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itsavgbltpta · 8 months

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Should You Watch Mashle?

(Full English title: Mashle: Magic and Muscles)

(Japanese title: Mashle)

A Brief Summary

In a world where magic is used for everything, not having magic is a death sentence - and it’s easy to tell if someone is magic-less as all magic users have a mark on their face. But one little baby without magic got a lucky break and was raised in the woods, hidden from the world. With not much to do in said woods, this baby grew up with a lot of physical training. Like… a lot. So much, that when the magic users do eventually find him, he can deflect their spells with his sheer physical might alone.

So now Mash, with no magic ability, needs to go undercover in an elite magical academy to rise up in the ranks and become someone with enough power to change the way the world full of magic thinks of those without it.

So, should you watch the anime?

Yes, as long as you enjoy typical Shounen Jump style stories.

Take one part Harry Potter, one part One Punch Man, and add in Mob’s haircut (from Mob Psycho 100). Boom, you have Mashle. This show isn’t changing the world or anything, but it’s an amusing way to pass the time.

While a lot of basic bits seem to be literally ripped out of Harry Potter (including a game almost identical to Quidditch), the smaller details are definitely original - which is good, because otherwise I’m sure JK Rowling would sue, lol.

Most of the spells the students have in their repertoire are battle-focused, with certain students having essentially bloodline techniques. While Mash doesn’t have any actual magic, his “spells” generally refer to whatever muscles he’s using to conquer the challenge.

The school has regular courses (potion making and the like), but the meat of the show is the battles Mash and friends find themselves in. And, while it feels very typical shounen, it’s fun to watch the weird magic techniques and how our heroes can figure out ways to overpower someone that would normally seem to be the obvious winner.

The goal of most of these battles is for coins. To be considered the best, someone needs a certain amount of gold coins by the end of the school year. There are ways to earn coins via academic measures, but that’s not the way the students end up earning most of their coins in this show. That main method is betting between themselves and fighting it out. And Mashle packs in a lot of fights for being only 12 episodes long. In fact, it’s mostly fights. This isn’t a bad thing, but if you’re looking for deep and impactful character development, look elsewhere. If you’re looking for fun action, you’ll be happy.

Despite being packed full of action, Mashle has a more comedic spin than a lot of modern shounen, and I found myself chuckling at the antics in more than a few episodes. How Mash finds ways to get around having no magic are usually the best bits. I don’t want to spoil much here, but my favorite is probably how he is able to “fly” on a broom.

The character designs are pretty simple, but in a way I like. They’re easy to identify, which is handy when the opening intro song starts flashing over a dozen characters at you. The fights look good too, with smooth animation. No complaints on the visual side from me, except for the boring robes everyone wears.

By the way, the ending song is a bop, and I watched it every episode - Shu Cream Funky Love forever! Entertaining endings are rare in anime, so I’m always happy to watch one.

There’s an eclectic batch of students at (or involved with) the academy, including:

Best dad/grandpa who is willing to live out in the woods and deal with a kid that opens doors by ripping them off the hinges because he can’t remember to push or pull (Regro).

The “I don’t want to be here today” roommate who has fairly average magic skills and is too much of a doormat to say no when asked to do something (Finn).

The token female of the group who is obsessed with dating/marrying Mash because he saved her (Lemon).

**I’m hoping Lemon gets some good fights/character growth later in the series, because honestly there aren’t any cool female characters in this first season, which is a shame.**

A secretive and powerful student who likes to think himself a lone wolf even though he is always helping his friends out… and who has a major sister complex (Lance).

A hotheaded delinquent type who’s all about trying to look cool for the ladies, but fails miserably because he’s trying too hard (Dot).

And a villainous puppet master willing to do anything to make sure only people he deems worthy are allowed to thrive (Abel).

Plus more eccentric students who want to show off their cool magic techniques (usually in battle)! There are some villain-of-the-week students, but also some that show up later in the season that look like they’ll play a bigger role in things.

Where does it rate on my personal scale?

S: I will buy it at full price (unless it’s released by Aniplex USA, because fuck their pricing).

A: I will buy it on sale sometime down the line.

->B: I had fun watching it, but don’t need to own it.

C: It’s not my cup of tea, but wasn’t awful.

D: Dropped it.

X: Finished it out of spite, but did not enjoy it.

Mashle ranks at a high B. After so many shounen shows have been going darker (like Jujutsu Kaisen, Demon Slayer, and Chainsaw Man - if you count that as shounen), Mashle is refreshing and fun. I will tune in for season two, but I’m not really excited enough to buy it or check out the manga.

#anime #anime review #should you watch the anime #itsavgbltpta #mashle

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megamangxtheadventure · 8 months

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MAGE CHRIONCLES CHAPTER 25 CIRNO VS POMU SOPRANO

cIRNO waked up in etrini where reisen was there with eiren "are you alright we cured you and removed all the nazi sciance from your body how feel you do" asked doctor eiren and cirno sitted up

"i feel better now but i am sad i used my power to hurt friends" cirno side

reisen took out a high tech weapon case with lunar industries written on it "you need to get the prismatic rain blade to...him" she said and cirno picked up the case.

"i'm the strongest i can do this considering it doned" she said and got moving.

location-illuminati base 5.23pm

arydin izumi had come in and ron Desanta was there too with bill ciper "i see you gassed the base again we are really running out of guys if we keep gassing the high councl" said arydin

rons fingers extended like big sausafge salad fingers as he scooped up pudding with them "they where weak we must remove the weak the illuminati must be strong" said ron as he sucked his fingers to get the pudding

argdin chuckled at Ron "you have learned to mimic humans better skin walker" he smile

"back to baduiness we need to keep control since sunak is gone i have ordered jk rowling to b ecome the new leader of fascist britian as for america putin has plans in mind but we must focus on the gorefield seals and our control over gensokyo and magic" arydin said

shadiversty was eating gravy with his fingers and wearing a crown "i am happy britian is embacing old values but a woman in power that is a step too far, if i had my way afhganstan is the perfect blueprint at least the talban know how to keep the woman folk in there place a perfect model for a christan monarchy america" he laughed

bill ciper floats "we have lost our fairy nazis but i found a new type of fae weaspon using something more ruthless and they will deal with cirno."

It was then the new illuminati man comed in "i am lord goat and our soul eraser program will help us create fae weapons using gangster dna this time insted of nazi"

everyone clapped.

location-peppino spegettis pizza place

Peppino and guastivo where serving customers when bad people comed in "oh no not the god damn mafia again" he sighed but there leader had blonde hair and a blue bow IT WAS POMU RAINPUFF the fae

"wait are you not that a vtuber fae" said brick

she punched brick hard into a wall "i am no longer that weakling they injected me with gangster dna and used the soul eraser program to make me strong I AM POMU SOPRANO NOW! head of the pomu crime family!" SHE SAID and slammed peppinos head against the oven "WHERES MY FUCKING MONEY PEPPINO!!!!!!"

two fakegees where behind her one being WEEGEE WALNUTS and the other bodyguard fakegee "oh a my god you are a working with the weegees too?!" gasped gustivo

Peppino in rage picked up a bench and benched pomu soprano on the head "quickly we must a run for sweet life" and the peppino pizza crew ran with fast

Pomu gotted up and machine gunned at them "WHEN I GET YOU I WILL HAND YOU OVER TO ANDREW TATE AND YOU';LL SUFFER LIKE CATBOY SANS?"

Weegee walnuts dropkicked gustavo and brick "you want to fuck with us then lets get nuts" weegee walnuts said

"i am going to take your fucking head clean off!" pomu shouted and reloaded the machine gun.

but then cirno came down and kicked her in the face and she was wearing her Advent Cirno PLUS outfit with the tusugi sword crystal.

"you?!?!?! YOU DARE HIT A MADE FAE! YOU'RE FUCKING DEAD! I WILL SHIT NUKES DOWN YOUR THROAT CIRNO FUCK YOU!" pomu fired the emtire machine gunned clip at her but cnrino flash stepped and cut the gun in half with tusugi

"i am the strongest fairy don't even weaste your time that soul eraser lord goat gived you is no power its just powered by hate" cirno said with smug

pomu got a crate and takened out a laser gatterling gun and opened fire as peppino and gus took cover "this is madness this is insaneity i cant take it" he said

cirno dodged and fired ice beams at pomu and thinked hard "i need to get the case to...him but i have to deal with pomu first" cirno thinked and spinned the blade

Cirno then focused her ice magic into the blade gutting the gatteling gun in half as it blowed up in pomus face knocking her and the two fakegees back as cirno rushed and got peppino and the others out.

after they escaped they stopped to rest "what is a happening why is pomu running the mob now?" asked peppino.

Cirno put the case down "they used the soul eraser on her and turned her into a ruthless gangster to act as an illuminati gang boss of the area but i have a plan i am to take this weapon case...to him"

peppio thumed up "then we will a help you we have a score to settle with these illuminati a bastard".

location-andrew tates bar and base

inside the base was arcade machines cigarettes alcohal and gambling as lots of kids where where being lured to corruption like the sheredder thing from the 90s turtles movie.

Andrew tate came in wearing a cape and armor "i am your father now and before, you comed to me loners and deprassed but i have gived you purpos as solders in my war as alpha males and now we will cast the weaknass, and fight a new world to build stong world with that i am proud to anouncing our new allies THE TALIBAN" saidandrew tape as men in terrorist armor and aks had come in "CAST ASIDE YOUR WEAKNESS AND PLEDGE YOUR LIVES TO THE TALBAN!" andrew laughed as the young boys bowed.

after the meeting andrew tape went to the top floor of his office looking over the city as he poured some whiskay and smiled "its all going to plan" but then he notced a man in a purple suit had com in "its you what do you want you are meant to be in section d right now" tate said.

