#OO also I drew today!! as in I drew humans (which are very hard for me) and they turned out prettyy!

[transfennecbuddy]

HI HI HI HELLO I have a THING! That I want to show y'all! HEHEHEHEHEHE I have another rant!! I shall hide it behind the read more thing but yeah!!! Hehe rant!!

(Also! Legal disclaimer! [Not really but same vibe.] This rant is about a super fancy snazzy spiffy science thing [CRISPR] but I'm not a science professional! I'm just doing a school project on this! This is what I got from YouTube videos and websites and such, yeah? If I get things wrong, that's why!)

Hi hi hi so you came to see my rant huh? Huh huh huh? Well I shall show you hehehe!

Have you heard of a thing called CRISPR? I'm gonna assume that you haven't so that I can explain!! It's a gene editing tool that uses a protein called Cas9, which is commonly found in bacteria! You see, bacteria have been using this fancy thing all along for ages! Like whenever bacteria get attacked by a virus (which happens a lot) and that virus is new to it, it doesn't really have a fancy defense mechanism to protect itself. But if it survives the attack, then it takes a bit of the virus's DNA and saves it in a section of its own DNA using Cas9. And then if it gets attacked by that virus again, it'll check the virus's DNA against the samples it has in storage, recognize the DNA, and make pieces of RNA to attack the virus right at its DNA!

Cool, huh? Well scientists found about this lil whizzy thing called Cas9 a while ago and were pretty excited, for good reason. With CRISPR, we can not only edit the DNA of creatures that haven't been born yet but also creatures that are very well and living which can pave the way to treatments for genetic diseases!! Plus it's much cheaper than it cost to do genetic stuff the old way!!! (As in, some folks are trying to get laypeople to try out CRISPR on themselves, and their main struggle is with convincing people to do it cause the cost isn't that big of a factor!) We already have GMOs like the Flavr Savr tomato (which takes longer to rot on store shelves thanks to being genetically modified). If CRISPR is safe (which folks are still trying to work on since there's still so much about genetics that scientists don't know and messing with folks' genomes can lead to unintended consequences [also fun fact: the word consequences is used colloquially to mean a bad effect of something, but in stuff like psychology, it just means an effect of something!!]), then it can be super awesome!

I learned about this lil thing back in... I think 2018? I watched a Kurzgesagt video on it a few years ago at least, and I rediscovered the vid during the pandemic while everyone and everything was shut down and there wasn't much to do during the summer other than sit on the couch and watch TV. And like, I LOVED that video when I first watched it?? I watched it multiple times and I even forced (read: persuaded/begged) my parents to watch it too. And I still love hearing about CRISPR and genetic engineering and genetics in general now because of that (and it's impressed at least two important people in my life so I consider it a success!). Like when we touched briefly on CRISPR in my biology class last year, I was SUPER excited in the back of the classroom because it was CRISPR!! One of my childhood interests that has significantly influenced my life!!

So when we had to do a project on new science in my physics class this year (for... reasons), I immediately looked up new stuff going on with CRISPR within the last couple years. AND TURNS OUT! FOLKS HAVE MADE A CRISPR 3.0 NOW! Like I didn't even get to hear about CRISPR 2.0, it was just straight to CRISPR 3.0!! And hopefully CRISPR 3.0 is safer, more effective, and easier to use than the original version of CRISPR.

ALSO! CRISPR IS BEING TRIED OUT TO HELP FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA(high cholesterol risk passed down genetically)!! THAT'S SO COOL!!! AND IT'S BEING TESTED ON PEOPLE NOW! I will literally SCREAM this is so cool!!

So yes! I'm having a fun time, hehe. And I'm writing this instead of actually working on my project, but that's cause it's helping me put together my thoughts! Totally not because I'm just too excited to work on it without being able to gush to someone about it (/sarcasm), lol.

#learning about this has filled me with joy and bliss c: #and I am absolutely starting on this project now even though it's due next Friday what about it?? /lighthearted #me's happyy #I have already told one of my school friends and my mom and my cousin about this and I am making it my #main mission in life to make this everyone's problem HEH #also I hurt my legs writing this #as in I sat crosslegged with one on top of the other (like that yoga pose) for hours writing this and my review of Shadow Shadow #and now my knees are creaky and hurt to unbend #I feel like I should make 'I hurt my legs writing this' a tag just for funsies cause I hurt my legs a lot lol #I'm very tempted >:T #OO also I drew today!! as in I drew humans (which are very hard for me) and they turned out prettyy! #today's just been an all-around good day <3 #kitty's rants #CRISPR #tw capital letters #lots of capital letters #whole capitalized sentences actually

