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shinygoku · 3 years

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James for the character ask

Ahh, the ✨Splendid Engine✨ himself!

First impression

...Red Thomas? :v

Impression now

Honestly, James may be one of the more interesting characters if you really get in close and examine him and his dynamics with the other characters. And maybe this is me having drawn the wrong conclusion, but my own reading into him has me find him actually rather misunderstood, in and out of universe. You've heard of The Sad Story of Henry? You better be ready for the Tragic Tale of James!

So, at a basic, surface level look, James is The Vain One. He's the only Red [Standard Gauge] Engine on the Island (somehow??) and won't let anyone forget about it. He obsesses over the condition and colour of his coat. He resents having to pull trucks, which are often dirty and full of contents that would make him dirtier still. He's astonishingly rude to anyone near him who isn't sufficiently clean but he'll also get jealous of someone who has fresher paint than him.

What if I told you that his Shiny Colouration to the NWR livery is but a small part of the larger picture?

Peering closer, and it's more overt in the books than the show, but of the 7 deadly sins, he's arguably less Prideful (than say, Gordon) and instead, more Wrath?

James has one [red] hot temper, it doesn't take much to set him off and he simmers in resentment for a long time afterwards. While he started it, his tiff with Toby resulted in a completely avoidable headlong crash into the Tar Tankers, all because he was too busy fuming to pay attention to his job. What got him so mad in the first place there? The Bootlace Incident.

Poor James! Much like Henry and the Tunnel, the Bootlaces is one thing that continues to hound him even long after the event, and it seems a bit unfair for that card to get played so much, as he was a total noob at the time with Coaches, but when that button is pressed we always see his angry face.

Even without that particular old saw, he is testy about a lot of things. The aforementioned "DIRTY trucks in DIRTY sidings!" comes to mind. He’s (predicted by the Fat Controller himself!) in a bad mood when he suddenly has to pick up Donald’s work after the latter crashed into the signal box. Sometimes he just snaps when the others are talking (to be fair, often Griping) amongst themselves.

Let's rewind all the way back to James' first day on Sodor. He's in his black livery and has wooden brake blocks. Predictably, these don't last and it only takes some trucks shoving him down the hill for them to burn up and him to spill out in a field. Thomas comes by to save him, but that's still one helluva bumpy start to your new home! After that incident, The Fat Controller offers him a new paint colour and allows him to have Red, completely unique (even moreso if you're in a canon where Henry was blue at the time, meaning James isn't just the only one with Red, but the only one to not follow the Blue uniform).

There's still a bit more!

So, he won't shut up about his distinctive paint? He wants to be seen by passengers and have a nice time pulling coaches? He's the smallest of the "Big 3" Tender Engines? He's a one-off deviation from his class with the extended front end, but the difference wasn't significant so none of the others got the same treatment? He’s anxious the whole day after unintentionally wheeshing steam on FC1 (which is sadly not baseless!)?

James, to me, is a character with a pretty huge Inferiority Complex, and his various posturing and claims that he's the best are him trying very hard to believe it.

Unfortunately, he's so obnoxious about the faking it, generally the others ignore what may be lying beneath.

One last bit here! His attitude definitely declined after he buddied up with Gordon and sometimes pulls the Express, so Big G was something of a toxic (but oblivious) influence.

Favourite moment

His overcoming the trucks, complete with a fab remix of his already dope theme! After his disaster of a first day where trucks ran him off the rails, and then his very bumpy few days after being painted with the Coach Break Fluid Pipe and the Steam and being very unfairly punished, he gets to show some of his worth and ability!

He also gets a number of very funny lines in exchanges which are a bit butchered when I put them up here lol, like “Hello, Gordon! Is it tomorrow~? [...] Must have been Instinct!” or (Percy, taking a metaphor literally: The sky’s empty...) “Like your smokebox, Percy!”

Idea for a story

I would Enjoy something where, as is often the case with these asks, someone examines subjects I’ve been rambling about lol. So yeah, a character who isn’t fooled by his dazzling red coat and sees who he is inside, and the possibilities that spring from that would be real neat!

I also have a more silly [albeit Current Events based] idea which is more shallow, but here it is anyway:

In the time(s) of a pandemic (remember Spanish flu? James would), Engines who pull passenger coaches would be given decorative engine size face masks to show a good example to the customers. Some of them feel Rather Silly but regular passenger trains like Thomas on his branch line, and Mr Express Gordon don’t really get to refuse. They just quietly roll their eyes as their lack of ears or a back of their smokeboxes mean the cloth has to be physically taped to the sides of their head and try to maintain their dignity. 😷

Suddenly, James is uncharacteristically eager to pull goods trains, as these engines are much further away from the passengers and visitors to the railway, and thus don’t need to wear them lol

Unpopular opinion

Not sure how unpopular it is, but I really like Angelis’ Liverpool voice coming through much more strongly for James. His read on “Why are you always complaining all the time??” is just excellent, and other Scouse Moments just sound Right to me. Also gotta mention Ringo’s take on James’ sarcastic, very angry HAR HAR in one of the weird Toby episodes, and thanks to ytp splicing that with the word Harbour I think of it a lot haha

Maybe his voice should be more Yorkshire or Lancaster, as that’s where he was made? But (also applies to Thomas) I vibe with Liverpudlian James.

Favourite relationship

It’s actually a bit hard to think of a particular engine, James tends to get grouped with Gordon and Henry (The Big Engines, The Jerk Trio, etc) but as I’ve said, I think him palling up with Gordon was actually pretty bad for James in hindsight. For merch and prolly in the CGI eps, he’s grouped with Thomas and Percy, because Primary Colours I think (though the same colours as Gordon and Henry offered!) but More Marketable. But I dunno, does James really fit in with either group that well?

I think what James needs is less to hang out in the fringe of a clique, and to instead have a real, frank, genuine connection with someone. Then maybe he can make his friendships with the others a bit healthier, too. I just can’t think of any cast members who fill that role at the mo... 🤔

Favourite headcanon

As he is a Mixed Traffic Engine, he’s a Jack of All Tasks (he just prefers some to others!), also under the issues he has, he’s absolutely trying to be a good engine and friend, he just needs some guidance and tons of patience to get there.

#this is ttte #ttte talk #TTTE James #TTTE #James the Red Engine #Thomas the Tank Engine #this is after cutting a fair bit out of the 2nd section and it's still ruddy long! lol

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liliplayschoices · 4 years

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Do you have any headcanons for your ILITW MC?

