#beach slinker

[aeridanus]

It's an overcast day and I'm going to have the beach to myself, you thought... and then, this fucker trudges along. There's this ghost story of them coming out when it's overcast, and since it's almost never truly overcast, well, who would've thought. They won't eat or harm you, they will mind their business until they disappear behind some lava rocks. Maybe they're there all the time, disguised as rocks, but maybe not? Maybe they live in undiscovered caves beneath the barrancos, where there's always a little stream of water running towards the shore. Who knows?

#headworld #tenebra versa #fuerteventura #beach slinker #sketches #phantasms

[bughead-in-the-comics]

From Hook, Line, and Slinker, Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #46 (1959).

#bughead #jughead jones #betty cooper #archie andrews #veronica lodge #reggie mantle #old comics #digest comics #archie's girls betty and veronica #bughead high school #bughead summer #bughead beach #bughead chase #bughead mad #hook line and slinker

[ecofinisher]

Lady Frost and the Fire King - A familiar partnership - Chap 11

Chapter 11

https://archiveofourown.org/works/31330631/chapters/77469461

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13886468/11/Lady-Frost-and-the-Fire-King-A-familiar-partnership

https://www.wattpad.com/1081907828-lady-frost-and-the-fire-king-a-familiar

(Chapter is about 5000 words long. I recommend to read inside the previous fanfic links)

Kai and Alfida stood together in front of a library and looked at the description at the entrance about the opening time.

„Okay, this must be it,“ Alfida commented. „Shall we go in?“

Kai nodded, then opened the door to enter along with the girl into the library and looked around the place. Alfida showed Kai the reception, where a woman sat using the computer and the two went to encounter the woman.

„Good morning. We‘d like to know if it‘s possible for someone here to help us look for flight tickets to Paris,“ Kai spoke. „Our grandfather told us this was the only way he knew how to obtain and get information about,“ Kai asked earning a nod from the librarian.

„For your grandfather or for you two?“ Asked the librarian.

„Us two,“ Responded Kai.

„Age?“

„I‘m 15 and she‘s 16,“ Responded Kai.

„17,“ Corrected Alfida making Kai grin embarrassed.

„Okay and does it have to be a non-stop flight or a connecting flight?“

„If possible, the cheapest one,“ Added Alfida. „We gotta pay this on our own, eventually,“

„Alright I‘m looking for you two on Brian Airlines, a low-cost airline if you‘re okay with it,“ Stated the woman making the teens nod.

„There are no available low-cost flights to Paris. You would need to choose another destination and see from there, how you could go there to Paris,“ Responded the librarian.

„Well what more can you want, we‘re at the moment out of money and need to go there to get my sister back,“ Explained Kai earning a nod from the librarian.

„How did you get here, if I may ask?“

„It‘s a long story. We‘re really thankful for your help ma‘am,“

„We really are and I don‘t want to be rude or anything, but what are the prices of the available destinations? Are there close to Paris a bit?“ Asked the raven-haired girl the woman, which used her mouse to open the offers.

„60 Norwegian Kroner is if you fly to Vienna, in Austria. Wroclaw in Poland costs 50 Kroner and to Basle in Switzerland 60,“ Mentioned the librarian looking at the two teens.

„For two persons it‘s actually cheap,“ Kai mentioned glad making his crush nod.

„Oh, that‘s for each person,“ Corrected the librarian. „Each of you pays 50 or 60 bucks. So 100 or 120,“

„Oh…..okay, so looks like we have to stay here for a while and find a way to make some money for our flight,“ Kai mentioned making Alfida nod.

„Yeah, we better start to look for a way to obtain money. Maybe Hendrick has an idea and helps us out,“ Commented Alfida.

„I know I can make money with art, I just need to get myself a painting easel and colors. The issue is I will need money for that as well,“

„I‘m thinking about going to Orm and Hendrick and tell what‘s up. Hendrick mostly, he knows this world at the moment better than us,“

„I think you‘ve got a point,“ Kai agreed, then Alfida thanked the woman and walked along with the boy to the outside of the library. „Hey, should we head back to the troll kingdom and see, if we can unfreeze the others?“ Questioned Kai making Alfida shrug her shoulders.

„We could go and try, yeah,“ Replied the raven-haired. „Let‘s get out of here,“ Called Alfida walking the street up with the short boy.

As the school had ended Rollan was alone in the locker room looking at a small book he has as his agenda to see the homework he had noticed down for the week and stored the books we wouldn‘t need for now inside his locker.

„Ay, it‘s been a long time since I‘ve ever done homework. That looks like a lot than usual,“ Spoke Rollan, then stored his agenda inside his bag and got up to close his locker, then noticed his belt he encountered a few days ago. Rollan took the belt out to look at his initial letter and unlocked the aperture under it and tried to adjust it around his waist. „I…..almost got it,“ Commented Rollan trying to squeeze the thick textile through the bands of his pants. Rollan made it and closed his belt, then noticed the old-goldish tune of his symbol get lighter, making him furrow his left eyebrow and in front of him appeared a stone-creature in the air, then it dropped on the ground and it got split into two and both got up scratching their heads.

„Whoa,“ Rollan commented surprised as seeing the two creatures, then got down at the two. „What kind of creatures are you?“ Asked Rollan about to pat the slink creature, then yelped as he burnt his finger on it.

„Hey, hey, hey. Didn‘t you notice the magma on my head?“ Asked the slink stone creature watching Rollan shove his finger in his mouth. „It‘s hotter, than a day at the beach,“

„I‘m sorry,“ Apologized Rollan. „I was kinda astonished by seeing you two,“

„I‘m glad you‘re thinking that way,“ Commented the round creature. „Hey haven‘t we seen each other once? You‘re pretty familiar to me,“

„Not that I know,“ Responded Rollan. „Why?“

„I felt like I‘ve known you somehow,“ Responded the large stone-creature. „I‘m Coal by the way. You‘ve got a name as well?“

„Of course he does, Coal,“ Commented the slink stone creature, making Coal frown and punch him on his face making him fall down on the ground to split into two, now the third creature was much smaller than the slinker one.

„I‘m Rollan,“ Responded Rollan looking at the third creature, which got up along with the slinky one.

„If we‘re going to be together for the next amount of time. I would really love if I could walk on the ground on my own or be carried by you. Anytime I‘m hit or fall down, I split in two and if they fall as well, you‘ll have it worse than in a rabbit burrow,“ Coal commented seeing Rollan sit down on the bench looking at the trio,

„Can I at least know, why I am here talking to you three? What were you doing in my belt?“

„That‘s an excellent question, for some reason a foreign man mixed my powers into this belt, so I assume this would be a way to have the wielder be able to use the powers,“

„Powers?“ Asked Rollan curious. „What kind of powers?“ Asked Rollan, then he heard a loud noise on the outside of the building and ran at the window to look out and see the feet of a large robot stand there blocking the way to the buildings behind it. „Coal?!?“

„The power of fire“ Responded Coal. „You‘re able to create fire and use it,“

„Really? How can I do so?“ Asked the raven-haired boy. „Do I have to say anything?“

„You‘ll get the hand of it. You just have to transform and you‘ll be able to use the powers,“ Responded Coal watching Rollan look out of the window and hear someone scream, then the robot moved back and Rollan dropped his mouth knowing someone might be in trouble right now.

