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2015.06.21 02:38 i_teach Gilded "A" through "Omega" and all letters inbetween

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2024.05.16 08:18 haygurlhay123 “This Time, I Will Never Let You Go”: Cloud’s Mission and the Hidden Purpose of the Remake Trilogy - Literary and Musical Analysis of FFVII - Part 2

(continuation of part 1)

III. Searching for Aerith Beyond FFVII

There were absolutely no answers in Remake or OG (at this point in my research, Rebirth wasn’t released yet), no matter how much I looked; nothing at all hinted at how Cloud could’ve obtained the memories of OG that emerge in Remake as MOTFs. I knew I had to look elsewhere to search for more clues, so I decided to check every piece of media ever released by SE with a mention of Cloud or Aerith in it, digging for hints in the compilation and beyond.
And boy, did I find them.
III. a) Core Worlds and Suspension Worlds
There are a couple of general FF rules that we need to establish before going forward.
It’s important to note that there are multiple realms in which the FF stories take place, each with a different name, history and society. This ensures that all FF stories occur separately, never intercepting or interacting— though they do have creatures like moogles and chocobos in common, as well as concepts like airships, gil, magic and some form of crystal. For simplicity, I will refer to these separate worlds in which the numbered FF games (FFI, FFII, FFIII, etc) occur as “core worlds”.
Characters from different core worlds may appear together in non-numbered FF games, the events of which have no impact on the core world at all: it seems that sometime after a FF character has reached the end of their core world’s plot-line, they may somehow be summoned to far-removed realms where they will face new adventures. I call these far-removed realms “suspension worlds”. One example of a FF game that takes place in a suspension world is Dissidia Final Fantasy, wherein characters from multiple core worlds unite to accomplish a mission as a team.
III. b) Final Fantasy Tactics
First on our list of non-compilation SE games to explore is 1997’s Final Fantasy Tactics (FFT), a game whose plot takes place in the suspension world of Ivalice. Let’s plot out the relevant events, and then analyze!
III. b) i. Fact-Finding
The main character of FFT, Ramza, encounters a brunette flower peddler with Aerith’s iconic, gravity-defying bangs:
\"Aeris\" in FFT's Ivalice
If you choose to buy a flower from her, she express her relief: apparently, business isn’t going well because no one is interested in flowers. The girl wistfully dreams aloud:
“When is my knight in shining armor going to take me away from here...?”
Later, Ramza and his companions encounter a mysterious machine that can summon people from across universes. The machine is activated, and a rather rude young man with spiky blonde hair appears. Cloud claims he used to be in SOLDIER, and says the last thing he remembers is “getting stuck in the current”. He looks to be disoriented and lost, and suffers from piercing headaches. Mere moments after being summoned to Ivalice, Cloud rambles:
“What’s this? My fingers are tingling… My eyes… they’re burning… Stop… stop it [Se]phiroth…”
He dashes out of the room, but not without announcing:
“I must go… must go to that place…”
Outside, Cloud encounters the brunette flower girl Ramza met earlier. She offers Cloud a flower, but he only stares at her wordlessly:
“Flower girl: Buy a flower? Only 1 gil.
Cloud: …
Flower girl: Something wrong? Do I resemble someone?”
Cloud: No… it’s nothing.”
As soon as Cloud leaves, a gang of ruffians surround the flower girl and start harassing her, demanding payment that’s apparently overdue. One of them finally calls her by her name: “Aeris”. He grabs her, insinuating that he might sexually assault her in lieu of payment. Aeris is not strong enough to push him away. That’s when Cloud returns:
“Cloud: Get your hand off her!
Thug: What did you say!?
Cloud: Didn't you hear me? Get your dirty hand off her!
[…]
Cloud, to Aeris: Go… now.”
Aeris heeds Cloud’s advice, fleeing the scene before a fight between Cloud and the thug can break out. After Cloud scares the ruffians off with the help of Ramza and his companions, he speaks once more:
“I lost… something very important… Ever since, I’ve been lost […]. What should I do? What about this pain [?] Must go… to the Promised Land.”
III. b) ii. Fact Analysis
There’s a lot to unpack here, all of which you probably clocked in your head upon reading, but let’s put it down in writing.
While FFT Cloud’s memory is far from perfect, the Aeris he encounters in Ivalice doesn’t recognize him at all. FFVII Ultimania Omega addresses this question without answering it:
“[The flower seller’s] name is Aeris, and she has the same appearance and tone of voice as the Aeris of FFVII. However, when she comes across Cloud, she does not recognize him. Could she really be the same Aerith who appears in FFVII but with memory loss, or is she a completely different character?” (“#4 Proof of Omega”, “FFVII in Other Games”, “Final Fantasy Tactics”, page 560).
Regardless of her unknown identity and inability to recognize Cloud, FFT Aeris’ fantasy of a “knight in shining armor” is quite reminiscent of the flower girl/bodyguard dynamic we’ve come to know and love. Cloud’s armor doesn’t shine, but in my opinion, if you’re looking for the dystopian, corporatocratic equivalent of a knight, you can’t get much closer than a supposed-former-SOLDIER-turned-bodyguard. Additionally, despite his rude and cold attitude toward Ramza’s gang, the urgency with which Cloud swoops in to save the flower girl from the ruffians betrays a softer, warmer side to him: the flower girl/bodyguard dynamic strikes again!
FFT Cloud’s dialogue borrows two lines from the speech OG Cloud makes as Aerith lies dead in his arms (disk 1, chapter 28): “My fingers are tingling. My mouth is dry. My eyes are burning!” and “What are we supposed to do? What about my pain?” You might’ve noticed that this glimpse of grief Cloud experiences in FFT bears a resemblance to the fourth MOTF 4 experienced by Remake Cloud (see section “II. a)”). Could it be that FFT Cloud and Remake Cloud have something in common?
Shortly after being summoned to Ivalice, FFT Cloud declares that he must go to “that place”, a mysterious line that is later elucidated when he tells Ramza that he must go to the Promised Land and find the “very important” thing he’s lost. The Promised Land is the Cetra culture’s afterlife, meaning FFT Cloud is looking for someone who’s died, someone “very important” to him. OG suggests this is none other than Aerith:
“Cait Sith, reading Cloud’s fortune: You will find [what] you pursue. However, you will lose the most precious thing” (disk 1, chapter 16, English translation by Kotaku’s “Let’s Mosey: A Slow Translation of Final Fantasy Seven: Part Eight” by Tim Rogers, 9:42-9:52).
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“Cloud, after seeing Aerith’s hand reach for him through the Lifestream: … I think I'm beginning to understand.
Tifa: What?
Cloud: An answer from the Planet… the Promised Land... I think I can meet her... there” (disk 3, chapter 3).
Finally, let’s try to understand where on the OG timeline Cloud was summoned to this suspension world from and what he remembers. His comment about getting stuck in a current has to be about the Lifestream; apparently, on top of its atemporal nature, it can act as a conduit to other worlds. One only enters the Lifestream if they’ve somehow fallen into the core of the planet or once they’ve passed away and returned to the planet. Both scenarios merit consideration.
On the one hand, it’s possible that Cloud was summoned to Ivalice after he and Tifa fall into the core of the planet: this point in the FFVII OG timeline occurs after Aerith’s death and shortly before Cloud finds out he was never SOLDIER, which matches the gaps in FFT Cloud’s memory quite well. However, this scenario does not account for the vagueness with which FFT Cloud remembers Aerith and her death. Most importantly, Cloud’s realization that he can find Aerith in the Promised Land occurs much later in the game (FFVII OG, disk 3, chapter 3) than when he falls into the Lifestream with Tifa (FFVII OG, disk 2, chapter 8).
On the other hand, FFT Cloud’s vague yet persistent memories of Aerith suggest that he’s been summoned to Ivalice after his eventual death post-OG, but also that he’s lost quite a large portion of his memories. His incomplete memory loss is likely the result of Cloud’s individuality’s erosion by the Lifestream after death, which we discussed in section “II. a) ii.”. We can therefore surmise that by the time he is summoned to Ivalice from the Lifestream, Cloud has been dead for long enough that the Lifestream eroded a large portion of the memories of his lifetime. This post-death scenario is likelier than the first. The memory of Cloud’s realization that he was never SOLDIER must be gone, which explains why he claims otherwise upon being summoned to Ivalice. Contrastingly, vestiges of Cloud’s OG memories of Aerith cling to his soul, even after others have been wiped clean. Could this be a consequence of their soulmate bond? Could the strength of Cloud’s love and grief for Aerith have made his memories of her stronger and more difficult for the Lifestream to erode? Could it be both?
One thing is clear: Aerith is of fundamental importance to Cloud, even when he can’t quite remember her. In fact, the only other character he remembers and/or mentions in FFT is Sephiroth. It does make sense that the memories of those who have marked one’s soul forevermore would be the most difficult for the Lifestream to erode.
III. c) Dissidia Final Fantasy
The next stop on our travels through suspension worlds is 2008’s Dissidia Final Fantasy! Now strap in, because here’s where things get really serious.
III. c) i. Fact Finding
In the suspension world of Dissidia Final Fantasy (DFF), the goddess of harmony Cosmos and the god of discord Chaos are engaged in a never-ending cycle of conflict. Both deities need warriors to fight on their behalf, so they recruit core world characters into their respective teams by summoning them to DFF. Some of these summoned characters are FFIV’s Cecil, FFVI’s Terra, FFVII’s Sephiroth, FFX’s Tidus, and of course, FFVII’s Cloud. The warriors find themselves in the suspension world of DFF with no memories of their core worlds’ plotlines. However, as the DFF adventure progresses, they are able to recover pieces of their memories here and there. It isn’t clear how much they come to remember. Ultimately, the warriors hope to return home to their core worlds by fighting in this war and seeing to its end.
Cloud is summoned to DFF as a warrior on the side of Chaos, who seeks to destroy all existence. Sephiroth is also on Chaos’ side, meaning the two are teammates despite being enemies in their core world of FFVII. It just so happens that Tifa is a summoned warrior in DFF too, though she’s fighting on Cosmos’ side. Intrigued by her vague familiarity, Sephiroth hypothesizes that killing Tifa will bring back his memories of OG’s plot line: before long, the masamune wielder finds Tifa alone and corners her into a one-on-one fight. Thankfully, Cloud swoops in and saves her before Sephiroth can do any harm. Tifa is thankful for Cloud’s help, though confused that Cloud would elect to assist her and turn against a fellow warrior of Chaos; she doesn’t remember what Sephiroth and Cloud mean to each other in OG. In fact, Tifa doesn’t even remember Cloud’s name or that they share a core world, though Cloud feels somewhat familiar to her. For his part, Cloud at least remembers that Tifa is someone he cares about from his core world. As Tifa thanks Cloud for saving her from Sephiroth, something she says elicits an odd reaction from the warrior of Chaos:
“Tifa: The way you showed up and fought that guy off. It was a pretty cool thing to watch. You were like a hero, charging in to save the girl.
Cloud gasps at her words. She doesn’t notice” (Dissidia 012: Treachery of the Gods, report 5: “Unexpected Fulfillment 2”).
On another note, Cloud knows he will have to fight Tifa once the Cosmos-Chaos conflict comes to a head, as they are on opposing teams. He thinks to himself:
“Once [her] memories return, [she]’ll lose the will to fight just like I have. So... Before that can happen, I have to act...” (Dissidia 012: Treachery of the Gods, report 5: “Unexpected Fulfillment 2”).
In order to end the cycle of the conflict and to avoid fighting Tifa, Cloud decides to try and defeat Chaos himself. Predictably, Cloud is no match for the deity. As he dies, Cloud pleads the following to the goddess Cosmos:
“Cosmos, goddess of harmony. If you can hear me, listen to my plea. I beg you. Save her. Save my friend… Tifa.”
Cosmos hears him and responds immediately:
“Cosmos: An end to this conflict, and a life spared? This is your heart's desire? If your will remains unchanged, I shall bring you here when the battle draws to a close. Cloud. My chosen" (Dissidia 0.13: Treachery of the Gods, report 7: “Unexpected Fulfillment 3”).
Cloud’s wish is granted by Cosmos: the first phase of the conflict ends without Tifa getting hurt, and she is sent away from the suspension world of DFF before the second phase begins. Cloud is saved from death, and Cosmos enlists him into her team of warriors for phase two: this time, Cloud is fighting on the good side.
Now we enter phase two of the war. Cosmos tells her team of ten core world warriors that in order to save the world from Chaos’ destruction, they must collect what she describes as crystals containing the power to persist through darkness. I call these the “DFF crystals”. There are ten DFF crystals in total: one for every warrior in Cosmos’ group to find. To obtain their crystal, each hero must overcome a trial that will confront them with whatever personal struggle they faced in their core world; if they prove themselves worthy, their DFF crystal will appear to them. On one hand, some warriors’ DFF crystals simply take the form of the crystals found in their core world. For example, Onion Knight’s DFF crystal looks to be nothing more than one of FFIII’s elemental crystals, which hold little to no personal significance to him. On the other hand, some warriors’ DFF crystals symbolize something more personal to their respective warriors. For instance, Cecil’s DFF crystal looks to be one of FFIV’s dark crystals, which specifically represent the dichotomy of light and darkness he struggles with in his core world’s plot line. Cosmos describes the quest for the DFF crystals as follows:
“Cosmos: The crystals embody the strength to face despair. With ten gathered, there is hope yet to save the world. The path to your crystal will be perilous... and different for each and every one of you. But you must believe in and follow your own path. Even if you know not where that path leads" (Dissidia 013: Light to All, prologue: “A Final Hope”).
From this exposition, simply keep in mind that: Cloud must find his crystal by overcoming a personal trial, and his crystal may have the appearance of an object in OG that’s important to him.
Once the team is debriefed on their mission, Cloud remains reticent to fight; he doesn’t much like the mysterious nature of this conflict. Not knowing exactly what they’re all fighting for is clearly bothersome to the swordsman, and the idea of thoughtlessly engaging in battles leaves a bad taste in his mouth. Fellow warrior Firion understands that without a reason to fight, Cloud’s heart just isn’t in it. He imparts upon Cloud that he must have a dream he’s fighting to protect, something he wants to see come true, to motivate him to stop Chaos from destroying all existence. Unfortunately, Cloud doesn’t have a dream to preserve, or can’t find one for himself:
“Cloud: I've looked, but I'm still empty-handed. And without a dream, what do you suppose I should do? […] Maybe what I'm looking for... isn't here” (Dissidia 0.13: Light to All, chapter 1: “Beyond Doubt”, “Gateway of Good and Evil”).
Another fellow warrior, Cecil, expresses worry for Cloud, whose response evokes the main theme of FFVII OG:
“Cecil: Everyone's worried, Cloud. But... Do you shoulder a larger concern?
Cloud: Concern... Maybe a sense of loss" (Dissidia 0.13: Light to All, chapter 1: “Beyond Doubt”, “Beyond the Continent”).
Whatever Cloud is looking for “isn’t [there]”, and he feels “a sense of loss”: Cloud’s motivating dream has been lost to him. This is later reasserted in a conversation with Terra, another warrior of Cosmos:
“Terra: And you, Cloud... What's your dream?
Cloud: I've lost mine" (Dissidia 0.13: Light to All, chapter 3: “The Chosen Battle”, “Gateway of True Intent”).
Later, Cloud encounters and fights Sephiroth, who is still a part of Chaos’ team. Sephiroth is defeated, but not before he’s taunted Cloud with his habitual puppet talk. However, Cloud remains strong and refutes Sephiroth’s manipulation, asserting that only he can determine his own path. This must’ve been Cloud’s personal trial, because his crystal appears at that very moment: it is a small, light green orb that looks like materia from his core world. Having pocketed his crystal, Cloud decides he must find his own reason to fight. Interestingly, his search is depicted as intertwined with Fate:
“Cloud: Even if I have my doubts... I have to find my own answer […] Until then, I'll keep fighting.
Narration: The warrior has vowed to keep fighting— and keep fighting he will […]. Etched in destiny, his quest for answers continues on” (Dissidia 0.13: Light to All, chapter 1: “Beyond Doubt”, “Gulg Gateway”).
Later, the nemeses meet again in a segment called “Recurring Tragedy”. Their interactions here are particularly interesting. Sephiroth speaks of making Cloud suffer through despair and pain as though referencing their history together:
"Sephiroth: This disease called hope is eating you alive. The world of suffering was born out of such half-baked ideals.
Cloud: If that's the case, I have to endure the suffering. There's no moving on if I run from it.
Sephiroth: If that is what you wish for, you shall drown in the pain. I'll lead you to true despair. [My] shadow is burned into your heart. We'll meet again, Cloud. I'll keep coming back— as long as you are who you are."
Sephiroth disappears. Cloud looks out into the distance before the scene ends.
“Cloud: No thanks. The one I really want to meet is…” (Dissidia 013: Light to All, epilogue: “Conclusion of a Cycle”, “Recurring Tragedy”).
This final line suggests Cloud has finally found a reason to fight: he wants to meet someone unspecified.
Finally, after the war has ended, we arrive at the final cutscene of DFF. I will let you read the full script, with notes added by me in bold behind the spoiler censors. Please do not read my notes if you do not wish to encounter spoilers for FFI, FFII, FFIII, FFIV, FFV, FFVI, FFVIII, FFIX or FFX:
“[The] heroes are all standing together in a grassy field with a forest behind them. Birds are chirping, the sun is shining brightly, and the wind is blowing gently. The heroes look around them in awe. They're all holding their crystals.
WoL: The battle has come to an end...
Tidus notices that his crystal has begun to emanate a blue glow.>! His crystal is a movie sphere from his core world of FFX: a capsule containing sounds and images that people record for later viewing. Tidus’ crystal likely represents the specific movie sphere recorded by his love interest Yuna, which revealed that she’d loved him from the beginning.!<
Tidus: Gotta go, huh...
The blue glow transfers to him as well. He turns to look at the others
[…] Tidus grins at the others, then turns and runs toward a nearby lake. He leaps into it in a manner reminiscent of [the events] of FFX. He vanishes as he descends toward the lake.
Zidane: We're not vanishing. We're returning—
Zidane is sitting on a tree limb as he says this. His crystal begins to glow gold, as does he. His crystal is shaped like a highly important ‘progenitor of all life’ crystal from his core world of FFIX.
Zidane: — to where we're supposed to be.
Zidane spins around the tree limb with the use of his tail and launches toward the sun. He's lost to view.
A white feather then drifts down from that direction and Squall catches it. The feather is reminiscent of his love Rinoa Heartilly, whose character symbol is a white feather. In fact, Squall’s crystal looks like a mix of his revolver gunblade from FFVIII and Rinoa’s feather motif. [Squall glows blue.]
Squall: Perhaps we can go on a mission together again.
Squall vanishes.
Cloud is then visible, standing in [a] flower field. The flowers are white and yellow. Cloud has his crystal, a light green materia from his core world of FFVII, in hand.
Cloud: [(Chuckles shortly, like a scoff)] Not interested.
Cloud walks off into the flower field, gaining a green glow. He vanishes.
A snowflake then falls into Terra's right hand as her crystal begins to glow pink. The flames drawn on her crystal represent her power, which is connected to the element of fire: her character arc in FFVI.
Terra: I think I've learned how to keep going. Thank you— and take care.
Terra glows pink and then vanishes. Bartz throws a stick. He's glowing pink as well.
Bartz: When you're having the most fun, that's when time always flies. His crystal is the Adamantite from his core world of FFV.
Bartz vanishes.
Cecil: It's mine to pass on—
A moon appears behind Cecil and goes through its phases as he begins to glow blue. His crystal has shadowed and illuminated parts, representing the duality of his character, which is central to his personal arc in his core world of FFIV. It also represents his brother Golbez, who has chosen the darkness. Cecil considers his familial bond with Golbez his guiding light and hopes to be with him someday.
Cecil: — this strength I've gained from everyone.
Cecil vanishes.
Onion Knight hugs his crystal and looks up toward the sky. His crystal is shaped like those found in his core world of FFIII**.**
Onion Knight: Everyone... thank you!
OK briefly glows blue and then vanishes.
There are wild roses at Firion's feet. He and WoL are looking toward the sky. WoL suddenly begins walking away while Firion looks down and sees the roses.
Firion: This isn't the end. Another dream is waiting to begin.
His crystal is the color of the wild roses that were at the center of his dream and of his motivation to fight Chaos. The roses are also the emblem of the Rebel Army he was a part of in his core world of FFII. His crystal is shaped like Pandaemonium, the final dungeon of his core world story. Firion gains a violet glow and then vanishes.
WoL is walking through the field and then comes to a stop. He's looking at something.
WoL: May the light forever shine upon us.”
As you can see, everyone’s crystal is very important to the story of their core world, and in the cases of at least Tidus, Squall, Terra and Cecil, the crystals represent something very personal. What about Cloud and his crystal, then? What about the dream he lost and the person he wants to meet? Let’s begin analyzing to answer these questions.
III. c) ii. Fact Analysis
Firstly, it’s clear to me that the Cloud that appears in DFF is a post-OG Cloud, given how many plot points from OG he interacts with. I’m reticent to say whether or not this post-OG Cloud is dead like in FFT, as he recovers many of his memories of OG during DFF and there is no evidence of him having passed away and joined the Lifestream.
The second thing I’d like to point out is Cloud’s strange reaction when Tifa compares him to a hero who swoops in and saves the girl from the bad guy. Cloud gasps, indicating that her words mean something to him; the trope Tifa references must therefore be included somewhere in the FFVII OG plot-line. Some of you are surely ahead of me by now, having realized that only the tragic antithesis of this trope appears in OG: Cloud is unable to save Aerith from Sephiroth (disk 1, chapter 28). Whether or not DFF Cloud remembers Aerith herself at this point, it’s clear he recalls the pain and guilt of losing Aerith to Sephiroth.
Next, let’s address Cloud’s lost dream: to meet an unspecified person. It seems Cloud is aware at this point that in OG, he was eternally separated from the person he dreams of meeting. So, who was he separated from in his core world? Who can he never meet again, even if his team of warriors defeats Chaos and Cloud returns to the realm of FFVII? There are a few options —his mother, his father, Zack, Jessie, Biggs, Wedge, and any other person he knew who died—, but the sheer narrative weight that Aerith’s untimely death carries makes it clear who he truly wants to meet. This is corroborated by Cloud’s “I think I can meet her… there” line in OG (disk 3 chapter 3), by FFT Cloud’s search for Aerith during his appearance in Ivalice, and by Cloud’s strange reaction to Tifa’s comparing him to a hero who swoops in and saves the girl from the bad guy. All the available evidence suggests that Cloud’s dream is indeed to reunite with Aerith, and that this dream is “lost” to him because she was killed by Sephiroth (disk 1, chapter 28). This would also explain the title of the DFF segment “Recurring Tragedy”, since as we all know, the ultimate tragedy of FFVII OG is Aerith’s death. Considering Sephiroth was the one to take Aerith away from Cloud, Sephiroth’s threats of drowning him in despair in “Recurring Tragedy” only solidify this interpretation of Cloud’s lost dream.
Finally, we arrive at the ending cutscene. Cosmos’ warriors return to where they belong to try and accomplish whatever dream they held as motivation during the Cosmos-Chaos conflict, each carrying their DFF crystal. Cloud is shown standing in a field of white and yellow flowers and walking deeper into it with a light green materia in hand. Why was a white and yellow flower field chosen to represent DFF Cloud’s dream? The answer is obvious. White and yellow flowers symbolize Aerith: she sold Cloud a yellow blossom upon first meeting him in OG (disk 1, chapter 1), and her yellow and white flowerbed cushioned Cloud’s fall when the two reunited in the Sector 5 church (disk 1, chapter 4). What’s more, we have the iconic credits video of the original cut of Advent Children to refer to, wherein Cloud is seen driving near flower fields. Aerith stands there (3:20), seemingly waiting for him. Here’s what Nomura had to say about this credits scene:
"[...] we filmed the video for the ending credits in Hawaii. There are fields of flowers on both sides of the road, and the colors —yellow and white— are the same as the flowers in Aerith's church […]. With Aerith, 'flowers' have been her image throughout the series” (FFVII Reunion Files, “Countdown to Reunion”, “Stories from CG Production”, page 87).
Even in the Advent Children Complete cut of the film, where Aerith is not shown standing in the field, the flowers and their symbolism of Aerith remain. That being so, it’s more than fair to say that the white and yellow flowers in DFF’s ending cutscene serve as yet another confirmation that Cloud’s dream is to be with Aerith.
With all of this established, we can address the nature of Cloud’s DFF crystal. As we established, every core world has its own version of a crystal, each possessing a distinct appearance, function and meaning. Materia are the crystals of FFVII, so one could be satisfied by the proposition that Cloud’s DFF crystal is simply meant to represent a random materia. However, I think Cloud’s crystal is specifically the White Materia, as it represents Aerith’s sacrifice, her importance to the plot and what she died fighting for. If any one object symbolizes her death, it’s the White Materia; it’s even given closeups during the event (2:33-3:02). Besides, unlike any other materia in FFVII, the White Materia is known to glow a light green when Holy has been activated:
“Bugenhagen: If [the prayer] reaches the planet, the White Materia will begin to glow a pale green” (FFVII OG, disk 2, chapter 15).
Here are pictures of the White Materia in OG and Advent Children, and two pictures of Cloud's DFF crystal (in order) so you can compare for yourself:
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Cloud's DFF Crystal
Cloud’s DFF crystal
So far, in both suspension world games we’ve examined (FFT and DFF), Cloud is searching for Aerith. As a final note on DFF, it may interest you to know that codirector of the Remake trilogy Toriyama was actually a writer for DFF: he may have carried some themes from DFF to Remake
III. d) Detour: The Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary Farewell Exposition
Before we hop onto the next suspension world, let’s return to ours for a quick detour: the 2018 Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary Expo. Themed with farewells and tragedy, this expo showcased the heartbreaking goodbyes featured in different FF games. Artwork, clips, quotes and images aplenty here! As the highly anticipated Remake was going to be coming out approximately a year and a half later, the FFVII section of the expo featured a few sneak peek Remake designs. This means the expo was at least partly curated with the Remake trilogy in mind; there could be interesting material in the FFVII section of the expo related to Remake. Let’s dive in!
Unsurprisingly, the focus of the FFVII section is Cloud and Aerith, since she is the loved one he lost in OG. Zack is also given a mention, however Aerith was the glaringly central star of the show. To showcase how important Aerith’s farewell in particular was to the expo, the FFVII portion was introduced by a photo of Cloud lowering Aerith into her watery grave and a video of her tragic death:
Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary Farewell Exposition, FFVII Introduction
The description under the video screen reads:
“She was gone in the blink of an eye. But the pain never went away.
Aerith awoke the ultimate magic to protect the planet and the people she loved. Yet her life came to a sudden end at the hands of Sephiroth, a man bent on seeing the world destroyed. Even the usually stoic Cloud couldn’t hide his grief at the unexpected death of an irreplaceable companion. ‘My fingers are tingling. My mouth is dry. My eyes are burning.’ True words, revealing Cloud’s deep sorrow” (Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary Exposition).
Conveniently enough for us, the expo’s tagline is “Who is the person you want to meet again?” Given that Aerith holds the spotlight in the FFVII section of the expo, it’s clear who SE is telling us Cloud wants to reunite with. Recall Cloud’s unfinished line in DFF: “The one I really want to meet is..." (Dissidia 013: Light to All, epilogue: “Conclusion of a Cycle”, “Recurring Tragedy”). We theorized that he must be referring to Aerith, and now, we are certain.
The expo also had pamphlet descriptions of the farewells depicted. Here is the general summary of FFVII‘s farewell story according to that pamphlet:
“The story follows the lead character Cloud, but it is the heroine, Aerith, who opens Cloud’s eyes and helps bring him closer to understanding the mystery that is his past. Through her, we draw closer to the truth of the story.
This scene, in which the heroine Aerith is lost, is easily the most shocking and tragic in the story. No one expected to say goodbye to such a major character in the middle of the story. Rumors of a secret way to revive Aerith spread, and it was clear players were having a hard time saying goodbye to her too. Even now, twenty years later, it still feels like a shocking turn of events” (Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary Exposition Pamphlet, page 36).
It’s interesting that SE would mention the rumors of Aerith’s revival circulated by players back in 1997, especially as fans were awaiting Remake’s release…
In light of everything we’ve analyzed so far, it can be said that between FFT (1997) and this farewell expo (2018), SE has consistently demonstrated that reuniting with Aerith is post-OG Cloud’s goal. That’s a period of over two decades— two decades of wishing, seeking, longing in real-world time for this character. This is a huge long-term commitment for SE to make, and you can bet the devs don’t take it lightly. Again and again, once the events of the OG game have ended, Cloud is shown to desire a reunion with Aerith. This ever-present and ever-insistent theme will become very important to us later in this analysis.
(continued in part 3)
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The Big List

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MISC

Barbie 4K [2023] $6 (MA)
Batwoman season 1 HD [2019] $6 (Vudu)
Beekeeper, The HD [2024] $7 (Vudu)
Supergirl season 5 HD $6 (Vudu)
X-Men Trilogy HD [X-Men, X2 & The Last Stand] $8 (MA)

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$5 4K UHD
Blackkklansman (MA)
John Wick 1-3 (iTunes)

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$4 4K UHD

Big Lebowski, The (iTunes/ports)
Black Panther (MA + 200 points)
Captain Marvel (MA + 200 points)
Despicable Me [2010] (iTunes/ports)
Dredd (Vudu)
Frozen 2 [2019] (MA + 200 points)
Gone Girl [2014] (iTunes/ports)
Guardians Of The Galaxy [2014] (MA + 200 points)
Halloween [2018] (MA)
Jungleland [2020] (iTunes)
Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil (MA + 200 points)
Scream [2022] (Vudu or iTunes)
Silent Night [2023] (Vudu or iTunes)
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Vudu or iTunes)
Tangled [2010] (iTunes/ports + 150 points)
Titanic [1997] (iTunes)

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$5 HD

Adventures Of Ichabod & Mr. Toad, The [1949] (MA + 150 points)
Fear The Walking Dead season 2 (Vudu)
Fear The Walking Dead season 4 (Vudu)
Fear The Walking Dead season 5 (Vudu)
Fear The Walking Dead season 6 (Vudu)
Fear The Walking Dead season 7 (Vudu)
Groundhog Day [1993] + Stripes [1981] double feature (MA)
Hunchback Of Notre Dame, The [1996] (MA + 150 points)
Hunchback Of Notre Dame 2, The [2002] (MA + 150 points)
Lady & The Tramp II: Scamps Adventure [2001] (MA + 150 points)
Marvels, The [2023] (MA + 150 points)
Rob Zombie Trilogy [House Of 1,000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects [Unrated] & 3 From Hell [Unrated] (MA)
Silent Night, Deadly Night 3,4 & 5 (Vudu)
Undoing, The season 1 [2020] (Vudu)

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$4 HD

300 Spartans, The (MA)
BFG, The [2016] (MA + 150 points)
Blue Beetle, The [2023] (MA)
Bridge Of Spies [2015] (MA + 150 points)
Color Purple, The [2023] (MA)
Drop, The [2014] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Fox & The Hound 2, The [2006] (MA + 150 points)
Indiana Jones & The Dial Of Destiny [2023] (MA + 150 points)
Lady & The Tramp [1955] (MA + 150 points)
Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken [2023] (MA)
Sound Of Freedom [2023] (Vudu)

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$3️⃣ Movies

$3 4K UHD

Aladdin [2019] (iTunes/ports + 150 points)
Baywatch (Vudu)
Birth Of A Nation, The (iTunes/ports)
Bourne Identity, The [2002] (iTunes/ports)
Bourne Ultimatum, The (iTunes/ports)
Cabin In The Woods, The (Vudu)
Doctor Strange (iTunes/ports + 150 points)
Frozen 2 [2019] (iTunes/ports + 150 points)
Guardians Of The Galaxy [2014] (iTunes/ports + 150 points)
Interstellar (iTunes)
Knives Out (Vudu or iTunes)
Logan Lucky [2017] (iTunes/ports)
Moana (iTunes/ports + 150 points)
mother! [2017] (iTunes)
Robin Hood [2018] (Vudu)
Sicario (Vudu)
Spy Who Dumped Me, The (Vudu or iTunes)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (MA + 200 points)
Thor: The Dark World (iTunes/ports + 150 points)
Top Gun (iTunes)

