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sunnydaleherald · 20 days

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, April 6th, Part One

EVE: Why would we do anything to Fred? Why would we even care about her—? LORNE (punches Eve in the face, knocking her down) Ooh. Oh, I'm sorry. That was a knuckle-buster. I'm Jake LaMotta over here. It's pathetic. Oh. (leans in close to Eve) Here's the thing, Eve: you're going to sing for me, and I'm going to read you right now. And here's one more thing: Winifred Burkle once told me after a sinful amount of Chinese food, and in lieu of absolutely nothing, "I think a lot of people would choose to be green. Your shade, if they had the choice." If I hear one note—one quarter-note—that tells me you had any involvement, these two won't even have time to kill you. (stands) Oh, and anything by Diana Warren will also result in your death—well, except "Rhythm of the Night."

~~A Hole in the World~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

Weekly Drabbles #107 — Her Favorite by veronyxk84 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Oh God, Oh God, Oh God by NotASlayer (Spike/Joyce, T)

Oceans Apart by Pinkperson (Angel & Connor, T)

Candle Light by for_the_girls (Buffy/Spike, E)

When you read this by TPauSilver (Signe_chan) (Xander/Anya, T)

A little weirdness by TPauSilver (Signe_chan) (Buffy/Spike, T)

Choices by TPauSilver (Signe_chan) (Buffy/Spike, T)

Dreams of bloody awful poetry by TPauSilver (Signe_chan) (Buffy/Spike, T)

Facing Hell by TPauSilver (Signe_chan) (Buffy/Spike, E)

Electric Blanket by TPauSilver (Signe_chan) (Buffy/Willow, G)

Not Perfect by TPauSilver (Signe_chan) (Spike/Oz, E)

Bleach by firemanwhenthefloodsrollback (Buffy/Spike, T)

Kiss It Better by Maxine Eden (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Dear Journal by Desicat (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Caught on Camera by Gabby (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

[Chaptered Fiction]

Raven, Chapter 10 by sparrow2000 (Xander & Spike, G)

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Shadowed Suspicion, Chapter 419 by madimpossibledreamer (Ensemble, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure crossover, T)

The Sun Also Rises, Chapter 114 by Grundy (Buffy, Dawn, Tolkien crossover, T)

When Ethan Rayne made Rambo, Chapter 9 by USKiwi (Xander, not rated)

Lest This Bond Be Broken, Chapter 7 by Dynapink (Buffy/Giles, M)

Dawn Rising, Chapter 54 by Luna_delCielo (BtVS and AtS Ensemble, Tolkien crossover, T)

Wish Granted, Chapter 2 (complete!) by faewm (Anyanka, Harry Potter crossover, T)

Raven, Chapter 10 by sparrow2000 (Xander & Spike, G)

49 Cemeteries, Chapter 20 by firemanwhenthefloodsrollback (Buffy/Spike, T)

When Lust Wanders, Chapter 7 by BiggiePanda (CalliopeStar) (Buffy/Spike, E)

Greatest Love Story Postlude, Chapter 12 by FalseGinger (Angel/Spike, M)

Ever After After The Fall, Chapter 7 by aboutafox (Buffy/Angel, M)

The Stars to Hold Our Destiny, Chapter 8 by Hermione2be (Buffy, Star Trek Strange New Worlds crossover, G)

Slayer No More, Chapter 15 by jsaint34 (Buffy/Pike, M)

Welcome to Waverly Hills, Chapter 4 by rocknrolljuke (Buffy Ensemble, Supernatural and Blade crossover, T)

Recommencer, Chapter 5 by FridayQueen (Buffy/Faith, M)

Royal Flush, Chapter 4 by Xyex (Buffy, Wishverse!Buffy, M)

The Evil that Men Do: Chapter 7 by VladimirHarkonnen (TheLightdancer) (Willow/Tara, Willow/Kennedy, E)

Weight of the World, Chapter 5 (complete!) by Enigmatist (Buffy/Spike, not rated)

Fake I.D., Chapter 3 by vampbrat (Angel/Spike, Peep Show crossover, E)

Buffy the Cotta-Arcs House-Pet, Chapter 1 by kingnothing1996 (Buffy, RWBY crossover, E)

The Boring Stuff: Reptile Boy, Chapter 1 by missfiggy (Buffy/Angel, M)

In the Company of Witches and Slayers: Chapter 1 by VladimirHarkonnen (TheLightdancer) (Willow/Tara, E)

Encased by Sunshine, Chapter 34 by acb6293 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Early One Morning, Chapter 30 by all choseny (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Truth and Consequences, Chapter 11 by JamesMFan (Buffy/Spike, R)

Lie to Me, Chapter 22 by In Mortal (Buffy/Spike, Adult Only)

Wilderness Retreat OR Super Mega Happy Kill-A-Rama! Chapter 2 by Melme1325 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Celebrating You, Chapter 4 by DeamonQueen (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Out For A Walk... Bitch, Chapter 13 by MaggieLaFey (Buffy/Spike, Adult Only)

It's Easy Time, Until It's Not, Chapter 23 by hulettwyo (Buffy/Spike, Adult Only)

Love Lives Here, Chapter 46 by Passion4Spike (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Coming Through, Chapter 54 by hulettwyo (Buffy/Spike, Adult Only)

Anarchy Tour, Chapter 7 by Alyot (Buffy/Spike, R)

Lie to Me, Chapters 21-22 by In Mortal (Buffy/Spike, Adult Only)

Service Unit, Chapter 9 by hulettwyo (Buffy/Spike, Adult Only)

Glimpses of the Cellar Dwellers, Chapter 32 (complete!) by Maldorana (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Mischief Munchkin, Chapters 2-4 by MaggieLaFey (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Quality Time, Chapters 26-31 by MaggieLaFey (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

What the Drabble? Vol. 2, Chapter 7 by VeroNyxK84 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

A Little Poet in Her Monster, Chapter 12 by Desicat (Buffy/Spike, R)

Anything But Ordinary, Chapters 4-5 by Harlow Turner (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Cradle of Love, Chapter 1 by Lilacsandorangeblossoms (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

I Do! Chapter 25 by Dusty (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

[Images, Audio & Video]

Artwork: iconic outfits for the first day of college by Madeleine Loves Colours (Wilow & Buffy, worksafe)

Artwork: “Out. For. A. Walk….Bitch” by nerdfromthenet (Spike, worksafe)

Artwork: #SixFanarts Buffy Edition! by nerdfromthenet (Faith, Buffy, Willow, Spike, Jenny, Giles, worksafe)

Gifset: The Hero's Journey by saw-x (Buffy, worksafe)

Artwork: Buffyverse Women as Greek Goddesses by williamprattz (worksafe)

Artwork: The Four Horsemen Of Apocalypse— as the fanged four by williamprattz (worksafe)

Manip: Oldie but goodie photomanip by dirtyaimfanstuff-blog (Buffy in lingerie, possibly not worksafe)

