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lulu2992 · 4 years

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What I learned listening to Far Cry 5′s audio files

The game’s lore, as told by its characters.

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Remnants of abandoned storylines, “unreleased” content, and contradictions

Or “why not everything you find in the files is still relevant”.

Remnants of abandoned storylines

One NPC mentions “Grace’s kid”. Her losing a child to the cult was her backstory before the developers changed it and decided she would lose her father instead.

Hurk Jr. says the Resistance is lucky John and Jacob “never sorted their brotherly nonsense” and that they might just kill each other. There doesn’t seem to be any conflict between them in the game.

Dutch warns the Deputy the cult may have a mole within the Whitetails.

In the folder that contains most of the Lost on Mars content, there is a conversation between two people talking about a “British guy”, a scientist living near The Ryes’ house and whom Mary May reportedly used to date.

NPCs congratulate the Deputy for “exposing John’s secrets” to the public… and to Joseph, who apparently doesn’t take the news very well. This is strange because we don’t uncover any “secrets” in the game.

In the files, Joseph is sometimes described as shadier than he actually is. People suggest he will punish John for his failures, for example, or some cultists seem afraid of him and that he would abandon them. In the game, cultists don’t complain about him and they all have faith in the Father.

In quite a few files, Eden’s Gate members seem to address the Deputy in a less aggressive and almost non-hostile way. They tell them they don’t belong here, that they know who they are and keeping an eye on them, that they can still be converted, etc. Did the developers think about letting players approach cult members more peacefully at some point?

In the files, a few NPCs say those kidnapped by Eden’s Gate in Holland Valley end up in John’s ranch and don’t come back. Nick says the cultists at Seed Ranch are “having the time of their life” and look like they are “spring breaking”. In the game, people are taken to John’s Gate, not his ranch, and the cultists guarding the ranch are just... guarding it. Eden’s Gate members generally don’t party.

It seems the developers initially intended Anne to be a virtual assistant for Larry (whom she calls Lawrence). In these few files, her voice sounds different and more human than in Lost on Mars.

There are also about 40 files in which she talks like the Anne from Lost on Mars (even more robotic, actually) and gives instructions not to Nick but to Larry, such as “kill the arachnids”, “destroy the eggs”, “kill the queen”, “use the gravity belt”, “reach the terminal”, etc. Was Larry supposed to be playable or the protagonist of Lost on Mars?

Unreleased content

In the game, we can’t interact with Kim outside of cutscenes, probably because they didn’t want to give players the possibility of harming a pregnant woman. As a consequence, most of her lines disappeared from the game. It turns out she has many things to say about her life and her backstory.

Among the things Kim says, she explains John spread the rumor he was the biological father of her baby. I decided this information was not relevant anymore because, while I think John can totally gossip about the Ryes, I don’t think he would want everyone to believe he is the father when Eden’s Gate condemns fornication. Why would John, who desperately wants to look good in the eyes of Joseph, publicly brag about breaking the cult’s rules?

Dutch has new dialog. For example, he calls the Deputy to tell them to watch Joseph’s eulogies for his siblings.

In the game, we can only talk to Burke after getting him out of the Bliss and he recites the lyrics to “Oh The Bliss”. In the files, a “normal”, Bliss-free Burke talks a bit about his life. I don’t remember hearing this before.

There is at least one conversation between Pratt and a cultist/Chosen. He asks where the food for the Judges is kept. He also says he has to go get a prisoner for Jacob.

In what sounds like a cutscene, Mary May talks about Nick. I don’t remember hearing this in the game but maybe I missed it.

I don’t remember hearing Tammy interrogate a cultist either, but I may have missed it too.

Miss Mable talks about coyotes and raccoons while one NPC mentions bobcats. I don’t know if these lines are in the game but these animals sure aren’t.

Merle tells anecdotes to someone who ends up passing out from drinking too much alcohol. It sounds like he might be talking to the Deputy, maybe during the Testicle Festival, but I’m not sure.

At one point, Casey calls John “Jonathan Seed”.

The Seeds have new dialog, mostly broadcasts and radio calls. I will post the transcriptions in the next post.

Contradictions

Hurk Jr. gives two different explanations for the name of Dylan’s “Master Bait Shop”. He either says he and Dylan came up with the name or that it was Skylar’s idea. When I visited this location with him in the game, he told me it was Skylar who had named the shop.

When she talks about Virgil in the game, Tracey says she grew up without a dad her whole life and doesn’t need one now. In the files, she also says her dad used to take her hunting…

A cult member says “John’s faith wavered” but another says he remained “faithful until death”. The latter seems to be canon because nothing in the game indicates otherwise but the two claims clearly contradict each other.

Nick says he isn’t an animal lover or a dog person but, in the game, he says he is jealous of the Deputy because they have Boomer and Kim doesn’t want a dog. He seems to love the Fangs for Hire.

Hurk Sr. says he isn’t a prepper and doesn’t like bunkers but Hurk Jr. talks about… his dad’s bunker.

Adelaide wants the Resistance to take pictures of Jacob, “preferably shirtless, for intelligence purposes” and says she is willing to “take one for the team” if it can help. Yet, in the files, she also comments, “2/10, would not bang”.

Adelaide says Hurk Jr. was 25 when she divorced Hurk Sr. (this line is in the game). She and her ex-husband both say they haven’t talked in 17 years, presumably when they divorced. This would make Hurk Jr. 42 years old. The problem is Hurk Jr. also says that, when his parents divorced, he had just turned 30. If his parents haven’t spoken in 17 years, it means he is 47 years old. But then, at one point, Sharky mentions a childhood anecdote and refers to himself and his cousin as “a couple of 7-year-olds”, which would indicate they are the same age. Sharky was canonically born in 1980 and is 37 (almost 38) in the game… In short, I have no idea how old Hurk Jr. is.

Walker comments he thought he would be happy after Jacob’s death but realizes he doesn’t feel anything. In the game, he dies before Jacob.

One NPC says “Jacob got wind of” the fact the Deputy tried to arrest Joseph. Except he was there and he saw it happen.

Even though there are no tennis courts at Seed Ranch, both Nick and Sharky mention them. I know Sharky’s line is still in the game.

#far cry 5 #far cry 5 spoilers

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k-hiphop-trash · 3 years

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sooooo what do you think about the new jay park lyrics thing? it doesn't seems to me like any of you are into the controversies thing so i love to come here and ask and have a civilized dialog <3 (as oppose to anything that goes on on twt *rolls eyes*)

Hi!

We were just talking about it a couple days ago, wondering if questions were going to come to our inbox. I will just give you my general opinion since I’m not really following all the drama (I don’t have Twitter and never will, that is just a toxic rabbit hole and who needs that kind of negativity?) but I’ll tell admin N to come by and answer as well.

As for me, first of all I want to make clear I don’t follow any religion or set of beliefs, so let’s clear that out.

