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ursifors · 6 months
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i made a fake pr1 crew (as in, gta au pr1) playlist. it's half joke songs that remind me of them but also some serious stuff for inspiration. some of it could be shippy music if you want to interpret it as such.
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wetbloodworm · 1 year
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Spotify Playlists
just about all of these are WIPs, especially the kid playlists!
Kids
Ivan Orlovsky (GTA AU edition)
Anastasiya Kotova (Fallen AU edition)
Zenith
Camille Tunistra
Sergey Kotov
Zephyr
Charlie Kinnegan
Sabine (implied BG3 spoilers) (just like in the themes and lyrics, nothing direct)
Decades
Avi’s 50s & 60s
Avi’s 70s & 80s
Avi’s 90s & 00s
Avi’s 10s & 20s
Themes
Big Fallout Energy
sometimes country is good actually
Mildly/Moderately/Majorly Concerning Love Songs
im so gay and theres nowhere to hide (love songs and big emotions playlist)
ah yes (gender feels playlist)
:): (neurodivergency playlist)
SFW Jams (what i listen to at work)
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berlinonair · 2 years
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Ooi - Coquette (Indie Pop)
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🕑 Lesedauer: 1 min / 📷 CTTO / Ooi Offizielles Erscheinungsdatum: 07.10.2022 Mit einem wirklich gelungenem Indie Pop Titel names 'Coquette' zog die US-amerikanische Gruppe Ooi kürzlich unsere Aufmerksamkeit auf sich. Hierbei handelt es sich um einen recht übersichtlichen, rhythmischen und einfach zu hörenden Synthesizer Track, der uns auf direkt aufgrund seines markanten Beats und den facettenreichen elektronischen Elementen aufgefallen ist. Keines falls vermissen wollten wir auch die recht ausgeglichenen Vocals im Vordergrund, die dem groovigen und zugleich dezent mystisch angestimmten Arrangement, ein Gesicht verleihen. Möglicherweise kennt der ein oder andere den Namen des Titels aus dem bekannten Videospiel GTA 5. Wenn ja liegt ihr richtig, denn bei Coquette handelt sich um den begehrten Sportwagen, mit dem man gerne mal eine Spritztour nach Sandys Shores unternimmt. Aber zurück zum Song. Wir denken dieser hat mit Sicherheit auch einen Platz auf eurer eigenen Playlist verdient. Hört direkt mal rein: Melodie: ★★★★☆ | Produktion: ★★★★★ | Arrangement: ★★★☆☆ | Energie: ★★★★☆ |  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/6caURfOzSDmVUMOhuUhoKZ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whereisooi/ Text: Adrian Prath 
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agent00n0 · 5 years
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This is the playlist I made for my GTA inspired au We Were Once So Young
Under the read more is the narrative I was going for with the song choices
1. Sinister Kid - This needed to be the opening song, because no matter where any of them ended up or how sweet they could be to each other, I needed to set the tone that the boys aren’t inherently good in this au. They’re rough and violent and they’ll fight tooth and nail to get to the top.
2. All the Stars in Texas - This is a huge tone shift, but this is also the beginning of it all. Criken and Tomato started out in a shitty little town being petty criminals. Criken organized everything while Tomato was just along for the ride. Tomato wanted to get out while they were still young and could have real lives but quickly learned that he couldn’t say no when Criken turned to him and asked for just one more heist. One more, one more, until they finally ended up in Los Santos and running in the big leagues.
3. Saturday - This is Criken and Tomato against the city, getting ready to cause as much trouble as the two of them can. Criken’s riding the high of being in crime central for the first time. He knows that he’s the one calling all the shots, but he’s still living his best life and loving the joy of the two of them truly being on their own.
4. Hey Look Ma, I Made It - The first big crime Criken and Tomato pulled off. Despite all the doubts and arguments, they pulled it off and got away clean. Criken’s ego starts to grow and he gets that first taste of feeling untouchable.
5. Sloppy Seconds - This is Criken starting to recruit the rest of the crew. He wants the broken and the lost and the hurt. He wants a family and he knows just where to look, not rejecting a single one of them despite their many, many flaws.
6. Joker and the Thief - This is Lawlman’s introduction. He saves Tomato ass one night when he stumbles upon of the bigger gangs in the city and can’t defend himself. Lawlman’s just there to have a good time and bust his head. Him, Cheeky, Percussion, and Gmart have been acting as their own little mercenary group and are more than happy to act as Criken’s gunmen.
7. I Love It - Buck and Zyke. Those two troublemakers are all over the city at all times. Buck’s an excellent runner, bringing drugs from one side of the city to the other for whoever has the cash and maybe going out and getting a little blood on his hands when he has too much energy to burn off. Zyke knows everyone and has access to everything. He works every white and blue collar job he can con his way into. He joyrides cars as a valet and has keys to half the buildings in the city from befriending the janitors. Most of their nights are spent running from the cops in stolen cars packed with gifted liquor.
8 and 9. Be My Friend and Tear You Apart - These are Bed’s songs. He’s the most lost in the city. He’s been a lone wolf for as long as he can remember. He’s been hunting for a connection, but can never find it. Instead, he always finds something wrong with the people he runs into, killing them once he’s grown tired of them. Buck and Criken end up on the wrong side of his knife one night, but he finds that he truly likes these two and ends up sticking around. He’s more than happy to fillet whoever Criken sicks him on, treating it like a special treat.
10. Kill of the Night - Things are starting to get more dangerous. Sideshow has so many people and their plans are evolving from just robberies. No one’s innocent anymore - especially not Criken - and all of them have blood on their hands. Some of them reveling in the violence more than others.
11. I Don’t Care - The first successful big job with the crew. The boys are making a name for themselves and nothing will bring them down now. They don’t care who anyone else is. All that matters is that their names are known and no one else can compete with them.
12. Moral of the Story - Criken getting more and more smug. He knows that they’re some of the luckiest people in the city, but they also work hard for their wealth. Planning and building connections and never stopping. They really did start out at the bottom and look at them. This song also just has the rough, silly vibe that works well with the boys.
13. Can’t Hold Us - Sideshow is taking off now. Nothing can hold them back. Not the cops or the other gangs or even Rooster Teeth themselves. They’re going to keep going and taking over the city and they’ll never stop.
14. Don’t Threaten Me With a Good Time - Things are starting to get out of hand. They’re still going strong, but there’s so much going on and so many people to keep track of - each with their own vices - that problems are starting to pop up and issues are being ignored as they start to indulge in the high life.
15. Heathens - They’re dark and dangerous and there’s no avoiding this. They’re a family, but it’s getting to the point where it’s hard to bring in new people. Everyone’s lives are so drenched in blood and violence now. Criken knows this without a doubt.
16. All My Chains - This song is after a big heist. All of them just partying in their base, absolutely coated in riches as they revel in their success. This is Sideshow living the true GTA high life.
17. Whoa Whoa Whoa - Rival gangs are trying to step up. Sideshow can only laugh at these small fries who have no idea who they’re dealing with.
18. Run Boy Run - Now things are starting to go wrong. The other gangs had more connections than Sideshow thought and they’re about to go down. Criken knows he has to take the fall for all of this, but he’s also wishing he could just run away from it all.
19. The Judge - Criken goes to court and then prison. He knows everything he’s done is wrong and he laments not listening to Tomato when he had the chance.
20. Say It Ain’t So - Criken about to get out of prison. He ponders over the life he’s lived and regrets so much of it. I’m imagining that he got into a huge fight with Tomato around this point and regrets that as well.
21. Terrible Things - More Criken regret. He gets out of prison and goes back to the base. He looks over the life that Sideshow once lived and knows that it was all for nothing. He did so many horrible things and it felt like it was all for nothing.
22. Disenchanted - Criken alone in the base and just drinking all his thoughts away. He has no more illusions of what kind of city Los Santos is. It chews people up and spits them out broken and worse off than they were from the start. He just wants to go back to his old life with Tomato.
23. Nobody - More coming to terms with everything that happened. He gets ahold of some of the other crew and they come back to the base to see him. They talk about how much they accomplished and, while Criken still hates the life he dragged them all into, he accepts that he at least helped them make names for themselves and feel like they had a place in the universe and a family to come home to.
24. Home - Criken finally gets ahold of Tomato again and can finally reunite with him. In prison, he realized that’s all he really needed. Not fast cars or loud guns or pretty jewelry, just Tomato at his side telling him how much of an idiot he is. Now he’s finally home.
25. Feels Like Summer - A bittersweet ending for a bittersweet tale. Criken and Tomato don’t go back home, but they try to live a somewhat normal life with their new family. They may not ever be able to leave the crime and violence behind, but they can do their best to live like regular lives again and just enjoy life.
