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jonathankatwhatever · 5 months

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4 Dec 2023. I’ve been developing a fear of typing. It comes in part from not being able to spend sufficient time thinking about work, so the natural hesitancy builds to avoid the expenditure of energy when other tasks have interrupt privileges. That trapped invested energy tends to come out as anger or other frustration, and it will demand cycle time. Another reason is fear, fear that I’m somehow wrong, like the thought a bit ago ‘what if I did everything from the wrong end?’, when of course looking at perspectives 1 to 0 and 0 to 1 both requires reading from the wrong end and prevents that from going unnoticed. I stumbled over words there because the question is whether I’ve identified you properly, and whether the pathway that has me on will pay off. The test of that has always been whether the storyline advances, and that occurs when there’s an advance in understanding the HC. But right now, I don’t know what I’m working on because it’s so general to me: how does D-structure function has become a series of 1Space scales which preserve Triangular and thus allow for the generation of Things in D4 Space.

Look, you can see it if you look. How many times have you seen the image of a D3 being pulled to the D4 corner? What does it mean? It’s the little hat expansion of D-structure, and it’s the same as the way Triangular occurs, so maybe I should be more articulate about something so basic. Probably have in the past but can’t access the memory.

OK, the concept in Triangular is 1Space simultaneity, meaning it identity checks as equivalent through a variety of counts. That is, communication at Ends does not mean arriving at the same time but rather a simultaneity of meaning at the End. It’s like at the end of a long novel when the protagonists come together.

BTW, I was right about their QB. And the lack of red zone production is, well you know. I didn’t watch. My patience with men physically fighting has dropped as actual war throws into light the social cost of maintaining a handful of professionals to play violently. What’s the ratio of all the kids concussed to those who ever earn a dime from it? It’s a sieve of injuries, altering lives away from the spectacle. It reminds me of Travis Scott encouraging mayhem except here the real mayhem is off screen, in the damage done to those encouraged to rush the big stage. We only see the stage, where the violence is bad enough that players are regularly taken away in ambulances, while we ignore the broken bodies out of view.

Thing is, I don’t feel like I’m preaching at you but instead from you. My attitude toward the game has changed. An example is rugby. It’s dangerous and similarly involves men chasing and tackling each other, but it doesn’t invoke the same level of violence because the players don’t line up to smash into each other, and the concepts of running and passing are very different. Soccer is better because the game punishes violence, but there’s way too much heading, particularly at younger ages. In other words, there is no perfect male sport in which men can compete because their nature becames violent in competition. I’d love to say that’s related to the Riemann-Roch theorem because the impossibility is why dimensionality occurs.

Let’s see what I can muster. Probably not much. I spent 40 minutes watching videos about Riemann-Roch and its expansions into other areas like sheaves and the like. I know what these versions do: they process the material we’ve worked out so it works in 0Space. A Riemann surface or sphere is I//I, and the genus is the hole count of that I//I. As in genus 1, a torus. We have that material. At least, we have it from the 1Space side. They have it from the 0Space side, so this is another I//I, one which is cooperative to close the understanding gap.

To be clear, a hole is the I//I of externality because it defines the contours of what touches the surface of the not visible object. I’m seeing something they call curvature as being the edges of Boundaries in D-structure. One of the big problems is relating the idea of a hole or genus to the overall idea. I’ve struggled with this, but I can feel it coming on because if we have an enclosing frame, a gs frame, then it generates as a hole to the inner edges of the the D4 frame. The D4 frame consists of iterations of 3 and 1 and 2 and 2, so the count runs from 0 to 3 or 1 to 4 in Ends, and thus 0-4 in 1-0Segments, with the flailing arms. It’s a dance, in many ways, because it counts beats on which you put steps of various kinds, as long as they respect the underlying beat, which generally means multiples and accents on time, which is a nice form of simultaneity again: mechanical simultaneity achieved over time, over iterations, so even if you suppress the beat from focus, you not only will return but are guaranteed to return. That’s a form of simultaneity I’d guess I call as occurring, as the actions within this 0Space, within the 1Space gs frame generated to the beat. That’s a combination music and eternity metaphor in which gs frame generated to the beat means that these modulations are motivated within a frame, which means a hole except we are in the hole. We are in the hole literally in the sense that our pattern accumulates around masses which take a long time to traverse relative to other objects. From the perspective of what’s outside.

That’s in Navier-Stokes. Don’t want to get into why.

So the point would be that we exist in a grid square, that our individual and collective existences exist in a variety of grid squares, and that means we exist in gs that expand into the center of a space. Wow, that big. I had no idea. And because it emanates from the center, that actually becomes up for us in the metaphorical sense of rising up, of sending prayers up, because that is the shape which goes to infinity when inverted from emanating from a center across an orthogonal, meaning here that even though you experience emanation from within or from somewhere else, when you process that, meaning as interact with it, which invokes Alternation and thus modulations, then as a Thing, you orient within D3-4 Space. That is, as a Thing, you have 2 obvious T, being the halves of your body, and those make a torus, so you are genus 1.

If the vision I’m receiving now turns into words and maths, then wow. The image was of a person and within that person is a hole, and each person’s choice resolve to binary chains which run in each of the directions of the torus. I saw the torus shrinking and growing depending on the calculations, which is interesting because even a constant state would imply this kind of changing given that a hole exists up to some degree. These are holes. They can be infinite or finite, and those will have various pathways.

This is the same point made many years ago about a rock. It’s existence is continuous and my be undisturbed continuous, etc. That doesn’t mean calculation isn’t occurring. That change isn’t occurring. We can say essentially unchanged but that’s only to our observation level, which can be very precise but which has limits. I keep getting hung up on that, when what I mean to say is that this occurs because we have finite construction. Which occurs because of the HC.

So this validates the vision I had years ago of how all this would work. What was missing was the Emanation to enclosing gs. Almost missed it: occurs within any center, so blood, nationalism, devotion, etc. The translation is clear and powerful. What about the finite set? Start with a small number or degree I think they call it. We have both a Triangular and a gs model which count small degrees multiple times in multiple ways. That is the essence of D-structure, that it builds through a specific process which generates identity in depth. Example is if you get some result across a D24 Space, then you also have a basic 2Square, which counts D12 each. Each of those are 2Squares as well, so we get SBE2’s, which we can then treat as perspectives of 2Things.

Treat is an understatement. I was interrupted midword. So the D24 Space as a conception, which feeds directly into the Monster Group and so on, because we actually have a model which does all that, including the j-invariant, means we now have outputs of various kinds.

I really can’t get back into this after such a long ‘break’. Can’t consider looking for a place to live a break.

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meltykarasu · 1 year

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The Return of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Calendar

Welcome back to the FFVII Advent Calendar, a series in which I attempt to beat Final Fantasy VII between December 1 and 11:59 PM on December 24th whilst liveblogging the entire experience. (Spoilers abound, naturally.)

You might be asking: “Zero, why are you doing this again?”

Last year I succeeded (I did beat the game while producing, to my mind, a choice cut of Let’s Play) but I also failed (I didn’t beat it in time because I fundamentally misunderstood the mechanics of the second segment of the final boss gauntlet and then I wiped during the final boss, meaning I had to reload and I only beat the game before Christmas if you count Alaska time, which is not a timezone I live in.)

So, in summary: I want to redeem myself with the original FFVII.

Today’s Predictions & Strategy for Tomorrow:

I’m going to be approaching this in a different manner. Last year I wrote more about the actual plot of the game; this year is going to be less focused on that. They’re going to be far breezier posts without screenshots (even thought, admittedly, this year I bought component cables for my PS2 and the output on the CRT looks crisp as hell). This is because, while I’m still using the PS1 version, this time it’s going to be through the PSN version on a PS Vita.

This is admittedly mostly because I would like to be able to punch through this game while in bed.

I also revised my schedule — last year I allocated a full five days to the final dungeon gauntlet, but I know now that I can cut that down to three, four at most. I also think I can hunker down and punch through the early game a little bit quicker. This will give me four days of slush time (Dec. 17-20) to either let my schedule slip a little, or preferably, to breed chocobos to get Knights of the Round.

We'll see how this all works out!

#final fantasy vii #ffvii advent calendar

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fieryone18 · 3 years

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Ted Lasso 2x04 thoughts, spoilers, and happiness ramblings:

1. Is Keeley… an honorary Diamond Dog…? *squeal number one*

2. The whole “wrapping-Jamie’s-secret-Santa-thing-since-he-didn’t-understand-what-secret-Santa-was” thing was the moment I knew: this was gonna be a good ep

3. HOLY SHIT THE INTRO!!! (Low key gave me community claymation Christmas vibes… anyone else feel that?)

4. Ok when Higgins implied that he didn’t think they would get many people, I was like a) sad bc he’s so sweet just to do that in the first place!!! but b) like uh-uh you clearly haven’t realized the found family trope fest that is about to occur

5. Sam!!! Dani!!! Richard!!! Jan!!! Zoreaux!!! All the Richmond gang!!! AHHHHH!!! (Ok Richard and Higgins’ son’s FIFA game is probably what broke me ngl)

6. Sexy Christmas y’all… someone needs to write a fic for sexy dec 28th- STAT

7. Did Keeley… pull a Ted metaphor…??? (The mushroom thing- which I will TOTALLY be slipping in conversation at some point)

8. Roy’s convo with the little kid abt pooping in their pants- istg that man would be a PHENOMENAL inspirational speaker 🙌🏼

9. LACTOSE INTOLERANT ROY KENT 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

10. The Ted/Rebecca relationship evolution- guys I’m gonna cry- it was sweet and golden and this episode def quelled the few remaining doubts in my mind abt them being endgame- it’s basically confirmed at this point

11. The makeshift long-ass Higgins Christmas table- literally the only solution worth of this goddamn show

12. Ok small moment, but when another Nigerian teammate brought the actual version of the dish instead of the one Sam brought bc he didn’t want them to be like “ooh gross” and then they shared it!!!- fucking golden. Don’t change your culture to appease anyone’s bland-ass palate y’all

13. The love actually thing at the end- ahhhhhh!!!- and when it was made clear that anyone who messed with phoebe (I’m looking at you, prick-ass bernard) would have to deal with BOTH Roy and Keeley!!! Aunt Keeley mode, unlocked

14. Ok back to sexy Christmas for a sec- the leg lamp from a Christmas story!!! 🙌🏼 (it’s a major award!)

15. Also, I am SO glad they lightly touched on the actual darkness of its a wonderful life bc I could tell it was bumming ted out and I was mildly worried he’d go to a dark place with the suicide stuff- I can’t watch that movie anymore and I always felt like nobody understood what I meant when I’d tell them why

16. Going back to the beginning for a sec: Bumbercatch with the scarf!!! I was so worried Colin would be an ass abt it but it was so sweeeet

17. Finally, ofc, the impromptu dance/karaoke party in front of the Higgins house!!! Hannah’s voice!!! The snapshot ending!!! Found family at its finest!!!

Honorable mention: the ussie guy!!! As well as the implication that he masturbated to Keeley as a teenager ✌🏼(and Roy’s reaction is priceless)

In conclusion, this episode warmed my cold dead heart and it was ridiculously worth staying up until midnight for

Also literally cannot wait until it’s actually Christmas time and I can watch this with a whole nother set of feels

#ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #ted lasso 2x04 #ted lasso Christmas ep

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thepriceofbeingaroseisloneliness · 3 years

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THE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION #46 30th December (TRANSLATION)

“Dir en grey MV shooting with 3D realistic avatars”

Appearance:

Kaoru (DIR EN GREY direngrey.co.jp/)

Joe Yokomizo (Writer / DJ)

Tasai Reporter (Tokyo Sports)

God ?

Notes before reading: This is a translation of The Freedom of Expression #46 uploaded last 30th December. Originally, I planned to upload this before the 31st livestream but in the end I couldn’t, so even if we know now how the 3D avatar MV looks like, I still want to share it here before finishing the livestream report.

Please don’t forget to subscribe to their channel and watch their actual video to support the program.