„Does this make me one of the good people if I use the firepower?“ Asked Rollan making the stone-creature shrug his shoulders.

„I‘m just here to follow your orders. Whatever path you chose, is up to you,“ Responded Coal watching Rollan look out of the window and frown.

„They need a hero? They will get one!“ Announced Rollan earning applause from the three stone-creatures.

„Then all you need to do is say, Coal, I‘m fired up,“ Stated the stone-creature.

„Coal, I‘m fired up! Ah ha, ha!“ Shouted Rollan opening up his arms and have his clothing get replaced by brown boots, pants, that were marked with fire-themed symbols resembling an engravure. On his body he wore a dark-brown pullover with small streaks, forming lava running down the clothing. Above the pullover, he wore a gray vest with similar patterns to the ones from the pants, and his belt, which now works as a miraculous was dark-red and the cover with Rollan‘s initial got brighter. His skin got darker along with his eyes and his hairstyle became fixed up resembling a fire flame with its colorings as well starting on the ground with dark brown, leading to red up to the end, which was orange and yellow.

„Wow!“ Commented Rollan astonished looking at his appearance, then ran at the exit and shrieked as the door got smacked back to encounter students from the fencing class run into the locker room accompanied by their class teacher.

„There‘s fire!“ Shouted a girl pointing at Rollan‘s superhero form, which looked around to spot the empty room.

„Where?“ Asked Rollan watching the disappear behind the locker while the rest of the team looked at the superhero. „Why is everyone looking at me as if my head was on fire?“ Asked Rollan and Mr. D‘Argencourt took out his smartphone to show Rollan his looks as a superhero and he got surprised as he saw himself as a superhero and his hair was burning at that exact moment. „Oh that‘s what you meant,“

„Get in here!“ Shouted a red-dressed fencing student, which stood at the entrance waiting for other students to leave the court and Rollan ran out heading to the field passing by a few students encountering Kim Chien Le, who he met on his first school day.

„Hey, Kim! Where‘s the danger?“ Asked Rollan watching Kim point at the outside, making Rollan nod and ran at the outside of the court to spot, a large, dark-blue car robot with two white stripes on its legs and arms holding with its left hand a police car with an agent in it. Rollan spotted on the ground Sabrina Raincomprix, which watched in shock the Roboter threatening her father.

„Papa!“ Shouted the redhead, making Rollan swallow hard.

At another part of the schoolhouse, Gerda was in the restroom washing her hands and moved to the side seeing there was no handpaper available, but a strange, electronic device, which had an etiquette with instruction on how to dry her hands in there. Gerda looked at her hands and slowly put them inside the device, which began to blow wind at Gerda‘s hands to dry them and the side of the device had a small display counting from ten down until it would stop drying. As it stopped Gerda took out her hands, then smiled at seeing it made its job good. Gerda picked up from the floor her bag, then walked out of the restroom out a the library opening up the bag to check her material, she had in it and noticed the wreath Rollan told to have found. Therefore the blonde removed the wreath from her bag, then looked at the reflection of a large metal cart and observed herself inserting the wreath on top of her head. As she‘s done that, a blue spirit appeared beside Gerda floating over the lavatory, shrieking at the girl at the sudden appearance of the small creature.

„Hello. I‘m Snowflake,“ Greeted the spirit. „I‘m coming in peace, don‘t worry. I‘m able to grant you powers...the power of ice,“ Explained Snowflake watching Gerda, which had gotten calmer. „With me, you‘ll be able to use ice. You‘ll be able to freeze things, create things, destroy things. A lot is possible if you learn to figure it out,“ „Like the….Snow Queen?“ Asked Gerda curious making the spirit nod, then she spotted someone and hid inside Gerda‘s backpack. „Hey!“ Shouted Gerda opening the backpack. „Get out of here, I need to talk to you,“ Gerda ordered, then she noticed at the end of the library a student, which was wearing a red hoodie and black pants staring at her confused. „I…..can‘t find my phone in there, but I‘m able to talk like this on it. That‘s pretty cool, isn‘t it?“ Asked Gerda faking a grin at the student.

„Uh…..we gotta hide, there‘s another akuma out there terrorizing the city,“ Stated the student making Gerda nod.

„I will come, don‘t worry,“ Responded Gerda watching the boy move on, then from Gerda‘s pocket came out the spirit, making her frown. „Why didn‘t you show up?“

„You‘re my new holder, right?“ Asked the spirit making Gerda shrug her shoulders.

„I don‘t know. You just appeared at the time I‘ve set this on my head,“ Commented Gerda making Snowflake nod.

„Then I assume you are if the wreath is supposed to go to you,“

„Maybe,“ Commented Gerda, then Snowflake floated forward and Gerda followed the spirit to see above the top of the room two TV screens hanging with the news of the akuma alert.

„Shadow Moth akumatized another citizen, which turned into an Autobot and is causing trouble in Paris,“ Explained the purple-haired moderator on TV.

„Oh oh, that‘s right here at our school,“ Commented Gerda earning a nod from the spirit.

„So what do you think? Do you want to give it a chance and use your powers to take down that monster over there?“ Questioned Snowflake. „I think the superheroes would love to have another helping hand. What do you think?“

„I‘ve never done this before. I don‘t know if I can even pull this off,“

„You can do that. You‘ve got me and my powers. You don‘t have to get worried about being hurt or killed. You're sheltered pretty well as long as you have me activated,“

„Okay I could give it a try,“ Gerda answered. „I‘ve defeated the Snow Queen once when I was younger. This will be easier…..I hope at least,“ Gerda commented, then Snowflake patted Gerda on her shoulder.

„Don‘t worry Gerda. You will do just fine. Say, Snowflake freeze and you‘ll transform,“ Added the creature making Gerda nod.

„Snowflake, Freeze!“ Shouted Gerda having her entire look exchanged. Her clothings had vanished and her entire body was covered in a long, blue winter coat with big snowflake patterns spread around the outfit. The wreath got the similar colors of the outfit, the hair had gotten lighter along with the skin, and around her eyes, up to the side of her ears, she wore a mix of ice-white and blue make-up powder with smaller dots and snowflake spread over it along a part of her cheek.

„Woah I look like a….a mini Snow Queen,“ Gerda commented. „Or no this looks like a regular winter cloak,“ Spoke Gerda, then heard the door of the library get kicked back by Kim Chien Le and Ethan, the student he played basketball with holding up the doors, so a few students ran in for safety. Gerda looked from the second floor at the two, then she had an idea and looked at the stairs beside her and looked at her hands, then held them open wide and shoot ice from her hands and she approached the stairs, so she would freeze them. Gerda smiled, then jumped on it sliding down at the first floor, then Gerda shrieked and pushed down a redheaded student and flenched her teeth in shock.

„I‘m sorry Nathaniel,“ Commented Gerda looking at the redhead scratch his head and look up at the girl bewildered from knowing his name. Gerda saw him not caring about what happened, then she ran out of the library and a few students got at the door to see the mysterious person, that had just run out of the library.

„I feel like I‘ve seen her before,“ Commented Kim making the blonde student shrug his shoulders watching the superheroine freeze the long stairs, to slide down on her back.