"you do not care about the gorefield plan do you tate you only care about what you want you cared nothing for serving the darknass of higher powers but i am a true solder of evil thats why i am taking command of your sector" said william afton.

tate did the face "no no no you can't do this to me i'm an alpha male i'm based in recruited and radmailized these men! i'm based" he shouted

William afton kicked andrew tate and picked him up "no you are not based, I AM BASED!" wILLIAM afton shouted and threw andrew tate off the bulding to his demisse as he screamed " he then took the evil cape and the badge that said boss of the lost boys and put it on going into the bar and arcade

"andrew tate was too weak now i am your father and leader and we are going to gensokyo to put it under taliban rule" william afton laughed as the boys cheered but william had a more darker plan as he did not care for these people.

tb be contiunued

#megaman gx #fan fiction #fanfic #touhou #cirno #peppino spaghetti #william afton #pomu rainpuff #bill cipher

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d2kvirus · 18 days

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Dickheads of the Month: March 2024

As it seems that there are people who say or do things that are remarkably dickheaded yet somehow people try to make excuses for them or pretend it never happened, here is a collection of some of the dickheaded actions we saw in the month of March 2024 to make sure that they are never forgotten.

Of course the only response Itamar Ben-Gvir had to the United Nations calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (after countless votes scuppered by a US veto every single time) was to accuse the UN of antisemitism. Hey, why not say there's some of those "Hamas tunnels" under their HQ while you're at it?

...an accusation which Eylon Levy won't be able to use after being suspended and later sacked as Israel's English language spokesman due to a one-two punch of first having his grandstanding about how Israel was definitely allowing aid into Gaza was fatally undermined by Alicia Kearns asking him to cite a source for his claims multiple times, so then Levy thought that he could get back on the front foot by raging at David Cameron on Twitter that there are no limits on aid trucks getting into Gaza...which promptly saw countless sources up to and including the UN quoted back at him saying that what Levy was saying bore no relation to this thing called "reality"

Unelected Prime Minister Rishi Sunak thought it was wise to hurriedly stage a press conference denouncing the voters of Rochdale for electing George Galloway in their by-election as "extremists" instead of, say, and example of a largely Muslim constituency registering their disgust at a party which has several MPs who are casually Islamophobic and yet Sunak sits on his hands at the ballot box. And of course he also casually folded the pro-Palestinian marchers into his talk of "extremists" in the exact same speech, because that's the sort of coward Sunak is

...so of course Keir Starmer was 100% in support of Sunak denouncing anybody who dares look at anything other than one of the two cheeks of the same arse that is the Tories or Keir Starmer's Labour Party, because apparently it's better to do that then consider that maybe spending four years telling a large section of their voter base to fuck off yet having the gall to call them "Tory enablers" at the slightest criticism is always going to blow up in their faces the moment Starmer proved that his only talent is punching left and not, say, maybe suggesting that Israel killing Palestinian children might be something that needed to be called out months ago

Oh boy, it appears that Jonathan Glazer's Oscar acceptance speech for Zone of Interest was a red rag for antisemites as it brought them out in droves, with Batya Ungar-Sargon accusing Glazer of refuting his Jewishness, while Debbie Schlussel went one further and invoked the "self-hating Jew" trope, meanwhile Justin Saba tried to claim Glazer pretends to be Jewish when he likely only visits a Jewish deli once a month while Hillel Fuld tried to suggest that the Oscars was some Nazi-Hamas joint production, while for some inexplicable reason Tracy-Ann Oberman was snitch-tagging Danny Cohen and JK Rowling's agent in her lamentations that a Jew might disagree with her rabid support of Israel, and finally Abe Greenwald decided to dedicate Glazer's award to the IDF as if Glazer's speech hadn't specifically targeted them. And yes, I think you may have noticed a common theme about these people invoking one antisemitic trope after another about Glazer

...soon followed by Ben Shapiro giving a particularly dogbrained take on the films which only served to demonstrate that he hadn't seen it and merely based his argument on reading the synopsis of the film off Wikipedia, which was somewhat of an issue as Shapiro claimed to have seen it while also demonstrating that a Wikipedia synopsis is somehow too nuanced for Shapiro as that too makes it clear there's Jewish characters in the film, let alone scrolling down a little further where the cast list also makes this clear

Isn't it funny how Frank Hester can make extremely racist comments about Diane Abbott and also say that she needs to be shot that the MPs who were just a few weeks earlier howling about their own safety (after blackmailing Lindsay Hoyle, in order to spike an SNP vote on their opposition day) suddenly couldn't find their voices to suggest someone who donated £10m to the Tories might not just be a tad racist but is also a potential threat to MP's safety?

...and yet the inflatable dartboard that is Lindsay Hoyle appears to have forgotten about his handwringing about MPs being abused at the following PMQs, as he repeatedly passed over Diane Abbott when she tried to pose a question - but did allow a question to be asked by Mark Francois, because why let someone who is the target for racist abuse ask a question when you can always let the bloke who was strangely absent from parliament for several months when an unnamed Essex MP was being investigated for rape?

...but luckily the unifying force that is Keir Starmer had a solution: offering to return the Labour whip to Diane Abbott providing she stands down as a Labour candidate at the next election - which once again serves to remind people that Starmer has a real blind spot for abuse of his female MPs if they are any colour other than white

...and then along comes Kemi Badenoch to dismiss the whole thing as "trivia" which was certainly an interesting take for an Equalities Minister to take, not least because a few days prior she called out Hester's comments for the racism that they are

The month of billionaire manchild Elon Musk got off to a great start when he had to grovel to stochastic terrorist Chaya Raichik when she howled that Twitter was infringing on her "rights" be reinstating the policy against deadnaming trans people, promising her that she would not be banned from the platform for violating the Ts&Cs which the platform had just reinstated

...and soon afterwards billionaire manchild Elon Musk was using his platform (a platform he didn't create, merely bought before fucking it up for everyone) to Joe Biden of treason - on Super Tuesday

...and then billionaire manchild Elon Musk demonstrated just how what an authority on immigration he is falsely accusing Jhoan Boada of assaulting a police officer yet not being deported in a tweet (complete with Photoshopped image) when, in reality, Boada was exonerated on all charges, which the Community Note made abundantly clear before Musk threw the usual hissy fit and demanded it be removed - and really, at this point, maybe the billionaire manchild should shut the fuck up about migrants considering his brother unintentionally let slip how they were in the US illegally for several years

...yet don't forget that billionaire manchild Elon Musk is also capable of more than casual dogwhistling as he's also capable of having utterly dogbrained ideas, such as removing the visual record of the number of likes and comments under posts which definitely has nothing whatsoever to do with his audience crying about constantly and consistently getting ratio'd

...and soon afterwards billionaire manchild Elon Musk showed just how devoted he is to FREEEZE PEACH by cancelling the contract with Don Lemon to post his show on Twitter days before the first episode was set to debut, in which Lemon interviewer...erm, that would be billionaire manchild Elon Musk, who clearly realised a day or two after the interview that it was incredibly likely that he came across as a sociopathic weeb

...mainly because billionaire manchild Elon Musk came across as sociopathic weeb who when faced with the mildest pushback to things which he has said got super-defensive, could barely string a sentence together due to being rattled, and was trying to make excuses to get the hell out of there - and to show he wasn't mad, he spent days kvetching about Don Lemon to his echo chamber of TERFs, Neo Nazis and incels who told him he did great

...all the while billionaire manchild Elon Musk demonstrated what a crock his talk of FREEZE PEACH always was by filing a lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate for having the nerve to catalogue the racism which is rife on Twitter ever since Musk's purchase, a lawsuit which was dismissed and described as "vapid" by the judge who dismissed Musk's suit and was torn apart in the courtroom by the simple question of why Musk didn't try and file a defamation suit against the CCDH - though Musk tweeted shitty comments about the CCDH that made him look like a spiteful cunt, which really helped his case...

...and even more bullshit, as billionaire manchild Elon Musk decided to flex his engineering knowledge and state that the trusses from the Francis Scott Key Bridge could be easily repaired and used to build a replacement bridge in 3-6 months, as if steel trusses which had been exposed to 40+ years of weather erosion, traumatic damage and spent time at the bottom of Baltimore harbour is definitely going to be perfectly safe when, 3-6 months from now, it's reinstalled with a new coat of paint on it. That sound you hear is a lot of people checking the Ts&Cs of their Clustertruck to see if they're due a full refund in case they find if the steel came from the wrecks of burned-out Ford Pintos

This month on Planet Zionism we started with David Collier showing just what an expert on the subject of racism he is by boldly stating that, if the disciples were alive in 2024, they would all be members of the IDF looking to free Jesus

...and soon afterwards fellow racism expert David Baddiel proudly declared that he invented the term "hierarchy of racism", which does beg the question how much research he did on his books where he says what an expert on racism he is

Mask off time for militant TERF JK Rowling as she decided to go off on a rant which she capped off by misgendering India Willoughby at the urging of one of the Gender Critical drones who wanted mummy's approval, and just kept on going after that. But remember, JK Row'ing has never said or done anything overtly transphobic...

