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jasntodds · 5 months

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I really liked titans portrayal of Gotham city and the Gotham tv series portrayal of the city, and this may sound ridiculous to say but at least for my liking there is not enough Gotham in the batman movies I get that the focus is on batman and whatever loon he's facing but giving some deeper focus to the nitty gritty and utter strangeness of the city and 'average' Gotham citizens is something that I just require lol

I really did not know all that, oh my gosh you're telling me we are legit not gonna see that little bastard (said with such affection) Jason todd version ever ever again because one dude wants his universe to be the only one!?- that is some playground level nonsense and honestly with this many characters and this many storyline possibilities it is just unfair not to make a bunch of universes and that way fans can pick and choose which ones they wanna follow. Like I know some people didn't like the arrowverse (I fucking loved it) but if there's different options you don't have to watch the one you don't like cuz it's not the only one available y'know

Bruce killed the Joker for Jason (that is so huge) heaven above let titans live on for a little bit 😢 a redhood spin off with him attempting to clean up his own mental state and Gotham city with Barbara's help and we could've gotten to see more gotham villians heck Tim could have been included here and there in it cuz he's Robin now, bestie I wanna pull my hair out. And the fight scenes in titans was like near netflix Daredevil level beauty, the brutality shown in some characters (ahem dick and jason) contrasted with how you know that they're good inside that their heart is in the right place (esp dick) but you can visibly see the brokenness

I'm just getting back into titans now, it took forever where I am for season 4 to come on netflix and I still haven't watched s4 yet (I did skip all the way til nearly the end just to watch the episode with redhood lol but oh my seeing Tim be robin was cool)

I kinda really need to see Jason dealing with what he did to poor Hank (hank was one of my favs I cannot believe he didn't get to just nicely retire with dawn 😢)

Okay no but you're right!! I started rewatching Gotham like 2 weeks ago actually lmao and the pure joy the cutscenes bring me just because the city looks so GOOD is insane hjdgfkdh Both Gotham and Titans did a really good job at showing how gritty and gloomy Gotham is while also allowing it feel very organic and completely normal for everyone living there. (like the Titans being a little confused with Gotham stuff happening but you have Dick, Jason, and Babs just rolling with the punches). Tbh I think every Batman related movie/show needs to show the city more like Titans and Gotham because I think showing how Gotham IS explains a lot of why Bruce and the rest of the batfam and villains are the way they are

Nope!! I'm assuming we'll see a version of Jason and Dick (at the very least) at some point but they won't be Titans versions and won't be the same actors. LITERALLY WHAT I'M SAYING!!!! I physically do not care what his role is. He shouldn't be able to just be the only one (again same goes for Marvel). But yes exactly!!!!! Like if there are different universes with a bunch of content for all of them, then like................that's more money?? lmao At the end of the day, studios like making money and if there is only one universe and 1 version of the characters, like you said, some people won't want any part of it because they won't like it. But, if there's another universe for them to watch, they might like that one!!! I have NO desire to watch The Flash movie and it kind of ruins it because actor. But, the show?? It's one of my favorites and I loved Grant Gustin as Barry and Keiynan Lonsdale as Wally jkdfhgkdj (I mean the whole cast of the show tbh is so good). I know James Gunn probably thinks it'll work because he worked for Marvel and it worked for them but DC isn't Marvel lmao AND IT SHOULDN'T BE. DC should be different, that's what makes it fun but having to watch 30 fucking movies to understand shit is not fun when I don't like Miller or Momoa or the kid from Santa Clarita Diet who's gonna be in the Superman movie please I don't wanna watch THOSE to watch the shit I want to see (Blue Beetle, I will watch you soon). I wanna watch Titans lmao

OMG BUT TIM WAS SUPPOSED TO BE APART OF THE SPIN-OFF 😭😭😭 That's part of why I'm so angry. Jason is my favorite batfam member, immediately followed by Tim. And those two don't get along often in comics so ya know, the show was NICE and the spinoff could have been EVEN BETTER. (I also just adore Jay as Tim. He will also be MY Tim Drake). I could actually write a whole think piece of morality of Dick and Jason IN Titans lmao because yes the fight scenes were ALWAYS so good (I love the one in the alley in season 1 episode 1 with Dick as Robin idk and Dick and Jason's fight in the words in season 3 episode 4) but yeah no they did such a good job with showing how they can pull their punches but also fight to the death if they really need to but that doesn't make either of them bad. For both of them, it's about the greater good and they just have different viewpoints of what that means because they're both absolutely fucked up (which is also great because it goes the same in the comics and it makes them SO MUCH more interesting as characters). It shows no one is all good and no one is all bad.

jfghdfgfh omg it took so long!!!!! I hope you enjoy season 4!! It definitely wasn't as good as 2 or 3 imo but it was fun!! Episode 9 is really good!! I still smile like an idiot whenever I think about that episode with Jason lmao Tim finally gets his Robin suit thinking he's hot shit and Jason's like "Dude is gonna get his dumbass fucking killed LOL". Episode lives rent-free in my mind forever

Same though!! I need to know like what he did ?? Did he reach out to Dawn to offer an apology?? Did Tim tell Jason he met Hank when he died?? I don't know how he'd ever get over the guilt but I'd love to see the angst that could have brought us!! I wasn't a huge Hank fan but I was still jaw on the floor shocked when it happened and I felt so bad for him skdfh like poor Hank he didn't deserve to be exploded

#i'm so sorry for replying so late compared to yesterday fjfjdfgfj #i wasn't on like at all lol #long post #anonymous #alex answers

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privateraelle · 2 years

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your honest thoughts on the motherland finale?

