#i missed drawing that fucking tree btw. god

[rbtlvr]

'Is this like an Alice in Wonderland thing?' Leo called out, paddling towards Sensei and trying not to swallow water as he moved. 'Did you cry all these tears?' 'The mindscape does love a good metaphor.' Sensei called back, and he sounded fucking wrecked.

old dead bones that don't get theirs (death wish sidefic by @remedyturtles) was written to kill me, specifically, personally, actually. i still think about it Constantly

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rise of the tmnt #tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #future leo #little kid with a big death wish #death wish #tries to get back into the groove of doing art. Does This #i will say i did take some artistic liberties ajfkldsjfkldj #NOT sure how well it comes across bc this shit is Hard to draw but. points. at all the leaves fallen off the tree. teehee #i missed drawing that fucking tree btw. god #i missed doing the mindscape effects!!!!!!!! #ohh hh i just had a thought . cleaned up version of this as a tarot card #probably will not actually get around to doing that but. smth smth the tower maybe. or the hanged man idk #id have to look up the Exact meanings of each of them but #anyway. yes its been like six months yes ii still think abt it. mindscape shit my fucking beloved #i think abt the mindscape shit in firefight DAILY as well its .awuauwguaguahghgh #ok god enough ramblign. what other tags #uhhhh . uh #sibling death cw #<- implied if you know the context but just to be safe #my art #i almost. forgor thatone i cannot BELIEVE lmao #anyway. posts this at almost fuckginh midnight its ok <3

[nolongerapileofashprobably]

First Impressions (will be adding as I play)

DOMESTIC ZELINK THEH ARE SO FUCKING CUTE (like PLS he is such a gentleman and is still a short king, we stan— and Zelda always worried about him 🥺)

Link lost an arm to protect Zelda. My guy sets a HIGH BAR

Once I fully understand zonai devices it’s over for you bitches

Rauru my main man gets a love interest. What a dude

NOOOO NOT THE WAY THE MASTER SWORD GOES TO ZELDY IN THE PAST IM SO AHSJKDJSBAHSJZ I MISS FI SO MUCH

yo Hyrule be lookin DIFFERENTT AND OMG EVERYONE IS LOOKING FOR ZELDA AND LINK

Fucking SHOOT ME IT WOULD BE LESS PAINFUL THAN SEEING HOW MUCH EVERYONE CARES ABOUT THEM LIKE ????? GODDDDDD

DID A TREE JUST FUCKING ATTACK ME WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF SHIT IS THIS those scrubs really upped themselves ig

TULIN MY CHILD IVE NEVER BEEN SO EXCITED THAT IS MY SON!!!!!! THATS MY BOY!!!!! lol I love that the game points you towards Rito first bc no matter what the game wanted me to do, I was going to Rito village first bc I wanted to see all my CHILDRENN

Where the FUCK is Kass.

Not me avoiding both the entire East portion of the map in preference of going to Gerudo to see Riju

YOOOOO GIBDOS????? Need the suns song

OH LIGHTNINGGGGGG interesting I am DIGGING THIS and we get to go into Gerudo without disguise???? BANGERRRRRRR

I want my HORSE 🥲 silence my trusty white stallion where art thou

I’ve made it to Hateno and I’m fucking sick of these Koroks, like get up you lazy tree spirit are you fucking KIDDING me

ZELDA’S HOUSE!!!!! IS!!! THE!!!! HATENO!!!! HOUSE!!!! THEY LIVED TOGETHER!!! We been knew but OH MY GOD ITS SO FUCKING OBVIOUS WITH ALL THESE IMPLICATIONS. HIS HAIR TIE. THENEW TUNIC. THE KIDS DRAWING OF ZELDA. I AM GOING FERAL THEY ARE SO GODDAMN DOMESTIC

Yo where the FUCK is Kass.

Okay okay I’m having a time with paragliding so I’m just going to do Rito Village’s thing so I can get Tulin’s power

Lmao they’re not gunna kill off the babies like they did with the last champions…. Right?

LOL OKAY OKAY COOL THEY WONT CRISIS AVERTED but MAN I’ve fucked myself bc it is nearly 5a and my sister is coming over at 8a 💀

my HORSEEEE I HAVE MY HORSE BACK yo that is TRULY the best thing I missed my horse so much

Okay now I’m going to do the tears of the dragon quest bc WOOOOOHWEEEEE I miss Zelda

This was a fucking mistake it is 3am and I have to be up in four hours for work and I’m SOBBING bc ZELDA HAS SACRIFICED SO FUCKING MUCH I CANNOT DEAL WITH THIS LIKE WHAT THE FUCK NINTENDO

At least I have the sword 🥲

I’m loving everyone sending asks and talking to me about this game I love each of you SO MUCH… not as much as I love Tulin and Riju but still LOL

Yo I’m so fucking sad bc of Zelda rn I think I’m just gunna get a shit ton of shrines and explore the depths

THE DEPTHS ARE SO FUN AND COOL!!! I also think I found a temple in eldin ???? COOOOOOOOLLLLL !!!!!

What’s not cool? Yunobo being all macho macho man bruh when that is not the sensitive little Goron I know and love. Marbled rock roast? Sureeee Cuz that’s not suspicious.

Okay I’m going to avoid Zora’s domain and head to the great plateau…. Why the fuck is the Old Man’s Cabin inhabited by the Sheikah what the fuck is this

Okay so the Yiga are just camped out in Akkala too??? Bitches. Next thing you know Kohga is alive and in the depths LMAO

Now I’m going to Zora’s Domain bc it’s my last pit stop before I actually continue the story LOL… scratch that Imma head to Tarrey Town and see how the fam is doin! And !!! Hudson has a daughter!! Guess that answers my question as to how long it’s been between games lmao

I keep procrastinating Zora’s Domain OOOOFT but I’ll go there now for reals—Sidon is engaged??? Man was like “Omg bestie it’s been forevs btw this is my fiancé” like damn okay how long has it been since Link went to Zora’s domain

I’ve been searching for Kass and I’m having major doubt atp 🥲 I want my beloved songbird back

OKAY DUNGEON TIMEEEEE Imma do Yunobo and while I know it wants me to save Riju for last I simply cannot stay away for long so I’ll go there next!

Yo these temples are fire I got majorly concerned with the Wind Temple but it genuinely makes sense to have a more familiar groundwork for players to begin with that’s just different enough that you notice so it prepares you for the more complex classic Zelda dungeon twist the rest of them have

I’m annoyed all of their abilities require me like ‘asking’ their spirits rather than having a function button to summon it at will

Except for tulin bc he is my child and all is forgiven. And Riju bc she’s pretty and I love her

DID I FUCKING MANIFEST KOHGA BEING ALIVE AND IN THE DEPTHS?????? BITTTTCCCCHHHHHH I thought these people be straight up loyal but nah he ain’t dead, just chillin in the depths

Yo I thought I was at the end of the game but nope I find out that the Zelda I’ve been chasing is a puppet WOW who would have guessed 🙃

BUT THE WAY GANONDORF WAS LIKE “using her made it so easy to lure you into traps” like my man KNOWS

Okay okay fifth Sage down and now I’m going to the Hyrule castle chasm

Was no one going to tell me this might be difficult bc I’m just tryna sneak through but that ain’t happening LOL

I’m going to shower and eat dinner and THEN I’ll beat the game

Oh my god we back at the place we started I LOVE FULL CIRCLES

I’m going to fucking sob this has been such a good fight!!! Getting to use the master sword the entire time >>>>>

(Even though i legitimately used a lynel bow and bombs to deal most of my damage to Ganondorf… don’t judge me I am ✨strategic✨ and I only managed fo do real damage if I did arrows, arrows, dodge dodge dodge, flurry rush, backpedal it up)

ZELDA BEING MY HOMIE IN THIS DRAGON FIGHT WE LOVE TO SEE IT !!! She makes me so happy she went straight for Link to save him bc that’s simply instinct

🥹🥹🥹🥹IM SOBBING THIS IS SO FUCKINNNNGGGGGGGGGGGG THIS IS SO GOOD I LOVE HER AND I LOVE THAT WE GET TO DIVE AFTER HER AND ACTUALLY CATCH HER 🥹🥹🥹

Lifting her out of the water… Zelda waking up to the feeling of a warm loving embrace… telling Link “I’m home” and that she has “so much to tell” him… I’m going to need another box of tissues bc I be EMOTIONAL

Awe all the sages pledging themselves to Zelda

Link just being a silent supportive boyfriend bc homeslice can and will do everything to protect Zelda (and okay he already did a ceremony for this but let me have my shipper goggles on)

I’m just going to say it. This might be my favorite game. And I’m a diehard Majora’s Mask fan. Like that’s been my favorite for a WHILE. I miss the simplicity for some of the game mechanics but thoroughly enjoy the new creations we can make. I also understand zonai devices now so when Kass comes in the DLC it’s over for y’all

Anyway botw/totk zelink is canon and no one can change my mind

#this is essentially a reaction post now that I think about it #this post has been a week and a few days in the making #worth it def #loz totk spoilers #loz totk #zelink #totk zelink #loz tears of the kingdom spoilers #loz tears of the kingdom

[detective-dipstick]

Murder on the Orient Express (1974) vs. Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

Never read the book so I'm considering plot-related things that probably happened in the book as the creations of the movies and it will count towards their rewards and penalties.

Things I liked from both:

-the handkerchief! big fan. the mystery of the handkerchief was better than the mystery of who murdered that guy.

-I like the locations in both. I like the scenery. I think they played with the being stuck on a train thing in their own ways and it worked out.

-There was a third thing I can't remember.

Things I despised from both:

-the ending. the dumbest ending in mystery history. mstry hstry. miss tree his tree.

-sorry i got distracted. literally it was so anticlimactic and SOOOO dumb. I had a friend who really liked the ending but he had horrible opinions about everything so fork spotted in the kitchen i guess. anyway drives me insane to this day.

Things I liked better in 74:

-The train. Looks like a real train. We get to look at it for a long time. A movie made for train-lovers, which is the main draw of Orient Express as a concept anyway.

-Generally better looking cinematography. I like.

-Hector. Freaking. McQueen.

-First of all, Anthony Perkins? Damn. Second, Anthony Perkins as McQueen? GAYYYYY (flirtatious). Noticed him the moment he appeared on screen. Totally in love with everything he did. No notes except a tiny one with my number on it. Anyway

-Ms. Hubbard. Genuinely annoying af as God intended. and she didn't have a random wig reveal (although that was funnnny. again that Branagh melodrama that's so ridiculous sometimes but admirably bold every time). anyway idk i like her. I don't like her but I do. the girlboss effect in action.

-The Armstrong case summarized in the BEGINNING thank you for making sense. Was so jarring in the 2017 version that they just randomly mention it later in the movie. No prior allusion to it or anything. Those first few scenes in the 74 version were unsettling to me in a good way.

-They look so relieved and happy when Poirot and Bianchi vote to pin the murder on the imaginary guy. It's just a cute little moment idk. Some of them hug each other. McQueen smiles and stands up and sits down for some reason.

Things I liked better in Branagh's:

-Branagh as Poirot. I feel like I'll be unjustifiably assassinated for this but I like him a lot. In this movie specifically, he's great. I dislike Orient Express compared to his three Poirot movies in almost every other respect but he was very refreshing here.

-From what I've seen of Branagh as a director, he excels at melodrama, and it shows here.

-Loveee how during the breakdown Poirot had no fucking idea who did it. When he said "it is time to solve this case" he meant it so literally. He meant "well we're on a deadline so I'm just gonna start talking and hope it all works out." Relatable af that's me writing my essays and shit. Also very funny.

-So there’s a scene, right? There’s a scene with Hildegarde (great name btw) and Poirot where he questions her in German so the princess can’t understand it and then she mentions seeing “the other conductor” in the sleeping car and he’s so shocked he switches to English and he’s like “WHAT other conductor???” and that was so cool you had to be there it was cool. Too bad it didn’t mean anything but it was sick.

-I like Bouc slightly better than Bianchi. Now, Bianchi has the better name. Fun to say. He was very silly and cool. But I can’t pretend I don’t love Bouc. C’mon.

-The count and countess. WOW. They were charming in 74 but in this one they are HOT. Holy shit. Even better somehow that we don’t meet them right away. They’re talked about in the beginning but we only see them when Poirot goes to their cabin to question them for reasons I can’t remember (I recall he originally wasn’t going to. They were in a different car or diplomatic immunity or something idk I was born yesterday). Anyway him just showing up at the elusive count and countess’s later in the movie and turns out the whole time they were just in there doing hot people shit. They were in two scenes but really carried the film with their sexual energy. 

General thoughts:

For the record, I wouldn’t recommend either of these movies. If this post inspired u to watch them for some reason, don’t you dare think of me. Goodnight.

#for my life story and also for context I saw Branagh’s version in theaters and again last year after watching A Haunting in Venice #I saw the 74 version a few days ago #murder on the orient express #agatha christie

[the-acid-pear]

I remember my dream today for once. Or parts. Since as far as I can remember it started with me going to Brazil (help!). Dream Brazil was fun, I saw a jungle in the beach, I saw mean fucking sea cows that tried to slap me. There also was an unknown pair riding a uh, a cuatri that little 4 wheel machine, and taking selfies with a beautiful (average tbh) blonde woman w big sunglasses. After the sea cow tried to punch me (they were outside the water btw so maybe they were just seals? Then again this was Brazil so idk) we came across a sort of japanese settlement were I saw the best creature of my dreams: the one handed tiger. These mfs looked low poly, like if a guy put on a tiger custome but instead of it being a fursuit or something it was just those flat cloths covering your whole body. They were also very fucking goofy (one did the nya hand at me when I looked at it with utter shock) and bipedal. I really thought that was just some guy trolling but a guide called them one hand tigers and then I saw there were a lot of thems so I had to accept it.

