#aaaaaa thanks kelly!!!!

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nox's astrology q&a: your questions, my answers

i want to thank everyone again for being here and helping me to celebrate 2k!! without you all i would just be a nerdy chick with a mythos addiction. i thought the game was fun - i am already thinking that perhaps we should do one more before years end!! but in the meantime everyone who participated had some great questions for me, so here i am answering them!!!

animals

@googiekookk : "do you have a favorite animal?"

i like crows :).

@mionas-world : "do you believe or have any familiars?"

i do believe in familiars! i have been wanting a black ragdoll cat for a while now - i might adopt one soon!!

@astrowomanland : "do you have any pets? actually i have dogs and they are absolutely cute and lovely! having pets will heal your heart." / @guregire : "are you a cat or dog person?"

aaaaaa - i completely agree!!! i have, over my lifetime, had 3 dogs and 5 cats! currently, i do not have a pet, but i do debate getting one from time to time. i am leaning more towards cat given my work schedule - i'm in my cat era!

music

@thelittlesunwitch : "are you listening to any new music? any new favorite artists or songs?"

i'm always on the hunt for new music - my "got bluetooth?" playlist is the dumping ground for anything i'm listening to at the moment!

@livelythoughts : "what music or artist do you like?"

anything but country because country reminds me of someone i would prefer to not think about. i love $uicideboy$, baby keem, eminem, kid cudi, lana del rey, lil darkie, melanie martinez, olivia rodrigo, tyler the creator, the weeknd, and yung gravy. here's one of my spotify playlists!

@starzzzzzlights : "what is your favorite music album?"

ooof i can't pick just one lol. heroes and villains by metro boomin, AM by arctic monkeys, awaken my love by childish gambino, black parade by my chemical romance, born to die by lana del rey, call me if you get lost by tyler the creator, currents by tame impala, dmz by kinneret, eternal grey by $uicideboy$, fallen by evanescence, flower boy by tyler the creator, gasnova by yung gravy, igor by tyler the creator, k-12 by melanie martinez, long term effects of suffering by $uicideboy$, the man on the moon trilogy by kid cudi, melodic blue by baby keem, nevermind by nirvana, sensational by yung gravy, the slim shady lp by eminem, smoke + mirrors by imagine dragons, ? by xxxtentacion, seventeen by xxxtentacion, sour by olivia rodrigo, stop staring at the shadows by $uicideboy$, swamp by lil darkie, and this doesn't exist by lil darkie.

@swordoftheseeker : "what is your favorite song, and/or a song that gets you emotional?"

favorite songs: i have so many; here is my define me playlist - aka the playlist whose songs resonate most with me. songs that make me emotional: "my immortal" by evanescence, "soon we'll be found" by sia, "still" by ben folds, "addicted" by kelly clarkson, "for the babies" by simply red, "winter song" by sara bareilles, "the hill" by marketa irglova, "hand me down" by matchbox twenty, "both sides now" by joni mitchell, "the beach" by the neighborhood, "orange juice" by melanie martinez, "need you now" by lady a, and "imagine" by john lennon.

my astro placements

@theghostadrift : "what is your main star sign?"

my sun sign is scorpio. my signature sign is scorpio. and my dominant sign is scorpio.

@museagerie : "what are your personal favorite placements from your chart?"

ooo that is tough i love a lot of my placements... being a circe dominant individual is fun. i love my scorpio moon, my 9h venus, and my 3h jupiter. my 8h nyx. idk i can go on for a long time especially with asteroids lol.

@honnuey : "do you have any 6th house stelliums in your chart?"

nope! i have no 6h placements! my stellium is in my 8h - my 6h ruler lives in the 8h though.

@e11e27 : "what indications in your natal and MC persona chart (with your career or money asteroids of choice) helped you decide what career path and strategies work best for you?"

as a sag mc person, i have come to the conclusion that i likely will never have a consistent career - the pluto conjunct mc from my 9h and opposite jupiter in my 3h certainly won't be of help on that matter either. so my charts are a bit of a bad explain when it comes to career planning. my plan is that there is no plan but to make money and enjoy what i do whilst doing so (that's such a sag mc thing to say lol). i have talked about my mc chart before so i will link that!

personal

@csmicixtte : "do you sometimes wish to work a different job?"

if in reference to the blog - absolutely not. if in reference to my real life job, nope i just started it a few weeks ago so (this is my fourth week), i plan to stay here for a bit.

@sliceofcinnamoroll : "what's your mbti type? i assume you're an introvert haha."

i am an ENTJ-T! i'm not an introvert, but i would consider myself an ambivert.

@selene-destiny-201 / @yonafswurld : "what is your favorite hobbies?" / "what are your hobbies aside from the astrology and mythology related side of things?"

aside from reading and the occult - i love art. i went to art school for photorealistic graphite drawings! but now i am rather interested in knitting, crocheting, and cross-stitching (right now i have made a pattern for a lake side sunset and i am making that - i'm about 810 stitches in).

@dutifullycrazycreation : "is there anything you would like to start as a hobby?"

oof that's tough. i already have a ton of hobbies lol - if i were to pick something up, perhaps i would pick up pottery, crystal tumbling, candle making, soap making, or embroidery (i mean i already cross stitch so embroidery is right around the corner lol).

@seungmim : "what is your favourite season?"

FALL. i adore fall -> seasons ranked: fall, summer, winter, and spring.

@thescorpiourge : "what advice would you give to your younger self?"

learn to say "no" - while "yes" will get you places and give you experiences, "no" will give you better control of your life.

@miraclekay97 : "do you have a favorite children's book?"

the giving tree, charlotte's web, or the miraculous journey of edward tulane.

@neptxn3 : "which was your favorite mythological figure or creature that you learned about in your spare time?"

ORPHEUS. orpheus is my favorite mythical hero!!! as for a creatures - yetis are the cutest (shoutout to my boy ziggy).

@heart-of--a-child : "do you have a favorite bingeing show you watch in your free time?"

yes!! my go to rewatch/comfort shows that i often binge are gilmore girls, game of thrones, rick and morty, gravity falls, and avatar the last airbender.

@queenlear : "what are your favourite movies?"

ooof that's tough i have a whole list. i would say my top 5 are pride and prejudice (2005), us (2019), emma. (2020), midsommar (2019), and the princess bride (1978)!

@sayaliii : "what's your favourite childhood memory?"

i had a holiday break when i was in sixth grade and my mother and i got snowed in. the snow was not the funny / best part of this it was the fact that the power went out and i had a school project to do. in sixth grade all the history classes had you build a medieval shield or a castle. i built a castle basically in lamp light and whilst eating cookies. it was a rather large cardboard box medieval castle - painted grey and black with a functional portcullis.

@mbelair : "what is your favorite memory of this year so far?"

UGHHHH I DISCOVERED MY FAVORITE TACO PLACE. that's my favorite memory for this year. it's like a local shack lol. but they have so much good stuff though - their milkshakes are so good AND THEY SELL ALLIGATOR. i have never had alligator until this year lol.

spirituality & the occult

@lavieenrosess : "how long have you been spiritual? is it something you just know intuitively that you are or did you see signs (and this is assuming you are)?"

i have been intuitively inclined all my life; i'm "claircognizant" - i have always known things that i really shouldn't. ex: as a child (3 or 4 years old), i would pose in photos with my pointer finger flush to my cheekbone - my grandmother freaked out when she saw that because that's the same pose my great grandmother (my namesake) use to do. it's not signs, it's more like random thoughts coming into my mind that aren't mine? that probably isn't the finest description - but it's the best way i can describe it.

@linnienin : "for how long have you been studying tarot, astrology and the matrix of destiny?"

tarot i'm nearing a decade, astrology i was introduced to when i was 6 or 7, and the matrix i am learning live right alongside you as i post (so since the first wyrd web post)!

