#Straight from you all and wiki dives

[thewritingowl]

One thing I've noticed as I've gotten further into the DPxDC fandom is that people don't believe me anymore when I tell them I don't consume DC media.

Like, I'll be like, "Oh I don't really know much about the DC universe" which is true! Most of my knowledge is from fandom osmosis and various wiki dives I've done for the sake of my own fanfic. Even then, my knowledge tends to be very batman specific because that's the niche that I've found myself just cozying on up into.

But then I'll be talking with one of my irl friends and they'll mention something about batman or one of the robins and I go off about the things I've learned (like according to the batman wiki APPARENTLY Duke might be immortal????? Like what the fuck????) and they'll go, "Wow you know a lot about Batman, huh?"

and I have to sit there being like, none of this knowledge is knowledge I gained legitimately. I was just trying to enjoy some fanfic of my comfort media from when I was a child and suddenly I found a Danny Phantom/Batman crossover fic and now I've written over 100K words for a fandom in which I've never consumed content and whose other half I have not watched since I was a literal child.

My friends are out here being like, "Wow, Eli, you must be a fan of DC!" and like, I can't just TELL them that I only can bring myself to enjoy DC media in this very specific context because the fandom itches a particular area of my brain that has not been scratched in a long time. Like, I'm not MAD that I've ended up in these predicaments, I'm just constantly living in a state of wondering when do I stop denying that I know a lot about Batman and accept that I've become a fan of Batman media in the least legitimate possible way.

IDK if this makes any sense, it's just a thought I had while I was working on my one shot for day 6 of DP/DC Week. Also like, it feels very weird to just throw my thoughts out into the void like this when I've only really interacted with other DP/DC crossover fans via my own fanfics and other ao3 comment sections so like please excuse my general awkwardness as I shout into the void that is tumblr.

#random thoughts to spew to the void #dc x dp #dp x dc #dp dc crossover #dp x dc crossover #All the people who are like ‟I've never seen Danny Phantom before but have this DP/DC crossover fanfic anyways‟ I love you so much #Normalize making fanfic for shows you've never seen #Just go solely off of the fandom's vibes #Our canon now #I do constantly worry though that eventually people will call me out for being a 'fake fan' #Despite making it abundantly clear that I have not consumed much DC media #Like okay I guess I'm exaggerating when I say none #I've seen the Lego Batman Movie and read the webtoon #But the rest of my dc knowledge? #Straight from you all and wiki dives #Though sucks for you all #I have not written this much in this amount of time in so long #I may be a secret fake fan but y'all can't get rid of me now

[schrodinger-swriter]

Heyoo!! I was wondering if I could request A, D, F, K, L, P, Q, T and X for Angel Dust x reader for the Hazbin fluff alphabet? Thank you!!!💕

A, D, F, K, L, P, Q, T, and X for Angel Dust

I hope this one is okay, I feel Angel may be another character I'll have difficulty catching right, but nonetheless I hope you enjoy, Anon!

Apologies for such a short note, I'm getting another headache coming on.. I think I will write out this post and rest.

For the Tunes segment I would like to apologize for having a trash taste in music, I naturally gravitate to songs I already know with these kinds of questions..

ATTRACTION:

This one is very tricky, given that Angel throws himself at any guy he sees. Though, that's because he feels it's what is expected of him, is it not? At least gathering from his wiki as well as his actions within the series... Pinpointing his type is a little difficult and what he knows he's attracted to. But what about subconscious attraction? He needs someone who's willing to deal with his sarcasm and meanness, but won't totally blow him off. But he also needs someone he can just unwind with, you know? Very hard to say, and comparing how he acts with the rest of the cast is offering little idea.. Definitely going to need to be patient with this one, too, but that's not exactly an attraction thing.. hmm..

DATES:

A club may be his first go to, especially if this before he starts taking the redemption thing seriously. Though, that's not exactly the best date idea now is it? You go there to get drunk or take enough substances to not think straight for the next week; or to fuck. Sure, you can bond with someone over a shot, but is it really.. genuine? Add in he might be stressing over you like he did with Niffty if this is within the second half of the show's current timeline, and you get drunk before he can.. No, my mind keeps wandering to the two of you simply having an at home date. Together, at your place or yours. If it takes place at the hotel he takes you to his room. Less of a date as it is a hangout session, and he might try to initiate sex.. More experienced with intercourse than the romance side of things, so that's going to take time too.

FAMILY:

Sinners can't have biological children of his own, but Angel Dust is fine by that. Perhaps he feels responsible for a moment and admits (likely internally) that he can hardly keep an eye on himself, how can he keep an eye on a child? There's also some level of fear that the kid would follow in his foot steps and end up in a nasty situation, Angel knows he's not exactly the best.. role model. He's more likely to ascend than be a father.

KISSES:

Oh he loves physical affection. Sure, a lot of it is going to be sexually charged. Diving into the romance vs sex side of things, it may take him a while to fully get a grasp on the difference between lustful feelings and romantic ones and how to act them out. Not all kisses and cuddle sessions need to end in intercourse. He loves giving you quick kisses, long kisses, kisses with tongue, kisses without tongue. He's not picky at all. His favorite place to kiss you is really anywhere on your face... but if you give him the chance he'll say his favorite place is more... down south

As for receiving, I think he stands at around the same.. point.. Yeah, point! Not picky when it comes to him getting affection!

PETNAMES:

He calls you everything under the sun. From schnookums to Honey, you've heard it all. He defaults to Baby and Babe, though. Tends to replace your name with something endearing unless there's something serious going on or he's trying to get your attention. Similar to the above segment he's not picky about what you call him, but he does seem to get this look in his eye if you call him something rather sweet and innocent.

QUESTION:

Oooo this ones tough....

He asks what your favorite position is/j

No, but real talk, I think if you two were alone and you're in his room... perhaps in one of your hangouts... he might let his walls slip a bit, ask you some real.. personal stuff, perhaps seeking some sort of validation or even reassurance. This is more likely after a rough day and after a drink or two.

TUNES:

Perhaps I'm biased because I've been getting back into Maneskin but I can imagine you two absolutely BELTING it to this song! Not exactly a "couple song" per say, but definitely a song that you two vibe with together!

As well as this song, for the same reasons above

Though I'm also picturing the Reader and Angel drunkingly singing Tally Hall's version of Just A Friend (while the pair are giggling and getting way into it, you know just having a good time!)

XRAY:

It depends on how long you two have known each other. Are you guys a quick fling that fell together fast, or were you both a slow burn? If your relationship formed quickly, he may be a little stumped on reading you.. which can sometimes lead to him being a little insensitive to your feelings and vibe. Or awkwardly standing there unsure of how to approach you, likely slinking away to let you handle it on your own. But in something that had left more time for the two of you to get to know one another, he's going to let you vent and complain to him. He can tell somethings off with just the tone of your voice or if your wording is a little off. You two aren't totally in sync, but he's not as clueless as the former.

