I regret many things and this blog is one of them.
@mamahersh
I'll be reblogging tons of fandom stuff from a wide range of fandoms. I also enjoy music so the majority of stuff might be videos and music. So, basically just your average zillenial. If you see a fandom I reblog that you enjoy and want fic recs; odds are I have them and I am always happy to share. Background credit goes to beta-19, here: http://beta-19.tumblr.com/post/156428147368/so-i-made-a-bill-cipher-wallpaper-that-tiles | Avi made by artflow.ai
Klein normally: I can never tell anyone anything about me, I can only act in roundabout ways for their own safety and my image
Klein w/ Azik: Hi Mr. Azik it's me your beloved student Klein Moretti who is supposed to be dead, here's my current sequence in my current pathway, here are my current plans, and also I have one of Emperor Roselle's Cards of Blasphemy that any beyonder would kill just to look at if you want it
if vampires existed in real life i think there would be shady companies advertising "organic blood" sourced from "willing donors" who are coincidentally all poor people being paid like $5 per blood donation. and like haughty vegan vampires who only drink a synthetic blood drink thats brewed in a way thats actively worse for the enviroment. and radical traditionalist vampires who go on tiktok and claim that true alpha chads have to drain and kill people and anyone who leaves their victims alive is a liberal cuck. enter the world of hypothetical insufferable vampire politics with me.
everyone talks about how strong and great Aragorn was for refusing the ring when Frodo offered it to him as if this man has not spent his entire life dodging leadership and responsibilities like bullets in the matrix 🙄
Sunset from the commie bar I occasionally volunteer at, 2023, taken five minutes before someone tripped down the stairs with a glass bottle in their hand while singing the Internationale
Iron Lung is great bc it asks the question what if the sacrificial lamb was evil. What if the lamb thought itself evil. What if everyone else thought the lamb evil. What if the lamb wasn't evil what if the lamb is just a lamb, bleeting desperately to escape its undue sacrifice. What if the lamb knew it was a sacrifice from the start. What if the lamb just wanted to live. What if the lamb wanted to live so fucking bad. What if the lamb wanted the flock to live more. What if the lamb accepts its own sacrifice, leans into the glinting knife, in the hopes that the flock survives.
A little thank-you for @fivetail and @veggieblt, who played through Featherbent together on 4/13, and then the following stream went over some behind the scenes stuff from that last unreleased chapter.
Stream was a lot of fun, you can check out the VOD on their channel if you want to watch!
me: truly a well crafted tragedy is such a bittersweet pleasure to take in and serves a purpose, not just as a sad story but as a reminder that even that which ends badly might not have happened in vain or for nothing. The love, the grief, the actions still meant something simply for having taken place and for us partaking in it.
me when said tragedy is about to actually unfold, sweating: ok but consider this. i dont want this to happen
Lotm book 2 wants me dead and I'm only a few chapters in:
"Klein finally understand the true essence of a Clown—“Although being capable of knowing a little about fate, one remains helpless towards fate; therefore, one might as well use a smiling face to hide all the pain, sorrow, confusion, and depression.”"
"Melissa would definitely love this more than a horse carriage. This is the culmination of machinery... Klein thought as he suddenly felt upset. He revealed a brilliant smile and fished out 4 pence and handed it to the cashier."
Inspired by this great prompt and goes the other way.
Of which Danny goes to Reddit as Phantom.
Now, I dunno much about Reddit due to my country's default system is to ban the site (except if you use VPN or Apple products apparently?), but anyways.
One reckon that r/evilmonologue exists.
Danny-as-Phantom is certainly asking that if he's a bad villain (Am I a Bad Villain aka AIBV) since his "Heroes" (Red Huntress, Fenton couple, and GIW) doesn't allow him to do Evil Monologues at all, when even the weakest "Villain" would even has his "Beware Box" gimmick (tho he certainly wouldn't do anything so cringe).
Ofc it comes from: Yes, GhostNebula is a bad villain to: this kid is handed out such a bad life that he really mistakes "heroes" and "villains" of all things. You sure that the guys in white and ghost hunters are good guys?? to: Flash, get your villain. I think he'll be safer with you since he also got no body count, so surely he was a Flash rogue?
And ofc the heroes of JL (or others) will investigate for some reason or another.
Am I a bad villain because I don't make any Evil Monologues?
Okay, to start off, I (14m) am considered my city's "Main" villain (We have a lot of them, so we are all ranked by severity, I am ranked 1st), but I don't know if it's bad that I have never monologued. Even our lowest ranked villains have a gimmick they monologue about (As an example, we have a guy who rly likes boxes), but I don't have a gimmick or a monologue topic:(
Before you all get on me, I want to at least explain myself.