@jupitersessence - "i'd like to know what drew you to astrology, tarot, the study of the web of wyrd and such. i know we all have our own ways of stumbling upon these topics, but what was it that made you want to continue with this?"

i have talked about the first part before - for astrology, it was the pandemic that reawakened my love and passion for astronomy, especially the asteroids because i saw people were not all that informed on the myths behind them. as for tarot, my grandmother gave me her mother's tarot deck in middle school and i have practiced ever since! for the web - the matrix is newer to me but has a close relationship with tarot, so, naturally, i am interested! i continue because i have a natural curiosity for what makes us "us" - i feel like all these tools can help us to reflect on who we are and why we are the way we are and that is just beautiful to me. a spiritual journey is never complete! no one masters any of these things - we just level up and learn new things as we go (i.e. space is infinite; how can you be a master at astrology? there are thousands of nuisances to astrology that will always need exploring)!

@i-can-get-back-on : "which esoteric tool (astrology, tarot, etc) you first learned how to use vs. the most recent one you've learned how to use - and maybe which tool you've resonated with the most!" / @greathologramobservation : "how did you get into divination and which was the first one you learnt and practiced?"

let's see - tarot is the first tool that i actively used and promoted to others (like i started with astrology but only read my own chart - where as tarot i have been reading for others for a while now (almost a decade)). most recently i picked up lenormand (which i haven't seen many people talk about). i resonate with nearly all the tools i use. the one that i feel like i am still getting use to though is runes (like the fact that mine is dice and a deck makes it tricky to me lol).

@loonaticpoe : "since when have u been into astrology / tarot and how long did it take 4 u to master it ? can u also leave an advice 4 new learners like me if u want ?"

i have talked about my origins in both studies before, take a look at the other questions because its up there. as for the second part, in my opinion i don't see mastery as a possibility, only high competence and experience. as for advice ALWAYS question what you read and ALWAYS look into the qualifications of who you are learning from. if they can't tell you their source or their accreditation, then they aren't someone you should be learning from. spend time with each of your studies and don't be afraid to spend a long time on small portions.

@siren-honey : "what advice would you give to anyone regarding their spiritual journey? or just advice for life in general?"

for spiritual journey guidance - always start your study where your interest lies and stay away from google unless you are looking up credibility or physical (book) resources. for general life advice, be kind - be you and be that well. recognize that no one is perfect and you can never really know all that someone has been through, so be gentle with others. you only ever see a fraction of a person's experiences in life and they only ever see a fraction of yours - so try to be gentle with others as you would want them to be gentle with you.

@galaxiesandstarss : "what's your fav sign from the zodiacs?"

capricorn <3 i don't have favorites... but capricorn lol.

@melaniee4350 : "what are your favorite astrological placements in general and/or about your own chart?"

i answered the part about my own chart earlier. as for other peoples charts, i love fire placements - sag placements in particular!!! i love capricorns too. particularly capricorns moon <3 (love y'all). aries mars people have my heart too.

@white-tale-tea : "do you have any favorite placements or aspects in astrology?"

i answered the placements part in the question above but aspects!!! ask any of my astro-friends here, i always tell them i love a good ole opposition - the tension between two planets is immaculate!!

@wutt : "which placement do you find the most comfortable to hang out with?"

i feel the most comfortable around those with sagittarius, capricorn, and/or virgo placements!

@i-am-empress-irish : "do you have a favorite deck?"

OOO i have a special place in my heart for kim krans's wild unknown!

@karmicbitchastro : "do you ever base your real life decisions on tarot?"

no. i use it to reflect on a situation mainly. i don't base life decisions on astrology either!

@covillhaa : "how long have you been on tumblr and from where did you learn about destiny matrix charts?"

since my post on eros - shoutout to @astrosky33 for introducing me to tumblr! as for the matrix, i am learning right alongside you :). i will link my post on resources for the matrix.

@haileycannotcometothephonern : "what is your favourite prediction tool? for example, using astrological transits or through tarot or other means? and which do you think is more accurate in general?"

hmmm i'm going to go with RETURN CHARTS. y'all know i adore return charts; mine have always been quite accurate so *shrug*! i do feel like all divination has its place though; i never just use return charts only (i still do tarot, transits, etc.).

@viyarisemoon : "have you thought about opening paid reading services in the future?"

i have paid readings options typically; they will be linked at the bottom of the post as per usual.

travel

@nl107 : "do you like to travel and if so do you have a favorite place to travel?"

i do enjoy traveling, but i haven't traveled since 2018 sadly. my favorite place that i have been is little italy in new york and labadee in haiti!

@fgggjjdfbikeefujrdgjohrwaxhombd : "what's a city / country you wanna visit / or your most memorable travel?"

i talked about my favorite trip in the last question! but i want very badly to go to italy. i promised my grandmother as well that i would visit wales for her.

university

@coffeecoffie : "what's major in uni?"

if you poke around a bit on here, you'll find i was an english literature major. and before that, i was a forensic psychology major.

@sunxastroblog : "how did you get interested in such a topic [mythology]? have you learned at school / took classes or you're self-taught? which branch of mythology are you currently still learning?"

i have always loved books. i have talked about my who first introduced me to mythology before (that post is linked above in the what drew me to the occult question). but most of the mythology that i post is self taught - based on books i read in my spare time. part 3 of asteroids that aren't getting more attention than this was from what i learned in my senior fall semester of uni though! i am still learning all the branches of mythology if i am being honest! anyone that claims they have read all the classic literature of a culture and knows all of a set myth is lying. there is always more to read - particularly, i find that true of norse mythos!!

@moanafromthedarkages : "how has been your college experience??"

when was in high school, i submitted 10 applications and got into all of them even columbia university (ivy). but i didn't know what i wanted to do and i didn't feel secure about traveling far from home (a gut feeling). so i went to a community college as of 2019 - when i started college i wanted to be an OBGYN. i took a weeding class right off the bat to find out if it was for me and the answer was a fat no - anatomy and physiology was the bane of my existence (despite my prof saying my dissection technique was quite good). in 2020, i was feeling better about college and it was the week before spring break when i asked my sociology professor what will happen to society if it stands still and she told me "nothing good". we went on break and i never returned to the campus except to pick up my degree. in my final spring semester (2021) at the community college, i met a boy and he inspired me transfer and continued my degree. i applied to 5 colleges and got into 3 because 2 of them wouldn't accept me without my father's tax records (i'm estranged from my father so *shrug*). i selected my uni based on the money they gave me to go there and the parking situation haha. i commuted to my university because i still was wasn't comfortable with strangers and the pandemic (during the first year of the pandemic alone my family members went through 2 surgeries and had many experiences having COVID). so i started at my uni. my first semester was a cultural shift - i didn't realize that your GPA resets when you transfer. i was shoved into a bunch of classes that weren't related to the major i selected. it was a struggle. in november, i started experiencing social anxiety and depression and i just pushed through my first semester. my gpa was bad, i was worried my academic scholarship would get revoked, etc. my holiday break, i spent on the couch - my depression was so bad that my mother was sort of frustrated/upset when telling me to get help. my semester started and i was taking 6 classes trying to catch up. i was so anxious that i got physically ill and my menstrual cycles were progressively worse i skipped days because i physically couldn't leave the couch i got physically ill from that too. i had to drop one of my classes... i was afraid of getting sick in front of other and in class. by the end of the semester, i was starting to think that maybe i should just drop out and the school counselor was advising the same plus to seek in-patient treatment somewhere. i got a new therapist because that one and the one before sucked (no offense - but quitting is never the answer in my eyes). my new therapist suggested online school, a gap year, etc. but of all her suggestions changing my major was the most promising. that summer (2022), i took 3 online courses all literature based and got a 4.0. in the last few weeks of summer, i moved homes and i was anxious about being in person again with the mask policy lifted, my menstrual struggles, not knowing anyone in my new major (except my department chair and the one professor i had a for a summer class), etc. the first day i was on campus, i went to my advisor and told her i wanted more classes online and she told me no. my nose started bleeding (the menstrual medication they had me on helped my symptoms but cause other issues) in that meeting. i went to my first class with blood on my jeans and a crush-n-go ice pack to my nose. i sat in the front of my class stressing and feeling hopeless - two minutes to the start of class was when a boy sat down next to me. he became my best friend in that college. i survived that semester. in the spring semester, i started a new medications for my menstrual cycle and i felt even better. i thrived in that last year at my uni - i got awards, made friends, etc. i graduated cum laude - and now i miss it. i think of college fondly despite the suffering i endure throughout my experience.

