#running red updates

[shadelostwolf]

Chapter 45 is posted across multiple sites today.

*Running Red: Lost Moon - Book One

-Slow Burn- Slow Build- Levi Sharpe just wanted to get out of high school without causing trouble for his mom. After his dad was pronounced dead, he has had nothing but a series of unfortunate events happen. In the aftermath of the latest incident, his mom decided to move them to her old hometown in the hope of Levi being safe. Until a fateful night that sparked a series of events.

*Please check the tags before reading there are some dark themes and TWs

Chapter Preview:

Rhea gave a sniff as she turned back to the woman at the desk. She walked forward and with a smile said, “I’m here to see Michael Lander.” The woman smiled at her. “Are you family?” “I should be on the list of people he has for visits.” Turning to the computer, she quickly clicked and typed away while asking. “Name?” “Rhea Sharpe.” She held out her ID so the woman could see it. The woman’s hand faltered, and Rhea narrowed her eyes at the movement. Her smile strained while she clicked away. She looked at Rhea, “He’s on the third floor. The nurses there can tell you more.”

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#my story #my writing #original character #original story #werewolf #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbtq story #running red #running red lost moon #running red updates #werewolves #werecreatures #bi main character #magic #supernatural #slow build #slow burn

[dulesknight]

I'm excited for the new cookies but I'm even more excited to learn about these fallen heroes

#cookie run #cookies #new cookies #gacha #cookie run kingdom #new update #cookie run kingdom ancient heroes #crk fallen heroes #pure vanilla cookie #hollyberry cookie #dark cacao cookie #white lily cookie #golden cheese cookie #shadow milk cookie #eternal sugar cookie #mystic flour cookie #burning spice cookie #silent salt cookie #red spice cookie

[fossilcookie]

Been working on this for a bit, be sure to listen to this while you read as that's the intent

https://youtu.be/ssanTyvEIdA?si=YvH0hmaEGGW_KNnT

#cookie run #cookie run ovenbreak #cookie run kingdom #cookie comic creator #gingerbrave #strawberry cookie #pure vanilla cookie #wizard cookie #gingerbright #gingerdozer #chilli pepper cookie #licorice cookie #poison mushroom cookie #red velvet dragon #dark choco cookie #dark cacao update #golden cheese cookie #hollyberry cookie #butter roll cookie #affogato cookie #pomegranate cookie #custard cookie iii

[uselessalexis165]

Quick things I made with the comic creator (188/?)

#devsis please give us a golden cheese update #my text #cookie run #cookie run kingdom #cookie run ovenbreak #golden cheese cookie #pure vanilla cookie #clotted cream cookie #dark choco cookie #red velvet cookie #custard cookie iii #gingerbrave #strawberry crepe cookie #pastry cookie #knight cookie #fireknight #princess cookie

[quibbs126]

Ah yes, the most extreme name change ever

Like seriously Hollyberry, you could have at least made it Dragonfruit Cookie

#like this guy looks like Pitaya Dragon and is also called Pitaya Cookie someone’s gonna make a connection #I mean granted maybe most people don’t know what Pitaya looks like in Cookie form #but still #cookie run #cookie run kingdom #red dragon update #hollyberry cookie #pitaya dragon cookie #random stuff

[itsaultaken]

PACK IT UP SKITTLES SQUAD!!!

#I never actually played the update BUT I LOVE LESBIANS!!! #before weretoflow was even a thing I was cooking up werewolf designs #cookie run #cookie run kingdom #crk #my art #werewolf cookie #kumiho cookie #sparkling glitter cookie #black lemonade cookie #red vel and whip cream make a cameo but I’m not gonna tag them

[greenguy56]

A new update trailer is out

The fallens used to look very different before they were evil

Pure vanilla finally gets to see his wife

The new title screen just looks beautiful

#cookie run #cookie run kingdom #cookie run update #white lily cookie #shadow milk cookie #eternal sugar cookie #mystic flour cookie #red spice cookie #silent salt cookie #Youtube

[gendy-endy]

WAIT ARE WE GETTING NEW FUCKING COSTUMES.

