#because OBVIOUSLY they’re the traitor but it’s so fucking funny at the same time

[lollytea]

No because I seriously think about Hunter joining the Hexsquad during season one all the time. Just… randomly being apart of their hijinks. He has no reason to be there and he won’t admit that they’re friends but sure he’ll tag along to Grom with everyone. Running commentary with Gus on the sidelines during the grudgby game. Awkwardly pretending he doesn’t know Luz and Willow and Gus at the end of S1. Joining them afterwards because he’s pitted against Belos when Eda was almost killed, and hey he has a support system now, so he leaves (unrealistic I know). Enrolling at hexside at the beginning of S2 and ONE WEEK in he gets expelled and he’s just like “are you fucking with me right now.” I think about this so much.

"ARE YOU FUCKING WITH ME RIGHT NOW" THIS IS SO FUNNY, Odalia fucking nerfed him right out of the gate.

But okay okay what if. what if.

AU where everything is the same except after Luz enrolls in Hexside the Golden Guard is stationed at the school to keep an eye on her. (Belos is very interested in the Human's presence on the Isles.) There's obviously some cover story about monitoring the staff and student body for legal magic usage but Luz is absolutely his main priority.

But it's like. This job is so fucking boring. He can't just follow Luz from class to class without arousing suspicion and Bump requested that he sit in on less classes because he has a tendency open his mouth and just completely take over the lesson from the teacher and there have been a lot of complaints from the staff about him. So he's mostly resigned to slinking around the hallways and the courtyard.

But like. EVENTUALLY, he starts having these short casual interactions with Luz, and by extension the people she surrounds herself with. Just cuz he gets bored and there's nothing suspicious about a little chitchat. And at first Willow and Gus are starstruck and Amity tries to impress him, hoping he'll send a good word to the Emperor’s Coven about her. But after a while they just. Get used to his presence. While he starts magnetizing towards them more and more. He'll occasionally drop in on the four of them gathered around the stairs and be like "sup" and they're like "oh hey GG, do you want half of my sandwich?"

They still never see his face, they still never learn his name and it is ABSOLUTELY seperate Tides era GG!Hunter that we're dealing with here. The one who's got all this cockiness and bravado that comes from the mask. He's hanging around for most season 1 adventures that are hexside related. He goes to grom with them, he sticks around for the whole grudgby thing etc. If you asked Luz, Amity, Willow and Gus about it they'd be like "yeah he's our buddy :)"

Hunter, meanwhile, SWEARS that he only hangs out with them due to boredom. He thinks they're alright but he doesn't have any special attachment to any of them. But unfortunately, he is Hunter who has a tendency to become ride-or-die towards anyone who is nice to him. However, the beauty of the mask and uniform is that it makes him a lot better at hiding most of his emotions. He's air of indifference towards them is extremely convincing.

But also Hunter is still deeply linked to Belos and due to his relationship with the other kids not being exactly intimate, he still doesn't really have the strength (or the desire) to break away from his Coven. So he is still very firmly on the Emperor's side.

The fucking. Petrification of Eda incident.

Scout: Sir, there are some kids in town spouting anti-monarchist speech to a crowd

Hunter: What kind of idiots would do that?

*heads into town to find Willow and Gus up on a stage*

Hunter: OH NO THOSE ARE MY IDIOTS

And then. After Lilith is branded as a traitor, Hunter is promoted to Coven Head. So he's removed from his hexside duty because he now has more pressing matters to deal with. But it puts a bit of a rift between his relationship with Luz and the others, as Hunter is still fundamentally loyal to Belos and he takes his new position very seriously.

The events of Seperate Tides still happens, the only difference being that Luz is like "What the heck, man?? I thought we were friends??"

"You thought wrong :)"

All the other Hunter centric episodes happen, there's just an added familiarity between him and the other kids, making his actions against them way more personal.

[traitordenki]

Me: yeah lmao we already know who the traitor is like logically speaking there’s only one choice for the traitor so I won’t even be surprised when the traitor finally gets revealed

BNHA 335 leaks: here’s the traitor!!

Me:

#spoilers in tags!! #like I’m crying laughing #because OBVIOUSLY they’re the traitor but it’s so fucking funny at the same time #like horikoshi truly said ‘yeah I see your theories. it’s gonna be the most obvious one no matter what’ #like don’t get me wrong traitor kaminari lives on in my heart but cjxjxjhx #yeah of course the traitor turned out to be hagakure I mean what the fuck #hagakure #bnha #bnha spoilers #bnha 335 #nat rambles

[otvlanga]

Would you be willing to write more for ralis? Or teldryn? Or revyn sadri??? 👀

Yess I’ll definitely writing more for Ralis and Teldryn soon. I haven’t done Revyn Sadri yet though so here u go! Sorry it took a while. (I literally had no clue that many people actually loved him as much as I do)

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He was married once to a pretty Dunmer woman when he was much younger, and much more naive to the ways of the world. They had hardly been courting for a few months before rushing to the Temple of Mara to be wed, tipsy on cheap Dunmer liquor and the rush of puppy-love. Their marriage lasted for a good decade, with Revyn absolutely head over heals for his beautiful wife within the first year. However, the entire relationship ended in shambles when Revyn heard along the grapevine that his wife was sleeping with other men. He was absolutely crushed and immediately confronted her, shouting and sobbing. He demanded they separate, despite her protests and insistence that she was never disloyal to him; he wouldn’t listen. and They had a quick, messy divorce, and never heard from each other again. The guilt chewed him up from the inside for years. To this day he isn’t sure if he was really right about her infidelity, and as a result, he presently struggles with a lot of self-doubt, and a slight fear of confronting people when he’s not sure if he’s right. He’s not a bitch though, if he knows that other person’s wrong then he’ll say whatever he damn well pleases.

He can be very impulsive at times, in a chaotic good way. He’s always trying to do the right thing, and stands on the side of helping others. He’s jumped into the middle of fights in between Dunmer and Nords in the grey Quarter, trying to pull them apart and stop anyone from hurting eachother, even if it meant he’d go home that night with bruises or a chipped tooth. He’s told off parents on the streets that were yelling at or striking their children, even if he knew it meant he might be the one getting yelled at or hit instead for butting into people’s business. He’ll  immediately holler for the guards and chase after a thief if he sees them steal something, even if he has no weapon to defend himself with when they fight back against him trying to detain them. His slight fear of confrontation flies out the window when he’s absolutely sure he’s doing the right thing, his morals won’t allow him to sit and watch as bad things happen. Even if it works against him, he’ll gladly take it knowing he did the right thing and made a difference in a world where evil brews in every cauldron and burns in every hearth.

He’s a very patient and mellow man. You’ll probably only hear him raise his voice once or twice a year when it isn’t necessary. However, even the most dormant of volcanoes will blow up eventually, and he’s no exception to that. He’s a  family man through and through, and will absolutely throw hands without question if a loved one is threatened or hurt. Doesn’t matter if his spouse is the legendary Dragonorn of legend, he’ll punch a creepy perv in the face for touching them without consent. He’ll fight the parents of the kids that bully his kids, he doesn’t give a fuck. When the disrespect for his family shows, the gloves come off. Even if he is kinda scrawny.  (look I know he doesn’t seem like he’d ever hit someone, but there’s just something so funny about a skinny little shop keeper absolutely wrecking someone for being an asshole to his family. it just makes me smile)

Gardening is his favorite hobby. He loves plants of all kinds, and has as many in pots that he can fit in his house. His yard probably has tons of flowers, and overgrown bushes and trees that the Jarl always tries to get him to chop down, because the roots ruin the foundations of surrounding buildings. He’s a mushy romantic guy at heart, and would probably clip fresh flowers from his garden for his s/o every week

He makes some really good soup and stew. He’s alright when it comes to cooking roasts and other types of food, but it’s really the soup and stew where his talent shines. He’s lived alone in his shop for a long while, and the winters in Windhelm are brutal. Putting a good chicken stew over the fire to simmer for a few hours keeps his home toasty warm longer than roasting a pheasant or goat haunch would. He knows a handfull of traditional Dunmer recipes as well, even if he’s been away from his homeland for so long. Him and Ambarys don’t get along so well, but they try their best to set aside their differences to prepare a feast together at the Cornerclub on Dunmerer holidays.

There’s a handful of Dunmer in the Grey Quarter who don’t like him, simply because he doesn’t hate the Nords like they do. He’s friendly to everyone who enters his shop, and will sell and buy from them no matter if they’re a Dunmer, Nord, Altmer, etc. He’s been accused of being a “sympathizer” and “traitor’ by some of his neighbors. Most of these rumors are spread by Ambarys. They were close friends in the past, but had a petty falling out over Revyn giving his last bit of gold to a Nord woman to get a carriage home to Whiterun after she was robbed. She had said she came to visit the Temple of Talos, but got stuck up in an alley by a cloaked man, and he stole her coin purse and her jewelry. Ambarys scolded Revyn for “being so easily fooled”, claiming that the woman was obviously lying to him just to make a fool out of a naive Dunmer for her own entertainment. Revyn was having none of that, and told Ambarys that if he had so little room in his heart for people in need, then he didn’t want a spot for himself in it. Revyn knows his people have been wronged, and abused, and shunned by the Nord people, but he refuses to admit defeat to the bad people in the world, and allow himself to believe they’re all bad. He’s an optimist like that. 

He’s always willing to support someone if they’re upset or angry. He’s got a real talent for talking people down from yelling fits of rage, and comforting people bawling their eyes out until they don’t feel the need to cry anymore. He’s a total optimist, and refuses to let anyone shit on their own future before it even happens. He’s a firm believer in “good thoughts bring good things” and always advises people to surround themselves in good energy, and project it to others if they want to receive the same. Likewise, he understands that a positive outlook won’t fix everything, and is never opposed to hugging someone for as long as they need it, or lying in bed with his s/o in his arms when they’re having a terrible day. 

#revyn sadri #ambarys #dunmer #dark elf #skyrim #headcanons #skyrim headcanons #tes #elder scrolls #tesv

[hopeymchope]

How would you rank the 18 Class Trials from THH, DR2, and V3 from worst to best?

This is... virtually impossible for me, lol. Comparing the trials from each game to each other?

How about I just rank them within each game? That'll make it a little easier for me to deal with...

DR1

6) 5th. It's driven by lies and ultimately rushed to its end before the characters can draw any solid (pointless/meaningless) conclusions. So of course it's last for this game, and it’s probably last for the entire series as well. If there are any saving graces to this trial, it’s the surprise when your closest ally is willing to let our protagonist die... and that this trial contains the fake/bad ending route.

5) 3rd. Although the main culprit is pretty obvious from the jump, it requires some surprising twists to explain how everything got to be the way it turned out. But did I always find those twists plausible? Errrrm... not really. 

4) 2nd. Pretty good trial that's hurt for me by the fact that there'd barely be any need for a trial at all if a certain third party didn't dick around with the evidence for no reason. Also, the dual nature of Toko is an incredibly predictable reveal. Without those two aspects dragging it down, though, this could easily go higher.

3) 1st. Sure, the major hint given and, subsequently, the eventual culprit are pretty obvious, but this one establishes so much about how the trials work and how much the details you observe will matter that it’s still pretty fun that first time around. The initial surprise of the first victim makes for a great way to keep you invested in the trial experience. This trial is damn near iconic now, so it feels almost mandatory to respect it.

2) 6th. DR1 still has the best "final trial,” easily. SO MANY great reveals, and they all totally work for me. Nothing rings false or disappointing, and it also features Makoto finally coming into his own and taking the lead. I nearly labeled this my top pick for DR1, but...

1) 4th. It's easily the most emotionally dramatic/satisfying for me, and there’s something weirdly inspirational for me about Hina’s incredibly harsh stance during it. This one GOT ME IN THE FEELS, and in part that was because I saw so little of it coming. After the more predictable elements of the first and third trials, this felt like the writing was firing on all cylinders. 

DR2

6) 2nd. You have to accept a couple leaps of logic to make this trial keep flowing, and the fact that trial is ultimately reliant on someone noticing a candy that’s very small and hard to see while the person is also in a stressful situation and they are groggy from being drugged/asleep and it necessitates the person retaining this seemingly useless detail inside their brain .... that’s always bugged me.  The “escape route” conversation even retroactively raises questions about the first trial. Oof. On the upside, the reveals it brought us about Fuyuhiko and Peko were incredibly important, satisfying, and legit surprising turns. And it’s pretty cool how it’s basically a two-for-one combo trial because you have to solve the Twilight Syndrome case before you solve the current case. 

5) 3rd. Other people have pointed out the leaps of logic and missing pieces of this trial, but at the same time, the candlelight hanging is so intense and the ultimate reveal of the culprit is such a brutal turn that I have to give it some props. The culprit’s primary plan is ultimately one of the most ingenious in the series, IMO, and definitely one of the most twisted/fucked-up, which earns it some points. 

4) 4th. This is probably the single murder case in the franchise that I understood the absolute least about when entering the trial, for better or worse. On the one hand, that made it really fun to see the mystery gradually unfurl, but on the other hand, it made it tough for me to provide the right answers at certain points in the trial, leaving me fumbling. A big part of those issues was how it was initially hard for me to wrap my head around the nature of the funhouse via the provided 2D graphics... but once I eventually got there, I had to respect the creativity that went into devising such a “weapon.” Also, it can be hard to tolerate Komaeda in this trial. He’s even more of a know-it-all-but-reveal-none-of-it jackass than ever before, and his turn towards overt cruelty towards the others (and Hajime in particular) left me raging. The culprit reveal is good, but the motive does beg the question of why he didn’t just come forward from the jump.

3) 6th. There are a lot of great reveals in the final trial that totally reframe how you see the characters, and some of them are deliciously twisted. There’s also a ton of great dialogue provided, and in retrospect, it’s actually sort of neat to have one endgame mastermind reveal in this franchise that doesn’t involve the “They were hiding among us this whole time” trope. All that plus the surprise return of our surviving heroes from the first game! However, this is also where they officially reveal a core element of DR2 and its setting that I've never liked. This knocks the trial down a few pegs for me. Of course, by the time you reach the trial, I'm sure 99% of players have already figured that particular "twist" out. There’s adequate evidence to predict it in the first freaking chapter, and I know this because I DID predict it in the first chapter of my initial playthrough... which further hurts the supposed “reveal” of the island’s true nature when it comes around. 

2) 1st. Probably my favorite of the “first trials,” there are lot of components that go into this one. There’s a combination of two premeditated killers plus one spur-of-the-moment accidental victim, there’s a satisfying (though admittedly maybe too easy) reveal of the killer being one of the most unpleasant people to be around during the first chapter, and I really dig how audio became a very important component of the mystery due to the total blackout. This is also the part of the game where we learn just how twisted Komaeda really is, which is HUGE both in terms of its immediate shock factor for a total newcomer and in terms of its impact on the game as a whole. Of course, since it’s a “first trial,” it can’t be too complicated... but they still manage to confuse so many of us with “MEAT ON THE BONE” :P

1) 5th. Again, I will almost always give the most emotionally intense one the top slot. The “traitor reveal” is obviously THAT MOMENT in DR2. I also love how this one used the strange internal logic established early in the game RE: Komaeda’s luck to develop the eventual solution. And forcing us to make use of evidence gathered in multiple locations outside of the immediate site of the body/murder? That more complexity of that type that I see relevant to a trial, the more I appreciate it, and this one has loads of that stuff. Although I guess the investigation isn’t technically part of the trial itself... but it’s still very relevant to it. 