...and because it was mask off time for JK Rowling within a week she decided that Holocaust denial would definitely make for a good career move, because we should ignore all the evidence of the Nazis exterminating the trans community and listen to the hack writer who ripped off The Worst Witch until she needed to rip off Luke Skywalker's character arc to last beyond two books

So nice of Michelle Donelan to decide the £15,000 she owed to Professor Kate Sang of supporting Hamas after falsely accusing her of being a Hamas supporter would not be coming out of her pocket but would be covered by the taxpayer, as paying out of her own pocket would be admitting guilt for libelling Sang

Fascist cartoonist Hans Christian Grabener really didn't like it when they were revealed as the person behind StoneToss and, previously, also being behind RedPanels - so they did what any whiny little bitch would do and whined to daddy, that "daddy" in question being billionaire manchild Elon Musk who thought deleting the thread exposing Stone Toss would be enough to stop people from saying that Hans Christian Graebener is the fascist oik behind StoneToss

...and then billionaire manchild Elon Musk showed his dedication to FREEZE PEACH once again by deleting the Twitter account of Alejandra Carabello because their username stated that Hans Christian Graebener was the fascist oik behind StoneToss, because apparently it's okay to post people's names, addresses and places of work when LibsofTikTok does it, but posting information which is freely available online is bad now

For the love of every religious deity can Rachel Reeves please find a different euphemism for being chancellor than balancing the household budget, because unless her parent's garden shed printed money there's no way of comparing that to being chancellor...but then again, she can't really use credit card euphemisms what with her government credit card being suspended in 2015

...similarly, it would be nice if Liz Kendall stopped accusing everybody between the ages of 20-30 who are on benefits of being workshy, given it is demonstrable that a large section of benefits claimants in that group are working - it's just their salaries don't cover things such as rent, food, heating bills, and everything else Keir Starmer's Labour Party don't think are issues

...although considering that when Rachel Reeves takes a break from economically illiterate drivel she's using Thatcherite economic policies while sending out Darren Jones to talk up Thatcher's "decade of national renewal", which is something that comes as news to anyone who worked in industry at the time especially coalminers, maybe obviously made up stories about helping with the household budget when she was six is slightly less horrifying

Brilliant PR by the Royal Family when they fought back against people wondering where the hell Kate Middleton has been since she was last seen in public at the end of December by posting an obviously Photoshopped picture for Mother's Day as proof of life - which only further caused suspicion while also showing people that, actually, the Royals have plenty of control of the media - as demonstrated by the tone of all the reports being "Shut up and don't ask questions" while painting those who do have questions as conspiracy theorists

...and oh boy did Kensington Palace looks like absolute wankers when Kate Middleton announced she was being treated for cancer, meaning they knowingly threw her under the bus and blamed her for the whole fake photo incident in spite knowing she was undergoing a course of chemotherapy

...yet this didn't stop the BBC using the term "conspiracy theorists" to describe people suggesting the Royal Family had been keeping things from people even in the days after Kate Middleton made it abundantly clear the Royal Family had been keeping things from us hence the very real concern for her wellbeing just like the BBC had been doing for a good week or so prior, which is the sort of disinformation that BBC Verify is supposed to call out

Congratulations are in order for Adin Ross after he blabbed on a Kick stream about how Andrew Tate was looking to do a moonlight flit out of Romania - so the Romanian authorities swooped in to arrest Tate after receiving reliable information about him trying to sneak out of the country

For some reason Julia Reel thought she could pull a Jussie Smollett by posting a video claiming she was manhandled at a bar before being tossed down the stairs - only for the bar to post the CCTV footage that showed just how much she was lying, as instead it showed her walking down the stairs with the security guard stood a good two feet behind her pointing her in the direction in which she could fuck off

The good news is that Laurence Fox has decided to stop taking people to court, which might be related to him going 0-2 in spurious libel cases in the space of a few weeks. The bad news is that Laurence Fox has pivoted to yelling online about how he won't "poison" his son by giving them their ADHD medication, which is likely going to see him in court yet again pretty damn quick

...yet because Laurence Fox cannot go a week without humiliating himself while being a cringy dickhead, he organised a march against Nike for that whole bullshit about the collar of the England kit where about forty people turned up - and would have seen that Fox was wearing a pair of fucking Nikes

...and then Laurence Fox pivoted back to screeching about his not-so-immediate family when he described ex-wife Billie Piper as a "junkie" in a rapidly-deleted tweet

...yet it wasn't long before Laurence Fox pivoted right back to being a cringy dickhead who may well have a humiliation fetish when he started bitching and moaning about not being allowed on the ballot for the London Mayoral election - at which point it was pointed out that he had not filled out the forms correctly, but on the plus side he wouldn't be losing his deposit as he forgot to pay that too

Just when you thought that Question Time couldn't be any more blatant with its far right platforming, first they host an episode about extremism with Melanie Phillips on the panel without considering that having somebody cited in Anders Brevik's manifesto might be a bad call, then the next week Rod Liddle was on the panel

After reading a whole two Wikipedia articles Destiny though that he could take his debating skills learned from years of screaming at Starcraft players into a debate with Norman Finkelstein about how Israel definitely isn't committing genocide in Gaza as an endpoint to decades of oppression - and it went so well that not only did Finkelstein clown him, but the guy supposedly backing up Destiny was laughing at how badly he was getting clowned

Noted drug cheat Lance Armstrong criticised modern cycling for not competing like they did in his day, apparently forgetting that competing like he did back in the day led to a lifetime ban from cycling and the list of Tour de France winners having a rather conspicuous seven year gap between 1999-2005, something which is much worse than teammates high-fiving each other after a race they had lost

AI scammer Billy Coull had the brilliant idea of whinging to the press about how his life was ruined by the public backlash to the Willy's Chocolate Experience scam. That would be the scam which he was responsible for. And accepted money for. And tried to stage for the least amount of money possible

Attempted wrestler Bill Goldberg probably shouldn't whinge (and definitely shouldn't sound like a bigoted moron) about Asuka having a longer undefeated streak in wrestling than he does, what with Asuka actually winning all of those matches instead of having half a dozen added to the list between episodes of Nitro and Thunder - oh, and Bill? It definitely doesn't help if you congratulated Asuka, while pronouncing he name correctly, about beating your streak when you were under WWE contract

Bonehead messiah Tommy Robinson had a real clever day where he attended the Crystal Palace vs Luton Town match, announcing he would be doing so on a podcast - and was promptly arrested due to a combination of him being under a banning order from all English football grounds as well as the minor inconvenience of having a ban order from literally the entirety of London, so violating two banning orders at once means he was effectively arrested for taking the piss

#dickheads of the month

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cc-horan28 · 3 months

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take me home, heartbreak weather, drop the mic, nobody is listening, walls and harry's house

Thanks for the ask, sweetie

Take Me Home - What's a phase you regret from your childhood?

Oh god I had this forced goth/tomboy phase when I wasn't yet to terms with my extreme gayness. I thought telling everyone I love rainbows and sparkles and stuff would be an extreme giveaway and i didn't everyone to know so i used to say being girly is overrated (so i ignored pink literally i regret that daily). So i decided to only wear black and cut my hair and stuff. It was weird. Thank god i grew out of it.

Heartbreak Weather - What is the worst situation you've found yourself in?

Ah i've talked about this before, but I had like everything planned out (or thought I did, education wise) I'd even shifted and everything and then changed my mind. Almost thought I'd not get in to the uni i am now, but phew.

Drop The Mic - Who is a celebrity or influencer that you'd really just like to punch in the face, and why?

JK Rowling. Thanks for fucking up your own legacy. Get a life. enough said.

Walls - What is something you wish you'd done, and why didn't you do it?

I really don't know tbh. I guess in reference to the first answer, that I hadn't done that. Hadn't pretended to be someone I'm not. 13 year old me would have been much happier.

Nobody Is Listening - What is something about you that people judge/misunderstand?

Uhm, especially in person, that I'm too studious and boring. I'm really not lmao im down for all sorts of weird fun. And that I must have a huge friend circle because im so extroverted (i really don't i have major trust issues)

Online idrk

Harry's House - What is your safe place?

Anywhere that I have my music with me. And food. that's all I need.

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Main Review...

This is the fourth book in the series by JK Rowling. This book focuses a lot more on teenage experiences than the previous books, while it also has some danger from the trials of the Goblet of Fire. This book, for a long time, was my favorite in the series. The adventures range from their first school dances and dates that go along with that, and fighting dragons and the Dark Lord. It's quite a tie which is more intense...

This book is awkward and devastating and heartwarming all at once, it really shows that despite them being a group of wizards they still go through the same trials that muggle teenagers would. It introduces two new wizarding schools, and the students that go there, bringing with them a whole new pile of characters to learn.

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Character Overview...

Harry Potter

Harry, being one of the Triwizard contestants, has more on his plate than most in this book. He struggles with his newfound crush on the Ravenclaw, Cho Chang, and fights with Cedric Diggory of Hufflepuff, Viktor Krum from Durmstrang, and Fleur Delacour from Beaxbautons, for his place as champion.

Like in the second novel of this series, The Chamber of Secrets, he is again an outcast to his Hogwarts peers. As he is the second contestant from Hogwarts, he is dealing with his fellow students rooting for the popular Diggory over Harry, especially since most think he cheated his way as the fourth contestant. Even his closest friend Ron Weasley stops talking to him for a period. As he teams up with Cho's boyfriend, Cedric, to help his way through the tasks he struggles with the outcome of the tournament, leaving even more trauma in its wake. The one thing that really upsets me in this book is how Harry just sides with Ron immediately instead of comforting Hermione, it really goes against their sibling-like relationship and makes me feel incredibly bad for Hermione.

Hermione Granger

Hermione especially develops as a teenager in this book, she has her first successful date with one of the contestants, the Russian Viktor Krum, which causes much jealousy from Ron's side. She lets herself enjoy these experiences as she floats through the happiness of finding her first love. While it doesn't really turn into anything serious, it's surprising how she really lets herself be free from the strictness of her past three years at Hogwarts.

She really allows herself to expand emotionally, while still keeping her same bookish personality and supporting her friends through all their tribulations. Even as she deals with Ron's jealous antics and outbursts, she gracefully deals with everything with more control than most. Goin of what I said about how Harry didn't support Hermione during the Yule Ball fight, it really shows how she needs more school friends, whether it means girls or boys, to support her while Ron and Harry, both best friends with each other, neglect her friendship.

Ron Weasley

Ron really goes through the motions in this book. He deals with jealousy from the attention Harry constantly gets and has always gotten for being "The Chosen One". Through this blind rage, he doesn't even stop to realize that Harry needs support too and he didn't ask for his fame and attention. He also doesn't stop to control his emotions and contain himself from ruining Hermiones' first date in front of the entire school.

For the first time in the series, I really want to punch Ron in the face. It is one of the only things I really get upset about, is how Ron and Harry treat Hermione. While it could be written off as adolescent immaturity, I think it goes deeper than that. It also doesn't really suit the rest of their personality, as most of the time they really value her, except for the rare moments when they treat her like absolute shit.

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I would normally do the romance section he but I feel I already mentioned enough of that, so moving on...

Notes...

I really recommend this book for teenagers, growing up I had a deep emotional connection to this book since it really shows how they are growing up. While there are better ones in the series, this one is the best for a teenage audience in my opinion.

Thank you for reading!

