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[makeyoumine69]

My Lovely Detective II

— PAIRING: Patrick Bateman x Fem!Detective!OC

— CO-WRITER: @iron-flavored-lipgloss

— CONTAINS: Non-con drug use & touching, kidnapping, gags.

— WORDS: 3k

— A/N: Thank you for your support! 💗💗💗

— LINKS: [MASTERLIST]; [SERIES MASTERLIST]; [AO3].

Dinner

After nearly two weeks of exhaustive research, seeking additional evidence, and hints to challenge Bateman in their impending meeting, Andrea had finally reached the day of their scheduled dinner—an opportunity to probe deeper with her questions. 

Indeed, it had been a testing period for Andrea, as her sleep was sporadic, and her mind was in overdrive, driven by the conviction that Bateman was hiding his true self. Even after numerous discussions with Kimball, her suspicions had only intensified. Amid this, Andrea began to exhibit subtle behavioral changes, ones that even her boyfriend Derek picked up on. However, she reassured him, attributing it to her work pressure.

'Was it?'

When Andrea arrived at the restaurant, Bateman was waiting for her outside. New York looked amazing in the dark time and it suited Patrick so much that the detective just stood aside and admired him for a moment. 

"Mr. Bateman! I hope I didn't keep you waiting too long!" The brunette chirped as she came closer. Her cheap coat was not warm and the dress was even cheaper, but this was the best dress she had, since she hated this kind of clothes.

"It's no problem." For once, the man was being honest, because he had made some preparations. 

First of all, he had chosen a cheap restaurant, the kind of place where he or any of his colleagues wouldn't be seen under normal circumstances.  Cheap by his elitist standards, of course. 'My lovely detective would be embarrassed by the price list anyway.' 

Second, Patrick had called the restaurant himself instead of Jean, giving him the opportunity to place the reservation under an alias. This was also the reason why he had arrived early, when he usually preferred to have his dates wait for him. Now 'Mr. Thompson' had already checked in and the detective would never hear about the false name. This time, Patrick really wanted to make sure that his presence in this place would be impossible for Kimball or anyone else to verify. He wanted to erase this date from Jean's notes as well. 

In his pockets was Rohypnol, ground to powder. A drug so strong she wouldn't even notice her way back to his apartment. But he wouldn't do anything to her until she wasn't fully conscious again, no. He wanted her to be so terribly aware of her situation.

Observing the woman who sat unsuspecting before him, Patrick took in the details of her attire. Her dress, which stirred a wave of disdain in him, and her shoes, of mock leather that rankled his senses, were noted with a critic's eye. Despite his distaste for her choices, a sense of unsettling calm washed over Patrick with the forethought of what was to come. Each element of her visage kindled within him an uncomfortable response, a feeling he grappled to understand, even as he plotted its demise.

"I've already checked our table, it has a very atmospheric placement. Let's go inside, shall we?"

The atmosphere inside the restaurant was amazing, Andrea had never been in places like this before, so when they took their table and the waiter brought them the menu, the detective visibly tensed in her seat.

"I'm not really hungry," the woman explained after looking through the countless dishes. "I think I'll just have some coffee, since I didn't come here to eat, but to ask you more questions."

With that, Andrea took out her beloved black notebook and put it on the table, almost dropping the glass of mineral water that was close by, but she pretended nothing had happened.

"So, I've been talking to Mr. Kimball about his conversation with Bethany's boyfriend and I've learned a lot of interesting information," the detective gave Bateman a small smile, noticing his slightly nervous movements as he adjusted his tie. "Bethany's boyfriend said that you and Bethany broke up because you didn't want children, while Bethany wanted a family. Is that true?"

Andrea brushed her curly hair and placed them on her shoulder, exposing her collarbone without even realizing it, the curve of her heavy breasts even more noticeable as she leaned down on the table as she waited for Patrick's answer.

'Was that the reason?' It seemed likely, and Patrick tried to remember, but admittedly it could have been him sleeping with other girls - did Bethany ever consider him to be faithful?

"Yes. I was never interested in building that kind of family, so of course that was an obstacle to a future together."  Patrick swallowed hard, but for once it was not the fear of being caught - the thought always lingered in the back of his mind. 

It was an innocent movement of hers that caught his attention - her wild hair swayed back, drawing his gaze to the now fully exposed cleavage. It was not a modest sight compared to the suit, and Patrick told himself that the heat that washed over his body was just irritation at her slutty attitude. 

‘What a cheap way to distract me’,  but he had to admit that for all the things she lacked in his eyes, her breasts looked perfect. 

Up until now he had wanted to drug her to torture and kill her, she wasn't his type (and why would he settle for that when he could have anyone else?), but now other fantasies found their way into his mind… Patrick was suddenly very grateful for the waiter who came their way.

The detective was busy writing down Bateman's comments when the waiter came to their table. "Are you ready to order, sir?" The waiter asked, looking attentively at Patrick and then at Andrea.

"I'll have a double cappuccino," Andrea replied, handing him the menu. "And maybe another glass of water."

The waiter - a young man with a perfect smile - nodded a little confused. "Ma'am, how about some dessert to go with the coffee?"

Frowning, she put her notebook aside and looked at the waiter, her slight irritation palpable in the air. "No, just coffee and water, please."

"Are you sure? The charcoal cake with durian cream is outrageous here! No, please — be my guest," Patrick said with a condescending smile.

Without even giving the detective a chance to answer, he had already instructed the waiter, along with the usual J&B for himself. Actually, he did not care much for culinary pleasures, let alone sweets, but he had chosen the most expensive option among the desserts. 

Perhaps he could disguise the drug as powdered sugar instead? But either way, Miss Moore had been far too observant so far. "Anything else you want to know about my love life?"

Bateman's question only made the detective smile and chuckle, his arrogant manner and self-centeredness amusing to her.

"Mr. Bateman, I already got the point that you're very successful with women, I really did," she paused and took a sip of water. "But did you say you were engaged? I think you did during our first meeting in your office."

'Not that I really care, but maybe it can trigger him to give me more information.'

"Does your fiancée know you keep in touch with your ex-girlfriend?" Andrea asked. Right after that, the waiter brought them their drinks. "Thank you." The waiter grinned at them and went to get their dishes.

The detective felt a strange thrill of the rush, as if she was getting closer to solving the mystery of Patrick Bateman, and all the knowledge she got from Mr. Kimball only fuelled her passion for it.

"Yes, I am indeed engaged." His attempt to confuse her had backfired terribly and it was impossible for Patrick to keep his voice neutral. He only managed not to reveal the growing level of aggression he was feeling towards her by taking a deep sip from the finely polished whiskey glass.

'Oh, that little bitch, I'm going to make her cry tears of pain and remorse.'

"I don't think my fiancée would care. After all, nothing had happened between me and Bethany, and my intentions were of a friendly nature."

Evelyn not caring about any of this was probably true, but not for the reason Patrick gave the detective. She was probably dating Timothy Price today. 

"Some people are still faithful these days, you know. Is that what you believe in? Then you wouldn't have to explain this dinner to your partner."

The moment Bateman mentioned her partner, something heavy dropped in her gut. What the hell?

"I'm committed to relationships based on love and trust," Andrea replied, the broad smile never leaving her face. "But I don't think it can really work with guys like you, since yuppies change their dates like gloves."

The tone of her voice was more aggressive than annoyed, but she didn't like how it sounded anyway. Besides, the heat that suddenly coursed through her body from his unexpected question made her blush, and the only good option now was to excuse herself and go to the bathroom.

"If you excuse me, I have to use the bathroom." And with that Andrea retreated, but she didn't forget to take all her stuff with her.

'So, she has someone waiting for her…'

Patrick stared at her back (or rather her ass), somewhat stunned by this little outburst. Of course, he only cared because it would mean another person worried about Detective Moore's whereabouts. Hopefully she wasn't as much of a blabbermouth as Bethany had turned out to be. 

'Once I'm done with her, not even her boyfriend will want to take her back,' he thought darkly, her disparaging view of yuppies bothering him much more than it should. 'Screw love and trust.'

The woman's fate would soon be sealed. Rohypnol was a hell of a drug, robbing its victims of the ability to move and talk for hours, to the point of losing their minds - long enough to take her body back to his apartment. 

Making sure no one was paying attention to him, Patrick finally took the opportunity to stir the drug into both the rest of her coffee and the water. He could only hope that she would choose one or the other, but he was confident enough. After all, why would she waste something that cost the price of her awful dress?

Meanwhile in the bathroom…

'Fucking bastard,' Andrea kept repeating to herself as she washed her hands. Before the woman left the bathroom, she looked at her reflection, motivating herself to be strong and not to let this narcissistic king trap her in his net.

After a few minutes, the woman came back to their table and found Bateman talking sweetly to some random woman, but the moment the detective took her seat, he stopped his conversation and his full attention was on her again.

"I think I forgot to ask you the most important question," Andrea stated abruptly, picking up her cup of coffee. "Where were you the day Bethany disappeared?" A small sip of cappuccino made her think that it was a little sweeter than before, but the woman condemned herself for being paranoid. "I'm interested in the part of the day that followed your dinner with her."