My giiiiiiiirl 😍

I have a ton of headcanons for her ^^ most of them also include Andy though I gotta be honest so he might pop up a lot here 😂 also this is absolutely ramble-y because I just dumped all my thoughts here so... sorry about that lmao (also im on mobile so I can't use a read more, sorry xD)

Okay so I know in the events of the book, we don't see her interacting with other people at school but I think these weeks aren't representative of what her life looks like normally. I see her as an introvert, she won't enjoy big parties often or anything but she still has a really amiable nature so people tend to be friends with her easily.

I think Devon is a pretty artistic girl. She loves to read fantasy and sci fi, she loves to cosplay, maybe she's a theater kid, too. I think she draws too, but I don't know what kind of art she prefers (as in, digital, street art, painting,.... I don't know haha)

When the story starts she's had a crush on Andy for a little while now. Nothing major, mind you, but yeah, teenage crush, blushing when she sees him, that kinda stuff, you know ^^ so when they start hanging out again it comes naturally between them pretty fast.

When Andy is in the hospital after the events of the book (and after that when he's stuck at home until he gets better), she comes to hang out with him a lot. More often than not, Tom is there too, so the two of them become pretty close, they realize they have a lot in common so they hang out at school too and become close friends (yes I am ignoring the ILB canon that Tom doesn't know her well. I don't care.)

Anyway so the three of them play a toooon of video games during that time which leads to a tradition of game night for the three of them and it gets pretty intense, cause Andy gets super competitive 😂 ( @the-unconquered-queen and I talked about game night a few times and now I can't let go of this HC ^^)

And of course there are also a lot of times when Tom isn't there, so they basically have little date nights together, watching movies and shows. Devon brings junk food to him when he's in the hospital (the nurses know but they let it happen lmao) and she curls up on his bed and they watch movies on her laptop (cause the hospital tv never has anything interesting) and it's soooo cute cause they didnt really... get official at that point you know, but then they just start dating and falling in love and all 😍

Anywayyyyy back to Devon. So I think she never truly heals from what happened. She always felt like Jane's death was her fault, and even if rationally she knows that what Noah did isn't her fault, she can't help but feel guilty over it. So that's why she starts going into the woods again.

I think she never really held Noah responsible for what happened, because of her own guilt. Like, objectively she knows what he did was wrong but she also feels like it's her fault if Jane is dead so that's why she forgives him for his actions pretty quickly

She starts doing a lot of research into how she could help him, and the Power in general. She doesn't go to college after high school, but she starts working at the local library pretty soon and gets a little obsessed. After a while, she does starts college (to study graphic design), but she doesn't seem to be able to move on from Noah and wanting to free him. She doesn't focus much on studies because she can't get rid of her guilt and obsession to make things right.

She ultimately tells the rest of the group and it does not go well. Especially with Andy. They've been dating for years at this point but this is the biggest fight they ever have. I think Andy is the kind of guy who holds a grudge so he would still be pissed at Noah, and there's the added layer of him feeling like Devon didnt trust him and put herself in danger needlessly and he's scared that he might have lost her without knowing it. They do work it out after a while because ultimately they love each other enough to work through it but yeah, that happens and it's a pretty big fight.

I feel like most of the rest of the group are mad but they come around to helping her at some point. Ava is immediately jumping at the chance to help Devon with all the supernatural research and stuff.

Dan has another approach. He can see that what Devon does is pretty unhealthy because of how she's clinging to the past, so he tries to help her work through her guilt and her trauma. It does help, and she becomes less obsessed after a while (she's still hell-bent on freeing Noah's spirit but she also starts moving on in other aspects of her life, paying attention in class, thinking about the future,...)

Oh total change of subject lmao but you know how Andy is in college on a basketball scholarship? Yeah so I think Andy would be a total frat bro 😂 like, he'd go to frat parties and do keg stands and stupid harmless dares and stuff. You know the type of guy. So Devon goes to frat parties because she knows he loves it despite it not reslly being her scene ^^ but she stills ends up having fun and does make friends with Andy's friends too

Also she gets into the habit of stealing and wearing his basketball jacket ( I got @kingkangs on board with this one and i will get the whole fandom to accept Devon wearing Andy's basketball jacket) and he says he minds, but... you know... He really doesn't ;)

To be honest, I feel like Devon would never truly be able to move on while Noah was still trapped, she would still feel obligated to help him. So I imagine that after a long time, they do manage to free his spirit (I don't know how okay I'm not writing IL3 😂 let's just say they do!)

So after that, she starts truly thinking of the future. She starts looking for a long-term job, Andy and her move in together after college.

They still have game nights with Tom on the regular (Harper, my ILB MC, joins them cause her and Tom are dating ^^) and Andy is still super competitive cause that hasn't changed 😂

Devon still loves cosplay so she convinces Andy to go to conventions with her and he's like "....fine I'll do it" begrudgingly but once he's there he's having a blast 😂

Anyway I think that's pretty much it for now! I rambled a lot, sorry... But you did ask! That was super fun so thank youu for your ask!!!

#playchoices #it lives in the woods #andy kang x mc #devon ilitw #feel free to send me other asks about anything really!!#these are obviously open to change if i have other ideas at some point ^^#also i didn't play the extra scene at the end of ilb #specifically cause i didnt want to get excited for a book 3 we wont get #so that might not be on par with thst part of canon

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gaiapaia · 3 years

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There’s Something About Elisa

Let’s just ignore the fact that Elisa once dated one of the leads in There’s Something About Mary. Thank you.

With a special Valentine’s Day rendition of Kermit and Friends on deck for Sunday, I thought it would be fun to look at all the love interests Elisa has had since Kermit and Friends began.

The very first episode of Kermit and Friends took place on February 19, 2015. At the time, Elisa was in a high-profile relationship with Benjy Bronk, a writer and personality on The Howard Stern Show. Benjy and Elisa’s relationship was a topic point on THSS for a few years by this time. Benjy worshipped the ground Elisa walked on when they first met, but after years of dating and living together, the relationship had grown a little tired for them both.

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So once Kermit and Friends started, Elisa began to receive lots of interest from many guys.

First, there was Luke Wilson. No, not the movie star Luke Wilson, but this Luke Wilson...

Luke hid his face with a fake beard, hid his identity, but that didn’t keep him from showering Elisa with love and tons of gifts. From over a dozen Kermit puppets, to broadcasting equipment such as lights and mics... Luke spent a pretty penny to please Elisa.

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However, it didn’t take long for Luke to grow sour. Why? Well, it’s hard to say... he ghosted her out of the blue. And when he popped up sporadically in the future, he had nothing but nasty things to say about Elisa.

Regardless, this did not deter Elisa in the slightest. She caught the eye of Gonzo Shitcock, a regular caller of The Howard Stern Show who was known for his tumultuous friendship with Eric the Actor.

