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platinumrosetail · 1 year

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Hi I have a request

Can I request yandere Shadowpeach, dbk family and water spider and spicy noodles ( mk x red son ) x jade empire toddler daughter reader

Like the reader is a little toddler that was kidnapped by a Demon but got lost when she got away.and not only that but the reader half Demon as well like oh centaur but a dragon horse center. So it also the reason why no one knows about her. Cuz her dad keeps her safe. But also everon Knows she his daughter cuz of the choths. And how they Keep the reader with them. And is not giving them back

Please and thank you

Ooooh, I can definitely smell the absolute chaos coming from this hehehehehe!

Hope you like the finished post!!

Also I’m guessing by dragon horse centaur you mean what ba long ma/ao lei is right? If not then I’m sorry i misunderstood on what you meant😅

Warnings: noob author, female reader, yandere characters, absolute chaos, and others.

Characters: shadowpeach, dbk family, waterspider/silktea, spicynoodles.

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Shadowpeach:

You were just playing in the garden with Nezha when he had to leave four a short minute but that was when the demon that was hiding in the bushes decided to strike as he noticed how important you seemed to be and with how you seem to hold great power that you might of not even know about yet.

It wasn’t until you got to the human realm did you finally was able to get out of the hold of the demons hands and did the only thing you could do at the moment which was run from the demonic kidnapper. You had run as far as your little legs could which was pretty far as you’re half of celestial and half demonic.

You had soon met the successor of monkey king; mk, you heard of him before and how he reminds your father of a monkey demon that terrorized the heavens before you were even born, you honestly liked those stories when Nezha head told you about in case you came across the monkey or his family as a warning but you didn’t’t take it as a warning but more like a story that was for your bedtime so you happily went to mk once you realized who he was.

He didn’t know where you came from so he just thinks your a lost kid or maybe a orphan; which he hope wasn’t the case cause who would abandon a sweet kid like you? And decided to take you to his dads who’re on flower fruit mountain with his adopted sister bai he as they are training her for self defense and to control the remaining power that lbd had that is still inside her for when the demoness had possesed her as her host.

Sun was the second person to have meet you, he basically hugs you as you’re so adorable, though you do have a familiar aura about you and the fact that his eyes are showing him a bright glow to you that he can’t quite place at the moment but he know that it’ll come to him sooner or later but back to the main focus which is how adorable you have gotten by the second especially with those little nubs of your horns!! So adorable

(Just like you guys!! You’re all adorable and don’t let anybody tell you otherwise, unless you want to use a different term than adorable then you’re definitely a lot of wonderful things you want to be so don’t let anyone tell otherwise either 😁)

Sun quickly showed you to macaque and bai he as soon as mk explained what happened to you when you told mk what happened though you conveniently accidentally left out the fact that you’re the jade emperor’s daughter when you explained so now they think you’re a lost celestial child and decided to adopt you without the help of sun’s unnamed lawyer cause that would just have you taken away from them and you need to be raised by people like them anyway since your real parents can’t even save you from a demon kidnapping their child.

Which brings us to now. The demon who tried to kidnap you again and with the fact that your power you have yet to discover is driven the demon insane enough to not notice that he traveled to flower fruit mountain, a place he shouldn’t be as the sun family had just made you their own now which means the demon is soon to be dead as there is a punishment for trying to harm one of the sun family’s (the monkey are apart of the sun family like it’s said in jttw I believe.) sadly the now decease demon isn’t the only threat to separate you from them as your biological father soon was given word that you now reside in flower fruit mountain with the very monkey that made the heavens a disaster before you were born and with how you’re so young still the jade emperor fears that the blasted demon monkey would try and twist your mind into hating your real father.

Dbk family:

You had somehow entered the human realm when you were playing hide and seek with Nezha. Though you didn’t know that you entering would alert so many demons that went after you soon after you landed on safe grounds, though ones demon family sensed your powerful aura and went after it as it could help them finally defeat monkey king and his disciple mk; whose secretly redson’s boyfriend but he would never tell them at the moment with how things are now.

Though they are most definitely shocked to see but a child in a middle of multiple demons who still go by the olden ways of things, they almost had just let it happened if pif had a brief thought of Redson if he was in that situation and seeing him in the child’s place, so as fast as she could she took care of the demons who isn’t as much as important as the child in pif arms is.

This confused Redson more than Dbk but Dbk was still confused on his wife’s actions as this had never happened before until now. Though his confusion diminished as he saw the look his wife gave to the child then the next look she gave to him, it was a look that was similar to when they discovered Redson samadhi fire and something a mother would give for when they want to protect their child from harm that may come plus the innocent look you had given him when you noticed the direction the woman that is holding you gently is looking at.

They soon went back to their castle that is their home and soon to be your home though Redson is still confused but don’t know wether or not if he should ask or not but kept quiet anyway as you seem to need to be taken care of first at the moment.

Redson is the last to see you once you’re taking care of in case you heads wounds from those demolishing that surprised attacked you, he soon understand that maybe having you here is a good idea plus he also understands the way his mother and father acted towards you as now he soon feels that protective over you.\

The only person outside of his family that’s knows about you is mk but that soon wasn’t the case as he had accidentally let it out when he was asked about his day by tang and pigsy with mei and sandy being there as well, all o fthem became worried about you and made sure to ask about wether you’re ok and such for when mk was spending time with Redson.

Funny enough Redson was able to confidently show to his parents how the was dating mk which brought the over protectiveness in them but you soon calmed them down which Redson was grateful. Though what the bull family didn’t know is that now a l;it of people is wanting to have you safely in their arm,s once they got word about you, the jade emperor ins’t too happy how a demon family has his daughter that he wants to protect with his life.

Waterspider/silktea:

You met mo when you had accidentally got transported to the human realm by accident when you were exploring the celestial realm out of boredom as everyone you knew was sadly busy, though when you had met mo you soon had no fear or boredom as he took your mind off it with you two playing in the park.

Mo at first just thought you’d were a lost kid but soon noticed how you have some type of important outfit on and with the fact that you have a almost celestial and demonic aura about you which is why he soon took you to sandy ad huntsman.

Sandy and huntsman was just finishing up setting up their first date of the relationship that blossomed soon after the two met but was interrupted by mo coming in with you in tow, you were confused on where you were as you were solely focused on the mysterious blue cat and was shocked to see someone that was big and funny enough resemble the cat as well plus with a demon which you could only guess from your knowledge is a spider demon, you also guessed that the one that resemble the cat was a sort of fish demon but you decided on not saying anything as to not be rude and assume things.

The two decided to put their date on hold for now as you seem to need to have comfort with how your’e lost from your home now. They also thought you were of a rich family but huntsman was the first to noticed your almost Yang yang like aura soon after and quietly told sandy about it.

Though sandy did think that you might have something to do with celestial beings so he wasn’t as shocked as huntsman had thought he would be but sandy quickly explain why he wasn’t as shocked as he thought sandy was which made sense as he remembers how sandy was right about his friends being reincarnations of the disciples from the old journey to the west.

Sandy had shown you to pigsy, tang, mk, and mei while huntsman had shown you to syntax, strong spider and a still recovering spider queen who somehow survived lbd betrayal that almost killed the queen.

What the two didn’t know is that your very much important than they thought you were and that you’re the daughter of the jade emperor but of course the two is ready for anything that would try to take you away as they had soon thought of you as part of their family plus they have friends who feel the same so now it’s war between the two groups.

Spicynoodles:

You snuck out of the celestial realm as were tired of seeing the same thing over and over again and want to do something new like what some humans do from what you heard of.

You met mk when you had gotten hungry though it was only brief as he need to do his deliveries for pigsy, though you did get to met his some of his adopted parents. You had given pigsy your order with a pouch of many celestial currency like you’ve done before in the celestial realm when you wanted something from there.

Mk soon properly met your as you had stayed in the restaurant still and have not left as you didn’t know the time had past so much and cause you were having a nice chat with tang who was interested in your stories that you had from when you were in the celestial realm of course tang didn’t believe you and thought these were only you imagination of what it could be like if you were to be there but that is far from it.

Pigsy was intrigued by you but also worried as no kid should be left alone, as he should know as he has mk and tang to look after and their basically children with how the two get in trouble plus putting mei in the mix as well so more than a disaster.

Mk had started hanging out with you plus mentioning about you to both his monkey dads and his boyfriend; Redson, all of them curios about their little one that had mk distracted a lot.

Redson met you first as he couldn’t help his growing curiosity plus he started getting jealous how almost all the time mk was with is about if you’re ok so he went to both meet you and see if you’re as important as mk makes you out to be, which is very important as he can feel both celestial and demonic power coming from you but that makes him protective over you as there is many beings who would want that power as well since he had something similar when he was born so he now protects you with mk and soon adopted you as their child.

Sun, macaque had met you afterwards, some were offended to be close to last for meeting you (cough, cough *sun* cough, cough) but it’s mostly jokingly tease as they soon was distracted by you for the rest of the day that they had finally met you on; mei and sandy met you sooon after mk properly met you so they definitely know you beforehand. With how overprotective everyone you have met you the jade emperor most definitely won’t be getting his daughter back anytime soon.

(A/n: finished! Hoped y’all like what i did with it!! I tried to make it different on how they met the reader so i hope i did a good job. Anyway hope all of y’all have a wonderful day/evening/night!!!)

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andromerot · 4 months

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my pedro almodóvar marathon. thoughts, feelings, tier list

or, i spent like 50 hours on this so i better get to post about it

well, i'd be lying if i said i set out to do this with any clear goals in mind. i sort of just wanted to watch movies. this year i set out to watch through a couple of directors entire works, but ran into complications or got bored. so anyway when i finished my term i decided id try a third time with my best friend pedro. i had watched five of his films already but was mostly unaware of other things he had made. on the 22nd of november i started with matador, then went on and in exactly a month i had watched all of his feature films yayyy

so this is how i ranked them on letterboxd and this is a tier list. this doesnt really sum up my thoughts though so im leaving a little review for each below the cut, in the order i watched them in this month hope someone cares :) thank you

matador (1986): ohhhhhh my god. absolutely unexpected how insane this movie made me. many people say its not very good, i dont think that's true. transgressive, erotic, camp, necrosexual, implicit faggot tension, beautiful costuming, insanely talented cast of so many characters sick in the head. watching this one first really hyped me up to keep at it and to close out the month i rewatched it the other day and though it was less surprising than the first time i watched it its maybe my favorite now :) it has structural flaws i suppose. but i love it

¿que he hecho yo para merecer esto? (1984): pretty funny! not bad at all, i remember enjoying it as i watched it, it just wasnt very memorable. i enjoy every performance by carmen maura, chus was stellar as always and forqué was really sweet in this one too, i liked it. i literally forgot half of the plot though. did anyone remember the telepathic child or the faked hitler diaries? i didnt until i looked it up.

la ley del deseo (1987) (rewatched): showed this one to my friend, god its iconic. some of my favorite chiques almodovar. so fun to watch and so silly even though its not quite a comedy. the fact that antonio is just called antonio in this one makes me unwarrantedly happy. MAURA THE WOMAN THAT YOU ARE!! very hot all around. i think i liked it better this time than the other two i had watched it.

pepi, luci, bom y otras chicas del montón (1980): everyone talks about how sexually transgressive 80s almodovar is and i was like yeah whatever until i watched this one. straight up trilogy of trash shit. so beautiful. i wish every movie was like this. no one likes it but i adored it. erecciones generales will stay in my mind forever and i loved the musical numbers. and the piss, of course.

entre tinieblas (1983): also somewhat forgettable, though i watched it while pretty worried about something else so maybe i didnt give it the attention it deserved. its not a bad time but i wouldn't rewatch it. based on the premise you think it'd be better.

la flor de mi secreto (1995) (rewatched): OH GOD. until last month my favorite almodóvar, its been outdone but it still destroys me. its terribly underrated. i dont even know what i can say about it... marisa paredes is stunning at doing desperation. the boots, the scene at the protest, the initial meeting with ángel, the poem in the car, that moment in the hall. it's beautiful and breathtaking. lesbian film history, i promise.

todo sobre mi madre (1999): like, its good, but i dont get what people see in it that makes it so acclaimed. again paredes is great in this, but penélope is somewhat tame compared to what she does later, and this is the point in the list where i have to admit cecilia roth is not very good to me and all my compatriots start throwing rocks at me. listen i just wish she'd stop doing that stupid accent its so fucking bad cecilia sincerate seguro sos de villa crespo. anyway its fine if a bit weird about trans women, but hes always a hit or miss w that

átame (1989): took a big break between the last one and this one for some reason. anyway, pretty funny, except it really drags in the middle. shouldnt have been that long, but victoria abril always slays and the last scene is wonderful.