We kept going past the tigers and some other strange fauna. Worth mentioning this setting was a lot more... japanese, aesthetically. Less trees, more empty espace, cooler colors, there was wind.

We eventually made it to a cave full of fish and these were some of the most bizarre fish ever. The guide was explaining us that at night this fish pond (like a fucking jacuzzi made out of stone) becomes more like a cabaret as more bipedal but non the less bizarre and coloful and bright fishes started walking in. I swear to God one was orange and had red big lips and slutty eyes but in the most low poly weird style ever.

We couldn't take picture which was upsetting because I apparently was doing a fish collection like the Sims. However what was truly upsetting was just being there, for it was making me extremely uncomfortable.

I was fixated on a green little fish, bright green, with a hit of yellow, like a neon green apple color, only normal mf still in the pond, but I was getting too anxious so I tried to leave but I stumbled into someone or something and everyone realized and they were like "are you trying to leave? 😦" so they all left with me. Without complaining too!

After that I went up a mountain and I ended up my grandma's old home and this is where we take a melancholy break since it was pretty sad. I was there with my grandpa and my dad. Not much happened. I walked around seeing the clouds and the beautiful sky. I thought of telling my dad we'd stay to eat, but I didn't.

I remember now, before this, I was walking around, someone on a mule saw me. We were chatting, or perhaps I just thought we were. Maybe we were just each talking to ourselves. I really tried to keep my shit together but I eventually collapsed crying, finishing the sentence I'd been trying to say, saying that my grandma was a huge hater but nobody forgave like her. I don't know why I was seeking forgiveness but I was desperate.

Back to the house though, at some point we heard a sound from the distance that sounded just like my grandma's laugh as my dad and I sat outside and we locked eyes for a second and we knew we both had imagined the same and one of us said how missed she is and I broke down crying.

AND THIS IS WHERE THE MELANCHOLY STOPS because as I was crying my nose just started fucking bleeding and I started trying to picture from where the blood was falling for a while but I guess that's just because I was soon to wake up.

Someone who I follow but is not my mutual (mutual in law?) just happened to be close by DRAWING SOUTH PARK FANART out of all things and she saw me and maybe I asked for help or maybe she simply was like 😬 and decided to help this pathetic bleeding animal but for some reason the solution was to tie my arms behind my back bondage style. I remember being like "are you sure this is going to work?" and her reassuring like "don't worry".

I did finally wake up after that.

#luly talks #my dreams

[littlestarofthewest]

If you're still doing drabble request can I get one please? Arthur x male reader + facefucking, reader being on the receiving end. Obviously nsfw :P thank you for doing male readers btw, so few in this fandom do 😭

My pleasure. I'm always happy to make more male and gn reader content 😄 This one got a little away from me ... 😅

Earn Your Treat

Rating: Explicit!!! | Words: 886 | Tags: dom!Arthur, rough blowjob, fear of getting cought

Arthur drags you behind a tree, pushing you on your knees. "Come on, boy. Make it quick."

Your heart almost beats out of your chest. Arthur wanting you is already overwhelming, but you're barely hidden in the woods, the camp still visible from where you are.

Still, you'd never miss this chance. You look up at Arthur, licking your lips when he pulls out his cock. He feeds it to you, and you do your best to take him in as deep as you can.

With a satisfied grunt, Arthur leans his head back against the tree. "God, that's exactly what I needed."

You lick your way along his length, your dick throbbing in your pants. Eager to make it good for Arthur, you take your time, but right now, Arthur won't have it.

"Quit playing around, boy," he groans, "we ain't got the time."

He grabs you by the neck, pulling you forward on his cock, and you suck him in. Although you still swirl your tongue around, you focus more on building up pressure, and Arthur bucks his hips.

"That's better."

You think he's satisfied with what you do, but Arthur holds on to your head with both hands, keeping you in place while thrusting his hips forward. His cock hits the back of your throat and you fight your gag reflex.

"You better buckle up," Arthur chuckles, something in his voice that sends a shiver down your spine.

Arthur moves faster then, his hold on you unwavering. His fingers dig into your skull while he pumps his cock with your mouth, and you try your best to still suck him in as best as you can.

"Jesus Christ," Arthur moans, pushing his cock deep and holding it there, forcing you to swallow around him. "I knew you had more than one good hole."

You can't help but gag and Arthur releases you for a moment. You cough and take deep breaths, Arthur running his thumb over your chin and lips to wipe away the spit. 

"Who would have thought that those sweet lips can do such bad things?" Arthur says, a mean shine in his eyes. "You want me to fill up your dirty, little mouth?"

"God yes," you plead, your dick pressing hard against your pants. "Please."

Arthur grabs your head again and pushes in, setting a rhythm you can follow. You swallow whenever possible and level your breathing, trying your hardest to relax your throat.

Now that you're not gagging anymore, Arthur picks up the pace again. He holds you in an iron grip, fucking so hard into your mouth that his balls slap against your chin.

Being used like this has your arousal run rampant, making you moan every time Arthur pushes in balls deep. Despite tears running down your cheeks, Arthur doesn't stop, completely lost in what he's doing.

His thrusts become more deliberate with  short pauses before he buries himself deep in your throat. When you moan around his cock, Arthur's fingers claw at you, the harsh treatment edging you on even more.

"Arthur? Where are you?" John shouts into the trees, making you jump.

"He was right here a moment ago," you hear Javier say. "He can't be far."

You're about to get up, but Arthur doesn't let go of you, and starts thrusting again. Hot waves roll over your body at the thought of being caught. You whimper and grab Arthur's legs, holding on as he keeps pounding your mouth.

There's rustling from fallen leaves on the ground, and low voices, Javier and John still looking for Arthur. You wish you could look past the tree, but Arthur doesn't give you an inch to move. Right now, you're only here for his pleasure. 

Drooling and moaning, you put a hand between your legs, rutting against it while Arthur forces his cock into your mouth again and again. With John and Javier drawing nearer, you look up at Arthur. You know how much he loves you being all sweet and compliant when he rough fucks you.

"Shit," Arthur curses, and he grabs your neck to push in deep. "That's it, boy. You're gonna swallow it all."

You can barely breathe, feeling like Arthur's cock fills up every inch inside of you. Your fingers dig into his thigh and you swallow, throwing Arthur over the edge. His hips buck and you drink load after load of Arthur's come until he's completely spent.

When he finally pulls out, you can hear that John and Javier are nearly there, so you try your best to get your breathing under control while Arthur tucks himself away.

He helps you up then, drawing you close to put his hand on your ass, his fingers digging into your flesh.

"You earned yourself a treat," he whispers into your ear. "Tonight, I'm gonna take good care of your other lovely hole."

After giving you a quick, messy kiss, he walks back through the trees, meeting up with John and Javier to draw them away from you.

Bending over, you take a few more deep breaths, your eyes falling on your crotch. A wet spot reveals how much you loved Arthur's harsh treatment, and looking up into the sky, you pray that it'll get dark soon.

You can't wait to get your treat from Arthur.

#arthur morgan x male reader #rdr2 smut #rdr2 fanfic #nsft #my writing #fulfilled requests

[anestheticrage]

Be me: Japanese honor student🎓, 15, with half a brain and even less of a plan. Hunting bitches by day and witches by night. Livin that dank only child✌️ life while mom n dad yeet all over the globe, leavin me plenty of time to forget not to make 2 lunches for myself #quirky 😜

no time for socialization or basic electronics skills ???📱??? when your best friends are an alien demon rabbit🐰👽 and the inexplicable Hole ™ in your brain. lmao, btw did i mention im ✨M✨A✨G✨I✨C✨A✨L✨

dreamin bout my 2D waifus again when familiar pink haired cancer patient dances through my brain passin out fliers: Kamihama Meguca Dating Service: Sponsored by Cult of the Magius. 250 stones per session 🤔

seems legit, Mr. Moneybags. wasn't spending my unwieldy sack of gemstones on anything else anyway. lets pull 💎💎💎

first up we have Redhead Radagast and her plethora of plants. 🌿☺️🦎

anndd, nearly dies immediately. 

well not off to a great start but i guess shes pretty cute at lea- oh FUCK its her girlfriend, Tsundere Poseidon😒🔱💦, and their exasperated, straight and single Sword Mom 😔🗡️🔥. fml gonna have to save up for the next pull. might as well play a few rounds with what i got tho. 

get in some good girl talk about things like school, color coded hair styles, body count, permanent soul damage, and our personal demon pacts. ya know, the usual 😚 . realize my dark backstory seems to be missing, so the girls take me to Ketchup Queen Sappho 🍅🥧 (wtf?) to molest my glowy egg stone. whatevs, more action than ive had since Kuroe 🖤 got added to the story anyway

the gang agrees it's time to hunt down the cutest rabbit pimp 🕶️🐇💵 in the city. >> say 🎵mukyuuu🎵 one more time and ill hug you so hard my backstory will pop right out, you adorable fluffy bastard. plz be my new best friend 💕

Form brand new friendship pact with Kyubae, and remember that my lil Sis 🐥 was always the best wingman for pickin up magic chicks, and kept her side of the room so spotless i forgot she existed. whoops 乁༼☯‿☯✿༽ㄏ Maybe if I find her i can stop paying these exorbitant pull fees.📵💎

speaking of which: hot damn this week's featured bachelorette is a 19 year old model and magical detective🔎 with massive levels of PTSD and self loathing 🥵💙💦 more likely to stab you or dramatically jump off a rooftoop than utter a single positive comment. wow, maybe i really COULD find true love…

... if i had MORE THAN A 1% FUCKING DRAW CHANCE. 😡 smh

hard to make much progress finding sis or winning the broken heart of a hard boiled detective amidst the never ending lover's quarrel of the Trident Vine Lesbians. 💔 Sword Mom tells them if they don't behave a monster will take them away. LOL classic mom 🤣

>>>HOLY FUCK IT DID

declare all-out war on urban legends, starting with staircases ⚔️ to reunite the dysfunctional trio, and hope that I net a way better lineup with the next 10x pull. at least sad sleuth lady came to help out. they say combat is the best way to bond wi-   and there she goes off the rooftop again 🙄 fml

alright that got way off track, we need a fresh start, away from all the loli drama. how bout a little B&E🔓🔨🤷🏻‍♀️ at the local house of worship to clear my head. ahh nothing like the unanswered prayers of the masses to get you in the mood for another wasted pull, and the 🔥 MIGHTIEST 🔥 headache you could ask for with a side of Double Cooked Pork 🐖🍜 (meh 5/10🧾)

venture forth into the spiritual unknown with your new human flamethrower🔥🌻🧡 and ask your favorite private eye to please, for the love of Eve, trade Meguca accounts with me~~~ Head through the eastern spirit portal to meet up with hologram propaganda sis and detective crush's evil ex, who joined a dating-app cult (#fuck) and also turned into the moon?🌕?(that's rough buddy)

get ambushed by Acid Horse on Wheels 🌈🐴 and vomit up my soul so hard that its time for a crossover episode. T U R F F F   W A R R R *que operatic harmonies* 💛 Blondie with the hair drills and enough attitude and guns to fill up a noble phantasm tries to ban my account permanently, but PI heartthrob denies her admin privileges. aww babe i didn't know you cared. 😭♥️

get kidnapped by my new true love and go back to her place 😏  defs enough empty rooms to house five emotionally traumatized girls and at least two ghosts hehehe👻 XD 💚🃏💜🎸 decide to form the anti-gossip brigade and recruit my blazing sunflower after getting ambushed by the witch living in my fruit loops🥣

❌outvoted 2:1 that cults are bad. mf. fiinneee one last pull to round out the team and then I'll delete the app. cmonnn Karin 🎃~

OH HELL YEAH TWO FOR ONE.

Always wanted a daughter 💜🔨🐄 with a penchant for pissing off the local Martial Arts & Books Club and drinking suspicious liquids offered by total strangers. Well if it's good enough for her AND the sexy mayadere with enough game to seduce a mermaid, might as well get in on that myself. 