oh boy jsdfks i knew this ask was gonna come up one way or another so i guess i might get it out of the way now. that finale was bad. disappointing. i've never said a single bad thing about motherland. like. ever. i've always trusted the writers and eliot to handle things like they did with s1 and s2 and even though s2 was a bit messy, it was good. but what happened last night was one big messy clusterfuck. i was sad, mad, on the verge of tears because of how bad it was. i've always been the biggest "trust the writers" idiot and i kinda wanna eat my hand now cause sdjfkds i trusted the writers and they fucked me over but it's okAY i'm fine i'll get over it cause someone whom i adore very much can write me a fix fic. anyway this show has been my comfort show for 2 years and it has given me one of the best experiences i've ever had. it has also introduced me to people that are everything to me and i won't ever forget how good it has made me feel, always. so, this is just constructive criticism of something i love.

so, my thoughts, no specific order, just things that won't leave my mind and won't let me and my brain process how stupid everything was:

no closure for any character. like. at all. it's literally an open ending and i know eliot was maybe hoping he would have more chances for the show to get picked up by another network but??? what the fuck was that. there are so many questions that stay unanswered and so many things that make no sense AT ALL and for what. what happened after everybody became a witch? did they end conscription? if that's not the case, why would raelle and scylla go back to the army willingly knowing they wanted to escape? leaving those things to the imagination of the audience is not good storytelling mister, it's bad writing and it's so unserious. when tally got her sight back, they could've shown the audience the characters' future instead of doing whatever they did in that final scene. they should've provided a solid conclusion to the show, they knew it was their last season and they didn't deliver.

so many unnecessary scenes of silver and hearst and his fucking sister which surprise!! is still out and didn't make a final appearance. she was introduced as a new character and her purpose was what exactly? being a mean sister? yeah, okay i guess. unnecessary. they wasted so much time on useless scenes of the camarilla being bad™ when it added absolutely nothing to the plot (hearst singing???? jesus fucking christ what was eliot on), instead of giving us things we genuinely care about. like haha the main fucking couple they forgot existed til ep 8.

that's the next thing i'm gonna talk about. raylla was done so fucking dirty this season. i know all about tay's accident and i'm so glad she healed completely but there was no reason to keep them apart for so many episodes after she was back to filming?? i wasn't mad about raelle reuniting with the unit first, like, not at all. i loved it. but scylla being kidnapped for no reason at all and them not reuniting til next episode was a big dick move and again, unnecessary. their reunion was spoiled in the actual trailer of the season which made it even more anticlimactic and dull, thank god amalia and taylor put their whole souls into them or i wouldn't have felt a single thing. don't get me started on how they have butchered raelle and how they took a lot of fucking liberties with her character. you're telling me raelle was okay with not knowing where scylla was for a whole ass WEEK and she was just straight up chillin' and not losing her shit? nah, i don't think so. anyway, their scenes are cut short and have the length of a tiktok video. when was their last meaningful conversation as a couple?? idk probably in s2 cause they haven't had those in s3, not even in the first episodes where all they gave us were lil amalia/taylor touches n glances. the proposal and the wedding felt rushed, ridiculous and like something they did to shut people up. "they got married what more do you want?" an on-screen relationship with actual fucking scenes that show how the characters feel towards each other, maybe, idk could be wrong. they were not treated like the main couple this season and it's been a hard pill to swallow but it's true. the finale was just scylla holding raelle and carrying her around and that's it. gregorio and tally, a couple that got together LAST EPISODE got a kiss and a worried hug and we got!! nothing!! haha yeah. not even an ending for them. the setup was there. the lighthouse, raelle and scylla running together and living near the beach. instead we got them standing next to each other like they're best buds. welp, at least they're not dead, right?

scylla's treatment was also bullshit. they did an exceptional job on making her part of the unit just to throw her under the bus last minute and sideline her character at the end. that last scene felt empty without her. i know the show's always been about the unit, i agree. but scylla's part of the unit now. she should've been there. instead, she just carried raelle around, and did nothing. what a waste. amalia knows her way around stunts, they should've made her fight and show us what she's actually capable of. but whatever.

anacostia's death pissed me off so much. it was anticlimactic and pretty avoidable if you ask me. i remember last night when watching the ep, i didn't even react to her death because it felt so ??? stupid?? that i was like "haha dude she's not dead". and she was? what the fuck eliot. it didn't make sense for the plot, it was just a big fuck you to us all and a stupid attempt at pulling a plot twist. it wasn't a plot twist, it was absurd. the audience didn't even have time to mourn her. if they wanted to kill someone and make the audience feel something, they should've gone for petra. i know miss ashley would've delivered a performance. but anacostia's death was pointless and mister sterling what's his name wasn't the person she should've died for. if they wanted to kill her so bad, she should've died protecting the unit.

can someone explain to me how making everyone a witch solves the world's problems? what was eliot thinking? forcing everyone to be the same, erasing their identities and differences and giving the camarilla (remember!! bad people who hate witches!!) actual power to fight them and kill them seems pretty stupid to me. also the big epic moment didn't feel like one. it felt pretty dull.

okay, some positive feelings:

i really missed arlen's nicte. i'm really glad she made a last appearance. nicte is my bestie i love her.

the whole raylla/adigail convo about the lighthouse and the ocean. beautiful.

raelle healing scylla and refusing to let anything happen to her.

izadora is a fucking beast i'm so glad she's not dead. the scene of her laughing in alban's face. GOLD.

abi being the last steward <3

and that's pretty much it. i'm sure i'm leaving sooo many things behind but this is as much as i can think of right now. i'll be mad for a few days and then i'll start giffing to numb the pain i guess sjfds.

#ask #anonymous #sorry for the long answer dsjfkds

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capybaraonabicycle · 1 year

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When you get this, you have to put 5 songs you actually listen to, publish. Then, send this ask to 10 of your favourite followers <3

Aw, thank you!! I feel honoured 🥰

I know that wasn't the task but I gave myself a theme to follow. See if you can guess it 😊 (just kidding, it is super obvious) I might not have listened to all of those songs in the last week but I have all of them downloaded onto my phone. Which is reserved for songs I listen to at least semi-regularly.