[crystu-cii]

Y E AH LIKE HELLO I NEED TO BREATH E

XDD YESSS-- YEAH FOR FREE-- we weren't even gonna GET a pet in japan but they found a post about her and were like "...okay fine" and she is so sweet 💕💞❤️💖💞💕💞 oms XDD mood-- oh so what you're saying is you should get a dog with the same color hair as you so you can't tell the difference? XD you'd have no problem with a little extra shed fur-- w h e eze true some people hate loud animals-- I don't, but I do have sensitive ears, which I.. did not take into account when getting a pet ;w;; good luck with getting a pet in the future!!! Again.. I recommend doggos--

XDDD it is SO TASTY-- it's got sweet potato mashed and mixed with brown sugar, with more brown sugar and pecans over the top, then marshmallows on top of those :3c

WOWWW HOW-- THAT'S INSANEEEE-- DAMN THAT'S SOME ROTTEN LUCK-- yeah school budgets? What's that XD yeesh tho that's some awful luck crys-

It is SO AWESOME-- But cRYsSssSSs Portal 2 has a co-op mode!!! And the puzzles aren't too hard-- you even have an in-game polite guide!!! Also I saw a thing today saying "so we obviously can't please EVERYone with a game but I gotta tell you I ain't ever seen a mfer complain about Portal!" WHICH IS SO TRUE LIKE EVERYONE LOVES PORTAL--

Yesss!!!! YEAAAA GLADOS SAYS TRANS AND ENBY PEOPLE ROCK AND ARE VALID!!!!!! I'd like you to know, when I initially discovered it, I had been trying to fall asleep and Couldn't so my mind was wandering, and I was like "....is there a Glados says trans rights thing on the internet?" and I was gonna do it in the morning but I couldn't sleep anyways so I just. Looked it up. At like 2am. Because it was That Important that I couldn't sleep until I looked it up(and then I fell asleep pretty fast, so.. hm--) XDDD

YEAH like wHERE ARE YALL-- XDD

Wellllll what are we supposed to do? Just move it to our dms? gestures vaguely to the length of theses posts You think discord can handle this?? It couldn't even handle me rambling about the cores with it's cowardly 2k character limit! /lh

aawhhh 😭💞💞💕💞💞

and PFTT that would be a lot more chaotic XDD literally right after i vaccum my floor in my room there many strands back on the floor anyway- gosh i have no clue whats up with my hair ;0;; and yeahh- my friend who used to be my neighbor had birds and they would ALWAYS make sound and im like "oh man-" xDD and the BIRDS WERENT EVEN FRIENDLY like- i was there when they first got the birds arrived to them and i was expecting the birbs to be nice but they legit repel from human contact- whenever i would stick my finger in the cage they would hang on the the opposite side of the cage xD so far i imagine they just let them live and dont interact with them at all- doesnt really sound fun to be honest ;w;;

and OOOO MAN that sounds so awesome :0 ooO i should also say how my dinner went yesterday, since it was kinda our belated thanksgiving- we got take out from a chinese restaurant! might sound a little sad that we didnt cook anything- but take out is a very common thing in our family xD and i FINALLY GOT MY CHEESECAKE I DESIRED YAAAAASSSS- and my bro also got cookies! (they were from a high quality place as well) and one of the flavors was pumpkin pie (the cookie even looked like a pie!) and i was happy cause that shall replace the actual pumpkin pie i also wanted xD and it was GOOD?? LIKE MOM- PUMPKIN PIE ISNT BAD xD so that was my night!

and LEGITTTT LIKE- oh my god i can LITERALLY go on and on about how horrible that year was from my previous year- and THEN THERES COVID TO TOP IT ALLLL OFF UGHHHHWUFOAJ

and WHHH IT DOES?? I thought that was a seperate game :OO and oHHH that sounds cool! and BAHHA- fACTSSS xDD and omggg i feel that- i would always search up random things of a fandom and see if they exist or not XDD IM SO GLAD A "TRANS RIGHTS" GLADOS EXISTS XDD i also actually do have a Portal instagram folder where i save portal related posts- OKAY AT THE MOMENT I AM WRITING THIS SENTENCE i looked back wt the folder (its the last one out of all my folders because i havent saved any posts in it for a LONG time) and there arent many posts as there are with my other franchise folders- BUT LITERALLY (ALMOST) ALL THE POSTS ARE WHEATLEY AND IM LIKE PFPFNTKAHFIANJD there were also some chell x human!wheatley there because the way people drew those two were in a very cute art style so i liked it- i hope me liking the ship doesnt sound too weird though- xD ;w;; bUt THATS my experience of being in the portal fandom(?) XDD

and oh yeaH YOURE RIGHT- i keep forgetting that discord has a character limit but at the same time it always gets me- whenever im trying to show my friends a fanfic i wrote discord is all like "IMMA STOP YOU RIGHT THERE" and its shitty- my friends dont even comment on my fanfics anyway- xDD

