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00belle00lovely00 · 13 days

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I love your Theodore and Matthew comic!

Do you have any ideas on what the other kids were like before they all became the Smiling Critters?

As well as ideas on how Theodore met The Prototype…?

Like these fellows actually! I didn't get the time to colour the rest of the crew but I will eventually!

KIDS AGES

yes everyone except Theodore has their name as an ironic pun, I couldn't contain myself

Theodore Grambell: 7 years old

Matthew Beagle: 7 years old (he insists he's 7 1/2)

David Lian: 9 years old

Harley El-ahrairah: 9 years old

Abbigail Rosenberg: 8 years old

Lauren J. Faust: 8 years old

Pom Eline: 12 years old

Sheldon Mnemosyne: 13 years old

OH! And about the prototype! Well, basically we could say (because I'm too lazy to do ANOTHER comic right after this one) that one night Theo was having a very bad dream and wanted to go get some water. Only to be met by the prototype spookin' him up a little.

And of course, slowly manipulating his way into becoming Theo's friend. And eventually his "monster under the bed". Quite literally and metaphorically speaking.

Actually, BECAUSE of the prototype we could say that's how Theodore became so distant with the other kids, those little fingery metal needles feeding him with paranoia about those kids not to be trusted.

Poor baby didn't know he was being manipulated into that thing's grasp......

OH, BTW YOU CAN GO ON THE ASK BOX ON THESE FELLOWS FOR MORE STUFF!!!!! EVEN DIRECTLY TO THEM, TO HELL WITH IT, YOU CAN BE A UH...

WORKER???? OR SOMETHING?

A KID? IDFK PLEASE JUST DON'T DO DISGUSTING OR CRAZY SHIT. LET'S BE CIVIL ABOUT THIS. THEY'RE KIDS.

(btw you can guess that by the tags there's certain people who have crushes on certain others)

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odinsblog · 4 months

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“It was December 1993, and I was sitting in my flat in Moscow, watching what must have been one of the first ever election night results shows on Russian television for a Parliamentary election.

It was an unusual spectacle, to say the least. Politicians, pundits and Russian officials were sitting around drinking champagne. And then this happened: On came an astrologer to deliver his celestial political forecast.

Looking back, it was quite appropriate really, because 30 years ago, Russians had stars in their eyes about freedom, democracy, and their country's future. That night, as well as electing a new parliament, the Duma, Russians also approved a new constitution. The constitution which, many years later, Vladimir Putin would change through a referendum to give himself the chance of twelve more years in power.

For a Russian election these days, you don't need astrologers or fortune tellers or crystal balls. I can tell you now pretty much what the result of next March's Russian presidential election will be. Vladimir Putin will win, and with a landslide.

There are several reasons for my confident prediction.

Russia's current political system is Putin's political system, his rules, his election. And although his will not be the only name on the ballot, his opponents are unlikely to include Mr. Putin's most vocal critics, arch rivals, and serious contenders. The president's most high profile opponents have either been poised, fled into exile or been put in prison. What's more, the Kremlin controls television. Vladimir Putin receives lots of airtime, and on tv, he's much praised, never criticized. Handy that, when you're seeking reelection.

And there's another reason he'll do well.

Meet Alexander. Alexander is a young tv reporter from northeastern Russia. At Vladimir Putin's end-of-year press conference recently, he stood up and declared, ‘We all support your decision to run in next year's election, because you've been in power for as long as I can remember.’ There are many Russians like Alexander who simply cannot imagine anyone else in the Kremlin, not because they idolize Vladimir Putin, they just see no alternative to him. I've often heard people here say, ‘Well, if not Putin, who then?’ The Kremlin has engineered that. It has cleared the political landscape of any potential challenges to the man who has ruled Russia as president or prime minister for nearly a quarter of a century, to make sure that those two words, that little question, ‘who then?’ is left unanswered.

Even the war in Ukraine and what are believed to be huge Russian military losses, don't appear to have sparked disillusionment in Russia's President and Commander-in-Chief.

It was Putin's decision to launch the full scale invasion, but some Russians believe that at a time of war, it is their duty to back their leader without questioning his motives or the consequences.

Crucially, the other thing you find a lot of here is indifference. Many Russians don't seem to care who's in power in the Kremlin. They just hunker down in their town or village and try to get through life as best they can. Indifference, too, benefits Vladimir Putin.

For all these reasons, his fifth election victory isn't in doubt.

But what I find much harder to predict is Russia's future. These are very dark times. Darkest, of course, for Ukraine, but for Russia, too. You can feel aggression in Russian society building. You can see repression growing, and you can see a leader who is determined, whatever the cost, to emerge from this war the winner.”

—Steve Rosenberg, BBC's Moscow correspondent, on Russia’s short lived democracy turned autocratic dictatorship

#politics #ukraine #russia #russian invasion of ukraine #vladimir putin #russia is a terrorist state #vladimir putin is a war criminal #authoritarian state #dictatorships #russian elections #russian election #dictators

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fractualized · 10 months

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And so begins the Knight Terrors interlude for TMWSL! I'd thought maybe we'd get more clues to the which-Joker-is-Joker mystery with this, but this issue opens in the dream, and over in Knight Terrors: First Blood, there's just a small close-up with Joker's face when he becomes afflicted with sleep so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anyways spoilers, dark humor, and nightmarish imagery ahead.

The opening scene made me cackle, I found it so unexpected.

LOL Just. The fucking slide. Jesus.

Joker, Gaggy (whose presence may indicate the TMWSL backers are also dreams), and a goon (who is possibly a human stand-in for Jackanapes) confirm that Batman is, in fact, dead.

Aw, no point in the heist now that Batman is unable to stop it, and once again Joker's towing around the corpses of people he cares about.

He brought Bruce into the diner to sit next to him omfg

Earlier Joker laughed about Batman falling off the roof, but now it's sunk in that their epic battle ended forever in the dumbest way possible. Other heroes just don't have the same appeal.

Though Joker does try to keep up the fun.

But when the ship captain says it'll be easy for him to just hand it over…

It's just not the same. :(

PAUSE

I just want to highlight that Joker appears to be eating refried beans and marshmallows.

RESUME

As per usual, without Batman to fight, Joker realizes he doesn't have any other goals. Even Gaggy still has a taste for crime, and he throws the paper at Joker as he leaves.

(Side note: do you think Lex Luthor has shown up on Real Housewives of Metropolis? Like in party scenes or something?)