#harry potter #harry potter and the goblet of fire #goblet of fire #wizarding world #jk rowling #book review #book recommendations #genre-reviews

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poetry-protest-pornography · 3 years

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WHAT. THE ACTUAL. FUCK?!?

#jk rowling needs to be punched in the face #i am incandescent with anger #i don't even go here but this is going to be fascist antisemitic bullshit and I'm--#*screaming*#fantastic beasts

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blazestarninja13 · 3 years

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So...

I had this crazy dream that started off as a complete clusterfuck and slowly transitioned into being an episode of Agent Carter.

Strap yourselves in because this is a wild ride...

I dreamt that I was in a cinema that was modern yet had a 1940s vibe to it and I was with my mum and dad watching Nightmare Alley. There was a whole bunch of famous people there. It was after 9pm and my parents and I were sitting down in cool 18+ bar like area in the cinema though I could barely see the screen when some guy from the cinema came and said that I wasn’t old enough to be there despite the fact that I had my ID on me.

He said that I needed to know one of the famous people there even though it never said that on the rules of the place. I told him that I knew Millie Bobby Brown and so my mum brought her into the room but he still didn’t believe us so he put me and my parents in the normal cinema area so I went down there to meet my parents and as I was walking down there, some 20-something offered me $100 but I knew there was a catch so his elderly parents told me to give the money to them because they had made a bet on something and he didn’t wanna give the money to them.

The movie started and was really good because Cate Blanchett and then there was an intermission. I was in the cinema lobby when I was pulled aside by Agent Peggy Carter. She was telling me that she needed me to help her, Jarvis and Howard on a mission to take down JK Rowling and the Transphobes so obviously I agreed to go with her and my parents never noticed that I was gone. I walked outside of the movie theatre (the outside was all 1940s like) and got in a car with Peggy, Howard and Jarvis (both from Agent Carter). As we were driving, I asked what the plan was. Peggy explained that the plan was to take down JK Rowling at this fancy fashion show that we could get into thanks to Howard being rich and knowing famous people and then Peggy and I would attend the show in disguise whilst Howard was talking to was talking to famous people with Jarvis at his side to keep up appearances.

During the intermission, JK Rowling deliberately bumped into me to plant something in my pocket. After she was out of site, I took out what she had planted in my pocket and it was a nasty letter saying about how “demigirls are just tr**nys but even more confused” along with application form to get a “trans vaccine”. That made me feel like total shit and so I went aside and cried because I felt awful and dysphoric about it. Then Peggy found me and told me that “no matter what, Rowling says, no matter what you identify as, to me, you’ll always be brilliant” and she gave me a really nice hug and also kissed me so then I felt much better.

We then left the place with Howard and Jarvis and went to this motel where apparently one of Rowling’s evil henchmen had managed to get ahold of some of Peggy’s cool spy gadget stuff and her gun so whilst Howard (with Jarvis at his side) distracted the receptionist because Howard being Howard and so Peggy in disguise as a housekeeper and I, being her second pair of eyes snuck into the room and tried to get as many things as possible but then the henchman saw Peggy but didn’t know it was actually her and thought it was a legit housekeeper doing her job so she had to leave and told me that she’d go back to the car whilst I got the stuff.

The stuff included a cool hidden pocket knife, an automatic lockpick disguised as a lipstick, a gun and a bigger hand knife. I was grabbing the stuff when the henchman came in and started attacking me and I fought back and gave him a nice hook in the face, Peggy style but then he got back up and cornered me when all of a sudden someone punched him from behind and it was Angie (from Agent Carter) who Peggy had called as backup for the mission. I then swiftly slit the henchman’s throat and both Angie and I jumped out of the window and onto the roof of Howard’s car where we got in a drive away whilst Peggy told us that we both did an excellent job (apparently at this point, Angie, Peggy and I were GFs) and so we then parked the car near where the movie theatre was and JK Rowling was there so we took her down and Peggy gave me her gun so I could shoot her down which I did and I felt like such a badass and so proud.

The last thing we had to do was get back to the cinema without being detected by the cops of the SSR and so we got back to the cinema where the intermission was just about to finish and the five of us sat in the front row of the cinema before Peggy hugged and kissed both Angie and I thanked us for being amazing in the mission and then we watched the movie. During the last few seconds of the credits of the movie I snuck back to the spot where I had been with my parents and they never realised that I had left and my dad asked me “So how was the movie?” And I said “It was the best movie ever” whilst smiling at Team Carter and giving them a thumbs up to them.

Bonus: A pal’s reaction to this and her new headcanon

(Because marvel better make Blaze x Peggy x Angie canon lmao /j)

#long post #You know it’s a good dream when you ended up dating Peggy Carter AND Angie Martinelii in it #my dreams are usually a clusterfuck mixed with a whole ass movie or tv show episode #peggy carter #marvel #agent carter #angie martinelli #cartinelli #edwin jarvis #howard stark #wtf #tw: jk rowling #tw: demiphobia #tw: transphobia

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oblivionbladetd · 3 years

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Breaking down Lily Orchards 100 writing tips, 1-10.

Here goes pain...

Starting off with an absolute bang, not really writing advice. Spoilers are something you shouldn’t be worried about while writing, period. If you are, you are flinging the cart miles ahead of the horses. While there is some value in saying they shouldn’t derail or cheapen your story, some twists being spoiled can ruin the experience somewhat as they turn a first viewing into a second and many narratives just don’t have the punch the second time around and to write the concerns off as the author relying on cheap shock value is just a bit irresponsible and not just a little bit stupid. it really depends on the story being told. Also as a fun drinking game take a shot every time I say it depends on the story being told. You’ll die. hopefully that lil spoiler doesn’t make the breakdown any less enjoyable.

Good advice on the surface, but It depends on the story being told. If your story can facilitate the main couple hooking up in the middle it probably isn’t a bad idea. A good amount of stories, usually romance stories can’t as the main couple hooking up would be the endpoint of the story, because the story was specifically about that. To just air her laundry for her, Korrasami, that is it, she’s salty about korrasami. Lastly, as a side note that just infuriates me specifically, no showrunner ever just gets five seasons, if you’re lucky with a hell of a pitch, they may sign you on for two, giving you more down the line if money is being made, korra was a one season show renewed thrice before getting shitcanned.

Ah, a blanket statement in need of heavy qualification. as always it depends on the story being told. Enemy is very loosely defined so where I would agree that enemies to lovers sounds bad, enemy constitutes everything from somebody that can be very competitive, but is not a bad person all the way to colonel puppy kicker the uber facist who has finally completed his machine that will destroy everyone but straight cis white males. It should also be stated that friends to lovers can end horribly. It does in real life all the time.

I mean, they can be... Not to state the obvious, but Zuko did do bad things and did have some proving to do. I guess redemption is a dirty word to lily? To say something that might be contentious but really shouldn’t be, the abused can still abuse. May need to redeem themselves a bit... I dunno. This feels like one that doesn’t need much time spent on it.

Jails are a thing. This really is a childish point, moving past murderous vigilantism. Killing someone is not the easiest thing to do, you have to look someone in the eyes as you drain the life out of em, and for those like child heroes or a protagonist defending themselves that may be a little extreme to expect from them. It depends on the story being told, namely the tone. Not all stories could or should just pop a cap in bad guy even if he is a murderer, either way hope the view from your high horse is nice.

Somebody doesn’t like she-ra... This is really divorced from every last drop of context it needs. So I suppose yeah don’t have girls kiss if they have never done anything outside of try to murder each other with absolutely no outside influences or any other forces at play. Gold star I suppose....

This tip really doesn’t have anything wrong with it. Don’t JK Rowling kids, make your wizards poop themselves on screen and make them poof away the mess. So that’s one and a half good tips at 7 tips in that are worth a damn, can she keep the momentum!

Like always, good tip on the surface, while it does depend on the story, as a rule of thumb it’s perfectly fine as a tip. I’d even give her credit for it, but tip 9 exists.

I will just say that not only is this not a tip, but basically says that as long as a character was your fave and wasn’t always the villian then redeem the fuck out of them. even if said character dangerously escalated a war with use of fantasy nukes i dunno, that is what she did i’m sure, but I neither know to much or even care about WoW. I just know fantasy nukes and tree burning was involved and that Lily has a fanfic about her WoW character and sylvanas.

To cap us off, tip 10 is actually a good one. There really isn’t much to add to this other than saying it’s a completely fair point.

So, 10 down and only 2 outta the lot are worth anything at face value. what a fantastic start, onward to more pain...

#lily orchard

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vivithefolle · 3 years

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Saying Harry has nothing to lose is plainly incorrect. The Weasley’s are Harry’s family at this point, and he would be devestated if they died. Where did I say Ron only cares about his sister because of the horcrux? I said it’s canon he only left because of the horcrux. You’re going out of your way to change the canon to be in Ron’s favor when neither of them were right in this fight. Your mischaracterization of Harry is disgusting, frankly. You don’t need to drag him down 2 make Ron look better

The Weasley’s are Harry’s family at this point, and he would be devestated if they died.

O rly.

Sorry I just have to do a bit of nitpick, using exact words, shit like that. You don’t mind do you? After all I just use the books...

"Family safe, do not reply, we are being watched." The Patronus dissolved into nothingness. Ron let out a noise between a whimper and a groan and dropped onto the sofa: Hermione joined him, gripping his arm. "They're all right, they're all right!" she whispered, and Ron half laughed and hugged her. "Harry," he said over Hermione's shoulder, "I -" "It's not a problem," said Harry, sickened by the pain in his head. "It's your family, 'course you were worried. I'd feel the same way." He thought of Ginny. "I do feel the same way." The pain in his scar was reaching a peak, burning as it had back in the garden of the Burrow. - Deathly Hallows

You see, this right here… this is an indication that Harry doesn’t think of the Weasleys as his family.

He thinks of Ginny, whom he’s in love with, and only after thinking of her can he say “I do feel the same way” - he sees Ginny as family, since she’s his future wife, but he doesn’t extend the same courtesy to the rest of the Weasleys.

While sometimes Harry has moments where he associates Mrs Weasley with a substitute mother, those moments don’t happen until the fourth book. The fourth book!