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suckmydickalexa · 6 years
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;; caught in the crossfire, a fake pine james playlist click here to listen
tracklist 1. pull up (feat. giia) - memba and titus // 2. kiss me thru the phone (feat. sammie) - soulja boy // 3. cooler than me - mike posner // 4. crossfire - stephen // 5. figure this out - the wrecks // 6. stutter - eden // 7. grand finale - the front bottoms // 8. dont stop - blackbear // 9. bubblin’ - anderson .paak // 10. seven nation army - the white stripes // 11. riptide - vance joy // 12. 3005 - childish gambino
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firefighting-idiot · 7 years
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“Why is she called Miss Death?” “There are many theories as to why. Some say she got into the mercenary work thanks to The Vagabond; others say that she comes as quietly and as swiftly as Death does, but some say, myself included, that she is Miss Death because she never fades away, she never dies, like the concept of Death.” RT GTA Au Meg Turney playlist.
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n7punk · 3 years
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Knifepoint Fic Notes
Knifepoint is now complete! These are all my notes for the chapters, original idea, meta links, fic playlist, etc. The usual “post fic” summary stuff has been moved to my Chapter 14 notes since it’s a bit different for this fic.
Songs for this AU:
This playlist has a few turning points. As such, this is separated in sections. Undercover/the turning point: AViVA - BLAME IT ON THE KIDS, Paramore – Renegade, K.Flay - The Cops, PVRIS – Heaven, Alec Benjamin - If I Killed Someone For You, Ghost – Badflower (included mostly because the first verse hit me like a fucking train for Catra). Catra on her own: Phoenix (ft. Cailin Russo and Chrissy Costanza), YONAKA - Seize the Power, FLETCHER - Last Laugh, Mothica – BUZZKILL, Ashnikko – Tantrum, DIAMANTE - Ghost Myself. Catra/Adora: Bahari – Savage, Bahari - Waking Up The Neighbors, XANA – PRAY, Mako – Murder, gabriel black - jump (feat. Sofi de la Torre), Halsey – Graveyard. Act III: Hailee Steinfeld – Afterlife, Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince – Taylor Swift, CHVRCHES – Miracle, Dove Cameron - We Belong, Star Fire - Sleeping Wolf, Bonnie & Clyde – YUQI, Bea Miller & Jessie Reyez - FEELS LIKE HOME. Finale: UPSAHL - STOP!, MØ - Live to Survive, Lil Nas X - Bring U Down.
Chapter 1: Prologue
This idea came to me on March 16th when I was watching a GTA V Online let’s play. I have no idea what the story of that game is, but I was thinking about immortal/respawning criminals, and then my next thought was “Ooo, Adora respawning somewhere other than the Horde being the sign of her defecting” and the rest of the AU came from there. My focus for the AU was exploring that rivalry-while-lovers dynamic that I always liked in canon fics where Catra and Adora used to be together before Adora joined the Rebellion.
In my head this fic is split into three acts(/stages/parts). They’re a lot less differentiating than the acts in SLAS, they’re just the three story phases this fic has. Act I: The Horde/Undercover. This is the first section of the playlist and ends with the end of Chapter 6, when Catra dies. Act II: Enemies in Love. This is the Catra on her own and Catra/Adora sections of the playlist, characterized by Catra and Adora working separately and dancing around each other while hooking up. Act III: The Softening™. This is labeled as Act III and the Finale in the playlist. It’s characterized by Catra slowly coming to accept Adora’s love and Adora’s belief that Catra is her soulmate solidifying, as well as them finally coming together and the final conclusion of the fic. That isn’t a hard line between Act II and Act III, they kind of fade into each other slowly. Initially the fic was just Act I and Act II in my head with Chapter 6 as the central point of the fic, but I ended up making changes to the story I’ll talk about at the end that lead to what became Chapter 6 falling earlier in the fic and Act II having the fade into Act III.
Hint #1 that this was a soulmates AU: Shadow Weaver referring to immortals as “beings of love.”
Chapter 2: Lamb (to the slaughter)
CW addiction, suicide, child neglect: Originally it was mentioned in this chapter, but it got cut in editing, so I’ll say it here: Adora’s backstory in this is very similar to her backstory in OTOS, where her mother died and her father fell into addiction to cope. She basically just wandered off while he was on a bender. He looked for her for a few weeks, and then the grief of losing them both got to him. Adora ended up losing both her parents and becoming an orphan without knowing it. She became a street kid with very few memories of before.
Shadow Weaver says she “knew” the truth about Scorpia, but actually she never had an inkling before that moment and just began to suspect once Scorpia’s body disappeared. She turned out to be right, so then she was like “I knew all along and am all-knowing.”
Hint #2 for soulmates: Shadow Weaver mentions that immortals usually live in “pairs or triads”, referring to couples and polycules.
Shadow Weaver allowing them to finally be together was attempted murder, as stated later in chapter 6. Shadow Weaver was trying to push them into a relationship before Adora went undercover and potentially found out how immortals work. She wanted Catra to become mortal before then so she could always keep her as leverage over Adora’s head. Catra is, after all, much younger than Shadow Weaver. Shadow Weaver would die of old age before Catra would die of natural causes, so having her be a vulnerable mortal would be the best way to leash Adora. Shadow Weaver just honestly doesn’t understand what “happy and fulfilled together” means for people who actually feel emotions, so she didn’t realize it wasn’t satisfied. She genuinely believed that Catra was guaranteed mortal by the time Adora went undercover.
This fact had me laughing when I read the comments and saw people lamenting over Adora not saying "I love you”, since that silence was a factor in what was going to save Catra’s life later.
Chapter 3: First Contact
Shadow Weaver was listening to their conversation in the car through Adora’s hacked phone. She had bugs in both Catra’s and Adora’s apartment as well, but this conversation was the one that ultimately confirmed to her that Catra and Adora has been together this whole time. She was furious about it because she was certain they were soulmates until that moment, but her rudimentary understanding of immortals told her that couldn’t be the case and Adora must have another soulmate out there who she might leave Catra behind for, thus freeing her from Shadow Weaver’s manipulation. This is why Shadow Weaver was so paranoid and unwilling to play the long game.
Adora referring to Catra’s TV awkwardly as a “television set” is just a little nod to how fucked their childhood was that she would refer to something so commonplace in such an awkward way, because it really wasn’t a part of their lives.
Scorpia didn’t jump to assuming that Adora was talking about immortality just because they’re so rare and most people don’t believe in them. She found Perfuma when she was searching for a way to recenter and recover, and she met the rest of the Alliance through Perfuma and Entrapta, since both were hooked up to Angella’s network.
Octavia hated Catra’s guts ever since the eye incident, which played out very similarly to how it did in the show, but she did used to complain to Scorpia that “I hate that fucking stray, but I want Adora to pull her head out of her ass and get with her just so she’ll get laid and mellow out.” Little did she know that there is nothing on the planet that could make Catra mellow out.
They didn’t tie the sack onto Adora’s head because they were scared of doing it too tight and were cutting off circulation without realizing due to Scorpia’s paralyzing venom. Also, it didn’t matter if it came off since they were all wearing masks.
There’s a piece of Crew-ra Shadow Weaver art done by Diana Huh that is her lounging on a seat in Bright Moon. This is pretty much how I envisioned her when Catra arrived at her apartment to find Shadow Weaver inside.
My lore is that both Shadow Weaver and Hordak are drow in most AUs (Dark elves, though I don’t buy into the DND “all dark elves are evil” bullshit, Shadow Weaver is just obviously a drow and it’s the closest I can come up with for Hordak). Specifically, drow have grey, blue, or purple skintones, ranging in lightness from pretty much snow white to midnight blue or black. Drow have naturally occurring chemicals in their skin that can result in photodermatitus. The name “dark elves” refers to their nocturnal habits in sunny climates to avoid it burning them. Not every drow has enough of the chemical in their skin to cause a reaction, and the intensity varies (often it’s stronger in lighter skintones, though dark skintones can have intense reactions as well).
Perfuma was the one to tie Adora up. I have a headcannon that she’s into rigging, which ended up being mentioned in a later chapter. She ties both Entrapta and Scorpia up. Scorpia finds it hot, whereas Entrapta finds it peaceful and comforting. The suspension is a good sensation for her and lets her just think. Sometimes she requests it when she needs to brainstorm because it helps her focus and think.
Adora’s cover was supposed to be that she got “hysterical” after dying for the first time and Shadow Weaver tried to assure her by telling her about Scorpia and the Alliance, but Adora was still like “I fucking DIED”. At which point Shadow Weaver was worried about a Scorpia repeat, so she let her take a few weeks off to “sort herself out and process” with the insurance of Catra being kept firmly in Horde territory so she knew that Adora would come back for her. Shadow Weaver was supposed to “accidentally leave out” the report on where Scorpia had been spotted before Adora took her leave. Adora was then supposed to have, of her own free will, gone to seek out the Alliance to figure out what was going on with her, since Shadow Weaver was withholding it as another method of controlling her.
