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yourplayersaidwhat · 2 years

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Our party needs to get into a safety deposit box in the local bank. The box belongs to the man we're currently secretly investigating on behalf of the princess for embezzlement. We've also been given a letter from the princess granting our party 2k gold, which we would redeem at the same bank. So our plan is for our wizard, a half-elf from a family of merchant nobility, to use Disguise Self to pretend to be The Suspect and retrieve the box while the rest of us go get our gold. Wizard goes in first, alone, so as not to raise suspicion. Then, the following conversation takes place outside the bank. For clarity, the remaining characters are:

Me: Elf Druid from an incredibly rural community that still operates almost entirely on a barter system, so it doesn't even have currency, let alone a bank. Has never even *seen* a bank before.

Rogue: Lizard Folk who has recently arrived on this continent from a distant archipelago that *does* have currency, but *does not* have banks. A petty-criminal that has never been inside a bank in his life.

Sorcerer: Tiefling that, until about 2 weeks ago, was trapped in a timeless demiplane for at least several hundred if not several thousand years. All of modern society is a complete mystery to him, and if he ever has been in a bank, it's been so long that he doesn't remember.

Paladin: Elf from a large and prominent religious community. Going Through It™ and having a long and continued existential crisis due to finding out the goddess he dedicated his life to has likely never existed. Usually a Good and Moral Boy, he's currently in the "Fuck it, nothing matters" stage of depression. *Absolutely* knows how banks work and is 100% aware that this is is about to be a shit-show, but won't do anything to stop it.

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Me: Okay, so Wizard's been in the bank for about 5 minutes now, it's probably safe to head in right?

Party: **various noises of agreement**

Me: Alrighty. So! First order of business: Does anyone know how banks work? I'm assuming it's like the market and you just grab whatever you need and then check out?

Sorcer: **shrugs** Last I knew, people kept their wealth in chests in their homes, so I was counting on you guys to know.

Rogue: **shakes his head** My island doesn't have banks, I figured you guys knew since you're from here.

Me: I thought you guys would know since you've traveled more than me. My village doesn't do money, this is the first time I've seen a bank in real life.

Rogue: I don't think they'd keep the gold out for people to grab though, that seems like a bad idea. We probably have to ask for it.

Me: It can't be that hard though, right? People successfully go to banks every day. Wizard is in there right now and he's by himself, so we can handle this with four people. I'm sure if we just walk in there and state our intentions everything will be fine.

Sorcerer: Well we already have our Bag of Holding, so we could put the letter on the counter and say something like "We're here for the money, please put it in this bag."

Rogue: That sounds good to me. I bet they'll really appreciate the convenience of us bringing our own bag, too. Oh! And people tend to get nervous when I smile, so maybe I should cover my face? **wraps scarf around his face** How's this?

Me: Perfect! That should help put them at ease, your teeth are kind of scary. Alright, seems like a pretty solid plan. Easy-peasy. Paladin, your church probably got a lot of offerings, you had banks right? Are we missing anything?

Paladin: .................. No, you guys've got it. Perfect plan, I can't believe you figured out banks so quickly :)

Me: Great! Let's get going then. **helps adjust Rogue's scarf a little higher** Now don't forget, eye-contact is important since they can't see your face, it shows that you're being genuine.

Rogue: I don't have eyelids, so that should be easy.

Me: Man, we are *so* good at banks. Wait til Wizard hears, he's gonna be so proud of us! :D

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Meanwhile, Wizard's player, somewhere between crying and wheeze-laughing: I can't believe this, we survive two dragons, a hoard of were-gators, and an evil librarian aberration with an army of knock-off slendermen and a malevolent sentient library, and you idiots are going to get killed by bank security! Amazing.

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(The plan actually went off without a hitch because we got an insane amount of stupidly-high rolls. I thought our DM was gonna piss himself from laughing so hard. Turns out we ARE good at banks! :D

Later we had a party for Plot Reasons and invited the bank staff and they definitely think we're insane but aren't gonna pass up free booze. Having worked a lot of retail that probably wasnt even the weirdest thing that happened to them that day tbh)

#shit my players say #dnd #rpg #submission #shareable #long post #why npcs hate pcs #famous last words

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alwaysahiccupandastrid · 9 months

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Barbie was so good?!? Fucking loved every minute of it, but special shout-out to some things...

(BARBIE SPOILERS below the cut)

This movie was so funny, I can't get over how fucking funny and camp it was, an actual masterpiece 11/10

"This movie is overly feminist and man-hating" - THIS MOVIE AIN'T FOR YOU, SHUT THE FUCK UP AND GO WATCH THE SHITTY FLASH MOVIE THEN IF YOU'RE SO MAD

(haven't actually seen the flash, have seen a few clips on twitter and i'm glad i haven't, i don't want to, don't @ me)

I'll be honest, I had very few Barbie dolls growing up, I had a medium sized doll house that was not for Barbie-height-toys, and so most of my toys were random figurines collected over the years (shout-out to the McDonald's Happy Meal Narnia toys!), but I was still getting pumped at the beginning of this film when the narrator went into detail about how Barbie can have any career, any life she wants etc.

The attention to detail in Barbie-land, like the pools/sea are all flat and not actually wet, there’s no actual liquid in the cups when they drink, no water in the shower etc.

Look, I will fully admit that HOTD has fucked my brain and my taste in men up, and so I'm blaming that for me looking at Ryan Gosling as Ken and going "yes I would like to obliterate that twink" 🙈

There were a lot of kids in my screening who absolutely did NOT get the "beach you off" joke, meanwhile I was sitting there laughing embarrassingly loudly like an idiot

Why was Allan a whole ass mood, I'm sorry but he was so relatable, arguably the best character I fear-

I like that weird-Barbie is basically what a lot of girls go through with their Barbies at a certain age by cutting off their hair, drawing on them with pens, etc. Like that’s a mood, my sister and I used to wash our Barbies’ hair and draw fake tattoos on them with felt tips 💀

“Do you ever think about dying? 😃” took me out oh my fucking god 💀 I already had one existential crisis this weekend watching Oppenheimer, I don’t need another one from Barbie of all things 😭

The way Ken says “because we’re boyfriend girlfriend” has the most random place in my heart and I don’t know why lol

The sheer horror over Barbie having flat feet LMFAO

Weird-Barbie having the dog where you feed it pellets and then use the tail so it shits the pellets back out?!? Me and my sister were like "oh my fucking god" because we literally had that fucking toy lmfao

Weird-Barbie talking about Ken's smooth plastic bulge, I literally CHOKED-

Honestly just... Barbie entering the real world and being confused that men treat her like a sex object, being super uncomfortable, meanwhile Ken's like "they're looking at me appreciatively!"... oof

I nearly choked on my drink when Barbie loudly declared "I don't have a vagina and he doesn't have a penis!" like?!?!?

Barbie and Ken getting arrested not only once but TWICE... oh that's the content I'm living for lmao

I’m so so SO glad that the scene with Barbie and the elderly lady was kept in, I shed a tear because it was so beautiful and simple. When Barbie said that the lady was beautiful?!?! I’m a mess just thinking about it 😭❤️

Pleasantly surprised by the sheer amount of horsey content in this film like yes, that's 100% what the patriarchy should be, it should be about Kens riding horsies :D (I’m aware this is NOT the only thing that happened lmao I’m just saying that the world would be a better place with more horses)

America Ferrera is a fucking QUEEN and I adore her, I know HTTYD is over but she will always be MY Astrid, aka Chieftess Queen and Dragon-Rider

Not gonna lie, I felt Sasha’s little monologue where she rants about the unrealistic standards set by Barbie like I see both sides of what Barbie represents and how she can be viewed and I get it. Like on the one hand, hooray for girls growing up having a doll that can show them they can be Presidents, Nobel Piece winners, doctors etc., hooray for all the feminism to come from Barbie. But also you could argue that there’s unreal expectations in regards to Barbie’s body shape, and that when we girls grow up into women, we realise that the Real World is not as simple as what we dreamt of while playing with Barbies, that our world doesn’t revolve around having women in positions of power, that we still very much live in a society where women are viewed as being there solely for men, as home makers and wives and mothers, that we can have a certain amount of freedom and power but not too much etc.