Friend - Bukahara

Hug all your friends - cavetown

Liebe Freunde - Dota

Gute Nacht, Freunde - Reinhard Mey

Friends 'til the end - Shipwrecked, Dylan Glatthorn

Also, I can't shut up, so you're getting explanations on why I love those songs under the cut :)

Friend - Bukahara

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This song is kinda what decided the theme because I just had to pick it. It is beautiful and it sounds so much like dw to me. Especially thoschei but actually all the Doctor's friendships. I keep listening to it and thinking 'this is them. it's so them'.

You said look up even when the nights are long

'cause you will never be alone my friend

You will always see my light shining on

'cause I, I will soon be home again

Oh and no one knows what really happened on that day

Well some people say the saw him up there flying away

You know, when 9 or 10 are convinced their friend is gone together with Gallifrey? Looking at the stars and missing them, remembering the days at the Academy? Tracing a scar on their knee they got as a child and that has stayed with them through the regenerations? This is the soundtrack for that.

(@marvellouspinecone so... about not writing/planning fics based on songs. Apparently, I do that after all. I'm a liar. Or maybe talking to you about it has jump-started it. Idk)

2. Hug all your friends - Cavetown

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I haven't listened to this one in a while but it is the song that really got me into cavetown, I think. It is just ADORABLE and whenever I miss my friends I put it on (might have been one of my most played songs 2020). There is also a wonderful music video for this on yt in which Robbie is shown hugging a bunch of friends. But tumblr won't let me put it here😑

And I don’t care about my sleeping routine I fucked it up as it is but we got so much time to kill As the night rocks me to sleep

Life's too short to worry about things that we got wrong So hug all your friends and let them know you're not letting go No I won't let go

3. Liebe Freunde (Dear Friends) - Dota

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This video seems to not exist either, so here is the spotify link in case that works better:

It's in German anyway, but I love it so so much because it reminds me of my German friends. You can translate it perfectly to our situation, just that usually I am the one staying over and being asked again and again to just stay a while longer, you can take the next train, then, when the last train is gone: you can take the bus and then you can take the first train in the morning.

I need my sleep and I do have enough of social interaction rather quickly but I just feel so loved whenever they plead that I stay a bit longer.

Das Rauschen des Festes ist leiser geworden,

in der Küche gibt es nur noch Schnaps und Chips.

Und ich find ́s schön, so schön, so schön,

dass es euch egal ist, dass die letzte Bahn grad fährt.

Ich find ́s schön, so schön, dass ihr da seid. Ich fühle mich geehrt.

(The sounds of the party have died down, there is only schnapps and crips left in the kitchen. And I find it beautiful/great/wonderful/lovely, so lovely, so lovely, that you don't care that the last train is leaving right now. I find it lovely, so lovely that you are here. I feel honoured.)

Also, the ending is my favourite for obvious reasons:

Schön, dass ihr da wart. Gute Nacht.

Ach, ihr fahrt Fahrrad.

Vielleicht solltet ihr schieben.

(Lovely that you were here. Good night. Ah, you're taking your bicycle. Maybe you should walk and push it along.)

🚲

4. Gute Nacht, Freunde (Good night, friends) - Reinhard Mey

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Reinhard Mey was the favourite artist of my great-grandmother (who I was lucky enough to know as a child). So this song is already dear to me because of that. It also has a similar feeling to the Dota song, about not wanting to leave a friend's place at night.

I especially love that he changed the lyrics 'everything that is left to tell you takes the time of one cigarette' to 'NO cigarette' in the video above. I assume it is because of the moderator. They're friends and the moderator is very anti-smoking. Idk I just find it touching and fitting that he presumably changed his song about friendship for his friend.

Für die Freiheit, die als steter Gast bei euch wohnt Habt Dank, dass ihr nie fragt, was es bringt, ob es lohnt Vielleicht liegt es daran, dass man von draußen meint Dass in euren Fenstern das Licht wärmer scheint

(Thank you for the freedom who lives at your place as a constant guest. Thank you for never asking what it is worth, if it is worth it at all. Maybe that is why one thinks, when standing outside, that in your windows the light is shining more warmly)

5. Friends 'til the end - Shipwrecked Comedy, Dylan Glatthorn

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Okay, this one is mostly hilarious. But it is my favourite Shipwrecked video and I have listened to the song often enough to know it by heart. Also, it's about telling your bestie she's too good for her man because he is

A) too boring

B) a bloody vampire

and I find that important.

- Dearest Mina, I know just how you feel When it comes to Jonathan I don't see the appeal Because my man is where it's at Last night he turned into a bat We danced in the moonlight He's colder than frostbite - Wait - did you just say he turned into a bat? - Yes, he gives a mean backrub He's pale as a bathtub -Bathtub... uh, so I guess we're just moving on from that?!

#Thank you so much for the ask!!#Sorry this took a while but as you can see I had a blast :)#I hope you like some of the songs <3

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one-piecee · 2 years

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#ONEPIECE1031

Are we ready? No we're not.

After last week's chapter and the conflicting emotions everyone had regarding how they felt about it, Oda drops this... this amazing chapter that makes me kind of want to hit him because... well you'll see why.

The chapter this week is called 'Soldier of Science' (this is Sanji's cry for help, SOS.)

