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roxydrawskhstuffs · 5 years

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I don’t computer but you just deerezz my operating system

If anyone is having trouble accessing the post, there is always an AO3 counterpart

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Categories: Gen; M/M

Fandom: Kingdom Hearts

Relationship: Riku/Sora; Vanitas/Ventus

CHAPTER 1:

Ring ring ring!

The sound of Riku’s smartphone continued to rang echoing from entire four corners of his room.

“Go away.” he mumbled in hoped that by talking to it would help and will turn off courtesy of his plea.

Ring ring ring!

Annoyed and cranky, Riku raised his left arm tucking at the nightstand in search of the offending gadget and did him a favor to turn off the alarm. Was too tired to even know why he set his alarm so early at the first place then---

Knock knock knock!

Finally up, Riku scratched his head getting off his bed to get the door. His roommate-slash-bestfriend Vanitas appeared. The same disturbed, annoyed and tired appearance as him. “You look like shit.” Vanitas told his silver-haired friend, ordering him to get downstairs. Yawned, Riku followed the raven to their shared kitchen. It was a simple with simple decorations, a few pots and pans, an induction oven and their “sacred ref of supplies” dub thee Vanitas.

Riku grabbed two empty bowls in the cupboard placing it on the table. Then came at the ref opening it to find their KoKo Krunch cereal box almost empty. Actually, their fridge are running low on supplies as well. Riku will definitely write a memo for them to buy groceries for the upcoming days. Pouring the last content of the cereal, Vanitas also sat with two cups of coffee in his hands giving one to Riku.

“Thanks.” he said taking a quick sip of the liquid. His eyes finally awake and alive, thanking the gods for inventing coffee. His raven roommate was also sane a phone in hand, too indulge in whatever’s occupying his attention. Riku did the same, checking his mail which he was supposed to do the first thing in the morning. Some were from job posting notifications, others were unknown numbers; definitely from the fangirls from his Youtube channel that bombarded this notification bell demanding him for his personal contact number.

Something heavy weighed on his shoulder realizing his roommate’s head was there taking a peak on Riku’s phone. He sneer a triumphant grin telling the silver-haired he was such a lady’s man. Riku growled. “Fuck off, Vani. This is why creating a gaming channel was annoying in the first place,” Taking a spoonful of his chocolate cereal. He read some of the mails, containing cliche confessions that they wanted to become Riku’s girlfriend or even a fling.

“Women.” he added, after reading five of them, Riku decided to remove it from his mailbox, saving important messages which he stumbled from the gaming company, the two is under at.

To: Riku Tenebrae ([email protected]); Vanitas Kara ([email protected])

From: The XIII Gaming Authority ([email protected])

Subject: Anime Adaptation Reveal Invitation

Greetings, Game Masters!

Thank you so much for your wonderful dedication to the company. With your Youtube channel gaining five hundred thousands followers, and for streaming the company’s video games, we have also reached our expected net sales from you and Master Kara’s continued game streams that our successful game “Verum Rex” will finally has his own anime adaptation! We will reveal the casts, animation studio, music production, etc of the adaptation and we hope that you will come and witness this memorable experience.

We would like to invite the both of you in the launch of the anime adaptation here in Radiant Garden Suites & Casinos, Ballroom Hall at Friday 6 P.M. Please show your ID to the security for entrance.

We hope to see your presence!

Best regards,

Xemnas

Chief Operating Officer (COO) of The XIII Gaming Authority

Vanitas catcalled. Showing the silver-orb on his tongue while Riku shoved his face away from him. He loved his roommate but he gets uncomfortable with his piercings, especially in his tongue. The raven laughed at Riku’s expression contented with his motive. “Well it’s about the damn time they recognized the game itself. Wasting three months with a game that’s not mainstream hurts my back, fingers, and my pride.”

Riku rolled his eyes but everything Vanitas ranted was the truth. It was one hell of a three months. For his channel, he and Vanitas had almost reached its peak of abandoning the game. Their stream didn’t even reach a thousand due to it being new and indie. Don’t forget about the story plot was very confusing and full of mechas.