The Jobs section in the paper apparently spurs Joker to try something new. He goes for a job interview at none other than Wayne Enterprises, and we finally run into Insomnia.

Readers who've read Knight Terrors: First Blood will realize this man is this dream's manifestation of the Bad Guy Who Incited the Event, but if you haven't, just his appearance is a clue that something's not right about him.

But this is Joker's dream, so he doesn't notice anything weird apparently!

He looks like such a goof. 💕

Joker starts off the job by trying to search on his workstation for where all WE's money is or their secret weapons projects or…

….. something "of Bruce Wayne." Which has to be "naked pictures." I don't care if you think batjokes is real or not, that's the obvious fill-in.

We'll never know for sure because of Helen (which was also the name of the nurse in TMWSL #3 who called the cops on Joker at the hospital, and that probably doesn't mean anything, but I remembered it). Joker introduces himself.

(Johann was also a name from the hospital, the dead husband of that patient at the end of TMWSL #4. Which also probably doesn't mean anything but maybe Rosenberg could switch it up with names?)

Now that Batman is gone, it appears that Joker wants to start trouble at Bruce's old company instead. Even when he's trying to get a new purpose, it's still related to fucking with Bruce. Unfortunately for Joker, in a comedic bit about corporate bureaucracy, Helen reveals that their nameless department isn't really responsible for anything important.

A few weeks pass, and Johann becomes known as the office comedian.

But his supervisor does have complaints about his performance.

Joker does not respond well to this bad feedback!

Check out the issue if you want more of a man's head exploding.

The next morning, Joker tries to incite some kind of… uprising? Mass resignation?

Yeah, yeah, end-stage capitalism, we've all seen it, J.

In the regular world, Mr. Dee might be talking to Johann about that brutal murder in the breakroom, but as Joker prepares to take down Mr. Dee as well…

And here's some extra weirdness: Joker didn't start working at WE until after Batman plotzed himself. How has Bruce taken a shine to him?

That job title is killing me.

If you've taken a look at Knight Terrors: Batman, you know that Insomnia claimed that he has no control over where people's dreams go and that he's just going along for the ride. However, Insomnia certainly has control over how he presents, and he's looking for the Nightmare Stone. So I think the promotion he's offering is a careful suggestion to draw Joker deeper into this scenario to see if that's where Doctor Destiny hid the stone.

And it's interesting that Joker still says here that Batman is dead, despite two statements indicating that he's alive. If Batman is still around, that means so is Joker's reason for being. He should jump on this! But the thing is, this dream and TMWSL take place after Joker War, after the batjokes divorce. Batman explicitly abandoned Joker to figure out how to survive on his own, and they haven't seen each other since. In Joker 2021, Joker was implied to have suicidal thoughts. In TMWSL, we have one clown who left Gotham as soon as he returned, and another who was expressly depressed. Batman fucks with the rules of their game and ruins it? He might as well have died "like a %$!@?*& moron."

Insomnia is practically throwing a cue in Joker's face: Batman is still out there to play with! Joker can run out the door right now! Or he can burrow deeper into this new goal, into this dream, and hide from the abandonment. It feels like a test to see if Joker will take Insomnia where he wants to go.

And Joker chooses to burrow. More weeks pass, and now he's the funny(?) boss.

Instead of getting called to HR, he gets invited to drinks!

That guy's WTF, CAROL expression is killing me.

Wait. D'Amico??

That's the name of the doctor who pulled a bullet out of Joker's brain in TMWSL #3! These names can't be an accident at this point. I still don't know if they mean anything, but y'know, they're there.

Alright, so now Joker is at the point where he goes to office happy hours.

And he's not even killing anyone! That's a bad sign. Uh, for Joker, relatively. It's a good sign for anyone else. But who are those shadowy figures?

Our favorite murderclown is back in action, ready to remind any street thug that Gotham is his town!

Oh wait, it's not just any thug. It's Gaggy, who is very surprised to see Joker. Gaggy says he looked for Joker when he heard the rumors that Batman came back, and Joker tells him not to tell lies. His old life comes back and literally kicks him in the gut, once more telling him Batman is back, and Joker still doesn't want to hear it. He emphatically sheds the blood he just shed.

UM, YOURS? WHO ARE YOU?!

Just a jokey boss-guy, apparently…

It kills me that the fucking microwave is still there.

Yeah, you know this is definitely not a joke before we get to the end. Because Batman is definitely dead!

Until a guy says that Batman saved his wife from a mugging just last week.

Joker knows how handsome Batman is. That's why he was looking for those naked pictures.

So now Joker has someone not just referencing Batman or bringing up rumors, but talking about an actual encounter with for-real, swinging-around, totally alive Batman. And it seems to make him angry— until he waves it off, implying it might just be another guy. (And I mean, with all the kids Batsy's got around, maybe.)

He grimaces when the batsignal shines overhead, but again makes himself ignore it.

lol Is the white dog like a white rabbit? Knight Terrors: Poison Ivy also has a guy wearing a top hat with a white dog. I'm pretty sure that's not supposed to be Penguin because his shirt has shamrocks on it which feels more Jervisy… It won't be a shock if Mad Hatter has deeper involvement in these stories, but I didn't notice him in the Batman one so I dunno.

Once Joker gets in his apartment, we see flies. Lots of flies.

So back in the real world, Joker has been explicitly aware that Bruce Wayne is Batman since Snyder's run, but in this dream, he's back to separating them. Maybe this shift happened over the course of the dream, or maybe it's been since as early as the promotion conversation, when Joker didn't seem bothered by the mention of Bruce, but when Insomnia brought up Batman, Joker was quick to say he was dead. Either way, Joker's now acting like they're two totally different dudes, one a boring rich guy who Joker has no great interest in and never did, nosirree.

The news story is also interesting. Back near the beginning when Helen is explaining wtf their department actually does, it turns out to be, in a ludicrous roundabout way, related to accounting. So I'm guessing in Part 2, Johann gets called up to talk to Mr. Wayne about the mess… 👀

And Bruce Wayne is of little concern for someone who's gone up against Batman, now rotting in Joker's closet!!

Boy howdy.

This is an ominous chapter end for Joker. He wants to have some purpose outside of Batman, but 1) Batman is still obviously hanging over him no matter how much Joker tries to ignore him and 2) his efforts have thus far led him right back to where he was in his depression: rotting his brain with reality TV. Yeah, he has a job, but it means so little that it doesn't matter that he has no clue what he's doing. Yeah, his coworkers laugh at his jokes, but when they do it's because they're not taking him seriously at all. He's obviously harmed people, but they completely miss him as a threat. He's neutered!