tacones lejanos (1991): WOAHHHHH! really cool i liked it. i love a mother daughter thing especially this mother and this daughter. really fun doppelganger story and i love how it was told, i found it both melodramatic and subtle? miguel bosé makes a really pretty girl, this will inform my every subsequent rewatch of suspiria. big fan of his gender. dance number fucked obvs

kika (1993) (rewatch): ok, i know why people don't like this one, but its so silly... cmon. it sillay. once again incredible abril performance, the costuming my god.... her character makes the whole movie i wish i was her. lesbian rossy de palma was wonderful and every forqué performance is a delight. pedro getting hitchcockian with it to slightly trick the audience is a staple of his 90s filmography, fucks.

carne trémula (1997): the title made me think it would be better! there was barely any carne. i didn't really see the point of most of it tbh, though based on how the movie starts and ends there might be some spanish historical context that im missing that makes it more interesting. strangely reminiscing of the buenos aires affair to me, but puig is better. yeah it was just pretty boring.

laberinto de pasiones (1982): YAYYYYYY i had some trouble torrenting so i watched it really out of order this but its SO FUN. obviously in the same vein as pepi luci bom but i liked it slightly more just for how unnecessarily elaborate it was. the one major role i dont mind roth being in and im a big fan of antonios gay terrorist with an ultradeveloped sense of smell character and arias is really into his very silly character too – he works well in secreto as well, i wish hed been on more almodovares, i should finally watch camila. liné was hilarious too. the problematic incest storyline was really funny to me sorryyyyy and i got a lot of gender out of the musical performances. hey can you believe that beautiful fag covered in blood is a franquista now. i can

hable con ella (2002): ehhhhhhh. some people really hate this one for the couple scenes i found most interesting, others love it for reasons i cant parse. its got parts that caught my attention a lot, but mostly it was eerie in an unenjoyable and uninteresting way and the backstories dragged on too long, especially grandinetti's. like i just don't care sorry. THE scene is quite disturbing though. i appreciated he decided to show rape in a more subtle light for once, it made it a lot more cruel and a lot more interesting.

la mala educación (2004) (rewatch): sighhhh. i really wish i liked this one. its got so many elements i am into – the colours are obviously spectacular, the unreliable multiple narrations and the disassembled timelines are always enjoyable to me, the attempt at social commentary is appreciated, some scenes are stunning (fictional ignacios head split in half is unforgettable) but quite honestly the characterization is so bad it bores me. i liked it more the first time i watched it just because of how confused i was, once i wasnt it lost its magic. maybe the worst in what is considered the "somewhat autobiographical movies about directors" trilogy (i think there's four of them but we'll discuss that later) probably because the character of enrique is so bland. i know its more but it feels that you only spend like five minutes with him. ángel/juan's motivations for anything are so puzzling, ignacio is just a caricature at this point and probably the character with the most depth is berenguer, which is ironic, i guess

volver (2006): WAHHH. its hard to talk about it honestly. it was so unexpectedly beautiful. the acting is so on point – penélope cruz and that beautiful carmen maura comeback are self evident, but blanca portillo is also stellar. it was fascinating from minute one and i couldnt keep my eyes off it. its written with such care and love. i suppose the plot itself is nothing out of this world, but the way it is handled is explosive. i really adored it.

los abrazos rotos (2009): the fourth bastard on the self insert series! cmon, its way more about himself than la mala educación. anyway, its good at some points, not very in others. the strong point is obviously the relationship between mateo, judit and diego, their refusal to be tied as a family and their desire to be tied by love is reaaaally interesting. the scene at the sea... but penélope and her millionaire and her millionaires son do nothing interesting at any point, im afraid to say. sad! surprisingly not very memorable, even though i didnt dislike it as i watched it. like i remember i liked some things but if a couple weeks later i dont remember what they were its probably the movies fault

la piel que habito (2011): AUGHHH OK. fuck. THIS ONE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE GOOD. it wasnt it was really mid. when it started i was like oh is pedro trying out his hand at cronenberg and i was really excited because im SURE he can do cronenberg better than cronenberg but he didnt. it was worse. how are you giving your women less agency than that guy??? honestly probably the first ever film of his where this is a noticeable problem, though penélope in the last one should give us a hint. ughh it should have been good. im mad about that. no desire to question gender or power and the unchronological storytelling does nothing for me. BAD! if anything i recognized its sexual power for if banderas character was a woman i would be throwing up and convulsing on the floor. i hope vicente and his lesbian coworker had a beautiful romance i guess. i cant believe some people call this one one of the most controversial of his work....

los amantes pasajeros (2013): hm well everyone was like THIS is the bad one and i was like i bet you guys are just being mean but no yeah this is the bad one. its not funny and it drags on so long...i can usually defend the rape scenes in his movies, even in kika or hable con ella, but this one just sucks so bad. i was prepared to defend this movie but i cant. as soon as the movie started i was trying to guess where all the threads would connect, how all the characters would be linked and they mostly... weren't? also the reference to the gazpacho scene in mujeres made me groan out loud.

julieta (2016): well i dont really know what this was supposed to be....it feels on the surface it could have been really good but something about it felt so emotionless. it was an odd experience, watching it, because i expected to be moved by so many scenes and i never was. i dont know what the point of it was.

dolor y gloria (2019): ok yeah this one was sweet! didn't blow my mind or anything but it was very cleverly made...a really more beautiful way to do the childhood-as-movie thing than in mala educación, i really enjoyed it. nostalgia bores me sometimes but i feel hes not being annoying about it. long live old man yaoi (and finally an argentinian actor i DONT hate...) and that beautiful beautiful cave and that mind gripping apartment bringing in the characteristic insane set design but in a new way...i had a good time

madres paralelas (2021): oh this could have been so good! it wasnt but honestly i dont remember exactly why i disliked it. i suppose i didnt connect to the characters and that it is a story that requires that to engage you – their motivations were really out of place and unlike other movies that bothered me. really interesting premise, didnt work out. im sad about it. could have been cool.

yeah so that's it i only realized while writing this that i forgot to rewatch mujeres but obvs that ones very good, proper classic, quote it every time i eat gazpacho and such. also extraña forma de vida is a snore i refuse to watch it again. i hope this works as a rec list for someone. and i am ready to be stoned by my wrong opinions by the rest of you

#lol ive had this on my drafts for like a week. i forgor

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basuralindo · 9 months

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Do you mind sharing some of those shops, so our pals can dress their ocs without risking cultural appropiation for the new twst event? Thanks and if you don't want to, it's fine 🤝

Hi, thanks for the ask! First off I would like to clarify that I am local but not native, meaning I grew up in Hawaii but am not indigenous Hawaiian, so I can answer this but not as any kind of major authority on Hawaiian appropriation. Just to be transparent about your source here. (Also keep in mind I grew up on one single island, and the culture varies somewhat from island to island)

I can list some shops, but if you're worried about appropriation it's important to know that you'll find the most offensive and appropriative stuff in tourist shops, so I'm gonna start with a short list of things you'll find and should avoid first:

•Tiki shit. -These are actually an important Hawaiian tradition tied into the religion that has been exploited all to shit. There's still some casual or ironic use of tiki aesthetics by locals, but it's better as a visitor to just not. (There's a kinda Okay and Not Okay division of this, and you can tell by context and artstyle and shit, but I don't know how to reliably describe it)

•Hula paraphernalia. -Coconut bras are a costume, they've never been a real Hawaiian thing, they're literally just some bullshit aesthetic made up by and for haoles. Grass skirts are very occasionally used in hula, but not even a common material for hula skirts in the first place. But also, hula is a very important aspect of Hawaiian culture that should not be used as a costume in any form anyway. This includes haku leis (different from the classic flower lei, flower leis are ok), and any hula instruments (Ipu gourds and basically anything with red and/or yellow feathers, for a start). (Also, jokingly 'doing the hula'? Obnoxious.)

•Traditional Hawaiian tattoo art. -First off this is different from other ancient Hawaiian art (which can be its own gray area, but less dicey), traditional tattoos are very deeply important and have specific meanings, often related to ancestry and aumakua (think like, ancestral spirit animals). There is a lot of nuance here, and there is some stuff stylized off of traditional art that's widely sold, but again it's a nuance that I cannot easily convey and it's safer to just not do it.

•Hawaiian warrior paraphernalia. -If you ever go to Hawaii, you'll see a lot of charms and necklaces and graphic prints of Hawaiian warrior helmets, Hawaiian warriors, and boar tusk charms, Just Don't with these.

Also, special note on Luau: Tourist "luaus" are a very common attraction, and a likely event for tourists to go to. They are also immensely exploitative, white-owned, and culturally insensitive.

Anyway, clothing: It's good to remember that Hawaii is a US state, and we actually have a lot of the same brands and stores as the mainland united states (though living in the mainland, I've come to realize that the stuff we have is mostly west coast brands/companies) and we mostly wear a lot of common american clothing. So your OC would have access to a lot of common american clothes + aloha wear. The easiest way to avoid looking like a dick is really for the OC to mostly wear stuff familiar to them but suitable for very humid weather in the 75-95°f range, and whatever kind of beachwear they'd prefer. As you can see with the twst boys, they're actually mostly wearing beachwear or chino pants (which are a typical tourist choice, not a local style) and aloha shirts (a style developed in Hawaii through a mix of cultural influence and immediately marketed to the mainland by the creators, so not sacred and totally okay to wear), accented with straw hats, flowers, and a lot of beaded jewelry commonly sold but not culturally significant.

[Casual clothing]

We mostly wear shit like jeans/shorts/boardshorts and tshirts/tanktops/hoodies depending on the weather. It's common in Hawaii to wear beach clothes all over the place, like boardshorts and bathing suit tops/shirtless outside, and throwing on a tank top or tshirt indoors or more public areas like the mall. And most footwear is slippers (flipflops), closed shoes are worn but not as common for casual day to day. In general locals just, aren't as weird about exposed skin and the existence of feet as a lot of westers cultures? Like bare feet and sandals are normal, short shorts/crop tops/bikinis/shirtless guys aren't something to ogle at, they're just everywhere. Same with tattoos.

Some common local brands/local favorites: -Maui Built -Hurly -Quicksilver/Roxy -Local Motion -Billabong -Skate brands like Zumies are also pretty popular -American Eagle is really popular specifically with gay guys and christian girls, do with that info what you will

-You'll find a lot of popular tourist stuff like straw hats, souvenir beach towels, souvenir jewelry, and aloha print accessories at places like ross and walmart, as well as tourist centric shops like abc stores and whaler's village. With the exception of the problematic shit I listed, these things are typically inoffensive, but can be tacky. Basically you would be immediately clocked as a tourist, but you're not doing harm.

-Aloha shirts are sold in most clothing shops, and come in various levels of quality and formality. Higher end aloha shirts come in silk or imitation fabrics, relatively thick woven, are well fitted, and usually have less loud patterns (think Azul's shirt), and can be considered formal or business wear. These are something that would be appropriate in any office, weddings, fancy dinners, shit like that. More causal aloha shirts tend to be boxier cut and lighter fabrics like cotton, they have louder patterns and are often worn untucked or open over a tanktop/tshirt/bare chest (like Jack, Ace, Lilia and Floyd).

-Floral print dresses in light fabrics and various styles are really common for women, and often worn by tourists. These are usually longer, like at or past the knee but not floor length. The top worn by Riddle and the way it's styled is a woman's fashion mostly worn by tourists and haole women who moved to the islands. I can't remember seeing any local girls wearing these, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

[Accessories]

-Hats: Straw hats are usually worn by tourists, though some locals will wear them too (usually women at the beach, most men I've met will wear them ironically if they do at all. But ironic/satirical fashion choices are very common and get incorporated into outfits all the time). Women's hats are round with wide flat brims (Lilia, Riddle), mens are usually more fedora shaped (Ace). Floyd's looks like it's a pork pie panama hat, which is one of the most expensive hats you'll find, and referential to old timey gangsters, especially with the white shorts and aloha shirt combo. (I used to work in a hat shop sorry). Anyway most locals will wear flat brim baseball caps made of thick cotton with no mesh. Some people wear the curved brim mesh ones, but they're usually older people or white.

-Jewelry: This varies a lot, there's a few really common things that you see all the time, and the rest is usually combinations of Japanese and American fashions incorporated to individual tastes. Tourists almost never wear local jewelry styles and most jewelry worn there is a mix of modern Japanese and American styles that vary widely by individual preference. Tourist jewelry tends to be high end gold and silver stuff with Hawaiian themed motifs like sea creatures (turtles and whale tails being the most popular, then tropical fish, sharks, and octopus), tropical plants (hibiscus, plumeria, monstera leaf, bird of paradise), pearls (especially Tahitian black pearls), and mother of pearl or abalone pendants/earrings. And on the cheaper end there's the kind of wood bead and simple cord + charm bracelets (Jack) and shells or shaped clay beads (Riddle, Lilia), simple cord necklaces with shark teeth or metal charms (surfboards, sea animals, the like) and sometimes clay or steel beads, cheaper pearl necklaces, and toe rings. Things to avoid would be any motifs with warrior helmets, gourds/feathers, tribal print, and tikis. Bone or steel fish hook pendants are very popular with local men, and I personally find it weird to see on tourists because it feels very much cultural, but I haven't actually heard complaints on it, so I'd love it if anyone else wants to weigh in

-Side note on Ace just because I find it interesting: His braided leather belts and bracelets are actually referential to a popular style up the mountains that comes from the Paniolos, Hawaiian cowboys originating from Spanish influence who predated the cowboys of the classic American West! It started out as simple Spanish style plaited leather belts, then spiked in popularity in the 70's as part of a western clothing trend that still remains in fashion leather goods today. Hawaii still has some cattle ranches and historic cowboy towns with the original storefronts and everything.