Now, I see two main issues here, first, speaking from outside a religious circle, I know a lot of songs who mention God or Jesus and nothing seems to happen with that (and I’m not talking about praising him as Bewhy might do), so on that side I feel like it should be the same in this case. That being said, it’s a fairly sensitive topic and Jay Park is no stranger to controversy, so I do think he should have been a bit more careful and think twice about it.

I want to point out that if it were a non “Kpop” related artist the issue would probably not be such a big deal (let’s say Drake or Bieber or whoever said it) because even a lot of international fans believe Korean artists to be perfect and don’t tolerate the slightest mistake. I’m 100 % sure he did not meant to offend anyone and he took responsibility and apologised, so I don’t think we should blow this out of proportion, there are far more important issues to fix. Also, I’ve seen a lot of “ cancelled” bullshit going around, we are humans and we make a shitload of mistakes, so I kindly ask whoever is reading this to stop that nonsense from spreading and don’t judge only based on what you see online, I’m not saying this is the case but many topics are out of context or just someone not being properly informed, so instead of just “cancel” take a few minutes to educate both the “offender” and yourself.

On an final note, I’ll say that in this particular issue only those who partake in the religion have anything to be offended about or whatever. Everyone else is most likely being a self righteous hypocrite.

(As you can see, if I were on Twitter I would have been cancelled a thousand times by now hahahaha also, sorry this got a bit out of hand, it was supposed to be a short answer, butI felt I should make myself as clear as possible!)

-adminE.

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so-shiny-so-chrome · 5 years

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Witness: Weirdness_Unlimited

Creator name (AO3): Weirdness_Unlimited

Creator name (Tumblr): Burn-your-face-upon-the-chrome

Link to creator works: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Weirdness_Unlimited/works

Q: Why the Mad Max Fandom?

A: In the Mad Max universe, anything that is completely absurd and outrageous is represented as the norm. Leather fetish gear? Oh, that's just the security guard uniform at Bartertown. Those guys over there are wearing black and white face paint? No, you're not at an ICP concert, those are War Boys, also run. Whoa, there are acrobats being flung through the air on poles attached to moving vehicles! No worries, that's just any Tuesday in Gas Town. I love this fandom because pretty much any nonsense my skull meat can come up with, as long as the mechanics of it work, I can throw it into my fics and not a single person will bat an eye. As a matter of fact, the weirder, the better.

Q: What do you think are some defining aspects of your work? Do you have a style? Recurrent themes?

A: Life is gross, humans do gross things, and the environment around you could not care less about any of your moral dilemmas. I suppose you can say my style is a lack of it. I like things straight forward and I know this characteristic often weakens any aesthetic appeal to my writing. “To Love Reptiles” reads from Slit's perspective the same way a radio manual does but with a lot more cursing. I try not to make it too complicated to digest. I'd like for people to be able to fill in any blanks with their own interpretation of the situation and then move on to the next.

Themes though, I go heavy on themes. The main theme is interpersonal relationships, coping with failure within them, and personal growth. Other themes include coping with mental illness, codependency, hunger, greed, warfare, trauma, etc.

Q: Which of your works was the most fun to create? The most difficult? Which is your most popular? Most successful? Your favourite overall?

A: The most fun work of my own, by far, has been “To Love Reptiles.” It has also been the most popular, most successful, and my most favourite. The most difficult has been an original work with no working title. I can't give away much about this original piece but it has to do with local myths and survival in the wilderness. I quit working on the rough manuscript when my grandmother passed away several years ago. I'll be picking it up again soon. It may turn up on AO3 in the next three or four years.

Q: How do you like your wasteland? Gritty? Hopeful? Campy? Soft? Why?/

A: Gritty but hopeful, I think. The wasteland is nasty but humans need hope, right?

Q: Walk us through your creative process from idea to finished product. What's your prefered environment for creating? How do you get through rough patches?

A: Alright, so that's an interesting question with a pretty messy answer but I'll try to make it brisk. Step 1: I start with a summary of the story as a whole with a point A (the beginning) and a point B (the end). Step 2: I break that summary down and and fill it out with events that can ferry the characters from the start of the story to the finish on a drawn timeline to keep things in chronological order. I also have note cards. I break this down further into named chapters. This can take a while. Step 3: I summarize each of those chapters to figure out if this story needs more than one installment. It depends out how the series of events land and how many minor arcs are included with the main arc/objective. Sprinkle some drama in there, scrap some unnecessary things, narrow an installment down to thirty (30) chapters at maximum. Step 4: I summarize individual scenes within the chapters and hack out important dialog. This takes weeks. There's typically between four and ten scenes per chapter. Also more note cards. Step 5: I try to flesh out one scene per day. (key word: Try)

I get the most writing done in the morning over coffee and before work. I usually sit at the breakfast table with my phone and spit out about 500-ish words before my husband wakes up. I'll write intermittently throughout the day. Lately I haven't been writing much because of holiday junk and winter being kind of a bummer.

If I'm in a rough patch, I can break though it by sitting in a room with no internet access and forcing myself to scratch out a scene or two in a notepad. Usually these notepad scribbles are so awful that they get torn out and chucked in the waste bin but the next day I'm keen to do the job right.

Q: What (if any) music do you listen to for help getting those creative juices flowing?

A: Ambient sound, white noise, or nothing. I do listen to music and there's a lot of songs I associate with stories, fics, characters. Tove Lo is a big one for Dune. Most of the time I find that music with lyrics or a high tempo is distracting if I'm in the act of writing something but it can be a source of inspiration separately.

Q: How do you keep track of all the details as you're writing? How do you keep details consistent in your works? How do you fact-check your writing?

A: I have a little memo pad with numbered facts that do not change at any point through the story. These are kinda the cardinal rules. I can't tell you the rules because they contain spoilers. After the “RULES” there are miscellaneous details that I'd like to remember in case they come up later. Things like birthmarks, scar placement, mannerisms, things I've hinted at without exposition that will need to be revealed later.

I fact check by googling stuff and falling down research holes for several hours until I forget what I was doing. EVENTUALLY I'll come back to writing and realize that's why there are things in my search history that probably have me on some kind of government watch list.

Q: What motivates your writing?

A: My motivation. Real talk? For AAL it's to get to a particular scene in the planned third installment. Scene thirteen in chapter seven. I know that answers exactly nothing and is weirdly specific but... yes. Other works of mine, I'm motivated by the idea that some of my ideas might entertain someone out there, even if it's just one someone then I've succeeded.

Q: What is your biggest challenge as a creator?

A: Time management. I have a lot of hobbies and finding time for individual projects is... Hard. I made a boredom jar that lets me pick an unfinished task/project/piece at random to do whenever I'm bored so that I can stop myself from starting anything new when my apartment is already full of unfinished junk.

Q: How have you grown as a creator through your participation in the Mad Max Fandom? How has your work changed? Have you learned anything about yourself?

A: Yes. My organizational skills have improved by miles and my attention span is better focused. Grammatically my work has undergone general improvement.

