positively feral

The more people you have for this game, the better. It has to happen at night. The people get into a straight line, and begin to walk in that line all around the area. They cannot turn around and look at each other, and cannot speak; with the exception of the person at the front of the line.

That persons job is to begin the role call. They simply say, “Role Call!” And their name, then each person down the line says their name in turn.

Here’s the kicker: there’s one person not included in the line. The Taker. They have the job of stealing away the person at the end of the line as silently as possible. The game’s sole purpose is to instill a sense of fear and paranoia in whoever is in front, because as more people get taken, there are less and less people to say their names during the Role Call.

The front person decides when they want to start the Role Call. Obviously, the more often it’s said, the less scary it is. But as more and more people disappear, they become Takers and can then do more damage than just the one.

Some Takers can replace the person they stole, making the person directly in front of them either incredibly paranoid or safe. At least until the Role Call. Takers cannot say anything during it, so it usually ends up more terrifying to know that the person behind you is silent. Again, everyone in the line cannot make a sound except responding to the Role Call.

The game is over when the person in front is taken. There is no winning, only waiting. Waiting for your turn to go. Imagine the fear that person in front has, when they softly announce “Role Call” only to find that everyone behind them is gone.

And it’s glorious!

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And Cas will fall down from the rafters hitting every support beam on the way down and slam into the floor bleeding from all his eyes and missing most of his feathers like "Sorry for the delay. I'm being brutally and violently hunted for sport by every single angel of the Lord due to I betrayed all of them (my own family) in order to side with you two."

And Sam and Dean will be like "That's great or sorry that happened. Can you use your powers to transport us to the fuck-shit dimension? We need to go there for some reason." And Cas will say "Technically I can try but it will likely kill me." and Sam and Dean will be like "Sweet awesome you're the best Cas great."

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It's a free, no sign-up, no ads fitness resource created by professionals who view this as activism (fitness should be accessible to everyone), and it's very thoughtful and thorough.

Features I really like:

- all instructions for workout routines are diagrammed on single pages with a clean, easy to read layout

- there's 30 or 60 day programs you can follow if you, like me, don't know what to do. they take you through a rotation of workouts so you're working different muscle groups on different day for a specific purpose

- there's so much variety and there's a filter so you can find the level and your goals and type of workout you wanna do

- you don't need any equipment

- some of the programs are RPGs or adventure stories! How's that for motivation. There's also badges and achievements or something but I haven't looked that closely at how that works yet

- they're nerds. they name workouts after D&D classes. There's a Lannistrr workout, a batcave workout, a witcher workout

- I've only scratched the surface

I'm doing this really easy one to start out

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQSMS0J6JbrKdSOSbyJXaQ_zN_HSSp7zZ

Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist

Characters: Alphonse Elric/Edward Elric

Word Count: 1447

Summary: Ed and Al come across an old fair in their travels and reminisce about their childhood. Written for the @elricestloveevent of 2025.

The abandoned fairground is rusted, desolate. Wind whistles through the structures, causing the shakier ones to rattle.

Ed tries to keep his mouth from falling open in awe as he and Al walk along the beaten path beneath it all.

He tries to imagine what it would’ve been like in its heyday—vibrant colors, echoes of laughter and screams, the rides roaring away over their heads. Bells clanging, horns honking, the low rush of the ocean in the background.

Day 3 for @elricestloveevent — County Fair 🎡

Go give this piece’s companion fic a read HERE by @chronic-chirper — I promise it’ll make you smile!!

Okay, so basically I’m on a mission to count the number of times a variation of the word “Brother” is used in the Fullmetal Alchemist series. I’m starting with the manga then moving onto 03 and then Brotherhood(I’ll also do the movies and the light novels but I’m not sure where to put those. Also tell me if there’s any other media I should know about/include)

I have an overall count, a count for each volume and a count for Alphonse in each volume.

As of the end of volume 11, the count is at 321.

Here’s the overall count for each volume so far:

Volume One: 28

Volume Two: 44

Volume Three: 37

Volume Four: 24

Volume Five: 20

Volume Six: 26

Volume Seven: 11

Volume Eight: 46

Volume Nine: 30

Volume Ten: 24

Volume Eleven: 31

I’ll make a post of the Alphonse count if anyone’s interested.

Extra Info:

•These are based on the Fullmetal Editions of the manga.

•These are also based on the official English translation for those additions, and I will be doing the English dub for both anime’s since subs are hard for me to focus on.

•Chapter titles and extra things outside of the text will probably be included in its own category. •I have page numbers and general context for each use of it.

•Variations also include anyone who’s trying to say the word brother but gets cut off

•I don’t really care if someone already has a count, this is something I just genuinely enjoy doing.

•The updates may be slow, but the volume 12 update will come as soon as I can.

Volume Seventeen: 5

Volume Eighteen: 27

Omakes: 36

Thank you again to @fma-omakes