Gonzo was another one who sent gifts to Elisa and made her believe he loved her.

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This time for Elisa, the feelings were mutual. She fell just as hard for Gonzo as she thought Gonzo fell for her. This led to Gonzo making a trip to New York and meeting Elisa for a couple of romantic nights together.

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What happened after Gonzo left... he lost interest, I guess. Elisa was willing to move to Sacramento for him, but he wanted no part of it. Did he play Elisa? Did he just want to have sex and nothing more? Was he afraid he couldn’t afford to move Elisa in with him? We never got an explanation from Gonzo, and perhaps never will.

One night Elisa caught Gonzo flirting with another woman on a Kermit and Friends aftershow, and she was officially done with him. Elisa even tried to “trade” Gonzo to the woman he was flirting with in exchange for a guy who was actively trying to hook up with that woman by the name of Lame. Yes, that’s right, his name was Lame. Lame would go on to disappear after that.

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Not long after the Gonzo saga, Elisa would accept a date from a nice man by the name of Kenny. Kenny was very interested in Elisa and even brought her a bottle of her favorite wine. Unfortunately, the date did not go so well.

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Then there was Marc. Marc grew a strong infatuation for Elisa, very strong. And Elisa loved Marc back. She loved how sweet and funny he was. They met on a couple of occasions and really hit it off.

Marc’s feelings for Elisa went past friendship. He wanted her to be his girlfriend, while Elisa wanted to just be friends. She tried her best to handle the situation as delicately as possible, but unfortunately other evil forces were at play from those KAF aftershows I mentioned above. They got in Marc’s ear and sabotaged he and Elisa’s friendship. It’s a very sad story.

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At this point, Elisa and Benjy decided to try to work things out. They moved back in together, and Elisa would resume doing Kermit and Friends. However, this did not discourage men from trying to steal Elisa away.

In one case, there was a guy by the name of Jimmy Linguini, who made an impact on the show by flashing during his first ever appearance.

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Elisa actually took a liking to Jimmy. She made him co-host and supposedly was flirting behind the scenes with him. Benjy was not happy about this and once threatened to throw himself off a bridge if Elisa kept talking to Jimmy.

Benjy had nothing to worry about though because Jimmy’s true colors would come out not long after that and Elisa would want no part of someone so heinous like Jimmy.

From this point on, Elisa would no longer show interest in anyone on the show. She had her suitors though, mostly older gentleman. There’s one guy I won’t mention who really fell hard for Elisa. He was married and bought her gifts and would send her messages about how he dreamed of her. This led to a very toxic relationship between the two, with them constantly butting heads, albeit in hilarious fashion.

Then along came Kleenex. Ah yes, good ol’ wonderful Kleenex. He was another married, older stud who fell in love instantly with Elisa. He tried his best to charm Elisa’s pants off with total adoration and even a “Gold Digger” sweater.

Elisa however was only interested in being friends with Kleenex. This drove him nuts, which in turn gave great content to Kermit and Friends.

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It’s been over 5 years since Kleenex and Elisa first met. If you ask Kleenex about Elisa right now, you’ll get different answers on different days. However, he still admits to his strong obsession over her.

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Many more from Kermit and Friends would fall in love with Elisa. Most kept it hidden, but it was easy to spot whenever they would lash out at her over the smallest of things. There’s never any reason to get so passionately angry at Elisa, so anytime someone does, I just assume they must be in love with her. Women included.

The original Kermit and Friends ended in April 2016. Elisa and Benjy were still in a committed relationship, living together in New York. Elisa started taking writing courses and got some cool articles published nationwide. By the end of the year, however, her and Benjy’s relationship was more miserable than ever and Elisa accepted a reality TV role that would move her to Los Angeles in January 2017.

For the most part, Elisa has kept her dating life private since moving to LA, so I won’t mention anything I know about it with the exception of one, Kermit and Friends newcomer Eric Riggs.

Elisa met Eric while working in an office in Los Angeles. Eric became smitten with Elisa and started giving her gifts and even proposed to her! Eric though had to leave LA for Seattle only a few months after he first met Elisa (Elisa would then set up a meeting between Eric and Kleenex where they would spend hours discussing their love for her).

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Elisa brought back Kermit and Friends on November 2, 2020 and Eric let people know right away how he feels about Elisa.

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Eventually, Eric would come to grips that Elisa isn’t meant for him.

Not long after the revival of KAF, Elisa would meet a pink Octopus by the name of Alexander Octopus Cortez. She liked him right off the bat.

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Elisa would go on to write a song for him and profess her crush live on the show.

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Unfortunately, “AOC” turned out to be a complete troll/scumbag that spews nothing but lies and hate. He turned on Elisa a day after they facetimed the night before, saying he was mad she allowed “Antifa” members on Kermit and Friends. AOC would then pretend to have a girlfriend and use her as an excuse as to why he left. Since no one bought it, he just now spends his time obsessively hating Elisa, mad that he could have had her but he was too insecure to pull the trigger because he’s most likely just as ugly on the outside as he is on the inside.

But the crazy doesn’t stop with that pink Octopus. Nope. It would only get crazier...

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Yep, as covered on the blog this week, famous actor Andy Dick has proposed to Elisa. What makes this situation ultra unique is the fact that the producer who originally booked Andy to be on the show, William Quigley, is ALSO in love with Elisa! Quig hasn’t proposed officially but he has expressed his interest in marrying Elisa.

To add even an extra crazy layer to it.... Barry Boss, a porn star with a surgically enhanced penis who's spent the last 6 months in an insane asylum is also pining after Elisa! He was released just this week, and has already sent Elisa penis pictures and offered her to move in with him in Miami. He will be making his on-screen Kermit and Friends revival debut this Sunday! Will he steal Elisa away from Andy?!

So how nuts is this? It’s Elisa Jordana, it’s Kermit and Friends. It’s a real life There’s Something About Mary unfolding before our very eyes. Your guess is as good as mine as far as what can happen next. Tune in every Sunday at 11:00AM PST. to watch it live at https://youtube.com/elisajordana.

This Sunday’s show, Valentine’s Day, is definitely one you do not want to miss.

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houseofvans · 5 years

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SKETCHY BEHAVIORS | INTERVIEW WITH LAUREN YS

From large scale murals to multi-layered works on canvas, LA based artist Lauren YS’s art captures everything from the female experience, addressing topics like sexuality, death, aliens, monsters, and the occult. Her works are complex much like her own experiences, so we’re super stoked to find out more about what drives her, who and what inspires her, and what challenges and advice she has for our readers in this awesome Sketchy Behaviors interview..

Take the leap!