We start off immediately with the aftermath of Law and Kid's combined attack from the awakenings, and everyone thinking Big Mom is "finally down" (obviously not)

A stronger Big Mom, is an ever bigger Big Mom... anyways. Their attacks definitely affected her because she clearly states that this is the first time in decades she's felt pain like this (which is insane, and says a lot about that combined attack) but I'm happy Oda gave her a scene like that (especially the first panel of getting up) because a lot of one piece fans often forget just how strong Big Mom really is. They downplay her a lot (as if she doesn't casually go head to head with Kaido)

A panel I especially liked:

"I'll show you what it means to be an emperor."

An interesting point is also Law mentioning not being able to "uncover true history" if he can't take her down - which is further proving the point that Law's ambition isn't to become the Pirate King, but similarly to Robin, uncover history - but Law wants to do it (probably!!) to understand the Will of D.

Before we move on to the crazy parts of this chapter - these three 'numbers' that were shown next to Apoo in the last chapter... look awfully familiar.

(first panel from chapter 1024, and the second one from chapter 1030)

It explains the 'mystery' surrounding them and also their uncanny resemblance... It would be interesting to see what would happen, and also why they're numbers now... It also explains one of their reactions to Yamato popping in, in this chapter:

Okay! Now we get to the completely insane part...

First of all - Sanji. Sanji, and his steadfast morals. Sanji and his 'I-will-never-hit-a-woman-in-my-life". Sanji, and choosing to get beaten up but not raising his hands on a woman ever, something that has stuck to him since we first got introduced to him, something we have never seen him ignore or forget. Yes. That Sanji.

(happens from left to right)

That Sanji. Who lost control over his body and his mind, blacked out and hit this random girl, making her bleed. Oda just,,, loves never letting Sanji breathe. This man has been suffering his entire life, why can't he just rest 😢.

One of my absolute favorite moments in this chapter, is Sanji's monologue about the suit, about his powers, about Germa, and firstly mentioned, about Luffy.

A version of him who could 'easily take down Queen' with the help of the raid suit? He says 'even a beast like this, would be easy to dismember'.

'What kind of person does the pirate king need by his side...?'

'I'm not sure of the answer but...

And then finally, finally, he breaks it.

Because Sanji does not need the suit to be strong, or to defeat Queen. Of course the suit already made his body chance, but him breaking the suit was him trying to break his shackles from Germa - hopefully now he can find a solution to his body, because that hasn't happened yet either (do we have to wait til after the war? I will literally explode)

And of course (of course :)) we can't leave it at that! No! We have to add an element let-me-break-some-more-people's-hearts and have Sanji hold a conversation with Zoro about

you guessed it

Zoro "putting him down" if he can't control himself after the war... So this is the why. The why I WANT TO KINDLY JUST PUNCH ODA HOW MUCH MORE SUFFERING WILL YOU MAKE THIS MAN GO THROUGH?

I am: suffering. You better not die period. You better not suffer. you better not get hurt, actually what should happen is you just being happy, and carefree and just. Why?

We end the chapter off with Hell Memories that we haven't seen in a long time (since Fishman Island?). Also, break next week.

This was a rollercoaster of emotions, further cementing that Sanji is one of the best written characters in this show, and his character development and story just will not stop getting better. If something happens to Sanji I will officially sue Oda for 10 years of my life.

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votederpycausemufins · 2 years

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Happy Holidays! It's less than an hour away til Christmas for me, so I figured I might as well post this next chapter for Surprisingly Familiar while I'm still awake so people can find a nice little present.

Hope everyone can get some gifts or at the very least some cheer in the upcoming days if you haven't already and I hope you cry over enjoy this little gift.

the hermit tommy au belongs to @petrichormeraki

Learning to fly again ended up with Grian face planting and rolling down a hill more than once, mainly just trying to remember how to move the darn things. While he had had them out a number of times in high school, proof of which shown from the slightly patchy wings from where feathers had been torn out, he couldn’t remember the last time he actually flew.

When Grian did finally get them to mostly work, it was just a matter of gliding and not actually flying. Then, once he was comfortable enough with that, he tried actually flying to less success. But after a mostly alright flight that didn’t have him fall over upon landing - though it was very close - Grian finally flopped onto the ground to catch his breath. “S-so… how d-did that look to you guys.”

For a few seconds, there was silence. Grifter had left ages ago and wasn’t back, plus the residents were ages away, so not like they could respond, even if Grian had been talking to them. But while the silence was broken, it was only for Grian himself.

“Okay, okay, slow down. Missed talking with all of you too. Any… any of you connected up with Tech or Dad?” Grian asked to the voices he could hear. The ones he called his audience while his brother called them chat.

After a few moments, Grian frowned and sighed. “Well, I guess that makes sense. Why would it change now?” Grian then stood up as the voices started to ask him a number of questions overtop the joy of talking with him again. “You guys know talking is saved for in private. Yeah, just being around another me counts, but I didn’t want to get distracted yet. And maybe you guys would have helped, but I’m sure half of you would try to mess me up.”

Grian laughed as the audience agreed with him, then paused as there was a suggestion. Since he was flying again, maybe he could use that to explore. “I mean, I guess? There do seem to be a lot of buildings around here. And I would cover more ground that way. Okay, yeah, you’re right. It’s also a good way to practice flying. Yeah, you’ve convinced me.”

Grian started by looking around the oriental builds, finding a sort of giant hamster cage in the middle of it all. There were signs of more buildings planned to be done, based on a sectioned off area. Near there were a number of colorful boxes that after a bit of fiddling, Grian was able to open. A number of them were named, like couple of which were called ‘transport’, one filled with some sort of scaffolding called ‘scaffoldage’, a pair for concrete apparently of different colors though neither was filled with concrete but instead dyes, sand and gravel.

Aside from all those, there were four that really caught Grian’s eye. There were two boxes, though likely not filled with the original contents, were called ‘vex flying box’ and ‘con corp rockets’. At a glance, they wouldn’t seem related, but as opposed to most of the boxes, they were labeled in a different handwriting, and these two matched each other.