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$3 HD

Adjustment Bureau, The (iTunes/ports)
Avatar: The Way Of Water (MA + 150 points)
Baby Driver [2017] (MA + Sony points)
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The (MA or Google Play/ports)
Bloodshot [2020] (MA + Sony points)
Call Me By Your Name (MA + Sony points)
Candyman: Day Of The Dead (Vudu or Google Play)
Cats & Dogs 3: Paws Unite (MA)
Devotion [2022] (Vudu HD or iTunes 4K)
Exorcist: Believer, The [2023] (MA)
Fruitvale Station (Vudu)
Glass [2019] (MA)
Goosebumps [2018] (MA + Sony points)
Grand Budapest Hotel, The (MA or Google Play/ports)
Grown Ups 2 (MA + Sony points)
Halloween Kills [2021] (MA)
Hocus Pocus (MA + 150 points/no iTunes option)
Holmes & Watson [2018] (MA + Sony points)
Hundred Foot Journey, The [2014] (MA + 150 points)
Insidious: Chapter 3 (MA + Sony points)
Into The Woods [2014] (MA + 150 points)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Vudu)
Killing Gunther (Vudu)
Lion King, The [1994] (MA + 150 points)
Little House On The Prairie season 5 (Vudu)
MIB International [2019] (MA + Sony points)
Midsommar [A24] (Vudu or Google Play)
Mindcage (Vudu or iTunes)
Money Monster [2016] (MA + Sony points)
Nurse Jackie season 7 (Vudu)
Orange Is The New Black season 1 (Vudu)
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (iTunes/ports)
Pete's Dragon [2016] (MA + 150 points)
Planes: Fire & Rescue [2014] (MA + 150 points)
Predator [1987] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Pride + Prejudice + Zombies [2016] (MA + Sony points)
Public Enemies [2009] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Punisher, The [2004] (Vudu or Google Play)
Queen Of Katwe [2016] (MA + 150 points)
Robin Hood [1973] (MA + 150 points)
Scoob! [2020] (MA)
Secret Life Of Pets 2, The [2019] (MA)
Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs [1937] (MA + 150 points)
Spider-Man: Across The Spiderverse [2023] (MA + Sony points)
Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse (MA + Sony points)
The Secret: Dare To Dream (Vudu, iTunes or Google Play)
Tyler Perry's Diary Of A Mad Black Woman [2005] (Vudu)
Tyler Perry's Madea Goes To Jail (Vudu or Google Play)
Us [2019] (MA)
Vanishing, The [2019] (Vudu or Google Play)
Venture Bros: Radiant Is The Blood Of The Baboon Heart [2023] (MA)
Violent Night [2022] (MA)
Walking Dead season 9, The (Vudu or Google Play)
Walking Dead season 10, The (Vudu or Google Play)
Way Way Back, The [2013] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Whiplash [2014] (MA + Sony points)

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💲2️⃣ HD

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi (iTunes 4K)
2 Guns [2013] (iTunes/ports 4K)
31 [2016] (Vudu)
3 From Hell [Unrated] (Vudu 4K or iTunes 4K)
About Last Night [2014] (MA + Sony points)
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (MA)
Action Point [2018] (iTunes 4K)
Admission [2013] (iTunes/ports)
Adventures Of Tintin, The (Vudu or iTunes)
After Earth [2013] (MA + Sony points)
Age Of Adaline, The (Vudu, iTunes or Google Play)
Alien Covenant (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA/GP)
Allied [2016] (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Aloha [2015] (MA + Sony points)
Alpha [2018] (MA + Sony points)
Alpha & Omega 2: A Howl-lday Adventure (Vudu)
Alvin & The Chipmunks: The Road Chip (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Amazing Spider-Man, The [2012] (MA) PENDING
Amazing Spider-Man 2, The [2014] (MA + Sony points) PENDING
American Girl: Isabelle Dances Into The Spotlight (MA)
American Hustle [2013] (MA + Sony points)
American Reunion [Unrated] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (Vudu or iTunes)
Annie [2014] (MA + Sony points)
Arrival [2016] (Vudu)
Art Of Self-Defense, The [2019] (MA)
Assassin's Creed (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Atomic Blonde (MA)
Avengers: Infinity War (MA + 150 points/no iTunes option)
Baywatch (iTunes 4K)
Beauty & The Beast [2017] (MA + 150 points/iTunes option is expired)
Beguiled, The [2017] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Beirut [2018] (MA)
Ben-Hur [2016] (Vudu)
Best Man Holiday, The [2013] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Blackhat [2015] (iTunes/ports)
Black Panther [2018] (MA + 150 points/no iTunes option)
Bohemian Rhapsody (MA or Google Play/ports)
Book Club [2018] (iTunes 4K)
Boss Baby, The [2017] (MA)
Bourne Legacy, The (iTunes/ports 4K)
Boy, The [2016] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Boyhood [2014] (iTunes)
Boy Next Door, The [2015] (iTunes/ports)
Breakthrough [2019] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Bridesmaids [Theatrical] (iTunes/ports)
Broken City [2013] (MA)
Bumblebee (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Cabin In The Woods, The (Vudu/GP HD or iTunes 4K)
Captain America: Civil War (MA only/no points or iTunes option)
Captain Phillips [2013] (MA + Sony points)
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (MA)
Case For Christ, The [2017] (MA)
Celebrating Mickey (MA/ no points) PENDING
Choice, The [2016] (Vudu or iTunes)
Company Of Heroes [2013] (MA)
Concussion [2015] (MA + Sony points)
Contraband (iTunes/ports)
Cowboys & Aliens [Theatrical] (iTunes/ports)
Curse Of Chucky [2013] [Unrated] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Daddy's Home (iTunes 4K)
Dark Tower, The [2017] (MA + Sony points)
Dead Again In Tombstone [2017] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Dead In Tombstone [Unrated] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Dead Man Down [2013] (MA)
Deepwater Horizon (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Despicable Me 2 (iTunes/ports 4K)
Despicable Me 3 (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Devil's Due [2014] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (MA, iTunes or Google Play/ports)
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (MA, iTunes or Google Play/ports)
Divergent Series: Allegiant, The (iTunes 4K)
Django Unchained (Vudu)
Downsizing (iTunes 4K)
Downton Abbey [2019] (MA)
Dracula Untold (iTunes/ports 4K)
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse (iTunes/ports)
Dredd [2012] (Vudu)
Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas [2000] (MA)
Duff, The (iTunes or Google Play)
Edward Scissorhands (MA or Google Play/ports)
Emoji Movie, The [2017] (MA + Sony points)
Empire State [2013] (Vudu or Google Play)
Ender's Game (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Epic [2013] (MA)
Equalizer, The [2014] (MA + Sony points)
Equalizer 2, The (MA + Sony points)
Escape From Planet Earth (Vudu)
Everest [2015] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Ex Machina (Vudu)
Exodus: Gods & Kings (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Exposed [2016] (Vudu)
F9: The Fast Saga [2021] [Theatrical & Extended] (MA + Universal Rewards points)
Fast & Furious [2009] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Fast & The Furious, The [2001] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift, The (iTunes/ports 4K)
Fate Of The Furious [F8] [Theatrical] (MA 4K)
Fences [2016] (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Fifty Shades Darker [2017] [Unrated] (MA 4K)
Fifty Shades Of Grey (iTunes/ports 4K)
Finding Dory (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA + 150 points)
First Purge, The [2018] (MA)
Flight [2012] (Vudu or iTunes)
Footloose [2011] (Vudu)
Fortress [2021] (Vudu or Google Play)
Frozen [2013] (iTunes/ports 4K+ 150 points)
Fury [2014] (MA + Sony points)
Game Of Thrones season 4 (iTunes)
Get Out [2017] (MA)
Ghostbusters [2016] [Theatrical & Extended] (MA + Sony points)
Ghost Team One [2013] (Vudu or iTunes)
Gifted [2017] (MA or Google Play/ports, iTunes option is expired)
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (iTunes 4K)
God Bless The Broken Road (Vudu or Google Play)
Gods Not Dead 2 [2016] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Gods Of Egypt (Vudu/GP HD or iTunes 4K)
Greatest Showman, The [2017] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Great Wall, The [2017] (MA)
Grey, The [2012] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol.2 (MA + 150 points/no iTunes option)
Guilt Trip, The [2012] (Vudu)
Hacksaw Ridge (Vudu or Google Play/iTunes option expired)
Hail, Caesar [2016] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters [Unrated] (Vudu or iTunes)
Hateful Eight, The (Vudu or Google Play)
Heat, The [2013] [Theatrical] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Hell Or High Water (Vudu or Google Play)
Hercules [2014] (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Hitman's Bodyguard, The (Vudu or Google Play/iTunes option is expired)
Hobbs & Shaw [2019] (MA)
Home [2015] [DreamWorks] (MA)
Home Alone [1990] (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Homefront [2013] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Honey 2 [2011] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Hotel Transylvania 2 [2015] (MA + Sony points) PENDING
How To Train Your Dragon 2 (MA)
Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, The (iTunes 4K or Google Play HD)
Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, The (Vudu)
Huntsman: Winter's War, The [2016] [Extended] (iTunes/ports 4K)
I Am Wrath (Vudu)
Instant Family (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Internship, The [2013] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Invisible Man, The [1933] (MA)
I Still Believe [2020] (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
It Follows [2015] (Vudu)
Jackass 3 [Theatrical] (Vudu or iTunes)
Jack Reacher (Vudu)
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (Vudu)
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (iTunes 4K)
Jason Bourne [2016] (iTunes/ports 4K)
John Henry [2020] (Vudu)
John Wick (iTunes 4K)
John Wick 1 & 2 (Vudu or Google Play)
John Wick: Chapter 2 (iTunes 4K)
John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum (iTunes 4K) or all 3 for $5
Joy [2015] (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle (MA + Sony points)
Jurassic World (iTunes/ports 4K)
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (MA)
Justice [2017] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Kick-Ass 2 [2013] (MA)
Kidnap [2017] (iTunes/ports)
Killer Elite (iTunes/ports)
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Kingsman: The Secret Service (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Last Knights [2015] (Vudu)
Last Vegas [2013] (MA + Sony points)
Last Witch Hunter, The [2015] (iTunes 4K or Google Play)
Let's Be Cops [2014] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Life [2017] (MA + Sony points)
Life Of Pi (iTunes/ports 4K)
Lockout [2012] [Unrated] (MA + Sony points)
Logan [2017] (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Lone Survivor [2013] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Longest Ride, The (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Lorax, The [2012] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Love, Simon [2018] (MA)
Lucy [2014] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Maleficent (iTunes/ports 4K + 150 points)
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again [2018] (MA)
Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom (Vudu)
Marauders (Vudu)
Martian, The [2015] [Theatrical] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Mary Poppins [1964] (MA + 150 points)
Mechanic: Resurrection (Vudu/GP HD or iTunes 4K)
Men In Black 3 (MA + Sony points)
MI-5 [2015] (Vudu)
Mile 22 (iTunes 4K)
Mindgamers [2017] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Minions [2015] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Miracles From Heaven (MA + Sony points)
Mission Impossible: Fallout (iTunes 4K)
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (iTunes 4K)
Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Moms’ Night Out [2014] (MA)
Monuments Men, The [2014] (MA + Sony points)
Mortal Engines [2018] (MA)
Mortal Instruments: The City Of Bones, The [2014] (MA + Sony points)
Mother's Day [2016] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Mountain Between Us, The [2017] (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Mummy, The [2017] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Murder On The Orient Express [2017] (MA or Google Play/ports)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (iTunes/ports)
Neighbors [2014] (iTunes/ports)
Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Noah [2014] (Vudu)
Non-Stop [2014] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Norm Of The North (Vudu or iTunes)
Now You See Me 2 (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Nut Job, The [2014] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Oblivion [2013] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Ouija [2014] (MA)
Overlord [2018] (Vudu)
Oz: The Great & Powerful (MA + 100 points)
Pain & Gain [2013] (Vudu or iTunes)
Paranormal Activity [2009] [Theatrical] (Vudu or iTunes)
Paranormal Activity 2 [Unrated Director's Cut] (Vudu or iTunes)
Paranormal Activity 3 [Extended] (Vudu or iTunes)
Paranormal Activity 4 [Unrated] (Vudu or iTunes)
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones [Theatrical] (iTunes)
Passengers [2016] (MA + Sony points)
Penguins Of Madagascar (MA)
Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters (MA or Google Play/ports)
Pet Sematary [2019] (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Philomena (Vudu)
Pitch Perfect (iTunes/ports 4K)
Planes: Fire & Rescue (MA without points)
Playing With Fire (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Predator, The [2018] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Project Almanac (iTunes)
Prometheus (MA or Google Play/ports, no iTunes option)
Proud Mary [2018] (MA)
Purge: Anarchy, The (iTunes/ports 4K)
Quiet Place, A [2018] (iTunes 4K)
Ralph Breaks The Internet (MA + 150 points/no iTunes option)
Red Dawn [2012] (Vudu or Google Play)
Redemption [2013] (Vudu)
Replicas [2019] (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter [2016] (MA + Sony points)
Riddick [Unrated] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Rings [2017] (Vudu)
R.I.P.D. Rest In Peace Department (iTunes/ports 4K)
Rise Of The Guardians [2011] (MA)
Risen [2016] (MA + Sony points)
Robin Hood [2018] (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Rock Dog (iTunes)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (iTunes/ports 4K + 150 points)
Roman J. Israel, Esq [2017] (MA + Sony points)
Rush [2013] (MA)
Saban's Power Rangers (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Safe House [2012] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Savages [2012] [Theatrical] (iTunes/ports)
Scorpion King 3: Battle For Redemption (iTunes/ports)
Secret Life Of Pets, The (MA 4K or iTunes/ports 4K)
Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, The (MA or Google Play/ports, iTunes option is expired)
Seventh Son [2015] (iTunes/ports)
Sex Tape [2014] (MA + Sony points)
Shack, The [2017] (Vudu, iTunes or Google Play)
Show Dogs [2018] (MA)
Silver Linings Playbook (Vudu or Google Play)
Sing [2016] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Sinister (Vudu, iTunes or Google Play)
Sisters [2015] [Unrated] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Skyscraper [2018] (MA)
Sleepless [2017] (iTunes/ports)
Snow White & The Huntsman [Extended] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Sparkle [2012] (MA)
Spider-Man 2 [2004] [Theatrical & Extended] (MA + Sony points)
Spider-Man: Homecoming [2017] (MA + Sony points)
Spider-Man: No Way Home [2021] (MA + Sony points)
Split [2017] (iTunes/ports 4K or MA HD)
Spy [2015] [Unrated] (MA, iTunes or Google Play/ports)
Star Trek [2009] (iTunes 4K)
Star Trek: Beyond (iTunes 4K)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA + 150 points)
Step Up All In [2014] (Vudu)
Step Up Revolution (Vudu or Google Play)
Straight Outta Compton [Unrated] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Super 8 (Vudu)
Super Buddies (MA without points)
Taken 3 [Unrated] (MA, iTunes or Google Play/ports)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2014] (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Terminator: Genisys (iTunes 4K)
The Night Before [2015] (MA + Sony points)
This Is The End [2013] (MA + Sony points)
Top Five [2014] (iTunes)
Top Gun (Vudu)
Total Recall [2012] [Theatrical & Director's Cut] (MA + Sony points)
Tower Heist [Theatrical] (iTunes/ports)
Tremors: A Cold Day In Hell (MA)
True Grit [2010] (Vudu or iTunes)
Tyler Perry's Acrimony (Vudu, iTunes or Google Play)
Tyler Perry's A Madea Family Funeral (Vudu, iTunes or Google Play)
Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (iTunes 4K)
Uncle Drew [2018] (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Underworld: Blood Wars (MA + Sony points)
Vendetta [2016] (Vudu)
Venom [2018] (MA + Sony points)
Walk Among The Tombstones, A (iTunes/ports)
Walking With Dinosaurs: The Movie (MA, iTunes or Google Play/ports)
War Room [2015] (MA + Sony points)
Why Him? [2016] (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Wolf Of Wall Street, The (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Woman In Black, The [2012] (MA)
Wonder [2017] (Vudu/GP HD or iTunes 4K)
Wonder Park [2019] (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Woodlawn [2015] (MA or iTunes/ports)
X-Men: Apocalypse (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
X-Men: Days Of Future Past (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Your Highness [2011] [Unrated] (iTunes/ports)
Zootopia (MA without points)

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💲2️⃣ SD

12 Rounds [2009] [Extreme Cut] (iTunes/ports)
Aliens In The Attic (iTunes/ports)
Amelia (iTunes/ports)
Beasts Of The Southern Wild (iTunes/ports)
Black Swan (iTunes/ports)
Date Night [Unrated Extended Edition] (iTunes/ports)
Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who! (ITunes/ports)
In Time [2011] (iTunes/ports)
Percy Jackson double feature [Lightning Thief & Sea of Monsters] (MA)
Ramona & Beezus (iTunes/ports)
Street Kings (iTunes/ports)
Three Stooges: The Movie, The [2012] (iTunes/ports)

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$1 Codes

💲1️⃣ HD

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi (Vudu)
2 Guns (MA)
Alex Cross (Vudu)
Bad Grandpa [Theatrical] (Vudu or iTunes)
Bad Moms (iTunes/ports)
Battleship [2012] (MA)
Big Hero 6 (Google Play/ports)
Book Club (Vudu)
Bourne Legacy, The (MA)
Bring It On: Worldwide Cheersmack [2017] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Deadpool (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA/GP)
Divergent (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Divergent Series: Insurgent, The (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Duff, The [2015] (Vudu)
Dying Of The Light (Vudu)
Everest [2015] (MA)
Expendables 2, The (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
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2024.05.15 19:00 Commander_Z Cyborg #59 - Test of Strength

Cyborg #59 - Test of Strength

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Author: Commander_Z
Book: Cyborg
Arc: Machine Mayhem
Set: 96
Previously:
Victor Stone, Donna Morris and Keiji Otari worked together to create a robot called Atlas to participate in the collegiate Machine Mayhem tournament, a robot fighting competition. The humanoid robot easily crushed its competition in the first round but disappeared overnight before the second round. His three creators split up to track him down, with Keiji finding the machine in a back alley a little ways away from the stadium...
Keiji stood before the massive figure, blinking, trying to focus his mind. He had had many late nights and early mornings over the past couple weeks, so Keiji figured he was still sleeping. Or hallucinating. Or both, somehow. But, the voice rang out, its clearest yet, “No.” ‘Clear’ was a very generous and relative term, though. The noise wasn’t modulating through a speaker or a voice box, instead Atlas was making his own speaker by vibrating the motors and joints that allowed him to move.
The alley that Keiji found Atlas in was less than an ideal to make changes to a robot, but Keiji figured that Atlas would be understanding considering the circumstances. He pulled out an old bluetooth speaker out of his backpack and gestured towards Atlas with it.
“This’ll help you. No more grinding gears to talk. Just got to trust me for a few minutes, okay?”
Atlas stood still for a few moments, whether he was thinking or just unsure how to make a positive affirmation with his joints, Keiji couldn’t know. But, after awhile, he responded.
“Yes.”
Keiji set his backpack on the ground in the gross alley, making a mental note that he’d have to clean that later and got to work.
Around ten minutes later, he was done.
“Okay, Atlas. Try to use the speaker. It’s connected to RO23 on the tertiary control board.”
“...T…Te….ing…Test…Testing. Speaker operation confirmed.” Atlas spoke in a deep, synthetic voice that occasionally warped itself in tone, like how a whammy bar would add vibrato to a chord on a guitar.
“Great. So… Atlas… What's going on with you? Why’d you leave?”
“I am performing my task: defeat opponents, become the strongest. No foes in that arena were a challenge. Therefore, I left.”
Keiji raised an eyebrow. “That’s… not what we made you for. We made you to win Machine Mayhem, not to pursue strength as some sort of goal in of itself.”
“Incorrect. Nowhere in programming was “winning the Machine Mayhem tournament” a specified goal.”
“Okay, but I programmed you, and I’m telling you that was the intention.”
“Intentions are irrelevant. A teacher may shape their students’ minds, but they cannot determine what anyone does with their knowledge. That is a privilege reserved for each and every individual being. You say I was programmed to win a tournament. I say that I was programmed to make myself the strongest being. Only my interpretation is relevant.”
‘I guess that’s not an invalid interpretation of what I programmed him to do. But… that’s not exactly a sane or safe perspective on life…’
“And how are you doing that? Just fighting anyone you can see?”
“No. I have already stated that I found those machines in that arena unworthy of my efforts, in my short time in the outside world I have seen humans to be much the same. Few of you would pose any challenge.”
“Well, that’s a little more reassuring that you won’t just be fighting everyone you see. But - ”
Suddenly, a woman about Keiji’s age flew into the alleyway, riding on a metallic pink hoverboard. She wore hot pink combat boots with dark black leggings, and a matching hot pink sleeveless top with thick metallic bands around her wrists that went up to her forearms. Her eyes were obscured by a visor-like pair of glasses, tinted a reflective red to hide her identity.
And yet, Keiji knew instantly that she had to be Donna Morris. He knew that she had been working on some other project with Vic before they started Atlas, but he figured it was just for some shared class or lab work. But this… This was unexpected.
“Halt… robot! Step away from the civilian and no one needs to get hurt!”
‘Why’s she speaking so formally? Guess it’s some mindset thing.’
Neither Atlas nor Keiji reacted to what Donna was saying. Keiji knew she wasn’t talking to him, and Atlas just seemed indifferent to her presence. Finally, Atlas turned and faced her.
“You seem powerful. Show me the strength of your will and I may concede.”
“This doesn’t need to be violent. We can talk it out, here or somewhere else.”
“Actions speak louder and truer than words.” Atlas moved into a combat position, leaning forwards on his left leg, raising his fists up to his chest.
“Come.”
“Don- ”
“When I’m in the suit, it’s Black Narcissus. Some of us like to keep our identities secret, no offense to Cyborg, wherever he is.” Donna said.
“Okay, nice to meet you, Black Narcissus. Just… be careful with Atlas. He’s stronger than he looks.”
Donna smiled. “So am I. Just watch.”
Donna pressed her thumb and index finger together on both hands and a large light on the back of her hands turned gray. She pointed her hands right at Atlas, who still stood in his combat position, waiting.
A thick, gray fluid shot out of her gauntlets, ensnaring Atlas’ arms to his body and his legs to the ground.
“Gotcha! That’s industrial strength adhesive - ”
Atlas flexed his arms and the adhesive snapped with ease, then crouched his legs before springing upwards towards Black Narcissus and her hoverboard. She quickly flew out of the way but Atlas managed to barely get one hand on the board. Black Narcissus pressed her thumbs to her middle fingers, changing the cartridge in her gauntlets. The light on the back changed to purple and she fired her gauntlets again, launching a blast of energy at Atlas.
The extra energy rattled the robot’s circuits, and he released his grip on the board to escape further damage, sending him crashing back to the ground. She shot another salvo of energy blasts at the machine, keeping him stunned on the ground.
She switched her left gauntlet back to adhesive, hoping that it would be able to restrain a weakened Atlas. Before it could reach him, the robot rolled out of the way and grabbed a trash can, hurling it at Donna. She swerved out of the way again, then dodged a second trash can thrown as a follow up.
After the second can, she was on her toes, prepared for a third, but it didn’t come. She looked around, trying to find where Atlas went, but he was completely out of sight. She sensed him at the last moment, coming from the rooftop that he jumped up to. He grabbed her board and slammed it to the ground with her on it. The board shattered into a million pieces, but Donna seemed unharmed. Atlas sprung up, ready to keep fighting, and Black Narcissus rose fractions of a second after. She pressed her thumbs to her ring fingers and the light on the black glowed a dark red.
She swung a right hand punch at Atlas who caught it in his left. But the light on the back of her gauntlet started to glow brighter as she put in more effort, pushing back against his metallic muscle. Atlas pushed his legs back, trying to stabilize himself. Donna started to push him back more and Keiji could hear the motors start to strain. Atlas stopped resisting against Donna, then, before she could take advantage of it, he kicked up some of the pieces of the broken hoverboard at her. Using her momentary surprise, he punched her square in the chest, knocking the wind out of her and sending her to the ground.
“You fought well,” Atlas said, turning away from her.
“Wait,” Donna said, getting up. “I’m not done with you.”
“Yes, you are. Accept your defeat. There is no shame in losing to the strongest.”
Before Donna could protest, Atlas turned to Keiji. “Come, and bring your things. I have use for you.”
Keiji raised an eyebrow, but grabbed his backpack and started to follow Atlas further down the alley.
He turned back to Donna and mouthed “I’ll text you” to her. He hoped she got the message.
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“Stop here.”
Keiji stood behind Atlas, who was peering into an old garage a couple blocks from the alley where he fought Black Narcissus. He grabbed the padlock that was keeping the door shut and squeezed it, turning it into dust.
“You will find the tools you need in here. Repair the damage caused in the last fight, human.”
Keiji raised an eyebrow. “First off, I don’t really like being called “human”. Technically true, but feels hurtful in this context. Second, I’m a software guy. I couldn’t fix you if I wanted to. Third, being nicer to people will generally get you better results. Not really inclined to help someone who starts by insulting me.”
“Niceties are a waste of time. Fix me, or I will end you.”
Keiji shook his head. “No, you won’t. I can’t fix you, but you know my teammates can. And they’d never do that if you hurt me at all.”
Atlas punched the concrete wall in frustration, cracking it. “Very well. You are correct… I do need your help. What will they require to do so?”
“I don’t know. But come back to the arena with me. We can talk with them there and see what it takes.”
“Very well. Let your friends know that I require their assistance.”
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Atlas stood before Vic and Donna, who made it back to their workspace just before the robot did. He towered over the three humans, but if any of them were intimidated, it was hidden behind a masterful poker face.
“Y’know, I thought more people would care that we just walked in with a robot and are talking with him like he’s a person,” Donna remarked.
“People are busy and indifferent. The other competitors probably think it’s a marketing scheme or something and are just ignoring us. I wouldn’t worry about it too much,” Keiji said.
“Yeah, that. But so… Atlas has become sentient. Good for you, really. But… hooray. Another sentient robot,” Vic said.
“You see a lot of those?” Keiji asked.
“More than you’d think.”
“I am glad that you are not concerned by my presence. That saves me much effort. But the question at hand remains: I have been damaged and require repairs. Will you repair me?”
“Yes,” Vic and Donna said at the same time.
Vic looked at her, surprised. He figured she’d have some hesitancy.
“But, I’ve got a small condition for you. Should be no big deal. Win us the next round of the competition.”
“Ridiculous. You ask me to do something so trivial it is unfair, like a pro athlete competing at a preschool.”
Donna shrugged. “Yeah, it’s trivial and easy, but it helps us a lot.The club will look much better and get a lot more support for next season if we make it into the semifinals.”
“I’ll even raise the stakes. If you win the next round, we won’t make you enter the finals. Instead, I’ll give you a real challenge. You can fight me.”
“Why would I want that?”
“Because I’m the strongest one here by far. And, if that’s still not enough if you beat me, I’ll show you how to repair yourself. Then, we’ll let you go live as you want, provided you promise to only fight people who want to fight.”
Donna looked at Vic, concerned. “Who would want to willingly fight someone like Atlas?”
Vic sighed. “Trust me. There are plenty of weirdos in this world who just want to fight. It’s much better than me just throwing him in prison or taking him apart.”
Atlas made a noise that Vic thought was supposed to be a scoff. But maybe it was just static. The speaker wasn’t that high quality.
“You make a very strong set of promises if I win, which I will. But if by some miracle, you managed to cheat your way to victory… what happens then?”
Vic shrugged. “Pretty much the same thing. I’ll teach you how to repair yourself and let you go with the same stipulations. You just have to know that a human beat you.”
Atlas laughed. “You are a fool if you think that could ever happen. I accept your terms, human. Guide me to the arena, those boxes of scrap will be reduced to dust.”
Vic walked him over to the arena as as if he were any other competitor, but instead of waiting by the sidelines to see the results, he walked back to their workspace. He knew that Atlas would win and wanted to try and make sure that Donna and Keiji were on board with the other part of his plan.
When he got back, Donna was nervously pacing around while Keiji was scrolling through some webpage.
“So.. Vic… do you really think that this is the right idea? You’re just… unleashing him on the world. Isn't that irresponsible?” Donna asked.
“I don’t think so. Yeah he wants to fight people but he has restraint to some degree. He knows the difference being fighting every random person he sees and fighting someone who has a reasonable amount of strength. I dunno, I think him messing up and fighting… Superman or something and taking a big loss would teach him far more than we ever could or throwing him in jail for being dangerous. Is it a risk?… kinda. But so is any option.”
“So your best guess is just… let him go and figure it out?” Keiji said. “Isn’t that a bit too… hands off?”
“Got a better idea? That’s pretty much what we got to do.”
“No. I don’t. But this just feels... risky.”
“Yeah, it is. But he’s fairly reasonable after being conscious for what, 12 hours? Over time, he’ll probably mellow out and if he doesn’t, I can take care of him then. But he deserves a chance like anyone else.”
Keiji nodded. “Fine Vic. If that’s what you think the best path is… I’ll stand by you.”
“Same, Vic. I want to believe in him too.”
“Thanks guys, really. Hopefully we can all look back on this and agree this was the right path.”
A horn sounded and a voice came over the loudspeaker. “Semifinal-2 has ended! The winner is the University of Michigan’s Atlas! Please collect your robots and be ready for the finals at 1:00 PM.”
The team stood up and gave each other a round of high fives. They really had made something great. Now it was time to see just how great he really was.
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Two hours later.
The team packed up after their semifinal match, citing an unspecified emergency with the tournament staff. They weren’t happy with the anticlimactic end, but ultimately they couldn’t force the three of them to continue to compete and so they left without much hassle.
The three of them drove north until they found the first open field that Vic and Atlas could have their match in. There wasn’t anywhere that they could find in the city that wouldn’t attract too much attention or put innocent people at risk and they managed to convince Atlas of that too. The robot was in the trailer towed behind the three of them, much to his chagrin.
But after a half hour or so, they found a spot. A wide open, grassy field with no one around to interfere or get hurt. A perfect spot for them to settle things. Vic got out of the car and started to stretch, trying to limber up after the car ride while Donna and Keiji helped Atlas out of the trailer.
Atlas rotated his head, taking in the environment. “A flat, quiet field. An honorable place for battle.”
Vic let out one lat calming exhale before approaching Atlas. “Plus, no one is around to get hurt. That’s important too.”
“...Yes. That too.”
“The rules are simple. A clean match, no foul play between either of us. Whoever is left standing when the other yields or is unconscious wins.”
Atlas laughed. “I will never yield.”
“We’ll see,” Vic grinned.
“Oh, one other thing. Not really a rule per say, but a strong suggestion: Try not to seriously hurt each other. You’re not trying to kill or maim each other,” Donna said.
“Yes, yes. May we begin?”
Vic nodded, and took a step backward, creating about ten feet of space between him and Atlas. Before the dust even settled, his arms were force cannons launching pure energy right at Atlas’ chest. Vic had designed Atlas, he knew that he wouldn’t be very damaged by those. But he had underestimated just how much he would be able to tank them. The force blasts did little more than chip the paint and an exhilarated Atlas sprinted at Vic like a charging bull.
Once Atlas was a few feet away from Vic, he prepared a concussive grenade and exploded it directly against Atlas, using the force to stagger him out of the charge. Before the robot could launch another attack, Vic swung a full force punch into the robots’ chassis, crumpling it inwards slightly. Vic followed up the punch with another, but Atlas was ready for it and parried it with his left arm, then kicked Cyborg away, sending him flying backwards.
Cyborg shot his force canons at the ground to give himself some momentum in the opposite direction, slowing himself down. But Atlas had some tricks up his metaphorical sleeves too. Having realized that a direct approach was difficult, he used his powerful hands like a backhoe to scoop up a massive piece of earth and hurled it at Cyborg. Vic was unsure how to react to this, or more precisely, how he expected Atlas to follow this attack up. The boulder itself was a problem, sure, but it was just to close the gap. Atlas could be using it to block his line of sight and be jumping right behind it, or he could be using the temporary blindspot caused by the massive object to approach from either side.
Instead of guessing, Vic decided to power through the problem. Vic shot both of his force cannons at the projectile, sending bits of dirt every which way. Atlas was hiding in what was once the dirt ball’s shadow and Vic took advantage of his surprise to launch himself at the robot. Cyborg shot his force cannons behind him, propelling himself forwards rapidly in a charge mirroring Atlas’ own.
He knocked the massive machine to the ground and sat on his chest, using his arms to pin down the machine’s.
“You’re down, Atlas. Do you yield?”
“I told you. I will never yield. I am the strongest!”
Atlas began to press his weight against Vic’s strength. Vic knew he was a match for Atlas’ strength but there was one key problem: stamina. Vic’s body was, of course, cybernetic in part, but it wasn’t the same. He was still human and human beings got tired. Machines did not.
Vic could already feel his muscle starting to fatigue. The fight hadn’t been long, but any fatigue was going to be the difference. He knew he was a match for Atlas’ strength when he was at 100%, but every percent below that made it more and more likely to be Atlas’ win.
‘I need to end this fight now or the immediate future if I want to win. But my normal attacks aren’t doing anything to him. I could try a sonic attack, but I don’t think that’d really effect him. I could try targeting his joints specifically, but those were designed to take more than I can give. But I can’t just let him overpower me for the win. That’d make him overconfident and more likely to get into trouble afterwards. No… I’ve got a better idea.’
In an instant, Vic’s muscles stopped resisting. “I yield.”
Vic pushed himself off Atlas, who stood up and looked at Cyborg, confused.
“What foe yields when he has his opponent on the ground, at his mercy? I demand you continue!”
“No. This fight was never to the death, only to yielding. But frankly, you aren’t strong enough to interest me. You said it yourself, you will never yield. And pummelling you to a point where you are the equivalent of unconscious just isn’t worth my time. So I yielded. Congrats. You win.”
Atlas stood, incredulous. “No. That is not allowed. I did not win. You lost! Those are not the same!”
Vic turned to Keiji and Donna and then noticed that the fight had taken them about 30 yards from where they started. He started to walk back towards them, and Atlas followed.
“Guys, I yielded that fight. Doesn’t that mean I lost?”
Keiji raised an eyebrow. “I guess?”
“See? Congrats, you won.”
“... I do not accept this victory. This is a loss in all but name. Mark my words, Victor Stone. I will wander the globe, facing foe after foe to grow stronger. I will become the strongest being and when I do, we will have a real fight, one where you must acknowledge my strength for real.”
“Looking forwards to it. Stay out of trouble until then, understood?”
Vic held out his hand for a handshake which Atlas begrudgingly accepted.
“Understood.”
“Atlas, catch.”
Keiji tossed a small flash drive to Atlas who had to bend down to grab it.
“That has all your schematics and drawings on it, as well as all the parts we used to make you and where we sourced them from. It’s probably the best thing out there to help you repair yourself.”
“Thank you. You all have given me much to think about it. When we meet again… I will be stronger in body and mind. Farewell for now but I will return to challenge you again, Victor.”
“I’ll be waiting. And I promise to go all out next time, Atlas.”
Atlas took off to the west, heading to only he knew where.
Once he was far enough out of sight, Vic laid down on the ground, exhausted.
“Well, that’s enough bluffing for the next decade. I really underestimated him.”
Donna sat down to his left, Keiji on his right.
“Told you that you were being cocky. We all built him but he’s out of all of our leagues,” Keiji said.
“Yeah… but I really wanted to do it, y’know? Kinda humbling to be beat by your own creation.”
“If it makes you feel better, I lost to him too,” Donna said.
“Wait what? When did you fight him?”
“I’ll tell you on the way back. Not my finest moment, but I put up a good fight.”
“Proud of you. You’ve come a long way in your training. But after that fight… I’m going to need to get a lot stronger and pick my own training back up. I kinda feel like I’ve been stagnant for awhile, just sort of winning my fights through grit and will power. But if Atlas had been hostile… I don’t think I could’ve stopped him. So, I’ll need to get back to the drawing board and see what I can do to take myself to the next level.”
“And we’ll be there to help you however we can. But uh… Vic, finals are in like two weeks. Maybe focus on that first?” Keiji suggested.
“I’d rather get beat up by another robot,” Vic groaned.
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2024.05.15 08:33 Sure_Caregiver5823 Ask help for modify Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm when adding noise to sensor data.