I have never attempted to monologue, but I am almost certain the local heroes wouldn't let me. There's a hero roughly my age (We'll call her Rh) who would probably maybe let me evil monologue to her, depending on how we are atm, but the others would most definitely NOT let me.
Rh and I normally have a kinda okayish relationship, since I usually deal with the other villains she doesn't deal with. If she doesn't bother me I usually won't bother her, we work together sometimes too, so she probably wouldn't care if I monologue at her. The issue is the others.
Other than Rh, the city has 2 scientists (late 40s F and late 40s M) who basically supply the city with weapons, and a government agency (Idk their name, but we call them The Guys in White) who are a NIGHTMARE TO DEAL WITH.
I am confident the scientists wouldn't give me enough time to evil monologue at them before trying to shoot me, and I wouldn't even bother thinking about doing it to the Guys in White, I'd be deader than dead.
All this is to say, I'm not in a good position to evil monologue at the moment, and I want to know: Does this make me a bad villain?
I mean its not your fault your heros are not playing the game right.
u/herovsvillian
How are your heroes even called heroes if they don't do step one in fighting etiquette?
u/whatinsupermansbutt
Right? So inconsiderate. Even Martian Manhunter lets people monologue, and he can read minds!
u/totallynotredrobin
Ngl OP, I want more info on that government agency.
u/GhostNebula OP
All i know is that they wear white suits, have bad aim, and are like comicbook style goons. All their banter is like, you are going down scum and we wont let your kind invade earth.
u/tottallynotredrobin
That sounds more like Lex Luthor wannabes than government agents. Are you sure they are government?
u/GhostNebula OP
The scientist couple says so. They called them in when they opened a portal that let everyone come here.
u/riddlemetofoff
Wait. Hold up. The scientists made a portal, so they could fight whatever was on the other side?
u/lexluthorsgoonsquad
Nevermind if you are a villain, that is definitely mad scientist villain stuff.
Imagine the moment someone ask why he's a villain?
u/riddlemetofoff
These scientists sound like villains. Which begs the question, why are YOU a villain? Not trying to say anything, it just doesn't seem like you're villain material.
u/GhostNebula OP
No worries. Before creating and opening the portal, the two scientists "studied" us, and concluded our entire dimension was full of non-sentient, evil beings.
u/villainoftheyear
I'm sorry? What? How can they do that? Why would they say that people from a completely different dimension, who they haven't even seen first hand yet, aren't sentient?
u/GhostNebula OP
Yeah. We're not even considered animals to them, as they don't believe we live in a way different from humans. Our bodies are energy and emotion based. We only have one organ that acts like multiple of a human's. The scientists, along with the government agents, have gotten the entire species on an exterminations list. Capture, experiment, destroy.
u/GhostNebula OP
Well, I can't say that for myself. I'm actually half human. They don't know I'm only half, though.
That didn't answer my question at all. So if they did all that... why are YOU the villain here???
u/GhostNebula OP
Um. Because legally speaking I don't have rights, and the government is actively hunting me? And sometimes I raid their base when they catch another person like me? Raiding government bases seems pretty villainous. And I break a lot of their stuff to make their jobs harder, and sometimes I get my friend to hack in and destroy a bunch of data.
u/riddlemetofoff
Okay, I think I actually get the misunderstanding here. Fellas, is it villainous to actively fight it when the government puts an eradication order on your species?
u/cryostasis
Absolutely not.
u/bobthegoon
Depends on how you're defining 'villain,' I suppose? But in this case it honestly sounds like something Batman would do. Not to take away your right to self-identify as a villain (along with all the other rights you apparently don't have) that's just my thoughts.
u/totallynotredrobin
Poison Ivy is a villain and she fights for the environment though. So I suppose it depends on how much collateral you leave? I don't know, this whole thing seems kind of fishy to me.
u/GhostNebula OP
I'm gonna be real with you guys, this is literally the first time I've heard that from anyone but my sister and my friends and I might be crying.
u/cryostasis
Hey OP, are you interested in relocating?
u/GhostNebula OP
I'm fourteen, I don't have a lot of say over where I live.
u/riddlemetofoff
I forgot you were fourteen. This conversation is increasingly surreal. I feel like I'm watching a Shakespearian tragedy or something.
u/bobthegoon
Waitwaitwait. You're fourteen, and your parents aren't on the list of people who've told you you're not a villain?
u/GhostNebula OP
Yeah I don't really want to elaborate on that whole situation right now, or ever. Sorry.
u/villainoftheyear
Okay but if you're half of this species, one of your parents must be completely this species, right? That's usually how this works?
u/GhostNebula OP
That is usually how this works but not for me, sorry. I'm more of a... physics issue, I guess? It's complicated.
u/totallynotredrobin
So I've been combing through recent legislation to figure out what the fuck is going on and uh. OP. Are you a fucking ghost?
u/GhostNebula OP
I'm not answering that.
u/cryostasis
You don't really need to, Reddit User GhostNebula.
u/villainoftheyear
Hey, link that legislation so the rest of us can also know what the fuck is going on.