Smirking, Andrea drank her coffee with double effort because it was so damn tasty — it was abnormally tasty.

"I believe I was returning some videotapes. Or maybe I just went straight home." Patrick didn't take his eyes off her, watching the woman's every move. 

There was a crucial point, a very sudden one, where the drug would take effect. And since he didn't want to attract attention, he would have to leave the scene quickly, as if leading a drunk on his arm. Just outside the restaurant, he had parked a rental car. Never before had Patrick given so much deliberation to a crime, his style was usually impulsive, and in that sense she got special treatment. It bothered him, the sheer effort that had already gone into planning this. 

But he would make it worth it.

"It's already late at night. I don't know what really happened to Bethany... Are you going to find a safe way home?" he said casually, noticing the unnatural fluttering of her eyelids, and for the first time that day Patrick felt a cold certainty calming his nerves.  "I could always give you a ride, not a big deal."

It was strange when Andrea suddenly felt so tired and exhausted as if she had just run a sprint. "What... what did you say?" She mumbled incoherently and rubbed her eyes. "Can you...repeat...please?"

The surrounding sounds faded into the void, her eyes were so heavy that she could barely keep them open, and the way Bateman was smiling right now made her think that she was so fucked up. Time stopped for her when the woman almost fell on the table, but she managed to lean on her elbows. 

Before she blacked out, Andrea took one last look at her empty coffee cup. "Bastard...you..."

And then she fell into the abyss.

In a rare moment of sincerity, Patrick finally let his facade slip - his face showing an expression of undisguised triumph. It was the last thing Detective Andrea Moore must have noticed before she collapsed, cursing him in vain with the last of her strength. 

Where he would normally have used his Amex card, Patrick now threw a more than generous amount of cash on the table. 

'Consider it a gift, buddy,' Bateman thought to himself, looking around for the waiter who had served them, before lifting Andrea, who was completely unconscious.

Seconds later, a dimly lit silhouette made its way through the cold night air of New York, Manhattan. He held a smaller figure close to his body, a gesture the unassuming eye would consider romantic. In reality, she was a dead weight in his arms, and Patrick could easily lift her onto one of the back seats like a crash dummy. 

Once in a good mood, he turned on the radio —  One Way or Another by Blondie — was playing, and made his way through the dense traffic of the never-sleeping city. 

It took them an hour to reach the American Gardens Building, and she hadn't moved a muscle the entire time.

Getting past the security guard was also ridiculously easy - the man, already half asleep, didn't bother to keep an eye on Patrick's female acquaintances. 

Now Detective Moore was lying on the white couch, her hair spread out and her dress pulled up, exposing part of her plump thighs. Coat and shoes were completely missing. 

Patrick hadn't bothered to tie her up.

There was something primal about chasing down his victims, trying to run and escape when it was far too late for them. It excited him. However, he had gagged her with one of his least favorite ties (a gift from Sean), not wanting to deal with the verbal expressions of her initial shock. 

'I bet she's a screamer.'  

Sitting across from her in his treasured Barcelona chair, leaning back with his legs elegantly crossed and Detective Moore's notebook in his hand like the most interesting novel, Patrick waited for her to regain consciousness. It seemed to mimic an interview all over again, only this time the roles would be reversed. There was no paperwork on the glass table in front of him, just a cutting knife that had never been used for cooking.

The moment Andrea opened her eyes, she saw nothing but a perfectly white ceiling above her. Then she tried to turn her head, but the sharp pain pierced her temples just as she was about to do so.

"Mmmhm!" The detective whimpered breathlessly, unaware that she was gagged.

Her mind was still foggy and everything was doubled in her eyes, making it hard to understand what the hell was going on, but when a familiar scent of expensive cologne hit her nose, the woman pushed herself up on her elbows and the image she saw almost coaxed her back into unconsciousness.

Bateman, sitting arrogantly in the leather chair with her notebook in his manicured hands, his hazel eyes now as dark as the night sky and his nostrils flaring with the thrill of the rush. 

'What a reckless woman I am!' Andrea cursed herself, but she still didn't try to run away, even when she found out that she wasn't tied up. 'No, that would be too easy and it doesn't work that way.'

And then a wicked idea came into her cloudy mind. Slowly, she opened her legs a little wider, pretending not to notice that her skirt had been hiked up and fighting the growing embarrassment in her chest.

‘I have to do it if I want to stay alive. I have to distract him any way I can!’

Not being a man of self-control, Patrick couldn't help but let his eyes immediately wander between her spread legs. She wasn't wearing any tights under her dress, which was unprofessional, and it gave him a direct view of her panties. 

Patrick gritted his teeth, both disgusted and aroused by the act, and remembered once again his intense desire to teach her a lesson. 

'Of course she is acting slutty now. But if she thinks she can be that good to save her life - maybe I'll let her try.'

In a few smooth moves, he crossed the distance between them, grabbed the back of the couch and leaned closer to her face. She looked even smaller now, trapped in this position, and yet she didn't seem fragile. Her eyes met his own with a certain defiance that was exciting, Patrick had to admit. 

But it also made him even more angry. 

"You think I'm interested in that?" And in a crude gesture, he pressed his hand against the thin fabric of her underwear, his big hand cupping her pussy completely and pushing the dress up past her broad hips.

"I've killed women far more beautiful than you… what should make you any different?” He murmured in her ear, in a tone that couldn't decide whether it was a threat or an invitation…

P.S. Thank you for reading until the end! You can follow my side blog @makeyoumineagain and my amazing co-writer @iron-flavored-lipgloss and turn on notifications to know when we update!

#american psycho #patrick bateman imagine #patrick bateman #slasher smut #patrick bateman smut #patrick bateman headcanon #christian bale smut #christian bale #patrick bateman imagines #patrick bateman x oc #patrick bateman x fem!oc #slasher x oc

[cogmin213]

Everytime I read The Immortal have a Guardian Spirit. I fucking cried at Cruel and reincarnated!Deon interaction even after Raven remember his past life memories.

Im not even joking how much close and happy they both were unlike in intkot.

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Before Raven remembers his past life memory

Cruel : even if you destroyed the world. I won't hate you

Raven (offended) : Do you think I'm crazy to destroy the world?

Cruel : ... you must be tired, take a rest

Raven : YOU THINK IM CRAZY?!

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Cruel to Raven :

Raven to Cruel :

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Cruel never call his baby "Raven" because thats only reincarnated!Deon's alias since the world censored the name Deon as ■■ .

Thats why Cruel will only call Raven as "Baby" or "■■"

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Cruel always reacts whenever something is related to previous life Deon such as meeting the Lofty mercenary or the intkot reincarnation

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Cruel scold Raven when he curse infront of the children or Raven being picky eater and telling openly their cooking is shit

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Raven worries a lot about Cruel and their spiritual connection was severe and disconnected one time. It made Raven go insane and apeshit until his Cruel came back to him. Raven was very clingy but wont ask question why Cruel disappear. He only want Cruel's warmth and telling him he is the most cherish person he have

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He cherish Cruel more than his 5 disciples

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When Raven receive the old book with the cover full of smudge. The title can only be read as "talent" by remember

Raven borrowed Cruel's eyes but when Raven reads the book. The eyes suddenly cry itself

Cruel is crying as he reads intkot book

After they both read intkot. Raven naturally remembers his past life memory and become more closer with Cruel

Also he doesnt hold any revenge because unlike his life for 24 years as Deon Hart. He already live more than 150 years as Raven and anything his previous life experience is already something in the past.

He doesnt seem to regret his past action and only finds it pitiful to be betrayed by the whole world

However, Cruel admits he hated Deon's decision for taking away his karma but he couldnt stop him since his baby wanted it

[ baby, my little brother ]

[ ...■■ ]

[ Live without regrets ]

[ Live as much as you want to live and die when you want to ]

[ I want you to do everything you please ]

Guardian spirit touch Raven's murky gray eyes and turn into green eyes

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The amount of cuddles and kisses on the forehead/cheeks they have. There was even time Raven's face is on Cruel's palm

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Cruel's interaction with his nephews and nieces are so adorable like he carefully judge their clothing of choice for Raven and ask permission to Raven to beat the shit out of them but Raven thinks his children(all disciples) is on puberty

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Cruel will forever call Deon a baby even if he is 174 years old

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Cruel is very bias to Raven

And so does Raven to Cruel

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Whenever someone ask Raven to marry them. Cruel will always get in the way and say

[ The Guardian Spirit will not recognize this marriage ]

It happen more than once

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Raven loves to observe Cruel's youthful thicklines while using Cruel's green eyes. Yes Raven touch his face with his fingers

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Raven thinks of himself as beautiful after Cruel complain he is too beautiful he could seduce too many people with that pretty face. Raven confidence in his face sky rocket

Sometimes Raven even use his face to seduce people to get free stuff

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Whenever Raven is about to hurt himself. He apologize to the Guardian Spirit first and Guardian Spirit hates it when his baby got hurt even if it means its necessary for Raven's mission.

