#yeah that tom clancy

[parragone]

Also a separate gripe from my main r6s gripe;

The insistence on including Assassin's Creed as part of every universe you have is just really sad. Like. I love and adore the AC franchise up until Unity, but there has to be a point where you stop resetting back to the Templar/Assassin conflict as some kind of mysterious overarching conspiracy in every plot line. And I say this as someone who's trying very hard to write their own novels and has read over a thousand fiction books.

It's a cheap narrative default and reflects unoriginality. It reflects that you are so fixated on the frankly very dead horse that you can't make anything else separate from it. If you can't create independent conflict without the same goddamn plot line in games that don't have any need for the AC conflict, then you really shouldn't write the game.

Including the Animus in the Nighthaven Labs map just IRKS me because there's a difference between an Easter egg/reference and a "Oh yeah this exists in the world". Flores' AC outfit? That's fine, it's a reference for the player. In game charms referencing the Creed? Again, references for the player. The fucking ANIMUS in a CANON MAP? Oh fucking hell you just made it canon.

More concerningly, I'm wondering if you're going to use it as a scapegoat for terrible writing. Like, with R6, are you going to pull Harry being an Assassin and Kali being a Templar or vice versa to explain away the reckless behavior on his part?

Please. I know you can write something that doesn't have AC alluded to as an overarching conflict because you wrote Child of Light, a wonderful piece of media that made me bawl on the floor. You haven't folded AC into The Division.

At least with Clancy's stuff. Just. Respect the man's work and put some damn effort forth to stay in line with what he established. He was a king of military thriller, I'm not expecting you to live up to what he wrote - but I want to be able to expect better, yk

[xiv-drake]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2023/01/18/ubisoft-strike/

[talesfrommedinastation]

The last of the modern Tactical Vest Clone Force 99 boys! Featuring Toaster Strudel Echo!

Like OC Timon Chapelle, I went donkey bonkers on the details, because I was stuck on the world’s longest flight and drawing cartoons on my iPad upset Karens 1 + 2 next to me*.

Also, of all of the squad, Echo seems like the type to carry a good chunk of the extra gear. He's the most seasoned and experienced of the bunch.

One of my colleagues at Northwestern University is a biomechanical engineer and sent me a mock-up of what a bionic hand would look like. Easier to draw then a scomp, believe it or not!

Wanna check out the others? They are right here:

Crosshair

Wrecker

Hunter

Tech

Tech with tattoos

Timon Chapelle

Gotta throw the tags: @eyecandyeoz @sued134 @rocicrew @techs-stitches @ilikemymendarkandfictional @anxiouspineapple99 @amalthiaph @freesia-writes @littlefeatherr @vivaislenska @vimse @blitzink @marymunchkiin @merkitty49 @megmca @isthereanechoinhere96 @sunkissedclones @amorfista @moosethren @nika6q @commander-sunshine @shadestepping @wrenkenstein @eclec-tech @eelfuneral @thecoffeelorian

———

* = Never forget Lisa-from-Omaha and her troll friend Carol on United Airlines. Yeah, I remember you hoes and how mean you guys were to me, my two well behaved daughters, and my husband who just wanted to read Tom Clancy while the girls napped.

“Why are you drawing cartoons?” I don’t know, Carol, why won’t your son give you a grandchild? Is it because you’re too busy hiding under a bridge and yelling at the Billie Goats Gruff? Fuck off.

[i-may-be-an-emu]

Hija!! Do yk which of the guys had the most characters with sad, tragic or bad endings? Asking for an edit >:))

Hmmmm I’m not sure! It’s pretty even I think? Idk let’s see :D

SFTH SPOILERS BELOW (also long-ish post so be aware of that I guess)

All of them have a kind of messed up time in habberdashery (Luke’s child character not the wife) (Tom wasn’t there though)

Lost in your eyes Tom and Sam have a tragic love story

Long John’s I haven’t watched in a little bit but Luke killing his brother (I think) was pretty messed up, Tom’s character dies and AJ holds him as he does.

Jockey is VERY messed up, Sam’s probably the one with the most tragic stuff.