Rollan stood at the exit looking at the robot, which held the police car in his hands, then he whistled to catch the robot‘s attention.

„Hey! You have to pick someone who‘s worth your level!“ Shouted Rollan‘s alter ego, then he heard a whooshing sound and turned his head back to see the ice-themed superheroine come along. She had made herself a path to the exit with ice, where she was trying to slide on, but she ended up falling down on her front. Rollan got down on the ground to offer her his hand. She took his hand to get up, then tripped over the ice and hit her forehead on his nose, causing him to shake his head surprised at the mishap.

„Are you okay?“ Asked Rollan raising up the girl carefully, then looked into her blue eyes and got lost in them. „Que Hermosísimo...“ Commented Rollan making Gerda grin embarrassed at her slipping, then both turned around as they heard Sabrina cry about her father in danger.

„Have you got any idea?“ Asked Rollan. „I don‘t know, how I can get up there,“

„Maybe we should attack him from here,“ Suggested Gerda, then Rollan nodded and ran towards the supervillain, making Gerda drop her mouth. „What are you going to do?“ Asked Gerda watching the superhero move his arms back causing two fireballs on the hands, then jumped up and hit with them the feet of the supervillain, causing the metal of the feet to melt a little. Rollan looked up at the robot, which moved his feet hard yeeting Rollan across the air, so he would crash with his back against the wall of the school. Gerda ran at the superhero to check for him, then helped him sat up.

„Are you okay?“ Asked Gerda making him nod.

„Yah,“ Replied the brunette. „My fire isn‘t powerful enough to harm him,“

„I saw,“ Responded Gerda and looked at the supervillain, which used his other hand to open the door of the police car, then stopped as the policeman began to shot with his gun at him.

„I think I have an idea,“ Gerda said running at the robot then used her ice power to build around the feet of the robot ice and Rollan sat up observing her doing that. Rollan looked up at the robot, then at the schoolhouse, and had an idea, then run into the school building leaving Gerda alone trying to stop the villain with her ice power.

For a long while, Gerda continued using her ice power seeing she made it to froze the feet of the robot in it, then smiled as he didn‘t move his feet in it. Gerda raised her hand in victory, then the robot tried to pull out his right leg, making pressure on the ice, which began to decay, making Gerda wide her eyes as her plan didn‘t quite work well.

From above the schoolhouse, Gerda spotted Rena Rouge fly against the car, then catapult herself away from it, while pushing Roger Raincomprix out of the vehicle and she landed on the ground, followed by catching the heavy man almost bringing the heroine down on the ground.

„Gosh! Are you heavy!“ Complained Rena Rouge, then the supervillain broke out off the ice and Gerda ran in Rena‘s direction throwing ice at the supervillain to stop him, unsuccessfully.

„Sorry, we‘re new here,“ Gerda commented watching Rena Rouge drop the policeman on the ground, which ran to his daughter and shrieked as the robot dropped the police car over the two.

„Watch out!“ Shouted Rena Rouge then Gerda used her ice power causing a long bridge to appear over the Raincomprix‘s and it hit the bridge, causing it to break, making Gerda scream and before it fell on top of the family Ladybug showed up, coming from the school and used her yo-yo to pull them away, before getting hurt.

„Well done, Ladybug!“ Chanted Rena Rouge, then Ladybug pointed at the school court, where the two members ran into and Ladybug noticed the foreign girl and figured out, that she was wearing the ice miraculous.

„Where did you find that miraculous?“ Asked Ladybug pointing at the wreath.

„It‘s actually mine,“ Gerda responded. „Or it‘s very identical to the wreath I lost,“

„Look….“Ladybug commented, then she heard the shatter of a window, then looked up along with Gerda to see the fire-themed superhero jump out off the window against the supervillain, landing on the middle of his leg, then he used both hands to create a fireball and grabbed the iron of his leg to melt it.

Ladybug facepalmed, then watched Gerda use her ice power to freeze the leg of the villain, then she stopped as she saw the robot push Rollan off his leg into his doom, then Gerda quickly used her ice to freeze the villain‘s foot and Rollan landed on the ice, slipping against Gerda's arms, which caught him. The boy grinned abashedly, then got dropped to the ground as Ladybug approached the duo.

„I see both of you are new. Per coincidence, I already defeated this villain once. The main goal is getting into the head of the villain and destroy the car keys,“ Stated Ladybug, then she heard Cat Noir‘s staff and looked from above the houses behind the bakery to see the cat-themed superhero come along and land on the head of the supervillain, then he knocked on the head of the supervillain.

„Cou cou!“ Greeted Cat Noir gazing upside down into the cabin of the car to see the human, that was akumatized and used his staff to break the windshield, then the robot moved with his upper body hastily causing Cat Noir to fall off, then grab himself on the waist of the robot.

„How shall we get up without any help?“ Asked Gerda looking at Ladybug, then Rena Rouge had an idea and grabbed the girl on her shoulder.

„Follow me you two,“ Asked Rena Rouge switching from Gerda to Rollan, then both followed the fox-themed superheroine and Ladybug looked at her yo-yo, then threw it up to activate her lucky charm.

„Lucky charm!“ Shouted the heroine, then received a large ladder and chuckled about it. „Wow this is actually useful….in a way,“ Commented the spotted heroine, then looked around the place and noticed the car of the police agent lie broken in front of the stairs, then she had an idea and ran at the car to place the ladder over the car. Ladybug watched Cat Noir jump off the Autobot, landing on the ground, and observed the Autobot hit himself on the leg, making Cat Noir grin.

„You‘ve got a plan, bugaboo?“ Asked Cat Noir, then Ladybug pointed at the ladder.

„I had expected you to remain up on Apace there for a little longer and jump down at the ladder, but now I think you‘ve gotta do it in another way,“

„From above the school?“ Suggested Cat Noir, then heard the window of the school getting broken, then both looked up to see Rollan‘s superhero form fly towards the supervillain, getting closer to his head, beginning to distract him. „I wasn‘t aware he could do that,“ Cat Noir commented surprised making Ladybug chuckle.

„Rena is quite imaginative, isn‘t she?“ Asked Ladybug looking at Cat Noir, which then understood, Ladybug had already figured out it was an illusion. Rollan‘s alter ego jumped out off the window and Cat Noir jumped at the middle of the ladder and got on the top of it, making the ladder swank down and Rollan‘s landing on the other side catapulted Cat Noir up at the driver cabin, thereafter Cat Noir broke with his staff the side of the window, then blocked with it the driver and activated his cataclysm to destroy his car keys to reveal the akuma.

„Bingo!“ Cat Noir chanted, then the villain packed Cat Noir on his head, trying to hold him down, and moved his hand close to Cat Noir‘s hand.

„Why is it taking so long?“ Asked Rollan looking at Ladybug, which noticed Cat Noir‘s odd movements from down, then she looked up at the roof to see Rena Rouge and Gerda‘s alter ego.

„Hey, snowgirl! Jump down and help the fire guy up at the robot head to help Cat Noir out!“ Ordered Ladybug, then Gerda looked down at Rollan‘s alter ego, which waited for her to jump down. „Don‘t worry,“

„Come on, you‘ll do just fine. I trust you,“ Rollan said loud, then Gerda jumped down landing with her feet on the end of the ladder catapulting Rollan up on the robot, then he landed on top of Cat Noir and grabbed the hands of the villain to prevent him to remove the ring off Cat Noir‘s hands.