#hazbin hotel x reader #hazbin hotel x you #hazbin x reader #hazbin imagine #hazbin hotel imagine #angel dust x reader #angel dust x you #angel dust imagine

[jasper-rolls]

i’ve never played a five night’s at freddy’s game and at this point fully don’t intend to, but i did get caught up in the hype around the first one, and follow the plotline for about 5 games via lets plays and wiki diving before sliding off of it, and in retrospect its funny to me that the focus for both the fanbase and the creator became the completely ass backwards “Lore” that was clearly just made up as he went along in attempts to zag on matpat when from looking back over it scott cawthon’s actual writing strength is his comedic chops

like don’t get me wrong, this isn’t exactly the funniest writing in the world, but he is decently good at doing a bit of satire of corporate culture, with the way the fazbear company has this “we’re all one big family! now go and risk your life against haunted robots for less than minimum wage” vibe, and given cawthon plays the phone guy in the first couple of games, he has a good sense of acting and comedic timing, with the ability to make it slide into something at least unsettling. in another timeline there’s probably a version of FNAF that leaned into this - kept the lore light and vague enough to be intriguing and avoid flying up its own ass, while focusing in on the comedic satire to give a strong anti-corporate message

but of course, the irony is that since cawthon is a reactionary conservative goon, his satire never goes beyond “hey, being working class kinda sucks, huh”, and instead we get a story that once you strip out the stupid back and forthing on character identities and made up bullshit terms trying to patch holes in logic, is basically just pizzagate with ghosts. i think the villains plot just straight up turns out to be the in-universe equivalent of the adrenochrome bullshit

c’est la vie

[fantasyfantasygames]

The Department

The Department Susan Cathleen Powell, 2019

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Sabrina Hawthorne is a fellow enthusiast of rare RPGs. She's the one who actually found a write-up of The Revolution by a GM for a table of players who didn't want to read the whole thing. We originally met at a mini-golf course, of all places (fuck you, windmill), and ended up chatting about mechanics in card-based games. When she told me about this one I knew it was a perfect fit for the blog and invited her to write a guest post. Here it is!

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You know the SCP wiki? You know those articles that dive super far into the deep history, where characters straight out of the Hebrew Bible use arcane orbital lasers to wage a planet-wide war on mutant flesh monsters, and bigfoot is there too?

The Department is one of those, in the form of a hack for The Quiet Year.

You play as the board of directors for the titular Department, who are the SCP foundation in all but name. Your researchers have come across an anomalous archaeological dig site, and it’s your job to guide the organization to learn as much as they can about it – and the secret world history it’s a part of - before it’s destroyed by the vague sleeping horror that you disturbed when the site broke ground.

For the most part, the game runs the same as The Quiet Year, but with spookier and more bureaucratic flavor text. There’s a phase at the end of each round called a Board Meeting that’s a bare bones hidden role board game that doesn’t really feel as scheme-y or capitalistic as it wants to, but other than that it runs smoothly.

The real life of the party is the Countdown mechanic. Whenever a player draws an Ace of any suit from the deck, the Countdown advances, causing more strange occurrences and anomalous dangers to crop up around the dig site. When the last Ace is drawn, the game ends, and players are strictly forbidden to tie up any loose ends that their improvised story left hanging. And since in this one you pull from a combined deck of 52, those aces can come randomly at any time.

There isn’t any art in The Department, which makes sense. It’s 12 pages, and it’s only that long because of a very thorough section on consent and safety tools. Nonetheless, it’s packed with exactly the kind of style that this game needs. The front and back covers look like a manila folder, and the whole thing looks like a partially declassified government document.

Susan Powell apparently sold a few of her games through her onlyfans page, alongside more of what you might expect of an onlyfans page. I got my copy from a friend though, and I haven’t been able to track Susan down anywhere on the internet.

#ttrpg #imaginary #indie ttrpg #rpg #review #unreality #scp #guest post #fuck you windmill #not the first time SCP has shown up on this blog and i'm sure it won't be the last

[animenostalgia]

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast - ep 129: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind 40th Anniversary with Rachel

This episode is sponsored in part by Tokyo Treat! To get $5 your first box of delicious snacks & treats delivered from Japan straight to your door, AND to help support my little podcast, use code "NOSTALGIA" at my link here!

This month (March 11th, 2024 to be exact) marked the 40th anniversary of the release of the film Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. So to celebrate this momentous occasion, friend of the show & HUGE Nausicaa fan Rachel is back to discuss the history of not just the film, but the manga it's based off of! Since the Nausicaa is pretty widely available at this point, we DO talk openly with spoilers. So if you've never seen the film before, go have a watch and then come back to listen to us do a deep dive & gush about what makes this movie so special in this extra-long episode!

Stream the episode above or [Direct Download] Subscribe on apple podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify

Relevant Links:

Buy Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind on Blu-ray from The Crunchyroll Store or Amazon

Buy the Nausicaa manga box set from The Crunchyroll Store or Amazon

Buy The Art of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind from The Crunchyroll Store or Amazon

Buy Shuna's Journey from The Crunchyroll Store or Amazon

Visit Nausicaa Net (aka the Ghibli Wiki), the longest-running Ghibli fansite still up and running!

Visit Gkids' official Nausicaa page

Read "When Nausicaa became Warriors of the Wind"

Follow Rachel on Twitter, Bluesky, and Twitch!

My theme song music was done by Kerobit! You can find more about them on their website!

Support the work I do on this podcast by leaving me a tip on Ko-fi! Want to have your name read in the special thanks segment on the next episode? All you need to do is buy me 2 or more “coffees” on Ko-fi!

As always, feel free to leave me your thoughts on this episode or ideas for future episodes here—or email me directly at [email protected].

Thanks for listening!

#The Anime Nostalgia Podcast #nausicaa of the valley of the wind #80s anime #hayao miyazaki #affiliate links #studio ghibli #studio topcraft #Warriors of the Wind #80s manga #40th anniversary #Rachel #SporadicErratic

[whattraintracks]

20. Raph vs a Volcano - Coming Out of Their Shells

Did you know Joe Versus the Volcano came out in 1990? Do you know what else came out in 1990? This justification is tenuous, at best, I know, but I have and will continue to use these prompts to talk about Raph how ever I want.

I haven't watched any recordings of the live show yet, but here are some of my favorite moments from the album supplemented with wiki details in no particular order. Diving fully into the frame story because who is going to stop me.

Raph is the lead vocalist on most of the songs and plays like three instruments

impressively musically inclined

apparently the first of the four to get into music

boy's got a gorgeous voice and a nice range of pitch and timbre

he wrote all the music!!! and Mikey wrote the words!! and they sing lead together!

they are thee duo

Tell 'em, Raph!

followed by the most beautifully sung line you ever did hear

honestly the entirety of cowabunga

it's Mikey talking up all of his brothers, and he dedicates it to Splinter, and it's the sweetest thing ever

he calls Raph his very best friend *weeps*

Splinter's song and the implication that as they were writing the songs, Raph or Mikey were like, 'Dad! Do you wanna sing with us!'

OR

Splinter was the one who asked them to write him a song

cuz like he could have just sung back-up and/or played an instrument like Leo and Donnie

but he has his own ENTIRE song

and since Splinter is the most supportive dad ever

of course, they gave him his own vague-probably-metaphoric-but-still-pretty song

the music, in general, is really interesting and enjoyable

sing about it, skipping stones, and walk straight have really good musical moments

pizza power and cowabunga have my favorite lyrics

so yeah well done Raph and Co.

#march for raph #thank you for coming to my turtle talk #the actual singers are listed as the turtles' voice coaches which i think is adorably clever #raphael splinterson #michelangelo splinterson #master splinter #coming out of their shells #tmnt #whattrainofthought

[princess-of-the-corner]

Toontown: Corporate Clash Recap: Barnacle Boatyard Sidetasks Part 2

So… Let’s get the remaining Sidetasks out of the way:

First Mate Makeover

In order to start this Task, you need to speak with Choppy McDougal at Blackbeard’s Beauty Parlor on Buccaneer Boulevard.

Apparently, the Lawbots stole McDougal’s treasure. If this is the Task that I think it is. Kinda hard to check, Choppy McDougal doesn’t have a page on the Wiki.

First order of business: REVENGE!

Choppy tasks you with defeating 15 Lawbots.

Once they’ve been defeated, you’re sent to retrieve Choppy McDougal’s treasure, as the Lawbots threw it into the ocean for some reason. (Again, assuming this is the Task I’m thinking about. It might be a later one with this plotline.)

To do this, you need to ride the Trolley until you’re randomly taken to the Treasure Dive Minigame, and recover at least ONE Treasure Chest.