Feel free to correct me if you spot any mistake or any confusing parts. ------ *In 2021, The Freedom of Expression will be uploaded on Wednesdays* Kaoru: Hello, this is Kaoru from Dir en grey…The Freedom of Expression is starting this time…. this week again…. Joe-san…. Tasai-san…. I feel like it’s being a while…. Joe: That’s true…. Tasai: That’s true… Kaoru: There was that program (we filmed) at that location…. *Kaoru means The Freedom of Expression #42 and #45* Joe&Tasai: Yes, yes…. Kaoru: And the time we recorded 4 programs on a row…. Joe: Ah, that’s right… Kaoru: We were free for a while… Joe: We were…. Nothing changed? Kaoru: Nothing changed, yes… Joe: It also seems like Tasai was busy as well…. Tasai: That’s right. I saw the two of you before at the Niconico livestream…. *Kaoru appeared as a guest on Joe Yokomizo’s channel last 10th Dec* Joe&Kaoru: Ah! Joe: Thank you so much for watching! Thank you for writing an article about it immediately! *Tasai uploaded an article about the livestream at Tokyo Sports website* Tasai: I worked while feeling jealous of you two…. Joe: No, rather than that, wasn’t the Tokyo Sports sweatshirt, or rather hoodie wore in a great shape? Tasai: Yes, thanks to you guys it’s going to be sold…. Joe: No,no….it’s thanks to Kaoru…. Kaoru: No,no…not at all…. Joe: Please make something for the second anniversary of the channel (Joe Yokomizo channel)…. Tasai: It seems that we will do a T-shirt collaboration again…. Joe: Oh! Kaoru: I’m looking forward to it. Joe: Someday, a collaboration set with The Freedom of Expression…. Tasai: Right? Joe: Yes. Tasai: Then, we could sell it… Joe: Sell it…. Tasai: And to go Okinawa…. Joe: Go to Okinawa? The three of them laugh. Joe: The plan is steadily progressing to that objective…. Tasai: The three of us…. Joe: Please….. (I hope that happens someday)….. Kaoru: So, back to the topic…..can you read the it?.... Joe: Yes, I can…..yes, this is another piece of good news….. *on screen* Title: “Dir en grey MV shooting with 3D realistic avatars” -Announced a MV created by shooting members with a 3D scanner. “The World You Live In” screening events were sold out on the same day that went on sale. In response to that, an online screening event called “The World You Live In ” -additional-“ will be streamed. With a special talk in which members will also appear, a music video created with characters using real avatars created with a 3D scanner will be screened. The song used for this will be their first digital single "Ochita koto no aru sora” that Dir en grey released in August this year. The scenes of the members performing are scanned, so it is possible to create scenes in various places. Joe: So, Kaoru…. Kaoru: Thank you for reading it…. Joe: This is really good news.…. Kaoru: Originally, the programs are uploaded on Friday…but we uploaded this earlier so we can talk about this….so this time it feels a little bit irregular…. Joe: An irregular update…. Tasai: But it’s ok…. Kaoru: Well, of course, I’ve already watched it…. Joe: You did? How was it? Kaoru: First, we took pictures, we got our makeup done, we took some body impressions and…. then, this thing…. how is it called?.... with a 360 degrees camera….then in another studio…another time…we wore clothes with dots….and then…..we played air….*kaoru plays air guitar* Joe: I see….You did as if you were performing…. Tasai: Ohh…. Kaoru: Then, with the pictures they took…. Joe: Sounds quite hard…. Kaoru: No, we were done in a moment…. Joe: Is that so? Kaoru: The pictures that were taken of me with my outfit….it was just a click, then the light and “yes, we are done”. Kaoru makes a comment about makeup. Joe: Maybe it would had been better to get more shoots… “Actually, how are the avatars going to be?” (top screen) Joe: When it was already done… Kaoru: The atmosphere of it….it feels like being inside a game…. Tasai: What about the outfits? Kaoru: It’s impossible to do with the outfits on…. Of course, you can do it if you take time to shoot like that…. Tasai: I see. Kaoru: But well…. Joe: It was done that way this time….as this comes out, naturally the first thing that comes to my mind is Kokoromi* *Kokoromi (ココロ見) TV program that has been broadcast irregularly since 2010 on NHK BS Premium. This program dedicated one episode to Hiroshi Ishiguro, director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, part of the Department of Systems Innovation in the Graduate School of Engineering Science at Osaka University * Kaoru: That’s it…. Joe: It’s like you had the opportunity to do that…. Kaoru: Somehow, it was like….” we can do something like this”…..”is it going to be hard?”….. Joe: It’s like, you had a suggestion, and then it seemed possible to be done…. Kaoru: “So let’s try to do it” Joe: That is…. Tasai: I’m really looking forward to the screening…. Kaoru explains that for the recreation of his movements, he had to play holding his guitar higher than usual due to the pointers (dots) he had on him to capture the movements. Joe laughs and imitates Kaoru when he shows the position, he did to be able to do the procedure, playing the guitar chest high. Joe: Higher than usual…*playing air guitar at chest-high, Kaoru burst into laughter* “One of the highlights is the position of the guitar?” (top screen) Kaoru: When I saw it, I was thinking that…..”that’s really high!”*laughs* Joe: But the position of your guitar was like if another person was shooting instead of you... Kaoru: No, holding it up that way felt like when I play bass at home…. Joe: I see… Joe makes a joke about the photographer having to take his picture holding the guitar like that. Joe: Did the other members have to change it as well? Or just you? Because of that pointer…. Kaoru says that he thinks he is the only one who had to change. Joe: But Die plays guitar holding it really low…. Kaoru: That’s true… “About other members shooting” (on screen) Kaoru explains that he was watching the process and saw some impressions moving, like the shape of a person (before being completed) Kaoru: I saw just that, and I was like “Ah, Die!”…when I saw the appearance…..it gave me chills… Joe is curious about how they did the procedure with the drums. Kaoru explains that they took pictures of the drum set to reproduce a similar shape. Joe: Weren’t the drums the hardest (instrument)? Kaoru: Maybe…. Joe insists that the drums must had been hard to capture for the process. Then, he goes back to Kaoru holding the guitar chest high. He says that playing the guitar in a lower position is cool, Kaoru agrees. Joe adds that there are many guitarists that play the guitar like that, but he thinks there isn’t any that plays it that high (chest, almost shoulder, high lol) Kaoru: Not many…. Joe: Then, the song is the single… Kaoru: Yes Tasai: You are using (for this) the latest single “Ochita koto no aru sora”…. Joe: Doing this mv once again in this way, see the reactions again… Kaoru: As it took more time to do, it’s like a polished-up version…. Joe: It’s like a new creation…..I’m looking forward to it…. “From 23:00 on 31/12” (on screen)” Kaoru explains how the stream is going to be. First, the performance, then the videos and later, a talk with the members. That it’s going to be the flow. Joe says he is looking forward to it, jokes about Kaoru playing guitar high chest. Kaoru wonders why God hasn’t say anything yet. Joe: God, are you there? God: I am! God is here! They laugh and “scold” him for not saying anything God: I already saw it! (the video) Joe: Did you? Tasai: Did God already see it too? God: I did, I did… Joe: But it’s because you are God, right? He is different from humans. Kaoru: As he is God, he can see everything, everywhere…. God: As I’m God, I have that power… Joe: Do you have that power? God: Yes….it was interesting…it looked interesting and cool…. Joe: Did you realized that Kaoru was playing his guitar that high? God: I didn’t pay much attention to that…. Joe: Is that so? Do you have any favourite part or a part that attracted your attention? God: Well, that’s right. The footage is good after all but, the song is good because after all, Dir en grey is good at writing songs…. They burst into laughs. Kaoru: Thank you *laughs* God: I think they are talented…. Kaoru: “They are good”*imitating God* Joe: You said they are good at it….like they are talented…. God: That’s because I’m God…. Joe: That’s right….you are a pro yourself…. What about other aspects such as the visuals or the song?.... God: It was fun…. Joe: Ah, it was fun….thank you for telling us… Tasai: God should also get an avatar (of himself)…. Joe: That’s right… Kaoru: indeed…. Joe: But we haven’t seen his appearance ever…. God: I can't show it yet…. Kaoru: We should do an avatar of him…. Joe: Right? It’s a possibility…. Kaoru: I think that Tasai could draw it (God’s avatar)…. *God's avatar drawn by reporter Tasai* (top screen) Joe: He has the skills….it’s legendary…. Kaoru: It’s legendary…. Joe: Then, let’s do that! Kaoru: Draw how you imagine him…. Tasai: My image of God…. Joe: We could draw him together… Kaoru talks about his face and so when God cuts in. God: God is just an old man, right? Kaoru: An old man? We got that…. The three of them laugh and start discussing about an idea of a story to draw. Tasai: You tell me that story, and I imagine it and then I draw it… Kaoru: An avatar of God…. Joe: An avatar of God……we could do a meeting with a screening and a talk…. The three of them laugh. Kaoru: Then, next year we are doing it again, from February….a screening of a live ‘Meguro Rock-May-Kan GIG’…..well it’s a concert film screening tour around the country….. Joe: And there will be a talk with the members? Kaoru: I think so…. Kaoru: So that’s it…. Joe: That’s it, right? Kaoru: Well, tomorrow, I hope you all can watch the livestream…. Joe: That’s it….don’t miss it/stay tuned…. Kaoru: Well, I think it’s time to end the program…..Please subscribe to the channel…. Joe: Please subscribe…. Kaoru: Thank you for watching….! Tasai: Thank you for watching! God: Thank you for watching!

#dir en grey #kaoru #the freedom of expression

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aharris00britney · 4 years

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ASKS 20

lmao last time i did one of these was February there is a lot

Anonymous said: What's your collab process when you and other creators make packs? Like how do you decide to do it together and how do you split up the ideas and everything?

I’m going to answer another ask outside of this post that details this but I’ll answer this one here too. The way me and ayoshi do packs is not like a usual collab (in my opinion I don’t think people collab like this). I am good at making meshes. So usually I make a mesh for something and ayoshi makes a base texture that I can use to finish the base of the top/bottom and then we work together to fix any texture issues. Nothing we’ve made has ever been 100% mine or 100% his except for the hairs. Sometimes a mesh is easy but the texture requires a lot of work so it’s more work for him, sometimes I decide I want to try and texture something (like with this AxA I made textures for some of the clothes) and then ayoshi will clean the texture up for me and add some shading for me. So it’s a lot different than what I imagine most collabs are. But I love the way me and him work together and the ability to change something I don’t like because it isn’t just his, it’s ours.

Anonymous said: I'm so excited for your new AxA collab that female hair is stunning!!

Anonymous said: I s2g if it werent for your cc my sims would just have to walk around naked lmao you literally make the game playable for me, so thank you ❤❤❤❤❤

thank you!!! Assuming the 2nd ask is about AxA too because that’s the only time I make clothes lmao. Excited for you guys to see everything this week.

Anonymous said: Do you know anyone who recolours your hairs? They’re so gorgeous I’d love to see them in more colours! Xx

I usually reblog recolors of my hair at @aharris00britneyrecolors.

Anonymous said: I'm a sucker for your sim Bella. Every time I see Bella as your hair models, I click and download

Anonymous said: Hi, sorry to bother, are you planning on uploading your Bella Sim Anytime soon? Love your content!

Bella is a queen, she’s a streamer in my game at the AH00B house. I don’t think I’m going to upload my Sims anymore though :( I have a ton of sliders and presets in my game and I have no idea which ones I use. I have 3 of the ones I know I use listed on my resource page but there are so many more and I don’t want to share them and they be broken in peoples games.

Anonymous said: will there be an axa this year im in desperate need of new clothes for my sims :(

I got this a few days ago before the teaser came out which I thought was funny fvghb yes there will be one

@lysssimpatico said: I was wondering if you might consider making the Elli hair have ombre accessory options. There aren't any cute curly ponytail ombres anywhere!

I think I tried making an ombre accessory for it when I made the hair and it didn’t fully work with the way I changed the UV maps. I’m sorry :(

Anonymous said: why the HELL is your dog so cute lemme have her please

Right? She’s an angel omg my dad is watching her while my foot heals but I miss her so much fghvbj

Anonymous said: Your Daphne hair is so cute!!

thank you!

Anonymous said: I have the feeling everyone knows what kind of Supernatural they would be if they were one, so what's yours?

I think I would want to be a ghost so i could fuck with people ya

Anonymous said: Does the Natilie hair need to be updated?

Nope, all the updated stuff is in my post that lists all the updated content off. Everything on my download page is up to date.

Anonymous said: Hi im just submitting an idea if you want to - i love your melanie hair and i was wondering if its possible to remove the accessory on it? im sorry if im bothering you im new to all this hope you have a nice day!!

hey :) I am pretty sure someone had to have made a hair similar to that already as it’s just the university ponytail with new ponytail on it. If not I could look into doing it sometime in the future.

Anonymous said:I LOVE U 😍

and i love u

Anonymous said: Do you know if there’s any hair accessories (like ones that change the color of it) that work with your Elli Hair? ❤️

It comes with an accessory that changes the elastic :)

Anonymous said: Hellooo! first of all, how are you? how´s your day? i´m sorry but, do you know if someone makes maxis match hairs based in kpop videos? I´m searching for that bull all i can find is alpha hair and i´m not into alpha cc :( Thank you very much! have a great day!

I’m not sure if there are people that specifically only do that but I think there are a handful of creators that get inspired from kpop/music videos and make hairs similar to that. Cause we use EA meshes most of the time the hairs aren’t going to look exactly like the inspiration though. Like I have two hairs that are based off Go Won from loona (Go Won hair and Kelsey Hair) but i don’t think you can tell that just from looking at them.

Anonymous said: I downloaded the new version of the sydnie braids but my game says they're corrupted and won't let me play with them in my mods folder

try to redownload and they should work, I haven’t had any other issues.

Anonymous said: hey, i was just wondering whether you did or are thinking of doing eyelashes at any point

I am not lmao I don’t think I would be able to make my own eyelashes

Anonymous said: you are incredibly prolific. constantly amazed and delighted by your high-quality work. have a good day king

thank you!!!!

Anonymous said: aaaahh I know this is probably a long shot but I was wondering if you had the quartz eyes psd? I've been trying to find it but all of the links I've stumbled onto are dead :( thank you in advance!! ♥️ and no problem if you don't have it or can't share it :)

here is a link to a post that has the PSD

Anonymous said: the mica hair looks so cute 🥺 you’re amazing

thank you! It’s named after the main singer from Magdalena Bay ;n; i love them

@whendowestopcaring said: I love, love, love your work!! + your blog, aesthetic, etc. Keep it up!

thank you!!!! pink and blue all the way bb

@marsupialmother said: Not an ask, just a comment. All you stuff is so beautiful. Thank you for being such an amazing creator!!!

no, thank you for sending me this! I appreciate it a ton <3 have a wonderful day

Anonymous said: How long have you been creating CCs for?

I recolored a get together cardigan in Dec 2015 and started making hair in November of 2016 to promote Britney Spears lmao. So around 4-5 years.

Anonymous said: hi!! just wanted to say i love the item index download option! thank you for your awesome cc and organization :)

You’re welcome! item indexes make things so much easier I agree, happy to help simplify things for downloaders. also they look nice so that’s a plus for me.

Anonymous said: i love your cc, they are really beautiful but can you do more male hair cc? im just asking

I prefer doing female stuff tbh, I feel like I’m better at it and I get more ideas. But i did 4 male hairs in this upcoming AxA 2020 pack and a bunch of male clothes. I’m sorry I can’t do more :( I just don’t get inspired to make much male stuff personally.

Anonymous said: what happened to Ayoshi???

he’s in the basement working on AxA, don’t ask. he actually just doesn’t like being on Simblr anymore but still likes making CC with me, so we just make cc on call sometimes when we get bored of a game we’re playing. he sends his regards from the basement of AH00B studios <3

Anonymous said: hello i love all your cc and you’re my favorite creator, i have a question, are you planning to make some more clothes anytime soon?

getting these while working on AxA was so funny because there are like 80 new clothes for male/female sims in it and i was like... these people don’t know what they have coming their way. thank you!

Anonymous said: 💃 How you make all your item index for your pack and collab? 💃

I make mine in Word using tables and then save as PDF. Here’s a peak at the AxA 2020 one

Anonymous said: am i on drugs or have u uploaded an eco lifestyle kids dress conversion? i remember seeing it so vividly, (the zip up kids dress), but maybe it was another creator... lol

I think that was from grimcookies! Here is a link to his eco lifestyle add on set that he made.

Anonymous said: would you happen to know how to get rid of the weird gloss that can be on some cc hairs?

if you download Sims4Studio and open the package you can make the specular blank but that could cause issues in your game if you play on certain graphic settings. So do it with caution.

Anonymous said: Awww we have very similar life aspirations, I just want a boring/calm life, settle down with a wife (I'm a lesbian) and become an lit teacher.

yup yup boring lifes are where it’s at. Like i just want something simple lmao if I wanted exciting I wouldn’t do teaching.

Anonymous said: hi! i hope youre doing well! could you please tell me wcif the two toned jeans on the sim in your eco lifestyle addon collection?

They’re in AxA 2020! We have had so much of the stuff done for a while so i’ve been using it in previews for a while lmao.

Anonymous said: WAIT is the Love Bomb palette named after the Fromis_9 song???

yessss ayoshi is their #1 fan

#asks #peak of axa index in here

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Grimsby pt. 5

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Declan greeted us with an “Oi, lads” as he walked past us to the kitchen. He took me completely by surprise. The beer, the weed, the fatigue, the everything had me zone out and only concentrate on what was immediately in front of me. The beer, the weed, the heat and smell of big Jace next to me, and the FIFA game I was slowly losing. I had completely forgotten the possibility of Declan. He returned from the kitchen, Stella in one hand and a Lidl bag in the other.

“O'Rourke down at 2 lit the grill. I bought some bangers for us. You coming Jace?” “Always”

He threw down the controller on the table and got up. I still wasn’t grasping what was going down. Jace looked down at me as I aimlessly was moving my team around while trying to comprehend what was happening.

“You’ll lose. Come.”

I accepted what he told me, pressed pause and got up to join them outside. The afternoon sun made everything too hot and too bright, after smoking weed in front of the TV for hours. Jace and Declan talked about something as we walked down the street to number two. I was too buzzed to try to comprehend. I could see a small group standing at the end of the street, in front of us. They looked young, all dressed similar to us, perhaps with less shirts on, and everyone holding a can or a bottle in one hand.

“I got one left” “What?”

I looked at Declan, followed his eyes towards his hand. He was holding out a nicotine patch towards me. I took it, removed the package and stuck it up inside my T-shirt, somewhere on the chest. Fuck, I’m still wearing the track suite from work, I realized. The one that didn’t smell like weed. Didn’t.

“This is Chayse. Lives in 10. He’s cool” “Cheers mate!”

I took a swig out of the bottle of blue wkd in my hand and nod towards the group. Where the fuck did I get that from? Who drinks that kiddie stuff? Just how fucked up am I, really? If they could tell I was high as a kite, which of course they could, they didn’t appear to give a fuck. Everyone was busy chatting, having a beer and whatever else they were doing. This wasn’t so much a party as it was a bunch of lads having a beers on the street, spilling out into the main road. A white, plastic outdoor chair was placed outside the door of number 2. An extension cord snaked its way from the house and was draped over the arm rest, with nothing plugged in. The BBQ setup turned out to be a couple of single use grills, coal on aluminium trays, probably bought at the nearest petrol station. Declan got a pack of vacuum packed hot dogs from his Lidl bag, tore it open, and dumped the sausages on one grill. One of the unfamiliar guys I’d just greeted turned towards me.