Thus, Adora telling the Alliance that Shadow Weaver was holding her girlfriend hostage was all part of the plan, but her telling them that Shadow Weaver wanted her to come find them wasn’t. She was supposed to genuinely believe it was a slip that Shadow Weaver “left that report out”, but instead she straddled the line between being truthful about the undercover operation and lying, admitting that Shadow Weaver definitely wanted her to come here and gather intel, but not telling them that she was reporting in to Catra and there was a whole plan there.
Adora never tells them the truth about this during the fic because it stops feeling like it matters to her after she and Catra have left the Horde, but it still matters to some of the members of the Alliance. Adora does end up telling them a few weeks after the end of the fic. Some of them like “you should have told us earlier”, but Catra leaps in to explain how little Adora actually shared at their check-ins and things like Adora lying about being bugged to avoid giving the Horde information, and it diffuses the situation. Though some members make comments about it here and there, the nature of these is mostly teasing. It’s a bit like “yeah, you should have told us, but we get why you didn’t, so now we’re just going you shit about it.”
Hint #3 for soulmates: Glimmer saying the “nature of immortals” means they’re good people. They exist to love, not to hurt others.
Hint #4: Perfuma asking how long Adora had been with Catra to determine if it’s possible that Catra is her soulmate (+ her certainty that Catra was mortal after hearing that they had been together for years).
Shadow Weaver showed up at Catra’s apartment both to threaten her just in case and because the tracking on Adora’s phone had suddenly gone down. Entrapta killed it when she, Glimmer, and Mermista showed up in an SUV to transport the unconscious Adora back to the base. Scorpia literally stuffed her in an alley and loitered outside waiting for the others to drive over. It’s the Fright Zone – anyone who saw something untoward going down quickly looked the other way.
Chapter 4: Immortal Boys Club
Scorpia grew up in the Horde and never knew anything different. Her mother’s, however, were forced into it. When Scorpia regenned in their apartment, they had no clue what was happening, but they knew that the Horde thought she was dead and they had to use the opportunity. They finally told her every horrible thing the Horde had done that they had hidden from her so she wouldn’t be in constant emotional agony over what she was serving, and then they smuggled her from the city. A few days later, Shadow Weaver called them into a meeting, at which point they were captured and tortured for weeks before one of them finally broke and admitted they smuggled Scorpia away, but they insisted the Horde would never see her again. Shadow Weaver killed her for insubordination. She continued to torture her wife, trying to get her to admit Scorpia’s location now she knew she was out there, but she wouldn’t admit anything. She didn’t actually know where Scorpia ended up after she escaped anyway. She spent months in the cells before she died in her sleep from a combination of injuries, the stress to her body over time, and a lack of will to go on. She and her wife were both dumped down the body chute, where Catra was eventually tossed in Chapter 6.
Yes, Entrapta does consider disabling tech killing it.
The Alliance really wasn’t worried about showing Adora their faces. They already believed Adora, but even if she was lying/spying, most of them are pretty old and don’t have mortals into their lives they have to worry about if they were exposed. Entrapta and Frosta are the only ones who aren’t legally dead, and Entrapta can’t do much with her legal identity considering she doesn’t look anything approaching the 40 she’s supposed to be.
Hint #5 is basically the same as hint #2, when Adora brings up immortals only dating each other. She draws the incorrect conclusion that this is because they can’t stand losing someone mortal, but I can’t make things too easy on y’all.
Shadow Weaver was mad because: a) Adora’s phone tracker never came back online, b) she listened to the tapes and now “knew” that Catra wasn’t her soulmate since they had clearly been together already, and c) Adora respawned at Catra’s apartment, indicating that Catra was her home. Which is good as far as using her as a hostage goes, but Shadow Weaver was annoyed by Adora’s dedication to her not-soulmate because it seemed to fly in the face of the rules she knew of for immortals (thus implying she didn’t fully understand it, an implication she resented).
Chapter 5: Truth Hurts
Bow and Mermista exchange a glance when Adora asks if she should wake up with Catra because they’re both thinking about the inevitable change when Adora meets her soulmate.
Scorpia didn’t know for certain that her mothers were dead when she returned to the Fright Zone. She knew they likely were, but she was hoping that since they hadn’t tried to desert themselves, Shadow Weaver would let them live, even if she knew they were likely tortured. When she returned, however, she found everything they had once owned long reclaimed by creditors or stolen and that none of the few people in their personal life outside of the Horde had seen them in years.
Scorpia stayed away for so long only because her mothers insisted on it and she swore to obey them. She didn’t even know for sure the Horde ever discovered she had lived, she just stopped receiving letters from her mothers and knew the likely answer as to why. She also tried calling them despite how they made her swear not to (so as not to be discovered/tracked for her own safety) and found their phone line had been disconnected.
Scorpia was hoping that they would somehow find her moms alive and well and they could move into the spare bedroom that became Adora’s, though she knew it wasn’t likely.
The different nature of love between soulmates is actually a metaphor for the inherently different way lesbians experience love in a world openly hostile to their kind of love/sexuality. People joked about gays being immortals in the comments but that’s… kind of the answer. Yes, queer people’s different relationship with love and sexuality doesn’t give us superpowers, but it does give us an understanding to a world outside of cishet’s people experience of the world, analogous to the broader experience that living a long time affords. Immortality is a metaphor for the queer experience.
Mermista said at the start of this chapter that there are no hard and fast “rules” to being immortal, a sentiment Adora then promptly forgot the moment Perfuma said Catra couldn’t be her soulmate. The truth is that it’s all a balance, and if you didn’t get enough time to be happy with your soulmate, then you regenerate when you die.
Chapter 6: Death of a Bachelor
Initially Catra was supposed to cling on to life for awhile, finally passing on when she was thrown down the body shoot (I referred to this in the outline as “meeting Scorpia’s mothers” since they were down there too), but I really didn’t want to extend the suffering since it was already a lot.
Shadow Weaver left Catra’s body on the floor of her office as she ranted and raved to other lackeys for awhile so she could watch it to be sure it didn’t vanish, but the bodies tend to linger and delay regenerating when there is someone looking at them. Basically, she needed to turn around and look back, which she never did before she couldn’t stand seeing Catra’s body anymore (she wasn’t remorseful, and she was in fact still incensed, but at the same time it was hard seeing the body of the girl she projected so much on) so she called someone in to grab it and dump her down the chute.
Shadow Weaver then came to regret this decision within an hour, paranoid that Catra had regenerated the moment that she took her eyes off of her. The people who dragged her to the chute assured SW that she was dead and no one could survive that fall anyway, but Shadow Weaver immediately set to reviewing all devices monitoring anywhere she thought Catra might regenerate, checking her apartment, their old bunk, and Adora’s apartment. She didn’t know about the blanket in the van, but even if she did, she doesn’t understand how emotional ties work for most people or that Catra wouldn’t want to regenerate in a) the center of the hell that had been torturing them, b) her girlfriend who abandoned hers bed, or c) her apartment and the bed that she last shared with her girlfriend before she betrayed her. As a result, she never would have suspected Catra regenerating on the blanket even if she knew about it. She scrubbed through all the footage from every camera in the headquarters that day, but as Catra never emerged from the back of the van, she never spotted her and was satisfied that Catra really was a mortal that Adora latched onto as a substitute for her soulmate.
The body chute is a reference to an actual body chute at the abandoned Waverly Hills Hospital where they would drag dead bodies out of sight of other patients. The one the Horde uses is an old tunnel that leads down into an abandoned tank below ground where the old factory used to tap into the sewer system before it was abandoned. It’s a long drop to where the bodies pile up, and some have been down there for a decade or more. When the raid takes place, it takes them a few days before they find the chute and realize there are bodies down there, eventually going on a mission to recover them. Most of them remained unidentified, though they were able to match some of them with DNA or dental records.
Chapter 7: Lone Wolf
The Horde Trio finding out went like this: On Saturday, Kyle avoided the hell out of Shadow Weaver because she was on a warpath. That night, Kyle told Rogelio and Lonnie what he did and Lonnie was like “oh my god you’re stupid” and Rogelio was like “you’re stupid and I love you.” Basically, they both agreed with what he did but they were like this is the worst idea you’ve ever had. They were glad they didn’t have to make the choice themselves.
On Sunday morning, Lonnie wandered up to Shadow Weaver and asked if she could have Catra’s bike (which was currently taking up room in the headquarters’ garage). Shadow Weaver didn’t want to see the reminder of the traitor, so she basically said “fine” and waved her off. Lonnie said she thinks the keys were on Catra’s body (causing Shadow Weaver to instantly tense up given her hang-ups over Catra’s body). She then says the spare key was probably at her apartment, and that they should salvage it for any useful gear anyway. Shadow Weaver glared at her, but gave them permission to do so.