So far, Joker's Knight Terror is a terrible dream about the stark way he sees life. You either get to be in endless magnificent rooftop fights with Batman, or you better find satisfaction in being an empty drone.

Putting this together with how TMWSL has been going and the Darwin Halliday stuff in Batman, it all feels like it's pointing to some change in direction for Joker in the future. I'm afraid I'm not going to like where it all ends up… but for now I'll keep enjoying Rosenberg's storytelling.

... Also hey is anyone at DC gonna write about where Joker got his fake eye? I know it doesn't matter but I keep wondering about it.

#knight terrors: joker #the man who stopped laughing #joker #my jibber-jabber #spoilers

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quordleona03 · 9 days

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Due South: RayV/Benton

Many years ago I wrote a multi-episode multi-fandom story called The Games, set in someone else's universe without permission (the Keptverse) and discovered halfway through that the creator didn't like what I was doing because she wanted the Keptverse to be RPF and my story was set in Chicago in the Keptverse and all of the characters were borrowed from my favourite series. In my story, Sam Gerard is the commander of an awkward squad of U.S. Marshals - a stray Brit, George Cowley: two seconded from the FBI, Dana Scully and Adam Pierson: the most recent recruits are fleeing something that happened California and the others can't quite figure out why Sam hired them, Rupert Giles and Willow Rosenberg: and: A former Chicago cop and a former Mountie, Ray Vecchio and Benton Fraser.

The only married couple in the team.

In the Keptverse, slavery is the law of the United States of North America, and the story opens when Sam buys Richard Kimble, sentenced to slavery for the murder of his wife, from what was meant to be a death sentence in the arena. Plot ensues.

This is an ensemble story, and while all of Gerard's team have POV chapters, none of them are the main characters - the protagonist/antagonist pair are Sam Gerard and Richard Kimble. But we meet both Benton and Ray in the first chapter of part 1, the opening story "The Games":

The kitchen was a big room with a table large enough for eight: there were files spread over half the surface, and a dark-haired man sitting reading through one of them, a cup of coffee beside him. “Ray,” Benton said, “are you busy?” “Benny!” The man sounded startled. “I thought Sam had a job for you? Who’s this? Hey, Will.” “What do you like to eat?” the young woman – Will? – Willow? – asked. She sounded as if she wanted to know, and Kimble realised after a moment she was asking him. He shrugged. He couldn’t think of an answer that sounded right. He was quite anxious to hear what Benton would say. But all Benton said was “Sam wanted him to have something to eat. Ray, are there any ready meals in the freezer?” “Ready meal?” Ray stood up. “Or something out of a can. I’m sure Sam didn’t mean us to go to any trouble. Besides, we still have thirteen files to read through on the Trenton case.” Benton paused a beat. “Of course, we can always take some of them home.” “Oh hell,” Ray said, “I’ll cook. Sit down. Will, are you hungry? You – what’s your name? – anything you don’t eat?”

Ray Veccho and Benton Fraser work so well as a married couple.

This section is from The Pieces, part 7 of The Games

“Benny, what the hell are you planning?” Ray pulled back, staring him in the face, his hands still on Benton’s shoulders. “What makes you think I’m planning anything?” “Because you just told me you loved me!” “Well, I do.” “I know that. You never say it. You never, ever say it. Not in so many words.” “Well, I’m sorry about that, Ray.” “What the hell are you planning? I love you too.” “I know that.” “Good.”

(The West Wing and M*A*S*H and Cagney and Lacey and House MD show up in The Games too, because of course they do.) I loved watching Ray Vecchio and Benton Fraser find their way into friendship with eahc other. I only ever wrote one other Due South story - Follow the Leader, about Ray kissing Fraser - but they were such a great couple and I'd love having more stories set in Chicago where they just happen to be. Both of them. Thanks to @ds30below for reminding me of how much I loved the two of them and their relationship!

#ds30below #ray vecchio #benton fraser #married couple #due south #keptverse #my fanfic

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lore-gore · 5 months

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Ride The Cyclone Open Roleplay

Doing a Ride The Cyclone roleplay.

Jane Doe: Taken by me

Ocean O'Connell Rosenberg: Taken by @democracyrockzz

Noel Gruber: Taken

Constance Blackwood: @jane-does-head @thenicestgirlintown

Mischa Bachinski: Taken by @max--jagerman

Ricky Potts: Taken by @krowsselfindulgy (@spacingbachelorette)

This will be the main trigger warning for the beginning of every scene:

Tw: death, unreality, body horror, implied gore, yelling, trauma, loss of identity, horny teens being horny teens

This will also be in the tags.

Any other trigger warnings should be added to reblogs as well as tags.

The concept is basically if Karnak died before ressurecting anyone. So it's just them doing silly shenanigans as ghosts, singing songs we think they would sing, and probably a bit of angst. It will mainly act as a follow up to the 2016 bootleg version, with yannick's edits of course. (If you headcanon a different performance of your song for your character that's fine.)

We will also create character sheets consisting of name, gender, pronouns, age, sexuality, sign, birthday, favorite ride, appearance, personality, backstory, and "the most _ in town." (Mine is the only one without a sign, birthday, and favorite ride. If you forget, don't worry, I can edit it in.)

It's how you imagine the characters, with a mix of headcanons and canon.

The uniforms are the same as the 2016 ones but without the plaid.

How they wear their uniform and how they accessorize is up to you.

You can interpret the characters however you'd like, but make sure to stay faithful to their base character traits. (Things like Noel being gay and Misha being Ukrainian. Also Ricky using MOBILITY AIDS THANK YOU.)

Be as descriptive as possible. (See mine and my friends character sheets for examples!)

Also me and friends are high school students, so please only other high school students!

No NSFW roleplay. Talking about sex is fine, but no actual sex scenes! I'd prefer SFW blogs too.

Characters having crushes on other characters is allowed, but it might not be reciprocated. (Me and @democracyrockzz are pretty much planning to do perfectdolls.)

Every thread will be a scene. When you want to start a new scene, make a new thread. Give a synopsis of what the scene will be about, as well as the location in the fair.

Example:

New Scene

Synopsis: The choir plays a board game.

@democracyrockz reblogged

Ocean: Guys look what I found!

(Ocean emerges with a board game)

Noel's roleplayer reblogged

Noel: Oh god, no.

It will be a public thread so people who aren't in the roleplay can still enjoy it.