“Aight, did you catch Chelsea Arsenal?” “Of course”

It was one of the games I watched with Declan, and I wasn’t even drunk or debilitatingly high, like now, when I did it. I even remembered some of what the commentators said.

“What you think about the first score?” “It was his first for the season, was it?” “Was it? You might be right, mate. What’d you think about it?” “I can’t even describe it.” “With you, mate. Fucking epic doesn’t cut it”

I shocked myself that I could string together some commentary fragments with empty statements and pass them along as conversation. Not wanting to press my luck I tried to be as agreeable as possible through all the footie talk.

“Oi! Bun!”

Declan threw a hot dog bum at me, which I didn’t catch, but quickly scooped up from the ground. Not trusting my dexterity I put down my blue wkd next to the plastic chair. I stepped over to the grill and grabbed one of Dec’s sausages in the bun. I realized I was starving, as I bit into the hot dog.

“This is fucking great, mate!” “Lidl deluxe onion pork bang. Best there is. Farewell bang, innit” “You’re leaving?” “Want to beat the traffic. It’s been fun.”

I didn’t know what to feel. Most of all I was annoyed he’d drop the news on me like five minutes before he’d drive away. Communication wasn’t his thing though. But it felt like I was going to miss him. Without him I was back to knowing no one here. No, I knew Jace, I immediately realized. It’s like a relay, where I’m handed over, moving further and further away from where I started. Declan didn’t know who I was, but he knew I wasn’t Chayse Brown, at least not this version. Jace only knew what I was now.

Someone from the group took a seat in the white plastic chair, and another one connected a clipper to the extension and started to buzz his head. I couldn’t see a difference, as it was short to start with.

“Hey, Declan. Thanks for everything.” “Safe. Keep your phone charged.”

He walked away towards the car, stella in hand. I stepped back to the chair and grabbed the blue bottle. I took a swig out of it, and almost choked on my big gulp. It wasn’t my blue wkd but something far stronger. I looked at the label and saw a bottle of MD 20/20 blue raspberry. Still fucked up, apparently, because those bottles are nothing alike.

“Hey, are you stealing my shit!” shouted the boy in the chair, jumped up and started to puff his chest. “No, I’m... mistaken” “It fucking looks like you are stealing.” he was staring right at me, just inches away when he suddenly relaxed. “I’m just messing with you. That is yours?” he pointed at the blue wkd still standing next to the chair. “Yeah, I think so.” “Here, take over from Liam” “I don’t know how to... I’ve never used a clipper before.” “Nothing to it. Just move it around until it looks even.”

Liam handed over the clipper to me as the boy got back in the chair. He was right. There was nothing to it. In a few more strokes, though probably much slower than proper, he looked “even”. Not that I would know.

“Here, take a seat and I’ll fresh you up for Friday. Yours looks pretty mint, but I’ll fresh the sides for you.”

I had no idea what he meant, but took a seat to go with the flow. He lathered the sides of my head all around with shaving foam, and then picked up a Gilette razor from a kitchen plate and started to shave my head. It was all bizarre to me.

“You do this a lot?” “What?” “Hairdressing” “Just taking turns freshing up the lads for Friday. It happens.”

Someone new came up to me and stuck a can of Fosters in my hand. “Oi. I’m Connor”

I could feel the headache pulsate with my heartbeat as UK Bounce blared out of the phone’s alarm app. I was in my bed, no, on my bed, again without remembering getting there, and fully dressed. I would take the bus to the dock, I already knew that. Should I snooze or bother with a shower?

As I walked to the bathroom the door to the second bedroom was open, and I was reminded that Declan left yesterday. I wondered if he brought the plastic bag with my old clothes with him, or if he had already binned them. I looked into the room. A couch and a cheap home gym. I’d forgotten that it was even here, since I hadn’t looked into the room since the first day. Fuck, that was only days ago.

My eyes were red and I looked like I was decomposing. By contrast my skull was shiny, like a doorknob with a round little carpet on top. The slits in the eyebrow were more pronounced too. Apparently someone touched them up, though I had no memory of it. What was the name of the guy? Liam?

I took a shower, and some of the magic was back. It felt so good. I was hoping that some 3-in-1 would wash off some grease, and make me less shiny. I didn’t really do much, but then the people at the dock didn’t appear to give much of a fuck. I put on the the clothes I had on me when I entered the bathroom, lit a cigarette, and left the house. I felt like a zombie shuffling to the bus stop in the morning darkness.

I’d finished my cigarette by the time I got there, but still craved more, so I lit another one and inhaled deep. Why didn’t I bring a morning beer? Because that’s not what actual humans do, a little voice in my head whispered. Still, would have been fucking nice right now. Luckily the bus peeked around the corner, so I didn’t have to wait for long. I should probably learn the time table.

There were a few people on the bus, but not many. They were all staring like I wasn’t welcome. I guess I didn’t look my best after what I’ve been through. Saturday couldn’t come fast enough. I decided to sit at the back to avoid the glares of people. It wasn’t until I was just about to stomp out my cig I realized I was smoking on the bus. Fuck. And no one told me not to, not even the driver. In fact, I just realized, I hadn’t even paid fare. Why didn’t he tell me?

One glance at my reflection in the bus window, and I had my answer. I looked like trouble, and he didn’t want any. I felt guilty all the way to the dock, and plonked down two pounds at the driver as I exited the bus. Regardless what Liam, or whatever, said I did not intend to become a thief.

Drudge time.

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jaybug-jabbers · 3 years

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All-Glitch Pokemon Blue Run Pt11: On the Road to Glitch City

June,

If you plan on experimenting further with hybrids, please inform me first. One wrong step and you could wind up with an entire box of hybrids by mistake, everyone a huge, fused mess. That said, I’m glad you find utility with your new Parasect.

On to a new topic, there’s a very exciting new destination I have in mind for you. Tell me . . . have you ever heard of Glitch City?

In Fuscia City, there is a gateway to this place. I’m attaching directions you’ll need to follow in order to get there. I’d like you to explore and try to create a map of this place. Very little is known about Glitch City, and what secrets it might hold. Be sure to watch your step and keep your wits about you.

-Professor Gingko

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Professor,

After I cleared the Snorlax out of the path and reached Fuscia City, I followed your instructions. I entered the Safari Zone, then saved the data on my Glitchdex and rebooted the system, and went back to the Safari Zone’s main gate. I have no idea how the man working the front counter didn’t recognize me, as he only let me in a few minutes ago. I also can’t begin to imagine how he was trying to charge me for entering the park when I was already inside. But I poliely declined his offer to charge me for re-entering the park, and so he guided me instead to the exit.

Once out and on my own, I poisoned the sole pokemon in my party and then took 499 steps as you described, and ended my final step hopping over a ledge. Just as you predicted, the Safari Zone man intterupted me to drag me back to their central gate. They apologized for the confusion, and told me that my allotted time had passed and my Safari Zone game was now complete. You were right-- the staff here are pretty incompetent, as it turns out.

But I did not leave their front gate immediately. Instead, I waited until my poor pokemon fainted from poisoning, as you told me to. Then I felt the familiar blackness descend upon my consciousness as I blacked out in sympathy for my own pokemon.

As unpleasant as all that was, when I woke up again, it was with the newfound powers you predicted I would have: the ability to walk through walls. This wasn’t like before, with the glitch item you called “Rival’s Effect.” This was far more powerful. I could walk anywhere, without limits. It was crazy! How could messing about with the incompetent staff at the Safari Zone lead to the ability to walk through walls?

I wandered for quite some time in this state, until I ended up back in Cerulean City. I have to say, with this new ability, some discoveries were pretty disappointing.

Bill’s Garden, for example. I heard the locals whisper all sorts of rumors about it, about the place being huge and lush and absolutely filled with rare pokemon. I even heard one person claim Bill had a private runway and a jet parked back there, which he used to fly to exotic cities full of powerful, rare pokemon. Yet . . . when I snuck back there, all I found was a very small and almost barren backyard.

That said, not all discoveries were disappointments. Because as I was exploring Cerulean, I came across the very thing you wished me to find: Glitch City.

My starting point was right here, beside the Nugget Bridge. All I did was begin walking right. And kept walking. After a nice long jog across plain rock and dirt, I reached some water; the moment I did, I began to jog south. And, with enough walking, I finally reached the city.

The city was full of vast tracts of what I guessed were apartment complexes, spanning for what seemed like miles. However, I could not enter these buildings, as they were all locked up tight; and there was nobody to be found. Glitch City seemed to be an enormous ghost town. Growing among the flowers were strange plants that looked like letters or numbers, and the paths and roads were often torn up. I would sometimes come across small pools of water, and other times I would find cave entrances, but the caves were sadly always blocked with rocks, preventing my access.

I would even, at times, find patches of taller grass growing. Now, you would expect that in a place like Glitch City, it would be teeming with glitch pokemon. Indeed, I might even guess the origin of all glitch pokemon might be this place. Yet, when I searched the tall grass and fished in the pools of water, and I did encounter pokemon, they were all seemingly normal. I captured them just fine, but they seemed no different from the ordinary, everyday pokemon you can find. Considering their twisted, distorted surroundings, and the almost haunted looking landscape, that felt very counter-intuitive.

I began to make a map as you suggested while I travelled, and I soon realized that Glitch City is absolutely enormous. What’s more, it’s incredibly easy to get lost there. The land will even sometimes shift and mutate on its own. Despite this fact, I am sending you my best attempt at a map. Just follow this link here. It meant snapping many, many photos, but the end result should give you an idea of what Glitch City looks like. As you can tell, the sheer number of buildings is incredible. Glitch City is a packed metropolis, only occasionally interrupted by ponds, plantlife, caves, and the fields of strange numbers.

Yet I still cannot find any people living in this expansive city. I don’t know what to make of it. Do you have any ideas about this, Professor? Where might I find the locals of this place-- and the glitch pokemon, for that matter?

-June

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June,

I must praise you for your efforts in mapping out the Glitch City you have explored. The map is both detailed and very extensive. Excellent work.

What we know of Glitch City is that it can be found when there is a disturbance in our universe. When you passed through that disturbance near the Nugget Bridge, you ended up in a parallell universe of sorts. I cannot say where the denizens of that universe are and why their city seems abandoned, but I can tell you there are multiple Glitch Cities that can be found. The one you explored is but one of many.

If you’d like to find some people who seem to be native to a glitchy universe, though, I might have a solution for you. Instead of finding them in a Glitch City, you might find them in our world, after performing the Ditto Trick. I will send further details for you soon, but for now, I recommend finishing your Glitch City explorations.

-Professor Gingko

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Professor,

Thanks for the insight. Actually, I have something else to report now.

I teleported back to somewhere familiar and began a new exploration, still with my walk through walls ability. I just had to return to Pallet Town and see something for myself.

The last time I tried to reach the fields of grass outside of Pallet Town’s walls, I had passed out. I wasn’t going to repeat that mistake. Instead, I went to this point in Viridian City. Then I passed through this wooden fence and walked south.

And I did it. I was in the fields. For some reason, approaching from this direction was a lot safer. I have to say, though, there wasn’t actually anything all that scary out there. The pokemon in the grass were the usual low-level Pidgeys and Rattatas and such. All the same, it felt good to finally know for sure.

But then I decided to walk east. And things got a little weird. As I walked east, I found a town . . . exactly like Pallet Town.

There was nobody there. It was just an exact clone of my home. Down to the very last brick, just entirely empty. I can’t begin to explain how creepy it felt. Why was there a ghost town out here that looked exactly like Pallet Town? I kept walking right and found another one . . . and then another one. Each town seemed to be shifted up a little as I walked through them, but otherwise, they were all exactly the same.

Are these . . . parallel universes, like you said, Professor? If so, what happened to the people?

-June

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End Notes

* How to set up the Walk-Through-Walls glitch

* Detailed video about walking out of bounds

* You can also access a Wrong Warp Glitch City by wasting your Safari Zone steps on a route with no valid ‘warp 4′ points, and thus immerge from the Safari Zone gate into a glitched version of that route. This is a bit easier to set up than the WtW version, but it also means you’re very limited in how much you can move around.

Click for the next part of the series!

This is a repost on a new blog. The original post was on Dec 6, 2019.

#pokemon #glitch pokemon #pokemon glitching #glitch run #mycontent #pokemon playthroughs

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mikami · 5 years

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Death Note Audio Drama 02

Disk 2: Collateral Damage - a summary / partial translation

Disk 1 and an attempted explanation of What This Is are here.

This episode also isn’t particularly wild as far as plot diversion goes, but it changes a key element of how Death Note manipulation works and.... introduces a whole lot of Matsuda trivia, somehow. We also say hi and bye to Naomi.

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We begin with Naomi tracking down the bus driver of the busjacking. The driver is really annoyed that people keep tracking him down to ask him about it. Naomi asks about Raye. (Her vacation pic is from Honolulu in this version). Naomi presses the driver to tell her as much as he remembers about the other passengers.

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TITLE MUSIC PLAYS

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We’re back in time. Light is trying to think about how to get Raye Penber’s name. His dad’s computer has no notes about it. Light deduces that his dad doesn’t even know about the tailing. Ryuk brings up the eye deal.

RYUK: I can offer you the eyes of a shinigami.

LIGHT: U-uh, you mean a real pair of eyes? That’s disgusting!!

RYUK (amused): No, I just mean the power of those eyes.

The lifespan halving gets brought up and Light just goes “uhm... no thanks”, literally.

LIGHT: Are there any more surprises? Some kind of bonus point system? Fine print?

RYUK: Uuuuuhm, can’t think of anything much right now.

LIGHT: You could have written it into the Death Note, alongside the other rules. I don’t like to be led by the nose, I’m not your goddamn----

RYUK: ... what?

LIGHT: I am not your puppet.... But I can get one for myself.

RYUK: I don’t get it.

LIGHT: I know now, how to get my pursuer’s name. And that’s without making any kind of contract with you.

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A TV transmission. An attorney has issued a lawsuit against prisons for the way prisoners die. His client died of heart attack after writing a pentagram in his own blood. He was close to being pardoned. The lawyer says that the government has a duty to ensure safety of the prisoners, no matter what they are in for.

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L and Soichiro discuss the murder and other abnormal murders like it. They have Soichiro be the one to discover the “L did you know” message, oddly. But they don’t really detail how it is coded, so it might have just literally been written down word by word in this version. L tells Soichiro to not tell anyone about this, not even his team. Soichiro immediately says he’ll only keep it in her personal data files.......

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RYUK: Are you really sure you should snoop around your dad’s office like this?

LIGHT: If you want a useful way to keep your eyes busy, why don’t you keep watch?

RYUK: I am not your partner. Oh, an apple. [eats]

LIGHT: Luckily, I can do just fine without your help. A-ha! Interpol listed them all!

RYUK: All your extremely dramatic deaths?

LIGHT: More or less. Seems like not all I wrote into the notebook actually happened.

They go over the stipulations of manipulation needing to be physically doable for the victim.

LIGHT: And now I just need... a catalyst.

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News transmission. A news entry about the killer of the Amane parents having died. Channel switch. A Christmas-themed advertisement for Space Land. Channel Switch. A news feature about Kiichiro Osoreda and his failed bank robbing.

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Light meets Yuri and Yuri’s dialogue is kept pretty accurate to the manga, which is something that I found really disappointing actually. Light’s and Ryuk’s dialogue here is also very close to the original.

Raye Penber complains that he’d like to do real policework at some point again, otherwise he acts the same as in the manga here.

The whole busjacking is just really manga-close. But when Raye says he’s police undercover...

LIGHT: Oh, really? And how do I know you’re not in cahoots with this madman?

PENBER: And who are you? A detective?