Photographs courtesy of the artist.

Introduce yourself. Hey! I’m Lauren YS - Hmm, something you might not know … I used to play ice hockey and my favorite candy are Peach O’s. I am a really good listener, but that also means I hate being interrupted. I dream, often, about being underwater.

Tell folks a little about your artwork and what do you love to make works about? I make work about the female experience, sexuality, identity, space, aliens, heritage, death, monsters, nature, emotions, natural phenomena, the occult and whatever else I might be obsessing about. I like slimy creatures, kitsch, psychedelia, sex and Halloween, and mixing repulsion with attraction. I want the viewer to feel unsettled as much as engaged. I make things in an effort to try to process the beautiful shit rocket that is the world around me.

When did art become something you were aware you could do for a living or as a career you wanted to pursue? I have always been making art, but I never thought it was possible to support oneself as an artist: It seemed really out of reach or surreal. It wasn’t until I had already been fully freelance for a year before I realized I was actually doing it. I think it’s just something that comes out of necessity, it’s like – if I want to keep making art as much as possible at the rate I am living, then damn, I’m going to learn how to make money off of it.

What’s a typical studio day for you like? I tend to work nocturnally. I’ll paint through the night and sleep through the day and watch horror movies, listen to podcasts about art, serial killers and cults, and eat anywhere from 1-2 sacks of tangerines every day. I like to really plow through paintings as well, it’s hard for me to stop working on something once I start. After about three weeks in the studio like this, your mind starts to wander off into deep strange places, and that’s when the really good stuff comes out.

What’s your studio or creative space like? What do you keep around to constantly motivate or inspire you? I have always worked best in a bit of “artistic chaos”–I like to fill my space with odds and ends, knick-knacks, items from my travels, talismans. I believe in the power of objects. I love my lava lamp and need to buy seven more. I also have this drawing I made of an Asian grandma screaming “DRAW, MOTHERFUCKER” which I plan to make into a screen print and give to all my artist friends.

When working on a body of paintings and works for a show, what is your process like? How long does it typically take you to complete a painting from start to finish? Depending on the size of the gallery, it can take anywhere from 2-6-10 months to create a show, given that it is often punctuated by mural tours and big projects to pay the bills. I like to work on lots of pieces at the same time, so generally it’ll take a few days to a week or two to finish a piece. I am trying to get better at reworking pieces rather than just pushing through them one by one. Workflow is still sorting itself out. I also make a ton of pieces that end up being nixed from the final show. I am very prolific but also very psychotic.

Not only do you work on canvas, but you are also known for some of your amazing murals! When did you start going from painting on a regular scale to large scale works? What’s your process like for mapping out these large works? Well shucks, thank you! I started painting murals around 2013, which was a sort of natural transition because I wanted to work bigger and bigger, I wanted to travel and be in the sun and use giant machines to make my art. I actually started learning color from using spray paint. I freehand everything because I like to feel independent of projectors or machines, especially if I’m in a foreign country or don’t have time or resources.

It makes me feel empowered to be able to make big things on my own. Maybe that comes from growing up under the common experience girls have, especially asian girls, where you’re expected to be small and quiet and obedient. I have always worked in active aggression against that stereotype.

Is there a medium you’d love to get your hands on, but yet to have the chance too? And what are your go-to materials? I’d really love to learn how to use an airbrush, a la Sorayama. Outside of 2D I am dying to get back into stop motion animation. My favorite brand of spray paint is Montana Black (high pressure forever!), and I use a wide variety of acrylics and gouache in my paintings, specifically the Holbein gouaches from Japan.

What do you love about where you live, and what is the art community like in your area? I never thought I’d move to LA, but I’ve been really enjoying it here. I’m a communal living person (been in and out of communities for about 9 years) and I am lucky to have found somewhere that fits with my work ethic (intense) and social vibe (weird). I like to be able to work alone while still having people bustling around and making things all the time. It helps me to feel like I’m not dead or a total solipsist.

I’ve also found that the artists in LA–especially the female artists–have proven to be really kind, generous and welcoming. There’s a lot of room for weirdos here; it might take a while to find them, but they’re here. We also have a one-eyed cat, did I mention that?

Who are some artists you’re inspired by and have influenced you throughout the years? I’m a big fan of dark/psychedelic/erotic artists like Keiichi Tanaami, Suehiro Maruo, Sorayama and the whole Ero Guro movement. I also love Goya’s dark paintings and the sculpture work of Bernini. Some contemporary artists I’ve been into lately are Christian Rex Van Minnen, David Altmejd, Robin Francesca Williams and the fabric sculptures of Do Ho-Suh. Jamie Hewlett, Swoon, Andrew Hem, Aryz. I find that my taste changes constantly and I am always thirsty for different influences.

What’s been the most challenging part of your art career? What’s been the most rewarding? What do you do to keep the balance? Something really challenging has been learning how to trust myself while growing in the industry and balancing business, work and travel. It’s a really solid test: moving to a new city, providing for yourself, going on tour, shifting from place to place, managing gallery work and mural work, all while protecting and nurturing your own ambition and positivity, and not feed into the shitstorm of capitalism and social media past what is required of you.

The muralist life is not for the faint of heart. I would hardly say that I keep any type of “balance”–art is my life and there isn’t much room for anything else, and that’s how I like it. It is the most rewarding thing to look around and feel like you’ve created something new and good and powerful, all on your own terms. It is similarly rewarding to feel the need to level up - I enjoy feeling stressed arguably more than I enjoy feeling accomplished.

What would your dream collaboration be? What do you enjoy most about collaborations with other artists or clients? I would love to do something with Takashi Murakami and/or his gallery (Kaikai Kiki Gallery). There’s also this amazing Australian animator named Felix Colgrave whose work I’ve been obsessed with lately, I’d love to find a way to make an animated short with him! I love collaborating - especially on mural work - because it’s such a cool experience to be able to intermingle your visual world with someone else’s. Working with ONEQ in Hawaii this year was really great, she had so many suggestions and ideas from out of left field that made me rethink my own work as well. It also forces you to relinquish some control on the way you work, and reflect on the basic joys of making shit in the first place.

If you could paint a portrait of anyone living or dead, who would you choose and why? I really want to do a tripped out portrait of Yayoi Kusama or Bjork or maybe Steve Buscemi—all heroes of mine.

What’s your advice to folks who see what you do and want to pursue art as a career? I would say, go at it as hard as you possibly can! Make sure you really enjoy doing it! Not all parts of painting murals are glamorous (actually, few are) and it’s important to truly love every part of it if you’re going to commit your life to it.