Artwork:🔺ATS 217. Disharmony🔺 by tmcarlee (worksafe)

Playlist: tara & willow spotify playlist 👌 by sophie_4187

Fanvid: Gravity Falls meet Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Memoriea8bit

Fanvid: Buffy and Spike + Angel | Karma by Justinhulk

Fanvid: Buffy Summers R.I.P To My Youth by uyyeedits

Fanvid: Buffy + Angel - I love me more by Faith Victoria (anti-Bangel)

Fanvid: Welcome to the Black Parade- Buffyverse, TVDU, and Lucifer by Bobblehead89

Fanvid: Buffy Summers | teenage dream (Olivia’s version) by Dasiesandsilverbells

Artwork process video: Kristy Swanson Buffy the Vampire Slayer iPad Procreate Drawing Timelapse & Talk by kcsnipes (worksafe)

Artwork process video: Tara Maclay death scene by Nimbus (worksafe)

Video: Character Alchemy - Buffy Edition! by Chromatic Roses

[Reviews & Recaps]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: I Robot, You Jane, S01E08 by ravenya003

The Writing in Buffy The Vampire Slayer is incredible by Cailly_Brard7

Video: Angel, Season One, Episode Fourteen: I've Got You Under My Skin by Slayed! The Buffyverse Revisited Podcast

Video: Season 6 Of Buffy Was Way Too Depressing - Buffy The Vampire Slayer Discussion by CrasHNburN

Video: Why Didn't buffy Kill Dracula? Buffy The Vampire Slayer Episode Discussion by CrasHNburN

Video: The First Comic Book I Ever Read | Buffy Season 8 by Another Booktube Channel

Video: Why Buffy Season 4 is the Coziest Season by Pensive Whiskers

Video: Buffy Season 5 Deep Dive Part 2 by Revisiting The Buffyverse

Video: Wrecked-Slayer Sunday by Jane Talks Buffy

Podcast: Same Time Same Place S7 E3 (Buffy and the Art of Story Podcast) by Lisa M. Lilly

[Recs]

Fanfic Recommendations: London, 2153 by will_ (Spike & Dawn) recced by Priceless

#buffy the vampire slayer #btvs #angel the series #ats

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mai-atsumi · 9 months

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Introduction/ Requests (Open)

I am Mai, a Jojo and One Piece fanfiction writer, and I'm here to tell you what to expect from my work: 1. Inconsistency- I don't usually have a defined post schedule

2. I don't specialize in angst, and Im bad at it, but I am much better at writing fluff and smut

3. I have favourite characters, and I write about them more often

✖= Smut

❤= Fluff

★= Angst

☀= Platonic

✓=Family

☎=Sensitive content

Warnings that apply will be in the beginning notes

Rules:

When it comes to requesting your favourite character, you have to know what is and isn't okay

NSFW/SMUT: Only characters over 17 can be requested for NSFW. This is because if I were to write explicit content with characters under the age of 17 that would be counted as writing bout' children and I'm not cool with that

➨ Exceptions are kissing and making out for some characters (Characters that are 14 or younger obviously won't be making out with anyone)

I also write character x character!!!

Things I refuse to write:

Scat play (You are not 5)

Pedophilia

Zoophilia (And I mean a full-on ass animal like a squirrel, that's actually nasty)

There's probably more, but I don't really want to know more than I already do

Examples of things I can and will write:

Non-Con/Rape (Depends)

Stalking

Human Experimentation

Ect.

Things I can do:

One Shots

Head Canons

Short stories

ect

Requests (Open):

When giving me a request, I would appreciate it if you got specific

As the reader here's what you can request:

Reader Pronouns: Gender Neutral Pronouns, Feminine Pronounds, Masculine Pronouns. (I do not use Neo or custom pronouns)

Reader's Gender: Female, Male, TransFem, TransMasc, Gender Neutral/ Non-Binary

You can also ask for a gender-swapped character (Ex: Female Joseph Joestar, Male Nami)

Relationship: You can request to have a history with your requested character. (Ex: Avdol's girlfriend, Smokey's best friend, Bruno's older sister, Luffy's sister, Smoker's rival, ect)

Plot: If you have a specific prompt or idea, like the plot or storyline please say so. (Ex: Proscuttio and Pesci go out on a mission with Reader to kill a politician who is hosting a ball and Pesci and Proscuitto fight over who gets to dance with Reader) (Ex. Reader is sick and Lisa Lisa is taking care of her,) (Ex. Ace meets an old crewmember from the spade pirates and falls in love)

Writing style: Poetry, Novel, etc

Multiple characters

Alternate Timeline/universe: The Twilight thing where everyone is either alpha, beta, or omega, Modern timeline, School Au, Ect.

Example of a request:

Cherryberrylady: Heyyy Mai! (>_<) Can you write an Annasui x Reader? Like, I really want it to be like, Annasui is stalking Reader a little, like putting cameras in her house type stalking, and in her car too maybe. and like Reader is going home and Anasui is watching them thru the cameras and Annasui like, watches them masturbate..? and he hears them moaning his name. (づ￣ ³￣)づ Its okay if you don't want to tho!!! Also maybe end it where Annasui talks to Reader the next day and asks them out. ( ﾟヮﾟ) Also!! when it comes to the reader can you make their pronouns gender-neutral?

Mai-Atsumi: Of course, and your request was so greatly written- Only the best of the best could've made such a perfect request... Or

Numberoneacecocksucker: Hey Mai, can I ask for a pre-timeskip Ace x reader where the reader is a member of the Whitebeard Pirates as Thatch's younger sister and Thatch doesn't want Ace to go after his sister but Marco also likes reader to? Make sure its Female gender/pronouns please! Mai-Atsumi: Sure thing! Ill get to it right now! Right after I finish my other request!

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uhhstarion · 2 months

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SHIT I LIKE:

Britcom (huehue)

Doctor Who

Jojo's Bizarre Adventures

WWDITS

Shoujo Anime / 60's-90's anime

Bugs, Molluscs and amphibians

Technology, 3d Printing and CAD

Afro-fantasy/sci-fi

Tolkien (LOTR and the silmarillion)

The Simpsons (its still good go watch season 35 NYOWWW) and Futurama

Space Stuff

Short Stories/Poetry/Songwriting as an art form

Columbo (yes that columbo)

The Sims 4 (if you find any cool hair and mods lmk)

Megan Thee Stallion - Beyonce - Aaliyah - Lil Kim and other RnB/Rap women (this is a N*cki hate page, she's goated but needs to get offline and get a divorce before i ever give her any sort of credence)

Illustration

Warhammer (I mostly just like painting the lil guys,,, and orks)

Goth music and Culture

Synthesisers

Baldur's Gate 3 (karlach, wyll, astarion, halsin >>>>>)

Dolls (currently really about bratz, MH, RH/Sh, integrity toys and bjds- i have recast blythes and generic chinese fakies so if you're not about that im so sorry lol)

Visual Kei

Anne Rice novels/ Vamps in general

Star Trek (mostly the older series)

My Little Pony G4

Vocaloid

Leather Culture (I don't think I'll be posting anything Nsfw on here but)

Drag and Cosplay, especially when mixed with burlesque

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I am a dyke! if you see me post a m*n, rest assured it's all fictional *sucks his peepee platonically*

#I'm on mobile #ill edit this later

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airprime7 · 9 months

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My works

I have written and am in the process of writing multiple things, most of which are Homestuck related.