Learned anything about myself? Hmm, I learned that my opinion of what is canon and what makes good fan fiction are two completely different things. If you ask me anything specific about the Mad Max franchise you will probably get both opinions. As an example: Does Maxosa make for good fan fiction? Heck Yeah! Will canon Max Rockatansky or Furiosa ever be mentally and emotionally healed enough to actually be in a relationship? Probably not and that's okay. I can happily read Max and Furi getting cuddly and domestic and enjoy the heck out of another writer's interpretation of these two overcoming the hurdles of their respective traumas. I can do this knowing full well that Max and Furiosa probably never canonically saw each other again after the closing scene of Fury Road. I'm okay with this because that's the magic of fandom and why I love it.

Q: Which character do you relate to the most, and how does that affect your approach to that character? Is someone else your favourite to portray? How has your understanding of these characters grown through portraying them?

A: I relate to Max the most, and I think the reason I haven't yet published anything written from his perspective is because he'd be the most difficult to write without touching on my own fears and inadequacies too much. Max is not interested in being involved with the dramas of anyone else's life. He's already seen too much turmoil and had a hand in it too many times to actively seek people and their inherent problems, however, when presented with zero alternative he'll do what needs to be done and suffer though forming new attachments to very mortal people who may drop dead at any minute. He isn't comfortable with the process of forming attachments and he'd rather avoid it. He doesn't want another ghost. At least that's my interpretation of him.

Slit, remarkably, is my favorite to write for in spite of the fact that I don't relate to him in any way and my interpretation of his portrayal in the film is, simply put, a blunt edged euphemism for abusive relationships. He's just... a guilty pleasure to examine and write. I blame my fondness on the stunning character design and Josh Helman's energy on screen. The character says and does ridiculous things and it's just hilarious to watch Slit dig his own grave and humiliate himself. Case and point: I've got his boot! My understanding of Slit has grown through writing about him. He's probably (canonically) deeply insecure and his way of thinking very toxic and self focused. There's gotta be trauma there (I took massive creative license in that area) and a whole host of personal issues that explain his behavior, but will never excuse it. Does that make good fan fiction??? Parts of it do, the rest has to be that very human ability to grow and improve, although I don't think he'd have that opportunity in canon or accept any form of assistance... If he'd lived.

Q: Do you ever self-insert, even accidentally?

A: I think you kind of have to self-insert to a point. Writing tends to involve exaggerating your own experiences and the imagined interactions in your own head in order to make the experiences of the characters relatable. I'd rather not examine every individual facet of the issue but yes, I think Dune is an unintentional self-insert to cope with health problems before I was consciously aware of what I was coping with and since that realization, lately, she's a lot harder to write.

Q: Do you have any favourite relationships to portray? What interests you about them?Honestly? Close platonic friendship. Emotional intimacy is interesting. I draw a lot of inspiration for friendship in fiction from Mulder and Scully in early seasons of The X-files.

Q: How does your work for the fandom change how you look at the source material?

A: I see more minor details and the context of silent interactions. Some of these details are unsettling, some of them are so subtle and subliminal that they're easily missed when you watch the films, especially Fury Road. Oddly enough, I'm a lot more- Ah whats the word? Not quite critical of but unnerved by my own observations of Capable's relationship with Nux. I'm not sure why. It could be that I'm misinterpreting the actress's tone or George Miller vision/direction, but I watch the movie now and find that the way Capable looks at and talks about Nux so intensely makes me uneasy. The previous is just an example among many that I've spat out so far, it's not important.

Q: Do you prefer to create in one defined chronology or do your works stand alone? Why or why not?

A: Everything I write within the Mad Max fandom with the exception of collaborative works will probably be linked together and consistent with one another because that means less to remember and fewer mix-ups.

Q: To break or not to break canon? Why?

A: If you have to, break it. I'll read it. I like my fandom unlimited, baby. In my own works I try to keep with canon somewhat but I resurrect a lot of characters who almost certainly died because if I didn't, it would really only leave seven (I think) named characters with dialog who did not die in Fury Road. (The surviving women of the Many Mothers weren't named.)

Q: Share some headcanons:

A: 1) Max has intestinal parasites. He ate a live (two headed) lizard in the first thirty seconds of Fury Road. You really really really should not do that.

2) Furiosa didn't want to kill Ace. She could have just blown his head off instead of punching him in the face with a pistol. She didn't shoot him.

3) Ace did not go under the wheels. Foxy Grandpa lives.

4) Miss Giddy is also alive somewhere

5) Actually, most people in the wasteland probably have intestinal parasites.

Q: If you work with OCs walk us through your process for creating them. Who are some of your favourites?

A: My original characters tend to create themselves. I don't know how they do it, they kinda just decide for themselves for better or worse what they'll look like and how they'll behave. Dune was an accident and the “About a Lizard” series wasn't supposed to happen at all. It was supposed to be a one-shot word dump of what Slit's final moments might have looked like. Slit was supposed to die in a fleeting but intense two seconds of delusions about Valkyries and Valhalla... And then be eaten by a scavenger cannibal. The whole thing kind of just happened on the fly. Ardith, Phil/Crank, Featherknife, Bones, and the kids were also accidental. I had no idea where I was going with the encounter with Crow Fishermen. They just popped into existence of their own will and the rest is history. The only original characters that have been planned and designed well beforehand have been villains. This probably says something about me as a writer though I'm not sure what.

Q: When creating a new character for the AAL series, how do you approach their first interactions with your main characters?

A: The first thing I ask is “What does this scene need” and sometimes it needs a new character for villainy or friendly acquaintance reasons or for a skill-set the main characters do not posses. New characters have a habit of changing a chapter or making it much longer than intended. First interactions with Slit probably won't surprise anyone. He phases through distrust to dislike to begrudged cooperation and from there he's either on his way back to dislike or entering the tolerance phase. Beyond the tolerance phase is... The Complicated Zone. The Complicated Zone is where Nux and Dune are situated. Dune has two basic instincts with people: Should I shoot you? Or should I befriend you? Bizarrely, being friendly is the weirder option in the wastes. Shooting is almost always a consideration if she's taken by surprise.

Q: If you create original works, how do those compare to your fan works?

A: My original works are probably darker and deal more with modern problems. I turn to fan fiction for fun and to indirectly work through things.

Q: Who are some works by other creators inside and outside of the fandom that have influenced your work?

A: A lot of the fandom, too many names to name but one stands out and I can't remember their name or the title of their work. It was about Ace growing up and there was a dingo and a young Miss Giddy. If anyone knows what I'm talking about, please help. I've been looking for this fic for ages.

Q: Is there a specific author(s) that inspired your work when you began writing TLR?

A: I don't think any specific author inspired me while I began TLR but The Dark Half by Stephen King is one of my favorites and I recall re-reading it shortly before getting deep into fan writing. I may even have unconsciously plagiarized a few lines off that book. In my latest attempt to re-read that novel I'm feeling like there's a lot of Thad Beaumont in my portrayal of Slit.

Q: What advice can you give someone who is struggling to make their own works more interesting, compelling, cohesive, etc.?