Following these was a box labeled ‘wings and things’ filled with giant harnessable wings. It made Grian look back at the vex box wondering if that was related to these things. With that, feeling more curious, Grian looked in the last box he hadn’t peeked into and was surprised to see the label on it had what was probably an actual name. He didn’t know exactly what meccano was, but it apparently belonged to Rendog.

Following this, Grian flew up to a tower which seemed to cap the place off, finding one more of the strange boxes at the top, this one also labeled for Rendog, though just using a shorter form. Grian nearly closed it right there, but a book inside caught his eye. Grian pulled it out, finding it was indeed signed by someone with the name Rendog, though it was being sent to someone named Tomato Yoshi.

At this point, chat had been going crazy, having looked into what they could about this person. Apparently this person was indeed someone who belonged to this server, pretty recent person too. They didn’t know who Yoshi was though, so Grian was going to have to go digging around here himself.

The next place to explore was the purple roofed buildings nearby. He started with the largest one, which had an open roof, letting Grian easily explore each level. A floor below the main entrance had some sort of storage room. He didn’t need to dig around more with a chest left in plain view mention something about a season seven, which the audience told him was likely another season of the world, though as far as they were aware, there were only four of the things. Either way, inside the box was another book for someone named Falsesymmetry, or False for short.

The next floor down was mainly decoration, but the floor after that had what Grian was looking for. There was an entire hall dedicated to learning about what this False person had been doing. Because of that it was filled with other names like Joe Hills, BdoubleO, Cubfan, Stress and Scar. They also seemed to have previously owned a pet chicken named Claudia, but said chicken died. At first, it didn’t seem like the chicken was too important, but when he explored more and found a giant chicken statue. Even more strange, it seemed to be decorated with hair that looked a lot like him.

After a bit of thinking it over, Grian thought it was probably something Grifter had done, but he couldn’t help but shake the feeling that something was off. But with not much else to do about it, Grian started exploring again, next finding a sort of train station which meant plenty more to explore.

“So, how’s it going with Grian?” Grifter rolled his eyes at the question, just glaring at the asker as he rested on the desk. “Oh it can’t be that bad.”

“Yes it can!” Grifter replied, slamming his hands on the table. “I just went to help him learn to fly again since there aren’t any other avians on his server and elytra flying is completely different. But that’s besides the point. I let him go off on his own and when I come back he’s talking to himself, but like there’s actually someone there!”

“Wait, you didn’t know about his audience?”

“His what?” Grifter asked before the other Listener pulled out some papers. “What’s this?”

“Okay, look. Grian’s dad, the wels version of Deathza, had this condition where he could hear the voices of spirits from another plain. Not quite ghosts or higher beings, but spirits that have always existed as spirits. There’s a number of people who also have this condition, but it’s not the most common thing in the world. That being said, it is genetic.” Then the Listener pointed to one of the papers they had grabbed. “Grian and his brother Techno both managed to be born with that ability. Grian specifically calls it his audience, but it looks like on this other document, after becoming a Watcher, he was taught how to sort of lock it away, and since then he hasn’t really dealt with it.”

Grifter grabbed the papers and looked through them. “So, how much do these spirits know?”

“Well, normally they can look into a number of commonly known topics as well as connect up with other spirits that are linked with people that can hear them.”

“So, what you’re saying is, they might tell Grian that I’ve been lying to him?”

The Listener thought for a moment before nodding. “Yeah, they could. Uh, let me see if I can get any recent information on them interacting with Grian for you. I will say sometimes they are unreliable and like to toy around, but I mean that could be dangerous.”

“Yeah, Grian already panicked when he found out what happened with his brother’s old timelines before they got locked up.”

“Right. Right. If… if he finds out Sam is actually still alive…” And before the Listener said more, they ran off, looking for the needed documents, leaving Grifter at the table alone. Though he wasn’t alone for long.

“Grifter. Haven’t seen you around in a while.” A different Listener spoke as they approached, making the Grifter glare up at them as he put away his papers.

“Doodle… What do you want? I’m in the middle of something.”

“I’ve heard you’re helping out Grian, right? And he’s in Hermitcraft… yes?”

Grifter rolled his eyes. Obviously they were sure that wasn’t the case, but he wasn’t going to just admit that. “Yeah. Hermits are helping him out, but we’re trying to keep him on the down low so he doesn’t get freaked out. Trauma and all that. I’m sure Ely tells you plenty, and Lyarrah if you happen to talk with them too.”

“Well, they haven’t been able to tell me much recently.” Doodle replied, taking the seat the other Listener had been using. “Apparently after whatever happened, all links with Hermitcraft and both Watchers and Listeners have been cut off.”

“That’s not completely true.” Grifter spoke, glad that the next part was mostly the truth. “The accident that caused Grian to end up like this was a mess of combined magic. I was unfortunately involved so I can still get in, and of course trainees are weak enough to also bypass the mess that came out of this, so Vee is currently over in Hermitcraft as well.”

“Yeah, I know that. Ely and I both heard how she had a freak out meeting one of the hybrid hermits.”

“Yes. Honestly what her spawner did to her was dreadful, but getting back on topic, this isn’t something I can just wave my hand and fix. This… this is Virgil magic.” Grifter explained, making Doodle go pale. “I know. I’m not happy about my involvement in this either. That’s why I’m doing my best to teach Grian how to use Watcher magic again. Plus, one of his kids is Vee’s pair, so if this fails, there’s a sort of second chance there. I’m sure this is stressful for Ely and Lyarrah as well as… who are their pairs again?”

“Pixlriffs and ZloyXP.”

“Right, those two. But while they’re stressed because they can’t do anything, essentially everything is riding on our shoulders.” And Grifter gestured to where the other Listener had gone. “Really, anything you could do to help would be nice, but getting upset is just going to drag us back.”