Roguebent is my WIP Homestuck fan adventure. Currently it has only 1 page, but I've written the entirety of Act 1 and Intermission 1, and I'm working on the art for it.

Heirs of Void is a short story I wrote for the 2022 MSPFA Discord Server Secret Santa. I'm working on a series of sequels to it, one of which is finished but unpublished and two of which I've started but not completed. You can read it on MSPFA and AO3.

Authority Regulated is another short story I wrote about the Aimless Renegade. It has images (all taken directly from canon) and is only on MSPFA.

I wrote a couple of things that were basically poetry, too. Important for a Flight Simulator and part of the 2hiip.

There's also Super Smash Bro, which is a long WIP I am likely to continue updating sporadically.

Nobody ever asked what happened after., about DS's origin, technically unfinished but also never going to get fully written ending.

id drowwn myself in the ocean, a short poetry-like Eridan sadfic.

Other projects include:

An unnamed partially complete Rosemaryjunejazz fic.

Jojo's MS Paint Adventure, starring John Joey Egbert and his stand 「ARCTIC INCIDENT」, which so far has a single unpublished page.

YOUR NAME IS KARKAT VANTAS where there are a lot of Karkats. Unwritten.

An unnamed Sessionswap AU fic where the Beta kids (John, Rose, etc.) pester the Beta trolls (Karkat, Aradia, etc.) during their game, and some other thematic elements and events are swapped around too. Also unwritten.

Possibly other poetry-adjacent things. (We're overly dramatic sometimes, and channelling it into our writing is better than dumping it out randomly.)

Something about our Erfworld-Homestuck theories. Did you know SBAHJ is Carneymancy?

Probably like a dozen other things that rattle around in my brain.

Will update this if I remember.

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soupbabe · 1 year

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hii it's me again!! (if u don't remember me im the autistic silly guy who requested the jojo ladies men reacting to reader stimming <33) i would like to get a match up please! any part is fine!

i'm pan aroace, genderfluid (leaning on feminine, but i use he/they pronouns). i'm 16, INTP 5w4 and libra. i'm very short and slim, i have long brown wavy hair with bangs, i wear glasses and i usually dress either very formal and elegant or lazy like oversized clothing. i like wearing accessories as well such as hats, jewelry and i always wear a fake septum.

i tend to act friendly at first but i just come off as awkward, there's no cure. after a while of knowing me, i open up a LOT. i hyper-fixate on things very easily and want to talk about them 24/7. i talk a lot. i'm a very lazy person even tho i want to do lots of things. i have a very dumb humor and i joke very often. i tend to show my emotions as much as possible (so yeah i do stim for everything, especially when i'm happy and uncomfortable). i have anger issues but i'm super patient with people i love. i love being with people but i'm usually super uncomfortable around males :(. i'm very affectionate and i always give people compliments and verbal validation, im very positive. sadly, sometimes i speak without thinking and things i mean well come off as passive aggressive insults i wanna cry. i also have autism, tourettes and social anxiety and i overthink wayy too much. plus im very passionate about art, poetry, history and psychology. i think that's it 😭 thank you in advance i hope im not a burden to you !! 😭

I match you with,,,

Reimi Sugimoto ♡

Reimi would love you!! She's so genuine and sociable; she's the kind of person to find your awkwardness endearing and y'all would spend hours talking to each other!! She loves hearing you speak about your interests, constantly asking questions so she can enjoy it as much as you do <33

!! Head empty only the both of you doing crafts for each other !! Reimi would love to do arts and crafts with you: from painting to making bracelets for each other, she'd put so much thought and energy into her gifts for you!! She'd be just as appreciative if you made something for her too (whether its through verbal validation or physical touch if you're comfortable with it) <33

#match ups #jjba #reimi sugimoto #jojo's bizzare adventure diamond is unbreakable

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litlbean · 2 years

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⚠️Contains Spoilers!!!⚠️

The Old Grist Mill

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I'm just going to go ahead and link this song because in my opinion it is one of the best songs in the whole series period.

I love how the beginning of the series makes no sense to first-time watchers but after you have watched it at least once, everything at the beginning of the first episode makes sense. It gives off the same vibes as Jojo's Bizzare Adventure's openings... The Tome of the Unknown style is in every single title screen and it makes me so aesthetically happy. It intensifies the melancholy-autumn mood that this whole show embodies and of course, the art style is just amazing. I don't think any other art style would fit this series better than this one. Can we just pause for a second and talk about how f*cking cool it is that this entire show is just one big circle? The opening scene when the narrator starts talking is Wirt falling into the frozen pond... How do people come up with stuff like this!? I wish more series/movies did this kind of stuff. It just opens the door to so many more theories and expands the lore just that much deeper. Also before this episode gets any further in I just want to mention: grist;

grain that is ground to make flour.

malt crushed to make mash for brewing.

2.useful material, especially to back up an argument.

grist for the mill — useful experience, material, or knowledge.

I just found it interesting that the episode is named after it ヾ(＾∇＾)

Beatrice is one of my favorite characters in this show besides the Frog. The name Beatrice has many meanings but the one I think that makes sense in relation to the storyline is the one from the bible: deriving from the Latin word Beatrix meaning "One who blesses others". We'll talk about her more later because she is definitely a very important character in the series and the amount of lore is just *french kiss*. I'm ashamed to admit that I missed this the first time around but it's now so funny to me that while Wirt is wallowing in his sorrows and talking versing poetry about his life- Greg is just in the background swinging around objects to see which one he could knock out the woodsman with the best.

I love rock facts. 〔´∇｀〕

🍬 The candy trail that Greg has and produces out of his pants that ultimately "leads the beast' to them (Wirt and Greg) could be taken as a metaphor for no good deeds go unpunished- or that all good things lead to the bad. The 'beast', or the bad in OTGW is led to the mill by Greg's candy trail that was supposed to lead Wirt and Greg back out of the Unknown. One of my favorite lines from the show is when Greg sees the 'beast' and says "You have beautiful eyes". Greg always looks for the good throughout the series and that makes me happy （＾ｖ＾）

🐢 The Black Turtles ~

These guys show up everywhere. I recommend you read the short article about them from the wiki that you can find here. I love these things. They're so mysterious, rare, and never explained. It never is even explained why Wirt says later in the series to Auntie Whispers that he "came to burgle her turts!". Does Wirt know something to do with the turtles that the watcher doesn't or is he just being observant and trying to make up an excuse on the fly? (More about that later in the series) It's such a good example of an uncanny valley~ they are turtles but they're black..? Black turtles don't exist in real life** and the ones in OTGW seem either to be just a singular turtle (although its never specified ).