#cookie run #licorice cookie #red velvet cookie #I DONT CARE THAT VELVET ALREADY GOT ONE THIS YEAR #Also I look at leaks so I know lol #I mean i assume this is for the bts update so yeah #That would at least make some sense

[fallofthecelestial]

#cookie run #cookie run icons #cookie run ovenbreak #crob #cookie run kingdom #crob icons #demon's icons #cr update icons #lotus dragon cookie #hydrangea cookie #pond dino cookie #snake fruit cookie #blue aesthetic #red aesthetic #pink aesthetic #the first Hydrangea icons reminds me of the trans flag lmao #game icons

[prototypelq]

The Most Unreliable Narrator I Have Ever Seen

soooooo I had a Cyberpunk-obsessed phase pass recently, and this time Johhny Silverhand's character caught my eye. His story, more specifically, and how... inconsistent he seems, depending on each source.

In the game, Johhny acts like a bastard for most of the game. He panic-rages on his first meeting with V, throws many threats around, but is later beaten into the background with the blocker pills Misty gave to V. Even Johnny's friends' are well, they react Loudly to his return. Y'know, make it known his presence alone provokes a lot of anger from them.

Even during his first appearance, when V gets thrown into Silverhand's memories of his SAMURAI concert, the only real thing V recalls is the all-consuming rage that he felt, which he tried to shout out through the microphone, but it never felt like enough.

And doesn't this sound weird then, that the only thing Johnny does throughout the game after that first meeting is help V out? He learns about the Smasher guy hideout at the docks (he does that through dubious means but that's Johnny for you), he helps V out when the seizures become worse, he calmly agrees to Any decision V makes, despite V clearly Not being in any real state to oppose him in the finale of the game, he plans the whole thing with "Alt" so V can get his body back at Johnny's own expense, from the beginning, and he doubles down on that claim at the end of the game.

Do you see the dissonance? The egoist rockerboy that admitted to using his friends to getting what he wants, and the downright self-sacrificing hero and a friend that is Johnny at the end of the game? People change, sure, but this divide is very massive and too sudden, so I wanted to dig into that. And what I've stumbled upon, with the help of canon Cyberpunk materials like the Red sourcebook (or, more specifically, LayedBackGamers' reading of the canon books and his lore videos on different topics), is that

Johhny Silverhand from Cyberpunk 2077 is the Most Unreliable Narrator I've Ever Seen.

Count with me here:

Johhny's personality in general. No matter what your interpretation of him his, it's impossible to ignore that Johhny is very much a people person and he exploits that knowledge and charisma to suit his own goals. If you choose to trust him, then you might have already been played.

2) Johhny has been alone, only his lovely self for 50+ years inside the Arasaka chip. Don't ask me how he is still even remotely sane, I haven't got a clue (hopefully the time as a construct without outside stimulation flies differently and he hasn't felt those 50 years in real time). The thing to mention here, however, is that, being alone with your thoughts and emotions for a long time, having nothing else for entertainment, is a great opportunity to rewrite your own memory of events or emotions you've felt.

3) Lack of a body. The aforementioned constant rage, that was the dominant emotion is Johnny's life (before Alt, at least, if Never Fade Away is anything to go by, and I mean, that's literally a love ballad), is a symptom of his PTSD from his too-young years serving in the corpo war, same as his signature silver hand. I'm not a specialist here, but I do know PTSD, especially for war veterans, is a physiological illness just as much as it is a mental one. Johnny's body literally had trouble living normally after that experience, and knowing this bastard - he never managed to treat that. Existing as a personality construct frees him from the many bonuses of being corporeal, but it also free him from the physiological side of PTSD. His day-to-day existence is fundamentally different from that of the Johnny Silverhand that the world knew 50 years ago, so yes, as a 'time traveler' or a source of information and comparison about the 70's and 20's of cyberpunk world Johhny is not a good source.