#curseddrank 🤢 0/24 would not recommend to a friend, 'cept maybe Ria

win alot of cash 🤑, blow up a fountain, meet the pied piper²🎶🖕, moon cult, monochrome feathers, something about liberation✊🏻; adopt temper tantrum cow girl. aces 💜🥩

Next up!!! skydiving with DJ Hammer! Jump to apparently-not-certain death after suicidal A.I. 💚💾🗼 tells you to rescue her hostage before they run out of Radiohead albums and have to move on to Thom Yorke's solo discography. save the invisible shield kitten 💚👑😿 from happiness and get chased through the internet by the sexiest homicidal Paint Pallette 💚🎨😈 since Caravaggio. (apparently green is the color of the digital apocalypse. i’m deleting Kako from my friend's list)

that’s it, fuck this app. 250 stones 💎 per-life-threatening-experience is more than i’m willing to deal with 😓 don’t wanna mess with the perfect nuclear family anyway. we've already got: 

✔️the two emotionally traumatized moms with memory and commitment issues

✔️the adhd daughter with anger management problems and a giant hammer

✔️the psychologically abused scizophrenic cat

✔️and the eccentric aunt with crippling anxiety

#squadgoals

now that were done hoarding bitches, its time to hunt the witches. and the bitches makin the witches. btw did i mention the witches ARE the bitches! AND WERE ALL GOING TO DIE!? 📽️⁉️💀 wait fuck lets back up a second

This is Nemo📕 and Token🧪 and they have all the answers but prefer if you only ask vague questions in exchange for vague responses so they can fill in the rest by discussing their superior intellect 🧠 at length. not to mention they built that dating app, so of course everyone in my harem decides to be a FUCKING. TRAITOR.🤬

cept waifu prime ofc 🥰💙. [PTSD > brainwashing] 'yOu CaN bE tHe LeAdEr NoW'. i have been from the very beginning you traumatized Hinedere nightmare. maybe if you weren't so caught up collecting surrogate daughters you would've noticed IM👏THE👏ONLY👏 ONE👏PROGRESSING👏THE FUCKING👏PLOT✨

rescue the rest of dysfunctional found-family™ from selves before my adorable firebender burns down Disnihama🎡🔥😱 during her weekly anxiety attack. (love the makeover T B H) 

CHAPTER 8: Magical Girl Massacre🩸🗡️

   - everyone has like, the shittiest day ever

   - the new Pope really needs to be extradited from the church

   - make friends with a really pretty tree 🌺🌲✨

i swear, if i don't finish this god damn story in time to get that free pull im gonna beat the shit out of every mirror i find in that giant mansion that i haven't even had any time to even mention yet. 🖕🏚️ let alone EVERYTHING happening with the prequel [fuck you, I'm the star] girls 💗💜💙💛❤️️ and their multidimensional melodrama. We don't need that many repetitive af episodes to emphasize that Homo-ra is a shitty person. we've all seen Rebellion. 🙄

NO, I DONT CARE IF YOU WANT SAPPHO'S BACKSTORY, I ONLY HAVE 79 STONES LEFT AND IF YACHAN FINDS OUT I HAVEN'T DELETED THE APP YET IM GONNA HAVE TO GO SLEEP IN WITH SANA 😭💎💸😠

uhhhggggg where were we… Topple a cult and burn down Hotel Denoument only to realize that Sis was fused with the dating app servers this entire madokafuckin time (told ya she was the best wingman 😊). 

Dilemma: Sis =🥚, Triumvirate of Trouble want 🐣. What do? vote now:

Help Hatch - IIIIIII

Not Do That - IIIII

What The Actual Fuck Is Going On - IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Lets just fight everyone until something good happens.

🔥🔫🔥🗡️🔥😱🔥🌆🔥😱🔥🛡️🔥💣🔥

Kill (???) the artist-in-chief of the italian reindeer murder police after teaching her the true meaning of Christmas 🎄 hatch 🐣lil Sis and realize she WAS your wingman all along🐰 MUKYUUUU! we're just gonna ignore how much trouble it would have saved if you'd just mentioned that. "yOu DiDnT aSk..." 

FUCK YOU SPACE BITCH. ONCE AN INCUBATOR ALWAYS AN INCUBATOR 🖕🐇🔪

anywho, somewhere along the lines we of course summoned the Antichrist ⚙️ because why not raise the stakes to max and still not kill off a single character. Madofuckinkami, can we PLEASE wrap this up. 😩💤

feathers (not the culty kind, tfm) rain from the sky, and the power of friendship and not having the Urobutcher 🔪🩸as a lead writer saves our peacefully sectioned off alternate reality 😇

TL:DR fuck cults, real life waifus DO exist, don't sell your soul to space rabbits, or your stones to megacorporations. Enjoy arc 2 on the JP server with your shitty translation patch you filthy fuckin weebs 

Yours Truly, 

- Thirsty Weeb Eroha 💗💎😘 

#magia record #magireco #pmmm #iroha tamaki #magical girls #puella magi madoka magica #magia record anime #gen urobuchi #waifus #weebs #thirsty weeb iroha #shitpost #yachiyo nanami #mitama yakumo #kaede akino #rena minami #momoko togame #sana futaba #tsuruno yui #aniplex #magia record na #i love this game so much #and im devastated that the servers are closing #yes this is how i deal with emotions #gatcha #fuck aniplex #i hope this brings a few laughs to some of you #Tsuruno is best girl #<3

[s-oulpunk]

Alright I don’t have the time or brain capacity to write out an entire fic, but I’ve been thinking about Disney channel movie AUs and I need to write them out somehow.

First of all, Descendants.  A Descendants AU is NEEDED.

I know the obvious is to make Bill the prince/king.  To make Richie one of the Isle of the Lost kids.  But is that what we’re gonna do?  No.  Here’s what we’re gonna do instead:

Stan is the prince/king, and Richie is his best friend/right hand man.  Ben and Mike are also their friends, maybe Ben is the son of that one Dwarf (I can’t remember the character’s name sorryy).

Bill, Eddie, and Bev are the kids from Isle of the Lost.  It doesn’t particularly matter who their parents are, but Bill is the Mal character, Bev is Evie, and Eddie is a mix of Carlos and Jay.  Not literally bc they have different personalities, but, like, their places in the story.  Alright.  Hell yeah.  Now onto the actual story.

Stan spends a lot of time thinking about what he wants his first proclamation as king to be.  He talks to Richie, Ben, and Mike about his idea and, with a little bit of a push, he tells his parents he wants to invite some of the kids from Isle of the Lost to go to their school. (Which btw confused me abt the original movie.  Why is Ben king? He’s still in school. His dad isn’t sick. Who decided it was time for a 16 year old to be in charge of an entire kingdom?  Also where is the rest of the kingdom?  We only see the school.  Is the school the entire kingdom?  It doesn’t matter but those are my thoughts on the matter.)

Bill gets the invitation and, initially, wants to throw it away.  He doesn’t care, he likes his home.  It’s what he’s always known.  But Georgie practically begs him to go.  He’s more wide-eyed and naive than Bill is, so the idea of the great big world outside the island is so magical to Georgie.  Bill agrees to go, agreeing to write to Georgie everyday and promising to try and find a way to get him over too.

I don’t think either of Bill’s parents would care much about Fairy God Mother’s wand though, so either Eddie’s mom or Bev’s dad is the one to demand they steal it.  Eddie already has a different plot, so we’re going to say it’s Bev’s dad who wants the wand.  Sonia is lazy.  Alvin is power hungry.

Anyway, when they get there, Stan is there to greet them.  Bill and Stan see each other and are kinda like 👀 but then they just ignore that because feelings?? Who wants to think about that??  Stan’s still kind of wary of them, and Bill still thinks they’re all stuck up pricks.  So neither of them want to admit the other is cute.

Ben takes them to their rooms, and him and Bev are much more relaxed about realizing their feelings for each other.  They don’t act on it right away, but it doesn’t freak them out as much.  Bev makes Ben blush with her easy going nature, Ben makes Bev giddy with his natural kindness.  They can’t help but fall head over heels for each other.

But it’s Eddie who really lectures them on this.  His mom had instilled this fear inside him that these new people were going to hurt him. He desperately believes that a relationship with any of these people, that getting too settled, is going to hurt them. All he wants to do is help his friends get the wand and get out.

That is until he meets Richie.  They’re in PE when Mike’s dog manages to get away from his leash and, of course, chases after the one person TERRIFIED of dogs (AKA Eddie).  And Eddie, whose mother filled his head with stories about rabies and being torn limb from limb, fucking bolts.  Mike and Richie (who was in class with him) both try to find him.  Richie manages to find him first, hiding half up a tree as Mr Chips (that’s Mike’s dog’s name, right?) barks like a madman.  Richie manages to coax him down with the promise that Mr Chips won’t actually hurt him.  He does sniff him, but he quickly decides he’s not a threat and demands pets instead.  From then on, Richie and Eddie are inseparable.

Bev and Eddie are both making friends, so they’re starting to care less and less about stealing Fairy God Mother’s wand.  But Bill’s only worry is still finding a way to get Georgie off the island.  And as far as he knows, getting the wand will achieve that.  So he manages to convince Bev and Eddie to still go along with the plan, promising that if the villains do take over again, Ben and Richie won’t be in the line of fire.

Unfortunately, the only way they know to get the wand is to seduce Stan (because the wand will crown him king or something during coronation.  I forget why the wand is there.  But it is.  And if someone’s dating Stan, they get to stand right next to the wand.  Idk man.) Bev and Eddie beg Bill to do it, not wanting to risk their new romantic interests, and Bill pretends to throw a fit but he’s actually really glad it’s him.  He would definitely be low-key jealous if one of his friends got to date the unfairly pretty prince.

So they sneak Stan a love potion and everything’s going great except UH OH Stan’s actually really sweet?? And cute??  And he cares about what Bill has to say??  He spends hours reading Bill’s stories, doesn’t mind posing whenever Bill wants to sketch him (which is OBVIOUSLY just for show, he doesn’t actually wanna draw Stan hahaha😳), and never makes fun of Bill’s stutter.  He never even rolls his eyes or tells him to, “spit it out,” he just waits patiently with a soft smile on his face and a sparkle in his eyes.

So Bill’s starting to feel more and more guilty, but he can’t look back now.  He PROMISED Georgie, and his brother’s more important than a cute boy.  Even if he is the cutest boy he has ever seen.

The day of the coronation, Bill slips Stan the cure to the love potion.  He isn’t truly cruel, he doesn’t want Stan to still be in love with him when the villains take over.  Because he is the prince and there’s no way Bill could protect him from their wrath.  He can deal with Stan hating him, even if it’ll shatter his heart into a million tiny pieces.

Except Stan doesn’t act any different.  At first Bill thinks that maybe it’s just because he doesn’t want to cause a scene in front of the crowd, but when they’re alone Stan kisses him softly and tells him how glad he is they met.

A part of Bill is ecstatic that Stan still likes him.  But another part of him can only feel crushing guilt.  Now Stan’s going to be heartbroken and there’s nothing Bill can do to stop it.

But he still grabs the wand, he still makes a show of breaking down the barrier.  He can see the light in Stan’s eyes crumble, and Bill wants to cry his, admittedly, too big heart out.  Bev and Eddie rush to help him, even though they’re facing their own moral dilemmas.

It’s not until the villains have already arrived and have everyone held hostage, that Stan finally breaks and asks WHY.  Why did he do it?  Why did he betray him?  When Bill tells him why, Stan’s just like, “You idiot, I could’ve done that.”

Now Bill feels like a real idiot.  And when he looks around, all he can see is the anger and fear he saw on the Isle of the Lost.  It’s exactly what he was trying to get Georgie away from, but now he’s made it worse.

So in a split second decision, he gathers Eddie and Bev and asks them to help him fix this.  It doesn’t take much convincing, they didn’t want to do it in the first place, and they manage to defeat the villains with the power of idk love and friendship or whatever.  Maybe the other Losers help too.

When it’s finally all done and over, Bill can’t think of any reason he wouldn’t be sent back.  He hands the wand back to Stan with his head hung low and a question on his lips.  Can Georgie take his place here?

Stan sighs heavily and tells Bill, yes, of course Georgie can come, but he needs time to think about what to do with Bill.  So Bill’s on house (or dorm, I guess) arrest for the next few days.  He hangs out with Eddie and Bev, and occasionally Ben, Richie, and Mike, but he doesn’t see Stan for nearly a week.  When he finally does, Stan greets him hesitantly, but reassures him that he’s not going to send him back.  Bill needs to do community service or whatever, but because he righted his wrongs, he can stay.

Bill’s fucking ecstatic, he leaps forward and wraps Stan in a hug.  Stan goes rigid at first, but it isn’t long before he melts into the embrace because he can’t deny that he had missed Bill as well.

It takes some time, but eventually Stan and Bill get back together (Georgie tries to help Bill woo Stan again) and they all live happily ever after and all that.

#holy shit this got so out of hand #I'm so fucking sorry #stenbrough #reddie #benverly #descendants au #IT #IT fanfic #IT fanfiction #bill denbrough #stanley uris #richie tozier #eddie kaspbrak #mike hanlon #ben hanscom #beverly marsh

[deadmandairyland]

Last night I finished a playthrough of Vambrace: Cold Soul, also known as Darkest Dungeon: Waifus on Ice Edition, or at least it would be if anyone was aware that this game exists. Can’t find fanart of it. Can’t even find porn of it. Once again, Rule 34 is a sham.

...So anyway, I wanted to give my thoughts on this, because I kinda liked the game. Now granted I’m a bit of a softy in general and have a high tolerance when it comes to video games, so don’t take this as word from a hardcore gamer like “This game is actually a gem and super underrated.” I mean, I have a soft spot for Dr. Chaos on the NES, so that should give you an idea on how well my opinion on video game quality translates to most people’s opinions. No, I can definitely see why this game doesn’t have a whole lot of fans: the gameplay is nothing to write home about, the characters (who are probably my favorite part of the game) aren’t nearly as fleshed out as I wish they were, and there were some game design choices that I did not care for (like autosave being the only saving option I could find in a game where choices always matter and making one mistake in a dialogue tree while going for a certain route could result in you having to start the whole game over from scratch, oh boy, isn’t that fun?).