** I kind of went down the Wikipedia rabbit hole and found out that "black" turtles do exist. Okay, so they're not entirely black but they are at least darker in color than your average sea turtle. Even farther down the rabbit hole, I started to find some things about Chinese Astrology and what certain constellations mean to them. The one that I found is the most 'relevant' (a.k.a I think it just matches the theme of OTGW the best). This is kind of complicated because of course, everything is disputed because legends and myths are always disputed so I'll try to explain this in the least confusing way possible: So the moon travels around the earth in a total of 27.32 days. Scientists track this progress by calculating the longitudes along the orbit (called an ecliptic) and then split it up into 28 different segments called Mansions or Stations (and sometimes even houses for some reason?). Anyways, ost often these were used by ancient cultures as part of their calendar systems. One of these cultures is ancient China. There's more... "The 28 Lunar Mansions are divided into four clusters, with each cluster made up of seven constellations"... There's a lot of math involved in all of this and I'm not an astronomer so I'm not sure how all of these connect but anyways I will put a pretty picture to kind of give you an idea of what I'm talking about here. Now... how does this connect to OTGW? Well, 2 things: 1. All of these Moon Stations make up "The Black Tortise of Winter" which according to this Wikipedia passage states that the Black Tortise corresponds to astrology and traveling to the underworld to guide people. 2. The 11th Moon Station of the "Black Tortoise of Winter" has a Chinese character meaning Emptiness. (pictured below)

I think that all of this concentrated around emptiness and the underworld largely reflects the ideas of the Unknown in OTGW. The Unknown is like a different world where people who are lost go to never be seen again. Kind of like Hell or the underworld. It's vast and has very few inhabitants. The turtles showing up in the movie could be almost like a guiding figure.

I appreciate the fact that the 'beast' in the beginning is Beatrice's dog. I just love dogs and that little extra added touch for the whole full-circle vibe of this show just makes me happy. "Aint that just the way" Burdens and burdens that are needed of bearing are mentioned in this episode and then never again but I still want to acknowledge that the Woodsman kind of predicts that Wirt will take on most of the problems in this show following this episode. Taking the blame, solving problems, etc., etc. which is most likely the reason why he gets turned into an adle wood tree first before ultimately Greg does. Kind of a statement piece on how difficult it is being an older child and looking after your younger siblings. This whole sentiment of "oh, your younger sibling is too young and doesn't understand, and therefore shouldn't get blamed" really can affect the elder sibling and like Wirt in the end, make them lose hope over time. Getting blamed for other people's problems is a tough situation and I think that way too many eldest children get put in the same boat. Especially at younger ages, this can cause severe problems later on down the line. I love the frog. I also love this drawing by @wabidrawbi

keep drawing friends. you're doing amazing <3 XOXO

#Youtube #over the garden wall #otgw #otgw aesthetic #greg otgw #otgw wirt #otgw spoilers #otgw fanart #wirt #greg #otgwfan #otgw beatrice

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biglisbonnews · 1 year

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Jennifer Coolidge Joins TikTok Jennifer Coolidge is taking on new art forms. The recently crowned Golden Globe-winning actor has mastered her tight-lipped, deadpan craft and now is embarking on a new endeavor: the bite-size TikTok video. Her first 41-second video was beyond boundary-breaking. Taking inspiration from her Shotgun Wedding co-star, Jennifer Lopez, Jennifer Coolidge performed a spoken word rendition of Lopez’s infamous 2002 hit “Jenny from the Block,” or as Coolidge puts it, “a poem I like.” Related | Jennifer Coolidge Wants to Play a DolphinThe poetry of Lopez’s lyrics has always been undeniable. When spoken through the swollen lips of Coolidge, they gain a whole new layer of meaning. The video ends with Lopez rightfully in awe of Coolidge’s delivery. @jennifercoolidge Trying out TikTok! 💋👀 @jlo Lopez also reposted the video to her TikTok, captioning it “Happy JENNUARY.” The only thing that would make us happier through this dreary month is if JLo and JCo issued a “Jenny from the Block” remix.Lopez’s own TikTok boasts 15.5 million followers and features impressively edited Bennifer content as well as BTS of her lavish life. Safe to say, Coolidge will have a trusted source to show her the ropes.But while Coolidge is getting on TikTok, Courtney Love wants you to get off. In a clip posted to i-D’s TikTok, Love cautions viewers to “get the fuck offline,” warning that employers are not looking for workers with short attention spans and social media addictions (unless you work for PAPER). Love says it's time to go off-grid. "Stay offline, really stay off Tiktok," she says in the video. @i_d Courtney Love has a message for us all 😳 #courtneylove #socialmedia #dior #fashionforyou #tiktok #fashionforyou Lucky for Coolidge, she's riding her White Lotus success out for now and, if all things go according to plan, will soon be playing a dolphin. Photo Courtesy of Jojo Korsh/BFA https://www.papermag.com/jennifer-coolidge-tiktok-2659288131.html

#Jennifer lopez #Tiktok #Jennifer coolidge #Kenna McCafferty #PAPER

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searching-for-synpathy · 16 days

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I really feel stupid for not writing about how the actual trip home went. I was only home for a few days to see the eclipse with my family and even though I had a really good time with them, I was also kinda low-level tired and stressed the whole time since it was so short. I saw my mom a little bit, I stayed with my dad, talked to my siblings, actually hung out with my little cousin for the first time, and got along w my aunt and uncle. It really was a good trip even though I was stressing over not spending “real” or enough quality time with my dad. We were busy with eclipse preparations, and then a lot of our hanging out was just watching a silly prank show, playing some music, doing my taxes. But then last night we all made a good dinner, and I kinda broke down a little and talked to my dad about my work and life anxiety, ans now I kinda feel like the whole thing was very much worth it (besides the fact that the eclipse was absolutely gorgeous, which it was.) but theres just something different about talking with your family in person w on the phone. The fact that I was scared of the storm that was happening was aaalmost a plus? Since it kinda broke through any level of emotional armor I had at that moment. Geberally my dad was still kind of obnoxious and mean with my stepmom, but he was really helpful and empathetic when I was breaking down. Oh! We also watched Talk To Me while we were cooking and it was kind of awesome. My sister also taught me and Lil the dance from the new Jojo Siwa song which I wish we did more of. My cousin was really into beating us at Candyland, putting on an interpretive dance performance for us, and then getting me to perform in her dance by copying all of her movements and sounds, that was really fun. My stepmom is apparently sorta going back to work now, which I think is good, and a lot of my dad’s hair has actually grown back. Our trip back today was very smooth, with the slight exception of wandering around the airport parking lot for a bit, but we got there. We were also really tired but it’s been a really nice chill afternoon/evening since we got back. I also read the poetry collection by James Tate on the plane and even though i seriously did not understand it, it was definitely beautiful and funny and moving, exactly the thing I was looking for, and I will definitely reread it. I hope that’s an okay amount of detail. I am dreading going back to my routine but slightly more hopeful after talking to my dad about looking for a new job. I feel more hope about the future when I think about how it can change so easily, and how I might be ready to move on from here after a year of doing what ive been doing.