This means: hustling walls, handling machinery, travel, people, logistics, finding somewhere to pee, dealing with unexpected bullshit, not complaining, being comfortable handling yourself in dangerous situations, being independent and resourceful, etc. I have reservations about artists who genuinely don’t seem to enjoy all the elements of mural painting going too deep into it. But if it’s something you love, there’s nothing better.

What are your FAVORITE Vans? I’ve been rocking the classic authentic Vans in black/burgundy as paint shoes for years now. But I also love the Sk8-Hi boys in burgundy… I never wear them because I’m too scared to get paint on them, haha!

What other artists would you love to see interviewed for Sketchy Behaviors? I’m currently really into Andrea Wan, Louise Zhang and Caratoes. It would also be really cool if you covered a GNC or trans artist, like Nomi Chi or Laughing Loone!

What’s next for you that you can share? My first book is coming out this year with Von Zos, and I’m also going to be designing a tarot deck with them. April is my first mural tour in several months; I’ll be hopping from Australia - Guam - Peru, and then moving around South America for a while, trying to practice my spanish. After that, I’ll be starting work on my next big show, scheduled for a city in Asia, which I’m really, really excited about - keep an eye out!

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elsajeni · 4 years

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Chocolate Box 2020 Letter

Dear Chocolatier: thank you for dropping by! I know I will enjoy anything you write for me, but if you’d like a little more detail on my preferences, here it is. First all the general stuff, which is all in my sign-up, but for the sake of having everything in one place:

Likes: bantering and bickering; moments of humor even in dark situations; pining; misunderstandings that turn out all right in the end; hurt/comfort; rescue missions; casual relationships; “undercover as a couple” tropes; “actually a couple, undercover as something else” tropes.

Sex & Kink Likes, if you go in that direction: light bondage; lots of talking during sex, both sweet and dirty; laughing during sex; inappropriate use of magic/Force powers/miracles; “foreplay” activities as the main event; overstimulation; orgasm denial, orgasm control, forced orgasm; light D/s dynamics.

DNWs: rape/non-con unless specified; incest; explicit scenes with underage characters; detailed description of bodily fluids; mundane AUs (coffeeshop, high school etc.); A/B/O; lifestyle or outside-the-bedroom D/s; infidelity; pregnancy, miscarriage, or infertility; unrelentingly dark and grim stories (I like a glimmering of hope); unhappy endings in Good Omens fic specifically.

Onward! to the pairing-specific prompts!

Luke Skywalker/Wedge Antilles -- this is a long-time favorite pairing, and I would love pretty much anything about them! Given the Thrawn trilogy as a setting, I’m interested in the pressures that their respective positions and commitments put on a relationship, and especially the complications of maintaining a relationship with someone who’s always running off on incomprehensible Jedi business (Luke just... up and fuckin’ vanishing off of Hoth is a pivotal moment in how I tend to see their relationship) -- whether they’re trying to make a committed relationship work, or deciding that a casual whenever-we’re-on-the-same-planet thing is the best they can manage, or what. How do you deal with loving someone when circumstances never seem to let you make him your first priority, or you his? (If it comes up, I strongly prefer Wedge’s old EU/Legends backstory.)

Mara Jade/Luke Skywalker -- another long-time favorite! Another pairing where I would like basically anything you give me! I’m especially interested in the innate connection between them that exists before they even meet, and how that shapes their relationship. I am, of course, very into their eventual true love and the canonical slow build into it; that said, I’m also super into the idea that they had the occasional purely-chemistry-driven goddammit-I-don’t-even-like-you hookup long before that. (If you’re into soulmate AUs, this is also the very rare pairing where I’m into soulmate AUs, not least because of how completely furious Mara would be about it.)

Mara Jade/Darth Vader -- I’m interested in Mara’s youth in the Emperor’s court, and the sort of... just-under-the-surface yawning horror that we know is there, but that doesn’t get dug into much in the EU. Give me something with her and Vader encountering each other -- as rivals for Palpatine’s attention, as tentative allies in court intrigue, as student and tutor? This could go in a lot of directions, from something as relatively innocent as a kid’s crush on the one person she thinks understands her to something as dark as the Emperor ordering one of them to the other one’s bedroom; whatever way you go with it, I do want you to treat the power dynamics and age dynamics here seriously, and lean into the darkness it suggests -- no one here is having a nice time or doing something they’ll be really happy to look back on.

(This is my one sort-of-exception to the “no rape/non-con” clause; it’s a pairing that lends itself to questionable or compromised consent, and I’m into that. The line between “dubcon” and “non-con” is blurry, but as much as possible, I’d like you to stay on the dubcon side of it -- deceit, coercion, and uncomfortable power imbalances, yes; violence, physical or Force-based force, or explicit non-consent that’s ignored, no. This is NOT an exception to the “no explicit scenes with underage characters” clause; if you write this with Mara as a teen, please keep anything explicitly sexual off-screen.)

Garik "Face" Loran/Ton Phanan -- listen, this is a long shot and I know it, but: GHOSTS. Give me Ton still hanging around after death -- where else does he have to go, after all? Haunting all the Wraiths, or just Face, or trying to figure out how he can go haunt some Imperials and ruin their day. Making Face miserable, or still making him laugh (and is he real, or is this some kind of coping mechanism, and does Face want to find out which?), or not seeming to know he’s dead. Just… Ghost Ton. Pls. (If ghosts aren’t for you, I’d also be very happy with them getting into shenanigans and having lots of pleasant casual sex during happier days!)

Wedge Antilles/Wes Janson -- I’m just looking for more Wraith Squadron/Starfighters of Adumar-style shenanigans here, really. Maybe some silly undercover-as-a-couple type stuff, or just some pure stress-relief casual fun? Alternately, this is a pairing that lends itself to hurt/comfort; both of these guys have more than enough canonical close calls, let’s see the aftermath of one of them. If you’re feeling ambitious, you could fix Isard’s Revenge for me by writing their post-Distna reunion, after they’ve both believed each other to be dead for weeks.

Son of Havoc/Ivelisse Velez/Angelico -- I just love these beautiful dysfunctional dipshits and I want them to love each other! I’m into this as a casual stress-relief thing among teammates that accidentally turns less casual; I would love some hurt/comfort, which I feel like wrestling fic is basically made for, and I have a special love for “oh no, *I’m* the one who hurt you” h/c in particular, which I feel like these three squabbling idiots are basically made for. My general taste in Lucha Underground fic is “turn the supernatural nonsense up to 11,” so go nuts with the “persecuted by the literal goddess of death” business; I have a particular weakness for regular mortal Ivelisse and Havoc getting dragged into supernatural nonsense because their boyfriend is a supernatural creature with no sense of self-preservation.