A: Don't be afraid to write things that are too soft or too dark or too this or too that. Sometimes readers crave that stuff that makes us feel warm and safe and sometimes we're also here for things that make us wonder how the @!#$% the characters will ever recover or IF they will ever recover. The real world is full of all sorts of feelings, situations, serendipitous coincidences. Take us down whatever funky road you got! You're the driver, you decide. Your fic is your world. Write WILD things sometimes because it's fun.

Q: Have you visited or do you plan to visit Australia, Wasteland Weekend, or other Mad Max place?

A: I would love to take a trip to Australia one day to paint scenery in oils but that predates my time in MM fandom. I really want to go to Wasteland Weekend in the next two years but finances, necessities, costumes, etc need to be sorted out first.

Q: Tell us about a current WIP or planned project.

A: Well, I'm buying up model car kits to make little Mad Max cars for nerd purposes.

Thank you @burn-your-face-upon-the-chrome

#mad max fanfic #Mad Max Fandom Creator Spotlight #Mad Max Fandom Spotlight #fury road fanfic #fanfic author spotlight #fury road fandom #mad max fandom #weirdness unlimited

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wizards-magic-and-witches · 6 years

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Angel Eyes (Modern AU Loki x Reader )

A/N: I was listening to song Angel Eyes by ABBA and I was singing a long when I realized that the lyrics suit Loki’s perfectly so here’s a story.. Hope ya’ll enjoy it.

Just a heads up in some of the dialogs with the Y/n and respective character I quoted the lyrics as the dialog. Just thought to mention that.

Pleases listen to the song while reading this or after Angel Eyes - ABBA

Summary: After a year of dating Loki he breaks up with reader with no explanation. But readers best friend Bucky Barnes helps her by being there for her but What happens when she’s trying to get over Loki

Word Count: 1,628

Warnings: Angsty ? , implied smut (very small part. like just a line. It’s super subtle )

| Keep thinking 'bout his angel eyes

I keep thinking, |

I was wide awake with zero amount of sleep, I glanced at the clock, it read 2:30. I sighed and turned on my back and spread out my arms and legs.

In the darkness of my room my mind wandered to Loki,

We have been dating for one year now. I keep thinking of all the good times we had and his blue eyes.

Loki and I haven’t been talking for what feels like forever. He just kept pushing me away. I didn’t understand him sometimes.

One moment we were cuddling and loving each other and next moment he’s angry with me telling me that he never loved me and I should just leave him alone, He never asked me to care blah blah blah. All that bloody nonsense bullshit.

I remember being in tears and felt like my heart had just been pierced through with a dagger. I wanted to run away but I told him that I still love him and If he need me he know where to find me.

I woke up around 5:00 in the morning and decided to make breakfast for Bucky since I was crashing at his place. Bucky was the best friend anyone could ask for. He stayed with me the whole night when I told him that Loki left me or disappeared to be more accurate. Bucky has been there for me since as long as I can remember.

“Morning Buck, I made breakfast for you”.

“Thanks doll your the best. I don’t know what I would do without you.” He gave me a smug grin. And I rolled my eyes at his statement and punched him in shoulder lightly.

I decided to head to work. I worked in a large industries named Stark Industries. The president being Tony Stark.

I worked as his assistant. Bucky and Steve worked together in a gym they were co-business partners in running the gym. Bucky was so excited to start a business with Steve, those two were inseparable from elementary school.

I was almost outside the door when Bucky stopped me “Doll take an umbrella, it will rain”

“Nah don’t need it Buck. I don’t believe it will rain” I told him with a smile.

“Suit yourself Y/N, James the great has warned you.” I snorted and laughed “James the great, really Bucky” and open the door to go out.

“Bye James the great”

“Bye Y/n. Take care” he said.

“I will. You too Buck” I yelled form the corridor.

Today was the most tiring day ever.

Tony told me that he was going to be out the whole day, He and Pepper were having their anniversary. So for the rest of the day I was managing all his meeting and appointments and all the duties that strung along with it.

| Last night I was taking a walk along the river

And I saw him together with a young girl

And the look that he gave her made me shiver

'Cause he always used to look at me that way

Then I thought maybe I should walk right up to her and say |

I decided to leave and go back to Bucky’s apartment. I decided to stop at this great Shawarma place. I order two Shawarma’s and some french fries and drinks for Buck and I.

When I exited the shop. I spotted someone familiar in the conner of eye. My gut instinct was telling me not look that it was Loki.

But I let my mind get the better of me and I really wished I hadn’t looked. I was right it was Loki. But he was with another girl, The look he gave her made me shiver to my core, I felt tears well up, I wanted to look away and walk away but I just stood there looking at the scene unfolding in front of me.

He used to look at me that way. I felt my sadness get replaced with anger. So I walked up to the girl he was with and told her-

“| Ah-ha-ha, it's a game he likes to play

Look into his angel eyes

One look and you're hypnotized

He'll take your heart and you must pay the price.|”

I then grabbed her shoulder and put some distance between her and him.

“What the- ! Who’s is this woman Loki” she asked Loki.

Loki looked at me with the coldest set of eyes and said “I don’t know her. Never seen here in my life.”

I turned to her and said-

“| Look into his angel eyes

You'll think you're in paradise

And one day you'll find out he wears a disguise

Don't look too deep into those angel eyes |”

Loki then grabbed the girl and walked off with her. I was standing in the street crying silently. Still in shook at what happened. A year gone by with that fool who made me fall in love with him.

As if on cue it started to rain.

| Oh no no no no

Ah-ha-ha, keep thinking 'bout his angel eyes

I keep thinking |

I was drenched in the rain. I somehow got my legs to move to Bucky’s apartment. I knocked lightly on the door hoping he would hear but he didn’t open the door.

I turned my back to the door and slid down the door and hugged my knees tightly to my chest and cried and banged my back against the door.

Bucky must have heard me, he opened the door to find me crying bitterly.

“Doll What’s wrong ? talk to me”

He helped me get up and put his hands on my shoulder and kept asking me what happened I finally looked in this eyes and put my arms around his back and hugged him as tightly as I could.

“Hush Hush” he patted my head and comforted me he got some ice cream form the fridge and grabbed two spoons.

“Are you alright doll ? Do you want to talk about it ?” he whispered to me.

I just nodded at him. After eating spoonfuls of ice creams I told Bucky everything that happened. I never seen Bucky so angry.

“I’m so sorry Y/N if I was there I would have beaten the shit out of that slime ball.

I put the spoon on the table and grabbed the ice cream box form Bucky’s hand put it next to spoon and cuddled myself into Bucky.

Hugging Bucky almost made me feel relaxed every since we were kids. Eventually I fell asleep on Buck.

When I woke up in the morning I noticed I was in my bed.

| Sometimes when I'm lonely I sit and think about him

And it hurts to remember all the good times

When I thought I could never live without him

And I wonder does it have to be the same,

Every time when I see him, will it bring back all the pain?

