holy shit. maybe i should have put this together on my own, but, i'm watching the vod of a streamer called pointcrow playing through slay the princess, and when he gets to the mirror in his second chapter 2, his previous chapter 2 having been the tower,
he sees the line about the layer of grime on the mirror and goes (paraphrasing) "wait, didn't the princess call the narrator a greasy film in our head in the last loop?" (time-stamped link)
and, like. i think he's right. that the thing clouding the mirror (or, rather, your reflection in it) when you see it in the cabin(s) is the narrator. because once he's gone, when you encounter the mirror without him present, it's clean, and you can see yourself in it.
there isn't anything that contradicts that, right? expect for the narrator showing up in the mirror when you enter the long quiet for the last time, but that one's already a kind of odd exception (he's like, the Prime Narrator, i think). i think this is just, correct.
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hiii - i watched your ffvii story mode stream up until the shinra manor segment.. then i got so hyped.. that . i: went and played the full original game through, watched your crisis core vod, watched advent children complete (i saw the original as a kid in 2006 as my first ffvii thing, very coolconfusing)... aaaand played read the wiki page for dirge of cerberus......
i had played remake before but Also stopped just before The End (literally in shinra tower) - so watched your playthrough to that point and finished it and my own playthrough! tysm for the coverage and encouragement in playing the OG, genuinely gonna get so much more from playing rebirth now :)
THIS IS AWESOME WAHOOO im legit SO EXCITED for u!!!! rebirth has been INCREDIBLE so far i hope u enjoy the hell out of it!!!! thank u for taking my advice and Playing Final Fantasy VII. it’s something everyone should do all the time!
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✩ WEEKLY FIC ROUND-UP ✩
All the fics I’ve read and really enjoyed in the past week-ish. Reminder: This list features any and all ratings and themes. Please look at tags and warnings on ao3 before reading.
Marvel
Dumb, Dumber and Dumbass by tempestaurora
As Coach Wilson peered out the window in the living room, May said, very quietly, “You didn’t realise your brother worked at Peter’s school?”
“We all make mistakes!” Sam hissed.
Then Coach Wilson was leaning back and a figure in a hoodie and jeans stepped through the window and into the living room, and Peter’s heart sank into his stomach like a rock. Sam’s brother was, true to story, scarred from head to toe. He could see the puckered skin on his hands, the burns across his bald head. But that wasn’t the shocking part—the shocking part was that he’d already seen it before: he’d seen it when a certain vigilante’s suit had been destroyed three nights before, and Peter had walked with him back to his backpack to loan him some clothes.
“This is Wade,” Sam introduced.
Sam Wilson had two brothers: one was Peter’s gym teacher, and the other was fucking Deadpool.
OR: A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Family Dinner, during which Peter and May meet Sam's family. Meanwhile, Tony sends constant text updates about his search for whoever graffiti-ed Avengers Tower.
Death Before Inaction by hppjmxrgosg
"Fuck off, Nicky.”
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“Hasn’t anyone ever told you spider-napping is illegal?”
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“You can’t hold me here, I know my spider-rights.”
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“God, you guys are so old. What are you? Like 27?”
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“Scale of 1 to 10, how upset would you be if I told you I banged your mom?”
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Or, I got my grubby little hands on the spider-man time line and fucked around a little bit. Not much (everything) changes.
DC / Star Wars (Crossover)
Obi-Wan in Gotham by hoebiwan (+ podfic)
Obi-Wan falls through a hole in the universe and ends up in the Batcave.
Clone Wars
the war has just begun by unintentionalgenius
The first problem was that the Supreme Commander didn’t give them enough warning about what they were stumbling into, when they were ordered out into it. Someone above General Kenobi’s head sent the men planetside in standard-issue gear, without thermal clothing or heat packs or sleeping kit or enough food for more than a single day. They had no extra ammo, no tents, no heavy artillery. They had barely any warning.
The second problem was that Supreme Command underestimated the strength of the enemy; it was supposed to be an easy enough job, holding the planet long enough to route the Seppies and then right back to the ship, leaving a contingent of troopers stationed there to retain what they’d won.
