Special thanks to @ladycocosposts who inspired me to make this which ended up being the first of many stories im grateful.
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Plot: Two performing art schools are combined upon underlying reason bringing together an unlikely duo Moose and Alice who help each other grow beyond fluttering hearts and the genre of music.
Ep 1 overview: moose sees Alice for the first time and a little performance from her in which she reminds him of a miniature ballerina in a music box.
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Moose pov:
If only looks could kill I’d be dead by now, she squints her brown eyes at me “cute, yeah” I agree with myself nodding and smile at her.
“ come on moose” I break my stare off and turn to Tyler “Huh” he rolls his eyes and pushes me along I turn back to where she stood on the school stairs but shes gone.
(Time skip ⏭ lunch)
I slam my lunch on the table and sit in silence “ what’s going on with you moose ?” I click my tongue in consideration “ well this girl I saw earlier” “ the one you were having a stare off with, she seem to be winning” he laughs out I cut in “ well yeah her and I plan to win next time” i smirk picking up a carrot.
Nora takes a seat “ have y’all heard the news?” “About what” I say turning to her “ the schools gonna join in with another it’s one of those prestige schools” Tyler’s ticks at that Nora adds in “it could be beneficial for everyone ”.
(Time skip ⏭ after school)
“Bye” I wave them off as they leave together I cross the street walking along the side of the school from earlier as I hear faint music I walk into the school following it to a open door it’s the same girl.
The music stops and she bows deeply immediately I start clapping she looks up startled “you dance like you belong in a music box, like the figure I mean, you’re really good is what I meant, I like the way you move” she laughs I got her to laugh “ thank you means a lot” she chews on her bottom lip and suddenly her eyes go wide “ you should probably get going ?” I swallow “ oh yeah, I guess see you ?” She hides her smile and looks at me “see yah” it’s a promise then.
Alice pov:
“What are you smiling about?, get this right so we can finish up” Alicia states and with that all happiness quickly disappears from the room as her words swallow it whole “sorry ma’am” I apologize resuming the steps.
{ it’s my 1st work so it’s not the best but I’m proud and hope you enjoyed}
Ok so Danny has essentially claimed earth as his. And he is fully aware that there are constant threats to the planet. Now he can’t stop a threat that originates on earth (that’s something he’ll leave to the Justice league) but he can do something about outside threats. Doing some research on ancient spells, rituals, and artifacts, he cast a world wide barrier on the planet to protect it from hostile threats so they cannot enter. This will prevent another Pariah Dark incident. However, barriers like this come at a price. You see, there are two ways to make a barrier. Either make one powered up by your own energy and power (which would be constantly draining) or set up a barrier with rules. The way magic works is that nothing can be absolutely indestructible. It must have a weakness. The most powerful barriers weren’t the ones reinforced with layer after layer of protective charms and buffed up with power. Those could eventually be destroyed either by being overpowered, wearing them down, or by cutting off the original power source. No, the most powerful barriers were the ones with a deliberate weakness. A barrier indestructible except for one spot. A cage that can only be opened from the outside. Or that can only be passed with a key or by solving a riddle. So Danny chooses this type of barrier and does the necessary ritual and pours in enough power to make it. And he adds his condition for anyone to enter.
Now the Justice league? Find out about the barrier when Trigon attempts to attack, they were preparing after he threatened what he would do once he got to earth. How he would destroy them. The Justice league tried to take the fight to him first but were utterly destroyed, so they retreated home to tend to their injuries, and fortify earth for one. Last. Stand. Only when Trigon makes his big entrance…he’s stopped.
The Justice league watch in awe as this thin see-through barrier with beautiful green swirls and speckled white lights like stars apears blocking Trigon and his army’s advance. The barrier looks so thin and fragile yet no matter how hard the warlord hits, none of his attacks can get through and neither can he damage said barrier. That’s when Constantine and Zatanna recognizes what this barrier is. Something only a powerful entity could create. For a moment, the league is filled with hope that Trigon can’t get through yet Constantine also explains that it’s not impenetrable. And clearly Trigon knows this too for he calls out a challenge.
