#unnamed redshirt

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

also it's extremely funny that Ed had a whole crew of unnamed leather clad pirates on Stede's ship and the show just washed the extras overboard during that storm so they they wouldn't take up too much space later.

Ed's original crew are the redshirts of piracy, unfortunately. Sorry guys.

#like you see them in the background and you see at least one go iverboard in the storm #are we supposed to care about this? absolutely the fuck not #they are all living on a nice ship up north #ofmd s2 #our flag means death

[stardate44002point3]

Shaw and Risk - some thoughts

Rewatching Picard S3 and to turns out I have more thoughts about Shaw. Who out there is surprised?

So, much of what follows is actually derived from the many, many Todd Stashwick interviews about Shaw that are all over the internet right now. With some additional insightful commentary from the Shaw Nation Discord server (thanks all y'all).

Here's the thing. In response to all the people who hate Shaw, who think he isn't a "real" Starfleet captain; who think he's a coward (thanks dudebros on the ST Facebook pages); who think he's boring. He's actually none of those things. He's what actual military (and quasi military) leaders look like. Our first introduction to him is him talking about structure and tempo and meter; structure exists so that when you are doing something inherently risky (exploring the final frontier) you have guidelines so that you aren't always relying entirely on your own judgement. Rules and guidelines and procedures exist to keep people safe in an inherently risky environment.

To make a real life comparison, in search operations, coastguard, marine and mountain rescue there are specific conditions under which a rescue will NOT be initiated because the weather or other conditions are too dangerous, exceed the tolerances of the equipment etc. Think back to the beginning of the year when Julian Sands went missing in the San Bernardino Mountains, there were entire days when not only were the helicopter search and rescue teams grounded because of weather, but even the ground team didn't deploy because it was too dangerous (and there were multiple people lost on Mt Baldy at the time). Are they cowards? Of course not, they have procedures and criteria that are laid down by risk management experts that advise whether there is too great a risk to the rescuers. If the risk is too great, they don't go out.

But we're used to fictional universes where those are exactly the kinds of high-stakes situations that make for good drama, and that always end well because our deontological heroes always have to be vindicated.

Presumably Starfleet has exactly those kinds of structures and procedures that govern their operations; so taking a crew of 500 out beyond the edge of Federation space to rescue Bev Crusher from some unknown peril is exactly the kind of thing that Starfleet would have policies for, and those policies would say NO. As they should. We're just used to our Starfleet heroes blithely ignoring those structures, taking the 1% of success chance and of course, succeeding because the writers make it so.

Although it has often struck me that, if we actually were able to count the 'redshirt' (they aren't all redshirts, that's just shorthand for unnamed characters) deaths in Star Trek, the attrition rates for our favorite captains might be surprisingly high, even with writers giving us deus ex machina saves every second week. It's just that they aren't main characters so their deaths are meaningless.

Back to Picard: there is a moment in Episode 2 that struck me at the time, where Seven is really disingenuous. She asks Shaw if he wants to be known as the captain that let two legends die; or the hero who saved them. As his XO she should also have pointed out option 3; that he be known as the captain who led his crew of 500 into a face off against a much more powerful opponent and they all died. Now, why didn't the writers put those words in her mouth?

Added to which, Shaw is an engineer, I think there's a reason the writers made him an engineer. A huge part of his professional life is risk-management, that's much of what engineers do. They are consequentialists. They look at the equipment tolerances, margins of safety, human capacity for error, and then they make rules to allow certain actions to take place (exploring the final frontier) and also keep as many people as possible safe (bringing most of your crew home alive).

And finally, there's all that accumulated trauma from Wolf 359. Shaw lived, undeservedly as far as he is concerned, his job as captain is to make sure everyone else lives. And using Starfleet protocols is one way to make sure that happens, to the best of his ability.

I mean, Shaw is clearly not a coward, he has commendations for bravery in his ready room, he's all in once he makes a decision to commit to a course of action, and he puts himself in the frontline every time he has a (realistic) chance of shielding his crew from harm. The man was willing to die to stop the Changelings from taking the bridge.

And that's the only niggle I have about his last appearance, and his speech about Seven; Shaw is not boring and rules don't necessarily need to be broken because again, the rules exist for a reason, they are generally not arbitrary and, in reality, breaking the rules gets people killed. The only reason rule breakers are celebrated in Star Trek is because it is FICTION. It's how we would like to see the world, not how it is, but it's actually a pretty dangerous way to think.

#liam shaw #picard s3 #shaw thoughts #Star Trek ethics

[allstartrekgames]

Star Trek III: Free Enterprise

Original Release: 1985

Developer: Greg Costikyan

Publisher: West End Games

Original Platform: Board Game

The final game that comes in the Star Trek III collection of solitaire games. This is a profit-driven game. The Klingons and Federation are trying to convince a new species to join their ranks, and they want to see who is best at making a profit. Certain planets want goods (in a certain colour) that are produced by other planets.

To do this, you need to use your six shuttles to land on planets and manage cargo space to sell on other planets. Your shuttles can be damaged by the Klingons, potentially killing your crew. Named crew have one life, while you have an unlimited amount of unnamed redshirts.

This one starts out fun, but the simplicity of it makes it drag on a bit due to the length of the game.

#star trek #star trek tos #star trek search for spock #board games

[lemonsharks]

Say what you will about the information curational fanboy side of fandom but when I need a list of every named and unnamed character played by a Black actor in Star Trek: TOS down to "Redshirt #4" with two seconds of screentime, it is not transformative works fandom to whom I turn.

TL/DR we both have got to be less judgey about each other.

(There has been a story in my head since 2009 that I finally have enough canon characterization to write now that Dr M'Benga is a major character in Strange New Worlds and I am terrified of messing shit up but I am also going to be going to my local library to pick up materials and probably learn enough things to qualify me for an MA in subject if I was doing this through a university.)

There may also be a field trips to living history museums to talk to living experts.)

#star trek #reconstruction deserved better from the north and not the way the white south would have you think

[hagatha-christie]

Books I read in January:

I’m really trying to not be On Here but doing this scratches an itch in my brain even though no one besides me cares or reads these.

The bad:

Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim: my sister, who historically is not a reader but has gotten into reading the past few months, really enjoyed this book and asked me to read it. I tried so hard to like it but I did not. The whole time I was very much aware that I was way too old to be reading this, mostly because the writing was shockingly bad. There’s a way to write well for young readers and this...was not it.