I apparently got the neutral ending on this playthrough, according to the PS4 trophy list and what I was able to find while snooping around the interwebs. After a point, none of the images that appeared in the YouTube video I found of all the endings showed up, making me wonder if the PS4 version of this game is censored, or if there is something missing from the file in my download of the game. Hopefully it’s just the former. I can accept the former. Even if it means I finished the game with the protagonist in a Sailor Moon cosplay and somehow the powers that be decided that (SPOILERS BTW) a woman having a nervous breakdown in her home is somehow too hot for the PS4 to handle. I swear I’ve seen more nudity in a Castlevania game than what was showing in that picture. Still would be better than having to play through the whole game again and getting another ending and realizing that none of the ending images are showing up at all.

Also, and I’m going to try to say this last part while spoiling as little as possible... but I ship Lyric with all three of the people staying at the inn. Just throwing that out there. Was kinda disappointed that I could never make these four a party, especially since all three are kinda implied to be badass but we never really get to see that in action. So yeah, to clarify: I ship Lyric with Helga the dwarven innkeeper/bartender who I can only assume is standing on a box behind the bar the whole game and that’s adorable; Charlotte Lorelai, a princess who can apparently bench press 700 pounds and at some point can trick Lyric into going on a panty raid; and Mahoram, a fox boy whose name I kept forgetting while playing the game, so I ended up calling him Fucksboy because he is both a fox boy and a fuckboy. It’s a pun, you see. And yes, if you’re familiar with the game, all of this made a certain point in the game hurt like a motherfucker. Won’t say why, because spoilers, but I was not happy. And the lack of fanfic and fanart did not help. Guys, I even found Knights fanart once! How the fuck did this game featuring tons of waifu bait, including a main character with heterochromia for God’s sake, not inspire someone to draw fanart of it?

Also, check out the Characters page for this game on TVTropes. It’s kinda hilarious. Like, why did they even bother making a character page in the first place? Lyric has only one trope in her folder, and it’s about her heterochromia. Mahoram literally doesn’t have anything written in his folder. Like... why bother?

Maybe someday I’ll write a fic for it. Thing is, though, I... really don’t want to be the only person to write a fic for this game. Do you know how long it took for another Licorne fic to show up on AO3? The pressure is real. Also I have so many other fic ideas at the moment that I feel like the pirate AU idea I currently have for this game is just a really bad idea to even consider!

...

...Even if elves and dwarves in a pirate setting sounds really cool...

...

...Someone slap me, please, before I make another dumb decision here.

#vambrace: cold soul

[jugpea]

tough, kid | sp + jb

req: Can you make a Halloween oneshot? With Jughead and Jellybean supposedly going to trick or treat, but something came up with Jughead. So, Jellybean instead drags Sweat Pea with her (BTW, she doesn’t like Sweats at the start), Jughead thinks this is a chance for his Bf and sister to get to know each other and JB gives SW a hard time along the way, while Sweats is trying to get a long with her because she’s his bf’s sister. But at the end of the night JB and SW are close that Jughead is regretful of leaving the two if them together because he knows chaos will erupt A/N: this is unedited, super rough but I had this idea and went with it. Managed to get it done in one sitting (which is actually the first time that’s happened in a long time). enjoy -- and remember, sharing is caring. If you liked this, consider reblogging it for your friends! 

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“But he promised he would come with me.” 

Sweet Pea wasn’t entirely sure how this became a him problem. A little over a week ago, Jughead promised to make good on his word to go trick-or-treating with Jellybean Halloween night. Unsurprisingly, the duties of being a King called, and he was nowhere to be found. That wasn’t atypical of the teen, but it wasn’t currently working in Sweet Pea’s favour. 

“That’s too bad.” 

“But dad won’t let me go alone!” 

Sweet Pea looked up from his binder, shooting her a dark look. This was the first time the girl had ever made an effort to talk to him. Usually she ignored his presence, which was something he didn’t mind given that he was god awful with kids. Not that Jellybean reminded him of a kid. Sometimes she seemed brighter than half the kids in his class. 

“Tough, kid.”

JB gave a humph, leaving him alone in his trailer to sit on one of the logs outside. After listening to her sigh into the quiet for the umpteenth time, he finally swung his legs off the side of his mattress with a low growl and shoved his feet into his boots. Did he really want to go out? No. Would he do it so she’d give him some peace? Reluctantly, yes. 

He searched through his small stack of clothing for a pair of black jeans and a plain black shirt. He would be supervising, and didn’t really intend to enjoy it. Shrugging into his leather, he stomped his way out of the trailer and slammed the door. 

JB looked up from her place; despite his furrowed brow and blatant annoyance, her cheeks lifted in a smile and she shot upright. “Knew it.” 

“Yeah, whatever.” 

He waited while she unlocked her bike, following behind her slow pedaling easily with his long stride. The walk to the Northside sucked, but even more so with Jughead’s little sister incessantly chirping up to ask him questions. 

“Have you always lived in a trailer?” 

“Yes.” 

“Me, too.” She lamented, standing to pedal instead of sitting -- it made her feel taller in comparison to his towering frame. “Well, until now.” 

He didn’t dignify her with a response, instead chose to shove his hands into the pockets of his jacket and continued forward towards the tracks. 

“When did you meet my brother?” 

“When he showed up at Southside High.” Formally, at least. Sweet Pea knew about Jughead long before his arrival at Southside. 

Growing tired of his uninterest, she sped up and stopped in front of him, nearly tripping him over her rear tire. 

“What the f--” he caught himself, bracing a hand on the tire with a deep sigh. “Don’t do that.” 

“I’m trying to make conversation.” 

Sweet Pea’s nostrils flared the slightest bit, letting his eyes slip closed. “Less talking, more biking.” 

Uninterested in arguing, she rolled her eyes and continued home, no longer caring if he fell behind. He would catch up, even if it meant he had to jog. It was a solid twenty minute trek to the Jones’ home, one Sweet Pea made regularly during midnight visits. FP’s ignorance to the teen slipping through his sons window was better left that way, and his bike would only draw attention. 

He waited in the living room, pulling his phone out to connect to the WiFi and text his significant other. What business did he have that Sweet Pea wasn’t involved in? There was almost next to nothing that Jughead didn’t include him in. One part because he was Jughead’s second in command, one part because Jughead liked having him there.

After some time, JB came bounding down the stairs in a flurry holding up something in her left hand and some sort of pump in her right. She dropped the pump at his feet, and quickly shoved her legs into the costume. 

“Quick,” she panted, pulling it up over her body. “Fill it.” 

“Fill it?” 

Exasperated, she grabbed the hose belonging to the pump and stuck it inside, using her foot to turn the pump on -- air immediately began rushing in, inflating the costume around her. It wasn’t until the head began filling that Sweet Pea knew exactly what she was going as.

“Are you shitting me?” 

“Find better words,” JB chided, but her smile remained intact. “Yes. I’m a T-Rex.” 

Momentarily stunned, he watched as the rest of it filled until the plastic was tight and in place; she shut the pump off, carefully trying to keep as much air in as she could while removing the hose. 

The only other person that knew he thoroughly enjoyed this stupid costume was Fogarty. Sweet Pea couldn’t help but break into a laugh, watching his boyfriend's little sister parade around the living room with her head bobbing this way and that. 

“Oh, Jughead is so gonna be pissed he missed this,” Sweet Pea muttered, holding his phone up while JB posed with a goofy expression. 

After they went through a mini photoshoot with JB’s approval of all photos, she then shot him a glare. “Post these anywhere and you’re dead.” He stood stunned as she walked away towards the door, grabbing the polka dotted pillowcase from the staircase. “Sometime this century, old man.” 

Sweet Pea fell back into his previous annoyance, “I resent that.” 

“I resent you, but here we are.” 

They walked the entirety of the Northside; JB continued her questions, Sweet Pea kept himself distracted by people watching. He wasn’t the only teen from Riverdale walking around with a kid, but this kid wasn’t his blood so he did receive a few lingering stares. 

It wasn’t until they reached the last house near Fox Forest that they slowed their pace. A group of kids hung around the forest's edge, whispering back and forth to each other. JB recognized them immediately.

“That’s Sammy!” She hissed, immediately diving behind a bush.

Her reaction confused Sweet Pea, leaving him standing upright and relatively alone as she attempted to hide herself. “What in the ever loving fuck are you doing?” 

“Language.” She growled, glaring up at him again before she sighed, “Sammy’s in my class.” 

Curious, he shoved his hands into his pockets and looked back towards the group, “You got a problem with Sammy?” When she refused to respond, he grabbed the head of the T-Rex and pulled it up until it was visible over the top of the bush. 

“Stop!” She pleaded quietly, grabbing it from his hands. “I don’t want him to see me.” 

“Why not?” 

Jellybean’s features collapsed; Sweet Pea was the last person she wanted to talk to about this. But given that her brother and dad were no better, she figured someone was better than just her diary. “I like him.” 

“Oh, I get it,” he nodded, nonchalantly shrugging, “You look stupid so you don’t want him to see you.” 

Rolling her eyes, she kicked his shin and folded her arms. After a moment of silence, she looked up at him again and sighed, “Do boys really …” she struggled to find the words, “I mean, if a boy is mean to you does that really mean he likes you? Because Jessie said --”

Sweet Pea was already shaking his head, “If that’s what he does, it’s the wrong way to go about it. And at your age, you shouldn’t be worried about boys.” 

“You sound like my dad.” She grumbled.

“Yeah, well,” well nothing. He could only shrug. 

“They all laugh at me,” she continued, voice growing quieter with each word. “When he does it, the rest of them laugh. Even the girls.” 

In his day, Sweet Pea had been one of those people. It wasn’t something he was proud about, but growing up without much of a parental figure meant he had to learn normal mannerisms himself. It was only when he was fourteen that he realized he was the world's biggest jackass. 

JB peered around the leaves, nervous to move with them still lurking in the dark. “Can you help me out of this?” 

“What?” He looked down at her, then shook his head, “No. No way. This is the coolest costume we’ve seen all night --”

“You just said I looked stupid!” 

Sweet Pea rolled his eyes, “I was being facetious.” When her brows furrowed, he tried again, “Sarcastic.” 

“That’s Jughead’s thing.”

The Serpent sighed, glancing back towards the group that was slowly disappearing into the underbrush; as an idea began to form in his mind, he held his hand out towards JB, “Do you have your slingshot?”

“Yeah.” She stated as though it were the most obvious thing. That didn’t surprise him, she hardly went anywhere without it. “Why?” 

“Give it to me,” he took it from her hand, scaling the opening to where the children disappeared. He started trekking towards a gathering of trees on the left side, listening to JB following along behind him; when they were concealed inside the darkness, he continued forward until the voices of the group picked up. The closer they ventured, the easier it was to make out the frames. 

JB whispered which one was Sammy. He was the shortest out of the group, with dark hair and a mole on his chin. Sweet Pea shook his head, hoping his face didn’t show just how laughable the boy was. 

“Get your phone out.” He mused. Then, he reached for a few pebbled on the ground, lining them up with the slingshot before pelletting it forward; it hit the tree just next to the teens, the snap against the bark bringing their attention together. The conversation stopped. They looked around. 

“What as that?”

“Shh! Listen.” 

Perfect, he thought to himself, lining up another before sending it just above their heads. Now that it was a closer sound, their faces began to fill with worry. They were nervous. Kids still believed that things went bump in the night, that made this all the more fun. 

Was he a sick, twisted individual? Yes. But, his boyfriends little brat sister was being bullied and well, Sweet Pea didn’t really care for bullies. 

The more he shot at them, the darker their features became. The girls started screaming, taking off in the direction they hoped they came from. It was the boys, however, Sammy in particular, that he wanted to have lose their shit. 

And lose their shit they did. It took him ten minutes to get them going, but once they did, JB could still hear them yelling at each other from up the street, and she had gotten the entire thing on recording. Her brother would be so proud. 

Jughead didn’t get home until sometime after midnight; FP was passed out on the couch in the living room, JB and Sweet Pea seated at the kitchen table with her pillowcase of candy spread between them; he ate whatever she didn’t like, and thankfully she hated everything sour. They were on their third glass of milk, JB ripping open the last of her mini Twix bars when Jug came to stand at the head of the table, looking between the two of them in confusion. They were in their own bubble, chatting back and forth, sharing knowing glances, giggling deviously about something only the two of them could know about. 

A knot began to wind in his stomach. He hadn’t expected Jellybean to actually go ask his boyfriend to supervise her Halloween. He was more surprised that Sweet Pea obviously agreed to go -- if all else failed, he thought for sure he could rely on his boyfriend to keep up his tough guy facade and stay home for the night. 

Obviously, he thought wrong. And he was going to pay for that later. 

“Am I going blind, or are you two actually sitting in each others presence and … laughing.”

Jellybean looked up at her brother, casting a sideways glance at Sweet Pea before she shrugged, “Dunno. He’s alright I guess.” 

“Alright? We kicked ass, kid.”  

“Yeah.” She smiled, looking up at her brother again, “We kicked ass!” 

“Language!” 

“Sorry!” 

#jugpea #sweet pea #jellybean jones #jughead jones #jugpea imagine #jugpea fic #riverdale #jughead jones x sweet pea #jellybean jones x sweet pea #this is cute #i like this

[fart-gate]

SG1

Season 3 episode 8

"DEMONS"

Notes by me

- "ah trees, trees and......more trees"

- Daniel hat

- "the stargate is still in use by someone"

"Or...someTHING....."

- what the fuck kind of lizard

- christians!!! *same as yelling Youths!!*

- wait how does tealc know about christians

- humans taken from medieval europe thru the antarctic gate. You know what this reminds me of an issue I have. Of all the other planets they have been to, most of them are ppl from thousands of years ago right? But from earth. But then they dont KNOW that they are from earth. So my question is wouldnt the ancestors who were taken pass down the information that they are from another planet? I'm just wondering why they didnt tell their kids and grandkids that they are stolen from earth

- tealc read the Bible . im imagining tealc in daniels office doing any research he can on earth in his free time❤ someone draw this pls

- "have you not read the Bible oniell?"