DRV3

6) 4th. I found this whole trial to be just... extremely predictable. Maybe it’s because I was so far into the series that I’d gotten used to its tricks by this point, but this was the most predictable trial for me since the first one in the first game. The whole looping/rollover map setup of the VR? Obvious. The murder weapon? Obvious. Our culprit’s ongoing confusion at everything discussed? Obvious. There were only a couple of points I didn’t have already figured out when I walked into the trial room, and those turned out to be basically irrelevant (such as the bottle of poison). The eventual motive is at least a surprise, but I also found it hard to accept that this culprit would really kill people over it. Overall: Super lame. 

5) 3rd. Another double murder trial, and once again one murder overshadows the other. The séance murder is definitely clever. Sure, you know the culprit pretty early on, but the methodology is the good part. However, the real fascinating one for me is the art lab “locked room” murder. Going into the trial, I couldn’t fathom how they were going to explain that one, and I found the answer both smart and satisfying. It’s funny to imagine how many times the culprit had to try that stunt with the lock before it actually worked, heh. This is probably the best of the three “double murder” mysteries in the series, but the trial isn’t as emotionally affecting as the 3rd trial in DR2 to me. Moreover, the trial loses points for the most infuriating Hangman’s Gambit of the series and especially for the motive reveal. When the killer’s motive can be boiled down to “they’re basically just a psycho serial killer,” it’s not very interesting.

4) 6th. The first part of the trial, which deals with re-assessing the first case? It’s pretty damn on-point. That leads to the mastermind reveal, which... isn’t great, really. It’s not a terribly interesting character to make the mastermind, they have no interesting motives or characterization to unevil, and they’re ultimately just a pawn behind another, off-screen group of masterminds. But then things get uproariously funny to me. The metatextual stuff is just so goddamn ridiculous. It’s frustrating and annoying how much of our not-mastermind’s explanation is clearly full of lies and half-truths that we’ll never have complete answers on, but that’s also part of what makes it all fascinating. We get to swap protagonists like four times! There’s a fake-out Game Over! These are really cool things. But it all leads down the road of our protagonist arguing that fiction does affect reality (yes, good), that fictional people can still matter (definitely) and that... fictional lives are equal in value to real ones? Uhhhhh slow down there, champ. That only works for YOUR universe, where fictional people can be made out of living, breathing individuals. But in light of the metatextual stuff you’re surrounded by, you kinda sound silly AF right now?

3)  2nd. Look, this is still incredibly irritating to me. Also, if you go down the alternate “lying” route at one point, you are forced to accept that these piranhas were somehow trained to only eat dead things, which is just... so deeply dumb.  But what is good is the entire ropeway conceit (which is a very significant part of the trial!) and the idea of the partition inside the tank. This was a murder with an elaborate, intelligent plan that is very well-executed. And the motive reveal? It’s one of the best in the series! I respect that stuff. (If I had the right to toss the execution in as part of the soup, I’d say that it’s also one of the series’ best. Let’s call it the icing on the cake.)

2) 1st. The writing that made this trial work is undeniably clever. The way the narration told us exactly what was happening without really telling us what was happening? It was a masterstroke of both great writing and perfect localization coming together. When it becomes clear during the trial what is about to happen, it’s a huge shock. The transition to another protagonist with the lights flickering out and back on is beautiful. Even the core concept of a protagonist who was willing to step up and try to kill the mastermind immediately is just deeply interesting. And obviously this one made my emotions run high. HOWEVER! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Kaede Akamatsu was a more interesting, unique, and compelling protagonist than Shuichi Saihara ever was. Ultimately, the protagonist-swap, no matter how well-written, was a mistake because they shifted us from a unique character with an interesting new perspective to a character who is, in many ways, “Makoto Naegi with even less self-esteem.” Yes, I know he has aspects that make him distinct as his own person, but there’s still just too much there that feels like we’ve done it before, and he never fully escapes from that. It feels like a massive waste and a huge missed opportunity to ditch Kaede like this. Now, if they had just done the protagonist swap in reverse — making us start out with Shuichi before flipping things over to Kaede — we could’ve had ourselves something amazing here.

1) 5th. I know I decided that I couldn’t rank all among each other, but if I did do that, I feel confident that the 5th trial in DRV3 would rank very high indeed. You go into the trial unable to even determine who the victim was due to the fact that two people are missing and there was nothing left of the body that spoke to an identity. Going into it, you naturally figure that one of the two missing parties has to be the victim and the other one is probably the culprit. But even with just two friggin’ suspects, the amount of turnabouts in the case that made me rethink all my assumptions was insane. Sure, the explanation for how the person inside the Exisal can maintain “character” is pretty damn thin, but once you get past that, I don’t think there’s a single false note in the trial. It even breaks unprecedented ground by continuing into another Non-Stop Debate after everyone has already voted. And of course, it culminates with a lot of intense emotion. Even the execution is emotionally satisfying! ..... although I’m not sure if I should count the execution as part of the trial, but hey, still. As far as Dangan trials go, the fifth one in DRV3 is basically a masterpiece.

#danganronpa #asks #danganronpa trials #drv3 #dr2 #dr1 #drv3 spoilers

[seaswalllow]

hey nerds, surprise is here! this is a sort of... what-if exploration of what quackity could've possibly told technoblade in order to get him on his side for the red banquet. enjoy; and remember, comments and rbs feed the author :P

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a man with a coin and a smile steps through a whirling portal. vertigo, as familiar as it is painful, grips him down to his bones; he grits his teeth against it and keeps his eyes open, for he has a job to do, and it is a dangerous job indeed.

and many, many blocks away, another man brushes the snow off of the hide of his horse, unaware yet of his visitor.

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Technoblade would've liked to say that he heard the crunching of the snow first. That some prickling on the back of his neck had warned him about his unwelcome guest.

As it stood, exactly none of this had happened. What happens instead is this: chat starts whispering, starts hissing until it resembles a storm more than itself, he straightens up by carl to turn around, hand on his axe, and Quackity says "Hello, Technoblade."

His axe is at Quackity's throat before the man can even get his next few words out. He scans the landscape, eyes narrowed. There's not many places to hide out, here, on snowy plains as far as the eye can see- but he was proven wrong once.

He doesn't have the luxury of being proven wrong again.

trap? trap? why is he here fucking stupid be careful look out

It's funny, how often they end up in these situations.

And by funny, he means that he would like for it to stop.

"Who else is with you," he demands. The edge of the axe glitters, pressing a thin red line into Quackity's neck. Quackity, who doesn't look panicked, or frazzled, only calm, calm, calm.

That worries him more.

If they were annoyances while desperate- confident men can be foolish men. And Quackity has been a fool before. But if they were to execute him while desperate- then they've had time to stuff their sleeves with plenty other tricks now.

"I came alone," Quackity shrugs. He's careful to keep his hands where techno can see them, Techno notes.

alone why that's so stupid lying why

Chat slowly, slowly quiets; moreso out of curiosity than any real appeasement as they swarm Quackity, wolves flocking to a sheep.

"You're welcome to check the perimeters. or keep this axe up. I don't blame you after..." after he was hunted down in his own house in a mockery of justice? Techno is sure that Quackity sees the displeasure that pulls his lips back, baring his tusks further.

Still, his voice remains level.

"I know how this looks," Quackity agrees, and that pulls another narrow-eyed look out of Techno.

"After taking me back to be executed? I'm glad that at the bare minimum, you don't blame me for what I'd say is... oh, reasonable caution."

"Then why'd you come here? Some would say that's plain stupid. Walking into your enemy's house like a sitting duck."

technofunny technolame haha sitting duck lmao L L L

Quackity, to his credit, smiles. Or some fascimile of it, at least. It bares his teeth, gold winking in the weak winter sun, leaves him jovial-looking enough, but it never reaches his eyes.

"Clever. I came here because I have a proposition."

Techno exhales. Lowers his axe.

He's not doing this again.

"No."

"I haven't even asked yet," Quackity hums, and Techno arches an eyebrow. The axe is hoisted over his shoulder, and he makes sure the light catches the worn enchantments. A warning.

"And i said no. Whatever it is, I'm not interested. You've got some nerve, coming here with a proposition."

Chat, like the swarm of traitors that they are, though, stills. He can't make out a single word above the murmured buzz, but he doesn't like how thoughtful it sounds.

"Have you heard of the Eggpire?"

This... stops him in his tracks. Quackity hasn't taken his eyes off of him. (Smart, Techno thinks. Watch the biggest threat. Negated by the fact that you sought him out.)

He neither confirms nor denies, and instead continues watching Quackity, who takes it as a cue to continue.

"It's a rather large group that's started amassing around some fucking parasite. They've expressed interest in... recruiting. I'm sure you remember this."

Hard to forget, he nearly says, but he's not exposing his neck any more than he already has by staying and listening. (He's not showing that he remembers tossing pearls, tridents down to the kid stuck by the egg, that he remembers the egg itself hissing gently in his ears and pulling at Ranboo.)

"And I thought that well... if there's ever a reason to come here, it'd be for common enemies. You, an anarchist with some... personal investment. Me, with personal investment and a concern for the people."

crimson. disgusting. hate it. false god rotting god tear it up and watch it burn

Chat, shut up.

He snorts before he can stop himself. "Concern for the people. Don't make me laugh."

Quackity tilts his head, eyes narrowed. He looks about as serious as Techno's ever seen him on this visit, jovial facade wearing away. (He looks like he did the day that he brought the Butcher Army to his doorstep, flint in his eyes and axe in hand. It's funny how some things just don't change.)

"I had friends, Techno. Good friends who the Crimson has taken, and warped until they're unrecognizable, and wouldn't recognize themselves in the mirror. I have had other friends suffer at their hands. Starvation's not a pretty sight in close quarters, especially when the thing encourages you to take to yourself, so to speak. Yes, concern for the people."

Techno looks at him for a solid minute; long enough for something to strain at the corners of Quackity's eyes. That's fine; Techno couldn't give a damn.

"Tell me what you want first, and why."

Something slips off of quackity's shoulders. He digs his hand into his pocket; Techno tenses, but Quackity's simply pulled out a coin with a smiley face on it, rolling it over his knuckles and under his hand.

"They're holding a banquet in a few days' time. They've invited... quite a few people. The entire server, if I remember right. They said it's to turn over a new leaf, but... they're also holding it right down by the egg."

The coin has stopped flipping. The smiley face lies face down, leaving the crown side up, sunlight reflecting off of it. Quackity leans closer, voice dipping. Paranoid, ever paranoid.

"I want to crash this fucking thing, and clean up the egg mess once and for all. Eliminate the threat."

Techno shifts his weight, hooves sinking deeper into the frozen layer of snow atop the fields. Chat, oddly, has fallen silent. All that they hear around them are the bees working gently to the side of Techno, and the foxes yipping behind them.

"So you want to use me as a weapon. Again."

"Purpled? So you're saying there's other people involved."

"As a partner," Quackity corrects. "I'll scout the area for you, give you all of the logistics; let you know what timing we need to worry about. You'll be compensated for your assistance, obviously, too- just like Purpled. As a valued business partner."

Business folks. All the same, sweet words that bely the fact they'll leave you out to bleed dry.

this is weird egg egg fight egg crimson

"You and Purpled are the only ones I've approached. Purpled's already accepted."

Techno taps his fingers against the handle of the axe. Not once has Quackity broken eye contact- he leans back now.

"And if I say no?"

quackity shrugs. "Oh, you can say no! This is by no means meant to pressure you. I just figured- as an anarchist, you'd jump at the chance to take down an empire." He pauses. "Especially because this empire is known for being... persistent in their recruitment and expansion. They went for Ranboo once- who knows who else they'll go for?"

The implication does not go unnoticed. Techno bristles; chat bristles. Quackity raises his hands slowly. He still hasn't stepped back, even with the axe in front of him.

"I'm not threatening them. I'm just saying- the Eggpire is a threat. The Red Banquet will make them a bigger threat, but it's also the best time to shoot them in the knees."

Techno inhales. Exhales.

fight the crimson fight fight money free party free food

God, chat was annoying today.

"Time, place, and payment."

Quackity doesn't smile. He does nod, however, the sunlight winking off of the gold in his teeth.

"You won't regret this."

"I'll be the judge of that."

#dream smp #quackity #technoblade #kit writes #i wrote this at midnight and did brief editing just now so like be gentle LMFAOOOOO

[lonelysoul029]

His Hufflepuff Secret ~ Five

A/N: I posted this chapter on wattpad yesterday but completely forgot to post it  on here so I’m very sorry for that. Here it is, though, at 12:03 a.m. on Sunday😂

<-Previous Chapter

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Oh you've gotta be fucking kidding me. Y/N rolls her eyes.

The two girls with Pansy move to the side so she can walk towards Y/N, "You've got a lot of nerve, blood traitor," she says with a scowl.

"What do you want, Parkinson?" Y/N asks, impatient.

"What I want?" Pansy scoffs, "I want you to stay the hell away from my boyfriend."

It's Y/N's turn to scoff, "What boyfriend? Oh, you mean the one who gave me this?" she gestures to the Slytherin robe she's wearing, even turning around to show off the article of clothing for good fucking measure.

Pansy's face contorts in anger, "Draco was supposed to take me to the ball."

"But he didn't, did he?" Y/N states calmy.

"Oh please, he only took you out of pity because you're nothing but a pathetic little Hufflepuff," The dark-haired girl whips out her wand, pointing it at Y/N, "Who gave you the right to wear a Slytherin robe, huh? What made you think you can wear my boyfriend's robe?" her hand is shaking in rage.

Y/N shakes her head, completely irritated by the girl in front of her, "First of all, Pugface, Malfoy isn't your boyfriend," she takes out her own wand, mimicking Pancy's stance, "And second, I'm not hurting you, or anyone for that matter, by wearing this bloody robe. So why the hell should you care?"

Parkinson doesn't answer, and for a second, Y/N thinks that her little episode is over, but then she suddenly she yells, "Flipendo!" knocking Y/N back.