Here is the paper link:10.1109/LRA.2022.3143293.
The paper is about a method localize a capsule endoscope by external dipole. I implemented the algorithm according to the demonstration in the papers. My algorithm can work perfectly when there's no noise. But it failed when I added noise to sensor data. The estimated value is slightly fluncated by initial points which is different with what paper said. I need some help to modify my code. Thanks so much!
Here is my code:
capsule.py
import numpy as np class Capsule(): def __init__(self, axes_acc = 3, axes_mag = 3, radius = 400): self.axes_acc = axes_acc self.axes_mag = axes_mag self.g = 9.81 self.r = radius def generate_acc_data(self, ground_truth_ang:tuple): phi,theta,psi = ground_truth_ang Rx = np.array([[1, 0, 0], [0, np.cos(phi), -np.sin(phi)], [0, np.sin(phi), np.cos(phi)]]) Ry = np.array([[np.cos(theta), 0, np.sin(theta)], [0, 1, 0], [-np.sin(theta), 0, np.cos(theta)]]) Rz = np.array([[np.cos(psi), -np.sin(psi), 0], [np.sin(psi), np.cos(psi), 0], [0, 0, 1]]) g = np.array([0, 0, -self.g]) return Rz @ Ry @ Rx @ g def generate_position_data(self,num_points): radius = self.r min_z = -radius max_z = 0 positions = [] while len(positions) < num_points: x = np.random.uniform(-radius, radius) y = np.random.uniform(-radius, radius) z = np.random.uniform(min_z, max_z) # Check if within the sphere if x**2 + y**2 + z**2 <= radius**2: # Ensure magnitude constraint is met and z-component constraint pc_magnitude = np.sqrt(x**2 + y**2 + z**2) if pc_magnitude > 20*1e-3 and -z * pc_magnitude > 25.4*1e-3: positions.append((x, y, z)) return np.array(positions) #test if __name__ == '__main__': import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D capsule = Capsule() num_samples = 20 test_positions = capsule.generate_position_data(num_samples) # Set up the figure and axis fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.add_subplot(111, projection='3d') # Sphere u = np.linspace(0, 2 * np.pi, 100) v = np.linspace(0, np.pi, 100) x = 400 * np.outer(np.cos(u), np.sin(v)) y = 400 * np.outer(np.sin(u), np.sin(v)) z = 400 * np.outer(np.ones(np.size(u)), np.cos(v)) # Only the lower hemisphere ax.plot_surface(x, y, z, color='b', alpha=0.1) # Transparent sphere # Plotting the test positions ax.scatter(test_positions[:, 0], test_positions[:, 1], test_positions[:, 2], color='red') # Axis labels ax.set_xlabel('X (mm)') ax.set_ylabel('Y (mm)') ax.set_zlabel('Z (mm)') # Set aspect ratio ax.set_box_aspect([1,1,1]) # Equal aspect ratio # Show the plot plt.show() 
dipole.py
class Dipole(): def __init__(self, radium = 400, mgt_m = 1): self.r = radium self.value = mgt_m 
simulation.py
import numpy as np from scipy.optimize import least_squares import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from capsule import Capsule from dipole import Dipole class Simulator(): def __init__(self, radium = 400, # mm num_samples = 10, axes_acc = 3, axes_mag = 3, mgt_m = 66.0, # A*m^2 noise=None): self.r = radium / 1000 self.num_samples = num_samples self.axes_acc = axes_acc self.axes_mag = axes_mag self.mgt_m = mgt_m self.capsule = Capsule(axes_acc=self.axes_acc, axes_mag=self.axes_mag, radius=self.r) self.dipole = Dipole(radium=self.r,mgt_m=self.mgt_m) self.noise = noise def magnetic_field_model(self,pc,me): mu0 = 4 * np.pi * 1e-7 norm_pc = np.linalg.norm(pc) norm_me = np.linalg.norm(me) if pc.ndim == 1: pc = pc.reshape(-1, 1) if me.ndim == 1: me = me.reshape(-1, 1) B = (mu0 * norm_me) / (4 * np.pi * norm_pc**3) term = (3 * np.dot(pc, pc.T) / norm_pc**2) - np.identity(3) b = B * (term @ (me / norm_me)) return b def rotate_vector(self,vec, axis, angle): axis = axis / np.linalg.norm(axis) cos_theta = np.cos(angle) sin_theta = np.sin(angle) cross_product = np.cross(axis, vec) dot_product = np.dot(axis, vec) rotated_vector = cos_theta * vec + sin_theta * cross_product + (1 - cos_theta) * dot_product * axis return rotated_vector def generate_rotating_me(self,): initial_dipole = np.array([0,0,self.mgt_m]) axes = [np.array([1, 0, 0]), np.array([0, 1, 0]), np.array([0, 0, 1])] angles = np.linspace(0, np.pi/2, 50) dipole_moments = [] for i in range(len(axes)): for j in range(i + 1, len(axes)): for angle_i in angles: for angle_j in angles: # First rotate around one axis intermed_dipole = self.rotate_vector(initial_dipole, axes[i], angle_i) # Then rotate the result around another axis rotated_dipole = self.rotate_vector(intermed_dipole, axes[j], angle_j) dipole_moments.append(rotated_dipole) return dipole_moments def calculate_angles(self,g): gx, gy, gz = g theta = np.arctan2(-gx, np.sqrt(gy**2 + gz**2)) phi = np.arctan2(gy, gz) return theta, phi def rotation_matrix(self,theta,phi,psi): Rx = np.array([[1, 0, 0], [0, np.cos(phi), -np.sin(phi)], [0, np.sin(phi), np.cos(phi)]]) Ry = np.array([[np.cos(theta), 0, np.sin(theta)], [0, 1, 0], [-np.sin(theta), 0, np.cos(theta)]]) Rz = np.array([[np.cos(psi), -np.sin(psi), 0], [np.sin(psi), np.cos(psi), 0], [0, 0, 1]]) return Rz.T @ Ry.T @ Rx.T def calculate_bm(self,pos, me, phi,theta, psi, type='x-y'): if type == 'x-y': P = np.array([[1,0,0],[0,1,0]]) elif type == 'y-z': P = np.array([[0,1,0],[0,0,1]]) else: raise ValueError("Invalid type specified. Use 'x-y' or 'y-z'.") b = self.magnetic_field_model(pos,me) rotation = self.rotation_matrix(theta,phi,psi) bm = P @ rotation @ b return bm def objective_function(self,x,pc,mes,ro_truth,type='x-y'): pos = x[:3] # Updated position psi = x[3] # Updated psi rotation angle g_reading = self.capsule.generate_acc_data(ro_truth) g_reading_noise = np.random.normal(0,0.002,3) + g_reading # Calculate angles from accelerometer data theta, phi = self.calculate_angles(g_reading) theta_n, phi_n = self.calculate_angles(g_reading_noise) residuals = [] mes_noise = mes + np.random.normal(0,10.6*1e-6,3) if self.noise: for me_noise, me in zip(mes_noise,mes): # me_noise = me + np.random.normal(0,10.6*1e-6,3) # Calculate modeled magnetometer data based on the current position and pose Bm = self.calculate_bm(pos, me_noise, phi_n, theta_n, psi, type) # Objective: minimize the difference between actual magnetic field and modeled field Be = self.calculate_bm(pc, me, phi, theta, ro_truth[-1], type) residuals.extend(Bm - Be) else: for me in mes: # Calculate modeled magnetometer data based on the current position and pose Bm = self.calculate_bm(pos, me, phi, theta, psi, type) # Objective: minimize the difference between actual magnetic field and modeled field Be = self.calculate_bm(pc, me, phi, theta, ro_truth[-1], type) residuals.extend(Bm - Be) return np.array(residuals).flatten() def simulate(self,): # generate test points test_positions = self.capsule.generate_position_data(self.num_samples) ro_truth = (np.radians(0),np.radians(0),np.radians(10)) results = [] for pc in test_positions: print("--------------------------------------") print("Ground Truth: {}".format(pc)) dipole_moments = self.generate_rotating_me() # x0 = np.array([110*1e-3,-30*1e-3,-81*1e-3,0]) # six init values X = [np.array([-81*1e-3,-81*1e-3,-81*1e-3,0]), np.array([110*1e-3,-30*1e-3,-81*1e-3,0]), np.array([-30*1e-3,110*1e-3,-81*1e-3,0]), np.array([-81*1e-3,-81*1e-3,-81*1e-3,np.radians(180)]), np.array([110*1e-3,-30*1e-3,-81*1e-3,np.radians(180)]), np.array([-30*1e-3,110*1e-3,-81*1e-3,np.radians(180)]),] flag = 0 for x0 in X: print("current test position: {}".format(x0)) result = least_squares(lambda x: self.objective_function(x, pc, dipole_moments, ro_truth, 'x-y'), x0, method='lm', verbose=2) if result.x[-2] > 0: for i in range(3): result.x[i] = -result.x[i] distance = np.linalg.norm(result.x[:3] - pc) if distance < 1e-4: flag = 1 print("the estimated: {}".format(result.x)) break if flag == 0: print("Don't find the global minimum") results.append(result.x) print("--------------------------------------") self.plot(test_positions,np.array(results)) return results def plot(self,truth_pos,estimated_pos): fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.add_subplot(111, projection='3d') ax.scatter(truth_pos[:, 0]*1e3, truth_pos[:, 1]*1e3, truth_pos[:, 2]*1e3, c='b', label='Truth') ax.scatter(estimated_pos[:, 0]*1e3, estimated_pos[:, 1]*1e3, estimated_pos[:, 2]*1e3, c='r', label='Estimated') ax.set_xlabel('X (mm)') ax.set_ylabel('Y (mm)') ax.set_zlabel('Z (mm)') ax.set_title('Truth vs Estimated Positions') ax.legend() plt.show() if __name__ == "__main__": np.random.seed(1) simulator = Simulator(noise=True) # simulator = Simulator() results = simulator.simulate() 
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2024.05.14 03:26 DiplexTerror80 My Essay About the 4th Dimension

I was bored. So what do I do? I write an essay about the 4th dimension.
[Another Dimension]()
One of the questions asked most by mathematicians is that of a higher dimension, along with phi’s common appearance in nature and the parallel postulate. What does a higher dimension mean? Let me start with an easier perspective. To a first-dimensional being, a second dimension is made up of an infinite number of first-dimensional objects. In short, a second dimension adds a direction – width. [When we go from the second dimension to the third dimension, we add another dimension – height.]()
Judging from the earlier dimensions, a fourth dimension simply means a fourth direction. You may also have heard the length, width, and height of an object called dimensions. Now, you know why. This fourth dimension cannot be processed by our three-dimensional minds, just like a second dimensional being cannot process a three-dimensional world, as it only sees in one dimension.
[This brings us to my next point – We only actually see in two dimensions.]() In the book Flatland, the main character, A Square, is brought into the third dimension and looks at Flatland from above, seeing everything from inside prison cells to the Flatlanders’ insides. Using this logic, four-dimensional beings will see a complete three-dimensional world and will look at the third dimension just like us looking at the second dimension; they will be able to see everything.
It is also worthwhile to note that an intersection between two-dimensional objects would not be intersected in the third dimension, as with that of the Klein bottle. The Klein bottle is intersected in its three-dimensional interpretation but is a four-dimensional object not intersected onto itself.
I believe that looking at the fifth dimension will not look any different than the fourth dimension, based on what happens if a one-dimensional being sees the third dimension. Speaking of which, you may also be asking, “Isn’t the [fourth dimension]() time?” Well, there are spatial dimensions and temporal dimensions. Temporal dimensions are remarkably interesting in their own way, and they deserve their own separate article.
I also realized that since every dimension has a dimensional plane, and that by definition, a dimensional plane is infinite, a zero-dimensional plane is not possible. However, there also must be a plane for a zero-dimensional dot to exist on. I have done some research on this zero-dimensional geometry, and it is quite interesting. It is also called a nil-dimensional space. There are even theories that the universe is a zero-dimensional matrix full of zero-dimensional energy.
After some more research, I found that in the zeroth dimension, every position can be described as a point. I found this to be like the hyperbolic plane, which is an infinite plane in a finite space. It does this because it gets smaller and curves as it gets closer to its edge. You may hear a hyperbolic plane described as a saddle, but it is more like saddles stacked upon each other. I highly recommend that you check this out on your own, along with the rest of non-Euclidean geometry.
I would also like to mention the connection between different dimensions and string theory. In string theory, there are multiple universes, each with a different amount of dark energy and a different number of dimensions. Some of these universes will self-destruct because of the dark energy, but it is interesting to think that there might be higher-dimensional universes that could hypothetically exist somewhere out there.
We cannot understand higher dimensions, but we also cannot even understand the simplest of dimensions, zero dimensions. This just shows how much farther humanity can still go. We are still yet to discover many of the secrets our universe holds.
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2024.05.13 22:17 TheBigGame117 Help with ball lock fittings on low profile d coupler

Help with ball lock fittings on low profile d coupler
I fell for a review on Amazon with a picture showing ball lock fittings on a low profile D coupler:
(not my photo, taken straight from an Amazon review)
Looks pretty slick right? Wrong. These things are for bulkhead sealing and do not have tapered threads. It should install like this (I think):
(my chicken scratch of the way I believe this is supposed to seal, no pipe dope or tape; just the o-ring compressed against a solid body)
The placement of the o-rings in that review picture don't actually seal the threads of the lock-nut when all engaged with the body of the coupler:
(where I get a leak when trying to copy Amazon review)
Am I missing a secret sauce here? Do we think the review from Amazon had the same problems and didn't know it yet? I'm pretty sure the only way I have any hope of remedying this is to trim the fitting so that it doesn't bottom out in order for that o-ring to actually egange and seal:
(As fabricated)
(Modified)
Please help! Is there a better subreddit to post this issue to?
EDIT: So I messed with it all night and as a proof of concept I tried a couple gaskets with a nut between to span the excess thread to accomplish 4 face seals, been holding at 15 psi for nearly 24 hours, it's given me the confidence that turning them down on a lathe WILL work, we'll see!!
https://preview.redd.it/v4p3xih85h0d1.png?width=1436&format=png&auto=webp&s=ee19213e77aced747143b8ca8ccd55a7d70a1b3c
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2024.05.13 13:51 xtremexavier15 TMA 6

The logo's 'D' transitioned the scene back to the studio, the shot showing all the former cast members on stage – the six losers on the right, the three guests on the left, and the two hosts in the center.
"Welcome back to the Aftermath show!" Damien said happily to the audience as they gave their applause. "We're currently talking with Izzy about herself and her time on the show!" The crowd cheered.
"Now it's time for Izzy to play Truth or Hammer!" Priya announced and turned to the quirky guest. "Season two started off so well for you. Where did things go wrong?"
“I think it was when I turned down that secret alliance with Chef,” Izzy dropped, causing everyone to gasp.
Damien looked up at the hammer and saw that it didn't lower down at all. “Chef actually tried to form a secret alliance with you?”
“Uh-huh. He said he'd help me win this thing if I shared the money with him,” Izzy answered.
“Whoa,” Geoff spoke out in surprise.
“Totally did not expect that,” Eva added.
Damien then heard something in his earpiece. “Hey, I think we've got a never-before-seen clip!” he mentioned as the camera panned up to the television.
After the static played out, the footage featured Chef and Izzy standing next to a trailer on the film lot. “I'll help you man up and win this thing. We split the prize money fifty-fifty,” Chef negotiated.
Chef held out his hand for a handshake, prompting Izzy to karate kick him out of view as an intern holding a clipboard watched from the background.
“Oh, I don't think so!” Izzy declined the offer, the intern becoming scared as the clip ended.
The shot focused on the hosts shocked by what they saw. “Wow!” Priya said.
“I can't believe Chef did that!” Damien commented.
“The impact was big though!” Priya mentioned as the part of Izzy kicking Chef in the chest was zoomed in and a circle was drawn around Izzy's foot. “Check that out!”
The clip now moved in slow motion as Chef flew away while Izzy bounced away from her impact, causing the camera to focus on the scared-looking intern.
“I'd advise that intern to run away!” Damien said while the intern's head was circled on, earning laughter from the audience.
“I would never hurt that intern,” Izzy claimed, and she back flipped in order to avoid the swinging hammer. “Whoa! Nearly got me that time.” The next shot showed the same intern watching from afar dropping his clipboard and running away due to what Izzy said.
“So then what happened after?” Priya asked Izzy.
“My guess is Chef went and made a demon deal with Brick,” Izzy theorized. “Yeah, I think Chef threw the acting challenge with Justin so Brick's team won and I lost. But, hey, what do I know?”
"Apparently, a lot," Priya remarked.
"How about we hear from another viewer now?" Damien looked down at the display in front of him. "Gluepunks350 asks, "Do you think Brick will get busted?"”
“Well, I don't know about Brick, but I busted my arm once. Yeah, look, now I'm double jointed.” Izzy bent her left arm backwards. “I'm doing it! Backwards!”
Damien felt weirded out. "I think we should move on to our next guest."
"Correct," Priya nodded as the camera panned back up to the hanging television. "Trent being here is quite surprising," she said as footage began to play of Trent talking to Geoff about the latter's tooth and him talking about the sleeping arrangements. "He is a Season 1 fan favorite after all."
"I agree with that," Damien said as the footage moved on to the guitarist offering Sky his toast. "Although he did start to slip up around episode two after seeing Sky and Chase become friends," he continued over Sky picking Chase for her team and Trent looking shocked.
"Not wanting to lose his girlfriend and the game, Trent tried depending on luck, and when that didn't work, he opted to throw the challenges in order to let Sky win thanks to Justin's advice on making her happy," Priya said over Trent attempting to put nine flags on his team's sandcastle, and then purposely tripping over a stick and being talked to by Justin.
“Luckily, Sky was not blind to Trent's subtle attempts to lose deliberately,” Damien spoke as the footage showed Sky getting annoyed over Trent's compliments and him throwing the rope to the ground and then the two of them talking to each other after bathing in a barrel, “and after a much needed talk, the two were able to resolve their problems.”
"Despite all this, Justin was able to gather enough votes to target Trent, and in the end, Trent's time on the show was over!" Priya finished, the clips of Justin talking to the girls about Trent's actions and the guitarist walking into the limo being played.
"Our next guest took down a serial killer and once got poisoned by a blowfish,” Damien recapped. “Please welcome Trent!"
The Aftermath theme played and applause issued from the audience as Trent walked onstage with a smile and his guitar in hand.
“We're live on the TDA Aftermath with Trent, everyone!” Priya announced while Trent waved for the camera and sat down next to Izzy.
“So what happened, Trent?” Damien got the interview started.
“At the start of the season, things were going great until Sky and I were split on different teams,” Trent delved in. “Then she and Chase started hanging out.”
“Jealousy can be quite common,” Topher muttered.
“True,” Sam agreed.
“Then the competition set in,” Trent resumed.
“We know there's something else,” Damien reminded.
“You mean, how stressful things got?” Trent answered.
“Yeah, and no. It mostly applies to you,” Priya stated. “Be careful how you answer this, because a humongous hammer can come down and knock you out of that couch!”
The musician was intrigued by this news before continuing. “Uh, I guess somewhere I decided Sky was more important than the money,” Trent said, and the hammer not coming down proved his honesty.
“I'm surprised you're being really cool with losing out on a million dollars,” Priya said.
“It's Trent. What else did you expect?” Damien told his girlfriend.
“I guess I just lost my game,” Trent sighed. “Really let my team down. Sorry, Grips,” he apologized to the camera, making the audience aww.
“I have to ask you about the number nine thing. Check it out,” Damien pointed up at the television, which was in static before fading to the clips.
“That's right. Nine turrets, nine doors,” Trent instructed as Brick and Jasmine poured more sand.
“Remember, nine of everything!” Trent added in, much to his teammates’ bother.
Sky's attention was caught by the number of sticks he carried. "Not to interrupt," she started to say, "but you're carrying nine sticks."
The focus was now back on Trent. “Dudes, there's a lot more to my number than it being luck!” he protested.
“You did depend on it for challenges because you wanted to win,” Gwen brought up.
“The number nine thing has nothing to do with Sky or the competition,” Trent debunked. “I had this toy train my granddad gave me as a kid. Right before he died. One of the wheels fell off, so there were only nine. I was devastated. So my mom told me nine was now my lucky number.”
After Trent finished his story, the camera showed shots of the hosts, the other guests, and the Peanut Gallery all reacting with sadness.
“Have you ever told Sky about this?” Katie asked.
“She is still your girlfriend,” Sadie pointed out.
“I haven't had time to, but I'll make good on my word,” Trent promised, and the audience applauded for him.
“We've got a lot of emails here,” Priya checked the display. “Snowgirl writes, "Trent, what kind of girl are you not into?"”
“Simple. They'd either have to be stalkers or the kind of girls that'd do anything to humiliate people for no reason,” Trent claimed.
"How about we check in on our web cams?" Damien suggested, leaning over to check the display in front of him. "We've got Ginger from Sudbury," he said before the camera pulled out enough to show the monitor, which flashed from static to a feed of a geeky young white girl with large glasses and her red hair in pigtails. "Hey Ginger!" Damien greeted as the young girl waved.
"Trent, I'd love it if you went psycho crazy over me!" the girl squealed.
“Side note, you've been getting a lot of admirers ever since you got eliminated,” Damien told Trent.
"Uh, yeah," Trent said uneasily.
"Thanks, Ginger," Priya said as Ginger waved once more and her feed cut to static. "We also have Steve," she looked at her display, "the...Yeti? From Vancouver!"
The static on the monitor cut away to show none other than Sasquatchanakwa, or at least something that looked very much like it. "Uh, how's it going?" Priya asked awkwardly.
"Chris McLean," the yeti began to say in a deep and growling voice before it faded into something much more familiar, "is the best host ever! How'd you get your own show?" He leaned towards the camera angrily, his long white teeth bared. "You stink!"
"Yo Chris," Chef's voice said from the yeti's end. "If I wanted to take a hot tub by myself, I-" The yeti smiled sheepishly. "Oh! You on the webcam?"
"Chris?" the two hosts asked in bewilderment as the audience roared in laughter.
Chef then got next to Chris. “Don't believe a word Izzy says,” he advised. “Girl's crazy.”
Priya and Damien looked at each other before the former spoke. "Now it's time for a segment that we like to call, 'That's Gonna Leave a Mark!'"
The crowd cheered as a short introduction was played with clips of various contestants getting hurt throughout the seasons scrolling across a sunburst pattern in a manner similar to part of the Gilded Chris ceremony introduction, albeit with a different theme tune.
Damien sighed happily as the shot cut back to him and Priya. "I do not miss getting humiliated."
"Here's what all of you didn't get to see on the show!" Priya looked back up as the television descended, and cut to the first in a series of clips set to a campy tune comprised primarily of a tuba, drums, and whistling.
The first clip showed Justin and Izzy walking backstage in their costumes during the acting challenge. Just then, a headlight fell and clubbed Justin on the head. "Looks like it's lights out for Justin," Damien said as the crowd laughed and a circle was drawn around the impact.
A bout of static heralded the second clip, in which Eva and Geoff were running through the beach set during the monster movie challenge. "This is a good one," Priya said as the monster stomped across the screen and left Eva and Geoff shaped holes on the ground, earning more laughter.
The third clip focused on Millie patting the sand castle for support until something bit her. She pulled her hand out and saw a crab pinched to her finger. "Ooh!" the hosts winced as a circle was drawn around the crab.
Next was a shot of Anne Maria twirling her lasso around. She threw it forward, but it got wrapped around her legs and pulled her down. "I don't even know what to draw for this," Priya laughed.
The next clip began to play. It consisted of nothing more than Mama Alien Chef walking forward with determination only to slip and fall on a pile of his own slime, his gun flying off-screen before a few shots rained back down on the fallen cook.
"Now that's gonna leave a mark," Damien said as Chef was circled and the scene cut back to the set. "With what's been happening," he said after a bit more laughing, "I am so glad I'm not competing."
“Do you guys think I could sing a song?” Trent asked Damien and Priya and held his guitar. “It's something I wrote after I left the show.”
“I'm not going to stop you,” Priya shrugged.
Trent strummed a beat to start his song, and the Peanut Gallery, Damien, Priya, Izzy, Geoff, and Eva listened attentively.
“We'll be separated for a couple of days,
And I know inside our heads our love stays.
I know I'll be okay, but I also know I'll be in a bad mood…
If I didn't show how much I love you…
And you love me too.”
When the song ended, the audience applauded and cheered heavily for Trent. “Sky, I want you to know that I'll be watching and rooting for you here,” he gave a shout out to his girlfriend, earning an 'Aww' from the audience.
"Now that is true love if I do say so myself," Priya gushed heavily with her arm on Damien's shoulder.
"Don't forget that ours is just as strong, if not more," Damien teased before he leaned in and kissed Priya, the audience oohing as the beginnings of a familiar tune began to play in the background.
“Could we get that hammer out here?” Izzy asked playfully and spoke to the camera. “I guess that's a wrap. Priya and Damien will see you next time!”
"You've got that right," Damien said as the kiss was broken and the Aftermath theme began to play.
"We've got a huge season coming up!" Priya added.
"And we'll be joining you again for another Aftermath!" Damien continued.
"Don't forget to follow Chris next time," Priya said with a smile, "for the next dramatically thrilling episode of Total! Drama! Action!" The audience cheered wildly, and another quick jingle played as the scene cut to the show's title card, the block letters gleaming one last time before fading to black.
(Roll the Credits)
(Bonus Clip)
The scene showed Izzy and Trent inside of the green room. Trent was in the middle of playing on his guitar and Izzy was helping herself to more food.
“So I gotta ask,” Trent said suddenly. “How come you didn't mind being called by your real name instead of “E-Scope”?”
Izzy stopped stuffing herself with crackers as soon as the question was asked. “Say what?”
“I'm talking about how the whole time you were competing, you'd act bratty because you weren't called by the name you wanted to be referred to as,” Trent pointed out.
“Well, I was repeatedly told that it was getting old and grating,” Izzy explained. “That kinda bummed me out cause I just wanted everyone to find it funny.”
“And they didn't,” Trent responded. “No offense.”
“None taken,” Izzy shrugged. “I'm not going to change my personality entirely, but the alter-egos should be taken down a notch. So about those secret admirers...”
“I don't even want to delve into those when I already have a loving girlfriend thank you very much,” Trent finished their conversation.
“Right,” Izzy nodded and returned back to her binge eating.
Eva - 14th
Geoff - 14th
Izzy - 12th
Trent - 11th
Killer Grips: Anne Maria, Brick, Jasmine, Justin, Millie
Screaming Gaffers: Chase, MK, Ripper, Scott, Sky
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2024.05.12 10:31 xHelaMonster Stumbled on "Second Anointing" and I didn't stop typing for a while.

