#back on my shit!!!! my pretty wizard and his pretty kitty <3

[alexa-crowe]

GALE (& Tara) in BALDUR’S GATE 3 (2023) - [11/∞]

#bg3edit #gamingedit #vgedit #dailygaming #userfray #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #gale #tara #gale dekarios #tara bg3 #gale bg3 #baldur's gate #baldur's gate iii #bgiii #gale of waterdeep #back on my shit!!!! my pretty wizard and his pretty kitty <3 #greatest hits

[theenbynightingale]

Rating Total Drama ships that showed up when playing with the generator! (Pt. 11)

Started playing around with the generator again when I was kinda bored a while back and kept saving ships so we’re back here. :)

Alejandro and Dave (or Aledave): Ya know how in the finale, Dave was convinced that Sky was leading him on the whole season so she could get again (even tho she only did it on purpose on that episode)? I can totally see Alejandro doing that to Dave for a full season. And who wouldn’t fall for Al? I can’t say I’d ship it but it be a funny mini-arc. Rating: 5.5/10

Brick and Eva (or Brickva): Dawn famously said Brick had a need to be dominated. Who’s more dominant than Eva? It’d basically be Jo x Brick on steroids. I’m not sure if I’d ship but these two would have a very funny dynamic. Rating: 6/10

Crimson and Shawn (or Crimshawn): Wouldn’t ship, as I love these guys already with their respective partners but it would be very funny to see Shawn be convinced for a whole season that Crimson and Ennui were vampires. Rating: 5/10

Gwen and Max (or Gwax): Most of these ships I’m posting so far seem to be “wouldn’t it be funny if they met”. Max was desperate to convince people he was evil. Gwen was desperate to convince people she was good. The interesting part would come in if Max basically worshiped Gwen as an evil genius after All-Stars. Certainly would be funnier than most of what we’ve seen of him. Rating: 4/10

Gwen and Taylor (or Gwaylor): It would take every ounce of her being for Gwen to NOT punch Taylor in the face. Rating: 3/10

Jen and Leonard (or Jenard): She would get him a better wizard’s robe at least! I don’t think we’ve seen enough of these characters to know if there was something there to have in common but, again, it’d be funny. Rating: 4/10

Lindsay and Anne Maria (or Lindsay Maria? Lindsanne? Marindsay? idk): Ya know what? I’m okay with this. I think it would start off with Anne Maria not really liking Lindsay at first but I think they’d really enjoy each other’s company. If not a ship, I can totally see them eventually being friends. And that means Anne Maria would KILL for her. Rating: 7.5/10

Rodney and Emma (or Rodma): Wouldn’t ship but wouldn’t we ALL simp for Emma the way Rodney probably would? I mean, c’mon! Rating: 3.5/10

Kitty and Sammy/Samey (or Samty): Now that I think about it, YES! Emma and Kitty were a much better version of the twins from PI and Sammy needs love. Kitty would adore the hell out of Sammy unconditionally because she’s a ray of sunshine and she would not take any of Amy’s shit. She would basically be the positive for Sammy needs and Sammy would finally HEAL. Rating: 9/10

Sanders and Courtney (or Sandney): I can see these two getting along at first because they’re by the book people. But I’d also imagine Sanders getting very tired of Courtney the way most other characters did. But honestly, considering how they are it’d be more of a “You’re such a headache but you’re my headache!” than them hating each other. These two crazy kids can make it work. Rating: 7/10

Stephanie and Ezekiel (or Stephekiel): Look. We all know Stephanie is fucking crazy. If Ezekiel were go on his “Guys are better at stuff than girls” spiel, she would beat him to a pulp. And that would either make him terrified of her or he’d be her simp for life. Rating: 5/10

Zoey and Owen (or Zowen): They’re both real nice. They’d vibe with each other pretty well. They’d be real good friends if nothing else. Rating: 6/10

#total drama #Total Drama Island #total drama action #Total drama world tour #total drama revenge of the island #Total Drama All Stars #total drama pahkitew island #total drama ridonculous race #td dave #td alejandro #td eva #td brick #td crimson #td shawn #td gwen #td max #td taylor #td jen #td leonard #td lindsay #td anne maria #td emma #td rodney #td kitty #td Sammy #td samey #td sanders #td courtney #td stephanie #td ezekiel

[popculturebuffet]

Paul Dini’s Jingle Belle: The Mighty Elves (Comissoned by WeirdKev27)

Well well boys, we’re back to Jingle Belle with another kevmission, though per his request i’ll be getting back to Life and Times Of Scrooge McDuck at long last. I also have some other stuff planned and all that, but for now, let’s focus on everyones faviorite elfen hellion as we dive back into Paul Dini’s Jingle Belle. 

I covered most of the behind the scene’s stuff last time so in short in case your just joining us, since this one’s got a bit more stuff to tag: Jingle Belle is an indie comic book character created by animation god Paul Dini, the daughter of Santa Claus and the Queen of Elves who acts like a standard rebellious teenager sterotype and causes trouble for her dad.  Last time I touched on the character a good two days ago, we looked at her first appearance, where she sent her family to Family Therapy. At the time I’d ONLY read that story, and hadn’t gotten that far into Jing’s world just yet. As you probably guessed despite plugging a decent amount of time into re-reading the rest of Scott Pilgrim (shout out to my good friend Mike for the early christmas present), on digital and in color and into the Switch port of the first Fire Emblem, I still got 2/3 of the way through the omnibus Kev gifted me of almost all her stories up to 2018′s The Handmade’s Tale.  Honestly not a lot has changed from the pilot.. while Jing’s designs changed a bit, she’s still more of a rebellious hellion, and while Santa’s no longer a slut shaming jackass, he’s still hard on her while her mom tries to keep the peace, The humor’s still edgy, if toned down enough to support returning whenever Dini felt like it but it’s largely the same for better or worse.  Overall the stories haven’t been bad but have been a bit reptitive to read in one giant omnibus. This really is down to the format they were made in: These were one off stories spread months apart meant to be picked up off the shelf with no real ongoing stories or character development and only some slight worldbuilding here and there. In short not bad stuff, just clearly not built to be collected in a huge omnibus like it was and not the first comic collection i’ve encountered with this problem and definitely not the last. 

That being said the stories are creative and still well put together. It is Paul Dini and he has wrote pretty much every story collected here with few exceptions, so it’s still good stuff, just as I said clearly not meant to be read all in one block like i’ve been doing. And today’s story happens to be one of my faviorites so far, breaking the formula up a bit by having Jing do something a bit diffrent and also involving hockey, a sport this story made me realized might actually intrest me on some level.. if in part due to letterkenny. 

God bless those two handsome idiots. So let’s ice up or skates, get those letterkenny refrences at the ready and see what the Mighty Elves have to offer. 

We start at Hockey Practice for Santa’s Hockey Team, The Elves, the kind of sentence that makes me really happy to type for money. Santa’s team is naturally for this kind of story and what the title references, are the last place in the bi-polar hockey league their in.. presumably ran by commissioner bi-polar bear. 

Again, I really love this job and that i’m actually getting paid for this this go round. Anyway, Santa’s team isn’t all that agressive because.. well i’ts a team coached by Santa, why would they be? But Santa’s still proud of his boys... as for his girl on the otherhand he gets a call and we soon find out via mugshots Jing dragged her two friends, up from just one in previous stories, to an air force base, somehow got arrested for hitting on enlisted men, not a crime, and stealing and crashing a helicopter, very much a crime.  Naturally Santa isn’t pleased, so we cut to a few days later where he’s letting her friends off making robo kitties, damn I want one of those now, while leaving Jing to do the packaging, though like most stern but fair dad’s he admits he dosen’t like punishing her and is right in saying there’s more to do with her summer vacation than you know, piss off the military. Santa needs his flight clerance dammit. Jing complains there isn’t much to do but feed the reindeer and make toys to which I say.. really santa? You haven’t set up anything else for your eleves to do? Making toys is their job. Build a fucking movie theater. And at the very least if not for them than for your bored and rebellious daughter to distract her from doing crimes. She’s still likely got a few hundred years of teenagering left, give her something else to do other than piss you off.  Santa does have a least a little something: Hockey! Which Jing’s cousin Rusty has taken up. Rusty showed up in the first story but I kind of glossed over him, he’s basically Jing’s Dorky cousin she frequently abuses. Not really much more or less to him. Jing isn’t on board mostly because their team always looses, to the other teams: The Penguins, the Polar Bears, The Snow Leopards and the Eskimos because they don’t really have killer instinct, which yeah is kind of necessary for hockey. To her..

But during her rant she does show Santa she’s got genuine talent for the sport, so he makes her a deal: Do a little favor for him, and she’ll swap that for making toys.. it’s a deal.. one she soon regrets but hey. 