Aziraphale/Crowley -- hi, yes, like everyone else on tumblr I am now a full-time Good Omens obsessive. This is another pairing that I like pretty much any way you take it -- six thousand years of angsty pining and “no actually they’ve been fucking and/or married since Eden” and anything in between all equally welcome. I love the historical scenes that we get in the TV show, and would be delighted with anything looking at what they’ve been up to throughout the rest of history (ooh, how about a Robin Hood interlude?); I love rescue missions and hurt/comfort of any kind; I have a terrible weakness for the delayed-action total fucking breakdown that Crowley is clearly going to have post-Armageddon; I’m down for them not being quite as safe as they thought they were post-Armageddon, and having to fend off one last attack from Heaven or Hell or both. I love the warm soft side of how ludicrously much they love each other, and also the absolutely crucial part of their dynamic that is “I can’t believe I have somehow been stuck, for six THOUSAND YEARS, hanging around with the SINGLE MOST ANNOYING PERSON IN THE UNIVERSE”. My one specific demand is: I don’t mind some angst on the way to my happy ending, the payoff is all the sweeter if you make me suffer for it a little, but this is the one pairing where I feel really really strongly that you gotta give me the happy ending, or at least leave them on track for it if they’re not quite there yet.

(A note: I requested Aziraphale/Crowley under both book and TV fandoms, and I’m lumping them together here because I honestly don’t care much about the distinction. I love the book, I loved the show, fics set in book canon, TV canon, or a sort of pick-and-choose hybrid canon are all equally fine with me!)

#exchange letters #chocolate box

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donnerpartyofone · 5 years

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21 Questions

Tagged by @getoutofmyhouse who had oddly similar answers to mine

Nickname: only the one I use here, that I gave myself--Claire Donner, which has to do with my famous love of cannibalism. Claire is my real first name, though.

Zodiac: I am so very cuspy. I was born at about a quarter to midnight on April 20, so I tend to relate to, and feel insulted by, the suppositions about Aries and Taurus equally. I’m one of those jerks who will tell you astrology is a bunch of hoo ha...and then drone on with my Many Esoteric Ideas about it, so I’ll just stop myself right here.

Height: 5’ nuthin is what I prefer to say...because saying I’m 5 and 3/4′ sounds a little like saying I’m 10 and a half years old.

Amount of sleep: It’s all fucked up. Until I got into my 30s I could, and would prefer to, sleep endlessly. Now I go to bed around 10 (depression), get up around 5 or 6 (being old), and for extra fun, I’ve developed this insomnia that often keeps me up from about 2am-5am. I try make the most of it by getting up, getting high, watching a movie or two, writing...basically just having a secret private day by myself. I’d really rather go back to just sleeping constantly though.

Last movie I saw: I saw GRETA in theaters tonight, which was ok. I guess I thought any Neil Jordan film would be headier than this, but watching Isabel Huppert just running around acting like an absolute maniac is a rare treat! My last video experience was RAW, which I put on to bother my husband right when we got home from the theater. (I think he liked it more than I originally did, to my surprise)

Last thing I googled: The correct spelling of Sylvia Likens’ last name. I’m obsessed with this type of crime where a group of people (usually a family and/or some of their friends and neighbors) fall into some kind of shared hysteria where they protractedly torture to death an acquaintance for no particular reason. Some times there’s an element of mystery as to why the victim didn’t leave while they were still able to, which suggests to me that the murdered person was just as much a victim of the groupthink as the perpetrators. Other example victims include Suzanne Capper, Vera Jo Reigle, and I think to some degree Sophie Lionnet, James Bulger, and Junko Furuta. (Also a crime they briefly discuss in the book Lords of Chaos, where several people murder a friend in their trailer, but I can’t remember it specifically enough to look up the names--the other last thing i tried to google) I keep thinking there should be a psychiatric and/or legal term for this kind of crime, but I’ve never heard one, so let me know if you got one!

Favorite musician: I have trouble with questions that involve ranking anything, so I’ll just say that right now I’m listening to a lot of old White Zombie. I didn’t know anything about their origins as an East Village noise band, and I’m fascinated by the stories about how apocalyptically miserable it was to be in that group. I’m increasingly obsessed with people who work their asses off doing something they barely even enjoy, for what must be borderline spiritual reasons.

Song stuck in my head: Nothing right this second, for which I am very grateful. There’s something awful in my brain that causes me to wake up with some maddening, babyish tune stuck in my head more often than not. It is most frequently the Ten Little Indians nursery rhyme. This is literally killing me.

Other blogs: @anhed-nia, which started as a dumping ground for long posts about mental illness, and turned into almost only movie writing. at some point there was just so much movie shit that i started to feel awkward about posting anything personal there again. i also got @getoffyrass which is a group blog, and a repository for images that make great drawing references. everyone is encouraged to post their drawings, too, although it is seldom used. i still like having it around, for when i have time to draw. my “real” drawing blog is @neveratendermoment but i don’t draw often enough anymore...

Do I get asks: i used to get tons! i really enjoy them, even the trolls to some degree. i must have seemed like more of a regular tumblr geek girl back in the day. also tumblr has just changed a lot since then. my blog was definitely a casualty of Best Stuff First, i think my follower count stopped dead forever right when that happened, and now that practically every single fucking thing on this entire site is either fandom shit or *discourse*, i really have nothing to offer tumblr anymore, anyway.

Blogs following: 1,057.

Lucky numbers: 2! Also 5.

What I’m wearing: black wool long john pants from Chrome, and a white v neck teeshirt with the words BLACK MAYONNAISE on it in black Rocky Horror font. i live near the notoriously toxic Gowanus Canal, and “black mayonnaise” is the actual term used to describe what’s on the bottom of it, by the scientists who are trying to figure out what to do with it.

Dream trip: i am really excited by travel, it’s hard to pick. i’m hopefully making a dream trip soon though: my father’s mysterious finno-swedish family is from the åland islands, and my husband and i will be planning part of our honeymoon there, whenever that happens.

Dream Job: i think about this a lot, because the older i get, the more i object to the entire concept of having to work to live. i’m into the whole universal basic income thing. i’m at this point where i can barely stand to think about capitalism in any way--like i think about how the need for money is so mortally serious that there’s a lot of physical stuff in the world that only exists because someone was scared of starving, tons of useless products and packaging and factory byproducts and all kinds of fucking straight up garbage that was only invented due to the lethality of poorness. i would rather be left totally alone forever if possible. however, if i HAD to do something and i COULD do anything, it would probably be film criticism. this fantasy takes place in a world where people care so much about what i have to say that i can make a career, not only out of movie writing, but out of only writing about the specific movies i want to write about, referring to nothing other than my personal reactions.