The fine:

Honeytrap by Aster Glenn Gray: a novel about a Soviet government official and FBI agent who get assigned to the same case and fall in LOVE except they’re kept apart for Reasons. Honestly the most interesting parts were the time jumps (1959, 1978, 1992) and when the Soviet guy discussed his very complicated feelings towards the USSR. Entertaining enough but I’ve mostly forgotten about it.

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandana: a very cute and very average story about found family and not allowing your past to define you. I needed more interactions between the adult characters and the kids, but it was fine.

American Primitive by Mary Oliver: this might be user error because I read this very quickly (within a day, I usually have better luck with poetry if it’s spread out) but I was really underwhelmed, and I love Mary Oliver!

The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon: I fear that contemporary/literary fiction is simply not for me. This is about two college students who begin a relationship, one of whom has just left a very intense version of Christianity and one who ends up joining a Christian cult. One of those books where everyone in it is pretty toxic and not a lot happens, or at least not as much as I wanted.

The good/great:

Redshirts by John Scalzi: Look. Both Scalzi books I’ve read so far have been very gimmick-y but extremely fun and deliver exactly what I’ve wanted from them. This is a book from the point of view of a “Redshirt” type character (In Star Trek, the unnamed Redshirt crew members got killed off like at least once per episode). Very silly, I stopped a couple times to read passages out loud to my dad.

An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo: a really great, and really accessible poetry collection about the enduring trauma of the Trail of Tears. I think this would be a perfect collection for, like, high schoolers learning about poetry (not that I know a ton about poetry myself).

Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver: this was a much better read for me than American Primitive! Idk what else to say, it’s Mary Oliver. There are like 6 poems in this book about a pond. It’s great.

Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes by Nicky Beer: full of poems that are a little sad and and little funny and full of pop culture references but not in a cringey way. Hadn’t heard of her before but when browsing Milkweed’s website I stopped on it because the cover is incredible.

The Six Deaths of the Saint by Alix E. Harrow: an Amazon short story (I know, I know) that I did not want to end. Gorgeous and creative and thought provoking, and somehow manages to do a LOT in only 30 pages???

Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark: dark and a little gross but so, so good. It’s got a lot of African American and Gullah mythology in it which was really interesting to read. Also I feel like this would pair well with Assembly by Natasha Brown because of the discussion of ownership of one’s own pain, from the perspective of Black women specifically.

#reading

[jorgha-haq]

Redshirts

To quote the book itself, “Is it good? It ain’t Shakespeare, but Shakespeare also wrote Titus Andronicus, so you tell me.” Titus Andronicus just happens to be my favourite Shakespeare play. Yes, I know the play has problems, but so does the Republican party and people still support them. Redshirts is based on a Star Trek trope where someone unnamed crew member, wearing a red shirt, dies on an…

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[jimkirkachu]

💙💛❤ First dose done! Now I can say Mr. Spock is pointing to my Band-Aid™ 😅

...poor little redshirt. Get your vaccine and wear your mask, buddy!!! 💙💛❤

(👕 threads: "Don't Be a Redshirt" at shirt.woot 👕)

(😷 mask: "Boldly Go" by DJKopet 😷)

#star trek tos #star trek #vaccine #wear a mask! #get vaccinated! #redshirt problems #tw: covid mention #tw: coronavirus #star trek fanart #not my art #star trek merch #captain kirk #james t. kirk #commander spock #spock #unnamed redshirt #poor little guy

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

Looking back at “The Suicide Squad”, of all the squad members, I think Javelin got the worst death. Not in terms of gruesomeness, but how it played out in the movie. Most of the squad got these extravagant death sequences, like Captain Boomerang getting chopped up by a helicopter and Polka-Dot Man getting crushed by Starro. Even embarrassing deaths like Blackguard’s left an impact since it was so brutal and quick.

Javelin...he just gets shot like he was some unnamed, background character. Yet somehow, how he died worked perfectly for the scene since it made it morbidly funny. Oh, this guy who you thought was going to be a main character and possibly have a fling with Harley? Yeah, he just gets shot like a typical redshirt.

#javelin #gunter braun #tss spoilers #the suicide squad #suicide squad #DCEU #dc movies #captain boomerang #polka dot man #polka-dot man #starro #blackguard #harley quinn #dc characters #corto maltese #flula borg

[tatzelwyrm]

And to think... all this time they could have just sent an Oracle arrow through the spinning orb of death instead of having unnamed redshirt guard #315 volunteer themselves (they were one day from retirement too, I'm sure). 😔

#critical role spoilers #critical role #cr 1 spoilers #cr1e97 #press f for that pale guard

[feathersandblue]

Dean Winchester, Character Death, and Frodo’s Return to the Shire

This will be a LOOONG post that has been stuck in my head for a while in bits and pieces - about Dean’s death, what it was and what it wasn’t, and incidentally, the Lord of the Rings has found its way in here too.

It’s pretty clear that Dabb always meant for Dean to die.

And while I strongly disagree with that, on so many levels, I think it might have been more palatable if framed in a different way, and so I’ve been trying to figure out what the ending might have looked like in a world that wasn’t quite as shitty as ours. Still shitty, but marginally less so.

Dean is notoriously bad at letting bad things happen if he can prevent them. I find it difficult to believe that Dean would ever quit hunting entirely, and for as long as he kept hunting, the danger of dying would always be present. It’s not unrealistic at all for him to die on a routine hunt. Life is unpredictable; life as a hunter, even more so. I understand that the writers might want to make that point. And it might have been valid if – and that’s the real problem – Dean’s death hadn’t otherwise been devoid of meaning.

The thing about character death – any sort of character death – is that it needs to have purpose.

And there are different ways that it can have purpose, but it depends on what sort of character we’re talking about.

Minor, often unnamed characters – the redshirts in every narrative – die to illustrate injustice or to highlight evil. Their death is a catalyst or a consequence of the events as they unfold, part of the conflict the heros have to solve. An army led into battle by a tyrant. Refugees in a camp dying of malnutrition. Murder victims of a serial killer. In all these cases, death fuels the plot but has little meaning beyond that.

There are minor characters whose death both fuels the plot and gives the hero a more personal motive to act. Supernatural is full of these. Mary and Jessica burning at the ceiling; Charlie dumped in a bathtub. Minor characters can have their own arcs, but ultimately their deaths are only important for the impact they have on the main characters.

The death of a protagonist is markedly different. Protagonists need to have agency even in death to maintain their status.

Their death has to be the reflection of their character development up to that point but it also has to tell us something about them that we did not already know – show us how they make a final decision or draw a final conclusion that marks the end of an inner conflict – which is what all storytelling is about. Character death has to serve a purpose to have meaning, and for a protagonist, the purpose must be personal.

