You Dare Bring Light To My Lair?!

Thoughts on an MLP/TMA crossover, because we know all the Fears are going Somewhere Else now, and that just makes for great crossover fuel. Slowly working on the fic here.

Sunset: Avatar of the Eye, probably takes on the position of Archivist. It wouldn’t even be that much of an expansion from her mind-reading powers.

SciTwi: Avatar of the Dark. Her researches into the collision of science and magic and the Fears leads her into a dimension beyond science and reason, a world where logic falls sloppy dead to your own worst inhibitions and projections. A bit like Manuela Dominguez.

Pinkie Pie: Avatar of the Spiral, because she’s just a living cartoon character anyway, and the implications of that have their own special kind of horror. Pushed into the Spiral by the rest of her family falling into the Buried.

Rainbow Dash: Avatar of the Vast. She’s got the aesthetic, the attitude, everything. Mainly manifests in competitions and challenges, the fear of being second best, of being nothing special and ultimately insignificant.

Rarity: Avatar of the Stranger. The Stranger has never missed a chance to perform, after all, and she does work with ever so many mannequins…

Applejack: Avatar of the Buried, her powers manifesting both in the literal sense of choking soil and dirt as well as the crushing weight of traditionalism and expectations.

Fluttershy: Avatar of the Hunt. This is a bit of an odd one. I kind of can’t help but picture her as a plant-based predator, a la the venus flytrap and pitcher plants. That said, she has a much clearer connection to animals. I feel like she’s definitely Hunt, though.

Trixie: Avatar of the Web, who made a deal with Mother of Puppets to get a Stranger off her back.

Cadance: Avatar of the Corruption. Mostly a harmless one, of course, overflowing with such sweetness. Who could ever think she would harm anyone under her auspices? They’re all a part of her hive, after all. All so very sweet…

The Shadowbolts: Haunted by the specter of Slaughter, honed for years by Abacus Cinch’s push for ruthless competition and excellence. The tensions never truly left, even after her fall from grace, and now they seem to be getting entirely out of hand.

Vignette Valencia: Avatar of the Stranger. This really isn’t far off from her canonical magic of replacing others. And ‘Being Yourself, But Better’ is practically an invitation for the Stranger to swing by.

Ditzy Doo: Avatar of ???. She’s definitely got something going on with her, but it’s usually not the central focus of the people around her. They only look at the packages she brings, the deliveries she makes. The way her Eyes Spiral is a tertiary concern at best – at least, unless she focuses on you. Fills in for Breekon and Hope.

Lyra Heartstrings: Avatar of the Extinction, brought about by her own research into the arrival of the Fears, her obsession with cryptozoology and conspiracy, and her mounting fear for the future of multiple worlds.

Wallflower Blush: Avatar of the Lonely. Again, this is basically where she was in canon, but with an added twist of nightmarish mist.

Juniper Montage: Avatar of the End. I’m gonna level with you, I didn’t have anyone lined up for the End, so I thought, ‘she’ll do’. She watched a cursed slasher film that kept showing her deaths that were destined to happen in the real world.

Autumn Blaze: Avatar of the Desolation, kickstarted when her family began to topple into the Lonely.

Let’s start with a simple test. Click this link here: https://whatismyipaddress.com/ It will tell your IP adres, your ISP (internet service provider), and your location. The location might not be very accurate, but then again, it’s just a simple website. Imagine what the government can do!

So basically, everyone can find out where you live. But there is more danger. Your ISP. Your ISP logs your every move online and they are required to keep it in case the government wants access to it (or if a 3rd party wants to buy your data (yikes). They have everything. What websites you visit. How long you stay on a website. What you download. Your search terms. European laws are more subtle on this but if you are from the US you are #@*#&, especially because Trump doesn’t support the open internet. It’s scary but maybe in the future you can’t get a job because the recruiter knows your searched on ‘how to deal with depression’ or anythings else that’s supposed to be private because it’s your f*cking right. Or you get a $100k fine because you pirated a movie 15 years ago. You need a VPN. You’re dumb for not using one. but what does a VPN do?

A VPN encrypts all your data so if it were be intercepted no one can ‘crack the code’ and damage your privacy. 

Usually being online goes like this (simplified): Your computer —-> ISP (—–> keeps data —–> sells it)

But with a VPN it goes like: Your computer —–> VPN (encrypts data)—–> ISP (ISP can’t see shit)

Furthermore, a VPN hides your IP address and location by giving you another IP address located in Spain for example (you can often choose from a list and change as many times as you want).  