Hint: their fans did not like a boring and game involving robots fighting unless it was as cool as Gundam.

Their subscribers decreasing by the day. Vanitas was the first one to gave up, informing the company about his review and how “pathetic” the storyline and gameplay was whereas Riku was also deciding to end. Nevermind, that there would be no pay if they didn’t finished the game. Being beta testers was a high-paying job that Riku and Vanitas decided to apply. Both being previous professional gamers, they had lots of fans and followers even after leaving the pro gaming world. They were grateful and decided to open up their own streaming site where they also interact and play with newbies who are aiming to be pro gamers as their profession. They give tips, advices while enjoying games as they go. Eventually, the two of them began streaming pro games tournaments due to popular demand by their fans. They even have been dubbed as “VanReeks” even though Riku’s name was an insult, he later got used to it and had a community supporting their contents. Being popular had its perks when a famous gaming company had sent an email, inviting them to become their official beta tester.

With a high-end pay and Youtube paying, Riku and Vanitas didn’t see the harm in accepting the job. What’s the worst that could happen?

Verum Rex happened.

I’m done. This is so done. This game is done.

Like a mantra chanting, Riku already come up with his own review when he realized the next scene playing. (Note: he was half done with the game but he couldn’t really finished it due to some...well..issues of it.) There was a mysterious black hooded figure doing a heart symbol symbol using his hands shaping it towards the luminous brilliance of the moon. Next scenario was a male with different eye color. He had the same hairstyle Riku had in his teenage years: short but layered, even the hair color was the same. Curious, he immersed himself in the scenario, following the Riku look-alike, he let himself on the top of the tallest building. Gigas, or what the robots were called blocked his landing. Mysterious character then readied him right and mysteriously a weapon? No a blade appeared in his hands and before Riku could even know what was going on, the interface changed with menus, command and health bar appeared.

Riku was freaking out. Like, LITERALLY FREAKING OUT.

Punching every buttons he could until he could get the hang out of the mechanics, slashing every Gigas come in his mind. Riku was...enjoying it. “Holy shit damn!” he screamed too loud enough for Vanitas to enter his room. “Reeks, you know I love you in a no homo way but if you don’t the fuck up right I am going to holy shit what the fuck are you playing you inconsiderate asshole and why the heck does the character look exactly like teenage bitch Riku?!” Running towards his silver roommate, Vanitas watched Riku play defeating lots of Gigas.

“This is the Verum Rex, dude. You need to continue playing.”

“Shut the fuck up, douche, I’m already on it without you stating the obvious,” running towards the door but returned as if he forgotten something important to tell. “Also turn on the stream. Bitch needs to gain followers and a promotion for this. I don’t like real teenage bitch Riku but game teenage bitch Riku is l i t!”

With their fruitful perseverance, and promotion invites, Verum Rex was one of the most blossoming video game of the year and VanReeks being the first people who played and experience the game.

With the invitation of the game being adapted as an anime, it was very tempting since the game was an exclusive game with only a japanese voice actor. The creator strictly didn’t want any dubbed from the voice actors that he purposely choose but agreed to have an “outside” Japan released with the exception of “no other dubs” which the company complied.

Riku smiled, replying a “yes” to the invitation.

He couldn’t wait for the gathering.

NEXT CHAPTER

#fanfics #soriku #rikuso #kh #kingdom hearts #vanven #yeah this is crossposted in ao3 too

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cutsliceddiced · 4 years

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New top story from Time: The Best TV Shows of 2020 So Far

No matter what you expected out of 2020, the reality has almost certainly been different. As the coronavirus swept from country to country, making especially brutal landfall in America, even those who remained healthy and employed struggled with loneliness, boredom, anxiety, cabin fever. And in late May, as Americans in major cities faced their third month of quarantine, the senseless death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer launched a wave of protests against law enforcement’s violence toward the black community. Television, frankly, seems pretty insignificant in the face of both crises. But it did help us stay informed, connected and sometimes even intellectually stimulated at a time when the mere sight of other human faces could serve as an inoculation against loneliness and despair. From the holy agony and ecstasy of The New Pope to the unholy high school terrors of Dare Me, here are 10 shows that helped me weather the first half of this difficult year. Here’s hoping they make whatever you’re living through right now slightly more bearable, too.