Doodle looked down at the papers Grifter was working with, then back to Grifter. “Alright, look. I’ll try looking into Virgil and Virgil magic. I’m sure I can get the others to help me out, especially since it’s helping with the world they’re in charge of. But I can’t promise anything.”

“That’s fine.” Grifter replied, putting on a false smile that Doodle bought. “Anything at this point is a huge help.”

Grian had done a bit more exploring, eventually finding a place filled with shops. He was reluctant to walk into any of them since a good number all had signs about the Con Corp place. With the number of places that had their logo, Grian wondered if it was anything like Crab Co. Grian was planning to see what he could find out about that theory when the audience got his attention, pointing out a ring build onto the side of one of the stores that was marked with a red flag.

Curious about that, Grian flew up to the ring, landing on it and looking around before seeing another in the distance. Flying to that one made him notice another and realize it might be some sort of flying course, which made sense if these people had fake wings of their own. And since Grian was practicing with flying, he decided to try it out.

It was a bit of a hassle flying through the rings as there were a few times here and there that Grian couldn’t quite tell where the next ring was. That along with the fact that he was still relearning to fly and kept accidentally flying into things made it difficult. That being said, Grian was sure he was doing well until reaching a sharp turn and hitting his wing badly.

He was already hurt from before and now he was falling. Grian didn’t know what else to do, so he put his arms in front of his face, bracing for impact. He prayed the fall wouldn’t kill him, but the moment he hit the ground, Grian felt the agony of at least one if not more of his bones breaking, and then there was nothing at all.

At first, Grian wondered if he had died. Truly died and now he had royally screwed up his past. But then Grian tried looking around and realized he was lying down on a bed. Plus, while it seemed like the bed was in a house, he could definitely hear rain that had to be from outside. With that realization, Grian sat up, pretty sure he wasn’t actually dead. But he had no clue where exactly he was, so that was what he needed to figure out next.

Exploring the building first, Grian found stuff hidden under just about every floorboard, which was obviously concerning. Up the stairs near one of the two exit doors were a few chests, but other than that, there was really nothing, which was odd since the building was obviously pretty tall. So since he couldn’t explore the interior more and he wanted to see just how tall the place was, Grian went outside, only to crane his neck up so far he nearly fell over trying to look at it. What’s more is that there were more buildings of the same size right next to it.

All of them were so tall that skyscrapers would look tiny next to them. The one Grian had just left looked like someone had piled a ton of smaller houses on top of each other and kept them together with mainly tape and prayers. Next to it was something that started looking like a factory, but then it had a platform built on top with a giant flag held up by any means necessary. Then, next to all that seemed to be a giant aquarium filled with a house. Then on top of that was a giant magnet and… a penguin for some reason.

As Grian flew to check those out, he noticed one more giant building across the way that looked completely overgrown with some sort of venus flytrap that was, also a wizard? And above it was some sort of castle on a cloud, like something out of jack and the beanstalk. And then, throughout all of the buildings, for whatever reason, they seemed to be attacking each other.

Finding himself really confused, Grian stopped trying to comprehend the tall buildings and started looking around the new area. Seeing an Ikea immediately caught his eye, only for it to be some off brand place called Idea instead. From there he noticed a field with actual crop circles, so Grian landed on a nearby watchtower to look at them, only to then have his eye caught by a gate with the label A77.

Seeing the gate piqued Grian’s interest, so instead of just flying nearby to look at the place, he actually glided down to the gate, reading the signs posted nearby. Apparently the A stood for Area 77, and they had tickets for some sort of Infinity Portal, though it was listed as a ride and experience. With that, Gria’s eyes lit up. Sure, he needed to train and be careful, but surely some sort of amusement park couldn’t be that dangerous. Especially because no one had been around so far. So making up his mind, Grian went further into the area.

The first place after the entrance and up some stairs seemed to be a building to explore called ‘Captain Angry Eye’s HQ’ which had some maps of the park. Grian studied the maps since he couldn’t easily take the maps with him, then left again to move further into the part, eyes drawn by some sort of votex or something in the sky.

In moving towards the vortex, Grian found more of the colorful box things, meaning the place was unfortunately left under construction and abandoned, but looking through the boxes, he was able to learn a few more names like ZombieCleo, Iskall, iJevin, and someone named Docm77 which he was pretty sure wasn’t just a coincidence.

Grian almost left there, but he noticed one more box with a name that was a bit familiar, labeled as ‘Pufferman’s Box’, which reminded him of a certain person he remembered from back home. As the avian thought about it, he was suddenly pulled out of his thoughts by some clucking and something tugging at his pants.

Closing the box, Grian looked to see a chicken at his side, clucking up a storm and trying to pull him around. “Oh, hey there. Where did you come from?” Grian asked, petting the animal and glad it didn’t peck him, though it still kept itself attached to his clothes.

In trying to pull it off of his pants leg, Grian was surprised to find a collar around its neck. He paused to instead grab the tag on the collar, finding a name on it. “Sally? Is that your name then? You don’t seem to have an address though, so I’m not sure I can help you get home.”

The chicken didn’t really react and Grian couldn’t manage to pull it away, so he instead started walking back to the path again and go the other direction which didn’t seem to be under construction. But just as Grian took a step onto the other path, the chicken was tugging harder, as if to keep him from going that way. The audience started wondering if the chicken was trying to help Grian or trying to lead him towards a trap, Grian deciding he wasn’t going to listen to some pesky bird and continuing forward. But that ended up being a bad decision.

The next thing Grian reached was some sort of inspection checkpoint, though he didn’t really pay attention to the signs and planned to walk right by. It would have worked well, if it weren’t for the fact there was an actual person in the checkpoint booth, watching as he just idly walked past. Grian, however, didn’t notice them until they left the booth and shouted at him, making the avian freeze and turn around to face whoever it was.