Ah-ha-ha, how can I forget that name? |

I decided to spend the whole day in my room. I kept thinking about him. All the fun times we had together.

How we used to go for picnics. And how on our monthie (sort of like a anniversary) we went to an amusement park and did some unspeakable thing in the ferris wheel.

My heart was aching me I was wondering how once I told him that he was my whole world and how I could never live without him.

| Look into his angel eyes

One look and you're hypnotized

He'll take your heart and you must pay the price |

I got up and left my room I didn’t see Bucky, so I figured he went to work. I went to the kitchen and saw some sandwiches with a note :

“Made your breakfast. Please eat Doll.

- XOXO James”

I ate the sandwiches and went to the couch and decided to turn on some music. I decided to gather up all of Loki’s things and throw it away.

After an hour of cleaning I went to my bedroom and saw a photo of us on my dresser. I grabbed it in my hand.

| Look into his angel eyes

You'll think you're in paradise

And one day you'll find out he wears a disguise |

I sighed and ripped the photo and threw it away.

| Don't look too deep into those angel eyes

Crazy 'bout his angel eyes

Angel eyes

He took my heart and now I pay the price |

I still kept looking looking at his angel eyes all soft and sweet but now I found out that it was a mask to hid who he really was. He took my heart and I gave it away like a fool in love and now here I am paying the price.

| Look into his angel eyes

You'll think you're in paradise

Then one day you'll find out he wears a disguise

Don't look too deep into those angel eyes |

I burned all this things and decided to get over him. No time, No tears to waste over him. I did promise myself that I would find out why he just left me without telling me but for now I’m just going to enjoy my time with Bucky, my supporter and best friend.

| Oh no no no no

Keep thinking,

Keep thinking 'bout his angel eyes

Keep thinking,

Keep thinking, I had to pay the price |

~ THE END ~

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Do let me know if anyone would like that. And as always:

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The Sublime Humor of Conor Oberst: a Quick Scan

Lost on many listeners, a subtle, yet essential, powerful, sense of humor permeates the music of Conor Oberst, throughout his monstrously underappreciated catalog of songs. Although often blatant in its barefacedness, this quality eludes so many, by virtue of its sheer sublimity, beautifully laced in with the vast textures of human emotion which it addresses, usually vis-a-vis original and ingenious linguistic devices. This marvelous sense of humor compels this essayist to quickly expose it, and elucidate on it, with a brief series of examples and observations.

Among the most obvious and effective examples of comedy notched on Mr. Oberst's belt, the early Bright Eyes song, 'False Advertising,' deconstructs the role that the songster, like other artists, played having become a performer of emotionally charged and sometimes quasi-autobiographical songs, the young bard having become a marionette of himself as the central motif. If the complex interaction of both utter sincerity and stealthy sarcasm doesn't make you laugh, then the literal joke at the climax of the song might. After the line, "All everyone's listening for are the the mistakes!", to kick off the instrumental middle-section, in which a trumpet flies off-key, the whole band then stopped, a young women shouting out, "Sorry!," Oberst then consoling, "It's okay, it's okay!," then counting in for the band to resume. The song goes on to muse on how the love of friends and music makes it worth suffering the pretentions of being a performer. "We're going to laugh... until the morning comes." This song alone proves Oberst not only the sly comedian, but also something of the lyrical playwright.

The lyrics of the song, 'Mamah Borthwick,' don't jump out as humorous, by any means, but still provide a stunning example of the sublime comedy that renders all of Conor Oberst's works. [Consider the definition of 'funny'; usually, in most senses, it refers to when something appears like something else, or nonsensical, and there's an element of surprise when the truth of it is revealed, moreover the reality being shockingly obvious.] This song eludes the audience with its first lines, "Just because you got it, you don't have to flaunt it with an endless stream of famous men. Pretty as a portrait, looked like Mamah Borthwick, on that shining brow of Taliesen." These lines elude the listener of context and meaning. The rest of the song goes on with an extended vortex about the history of Mamah Borthwick, Falling Water, and the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. With its single repeating phrase, though, that ends each differently worded chorus, it waxes gorgeous: "A fortune spent... it's irrelevant to build something that's sacred 'til the end," "A hidden dream, it's embarrassing, and the only thing that's sacred 'til the end," and, lastly, "I'm not there yet, but I feel confident to build something that's sacred 'til the end." The lyrics may elude the listener of context, yet deconstruct the meaning of being an artist and the eternality of art, and the paradoxes that sometimes come along with high art ("Fallen Water... it's a perfect house where no one lives.") By gently provoking the listener in the first line, then, as though with sleight of hand, directing the opening statement into a vortex on the historical figures and events enumerated in the song. It throws you off, then pulls you deeply in with the simple phrase, "sacred 'til the end." Like a sly joke in the beginning lines, it isn't necessarily about you, literally, yet still could be. Like a practical joke, the song quasi-criticizes you then melts your heart, and false ego, with the sweetness of a thought to inspire you into bringing something, "sacred 'til the end," into the world. The humor in this isn't necessarily the kind that makes you laugh, but it makes you feel good! It makes this essayist laugh a quantum bit.

To truly prove the point of this essay, a stand-out most tragic and painful song ever penned by Oberst serves last in this exposition to demonstrate this sublime humor, and how it functions to make a horrible, viscerally disturbing series of events in a song, somehow endearingly purehearted, innocent, and dignified. "Amy in the White Coat," harrowingly details the sexual assault and emotional manipulation of a young girl, by her own father. The first verses of this horrifying plot include dialog of the father, sung in near-whisper: "'You look just like your mother in that thin disguise... it's the reason I made you, it's the bond that we share."

The last verses, however features the singer in the first person, observing the girl at school, somehow knowing her situation (presumptively): "You're the corpse of the class... I saw you walking once, under powder blue sky. You looked cold, still. You're collar was high. I tried to talk to you, but you walked right by...". There is a horrible irony in that the girl, so severely molested, couldn't respond to the kindness of a schoolmate, someone who might've helped. The song features no joke, but the intimate, sensitive tone, and shift of storytelling from the vignette of paternal rape, which mystifyingly, yet sickeningly, exalts the beauty of the girl, to the scenes at school and the attempt to reach out to her, come together to evoke tears. Oberst's signature sublimity of emotional timbre creates an atmosphere of hope in an otherwise dire, soul-poisoning circumstance, with a sensitive, compassionate kind of empathic humor.

This essay should speak for itself. Examples of simple humor are a mainstay in many of the lyrics of Conor Oberst. Everything penned by him contains the emotional signature of someone who wants to laugh, yet excercise empathy, have a party with friends, yet reach out to the vulnerable. This complexity often masks the sometimes surfacelevel, othertimes deepsewn comedic tenor. Once understood to exist, though, it's easy to find. The bottom line is that Mr. Oberst, while giving you an honest-to-heart, detailed account of what's wrong, always gives you something to feel good about, to an at least equal and often surpassing degree.

It's a cliche to say he's the Bob Dylan of his generation, but I think he could win the Nobel Prize.