AJ’s character in hare says she’s had a tough life, then Jimmy the Hare dies in her arms

Midnight mystery ends with Scottish Batman being in the middle of dying (I think) and Robin like kills someone or something??? The ending confuses me a little

Cube has Bubba and Jeremiah which like, Bubba loses his legs and Jeremiah has to deal with that, then yk, Jeremiah DIES in Bubbas ARMS and everything, so those two (I could ramble about Bubbamiah for the rest of this post but I won’t lol)

Bus is kinda tragic with the whole thing of Arthur BD getting imprisoned inside the vagina cage (…yeah. that’s a Sentence alright.) and then dying from the acidity

NIGEL IS SOOOOO MESSED UP AND I LOVE IT Andrew being imprisoned and his uncle not even caring or looking for him for two weeks!? Nigel getting him hooked on cocaine (and also doing whatever he did consensually with Andrew tied to the chair- even if it was consensual it might have been the drugs or the Stockholm syndrome… which is REALLY dark.)

Caravan has Jericho (Tom) who is terminally ill and dying of some disease and he has dreams of being an actor and then gets replaced with no remorse.

Stegosaurus is SOOOOO dark and i think that Chip and Cliff could both be said to have tragic backstories- even that French guy actually if you look at it from his point of view. So Sam and Tom, and AJ as chip if you include that part as well.

Lefternmost window is kind of dark but not really tragic, cause it’s all resolved in the end but you could say Tom’s Scottish character who was shot in the throat maybe

Neighbours you could argue it’s tragic for every character, really. Johnny and Janae mostly, though Annabelle dies and idk if she did much wrong. Definetly Johnny and Janae.

Milkman you can say Peter, Toby (the boy in the room) and The other kid (AJ) and also probably Mr Steven, plus Hank (the Texan bartender) all of them have pretty tragic stuff happen.

Beetroots Sam is pretty tragic, all of the stuff that happens in that. Justin’s parents died in a fire so maybe also him.

The evil make a wish kid you could say Luke’s character as the father, cause, well, his son is evil and also died and kills his mother. (And blew up every petting zoo in the entire world)

Priscilla is pretty dark too so probably Priscilla, she goes through a lot

Circus you could definitely say Watson, he kills a bunch of people cause he’s in love with Sherlock and goes crazy and becomes a creepy clown (hi if you’re reading this and don’t know the fandom, welcome! Everything is so normal)

Murders in space would definitely be Mary, with working on the whole time penetration/dilution thing her whole life only to have to fade away to save the world.

I’d need to rewatch Hugh and moist and magical for the specifics but characters from those two are not having a good time

JIMMY DOESNT KNOW HOW TO USE A DOOR AND NO ONE WILL SHOW HIM (also Clancy did doohicky’s wife but who cares about that when there’s Jimmy)

Alexa and Janusz from Ballet are both pretty tragic but again I’d probably need to rewatch it to have more details

OK SO

adding all of this up here’s an extremely rough tally just based on this

AJ llllllll (8)

Luke llllllll (8)

Sam llllllllllll (12)

Tom llllllllll (11)

So Sam, but Tom’s close (although I think Sam has more like main characters?? But I’m not sure)

I hope this helps!!! :D can’t wait to see the edit if you make one

[chastainromanova]

PROMPTS FROM TOM CLANCY'S JACK RYAN SEASON 1 EP 1-4 * adjust as needed

It's not about what they're saying, sir, it's about how they're saying it.

So how come you're the only one that knows about this mystery man?

I was wondering if we could get together. There's something I'd like to talk to you about.

No, I'd rather not do it over the phone.

Guys, get me some audio on that table.

I especially liked it when he called you a "self-righteous Boy Scout."

Oh, f*ck. There is nothing about this that is good.

It's all done analog, meaning the money's literally handed from one person to another.

Sometimes you have to break a few rules just to get the job done.

Yeah, because the Metro is the perfect place to dump surveillance. Smart.

We found his telephone in the trashcan along with a bloody shirt.

I was worried. What took you so long?

I assume you had good reason to come here instead of a hospital?

You think a piece of paper changes the way the world sees you?

We're not going to hide things from each other.

I only trust you.

Without you, I'd be rotting in prison now. 

If you pull your weapon to shoot, you shoot.  

Wait for me, I'll be right back.

I was worried. I don't know how to thank you. 

How much did it cost? 

I didn't do it for the money. 

I thought I'd never see you again. 

I assume you had good reason to come here instead of a hospital?

This is your lucky night, sport.

I've never seen a winning streak like that.

What are you doing?

The party's just getting started.

Ask him where he is.

Can I ask you something?

I think you have everyone fooled. 

We have no secrets from each other.

Who is he looking for?

This ain't good.

You do not have authorization to take that shot.