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finally watched collision & the countdown to all out from last night here are my thoughts that would have been lbs if i watched live:

-tk was afraid for his LIFE??? did this man have a knife??😭

-ricky starks is incredible and i feel bad that his momentum keeps getting crushed so hopefully this push continues and he keeps getting good stuff to do

-steamboat looks great!

-BRYANNNNNN <33 i missed him. i hope he’s not coming back prematurely w this injury bc of circumstances hopefully he’s all good

-the bcc are the ultimate tweeners u never know if they’re all heel or face 😭

-mox is unmatched in the backstage promo game. when u let him uninterrupted make magic in the back u cant touch him. i love him so dearly.

-mox putting over oc and himself >>>>

-mox and oc cutting promos these past few days have made this all out match must-see and i love them so much

-make mox interim real worlds champion for the jokes

-i love u danny garcia <3

-max caster’s raps are so tame these days but he always finds room for ballsacks ❤️

-the daniel garcia and daddy ass spot was great

-shoutout to ang for yelling at kevin kelly

-dark order hi honeys!! BUDGE REFERENCE!!!!!!

-alex reynolds looking dapper as fuck

-aussie open on my tv every week thank u tony khan

-nick wayne being adopted by various luchadors is very cute

-i know he’s been back for months now but i am so happy that mark davis is back and aussie open is whole again like i was so sad when kyle relinquished the titles

-collision turning into a show that cornette listeners hate is my favorite song

-kyle fletcher screaming during his matches is a highlight of my week he is very silly

-aussie open falling for people moving out of the way and making them hit each other every week is very funny

-need aussie open to go after the tag belts soon

-YES IM SO GLAD NICK IS UPSET AB DARBY FORGIVING AR FOX

-“just let it go man” HE ALMOST KILLED HIM IN HIS OWN WRESTLING RING?????????

-oh god what insane shit is christian gonna say now

-christian hi honey

-christian just saying nick wayne’s name is funny

-NOT HIS MOM OH GOD

-CLAUDIO BEATING THE SHIT OUT OF YUTA??????

-BCC THIS CRAZY ASS BDSM POLYCULE

-this is gonna awaken things in a lot of y’all

-claudio just going UGH at eddie??? LMFAOO

-EDDIE AND SHIBATA WHAT A BEAST FUCKING TEAM

-shibata using translate is so funny i love him also eddie going AAAAAA was great

-get saraya off my screen

-ruby saying she saw toni half naked in the parking lot throwing shoes at birds??????😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

-i wish saraya wasn’t awful bc she’s funny

-i am so sorry dennis rodman i am skipping this segment

-i haven’t seen any of shane taylor yet so i’m intrigued by this match tonight

-JOEEEEE

-the outcasts have a good theme i’ll give them that

-toni baby girl u are being so brave right now

-shida’s theme is sooooo good man

-things are looking frosty between britt and shida

-KRISSSSSSSSSSS

-kris looks so good i’m gonna fall over

-kevin kelly mentioned aewtix.com and i thought that man said aewtits i went ????

-ruby looks soooo good

-the entire women’s division being stuck in perpetual homegrown vs outcasts feud hell

-OH NO TONI

-spray paint shocker

-shida checking on britt aw

-poor toni

-ADAM HI HONEY

-paused the tv for a sec and adam cole’s big ass blue eyes are open real wide and scaring me. is this what i look like to people

-HIM READING MAX’S PROMO LMFAOOO

-KRIS BACKSTAGE INTERVIEW

-miro’s music is so scary i feel like he’s coming after me

-big meaty men slapping meat

-tk loves a battle royal

-OH ANOTHER WOMENS MATCH ON ZERO HOUR THANK U

-NIGEL CALLING BRYAN BRITTLE BRYAN DANIELSON AND SAYING HES MIRACULOUSLY HEALED LMFAOOOOO

-the all out card is beast i’m sorry

-people are giving the dark order tag match shit but it’ll be a banger match And it makes sense since they’re primarily a roh team now. it’s not like this came out of nowhere people

-FUCK YOU DON CALLIS YOU BALD BASTARD

-is it just me or has don callis still not given an Actual Reason he turned like an actual thing that kenny did wrong??😭

-the bucks and ftr teaming in chicago after yesterdays events is so fucking funny i’m sorry

-ORANGE HI BABY!!!!!!! <333

-another generational oc promo i love him so dearly

-orange putting mox over >>>. they love each other ur honor

-AND I DO NOT HAVE A CATCHPHRASE!!!!!!! i bought that shirt yesterday

-BULLET CLUB GOLD BABYYYYYYY

-juice really is jay whites puppy

-damn where’s cardblade :(

-the first several eps of collision with ftr facing bcg were generational

-the thing that makes bcg work is that they’re a fucked up group of fucked fuckers

-ftr having the worst month of their lives man that’s wild. arrests, punk fired. damn

-bucks are soooo turning heel tonight in chicago and i cannot wait

-A LITTLE CARDBLADE!!!!

-wrestlers watching their tag partner in a singles match and being all concerned in their corner is one of my favorite pro wrestlingisms

-every jay white match is a handicap match bc he teams up w his spit

-i hate diving headbutts

-jay white once again straddling his opponent to pin them

-jay white goes to a spiritual plane after every match. that man is gone

-BUCKS PULLING UP TO COLLISION LMFAOOOOOOOOO

-the bucks shaking each others hands instead LMAOO

-okay moving on to the all out countdown

-the clips they’ve been showing of oc covered in blood ❤️

-i love when taz is on these things bc i love hearing his thoughts

-KRIS

-kris crying NOOOOOOOOOOOOO honey :(

-i love u stat

-i feel like takeshita has better hair than me

-the voiceover man saying bay bay sounded so funny

-still in shock that the last thing we saw on all in before it faded to black was max looking earnestly into adams eyes and telling him he loves him. like that actually happened i didn’t imagine it

-i just don’t think having darby “i take insane bumps every week unnecessarily” allin should be facing a dinosaur man on ppv but okay

-i hope swerves doing well i miss him

#collision 9/2/23

[babyitsacrime]

1, 22, 23, and 43 for the OC asks.

First off, I apologize for my absolutely atrocious grammar here and also the fact that I just can’t seem to put things into words.

Secondly I wrote this in a different app and then copy pasted so the formatting is a little whack.

1. Your first OC ever?

Oh gosh this one is a little hard to answer. I think Natalia’s my first OC that I ever fully wrote well but me and my friends used to write a lot of stories/fanfiction in middle school so I have some characters from there too that might be older than Nat. Also there’s like three different versions of Nat (Quizup, Next Gen, and the Nat I have now) , and again the one I have right now is by far the most developed/closest to a whole character.