Good luck, because the Trolley Game you get is based ENTIRELY on RNG, and Treasure Dive is one of FOURTEEN minigames you can get.

Be glad you only need to get ONE chest, because Trolley Dive is a pretty tricky game.

(Here’s the Wiki page, in case you don’t believe me.)

Anyways, once you’ve returned the Treasure Chest to Choppy, you’re rewarded 2,469 experience, 200 Jellybeans, and the “Wonky” nametag.

Actually, looking at the task name again, I don’t think this is the one with the stolen treasure, but I do remember the stolen treasure task was a freaking NIGHTMARE to complete!

But I also have no idea why it’s called “First Mate Makeover”, because I can’t remember what Choppy has to say, the wiki doesn’t have their dialogue, and every Let’s Play I watch skips all the task dialogue too quickly for me to read anything.

Which is a crime, because the writing in this game is HILARIOUS.

Dressing Sea-Lads and Lasses

To start this task, you need to talk to Fishy Frank at Salmon Chanted Evening Wear on Buccaneer Boulevard.

He tasks you with collecting 10 Treasures in Barnacle Boatyard Playground.

The treasures he speaks of are the Laff Pick-Ups that spawn around the Playground, not the Treasure Chests from Treasure Dive. As a reminder, the Treasures in Barnacle Boatyard are Starfish (not to be confused with the Starfish you can get while fishing), and they spawn underwater, meaning you’ll have to go for a swim to pick them up.

As you have a Task to collect them, you can pick them up without being hurt. Just go and try to swim through as many as you can until your Toon stops picking them up.

Now that he has the Starfish, either for inspiration or payment, he can make you an outfit. He just needs the proper tools.

First, he needs a single “Some Small Sewing Needles” from any of the Micromanagers in Toontown.

Once that’s taken care of, he’ll just need A Piece of Thread from any Cog anywhere.

After you’ve gotten his materials, he’ll send you to defeat a Cog building, since your outfit should be complete in the time it takes to bring it down.

Once you’ve conquered the Cog Building, return to Fishy Frank, and he’ll give you the BB Sailor Shirt, BB Sailor Shorts, BB Sailor Skirt, 2,394 experience, and 200 Jellybeans.

Straight to Boardwalk

In order to kick off this task, you need to talk to Davey Drydock in What’s Up, Dock? (get it?) on Lighthouse Lane.

The first thing Davey tasks you with is defeating 15 Cogs in Barnacle Boatyard. This should go without saying, but only Cogs defeated in Barnacle Boatyard will be counted.

After this is done, you need to speak with Linda Landlubber at Disembark! Tree Surgery on Buccaneer Boulevard, because Davey needs some lumber from her. She agrees, on the condition that you do the following for her:

Defeat 7 Cogs on Buccaneer Boulevard (buildings count).

Pay 50 Jellybeans.

Once those are complete, she takes your Jellybeans and gives you some lumber, which you need to deliver to Davey.

He rewards you with the Boardwalk Nametag, 2,560 experience, and 200 Jellybeans. This means that it PROBABLY would’ve been cheaper for him to pick up the lumber himself, but whatever, you got what you came for.

Next time, we head back to Toontown Central to discuss something you unlock automatically upon starting the Barnacle Boatyard taskline.

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Oh the RNG of that would be hell for me oh my god.

Also re: the dialogue! On youtube if you pause and tap the coma or period keys (’,’ or ‘.’) then you can go a bit more frame by frame.

#submission

[bearpillowmonster]

Metroid Fusion - Review

"Where am I? What is this? I feel….wow. This feels good."

So, now that we're so far in, I feel like I kind of can't talk about anymore of these games without getting into spoilers, I mean the game itself is a spoiler so you know, start with that. But I do think it has quite a bit on the beginner's side which I'll get to in a moment.

I've talked about my expectations for this franchise and how Other M more or less threw me off the trail, well we're there, kind of? So extinguishing the Metroids had a consequence, that consequence being that they were a predator, they kept the X-Parasites from out staying their welcome but now that they're gone, the X-Parasites are here. Samus doesn't get injured from Mother Brain, she gets infected by one of these X-Boyfriends and it nearly kills her, what saves her is the Federation having a spare bit of Metroid DNA in their back pocket because why not? (If you played Other M, you'd know why) and that cures it, well mostly.

They send her back to SR-388 to combat these Parasites before they get out of hand, to extinguish yet another specimen. Well these ones can…wait am I explaining the plot? Didn't I say this was spoilers and that you should know what its about? Ok, well, whatever, let me focus more on my thoughts and differences with my expectations.

These ones can take on a host, so they take over random critters and objects and once you defeat them, you have to collect them before they find a new host. (Fusion is just a cheap tactic to make weak (parasites) stronger) Now some of these more powerful ones can just morph, no actual body necessary. So you no longer collect random little shiny purple orbs and ammo, everything is essentially biotic and organic so there's an in lore reason as to why you're restoring health/ammo, that's really cool! Yellow restores health, Green restores Missiles, Red restores both Missiles and Health to max, and Blue restore health once Samus receives the Varia Suit upgrade. Pulled straight from Google from the wiki, your welcome.

Now how is this a beginner's tale? Well there are these Navigation rooms, which some will like, some won't, I happen to think they're kind of cool and would've appreciated them as a kid. So head to one of these rooms and it'll more or less tell you where to go, voiced by who Samus says sounds like Adam Malkovich, we'll just have to take her word for it until Dread I suppose. He's not really just a hint guide, he kind of gives you your missions and you report back to him for him to report to the Federation. But in that, I feel like it makes things a little more linear, because this game actually made it click for me just how inspirational it was for the later games from Samus Returns to Other M, from wall grabbing and climbing, getting hurt and saved by something that you can now to use to your advantage like the Phazon in Prime 3, to sectors that sometimes block you out from backtracking. Both the good and quote on quote bad.

For newcomers, it's great because you really don't get lost but for veterans, it must be a bit annoying. I also think they did this because there's no real dialogue or anything in Metroid games, most are fine with that but I know the heads of this game wanted to dive into that a bit more as I mentioned extensively in my Other M review. So, it's a gamechanger to have a companion.

No more Chozo statues either. Instead they have these "Cores" which act as a hive for X-Parasites, this is where a lot of those morphers/bosses come in. Then inside lies a little membrane that makes adjustments to your suit, also really cool, I like this lore. And the remains of your suit got abducted so you fight a dominant version of yourself with all the abilities that you're missing. Her name…is Sa-X

It's just so cool to see these pretenders that can adapt to their environment. Missiles are all compilative so you start out with normal and they just get replaced with super missiles when you unlock them so that's cool. And those power bombs? Yeah those suck the parasites right to you, did I miss something?

Love it or hate it, I feel like this game changed the series as a whole and set up those plot threads for Other M but I thoroughly enjoyed it and now feel like I understand Metroid just that much more, it did pretty good with giving more plot without feeling too overbearing for a Metroid game. Definitely unique with its styling.

#metroid #metroid fusion #review #video game #game

[scaryscarecrows]

Go Wash That Blood Off Your Hands

AN: McDonald’s timeline. Jason is a theater kid surrounded by enablers. Nobody has the brain cell right now, but this is still a better way to deal with trauma than ‘invading a city’, so does it really matter?

Title from Clint Lowery’s ‘God Bless the Renegades’.

* * *

It starts, as most strange things do, in a New Jersey Waffle House.

So as it turns out, Waffle House or not, civvie clothes or not, people are going to notice seven muscular dudes who appear to have been fighting with something. And honestly, that’s not getting into Trent’s…er…Trent-ness.

It could be worse. The nature of the Waffle House is that nobody will straight-up ask, which is probably for the best. That doesn’t mean that much, though, not in the long run; a group of (probable) college kids are giggling in the corner.