4) The chip with Johnny is literary inside the head of another person. The characters in game question, multiple times, just which decisions is V making on his own, and which of them might be Johnny's doing. Not consciously, no, but V and Johnny are clearly not your simple neighbours. They are not your 'close friends that start subconsciously copying each other' too. It is quite possible that the chip with Johhny is adapting to the 'hardware' it is running on, so it is specifically implementing parts of V's personality into Johnny, to minimize the 'friction' between the personality and the body it is supposed to inhabit. Everyone say hi to existential horror)

5) How does Soulkiller ever work? Is there data on how much the resulting engram actually resembles the person it tried to copy? How did the process of copying Johnny go? I can answer the last one - very badly.

Death of Johnny is told in excruciating detail in the Cyberpunk sourcebooks. Johnny died on the floor of Arasaka tower, torn in two by a shotgun blast from Smasher. There is no information on how much time it takes Soulkiller to create the engram from the brain, but it better have finished doing that before Johnny's brain started dying from a lack of blood and oxygen, and he clearly didn't have much time either, considering bisection is not the best for bodily fluid preservation, so it's a wonder the engram even works properly. Plus, during the initial heist to steal the chip with Johnny, the chip was damaged further before the idiots decided to stick an unknown harddrive into their heads to preserve it. Basically, it's nothing short of a miracle, that engram-Johnny is actually a whole damn person, that he can function, think and feel properly (well, as much as Johnny can do those things)

It is very sad that V can't talk to Johnny about this, as the man does blame himself over things he hasn't even done, and he had done enough emotional damage to himself and people around him without that kind of burden on top of it.

6) Johnny's memories are literally false. The attentive reader had to pick this up in my previous point - didn't Johnny die in the hands of Arasaka after they interrogated him? Nope. Nope, and I can say that confidently because,

(drumroll please)

Cyberpunk tabletop sourcebooks! Mike Pondsmith, the creator of the Cyberpunk universe and the TTRP series of games, has worked closely with CDPR writers during the production of the 2077. He oversaw everything, and he says that 2077 is in the same cyberpunk universe too, it's not an 'alternate reality' or anything.

Johnny Silverhand died while trying to buy time for his friends to escape, from a shotgun shot from Adam Smasher. That's it, he died on that floor, there was noone to interrogate, no rooftop helicopter he ran for.

The sequence of 'memories' we see from Johnny's POV in the game is a mishmash of two different assaults on the Arasaka towers, yes towers there were two of them. There is a great video explaining all the small and Major details Johnny's version of events got wrong, because we have the sourcebooks and the text inside. You may accuse me of holding a 'holy canon' argument ... and well, yeah, this is kind of holy knowledge, as it was written for gamemasters.

Still, some of the things in Johnny's version are Major, and while the media certainly covered the whole story extensively with corpo propaganda (oh, btw, Johnny didn't bomb anything, he probably didn't even know there was a nuke involved, he is literally just a scapegoat), there are some holes that a citizen of this world might know and wish to poke. The aforementioned Two Arasaka towers, or the absence of the legendary solo Morgan Blackhand from Johnny's story. Interestingly enough, there is a radiostation of Maximum Mike in-game, who is actually just pretty much Mike Pondsmith, and he does propose a couple of questions the 'official' version of the attack doesn't cover (like, where would a rockerboy even get a nuke, he might have been popular, but that's not just something you find without military contracts, and that means corporations). Another thing is that since Arasaka owns Soulkiller and has had the engram for a couple of decades, it is quite possible they are the ones responsible for messing with Johnny's memories.

So uh, yeah, Johnny is the Most Unrealible Narrator I have ever seen. Johnny of 2077 is most certainly not the Johnny of 2020's, but this might be a good thing. Maybe the 'real' 2020's Silverhand could never have made the progress the engram did, or become such a good friend and companion for V, or maybe he could have done those things too. We'll never know. I really love this story anyway.