Harry never comes to think of the Weasleys as a substitute family, instead latching on to Sirius Black, whose title of “godfather” means apparently that much to him.

Harry not really thinking of the Weasleys as his family is illustrated nicely in the following exchange:

"Oh, you're sure, are you? Right then, well, I won't bother myself about them. It's all right for you, isn't it, with your parents safely out of the way -“ "My parents are dead!" Harry bellowed. "And mine could be going the same way!" yelled Ron. "Then GO!" roared Harry. "Go back to them, pretend you're got over your spattergroit and Mummy'll be able to feed you up and -" - Deathly Hallows

“My parents are dead”. That is Harry’s reply. The Weasleys are at risk of dying - but Harry’s parents are dead. Sorry Molly, Harry’s as good as your son, but he doesn’t seem to return the sentiment.

I don’t really think it’s a conscious choice on JK Rowling’s part. She never was in a position where she “seeked a family” herself, so she wouldn’t know what it’s like. “Write what you know" - in this case she doesn't know, and she doesn't really make an attempt to know either.

"Our Teddy! Teddy Lupin! Snogging our Victoire! Our cousin! And I asked Teddy what he was doing -" "You interrupted them?" said Ginny. "You are so like Ron -" "- and he said he'd come to see her off! And then he told me to go away. He's snogging her!" James added as though worried he had not made himself clear. "Oh, it would be lovely if they got married!" whispered Lily ecstatically. "Teddy would really be part of the family then!" "He already comes round for dinner about four times a week," said Harry "Why don't we just invite him to live with us and have done with it?” "Yeah!" said James enthusiastically. "I don't mind sharing with Al - Teddy could have my room!" "No," said Harry firmly, "you and Al will share a room only when I want the house demolished." - Deathly Hallows

… Why isn’t Teddy “really” part of the family? He is family. You can’t tell me Harry let Andromeda Tonks raise him entirely! Why wouldn’t Teddy have his own room at Harry’s house?

Because JK Rowling, for all her talk about “girl power” and feminism, is quite traditional.

Aside from saying that Hermione is like his sister in order to get the Harmonians to shut up, Harry doesn’t seem to feel much “familial love” for any of his friends. Ron is the thing he’d miss the most, but he doesn’t seem to consider Ron as a brother (allowing the Ronarry shippers to rub their hands together with delighted smiles), Ginny is identified as his future spouse so he considers her family that way, and aside from the fleeting moment where he thinks “is this what it feels like to have a mom?” when Molly hugs him in Goblet of Fire, there’s not much else.

While Rowling could create believable friendships between teenagers and emulate their thought process quite credibly, she didn’t really realize that one does not need to share genes / hold a title to be considered “family”.

Sirius held the title of “godfather”, so when he died, Harry was devastated because he had lost all that was left of his family. Nevermind that he only lived with Sirius for a grand total of two months, Sirius, by virtue of having been appointed “godfather”, is the only surrogate father Harry will accept. Mr Weasley doesn’t count, since the Potters didn’t name him godfather.

This is one of those moments when you realize that Harry isn’t really a person, but a puppet through which JKR presents her story. He is more of an observer than an active player.

Harry is canonically a cold bastard who wouldn’t know empathy if it punched him in the face.

#vivi answers #ask #harry potter #harry potter series #ron weasley #ron weasley defense squad #ron weasley defence squad #hermione granger #hinny #ginny weasley #weasley family

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arianadevareux · 3 years

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I feel like I need to rant somewhere cause I am just beyond pissed that people are still believing Amber Heard for being the “Victim” when There is evidence that he is the real victim and people have been taking away his acting roles and as far as I’m concerned the only one who hasn’t is Tim Burton. They’ve known each other for so long that Tim damn well knows Johnny didn’t do anything. I know no one really cares for JK Rowling, but I’m still into Fantastic Beasts and at first I though Johnny just quit being in the movie, only to find out they took the role from him and he was fired! What the actual hell?! He didn’t deserve any of that! Johnny is one of my favorite actors of all time and I will stand by him cause I know he wouldn’t do that. Sometimes I wish I could just go to Hollywood or whatever and just trip amber heard (I’m too short to really punch anyone) or something or anything for ruining his career and abusing him. I really hope she loses her job in aqua man and Johnny can get his back (I think he had jack sparrow taken away, but I can’t remember if Disney gave it back or not, but this and Grindlewald are the only ones I know that we’re taken from him)

She admitted on tape to abusing him, and then mocked him about it. I don’t understand how she wasn’t fired from Aquaman immediately after that. Depp was fired right after the allegations against him arose, but with her own admission of what she was doing, Heard’s still keeping such a large role. It’s insane.

Abuse is disgusting, and I know that male victims of abuse in particular are often not taken seriously. No one facing that should be overlooked.

I also hope she loses her job and is unable to find work. Don’t be a garbage person and maybe you won’t lose your career. Depp also deserves his roles back, and then some. I can’t remember if Disney is giving him Jack Sparrow back either (tbh, though, as much as I love PotC it’s time for it to stop, imo.) But I really hope things turn out better for him with all this.

#tw abuse #cw abuse #trigger warning #content warning #mentions of abuse #mentions of trauma #johnny depp #amber heard #anon message

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bush-viper-cutie · 3 years

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“Hermione vs. Draco” || YEAR 3 – Ch.30 (HP au)

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Day posted: 11/3/2020

Word count: 3, 254

Relationship: EVENTUAL severus X oc (slow burn)

Rating: E for everyone

Warnings: none

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A/N: This is my first fan fic I’m writing mainly as a way to practice. This is a retelling of the hp books with an inserted character. Although most every character will be written about, this is mostly for the pro snape fandom. Please do not fear, although this is a severus x oc story, it is an incredibly slow burn as I do not intend for them to get together at all until after the final book events. Chapters will be posted twice a week.

This derivative work follows the events of the Harry Potter books by Jk Rowling and is intended as a fun way to practice my writing. Thank you for reading :D

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Heather sat with Harry on the grass and looked over at Ron and Hermione talking – or more like Hermione talking on and on and Ron nodding his head every once in a while – which was a huge relief. It only took Hermione apologizing and Ron was instantly all “Oh, he was only a rat. I’ll get another not so old one now, or maybe an owl – they’re much better.”

The whole class was waiting on further instruction from Hagrid besides just feeding the Salamanders dried twigs, but Hagrid was even less himself after the hearing. Harry tried talking to him during the start of the lesson, but Hagrid refused, not wanting to burst out crying in front of everyone.

The bells rang in the distance and the whole class got up, picked up their Salamanders and dumped them in the fire. Heather stayed by the fire, watching them curl up and nap while Hermione and Harry convinced Hagrid to walk them back to the castle.

“It was awful,” Hagrid croaked, holding back tears. “All those black robes… sittin’ there, lookin’ down at us. S’all my fault, it was. I kep’ droppin’ me notes an’ got all tongue-tied an’ – OH – an’ then Lucius Malfoy takes the stand an’ said his bit, an’ the committee jus’ did exac’ly what he told ‘em to do… So they… they gave Beaky a final date…”

“It’s not fair. Those doddery old fools shouldn’t be on the committee if they can be so easily scared by Malfoy’s dad.” Hermione teared up and shook her head.

Ron ran ahead and jumped on a rock at the top of the hill. “Hagrid! You can still save him with the appeal! This time we’ll all really help and – ”

“Lucius Malfoy won’t let the committee change their minds. I jus’ have tuh make sure the time Beaky has left is a good one. I owe ‘im that… s’cuse me – ” Hagrid broke off and hurried back down the hill towards his cabin.

“Look at him! The blubbering oaf.” Draco came out from behind the castle doors with Crabbe and Goyle laughing just behind him.

Heather ran up the last small hill to the castle steps and faced Draco. “Leave it alone. You may not care about Hagrid or Buckbeak but I do, and them, and so many other students. And it’s YOUR fault.” Heather jabbed his shoulder, forcing him to step back.

“Sorry, Potter. But it’s just so funny! I’ve never seen anything quite so pathetic.” He turned around to Crabbe and Goyle. “Have you?”

Harry, Ron, and Hermione had climbed the rest of the hill quickly and stopped next to Heather, except for Hermione who continued forward and smacked Draco across the face in one long swoop of her extended arm.

“Hermione!” Heather’s hands covered her mouth, not sure whose side to take now or who to be mad at. If Ron had been the one to hit Draco, Hermione would be giving him an angry talking to already.

Draco staggered back and was caught by Goyle before he could trip. He pushed off him and stood, astounded and scared at Hermione, who looked ready for another go.

“Do NOT call Hagrid Pathetic! Ever! It’s all YOUR fault you – you foul – evil – “ Hermione went for another smack.

“Hermione!” Ron caught her arm.

Heather held her back as she tried pushing them away.

“Get off!” Hermione broke free and pulled out her wand, surprising Draco and leaving him frozen in place with fear. “Don’t ever call Hagrid pathetic!”

“L-let’s go.” Draco turned and hurried into the school with Crabbe and Goyle at his heels.

“Nice Hermione!” Ron held out his hand for a high five and Hermione laughed, giving him one.

“That wasn’t very wise, Hermione.” Heather crossed her arms.

“It’s the wisest thing she’s done all year.” Harry smirked and ran from Hermione’s punch. “Save it for Malfoy!”

Heather was unamused but Ron and Hermione laughed, which was nice to hear after so many weeks of them being angry with each other. They followed Harry inside.

“I’m sorry to say, Heather, but I do hope Harry wins the final Quidditch match against Slytherin. I can’t stand Malfoy winning another thing.”

Heather re-crossed her arms. “Not forgiven. I want to win, not lose just because Malfoy’s on my team.”

Ron made a loud nose. “Oh, don’t you two start now.”

The castle corridors were full of students running to their classrooms. They jogged passed several groups of chattering fifth and seventh years and climbed the stairs all the way up to the charms classrooms. They waved to Ginny quickly as she passed them in the halls on her way to Herbology and reached Professor Flitwick’s class with minutes to spare.

“I like when we’re not late.” Ron pulled on the door and held it open for them.

