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Issue #3'd ended on Birdie realizing that her friend Wilson was also in danger from the VR game Nightmare Cemetery.

Her brother Pik was in a coma, mentally taken into the game by the " King of Sleep ". The King'd shoved one of his claws through her friend Enid's left eye while she was helping look for Pik.

Wilson had also been helping her - they'd both taken sleeping pills to get around the hard time-limit on their Dreamwaves, expecting to be able to wake each other up.

But she wasn't able to wake him. She was grounded by her worried and frustrated dad, able only to watch videos about other victims of Nightmare Cemetery.

( She found someone else who'd lost a sibling. )

...and now the weather: Open Spaces - GammaFlow

Posted by Lindsey

https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-wedding-cakes-in-chocolate-2025

Hey girl.
Today's post is dedicated to you.

By I Dream of Jeanne Cakes

That's right, to you and every other chocolate-loving chocoholic out there who can't quit craving the sweet stuff and have long since polished off the last 3 Musketeers bar in your kids' Halloween candy stash.

You know who you are.

So come along. Let's take a ride on the gentle waves of chocolate's sweet caress:

By Sweet Gems Cakes

Let's set sail on the decadent seas of sensory seduction.

Photography by Julie Mikos; baker unknown.

Smell the chocolate. Feeeeel the chocolate. Taste the chocolate. BE the chocolate.

Let chocolate's smooth tendrils of tantalization entwine you.

By Layers

Embrace the chocolate! Let its sweet siren song wash over you and take you to a place where a rose is just a rose, unless it's a chocolate rose...

By Baking Arts

Because then it's like, a way better rose.

Unless of course, it's a painted chocolate rose. With ruffles. And twirly things.

By The Paul Bradford Sugarcraft School

Twirly things of temptation!

So surrender! Surrender to chocolate's rich and creamy charms!

Let the fermented bean pods of the cacao tree seep into your soul as you... um... wait.

By Cakes by Occasion

OK, so maybe that's not the sexiest description of chocolate you've ever heard. Sorry.
I'm running out of adjectives here.

Bottom line, chocolate is pretty much perfection.

By Wilton

Like this cake. Such perfection, I'm having trouble believing it's real. Look at those razor sharp corners!

And the only way this curvaceous cake could be better is if there were even more of it:

By Premier Pastry

I can't spot a single thing wrong here, either:

By The Pastry Studio

I'm just dotty for it! (The kids still say 'dotty,' right?)
(No? Well, I'm not very hip. My pajamas have cats on them.)

Of course, sometimes even the most fervent chocolate lover needs a break:

By Margaret's French Bakery

Like this. This is the perfect chocolate break.

Who could resist a cake literally paved in chocolate?
I can't. You can't. Don't even try.

Anyway, if you love chocolate so much, why don't you marry it? I think you should.

By Kanya Hunt

If only for the cake.

Hope your Sunday’s extra sweet!

******

And from my other blog, Epbot:

https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-wedding-cakes-in-chocolate-2025

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Episode 2695: You Never Can Tell

Symbolism is a great thing to use. Screenwriters and film directors use it all the time. They show things that have significant meanings or allusions and we pick up them, sometimes consciously, sometimes subconsciously. Symbolism and how to use it is a thing that is actually taught in film school, it's considered so essential to telling a compelling story on film. Some examples:

The red coat in Schindler’s List.
The spinning top in Inception.
The unicorn in Blade Runner.
The deserted playground where Harry sits in The Order of the Phoenix.
The exploding mirror in Carrie.

What does this have to do with roleplaying games?

Use symbolism in your games. For example:

A raven appears and calls just before any confrontation where combat could be expected.
Neon lighting in the city shifts from blue to red dominated as the heroes move to grungier districts.
The old king's crown has started to corrode.
Grim stone effigies of dwarven lords of the past stand covered in the dust of centuries.
Recurring grafitti or street art tags echo themes present in the current campaign.
A lone tree stands in the heart of a great city, but is slowly dying.
Rain washes the blood from a vast battlefield after a decisive battle.
The shimmering mirror-like lake that reflects the distant mountains turns ripply and distorted.

aurilee writes:

Commentary by memnarch (who has not seen the movie)

Okay, so I knew little things could teleport across space with the Force. Luke may or may not have been able to teleport himself as well. Now we've got large things teleporting between places as well? I'm starting to suspect that a lot of these instances, including this bit with the red berries, might just all be Force Illusions or Visions only. It would be really weird to have that consistent over all three episodes, but that would explain a lot of the weirdness here and there, like this white room. Plus, while it wouldn't be good writing, it would be a good catch-all for any inconsistencies between scenes.