No racist, sexist, ableist, saneist, colorist, binarist, pigmentist, homophobic, transphobic, biphobic, panphobic, acephobic, enbyphobic, queerphobic, xenophobic, islamophobic, fatphobic, misogynistic, transmisogynistic, body shaming, "pro-life", transid, "MAPS", pro contact para, TERF, anti semitic, anti neopronouns, anti xenogenders, anti mspec, anti BLM, anti feminist, or incel blogs.

Toxic behavior will not be tolerated. Hate comments will be deleted.

To claim your character, simply comment who you want to play or DM me.

Afterwords, write your character sheet. Take your time, the person playing Noel won't be ready for a little while so don't be rushed. (I'm getting ahead of time.) Make sure to tag me too.

Also let me know what to add to the main tw. If you plan on having your character bring a sensitive topic up, I need to add it.

I will then put your character sheet in the pinned post of my side blog @mystery-contestant. Make sure to follow it!

If you want to make changes to your already posted character sheet, edit the original post and send me a message letting me know!

You will know the roleplay has started as I will announce it on my side blog. I will be starting off the first "scene."

Also if there's something you think should be a main tw let me know!

We will be starting this summer!

Jane's character sheet!

Ocean's Character sheet!

Ricky's Character sheet!

Constance's Character sheet!

Breakdown of edits!

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bigstupid69 · 6 months

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Can we hear your Ocean hcs? Despite having her as your pfp you don't mention her that much hc wise please tellll - 🐀

I honestly just draw Penny more. I love my stupid problem child that is Ocean O'connell Rosenberg, but I don't talk about her much on Tumblr.

Here you go under the cut

She always runs for class president and wins since there is literally no competition. She's also a hall monitor and ruins everyone's day by existing.

She hosted a feminist club that literally had only 4 members including Noel from some reason (she dragged him in there).

Honestly I threw every single diagnosed illness I have into that poor girl but BPD Ocean is real to me and I will fight anyone who opposes it.

She like completely covers herself in any deodorant or perfume, but always faintly smells of weed because of her parents.

She's the type to constantly correct people's grammar and wording, doesn't matter if it's through text or not she will hunt you down if you're not using proper English.

She also texts with perfect grammar and punctuation, and uses emojis like a wine mom. LOVES to use the heart emoji passive aggressively.

She has the immune system of a sickly Victorian child and is also pretty much built like one. She can be snapped in half like a twig and will have a seizure if given a sour gummy worm. Despite being named Ocean she will drown if thrown into any body of water.

Ocean and Tammy absolutely hate each other and are student council rivals. They only act nice with each other when there's other people around other than the choir.

She absolutely hates the sound of people chewing gum and has screamed in Noel's face multiple times because of it.

When Ocean bumps into an inanimate object instead of doing the awkward apologizing to it, she will at points literally yell at it. Like it was the tables fault for her just being clumsy.

Ocean is simultaneously a loser and one of the awful popular girls, except she's just delusional and thinks she's popular when everyone literally hates her.

Mini perfectdolls time

Ocean commonly shakes like a rabid Chihuahua if she's resisting the urge to scream at someone. So she'll just be absolutely fuming as Penny holds her hand and literally does nothing helpful.

Plus Penny barely breaks up the fights between Mischa/Noel and Ocean unless they attempt to get physical. Even then most of the time she just watches unhelpfully, as Constance is usually the one who has to separate the two. Or having to force Penny to do something, which she just drags Ocean by the collar of her shirt as she's still screaming and kicking at Noel/Mischa.

#ride the cyclone #rtc #rtc musical #ocean o'connell rosenberg #ocean rtc #perfectdolls #rtc headcanons #headcanons

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redjaybathood · 1 month

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I'm sorry, I am still in the bomb shelter so I need to take my mind off the things like sounds of explosions and how my stomach is hurting right now from stress+constant coffee bc I've been pulling doubles and weekends on 3 hours of sleep basically the whole week+I literally have no food money left so I'm eating like, once a day and it's the cheapest crop there is. So yeah, my stomach is fucked up again.

Anyhow! Need to take my mind off things, and been browsing Tumblr insomuch as weak connection allows me. So happened upon a post that was about fixing Jason in comics. And the thing is, it's not about this particular post, I've seen a lot of them. By fixing things, people propose different things. Leave Gotham, have some of his own friends so not to steal from Dick of Tim, being community minded, etc etc. And most of the things listed are already in the canon.

Jason got his own friends back in 2016 with Artemis and Biz. Of course, Wonderfam/Artemis fans weren't happy about it either. And nobody would. You can literally not allow any established hero or villain or any character at all, to become Jason's friend, because it's stealing. You just need an OC. But fandom doesn't like OC that much either, seeing how when he got some more friends in 2020ish with Dana Harlowe (with a few unfortunate mentions in between, like Max Dawkins, fridged, and Numbers, rewamping Jason's story in Ma Gunn's school, never to be seen again), people were harping that it's rewriting Jason's history again, because he didn't have any childhood friends, otherwise he wouldn't be so alone and died. Now some people say that Martinborough doesn't respect Jason as a character and makes his OC the star of the show. So this doesn't work either.

Leave Gotham. He left Gotham plenty in 2016 run, and I'm not scandalsavage to be up to date on sales figures so I don't know how it did, financially speaking. İ would bet not that good tho. İ didn't enjoy the Year of the Villain event and Jason's group of kids/teen villains, and I don't see anyone enjoying them or even bringing them up in meta or hc or fic much. Yeah, I would bet it didn't do all that good. So. They probably wouldn't do that anymore.

And there's people who, the opposite. They want Jason back to street level, as if he ever was. Okay, so Red Hood: The Hill.

And there's people who say, Jason should help community in other, cool, hip, anarchist ways of growing community gardens or whatever. Do charity like multi gazillioner Bruce Wayne does. And wadda you know, Jason also did charity in canon! Again, Rebirth. İceberg Lounge arc.

The problem is consistency. The problem is making it matter for more than the issue it appears in.

İm sincerely holding up hopes for Martinborough's run. İt's a mini series, as far as I remember, and they're supposed to be easier in that - if you don't count, like, Rosenberg's Man Who Stopped Laughing being fucked by Zdarsky's Gotham War (fucking distasteful ; could have come up with a better name: Lover's Spat; or, Consequences of Not Getting Enough Sleep. Which honestly, I can relate, Bruce. Can relate.)

But from what I ve seen from the first issue, it's not exactly... There's too much going on and I don't know where he's going with it tbh.