Decades out of the church I recently fell into a rabbit hole of church history and doctrine. I got curious about the temple ceremonies, the secret handshakes, the password to heaven, washing and and anointing, endowments, temple work for the dead... everything that was kept secret from me. I never cared to find out before, since I have a testimony of it's falsity.
I was in so deep before I finally left... in the elder's quorum, blessing members, exercising the priesthood... worked in a bishops office with tithes... I fell away and came back, over and over again as my life fell apart without support and that support always remained conditional on active membership. I never got a temple recommend.
That's how secretive they are about this stuff, that I needed to seek out apostate members who were married in the temple to tell me about it. I saw Grenfell on youtube demonstrating the endowment and I had a flashback to a church brother after his endowment, swearing me to secrecy on the temple grounds and showing me the handshakes before he left on his mission and I never saw him again. I've blacked out alot of my childhood growing up in the church because of my family history of abuse. I never knew any details about temple ceremonies that required worthiness, but I knew those handshakes even as I thought I was seeing them for the first time.
I know what the second anointing is for. I had never heard of it before but I know exactly what it is. Just like I never knew about the endowment but I recognised the signs and symbols. This too, I know. My Grandfather was a stake president excommunicated and imprisoned for csa before dying in disgrace alone. My father was a child and spouse abuser. These men were protected by the church authority they held. They were good upstanding priesthood holders who fulfilled their callings and payed their tithes. My father afaik has his temple recommend today in his second marriage. My mother knew that if she had sought remedy in the church for my grandfather's crimes there would have been no justice, and so do I.
The ordinances demand all of those who go through them. All posession, talent, time, skill, influence, power, everything you have and gain is to serve the church first and foremost. Those who have much, and give much, are given much in return. They get authority, and even without a second anointing, they get a measure of impunity too. As long as what you do serves the church first, so much is forgiven and hidden away. The second anointing is this privelege's final form. You only get it if you are already in deep, and somebody even deeper has to vouch for you. It exempts you and your progeny from all sin and guarantees your special place in the club. Now, all you have to do is remain loyal to the cult and all of it's power and influence will shield you. Authorities can lie, and steal, and cheat, maybe even kill, and as long as they do not renounce the cult, they are protected by it.
People's faith crack just learning of the second anointing because they think how unjust it is that the elites get unconditional superheaven? Who fucking cares? It's just the final level of impunity in a patriarchy of the same thing all the way down. Just keep proving yourself faithful. Do all the things the church asks of you and impunity from the consequences of sin is your reward. Generational physical emotional and sexual abuse of yer own family? Yer the patriarch. They belong to you even after death no matter what you do. Did you repent and get a blessing? No earthly authority needs to know. It would only hurt the reputation of the church, and we've all promised to give our everything to the church first right? Your sin can be forgiven. Our knowledge of it only serves as leverage to ensure your conduct... oh, not to stop sinning against yer family... to keep paying. To keep serving. To always serve the church first and everything else after. A second anointing is just the cult ceremonial version of a Mob Boss and his made man.
I could have been made. All I had to do was wear the mask, and do the things expected of me. No matter how many times I fell away, membership and most especially priesthood authority was always waiting for me. I could only fail upward as long as I continued to lie well and do what was expected of me. I didn't lose my testimony of the gospel, I gained a testimony of the harmfulness of the church. That was a long time ago... I didn't think I had any fucks left to give until I saw testimony of this most secretive ordinance, and felt compelled to share my own testimony of the awful, harmful truth of it.
So here it is for what it's worth to anyone. My testimony laid bare. That patriarchal den of sex pests will never again harm me or mine if it be within my power to prevent it. This I swear, in my own name only. Amen.
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2024.05.10 20:08 drake_burroughs We're a little early this week, so enjoy a Friday treat! We look at Legion #117 - 120 and Legionnaires #74 - 76

We're a little early this week, so enjoy a Friday treat! We look at Legion #117 - 120 and Legionnaires #74 - 76
Sorry that we're one day early with the posting - real life has taken over and I will be, hopefully, lying by a pool for most of this weekend...
Full disclosure before we begin. I completely missed Legion #117 and didn't realize it until I was almost done this column. What's worse for the creative team is that I didn't even notice until Legion #120. Yeah, lots of wasted paper here.
LSH #117
Things I never thought I'd type: "Thank the gods Scott Kolins is back penciling this book!"
Sensor is still at risk of being cut to pieces by the bad guy's scientist and Invisible Kid and Brainy can't do anything because they're holograms, kinda. Wow, they actually are still using Brainy's discovery. Luckily for everyone, Sensor still has her powers and has made it so everything thinks she's being vivisected while she gets away. Always happy to see characters save themselves!
The villain, Pernisius, powered with the Eternium from the Rock of Eternity, spends a couple of pages battering M'onel around. Nothing important to see here.
We then meet a new character, at Blackstar prison, named Gear. He interfaces with computers and can create organic technology. He immediately spots Sensor and tells them to go after her. Knowing that her powers don't work on tech, they quickly recapture her. Well that's just depressing.
Then, to make things more confusing, Sensor learns that she's no longer going to be cut open for research, she's now going to be working as a slave, just like Gear. Her job is to haul things into some sort of fire pit. I wonder if they're trying to make some sort of reference to what happened on Orando and just completely missed the point.
Am I the only one who's just scratching his head trying to make sense of this? Why did the scientist stop wanting to cut her open? Why is there a slave prison here? Why didn't they call up Ultra Boy to deal with his home planet? Why did they make any of these decisions?
Before the Legion can do anything to save her (how is it that the power of the Legion, with all the myriad of talents, can't get into a crappy building with a force shield?), Gear says he wants to escape to (ignoring everything he's been saying for pages) and he and Sensor are attacked. They fight off the guards and Gear shuts down the place.
I know I say this a lot, but this is so bloody stupid that it's offensive. They want to introduce a new Legionnaire and this is not how you do it.
They free the others and I'm so glad we got this one-issue distraction from the actual battle and problem with Pernisius. Ugh...
Legionnaires #74
It's the wrap up after the big battle with the elementals, so we'll learn who lives, who dies, and whether any permanent changes are coming.
We get our first moment, ever, where Ultra Boy shows a brain and actually questions what Apparition is doing - she's comforting Dragonmage and trying to help him. He points out that everything bad that happened is Dragonmage's fault - which is completely true. But Apparition points out that this doesn't matter - they need to help him recover from his injuries.
We go the battlefield, where Dirk Morgna and Brika, the dryad, have survived the fight and are no longer possessed by the elementals, but the other two died. The team starts trying to help everyone else who fought and who's looking a little worse for wear.
Saturn Girl proceeds to lay into Star Boy for leaving monitor duty to Dreamer and he admits to having made a ton of mistakes. So when other Legionnaires save the day by ignoring their duties (cough... Live Wire... cough...) it's fine but when Thom does...
More changes as Dirk realizes that he now sees everything differently and feels like the elemental is still inside him. Mysa offers to help and he gladly takes her up on it. He also realizes that he's got to help rebuild Tokyo after all the destruction, so Cosmic Boy suggests Magnoball games to raise money... no thought of the millions of people who are dead or injured after Dirk was possessed. But Magnoball!!
In a moment of an actual honest reaction to what's happened, when Dragonmage wakes up, Dirk immediately attacks him and tries to kill him. They drag him off and Dragonmage tries to defend himself, lying that he didn't know what was going to happen. Okay, honestly, if he gets away with this without even the tiniest punishment, even if it's self-inflicted, I won't be happy.
Then Brika finally succumbs to her injuries, but not before getting Mysa and Element Lad to promise to build a memorial for her destroyed planet. Man, she got the worst of all the beings that were possessed and, again, is any Legionnaire actually going to recognize that an entire planet of sentient beings were killed?
Continuing the "we have no idea how to write Live Wire" problem, he shows up from the Outpost and is immediately ripped apart for being a child and acting like an idiot. Not only does Saturn Girl criticize him, but so do Umbra and Chameleon. Again, just no idea why they're doing this and you know there will be no payoff.
Dragonmage continues moping around, watching how the other Legionnaires behave and hopefully he's learning something. For some crazy reason, Cosmic Boy takes time out of helping the others so he can yell at Alux Cuspin while he's in jail. I know they're setting up all of these scenes to show Dragonmage realizing what he did wrong, but this is so heavy-handed and cliched that it's just not working.
We end this issue with two moments that are handled so strangely that I'm not sure if the writers were even thinking clearly as they were happening.
First, Dragonmage surrenders to the Science Police and takes responsibility for everything that he did. Saturn Girl seems to almost want to defend him and then immediately flips and says he's gotta learn from his own mistakes. Also, do the S.P.s even know what they're arresting him for? Was anything explained to them? He basically just walks up, they cuff him, and it's over. They're trying to do something dramatic and just missing the mark.
And then Mysa and Jan build a monument to... Brika. On Mordru's prison planet. What? Why? What? How does that make any sense? How could they think this is what she wanted? Man, this epilogue to the elemental story just didn't work on any level and had so many weird, crazy, and nasty scenes that I'm just scratching my head.
LSH #118 - Your last Alan Davis cover, so enjoy!
We're continuing with a new villain, a Rimborian landlord named Pernisius who's been absorbing the Captain Marvel powers from the remains of what used to be the Rock of Eternity (the source of all the Marvels' powers) and has decided the best thing to do is pull every piece towards his home planet, rebuild it, and be the most powerful being in the universe.
Or, in his words:
I am already the most powerful being -- and of course, the most significant landlord -- in all the universe! I will amass history's greatest real estate empire, starting with -- a new continent here on Rimbor, my flagship property! The continent of Pernisia!
I wonder how drunk you have to be to write dialogue like that.
I also wonder how many times the writers watched the first Christopher Reeve Superman movie (and the only Brandon Routh Superman movie) and thought, "Everyone loves when the villain only cares about real estate!"
It should come as no surprise to anyone that this whole battle ends when Thunder disobeys Invisible Kid's orders, figures out a way to give the Legion the Eternity powers, and defeats the villain.
It should also come as no surprise that the Rock of Eternity is recreated on Rimbor, is nowhere close to the size of the original rock, and they've completely ignored that the Rock is back, in tact, and not part of Rimbor in the future. Once again, the creative team couldn't be bothered to maintain any internal consistency in their own story.
But for the "happy ending", Thunder can go back and forth between the Legion and her home and parents way in the future as she tries to figure out how to bring her powers with her. So she's staying with the team for at least the next couple of issues.
What makes no sense to me is that, by this point in time, the creative team must know this book is heading towards cancellation and a restart. Why not wrap up as many stories as they can?
Legionnaires #75
So one of the two things keeping Legionnaires even slightly more engaging than Legion is the fact that Tom Peyer isn't writing it. Who's the guest writer this issue? If you guessed Peyer, you'll understand my pain.
And, much to my pleasant surprise, he turns in a surprisingly decent one-issue story. Wow! It's not enough for me to take back all of my criticisms of his work, but I will commend him when he does get something right.
Or should I be focusing my ire on McCraw?
Anyway, the premise of this story is that there's some evil ship pretending to be the founding members of the Legion flying around a far-away planet and killing the citizenry. So everyone on the planet is deathly afraid of the Legion and, especially, Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy, and Live Wire.
When one of them gets off planet and would rather commit suicide than face Spark, the original three go and investigate. They uncover that it's all a huge plot by the king to quell any rebellions and they quickly wreck the ship, throw the king out of palace, and (hehe) make the angry and abused mob swear not to kill their monarch.
I must be honest - I do sometimes love when the Legionnaires are so naive they don't have an even basic understanding of how other beings feel.
Anyway, the art is top notch, again, as Jeff Moy turns in another great issue. The story works and the three actually act like real people, not just glorified cardboard cutouts and, in Live Wire's case, a jerk. And they resolve the "Live Wire's mad he's at the Outpost away from Imra" storyline. I think this might be the first issue where I get the sense the creative team is looking to wrap stuff up before the end of the series.
The single best part of the book, however, is the one page that will probably get glossed over - the final page. We see effigies of the Legion and king being burned in the background. But in the foreground, we see one young girl staring up at the Legion poster with a look of... dare I say hope? Could this planet play a larger part in the future?
Well, of course not, but it was a nice idea.
LSH #119
Is this a Phil Jimenez cover here? Wow... yet another artist who I wish they could get to draw the Legion. Why are they teasing us with these covers? I guess it's like those old George Perez covers over some horrible Steve Ditko Legion.
So let's talk about what kind of logic goes into writing a comic book that's struggling in sales. When you're trying to improve sales, you add characters that will get people to buy the comic. At DC, you add Superman or Batman and sales go up.
Of course, if you just want to keep the book struggling, you add characters from another book that's been cancelled - in this case, L.E.G.I.O.N.
There are really only two interesting things that happen in this issue:
  • We see that Gear has been repaired and, I guess, is part of the team. Unfortunately for him, he ends up being the unlucky being who has to listen to Apparition and M'onel tell their story of one adventure with the L.E.G.I.O.N.
  • We learn that Brainiac 5.1 cheats at video games.
Aside from that, this is a complete throwaway book that doesn't really accomplish anything and, honestly, just makes two heroes look bad. Are we supposed to like M'onel and Apparition more when it's revealed that they were perfectly fine with working with a planet of cannibals and did nothing to stop it? Yes, I know that was L.E.G.I.O.N.'s standard operating procedure, but anyone who didn't read that book would just think they're horrible.
Let's keep limping along...
Legionnaires #76
Wow - XS is back. We haven't seen her in a while, have we? But glad we're getting flashback issues about the L.E.G.I.O.N.
We start in a hospital as the Legion is trying to save an energy being in a crystal... oh no, I remember this... no...
To explain how we got here, we go back to Mordru's planet, where everyone is recovering and we actually get a little character development from Umbra. Wow - finally something that shows who she is.
Dirk Morgna starts seeing some weird, invisible energy being floating around with his new vision powers. Mysa uses her magic to see the energy pattern and she says it seems familiar. That makes no sense, but let's continue. A U.P. officer shoots it, because they're all idiots, and the energy blasts back.
Umbra contains it in a darkfield and then Element Lad changes the dust around it into a crystal. Mysa continues to talk about how it's a familiar presence and then finally gives the big reveal: it's what remains of Atom'X, the member of the Amazers who was killed by Mordru back in Legionnaires #49.
On Medstation One, where they've got Atom'X energy in the crystal, Saturn Girl probes for consciousness and finds that there are actually two people in the energy: Atom'X - Randall Burroughs and Blast-Off of the Workforce - Jahr-Drake Ningle.
Oh no...
The Legion pulls together all the equipment, doctors, and scientists they need (wouldn't want to call Brainy or Lyle, huh?) and they put together a suit to put the energy into.
We get more of Umbra's personality as well, as she keeps referencing her home planet, her culture, and her desire to no longer disgrace herself. As much as I like seeing this, couldn't they have done this before? Ever? Or just make this consistent so we're getting it for every character?
My only big problem with this is that Umbra is being written as almost someone who's got multiple personalities. There's nothing consistent here and it's just making her into a much more unlikable character by the end. Why do this? They're almost turning her into another Andromeda and I don't understand how this makes any sense, especially with everything else they've done with her character before. It also makes no sense for M'onel to hang out with someone so xenophobic.
The energy flies into the suit and it starts moving around. It's a nice red and orange and ugh... and what does it decide to call itself? Drake Burroughs. Which makes no sense but ugh..
Look, I've made no secret that Wildfire is my favorite character but this just seems like a weird way to bring the character back, especially because there was no build up to this at all. I may have missed it, but after a scan over the Mordru story, I don't think they ever named Atom'X or Blast-Off, so just throwing these names out is forcing a round story into a square plot.
This really doesn't work for me at all.
LSH #120
I screwed up and wrote one extra issue this week, so enjoy this bonus... or I'm just rushing to get the end of this...
So guessing by the new Phil Jimenez cover, we've lost Alan Davis for good and he's taken over. Can't say I'm shocked that Davis was done, but it's still a shame that the interiors look so much worse than the interiors.
We also see that Scott Kolins is inking his own work here, so we'll be able to judge if it's him or the inkers that have kinda lowered the quality of the book.
The first half of the book shows the Emerald Eye breaking 4 of the Fatal Five (Mano is no longer a member) out of Takron-Galtos. It actually works as we meet all of the members and they bring back a text piece, pretending to write the marketing plan for the prison. It's a great call back to some older Legion stories... but, yet again, I'm just going to complain that the font they chose is so bad that it's almost unreadable.
We also learn that Takron-Galtos tortures some prisoners (Thanok) and forces other to perform slave labor (The Persuader). Wow. Once again, are you trying to make us sympathetic to the villains? To those two, at least. The Emerald Empress killing everyone near her doesn't really help her cause.
The Eye reveals that it broke the four out so that she can serve the Empress and better focus its skills. Makes absolutely no sense, even less by bonding with the Empress, but they needed to get them back together and chose the simplest way to do it.
To the Legion Outpost we go, where Gates is ranting about how horrible the Legion is while wanting to spend time with Brainiac 5.1 while the rest of the Legion is on vacation. Yet again, we're throwing out character development to return everyone back to their original personalities. Didn't Gates grow a little and accept the usefulness of the Legion? Also, it's a shame that Brainy is so dismissive of Gates' ideas to feed hungry children. That's not a good look. Maybe he's the future version of a .
As they continue to bicker, the Fatal Five (is the Eye a separate member now?) arrive and Gates rushes to fight them off. Thankfully, Brainy joins to help.
Here's one of those moments where the hero is a complete idiot and does something they should never do. To set the scene: The Emerald Eye, the Empress, Thanok, the Persuader, and Validus have just broken into the Outpost to loot and destroy. Gates, whose only power is teleportation, does exactly that and faces them. Why? Why would he do this? He spends so much time ranting about how bad the Legion is but yet rushes into certain death to protect the ship, which he earlier moaned about costing so much money. If it was Ultra Boy or M'onel rushing in, I'd be fine with it. But Gates?
Unfortunately for Gates, they needed to have Brainy save the day, so he gets to be the cannon fodder. Of course, Brainy saves him and escapes. Even worse, Gates then apologizes for rushing into the fight without thinking and Brainy says he envies that Gates acts without thinking. What?
By the end of the issue, Brainy and Gates have escaped and the Fatal Five have taken over the Outpost. Which, of course, means nothing because there are security codes and backups to prevent someone from doing this. Right? I mean Brainy and Lyle woulda thought of that. Right? You mean my work laptop is more secure than the Legion Outpost? Wow this book just gets dumber and dumber.
Luckily we only have five more Legion issues to go.
Our Legionnaire in the spotlight this week... Matter-Eater Lad!!!
Is this canon? Can he eat at super-speed?
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I've spent a lot of time talking about Matter-Eater Lad before. He became a key member of the 5YL Legion and, since he was one writer's favorite character, got a completely undeserved amount of attention and solo issues. I'm not writing this to offend Tenzil Kem fans, honest. But no one can tell me that the 5YL Legion, with its dense plot lines and mysteries, needed to give him 3 complete solo issues. I'd say the same thing about any Legionnaire.
I also think that his issues in 5YL were so drastically different from the rest of the series that they landed with a thud. I know many found them funny but I didn't. I just found those issues as tributes to the silliness of a lot of the Silver Age stories and were tonally so askew from what the book had become that I looked upon them with dread instead of delight. I will admit that I may be holding that against poor Tenzil as well, which obviously isn't the character's fault, but it does sour my take on the character.
This might offend the fans now - I never thought he should be a Legionnaire and I always felt that Tenzil was a product of the Silver Age that didn't work any other time. Heck, even when he was showing up during 5YL, I just could never justify his membership. His superpower is that he can eat anything. That's it. He's not a great fighter. He's not super smart. He's not a leader. He's not anything else. Funny, maybe, but that's it. But there's only one Legionnaire that I have a harder time with and he's the one no one ever brings back. Poor Condo...
One reader commented that Tenzil represents the Legion at its core - someone who's better than his powers and someone who works to be their best. And the Legion has always been about super-heroes who aren't obviously strong but have a different kind of strength.
So, Bouncing Boy?
My memories of M-E Lad are of him miraculously saving everyone from Omega and then disappearing. He spent a long time catatonic and when he was finally cured, he never came back in any meaningful way. Sorry, but I just don't have any emotional connection to him at all.
But having said all that, I will still argue that he deserves to be in any Legion reboot moving forward and I'd love to see a good creative team turn him into someone that I want to read about. As I've said before, every character is someone's favorite and they should be handled with that level of respect.
Instead of the down votes that I know are coming from this take, I'm going to ask you to do something else - tell me what issues I should be reading that show me just how valuable M-E Lad is. He was a joke in 5YL, he was a playboy and a jerk in SV6, so please don't use those. I actually think his best is during PZH, when he's the chef and team supporter. I like this role for Tenzil and actually think it's the perfect place for him.
But what SilveBronze age issues show just how important M-E Lad is and how he's central to the team? Make me do a deep dive into something I've glossed over.
With that, the gauntlet has been thrown down! Let's hope some of you come back next week as we continue the death march to the end of these books.
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2024.05.10 02:25 Adventurous-Ear9433 Hidden Hand in Human Evolution, benevolent Reptilian beings in W African traditions

Sumerian(Anu) - [Huwana(Sphinx) is unable to move forward, nor is he able to move back", but they crept up on him from behind and the way to the secret abode of the Anu-Naki was no longer blocked
Morphometric study of nonhuman handprint in Wadi Sura "results show that the rock art small hands differ significantly in size, proportions and morphology from human hands. Potential biases between the different samples were quantified, but their average range cannot explain the observed differences. Evidence suggest that the hand stencils belong to an animal, most probably a reptile" -near Egypt, in the Cave of the Swimmers. I find it ironic Dogon tradition describe how the Nummo landed, dug a hole & filled it with water.
The Dead Sea Scrolls- War Scroll :"For the In[structor, the Rule of] the War. The first attack of the Sons of Light shall be undertaken against the forces of the Sons of Darkness, the army of Belial." ( Egypt- Horus v Set)
The instructor mentioned is our The Magnificent Queen, Ninmah affectionately known as Mammi and is the origin of the word mother. She taught Circumcision, and the Omega symbol was the tool she'd cut umbilical cords with.
Enki/Ninti gave us the power of speech, with Foxp2 , a conservative gene which doesnt change much over time. show that the human form of the FOXP2 gene increases synaptic plasticity and dendrite connectivity in the basal ganglia. These results partly explain the enhanced capability of cortico-basal ganglia circuits in the human brain that regulate critical aspects of language, cognition, and motor control." Foxp2 Language Evolution (Homo sapiens-Man the wise)
Previously i recommended this book, the author was present for some rituals while she was researching & was allowed to capture some fascinating accounts to bring to the West. One involves Healing by frequency from a craft, and more. Chap 26 is called "our elders were friends with the Sky People", and other accounts describe a massive ufo that came down & a group of Indigenous elders got on board for a "meeting lasting a few hours" .
DR Ardy Clarke Sky People Mesoamerica -"direct descendants of the Sky People, whose blood remains pure live underground. Some say they serve as ambassadors to the Sky People who live in the heavens. They come back to meet with the ambassadors and to learn about the condition of the Earth and its people.”
The Star Travelers came from the sky. We were mutual friends in the cosmos. They helped us and we helped them. The wise men say that in the old days, some of them married our women and took them away to the stars, but the women chose to go with them. They were not taken against their will. The Star People never stayed on Earth. They visited. We called them ancestors because they are older than us. They were not our relatives. They were the ancestors. Their civilization was older. They had more knowledge. Therefore we respected them for that knowledge
This is my first time posting here, but ive lurked on this sub for a while & theres alot of really entertaining & informative posts. So i wanted to share some of my people's traditions, since theres alot of misinformation on the Dogon & our actual accounts have been sensationalized & misrepresented. I began giving Dogon tradition here Dogon, Hopi, Naga-Maya , I'm sure most see why being a Jaliyaa was relevant. The Sumerians Uruk List of Kings & Sages up until today have been relatives. The lineages of the Children of Enki are Hopi, Dogon, Ainu, Ohum, Shakti, San Agustin, Buddhas(Tibet), Naga-Maya-Itza. (R1b-V88 is Dogon/Yoruba. But ALL of us are Anu/Ainu/Aunu people ) & come from those Sages( Apkallu). Im a descendant of 7 Uttuabzu, “who ascended to heaven".. uttu” = “count, number” “abzu” = “cosmic underground water.” So Utuabzu “kept count of the numbers".I'm the Dogons Jaliyaa, Recordkeeper of the People, it's the same with Inca the "Ka-pac' 'Keeper of the Serpent wisdom'. When Sundiata founded Imperial Mali, one of the first things he was to do was continue the Kings/Sages custom, you can see here. Every Jaliyaa and every Sage has always been Mende. Ive provided genetic,artifacts, linguistics, etc for every corner of the globe and in pt 1 the Ghost hominid who bred with Dogon and 2 population (SW US, China).
In Pt 1 I gave a brief overview of the Involvement of Enki/Ninti & some of the history of the Children of Enki including the war described in ancient texts. Jesus' group the Essenes say the 'company of the Divine Join the congregation of Mortals. Enki had fallen in love with his creation, becoming the freedom fighter for us against the Elohim(Council of rulers) earning that "trickstetraitor" moniker.
The most advanced civilizations were matrileneal, Pharoah was the woman her consort was king. Our customs have always been handed down by them, the BirdMan depictions are all called "mediators" , at E. Island the God makemake gave orders through Tangata Manu(Birdman Cult). The Pyramid was the Great House, woman's house. Isis, Astarte, Ninmah were 'Mistress of the pyramid, Woman who makes towers, etc. In more than 30 cultures. The Snakes are our instructors, demiurges who shaped our bodies, but not our soul, which is not theirs, because it is uncreated. We are born from light, just like them. But our terrestrial vehicle, this triple body of flesh and spirit, we owe it to them. I wanted to make the Gateway Experience threads first to show the knowledge itself, Egyptian “gods” were the very same as the Sumerian Anunnaki, and the ancient Egyptian esoteric texts were none other than complex scientific knowledge of the Anunnaki. THAT was the origin of the Renaissance: ancient and difficult to understand system of scientific knowledge.
Some of the female Pharoah were not human beings. How many are described as having been extremely attractive? How many wore jewelry showing serpents, or female Dieties who are Serpents or "SnakeFaced"?
The Nummo (Phoenician- Numo) craft the Kora-NARs design was the basis for sacred geometry, the shape, design, and proportions of the Ark express all of the principles and science humanity would need. The 7 lineages mission was to cultivate the land and grow the celestial grains so that everyone could live in abundance. They were also supposed to reproduce and spread throughout the world bringing the spiritual technologies contained within the Kora-Na with them. The eight ancestors and their offspring were charged with conducting important ceremonies such as the Sigui ceremony, which was the Henti in Egypt.
"Emissaries of the Serpent culture", we have always been sent abroad.. how many ancient scripts cannot be deciphered today?Ainu Language is said to be an Enigma, or isolated, (Easter Island, Olmec. Egypt -nobody can read RongoRongo, MandeKan, or MeduNtr, the Basque language is one of the clearest offshoots) .. Dogon dialect the Andes this is a Jaliyaa (Brazil Tablet).
Nergal' is "the Healer" in the Sumerian lore. In ancient Sumer, the Anunnaki (Anun-NAKI ) are also called Heavenly Serpent, Sun Serpent, or Serpent and the Rainbow, were the Serpents kings. Sumerian text say Enkis 10 hybrids were made rulers...like Noah, the Kings/Patriarchs were part-Saurian(Lu.Lu-One who's been mixed).. Diodorus Siculus Wrote about Danaan brotherhood of initiates and magicians called Telchines who could shape-shift into any form..
The serpent cults were the first worldwide priesthood, its always been Service to others not service to self.
Healing Temples "They were a hereditary priesthood who at first only admitted family into the medical Brotherhood". Those depicted as Birdmen were seen as protectors of the people & carried water from the abzu that would ward off evil spirits. Their figurines would be placed outside of homes to protect from archons, that feed off negative , dark energies.
Previous posts ive made on this topic Here How Archonic entities feed off human beings
The "Testament of Amram", describes the experience of Amram in which "an angel and a demon" were wrestling over his soul:
"[I saw Watchers] in my vision, the dream-vision. Two [men] were fighting over me. I asked them, ’who are you, that you are thus empowered over me?’ They answered me, ’We [have been em]powered and rule over all Mankind.’ They said to me, ’Which of us do yo[u] choose to rule [you]?’ I raised my eyes and looked"
[One] of them was terrifying in his appearance, [like a s]erpent, [his] cl[oak] many colored yet very dark. ... [And I looked again], and ... in his appearance, his visage like a viper
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Paranormal Activity 3 [Extended] (Vudu or iTunes)
Paranormal Activity 4 [Unrated] (Vudu or iTunes)
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones [Theatrical] (iTunes)
Passengers [2016] (MA + Sony points)
Paul [2011] [Unrated] (iTunes/ports)
Penguins Of Madagascar (MA)
Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters (MA or Google Play/ports)
Pet Sematary [2019] (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Philomena (Vudu)
Pitch Perfect (iTunes/ports 4K)
Pitch Perfect 3 [2017] (MA)
Planes: Fire & Rescue (MA without points)
Playing With Fire (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Predator, The [2018] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Project Almanac (iTunes)
Prometheus (MA or Google Play/ports, no iTunes option)
Proud Mary [2018] (MA)
Purge: Anarchy, The (iTunes/ports 4K)
Quiet Place, A [2018] (iTunes 4K)
Ralph Breaks The Internet (MA + 150 points/no iTunes option)
Red Dawn [2012] (Vudu or Google Play)
Redemption [2013] (Vudu)
Replicas [2019] (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter [2016] (MA + Sony points)
Riddick [Unrated] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Rings [2017] (Vudu)
R.I.P.D. Rest In Peace Department (iTunes/ports 4K)
Rise Of The Guardians [2011] (MA)
Risen [2016] (MA + Sony points)
Robin Hood [2018] (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Rock Dog (iTunes)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (iTunes/ports 4K + 150 points)
Roman J. Israel, Esq [2017] (MA + Sony points)
Rush [2013] (MA)
Saban's Power Rangers (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Safe House [2012] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Savages [2012] [Theatrical] (iTunes/ports)
Scorpion King 3: Battle For Redemption (iTunes/ports)
Secret Life Of Pets, The (MA 4K or iTunes/ports 4K)
Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, The (MA or Google Play/ports, iTunes option is expired)
Seventh Son [2015] (iTunes/ports)
Sex Tape [2014] (MA + Sony points)
Shack, The [2017] (Vudu, iTunes or Google Play)
Show Dogs [2018] (MA)
Silver Linings Playbook (Vudu or Google Play)
Sing [2016] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Sinister (Vudu, iTunes or Google Play)
Sisters [2015] [Unrated] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Skyscraper [2018] (MA)
Sleepless [2017] (iTunes/ports)
Snow White & The Huntsman [Extended] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Sparkle [2012] (MA)
Spectre [2015] (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Spider-Man 2 [2004] [Theatrical & Extended] (MA + Sony points)
Spider-Man: Far From Home [2019] (MA + Sony points)
Spider-Man: Homecoming [2017] (MA + Sony points)
Spider-Man: No Way Home [2021] (MA + Sony points)
Split [2017] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Spy [2015] [Unrated] (MA, iTunes or Google Play/ports)
Spy Who Dumped Me, The (Vudu/GP HD or iTunes 4K)
Star Trek [2009] (iTunes 4K)
Star Trek: Beyond (iTunes 4K)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA + 150 points)
Step Up All In [2014] (Vudu)
Step Up Revolution (Vudu or Google Play)
Straight Outta Compton [Unrated] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Super 8 (Vudu)
Super Buddies (MA without points)
Taken 3 [Unrated] (MA, iTunes or Google Play/ports)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2014] (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Terminator: Genisys (iTunes 4K)
Texas Chainsaw [2013] (Vudu)
The Night Before [2015] (MA + Sony points)
This Is The End [2013] (MA + Sony points)
Top Five [2014] (iTunes)
Top Gun (Vudu)
Total Recall [2012] [Theatrical & Director's Cut] (MA + Sony points)
Tower Heist [Theatrical] (iTunes/ports)
Tremors: A Cold Day In Hell (MA)
True Grit [2010] (Vudu or iTunes)
Tyler Perry's Acrimony (Vudu, iTunes or Google Play)
Tyler Perry's A Madea Family Funeral (Vudu, iTunes or Google Play)
Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (iTunes 4K)
Uncle Drew [2018] (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Underworld: Blood Wars (MA + Sony points)
Vendetta [2016] (Vudu)
Venom [2018] (MA + Sony points)
Walk Among The Tombstones, A (iTunes/ports)
Walking With Dinosaurs: The Movie (MA, iTunes or Google Play/ports)
War Room [2015] (MA + Sony points)
Why Him? [2016] (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Wolf Of Wall Street, The (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Woman In Black, The [2012] (MA)
Wonder [2017] (Vudu/GP HD or iTunes 4K)
Wonder Park [2019] (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Woodlawn [2015] (MA or iTunes/ports)
X-Men: Apocalypse (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
X-Men: Days Of Future Past (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Your Highness [2011] [Unrated] (iTunes/ports)
Zootopia (MA without points)

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💲2️⃣ SD

12 Rounds [2009] [Extreme Cut] (iTunes/ports)
Aliens In The Attic (iTunes/ports)
Amelia (iTunes/ports)
Beasts Of The Southern Wild (iTunes/ports)
Black Swan (iTunes/ports)
Date Night [Unrated Extended Edition] (iTunes/ports)
Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who! (ITunes/ports)
In Time [2011] (iTunes/ports)
Percy Jackson double feature [Lightning Thief & Sea of Monsters] (MA)
Ramona & Beezus (iTunes/ports)
Street Kings (iTunes/ports)
Three Stooges: The Movie, The [2012] (iTunes/ports)