Heather and Harry walked in and took their normal seats, waiting for Ron and Hermione to take the ones in front of them, but only Ron sat down a minute later.

“Where did Hermione go?” Ron looked around the room. “She wasn’t in the corridor.”

Heather looked towards the door. Several Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs entered the class along with a few Slytherins and Gryffindors, but Hermione never stepped through. The bells rang and Professor Flitwick took his little podium.

“Now, let’s start on Cheering Charms. Everyone – wands out – we’re already into pairs – er, Mr. Weasley, pair with Mr. Longbottom – and let’s begin.”

“Maybe you should go check the bathrooms?” Harry whispered to Heather between swishes.

“And miss class like she’s doing? We’ll find her later.” Heather followed Professor Flitwick’s instructions perfectly and within minutes she was able to do a minor cheering charm, earning her praise in front of the class.

Several attempts later and she was able to perform the full cheering charm, second to a Ravenclaw across the room who always fought with Hermione for first place. The Ravenclaw gave her a look of triumph but it was Heather who took extra points for helping Ron, Harry, Neville, and the two other Slytherins in the room to complete the charm.

After class they went to lunch and split up. Heather sat at the Slytherin table and was soon joined by Draco and even more unfortunately, Pansy, Crabbe, and Goyle.

“Draco!” Heather smiled and took a bite of her ham sandwich, the mustard was extra good on it that day – although everything seemed better under the effects of a cheering charm. “Have you done anything to Hermione?”

“No.” He sat down and looked Heather up and down.

“Cheering Charm.” Heather said and Draco nodded in understanding.

His brows furrowed. “If she thinks she’ll get away with – ”

“Of course she won’t. We should tell on her. Get her detentions for the rest of the year. I mean, first your attacked by a wild creature and then by a stupid Gryffindor?” Pansy added a large glop of salad dripping in dressing onto her plate.

“Or, we can focus on winning the final Quidditch match. Gryffindor won against Ravenclaw which puts them at second place right now. If they beat us, then we tie and the Quidditch cup doesn’t go to anyone.” Heather finished her lunch and moved on to the pies for dessert, cutting off a small slice.

“What’s that go to do with Granger?” Draco pointed to his puffy cheek. “I want her to pay.”

“And she wants to see you lose. So win and rub it in her face.” She didn’t like encouraging Draco to gloat, especially not to her friends, but it was better than letting him get Hermione in trouble. The cheering charm wore off mid apple pie bite and she winced at how sweet it was. “Don’t try the pie.”

“Flint says he has a plan. A good one.” Draco tried looking confident and hopeful.

“Well. Good then.” Heather stood and left the great hall, heading into the girl’s bathroom. “Hermione?” she called out, looking under several stalls for Hermione’s shoes but there was no one there at all. She walked out and saw Harry and Ron leaving the great hall and ran up to them. “She’s not in the bathroom. We should check your common room – and before you ask. No, Malfoy hasn’t turned her into a shrimp and hidden her away or anything at all. She’s missing all on her own.”

They headed up the entrance stairs and down the main corridor. As they started up the stairs to the higher floors, Ron began listing other possible ways Draco could have gotten to her, one way involving Crabbe turning into a giant bird and swooping down and taking her into his talons. They walked up to Gryffindor tower debating the logistics of that scenario – Ron adamant that Crabbe would turn into a BIG bird because of his size and not just a regular sized bird because of the spell.

“Flibbertigibbet” Harry said loud enough for Heather to hear.

“Not so loud,” the fat lady hissed, sensitive to both Heather and possibly a very dangerous Sirius Black hearing it. “I’m changing it again tonight… Just to be sure.” She opened up.

Ron and Harry walked in through the hole While Heather stood just outside, watching them approach a distant lump of frizzy brown hair fast asleep around a tower of books. They poked Hermione awake and began talking – Hermione seemed frantic and upset.

“Hurry up!” Heather called in. “Divination is in ten minutes!”

Hermione stuffed all her books in her bag and came running out ahead of Ron and Harry. “I’ll meet you guys there! I need to talk to Professor Flitwick!” She turned and ran down the stairs towards the charms classrooms.

“She said she forgot to go.” Ron came out of the hole and crossed his arms. “But she was right behind us.”

Heather chewed on her finger the whole way up to the Divinations classroom in thought. Hermione was definitely keeping something, and she needed to know what. She couldn’t believe Hermione was actually possibly keeping a secret from all of them. It was different from her own secret about helping Draco over the summer, that time was once but Hermione has been going on with her secret all year.

They reached the ladder and Hermione joined them almost immediately, looking out of breath.

“Oh Heather, tell me you got the Cheering Charm down. Flitwick hinted at it being on the exams!” Hermione brushed down her hair and sighed with relief as Heather nodded her head.

“Of course I did. And I earned five points for Slytherin while doing so. If you think Slytherin’s going to lose the house cup, that’s one-hundred-and-fifty-five points you need to make up before the last match… And counting.” Heather smiled and climbed the ladder, ignoring Harry as he silently mocked her.

The second Heather stepped in the room she was engulfed in that familiar awful mist that made everything go blurry and hazy. She found her usual seat in the far back of the room at the table above Harry’s and Ron’s. Hermione took the seat opposite her and they all sat waiting for Professor Trelawney to appear from behind a curtain or from inside a cabinet looking all mysterious.

“Look at these crystal balls!” Ron turned to them and held it up to his face, making it look all wonky and distorted through the glass. “Thought we weren’t starting this until fourth year.”

Harry took the ball and set it down on its holder. “Shh. I was getting tired of seeing her flinch every time she saw my hands. I’m scared to sneeze in here in case it sounds like the grim to her.”

Heather laughed. “Your sneezes do sound kind of barky.”

“Shut it.”

“Well as long as crystal balls aren’t on the exams, I don’t care.” Hermione shook her head. “I can’t deal with much more of all this nonsense.”

They all raised their brows at Hermione, but before she could respond, Professor Trelawney appeared from behind the large stack of teacups in the corner.

“Good day! Good, good day to everyone.” Her voice was misty and almost sing song-y as she stepped out and addressed the class. “I was checking the Fates and had seen that the art of the Orb would be on your exams in June, and so we will begin Crystal Gazing early! I am anxious to give you sufficient practice with it.”

Hermione’s hand was up in the air instantly. “But Professor, don’t YOU set the exams?”

Ron and Harry chocked back laughs while Professor Trelawney turned away and hummed loudly.

“Crystal Gazing is a very perfected art. It takes years of practice for many capable wizards – and on the very rare occasion, those particularly gifted with the Sight, can come to see things within a matter of months. I do not expect anyone here to be able to See into the Orb’s infinite depths of wisdom on their first try.”

Professor Trelawney took her seat in her large chair and brought her legs up, crossing them under her layers and layers of skirt fabric. She looked like a monstrous creature, half pile of laundry, half human.

Professor Trelawney breathed out slowly and continued. “We shall first start …with relaxing the conscious mind while keeping our external eyes closed. …This will allow for the Inner Eye to open …and let you into your superconscious – should anyone start Seeing, please speak up!”

Ron’s head was on his table and his shoulders shook uncontrollably with suppressed laughter. Harry was biting down on his wrist and Heather was gripping her chair’s arms so tight she thought her fingers would pop off. Heather looked around and up behind her Neville caught her eye and gave her a face of such extreme confusion that she thought she’d burst out laughing. Hermione was looking like she’d just been murdered with boredom – or hoping to be.

After several not so silent minutes, they began Crystal Gazing by just staring into the crystal orbs and waiting to see anything at all. Heather cleared her mind and looked at the mist swirling and then stilling. Every time she cleared her mind the mist would swirl and then the second Hermione tutted right across from her, the mist would still.

“Would you mind keeping your tutting to yourself?” Heather sat up straight and looked deeper into the orb. The mist swirled into a large spiral, slow and steady as if stirred by a spoon. It went on for several minutes, growing slower. Heather was feeling her eyes going blurry in what she thought could be the start of a hypnotic trance as the misty swirl expanded. It sparkled slightly and the center seemed to still as the mist around it turned clockwise and –

“Tuh. It’s just mist being misty.”

“Has anyone Seen anything yet?” Harry whispered.

“I thought I had seen my Grandma, but it turned out I was just too close to the crystal,” Neville whispered back.

“Oh hold on!” Ron whispered excitedly, looking at the crystal. “I see… I see… That someone’s burnt the table cloth there with a knocked over candle.” He pointed.

Heather couldn’t help but give him a small giggle.

“What a waste of time,” Hermione hissed. “I could be studying for Charms. I could be practicing something actually useful like the Cheering Charm.”

They hushed as Professor Trelawney came shuffling passed asking students if they needed help ‘interpreting the shadowy portents within the Orbs’.

“It’s obvious what it means, isn’t it?” Ron whispered. “There’ll be loads of fog tonight.”

Heather, Harry, Hermione,and Neville behind them burst out laughing. Ron’s ears went red but he grinned wide until Professor Trelawney stopped at the bottom of their row right in front of him.

“Why are you disturbing the clairvoyant vibrations of this room? Let me see here.” She looked down into Ron and Harry’s crystal orb.

Harry looked back at Heather and she rolled her eyes, knowing just as well as he that Professor Trelawney was about to see the Grim in the mist. And sure enough –

Professor Trelawney clutched at her wooden beads. “My dear…” she breathed. “It grows closer… Nearer and nearer… the Gr – !”

“The Grim!” Hermione yelled, exasperated. “Oh of course! Why predict the results of the Gryffindor Slytherin match, or the results of Harry’s exams, or what he’ll have for dinner when you can just predict the ridiculous Grim every day.”

“They are not predictions,” Lavender Brown growled. “They are truth.”

“Not guesses,” Parvati joined in.

Hermione huffed at them.

“My dear. Since you stepped foot in my class it has been clear that you do not have what the noble art of divination requires in order to See into the beyond.” Professor Trelawney tisked. “I have never met a student whose mind is so hopelessly and irreversibly mundane.”

Heather closed her gaping mouth and looked at Hermione, who was not having a good day by any means.