#thanks for reading #johnny totally deserves a second chance at life after this why cant he and johnny show alt the finger and delta out of there #so v could live out his days and then johnny would take over #on the other hand johnny is a great example that being an engram is not the end so maybe v could come back in some sort of form later #after giving alt the finger #btw thats not alt either that's probably just an ai that caught little wind of actual alt and just calls itself her #also alt herself might be alive but that story is WEIRD so no idea #cyberpunk lore is great i had an amazing time listening to it and discovering new things #mike pondsmith is also amazing heard a cyberpunk red campaign he mastered and listening to him has been a blast he is a true storyteller #cyberpunk 2077 #cyberpunk red #legends of night city #mike pondsmith #johnny silverhand #phantom liberty #this is the first and last time I praise cdpr after that back to hate for the ps4 version of the game i go #and for refusing to update the game for that platform and for not releasing the dlc for it and for upping the system reqs even higher #ill live to see actual 2077 before I get access to hardware that can run that shit #btw existential horror enjoyers I sure do hope you have heard of SOMA ))) #oh i also dont think johnny was that bad in life either like he was bad but rogue and kerry are clearly happy to have him back so the game #must've shown just a very low time for him he had to be a good friend to earn that kind of loyalty still could behave like a bastard tho

[loginwalltoldmetomakeacc]

no but srsly tho what are they gonna do with the cookies of darkness in the golden cheese episode??? they contributed to every other ancient’s kingdom but what about this one?? are they coming in as a surprise??? or have they been forgotten entirely???

And what about Golden Cheese’s soul jam? unless I’m missing something mentioned in odyssey, how are the cookies of darkness gonna obtain her soul jam or whatever? did they just give up on their evil plan? are they trying it from a different angle by being more suspicious and subtle about it? bc I don’t see them on the title screen so what’s the deal?

I wanna hear your theories pls tumblr…..

I’m glad golden cheese is finally getting her update after 84 years and characters like adventurer and black raisin will get the spotlight but still

#crk #cookie run #cookie run kingdom #golden cheese cookie #golden cheese kingdom #cookies of darkness #licorice cookie #pomegranate cookie #dark enchantress cookie #affogato cookie #Red velvet cookie #Poison mushroom cookie #choco werehound brute #bat cat #yea I’m including the whole gang in these tags so what #cookie run update

[shadelostwolf]

Chapter 22: Take A Turn from my story Running Red: Lost Moon is posted on my Patre0n if you want to read ahead. You can find Running Red: Lost Moon up to chapter 21 already posted link in my bio. Posted to multiple sites and Patre0n.

Full post will be on June 5th 10 am pst / 1 pm est

Preview below:

Running Red: Lost Moon Chapter 22: Take A Turn

Michael dropped down, his legs hanging through the window. He looked at Levi, “Go to the police station and get help.”

“But…”

“Aaron is going to need help.”

“What about Laik?”

“He’ll be fine. He’s good at hiding.” Michael dropped back into the room. He looked out at Levi. “Go get help.” Then he shoved the window closed.

#running red #running red updates #running red lost moon #supernatural #fantasy #werewolf #werewolves #Werecreature #Magic #bi character #bi characters #bi main character #original character #original story #lgbt #lgbtq #LGBTQIA #lgbt stories #lgbtq story #My Story #My writing

[tallysescape]

got harassed into starting the second perspective and it’s going great thanks! ignore the crazed look in my eyes! anyway @wildflowerteas hi!!! i figured you’d enjoy my board because im hooked <3

#i’m updating this as i go and might put it in a google doc so i can color code but the vibes it has in my notes app are unmatched #you’re a force of NATURE for creating this btw it’s been abt two days since i started and i’m absolutely gone #past the point of no return and all that jazz #everything abt this makes me want to run around in circles it’s just really really neat and the way you’re writing it is STELLAR #and dont even get me started on the red camellia countdown oh my god i’m handling that like a champ #all that aside arrgghhhh rori rotisseries already said it but i’m having a lot of fun so!!! thank you💛💛!!!