They think Mark’s a cutie, Riley explains in between bites of scrambled eggs. But I think they’re too chicken to come over here and say so.

“God, I hope so.” Mark shudders. “Why me. Why not him?” He gestures at Jason, who huffs. “He’s their age.”

Maybe they want a sugar daddy.

“Take me back to Gotham.”

Riley laughs. Antoine takes a sip of his coffee and glares at it like it’s personally murdered his entire family.

“What the fuck is this.”

“American swill,” Trent says sagely. “Maybe cigarette ashes would fix it.”

Antoine looks like he’s considering it, but is distracted from doing so by Jimmy’s going, “So, boss…”

“What.”

“You have a Wikipedia article that’s made, like, five Buzzfeed ‘creepiest Wiki rabbit holes’ lists.”

Jason, who’s in the middle of drowning his pancakes in strawberry syrup, looks up and deadpans, “What.”

“Uh-huh.” Jimmy stabs a piece of sausage and dunks it in the cup of fake maple. “See? ‘The Disappearance of Jason Todd’, right here, black-and-white, featured literally every time there’s a listicle about creepy shit.”

“What’re the theories? Anybody get lucky and get it right?”

“Ah…no. But apparently ‘kidnapped by the Jersey Devil’ was a thing.” Jimmy blanches, freckles managing to go starker. “Shit, the Jersey Devil’s not a thing, is it?”

For a hopeful second, it looks like the answer will be ‘of course not’. But then Jason just shuts his mouth and shrugs, looking very much like he’d rather have not been asked.

“I don’t actually know,” he admits. “I don’t think so, but…”

“Chriiiiiiiist,” Antoine groans. “No. There is no Jersey Devil. I refuse to believe there is one.”

Frank shakes his head.

“It’s probably fucking Batman–don’t look now, Mark, someone might have just got up the guts.”

* * *

That could have been the end of it. Would have been, even, if it weren’t for a roadside costume shop that’s probably a money laundering place, really, because who buys costumes in the middle of fucking nowhere?

But it’s daytime, AC/DC is blaring on the radio, and they have access to Bruce Wayne’s credit card because, in Jason’s words, “He owes me back allowance, trauma tax, and honestly, I didn’t rat him out to Joker so he really should have been paying me for the Robin gig.”

So they pull in.

It’s a dark, dingy place with roach motels in the corners and outfits that look (and smell) like they’ve been here for decades. There’s a great selection of masks, though, which means Jimmy can put on a decaying zombie head and go, “Hey, Trent, I’m your mom.”

“Shut up, punk.”

“Language!”

“Hey, hey, check it out.” Frank puts on what claims to be a ‘were-Bat’ mask. “I’m Batman.”

“You laugh, but you didn’t see,” Antoine grumbles. “That thing scared the shit outta me.”

“Can I help you boys find anything?” the clerk-an old man who probably has a shotgun under the counter-calls. He sounds mildly annoyed. They should probably buy something before they leave.

“We’re good.”

If it weren’t for Riley, they probably would have settled for buying, like, gum. Or maybe a pentagram necklace, to ward off Batman or something. But Riley dives into a rack of…furry bodysuits, basically, and comes up with a black one that, against all odds, looks like it’ll fit Trent.

Things snowball from there.

Among the impressive masks is what appears to be a possessed goat; white eyes, fangs, a lolling tongue, and more fur around the neck. The horns are stained red, and mucus is caked around the nose. Wings turn up, too, big, leathery ones, and a bottle of fake blood. This is bad enough, but then Jason fishes a handful of very realistic intestines out of a bin. They’ve got a strap on them-likely designed to be part of a zombie costume or something-but in the dark, especially…

“This is probably one of the tackiest things we’ve ever done,” Mark says. Riley shrugs and throws a devil tail on the pile.

“It’s not like he’s actually dead,” Frank points out. “People do worse, anyway.”

“True.”

“‘Sides,” Jason says, grins with far too many teeth. “This could have been avoided with a little detective work.”

“That’s right,” Jimmy says. “Here, get another bottle of blood; we gotta get some on the suit, too.”

* * *

They waffle about whether to do a photo or a video. Riley finally convinces them to do a video, Blair Witch-style, so of course they trek into the woods.

For a furry bodysuit and extras, Trent is. Mm. Well, realistically, Trent is pretty frightening all by himself, but the costume is a new level of horror. It doesn’t help that the sun is low in the sky, and it’s starting to drizzle. Jason’s no better; with the intestines strapped on and blood splashed on pretty much all of him, he…doesn’t look too good.

“Okay,” Jimmy says, fiddling with his phone, “I’ll film, because I’ve got the best phone. Frank, you narrate; you’ve got a good narrator voice. Riley, you do…you know that noise, that you made last Halloween that sent three people running for cover?” Riley gives him a thumbs up. “That. Do that. Antoine, you and I are just gonna chit-chat. Keep it casual. Mark, you’re our skeptic. Trent, I want a couple of glimpses of you, but, like, over there. You know, did that just happen?”

“You want me to be Bigfoot, basically.” Trent’s voice is muffled in the goat mask. “Sure.”

“Yep. Just once or twice, as we walk. Maybe pace us so I can just pop the camera over. Boss, you’re just gonna lay on the ground. Maybe, uh, scream a bit before we get to you, and then…I don’t know, I don’t know…Riley, should he be dead or no?”

Nah, Riley says. We can keep it going if he’s not.

“That’s true. Okay, don’t be dead, but let’s face it, you’re gonna be on your way, your fucking guts are hanging out.”

“We’re horrible people,” Antoine finally says. “You have to admit, this is terrible.”

“Cheaper than therapy,” Jason points out. “And probably safer; at least three Gotham villains used to be mental health workers.”

“That’s true.”

“Okay, okay…here. Here’s a good spot. Get comfy and try to look like you just got attacked.”

* * *

Two days later, a video goes viral. It’s crappy and shaky, taken on a cell phone. The internet is divided on whether it’s staged or not, but it’s creepy regardless.

The video takes place in the woods. The narrator claims they’re out looking for the Jersey Devil. This isn’t the weird part; the weird part is when something shrieks and the camera swings over just in time to catch something big and black and furry walking deeper into the woods.*

“Damn,” the narrator breathes, and then someone else pipes up with a short, “It’s a bear, you know it’s a bear–”

“It had wings, man!”

“No, it didn’t, don’t be–”

“No-no–stay back, get away from me!”

Silence, then the camera gets jerky, like the holder’s running. There’s a bloodcurdling scream followed by a snarl, a thud, and then…munching noises.

And then the camera catches it; something big and black and furry, crouched over a twitching body on the ground. Intestines are spilling out and coming up into a goat’s mouth (but that’s no goat, goats don’t look like that they don’t look like that–) and as the camera freezes in obvious horror, the man raises his arms to try and shove the thing away.

“God–” He’s not successful. “Stop–”

The video cuts here. It doesn’t take very long for somebody to point out that the man looks an awful lot like Bruce Wayne’s missing kid, and hey, wasn’t he supposed to be kidnapped by the Jersey Devil, that was a theory, right?

Dick thinks the video is, in his words, ‘very Jason’. Barbara has a chuckle, so does Alfred. Tim weakly points out that at least Jason’s not trying to murder anybody. Bruce, however, now understands the random charge on a card he’d, honestly, forgotten about.

He could have done without, he thinks, Jason’s far-too-convincing screams, or the image of him covered in (fake, he knows it’s fake, but still) blood as something eats him alive. But Dick’s right, it is very him. Bruce still remembers him stubbing his toe and collapsing to the ground, writhing in agony and intoning, “I’m dying, Bruce, lay two tokens on my eyes for the ferryman…tell…tell Dick I stole his Fruit Roll-Ups…”

At least he’s safe. Seemingly happy, for the moment. Not causing trouble, not really. Bruce will take that, for now.