Did I kind of guess "hey maybe it's not the daughter who has triggered Barbie's crisis, maybe it's the mother"? Yes, I guessed that early on but I still loved it anyway

I have no idea how Greta Gerwig got Mattel to agree to this script but holy shit, she must be magical or something

The spirit of Ruth Handler, aka THE creator of Barbie who named the doll after her daughter?!? Played by Rhea Perlman?!?!

Also I've only just learnt, after looking at Ruth Handler's wikipedia page, that Ken was named after her son?!?! Barbie and Ken are siblings?!?!

JOHN CENA AS MERMAN KEN?!?!

My sister was so delighted by the amount of Sylvester Stallone references in this film omg

DEPRESSION-BARBIE I WAS IN LITERAL FUCKING TEARS I COULDN'T STOP LAUGHING, AND SHE WAS WATCHING BBC'S PRIDE AND PREJUDICE?!? WHILE EATING SWEETS?!? I CANT STOP CACKLING AND CRYING

Depression-Barbie also comes in other variations, including an anxiety one?!?! 🤣

I shit you not, I NEED America Ferrera to be nominated for supporting actress for all the awards because holy fUCK, her monologue?!?! That monologue?!?!

WHAT DO YOU MEAN ROB BRYDON AKA UNCLE BRYNN FROM GAVIN AND STACEY IS SUGAR DADDY KEN?!?!

“We mothers stand still so our daughters can look back and see how far they have come.” - STOP I WAS ALREADY SOBBING

The Helen Mirren fourth wall break where she says that if the filmmakers wanted us to believe that Barbie was no longer pretty, "they shouldn't have cast Margot Robbie in this part", literally ICONIC

KEN’S FLUFFY TIE DYE HOODIE THING THAT SAYS “I AM KENOUGH” ASDFGHJKL I WANT ONE

Ridiculously glad that Ken and Barbie didn’t get together to be honest, yes I get it that Ken is designed as a boyfriend for Barbie but also it would have sucked to have this whole film play out as it did and then have them end up together 💀

The soundtrack of this film was IMMACULATE, 10/10, five stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

There’s a definite message and commentary here but I’m too stupid and tired to write it out, so I’ll reblog it from the people who are smarter and more eloquent than me instead but oh my good this film was such an amazing piece of cinema

This isn't everything about the film obviously, there was a lot going on and I'm still mentally processing it so I might add more to the post later but wow, just… wow.

#barbie #barbie spoilers #margot robbie #ryan gosling #america ferrera

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that-angry-noldo · 1 year

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*cackles* oh I'm so glad you liked the Finrod reveal ramble, I was a little hesitant bc some people get a bit HOW DARE when other people do more than ask questions.

I wasn't meaning to imply Fingon was demanding or telling Mae what to do, more that he was being another voice for Mae to consider? And a new ear/shoulder for him to speak to about this? Like, you know when you KNOW you should do something, and it's really hard and it WILL hurt, so you're trying to do everything BUT that until you talk to a friend or family member and it clarifies and untangles the situation in your head so you can finally FINALLY make the choice you need to?

I see Fingon as one of the people Mae has for this. (He is Mae's favorite rubber duck) And Maglor obviously, but a sibling is too close for that sometimes. Fingon was outside the situation.

OH WOW YEAH Maedhros is gonna have some ISSUES when he realizes he's been treating his cousin like a pet. Having undergone his own horrific dehumanization and torture, it's gonna make him feel horrible to have unwittingly done the same to his cousin.

This is obviously NOT actually his fault, there was no way he could know that this was FINROD, but ptsd does not respond to logic.

I'm picturing him sitting beside a thoroughly unconscious Finrod all blank faced and torturing himself by going over every SINGLE interaction he had with wolf!Finrod desperately wondering how he MISSED THIS.

Maglor is no help, he's doing the same thing. Fingon is juggling both of their responsibilities probably for a few days, while also being beside himself about this.

Finrod is in a healer concoction induced sleep, floating in a lovely pain free cloud right now, and is unavailable for comment.

Meanwhile Fingon is ALSO trying to think about what to tell Finrod's SISTER probably. How d'you draft THAT letter? 'Hey Artanis, so you know how everyone said Finrod died...' O__O;;; (Really, he probably won't write it into a letter, not if they're gonna keep this on the down low, it could be intercepted, but it's a fun image)

please i now can only picture this

Fingon, rolling into Himring: yodeley my dudes how it's going? how's it rolling??

Maedhros, in the middle of existential crisis: fingon HELP me to DEAL with the MORALS

also have you looked into my brain because THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING. maedhros sitting near finrod's bed not being able to think about anything else

anyways i'm gonna say it. maglor's guilt strikes ten times harder because he literally proposed to slit werefinrod's throat when they first captured him so. KEKW I GUESS

i could've given finrod a healer induced sleep because imo he deserves it, but i'm gonna give him sauron induced nightmares/visions instead because i'm evil :D

ALSO YEAH DECIDING ON WHO AND WHAT TO TELL IS A MAJOR THING MAE AND FINNO HAVE TO DO

they decide not to tell anyone yet, at least not before finrod comes to his senses. but if they were to draft a letter it would look like this:

Hey. Yeah it's about your brother. Yeah a dead one. So about him, you might want to recall a funeral. Yeah. No yeah he was risen from dead. No no he's not a zombie. No he's. Um. He's a werewolf. Yeah like a shapeshifting one. So uh. Congrats?... Sorry. Yeah. Maedhros's been feeding him well though. No?... Oh. Alright. No yeah I understand. Yeah. Okay. Sorry.

meanwhile galadriel in menegroth is like. i feel a great disturbance in the force-

and PLEASE i ENJOY getting asks like these, i'm always open to asks about my aus or fics or silmarillion in general! it's basically if someone wrote it down instead of me and i'm always exited to read them

#werewolf au #noldo answers

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tilions · 3 months

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I'd love to hear about Elros and Elrond Timeswap and Old Fires Burn Out! — @emyn-arnens

[from this WIP ask game!]

Thank you for the ask @emyn-arnens , the one for Old Fires Burn out I already answered here!

Elrond and Elros Timeswap my beloved aka the fic where I give Elrond a bit of an existential crisis and let Elros have some quality family time with his sister-in-law, nephews and niece.

The basic idea of this fic actually came to me because I was one evening very sad about the fact that Elros never got to meet Elrond’s kids and Elrond’s kids never got to meet their uncle and I wanted to fix that.

Elros is from late-ish into his reign, I imagine he already has some visible signs of aging like some gray hair he is very conscious about; while Elrond is from around the time where Arwen is still in the elvish equivalent of pre-teenagehood and a bit of a menace to deal with. Though he’s definitely from before Celebrian gets captured! And yeah for some unknown reason the two of them swap places for a bit.