Acknowledge my fucking order.

Is there someplace we can speak in private?

Well, we haven’t actually gone on a date yet.

Hopefully she doesn’t think you’re creepy.

I’m not asking your permission.

You must be joking.

The only joke here is you. 

We need gas and cigarettes.

Do you know what he wants with us?

What are you doing here?

Did she text you back?

I would have texted you back. 

We lost him.

Hey, this is a team effort. 

Well, you’re the one driving, so you lost him.

I’m going to talk to the clerk, see if anyone checked in.

Don’t take it home with you.

Get laid, get drunk. Just don’t go home and think.

When was the last time you slept? You look like hell.

[walder-138]

BEHIND THE OC NAME

(Tagged by: @iamcautiouslyoptimistic, thank you pookie 💜)

This will include some of my retired OCs and a lot of them I haven’t made posts about yet. For clarity, ‘*’ means that they’re retired, and ‘^’ means I’m planning on making posts on them.

MIKHAIL VORONOV*

(Face claim: Alexander Petrov)

I came up with Voronov’s name WAYYYYY later than I should’ve. Only just before I abandoned the story did I actually make my final decision. In the early days of the story’s production, in my head I referred to him as ‘Crow’. So, when I finally decided (1) his gender and (2) his name, I decided to translate ‘Crow’ into Russian, and that’s how I got his last name. Pretty straightforward lmao.

ABBEY FOSTER^

Abbey was raised in a cult, but the people who adopted her after she was found named her ‘Abbey’.

IRL, I named her after the song ‘Abbey’ by Mitski, as that song is what she’s based off. I spent an hour looking for a surname that would go well with Abbey, and Foster was the one I landed on!

ANNIKA VORONOVA

(Really want to redo the drawing lmao)

(copy paste from another post)

“I honestly can’t remember how I came up with her first name. I think I saw it somewhere and was like “Damn I gotta remember that name for the future” and I decided to give it to her. Nikolai is the name of one of my friends, so that’s what her patronymic is based off. Voronov was the last name of one of my retired OCs, and I still liked it, so yeah!”

ZOMBIE-12*

This won’t make sense (since the drawing is from before I made the change), but they called her Zombie because half of her face was burnt off from an explosion. Zombie was used towards her as an insult, but Eryka turned it into her callsign so people couldn’t use that as ammunition against her. (her and OG Voronov are in the same universe)

OSWALD ‘OZ’ CLANCY

Since I based him off a heavy metal song, I name him after Ozzy Osborne from Black Sabbath. Oz’s last name, since my dad likes Tom Clancy and the last name flowed well with Oz, so that was after him. (Abbey, Oz, and Lorelai are in the same universe)

Lorelai^

“Lorelai” is a German name that means ‘Temptress’ or ‘alluring’ based off a German myth about a siren with the same name. After repeatedly disobeying the cult, she was lobotomized and brainwashed, now completely subservient. She would use her beauty and charm to lure in people to join them.

[cheerforrevenge]

I work at a used bookstore, here is a conversation I had with a customer.

"I'm looking for a book for my husband. Oh! This one looks good," she says.

She reads the back of a book, then puts it back down.

Her: "No, that sounds like a romance."

So I search up this book, which is called Eagle Station by Dale Brown.

Me: "Ma'am, that book is labelled thriller, suspense, adventure fiction and political thriller."

Her: "oh, really? Well, that's okay. My husband is a very cut and dry. He won't like any romance or women stuff in his books."

Me: "Oh, yeah, sure. Can't have women in your fiction."

She laughed and picked a Tom Clancy book.

Later I read the back of the book and ... wow. It is extremely romantic. Even the back was steamy, I can see why she confused it with a romance.

[jordanrosenburg]

I just need to rant for a second because I'm so aggravated. Amazon Prime is $139 annually or $14.99 monthly. It used to only be like $100 annually, or $50 annually if you were a student. I do the $139 annual charge because it's actually cheaper overall than the monthly plan. (14.99 x 12 = 179.88) A lot of services are cheaper annually. But most people see the "lower" monthly fee and figure that's more manageable.

Amazon Prime Video is one of the "perks" of having an AP premium membership. The movies and tv shows on there don't have commercials, rightfully so. However, subscribers will soon start seeing ads unless they want to pay an extra $2.99 a month. So, for those monthly folks, that's now $17.98 a month. FOR WHAT?!