Now that you know why you should get a VPN and what is does it is important to educate yourself because people often choose the wrong VPN. VPN providers are also businesses and have to obey the law. If you choose a VPN provider located in the US then you are throwing your money away because the laws in the US shits on your privacy. If the US gov wants the provider to give all their logs they have to obey.  The ISP  still can’t see what you are doing online and sell your data but the US gov can interfere with your VPN provider so NEVER CHOOSE A PROVIDER LOCATED IN THE US. 

I just wanted to make that very clear so my followers don’t buy false security.

There is still more danger!  Who says your VPN provider isn’t selling your data? You need to check their logging policy. Do they keep logs? If yes, what for? For how long do they keep them? Tip: Choose a provider who doesn’t keep logs

More about law  The US is part of the Five Eyes program (the worst):  

The Five Eyes, often abbreviated as FVEY, is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. These countries are bound by the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence (source)

There is also a Nine Eyes (bit better) and Fourteen Eyes Program (better).  You don’t want a VPN provider who is located in one the Five Eyes countries.  If you had to choose go for a provider located in a country that’s part of the Fourteen Eyes Program or even better, go for a country that isn’t part of any program! 

I know this is a shitty explanation and please pardon my english but now it’s time to do your own research. Take your privacy seriously. Maybe WWIII breaks out and you get killed for liking the ‘wrong’ FB-page.  

Go to this website: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/simple-vpn-comparison-chart/

Make sure that your future VPN provider both has green boxes for Privacy Jurisdiction and Privacy Logging. 

I recommend ovpn.se and trust.zone. ovpn is located in Sweden so they are part of the 14 Eyes Program and they keep minimal logs. Their business ethics, however, are alright. 

Trustzone is located in the Seychelles. No country can interfere and their privacy jurisdiction is the best you can get. The US want your data but needs to get it from Trustzone? The Seychelles will simply give them the finger and wave them goodbye. However, this makes this provider very appealing for people who torrent and criminals because they keep no logs (and that is how it shoud be) Also,  there are almost no marketing efforts so this provider is one the cheapest)

Also, often providers such as ExpressVPN are being called ‘The Best’ on websites about VPNs but know that this is just marketing which also makes those provider more expensive (and they too shit on your privacy)

This must be the worst article you have ever read but please, please take your privacy very seriously.

Trust.Zone has a free trial. Use it. 

btw this post only has 11k notes? That’s quite disappointing for something this important. 

Sources

Anger as US internet privacy law scrapped 

Congress just voted to let internet providers sell your browsing history 

Don’t tell me you just wanted to scroll past this. Stop looking at pictures of cats for a moment, okay? Don’t you realize how important this is? This is dangerous! ‘America, the best FREE country in the world’ my ass.

With this new law your ISP can sell your Internet history which could include passwords, usernames, religion, credit card numbers, race and much more to the highest bidder. So here is what I want you to do. You are going to read the whole thing and before you think ’this is so important. Let me reblog this real quick and go back to admiring cats again-’ NO! Don’t reblog this. Take action first. Then reblog. Sign up for a free trial! Trust.Zone offers one (here). Yes. It might be difficult to set up a VPN for some people. But is that going to stop you from protecting yourself and your family? 30 minutes. 30 minutes is all that it takes. 5 if you know how to install software. The problem with some of you is that you see ‘difficult’ as something negative. I want you to see difficult differently. I need you to push through this stuff. You are going to protect yourself. There is nothing negative about that. VPNs are fun and costsaving too! A VPN bypasses geographical restrictions so you can access websites you normally can’t or you could start Netflix’s one month free trial over and over again- forever. And it’s legal! (unless you use it to buy weapons etc.,) Don’t tell yourself that you are too tired and that you will do this tomorrow. Because that isn’t going to happen and you know it. You have to do this right now. You only have to click on it. Don’t let this/shit/life just happen to you. Take yourself seriously. Get a VPN.

I have a lot of characters and games, if I went through all of them it would take forever ^^; if there’s a specific character or game you’re curious about, I’d be happy to answer! For now I’ll just do the main Berrywitched! Characters…

Strawberry - she would love chappel roan and mitski. She likes pop- but I could also see her liking things that are a bit more alternative too.

Blueberry - I could see her liking Hyperpop or anything with a fun beat. I feel like she also enjoys songs that are a bit “weird” for lack of better phrasing and it would make Raspberry’s ears hurt.

Raspberry - She enjoys classical the most, but I can also see her appreciating any song that has a deeper meaning to analyze or even musical theatre songs/showtunes.

Memorial - it’s mostly Will Wood and Lemon Demon. Anything similar he would also like. He also enjoys showtunes.

Why do queer people exist?