All three of them went over that afternoon and collected all the gear and money they could find, as well as anything they could claim as mementos of the five of them from before Adora turned and Catra died. They then brought the hybrid gear and half the money back to the headquarters, with Lonnie claiming she kept the stuff useful to her (weapons both she and Catra used, bodygear she could fit into, etc). They also said that since Catra’s money was made on their heists, they should get half of it now she was gone (1/6 for Adora, 1/6 for Catra, 1/6 for Shadow Weaver’s cut all would go to SW now, and then 1/6 for each of the trio would go to them). Shadow Weaver truly did not give a shit at that point except that the Horde had taken a hit to finances recently, so they gave her 4/6ths. They brought the remaining cash to the hotel that evening with her other things.
As discussed later in the fic, Adora has no idea how to cooking anything due to growing up on microwave meals with the other street kids. She isn’t experienced with kitchen mandolins. Mermista was trying to teach her how to cook (by which I mean Adora started an attempt to cook while Mermista was chilling at the kitchen counter and Mermista was like “what the hell are you doing” and then proceeded to neg her while scattering in corrections/advice) but she didn’t get up from the counter and show her exactly how to use it and Adora accidentally sliced like a centimeter off the tip of her finger. It wouldn’t stop bleeding and she was feeling faint so Mermista was just like “Regen” and Adora was like yep makes sense since I’m blacking out anyway.
Chapter 8: Drag-along
Mermista “looking considering” in the first scene is the exact moment she began to suspect that they could both be soulmates still, given what Adora just said about being punished for expressing affection.
Catra knew the Horde had abandoned the location because she was checking it in anticipation of Adora showing up.
Angella can’t be a regular historian because at least the sanitizing is done with lower stakes when it’s art history, and there’s things she knows are factually wrong but the academic sources were destroyed so she would just start tearing her hair out trying not to be like “I know because I was there!” and it’s best she just doesn’t deal with any of that. She has lived a thousand lives and been many things, but art historian is her current path.
Adora’s a lot more casual about dying now than she was when Shadow Weaver made her plans hinge on it because 1) she’s had more time to get used to the idea of being immortal, 2) she understands a lot more about how it works now, assuring her that she will actually come back, 3) she knows that if she did fight Catra on it, she wouldn’t force her into it, although she might drop her off on a street corner blindfolded, 4) poison is a lot less violent of a death. She knows that she’s still killing herself by drinking it, but it isn’t the same as being locked in a vault with a gun, knowing that pulling the trigger is your only way out.
Chapter 9: Rendezvous
The Wastelanders are of course a reference to the Crimson Wastes and a loose collection of criminal gangs banding together to pool resources and drive off others.
Chapter 10: A Little Messed Up (like you)
Chapter title is from the song “A Little Messed Up” by june.
There’s a whole backstory to the necklace I ended up cutting because it was tangential, it’s weird that Catra even knew it, and it broke up the flow. However, the story is this: It sold for 12 million at an auction two years ago, and then not long after, the person who bought it died under mysterious circumstances. Their estate has been tied up in an investigation ever since. The moment it cleared, the person who inherited the necklace put it up for sale. It was expected to go for upwards on 14 million at auction. The person who inherited the estate murdered the original owner for their wealth, including the necklace.
Catra took a loss for the necklace because she was selling it illegally and can’t provide authentication, especially on such a short time frame. Eddie has to make his profit selling it to his buyer too. He doesn’t even have one lined up at the moment considering how tight the timeframe was, he just knows he’ll be able to find one.
The little scar on Catra’s right hand was from when Catra, who had been favoring her left up until that point, was forced to use her right hand as her dominant one to conform with Horde standards (Shadow Weaver wasn’t about to get her left-handed scissors, never mind special equipment). She wasn’t as dexterous with her right hand during the transition period despite being mildly ambidextrous, and she accidentally gave herself a bad cut on her palm that Shadow Weaver wouldn’t “waste” medical supplies on since the injury was “her own fault” and thus it ended up scarring noticeably despite having much more mundane origins than some of her others.
Catra tenses when Adora first drapes over her during the smut because she suddenly felt a bit suffocate, but Adora pulled back and let her adjust, which lets her relax again.
Okay, so I wrote the majority of the chapter on the 27th, then moved on and kept writing and editing. I came back to this chapter multiple times (specifically the scene in the car) to keep it consistent with the other edits I was making to hammer out the arc of their relationship. Finally, on the 3rd, I came back to do my final edit and post it. When I got to the end of the chapter, the final scene just wasn’t there. I was so confused. I went back into my version history, and found literally ten minutes after writing the scene (with totaled 1k), I somehow accidentally deleted it, because it disappeared between versions with everything else inexplicably intact. Luckily I was able to go back and recover it. I love the scene and it established some things important for the Alliance to know before Bow’s shooting, but I’m still confused about what happened.
This chapter ended up with a quite different set-up than it was intended to. Below is the original outline.
[Adora is shocked when catra materializes over her shoulder and hands her a slushie. “What is this” “just drink it” “did you poison it” “obviously”. Adora looks at her for a moment, and then she drinks it. catra takes her hand and leads her towards the park. They walk around it, hand in hand, almost like a date, until adora starts stumbling. Catra leads her out of the park, towards a car. “just a bit further, princess”] [adora wakes up and cuddles the hell out of catra. Catra misses her] [“the last poison tasted awful”. “I got a new one” “aw, for me?” “no” she snaps. Sighs. “Yes”. “Take me out again some time?” “im taking you out right now” she responds and hands her the glass]
Okay, I obviously changed things. They were less enemies at this point than I initially planned, and the consensual drugging felt iffy to me anyway (I certainly wasn’t going to have any smut in this chapter when it was a plot point, because I didn’t want those two events anywhere close to each other) so I cut that entire beat and replaced it with another blindfolded Swift Wind drive (which also allowed me to have them talk around the drive – part of Catra’s initial reasoning for the drugging was to avoid talking, but then they were going to do it during the cuddling anyway).
Chapter 11: The Scarlet Ibis Job
Knifepoint is really an example of the way a hero loves versus the way a villain does. There’s a great post about it somewhere on Tumblr, and it kept popping up into my head when I wrote some of Catra’s lines.
The hotel’s name is all thanks to @malachi-walker. I wanted a name that referenced the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas (due to its ties to the mob & Bugsy Siegel’s murder) and was struggling to come up with a suitable bird. Scarlet Ibises look kinda similar to Flamingos (not that you would confuse them, but that they have visual similarities).
Speaking of, the title of this chapter is a reference to the show “Leverage”, where all the episode titles were “The [blank] Job” (EX: “The Juror #6 Job”).
Chapter 12: Soulmates
The words that Catra says to herself and label as “Shadow Weaver’s words” are from throughout the story. You can find her thinking or saying them in earlier chapters, and Shadow Weaver says a lot of them pretty casually in Chapter 6. EX: CH8: “She was willing to leave everything behind to join them, planning to haul Catra around like a stray she expected to follow her anywhere.”
If someone had died in the fire, Catra wouldn’t have lost her immortality. Basically, if you kill someone on accident, then it doesn’t happen. Everything is a balancing act with immortality, though, so it isn’t just that simple. If you hurt someone knowing that it could directly lead to their death (IE shooting them in the leg and they bleed out, even if it’s a “non-fatal” shot), then their death will “count as murder” and you’ll lose your immortality because you were reckless with their life. However, if you’re driving and someone walks in front of your car, you never had any intention to hit/hurt them, and their death doesn’t count. Especially the longer from the initial action their death is (aka you shoot them in the shoulder with a rubber bullet, which somehow leads to complications like a blood clot that cause their death years later) the less likely you are to lose your immortality because of it.
Because Catra had taken every precaution she could and was actively trying not to hurt people and to protect them, any accidental deaths wouldn’t have led to her losing her immortality. However, if she had been uncaring and, say, set the house on fire without sweeping it and someone died, even if they weren’t in the house but ran in after the fact to help, they would count as murders because she was purposefully being reckless and uncaring with life, well aware there could be someone else inside who died. Intent and the amount of recklessness are important factors. It’s like karma.
Adora ducked into a nearby alley and ran. Grizzlor got out of his car to chase her down, but it took too long and she escaped. During this, bystanders saw and were watching Catra’s body, which prevented her from regenerating. Grizzlor then quickly returned and threw her body in the trunk. All the upper level captains had been told that Adora defected and was to be captured and never killed if found so they could interrogate her and learn what she had given up. Catra they were told had been killed for helping Adora defect, but her body was inappropriately disposed of before it could be verified that she was dead, so if she was spotted, to attempt to arrest her and interrogate her if possible.