THE END

*One of the creepiest gaming moments I’ve EVER experienced is your first glimpse of Jack Baker in RE7. He doesn’t hurt you. He just walks on by, but he comes out of nowhere and I very much wanted to bail back to my car.

#jason todd #the squad #arkhamverse #scaryverse #boys will be boys: wholesome edition #the jersey devil #bad ideas start in waffle houses

[madillhethen]

You don’t like the sunshine, Cu? That’s offensive. He sounds so irritated....ugh, I know I know it’s not what some Cu fans want to hear but dam, this just sounds so much...like a dog? I mean not the watering of flowers but just being kicked out somewhere, but still sticking around and then just staring into space.

Also those pants...Cu, nice style--something I wore as a middle schooler with the chains (except mine was jeans, his look like leather pants.)

This comment, lol, but it is true--I’ve seen sun-tanned skin people darker than naturally tan people. Also...CG Kiritsugu has a tan darker than Archer. In factor...Kiritsugu looks like the color of chocolate milk.

Gilgamesh? I wonder if it’ll be answered in FHA (I know Kid Gil is here) but doesn’t Cu not like Gilgamesh? But then again, Gil, Cu and Emiya are always together like some freakin’ boyband. Also why is he giving the example of Saber and Rider as if they are hard to get along with? I feel like Saber, Medusa, Archer and Cu could all get along well--it’s Medea, Sasaki and Gilgamesh that seem difficult.

Wait...Shirou, Cu never liked Kirei--oh wait, I guess Shirou can saw this in UBW huh? I’m going to take a guess and say its Caren in the Church and he can’t get along with her because she’s Kirei’s daughter? (Yeah, I already know that from wiki-diving years ago)

Shirou always doing chores before he leaves after an odd phenomena. Anyone remember in the prologue after Cu straight up kills him, Shirou’s first response after awakening from the dead is to clean his own mess ;-;.

#Mad's Fate HA #fha #fate hollow ataraxia #hollow ataraxia #Cu Chulainn #shirou emiya

[alaric-greyson]

A Fan Review of “Rings of Power”

Rings of Power launched this week and immediately finds itself locked in a conversation that makes it hard to really get a sense of what’s real criticism and what’s a social and/or political statement about the show.  I figured some folks here might appreciate a relatively focused review from a more casual fan of the source material.

The TLDR: I like the show and think it has done a good job so far, but also recognize that it’s probably easier for Lore-experts to think of it as the equivalent to Tolkien Historical Fiction rather than thinking of it as an attempt to perfectly portray what we know of the canon of the Second Age.  

For lore-focused fans it would be like medieval historians watching something like Orlando Bloom’s “Kingdom of Heaven” where plenty of historical fact exists, but is in service to making a good movie rather than perfectly reflecting the events leading to the 3rd Crusade.

Since any review of this show is overshadowed by the concerns about its canonical or political relevance I figured I’d throw out my lack of qualifications to judge the review.  

From a Tolkien-specific point of view, I’m a significant fan of Tolkien but not to the level of amateur or professional scholar of the material.  I’ve read the Silmarillion a dozen times over the years at least, but I only ever dipped my toes into the more extended collections of writing (though I’ve gotten lost in a few wiki-dives on characters over the years).  So I have a pretty extensive knowledge of the lore, but largely the surface stuff, not the deep lore.

From a political/social space I’m a left leaning cis straight white male from the US.  So you won’t get any complaints about the racial or gender make-up of the show, but I almost certainly have blindspots. For example:  I saw some complaints about accents being assigned to specific groups of characters, but simply don’t know enough about British regional accents and the associated social implications to recognize any controversy over it.

Casting:  The casting ranges from good to fine.  The Elves of Lindon feel more “real” then Elrond or Galadriel did in the movies but that’s clearly an intentional choice as they’re major characters here rather than mysterious and magical encounters.  While I generally like Elrond, Galadriel, and Arondir, a lot of the supporting Elves are a tad bland.  Dwarves, Harfoots, and Humans all have pretty good casting for their main characters.  We haven’t seen as much of their respective supporting casts.  There’s so far no one who irritates me every time they’re on screen (as a bad actor as opposed to making dumb choices).

My only real objection comes down to “it’s a TV series” and that’s that at times the world seems unpopulated at times.  Beautiful and soaring establishing shots move into rooms with only a handful of people present.

Lore:  

As I mentioned I’m a surface Lore fan.  Because of this I spotted some lore inconsistencies that bugged me at times.  Some could be easily explained (Galadriel monologuing about the Noldor going after Morgoth just skips right over the Kinslaying, which seems like something she’d do).  Others were just off but I just made some sarcastic comments to myself.  My only really big lore objection that actively bugged me was Valinor’s “modern” portrayal.  You could easily explain around it if you wanted to “repair” the lore but they seemed to me to be treating it more as a magical Heaven rather than as an actual navigational destination you could go to.  It’s not remotely a deal breaker...but the whole sequence sort of bugged me.

Plot:  

The plot itself is only just beginning but they’re clearly trying to build out the world to tell stories in it.  As much as I commented that the TV budget leaves some of the world feeling unpopulated, the same has always been a bit of a pet peeve of mine about Tolkien himself in the Silmarillion.  The stories of the First and Second Ages that we know of tend to be about small numbers of named individuals, and then an indeterminate number of other people who are following them.  That’s completely in line with the genre conventions he was aiming for, but it has its negatives.

The show is making sure to build out six or seven distinct communities of characters so that the plot can be built by all of them, rather than limited to a handful of Elves and Numenoreans.  Because of that it’s a little disjointed at the moment, but also implies that the seven or so main characters so far are eventually going to cross paths.

The plot itself is also built on an era we know very little about, namely the time between the end of the First Age and Sauron returning.  They’ve clearly decided to lean on one of the classic “Evil is dead and can never return” tropes, with our heroes being the wise ones who see the danger.  I suspect they’ll be “squashing” the timeline a bit since thousands of years would likely remove some of the characters they’ve already created.

So is it good?:  

It’s fine.  After two episodes I have no reason to stop watching it.  My lore-based pet peeves are easy enough to disregard, and I actively like a couple of the characters.  We’re obviously about to get some Numenoreans in the next episode, and that will give us another set of neat establishing shots.  

If you don’t want to watch it for moral or political reasons...don’t.  This is a nice enough show but I don’t see it turning into the dominant fandom of the moment the way Game of Thrones or Good Omens did on their respective releases. There’s no social obligation to watch this, or to support the creators.

If you’re a lore-first fan, you’ll absolutely have to be able to check that instinct at the door before watching.  There’s no question they’re modifying and messing with timelines, events, and characters. Depending on who one mysterious character is could throw things wildly out of whack.  Some lore-fans will be able to appreciate what the creators are aiming for with the changes...but a lot of the others are just going to hate the adaption of the canon.  If you can think of it as historical fiction for Middle Earth you might be able to enjoy it more.  But as with others, there’s no obligation to watch it if you don’t want to.

#lord of the rings #rings of power #a review #it's fine

[auranovabloggers]

Hsien-Ko and Mei-Ling Official Lore Project

Ever since I had watched this video, I have become inspired to make a video of a similar style and vibe:

First of all, please watch this video and check out Dan's other videos. Funny guys with a passion for Fatal Fury and SNK as a whole.

With that said, I want to discuss what I am planning and working towards in the future. I want to deep dive into making a detailed character essay video regarding both Hsien-Ko and Mei-Ling of Darkstalkers. While video making is not new to me as I did so in the past (roughly +10 years ago on Youtube), this will be the first time I have made a lore/character essay. Research to a higher caliber and script writing will be first times for me in video making. Understandably, there is very little in the Darkstalkers games to work with and many would say to look at the Darkstalkers wiki. However, from initial searches beyond the Fandom site, there appear to be errors or straight up made-up information on there. Not only that, but some information is also missing... which is not the fault of the people there.