Favorite food: i wish the answer weren’t just “cheese”, but it probably is. also mushrooms. anything cinnamon. i’m a pretty adventurous eater though. the most important thing for me is a variety of flavors and textures.

Languages: english. i took several years of italian in junior high-high school, and did nothing with it. i taught myself to read french pretty fluently, but i would fold right up if someone tried to speak to me. i learned a bunch of swedish on duolingo, shoulda kept it up. i’ll get back to it! i really regret never learning spanish though, so i’m easily torn on what to do with my time.

Play any instruments: clarinet in junior high/high school, also alto sax which i did not enjoy at all, a little guitar. i bought a used electric bass last year that i have really been enjoying, but i feel a lot of guilt around not playing enough. so much of it is just strength training. that’s probably what i like about it, though. also i got a lot of electronic music software and midi controllers and stuff...and then i realized that it could take me months to sort through the thousands of samples i have to program this stuff, and i only got so far into it before i started to get discouraged. i need to get back to it, it’s ridiculous to let that stuff lie around. this is a rare example of me wishing i knew someone local to play with, who could speed me along on how everything works.

Favorite songs: another one of these impossible questions! anybody who is even reading this can probably guess the answers from the handful of music posts i reblog over and over and over. the other night i got all hyperactive and forced my husband to drop everything and listen to “buffalo stance” by nene cherry, which i never ever get sick of. real top contenders for favorite song might be “Stand By the Jamms” by the klf, and this recording, which has gotten me through many difficult hours:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8k1HsF3EvY

https://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/sunray-sonic-boom-music-for-the-dreamachine-cd/STRAWB.003CD.html

Random fact: i’m sure i’m missing out on something really funny and cool, but for now it’s just the well-known fact that i read palms.

Describe yourself as aesthetic thing: man, how do i answer this without being totally pretentious? maybe nobody can! i’m coming up with something really hard to describe but it will be worth it. the other day i watched this insane, completely unnecessary movie about lorca and salvador dali (played by robert pattinson) as gay lovers. there’s a scene in it where lorca does that “pick a hand” thing to dali, and dali picks an empty hand. of course, they’re both poor students who couldn’t be buying any gifts, so they do this obnoxious pantomime where dali pretends lorca actually gave him something--but then it turns out that lorca really DOES have something. he opens his other hand and gives dali...SOMETHING. i don’t know what! they make such a big deal out of it, but what the hell? you see it for a second in this closeup, but it’s shot from like, behind and slightly underneath, and it is just unrecognizable. it’s sort of an orange blob? it’s probably meant to be a sculpture. but, i love the idea of doing the “pick a hand” thing to somebody, and the other person is just like...hey wait a minute, what the fuck even IS this??

it reminded me of one of the most amazing things anyone ever did at my school, bard college. this genius art student who I WISH I COULD NAME TO CREDIT HER did her senior project as this like...made up product. i saw them at the senior show, hanging off a spinner rack, like you’d see next to the register in the drug store. they were called Toilet Buddies. they were these plastic, brightly colored objects that looked like toys, but they didn’t have a familiar earthly shape, and because of the title, it was IMPOSSIBLE to imagine what to do with them. so, she gets the lipstick cam from the film department, and shoots this video of herself sneaking some Toilet Buddies into Walmart. then she takes them to the register and BUYS THEM--the baffled cashier looks for them for a while, and eventually just rings them up as a general grocery or something. then in part 2, the artist TAKES THEM BACK TO THE STORE WITH THE RECEIPT AND GETS A REFUND.

so anyway, i see myself as like a fake product--something that looks just familiar enough to exit, and that appears to have a designated purpose, but it’s just kind of cheap and foreign and it becomes nightmarish to try to imagine what to do with it.

I don’t know if anyone i know will want to do this, but i tag @negativepleasure @moviesludge @former-contender @dimestoreman @thefuzzydave @darkarfs @theoddsideofme @blueruins ...um, i don’t really know who would enjoy this. the ultimate would be @garbagenacht

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amusewithaview · 7 years

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The Dragon of Hell’s Kitchen

IN WHICH @shu-of-the-wind AND I ARE MUTUALLY TERRIBLE AND ENJOY TORTURING MATT MURDOCK MORE THAN IS SAFE, SANE, OR REMOTELY HEALTHY. Or, when two authors of our particular bent get together, Matt Murdock S U F F E R S.

amusewithaview

OMG YES

i think we've surpassed Dom!Matt and gotten into territorial Dragon!Matt who is hoarding both hell's kitchen and his significant other

shu-of-the-wind

HE /KNOWS/ AND AS SOON AS HE GETS HIS SUB ALONE HE JUST

HANDS EVERYWHERE

AND "WHO DO YOU BELONG TO"

yeah basically he's a dragon xD

This Is My Person Do Not Touch

amusewithaview

YES BASICALLY

matt would be like hi yes these are my people, do not touch and that is MINE, DO NOT TOUCH

shu-of-the-wind

DO! NOT! TOUCH!

DO YOU NOT SEE THE HICKEYS

amusewithaview

like there are a bunch of "MINE"s but there are levels of how fucked up you'll be if you stray over that line

shu-of-the-wind

YUUUUUUUUUUUUP

(consider now: weredragon Matt Murdock

Matt who is half dragon and can't shift and now all his instincts are driven right into This Is My City You Don't Touch)

amusewithaview

I AM CONSIDERING

the dragon of hell's kitchen, half myth and all monster

shu-of-the-wind

(....Matt who maybe has gleaming red scales up his spine from the small of his back to the middle and over one of his shoulders)

amusewithaview

do not go out after dark if you've got mischief on your mind

shu-of-the-wind

He can smell it and he'll scorch it right out of you

amusewithaview

i am grinning the evilest of grins right now

shu-of-the-wind

I'm glad

(also: the horns are real

He shifts when he goes out at night and those horns are /real/)

amusewithaview

i slightly want a crossover with my dragon!darcy fic where they meet and greet and it's very amiable because no overlapping in hoards yes, good

shu-of-the-wind

!!!!!!!!!! Yes omg xD

No overlapping in hoards, all is well

shu-of-the-wind

We will get along fantastically so long as you don't touch my hoard

amusewithaview

OH MAN, YOU KNOW WHO WOULD BE THE BONE OF CONTENTION BETWEEN THEM???