Normally in intkot, Cruel apologize first but in Tigs Deon apologize first

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There's a lot of Cruel and Reincarnated Deon fluff. I cant list them all because every chapter is just them being affectionate and cute together with the children 😭😭😭😭💞💞💞💞

#intkot #deon hart #i'm not that kind of talent #the immortal have a guardian spirit #deon and cruel #cruel hart #tigs #intkot spoiler

[mrv3000]

20 questions for fic writers

tagged by @starrybouquet

1. how many works do you have on Ao3? 58

2. what's your total Ao3 word count? 187,625

3. what fandoms do you write for? Arrested Development, Doctor Who, Good Omens, Iron Man, Sherlock, Star Wars, Stargate SG-1 (fics not on AO3: Alias, Gilmore Girls, Labyrinth, The 10th Kingdom)

4. what are your top five fics by kudos?

Cautiously Un-Pessimistic (Star Wars)

Dear Force (Star Wars)

Your Jedi is in Another Castle (Star Wars)

Jedi Ex Machina (Star Wars)

The Jedi is a Lie (Star Wars)

All of these are recent fics, probably because a lot of my stuff is older and was mainly written on other sites (LiveJournal, email lists, and even my own website), and when I moved them to AO3 I backdated them. Of course Star Wars is a BIG fandom so they still might have had the most kudos.

5. do you respond to comments? I try!

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Probably the 200 word fic Finally (Star Wars) where Vader's having a hot girl summer thinking about torturing Obi-Wan.

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Most everything I write is light and fluffy, but maybe Inertia (Doctor Who) because it was an actual fix-it fic. The Doomsday episode of Doctor Who aired, I had a breakdown... bon appetit.

8. Do you get hate on fics? A very mild comment here or there, but I write fairly mild fic.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? Revelation: I've done a few anonymous prompt fills on kink memes in the past. But I don't have anything on AO3.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written? I wrote a crossover between The 10th Kingdom and Labyrinth a billion years ago. But generally I don't.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? I have vague memories of Duck Soup (SG-1) being stolen, which was spotted by people almost immediately because there aren't many stories out there that revolve around a farting duck. 🦆

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? Yes! It's nifty!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? Yup! With @go-ldy and @shinyopals and also josephides on LiveJournal!

14. What’s your all time favorite ship? Um...probably Doctor/Rose, although I'm not much into it these days. They gave me serotonin for years.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? Uh.

16. What are your writing strengths? I think I'm fairly good at parroting characters' speaking patterns. It goes a long way if the dialog sounds like something the characters would say.

17. What are your writing weaknesses? Plot. I'd love to be able to churn out a 100k fic.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? Two languages in one head? No one can live at that speed!

19. First fandom you wrote for? My very first was The 10th Kingdom, where I wrote 2 whole fics that were posted on an email list. I think I've still got them somewhere, although they're not on AO3.

20. Favorite fic you’ve written? Right now it's Dear Force (Star Wars) because its completely self-indulgent and exactly my sense of humor.

Tagging people who I've spotted on my dash with fic in the recent past so I know they actually write fanfic. I KNOW I'm forgetting people. I'm sorry!! If you want to do it, go for it!

@gabolange @nandamai @elismor @dettiot @wonderlandleighleigh @shinyopals @oodlyenough @go-ldy @abadplanwellexecuted @noblealice @geneeste @satans-poptarts @complementaryhalves @afhyer

[beatcroc]

Okay I finally generated an ask for you!!!!

What is your favourite genre of music? Or if you don't know how to categorize the music you listen to (like me), what is your favourite song? Or band? Or album? Something like that.

ohhhhh #1 question i am categorically incapable of being normal about <3

i typically just define my favorite music as "loud" or "aggressive" or "abrasive" bc most stuff that fits those descriptors will be in my faves regardless of the genre.

a more specific answer is that there are 3 main things i've noticed that will typically make me go apeshit without fail and they are: 1. hardstyle/gabber/industrial hardcore- sorta basskick 2. sickass metal guitar shredding 3. huge dramatic grandiose orchestral

if something has 1 of these i will probably like it, if it has 2 it will be a top fave, and all 3.... well i have yet to find it yet but im sure i will Ascend. here are examples of said top fave combos.

laur covers hardstyle+orchestral and i Cannot Get Enough of his shit man it goes so fucking crazy hard

metal+orchestral is unquestionably ruled by nightwish, but theyre not on bandcamp and i dont feel like finding other links so this one goes to the still-very-fucking-awesome runner-up, POWERWOLF

riikira and rabbitjunk hit metal+hardstyle, though it's less strictly hardstyle and more just general hardcore* electronica. if its got crazy amens its enough who cares. i put the ones that use actual kicks for the sake of illustrating the point here but these tracks are both pretty far from my faves from each lmao *hardcore referring to hardcore [edm] in this case, even though the genre these belong to is called "digital hardcore", which instead refers to hardcore [punk]. it's a mess out here. did you know theres two completely different things called doomcore where one is derived from metal and the other is derived from hardcore. and you never know which itsd going to be when you click on something in the doomcore tag. im dying squirtle

anyway on the other side of the hardstyle+metal combo is kobaryo [with his alias blaxervant], who's much more about the hardcore side of things and just has the metal as flair, but it is still: the best shit ever

laur also on occasion hits this side of hardstyle+metal becaue he just likes using whatever the fuck instruments

there are of course many other things i love a lot, primary examples being ambient/atmospheric, folk, and anything with a lot of Texture. im not gonna get into all that but i do have an extended list of faves/recs from the last time i was asked about this and went insane abt it. it took forever to make and my actual recs are not entirely the same as my Faves so im putting it on here too.

i keep these curated to the top of my bandcamp profile so they're the first things that display there. it's a bit old by now and some have since been shuffled out, but it's still like 80% accurate.

as for the actual recs: the angel's message is there because it's my fave brand of intense and chaotic stuff and want it to kill you full force. it already has some tracks up there so im not re-linking it

this one i recommend just because i think it's really interesting and out there and i'm curious what other people think of this sort of stuff. it's also the prime example of what i mean when i talk about Textures in music.

wolfgun is an actual rec for being genuinely just really good music. probably the most objectively cool/platonically enjoyable thing in my library

#i could keep going. u kno. forever. i didnt even touch on harsh noise #noise falls under hardstyle AND ambient AND Textures to me but its also its own thing depending on the approach #by the by i also have @bassgator on here for music sharing but i keep falling out of using it #also i always reblog stuff from there to here to add comments anyway #edit: changed the powerwolf track bc the first one wasnt working. rip 'venom of venus' you can go get it on youtube or something

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✦  BULLET BiTES. (TEASER) ── yang jungwon!

The job of a spy has its own hardships alone, you know that terrifically well. However, it seems like a bonus problem came straight from hell to make your reputation at HYBE worse: Yang Jungwon.

GENRE & AU : ( f!reader ), spy!au, college!au, angst, fluff, e2l.

TEASER WARNiNGS : mutual hate.

TEASER WORD COUNT : 0.3k

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ESTiMATED RELEASE DATE : around mid january :)

“Long time no see, huh, Trixie?” Jungwon teased, creating a nickname for your alias.

You cringed at the name, getting up and leaving the meeting room. The door opened automatically, and the boy followed behind. It took everything in you to fight the urge of rolling your eyes.

“What do you want, Yang?” You snarled in dissatisfaction with the newly born conversation. “And ‘Trixie’? Of all things you come up with this?”

“Yep. Trixie.” Jungwon hummed in confirmation. His chest burned with hatred for you, but he couldn't let the chance of possibly driving you insane slip away. His voice was laced with an obnoxious fake innocence — you despised those plays of his as much as you despised his existence. “Now that we are on the same mission, are you gonna stop ignoring me at Uni? We need to look like we're best friends, or that girl won't trust us.”

Although you knew he was correct, your pride wouldn't let the narcissistic teen have his way to your sacred friend list so easily. Your ears blocked out every noise his lips emitted, huffs leaving yours now and then.

“Look, I'll think about it, okay?” You wouldn't, you just said that to shut him up. “Maybe we'll even become actual best friends! Who knows, right?” Sarcasm. Being buddies with him was the last thing you wanted. You'd prefer to be run over by a bus than call him anything other than your enemy.

“That's nice!” Jungwon smirked triumphantly, a bitter taste on his tongue; he loathed the word ‘friend’ when it referred to you. It should be something lower, less significant. He walked ahead. “See you at Uni then, Trixie?”

“Yeah, of course!” Smiling fakely, you rose a hand to wave him goodbye. You listened to his steps getting fainter as he went to the other side of the building, and the grin contorting your features fell in relief.

This, for sure, was going to be one hell of a ride.

#𔒌 ─ cupid’s arrow. #enhypen fluff #enhypen x reader #enhypen angst #enhypen headcanons #enhypen imagines #enhypen fics #enhypen scenarios #jungwon enhypen #enha fluff #enha x reader #enha angst #enha headcanons #enha fics #enha imagines #jungwon angst #jungwon scenarios #jungwon fluff #jungwon x reader #yang jungwon fluff #yang jungwon x reader #yang jungwon angst #yang jungwon scenarios #yang jungwon imagines #yang jungwon #jungwon

[catgirl-catboy]

Internet Security 101:  Actual Advice for avoiding pedophilles and predators on the internet! 