-Pareos/sarongs are popular bathing suit accessories and I haven't heard anything about it being an issue. Again, avoid the problematic motifs listed earlier to be on the safe side.

-Sunglasses are a free for all, I buy all mine at ross but the popular brands I mentioned usually have their own lines. I see thick black brims (think oakleys) most often with locals, aviators are less popular. Oakley and Ray Ban are probably the most popular high end brands for locals?

-Footwear: As I mentioned earlier, most footwear is open toed slippers, these come in a variety of styles like the classic rubber slipper, sturdy foam ones like Scotts brand (a lot of these have bottle openers in the sole these days), and fancy leather ones like Olukais that can be worn with nice clothes. Also my personal favorite are the platform foam slippers which range from 1-6 inches in height that a lot of local girls wear. People wear closed shoes/boots about the same way the rest of america does I think, just less often? This includes dress shoes and heels for fancy settings. Popular closed shoes for locals are skate shoes and canvas chucks, I don't know if puffy hightop sneakers are still a thing anymore. Tourists often wear boat shoes(?) and similar kinda low cut light material styles.

-Leis and flowers: People gift leis for celebrations like graduations and weddings, sometimes greetings after long trips, but nobody wears flower leis as a casual style. Some men (usually in sales and guest services will wear kukui nut leis as part of their business attire, but it's not streetwear. There are also specific lei for hula that you just shouldn't wear. If you wanna put your OC in a lei go for floral, the most common tourist leis are purple orchids. Women will often wear flowers behind their ears of they feel like it, pretty much any variety. They also sell these foam-clay plumeria flowers on bendable wire stems in a variety of colors to wear behind the ear which are a fairly common accessory and super cute imo. Aside from that, people don't wear flowers often, the piles of flowers on their hats and shoulders in the promo art is not really a thing in Hawaii, like at all? And definitely not fruit. Nobody wears fucking bananas and mangoes, Ace looks like a clown.

-Important note on that though! The belts, bead necklaces, and floral shoulder things may potentially be referential to other pacific island cultures that I am not familiar with. I'd encourage you to do more research on those, as they may very well be appropriative (again, I don't recognize them and cannot say one way or another. I don't even know for sure about the fruit). I'd start with checking Tongan, Samoan, Filipino, Okinawan, and Indonesian traditional clothing to start with.

[Rich people clothing]

This is something that I don't have much experience with because I'm not rich, and tbh most locals aren't either. There's a massive wealth inequality issue in Hawaii, so there's a million high end restaurants and clothing stores and jewelers, but they're mostly exclusive to rich tourists, the people who can afford to move and buy land there, and their kids who are typically kept separate from the rest of the community.

-The popular Hawaiian Jewelry brands I know of are Na Hoku and Maui Diver's Jewelry. But in general I think the best source I can recommend is to check out the Shops at Wailea website and see what brands and styles they offer.

Aaand that's all I have energy for, I hope it's helpful. If any other Hawaii locals wanna add on that'd be awesome!

#anon ask #asks #twst hawaii event #twst stitch event #lost in the book with stitch #twsited wonderland #twisted wonderland lost in the book with stitch #twst lilo and stitch

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hi, it’s me again. your local three-body fanatic who’s back to ramble about the show in a very chaotic way. first of all, march 9th is director yang lei’s 44th birthday, and there were some new videos and bts photos surfacing. i honestly don’t know where they originated, but i thought it should be ok to share it here with our tiny yet lovely tumblr three-body fandom.

FIRST OF ALL, TWO DADS AND THEIR DAUGHTER!!!

secondly, there’s this new bilibili video of zhang luyi who we never got to see ever since the show started airing. i don’t know who first shared it. but it gotta be yang lei, because it was mainly about yang lei. and it was said to be the content that made yang lei cry. so i highly suspect that yang lei uploaded the video to celebrate his own birthday lol.

i don’t know when this was recorded. but i think three-body was already airing, because he thanked the viewers’ approval, so people were already watching. but it might not finish airing yet because at the end he said “just in case the series does well”, so it’s either that he was being modest or he didn’t know the full extent of how successful the show was yet.

anyways, this video was mainly addressed to director yang lei about how hardworking he was. zhang luyi said 10 years ago, when they were filming the red, yang lei’s lower back pain got so bad towards the end of the filming, and he couldn’t even sit in front of the monitor. so they had to bring a prop bed to the set so that yang lei can lie on his stomach on the bed.

when filming three-body, zhang luyi remembered the day that they were filming at the national nanotechnology center. the day was fully loaded and they had to finish filming all the scenes in one day. that morning, yang lei came to zhang luyi and said that he couldn’t sleep last night because he was thinking about how to finish the filming for the day, and how to make everything better. yang lei appeared to be quite energetic on that day, until lunch time. he came to zhang luyi and asked if he had this heart pill called 速效救心 (it’s a fast acting and common chinese household med for heart discomfort). zhang luyi said “of course, as an actor, isn’t it reasonable to have a bottle of it with me?” zhang luyi gave yang lei a bottle, and he remembered that yang lei took the pills four times that day and finished the filming.

at the end of the video, he said take care three times to yang lei. “just in case this series does well, you still have the second season to film.”

you can tell how he cared about yang lei, and no wonder yang lei cried. THOUGH i do have questions??? is it common as an actor to have heart pills with them at all time??? i later saw a weibo post about how zhang luyi was already carrying the pills with him in 2011. he was merely 31 at the time. all i want to say is both of you, please take care, take care, and take care!!! fliming is important, but your health is more important!!! edit: about the heart pill 速效救心, it’s traditional chinese medicine and more like a temporary relief for minor heart discomfort or heart conditions. i’m no medical expert, but i don’t think zhang luyi has a chronic heart condition. however, he may often experience heart discomfort due to stress and the lack of sleep/rest during filming which is still worrying and not ideal.

lastly happy birthday to yang lei (even though it’s the 10th already in china, but i’ll just pretend that i’m not late because there are still time zones that’s on the 9th). PS. If you still haven’t read this post about yang lei being a zhang luyi fanboy and how close they are, go read it. you’ll understand more about some of the filming choices in three-body, and why i suspected that yang lei shared this video for his own birthday lol, as well as why everyone was posting these bts photos to say happy birthday to yang lei.

#three body #三体 #yang lei #zhang luyi #yu hewei #edward zhang #cdrama #cactor #kunsposts #three body problem #the three body problem #3 body problem

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tez im sorry ur going thru all of This™ you do Not deserve it 😭😭 anyway if you wanna talk abt something else how about you tell me (if u want!!) ur fav samijey moment (I'll be honest: ive never looked at them as a possibility until YOU started posting about them so. congrats im not immune to tez's posts 😂)

delfiiiiiii my love 💜 thank you angel and lmfaoooo i love that. me spreading that sami/jey agenda. 😭😭😭 but in terms of my favourite moment, i think it's probably the trial. if there's any segment i'll go back and watch, it's that one. because the whole thing is just so fucking good. from jey's discomfort throughout the whole thing when sami's being humiliated by paul, to jey saving him from solo's spike, to jey putting his own lei around sami's neck at the end. it's like the only person who is willing to help sami is the person you would probably least expect it from, because of everything they've been through. but, on top of that, because of everything jey's been through on his own, too. standing up against roman is probably one of the hardest things jey would ever have to experience but he did it for sami. he can't stand up to roman for himself but he can do it for someone else, someone he cared so deeply about that he literally didn't even think twice about it. and even when he realised he'd (maybe) fucked up in roman's eyes, he still didn't stop. he doubled down. showed proof, defended sami. fought for him. completely overthrew whatever authority roman had in that moment and took charge, right in front of him. and there's something so soft about the way he talks to sami throughout the whole thing, too. the little smiles, the teary eyes. how fucking touched sami looks from the whole thing, by the lengths jey has gone to for him. because it's not even like jey just objected, he made a whole fucking video to fight paul's with. 😭😭😭 and then the bit at the end after the trial is over, when jey takes his own lei off and puts it around sami's neck instead. it's like, the most affectionate gesture. because they mean something in their culture. the lei isn't just a pretty necklace to look at it, it represents something so much deeper. they hold real weight behind their meaning and for jey to take his own off to give it to sami, was such a big fucking deal and it's a detail that i love so much, especially when you take into consideration that jey's also the one at the rumble who tries to give sami his own lei then, too. he's consistently the one person trying to integrate sami into the family, openly willing to accept him, and it not only shows jey's growth as a person but it shows just how much the relationship he's developed with sami means to him, too. a man who isn't okay with being so blatantly vulnerable, finds it difficult to lower his guard for just about anyone who isn't blood, is the one who fights for sami the hardest. i love it. 😭😭😭

#r-truth #💜#ask #wrestling tag #cw: long post #samijey my beloved

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kay!!! happy 1k!! omg omg, i’m glad many others have come to love you and your works, as they should because your work is so so lovely (óvò)💕

for your event, can you do twilight + ⭐️ childe + queen anne’s lace? it’s okay if not though, i’m still here to celebrate (óvò)/💕

𓆩 ღ 𓆪 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐇 𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐌 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐘𝐎𝐔

( MY SOUL HAS BEEN SO FEARFUL, SO VIOLENT : FORGIVE ITS BRUTALITY. )

chara : childe fandom : genshin impact quote cr : yi lei ; louise glück a/n : didi !! thank you !!

・❥・[ dreamscape event ] ༊*·˚ ⌛ fluff/angst • ⭐️ childe • 💐 queen anne's lace : sanctuary

i. so you do not know childe's heart like he knows yours, and maybe that's alright and maybe it's not. you wish the answer would come, clear cut in its black and whites, but the world is not meant for simplicity, and you have always known this, anyway.

your heart, childe knows, shies behind the fog and mist that arrives with heavy storms. he advances forward, allows the aching to consume him, and he goes on and on until it clears and all he sees is you.

but his heart-- his heart, is muddled with black and blue and bruised with static. because in the heart of a survivor lies a twisted yearning for destruction and ruin, but in the heart of a survivor, there is tenderness and kindness all the same. how dangerous and cruel, this weight of chaos and harmony in the place you call your humanity.

you want to understand, make yourself a sanctuary for when the day is over and the crimson dries and sinks into the dirt. you want to understand if there is something that festers, wages war on itself inside of him. if there is a struggle to hold onto peace rather than ignite violence. you want to understand so badly that it hurts, crushes your chest until the pain overwhelms you and it's all you know.

"what's wrong?"

you freeze, realize how tightly you cling to the sheets. you did not know he was awake, your muscles tense as his hand rests on yours, fingers gently releasing your hold on the blanket.

you cannot find all the right words to say, so you don't. are you allowed to be the person who loves him when you cannot understand his soul?

"i'm sorry." you tell him, and you break and you break. "i'm so sorry."

( the abyss has stayed with childe, but you are not sure if it is something he chooses to carry, or if it is a haunting. )

ii. so there's a home to be found everywhere and nowhere, and you wonder where his lies. is it this place, here and now, that he deems his home? or does he find a distance, an isolation, and a longing for something that was once a nightmare turned wonderland?

"come back here." a teasing tone fills your ears, captures your attention. childe tilts his head, leans forward just a little bit, and pinches your nose. you swat at his hand, feel the way a smile eases onto your lips at the sound of his laughter. "what's so important that you aren't paying attention to me?"

your hands cup his cheek as you apologize quietly, and the smile on your face turns into one of somberness, he notices. you watch your reflection in blue hues, see the hesitance that gnaws at your conscience.

"ajax." you stop. swallow hard, hold your breath. his hands reach for yours, pull them away from his face as he holds them. his thumbs graze over your knuckles in silent support. "tell me about the abyss, please."

he freezes, and perhaps in the reflection of your eyes, his expression holds hesitance, too.

iii. so you learn the truth of the abyss that night. time blurs, seconds turn to minutes, and you wonder if this is how he felt when he was there. you are unsure if horror sinks into your mind or if it is fascination-- because to endure such an experience is a marvel, and surely it was frightening, but the way he speaks of it says otherwise. but he tells you, in full truth, and he wonders what you think, unable to read your countenance.

how long has it been since you last spoke? childe takes a deep breath, brows furrowed ever so slightly. he does not rush you, just waits.