And that’s when, in a flash of light, a tiny glowing teenager appears. He looked absolutly minuscule compared to Trigon and yet practically glowed with power (this isn’t a King Danny AU though).
And that is when the conditions for passing the barrier are revealed. And the Justice realize that the only thing stopping Trigon and his army from decimating earth. The only way he can get through….is by beating this glowing teenager in a card game.
Not just any card game though. The most convoluted game Sam, Danny, and Tucker invented themselves. It’s like the infinite realms version of magic the gathering, combined with Pokémon, and chess. And Danny is the master. So sit down Trigon and let’s play.
(The most intense card game of the Justice league’s life).
After Danny wins, this happens a few more times with outer word beings and possibly even demons attempting to invade earth, yet none have been able to beat the mysterious teenager in a card game. Constantine might even take a crack at it and try to figure out how to play. He’s really bad though. Every time this happens, the Justice league worry that this might be the time the teenager looses. Yet every time, he wins (even if only barely).
Meanwhile, Danny, Sam, and Tucker have gotten addicted to the game and play it almost daily. Some teachers might seem them playing the game are are like ‘awww how cute’ not realizing this game is literally saving the world. Jazz is just happy they aren’t spending as much time on their screens playing Doomed.
The way The Locked Tomb uses cannibalism is so interesting, because while it does serve as a metaphor for intimacy, the series only uses it that way when it's cannibalism of the soul. Cannibalism of the flesh is either extremely limited, or straight up horrific.
Like step six of the Eightfold Word. It's literally presented as "consume the flesh," but Ianthe goes out of her way to specify that a single drop of blood is sufficient. The most unhinged act of intimacy in the series, and it's explictly the soul and only the soul being digested.
Human flesh is only consumed in any volume twice: John's post-apocalyptic survival cannibalism, and Harrow's delicious murder soup. Both those scenes are exactly the opposite of intimate, and about as far from erotic as you can get.
John and Alecto gorging themselves on anonymous strangers was debasing to everyone involved, and not something John ever wanted to be reminded of. Harrow's soup was a desperate attempt at self-defense, like an animal in a trap gnawing through her own leg. It horrified and disgusted everyone at the table, even Ianthe, the number one suspect at making it weird.
I love the overall effect of the layered symbolism, because it allows cannibalism to be explored both ways. Seperately, without one connotation implicating the other. Except for Babs, of course, who gets to be both.
'I flirted with the idea that instead of being trans that I was just a cross-dresser (a quirk, I thought, that could be quietly folded into an otherwise average life) and that my dysphoria was sexual in nature, and sexual only. And if my feelings were only sexual, then, I wondered, perhaps I wasn’t actually trans.
I had read about a book called The Man Who Would Be Queen, by a Northwestern University professor who believed that transwomen who were attracted to women were really confused fetishists, they wanted to be women to satisfy an autogynephilia. And though I first read about this book in the context of its debunkment and disparagement, I thought about the electricity of slipping on those tights, zipping up those boots, and a stream of guilt followed. Maybe this professor was right, and maybe I was only a fetishist. Not trans, just a misguided boy.
About a year later, on the Internet, I come across a transwoman who added a unique message to the crowd refuting this professor. Oh, I wish I remember who this woman was, and I wish even more that I could do better than paraphrase her, but I remember her saying something like this: “Well, of course I feel sexy putting on women’s clothing and having a woman’s body. If you feel comfortable in your body for the first time, won’t that probably mean it’ll be the first time you feel comfortable, too, with delighting in your body as a sexual thing?”'
Can we talk about the fact that Luna slept over in Aylin’s room once for a project to get Ongsa and Sun closer, and then invented a fresh project for Aylin immediately following that and invited herself over for the “next few days?”
Gotta love how when Aphrodite gave the lost trio a makeover, she legit just changed the colour of Jason's shirt to purple and called it a day lmao. We love a barefaced photogenic beauty king <3
Plot: Two performing art schools are combined upon underlying reason bringing together an unlikely duo Moose and Alice who help each other grow beyond fluttering hearts and the genre of music.