#adrian.txt

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christiangothicgirl · 11 months

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Hello everyone!

I hope this message finds you well. I am writing this introduction to share a glimpse into my world through the lens of my hobbies and personal interests. I truly believe that our hobbies can reveal much of our character, passions, and values, and I am eager to share mine with you.

One of my foremost hobbies is being a visual artist. In elementary school, I began my visual artist journey. I spent days drawing popular cartoon characters and wouldn't stop until I mastered each art style. It was then; I memorized how to draw those characters because DVR's weren't as popular and I didn't recieve a smartphone until 9th grade. In fall 2018, I dipped my toes into digital art and thus began my visual and digital artist era. Engaging in art has not only provided me with an outlet for creativity and self-expression, but it has also taught me valuable lessons in perseverance, discipline, and the joy of pursuing something purely for the love of it.

Another passion of mine is creating background music using FL Studio. In high school, to become "popular (which failed miserably)" I inserted myself as a rapper who tried to rap, but quickly discovered I could not. Guys, I can't even write poetry. In 10th grade, I discovered FL Studio on YouTube and, given my background with the keyboard, I figured I'd try it. It took a few months to acclimate, but I can truly say I am quite good at making happy, bouncy background music. I find great fulfillment and a sense of adventure in immersing myself in the world of art and music. Through this hobby, I have connected with like-minded individuals, learn from their experiences, and broaden my horizons.

I am an avid creative writer and manga reader. My love for art developed in elementary school after watching a series of nickelodeon cartoons, but I became a creative writer after watching the first Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie in the 7th grade. I thought, "The dialogue sounds so easy to write.... I can do something like this," and this my writing journey began. Now that I've figured out my art style is heavily based on anime designs, I began reading many mangas including Gangsta and JoJo. Writing brings me immense joy and allows me to tap into my creativity. It has also served as a valuable outlet for relaxation and self-reflection, providing me with a sense of balance amidst the demands of daily life.

Beyond these hobbies, I am constantly exploring new interests and seeking fresh experiences. I believe in the power of lifelong learning and continuously challenging myself to grow and expand my horizons. Whether it's [mention any other hobbies or interests], I approach each new endeavor with enthusiasm, curiosity, and a desire to learn and evolve.

I firmly believe that hobbies play a vital role in shaping our personal and professional lives. They provide us with an opportunity to recharge, explore new perspectives, and develop skills that can be applied in various aspects of life.

Thank you for taking the time to read this introduction based on my hobbies. I am excited to connect with you and discover the potential intersections of our interests. If there are any shared hobbies or experiences that resonate with you, I would be thrilled to hear about them and explore the possibility of embarking on a meaningful journey together.

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shortpoetriesbyjojo · 3 years

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𝙡𝙪𝙫 𝙢𝙚 🙇🏻‍♂️

#daily poem #love poem #new poets society #poem #poetic #poetry #poets corner #poetsandwriters #sad poem #short poem #writeblogging #excerpt from a story i'll never write #excerpt from a book i'll never write #writer #rupi kaur #short poetries by jojo

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, February 25th

ANDREW: This is Xander and Anya Interview Number 1 for "Buffy, a Slayer of the Vampyrs." ANYA: That's what you're calling it? ANDREW: Either that or "Buffy, the Slayer Who Knew No Fear." XANDER: I like that one. ANDREW: Thank you, Xander. That's sweet of you. I understand that exactly one year ago today you left Anya at the altar. Any comment on that?

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ok I wanna say dmc for the glub shitto ask game bc I love the way you talk about it sm even tho idk anything of it

if u already got dmc or don't feel up to it I guess jojo is my alternative to u^^

ahh, Luna thank you! <3 😁 i'm on desktop rn so i cannaur send my beloved blue hug emoji, but know i would put it here if i could! also apologies for the late reply- i'm trying to rebuild my mom's desk! 😄 my rambling aside- ouuuuugh Thee dmc!!!! I shall try to give some context for the characters as I answer, hopefully it sheds some more light on them.. if not, thank you for reading my rambles despite not knowing them!! :') i appreciate it 🥺💙

P.S.: I just finished writing this and dear GOD it is LONG!! D: i started writing and then I blacked out, and when I came to i was looking at like 3.5 paragraphs of hate towards DmC Vergil 😨😨😨💧 the spirit of the infodump possessed me...... I put this all under a readmore- if you don't want to get hit with a genuine wall of text, please take care not to open it... i don't even want to think about how long it'd take to scroll through it on mobile 😳💀💀💀💀💀

prompt ( i prommy i won't go off the rails like i did w this one! 🙈)

blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most):

is it any question... Vergil, man of all time 😔🆘🆘 if you listen to bury the light on 24hr repeat for like 2 months straight, you contract vergil blorbo disease </3 but so! vergil! speedrun lore, vergil is the son of ✨ Sparda ✨, a demon who split the human and demon worlds in two after a Very Long Time of demons hunting humans for sport 😳;;. Vergil's also the twin brother of Dante, the series' leading protagonist! ^^ anyhow, at some point after the two were born, Sparda disappears and from what I can tell, they're just raised by their human mom, Eva? In any case, since the two have The Blood of Sparda™, the demons that slip through into the human world want them Dead. Thus, when they're like 8 or 9, the demons descend upon their house and light it aflame, killing Eva and presumably Dante in the process. Vergil's the only survivor, and girl............... we need not discuss the psychological impact of this 😳🆘 After this, Vergil adopts this ideology that power is the most important thing, and his pursuit of power sends him on a very tragic path. 😔 to make a long story short, he basically shows up in the 3rd game because he's trying to open the gate between the human + demon worlds, which he succeeds at in spite Dante's efforts to stop him. Immediately after getting to hell he gets curbstomped by the king of hell </3, stripped of his will, and turned into the guy's little demon minion for like a decade. :( He then shows up in the 1st game as a Mysterious Enemy that you fight a few times on your journey to stop the aforementioned king of hell, and it's only towards the very end that it's revealed the really cool very strong mysterious guy is in fact... YOUR BROTHER :( But what can ye do except curbstomp his ass, since he's still in the throes of the king of hell 😔 So curbstomp him you do, and he basically gets mario washing machine'd to god knows where, where he takes Continual Losses. at this point, he's come back into his own consciousness and psyche, and he's like 😐😡 but also he's dying 🥺 Despite this, he is haunted by the many losses he's been dealt at his brother's hand and resolves to do one final thing before he dies: Kill Dante ⚔ ...... unable to do this in his current dying form, he goes back to his childhood home and uses his fucked up demon sword to split himself into two- the human and the demon. The plot of the fifth game all stems from his human side realizing What the Fuck He's Done, not just right now but in general, and he's like ohhhh dear.. girlies we gotta fix this 😳;;

hmm what else about vergil... oh yes he has a book of William Blake's poetry that he got shortly before everything went to hell as a child, and he like.. carved?? drew?? his initial into it because, despite vergil being the Evil Twin in the games, dante was THEE evil twin when they were younger... dante the instigator the brawler the manipulator.. tbh i'm obsessed with it. Anyhow, despite all the madness and mania he goes through throughout his life, he's somehow kept that book the entire time and his human side is Always Cryptically Quoting It :')

so. yes that is blorbo,,, the parasite that haunts my brain so...

scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped):

Nero!!!! :D nero is vergil's mystery son, and the protagonist of the fourth game! 😁😁 He grew up as an orphan on an isolated island called Fortuna, where they actually worship Sparda in a cult-like manner 😳 Before I go off the deep end, I just must quickly say.. nero literally is SO SHAPED. DMC4 came out in like 2008/9 and my sister and I are in agreement that if I'd played as Nero as a kid, i would be a trans guy today. it is uncontested.. his design is SO fucking gender

but so nero! In canon nobody knows where the fuck Nero came from, much less that he has any connection to Sparda. he was raised in an orphanage before being taken in by the super cool parents of Credo and Kyrie (who took him in because he has the ✨ Same Silver Hair as Sparda ✨😮 but.. it's fine @w@;;). At some point they die, and so then it's just Nero, Credo, and Kyrie- the three must be incredibly tight because Nero looks up to Credo and joined the Order of the Sword, which is Fortuna's like.. demon-hunting church military/police kind of organization?? you know how it goes 😀😀😀;; Anyhow, Nero joins them because of his deep respect for Credo. And then Kyrie.. they end up dating which cannaur lie makes me uncomfortable given their upbringing but we pretend we do not see it 😳

set-up aside! Nero's game is basically about how The Pope™ wants to lure out Dante in an attempt to absorb him into the core of like.. a marble Sparda-shaped evangelion basically 🙈 Nero is really just a henchman following Credo's orders until it is revealed that he too, somehow, has demonic power... then things begin to shift, and the pope and co. are basically luring Nero into the belly of the beast by kidnapping Kyrie, so on and so forth 🤪🥴 They succeed in this and Nero's unwillingly drawn in as the aformentioned Sparda eva's power source, so the game then switches to Dante POV and you have to take it down! It finishes out with Dante beating the shit out of it but not really being able to stop it, so then you have to take it, and the Pope, down from the inside as Nero......... it's a whole thing 🙈

anyhow.. nero is truly scrunkly man, like the above description to a T. DMC4 was very rushed and suffered many things, but they still managed to put a ton of work into Nero's animation and expressions. he does a lot of small things with his face in the cutscenes that are 🥺🌋🌋 That, combined with the fucking insane voice acting of Johnny Young Bosch, makes Nero a really 🥺🤲🏼 *holds him* character for me <3

scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave):

literally banging on my chest like a gorilla because CREDO, MAN..... i say vergil is the man of all time, but credo is like.. the MAN of ALL TIME 🥺🥺🥺 In the overall scope of the franchise, Credo is a Minor character- he only shows up in one game, you only fight him once, etc etc. but dude holy fuck credo lives in my MIND.... let me explain his white man sauce...

so, as I loosely explained above, Credo is the older brother of Kyrie and their parents took in Nero when he was young before they died under mysterious circumstances. WELL... the circumstances are not so mysterious to credo.. I mentioned before that Credo was in the Order of the Sword- expanding on this, he was also in some type of high position at a young-ish age? Which means he was privy to the truth behind his parents' death, which is that they participated in a ritual to imbue them with the power of demons and fucking died :(

this is classified information, so Credo never gets to tell his little sister the truth of what happened to their parents. so not only is he dealing with this truth, but Also. without his parents, he has to raise Kyrie (and nero????) all on his own 🥺 he does a stellar job with this because Kyrie is basically widely regarded as a fucking saint- for me this would be impressive on its own, but! He also manages to be such a fucking chad that everyone is Fortuna loves him- this combined with his insane fighting skills nets him the position of supreme general of the order, which imo is the second-in-command after the pope

Knowing the plot of the fourth game, this is incredibly heeeeehee 😳😨😱 Credo enacts the pope's will because he believes in the false vision of the future that the pope's been spouting forever, yk how it is with cults... However, he throws all that aside when he learns the pope has gone behind his back and pulled Kyrie, who is his sister but Also a Civilian 😡, into everything... in the end, his defense of Kyrie costs him his fucking life and it's 🥺🥴🥺🥺🥺🥺😔😐🥺😭😭😭😭 why!!!! </3

oh my fucking god I forgot to mention that. while he's still under the pope's will he has the SICKEST boss fight as a demon (bc surprise he undergoes the same ritual that his parents did, and he survived!!! there isn't enough time or space in 4's narrative to dwell on this, but I Dwell On It 👁👁🥺)

so yes in conclusion... credo 🥴😍🥰🥰🥰❣❣❣

glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week):

Lucia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 lucia my fucking beloved aouuuuuugh!!!!!!!! Luna I know I've rambled so much but you are about to HEAR IT.. i cannot think of lucia or i will go insane!

SO. Lucia. Lucia is the second protagonist of the ill-fated Devil May Cry 2. the original DMC was directed by Hideki Kamiya, mr. bayonetta himself, and I'm not sure if the next part happened because his + the team's work on the original DMC was super promising pre-release or because DMC was met with such acclaim after its release, BUT. development on the second game began incredibly quickly, some people say before the original even shipped. In any case, Kamiya had no idea it existed until the original DMC was being localized into English. this is the second game's point of inception, right?

Development was. challenged. like super super fucking challenged. Accordingly, despite months (?) of development, the only concrete thing the team had was the animation for one attack. Capcom was disappointed in this and removed the sequel's original director, who has never been named and in my opinion is in witness protection. 😀;;; Then, they brought Hideaki Itsuno on as the director and basically gave him 4-5 months to make a game out of nothing. I think this is incredibly fucked up and they should have delayed the game, but some people say that Capcom needed to use/cash in on an expiring contract with the brand Diesel and that's why there was no expanded dev time.