#jason todd #fandom discourse

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saintmeghanmarkle · 1 month

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Allegedly and Pure Speculation from Benjamin Smallbook on Quora Tonight - Its Time We Turned Up The Heat in the Markle Kitchen. Is this plausible? Is our Saint angering British Media to the Brink? by u/daisybeach23

Allegedly and Pure Speculation from Benjamin Smallbook on Quora Tonight - “It’s Time We Turned Up The Heat in the Markle Kitchen.” Is this plausible? Is our Saint angering British Media to the Brink? From Quora:Journalists at one of the UK’s top news agencies are getting together with colleagues at France’s biggest agency, Agence France Press, to put pressure on Markle and her husband, to come clean about the kids that nobody can mention. I believe, but have no firm evidence of this, other than whispers, that the Anglo-French media operation is being supported by the Palace.Clearly the Palace feels that enough is enough. Maybe they think that now is the time to regroup, and introduce Eugenia and Beatrice as A-lister working Royals. The recent health scares in the Family seems to have focused the minds of the ‘men in grey suits’ at the Palace.The awful news is soon to be released that the Princess of Wales has been suffering from an undisclosed form of cancer. The new direction, with a new start, doesn’t need any distraction from the duplicitous actress and her husband.Press-releases have flown from Montecito, and they have angered those who have been gagged.One press-release told, “The Duchess of Sussex has instructed Jake Rosenberg, a New York-based photographer, to take pictures of Prince Archie and his sister Princess Lilibet. The photoshoot will coincide with the launch of the Duchess’s lifestyle and cookery brand, American Riviera Orchard.”But what angered people was the sentence, “The photos of the children will be for our own family, and not distributed for general use.”What game is this woman playing? And what stupidity is the public displaying by going along with this idiotic charade?No births have ever been officially medically verified, and her pregnancies were suspect, to say the least. Remember, Markle and her dipsy husband lied to us about the birth of the ‘Archie Doll’. Their announcement stated The Actress was in labour, when in reality, the ‘child’ had already been born! And when Harry was filmed holding a baby which was supposedly only two hours old, he said, “It’s surprising how babies change in the first two weeks.” What the hell was that all about?The late Queen would have been informed by her own security services, long before the immaculate birth took place! It would be naïve to think otherwise. At the same time, the media would have been issued with a gagging order. From that day on, none of the UK national publications mentioned ‘surrogacy, Markle and fake pregnancy’ in the same sentence. In fact, they couldn’t even announce that a gagging order was in place.Even the birth certificates were suspect, as was the non-naming of the Godparents. The paparazzi were out in force, but not one picture emerged of any cars leaving or driving back to Frogmore Cottage. This is one big scam that hopefully will be busted very soon.Rumours as to why the Royal Family is going along with this, are rife. Blackmail and ‘playing the race card’ are top of the list. The Royal Family is as white as white can be, and the despicable woman knows it. She also knows what she’s doing. post link: https://ift.tt/jBsziPG author: daisybeach23 submitted: March 23, 2024 at 06:09AM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit disclaimer: all views + opinions expressed by the author of this post, as well as any comments and reblogs, are solely the author's own; they do not necessarily reflect the views of the administrator of this Tumblr blog. For entertainment only.

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cyclone4ride · 9 months

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Let’s look into the more personal life of Ocean O’Connell Rosenberg.

Ocean is more of the same in the musical (Minus the ableism because that’s a no no), but after the bite and her transformation, she becomes a little more humble, understands that she needs to think more about others when it comes to saving the day. Of course, she decides that being a superhero can blend in well with her school work, extracurricular activities, and her outside home hobbies.

Poor girl is exhausted beyond imagination, and only Noel and Ricky knows the reason. The choir obviously sees that she is a second away from being burnt out, but thought it was just her usual self, at least Constance was worried about her resting.

Her best friend is still Constance, and she would do anything to keep her safe. Even if it means to keep a secret she would know it would hurt her more if she hid it from her friend.

Mischa is a huge fan of Spider Silk, he thinks that this new hero makes all of these Canadian police be put to shame. “Spider Silk is representation of society defying any corrupted political teams to have civilians have uprise and finally have the freedom we need,” He would say after checking twitter about Spider Silk.

“…Sure,” Ocean trailed off, looks at the newspapers filled with her alter ego’s name about her being a “web slinging menace”. It hurts, but nothings she isn’t used to from school bullies.

Penny eventually learns about Ocean’s secret, and after a few minutes of freaking out, she accepted that fact that one of her friends was Spider Silk, and asks so many questions about her powers. “Does your web just come out of your wrist?… Or does it come out of anywhere else-?” Penny muttered while inspecting Ocean’s wrist.

“J-Just the wrist, Penny!” Ocean stammered while feeling all red. Penny has no filter in asking her out of pocket questions, so Ocean just has to get used to random spider related questions from her.

Ocean: studying

Penny leaning in the whisper in her ear: if you give someone a hickey, would your hormones make your venom pleasurable to others?

Ocean, already slamming her book shut and standing up: That’s enough studying for today.

Noel and Ricky help her out immensely, from homework to patching up any wounds from a fight, they care for Ocean’s well being while being under the mask, even if Noel claims he wouldn’t care if she’d get hurt. (He’ll be the first one to freak out if she gets a scratch) Ricky loves making his own Spider Silk merch and showing it to Ocean, who secretly cries at his creations.

Maybe being a spider like hero wouldn’t be so bad. At least for a few weeks at least.

#ride the cyclone #rtc #mischa bachinski #noel gruber #ricky potts #spider man au #constance blackwood #penny lamb #ocean o'connell rosenberg #ocean o’connell rosenberg #ocean oconnell rosenberg

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hero-israel · 2 years

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Hi there! So I have what feels like a stupid question, but I'm coming up empty and you are very knowledgeable. When I first started learning more about Judaism and Israel, I was coming from a leftist goyische American viewpoint that sees Medinat Yisrael as guilty of atrocities as a baseline belief, even if it didn't name specific incidents. Whenever I would look into these claims to understand the specific allegations though, I would just see more generic claims about how Israel is a settler-colonial state, how Israel is trying to genocide Palestinians, how Israel is a warmongering apartheid country, but very little in the way of specific incidents to back up these very serious accusations. Anything that seemed like it might go into that was either 1) in Hebrew, 2) in Arabic, and/or 3) so virulently antisemitic as to make it a compromised source. Occasionally I would find a claim that made sense to me, and then I would immediately find another source thoroughly debunking it. Eventually I just kind of gave up looking for any evidence of malfeasance and just waited for the (typically Jewish sources only) retractions to roll in 3 months later. Anyway at this point, years later, I'm now a progressive Zionist Jew, but I'm still baffled and it makes me feel like I'm losing my mind a bit, because I've literally never found what they're talking about and it's made me question every other political situation more, because what if there's a similar situation? I'd be fine to hear genuine criticisms of Israel and things to address, but so far I haven't found anything based in verifiable facts. At this point my trust in mainstream media is zero, so I guess what I'm asking is (a) are there genuine atrocities happening and if so, are there non antisemitic sources reporting on it and progressive Zionists trying to address them, and (b) if not, besides frustrated incoherent sputtering, any ideas about how to get goyische leftists to give a shit about facts and fact-checking? Any favorite sources that aren't right-wing and/or Islamophobic/anti-Arab?