Better Call Saul (AMC)

With more and more shows ending or getting canceled after a couple of years, so as not to wear out their welcome in a Peak TV moment infatuated with novelty, Better Call Saul’s fifth season demonstrated the value of patient, thorough character development. It took this long to trace downtrodden public defender Jimmy McGill’s (Bob Odenkirk) transformation into the slick, morally flexible Saul Goodman whom we encountered fully formed in Breaking Bad. In season 5—arguably the series’ best to date—we watched him become a so-called “friend of the cartel,” a designation which earned him a harrowing hike through the Mexican desert with Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks), among other brushes with death. But the most exquisitely painful story line traced the impact Saul’s emergence will inevitably have on his partner Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn)—a captivating character in her own right, torn between her own capacity for mainstream success and an internal compass more aligned with his outlaw ethics.

Better Things (FX)

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After executing a full, successful third season of her single-parenting dramedy without disgraced co-creator Louis C.K., Pamela Adlon had nothing to prove with season 4. The show loosened up under her solo leadership, adopting the vérité-style rhythms of 20th-century independent films and growing more confident in that meditative style with every episode. Like some of her avant-garde influences, Adlon doesn’t tell discrete stories so much as create scenarios whose themes spark reflection on the part of the viewer. This time around, she had me thinking about the power of friendship among parents (especially divorced moms), the way raising multiple children might feel more like a cycle than a series of individual timelines, how we deal with our anger at people who’ve wronged us but will never take it upon themselves to make amends.

Betty (HBO)

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Crystal Moselle’s adaptation of her wonderful 2018 indie film Skate Kitchen could be Better Things’ little sister. Like that show, Betty, which debuted in May, consists of half-hour episodes that prioritize character-based insights, emotional resonance and dilated moments of crisis and transcendence over tightly constructed plots. But its subject is that glorious, terrifying transition from teenage life to adulthood in the big city, where freedom looks like a skateboard, a fake ID and a little bit of pocket money. Coming-of-age stories are never in short supply, yet the distinctive faces and personalities who make up the show’s central all-female skate crew are like nothing I’ve seen on TV before.

BoJack Horseman (Netflix)

There are great shows that ended badly (Game of Thrones, Lost, Roseanne 1.0), and then there are the divisive finales: The Sopranos, Seinfeld, Mad Men, Girls. Much rarer are series that go out on the perfect note, not just bidding fond farewells to characters viewers have grown to love (or love to hate) but elegantly tying up their most salient themes. When BoJack mastermind Raphael Bob-Waksberg left his titular anthropomorphic horse (voiced by Will Arnett) and the ghost writer who became his most insightful friend (Alison Brie’s Diane) in silence on a rooftop after six excellent seasons, his finale joined the ranks of Six Feet Under, Halt and Catch Fire, M*A*S*H and very few other shows that left us exhausted, tearful and grieving but ultimately satisfied.

Dare Me (USA)

Netflix’s hit docuseries Cheer made cheerleading a TV sensation this winter—which only made it more frustrating that Dare Me attracted so little attention. Set in a Midwestern town whose local real estate magnate (Paul Fitzgerald) is angling to cash in on the talent of a cheer squad that happens to include his two daughters by different wives, this thriller springs to life when he installs a tough, beautiful new coach (Willa Fitzgerald of MTV’s Scream) who challenges the top-girl status of his rebellious eldest child, Beth (Australian actor Marlo Kelly, beguiling). In the center of a conflict marked by escalating violence is Beth’s best friend Addy (The Get Down’s Herizen Guardiola), a quietly determined cheerleader still figuring out who she is. It was a riveting mystery, adapted from co-creator Megan Abbott’s novel, but equally enthralling was its dark, dreamy atmosphere. Before USA canceled it, in April, Dare Me promised to become everything I’d hoped HBO’s more popular, less original teen drama Euphoria would be.