Her head hits the concrete wall behind her, making her groan at the pain. She can faintly hear one of the other girls whispering, "What have you done?" Her eyes drift closed, then everything turns black.

~~~~•~~~~

"It was Parkinson, wasn't it?" a voice asks.

"I guess so, considering it was one of her goons that brought her here," another voice replies.

Y/N's head hurts like hell. Her hand moves to rub at her eyes before opening them. She sees Hannah and Hermione sitting to the left of her, and Harry, Ron and Darren on the right.

"Look she's up," Ron points out.

"What happened?" Y/N asks, sitting up on the bed.

Madam Pomfrey speaks up, "Well, dear, you've had a bit of an accident."

"Accident?" Hermione cuts in, "This wasn't an accident. Pansy did this to her on purpose."

"Right," the matron continues, "You hit your head rather hard in the bathroom, and you blacked out. There was a bit of bleeding, but no extreme damage. I've stitched up the cut on the back of your head, now I just need to you rest here for a couple more hours before I send you off," she walks away with the tray of supplies, closing the curtain around the bed as she goes.

Hannah is the first to ask, "How are you feeling?" she puts her hand on top of Y/N's.

"A bit dizzy and my head hurts, but other than that, I feel fine," she replies truthfully.

"I honestly thought you were never going to wake up," Ron blurts. Harry smacks him on the head.

"Shut up, Ron."

This makes Y/N giggle, "It's okay. I'm good, guys. Really," she smiles at her friends, missing a certain platinum blonde she desperately wants there. "I'm sure you guys have better things to do than to sit here wondering if I'm dead or not," she jokes. The group laughs with her.

"You guys can go ahead," Hermione tells the others, "I'll stay with her."

They all say their goodbyes and head out of the hospital wing, Hannah hugs her before leaving her and Hermione.

"I absolutely hate that pug-faced bitch," Y/N mutters in frustration.

"What even happened?" the Gryffindor asks.

"Well I went to the girls bathroom to splash cold water on my face," Y/N explains, "Pansy and her two lapdogs were by the sinks so I went to the free one. Before I could even turn the faucet on, Pansy starts talking about how Malfoy was supposed to be her date to the ball and she was blaming me because that didn't happen. She said something about me being pathetic and that I shouldn't be wearing her house colors," she hisses when a sharp pain crosses her scalp, but continues on with the story, "She pulled out her wand at me so I did the same. I don't remember exactly what I said, but I guess she took offence and made her cast a spell at me. She was too quick for me to react. Then I guess that's where I blacked out."

Hermione takes her hand, "Shouldn't we tell Dumbledore about this?"

Y/N shakes her head, "No need. I don't want to bother him with such a silly thing. Besides, Madam Pomfrey probably reported it already."

"Okay, but if you ever plan a revenge act on her, count me in," Hermione grins.

"You're my partner in crime, Mione. Of course I will."

"So," she changes the topic, "What's going on with you and Malfoy? I mean, everyone saw you kiss at the ball, then you two just disappeared!" Hermione gestures dramatically, "And the next time I see you, you're wearing his robe."

Y/N looks down as she recalls the events from last night, "It's not what you think," she feels the blood rising to her cheeks, "After we kissed at the ball, he took me to the tower. We were just admiring the view from up there, then we kissed again. It felt so right, you know?" She turns her head to face Hermione, "Like that was where I was meant to be. I mean obviously I've had feelings for him before last night, but when he kissed me, everything fell into place."

"That's really sweet, Y/N," Hermione smirks at her, "So how'd you end up in his uniform?"

"He made me wear it because I couldn't find my spare Hufflepuff robe I keep in his closet."

"Of course you keep a spare in his closet," she winks at Y/N, making them both giggle.

"It was in the trunk at the end of my bed, actually," Draco suddenly chimes in with the aforementioned robe in his hand. He walks over to where she's laying and kisses her forehead. The action making Hermione's and Y/N's eyes widen.

"I think that's my cue to leave," Hermione gets up and gives Y/N a hug.

"That was smooth, Mione. Thanks," Y/N says dryly.

Hermione just winks and waves them both goodbye, then heads off. Draco sits on the edge of the bed next to Y/N, taking her hand in his before kissing it.

"What are you doing here?" She asks.

"I came as soon as I heard about what happened," Draco replies, "Well, maybe not as soon as I heard."

"Meaning?"

"Meaning I took care of it," he shrugs.

"Took care of what?" Y/N presses. She gasps when she realises, "You didn't."

Draco grins, "It wasn't anything bad," he defends, "I just made it clear to her that you're not to be harmed."

"What exactly did you do?"

"I just told her and her friends to stay away from my girl if they want to stay at this school."

His girl? Did he really just say I'm his girl? "You threatened them?" she chuckles.

"Of course I threatened them. It's the only way they'll listen," he laughs with her, "How long do you have to stay here?"

Y/N checks her watch, "Hour and a half, still. Madam Pomfrey said she wants me to rests," as if on cue, she lets out a yawn.

"You should rest then," Draco kisses her cheek, then moves from beside her to sit on a chair, "I'll be here when you wake up."

She nods as she let's sleep pull at her. The pain is still there but it's bearable as her world goes dark again.

~~~~•~~~~

When Y/N regains consciousness, the first thing she notices is that she's alone. The chair occupied by Draco when she fell asleep, now empty. Of course he left. He's not going to sit around and wait for me. She gets up and shrugs off the robe she has on. If I hadn't worn the damn thing, I wouldn't have had to get attacked by that bitch. She picks up her Hufflepuff robe from the bed and slides it on. She turns to walk out when she hears the curtains being pulled back.

Draco's tall figure stills when he sees her. He's holding a tray containing food, "Good, you're up," He moves to set the tray on a table, "You slept through dinner, so I thought I'd bring dinner to you."

"Oh."

He stares at her, "Well? Aren't you going to sit down?"

Y/N blinks up at him, His eyes are so pretty; they're like pools of silver ice. What are you thinking right now? You thought he just upped and left you but he only left to go get food. The least you could do is say 'thank you.'

"Well, anyway, I was thinking, we could go to Hogsmeade after the Second Trial this weekend and have a few butterbeers..." He continues talking, but then notices that she's out of it and not listening to a word he's saying, "...And then, she started gagging on my dick," Draco loudly mutters to get her attention.

Y/N snaps out of whatever was going on in her mind, "W-what?!" she exclaims. He doubles over laughing at her, "Merlin, Draco. Don't do that!"

He runs a hand through his hair, "Are you okay, darling?"

"Yes, I'm fine."

"You sure don't seem fine," he holds her chin to examine her face and head, "I was talking but you were just zoned out."

"I wasn't zoned out," Y/N states.

"Oh yeah?" an amused grin appears on his face, "What was I saying, then?"

"Y-you were," she tries, "Talking about how much you love me?" Y/N smiles innocently.

Draco tucks a strand of hair behind her ear, "Nice try, sweetheart, but no," he smirks, "I was asking if you wanted to go to Hogsmeade with me this weekend."

"Of course. I knew that," she lies.

"Of course you did," he just nods along, "Well, do you?"

"Do I what?"

"Want to go to Hogsmeade."

"Oh. Yes, I do," Y/N goes to the table and picks up a piece of fried pork, popping it into her mouth.

"Are you sure you're alright?" he asks, "You still seem pretty out of it."

"Maybe I just hit my head a bit too hard," she shrugs.

He hums, "I swear, if Parkinson tries anything again I--"

"Your father will hear about it?" she cuts him off, smirking.

"Very funny," Draco deadpans.

"Terribly witty, eh?" Y/N jokes again.

"That's it," he suddenly comes at her. She shrieks and drops the food she's holding, then makes a run for it. She makes her way out of the hospital wing and through the halls, not even turning back. She runs a little more then turns a corner and stops. She leans on the wall, out of breath and feeling lightheaded. You just hit your head this morning, dumbass. And now you're running? Oh shut up. I wasn't just going to let him tackle me, was I? Fantastic. Now you're arguing with yourself.

Y/N is too busy having an internal conflict that she jumps when two hands hit the wall on each side of her, caging her in.

"For someone who was just in an 11-hour coma, you sure run fast," Draco chuckles, his breathing heavy and a bead of sweat sliding down his brow.

She giggles, "You just jumped at me, I didn't know what else to do."

Draco cups her cheek and moves his thumb down her lip, "You really should take it easy though," he says as he pulls away.

"I am feeling a bit dizzy," and really flustered but oh well.

"Want me to walk you to your common room?" he asks.

"Why? People might see us together," she looks at him confused.

He scoffs, "People already saw us kissing. I think we'll be fine if they saw us walking together." From this angle, his barely-lit features are accentuated. He looks so beautiful in this light.

Y/N bites her lip,"Okay, fine," she says. Draco doesn't move, he just continues to stare down at her, "Uhh, Draco?"

"Yeah?"

"Aren't you going to let me go?"

Draco blinks at her, "Oh yeah. I will," he still doesn't move.

"Draco?"

"Can you just... let me do something first?" he whispers.

"Do what?"

"This," he mutters. It's all the warning she gets before Draco leans down and kisses her, hard. Her hand immediately goes to the back of his head, fingers combing through the platinum blonde locks. He bites her bottom lip making her gasp. Draco takes the opportunity to explore her mouth with his tongue. The hand on her cheek moves to grab the back of her neck. His cold rings pressing on her sensitive skin, making her shiver.

She moans when he pushes his body against hers, driving her further into the wall. His kiss is so intoxicating, and Y/N can't get enough.

They're both too caught up in each other that they don't hear the footsteps rounding the corner.

"Oh. My. God."

The pair immediately pull away from each other and turn their heads towards the voice. Draco steps to the side to cover Y/N from the person, or rather, people, that just caught them.

Blaise, Pansy, and her two goons, Daphne and Tracey, are all standing with their mouths agape. Pansy looks so furious, Draco is surprised there isn't smoke coming out of her ears.

"Draco, baby, what on earth are you doing?" the pug-faced bitch asks. She walks up to Draco and places a hand on his cheek.

Draco slaps her hand away, "Parkinson, I told you to stop calling me that," he glares down at her, "We're not together."

Y/N can see from over Draco's shoulder that the Slytherin girl has a forced smile on her face, "Maybe not now, but soon, you'll be mine. You'll realise how much better I am than that blood traitor behind you who's too pathetic to come out from hiding," Pansy smirks at her.

"Listen, here you ugly piece of trash," Y/N shoves past Draco to stand face-to-face with Pansy, Draco grabs her wrist but she shrugs it off, "You talk big game and pretend you're better than everyone else, but in reality, you're just a lovesick puppy that forces herself on someone who clearly isn't interested," she hears Draco snicker behind her, giving her the boost she needs to say this next part, "Draco isn't yours, nor will he ever be. He's with me, and the sooner you get that into that tiny little brain of yours, if you even have one, the better. You think I'll just let what you did to me today slide? Abso-fucking-lutely not. Just you wait. Keep running that big mouth of yours, see what happens," she turns around and storms off.

Pansy is left speechless. Draco looks behind her, "Greengrass, Davis," the girls turn to him, "Control your idiot leader, will you? Or else, all three of you can say bye-bye to a future here at Hogwarts," he turns to Blaise and nods at him, "Zabini." He faces the same direction Y/N just went and goes after her.

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#his hufflepuff secret #Draco Malfoy #draco x reader #hufflepuff!reader #series #writing #chapter five #angst #fluff #izzy writes #hogwarts #gryffindor #ravenclaw #hufflepuff #slytherin #harry potter #jkr #pansy parkinson #hermione granger #ron weasley #x reader

[littlespaceporgs]

The Clone Wars Reacts - Part 5

Or Leah loses her shit at Jar Jar, thirsts for Aayla Secura for an episode and a half, and then swoons for Riyo Chuchi.

Welcome once more to the Reacts series! I’m a busy woman for now but I am setting up a schedule for this series which will be

Today we’re covering episodes 12, 13, 14 and BONUS! 15. This is because I got super bored during episode 14 and basically didnt write anything so, here you go! As per usual, major spoiler alert for season 1 of the clone wars! If you haven’t read the previous parts to this series, I suggest you do so that you can follow along! 

Part 1 - Episodes 1 and 2 Part 2 - Episodes 3, 4 and 5 Part 3 - Episodes 6, 7 and 8 Part 4 - Episodes 9, 10 and 11

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We’re well past the half-way point, so there is 2 parts left of season 1, and then onto season 2! So lets get into it!

Episode 12: The Gungan General

> heheheheheheheh jar jar I am KEEN

> I get hondo and jar jar in one episode

>> this’ll be funny

>>> actually no scratch that, this is gonna be hilarious

> oh and they woke up in a cell this will be fun

> HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA AND THEYRE BOUND TO DOOKU

> DISASTER I TELL YOU

> “if I keep my mouth shut you’ll devise a plan so get off the god forsaken planet?” “YES”

> this dude seems traitorous as fuck (im referring to one of the pirates, not dooku shockingly)

> I wish Ahsoka and Yoda were in this too, I want more disaster lineage

> ah he is indeed a traitor

> “HEIDY HO CHANCELLOR”

> JAR JAR WHOO

> “stop messing around, we’re landing. Secure yourself” “MESA TRYING ITS STUCK”

> promptly followed by jar jar falling everywhere

> oh and now he’s in the cockpit

> oh shit that senator guy is definitely dead right?

> “do control tour protégées insolence” “anakin, control your insolence, the count is concentrating”

> “do we know where we’re going?” “Ssh anakin” “DO we know where we’re going?”

> is it safe? Of course it i- riiiiiight

>> I forgot this was the clone wars for a second, this is gold

> FRIENDS DONT DRUG FRIENDS HONDO

> y’know, dooku’s quite amusing when he’s not trying to kill my favourite characters

> “are you now in command” “uh no, binks is the highest ranking” ooooohhhh boy

> ooooooohhhh and some mind tricks too, nice

> I hate to say this, but jar jar is actually smart

> holy shit

> beasties are nearby too, we’ll be fine. they run, we run

>> Dayum jar jar actually making good decisions?

> I present a real and accurate image of my reaction to this statement

> Mesa be having an idea oooohhh booooyyy

> obi wan that is no way to speak to your grandmaster

> be patient master the count is elderly and doesn’t move like he used to

> I would kill you both now if I didn’t have to drag your bodies

>> HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH this is the only reaction I’ll accept

> then falling all over each other is the only thing I’ve ever needed to see

> “ this is not going well” no shit

> my question is why did obi wan not drop Dooku?? Does he actually still care about this man?

> you’re right, I don’t think youre going to be friends 🤦‍♀️😂

> sneaky lying snake

> bruh they don’t even know you’ve got the Jedi captive??????????

>> so how does that work you dumbass

> no shit, you will look like fools obi wan

> “there be some bombad clankers” 😂😂

>> “huh YOURE right, bombad clankers” I love the shock

> YOURE RIGHT HE IS SMARTER THAN HE LOOKS, GIVE JARJAR SOME CREDIT

> oh boy anakin, just keep your mouth shut genius

> man electrocution doesn’t look like fun

> HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAH

> The next few lines of confused joy are me reacting to jar jar somehow single handedly taking out 3 tanks

> what the fuck

> JarJar I I’m what-

> JUST DID A GOOD THING, I DONT REGERT THIS THING AT ALLLLLLLL

> fuckin JarJar was great

> “KILL HIM HES NOT A REPRESENTATIVE, HES A PLAGUE” I’m ded 💀😢💀

> serves you right you snake, now dooku gonna choke your ass

> oooohhhhh that’s how these two twits (hondo and obi-wan) became friends

> “and... he knows where you live” Oof the subtle threat is real

> hem I love obi wan very much and his sarcasm

 Episode 13: Jedi crash

> I JUST SAW AAYLA I AM EXCITED I AM ALSO ATTRACTED TO HER VERY MUCH

> SHES HOT

> I LOVE HER

> AND HER VOICE JUST MAKES ME ☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️

> I wish I was bly, not gonna lie

> I have a quick question - the 501st colour is blue right? Then why do they have a gold squad, doesn’t the extra colours just confuse things?

> I love seeing anakin and Ahsoka in action coolest thing to watch

> And anakin

>> I am also quite attracted to him

>>> imagine dragging your hands through that hair as he- wait no I have minors in my followers not gonna finish that

> Uh oh

>> Oh anakin you twit

>>> HE LOCKED HOMSELF IN WITH AN EXPLOSION JDGKJDJFKFKFKFKFF

> HES INSANE

> Are all Jedi so reckless? Just the good ones - love this by the way

> Oooohh shit for a STAR

> I mean like? I know anakin doesn’t die, but this shit is concerning

> Perfected the art of destroying ships and getting master almost killed? Sounds familiar

> I hate it when they just call them “padawan “ it just feels very impersonal like bleh

> Like I love aayla but god the Jedi preach some bullshit

>> God forbid someone raises a child and gets attached to it

>>> Like for fucks sake

>>>> Can you tell this is something I’m passionate about?

> Anyway, moving on

> Oh hi anakin! You’re alive!

> That bird lookin thing is tryna eat my boy 😤

> Oop - well that dudes dead

> Aawwwwwww aayla looks so sad, this makes me sad too

> Can we just appreciate this?