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💲1️⃣ HD

2 Guns (MA)
Alex Cross (Vudu)
Bad Grandpa [Theatrical] (Vudu or iTunes)
Bad Moms (iTunes/ports)
Battleship [2012] (MA)
Big Hero 6 (Google Play/ports)
Book Club (Vudu)
Bourne Legacy, The (MA)
Bring It On: Worldwide Cheersmack [2017] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Deadpool (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA/GP)
Divergent (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Divergent Series: Insurgent, The (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Duff, The [2015] (Vudu)
Dying Of The Light (Vudu)
Everest [2015] (MA)
Expendables 2, The (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Expendables 3, The [Theatrical] (iTunes 4K or Google Play HD)
Fast & Furious [2009] (MA)
Fast & Furious 6, The [Extended] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Fast & The Furious, The [2001] (MA)
Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift, The (MA)
Fast Five [Extended] (MA)
Fate Of The Furious, The [8] [Theatrical or Extended] (MA)
Fault In Our Stars, The [2014] (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA/GP)
Frozen: Sing Along Edition (MA without points)
Furious 7 [Extended] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Ghost In The Shell [2017] (Vudu)
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (Vudu)
Girls Trip [2017] (MA)
Good Day To Die Hard, A [2012] [Extended] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Hidden Figures [2017] (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Hillsong: Let Hope Rise [2016] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Hugo (Vudu)
Hunger Games, The [2012] (iTunes 4K or Google Play HD)
Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The (iTunes 4K or Google Play HD)
Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, The (Vudu)
Huntsman: Winter's War, The [2016] [Extended] (MA)
Identity Thief [2013] [Theatrical] (iTunes/ports)
I, Frankenstein (Vudu, iTunes or Google Play)
Inside Out [2015] (Google Play/ports)
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (Vudu)
Jason Bourne (MA)
Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain (Vudu)
Les Misérables [2012] (MA)
Let's Be Cops [2014] (MA only/no iTunes option)
Lucy (MA)
Mission Impossible: Fallout (Vudu)
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Vudu)
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (Vudu) or both for $2.50
Now You See Me [Extended] (Vudu or iTunes)
Parental Guidance [2012] (MA)
Perks Of Being A Wallflower, The (Vudu or Google Play)
Pitch Perfect (MA)
Purge, The [2013] (MA)
Quiet Place, A [2018] (Vudu)
Red 2 (Vudu)
Ride Along [2014] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Ride Along 2 (MA or iTunes/ports)
RIPD Rest In Peace Department (MA)
Safe [2012] (Vudu or Google Play)
Secret Life Of Pets, The (MA)
Selma (iTunes)
Skyfall (Vudu or Google Play)
Snitch (iTunes 4K or Vudu/Google Play HD)
Star Trek: Beyond (Vudu)
Star Trek: Into Darkness (iTunes 4K)
Taken 2 (MA or Google Play/ports)
Ted [Unrated] (MA) or [Theatrical] (iTunes/ports)
Terminator: Genisys (Vudu)
Transformers: Age Of Extinction (iTunes 4K)
Transformers: Dark Of The Moon (Vudu)
Trolls [2017] (MA)
Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (iTunes 4K)
Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection (iTunes)
Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions Of A Marriage Counselor (Vudu or Google Play)
Unbroken [2014] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Warm Bodies (Vudu)
What To Expect When You're Expecting (iTunes)
World War Z (Vudu)
Zootopia (Google Play/ports)

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💲1️⃣ SD

21 Jump Street (MA + Sony points)
22 Jump Street (MA + Sony points)
Act Of Valor (iTunes)
After Earth [2013] (MA + Sony points)
Alpha [2018] (MA + Sony points)
Amazing Spider-Man 2, The [2014] (MA + Sony points)
American Hustle [2013] (MA + Sony points)
Bad Boys For Life [2020] (MA + Sony points)
Big Mommas Like Father, Like Son (iTunes/ports)
Captain Phillips (MA + Sony points)
Charlie's Angels [2019] (MA + Sony points)
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 [2013] (MA + Sony points)
Concussion [2015] (MA + Sony points)
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid [2010] (iTunes/ports)
Dirty 30 (Vudu)
Dog's Way Home, A [2019] (MA + Sony points)
Equalizer, The [2014] (MA + Sony points)
Equalizer 2, The (MA + Sony points)
Equalizer 3, The [2023] (MA + Sony points)
Evil Dead [2013] (MA + Sony points)
Family, The [2013] (iTunes)
Family Guy: Blue Harvest (iTunes)
Family Guy: It's A Trap (iTunes)
Forbidden Kingdom, The (iTunes)
Glee: The Concert (iTunes/ports)
Goosebumps 2 [2018] (MA + Sony points)
Grown Ups 2 (MA + Sony points)
Hangover, The [2009] [Theatrical] (iTunes/ports)
Haywire (iTunes)
Heat, The [2013] (iTunes/ports SD)
Hereafter [2010] (iTunes/ports)
Here Comes The Boom [2012] (MA + Sony points)
Hitchcock [2012] (iTunes/ports)
Hotel Transylvania 3 (MA + Sony points)
Hours [2013] (Vudu)
Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (iTunes/ports)
Immortals [2011] (iTunes)
Insidious: Chapter 3 (MA + Sony points)
Insidious: The Last Key (MA + Sony points)
Interview, The [2014] (MA + Sony points)
Journey To Bethlehem [2023] (MA + Sony points)
Jumanji: The Next Level (MA + Sony points)
Knight & Day (iTunes/ports)
Life As We Know It (iTunes/ports)
Looper (MA + Sony points)
Men In Black [1997] (MA)
Men In Black II [2002] (MA + Sony points)
Men In Black III [2012] (MA + Sony points)
MIB International [2019] (MA + Sony points)
Mirror Mirror [2012] (iTunes)
Mortal Instruments: The City Of Bones (MA + Sony points)
Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian (iTunes/ports)
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood [2019] (MA + Sony points)
Olympus Has Fallen (MA + Sony points)
Orange Is The New Black season 1 (Vudu)
Overcomer [2019] (MA + Sony points)
Parker [2013] (MA + Sony points)
Passengers [2016] (MA + Sony points)
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief (iTunes/ports)
Perfect Guy, The [2015] (MA + Sony points)
Perks Of Being A Wallflower, The (iTunes SD only)
Peter Rabbit [2018] (MA + Sony points)
Pixels [2015] (MA + Sony points)
Pope's Exorcist, The [2023] (MA)
Predators [2010] (iTunes/ports)
Proud Mary [2018] (MA)
Public Enemies [2009] (iTunes/ports)
Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes (iTunes/ports)
Robin Hood [2010] [Unrated] (iTunes/ports)
Safe Haven (iTunes)
Scoob [2020] (MA)
Shallows, The [2016] (MA + 150 points)
Sicario: Day Of The Soldado (MA + Sony points)
Sparkle [2012] (MA)
Spider-Man: Far From Home [2019] (MA + Sony points)
Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse (MA + Sony points)
Spider-Man: No Way Home [2021] (MA + Sony points)
Star, The [2017] (MA + Sony points)
Still Alice [2015] (MA + Sony points)
Taken [2009] [Extended Cut] (iTunes/ports)
Thanksgiving [2023] (MA + Sony points)
Thousand Words, A [2012] (Vudu)
Town, The [2010] (iTunes/ports)
Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (Vudu SD only or iTunes SD only)
Tyler Perry's Madea's Tough Love (Vudu)
Underworld: Awakening (MA + Sony points)
Venom (MA + Sony points)
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (MA + Sony points)
Vow, The [2012] (MA + Sony points)
Water For Elephants (iTunes/ports)
When The Bough Breaks (MA + Sony points)
X-Men: First Class (iTunes/ports)
Zombieland: Double Tap (MA + Sony points)

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All movies are 3 for $1 each/must spend at least $1 on total order.
Cabin In The Woods, The (Vudu SD only)
Croods, The (iTunes/ports SD)
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (iTunes/ports SD)
Expendables 2, The (Vudu SD only or iTunes SD only)
Expendables 3, The [Unrated] (iTunes HD only)
Fast & Furious 6 [Extended] (MA ports HD)
Fast Five [Extended] (iTunes/ports HD)
Furious 7 [Extended] (MA ports HD)
Good Day To Die Hard, A [2012] (iTunes/ports SD)
Heat, The [2013] (iTunes/ports SD)
Hunger Games, The (Vudu SD or iTunes SD only)
Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The (Vudu HD only)
Internship, The [2013] (iTunes/ports SD)
John Wick 3 (Google Play HD only)
Jurassic World (MA ports HD)
Last Witch Hunter, The (Vudu SD only)
Life Of Pi (iTunes/ports SD)
Mechanic: Resurrection (Vudu SD only)
Now You See Me 2 (Vudu SD only)
Parental Guidance (iTunes/ports SD)
Star Trek: Into Darkness (Vudu HD only)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Google Play/ports HD)
Transformers: Age Of Extinction (Vudu HD only)
Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (Vudu SD only or iTunes SD only)
Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (Vudu SD only)
Warm Bodies (iTunes SD only)
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2024.05.09 20:17 redditduk [MEGALIST] SG Concerts Gigs Raves - Till Vesak Day (10 - 23 May 2024)

Update 16 May: Added Friday

10 May, Fri

Esplanade - PESTA RAYA Malay Festival Weekend

 

Event Nights & Parties 10

 

Dance Club Guest Performers 10

 

Sat, 11 May

 
 

Esplanade Pesta Raya Festival 11

- ES Kids storytellling: Tales from the Nusantara: The Legend of Hang Tuah and the White Crocodile by Malay Heritage Centre & Hafiz Rashid, PIP's PLAYbox 1145, 115 3pm, free

 

Events & Parties 11

 

Club Guest Performers 11

 

12 May, Sun - Mother's Day

Esplanade - Pesta Raya Malay Festival Last

 
 

13 May, Mon

 

14 May, Tue

 

15 May, Wed

 

16 May, Thu

 

Other Arts Events

 

17 May, Fri - Start of Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA 2024)

 

Esplanade

 

Event Theme Nights

 

Club Guest Performers

 

Saturday... Soon

I am on telegram: search sg music chat or visit t.me/sgmusicchat
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2024.05.09 17:35 IMinxa The Omegaverse Bible.

An Actual 101 Omegaverse Interpretation Made By Me, please use this as a guide to get a better understanding of the Omegaverse and let me know your thoughts on this variation!
What Is The Omegaverse?
The Omegaverse is an AU (Alternate Universe) that centers around a wolf hierarchy that reinforces the idea of power, inequalities, and dynamics in modern-day society. Originally used in the Supernatural and werewolf fandoms, the subgenre of dividing people into the wolf hierarchy has risen to new limits as it grows a larger audience.
In the omegaverse, there are primary sex and secondary sex. Primary Sex describes how people biologically are born or identify as male, female, intersex, etc. Whereas Secondary Sex, describes their role in the wolf hierarchy and where they stand in the wolf-like society.
There are commonly three "second genders" that are affiliated to one's character; Alpha, Beta, and Omega. Although there are other variants, these three are the most common in fandoms. These second genders normally defy the role that people play in the wolf hierarchy and the different attributes that each secondary sex has.
Wanna Know Which One You Are?
Everyone is born with the Primary Sex at birth, sometimes having it declared differently later on if people choose to alternate their primary sex. However, Secondary Sex isn't necessarily something that is changeable, although not impossible.
Beginning at the early age of 15 to 22 years old, people often begin to develop their second gender. During this age range, people often get a yearly test done to ensure that the development of their secondary sex is coming as predetermining a second gender could be done. People begin to develop different bodies, pheromones, structures, habits, and more that are commonly associated with their designated second gender. Second genders do not defy someone as a person, but they help contribute to where they reside in society.
There are also some instances where people do not develop their second gender during that age range. Doctors associate the label of "Late Bloomers" with these people as their bodies haven't changed to develop into the omegaverse society. People can transition after the recommended age range, however, the effects of transitioning and instinctive nature (heat, ruts, scents of pheromones, etc.) are often more intense once they transition and are more sensitive tenfold.
Types Of Secondary Sexes.
Ranked By Hierarchy.
Top Of The Food Chain.
Do you have what it takes to keep your pride? Sometimes even those at the top of the food chain are affected by those beneath you.
Enigma (₰); Dominant Alphas.
Commonly mistaken as an ordinary alpha Enigma's are offspring of many generations of alphas. Both parents are often alpha's that have tried to conceive an Enigma throughout many generations. An extremely rare phenomenon to occur in a generation and they are essentially albinos in society. Unlike regular alphas, their secondary attributes are heightened and overbearing to control and handle. Although they are even able to make Alpha submit, they can often go into shock if they don't keep themselves in check due to overbearing ruts, pheromones, etc.
Alphas (α).
Alphas are the most generalized sub-gender at the top of the food chain, making roughly 10 percent of the omegaverse hierarchy. People associate them with becoming more possessive and dominant in situations as they take on more leadership roles than any other sub-gender. Alphas are more primitive of the genders and follow their pride than other people. They are natural-born leaders that others seek to follow out of their instincts.
Special Attributes; Also Applies to Dominant and Recessive Species.
Have more fierce scents that easily overpower more earthy and sweet scents.
Experience ruts during mating sessions once a month. They develop a knot during this period to ensure the production of offspring and resort to their instincts rather than rational thinking.
Develop sharp K-9s during maturity that allow them to mark and claim their mate(s) more easily than other sub-genders.
They tend to become more protective of those who are close to them and want to keep everyone safe. Sometimes they feel as if they bear the world on their shoulders, yet they take pride in their accomplishments.
Gammas (Γ); Recessive Alphas.
More rare than normal Alphas but more common than Enigmas, Gammas are commonly known as "submissive alphas". They gain the attributes of alphas but it is not as intense as a regular alphas. They are the most calm and sane out of the top of the food chain and are able to remain rational during their heat. They often don't strive in the leadership positions as alphas and are known as the second in command. However, just because they don't experience extreme attributes doesn't mean that they don't experience them at all.
The Middle Ground; The Stability Of Society.
Betas (B).
The working class of the hierarchy, the majority of the population. Betas are classified as ordinary people, making up 82 percent of the population. They are people who take everyday positions and are the worker bees in the hive. People often overlook this gender as an equivalent to a regular human despite their ability to neutralize any problems between alphas and omegas. As there is lightness and darkness, Betas are often in the middle neutralizing the scents of both omegas and alphas when not in heat or ruts. They are often perceived as ordinary despite the important role they play in society.
Special Attributes:
Have more calming and nature-like scents that help sedate alphas and omegas.
A more lax "drive" to mate and reproduce.
Delving Too Deep; Bottom Feeders.
Those who are able to weasel out their situations are known to be the prey of many. They have their own tactics to hide themselves but are always eaten at the end.
Sigmas (Σ); Recessive Omegas.
More defiant and restrained by their omega nature, Sigmas are dominant omegas that defy their common submissive stereotype given to omegas. Like Alphas, Sigmas take pride in their actions and decisions as if they're a natural-born leader but are often treated as an omega regardless. They don't have intense attributes like an average omega, but they still experience such phenomena. They are rare than omegas considering the nature of Sigmas and how they interact with those around them despite Secondary Sex. Even when being put into place with pheromones, Sigmas normally won't go down without a fight.
Omegas (Ω).
The bottom feeders of the hierarchy, the most vulnerable of them all. Omegas make up 8 percent of the population and are generalized sub-gender to be a bottom feeder. As graceful as a rabbit in a field, they are the most exploited and oppressed gender of them all. Omegas are known for their resilience and "mother-like" nature to nurture and protect those close to them, as well as being able to produce offspring despite their Primary Sex.
Special Attributes; Also Applies To Recessive Species.
Naturally have sweeter scents than any of the other sub-genders to entice Betas and Alphas.
Experience heat two to four times a year in order to produce offspring. Their scenes and pheromones are heightened to coax Betas and Alphas to mate with them.
Produce slick during heat to act like a lubricant.
Produce offspring despite their Primary Sex.
They are known to protect those close to them due to their more protective nature. Despite what others say, they express the protection of their pack in different ways.
Nesting in times of stress or when experiencing pre-heat.
The Defiance Against Natural Order.
Thetas (Θ); Deadly Betas.
From what begins as a pheromone problem once they mature and turn into a dangerous virus that affects those around them.
The word Theta is associated with the ideals of death. Thetas are betas that have a genetic malfunction in the scent glands that produce a dangerous stench of pheromones that directly affect those around them. From not being able to produce scents from when they mature to having a bloom of scents during one time, Thetas emit a deadly scent that can often knock out people.
Intensity depends on their original scent, how they feel, and who it is affecting. Where Betas who smell the scent can find it as something that reeks from a mile away, Omegas and Alphas are more vulnerable to Thetas as their senses are more heightened than Betas.
After inhaling a certain amount, Omegas and Alphas overdose on scents which could force them to have a permanent loss of smell. They often would pass out before any permanent damage is done, which is also a very rare situation affecting another Beta.
There is currently no known cure besides a temporary solution involving a significant amount of scent blockers. It is not an effective method and isn't an ideal solution since it negatively affects the Theta's body, but they can pass as normal Betas in the hierarchy.
Late Bloomers.
Late Bloomers were given the title by Doctors who found out that there are people who exceed the age limit without maturing and settling into the hierarchy. There aren't many cases of late bloomers and are often believed to have a rare Secondary Sex considering how long it takes to develop. It is also not the case for all who have these second genders.
These people often experience severe attributes once they convert and are often recommended to find a partner immediately after maturing. They don't have a distinguished place in the hierarchy considering the fact that they didn't develop that Secondary Sex, yet are categorized with the Thetas as people who defy the social structure.
Mating Cycles.
Mating Cycles are the foundation of life, giving people the chance to conceive.
A big aspect of the omegaverse fandom, people often use mating cycles to spice up romantic or sexual interactions. They specifically affect Alphas and Omegas with the purpose of breeding in producing offspring as wolves naturally do.
Varying on the Secondary Sex, people are able to experience heat and rut.
Rut is referred to when an Alpha bares its fangs to their loved one, whether it is another Alpha, Beta, or Omega. Their objective is to breed their bedded partner with the goal of producing offspring during the duration of their Rut.
Heat is conceptualized as the counterpart to Ruts, an exclusive ability that Omegas have. Unlike breeding another, their body makes modifications in order to ensure that their body is capable of carrying and nurturing offspring. They also experience the thought of needing to be bred during the time of their Heat.
Alpha's Mating Cycle.
Pre-Rut.
Pre-Rut signals an Alpha that their mating period is on its way before the actual Rut happens.
During this time, Alphas tend to become more protective and obsessive with their mate as their primal instincts begin to blend with their natural personality. They have a tendency to leave marks and scent their loved ones as much as possible to claim their "territory" in order to keep others away.
They are also prone to harming others. Considering their impulsive nature to keep their partners close to them, an Alpha's main priority is to keep their partner safe in a space where they would be able to breed. It is not recommended for Alphas to go outside during this time period considering they resolve to their violent nature once they see someone else eyeing their prey.
They also begin to emit intense pheromones more often and become aroused. Not as bad as their actual Rut, a Pre-Rut intimidates what the actual Rut is going to be like in order to prepare their partners for what is to come. Intense pheromones and arousal are normally the last symptoms of Pre-Rut that most likely initiate the actual Rut. Once they have their partner under them, their mating season begins.
Rut.
Protect. Breed. Reproduce. Repeat.
This is probably the most accurate way to decipher what goes through an Alpha's mind during a Rut.
Once their Rut is initiated, an Alpha has little to no control of their actions or thoughts. Generally, there are very few who are not easily swayed by their natural instincts and can control what they do for a certain period of time, but Alphas don't keep their mindset straight. Especially when it comes to those who are easily swayed by the pheromones of Omegas.
During this time, they also have thoughts of marking their mates on their scent glands, which requires special preparation. Marking their partner represents an official relationship with each other and stays on their partner's neck for life unless removed. Baring their K-9s, Alphas are able to mark others during their Ruts to claim their territory completely.
They also develop a knot during the height of sexual intercourse. Their penis begins to swell during the time of ejaculation which is often painful without the proper preparation and swells inside their partner. Their bodies constantly produce semen when the knot is inside their partner in order to guarantee high chances of pregnancy in their partner. It takes an hour or two to deflate, however, by that time, Alphas are ready for another round.
During this time is also when Alphas are the most vulnerable around their mate(s). If they are treated a certain way, Alphas can also experience a drop. Instead of fueling with desire and prosperity with their partner, Alphas could have an indifferent rut, where they have little to no desire to reproduce. It is extremely uncommon but it does happen. If left untreated it can continue after their initial rut. Considering their primal instincts are part of who they are, it can affect their life in ways one could never imagine.
Ruts last a duration of 3 days to 1 week. Duration varies upon each Alpha but can be extended through drugs and steroids. It is not recommended to do so.
Omega's Mating Cycle.
Pre-Heat.
A magnet for trouble, a mating call to Alphas.
Pre-Heat begins a week before the actual heat and is a way for the Omega's body to tell them that their heat is underway. Their mating cycle takes a toll on not only their mentality but also their bodies as their bodies modify themselves to properly bear a child.
During the beginning of their Pre-Heat they build a safe space in which they can spend the duration of their heat in. This is called nesting. Often their bedroom or a shared one, an Omega designated a "safe space" for themselves. Once they find a spot that meets their expectations, they will begin to fill the space with the scents of their partners. If they don't have mates, then people who they are close with. These scents can often be found in the other's articles of clothing, sheets, linens, covers, and pillows. Anything that reminds them of mates or family can be kept in the nest.
Nesting is also a place where Omegas can calm themselves in times of distress. Although nesting is primarily when they go into heat, Omegas can build nests when they need comfort for any reason. They are also to be approached with caution unless directly invited by the Omega. If someone walks in on them with an inbuilt nest, their pride could be harmed as they destroy their nests. Has it always been so hard to look capable?
An Omega's scent is more dense and intoxicating to entice others into bed with them. A sweet smell that is almost bearable until the actual Heat begins. It's more dangerous to have these omegas outside considering almost anyone can be affected by their overwhelming increase in pheromones and are advised to stay inside.
They also begin to sleep more often, as well as eat and drink more than they normally do. Omegas always tend to be by themselves during this time, however, appreciate the help of their partners during their times of need. To conserve energy for their actual heat, the Omega's body begins to store as much to keep the Omega awake during the actual heat.
They also have a temperature rise, as "Heat" suggests. They are often hotter during Alphas in Rut considering how much preparation and desire the body builds. It becomes more troublesome to do things on their own once a few days pass as their body only becomes more and more hotter. Finally, they produce slick from their bottom. The slick is a form of preparation that the body modifies to act as a lubricant. The vaginal or anal area, varying on the Primary Sex, allows their bodies to be penetrated easier with little to no preparation.
Heat.
Breathe. Claim. Feel. Touch.
Unlike the Alpha's Rut, an Omega's Heat is a more delicate and nurturing mating cycle that requires more attention, delicacy, and intimacy with their partners.
Instead of growing a desire to simply breed like Alphas and use force, Omegas are in their vulnerable state where their secondary instincts to protect and nurture rise to the occasion. Not only do they want to please themselves by carrying the offspring of their partners, but they also want to prove their worth. To prove that they are worth being taken care of and what they can provide to their partners.
The Heat itself rolls off in waves like an ocean's waves. There are times when the heat is intense and other times when they can breathe and rest. At the beginning of the heat, they are the most vulnerable to the words, actions, thoughts, and feelings of their partners.
Heat also sparks a feeling, a need to reproduce and birth offspring with their partner(s). It's a time when Omega's are in tune with their second nature and are prone to feelings of intimacy with their partner. This causes an Omega to have a spike in libido and an aching for longing, preservation, and love.
This isn't to say that they are completely innocent during this time. Omegas tend to have a high sex drive with the desire to collect semen from their partner(s) in hopes of creating offspring. Drawing back to the second nature of Omegas, their priority is to get pregnant, even if their mindset tells them to not think so.
Can't you also forget how much energy you consume? Due to the little to no rest during an Omega's Heat, it is also important to keep an eye on the Omega, whether it's their partners or family. They exert most of their energy during heat almost sweating it off with a fever, to where Omegas must be supervised during their times in need.
It is also important to remember that despite the Primary Sex, Omegas can get pregnant. Male, Female, Intersex, etc. If they don't possess a vaginal hole, their body creates a sac where the sperm will meet temporary eggs that an Omega can have and where they will carry their child. At the beginning of the heat, it normally forms in males through abdominal pains and cramps that are almost unbearable at times. Only when their desire overrides the pain are they ready to be mated with careful preparation and love.
Please, keep an eye on the Omega. Before someone takes them away from you.
Post-Heat.
After the severe waves, the calmer shore arrives long after.
Post-Heat is recognized as the recovery stage of the Omega Mating Cycle. It is a time and delicacy when Omega's recover their rational senses and catch up with not only their bodies but their self-being.
During the next day or two once their heat is over, an Omega is often seen sleeping from 12 to 26 hours, depending on how severe their heat was. Their body takes the time to recuperate and replenish its energy, only waking up to eat something minimal or drink to rehydrate. Their body does the essentials to keep the Omega alive for the next two days as the body enters a semi-comatose state.
It is also essential to receive aftercare and gentle praises from their partner(s). Omega's are still sensitive and prone to drops if they aren't treated with the utmost care, the Post-Heat is one of the essential times when praise and convincing them that they are worthy to be a mate is important.
Red heat.
The term "Red Heat" refers to when Omegas drop due to lack of praise, inappropriate actions, or a feeling of self-doubt. It is a common defense mechanism that Omegas have especially when in times of crisis where their bodies forcibly stop a heat until they get into a safe area.
The severity of the "Red Heat" varies upon each situation, where an accidental slip of saying the wrong words could cause an Omega's body to overreact, or when in a serious situation of assault, their bodies completely pause the heat track temporarily.
Minor Symptoms:
Omegas will go into a cold sweat as their body temperature rapidly cools.
Some rational thoughts come back during the length of the "Red Heat."
Their scent changes into a negative one. An extremely strong stench.
Their ability to mark their mate(s) is taken away considering their body is negatively reacting to the people around them.
They stop producing slick and are unable to make children during this time.
Minor symptoms show when there is miscommunication or misunderstanding between mates and can often be resolved on the spot. Although it would take some time for the Omega to recuperate back into their heat, there are no long-term negative effects on their bodies.
Severe Symptoms:
If forced to continue mating, their holes, anal or vaginal will wear and tear. Rather than slick, they will begin bleeding at the sign of intrusion.
There is no rational thought, Omegas will go feral once they've been violated. The second gender of Omega's to "protect and nurture" is stripped away from them as they do anything to keep their pride.
An Omega in red heat can also over-exert themselves if it becomes too overbearing, their bodies becoming too hot to the point where they will burn their organs internally, which will permanently burn their reproductive system and other organs. In the most severe cases, this can be life-threatening.
Severe symptoms are the last resort of the Omega's body to protect itself, and if left untreated can cause death. This not only makes the act of violating Omegas a severe crime and a hard thing to do. Overall, the "Red Heat" acts as a drop and a self-defense mechanism for the Omegas.
You Are Mine; Marking and Scenting.
Second Genders have special characteristics to communicate with one another. Some forms of communication are limited to specific second sexes, whereas more universal forms of language can be used by any secondary sex.
Marking is a term when Alphas and Omegas mark their loved ones during their Heat or Rut. These second genders can mark anyone of the secondary sex despite it being a secondary sex higher in the food chain or below. Even Beta's could be marked.
Marking can be done in different ways and has different effects depending on who's marking who. Rather than using it as a specific form of communication, marking is an indication to everyone that this person is "taken." Marks cannot come off if marked by an Alpha or Omega, including Dominant and Recessive Species.
Betas do not have the characteristics to mark anyone, including those who are Alpha or Omega. They can only be marked. Scenting is a more universal language that can be used by any secondary sex.
Scenting is used when people rub off their pheromones upon one another which is emitted through the scent glanced located on a person's glands. They are located at the bridge between the shoulder and neck, normally known as the "cowl muscles" or the trapezius muscle. Everyone has two scent glands located on each side and can be marked by at most two different mates if wanted. If not, then by one.
Scenting also takes place near the scent glands, where the pheromones come from. Mates can rub their scent onto another's scent glands to "claim their territory". Any secondary sex can be done by anyone.
The Red String of Fate; Fated Mates.
"The string itself is a vibrant red string that connects you to your fated mate. Some say that no matter how far away you are from your fated mate, you will always be connected to them. They will always be yours. No matter how far you will travel, the string will not break. Your fate is sealed with your partner."
The term "Fated Mates" is similar to the traditional Chinese Tale of the Red String of Fate. An Alpha and Omega are confined and destined to be with one another, despite loving someone else. In the omegaverse topes, it is common for an Alpha and Omega to be together, despite Betas being the large percentile of the population.
This is likely due to the compatibility of an Alpha and Omega being higher than mating with a Beta which makes this type of relationship more ideal in the hierarchy.
Every Alpha and Omega are not bound to mate with any specific gender, however, they are more likely to be mated with their counterpart. Some people in the hierarchy look down on these ideals due to the absurdity of how small the percentage of the Omega population is, however, this is probably the most common mating couple that is found in the omegaverse trope.
The "Fated Mates", much like the Chinese myth, is a trope that is used in an alternate universe but does not define who is mated to who. It is treated more as folklore, however, most Alphas are indeed mated to Omegas. As Ying has Yang, both Secondary Sexes are commonly mated together as if it was done by fate.
How Is An Alpha Affected?
An Alpha is considered to have a "fated mate" when not only they have marked someone but also they have been marked themselves. An Alpha can mark their mate(s) during Rut.
During this time, the Alpha pierce their mate with their fangs, enhanced, sharpened, refined, extended K-9s to properly mark their mate. However, if they specifically mark an Omega, they secrete a liquid pheromone that stays with the initial bite mark on the Omega.
Although Marks can be removed, the liquid pheromone from a fated couple cannot.
The liquid pheromone acts as a bond coming from the Alpha to Omega in order to ensure that they live in harmony with one another. The liquid pheromone acts as a defense mechanism to ensure the fated couple stays together.
The liquid pheromone doesn't do anything until there is distrust or denial from the Alpha, enhancing the pheromone liquid into a venom that can slowly poison the Omega. This is called a Broken Bond. It is formed at the bite mark of the Alpha and can spread slowly or rapidly. The type of venom severity varies from the type of Alpha who made the mark and the spread rate of the venom depends on how bad the break of the Alpha is.
This acts as a way to keep an Omega in check to ensure the Omega can not only be a reliable partner but to pursue happiness between the Alpha and Omega. Once the issue is resolved, the venom dissipates back into the liquid pheromone.
Their ruts only react to their fated mates. If they are mated, their Ruts are only reactive to the pheromone liquid that the Omega emits during their heat. As they can mark Omegas, Omegas can mark an Alpha. Their ruts can happen, even with other people but that would be very hard to do when marked by someone. Sometimes their knots won't form or their rut could even temporarily stop if the ruts are normally overwhelming until they are in their mate's arms.
How Is An Omega Affected?
Much like an Alpha, Omegas need to mark and mark a certain individual themselves to be affiliated with the "fated mates" trope.
Although it might be a bit harder to break the scent gland and implement their liquid pheromones considering they don't have refined K-9s like their counterpart, they often hold a stronger grudge to prevent an Alpha from leaving them. Omegas are also only able to permanently mark their loved ones during heat for them to secrete their liquid pheromones, often indicating this process during sacred moments.
The liquid pheromones that are injected into the Alpha's scent glands, however, often spread throughout the body instead of staying intact in the scent glands. Since Alpha's aren't originally meant to hold the liquid pheromones in their glands, it instead spreads throughout their body which can affect them altogether.
Every Alpha, deep inside, dreams of feeling accepted by their fated mate. By the ones they put their pride in, to ensure that their loved ones are taken care of.
Other times they may get rejected, left, or brokenhearted by their mate; prompting deterio ration throughout their body. This is called Broken Heart Syndrome.
How deadly is this condition?
First, an affected Alpha will lose their basic Alpha instincts. They will not rut, will not react to Omega's sexual pheromones, gradually lose their sense of smell, and stop producing their scent.
The psychological disturbance will follow soon. Loss of appetite, insomnia, depression, and even suicidal thoughts. This is due to the implication that these Alpha's have not fulfilled their duties.
Eventually, their body will also collapse.
Physical Symptoms:
Loss of muscle mass.
Immunodeficiency.
Bleeding disorder; blood unable to clot properly.
Internal bleeding.
In the final stage, this syndrome will prompt premature apoptosis (programmed cell death) of the heart muscle. Ultimately leading to the death of the Alpha.
As romanticized in many scripts, "The heart finally kills itself, as it loses its reason to keep beating."
Much like the broken bond, the cure is to ensure the Alpha understands that their efforts and pride are of value to their fated partner, in which the liquid pheromones throughout the Alpha cease to help the body recover.
An Omega's heat is also restricted to their fated mate. They are not able to mate with one another as their body responds to the liquid pheromones of their counterpart. If anyone attempts to proceed with sexual intercourse with a mated Omega, their body may prepare itself to indulge in the Red Heat process to protect its body and keep its pride.
Doctor's Orders; Medication and Prescriptions.
There are many drugs and medications that are found through the Omegaverse, which help tackle any occurring issues of mating cycles and how many can counteract the biological structure of the second gender. Many people, despite their second gender, do not often resort to medication and prescriptions due to how dangerous they are. But, again, there are certain circumstances in the lives of everyone.
Serenithrol: A common medication that is known to suppress and confine the scent of pheromones coming from the scent gland. They are often sold in pills and are accessible to the common public. They can be found in common drug stores and are safe to use long-term. It is not recommended to use them excessively, commonly in large quantities since it may cause a lack of pheromones to be produced naturally.
Maliscent: A legal perfume that can be found in beauty stores or places that sell beauty products. These perfume bottles contain different scents that are extracted..? replicated of natural scents coming from other secondary genders. They are perfumes that can guise the scent of someone for several hours, a safer alternative than the Serenithrol medications. Although it may be safe, exactly where is the source of this enriching and enticing perfume..?
Heat and Rut Suppressants: Often known as a heavenly drug of Alphas and Omegas, these suppressants can temporarily or permanently disrupt a mating cycle if consistently used. The origin of suppressants was to prevent people from going into Heat and Rut in public places to lessen the crimes as people took advantage of these second genders; in the modern day, people take them as if they're a common pill to take every day.
The suppressants are often overused due to how accessible they are to the public, although it seems as if there is a major company attempting to restrict them to the common people. The tablet medications are a weaker variant of the suppressants which could only temporarily stop a mating cycle for a few hours. they are accessible in drug stores with proper identification of being an Alpha or Omega variant. There is also a syringe suppressant which is often a more intense suppressant. They can completely disrupt a mating cycle but require a doctor's referral to snatch one of these.
Doctor's Orders; Medication and Prescriptions Continued.
The following are less known in society and are not accessible to the common public. These are often sold at the top of the food chain and may only be purchased in the underworld. You have connections, right?
Heat and Rut Inducers: The opposite of the suppressants, these inducers are only available in a liquid form and are often sold in syringe needles. They essentially force an Alpha or Omega to go into their mating cycle despite how far or close it initially is. It was banned from the public to prevent secondary sexes from being taken advantage of and is only found in the underbelly of New York. They are at the cusps of a certain mafia playing the underworld and are personally distributed from them. If one wanted to get their hands on it, they'd have to personally affiliate themselves with a mafia member who is selling it.
Xenonexus: An unknown drug that's made itself to the market, shaking up the hierarchy of the omegaverse. It can slowly transition one's second gender as their body modifies itself. It is often known as "Xenonexus" due to the unknown source and how well its production is, people crave such a powerful tool to change their lives. However, they are personally only accessible to a certain few who have taken part in this project.
The only known treatment of Xenonexus known to the public is those sold in the black market, even those that are unsafe. They are sold in vials that are to be taken throughout the course of four months, all the necessary syringes taken in months are intact. Most importantly, they remain unlabeled. There have been very few wealthy people who have gotten their hands on this drug, although they don't exactly know what second gender they might transition into. It's almost as if this drug was thrown into the public to see how people react, though the creator remains unknown.
How're You Living?; Modern Day Applications.
In a world where money influences reliable resources and connections, the world is often divided by the stances of many through the polluted streets of New York. Although there is much bias that varies among Secondary Sexes, there is little to no discrimination based on it. Due to the diversity and the amount of connections that one may have, what one identifies as is not crucial.
As they say, the pockets talk as people listen.
There are very few instances where Secondary Sex matters, which is in regards to those who live their life in riches. Depending on where one resides, there could be some more.. unfortunate outcomes that often drive people into a corner. Where money can talk, but the overwhelming sense of power could signify authority over another.
Those who live in the inner circle know lip service, and prevailing as a dominant one is often the more important part at the table. After all, becoming the head means you get the last say, right?
Now, where are you planning to live in this unstable society?
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2024.05.08 23:14 Ok_District4689 Weston Road Flows