I'm too stupid to understand what this says, can someone explain it to me?
u/GhostNebula OP
I'm being doxxed
u/riddlemetofoff
Shush, we're trying to figure this out
u/GhostNebula OP
yeah that's the doxxing part
u/totallynotredrobin
Okay so-
Anti-Ecto Act, passed earlier this year by executive order
Section One, Background: According to research, ghosts are not sentient, do not feel pain, and are inherently and irredeemably evil. They've done a shit ton of property damage to the small town where the portal got opened up and the number one most wanted ghost (u/GhostNebula, I assume) is considered a massive threat comparable to Bane or Black Adam. This means that ghosts should not be allowed to exist at all and need to be 'taken care of.' (Yikes yikes yikes)
Section Two, Definitions: The only one that matters is that 'ecto-entity,' the thing that is illegal, is any being that produces ectoplasm naturally and/or requires them to sustain themselves.
Section Three, Security: Ghosts are not allowed to exist. It's illegal to harbor a ghost, help a ghost, like ghosts, and/or prevent anyone from harming or capturing a ghost. This includes ghosts that are not on Earth but are instead hanging out in their own dimension.
Section Four, Enforcement: This section establishes the Ghost Investigation Ward and gives them the legal authority to carry and develop weapons, enter private property without a warrant if they have 'reasonable cause' to believe that there's ghosts there, and establishes a set of goals that boils down to 'capture all ghosts and experiment on them extensively.'
Section Five, Authority: It's illegal to stop the GIW from doing whatever they want and you're legally required to help them.
Section Six, Research: This is a list of things that you're allowed to do to ghosts that you're not allowed to do on animals, such as perform surgery without anesthesia, house them in empty cells without bedding or sanitation or anything, and completely disregard both their short- and long-term health.
u/totallynotredrobin
this legislation breaks several laws and half of it doesn't even make sense, i have no idea how it passed without remark
u/villainoftheyear
Hey guys, I have some ideas for fun new crimes to commit
u/riddlemetofoff
That's... actually way worse than I was expecting, wow
u/bobthegoon
See if this were about me I would simply not want to exist anymore
u/totallynotredrobin
Have you considered, idk, bringing this to the Justice League? Meta rights are kinda their thing, they'd handle this right away
u/GhostNebula OP
absolutely the frick not
u/GhostNebula OP
I'm sorry I really didn't mean this to get this serious, but as it stands they're all still really bad at ghost hunting and don't stand a chance of actually catching me. But if I bring myself to the attention of the Justice League, I'm screwed. Superman will muzzle me like a dog and hand me to the GIW and I'll get tortured for the rest of forever by people that roll their eyes when I scream. I don't want any of those guys to even freaking look at me.
u/cryostasis
Because you think you're a villain, right
u/GhostNebula OP
yyyes why did you say it like that
u/cryostasis
don't worry about it
u/GhostNebula OP
...which one of you buttheads took my delete button
u/totallynotredrobin
Yeah, I thought you were heading toward that degree of meltdown. If it makes you feel better, I also scrubbed several sentences of particularly incriminating information from previous comments.
u/GhostNebula OP
thanks?? heck you're right i should. not have said those things
u/cryostasis
anyway i'm contacting flash and making this his problem
I'm envisioning this whole thread happening over the course of like 2 hours max while Danny is trying to treat injuries and maybe do a tiny bit of homework between late night/early morning ghost fights. He's tired, stressed, in pain, and suffering blood loss; hence why he's been so loose lipped.
Eventually he's gonna pass out for a few hours of restless sleep and when he wakes up for school, Flash is gonna be in his house. Just because figuring out who those 'scientists' are and starting the investigation with them is easy enough. Not because he knows who Danny is. Of course, Mr. "It's-A-Lie-I'm-Not-A-Ghost!" might jump to a conclusion or two and react accordingly.
Which is to say, the next time u/GhostNebula posts in the thread is to cuss everyone else out for ratting on him while he tries to ride out a panic attack in some tiny little hidey hole.
It's almost a Mexican standoff when Danny came down the stairs. He's gotten up in the middle of the night for some ectopusses and had apparently slept through a member of the Justice League showing up.
Both Flash and his parent opened their mouths to explain, but Danny beat them too it. "Cryostasis, you damn doxxer!"
This took all the adults by surprise, but true to form, Flash recovered first. "Nebula, I presume."
"As if you didn't know." Danny huffed.
"I actually didn't until you brought up Cryostasis."