> Well these little critters are cute

> Ooooohhh I think I agree with this little dude

> You can skip the paragraph if you like, its just me going off about ‘peacekeeping’

> Alright gonna get mildly into it for a second, the clone wars really gets into it with episodes like this, displaying how the entire galaxy was starting to lose faith in the Jedi and their peacekeeping ways, in the movies we just got that people just started hating the Jedi because they became part of the war, but this really fleshes it out and shows just how slowly and gradually the loss of faith is. Because he’s right, the Jedi aren’t peacekeepers anymore, they bring as much destruction with them that the separatists do and have become symbols of war. They’re fighting for a good reason yes, but they can no longer claim that they are peacekeepers or that they played no role in this war.

> ANYWAY BACK TO REACTS

> AH MY TWO FAVOURITE WOMEN AND A PRETTY BACKGROUND AGAIN!! They really do be doing me a great service

Part 14: Defenders of Peace

> I’m really not into this episode, just saying it now

> Anakins just as bad as obi wan, like honestly just chill bro, fucking REST

>> MY BOYS DESERVE SOME GODDAMN REST AND I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL OK-

> Okay but is it taking a life if it’s a droid?

> Ugh this dudes ugly as fuck

> What did you think was gonna happen?? Of course your village was going to be ransacked

> I could go on forever about the pointlessness of this war like it just makes me mad palpatine you slimy git-

> My reacts this episode are really boring huh, I’m not into it 😭

*fully I didn’t write anything for about 10 minutes here because it’s just a little boring*

> HOLY SHIT NOW THATS A FUCKING WEAPON

> Yep sorry that’s it for this ep, I’m so bored 😂

>> Anyway, bonus episode because that one was short!

Part 15: Trespass

> YES OBIWAN WOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO

> AND IS THAT RIYO CHUCHI I SPY?????

> Hahahahahahahhahahaha it’s not tatooine, you got that right

> Oh god this dude already sounds like a dick (its the chancellor dude but not palpatine)

> Why’s he so defensive over it?

> Oh yikes, that does not look good

> Seppies don’t do that though - this is... odd

> Ah and the same thing has been done to the droids

> Off topic, but I think I’m going to make a clone wars drinking game that I can do while I do my reacts, so I’m going to make that this week, send me your ideas in the comments or dm me!

> Back to ep - pfffffffttt obi wans little taps and then anakin really goes WHACK

> Anyway I’m going to do this in the next couple days and then every Friday night I’ll watch a few eps and drink away

> Alright back to the episode once more

> Abominable snowman????

>> Definitely

> This is gonna go well isn’t it?

> “Well? Say something”

>> “Just shut up” *visible eye roll*

> What the fuck is their mouth

> Okay really obi wan, I think it’s pretty clear they don’t speak basic

> YEEEEEEAAAHHH THATS MY BOI ANAKIN

> Awwwwwwww that shits cute, fucking bear huugggg I want to be hugged like that

> I’m not fussed if it’s anakin, obi wan or kit fisto but please someone love me

>> Preferably kit fisto

> Anyway this dudes a dick (again, its the chancellor dude)

> They obviously have intelligence, and this dude has issues

>> I’m thinking he’s trying to compensate for something 👀

> Oof you really gonna tell a Jedi what to do?

> HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA the other people’s were there already

> Ugh he reminds me of my very racist grandparents oh boy

> You’ve been told like 4 times that it is not your jurisdiction anymore and you still can’t take it?

>> BRUH

> She’s so tiny and adorable and her voice is just 🥰🥰🥰🥰

>> Oh no

>>> I’m simping for another character

> Surely this guy dies

> HAHAHAHAHAH HE JUST GOT SPEARED SERVES YOU RIGHT MOTHERFUCKER

> What a dick, he shall not be missed

> She’s just, so pretty??? And smart????

>> FUCK MY BISEXUAL ASS CANT HANDLE THIS

> he’s seriously not dead yet?

> AAAHH RIYO YOU SMART GIRL YEEEEESSSS NEGOTIATE THAT PEEEEAAACCEEEE

> THATS MY GIRL SENATOR CHUCHI YEEEESSS

Welp that’s it for today folks, it was lovely, see y’all at some point this week where I say the drinking game rules and then next drunken Friday (even though these are gonna be released on saturdays but I write them on fridays?)

#the clone wars #tcw #the clone wars reacts #reacts series #star wars ahsoka #anakin skywalker #ahsoka tano #obi wan kenobi #kit fisto #riyo chuchi #jar jar binks #basically a leah simp fest #fucking sigh #it took one (1) ep for me to simp

[sometimesiwritebadly]

The Lost Girl (Part 3)

Chapter Summary: In the past, Raven confronts Killian and Liam for the first time in years. In the present, Raven and Hook begin working together to save David from the dreamshade poison.

Notes: lmao remember that time i said it wouldn’t be long until the next chapter? that was funny. also ao3 saw it first

Warnings: Language, brief mention of suicide

Word Count: 1.9k

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~~~ A Very Long Time Ago ~~~

Raven really didn’t want to do this. She was hiding behind some bushes, watching Liam and Killian make the journey up to dead man’s peak, searching for the deadly dreamshade. She knew she had to convince them not to take the plant back to the Enchanted Forest, but confronting the two of them would mean admitting some of her deepest secrets. Killian, assuming he hasn’t grown out of his inquisitive nature, would have hundreds of questions. But Liam...she knew for a fact what he’d ask. “Why did you leave me Talia? Did I mean nothing to you?” She could practically hear him say it, with his ocean blue eyes filled with pain. Liam had meant so much to her, and she to him...Raven would never admit it to anyone, but in a better world, she would’ve happily married him.

Raven watched as they got closer and closer to the dreamshade, the brothers talking about their encounter with Pan. She took a deep breath, then appeared in front of Liam, blocking the path. Liam had his sword in front of him, using it to clear away any plants in their way. When he spotted her, he didn’t lower it.

“What do you want?” He asked, his voice laced in anger. Ouch. Killian took a much kinder approach.

“Is it really you, Talia? How can this be?” Raven had to resist letting a smile overcome her face. He was still so kind, after all this time.

“It’s Raven now. I, uh, I took a new name. When I left the ship.” She took a deep breath, gathering more courage before continuing, “It really is me, though. No one ages on Neverland...I had no idea it had been so long until I recognized you.” Liam finally yielded, putting his sword away, but his hardened face showed no emotion at Raven’s explanation.

“Tal -” Killian stopped himself, before continuing without the use of her name, “We thought you were dead...we thought you’d - How did you even get here? Why did you never come back? Why'd you leave?” There it was, all the questions that Raven did not want to answer. Instead, she changed the topic to what she had really come for.

“It doesn’t matter. I came to tell you that you can’t take the dreamshade back to the Enchanted Forest. It’s too dangerous.” Her comment only made Liam scoff.

“Nice try Raven ,” He said, mocking the name, “But your suitor already tried. And I don’t mean to offend, but I’d rather believe my king than a traitor like yourself.”

Raven tried not to let his comment affect her, instead trying again to persuade him. “Look, you don’t need to forgive me. After today, you never need to see me again. Just trust me one last time-”

“Trust you? You abandoned us! How can I trust you? You know-” He paused for a moment, taking a menacing step towards Raven, “I wish you had walked off the plank like we thought for all those years. At least then I could remember you as a friend, instead of knowing the truth of your bad form.”

Killian’s eyes widened at his comment, and at the fury that was appearing in Raven’s eyes. He took a step back from the pair, sensing the argument would only get more heated.

Raven began yelling this time. “Bad form? The only bad form here is trying to win a war for a ruthless, idiotic king by cheating! You have absolutely no idea what I was going through on that ship-”

Liam cut her off once more, yelling even louder than she, “Yes I do! I know exactly what you were going through because you were my best friend! I told you everything and you did the same! I thought we had a future, but you - Did you even care for me at all?   Did you not think for one moment how you leaving would affect me?

“You know what,” Raven began walking away from the brothers as she spoke, “Go ahead! Kill everyone with the dreamshade. Kill the other army, kill your own army, kill yourselves with it! May the last thing you think of when the poison takes over your heart be regret. You can die thinking about how the traitor Talia was right! ” With her final words, she disappeared from their sight, heading back to camp.

~~~ Present Day ~~~

“How are you holding up, mate?” Hook asked David, who was very obviously struggling as they walked.

“Just fine. Perfect. Why would anything be wrong.” David replied, glancing back at Raven as he tried to appear in perfect health.

“Yeah, you don’t need to fake it. I know you’ve been poisoned by dreamshade.” Raven said, making David stop walking and look at Hook with anger.

“You told her?!”

“He didn’t have to, mate. It’s obvious to anyone familiar with the side effects.” Despite Raven’s assurance that Hook hadn’t broken what little trust David had put in him, the prince felt no need to apologize, instead answering Hook’s original question.

“Don't worry about me. Just worry about getting us to the sextant.”

“As entertaining as that was, I wasn’t talking about the poison. I meant the good-byes. Looked a bit stormy back there.” David began walking again, letting the other two follow behind him.

“I did what had to be done, and I did it out of love. Emma and Mary Margaret will understand that.” He explained, before stopping once more at a nearby tree.

“I hate to break it to you, but-” Raven started, before Hook cut her off.

“You’re gonna tell them that from beyond the grave.” He said, earning a glare from the girl.

David looked at the two of them once more before correcting, “No. You are. You two are gonna tell them that I died a hero, fighting for their way home. What you're not gonna tell them is that I left already a dead man.”

“You don’t think your family deserves the truth?” Raven asked.

“What do you know of family?” Hook muttered, although he made no effort to hide the comment from Raven. In return, Raven hit his arm as hard as she could.

David, ignoring the childish exchange, answered Raven’s question. “Their last memories of me won't be of a liar.”

“Why should I help you?” Hook asked. Raven was surprised at his question, considering the whole point of this journey was to save David’s life.

David chuckled at the question before answering, “Well, if you didn't steal that bean, they wouldn't have had a chance to take Henry, we wouldn't be on this island, and I wouldn't be dying of dreamshade.”

“Nice going, Hook.” Raven muttered. This time, Hook hit her arm.

“Fair point.” He replied to David, “At least you got to say good-bye. Most people don't get that much.” David paused for a moment, before looking back at Hook. Hook kept walking, taking the lead before David spoke again.

“You lost someone, didn't you?” Hook glanced at Raven for just a single moment before ignoring David’s question. If David noticed the exchange, he didn’t say anything.

“This is where we ascend. I'll climb ahead and throw down the rope.” Raven looked up at the peak, remembering the horrible day she had been there with Hook and Liam. David and Hook kept arguing as Hook began to climb up, but she didn’t pay much attention. She wished more than anything she could go back, make her last words to Liam anything other than what she had said.

~~~ A Very Long Time Ago ~~~

When Raven returned to the Lost Boy’s Camp, she was fuming. Their numbers were few, as Pan had only recently begun recruiting people to permanently stay on the island, so there was plenty of room for the Lost Boys to stay the hell away from Raven as she stormed about. She was muttering to herself, complaining about how “Liam think’s he’s all that,” and “Of course he became a fucking Captain,” and how, “He’s just some king’s little bitch.”  

When Pan noticed his Raven’s mood, he turned to Felix for answers.

“I think she talked to the adults that showed up earlier.” Was the only answer Felix had for him.

“Well I knew that much, you idiot-”

“I can hear you two!” Raven snapped, cutting off Pan. Pan winced, turning around to see Raven staring right at them. He sent Felix off with a look, before walking over towards the girl.

“So..care to explain?” He asked, sitting next to Raven on a log.

“They’re idiotic adults who are going to end up killing their entire country-”

“Not that, Raven. Clearly you know them.”

Raven sighed, looking down at her hands before telling the truth. “We lived on that ship together. They were my friends. Now they���re idiotic adults who would rather trust some dumb king than their oldest friend.”

“You lived on the- you said there weren’t any boys on the ship!” Pan exclaimed, remembering the first night he met Raven. When she glared at him, he conceded. “But that’s not important now….you tried your best to tell them the truth. It’s up to them now.”

“I just want them off the island. As soon as possible.” This made Pan grin. Sounds like a good game, and Pan loves a game.

“Now that, I can do for you.”

~~~ Present Day ~~~

Raven and David watched as Hook climbed up the mountain. The plan was for Hook to climb up and throw a rope down so David could make it up the mountain. Raven’s job was just to make sure he stays alive until then. Hook had wanted Raven to just “poof” them up to the top, as he put it, but Raven insisted that it would be better to avoid any magic, as Pan can trace it easily.

Hook was nearly all the way up the mountain before David made any attempt at conversation.

“So...how long have you known Hook?” He asked, making Raven look away from the climbing pirate.

“Uhhh.. I’m not sure.” Raven answered honestly, “I’ve probably been on this island for hundreds of years.”

“Well sure..it’s just that you two seem close.”

“Close?!” Raven repeated, unsure if she’d heard David right. “Hook and I are nowhere near friends, I’m not sure where you got that idea, mate.”

“I don’t mean that you’re friends, I just mean that you argue more like you’re siblings than enemies.” David’s observation made Raven go quiet. “C’mon, I’m a dying man. And I’m curious.”

Raven scoffed at David’s attempt to get her to tell the truth, but decided to tell him anyway. “Hook and I knew each other before either of us came to Neverland.”

“What, like, when you were kids?”

“I’m still a kid, thank you very-” Raven suddenly sensed the presence of Pan, making her stop talking. She looked around the forest, before realizing that Pan was at the top of the mountain with Hook.

“What is it?” David asked, sensing her concern.

“Pan’s up there.”

“How do you know? Is Hook ok?” David asked.

“I just know, ok. And I’m not sure about Hook...but he hasn’t thrown the rope down. Think you can climb without it?” Raven asked, but before she even finished the question, David was slowly beginning to climb. “Guess that’s a yes…” She mumbled, before pulling her hands on the rocks and pulling herself up.

~~~

tag: @peculiarinsomniac 

#peter pan #peter pan ouat #peter pan fic #peter pan x oc #ouat fic #ouat season 3 #ouat fanfiction #once upon a time #once upon a time fanfiction #once upon a time fic

[leopardprintismybrown]

i don’t really keep up with cam or anything, but would you be comfortable sharing what he said about you? i’m just kinda curious about this whole situation 🤷‍♀️ if not, don’t worry about it :) i respect your decision

I want to share this because I want to explain why I made a parallelism with a cult, because these fans are brainwashed in a worrying way. What I am quoting now is what it's been said on the private chat. 

He was angry that people were calling him disrespectful on Tumblr and his adepts immediately came to the rescue:

“Cam, if you need anyone to fight for you, I’m your gal”

“CAMILY ARMY”

He encouraged people to “bunny block them haters” and he was saying that it was because of his celebrity parent that people on Tumblr are jealous of him and of the Camily friendship and that we want to be part of it inside.

Some comments of the fans after ignoring why I associated them to a cult i.e. for their toxic behaviour, for following another person’s orders, for looking for culprits to block, for making death threats:

“They’re even hating on the Camily, like what did we do?”