And If it fails to do that, then that’s either a sign that we’re no longer dealing with a protagonist, or that something weng very, very wrong in the writers’ room. There is no inherent value in tragedy. In storytelling, tragedy is justified when it achieves something, otherwise, it’s just capriciousness.

Buffy’s death at the end of season 5 of BTVS is a classic example for the death of a protagonist. Harry’s decision to go and face Voldemort in the forbidden forest, even though it doesn’t ultimately kill him, is another. When Sam jumps into the abyss in Swan Song, that is his heroic sacrifice, but if he’d permanently died in season 2, that would have been bizarre and nonsensical because it was entirely beyond his control – it did not reflect his decisions, gave him no agency, and reduced him from a protagonist to a side character. In that moment, his death was something that happened to Dean. It worked because his death didn’t stick – he regained his agency after resurrection. But as an ending to his hero’s journey, it would have been singularly unsatisfying.

Dean is our protagonist, and he has been for 15 seasons. What does his death tell us about him that we didn’t know – what decisions did he make, what inner struggle got resolved, what meaning did his death have for him, personally, and then, in extension, for us?

The problem is that the finale, as is so often the case in Supernatural, tells two stories at once.

Whe the episode starts, it appears that Dean moves on with his life just fine, a well-adjusted model citizen. He’s ready to get a job, seems to be moderately happy. He even has dog. The decision to keep hunting is his, and death just accidentally happens, which of course is not unrealistic in his line of work. On the forefront, his death is brought about by the fact that he exercises free will. It tells us that he is a hunter and will always be one, that he keeps protecting people because that’s just who he is.

None of that, however, is new. It is just more of the same. All of Dean’s decisions in the finale tell us nothing about him that we did not already know. He’s trying to move on from the death of the people closest to him, as he’s always done. He chooses the hamster wheel, as he has always done. He follows in his father’s footsteps, as he has always done.

As he gets impaled, he has no choices left to make. There is no agency in his death, no inner struggle. His death furthers neither his character development nor the plot. That Dean simply accepts his death is as unsurprising as the fact that his final moments are spent reassuring Sam and telling him that he has to keep fighting.

The conclusion? Dean ceases to be a protagonist.

He dies not as the hero of his story. His death just happens to him.

After Sam and Dean had presumably freed themselves from the constraints of Chuck’s narrative, the final episode should have emphasized their agency, their freedom of choice, through change. But in the end, it only led them both to making the same choices as always, the unsurprising ones. And even the choices that did indicate a change (like Dean’s job application) were not shown to bear fruits.

What meaning does free will have when it doesn’t change the outcome? All the finale does is tell a bleak story about humanity and how we are incapable of making meaningful, consequential changes in our lives.

It’s almost like Lucifer is talking to us all the way from the Endverse of 5.04: “Whatever you do, you will always end up here. Whatever choices you make, whatever details you alter, we will always end up – here.”

Devastating as that is, there is another interpretation of the finale that is arguably worse, a different reading strongly suggested by both text and subtext.

Dean, as mentioned before, is trying to move on with his life but ultimately fails. The situation is different from the way he behaved when he lost Cas and Mary in season 13 where he was outright suicidal – his desperation is more quiet but also more profound. He seems determined to honor Cas’ and Jack’s sacrifice. But determination is not enough. Dean only goes through the motions, and it shows. He clings to the dog in the morning; the dog sticks to him closely throughout the day as dogs tend to do when they feel that their owner is in distress, almost like a therapy dog. His room looks messy, he makes an attempt to fix it but then abandons it as it requires too muh effort. Ultimately, he can’t be bothered. There are alcohol bottles standing around, a sign that he’s drinking, though not as heavily as in the past. All the while, he sems very laid-back, presumably relaxed and at peace and coping well with the loss but also weirdly detached.

When Sam mentions Cas and Jack at the pie festival, he says, “Yeah, I’m thinking about them too. You know that pain’s not going to go away. Right? But if we don’t keep living, then all that … sacrifice is gonna be for nothing.”

He feels an obligation. And he’s trying. It’s just not working very well.

He barely reacts when Sams pies him in the face.

When impaled on the rebar, Dean actively prevents Sam from calling for help. He tells Sam not to bring him back. And in the end, he asks Sam to tell him it’s okay to go. Which isn’t something he would do if he was simply dying – it strongly indicates that he wants to be allowed to die.

Prompting the conclusion that Dean is giving up on life the first opportunity he gets, not even knowing whether he’ll end up in heaven.

In this reading, Dean does have a little bit of agency. He makes a decision, sort of. His death marks the resolution of an inner struggle: He gives up.

He dies as a protagonist.

In the worst way possible.

In all honesty, I can’t decide which interpretation I hate more.

But what could the writers have done differently, if Dean was meant to die all along?

Back when the SPN finale had freshly aired, I was describing it like this:

Imagine that the One Ring is destroyed. But Merry died in the battle and Pippin went missing and was never found again. Frodo and Sam return to the Shire; Pippin and Merry are mentioned once in passing. Upon their arrival, Frodo is attacked by Wormtongue and slowly bleeds out over the span of thirty pages. Sam marries someone else than Rosie; Rosie is never mentioned again. Somehow, both Frodo and Sam are teleported to Valinor, where we are told that the real fun begins.

At the time, I only used this as an example to illustrate what a mess the finale had been. But in the weeks that have passed since, then, I’ve started thinking about the LOTR comparison some more, and it got me thinking about Dean’s death in a different way.

And it has everything to do with the difference between running from and walking toward.

As mentioned before, it’s not unrealistic that Dean would die on a random hunt. Would the Dean Winchester we know ever stop hunting? Maybe. We might want him to. Then again, would be still be Dean Winchester if he did? We know that Dean can’t help but feel responsible. He is someone who is incapable of staying hands-off.

Dean, as we see him in the finale, is trying to honor Cas’s and Jack’s memory by living, although he’s not very good at it – not outright suicidal but worn-out. Exhausted. And still he makes the decisions to keep hunting because he can do nothing else.

When Frodo and Sam returned to the Shire in LOTR, they had earned their happy ending. But Frodo, who had carried such a heavy burden that he was permanently altered by it, could no longer find happiness in Middleearth, and ultimately decided to depart for Valinor along with Gandalf and Bilbo with the promise of later being reunited with Sam. The journey had changed both of them, but it had changed Frodo to a greater degree, his responsibility had been greater, the weight on his shoulders heavier.

And I started to wonder whether the intention had initially been to show Dean in much the same state – and to frame his death as a decision to move on, the same way that LOTR has Frodo move on to the West.