Jing naturally makes an ass of herself pretty quickly beating the shit out of Rusty with her dad repremanding her and threatning to throw her off the team if she has another outburst like. That is until she runs into the Huskies Coach, Stan. 

I mean i’ts a hairy old man who makes a side bet with Santa Claus despite it technically being against commission rules, might as well be. So Santa tells Jing screw it, as long as it’s the opposing team violence is a-okay.  And naturally our first target is the world famous hockey player, aka snoopy aka a snoopy stand in. And being a big fan of peanuts i’m a sucker for a good peantus parody. Doubly so since Dini did his homework, and as I’d remembered and a quick google confirmed “The World Famous Hockey Player” was indeed one of snoopy’s many personas.

 Not that it was much of a stretch: just about any time snoopy played a sport he was “the world famous X player”, but still it’s a nice little nod. Not so nice is Jing within seconds slamming him into the air and under a Zamboni and getting sent to the box for it naturally. So clearly she’s the shorsey of this team, all chirps and ultra violence. 

Snoopy is thankfully still alive, if barely, though he’s off course been through much worse.

But while in the Box jing helps advise the team and a presumed combination of her beating the shit out of the other team’s best players and her team now not only having something to inspire them but a strategy means the Elves win for once! Santa and Jing share a hug, though Santa advises her not to go for his wallet, it’s still a sweet moment as she’s genuinely invested now.  So we cut to..

Okay Hank Ribbon seal is genuinely one of the best things humanity has made but as for Quiki I just... wow that joke is mildly racist at worst, confusing and unfunny at best. I mean... it really just makes no sense on any level and that’s with me not knowing a lot about hockey, but knowing just enough to know Kathy Lee Gifford existed. Just.. what even was that? I know Paul can do better than this.. because as my first review outlined he wrote a LOTTTT of Tiny Tune Adventures including my favorite episode. He also wrote most of the best Joker episodes for BTAS, so it’s not like the guy CAN’T be funny.. so I have no idea how he could fail so hard with this. Just.. what is this. Who thought this was funny? what was the joke? 

That.. utter bafflement aside, this newscast is used to push things ahead as the elves are on a winning streak, having also beaten the Polar Bears and the Penguins.. though weirdly we DON’T get a cameo by this guy despite having already had Snoopy show up. 

That’s my boy. But yeah there’s only two teams left with this, the Eskimos and tonight’s matchup the Snow Leopards, aka snow catgirls lead by Tashi Ounce, who Jing met at the winter games last year and lost too and thus has a whole rivlary thing going. In a really nice moment Santa stops to make sure Jing is okay going into the game. 

It’s part of why I REALLY like this story: Santa instead of just being disapointed in his daughter genuinely bonds over her over something and Jing shows she has a softer side to her. It’s some good character stuff, helps shake up the normal formula nicely. Back to the usual though she and Tashi naturally go at it, phrasing, and fight the whole damn time, with Belle eventually scoring the winning goal. Though noticably while Tashi is just as competiive as belle and lost this time.. she’s fine with it, knowing she’ll win next time and congradulating the opponent.  But before she can leave the rink, Tashi is approached by a mysterious figure with an offer and we cut to said figure’s lair... it’s THE BLIZZARD WIZARD! dun dun dun!.... yeah I haven’t introduced him the Blizzard Wizard is.. well exactly what he sounds like, as well as the former ruler of the North Pole. He enslaved everyone there to do his bidding and was essentially, a butt till Santa showed up, united all the various animals and kicked his ass. Since then he’s been reduced to basically a rankin bass villian, lurking near bye and scheming to get petty revenge on Santa for it. So essentially....

Minus the tragic backstory. He offers them a deal: The championship cup for him defeating the elves. As he puts it the cup symbolizes hard work, respect and team work.. i.e the things their throwing out to get payback. Tashi wants none of it, but the blizzard wizard has his slush minons capture her and with the rest willing to sell out, he gets to work. 

Bliz snows out the eskimos, and brings up accusations of Santa gambling, which he gets away from by.. having his wife donate the money real quick don’t ask just go. But he has a waiver signed by the other coaches so their playing his goons. But Jing isn’t phased and Santa asks her to give the lockeroom some inspiring words. 

10/10 no notes. But naturally Bliz has a sneaky trick up his sleeves.. to win.. specifically a hot french canadian player which.. makes jing fall to pieces flirting with him and makes her entirely ineffective. Okay time out.... huh so this is the timeless void known only to zack morris, that girl from the reboot I haven’t watched, and Regis Filbin. But yeah while I wouldn’t expect Jing to slaughter the guy it feels out of character for all she’d do is to giggle like an idiot instead of making a move. She’s been established as forward and knowing what she wants. I’m not against her being distracted by this it’s just the how that feels off especially since the opening reinforces this. She hit on air force guys. She’s not going to just be giggly and awkward. Jing may not be the most complex charcter but she’s better than this. Aside from the baffling Kathy Lee Gifford gag, this is the only thing I really don’t like abotu the story, and it lasts two pages before it’s resolved and in a 22 or so page story, that’s a good chunk of it spent on something that isn’t funny and that’s out of character even within story. That being said it dosen’t drag the story down entirely, still a good story. Just a bit uneven is all. 

But unsurprisingly Tashi escapes her earlier imprisonment offscreen to let Jing know not only the full extent of Bliz Whiz’s machenations, i.e. that the other coaches are in on it, but that the hockey player is really just one of Bliz’s minons uner a glamour. WIth that knowledge Jing asks why she’d help and Tashi shows her inner honor beneath the whole rival deal, pointing out she wants to win from a GOOD team next year. With the jig up Jing pulvirzes her former crush, claims to have been under a spell (no one byes it) and the elves clean house and win. Super fuckin shooter. As for Bliz Whiz he tries to steal the trophy but instead gets booted into the snow leopards box, phrasing... it doesn’t end well for him. 

And yeah while he comes back eventually, some how, apparently, for most of the stories after this he’s just.. dead. He was killed and then his remains eaten. MERRY CHRISTMAS!

But Jing admits she had fun, she and her dad bond and we get one last gag as he assumes she learned not to showboat only for her to block everyone else in the team photo. Falalallal we’re out. 

Final Thoughts: As I said, one of my faviorites. It’s really well paced, has a good premise and only one part drags at all and only that part and one gag really don’t land. The rest of it is really funny, nice and touching, and overall a nice shakeup from these stories usual pattern of “Jing getting into hyjinks”. While she DOES here, her and her dad are literally and figuartvely on the same team, and she does show a sweeter side genuinely bonding with her dad and it’s nice to see them actually enjoy each other’s company for once. It’s a nice change of pace and one I wish more of the stories had. I’m not saying they all have to be holly jolly but i’d be nice if more of them had a bit of heart to them is all. Tis the season and all that. Still for what it is, it’s a fun ride and I highly recommend it. We’ll probably see her again sometime this season but that’s a bit off.  For now coming up I have some ducktales to tell, a chapter in a man’s life story that’s long overdue, a holiday mess I wish I didn’t have to clean up, and in the distant future.. an old friend to reconnect with. Until then if you liked this review reblog it, comment etc all that good stuff, and you can send me asks with suggestions fo ra review or direct message me, or ask for my discord, to comission a review yourself. Until then, happy holidays. 

#jingle belle #paul dini #comics #comic reviews #santa claus #christmas #hockey #letterkenny #snoopy #opus #blizzard wizard #tashi ounce

[kurogabae]

TSUBASA: TRAINWRECK CHRONICLES

And How Bee Train is Single-Handedly Propagating Cancel Culture in This the Year of Our Lord 2020

PART 1 – PART 2 – PART 3 – PART 4 -- PART 5 

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So last post was all filler episodes and we're well into season two of this, and I cannot stress this enough, two season anime. The only canon arc we've had was Piffle so far and it was poorly handled and out of order. Surely, absolutely surely, we are in for a canon arc. Shara perhaps? Skip right to Le Court? We all know they'd never dare touch Tokyo. How are they going to pad out the rest of the season?

Why another filler. A bad filler. The dreaded filler that goes against pretty much all of Fai's everything.

It's "A Date With a Wizard" and Kurogane isn't the one getting the date. If you haven't watched or heard of this episode before, buckle up kids. It's a doozy. And big spoiler warnings ahead.

Fort City Bit AKA Fai Dates His Own Fucking Mom (but like an AU version so it's okay I guess???):

You read that right. Fai goes on a date with this world's version of Chii, who was an artificial being he modeled after his dead mother. I could end the rant here but oh, there is so much to this. So much. It's only one episode long but it feels like an eternity.

The premise for magic use in this world is that:

Everyone has magic and that magic is specialized

Your career path is based on your magic's specialization. Like in MLP with cutie marks. And everyone is Fine with this.