"Ive read some of it.....actually im listening to it on tape. Dont tell me how it ends"

- cough daniels choker cough

- *everybody scurries away when they see them* such a warm welcome

- Jack called him Danny ❤💗❤💗❤💗💞❤❤💞💞💞💞💞like a whore

- how does micheal shanks remember his lines hes says like 96 paragraphs per second

- oh goody they sacrifice ppl

- "the circle of darkness"

- "demons can take many shapes" if hes talking about goaulds hes right. They can pretty much take anything as a host

- head drilling time! "They didnt call it the dark ages bc it was dark"

- the unas sound is so cool. I think its a lions growl?

- "unas; uno. One!" I dont think the goauld are Spanish Jack

- jacks one job in his life is to tell anyone he meets the truth about the goauld

- this priest. what even is your voice . stop

- bro literally sniffs tealc ????

- A DOG!!!

- yes this mean priest is definitely not lying to you. No lies escape his mouth

- Jack straight up telling these ppl whats going on. My favorite thing he does. No bullshit right to the point

- ugly priest has goauld tech I'm calling bad guy

- Jack is the first one awake how

- wheres my beefcake jaffa

- Jack is regretting everything in his life ever

- Jack looking at tealc being tied up :( he cant lose him pls Jack has lost so many ppl

- why didn't it hurt when they pushed a red hot poker into his forehead???? Is it bc the scar is mostly gold?

- tealc is unaffected by any of this btw stony face

- daniel: "we'll go back to where we came from!"

Sam : "Hes innocent!!"

Jack: "YOU SONS OF BITCHES!!"

- sams tears on her face :(

- wtf?? Hey what is this. 911 my beefcake is drowning

- these people......are not the brightest

- this fucking guy needs to die I'm sick ok sICK of him

- "jack-"

"No"

- time to drill some holes in skulls!

- chicken pox was a death sentence in the dark ages I guess

- I would be accused of so many demons in my brain if I was born then. I make all the priests shake in their boots I make them tremble with fear

- is taking them back to the sgc a good idea. They seem prone to think everything is Satan so. Caution

- I would also like to oil up tealcs arms

- tealc:

- tealc walks up like What'd I Miss

- *screaming at stomach* "WAY TO GO JUNIOR!!!!!"

- ooohhh he was in kelnoreem. Thats why he had zero emotion as they tied him to a rock and threw him in a lake

- "next time Daniel gets the urge to help someone, shoot him" I would like to see it

- sacrifice the new arrivals !!!!!! Clearly logic is not a prominant trait in these people

- they look hot in chains dont @ me y'all know im a thirsty bitch

- *Satan himself walks up* "mornin!"

- love how they can communicate with Looks

- how did that knife attached to the chain not kill any of them while they fell down the hill. Unrealistic I'm calling the writers

- I'm sorry I had to take my earphones out with this priest. I hate the sound of chewing

- they didnt even show the unas catching up to them? They cut some scenes I guess

- did the priest finally die pls say yes

- did it go into that fucker or is it actually dead

- the priest: thank you!

Me: fuck off

- props to Jack for always shooting first

- "forgive me" no

- well thank god theyre burying the gate. No offense but I'm glad we wont see you people again

~

Whump under the cut

Jack Oniell whump: struck by lightening , passing out, caged, chained, chained to sacrifice alter, picked up by throat, choked, dropped on ground, noises , concern for tealc

Tealc whump: struck by lightening, passed out, blood and cuts on face, tied up, yelled at and ridiculed in the street, neck strap, hot poker to forehead (no reaction), drowned, 'death' , resurection , chained to sacrifice alter

Daniel jackson whump: struck by lightening, passed out, caged, chained, chained to sacrifice alter

Sam carter whump: struck by lightening , passes out , caged, chained, chained to sacrifice alter

(The chains on their wrists last throughout most of the episode)

🎶listening to Demons by Imagine Dragons🎶 for obvious reasons

#stargate season 3 #whump #jack whump season 3 #tealc whump season 3 #sam whump season 3 #daniel whump season 3

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Winter Begonia recap episode 30

The episode start with Fan Lian announcing that as thank you to the fans for voting for him as Liyuan Best Performer, the troupe will perform for three days at half price.  It is a nice gesture, but I am sure the fans would have willingly bought the tickets at full price or more for a chance to see the new superstar.  A strange familiar man lurks behind the crowd, looking sketchy as fuck.  Who could that be?

Meanwhile, Er Ye brings his sister, Cha Cha’er to the opera.  Everyone greets the third miss while shit starter Shi Jiu is trying to coax CFT by flattering Cha Cha’er for getting prettier.  I see you woman! CFT tells the troupe that his sister is on break so he decided to bring her to the most fun place in Beiping.  His hubby responds that of course his opera is the most fun entertainment.  You two need to stop.  #Foreveralone. Rui Rui asks best girl to get a chair so his husband can sit down, but Er Ye (I love how Rui Rui says Er Ye) declines.  Meanwhile Cha Cha’er is about to commit a grave crime, as she touches Rui Rui’s costume. Rui Rui looks at her as if he saw a zombie horde coming his way.  Both best girl and hubby tell her not to play with the costume, to simply look with her eyes.  LOL, Er Ye knows how precious the costumes are to his bae as he pleads with his sister.

  Fan Lian comes in and informs Rui Rui that since he has won the title of Best Performer, businessmen are flocking to him to advertise their products.  At first Rui Rui is dismissive, telling best girl to fetch some tea.  Fan Lian gets the hint, but then Rui Rui stops him and asks which factories are requesting him. Fan Lian tells him the cigarette factory, perfume, makeup store, fabric store and the soap factory.  Wait, doesn’t he have a godbrother who owns a soap factory?  Whether this influences his change of heart, Rui Rui decides to pick the soap factory as sponsor. Fan Lian is stumped while Rui Rui looks at his Er Ye who gazes back. Seriously, you both need to stop.  I CAN’T. Fan Lian asks if he has really thought it through because he should not disappointed the businessmen.  Rui Rui is like, I won’t back down once I agree, just negotiate the price for me so I won’t suffer losses.  Best girl is like, who is this person and what have you done to my boss? Everyone is stunned by what he is saying. Fan Lian is so ecstatic he tells him he has finally figure out how to hustle and use his fame. He adds that all other lesser talented opera bosses have made records and adverts, it is about time he follows in the pursuit of fame and fortune.  Rui Rui answers he has figured it out, as long as it pays well, he will do whatever.  This gets another double take from best girl who may go fetch an exorcist to find out what possesses her boss.  Fan Lian finally figures it out why Rui Rui is so intent on getting an advertising contract and informs him that his BIL is not that broke. Btw, this whole time, Er Ye is either staring at his bae or listening to his somewhat useless BIL.  Fan Lian states that right now, Er Ye is only angry at his wife, so his financial situation is not as precarious.  Rui Rui asks if it is true.  AWWWWWWWW, he wants to financially support his bae.  Our Rui Rui is truly growing up. Er Ye is like hmm...what? Oh yeah, I have cash, loads of it. He can go home whenever and get it.  LOL, Er Ye, the fuck are you talking about?! Rui Rui pouts and I live. 

Fan Lian continues to discuss the reversal in Rui Rui’s behavior towards adverts, telling Er Ye that he truly considers himself his money tree so he can take care of him. Er Ye is preoccupied by Cha Cha’er who is spending time with backstage with the actors while Fan Lian states that due to Rui Rui’s innocence, he can easily be taken advantage by people who lack conscience.  LOL, Er Ye is like who are you talking about, but Fan Lian is quick to mention he wasn’t talking about him, referring to the former members who easily stole from him. Fan Lian realizes that Rui Rui enjoys treating his bae thus willing to do things he wasn’t earlier.  Preoccupied, Er Ye replies that it is normal for Rui Rui to seek out opportunities to make commercials and records while still famous, it was only his personality that stopped him from doing so.  Er Ye, babe, the fuck? You know and the world knows Rui Rui’s only motivation to go against his former reluctance is you.  If you had come to his house, broke af, he would probably have not agreed to do the adverts, popularity or not.  This shit don’t matter to Rui Rui, only you.  I understand you want the best for Rui Rui and yes, the bae needs to change in his behavior when it comes to the outside world, but let's not act like what Fan Lian is saying does not hold water. Are you too busy watching over Cha Cha’er to see that?  One of the employees come running to him to let him know the police is looking for him. He is surprised to hear that since he didn’t think they would know he was there.  LOL, even the cops knows you spend an enormous amount of time at the Royal Theater with Rui Rui. The employee does not know why the police is here, but knows it’s an urgent matter. Er Ye tells him to ask the cops to wait for him outside behind the building as to not draw attention to their presence.  He tasks Fan Lian to take Cha Cha’er to the private box and look over her.  Geezus xrist, you are asking useless Fan Lian to look over her? God help us all.

Er Ye finds out the reason why the cops are looking for him. Stuttering Gu Lao’er has escaped the prison. HOW? Wait, is that the strange familiar man lurking near the theater we saw earlier? Apparently, stuttering Gu broke out the jail this afternoon and is now on warpath to take down Er Ye.  The police informs he will send people to look over the house. Er Ye tries to give him money but the cop turns it down, saying it is payment for every for all the good he has done for them. Meanwhile, the show goes and we see Cha Cha’er all alone in the private box.  What did I tell you!!! Useless sperm donor Fan Lian not pulling his weight as usual. Of course, right at that moment, we see stuttering Gu dress like a server walking toward the private box.  He calls out to Third Miss and tells Cha Cha’er that Er Ye has asked him to fetch her to come outside.  She is slightly suspicious, but he insist that Er Ye is busy talking with people hence can’t do it himself. We see our Rui Rui looking fierce in his makeup and costume.  His eyes are quite perceptive as he spots Cha Cha’er following stuttering Gu.  He is so protective of Er Ye’s people. SWOON. 

 Er Ye comes back to check on Cha Cha’er and notices she is not there.  He looks everywhere and of course, useless sperm donor waltz out of god knows where and is nonchalantly answers that she was in the private box.  DID YOU LOOK OVER HER? NOPE, you freaking idiot.  YOU HAD ONE JOB. He continues to look and finds the actors who are wondering what is going.  Then a scream comes out of the backdoor and he rushes there.  We see stuttering Gu holding Cha Cha’er at gunpoint while our Rui Rui is holding him at lance point (lol, I just made that up.  I couldn’t figure out how to say it). Rui Rui looks so beautiful and fierce! He tells the stuttering fool that he recognized who he was as the stuttering Second.  LOL.  Gu Lao’er is like I was the second chieftain not stuttering Second! LOL, like Rui Rui would care.  He tells him that he beat the shit out of him before, didn’t he learn his lesson.  Stuttering Gu is like, the fuck are you talking about, I don’t know you. Then he remembers the ‘prostitute’ who beat him up a few episodes ago.  LOL, Er Ye appears and tells him to let go of his Meimei to instead come at him.  Stuttering Gu shoots a warning shot to the floor and stutters to say that he has not wasted, but he can’t say the whole sentence.  Instead, Er Ye completes it for him.  LOL, Er Ye does it again, which enrages the stuttering fool, threatening to kill the third miss.  Er Ye is like, ok fine, I won’t complete your sentences, be cool, put down the gun and lets have a good talk. Stuttering Gu of course has no intention of having a chat, blaming him for losing everything he held dear, so he wants him to taste what is like to lose everything.  Er Ye responds that he is the one stuttering Gu hates and to release his meimei, taking him instead to torture. While talking, fierce Rui Rui looks at his bae, then back at the stuttering kidnapper.  Stuttering Gu tells him he is not stupid to make that exchange, preferring to torture Er Ye by ‘having fun’ with Cha Cha’er. Ugh, we know what that means. Sick fucko. Fierce Rui Rui is ready to hear the signal to pounce on that sick fuck at any moment.  He is practically saying not on his watch will he allow this sick fuck to harm his young sister-in-law! Stuttering Gu tries to kiss Cha Cha’er to prove his point, which gets Er Ye heated, screaming at him.  Gu Lao’er uses his advantage of a firearm to keep his distance from Er Ye and fierce Rui Rui.  He relish seeing Er Ye angry.  However, Er Ye is not falling for his shit.  HIs face changes to regain advantage, to distract stuttering Gu.  He rankles stuttering Gu, poking at his pride, asking if he really thought he was the second chieftain, telling him that people laughed behind his back, calling him an idiot.  Meanwhile, he pushes fierce Rui Rui slightly away, but it is to actually position him to disarm stuttering Gu.  He keeps with the insult that as the desired effect of distracting the bandit while fierce Rui Rui gets close enough to use his weapon to hit the bandit wrist, making him drop the gun.  Cha Cha’er runs to her brother while fierce Rui Rui kicks the bandit to submission.  He is so beautiful as he stands above the bandit. Stuttering Gu calls him a stinky bitch looking for death, but fierce Rui Rui tells him to open his eyes, he’s a dude, so you should look at your master.  LOL.  As he is tied up by Rui Rui, who he still calls a stinky bitch, Stuttering Gu spews some nasty threats at Er Ye. LOL, fierce Rui Rui tells he talks a lot for someone who stutters and kicks him.  The bandit warns Er Ye that he is a bastard and when he gets out of jail, he will rape his meimei, kill her and a bunch of other nasty things. Er Ye knows that if he doesn’t do something drastic, that man will carry out his threats. He tells fierce Rui Rui to take his meimei away and protect while waiting for him in the theater. Er Ye grabs the gun while stuttering Gu continues with his threats.  Er Ye tells fierce Rui Rui to continue on and not look back as he pulls the trigger.  He shoots the bandit, unfortunately Cha Cha’er hear the sound of the gun and screams.  Er Ye you could have waited to make sure she was actually inside the theater!