YURI: His dad is a detective, that’s why he’s so smart.

LIGHT: Do you have ID? Otherwise I’ll have to deal with you first.

PENBER: Of course! Here.

LIGHT: Raye Penber... FBI? What is the FBI doing on a bus to Space Land?

PENBER: This isn’t really the time for that, boy.

LIGHT: Alright, cowboy, then toss your lasso already.

I cannot overstate that he literally says this. Word by word. After that, the scene returns to its canon version. The bizarre thing is that Ryuk explains the plan out loud, including telling Light’s name to Otoharada. Of course, Otoharada is brainwashed and acting according to script, but still weird.

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News transmission. The busjacking gets described. Light turns the news off and shows the Death Note entry to Ryuk, who reads it out loud.

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We hear a New Year’s countdown.

WATARI: What in Hercules’ name was that?

INTERPOL REP (still clinking champagne glasses): It’s the time difference, Mr. Watari! It’s midnight, here in the USA.

WATARI: Oh... I am so very sorry. I must have lost my overview.

INTERPOL REP: Forget about it. Just a moment.

She leaves the party room. She informs Watari of the deceased FBI agents. It happened three days ago, but she only got the report now, thanks to the holiday crunch. She now refuses to involve the FBI further.

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Soichiro calls L. He’s pissed about L involving the FBI, now that he’s heard.

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Back with Watari and the Interpol Rep (her name is Paula Virilio and she’ll be referred to as Virilio in the future) are still talking about the matter. She tells Watari that on Dec 28th all the agents asked about names and photos of their coworkers, so she gave the first four the file and asked them to pass it further.

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Soichiro is really mad about Virilio’s miss-step too. L and Soichiro work out that they need to know who sent the first email about the files. The phone call ends.

The Task Force is really mad about L still not taking the same risks as them. They actually seriously consider L being Kira for a moment.

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The Task Force enter the hotel L is staying in. Pardon me for sometimes just saying ‘someone’ as the speaker, I find the Task Force really hard to tell about and without context cues I am often lost.

MATSUDA: A whole hotel suite? How do you earn the money for this stuff?

L: By being smarter than everyone else, Detective Matsuda.

MATSUDA: You are... [He corrects himself from the formal ‘you’ used to address adults to informal ‘you’ here] You are L....?

L: The one. Please sit down, gentlemen.

MATSUDA: He’s still a child...

L (laughs): I am old enough to vote, Mr. Matsuda. Old enough to carry a weapon, to marry, to fall in love... and to catch a murderer. And you are Chief Inspector Yagami. I also know you from TV.

SOICHIRO: Yes, here’s my ID, for protocol. This is Matsuda, as you know. Detectives Aizawa, Ukita, Mogi...

L: A group of dead men.

SOICHIRO: Excuse me, what?

L: If I really was Kira, you’d all be dead now.

MATSUDA: How can we know that, boy?

L: Because you are not dead, detective.

MATSUDA: We call that kind of thing circular logic.

L: I call someone like you an idiot.

MATSUDA: I don’t need to listen to this from a civilian, you little shitty---

SOICHIRO (softly): Matsuda.

L: You name is Touta Matsuda. Graduated from Kumamoto University. Passion for sports cars and every Thursday, you go to the cinema. Big drama. Not in a relationship right now, but in pining hope for something complicated with Noriko Takai. Hm. A very concerning sympathy for both [???? I DONT KNOW THE WORD] as well as country music. Loves Korean cuisine, but....

SOMEONE: He’s got your number, Matsuda.

MATSUDA: So what? You all can easily figure out the same from social media.

L: Yeah, that’s what I can do. Everything. About you, and your sister, and your stupid aunt who doesn’t know how to properly set the privacy settings of her account. I know where you live, you tool--

SOICHIRO: I think we got it, L.

L: Really? Kira plays this game to win. I agreed to meet you, because you were all getting nervous about working with an anonymous specialist, so I am here. To get my hands as dirty as yours. But really, is this necessary...?

SOICHIRO: What do you want, L?

L: I want you to take this seriously.

SOMEONE: In the face of 12 dead agents, matters are serious enough, I think.

L: Correct, so you take care to not become number 13. All of you have to disappear. Get off social media, get new email accounts. If you address the public or the press, you will introduce yourself with these names. You are not going to tell anyone your real names. That’s exactly why I am still alive.

And this is how we get the fake IDs.

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Naomi at the NPA. The receptionist refuses to let her speak to anybody from the Task Force. Light steps in, to hand in the spare clothes for his dad. His dialogue with Naomi is similar to the manga, but audio drama Light’s insistence and volunteering of excessively much info he shouldn’t have.... it makes me laugh.

LIGHT: And you are looking for my father?

NAOMI: Uh, yeah, I--

LIGHT: I can tell you’re up to speed, miss. You’re definitely correct to not just tell your matter to the next best person. Especially after those FBI murders. We’re all suspects, am I right?

NAOMI: U-uh, I didn’t say that---

LIGHT: If you’d like, I’d gladly get you in contact with my father. I’ll get through to him, even if he usually rejects calls.

RYUK: Take the bait, missy, take it...

NAOMI: Would that be alright, u-uh, Light?

RYUK: Aaand, bullseye!

LIGHT: Why don’t we take this conversation somewhere else?

RYUK: There’s just too many video cams here.

LIGHT: As long as we don’t know how Kira kills his victims, I’d suggest a less public place.

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LIGHT: Okay, where were we? My name is Yagami. Light Yagami.

NAOMI: Shouko Maki.

RYUK: And my name is Ryuk, but you’re not actually able to see or hear me.

LIGHT: I think Kira is capable of more than simply killing people. It seems as if he could influence their actions before their deaths.

NAOMI: I think the same. And here I thought I was alone with it. Yes, he can control people before he kills them. But that’s not all. He can also kill them through other means than heart attacks.

RYUK: Who is this little snooper?

LIGHT: Should that be the case, we might be facing even more murders than thought. There are cases that haven’t been considered in connection to Kira yet.

NAOMI: Exactly. Those might be cases Kira hoped would stay secret. I am fairly sure that someone... someone I know... has met Kira.

LIGHT: Hah. It might be hard to get someone to believe this statement.

NAOMI: That’s why I came in person to explain the circumstances of the case.

LIGHT: Wouldn’t it be even more convincing if your friend told his own story?

NAOMI: He can’t. He was one of the murdered agents.

RYUK: Oh, now it’s getting interesting.

NAOMI: He was my fiancé. He told me that he got involved in this busjacking. By now, I assume that Kira was on that bus as well.

RYUK: She’s talking about Raye Penber, wow.

NAOMI: Something wrong?

LIGHT: Why are you assuming that Kira was on the bus?

NAOMI: Name and face of the culprit were on the media day by day. He was on the run after a totally miscalculated bank robbing. And then, 8 days later, shortly after Christmas... My fiancé dies. Together with his 11 colleagues.

LIGHT: The connection seems vague to me.

RYUK: What he wants to say is.... perfect match.

NAOMI: Something must have happened there. I think that my fiancé and the culprit were used by Kira to get to the other 11 agents.

LIGHT: The culprit was hit by a car, it wasn’t a heart attack. This is how you got to the conclusion that Kira can control actions?

NAOMI: Yes.

LIGHT: That seems pretty far fetched.

RYUK: It really isn’t, lady.

NAOMI: Even the first time I heard of the busjacking, the circumstances seemed strange to me. I kept asking my fiancé questions, I basically interrogated him to tell me the story again and again.

LIGHT: And... what was his story?

______

We flash back to Naomi and Raye talking. Both of their voices are tense.

RAYE: Yes, I showed my ID to one of the passengers, okay?! Are you happy now?

NAOMI: You shouldn’t have done that!

RAYE: I know that! It was complicated. The guy wouldn’t have cooperated without me proving that I’m a cop.

NAOMI: You were undercover, Raye!

RAYE: Stop that! You weren’t there.

NAOMI: You had explicit order to not blow your cover.

RAYE: And you are the only person who knows I have done that. If you don’t tell anybody, nobody will ever know.

NAOMI: But I am not the only one. Isn’t that right? We still don’t know how Kira finds and executes his victims. You can’t afford even a single misstep.

RAYE: You’d probably prefer he’d shot all the passengers then.

NAOMI: Ugh, Raye, that’s not the point---

RAYE (hitting the table): Of course that is exactly the point!!

______

LIGHT: This whole situation isn’t free of emotions.

NAOMI: So?

LIGHT: I just want to make sure your feelings aren’t influencing your analysis skills.

RYUK: Which are working quite excellently.

NAOMI: Hey, you. I was a special agent with several decorations before I gave up my career to marry Raye. I’m not just some random brat.

LIGHT: I agree with you, the suspicion warrants a closer inspection.

They keep talking, Light himself brings out the deduction that the person Raye identified himself to was Kira.

______

We’re with Ukita on phone duty. Someone who thinks they are Kira is calling. Ukita is already pretty annoyed, even before the guy talks of other hallucinations. He hangs up quickly.

_______

SOICHIRO: is it important?

MATSUDA: No, boss. Ukita is just whining again. He doesn’t want to be on phone duty anymore. He texted: “When do I get a hotel suite with 24/7 room service?”

SOMEONE: Does he think we’re just chilling here?

SOMEONE: Probably. Uhm, do you want the final shrimp?

SOMEONE: Take it.

They then move on to talk about surveillance footage of the FBI agent deaths. They have footage from 3 deaths, one of them is Raye Penber. They have the most material on him. They realize he’s done more than a full round on the Yamanote line. They also notice him having an envelope that disappears. They conclude Kira was on the train, receiving it.

______

Light makes his first attempt to kill Naomi, same cause of death as in the manga. Naomi wants to go back to the NPA building now. Light comes with her, as he notices she isn’t dying.

_____

Ukita on the phone again. Akiko Misora is calling about her daughter Naomi being misses. Ukita is pretty annoyed (”Oh really? Was she kidnapped by aliens or something?”). Akiko explains that Naomi came to Japan with her fiancé, but he died and shortly after Naomi also fell out of contact. Akiko complains about how much paperwork getting the ashes to the US was, and says how charming Raye was and how good his Japanese was...... Ukita wants to get rid of her, until Akiko tells him Raye’s name.

____

The Task Force discusses Naomi’s existence and disappearance. She left her hotel at Dec. 29th and has been missing since. They all suspect that Naomi, being an ex-agent, has started her own investigation. But they also worry someone found her.

_____

Light explains to Naomi that the Kira team doesn’t meet with people on principle, because of the risk. He calls them ‘us’ and Naomi picks up on it, leading Light to explain he is a member of the task force. (Ryuk: “And if you believed that one, you might as well buy a fake Rolex of him now.”) Light invites Naomi to the team, like in the manga. Naomi does a lot of nervous laughing in this scene, but she does give him her real ID.

______

The task force think about Naomi, and her existence in connection to Raye being the first one to send an email to Virilio. They decide to place cameras and bugs in the houses of those who were investigated by Raye. It’s the families of Kitamura and Yagami.

______

Light writes Naomi’s name down again, this time her real one. They walk together some more. Light points out that Naomi doesn’t just want to investigate but also to hear the full story about Raye’s death.

NAOMI: I already knew on the day of that something was wrong. Raye was acting really strangely. He got up and left, without a word. He even forgot his cellphone.

LIGHT: Oh, is that unusual?

NAOMI: I followed him downstairs. He was at the reception and made them print something for him. I gave his phone to him, but he said nothing at all. He was so.. empty.

LIGHT: Distracted?

NAOMI: ... empty. Not a smile, not a kiss. He took the phone and left. At the time I still thought ‘well, maybe an order’. Next thing you know, the police arrives at the hotel. Asked me to come with them... identify the body. I have no idea what happened in the final hours of his life.

LIGHT: I do. I know the details of Raye Penber’s death down to the very last second.

NAOMI: I haven’t even told you his full name yet...

LIGHT: He entered the station via the west entrance. Past the street musician who always plays there. He passed the ticket entrance at 11 past 3. He went down to the Yamanote line, in the direction of Kanda.

NAOMI: I don’t understand... That’s only too stations if you directly take the Chuo line. Why this giant detour?

LIGHT: Because someone was waiting for him. The Yamanote line is the perfect place for a meeting. It has stops everywhere and nowhere.

_____

We launch into a flashback to the Yamanote line. Light walks up to Raye and greets him, but Raye does not answer him. Light introduces himself at more depth, even using his full name and calling himself Kira right after. Raye continues to not answer. Ryuk realizes that Raye cannot answer because that is how Light has written it down. Light keeps chatting, explaining his plan to Raye. On the train, he makes Raye watch as he writes the names of all his colleagues. He also touches Raye with the notebook, to let him see Ryuk. Raye can’t do anything.

____

LIGHT: Well, Naomi, I’m afraid Raye was just sitting there. His eyes widened a little. Panicked, you know?

RYUK: Yes, panic just about cuts it. Just like the face you are making right now, darling.

LIGHT: But he couldn’t move. Just like you right now. I was quite precise with my orders, you see?

Light continues to explain that he needed the names of the other agents and that he can do anything to people whose names he has.

_____

The task force discusses the family surveillance further. Light says the chance of Kira being among those people is 5%, but this is their only lead. Soichiro tells L to be thorough with his surveillance, like in the manga.

_____

LIGHT: All Raye could do was sit there until the time was ripe. And then get up...

RYUK: Without a word, Naomi. Silent like a fish.

LIGHT: And he left the train at Kanda station.

RYUK: And then he died.

LIGHT: Right on the platform, so to say.

RYUK: He extended his hand like in a bad movie. As if he wanted to say ‘I am cursing you’ or something.

LIGHT: And thus, Raye Penber died. I find it regrettable.

RYUK: Because he wasn’t a murderer. Which you also aren’t, Naomi. Just wrong place, wrong time... Collateral damage.

LIGHT: But I think you understand, Naomi, that I can’t leave you alive, if I want to keep working. I know you want to move, to hit me. I know that you wish above all else to take the gun out of your pocket. But none of that will happen, because I already put your final moments into motion. And that means I’m the one who’s in power here.

Ryuk asks what she’ll do. Light explains that he wrote the same conditions as on the first try, about her suicide.

LIGHT: So Naomi, I think you know what to do. Now go.

RYUK: And there she went. A woman with a mission.

LIGHT: Hey, Naomi! Want me to call my dad? Still want to talk to him, tell him everything you learned today? Hm? .... and she just keeps walking.

RYUK: She didn’t even say goodbye. I hope it was worth it. This new direction you’ve taken, it’s going to change everything.

LIGHT: What new direction?

RYUK: Now you’re no longer simply a criminal. You’re a police killer.

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s7-evermore · 4 years

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Early Morning Eve

Minori woke up in the dark morning of Christmas Eve. She didn't know how exactly. One minute she was asleep, the next minute she found herself staring blankly at the ceiling hanging above her head, well and wide awake. She just couldn't sleep anymore.

The curtains blocked a good amount of the December moon's light, keeping the room dimly lit. It was eerily silent, her digital clock was yet to make a sound to signal her for the start of the day. 3:34 AM, Dec 24, Wed, it read.

She sat up, leaning on the headboard of her bed as her eyes scanned the room. Her room looked completely lifeless, a complete mess. Notes, papers, and music sheets were scattered on her desk. Books and video games she had yet to organize lay on the floor next to her empty guitar stand. Her guitar sat on her chair, taking her place on it.

The solitary silence that followed was too uncomfortable for her to bear, it made her feel empty, lonely.

She HAD to hear something. Anything.

She pressed her lips together and slid to the side of the bed, hesitantly pressing her bare feet on the cold, barren floor. A shiver ran up her spine upon contact with it, causing her to hastily wear her fuzzy, white slippers to escape it.