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How President Trump Has Ruined Comedy

My name is Daniel O’Brien. I’ve had sex in over two different countries and engaged in some light, patriotic hand stuff in four. I used to write a weekly column for the comedy website Cracked Dot Com, and now I am its Creative Director of Video and Content Development, because ever since my boss left, there has been no one around to stop me from adding words to my title, which I do all the time and without warning.

On the day that I started writing this article, I count seven pieces of content on the front page of Cracked which are explicitly political, and two which directly mention President Trump in the title and feature him in the thumbnail. In 2017, under my leadership as the Creative Director of Video, Content Development, and Espionage, we launched two new shows to cover the current administration: the short-lived After The Trump and the still-living Some News. We have always (always) talked about politics on this site, but we did not have equivalent content during either the Obama or Bush administrations. That is definitely true. On that score, we have changed.

A lot of people say they appreciate the political coverage we’ve done, but a few have expressed that they’d rather we avoid politics, and have done so in tones ranging from politely respectful to … less so.

Twitter

Some people tweet or reach out to us to say “I miss when Cracked was just funny” or “I came here to get AWAY from politics” or “Bring back The Daily Nooner” or

“You should just stick to comedy.”

Here’s the thing: I completely agree with you.

I also wish I could just do stupid fucking jokes again. Honestly, I think I’m better at them than I am as a contributor to Some News or shrieking about voter fraud. As important as that topic is to me (very, please go to Let America Vote to learn how you can help), I’d much rather it be covered by someone smarter than me while I focus on what I’m better at (which would be, gun to my head, 1,500 words of dialog-driven nonsense starring a fictionalized version of myself who can’t spell and is also a war criminal).

And is that a surprise to you? Haven’t you followed me? Don’t you think I’d rather be talking about Spider-Man and my stupid, stupid dick? I would!

I don’t want to cover Hillary Rodham Clinton substantively; I want to make jokes like “The ‘Rodham’ in her name is short for “‘Rodney Hampton.'” That’s as political as I’d like to be, but the realities of our world make it sort of impossible to stay out of politics, so I bought her friggin’ book instead. A few years ago, you could ask me about comics. Today I’m ready to host a boring conference on What Happened, Giant Of The Senate, The Devil’s Bargain, and whatever that piece of shit Ben Sasse called his piece-of-shit book. And I hate that about me.

You have to understand something. When we accidentally gave a flailing, possum-faced, rotting egg the most important job in the world, the people at Cracked didn’t say, “Aha! Finally an opportunity for us to pivot away from nonfiction comedic list articles and strange personality-driven columns to focus on our true love: a thoroughly researched topical news show about Nazis, Antifa, the works of Jean Paul Sartre, and the troubling ways those three things intercept in our increasingly terrifying world. Haw!” I don’t want to do that. None of us want to do that. We want to walk around the office pronouncing it “Jean Paul Star Trek” and then write videos about a man who got confused and had sex with a pumpkin at an adult pumpkin-carving party, which isn’t even a thing that exists.

You’ve no doubt seen a similar call to keep politics out of sports over the last few weeks. An historically unprecedented amount of football players and (lol) owners are kneeling or engaging in some other kind of protest to oppose either the president generally or the shooting of unarmed black men by police. (It’s not super clear at this point. It certainly began with the latter and seems to be getting hijacked by the former.) “I support the idea of the protest, but keep your politics out of sports,” is a sentiment you’ve no doubt seen.

They want us to stick to jokes, and I would LOVE to stick to jokes. I don’t know any professional football players personally, but I bet they’d also prefer to just play football. I bet they also long for a time when their Sundays were spent running and hitting and throwing and catching as hard as they can without the added stress of figuring out where they fit into a national, historical movement. It would be easier for them if there was no politics in football, because before there were politics in football, they didn’t have to think about kneeling or not, and they didn’t have to deal with the booing if they did. But now they have to consider it. As Jason pointed out months ago, even keeping politics out of sports (or pop culture or writing) is itself a political move.

(Also, we should, uh, probably cancel football. Goddammit I hate my growing awareness and responsibility!)

Politics is everywhere and everything is political. Which sucks for me, because I’m an idiot. I’m not some politics guy, I’m Deany O’Beanz, Cracked.com’s Creative Director of Upside-Down Sex Stuff. Believe me, when Wendy’s unveiled their new Bacon Mozzarella Burger last year, I wanted to write a parody song of the opening number to Hamilton, changing the lyrics from “Alexander Hamilton” to “Mozzarella Hamburger,” but our president told us all to boycott Hamilton, so now even mentioning it feels like a political statement.

…

The two dolla’, flavor-hauler with fresh garlic/

is a steal, darlin’, they are for real chargin’/

a measly two dollas. I am a food scholar.

Believe me, this shit is Delicious Incarnate.

I mean, you get it, that’s airtight, you love it, this shit would have been glorious.

I miss doing pointless jokes like that. I would rather be writing columns about dumb internet stuff and other weird things that used to occupy my brain. I miss doing jokes making fun of bad websites. I would still be making fun of bad websites if we had a better president. Like John Mayer’s haunted fucking nightmare self-indulgent dream wall. Look at this child’s sandbox of a website:

John Mayer

If you move the cursor around, John Mayer’s stupid eyes follow you all over town.

Nice website, dickface. Does the strap around your stupid head featuring vaguely Native American imagery represent your plan to appropriate another culture with your music? Your album’s called Search For Everything. Do you actually find anything, or is it mostly going to be a bunch of songs about fucking on a Sunday or whatever and realizing for the first time at 23 years old that the girls you have sex with will eventually turn into the mothers you won’t? You’ve got a bunch of dumb spinny art on your website. You, uh … suck. Hahahahaha.

That was just off the top of my head. If this were three years ago, I’d have squeezed, no joke, 6,000 words out of this website. But things being what they are, I only went to this website after John Mayer posted a surprisingly cogent argument for gun control in the wake of the tragic mass shooting in Las Vegas a few weeks ago.

Uproxx

Dammit! That’s where I’m at! Global Source of Ridicule and Professional Annoying Guy at a Party John Mayer only made his way to my radar because he was talking about sensible gun control.

All I want to do is talk to you all about The Property Brothers, a show I’m obsessed with. For those who don’t know, Property Brothers is a reality show allegedly about identical twin brothers, but in actuality they’re clones of the same cursed person and the only difference is that one of them does magic but the show doesn’t mention it, and I guess they flip, fix, build, or sell houses, depending on their mood. (I say “mood” instead of “moods” because, like their heart and dreams, they both share one mood at all times.) It’s the most compelling and unsettling TV I’ve ever seen. I’ve been working on an unauthorized novel about being the Property Brother who “got out” of the family, but I had to put it on hold because I need to remember to call my representatives about either the newest needlessly cruel healthcare bill or insidious attempts at gerrymandering or whatever the fuck haunted puppet Jefferson Fucking Beauregard Fucking Sessions the Fucking Third is up to when I can’t see him — which is often, because he’s only allowed to come out when innocent people are asleep.