#the rambles of crystu

[xenosgirlvents]

“Fantum maskz! Git ya’ Fantum maskz! Fer da low, low price a’ all da teef in ya gob, you’ze can look jus’ like Warboss Fantum! Jus’ way, way runtier,” a greenskin merchant bellowed, his calls largely drowned out by the countless other merchants jostling to sell their own wares. The Buhzarr, as the Operorks referred to their main marketplace, was extremely busy today, as well it should have been. The Fantum, warboss of the Operork clan and leader of the growing WAAAAGH! Bignoyz, had finally announced that the WAAAAGH! was ready to take off in search of a “Roight gud foight” and new war stories to sing about. As such, the merchants of the highly organized – by Ork standards, at least – primary warclan were capitalizing on the excitement. Lots of excitement meant lots of loose teef, and lots of loose teef meant lots of greenskins looking to spend said teef.

One greenskin in particular watched the clamoring mob with a smile of amusement from on top of a flimsy “apartment” complex, chewing on some dried meat held in her one good hand. La’al had spent an entire year trapped on this planet, and she had adapted fairly well once things had… well, things involving Orks never really calmed down, but they mellowed slightly. Having painted her limbs and skin green, even with her “roight Orky” helmet she still shouldn’t have passed well as a greenskin. She was much shorter and more slender than proper Orks, while also being much taller and well-built than the gretchin populace of The Stayj – the name the greenskins had given to the planet during their stay. But apparently being able to best most Orks who gave her trouble through hand-to-hand combat was all the bhe’ghaal needed to accept “Lildeff” as one of their own.

It had not been a particularly easy year of her life, as the number of new scars crisscrossing her biological components could clearly show, but she was doing much better than she had ever expected she could. Finishing off her meal, she clamped the jaws/visor of her helmet shut again and dropped down a few stories, walking along atop the various merchant awnings a few yards above the densely packed streets of the Buhzarr. Whenever one of the Orks below noticed Lildeff’s unique silhouette and made a gesture or call up to her, she would respond in kind, either waving the new, much more well-made blade she had recently welded to her left arm or replying in Ork tongues, either true Orkish or their human dialect. If she had been Por’faan the bhe’ghaal’s relative camaraderie would likely have made her entire life worthwhile. She had somehow managed to live alongside the antithesis of the Tau’va. And all it had really taken was some strategic displays of force, and occasionally proving that said displays were more than luck.

After a few hours of relatively aimless wandering, occasionally knocking the teef out of a particularly rowdy greenskin to trade for her regular supplies, the prices of which had been dramatically marked up with how many teef were flowing lately, she found herself at the edge of town opposite where she had made her “home,” more a very heavily booby-trapped cave just beyond the outskirts of the shanty-city, and looked upon the fleet, an odd sense of awe in her at the sight. There were more than fifty Mega-Gargants of various size and design parked out in the badlands – and towering above all of them was the Perish Operork Fort, the Fantum’s personal command center. Even to La’al’s T’au sensibilities it was utterly breathtaking. The Perish was so unbelievable in its scale that even the spires of the Imperator titan whose deployment on Dal’yth she had seen recordings of would have barely reached mid-chest on it.

She had never heard of a bhe’ghaal force so well organized or armed as this WAAAAGH! and she took immense pity on the people who would soon face their wrath. She had done what she could to sabotage the construction of many of the Gargants, but with the way Ork technology functioned, the lone Fire warrior held little faith that her makeshift explosives and strategic cutting and acid bathing would do more than slow them down, enough to allow evacuations with a bit of luck. Despite that, she had worked hard to make sure many of the lesser war machines, like the Kans and Dreads, would crash in spectacular fashion within just a few engine activations, and many Mekz, Painboyz, and Nobz among their numbers had met their end along the edge of her blade, glinting in the dark of night.

Wandering out onto the depot field where the fleet was parked up, she gave the titanic machines another looking over, testing and weakening external mechanisms covertly as she went.

“Oi, Lildeff! Ya bring me anyfin’ ta nosh on?” came a shout from several yards up one of the machines, the “Fist uv Maybee Mork,” if memory served. Looking up, La’al rolled her eyes at the severed purple head yelling at her.