“Based on what they said you know how desperate and jealous they were”

“They had the audacity to call the Camily a brainwashed cult”

“I’ve also noticed certain people on the stream I’d consider blocking”

Cameron started to find the cult mention very funny without even understanding the reason behind the parallelism and how problematic some of his fans are for how they express their support for him. They told me he wore a cult leader vest in his live stream on IG, they're making memes about the situation, decontextualizing and twisting my words and mixing up things other people said or shared with me on my blog:

“Someone else said that I am my bro are problematic me for having a cult around me” (don’t ask me to translate) “and some people think I’m using my dad for fame. Bitch I’m not trying to do that. Just cuz I use the name Deaky. They were like oh they treat him like a saint and everything. They said I was quote feeding the fandom. Like people wanted that type of content.  And now I stopped it. So like? Do I post Queen videos anymore? Nope. People are only saying this stuff because I’m fucking related to a celebrity. Gonna go insta live for a rant”

Here comes another demonstration of their sick minds:

“Wait. If we’re being called a cult, let’s show up to their door with guns”

And after this affirmation to be proud of, they started to deny their own words and they were saying that they were obviously trying to get my Tumblr taken down because I was bullying Cameron:

“They are also giving death threats. THEY’RE ACTUALLY GIVING DEATH THREATHS FROM WHAT CAMERON HAS SAID” “Ours is a joke. Theirs is actual death threaths” “Cameron said they’ve been making threaths” They posted a screenshot of my blog adding comments like “I’m not surprised it’s a Rog stan tbh" I was told someone was asking Cameron to tell ROGER about what I did.

At this point Cameron read a screenshot somebody sent him (probably about an anon I received talking about his brother) and he said: “She’s harassing me by posting about it. She was reposting slandering things about me and my brother. Like if my brother saw those comments as well I’m sure he’d be really humiliated and upset too”

One of the adepts' comments:

“She was slandering and talking abt John n not respecting privacy”

Cameron decided that: “If nothings done about it they’ll just continue. Clearly they came to my stream again”

Reaction of the adepts:

“We work out who it is in stream tonight and block them”

I also want to explain why I panicked yesterday. Someone from this discord was making me read everything, and not only I was clearly stressed for what I was reading and because they twisted every single word I wrote, but I was also witnessing live these fanatics commenting on my blog and providing a screenshot of my username and homepage and reporting me in mass. At the same time, the person that was only trying to help me was begging me to change my username repeatedly. "They're going to pile on you, change the url" I was confused and I didn't know what to do. Ironically, I was having a problem with my internet connection and couldn't access to my Tumblr so I was afraid they were already taking down my account (I don't know how these things work) and that I couldn't ask for help, justify myself or warn someone. In addition to this, I was getting bunny emojis and other anons saying that Cameron was roasting me on his IG live, something I think went on for hours because friends of mine were sending me stuff the whole night. 

I didn't obviously watch the stream so I cannot tell you what he said about me but I was told that he would keep on venting about it in the next days. Just to say that I am having a public persona with thousands of followers easy to manipulate publicly mocking me, encouraging people to cancel me, block me, report me by using his influence. This is bullying, ignorance, abuse of power, mind manipulation of teenagers from a 27 year old. He needs someone to monitor him. What hurts  me even more is that he's related to someone I respect.

I also got many messages from fans who are on that chat saying that they are sorry for what happened to me but that they are afraid to defend me because they don’t want to be called “traitors” and that the people on the chat feel like they have to go by what Cameron says. People apologized to me because they realized they said awful things about me but didn’t know the full story. Other people that defended me were blocked and are still asking me to not make their names public. 

What would you call this atmosphere?

#cameron deacon #queen fandom #ask #anon

[makeste]

BnHA Chapter 255: "Hospital”

Previously on BnHA: Aizawa and Present Mic found out their dead best friend Shirakumo was necromanced by All for One and Ujiko and turned into everyone’s favorite villain mom bartender M.D., Kurogiri! Gran Torino and Naomasa were all “hey you guys should talk to him and see if you can restore his memories through the power of friendship” and so they all sat down together to do that. Kurogiri was all “so tell me how is my son Shigaraki Tomura, I love him so much, he is so emo and I must protect him” and Aizawa and Mic were all “THIS GUY HASN’T CHANGED ONE IOTA” and Aizawa started crying and was all “SHIRAKUMO LET’S GET MARRIED AGAIN AND BE HEROES TOGETHER LIKE WE ALWAYS WANTED.” Oh and also we found out Aizawa only fake expelled his previous students and it was just so that he could PREPARE THEM FOR LIFE!! and afterwards they got to go back to U.A. again and live happily ever after. And so basically I’ve lost track of how many hugs Aizawa needs here now but it’s a lot.

Today on BnHA: Shiraguri’s brainwaves start going all wonky and everyone is like “OH SHIT IT’S WORKING” and Aizawa and Mic decide it’s time to shift this drama into overdrive, so they get right up against the glass and start shouting “YOU’RE OUR FRIEND!!” and stuff over and over until IT FINALLY WORKS!! and Kurogiri’s face shifts into Shirakumo’s. Somehow the effect is incredibly sad and moving rather than terrifying as fuck, but unfortunately all Kumo can manage to get out is “hospital” before his mind overloads and he passes out. Fortunately for our heroes, “hospital” is actually an awesome clue which can totally lead them to Tomura and Ujiko’s location if they play their cards right, probably! Or at least Hawks seems really psyched about it, idk. Anyway so the chapter ends with Ujiko going FULL MAD SCIENTIST and wreaking havoc on Tomura’s body in order to -- I’m pretty sure, anyway -- turn him into some kind of fully sentient ultimate high end Noumu. Welllllll shit.

so that sure was a fun little wrinkle last week, huh. the two biggest scanlators deciding that in the spirit of the holidays, they were going to stop translating WSJ series and instead support the official releases out of the goodness of their hearts and definitely not at all because Shueisha was eyeing them threateningly and making little throat-slitting gestures. that was a ride. these are interesting times lol

but at any rate, if this is how it’s going to be for now then I’ll adjust! it is nice to have everyone support the official release, and obviously the image quality is way better, and Caleb’s translations are by and large pretty good. and obviously we’ll get used to reading the chapter on Sundays instead of Fridays (hell, I remember when the SJ leaks still came out on Wednesdays, so it’s not like we haven’t done this same old song and dance before lol). but Friday did happen to be a more convenient day for my schedule personally, so it might take a bit of adjusting for me to figure out what my posting schedule is going to be moving forward

anyways so I’m sorry this recap is so ridiculously late, but here we go at last!

so the Tartarus guard, who by the way is very clearly Seiji’s dad (WHEN ARE THE SHIKETSU KIDS COMING BACK), is tapping frantically at his touch screen even though it’s not doing anything, and he says he’s detecting unusual brainwaves. omg

WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK IT MEANS, OBVIOUSLY THEY UNLOCKED THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP, MAN! THEY DID IT

omfg. the guard just says “he’s agitated.” I’m going to need you to have more hype than that my good sir. please

holy shit Nao

attention everyone, HAS ANYONE SEEN NAOMASA’S FUCKING CHILL, BECAUSE HE SEEMS TO HAVE FUCKING MISPLACED THAT SHIT. someone please explain to this man that there is a time and a place to play good cop bad cop and this is not it. “oh, Shirakumo is starting to recover his memories? well then [busts into the prison cell and grabs him by the collar and slams him against the wall] WHO ARE YOU WORKING FOR!?”

(ETA: so apparently Nao’s detective instincts are cleverer than mine. he saw that Kumo was potentially going to emerge, but probably not for long, so he gave him the most important question so he could focus on answering that. good job! still not a lot of chill but hey.)

meanwhile Aizawa is all “if what they said is true I’m looking at my friend’s corpse”, while still crying by the way, and yeah, so MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE. this year Santa decided to change it up and just make everyone real sad. happy holidays

lord he’s leaping to his feet and shouting “WHO DID THIS TO YOU”

meanwhile I can’t stop staring at Present Mic with his tongue sticking out. why are you sticking your tongue out. why are anime characters like this. you know, Stain also used to stick his tongue out. Present Mic U.A. traitor confirmed

also!! so many people have beef with Ujiko, though! pretty soon they will have to take a number and get in line

oh no Kumogiri is malfunctioning

Aizawa’s all “ANSWER ME SHIRAKUMO” and OH MY GOD LOOK AT THIS

I HAVE NEVER SEEN AIZAWA SHOUTA SO INTENSE AND I CAN’T TEAR MY EYES AWAY FROM THE SCREEN AHHHHH

so there’s some more of “WE WANTED TO BE HEROES TOGETHER” and “YOUR NAME IS SHIRAKUMO OBORO” and all of that other “SNAP OUT OF IT ALREADY” stuff, and you’re damn right I am eating ALL THAT SHIT right up, hell yes. IT’S A TROPE FOR A REASON PEOPLE

oh my god

bwo...hh...?

(ETA: I feel like I should explain that although I have a subscription to Viz, I really hate how their chapter viewer is set up, so I read the chapter on one of the vertical scroll-to-read sites instead. I prefer scroll-to-read for a lot of reasons, but the biggest one is so that I can read the chapter slowly (since I’m writing as I go) without spoiling what’s in the next panel. that being said, this next page is one of the few where Viz obviously got it right, so I’ll be posting the full image.)

SDFLSDLFKHSDLKJGOISDJFOSK

（┐° o °  ┐） ( ｣｡╹o╹｡)｣

feelingsfeelingsfeelingsFEELINGS

(ETA: on a reread I am fascinated by the fact that that bandage on his nose actually seems to be A PERMANENT PART OF HIS FACE APPARENTLY lol what.)

READ THE FUCKING ROOM, DUDE. also look how tiny Gran Torino is. he thought we wouldn’t notice through all of our tears. but we did. would you like me to fetch you a box

ha ha ha so now back to the drama

heh so anyway, the fact that this smoke Shirakumo face still looks like a child is straight up destroying me. how are you guys. how is everyone. feliz navidad

FKSLDJSLK HOLD UP

IS HE TRYING TO SAY “SHOUTA”, I CAN’T, I’M?!?!!!!

ADSLFKJALSKDJW

(ETA: I think you can see Shirakumo’s eye rolling back here as he fights against the brainwashing omg. this chapter’s fucking art, though.)

YESSSSSS you keep on ticking off that checklist of clichés, Horikoshi!! I’m so weak for this shit it’s not even funny. actually that’s not true, this plotline is usually hit or miss with me, but I’ll tell you what though, if there’s one guaranteed way to have me freaking the fuck out rather than sighing and rolling my eyes, it’s to have AIZAWA FUCKING SHOUTA be the one pounding on the wall of glass and screaming at his former lover to fight the layers of conditioning waging war on his mind. ohhhhhh god

lol the brainwave detecting screen is losing its fucking shit also and beeping like crazy. this tension is so thick you could plant a flag in it yeesh

is this Kumo remembering stuff??!

(ETA: thank you to the anon who pointed out I posted the wrong image earlier lol.)

why do shounen characters always recall events from a third-person camera view. curse this ambiguous flashback

AHHHHH

HOSPITALLLL ahh what??? “SHOUTA, HOSPITAL.” oh my god. Shirakumo I commend you for not having your first words after dying and being brought back to life and brainwashed for 15 years and then waking up in a straitjacket in a prison cell be, “FUCK ME OH FUCKING SHIT WHAT THE FUCK.” you and I are very different people but I respect that

HOLY SHIT HIS HEAD EXPLODED

so now everyone’s freaking out and we’re zooming in on Kumo’s eye again. by the way this is going to kill me when it’s animated oh god

OH NO THE PANEL WENT BLACK AND IT GOT ALL SILENT

(ETA: hmm I don’t think Caleb Cook knows what “whump” means nowadays. whump is what I wish we had here. instead it’s just lots of hurt but very little comfort. JUST LOTS OF PAIN AND SADNESS.)

Horikoshi please have mercy oh lord. also I see their hands touching, you. they honestly should be gripping each other fucking white-knuckled, this is all very traumatic. I think that if Shouta was holding Mic’s hand while his other hand was pressed against the glass I would probably start sobbing for real

what the fuck

did they knock him back out?? they seem really calm and optimistic about all this lol

oh godddddd

HE’S NOT CRYING YOU’RE CRYING SHUT UP. GOD, MIC, WOULD YOU PLEASE JUST GIVE HIM A HUG ALREADY??

so now they’re bidding farewell to Nao and Gran -- and HOLY SHIT --

okay hold up -- I just realized -- Kumo was trying to give them a hint about Ujiko’s location. holy shiiiiit. PLEASE START INVESTIGATING HOSPITALS, NAO AND GRAN. holy shit the Noumu arc is heating uppppp

Aizawa’s asking what’s happening with Kurogiri now, and I feel like he maybe should have asked that immediately after the fact rather than as an afterthought while they were getting ready to leave but okay

Nao says he kind of “short-circuited or something” and yeah that tracks with what we saw. though it sure does make that “THAT’S ALL FOR TODAY FOLKS, GOOD JOB BOYS, YOU GET A GOLD STAR” business just SUPER WEIRD though, but let’s be real, Nao has been swinging and missing with striking the right tone all day today

and now Gran is apologizing to Mic and Aizawa for the exquisite emotional torture he just put them through, but he says something is bound to come from it. WELL YEAH NO SHIT IT HAD GODDAMN BETTER

Aizawa apparently hasn’t run out of sad/tired/haunted expressions yet, if you can believe it

pretty soon everyone is going to be sad, tired, and traumatized! heh. it’s going to be so fucked up hahaha crying smiling emojiiiii

oh hey and we’re cutting to another flashback of AFO doing what he does best, being callously dismissive of human lives!

this guy. right here. is a rat bastard. for real. also Horikoshi sure picked a hell of a chapter to go all out on the art again, jesus. this is probably the first time I’ve looked at AFO’s fucked up face and actually thought “yep, that’s a mutilated human man” rather than “shouldn’t you be out floating in space with your asteroid friends trying to smash the Millennium Falcon?” so anyways yeah this panel is a big NOPE from me, thank you

but on the other hand, when Horikoshi uses those art powers for good, such as carefully penciling in every last individual hair of Aizawa’s perpetual five o’clock shadow, that I don’t mind so much!

yes. yes good

so now they’re vrooming off, and we’re hanging back with Gran and Nao for a minute

YESSSSS GOOD JOB NAO!!

looooool it’s ringing up the head of the HPSC and her phone’s buzzing and she’s giving it this hella dramatic look. like this is some patented Todoroki-level dramatic whooshing right here

that’s just how dramatic this entire arc is going to be, hopefully

WAIT WHAT’S HAPPENING NOW

IS THAT A CODED MESSAGE FOR HIM TO GO CHECK OUT THE HOSPITAL. AND HOW BUSY ARE YOU, HAWKS. ARE YOU THE “I AM IN SOME DEEP, DEEP TROUBLE” KIND OF BUSY, OR JUST THE STAYING-IN-CHARACTER KIND OF BUSY. YOU CASUAL BASTARD, WHO CAN EVEN TELL WITH YOU, I’LL JUST HAVE TO SCROLL DOWN TO SEE

oh hh my go

“LITTLE LATE TO ASK ABOUT THIS STUFF” so he comes from the Bakugou Katsuki school of tutoring, eh

I love that he actually followed through on explaining the PLF’s philosophy to Twice. and Twice is such a good boy. he’s studying so diligently. look, he didn’t ask to join a doomsday cult, it just kind of happened so now he’s just doing his best to figure it all out

and it definitely was a coded message, then. smoooooth, HPSC lady, smooth. so I wonder if the fact that she gave him a specific hospital implies a time jump. because I don’t think she’d have him investigate just any old hospital until they had a better lead and/or a more solid idea of what they were looking for

lol what the fuck

well I sure do not have any idea what this man is talking about

-- HOSDFLKJDLY SHIT WE’RE CUTTING TO UJIKO WE ARE CUTTING TO FUCKING UJIKO RED FUCKING ALERT!!!