Her eyes hovered over a specific box that sat on her bedside table, a broken music box that had a tiny drawer, overflowing with memories. She took the box, then slipped her arms in the sleeves of her jacket and walked out of the room.

Upon stepping into the hallway, she quietly closed her door to avoid waking her housemates. She stared at Sakyo's door across from hers, then at Taichi and Omi's as she passed it, and at Banri's and Juza's.

For some reason, she found herself stopping in front of that specific door, with one of the boys in it in her mind.

Was he awake?

Her hand hovered over the door for a moment, debating whether she should knock or not. She then bit her lip and stepped away from it. It was probably better not to wake them up and bother them.

With a quiet sigh, she turned around and sauntered towards the courtyard, bathed in the moonlight. She looked up and noticed several glittering stars scattered across the inky abyss. Amidst the stars was the crescent moon, smiling down at her.

Alarmingly enough, she heard its spine-chilling laugh.

The breeze caressed her skin, causing her to shiver. This night wasn't any different than the previous ones she had.

It’s funny how the day she used to be so excited about lost its luster. As a child, even after all the things she had gone through, following the events that had led her to where she was now, Christmas no longer held its spark.

Even as December approached, the days didn't seem to get any more special. Weekends and weekdays passed as they would until the day Christmas arrived. After that, it was just another day, and the cycle repeats. Until she gets old.

She missed the days when she would get so jumpy over the holidays. She missed how special those days were to her even if they only lasted twenty-four hours, she missed how she enjoyed every minute --every second-- of it to heart's content.

She bathed in the sea of her memories. From the holidays she had with her parents, to her first Christmas with Izumi and her newfound family. The guitar she received from Izumi still sat on her chair back in the room, as clean as it was the first day she got it. Tiny scratches were evident, but they didn't stick out, much to Minori's relief.

She spent several holidays in different places, some were good, some weren't as good.

Some...were memories she'd rather just forget. They were no longer important.

But looking back at it, those 'forgotten' memories surely must have been the reason why Christmas was starting to lose its place in her heart.

As she sat down on the grass, her fingers caressed the wooden music box. The last Christmas gift her father left her.

Her father was a musician, just like her, and her mother was an actress. She reminisced through old memories of them, the happy ones. From the first Christmas she remembered to the last one they had together before everything went downhill. She remembered her father giving her a special little music box, telling her to keep it close to her heart. She often played it when she was alone in the orphanage, it made her feel a little less lonely. It was as if her father was still there, right by her side, playing the piano for her through the stillness of the night.

When it stopped playing, it felt like her father had finally left her side. Forever.

She cried that very night. The first time she heard the silence of the dark abyss. For a little girl, it might have been scary, but the more she listened to it, the more she felt lonely. Through the years, the darkness played its ballad for her every night, ceasing every candle of hope she had inside her until nothing was left.

If only things had stayed the same, then maybe she wouldn't feel the way she was now.

If only. But it was no longer a wish she wanted to be granted. They were gone, there was no need to dwell in the past. That's what she was supposed to do.

As she tried to play the music box's old melody in her mind, the sound of crickets accompanied the soft and steady footfalls that trudged its way to her side. In the corner of her eye, she saw the familiar gray jacket of Hanasaki high, a school she went to with three other boys in the Mankai dorm.

She knew who this one was. She didn't even need to look.

She always thought that Banri had a very distinctive presence. Minori felt it the moment he stepped into the Mankai Theater. It was powerful, like some sort of force entered the room, changing the atmosphere completely.

But it was somehow comforting. She felt as if he understood her emotions better than anyone did, and that thought alone made her feel a little less lonely.

"How'd you get out without waking Juza-Kun?" She broke the saturated silence with that question.

"That guy's a pretty heavy sleeper, and he probably won't hear my footsteps through his snoring."

His reply made her snicker.

Banri and Juza always had this friend-foe kind of relationship wherein they got along better when they were fighting. It showed through their performances when they were on stage for the first time. Although they somewhat "hated" each other, they respected one another as equals. She found it rather funny and endearing at the same time.

"What'cha got there?" He asked, his eyes hovering over the music box in her hands.

"An old music box." She replied in a hushed voice. "I got it as a gift from my father years ago."

"Your father? You mean the old director of Mankai?"

"No. That's Izumi-san's father. I meant my biological one." She chuckled. "I haven't really told anyone else, but I'm actually adopted."

"Ah, that explains a lot." He whispered. "You and Izumi-san don't really look alike."

"So people say." A sad smile stretched across her face for a moment before opening the music box.

Banri's brows furrowed when he didn't hear anything. "Is it broken?"

"Yeah, it's been broken for a while now..." He heard the remorseful tone in her voice as she stared down at the music box.

He then noticed a few photos in the small compartment near the clockwork mechanism.

"What are those?" He pointed at the photos. Minori pulled them out of the compartment and handed them to him.

"Old memories." She acknowledged.

He crossed his legs and looked through the photos. The photo paper had buckled as if it had been exposed to water at some point. The edges of most of them were tattered and dirtied as if someone had thrown them on the ground or stepped on them.

In one photo, he saw a younger version of Minori, smiling jubilantly alongside an older man and woman who appear to be her parents.

He could see the resemblance. She had taken to her father's heterochromatic eyes and blue-ish blonde hair, she had her mother's nose and her unique beauty. Surrounding the family of three were unwrapped presents and opened gift boxes. Behind them was a beautifully embellished Christmas tree, lined with multi-colored fairy lights that illuminated the room.

Another photo was of her playing the piano, below the photo was a caption. 'Minori, age 5. Allegro in B flat Major, K 3'. Her eyes were fluttered shut, concentrating entirely on the piece she was playing.

He looked through another one, which was a photo of her playing the violin this time, on the empty blank space underneath the photo was a caption that said 'Minori, age 6. Variation of Twinkle twinkle little star.'

The next one surprised him more though.

It was a picture of Minori underneath the spotlight of a stage. Her face expressed strong emotion and her movement was clear, even through a motionless photo. She seemed to be...acting.

He read the caption, 'On Love, starring Minori Ishihara, age 9. Second stage performance.'

"You act?" He turned his wide eyes to her.

"I used to." She responded. "My father was a talented musician, and my mother was a well-known stage actress...she used to act here in Veludo Way."

"Where is she now?"

"Who knows? I've kind of stopped caring about that six years ago." Her eyes clouded over as she stared up at the moon.

"What about your dad?"

"He and his music live with the angels." She sighed.

"...Oh." He fell silent, pondering over the mystery of her past as he looked through the photos once more.

"How'd you end up with Izumi-san?" He questioned her once more, hoping to get an answer that will satisfy his curiosity.

"She found me in the park while it was raining. I ended up passing out due to a high fever, so she and her father brought me home." She traced the pattern on the music box with her finger wistfully. "They adopted me after finding out I was an orphan."

Although he had no words to say, Banri listened to her while inspecting every emotion on her face. She spoke quite vaguely about her past, she didn't reveal any details, but she didn't hide it either. It was obvious to him that the pain she gained from it remained etched into her heart, haunting her every now and then.

It was almost hard to believe that the girl he was seeing right now was the same, happy-go-lucky girl he loved to hang out with. Just like him, Minori was a fast-learner, they made things look easy to everyone else. But unlike him, she was humble about it. She wasn't easily bored, and she made sure that the things people said were difficult became easier for them.

Her presence was warm and comforting, she had this gentleness in her personality that made others feel comfortable around her. She was very optimistic, and her smile always seemed contagious. Unlike him, her emotions were always evident in her face, she didn't try to act cool and hide them. She was genuinely honest and understanding, which made it easier for others to open up to her with their problems and worries.

Nevertheless, he realized that she never really spoke of her own problems that much, not the personal ones at least. Her past was a mystery to everyone except Izumi, the Mankai Company's Director, and her adoptive older sister.

"I get anxious every time I hear the silence of the night. I felt confined in the darkness every time I hear it." She professed, it was the first time he had heard her say something like this, "I used to open that music box every night, knowing I would feel my father's presence every time the music played. But when it stopped playing...I felt as if he was leaving me alone...again."

Moonlit grief reflected in her mismatched eyes, replacing the joyous gleam he usually saw in them. Her wild, ebullient spirit was replaced with sullenness, giving her incandescent beauty a sort of supernatural glow.

The Minori that belonged to the night.

Banri cursed himself for his silence. He bit his lip as he wracked his brain for something to say. Something that would comfort her at this moment. However, his thoughts were washed away as soon as he heard the next thing she said.

"But ever since this company came to be, I couldn't help but ignore it." A small, reminiscent smile appeared on her face as she drew in her mind all the memories she had with the members of the four troupes. "Even if those old memories make me sad, I can tell myself that I'm not alone because everyone is here. I finally have a family I can call my own.

At first, I was quite hesitant. I've been ignoring theater ever since my mom left me, I felt scared to be involved with it. But I told myself that if I could just overwrite all those sad memories, then maybe...I can see theater in a new light, and make music for it without feeling any hint of regret."

"Do you...plan on acting again?"

"Not in the future, no." She replied, "But I do wanna watch everyone acting. I want them to have fun doing it like I did back then. I suppose I'll stay off the stage instead and stick with my music."

"That's a shame. I kinda want to see you act myself." He admitted, showing her the picture of her second stage performance, "You look really good there."

"You think so?" Her lips curved upwards into an amused smile. "I'm probably not as good as I used to be."

"We can try doing a street act together for practice, you know?" He suggested. "If you wanna overwrite those old theater memories you hate so much, we've gotta make a lot of new ones for you to remember instead."

"Make a lot of new ones, huh?" She hummed in thought, "Simply making music for our productions and working as Assistant Director is enough for me."

"Not for me though." He smirked at the idea that popped into his head. He then handed over the photos back to her and stood up, extending his hand for her to take. "Come on, I'm itching to practice right now. Let's go."

The sun rose behind him, giving his chestnut hair a golden glow. The sky soon shifted from its inky color to a spectrum of hues ranging from azure to watermelon pink. His playful smile illuminated along with the rising sun, as a rush of warmth radiated from his hand, reminding her of how cold she had been.

He pulled her up to her feet and quietly ran through the halls of the Mankai dorm and into the practice room.

. . . .

"MERRY CHRISTMAS!" Cheers of ecstasy roared throughout the entire dorm as everyone clinked their glasses together. Everyone smiled from ear to ear as they exchanged gifts and cards, laughing and chattering altogether.

It was the Mankai Company's first Christmas together, and that alone made Minori feel contented.

"Minori-chan!" Kumon called out to her from his spot near the Christmas Tree. "The last present here is for you!"

"Another one?" She hopped off the kitchen counter she was sitting on and walked towards him, taking the outstretched present from him. "Who's it from?"

"It's from Banri-Kun!" He grinned.

On that signal, Banri walked next to her as she sat on the couch surrounded by the other troupes.

"That's the last gift under the tree. Go ahead and open in it." Izumi smiled at her.

Minori nodded, unraveling the scarlet red ribbon and unwrapped the green wrapping paper neatly.

Her eyes widened as she gasped in astonishment once she saw the shiny, ocean blue box sitting on her lap. The cover was decorated with a picture of a violin surrounded by musical notes and flowers.

"Woah..." She whispered under her breath, marveling at the beauty of the box. "This is..."

Upon opening the lid, a soft, gentle song filled the air as a ballerina twirled slowly along with its melody. Behind the ballerina was a circular mirror, lined with intricate swirling patterns.

But something else caught Minori's attention. On the compartment in front of the ballerina lay a bundle of photos. She picked them up with dainty hands and looked through them. The first thing she saw was a picture of her and the Spring Troupe. She remembered that particular day, it was the day of their first practice together. On the space below the photo said the specific date of the practice, she remembered it so vividly.

She looked at another photo. It was a photo with her, Izumi, and the Summer Troupe during the training camp. She smiled at how Tenma looked terrified of the fireworks that suddenly went flying all over the ground as Kazunari and Misumi laughed happily. Muku, Izumi, and Yuki smiled and laughed in the background as she took the photo. She remembered this too.

The next photo was of the Autumn Troupe's costume fitting, she stifled a giggle as she remembered that moment. Banri had his arm around her shoulder, taking the photo himself. Izumi, Taichi, and Omi squeezed in with the surprised Juza and the seemingly displeased Sakyo.

Moving on to the next one, she saw the picture she took after their win in the act off. She was sandwiched between Tsumugi and Homare as the others happily fit themselves in the frame with their Director and Assistant Director. God, she remembered the feeling of ecstasy as if it just happened yesterday.

The other photo she saw was the groupie she took during the Rookie's first training. She had the leaders of the troupes help her coach them. Izumi had left her in charge of training them for the time being due to the several meetings and errands she had to run as Director. Training the rookies was certainly fun, she learned a lot from them and about them.

The other photos she looked through were photos she knew had been taken personally by the other members. Some were selfies of her with one or some of the members, and some selfies were of her and her sister going out alone together.

But the last photo had her frozen in astonishment.

It was a picture of her and all the troupes, including the manager, their set-builder, Kamekichi, and even Yuzo himself. It was similar to a family picture, one she hadn't done in a long time.

Oh yes, she remembered that day.

It was after the closing night of their first Live Tour. Their Live tour was the best moments of her life. Singing on stage with the troupes and hearing them singing the songs she had made just for them. She had never felt so happy in her life singing her heart out with the people she loved the most. The lights were blinding, the screams were piercing, the music flowed through her heart. It was her first time singing live in front of an audience, and it was exhilarating as hell.

Her vision was slightly blurred due to the tears that glossed over her eyes. Those euphoric memories made her forget everything she had been depressed about.

"Banri-Kun..."

He cleared his throat upon hearing her choke out his name.

"Your old music box was broken. I thought I'd give you one to get you through the night..." He

implored. "You said you wanted to overwrite your bad memories of theater with new ones...I thought maybe adding those in that music box might make it more meaningful for you..."

She looked up at him, stunned.

"...Didn't want you to feel lonely at night." He said as he scratched the nape of his neck as he bashfully tore his eyes away from hers, attempting to hide the blooming blush on his cheeks.

The silence from her made him feel even more embarrassed.

"Well? Say something, will you? Do you like it or-" Before he can continue his sentence, he felt a sudden weight tugging on his body as a pair of arms circled around his neck. The smell of her cherry blossom perfume entered his nostrils as her soft, arctic-blonde hair tickled his chin.

He processed things for a moment before realizing she was actually embracing him.

She then moved her head away a bit to meet his gaze once again, she gave him a close-eyed grin as tears-- or small, beads of crystals, he'd rather call them since that's what they looked like to him-- gathered on the corners of her eyes. Her cheeks were tinted with pink, she looked the happiest he'd ever seen her.

"I love it!" She exclaimed enthusiastically. “You’re amazing, Banri-Kun!”

Bonus: Super ultra cute reaction from Minori. Mission success.

He stared at her for a moment before smirking, wrapping his arms around her waist.

"...Naturally." He said casually.

Banri felt the warmth of her body radiating on him, it made him realize that they were the closest they've ever been at that moment. He feared she might actually feel how fast his heart was beating, but if he were honest, he couldn't tell if it was his heart that was beating or hers.

Maybe both? Who knows?

"That's so unfair! How come Banny-Kun gets to have a hug from Minori-chan this Christmas?" Kazunari teased.

Oh right. They weren't alone.

"Should I hang mistletoe above them?" Tenma smirked mischievously.

"Absolutely not!" Minori exclaimed as she released herself from Banri's grip.

For some reason, he began to miss her already.

"Alright everyone, gather around. It's time to take our first ever Company Christmas Picture!" Izumi exclaimed as she set up the camera on its stand.

"Hell yeah!" Taichi cheered as he set himself in the frame. The others enthusiastically followed themselves.

Banri and Minori exchanged looks before sitting down on the couch together. As everyone settled on their positions, Minori felt an arm snake around her waist. Smiling knowingly, she moved closer to Banri and leaned closer to him before looking straight at the camera.