I bet the fight still looks pretty cool though, so it's a little bit of a shame I'm getting this as a series of stills.

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https://xkcd.com/3162/

Even geology papers about Heart Mountain are like, "Look, we all agree this 'volcanic gas earthquake hovercraft' thing seems like it can't possibly be right, but..."

https://xkcd.com/3162/

It's been almost a decade since this was last posted so for Halloween here is one of Junji Ito's most famous horror stories.

( Scans under the cut... )

Something spooky for Halloween as Chamber has a face off (heh) with old school Marvel Dracula.

Spooky story is by Joseph Harris with spookier art by Tomm Coker.

12 and a chunk pages out of 40.

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Last time out, we showcased ~~Fire and Ice~~ Green Flame and Ice Maiden as two heroines who spend a night living beyond their means and a morning struggling to make ends meet. In this, they have more in common with an extragalactic starship and its crew than they could imagine.

( Nobody ever talks about the COST of maintaining moon-sized ships, but if the Galactic Empire had managed its spending better, its Death Stars might not have so many corridors full of bottomless pits to fall into. )

Posted by Jen

https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/halloweeeee-2025

Tonight's the big night, people!

ARE.

YOU.

READY?!?

I'll take that as a yes.

Now, the first thing you need to kick off that Halloween party later is an OFF DA HOOK historical lecture.

I'll start.

Did you know that Halloween was once known in Druidic circles as "Hallsweer?"

It's true!

Ok, not so much. But you should totally make up a bunch of random factoids and see how long it takes your guests to throw you out the window.

Or just wish everyone a happy "Hallawen," and when questioned, insist that's how it's pronounced "in the old country."

"The Ambiguously Scared Trio"

Of course we can't let the night pass without saluting you, Mr. Failing-To-Grasp-The-Concept-of-Eyeballs-Man:

In the face of crippling chocolate eyeball shortages, you step up with something that technically still has eyes on it, AND is circular. Bravo, Mr. Failing-To-Grasp-The-Concept-of-Eyeballs-Man. Bra. VO.

(Srsly, the more you try to imagine the thought process that led up to this, the funnier it gets.)

And finally, to REALLY kick your party off right, just go to your local wreckery and order a cake with a "Halloween look."

I guarantee the result will be terrifying.

Or at least really funny.

(I especially like how they really captured the spirit of "Hallowee" with all that orange, blue, and green.)

Thanks to Courtney M., Dawn K., Michelle L., Cortni C., & Eric F., who I hear is a real whiz when it comes to Hallowee decorations.

https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/halloweeeee-2025

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An little horror amuse-bouche for you.

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http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20251031

The Girl Genius comic for Friday, October 31, 2025 has been posted.

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20251031

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Issue #2'd ended on physical trauma - Enid, one of three going deeper into the VR game Nightmare Cemetery, getting stabbed in the eye.

It was an in-game injury, inflicted by the same thing that'd taken her friend Birdie's brother Pik. He was comatose in the real world - she, waking into it, was bleeding.

Birdie and their friend Wilson saw her the next day.

( " Wow.. what the fuck..? " )

...and now the weather: 不安定な希望 / shaky hope - ROMBREAKER

As this JLI retrospective has chugged along, I've done my best to provide some context. But this time, the context is so involved, I figured I should make a separate post that's all context.

For its first four issues, the Justice League/Justice League International series was at a Bechdel 1. Then female villains stopped appearing and Doctor Light stormed out, putting it at a Bechdel 0...until #12, when two new characters rocketed it to Bechdel 3--where it would remain, more often than not, for as long as they were part of the series.

( Also from 2 nations represented up to 4. )

Imperial #4 came out this week, so we're about halfway... wait, the event is over? At only four issues? Is that even allowed?

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Episode 2695: You Never Can Tell

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Supernatural #1: Carry On Wayward Son Again

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