„What‘s the next plan?“ Asked Rollan, then Cat Noir moved his head to look at the villain trying to find another place, where an amok could be located eventually.

„Do you see here anything loose?“ Asked Cat Noir, then Rollan looked around noticing on the rearview mirror a religious necklace hanging on it. He then kept looking around the vehicle and glanced back at the mirror.

„What about the necklace on the mirror?“ Asked Rollan making the superhero nod.

„That must it be, destroy it,“ Ordered Cat Noir, then Rollan picked the necklace and pressed it tight together causing fire with his hands, so it would get pulverized by him, then a blue feather flew out off the broken windshield making Cat Noir smile. „Well done,“ Complimented Cat Noir and Rollan watched the feather fly out, then they heard Ladybug activate her healing light to restore everything back to normal and around the robot passed by her light and removed the robot, dropping the two superheroes on the ground. Rollan got confused, afterward looked around himself to see, what had happened and looked at Cat Noir.

"Is your hair really burning?" Asked Cat Noir looking at the rookie, which was checking the surroundings wondering, where the robot had gone.

„Where did the robot go?“ Asked Rollan. Cat Noir spotted the citizen, that had been de-akumatized appear on the ground and beside him stood a blue, American muscle car. Cat Noir got up and went down on his knees to check on the man.

„Did you get caught on another illegal race, Anthony?“ Asked Cat Noir making the man shake his head.

„Not really, but I broke the speed limit and got my license taken away. I actually deserved it anyway, but I have let the anger take over me,“ Explained the driver, then Rollan looked into the car to see the necklace on the mirror, then got down to the man as well.

„That necklace in there, I used to have one from my mother, but I‘ve lost it,“ Commented Rollan.

„I‘ve got it there as a lucky charm,“ Stated the driver. „But I should really keep the velocity down. Not because of my life, I could bring someone else in danger or even erase someone‘s life, who‘s most likely to be innocent,“

„We never know,“ Commented Cat Noir, then Rollan got up to approach Ladybug, Rena Rouge and Gerda‘s alter ego, then smiled at the girls.

„We‘re not quite the skilled heroes here,“ Commented Rollan. „I‘m not sure, how we got to be them or if we deserve it,“

„Actually I‘ve lost your two‘s miraculouses during my last fight and I needed to retrieve it, but you two were fighting without any hesitation and trying to help. I think I‘ll let you keep them. Now that Shadow Moth is stronger than before it would be really good to have more team members. This was your first time, you two will gain skills with the time,“

„Yes,“ Agreed Gerda looking at Rollan‘s alter ego, which smiled at her and bowed down at the girl.

„Have you two actually a name?“ Asked Rena. „You know a superhero one?“

„Exactly, no one has to know who our identity is. No one. This is most important, cause if Hawk Moth knows about our other identity, we and our family and friends will be in danger,“

„Sure,“ Responded Rollan.

„I promise,“ Gerda added.

„So, what‘s your hero name?“ Asked Ladybug. „Paris needs to know, who these two newbies are,“

„Well I would need to think about how I should call myself...something feminine,“ Stated Gerda while Rollan pondered about it.

„Fire King, I‘m Fire King,“ Stated Rollan making Ladybug smile.

„It does‘t have to be complicated. Something very simple like uhm….Ice Queen“ Suggested Ladybug making Rena chuckle.

„Or Frosty, Frosty-girl, Queen Frost…….Ice Frost….“ Suggested the Fire King making Gerda chuckle, then she figured out a name she could use.

„Hey, I think I‘ve got one…...What about, Lady Frost?“

„It‘s up to you, if you like it,“ Mentioned Ladybug earning a nod from Rena Rouge.

„I like it,“ Rena commented making Gerda smile.

„I find it suits you,“ Added Fire King earning a nod from the light blonde girl, then Ladybug lifted her fist up in the middle, then watched Cat Noir and Rena Rouge get beside the two and look at the two newbies. Rena Rouge moved her eyes calling the attention of the two rookies, which smiled and placed their one hand in the middle to do a group fist bump.

„Pound it!“ Said the group together, seconds later Fire King and Lady Frost repeated their sentence, then saw Cat Noir‘s ring beep.

„Oh excuse me, I gotta go, see you another time,“ Cat Noir said waving at the group.

„How long have you been superheroes if I may ask?“ Questioned Lady Frost watching Ladybug think about it.

„I think about two years, almost,“ Replied the blue-haired girl. „I‘ve got a lot of experience on my back. You two are new, inexperienced, and are probably new to us all. Eventually to each other as well. The more we work together in the future, the better you two get,“

„Thank you for your confidence, Ladybug,“ Commented Lady Frost giving the heroine her hand to shake, then saw Ladybug‘s earring beep.

„Oh I gotta go as well, before I transform back,“ Warned Ladybug earning a nod from Rena Rouge, which saluted at the duo and ran away. Ladybug used her yo-yo and swung away, disappearing behind the building and Fire King and Lady Frost looked at each other.

„Do we know each other?“ Asked Fire King making the ice-themed heroine shake her head.

„Probably not. I don‘t seem to recognize you,“ Responded Lady Frost making the brunette nod.

„I felt like I‘ve seen you before,“ Commented Fire King. „I don‘t know, maybe your eyes made me feel like I‘ve seen them before,“

Lady Frost chuckled, then patted the superhero on the shoulder.

„Probably just a coincidence. There are more people with blue eyes. Might just be a coincidence,“ Explained Lady Frost. „I have to go. We will see each other next time,“ Mentioned the blonde making the fire-themed superhero nod and watch the heroine ran into the school court. Fire King smiled enchanted as the heroine went upstairs and leaned his back against the railing of the school sighing.

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[alternativetwoie]

"Shoot" said Twoie, his voice neutral.

Amethydt didn't even have to think about the first question.

"How did you know where the Slinker was?"

It was simple and to the point, which isn't how Amethyst usually rolled. Twoie expected more than one question.

"I sent my mind out of my body, it's one of my abilities. Sense Chryso... I mean The Slinker, has a mind, it wasn't that hard to find" Twoie chastised himself mentally for that screw up. He literally didn't learn who Chrysocolla was until after he had already left Beach City, so it wasn't like they had some sort of special connection. It was simply that he liked calling Coreupted Gems by their Gem types to make them more comfortable.

Amethyst, didn't look like she liked that answer. Thankfully, she moved on anyway.

"Okay then, Question two. Why is this some big secret that you can do this?"

Also an easy answer.

"I didn't want Garnet or Pearl to make me use it to search for Peridot." Answered Twoie with a small shrug. Then he decided to elaborate. "How we catch her is honestly just as important as catching her. If we don't wait for certain events to happen, bad things happen"

This... was enough for Amethyst, at least for now. She could tell Twoie was holding things back, but that he trusted her enough to tell her that much made her a little happy.

Plus, she'd run out of questions.

(Prev/First/Next)

#time travel #AlternativeTwoieAU #steven universe #collapsedverse #twoie #19

[kaaramel]

prokopetz replied to your post: trying to scrape up four more arc-shaped pieces of...