As it turns out, a lot of the lore and biographies in the series are behind a language barrier that those outside of Japan can't easily access. While some would suggest using Google Translate and image recognition to get the job done, that is out of the question. That program is quite flawed in catching the nuance of the language that only a native speaker would know.

You might be asking, 'Aura, what are trying to say?' Well, what I am in the works of doing is gathering all the Japanese text from scans of official Darkstalkers guidebooks in order to fully get the scope that the developers intended for Hsien-Ko and Mei-Ling. I will do my best to detail all that is uncovered to help portray a cohesive narrative about the background and story of these two sisters in Darkstalkers. But not only that, I want to also head canon and analyze that information and every aspect of them to also draw out ideas. Their style of clothing, their names, their Chinese background, etc.

But not only will I use the official lore from Japanese texts, I also intend to use this:

'What is this cover?' you may be asking. This is 'Vampire Hunter Gaiden: Lei-Lei Hen - Owaranai Haru (ヴァンパイアハンター外伝 レイレイ編 終わらない春)'. Translated as 'Vampire Hunter Tale: Hsien-Ko~ Endless Spring', it is written by Akihiko Ureshino (嬉野秋彦) with illustrations by Kohime Ose (桜瀬琥姫). While this is not canon to the games, it is a licensed light novel released back in 1996/1/1 that initial Google translations from Japanese wiki pages lead me to believe that I need to look into this story. There are mentions in how the personalities of the sisters, especially Mei-Ling, are similar to the Darkstalkers OVA versions of them, another licensed piece of media that released months after this novel and is one of the few rare pieces of media to leave Japan and be translated. To build a cohesive idea of who Hsien-Ko and Mei-Ling are, I feel it is important that I get this novel translated and read to figure out what the writer came up with for Hsien-Ko and Mei-Ling, one of the first pieces of licensed media to do so. It will certainly cost a lot of money as I have over 224 pages worth of text that must be translated, but I am willing to do it for these two characters I cherish dearly.

That, for personal Cryas Darkstalkers reasons, and because this novel inspired a doujin that means the world to me, 'Share':

Overall, the scans from the official lore, the games, this light novel, and the OVA will be used to help try to build upon 'Who are Hsien-Ko and Mei-Ling? What are they like? Where did they come from? Their goals and thoughts, what are they?', along with other bits I wish to convey as I find them fun to bring up and discuss.

Hsien-Ko and Mei-Ling mean the world to me, and I wish to finally give them both the justice they deserve after nearly 30 years. Speaking of 30, I am planning to try and get this project finished by March 3rd, 2025, as that is the anniversary of Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge releasing into Japanese arcades.

I'll update of my progress as time goes on, so I'll leave you with what I have so far and my other plans for the video:

The scans of the novel have been fully finished and am in the process of getting a quote.

If you wish to see the novel yourself, whether out of curiosity or because you are fluent in Japanese, I'll let you have a look:

I am intending to commission artists to help illustrate aspects of the script when the time comes. Make it feel like a group effort by the community. 😊

If any of you are aware of good video editing programs that are cheap or free, please let me know.

For now, that is all I have for you. Cheers peeps. 😎✌️

#auranovablogger #darkstalkers #mei-ling #mei ling #shao #jiangshi #hsien ko #hsien-ko #hsienko and meiling deserve better #video project #character essay #vampire hunter #japanese #plans #dear god the production costs #but it will be worth it #research #light novel #Youtube

[greycent2]

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#how to create dark ambient music #dark ambient space music #dark ambient music

[cosmicfelines]

I swear y'all my brain makes the most out of the blue crossovers out of nothing, with the Bel'veth reveal and Miraculous ladybug season 4 ending my brain just said "hmmm 🤔 Hawkmoth and the void both use purple" and BAM! New crossover and plot

Disclaimer: Just so you know! I don't approve of Canon!Gabriel actions nor does his grief makes him justified in anything he does. I get what the writers where trying to do with his character (some kind sympathetic villain like Mr. Freeze but less successful) but as always the writing of this show leaves much to be desired, as always with most things I like the concept but not the execution and Gabriel is not the exception. I actually like Gabriel's character, I want him to have a redemption arc, but as always with this show and with Clownstruc in charge all good ideas and potential is thrown out the window. I'm always looking for fans rewrits and redesign of Miraculous ladybug specially Hawkmoth/Gabriel. So as with most fandoms I have decided to divorce canon and go with my headcanons

Of you don't know what is the League of Legends Void I recommend watching Necrit's video on Runeterra or the wiki, but to keep it short The Void is a parallel dimension that is the anti-thesis of reality. It's full of nothingness except for this eldritch god-like beings called The Watchers they were in eternal blissful sleep until a rip in reality allowed a window to the Universe where the planet of Runeterra resided woke them up, they suddenly where conscious of their own existence and all the noise and light of the universe, they didn't like it. So their whole plan is to destroy the Runeterran Universe so they can go back to sleep, send Voidborn and Voidspawn to the Universe as their scouts to collect information on this new reality, and open bigger Void rifts so they can pass through and destroy everything.

So the basic premise was (before the S5 episodes leaks, monarch design preview and the first episode evolution) that a void rift opened up in Paris, maybe it was just a random occurrence, an incursion of The Watchers, or maybe when Hawkmoth used all the Miraculous together during a battle he opened a Void rift, just like the Icathians did.

The Voidborn begin to come through and lay waste to everything and everyone. LB mad CN think this is Hawkmoth's Akumas but they're wrong and the three can feel the kwamis fear through the connection. The magic of the Miraculous can barely damage the Voidlings, people are dying and the Miraculous ladybug doesn't have a clear answer and it wouldn't be able to fix anything or bring anyone back since this is not an Akuma or a threat of this world, it's an otherness and the only thing protecting their minds and bodies form the world is the magic on the suits. They're getting desperate and I'm moment of clarity Hawkmoth understands what must be done...

Someone has to get close to the rift, lure as many Voidspawn as they can and make it implode on itself to close it, taking as much Voidlings as they can with it. Problems is that it's a one way trip, if the Voidborn or implosions don't take you then whatever is on the other side of the portal surely will.

Gabriel steels himself and tells Ladybug and Chat Noir his plan, but only the luring the Voidspawn to the portal and closing it part, they're getting desperate and it's the only plan they have so they agree, Hawkmoth lies to reassures them saying that the three of them will take out whatever Void creature remains after the implosions takes must of them, Hawkmoth flies to the portal (the Miraculous gives him wings in my headcanon) luring the hundreds of tiny Voidlings with light and the magic of the Miraculous, does a few circles to make sure all are following him.. and dives straight through the portal.

It works all the Voidlings follow him through the portal, there's light shining from it where previously there was only overwhelming darkness with tints of ominous purple light. Gabriel on the other side keeps flying in circles on the other side seeing millions of void creatures, every single one following him like moths to a flame trying to catch him instead of going through the portal. He prepares the necessary magic to close the rift from his side and in a fast dive with the Voidlings following closely behind he gets close to the rift and a explosion occurs.

The Voidlings recoil and burn in agony all being obliterated, the rift is closing, and Gabriel is badly hurt despite the protection of the suit, with one last thought he takes off the Miraculous and throws it through the rift just before it closes, leaving him in darkness and with nothing but the carcasses of the dead Voidspawn, and he passes out from his injuries.

That's the first part of everything but eventually after many years of wandering and surviving Gabriel, who is now a Void touched full with purple exoskeleton and butterfly wings (oh the irony), finds his way out of the dimension he is in (is not the void, no human would be able to survive there, it's a dimension between dimensions that touches closely with the void), he appears in Runeterra, underground closely to the giant void rift where Icathian once was, and from there he explores this new world he is in. maybe he encounters Viego he sees this reflection of himself and what he was becoming.