Everyone recharges their magic via the sun, which is risen by their king

The king is chosen yearly after everyone in the country has the same fucking dream one night

The whole country runs on magic, to the point that if there is no magic there is no food, no power, no anything. But that's fine, because every day they get recharged by the sun. Right? WRONG! Because the current king is being a depressed little shit and refuses to raise the sun, effectively dooming the country to a slow death. Neat.

BUT BEFORE ALL OF THAT! The episode opens with Fai having a nightmare about Ashura looming like he's auditioning for a role in Attack on Titan. Vague and menacing, which is literally all we know about Ashura because we know nothing about Fai's past. And we never will. At least not in anime-land. No one knows anything. The manga isn't pulling this fakey flashback shit, so why is the anime? I don't know, but I hate it!

Anyway, the family gets the low down from Touya and Yukito - who still do not recognize Sakura and that upsets me because of the implications that there is no Sakura in this universe. (Sidenote: Kurogane recognizes them, even though he's never met them in the anime so far so honestly, just fuck everything.) While Touya is feeding them a frankly lavish meal that he's magiced up he explained their king problems. This leads to my next issue - if you're so worried about running out of magic why are you using it so flippantly and in such an extra ass way? Can you not make normal food? Does it only exist in magic form? Maybe just summon some soup? Does all food cost the same amount of mana? THIS MAGIC SYSTEM IS BAD!

So, back to the whole the king is too sad to raise the sun which powers everyone's magic which is now beginning to run low. Another problem I have. You get a recharge on your magic everyday. They have not gotten ANY recharges for, and I'm quoting here, months. They change kings every year. So even on the low end of things we're looking at 3-4 months before anyone got concerned about the king just. Not raising the sun. Personally, I would have gotten worried after a few days, a week at most. No one wanted to go and find out like "Hey your highness, why no sun? What's got you down?"

That, however, would be logical. This is a place of magic and whimsy! Not logic. Fai is asked to use his magic to figure out what is wrong with their king. Predictably, he tells them they have a better chance of meeting god, so everyone gets thrown in jail. Because refusing to solve a country's weird problems is illegal. Not that jail has ever stopped them before. Not with Kurogane and his muscles around. And while I am always up for watching Kurogane break things I do have to wonder - why are they not just warping free? Mokona said there was no feather. No one said anything about being magically held back. And yet, they are running through the castle, endangering themselves and the children!!!

Obviously this is For Plot Reasons, and I use the words "plot" and "reasons" loosely here.

Somehow the kitties and puppies get separated and Fai and Sakura end up surrounded by guards. Does Fai finally fight? Does he open that can of whoop ass we all know he's been saving? No. He leaps into the air and takes flight like some sort of stork. And while Fai's current cocky attitude is refreshing, he's working on some sort of idiot bimbo in a horror movie logic of "to escape the building I must do upstairs". This is not a man made to last on his own.

And, like Shrek to Fiona, the stairs lead him to the highest room in the tallest tower. Fai, then, promptly loses his shit as if he's not fully aware that doubles exist across the multiverse. Like, yeah, it would be a shock and anyone would be freaked out at the sudden surprise of it all, but Fai acts like he thinks he's stepped back into Celes. Like an idiot. He's better than this.

Now, we learn more things about this messed up king situation. Not only does everyone have a dream every year electing the new monarch, but the new king gets their memory erased for the whole year so that they can "rule with a pure heart" or some shit. Which seems like a baaaad fucking way to run.... anything. At all. Ever. Might as well pick up a fresh baby and put it in charge. It's bad. And it gets worse.

Chii is sad, but she wants to hang out with Fai and it's the first time she's shown any interest in doing anything but being Sad so her babysitter spirits are all like "Oh that's neat!" And Fai takes this is his chance to just... run off for a night on the town with her? They literally vanish and leave Sakura ALONE IN THE CASTLE WITH THE SAME SPIRITS WHO JAILED THEM. In what fucking universe????

Look, they are trying so so so so so so hard to sell this FaiChii shit. Fai leaves Sakura alone in a castle where they have just busted out of jail, he has no idea where or how Kurogane and Syaoran are, he's clearly uncomfortable around Chii as she reminds him of what he's running from, and, oh yeah, she's a copy of his dead mother he created in another world in order to comfort him and his dead brother as a child. Everything is Fine. Let's go get tea.

I'm gonna rapid fire some S tier bullshit:

no one knows where Chii has taken Fai - why is there no way to track your baby-brained king?

Fai leaves with Chii happily and cheerily, again, leaving Sakura behind and alone - who is this man because it isn't Fai

the only clue they have to Fai and Chii's location is that they are no longer on castle grounds, yet somehow Syaoran knows Exactly Where to Look - because sure why not?

Chii doesn't know how to drink???? - does this happen with every king? do they have to be potty trained too? omg they really are babies this is a terribly way to run a country!!!!!!

teaching someone basic life functions is not romantic but Bee Train sure wants us to think it is

"I want to stay with Fai forever and always." - at least he panics at commitment still... and probably incest

“I should be thanking you. It’s been a while since I’ve felt this way.” - What? Uncomfortably reminded of your past and why your life is just shy of a living hell? Who are you? You are not Fai

Kurogane and Syaoran show up to save Fai and Chii, who have been surrounded by guards (I think, I can't remember exactly but I'm pretty sure they're there to take her back to the castle and her Sad Room). Fai apparently won't fight in front of Chii but whatever at this point.

It comes out that Chii is an artificial soul/being (like the Chii in Celes) and because of that she cannot leave the town or she DIES and that means the king dies and I guess they don't have a back up plan for that. Unsurprising but bad. Still, Chii begs Fai to take her away and show her the world and Fai like... hesitates? Thinks about it? Considers it?!?!? I dunno but he doesn't automatically say "Uh no, you'll die and also I have other shit to do, bye" and that's dumb for a lot of reasons.

Eventually he tells her no and convinces her to bring the sun back and be happy because she'll be able to remember him or some shit (you know, unless they take those memories too!) and  they all say goodbye. And I couldn't be more thankful.

Honestly, the real MVP here is Kurogane for not just losing his shit at all of this like I have. He's a better man than I.

Tune in next time as I continue to scream, in vain, at god.

PART 1 – PART 2 – PART 3 – PART 4 -- PART 5

#tsubasa chronicle #TRC #my meta #tsubasa trainwreck chronicles #CLAMP #god will not answer for allowing these crimes to exist #and therefore will never be allowed peace by me

[snowtimeisbesttime]

Thoughts and questions on Pesterquest Volumes 1 & 2! Two days late, but better late than never I guess!

Overall:

-[insert all the heart emoji pics ever]

-The title screen's kinda ominous, what with the music and the glitchy logo... Also kinda fitting for what goes down in certain routes of the launch volumes, though. (It should be noted that Friendsim's first volumes were relatively calm compared with later ones as well.)

~VOLUME 1~

-No fucking shit MC would be pissed off, and at Scratch specifically. Thankfully, the Best Guest (Spades Slick)'s here and has them covered while they go off on a new adventure... though if a certain other DS decides to poke around here and fuck shit up, methinks he's going to catch some fucking hands. And i'll be here cheering the MC on.

-MC now has the powers of the house juju (canonically the most powerful thingy in all the narrative, as it can retcon pretty much anything) and therefore the ability to zap anywhere... though it came at the cost of their memories of Friendsim. Obviously this had to happen because they had to forget they read Homestuck in order to properly befriend the cast, but in-universe... did they get “scratched” somehow? (Is that what happened to Fozzer back then?)

-Also, they were trying to go back to their friends in Alternia... we're going to have fun when we get to the Hivebent trolls. (inb4 the “probably vriska” thing comes back here; there's no way the MC isn't recovering their memories at some point)

-Scorist, sign of the Mutineer Mail

-And with the MC's yeeting of John's mail into a sewer, Pesterquest officially becomes a whole ass No SBURB AU. It's a shame the bunny had to be lost too, but there's a possible reason for that: breaking (more) timeloops, both here and in post-scratch Earth (Jake helping Jade build Liv Tyler the bunny)

-I hope they do get to play another, non- world-destroying game all together, though... wait, now that they're not playing Sburb they could play Minecraft, when it releases in about a month from now!!

-Unstoppable force (John wanting to know wtf happened to his mail) meets unmovable object (MC's willingness to keep digging themselves deeper in order to make friends)

-The beta kids are confirmed to be pretty much each other's only friends... :(

-MC looked like a weird alien on Alternia, but here on Earth they're just shaped like a friend, and nothing else.

-Dave's here too!! and he's also understandably concerned about this random Not Mailman that popped out of nowhere, at least at first. Considering we know Volume 4's title (The Loneliest Girl in the World) Volume 3 will probably feature him.