Okay but I talk about Nat a lot so even though I’m not sure which one actually came first I’ll talk about a character I had in the Homestuck fanfiction my friends and I wrote in middle school. (before you ask, yes it’s the 100 page one I’m pretty sure) (also I’m ignoring the self inserts me n my friends made for our other stories bc those don’t count as ocs and I refuse to accept them as characters dhdksjdjs) But basically she’s a troll named Ninmah Aurora. She was heavily based off of Kanaya Maryam, the iconic Homestuck vampire fashion designer lesbian character so that was interesting. And even though I didn’t actually write that much for her she’s one of my favorite characters because I had so much fun writing her with my friends. Anyways can’t believe I just exposed myself as a Homestuck stan on main but you know what it’s fine.

22. Is there any OC of yours that people tend to mischaracterize? If yes, how?

Okay there’s a couple and most of them are small things so I’ll just go by character.

Natalia -

let me just start by saying this: it still baffles me why y’all think she’s cool cshdjsj. She’s kinda a dumb bitch if I’m being honest. Like, don’t get me wrong, she’s super smart and could easily outwit me and honestly any of us, but she’s also plain stupid sometimes in other ways. But like, on the other side of the coin I feel like she almost doesn’t get taken seriously sometimes? I feel like that’s a little on me for usually making jokes at her expense but while she is clueless as to how people function she’s also not plain dumb. A lot of what she says and does is well calculated and even when she does something in the spur of the moment it’s always something logical to her. Hn I don’t know if I’m explaining this right but 🤷♀️. But basically she’s not really cool but also she’s not stupid. (Okay ig being good at Quidditch is pretty cool but that’s not my point)

Also I don’t know why but some people (very few people but it’s still annoying to me) seem to think that her being bi is a huge part of her personality when it’s really not. While she is bi, not everything she does is motivated by that fact if that makes any sense. Like for example, if she’s wearing be a rainbow dress it’s not because she’s (and I quote) "team gay" it’s because she liked the damn dress. Okay I’m rambling now but all I’m saying is that it kinda annoys me when people see her being bi as a hugely defining personality trait. Also she isn’t the only character I notice this happens to.

Ishaan -

Similarly to Nat, whole he does enjoy pranking and such, he’s actually a serious person most of the time. Think of him as more of like a serious and skeptical person who also has a good sense of humor. Although I will say that he does sometimes go out of his way to make a joke sometimes, that’s only sometimes and mostly just to annoy Priya.

Lysander -

Another case of the being gay isn’t his personality. Also??? He’s not gay??? I don’t really know where that came from (like I know who mentioned it to me but I have no clue where she got that from aside from just assuming?) for the record, he is also bi and has a slight preference for girls (mostly bc he likes having an s/o shorter than him but we won’t go into that rn). *slams fists on table* jUST BECAUSE HES FUNNY DOESNT MEAN HES THE TOKEN GAY FRIEND OKAY (okay okay I’m done ranting time to continue)

I also feel like his joking nature is often seen as a sign of him not being as a lack of intellect, but that is in no way true. While he isn’t a genius or anything, he’s a little smarter than average, yet still prone to making dumb decisions because he is still a child. But with more life experience he’ll make smarter decisions while still retaining a joking demeanor.

Priya -

I’m going to keep this one short, but she isn’t as cold and cruel as I sometimes make her seem when I talk about her. I feel like this one’s mostly on me but yeah, she’s a caring person for the most part, just a little misguided and/or dramatic at times.

~I think that’s all of them but I might be wrong? Also none of those explanations make a lot of sense I’m sorry 😔~

23. Introduce an OC that has changed from what your first idea considering what the character would be like.

*drags Nat out again* Here you go.

So I mentioned earlier that there’s like three different versions of her, but in all reality they almost feel like different characters with the same name. However I will say that Next Gen Nat and the Nat I have now (I like to call it her final form bc I think I’m finally happy with her) are similar in many many aspects. But I’ll talk about this Nat because I like her the best and she’s the only Nat I actively use. She was originally intended to be a lot colder/closed off than she is. (Think a lot closer to Aster, but I think pep also had a similar thing with him.) She just ended up becoming a lot softer and a little friendlier than I intended her to be. I’m not exactly unhappy with that though, I feel like this actually added a bit more dimension to her character and it actually gave me a little more room to improve her. It was also bound to happen anyways, especially with the characters she’s friends with/will be friends with. So yeah, it’s interesting and honestly I feel like I’m happy with the changes from what I originally intended her to be.

Hm while I’m here I guess I should also talk about Taemoon.

I don’t know that his personality changed much from my original intent, but his story and intent definitely did. He started as a character that exuded a lack of hope. I don’t know if that sentence makes a lot of sense, but he was originally going to have no chance at happiness in the end. He was supposed to let all of his anger and hurt consume him, making him hell bent on revenge, which would only push him further from anything that could make him happy, but I feel like the end of his story is a lot more hopeful now. I don’t know exactly what it is, but ever since pep asked if Jae Hong could adopt him Taemoon’s life story has become something a lot less disheartening. Now I’ve given him a lot more to live for, and a lot more to make him happy. First off, instead of being alone he now has a family that he quickly grows to trust, and a group of friends with similar experiences that basically become family as well. While he is still very revenge driven, he has a lot more to his life than just that; most importantly he has people he trusts that will keep him from becoming consumed by all of his anger. But yeah, he has become a much more hopeful character as a whole and honestly. I feel like that’s what I really needed. Idk about everyone else but I feel like changing his story to the way it is now really has helped me to feel a lot better in general.

43. Do you have any certain type when you create your OCs? Do you tend to favor certain traits or looks?

Oh god it’s time to confess 😔🤙

So, as most of you have figured out, most of my ocs tend to be very attractive and very capable (and willing) to step on me. If they’re not that then they’re in the minority.

Aside from being physically attractive as a whole, I’d say that in regards to looks, the more they look like they haven’t slept in weeks and are ready to kill a man, the better. If not that, then it’s an oc that looks like I could cuddle with them for hours on end. There’s no in between.

As for traits I tend to favor, probably the most popular is a bad attitude. If you take a look at some of my most used and/or favorite characters, you’ll find that in most cases the snarkier the better. Honestly this is true of characters that aren’t even mine, I just really have a type. At the same time though, I like these characters to have a secret soft side even if it’s only for one other character they care about. On the flip side, I also like writing characters that are genuinely the nicest people you’ll ever meet. I don’t know why but I just love them so much they are truly my children.

Also. Characters that grin in the face of danger? *chefs kiss* I like characters where you question if what they’re doing is out of courage or a death wish. For this reason so many of my characters play some kind of dangerous sport or enjoy dueling, you get what I mean. This goes for both my Edgy™️ characters as well as my soft characters.

Additionally, I do have a lot of characters that are wealthy. Uh. I think that mostly speaks for itself so I’m not going to comment on it any further than this.

Also. Flowers. For some reason I go for faceclaims that eat flowers. It’s not even something I actively seek out??? Like I’ll find someone cute and I’ll be scrolling through pictures and there they are. Eating a flower. This mostly goes for my guy fcs but yeah. Idk how it happens but it just does and I’ve come to accept it.

#aaaaaa thanks kelly!!!! #also shdjshshsh thats a lot longer than i intended it to be oh boy #natalia #ishaan #priya #lysander #taemoon #bitch boy #answered #writing rambles

[singingcookie]

Is drops of Jupiter going to focus mostly on ochako & Izuku or are you planning on giving the other characters a bigger role? Also what was your favorite scene to write as of now?

God bless you, Star!!!

Well, originally I was thinking of bouncing around more which is sort of where all these side fics came from. But for the overall story, a lot of what I wanted to say just...didn’t really flow I guess you could say? Like, the surprise intern duo was originally going to be its own chapter (chapter 11 actually!), but when I thought on it more, it was too sporadic and random of a switch. Especially because it didn’t really connect to the story as a whole. It would have sufficed as a good intro to the internships...but then I would be going over a similar thing in the following chapter anyways. It would have been really pointless, in that regard, and I really didn’t want to elongate the story by rehashing the same idea (but following different groups) two chapters in a row.