The third problem - the real problem - came when they let themselves become surrounded and the Separatists cut their supply line. Cody’s partially at fault for that one; a better Commander would’ve seen it coming. A better Commander would’ve had more backup plans, been prepared for more contingencies.
Being cut off from re-supply would’ve been a problem before the snow started.
Then the snow started.
I've never made it with moderation by Trixree (+ podfic)
He’d known how some of the men are with younglings—known from Waxer and Boil how sharply those attachments can form with little ones. Hell, the men were raised to be protective, so much so that Obi-Wan has often wondered if their protective drive was not written into their very atoms, some intrinsic part of their DNA.
It wasn’t something Obi-Wan had ever questioned. He’d thought he had understood the scope of it. In reality, he hadn’t understood a thing.
Not until Kamino.
Or: Not all that dive from cliffs make a running head start. Sometimes, the Fall is only a natural progression.
Standards of Professionality by Trixree
"Are we going to pretend I didn’t just find you fucking your General, vod?” Rex hisses over private-comm.
Cody doesn’t even turn his head to look at him. Rex can hear the smile in Cody’s voice when he replies, “No, because I am not fucking my General, Rex’ika. I am fucking Obi-Wan. We are professionals.”
5 times Cody and Obi-Wan struggled to maintain plausible deniability regarding their affections for one another + 1 time they decidedly Did Not.
The Hunger Games
Lover & Loner by amateurwordbender
Haymitch once told him that he’s a survivor. It hadn’t been a compliment; he’d slurred out the words in pity after finding Finnick shaking apart from a panic attack.
Jo’s a survivor, too.
(Finnick and Johanna, from the moment they meet to the bitter end)
Original Works
for the want of a jewel by FormlessVoidbeast
With his country fallen to the unstoppable tide of the Dread Warlord, a terrified king sends a peace offering of his own flesh and blood in the hopes of buying leniency.
When Prince Damian of Miska is accepted as the symbol of his country's surrender and immediately wedded to the Warlord, he expects his fate to be both painful and humiliating, and his death inevitable. To his confusion, the Warlord and his terrible Warlock seem to have no interest in abusing that which they have claimed as their own. As Damian finds his feet and gains friends in a new land, he begins to question everything he once thought was true.
But some jewels were never meant to be sold, and the consequences of Damian's sacrifice are more far-reaching than anyone expected.
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Maxo just had some awesome lore. I recommend everyone watch his stream VOD, from the theory bros meeting to the end because it was really cool. If you can’t do it right now, I made a summary below:
During the meeting with theory bros BBH and Cellbit, they were going over the conspiracies and catching Cellbit up. Cucurucho was spotted spying on them. They all quickly fled and promised to meet again soon.
But Cucurucho approached Maxo, a short while later when he was alone.
Maxo quickly lied that the theory room was an “underground game room” where he brings his friends to play games together.
Maxo challenged Cucurucho to a chess match, with the condition that if he wins he gets information about the island. During this match we did get small snippets of info:
Cucurucho confirmed they are indeed part of the Federation and acts like the messenger
They wouldn’t answer if there used to be people on the island before.
They placed this weird picture on the wall and said they liked it. And put a bunch of flaming skull paintings all over, kinda feels like a threat ngl
To Maxo’s question of why they keep spying on people, Cucurucho replied in a book: “Is that not what a good host does? Being aware of your guests.”
Maxo won the chess match (it was really stressful) and demanded to know this information as a reward:
Why can’t we leave the island?
Cucurucho answered with this.
Cucurucho disappeared and all the paintings on the walls instantly changed into art of them.
Next to the chess table was this threatening image directed to Max: “DISFRUTA LA ISLA” - ENJOY THE ISLAND.
While he did get information, Maxo was upset & felt tricked that it was so little. They already know the duck in the recordings is sus. He resolved to himself that he going to find the truth no matter what. He will build his communication tower and talk to the theory bros again soon about all of this.
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