-mc Hass the ghost blanket

-MC says the house juju may belong to Lucifer... which obviously means Lord English, but might also refer to Vriska... (lucifer means “light- bringer”, and iirc vriska did have some overlap with the whole “demon without an eye and an arm” foreshadowing??)

-Considering Rose's volume, John probably finds out about the MC's powers in his good route, while in his bad one they both go on a stroll through time... then again, we don't know if this is like Friendsim, where only the good ends were “canon”...

-Whenever people need to Discuss Important Tactics, John's backyard's the first place anyone thinks about. Good to know there can be multiple people running around with retcon powers though.

-We get to see something of what led up to the Masterpiece, after who knows how long! And John gets to imagining what events will lead to him and his friends getting colorful pajamas, powers and four (4) new friends... not that he knows that *he specifically* won't have that future. John's bad route is... actually very depressing when you think about it...

-the first thing i thought of when john said that he thought Future Him & Co kept saying “english” was that they were telling jake to get off the pogo ride before he like fell off and fucking died or something... and then a while later i was like Wait Fuck They Meant Lord English He Sure As Hell Exists

-even back at the very beginning of homestuck, dad's dadly energies are too powerful

~VOLUME 2~

-This singlehandedly catapulted Rose to my Most Favorite Characters list; not that I didn't love her before, but now im love her even more.

-We know now that all the kids wanted to play SBURB, be it because of Weird Destiny Stuff or to have a good time with their friends, but Rose was the one who wanted to play the most... to talk with Jaspers again. This hasn't been addressed in this volume, but it might be in later ones.

-Good kitty, best cryptid. Also, Mom Lalonde's guide to lab intruders: sic a pumpkin tiger on 'em. Then again if she really thought we were a danger to her or to Rose we'd been sniped before we knew she was there...

-Rose doesn't have a short end; the first choice of her route only decides whether we befriend Cryptid Mc Whiskers (plus get some additional dialogue) or not...* or at least that's what i thought before seeing the image rips orz

-She's the kind of person who has a lot of interests but also has trouble settling down and focusing on one at a time... yall mind if i relate? (also, adhd rose??)

-And now we begin again the timeless MC tradition of “accumulating clothing from friends”. *At least in one route, apparently.

-MC gets into one of those “Screw This I'm Doing (What I Think Is) The Right Thing” moods, though they do mellow out later and Rose didn't take it badly. To be honest after the oatmeal thing I thought they'd head for the kitchen, rather than get rid of the alcohol; now we'll have to see if it has any effect...

-!!!!! Jade & Rose interacting ON SCREEN!!!! (also, Jade seems to still have access to Prospit despite the fact that they're not playing Sburb anymore... is this where “The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse” (the paradox space comic) hapens??)

-Bec's acting weird... wonder what's up with him.

-Then again, even in her good route Rose seems vaguely aware that something's different; in her bad route she straight up does Weird Light Shit, while apparently being able to hear MC's narration and probably referencing her Land (her comment about the rain lighting up a little). Looks like you can take the game away from the players, but you can't take the game out of the players... Rose's a Seer of Light whether she plays or not, and same with the others.

-Rose's routes are kind of weird in that the good one looks like it's going to be the bad one (re: MC getting in one of their stubborn moods, see two points above), while the bad one looks like it's the good one until it doesn't. Before getting there I genuinely thought Rose was going to have 2 good ends.

-We get some talk on wizards and witches, and we also get to read some fragments of Complacency of the Learned!!! Which is very much a subversion of typical wizard stuff, as Rose told us; even if she has a genuine interest in wizards she's still putting her own spin on things... kinda like fans interacting with content, maybe.

-Wizards hoard knowledge for themselves, while Rose, as a Seer of Light, explicitly guides others with her knowledge; from the SBURB walkthrough in GameFAQs (which she ripped from Earth's internet to upload it onto a server on the Furthest Ring, so it would help more people) to the book she wrote on the meteor. No wonder she despises them.

#homestuck #pesterquest #pesterquest spoilers #john egbert #rose lalonde #thoughts and questions #long post #<-- in case the readmore doesnt work

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time for part 3 of explaining what my campaign is even going through, where the idiots on this post do the dumb shit explained on this post and on this one too. and that only covered like, the first arc of the two we’ve done so far.

what have we even done (part ii)

the short answer: bad decisions

the long answer (part 3 of 5)

the yuan-ti arc, which was basically this vine

we had a brief period of down time between the hag arc and the yuan-ti one. elina got drunk. hazel planted some flowers for the pelor priests and also talked to our halfling chocolate dealer/grandpa. and varis?

varis had sent a letter for bram to carnia, told him to come over to sanity’s gate and promised him a spot at his temple of thor as an acolyte, where he himself had been raised from as an orphan. at the same time he sent notice to his good friend and fellow priest of thor...scanlan...that he was sending up a kid to the temple to be trained as an acolyte.

THE DM NAMED HIM THAT. DON’T LOOK AT ME

scanlan arrived at sanity’s gate accompanied by a tabaxi warlock with a wicked looking ice-coated scimitar that had been keeping him safe...and his name was socks.

hazel not being in any mood to trust any wacko wielding ice magic, she immediately took to disliking him. yuro was fine with being hit on by this crazy, extremely low wis cat man. which infuriated hazel even further.

in a cut scene none of us actually witnessed in-character, socks grabbed the mirror from hazel’s stuff in her room and stabbed it. GET YOUR HANDS OFF OUR SAD TREE GOD, YOU FURRY IMBECILE

anyway, scanlan arrived at the temple and told varis that he wasn’t just here to pick up bram. he was also here to seek one fifth of an artifact called...mjolnir’s son listen. some names are a little weird but we’ve embraced them and he’d found out it was forgotten on an abandoned temple on an island in a lake not far from sanity’s gate.

so the party + socks went out to the island on their gargoyle mobile (which had lost two ice gargoyles over the heat and we were slowing losing the others, tragic), got stopped in our tracks by some merpeople who demanded pretty presents for entertainment. elina gave them a pack of cards and taught an advanced underwater civilization to gamble.

you know just. introducing vice to society.

on the island we came across two humanoid yuan-ti cultists about to make off with our artifact, and they recognized varis immediately. socks bailed at the thought of battle more like our guest couldn’t make it and after incinerating the yuan-ti and a snake monster they summoned to aid them in battle, we got varis’ tragic backstory out of him: while he didn’t know these particular snake people, twenty years ago, his temple had been attacked and brutally massacred by yuan-ti followers of loki. he and a handful of friends that had been out hunting survived. his wife and two children did not.

we dragged one body back with us to pelor’s temple (and varis made a pretty mess on the floor dragging the thing, which hazel immediately gave him shit for) and did a speak with dead interrogation. all we got was super vague but mostly what we ended up with was: this yuan-ti was part of a cult of loki with a base in a jungle called pianju.

unsure of what to do with that information, we offered to accompany scanlan and bram back to his temple. the trip was mostly nice, was mostly composed of sweet moments of parenthood between yuro and kitty, and then a set of bandits tried to rob us and that didn’t go so well

‘we don’t have anything of value’ said hazel, being held at crossbow point, wearing a fucking circlet of blasting on her head

once we arrived at the temple, something felt really, really off about the place. everyone was...bizarrely friendly and even varis felt a little confused about the place. a wizard friend tried to get hazel to demonstrate her surges and she deaged 5 years in the process.

we also found a travelling barbarian looking guidance to get rid of her rage, which was becoming dangerous to her family. her name was sive and she was pretty chill. convinced that she was the only person around that wasn’t acting mysteriously, hazel asked to talk to her in private ‘WAIT NO NOT LIKE THAT’ ‘....... i’m married’

we didn’t even get the chance, because varis suddenly realized what was going on, cast dispel magic, and all hell broke loose.

the whole set up was an illusion. the temple looked broken. it was full of yuan-ti. one group took our artifact piece, another was mobbing scanlan, and another tried to kill bram. who do you save?

elina is a practical woman and immediately went for not giving the yuan-ti a potential piece of a very dangerous artifact.

yuro, ever the gentleman, went to save the middle-aged gnome priest from getting killed

and then sive, varis, and hazel all went for the kid. there’s something in common among all these guys and it’s trauma related to children.

we saved the artifact from being stolen, we saved the gnome, but we couldn’t save the kid.

luckily, we’d bought our first revivify diamond before setting out to varis’ temple, so we were able to revive him. for a second, though, it looked like it didn’t work. we were about to bury him, until we realized that it was ANOTHER LOKI-DAMNED ILLUSION. WE WERE ABOUT TO BURY A CHILD ALIVE BECAUSE OF THESE PSYCHOPATHS I SWEAR

anyway, after we picked up the pieces hazel and elina had some suspicions about scanlan’s true loyalties - this guy is the ONE guy to survive and could have very well led varis to an ambush? - before we finally found one survivor in the wreckage - a dwarf brewer that hazel accidentally killed when he startled her by coming out of a well.