Grizzlor was actually aiming for Adora, attempting to incapacitate her, but Catra got in the way and took the bullet. They had been explicitly instructed that if one of them did die, their bodies were to be taken back to Shadow Weaver so she could personally verify their death and that they should never take their eyes off their bodies because the Alliance uses heart-rate slowing poisons to fake their deaths to escape custody (the lie Shadow Weaver told the Horde at large to cover up immortality). Because they didn’t know this really meant you can’t take your eyes off them for even a second, Grizzlor threw Catra’s body in the trunk and fucking booked it. The cops were already nearby from the explosion and he needed to get to headquarters. He called Shadow Weaver on the way and she screamed at him, since it was basically now confirmed that Catra was an immortal. Sure enough, she was waiting when Grizzlor pulled into the Horde, and upon opening the trunk, they found it empty. Shadow Weaver stabbed her knife right through the lid of his trunk. She would have stabbed him if her lackeys weren’t already waning in loyalty/availability/number already due to the Horde losing power and sources to supply them.
Chapter 13: The Matriarch
Sea Hawk made French toast for everybody and then Frosta insisted on having him put cinnamon sugar on hers. Mermista: “That is not how the French do it.” Frosta, with a cold, dead stare: “Viva la révolution.”
Angella was the daughter of a merchant in the Roman Republic in around 200 BCE. I’m not a history expert, so forgive me for getting this wrong, but Angella had lived in many places over many centuries and changed her name as appropriate to accommodate them. She chose her last name of Proserpine in the modern era as a nod to her heritage. Proserpine was the Roman version of Persephone, but only grew to replace the previous goddess of Libera in the beginnings of the century 200 BCE. As such, Angella was familiar with both, but authorities considered Proserpine a more respectable figure of worship for women. Angella considers herself as Libera, an ancient relic dressed up in the robes of Proserpine (pretending to be a normal mortal) to make herself acceptable to the world around her.
Bow refers to her as “Dr. Proserpine” because she and his dads work together and so he was used to referring to her that way in the academic setting.
The scene with Angella greeting everyone was inspired by the vibe of when the entire family gathers to greet a relative who is visiting from out of town.
It is possible to transition after becoming immortal, just more difficult. Because a lot of the methods used are relatively new and there are so few immortals (and thus very few trans immortals), there’s a lot less known about transitioning compared to things like changing weights or growing hair. It doesn’t take eight years of HRT to lock that in as your body’s “natural state”, but no one assumed their body would just adapt like that, so it took them a long time to notice.
Factors include a) how long/if they were taking the med/had it in their system when they did for the first time, b) how often and in what concentrations it is in the system at the time of death/regen, c) how long and often it is in the system between regens, so as to “trick” the body into thinking it is supposed to be there (this factor especially means having to go longer between regens, because if you’re only alive for 2 days, then the drug can only be in your system for 2 days and it’s hard for your body to accept as natural). Generally, it has to be been in the system for a long time – years – for the body to accept it and naturally produce it.
In the next chapter Catra speculates that Angella asked about Adora’s death to justify killing Shadow Weaver to herself, which is partially true, but it is a question she tends to ask immortals to offer them space to talk about it with someone. They can’t exactly go to traditional therapy for it, so Angella has kind of been the best thing they had.
Chapter 14: Her Love’s Like A Funeral
The title for this chapter is from/inspired by Funeral by Meg Myers.
Angella just wanted to be with Micah and live normally. I know some people won’t consider Angella’s arc as a “happy end” but it is happy because she is happy. She has lived a long time. She’ll get to grow old with the love of her life and watch her daughter grow into a young woman – what could be happier than that?
I’ll be blunt: I had some plans for an epilogue for this fic, but I got sick the day I posted chapter 12 and struggled to write. I was sick for an entire week (actually, longer, but I was unable to write for a week) and totally lost my steam for the fic. I had already written chapter 13, so I managed to finish off Chapter 14 as I intended, but I just didn’t have the motivation for an epilogue anymore and writing it wouldn’t have been fun for me because of that. Below are some of the ideas/scenes that I wanted to cover as a kind of extended look at their life beyond the fic.
Angella stays for an additional few days, beginning to turn over her network/empire to Glimmer slowly (over many years). She’s lived far too long to share everything before she goes, but she keeps lots of records, and Glimmer replaces her as the head of the network with plans to one day train a protégé to carry on in her place, ensuring her mother’s legacy and that immortals have continued support through the decades.
The Alliance – and Catra – always make jokes about Catra and Adora going to Catra’s place when they have screaming sex. Catra maintains her basement as a base and fallback locations for regeneration. They do go there when they really want to let loose, but they primarily stay at the penthouse. Adora and Catra both like staying somewhere with windows to let in light now they have that option, but the basement is a secure place for them.
Catra finally told Adora about everything that happened while she was in the cells a few weeks after the fic ends, after they watched a news report about the investigation into the Horde earlier that day. It was emotional and Adora petted through her hair as she finally learned about Catra cutting it to stop Shadow Weaver from dragging her around by it. Catra takes one look at Entrapta’s calendar for growing back out her hair and goes “yeah, no”.
Catra one day just, like, realizes that she’s immortal and suddenly goes on a tear eating all the foods that are toxic to her that she has never gotten to eat. They won’t actually kill her, but she doesn’t have to suffer through the aftereffects when she can just reset. She tries chocolate – isn’t a fan, which then sets the Alliance on a quest to find The One Chocolate She Will Like which resolves on a different day – eats human ice cream, pastries, baked goods, pasta, etc. It takes her a while to work through all the foods she has always wanted to try and she finds she likes the savory carbs well enough but not the sweet stuff so much as she never developed a taste for it. Adora finds it all very amusing and supports Catra through her candy rampage. Afterwards Catra is like “I can’t fucking believe you eat that shit all the time” despite how it doesn’t make Adora feel trash like it does for Catra.
The “I know the chocolate that Catra will actually like” competition is held literal weeks later because some of the chocolate had to be flown in from fucking Switzerland and shit. Everyone in the Alliance put forth one chocolate and the one that Catra likes best becomes the winner. Catra blind tastes each chocolate without knowing a) what the wrapper looks like (though Adora has a card with all the flavors so Catra will be forewarned and not dislike one because it surprises her with a nougat center or something), b) how expensive it is/where it’s from, or c) who selected it for her. The competition is fierce just because they’re all like that.
Perfuma puts forth her own homemade chocolate which is her attempt at basically making a magicat edible (none exist since magicats can’t have chocolate or weed lmao). It includes alcohol and catnip (though catnip isn’t a drug to magicats, it does help them relax, as other herbs do in humans) (if you haven’t read previous fics, alcohol effects magicats similar to how catnip effects cats). Catra knows who’s chocolate that is even during the blind taste test because of the homemade aspect. It comes in third place because she doesn’t like the idea of getting drunk/high while eating, but it is good.
First place goes to Adora, because she knows Catra’s palette better than anyone, and while some others do figure out the “she doesn’t like sugar” thing, they just can’t match her tastes. Mermista got her a super fancy dark chocolate from Europe, convinced it was the best in the world, but it’s not going to be Catra’s taste – which is, by the way, a dirt-cheap grocery store dark chocolate. Catra used to live on the street. That fancy shit isn’t what she’s acclimatized to. The others accuse Adora of cheating and consider Entrapta the “unofficial” winner since competing against Catra’s soulmate is unfair anyway. Entrapta got second place with a mid-dark sea salt chocolate that appeals to Catra’s more savory tastes.
Angella gets them all matching loungewear outfits in varying pastel & neon shades for Christmas one year, like a mom getting everyone matching sweaters. They all have a rhinestone letter on the back spelling out “THE ALLIANCE” on the back. They need one more person, which Angella says can be Frosta’s soulmate when the time come (Frosta pulls a face) but for now Angella takes an ‘A’ and Micah takes the photo of all of them wearing them. T – Perfuma. H – Scorpia. E – Glimmer. A – Angella. L – Bow. L – Sea Hawk. I – Mermista. A – Adora. N – Frosta. C – Catra. E – Entrapta.
Entrapta is insistent that her ‘E’ is the finale e of “Alliance” and not “The” despite Angella having set it up so she can be next to her girlfriends. No one knows why Entrapta decided that, but Entrapta just knows her e is the last one and considers it “misspelling” when they try to arrange her next to Perfuma and Scorpia, so everyone goes along with it (yes, this is what the ND experience is like).
Despite Catra’s insistence on staying solo, she quickly starts tagging along on some jobs after Adora makes puppy eyes at her. She still does solo jobs (or occasionally small jobs with just Adora) and she resists being an official part of the Alliance for awhile, but one day she realizes that the plan has just assumed that she’ll be joining them without asking for the first time. And then she’s like “I’m not part of the Alliance” and everybody Looks at her and she grumbles and tucks into Adora’s side but she goes on the job. She doesn’t join all their jobs, and she appreciates being asked, but she’s satisfied as long as she maintains her freedom and side jobs as well.