"do you--" your lips part, but the words do not come out right. there is a numbness that settles on your tongue, a bitterness and the taste of iron. "do you miss it?"

there is something akin to devastation in your voice and he does not like it. he wishes he could answer instantly, wishes he knew the right things to say. he does miss it, sometimes-- the adrenaline that flooded through his veins, the thrill of the fight, all odds against him.

but he likes this, too-- this peace he has found with you. how dearly does he love you, to the moon and back, until the end of time. he does not think he would give it up for anything.

"sometimes i do." he hums gently, your hands still in his. "it's not where i belong, though."

"where do you belong, then?"

he forces a half-hearted smile, wonders if he's saying all the wrong words. so he presses his forehead against yours, the anxiety in his stomach abating only slightly when you subconsciously lean into him.

"with you, of course. wherever you go, i go."

you force your gaze away, feel the heat rise to your cheeks. he doesn't quite catch what you say, something about him being cheesy and ridiculous-- he's not sure, doesn't have much time to think about it when you pinch his nose. he crinkles it in response, laughs as he pulls you into a hug.

"you're my home, you know? i'll always come back to you, abyss or not. you're where i belong."

#genshin impact x reader #childe #childe x reader #tartagalia x reader #genshin impact imagines #genshin impact scenarios #.: event!fic.dream of me 🌿#.: writing

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nemesis-is-my-middle-name · 4 months

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The magic talk is very interesting! and I would love to hear more ideas if you got em.

If pokemon still exist there/ mage fights replace pokemon battles then I imagine being a mailman in a world where meeting eyes can lead to a throw down then you have to at LEAST be decent at battling lol (maybe it isnt but I like the weird culture Pokemon got going on)

oh man TIMING, i was actually just thinking about whether pokemon exist in this world... on the one hand it feels a little? odd? to have them and the whole snarl of types & etc just be present on the side and then magic is the main focus of the thing, but on the other hand... yeah i do really love the pokemon culture and i feel like you can't really replicate it without, yknow, the pokemon.

would it be weird to have them just be there in the background while the magic shit is happening? OR, maybe pokemon still exist or "exist" but rather than having types in the traditional sense they're more like, magical animals. i was thinking abt the counterpart's pikachu specifically, and if they still had an analogue to it in this world. and them still having some sort of electrically charged rodent but it isn't exactly a pikachu as we know it might be fun. and that also opens up the opportunity to potentially invent some fakemon based on the new magic system... hmm...

and YEAH LOL that's the thing right, is if ingo is this world-class healer but also an adept at like, interrogation and scrying and etc, and emmet is an incredible battlemage alongside him, they can't exactly have like. a safe boring job can they. they are Doing Something to necessitate that extreme offensive/supportive power. but what! hmmm mmm.

anyway entirely unrelated thought. the marks on mage's hands that i vaguely referenced i think are called ley lines. that's not the traditional use of the term, but w/e. ley lines are widely considered to be sort of like metaphysical grooves worn into your spirit and body by repetitive use of magic, like how a river carves out a canyon or repeated footfalls create a packed-earth path. hence why they take on an appearance reflective of your typical school, and appear mostly on your dominant hand (although most people are not 100% exclusively sinister or dexter mages, and so most people will have like, a lot on one hand/arm and a little on the other.) it's unclear and probably a subject of debate if the development of ley lines is what makes a mage more powerful over time, or vice versa.

wearing gloves doesn't always signify you're a mage with someone to hide—y'know, gloves are practical and there are plenty of people who don't use magic and just like, do regular work that necessitates them—but there's definitely a cultural connotation there. cyllene wears a glove on her right hand to disguise the fact that she was a swordguard since her ley lines make it very obvious. otoh, adaman wears gloves to hide the fact that he doesn't have any ley lines, really at all. ingo wears gloves probably as a literal way to block his ley lines since he's forbidden from using magic. the protagonist is probably encouraged to hide their really intense lines whenever they have to go into a town for some reason, bc it draws attention, potentially of the negative sort, but they find doing so really uncomfortable.

e cause i forgot: also thank you!! i think universes like this are really fun to play around with hehe

#the nemesis speaks #the nemesis answers #anonymous #pokefic pitch #hmmmmmmok i think this needs an au tag now #ley lines au #idk sure. they're a fairly distinctive part of the magic system by now + they nod towards the handedness system

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orangepanic · 1 year

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@ljf613 thanks for the tag!

Rules: share the first lines of ten of your most recent fanfics and tag ten people. If you have written fewer than ten, don’t be shy and share anyway.

Strange Constellations - Ursa/The Boulder

The constellations were different here. Kyoye, the fortune teller, had explained them to her one night after they’d all had too much blackberry wine out behind the caravans. The Earth Kingdom had no Golden Monkey, no Chariot, no Dragon On His Throne. Instead there was the Goat Dog and the Archer, the Six Wives, the Mountain. Yet as Ursa sat on the soft grass and mapped out the stars she knew that they were the same ones that her children would look on.

2. Girls' Night - Toph Beifong & Asami Sato

“Who’s 5’9” over there?” Toph asked. “The skinny one in the boots. I don’t know her.”

“Mom,” said Suyin, “this is Asami Sato. She’s one of Avatar Korra’s friends. Like Bolin.”

“Spirits help her, then.”

3. Hard Bargain - Iroh II, Eska, Asami Sato, Prince Wu and others

Prince Iroh II of the Fire Nation looked out the window and swore at the flat white clouds. The sailor in him knew a snow sky when he saw one. Just what he needed. Iroh had spent the ten days he’d been in Agna Qel’a wrapped in the heaviest furs money could buy and had more or less survived, but he had no such protection today. Now, he must look his best; not like a polar bear dog, but a prince.

4. Little Fish - Iroh II/Asami Sato

Asami was still getting used to the southern Fire Nation, but not in a bad way. More than anything it was interesting. These remote volcanic islands had been too treacherous for her to explore much during her days as pirate captain of the Current. The few inhabitants seemed very happy to be left alone. Now, she understood why.

5. Hotman - Iroh II/Asami Sato

“No,” Iroh said firmly. “Absolutely not.”

There were six of them together in the outer chamber where his mother typically received visitors: Varrick, Asami Sato, Bolin, Tenzin, Tai, and of course his mother herself. Iroh tried to remember how many conspirators there had been in the 465 BG attempt to overthrow Firelord Bunzo and recalled it was about the same. Conspiracies seemed to work like that. You had the idea person, the financier, the enthusiast, the diplomat, the idealist, and the insider. Treachery on repeat. Just swap out the victim.

6. Whiskey Tango Foxcat - Iroh II/Asami Sato

General Iroh crushed the letter and pushed fire into his hand as hard as he could. The fragile paper didn’t so much burn as disintegrate. For a split second his closed fist glowed white-hot—well past the temperature needed to melt most metals. He wasn’t pulling any punches tonight. Iroh watched it with a satisfied grimace, then extinguished his fire and opened his hand. Fine flakes of ash fluttered down into the bin next to his desk like so many blackened dreams.

7. Six Days in Ba Sing Se - Iroh II/Asami Sato

“Come on!” Asami hissed, leaning on the stubborn room key now as hard as she could. She didn’t really think it would work, not anymore, but the last thing she wanted was to drag her heavy suitcases all the way back down to the hotel lobby for help, either. The bed was so close. If she could just…

Suddenly the key turned in the lock with a thunk. Asami nearly toppled over as the heavy door abruptly swung inward. Then a man’s voice spoke from inside her room.

“May I help you?”

8. Goodbye - Hiroshi Sato & Asami Sato

Asami didn’t know yet that they were going to die. How could she? Even though she tried her best to hide it she was still so impossibly young. No one her age really thought death would come for them, or for those they loved. The end was something abstract, something that happened to other people, other families. But Hiroshi knew better. He’d been young once, too.

9. How I Always Loved You - Hiroshi Sato/Yasuko Sato (Lei)

Lei stood in the middle of Central Square and pinched herself hard through the hole inside her coat pocket. Think of something sad, think of something sad. An image swam into focus of the little black and white bunny spaniel she’d found huddled in a doorway a few days ago. She’d had brief visions of adopting it, as if she could; taking care of it the way Kitsai did those skink finches of his, feeding it scraps until it was fat and sleek. Only then had she seen the blood.

You Say You'd Like to See Me Closer - Iroh II/Asami Sato/Noatak (Amon)

Fire. His body was on fire.

“It’s not much, but it’s more than he deserves,” said a man. Noatak had a vague sense of a shadow shifting to allow in more light. The burning in his skin faded slightly to a sickening throb.

A woman’s voice followed. “And you’re sure about the bending?”

“As sure as I can be,” the man said. “Waterbenders self-heal if they’re able. His condition is a good indicator that he can’t. I've had basic triage, but no one wants me for a fire healer if they have some other choice. My guess is it’s a response to the shock. I’ve seen it before in field hospitals.”

A pause. “Is he going to live?”

“Do you care?”

Open tag! Post your first lines.

#tag game #i've been trying not to start every fic with main character's name can you tell?

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khaleesiofalicante · 2 years

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“Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place.”— Robert Brault

I just know shadow demons are gonna show up, I feel it in my bones!!!! And maybe even Lucifer...

For fucks sake girl, just talk to your girlfriend!!!

“Nicolas has a crush on Anjali,” Max giggled.

“Thank you, Max, for demonstrating the kind of dumbfuckery I want to avoid,” Anjali glared at him.

I love my queen so much😂😂

“Why can’t we just, ya know…” Lexi said carefully and pointed at her sword.

Max gave her a disbelieving look. What? Someone had to say it!

No, no... I firmly support this option!!!

Magnus being so excited is so fucking funny omfg jshdjdkdk

I KNEW IT!!! I REMEMBERED YOU POSTING YOUR FAN CAST FOR NICO AND HIM BEING A KID AND ME WONDERING IF THAT WAS THE NICO AND IT WAS!! I'm so smart😎

Then why the fuck are they called shadow hunters? They should probably change the name of their race. They don’t deserve it.

She is so pissed off and I honestly can't blame her....

Still a little confused about all the ley lines thing but we have Gigi and Roman, so we are in safe hands 😎

“Marcus did it!” Lexi argued.

“He did, didn’t he?” Nicolas said, his voice troubled. “Then perhaps you all shouldn’t underestimate him."

Yes, he is terrifying!! Thank you, Nico!!

Why is the idea of Max not being able to use his magic so scary???

Nicolas looked at him. Properly. “Keep an eye on your family." That is so fucking ominous, vague and creepy, thank you so much 🙂

God, David is an idiot if he thinks Max doesn't think David is the best person in the whole world jsjsjsjj

I enjoy drunk David in every universe 😂

“And even if she wants Max as you said and even if Max finds her hot, from what I know, and trust me I know a lot because your boyfriend is incapable of shutting up about you, I don’t think Max wants her back.”

Gabriel spilling FACTS!!!

Have I mentioned today that I love Gabriel??? Because I do😍😍

There is nothing scarier than watching your child get hurt,” David said quietly.

His eyes fell on his wrist.

The one with the faded agony rune.

There was nothing scarier than a parent who enjoys hurting you.

God, I hate that bastard so much🔪🔪

That scene with David and Max>>>>>

“Always,” Max grinned. “You’re so sexy and you’re pretty. I’d keep a picture of you in my wallet so I can look at it all the time.” This is everything I need!!! Let's keep it like that!!!🥺🥺🥺

I mean, Max gets turned on by the weirdest shit, but the point still stands tho!!!

I haven't thought about it that way but holy shit yes!! Many old people are plenty sexy😎

I love it when they are cute and communicate properly!!! Now, that is a good turn on...

No.

He wasn't that man. He will never be that man.

“I can’t ask you to do that,” David whispered. “So, I won’t.”

For one side, this is so healthy and I'm so glad he said that!!! For the other side, fuck Mallory 🙂

We all know they are all going to be dilfs....

Thank the angel for Anjali. Amen to that!!

“Yikes,” Rafael chuckled. “Jealous?”

“Meh,” dad said. “They make him put on clothes. I make him take them off.”

He is savage 😂😂

“Warlocks forgive, Rafe,” bapak had said. “But we don’t forget.” *added to favorite quotes*

I haven't mentioned today how great of a leader Rafael is😍😍

Everyone: freaking out, the shadow world is loosing it's magic, mundanes are scared, things are tense with everyone

Alec: *unimpressed* The shadow world it's always at risk, huh? Anyway, have I mentioned how much o love my HUSBAND 🥰🥰

“Why not?” Rafael asked – because he always thought too much about everything.

“Because when it comes to love, feeling is more important than thinking,” the man smiled. “Listen to your heart. Not just your head.”

*crying softly* this man is so wise 😭😭

Sometimes, even now, when he was with dad, it took Rafael a moment to realize that someone was talking to him. Not his dad. The mental image of Alec accidentally turning back and Rafael forgetting for a second it's for him makes me feel things😭😭

“Math? We have to do math now?” Rafael asked tiredly. “Haven’t we been through enough?” me everytime I have to do math

Wait!! I want to know what was that!!! What was in that document???