“When wuz da last time A’ brought ya’ anyfin’, ya’ daft git? Ya’ dinnae even ‘av a stomach,” she responded, her own accent still not quite gone behind the Ork one she put on.

“’Oo needz a gut ta’ nosh on stuff?” Nashtoof retorted, swinging himself about on the chain dangling his head from the Gargant.

Shaking her head with a chuckle, La’al jumped up to the spot he was hanging from, finding a relaxed position on one of the many “small” guns jutting out of the machine.

“Pretty much any’un not an Operork, Nash,” the “greenskin” said, pulling some jerky out of her bag and impaling it on one of the head’s tusk-like lower canines. Her words were quite true though. La’al herself had decapitated Nashtoof an entire year prior. However, the “kultur” of the Operorks was extensively intertwined with their ability to sing. As such, the clan held zealously to the belief that their heads had literally no need for their body other than to get properly stuck into fights. Admittedly that was fairly important for Orks in general, but Operorks could be a part of the fight without ever needing to swing a blade or pull a trigger. Their songs alone could, as La’al had seen with her own two eyes, whip their brethren into an astonishing bloodlust, make their machinery work with nearly unparalleled efficiency, or even shake the very foundations of mountains.

“Lookin’ for’ard ta’ getting’ off world, finally?” the T’au asked as Nashtoof worked the piece of meat off of his tooth with his tongue.

“Zog yeh!” he responded before finally getting a grip of the food. “Bin way too long wiffowt a gud scrap!” His chewing on the jerky didn’t even muffle his voice, a concept La’al found even stranger than the fact he was speaking without a body. The line of what is possible had to be drawn somewhere, right?

“I’ze gotta say, doh. I get dis odd feelin’ dat we’ze gonna be in for a bigun soonah den latah,” said the bhe’ghaal, an odd darkness and calm coming over him, fully opposite of how any normal Ork would say those words.

“Whyz’at?” La’al asked, looking down at the head with mild confusion and surprise at the tone of his voice.

“Dunno. Jus’… jus’ a feelin’. Sky’ze getting’ dark, doh. Probubly time fer ya’ ta’ leave, den’. All da’ best scraps iz gonna be goin’ on bakk in town,” the hesitant tone and sudden shift of subject put La’al very much on edge. Even so, she nodded and hopped down from the titanic machine.

“Yeah. Prob’ly time. Dinnae wanna miss da’ gooduns. See ya’ round, Nash,” she said, walking back toward town and the sounds of its clamor. She had adjustments to make to the stellar radio she had been cobbling together in her cave over the last year before its first test that night, after all. But still, something was scratching at the back of her head in regards to what Nashtoof had said, and not just the bhe’ghaal’s tone of voice. It was something she couldn’t quite put her finger on. Until, like a sun cresting the horizon, it dawned on her.

Snapping around, she looked up at the system’s star, still high in the sky and as yet untouched by the growing storm-clouds. Yet it was growing darker and darker by the moment. Then, the sky began to roar with the sounds of countless fighter craft and dropships falling through the atmosphere.

La’al saw red. Not for the fighters, not for the dropships, not in their Guard colors. No, what drew the fury from the darkest depths of her heart was the drop pods, falling wave after wave into the badlands and sprawling shanty-towns around her. The drop pods. The jet-black drop pods. Marked with the jagged cross.  The Black Templars had brought their eternal crusade back across the Damocles Gulf. And from the Stayj, a bellowing cry of bloodlust and excitement rose to meet them.

(And so the climax approaches. I’ll admit, not totally sure about how well this particular part works out for someone who didn’t write the thing. Deeply sorry if parts of this story feel less than cohesive with one another. Don’t really have much of a commentary at the moment, but as always I’m open for any questions and critiques)

No need to apologize, and sorry I took this long to get back to you! The truth is just that I've had a rough spell and thus was quite inactive for a while, but thank you for still sending me this. 

I do not have too much commentary on this one; I enjoy the closer look at Ork cultural cues and societal nuances, I have always enjoyed those, so seeing something of a market at the outset, for example, was something I enjoyed greatly!

[marissamayr]

Nostalgia, Gratitude & Optimism

The Yahoo-Verizon transaction closed this morning.  Here’s the email that I sent to company, looking back at the last 5 years and the company’s whole history.

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323 days ago, we announced that Verizon would be acquiring Yahoo’s operating business. Today, I can announce that the transaction has officially closed. While reaching this moment has certainly been a long road traveled, it marks the end of an era for Yahoo, as well as the beginning of a new chapter – it’s an emotional time for all of us. Given the inherent changes to my role, I’ll be leaving the company. However, I want all of you to know that I’m brimming with nostalgia, gratitude, and optimism.