"Alright," Izumi held the Bluetooth remote and inserted herself in the frame, "Everyone say 'MANKAI!'"

"MANKAI!!!"

. . .

It was time for lights out as Minori walked to her bed after getting changed. She settled herself in bed and reached out to her lamp to close it. She stopped halfway, her eyes hovering over a certain, blue box she had received earlier during the Christmas party.

She moved her hands to the box, opening it ever so gently, allowing the sweet melody of the music box to fill the entire room. It formed a distinctive kind of atmosphere that settled within the room.

A small smile formed on her face as she closed her lights. Closing her eyes, she reveled in the rhythm of the music box as the face of a certain boy appeared in her mind.

The powerful presence that the gentle song radiated fought with the silence. At that moment, she didn't feel lonely anymore.

She felt...safe.

-END-

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aion-rsa · 4 years

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife - Who is Ivo Shandor?

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A brief shot from the new Ghostbusters trailer ties into a threat that's been looming over the team since the first movie.

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When it comes to Ghostbusters lore, if you were to ask about their biggest villains, the list would begin with the likes of Stay Puft/Gozer, Slimer, and Vigo the Carpathian. Then maybe some of the more memorable monsters from the cartoon or someone might bring up that incel guy from the reboot. But then there’s Ivo Shandor, a footnote of the franchise who has gradually transformed from a deep cut to being the puppet master of everything ecto.

The trailer for Ghostbusters: Afterlife hit recently and while it’s established as a sequel to the original two movies, they’re fairly light on the actual references so far. There’s a ghost trap, there’s old footage of the original team in the '80s, we see Egon’s old jumpsuit, what appears to be a Gozer dog, and so on. In a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment, characters are shown walking towards a sign saying, “SHANDOR MINING COMPANY.”

Yes, Shandor. As in Ivo Shandor. So who the hell is Ivo Shandor?

The original Ghostbusters movie namedropped Shandor once and only once as part of an exposition dump. When the crew were in their jail cell, Egon started to explain just why Gozer and its kind were targeting that one specific building and why it was so haunted.

“It's not the girl, Peter, it's the building. Something terrible is about to enter our world, and this building is obviously the door. The architect's name was Ivo Shandor. I found it in Tobin's Spirit Guide. He was also a doctor. Performed a lot of unnecessary surgery. And then in 1920, he started a secret society.”

Understanding the situation, Peter added, “Let me guess: Gozer woshippers?”

So all the marshmallow golems and demon dogs and so on were all traced back to one nutjob with a forgettable name. Now, with the minimal amount of stuff we know about Afterlife, part of the backstory appears to be that at some point after Ghostbusters 2, Egon Spenkler moved to Oklahoma for the sake of keeping an eye on something Shandor cooked up with his mining company. He definitely didn’t stop it (at least completely) and it’s up to his family to finish the job.

Ivo Shandor started the ghost uprising in the '80s and his legacy is to bring it back in 2020.

Coincidentally, this lines up with Shandor’s position in the franchise. This man with a throwaway piece of dialogue to his name is constantly being farmed out into being something much bigger for the sake of follow-ups.

To be fair, he was originally going to be a bigger deal in the first movie. In an earlier version of the script, Shandor was supposed to appear as Gozer’s initial form during the climax, juxtaposing this apocalyptic, godly threat with a mundane guy in a suit. They even wanted Paul Reubens to play him, which is...wow, that’s excessively '80s.

He’s a better vampire than a ghost, anyway.

In 2009, a big Ghostbusters video game was released on various platforms – and remastered a decade later – with emphasis on being the “official” version of Ghostbusters 3. It featured all the actors reprising their roles (excluding Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis) and a script that was partially worked on by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. It took place in 1991 with the player being a silent rookie getting roped into a “greatest hits” storyline that involved the likes of taking on Slimer and Stay Puft all over again.

read more: The Scariest Episodes of The Real Ghostbusters

While the game set up the return of Gozer, the true mastermind was Ivo Shandor, who was hiding in plain sight by possessing the mayor. What better way to undermine the Ghostbusters from doing their job than screwing with them from the top of the bureaucratic ladder? With Gozer defeated a second time over, Shandor decided to overstep his boundaries by turning the plot into a scheme to turn himself into a god. Initially, that meant sacrificing Peter’s new love interest Dr. Ilyssa Selwyn, who – wouldn’t you know it – was Shandor’s descendant.

In the end, he achieved power and was able to choose his own form as the destructor. The Ghostbusters took him out by going back to the “cross the streams” well and moved on.

The IDW Ghostbusters series, while bringing in concepts from the animated continuity (ie. Kylie from the underrated Extreme Ghostbusters being the team’s researcher), only treated the two movies and the video game as canon. That meant that Shandor wasn’t really on the table as a nemesis, but there were references to him here and there.

The initial storyline revolved around a being named Idunas, who was hellbent on bringing back Gozer and forcing Ray to imagine him as something more threatening than a giant marshmallow man. While he had an otherworldly look to him, one of the original concepts was to have Idunas take Shandor’s form as a reference to the unused idea from the movie.

One of the comic runs ended with a big storyline involving Gozer’s war with his sister Tiamat. Gozer would show up in Ray’s subconscious to taunt him in various forms. One of those forms was presumably Shandor, looking very much like a slightly-off-model Pee Wee Herman. Nice that they finally got to scratch that itch.

Otherwise, outside of being namedropped, Shandor appeared in a short story called “The Origins of Slimer” by Erik Burnham and Rachael Stott, where the Ghostbusters went over their various theories on what Slimer is or who he was. While they suggested that he could have been a chef or a vagrant, Ray seemed pretty sure that Slimer was some kind of failed glutton-based entity conjured by Shandor and his cult.

While Shandor didn’t get too much lip service in the comics, Erik Burnham eventually decided to make Tobin’s Spirit Guide from Egon’s exposition into an actual book. Albeit, a book updated with specific ghosts from Ghostbusters itself. It was there that we got to see the very entry that Egon read many years ago, going into more detail about his horrible experiments, path to Gozer worship, and the suggestion that he died from trying to give himself goat legs.

I mean, if you're going to be demonic, might as well go all the way.

Gavin Jasper writes for Den of Geek and is neither too hot to handle nor too cold to hold. Read more of his articles here and follow him on Twitter @Gavin4L

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Steter with 21? I love your writing so much btw!!

Ok so, I hope I used the right propt post, which would mean this was “best friend’s sibling au”

It took me quite some time to come up with a version here that worked for me but I am finally done!

So have some very alternative steter:

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Stiles grinned when he saw the beautiful house in the woods come into view.

And he grinned even wider when he saw his best friend Derek step out onto the front porch as he parked his old jeep next to the two other cars.

He got out and Derek shook his head with a smile.

“I can’t believe you are still driving that old thing, it’s a miracle it hasn’t broken apart right underneath your butt yet.”

Stiles patted roscoe’s hood.

“Don’t listen baby, he couldn’t understand the bond we share.”

That made the werewolf raise his eyebrows in the trademark Hale way.

“Should I be jealous?”

After Stiles got his duffle back out of the trunk he jogged up the stairs and went right in for a bear hug with Derek.

“Don’t worry dude, you’ll always be my number one best friend.”

He felt the warm, throaty laugh from Derek rumbling through both their chests and a reassuring hand in the middle of his back.

“I am glad to know that. Now come in dumbass, dinner is almost ready.”

~*~

Catching up with Derek and eating home made burgers was awesome and Stiles just then realized how much he had missed being able to do that while both of them had been away for college.

Time had flown by so fast and before they knew it it had almost been two years since they last had had physical contact.

Of course they had texted and skyped now and then, but it just wasn’t the same as hanging out and spending some quality time.

Derek had gotten even taller and broader it seemed, but Stiles realized he himself had grown as well, because now he was almost Derek’s height, although nowhere near his general size.

And of course werewolf physique meant the guy was able to maintain his muscled appearance just by being.

But Stiles had long stopped envying that. He was doing alright himself, college had taught him that much.

“You got really good at preparing food dude, I was worried all you might eat in college was raw meat from animals you hunted yourself or something.”

Derek grinned.

“I had a short ramen noodle phase, but then I met Braeden and she introduced me to the passion of preparing food, especially for others.”

Stiles smiled as his friend talked about the woman he loved and at the same time really wished he had somebody who made him smile that way.

“Man, you have to introduce her to me while I am visiting. I want to get to know the person that has you grinning like that. She must be amazing.”

Derek kept grinning and his cheeks turned a little red “She really is.”

Stiles took a gulp from his soda before putting it back down.

“I am so glad you got someone, you deserve all the happiness in the world.”

And Derek looked down onto his plate with a soft smile.

“Thank you, Stiles.”

“Only the truth buddy.”

~*~

They were sitting in the living room and playing video games like back in school. Normally A werewolf would easily beat a human, but Stiles’ mother had been the pack’s emissary before she died and Stiles had inherited her magical powers, so he always used a little bit of magic to level the playing field.

It was only fair.

Derek said “Someone just arrived” and moments later the front door opened and not long after someone walked into the living room.

“Derek, who is parking in my usu-”

Peter Hale, looking just as delicious as Stiles remembered, wearing a white v-neck, leather jacket and skinny jeans looked down at Stiles.

Stiles, who was ungracefully sitting on the floor with the controller in hand like a goblin with a treasure and the chewed up lid of his bottle of soda between his teeth.

Derek cleared his throat.

“Peter, you remember Stiles? My best friend from school?”

Peter smirked.

“Oh right, the fact you are chewing on plastic should have reminded me. Even though I was mostly away in college during Derbear’s high school years.”

Derek rolled his eyes.

“Don’t call me that. You were mostly away partying if anything. Just in case your memory is as bad as his, this is Peter my quasi big brother.”

Stiles nodded.

“Yeah I remember. He is actually your uncle, but only six years older than you and you grew up like siblings. And if I remember correctly you were studying to become a lawyer. right?”

Peter and Derek both gave him the Hale eyebrows of curiosity.

Derek with a side of judgement, Peter with a side of- something…

“Yes.” Peter confirmed then “You are correct. I’m actually on a good way to becoming county attorney.”

At that Derek pretended to fall asleep and snored loudly.

“Go brag somewhere else asshole, we want to continue playing the game.”

Peter shrugged “I have work to do anyway.” and then turned on the spot to go upstairs.

Stiles looked at his back -and ass- as he left.

When he was certain Peter was upstairs and would not hear him whispering he looked up to his friend.

“So since he’s still living here, Peter hasn’t chosen a mate yet?”

Derek made a face at the question.

“Ewww Stiles, please tell me you aren’t thinking about boning my brother.”

Stiles tilted his head.

“Yeah I guess that would be weird huh?”

For a moment Derek just stared into nothing and then he sighed deeply.

“No…I get why you would…you two would actually kind of fit together…it’s just…he is not the type to settle down and I really don’t want to get caught in the crossfire when it ends badly.”

Interesting.

“I get what you mean, but nothing could ever change the friendship we have. And I am not looking to settle down either. What I find fascinating is the fact you aren’t at all doubting he would be into me.”

Derek snorted.

“You are Hale catnip Stiles. Have you forgotten Cora, Laura and my cousin Anthony? Mum would probably consider you her favorite child if that was socially acceptable and we have been best friends since first day of kindergarten. Of course Peter would be into you.”

Yes Stiles remembered how obsessed the entire Hale family was with him. He had actually considered Peter a bit of an exception because the guy had never given him as much as a second glance.

“Huh…” he said non-committal and then turned back to the game.

“My turn, I chose rainbow road.”

Derek groaned and let his head fall back onto the couch cushions.

“You really are just as much of an asshole as Peter…”

~*~

When it was 3am Stiles and Derek both decided it was time to head to bed.

The days of pulling all-nighters just for fun were behind them it seemed.

But it had still been a great day and Stiles was looking forward to the next two days.

He also slept in the guest room this time, mostly because he didn’t want to bother them get out a mattress and bedding and shove all that into Derek’s room when there was a perfectly ok bed to sleep in.

He didn’t need the high school experience that badly.

They wished each other goodnight and Stiles went to unpack what he needed for the night.

A sniff at his shirt then told him he really should take a shower before bed.

He wouldn’t want to insult anybody’s sensitive nose after all.

In his boxers and with a towel he made his way to the bathroom only to find Peter in his pajama pants already waiting in front of it.

The door was locked and there was the noise of the running shower coming from the inside.

He rubbed his neck.

“So Derek beat us to it I assume, shouldn’t take long…”

Peter shook his head.

“It’s Laura, she apparently decided to sleep over since she has a case here. Even though her office would definitely pay for a hotel.”

You could hear the frustration in the guy’s voice and Stiles tilted his head.

“You don’t like your sister staying over?”

Stiles got a thickly sweet smile back, he knew Peter probably used it with difficult people at work all the time.

“She has the habit to take forever and to use up all the warm water.”

Yeah ok, that was a bit annoying.

“I see.”

They stood there for a while in silence.

Then finally Stiles decided that was getting too awkward.

He tried to come up with a harmless conversation starter.

Unfortunately the first thing that came to mind while looking at Peter was maybe not the best question for that.

He apparently had stared too long because Peter caught his eyes and gave him a sly smile.

“Take a picture darling, I am very photogenic.”

“I thought werewolf eyes ruin the shot…”

There was a soft chuckle.

“You can learn to control it. I can’t be a public figure and all my pictures turn out bad.”

That made sense.

“Smart. I was actually kind of wondering where your pack tattoo is…but I feel like that might be an insensitive question.”

Peter seemed to consider his response while staring at Stiles.

“Most werewolves put it on a relatively good visible spot so they can be identified as part of their respective pack. I prefer to keep my cards a bit closer. It is on the inside of my left thigh. I-”

Before Peter could say whatever he had wanted to say next the door of the bathroom flew open.

“Oh my god Peter, I swear if you offer Stiles to show him your tattoo I am going to barf. I can smell both of your interest through the fucking door.”

Peter glared at her.

“Is there warm water left?”

She gave him a mean grin “Maybe a little, have fun asshole. Good night Stiles, great to see you again. And if you let Peter fuck you I’ll be disappointed.”

And with that she left both of them.

They gave each other a glance and Peter went to see if the water still ran hot.

“She didn’t lie. Maybe you should go first Stiles, I will survive taking a cold shower.”

Wow, considering what Derek and the others usually said about Peter that was uncharacteristically considerate.

The man seemed to read his thoughts.

“Don’t take all they say at face value Stiles. I can be very nice if I think somebody deserves it.”

Stiles was a bit confused.

“And I do?”

Peter came closer and grinned.

“You haven’t given me a reason to think otherwise. Now take the offer or leave it before I decide I’m an unredeemable asshole after all.”

His thoughts were running fast to come to a decision and suddenly he had a terrible, aweful, delightful idea.

He gave Peter a sly grin himself and stepped into the man’s space.

“We could always just share. Might be a good opportunity to show me that tattoo.”

Peter did not step back and instead licked his lips.

“What about Derek? Or Laura’s disapproval?”

Stiles made another step and their bodies touched, chest to chest, face to face.

“Derek said we would be a good fit and who says I have to be the one getting fucked. Unless you aren’t up for it.”

Peter’s eyes were full of mischievous joy.

“I am up alright.”

“Then let’s get clean.”

#teen wolf #steter #my stuff #stiles and derek are best friends #gaming #flirting #showers #magic!stiles #they grew up together #stiles grew up knowing about werewolves #siblings #sibling banter #nothing too hurtful

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My 2019:

Hey. So I know nobody will probably actually care but I haven’t told a soul any of this & just need it out there.

I have battled an Ed my whole life, but on Dec 2018 it was extremely intensified. My mother made me homeless, threw all my things onto the road while I was on holidays for them to sit there until I picked them up. Refused to speak to me, abused me, made me out to be a drug addict because she found out I smoked pot. (I am 20 & don’t smoke at the house).