I do this for a job.  

 - Do not ever put a picture you took online without using a Metadata Remover Program first.  Coding.Tools has one, and there are apps for it.   If you do not, then any creep smart enough to google a metadata/EXIF viewer can find your LONGITUDE LATITUDE AND CAMERA INFO.

- Tape your webcam when its not in use.  That way, even if something nasty gets on your computer, it cannot record you.

- Predators will lie to you about themselves.   They will present themselves to be your peer, talk about your hobbies.   As a result, a key skill in not looking like an easy target is not giving in to peer pressure.  

- All of those posts on how you should reblog and comment on fics DO NOT APPLY TO YOU, if you are a minor and it is a smutfic.   Even if your age isn’t in your profile.  

- Don’t sign up for a billion different things with your email.  Use Tenminutemail if you can.

- Discord servers are public spaces.  Don’t say anything that you wouldn’t say in a public space.   You don’t know who has screenshots, you don’t know if your grandmother will join the server a month after you leave.  Act accordingly.

- Never use your real name online unless there it is a paid service.  Either pick a fictional character, or make an alias up.  I’m fond of using HP Lovecraft for websites that are too damn nosey about my name.

- Don’t list your triggers online.  You are giving every creep on the street personal info about what makes you tick.   If I were a particularly conniving predator, I could lie and say I have been through simmilar trauma to gain your trust.  They are criminals, they do that.

- Lying on the internet for the purposes of protecting yourself is always morally okay.   That cool joke your best friend told you the other day that you want to post about?  Bam! Thats now your sister.   Tell the story as you wish.   Make everyone who follows you mildly confused about your family tree.

- This goes doubly so when people you know IRL follow you: Never mention if you are home alone or on vacation until after the fact.  Don’t post vacation photos until you get home.

- You know those security questions?  That you can use to regain your password when you are locked out of something?  Most of those are googleable.   I reccomend going with something subjective and/or smartass.  (Favorite food is better than mothers maiden name.)   This is important because if I get into your email, I can get into anything that email is attached to.  

- If finding criminals online were easy, the police (and I.) would be out of a job.  They are smarter than you think, always err on the side of caution.

#cybersecurity #internet security #life hacks #advice

[goddesspharo]

Sending the same back to you!: top five episodes of TV

[ask me my top five anythings!]

This was harder than I thought! Also my list makes it seem like I watch a lot more medical shows than I do (which is to say that I don't watch any anymore), but television used to be so good!

1. The X-Files, "Bad Blood" - I'm like Gillian Anderson that way. Not only is the episode hilarious, but it's the perfect episode to tell people who are not familiar with the show to watch (and often times the one I will recommend above all others). I think of Scully's cream cheese rant every time I eat a bagel, randomly say "he had big buck teeth?!?!?" whenever I see Luke Wilson in something, and have watched it a gazillion times without it ever getting old.

2. Alias, "Truth Be Told" - I truly believe that this is the greatest pilot of all time. Everything about it is brilliant! JJ puts his foot on the gas and never lets up! Jennifer Garner manages to be ALL THE THINGS in this in a way that you'd never expect Hanna from Felicity to be able to play. Just a brilliant hour of television.

3. House, "Three Stories" - Back in the day, I was obsessed with House. (But oh how the mighty fell - I don't think I even watched the last two seasons because it became such a mess.) I remember mainlining the entire first season in time for the agonizing wait before S2. It probably helped that I was in med school when the show was airing so I could lie to myself that watching the show was basically like studying. "Three Stories" was such a great episode because it gave you insight into why House was the way he was, why Cuddy had so much Catholic guilt that he got away with everything, and played fast and loose with perspective. I still remember "not this leg"/"not this leg either." What other show can boast that one of its best episodes has Carmen Electra playing herself in it?

4. Friday Night Lights, "Pilot" - I rewatched the pilot a few months ago and it still feels so palpable. Coach's ending speech about life being so very fragile while Explosions in the Sky plays is an all time banger. I still hold my breath every time right before Jason Street gets hit like doing that will change anything. Now that's what I call good television.

5. ER, "Be Still My Heart" - It's hard to explain to people who were not around or don't remember a time before spoilers, but the end of this episode delivers the kind of gut punch you would never be able to replicate today. When that camera pans across the room and you see Lucy from Carter's perspective? GOD. A masterpiece. The second part of this two-parter is just as good and if you don't get emotional over Romano stopping the code and then immediately trying to resuscitate again, you are stronger than I am. When ER was good, it was so good.

#ask me things

[lambergeier]

2022 book post FINALLY

this post is six weeks late because, frankly, i was on my honeymoon over new years and its hard to get up the will to type all this shit when everyone has already posted their book lists ages ago!! but also i read a lot of good books last year and wish to gloat, so here we are. italics are rereads, bold are my favorites, asterisks denote not-prose, and reviews are interspersed throughout as i felt like it:

January

No One is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood (this book made me cry so hard lmao. first part is a sickeningly true-to-life depiction of Being A Blue Check Person and then the second part makes you cry so bad.)

Sorrowland - Rivers Solomon (what the fuck happened to the last third of this book? what shit-ass x-men knock-off did it come from?)

What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France - Mary Louise Roberts (got on a whole ww2 history kick because, gotta be real, i watched all of band of brothers during winter break 2021-2022 and developed a bug up my ass. pulled this off the shelf at the library on a whim and it was STUNNING. excellently, thoroughly told history of sex, venereal disease, and race among american GIs in normany following the invasion. would read anything roberts now.)

How to Blow Up a Pipeline - Andreas Malm

Hello, Sailor: The hidden history of gay life at sea - Paul Baker and Jo Stanley

Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II - Allan Berube (another excellent ww2 book, frequently quoted on this site and for good reason. not written by a historian, so incredibly easy and engaging to read, that presents you with just this amazing overview of how modern american queer identity was totally, inextricably shaped by the us military and the experience of being part of it or even just near it lmao)

February

Possession - A.S. Byatt (really really lovely romance that was such a consistent pleasure to read that i got to the end basically unable to remember favorite lines or even scenes i was just like mmmmmmmm. book good.)

Uncanny Valley - Anna Wiener

Howl’s Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones

The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World - Patrick Wyman (this book sucked ass we gotta stop giving podcasters history books)

Watership Down - Richard Adams (so fucked up. loved this. love that we give this to children to read.)

Dead Collections - Isaac Fellman

March

The Hidden Palace - Helene Wecker (much better than its prequel, imho! resolved many pacing issues but lost no heart!)

The Vanishing Half - Britt Bennet (part of the reason i managed to read so much this year is that i had to drive a lot for work and started putting audiobooks on in the car, having never been an audiobook person before. i listened almost entirely to contemporary litfic this way, a genre i also had not previously engage with, and this was both a fascinating entry into an entire other world of books and also kinda boring sometimes lmao. vanishing half was good, certainly better than some of the other stuff i ended up listening to, but still not something i would have finished if i weren't in the car)

The Reformation - Patrick Collinson (this bitch was so funny his preface to the book was 'i didn't list any sources because i've been teaching this topic for 60 years. the source is Me.' anyways almost totally unreadable but did provide me some good context on the counter-reformation, which i want to learn more about.)

Fleischman is in Trouble - Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Home Baked - Alia Volz (soooooo good all bay area homies please read this)

River of Stars - Vanessa Hua

April

Light from Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki (INSANE BOOK. SO FUN.)

*Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller

Book of Dust - Phillip Pullman

Gold Diggers - Sanjena Sathian

*Angels in America - Tony Kushner (disconnected me from reality for like 24 straight hours. scared to reread it.)

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (read this in high school and hated it because i was a DUMB TEENAGER!! THIS BOOK IS SO FUNNY!!)

Good Omens - Terry Pratchett

Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett

May

Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia (strongly eh.)

Oh the Glory of it All - Sean Wilsey (loved it but feels impossible to recommend.)

Magic for Liars - Sarah Gailey

Foundation - Isaac Asimov (absolutely fascinating as like, a history of the genre thing, even if i only "enjoyed" reading the first two or three stories lol. also, HE COULDN'T PREDICT FIAT CURRENCY?? ACTUAL PLOT POINT THAT THERE AREN'T ENOUGH METALS ON THE PLANET TO MINT COINS???? reader i lost my mind.)

June

All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy (all the pretty horses my insane high school problematic fave. i will never read the sequels)

Have His Carcase - Dorothy L. Sayers

The Power - Naomi Alderman (as i said on private twitter after rereading, this book makes me sick to my stomach not because of the gender shit, which is like, i know what the book's about that's what it's about it's not gonna be a different book, but christ it's so bleak. love an oral history style but i gave my copy away once i finished lmao.)

Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy L. Sayers

July

Such a Fun Age - Kiley Reid (great audiobook narrator, and a very funny book)

Several People are Typing - Calvin Kasulke (PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS AUDIOBOOK THEY HIRED A FULL RADIO-PLAY STYLE CAST AND SURE THE ACTUAL STORY DOESN'T STICK THE LANDING BUT IT'S SO FUNNY. i finished it on my own and immediately put it back on for emma to enjoy. so good.)

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South - Stephanie Jones-Rogers

Hawk Mountain - Conner Habib (oughhhhouguhughuhghh the dread. great book. wretched creeping horror. queer, if that matters. gives you the Dread.)

There, There - Tommy Orange

August

If an Egyptian Can’t Speak English - Noor Naga (experimental fiction, i listened to it on audiobook and actually missed a lot of what it was doing in print but still incredibly good. absolute sucker punch of an ending.)

The Loneliest Americans - Jay Caspian King

Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People - Elizabeth Fenn (great clear thorough history of the mandan nation of the upper missouri river, really enjoyed this.)

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us - Ed Yong (ed yong is the best science writer working today and this book was tremendous. i quoted like every other line of it to emma and she still went and borrowed it as soon as i was done. we immediately bought a copy for the house.)

Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII - Mary Louise Roberts

September

Black Sun - Rebecca Roanhorse (damn so much modern sff is bad)

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life - Ed Yong (not as good as the animal book but still VERY good)

Dark Rise - C.S. Pacat (unfuckingreadable. a masterclass of incoherent bullshit)

Nona the Ninth - taz lol (this should not have been its own book.)

*Ducks - Kate Beaton (cannot recommend highly enough. intense subject matter, also made me cry many times, but holy shit ms beaton you killed it with this one)

Unreleased Friend Book that I Love So Bad (soon!!)

Normal People - Sally Rooney

October

Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (another book i haven't reread since high school holden ilu. you are my little problems boy)

Pachinko - Min Jin Lee (read it all in one day while on various airplanes. what a BOOK)

Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Foundation - Mercedes Lackey (thus begins the valdemar stage of the year)

My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh (uh. would not recommend.)

November

Devil House - John Darnielle (ur crazy for this one mr mountain goats. still don't know if it was good or bad lol.)

Arrows of the Queen - Mercedes Lackey

Arrows Flight - Mercedes Lackey

Arrows Fall - Mercedes Lackey

Magic’s Pawn - Mercedes Lackey (vanyel i love you)

December

Magic’s Promise - Mercedes Lackey (vanyel i'm obsessed with you)

Empire of Wild - Cherie Dimaline

Magic’s Price - Mercedes Lackey (oh misty we did NOT stick the landing here. rip to vanyel.)

Winter Counts - David Heska Wanbli Weiden

Neuromancer - William Gibson (loved so many individual sentences and, like foundation, a very interesting work for understanding the history of the genre. however in many ways, totally incomprehensible.)

total books: 66!!! nice work, me! really enjoyed how much i read in 2022 and how generally varied it was and after a long while of not reading too much at all, it's been very nice being back in the swing of it. also god non-fiction is so good. i can't read it particularly fast but every time i read a good one i enjoy it so immensely. look forward to reading more of it this year!!!

AND, FINALLY, A SHOUT OUT TO THE WORST DNF OF 2022:

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab sucks shit.

#2022 books #sorry if i was mean to book you liked i will do it again #went back in and added all the subtitles for the nonfiction whoops #book post

[goldemas1244]

You all must've been wondering where I've been, eh? Well look no further than character designing!

Tagging the wifey and creator of Dylan @kikiwooo , bestie @humanthatlikestuff , bestie @gremlinthatdevourscontent .

Here's Kastiya Mas, best known as KM! He's Zhask's son, and is a skilled self-trained archer and alchemist (this one comes from mom).

A little about the smol bean: READMORE

Name: Kastiya Mas

His name means 'Luck of Kastiya'. Kastiya was the planet he was named after. Various interpretations of the name can be found if you asked its inhabitants before the planet blew up, including 'Home', 'Protection', 'Prosperity', and 'Source of Power'. He is Zhask's greatest achievement.

Alias: Green Reaper, pufferfish (and many other nicknames) (by Dylan), son (by Zhask), little one (by Rista)

Age: In the above image, 16.

I have many different designs for him, each featuring a different insect as a base. For his current age as shown, his base is a Malaysian giant click beetle mixed with various other cute beetles I've found.

Occupation: Assassin, Informant, Weaver, Street Performer

He began working for Rista at the young age of nine, soon after he ran away from the Eruditio due to constant bullying on him and his previous caretaker. While he was working for Rista, his current caretaker, he became her informant due to how small and talented he was. She learned his squeaks so their messages were naturally encoded. He also worked to clean the carriage and give Erebus headpats.

As an assassin, he uses his bow and arrows, sometimes using a butterfly knife for close-quarters combat. His victims have never been found, only their eyeballs. He usually takes them home to store and eat.

He has never been caught, and will never be caught. He is unregistered in any database. His victims are on missing persons lists and he beams with pride whenever he sees the notice boards grow. He does not discriminate between men, women, children, either-ors, neither-nors, or animals. He is a threat. Don't bother locking your doors, don't bother with guns or bats. He will find you. He will kill you. And he will devour you raw.

Weaving is more of his hobby than anything. He sells off his handmade clothes for a fair price, affordable even to the poor. He weaves many things, including tapestries, clothes, carpets, and curtains. It's a lucrative business, and he can't help but keep it going.

He is also a street performer when he's not weaving. His voice sounds like a youthful trail mix. He wields a keytar, and his keys are secretly daggers.

Special powers: Implosion and Explosion

First discovered during a board meeting Zhask had with fellow informants, diplomats, and advisors. He was chewing on a salt cookie when his powers arose. He imploded the entire room, crushing anyone unlucky enough to be within the radius and turning their insides out quite gorily, and exploded them back out. There were only three survivors, Zhask, his wife, and baby Kastiya's maid. All of them thankfully on the other side of the table when it happened.

Zhask thought much of his power due to such a risk (after all, such power could kill him) but the moment he started crying and squeaking he just couldn't bear to. He picked him up, dusted off the shrapnel and blood, and gave him a nuzzle. And no more salt. Only sodium supplements.

After some research he learned that this was an ancient power that formed this planet. It was a power held by their ancestors who shaped mountains and rivers and caverns. A special son was born, and he couldn't pass out on this opportunity. There was a reason his name was Kastiya. Initially for honour, now he bore history.

He would not control this power until he turns 17, with Dylan's (his boyfriend) help. It would further be expanded upon by Zhask and completed at the age of 22.

He pulls in carbon based lifeforms and metals. He's like Magneto, if Magento also pulls in people and twists their guts inside out.

Flaws: Lack of outer exoskeletal plating, learned to read at 16 with Dylan's help, learned to count at 15 when his assassination payments felt off.

As a child he used to be a prodigy, having learned to read and count at the very young age of thirty-six months. Sadly, those were Kastiyan numbers and letters, and communication was squeaking so he did roughly in Eruditian schools. He avoided writing, reading, and counting altogether due to trauma-related incidents and he mostly did his work on pattern recognition and memorization. He can talk but he's illiterate until taught.

Due to his lack of an outer exoskeleton, he would be considered disabled by fellow Kastiyans since their definition of disabled is based on environmental survivability and sustainability. KM is more prone to severe injuries, illnesses, and above all, a really bad back.

History:

Hatched from an egg. Molted into a toddler-shaped Kastiyan at 6 months old. Learned to read and count at 1½ years old. Began learning princely duties at 5 years old. Kastiya exploded at 8 years old.

Spent six months in the Eruditio, and ran away from home aftere severe neglect, bullying, abuse, and overall general displeasure. Came to Rista's carriage and worked for her. Worked as a back-and-forth informant until 20 years old.

Killed his previous caretaker after an accident at the age of 16. He was talking with one of KM's victims and left the room. Soon after, KM took the shot. The arrow went in through an open window and he died. His caretaker came in for an item he left behind and saw the scene, reporting it to the authorities immediately. KM swooped in to claim the body unnoticed after he left the scene to call for help.

Returned to his distressed caretaker's home to apologise, but after receiving death threats he killed him with his bare hands. Couldn't bear to eat him, so just left him there.

Molted into juvenile at 13 years old. Began weaving at 13 years old. Began assassinating at 15 years old. Fell in love at 16 with a dolphin prince, Dylan. Met with Zhask at the age of 17. Learned how to count at the age of 15. Learned how to read at 16. Learned how to control power from 17 to 22. Adulthood molt at 21. Laid an egg at 24. Named her Carrie (wifey we'll talk about her later).

Lost his virginity on his 18th birthday. Thanks Dylan!

Armour:

Coloured in such a way for light-based eyestrain and camouflage. Strategic armour wearing protects internal exoskeleton and regulates body temperature. UwU mask claimed as a 'gift' from one of his victims.

Chainmail skirt because he's a femboy. Also owns a pair of pink bunny headphones.

Wing pattern:

Kastiyan Royal Insignia.