The next day, he watches over a sleeping Cha Cha’er when Lao Ge comes with all the documents for Cha Cha’er to be sent to Hong Kong.  Lao Ge asks if they should tell Er Nainai about what they are about to do, but Er Ye replies this would only worry her more.  Cha Cha’er overhears the conversation and tells her Gege she will not go because she has a school outing to the park with her friends. CHIIIIIILD, did you already forget how your life was in danger the night before??? Ugh, teenagers!  He tells he should have done this a long time ago, and since he is in a dangerous line of business, Beiping is just not safe for a girl like her. UGH teenagers and their priorities. It’s all about their friends! She asks why her SIL is not leaving as well or isn’t he leaving. Well, because they can take care of themselves and they were not the one who so carelessly left with a complete stranger. Seriously, if fierce Rui Rui was not paying attention to you, God knows what would have happened. He tells her to follow his instruction as the adult and when she continues to insist, he tells her that her presence only makes him anxious, that she should think about it as helping him feel at ease.  Once things cool off, he will get her back.  Sigh, she asks him to promise her that she be allowed to make her own decision when she is grown and not oppose her anymore.  He said fine, while Lao Ge gets teary eyed at the scene. He tells her that she will need to learn to braid her own hair since no one will be there to comb it for her. 

Lao Ge is kneeling in the same spot that Er Nainai had insulted my baby Rui Rui. Ugh, annoying maid is talking and brain shuts off.  Not really, but I truly want it to shut off upon hearing her voice. Er Nainai asks if Lao Ge is still kneeling and annoying maid replies that yes, ever since he came back, he hasn’t move.  Er Nainai tells her to ignore him.  Apparently, she is not only mad that he has been keeping CFT in the loop, but that he didn’t tell about the Cha Cha’er matter. THE HELL WOULD HAVE DONE IF YOU HAD KNOWN?? You would have clutched your pearl and scream on top of your lungs.  Clearly CFT wanted to spare you the horrible things that happened that night.  UGH, I can’t. Annoying maid asks if she wants to go to CFT and discuss the matter, but being stubborn, she thinks this would denigrate her.  Fine, he has his other wifey he can share these type of things with.  In fact, they don’t even need to talk, they have their special silent language. We hear Meixin being book Meixin for a bit, saying it is a good thing Cha Cha’er was sent abroad, what is the big deal.  Annoying maid is like, the heck, should she have sympathy for the third Miss. Lao Han comes in to deliver the news they have found the person they were looking for, aka CFT’s mom. Er Nainai comes out acting as if she is a palace consort, telling Lao Ge not to transgress again and that his wage will be deducted for three months.  Seriously, as much I like her being boss against those truants trying to defraud the agency, as much I think her haughtiness is misplaced in this situation.  Poor Lao Ge. She quickens her pace to meet with who she believes his mother-in-law.  

Meanwhile, at casa de Rui Rui, wait....Am I seeing correctly? Is Er Ye actually eating with Rui Rui and the troupe? Whoa! On top of that, our Rui Rui is trying to feed him, urging to eat while Er Ye seems to be deep in thoughts.  He is worried about his meimei wondering where she is now, that she should now be on the ship.  Btw, can they stop panning to Shi Jiu? What is the director trying to say? It bothers me because it feels unnecessary.  Anyhoo, Rui Rui is like, honey, why are you fretting, it’s only been half a day, chin up! If he is already like this, how will go on from now.  If he is so sullen, why not bring her back.  LOL, Er Ye changes face, glowering at his bae slightly and tells him no way! Make up your mind Er Ye!  LOL, did Rui Rui call him insane? Pot meet kettle.  He asks why did he send her so far away, if anything happens he can’t reach that place making him more helpless.  He could have left her with Rui Rui, he would have protected her.  I kinda agree with Rui Rui on this; if it wasn’t for him, she would have been harmed for sure. LOL, he stuffs the bun in his mouth while Er Ye glowers. They hear honking and Er Ye sees Lao Han.  He asks where Lao Ge is and the old man tells him that Er Nainai has him doing other things.  RIIIIIIGHT. He tells him that he brought someone and it’s a pretty young woman who turns out to be his mother’s apprentice. 

The troupe is crowding the front door of the house until their leader comes.  LOL, he tries to eavesdrop while the woman tells CFT that her Shifu never mentions she had a family.  He asks what is her name and she mentions it is the same as his mother’s. She explains after her teacher retired, she passed on the name to her. Er Ye asks if she is no longer singing and Chun Xuan explains she only sings selected highlights, but does not have the strength for an entire opera. That seems to sadden Er Ye.  He asks how his mother is doing and the woman replies that she is doing well, has a few apprentices and goes around to perform. She is rejected by the bigger troupes because they think she is too old.  Sigh, that shit still is happening to this day.  Old actresses relegated to play mothers or grandmas, nothing else. The woman informs him that she doesn’t mind it and just sets up a stage in small towns because they sing stories about the countryside and farmers, so they are still popular. Er Ye informs the woman that his mother’s letter was accidentally destroyed and was hoping she could tell him the content of the letter.  She responds that his mother had recorded an album and wrote to friends and family to ask if they wanted a copy as a memento.  She adds it is okay if the letter is destroyed since she came in person to deliver the message and ask if he wants a copy.  Eager Er Ye responds yes, it will be his honor.  Er Ye is so nervous as the woman hands him his mother’s album.  AWWWWWWW, what a great moment.  Sigh, this show. He sends her off and offers his help if she needed to, but she turns him down stating since he is not an actor, what much can he do.  Then he offers to recommend her to a good troupe, but once again, she turns it down, stating that her shifu had to told her performing was to make ourselves happy. She’s the independent woman type, like my Queen Gu Dali!  Rui Rui comes and nods at her, as if it is an actor secret signal.  He asks if this was Er Ye’s mom apprentice.  Er Ye mutters a hmmm, which is basically a yes, and Rui Rui comments the woman is neither submissive or assertive, making her fearless.  He adds that it meant his mother must have been a good performer. Awww, Er Ye is smiling, although there’s a hint of sadness in his eyes. 

They listen to the record. Thank you cameraman and director for the camera shots on our leads.  Wait, the song mentions a Jade Rabbit and my mind goes to the novel, where rabbit basically refers to gay men.  HMMMMMMMMMM.  Also, the focus on Er Ye’s ring....hmmm, maybe I am reading too much into it. Anyhoo, while our two lovers are listening to the album, we actually find out what happened to Er Ye’s mother, and it is a sad tale.  She was actually dying and told her apprentice that she had been loved and hated, becoming a famous actress loved by many, and even becoming a rich man’s wife, raising a son.  Damn, no wonder she felt the way she did, like a caged bird.  I always wondered how famous actresses who marry a rich man in Asian countries feel when their in-laws actually denigrate their career?  Like, you are basically giving up the thrill of adulation to be forced into a role you did not plan to perform.  She also mentioned that she took on many apprentices, and has no regrets, however, as a mother, she feels guilty.  She asks her apprentice to take on her name after she passed and to look for CFT to ask him if he still remembers his mother; if he does, to give him her album as a memento. She also ask her to lie, telling him that she is living well and happily, still performing. WELP.  This is too sad. We see Er Ye staring at the picture in his pocket watch, seemingly content, unaware of the truth. 

Meanwhile, annoying maid and her annoying voice asks Er Nainai why she doesn’t try to find a way to get CFT back, after she hears her mistress sigh heavily. No, leave Er Ye where he is, instead of having to incessantly be nagged or having to listen to her saying she is not up to his level because she’s from the country.  Ugh, I can’t listen to that annoying chick. Still at the mansion, the phone ring and Lao Han answers.  Apparently, there is trouble in the Shanghai Cotton Factory. Wait, when did they have this factory? I know in the novel, this was useless Fan Lian’s business, but I don’t know, it would have been nice to have mentioned this a bit earlier.  Anyhoo. We see Fan Lian and his sister discussing the situation.  Apparently a mechanical explosion occurred, which injured the staff, and of course, useless Fan Lian has no idea what to do.  Geezus xrist, why would they allow this idiot to run a freaking business???? Er Nainai asks what he plans to do next after he takes the staff to the hospital.  What about repairing the machine, how is he going to console the staff and how to deal with the bad press. Useless Fan Lian reacts the exact way you would expect; he says these things were always been handled by CFT. Ohhh, is that how they are going to get him back. Sigh.  Wait, Fan Lian, shouldn’t you be embarrassed to admit that you are just owner by title only?  Geezus xrist, send that boy to the fortress to keep the Japanese away! He suggests they give them more money as settlement.  Bish, what? Er Nainai is like, why are you so useless, even millions won’t be enough to be squandered by you. Then, why did you give me the factory in the first place? The only thing he is good at is running his mouth as theater manager.  She reminds him that most of the employees have been acquainted to the family for generations, as tenant farmers, even watching him grow up in their hometown. If they don’t take care of them properly, this could bite them back. GAAAH, why are you so useless!!!! She hits him wondering why the family even bothered to send him abroad.  I wonder as well.  The fuck was he doing there all this time? Wait, didn’t he study engineering? How the hell did he graduate? Engineering is not easy.  Gahhh, he blames his teachers for not teaching him about managing a company. YOOOOOOOO, I cannot with this boy. He asks his sister to teach him how to do it. She tells him he should have found an expert to examine the machines and inform the workers that it was an accident so they can be at ease.  Seriously, if he did truly study engineering, which I am starting to doubt, shouldn’t this be something he would have thought of right at the beginning?  Let’s move on before my brain becomes like his. She continues by saying he should have gone to comfort the injured and tell them they will pay for their medical expenses.  Hmmm...isn’t what he said earlier? Probably Er Nainai was so tired of his shit that she didn not hear him. She tells him he should have gone to the newspapers and authorities to explain the situation. He suddenly remembers he knows an engineer who could help, apparently he is the same one who helped them get the oven for the house.  Really, you now remember? That magical engineer is apparently quite skilled in foreign language and can communicate with the foreigners.  She asks if that magical engineer would agree; useless sperm donor says I can talk to him.  She yells at him to go now and he is like, really, now? BISSSSSHHHHH.  The fact they have the same mother baffles me.  How is it she is quick on her feet when it comes to business (nothing else though) when he is so useless. 

FINALLY, we are back to ChengShang. Oh my God, if I had to listen to useless sperm donor say stupid shit, I would have dropped my IQ. Our cutie pie model, Rui Rui is doing his thing for the soap factory.  AWWWW he looks good in a white suit, but LOL, as the photographer says, he looks stiff af.  LOL, so old fashioned. The man tells him to act like he is on stage, but Rui Rui is like, yo, there are no cameras when I perform, you want me to stand and look at the camera, what do you expect?! Er Ye is smirking at his cutie pie Rui Rui being nervous. The photographer asks to try another pose and try to feel it.  LOL, poor Rui Rui he is really trying.  Hubby chuckles at the scene while the photographer is frustrated. Hubby walks up to his wifey and asks who is taking revenge against.  LOL.  He is holding the soap like a brick ready to throw it at someone. Er Ye tells him to relax his arm, gripping it lightly, not like a gun.  That is one hurdle he manages to clear. Now, he asks about the finger that is supposed to point at the soap.  He tells him to straighten it.  Then he straightens his chin and relax his brow, while giving him (it says us, but I changed it because I can, ok) a smile.  Btw, the level of skinship is awesome. Er Ye demonstrates and you can tell he is used to do it.  

The photographer is happy at the demonstration asking Rui Rui to follow Er Ye’s instruction. Brooo, you fucked it up.  Rui Rui is back to being grumpy since photographer broke the gaze he had lasered on Er Ye (hmmm, the roles are getting reversed), asking him to ask Er Ye to take his place instead. The photographer is like, Er Ye is far too pricey for us, we can’t afford him.  He adds that he has watched Rui Rui’s performances and saw that he has great posture, clearly the nerves are getting the better of him. Rui Rui gets riled up telling him to stop flattering him and the camera flash is what making him nervous. Er Ye asks if they have a gramophone.  They bring it out and he plays a record of Ning Jiulang and Hou Yukui duet. That makes Rui Rui finally relax to take the pictures.  Er Ye tells Rui Rui to also record an album; Rui Rui reveals he had record two albums but his voice sounded horrible, having lost its brightness in the recording.  Sigh, I know the feeling.  I am never happy with my mixes after listening it back.  Not the same as playing live, trust. Er Ye replies that when the technology improves, the recording will sound much better, doing justice to his voice.  Rui Rui looks so eleganza as he poses. 