It’s been my great honor and privilege to be a part of this team for the last 5 years. Together, we have rebuilt, reinvented, strengthened, and modernized our products, our business, and our company.

Looking back on my time at Yahoo, we have confronted seemingly insurmountable business challenges, along with many surprise twists and turns. I’ve seen our teams navigate these hurdles and mountains in ways that have not only made Yahoo a better company, but also made all of us far stronger. During these past 5 years, we’ve built products that delight our users, focused on our clients’ businesses, driven substantial value for our shareholders, and endeavored to make Yahoo the absolute best place to work. I want to take a moment to remind you of some of our many achievements together. They are remarkable, and we should all be very proud.

To our users: We have enhanced our products to be far more modern and engaging, especially for mobile

We became 1 of 3 internet companies in the world with more than 1B monthly users

We grew our monthly mobile users to more than 650M (one of the largest in the world) by launching and improving our products for mobile devices

We dramatically focused our product strategy, dispensing 150+ subscale products and features

We invested in search, building an offering that drew on strengths from Microsoft, Google and Yahoo, to provide dramatically improved search to our users and attract impactful partnerships, like Mozilla

We fundamentally improved Yahoo Mail, completely rewriting much of the infrastructure to provide a far more flexible and reliable system, while creating a robust mobile offering. Mobile Mail recently surpassed desktop Mail in daily users, which shows the power of the product and the platform we reinvented

We invested in our homepage and key verticals – news, sports, finance, and lifestyles – with each remaining as the go-to destinations in their categories. And, they have found new followings on mobile through the Yahoo app, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, and Yahoo Fantasy. It’s hard to believe, but, in 2012, we didn’t have any of these 4 now-cornerstone apps on iOS or Android, we weren’t developing native apps, and we didn’t use these sought-after brands outside of desktop. Today, our users collectively spend an equivalent of 1,400 years on these products EVERY day.

We bolstered our security defenses with cross-company initiatives like SSL, HTML5, Account Key, and HTTPS

We committed to and invested in technical excellence in our architectures, reducing user-impacting incidents by more than half over the past 5 years

We won 2 Apple Design Awards in 2013 and 2014, and put unified product design front and center with Fuji

To our advertisers: We completely rebuilt our advertising business, putting our clients first

We rebuilt Yahoo’s ad tech around the fastest growing areas of digital advertising - mobile, video, native, and social (the Mavens)

We delivered $2B+ in Mavens GAAP Revenue last year (42% of Yahoo’s revenue!) up 10x from $200M in 2012 and essentially zero in 2011

Our GAAP mobile revenue last year was nearly $1.5B, making us one of the largest mobile ad platforms in the world

We pioneered Yahoo Gemini native and search ads, completely from scratch, now generating more than $1B in revenue annually

We acquired BrightRoll and Flurry to generate substantial new revenue streams in areas that aligned with our strategic growth areas of video and mobile

We dramatically streamlined our ad product suite, improved the functions of our auctions and exchanges, and made our ad formats work better for our advertisers while enhancing the design of our products

To our shareholders: Our stock has hit a 17-year high, more than tripling since July 2012

We oversaw the creation $43B in market capitalization and shareholder value. Our market cap has gone from $18B to $51B (increasing our valuation by $33B), while we returned nearly $10B in cash to shareholders.

We bought back 27% of our outstanding shares at an average price of $28.64. This scale of buyback is nearly unprecedented in its size, efficiency and accretion.

We negotiated the ability to retain an additional 122M Alibaba shares after the IPO. Today, those shares are worth an additional $9B beyond the IPO price.

We generated more than $800M in cash by licensing and selling non-core patents and real estate

We rebuilt Yahoo with the most efficient workforce and operated with the lowest cost structure in more than a decade

To our employees: We’ve helped bring to life the best of Yahoo’s culture

We increased transparency, accountability, and innovation with FYI, Corporate Goals, PB&J, and Hackdays

We expanded benefits including free food, extended maternity and paternity leave, and encouraged using Yahoo products by providing smartphones for our employees

We prioritized leadership empowerment, diversity & inclusion, and giving back with Yahoo for Good

We strategically reshaped our technical and sales talent, with a workforce that became 48% tech and 25% sales

As I look back on these achievements, I want to sincerely thank every single Yahoo employee, past and present, for your contributions both large and small. I’m tremendously grateful for all of the hard work and the many sacrifices you’ve made. We always endeavored to do the right thing for our users, advertisers, shareholders, and fellow Yahoos. This has required the most impressive displays of teamwork, innovation, and resilience I’ve ever seen, and working with you has made my time as CEO nothing short of a privilege.