One time I showed Jeff Sessions a missing child’s picture on the back of a milk carton, and he said, “That doesn’t look like much of anything to me.” His favorite TV show is “the weather,” and his least-favorite cartoons are the ones where two different kinds of animals are friends. He eats applesauce for every meal, and every night before prayers, he doesn’t have sex with a glass of warm milk — he just puts his dick in it, leaves it there for a while, and hums a little song about bugs to himself.

One time I met Jeff Sessions at a party and said, “Why are you so racist and awful?” and he took one of his teeth out and put it in my palm and said “Shh,” and then winked like “I’ll never tell,” but legit he is the most dangerous person in America right now. Anyway, that tooth sprouted legs and sprinted to Charlottesville and Sessions is gunning for Nazi MVP and I hate that most of my time is spent tracking Sessions when I used to just do jokes about movies.

This is going to feel like an abrupt transition, but I promise it’s related. The new It is the biggest movie in the world right now, shattering records constantly, and I would love to talk about it. But do you want to know what my over-thought, Daniel O’Brien, Obsessive Pop Culture Disorder-esque observations are?

1. This movie resonated with so many people because the concept of an overtly, undeniably evil force emerging in a hugely visible way after being hitherto concealed right beneath an allegedly safe town’s surface for so long is striking a chord with a lot of people who are just waking up to the fact that the systemic and institutionalized issues of real racism which we thought we conquered a hundred times are still here, still strong, and still evil. We thought Derry was safe, but no, the monster was waiting in the shadows for the right time to pop out. We had civil rights and elected a black president, so we thought everything was cool … until actual Nazis who lived next door suddenly stopped being too ashamed to admit they were Nazis the whole time.

2. Pennywise is such an effective monster for a lot of modern Americans who can relate to the idea of an evil clown who only exists because (and indeed, gets stronger when) we give it attention.

I used to talk about how Luke Skywalker was probably a virgin. Are you fucking kidding me? I’m incapable of not finding parallels to our current political situation. Show me an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants from 2001 today, and I guarantee you I’ll find a link between Steve Bannon and Plankton, and what’s weirder is that I will completely believe it because I see politics everywhere now.

I want to spend too much time over-analyzing the latest Spider-Man movie, because as Cracked’s Creative Director of Video with a Minor in Spider-Man and a Concentration in International Hot-Tubbing, people expect me to have an informed take on all things Spider-Man. Instead I’ve spent six months researching the fucking Mercer family, a clown car cabal of rich maniacs who can singlehandedly control the results of an election and make the Koch Brothers seem tame by comparison. Please get excited about my next book, I Used To Make Jokes Until I Realized The Corrupt And Insane Mercer Family Will Buy Our Next Four Presidential Elections, due sometime in 20-never, because I’ll be too sad to write it.

I can’t stay out of politics, because politics is everywhere. When the president yells about Saturday Night Live, the NFL, the NBA, the Emmy Awards, Facebook, and a dozen other things in the same 30-day period, my even mentioning those things means whatever I’m talking about is political in some way.

At Cracked, we come into work every day to brainstorm ideas for content, and consistently the most important thing that’s happening in the world at any given time has been related to our president. I mean, there was one day a few months ago when a five-star idiot was like, “I bravely love my fucking big fat wife so much, you guys should give me a medal,” and we all had some tremendous apolitical fun with that for about 24 hours, but otherwise it’s been the Trump show, all day, every day.

(God, I miss that golden idiot who thought grabbing a big ass should make him mayor.)

I can’t keep politics out of my work on Cracked because I can’t keep it out of my own private life. When I visit my family, we’ll catch up and talk about recent movies we’ve seen, and eventually the conversation will end up like, “Yeah, work’s going great, I’ve been golfing more, I went to the Aquarium of the Pacific for the first time, the New York Football Giants are fucking garbage, it’s a shame about Puerto Rico, and did you hear what outrageous thing the president said about [X]?” If you’re catching up with your family, how do you NOT mention the most recent thing our president did?

Or I’ll be on a first date with someone, exchanging totally normal basic, casual first date conversation stuff (“Do you think Big Boi should be considered an elite rapper?” or “When was the first time in your life you interacted with someone of a different race from you?”), and without fail, one person will bring up the latest antics of our president. These are the kinds of conversations I have on a date with a new person:

Person: So what do you do in your free time?

Daniel: I like to run, I hang out with my dog, I read a bunch. But I guess most of my time is spent staring at Axios, Twitter, and The Week to stay up to date on our increasingly warlike tensions with North Korea.

Person: We can’t listen to “Rocket Man” anymore!

Daniel: I KNOW, HE TOOK IT FROM US!

Or:

Daniel: So, you like your job?

Person: I do. I like the people I work with, the hours are good, it’s challenging, the benefits are decent.

Daniel: …

Person: Of course, all of our benefits may change if this new GOP healthcare bill gets rammed through.

Daniel: Without a proper CBO score.

Person: Right.

Daniel: Do we know where the votes stand now?

Person: Paul is definitely a ‘No,’ we’re still waiting on Murkowski and Collins because they haven’t officially declared yet.

Daniel: It’s still too close.

Person: Pack of bastards.

Daniel: Pack of halfwit bastards.

Daniel O’Brien, Cracked’s Creative Director of Video and Slam Dunk Czar.

I know I’m more informed today than I’ve ever been in my entire life, and that’s probably good, but that doesn’t change the fact that I’m so fucking bummed about the amount of senators I know the names of. Seven years ago, if someone asked me to name ten senators, I’d say, “Like, government senators or the old baseball team the Senators? Either way, I don’t know, maybe two? At any rate, I’m not going to answer your question because the series finale of Lost is about to air and it’s gonna be perfect, babyyyyy, gonna answer all of Deany’s questions, babyyyyyy! ‘California Gurls’! Angry Birds! It’s still okay to like Louis C.K.! ‘Magic’ feat. Weezer! it is two thousand teeeeeeeeeeen!”

The president wants us to boycott the NFL, the Golden State Warriors, most news, Facebook, SNL, the Emmys, uh … Puerto Rico, I guess. I can’t keep politics out of Cracked because I can’t keep it out of anything, and I don’t know how anyone does. If I showed up in a town and the mayor was like, “Oh, we don’t talk about politics here, we don’t even pay attention to it,” I’d think “Wow, you’re going to miss some pretty intense shit. One time at work I went to the bathroom for a full 20 minutes, and when I got back to my desk, Reince Priebus had resigned and Scaramucci’s wife had filed for divorce and Eric Trump’s pubes turned see-thru and we probably loosely declared war on someone.”

And again, I also wish I could go back to doing dumb jokes. And I’m not weaving in political stuff because I feel some journalistic obligation; I’m doing it because I don’t think it’s possible to talk about anything without the framework of politics. Or I guess I can talk about football through the framework of how we should stop watching it because of CTE? Would that be better? Like, it’s a bummer that Colin Kaepernick doesn’t have a job while some barely sentient mannequin gets paid millions to throw for the Bears, but maybe it’s ultimately a good thing, because it lowers the chance that Kap will get the hot new murder brain damage that’s sweeping the sports nation? Is that … better?