Imagine the following: Cas is pulled into the Empty. His happiness and love change the Empty; he merges with it or otherwise changes it so that it’s now a more demon-friendly environment. Everyone there is at peace. Cas, in whatever form, moves on to Heaven – or maybe his soul does as it’s now mostly human.

Dean goes on a hunt and dies. Jack, or some other entity, shows up where you would expect the curiously absent reaper in order to give him a choice. Learning that Cas is in Heaven, and knowing that he will never be able to stop hunting if he remains on earth, Dean makes the conscious decision to move on. For the first time, Dean prioritizes his own happiness over his perceived duty. His death is no longer suicide by proxy, and neither is its sole purpose to illustrate the inherent meaningless of free will by turning him into a hamster-by-choice. Instead, it becomes a decision because he’s given back agency. He resolves an inner conflict and there’s even a final bit of character development as he breaks the chain of mutual co-dependency that ties him to Sam and allows himself to be with Cas. He remains a protagonist throughout the end.

And because he acknowledges his love for Cas and decides to be with him, he no longer just runs from, he walks toward.

The parallels to The Lord of the Rings get even more obvious when you take Sam into the equation because much like Samwise, Sam remains on earth in order to have a life that, for him, still holds meaning and the chance of happiness – whereas Dean can no longer be happy on earth as long as Cas isn’t there.

To be completely clear: I’d still think that such an ending would suck because it puts too much emphasis on an afterlife, and it would still send the message that characters like Dean could only find peace in death, and unless some adjustments were made to Sam’s arc as well, the ending would still suck for him.

But seeing as SPN plays in a universe where an afterlife exists, I could probably learn to live with Dean’s death if it had any sort of meaning, for him, besides dying and waiting for Sam to arrive, if it allowed for that final bit of character development. If he got to choose.

While I’ll never be able to see the finale that we actually got as anything but a complete atrocity.

#spn #supernatural #meta #dean winchester #destiel

[class1akids]

Back up! When did Thirteen die?! I don’t remember that for the life of me. Which heroes have died so far? Now that I think about it, I haven’t seen Snipe or Ectoplasm (that would be of good use) in a while. So far the only UA staff that imagine sure are alive are Present Mic and Eraserhead. Is Nezu there?!

The UA Teachers at the Hospital are and these are the last known location for them

1. Aizawa

Ch 277: fighting Shigaraki

2. Present Mic

Ch 276: guarding the doctor somewhere in the evacuation zone

3. Thirteen

Ch 272: Trying to suck up the decay

and she may be in the top left corner of this panel decaying...

4. Ectoplasm

Ch: 260: evacuating hospital

5. Snipe

Ch 259: Debriefing outside of the Hospital

The UA teachers at the Mansion are:

Cementoss

Ch 273: still fighting in main attack

2. Midnight

Ch 264: Fighting in main attack

UA Teachers on Campus: 

1. All Might

Ch 276:  babysitting Eri

The UA Teachers who have not been shown this arc:

Hound Dog

Lunch Rush

Nezu

Power Loader

Recovery Girl

Vlad King

Casualty list

So far the named heroes died:

 Crust

X-less

+ bunch of redshirts in decay and the last nomu attack

+ Twice’s clone and Toga killed some unnamed heroes on the Mansion side

Gravely injured:

Hawks

Mirko

Last seen at the decay:

Thirteen (probably dead)

Pixie Bob (outside hospital, trying to stop decay with a landslide - possibly dead)

Mandalay and Tiger (running away, possibly alive)

Wash (saving patients in soap bubbles, probably alive)

#bnha #aizawa shouta #present mic #thirteen #snipe #ectoplasm #cementoss #midnight #All Might #war arc #bnha manga spoilers #last known locations #where in the world is everyone?

[diphthongsfordays]

more outlining memey shenanigans - I’ve been calling unnamed side characters “redshirts”. they’re not there to die, they just largely don’t have names and are bulking out my group of fighters 😆

- @akindofmagictoo

This is INCREDIBLE lol. I am ALL ABOUT the outlining shenanigans!! And let's be honest, most stories need a few good redshirts. More entertaining than my tendency to name people things like [Badguy1] and [Jerkfacemcgee] and then immediately forget which one is which, lol.

#asks #writing process

[startreckobsessed]

Request: Can I get Kirk x reader where reader is just completely oblivious to Kirk's feelings because she's just horrible at social stuff and she ignores her feelings for Kirk because she doesn't want to ruin their friendship but then after shit hits the fan (yet again) there is a feelings reveal?

Summery: Socially awkward but badass security officer and the crew go down to a foreign planet for some innocent fun and he accidentally offends a mob boss.

You'd known of him at the academy; the rumors and whispers of George Kirk's son, the reckless, charming cadet that had been the only person to ever pass the kobiashu Maru, and the blue eyes that made your heart thud unevenly. Yes, even before you had even exchanged words you had been intrigued. And you were only pulled even deeper into the whirlwind that was Jim Kirk once you had.

At first it was playful, you were part of his crew, his chosen family, even if you had only met in passing. Joking words and shoulder bumps in the elevator, knowing smiles. You remember how your cheeks felt like they were on fire whenever he did that. You had seen him act the same with Bones, even playfully jabbing fingers into Spocks sides whenever he picked on him. You had just assumed that was the way he was

once or twice even hiding him from "the madman with the hypos drunk on power." you had chuckled, shaking your head as the doctor stalked down the hall passed, somehow missing the captain curled behind you around the corner, muttering agitated to himself as he rakes a hand through his hair.

When he had passed you turned around, crossing your arms and quirking a brown while trying to contain a smile."Y'know, someday your going to make him snap, and we'll all pay for it." He smirked slightly.

"Be careful, kid." You say, shaking your head and turning to leave, not before he grabbed your wrist, your pulse jumping at the contact as his thumb caressed the soft skin of your wrist. "I was wondering." He gulped "if you would join some of the others, and me-" "who would be there?" You ask quickly, not sure if you were ready for a social event with strangers, your heart sped in panic at the thought of embarasing yourself somehow, your other hand flew up so you could bite your nails, a nervous tick that you'd often been reprimanded for many times, but couldn't help. "Spock, Bones, Uhaura, Scotty-" you gulped. That was a lot of people.

"Umm, yeah, sure." You stumbled out, before you could regret it. His face brightened up, and he stood taller. "Great! We're just going to have a few drinks, at this place Uhaura found down planet side. Meet us at the transporter room at eight." You nodded, whizzing down the hall before he could draw you in again with his words.