Elrond’s existential crisis comes from the fact that a) he, for some reason, is now in the past, b) his brother is fucking missing, c) his dead nephews, niece and sister-in-law are alive again(!) and d) he isn't so sure how he’ll deal with the younger version of himself who is scheduled to arrive in like three days… and also e) Manwendil had the brilliant idea that Elrond should be playing Elros’s part as king for the foreseeable future because someone has to and it's definitely not going to be Vardamir.

Elros meanwhile falls from a tree during his daily midday nap in the gardens and suddenly finds himself in the middle of a valley that he doesn’t know and starts wandering around looking for people. He runs into his old friend Gildor, who looks at him like he’s a ghost, meets Glorfindel (isn’t he supposed to be dead??) and finally learns that his brother apparently built an elvish city and got married(!) without telling him about it. It takes him a moment to figure out he might not actually be in time anymore, because everyone else is a little bit too preoccupied with the fact that their lord's dead twin brother just showed up (while their lord is missing!!) and isn’t telling him anything. Nobody expects Elros to play Elrond’s part because all of Rivendell already knows what happens and so he’s free to spend time with Celebrian and the kiddos. Though there is this meeting with the White Council coming up… maybe the Wizards will know what to do? (Spoiler: Saruman and Gandalf know nothin’)

I actually have one chapter and a half already written! Maybe there will be more maybe I'll continue spinning this around in my brain like a döner kebab for eternity.

#emyn-amens #asks

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morganee · 1 year

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Byler Fic Rec Week - Day 6: Canon divergence

the taste of the color by waffles_isa (@waffles-isa) (699 words, complete)

It's a world where people are only able to see in black and white until they find their soulmate. Everyone's worried about it, but Mike is completely chill.

Static Re-connection by IllogicalFallacy (@illogical-fallacy) (62k, complete)

AND - H E R E - I - T H O U G H T - U ‘ D - F O R G E T - M E N E V E R N E V E R - E V E R - ? N E V E R - E V E R He thought about the way Will had looked at him all those years ago, lying in the hospital bed, eyes not his own. Even through the fog of possession, something behind Will’s gaze had clicked and recognized Mike for who he was. Even without anything else left, Will had still remembered the connection he had to his mom - and... to Mike. His trembling fingers hesitated for an infinite moment, before typing faster than his brain could hope to process, P R M S E - ? Y E S A miles-apart, oblivious mutual pining, emotional summer vacation disaster-fest starring Mike, Will, and one incredibly unreliable radio connection.

must be a devil between us by els bloody rollerskate (@super-nova5045) (37k, ongoing)

Don’t assume that because every gate was closed by your telekinetic girlfriend before the world split in two everything will be okay. Your best friend might become a new target of this monster four months later on summer camp and be in grave danger. Or do. He’ll have to die. Ever since November 1983, when Will Byers went missing, shit has just gone downhill for Hawkins, tragedy after tragedy afflicting a once peaceful town. For the first time ever, Mike Wheeler, is at peace – he’s going to Camp Hero in the summer of ’86, where the high-schoolers of Hawkins bond for a summer of “totally rad, epic fun”. The only thing that could possibly spoil it? His best friend, Will, happens to be attending camp too, as well as his girlfriend El – the two people Mike was trying to avoid; the sheer level of awkward tension between them driving him insane. Mike’s trying his best to ignore Will and even worse, ignore the feelings for Will he tried to repress, too. However, when his assumed-dead dungeon master, Eddie Munson, steps foot on Camp Hero on one midsummer night, Mike knows he must get over his tension with Will and El and reunite his friends to destroy Vecna, once and for all.

A Hope to Cling To by midnighteverlark (18k, complete)

While talking to Will in the shed, trying to break through the Mind Flayer's control, Mike starts thinking about what he would do if Will gave up, and completely unintentionally blurts, "I love you." Mike's existential crisis follows. Meanwhile, Will uses the words as his anchor, holding onto this glimmer of hope with all his might as he struggles to hang on against the Mind Flayer. Basically, a more Mike/Will-centric version of episodes 8 and 9 and the time beyond, with a good dose of of grit and Serious Stuff but also plenty of happiness and some fluff to come. (I mean, come on - Will is a gay kid in the 80s who just craves love and acceptance, and he deserves A Break. Mike is just realizing he's bisexual and he needs some love and acceptance and A Break too.)

king of my heart by bookinit (@bookinit02) (21k, complete)

Will finds himself wondering, sometimes, if his mark matches Mike’s. He thinks it must, really—he can’t imagine wanting to spend the rest of his life with anyone else. Mike’s cool and strong and brave and funny. His hair flops down over his forehead and his eyes bore into Will’s soul, always so steadily intense. He doesn’t cry when he scrapes his knee. Instead, he just gets back up. Will thinks that if Mike isn’t his soulmate, something is seriously wrong with the world.

truth serum side effects (may include: accidental gay confessions) by sterrenhemel (1k, complete)

"You okay?" Mike asks him. "Yeah, your hands are really soft." And— Jesus Christ, what was that? Sure, it wasn't a lie, but... what?! "Uh, thank you?" Mike replies awkwardly. Will wants to hit himself. Why would he say that? "I'm sorry. I don't know why I said that." Or the one in which Will is hit by a truth serum.

#byler #bylerficrecweek2023 #bylerficrecweek #byler fic rec #byler fic #will byers #mike wheeler #stranger things

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rin-enjoyer · 5 months

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rough timeline for akatsuki!rin au

-canon proceeds as normal up to kannabi bridge; the diverging moment is that obito gets captured alongside rin. kakashi dithers for a bit but decides that it’s not realistic to complete the mission 100% on his lonesome so he goes to see if he can rescue at least one of his teammates.

-obito unlocks his sharingan, and gets one of them gouged out before kakashi comes and saves them. the cave caves in and rin gets squished- obito’s eye is in there with her too^_^

-kakashi and obito go finish the mission no problems just like canon

-meanwhile rin, of course, gets found by madara. he’s pretty desperate at this point for SOMEONE to carry out his plan after he’s dead, so he snatches the youngest and most valuable not-quite-dead-yet guy (rin) and the lovely sharingan discarded in the dirt and mashes all that together with some mokuton. bam. plan still on track.

-obito has an existential crisis about rin dying and tries to sort out his life. kakashi is also devastated by it but deals with his emotions by joining anbu! yayyyyyy

-rin is… very enthusiastic about infinite tsukuyomi. she thinks it’s a great idea, very exciting. madara still slaps a seal on her for like. good measure. but it actually has the opposite effect and makes her slightly less gung-ho about it, because the seal amplifies hatred, and rin really wants to see a perfect world because she thinks it would be neat. basically, in the og timeline obito wanted to create a perfect world because he hated the one he was living in, but rin wants to create a perfect world because she loves the one she imagines. so the seal of hatred. it. it doesnt help much

-madara (fueled by hatred) continues to assume that rin is totally mad and angry just like he is and that he can add fuel to this!!! cue sanbi getting stuffed in kakashi. kakashi, like rin, kills himself about it, but unlike rin he doesn’t wait for obito to come help. he just impales himself on his tanto.

-when obito stumbles across that. well.

-rin never even finds out tho lmao girl is PREOCCUPIED. average madara-rin conversation:

madara: soon we will cleanse this world of its imperfections and create a new, better one in its place….

rin: yeaahh :D :D we’re gonna throw everything into the sun

madara: yes. we will repair the injustices of life.

rin: wheeee space time

madara: and everything sucks. and we’ll fix it.

rin: hehehe. do you think we can blow up the moon

-rin takes a subtler approach to collecting the tailed beasts. she takes it slow and doesn’t go for kurama first so kushina and minato live!!