“Fine!” Hermione stood and shut ‘Unfogging the Future’, cramming it in her bag. “Fine!” she repeated, swinging her bag over her shoulder. “Then I’m leaving.” She stomped across the classroom and turned. “Let me guess, next topic is flames, and with my SIGHT I predict you’ll predict THE GRIM for Harry.” She turned and kicked the trap door open and climbed down the ladder.

For several minutes the whole class was talking. Heather convinced Neville to be her partner, leaving the Hufflepuff he was partnered with alone, and Ron and Harry wondered if Hermione would come back. Heather doubted it.

Suddenly Lavender stood up and quickly found Professor Trelawney stoking the fire and adding more herbs to make the room mistier. “Professor! You saw this! You saw her leaving! ‘Around Easter, one of our number will leave us forever’! You said that first day of class!”

Professor Trelawney gave a small smile. “Oh yes, I knew Miss Granger would leave us. That is the burden of the Inner Eye… however, sometimes one hopes to have mistaken the Signs.”

The bells rang and class was over. They packed their things and headed down the ladder.

Harry leaned in to her. “You don’t think me seeing the Grim has anything to do with her seeing the Grim do you?”

Heather shook her head. “I saw that cloud Grim during your match and I haven’t ever seen the Grim in the classroom so… I would guess no.”

“Is that good or bad?”

Heather sighed and shrugged. “I really don’t know.”

They didn’t see Hermione all day after Divination, not even during dinner. Heather hadn’t heard anything about Hermione until Draco arrived late to dinner holding his other cheek in his hand.

“Easter Holidays we’re practicing EVERY DAY. I told Flint we should and he agreed.” He let go of his cheek to grab his cup and exposed his red and slightly swollen cheek.

“W…what happened there?” Heather could almost see fingers marked on his skin.

“Nothing. I heard Granger was told she was too muggle for Divination so I told her not to blame her parents for making her weaker than the rest of us and she slapped me.” He turned to Pansy who started defending him instantly.

“I would have hit you harder.” Heather decided she could let Hermione’s smack slide one last time, although she guessed there wouldn’t be any more after now. Surely Draco had learned his lesson about messing with Hermione after that second, much heavier slap. “So double practices starting tomorrow?”

“Early morning.”

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Discourse/political opinions:

Note: I am ok with people following/interacting with me if we disagree on certain subjects on this list but if its got a ❎ next to it, i am not ok with you interacting with me and i will block you. Take everything thats on the ❎ list to be a informal dni

All cops, especially ur uncle/brother/dad/friend, are bastards. ❎

Black lives matter ❎

Im neutral on ace discourse, idrc but i do feel safer around ace exclues than ace inclues cause yall get pretty gross sometimes

Longsword lesbians are transphobic ❎ but battleaxe bis are vaild

Cis het means cisgender and hetero- in any capacity, cisallohet is not a thing

Aros/aces/aroaces do face discrimination for being aspec and aphobia is a good word for it but its not a systematic oppression. ❎

Bi/pan lesbians, bi/pan gays and other " mspec" gays are homophobic as fuck and the label is bigoted no matter what arguement you have for it. ❎

Punch your local terf and her nazi friends, especially jk rowling( read another book) ❎

Polyam cis hets, kinky cis hets and gnc cis hets arent lgbt for " going aginest society's standards" ❎

Q*eer is a slur, as well as an identity, and calling everyone it is ableist aginest lgbt people with ptsd and flat out just rude. If q*eer is your identity, great but to pretend it's suddenly not a slur anymore just because "q*eer studies" exists is flat out misinformation. ❎

D*ke is for all wlw, F*g is for all mlm, tr*nny is for all trans ppl and sn*wflake is only for nb people cause let's be real, it's not really applied to binary trans people.

The split attraction model is only vaild for aspec identities, all other uses are lgbtphobic ❎

Aspec can mean aro/ace/aroace-spec or autisitc spectrum, i litterally dont care enough to argue it. But if you say ur " on the spectrum" to mean ur aroacespec and not autisitic, ill rip out ur esophagus. ❎

Saying asexuality/aromantisim/aroasexuality can't be a spectrum is litterally just aphobic

Allo isnt a slur nor is meant to be derogatory in any way. I will call you allo if ur allo in the context of ace/aro but if u dont like it i wont.

Making fun of ace/aro/aroace pple isnt funny to anyone other than aphobic pple and you should really ask urself why you think bullying in any form is ok as long its a group of mostly young, disabled, trans and neurodiverse people.

Dont say ur an ace/aro/aroace ally then turn around and call urself aphobic proudly. Your an oxymoronic moron and ur not our ally.

I dont care if you "would be *insert ace identity* therefore you can comment on *same ace identity as before* validity" you dont identify as it, shut up, no one asked ur opinion on the matter

Fiction 100000% affects reality you nasties, theres not justification for the romanization of r*pe, pedophilia, abuse, incest, etc. Dark topics are 100% ok but not if ur trying to make them look good. The only good villian redemption arcs are zuko and bakugo. ❎

You dont need dysphoria to be transgender ❎

Im not anti-pansexual/polysexual/omnisexual but i am critical of the labels' history and the huge biphobia issues within their communities. All i ask you consider the label bi as bi has historically been defined as attraction to all genders, it has 100+ years of history over pan/poly/omni, its origins are much more humane and you dont spread misinformation about the bisexual label. Bisexuality has a shameful title in society and biphobia is very prevalent so its understandable why people would not want to connect to that label but thats not an excuse to demonize or sexualize bisexuals.❎

Skolio/ceterosexual are only vaild if its a nonbinary person who feels unsafe dating cis/binary people. ❎

Nazis and other bigots do not deserve a platform, thats how fascists and dictators come to power. ❎

Just because trump is worse than biden dosent make biden good. Vote bernie.

Reg means nothing because its all personal interpretation

Gatekeeping is a term made by trans women to explain them being excluded from healthcare, it dosent mean keeping people from invading other communities. Im not a doctor therefore i cant " gatekeep" you.

You have to have did/osdd to be a system and you have to have trauma to have did/osdd. Therefore you have to have trauma to have a system and endos can fuck off, ur ableist. ❎

Tulpamancy is part of closed poc-exclusive religious practice and has nothing to do with systemhood so if ur white and/or claim ur system cause you made a tulpa, ur not only racist and cultural appropriating but also ableist!❎

Pedos/maps/pears are not lgbt. Its a kink not an orientation. (Pocd people are not pedophiles and deserve support!) ❎

Stop stanning freaks like pewdiepie, jenna marbles, thomas Sanders, james charles, fya, cais/bunga, biggest gaudiest patronses, i am fish or other nasties. ❎

Most problematic sources can be consumed critically ( especially if its an autistic person with a hyperfixation) but some sources cant be saved and should burn.

Trying to say which intrusive thoughts are "ok" and " not ok" to have defeats the purpose of supporting those who have them. I have them, shut up if u dont. ❎

Kinnies are rad and i am one. ❎

I support all mogai identities as long as they arent; copycats to make something more " progressive", trans trivializing, fetishizing or otherwise gross. Im mogai neutral as long as the identity is harmless. Xenogender and like altersex stuff is rad as hell ❎

Nonbinary people are allowed to be uncomfortable being around/dating binary people, even if the binary person is trans. Enbyphobia is prevalent in all circles and we're allowed to be wary of ALL binary people ❎

Two-spirit and intersex/intergender people are not inherently lgbt but if the two spirit person is ok using western lgbt labels or the intersex person is trans, then they are lgbt. It is a personal decision and if you arent one or either, it's not your choice to decide if we are or aren't.❎

The drinking/smoking age should be 18.

*insert offputting kawaii death penality insta discourse image* anyway the government shouldnt be allowed to kill you period. Dont care who you are or what you did. ❎

Bring back the guillotine. Viva la revolution ❎

Dismantle the police system ❎

Supporting trump inherently makes you a shitty person cause it means you put no value the lives of those imprisoned at ice concentration camps or literally anything for the betterment of humanity. ❎

Seperate art from artist. Pirate. Fuck disney. Fuck notch. Fuck cavetown ❎

Conceal and carries shouldnt be allowed in hospitals, schools, places of worship, homeless shelters, fesitvals or any places that house oppressed, sick, injured, young, old or otherwise harmless people and peaceful places. ❎

Fujoshis and fundashis are homophobic and nasty asf ❎

"Factkin" dont exist, you cant be another living person, especially seince you dont and never will know everything about their life ❎

Hamiltons music was amazing but idk how to tell you that you shouldnt be supporting a musical that romantizes slave owners. ❎

Hazbin hotels/helluva boss's creator is a horrible person, the music and art style suck ass, alastor is a walking aphobic sterotype, angel dust is a walking homophobic stereotype and the show completely disregards the protags orientation. ❎

Christianity should be abolished and held responcible to the many it has killed and harmed but other abrahamic religions should be supported ❎

Self diagnosis is vaild if the person is well informed. Especially if the idividual is forced within a medical system that would kill, take away their children, refuse them the right to marry or otherwise be oppressive over the idividual if they were successfully diagnosed. ❎

Criminals dont need to be reformed, the system that creates them needs to be. ❎

Descalation officers and social workers who are trained to deal with people in scary situations would kill less people than cops ❎

Neo-pronouns and emoji pronouns are vaild ❎

Micro-labels are not inherently good or bad

Emo and alternative people are not oppressed for getting bullied wtf is wrong with you. ❎

It's not ok to bully people people over relatively harmless identities like pan/poly/Omni, demisexual/romantic, etc. Like idk how to tell you that isn't ok or responsible just because you think the labels are stupid. It's one thing to advocate aginest a community and it's another to personally harass someone just for being that identity. I may not like the history or the community but it isn't cool to bully these people. Not to mention ur a fucking idiot giving them attention and a person to point at as being "dangerous" to them. ❎

Sysmed and tramascum are transphobic and ableist labels, there is nothing wrong with medicalizing a fucking debilitating mental disorder.❎

Transandrophobia exists and if you still think trans men don't face any issues or suddenly gain male privilege, your a fucking idiot.❎

Autism speaks can die in a deep dark abyss❎

If youre still trying to defend a white YouTubers black face in 2023, what are you even doing?❎

Measuring race/ethnicity by percentages and trying to interpersonally decide whether someone is "x race enough to claim it" is just recycled ethnic purity bullshit, racist and it doesn't matter how low or large your percentage is as long as you are happy and respectful. ❎

Certain media can be consumed critically(mha, soul eater, FNAF, etc ) but other media simply can't( Harry Potter, hazbin hotel, hetalia, etc) and you'll have to deal with the consequences of supporting the entirely irredeemable media.