Initially a doodle by Zhask in the margins of his schoolwork, he pranked his people on his 34th birthday by announcing the change to the royal insignia. Expecting to reveal the truth that it was a prank by sundown, he was shocked to see the people adopting it, tolerating it, being very accepting of it. So after a hilariously hysterical board meeting it was changed to symbolise Zhask's his power and success.

Happy birthday, dad!

A year later, KM was born, and as soon as he hatched from an egg, he funnily enough had the insignia birthmarked onto his back. An obvious way of saying "PROPERTY OF ZHASK DO NOT TOUCH OR YOU DIE".

After a toddler molt, it appeared on the underside of his wings. In his juvenile molt, it appeared on the outside of his wings, and assisted in Zhask's recognition of him the first time they met. It's as if it knew they would reunite.

Insignia disappeared in adulthood. After an illness leaving him in critical condition (Cordyceps), Zhask had to dissect him and found out that the insignia was inside his body all this time. AS THE ORGAN PLACEMENT.

I SHIT YOU NOT HIS ORGANS WERE ARRANGED EXACTLY LIKE THE INSIGNIA.

To honour his survival and this newfound discovery,he had it succubus/incubus-tattooed onto his lower stomach, courtesy of Alice.

Visualization:

Also visible: The similarities between the design and Zhask's own physical form.

(The X represents the peeny. He's 4 inches long, and maintained that in adulthood.)

Libido: High.

What did you expect? I'm horny as fuck~

If it weren't for his trauma, he'd be a whore instead of an assassin. Let that sink in.

In-game:

Skill 1: Explosive arrows. Damages targets in a small range.

Skill 2: Potions. Like Luo Yi, potions that will be thrown will be shown. One of three in a medium range. Healing, Damage, Stun.

Skill 3: Keytar. KM pulls out his keytar and shoots out his dagger-keys. Has a timer and an attack limit like Yve's ultimate. Medium range.

Ultimate: KM ingests salt (ultimate loading animation like Zhask) and implodes, pulling in all enemies and enemy minions, damaging them and leaving them in an airborne state. Will explode them out in various locations, also dealing damage and leaving them stunned. Ultimate can be used multiple times within 10 seconds, but damage decreases with each usage so make the first implosion count!

Recall animation: Gay hand flip.

Trivia:

Has a black cat named Michael. It can stand on two legs.

Has a pair of pink fluffy bunny-eared headphones.

Talks with a hint of a squeak, like Valentino from Hazbin Hotel.

Voice claim: Um. Me. But if I took testosterone (not that I would, I have enough of it).

Singing voice claim: Get Scared lead singer, Brandon Urie (if he tries hard enough), Michael Crawford (on rare occasions).

Adult voice claim: Ru Paul.

Adult singing voice claim: Shit there's a lot of them, he's an expert at mimicry. Notable ones include Stolas from Helluva Boss, Us the Duo (the sexy guy), Will Wood, Simon Curtis.

Kinks: Where do I start.

NOT Kinks: Generally disgusting stuff. Ew.

Preferred kink: Overstimulation.

Lives in a haunted house in the woods. Had to ask Helcurt to keep them away. Uses his assassination money to renovate, albeit discreetly to avoid suspicion.

Favourite food is curry noodles and eggs. Favourite drink is mixed berries.

Self-loathes occasionally.

Slight OCD.

Anemic.

Needs a masseuse every fifteen days.

Birthday: 24th March.

Zodiac: Aries.

Personality: A bitch, but the most loveable bitch you'll ever meet in your life.

Is gay and slay.

#km #kastiya mas #kastiya #mlbb #mobile legends bang bang #mlbb oc #oc #oc art #oc design #character sheet #ref sheet #reference sheet #zhask #zhaskposting #fanchild #long post #character building #artists on instagram #blorbo #insect #worldbuilding #tagging #very thorough #more details and a story coming soon #the loveable idiot #i made a meme with him #get on my insta i've posted some reels #yippie kie yay #how many tags until the limit #hm

[flipping-the-coin]

Hush; whats the best and worst parts about living in megatrons walls?

ℰ𝓁𝒾𝓉ℯ 𝒢𝓊𝒶𝓇𝒹𝓈𝓂ℯ𝒸𝒽: 𝒜ℊℯ𝓃𝓉 ℋ𝓊𝓈𝒽

◇─◇──◇─◇

I'm not quite sure how you managed to get this question to me, but I'm pinning the blame on Megatron. Whatever the case, it's not a problem. I've got nothing better to do stuck up here all the time.

Let me start off by saying that there is a LOT I could ramble about here. There are plenty of great things about being the unwanted roomie, and for that same reason, there are more than a few negatives when it comes to this whole arrangement. Some of the worst parts of this whole situation include everything listed below.

Its boring as slag here. Megatron never does anything of interest, and then on the odd chance that he does, it's always for Orion and so its sappy as frag.

The funds the guard gives me are just not enough to make do. Not to be ungrateful, but I have Carnage and my two other pets to take care of. I never told Paradox about them, but well, I didn't think it was important until I started going hungry.

It gets really cold up here in the walls sometimes, usually during the rainy season. Megatron has a space heater since the sound of the actual heater that was built into the hab makes Orion twitchy. But that space heater doesn't work through walls.

Megatron and Orion interface all. the. time. I don't think I need to say much more aside from stating that I tend to take a walk when they do their thing.

Orion organizes his stuff WRONG. Nothing is put into any sort of decipherable organizational order and it drives me mad. I've tried fixing it, but then Orion gets mad at Megatron and Megatron in turn gets mad at me. So I just have to deal with it.

The whole hab is decorated in a very debatable manner, but I can mostly deal with it... except when it comes to Orion's stupid RUG. The thing is neon yellow with black stripes to make it look like miner marks. It's hideous and clashes with every other piece of furniture, but Orion loves it. Megatron tolerates it.

I've had to stop attempted murders about... twelve times now? Four where from Ratchet putting too many pills in Orion's meds, not sure if it was an accident or not. Two were from Ratchet again, but in a more physical sense. The rest where just mechs with vendettas trying to screw Megatron over in subtle ways. They suck at it by the way. Poisoning energon stopped being effective two stellar cycles into the great war.

That's about the worst of it I think. As for the good things? Let me list those in similar fashion real quick.

Megatron gives me stuff to read. It's REALLY boring up here, so every now and then he throws me a bone so to speak and offers me reading material. Pretty sure its mostly illegal, but it's something to do.

Megatron also lets me proofread his writing and edit sometimes. With no one else in the hab more often than not, I suspect he enjoys knowing someone is listening when he spends groons reading poetry. It's a nice distractor once you get used to the romantic nature of his work.

Every now and then Megatron makes me something absolutely delicious to eat. It's usually after I do him a favor, but by the Thirteen, he makes amazing pastries. I am willing to jump through hoops to get some of his cooking.

I got annoyed with Orion's garden situation so I took up the role of gardener with a disguise in place. Now once every two deca-cycles I get to have tea with him and First Aid. It's a blast.

I got to blanket as a gift from Orion once while I was using my alias. I adore that blanket.

Yeah I think that's the most notable stuff. The cons kinda outway the pros, but it is what it is. I'm happy enough I suppose. I've got my pets and I've got my little spot in the walls.

It's fine.

#maccadam #transformers prime au #transformers #two sides to a coin au #transformers prime #two sides supplemental writing #megaop #orion pax #megatron #hush reports #transformers oc

[djservo]

HI CAS!!! you beat me to it for real i also completely forgot about the month ending oopsie <3 but i'm here to ask about your july reading/watching and what's on the list for august??

FEELS SO GOOD TO FINALLY WIN ONE <3 here's july's (vaguely red-themed) shelf:

I have no idea how i read 7 books this month like they were mostly all under 200 pages but that still averages to almost 2 books a week which does not sound right when I reflect on my month but Ok sure we'll go with it

Loaded by Christos Tsiolkas

it didn't really click as I read it but then I watched the film adaptation (Head On '98) and let it all marinate throughout the month I think the distance has made me appreciate the story much more! reminded me a little of Camus's The Stranger (<- girl who has only ever read The Stranger LOL 🫥) in that cold disaffected "why even bother" way, but infused with that self-destructive 90s gay angst + Greek-Australian culture clashes. the film was better to me at constructing the differences of the worlds Ari (the protag) inhabited - the visuals and sounds of Greek language + spaces juxtaposed with 90s electronica + seedy alley hook-ups whereas the written form seemed more focused on illustrating Ari's disillusionment/attitude. there's another book by Tsiolkas I'm curious in (The Slap) but it's like 450 pages and IDK if his style of writing will grip me that long / if it'll feel Worth It by the time I finish ykwim... TBD

Pageboy by Elliot Page

I wanted to like this so bad but it was kinda a mess to get thru :-( nonlinear form so it was hard to follow along as it hopped back and forth from childhood to adulthood and I know that's probably an intentional/artistic choice but there wasn't really a clear thread pulling these drastically different parts of his life together where it justified this random shuffle - mostly just took me out of each stage of life he constructed. it feels unfair to criticize a memoir for content because ofc there's no right/wrong way to reflect and write about your own life experiences but I mostly agree with Nin's review on goodreads re: lack of introspection, especially since this memoir touted itself as an interrogation (as the book description puts it) of his inner journey. there was this one part where he brings up his second-ever experience at a gay bar (with Alia Shawkat!!) but abruptly stops himself and is like "but that's a story for another book" and I was like WHY THO!! this is 10000% a story for THIS book WDYM 'another book'!! sighhhh sigh whatever I still love him and will probs pick up this taunted "other book" when it comes out bc i'm a cuck

Try / Guide / Period by Dennis Cooper

the final 3 of the George Miles Cycle, read obsessively within the span of 2 weeks bc I couldn't bring myself to escape his world!! feels wrong to lump them all in one but I'll be here all day if I talk about them individually, so As A Whole I'm just really in awe of Cooper's style and characters and world-building and blurring of lines of surreal horror and violence + occasional earnest smatterings of autofiction + humanity stripped to its core. one review said the last book read as if it was collapsing into itself, and I think that translates to the series as a whole because his form seems to get more experimental as the series goes on. and while each book felt so distinct in their own tone/form, they all ultimately dissolve into like a singular bare naked truth amidst bleak depravity at the very end, which I really liked. since finishing the cycle I've immersed myself completely in interviews + videos + just about anything i can find about Cooper and realized it's been a minute since I've been this bewitched by an author — so fun!

Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker

in the same realm of Cooper with dark/taboo themes + sexual transgression + teen angst. I feel like I might have been put off by this if I hadn't read Cooper first because things get so blunt and nasty at times, but I feel like I'm better at kind of poking through the rubble of like graphic depictions of moralistic decay to read between the lines/understand the bigger picture of inner-adolescent-torment. I remember watching Welcome to the Dollhouse ('95) when I was like 11 and it just seemed cool and punky and kinda funny kinda weird but then I rewatched it in my 20s and was stunned with how bleak and heavy it was and I feel like there's something there with my feelings towards these angsty teenage requiems, like there's a sort of shock value that doesn't really click when you're younger and in the thick of it because you aren't fully privvy to the extent of how harmful power dynamics work or something .. IDK much 2 think about....

Desire/Love by Lauren Berlant

not too long or dense to make your brain fog, but Freud/Lacan-packed enough to make you feel a little stupid for not reading more Freud/Lacan. I love when I read a nonfiction book and end up adding 458349 of its references to my TBR, it's truly the gift that keeps giving! kinda enlightening, kinda disheartening. made me think of when I read Venus in Furs in college and it rocked my world and put me into a crisis about love + desire + fantasies + the projections we place onto people + whether or not anyone can truly See and Love a person for who they are or if we're all just doomed to subconsciously inject our own imagination of who they can be in our lives ...... light summer reading!

viewing-wise I've taken on the thankless task of watching all 48534 Friday the 13th movies so once I finish I'm sure I'll need a slasher break. a friend and i are also summer buddy reading starting with A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (my first Woolf!), then pivoting to a sorta dark boyhood in classic lit theme with Quarry by Jane White, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, and Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. I'll probably read other books on the side myself (I'm in the middle of Looking For Mr. Goodbar right now) but I'm excited at the thought of a themed plan + discussions for the month(s) ahead! i forget sometimes how rewarding it feels to experience and unpack a book with someone else <3

#ok i need a nap now #asks #cheesehair #reads

[shadowqueen402]

The Perfect Plan

(Here is the sequel to A "Perfect" Ending that I wrote. In this one, Reala gets the answers he needs and forms an unexpected alliance with someone. I hope you all like this fic. Let me know in the comments what you think!)

Now that Reala had learned where Madame Prim planned to drag Roy, he then decided to proceed in the next part of his plan; finding out more about that madwoman who ruined Timeville. He would have asked Aria, but due to what Prim had done to her, that was pretty much impossible. So he was left with no other option…but to ask one of Aria's friends.

It took Reala some time, but he was able to spot two of Aria's friends; Rebecca and…a man with blue hair. The two appeared to be hiding from someone. With a frown, Reala floated down behind them.

"Long time no see, Visitor," Reala chimed, grabbing Rebecca's attention. The bespectacled girl turned around, gasped, and backed away in fright.

"R-Reala?" Rebecca couldn't believe her eyes.

"You know this bloke?" The man asked her. He narrowed his eyes at the red jester suspiciously.

"Y-Yeah, Jett," Rebecca replied. "Reala is the bitter rival of NiGHTS, my friend. We both have a…bad history with him. It's a long story. But I want to know is why he's here."

"Is it wrong that I just wanted to see my girl?" Reala crossed his arms, his frown still there. "I came here to take Aria on a date only to see that Timeville isn't what it used to be. The Visitors aren't behaving like they used to… And Aria… She's now a shell of her former self…" Reala sounded rather bitter when he spoke the last bit.

Rebecca's fear from earlier faded away upon realizing what Reala was talking about. "It's Prim… She did that Aria. And Kaylo, Yuri, Dolly, and Misère too… She brainwashed them into being "perfect". She's even holding all of my friends hostage. And Mrs. Montgomery…"

"I'll cut to the chase; I plan to make Prim pay for what she's done to Aria," Reala revealed. "Since you know a lot about Prim, I need answers. What do you know about her?"

Rebecca and Jett looked at each other before turning their gazes back to the Nightmaren General. "Her real name is Primrose Gaillot," Rebecca explained. "She went under the alias Madame Prim. Before all of this happened, she used to be the headmistress of a boarding school for girls called Prim, Proper, and Perfection. That school was designed to make young girls learn how to be proper young ladies. But we later discovered that she was brainwashing the girls. She planned to make everyone in Timeville perfect."

"How did Prim find out about my girl's existence?" Reala asked.

"According to Aria, Prim wanted to marry Mr. Montgomery," Rebecca responded. "She even went so far as to crash her parents' wedding. Then, she tried to bribe her parents with a large amount of money to send Aria to her school. That was what caused them to move here. Up until now, they thought that they would be safe."

"But Prim had other ideas, didn't she?" Reala guessed correctly.

"Prim is not as dumb as we assumed," Rebecca warned. "During the time that we were trying to bring Kaylo and Yuri back to normal, we found a list of girls from all around the world that she tried to bring to PPP. We know that she's working with a mysterious ally. So there's no way that she did this all on her own."

"A mysterious ally?" Reala hummed in thought. "How did you suspect that?"

"Before Mrs. Bruno, Kaylo's mom, was imprisoned, she mentioned something called Project X." Rebecca said. "We don't know anything about this project, currently. But whoever this ally is chose to work with Prim for a reason." Rebecca lowered her gaze. "I wish I could tell you more, but that's all I know. I don't know where Prim is…"

"But I do." Reala's response caught both Jett and Rebecca off guard. "Let's just say eavesdropping definitely has its perks."

"Where is she?" Jett asked.

"She plans to drag Mr. Montgomery with her to a place called Tokyo, Japan," Reala replied. "She mentioned tracking down an unidentified man who's residing there."

"We have to save him!" Rebecca exclaimed. "And we have to stop Prim before she hurts this man! But we don't have a way to get to Tokyo!"

"Worry not, sheila," Jett said. "My powers will allow us to follow Prim and Roy without being spotted. They'll last us as long as I want. The important trick is to stay quiet."

Reala stared at Jett before nodding in agreement. "I will do what I must to save my Aria and her father."

"Let's go save everybody," Rebecca declared. She then turned to Jett. "We're ready, Jett."

Rebecca belongs to @thehyperrequiem

Jett belongs to @jettthespeeddemon

Aria belongs to me.

#balan wonderworld #ocs #fanfic #reala #nights journey of dreams

[silentauroriamthereal]

Hi!

What's your take on this line-

"You were my whole world. Being Mary Watson was the only life worth living. Thank you."

I've always thought that it's a classic example of inconsistent characterization.

(I love your stories btw. Specially the HLV fix-its.)

So, I just wrote you a whole long comment in response to the comment you just left on my fic Stand-in, haha! It got me on a Mary rant and therefore perfectly poised to come and answer this.

Without putting too fine a point on it, my take is that this line is utter bullshit. Nothing about that scene is consistent with Mary's previous characterization, as you so rightly said. What we saw was:

-a character who made a career in killing for personal gain. Not principle, not national loyalty, just money. She at no point in the canon expressed any remorse for that.

-a character whose cover story ("doctor's wife", mother of a newborn, etc) was getting boring for her, bait that she rises to in showing off her shooting skills to Sherlock in HLV.

-a character who "loved" this life so much that she ran away the instant shit hit the fan, refusing Sherlock's help and instead attacking him a second time, leaving behind an infant child as well as John, just as she abandoned her AGRA teammates to torture and death without even having the decency to confirm that they were beyond rescue.

-a character who knew that her time with John was up. There was that unvarnished moment of truth after he and Sherlock went to get her, finding her due to John having already known that she would attack Sherlock and planting a tracking device in the USB key, where she says "I liked Mary" and he says "I do, too. Or I used to." (Paraphrasing very loosely there!)