Yes.

can’t argue with that

already established that steven’s trajectory through the movie is purple, and the show is pretty purple in general. here are my proposals

if anyone at home is just turning in, this is the eight-color narrative system introduced in jenna moran’s ttrpg Chuubo’s Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine, and the descriptions of each point of these five-point arcs are lifted/adapted from that game’s corebook.

blue - “catch and release” through “gem drill”

Establishes you as a person who works with wicked, forbidden, or dangerous things - Peridot, a skilled technician, claims special knowledge and is interrogated after her capture.

Because of that, someone needs your help, or there's something you must do - Peridot reveals information about the Cluster.

You enact a big, decisive plan - The core drill is planned and built.

You remake the world into something more like you think it ought to be - Peridot and Steven travel to the core and bubble the Cluster.

You explore the consequences of what you just did - The Earth is safe; Peridot grows closer to the Crystal Gems and the planet.

orange - “reformed”

You're figuring out who you want to be - Steven attempts to administer a personality quiz.

A vice of yours gets in the way - Amethyst refuses to confront her low self-esteem.

Something tries to change you or otherwise challenge your self-image - The Slinker repeatedly poofs Amethyst.

You try to make up for your mistakes - Amethyst attempts to reform into the things other people want from her.

You become something better than you were - Amethyst takes her time regenerating and accepts her friends’ support.

green - “chille tid” through “super watermelon island”

Dreams and otherworldly experiences connect you to some external power - Steven communicates with Lapis Lazuli and Jasper in his sleep.

The path you're on scares you; burdens you - Steven is broken up about not being able to help Lapis, and afraid of the damage Malachite could cause.

Something is devouring you; growing inside you; taking you over - In another dream, Steven accidentally inhabits the body of a Watermelon Steven and is sacrificed to Malachite.

You're lost to yourself. You aren't you any longer - Steven deliberately inhabits another Watermelon Steven to lead an army against Malachite.

You reconcile with someone or something you've been fighting - Malachite unfuses and Lapis Lazuli is recovered safely.

red - “mirror gem/ocean gem”

You've found something interesting and exciting - Steven is given a magical mirror.

You take charge; you're determined to do things your way - Steven refuses to return the mirror to the Crystal Gems when he discovers it has a personality.

You're confused, puzzled, or a little lost - Steven frees Lapis Lazuli from the mirror and isn’t sure what to do about it.

You transcend, rising above the world - Lapis Lazuli gathers Earth’s oceans into a tower to space, attempting to reach Homeworld. Steven ascends it to speak with her.

Katabasis - a descent into the underworld, a place of death, or the coast, literally or metaphorically - With Lapis’s departure, the tower collapses; Steven returns to Beach City.

yellow - “the good lars” through “off colors”

You struggle against something that's been holding you back - Lars tries to keep up the facade of an aloof jerk.

Something challenges your way of thinking - Steven befriends Lars and compliments the cooking skills he’d been hiding.

You’re dealing with stressful, bizarre, and confusing social situations - Lars stresses over his invitation to the Cool Kids’ potluck, which escalates quickly when he’s kidnapped by aliens.

An epic struggle against something terrifying and supernatural - Lars and Steven defy the Diamonds and escape from Steven’s trial.

You're lost in the dark - Lars and Steven wander the abandoned Kindergartens on Homeworld.

silver - jasper

Explores how you live with what you are - Jasper escorts Peridot to Earth.

Explores your expression with some person or problem - Jasper becomes fanatically dedicated to taking down Rose Quartz.

Puts you in an impossible situation and watches as you crack under the strain - Jasper is repeatedly defeated.

You face a brooding presence of the unnatural - Jasper captures and attempts to tame an army of Gem monsters, eventually fusing with one and corrupting herself.

You find answers or reach closure - Jasper is bubbled, and eventually healed.

black - rose/greg backstory

An ominous, portentious time; at the end, a miracle - I can’t prove that Greg’s pre-canon life was ominous and portentious but I also can’t prove it wasn’t. He plays a show to a nearly-empty audience and meets Rose Quartz.

A tempter tries to lure you from the path - Marty attempts to convince Greg to continue pursuing rock stardom, fame, and fortune.

Your life is rough, scary, and confusing - Rose doesn’t initially take the relationship seriously; Greg makes a plan and attempts to fuse with her, which doesn’t go exactly as planned, but they nevertheless grow closer.

You fall off your path entirely, into darkness - The specter of Rose’s past and the Gem war is inescapable.

You create a new miracle yourself - Steven is born.

#prokopetz #su #cmwge #text heavy

[birchbritches]

The Talk in the Tide 

ramshackle hackles up, tacked-on tacklebox at odds ad littoral, squirreler of wherewithal, squire-eyed sirer,   no sir, no sure paternals shore up, no horizon-hungry beach of eager runaway  where the waves gather eventualers into tide, no syntax, no disintegrating cup, no slinker thinking whether it should come ashore 

- B B Pine 

#poem #poetry

[stevenuniversallyreviews]

Episode 92: Monster Reunion

“I have to try.”

The tragedy of Nephrite is Steven Universe’s longest side story, beginning with the very first episode and concluding five years later in the final episode of the show’s original run. How we feel about Nephrite at any given time indicates how we’re made to feel about Corrupted Gems as a whole at that point in the show. After Gem Glow, they’re monsters of the week. After Monster Buddies, they’re innocent but violent victims of...something. And after Monster Reunion, we know what that something is.

Ninety-two episodes in, we know of Yellow and Blue Diamond. We know they’re part of a a group called Great Diamond Authority, acting as Gem Matriarchs. We’ve seen an artistic representation of a third Diamond on the Moon Base. We’ve seen a four-part symbol with a white, yellow, blue, and pink diamond united as one. We got a hint of their musical cue as the Gems abandoned Earth in a flashback. And because the Diamonds are in charge, we also know that they’re responsible for some terrible things, from the forced fusion of Gem Shards to seeking of destruction of planets not only for reproduction, but revenge. The information is dripping in, and these Gems are shaping up to be the villains of the series, and thanks to that knowledge, all it takes is one sketch to emphasize their most heinous crime.

This is the episode where the horror of corruption sinks in, in the same way Keeping It Together reveals the horror of Cluster Gems. The Mother Centipeetle was a monster, and Centi was a pet, but this version trying desperately to communicate before she loses her sanity again is a person. She has memories spanning millennia but was trapped by her mind and her body by her own leaders. After a string of Beach City episodes with purely personal stakes, Monster Reunion’s depiction of a personal struggle representing an atrocity affecting a planet’s worth of Gems hits like a freight train. This isn’t just something the Diamonds did to their enemies: Nephrite, alongside countless other Corrupted Gems caught in the crossfire, was loyal to Homeworld, but that meant nothing.

Between the Cluster Gems and the Corrupted Gems, the Diamonds prove that they’re not content with just destroying the bodies of their opponents, but the souls of anyone that inconveniences them. We’ll learn a bit more about it in Nephrite’s fourth episode, Legs from Here to Homeworld, where it seems this corruption was unintentional (or at least unknown by Blue and Yellow Diamond), but Monster Reunion galvanized me against the Diamonds in a way no other episode has, and it does this by giving us a single, concrete character to sympathize with.

