tight-fitting, black pants, along with black boots and gloves.

His scythe is made of the same colour and material, a sun symbol engraved in its tang. Both armour and scythe seem fire- & heat-resistant.

✧ Character Story I

During the last decade of Messor’s reign of terror, Helios had been but a young boy.He still remembered the faces of his parents, pale from worry and fear as they prayed each evening that the Keeper’s madness would come to an end.Back then, he did not understand much of what was happening. All he knew was that the supposed Guardian was harming the planetary system more than he was helping it. 

Then the day came, when the Arcadia clan rallied together to end the man’s reign. Helios was merely 20 years old - an age that meant nothing to a species like his, one that could live for centuries with enough determination. His predecessors lived up to 500 years on average. By the time Messor had died, his elders still considered him a child compared to their century-old souls.

The moment Messor had taken his last breath, Helios had felt something change within him.He had been roaming the deserts of Elisium when a sudden heat had taken over his body, burning him up from within, making him fall to his knees. He felt as if his body was on fire, engulfed by scorching flames.Yet when the heat subsided and he searched his body for injuries, he found that he was unharmed. 

The young man rushed to the nearest oasis, scanning the waters for his own reflection, only to lock eyes with a pair of glowing, orange eyes.His glowing, orange eyes, their previous color as if replaced, any trace of it completely gone. ‘’The eight Keeper has fallen,’’ the man thought, the realization settling in as he kept staring at his reflection, ‘’And a ninth Keeper has to rise.’’

Helios did not return home that night. He stayed by the oasis, constantly checking his reflection as if expecting all of this to be a bad dream or a hallucination from spending too much time under the scorching sun.Yet, when the next morning came and the man found himself still wearing glowing, orange eyes, Helios realized that he wasn’t dreaming after all. He had been chosen to become Messor’s successor and ascend to Guardianhood.

[more character stories...]

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— V O I C E L I N E S —

✧ First Meeting

Greetings. I am Helios, the Keeper and Guardian of the Arcadia system, and successor to Helen Arcadia. It is a pleasure to meet you. 

✧ Greeting

I hope you are well-rested? You never know what one might encounter along the way. It is best to start into every day with a clear mind and sharpened senses, otherwise incidents are bound to happen. 

✧ Parting

I thank you for allowing me to accompany you today. Your trust means a lot to me, and I hope we will see each other again soon. 

✧ About Self: Arcadia clan.

For most of Arcadia’s citizens, I am not ‘’merely another citizen’’, but something…almost holy, one could say. The people hold the Arcadia clan and anyone related to Helen in high regards, which, of course, doesn’t come as a surprise given everything Helen and most of my predecessors have done for these planets. I just wish they wouldn’t look at me like I was someone special. I’d rather they treat me the way they treat everyone else than…this.

✧ About Self: Predecessors

As a child, I have always loved to listen to my mother’s stories about Neaera, the sixth Keeper. They were a hero, through and through, and now that I have become a Keeper myself, I strive to continue my predecessor’s legacies the way she did. Someone I’d much rather forget is my direct predecessor, Messor. I was still really young when he was at power. I can still remember the fear in my parents’ eyes whenever he visited Elisium…it is something I wish to never experience again.

✧ About Helen Arcadia

She was the first Keeper, and is considered the ‘’Founder’’ of the Arcadia System. Many people, including myself, hold her in high regards and still pray to her. She was, and will always be the best of us. No one will ever compare to her, no matter how much time has passed and how many Keepers have succeeded her.

✧ About Messor Arcadia

Messor was a tyrant. Nobody knows why he had been chosen to succeed the seventh Keeper. His rule is marked by chaos, destruction, terror, and tragedy. He is the reason behind the evocation of the cataclysm. I pray to Helen that there will never be another Messor taking on the role as Keeper ever again.

✧ About the Emanator of Finality

One can’t deny that anyone blessed by the Aeons is a special individual, but to catch the gaze of Finality Themselves? An impressive feat, indeed. I do not want to imagine what they must’ve done to catch Terminus’ attention. Alas, I have met them during their return to Arcadia alongside the Nameless, and I am quite relieved that they have chosen to return home, even if only for a brief time. Arcadia needs more people like them. People that will fight for what is right, even if their reasons have been selfish at the beginning of their journey.