Angella has a few safehouses around the world (that she passes on to Glimmer, and the penthouse is amongst them). After about a few years, the Alliance packs up and moves cities. They actually settle down a bit there, only pulling jobs occasionally, before they move again and go on a tear. They have all the time in the world, so they ebb and flow. At one point Perfuma semi-retires to teach yoga again for four years before getting back in the game, just chasing whatever interests her. At times the Alliance decentralizes (living in separate apartments and working/living more independently) but they often come back together after awhile because they’re all friends and kinda adrenaline junkies lol.
Angella and Micah die old holding each other like in the notebook.
Original Outline:
This fic followed my outline pretty closely. Some things ended up taking longer than I thought or being moved up to the chapter before, but overall, it was pretty true to form. I would say that they were supposed to be more antogonistic towards each other at first after separating, fighting a bit more about Adora leaving and Catra not wanting to, but it just didn’t fit once I reached that point.
Initially the first 5 chapters were supposed to take place over a more stretched out timeline, with Adora joining the Alliance and slowly beginning to see how awful the Horde was once she was on the outside and could a) see all they were doing and b) that it didn’t have to be like that. Adora comforted herself with the fact that all the criminals in the Fright Zone were like the Horde when she was in it, but that simply wasn’t true. They were a special kind of evil.
However, doing this would mean drawing things out to a point that just felt unnecessary, especially once I started writing and was able to show that growing distance and tension between Catra and Adora anyway. Adora was supposed to truly be undercover, then slowly grow to feel at home with the Alliance. She was going to be surprised when she suddenly regenerated with the Alliance. They would then throw a “welcome to the family” party, meanwhile the whole time Adora was worrying about the Horde finding out, which of course they had. Shadow Weaver would then order the kidnapping.
During the kidnapping, Catra was supposed to “interrogate” Adora a bit, both trying to determine if she had defected and kind of slipping her information as she spoke about what Shadow Weaver knew and suspected so Adora could try to lie around it. She failed to do so when Shadow Weaver came to her in the cell, she was tortured, and the screams haunted Catra just like they did in the fic. She then slipped in to free her. Adora’s death was supposed to be a lot more brutal. Catra was supposed to kill her with her claws because she had already turned over the poison pills to Shadow Weaver.
The rest of the circumstances changed before I wrote it, but I actually did write this version of Adora’s death and it was just too gruesome and dark, so I went back and edited it. Using the pills also let Adora justify to herself that Catra was able to free her secretly and thus didn’t face retribution for it, because if she thought Catra was still trapped there and being tortured she would have run right back after regenerating elsewhere.
Meta:
Extra #1: Shadow Weaver
Extra #2: Soulmates, Angella, & Micah
Extra #3: Death counts
Fic Notes #2: Timeline
Other meta: The Horde’s structure, Entrapta’s overalls, Adora’s dress in CH11, platonic soulmates.
What’s next?:
My next AU is Lullaby of the Drowned, a siren/pirate AU! I’ll start working on it now Knifepoint is done and should begin posting it any time in the next week or two.
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GTA V Requests Open (Updated: March 18, 2020)
Hello! My askbox is now open for any scenarios & prompt requests! In meaning, you now have the chance to request a scenario, headcanons, playlist, etc. for me to write out. So, if y’all see prompts I share, An AU, or a scenario y’all wanna send, go ahead and do so!
I am currently open to taking requests for GTA 5 and GTA 5 ONLY!
Since this is my first time doing this and I’m fixed on that for right now, that’s all I’ll be doing. <3 Who is available for me to write?
Any of the characters of GTA 5. Such as Franklin Clinton, Trevor Phillps, etc. This may include online characters too!
Any of OCs I have created for or any OCs you have. You may find my OCs here. Give me information about the OCs you have so I can work with it.
Rules-
- What CAN I do/write:
Romance
Smut
AUs
Multiple scenarios
Headcanons. If you want multiple characters in the same headcanon, let me know!
Playlist. This also can go for a pair of characters. Maybe more than two characters.  
Quotes.
- What I CAN’T do/write:
  X readers. Since this is my first time doing these requests, I’ll be putting off X readers for now. This doesn’t mean I can’t pair up characters together.
Incest, adult x minor, that kind of stuff.
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BAGUETTEWRITER’S PROMPT LIST!! (Updated 1/2/20)
Hello!  My askbox is now open for any scenarios & prompt requests! In meaning, you now have the chance to request a scenario for me to write out. So, if y’all see prompts I share, An AU, or a scenario y’all wanna send, go ahead and do so!
I am currently open to taking requests for GTA 5 and GTA 5 ONLY! 
Since this is my first time doing this and I’m fixed on that for right now, that’s all I’ll be doing. <3  Who is available for me to write?
Any of the characters of GTA 5. Such as Franklin Clinton, Trevor Phillps, etc. 
Any of OCs I have created for. You may find it here.
Rules- 
- What CAN I do/write:
Romance 
Smut
AUs
Multiple scenarios
Headcanons. If you want multiple characters in the same headcanon, let me know!
Playlist. This also can go for a pair of characters. Maybe more than two characters.  
Quotes. 
- What I CAN’T do/write:
    X readers. Since this is my first time doing these requests, I’ll be putting off X readers for now. This doesn’t mean I can’t pair up characters together.
 Incest, adult x minor, that kind of stuff. 
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Le cinéma dit "adulte" (à savoir, des films un peu sérieux gravitant autour de thèmes suffisamment forts et matures pour convaincre votre papa et votre maman de lever leurs culs du canapé et de délaisser Netflix et ses docu-séries sur des serial-killers blancs et assez sympatoches au fond (les serial-killers, hein. Pas les docu-séries...) pour aller payer un ticket à 12,86 euros de moyenne dans le multiplexe le plus proche) se voit opposer la concurrence toujours plus redoutable des plate-formes de streaming et de ces petits salopiauds de grand-huits numériques, j'ai nommé les blockbusters Marvel. Pour rester relevant dans ce marketplace disrupté, il a fallu procéder à des benchmarks, reseter le mindset et rebrander le turnover (je suis pas très sur du dernier...). La solution : Mais ! Les films d'auteur aussi peuvent constituer des expériences ! Voyons !
J'ai déjà dit par le passé mon aversion, non, le mot est trop fort, attendez... circonspection quant à ces parti-pris parapluies (ici, 1917 se compose uniquement de longs plan-séquences collant le plus possible à l'enfer vécu par deux petits troufions des tranchées), souvent plus paralysant que libérateurs créativement. Mais rassurez-vous, en tant qu'objet filmique, 1917 s'en sort trrrrès bien. Il faut dire qu'il y a que des numéros 10 dans la team. Thomas Newman à la bande-son, au top de sa forme, flirtant délicieusement avec l'abstraction concrète (c'est bien simple, je l'ai mise dans ma playlist pour faire les carreaux). Roger Deakins à la photo, bien sûr, qui désormais cannibalise de sa maestria tous les projets auquel il prend part. Même le monteur, Lee Smith, est un pointure ! Débauché de chez Nolan, on lui a confié la tâche ardue d'assembler 11 raccords et demi. On espère qu'il a fait ses heures, le pauvre chou. Des bisous. Tout ce petit monde, chapeauté par la science du cadrage franchement pas dégueu de Mendes, allie son savoir-faire tel un aréopage de Power Rangers acculés par un énième auxiliaire de l'infâme Rita Repulsa pour un remarquable effort commun qui trouve son apogée dans une sublime séquence nocturne dans un village ch'ti dévasté. Éclairages à la bougie, ombres portées et violence sourde à la clé.
Cependant, en tant que "film" à proprement parler, 1917 peut laisser dubitatif. Dans ses meilleurs moments, le bidule évoque une version coupée à l'eau des errances métaphysiques et cradingues de Sokourov ou Guerman (qu'Aronofsky par exemple, malgré ce qu'on peut penser de lui, émule avec autrement plus de guts) et manufacture bon an mal an le vertige qu'on peut ressentir chez Cuaron et Nolan, les deux maîtres indépassables du film d'auteur d'attraction contemporain. Mais dans ses moments les moins inspirés, comme piégé par son propre hubris, Mendes rame un peu, panotant laborieusement d'un pan de réalité à l'autre, tentant de caser un découpage classique au sein d'un dispositif qui exigerait une refonte totale de son approche. On entend souvent que le film évoque un jeu vidéo. Il ne faut pas l'entendre dans le sens le plus flatteur : on pense à un GTA par exemple, pour ces moments un peu lunaires qui voit votre avatar lentement marcher d'une étape à l'autre de sa mission pendant que, pour combler le vide, son N+1 de la bratva lui fait douloureusement la conversation à coups de small talk ragoteux ("Il est pas un peu sur les nerfs, Dimitri, en ce moment ?").