It was painful, sometimes, knowing you would never have him. Someone so charming, and important would never want to be with an unnamed redshirt.

You loved him because he was good, you shiver when you remembered general Marcus, Jim's rushed, pleading voice as he begged let my crew go.

His words echo in your mind when you roll around in your bed sometimes at night and can't sleep, the darkness of your quarters becomes suffocating as you remember the nightmarish event. Once or twice you had shot up in bed, gasping his name at the memory, tears gathering in your eyes.

You were in love with your captain. And you knew you could never tell him.

You had changed into your shore leave clothes, a strange, jittery feeling pulsing through you. You shake out your arms, puffing out your cheeks, exhaling. "Its just drinks" you say, staring into the reflection of your eyes. "That's it. Simple."

Oh how wrong you were.

When you arrived on the bridge, all chatter stopped, and everyone's eyes turned to you. You smile, gripping your bag. "Y/N!" Jim called, treading over, spraying his hand on your upper back. "Come meet everyone." He said steering you over to a beautiful woman with a playful glint in her eyes. You would be lying if you said you weren't slightly star strick by the famous bridge linguinist "Nyota, this is Y/N." She smiled at you and the tension inside you melted a little. "Hello, Y/N." "Nice to meet you." You say.

He quickly introduces you to the rest of the group, the CMO's eyebrow arching as Kirk spoke your name, leaning in to give your hand a firm shake. You said hello to Scotty, whom you had met several times before during your shifts, you had always liked the odd Scott, always felt a strange sort of comfort whenever you two interacted. "Spock!" Jim called, clapping the shoulder of the first officer "you ready for tonight?" "As much as one can be for a "crazed night on the town" he said, glancing over at your slightly firmiliar form. Not wanting to be rude he steps away from Nyota and introduces himself. "I am commander Spock, and you are officer Y/L/N if I am correct?" You nodded with a slight smile.

You didn't see the way Jim watched the interaction almost with exhitenent, hands behind his back. Leonard nudged him in the side with a knowing look. Jim could almost hear him saying.

your staring again.

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The lights pulsed red as Nyota pulled you through throngs of diverse species by your hand to the bar, you looked up at the glitching menu, unsure. You bit your bottom lip, smiling unconciously when Jim slid into the stool next to you. You didnt notice that he had cut off a woman that was about to sit there, so he could be next to you. A low, gargled voice hissed at him in an unfirmiliar tounge. "Captain!" Uhaura hissed from next to you. "You've shown disrespect. Get out of the seat."

Jim pouted jokingly, turning to speak to her. Long husk like teeth sprung up from her lower jaw, all of them had green patterned skin that swirled like a piccaso painting.

"I sincerely apologise, I just wanted to sit with my friends here." His hand swung out to gesture to the crew, but one of her men caught his arm and threw it back against his chest. Jim's eyes w8dened as they closed in around you both. Your eyes flashed to his face, his hands curled into fists and his lips flattened in a thin line.

"Calm down cupcake." He said clasping him on the shoulder to try to ease some of the tension. Her anterage hissed. Both of your eyes met, and you launched yourself into action.

Picking up a glass from the bar you smashed it over the goons head in front if you, kicking him in the ribs sending him flying into another table. Another rushed at you, you gripped the edge of the bar and kicked up, wrapping your legs around his neck and choking him. You saw Spock rise form the corner of your eye, going to two Kirk was struggling with, placing his hands on both their necks and pinching. They both collapse onto the floor. The man between your legs gags before collapsing from being deprived of oxygen. The boss stood off to the side, hissing when you made eye contact with her.

Uhaura took Jim by the ear, giving it a good yank before turning to you. "Let's go before they send reinforcements." She rolls her eyes.

You all made it outside, and were quickly beamed aboard. Before you could make it off the pad to escape to your room, his hand wrapped around your arm, one hand rubbing the back of his neck. "Well, that went great, didn't it?" He cracked a smile before it faultered. You lift an eyebrow in silent question.

"It was cowerdly, I was too nervous to ask you out alone, so I thought a group event-I just wanted to get to know you better, because I-" he cleared his throat. "I'm not usually like this. I've never tried to -to move slow before." "Move... slow?" He nodded. "I like you." Your ears started to ring slightly. Had you heard that right? "You like me?" He nodded again. A slow smile broke out on your face.

"Well, then... would you like to kiss me?" His eyes snapped to yours, before a giving you a dashing smile. His hand slid to your back and pressed his lips to yours. Your hand drifted to his cheek and he sighed into the kiss, pulling you tighter before parting. His eyes shined and he bounced on his heels slightly. You suddenly realised what you did, and smiled shyly, looking at your feet. He bit the inside of his cheek. "So uh, dinner later?" You chuckled "yes."

#kirk x reader #jim x reader #jim kirk #Jim x reader fan fiction #star trek imagine #star trek fanfic #Jim kirk fan fiction #jim kirk fanfiction #mine

[heraldofzaun]

Hi. We’re doing this again. I’ve already spoken a little bit (well, a great bit) about how old lore Viktor wasn’t a stereotypical evil villain, but I keep seeing this interesting trend crop up - especially in the comments of analyses on Viktor’s character - and so I’m going to write about it. That trend is the fact that people seem completely and utterly convinced that only old Viktor “augmented without consent” or “didn’t respect free will” or similar mad-scientist-adjacent claims. This isn't true. The inverse is true, actually.

What follows is the entirety of Viktor’s old lore (I’m using the first - the second variant is the one that snips out his going to the Institute of War, I’m not trying to pull a trick on you or anything), his lines upon release (which are still technically canonical, even if many people believe them to be outdated - whether that is due to Riot still believing that they’re accurate to his character or, more likely, Riot not caring to replace them, I don’t know), and the accompanying blurb to his release comic. I am also including Jayce’s second lore, the one which Riot wrote after Viktor fans pointed out that Jayce’s original lore was contradictory to Viktor’s character. (Which is mentioned in the post I linked above. TL;DR: Viktor fans made such a fuss that Jayce’s lore got changed to paint Viktor as less of a villain, which again points to the fact that old Viktor wasn’t necessarily perceived as villainous by his fans. Of course, fan perceptions can be wrong - but canon was changed, so...)

This screenshot is missing his pick/ban quotes (“Join the Glorious Evolution.”/”Inferior constructs.” - ban quotes were added after his release, so they recycled one of his attack lines) and the quotes for Chaos Storm (“Obliterate!”/”Consume!”/”True power!”/”Behold!”). This is because it didn’t fit on my computer screen nicely.