As it stands, the overall focus is primarily on Ochako and Izuku’s experiences throughout the story, but there are definitely other characters I’m going to utilize a lot and a fair amount of growth going on for those characters. Sometimes the growth might be more subtle—and in some cases that’ll be because I plan to elaborate on the matter even more in the side stories. There is one character in particular I didn’t plan on being important. But they’re featured in three of my side stories so...they might become more important than I originally thought haha

As for my favorite scene to write..........that’s really tricky!! There’s a lot that I’ve had fun with for sure. Definitely one of my favorites though is during Chapter 8! From the moment Ochako heads for the elevator through to Todoroki almost blowing hers and Deku’s sneaking operation!!

It’s one of the few scenes I had painstakingly outlined, minus the specifics of dialogue, and it was just as fun as when I had initially considered the idea!! Ochako hiding from Bakugou on the ceiling, Deku floundering on lying to him about why he was there, the subtle hint that Bakugou was about to help Deku with his training since he was being so stupid about it, Bakugou’s whole rap, and then Todoroki nearly blowing it.

It was so much fun to think up and even more of a blast to actually write!

Another top contender though might be Iida recalling his and Ochako’s study session, that one was really great to write too...

#kelly speaks #adventures in writing #Drops of Jupiter #Star #Izuocha #AAAAAA THANK YOU #stardust-make-a-wish

[intoapuddle]

Top 5 fan works inspired by your fics (fan art, moodboards etc)

god are you really doing this to me? i’ve been absolutely spoiled with people sharing their art based on my stories with me and i truly don’t have a favourite out of them. i will mention five that i can think of as of right now though, because well why would i pass up an opportunity like this? so yeah no particular order but:

The Monochrome Website The way readers banded together and made this thing... I can’t even think about it without getting choked up. I can barely look at the thing because it brings up so many emotions. There was such a team effort put into it and there are so many things... So so so many things there that fills my heart with joy. It’s so funny and heart warming and it makes me absolutely sob to even think about it. So yeah. Thank you to Sierra and Kelly and Eli and everyone else that had a part in it because you truly made me feel appreciated and you didn’t even have to and. yeaah I need to stop because I’m gonna cry haha 🥺

Fi’s Monochrome Art Okay so apparently everything in this list is gonna make me wanna cry to talk about. But okay so. When Fi posted this, saying it represented my Dan and Phil in Monochrome.. It just hit the nail on the head in terms of how I saw them in my mind and yeah it’s truly meaningful to me and absolutely gorgeous. 

MadeByFission’s Animation Fission isn’t really around in the phandom currently but the animations they’ve made are so special. I was already a huge fan of them before they made this animation inspired by Monochrome. I hadn’t posted that many chapters of the story yet at the time but it really told part of the story I knew I was building. At the time it didn’t have that many readers so it also served as a huge motivation to keep going because it proved to me that maybe some people would understand what I was trying to do.

Sam’s song based on Time’s Tide God, I listened to this again not that long ago and I want to cry every time. Not only does Sam have a beautiful voice and a serious talent in songwriting but the feeling of it really represents Time’s Tide and I’m so eternally grateful for it ;-; it’s amazing.

The Monochrome Book AAA.... Jane, Fi, and Mellisa really banded together and decided to fuck me right up (similarly to the people that made the website HFHFH). I don’t know how I got such amazing people in my life but I’m so grateful. The art is absolutely stunning and the detail is just.... aaaaaa. Sorry I’m never as incoherent as when it comes to this kind of thing can you tell? I really can’t talk about it without getting all emotional (again) but it’s beautiful. I love having it as a physical object. And I really appreciate that they made it non-profitable. Just so much about it proved to me how much they get the story and that they get me and. *cries for a thousand years*

I could talk about so much other stuff (somehow, really, i don’t know what i did to deserve any of this) because i remember and appreciate everything people say and share about my stories and it’s truly just a special thing that’s not afforded to many and i really appreciate that. so yeah. thank you if you ever said a nice thing about my stories or made something inspired by them. it’s so motivating and unfathomably kind. thank you thank you 🥺💖💞

#Anonymous #puddle answers

[fallout-lou-begas]

i just wanted to say that since reading ikroah and your meta about it, i've really come to rethink my own courier's story? admittedly i first made her when i was 15 and she's grown a lot already, but just adding more to that - she's older too, like agnes, and while she's never been that dumbass courier we all know, it's been really cool to see your story and reflect on my own telling of the new vegas story - anyway, i love ikroah and i'm excited to see where it goes!

Aaaaaa thank you so much, I'm really glad it's been inspiring for you! 💜 Nothing makes me happier than inspiring people through my work. I wish you the best in revisiting your courier!

I don't really co-sign my previous anon's put-downs of "chaotic dumbass" couriers; sure, there's a lot of them, but that's because a lot of OCs in this fandom are our player characters first, and playing like a chaotic dumbass is a very appealing and fun way to play the game. So of course there's a lot of overlap between characters, the same way there's a lot of overlap between gameplay experiences.

Witb Agnes, though, I was already planning to make IKROAH when I first thought of her, so a lot about her characterization was developed very intentionally for the specific kind of story I wanted to tell. Not every OC needs to have this approach (Shotgun Kelly is just for fun, for example) but this intentional, contextual, diligent kind of development and writing approach is the way to go if you're interested in a strong serious narrative, in my opinion.

#asks #agnes sands #ikroah meta #this is what we call an endorsement #advice

[facepalming-since-chernobyl]

Troll’s 5x13 recap

Yep, I have seen the ep.

1. Too much fucking Lena VILLAIN Luthor. I’m sad the 100th ep circled indirectly arounf her ass and I’ve seen her face too many times on my screen, but whatever, I’m not bitter because this ep established one amazing thing: no matter what universe, no matter what time, no matter what circumstances, Supercorp is toxic as FUCK.

2.Kara was ALWAYS right for not telling Lena about her identity. Trust your gut more, girl! Telling Lena the truth put the lives of her family and friends in danger. She told Lena when SHE was ready, and Lena threw it away, manipulated and used Kara. That’s a fact. In the end, it’s always YOUR choice to hurt other people. The fact you are hurt and upset, doesn’t give you the right to hurt others. And yes, being hurt doesn’t protect you from meeting the consequences of your actions.

3.Thanks to this ep, Kara finally embraced the simple truth - she may and will screw up in the future and will pay for that. And it’s a good thing. She is NOT responsible for actions of other people. Also, she finally let go of begging Lena to forgive her, trying to make her better, trying to show Lena her actions and helping Lex is bad. Because every person with one working brain cell knows that. Does Lena have brain cells? I have heard she has, so guess what? She knows what she is doing and can’t hide behind the: boo hoo hoo, I wanted to do good but no one understands me :((((

4. Kara of course will be there for Lena IF she decides to finally stop being a stupid fucking bitch. Kara is the Paragon of Hope after all, but she will not beg for it and she will fight Lena when she heeds to. She has learnt her lesson and she finally feels like real Kara Danvers and I could have not been prouder and happier <3

5.Kara said she is going to stop lena, if the bitch continues helping Lex. Unfriendly reminder that in the next ep the bitch will continue her non noncere nonsesne, aka villain 8)

6.KARAMEL! OH DEAR RAO! First thing after seeing Mon-El? Kara asks Mxy to snap her there, because she wants her husband’s opinion. Do you remember how in s2 she made fun of his useless advices? And then in s3 she found them helpful? AND NOW? 