"We are writing to you today about an upcoming change to your Prime Video experience. Starting January 29, Prime Video movies and TV shows will include limited advertisements. This will allow us to continue investing in compelling content and keep increasing that investment over a long period of time. We aim to have meaningfully fewer ads than linear TV and other streaming TV providers. No action is required from you, and there is no change to the current price of your Prime membership. We will also offer a new ad-free option for an additional $2.99 per month*..."

That's funny because, they cancelled The Wilds after 2 seasons. (Netflix does the same thing! And Netflix just very sneakily got rid of their $7.99 a month low-res option. So now if you don't want to pay $11.99 a month which is the new "basic" plan, you have to pay for ads.)

"Access to exclusive and broad streaming video content (including Prime Video exclusives like The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, The Boys, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Citadel, The Wheel of Time, Reacher, and The Summer I Turned Pretty, as well as blockbuster movies such as Air, Creed III, Dungeons & Dragons, Candy Cane Lane with Eddie Murphy, and exclusive live sports including NFL Thursday Night Football). Access to Prime Video Channels, which provides an unmatched selection of subscription channels like Max, Paramount+ with SHOWTIME, BET+, MGM+, ViX+, Crunchyroll, PBS KIDS, NBA League Pass, MLB.TV, and STARZ—with no extra apps to download, and no cable required. Customers only pay for the ones they want, and can cancel anytime."

All of those "channels" are extra costs. And they're saying this as if you can't just download the apps to your TV as if everyone only has firesticks or Amazon TVs these days nowadays.

And also, what if I don't like any of the original programming? What if I didn't care about football? All of the original programming I was invested in, was cancelled! I'm hoping The Summer I Turned Pretty doesn't get cancelled after the third season, but who knows?!

And what's different with APV as opposed to other streaming services is that this is just included with AP. This isn't something you can opt out of to save money. So, you may as well use it, right? What aggravates me the most is the fact that when I go to search for something, it'll either say, "Video not available, watch with [insert extra channel I'd need to pay for here], rent for $x.xx, or buy for $x.xx". I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO PAY EXTRA TO WATCH SOMETHING ON A SERVICE I ALREADY PAY FOR! NOR SHOULD I HAVE TO DOWNLOAD ANOTHER APP OR CHANNEL THAT ALSO REQUIRES PAYMENT.

I am so sick of having to surf between Hulu, Netflix, APV, MAX, Paramount+, Peacock, Apple TV, or Disney+. My Hulu is included in my Spotify because I was grandfathered into that option, so I don't pay extra for Hulu. However, I can't watch everything on Hulu unless I want to pay for the Hulu Live option which is $76.99 a month WITH ADS! So, between paying that or $10.99 for my Spotify/Hulu plan, yeah, I'm gonna keep the $10.99 a month plan. With Hulu Live, you still have the issue of not being able to watch everything you want to watch! There are still movies and TV shows that are unavailable. And I'm not talking about original content. I'm talking about if I have the urge to watch an old movie or binge an old TV show, I should be able to do that without flipping between services or having to pay extra!

I'm aware that rights and ownership come into play here. I know these services have to pay the networks to be able to stream certain shows. However, Amazon is a multi-BILLION dollar company. I think they can afford to eat the cost. They wonder why piracy is still a thing. How could it not be? All of this costs so much money and you still can't watch the things you want to watch!

People turned to streaming services so they could go ad-free and to save money on cable. Now, it all costs the same, even more, as cable depending on how many services you're paying for.

I also think APV is pulling this bullshit as a punishment for the strikes. "We lost so much money because the writers and actors were gone for so long, so now we need to make up for that lost time and also we have to cancel certain shows because they take months to put together and cost so much to film. So now we have to raise our prices so we can try to salvage what we can afford to do." That's essentially the message they're sending.

Amazon has generated approximately $553.7 billion in revenue over the last year. So, this is clearly just the usual corporate greed. Breaking even isn't an option anymore. Every quarter, every year needs to make more money than the last. Meanwhile, Amazon treats their warehouse workers like garbage. (I hope the workers keep unionizing because they literally keep the world running. We're able to get just about anything delivered same day or overnight because of the warehouse workers and drivers.)

The writers went on strike because they were being run ragged and so were the actors. When you have a speedy three month production, that means those people need to find other jobs for the other months of the year. That's why the next season would take a year to make because people found other jobs, so they needed to work around those schedules. And that's not to say some writers and actors and behind the camera workers aren't working multiple jobs at the same time, because they are, but this creates more and more time conflicts. They weren't, and probably still aren't, paying these people enough. So, now that things have been renegotiated, the streaming services are upping their fees for bullshit reasons all because they legally have to pay their workers more and god forbid they don't turn a billion dollar profit.