I had no friends I could lean on for support or stay with & my boyfriends mother is crazy so that wasn’t an option either. I had to move in with my grandma and uncle. Doesn’t sound too bad yeah? Except I slept on a living room floor, constantly getting yelled at for nothing, getting used and abused, having my own food stolen from me, having my own money stolen out of my wallet by my own family, OH & they’re batshit fucking mental. Then things got worse, I pretty much lost my job. I had no income. I started forgetting about food, I was too stressed too care.

I started having a “minor” drug problem. I wasn’t smoking weed anymore, put popping as many pharmaceuticals as I could get my hands on for weeks at a time. My nan has chronic pains & is prescribed way too many pain meds so the access was easy. I started eating any benzo or oxy I could find, anything that would take the edge off. I just wanted to die.

Then I noticed it. This pit in my stomach. I hadn’t eaten in at least 4 days & i’d never looked better. I can’t remember ever seeing my stomach so flat, or my collar bones so inward. I was obsessed. It was like a game, I told myself I didn’t have an ed. How could you have an ed you’re fat? It’s just for the fun, it’s just to see how much you can lose, it’s just to see if you can finally become the version of yourself you’ve always wanted to me. But that’s where I was so wrong. Those thoughts start controlling your life. Every time something is put in my mouth i have to think about it. I only eat at certain times because they’re the best times to use the bathroom after eating, I even look at other girls and see their “potential” for if they started my life. HOW FUCKED IS THAT??

It became a game with myself, how many days could you go without eating before it became too much? My record was 6.5, six & a half days of pure bliss. But now it’s harder. Mum wanted me to come home to clear her own guilt. She saw me THREE months after kicking me out & saw I had lost 30 kilos, the cuts and burns up my arms couldn’t be hidden no matter how hard I tried & she needed me home to fill her own guilty conscience because she knew what I’d do next.

Now they’re watching me like a hawk, acting as if they give a fuck about my mental health when they made me homeless over a fucking joint. My parents are constantly around the bathroom when I go in there because they believe the only form of an ed is making yourself throw up. Well bold of them to assume I’ve eaten at all. You’d think if they really cared about my “ed” they would of noticed I haven’t eaten in three days?

So to sum things up, the year of 2019 has given me: crippling depression, a drug addiction I’m still battling to get away from, crazy parents, no trust in anyone including myself, and an overwhelming ed that consumes every minute of my life and absolutely nothing fucking else

Bless up

#ana #anorexia #suicide #cut #depression #failure #fat #ed #eating disorder #thinspo #my story #bulimia #purge #starve

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natsthinkitythinkthinkthonk · 5 years

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Dec. 12 - Anime Log

Since I started/finished a few anime today, I decided that I wanted to list my thoughts for each of them. I was debating whether I should’ve put this on my spam account, but I decided that this account might be better.

Anime:

Dame x Prince (started and finished)

Kamisama Hajimemashita (finished)

Zetman (started)

I’m going to work backwards starting with Zetman’s first impression.

The art was pretty good. TMS Entertainment is a studio I don’t actively search through, but I found out that I watched a lot of their anime. They definitely have a lot of hits including the Detective Conan series, Yowamushi Pedal, Megalo Box, and since we’re talking about it, they did Kamisama too.

The music didn’t stand out too much, but it’ll take some time to grow on me. This part always goes like that since I find that a score grows more with the progression of a series.

Okay, but the biggest letdown was probably me finding out that Romi Paku was going to be replaced with Daisuke Namikawa for the main character’s child vs adult voice. If Romi can be Edward, she can be Jin. Besides that, Mamo and Kana Hanazawa are solid picks for literally any roles.

The story, characters, and presentation seem a bit like a mix of Code Geass and Devilman. Hear me out. Devilman is probably more obvious (I’m referring to Devilman Crybaby). They both are a bit on the explicit side, they both depict violence with demon-like creatures, and they both use the common thing of, “You see this mortal you like? It would be a shame if something were to happen.” Code Geass was brought up because of the two protagonists. One is a bit of an anti-hero while the other has an arguably warped sense of justice. Let’s just see how this plays out. So far, this seems like a far more palatable but different version of Devilman. I couldn’t even finish that series because it scared and scarred me too much.

Kamisama took me a really long time to finish. I kept picking it up and dropping it because I found the characters to be a bit... lacking. I heard this was a classic shoujo anime, and I’m not necessarily the target audience, but I find myself enjoying it from time to time.

I find that art palettes always look a bit pale for some reason. I find a lot of anime during those years did though. The character designs made a lot of characters look more emo than they needed to be, and their eyes look like they have that pencil stuff (edit: eyeliner). Their eyes are also already very large.

The story is more on the lighthearted side. There are some overarching stories, but it’s mostly episodic with outside conflicts. Like a lot of shoujo anime, it’s mostly about the growth of the relationship with the two romantic interests and the futile efforts of anyone who isn’t the main love interest.

We have the cold-tsundere-ish Tomoe, the playful seems-like-they-can-be-a-cutesy-yandere Mizuki, the average heroine Nanami that becomes head-over-heels for the main character, and a few other side characters here and there including that dad who went out to buy milk and never came back and the feminine guy who fabulously wrecks things up. Other characters appear episodically. There’s also a fish guy with the underappreciated wife (that episode made me laugh a little), a purple-haired supernaturally being who falls in love with that mortal who’s voiced by Ryohei Kimura.

I paused watching it three episodes in then stopped again after episode seven then took it to the end. It really wrapped up nicely at the ending, and I really like series that end well. That usually boosts it up in my books.

Score: 7.7/10

I wanted to save Dame x Prince for last because it’s something that surpassed my expectations, and that’s because I thought it was going to be terrible.

Just like many reverse harems, it’s based off an otome game which means it’s about a bunch of ideal guys with the same faces competing for the same girl while trying to remain true to their trope.

But this anime doesn’t take itself seriously, and that’s where it makes itself different. None of these guys are ideal except for maybe... Teo? But even then, he’s not even listed in the main cast. Let’s go through some cast introduction:

Not Your Typical Otome Protagonist (VA: Sayuri Yahagi) - She’s realistic, she calls out these guys on their bullshit, and she even says to the guy, “I don’t want your self-portrait.” She’s immune to all the guys’ so-called “handsomeness”.

Feather Boa (VA: Kaito Ishikawa) - egotistical bastard who has servants follow him to give him lighting, mirrors, and confetti. He’s the first in line to the throne, but all he cares about is making women swoon and getting an artist portrait of him literally every month.

Flower Boi (VA: Yuichiro Umehara) - take a shot every time he says, “My little flower (ohana-chan)” then you will die from alcohol intoxication. Personally, I prefer Umehara’s lower voice because it sounds more badass, but this role was... something else. He’s a womanizer as well. Also, if you call everyone pet names like that, you don’t have to remember their actual names. Good to know.

Sunny Child (VA: Soma Saito) - I thought he was a girl. I was wrong. Even the main character thought he was a girl. He’s so bright that they didn’t even censor his dick, he just censored his whole body in a glowing light. He looks creepy.

Every Tumblr User Ever (VA: Ryohei Kimura) - He complains about the sunlight melting him, he has a waifu, he’s directly creepy regarding his waifu, he would protect his waifu at all costs, he stays up reading manga, and he is socially awkward. Yes, Ryohei voices both his character and his puppet waifu.

Manure (VA: Tomoaki Maeno) - He’s the only normal otome-standard guy here, and he’s supposed to be like that. He also fills in the childhood friend trope.

Ugly Blob (VA: Ayaka Saito) - She’s supposed to be the cute mascot, but the protagonist summons her through a self-described vague (seriously, the characters say, “This stuff is vague as hell”) process. She even says, “You’re ugly... in a cute way though!”

Most episodes actually made me laugh because of the writing and how stupid it was. They don’t have an actual overarching story until... maybe near the end? Everything is mostly antics and whatnot. There’s a stereotypical onsen episode in there too. They even say, “Great, a hot springs episode. Just what this anime needed.”

Music was pleasant enough. The OP was standard and forgettable, and the EDs were too (but they were sung by certain seiyuu). I don’t remember much about the score. The animation wasn’t bad because it didn’t demand that much. Usually, these adaptations have ridiculously bad animation quality anyways.

Seiyuu did a good job. This was probably due to the fact that the writing wasn’t something straight of a Twilight fanfic or something. Pretty much all the seiyuu that were cast have a good amount of experience, so I’m really not surprised.

Score: 7.4/10 (that’s pretty darn good considering the genre)

#anime thoughts #anime review #anime opinion #dame x prince #dame x prince anime caravan #kamisama hajimemashita #kamisama kiss #zetman

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Starmyu Seasonal Birthday Pics (2018-2019) ‘Review’

I don’t know if everyone knows about the Starmyu birthday pictures on Twitter, but, if you didn’t, now you do! I think these pictures are just so sweet! I anticipate them each time one of the boys’ birthdays comes around. The reason I thought to start doing these little ‘reviews’ was so that I could have a way to get my ‘fangirling’ off my chest, so to speak. So, without further ado, let’s catch up on the birthdays that have passed so far. (I’m starting from Tengenji, whose birthday was on 11 August. He was the first of the new ‘season themed’ pictures, which I’m loving!)

Tengenji – 11 Aug: I can’t help but smile at Tengenji in this picture; his smile is contagious. XD I like the hibiscus print on his shirt and the flower he has tucked behind his ear. (The hibiscus is a special flower to me. ^-^) This is a very relaxed look for him. He definitely looks like he’s on summer vacation, which I’m guessing is what the artist might have been going for seeing as August is the end of summer. Also, the little star on the tail of the aeroplane is so cute. ^-^

Uozumi – 23 Aug: Another contagious smile… Different kind of smile, but still. ^-^ Uozumi-senpai looks so confident in his shooting skills; so sweet. His theme seems to be ‘summer festival’ with the lanterns in the background, his wearing a yukata and, of course, the pellet gun in his hand [there’s a game at some Japanese festivals where you shoot down your prize – as far as I understand]. I’ll be totally honest, my favourite element in this picture is the yukata and the accessories he has in his belt. XD He has a little pouch and, I think, a folding fan on/in his belt.

Hachiya – 26 Aug: Hachiya looks so sweet here. ^-^ Though… then you notice him standing on the hose pipe and the bulge of water building up in it… yeah. Classic Hachiya. ^-^ I’m sure Yuzuriha-senpai is happy with his student’s gardening efforts. ^-^ Also, the yellow shirt with the two little black bands around his chest – for those who don’t know, Hachiya’s name contains the kanji for ‘bee’ which is pronounced ‘hachi’. So that shirt, I think, was to represent that. ^-^ So sweet. (I absolutely love it when there’s those little ‘hidden’ touches in things!)

Yuzuriha – 02 Sept: Now onto the first of the autumn boys. ^-^ My favourite ‘element’ in this picture is Yuzuriha’s outfit. The part that stands out the most to me is his socks. I think his little striped green socks are too sweet! XD The bunny on his head… kind of creepy in my opinion, but… okay. I get the ‘moon rabbit’ thing that I’m guessing the artist was representing. (I keep saying ‘guessing’ because I don’t know definitively what the artist was thinking when they drew the picture. This is just my take on these pictures.) However, the bunny’s still creepy to me. I think that it’s its little red eyes that creep me out the most…

Hoshitani – 10 Oct: Hoshitani’s picture is very sweet. His little animal friends (which are a little ironic seeing as he’s pretty bad with animals - except insects) are really cute! I love the little birdie, with the beret that matches Hoshitani’s, perching on the corner of the canvas. The squirrel’s cute too, but I feel the bird’s cuter. ^-^ It’s a unique picture. I wouldn’t have thought of Hoshitani as a painter. I also like the leaves falling in the background.

Haruto – 03 Nov: Of course there was going to be a moon in this one. ^-^ Haruto’s not my favourite character (just saying; he’s okay, I don’t dislike him, but I prefer his brother), but this is a nice picture. I like the ‘comfy-ness’ of it. He looks like he’s ready for a night in; relaxing in his comfy jersey with a blanket for his knees and a collection of books to read. Perfect for a chilly autumn evening. ^-^

Kaito – 04 Nov: This is, yet another, sweet picture. ^-^ I’ll be honest. My first impression of Kaito is not as an ‘outdoorsman’; though we have seen him hiking with Hoshitani and Nayuki in the outro for the first 2 OVAs. So… yeah. Kaito the ‘sophisticated outdoorsman’. I won’t complain about that. ^-^ It’s another side of our usually ‘elegant’ and ‘business-like’ Team Otori boy. The single star in the sky is a nice touch. However, I’m surprised there wasn’t a moon I this one; given that Kaito’s also a ‘Tsukigami’. (For those who don’t know ‘tsuki’ means ‘moon’ in Japanese – Kaito’s surname means ‘moon emperor’.) Either way, it’s another nice Starmyu picture that makes us smile. ^-^

Eigo – 28 Nov: Okay. I’ll be honest. I find Eigo’s picture to be a little ‘boring’, but I still like it. I like the array of snacks around him and the little ‘puffs’ of steam around him, which shows how the weather is getting colder as the year moves towards winter. I actually only know, for certain, three of the items around him: the steamed bun (the white one), the taiyaki (the fish-shaped one) and the chibita no oden (the one with three items on a stick – I’ll be honest, I knew that it was an oden item, but I had to look up the name…). If anyone else knows what the others are, let me know! I’d love to learn what they are. ^-^ (Also, feel free to correct me if I’ve gotten the other three wrong. Again, I’d like to learn what they are.) Though… one thing that I think I’m seeing but I’m not sure… are his fingers a little red? Like they’re really cold so they’ve gone red when he touched the steamed bun or… do you think it’s just a trick of the colours?

Saotome – 09 Dec: I really liked how they represented winter in Saotome’s picture. The ‘light’ snowflakes (and trees in the calendar version) are very nice. The ‘sparkles’ and the gradated dark blue are also nice. (Sorry Ricchan! Your background got my attention more than you did! XD) I did also like the outfit Saotome was wearing; for some reason his boots really stood out – I don’t know why.

Otori – 24 Dec: Instant smile! Otori in a Santa outfit… XD So sweet, but I feel he mustn’t ever grow a moustache and beard… (Though, that’s just my opinion.) … Unfortunately there’s not much more to say about this picture. It’s a ‘classic’ Santa-on-the-roof picture; the only ‘special’ thing is that it’s Otori in the suit… (Sorry for not being able to say more… Otori’s a sweetheart, but… not much more can be said here.)

Hiragi – 24 Dec: I’ll be honest. Between Otori and Hiragi’s pictures, I like Hiragi’s more. Hiragi just looks so comfy in this picture; the purple turtleneck, thick-looking jersey and his shoes (I think they’re slippers, but I’m not 100% sure). That mug just adds to it. I also love the little Christmas tree on the mantle in the background. Its baubles are in the colours of the Team Hiragi boys! ^-^ Like I said before, I love details like that!

All right. That’s everyone! We caught up! Yay! XD Now we can look forward to Nayuki on 23 January! Be sure to check it out on the official Starmyu twitter: (https://twitter.com/hstar_mu) Also, I’d love to hear what you think of these pictures! Send me a message if you wish. ^-^

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Let’s start serious and move towards our yearly Thanks blog at the end.

I’ve heard from a lot of you asking if the recent messages that White Wolf have posted on their social media are something that will be bad for Onyx Path. As of this writing, everything we’ve heard from over there is that it’s business as usual between our companies. We are still going to be sending projects over for approvals, they are still the ones who OK our pitches for new WW-IP projects, and we’re still running our successful Chicago By Night KS, the first licensed V5 TTRPG supplement.

So fear not, True Believers!