Finally, I want to thank our founders, Filo and Jerry. Every entrepreneur’s wildest dream is to change the world with their ideas, and you’ve done just that. From day one, your tenacity and whimsy helped create one of the most special companies of all time – one that has employed more than 175,000 people, generated over $77B in revenue, and has informed, connected, and entertained a large portion of humanity. You’ve inspired all of us with your brilliance, values, and passion, and I will forever be in awe of you and I will forever be your biggest fan :-)  

Yaho-o-oo!

Marissa

[shapeshifting-arch-mage]

Discord RP: 4/27/2018 (Other RP’ers’ swear words are under the cut)

[2488] and finally, lured from the smell of fresh meat. they crawl out. their powers mostly gone. they hiss:

"Fine, go be free. I don't care about you any more" they mumble. they then expel a Soul, is that the mage soul? that powerful soul? it doesn't matter. 2488 looks around, glaring at Mailna. they steal a cookie cake than dart back into the safety of the bushes. odd... doesn't he hunt these areas? 

[Mail] "oh great. he took a part of the cake. meanie"

My lamentations are interrupted by the sudden sensation of being shot out from somewhere. I land on the ground and sprout a pair of tiny red legs to stand up with. I realize that I can no longer feel the presence of the three other human souls, the dragon soul, or 2488.

"...Am I... free?" I wonder to myself. However, the sounds of 2488 showing up and releasing me have attracted the attention of the Temmie, who had been perusing her list of music on her cell phone. Her head darts up and she fixes a wide-eyed gaze on me.

"is... is a... a... SOULs?!?" she whispers in disbelief. Temmie has heard of human souls and how they are far more powerful than monster souls, but until now, she has never seen one in person. Transfixed by the sight of me, she leaves her phone and LED light by the tree and vibrates over to where I stand. "u a SOULs?!?!"

[Mail] Mailna watches

...That voice. I know that voice. It's the voice of a-

Temmie claps me between her paws. "h-h-h-human SOULs... such a... CUTE!!1!"

Wait a minute, wait a minute. If Temmie's holding my disembodied soul, I realize, then that would mean that she could...

...Oh no. Oh no. Oh dear god, no. Right after I just got free from 2488, I'm about to get absorbed again?! What the heck would happen if a Temmie, of all monsters, absorbed a human soul?! Would she become a super-powerful Temmie to rule the rest of them?! With my soul and my powers, she probably could...

[M] "wow. the Island just got a whole lot more interesting"

But on the other hand, Temmies adore humans. Would she really do this to me? Would she- Temmie snuggles me against her.

"is a nice SOUL...! a nice hoomin SOUL...! ...u liek hapY fun rAev time, humin???"

Happy fun... rave time? Is that what she just said? Why would a Temmie ask me that? Temmies don't rave, they just vibrate until their faces detach. At least, that's the closest thing to a dance I've ever seen them do...

Of course, I certainly know another monster- a Fresh-possessed one- who does, but he hasn't shown up in quite some time. I can't help but wonder if I'll ever see him here again...

[C] Corrin wasn't sure what to make of the Big Sister still. It seemed harmless enough. She was about to say something else when something slammed into her side, knocking her out of the Big Sister’s hand. As Corrin fell, she noticed that the figure that attacked her was... HER?!?

"What the? Wha-How is this possible!" Corrin said. She drew Yato out as the chocolate figure also pulled out what looked to be Omega Yato! Two other chocolate figures fell along with it wielding what looked to be a chocolate version of the Blazing and Shadow Yato. Corrin wasn't sure what was going on, but it looked that they were out for blood...HER blood! She transformed into a dragon as she flew over back toward the countertop. The three chocolate clones also transformed into dragons as they gave chase to Corrin. As she reverted to normal along with the chocolate clones, Corrin held her Yato in a defensive stance as the three figures only glared at Corrin, clearly bent on killing her!

Temmie glances up at Corrin and her chocolate clones for a moment, before placing me in her mouth and wandering back over to the tree where she left her phone and lamp.

[Big Sister] A quick glance from the Big Sister would show one she's still around, and piecing the situation together it could easily say this. SAY YES. Give it what it wants. If, of course, the little thing in its arms didn't want to be eaten like that cookie it devoured. The humanity. Then the Big Sister saw as Corrin was about to fight a bunch of chocolate monsters. What the hell. She would give Corrin a little hand, feeling as if this wasn't her place by placing her hand upon the counter where Corrin had stood, giving her a chance for a tactical retreat. However... its attention was on the little white furred thing that had just put another thing in its mouth before going back to a phone. What the hell was happening today.