“Who are you supposed to be?” The person, or rather, guard asked harshly, making Grian freeze up. Somehow he had gotten to where the people in this world actually were, which Grifter of course had told him were dangerous. The guard asked again, making Grian take a slight step back, considering running and flying away. That thought as well as his fear had Grian’s wings puffing up, which the guard quickly noticed and caused him to curse.

As Grian was still figuring out which way he should go, the guard pulled out a communicator and spoke into it. “Hey! We’ve got someone at the gate to Bunker 13! They’re a mob being! Avian in nature!”

A loud cluck from Sally finally pulled Grian out of his shock as he picked the animal up into his arms and fly off, though going right into the bunker the guard was likely calling in help from. He was quickly stopped from continuing straight from some room labeled ‘creature inspection’ with some sort of hybrid inside watching him. While Grian wanted to free them, the noises of a number of guards on his tail frightened Grian more, having him turn around and go to his left, which fortunately seemed to lead towards an exit of sorts.

Out through the exit, Grian was greeted with more bunkers on his left and air strips on his right. There was plenty of room for him to fly off, and the people were all still behind him, so that’s exactly what Grian did. He was almost right outside of the walls of the place when he suddenly heard an electric hum, and a moment later, Grian felt like he was struck with lightning and felt himself falling back to the ground.

There were shouts from below about respawning and barriers, but Grian barely comprehended it all, sure that for the second time today he was probably falling to his death. But out of nowhere, instead of falling down, Grian found himself moving sideways. Carefully opening his eyes, he saw his own face in the space above him. “Told you not to head East.”

“Gr-Grifter?” Grian asked, wincing as even just trying to speak made him realize the killer headache he was apparently dealing with now. “Didn’t… mean to.”

“Yeah, I get it. They must have messed with the respawning of this place. I’ll deal with them, but I’m going to need both hands for that. I’m sending you to a safe place nearby. Don’t move from there.” And before Grian could ask any questions, he was enveloped in green magic and then found himself in some sort of cavern with giant glowing mushrooms and peace signs everywhere.

Though it wasn’t the softest, there was at least a stone bench in the cavern that Grian laid down on, nearly squishing Sally who he hadn’t realized was still with him. He watched as she jumped away, walking over to a table with some food on it before grabbing it and bringing it back to Grian. Surprisingly, it hadn’t gone bad, maybe just a bit stale if anything. Just eating a bit seemed to help and Grifter had to be right about this world having lots of magic because just that bit of food seemed to help heal Grian up from whatever had almost fatally shocked him before.

After a few more bites of the food left behind in this place, Grian felt well enough to actually walk around the cavern while waiting for Grifter to return. He still wasn’t feeling amazing, but seeing the patches of grass, he was wondering if those would feel better to lie down on rather than the stone bench. That being said, there actually wasn’t much in the way of grass. More of the ground was covered by some sort of greyish purple stuff. Still, testing it with a hand, Grian was glad to feel it was soft and sort of spongy, which was perfectly fine to him.

Exhaustion finally getting the better of him, Grian curled up on the greyish ground, pulling Sally into his arms as something to cuddle, and then falling asleep.

As soon as he could, Mumbo clapped his hands over his ears from the loud repeating noise that had to be somewhere nearby. But covering his ears didn’t help too much, able to feel the booming noise in his chest, like from fireworks. And not the kind everyone used for flying, but the ones that really exploded. The ones Tommy feared and hated so desperately. And thinking it over, he was still open for the world to create a nightmare for him.

Actually looking around, Mumbo was surprised to recognize his base for the most part, though for whatever reason it seemed larger than normal. Which was probably not helping with the louder sounding heartbeat of his base now that he thought about it. He tried looking around to see if anyone was nearby, which didn’t look like it, but also looking outside his base was surprising.

Normally, Mumbo could really only see Scar’s magical village easily from his base as well as the edges of Iskall’s tree, but right now he couldn’t see either of them. Instead of their bases, to the right of Mumbo’s base, he could see Grian’s mansion, then to his left was Xisuma’s base even though Keralis’ city should have been in the way. Both of the bases were equally as large and scaled up as Mumbo’s base, meaning this was all probably influenced by whoever’s fear this was for. It also seemed like he was much closer to the Hermitteranean Sea than normal. He was also pretty sure he could even see the Cowmercial district if he squinted enough.

Seeing as now Xisuma’s base was right there and Mumbo did seem to have elytra on hand, he grabbed a few rockets before flying over to the admin’s base. With the larger size and new distance between the bases, Mumbo arrived there pretty quickly, able to catch the admin just before he left. “Xisuma!”

Xisuma seemed to mouth something before looking over at Mumbo and walking over to him, mouthing a few more things to the redstoner. “Do we need to be quiet?” Mumbo asked in a whisper, which just seemed to confuse Xisuma who mouthed a few more things. “Can you speak a little louder? I can’t hear you.”

Mumbo watched as Xisuma pulled out his comm and typed a message before turning it towards Mumbo to read. The message essentially said Xisuma was talking normally while Mumbo was shouting, so whispering back Mumbo explained. “Sorry, I appeared in some weird version of my base. Like here everything’s huge and the heart that’s in my base was way louder than before, so it must have made me hard of hearing for a bit.”

Mumbo paused as Xisuma typed out another message. ‘I’m guessing we’ll find the others at the other bases. You head the other way and I check out Etho’s base?’ “Sounds good to me X.” Mumbo agreed, and then the two went their separate ways.

Tommy did not like the fact that he appeared in such a familiar place. As opposed to anywhere unfamiliar or somewhere in Hermitcraft. Instead, he was in a place he never wanted to ever see again. Tommy had found himself in a crater in the middle of a plains biome. One he was unfortunately very familiar with. Along with that, all his gear was missing and his clothes were a complete mess. He felt hungry and was obviously alone, but this time he didn’t even have Ghostbur around.