I mean, I just had to channel Stan Lee there, after last week’s MMN blog.

Which was, oddly enough, the least commented-on blog I think I’ve ever posted. Very strange, but I’m just assuming you were all in mourning for Stan, too.

In case you missed it last week, here is the lovely graphic our own Impish Ian Watson made to show what game lines are wholly Onyx Path‘s, the ones at the top, and which are licensed from whom:

I actually didn’t think we’d need it again so soon, but there does seem to be a fair bit of confusion out there, so feel free to point to this if you need to explain things to a friend.

And that’s one of the awesome Chicago By Night full-page pieces up there at the top, illustrated by the amazing Michael Gaydos. More Chicago Kickstarter news – we’re headed into the last week! – down below in The Blurbs!

Trinity Continuum: Aeon art by Sam White

A bit of related news:

One of the first times I ever heard of Matthew Dawkins, who is our Chicago By Night developer, was when he interviewed me for his YouTube channel a whole bunch of years ago. From then, his Gentlemam Gamer videos have taken deep dives into many of the White Wolf (and other) games, and were very helpful in explaining aspects of V5 during this last year.

Now, Matthew has agreed to create a series of Gentleman Gamer videos for our Onyx Path games starting with the pantheons in Scion 2nd Edition, and you’ll also be seeing Matthew in other ways too, as he helps ramp up our online gaming presence. More on that in the weeks to come!

BUT DON’T WORRY, his dulcet tones are still going to be appearing weekly on the Onyx Pathcast – which this coming Friday features Dixie interviewing Jacqueline “Jax” Bryk with a one-on-one covering not just her work with us, but throughout the TTRPG biz, and how she has become one of our industries leading lights for safe play game writing.

Trinity Continuum: Aeon art by Marco Gozales

And now, the thanks!

Let’s start with the newest member of our Monday Meeting team, Dixie Cochran:

I am thankful that the whole Onyx Path team gave me the opportunity to work on these books in a greater capacity this year. I am thankful that Eddy, Matthew, and Rich are always supportive and willing to answer my many questions, and that Rose Bailey recommended me for this job as she moved on to a new stage in her career. I am thankful for all of my amazing Chronicles of Darkness and Exalted developers, writers, and fans, who continue to do amazing work and be a wonderful community. I am also thankful for lovely editors and indexers, Word’s “track changes” function, and Oxford commas.

From the art and layout side of things, there are these points from Mirthful Mike Chaney, in no particular order he tells me:

Thankful our first Storypath IPs are really close to being done and ready to release.

Thankful our non WW stuff has been continually well received…

Thankful that Wraith 20 is almost done… and Scion…

Thankful my wife is still as into 40k as I am… now if I could only get her into D&D 5e.

Thankful that the midterms weren’t an utter shitshow.

Thankful that I still get to work with all of you and still get to make game books after all these years.

Our marketing guru and developer/writer extraordinaire Monica Valentinelli shares these thoughts:

I’d like to thank fans for their continued support and enthusiasm. People are really excited for the games we make, and that’s the reason why I do what I do.

Here’s Eddy Webb, with his thanks:

I continue to be thankful for all of the fans of Realms of Pugmire.

I am thankful that Monarchies of Mau is shipping (and ahead of schedule!)

I am thankful to find so many people who are really excited about our upcoming Storypath games like Scion, Trinity Continuum, They Came From Beneath The Sea!, and Dystopia Rising: Evolution.

And I am thankful that there are still people who love and support Onyx Path Publishing.

Mighty Matt McElroy takes a long sip of coffee and sez:

I want thank everyone who has had the time and energy to introduce an Onyx Path game to someone new. Whether that is inviting someone to join your gaming group or running a demo at a convention, this past year has been an amazing opportunity to meet new gamers around the world.

Our behind-the-scenes keeper of the flame, LisaT has these thanks to share with all of you:

I am thankful again this year for the opportunity to work with so many talented and creative people. And this year I had the opportunity to meet a number of them face to face along with many fans of our products. I’m looking forward to meeting even more of you at PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia in just a couple of weeks. So if you’re in town stop by and become part of what I’m thankful for for next year!

Impish Ian Watson, lord of Bloodlines modding, also does some other stuff he has thanks about:

I’m thankful that, after years toiling in the word mines, the Trinity Continuum and Æon are almost done, and we’ve done a significant chunk of the next two supplements, plus Aberrant. I can’t wait for people to see the fruits of our labours.

I’m thankful to Trinity‘s Kickstarter backers for having faith in us.

Let’s see what sort of thanks Mr. Dawkins has to share:

Yo Gentlemaniacs, it’s Thanksgiving night, and this is the happiest time of year for all the maniacs, brother! You know, me and all my little Gentsters, we got a lot of things to be thankful for. Number one: we’re thankful for being happy and very healthy. We’re thankful for having time to share with our loved ones. We’re also thankful that Gentlemania is still the strongest force in the universe. And after the turkey’s done, after the blessings are all done, I can tell you what the Gentleman is mostly happy about: it’s SURVIVOR SERIES TIME! And I’m thankful for my team of Gentlemaniacs!!

That, and Onyx Path are pretty cool.

Uhhhhh. He may be cracking under the pressure. Hard to say.

From me:

I sometimes sit at my desk, stunned by the realization that I still get to do this after all these years and I’m thankful for that – a lot! Thanks to our creative freelancers who continue to find delightful new ways to verbally and visually describe our game worlds, and our full-time folks who orchestrate all this rampant creativity into the formats and pages that we all love to read and play. Thanks to all of our associated partner companies that give us the reach to deliver and communicate this thing we do to all of you!

Which, of course, actually brings me to all of you and all of our community who have supported us through our growing pains, lo! these many years, and even through pains not of our choosing! Without this intricate eco-system that includes all of us and all of you, we just would not have been able to keep building all our game lines and worlds!

Thank you.

Many Worlds, One Path!

BLURBS!

KICKSTARTER:

Lo the darkness that lies like a pall over Chicago.

The V5 Chicago By Night Kickstarter has passed 200% funding and continues to knock through Stretch Goals like the El through a sleet storm! Congrats to the whole team and all our backers, as we continue to build the Chicago Folio with Cam, Anarchs, and Independent sections and the Let The Streets Run Red Chronicle Collection, as well as activate additional projects too!

We’d be thrilled if you’d give it a look here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/200664283/chicago-by-night-for-vampire-the-masquerade-5th-ed/description

And here is a Q&A Matthew and several of his writing team held on his Gentleman Gamer YouTube channel that goes into a lot of their thinking about Chicago By Night and then they answer questions from the chat: https://youtu.be/v8YbbzEPuiI

Next up, we’re working on the Kickstarter for They Came From Beneath the Sea! (TCFBtS!), which has some very different additions to the Storypath mechanics we’ll be explaining during the KS. They take an excellent 50’s action and investigation genre game and turn it to 11! Our current plan is to start on Dec 18th but run it extra long into January!

ELECTRONIC GAMING:

As we find ways to enable our community to more easily play our games, the Onyx Dice Rolling App is now live! Our dev team has been doing updates since we launched based on the excellent use-case comments by our community, and this thing is both rolling and rocking!

Here are the links for the Apple and Android versions:

http://theappstore.site/app/1296692067/onyx-dice

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onyxpathpublishing.onyxdice&hl=en

Three different screenshots, above.

And our latest, the dice for Werewolf: The Forsaken 2e:

ON AMAZON AND BARNES & NOBLE:

You can now read our fiction from the comfort and convenience of your Kindle (from Amazon) and Nook (from Barnes & Noble).

If you enjoy these or any other of our books, please help us by writing reviews on the site of the sales venue you bought it from. Reviews really, really help us with getting folks interested in our amazing fiction!

Our selection includes these fiction books:

Vampire: The Masquerade: The Endless Ages Anthology (Kindle, Nook)

Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Rites of Renown: When Will You Rage II (Kindle, Nook)

Mage: The Ascension: Truth Beyond Paradox (Kindle, Nook)

Chronicles of Darkness: The God-Machine Chronicle Anthology (Kindle, Nook)

Mummy: The Curse: Curse of the Blue Nile (Kindle, Nook)

Beast: The Primordial: The Primordial Feast Anthology (Kindle, Nook)

Vampire: The Masquerade: Of Predators and Prey: The Hunters Hunted II Anthology (Kindle, Nook)

Werewolf: The Apocalypse: The Poison Tree (Kindle, Nook)

Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Songs of the Sun and Moon: Tales of the Changing Breeds (Kindle, Nook)

Vampire: The Requiem: The Strix Chronicle Anthology (Kindle, Nook)

Werewolf: The Forsaken: The Idigam Chronicle Anthology (Kindle, Nook)

Mage: The Awakening: The Fallen World Chronicle Anthology (Kindle, Nook)

Vampire: The Masquerade: The Beast Within Anthology (Kindle, Nook)

Werewolf: The Apocalypse: W20 Cookbook (Kindle, Nook)

Exalted: Tales from the Age of Sorrows (Kindle, Nook)

Chronicles of Darkness: Tales of the Dark Eras (Kindle, Nook)

Promethean: The Created: The Firestorm Chronicle Anthology (Kindle, Nook)

Demon: The Descent: Demon: Interface (Kindle, Nook)

Scarred Lands: Death in the Walled Warren (Kindle, Nook)

V20 Dark Ages: Cainite Conspiracies (Kindle, Nook)

Chronicles of Darkness: Strangeness in the Proportion (Kindle, Nook)

Vampire: The Requiem: Silent Knife (Kindle, Nook)

Mummy: The Curse: Dawn of Heresies (Kindle, Nook)

OUR SALES PARTNERS:

We’re working with Studio2 to get Pugmire out into stores, as well as to individuals through their online store. You can pick up the traditionally printed main book, the Screen, and the official Pugmire dice through our friends there!

https://studio2publishing.com/search?q=pugmire

And we’ve added Prince’s Gambit to our Studio2 catalog: https://studio2publishing.com/products/prince-s-gambit-card-game

Looking for our Deluxe or Prestige Edition books? Try this link! http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Onyx-Path-Publishing/

Here’s the link to the press release we put out about how Onyx Path is now selling through Indie Press Revolution: http://theonyxpath.com/press-release-onyx-path-limited-editions-now-available-through-indie-press-revolution/

And you can now order Pugmire: the book, the screen, and the dice! http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/manufacturers.php?manufacturerid=296

DRIVETHRURPG.COM:

This Wednesday is a cornucopia of delicious choices!

Featuring: electronic wallpapers previously only available to Kickstarter backers for Changeling: The Dreaming 20th, W20 Shattered Dreams, V20 Beckett’s Jyhad Diary, Pugmire, Dark Eras, and Prince’s Gambit on DTRPG!

Followed up by Monarchies of Mau symbol t-shirts on our Red Bubble store, as a lead-in to next week and the release of Mau in PDF and PoD versions to the public!

CONVENTIONS!

Rich, Lisa, Matt, Eddy, Dixie, Danielle, and other Onyx Path writers and developers will be at PAX Unplugged in Philly, November 30th – December 2nd running demos of Scion, Monarchies of Mau, Exalted, and more! http://unplugged.paxsite.com/

Start getting ready for our appearance at MidWinter this January in Milwaukee! So many demos, playtests, secret playtests, and Onyx Path Q&As you could plotz!

And now, the new project status updates!

DEVELOPMENT STATUS FROM FAST EDDY WEBB (projects in bold have changed status since last week):

First Draft (The first phase of a project that is about the work being done by writers, not dev prep)

C20 Novel (Jackie Cassada) (Changeling: the Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition)

M20 The Technocracy Reloaded (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)

M20 Victorian Mage (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)

City of the Towered Tombs (Cavaliers of Mars)

Mummy: The Curse 2nd Edition core rulebook (Mummy: The Curse 2nd Edition)

Scion Ready Made Characters (Scion 2nd Edition)

Scion Jumpstart (Scion 2nd Edition)

Geist2e Fiction Anthology (Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2nd Edition)

Memento Mori: the GtSE 2e Companion (Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2nd Edition)

Pirates of Pugmire (Realms of Pugmire)

Distant Worlds (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)

Dragon-Blooded Novella #1 (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Across the Eight Directions (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Redlines

Deviant: The Renegades (Deviant: The Renegades)

Night Horrors: Nameless and Accursed (Mage: the Awakening Second Edition)

Witch-Queen of the Shadowed Citadel (Cavaliers of Mars)

Heirs to the Shogunate (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Scion Companion: Mysteries of the World (Scion 2nd Edition)

Second Draft

Tales of Good Dogs – Pugmire Fiction Anthology (Pugmire)

Development

Hunter: the Vigil 2e core (Hunter: the Vigil 2nd Edition)

CofD Contagion Chronicle (Chronicles of Darkness)

Night Horrors: Shunned by the Moon (Werewolf: The Forsaken 2nd Edition)

Lunars: Fangs at the Gate (Exalted 3rd Edition)

WoD Ghost Hunters (World of Darkness)

Oak, Ash, and Thorn: Changeling: The Lost 2nd Companion (Changeling: The Lost 2nd)

CofD Dark Eras 2 (Chronicles of Darkness)

Manuscript Approval:

V5 Chicago By Night (Vampire: The Masquerade)

Spilled Blood (Vampire: The Requiem 2nd Edition)

Wr20 Book of Oblivion (Wraith: The Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition)

Trinity Continuum: Aberrant core (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)

Editing:

Signs of Sorcery (Mage: the Awakening Second Edition)

Aeon Aexpansion (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)

C20 Players’ Guide (Changeling: the Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition)

Dystopia Rising: Evolution (Dystopia Rising: Evolution)

M20 Book of the Fallen (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)

Adventures for Curious Cats (Monarchies of Mau)

In Media Res (Trinity Continuum: Core)

Tales of Excellent Cats (Monarchies of Mau)

Post-Editing Development:

Ex Novel 2 (Aaron Rosenberg) (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Indexing:

ART DIRECTION FROM MIRTHFUL MIKE:

In Art Direction

Dystopia Rising: Evolution – Sketches coming in, and they look good.

Geist 2e

The Realm – Fulls contracted. Talking to Gong and Gunship about availability during holidays.

Ex3 Monthly Stuff

Chicago By Night – KS moving along.

C20 Player’s Guide – Contracted.

Aeon Aexpansion

They Came From Beneath the Sea! – Getting more KS art since we have a little time, gonna start on KS assets.

Lost 2e Jumpstart – Art contracted – sketches trickling in.

EX3 Lunars – KS art contracted.

Signs of Sorcery – Contracted – sketches trickling in.

Marketing Stuff

In Layout

M20: Gods and Monsters – With Josh, progressing.

Pugmire Roll of Good Dogs and Cats

Proofing

Scion Hero – Pre XX errata fixes.

Scion Origin – Corrections are in.

Ex3 Dragon Blooded

CtL2 Jumpstart – Awaiting more corrections.

Trinity Core

Trinity Aeon

At Press

Monarchies of Mau and Screen – And dice and buttons, all shipped to backers. Waiting for PoD proofs.

Wraith 20th – Fixing some issues with the front cover emboss. Everything else good to go though.

Wraith 20 Screen – Printing.

Scion Dice – At Studio2.

Lost 2e Screen – Printing.

Scion Screen – Printing.

Changeling: The Lost 2e – Printing.

Fetch Quest – Proof coming this week.

Exalted 3rd Novel – Out to backers, getting errata.

VtR Guide to the Night – Inputting errata and prepping for PoD.

PtC Tormented – I think we hit errata shutdown on Wednesday.

TODAY’S REASON TO CELEBRATE:

Thanksgiving! Not necessarily the “school” holiday of pilgrims and first winters and all that, but the holiday of togetherness and actually looking at how things are in your life and being glad (thankful) for the good parts and the parts that you learned from. And MST3K new season dropping on Turkey Day!

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