Il s'agit d'une approche au final très américaine : penser qu'il y a UNE meilleure façon de raconter une histoire donnée. Mais on est pas obligés de verser dans le temps réel pour espérer communiquer l'expérience des tranchées. Le génie de Nolan avec Dunkerque l'a fait partir d'une pure construction temporelle et intellectuelle (la définition d'un film, quoi) pour toucher à une vérité qu'aucun autre médium n'aurait pu retransmettre. Avec un zèle presque contre-productif, Mendes, s'imaginant probablement s'inspirer de son prédécesseur, achève l'exact inverse, rabaissé à prospecter benoîtement quelques (beaux) instants de grâce au sein d'un réel artificiel et toc.
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FIONA NOVA WEEK 2019: MAY 6 - MAY 12, USE TAG #FIONA NOVA WEEK
THEME: AUs
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Mod JG
Hello RT/AH fans! This is my first time ever hosting an appreciation week for someone and I hope I’ll do my best being a host. My banner is quite plain, yes. But I hope I drew Fiona Nova well! Mod Jace hasn’t been active for awhile and I decided to take the initiative to continue our idea. I didn’t want to delay it as much as we already did, being busy with school and personal issues (as mentioned in the last post I did). When Mod Jace was active, we both tried our darn best to choose out AUs for you guys to enjoy. Not only that, but the ones people are more aware of. Anyway, I just wanted to chat about this with y’all real quick before I present the list below :^D! Don’t be afraid to ask me questions or if you just want to chat (through asks only) on my art account.
MONDAY, May 6th: GTA
- Things like the FAHC or anything else related to GTA is valid!
TUESDAY, May 7th: Let’s Roll
- Involving all the board games Fiona Nova participated in. Or not, really up to you as long it is the board games they played on the channel.
WEDNESDAY, May 8th: Hybrid 
- “An oldie but a goodie,” as they say. Really excited to see what animal/creature you see Nova as.
THURSDAY, May 9th: Dead by Daylight
- I believe Fiona Nova was involved in about 2-3 videos of DbD. I didn’t think ahead to find the links for you guys.
FRIDAY, May 10th: Minecraft
- For a first-time miner (crafter?), she did great! I do not know where the video of her gameplay with Matt went, as when I checked my playlist for the video. It wasn’t there. Mistake on my end, but I will provide her MC skin as quick as possible.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, May 11th: Own AU
- For this one I changed Saturday due to the fact that I am unsure if anyone watched Nova played Apex Legend on her Twitch channel, so I decided not to include it. If you still want to do Apex, feel free!
I hope Mod Jace and I did you guys justice, and I especially hope I made this post good enough for you all. I know I’m not that well-known or seem awkward, but hopefully someday will feel comfortable enough to come ask and chat with this blog!
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“Ultimates Play” (a.k.a. Let’s Player AU)
Hey, Mod Snake here! So I realize that I’ve been sort of lax on my part in the 2K celebration. This has been mostly to the fact that I’ve been working on my senior thesis, and it’s been absolute hell trying to motivate myself to do anything with that nightmare hanging over my head. But now the thesis is officially over and I can finally get around to posting something I’ve been meaning to post for a while: an AU concept called “Ultimates Play!” The idea of this AU is similar to the Talent Development Plan ‘verse, except that the DR1, SDR2, and NDRV3 characters share a gaming channel on YouTube called ‘Ultimates Play’. Over the years since it started, the channel has evolved into sort of a Rooster Teeth-style project, with dozens of different series done by many different hosts. There’s a lot to unpack here, so let’s just jump right in! 
General Concepts:
As you can imagine, Chiaki was the one to set up the channel; in fact, the channel was originally called “Chiaki’s Gaming Corner”, and the channel URL still reflects this. Hajime quickly became involved in the editing process, since Chiaki would frequently fall asleep before uploading the videos. Chiaki then gradually began introducing her fellow classmates, who had become interested in the games during Class 77’s meet-up times (everyone involved refuses to call them “classes”), as hosts of their own series; before long, this spread to other classes entirely. And thus, Ultimates Play was born.
Junko in this AU is still technically in despair, but the passion for video games she developed after spending some time with Chiaki helps keep her Ultimate Analyst abilities occupied, preventing her from becoming bored enough to lash out at the world. She is still extremely competitive and aggressive, particularly towards Mukuro, but in general it is typically safe to be in the same building as her.
This AU uses the “Class 79” canon for the V3 kids, similar to the Ultimate Talent Development Plan, since the Tragedy doesn’t happen in this AU.
As the channel started to get big, the group decides they need a headquarters in which to stay; they end up building it a few blocks away from Hope’s Peak. Very few of them live in the building full-time, but the building is equipped with dozens of beds anyway just in case they all happen to crash there overnight at the same time. There are also multiple TVs, so that different students can record series at the same time.
The channel is one of the top 10 most subscribed channels on YouTube, due in part to the variety of content. Of the series, Chiaki’s and Ibuki’s typically have the most views, while Celeste’s and Hajime’s have the least views.
Even though Komaru isn’t technically an Ultimate, Makoto and Toko both begged Chiaki until she was allowed to join the channel.
Individual Series:
Makoto and Kyoko have “Detective Training,” in which they play mystery games together; typically these consist of point-and-click adventure games, although sometimes they’ll do other genres if there is a sufficient mystery element. Kyoko almost always figures out the entire mystery from the start, so she basically spends the whole time trying not to spoil the twists and puzzles for Makoto. Shuichi occasionally guest stars, but he’s too self-conscious around Kyoko to make regular appearances.
Sakaya and Kaede share a series where they play rhythm games like DDR, as well as general music-themed games like Rockband; they alternate off randomly between which one is the host, never appearing in the same episode.
Toko’s primary series is “Toko’s Shovelware Spectacular”, in which she plays the worst of the worst games on the iPhone and Android app stores. Komaru makes an appearance every time there’s a multiplayer game, or whenever Toko is so genuinely shocked by a game’s shittiness that she needs a second person to confirm she’s not imagining things.
Neither Togami nor the Ultimate Imposter have a consistent theme for their series (although they tend towards real-time strategy games); however, there is something of a running joke between them. Every time Togami uploads a video on a game, Twogami will then upload a video on the same game, starting off from the same place Togami left off and claiming to be the next installment. Togami is consistently infuriated by this, but he can’t figure out how to stop it. There’s a running debate in the comments about whether the ‘second Togami’ is actually a distinct entity or just Togami playing an elaborate practical joke; this, for Togami, is the worst part of the whole thing.
Ishimaru has a series called “Upholders of Justice”, in which he plays crime-themed games (GTA, Saint’s Row, etc.) while breaking as few laws as the game will allow him to. If you’ve ever seen the Saints Row the Third episode of Monster Factory, it’s sort of like that.
Hifumi and Kazuichi have a shared series called “Love Quest 3000”, in which they play dating sims together; this is ostensibly for the purpose of figuring out how to get better at real romance, but they have yet to achieve any success in this field.
Celeste has a recurring series on gambling games, such as video poker and virtual slot machines. To her eternal fury, they are by far the least-viewed videos on the entire channel; this may be because she always wins, or because her commentary consists almost entirely of A) ‘advice’ on how to win at gambling (which boils down to “be lucky and don’t panic”), and B) reiterations of how successful she is.
While Junko doesn’t actually have a standalone series, there is a playlist named “With Junko” on the channel. This is because, rather than star in her own series, Junko will occasionally crash episodes of other series and serve as a guest commentator for the episode, typically without the approval or knowledge of the players in question. HOWEVER, Junko does co-star in a regular series called “Rose and Thorns”, in which she and Mukuro play co-op games like Portal 2 and New Super Mario Bros. You can probably imagine how well their interactions go.
Hajime did an Undertale LP.
In her continuing effort to be the most meta human being in the universe, Ibuki has only a single ongoing series: “Ibuki Plays Danganronpa”. At no point in the series does she comment on the fact that her fellow Ultimates- and indeed herself- appear in the games; the closest she comes is her DR2 LP, in which she off-handedly remarks on the similarities between herself and Ibuki in the game. There is only one exception: every time game-Ibuki’s corpse is on-screen in Chapter 3, real-Ibuki goes absolutely silent until the scene changes or she turns away. None of the other Ultimates can figure out where the hell she got these games, and she refuses to provide a straight answer.
Hiyoko and Mikan, of all people, have a shared series entitled “Super Bestest Friends Play!”; it consists pretty much entirely of Hiyoko forcing Mikan to play the weird Flash games you find on various “gaming” websites (i.e. bootleg Frozen games and the like). Hiyoko uploaded the first episode without permission from the others, and promptly found herself being threatened with stabbing by Maki, who is always on watch to make sure things don’t get too upsetting for Mikan; every once in a while you’ll hear a soft click in the background of the episodes, at which point Hiyoko will immediately and urgently apologize to Mikan and suggest a tamer game. Also, every once in a while the situation gets shaken up a bit: on at least a couple of occasions Mikan very visibly starts getting aroused by the games in question, which freaks Hiyoko out more than anything else the other Ultimates have ever seen (this is the main reason they allow the series to persist).