Will add to this as time gose on

#beliefs #levi speaks

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Mortal Kombat Akademy

In between my work on the 31 Days of Original Characters challenge, I've begun to revisit my plans for the big Mortal Kombat story I'd wanted to do for awhile; Mortal Kombat Akademy. I've done a lot of character busts with backstory info and I did a sort of "season one" plots but this is something I'm not really satisfied with anymore. I'm gonna spend the new year trying to readjust and rework the overall story and characters to something more workable. Here's a few odds and ends of what I've planned so far;

Story Outline

Shaolin Monks, Lui Kang and Kung Lao, are recruited into the Mortal Kombat Akademy, the secret fighting school located on the island paradise of international crimelord, Shang Tsung. But those who step foot on the island are subjected to terrors beyond comprehension once they learn the true purpose of the school; a training ground for the soldiers of an interdimensional tyrant who conquers by use of a fighting tournaments ordained by the gods themselves. But one of the gods, Raiden, is willing to give Earth a fighting chance by training as many chosen Earthlings as he can so they may finally defeat the forces of evil in the Mortal Kombat tournament.

Kinda bare bones but for plot synopsis go, it helps me sort of make a launching pad for the ideas. Like my original idea, the story is still primarily about Lui Kang and Kung Lao going to the school and meeting/befriending the typical heroes of the Mortal Kombat world, Raiden being their mentor and Shang Tsung being the big bad to overcome.

But the story ideas I had just don’t really cut it for me now. I feel as though I was sort of putting the cart before the horse by putting so much time making elaborate details instead of snowballing one idea to make a big bright idea. I’ve made some titles for them;

Start the Semester!

Tour the Akademy!

Prepare for the First Exams!

Bond Like Your Lives Depend On It!

Learn the Fatalities!

Wills and Testaments!

Survive the Detetionrealm!

Survive the First Round of Exams!

Survive the Second Round of Exams!

Survive the Last Round of Exams!

Party Your Asses Off!

Mortal Kombat Akademy V. The DC Universe: Dawn of Pain!

To give some context to them, I had a storyarc planned; Early on, Raiden would want the Earthrealm class (the class would have Kang, Lao, Johnny, Sonya, Jax, Stryker and Nightwolf) to be friends and allies in order to survive the matches and save the world. Easier said than done when so many personalities were clashing together. And once they learn about fatalities, the class goes through some mental anguish over having to kill or be killed, Kang being the only one vowing to never kill anyone, to the disbelief of everyone else. Things start looking up once the class starts to trust and respect one another and become stronger fighters.

But Kano, on the behalf of Goro’s Class (Mileena, Kitana, Jade, Baraka, Sheeva, Skarlet, Reptile, Tanya and Kano himself) frames Sonya and Johnny for a crime, leading to Professor Quan Chi to exile them to the “Detention Realm” where his goons, Drahmin and Moloch, deal out the punishments. My idea for them that they’d be bumbling and dim so Johnny and Sonya could escape them, bonding while trying to make it to the final exams. Everyone but Kang and Lao have been defeated and since Sonya and Johnny were late, it’d all be up to them to beat Goro. Once Goro beast Lao half to death, Kang faces his fears and manages to defeat Goro without killing him, but not without making him suffer for all the pain he’s caused.

The class’ reward for passing the exams is an-all expense paid vacation to Edenia, which is basically a hellhole built to Shao Kahn’s pleasure. Here, Kang and Kitana get some alone time to romantically connect to one another during the celebratory feast hosted by Kitana and Mileena’s parents, Shao Kahn and Sindel. But really, the feast is for the Kahns to asses the threat that Raiden’s students hold to their long term plans. And finally, the DCU story is just a fun breather where I have the mid-1990s versions of their heroes (Superman with a mullet, Batman Forever styled Batman and the two Wonder Women, Artemis and Diana, for example).

And after rereading what I had for plots, I noticed how little the Lin Keui featured into the stories since I designed a lot of them for the series. Should try to fix that somehow.

Overall Art Style

As I stated in previous MKA concept art, I based the art style on the look of Steven Universe. I still intend for the project to be written fanfiction, but I do wish to have some elements of it to be drawn by myself. Not a full adaptation but maybe a full page illustration of each chapter, along with the general character/environment sketches, or like the ending credits of The Mandalorian series.

But back to the art style, I wish to change it. I can’t really go further on the style of Steven Universe if this story is going to be about such heavy violence and gore. It wouldn’t really look right, might cross over into unintentional hilarity or into the uncanny valley. I’m looking at something like the artist One, the man behind One Punch Man and Mob Psycho 100 whose style is really unique, fast, sketchy and frenetic, all attributes I think will work well. I also love the anime aesthetic of the 1990s so that’s definitely a goal to achieve since I’m setting the story in 1995.

Story Ideas To Keep

* Koins: My idea for an in-canon reason for the koins you win in matches (at least in Mks 9-11, IDK how far back they go) to unlock Krypt stuff will be used as a way for the students to buy things like food, clothing and resurrections due to being killed by another student’s fatalities since its primarily a learning facility instead of a battlefield. Though if you’re broke, you’re not gonna be saved. Koins, like in the games, will be given for performing a fatality and a moral choice comes up when you think “do I do good and be paid less, or do something terrible but get more chances of being resurrected if I die?”

*Profiles: I’ve got to do some rewrites for the characters. Nothing too too major since I do like a lot of what I wrote, but its more to streamline it to fit in the new direction I’m doing. Like, having Sonya, Jax and Stryker being Hall Monitors, I don’t think something like that is gonna be part of my story since I’m trying to take it a tad more seriously. The idea of Detention Realm and having Dharmin and Moloch as lovable henchmen is still canon, as far as I’m concerned. Think the two mice henchmen from the film “Flushed Away”. And on a final note, the newly retconned origin for Sindel...that shit isn’t gonna be part of my story.

Overall, whatever backstories that’ll be changed will likely be on a case by case basis. No telling who or what will be changed right now, but I’ve now thought of some parts to start with.

Diversity and Inclusion

This one is probably gonna be one of the hardest to accomplish since I really want to make the series really diverse with body types, genders and sexuality, race, neurodiversity, that type of subject matter. Inclusion is really important to me, and I’m scared how I might screw it up like how Disney, JK Rowling, SNL, Simpsons, Big Mouth, Voltron so many more screw it all up since they all serve the needs of the capitalist, neoliberal status quo over the voices of the marginalised.

And with that, brings up some more challenges. Will I make so many diverse original characters that they take time away from the canon characters? Should I make more canon MK characters differently diverse?

I'm also planning on having the characters display prejudices and bigotries but I'm scared I'll go in too much of "Bright" territory, if you know what I mean.

Tackling Mature Content

I mean, it goes without saying that the series is going to be full of violence and gore since that’s basically in the DNA of Mortal Kombat in the first place. But there’s much more serious topics I want to try to write. Like the effects of abuse, queer rights, the above themes about diversity and inclusion, the seemingly never ending war and the ideas of the long defeat. Of course, my chapters will be marked with as clear as possible content warnings, those are important.

A Shared Universe

A month ago, I watched a video about Midway trying to recreate the success of Mortal Kombat into other fighting games. The video, “Remember when Midway tried to copy Mortal Kombat?” talked about three would-be franchises of Midway fighting games; Mace: The Dark Age, War Gods and Bio FREAKS. After watching the video and reading about the games, I think it’d be good for lore if they were integrated into my story. Mace and War Gods could be used as part of the backstory of the series. Like the idea of the Earthrealm Kombatants being the descendants of the characters of Mace and War Gods, maybe Raiden was involved with the later, I’m not sure. Bio FREAKS could be latter used if I go into a time travel story. Maybe a mix of the game and the story/characters of Mortal Kombat X. As for Midway’s other successful but overlooked franchise, Killer Instinct, that is probably going to be the most recurring element in the shared universe. UltraTech, the main villains of the series would be the people behind such things as Kano’s cyborg eye, the Lin Keui’s Cyber Initiative and being the rulers of Neo-Amerika in the Bio FREAKS timeline. I also wrote in the profiles of Nightwolf and Sub-Zero that the Killer Instinct universe is linked to my story (one of his divorced parents is dating one of the parents of KI’s Black Eagle and Thunder while Glacius was an alien that helped give Cryomancers their powers).

And on a side note, there is another Midway MK clone called Primal Rage, which I swear I had one of the toys based on it and saw a parody of it on an episode of Dexter’s Laboratory. Its pretty gruesome, its a bunch of savage Kaiju in a post-apocalyptic earth that resembles the stone age. Probably an alternate timeline/dimension if I use it in my series. Who knows, maybe elements of the worlds of Street Fighter and or God of War could make an appearance...

Writing the Damned Thing

Probably the absolute hardest part of this entire thing. I struggle with actually keeping attention to writing since I’m primarily a visual artist and it feels terrible to not even follow through on any idea I have and it just kinda sits and collects dust in my brain. If its sketching and rendering, I can do it. If its writing shit down, I just have executive dysfunction when it comes to it. I never know where to start writing it, how to continue writing it, how to finish it or how to put it all together cohesively.

I can’t do this without at least writing the complete first season, if I do it on a semi-regular basis, nothing is going to be done. Even like, less than a week of non-recurring writing is like a poison to me. I don’t know how, but if I make room for an hour or two of writing a day every day might help me get more prepared for longer writing.

In Conclusion

When will the first chapter be done? I don’t know. When will I start writing? Hopefully as soon as I can. I can try to post updates or work in progresses, but that’s still a pipe dream, in my honest opinion. But I want to make progress in 2020, I need to make a difference and to actually make this coming year worthwhile.

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