This is the second time this season Raven Molisee and Paul Villeco have given Steven an extensive conversation with an entity incapable of full communication, but unlike Gem Drill, Nephrite allows these artists to fully utilize their gift for character animation to tell their story. Molisee’n’Villeco episodes are distinguished by more exaggerated expressions than usual (see: the first act of Coach Steven, the climax of Rose’s Scabbard, Amethyst throughout Reformed, Steven-as-Lars in The New Lars), and that makes all the difference in enhancing our ability to relate with a growling alien cyclops bug. We don’t need words to tell us when Nephrite is scared, happy, curious, angry, or sad (we don’t even need tears to tell us that last one, but oof are they effective), and we’re able to empathize with her on a primal level thanks to her vivid expressions.

The other half of the Nephrite formula is master vocalist Dee Bradley Baker, who’s already performed as every Corrupted Gem in the series, as well as Lion. Baker’s prolific ability to give life to non-human characters make him virtually impossible to overrate, and he uses that gift to convey comprehensible communication from Nephrite with nothing but chirps and squawks. This is so much more effective than the cacophony of voices from the Cluster, allowing for an actual conversation of sorts between Steven and Nephrite. 

This would be a very different episode if Nephrite was still just Centi from Monster Buddies, and we have Molisee, Villeco, and Baker to thank. It’s not enough to feel bad for an animal in pain again: we need to see, for lack of a better term, the human suffering of it all. And I feel so bad for this woman who doesn’t even get to have a real name for another sixty-one episodes.

The conversation itself centers around a terrific use of flashback. As Steven reminds Nephrite (and the audience, because it’s been a while since Monster Buddies) of their history, we get depictions of the past that fully resemble Steven’s experiences. But Nephrite can’t talk, so we don’t even get the simplified silhouettes that accompanied stories from Garnet in The Answer or Lapis in Same Old World. We get crayons and stick figures, the most childish means of communicating, that slowly gain animation as the story picks up. 

Steven’s narration is a constant reminder that Nephrite doesn’t have a voice of her own, and that we’re getting bits and pieces of what actually happened. She can still sing along with him in her own way, and performs a flawless diamond salute, but can’t tell Steven the name of her commander, or how she felt about her crew, or any actual tales of the war. Honestly the most telling image is Nephrite’s very first picture, revealing that she sees herself as herself despite having never met Steven in that body. This is a sentient person, and we’re made to understand that before she reverts to a monster.

Allowing her to reunite with her crew is a brilliant move, because the show needs her to lose, but it would be unspeakably cruel to not give her anything in the process. We don’t get a happy ending, but we don’t wallow in bleakness either, and that’s a hard needle to thread when the subject matter is this horrendous. There are certainly real-world analogues to Nephrite’s plight, namely dementia and PTSD, but Monster Reunion benefits from being ultra-specific to the show’s lore instead of focusing on the same sort of allegory they did in Kiki’s Pizza Delivery Service and will do in Alone at Sea. When the lead character can’t talk and we’re dealing with this much character and plot work, going for a lesson beyond the general value of mercy would’ve probably made the episode collapse.

This is a fascinating episode in regards to Steven’s maturity, because beyond the use of crayons, he goes hard on the cute angle to manipulate the Crystal Gems in a way that seems to undermine his growing maturity; for reference, we’re an episode away from a story about the aftermath of abusive relationships. This childishness is especially interesting when you consider this is where he gets his healing powers back, a sign of his growing power. We see him casually float up to grab Nephrite’s bubble, and he’s an old pro at warping without assistance. All signs point to this being a more developed Steven than his puppy-dog eyes might indicate, and that might be the point.

I don’t want to speak to the writers’ intent given how far away Pool Hopping is, but Garnet’s inability to properly predict the future here is caused by the same problem she has in that episode: she’s seeing the likely outcomes of a Steven who’s still a child. True, there’s also the matter of all three of his guardians reverting to a lighter version of their stubbornness from Monster Buddies given their bias against Corrupted Gems, but I can’t help but think that Garnet would’ve been cool with the outcome we get had she seen it coming. It’s understandable that she might not have been able to predict Steven’s capacity to help, and that the only outcome of freeing Nephrite was mutual suffering.

We’re past the halfway point in Season 3, and are thus nearing the conclusion of the show’s second fifty-odd episode chunk. Major plot elements are winding down in anticipation of the life-altering story that Rose Quartz shattered Pink Diamond, and one of them is the idea of Steven acting like a little kid. This is the last time we’re going to see him act this way at length, even as a ploy, because even though he’s still a kid in Season 4 and beyond, he’s a young teenager who actually feels like a teenager somewhat consistently.

We also get a subtle premonition of Amethyst’s imminent focus, as she’s twice admonished by Pearl for making fun of Nephrite even though she’s not making fun of Nephrite either time. The feuding days of Amethyst and Pearl are long over, but there’s still a power dynamic between them that Monster Reunion quietly reignites. And Garnet is still in charge, ordering Amethyst to poof Nephrite in a way that’s frankly a bit uncharacteristic. Maybe it’s because we haven’t seen an actual fight with the three Gems working as an unfused team since Catch and Release (heck, we haven’t seen a fight against a Corrupted Gem since the Slinker in Reformed, unless you count the big crab in Rising Tides, Crashing Skies), but it sounds strange for Garnet to give a direct attack command. Amethyst is shown here to be the lowest-ranking Crystal Gem, not counting Steven, and this means everything to the season’s final arc.

There are certain things I would’ve loved to see as a fan thirsty for information, namely an actual translation of Nephrite’s writings. But it’s not as if we don’t get the picture(s) from her "conversation” with Steven, and eleven minutes isn’t enough time to tell this story and inject worldbuilding through text. It’s frustrating to not have all the answers, and a common complaint of Steven as a character is his lack of follow-up questions, but in this case he clearly knows the gist, and there’s no reason to think he couldn’t have gotten Pearl to translate offscreen if he was still interested.

So I’m glad we instead got a searing character-centric story that hurts enough that I almost never watch this episode. It takes a while, and it nearly costs Steven everything, but thank goodness we finally get justice for Nephrite.

Future Vision!

Our next chapter in Nephrite’s story is Legs from Here to Homeworld, where we finally learn that she’s a nephrite, that her commander was a hessonite, and that Blue and Yellow Diamond might not have been as intentionally malicious as we thought despite the abominable consequences. It’s crazy how important Nephrite ends up being, essentially paving the way for the Diamonds to begin reforming through Steven wanting to cure her and other Corrupted Gems.

Steven’s desire to write “I’m sorry” in Gem Scribble as he looks at the image of three diamonds, with hindsight, seems to indicate some subconscious knowledge of his indirect culpability in Nephrite’s corruption. Or he doesn’t at all and it’s just a coincidence.

Nephrite uses a white crayon to depict the Corruption Song, indicating White Diamond’s greater responsibility, and ultimately White Diamond’s key role in healing the damage.

We’re the one, we’re the ONE! TWO! THREE! FOUR!

Monster Reunion isn’t an episode I love to watch, because I don’t love to watch depictions of unbearable anguish, but it’s still an episode I love. Like Cry For Help, its sheer quality makes up for my infrequent rewatching.