SO. i don’t know how, but Itsuno somehow makes the game. Given the circumstances, it is rough and nobody really likes it and it is widely regarded as the Genuine black sheep of the franchise- 4 was rushed and had some issues but that is all a speck of dust compared to how troubled 2 was. :( Outside of some side material, the contents of 2 have yet to see the light of day.

this is why Lucia is the obscure fave </3 It breaks my heart because Lucia is such a good character. In short, she's basically an artificial demon created alongside many others by this CEO kind of guy in his pursuit of power etc etc. Unlike the other artificial demons, she's defective (I think because she had her own sense of will?) and so, she's basically thrown out to the trash. She gets taken in by this elderly woman who's basically the last demon hunter on this one island, Vie de Marli. The woman raises Lucia to carry on the torch, and Lucia is a very very human character as a result of this. (although, i think in being raised like this, she's also brought up to disregard her own life in the service of her people? it's been a while since i played 2 so i don't really remember, but I'll come back to this in a moment)

Anyhow, the plot of 2 basically follows Dante, who was called to the island by the aforementioned old lady, on his quest to thwart the CEO’s attempts to open the gates of Hell through this ritual, or something like that... To do so, the CEO has to collect these artifacts, and while Dante is the main one working against this guy, Lucia is in the background trying to collect the artifacts before the CEO can so that he can't do the ritual. As she's doing this, the CEO guy confronts her and is like "ohhh it's you! :o you're no devil hunter lol you're a literal devil! i made you!! and it's only a matter of time until your programming faults and you begin killing the humans you've been trying so hard to protect hehe >:3c"

This like. really fucks up Lucia and she has a whole existential crisis shutdown about it while Dante is fighting the guy. I don’t remember it well, but I think the guy succeeds in opening that portal to Hell + unleashes a fucked up demon that Dante has to go after. In any case, Lucia stops him and is like "You'll be stuck there and the world needs you but I'm expendable so let me do it" or something like that, which... 🥺🥺 I'm describing it very loosely here bc I have terrible memory but frfr that was such a heartbreaking moment and Also the precise moment I was like ok. i will kill and die for lucia okokok <3

I forget what Dante says to her but it's some lifechanging shit and she's like oh!!! 😮 i have self-worth now!! So she steps aside and lets him go into the portal. While he's gone, this fucked up version of the CEO guy returns and is Berating Her Yet Again :( but this time, she's able to stand on her own to fight (and beat 😚) this guy proper.

Her character arc roughly ends there, which is. the worst because she has SO much potential. Lucia is someone who was raised as a human, raised to love her fellow humans. I feel like you could really do something with the revelation that she's Not a Human, and even moreso!! there's tension and suspense from the line where she was told that some day, she'll break and turn on her fellow man!! like what!!! 🥺🥺🥺🥺

but alas. That's basically the last we ever see of Lucia and I'm not sure how likely it is we'll ever see her again. :( She got a little section in the expository book for DMC5, but no mention in the actual game itself... if/when she does, know that i will be ripping my shirt off and banging my chest like a fucking gorilla!!!!!!! she's my girl!! 🥺🥺

ummm also very very quick honorable mention here for the Lady in Red, who is an NPC given a few seconds of screentime during the opening cutscene for Vergil's game mode in DMC4. She's just a random Fortunan with her face hidden beneath a hood, but she's the only one that notices Vergil walking through the crowd. It's implied and widely believed that she's Nero's mom, but she's never given importance beyond those few seconds in the cutscene so 🤪🤪🤪 Anyhow, the Lady in Red gets honorable mention here because the very existence of Nero drove me insane. I couldn't wrap my mind around Dante, part of Kiryu's swag virgin club, or Vergil, who imo is too laser-focused on power to have time for relations of any kind, having a kid. more than that, I couldn't imagine what kind of woman would be able to fall in step with them long enough to have a kid??? And then I spoiled myself on Who Nero's Father Is, and felt even more insane because your honor i truly cannot see vergil ever taking interest in someone In That Way. so the thought fermented in my mind, who WAS this woman??? what did she do to catch his attention??? and the more i thought about this, as a Joke, the more it began to seriously haunt me. Before I knew it, I'd gone and pulled a sergio again, making a whole ass character to bridge the gaps and expand on the spaces left in between the narrative 🤪😳;

anyhow. that's gioia. the lady in red gets to stay here despite gioia because i fucking lose it over any breadcrumbs we get about her. XD there first time I watched my sister play through DMC5, before I was familiar w the ins and outs of the franchise + didn't realize Nero was an orphan, there's a part where he phones home after learning Vergil's his dad + I was ready to pop bottles bc I thought he was calling his mom.................... naur... 🙈🙈🙈 in the same way as Lucia, I doubt we’ll see much, if anything, about Thee lady in red </3

poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave):

So, you recall how during Vergil's section I mentioned he split himself in two, right? well, the human part of him is named V and holy shit holy fucking shit is this guy a poor little meow meow. holy shit. not in the evil sense, he is just Going Through It </3 The thing with Vergil splitting himself into two is that like,, all of his essence, his strength ig? went into his demonic side. V inherited Vergil's conscience and memory in the divorce, and that's It. V himself is kind of odd in that he's the human portion of vergil, but he's not.. human? per se? Not a concrete human anyways, so he's running off a very limited reserve of juice to keep himself going in the regular sense, but also in an existential sense. And the further the game goes on, the less he has to work with. 🥺🥺

V is also the meow meow of all time because he really is so fucking human oh my god. :') He reads Vergil's book of poetry and knows it so intimately that he can casually whip out lines to comment on the situations he finds himself in. Vergil's clothes go into the void of existence with him when he splits himself, so iirc V fr just walks around naked until he mugs a guy and takes his clothes- rings and belts and necklaces and fun strappy sandals included. He's hesitant to eat a burger because he doesn't want to deal with how messy it is, but then he just. eats a demon raw. (and then he eats it cooked on like skewers BUT. this is only AFTER he just fucking eats the raw meat. this haunts me to this DAY)

Also a huge portion of V's character that I forgot to mention is that he has demon familiars who're essentially formed from Vergil's memories of his coworkers when he was a puppet for the king of hell..... One of these familiars is named Griffon, and he's the only one that talks out loud. Griffon bullies V so much and V just takes it bc they're besties. :') it's meow meow behavior your honor. OH one final thing, when you’re fighting as him, he’ll call out commands for the familiars + one of his commands literally sounds identical to CGI Ganondorf saying “die”. it HAUNTS me 😭😭😭😭😭

another meow meow-type character for me is Kat from the DmC reboot! We Do Not Talk about the DmC reboot because it is godforsaken, goatforsaken, the list goes on. It's a badly-written insult to the franchise. HOWEVER, Kat is cool :') I won't explain everything that goes on w Kat bc then I'd have to explain the reboot and that's more effort than it's worth. </3 but Kat is worth explanation. 🥰 so!! she's essentially Vergil's right hand lass, and also his girlfriend?? maybe? but that's basically irrelevant. Anyhow, the two of them have been working together for god knows how long trying to overthrow the surveillance state the demons have mankind under. Kat is a medium, so she's able to exist in Limbo, which is the space between the human and demon worlds? or maybe where they overlap??? I dunno tbh 😳 but anyhow, Kat is able to traverse Limbo while her physical body gets left in the real world, and she uses this ability to be the smartest, most effective, most efficient person in the whole game. There is one point where she gets taken hostage and the king of hell is trying to use her to convince Vergil, who's an unknown variable in this universe, to bring him Dante, public enemy #1. While he’s beating the shit outta her and doing god knows what else (which is 🥺👿 because the game casually drops that she was assaulted, iirc sexually, as a child) to her, she slips into Limbo and basically scouts out the place where she’s being held hostage. Then, she concocts this entire plan, iirc all by herself!, to topple the demon’s power. The reveal that she was doing all of this blew my fucking socks off- when you first see her in this portion of the game, it's in a video where she's super out of it and I was Very Concerned about what she was going through.. meanwhile miss thing is out here masterminding her captor’s downfall... legend behavior. So yeah! of the reboot's cast, Kat is my favorite character 😚 but the reboot is wildly unpopular and held in similar regard to DMC2, with the exception that it's set in a different universe and thus even Easier To Ignore than DMC2. so i think that makes her an unpopular fave and thus a good fit for the meow meow category ^^

horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason):

so I would say Dante because dante is like. the most batshit normie guy ever. like... Confirmed the strongest guy in the whole series, has taken down every Ted, Jim, and Sue from the demon world that's tried to grab for power... but also. Dante lives off of pizza, his favorite drink is tomato juice, and he loves strawberry milkshakes. he never has money because his besties are always running him dry </3 for at least a little while, he gets bossed around by his own version of the Ace Attorney Weird Little Girl. in every single game he gets impaled with a sword, and when nobody did it in 5, he did it to himself. Dante is easily the most tormentable character in the entire franchise, but ALSO.. he is the Most Tormented :( so I don't know if I could torment him, he's been through enough!!! 😭

so if I can't torment dante, then Nero it is. >3 a bit of context here- every time I see a city you can kiiind of explore in a game, ie Val Royeaux in Dragon Age: Inquisition, I get a hardcore itch to explore + play in it the same way you play through Kamurocho/Sotenbori in Yakuza. WELL... girl lemme tell you this itch is so fucking strong for Fortuna man!!! it's such a pretty city and you really don't get to see a lot of it! :( so for a long time now I have been juggling a Yakuza-esque spinoff game for Nero where you have to do a bunch of sidequests for the people of Fortuna.. in my mind all of them are as headscratch-worthy and bewildering as Yakuza's sidequests. however, Nero is a lot more affectable than Kiryu is, so I think he would be tormented by them a lot more than Kiryu would be. 🥴 it is my dream to get into the dmc board room and pitch this game one day 😤😤😤😤

eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell)

SO............. THE POPE, RIGHT >( I would say sanctus is the most bitchass character in the entire franchise, if only because he took Credo away from us 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 BUT. sanctus has a lot of pussy power. he poisoned the previous pope for two years straight so he could take his job and then he strung Literally Everyone along while he was planning world domination for two entire decades. he's the worst but I'm kind of obsessed with him </3

SO.

INSTEAD. : - )

my vote goes to DmC Vergil. ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh i HATE DmC Vergil he is genuinely the fucking worst 🤬⚔ I think they started off with a good idea for his character, the son that got away, a mystery variable in a heavily-surveiled state. If I were in that position, with the bass boosted powers that Vergil gets from his parents (plural... his and Dante's mom is an angel in the reboot... girl 😐), I Too would build my own secret little organization to topple the demons in power. BUT. That's like the end of Vergil's good writing. Throughout the game, he's always in the back, always the one depending on Dante to do things for him. What was he doing before his group found Dante? They dangle the idea of him having sauce right before your very eyes, because they take a moment to establish that he still has his fuckt up crazy sword Yamato (which he pronounces as if it rhymes with tomato...) in this universe as well, which means he COULD be doing things. But no!! there's literally a mission where you have to come defend his ass while he's trying to back up servers or whatever. as if the original Vergil would ever need to be defended. There's another part in the game where you're trading Kat off for the king of hell's... lover? who is pregnant with his child? In any case, it is a very high stakes high tension moment in which neither party can really afford for things to go wrong....... so vergil decides to snipe the pregnant lady out! 😱🤯🤯 for literally No Reason!!!!!! and it endangers Kat and everything goes haywire and hsdhfjfjhgs...... the entire time I was like, you did this for what!! iirc correctly, he is Hardly Useful in the ending fight against the king of hell, whereas the original Vergil in a similar fight was instrumental to winning the battle.... like, girl!!! where is your sauce? what's going on!

it gets worse though... after Dante defeats the king of hell, there's a beat, right. the guy is dead, his surveillance state's been dismantled... damn, there's finally room to breathe! to hope! and then Vergil, who has made Dante do all the legwork, is like "Dante, the path is clear for us to rule over the humans now ^_^". When Dante is justifiably like what the fuck, they get into an argument about humans being fine/not fine on their own and Dante Correctly brings up that it would've been impossible for the two of them to achieve anything without Kat (who is in the bg watching this unfold like 👁_👁😨), and vergil essentially handwaves her!!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬 this is the point where I went from begrudingly tolerating Vergil to really disliking his character 🙈 you fucked with the wrong kat stan !!!1! 😆

but then!! the worst part! as if what he'd already done wasn't enough! his boss fight begins, right. Vergil's boss fight. vergil. who has been useless and non-combative the whole game. HIS boss fight starts AND SOMEHOW??? HE HAS SAUCE?! INSANE SAUCE? that really cemented it for me. He'd had these abilities the whole time, you know! he never had a big coming of power moment, so he was just sitting on all these abilities The Whole Time! and it just bugged me- Vergil, in any instance, keeping a low profile is a rational thing. but the original vergil still took the time to have sauce and do batshit stuff like ricocheting the yamato off of walls and catching it at the last second, so on and so forth. With this newer Vergil, they nerf him only until he Has To be the final boss. I've rewritten this a few times and I still don't think I'm capturing what I'm really trying to say, but. god. I know they're two separate characters and you shouldn't compare them, but the reboot's Vergil just feels so incredibly disrespectful towards the original. and since vergil is The blorbo of dmc for me, this is a crime punishable by death /j

OH my god i forgot to mention. they gave him his own DLC where you get to play as him, right? they initially won me back over because they had him limping around and clutching where dante fucking stabbed him to death (i call it the garrett thief effect 🙈), BUT THEN.. the story of the DLC was just. so edgy and grrr Vergil fights his inner demons and he kills the ghosts of Kat, Dante, his mother, everyone who left him and haunts him grrrr... but it felt too disconnected from the Vergil we'd seen in the main game for it to be a cohesive addition imo.

dear god I cannot believe I went off about the reboot Vergil for this long,,,, I am so sorry </3 I tried to forget him but I guess he still vexes me deeply 🙈🙈🙈 in conclusion, DmC Vergil has been sentenced to an eternity in superhell for crimes against DMC Vergil and also because he is kin with the Elon Musk who Also had a fedora and katana. grrr

#long post #sriracha ask game #ty again for the ask luna!!! <3 getting to write this all out reminded me of what i love about the series so much #but also god west youw souw.... i can't believe i wrote so much 😳🙈#also.. how did i only mention lady and trish (''dante's besties'') in passing that is so criminal.. they are super fun and good characters #too!!!! capcom needs to do more with them! :(

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