‘varis i’m so s - ’ ‘he’s going to be pissed when he comes back’ ‘wait what’

brewer dwarf was resurrected by a bolt of lightning not soon after, and then he confirmed the story that the yuan-ti had slowly infiltrated the temple from within and taken everyone, and had locked him up when he realized what was going on. scanlan had just been extremely lucky.

using the scrying ball that we had taken from the hag’s lair, varis scryed on his friends and realized they had been taken as slaves for the yuan-ti, not killed. thus turning this arc into a rescue mission.

however, we did not like our odds of surviving the jungle of pianju without a method to bring someone back from the dead, as well as with more magical ammo and more people. sive did not join us, but parted on friendly terms as guests do before we set out once again to sanity’s gate to get ready to storm a snake people pyramid.

i’m so not even close to done omg

#this is like the FIFTH yuan ti arc session so far #i have so much left #gonna have to extend these things #drachenhammer campaign #dnd

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in the moonlight (part 1)

a prentiss fic in which emily is a witch!!! dedicated to my girl @badasprentiss <3

A/N: this took me like two months to write bc im very slow but im kind of proud of it! also, im definitely going to make this a series, so let me know if you want to be tagged in it <3

Word Count: 2,332

Warnings: blood mention, abduction mention, death mention

Snippet: “With the sun’s slow disappearance came the awakening of the woodland creatures, and Emily could feel your uneasiness. Every time an owl hooted or a coyote howled, your pace slowed and your breath quickened.”

I hope you enjoy!! <3

“Emily? I’m home!” You called to your roommate, setting your keys down on the table by the door. “Emily?” Coming to the conclusion that she wasn’t home, you strolled into the kitchen and pulled a power bar out of the pantry. “Sergio!! Here, kitty kitty.” Maybe Emily took him for a walk? You wouldn’t be surprised.

It’d been two weeks since you’d moved in, but your boxes were all still in the living room. You groaned as you remembered you’d promised Emily you’d take care of them today, but you knew you had to do it.

Muttering to yourself, you sorted through the boxes and finally unpacked everything you wanted in your room. Now you just had to move all the rest of the boxes down into the storage space. You tried to fit everything into two boxes, grabbed your keys, and headed towards the storage unit by your apartment.

~

You set the boxes down on the ground and typed your code into the pad by the door. Slowly, it began to slide up, and you reached down to pick the boxes up again. Standing up again, you looked inside to see Emily standing inside.

She was standing behind a cauldron, stirring it with a hugeass stick, and was surrounded by shelves and shelves of plants and trinkets. There was even a crystal ball on the table near her. Sergio, her black cat, was sitting next to it. You looked up at her and she looked back at you. Neither of you said anything for a solid 40 seconds.

Finally, you managed to say “What the fuck?”

“Uhhh, I can explain. Sit down.” She gestured to one of the chairs by the table. “Close the door.”

You listened, and after you sat, she did too. Sergio jumped up onto your lap and began to purr as you stroked him. Emily started to say something, but paused and gathered her thoughts. “Okay, look.” She brushed her long black hair behind her shoulder and clasped her hands in front of her. “God, it’s hot in here.” She shimmied her black leather jacket off of her, revealing the soft, long sleeved, pink v-neck that you were so fond of. “Uh, okay, so I’m a witch. Um, I found out when I was about 10 years old, and I’ve managed to hide it until now, so if you didn’t tell anyone about this, I’d really appreciate that.”

“What?”

“I’m a witch.” She said again, giggling nervously.

“Shit, Prentiss, I thought you were just doing something for Halloween.”

“Oh, damn, I wish I’d thought of that.” She stood and and walked over to the cauldron, her black high heels clacking on the floor. “You can go back to the apartment now. I’d really appreciate it if you didn’t tell anyone about this.”

“Don’t worry, I won’t tell anyone. I’m also not going back to the apartment now though; I’m curious as to what you’re making!” You followed her to the cauldron and peered inside. “What are you making it for?”

“Oh my god, don’t get so close to it.” She chuckled and gently nudged you out of the way. “It’s… okay it’s kind of complicated. Are you sure you want to know? It’s kind of intense.”

“Yes, of course!” You smiled widely and went back to sit in the chair.

Emily involuntarily grinned; every time you smiled she just couldn’t help but do it as well. She was actually really glad that you found out about her secret, too. You were one of her best friends and she’d been needing to talk to someone about everything that was happening. “Okay, so, it’s basically just a potion to make you stronger. And the reason I’m making it is because I’m going to need it Halloween night.”

“Why?”

“Well, there’s this wizard. Sephterani.”

“Damn, that’s a cool name.”

She laughed. “Yeah, it is, but he’s also kind of evil. You see, there are some monsters he wants to release into the world. He can only do it at midnight on Halloween though, and he needs to say a spell after drinking a specific potion.”

“What? What monsters? What potion?”

“The monsters… they’re…” Emily shuddered. “They’re terrible. I really hope you never have to find out what they do. And the potion: it gives you the ability to communicate with them. I think I can find the recipe.”

She turned and scanned the bookshelf behind her. “Here.” She tipped the leather book out of its spot and set it down on the table. “This book is actually illegal in the magic world, but I have it just so I can figure out what I need to prevent.” Emily winked at you and held her finger to her mouth. “Sh.” She flipped through the soft yellow pages, dust flying into the air, until she found what she was looking for. Her finger trailed down the page and she softly murmured the words to herself. “He needs the hearts of 4 humans, 10 liters of pig blood, fur from a black cat, enchanted kukumaca, nightbloom roots, frog legs, a nightingale’s wing, and 3 drops of his own blood.”

“I’m sorry? Excuse me? Did you say the hearts of 4 humans? As in, actual human beings? Is this fucking Snow White or something?”

“Yes, actual humans. I need to stop him from not only releasing the monsters but creating the potion as well.” Emily looked up from the book to check your reaction. You were taking it better than she could have hoped; she knew this must have been pretty shocking, and maybe scary too. She wasn’t really all that surprised though, you’d always been one of the bravest people she knew.

“Oh, shit. Okay, I want to help.” You stood, and Sergio leapt off of your lap. “I want to help you.”

“No, you can’t.” Emily said forcefully. “It’s dangerous, and you wouldn’t be able to protect yourself against him.”

“It’s dangerous for you too, Emily. And I want to help you, I can’t let you do this alone.”

“I can’t let you help me. I’m a fucking witch; I can protect myself. Do you have any idea how devastated I’d be if something happened to you?” Her eyes pierced into you, and her words shook as she spoke. “I can’t let anything happen to you.”

“I have to help you. I’m not going to take no for an answer.”

“You’re going to have to! Because my answer is no.”

“Emily, I am not going to let you do this alone.” You set your hand on top of hers and stroked it with your thumb. “It’ll be okay.”

Emily was quiet for a minute. She wouldn’t be able to take it if anything bad happened to you but she really did need help with this, and you really did want to help. After a few more moments of silent contemplation, she finally decided that she would let you help, but as soon as you were in danger she was going to send you back home.

“The first thing we need to do is figure out where he is.” She sat in front of the crystal ball, and you followed suit. Placing her hands around the crystal, she began to chant in what seemed to be another language. The ball began to fill with a light fog, swirling and pushing against the edges as if it were trying to escape. You finally heard her say a word you recognized, “Sephterani”, and the fog began to clear to reveal a dark wooded area.

“Where is that?” You asked.

“I think that’s down by Henson’s Creek.” Emily swiftly put her jacket back on, placed a few vials full of potions in the pockets, and grabbed a broomstick. You had no idea how she knew where it was from just a bunch of trees, but you were glad she did. “Let’s go.”

“Wait, don’t you need like, your hat or something?”

“My hat? Do you mean a pointy witch’s hat?” Emily scoffed. “We don’t wear those.”

“I mean, you have a broomstick, a crystal ball, a cauldron, and a black cat. I had to ask.” You teased.

~

By the time the two of you got to Henson’s creek, dusk had arrived. You hopped off the back of Emily’s broomstick, your stomach still churning from the ride. Smoothing your hair down, you watched as she somehow fit the broomstick into her small bag.

She gestured for you to follow her through the woods, but as she looked back at you and thought about how dangerous this could be, she wasn’t sure she made the right decision in allowing you to come.

With the sun’s slow disappearance came the awakening of the woodland creatures, and Emily could feel your uneasiness. Every time an owl hooted or a coyote howled, your pace slowed and your breath quickened. Finally, even though it might alert Sephterani of your presence, Emily lit up the end of her wand like a flashlight so that you could feel a bit better.

“Emily?” You whispered. “What are we gonna do once we find him?”

“Well, first I’m gonna try to talk him down. And if that doesn’t work, I’m going to have to fight him.”