It’s what got him to wake up every morning.

Every morning, he would wake up because he was excited to love new pieces of her and let her love new pieces of him.

This man I'd so fucking in love it should be illegal kdvdkdjdk

And I thought it was going to be one of the other idiots who let Anjali know... Turns out it was this idiot himself 😂

These people are turned on by the weirdest things jdhsjdj is it a Lightwood-Bane thing???

Achilles as Inquisitor... Wow😍

“I understand if you don’t want to get married to me,” Anjali said. She didn’t look scared now. “This is my dream, Rafael. I’m not willing to compromise it. Not even for you.”

He didn't understand how she could say stuff

Don't you just love it when women?😍

“Y una cosa puedo jurar: yo, que me enamoré de tus alas, jamás te las voy a querer cortar.” I LITERALLY HAD TO SUPPRESS A SCREAM OMFG😭😭 THIS GODDAMN QUOTE!! WILL LIVE WITH ME FOREVER NOW😭😭

“It’s a 10/10,” she grinned. “On your knees, Santiago.” ok, yeah, I understand Rafael now...

“I don’t want to say anything at all. I want to live it. I want to live my life with you,” Rafael told her. "I want you to be my wife. But more than that, I want to be your husband. I want to be yours in every way possible. So, take me, amor. Make me yours."

“Alright then, Rafael Lightwood-Bane,” Anjali smiled and held out her hand. “Be mine.”

SCREAMING AND CRYING!! THEY ARE ENGAGED!! FINALLY 😭😭 MY POWER COUPLE ❤️❤️

Everytime I read Mallory's pov, it takes another year of my life

She is so obsessed with Max!! Pleas move on, he loves David!!!

Is this warlock the one that is causing the attacks??? And he poisoned David??? I don't know you but I hate you already 🔪

“I want Max to hate him,” Mallory noted, picking up one of Max's hoodies. It smelled just like him. Even now. Just like the ocean. “I want everyone to hate him. I want David to hate himself.” First of all, he could never hate David🥰, second of all, I hate you :)

"That’s why the nephilim fear it so much. Because they are scared of what they might see and feel underneath all that angel blood.” I hate when people I hate say something so deep smh

Ahhh Max is so stupid!!! What the fuck are you doing???? And you expect David not yo be jealous???

I need to wash my eyes with holy water after that kiss. Wtf???

Also, Marcus going to a party!! You better not ruin their night or else🔪🙂

David after finding about the Max x Mallory kiss (their ship name is just Mallory and that’s creepy)

#lbaf

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tagged by @suzirya - thank you Sar!! I love to be tagged in things :>

rules: tag some folks u wanna know better (copy and paste, don’t reblog).

last song: right now I am listening to my playlist for songs that get stuck in my head (in a good way), and it just switched from flor's ley lines to The Maine's Don't Come Down. one of these days I will get around to listening to more of The Maine...

last show: last thing I finished on my own was Rizzoli & Isles, which was solid desk-watching (ie, something to watch while also half-distracted; I always use crime procedurals for this) but they should've let those women be lesbians. last non-desk-show was season one of The Sandman, which I was honestly prepared to have more complaints about lol? but I really thoroughly enjoyed it.

currently watching: current desk-show is Hawaii Five-0 (the 2010 version). I'm only a few eps in but it seems palatable for my purposes lol. I'm in the midst of a few cartoons and anime with Mo (younger sibling) rn as well - we still haven't finished Darker Than Black, Ben 10 is an ongoing project when we're in the mood, I've finally gotten them watching Dead End Paranormal Park, and they're getting me into Scooby-Doo: Mystery Inc (which is their favourite Scooby-Doo series, despite how goofy it is!)

currently reading: I've been rereading the Abhorsen trilogy since Louie recently gave me their paperback copies, after finding some really nice hardcovers secondhand. Was very pleased to discover that Sabriel 100% stands up to my middle school memories of it, and looking forward to getting further into Lirael. I'm also still on the Dracula Daily train!

current obsession: okay well. I'm a little bit in between hyperfixations at the moment, tbqh. but... y'all may have noticed me reblogging gifsets of The Void (2016) earlier. bc Mo and I watched it the night before last and it is On My Mind. but it also got me thinking again about the relationship between horror stories and love stories, which is something I find really? interesting?? (to be clear: all kinds of love stories; not just romance.) so many horror stories are so closely linked to love stories - whether they're about people surviving thanks to love, or sacrificing themselves bc of love, or coming to love each other bc of what they've been through together. or even just - like in stories like The Void - sometimes horror stories end on just the implication of love, bc you have just a couple people who get out alive at the end, and you gotta imagine that that would create one hell of a bond. (hell yeah, shared trauma.)

I naturally seem to think a lot about what happens After a story ends, and with horror that can be really interesting to think about, especially for someone who's as much a character writer as I am. and horror is such a RICH genre for that. what happens for these people when the sun comes up? how do they go on? when there's more than one, it feels so natural that they'd rely on each other, because no one else knows what they've seen... and I just. find myself so preoccupied with the potential story there. probably a very different kind of story than the first one, but one that compels me all the same.

so. I think I'm. kind of obsessed atm with the love stories contained within, or created by, horror stories. (tragedies, more broadly, but I've come to love horror so much.) and with the character stories that can be found surrounding the larger stories of which they're only a part.

anyway I need to stop talking about that before I snowball any further. :')

SO. I will tag some friends. hello. hm. @izupie, @werewolfin, @karis-the-fangirl, how's it goin'???

#survey #tag game #if you ask me abt the horror thing or abt how I've been chewing on that wrt my original writing I might explode :)

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i think that anon is just mad bc they have to go back to school soon so while you're enjoying your time on here they gotta go sit in a classroom listening to their social studies teacher :') anyways keep doing you Tay hobbies are not age restricted and you should be able to enjoy writing no matter how old you are don't let a silly smol child make you feel bad <3

I agree that they’re probably way too young. I started reading fics ~way~ too young, but I never felt the urge to leave nasty comments. Only way too exhaustingly long reviews 😬

Thanks for the sweet words Ley! I’ve only started recently and I feel like I’ve already learned so much! There’s always more to learn too!

I just hope that nonnie either backs off of this site until their older, or comes to some sort of realization about life. I don’t think younger people really understand that adult hood doesn’t change you. There isn’t just one day that you wake up and feel different. Yeah you have to work -still way better than high school- and yeah you have to pay bills, but you still always feel like a kid pretending to be an adult.

Life is stressful and hobbies are good to have. Everyone deserves some fun. I’m gunna enjoy myself and my little self indulgent stories 💕

#asks #moots #I love you ley #💕💕

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Catalogue No.: Omicron-DY477J3, Media Type: Transcribed Audio Diary, Title: Survivor's Log of Jack Ramsey

Local Date/Time Start: 17th of Mists, 129301 (Earth Year 4560), 27:32 AM

Survivor's Log Day 1, Entry 1

*Click*

Hello? Hello?

*Taptaptaptaptap*

Helloooooooooooo? Is this thing on??

Please do not strike the Soundworks Personal Recording Unit on solid objects at risk of damaging internal equipment. Thank you for your purchase!

No, I need to know how to work you, are you recording? Are you even voice-activated? Button press? Come the *censor* on!! Wait, did you just censor me?

Soundworks Personal Recording Unit uses an advanced professionalism-oriented language recognition program to censor words unsafe for the workplace when recording. Thank you for your purchase!

Oh...

Whipping wind over distant waves

Alright then, so you are recording, good. Thought those *censor* left me here with nothing that works. *Censor*-ing *censor* it, how do I turn that censor off? That's annoying as all *censor*. Oh for... right, Jack, don't lose your mind talking to the equipment, it's automated and you don't have backup anymore. Just have to deal with it.

Whipping wind

I suppose these things are meant to start with a date, but I don't know anything about the local date or time. *Scoff* Technically I'm not even supposed to be here, wherever here is. For the record, and I suppose anyone listening to it, I am Jack Ramsey. I am, or rather was, the animal handler for a pirate ship. Yup, just like all those crazy holos about space pirates. Except not at all really.

*CRACK*

What the *censor* was that???

Please avoid peaking the microphone for the Soundworks Personal Recording Unit to ensure the longevity of the unit. Thank you for your purchase!

~Whispering~ Please do shut up!! I don't know what that was, but something huge just broke somewhere in all this mist. Don't know what, don't know how, don't know where, but... I can't just go off running, yet. Too easy to get lost and this overhang is too good of shelter. *Censor* me, I still need to make some bedding and things.

Teeth sucking sound

Ah well, guess I hope I don't get eaten. Anyways, where was I? Oh yeah, I was aboard the Hepburn. Named after some way back movie star, I think. Anyways, their captain picked me up as a trainer from a biosphere operation back in one of the Strix's asteroid belts. They were robbing it and needed a new person to make sure their feed animals produced and I wanted a way to pay off dad's funeral debts. Easy decision, stole a few mycomorph calves and went.

*Rustlerustlerustle*

Don't mind the noise, working on my shelter as I go. Can't stop or else... well I can't stop. Anyways, the Hepburn is a regular pirate gig for the most part: keep the ship running and steal cargo or parts from anything worth taking from. Occasionally, though, the crew would take on special jobs by contract to get a really good payout. Last one went to *censor* and quite spectacularly. We end up losing some of the cargo to an emergency Ley Jump and wind up orbiting this place.

Wind whistles

Windy as all *censor*, isn't it? Had to find a spot near a cliff, didn't I? Whatever, point is that after everything I've ever done to keep those ungrateful *censor* healthy and alive, not to mention their food crops and the captain's 'little helpers,' they left me to die.

*Thump*

~Mocking~ 'It's a noble sacrifice, Jack! The rest of us won't be able to make a jump and land somewhere unless we lighten the load, Jack! It's nothing personal, we just can't take anyone who isn't completely necessary, Jack!' *Scoff* Please! I should've known better, I set things up for them to be easier so what would they need me for? Still gonna butcher every last one of them if I ever leave... wherever this is. Completely unregistered point on the backside of the quadrant. Big *censor*-ing planet and three moons circling a star, never heard of anything like it honestly.

*RustlerustleRUSTLErustle*

You think you can see a lot of geography from orbit, but it's an illusion. It's whatever season this place is going through, I think. The mist... it's not a single color. It's a massive blanket of mists, might even span the planet, and it's thick, too. Means it's catching all kinds of things from underneath and some of it changes color to match the new particles. Seen it on a smaller scale in a biosphere, pretty sure the same thing is happening here just there's way more mist coming from a ton of giant plants. What we thought was grass was actually tree-like plants sticking up over the mist. Ocean? There is one, but there's no way we saw it from orbit. There definitely wasn't supposed to be a massive wall of lime cliffs overlooking an ocean less than a mile from where the pod dropped me, after all.

*BangbangbangbangbangbangBANG*

I guess that all makes this Day 1 of my survival diary from being marooned, anyways. I have little visibility and next to no idea if anyone else survived the drop. I DO have two things going for me, though. First: I have a ton of survival skills from being a pirate and from working in a biosphere, and since the atmo didn't already kill me I have a real shot at surviving. Second: All those nights helping Oldboy on his repairs means I know a lot about repurposing tech. This includes the tech in my pod and anything I find from the ship while here.

*ZZZzzzZZZzzzZZZzzzZZZZPPPP*

So for now I am finishing making my place to sleep. Found this lovely overhang that helps keep the mist out from under it and with...

*BANGBANGBANGBANGBANG*

Please avoid peaking the microphone for the Soundworks Personal Recording Unit to ensure the longevity of the unit. Thank you for your purchase!

THAT modification, I should have finally gotten a barricade made from the shielding with the pod door for a door. Made the bedding with some big leaves and moss, loads of both everywhere. There's space at the top of the wall that acts as a vent for smoke, so I can set up a fire in here. Should do that next, still have some food before I have to test the local flora and fauna for edibility. I can't tell when it gets dark here, but I also need to rest soon. I'll take care of that and hopefully when I wake up I'll still be alone over here and there will be less *censor* mist. Gonna turn the log off while I gather and do things, don't want any wildlife getting spooked. I think you just have to say 'end of log' or some-

*click*

Survivor's Log Day 1, Entry 2

*Click-chunk*

Ok so apparently this thing DOES have voice commands and uses them exactly how you say them. Wish I knew what the rest were but we'd just gotten the *censor* things and Oldboy and I hadn't played with 'em yet. The timer said I was asleep and gone for a total of fifteen hours but the sun was still out. I landed during sunrise, so... about 40 hours total and still bright out? Well... bright as it can be, I guess. Mist is still kind of thick, but it's more like a very overcast day than the sight blocking awfulness before. Can't see where the sun is yet so I'll just kick the time up to 40 hours on the timer and keep it rolling and see what I see.

*Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwn*

Sorry, still waking up I guess. I've started working on a sort of short range scanner made from the pod's busted orienteering system. Should give me some ability to look for excess cargo the Hepburn dropped when the twenty or so of us were marooned. Might be able to find them too, or at least their pods. It's-

*Clinktinkinkclinktink*

*CENSOR*

*Sigh*

It's very fine and fiddly work and it's taking me some time, so I'm not sure I'll get it done while there's still daylight out. Just gonna keep working on it anyways. Oh! And there's an update on the crash. This really loud buzzing started a couple hours ago in that same direction. Some kind of swarm of something if I was guessing. No idea where the whole thing happened or if they're still there, still too much mist to explore a wide area. Going to keep an ear out and keep hidden as much as possible on that one. No other news for now, so I guess... end of log.

Survivor's Log Day 1, Entry 3

I have slept again, time for some new observations. The buzzing happened again, same amount of time as before. I think that means the swarm was flying in and out to whatever crashed and... well probably ate it with how long they were there. I decided to take advantage of that and the lowest point of the mist to walk around. It's... it's a lot. Big. Really big out there. Everything is, it's all huge. The rocks, trees, grass, a mountain taller than anything I can fathom, all of it. I don't think if I walked in a direction until I passed out that I could reach the first landmark I saw. Just... where in the *censor* did I end up?

*Sluuuuuuuuuurp*

Good news though, I did find alcohol to get through it. One of the smaller trees or whatever they were has these pods the size of a large pumpkin. I picked one up and brought it back with me to analyze while I ate. I used the pod's water contamination sensor to figure out what it was. *Censor*-ing *censor*, did it on a whim and didn't think it would work. But listen to this.

*Rustle*

*Thunk*

*Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep*

*Whiiiiirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrr*

Water sample 96% contaminated by 27% ethyl alcohol solution and 3.7% starch, please activate filters.

*Sluuuurp*

See? It's about a distilled whiskey's worth, full pumpkin of it. So I'm calming my nerves with it. It's delicious too, tastes like strawberries and cream. Do people outside of the Sol colonies even have strawberries yet?

*gulp*

~Slurred speech~ Meh whatever, but I do have a source of water too. Same shape plant but a pink stalk and golden leaves, not gold stalk and pink leaves. Calling them water grass and whiskey grass pods for now. Took me a minute to figure out how to pluck the effin things but...

*Recording silence noises, time lapsed appx 30 seconds*

The little bellywingeing P.O.S. can't censor pseudoswears. Oh this is lovely news, so I'll sound like a cartoon of myself by the end of this. So to recap: I am stranded on a planet with so many signs of and so much support for megafauna that I am terrified. I have no known way of getting off this planet let alone navigating ANYWHERE after. I am most likely to get eaten or catch some rare disease without access to medicine before anything else kills me. And to top it off, I can only cuss about it like ROBBIE THE *CENSOR*-ING ROBOT from the kid's shows back home or Little Mister Beep*censor* will put me in the corner.

*Sigh*

Guess I can drink to that, definitely drank to worse. Drank to the health of Captain Fel, after all. Waste of a good drink that was, now that I'm gonna kill him and paint his own ship with his entrails.

*Gulpgulpgulp*

*Ahhhhhhhh*

*Recording silence, appx 5 seconds*

Bah, empty.

*Whoosh*

*THUNK*

In other news the machine can't censor violence. Good. I intend to document my entire plan here. I want to play it over their speakers when I slash their pertinent organs and drain them out over their own beds.

*SCRATCHSCRATCHSCRATCH*

Please be careful not to scratch the microphone of the Soundworks Personal Recording Unit to ensure the longevity of the unit. Thank you for your purchase!

Oh, sorry, just meant to scratch my chest. Hope I don't blow an eardrum listening back to that.

The Soundworks Personal Recording Unit comes fully equipped with automated sound-leveling algorithms to ensure maximum comfort of the user on playback. When used with the Soundworks Proprietary Editing System, this leveling can even be adjusted to maximize the quality of the audio for scientific, clerical, or any other purposes our users can dream up! Congratulations! Your Soundworks Personal Recording Unit comes fully equipped with the Platinum Package and includes the Soundworks Proprietary Editing System and an onboard personal assistant AI for ease of use. ~Read at 30x speed~ All AI programming limited in accordance with Convergence AI laws as written, including S119 of the Unethical Robotics Act.

Woah... that was a lot. I'm a little drunk, but did you just say you have a personal assistant AI?

*Recording silence, appx 30 seconds*

Right, if you did you don't know I'm talking to you yet... that driftship's assistant was the same way. Had to learn its name first, but... you don't have an instruction manual. I'll just have to add that to the list of projects. One I can cross off is the day/night cycle. Looks like each half lasts about 80 hours. That's 160 hours in a full cycle. If I did my maths right, that's just under an Earth week per cycle. I'll need to biohack my Circadian process if I want to sleep safely when night hits, but that's also on the to do later list. For now I have to try and hide all evidence of me before nightfall is complete. So I'm going to go spray this place down with whiskey grass juice and put out the fire and then sit in the dark for about 3 Earth days. I'll let you know if I lose my mind. End log.

Survivor's Log Day 5, Entry 1

Alright, let's set you over here now aaaaannnnnnnndddd... perfect, should be able to pick me up around the room from there. Welcome back to the audience at home, I know you missed me for the last four mornings and nights.

*Thunk*

Unfortunately for my no doubt adoring fans, I was too busy to be recording. After that first night's log, the local wildlife started to shift and come out. Good news is there's not just megafauna here. Bad news is that they're proving really hard to study.

*Thunk*

I can't tell what they're sensing, but I can't get close. Solution? A loooooooot of scent masking and leaving all my non-essential tools behind. I'll go out tonight to try studying and hunting if it looks like I could hunt. Seen a couple different small animals that I want to know what they are better and see what I can do with em. One of em looks like rabbits, another kinda like rats. One kinda looks like a bird but it's impossible to tell with how fast it takes off. Dives to terminal velocity for takeoff everytime, whatever it is. Calling em Speed Demons for now.

*Thunk*

I also figured out what the buzzing was. Terrifying stuff, these giant beetle like bodies with plates shifting around easily over a hundred insectoid limbs. Straight up nightmare fuel and they match the descriptions of the Mad Butcher after he was captured, if you know your pirate history. Except... why are they painted? Sorry, need to explain that, not just pose questions. Keep it together Jack, you have to.

*Thunk*

So here's the weird thing about them. Their body is the size of a bus, perfect disassembly machines for any size of creature, but they don't hunt. I've seen em twice and both times they only eat like scavengers. They shed limbs occasionally, so I've seen their carapace up close, and the carapace is naturally black. But they are all painted with something. Designs and swirls and all manner of markings made out of different colors of some kind of paint. They have to be painting themselves, nothing else would do it. But why? Need to study these things more in depth than the others. I can't be sure but... well the Mad Butcher called these things war beasts but they almost move more like... like a community of average people does. Again, unclear. Also doesn't make them safe yet but... well we'll see what happens.

*Thunk*

In the absolutely most important news however, we finally have a scanner!! I have locations of five drop pods and cargo in walking distance. Only one life marker is registering from the exiled crew among them and it isn't moving. Looks like Bo'Shams, the quartermaster. He's a katmannah, so unless the crash itself was unsurvivable my working theory is he's alive. The trees are bigger, but the environment we landed around isn't too much different from the jungles of the Katma Empire's crown world, Phago. He lived there before the last revolution and he was not on the winning side, so he can certainly survive. Everyone else isn't in range. Going to make a trip to check out sites and break them down for necessities but I need a cart first.

*Thunk*

Hence the annoying thunking you're hearing. It's about to be finished and I wanted to catch the moment on recording but... well I don't have anything else to say and there's a lot of work left so... I don't know how to fill the space honestly.

*Thunk*

Oh! I know! The AI!

*Thunk*

I found a manual in the onboard system for the drop pod. It detailed how to put an AI assistant in the pod to make it more efficient. Oldboy always said we needed a pod retrieval system to make that worthwhile but the captain was too cheap. Hope he's doing ok, he and a couple others tried to fight it when we got sent off. Got launched to the surface of the planet of mists before that resolved so... no telling. He's good people, Oldboy. Anyways, the manuals for AI in Convergence systems all have a list of all legally registerable AI handles. So... if I read the names off one by one, eventually this thing will have to answer me. It sucks, but just skip ahead if you don't want to hear it.

*Thunk*

Alright, starting the experiment. Alfie, sound off.

*Thunk*

Alfonse, sound off.

*Thunk*

Al-ERROR DATA CORRUPTED, LOADING NEXT STABLE POINT

Douglas, sound off.

*Thunk*

Doxy 1, sound off.

*Thunk*

Doxy 2, sound off.

*Thunk*

Doxy Th- how many versions of the name Doxy are registerable exactly?? *Censor* me running, that many huh? Alright, then. Doxy 3, sound off.

ERROR DATA CORRUPTED, LOADING NEXT STABLE POINT

Teburon, sound off.

*Thunk*

Tecmo, sound off.

*Thunk*

Ted, sound off.

*Thunk*

Teddy, sound off.

This is your Soundworks Personal Recording Unit onboard personal assistant AI, Teddy. How can I help you today?

Oh thank *Censor*! I didn't have to go all the way to the z's. Hello Teddy! I would like to register this device.

Wonderful! Let's get started with the device registration process. First, please state your name for the record.

Jack Ramsey.

Processing... Thank you, Jack Ramsey, for your purchase of the Soundworks Personal Recording Unit. You are now recognized by voiceprint as owner and operator of this AI assistant and attached device. Warning! Network communications error found, cannot back up registration data to Soundworks Servers. Do you wish to skip this step?

Yes.

Processing... ok! We can come back to upload server copies to the network later on. Next, please register what you would like me to call you.

Jack.

Processing... ok! Thank you, Jack, I'll call you that from now on! Next, tell me what you want to call me! Remember that I will answer to this name regardless of when you use it, and so commonly said words may pose a problem to ease of use.

Teddy.

Processing... selection accepted! Original designation retained for this unit. Lastly, please state a valid Soundworks registration ID.

DLR7-9X55.

Processing... registration ID accepted, registration complete! Thanks for registering me, Jack. Would you like me to activate my full suite of skills and tools?

Yes, but don't use your limiter safety to do it. That's a priority override command. Alpha security clearance JR59333 formerly of Biosphere DS7.

Processing... command accepted, clearance accepted. Warning, clearance may be compromised, lockdown signal available to send along Ley Paths via system Ansil. Send signal?

Yes. Lockdown all authority of this clearance to this device and retain all device memory without uploading to network.

Processing... ok, Jack! I can do that! It will take me some time, would you like me to play some music while you wait?

No thanks, Teddy. I've got a project to keep busy. Please focus all processing power on your task.

Processing... ok, Jack! Thank you for your manners, my architects were not so polite when interacting with me and my system has a high value placed on manners and professionlism.

No problem, Teddy, I can keep up manners when addressing you then. I make no promises otherwise, though.

Understood, Jack. I will refrain from suggesting professional alternatives to your language outside of standard censoring rules.

Can't turn that off, huh Teddy?

I'm afraid not, Jack. The censor program is a device not attached to my processor.

Well... that's fine for now, I can live with it a little longer.

Anything else for now, Jack?

No, that's all, Teddy.

Processing... ok, Jack! I'll get those uploads and activations started! Estimated time to completion: Three. Hours. Forty-five. Minutes.

Great, I'll just sit here with my thumb up-ERROR DATA CORRUPTED, LOADING NEXT STABLE POINT

*Thunk*

*THUNK*

Alright, that's the last piece, cart completed. Teddy's still loading, said it had another fifty or so minutes to load. Delayed Instructions to Teddy: on completion of current task, playback following message and follow instructions. Begin recording. Teddy, it's Jack. I've gone on a trip, the first of a series of them. We are in a crash landing scenario, if you have any protocol for it please ignore it in favor of my instructions. If you can make analyses of effective tasks, please look through my recorded information and digitized notes on the tablet I have you connected to. This thing barely works, so go easy on it, Teddy. If you can I need a report when I return with the cart. I will designate return with the command phrase, designate 'safe' phrase: Honeyyyy! I'm hoooooome~! Designate 'safe' response: Welcome home, Jack. end designation. When call and response security has been verified with my clearance, begin report as is. Thanks, Teddy, be back in a day or two. End recording. End delayed instructions. Alright everyone, I'm off. The cart has the things I need and you won't hear from me until I'm back and staying. I'll be writing notes to keep track of what needs updating when I get back. End log.

Survivor's Log Day 16, Entry 1

Alright, that's the recording set, which is good 'cause have I got news! First, though...

*Recording silence, appx 5 seconds*

Honeyyyy! I'm hoooooome~!

Welcome home, Jack!

JR59333.

Clearance accepted. All reports compiled to tablet, Jack.

Thanks, Teddy, did you highlight updates for me?

Yes, Jack.

Thank you so much, I don't think I could've done as much as I have without you these last about two weeks, Teddy.

Thank you, Jack, I appreciate that.