Top Fifteen

Steven and the Stevens

Hit the Diamond

Mirror Gem

Lion 3: Straight to Video

Alone Together

The Return

Jailbreak

The Answer

Sworn to the Sword

Rose’s Scabbard

Mr. Greg

Coach Steven

Giant Woman

Beach City Drift

Winter Forecast

Love ‘em

Laser Light Cannon

Bubble Buddies

Tiger Millionaire

Lion 2: The Movie

Rose’s Room

An Indirect Kiss

Ocean Gem

Space Race

Garnet’s Universe

Warp Tour

The Test

Future Vision

On the Run

Maximum Capacity

Marble Madness

Political Power

Full Disclosure

Joy Ride

Keeping It Together

We Need to Talk

Chille Tid

Cry for Help

Keystone Motel

Catch and Release

When It Rains

Back to the Barn

Steven’s Birthday

It Could’ve Been Great

Message Received

Log Date 7 15 2

Same Old World

The New Lars

Monster Reunion

Like ‘em

Gem Glow

Frybo

Arcade Mania

So Many Birthdays

Lars and the Cool Kids

Onion Trade

Steven the Sword Fighter

Beach Party

Monster Buddies

Keep Beach City Weird

Watermelon Steven

The Message

Open Book

Story for Steven

Shirt Club

Love Letters

Reformed

Rising Tides, Crashing Tides

Onion Friend

Historical Friction

Friend Ship

Nightmare Hospital

Too Far

Barn Mates

Steven Floats

Drop Beat Dad

Too Short to Ride

Restaurant Wars

Kiki’s Pizza Delivery Service

Enh

Cheeseburger Backpack

Together Breakfast

Cat Fingers

Serious Steven

Steven’s Lion

Joking Victim

Secret Team

Say Uncle

Super Watermelon Island

Gem Drill

No Thanks!

     5. Horror Club      4. Fusion Cuisine      3. House Guest      2. Sadie’s Song      1. Island Adventure

(No official promo art, but artist Jonathan Traynor's haunting sketch does just fine.) 

#monster reunion #steven universe #su #steven universally #review

[fabulousroy]

Shut up Heather

Kamukura Kamukura Yas Queen!

STOP CALLING ME BABY GANGSTA!

This entire disscusion is idiotic...

INFINITY UNLIMITED FLAME!

Gentlemen not chuck dead bodies!

It's a lie!

OHHHHHHHH, YESSSSSSSS!

NYEH HEH HEH HEH!

HOi!

Knock 'em dead, darling!

You idiot

Would you smooch a ghost?

Smells like angry fish

Smells like Mettaton

SNAIL ICE CREAM

THAT DOG IS A BOMB!

Determination

Ruby could not

You CLOD!

WOMP WHOMP

It's funny how dumb you are

I am an eternal flame, baby

I di'nt write that

We've got a slinker to slink

Keep Beach City weird!

You're a novelty, at best

Sleep is a curse, and yet a curse I need to live. -Steven Universe

Clods!

Did I just die and go to the back of a cereal box?

What's the point of corn?!

That will be all.

Bingo Bongo!

CONNIE I'M BALD

You so clumsy girl!

Lions and tigers and bears! Oh my!

Toto too!

Not thowing away my shot!

And Peggy!

HAMILTON WROTE THE OTHER 51

It's...PUNISHMENT TIIIME!

My femininity is, Hella Boss!

EH! Pesky bee!

A little baby pigeon...

Sometimes puppet shows are sad

Jesus I can't spell

Jusk Monika

It's from Japan

My grandfather's nose was blown off in the war, so that song is a fiLTHY LIE.

She can't get her boobs into the hamburger.

Okay... they're IN the hamburger.

I wish he'd shoot ME with his ray gun.

Horse is not for standing!

Pizza's for me, silly

Get? Got it? Good!

I LIKE PIIEE!

You like pain? Try wearing a corset.

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!!

I'm glad you stole those shoes and threw them on my head.

If you don't think you shouldn't talk.

We have our heading.

I like those moments. I like to wave at them as they pass by.

Savvy.

I got a jar of diirrt! I got a jar of diirrt! And guess what's insiide it!

Why are we going away from the land?

Somewhere over the rainbow

We walk from here.

I EXPLODED!

Life is short, but death is super long.

It's from the store.

Meat on the bone!

Who gave him a knife?!

FALSEHOOD

Serious people wear neckties.

Raising the stakes by punching a baby.

Now I really love creepy old guys!

Uh oh, feelings.

That's why I've been feeling more confused than beverage.

Oh, look it's a broadway bug.

SUCKSYES!

I got a little makeup on your pillow

This kite is broken

Babygirl, don't ever eat lunch on the john

PEACE OFF!

Ice cream hurts

You're hurting your burrito.

You made friends with real people, not maps.

Hey! Be quiet so we can ignore you!

Isn't that right, Leon!?

11037

S'waaah!?

Okaaay, I'm not the culprit...

Nee-heehee!

I hate lies and jokes! ...Just kidding! I lied again!

Wuzza wuzza?

Love! Love!

No! That's wrong!

The killer is: you!

Maybe if I ignore him, he'll just go away...

Talk about eye candy

Next thing we knew, we were searching the school for two missing dead bodies.

Bingo bazinga!

Graar!

Don't lose hope now!

Guac. I like that word.

I'm the donut lord you son of a- HUGHUH

EVERYBODY WHO SOLD DRUGS TO UNDERCOVER COPS IS BUSTED!

When you love somebody, you put your pants on for them

TWENTY. EIGHT. STAB WOUNDS

Scrap that, reverse it.

GOOD DAY SIR

As if!

It does NOT say RSVP on the statue of liberty!

Oh, for the love of carbs

I can cure sex cancer

This is modern feminism talkin

I expect to run the world in shoes I cannot walk in

DanNY DAVITO I love your wooork!

Be a doll and spare the lecture

Being young and female doesn't mean that I'm an easy mark

I've been swimming with piranhas and don't need a shark

Yeah I'm a part of this too I dont get it but I'm a part of it!

Heart-pounding excitement!

Huh? You're not going to feed me?

Does anybody want a peanut?

Inconceivable!

You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen

I'm not a witch, I'm your wife!

Beef, pork, chicken, mmmmm

Only a coward threatens women

Ha-wa-wa!?

I have candy

A fire that didn't need to be started has turned into a towering inferno

The sun is a deadly laser

Not anymore there's a blanket

You heard me, we're doing things like Battle Royale in here! Or Hunger Games if you prefer...you frickin weirdo

CAAAAAARRRLLLL

I'm not a gypsy, I'm a pastry chef

If Jesus can walk on water, can he swim on land?

Bro-e was seriously moe

A way that involved tucking

I popped the weasel!

In Zootopia, anyone can be anything!

Imagine seating a sandwich, but everyone just thinks you're crazy

Acca-scuse me?

It's kind of explodey for a night out

How about I let you lick my shoes for a minute and we call it a day?

Heaven slaying dragon fist!

I second that cuz she said it!

That pretty much saved my bacon

Please do not compare reality to contact lenses!

Oh darn, you're not in a coma

And now here I am, in Towa City, neutralizing demonic teddy bears with my friend, Toko

Yeah, sorry. Still a dude!