It costs more money to market towards new subscribers than it does to maintain the ones you already have. But who am I to say anything?

[drmajalis]

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory is a master class in subtle character building, and here's why.

In the second half of the Seoul mission in Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, you, Sam Fisher, are tasked with retrieving critically important data stored on a downed Prowler aircraft that was shot down before the NKA forces get to it. When you arrive at the crash site, NKA forces are already there, including an APC, but the pilots of the Prowler are also there, and alive, but unconscious, having gotten out of the aircraft before the flames reach them. Lambert, your mission CO, orders you to laze the Prowler for an airstrike to eliminate the sensitive data, but Fisher objects, asking to get the pilots to safety first. Lambert stresses that your mission should take top priority. Fisher asks if he's ordering him to leave the pilots to die. Lambert says he knows what his objectives are. You, the player, are given the choice to take them to safety. Doing so requires carrying both pilots one at a time past the armour and patrolling NKA soldiers. There is no reward for doing this. It doesn't affect your end mission score, you don't lose points for letting them die, it isn't even listed as an objective in your menu. After you rescue one, Lambert tries to remind Fisher to laze the target. Fisher replies, "there's no point in saving just one." When the second is rescued, a very important conversation is triggered.

Lambert: Fisher, you don't exist. You won't get a medal for this. Sam: Medals don't help me sleep at night, Lambert. It's a really powerful moment from an otherwise kinda macho "America, fuck yeah!" Tom Clancy game about a super spy assassin, but it's not the only time. In the very first mission, your task is to rescue kidnapped computer scientist Bruce Morgenholt from a Peruvian militant group. However, by the time you reach him, Morgenholt is already dead, having been tortured to death by electric shocks while hanging from a pole over a bathtub. If you inspect his body, you get an option to cut him lose from the pole and lay him to rest gently in the bathtub. Lambert chastises you for getting too attached during the mission, but Fisher replied, "Just because he's dead, doesn't mean I have to leave him hanging there like a piece of meat [...] you can spare twenty seconds for some simple dignity." And, in a completely hidden moment, if you shoot Morgenholt's corpse, Lambert will freak out over the radio, but Fisher will calmly reply, "I just wanted to make sure he's not suffering." In the next level, you catch up with the leader of the terrorist group, Hugo Lacerda, who you are tasked with killing. If you capture Lacerda and interrogate him, Fisher will tell him he holds him responsible for Morgenholt's death, and it's one of the few times in the game Fisher sounds truly angry instead of just threatening when interrogating someone. You don't even have a choice to knock him out non-lethally, pressing the knock-out button will still result in Fisher slicing his neck open anyway. One more moment. In the Bank level, you are tasked with breaking into a Panamanian bank vault to access their computer records, but also to steal $50 million dollars in bearer bonds so the heist doesn't look like a US Intelligence gig. One of the optional objectives is to plant eight fabricated emails around the various computers in the bank, all designed to make the heist look like an inside job. When you finish, Fisher remarks that because of this, an innocent banker will go to jail, and he sounds genuinely conflicted over it, though Grimsdottir, his tech consultant, tries to assuage his guilt by claiming that the bankers are financing violent revolutionaries, likely no different from the ones that tortured Morgenholt to death. There are tons of these little moment in Chaos Theory that subtly build Fisher's character as someone more than just a killer. He's a human being, a father, with empathy and understanding, but also someone really good at his job, and who takes a noticeable amount of pleasure in that. Chaos Theory is often remembered for it's truly groundbreaking and honestly still unmatched stealth gameplay mechanics, but I'll always remember it more for it's character building. If you haven't given it a try because you think it's just a brainless pro-America propaganda piece (not unlike the future Splinter Cell instalments), I really do implore you to give it a try.

[phaeton-flier]

“Dad” is not an age! That’s exactly the point!

Yeah but like. I think that's more a matter of naming conventions for marketing than anything cutting joints in marketing groupings. Like I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Tom Clancy novels were in some "Males, aged 40-65" bracket in the marketing schema somewhere, it just that that doesn't get plastered in the ad copy.

[cyclone-rachel]

Thoughts on The Boys, episodes 2 and 3:

Episode 2:

Huh. Guess I have to watch The Wire.