From this point I don't have a lot figured out, what I know is he will encounter Kassadin and helps him find his daughter (he misses Adrien terribly and there are not of other void touched around who are sane), they bond and fall in love, yes I'm shipping Gabriel with Kassadin in this possible fic. They find Kai'Sa after here encounter with Bel'veth and travel Runeterra looking for help against the void.

Much much later he will return to his world to warn and help them against the void, along with his new boyfriend and stepdaughter, but those are mostly vague ideas.

Tell me what you think and hey if you wanna write it tell me and I'll help you :D.

#league of legends #crossover #hawkmoth #kassadin #gabriel agreste #void hawkmoth au #void moth au #hawkmoth redemption #Gabriel agreste redemption #miraculous ladybug

[princess-of-the-corner]

Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix Recap: Disney Castle (The Cornerstone)

One thing I forgot to mention, because I missed it while checking the Wiki, Mosh’s Moogle Shop adds the Comet Staff to the inventory IN ADDITION to the new shield for Goofy.

My bad.

We now return to our regularly scheduled nonsense.

Right as the cutscene with Maleficent ends, we cut to Queen Minnie in Disney Castle’s library, looking for an old album, only for a panicking Chip and Dale to rush into the room to alert her to something horrible.

“Something’s wrong in the Hall of the Cornerstone!” Chip shouts.

“There’s real sharp thorns everywhere!” Dale adds.

The chipmunks lead Minnie into an eerily dark room, where a shimmering sound can be heard. Minnie can only gaze upon something the player can’t see in horror.

“Oh, King Mickey, I wish you could hear me,” she opens, “The castle is in danger! We have to do something soon!

“Donald… Goofy…

“Where are you?!?”

Unlike the first set of worlds, there’s no Gummi Route blocking your way, so you can go straight to the Disney Castle!

“So, this is your Castle,” Sora remarks, “Must be nice to be home, huh?”

Donald and Goofy don’t respond at first.

“Ya know, somethin’ just don’t feel quite right…” Goofy observes.

“Yeah,” Donald agrees.

Chip and Dale run up and tell them the Castle’s in danger, that they have to meet with Queen Minnie in the library.

There’s a Save Point right here in the Gummi Hangar, and the stairway deposits Sora at the topiary castle Goofy was napping in front of in his debut scene, right in the Courtyard.

You can platform on the hedges to collect treasure, but be warned that Soldiers, Shadows, and Minute Bombs will attack you.

Minute Bombs are a new species of Emblem Heartless that will attack by dive-bombing, but will sometimes self-destruct if you give them too much trouble. They’re invincible during their five second countdown, but can be knocked away with physical attacks if you want them to explode elsewhere. You can also use Fire Magic to light their fuses yourself.

The Garden connects to the Collonade (the long hallway where we were introduced to Donald in the first game), which leads to the Library, although the big (decorative) doors to the audience chamber are covered by a glowing barrier. All throughout the Highway, Shadows will emerge from the ground to impede your progress.

Entering the library where Minnie waits and a Broom Servant is doing its job won’t progress the story, you have to speak to the Queen.

“Your Majesty! Queen Minnie! We’re back!” Donald announces with a salute.

“You’re here!” an elated Queen Minnie exclaims.

“Your Royal Highness, did ya happen to summon us?” Goofy asks.

Minnie answers in the affirmative, and Sora asks where the King is.

Awkward silence follows, until Donald jumps up, grabs Sora, and pulls his head down to introduce him.

Queen Minnie HAS heard of Sora, thanks to King Mickey’s letters to home.

Sadly, she has no idea where he is.

Donald wants to know what the Heartless are doing in the Castle, and Queen Minnie reveals that she didn’t even know that these creatures WERE the Heartless until Donald called them that.

Regardless, Minnie has something she wants to show them, but needs an escort to the audience chamber, due to all the Heartless, and so requests their aid.

All three salute in response, and the Queen gasps.

In all the panic, she forgot to warn everyone about the danger.

The Castle is crawling with Heartless, and nobody is aware of the danger.

SDG realize that they have to split up to both escort the Queen AND warn everyone, and Sora offers to go and warn everyone, only to get shot down when it’s pointed out that he’d just get lost.

Thus, Donald and Goofy leave the party to warn everyone, while Sora sticks with the Queen.

Sora receives a map of Disney Castle, and the story will progress as soon as you leave the Library.

In the meantime, there’s a large chest holding Torn Pages, a Save Point, and Mogjiro’s Moogle Shop. Mogjiro carries the Dark Anklet and Divine Banda Armors.

This is an escort mission. If Minnie takes too much damage, you’ll get a game over.

Minnie will use cast Pearl (a Light Magic spell) to attack any Heartless that targets her, while Shadows and Minute Bombs try to impede your progress. If you stand next to Minnie, you can use the “Faith” Reaction Command to call down a beam of light that’ll deal MASSIVE damage to any surrounding Heartless. When far away from the Queen, Sora can also use the “Call Over” Reaction Command to beckon Minnie over to where he’s standing.

When you get close to the Audience Chamber, a Bolt Tower Emblem Heartless will spawn in (it’s big, tall, and only its tiny head can be damaged).

When Minnie and Sora are both standing next to the Audience Chamber, “Faith” becomes “Finish”, wherein Sora and Minnie cast Faith one more time and complete the first stage of the escort mission.

Minnie sealed the Audience Chamber when the trouble started, and now she can use her ring to unseal it.

Upon entering the Audience Chamber, Minnie’s health is restored, and an army of Bolt Towers descends from the ceiling to block the throne.

Our Junior Hero must protect the Queen from the Heartless and guide her to the throne to progress. Minnie has all of the same abilities as last time, but now there are WAY more Heartless to deal with. Minnie is invincible while using Faith, so alternate between it and “Call Over”.

“Faith” becomes “Finish” when Minnie is standing on the platform the throne is on, and using “Finish” leads to a final cast of Faith, and Sora gaining an extra Accessory Slot and learning Auto Summon (gives the Reaction Command for a specific Summon whenever a Party Member is knocked out).

Sora is, by this point, sick of the Heartless, and Minnie wordlessly hits a hidden switch under the throne. This causes the platform its on to slide to the side, and a bright light not unlike the one from Kingdom Hearts fills the room and vaporizes all the Bolt Towers.

“The room below is called the ‘Hall of the Cornerstone,’” Minnie explains as she walks over to the stairs leading down, “Our Castle has always been safe from worlds that are evil… thanks to the Cornerstone of Light, which we keep down there.”

Queen Minnie descends the stairs as Sora follows.

The Hall of the Cornerstone is filled with dark thorns, with the Cornerstone itself on a pedestal in the middle of the room, barely able to illuminate the room as Donald and Goofy rejoin the party.

Some of the thorns even sway on their own.

Queen Minnie notes that they must be the work of someone very evil, and right on cue, Maleficent astral projects into the room, much to the Junior Heroes’ shock.

Maleficent’s projection turns around and looks over her enemies with a grin.

“Well, well, well. What have we here?” she opens, “If it isn’t the wretched Keyblade holder, and his pitiful lackeys!”

“What!? Now you’re gonna deal with me!” Donald shouts as he brandishes his staff, before charging Maleficent.

“All in good time,” Maleficent replies as Donald goes right through her astral projection and smacks into the Cornerstone’s pedestal, “I promise you’ll be able to partake of my vengeance. But you must be patient.”

Minnie wants to know what Maleficent’s doing here.

“Ah, Queen Minnie,” Maleficent replies with a theatric bow, “Radiant as always.

“I’m here on a property venture. I want this castle for my own.

“However, it’s a bit too ‘bright’ for what I have in mind.