-sidenote about how konoha’s politics develop in this universe because. i’ve thought about it too much. and it’s very important that we’re all on the same page about danzo. ok. so the thing is that danzo is like… not uniquely evil in ninja-land. yes he commits atrocities yes he’s just the worst. he’s not good. i’m just saying. compared to other ninja. he’s like. the same. i think that he’s legitimately not a power-hungry hawk. like any good ninja, his duty is to the village first! the reason he kept trying to take power from hiruzen was because 1- thats how they flirted you fool you know some root/anbu double agents were getting five assassination requests from danzo and hiruzen on danzo and hiruzen a WEEK and they just kind of. halfheartedly went at it. awww how romantic <3 and 2- the village really does need a strong leader to make military decisions and base propaganda around and hiruzen just. wasn’t cutting it.

-so the thing is. with minato as leader? that’s rad dude he’s got a great cult of personality he’s super great at killing people he’s out here checking out all the boxes off!!! danzo has zero problems with this. hiruzen retires to the council and lets be real he and danzo still attempt to poison each other every so often but like its fine. its consensual. its their love language.

-so danzo and minato get buddy-buddy and rin gets sneaky sneaky with her plans to create an illusory world so that she can just blow up the moon sooo many times and obito gets so so so much trauma.

- he ends up retiring from active duty and teaching at the academy!! he’s actually very good at it it suits him well. he lives in ninja land so his mental health isn’t great but all things considered he’s doing pretty good.

-without the yanking back and forth within konoha, the village starts to do pretty good for itself tbh. no kyuubi attack and (!) no uchiha massacre. minato just kind of makes sure a few uchiha “die” every year and slips danzo the eyeballs under the table, who then passes them to orochimaru. none of them see anything wrong with this. fugaku is ALSO aware but that “arrangement” keeps tensions from rising so he’s like. not cool but he sees it as the lesser evil. so.

-gai ends up joining anbu to honor kakashi!! it goes badly and by badly i mean gai manages to become a very good anbu agent <3 whoops

-rin can bloodbend because i think she deserves too.

-rin does eventually start up the akatsuki but they are a sneaky sneaky distraction to take people’s attention away from her real goals. a smoke screen. everyone’s like “aughghh the missing-nin organization who is trying to take over the world” and then she sneaks around in the background capturing tailed beasts. they’re mostly the same except ame didn’t go down the same way at all, so pein and konan aren’t there. and i guess itachi isn’t either. kisame is tho the stuff in kiri went down differently but its still just .the worst.

-also worth noting (mostly because i find it funny): rin doesn’t adopt a persona or wear a mask or anything she just. she goes by rin. but no one connects the dots because most of them never even knew rin existed and also even if they did rin is like. not an uncommon name. and this rin doesn’t have purple cheeks (thats important To Me on account of i think that the purple is paint and is just a family tradition and by forsaking it rin further distances herself from everything she once was)

-actually hold on a second tangent about rin’s brain rn i wanna talk about her motivations and junk. ok so we all know that rin puts on masks and is mad that she doesn’t have a “true self” to know right? so . you’re not gonna believe this.

-after All That rin kind of just decides that like. her true self? that’s gone baby!!!! she’s never gonna get that back, so she should just make a new one! and right now she is lowkey hyperfixating on space and stuff so she just makes a mask out of that and then lives in it forever after

-she’s like “because i have a goal i am going to get a good grade in benign a person (something normal to want and possible to achieve)” and the goal is throwing herself into the sun.

-are we feeling the moth coding

-so anyways obito gets better and better and better at teaching and also just general ninja junk and one day minato stops by and asks him to take the jounin exams that way he can begin being a jounin sensei because lets be real. he’d be very good at it. also naruto just entered the academy he wants obito to be able to teach him come time cuz nepotism but like obito can get a few other teams in in the meantime!!!

-obito does this. he teaches three teams before it’s time for the fabled nepo babies team 7 and he’s soooo good at it only one of his students dies while under him!!!! those are insane stats!!! he is lauded as a genius and everyone hopes that he is the one to teach their children

-team 7 time !!! as you might imagine they’re pretty different in this universe. naruto and sasuke were both very close with obito prior to the team’s formation and they both look up to him a lot. they both have the goal of becoming academy teachers and minato’s like. cool with it. ideally one of them drops the ambition (preferably sasuke- although things are better it would be pretty great for village unity if there was an uchiha as hokage) and the other can stay the personable root to reality. whatever there’s time for things to work out

-sakura and ino are still friends in this universe! sakura really, really wants to be hokage, and so minato put her on the team hoping that either she’d motivate sasuke/naruto to be hokage, and if that fails, then like, they’ve still got the team 7 nepotism going it’s still in the chain of senseis. you know.

-no wave mission! nothing really like that, because obito actually knows how to handle children and how to push them to their limit but not past it. crazy.

-the gang does enter their first chunin exam, but there’s no invasion and things are like. chill.

-also naruto does still befriend gaara. its a surprise tool that’ll help us later

-combat dynamics in this team go like this: naruto is the tank sakura is the glass canon and sasuke is the long range guy

-they make chunin and everyone’s happy!!! very chill universe. suspiciously chill…

-time skip a bit after a bout of chillness. the akatsuki are growing and are sort of mildly concerning? but not too concerning, because most of the major villages have gone without incident for a good decade, and are flourishing

-rin gets to gaara. he dies. naruto is distraught when he gets the news. obito remembers that the mizukage died just last year, too, and wasn’t he a jinchūriki as well? he’s starting to get suspicious…

-obito puts in a whole investigation of the thing and discovers that there are only two jinchūriki left- kushina and killer b. he brings this to minato who is understandably concerned- after so many years, the identities of both of them are a bit of an open secret, so if this is the conspiracy they think it is, it’s only a matter of time until an attack.

-still. things are peaceful, and no one wants to stir trouble up. they decide to keep an eye open and just be careful.

-two months later, killer bee mysteriously disappears, and that’s the push that sends kushina underground. obito takes team 7 (all jounin now) on a mission with kushina to *throws dart at board* ehhhh land of tea where they’ll basically just be walking in circles to buy time.

-rin finds them after like a week of that and just. KILLS. she makes kushina walk over to the statue while she fights off obito + the kids and then finishes summoning the thing.

-there’s no war. there’s no revival of madara or army or anything. most of the akatsuki are unaware of rin’s greater plans. it’s just obito and the rest of team 7 up against rin, and they’re just. so out of their depth.

-for the record. obito doesn’t even recognize rin until she uses kamui, at which point he connects a few dots and then has a crisis. rin berates his for daring to grieve her and then infinite tsukuyomi begins.

-team 7 is immune (thank u sasuke sorry that your dad died i guess. he was a jerk but whatever) and so they keep trying to fight rin up until the point that kaguya shows up.

-rin has a MASSIVE HYPOCRITE MOMENT and despite being so so so mad at obito for loving her not for herself but for what she represented for him she falls in love with kaguya not for herself but for what she represents for her :/

- kaguya begins the life-sucking. team 7 begins plan “run back home and wake up minato and hope he can do smth about this”

-the kagurin is so real. kaguya thinks its great that someone loves her and is also sort of unnerved by rin. rin just likes space1!! and its a space lady!! true love i tell you.

-they get to minato and he ends up sacrificing himself in a huge explosion that kills kaguya and rin. rip the incredibly evil yuri 😔

-infinite tsukuyomi lasted almost a week- about a third of the population of the entire world is dead. the rest is incredibly weakened. everyone stick close in their villages and tries to recuperate.

-obito hokage moment??? everyone clap and cheer. he’s not happy about it but no one cares.