Will Ferrell? What are you doing here

Guess they couldn’t have Clancy Brown play the coach

He played the coach, right

Oh hey, he’s back!

You don’t know the half of his low point

“sensitivity readers” and how many of those did you hire?

hahahaha

he’s gonna be fun

“braindead maniac” does describe the comic version

Of course

Don’t take anything they give you

Oh, it’s his mom that’s doing that stuff

Far from “wee” Hughie.

wait who’s this guy playing the boyfriend, I feel like I’ve seen him before

Oh he was the original Dove on Titans, that makes sense

she has a speech therapist?

I love her so much

Oh dear

Fuck off, Butcher

Oh no, they’re making a movie about Ryan

“Homeboy” oh no

Anakin too

This man says volumes with his face

again, I love Sage

Ashley changed her look! I forgot when she ditched the bangs

Oh ouch

Do you not know what the word solo means

That’s the exact wrong advice to give him

Is she 32?

oh she’s a decade older. I see.

Is that the right idea?

What are they doing

Ryan is not a good actor

Using the Captain America line, I see.

Yikes.

He’s gonna go on a power trip

Damn, really?

I want Kimiko’s jacket

Nothing like free hotel breakfast

Oh no, these weirdos are flat earthers too?

“Starlight is a lizard person” jesus

not the minion memes

oh they are calling him Dakota Bob

“soldier boy held captive by the CIA” well he’s being held captive by someone

fuck, they’re climate change deniers too?

“soldier boy + liberty= secret lovers?” I mean, maybe

gosh there’s so much here.

“stormfront is alive” the fuck she is

“tinfoil hat wearing nazi motherfuckers” correct!

Kimiko are you okay

you can tell this was filmed in 2022 because that’s the year before last’s baja blast

hahaha these guys believe delaware isn’t real?

“alt-Supe”

How dare you come for Tom Hanks

NO

god, Frenchie doesn’t believe in the moon landing?

Kimiko!

omg I love her

CUE TOM CARDY’S RED FLAGS

Hey!

Yeah, you should go to the hospital

So glad that he didn’t mean that

Thank you, Hughie

Haven’t seen him in a while

Clovergenders?

The political commentary on this show is too real.

Hahaha I love her

So like conspiracy theorist Jubilee.

YES GIRL

A-Train redemption? That would be nice.

Let him have his moment, man.

YIKES

He’s gonna have to work on his restraint

Kimiko are you okay

Firecracker said “fuck the French” I guess

She’s not gonna do it

That’s like 3 references in one

Drown his ass in the chocolate fountain

“Zionist cabal” NO

Goddamn

Run, bitch!

Hughie cheering on his girlfriend I love them so much your honor

oh hey she’s back!

Go off, Hughie

ooooh Kimiko what are you doing

Episode 3

This is not going to go well.

Also look how few Starlight supporters there are compared to the Homelander supporters

Fuck off

“they want to get rid of superheroes” and what do they think Starlight is, then?

What has she actually said?

There are not seven of them.

I do really like those suits

Oh good, Butcher seems to be doing the right thing

SHE’S ANTI-VAX TOO?

gosh, I do kind of hope she doesn’t believe all of this and is just looking up what will cause the most controversy and clicks. Would be funnier if she was a true believer though.

She’s not wrong

He is that petty

“make a sandwich out of her”

Guess we know Starlight says trans rights, good for her

I’m sure he’s gonna try

Just let him go into the basement and see there are no kids in there.

Well, then she’s gonna be out of a job

Love how The Masked Singer hasn’t changed here

Eyyy kimiko’s a hacker good for her

Kimiko and Helena would be great friends

I love Hughie wearing a dolly parton shirt

Maeve didn’t blow a dude

as far as I know

oh this is fun

“dodgy incel” he’s not wrong

Oh, his voice is changing

That’s fuckin’ brutal.

I’m obsessed with her

do I like Ashley now?

She is a girlboss

gosh, this song

Ryan!

It is clearly not nothing

He also helped take down Stormfront

Not wrong on any of those counts

MM is a great character

You two should hide

Oh yikes

Not the best thing to see

Get your head in the game

Oh hey, it’s Nina

Glad Butcher threw those away

Why did she end that sentence with a question if she wasn’t lying

You said she would be fine!

Ashley are you alright

Yes, go after her, queen

What is a dinosaur doing on her poster

Oh damn, Annie as a bully

She is better

Hasn’t she been traumatized enough

Oh no this is very out of date

also how dare they use Maeve’s image for this

OMG THE BOOK OF MORMON GUY

Hughie can chill.