Daniel O’Brien is Cracked’s Strongest Intern and the author of How to Fight Presidents and the children’s book adaptation, Your Presidential Fantasy Dream Team, both of which you can buy wherever you want. He also wasn’t lying about that Property Brothers book. He will be releasing it for free one chapter at a time and you can get it if you subscribe to his newsletter right here.

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(Almost) THE ENTIRE SEASON ONE GLITCHTALE TRANSCRIPT

[S1EP1]

* You tell sans "I'm sorry... take my SOUL and fix my mistakes, one last time"

Sans: hehe aren't you missing something buddy?

but first...

get dunked on you megalomaniac

(yes that's it, refer to http://dulcetrefrain.com/2015/11/18/megalovania-original-lyrics-undertale/ for the song)

[S1EP2]

???: FACINATING

THIS TIMELINE IS... STRANGE

MAYBE... JUST MAYBE

Sans: * heya

* my break just started

* wanna go to grillby's?

Sans:

* cool

* over here

* i know a shortcut

[* You don't remember a door like this being here.]

Sans: * welp, here we are

* so, i wanted to talk about what happened in the last timeline...

???: AH, YES

I'VE BEEN WATCHING YOU FRISK

YOUR DETERMINATION EXCEEDS MOST.

WITH THAT KIND OF POWER

WITH THAT KIND OF SOUL

I COULD RETURN

I COULD BE WHOLE AGAIN

???: I'M AFRAID I CAN NOT ALLOW YOU TO DO THAT

I'VE BEEN WAITING SO LONG FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY

???: I JUST HAVE TO KILL YOU ONCE, RIGHT?

Sans: * we'll chat later. let's get outta here.

???: "why can't i teleport?" RIGHT?

YOU'RE STUCK IN HERE WITH ME

(a bunch of fighting nonsense continues)

???: FINALLY

Sans: * hey kid i don't wanna alarm you

* but i can't really beat this guy

Gaster: AH... SO YOU REMEMBER WHAT I'M CAPABLE OF

THERE'S NO WAY FOR YOU TO WIN... AND YOU KNOW IT.

Sans: * hey, remember the last timeline?

* let's do it

Gaster: I'LL TAKE THIS IF YOU DON'T MIND

[* Gaster is taking your SOUL...]

[* But it refused]

Sans: * heh. good job kid.

* ya had me... "dead" worried there

(a bunch of fighting nonsense goes on and zero dialog happens)

Gaster: IT APPEARS I'M REACHING MY LIMIT

BUT I WON'T GIVE UP EASILY

I WILL COME BACK!

(some more fighting nonsense)

Gaster: YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND HOW THIS FEELS

TO BE ALONE...

TO BE HELPLESS.

ADBANDONED!

FORGOTTEN

I JUST WANT TO COME BACK...

Sans: * destroying everything in your path is not the right way G

Gaster: I'LL USE ANY MEANS NECESSARY

Sans: * sorry

* hey kid... after this reset take your time in the ruins

* gotta do something quick...

[S1EP3]

Sans: * yalright kid?

Sans: * so...

* about what happened earlier...

* we gotta stop doing that.

* we can't just... reset timelines like that.

* it might have side-effects on things we *don't* want to happen.

Sans: * imagine it as a matter of probabilities

* the more we screw around with the timelines...

* the more are the chances of bad things to happen

* things that aren't supposed to be here are here

* so keep an eye out for anything that seems... "odd" k?

* alright then, if ya need me, give paps a ring. i'll be there

???: * these errors are fun you know

* I also found that you only need DETERMINATION to exist in this world

* and those weird... melted monsters gave me enough to exist for a good while

Chara: * even enough to match YOURS

Flowey: * why is that brat taking so long

Chara: * and with your determination in my power things will be way easier

Flowey: * HEY! Smiley trashbag wake up!

Sans: * well now...

* what are you doing here?

Flowey: * It's Chara...

* They got Frisk.

Sans: * why are you even telling me this?.

Flowey: * Don't get me wrong, I still hate you

* But none of us would survive if they got control over the timeline...

Chara: * how cute...

* This will be interesting

* we got a comedian

* a traitor...

* and a "megalomaniac"

(more fighting shenanigans)

Chara: * welcome to my special hell

* This is all your fault...

* we just had to get 6 souls...

* but you decided to show them mercy

* you betrayed me Asriel

* we ended up like this because of you

* but I won't show you any mercy

* it's kill or be killed after all...

Flowey: * NOW SANS!

(oops chara got BELIEF)

[S1EP4]

Sans: * feelin better?

* i'm tryna fix something here at the moment

* hey flowey could you pass me the wrench from over there?

Flowey: * do I look like your stupid assistant?

Sans: * please?...

Flowey: * yeah, sure, whatever...

* take your stupid wrench!

Sans: * thank you

* alright, it's done

* let's hope it works this time

Flowey: * wait... "hope"?

* "this time"?

* how many times have you tried this before?

Sans: * just a couple of hundred of times

* but if that demon child managed to get back on their own

* i'm pretty sure i can bring "him" back

* uh... you should close your eyes a bit

Gaster: IMPOSSIBLE... HOW DID HE...

Sans: * heya...

Gaster: HEYA

DID YOU 'MIST' ME?

Sans: * heh... let's a-void the jokes for now...

* we got a huge problem at the moment

* and your help will come in 'handy'

Flowey: * your jokes are disgusting...

Sans: * hey, what's wrong kiddo

Gaster: * OH!

* D-DON'T WORRY LITTLE HUMAN

* I HAVE NO INTENTIONS TO HARM YOU

Sans: * so... i need to ask ya a favor

* you know where the human souls are right?

* please take us there

Gaster: * VERY WELL

* LET'S GO

Sans: * here...

Flowey: * WHAT?

* do you... trust me?

Sans: * kinda...

* you'll be more useful with those anyways

Flowey: * I still hate you

Sans: * sure why not

Chara: * so predictable

* isn't this hilarious

* if you think you got any chance to win... you're wrong

* I have... a small surprise too

* remember what these are?

* you never got to use all the DETERMINATION extracted in the past...

* I'm excited to see how long you'll survive

* COME =)

Sans: * make sure to keep that button blocked G

* and keep the kid safe

(goddamn a lot of fighting happens)

Gaster: WAIT HERE

(more goddamn fighting jesus christ

Sans: * heh...

* i don't like to use my real special attack

* i get bone tired after that, but...

* you deserve it

Chara: * I've got a question for you Asriel

* Do you know what black means?

* It's HATE

* And I have a LOT of it to share

[* You call for help...]

[* ...]

Chara: * But nobody came

[* You're filled with DETERMINATION]

[* You call for help]

Asriel: * Chara look!

* The music comes from that statue

* hey, Chara

* It's me

* Your Best Friend

[part 2 coming soon]

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