The photographer announces the session is over, however, he still has photographic plates left, so why not take some slice-of-life pictures.  LOL, I love how the show just sets up these moments.  Rui Rui says he has to wear his own clothes, as he feel uncomfortable in that suit.  LOL, Rui Rui, you are eating too many midnight snacks.  He suggests that Er Ye joins him. OHHH, he doesn’t want to stand alone looking like an idiot. REEEEEEEAAAALLY.  Rui Rui you are not fooling anyone, bro! Er Ye is like no, I am no celebrity or a famous actor, and don’t shoot commercials, why should he mess around.  Rui Rui looks very disappointed at the rejection. NOO ER YE, don’t do this! Wingman photographer is like, nah, it’s alright Er Ye, I will make you two look good, so go on, have a picture with Boss Shang as a memento. Well, that seems to be the keyword as Er Ye seems to change his stance.   Geez, it didn’t take much. Rui Rui is staring at his bae with those come hither eyes, yet his face is saying, bish you better say yes. Er Ye is like fine, I will do it with my bae so we can have sweet memories of knowing each other. He tells Rui Rui to go change. WAIT, it is not that kind of photoshoot Er Ye! Baby Rui Rui is so happy, walking like a penguin to the dressing room. Yoooo, if this isn’t a wedding picture setup, I don’t know what is!!! Er Ye is sitting down looking like the fine husband, while Rui Rui stands next to him like the wifey.  However, Rui Rui grimaces because Er Ye told him the begonia trees behind the scene are fake

As I guessed it, useless Fan Lian comes fetching his BIL to help him out of this current bind. CFT pushes him away informing him he already knows of the situation.  Useless socialite lets everyone know how useless he is by admitting he sucks at taking care of things. If I had dared say something like this outloud, my parents would whoop my ass.  CFT is not too please to see this useless POS begging for his helping.  Fan Lian is like, bro, since you managed it before, who else am I going to seek to help me out. I am too useless to do it myself. CFT is like, your sister kicked me out, why the hell should I helped save the Fan family.  Remember, she thinks I am so useless playboy like you!  LOL, Huang Xiaoming facial expression as he looks at Merxat showing CFT’s annoyance.  Such a good actor.  Wifey comes to Fan Lian and lets him that his hubby is just playing, he’s been bored for the past few days, wishing Fan Lian would find him something to do.  Well, with useless Fan Lian it was just a matter of time. We hear CFT yell at Fan Lian to get his useless ass in here while Rui Rui says see, I told you so. 

Rui Rui is helping out the troupe with their exercises when our dashing businessman looking so delicious that even useless Fan Lian compliments him for looking that foiiiine.  Of course that draws wifey’s attention (and Shi Jiu’s. Woman, stay away!). Er Ye hands his luggage as Fan Lian informs him that he has already bought the tickets. Er Ye stops to look at his wifey with lingering gaze as if to tell him to wait for him as he leaves for his business trip.  For those still believing this show is not thick on the bl, y’all need glasses. Rui Rui smiles in return, which gets a smile in return from Er Ye.  I am ignoring the camera panning on Shi Jiu because I don’t see the point and I don’t want it to ruin the moment.  We then see the rest of the troupe looking at their boss’ hubby leave.  LOL wifey is like, stop looking at my hubby sexy ass back! Don’t you all have shit to do!? Rui Rui looking super duper cute says he should have been like that earlier. OH I AGREE CUTIE PIE PENGUIN.  

Er Nainai is still doing the books when her girlfriend Meixin comes in with some Cloud Ear and Lotus Seed soup.  Meixin is looking sexy af with that white attire and lets face it, these two make a better couple than with their respective others. Meixin discuss the fact that Fan Xiang’er has been working late for several nights and that her beautiful face has suffered with dark eye circles.  Er Nainai replies no one cares how she looks, so what’s the point.  Meixin is like, what about me? Seriously, are they flirting? LOL, actually she says that when her brother comes back, wouldn’t he be hurt at her current state.  Er Nainai replies that he wouldn’t and I can’t help agree. She adds they’ve been married for many years, seemingly in love and harmonious, but they are just playing marital roles, being more like business partners. He manages the account while she manages the business, and work together to manage the Cheng family.  Because he’s a good man, he treats her well, but not because he loves her. Meixin is like who says he doesn’t love you.  GURL, I know you mean well for your girlfriend, but lbr here, your brother was forced to marry someone, yeah, they may have grown to care for each other, but the kind of love between to people who marry because they wanted to is just not there. Judging from her answer that all men are the same, I have a feeling Meixin has no understanding of what love is.  Er Nainai is like CFT is unlike any ordinary man, he doesn’t act like a businessman, spending money, being naive (QUE????), wasting time on things that make him no profit or fame, like his investment in Shuiyinlou.  Are we talking about the same man??? Dafuq?  She admires his dedication to the opera troupe despite making him no money (yeah, I doubt that as well). Meixin thinks his devotion to the opera troupe is because he has inherited his mother’s passion. Yeah, doubt that as well.  Do they even know who CFT is? Er Nainai interrupts and inform Meixin that after reviewing the ledger, she realizes that he is far more competent that she gave him credit for.   Seriously, woman, if you spent as much time actually paying attention to what your husband does instead of worrying about not being up to his level, maybe you would have noticed that.  She admits he is successful not because of his backing coming from the Fan family nor Commander Cao, but due to his own abilities.  Meixin is like, well if you hadn’t run your mouth, he wouldn’t have run away to his true love. Nah, I have feeling they would have still ended up that way. 

Er Ye is in Shanghai, at his old house.  Seriously a stunning mansion guys.  It looks like he got some new servants. Upon returning to his old house, old memories resurface, including when their family was in dire situation, his mother leaving.  Guys, I want this house, it is gorgeous. He enters his father’s bedroom and sees a picture of his family, which he touches as if he wants to feel them with his fingertips. 

[blackbatpurplecat]

It’s been a while since my last review so I’m gonna share some thoughts on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt with you. I’ve recently finished the main story and started the Blood and Wine DLC.

Two of my friends had highly recommended the game to me and I can say yes, it’s a good game! The graphics are very pretty, the voice acting is quite solid, the music’s beautiful, and there is just SO. MUCH. CONTENT: So damn many quests and places to explore and people to talk to and enemies to slay, it’s almost overwhelming. My favorite storyline was the Red Baron one btw. Heart-wrenching! I also appreciate that there were several endings (minus point: they were just drawings with a different voice-over).

However, there are a few little yet super infuriating things that kept me from actually loving the game:

First off, I don’t like the main character’s constant growl-whispering. As a non-native English speaker, it annoyed me that most of the NPCs’ heavy accents were impossible to understand without subtitles. You can’t run nor jump during combat?! Are you kidding me?! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?! The easiest mechanics are missing in a 2015 game?! I failed to find good armor that also looked good. (petty I know lol) The item management got on my nerves, dear GOD! I spent like 40% of the game organizing my bags’ contents. You can die by falling down 5 inches... Come on! Those fucking wraiths!!! I HATED that fucking horse. It was barely faster than the protagonist and when you whistled for it, it spawned like a mile away from you and took 5 days to come nearer if it didn’t run into a tree or a fence. Plus it was super useless in the huge cities. God how I hated that horse... I ran from A to B most of the time. Some stages were awfully designed (especially that fucking garden! if you played W3, you know exactly what I’m talking about) I wanted to play more and longer as Ciri. She seemed to be much more interesting than Geralt. I wish the game would have made it more obvious when you were dealing with a story changing decision. I didn’t even know that was a thing before I had made the first one. *sigh* A love triangle. Really?! I know it’s based on a book series but still. They also could have handled the decision making process better. Why not “you spend time with chick 1, then with chick 2, THEN you have to decide” instead of “decide now without having spent time with both”?!

But I could have excused anything if I had cared about the game’s story. I just couldn’t get into it; the main reason Witcher 3 is only okay in my opinion. I mean I was invested in the “father figure is looking all over the world for adoptive daughter” story but the entire politics side plot was just boring. And the game went on for too long. After a big battle towards the end, I thought “okay, that’s it right?” Wrong! The game kept going and going, and my interest waned with each additional main quest. “Oh you have beaten the big baddie? Well, he wasn’t the main big baddie so here are 3 more big baddies and one more big baddie, oh and one MORE big baddie!” After a while, I was just waiting for the game to finally end.

I’ll finish the two DLCs since Witcher 3 IS quite entertaining and the world just looks so good but I won’t replay it anytime soon. As I said, there are several endings but they didn’t really raise the replay value.

I guess it was just bad timing; I started playing Witcher 3 after having played RDR2 and THAT game has completely spoiled me! I couldn’t help but compare those two from time to time and RDR2 simply is the better game.

#Personal note #review

[terramythos]

My reread commentary on October Daye #8, "The Winter Long" or "more shit goes down in this book than the first 7 combined, holy shit".

I apologize to anyone who reads these cause I literally hit the length limit on this post and had to pare it down lmao 

-Good start: Under the Acknowledgements section: "Everything I have done with October's world to this point has been for the sake of getting here". Sooo basically the first 7 books? Setup for this one. We're in for a Ride.

I want to emphasize some of the best meta foreshadowing I've seen:

FOR REFERENCE, Rosemary and Rue is the title of book 1. It's also the only book whose opening Shakespeare quote (from Hamlet) doesn't really match the title. If you know your Shakespeare, you probably would have caught that and figured out that it was from The Winter's Tale instead. Plenty of conclusions you can draw just from that. Since then the series has been chock full of hidden identities, and this book has two BIG ones coming into play. Foreshadowing was here from the very fucking beginning, and it is some next level shit. Very well done.

-If you skipped book 1 you are SO fucked, btw.

- we're going to great lengths to describe Sylvester's physical appearance. Gee I wonder why. I'm sure it's not relevant

- yes Sylvester has FOX COLORED HAIR and YELLOW EYES and his magic smells like DAFFODILS and DOGWOOD FLOWERS. He is Toby's LEIGE and FATHER FIGURE.

Me on a first read: oh it's just beginning book exposition, they all do this

Me on a second read: god fucking damn it

- toby: I should have known Sylvester would never disappoint me.

Me: oh sweetie. Oh honey.

- "He smelled like smoke and rotten oranges.

This man wasn't Sylvester Torquill."

Anyone who read book 1: OHSHIT.AVI

Welcome back, Simon! You know, Sylvester's evil twin? You know, the big bad (so far) of the series? The the one responsible for turning Toby into a fish for 14 years?

-Yet he seems kinda... off, huh? Comments about how he didnt know the spell would last 14 years, how he hates to upset October's mom, of all people? Whatever could he mean? :)))

-New toby power: spell reflection? Hell yeah? Also spell BREAKING, but to be fair she did do that one other time. In, you guessed it, book 1.

- "When I tried to picture Sylvester's face, I kept seeing Simon's instead" ow oof

- Simon calling Amandine "Amy", which we've established is an affectionate nickname (it being what, you know, THE LUIDAEG calls her). Why would Simon, of all people, call her that?

... oh.

-That sure explains a LOT, huh? That sure was set up... this whole time, huh?

-Little "fuck you" lines like "I didn't know Sylvester had a niece" in book 2. Talking about January. Well, uh, he has several actually! You're one of them!

-Explanation for why Sylvester had any inclination to be October's mentor... eventually becoming her liege and father figure... even giving her the Changeling's Choice (something family is supposed to do). It seems mighty convenient that a random noble was involved in the life of a changeling to such an extent. BUT, if he was her uncle, and knew his brother wouldn't step up? Well...

-This isn't even the biggest reveal of the book. Like, we're only a handful of chapters in and this bomb gets dropped.

-Sylvester, every 10 minutes: oh boy I cant wait to see my brother so I can like, completely eviscerate him!

Everyone else: uh,

- Tybalt: and here I thought I was going to have to ask Sylvester for his blessing. Now I technically have to ask SIMON?

Toby: uwotm8

Tybalt: oh god uhh I'm joking yeah uhh I'm just trying to distract you from all this stress :)) yeah (nailed it!)!

-And now we begin the "wow Sylvester is actually not a great person" slide. It's been hinted at that he's pretty unstable and has shitty priorities regarding people he cares about. But Toby glossed over a lot of it because she adored him. Welp.

- It's also an interesting aside that Etienne was kind of a dick to Toby for a reason in the earlier books. He legit thought she had been knighted because she was family, not that she had earned the post. And after the last few books he clearly knows now that that's not the case and they've actually become friends. That's interesting hidden character development.

- ok so The Gang finds out that Simon was telling the truth when he said turning Toby into a fish for 14 years was to save her. Because he had actually been hired to KILL her and didn't want to do it. So it was a loophole-- everyone thought she was dead, and then (as established in book 1) pretty much everyone forgot she existed until the spell broke.

-BUT Simon is bound by a geas (where have we seen that before) and cannot divulge his employer's name. But who had such a grudge against Toby and/or her mom to order a hit on her AND forcibly bind everyone to secrecy?

-who knows? Not toby. So they go to The Luidaeg to maybe get a lead, and she establishes right away that she is ALSO bound under a geas and can't say who did it. So we play some 20 questions, and then...

ULTRA DISTRESSING LUIDAEG LORE :((((

-additional: another month name just came into play. August. Toby's half sister, missing for a century. WHAT IS WITH THE MONTH NAMES

- "please don't mistake villainy for evil." That's an.. interesting quote re:Simon.

- Simon's way of protecting toby from the impending threat is "well maybe you turn into a tree for a few centuries but like. You're safe, right? Why are you mad?"

- The Luidaeg: *is straight up dead*

Toby: hey tybalt remember that time in book 2 when I Resurrected the Dead

Tybalt: yeah, it was fucking terrifying and I didnt speak to you for 6 months

Toby: *finger guns* guess whaaaaaat

-The Luidaeg: *says just. A bunch of Lore*

Toby: Luidaeg dont you dare drop that cryptic shit on me then pass out

Luidaeg: nap time

-"If you so much as whisper the first word of a transformation spell, I'll have your larynx in my hand before the second word can form." DAMN, Tybalt.