There’s no way the vents are that big

Oh no

Hughie get out of there

“critical supe theory” I think that is just known as the works of Garth Ennis and a few other authors here in the real world, ma’am

Is Stan dead? I can’t remember

How did Homelander know

Hughie’s sweat is going to get him hurt

YIKES

Well they’re not performing that show anytime soon

Yeah, listen to her

You can try

And how would you do that?

why is she watching reality TV

Is he really?

Oh no

Stop talking about how people smell, Homelander

“gave you everything that I ever wanted” oh that was pointed

oh hey mirror Homelander is back

What start?

[asenatheoperator]

Can we just close down Ubisoft Montreal and forget their works? Or just changed the name of the game so they don't ruin the name of Rainbow Six and Tom Clancy any further...

I MEAN WHAT KIND OF STUPID MENTALITY THESE PEOPLE HAS THAT THOUGHT "Yeah, let's add crippled character into the game so players in real life that has disability could feel even more worse as they play these games to get away from the reality." AND APPROVED! TO THIS IDEA...

Just enough.. It is disrespecting both to people with disability and especially huge disrespected to the name of Rainbow Six, turning one of the most serious work in history to a Fortnite like thing.

[kineticpenguin]

Me, a █̶̧̹̯͓̙̜̤͔̠͑̽ͅ█̷̢̘͚̙̯̥͆-year old Catholic kid in the year 2000 after reading Tom Clancy's brand-new techno-thriller, The Bear and the Dragon, picked up at Costco: hmm. well Clancy's supposed to know his stuff but this all seems, uh. Hmm. This is some super corny shit. Weirdly racist about penises.

Me today remembering this book for some reason, and its cockamamie plot: wait. yeah that's the book where Catholics and Baptists are united in the US because a priest and a minister get merc'd trying to prevent the enforcement of the One Child Policy on CNN and that's not even scratching the surface of how insane this book is.

[emmashouldbewriting]

I think GRRM has aluded to this. He has 2 "fans" turned employees doing research, cataloging some of the stuff he's written, helping write the companion books and app, and know the story inside and out (I think he's said they may know some of it better than him. At one point, when he was tired of all the people complaining about how long it was taking, and saying he would die, that they would be involved in helping to finish it.

For other authors, keep in mind that the author or their estate has to be in agreement if there are copyright issues. So, Tom Clancy, for example, selected someone to carry on writing under his name, using his characters because he owned the rights to the Jack Ryan/Rainbow Six worlds. Also interesting - when he divorced, his first wife tried to claim future royalties saying that the IP of Jack Ryan was community property. Tom's response - that he would kill of Jack before he'd let her have a dime of any future earnings.

Yeah, I figured as much for GRRM. It's such a large and intricate world, he'd have to have it all figured out. Plus his age, it makes sense he has a team with him. "Bibles" are a pretty common thing even for romance authors whose series interconnect, so it makes sense. I'm not surprised he specifically has a plan for such a thing.

Very interesting about Tom Clancy. I didn't know that.

[uncannychange]

After signing reams of paperwork containing, among other things, the harshest non-disclosure agreements he had ever seen, Justin David Foster was blindfolded and taken to the location where beta testing was taking place for a new gaming system to be called Dreamforge 4000 (unknown to Justin real name Quantum Reality Manifestor Mark V, something much more than a gaming system, but they needed something to pull the dupes, err, volunteers in.)

Warned that once in the Dreamforge 4000, things would seem completely real, only more so, and that once they took him out after days of testing (“days?!?” “don’t worry, Mister Foster, we’ll take good care of your body.”) there was a possibility of mild residual auditory and visual hallucinations, as well as other effects. “Like what?” asked Justin “nothing to worry about,” they replied. After all, if they told him about the volunteers who just disappeared from existence with a pop and a bright cherry light during the tests of the Mark III, it would just worry him needlessly.

So They hooked him in, and with a body-shaking hum and a bright light, Justin found himself someplace else.

Justin had hoped the game would be like Elden Ring, Destiny 2, or Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege, where he found himself was a brightly colored high-fantasy realm called Opalutopia.

Also, to his dismay had found himself in Opalutopia not as the Warrior Mage or Tech Sargent he had asked for but as Jasmine Delilah Starbutter, Pixie princess!