Temmie attempts to ask me another question, but she doesn't seem to be able to speak clearly with a human soul in her mouth.

"yrrr nr brrkrr rrrvmrrrn???"

"...brrkrr d rrvmrrrn?? brrft drrjrr?? brrft hrrpr frr rrv trrrmmf??? ...hrrmrrrnn???"

[M] Mailna quietly freaks out on the inside.for no apperant reason

I can feel her mouth moving against me as she talks... o_o;

I wiggle my tiny red legs in a pitiful attempt to escape, to which Temmie responds by dropping me out of her mouth and into her paws.

She then asks me again: "u no Baku?? u kno best dJ Baku? is best dJ raEvman?!?1" She vibrates excitedly at the thought of her favorite DJ.

...

...Baku.

...Baku.

Hearing that name coming from her- coming from a Temmie, an innocent, naive Temmie- sends a chill through me as the realization takes hold. She knows Baku. She's met him, and judging by how excited she's acting just from mentioning him- she seems to adore him. That slimeball. That selfish, personal space-invading, awesomely-dressed CREEP. She LIKES him. I'm at a loss for words, and not just because of my current lack of a mouth.

[Big Sister] What the hell was a Baku? What was that thing even saying? Unlike other humans with their odd speech, the Big Sister could barely understand the Temmie with her weird inflections. It was distracting, sending the creature all sorts of mixed signals. Where do they start and where do they end? Perhaps she could inquire about it... the Big Sister would glance to Corrin and give them a small open palm to signify waiting before walking over to the little fluffy white thing. The last step it makes is a stomp, trying to get the little critters’ attention.

Temmie misinterprets my little shiver of nervousness as a shiver of excitement. She was about to keep talking when she hears a loud thud, and turns to the Big Sister. With my soul still firmly in her paws, she asks:

"OO! OOO! u no Baku da ravEman to?1?!! is best dj!! has best fun haPy rAevtImes!1!!!"

All I can do is quiver, uneasy at the thought that Baku has an actual devoted fangirl. And she's a Temmie, of all things. This poor creature most likely has no idea of just who she's really obsessing over...

After all, Baku isn't who he appears to be. While he may appear to be a tall, sleek skeleton monster in a sleeveless hoodie, he's really a tiny little slug-like creature living inside said skeleton monster, controlling his every move. I highly doubt that this Temmie knows that, however, since there'd be no way for her to tell unless she had already learned what Fresh parasites were and how they functioned beforehand. And I very much doubt that she has...

[C] Corrin knew that she was outmatched facing against clones of herself... even if they were made entirely of chocolate. She looked back at the Big Sister as she saw that it gave her a sign that she took as waiting. She nodded as she turned her attention back towards her chocolate coated clones. The Chocolate Corrin (Which for simplicity’s sake will be abbreviated as C.Corrin) that had the Blazing Yato in hand rushed forward as the chocolate coated blade swung at Corrin. Corrin reacted quickly by raising Yato to meet with the Chocolate Blazing Yato. The blades clashed with a ting as tiny pieces of chocolate flew from the Chocolate Blazing Yato. Corrin reached for her Silver sword and swung up to disarm the C.Corrin. She then swung Yato at the C.Corrin, chopping at the chocolate-coated arm, which seemed to have fallen off easily. The C.Corrin jumped back as her arm fell on the table. Corrin could only grip her blades as she observed the chocolate clone’s every move.

"u no Baku?! u no da Baku best dJ?!?! u kno him?!?!" Temmie asks the Big Sister again, vibrating with anticipation.

[Big Sister] Damage control would be attempted immediately. The Big Sister would nod in response, seemingly capable of actually understanding someone. But first... seeing as the little red thing was terrified, as fear was something the Big Sister saw as commonly as corpses, she would extend her hand and make a little gesture with her fingers in a polite attempt to convince the cute creature that the red thing was hers. Of course it wasn’t at all hers but, the kitty couldn’t know. Or was it a super fluffy dog with one of the most adorable faces its ever honestly seen? It would turn back for a moment before taking note that the things trying to attack her were chocolate. Not even close to dangerous. Unless they shot fire or something. But in the meantime, turns back to the little thing and nods. Did the Temmie have two sets of ears? That’s just weird.

Not getting an answer, the Temmie asks again, with more urgency:

"u no him?!? u kno him?1?1! u no da RAVEMAN?!?!?!" She is vibrating harder than ever, to the point where her face can't keep up with how hard the rest of her body is vibrating.