That does not add up to Mary ("Mary") finding this life with John the "only life worth living", or even a sustainable life. She was bored. She had endless loose ends left behind, just like her own teammate. She had consequences waiting for her, and ran away from them - maybe to spare John and Rosie from having to face them, but she was never willing to try honesty in the first place, try telling John her real name, even (you can BET it wasn't her criminal alias of Rosamunde... no one could be that stupid!). She wasn't willing to, say, turn herself in, face the consequences of any of her actions, express any regret for anything she'd ever done to anyone, no holds barred.

My theory is that she chose her own out. She knew that John didn't love her anymore (I mean, he was already thinking of cheating and you can also bet that Mary checked his phone...) and she decided to fake a moment of "redemption" to throw division between him and Sherlock, by trying to somehow make the deliberate choices of two other people Sherlock's fault. It's bizarre logic, and I'm not even going to touch on the writing aspect here. Mary knew her time was up, so she pulled her signature move and ran away from it all, one last time. She was a coward who never thought she needed to answer for her own actions or apologize for them - and let's be clear: she did. Mary was an absolutely horrendous human being. Her entire relationship with John was lies and more lies. No one in the CANON liked her - there was a double-sided list of people who hate her among her OWN WEDDING GUESTS, which is quite something. She killed people for a living and she felt just fine about abandoning these teammates that were like "family" to her in favour of blithely starting a whole new life without a second thought for anything she'd ever done.

So yeah: it was a bullshit line. One last piece of the final cover story of who knows how many.

#sherlock #john watson #johnlock #that wife

[filmnoirfoundation]

ASK EDDIE returns Thursday, September 21, 7:00 PM PT to our Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/filmnoirfoundation/live

FNF prez Eddie Muller responds to film noir fan questions fielded by the Foundation's Director of Communications Anne Hockens. In this episode, we discuss Eddie’s short story “Doc’s Oscar”, the essential Italian noirs and film museums, the disreputable noir characters of wholesome TV icons, memorable bell tower scenes, and more. We wind up the show with a discussion of our favorite film noir openings. On the cat front, Charlotte and Emily are too tired to participate.

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Note: Eddie will not be able to answer questions posted during the livestream nor ones left on our social media accounts

This week's questions:

In a recent episode, Eddie highly recommended the film ROSAURA AT 10 O’CLOCK [ROSAURA A LA 10]. Is it possible for ROSAURA to be restored by the Foundation and made available through Flicker Alley?

Michael, Post Falls, Idaho

Just read your short story, "Doc's Oscar", in the JEWISH NOIR VOLUME 1. Can you give us a little background on its origin? When did you write it?

Jay and Connie, Ann Arbor, MI

I'm planning a trip to Italy.  Please recommend your essential Italian crime/noir films.  Also, I hope to visit a museum dedicated to cinema. Any ideas

Steve in Mississippi

Have you read “Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City” written by Nicholas Christopher? 

Sean Land O Lakes, FL

For me one of the biggest surprises of seeing familiar actors in Film Noir was seeing Raymond Burr as the heavy. What other later-known actors are the biggest surprises for someone getting into Film Noir.

Carlton, Atlanta, GA

Why does Eddie sometimes use the alias "Eddy von Mueller" for some of his Blu-Ray commentary tracks?

David

The late-'60s and the '70's are thought of as the time of the great neo-noir films, but what about offerings designed to play at drive-in theaters or so-called grindhouses? I'm also curious about regional films or filmmakers since that era was rich with localized film production. Are you aware of any that could fall under the mantle of film noir?

Kathy and Michael, Rockford, Illinois

In the past Eddie has mentioned certain movies that he considers to be more “message pictures” than full blown noir for him. I would love to hear you both talk about what the difference for you is between movies like NO WAY OUT, CROSSFIRE, FORCE OF EVIL etc. and movies that have tinges of Noir but fall into the Message Picture category and maybe some examples of those and why they don’t make the cut. Thanks!

Nathanael from New Braunfels, Texas

I recently watched the Douglas Sirk 1951 film noir, THUNDER ON THE HILL, and noted the similarities between the bell tower scene in that movie with the great bell tower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 VERTIGO.  Are there other films noir that include a bell tower scene?  And, more generally, what other films noir have great staircase scenes? 

Cliff in Fort Collins

Wondering if you know anything about scenes cut from THE MAN I LOVE DVD. The film is listed as being 96 minutes long, but the DVD version is only 90 minutes.

Michael, Chicago, IL

My question is about some very difficult to find Alan Ladd titles, specifically, CHICAGO DEADLINE with Donna Reed and SAIGON. Are these Alan Ladd films tied up in litigation or bound in some type of financial dispute? Is there any hope for their release in the US?  

Don

Openings.  I have always been fascinated by the first 90 seconds of noir films and I’d just like to pay tribute to my favorite openings and listen as you add in yours as well.

Chuck

#film noir #noir city #eddie muller #anne hockens #film noir foundation #jewish noir #raymond burr #william conrad #grindhouse films #odds against tomorrow #the stranger #i the jury #criss cross #crossfire #doc's oscar #noir city detroit #noir city dc

[cheval-grand]

🖊

gogogog! lay ur lore on me

ok so none of my ocs were specified (can't blame you i do not have all of them listed lmao) so i'll tell you how three of them are all related despite all currently being in different universes!

Basically, all of them are siblings originally born on earth. The eldest, who came to transition to be Gun, ended up being a black sheep sort of kid because he was meant to be a twin, but absorbed said twin, so his mother always treated him like he killed his sibling before ever being born. Because he'd figured out pretty early on that mom would never forgive him anyways, he never bothered being present with his family and zoned out or ran off, resulting in him being sent off to military school pretty early on.

the middle sibling, Alia, and youngest, Annalise, were born one after the other a few years after Gun, and were too young to have many memories of him. Alia ended up being a stand-in parent for Annalise because of how often their mother works, so they had a really close bond.

So basically, Alia had extremely potent magical abilities that another universe, the Spiral, were looking for to basically keep it from meeting it's doom and as soon as she was old enough to survive the teleportation trip across universes, they yoinked her.

But Annalise, direly in need of Alia who was essentially her mother instead of her actual mother, was definitely not ready for teleporting across universes. Which sucked for her, because upon seeing Magic Shit™ happening to Alia, she hugged on tight to her and promptly got dragged a little under halfway through the trip before being entirely eviscerated and dying.

However, being a stubborn little shit, her soul refused to die and managed to take whatever it had to make do with in wherever the hell its stuck now and reconstructed a body out of aether, and then shortly after crashed on the moon with no memories of anything except her name being Annalise.

Also, Gun happened to be home from school when this happened, so he also caught the blame. el oh el. el em ayy oh

So basically, Gun's still on earth, trying to figure out what REALLY happened to his sisters, Alia's been yoinked to an entirely new universe at the ripe age of 7 to solve all it's problems and become its savior, and Annalise is a newborn baby again on the fucking moon of Eorzea with no recollection of her previous life!

#haha thank you for the ask! sorry for going off on several silly tangents ^^; #their lore is a lot of cliche bull but i like it like that! I like the theme of separated family trying to find each other again #as well as the differences between having grown up with support vs no support vs being the support #and how it effects their lives and outcomes #but yeah thank you again!!!

[nicegaai]

no/r/way human names and the way they make me feel

1. Lukas

the classic neutral default. since this list is about personal bias, i gotta b real, im not a fan. its a name for a boyband member or a badly behaved toddler. to me. the vibe is off. it feels too modern even if its a tiffany problem thing. its certainly an option though, 6/10

2. Sigurd

sorry to anyone who thinks this is badass but i love it because it sounds funnie. i know about the saga hero and everything. im sorry to all of northern europe for being culturally insensitive in the heta fandom of all places, u guys r all so right, it is good for him. me, i find the dorky yet culturally significant charm of 'sigurd' captivating, 15/10

3. Gunnar

i dont think it suits him at all, but somehow , to me, a human name that doesnt quite fit seems right for this man. hes not very in touch with his human side. he would wear this one like a jacket 2 sizes too big and think nothing of it. its just an alias. 7/10

4. Halvard

d d diddr driidr drkd did yuo kjnwo that um s i ugh saitnt hallvard is the patron saint. of oslo. i found that out on accident months after i read SoS. makes me insane, 100000/10 but i will never use it out of respect

5. Magnus / Erik (lumping these together)

makes me think ur talking about den or ice... distracting, 1/10

6. Espen

🥺 yeagh... no thoughts here just vibes. 8/10

7. Christian / Kristjan / variations thereof

okkkk considering he wears a cross as a character motif you guys might be onto something but idk. he would not be religious enough to bestow this name on himself and stick to it. i think you guys were just really into disneys frozen in the mid 2010s. 4/10

8. anything really really norwegian with Æs / Ås / Øs

SO true bestie. he would go by something difficult to pronounce in english on purpose to spite the rest of the world. he would do that. not because hes particularly attached to it, just because hes a bitch. or maybe he would be attached to it. i dont know his life. either way, i wholeheartedly i want this for him. 10/10

#p