Overview ep. 3 [s.g.l]: "shawty get loose, hit the dancefloor and act like there's nobody else in there."
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"like the song says you gotta get loose" moose says taking the cereal from my hands and onto the shelf. "Go on" moose says as a I start to move I isolate my arms and legs to the beat of the chorus.
"That moves spectacular but do you enjoy doing it ?, What's your favorite move freestyle wise ?" Moose asks I respond sighing " idk like the lil pop leg thang, ya know like" moving my legs toward each other matching my arms.
"There you go" moose says excited " I'm going to the dance studio tomorrow after school it'll just be me, you wanna join?" I could get in some ballet practice or use that excuse.
"Sure, gotta see what ya got anyways" I say hitting his shoulder "anyone will tell you I've got the moves like jagger" moose says posing "then show me something".
"okay that was alright I guess" I tell moose reaching for my water bottle. "You sure? cause for someone a little out of breath id expect a little more" moose states making me gasp "I .. am just a lil out of practice is all alright".
"Then why don't you come practice with me more? we can make it a once a week thing if you want" moose says smiling giving me his hand I take it getting up "id love that, but for now I gotta get home see you later" I repy packing my bag.
"Can I walk you?"
"are you sure?"
"never been more"
"..okay, lets go"
Walking up my porch stairs with moose following behind I turn to him "well this is it, .. thanks again" I say looking at my feet "no problem I wanted to" moose replys handing me my bag.
"alice why are standing outsi- ah"
"oh ...Mother didn't know you were home early"
"I didn't know you came home this late"
"I'm sorry that was my fault, I had her join me for practicing"
"well I'm glad she has a peer who realizes the importance"
While i work I've been listening to an LP of the Telltale Walking Dead Games (the ones with clementine, I do not care about the others lmao). Ages ago when I played these I was well aware/amused that part of season 2 takes place in Parker's Crossroads/Parker's Run because I grew up right next to it and the detail stood out to me.
But I never caught the line of "We'll head to parker's run. It's just up the road from here" until just right now. So I had a sort of "wait, where the fuck are they supposed to be right now?" (search)
ARE YOU SHITTING ME LMAO
So by process of elimination, since it's the only city with anything even remotely resembling a large home supply store, that would mean they're in my literal hometown. My tiny hometown in the middle of nowhere that's never in anything that barely anyone knows of.
How in the fuck lmao
y'know what we don't talk about enough? Hazel died. We talk about how she grew up in the 30's and 40's and we talk about how out of place she feels in the modern world, but! She died! She was dead! She has spent more time dead than alive, and not by a close margin!
How does that effect a person??? We got some of it in the flashbacks, but once those caught up with her present timeline and she shared them, they just kind of... disappeared. And she was a regular girl with some weird past experiences. That's one way of doing it, sure!
I think it would have been a lot cooler if she was just a touch creepier. If she felt a little bit Wrong. Yeah, in general she's more approachable than her brother, she's more sociable and less closed off, but. If you actually spend any time with her, it can be difficult to tell which child of the underworld is actually more unsettling.
Hazel is bright of personality and has a dazzling smile, but sometimes she'll just... shut down. She'll go completely blank for like half an hour and nobody knows what to do with it. Sometimes she forgets she's alive. Sometimes she'll spout the grimmest shit you've ever heard like it's nothing, she won't even notice it's weird until the room goes quiet. She spent decades in Asphodel, which is designed to make people forget about themselves and wander around for eternity, only she didn't have the luxury of forgetting! Wild! After she comes back to life, sometimes she forgets that she's allowed to Do Stuff now. She can spend so long sitting and staring at nothing. Sometimes she'll start crying on cloudless days because it hits her again that she can actually feel the warmth of the sun on her skin and she can hear birdsong. Every little mundane experience is a blessing and she will make you remember that in the most foreboding way possible.