....how did you ever get an Ask that long?

It is okay to feel unsure where to start, since Israel is a topic where most of the "common knowledge" is complete lies and many of the "expert sources" are antisemitic conspiracy crackpots. That includes the New York Times (probably the most prestigious newspaper in the world, openly loathes Jewish distinctiveness and whitewashes those who murder and ethnically cleanse us), the Lancet (most prestigious medical journal in the world, turned its pages over to KKK and 9/11Truther memelords to "criticize Israel"), every reporter and NGO who bought into the "Jenin massacre of 2002" hoax, every Twitter account that says "Israel sterilized African Jews and trained cops to kill African-Americans", and the United Nations (which is just Congress but with less democracy and more racism).

Recommended sources for accurately reporting on Israel - both the good and the bad - include:

Benny Morris

Tom Segev

Yair Rosenberg

Matti Friedman

David Schraub

Bari Weiss

Aviva Klompas

Eve Barlow

Emily Schrader

I could have listed more if you hadn't specifically asked me to avoid people who self-ID as conservatives. Hope this helps!

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i have a new headcanon because none of them have an older sibling (constance voice) THAT'S WEIRD. for the sake of this, i'll imagine the show was set in 2009 and ocean was therefore born in 1991. this could totally work in a 2020s timeline but it's better if i go with a fixed timeline. canonically, ocean's parents smoke a lot of weed and lots of psychedelics. while, of course, hippies have existed in some way since the subculture was introduced and drugs have always been a thing, i specifically theorise that ocean's parents were participants in the "summer of love", 1967. tell me right now that doesn't sound like something they would totally be into (despite not really loving their daughter but i digress). so i think they were teenagers/young adults in 1967, born late 40s-early 50s. what does that mean? it's a little unlikely that they only had one kid, ocean when they were in their early 40s. of course, it's possible, since it doesn't seem as though they purposefully had ocean and/or some people do have kids later in life. HOWEVER, i propose that ocean's parents had a kid in the late 60s/early 70s who was 20-something when ocean was born. however, the second she (NONE OF THE CHOIR HAS A SISTER SO HERE YOU GO) turned 18, she got the *fuck* out of there. but uranium is a small town, so it's totally plausible that their parents got more extreme in their eco-friendly lifestyle and moved away to the outskirts of uranium around that time and their daughter didn't come.

so yeah. that's my headcanon. ocean's parents had her when they were in their early 40s and ocean has an older sister and neither have *any idea* about the other. bonus tragic points: the sister only finds out when she googles her name for some reason and a result on the first page is "the victims of the cyclone crash were: ocean o'connell rosenberg, noel gruber..." and she freaks the FUCK out.

#rtc #ride the cyclone #rtc headcanons #tw drug use #tw drug mention #ocean o'connell rosenberg #ocean rtc #im really just giving her an older sister bc no one else canonically has an older sibling OR a sister #so ocean gets both :)#also to note: ocean's parents suffered from addiction but also were bad parents. they are both victims and the ones causing the suffering #the sister feels bad bc she couldn't be for ocean the exact thing she needed growing up

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twinkubus · 2 years

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I would love some book recs! especially queer literary fiction!

Amazing!! I would love to share :) Also responding @ anon who asked for my trans book recs. This is for you too!

Since this is so long it'll probably get cut off on the dashboard, tl;dr there will be 1) list of trans-authored books and 2) a list where I talk about queer authors more generally (which includes some trans people that don't have trans characters in their books (yet)).

Trans Books by Trans Authors

Sketchtasy by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Nevada by Imogen Binnie

The Pervert by Remy Boydell (graphic novel)

X by Davey Davis

Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman

Transmuted by Eve Harms

Future Feeling by Joss Lake

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor

Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel by Julian K Jarboe

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones by Torrey Peters

The Masker by Torrey Peters

Little Blue Encyclopedia (For Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante

A Dream of a Woman by Casey Plett

A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett

Little Fish by Casey Plett

Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom

The Black Emerald by Jeanne Thornton

Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton

Small Beauty by jia qing wilson-yang

The above are all trans-authored books that have trans characters in them. They are mostly lit fic with a few dips into genre here and there. I have bolded some of my faves!

For queer book recs/authors more generally,

Poppy Z. Brite, the pen name of Billy Martin, who is gay and trans. He has some great 90s horror novels, in particular Exquisite Corpse, a gay serial killer thriller/romance.

Dennis Cooper, writes gay "extremist" fiction, my fave of which is The Sluts, which takes place entirely on an early 2000s gay escort forum.

Shola Von Reinhold, another trans author, wrote one of my fave books I've read this year, LOTE, which is textually extremely transgender, but I don't think explicitly "labels" the mc as trans, so I'm putting it in this list. I usually use 'dark academia' as a pejorative but this would be dark academia in the best sense of the word. Involves lots of research into weird stuff, hyperfixations, and very little academia.

Brontez Purnell writes lit fic about black gay men, and has another one of my fave books, Since I Laid My Burden Down, as well as probably the best title in this list: Johnny Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger. Those were both smallish press releases, I believe, but he's gotten more attention recently via his FSG short story anthology, 100 Boyfriends.

Sarah Schulman. If you are on Tumblr hopefully you already know about her. If you haven't read any of her fiction, I'd recommend Rat Bohemia, Empathy, and People In Trouble (this is the book Rent was based off of).

Brandon Taylor is very popular on twitter but I feel like I haven't seen much about him on tumblr. I really liked his debut novel Real Life, which follows a gay black postgrad student in a midwestern PhD program full of mostly white people. He also has an anthology, Filthy Animals, full of linked stories that take place in a similar setting.