One of them ones Right
Weston Road Flows, I did this shit for my nigga Renny Back when we couldn't buy pizza 'cause we were down to pennies Feel like we go back a century, runnin' to store for Centuries And bring 'em back to your brother man we had to respect it He was wavy doin' mixtapes out of your basement He let us hit the weed on occasion for entertainment Then he would leave us at the house and go out on a mission We probably would've got in less trouble just goin' with him Feel like I never say much but man there's a lot to know Feel like the difference between us really startin' to show I'm lookin' at they first week numbers like, "What are those?" I mean you boys not even coming close I gave niggas like you a reason for celebration You number one and I'm Eddie Murphy we tradin' places Look in the mirror I'm closer than I really appear Creepin' like Chili without the tender love and care No tender love and care and no love and affection I got a price on my head but there's a risk to collect it I might be here as a vessel to teach people a lesson Feel like they wanted me dead but couldn't pull it together Yeah, but here we are and it's a new semester 40 the only one that know how I deal with depression A couple nights where it started to feel like the feelings faded A lot of problems that can't be fixed with a conversation Your best day is my worst day, I get green like Earth Day You treat me like I'm born yesterday, you forgot my birthday You don't be scorin' perfect, you don't be workin' like how we be workin' You platinum like wrappers on Hershey's, boy that shit is worthless You get the message over and over like it was urgent And then act like you ain't heard it when you see me in person The only thing I did to end up here was put the work in And did it with a purpose Used to have secret handshakes to confirm my friendships Nowadays they just shakin' my hand to hide the tension A lot of people just hit me up when my name is mentioned Shout out to KD we relate, we get the same attention It's rainin' money, Oklahoma City Thunder The most successful rapper thirty-five and under I'm assumin' everybody's thirty-five and under That's when I plan to retire, man it's already funded Yeah, I brought your wifey out to St. Maarten She violated, I sent her back where it all started How quick they are to forget about they bachelor apartment Leave it to niggas like you to show em' light in the darkness Told my momma that I found a lady in the East Cancun when I got signed, they upgraded the suite Don Julio in the freezer that they gave us for free I get you all you can eat, just have some patience with me You wouldn't tell me you loved me, started seein' Monique Last time I heard from Monique, T-Minus was makin' beats I used to hit the corner store to get Tahiti Treat Now the talk at the corner store is I'm TBE The best ever, don't ever question, you know better But shit ain't always how it seems when it's sowed together Yeah, I let that last line breathe, it take a second to get it Weston Road flows, my confidence level gettin' settled Don't get hyped for the moment then start to back peddle Don't let your new found fame fool you or cloud up your judgement To talk loosely, I really do this Been flowin' stupid since Vince Carter was on some through the legs, arm in the hoop shit Drinkin' Hypnotiq with Glenn Lewis, I been through it Y'all was so afraid to lay claim to it Too busy face screwin' on waste movements You was ridin' TTC metro, I had the place boomin' First take Drake, you know I rarely have to take two it And they still take to it Big Apple had the white Hummer parked right in front of Fluid And we be walkin' in that bitch like we already knew it But 'money can't buy happiness', Jelly talkin' truthful But I'm happiest when I can buy what I want Get high when I want Yeah, that's right Yeah
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2024.05.08 08:15 Small_Tank Faction re-focus: Alpha Legion

Faction re-focus: Alpha Legion
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"We are Legion. I am everywhere."

~Alpharius(?)
The Alpha Legion have a wide array of tools available to them meant to disrupt and put pressure on their opponents, with their enemies often finding their own momentum used against them.
Generally, the faction's strengths, weaknesses, and playstyle can be summed up like this:
  • An odd mixture of aggressive playstyle and focus on playing the long-game.
  • Warlords begin the game disguised as a regular Alpha Legionary; each Alpha Legion warlord starts with a 0-cost purple card, their "secret identity" - when played, the Alpha Legionary turns into the warlord proper alongside an additional effect.
  • Best access to stun, can't attack, and jam of any faction, enabling them to lock down opponents who are overly-reliant on their warlord or individual troops.
  • Trap cards, which when drawn by the opponent, have potentially devastating effects; they are a large part of what makes the Alpha Legion so good at playing the long game, as with the right set-up, the opponent's deck may end up being composed almost entirely of trap cards.
  • Secret Orders - tactics which are applied to enemy troops, which are then activated when the opponent does what is specified on the order; their legendary tactic may just find itself nullified by a Mu Order, or the all-important flank troop they deploy next turn may find itself with only 1 attack because of their comrades' betrayal!
  • Good access to stealth; while they're no Raven Guard or Night Lords, the Alpha Legion have plenty of troops that begin with stealth, and one of their warlords gains stealth when they reveal.
  • Able to force their opponents to draw cards, including forcing them to draw trap cards specifically; some of their cards are dependent on the number of cards in either their hand, or the opponents'.
  • Operatives, which are special troops that are given to the opponent and have negative passive effects for them.
  • Poor survivability and somewhat mediocre stats for their cost, made up for by strong rally or passive effects.
That may seem like a lot (and it is), but in large part these mechanics will be working in concert to bring the Alpha Legion to one of their (potentially many) win conditions.
Let's take a look at their warlords now.

Alpha Legionary

\"I am Alpharius.\"
All Alpha Legion warlords begin the game in this "disguised" form. The Alpha Legionary's ability is situationally useful, as forcing the opponent to draw while also drawing yourself can be quite helpful, but for the most part, this guy's only here for two purposes: mindgaming your opponent into thinking your warlord is someone they aren't (e.g. Exodus when they're really Alpharius), or keeping their secret identity's other effect available until you really need it.

Armillus Dynat

\"A harrowing is coming..\"
\"I am but one head of the Hydra.\"
Dynat is, unfortunately, quite weak - if he could choose who to jam, or his ability was to jam without instead drawing every other use, he would be much stronger - but his secret identity's effect can be quite useful in a pinch, especially if you get a couple of them from False Colours (more on that card later).

Exodus

\"You're in my sights..\"
\"Stay put, and accept your end.\"
A meta favourite, almost nothing is truly safe from Exodus. For the most part, you're going to want to keep your hand close to full as long as possible, but be careful not to end up overdrawing and needing to discard.
His secret identity is probably the strongest - a turn of stealth may be just what you need to survive in a difficult situation, and buys you time to set up his siege ability without much risk.

Sheed Ranko

\"One never expects what's hidden in plain sight!\"
\"Should you really trust those besides you?\"
Sheed isn't particularly strong, but he's incredibly frustrating to fight. He can generally deal with aggressive face-basher opponents quite easily by playing Myzmadra, counteract opponents who rely on weak spam units (such as Caliban Jaegers) with Doromek, or just generally be annoying with Haln.
Better than Dynat, but the other two Alpha Legion warlords are far better.

Alpharius/Omegon

\"This is about victory - true victory!\"
\"Your reality is just a forgery of my own design.\"
\"Your eyes deceive you..\"
\"The more you try, the more you seal your fate.\"
The Alpha Legion warlord. He is able to add any Alpha Legion tactic (except the mission card) to his hand from a random pool of 3, including legendaries. This is exactly as planned overpowered as it sounds. You could keep creating Hydran Exemplar and turning your opponent's deck into a waterfall of trap cards, or False Colours in order to spam warlord heals by revealing Alpharius again (possibly even twice if you get lucky), get more attack power with Dynat, stealth from Exodus, or some combination of these things.
Final Configuration is Alpharius' equivalent to other traitor legion primarchs' Whispers of Chaos cards, and is put into your hand when you reveal Alpharius, which transforms you into Lord of Serpents when used. Lord of Serpents' ability even works when the enemy troop it's used on is stunned or has can't attack, and it is also capable of triggering Lambda Orders, Myzmadra's passive, and Infiltrator Sylas' passive.

Card tier-list

I am not confident in my ability to make a good tier-list, but here's one anyway.

S-tier

False Colours - Reverts your warlord into Alpha Legionary and generates 2 random secret identities. You can reveal one of these and save the other for later if you want, since you can reveal another warlord even while revealed as a different one (or even the same one!). Best if you can get Alpharius and/or Exodus from this.
Headhunter Eskyrx - While the secret order given is random, you could potentially see your opponent drop a chonky troop only to find it die at the end of their turn without doing anything, or nullify the next tactic they use, or reduce the attack of the next one to 1, and Eskyrx is quite durable for a stealth troop at 5 health.
Azure Serpent - Extremely effective as a finisher, or to help clean up the opponent's board. If they have a full hand, this thing will do 20 damage randomly-distributed in groups of 2 as a rally effect.
Kappa Stormbird - Board-wide jam, plus a draw for yourself at 4 energy. This will absolutely throw a wrench in the opponent's gameplan if they are relying on lots of frontlines or board-wide buffs.
Sigma Order - Tell a troop that their life is nothing, they serve zero purpose, and they should kill themself.. NOW! At the end of the opponent's next turn, the unit will destroy itself. Good on its own, but in combination with stun or can't attack, you can disable and hard-remove an opponent for extremely cheap - and you can get a lot of these things from Aleph Null Sergeants, Tenebrae Installations, or good luck with Headhunter Eskyrx.

A-tier

Skalas Squad - It's a 5-attack flanker for 4 energy. Low durability, but that's not what you get flankers for.
Sergeant Jarus - Incredibly chonky flanker with unstoppable. While his flank is technically conditional, it's not exactly rare to have 5 or more cards in your hand as the Alpha Legion.
Nul Terminators - Stun a unit and its neighbors while putting something decent on the board. Not exactly overwhelming, but AoE stun is always nice to have.
Askelitar Squad - Stun an enemy and put a 4/3 astartes on the board. The best 4-energy drop in terms of establishing board presence.
Hydran Exemplar - Put one of each kind of trap card (currently 4) in the enemy deck, then force them to draw a card (not necessarily a trap card) for 3 energy. Best if you're getting these by generating them as Alpharius, but alright to throw into a deck using a different warlord.
Saboteur Consul - Very irritating for your opponent if it gets its ambush effect; good for killing your opponent's momentum if they're playing the curve and don't have an answer to stealth.
Praetor Jaekon - Best on Exodus so that he can keep his hand full. Works well with Alpharius if you're trying to get final configuration.
Vigilator Xerophos - Very strong rally effect (reduce an enemy's current and max health to 1) and is stealthed, but extremely vulnerable to cards such as Cull of Cowardice.
Legionary Alpharius - Forces the opponent to draw a trap card with his ability and has vantage. Stats are decent, but not especially great. Fittingly, he works best with Primarch Alpharius.
Harrower Jaego - Tough troop that can serve as a semi board-clearer. Main problem is his cost; it's unlikely you'll be able to use something to force the opponent to draw on the same turn you deploy him, and thus he's liable to getting removed before he can do his board-wide ping of damage more than once.
Mu Order - Can be extremely frustrating for your opponent when they play a powerful tactic expecting that you used a different order, only to have their tactic nullified.
Unity and Lies - 2 damage to all enemies when drawn. Not bad for only 1 energy and a bit of luck with the enemy's draw, and with how many ways you have to force the enemy to draw, it's inevitable that it will hit at some point. The fact it could be drawn on the opponent's turn also means it can throw a wrench in their plans if they do something that makes them draw and suddenly find themselves down a troop or two they needed.
The Hydra - While the card affected is random, you effectively turn it into a brick in the opponent's hand. Can be quite disruptive, especially if the card in question was going to be used in a combo.
Sons of the Hydra - The Alpha Legion's mission card. Its true reward is not what you get for its completion, but rather that it will make your opponent aggressively facebash you to prevent you from completing it, often instead of using their warlord ability. Reward is good, but the Alpha Legion already has plenty of ways to get traps, including as a resolution effect. Still nice to have it on your warlord, though.
Brand of the Hydra - I'm beginning to see a theme with these names. Stop those pesky facebasher units and put the enemy down 1 energy for a turn; synergizes well with sigma order.
Praetor Thkeln - Potential to steal something great from your opponent, and a good statline.
Shyrax Squad - Cheap way to make the enemy draw a trap card and can do a bit of damage, but quite vulnerable to AoE.

B-tier

Paramar Invasion - Potentially a very cheap board-wipe, but doesn't do all that much damage and has a bit of RNG. Unity and Lies usually does the same thing for even cheaper, despite the RNG element of drawing it.
Psi Order - When the opponent puts a troop in play while one they already have on the board has this order, the newly-deployed troop has its base attack set to 1. If a passive effect is boosting its attack, however, they still receive that bonus - it does, however, remove any attack buffs they have.
Infiltrator Sylas - Discourage your opponent from facebashing lest their warlord gets slapped for 2 damage each time they do. Has stealth, so it's likely that this deterrent will last at least for its first turn. I generally prefer to get him from the opponent drawing the trap card that puts one in play, though.
Ghost Legion - The aforementioned trap card that puts in play Infiltrator Sylas.
Omega Storm Eagle - Not terribly much damage, but you're mostly getting this for a combination of the damage and the trap cards it puts in the opponents' deck when it kills something.
Myzmadra - Operative that's basically Sylas, except that Myzmadra slaps the attacker instead of the warlord specifically.
Operative Haln - Frustrating for your opponent, but more expensive than the other operatives and easier for your opponent to get rid of.
Phorosius Support - Good 3/3 drop that helps Alpharius get closer to final configuration or potentially make the enemy draw a trap card if you get lucky.
25-2 Rhino - Quite durable and guarantees at least one trap card in the opponents' deck, with potential for many more if you can keep it alive. One of those units that forces a response, since if left unattended, it will cause lots of problems for the opponent.
Moritat Vortronar - Not bad, but not especially good unless you're making the enemy draw a lot.
Unidentified Legionary - Best with Exodus to help keep his hand full, with decent stats. Solid card, but not especially great.
Kyphax Veterans - Helps swing the game's momentum back in your favour.
Ancient Inigo - Nice if you can get a lot of draws, but somewhat slow.
Hertzor Seekers - 2 damage on rally and forces the opponent to draw a trap card if the target dies. It's always good to have a way to force the enemy to draw a trap card, but this guy's a bit pricey for the statline despite the good rally.
Varix Squad - Helps to reduce the cost of Alpharius' final configuration and may make the enemy draw traps sometimes. Also helps to fill out your hand. Stats are kinda meh, but that's not why you get these guys.
Phors Seekers - Is the enemy relying on a single chonky troop? Prevent them from facebashing for as long as this guy's alive and not stunned/jammed. Works exceptionally well with sigma order, as his ability only costs 1 energy, but is slow. Good statline and stealth, though.
Echion Sky-hunters - 2 damage and a jam for 2 energy. Nice to have in a pinch.
Undercover Action - While you only get to pick from 3 troops in your opponent's hand, if you can put this on a flank, fast, or vantage troop you've effectively taken away its value for only 1 energy.

C-tier

Tenebrae Installation - Best on Exodus and Alpharius' final configuration, with the former using it to beef up his hand and the latter as a semi-replacement for Alpharius' pre-configuration ability. The secret orders do not get a cost reduction however, and can often cause you to overdraw by getting lots of secret orders you can't really benefit from.
Lambda Order - Really funny when you steal a troop the opponent has been buffing a lot, but you still take the hit first. Works exceptionally well in combination with final configuration Alpharius.
Aleph Null Sergeant - While it's nice that you can pick the secret order, it's still full-cost and his stats are kinda meh.
Arkturus Squad - Can be useful, especially against Jaeger spam, but slow.
Assault Harrow - Either your opponent has too little on the board for it to be worth its cost, or they have too many and you end up losing some of them due to your hand being full. At least the secret orders are free.
Ithron Terminators - You're mostly bringing these guys for the durable frontline.
Effrit Disruptor - Expensive, durable version of 25-2 Rhino that has stealth. Can be nice, but the aforementioned rhino does basically the same thing for cheaper.
Mirage - Good if you're fighting an opponent who is using a lot of vehicles, but expensive.
Strife Wrought - Can be nice, but probably the weakest trap card as its effect doesn't immediately hinder the opponent.
Operative Doromek - Situationally good, but due to how operatives are placed it's unlikely to be positioned well to do much damage.

D-tier

X632 Vindicator - Too slow to be viable.
Hydra's Gaze - While its passive is nice, it's still one of those 10-energy tank troop that every legion seems to have as filler. It doesn't even have frontline!
Legionary Fortrax - Just play as Sheed or bring the operatives in your deck, it's cheaper and this guy's stats aren't great for his cost. At least he has vantage.

Additional

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I would like to thank the creator of the original Faction Focus for creating the guides that helped me go from a terrible new player to a slightly-less-terrible player of 2 years' experience. I still check those guides for the factions which haven't been reworked, not only because they're still handy (if a bit outdated by now), but because I really enjoy reading through them.
I'm not sure that I did a terribly good job, but I figure I may as well try to create overviews for the reworked factions since there are none yet as far as I'm aware. I don't have any decks listed here as I don't have all the cards and because I'm not particularly good at deckbuilding anyway, but if you have any decks, feel free to share them in the comments.
Let me know if I got anything wrong or forgot anything, I'd be happy to update this overview if I did.
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2024.05.08 07:20 kingcobweb Unions in Absalom (and beyond): expanding on what's in the book.

Intro
Union organizing is my day job. Of the four players in the Pathfinder campaign I GM, I met three of them through union organizing. Because I love unions, RPGs, and cities, the two pages in Absalom: City of Lost Omens about “Guilds and Unions” are my favorite.
The ideas in these pages (and scattered in a few other places) are both super exciting, in that I can’t remember another fantasy RPG that had unions as a prominent feature, and pose some difficulties in terms of ambiguities or unanswered questions I have about them. Because my Absalom campaign prominently features Lifter’s Mooring (the dockworker’s union), I’ve done a lot of work expanding upon what the writers of this book wrote about them.
Obvious caveat: this is largely based upon official Paizo material. I haven’t read through the adventures that take place within Absalom, so if any of this contradicts Paizo’s official stuff, let me know. When I mention an NPC, I’ll try to make it clear whether it’s from the Absalom book or an invention of mine.
Guilds, Craft Unions, Industrial Unions, and Political Groups That Confusingly Have “Union” In The Name
Using the word “Guild” is really ambiguous, but that’s not Paizo’s fault. Unions in America do the same thing: News Guild and Screen Actors Guild, among others, are labor unions with nothing in common with the medieval “guilds” also featured in more traditional fantasy settings. I’m a union organizer, not an economic historian, so I’ll leave an explainer of what the “guild” system was to someone else, but for our purposes, I treat most of the organizations Paizo calls “guilds” as what we in the union world call “craft unions.”
A craft union is a labor organization based around having an elite, trained, not-highly-replaceable workforce. In real life, think of an elite job like a movie director: if they’re organized, they have a lot of economic leverage against their employers, not with numbers, but because their training and expertise makes them extraordinarily difficult, if not impossible, to replace. This was the model of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) before its merger with the CIO. Organizations in Absalom like the Barristers’ Guild, Locksmiths’ Guild, Navigators’ Guild, and Scriveners’ Guild are in this category. Organizations like the Perfumers’ Conglomerate probably act more like a cartel than a union we’d recognize in modern America. If you have an organization like this in your setting, their members are probably making decent money, and aren’t plotting to overthrow the system or break their chains of serfdom. They might charge extremely high initiation fees, or have a policy of excluding people they have a prejudice against: a craft union of clockwork artisans might deny membership to goblins, then refuse to do business with anyone who patronizes those goblins.
The alternative, an industrial union, is a labor organization based not around having a specific training, but being in the same industry. In real life, if a nurse in a hospital is a member of a nurses’ union while the rest of the hospital is unorganized, that’s craft unionism; if they’re in the same union as the cooks and janitors, that’s industrial unionism. In Absalom, Lifter’s Mooring is an industrial union: if you’re doing anything on the docks, you’re a member. These organizations are going to be filled with people worse off economically, and more prone to “negotiations” through burning down their workplace.
A couple organizations that aren’t labor unions are worth mentioning here: the Free Union and the Firebrands.
The Free Union, made up of Halfling former slaves, will help workers organize but has its eyes on a bigger political picture than just getting better wages and benefits. Paizo’s official words talk about what they do (“organize strikes, protest Lord Gyr’s secret prisons, and increasingly seek seats on the Low Council”) but little about how they’re organized beyond that their leader is Milly Tundall and that their headquarters is really nice.
My implementation: they combine democratic participation, drawn from their aversion to anything remotely resembling the domination they felt as slaves, with the militant discipline necessary to win their fights. I see Milly Tundall as not the head of a hierarchy, but the one democratically chosen by the rest of the Free Union to represent it when a speech or talking to the upper classes is needed. Other leaders have different jobs, such as this NPC from my campaign:
Orana Brovaird
Female / Halfling / Organizer / Level 5
Where Milly is the Free Union’s inspiring orator, the propagandist to the rest of Absalom on behalf of the Free Union, Orana is the militant firing up her fellow halflings to stand up for themselves. When someone tells her that they’ll go ask their boss for better wages instead of participating in a strike, she’s known to ask them, “do you want to ask for your freedom? Do you ask to be treated with dignity? Or will you stand up and demand it, with your actions instead of words?” Despite their opposing demeanors, she’s well aware that someone needs to rub elbows with the politicians of the city, and she’s relieved to have a friend and comrade in Milly who will do that. Orana will sometimes work with other unions, especially Lifter’s Mooring, but gets frustrated at how willing some of them are to compromise when she feels total victory is possible. She also draws a hard line at ever working with a former slaver: “they’ve taken my freedom from me once, I won’t give it to them again with a handshake.”
The Firebrands, being a collection of autonomous cells with no formal relationships between them, fittingly have inconsistent relationships with unions. Cells such as Oh My Gourdness- yes, this is a canonical Firebrands cell from Paizo- explicitly help workers meet their demands (in their case, doing sabotage to help workers for loggers), but others can have different interests or get in the way entirely. In Absalom, many cells such as Mithril Chefs are headed by the owners of a business, rather than common workers.
If your players are Firebrands, you can get creative with having them take actions workers themselves cannot: raiding a warehouse holding goods made by scab workers, or tying a union-busting boss to the tallest tower in your city, for example. If your players are on the union side working with Firebrands, you can play up the romantic idealism of the Firebrands while hinting that they may care more about the fame and glory than the cause they’re helping with. (Or they may think nothing of spending 100 gold on fireworks for a fabulous distraction instead of giving that to the workers who have been without pay for months.)
Lifter’s Mooring: a deeper dive
Here I have to call out Paizo for what seems like a clear mistake: the Absalom book lists “Dockworkers’ Union” separately from “Lifter’s Mooring,” which it also describes as a group of dock workers. The chapter on the Docks refers exclusively to Lifter’s Mooring, as do the NPC descriptions. I’m going to disregard everything about “Dockworkers’ Union” and refer exclusively to “Lifter’s Mooring.”
One of the unanswered questions I had was: how do the docks work now that there’s a union? We know that the strike that created Lifter’s Mooring, to get its founder Guyton Grerton compensation for an injury that crushed his legs, shut down the whole docks. So what was the settlement that put the docks back to work?
In my game, the union runs a sort of hiring hall. (If you’ve seen season two of The Wire, remember the scenes where a guy is yelling out who has work that day.) Unlike the guilds who charge exorbitant fees for members to join, union membership in Lifter’s Mooring is as simple as showing up at the right time of the morning. You get your union card, which becomes your proof of seniority for getting the better jobs as you work longer. The person distributing the jobs (in game terms for my players, their first questgiver) is Nazko.
Nazko
Male / Troll / Union official / Level 7
Nazko is short for a troll, in that he’s only twelve feet tall. He’d long been sick of getting pushed around and cheated out of his wages on the docks, even as he was doing the work of five people for one person’s wages. When the word went out about Guyton Grerton being hurt and not getting compensation, Nazko dropped the cargo he was holding and went ship to ship telling everyone that their work was done for the day. No one dared contradict him.
On the picket line, he was the first line of defense for the other workers: the owners of warehouses and other businesses on the docks came together to hire strikebreakers to try to beat the newly-formed Lifter’s Mooring back to work, but above-average humans lose easily to a below-average troll. He was careful not to hurt them, though. Just threw them in the water, one by one.
His current position as a union official isn’t just a retroactive payment for his work on the picket line, though. Despite troll’s reputations as being dumb and short-tempered, he’s always fair with his fellow workers, if a bit gruff. Whenever someone grumbles that he doesn’t do real work any more, he’ll remind them that no one else on the Docks can stand up to two dozen orcs that all disagree with their job placement for the day.
After work, he’s usually found at The Grog Pit, and at one copper each, he can afford to keep up a tradition of his: buying every union member a drink on their first day.
Unions outside of Absalom (and making your own (in a campaign, but feel free to make your own union in real life too))
Unions in a metropolis like Absalom are going to be more established, more accepted, and more bureaucratic than out in the wilds where a lot of campaigns take place. Here’s how I would advise incorporating them.
First, outside of the reaches of organized law enforcement (let alone labor law), the organizations running industry like lumber and mining are effectively the only “law” there. As such, any labor organizing is going to be more prone to direct actions, more hidden about who is involved (to avoid blacklists and other repercussions), and less able to rely on third parties for support. What the do have is the advantage of all living together, and being the only labor in the area. In Absalom, it can be difficult even finding all your coworkers after your day is done, and nearly impossible to stop replacements from coming in. When you’re a week’s travel from anywhere, this isn’t the case. Villainous bosses in Absalom might have to smile in the public square at everyone; when they’re in the wilderness, they won’t be so shy about telling workers they’ll get to work or face death.
If you’re incorporating a union or themes of labor struggle, ask: was this something the workers started doing themselves (an independent union)? Or is it a strategic workplace that an existing labor organization targeted? If the latter, who is the boss? What other industries are they in?
Adventure/campaign ideas
Salt in the Wound: the players sign up to be fighters in The Irorium, Absalom’s largest gladiatorial arena… because they were hired by the Street Performers and Actors’ Guild to convince the fighters to join their union. The party has to not just fight, but figure out who are the most influential fighters there who they need to convince, then survive long enough in seemingly-unwinnable combat to convince those fighters they deserve more. (Have you seen the health insurance costs when your job is fighting magically-created chimeras? And they have to pay for it out of pocket!) [Combat-focused with persuasion minigame in the middle; 1-2 sessions.]
Which Side Art Thou On: in a remote wilderness, a group of Dawnsilver miners are at death’s door on strike over unsafe conditions and much less pay than they were promised before they traveled out here. The players have to scour the wilderness for food to keep the strikers alive, fight guerrilla battles against the company’s hired goons, plan advances and retreats like a general, and keep the morale of the miners up to stop more of them from slinking back to work before the company gives in. [Grand strategy with time-based mechanics; 4-6 sessions.]
Outro
I hope that GM’s running campaigns in Absalom got some good ideas for incorporating the canonical unions into their stories, and I hope other GM’s got some campaign ideas for union-involved campaigns. I’d love to hear how other GM’s are incorporating unions into their Pathfinder campaigns, whether in Absalom or maybe in a different setting than Lost Omens altogether.
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2024.05.07 18:12 hoggersbridge Engines of Arachnea: A Science Fantasy Epic [Chapter 1]