Danny froze and then facepalmed. Of-fucking-course.
Flash smile reassuringly, but inside he was panicking. He needed to get GhostNebula out of this house NOW.
You're right, but also almost everyone else in the isekai genre gets a quick blissful exit from truck-kun before rebirth but Simon gets his horrible, awful, long death before he gets to suddenly wake up in front of some big tiddy anime goddess who tells him he's gonna get a second chance at life.
and now I'm just imagining this figurine bait character saying something like "Usually when I select a hero, I have to send something to go get them," pause as she eats chips or something to indicate her laid back attitude, "but you were already on your way out so I got lazy."
"...how do you usually "get" people to come here?"
Wide shot of the two of them standing in her domain. Pause.
Sudden compilation of anime characters getting hit by trucks.
Cut back to wide shot. "I've got an old reliable set up; Don't worry about it."
Simon heard a voice, a divine sounding voice. He tried to block it out. Voices were lies and false promises.
Ava didn't lie. Ava came for him. Ava tried to save him, she just failed.
Simon wanted to live. It was such a simple thing. Such an essential thing. But he'd known he was out of time. Since the ship filled filled blood. Since he lost his arm. Since Ava died. Since he lost contact with the ship. Since he was welded in. Since the Coalition of Iron caught him. Since Filament Station. Since Birth.
The universe was dying. But Simon wanted to live. He fought tooth and nail, and even when he couldn't win, and all he could do was to try and make the 'Light' lose by making sure someone got the data. He still wanted to live.
The voice was getting more forceful now. It didn't sound like The Light, when it mimicked the crewman from SM-8.
What would you do to live?
How many times do I have to answer that? Simon wondered. I let myself be sealed in a metal coffin to run tests under a sea of blood to live. I rammed a giant monster. I irradiated myself. I navigated unseen territory. I found the black box. I did every suicidal task asked of me in order to live, none of which I was ever expected to survive. I'd say I've more than earned a life ten times over.
And if there was others like you? Others who just wanted to live? Would you work with them as equals?
Equals? Simon was never an equal. He was a tool. But he was dying, drowning in blood, feeling his body burn and twist into becoming something of the sea. He truly had nothing else to lose. "Sure," he laughed. "Why not?"
I'll take it
And suddenly Simon felt like he was yanked downward. Like his body was so much blood sludge and he was leaving it behind. Then he suddenly slammed down hard onto the ground.
He took a few deep breaths and appreciated the coolness of the air around him. It tasted almost like Eden, but more somehow. The light felt bright. Too bright, but that was probably just a side effect of being in that dark sub for so long. When his eyes fully adjusted he open his eyes and immediately became more confused.
Above him was a strange expanse of blue and white. A ceiling so high he couldn't tell how high it was. Neither Eden or the C.O.I. had anything like this. He sat up and his heart jumped into his throat.
That...that was a tree. It's leaves were different form the Last Tree, but he was from Eden. He knew a tree when he saw it! Almost reverently he did what he'd never been allowed on Eden. He reached out and touched the bark. This...This couldn't be real. And...and there were more trees! So many he couldn't count them. And all the ground felt like the soil fed to the Last Tree, careful cultivate from waste and the dead. There was so much of it. Even small leaf-like things growing from the ground.
Was he on the other side of the Quiet Rapture? Was this where everything that was taken went? No wonder people had been so desperate to get it back.
He heard two strange sounds. One was a strange rhythmic pounding sound he didn't recognize, and the other was the sound of small feet running. Survival instincts trumped wonder and Simon his behind the tree and watched.
He couldn't make out how old the figure running was. Judging by size he'd say early teens or just a little younger. But the figure was wearing some kind of cloak that hid their appearance. But while the figure was fast, it wasn't faster than what was pursuing it.
A man wearing strange pieces of metal armor over his clothes, sitting on the back of some...thing. It was a large living being with no arms and four legs that ended on small black stones instead of toes (or maybe those were shoes of some kind? It had a long mohawk-mullet that ran down ins long neck to it's barrel like body. and a tail the same color as the mohawk. It's face was long and slender and freaked Simon out. Was it some sort of alien?????
"Please!" begged the figure who was running, his voice sounding like Simon had be right in guessing his age. "I just want to live!"
"Filth like you has no right to live." The man astride the beast sneered.
Eden filth has no right to live
Simon felt his one remaining fist clench. You know what? He was tired of being jerked around, tired of being in impossible scenarios and most of all tired of people in power looking down on others and deciding whether or not the deserved to live.
All his life he was a pawn, first of Eden then the C.O.I. Now he was a dog free from the leash and without a master for the first time and you know what?
He really wanted to bite someone.
And if this was just a pre-death hallucination then he was going to go down the same way he did everything in his life. Fighting.