This was written alongside Viktor’s teaser comic. (I personally really like the teaser comic, even though I’m concerned about Viktor cutting a hole in his laboratory wall.) It is, technically, non-canon material as it was posted on the now-defunct forums rather than anywhere on the client, but as we’ve seen a recent trend of Rioters Word-of-God’ing facts about canon, I may as well include it. There may be more Word-of-God confirmations on those forums as well, but the backup site that they’re currently hosted on doesn’t allow for searches as the original site didn’t either. You can find this on the “Development” tab of Viktor’s wiki page, if you’re curious.

Is there anything in here, besides “Submit to my designs.” and a few other of his voice lines, which should be taken with the context that they were a) written in 2011 and are thus not the highest examples of character-focused writing and b) written under the context of these being things he is saying to opponents on a battlefield, that says “Viktor augments people who are unwilling”? I don’t see it. He isn’t an angel, sure, because he wrecks Jayce’s lab after the man doesn’t want to work with him, but… He’s mostly alright, at least when it comes to the claims I’m investigating. (Also, note that his acolytes are not specified as being under his control or anything like that - they very well may just be people he’s helped, who don’t want a strange man smashing up the lab they were helped in.)

An interesting side-note: Jayce’s first lore does seem to imply that Viktor murdered people, as he “staged a deadly raid on Jayce’s laboratory”. This is concerning. There’s still somewhat of that implication in the second lore, considering the whole “incinerating the lab’s meager security force” line, but I’ve never seen anyone in fandom over the years use that as evidence for Viktor being a murderer, which is interesting. There’s actual textual evidence you can point to to say that Viktor’s a morally awful dude, and yet no one pointed to it when it was canon...I’ve never seen it cited in any character analyses for Viktor, nor have I ever seen anyone make the point that it’s people that Viktor’s incinerating. Food for thought, I guess. Anyways, my personal take is this: it’s security systems, not people. It doesn’t quite make sense, in-universe, for Viktor to murder a bunch of redshirt security guards but only blast Jayce aside - and leave him with no lasting injuries, obviously. Out-of-universe, you can say that it’s because Jayce is a champion, but still… It really doesn’t fit. Of course, I’m an old lore Viktor fan and this is entirely me trying to justify that he’s not a bad guy, so you can definitely take my words as biased. As we’ll see later, even if you take this as proof that old Viktor’s a killer, it doesn’t mean new Viktor is morally spotless.

Also, if you speak a language other than English and want to kill time, feel free to write in with what Jayce’s old lore says he did if you can find a translation of it. (If you go to the League wiki you can find other language versions of it, and from there you can poke around on Jayce’s page to see if it even has his older lore at all.) The Polish version apparently doesn’t imply people, but the Russian version uses “guards”... or so I think, my knowledge of Russian is pretty small so it was me and Wiktionary against the world. I think that League lore translations, especially from 2011, aren’t exactly the best material for textual evidence, but it’s an interesting curiosity. (I’m genuinely fascinated on how this was never a point of argument, and also to the fact that it was made much more ambiguous in Jayce’s post-outcry lore… but not removed.)

Anyways. Of course, you can take his lines and general character to a logical endpoint and say that it is implied that he doesn’t care much about whether or not people consent to the Glorious Evolution, but at that point you’re arguing interpretation and need to say as such. The cases I’ve seen in which people say that old lore Viktor was lopping people’s limbs off without consent or what-have-you just say that, without citing any textual evidence or saying that it is possibly implied by his character and lines. It’s pretty hard to take those claims seriously when there’s much more textual evidence that current-canon Viktor doesn’t seem too keen on respecting autonomy. Let’s begin with his own lore, which is written to favor his perspective.

Please keep in mind that this Viktor got his start selling automative technology to businesses in Zaun. The Zaun that is full of corrupt chem-barons. But let’s give him the benefit of the doubt and say that he only sold to good businesses. (Also, fascinating that a common complaint about old Viktor is that his status as a pioneer of his field is that he’s “unrealistically accomplished”, and that other people would have figured out the same technology - just as it seems to be the case in current lore, with the Church of the Glorious Evolved existing pre-Viktor (except that it probably didn’t at the time of this lore’s release, as there’s a paragraph later on in his lore that talks about a “quasi-religious cult” that is unnamed but… Who else would it be?) and augmentations being common on the NPCs on the Universe page. Yet someone who’s 19 having their inventions be commonly used in Zaun long enough for the term eventually to be used in reference to the next stage of their life is perfectly acceptable. Anyways…)

What we see from this is clear: even if there is a “good” reason to control the divers, there is no mention of them consenting to the procedure. Considering the previous quotation, Viktor seems to deal more with the bosses than the workers and doesn’t seem to consider the potential job-removing impacts of his work (how many people lost jobs due to being rendered obsolete?), which doesn’t bode well for him caring much about what the workers think. But of course, this aside about dealing with bosses is all interpretation, so you can ignore it if you’d like. There still is, however, actual, textual evidence that new Viktor does not care about consent if he believes his idea is what’s best for you.

Ignoring the writer misusing the term “psychotics” - par for the course in fiction unfortunately - here’s Viktor kidnapping people “for their own good”. Nothing is said in his lore if he’s contracted to do this, or if he’s just Zaun’s version of a Good Samaritan out and about chloroforming people. While I’m not saying that the moral choice is to not intervene, he is drugging people here and performing brain surgery on them. Please note the “in a manner of speaking”. What does that mean? Is it in reference to them having permanent brain damage? Or is it in reference to him being all well-and-ready to transfer their bodies into robots that presumably weren’t designed for them? (Speaking of, if Viktor can transfer the consciousnesses - or at least brains - of people… why is he still in a fleshy mortal body? Yes, it would require a VU to update him to be fully robotic, but none of his written media seems to imply that he’s on his way. His color story has him integrating technology directly into his arm, for example. Why aren’t you getting into the robot, Viktor?)

Anyways, two options here: either the automatons had enough of their former programming to react to Viktor giving a kill command, or the consciousnesses of the people Viktor is “saving” are in these robots and are under his sway enough to commit murder. Either is bad (and negates any moral superiority over old Viktor’s maybe-implied-canonical-murder), but the second is horrifying. And, obviously, non-consensual. (Because the damage is reversing, I don’t believe there’s room for a justification of the second option in which these people are still violent and dangerous.)

Anyways, last bit. It’s pretty bad when your ethics are panned in Zaun, the nation host to rampart corruption and also people like Singed. Let’s now move on to his color story, which is what a lot of fans point to as evidence for new Viktor having a heart or a moral compass.