#i'll do the au where rin is the one to chill in konoha next... heh heh heh #that one will be fun cuz i'll really get to hammer in the sasuke/rin parallels.

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Tell me some facts about your TES oc blorbos, I’m interested to know about them :D

thank you for this ask and I sincerely hope you won't regret it! Here is some interesting info about each of the girls.

Sylvie, the Nerevarine

Immediately after the events of Morrowind, Sylvie was pretty much one of the most powerful people in the province. She ran the Mages' Guild, House Telvanni, the Thieves' Guild, and the Thirsk Mead Hall, and figured she was well placed to solve all of Morrowind's problems. Unfortunately, this didn't exactly pan out as hoped, because Morrowind is full of stick-in-the-mud weirdos. After a couple of years, and especially after she got married and had her daughter Falura, Sylvie became more reclusive and retired from a lot of her official responsibilities. She wound up spending her days either hiding out on Solstheim with the family or going on expeditions, which accounts for everyone during the Oblivion Crisis going "has anyone seen the Nerevarine lately? Is she in Akavir? What's her deal these days?"

Sacha Llervu, the Hero of Kvatch

Like her sister Falura, Sacha was kidnapped by bandits and sold into slavery as a child. She wound up as a farm worker on the mainland side of Morrowind before escaping as a teenager. Her goal was always to track down her sister and buy her freedom, but before that could happen, she got caught running a gambling scam on the border with Cyrodiil and got tossed in prison. We all know what happened next!

Sacha is definitely the least "good" of my heroines. Sylvie's kind of a trashy party girl, but she's also a bit of a Robin Hood type and has a good heart. Sophrine's known far and wide as the Nicest Woman in Skyrim. Meanwhile, Sacha's perfectly capable of being nice and helpful, but her way of coping with her best friend turning into a dragon statue was Joining the Damn Assassin Mob. Oh, and becoming the Goddess of Madness. But that's actually a good move on her part.

Sophrine Aulette, the Last Dragonborn

Pretty much no one, upon first meeting Sophrine, actually believes she's a Dragonborn, because she's 5'3" and dresses like a medieval kindergarten teacher. She can't really blame them for this. I have a LOT of feelings about how discovering she's part dragon and a prophesied warrior really messes with everything Sophrine ever thought she knew about herself, but I'll save that for the story I'm writing about her...

Sophrine's dad's family pretty much runs her hometown, which is how she learned all her useful skills. Her dad taught her to cook and run a business; her uncle who's a blacksmith taught her about making and repairing things; her grandma taught her the basics of magic. She's a talented girl! She's had an existential crisis every single day since entering Skyrim!

#asks #tes #oc: sacha #oc: sophrine #oc: sylvie

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yourreddancer · 2 years

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HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

June 8, 2022 (Wednesday)

Today, the Washington Commanders defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio complained to reporters that there have been “two standards” in the way we have seen the vandalism at some of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 and the January 6 insurrection. “We have a dust-up at the Capitol, nothing burned down, and we’re going to make that a major deal.” This is a common charge on the right, but it is a myth.

An AP study showed that more than 120 defendants have pleaded guilty or been convicted at trial for rioting, arson, and conspiracy for the 2020 protests, and that they are from all over the political spectrum, with many of them far-right extremists who traveled across state lines to the protests. And the January 6 attack was hardly victimless: 5 people died at the Capitol riot or just after it, more than 100 law enforcement officers were injured, and the rioters did more than $1.5 million in damage to the Capitol.

What happened on January 6th was not a “dust-up.” It was an attempt to overturn our democracy and install as president someone who had lost the popular vote and the Electoral College, upending the Constitution that is the law of our land.

As a report from the Brookings Institution put it: “President Joe Biden legitimately won a fair and secure 2020 presidential election—and Donald Trump lost. This historical fact has been uncontroverted by any evidence since at least November 7, 2020, when major news outlets projected Biden’s victory. But Trump never conceded. Instead, both before and after Election Day, he tried to delegitimize the election results by disseminating a series of far-fetched and evidence-free claims of fraud.

Meanwhile, with a ring of close confidants, Trump conceived and implemented unprecedented schemes to—in his own words—“overturn” the election outcome. Among the results of this “Big Lie” campaign were the terrible events of January 6, 2021—an inflection point in what we now understand was nothing less than an attempted coup.”

Part of the crisis in which we find ourselves today is that many people don’t understand what is at stake in the hearings, in part because commentators have turned the attempt of Trump and his supporters to overturn our democracy into a mud-wrestling fight between Democrats and Republicans rather than showing it as an existential fight for rule of law.

Today in his Presswatchers publication, Dan Froomkin explored how U.S. news organizations have failed to communicate to readers that we are on a knife edge between democracy and authoritarianism. Froomkin notes that journalists have framed the January 6 hearings as a test for the Democrats or as a waste of time because they will not change anyone’s mind or perhaps because no one cares. He begged journalists not to downplay the hearings and present them as a horse race, but to frame the events of January 6 in the larger context of Republican attempts to overturn our democracy.

Tomorrow night, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol will hold its first hearing to explain to the American people what happened at the end of the Trump administration. The hearings will be broadcast on C-SPAN, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, PBS, and the Fox Business Channel and streamed on the YouTube channel of the House Select Committee on June 9, 13, 15, 16, 21, and 23. We have some idea of what the hearings will entail.

According to committee member Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the hearings will establish that the attack was the result of “concerted planning and premeditated activity.” The hearings will show who was behind the January 6th attack on the Capitol, ultimately connecting the attack to Trump and his closest aides. Raskin told the Washington Post that “we are going to tell the story of a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election and block the transfer of power.”

As the Brookings report put it: “Trump attempted to retain power by any means necessary.” He prepared to argue that the election was stolen long before it took place on November 3, 2020. Trump’s stories about voter fraud shifted and were inconsistent, and he “was repeatedly told by trusted advisors, experts, and courts that there was no fraud.” Committee members have said there will be new evidence produced at the hearings, and new information has been dropping all week.

We learned that Trump expressed great interest in the Insurrection Act, which enables the president to call out the military to put down an “insurrection” or a “rebellion.” Court filings say that members of the Oath Keepers expected Trump to invoke the act to enable them to fight against those counting the electoral votes for Joe Biden. We also learned that Trump badgered his Secret Service detail to permit him to walk with his supporters to the Capitol building after his speech at the Ellipse on January 6.

We have learned that Republican officials in at least 11 places in Michigan breached local election systems to try to prove that the 2020 election was stolen, and that the citizen initiative petition to limit voting rights in order to combat “fraud” had about 20,000 fraudulent signatures on it. In addition, there were allegations that petition circulators had lied to voters to get them to sign the petition, a practice that is legal in Michigan despite the attempts of Democratic lawmakers to prohibit it.

And, crucially, we learned that the Trump campaign told the fake electors in Georgia to operate in “complete secrecy.” The apparent plan of the Trump plotters was to get fake electors to present an uncertified slate of electoral votes that gave their state to Trump, rather than to Biden as voters had chosen. But, as a Trump official wrote in an email: "I must ask for your complete discretion in this process. Your duties are imperative to ensure the end result—a win in Georgia for President Trump—but will be hampered unless we have complete secrecy and discretion." The official asked the electors to avoid the media and to lie to security guards about why they were at the statehouse. This email suggests the plotters knew they were acting illegally.

But perhaps the biggest sign that the hearings will turn heads is how hard Trump Republicans are trying to distance themselves from it, or to create a distraction.