“ You know it’s okay to mess up, right? No matter how many mistakes I had made, you have always forgiven me. You should know that you deserve the same compassion that you show others.“

Do you hear me SCREAMING?! No matter what time, year, universe - this is Mon-El talking to Kara. Always lifting her spirits. Always treating her with respect. Always trying to understand her. NEVER judging. He is her friend, family, lover and fellow superhero - fuck anyone who thinks differently. 

Did I mention they fight together as SuperValor???

Also, the way Kara follows him with her heart eyes? The way he leaned a little when they talked? Personal space? What is it?! Her little smile, when he turned? The chemistry was SPARKLING. DEAR RAO, I feel sorry for any dude that will try to replace Mon-El and try to match him. GOOD LUCK. Will send some roses to his funeral.

The last universe, where Kara and Lena have never become friends and didn’t know each other - Mon-El never went back to the future and... fuck me, my head canon is they stayed and were happily together. 

7. MON-EL IS BACK BITCHES! THAT’S IT! He looks hot, handsome, amazing like always, he was just there and I MISS HIM ALREADY T___T

8.Mxy was FUNNY. And the ep was funny. And? He is another shitty character that after meeting Kara changed for better. Menwhile Lena...

9.Nia was amazing and is also a karamel shipper, lol. She kicked asses and looked super cool with a scar on her cheek.

10. Kelly as a Guardian - awesome. Kelly fighting along Alex? SUPER AWESOME.

11. Superfriends paintball should become a thing, just saying.

12. The last scene with Kara, Alex and J’onn was amazing and very nostalgic.

The ep was nice. Funny. And we were not fucked up. 

And now look at our babies. We GOT THEM IN 2020! AAAAAA!

PS. This is the funniest twitter comment you can find:

#karamel #my shit #5x13

[tickinq-time]

R: Oh! Before I forget Happy New year Baby Larry and the two wonderful couple Tony and Kelli! (And to the Beautiful amazing Mod!) -Lots of Love from the Beanie~!

Larry: H-Hwappy Nwew Ywear!! QWQ *he cheers excitedly with his teddy bear*

Tony: Happy New Year!! ^^

Kelli: Oh my goodness!!! Thank you so much!!! Happy New Year to you two!! QwQ

(HDNDJSJDJ AAAAAA!!!! Happy new year to you too!!!! Thank you so much!!! 🥺🥺💞💞💓💓💓💖💖💗💗💖)

[meliorist-midoriya]

K-Kelly?? I d-didn't know you had a....blog here... Uhm, uh... I-- You, have got quite entertaining stories to read. W-Writing is very admirable!! I DON'T WANT TO SEEM SARCASTIC OR MAKING FUN OF YOU I TRULY MEAN IT!!!!! But uh.... If y-you felt th-th-that w-way then w-why didn't y-you...tell me? -Midoriya Izuku

wahhhhhh izuku! 🥺 thank you for, ah, liking my writing! i'm slightly flustered now that i know you've read my writing aaaaaa (^//-//^)ゞ

and felt what wa— oh.

oh. o////////o

AAAAAA PLS I'M SHY

#conversations with kelley #i'm going to sCREAM #if you want me to shower you in love tho just say the word (づ￣ ³￣)づ~♡

[monster-bait]

Just read your Kellie story and wanted to let you know I really like it. The main character and the Kellie had a nicely intertwined backstory. Sad that they had to part ways but like the emotions of it. :)

AaaaAA, thank you so much! Fionnghall is one of my absolute favorite things I've written, and it warms the black husk of my heart to hear that other people love him as well! 💖💖💖

https://monster-bait.tumblr.com/post/189249056258/fionnghall-the-kelpie-pt-1-sfw-rating-will

#monsterbait answers #fionnghall the kelpie #Exophilia

[hobbitunderthemountain]

Happy Birthday!!!

AAAAAA THANK YOU KELLY!!!!!!

#<333 #bday 2k19 #critical gemini hero #kat's asks

[rexster10]

hey we literally never talk and we’re pretty recent mutuals but i always enjoy seeing your icon on my dash. I have no idea who that guy is but he’s chugging that bottle so enthusiastically that his energy sort of radiates off the screen anyway have a nice day

aaaaaa!! Thank you !! Skdhzjxlahflaj 💕💞💖My icon is Charlie Kelly from It's Always Sunny in PhiladelphiaAnd I'd love you talk to you just shoot me a message

#Thanks for the ask #anon #ask

[princeshushu]

Get to know me tag

Helloooo~ I got tagged by @himeaegyo!! Thank you btw :>

Mmmm, I’m tagging @jejublr, @justsomekpopstuff, @kingyu97, and @kwoncity!! (I’m only tagging 4 asdfhjkl I don’t wanna bother anyone ehehehehe)

Appearance: 


I am 5'7" or taller


I wear glasses


I have at least one tattoo


I have at least one piercing 


I have blonde hair


I have brown eyes


I have short hair

My abs are at least somewhat defined (WHAT IS THIS QUESTION AAAAAA)

I have or had braces (I need braces pls save me)

Personality:

I love meeting new people (I’m shy though eheheheh)

People tell me that I’m funny

Helping others with their problems is a big priority for me (Idk how and I’m not good at comforting but I try asfghkl)

I enjoy physical challenges

I enjoy mental challenges

I’m playfully rude with people I know well (mostly the guys)

I started saying something ironically and now I can’t stop saying it 

Ability:

I can sing well (I’ve been in a few singing contests but not that well;;; I have trouble singing with background music or a duet)

I can play an instrument (piano, guitar, and soon I’ll learn violin~)

I can do over 30 pushups without stopping (wtf I can barely do one)

I’m a fast runner (다시 RUN RUN RUN)

I can draw well (I wish it was good enough to be called well but I guess)

I have a good memory

I’m good at doing math in my head

I can hold my breath underwater for over a minute

I have beaten at least 2 people in arm wrestling

I know how to cook at least 3 meals from scratch

I know how to throw a proper punch

Hobbies:

I enjoy playing sports (badminton, tennis, volleyball, and basketball~)

I’m on a sports team at my school or somewhere else (I used to be)

I’m in an orchestra or choir at my school or somewhere else (I used to be)

I have learned a new song in the past week

I work out at least once a week

I have drawn something in the past month

I enjoy writing (Y E S @/neoyeppuda)

Fandoms are my #1 passion

I do or have done martial arts

Experiences:

I have had my first kiss

I have had alcohol

I have scored the winning goal in a sports game

I have watched an entire season of a TV show in one sitting (Hi animes and smallville)

I have been at an overnight event (i wouldnt be there but my mom)

I have been in a taxi

I have been in the hospital or ER in the past year

I have beaten a video game in one day (yes like 293947582 games)

I have visited another country

I have been to one of my favourite band’s concerts (Seventeen and EXO)

Relationships:

I’m in a relationship

I have a crush on a celebrity

I have a crush on someone I know

I have been in at least 3 relationships

I have never been in a relationship

I have asked someone out or admitted my feelings to them

I get crushes easily 

I have had a crush on someone for over a year

i have been in a relationship for at least a year (lasted 10 months :“) )

I have had feelings for a friend

My Life:

I have at least one person I consider a “best friend”

I live close to my school (I moved. It went from a 1 hour drive to a 2 minute walk)

My parents are still together (legally but im trying to get them back together)

I have at least one sibling (one younger sister)

I live in the United States

There is snow right now where I live 

I have hung out with a friend in the past month (ishi!!!)

I have a smartphone

I have at least 15 CDs

I share my room with someone

Random Shit:

I have breakdanced

I know a person named Jamie (can it be Jamie Kelly from DDD)

I have had a teacher that has a name that was hard to pronounce (ms. Sinining)

I have dyed my hair 

I’m listening to one song on repeat right now

I have punched someone in the past week

I know someone who has gone to jail

I have broken a bone (not my bone)

I have eaten a waffle today

I know what I want to do with my life

I speak at least 2 languages (6! Does dialects count???)