✧ Added to a Team with Evelyn

Emanator of Finality, it is an honor to be fighting by your side once again.

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[inkblackorchid]

We all know Aki is your favourite yugioh character in 5ds

My question is, if you had to do an anime mini series focusing on her, how would you do it, and what would the plot be about?

This has been sitting in my inbox for an unfortunate amount of time and idk when it's going up, but I wanted to answer it before the year is over!

So.I'm going to assume that by "miniseries" you mean a tiny spin-off with Aki at the centre that's still loosely connected to canon, so I'll base my answer off of that.

If I were given the reigns to a miniseries where Aki gets to be the protagonist, it could go either of two ways: Either I make a plot-heavy arc to tie up some of her loose ends, or I do something more light-hearted that focusses on the less important shenanigans she gets up to when she's not on screen.

If I gave her a plot-heavy miniseries, I would focus, as one might expect, on the Arcadia Movement. Canon left a lot of loose ends and a lot to be desired on that front and it's just begging to be adressed in-depth. With a miniseries, probably situated during the timeskip between the DS and pre-WRGP arc, I'd try to properly adress the fallout of the movement. There's a good chance I'd reuse elements from Fields of Arcadia for that. I'd dig into how Aki's readjusting to normal society, how her re-enrollment in duel academy works out, and how Arcadia's sudden, violent downfall is probably still on her mind. She'd probably start digging through files in this one, too. But for a miniseries, I'd probably go beyond that and maybe let her seek out some former members, too. Really get to the bottom of what Arcadia was doing behind the curtains and who was involved in it. Who knows, maybe I'd let her track down Carly's help (or Carly involves herself by accident because she can't help her curiosity) and they try to chase down as much information as possible. The rest of the usual crew would be the supporting cast, helping out with occasional enquiries. To give the whole thing some tension, let's say Aki gets "inspired" to dig into the movement by hearing that someone is trying to revive it, hoping to take Divine's place as the new leader. It follows that after countless hours of tiring research and probably a couple of scrapes with the "new" Arcadia Movement (with Aki gratuitously learning to appreciate her powers by using them to defend people, naturally), the minseries would conclude with her taking down the person trying to revive the movement and becoming comfortable with her new life outside the movement and her powers. (Meaning she would mostly be in the same position we meet her in at the start of the pre-WRGP arc, just proooobably without the later nonsense of her losing her powers and then declaring they were a curse before regaining them anyway. Yes, I still have beef with that.)

If I went with the funnier, but less intense option of making a miniseries about Aki's off-screen antics, however, I would absolutely stage something like a duel academy tournament. Same timeframe, and for some tenser elements, I would also add the idea of Aki trying to readjust to normal academy life back in. It's a familiar environment, but it has bad memories attached to it, and Aki wouldn't immediately have a good time adjusting. What better way to get her from weird outsider who comes back to school with some strange rumours attached to her to star student who can duel every bragging bully into the ground than an academy tournament? It wouldn't be as massive as the WRGP, of course, but I could see it going from at least a round of sixteen down to the finale. Aki might even hesitate about entering at first (because she doesn't want to garner negative attention again), but her new friends encourage her to. And again, the signers would probably make for the supporting cast. Rua and Ruka would obviously be right there in the academy with Aki, giving them some more attention, too. Rua joining the tournament (depending on whether or not it's an academy-wide or older-students-only tournament) is optional. (But would make for a fun match where they're both giving their all and Aki doesn't have to worry about being judged because he likes her, leading to her showing off how fucking good she is at duelling and how much fun she can have with it if people allow her to. Added bonus of being able to show how much Rua has progressed.) Throw in some bullies Aki puts in their place along the way, and some students (or even other tournament participants) she befriends, and bam. A fun time for everyone involved. (I think it goes without saying that Aki wins the tournament.)

So there you go! Two very different ideas that would make for two nice miniseries for Aki to star in. (They would also make for pretty good fice ideas, lmao.)