“I suppose I’ll just have to fill every room with my personal touch of darkness.”

She turns towards the cornerstone and attempts to tap it, but it repels even her astral projection’s touch.

“You’d better stop right now if you know what’s good for you!” Her Majesty Queen Minnie warns.

“Ooh, how frightening,” Maleficent replies, “Very well, I’ll stop…

“Just as soon as the castle belongs to me!”

Maleficent vanishes in a flash of green flames, cackling maniacally.

“What a hag,” Sora groans.

“Nothing like this has ever happened before,” Minnie reveals, I looked through all the records in the library, but I couldn’t find a single clue!”

Goofy suggests that they ask someone who knows lots of things that can’t be found in any book.

“Merlin the Wizard!” Donald exclaims.

Minnie believes that to be perfect, and sends them on their way.

In order to progress Disney Castle’s story, you have to use the Save Point to go back to the World Map. There, you get the “A new episode was added.” alert for the first time as the camera pans over Hollow Bastion.

Once you land there, Sora, Donald, and Goofy go straight to Merlin to ask his help.

Merlin wants to know what the racket is all about, sees it’s just our Junior Heroes, and remarks that it looks like they’ve learned quite a bit since they last saw him.

“Really?” Sora asks, forgetting the entire reason they came here in the first place.

Donald cuts in to get the conversation back on track and explains the situation to Merlin as the camera pans away and fades to black.

Meanwhile, Minnie is still in the Hall of the Cornerstone, when she suddenly hears Donald’s voice.

With a puff of smoke, Merlin and the Junior Heroes are now standing in the room with her.

“Perhaps, I’d better just see for myself,” Merlin comments, before inspecting the Cornerstone.

“What’s happening, Merlin?” the Queen asks.

“This is not good,” he replies, “In fact, I’m afraid, it’s quite serious.”

He turns to face Sora, Donald, and Goofy, waves his hands, and conjures a white door with an elaborate, shimmering threshold off to the side of the room.

“What’s that?” Sora asks.

“My boy, that is a gateway to a special world,” Merlin explains, “Someone in that world is responsible for what’s going on in this castle. Of that, I’m certain.”

“Oh boy!” Donald replies.

“We knew we could count on you, Merlin!” Goofy adds.

“Then, we should go get him,” Sora remarks.

“Wait a moment!” Merlin interrupts, “The perpetrators must be stopped, of course. But there’s something else to do first.

“Somewhere, in that world, there should be another door that’s identical to this one. I believe our enemies are utilizing that door.

“As long as it remains open, the castle will be in grave danger.

“Listen carefully, Sora. You must find that door. And when you do – lock it with your Keyblade.”

“Got it,” Sora replies.

“You can count on us,” Donald adds.

“Now, one more thing,” Merlin continues, “You’re heading into a very special world. While you’re there, the nature of that world may tempt you to do something dark. You must resist that temptation at all costs!”

“What do you mean?” Sora asks.

“You’ll know soon enough,” Merlin replies, “I have faith in you, my lads!”

And with that, there’s nothing else to do in Disney Castle.

Once you use the “Open the Door” Reaction Command, you’ll cross over to a completely new world.

We’ll discuss what happens there next time.

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Ohohohoho! A Mystery!

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[allthecanadianpolitics]

Nazi watcher anon, below is a list of information and resources for anyone who wants to learn more about how nazis have spread their rhetoric and are using the internet. Please keep in mind that I can't put warnings on everything and since this is about nazis there can be very distressing things to read in this list. If you're not in a headspace to deal with it please don't look into the things I mention.

I have never found one coherent source that wraps all of this together neatly and this is not a complete list of sources. These are selections made by myself after about 15 years of learning about white supremacy on my own by reading their source materials and about 8 years of following their online movement. It's meant for people that are just starting to learn about the historical depth and intricacy of the neo-nazi movements that currently plague us.

First, all of modern neo-nazi movements started with George Lincoln Rockwell who was the founder of the American Nazi Party in 1959. Their tactics and approaches to infiltrating normal society, recruitment, and rhetoric come directly from GLR. I reccomend the three-part episode of Behind The Bastards (episode 51 published March 12, 13, 14, 2019). The host Robert Evans lays everything out in an easy to understand fashion and ties it to the modern nazi movements.

To understand fascism check out the 1995 essay "Ur-Fascism" by Umberto Eco, an Italian who grew up during the era of Italian fascism. You can find the pdf for free online as well as audio versions that have been recorded and released for free. He lays out the features of fascism and the commonalities between all fascist movements.

For the modern nazi movement I recommend the youtube channel Innuendo Studios and his series "The Alt-Right Playbook" as well as it's (in my mind) companion series "Why Are You So Angry?" which covers gamergate. While gamergate wasn't a fascist movement he details how using normies for cover is used in these sorts of astroturfed movements.

An important book in the alt-right is The Turner Diaries by William Luther Pierce. This is not an easy book to read because of the content, it's also terribly written but that's just my opinion. This book was the inspiration for multiple fascist terrorist attacks, including the Oklahoma city bombing. When you hear people talk about 'the day of the rope' (the reason the January 6 insurrectionists had gallows set up, Jeremy MacKenzie saying the convoy will end in 'guns or ropes', etc.) this is the book it comes from. It details a fictional future where white people are oppressed and they rise up, start a race war, and establish an all white society. You can find it for free online if you want to read it for yourself, though even the wiki can give you a brief overview.

Some podcasts that I've found helpful in learning about modern nazis are: I Don't Speak German (covers many alt-right influencers, each episode is clearly labeled so you can find the groups you're curious about), Knowledge Fight (mainly reports on episodes of Infowars and breaks down Alex Jones' talking points which are all related to nazi/qanon conspiracies), Decoding the Gurus (not directly related to nazis but does address many of the people shuttling primarily young men into fascist movements), and Sounds Like Hate by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Most of these podcasts are about USAmerican nazi figures, however it's still relevant to Canada since the nazi groups are deeply interconnected on both sides of the border.

For Canadian nazis I've been following their podcasts, vlogs, etc. This is hard and I don't reccomend anyone dive into it unless you're stable enough to listen to people who hate and want to wipe out anyone who isn't a straight white man. If you want to look into them anyway you can find Jeremy MacKenzie (Raging Dissident) on rumble where he releases a vlog/podcast called RageCast, he's also the founder of Diagalon which is a white separatist movement. He's associated with some other influencers that call themselves The Plaid Army that can be found in various places depending on where they've been deplatformed, a short list: The Ferryman's Toll, Slippin Lizzard, Derek Rants, Tyler L. Russell (leader of Canada First), EdgyDTv, Kerry Morgan (Alberta Defense League), and BlackGuyBigot (aka Canary In A Coal Mine). Google often hides the sites these people publish on so you might need to use DuckDuckGo to find their rat holes.

The last places you can find these people, as well as the groups organizing the convoy, is on a couple of alt-right platforms. Telegram, Gab, and Parler are the most popular ones in use and you can find these groups/people by searching for keywords that you've seen in this post. PLEASE NOTE: if you're going into these spaces DO NOT INTERACT with any of them! Use a fake name, fake number, etc and do not actively infiltrate. Some of these people are dangerous so you should be hiding your identity and observing ONLY. Use a generic white guy name and lurk.

I'll send another ask later about how to talk to people who are not actively nazis about what's going on. Unfortunately that one will shorter since deradicalization is a long process and not something that can be accomplished in one conversation.

Knowledge is power and these movements have been able to ferment for decades because mainstream society has been able to brush them off as a fringe minority. They have intentionally been muddying the waters around discussion of alt-right groups to make themselves more palatable to the normal white people around them and until we learn those tactics we're at risk of falling victim to them. Arm yourself with their talking points, approaches, and memes so you can recognize them when they pop up online or in person.

Stay safe everyone!

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