Significantly, a piece in the New York Times by Peter Baker, published today, distanced Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka Trump from the debacle of the Big Lie that Trump had won the 2020 election. “No matter how vociferously Mr. Trump claimed otherwise, neither Mr. Kushner nor Ivanka Trump believed then or later that the election had been stolen…. While the president spent the hours and days after the polls closed complaining about imagined fraud in battleground states and plotting a strategy to hold on to power, his daughter and son-in-law were already washing their hands of the Trump presidency,” the story reads.

If the former president’s daughter and son-in-law, both key White House advisors, are now trying to distance themselves from the events of January 6, perhaps the panic in the party more generally was best demonstrated today when the Republican National Committee responded to news of a man looking to harm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. It sent out an email with the subject heading: “The Democrat SCOTUS Assassin.”In his comment about today about January 6, for which he later apologized, Del Rio claimed he just wanted to “apply the same standard,” and “to be reasonable with each other” and to “have a discussion.” The open-mindedness he calls for is a perfect approach to this month’s hearings.

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Verses

Pre-Canon:

Spans from the twin’s arrival in the Lands Between as freshly awoken tarnished to the time of the game. Includes D’s various travels falling out with a certain spellblade.

Canon:

Darian can be found either in Summonwater Village, traveling Limgrave, or in Roundtable Hold until such time as he “ahem” moves on. At such time Devin becomes active though he’s near catatonic in the depths of Nokron.

Death Don’t Part - Darian lives in Death

After weeding Deathroot for years, holding Godwyn’s cursemark for a prolonged length of time, and being killed with deathblight by Fia, no amount of faith or incantations can prevent Darian from rising again as one of Those That Live In Death. His faith shaken, body decaying, and identity as a hunter turned on it’s head, Darian’s only thought is ‘What about my brother!?’

Devin meanwhile is none the wiser, still coping with the aftermath of looking the Prince of Death in the eye. Though should he recover and begin managing to sleep through a night without falling comatose, he’ll begin to worry more and more.

Prosthesis:

The tarnished takes their sweet time handing the dagger over to Darian, and with lots of time to himself he begins to worry about how long it’s taken Devin to contact him. Darian makes a brief expedition down to Nokron to go retrieve his comatose brother, and upon waking next to Darian, Devin snaps out of his existential crisis.

He isn’t unaffected however, believing that with the corpse of Godwyn infecting the Erdtree the only way to purge the world of Deathroot forever would be to burn the problem at its root. This of course would be heresy of the highest degree, and thus Devin has lost all hope of ever seeing his brother again after returning to the Erdtree.

Devin reconnects with Rogier and professes what he saw, why he and Darian are loyal to the Golden Order in the first place, and how his faith and hope have both been shattered. Rogier offers him hope once more in the form of a prosthetic soul made in a similar way to the primal glintstones of old. While this seems like a perfect solution, all does not go as planned.

Isekai Tensei Newark New Jersey! I’m Tarnished and I Woke Up at a Ren Faire!?:

After taking a wrong turn when crossing the fog on his way to the Lands Between, a freshly resurrected Darian awakens in a strange place full of strange people and strange things. He develops a new fears of teenagers and the odd chariots of this land, but more than anything one question plagues his mind: where is Devin?

#verses

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re(vee)sion | Vee | Trial 1.1 | Re: Harriet, Bian, Miles, Shinjuku / Attn: 19, Amber (+ general question to everyone)

Vee considered himself realistic to the possibility, or even the expectation, that someone would eventually die in time, because that was the outcome Kali and Amber had intended with the motive. Death is no stranger to anyone who works or has worked in the medical industry, and violent injuries are part and parcel of that, but the level of brutality involved in Francis' death had sparked a mini-existential crisis within Vee. Even with the gained knowledge that this had been a trap by any other name, that someone had possessed (and then subsequently acted upon) the impulse to drop over half a dozen swords on a fellow Incarnate...

It was not a thought she was comfortable keeping wound up inside his head. Even if that person might have been Francis to start. She had stayed quiet throughout the initial sharing of information, nearly speaking up to comfort Bian before the repeated condolences from at least three different people made her adding anything else a moot point. Instead, Vee had moved on and scribbled away at their own notes in the meanwhile, and had offered his neighbours reassuring glances of their own. It was nice to be flanked by two people they could wholeheartedly trust, naïve as the thought was, and a lull in the conversation eventually prompts them to speak up.

"I don't... h-have much to add in terms of my w-whereabouts, seeing as how I've been in the L-Library since... 8.45? That's about the t-time I left our room," Vee gestures between Harriet and himself. "I can confirm t-that Miles, 19, Bian, and Miss Theophania w-were present until 9.30, when the former two e-exited via the west door. Harriet came in shortly a-after, and was in the Library with me u-until... About 11.45, which is when s-she left and subsequently returned... to get Frank, which l-lead to us bein' called over after that." That's the kindest (and quietest) way they can frame their roommate's actions. "Between then, Frank e-entered the Library at 10.20 or so - the books on I-Incarnate memoirs were his, for clarification. Bian left through the south door t-to the training hall around 10.40 with her book, and Esmée entered s-shortly after 11. She left around 11.30, takin' t-the west door back to the bedroom hallway. That is the record of everyone who e-entered or left the Library tonight, and Miss Theophania, w-who stayed in the Library with me, should be a-able to corroborate all of that."

They pause. "Can I ask if we're a-all on the same page about somethin'? Where do we think w-whoever was responsible for Miss Foxe's passin' was at the time of h-her death? Because buildin' on Miles and S-Shinjuku-san's point about the positionin' of the blood... t-there wasn't a struggle, I agree, which m-means Miss Foxe was likely l-lured into the location of the trap. Therein lies my d-discomfort - she was found at the b-bend in the dark hallway, nearly out of the range of the magical l-lanterns and their light. I can navigate the d-darkness without issue, as a few others can attest to, b-but I can't... quite picture someone likely as c-cautious as her to approachin' the dark so blithely, and there wasn't a-anythin' of note in the cavern further in that w-would indicate somethin' lured her inside. What, or who perhaps, caused her to go f-further in? And what does that s-say about who could've been responsible for all this?"

Vee takes a moment to let all of that sink in, and also to take a breather of their own. "T-There was a gun, by the way." The others have referenced it, but for Bian's sake since she might not have seen it in her fear, they're willing to restate and explain further. "One of t-the flintlock pistols from the a-armory was close by to her right hand, a-and it was fully loaded. The metal was c-cold and there were no powder burns indicatin' that it was f-fired at any point. I don't... know if I c-can say for particularly sure who took what f-from the training hall, but I'm goin' to w-wait to hear 19 clarify if she saw Miss Foxe t-take the short swords directly or only around t-them. The separate handwritings between Mark and Gun, however faked, were d-different enough that I don't want to r-rule out the possibility that it could be two different p-people."

They also turn to Amber, raising their hand nervously. "Um, s-seein' as how you have to be involved to s-some extent, Miss Amber, I would like to ask you to c-clarify how much you were responsible for. Just... W-Whether or not you had helped set up a-all of the vines in the nature they were found in and the sap creature in the c-crevice, or simply created them for w-whoever created the trap to do as they w-wished."

#Vee #ch1 #trial1 #submission

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Episode 18 of The Flash (90s edition) involves cloning somehow. And a clone of Barry specifically. Very interested :D

Oooh, they're trying to recreate the Flash's powers, whoever these guys are. And they seem to be succeeding... until the guy goes too fast and vibrates out of existence. Whoops.

They are, of course, more upset over the failed experiment than the dead guy, as evil scientists do. Well, one of them anyway.