[Big Sister] OK this was weird, but the creature nods again towards her, hopefully she doesn’t require a vocal answer otherwise she would vibrate until she explodes.

"awawawa!! U NO BAKU!! U NO DA BEST DJ RAVEMAAAAAAAAN!!1!" Temmie is completely overcome with excitement. She vibrates harder and harder, except for her face, which continues to vibrate much less intensely than the rest of her. I, meanwhile, am becoming increasingly disturbed at just how fanatical this Temmie is towards Baku. A scumbag like him doesn't deserve a fan this utterly devoted, no matter how amazing his fashion sense is.

[M] Sadly, the cake croc has never heard of Baku. but wants to learn more. But hell no are they going to ask. This is business rivalry. they're bad for business, they're not going to be friendly towards them. well, mostly. i guess.

[Big Sister] As if the cake crocodile had ANY sort of say in the matter of business in the first place. But, for the time being the Big Sister continues to nod slowly while attempting, slowly to not startle the tiny creature, place its hand upon the red “Soul” thing and perhaps slip it out of the paws of the Temmie. Because that vibrating was honestly making the Big Sister extremely confused, but she was acting like she knew Baku and she knew what she was doing.

Unfortunately for the Big Sister, Temmie notices her reaching for my soul. She stops vibrating and backs away, clutching me to her chest.

"n-n-NO!! is... human soul is MINE!!1! IS MINE1!!! IS MY HUMIN SOULs1!!!1!1 IS MINE, IS MINE, IS..."

As she holds me close, I can feel myself moving even closer to her. Moving into her. closer, closer, into her body... and then dread overtakes me as I realize what's about to happen. As I sink into her chest and out of sight, the Temmie begins to glow...

She becomes engulfed in white light...

[C] Corrin held Yato and her Silver Sword in front of her as the three C.Corrins slowly appraoched her with their respective Yatos drawn. Though the C.Corrin that had the Blazing Yato had one of its arms sliced off, it still slowly approached Corrin with the others. Corrin slowly walked back until she felt one of her foot slip. She managed to regain her balance as she looked behind her. She noticed the scene where the Big Sister was doing... something? She couldn't tell what exactly was happening as a white light enveloped what looked to be a cat-dog creature. She turned back in time to parry a blow from the other C.Corrin that had the Shadow Yato. There was no way Corrin was going to win THIS fight! She transformed into a dragon as she flew off, catching up to the Big Sister. She landed beside what she thought was the creatures shoulder as she tried to observe what happened. Fortunately, it sounded like she lost the three clones that were after her... for now.

[Big Sister] Fuck fuck fuck this was too early! Whoops maybe making a move was a dumb idea, no matter how slowly. But you only realize the mistake you made, after making it after all she was not into this shit. So seeing as the scene would probably get really ugly, and noticing that Corrin happened to be backed far against a metaphorical wall... it would take a step back, then another before turning her head away from the scene and dashing away into the resort lobby, planning on hiding wherever. In a pool or a ocean, if Corrin could breathe underwater then they could wait this out.

She stands up on her hind legs as the white light changes to rainbow colors, before finally fading.

...

...The fusion emerges.

"I...

Im..."

...

...We look down at ourselves. We look at our clothes, and our paws, and then we take off the little witch's hat that has appeared on our head, turning it around in our front paws before putting it back on our head.

"im a... wat am i...?""Im a tem... but i got a human soul an' a Tem soul..."

"and I gots... magic??" I remembered that I had dropped my wand right before 2488 crushed me. What happened to it? The Temmie, seemingly in response to my wondering this, suggests an idea. Alright, I suppose it's worth a try...

We hold our right paw out to the side and a line of golden light appears in our palm, coalescing into the shape of a wand.

...My wand! It's back! How did we get it back? Did it return itself to my inventory somehow? I didn't actually get to see 2488 absorb it, so I fail to consider that perhaps it was already in my inventory when 2488 spat me back out.

"we gots my wand back! I gots a magic! Tems magic and humans magic!!1!" We stretch our paw that's holding the wand, brandishing it in a show-offy manner.

"Its a good wand! its so stronk!!" We remind ourselves- or rather, I remind myself, and inform the Temmie. The Temmie, meanwhile, is thinking about how my wand could be used to improve her mini-raves- which reminds us that she left her phone and LED lamp by the tree (having me in her body seems to improve the Temmie's memory and attention span somewhat). We hurry back over to the tree and place the lamp and cell phone back into our inventory.

What should we do next, we wonder? It's getting kind of late, and there are cots in the infirmary to sleep in; we are both aware of that. With our wand, cell phone, and LED lamp safely returned to our possession, we enter the building.

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