[tabsters]

CRK LEAK SPOILERS AHEAD!!!

aight so it's already a theory that these five guys:

are the og ancient cookies, due to the very similar soul jam shapes. shadow milk to pure vanilla, eternal sugar to hollyberry, mystic flour to dark cacao, red spice to golden cheese, and silent salt to white lily.

the question is, what happened to them? why do the current ancient cookies have their soul jam, and where did these five go?

well, spoilers to white lily cookie's arrival to kingdom and the journey to beast yeast are already here:

so my guess is that gingerbrave and his friends are going to travel to beast-yeast and rescue whatever fragments of white lily cookie are still remaining and haven't become dark enchantress cookie. leaks also mention a faerie kingdom, so either beast-yeast used to be a faerie kingdom or the faerie kingdom is made up of the cookies that left beast-yeast after it became overrun by monsters, similar to pure vanilla kingdom and creme republic.

while the gang is in beast-yeast, they find out about these five cookies that came before the ancient heroes, the ones that have been lost to history. they could be like the ancient heroes; without their soul jam, they don't remember who they are and are mostly harmless, but i think a better idea would be that dark enchantress cookie has put some kind of mind control spell over the original five, and since all of the five ancient heroes have been released, the focus on ckingdom will turn to rescuing these new original five cookies. since all ancient cookies will be released after this, i think that shadow milk cookie, eternal sugar cookie, mystic flour cookie, red spice cookie, and silent salt cookie will take over the nether-gachas.

now, about the og five themselves. there seems to be a theme for all of them, which wasn't seen in the ancient heroes:

shadow milk: jester

eternal sugar: angel

mystic flour: priest

silent salt: knight

red spice: possibly a king or queen???

since the ancient five are all kings and queens of their own kingdoms (except for white lily cookie), it could be that all of the original five shared a kingdom and were the former rulers of the faerie kingdom before darkness overtook it and it became beast-yeast.

and that's it for my thoughts on the new update, can't wait for january 18th so i can see which parts of these were horrifically off. :DD

#cookie run kingdom #cookie run #shadow milk cookie #eternal sugar cookie #mystic flour cookie #silent salt cookie #red spice cookie #idk this update got me really excited about crk again #probably because all five ancients are going to be released

[uselessalexis165]

Quick things I made with the comic creator (187/?)

#i am hoping we’ll get an update #on pastry and the st pastry order #my text #cookie run kingdom #cookie run ovenbreak #pastry cookie #red velvet cookie #pure vanilla cookie #strawberry crepe cookie #chess choco cookie #white pawn cookie #black pawn cookie #dark choco cookie #custard cookie iii #longan dragon cookie #ananas dragon cookie #mango cookie #birds of prey #steven universe #steven universe future

[rainbowmegamix]

Rainbow Megamix :: Sioux Falls

And the Rainbow Megamix continues tonight! We’ve had such a great first week of the mini project and we are incredibly excited to see it continue in Sioux Falls. There will be.. many hundreds of flags that @jaerie (and hopefully one or two others…) will be handing out in the hopes of making the venue an absolute sea of rainbows! Despite having more flags than we’ve been able to hand out at a single venue before, she won’t have enough for everyone, so if you do have your own flag you can bring, please do so!

Let’s keep the momentum going and keep the flags waving high!

#we also have to update the volunteer masterpost #and have a few other lights projects we have learned about to add as well #but my laptop is currently dead in my bookbag and my kids want to see me #before I run off to red rocks tomorrow #so that will hopefully happen tonight hehe #sioux falls #fitfwt Sioux Falls #rainbow megamix #rainbow direction #rainbowmegamix