HE’S TALKING ABOUT TOMURA I’M NOT CALMMMMMMMM AHHHHHH

FUCCKLKL FUCK THE WHAT HOLY SHIT WHAT DID HE DO

oh my god oh my god oh m

he made Tomura a Noumu. holy fucking shit that’s what he did. of course. so he’ll be able to possess multiple quirks, but because he benefits from Ujiko’s years of high end Noumu research, his sense of self will remain intact

AND DOESN’T THIS PROCESS JUST LOOK EVER SO PLEASANT. jesus christ. he’s not even allowed to lie down, for some reason this procedure can only be done while he’s hovering over the bed Exorcist-style with his mouth locked open in a silent scream (ETA: or is that actually his laughter we’re seeing?? because this panel wasn’t raw enough already I guess??) while random spurts of blood come chucking out all over the place. well that’s just

and Tomura fucking volunteered for this. how many scores of others didn’t?? holy fucking shit Ujiko. it’s not easy to be the most evil man in a chapter where a foil-wrapped potato with eye holes started waxing poetic about all the children he harvested and killed like some kind of bloodthirsty sommelier, but YOU FOUND A WAY. dancing a fucking jig while your so-called masterpiece is being gruesomely tortured in the foreground. man if there’s any justice in the world, we’ll find out in this arc that Ujiko used science to make himself immortal so that once he’s finally captured they can just keep killing him over and over again. I do not like him!!

so that’s it! we really are doing this thing, holy shit. Noumu arc here we come. see you guys next decade har dee har

#bnha 255 #aizawa shouta #shirakumo oboro #present mic #daruma ujiko #naomasa tsukauchi #gran torino #hawks #boku no hero academia #bnha #bnha spoilers #mha spoilers #makeste reads bnha #list of people who want to kill ujiko and just don't know it yet: #aizawa #mic #bakugou #deku #dabi maybe if it turns out he's a similar deal to kurogiri #and endeavor and shouto too. all the todorokis #and probably tomura too if he ever realizes how badly ujiko and afo messed him up #and once tomura and dabi want to kill someone the rest of league will have their back #and for that matter pretty much everyone in u.a. will rally behind their friends too #anyway so yeah #that's a pretty long list

[shikadainara]

an in-depth breakdown of b*ruto episode 178

sorry i’m late i was lost on the path of life

tl;dr yeah ok i can have my hopes and dreams about what specifically i would want but. BUT. honestly yeah the episode was more or less what i expected would actually be in it from the preview, so i can’t complain. i still sobbed!!! that’s all i really wanted!!

time to rewatch it! (warning: long post. LOL)

obviously this is nothing new but i still can’t get over how nice the exterior to the nara household is, good for them. i don’t think i noticed the solar panel before? good for them!

i’m entertained at how the episode does open with shikadai tying his hair as he walks, i just think it’s neat. i love how the camera frames it like seeing a nara with their hair down is something forbidden we’re not mean to see

temari has purple slippers i dedicate her commitment to her favorite color. (also i am Just Saying... purple........ the bisexual flag--)

yeahhhh ok so. i get the need for wanting to frame the narrative like this, but this really doesn’t make any sense. shikadai is 12, and is also a chuunin, like... he should know by now that his dad is always kinda a mess on this day of the year, and why that is. and even if he honestly really did just forget, the fact that he’s still asking his dad why he’s not at work while looking at the way his parents are dressed... did this not clue you in or what????

the fact that shikamaru’s up and ready (i really don’t think he gets much sleep on this day, every year...), and it’s shikadai who’s just getting up. i do think it’s cute that we do get to see a tiiiiiny bit of temari’s parenting that doesn’t involve being an out of character irrationally angry woman when she tells shikadai to not come crying to her when he’s late in getting ready, yeah that definitely sounds way more like her lol

temari says she told him about all of this the other day (shikadai blatantly forgot, he tries to pretend he didn’t but she doesn’t press him for it)... that does make me emotional thinking like. she is pretty painfully aware of how hard this is on shikamaru, and days in advance told shikadai about it, to try to make sure he understands what his father is going through........ she really does care about him so, so much.

i said this based off the preview, but... i would like to interpret that temari is purposefully doing the dishes(/rest of house chores) to give him space to grieve....... 

the fact that while explaining what today is, shikamaru has to get up, leave the room, and talk while not facing his family, as if he wouldn’t be able to say the words as easily while looking at them........ god. that. that hurts.

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tsunade being the one to give this speech kinda feels random? like yeah she was the one that was kage during the war but...? i do feel like it would have been more fitting to have naruto say the speech since the whole entire point of the war was to protect him (and bee) but ????? ok

no one in the uzumaki family talks during this episode which is fine by me LOL. i would assume the memorial is on the day the war ended (which would also make it naruto’s birthday/memorial of the kyuubi invasion) but if it is, it’s never stated. maybe it’s the day the war started, idk

the collection of people up front feels pretty random??? kakashi as the previous hokage, sure, guy i guess because of how important his contribution the war against madara was and also because he is kakashi’s husband, shizune kinda has to be there if tusnade is, but... iruka? like yeah he is vital to the narrative, but to konoha? he is the headmaster of the academy i think now so i guess...? but then? ibiki??? anko??? i say this as someone that REALLY loves anko, she was my favorite character as a kid and i still love her but,,, huh? SHE WAS KNOCKED OUT DURNG THE WHOLE WAR!!??!?

then you see everyone that was in naruto’s class + team guy + sai except hinata is in the crowd. which of course to the narrative, to us the readers, those are the main characters (if you ignore how more or less everyone was super shafted throughout all of part 2) but!!! team guy’s only real connection to the rest of them is that they took the chuunin exams together, and neji and hinata were are cousins. that’s about it. was it that specifically all of these characters made such a contribution to the war compared to every other single shinobi from konoha that lived ??????

shikamaru staring up to the sky did made my heart clench... no matter how different he is now than he was when he was a 12 year old genin...... i do feel like he’s never entirely ditched his true self of just wanting to stare at the clouds all day.... i’m not entirely sure what the intent was here, but i’m sure there’s supposed to be some symbolism here. the sky is actually nearly entirely clear (the way is framed, there’s only a tiny cloud in the corner,) and then he closes his eyes and hums. maybe it’s supposed to be about the closure he gets in this episode...

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ok and then here’s ao cool whatever. since i only skim through b*ruto for the characters that i care about i do not really careeeee since i won’t watch again until something interesting happens to said characters that i care about LOL

?? who voiced the receptionist they sound familiar but i can’t place it at all

katasuke is the bitch that made the scientific ninja tool for b*ruto so he could cheat in the exam right

what is ao doing here. is he supposed to be doing something evil. it sure looks that way

... who is the glasses orange scarf guy??? he kinda looks like a mix between udon and ebisu and aoba but i know he’s not any one of them lol

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TEMARI AND KARUI STANDING NEXT TO EACH OTHER... i don’t think in any media they’ve ever??? ACTUALLY TALKED TO EACH OTHER???? BUT THEY SHOULD BE CLOSE FOR THE OBVIOUS REASON....... I’LL TAKE THESE CRUMBS THOUGH THANK YOU

OKKKKK admittedly like. in terms of Pleasing Me, Personally, it’s a damned if you do, dammed if you don’t situation like.... they do kinda HAVE to acknowledge that neji died during the war so. i appreciate that hinata like........ cares. i guess. i’ll try to not post the whole rant about why neji’s death was (logistically how he died aside) narratively and thematically absolute bullshit, kishi (i believe) saying that neji died so he could play cupid for naruto and hinata like!!! fuck off with that shit!!! maybe if it wasn’t for the goddamn “naruto-kun’s big warm manly hand” line i would feel a little bit actual sad but no.

WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOSHINO AND CHOUZA HELLO!?!?!?!? COULD YOU REALLY NOT HAVE PUT THEM IN THE CROWD??

ino also has an unnamed mother that the anime made up that i believe was only in like a single episode (and was cameoed in RtN i think?) but she should still be like. Alive. so her too.

MITSUKI PLACING FLOWERS IS SO FUNNY TO ME LIKE YOU DO KNOW YOUR PARENT’S SUBORDINATE/DOUBLE CROSS TRAITOR WHATEVER DID CAUSE THE WAR RIGHT BFIOBU*EHW$

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aaand. here’s shikamaru and ino’s conversation. i’m not sure if i can put this into words, but... just... the way that they talk to each other, the weight of 15+ years of sadness about this, the way that they just!! fully know what the other is going through, the way that they’ve known each other for their whole lives and survived through everything together, the way i feel like they’ve avoided talking about this topic as much as possible over the years, hell even during this conversation the way they’re almost bickering to avoid having to directly confront their feelings, but it is unavoidable....... 

i also do wonder what their relationship with each other’s parents were while growing up: shikamaru does refer to inoichi as “inoichi-san” here, contrast to how their kids all call each other’s parents just “uncle” or “aunt”

siri play sad naruto flute.

ok since i did go back to rewatch the episode from shippuden right before watching this one for the first time i do wish a liiiittle less of the episode was about this flashback with the same reused footage like i get that they do have to put it in here but Still.

THE FACT THAT SHIKAMARU IS SMILING WHILE RECALLING WHAT HAPPENED, AND THAT THERE’S A LAUGH IN HIS VOICE........ I WANT TO CRY AGAIN

ino saying that it was so unfair how cool they looked in the end, and then giggles...... ino............. this must be so, so painful for her to recall, and yet.........

IT IS SO FUNNY HOW THEY SKIP OVER THE IMAGE OF SASUKE THERE AHAHAHAHA god i hated that so so much i can’t believe that’s manga canon. the line is perfectly fine and makes me cry just DO NOT RELATE IT TO SASUKE!!!! literally the only time they “”interact”” is when ino is introduced and ino just, for lack of a better word, glomps him???? THAT’S IT??? i feel like they might’ve changed it just because, well, you know the endgame pairings. but still. bye sasuke

damn you know what i do kinda wish they didn’t skip over the “get rid of that box before your mother finds it” part i AM curious as to what it was i mean it’s implied it’s something adult related so SP probably couldn’t show that on TV BUT!!!

ok ok all week i tried to not imagine what shikamaru and ino’s conversation would be since i wanted to go all “surprise me!!” BUT??? BUT. SHIKAMARU ASKING INO IF SHE THINKS THAT THEIR FATHERS HONESTLY, TRULY BELIEVED IN THEM?? HE’S BEEN THINKING ABOUT THAT ON EVERY SINGLE DAY THIS YEAR THESE PAST 15+ YEARS, AND SURELY IT’S ALWAYS BEEN AT THE BACK OF HIS MIND ALL THIS TIME!?!?! of course. OF COURSE HE WOULD FEEL THIS WAY!!! HE’D HAVE NO WAY OF KNOWING FOR SURE OR EVER FINDING OUT!!! like of course we as the readers know that shikaku and inoichi absolutely 200% felt that way but... from his perspective... you know what i don’t even think this idea ever crossed my mind HOLD ON THAT IS THE SOUND OF MY HEART SHATTERING--

and then he just... smiles. says that he won’t let that get him down, since it’s not like they’ll ever find out anyways. sure, it’s been 15+ years, he has had to have largely come to terms with everything by now, but...... still....

then he talks about the idea that the day will come and leave everything in the hands of their sons (now looking over at team 10′s turn to place flowers) just like their dads did... it is worded like a question, but showtaro morikubo’s absolute masterful performance does. it does portray a tone like he is absolutely 100% sure that it’ll happen, one day...

i’ve said this before but. i KNOW shikamaru has definitely spent so much time thinking about this. sure it hasn’t ever really been brought up on-screen (yet), but....... i want to see him talking about a direct contrast on what his grand plan through life he thought of by age 12, ending with him passing away by old age. obviously he did a complete 180 on they type of person he wanted as a wife LOL. it is kinda brought up at the start of shikamaru hiden while he visits the grave, says he hasn’t found anyone he’d give his life to protect... (well. now he has a son where if you see the recent chapters he is very, VERY protective of.) but i would like to see this change in his character be directly be brought up and examined

........ that being SAID. i sure hope neither of them actually like. die. i’m GOOD, thank you. they sure as hell can’t until they’re ready to pass things down to their sons, at least. until then, absolutely zero narrative reason to do so, but...... still. we don’t need to make everything an EXACT copy of what happened in naruto you can let them live kthx

they both say “what kind of half-baked response is that!” and then laugh just. I LOVE THEM SO SO MUCH TEAM 10 IS FOREVER

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there is some symbolism in how ao walks over from a really dark shadowy area into the light when he decides that he has to pay his respects...

i do like how he does reflect on how he really should have come here earlier, but better late than never i suppose

i was expecting a... more elaborate explanation for how he lived??? especially since he was standing RIGHT NEXT to shikaku and inoichi... he just. happened to survive for whatever reason while every single other person died on impact

that survivor’s guilt does hurt to see

i do like seeing how he chooses to do something with his life, aside from being a shinobi, and live it to the fullest for the sake of everyone that died in the explosion. that’s nice

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ino saying “i’m sure are fathers are happy!” AAAAAAAAAAA

IN HINDSIGHT....... I ABSOLUTELY SOULD’VE PREDICTED SOMEONE WOULD DROP A “YOU LOOK SO MUCH LIKE YOUR FATHER” AT SOME POINT IN THE EPISODE...... and. i did kinda chuckle, because like, no shit duh lmao. i’m sure shikamaru heard that all the time as a kid!!! and hell, i’m sure he still gets it from time to time over the years up to this day. BUT LIKE... SHIKAMARU’S FACE. HE LOOKS LIKE THAT, RIGHT NOW, IT’S ACTUALLY SOMETHING HE REALLY, REALLY NEEDED TO HEAR. LET ME CRY

hearing shikamaru say oyaji, and then the way his tone suddenly shifts to something very... quiet and somber? when he says “nara shikaku”..... something about that. man.... also it’s hard to see but there is a sweat drop on his face as he says all of this...

“sometimes, i end up wondering...” don’t lie to yourself. you think about this so, so much........

the flashback where ao says “listen to me calmly” when he says the bomb is coming this way sure reminds me of ino telling shikamaru to stay calm as she tells him that his son has a bomb around his neck

THE ADDED PART OF THE FLASHBACK WITH THEIR VERY LAST MOMENTS...... THE WAY THEY’RE SMILING AND JUST??? BELIEVE IN THEIR KIDS IN THE VERY END. just like how it’s described in shikamaru hiden where the narrative says that shikaku was a shinobi until his very last breaths-- actually, no. in the very end he was a father.......

“THEY BELIEVED IN YOU, WITHOUT A HINT OF DOUBT.”

AAA?A?AAAAAAAAA?A?A?A??A!??!!??!!