Yay! Moral win: your cyborg isn’t cutting off the head of a child without his consent. (Also, again, is this proof that Viktor can put brains or consciousnesses in robot bodies? Admittedly, he might be joking since this Viktor is a little softer than he is in his biography.)

Moral… win… your cyborg is augmenting a child… Anyways, joking aside, this is unethical. How’s Naph supposed to consent to something like this? I know that we can’t expect fictional characters in a fantasy setting to abide by modern ethical standards, but I think we can critique them from an out-of-universe context. This is bad. Viktor gives very little context, could very well be lying (he isn’t, hopefully), and sends the kid off with his version of a pat on the back and tells him to come back if he wants more. (The “Oh yes” is also… creepy.) A kid’s decision-making abilities aren’t developed to the extent that they can be reasonably expected to understand or consent to a procedure that removes a pretty crucial emotion. If Naph comes back and wants his fear gone permanently, will Viktor oblige?

Also, fear is something that is very important to survival and judgment calls. Without fear, a kid in Zaun might take dangerous risks that could end up with them dead. I can’t really see how people interpret this as a morally sound decision - Viktor’s pretty much giving mood-altering drugs to a child and telling him to come back if he wants another hit. Just because he got Naph’s okay doesn’t mean that he got informed consent.

Let’s now turn to the black sheep of Viktor content: his Legends of Runeterra lines. There’s two of interest.

Armed Gearhead’s card art is of a man whose only augmentation is his arm, which he says he broke in another line. (I suppose he didn’t want to wait for it to heal?)

Viktor is talking about messing with his head, here, because Armed Gearhead is… too emotive, I’d guess. He is “not yet complete”. A statement which Armed Gearhead seems rather apprehensive about, if you listen to his response.

I know that LoR Viktor is one of the more “comically villainous” depictions of Viktor we’ve seen, so if new Viktor fans would like to ignore his lines I have no issue with that. But these lines certainly seem to imply that what Viktor sees as Armed Gearhead’s end state isn’t necessarily what he sees as his, and should be considered if people want to take them as canonical.

Not necessarily needed, but here’s Jayce’s present lore. One of them is definitely lying - Jayce’s lore says that he doesn’t strike until after Viktor gives the kill order, and Viktor’s says that he gave the kill order in response to Jayce smashing up the lab. Either way, Viktor is ordering automatons (that, in this version, are outright stated to be housing the brains of the people Viktor is trying to keep alive) to kill Jayce. Not a good look.

Viktor’s new lore gives significant textual evidence that he doesn’t care for whether others willingly consent to his ideas, so long as he believes that his ideas are for the greater good. This is in contrast to the vagueness of his original lore, meaning that any individual who speaks about how current Viktor is someone who cares for consent in contrast to the “unethical mad scientist”ness of old Viktor is unfortunately mistaken. I have to imagine that general fandom interpretation, combined with the fact that his bio and color story are very tonally different, have made it so people believe that this version of Viktor is much more ethical than he canonically is.

Interpreting Viktor as sympathetic and actually morally grey is fine, of course! Riot wrote his narrative very poorly when he was updated, which is why I’m still finding bones to pick with it in comparison to his original and more open-to-interpretation lore. The issue is stating that this is canonically the case, which it isn’t, and/or stating that the current iteration of Viktor has the moral high ground over his previous incarnation, which he doesn’t. I think that much more interesting character conversations can happen if people acknowledge that Viktor as he’s currently written is roundly unethical - how can that be improved upon for a more complex character, does that mean that Jayce’s behavior was right, etc. For all my dislike of new Viktor, I’d be genuinely curious to read a take that actively acknowledges his pre-college work in automation and how that affects his standing in Piltover and Zaun. (Is he well-known in industry? What do workers think about him? And so on…) And, well, on a personal note: I think that acknowledging current Viktor’s moral failings would be nice, because it would mean that people would stop using old Viktor as a strawman.

Anyways, I suppose that’s the post. Thank you for reading!

#headcanons | beneath the mask #//back at it.

[wooolfies]

Witcher Characters and their positions in a Firehouse

(Including the OCs)

Yennefer: paramedic in charge [note: somehow I kinda made the people good in magic good in medical stuff]

Triss: paramedic,

Vesemir: The Chief This is obvious he has a ton of experience and he is responsible by nature.

Jaskier: He probably has worked as a voluntary worker at some point so he has training. He does PR and is the station’s spokesperson. He also does all the secretary jobs to support the chief.

Roach: the dog they keep at the firehouse :3

(rest behind the break)

Eskel:  Engine Lieutenant: Eslkel is responsible, smart and hard-working. His job requieres him to move a lot around the site, he makes the hard choices for his crew.

Aiden: Runner/Messenger: Just when it comes to sitting with the patient(s) in the car wreck you might want to replace him with someone less sassy. (The runner does everything they are ordered to do. But esp. to gather information, keep in contact with dispatch and SCBA monitoring, scouting)

Andrzej (OC): Mechanic: I see him being good with technology so he got to drive the truck and operate pumps etc., can see his first job was being a mechanic. Also he’s the big guy and we need to fill at least one sterotype.

(detail: A group of two, one carries the gear the other the responsibility)

(rescue detail: are the ones who smokedives first, the ones who rescue (obviously), do first aid and turn the patient over to the ambulance crew, and does so called technical assitance, totally the poppular kids)

Geralt: Rescue-detail leader: he can’t stay out of shit but he is couragous and good at what he does, while he is definetly more street-smart

Lambert: rescue-detail: like OG Lambert is angry inside and not the most diplomatic but not nessearily bad at his craft.

(water-detail: rescues (esp. the rescue-detial if they get into trouble), are responsible for the water between engine/water-source and distributor. Secures the site (like from running traffic or darkness)...)

Findt (OC): water-detail leader: polite, patient, often concerned about safety, book-smart but has many years of experience.

Connari (OC): the candidate, water-detail: ambitous but green AF.

(hose-detail: water between distributor and branch, pull out the jumping sheet or light the scene, run and get stuff, can also work in rescue. In a non-fire call they are responsible for tech)

Coen: hose-detail leader: smart, patient(TM), quiet but extermely good at his job.

Renfri: hose-detail: chaotic lass, Coen is there to keep her in check, good with tech.

The aerial is staffed with unnamed redshirts

Outside the firehouse:

In the ER: Shani and Istredd

Police: Roché and Ves

Fire investiagion: Dikstra

Finally Flavandrel work for the city council and Valdo is working for the equivalent of “The Sun”.

Ciri is Geralt’s kid who is 6th grade and he’s the single dad.