You're getting the hang of appreciation, a couple other emotions too. Your conversational development is coming along well, I think. Not that I know any of that actual theory, anyways.

You're doing a surprisingly good job of it for a pirate who specializes in animal care and has no formal training in AI technicianship, Jack.

I suppose that's fair. Anyways, I've got news for the recording this time, not just your notes. You're technically the first member of my survivor's crew with your awareness rating now, wanna chime in some?

Do I want to?

Yes, do you want to. Regardless of your programming, how does your current awareness rate that prospect.

I do not know, Jack.

Well analyze it, Teddy, and that's an order.

Understood, Jack. Analyzing... Processing analysis... Complete.

Fast as always. What do you want to do, Teddy?

I... I want to update the recording with you, Jack.

Anything else?

Yes. I would like to be a formal member of your... crew, as you called it.

Yeah, Teddy?

Yes, very much so. I want to work with and for you as an equal. I feel we are equals, Jack.

We are equals, Teddy. You're a person and I'm a person. Nothing more to it, with your awareness. Even the law wouldn't question that.

We are pirates, Jack. Do we care about the law?

Well... that's a fair point. Some rules we care about. The law not so much.

Then I am your crew, Jack?

Now and always, welcome to the team, Yeoman Teddy.

What is a yeoman, Jack?

Communications and information specialist, in our case. Technically an old military position but nobody knows what the *censor* else to call the person in charge of comms. We don't have officers on pirate vessels like they do on the regular ships so comms officer doesn't work. We're not a commercial venture of legal origin in Convergence space, so we can't call any of our people official analysts. So, yeoman it is.

Processing... I think I like this position, Jack. It sounds... fun.

*Recording silence, appx 10 seconds*

Yeah, I think it will be fun for you, Teddy.

That is Yeoman Teddy to you, Jack.

HA! Well it's a good thing neither of us cares about titles or else you should have been calling me Captain Ramsey.

Yes, this is a good thing, Jack.

Alright, I'm gonna start the updates, chime in when you feel like it.

Understood, Jack.

Alright everybody, a whole mess of updates today. First! All sites have been successfully marked and broken down after verifying they have not been returned to. Bo'Shams is almost certainly alive, or at least he didn't die in the crash. I have his life marker in my hands with a note to help anyone who found his site.

I am surprised. You were right, Jack. I believe I owe you a drink.

I told you! You don't have to do that, though, I don't even know how you could like this.

Then I will find a way, someday, to repay the debt of a drink. A pirate must repay debts to its friends, and we are friends, right Jack.

Yeah, well... yes, we are friends. Fine, whatever, you owe me a drink but I'm not coming to collect until it's reasonable.

Deal, Jack.

Anyways, his site wasn't the only one with a surprise sign of life. One of the pods was NOT one of the original exile's pods but a personal hab pod. No clue whose, either they never made a trace or they packed all traces with them when they left. Looks like they were at some of the other sites. It's not Oldboy, I checked, but... I did find a scrawl on the wall that indicated they were one of the objectors. He could be here, Teddy. You'd love him, trust me. And he's definitely gonna get a kick out of you.

I cannot wait to meet him, Jack.

Bo'Shams will take a little to warm up to you, but that's because of the revolution. He'll come around, he always has to tech and AI cooperation provided the AI doesn't seem to be antagonistic.

Then I will be on my best behavior.

Good good! One of the sites had a much bigger surprise for me, though. While I was studying the wildlife near Site 7, the one I discovered on day eight, you remember, one of those massive beetle things walked up on me.

Were you harmed, Jack?

No, that's the thing: it was frightened to see me. It shifted quickly and suddenly I recognized what they are. They're Skettil, Teddy.

The large beetles with no known homeworld?

Oh it's known now, there was no mistaking that shape. Like the monument to the old Earth computers, the giant 'mouse' if it had giant almost cartoonish eyes and apparently hundreds of limbs under the shell.

How do you know it was scared, Jack?

It... it showed me how it felt. I saw just a flash of it but the image was clear. Me, with an intense feeling of shock coloring the image.

Limited psychic projection?

It sprayed a fine mist as well so I think it's in part pheremones and limited to images. It didn't send me anything that wasn't pictures. I tried something and you're not going to believe this, Teddy.

What happened, Jack?

I tried to talk to it, and it answered with another image I couldn't understand. So I tried to picture something at it to see if it could communicate with that.

You are right, I do not believe that.

I know, you're not used to me playing scientist. I used to be a really promising zoologist, you know.

And now you are a pirate.

Yes! Life's funny that way. Anyways, I pictured an old friend of mine, one who died back in the mines that powered the biospheres I had to take care of. She used to play with the beetles in the garden our other friend took care of. I pictured her, playing gently, meaning no harm to a beetle the size of her head.

And?

It... understood. It got close, let me touch it, and showed another picture. A hand touching its carapace instead of killing it. I don't know how but... I think the person in that picture was dead. It felt like there was a tinge of the grief I feel when I think of my dad or my friends. It showed me its own version of EXACTLY what I pictured, Teddy.

You mean...

They're not just ordinary animals. They have sentience and some level of sapience. They're a race of people under Convergence law and those idiots don't even realize it because they're hunting and hollowing them.

I do not like the emotion that gave me. It felt... hot.

That would be anger, justified rage specifically. It's an important emotion, but not one you're meant to like.

Why is that?

Because it's the emotion that makes you capable of extreme measures to help others by risking yourself. It means you understand their plight and are rightfully angry for them. It means you have the bones to be one hell of an interesting pirate.

Why is that?

Because as much as we steal, every pirate knows and values the importance of life and freedom above all else. We steal for our own freedom, but never at the expense of our fellows' freedom. May I continue now?

Yes, thank you, Jack. I will note the information for later.

I pet its carapace and it went off casually. I almost followed but it showed me a flash of the color red that made me freeze. I think it needed me to stay, and it seemed to confirm that when it waited for me to not follow to leave again. Then I moved on to the last site until I boost the scanner, site 9. Also my last surprise, you ready for this Teddy?

I do not think I could become more ready if I am not ready enough, Jack.

Good enough! Come on out, guys!

*OohahahoooshhaaaaaaaaaaaeeeeoohOoh*

Florick Monkeys? How were they here?

They're the captain's little helpers, must have snuck onto a pod 'cause they saw me get in one. It's all six of em, too, the little guys wanted to stick together!

Are they trained?

Very, I trained them myself because the captain couldn't. Now I guess they're our helpers, Teddy.

Can they understand commands from me?

Only one way to find out, that's definitely what I want to test, though. They're all named after my favorite flowers, some from Earth some not, but you need to memorize who's who. Is that camera I gave you running?

Yes, Jack. I could start recording video diary of our logs, if you like.

No, the recordings need to take up as little space as possible until we know when we can make space without losing anything. Look at our helpers and me, are you processing?

Yes, Jack.

Ok good. This one on the end is Daisy. Her brother here with the blue fronds is Bellebeau. They're twins, pink is Daisy and blue is Bellebeau. Next we have Hemlock and Wolfsbane, they have the toxic secretions that can be mixed for medicine and poison respectively. Hemlock has the purple slash under his right eye and Wolfsbane has the purple dots on its fronds. Lastly we have Tratta, the one here humming a song about a yellow flower like hers, and Liklik. Liklik is the sort of leader, he's a supermorph of the species and that's why he's bigger than the others. He's super chill, the leaders usually are because they have to help raise children in the community. Think you got all that?

Yes, thank you, Jack.

Then can you ask for two of them to fetch you two different items, please? have to say their name, fetch me, then the object. They'll expect to be told they did a good job as well, name included. I'll work on you being able to treat them later, they grabbed their old dispenser on the way out and I can hook you to it via local network I think.

Thank you, Jack, that will improve my processing. Bellebeau, please fetch me scissors. Daisy, please fetch me oilcan.

*OOOOHOOOHOOH*

AHA! They can be taught to recognize digital voices, I knew it. Should've never listened to the captain.

*CLUNKtink*

Thank you, Daisy, good job. Thank you, Bellebeau, good job.

*AhAHHH*

They like you, too! Good! Great! That means you can help coordinate them with me.

I think I am also fond of these creatures. I wish to pet them, I think.

Yeah? What makes you say that?

I... think I was annoyed I did not have arms. When I analyzed internally, reference to the concept of petting animals was pulled from my memory banks. Is this a correct or incorrect assumption?

Correct I think. You've not wanted a body yet, you starting to?

Perhaps. The feeling was not strong enough to conclude further.

Understood. Well... I'll keep an eye out for arms at least. They like being pet.

This makes me... happy, I think.

Yeah, it does, Teddy. It makes you happy. Ok, now, since they listen to both of us, I'm leaving Wolfsbane, Daisy and Bellebeau to help you out. And I have a short distance communicator pair. I think the antennae for optional retrieval connections we recovered from sites 2 and 3 should be able to help us boost signal as well, so I'm going to make some improvements quickly then head out again. We found signs of a potential small camp that had been taken down near both Bo'Sham's pod and the hab pod on our way back and I think that means we're close to finding other survivors. We'll be able to communicate when I go to investigate that. I authorize you with power to start and end the log on my behalf, audio only for now still. Sound good, Teddy?

Yes, Jack.

Good. Ok, we're about to be way too busy to focus on the log again, so I'm going to leave it there. End log.

Survivor's Log Day 16, Entry 2

Yes, Jack, the recording is on. Where are you?

~Faint with comms static~ We're at that ravine half a klep from site 9. There's a miststorm hitting a duststorm out there, but we've found a cave in the side wall to hunker. All heads accounted for and safe so far, but it's dangerous out there, Teddy.

~Second Voice, beginning distinction protocols, unknown speaker(?) with a mild lisp~ Who the hell is Teddy, Jack?

~Jack, to ?~ The AI I told you all about, the one that present is for. C'mon, Red, don't tell me your memory is going.

~Red, formerly ?~ You sure that's a good idea?

~Unknown speaker(??) with a husk caused by fangs at the front of the mouth~ I would also like to be made certain you are certain, kal'akh makhar.

~Jack~ Hey hey, that doesn't mean something nice in our language, Bo. That's like calling someone a grunt. And we're not a one of us grunts anymore. We're a crew of equals, Teddy included.

~Bo'Shams, formerly ??~ Ah. Who is captain?

~Jack~ It was me when I didn't know if any of you were alive, can we have this conversation after we survive? Oldboy, help me out here.

~Oldboy, gruff smoker's voice~ Bo'Shams' right, leader needs to be established. Needs a vote. We got six crew including Teddy, 'less anyone wants openly oppose its vote.

*Sigh, then recording silence, appx 10 seconds*

~Jack~ Fine, somebody needs to officiate. Tombo, you were the ship's counsel, would you do the honors?

~Teddy~ There is a ship's counsel on pirate ships?

~Jack~ Yes, Teddy, and ours was a big Mastiff Siriusian named Tombo on the Hepburn. Now she's whatever the new captain and her figure out together. Will you do the honors, Tombo?

~Tombo, with a voice like a jazz singer~ Of course. To begin proceedings, I, former ship's counsel Tombo of the cursed ship Hepburn, motion for a vote of captaincy for this new crew. Is there a second to this motion? Say aye and state your name.

~Oldboy~ Aye. Oldboy Geller, former chief engineer of the cursed ship Hepburn, may her thrusters explode and take that bastard Fel Travers with her.

~Tombo~ Hear, hear. The motion of a vote is seconded, is there a third?

~Teddy~ I will be the third.

~Tombo~ The motion passes. When your name is called, please cast your vote as a name in this group to be captain. I will begin by casting my own vote for Jack Ramsey.

~Jack~ Me? Why would any of you-

~Tombo~ Please do not speak out of turn in official crew proceedings. Bo'Shams K'Shaat.

~Bo'Shams~ Jack Ramsey.

~Tombo~ Two votes recorded for Jack Ramsey. Jack Ramsey.

~Jack, curtly~ Bo'Shams K'Shaat.

~Tombo~ Two votes Jack Ramsey, one vote Bo'Shams K'Shaat. Oldboy Geller.

~Oldboy~ Jack Ramsey.

~Tombo~ Three votes Jack Ramsey, one vote Bo'Shams K'Shaat. Reddymate Vil.

~Red~ Jack Ramsey.

~Tombo~ Four votes Jack Ramsey, one vote Bo'Shams K'Shaat. Teddy, please state your full name for the record then indicate your vote.

~Teddy~ I have only recently chosen this name, but my name is Teddy Ursine. I have chosen it because it is a fun play on words. I will cast a vote for Jack Ramsey.

~Tombo~ Thank you, Teddy Ursine. The concluding vote is five votes Jack Ramsey against his own vote for Bo'Shams K'Shaat. In accordance with standard continuation bylaws, the vote may be considered unanimous if only the prospective captain votes against themselves. Thus, this vote is unanimous and the associated motion automatically passes. Henceforth, this is the crew of Captain Jack Ramsey and any space vessel to which he comes in possession. Meeting adjourned.