“Like, a fist fight? Or spells and stuff?”

“Uh, spells and stuff, I guess. But hopefully it won’t come to that.” As nervous as she was, Emily knew she had to keep up a brave face to keep you at ease. “And it probably won’t. I can be very persuasive.”

You nodded and continued walking beside her.

“Sh.” Emily suddenly stopped and held out her arm in front of you. “Do you see that?”

Squinting, you peered into the darkness. “Yeah, I do. Holy shit.”

A bit ahead of you were 4 people, unconscious, and tied to a tree. Emily raced towards them and you trailed close behind her. She knelt down beside them and cut the people free; they all fell to the ground with gentle thuds. She took her wand and muttered something, tapping each of them on the forehead.

“What was that for?” You asked, kneeling next to her.

“So that they won’t remember this.” Prentiss said gently.

You nodded and stood back up. “Why would Sephterani just leave them here? Why not just kill them right away? I mean, I’m glad that we got to them before he did, but I don’t quite understand how we did. Where is he?”

“I’m not sure.” Emily sighed. “It’s possible we’re walking right into a trap, but at least we’ve saved them.” She gestured towards the people lying on the dirt, and with a flick of her wand, they disappeared. “They’re all in the town center park now. They’ll be confused, but they’ll find their way home.”

You stared down at your shoes, unsure of what to say. Maybe it had been a mistake to come along with Emily; you really did want her safe, but what could you do about it? You weren’t sure that you could help her, and maybe you were even making it harder on her.

As if she could read your mind, Emily spoke. “Hey, I’m really glad you came with me. This is really creepy, and it’s nice to have you here.”

You nodded and smiled, looking back down at your shoes.

“So now we wait.” Emily lifted her chin and leaned back against the tree. “He’ll come back soon enough. Definitely before midnight.”

The sky grew darker and the moon rose higher, it was hours later but Sephterani still hadn’t come back. Both of your suspicions that it was somehow a trap were getting stronger. But there you were, waiting anyway. The two of you talked the entire time, trying to fill the scared silence. Slowly, each of you came to the realization that you felt most comfortable together.

You learned about her past: she was 13 when she found out she was a witch, and she struggled to hide it from her parents. When she was finally leaving for college, she went to one that taught magic while pretending to be a normal college. Their acceptance rate was 6.3%, because so many non-magical people applied to it thinking it was just a really good college. When Emily graduated, she knew she needed a normal job to keep her parents off her back, so she applied to the FBI. That way, she could still be helping people, even if it wasn’t with her magic. Once she came into contact with Sephterani, though, it started to interfere with her work, and she had to leave a few times to track him down. She was hoping to one day stop him once and for all.

And she learned about you and your past: how strong and kind you were, the hardships you’d been through, and the times you’d been most happy. She also learned that she was starting to fall in love with you.

Emily couldn’t take her eyes off of you. The moonlight lit up your skin, sparkled in your eyes, and glowed on your hair. She looked down at her hand to see that yours was placed on top, but she didn’t know if you had put it there out of affection or out of fear. God, how she hoped it was affection.

As you looked up at the moon, Emily softly called your name. “I really like you, Y/N.”

“I really like you too, Prentiss.” You turned to look at her, and she started leaning in. She was so close you could feel her breath on your lips, but suddenly she gasped and pulled away.

“I like you as well, Emily Prentiss.” A deep voice came from above you. Sephterani had come out of nowhere, and he lowered onto the ground, his dark green cloak billowing around him and scattering the fog that had arrived along with him. “It’s too bad that I’m going to have to kill you.”

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Meet OLYMPIA EUN. They are THIRTY TWO years old and hail from SOUTHFIELD, MICHIGAN. Ollie embodies the star, TSEEN KE. They use she/her pronouns. Their faceclaim is ADELINE RUDOLPH.

Tseen Ke reminds me of the casual spin of a cleaver knife between nimble fingers, a cupboard full of champagne glasses, the routine of paying tithes, the art of reliving your darkest moments, bare feet tapping a steady rhythm along the ground, a body seized with desire, skirts pressed and prepared for Sunday service, rose petals in the bathtub, Sanjana playing over the speakers, weekend confessionals, that rich-girl-bitch-girl-babydoll type shit.

BIOGRAPHY

If asked, Olympia Ji-Min Eun can describe the rundown Southfield apartment she grew up in. She can tell you how it felt to drag her fingers down the cracks in the wall, take a pencil and draw the amorphous rain stains on the ceiling, tell you how many steps there were between one nail sticking out of the carpet and the next; she could just as easily describe the octave of her neighbor’s voice when he was shouting at his wife, or the exact time of night when the other kids in the building would come inside.

When she wasn’t playing the role of Bishop Gavin and First Lady Dolores Eun’s dutiful daughter, she was committing those details to memory, learning everything about the world around her without ever interacting with it. She could have played a more active role, and maybe she should have. But nothing about life held her attention; everything was dull and predictable, worth learning but not engaging.

It was December 25, 2001, approximately 3:19pm when Tseen Ke appeared, the only Christmas presents the stars ever gave her. Ollie would like to say that her life drastically changed since then, but it was one of the most subtle changes she’s ever lived through. The rules of Tseen Ke came to her slowly, jotted down in her Hello Kitty notebook.

Rule one: I cannot lie. Discovered on August 13, 2002, 11:12am. Even at fourteen years old, Ollie wasn’t much of a liar. So when she attempted it that day, it was one of the few times she’d ever done so. The violent reaction her body had, however, was a firm deterrent from ever trying again. Perhaps it was a leap to assume that her sponsor gave her on-call epilepsy, but the fact spoke for itself: the first time she ever had a seizure was only moments after the first time she tried to lie with her sponsorship. Rather than testing this theory for accuracy, she settled to avoid lying at all costs.

Rule two: I can only see memories if I am allowed. Discovered on December 3, 2002, 9:00am. When Josiah Bland explicitly said, “You cannot see my memories,” she experienced her first block. When she’d seen memories before then, those people had asked her to. She’d never tried to do it non-consensually. While it didn’t hurt for him to say no, it definitively shut her out of his mind.

Rule three: my body reacts to trigger words. Discovered on multiple occasions. It’s always jarring to discover trigger words. In Tseen Ke’s very minimal defense, the words are specific and some of them are quite rare. But there’s a word that makes her collapse, a word that makes her freeze, so on and so forth. The most important of these words, however, is the one that essentially makes her a puppet, ripped of her free will or conscious thought.

On December 31, 2006, 11:55pm, a man approached Ollie at a New Year’s Eve party and told her that he wanted her to play a game. Eighteen and uninterested in any man’s game, Ollie politely told him to fuck off. At 11:56pm, he grabbed her arm and paralyzed her with just one word. He explained exactly what he wanted and why she would do it. By the time the ball dropped to celebrate the new year, Olympia Eun had lost all semblance of choice in her life.

The game was simple enough, though calling it a game is misleading. It was more like one man making an army of assassins and slapping a point system on it. A hundred or so witches from Polaris were dragged into it kicking and screaming, handed knives and guns in place of their wands. They were taught to kill with efficiency and use their gifts in creative ways. With each kill, they received a number of points; the more dangerous your target was, the more points you received; the more points you received, the closer you got to freedom. It was simple enough that people fought back at first. But after witnessing the cruel punishments that came from dissent, everyone fell in line and played the game.

July 3, 2008, a little over a year into the game, pandemonium broke out. Players began to turn on one another, slaughtering each other in hopes of receiving high marks. For their efforts, the dark wizard that started the game adjusted the rules: if you could take out a witch with more points than you, then you had your freedom. Players jumped at the chance and a real life Hunger Games began.

On July 5, 2008, Ollie found herself inducted into a group of four, bound by one common goal: survive to the end of this shit. They teamed up, only calling each other by their elements, and worked to kill every player that came at them first. Eventually, inevitably, they killed the game maker himself.

On July 7, 2008, Light, Earth, Air and Water were the only survivors of a twisted game.

While the others may have struggled to return to their usual lives, Ollie never tried. While the situation had been nothing short of fucked up, she learned a lot from it, enough that she thanked the game maker more than she hated him. For the first time in years, she dug her Hello Kitty notebook out from beneath her mattress and added to her rules.

Addendum to rule one: I cannot lie –– but I can circumvent the truth. Flowery prose and pretty language goes a long way in hiding nasty secrets. Ollie still isn’t much of a liar, even in this day and age, but she could hardly tell the youth group in her church about her murderous activities. So she learned to talk around the truth, dancing around anything she had to hide. It’s a dangerous game and sometimes she has to sacrifice one truth to hide another, but in the end, she knows how to make the little things work for her.