I have made a new friend in the past year

#personal #mentions #mutuals #about me

[kellystar321]

kELLY all tags of yours are the cutest and sweetest heckin tags I've ever read in the history of e v e r

o mg bUT MOSS HAVE YOU EVER SEEN YOUR TAGS? THEY’RE SO CUTE, but also really hella more organized than mine? Like, how do you do that, holy heckie-dos!! i just use mine for musings and ramblings tbh!!

But aaaaaa!! Thank you so much, you’re such a sweetheart and ily, m’dear Moss!!

[boyjadzia]

tagged by @werestillalive to do a thing! thank u friend ^__^

Rules: Tag 9 people you want to get to know better (aw jeez that’s so many).

Relationship Status: single, just venturing back into sex/dating after a year and a half of being too dysphoric/mentally ill, and Terrified®

Lipstick or Chapstick: I don’t wear makeup really so probably chapstick, although tbh I prefer like vaseline, for some reason stick-shaped lip balm has never appealed to me

Last Movie I Watched: I watched “But I’m a Cheerleader” with queerczar and shinelikeastarlight for the first time last night and oh my god?? I love it?? like, it was super adorable but also dante basco as a gay wrestler like I never knew I needed this but I did, I did. Honestly it’s especially funny because he... really only has one voice and it’s the voice that I will always associate with zuko so like, basically gay zuko confirmed

Last Song You Listened To: 711 by beyonce, do y’all realize how good this song sounds bass boosted

Top 3 Shows/Dramas/Anime: eep I don’t watch a lot of tv :/ I mean, y’all know I’m obsessed with star trek (particularly ds9) and yuuri on ice, I guess if I had to pick another one maybe brooklyn 99 since I’ve been eagerly awaiting its return? also I keep meaning to catch up on the new samurai jack season, honestly I’m so excited for them to deliver on jack being bi

Top 3 Characters: aaaaaa I can’t pick three! ok how about jadzia dax from ds9, bo lin from legend of korra, and uuuuhhhh kelly from san junipero? what do you mean I’m just picking characters I relate to heavily at random

Top 3 Ships: viktor/yuuri (OBVIOUSLY), any iteration of kirk/spock/mccoy, utena/anthy from revolutionary girl utena in an OT3 with the feeling of happiness

Tagging: @spacewifespock, @parar-mirar-escuchar, @shinelikeastarlight, @queerczar, @the-alexandrian-alchemist, @anxiety-on-ice, @this-amaranthine-heart, @shitpostingperidot, @starboysisko

absolutely zero pressure, only do it if you want to! at least half of y’all are the mutuals I tag in everything like this so you’re probably just annoyed at this point rip (I’m sorry tagging new mututals is really scary)

#randy rambles #tag games

[networkingdefinition]

Alligators Quotes

Official Website: Alligators Quotes

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• A gun is not a weapon! It’s a tool, like a butcher’s knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator. – Homer • All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators. – Charlaine Harris • Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World. – Ambrose Bierce • Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet – they’ll take down a boat if you come up to their nest. – Jack Hanna • Au revoir, jewelled alligators and white hotels, hallucinatory forests, farewell. – J. G. Ballard