Though Tommy just wanted to curl up in the hole and wait, he reluctantly climbed out of the hole, only to see the rest of the land that made up his exile. But instead of other biomes in the distance, there was only ocean surrounding what was now an island. And past that were some familiar buildings towering over everything and seemingly trapping Tommy in and making him feel small.

Exile in Hermitcraft. Something he always knew would happen someday. And now it was here. Except Tommy knew in the back of his mind that this wasn’t real. And he could probably just swim to the other shores. So Tommy went to the coast to do just that, only to notice the pattern of a barrier keeping him confined to the island. This wasn’t good.

#hc x dsmp #hermit!tommy au #grian #watcher!grian #avian!grian #grian xelqua #yhs grian #hels!grian #the watchers (evo)#the listeners (evo)#doodle chaos #mumbo jumbo #xisuma #xisumavoid #tommyinnit #hermit!tommy #hermitcraft season 6 #area 77

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I was wondering, how did them adding Dove's real boyfriend ruin the character Maddie for a bit? I haven't Liv & Maddie in a while, so I don't know that much (though I don't mind spoilers) and I didn't even know that the man who played (Doug?) was her real life boyfriend til just now. So, I'm sorry for the possibly silly question.

Tbh, Maddie and Diggie was fine- I honestly don’t know when Dove and Ryan started dating- I just know apparently they were around the time the whole love triangle of Maddie/Josh/Diggie happened in the show- as prior to season 3, Maddie and Diggie decided to go separate ways as a result of a long going argument/fall out over Maddie and Diggies break up- and that leads to season 3 where later on, Liv’s co-star Josh and Maddie started dating (please note, this was set up by Liv in some sense as well)- which was fine, they were more cute and really, I kinda liked how we at least got Maddie prior to dating him, unlike instantly introducing the love interest in the first episode….then again which show of D.C hasn’t done that in modern DC….

But the problem comes in the episode when Diggie comes back- we not only in this ep see Liv and Holden break up, but also Diggie return- and both are tied here, as the reason Holden and Liv broke up was because a news reporter took a picture of Maddie and Josh while the pair were on a date, believing Maddie to be Liv as Maddie had no glasses on at the time and I think her hair was down?

But Liv soon has to pick- help her sister protect her secret dating life from Diggie (they were separated at this point, meaning its not cheating, its just kinda…Maddie being afraid) until Maddie can clear it up with Diggie or clear it up with the news that it was Maddie, not Liv, with Josh for Holden- this leads to Liv choosing Maddie and in the process, Holden feeling like Liv has no room for him and in the end, breaking up.

Now Maddie in the end decides to cheer up Liv by taking her to a restraunt- while Liv is getting a table though, Diggie suddenly turns up (was it ever explained how Diggie KNEW she was there? like, it never was….was he stalking her or something?) and Diggie admits he came to get Maddie back as he saw the picture and is upset Maddie has moved on- much to Maddies shock, and Liv doesn’t help when she presses onto Maddie, that Maddie has to choose- end episode.

Next Ep….lord, what happened to Maddies character was horrible- she lost her independence in this episode! She wasn’t allowed a choice in the love triangle! Like, at the beginning its revealed she told Diggie she needs space…only for Diggie to disrespect that space and come in on it acting like Maddies a prize just cause she moved on and was clearly happy- but this train wreck continues when just when we get happy Maddie at the wedding of Gemma and Johnny Nimbus…Joey reveals Diggie was his plus 1, and Diggie reveals to us, the viewers, he wants to give Miggie one last chance and essentially seems to be caring more about his feelings then Maddies, who not only has a boyfriend then but is also very clear shes happy with Josh- meaning Diggie…came off as terrible really.

When the wedding happens- cue trainwreck, as Maddie has a…more of a BRTOP moment tbh, with Diggie where he and she throw bread rolls into hats of people- but Liv…somehow sees it as romance and claims she somehow knows Maddies romance better then Maddie herself does….which Maddie weakly protests too but never stops Liv from talking to Artie and then both acting like Maddies a prize for Diggie to win, yes, this is right- EVEN LIV IS DOING THIS, HER OWN TWIN FOR THAT MATTER- And lets be clear: Liv helped Maddie get with Josh….shes basically being the worst friend and sister there in one shot.

Maddie, throughout this, is not shown- but then of course, the emotional manipulation of Diggie happens when Liv has Diggie play at the wedding instead of Liv and….Maddies choice is made- not by Maddie though, by JOSH- yes, the independent character who told Liv that if Liv meddled in Maddies love life, Maddie would hurt her, just….listened to someones suggestion and went along with it, easily falling for Diggies emotional manipulation in the process and therefore, just…ruining the idea that Maddies independent and makes her own choices, because when it came to love triangles…Maddie got them, not Liv.

And next ep, Diggie doesn’t appear- is mentioned by Maddie simply as Maddie claims shes seeing him over spending time outside with her brother- like….I never got why this trainwreck HAD to happen.

In some sense- I feel like this was Doves relationship that came in- cause DC seems willing to do anything for their new princess, and cause the pair were…engaged, I think at least, at the time- meaning we had to see Maddie ruined in favour of Doves character and Ryans character being together- AND THERE WAS NO POINT? He didn’t appear in season 4 until last episode!

Sorry if I rambled, I just….kinda dislike LAM nowadays after rewatching it…..

#liv and maddie #Disney Channel #liv rooney #maddie rooney #diggie smalls #anti-miggie #I just hate this show tbh nowadays #I have 101 rants on it and Miggies among them #and so is Karen and why Jillow was a bad ship #....this show is my NOTP

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