Addendum to rule two: I can only see memories if I am allowed –– but that permission does not have to be explicit. She learned very early on that people didn’t have to know that she was viewing their memories in order for her to get permission. People say the most thoughtless things when they’re drunk; they agree to the silliest things when they’re driven by ecstasy. This is an even trickier game, because she can’t circumvent her way around an outright ‘no,’ but so long as she avoids that word, then the world is at her fingertips.

Addendum to rule three: my body reacts to trigger words –– but no one knows that. Hiding this fact is simple enough. No one ever thinks to ask and she has no reason to tell, so her involuntary reactions didn’t have to affect her life unless she let them.

With these key thoughts in mind, Ollie continued making use of her gifts. Assassins transitioned into being serial killers, all of them too used to the thrill of the kill to give it up. Under Light’s generous leadership, the Lunatics –– as the media knew them –– thrived. Not that Ollie ever cared for that kind of thing; she was every part a member of the group, of course, but she didn’t care to be controlled by anyone, let alone someone so clearly disingenuous as Light. The only obligation Ollie felt was to her star and the cleaver that she used to dismember her victims, when she wasn’t making their memories manifest to hunt them down.

So the years passed by with the four killers working like a well-oiled machine and few problems. Though Ollie much preferred to kill of her own volition, she began to take up hit man jobs, receiving thousands or millions of dollars for her services. She moved her parents out of their rundown apartment and into a mansion, separate from her own, and anonymously paid for the expansion of her church. Though she would never say it out loud, the game she’d been forced to play was the best thing that ever happened to her.

Her life in Polaris continued on as it always was. To all but three people, she was just… Ollie. The girl with the well-kept notebooks and the careful way with words, who floated between groups, knowing everyone but committing to no one, who worked in the library, went to church, and kept her head down. Everything about her way pretty and organized, hiding who she was behind closed doors. No one had any idea what she did in her spare time, aside from the other killers, and nothing she did gave anyone any reason to suspect that she was more than she let on.

When another member joined their little group, an innocent and lucky woman with no connection to their abuse, Ollie thought nothing of it. If anything, the new arrival made things more interesting. Ollie minded her own business, but it would have been impossible not to notice how tension ramped up within the group. They were honey balancing on a knife’s edge, so clearly destined to meet a tragic and unfortunate end. Light was losing her hold over the group and Ollie was finally gaining a vested interest.

Then, on August 25, 2020, at 5:12am, Light’s mangled body was found in the attic of the Lunatics’ hideout. Only five people knew how to find the hideout; only four people could have possibly killed her. In all likeliness, they were the only four people in the world who knew Light well enough to want to kill her. The Lunatics’ leader was dead and one of them was very clearly the culprit.

Upon hearing the news, Ollie had to stifle her laughter. Finally, something had caught her attention.

INCLINATION

Tseen Ke, heaven’s record, only cares for one thing: truth. Once it chooses a sponsee, it expects the same of them, thus rendering its witch the ability to peer into the minds of individuals and see their memories. More than that, sponsees have the ability to interact with memories and use them however they like, whether that means using them as weapons or to reach a decision. However, Tseen Ke also believes heavily in consent. Its sponsee can only access memories with consent. And, in the spirit of fairness, they can no longer lie. Furthermore, Tseen Ke instills certain trigger words within its sponsee, secretly subjecting them to the world’s manipulation ––– a trait which tends to have awful outcomes.

CONNECTIONS

Evolved Perfection: Someone who remembers what Ollie used to be and… honestly, they have a thing for this new version of her. Whether that’s a romantic thing, a physical thing, or just a respect thing, they like who she is now, so they’ve become close to her. She thinks they’re fake as fuck for only caring about her now that she’s rich and beautiful, but she’s not incensed enough to push them away. If anything, she finds them amusing, so she plays along with whatever they have in mind.

Haunted by the Ghost of You: Somewhere, buried in someone’s memory, was a great love and a great heartbreak: this person. Though Ollie had no previous connection to this person, she now lives with the thought of them as someone else once knew them. It hurts to see them, even more so to speak to them, but Ollie does so anyway. It’s bound to hurt her, too, but in the words of Rhett Butler: “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”

The Knowing: Ollie is fairly young, in witch years, and has had her mark for a little less than twenty years. This person knew the last Tseen Ke very well, so they know all of the rules. On one hand, all of Tseen Ke’s trigger words change when a new sponsee is chosen; on the other, this character is intent on finding Ollie’s words, for whatever reason. Ollie’s aware of what they’re doing and she isn’t impressed. Not going to lie, they have a lot of fun.

Twisted: So –– legally speaking, this person is dead. Why? Because, legally, Ollie killed them. It was a job, she was paid quite a bit, but–– she just didn’t have it in her to kill this person. So she didn’t do it. For whatever reason, she chose them over a job. However, in order to receive the money and ensure that no one else came after them, she faked their death. It was a whole thing, very dramatic. Now, they’re a little dependent on her, considering she singlehandedly uprooted their life. I’m definitely up for discussing this and fleshing it out more, but yeah :P

Filling Comtessa Godfrey’s Student Helper.

Filling Ramona Serrano’s Steady, Steady.

Filling Aliena Ferreira’s Red String of Fate.

Penned by Ricki ★

#ricki. #taken. #water. #student. #tseenke.

[amazonite-dreams]

Carols Book Babbles HP: Grand Theft Hippogriff!

sIf Im honest I often forget about POA. I know its weird now thinking of all the plot points that are opened up by the end of the book but honestly it slips my mind more often than not. And I think the reason why is because this is my least favorite of the books. The plot just sort of meanders around aimlessly, and there’s no real mystery or villain outside of this escaped prisoner. I love Serious Black don’t get me wrong (seriously-please-don’t-kill-me-he-is-one-of-my-favorites) but he’s pretty weak as a villain and a plot devise. I know this one has its defenders and their free to have their opinion, I just find it less engaging for me versus other books in the series. Ended up getting pretty distracted while reading this one, and as a result its probably going to be shorter. Sorry (I say to exactly no one, none of you seem to be reading these) 

1.     Blow up aunt Marge sounds like the least satisfying sex doll.

2.     Exploring Diagon Ally reminds me of fond memories exploring church Street in Burlington, and I’m all for that. Reading a magical book outside an ice-cream parlor is my idea of a good time.

3.     Real world question: How do you get abusive parents to sign permission slips?

4.     I love Harry! “Another dark wizard is after me? Meh sounds like a normal day.”

5.     Crookshanks is not amused by your rat or your slow moving plot structure and wants to have it out RIGHT NOW! Honestly though the cats dragging the plot along like a reluctant half-dead rabbit. Goooood kitty!

6.     Lupins just the best though isn’t he? First lesson he validates Nevil, lets the students fight their own battles, rewards Hermione for her knowledge rather than shaming her, he’s just great! (I-low-key-want-to-make-him-a-bunch-of-flower-crowns-dont-judge-me)

7.     Snape you go too far this time, nobody makes fun of Hermione outside her house, nobody!

8.     Harry hearing his mothers screams and dying pleads for his life while having his soul sucked out of him is not the worst thing I've ever heard of. It's close though.

9.     Young serious black riding a flying motorcycle like the rebel wizard without a cause. lol probably even had leather wizarding robes

10.  All things aside the Quidditch is pretty cool this year.

11.  I'm certain there should be some organization for the purposes of preventing werewolf discrimination. I mean it's a disease, isn't it? A disability just like having partial paralysis or migraines or heart problems? Just because one has a disability doesn't mean that they can't live full lives and have fulfilling careers in whatever they are capable of. And Lupin was a very capable professor so wtf! Discrimination I say!  Where's the legislation?! Where's the convention on the rights of lycanthropic peoples?

12.  Let's raise a glass to Hermiones work ethic and a brief séance for her sleep schedule the homework alone Jesus. (I say unaware that they address that later in the book, #solidlyplacingfootinmouth)

13.     Is it just me or does the dementors kiss sound like a lobotomy?

14.     My least favorite plot lines are when people get into stupid fights and end up not talking for half a year. One disagreement and suddenly all your favorites are acting petty and out of character! Its stupid, this is so stupid! Why are they being so mean to Hermione! It makes so little sense! This happens later in the series and while I still dislike it there at least it makes a little more sense where as this is just nonsense. Be mad at her for a week, but a WHOLE HALF A YEAR?! OVER A STUPID BROOMSTICK THAT COULD HAVE KILLED YOU AND A RAT THAT DIDN’T DO SHIT FOR YOU!?!?!?! “Im sorry Harry, did you hear something?” STFU RON! That’s not how friends work! uuuuughlajkdsghLakhfdqurbrkjabfvlsdfbxlcvsmnxcbeuiwobchbasd!!!!!!!! #leastFav

15.     Draco is still a snot nosed kid and I like it better when he gets punched in the face. #hermioneshotfirst

16.     SERIOUS MOODY-PANTS ANGSTY POTTER-BLACK! Will you stop talking in emo revenge riddles and tell them straight out you mean no harm!