James Baldwin. Another classic author. If you haven't read Giovanni's Room, go read it.

Carmen Maria Machado has a stunning memoir, In The Dream House, about lesbian domestic violence. She also writes speculative fiction stories, some can be found in the collection Her Body and Other Parties.

Eric LaRocca is gay horror's current darling due to his breakout hit Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, about an online long-distance lesbian d/s relationship. He's been pumping out the books recently, all with great titles and covers.

Jean Kyoung Fraiser released a debut last year that was in my top faves as well, Pizza Girl, a coming-of-age story about a just-married and recently pregnant 18 year-old who works (you guessed it) as a pizza delivery girl, and develops a crush on an older woman, one of her customers.

Venita Blackburn wrote How to Wrestle a Girl, a black lesbian coming-of-age short story anthology. Also a recent release. I really loved the writing in this one.

...Okay, I think that's most of the big hitters for me at least! Going to give a few honorary mentions: Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park, translated from Korean, about the life of a young gay man in Seoul. Also anything by Joe Koch, who writes horror, nothing specifically gay/trans that I have read yet, but The Wingspan of Severed Hands is really beautiful stylistically.

And just one more, since it's October: The Route of Ice and Salt by Jose Luis Zarate, published in the 90s and translated from Spanish, a gay reimagining of Dracula's sea voyage to England.

#queer fiction #lgbt fiction #book recs #idk if there are any tags people use lol well whatever #hope you can find smth you like :)#ask #currently reading

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mor-alternate · 2 months

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College AU

Salieri is a literature student

Salieri doing something he actually likes is way too alien of a concept for me

In real life, Salieri didn’t actually take “proper” music lessons and even refused to go to a music school to learn music directly from Gassmann

Salieri himself said that he only had 3 big passions that followed him throughout his life as a whole: music, literature and sugar (his words, not mine)

He would only have picked this major because he thinks there isn’t much of a future for him in the music industry

He only stays because of Da Ponte, otherwise he probably would have dropped out

He has perfect grades tho

Da Ponte is Salieri’s best friend

Everyone thinks it’s Rosenberg but Salieri finds him rather annoying

He finds Da Ponte annoying too

He finds everyone annoying truth be told

But Da Ponte is his favorite annoying person (prior to meeting Mozart)

They’re roommates so he didn’t get much of a choice in this friendship

Mozart was homeschooled for most of his life

He travelled a lot in his childhood, so it makes sense

Got sick a lot too

His dad never let him rest when sick because Leopold was just an asshole like that

He’s a music student

He goes to the same university as Salieri because in this AU, Salieri never created the “School of Music and Performing Arts” so no MDW

The “Mozarteum University” obviously doesn’t exist either

He skipped a few years technically, but since he passed all the necessary exams he got to enroll

I don’t know much about Austrian education; this isn’t meant to be accurate

Mozart is almost 18

Again, skipped a few years

Child prodigy and stuff

He turns 18 in January, before getting with Salieri

He jokes a lot about Salieri having a crush on him when he was 17 and it making him a predator

Salieri does NOT like those jokes

Salieri just turned 20 before the beginning of the school year

He had to retake a year when he arrived to Austria but he’s a quick learner so he adapted quickly

Didn’t have much of a choice

Sink or swim situation

Still managed to catch up and skip a year somehow

Gassmann is one of Mozart’s teachers

He was a music teacher, it makes sense

He’s one of Mozart’s favorite teachers

One of Salieri’s too, even if he doesn’t have any classes with him

He’s like Salieri’s second dad

They don’t live together solely for plot reasons

Joseph II is the director of the school

No one is actually sure of what his last name is, so everyone just uses his first name

The “II” is a joke on the fact that his mother used to be directress before him

Salieri is trans

This is one of the reasons he was so eager to leave Italy

No one knows except Da Ponte

He’s under T and wearing binders and tape when he can

Somehow nobody questions it when he doesn’t

He thinks Mozart would get him a silly Miku binder if he learned

He’s right

Mozart does learn eventually

Every Salieri kinnie I know is trans

We need more trans Salieri AUs

Da Ponte befriends Mozart on the second trimester

Mozart is quite happy about it, even if he has many “friends”

Most of his “friends” are actually just acquaintances

Da Ponte is the first to learn about his crush on Salieri

And the first to learn about Salieri’s crush on Mozart

Salieri wants nothing to do with Mozart because of his crush

Da Ponte tries to set them up without telling either one he knows the other likes them back but his friends are both incredibly smart except when it comes to feelings

He’s exhausted

Somehow, he’s the last to learn when his friends finally get together

He did NOT take that last fact well

#mozalieri #mozart l'opera rock #mozart x salieri #antonio salieri #salieri #mozart #au #alternate universe #college au #idiots in love #except the idiots are both smart #mlor #mozart l'opera rock alternate universe #mlor au #mor au

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chicago-geniza · 7 months

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Anyway since I've been ruminating about the tendency to conflate EE Jewish history writ large w/ "heritage" (in my less generous moments I call it "the genealogy impulse") & grousing about the way "deassimilation" is used re: political work and language learning, and feeling itchy about the stories some recently-radicalized American Jews I've encountered (often raised middle-class, liberal, Zionist, though by no means always) tell themselves about, well, Eastern European Jews, situated historically. I am making a reading list in descending order of Esoteric:

--Assimilated Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940-1943 by Katarzyna Person --From Rochel to Rose & Mendel to Max by JH Greenberg --Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880-1920 by Eli Lederhandler --A Rosenberg by Any Other Name by Kirsten Fermaglich --The chapter of Irena Krzywicka's memoir where she explains her rationale for joining PPS instead of the Bund (okay, it's not in English, I'll translate it) --Naftali Vaynig's Yiddish-language review of Stefania Zahorska and Herminia Naglerowa in Literarishe bleter, 1938 --Julian Tuwim's Polish interview translated into Yiddish for Literarishe bleter, the famously but cryptically antisemitic review of Leśmian in Tygodnik illustrowany, the excerpt of Stefania's Korzenie published in Wiadomości, Słowacki's "Hymn," Melech Ravich's last attempt at Polish-language poetry, & Sutzkever's "Tsu poylin"

#I miss teaching lol

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meowydoe · 10 months

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@june-doe-event - day 30!

I haven’t done June Doe for a few days but I really wanted to post something for the last day, and luckily I had a fanfic I wrote idk how long ago that I just found in my notes app

beware, it’s kinda long and I didn’t read through it for grammatical errors

“Final vote” the machine boomed. “Ocean Rosenberg. It has been decided that you should have the final vote.”