#the witcher #my shit #bitches on fire

[obscuniverse]

Obscu listens to: The Magnus Archives - Episode 1 ‘Angler Fish’

@derinthescarletpescatarian​ has been ranting at me about this series for what feels like a million years so here I am. Also apparently I’m the world’s biggest stereotype. Let’s roll, shall we?

Oooh, I do like spooky violin. Can’t have a horror anything without spooky violin.

Okay can we pause and talk about the symbolism of having ‘Angler Fish’ be your first episode title? Fun Fact! As you may recall, the angler fish is what happens when you ask any child to draw any animal that they imagine has teeth, and the teeth come out all different sizes and directions but they’re definitely spikes, and then they get so caught up with the teeth that they rush the rest of the body so it looks like a particularly carnivorous poop? That’s the one. The part that’s particularly relevant is the the bit where they’re a bunch of glowing knobheads; that is, they have a fleshy forehead appendage where the end is colonised by bioluminescent bacteria, which they use as a lure for smaller, less coprotype prey. So we’ve got some strong lure imagery, and it’s the first episode, so on one hand this is literally the lure that the series is using to draw us, the readers, into consuming (or, if you know @derinthescarletpescatarian​, being consumed by) the series. Of course, it’s almost certainly referring to the content of the episode as well so I anticipate a protagonist (and possibly diverse other victims) to be _lured _into something bad for them.

Secondary Fun Fact! Anglerfish mating involve the male biting into the belly of the (several times larger in size) female and hanging on until their skin and blood vessels literally fuse together, with the anglerfish male being fed directly by nutrients from the blood of the female through their shared circulatory system. Will our protagonist bite off more than they can chew and become hopelessly, permanently enmeshed in something larger and more dangerous than they, so interwoven with it that they are unable to extricate themselves from it but also being given by it the means to survive? Will we the listeners? I guess we’ll just have to hit play because I’m only 36 seconds in. I do like the narrator’s voice though.

More spooky violin, can’t go wrong with that. Ooooh a crescendo. Hot fucking damn. Oh snap there was some sad tunelessness there!

Ohshit it’s a recorded diary! Every horror game I’ve ever played has prepared me for this moment.

Nothing spooky happens at a research institute named for strength or might in both Latin and Norse. Certainly not one that deals in esoterica. Okay, let’s see what Johnathan Sims (Simms?) gets up to at Swole Hogwarts.

What’s that? The previous Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher Archivist is dead and you’ve been hired by Spooky French Dumbledore who is almost certainly a monster because of course he is to replace them? This will end only well and definitely not with a spiral into a mental breakdown culminating in some Here’s Johnny! shenanigans.

“There are very few genuine cases” and now that you’ve jinxed yourself every single genuine case in the world is going to be crawling out of the walls to say hello. You’d think after 4 years you would’ve learned not to say such things. It’s like watching D-Class personnel at the SCP foundation.

“When an investigation has gone as far as it can it goes to the archives” (emphasis mine). So you’re gonna be digging into a 200 years’ of spoopy cold cases that are gonna get real hot real quick. I’m down. 

Ahahahaha. Oh academia. Even in Swole Hogwarts you can’t get away from theorists vs practicalists.

86-91-G/H is definitely going to come up again. I can vividly picture the wild strewn-about room of someone driven mad by the haunting nature of their job. Or of my own office because of who I am as a person. I wonder which file ate Gertrude. I also wonder if the lack of use of modern electronics is a safety measure that Old Mate Johnny has unknowingly violated.

“I have secured the services of two redshirts, and you can tell because they’re unnamed researchers” “I don’t expect Martin to secretly be the highly skilled wizard/creature manipulating events form their apparent background doddering disguised as a silly fool in keeping with long fairy-tale tradition contribute anything except delays” Martin is definitely Snape. OOOooooOOOooooOOH, attempting to digitise T̵̨̛͚͉̫̩̰͍̓̽̽̍̓͑̓̾͌͗̂̈́̉ḫ̸͈̪̉̆̓̀͌̓͒̈̋̐͝ĕ̵͉̻̻ ̷̜͙̤͎͈̝̮̘̄̅̓̆̿̕͝R̴̪͑̍̒̍̾̅̐́͘͠͠ę̸̞̪͕̠͍͉̝̀̈́́͌̽ͅc̴̟̱͈̦̎̅̋̏͆̌̇͘͠͠o̶͚̞͕̲͒̋r̷̲̟̭͚̠̾͑́͋̓̈́̎͒̾̚d̴̩͓́͑̀͊̂̿͛i̴̗͈̣̟̻̯̼̘̞͕̋͜ͅņ̶̡͍͚͙̩͇̟̝̩̬͍͖̳̓g̷̯̬̙̱͚̏͂̔͐̉̇̾̋̓̎̈́͘s̷̢̫̗͙̱̻̳̞̩̐͛͂̍̑̐̊̚ have been met with significant spooky magical fuckery distortion. Fancy that.

The redshirts are named Tim and Sasha, and they will be doing some supplementary investigation suicidal monster hunting to fill in Blanks That No Man Was Meant To Fill. Maybe they’ll survive now that they have names, but they really should’ve saved the name for when one of them is mortally injured and the audience has to care enough about them for them to survive so you can reveal that they are in fact a person.

“I apologise to my eventual replacement after I am horribly eaten by/transformed into whatever is in 86-91-G/H any future researcher.”

Johnathan Sims is Niles Crane from Frasier and I will accept no word to the contrary.

Ah yes, the most esoteric and terrifying of eldritch phenomena; someone trying to bum a ciggy off you when you’re 80% scotch and 60% regret.

Ah, so “can I have a cigarette” with a human form ‘asking’ is the glowy knob on this ghost’s forehead. Completely without intonation because it’s just playing back a noise that attracts hammered people at night rather than understanding words that attract hammered people at night. Pretty sure I’ve seen this in an anime.

Apparently totally sloshed British students make better horror/urban fantasy protagonists than most movies would credit.

I take it back.

At least the spooky poopfish got some dinner.

I wonder if the missing student’s name also been John is a bit of tongue in cheek.

Oooh he’s created a “this is all bullshit” category into which he clearly intends to consign most of these. STOP PLAYING CHICKEN WITH THE UNFATHOMABLE HORRORS OF THE VOID BETWEEN THE STARS. Or, y’know, keep at it. This will not be hilarious and/or traumatic at all.

“Check out this photo of a spooky ghost if you run it through a sixth sense filter” That’s right Johnny, get beckoned.

I’m actually not 100% on this format but I’ll give it a few more tries.

#tma #the magnus archives #Swole Hogwarts #Spooky poopfish #86-91-G/H