“Crap on a Ritz Cracker!” thought Justin. “Hey, can you guys change this?” Jasmine spoke aloud in a voice that all but tinkled like a bell, hopeing the people in the room could hear him and do something.

No reply came, and nothing changed.

Foster shrugged, and as Princess Starbutter set out to explore.

One month later, at least according to calendars found in the realm, Justin was still in Opalutopia. Desperation began to set in for Justin. “they said days, and I didn’t believe them,” Foster thought. “I just hope this is some kind of induced messing with my sense of time; this is getting to me.”

Indeed during her month of sojourning the lands of Opalutopia, Justin, as Princess Jasmine, had had some remarkable adventures.

The most frightening of which had not been the Orks, Ogres, and highway bandits she had had to deal with, but the village of Mountain Gnomes, where three of them had begged her to get word to the bastards in the real world and get them home.

So, there was the Princess in yet another inn at the edge of the Great Forrest, drinking another mead and feeling sorry for herself, or himself; at that point, Justin was not sure which, when the room got painfully bright, bright, and silent.

And with that, the “video” helmet was pulled off, and he was back in the stark white room filled with equipment that he had not seen for what he thought at least had been a month. Only for some reason, it seemed larger than he remembered, as was the chair he sat in, which somehow had become much roomier.

“He’s back!” he heard one of the techs say. “Yes!” said another. “Yeah, but look at...him?” said a third.

“Welcome back… Mister Foster.” said the first tech. “There was a bit of a glitch with your test, but you are okay and back with us.” Before Justin could say anything, a stern man in a dark suit came from around the chair he was in and spoke. “Before we start on what needs to be done now, I need to remind you of all the legal papers you signed.” “What?” said Justin, pausing; there was something off about his voice.

One month after returning to the real world Justin was ready to leave the compound where the Quantum Reality Manifestor Mark V was being tested (in fact, they were already at work on the Mark VI due to what they had learned with Justin.)

Only Justin would not be going back to his old life. Due to his having returned from Opalutopia five years younger than his former 28 years, reduced down from a height of five foot, ten inches to four foot, four inches, and while human again and no longer a Pixie (whatever that even was), Justin was now a woman.

With the help of the mystery company that had done this to her, she had a new identity and would be moving to Bangor, Maine, as Jenna Davina Smith.

“And from now on, I’m sticking strictly to board, paper, and card games, " thought the new Ms. Smith.

[walder-138]

Sending this in again so let's hope it works this time!

For the OC ask game, ✨ ❤️ and 🍀 for Annika and Oz!

Yeah I’m sorry man 😭 Luckily I got it this time!

ANNIKA NIKOLAEVNA VORONOVA

✨: I honestly can’t remember how I came up with her first name. I think I saw it somewhere and was like “Damn I gotta remember that name for the future” and I decided to give it to her. Nikolai is the name of one of my friends, so that’s what her patronymic is based off. Voronov was the last name of one of my retired OCs, and I still liked it, so yeah!

❤️: Annika’s best memory is meeting Boris (her childhood dog) for the first time. She was 11 at the time, dealing with the near daily shootouts from the organized crime group she was raise in, and Boris offered Annika comfort. The thing was flea-ridden and ‘ugly’, but Annika loved him more than any human she met.

🍀: What inspired me to make Annika this way was the commentary I made while playing COD BOCW. I had absolutely no respect for anyone (besides Park 🤭) and I was an asshole the entire time. I thought it would be an interesting concept if, despite her loyalty, Bell lacked empathy (not to say she doesn’t have it; it’s just hard for her to express it).

(Side note: I’ve considered making her related to Volkov in some way, now I’ve been thinking about making her his kid, but I don’t know lmao)

OZ CLANCY (I have wayyy less details about him though)

✨: I named him after Ozzy Osborne and Tom Clancy, literally didn’t put too much thought into it at all 💀

❤️: Oz’s happiest memory was when Jenny said her first word. It was during one of his visitation days. Jenny was chewing on a ball, so Oz took it off of her. She got upset, and said ‘Mama’ at him. Well, he’s not a woman, nor her mom, but let me tell you that man shed a tear.

🍀: He was inspired by the song ‘Peace Sells’ by Megadeth. It made me want to make a character who’s been fucked over by the government more times than he can count, and it collapsing wouldn’t shock or deter him. Also, wanted to make Oz like the average main FPS character, but who actually has to deal with the consequences of his actions, similar to Jason Brody from FC3.

Thank you again for the ask!