INO STARTS TEARING UP BUT I CALL ABSOLUTE BS THAT SHIKAMARU WOULDN’T ALSO JUST BURST ONTO TEARS ON THE SPOT, HE MAY BE 32 WHATEVER YEARS OLD NOW BUT... HE IS STILL SUCH A CRYBABY AT HEART, HIS ENTIRE CIRCLE OF LOVED ONES KNOW THIS.

you know who DID start crying though??? ME

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i do wonder, is this the same hillside that shikamaru went to after asuma’s death...? (only in the manga tho, the anime had him on a rooftop instead)

is that??? someone watching them in the back left?? when shikadai finds him? i cannot tell what that is

i am. trying to follow temari’s logic of telling shikadai to go find shikamaru and... not also going with him?? i mean i figured from the preview that, yeah it does look like it’s only the two of them, but... i can’t come up with a reason. not a super big deal but. obviously my heart yearns for that shikatema content that’s ok i can write my own fanfic i guess!!!!

also like...... i imagine it can’t be THAT hard to find him, i’m sure that he only has a small handful of Spots Good For Coping(™) when he just needs to be by himself, that i would Think his wife would know where they are. and said wife would tell shikadai. but idk

after all of this, shikamaru wants to just treat his son to go eat out whatever he wants...!! what a good father

....... now like. the logic of “temari is currently making dinner and that’s why she’s a) not there and b) told shikadai to go fetch is father” would make perfect sense. but... if they’re going out to get food then... no?? shikadai would interject to say so if that was the case..... that makes this all make no sense seriously what the hell is she doing

i do wish that like. shikadai like.... uh. actually learned about more shikaku?? this scene is more brief than i thought it would be idk i felt like it would be part of the middle of the episode and not at the end, oh well. he’ll find out in due time

THAT BEING SAID...  STILL. THE ENDING WHERE HE JUST CARES SO SO SO SO MUCH ABOUT SHIKADAI!!!! WONDERING IF HE’S WATCHING HIS BACK!!! I LOVE THEM I LOVE THEMMMMM

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not quite sure whatever ao is doing at the end of the episode???? IS IT EVIL??? i mean like that it’s him catching a leaf seems like he’s going against konoha but i mean konoha fucking sucks so. that is not evil i guess LOL

whatever not like i’ll care to actually find out!!!!! anyways let me know when the nara family (or anyone adjacent to them) does anything so i can care LOL

in conclusion. good shit.

[theregoesmylurkerstatus]

Essek meta: the monster post

(Beware, long post incoming)

I’ve been sitting on my thoughts on Essek for days, and pretty much all my asks have been on the subject. I decided that instead of answering them all, I’d do my best to gather all my thoughts and reasoning into one post.

At this stage, there’s no solid evidence for or against Essek’s goals and morals being opposed to the Mighty Nein’s. Circumstantial evidence, yes. He’s been very accomodating, but not necessarily suspiciously so. There have been small hints that maybe he’d rather do things the Mighty Nein’s way, not the Bright Queen’s.

And I will say this: prior to this episode, even good insight checks apparently revealed nothing alarming about Essek or his motives. They didn’t entirely absolve him of suspicion, but neither did they create more.

In fact, the main cause for concern this episode was that Essek’s behaviour seems to have changed. Nott says he was acting “funky,” which implies she was using her previous experience with him as a basis for comparison. She goes on to equivocate with “we haven’t seen him in a while...”

However (and this is going to be a bit controversial), I think people are being a bit wilfully blind in regards to Essek. Many, many metas pointing out that Essek may just be at the end of his rope, tired, and wanting someone to rely on (while hoping that he can do so on the Mighty Nein).

They’re all good, solid theories, and I hope that they’re true! But but in the end there are factors I’ve notice that make me reluctant to buy into it wholesale.

Nott asked Caleb to scry on Adeen, not Essek. If she was concerned about Essek in general, wouldn’t she ask to check in on him? Sure, you can say “Essek is a powerful wizard, he’s probably protected,” but you could say the same of a max security prisoner who’s being actively watched over. Caleb literally only turned the idea down because of that. Hell, even Nott knew that! She starts with, “would it be a terrible idea...” when she pitches scrying on Adeen. And yet, she suggested it anyway.

Nott must have thought there would be something to gain by looking at Adeen, which means this isn’t just about Essek’s demeanor. It’s about his relationship to Adeen specifically. She says, “Something about the way that he was behaving when we were at that prison was funny to me.”

It’s not just Essek being overworked or tired in general. It’s Essek on this specific matter. And no matter how drunk or silly Nott can be, she’s not stupid. She’s fucking smart. She was the second smartest member of the party until Beau got the circlet. Nott rarely brings up genuine, serious concerns, and she treated this with nervous gravity.

Obviously the players can misinterpret what they get from whispers, but I don’t think Matt leaves it so open to interpretation that Nott could notice things that point to simple (if extreme) stress and misinterpret it as Essek being shady.

Consider this, too: in the conversation leading up to Fjord’s “interrogation” of Adeen, Essek insists multiple times that they used various means to force the truth from Adeen, and that while Adeen initially insisted he had no idea what was going on (as any traitor would), “we managed to excise the truth, and the Taskhand has, ah, given his hand, if you will.”

And yet as soon as Fjord goes in there, Adeen displays confusion, distress, and readily admits that he has no idea what’s going on while confessing he does think he did things (that he also insists he would never do). How the hell would Essek & Co have missed that?

I suppose you could say that Adeen may have been answering pointed questions during interrogation, and they would have ignored any “I don’t know” type answers, but still. It’s a pretty big fucking thing to miss.

Essek didn’t immediately go to the Bright Queen with the information on Adeen, but he clearly intended to speak with her soon, and only put it off to see the Mighty Nein first. When the Nein propose that all of them go to see the Bright Queen together, Essek is enthusiastic, and prompts for them to go immediately, only waiting when the Nein express an interest in Adeen. He is again the one to prompt a meeting with the Bright Queen after returning from checking Adeen for a mark.

So, in my eyes, his decision to go to meet the Nein briefly before seeing the Bright Queen was not a reflection of his hesitancy to implicate or even condemn Adeen to the Bright Queen, but rather came from the knowledge that the Nein would have important and relevant information. As he said, he didn’t want to give information to the Bright Queen “piecemeal.” He’d rather wait and give her a full report. Waiting to see what the Nein had to offer fits in perfectly with that attitude.

Essek is very, very good at being non-defensive, rational, reasonable, and even agreeable. He listens to the Nein when they start theorising about Adeen possibly being under magical influence. He agrees to the points they make. He readily entertains their notions... without pushing any of them any further, and without putting forward HIS thoughts on the matter.

I don’t believe he was reluctant to throw Adeen under the bus. He didn’t bring up the mind control theory to the Bright Queen at all. Jester literally says, “I thought Essek would...” before launching into her “Adeen may not be guilty” pitch.

Nott’s insight was instigated on Essek’s return from checking Adeen for a mark,  though she clearly got insight as to his behaviour earlier in the prison as well. That may imply that Essek was not completely honest about his search of Adeen for evidence of mind control. 

Clearly, the mind control theory isn’t one Essek was personally enthused about.

Possibly relevantly, an anon pointed out:

Rewatching the scene, anon is right. Yes, technically Adeen is banging his head against the wall, but he doesn't knock himself out. He “exhales” and starts snoring. And remember, Matt ruled that a creature willingly banging their own head against something wasn’t enough to fall unconscious. So... Adeen fell asleep? In the middle of a distressed, high emotion downward spiral? With Essek, a highly adept wizard, waiting and watching in the shadows? Hm. Could be innocent. It’s perfectly understandable that someone who’s been through as much mental, emotional, and physical duress as Adeen has would be exhausted. But in light of everything else I’m trying to unpack here, I though it was worth noting.

All of the suspicion of Essek is wrapped up with Adeen, and other relevant factors point to him not especially wanting Adeen to be absolved of guilt. This could mean many things: he’s the traitor, he has it out for Adeen specifically, he’s hiding some information he discovered relevant to Adeen, he just wants the search for the traitor to be over with. Who knows? But I certainly don’t believe Nott was simply observing high stress from his job.

In the end, the real evidence against Essek's guilt, to any degree, is his personality. Critters like him. The Nein like him. He’s been a helpful ally who everyone seems to fall head over heels for without Essek trying for that kind of reception (see Matt’s confusion at him being instantly labeled “hot boi”). People are eager to look to his personality, his current position, and give him sympathetic internal reasoning that is pure supposition.

Again, it’s good supposition! They’re good theories! But I don’t think you can discount or sweep under the rug the causes for concern so easily.

To be quite frank, we still have no solid evidence against Essek being the/a traitor, while we HAVE been given cause to doubt his complete innocence. The fandom bias towards him especially makes me a bit reluctant to accept the lenient answer straight off the bat. 

I think that there’s something more going on with him. I’m also not convinced he’s a traitor, especially not long term. There’s simply not enough for me to go off of in making up my mind. But I felt it was necessary to point out that the concern about Essek in this instance has real merit, and I wasn’t really seeing that brought up and discussed. 

So... here you go, I guess?

#critical role #cr spoilers #c2e90 #speculation #ramblings #essik #anon with the mind control theory screenshotted above: i have a separate answer for that theory don't worry #I'm prepared for this to be very unpopular (understandably) but i had to get my thoughts and doubts out there #also ill probably miss talks live but ill ALSO probably watch it later tonight or tomorrow

[thenerdintheattic]

DARK EYES

The Great War - 5/5 : I just want to give Eight a hug. And Molly. Because I love her so much, I love her voice, I love how unimpressed she is with everybody and especially the Doctor, I love her story. So yeah this episode has a kinda vibe - it's like you can see the bodies and injuries and you can smell the blood, it's very powerful (and yes, let's give Eight hope by sending him in the middle of WW1 - marvellous idea)

Fugitives - 5/5 : So Eight and Molly can't catch a break. It reminds me of the Chase, which is one of my favourite Hartnell episodes, so well done. And you know, this episode is so worth it, just to hear Eight and Molly laugh for two minutes (it watered my crops, cleared my skin and all that) (and oh my GOD EIGHT CALLS MOLLY DARK EYES AND SHE IS PISSED! I LOVE HER)

Tangled Web - 4/5 : stop trying to make us believe that the Daleks can be good. i mean... Apart from that, it's a great episode. And like, poor Molly! And omg Eight crying over Lucie, i can't. just someone gives him a hug

X and the Daleks - 4.5/5 : did I mention I just LOVE Eight and Molly? Just their dynamic, the banter, the way Molly is ready to sacrifice herself and Eight just won't have any of this. I just love them. It was a nice ending for this arc, Straxus got what he deserved and I really loved that ending with Molly leaving and the letter and Eight's words : "There she goes. Back to the château, back to the tents, back to her war. Dark eyes no more." It's perfect

The Traitor - 3.5/5 : LIV CHENKA BABY! The woman is a badass with Daleks and humans, just don't mess with her. Eight is baby BUT deserves an award for WORST acting performance ever (I mean who really thought he was being transformed into a robot-man thingy?). Bless him. The three rebel men were extra annoying - you're supposed to sympathise with them because they're dalek slaves but I just wanted Liv to punch the shit out of them, they have zero charisma, nothing. The plot is ok, I'm not a fan of the dalek time controller but this cliffhanger is savage. Also "you will move ahead of us and follow my direction" YES BABY

The White Room  - 4/5 : gaaah i hate when an episode ends on a cliffhanger and the next one just proceeds like nothing happened. like how did the doctor ended up in Baker street in 1918? anyway, molly is back so yaaaay! i like this episode although the disease that makes you time travel...  and it was nice to get a break from the daleks

Time's Horizon - 5/5 : SPACE (the final frontier) I LOVE. Uncharted space travel, the need to know what's there, what's beyond, the need to understand, I get that baby. So obviously, I tend to have a soft spot for these episodes. The fact that there aren't too many characters really helped also and the Eminence SLAYS, they're really cool (although deadly bastards). And we finally get some follow-up on The Traitor, which hasn't happened for the Doctor yet, so that explains it (and I'm making a wild guess there but I suppose the aliens the Doctor made the daleks destroy were the Eminence). Also Molly and Liv in the same room ... the level unimpressedness rocketed

Eyes of the Master - 3.5/5 : The Master gets lazier and lazier with his aliases, that's funny. Anyway he gives me a weird vibe, I don't know I have a hard time identifying him as the Master. But I didn't really see the time pass with this story which is always good. The eyes stuff is very disturbing, although I don't really understand how the projenitor particles inside Molly can help to defeat the Eminence (it all feels a bit too convenient).

The Death of Hope  - 2/5 : I didn't really feel for those leftover people, that's a bit of a shame and I'm definitely not vibing with this Master so it all felt quite long for me

The Reviled - 2.5/5 : was I the only one who actually knew that the Eminence would kill the Ramosians whether the humans were there or not? I have the impression that nothing much happens there, the human "rebels" are annoying, I'm not managing in staying interested in the Master or the Time Lords plans, I just want Eight, Liv and Molly to be reunited again. Only positive here, we're finally gonna acknowledge that Liv is dying here.

Masterplan - 3.5/5 : The Master and the Doctor being stuck together and having to cooperate was really nice, I liked the insight it gave on their relationship. The bit with Liv and Sally was ok too I guess although I didn't really like the treatment Sally got. And I'm having a really hard time getting interested in the Eminence/Master plot so that's that. And God do I hate what they're doing with Molly!

Rule of the Eminence - 3.5/5 : I liked this episode better, I felt more concerned about what was happening and I actually enjoyed the Master being betrayed by the Eminence who then gets betrayed by the Doctor (although this wasn't subtle but whatever). I also really liked that Molly finally wakes up and is more like the Molly we got in Dark Eyes 1 BUT I hate that she has to go, I hate that she was just a device for the Daleks, for the Time Lords and for the Master. I guess we'll see her again anyway and I'm worried for her. Molly deserves better.

A Life in the Day  - 5/5 : YES I love, I want more episodes like this. It was so good to hear Liv laugh and Eight being happy again (and that moment when Liv tells Eight she knows he's lying because he looks terrified, and him throwing a plant at someone shooting at him, YES I WANT MORE). And it was nice to take a break from the Master / Eminence plot

The Monster of Montmartre - 3.5/5 : I'll never get over the fact that while everybody else was dealing with the eminence the dalek time controller got married. that's pretty all that I will retain from this episode. well, that and those horrible French accent 

Master of the Daleks -  3.5/5 : to be fair, I felt like the Doctor the whole episode : not getting what the hell is going on (also Eight lost his memories AGAIN and thinks daleks are his best friends, what a surprise). BUT I'm warming up a bit to this Master - he's sending me huge Missy vibe and the bit at the end with the Doctor : "let me take your TARDIS" "no you can't take my TARDIS" "but I want your TARDIS" --> CHILDREN I love them. And Molly is back and I'm so not thrilled because it's gonna end very badly for her and I'm not ok with this.

Eye of Darkness -  2.5/5 : that's ... correct. It kinda ties up the 4 boxsets together although I'm not completely satisfied with the Eminence origin - I wanted something really alien, really different. At least it kinda gives up an explanation as to why Molly's immune to the Eminence. I knew this would happen but I really didn't like Molly's end. She deserves so much more and don't get me started on the Doctor and Liv's reaction to that : Liv's literally like "Oh she's old now, she's lived her life, let her sacrifice herself to save the universe" (which isn't even the case because all the plot with the Eminence still happens by the way) and that's not the Liv I know. Eight is bothered by it for two seconds and then just moves on and when you know how devastated he was after Lucie's death, that's just not fair on Molly. So yeah. I'm bitter. 

  Overall opinion : it started very well. The first boxset is very very good. But then it gets complicated. Too complicated. Then we get the Master, the Eminence, Sally Armstrong, the Time Lords. We also get Liv and I'm certainly not gonna complain about that. And Molly gets fucked up and I really don't like that. I don't know if it's because Ruth Bradley wasn't available as much anymore but she just feels wasted. She could have just gone at the end of X and the Daleks and lived her life, I would have been happy with that. I'm disappointed with the Eminence, I don't like this version of the Master, so yeah big let down for me.

