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In the summer of 2025, an animated film with an odd title became everyone’s hyperfixation – so now’s your chance to throw your characters in that world! Be it crosscanon or AU, protect the planet with your songs (and pointy weapons), cheer on your favorite idols while being unaware your soul is tasty, or plot an evil takeover with sexy demons! Here are some prompts/tropes/ideas to get you started!

HOW IT’S DONE

Hunters have been protecting the world since times long past – pick a time period to play in! Be the first generation to try it out, or flip through the ages for the most fun. Are you a traditional 3-group, or insist on doing things solo? Does the mentor have their own story, or is this a family tradition? Were you recruited eagerly or have no say in the songs? Are you all human, part demon, or all demon, and do your bandmates know the truth?

GOLDEN

The honmoon can’t be completed without the fans! Be the blissfully unaware manager (Hi Bobby!!!) or maybe they know more than they’re letting on. Maybe their biggest fan won a contest to meet their favorite singers – or that fan is a target that needs saving. Can love blossom between idol and idol-watcher, or is the parasocial link too strong? What if a fan joins the hunters?

SODA POP

Here come the rivals! Can they hide their demon-traits better and go undetected? Or are they shamelessly announcing their demon-tats while fans think it’s just lore? What is the shame that drove them to Gwi-Ma or a new Big Bad of demons? Do they have a choice about being in this band, or are they as hungry for the spotlight as they are for souls? Up the embarrassment with weird game-show challenges and dance-offs!

TAKEDOWN

What kind of weaponry do your hunters use with the Honmoon? Traditional blades and knives, or can we throw in some modern tech? Maybe you can make your punches and kicks extra powerful with magical pomp! Do different genres of music give you different powers? Can the demons use weapons this time around? Will different ideals drive your group apart?

FREE

I’d argue that dating a demon counts as monsterfucking. So let’s get those forbidden fruit romances in here! Are you allowed to date someone in your group, or does your mentor forbid close contact? Can demons fall for fellow demons, and does that make their shame weaker or stronger? And can’t forget hunter/demon! Try to lure the other to your side, or fight your feelings with your fists!

YOUR IDOL

The worst possible scenario has happened – the demons have lured away your fans and fellow hunters! Was it a full-on seduction, or a big boastful number? What is the shame and wish that leads them towards Gwi-Ma? How do you break the sexiest spell? Explore the darkest timeline and have your hunter decide to switch teams. Or maybe the demon will spare you… in exchange for being their partner. Or pet. Or both. No kinkshaming here.

WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE

For better or worse, it’s time to reveal the truth about who you are – and true friends will stay by your side. How does a broken band get back together? Can you change the ending and have the nice demons stay with you? Or do you want to up the tragedy with even more loss? Will the world finally know about hunters and demons, or will you keep the secret to the grave? More importantly… what kind of demon pets do they have? Bird, kitty, maybe a demon doggy…?

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Per the dw_news post regarding the MS/TN blocks, we are doing a small code push shortly in order to get the code live. As per usual, please let us know if you see anything wonky.

There is some code cleanup we've been doing that is going out with this push but I don't think there is any new/reworked functionality, so it should be pretty invisible if all goes well.

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A reminder to everyone that starting tomorrow, we are being forced to block access to any IP address that geolocates to the state of Mississippi for legal reasons while we and Netchoice continue fighting the law in court. People whose IP addresses geolocate to Mississippi will only be able to access a page that explains the issue and lets them know that we'll be back to offer them service as soon as the legal risk to us is less existential.

The block page will include the apology but I'll repeat it here: we don't do geolocation ourselves, so we're limited to the geolocation ability of our network provider. Our anti-spam geolocation blocks have shown us that their geolocation database has a number of mistakes in it. If one of your friends who doesn't live in Mississippi gets the block message, there is nothing we can do on our end to adjust the block, because we don't control it. The only way to fix a mistaken block is to change your IP address to one that doesn't register as being in Mississippi, either by disconnecting your internet connection and reconnecting it (if you don't have a static IP address) or using a VPN.

In related news, the judge in our challenge to Tennessee's social media age verification, parental consent, and parental surveillance law (which we are also part of the fight against!) ruled last month that we had not met the threshold for a temporary injunction preventing the state from enforcing the law while the court case proceeds.

The Tennesee law is less onerous than the Mississippi law and the fines for violating it are slightly less ruinous (slightly), but it's still a risk to us. While the fight goes on, we've decided to prevent any new account signups from anyone under 18 in Tennessee to protect ourselves against risk. We do not need to block access from the whole state: this only applies to new account creation.

Because we don't do any geolocation on our users and our network provider's geolocation services only apply to blocking access to the site entirely, the way we're implementing this is a new mandatory question on the account creation form asking if you live in Tennessee. If you do, you'll be unable to register an account if you're under 18, not just the under 13 restriction mandated by COPPA. Like the restrictions on the state of Mississippi, we absolutely hate having to do this, we're sorry, and we hope we'll be able to undo it as soon as possible.

Finally, I'd like to thank every one of you who's commented with a message of support for this fight or who's bought paid time to help keep us running. The fact we're entirely user-supported and you all genuinely understand why this fight is so important for everyone is a huge part of why we can continue to do this work. I've also sent a lot of your comments to the lawyers who are fighting the actual battles in court, and they find your wholehearted support just as encouraging and motivating as I do. Thank you all once again for being the best users any social media site could ever hope for. You make me proud and even more determined to yell at state attorneys general on your behalf.

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