[chriscdcase95]

Until Dawn updated headcanons: + Unlife is Strange/Screaming Until Dawn

The following headcanons are included in my AO3 stories; Unlife is Strange and Screaming Until Dawn. Both fics are part of the same “verse”.

Much of these were written down before the remake allowed us to save Josh. Because of this, Josh becoming the Makkapitew’s new host is canon as far as this “verse” is concerned.

Grab your popcorn. This is whole world building.

1. First things first, this bit was something taught to me growing up about the wendigo. I’m not sure if it’s a widespread belief or a regional/local one — especially since details vary between bands and regions.

Anyways what I was taught was that if you  kill a wendigo without taking the right “precautions” — either burning their heart or cutting up their body and burying them at different locations — their spirit will fixate on you and actively haunt you out of revenge.

They will always know where you are and everything about you; your name, family, home; your fears and weaknesses; and they will use you against you. And there’s nowhere you can run where it won’t eventually follow. There's nowhere you can hide that they don't already know.

Enter the Makkapitew, an already powerful and vicious wendigo spirit which has possessed two people with grudges against the cast. Because of this, it holds a special grudge. Simply killing them just isn't gonna cut it. It's especially fixated on Sam, for so close to Josh and Hannah, and being the one who set off the explosion that killed it.

Following the events of “They All Live”, the Makkapitew spirit soon followed them from the Blackwood Pines and became a regular supernatural nemesis in their lives; either as a spirit or through Josh’s body. Sometimes the Makkapitew  is a genuine threat or menace, other times it’s a petty annoyance out to ruin their day. 

It’s like Eobard Thawne that way. 

In it’s first rampage the Makkapitew tracked them down to their hometown, and slaughtered several of their friends, neighbors and family members. Sam tried to reach out to “Josh”, and got non lethally mauled for her trouble — Sam has a few bite/scratch scars on her stomach, side, calf and thigh that haven’t quite faded.

After this, everyone save for Chris and Ashley came to believe Josh is well and truly gone.

2. Crossover Headcanon: Following the initial massacre, “The Blackwood Seven” are reached out to by the FBC (Control).

They are ultimately put into a witness protection sort of deal, with one of the catches being they’d do “Scout Work”; being civilian eyes and ears on a few ongoing cases. They were assigned to the Arcadia Bay case, soon befriending characters like Max, Chloe, Kate, Victoria and the vampiric Rachel Amber.

They soon become field agents, but during Screaming (set in October of 2016), Sam is taking a sabbatical to focus on college.  Because of their involvement, the UD cast are recurring/supporting characters in Unlife is Strange; and the LIS characters are recurring/supporting characters in Screaming Until Dawn. 

At the time of Screaming, Mike and Matt are taking an overseas assignment  —   something about containing a vampire nest in Iraq that was discovered in 2003, and now starting to leak; while Emily was coming back from working off the coast of Japan, looking into and covering up sightings of a  “sea dragon” near Odo Island.

She brought with her pictures that would make Nessie/Champ enthusiasts  “Mess their pants.”

3. Following the events of “They All Live” Josh is thrown under the bus by law enforcement and the media.

With the wendigo having been covered up during the investigation, the FBC and RCMP compiled all available evidence, which ultimately points at Josh as being a wannabe cannibal serial killer; going as far as to implicate him as being behind Hannah and Beth’s disappearance, with armchair psycho-analysts painting him as having an incestuous fixation on them. 

The nail in the coffin against him was Josh’s teeth marks and DNA found on the cops he slaughtered, and on Sam after her attack; Jack’s severed head, Beth’s severed head; a shrine for his sisters; and the traps he set up throughout the lodge; videos recordings of Ashley and Chris being caught in these traps; and Sam taking her bath. For this Josh was labeled as an inhuman monster by the public, and his parents disappeared from the public. As a result, Bob’s Hollywood career is up in smoke.

His friends could try to speak out for Josh’s favor, but were coerced into going along with the narrative by Director Zachariah Trench; who pointed out to Sam that publicly defending the guy who recorded her bathing, drugged her and physically assaulted her, is not a good look. He gave the same kind of lecture to Chris and Ashley, pointing out how they were the only other two personally victimized by Josh.