Gundham and Sonia have an ongoing series in which they play horror games together. Gundham constantly pretends not to be freaked out by the jumpscares, even though he is. Sonia constantly pretends to be freaked out by the atmosphere, even though she’s not. They are exactly as adorable together as you can imagine.
Gundham also has a recurring Pokémon series, covering at least one game from every Generation. He makes a dedicated effort to capture one of every Pokémon, and at the end of each playthrough he hacks in any that he can’t obtain legitimately that Gen. His videos are each at least an hour long because he can’t make himself stop playing with his Pokémon. He also cites Pokémon-Amie as the single greatest innovation in the history of the franchise.
As more and more shows started appearing on the channel, Chiaki started putting out less and less content- which suits her just fine, since it gives her more chances to play games with herself and her friends, without having to worry about making entertaining commentary. Her only ongoing series at the time of the AU is a gaming news show, where she reports on announcements about games she’s interested in, as well as discussions about what she’d like out of future games. Hajime is a recurring guest star on the series.
Komaru has a series where she plays whatever games she happens to like at the time; most of these are Nintendo games, and almost all of them are on the casual end of the spectrum. Toko regularly drops in without warning.
Mitarai has an ongoing visual novel review series, which frequently devolves into tips about drawing and commentary on anime he likes or dislikes.
Himiko has a series of RPG playthroughs, many of them unfinished. The only playthroughs she will consistently finish are Final Fantasy games, since they’re Tenko’s favorites. She also did exactly three episodes of a Kingdom Hearts LP before abandoning it, citing the story being too confusing.
Maki has a recurring series in which she plays first-person shooters in order to test their accuracy. To the hastily-suppressed delight of Kokichi (and the well-disguised amusement of everyone else in the building), Maki usually turns out to be absolutely terrible at these games, being so used to real combat situations that she can’t adapt to the artistic license of most FPS’s.
Kokichi Oma has only one series, which is entitled “Kokichi Plays Minecraft”. The series is well over a hundred episodes long, and not a single damn second of that is from Minecraft. Instead, every episode is taken from a different game, with no apparent pattern; each episode has Kokichi acting as if he’s been playing this game for several episodes, as well as alluding to various incidents that happened previously in the game (which, of course, the audience doesn’t get to see).
Tsumugi’s series is literally just makeup tutorials for cosplayers. She doesn’t seem to realize that it’s otherwise pretty much exclusively a gaming channel, and no one else has bothered to tell her.
There are plenty of other series not listed here, including some that pop up without warning and only air one or two episodes before ending. In general, every character from the games has at least one recurring series, each with wildly different schedules. 
One series in particular doesn’t have a single consistent host; it’s called “Ultimate Date Night”, and the commentary role shifts between various couples within the group- Akane and Nekomaru, Himiko and Tenko, Sonia and Gundham, Kokichi and Shuichi- as they play various cooperative and competitive games together. There is also a spin-off series called “Double Date”, in which two such couples square off in team-based competitive games.
Other Headcanons:
At one point, Hifumi and Kazuichi definitely played Doki Doki Literature Club, and spent the second half of the series alternately screaming and crying. They were not ready.
For one April Fools’ Day, everyone on the channel traded series for the day; Makoto and Kyoko hosted “Love Quest 3000”, Celeste and Ishimaru hosted “Super Bestest Friends Play!”, Hiyoko and Mikan hosted the horror game series, Maki hosted “Detective Training” (with special guests Kaito and Maki), and so on. The only exception to this was Kokichi; the thumbnail for his video showed Mukuro as the host, but Kokichi introduces himself as usual at the start of the video and does his usual thing. Also, Junko cameoed on multiple series that day.
Makoto and Kyoko definitely played through Ghost Trick together, and Makoto cried multiple times throughout the game, particularly near the ending.
The only time anyone in the group has ever seen Junko legitimately cry is that one time when Mukuro beat her at Mario Kart 8. Mukuro has never let her forget that day.
Maki was banned from “Double Date” after her first and only appearance ended with extensive property damage and Fuyuhiko (who was on the other team with Peko) being rushed to the hospital with multiple broken bones.
Games Komaru has played include Super Mario Galaxy (finished, though not 100%), The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (unfinished), Thomas Was Alone, and Miitopia.
Chisa regularly visits the Ultimates Play headquarters, bringing snacks and encouragement. Everyone is happy to see her, even Togami and Kokichi.
Himiko was the first non-Class 77 member of the channel; no one is quite sure how she ended up joining, least of all Himiko.
Let us know if you like this idea, and if you have other headcanons regarding this AU! Maybe you’ll get featured in a follow-up post or something; who knows? Anyway, hope you enjoyed whatever this was! 
- Mod Snake 
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Bc of you I’m lowkey into Aleks and James but I was wondering if you had a primer or crash course of them and the channel and what their personalities/shows are?? Like what is Fake chop and all that jazz. (Also Jakob is the cutest thing alive) or anyone had a quick read link bc I’m very lost but trying my best.... thank you in advance for any advice at all xx
oooOOOO OKAY 
im Highkey really excited and I want to show you EVERYTHING but I’m a very disorganized person, so bear with me 
(under a cut so people can scroll past bc it’s a Tad Bit Long) 
im pretty sure there are already a couple “guides” out there for cc, but the only one I can find atm is @aleksandr-james​ one (linked here) which is great!! its a lil outdated as of now, but the videos and playlists at the bottom are still a great introduction to the channel and a good breakdown of the series/types of videos they do!
basically, cow chop (couch co-op) is a channel James and Aleks started so they could make more co-op content, which has lended itself to a TON of different mediums. there is tons of gameplay on the channel, but they also do a bunch of live action stuff and other bits! James and aleks are the main duo for the channel, but there are a bunch of other on screen personalities that you’ll see in videos and also in fandom content such as fake chop! 
fake chop in particular came around as a branch off of the idea of “fake au” which is p much “grand theft auto au” and it originates with “fake ah crew” which is achievement hunter’s (another gaming channel) gang name in gta. there’s really no official rules or story for fake chop, and the general idea is just ‘the cc group are all criminals’ and people kinda run with it from there! I personally am a big fan of fake au in general and I LOVE writing for it, and cc provides a ton of fuel with some of the shorts they do where they dress up as mobsters and criminals and such, so there’s always some fake chop content to go around! (I’m gonna link you patreon.avi bc OOOO BOY that is some GOOD FAKE CHOP CONTENT and since its from their move to LA its not on the primer!) 
as far as personalities go, james swings between giving absolutely no fucks and giving Way Too Many Fucks, and Aleks just kinda swings with him and screams the whole time. they’re both wild and they’re super comfortable with each other, which makes the videos that much better to watch, because they’re just constantly shooting the shit and heckling each other. some of my favorite videos are just ones where they’re shamelessly fucking around, like: 
- this old video from RTX however many years ago where they’re all Shitfaced
- this one where James and Aleks dress up as jocks and beat the SHIT out of a printer
- this one where aleks trains to become sonic
- the whole hidden agenda series, just bc I love Lindsey so much 
- this video where James gleefully oils up the floor of the warehouse to slide around on a giant spyro blow up
- this one where the floor is lava
- the whole fuckin mafia series
- the one where they decided to play with airsoft guns in the warehouse and James had Way Too Much Fun dancing around in his socks
- this whole series where aleks said “hey lets rent an RV and drive to the Grand Canyon” and no one stopped him when they should have so they fuckin did it
if there’s anyone else with stuff to add/better primers/more videos please feel free to rb and add or comment!!! I know there is so so much I missed, so honestly anon, feel free to just explore!! the way I got into cc was just going through the channel and watching old videos that sounded interesting, and then keeping up with the new uploads! there’s also a dope community on here for cc if you wanna chat! 
happy watching!! 
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voidexe-blog · 7 years
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Night ride Los Santos
Synthwave/vaporwave mix for chill rides at night with friends or if its just yourself and a body in the back.
track list;  i. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number Soundtrack - Roller Mobster / ii. Kavinsky - Roadgame / iii. The Midnight - Nighthawks / iv. Power Glove - Nightforce  /v. Multipac & Flashworx Mix - Summer of 1984/ vi.   MACINTOSH PLUS - リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー / vii. Porter Robinson & Madeon - Shelter/ viii. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number Soundtrack - Run / ix. James Blake - Retrograde /  x. jinsang - Summer's Day/ xi. HOME - Resonance/ xii.   Ab Soul ft. Kendrick Lamar - Illuminate / xiii. Le Matos "King's Filth" / xiv. Magic Sword - Sword Of Truth/  xv.  Magic Sword - The Curse
original cover art [ x ]
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firefighting-idiot · 7 years
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“Don’t go underestimating him, he is dangerous just like the rest of them.”
A FAHC Jeremy playlist I made for @illegalknives as a gift.
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djmaikelkiel · 4 years
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