“..Over what?” Her voice trembled

“Who lives or dies.”

“You told us we all had to agree on that!”

“I have decided that the final vote shall go to the one with the highest grade point average. You are first”

“No, you told us we *all* had to agree on it, we are going to stick with what you said, I-“

Ocean stops in her tracks. A mysterious blue glow emerges behind her. It’s calling her. It almost feels as if.. it’s pulling her in on its own.

“What’s that”

“The other side, you merely walk in, just don’t-“

“I choose myself.”

The choir all turns from the portal, now facing Ocean. None are exactly mad at her. They’re all just.. disappointed. Ocean knew better than this. She was getting better. She was becoming more. Why would she tear herself down lower than where she had started?

“Why would someone be brought back if they hated the life that they lived? Why would someone be brought back if their life was terrible? Why would someone be brought back just to never be listened to again? Why would someone be brought back if they never enjoyed their life even if they had it way better than everyone else? Why would someone be brought back to life if NOBODY EVEN BOTHERED TO REMEMBER THEM. NO PARENTS TO CLAIM THEM. NOBODY CARING.” Ocean’s voice becoming increasing unhinged.

“Very well then.”

Ocean steadily walked towards the other side. One more step, then it would be like none of this had ever happened. She could live her dream. She could finally become the one who she was trying to be since the third grade. One more step and she would leave it all behind.

She stops for a moment. Perhaps rethinking her choice. At least the choir hoped. One small step forward.

Ocean turned around to see who she would be leaving behind. Their faces were all so upset. Even Noel was tearing up. The aura of disappointment was surrounding them. Ocean noticed something was off. Who.. was that?

There seemed to be a girl in Jane Doe’s place. A girl with two long brunette braids at her sides and piercingly bright green eyes, her face becoming too blurry to make out any specific features. What was her name..

“Time is pressing, Rosenberg”

She quickly whipped her head over to the ominous novelty machine. Right. She needed to go. This was her decision. She walked towards the light, reaching for whatever lied beyond it.

Ocean awoke in a hospital bed. Why was she there? She hadn’t been just born again, had she? There was no way that Karnak would start her life over again that couldn’t be it.

“Oh, you’re awake!” said a nurse on the other side of the room, “I’ll go get you some breakfast, okay?”

Ocean weakly nodded.

Not reborn. Good. Then what?

…Oh, right, the accident.

She survived the cyclone roller coaster incident, that’s what she’d voted for to happen. It was definitely possible to save her. I wonder what would happen if Jane Doe were to be voted…

“Here’s breakfast for today!” The nurse returned. She moved the tray table from beside the bed and placed a plate of fruit, a waffle, and a cup of water. “If you need anything just let me know, okay?”

Ocean sighed out a “mhm” as she put a blueberry into her mouth. It was very difficult to speak, both from a knot in her stomach and literally being dead five minutes ago. She ate another blueberry, then spotted a paper that was on the tray table. A newspaper.

“Our Six Saints” it read across the headline.

Oh, right. She was the lone survivor. All of the bonding she had with the choir was all just a memory now. Her childhood friendship with Constance. All of it was nothing now. Her hands slightly crumpled the edges of the newspaper as she read it, holding back tears. This is what she wanted.. right?

“Guess who’s the ‘headline maker’ now” A familiar, nasally voice said.

Ocean’s eyes quickly shot up. No no, it couldn’t really be..

“Noel…?” She quietly asked, her voice breaking.

Surely enough, a semi-transparent Noel Gruber was standing in front of her. Wearing the Saint Cassian uniform, which was disheveled and painted with blood.

“At your service”

“But.. you…..”

“You didn’t listen to the rules, Ocean.”

What rule? There wasn’t a rule mentioned?

Oh.

Oh no.

She’d cut Karnak off before he could say it. She was too busy choosing herself. How selfish was she? Everyone except for her had genuine and valid reasoning to come back. And she chose herself. Why of course she did.

“I’m sorry, I was just, I-“

“Save it, Ocean” Another voice said. Ricky, surely enough. Ocean still wasn’t used to hearing his voice, let alone hearing it angry.

“We trusted you.” A Ukrainian accented voice said

“We thought you knew better than this. We thought you’d changed. Maybe we were wrong” Another, much more high pitched, voice called, very obviously overwhelmed with tears. Just the voice alone made a tear stream down Ocean’s cheek.

“Constance, I’m so sorry, I was just not thinking straight, and I hadn’t really thought through a serious decision yet, and… and” She continued on, but her voice was less and less understandable after it was flooded with tears and sniffles.

Ocean was whipping her eyes around the room. Even the sterile hospital room felt dirty with how she was feeling right now. The four teenagers were sadly staring at her. She nearly had a panic attack when she felt a presence beside her.

She looked to her left, where the tray table was originally sitting. There was Jane Doe. Or… what was her name….

Jane Doe stared at her. Not a single word. Her face began to warp, changing from her usual porcelain doll self into a regular teenage girl. A regular teenage girl with two brunette braids, bright green eyes, freckles, and a button nose. She seemed so familiar now.

Ocean’s vision began to blur. The choir fading in and out of the room every time she blinked. Her surroundings changing from the hospital to the abandoned warehouse.

Ocean returned to the empty warehouse, just like she was before. It was like none of this had ever happened, she was back in the exact moment she had said she wanted to vote for herself.

“Do you still feel comfortable with your decision, Ocean Rosenberg?”

“.. No.”

The choir’s faces instantly changed.

“I do not want for myself to come back”

“Very well then. Then who shall?”

“.. everyone.”

“I only have the power to bring back one of you”

“No. You can bring us all back. I’m sure of it. Nobody here is going to be left alone”

She turned to look at Constance

“Not again.”

Constance smiled, eyes swelled with tears. Which kind of tears these were are yet to be decided.

“Try your best out there. And make it quick”

The choir all grabbed onto each other’s hands and slowly walked toward the other side. Instead of looking back this time, Ocean looked to her side. To Constance. She knew this was the correct decision. She could never be more sure.

They all took one last step out of this warehouse. They all took one last step towards a second beginning.

I know the dream of life is never ending

It goes around and round and round again

You know the sun is rising while descending

It goes on and on and never ends

#ride the cyclone #rtc #ride the cyclone musical #if it’s bad don’t tell me i don’t need to know that #daisy writes stuff !!

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