-Simon: I am VERY sorry for my bullshit earlier. I can't tell you who my employer is, but I CAN give you this BOUQUET of ICE COLD ROSES. Ice cold, like winter. Winter Roses, if you will. Yeah. Uh have a nice life, bye!

Everyone: well this sure is a mystery

-Simon is definitely a morally grey character. Has done really awful shit, is built up as a major villain... but turns out he had relatively little control over his actions. He does the wrong thing a lot but it's usually not for a truly evil end? If the context is to be believed he got stuck in the geas contract with Unnamed Employer to save his daughter, which explains the bad shit he did that we know of. Which then inadvertently kicked off like the whole series. He seems to genuinely care about Toby in a warped way? It would be so easy to write him off as an evil stepdad or whatever and there's plenty of canon to support that stance (she's an illegitimate CHANGELING child) but he seems like he wants to just be her dad. I hope we explore his character more, is what I'm saying.

-And not to keep rambling about it but Toby is an established unreliable narrator and a horrible (initial) judge of character. So it's not like this is an asspull or off base at all.

Twist of the fucking century here.

-You know... the character who set off the events of the series? The character who was murdered in book 1 and bound October to a geas forcing her to find the culprit or die? Evening fucking Winterrose?

-There were hints, most very subtle unlike the other big twists, but probably the biggest one is SHE NEVER SHOWS UP AS A NIGHT HAUNT. And they're in the story quite a bit, and they ALWAYS feature killed off characters. Except Evening.

-My favorite hints were the ones just piled in book 1. Comments like "no one knows who Evening really is" said with zero self awareness. Because we are actually about to find out who she is... 7 goddamn books later.

-dead meme but "surprise, bitch. Bet you thought you saw the last of me."

-God she's so awful lol

-Toby thinking Quentin died then calling him THE SON SHE NEVER HAD is a BIG OOF right to the HEART. ;-;

-The book also points out that The Luidaeg through the series has ALWAYS referred to Evening in present tense. Even though she "died" in book 1.

-The Luidaeg ALSO never refers to her as Evening. It's always "The Winterrose". You know, a title. Which we have heavily emphasized is something the Firstborn use in place of their true names.

*jazz hands* Surprise!

-We also (finally) have a canon explanation for the... rather remarkable coincidence that Quentin, the fucking Crown Prince (from TORONTO), is in San Francisco at all. It was always weird he got sent to Shadowed Hills, and it's been commented on multiple times... Evening arranged it, of course! For reasons we don't quite know. But as the Daoine Sidhe Firstborn, her descendants couldn't exactly say no. Even though they didn't know who she really was.

-We really are falling all over Firstborn in this series? It sure is.. an odd coincidence, huh?

We got:

The Luidaeg: Roane/Selkie

Amandine: Dochas Sidhe

Acacia: Blodynbryd

Evening: Daoine Sidhe

Blind Michael: ... uh actually I don't think we ever learn what race he's Firstborn of. All his "children" are kidnapping victims forcibly twisted into monsters. Well, except for Luna, but we only know the Blodynbryd side.

But it's weird that for being so rare that we've run into 5 of them in 8 books. There's gotta be a reason for it.. but what?

-Luna starts the series as Toby's Surrogate Mom and is now just straight up an enemy huh

-I made this observation in my book 1 notes, but I find it very interesting that all of Toby's initial friends and allies... aren't by this point. Whereas her current allies are either former enemies or people she initially disliked or distrusted.

Starter allies: Sylvester? Was lying to her the whole time. Luna? Pretty much tried to sacrifice her (+above). Evening? Uhh this whole damn book. Devin? Tried to kill her for personal gain. Lily/Connor? Both killed off for real.

Current allies: Tybalt? Literal former enemy turned lover. Quentin? Kind of a snotty, vaguely racist kid she whips into shape. The Luidaeg? Extremely powerful witch who Toby assumes is True Neutral and wouldn't hesitate to kill her. May? Literal personal walking death omen.

It's just a cool reversal. There's so much really excellent character development in this series and I love it.

-Simon still is a pretty major bastard but.. less outright mustache twirling evil than we were led to believe up to this book. You learn his Backstory and while it really doesn't justify his actions it does...explain them.

-Blink and you miss it Lore: August is missing because she entered a contract with the Luidaeg. She's holding the candle from book 3 :)))

I'm starting to realize I stan The Luidaeg so hard I just have to take a picture every time she shows up and does stuff lmfao. (Best character).

-But... nothing like your inconceivably ancient and powerful aunt suddenly owing you a life debt, I guess???

-Toby. You know, just an ordinary weak changeling who has somehow managed to KILL A FIRSTBORN and RAISE THE DEAD. yikes.

I'm just putting this here cause it's funny as shit. Tybalt really is just... a cat

This book: I heard you like distressing Luidaeg lore??

Me: oh thanks I don't need to feel things

-God Evening is awful. Like, if you didn't know that already, see above.

-It says something about The Luidaeg that despite all that shit their Firstborn did to her she ends up becoming such good friends with Quentin, a Daoine Sidhe?

-BIG LORE with The Luidaeg talking to Maeve??? And Maeve "responding" kind of? This series damn well better explore what the fuck happened to those three it's been built up all series

-Omg the showdown with Evening and The Luidaeg. And Toby managing to break free and realize she deserves so much more than Evening-- all without magic. And Simon showing up for a last minute redemption trying to hit Evening with elf shot? I mean he gets shot in the process, but...

-We now have like, 3 or 4 characters just... asleep indefinitely thanks to elf shot. that's gonna be a Thing isnt it. Rayseline, Evening, Simon, Arden's brother...

WE DID IT BOYS

-This is the last full one I've already read. Most of my reactions in 9-12 are gonna be new. So.

#long post #i mean it's under a cut.. but

[luthienliveblogslately-blog]

Milestone write-up!

Since the story seems to be closing one story-arc and moving on to another, I feel this is a good place to take stock, summarize what we know and make some more or less educated guesses at what might happen in future. It got a bit away from me (”a bit” lol), so here’s a read more for your convenience. 

Players on the board

Last we left off, shit had decidedly hit the fan. We got painful confirmation that the elves successfully assassinated King Harrow, but they in turn had a painful price to pay. From what we can tell, Runaan is the only survivor, and he has been captured by Soren and Claudia. Claudia thinks he might come in “useful”, whatever that may mean. Might be they’ll interrogate him for information about Xadia, might be that Claudia has some more nefarious, magical things planned. She might ask him about Rayla and the egg, but it’s not like he can tell her anything that she doesn’t already know, aka Rayla and the boys have the egg and they plan to return it and use it to restore peace. Maybe, if they keep talking for long enough, he might actually get her to see that the egg really is just a yet to hatch baby dragon and therefore a sentient being in need of protection, and not just a powerful magical weapon to be used by whoever sees fit. If Runaan manages to escape or communicate with other elves, our heroes will have some real problems. He clearly sees Rayla as a traitor and seeks to punish her for the perceived crimes she committed, and there’s still that pesky magical bounty on Ezrans’s head… 

It’s hard to say what Claudia and Soren will do next. I think it depends very much on if Viren is sticking around the castle or not, and what his plans are. As to what his plans might be… god knows. Just how much does he want the egg back? Is he willing to go after it himself, or will he maybe send Soren? How much does Soren know about all this anyway? Five bucks says he had no idea about anything tbh. You know what still hasn’t been opened yet btw? The fucking letter. It’s still in Viren’s study. If it really has a contingency plan like “Callum becomes prince regent until Ezran is old enough to rule” I get the feeling Viren might pull some GoT-style shenanigans and try to put himself on the throne. At this point there isn’t really anything I wouldn’t put past him. In any case though the kingdom might be thrown into serious chaos for a while. After all: the King is Dead, long live the…. wait, who now? The crown prince is missing? The step-prince is missing, too? Well, guess it’s time for some good old-fashioned power grabbing! 

And then there’s our three four protagonists. We don’t know where the kingdom of Katolis is exactly, but in any case they have a long journey ahead. They will have to stick to the woods for most of it and avoid towns I think. Rayla can’t be seen by humans, the egg can’t be seen either, and Viren might try and put a bounty on all of them anyway, so the boys might not be save either. I trust Rayla will be able to get the foods from the woods though, so that should be alright. And then eventually they’ll reach the Breach and have to make their away across it and around however many standing armies manning the border from both sides. Yikes. Though we have no idea how far they’ll go in three remaining episodes. There are after all at least 5 more potential seasons in store for us, so there’s a good chance they won’t even remotely come close to the Breach in this one.  What I’m really worried about is Rayla keeping the truth about Harrow from the boys.  While it breaks my heart just thinking about them having to mourn their dad, I’m worried about Callum lashing out at Rayla in his grief. We already had a scene when he found out about the assassination plot and subsequently flipped out at Ez out of fear, and Ez hadn’t even really done anything. How much worse will that reaction be if she’s been lying to them for several days, even if it was just to spare them the pain? It might damage his trust in her, Callum might even try and make them split up and continue without her. Sounds like a really bad idea, but people do stupid things when they’re angry and sad. 

Other unresolved plot points

WHAT DOES THE FUCKING LETTER SAY

What’s up with the Mirror? For that matter, why is the mirror fishy enough to be covered up but not fishy enough to be hidden in the Lair of Dead Things? 

What’s with the picture Harrow looked at last time we saw him alive? It’s gotta be something, right? Why would they make the camera zoom in on it lying face down on the bed otherwise? Just have Harrow put it away and then forget it exists, don’t give it an extra shot!

Pip! Is he still alive? D: 

Callum still has the Storm Stone, but he might have to get his hands on a book or find himself a teacher to learn some new spells probably? 

WHAT DO THE BLACK EYES DO? DO THEY EVEN DO ANYTHING OR ARE THEY JUST FOR CREEPY EFFECT? 

Viren’s staff! Just cool historical artifact or actually relevant to the plot? 

Shameless Tin-hatting aka Foreshadowing Fucking Everywhere aka Miscellaneous Shit I Noticed While re-watching ep 1-3

Callum’s drawing of a Dragon roasting a Marshmallow Monster -> this show’s version of the Cookie Cat jingle? Possibly depicting Viren’s inevitable demise? 

Not foreshadowing, but I realized when the Narrator says “on the eve of last Winter’s Turn” in the opening what is meant with “last” is just most recent, as in “last month” or “last Christmas”. So it probably was some solstice type date after all. Makes sense with it now being spring. 

People keep pointing out how shit Bait is at hiding. I’m afraid at some point they’ll have to hide from something REALLY BAD and Bait will get them found. :/ Really, Bait being called Bait just seems super unfortunate in general. 

You know how Rayla says “My Heart for Xadia” during the ritual? Yeah, I’m getting the feeling Rayla will be instrumental in getting Ezran out of the magical contract, possibly in a super heroic way by just doing what her heart tells her to and saving the day, or possibly just… by dying in his stead. Oh god I feel like I jinxed her. :( 

You know how Callum was like “You’re so lucky, you get to learn magic!” and Claudia was like “You get to learn sword fighting!” and then Callum was like “I’d switch places in a second!”? Well, he’s doing magic now, so…. the little disaster bi that is myself is praying for Claudia in armor with a big-ass sword being a BAMF. ´

Anybody else who really wants to know what is under that OTHER, BIGGER tarp in the Lair of Dead Things? Because I really wanna know. I bet Ezran knows already. 

Harrow said about the letter that “[Callum will] understand in time.” What makes me think there’s more in there than just his last will, possibly it’s also his last confession. What terrible shit has he done over the years of his reign, how much of it did Viren have his fingers in and how much of it can Viren use against him post-mortem? And how will the boys react when they get confronted with their dad’s uglier side, possibly via what the elves or even some direct victims have to say about him? 

I’d really like to have a look at that book Callum is carrying everywhere. I figure it’s his sketch book and not relevant to anything, but it might still be fun to get to see some pages anyway. 

Stuff that I got spoilered on because there’s too many tags to block :( 

I saw some pics of the Dragon Prince after hatching! D: I’m sorry, it feels like I robbed myself of an awesome surprise and you of a genuine reaction. :( I didn’t look very closely, I just saw that he was adorable and had roughly the same color scheme as his dad. Which leads me to some more tin hatting: What with Thunder being called that and also breathing lightning, I’d like to propose that the Storm Stone still has a big role to play after all, other than just providing Callum with a magical source he can carry around. 

I saw General Amaya of the Standing Battalion being name dropped in a text post. I scrolled too fast to see any context, but considering who she is I guess we’ll get her as an upcoming character in some capacity.

I know that the elf making the MAGIC TREES amulets gets another ending slide at some point, and that people are theorizing he and Runaan are a Thing.  I’m not a super big fan of Runaan at this moment in time so I couldn’t give less of a shit about his love life tbh, and as much as I like to ship things I usually need a bit more than literally two pictures to get me going, so. I dunno, don’t expect much from me on that front until more material comes out in later seasons I guess. Like… if there isn’t enough for people to make emotional gif sets out of, can you even really call it a ship?

Netflix tried to push Chapter 4 on me when I went to re-watch the others. I got it shut down quickly enough, but I still saw the title. I think it was… Bloodthirsty? Bloodlust? Either way I think either Runaan is gonna have a REALLY bad time very soonish or our protagonists will have to run REALLY fast from people trying to catch them.  Maybe both. 

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