17.     ***Good for you lupin! You get a flower crown, a juice box and a pat on the head. Now head back to your classroom and stay out of trouble my lovely little lycanthrope!***

18.     There are no accidents in Harry Potter!

whoo I made it considerably longer than it was. why? Because I suffer for no one! Seriously though I had to sparknotes that shit because I slept through half the plot. The next one is a long standing favorite of mine though so we should be in for a treat (and I'm finally getting more comfortable with the format.) This one was a little more crack than I had anticipated but I'm ok with it, are you? Join me next time for..

HP: A Cup of Flaming Pisssssss

#Harry Potter #harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban #Carols book babbles

[keepyourpantsongohan]

Ayesha Liveblogs Fairy Tail S3

Can the narrator really justify the “small peaceful nation” part of the intro after a morality weapon was resurrected and almost destroyed a ghost town

“Flower parties are freakin’ manly!” Elfman isn’t here for your gender roles

My sweet stripper son:

Erza: Have you considered putting on a shirt?

Gray: [Growls]

“Don’t get cold feet” I love shitty battle puns

The implication that Natsu would literally move the heavens and the earth for Lucy is beautiful

I can’t believe that disaster of a play exists in continuity

“I need your guidance Laxus” When Freed is faced with difficult decisions he looks into the sky and sees Laxus in the clouds

“A real man never uses his brain” I mean... tru

Gray just fucking peacefully iceskates past a pile of his friends

“You and me aren’t married okay” “Then why are you blushing” Baby Natsu and Lisanna are so cute

That exchange between Natsu and Lisanna makes it seem like she’s missing and not dead but they buried her body right?

Gildarts has apparently decided to adopt Natsu

Poor Natsu he doesn’t even get sad about Lisanna’s death he’s mad

Natsu @ Gildarts: You’re not my real dad! 

DRUNK GAJEEL SEARCHES FOR KITTY CATS

Mystogan is Wendy’s Jellal oh no the one nice thing Jellal thinks he did his whole life was a lie

I fucking love Natsu’s nicknames for Gray: Frosty, Freezer Burn, Snowflake <3

“We need to talk, it’s time you learned to grip it right” Gray pls

“I wish something interesting would happen today,” said Lucy, shortly after Mystogan announced the impending apocalypse

This is the second time that everything Wendy knows and cares about has evaporated right before her eyes yikes

Based on this intro everyone’s going to meet their AU selves in Edolas and I’m really curious if AU Gray is just going to put on more clothes

“If none of our buddies are in this world, what would be the point of coming back here anyway?” Natsu <3333333

“We gotta walk somewhere, so why not this way?” shit u right Natsu

AU Gray does wear too many clothes I love it

Oh no Lisanna’s probably still alive in this universe

“Why isn’t Cana half-naked and fully drunk?” Cana is a mess 

Natsu, weeping: The Gray I know would be half-naked by now

“I’ve never seen a frog like this! We should take it back for Lucy as a souvenir” Amazing his friends are trapped in a giant crystal and he’s still thinking about what they might enjoy as keepsakes

I think Scary Lucy is in love with Natsu

But how did Gajeel get to Edolas without a magical flying cat?

“This Gajeel’s a freelance journalist, better get the scoop on him” I wonder if his political activist alter ego also uses terrible wordplay

“Being bossed around is kind of a nice change” Kinkshame Scary Lucy

It makes sense that Lucy’s the only one who can use magic here because her magic isn’t tied to Earth

Gentle Fro Gajeel bonding with Angry Spiky Gajeel is great

Lmao @ Mystogan just tossing up random members of a Fairy Tail up into the sky and also it seems abundantly clear at this point that he’s Edolas Jellal

Natsu [Aggressive Roadster voice]: My Lucy

I guess Edolas Natsu is only ballsy while inside moving vehicles

“Not exactly my idea of a dictatorship” Clearly you have never seen footage produced by any dictatorship ever

Nalu must be canon because she just gave him the Hug of Passionate Restraint

Ngl this cat drama is a bit Much for me I don’t even like Happy

This is some dark philosopher’s stone ass shit that I didn’t really expect from Fairy Tail yikes there’s no moral dilemma for these people

How come Gajeel can use his magic??

Honestly the greatest suspension of disbelief in this show is pretending Happy does not sound like a whiny adult woman

The way they told that story at first made it seem like all 100 eggs belonged to Happy’s parents 

I’M SCREAMING THE REAL GRAY AND ERZA ARE BACK MY SWEET NAKED AND VIOLENT CHILDREN

I love their entrance bathed in ethereal light and also the fact that their combined magical power was enough to fill a town square

Ohhhh so that’s why Lucy can use her powers because Mystogan gave her the crazy red pills

Gray, trying to give medicine to a person who is out cold: Come on, open your mouth, you loser

“I was wondering what he popped in my mouth,” I'm concerned about you Lucy

Gray just faded into transparency because he was being ignored amazing

“Do you want get in the middle of that?” “You know, you make a good point” I missed Gray’s and Lucy’s asides <3

Gray did you need to pin Lucy down to protect her you are so Extra and I love it

Gray just... fucking chucked Lucy.... twenty feet in the air GOOD LORD

Oh my god is Panther Lily going to become Gajeel’s magical flying cat

“You’re not dead, are you? Yell if you’re dead!” NATSU PLS

“I have to care about her, because it’s obvious that you don’t!” Lucy is so powerful and kind I love her

Full offense but I’m going to marry Gray Fullbuster

“I’m still making you my cat” he said, before beating the shit out of a man-sized panther

I bet Good Erza robbed Bad Erza lmao beautiful

Why are neither Gray nor Natsu attempting to retake their hostage

None of the Edolas boys have this same need for angry haircuts

The Cat Drama has reached new heights but I’ve slowly grown fond of it

Did Panther Lily save Mystogan?? Oh the answer is yes

What the ever loving fuck that was an abrupt cut off to an almost happy ending

I can’t believe Mystogan is a prince and also that no one is reacting to the fact he is Edolas Jellal

“I’m sure he’ll feel right at home crawling along the ground with the other pests” Apparently there is a worse dad than Papa Heartlessfilia in this show

Natsu as Daenerys Targaryen: Fire cannot kill a dragon

Fairy Tail is full of Human Disasters no matter what universe

Erza, every time she puts on a new suit of armor: My strongest armor

I love that Erza, Gray and Natsu all give their opponents speeches on the morality of their decisions as they fight

“Is a floating island going to fall on our house?” no one ever said that Mystogan was great at foresight

“But Edolas had a pretty good run, huh?” said Hughes, just calmly fucking watching the apocalypse

Why is Jellal always trying to get himself killed no matter what universe

I’m crying I love Space Jellal 

The fist pumping is killing me 

“What an overachiever!” Gajeel is so happy to have his own kitty cat

Every time Natsu tries to hug Lisanna someone physically restrains him

I’m so happy for Mira and Elfman and Natsu <3

This is going to be so weird for Fairy Tail to them it’s like they passed out and they wake up to their friends bruised and bloody, Mystogan gone forever, a baby panther in Gajeel’s arms and someone back from the dead 

Hughes, about his own execution: Seriously, it’s not a big deal, just do it!

Jellal did the thing! The Fairy Tail thing again my sweet son

The implication of Mystogan having joined Fairy Tail as a child means that he’s been walking around in a full cloak since he was like 10

Lmao @ Natsu dreaming about fighting Gray 

The unnecessarily intimate and homoerotic friendship chain continues as Lucy and Cana bathe together

Literally their legs are intertwined together underwater?? This is Extremely Gay and I love it

“Forget your clothes again?” “Don’t have time to worry about that!” 

Ggekghjrhgkhkg Gray using one of Lucy’s spirits as his partner 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 

“At this point I’d put almost anything in my mouth as long as it’s cold” ... Like an ice wizard? 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 

GRAY IS LITERALLY THIS MEME:

I arrive at S-Class Trials

Ship: Crowded

Partner: Loke 

Dick: Out

I am forcibly clothed at S-Class Trials

Gajeel using Levy’s head as an armrest pls 

Makarov @ an Ice Wizard: Chill

“What sort of vulgar sorcery is this?” Omg Freed is so nervous around scantily-clad women I love it

I guess Freed and Bickslow throwing the fight makes more sense than if they were defeated through the power of sex and cotton candy

“There is one thing you still lack” Self control?

This was actually a pretty accurate guess

Mystogan’s a little young to have an adult man as his pupil

Hard for Emo Wizard to avoid confrontation when everyone in this guild takes “I could kill you” as an invitation to fight

I guess it says a lot about Natsu that Gildarts has been mentoring him for many years and yet he still thinks of the dragon as his dad

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