They're trying to create super couriers and delivery boys. So I guess at least they're not trying to make super soldiers? Anyway, they decide they can make their speedy bois work if they use the Flash's DNA as the base for their clones. I mean, sure, why not, what could possibly go wrong with this highly unethical experiment of theirs?

Barry - I'm fine. Tina - You're burning out Barry. Over stressed. Slow down or I'm gonna make you shelve even more books.

She lists out a bunch of stuff he's done and he's like 'oh, yeah, totally not overdoing it'. And he's patched into 911. Tina's gonna throttle him, if he stays still long enough. :D

And of course, because Barry is too stressed and making mistakes, he gets hurt and bleeds the viscous faux-blood of Hollywood that the evil scientists need to make a replica of the Flash. Somehow the replica starts off as a baby out of nowhere and grows super fast to Barry's current age, hitting a few milestones on camera first. Also his hair is perfectly barbered the entire time. And he's well shaved.

Tina continues to tell Barry he needs to get sleep and practice self care. Barry continues to go 'but I'm a speedy boi who must save people'.

Clone Barry has the mind of a child trapped in the body of an adult with super powers. And... oh no, evil scientist is going into soldier making territory after all. Poor clone Barry. Oooh, they name him Pollux.

Evil scientist - fast as you can stack the blocks. Pollux - *stacks blocks slowly* *the blocks keep falling* *throws temper tantrum and finally taps into his speed*

and of course they don't see the temper tantrum as a bad sign. *sigh* evil scientists, what can ya do.

Barry's stress is now affecting his work as a CSI and he's starting to admit that he's being a bit childish and snappy over things.

Meanwhile Pollux has his blue suit now and he wants to go outside to play. Whether he gets permission or not. Aww, he found a playground. but the kids there don't wanna play. So he starts play on his own, of course right as Barry comes by with Tina. Time to meet the Clone Kiddo. :D

Evil scientists are not subtle, yet no one notices them tranq gun Pollux and drag him off. In plain sight. And now one of them is freaking out because he thinks Pollux is too smart and they should kill him. The other one? "I'm gonna sell him and factory manufacture more." And now Pollux is having an existential crisis. Poor guy.

Evil scientist - I'm gonna dehumanize you because i find you annoying. This will definitely not immediately bite me and my work partner on the ass. Pollux - I'm leaving.

So one of them tries to stop him and Pollux spins the guy to death. Looks dead, anyway. Scares the hell out of the other one. Then he heads out on the town to shop lift clothes and experience the real world. Apparently enough time has passed that the guy he killed has been reported in the newspaper.

Pollux has a crush on Tina. (Just like Barry does.) Aww. He's gonna bring her flowers.

Remaining evil scientist meets Barry Allen while shredding documents, immediately looks like a deer in the headlights because he thinks he's Pollux at first. Immediately starts lying about shit when he realizes that he's actually talking to the Flash. Barry steals the shredded documents and plays his organization game to put the papers back together.

Tina meets her new admirer. gets some pretty flowers. A lot of pretty flowers. She's like 'I'm gonna call Barry now'.

Pollux isn't evil, he's just so confused and wants to know who he is. And now he thinks he can become Barry and take over Barry's life. Too bad Barry didn't lead with the angle 'we're brothers now'. He might have gotten through to the guy that way. As Tina points out a little later, Pollux is basically an abused child.

It is eerie though, seeing Pollux go through Barry's lab and home, trying to restyle himself into his idea of who and what Barry is.

Pollux decides to go fetch his blue suit. And get a little revenge on the remaining evil scientist. Evil scientist shoots at Pollux who catches the bullet and throws it back.

Pollux makes it pretty clear he doesn't care who gets hurt while he learns to control his powers. Cue a fight between the Flashes in front of a mural of people in gas masks. It's weird. Then it turns out the evil scientist isn't 100% dead yet, tries to shoot Barry who has grown slow from over tiring himself... and Pollux saves Barry. At the cost of his own life. Tragic death scene... and then Pollux's body vibrates it's self out of existence, leaving behind a garishly blue suit.

A tragedy all around. *sniff* And it finally drives home for Barry that he needs to stop stressing himself out and live his life more carefully, just like Tina's been telling him. Lesson learned.

I do feel bad for Pollux. He was basically an overgrown toddler who no one bothered to teach compassion to. It's not really clear why he saved Barry - because there was a spark of Barry's need to save people? Or because Pollux genuinely couldn't understand that he and Barry were different people and registered the threat to Barry as a threat to himself?

My gosh that suit was really blue, though. Wow.

#kitkatt0430 watches #90s flash

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ohfugecannada · 2 years

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#Christmas #holidays #memes #Oddworld #oddworld munch’s oddysee #Oddworld lulu #Christmas! just a week away!#:D #this just popped into my head and I have no clue why #I can totally imagine lulu being the guy who gets earnestly happy about Christmas #meanwhile his coworkers are just like ‘shut the hell up lulu #get back at work!#I mean either that or he’s having an existential crisis about being homless for 20 years and having to spend not her December alone #but let’s not worry about that!

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confused-stars · 2 years

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one day I'll write a long, introspective Todoroki fanfiction that just deals with the "shit, am I seeing eye to eye with my dad on things??? is this hell??? why do i relate to him???" that comes from having cultivated spite as a teenager and only really building a relationship later in life

#its just one big existential crisis #meanwhile endeavor is like 'i think im really on a roll with shouto :D'#i mean hes canonically kind of a dork in that regard #like 'with the help of fuyumi i finally followed shouto's social media accounts' is so funny #god i need more au fics where hes just a good dad. even if that removes some great conflict #its good for my soul

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There are no main main protagonists in the SMP just characters who are connected to multiple plot points in the canon like Tommy, Ranboo, Karl, and Dream. (they are the more prominent and consistent ones)

But what makes Tommy funny as like a central character, unlike the other three, is he's just a normal dude (From what we've currently seen in the canon. Idk maybe he gonna turn into an omnipotent being or something cus y'know it wouldn't be a surprise at this point.)

c!Ranboo, c!Dream, and c!Karl: *Currently having an existential crisis due to their connections to the paranormal and the mysteries that come with it.*

Meanwhile, c!Tommy: I don't know what the egg does. I don't understand what's going on with Ranboo. I have no idea what Dreamons are. We also have nukes now for some reason. I don't vibe with them at all but as long as I have Sam Nook and Tubbo and Dream is in prison, you can do whatever the fuck you want- Oh, I almost died whoopsies. Anyways,imma play Animal Crossing now :D.

In short, Techno is a side character. L.

#the strongest power is plot armor #ngl i would like to see the 4 of them interact in the storyline soon #that would be pog #dsmp #dream smp #tommyinnit #dreamwastaken #ranboo #karl jacobs

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ladyyatexel · 3 years

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I Went On A Manga Binge

So you don't have to

For those of you who have wisely avoided the shreds of it I've left around the blog thus-far, I had some weird notion to go re-experience Yu-Gi-Oh uuuuuh a week ago? We'll go with that. Time is meaningless.

I'd been able to read a good portion of the early manga at the end of highschool, and somewhere in my stacks and stacks of paper is fanart from this dark time, so you know I cared. I also still own a Dark Magician action figure somehow, so. I'd also watched a large portion of the anime with my brother because it had been laced with some kind of crack and we couldn't look away? I remember when we both were just like shit, wait, don't change the channel, I can't stop looking at it. And the next thing we knew we were waiting for new episodes and I was doing research on the Japanese original because I was that kid.

Anyway, unnecessary backstory out of the way, here are some... let's call them Observations and Consequences of having read somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 chapters (and growing) of a manga primarily hinged on card games from a spectrum of sources ranging from boringly lawful to sketchy as fuck.