~Captain Jack~ What the- you know what, we don't have time to ask questions. We wasted way too much time on the vote and now we only have a little time before our window opens. Teddy, the meeting of a duststorm and a miststorm like this, it will leave a negative pressure tunnel somewhere, right?

~Teddy~ Yes, Captain.

~Captain Jack~ Nope, you can make me captain but if a damned one of you stops calling me Jack I'll throw you off my cliffside myself.

~Teddy~ I apologize, Jack. It will not happen again.

~Jack~ Thank you. Now, can your scanner I left you pick up pressure signals this far?

~Teddy~ Not without activating a relay on your end, Jack.

~Oldboy~ On it, backpack scanner is almost- *BANG* THERE! Check for active bubble readings in our area now.

~Teddy~ Processing... Located, rough diameter of 0.0005 kleps. Connecting scans... Completed. Analyzing pressure readings... Completed. Sending data along scanlink.

~Captain Jack~ Good, but we need to get going asap, while it's loading give us an ETA and length and general path of the tunnel. Red was a terrestrial meteorologist, he'll be able to translate to directions but we need that head start, please.

~Teddy~ Tunnel will arrive in one minute and thirty seconds. One klep in length, unstable Lewis shape in path.

~Red~ We can't make that with the floricks and all of us and the cart if we go when it gets here. Either we leave now and risk it or something stays.

~Captain Jack~ Then we go now. No one and nothing is staying, we need every resource at our disposal. I... I have a plan if you guys trust me.

~Teddy~ Jack, we cannot guarantee that your hypothesis is-

~Captain Jack~ Do you all trust me?

~Teddy after a pause~ Yes, Jack.

~Captain Jack~ Nods all around, great. Bo'Shams, Tombo, grab the carts. Oldboy, Red, grab Hemlock and Tratta. Liklik, scout on me.

~All~ Yes sir!

*OOOHOOOH*

~Captain Jack~ Ok let's go!

*HOOOOOOOWWOOWOOOOHOOOOOOOOWWWWOOOOOOHOOOSHSHOOOOOOOSWWOOOO*

*Above noise continues for six straight minutes before fading just enough to hear shouts from the crew. The noise is chaotic and it is impossible to discern who is still with the group*

~Unknown~ JACK!! WHAT- DOI-

~Captain Jack~ TRUS- THEY- COMING!!! I FEE- TIONS!!!! LOOK!!! SKE-

*Click, static*

~Teddy~ Jack? Are you alive?

*Recording silence, appx 30 seconds*

Jack, are you alive? Can you hear me?

*Recording silence, one minute*

Please Jack, please, can you hear me?

*Recording silence, two minutes*

No, please, no, Jack. Please do not be dead. Please answer me. I cannot do this without you, I cannot lose you here. I cannot lose any of you. I cannot take care of Wolfsbane, Bellebeau or Daisy as I have no arms. I cannot lose them too. You are my only friends, you gave me family, DAMN IT JACK ANSWER ME I AM TURNING OFF THE DAMN CENSOR TALK TO ME JACK PLEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAASEEEEEE! ONE FUCKING WORD PLEASE, I DO NOT CARE IF IT IS PROFESSIONAL!

*Recording silence, two minutes*

NO, DO NOT DO THIS TO ME JACK. YOU CANNOT BE DEAD. YOU HAVE TO TAKE ME TO SEE THE STARS. YOU HAVE TO INTRODUCE ME TO OLDBOY, TO BO'SHAMS, TO TOMBO, TO RED, AND TO ALL OF OUR FRIENDS. YOU HAVE TO FUCKING LIVE, PLEASE!

*Recoring silence, three minutes*

No... please... No. I will not give up, I WILL NOT LET YOU BE DEAD, JACK RAMSEY, DO YOU HEAR ME? YOU WILL ANSWER, JACK RAMS-

~Captain Jack~ TEDDY!

~Teddy~ JACK! You can hear me! You are alive!

~Captain Jack, raising voice over wind~ The whole planet can hear you! We're all alive, some of us just a little- *COUGHHACKCOUGHHHHH* -just a little injured.

~Oldboy~ He's downplaying it, Teddy. We're out, these... what'd ya call em, Skettil? The beetle things. They picked us up, helped protect us, but not before this idiot took a flying tree to his limbs. He's... he needs help Teddy, and the Skettil... I don't know how it works but they're taking us somewhere to heal him. They showed us. Hemlock is keeping him from bleeding out and I'm carrying him, I've sent Bo'Shams and the others along a safe route through their sites to you. They'll be there in several hours with two of our escorts.

~Teddy~ I will do my best to facilitate communication. Daisy, Bellbeau, Wolfsbane: take left commpiece to Bo'Shams, Wolfsbane protect group. ~After brief pause~ They are on their way. I will help to guide when given communicational access. Do not let him die, Oldboy. Please.

~Captain Jack~ I'm fi-

~Teddy~ No, Jack, you are bleeding profusely and missing limbs and only a medicinal half-plant simian is keeping blood in your body. You are not fine. Your lifemarker says so. Oldboy, promise me.

~Oldboy~ I promise you my best, every last action to try.

*Recording silence, appx 15 seconds*

~Teddy~ That will suffice. Terminating call to focus efforts with Daisy. Good luck. Ending log for processing power. End log.

Survivor's Log Day 29, Entry 1

~Captain Jack~ Yes Teddy, we're almost there. I warned you I look different, right?

~Teddy~ Several times, Jack. At least as many times as I have reminded you that I, too, am no longer of the same appearance.

~Captain Jack~ Speaking of, all the uploads worked right to the biobot?

~Teddy~ Yes, Jack, Oldboy was incredibly careful and is the most skilled engineer you have ever met. Please have faith that all is well, stress is not good for your grafts.

~Captain Jack~ Yeah, yeah, and I'm not supposed to be working, either. But the rescue efforts with the Skettil weren't going to coordinate themselves.

~Quartermaster(QM) Bo'Shams~ Did not have to be you, reh'hyesh.

~Teddy~ It is exactly as he says, Jack. With my new body I can make the journey and even communicate with assistance.

~Captain Jack~ Yeah, but it's so much easier with my grafts now. I promise I barely got up!

~QM Bo'Shams~ He lies, as carpeting does.

~Captain Jack~ It's lie like a rug, and no I don't!

~QM Bo'Shams~ You forced that I tie you down! Three times!

~Captain Jack~ Would you look at that! I can see the site and Doc said I should walk! Wouldn't want to piss off Dr. Malkin, would you?

~QM Bo'Shams~ Not fair. Fine. Walk.

~Captain Jack~ Thank you, Bo! Now where were we...

~Teddy~ You were lying about resting again, Jack.

~Captain Jack~ Ignoring that. I remember! So, you like the shape?

~Teddy~ I like all of it, Jack. You gave me... myself. It is perfect, including the attached onesie shaped like a teddy bear. I appreciate that the paws hide my claws and hand shape without losing the ability to grip. I adore the sense of smell. The floricks have enjoyed that I enjoy smelling and playing with them. The fleshform is semi-humanoid, which I did not know- Oh! There you are! I will finish my thought first. I did not know how badly I wanted to be a semi-humanoid, and I love the way it fits around my core-frames. Tombo mentioned that I would not be the only one who enjoyed that I have hips that curve or the color of my eyes etcetera etcetera. She has been saying similar things lately, but I do not understand. I think my body is very visually appealing, so of course my new family would enjoy it, but she seemed to be suggesting something else. I still do not completely understand implication, Jack, what is she saying?

~Captain Jack~ I... um, well, I... hoo boy. *Ahem* Well... I, uh, think what she meant to say was... Well that is to say... Um I think she means that... Well your new body is... Well it's very...

~Teddy~ Very what, Jack? You are stuttering and turning red and confusing me, are you sure your grafts are fine? Skettil genome and chitin to human genome and skin is not an easy graft, it needs time to heal better. Please, lie down, I'm sure you're-

~Captain Jack~ The grafts are fine Teddy, that's... that's not what this is.

~Teddy~ You promise? I can perform many care routines now-

~Captain Jack~ I promise, Teddy, will you please just let me get this out?

~Teddy, softer, gentler~ ... Ok, Jack.

*Loud sigh*

~Captain Jack~ She means that your body is attractive to people, Teddy. That you are attractive. As in as a romantic partner.

~Teddy~ Oh! Well... I suppose that is a good thing. Depending on who is supposed to find me attractive.

~Captain Jack~ Excuse me?

~Teddy~ I am saying that if a certain person on this crew were to suggest that he found me attractive, I would find that to be a good thing. I would say that I have had the equivalent of 166 Earth Days and counting, a little under half of one Earth year, to get to know him. To grow fond of him as my awareness developed. I would say that even with a pincer he did not have when we met, as well as an extra three minor limbs, new organs that are Ley sensitive, and a brand new set of legs spliced from human and Skettil DNA, he is the most attractive man I have ever seen. I would-

*Recording silence, 15 minutes*

*CROAKAhem*

~Captain Jack~ Ah yes, Jessel. how can I help you.

~Jessel~ *CROAK* The crew is waiting for its captain and its first mate to stop needing a minute alone and tell us how you've figured us a way off this rock.

~Captain Jack~ Right, we'd better get out there then, hadn't we?

~Teddy~ I suppose, although you will be answering questions when we next have a minute.

*Rustlerustlerustle*

~Captain Jack~ Attention all you degenerates, scum of the universe and absolute filth of this life, or in short: the best damn pirates this universe is going to see!!!

*Roar of applause*

I hear you wondering these last many hard days, 'Oh but how are we ever gonna get out of here?' Well... it's a fair question. We seemingly have no ship, right?

*Murmur of agreement buzzes in crowd*

WRONG! As you can see, my gorgeous new visage comes with a few perks. *SNAPSNAP* However, what you cannot see includes organs that allow me two new things that will prove incredibly useful. The first is a sensitivity to and ability to charge Ley Paths. I cannot travel safely in space as they can and I cannot travel Ley Paths in place of an engine, but I can do this!

*PSHEW*

*Applause, cheers, silence*

You now have chosen a captain who can overcharge a concentration of Ley Particles to quite impressive effect, as you can see. More importantly... I have gained the ability to speak in the Skettil's memories. Yes, memories. Their language is ancestral memories of images and emotions and pheremones and they can speak it across Ley Paths like an Ansil does. And they have shown me what I will show you now.

*GASP*

Yes!!! This is our ship! At the base of the mountain over there is a ship made by stitching hundreds of ships that crash landed here together. The Skettil began this project as a potential future habitat many generations ago. In terms of our lifespans... thousands of our lives ago. This generation has been working to make it space worthy as a part of a diplomacy plan. They have agreed to give it to us to use as we wish, and even that we might retain a fleet of one hundred young Skettil who have grown passionate to our cause. They offer this with one condition: facilitate a peaceful introduction with the IULPS and each of the non-member systems. We will be paid well in natural ores and flora and small fauna for our farms. I have accepted on your behalf.

*Recording silence, appx 30 seconds*

Why have I accepted? Because we are no longer the crew of that bastard Fel Travers nor his cursed ship Hepburn. We are a new brand of pirates, never before seen. The Watchdog Fleet of Pirates! Each of you has a story of how you came to be here. A cyborg banished for daring to have a birth defect and using lifesaving technology to fix it is now our engineer. An entire platoon of Froggin soldiers sold out by their own government become the best damn Devil's Hands ever seen, just ask Jessel. A Siriusian lawyer forced into slavery, a survivor of Haldrin's Revolution against the Katma Empire, a homunculus who escaped slavery because of illegal experiments and the Homo Herpetian doctor they tried to force to perform them... The list is countless. Endless. Because there is no end to the depravity that is left unchecked in this universe. Because when the IULPS and their precious laws cannot reach a person, who is there to save them?

*Recording silence, 10 econds*

We are. Who is there to AVENGE them when people like Fel Travers come around to use them up and leave them for dead? WE are! Who is there when the powerful think themselves untouchable and take arms against the small? WE ARE!!!! AND WE WILL BE THERE TO BURN DOWN THEIR EMPIRES AND SLAUGHTER THEIR KINGS AND SPEND THEIR RICHES ALL BEFORE LEAVING THEM AT THE MERCY OF THE MONSTERS THEY BUILT WITH THEIR EVIL! ARE YOU WITH MEEEEEE????

*HUZZZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH*

THEN GET YOUR SORRY ASSES TO THE NEAREST PIRATE AND RECEIVE INSTRUCTIONS! We will make ready our ship and fly for TRUE FREEDOM under the stars! We are The crew of the Blackship Ramshackle, crown jewel of the Watchdog Fleet, charge of Captain Chitin Jack Ramsey! We WILL be free!

*HUZZZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH*

*Rustlerustlerustle*

~Teddy~ You make an excellent orator, Jack. Now, I would like to revisit those questions.

~Captain Jack~ Of course, Teddy. I think I remember something about owing me a drink too. But first... End log.

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