The Great (Hulu)

This period dramedy is about as faithful a depiction of Catherine the Great’s rise to power in 18th-century Russia as Comedy Central spoof Another Period was a document of upper-crust Rhode Island life in Edith Wharton’s time. And that—along with Elle Fanning as a young Catherine, Nicholas Hoult as her debauched imbecile husband Peter III and dialogue from the droll, raunchy mind of The Favourite co-writer Tony McNamara—is what makes it so fun. Like its Oscar-nominated predecessor, The Great is a hilarious satire about gender and power as well as a reminder that European history wasn’t all as polite as Masterpiece miniseries make it out to be.

Mrs. America (FX on Hulu)

You could see the backlash to this all-star historical drama—which earned almost universal acclaim from critics, this one included—coming as soon as it was announced. Creator Dahvi Waller’s nine-part miniseries cast the beloved Cate Blanchett as Phyllis Schlafly, tracing the right-wing ideologue’s origin story in tandem with the implosion of a 1970s feminist movement led by women like Gloria Steinem (Rose Byrne), Shirley Chisholm (Uzo Aduba), Bella Abzug (Margo Martindale) and Betty Friedan (Tracey Ullman). So it was easy for some to accuse the show of making Schlafly too sympathetic. Here’s the thing: depiction isn’t endorsement, and Waller’s inquiry into what made feminism’s most influential female enemy the tyrannical, bigoted, infuriating person she was did not by any stretch of the imagination constitute apologizing for the harm she wrought. On the contrary, this smartly written, beautifully acted and subtly insightful series made it possible for even those of us who find Schlafly’s self-hating views mystifying to imagine how flesh-and-blood humans can devolve into self-serving monsters.

The New Pope (HBO)

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Religion has become an unexpectedly popular subject for TV, in the afterlife comedies that don’t stop coming (The Good Place begat Forever, then Russian Doll, Miracle Workers and most recently Upload), in explorations of identity like Ramy and Unorthodox and in accounts of political conflicts driven by religious differences, from Our Boys to Derry Girls. A sequel to the 2017 miniseries The Young Pope, which took Jude Law’s upstart American Pontiff on a journey from bad faith to true faith, Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino’s The New Pope is something extremely different. With Law’s Pius XIII in some sort of divine coma and Muslim extremists terrorizing Catholic targets, his lieutenants at the Vatican recruit a depressive British cardinal (a tender, delicate John Malkovich) to take his place. Rather than dissecting 21st-century Catholicism, both seasons feel like an attempt to conjure the headspace of religious mysticism, in shots with all the majesty of a Renaissance fresco, a story whose mystery rivals the Book of Revelation and a sense of humor steeped in existential absurdity.

The Plot Against America (HBO)

In 2004, the late giant of American literature Philip Roth imagined an alternate reality in which Charles Lindbergh won the 1940 election, kept the U.S. out of World War II and set about reshaping the country to suit his isolationist, anti-Semitic views. Sixteen years later, with xenophobia, nativism and white supremacy on the rise, Roth’s novel about a Jewish family caught in this nightmare didn’t need much tweaking from The Wire collaborators David Simon and Ed Burns to resonate. The prestige-TV veterans simply stacked the adaptation with an ideal cast (Winona Ryder, John Turturro, Zoe Kazan and Morgan Spector are all spectacular), warmed up its shots with the unnerving golden light of nostalgia and got out of the story’s way… until the very end, which replaced Roth’s too-neat conclusion with something more suitable for 2020.

Vida (Starz)

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It was not Tanya Saracho’s choice to end Vida—the drama she created about two Mexican-American sisters who return home to L.A.’s Boyle Heights neighborhood in the wake of their mother’s death and attempt to save her poorly managed bar—after three seasons. Given just six supersize episodes, a reduced budget and a shortened production schedule with which to complete her expansive meditation on family, community and identity, Saracho and her writers had to do the heartbreaking work of “killing our darlings,” as she put it in a recent interview, to make room for all the “stories we owed.” The result bordered on miraculous: a thoughtful, emotional, sexy season of television that, without feeling rushed, probed mysteries that the sisters’ mom left behind, set every major character on a path of richly deserved growth and ended with a scene that had this viewer crying as hard as the characters themselves.

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