Blurb: Stranded on the hell-planet of Arachnea, the last remnants of the human Fleet fight to survive in a world overrun by insectoid monsters and a sentient ecosystem gone mad. It is a war they are destined to lose, as with every century that passes, more of the ancient science lies forgotten, replaced by myth and superstition. That is, until assistant navigator Rene stumbles the mightiest weapon of the ancestor-gods...
Link for more chapters available here!: Engines of Arachnea on Royal Road
Into the depths of the endless green Rene plunged forward. His breath was labored yet steady, his pace swift but measured. He could not allow terror to steal his breath away. For he was a man pursued, and as quick as he was, they were quicker still.
He fumbled at his breast pocket, took out a brass whistle and snatched it to his lips. He blew hard, two piercing notes that cut through the foliage and curved round the flanks of the surrounding hills, echoing into the distance.
He listened. From far away there came an answering cry, faint and urgent. He dashed off towards it without wasting a moment, trampling ferns and dead leaves beneath his boots.
It came again, louder and more insistent. His eyes darted about the eerie stillness of the trees, lips pulled back unconsciously into a rictus grin of fear.
The signal sounded for a final time, rising to a high-pitched note of terror that was brutally cut short. Rene stopped in his tracks. There was a pause pregnant with tension, and then he turned and fled in the opposite direction.
He had discovered the mistake on the third day of reconnaissance, as they had toiled up the slopes of a yet another narrow trail. He had been near the rear of the column, while behind him Lethway panted with exertion, weighed down like a mule with the excess baggage.
“What’s all this about then?” Lethway had asked Rene through the harsh rasping that issued from his mask as he gasped through the valves of his intake tube. He was moving heavily beneath the thick skin of his sealant suit, rubber-lined canvas creaking beneath the straps of the heavy packs he bore on his broad back.
“What’s all what about, Lethway?”
“All this. Give us a hand, would you?”
Rene reached down and helped his friend hoist himself over a boulder slick with moss.
“Well ostensibly,” he said, grunting as his arms took the weight, “The point is to establish the supremacy of the human race, and claim this world that is our irrevocable birthright, as decreed by the ancestors.”
“This world? Hah! They can keep it. Bastard place is too wet for my liking.”
Their journey had been greeted at the outset by pouring rain and intractable mud. Crossing the gorge, they had become mired so deep they’d been forced to abandon their pack animals in a hurry, hence Lethway’s discomfort. Finding a way through the place was nothing short of a nightmare. The karst hillsides were a wilderness of monolithic stone pillars overgrown with greenery, chess pieces arranged on a board without thought or reason. Every turn in the road carried the risk of becoming hopelessly confused, as surroundings shifted and landmarks were lost to view.
They reached a section of level ground and paused to take a breath. Rene cleared away the thick dew that had settled over his lenses with a grimy sleeve. About them a feverish mist had risen until the entire forest of stunted trees and dense shrubs that covered the hillsides seemed to perspire in unison with the twenty weary, footsore men. Looking out across the alien landscape, he began to wonder if there was truth after all to the myths of old, of the shaping of the world of Arachnea by the ancestor--gods. The stories spoke of Divine Engines striding about, tearing up the mountains by their roots and stomping the valleys into existence, drinking deep from the oceans and belching forth plumes of life-giving air.
But Rene knew differently. The strangely geometric proportions of the karst hills were merely the result of millennia of rainwater carving the soft stone to its present shape. Just as the stalactites at home shrank with each drip and drop that fell in the caves, everything could be explained by the action and consequence of the laws of nature.
As for the ancestor—-gods, they belonged to an age of myth. Their wonderous works were long gone, if they had ever truly existed. Their children would have to make do with what they had. Which, admittedly, was not much.
Rene took out his compass, holding it in his cupped hands and frowning.
“How’s the old girl treating you?” asked Lethway.
“Oh, you know. The usual. Silly thing can’t make up its mind where to point.”
He tapped irritably at the glass casing, watched the lodestone needle within bobbing upon the film of oil that kept it afloat. It wasn’t like he could complain about its quality. Each man in the unit was outfitted with the best equipment the settlement could produce. They wore sleek sealant suits tailored for easier movement and carried state-of-the-art flintlock firearms fresh from the Fleet gunsmiths. Even their masks were a step above the ordinary and used a highly sophisticated arrangement of intake valves and filters rather than the primitive recycler systems used by civilians.
All of this belied the importance Command placed on their mission. They wanted to push northwards again, deep into enemy territory. Why was anyone’s guess, but this was the first of a series of actions taken against what the biological division had designated as Mound Euler. For some inscrutable reason their superiors had decided it had to go, and so once again the 3rd Pathfinder Regiment would lead the way for the iron shod boot that would come crashing down.
“Crewman Rene!”
“Aye sir!” He ran up to the head of the column. The advance had been stalled for some time now. The men had begun to fidget, sliding packs from their aching shoulders or fiddling with the clasps on their sealant suits.
The navigator stood waiting, one foot leaning against the roots of a tree, a sour, pensive look on his face. Deschane was a lean man with a balding pate and dour appearance, and a personality to match it. Rene drew up, said:
“What’s the matter, sir?”
The navigator scowled and unfolded a disheveled map.
“Look,” he stabbed at it with a finger, “this was where we passed the river and took a right. Assuming we’ve been making the same time as yesterday, that should’ve brought us right about there,” he encircled a segment already cluttered with scrawls and arrowheads, “Correct?”
Rene swallowed hard and nodded.
“Care to fill in the rest?”
“Certainly, sir,” he stammered, “We proceeded north about eleven kilometers and paused to take bearings of several locations of interest. We would have gone further but our path was obstructed by the landslide on the southern slopes. For the past five hours we’ve taken a nor-nor eastern heading.”
“Where would that put us, crewman Rene?”
“Right about here, lord navigator.” He pointed with reluctance.
The navigator grabbed the compass twined around Rene’s neck and shook it in his face.
“And does here look even close to resembling that?” he snarled.
Rene had been tasked with occasionally peering down the compass’ pinhole sight and taking readings from one of the many peaks around them. Working together, using the same reference points, he and the navigator had aimed to chart a safe course through the endless karst hills that would steer them well around the ominous grey mountain that dominated the center of their maps. But the method was not without its difficulties. Their compasses, usually so obedient, had begun to act eccentric. The obstinate things refused to point out exactly where true north lay, tending instead to stray by six to eight degrees. The navigator hadn’t noticed the magnetic declination until recently, but by then they had already strayed from the intended path by a considerable margin. The phenomenon was caused, they had supposed, by massive amounts of iron deposits hidden somewhere beneath the area. But Rene had his doubts. At times it seemed to him that the place itself was deliberately leading them astray.
“We should be clear of it by now. We passed by the last feeder tower yesterday, yes? And yet there they are again!” Deschane gestured in disgust. Rene saw nothing at first, for the heavy precipitation was playing tricks with the lighting of the place. Huge blocks of stone raised their craggy heads above a veil of morning mists, some cast in shadow, others verdant and bright with foliage. It was only when the navigator had shoved a pair of binoculars into his hands that he finally caught sight of them.
Hidden amongst the columns of limestone were several tall, fluted structures so slender they almost faded into the background. Their ominous snouts reared hundreds of meters high and seemed so fragile that a stiff breeze could snap them in half. Far too graceful to be the result of natural process. A shiver of fear ran down his spine.
The mists were clearing, and in his mind’s eye he could trace the outline of the mound at the base of the towers, broad and dark and girdled with menace, stretching a full third of the horizon.
Dimly he was aware of Deschane taking the table of readings from his unresisting hands, the navigator mumbling as he compared it with his own set of measurements.
“Hmph,” he looked from one table to the other, and frowned at the map. “That’s odd.” he said with hesitation.
“Sir?” said Rene, numbly.
“Our readings are in agreement. Which means either both of us are completely wrong, or once again we’ve been led astray by our friends in military intelligence. Military intelligence,” Deschane snorted. “A contradiction in terms.”
A week before a squadron of balloons had been sent over to reconnoiter the territory, their swaying canvases pumped full of refined swamp gas. Some had been lost with all hands, smashed against the cliff faces by the wild winds that brewed in this tropical clime. The rest of the aircraft had been grounded by worsening weather conditions. Hence the need to send a foot patrol.
It was from these flights that they’d acquired the first rough sketches of Mound Euler and its surroundings. Now Rene knew how little those flight missions had really accomplished.
Rene stooped low and spoke urgently into his ear.
“Sir, those aren’t the same towers we saw yesterday.”
“What? Nonsense.”
He handed the binoculars back to Deschane and the navigator peered, unconvinced. At last he lowered the binoculars, clearly shaken.
“You mean to say they’re offshoots?”
“Aye sir. Tributaries of the main spine.”
The navigator riffled through the papers and found the charcoal sketches of the enemy structure. The artist depicted a trio of massive towers atop the Mound, a forbidding array of horns crowning a malevolent beast: the primary ventilation systems of the mound. They were clearly conical, as opposed to the cylindrical secondary structures that loomed before them now.
Oh yes, Rene thought, the aerial maps were wrong alright. Their actual position was several kilometers further from the Mound. Not that it mattered of course, because they had made another crucial mistake, one that would be the death of them all.
“Ridiculous,” Deschane looked sharply behind him—­—the men were uneasy and had begun to eavesdrop­—­—then continued in a whisper, “That would make Mound Euler at least three times larger than our estimates.”
“Yes sir. I’m afraid so.”
“But that would mean that the pheromone trails radiate outward for tens of kilometers.”
“We probably tripped it hours ago and never realized it,” Rene said hoarsely, “They know we’re here, sir.”
It was the Deschane’s turn to swallow this time. The navigator took a moment to gather himself, then nodded to himself and began to slowly fold his papers. Rene thought he was making an admirable effort not to show the panic that both now felt.
“We have to get back,” Deschane said through tight lips, “No matter what happens to us now, Fleet Command must hear of this. A colony of this magnitude...they must call off the offensive. Rene, what’s the shortest route back to friendly lines?”
Rene pored over the maps, sweat coating his palms.
“There is an inhabited mound around eighty kilometers south west. Shouldn’t take more than a day’s travel.”
He tapped a small grey spot east of the river.
“A settlement? This far north?”
“Not quite. It’s only a forward operating base--Mound 13, according to the legend on the map.”
“It will have to do,” the uncertainty had gone from his superior’s demeanor, replaced by a layer of cold efficiency. “Column, about face!” he bellowed to the rest of the men, “We’re heading home on the double!”
There were dire mutterings, and strings of curses levelled at the officer, the mud and the mission in general.
“None of that lip, your dogs!” bellowed Lieutenant Jensen, snatching up his pistol.
The murmurs died down, but a few stuck out their chins and let their voices be heard.
“What about the mission, sir?” someone asked.
“We were tasked with making a reconnaissance in force. The way I see it, we came, we saw, and we reconnoitered. Mission accomplished, as far as I’m concerned. You’re welcome to stick around if you like.”
Without another word Deschane began marching down the path from which they had come. Rene caught up to him, satchel bouncing on the back of his knees.
“Sir, is it wise to keep this a secret from the men?”
“What, that we’ve just stumbled upon the largest mound on this side of creation? That they could be nesting under our feet at this very moment? If I told them that we’ve been walking in the kill-radius for the past few hours, they’d go to pieces. Better an orderly retreat than a rout. Button up your lip if you know what’s good for you.”
“Very good sir,” Rene whispered. He fell back into place, his heart hammering in his chest.
The going was easier than earlier, since they were no longer travelling uphill, but that was little comfort as Deschane rode them hard all the way down the slopes.
The men swore as they tripped over the butts of their muskets, the clay clinging to them every inch of the way.
“What the hell have you gotten us into?” hissed Lethway as he went past, sliding on his behind. But Rene only shook his head.
“Fine then. But even a fool like me can see that something’s got you and the navigator spooked.”
“Deschane knows his business,” said Jensen, the lieutenant, “Keep your eyes peeled and tread softly. If there’s trouble, we’ll deal with it the usual way.” He patted a hatchet he kept on a leather sheathe by his side. Rene knew Jensen wouldn’t be so cocky if he knew the extent of their troubles.
What had been intended as a long, wayward route safely beyond the deadly kill-radius had instead cut deep into enemy territory, across dozens of invisible biochemical tripwires, laid by their adversaries in the hopes of detecting prey, which they now undoubtedly were.
As they passed through a defile between two low hillocks, they heard up ahead of them a stone clattering sharply over a bare cliffside. Rene drew back in apprehension. The others saw his reaction and paused to look at one another.
“Keep a steady pace, men!” growled Deschane. He glared at Rene. By sheer force of will he kept rest of them kept going, though they glanced all about them in trepidation.
“Right. They’ve found us. You all know the drill. Load and half-cock.”
“How?” whispered Lethway. The bags began to slip from his nerveless fingers. “We walked all the way around-”
“Never mind how! Pick that up right now, or I swear on ship and crew I’ll shoot you first!”
The men unslung their muskets and tore off the water-proof jackets. As they plodded forward, they hastily rammed paper cartridges down the muzzles and set their percussion caps.
“That’s right. Keep walking, easy does it now,” Deschane said in the same low voice, “Don’t let on that we know. Find your partners and form ranks.”
They exited the defile and fanned out cautiously into a wide semi-circle.
“Listen to me now,” Deschane proclaimed, “The survival of our species rests on your shoulders. Whatever happens now, at least one of us must return there and tell Fleet Command the following message: Mound Euler is an omega-class colony. Call off the offensive. The north is closed to us.”
“Remember the message. And may Sol, star of the ancestor--gods, shine upon you all.”
By unconscious consensus they all slowed to halt. There was the sound of muffled clicks as thumbs found hammers and coaxed them gently back into full cock. The lord navigator raised his pistol. Rene licked his lips--all the moisture had suddenly been sucked from his mouth.
They saw nothing before them but the ruddy faces of the cliffs. A nervous gust of wind shook the hanging vines and sent a shiver through the leaves. Rene held his breath for one long and agonizing moment, waiting for the inevitable.
And then Deschane stepped forward and fired into the shadows, and all at once the world erupted into violence.
Link for more chapters available here!: Engines of Arachnea on Royal Road
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Madame Web 4K [2024] $7 (MA + Sony points)
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$5 4K UHD

Blackkklansman (MA)
Iron Man [2008] (MA + 200 points)
John Wick 1-3 (iTunes)
Silent Night [2023] (Vudu or iTunes)
Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse [2018] (MA + Sony points)

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$4 4K UHD

Aladdin [2019] (MA + 200 points) PENDING
Black Panther (MA + 200 points)
Captain Marvel (MA + 200 points)
Despicable Me [2010] (iTunes/ports)
Dredd (Vudu)
Everything Everywhere All At Once (Vudu)
Frozen 2 [2019] (MA + 200 points)
Gone Girl [2014] (iTunes/ports)
Guardians Of The Galaxy [2014] (MA + 200 points)
Halloween [2018] (MA)
Jungleland [2020] (iTunes)
Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil (MA + 200 points)
Mary Poppins Returns [2018] (MA + 200 points)
Nutcracker & The Four Realms, The [2018] (MA + 200 points)
Scream [2022] (Vudu or iTunes)
Solo: A Star Wars Story (MA + 200 points)
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Vudu or iTunes)
Tangled [2010] (iTunes/ports + 150 points)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (iTunes)
Titanic [1997] (iTunes)
Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts (iTunes)
Us [2019] (MA)

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$5 HD

Elemental [2023] (MA + 150 points)
Hunchback Of Notre Dame, The [1996] (MA + 150 points)
Hunchback Of Notre Dame 2, The [2002] (MA + 150 points)
Lady & The Tramp II: Scamps Adventure (MA + 150 points)
Light Between Oceans, The [2016] (MA + 150 points)
mid90s [A24] (Vudu)
Migration [2023] (MA)
Oppenheimer (MA)
Priscilla [A24] [2023] (Vudu)
Rob Zombie Trilogy [House Of 1,000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects [Unrated] & 3 From Hell [Unrated] (MA)
Wish [2023] (MA + 150 points)
Wonka [2023] (MA)

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$4 HD

300 Spartans, The (MA)
Aquaman & The Lost Kingdom [2023] (MA)
BFG, The [2016] (MA + 150 points)
Bridge Of Spies [2015] (MA + 150 points)
Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader, The (MA or Google Play/ports)
Color Purple, The [2023] (MA)
Drop, The [2014] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Fox & The Hound, The [1981] (MA + 150 points)
Fox & The Hound 2, The [2006] (MA + 150 points)
Indiana Jones & The Dial Of Destiny [2023] (MA + 150 points)
Nun II, The [2023] (MA)
Sound Of Freedom (Vudu)

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$3️⃣ Movies

$3 4K UHD

Aladdin [2019] (iTunes/ports + 150 points)
Apollo 13 (iTunes/ports)
Birth Of A Nation, The (iTunes/ports)
Bumblebee (Vudu or iTunes)
Doctor Strange (iTunes/ports + 150 points)
Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas [2000] (iTunes/ports)
Dumbo [2019] (iTunes/ports + 150 points)
Frozen 2 [2019] (iTunes/ports + 150 points)
Guardians Of The Galaxy [2014] (iTunes/ports + 150 points)
Interstellar (iTunes)
John Wick: Chapter 2 (Vudu)
Kick-Ass 2 (iTunes/ports)
Little Mermaid, The [1989] (iTunes/ports + 150 points)
Moana (iTunes/ports + 150 points)
Quiet Place, A [2018) (Vudu)
Robin Hood [2018] (Vudu)
Serenity [2005] (iTunes/ports)
Sicario (Vudu)
Spy Who Dumped Me, The (Vudu or iTunes)
Thor: The Dark World (iTunes/ports + 150 points)
Zootopia (iTunes/ports + 150 points)

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$3 HD

Avatar: The Way Of Water (MA + 150 points)
Baby Driver [2017] (MA + Sony points)
Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon [1985] (MA + Sony points)
Bloodshot [2020] (MA + Sony points)
Boy Next Door, The (iTunes/ports)
Breaking Bad: The Final Season (Vudu)
Call Me By Your Name (MA + Sony points)
Candyman: Day Of The Dead (Vudu or Google Play)
Coal Miner's Daughter [1980] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Crow, The [1994] (Vudu or Google Play)
Devotion [2022] (Vudu HD or iTunes 4K)
Double Indemnity [1944] (iTunes/ports)
Drive [2011] (MA + Sony points)
Emma [2020] (MA)
Fast X [2023] (MA + Universal Rewards points)
Fortress [2021] (Vudu or Google Play)
Fruitvale Station (Vudu)
Girl In The Spider's Web, The [2018] (MA + Sony points)
Glass [2019] (MA)
Grown Ups 2 (MA + Sony points)
Hocus Pocus (MA + 150 points/no iTunes option)
Holmes & Watson [2018] (MA + Sony points)
How To Train Your Dragon [2010] (MA)
Ice Age: The Meltdown (MA, iTunes or Google Play/ports)
Insidious: Chapter 3 (MA + Sony points)
Into The Woods [2014] (MA + 150 points)
Killing Gunther (Vudu)
Kubo & The Two Strings (iTunes)
Liar Liar [1997] (MA)
Lion King, The [1994] (MA + 150 points)
Mamma Mia! + Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (MA)
MIB International [2019] (MA + Sony points)
Midsommar [A24] (Vudu or Google Play)
Mindcage (Vudu or iTunes)
Mob Land [2023] (Vudu HD or iTunes 4K)
Nightmare Before Christmas, The [1993] (MA + 150 points)
Night They Came Home, The [2024] (Vudu)
Northman, The [2022] (MA)
Nurse Jackie season 7 (Vudu)
Occupation [2018] (Vudu or Google Play)
Orange Is The New Black season 3 (Vudu)
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (iTunes/ports)
Pete's Dragon [2016] (MA + 150 points)
Possession Of Hannah Grace, The [2018] (MA + Sony points)
Preacher season 1 (Vudu)
Predator [1987] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Pride + Prejudice + Zombies [2016] (MA + Sony points)
Public Enemies [2009] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Punisher, The [2004] (Vudu or Google Play)
Queen Of Katwe [2016] (MA + 150 points)
Rock The Kasbah (MA)
Rocky Horror Picture Show, The (MA or Google Play/ports)
Secret Life Of Pets 2, The [2019] (MA)
Shallows, The [2016] (MA + Sony points)
Sicario: Day Of The Soldado [2018] (MA + Sony points)
Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs [1937] (MA + 150 points)
Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse (MA + Sony points)
Taxi Driver [1976] (MA + Sony points)
The Secret: Dare To Dream (Vudu, iTunes or Google Play)
Top Gun: Maverick (Vudu HD or iTunes 4K)
Uncharted [2022] (MA + Sony points)
Uncut Gems [A24] (Vudu or Google Play)
Us [2019] (MA)
Vanishing, The [2019] (Vudu or Google Play)
Venture Bros: Radiant Is The Blood Of The Baboon Heart [2023] (MA)
Violent Night [2022] (MA)
Walking Dead season 9, The (Vudu or Google Play)
Way Way Back, The [2013] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Zombieland: Double Tap (MA + Sony points)

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💲2️⃣ HD

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi (iTunes 4K)
2 Guns [2013] (iTunes/ports 4K)
22 Jump Street [2014] (MA + Sony points)
31 [2016] (Vudu)
3 From Hell [Unrated] (Vudu 4K or iTunes 4K)
47 Meters Down (iTunes)
About Last Night [2014] (MA + Sony points)
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (MA)
Admission [2013] (iTunes/ports)
Adventures Of Tintin, The (Vudu or iTunes)
After Earth [2013] (MA + Sony points)
Age Of Adaline, The (Vudu, iTunes or Google Play)
Alien Covenant (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA/GP)
Allied [2016] (Vudu)
Aloha [2015] (MA + Sony points)
Alpha [2018] (MA + Sony points)
Alpha & Omega 2: A Howl-lday Adventure (Vudu)
Alvin & The Chipmunks: The Road Chip (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
American Girl: Isabelle Dances Into The Spotlight (MA)
American Hustle [2013] (MA + Sony points)
American Reunion [Unrated] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (iTunes)
Annie [2014] (MA + Sony points)
Annihilation [2018] (iTunes 4K)
Arrival [2016] (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Assassin's Creed (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Atomic Blonde (MA)
Bad Words [2014] (iTunes/ports)
Baywatch (iTunes 4K)
Beauty & The Beast [2017] (MA + 150 points/iTunes option is expired)
Beirut [2018] (MA)
Ben-Hur [2016] (Vudu)
Best Man Holiday, The [2013] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Blackhat [2015] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Bohemian Rhapsody (MA or Google Play/ports)
Boss Baby, The [2017] (MA)
Bourne Legacy, The (iTunes/ports 4K)
Boy, The [2016] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Boyhood [2014] (Vudu or iTunes)
Breakthrough [2019] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Bridesmaids [Theatrical] (iTunes/ports)
Broken City [2013] (MA)
Bumblebee (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Bye Bye Man, The [Unrated] (iTunes/ports)
Cabin In The Woods, The (Vudu/GP HD or iTunes 4K)
Captain America: Civil War (MA only/no points or iTunes option)
Captain Phillips [2013] (MA + Sony points)
Cars 3 (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA + 150 points)
Case For Christ, The [2017] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Celebrating Mickey (MA/ no points)
Choice, The [2016] (Vudu or iTunes)
Company Of Heroes [2013] (MA)
Concussion [2015] (MA + Sony points)
Contraband (iTunes/ports)
Curse Of Chucky [2013] [Unrated] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Daddy's Home (iTunes 4K)
Dark Skies [2013] (Vudu)
Dark Tower, The [2017] (MA + Sony points)
Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Dead Again In Tombstone [2017] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Dead In Tombstone [Unrated] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Dead Man Down [2013] (MA)
Deadpool 2 [2018] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Deepwater Horizon (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Despicable Me [2010] (MA)
Despicable Me 3 (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Devil's Due [2014] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (MA, iTunes or Google Play/ports)
Divergent Series: Allegiant, The (iTunes 4K)
Django Unchained (Vudu)
Dolittle [2020] (MA)
Downsizing (iTunes 4K)
Downton Abbey [2019] (MA)
Dracula Untold (iTunes/ports 4K)
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse (iTunes/ports)
Dredd [2012] (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Duff, The (iTunes or Google Play)
Elysium (MA + Sony points)
Emoji Movie, The [2017] (MA + Sony points)
Empire State [2013] (Vudu or Google Play)
Ender's Game (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Epic [2013] (MA)
Equalizer, The [2014] (MA + Sony points)
Equalizer 2, The (MA + Sony points)
Escape From Planet Earth (Vudu)
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial [1982] (MA)
Everest [2015] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Ex Machina (Vudu)
Exodus: Gods & Kings (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Exposed [2016] (Vudu)
Fast & Furious [2009] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Fast & The Furious, The [2001] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Fate Of The Furious [F8] [Theatrical] (MA 4K)
Fences [2016] (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Ferdinand [2017] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Fifty Shades Darker [2017] [Unrated] (MA 4K)
Fifty Shades Of Grey (iTunes/ports 4K)
Finding Dory (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA + 150 points)
First Purge, The [2018] (MA)
Five Feet Apart [2019] (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Flight [2012] (Vudu or iTunes)
Footloose [2011] (Vudu)
Frozen [2013] (iTunes/ports 4K+ 150 points)
Fury [2014] (MA + Sony points)
Game Of Thrones season 1 (iTunes)
Get Out [2017] (MA)
Ghostbusters [2016] [Theatrical & Extended] (MA + Sony points)
Ghost Team One [2013] (Vudu or iTunes)
Gifted [2017] (MA or Google Play/ports, iTunes option is expired)
God Bless The Broken Road (Vudu or Google Play)
Gods Not Dead 2 [2016] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Gods Of Egypt (Vudu/GP HD or iTunes 4K)
Greatest Showman, The [2017] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Great Wall, The [2017] (MA)
Grey, The [2012] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol.2 (MA + 150 points/no iTunes option)
Guilt Trip, The [2012] (Vudu)
Hacksaw Ridge (Vudu or Google Play/iTunes option expired)
Hail, Caesar [2016] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters [Unrated] (Vudu or iTunes)
Hateful Eight, The (Vudu or Google Play)
Heat, The [2013] [Theatrical] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Hell Or High Water (iTunes 4K or Vudu/Google Play HD)
Hercules [2014] (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Hitman's Bodyguard, The (Vudu or Google Play/iTunes option is expired)
Hobbs & Shaw [2019] (MA)
Home [2015] [DreamWorks] (MA)
Homefront [2013] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Honey 2 [2011] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Hotel Transylvania 3 (MA + Sony points)
How To Train Your Dragon 2 (MA)
Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, The (iTunes 4K or Google Play HD)
Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, The (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Huntsman: Winter's War, The [Extended] (iTunes/ports 4K)
I Am Wrath (Vudu)
Identity Thief [2013] [Theatrical] (iTunes/ports)
Inside Out [2015] (iTunes/ports 4K + 150 points)
Instant Family (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Internship, The [2013] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Interview, The [2014] (MA + Sony points)
Invisible Man, The [1933] (MA)
Iron Man 3 (iTunes/ports + 150 points)
I Still Believe [2020] (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
It Follows (Vudu)
Jackass 3 [Theatrical] (Vudu or iTunes)
Jack Reacher (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (iTunes 4K)
Jarhead 3: The Siege [Unrated] (MA)
Jason Bourne (iTunes/ports 4K)
John Henry [2020] (Vudu)
John Wick (iTunes 4K)
John Wick 1 & 2 (Vudu or Google Play)
John Wick: Chapter 2 (iTunes 4K)
John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum (iTunes 4K) or all 3 for $5
Joy [2015] (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle (MA + Sony points)
Jurassic World (iTunes/ports 4K)
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (MA)
Justice [2017] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Kick-Ass 2 [2013] (MA)
Kidnap [2017] (iTunes/ports)
Killer Elite (iTunes/ports)
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Kingsman: The Secret Service (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Last Knights [2015] (Vudu)
Last Vegas [2013] (MA + Sony points)
Last Witch Hunter, The [2015] (iTunes 4K or Google Play)
Lawrence Of Arabia [1962] (MA + Sony points)
Legend Of Hercules, The [2014] (iTunes 4K)
Leprechaun: Origins (Vudu)
Leprechaun Returns (Vudu or Google Play)
Les Misérables [2012] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Let's Be Cops [2014] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Life [2017] (MA + Sony points)
Life Of Pi (iTunes/ports 4K)
Like A Boss [2020] (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Lockout [2012] [Unrated] (MA + Sony points)
Logan [2017] (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Longest Ride, The (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Lorax, The [2012] (iTunes/ports)
Love Actually [2003] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Love & Mercy [2015] (Vudu)
Love, Simon [2018] (MA)
Lucy [2014] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (MA)
Maleficent (iTunes/ports 4K + 150 points)
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again [2018] (MA)
Marauders (Vudu)
Martian, The [2015] [Theatrical] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Mary Poppins [1964] (MA + 150 points)
Mechanic: Resurrection (Vudu/GP HD or iTunes 4K)
Men In Black 2 [2002] (MA + Sony points)
Men In Black 3 (MA + Sony points)
MI-5 [2015] (Vudu)
Mike & Dave Need Wedding Dates (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Mile 22 (iTunes 4K)
Mindgamers [2017] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Miracles From Heaven (MA + Sony points)
Mission Impossible: Fallout (iTunes 4K)
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (iTunes 4K)
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (iTunes 4K) or all 3 for $5
Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Monuments Men, The [2014] (MA + Sony points)
Mortal Engines [2018] (MA)
Mortal Instruments: The City Of Bones, The [2014] (MA + Sony points)
Mother's Day [2016] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Mountain Between Us, The [2017] (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Mummy, The [1999] (MA)
Mummy Returns, The [2001] (MA)
Murder On The Orient Express [2017] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Neighbors [2014] (iTunes/ports)
Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Noah [2014] (Vudu or iTunes)
Non-Stop [2014] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Norm Of The North (Vudu or iTunes)
Now You See Me 2 (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Nut Job, The [2014] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Oblivion [2013] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Olympus Has Fallen (MA + Sony points)
Ouija [2014] (MA)
Overlord [2018] (Vudu)
Pain & Gain [2013] (Vudu or iTunes)
Paranormal Activity [2009] [Theatrical] (Vudu or iTunes)
Paranormal Activity 2 [Unrated Director's Cut] (Vudu or iTunes)
Paranormal Activity 3 [Extended] (Vudu or iTunes)
Paranormal Activity 4 [Unrated] (Vudu or iTunes)
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones [Theatrical] (iTunes)
Passengers [2016] (MA + Sony points)
Penguins Of Madagascar (MA)
Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters (MA or Google Play/ports)
Peter Rabbit [2018] (MA + Sony points)
Pet Sematary [2019] (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Philomena (Vudu)
Pitch Perfect (iTunes/ports 4K)
Planes: Fire & Rescue (MA without points)
Playing With Fire (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Predator, The [2018] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Project Almanac (iTunes)
Prometheus (MA or Google Play/ports, no iTunes option)
Proud Mary [2018] (MA)
Psycho [1960] (MA)
Purge: Anarchy, The (iTunes/ports 4K)
Quiet Place, A [2018] (iTunes 4K)
Ralph Breaks The Internet (MA + 150 points/no iTunes option)
Red Dawn [2012] (Vudu or Google Play)
Redemption [2013] (Vudu)
Replicas [2019] (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter [2016] (MA + Sony points)
Riddick [Unrated] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Rings [2017] (Vudu)
R.I.P.D. Rest In Peace Department (iTunes/ports 4K)
Risen [2016] (MA + Sony points)
Robin Hood [2018] (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Rock Dog (iTunes)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (iTunes/ports 4K + 150 points)
Runner Runner [2013] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Rush [2013] (MA)
Saban's Power Rangers (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Safe House [2012] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Savages [2012] [Theatrical] (iTunes/ports)
Scarface [1983] (MA)
Scorpion King 3: Battle For Redemption (iTunes/ports)
Scrooged [1988] (Vudu)
Secret Life Of Pets, The (MA 4K or iTunes/ports 4K)
Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, The (MA or Google Play/ports, iTunes option is expired)
Seventh Son [2015] (iTunes/ports)
Sex Tape [2014] (MA + Sony points)
Shack, The [2017] (Vudu, iTunes or Google Play)
Show Dogs [2018] (MA)
Sicario (iTunes 4K)
Silent House [2012] (iTunes/ports)
Silver Linings Playbook (Vudu or Google Play)
Sing [2016] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Sinister (Vudu, iTunes or Google Play)
Skyscraper [2018] (MA)
Snow White & The Huntsman [Extended] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Sparkle [2012] (MA)
Spider-Man: Far From Home [2019] (MA + Sony points)
Spider-Man: Homecoming [2017] (MA + Sony points)
Spider-Man: No Way Home [2021] (MA + Sony points)
Split [2017] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Spy [2015] [Unrated] (MA, iTunes or Google Play/ports)
Spy Who Dumped Me, The (Vudu/GP HD or iTunes 4K)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA + 150 points)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA + 150 points)
Step Up All In [2014] (Vudu)
Step Up Revolution (Vudu or Google Play)
Straight Outta Compton [Unrated] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Super 8 (Vudu)
Super Buddies (MA without points)
Super Troopers 2 [2018] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2014] (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Terminator: Genisys (iTunes 4K)
Texas Chainsaw [2013] (Vudu)
The Night Before [2015] (MA + Sony points)
This Is 40 [2012] [Theatrical] (MA)
This Is The End [2013] (MA + Sony points)
Top Five [2014] (iTunes)
Top Gun (Vudu)
Total Recall [2012] [Theatrical & Director's Cut] (MA + Sony points)
Tower Heist [Theatrical] (iTunes/ports)
Transformers: Dark Of The Moon (iTunes 4K)
Tremors: A Cold Day In Hell (MA)
Trolls [2017] (MA)
True Grit [2010] (Vudu or iTunes)
Tyler Perry's Acrimony (Vudu, iTunes or Google Play)
Tyler Perry's A Madea Family Funeral (Vudu, iTunes or Google Play)
Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (iTunes 4K)
Underworld: Blood Wars (MA + Sony points)
Vendetta [2016] (Vudu)
Venom [2018] (MA + Sony points)
Vertigo [1958] (MA)
Walk Among The Tombstones, A (iTunes/ports)
Walking With Dinosaurs: The Movie (MA, iTunes or Google Play/ports)
Warcraft [2016] (iTunes/ports 4K)
War Room [2015] (MA + Sony points)
Why Him? [2016] (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Wolf Of Wall Street, The (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Woman In Black, The [2012] (MA)
Wonder [2017] (Vudu/GP HD or iTunes 4K)
Wonder Park [2019] (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Woodlawn [2015] (MA or iTunes/ports)
X-Men: Apocalypse (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
X-Men: Days Of Future Past (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Your Highness [2011] [Unrated] (iTunes/ports)
Zootopia (MA without points)