As a result, the Blackwood Seven never speak about the case publicly, only talking about it to a select few friends who they trust with the truth.

It’s because of this, most of Josh’s friends write him off as truly being gone after his possession. If there was a way to bring him back, it’s not like he had much of a life waiting for him. As another result, Josh’s case is often publicly compared to that of Mark Jefferson Nathan Prescott, due to the events of LIS occurring not too long before Hannah and Beth disappeared.

The comparisons are usually made by those overly sympathetic to Nathan, and overly demonize Josh. Ironically it’s because of these comparisons, the Blackwood Seven were assigned to the Arcadia Bay investigation.

Much of Screaming is gonna deal with the fallout of what happened to the Washingtons.

4. Shipping/sexuality headcanons: I write Jessica, Emily, Mike and Matt as being bisexual, and Sam as a lesbian.

Mike is still coming to terms with his bisexuality, which is ironic because he’s normally supportive of his bi/gay friends. At the time of Screaming, Jess and Emily have been trying to pair Mike and Matt up for a whole now, often pulling strings to get the Bureau to put them on field missions together.

While Sam isn’t dating dating anyone, as of this post has a regular “Friends With Benefits relationship with Emily and Jessica, though it’s transparent their actual feelings are more than platonic. But following the events of UD,  Sam took up a habit of casual flings and hookups as trauma cope.

She usually keeps it to consenting sapphic friends in her inner circle, with boundaries in place; mainly friends she made from Arcadia Bay. But her heart goes to Jessica and Emily. Sam, Jess and Emily are the main OT3 of Screaming Until Dawn. One of the inciting incidents is that the three are planning a “Girl’s Trip” together.

5. In this setting, Jack/The Stranger is not related to Jack Fiddler. While I’m not opposed to the Famous Relative/Ancestor trope, knowing the IRL history of Jack Fiddler, it was waaay too touchy. It helps that it’s not something explicitly mentioned in the game, therefore can be overlooked.

Here, Jack is a member of the Dibikad family, a minor but recurring Oji-Cree family I feature in my stories, and the last of the Pâhkwêkan (Night Owls) — a party of vampire/werewolf hunters formed during the Colonial era.

Their backstory goes that there was a vampire that lived in the Great Lakes Region for centuries, historically thought to be a Viking settler. For the most part, he was benign and left the natives alone, but when settlers started colonizing the Americas, they brought with them vampires and werewolves. 

This “Viking settler” began teaching the natives about these creatures and their weaknesses. The Pâhkwêkan was soon formed from these teachings. Unfortunately, the Pâhkwêkan were so effective in dealing with vampires and werewolves among the settlers, that Colonists used their “raids” as an excuse to really crack down on the natives.

By the 1890’s, the Pâhkwêkan were down to one faction in Alberta. By then, a young and overzealous Pâhkwêkan hunter named Maxwell Dibikad led a raid in Blackwood Forest; erroneously coming to believe that wendigo were a type of vampire. As recompense, the Makkapitew slaughtered all but Maxwell, who was left crippled and forced to disband the Pâhkwêkan lest it returns continuously for his family and community.

In the present day, the Dibikads' want nothing to do with the Pâhkwêkan save for Jack, and his niece Vanessa - another recurring character in Unlife, who became handler to the Blackwell Seven.

6. In Screaming Until Dawn, Sam is sort of an alternate counter to Kirby Reed. Their connection is gradually revealed when they experience glimpses of each other’s lives as “dreams.” In 2011, Sam has a dream of being Kirby during Scream 4; and in 2015, Kirby dreams of the events of Until Dawn from Sam’s perspective.

For much of the story, Sam and Kirby are gonna be seeing/experiencing more of their lives through each other’s eyes; starting when Sam gets calls from a Ghostface repeatedly calling her “Kirby”, and is now targeting her friends; and Kirby repeatedly being followed a presence calling her “Sam”.

I also considered giving also Jessica some ties to Scream characters, but I haven’t made any final decision on that.

Gif unrelated.