It's...probably best if I don't run my hands all over a girl's dead body...

Ohana means family

Blue punch buggy! No punch back!

Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw!

It's little, and broken, but still good. Ya, still good.

Did you ever see a elephant fly?

Trust me, if I wanted to cut your face off I soooo would have done it already.

Hey, that's one dog to another eh?

Best of wives and best of women

Beep beep Richie

You're only in trouble if you get caught

There's a kid outside that looks like someone killed him

You'll float too

Placebo means bullshit

You lied and then I died

Come play with us Danny

Danny's not here Mrs. Torrence

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

REDRUM

Heeeres Johnny!

If you're going to judge, you can do it through the glass on that door

I like to express myself through emojis because I'm stupid

Welcome to the losers club, asshole!

Blue stop signs

My list of quotes so far

[ringozonepodcast]

Welcome to Episode 96 of The Ringo Zone!

Kayla here, and today’s episode is a grand production of The New Crystal Gems; a surprisingly well plotted out episode featuring half the Ringo hosts opening it up by impersonating the other half. We discuss general Steven Universe news, the likelihood that Garnet actually asked Peridot and Lapis to guard Beach City, the possible whereabouts of The Slinker, how disinteresting the plot of this episode is, possible future Peridot fusions, and to nicely round it all out I talk about my secret desire to be the voice actor for safety announcements.

Thank you for tuning in, we all really appreciate your continued listenership. You can find other Ringo Zone stuff as well as previous episodes on our Tumblr and Facebook pages. Our official website will be back up shortly. You can also search for The Ringo Zone on iTunes, Stitcher, SoundCloud, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Find us, like us, rate us, reblog us, tell us about your most recent LARP experiences, and most importantly tell your friends about us! Exposure really does help us out.

This episode featured Sabboth, Max, and myself. The next episode will probably be Storm in the Room.

#the ringo zone #podcast #steven universe #the new crystal gems

[blog-usemamesaretricky]

My Prediction for The New Crystal Gems

Haven’t seen any of the previews, this was a guess I made right after the StevenBomb. Doubt it’s right (looking back it’ll probably be more lighthearted after such an intense series of episodes), but here it is anyways:

Involves having a sleepover in the barn and watch some old movies

Lapis is passive to saving the Earth, Connie is scared but otherwise ready, and Peridot is utterly terrified but takes her mission seriously

While they’re pretty sure nothing will happen, while Amethyst was getting supplies, the Slinker got out and is roaming Beach City (kind of a horror themed segment, where it’s like an old 50s B Movie)

The three go out to try and discover the mystery. Peridot keeps getting poofed, Lapis could care less, and Connie feels helpless

[ganymedesclock]

Hello! Big fan of your theories! Got a question regarding some corrupted gems. After Jasper gets de-corrupted and Centi who do you think could be next in line for the de-corruption process? Also do you think the corrupted gems that didn't get bubbled i.e. Watermelon and Slinker will come back for round 2 if they didn't get poofed and bubbled off screen in a future episode?

I believe Watermelon Tourmaline was bubbled offscreen at the end of Beach Party, because as I recall, she was in fact poofed, and it would be an odd oversight of the Gems to leave her to regenerate.

That said, I don’t think corruption is necessarily going to be a one-size fits all solution, as much as something that takes time and a bond of trust, which I feel like is going to be the main thing emphasized with Jasper- Steven could make headway with Centi because Centi had no particular grudge against him, and, given a neutral context, she even made the first move towards peaceful interactions by choosing to regenerate smaller.

It’s entirely possible Steven, with his well-meaning but occasionally flawed desire to just reach out and fix things for people, might try to push healing on Jasper since she’s in less of a state to be able to resist it- or might feel pressured to at least play along because being blinded and moved somewhere by the Crystal Gems is not good and as much as she’d hate the idea of asking ‘Rose’ for help, she might accept some healing just to the point where she feels like she can get her bearings and potentially break out.

Either way, I think what Steven is going to find is that his powers don’t really work without a connection already in place. Because if it was just command of healing powers, one would expect Rose, who had much better control and experience with her powers than Steven, would have been able to just blink away corruption effortlessly, but she wasn’t. 

So the fact that Steven and Jasper both to some degree made progress where Rose didn’t, what do they have that she didn’t?

Jasper interacted largely with corrupted quartz Gems. These were fallen soldiers whose lives were marked very hard by the war. Basically, as much as Jasper doesn’t want to actively admit it, she has a visceral empathy with these guys- enough that they were able to fuse. We even see that the harsh language she spouts at her ‘army’ is rhetoric she also leverages against herself.

And Steven’s basic underlying motivation of his character is understanding other people. 

So how I think corruption is gonna be fixed is through a point of understanding, which means it’s very likely that Steven is going to proceed unevenly through healing the corrupted Gems as he’s able to get pieces of context that they came from and understand who they are. As they recover, and possibly as Steven’s dreamwalking and empathic abilities grow stronger, the corrupted Gems themselves can be able to help tell their story.

I still personally like the idea that as Steven turns his attitude more towards “we shouldn’t just be keeping them in bubbles like this” as we saw him start towards in Monster Reunion, that people of Beach City might get involved in corrupted Gem rehabilitation- it makes sense because Steven would probably initially run himself ragged trying to deal with all or even a major chunk of the corrupted Gems in one area when I doubt any of them want to be all crammed together like that, and sure maybe someone like Lars wouldn’t be immediately moved with “of course I’ll help Steven, you poor soul :(” but I can’t help but feel like if you showed Lars one of the quartz dogs he would find that a pretty compelling argument.

#Steven Universe #corruption #theory

[aeridanus]

The sketch page which also had the raw version of the first "sand slinker" image. I'm not sure whether I like smooth and shiny or smooth and matte skin better. Maybe there's both?

Those sketches came after a series of doodles revolving around Goal, and I started to think about the reasons behind his looks and which came first. Some drawing and worldbuilding groove, yay! :)

#headworld #sketches #tenebra versa #fuerteventura #beach slinker #phantasms

[aeridanus]

Added some color to another sketchbook page of the beach slinker. It's fun to stay loose and not getting lost in detail :)

In general, I feel that I took a certain amount of stress-disordery-affliction from my old workplace. It slowly starts to surface, but it's not surprising and I know how to deal with it. Thanks, game industry, I guess? ^^'

I didn't do any sports the entire year because of the stress (which should have been a wake-up call sooner), so all my gainz are gone and I packed on several pounds of nice stress-eater fat instead. Nothing insurmountable, but it's going to take consistent work until next year to get some basic fitness back. We'd like to return to Fuerteventura late January or early February, so that's going to be my goal date.

On the contrary, I had some first onboarding calls with my new employer and the contrast is difficult to put into words. I feel respected and wanted in my position, no sexist bullshit to deal with, and the key people I talked to were a joy to listen to. Please please please, end of bullshit phase :´-)

#headworld #sketches #phantasms #tenebra versa #beach slinker #fuerteventura

[aeridanus]

Had some more chill time with leisurely coloring sketchbook pages. It's Goal and some derived ideas, I'm thinking about expanding his "lore" with some more darker shit that went down during the Lodger War phase of the Tenebra Versa headworld part.

#headworld #sketches #tenebra versa #phantasms #beach slinker #goal