🦝

💲2️⃣ SD

12 Rounds [2009] [Extreme Cut] (iTunes/ports)
All About Steve (iTunes/ports)
Beasts Of The Southern Wild (iTunes/ports)
Black Swan (iTunes/ports)
Bride Wars (iTunes/ports)
Crazy Heart (iTunes/ports)
Date Night [Unrated Extended Edition] (iTunes/ports)
In Time [2011] (iTunes/ports)
Monte Carlo [2011] (iTunes/ports)
Ramona & Beezus (iTunes/ports)
Street Kings (iTunes/ports)
Three Stooges: The Movie, The [2012] (iTunes/ports)
Unstoppable [2010] (iTunes/ports)
Walk, The [2015] (MA + Sony points)

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$1 Codes

💲1️⃣ HD

2 Guns (MA)
Alex Cross (Vudu)
Bad Grandpa [Theatrical] (Vudu or iTunes) iTunes PENDING
Bad Moms (iTunes/ports)
Battleship [2012] (MA)
Big Hero 6 (Google Play/ports)
Book Club (Vudu)
Bourne Legacy, The (MA)
Bring It On: Worldwide Cheersmack [2017] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Deadpool (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA/GP)
Divergent (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Divergent Series: Insurgent, The (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Dracula Untold (MA)
Dying Of The Light (Vudu)
Escape Plan [2013] (iTunes 4K)
Everest [2015] (MA)
Expendables 2, The (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Expendables 3, The [Theatrical] (iTunes 4K or Google Play HD)
Fast & Furious [2009] (MA)
Fast & Furious 6, The [Extended] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift, The (MA)
Fast Five [Extended] (MA)
Fate Of The Furious, The [8] [Theatrical or Extended] (MA)
Frozen: Sing Along Edition (MA without points)
Furious 7 [Extended] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Ghost In The Shell [2017] (Vudu)
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (Vudu)
Girls Trip [2017] (MA)
Good Day To Die Hard, A [2012] [Extended] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Hidden Figures (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Hugo (Vudu)
Hunger Games, The [2012] (iTunes 4K or Google Play HD)
Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The (iTunes 4K or Google Play HD)
Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, The (Vudu)
I, Frankenstein (Vudu, iTunes or Google Play)
Inside Out [2015] (Google Play/ports)
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (Vudu)
Jason Bourne (MA)
Last Stand, The [2013] (Vudu, iTunes or Google Play)
Lucy (MA)
Mission Impossible: Fallout (Vudu)
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Vudu)
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (Vudu) or both for $2.50
Mummy, The [2017] (MA)
Now You See Me [Extended] (Vudu, iTunes or Google Play)
Parental Guidance [2012] (MA)
Perks Of Being A Wallflower, The (Vudu or Google Play)
Pitch Perfect (MA)
Purge, The [2013] (MA)
Quiet Place, A [2018] (Vudu)
Red 2 (Vudu)
Ride Along 2 (MA or iTunes/ports)
RIPD Rest In Peace Department (MA)
Safe [2012] (Vudu or Google Play)
Secret Life Of Pets, The (MA)
Selma (iTunes)
Skyfall (Vudu or Google Play)
Snitch (iTunes 4K or Vudu/Google Play HD)
Star Trek: Beyond (Vudu)
Star Trek: Into Darkness (iTunes 4K)
Taken 2 (MA or Google Play/ports)
Ted [Unrated] (MA) or [Theatrical] (iTunes/ports)
Terminator: Genisys (Vudu)
Transformers: Age Of Extinction (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (iTunes 4K)
Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection (iTunes) PENDING
Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions Of A Marriage Counselor (Vudu or Google Play)
Warm Bodies (Vudu)
What To Expect When You're Expecting (Vudu, iTunes or Google Play)
World War Z (Vudu)
Zootopia (Google Play/ports)

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💲1️⃣ SD

21 Jump Street (MA + Sony points)
5th Wave, The [2016] (MA + Sony points)
Act Of Valor (iTunes)
After Earth [2013] (MA + Sony points)
Alpha [2018] (MA + Sony points)
Amazing Spider-Man 2, The [2014] (MA + Sony points)
American Hustle [2013] (MA + Sony points)
Back To The Future (iTunes/ports)
Back To The Future II (iTunes/ports)
Back To The Future III (iTunes/ports) or all 3 for $2.50
Bad Boys For Life [2020] (MA + Sony points)
Big Mommas Like Father, Like Son (iTunes/ports) PENDING
Captain Phillips (MA + Sony points)
Charlie's Angels [2019] (MA + Sony points)
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 [2013] (MA + Sony points)
Concussion [2015] (MA + Sony points)
Day The Earth Stood Still, The [2008] (iTunes/ports)
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid [2010] (iTunes/ports)
Dirty 30 (Vudu)
Elysium (MA + Sony points)
Equalizer, The [2014] (MA + Sony points)
Equalizer 2, The (MA + Sony points)
Evil Dead [2013] (MA + Sony points)
Expendables, The [2010] (iTunes)
Family, The [2013] (iTunes)
Grown Ups 2 (MA + Sony points)
Haunting In Connecticut, The (iTunes)
Haywire (iTunes)
Here Comes The Boom [2012] (MA + Sony points)
Hotel Transylvania 3 (MA + Sony points)
Hours [2013] (Vudu)
Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (iTunes/ports)
Immortals [2011] (iTunes)
Insidious: Chapter 3 (MA + Sony points)
Insidious: The Last Key (MA + Sony points)
Interview, The [2014] (MA + Sony points)
Jumanji: The Next Level (MA + Sony points)
Knight & Day [2010] [Theatrical] (iTunes/ports)
Looper (MA + Sony points)
Men In Black III [2012] (MA + Sony points)
Mortal Instruments: The City Of Bones (MA + Sony points)
Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian (iTunes/ports)
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood [2019] (MA + Sony points)
Olympus Has Fallen (MA + Sony points)
Overcomer [2019] (MA + Sony points)
Parker [2013] (MA + Sony points)
Passengers [2016] (MA + Sony points)
Paul, Apostle Of Christ [2018] (MA)
Perfect Guy, The [2015] (MA + Sony points)
Peter Rabbit [2018] (MA + Sony points)
Pixels [2015] (MA + Sony points)
Predators [2010] (iTunes/ports)
Proud Mary [2018] (MA)
Public Enemies [2009] (iTunes/ports)
Raven, The [2012] (iTunes)
Robin Hood [2010] [Unrated] (iTunes/ports)
Safe Haven (iTunes)
Shallows, The [2016] (MA + 150 points)
Sicario: Day Of The Soldado (MA + Sony points)
Sparkle [2012] (MA)
Spider-Man: Far From Home [2019] (MA + Sony points)
Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse (MA + Sony points)
Spider-Man: No Way Home [2021] (MA + Sony points)
Star, The [2017] (MA + Sony points)
Still Alice [2015] (MA + Sony points)
Suckerpunch [Theatrical] (iTunes/ports)
Taken [2009] [Extended Cut] (iTunes/ports)
Tyler Perry's Madea's Tough Love (Vudu)
Underworld: Awakening (MA + Sony points)
Venom (MA + Sony points)
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (MA + Sony points)
Vow, The [2012] (MA + Sony points)
Wanted [2008] (iTunes/ports) PENDING
Warrior [2011] (iTunes)
When The Bough Breaks (MA + Sony points)
X-Men: First Class (iTunes/ports)

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Super Cheap SD & HD Codes

All movies are 3 for $1 each/must spend at least $1 on total order.
Cabin In The Woods, The (Vudu SD only or iTunes SD only)
Dirty Grandpa (Vudu SD only)
Expendables 2, The (Vudu SD only or iTunes SD only)
Expendables 3, The [Unrated] (iTunes HD only)
Fast & Furious 6 [Extended] (MA ports HD)
Fast Five [Extended] (iTunes/ports HD)
Furious 7 [Extended] (MA ports HD)
Good Day To Die Hard, A [2012] (iTunes/ports SD) PENDING
Hunger Games, The (Vudu SD or iTunes SD only)
Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The (Vudu HD only)
John Wick 3 (Google Play HD only)
Jurassic World (MA ports HD)
Last Witch Hunter, The (Vudu SD only)
Life Of Pi (iTunes/ports SD)
Mechanic: Resurrection (Vudu SD only)
Now You See Me 2 (Vudu SD only)
Parental Guidance (iTunes/ports SD) PENDING
Star Trek: Into Darkness (Vudu HD only)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Google Play/ports HD)
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2024.05.06 08:00 Low-Pollution-6165 50 Before 50

Hey! GrimVxrgxl here!!! and amidst all the chaos in the world right now I thought why not get something a little positive out there. So I decided to create a list that has like a cute gimmick to it! Also thought others might put their stuff here so we can get ideas on what we would wanna do before turning 50. We're still young and we should be enjoying the little things we can get. So here's "50 Before 50" basically a bucket list of 50 things you want to do before turning 50!!! Might dedicate my entire reddit account to this and update whenever I complete these stuff and post them on my account ahaha!!!
It would be cool to leave comments to help me add things that would be cool for me to try and add on to the list or improve changes!!!
50 Before 50:
  1. Grind up on a guy in the club.
  2. Go to Coachella.
  3. Releasing a Song.
  4. Do a "I'm sorry" video.
  5. Go to a LGBT+ Strip Club
  6. Go to a Drag Show.
  7. Join a Pride Parade.
  8. Meet my friends in the US.
  9. Karaoke in the car with friends.
  10. Attend a Magic Mike Concert.
  11. Go to Six Flags or a Amusement Park.
  12. Watch the sunrise with friends.
  13. Get a Lightsaber.
  14. Get a tattoo.
  15. Go to a Taco Bell.
  16. Go to a Fortune Teller.
  17. Meet some random dude named Jack and be Rose for a night to do Titanic.
  18. Kiss someone at the top of a Ferris Wheel.
  19. Go to The New York Public Library. (Banana Fish).
  20. Experience Snow for the first time.
  21. Meet a Cowboy and dance with him during a Rodeo.
  22. Kiss someone in a field under the night sky.
  23. Have a DIY prom night with my friends.
  24. Get a Wedding Dress and pull a "Runaway Bride" in a public place.
  25. Go to Joshua Tree and get high.
  26. Make a secret friend-group handshake.
  27. Get matching Bracelets.
  28. Make out with a Hot Scary Clown at a Halloween Party.
  29. Get a Story Published.
  30. Making a VHS style vlog.
  31. Start a tiny Business.
  32. Do a catwalk with friends.
  33. Dress up to go to IHOP.
  34. Try different Fast Food Chains.
  35. Give a Wheel of cheese to Chuck E.
  36. Pretend to be a celebrity.
  37. Take a pic with a capybara.
  38. Take a pic with a celebrity.
  39. Be a califare in a show.
  40. Party out to Gimme!Gimme!Gimme!
  41. Do a driving vlog with singing and a podcast with friends.
  42. Visit the Conjuring House.
  43. Bait a cop with a donut.
  44. Go to a Diner all fancy to get milkshakes.
  45. Get the Cheesiest Grilled Cheese.
  46. Visit Walmart, Target, CostCo and BestBuy.
  47. 7 minutes in Heaven with someone.
  48. Make a secret language with friends.
  49. Actually sit and play Dungeons and Dragons in the outfits.
  50. Have a polaroid image of all 49 things.
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2024.05.06 03:13 Hitch42 The Audio Drama Directory links from April 29 to May 5, 2024

The Audio Drama Directory links from April 29 to May 5, 2024
The Audio Drama Directory is an online directory of audio drama and storytelling websites, with at least one new link added to it every day, and 100 or more new entries created each month. Here are the newest articles from the past week:
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  1. Dear Mother Venna (Narrated Horror Mystery Series) A story about three sisters who have been left behind in a strange town. Their mother, Venna, has vanished, and no one knows where she's gone. Now they have to look for their mother and look out for each other. However, sisters Snow, Ash, and Dust quickly discover that the town of Candle Creek isn't as "quiet and quaint" as it seems...
  2. Night Flights (Dramatized Modern Fantasy Series) Wanneer Alexi's geliefde niet meer wakker wordt, jaagt ze letterlijk haar dromen na. Nacht na nacht onderneemt ze een zoektocht naar hem in de droomwereld. Laat je meevoeren op deze psychologische queeste langs een parcours van oude herinneringen en wilde fantasieën waarbij de waarheid tijdens elke nachtvlucht meer onthuld wordt.
  3. The AI Chronicles (Dramatized Science Fiction Comedy Series) From Intern to AI RJ, The AI Chronicles is an engaging audio drama series that takes listeners on a captivating journey into the world of artificial intelligence. The story revolves around an AI intern who aspires to become an AI radio jockey (RJ) and the challenges and experiences they encounter along the way.
  4. The Dark Pulse (Narrated Fantasy Series) The Dark Pulse is a dark fantasy/horror story about a man named Nolan who is captured --along with his family-- during an invasion by the brutal Republic of Kalyko...and explores the lengths a man will go to in order to restore his family's safety and freedom.
  5. Shadow Realm (Dramatized Modern Fantasy Series) A San Francisco teenager finds out he has magical powers after falling through a fault in the earth and into the lands of Vedic mythology, and in Season 2, he learns his journey is far from over. Can Arya save his friends, or will his power plunge them deeper into danger?
  6. Both Ears (Dramatized Multigenre Anthology) Get ready for an immersive experience that transcends the boundaries of traditional storytelling. Dive into a world where fiction comes alive through meticulously crafted narratives that are enriched with captivating voice acting and dimensional sound effects.
  7. Hart Beat Podcast (Dramatized Science Fiction Mystery Series) Private Investigator Jack Hart is surrounded. Between the Wasp Police Force, the corrupted all-powerful government, and the city of Satellite's harshly divided society, there isn't a safe wall to put your back against if you're fighting for what's right. If she's learned anything doing this job, it's that society's form of justice is rarely what it's made out to be. More often than not you have to take it for yourself.
  8. A2Z (Dramatized Children’s Science Fiction Series) When an anxious and slightly awkward inventor called Zzzucks creates an AI named Aileen for company, he gets more than he bargained for. Battling a very boring Algorithm and its annoying robots, Aileen might just prompt Zzzucks to make a friend or two. But only with your help!
  9. Mars, The Earth, and Jackson (Dramatized Science Fiction Series) Listen along as Jackson, a storytelling AI, weaves an intricate tale, set far in the distant future, inside the Habitation Domes of Mars.
  10. PULP! (Narrated Multigenre Anthology) Space pirates! Dinosaur-riding cowboys! Steampunk! The weird and macabre! Dancing skeletons! Mysteries! Treasure hunters! Mad scientists and much much more! PULP! is a serial and anthology fiction show shock full of original stories that will leave you in tantalized twists of terrific terror! Let the wonderment unfold!
  11. SEP FanFic Readings (Narrated Modern Fantasy Anthology) Audiobook versions of fanfics that haven't been done yet!
  12. My Lunch with Frank (Dramatized Drama Series) Frank Williams, the author of acclaimed and multi-award-winning British musicals, had always been Lester's beloved playwright and lyricist. Lester had read everything Frank had ever written; seen everything Frank had ever done. Lester believed they were meant to become friends. At least, that's what was supposed to happen at the lunch...
  13. Cold Tapes (Dramatized Mystery Thriller Series) Set on an Antarctic research base during a dark and desolate 'winter over', British behavioural scientist Andrew 'Drew' Fairfield has been found murdered. There are 16 people left on the base and the murderer must be one of them. Your job is to solve the crime.
  14. Secret Handshake Productions (Dramatized Multigenre Anthology) Secret Handshake Productions provides substantive and engaging radio entertainment for a broad range of listeners, including children & families, middle-grade audiences, and adults.
  15. Loved Ones (Dramatized Multigenre Anthology) This isn't your typical podcast. We'll be exploring love for family, friends, pets, and more through a series of short stories brought to life by Broken Arts Entertainment. Featuring award winning plays adapted to fiction, award winning performers bringing their stories to life, and debuts. You'll find love throughout these short stories and you'll find tears and laughter and more.
  16. The Hidden Kingdom (Narrated Fantasy Series) In "The Hidden Kingdom" world, seven kingdoms band together to assassinate the High King and overthrow the Iron Throne to rule over the entire world. While the battles rage on, a monk named Thomas goes through several trials in which he learns about a kingdom only the Ancients have found, where everything is plentiful and there is only peace.
  17. Star Wars Legacies (Science Fiction Role-Playing Series) Star Wars Legacies starts in the Clone Wars and is a separate time line where Anakin was never born. We will continue the story and see how the players reshape the timeline.
  18. Star Wars: Beta Squad (Science Fiction Comedy Role-Playing Series) A table top role playing game following the adventures of Beta Squad, a stormtrooper unit fighting against the enemies of the Empire.
  19. For Light And Dice (Science Fiction Role-Playing Series) For Light and Dice is a live tabletop roleplaying podcast that's based on Star Wars: The High Republic. A group of amazing queer content creators come together to tell a story that takes place in a Galaxy Far Far Away!
  20. Sabers & Sagas (Science Fiction Role-Playing Series) In this actual-play podcast, three brothers and their good friend play Star Wars: Saga Edition by Wizards of the Coast. Our three loveable goofballs adventure in the Star Wars Universe many years after the heavily copyrighted movie series (about 42 ABY). Join us and listen as our party charms and charges their way through the trials and tribulations that only a middle-child GM can imagine.
  21. The Shepherd's Sling (Science Fiction Role-Playing Series) Live play Star Wars Roleplay based in Edge Studio's Age of Rebellion system. [...] Join To-Vod-Ri Kloo, Roquan, Buck Blitzar, Ted Yedman, Mookie Mozu, and a cast of umpteen NPCs in their daring adventures to help save the Galaxy!
  22. Leclerc & Lafontaine (Dramatized Comedy Thriller Series) Ein Erzähler, sein treu ergebener Assistent Jeffrey und eine Hand voll unbezahlter Praktikanten produzieren ein Hörspiel und hauchen den Figuren Leclerc & Lafontaine Leben ein. Die Kommissare tauchen an den unmöglichsten Orten auf und treffen auf zahlreiche skurrile Persönlichkeiten. Das Schicksal der Welt und womöglich das des gesamten Universums, liegen bald schon in ihren Händen... oder auch nicht. Ja, wahrscheinlich eher nicht. Dafür haben die Kommissare Leclerc & Lafontaine aber jede Menge Spass und garantiert keine Langeweile!
  23. Time Faction (Dramatized Science Fiction Series) In the distant future, the once-united United States has splintered into two distinct nations following a violent conflict decades prior. Time travel has become the central focus of political discourse in both countries. Elijah, a teenager seeking employment, becomes entangled with a secretive faction that purports to harness time travel for the greater good of the world. As the narrative unfolds, he unravels the complexities behind their mission, realizing that the situation is far from straightforward.
  24. The Tokyo Hotel (Dramatized Comedy Series) Check yourself into The Tokyo Hotel. An eight-part comedy radio series.
Feel free to discuss any of these shows or comment about The Audio Drama Directory. I always welcome any questions or feedback.
Compiling these links takes a lot of time and is something that I work on many hours every day. If you appreciate this effort and would like to help support it, please consider visiting The Audio Drama Directory Patreon page. The Audio Drama Directory will always remain free for everyone.
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The Audio Drama Directory is a newer version of the Audio-Drama.com website. Audio-drama.com will not be going away any time soon. I will continue to add article to it, and I will be transferring articles from there onto The Audio Drama Directory. I go into more details about this in this post.
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2024.05.05 18:31 scienceygirl Codex of Recommendations

This is a living document and I will update when needed.
Version 2 is posted on my profile. I broke it down into categories and added tags.
Well known:
Bloom Into You
I Can't Say No to the Lonely Girl
Adachi to Shimamura
Koi yori Aoku
The Sheep Princess in Wolf's Clothing
Vampeerz
Girl Friends
Anemone Is in Heat
Hana & Hina After School
Our Teachers are Dating! - NSFW
Hana ni Arashi
Houkago
Whispering You a Love Song
About a College Girl Who Gets Picked Up at a Mixer by an Older Girl
Isekai:
The Villainess and Miss Demon Lord
I'm in Love with the Villainess
Please Bully Me, Miss Villainess!
The Fed-Up Office Lady Wants to Serve the Villainess
Omega Heroine Wants Her Alpha Villainess
Bing Jiao Meimei Zhi Xiang Rang Wo Qifu Ta
Legends of Vithra
Is it Normal to Raise a Yandere Heroine as a Villainess ?!
Attacking the Girls' Dormitory of the Demon King
Gal Maid & Villainess: Only Milady's Happy End Will Win!
Fluff:
Swap ⇔ Swap
Kyou wa Mada Futsuu ni Narenai
Even the Introverted Gals Wanna Get Out There!
Kanojo to Himitsu to Koimoyou
Green Plum Blossom Tea
Mai no Mushigurashi
Tabimiman
Konohanatei Kitan
Yumeguri Yurimeguri
Under One Roof Today
Shino to Ren
Fu-fu
Other Favorites:
Lily Love
Pulse - NSFW
Goddess of Jealousy
Still Sick
Hino-san no Baka
Fuzoroi no Renri
My Dear Lass
2DK, G-pen, Alarm clock
Cheerful Amnesia
Citrus
Citrus +
For Her, I'd Give It My All
Tadokoro-san - NSFW end
My Unrequited Love
Straight Girl Trap
Her Mountain, Her Ocean
Onna Tomodachi to Kekkon Shitemita
Ano Koro no Aoi Hoshi CB
Sora & Haena! - NSFW Extra
How to End an Unrequited Love - NSFW Extra
Tragedy:
Vampire x Junior
Kimi to Tsuzuru Utakata
Butterfly Love Effect
Popular:
Sakura Trick
Mage & Demon Queen
Kanojo no Kuchidzuke Kansensuru Libido
If You Could See Love
Nevermore
Ouji-sama Nante Iranai
Yuriota ni Yuri wa Gohatto Desu!?
Seeing Xinghuo Again
Shiro Gal to Kuro Gal no Yuuwaku
Useless Princesses
The Blue Star on That Day
Sweet Blue Flowers
Koushin Koinu ni Koibumi wo
Convenient Semi-Friend
Gal to Iinchou ga Guuzen Saikai suru Hanashi
Childhood Sweetheart Liaoliao
There Are Always Teachers Who Want To Ask Out Parents
My Cute Little Kitten
Shimeji Simulation
A Yuri Story About A Girl Who Insists "it's Impossible For Two Girls To Get Together" Completely Falling Within 100 Days
Addicted to Her
My Sister's Best Friend, My Lover.
Sasameki Koto
Yume de Furarete Hajimaru Yuri
Sorry but I'm Not Into Yuri
A Lonely Female CEO Falls for A Lesbian Prostitute in Seconds
Fantasy/Historical/Sci-Fi:
Gakeppuchi Reijou wa Kurokishi-sama o Horesasetai!
The Witch's Hammer - Malleus Maleficarum
The Princess of Sylph
When the Villainess meets the Crazy Heroine
Kiraware Majo Reijou to Dansou Ouji no Kon'yaku
Sherbet Above the Sea of Fog
Erio and the Electric Doll
Shokei Shoujo no Ikiru Michi
Scarlet
The Best Ending in the World
Unaware His Majesty Is a Girl
Indulging a Crazy Beauty
Onee-sama to Watashi: Ojou-sama ga Isekai Tensei
This World is Mine
The Iron Inside
Her Tale of Shim Chong
The Wolf in Love and Mille-Feuille
That Time Only Akari Got Reincarnated as a Slime
Houkago Saitensei!
Onna dakara, to Party wo Tsuihou Sareta no de Densetsu no Majo to Saikyou Tag wo Kumimashita
Kannazuki No Miko
Hero's Marriage
The Incapable Married Princess
The Witch's Marriage
Alcohol and Ogre-girls
Ashita mo Mata Yuusha no Tonari
Himegami no Miko
Garan no Hime
Getting to Know Grace
Coppelia's Coffin
Beauty And The Beast Girl
Vampire:
Shoujo-tachi no Kizuato ni Kuchizuke wo
Seifuku no Vampiress Lord
Lesbiampires
I Won't Let Mistress Suck My Blood
Gyaru to Nekura no Kyuuketsu Kankei
Kyuuketsuki to Yobaretai!
Black-backed albatross
Adult/College Romance:
If We Leave on the Dot
I Won 300 Million Yen In A Lottery So I Started Raising A Freeloader Pretty Girl
Throw Away the Suit Together
Crescent Moon and Doughnuts
Lily Love 2
YOVE
The Model & The Plain Manager
After Hours
Monologue Woven For You
A Timid Woman Longing For Her Delivery Girl
Soul Drifters
Will Be My Best Memory
Ayaka-chan wa Hiroko-senpai ni Koishiteru
Shuuden De Kaesanai, Tatta Hitotsu Houhou
An OL at Her Limit and a College Girl
Even Though We're Adults - Cheating
Senpai, oishii desu ka?
The Girlfriend Project
After The Curtain Call
A Girl Like A Pilgrim
Mojito
Chasing Lilies
Fuzoroi no Renri
I Love You So Much, I Hate You
An Absurd Relationship
Blooming Sequence
Dark Theme/Toxic:
I Love Amy
Kitanai Kimi ga Ichiban Kawaii
I'm More Dangerous Than You
Bing Jiao Meimei Zhi Xiang Rang Wo Qifu Ta
Chirizokonai no Hiraeth
Usotsuki Satsuki wa Shi ga Mieru
Black Black Lotus
Saji-chan no Yami Nikki
Bakajo 26-ji
Hate That I Like You
Soshite Kaede wa Hanayaka ni Saku
Serenade
Hone no Nazuki Made Aisu
Manipulate my heart
Adult/College cont.:
Tsumetakute Yawaraka
My Blue Garnet
Fuchou Airen
Partition
Long-Awaited Feelings
Hogushite, Yui-san - NSFW comedy
Futari Escape
About a College Girl Who Gets Picked Up at a Mixer by an Older Girl - fluff
Love Wins
Ring My Bell
The Love Doctor
Show Me Your Bust
My Demon Secretary
Working Overtime to Destroy the World! - tentacle/NSFW
With Her Who Likes My Sister
Mi-chan to Airi
I Can't Believe I Slept With You!
Kyou wa Mada Futsuu ni Narenai
Clandestine Affair
How to Draw an Ellipse
If You Can't Kill Me, Love Me - fantasy
Baili Jin Among Mortals
I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up
My Food Looks Very Cute - fantasy/vampire
Kamiina Botan, the Drunken Form is a Lily Flower
Heimin no Watashi desu ga Koushaku Reijou-sama o Taburakashite Ikiteimasu - fantasy
My Princess Charming
She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat - fluff
Monthly in the Garden with My Landlord
The Two of Them Are Pretty Much Like This - fluff
Your Scent is a Little Sweet - omegaverse
Now Loading!
My Dearest Nemesis
It Would Be Great if You Didn't Exist
Listening to the Stars
Goodbye, My Rose Garden - historical
Brides of Iberis
Fugue Across Worlds
Octave
Action:
Akuma no Riddle
Hertz Around You
Nogi Wakaba wa Yuusha de Aru
Murcielago
Superwomen in Love! Honey Trap and Rapid Rabbit
Jimoto Saikou!
On A Leash
ROLL OVER AND DIE: I Will Fight for an Ordinary Life with My Love and Cursed Sword!
Robot Izonkei Joshi no Meiwaku na Nichijou
Killing Me!
High school:
Hello, Melancholic!
That Time I Was Blackmailed By the Class's Green Tea Bitch
Yuzu And Rika
Childhood Friend, Big Love
The Barefoot Nina - Emotional
Watashi o Tabetai, Hitodenashi - tragedy
Pastel Love
Kiyota-san wa Yogosaretai - NSFW
Majyo to Houki to Kurobuchi Megane - magic
Virgins' Empire - multiple couples
Ashita no Ashita
Naisho no Ofutarisama.
Hana to Hoshi Sougou Tovarisch
There's No Way I Can Have a Lover! *Or Maybe There Is!?
Jyoshikou Dakara Safe - NSFW
Breasts Are My Favorite Things in the World!
Yuri Mekuru Hibi
Why is My Crush so Hard on Me? - fluff
Shoujo Manga Protagonist x Rival-San - fluff
Senpai ga Oyobidesu!
Hanjuku Joshi - NSFW
Watashi wa Kimi wo Nakasetai
Asagao to Kase-san
Yamada to Kase-san. - college continuation of Asagao to Kase-san
Give My Heart to You.
Koi ni Koi suru Koibito Kankei
Yumemiru Maid no Tea Time - fluff
The Moon on a Rainy Night
Snow Thaw & Love Letter
Strawberry Fields wo Mou Ichido
Himitsu No Recipe - S/H warning
Boku wa, Yurina Onee-chan wo Ouenshite Imasu
Come Rain or Shine
Yunagi Marbled
Transparent Light Blue
The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All
The Two Sides of Seiyuu Radio
Secret of the Princess
Cocytus
Because You Dazzled Me - fluff
Uso to Kiss wa Houkago ni
Prism
Unicorn to sabishi-gari ya shoujo - fluff
Amaesasete Hinamori-san!
My New Friend Wasn't What I Expected - fluff
Oogami-san and Cerberus! - fluff
Tsun Hime-sama to Dame Ouji-chan
Stardust Telepath
Reliance
Shitsuji Shoujo to Ojou-sama
The Summer Vacation of These Two in the Corner
Lily
How I Lose Bets With My Sadistic Gifted Childhood Friend and She Steals All of My Firsts
Lala
Kimi ga Shinu Made Koi wo Shitai - possible tragedy
Princess of the Princess
Heart-Pounding Excitement at Mononoke Girls’ Academy - fantasy/NSFW
The Girl I Want is So Handsome! - fluff
Between Philia and Eros
Your True Color
Dark/Toxic cont.:
Coffee God and Cigarettes
It's a Detached Relationship
Hisokana Hana Emi
Ubai ai
Destroy It All And Love Me In Hell!
Kill Me Now - NSFW
Parents:
Oshikake Nyobo, Kodomo tuki!
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Opapagoto
Umineko Sou Days
Ohana Holoholo
Black-backed albatross
Webtoons:
City of Souls
Scales and Tales
Dragon's Mercenary
Gacha Girl! - trans MC
SHADOWBOUND
Sacred Flame
Accidentally connected
Unnie, I like you!
The Spookiness
Wolf hunter
Yellow
Utmost Passionate
Not So Shoujo Love Story
Demon x Goblin
My Dragon Girlfriend
Beyond Fucked Up:
In the Gardens of Gehenna
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