Surprise actual character that develops in typical shounen fashion being Jounouchi. My limited experiences with the 4Kids dub and only early manga had not painted him in a particularly good light. I don't know if episodes were being aired out of order or if I had just missed the ones that established that he was making shit up as he was going along, but Wow I liked him a lot more going through the manga than I ever did watching the (dubbed, heavily edited and censored and thrown into a slurry machine) anime. I'd managed to come out with the impression that he was just as reasonably experienced with the game as Yugi back in the day. Wild.

I'm now reading every single comic-style post on Tumblr backwards.

Striking inverse to first point, wow, I don't like Seto Kaiba. Though he gets points for his general philosophy of the future, and the line I read in my sketchy online combo of scans and scanlations in which he said, "If God is in your way, you run him down," was Metal As Fuck. I somewhat shame-facedly admit to enjoying him a lot more as an Abridged Series character. (I watched Abridged as it came out back in the day! The experience of watching the anime with my brother had been so fresh that I got all the in jokes about the way things were edited and dubbed, it was great. Series remains influential part of my life to this day, which is hella weird.)

I almost understand how Duel Monsters works now. I don't want this.

That said, wow a lot of the decisions made in the anime made everything a lot more ridiculous than the admittedly already ridiculous original. I got the distinct feeling in the manga that the Duelist Kingdom stuff we were seeing was designed to be used and exploited in ways that don't make sense in an actual cardgame just played on a table like a normal person and this was part of testing everyone to think higher, differently. Maybe this is obvious to everyone already, I don't know. I had always liked that it was very, 'Not so fast, I'm going to blow up the moon to change the tides,' but I'm not really sure the anime gave enough explanation that this was an extra layer added to things for that event? You can see people actively getting used to it in the books, and people who aren't considering the real or 3D nature of it getting owned, but my memory of anime version is everyone just like, 'oh, shucks, fuck me, I forgot to consider the phase of the moon before i played this card, can't believe I forgot.' No one calls Yugi on any of this stuff because it's valid play in that situation. Plus Yami Yugi had mad trickster energy in the beginning and it suited him to think of ways to do things inside these little simulation boxes the way it suited him to set perverts on fire. I imagine the real card game trying to emulate this element as something that would be to its detriment, but I neither know nor particular care haha

Ryou Bakura.

Really, though. I think he became kind of casualty of 'wow, we have a lot of characters who really aren't able to do anything in this story anymore,' despite the fact that his whole inner life could have been as interesting as Yugi's. I always like thinking about the possibilities of stories in which main character falls into magical world and is given magical item and told they're the hero and then they find out they've been the bad guy the whole time. The first several volumes of manga were about the quiet weirdo kid that no one talked to who was always blacking out and turning into a fucked up version of himsef because he was so attached to his ancient Egyptian jewelry, so like, Bakura could have much the same shit going on. I want to know what's happening with him so much. He clearly doesn't love being possessed, but he's also so drawn to the ring. Despite it having stabbed him at least twice and him knowing it's a danger to him and his friends, he keeps being pulled back into it. You see so much more of him being like, 'Oooh, a creepy thing, I love that! :D' in the manga than ever in the anime, which I'm all about. Also more blood. I'm very about that as well. Though my memory of the anime also made it look very much like normal regular daily Bakura was just a weird facade in places before he ever would have been. I think that was it trying to compensate for what people didn't see from the Toei anime, but okay whatever, that I love everything about this guy is not news, I don't need to talk about Bakura excessively here, I'm pretty sure that's gonna show up on my blog by itself

On a related note though, damn, more of these people need to talk to each other. Can we have some existential crisis support clubs or something. Can we get like some apologies or something? "I respect you as a duelist." "Cool, but you literally built a tower designed to specifically assassinate me and my friends? You were supposed to get Better after I retaliated by putting you in a coma, but you kinda didn't." "Why would the coma have made it better" "I just told you it didn't" ---- "Sorry I went along with the plan of your evil parasite stabbing you, misled you, and then also jumped in and took up some real estate in your head too." "I understand, I also have an evil thing inside me that does things while I'm blacked out." "...no, I was conscious for all of that." "Oh." "..." "..." "..." "Do you like Ouija Boards?" "sure okay" ETC. Like damn we are reading shounen manga because no one is talking extensively about their feelings here and I'm tapping my foot angrily.

Holy shit there are so many mythologies happening at once. The ancient family guarding the Egyptian Pharaoh has a surname that's a Mesopotamian goddess. None of the god cards make any Egyptian sense except Ra, and just like. Baaarrrrely. Somewhere either Evil Ring Bakura or Mar/lik makes a reference to cremation and spirits being taken to heaven with smoke which several things, but definitely not Ancient Egyptian. Marik/Malik meanwhile is clearly trying to head Arabic, along with Rishid, but then, hey, our sister is just Isis. Goddess McGoddess. Sometimes they're the same goddess! Her name could be Isis Isis or Ishtar Ishtar. Meanwhile, all the obviously 'occult because Christians think it is freaky' stuff. ~ancient egyptian pentagrams~~~This isn't a complaint, I guess so much as a 'Wow, I can kind of see the cultural spot the author was coming from and where he was aiming' kind of thing.

Wonder where things would have gone if the card games had not been latched onto the way they were.

Managed to forget how gross the pre-cardgames stuff was on the sexual harassment front. I'm glad there was a sort of explanation of everyone drifting away from being dick heads and that that decision was made. It got way more comfortable to read after no one was bringing Yugi p*rn on VHS.

Yugi looks better with a nose, glad we got that upgrade.

Interesting to watch the series style shift as it goes away from being horror to being over the top cardgames and friendship (with blood!). The first picture of Mokuba is fucking Jarring. Also noticed that the nicer a character is, the less their teeth are defined.

Glad manga did not go as completely off the fucking the rails about Marik's face. I never got as far as seeing him back in the day because college occurred, but I remember seeing pictures and stuff and being like, "what in the Fuck happened to that dude, I think the house style has collapsed in on itself"

Things the author Really Likes: motorcycles, belts, SHOES, holy shit the shoes. These are some of the most lovingly rendered sneakers I've ever seen. All the detail on his characters goes straight to their feet and then it's stretched upward until it forms stiff peaks. Gently fold in 3000 years of trauma and bake face down in a crumb coat of scattered mythology. Remove when you roll two zeros.

Where the fuck am I going to put the extremely large omnibus volumes of this comic I purchased in order to balance out how much I would be reading for free on the internet. I should have grasped that a three in one edition would be Thick and yet somehow I was still :O when it arrived. Have I strategically purchased volumes that contain my favorite parts, maybe, what's it to you will i eventually get the whole thing because incomplete book series gnaw on my soul? yes

Wish the transition from "I've murdered several people in delightfully karmic ways" to "all you need is friendship in your heart and cards in your hand" Yami Yugi/Pharaoh had been discussed more/transitioned better. Buddy, where did you get this approved for television high horse? Please go back to strangling people with yo-yos or at least tell me why you stopped.

I still can't tell anything that looks like a big robotic monster apart from any other big robotic monster. My dude, I can't tell cars apart, all these monsters look the same.

Yami Yugi fascinated me way more in highschool? Maybe because it was still super early and the anime was like 'we need to torture you about his origins WeEkLy. Now I'm just like 'wait hold on, can we go back to Bakura and Marik for a minute, there's some extreme unpacking to do here?' Those two are paying so much more in baggage fees here my guy wow

Violently uninterested in any of the spinoff media

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