jQuery(document).ready(function($) var data = action: 'polyxgo_products_search', type: 'Product', keywords: 'Alligator', orderby: 'rand', order: 'DESC', template: '1', limit: '68', columns: '4', viewall:'Shop All', ; jQuery.post(spyr_params.ajaxurl,data, function(response) var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); jQuery('#thelovesof_alligator').html(obj); jQuery('#thelovesof_alligator img.swiper-lazy:not(.swiper-lazy-loaded)' ).each(function () var img = jQuery(this); img.attr("src",img.data('src')); img.addClass( 'swiper-lazy-loaded' ); img.removeAttr('data-src'); ); ); ); • Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence. – Henry Walter Bates • Donald Trump is my leader. And if he decides to drop the swamp and the alligator, I will drop the swamp and the alligator. – Newt Gingrich • Don’t taunt the alligator until after you’ve crossed the creek. – Dan Rather • Down in Louisiana where the alligators grow so mean, there lived a girl that I swear to the world made the alligators look tame. – Tony Joe White • Everything on Saturday morning [cartoons] moves alike that’s one of the reasons it’s not animation. The drawings are different, but everybody acts the same way, their feet move the same way, and everybody runs the same way. It doesn’t matter whether it’s an alligator or a man or a baby or anything, they all move the same. – Chuck Jones • Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems. – Mary Oliver • Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators. – Helen Gurley Brown • First time I saw an alligator gar I damn near threw up. They ain’t natural anything get that big. It’s ten feet long and three feet at the girth. Not one of God’s creations like you and meSome say they ain’t afraid of alligator gar fish. Bullshit. You look at that thing. It’s big and mean. Swallow both of us. Them people say they ain’t afraid tellin’ lies. – Bukka White • I dislike the word ’emerging artist.’ Emerging connotes to me an alligator coming up from the water. I consider all artists to be artists, not rising, emerging, amateur, beginning, but the real thing. – Jack White • I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name’s getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company. – Luther Allison • I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. Its a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river. – Gail Simmons • I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida. – Karen Russell • I’m also fascinated by the difference between terror and fear. Fear says, “Do not actually put your hand in the alligator,” while terror says, “Avoid Florida entirely because alligators exist. – Mira Grant • I’ve tried that. I’ve tried aspirin, too. Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle. What I’ve found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany’s. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits, and that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets. If I could find a real-life place that made me feel like Tiffany’s, then I’d buy some furniture and give the cat a name. – Truman Capote • I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And throw thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. just last week, I murdered a rock, Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick. – Muhammad Ali • If all I can say is I’m not in this swamp, I’m not in this swamp then there is not a rope in front of me and there is not an alligator behind me and there is not a girl sitting at the edge eating a hot dog and if I believe that, then dying would be the only answer because then Death couldn’t come and say Peachy to me anymore and after all she has a brother who believes in hope. – Tori Amos • If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, “Well this isn’t too bad, I don’t have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I’m left-handed or right-handed,” but most of us would say something more along the lines of, “Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!” – Daniel Handler • If five years from now we solve the access problem, but what we’re hearing is all encrypted, I’ll probably, if I’m still here, be talking about that in a very different way: the objective is the same. The objective is for us to get those conversations whether they’re by an alligator clip or ones and zeros. Whoever they are, whatever they are, I need them. – Louis J. Freeh • If I could rest anywhere, it would be in Arkansas, where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grows nowhere else on the face of the universal earth. – Davy Crockett • IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids out to sea,where every bit of shattered boat sinks to the bottom. An alligator lifts its head and swallows the ocean, then the ocean floor becomes a desert covering the alligator in sand drifts. Changes do happen. I do not know how, or what remains of what has disappeared into the absolute. I hear so many stories and explanations, but I keep quiet, because I don’t know anything, and because something I swallowed in the ocean has made me completely content with ignorance. – Rumi • Im Southern, so alligator tail is pretty interesting and yummy. – LeAnn Rimes • I’m that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a honey locust [tree]. – Davy Crockett • It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them. – George Foreman • It makes my skin crawl to think about the violent ways snakes, lizards, alligators and other exotic creatures are raised and killed for boots, bags and belts. – Kelly Brook • It took me the bulk of my twenties to write one book about a family of alligator wrestlers. Whereas somebody like Steve Martin is releasing his latest banjo symphony, having just completed another movie and acclaimed, best-selling novel. – Karen Russell • It’s so hard for me to sit back here in this studio, looking at a guy out here, hollering my name!—When last year I spent more money, on spilled liquor, in bars from one side of this world to the other, than you made! You’re talking to the Rolex wearing, diamond ring wearing, kiss stealing, whoa! wheelin dealin’, limosuine riding, jet flying son of a gun and I’m having a hard time holding these alligators down! – Ric Flair • It’s hard, when you’re up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp. – Ronald Reagan • It’s the chauffeur’s outfit from hell, right down to the alligator shoes. I was wearing these alligator shoes and this very interesting and haunting chauffeur’s outfit, but what really did it for me was the hat. And then, when I eventually get my eye taken out, the gold eye really brought it home for me. – Dennis Haysbert • It’s what you’d expect out of Baton Rouge: people tailgating with shrimp étouffée, everything from alligators roasting on a barbecue to dishes that you would get in the French Quarter. These people are serious and they are legit and they’re ready to go. – Erin Andrews • I’ve just done a movie – Albino Alligator – with Viggo Mortensen, who’s an actor I idolize. He influenced me in a way that has helped me move toward getting lead parts instead of supporting parts, merely through his presence. So now I tell everyone, as a joke, that I’m entering my Viggo Mortensen phase. – Skeet Ulrich • Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put ’em on their knees and tie ’em to a stump / Let the rattlers and the bugs and the alligators do the rest. – Charlie Daniels • Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet. – Chuck Palahniuk • My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants. – Jim Fowler • My mom was beautiful; she was supposed to be the original Jane in the original Tarzan movie. They asked her to put her foot in the water and there was an alligator in there, and she wouldn’t put her foot in the water. – Dr. John • My number one rule is to keep that camera rolling. Even if it’s shaky or slightly out of focus, I don’t give a rip. Even if a big old alligator is chewing me up I want to go down and go, ‘Crikey!’ just before I die. That would be the ultimate for me. – Steve Irwin • Nobody in the city of Los Angeles knows how to catch an alligator, … We have no experience in recreation and parks, the zoo or animal control. – Janice Hahn • Not much is known about alligators. They don’t train well. And they’re unwieldy and rowdy to work with in laboratories. – Diane Ackerman • On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he’s now my golf bag. – Bob Hope • Once when I was golfing in Georgia, I hooked the ball into the swamp. I went in after it and found an alligator wearing a shirt with a picture of a little golfer on it. – Buddy Hackett • People wrestle alligators but not once has someone done it without an audience. – Doug Stanhope • Places like Hilton Head, with water adjacency and nice climates, are in high demand, and land values are insane. In the case of Hilton Head, which was developed in 1970 on what had been a mosquito- and alligator-infested swampy barrier island, land value has leaped from nearly zero to now unaffordable. – Susan Orlean • Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men! – Solomon Northup • Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman’s bottom? That’s right, we all thought it was hilarious. But, it turns out we were wrong. That alligator was sexually harassing that woman. – Homer • Remodeling defies the principles of modern commerce. You shell out great sums of money to people over whom you have no authority or power, yet these same people are constantly insinuating that you’re cheap. (It reminded me of medicine, another area where you shell out great sums of money to people over whom you have no authority or power, who make you feel guilty for questioning a bill.) Construction workers are the blue-collar version of the snooty salespeople at Gucci who make $8 an hour but look down on you if you balk at a $400 alligator wallet. – Margo Kaufman • Sanford is a little redneck town north of Orlando. It’s right off Lake Jessup.Lake Jessup is the most alligator infested lake in the United States and I live literally 5/10ths of a mile north of that lake right off the swamp down here. I’ve lived here since ’94. When I left Nebraska my dad got a job at a private Christian school in West Palm Beach. People will say “You’re not really a country boy. You’re from Palm Beach, Florida.” Well, I moved to West Palm Beach, FL which is a far cry from Palm Beach, FL. There’s a reason it’s called West Palm Beach. – Larry the Cable Guy • See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile. – Bill Haley • She gazed toward the marsh that grew thicker, deeper, greener with approaching summer. Mosquitoes whined in there, breeding in the dark water. Alligators slid through it, silent death. It was a place where snakes could slither and bogs could suck the shoe right off your foot. And it was a place, she thought, that went bright and beautiful with the twinkling of fireflies, where wildflowers thrived in the shade and the stingy light. Where an eagle could soar like a king. There was no beauty without risk. No life without it. – Nora Roberts • Skins tanned to the consistency of well-traveled alligator suitcases. – Russell Baker • So he left the lagoon and entered the jungle again, within a few days was completely lost, following the lagoons southward through the increasing rain and heat, attacked by alligators and giant bats, a second Adam searching for the forgotten paradises of the reborn Sun. – J. G. Ballard • That dreadful alligator attack in Orlando would never have happened if Disney had put up real warning signs, like other Florida resorts do. But wild alligators don’t fit the Disney image, so they were no proper warnings, and a child died for no reason. – Carl Hiaasen • The government competes in the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck. – Mike Pence • The Marquis sighed. “I thought it was just a legend,” he said. “Like the alligators in the sewers of New York City.” Old Bailey nodded, sagely: “What, the big white buggers? They’re down there. I had a friend lost a head to one of them.” A moment of silence. Old Naeiley handed the statue back to the Marquis. Then he raised his hand, and snapped it, like a crocodile hand, at the Carabas. “It was OK,” gurned Old Bailey with a grin that was most terrible to behold. “He had another. – Neil Gaiman • The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot’s turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm’s blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence. – Annie Dillard • There’s a lot of time sitting in movies, so you can put alligators in people’s trailers in your spare time. So it [making a film] moves slower, which in some ways is great, because you can live with a scene and invest in it a lot. And in some ways it’s hard, because sometimes you can start to lose your energy a little bit, but both are fun. – Mary-Louise Parker • They will do more whether we do what we’re doing or whether we don’t do what we’re doing. And the idea that you could appease them [terrorists] by stopping doing what we’re doing or some implication that by doing what we’re doing we’re inciting them to attack us is just utter nonsense. It’s just – it’s kind of like feeding an alligator, hoping it eats you last. – Donald Rumsfeld • Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody! – Will Cuppy • Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator! – Hunter S. Thompson • Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of white chalk. “I have kola,” he announced when he sat down, and passed the disc over to his guest. “Thank you. He who brings kola brings life. But I think you ought to break it,” replied Okoye passing back the disc. “No, it is for you, I think,” and they argued like this for a few moments before Unoka accepted the honor of breaking the kola. Okoye, meanwhile, took the lump of chalk, drew some lines on the floor, and then painted his big toe. – Chinua Achebe • Well, Im wrestling alligators. – Claire McCaskill • What is a turducken? An exclusive culinary creation available by special order from some little Cajun town down south. Entirely deboned, a turducken consists of a turkey, stuffed with duck, stuffed with a chicken, like an edible Russian nesting doll. Some were stuffed with alligator, crap, shrimp; my favorite was the traditional cornbread variety. – S.A. Bodeen • When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait, tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp. – Jerry Reed • When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator. – Benicio Del Toro • When I was young, I had a big problem with warts. It started with one on the side of my little finger. A year later, I had it on all my fingers. My hands looked like the hands of an alligator. So I fist bumped people instead of shaking hands for a few years. – Berhan Ahmed • When we were shooting in Shreveport, me and a couple of friends went down to Lafayette, because they had a big Zydeco music festival down there. We spent two days dancing to Zydeco music, eating fried alligator… It was one of the craziest festivals I’ve ever been to in my life, but I loved it. – Alexander Skarsgard • Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own. – Terry Brooks • Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators. – Richard Miller • You know you’re old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you’re barefoot. – Phyllis Diller • You’ve got forever; and somehow you can’t do much with it. You’ve got forever; and it’s a mile wide and an inch deep and full of alligators. – Jim Thompson

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