#doctor who #dark eyes #big finish #eight #eighth doctor #molly o'sullivan #liv chenka #daleks #the master #macqueen!master #bald!master #the eminence

[zwiezraczek]

Criminal - Chapter 8

Billy (viliain) x Female reader (cop)

Prologue/Chapter 1 - CHAPTER 2 - CHAPTER 3 - CHAPTER 4 - CHAPTER 5 - CHAPTER 6 -  CHAPTER 7 - CHAPTER 8:  And even I know this ain't smart - CHAPTER 9

SUMMARY: You always wanted to become a police officer. And you became one of them, brilliantly and they offered you your first case. “The Ghosts” case. The case of fleeting people and one sneaky bastard parkouring around the town to annoy you. You swore to yourself to catch him them. 

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“Y/n? Y/n, you're here with us?” Jake's voice asked you as you snapped in again

It was the third time today. The third time that somebody had caught you thinking about something, something you couldn't share, so you told them it was about the case, your Ghosts case. And in a way, you weren't lying. You were thinking about Billy and his letters, Billy and his humor, Bill and the memory of his blue eyes, Billy and his blonde locks, Billy. At this point, you knew it had become an obsession to wait impatiently for your mail a week after you left the letter in the dumpster he indicated you – he hated when you called it the dumpster, he crossed the word a few times while replying to you and telling you that it wasn't a dumpster. But, it was a professional obsession, right?

It had totally helped you to sort things out, it had cleared your mind and your view on all the had done since you followed them. They had done many good, via very strange ways and methods but in the end their purposes seemed to be worthy. Not worthy killing so many, acting as outlaws and being hidden forever. You told Billy that you thought that their means were a bit harsh, but he told you that he wasn't the brain of these operations, only a pawn, a useful one but still a pawn. And he was certain that there was no other way of action, only being illegal allowed them to quickly dismantle all these dangerous groups. It was a risk that they had to take, as criminals.

A risk you surely wanted to avoid, by working with them.

“She's not here apparently,” said Gina as she put a hand on your shoulder. You absolutely zoned out again. Thinking about the case, and him.

“I'm here, I'm here,” you finally said with a smile on your face, “still working on my case but still here with you.”

“Apparently not with us, because you're not saying a word about your case lately,” Jake remarked and you bit your thumb. Damnit.

“I'm digging deeper into some things, with a new perspective, you know...”

“New perspective? Tell me more,” Gina said as she put her elbows on your desk.

“Well. The Ghosts are always striking at strategic points, their actions are always linked to a bigger picture it seems. All that we see are disconnected events, shootings, kidnappings, gang wars, but at the end there is always something big falling. Always, systematically. Just like in Russia the last time. We're not seeing the things as big as we should. We're always missing the final piece.”

“What do you mean,” you looked up at Jake who seemed a bit lost.

“They're doing basically our job, but without any morals and without any political limitation.”

“No shit way,” Gina whispered.

“You're joking y/n.”

“Not at all,” you said showing them a file in your computer filled with missions they had done in the past, “ look here. If we align their actions from the last few years, we have corresponding dismantling of some mafias in the country and even abroad. Their actions are linked in that way, they're not striking just to strike in a place, but it's all planned even more than we thought it was.”

“Damnit, y/n,” Gina whispered with her eyes still looking at the screen, “you're having something here. It's huge, the boss should know about it! You should tell him in order to make all the things work out again!”

“He's still pissed about the last mission I organized, you know,” you sighed. It wasn't your proudest moment, you had to admit. But, thanks to that moment you met Billy again... Focus, focus y/n. “And besides, he won't believe me. He'll tell me it's a happy coincidence, as everything I found on them so well... I'll keep working on that alone.”

“You can count on us, right Jake,” Gina asked as she looked up at Jake who nodded. “We're working together for years, I mean, at least in the same department, so if you need a hand just hit us up y/n!”

“That's lovely, thank you Gina,” you replied with a smile.

If they were about to work with you, you were screwed. Absolutely screwed. And knowing Gina, she would be there for you, obviously.

~~~~

The day you knew you screwed things up was when you had a day off and your mail came to the station.

But the worst part of your day off was that you spent it with Billy. Discussing. In a coffee shop. About things and others. You told him about your day off in the previous letters, and he decided that it would be a great opportunity to catch up together, as two normal individuals. And you didn't refuse trying to convince yourself that it was all because of the case, not because you found his jokes funny when he wrote them or when you slowly understood what they were doing, and mostly what he was doing to you and your poor heart. Your cat noticed it too.

When you saw him sitting with a cup of coffee in front of him your heart almost missed a beat. He wasn't wearing his signature hoodie, but a bomber golden jacket as he listened to some music and drummed with his fingers on the table, with his eyes closed. You truly thought about going back home, but he opened his eyes and waved at you. Shit. Breathe in, breathe out and smile.

You sat on the opposite side, looking at him as you took off your jacket. He was strangely silent. You were too. For a split second, you thought it was a trap and looked all around you, a bit nervously. You had your gun with you.

“I'm not trying to kidnap you, relax,” he said with a smirk, “keep that gun in your bag and I'm keeping mine in my pocket.”

“We said no guns today, what about our sight-duel,” you playfully asked.

“We both cheated because we don't trust each other enough, nemesises,” he concluded before sipping some coffee from his cup.

“Yeah, nemesises,” you repeated looking at him for a longer moment than intended before a man came to take your order.

“So, what's up? How's the whole investigation and the case?”

“Yes, I feel good too, nice of you to ask,” you replied as you rolled your eyes and smirked.

“How are you? Have you eaten today? Drank? Took care of yourself?” He asked you as he fluttered his eyelashes. You looked right into his green pearly eyes. Oh shit.

“I'm good, I haven't eaten yet, but I'll be drinking coffee right now, with the guy I should jail, so it's like fine I guess. And you? A casual day off, Billy?”

“I'm enjoying my time with the woman who wasn't first keen on bondage but now,” he started and you sighed knowingly.

“This joke has to stop, I can't do this anymore,” you complained as the waiter put the coffee right in front of you.

“You never tried,” he insisted and you gave him almost a death glare and he began to laugh, “fine, I'll try to stop with the whole bondage thing, but that's one of my best jokes so for so I was sticking to it!”

“I'm sure you can do way better, cocky Four,” you said before sipping some coffee from your cup.

“Yeah, always for such an ungrateful cop as you are. Sure.”

You chuckled, and then you talked. Probably more than intended. He was a funny guy, with beautiful hair and mesmerizing eyes. He was probably too nice to be true, and too nice to be genuine. However, you could tell he was.

But the real problem began when Gina found your mail and couldn't keep her hands to herself when she saw that the letter was from an unknown somebody from the city. And when she opened it, she knew she had to talk to you about it, immediately. So when you came to the station, all happy and sunny she was waiting for you, sitting at your desk with the letter open. And you smelt the rat. A big rat.

“How was your day off,” she asked you with a too wide smile.

“Nice... I guess... Why...?”

“Because you have some mail from Billy, he says that you're a funny cute cop, and that the Ghosts are planning new things. And oh, what the fuck with bondage?” For God's sake, not the bondage.

“Gina, follow me please, I can explain everything...”

“You sure have to, or I'm taking all of this to the boss,” she whispered as she got up.

You had to convince her that all of this, including the personal letter, was a trap set to catch them. That Billy never meant anything to you, that he wasn't even your friend. And these words hurt, especially after the afternoon you shared the previous day, talking about everything and anything and mostly not about the case.

He was just a lost guy who had it rough and who found his way now, by doing what he believed was right. You had it rough too, and wanted to make this world a better place. You were too similar to not get along well. And this was because of that that it did hurt so much to tell that to Gina. That he was only a pawn, you told him so many times that he shouldn't see himself like this yesterday and that he should believe in himself because he would rock this world. And somehow, you had appeased Gina, who had already told Jake about it. And you just hoped that this would end right there.

~~~~

“Our traitor's back online,” One greeted Four as he connected himself to their chatroom.

“Traitor,” Four repeated as he adjusted his headphones.

“Man, you're really trying to fuck our cover up,” Seven asked and Four began to sweat in his little crappy room.

“What the fuck are you talking about?”

“The 'cute cop' date thing,” Two quoted and Four closed his eyes. He was probably screwed.

He knew that doing this for months wasn't the best idea, and he probably should have told the squad that you were there, in his house, and that he met you yesterday but no, it was his little secret mission. And even more.

“Oh, you mean my solo mission,” he asked carelessly. “I'm trying to save our asses here, no biggie...”

“No biggie,” One repeated sarcastically. “No biggie? Somebody heard your conversation in the coffee shop Four, you're trying to give us away? What's your fucking plan? You want us to kill you? Tell us!”

“Jesus, I'm fucking having it under control,” Four exclaimed. “She's wrapped around my finger, I'm basically trying to have a cop on our side so we won't be bothered!”

“And yeah, no other than the fucking girl, the cute cop leading our fucking case! Genius!”

“One, stay calm,” Two said in a plain tone. “We have to do something before they do.”

“They won't do anything,” Four interrupted her.

“Because of what? You being her boyfriend? Grow up Four, we're not in a fairytale.”

For a moment, he wished he was.

#ben hardy #6 underground #six underground #four x reader #four/billy

[iwillgivebirthtoyou]

Um long post but actually i changed my mind and im not done <3 

It feels fucking vapid talking about Biphobia all teh time because i know no amount of ranting into the void is going to fix it as long as non-bi people ignore our issues but um you know that it’s literally 100% okay for bisexual people to enter m/f relationships and bisexual people in m/f relationships are not on the same level as cishets ohhh my GOOOODDD. like you people obviously think its okay to make the same jokes that you do abt cishets to bi ppl in m/f relationships and like... you’re just gonna have to learn that you’re not funny. like i hear other LGBT people making jokes about like, they have a friend or family member that’s bi but she’s dating a cishet so she’s Broken LOL. like... you know that’s biphobic right? you know that regardless of the involvement of cishets in that person’s love life that’s biphobic right? like. im gonna punch you. you’re gonna get punched fr. <3 it’s important to note that m/f relationships are not exclusive to cishets. there are bi people in m/f relationships and there are trans people in m/f relationships. there are bi And trans people who are in m/f relationships!! its the last two letters of the fucking acronym you don’t get to revoke their Oppression Cards just cause a guy dates a girl.

and i feel like some people are going to miss the point entirely so let me explain. i am not denying that bisexual ppl are capable of being homophobic, lesbophobic or transphobic. those ppl r fucking traitors to their community and you should call that out! the inverse goes for biphobia. when a bisexual person’s identity becomes Boring or whatever when they enter a m/f relationship, you’re implying that bisexuals only have value when they’re available to you. that’s biphobic. it’s the same reason cishet people don’t trust us. they think that we’re conniving little whores & the moment they let their guard down we’re gonna scurry off in the middle of the night 2 go suck some dick like some sort of cockhopping indiana jones. it also implies that bisexuals have an obligation to “pick a side”, which is... traditional biphobia! :D when a bisexual dates someone of the same gender, cishets think we’re gay. and likewise, when a bisexual dates someone of the opposite gender, you guys apparently assume that makes them on par with a cishet! you probably get the point by now

no amount of shallow sparkle and heart emoji littered posts about how valid and cute and beautiful bisexuals are is going 2 erase biphobia. and this part doesn’t just go for bisexuals! solidarity isn’t just a meaningless “you’re okay, i like you :)”, it’s making an effort to dismantle discrimination and that starts with yourself ^__^ stop treating bisexuals like their identity is subjective bc some of you obviously dont know or care what bisexuality is

#words

[nymsonlinecottage]

1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 10, 16, 17, 21, 30 (writing asks)

1. What themes would you like to write about that you feel don't get explored very often?

This is actually hard for me to answer because I'm a basic bitch that's a sucker for cliches and will write the same trope over and over again-

But I would like to write a story that's centered around a polymoramous relationship but like... more realistically. I lot of people write poly relationships as if everyone is just a Soft Baby, and I love me some fluff, but I would also appreciate more accurate representation, especially because there's barely even any representation outside of fanfiction.

And this isn't really a theme, it's more of a genre/style, but I really, really want to write a story where it's just a normal fantasy/adventure plot but the chapters are written in poem form. Something like "Inferno," if you've ever read that. I just adore poetry, and I think it would be so fun, and I want to write is so badly! (I'm hoping once I have more writing skills I'll be able to.)

2. What are some common elements in stories you are tired of seeing? What would you avoid writing about?

Like I said before, I'm a sucker for cliches so this is hard for me to answer, however-

I'm a little tired of the whole "I literally asked you out 2 seconds ago and you just said yes, let's immediately kiss." And, yes, I am aware saying that makes me a hypocrite. I'm also tired of younger siblings always being portrayed as a spoiled brat. Obviously you can make your character however you want but like... when every younger sibling is portrayed this way it gets old and annoying. (There are also a lot of reasons why this is not the case for most younger siblings, but I won't get into that because I'm trying to stay on track here.)

5. Would you rather write a happy ending that soothes the soul, or a sad ending that hurts the heart?

I always go for writing the happy endings. I also would love to write a sad ending, but I don't think I have the skill set to do that correctly right now.

7. Favorite description in your WIP?

(...) and he sounded like a dying cow when he sang, but if that meant he would smile, Chase didn't care. Chase would listen through a heavy metal concert if it meant he could see Kaz smile.

(idk if that's technically a description but it's my favorite so... yeah.)

8. Favorite dialogue in your WIP?

"Do you even care? I've been gone for two years but do you even care? I'm your son, for fuck's sake!"

(I mainly love this dialogue piece because I love the scene it's in.)

10. What scene was the most fun for you to write and why?

In the things I've published, the one I had the most fun with is just the entirety of the first chapter in The Distraction. It was so fun because the energy it radiated was so chaotic, (at least for my writing,) and it flowed really well, and even if the jokes weren't that funny, I was laughing my ass off while writing it. Overall it was a really fun experience and made me very happy.

16. What motives do you give your original characters? What drives them? How much tragedy do you subject them to?

Some of my favorite motives to give them are something to do with their family, friends, or home. Dylan (the character I mentioned in my previous ask) does a lot of things out of spite from his dad, so that's fun. A few of the things that drives my characters (respectively) are;

• a longing for freedom

• something tragic happened to them and they want to change it

• curiosity

• basic fucking morals

• wanting to be accepted

• something not of this world is influencing them

And I use those for heroes and villains alike.

As for tragedy... I definitely subject them to a lot of it. Granted, I try to make it realistic to the world they're living in, so some of it can be a lot more traumatic then others. It can range from struggling to fit in and find friends, to everyone they love being brutally killed and their home town being destroyed.

17. Are your protagonists always the "good guys" and your antagonists always the "bad guys" or do you like to do anti-heroes and grey morality?

Uhh... yes.

Depending on the character and story, the morals and motives will be more in that grey area, but there are times it's more clearly good or bad.

I also tend to write stories where there's a traitor so, once that is revealed, the good guys realize that any information they got from said traitor couldn't be trusted and then everyone has been at least slightly morally corrupted by the traitor and they have to start from scratch, and self-reflect, and- ~conflict~

21. How do you come up with titles? Do you use placeholders or tend to change titles while writing the first draft?

Already answered!

30. What's some of the best writing advice you received? Why does it work for you?

"Write what makes you happy." This helps me so much because when I'm keeping up with published works and trying to get new chapters out before 3 months pass, it's easy for me to see writing as a chore. So, when I stop focusing on what would get the best reviews and start focusing on what direction I want to take my stories in, it reminds me why I'm writing- because writing is fun and I love telling stories!

#this took so long to type out but it's worth it because these asks are so fun #Nym answers #maple-time-lord