I also had a joke in mind where Mike similarly “dreamt” of being the MCU’s Grant Ward. Somewhere in the multiverse, Ward dreamt of being Mike.

7. Since Bob Washington was a Hollywood director, Screaming Until Dawn includes one of his most popular movies. It’s not plot relevant or anything, but there for world building and a running gag.

In 2002, Bob directed a horror/fantasy swashbuckling movie called Wittebane — based on the Connecticut folk legends of two witch hunting brothers. It’s not the first adaptation of the legend, but it was one of the more popular ones, for its subversiveness and its love story.

The movie put a romantic spin on one of the brothers, Caleb (Ben Affleck) and the witch Evelyn (Winona Ryder); and the brother Phillip (Mark Whalberg) being an outright villain were most adaptations portray him as a tragic failure protagonist at best. 

It was released by Disney and considered one of their riskier movies, like Pirates of the Caribbean or Haunted Mansion, it was one of those movies that are clearly written for a mature audience and given a PG-13 rating. But because it’s Disney, it’s marketed as a family film anyways, and a whole lot of kids bared witness to the eyebrow raising “waterfall scene”.

Said scene caused “childhood lesbian awakening” memes across early 2010’s Tumblr. Wittebane also had an award bait song called “The Piece of You (I Carry With Me)” sung by Michelle Branch. Basically an equivalent to “My Heart Will Go On” or “There You’ll Be”.

It was especially popular in the brothers hometown of Gravesfield, with there used to be yearly showings every Halloween. But after the events of Until Dawn and the controversy surrounding the Washington’s, it became a really heated debate of separating the art from the artist.  

As it happens, when the Blackwood Seven and co were conscripted into the FBC, they learned that Wittebane's original writer was a supposed practicing witch, who disappeared and reappeared from a place called “the demon realm” as a teenager in the 90's.

The FBC seemingly had the writer's memory wiped, and have been trying to access that realm ever since.

8. Pretty big lore drop.

In Unlife is Strange, Mount Washington/Madahee was previously nicknamed as “Chepaiyikumik” (“Grave”), being thought of as a mass grave with a dark history. Much of that history is intentionally covered up and lost to time, to the point it was mostly forgotten about by the Colonial period. 

Dating all the way back to “Fuck if I know BC” — estimated to be the time of giants, titans and the old gods — what would become Blackwood Pines was a hotspot “The Children of Ithaqua”. They were a cult that spanned across what would become North America and Eastern Eurasia, but has mostly reduced to a fractured memory. 

In a semi-related fic, Loves Sacrifices — Ithaqua is one of the Greater Scope Villains. The “human” son and mediator to the King in Yellow, Ithaqua taught humanity to follow his example in decadence and vice. There’s also a UD cameo where a character makes contact with Ithaqua’s spirit, and witnesses Jessica’s rant at the cabin from Ithaqua’s perspective.

Ut’s also implied he taught early humanity the concept of colonization. When his father is slain, Ithaqua was bound to another world and cannot directly interact with this one. Through his cults practices, it’s believed many cultural taboos were formed — EG, “Hey, this evil shit is what Ithaqua and his followers practiced. Yeah, let’s NOT follow their example, kay-kay ?”

Ithaqua’s present followers exist by the 2010's, but are hardly the apocalyptic threat they were way back when. They exist under the guise of Christian based institutions, including prosperity gospel/quiverfull preachers and televangelists — obsessed with making money and “breeding prosperity.”

They don't really believe in Ithaqua as an actual entity anymore, and more of a concept to live under. But as of Until Dawn, they are keeping an eye out for the Blackwood Seven.

And they're not the only ones watching...

[whovianimeniac]

Self Discovery

https://archiveofourown.org/works/62675500/chapters/160446220

Whilst making their escape from the Darklands the Trollhunters attempt to escape through the powers of Claire's shadow staff. However instead of arriving in Arcadia-Oaks the group falls through a portal to the San Bernadino football field instead.

Based on the book TrollHunters.

@comical-clown-guy is my co-author

[kanekoii]

Rawr its ILUNA LOVER 1000 here to request a gn! Reader who has insomnia x iluna where reader cant sleep so they go for a walk or smth hope this isn't to complicated Fluff and comfort

lyra's notes -> ILUNA LOVER 1000 strikes again sorry this took so long to make i’m very overwhelmed with the amount of requests i’m getting-

pairings -> iluna x gn! reader

genre -> comfort, fluff, scenario

song -> up all night (bang chan, changbin, felix, seungmin) - stray kids

warnings -> none <3

SCARLE YONAGUNI ->

she knows you can't sleep well, so she'll gladly stay up and chill with you for as long as you need. just in your pajamas, all bundled up and drinking warm drinks and just talking so quietly to each other. she's so sweet, even if she'll be exhausted by the time you go to sleep. not that she minds much, as long as you get what little rest you can, she'll be happy.

AIA AMARE ->

late night walks!! she'll take you out to walk under the stars and carry you back home if you become too tired to walk. anything for you, as long as you get to sleep even just a tiny bit she'll be more than happy. quiet nights spent with aia are very calming for sure, calming you down enough to sleep even just for a small while.

REN ZOTTO ->

he doesn’t sleep much either, so in any case he’d be more than happy to introduce you to how he passes the time when he can’t sleep at night. stargazing! ren would be more than happy to bring blankets and pillows out into a field with you and cuddle and watch the stars until the sun rises. he’ll point at stars he’s seen personally and tell you all about space if you ask.

KYO KANEKO ->

“can’t sleep again?” he’d ask. he likes sleeping so he’ll be very groggy and sleepy while he keeps you company. he’ll put in a dramatic tv show and start quietly nodding off late into the night. eventually he’ll end up mumbling something and sleepily tackle you and fall right back asleep again. what a silly little fella.

ASTER ARCADIA ->

late night gamer. if you can’t sleep, he’ll play silly games with you until you’re fast asleep. maybe he’ll make snacks with you, anything to tire you enough to go to bed. he’s not the most sleepy of the bunch so he’ll stay up as late as you want to as long as you get at least a little bit of sleep, that’s alright. even just a few hours, he’ll work on trying to get you to sleep a little more.

MARIA MARIONETTE ->

late night baking! she’ll be a bit groggy and not as energetic as she usually is, but she loves making snacks and desserts late at night to munch on while you watch silly movies. the both of you will be in comfortable clothes and her hair will be messy, making stupid and silly comments while the both of you stay up probably all night.

[b0oker18]

The X Files season 6 episode rankings: From great to fight club (very bad)

Great: Drive, Triangle, Dreamland 1, Dreamland 2, How The Ghosts Stole Christmas, S.R 819, Tithonus, Aqua Mala, Monday, Arcadia, Milargo, The Unnatural, Three of a Kind, Field Trip

Good: The Beginning, Terms of Endearment, The Rain King, Two Fathers, One Son, Trevor, Biogenesis

Ok: Alpha

Bad:

Fight Club: There are no Fight Club level bad episodes in season 6!

Quick thoughts: Season 6 is undoubtedly my favorite season. With that being said I do not consider this season to be among "the golden age" of The X Files. Season 6 is is a very different entity than the previous season however there is a certain charm to this season that the other season simply don't have. It's hard for me to pinpoint exactly what it is but if I had to guess I'd say that season 6 simply feels like it's having more fun!

There is a vibe shift this season and I think it's mostly because of the move from Vancouver to LA. I guess many of the writers and directors couldn't recapture the dark and dreary nature of the previous seasons. Which in turn lead to more light hearted and comeditic episodes. I think it works well here IMO.

Finally I would be remiss if I didn't talk about MSR and the fowl one (Diana Fowley). On Diana, she doesn't bother me, never has. She is simply there to drive Mulder away from the truth and acts as a final boss to MSR. She fails and I simply don't see her as a big deal.

MSR plays a big part in this season, I believe this season has the most MSR of any season. To me at this point it feels like Mulder and Scully are looking for any excuse to take the next step in their relationship. Unfortunately Diana gets in the way (kind of) and these two have such avoidant personalities so we have to wait until next season to get there... Oh well XD