JENNIFER WALTERS

shu-of-the-wind

ABSOLUTELY

Darcy: ....mine.

amusewithaview

because she is bruce's cousin and, while not a scientist, very smart and also hulkified

BUUUUUUUT

shu-of-the-wind

Matt: I FOUND HER /FIRST/

amusewithaview

she's a lawyer and hangs in the kitchen

YES

shu-of-the-wind

Jenn: OH MY GOD BOTH OF YOU /FUCK OFF/ (jk she loves them but being a tug of war toy between two dragons is not fun)

amusewithaview

jen has to deal with two dragons snapping and snarling over her and also OBSESSIVELY TRYING TO CARE FOR HER WHEN SHE GOES ON RESEARCH BINGES HELP BRUCE STOP LAUGHING AT ME

shu-of-the-wind

Skdjdjfhsjbfjed

amusewithaview

bruce: *sips tea darcy has flown in for him from india*

shu-of-the-wind

Matt who will come in to her office with food and /glare/ in his way until she eats it

amusewithaview

tony: shhhhh, just let it happen

shu-of-the-wind

Darcy who turns up without warning and books of English common law she had flown in from Dover

amusewithaview

darcy makes care packages with tea and coffee other assorted nonsense and then makes the saddest most manipulative puppy eyes if they go unused and somehow she always KNOWS

shu-of-the-wind

YUUUUUUUUUUUUP

amusewithaview

matt HATES darcy's little sisters because they like taunting him and they visit REGULARLY

shu-of-the-wind

SNORTS

(she might have set them on him deliberately)

("Darcy says stop stealing from her hoard."

"Stop setting my paperwork on fire.

amusewithaview

darcy totally wouldn't do that, honest, she just pointed out that there was another dragon in the city and that it would be proper to pay respects oh and have you guys met foggy? YOU SHOULD MEET FOGGY

shu-of-the-wind

SNORTS

BLESS

Foggy who was the first member of Matt's hoard after Jack Murdock died and so he's just like

So used to being fuss over /constantly/

(Matt's hoard is in broad terms Hell's Kitchen but he takes special care of the people closest to him)

amusewithaview

foggy does not realize that darcy's sisters and/or mother are not eyeing him up as potential hoard but as potential MATE

shu-of-the-wind

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Matt /does/ and he doesn't have a clue how to feel about it

amusewithaview

on the one hand MINE and on the other hand he is... oddly proud of foggy? and also having foggy spawn around for the rest of forever sounds delightful?

MATT IS SO CONFLICTED

WHAT IS HIS LIFE

shu-of-the-wind

....goddamn now I want to do a dragon!Matt au with regular human Darcy whoops

amusewithaview

why do you want regular human darcy (not that i am objecting)

shu-of-the-wind

I'm not good enough at smut to do the BDSM au xD

Mostly to differentiate from your dragon Darcy au xD I think

amusewithaview

I BEG TO DIFFER THANKS

shu-of-the-wind

Although witch!Darcy with dragon!Matt could be super interesting

amusewithaview

YOU DO SOME OF THE BEST SLOW-BURN AND UST IN THE BUSINESS

shu-of-the-wind

sksjdjsjhdjsjdbejd

JEJDJSNFBJSBFJENDNJABFJSJD

LIES

amusewithaview

witch!darcy who totally thinks dragon!matt is warning her away from his territory and doesn't realize he's trying to hoard her until he's neck-deep in her life and she tries to run but WHOOPS, TOO LATE, YOU DONE BEEN BAGGED AND TAGGED GIRL

I ONLY SPEAK THE TRUTH

shu-of-the-wind

Re the dragon thing YUP HE LIIE

HE SMELLS HER WITCHINESS FROM ACROSS THE DAMN CITY AND WHEN SHE SHOWS UP IN THE KITCHEN ONE NIGHT ALL HIS INSTINCTS /SCREECH/

shu-of-the-wind

AND HE JUST STARTS GIVING HER THINGS AND TURNING UP OUT OF NOWHERE AND BEING AWKWARD AND GLOOMY AND HIGHLY DEFENSIVE OF HER FOR NO REASON OTHER THAN TO IRRITATE HER

(or so she thinks)

amusewithaview

witch!darcy slowly acclimating to being part of a dragon's hoard and grumbling all the while, ignoring foggy's shit-eating grin because she's not sure of the source, finally granting that she is being hoarded and bitching about it and foggy spills the: actually he's COURTING you beans and she flips out all over again

shu-of-the-wind

And then WHOOPS

SNORTS

YEAH BASICALLY

amusewithaview

YES PLEASE I LOVE THIS MAKE IT A THING PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE WITH A CHERRY ON TOP I WILL WRITE YOU A RECIPROCAL THING PLEASE

shu-of-the-wind

!!!!!!!!!! DEF CAN DO

I have class at two tomorrow but I can write before that xD

amusewithaview

LOL - no deadline, i am working on a thing i owe emma/waffles now because she wrote me a porn and then requested a pregnancy fic but i gotta rewatch FF: rise of the silver surfer first

shu-of-the-wind

Witch!Darcy who might be able to cast any spell she wants in the technomagical realm but getting a dragon off her back is fucking iMPOSSIBLE

(The first time she does healing magic on him and sees all those scales up his back and all the scars like she realizes she doesn't /want/ him to leave her be, now)

amusewithaview

*snort* and then getting a dragon off her back is LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE once he gets a ~taste of her in a physical and not magical way

shu-of-the-wind

Y U P

(dragons bite during mating)

amusewithaview

OF COURSE THEY DO

shu-of-the-wind

Darcy starts getting /very/ proud of the bite marks on her shoulders

amusewithaview

darcy has three or four patches of red scales she has to keep hidden because sometimes when matt bites WITH INTENT it leaves actual permanent marks

shu-of-the-wind

Y u p

amusewithaview

shu-of-the-wind

(the first time /she/ bites /him/ he loses his goddamn mind)

amusewithaview

i just want all of the grumbly matt and reluctant/oblivious darcy while foggy knows EXACTLY what's going on

shu-of-the-wind

Foggy teases the living shit out of Matt when Darcy's not there

amusewithaview

darcy all: I DO NOT NEED A DRAGON IN MY LIFE THANKS BYE

matt: YOU DO AND HIS NAME IS M-A-T-T

shu-of-the-wind

"I don't get why dragons don't just /say/ something instead of all this fussing."

Matt: /growls

amusewithaview

matt: i give you permission to stay in hell's kitchen (dragon translation: if you move into my territory you're MINE)

shu-of-the-wind

YUP

Y U P

consider: Darcy moves out of the tower because she keeps fucking up Tony's equipment by casting spells with it and the first night in her new apartment in Hell's Kitchen the Dragon shows up and just kinda

shu-of-the-wind

Glowers at her for a bit

amusewithaview

foggy: is gleeful but also slightly concerned re darcy because he knows matt's proclivities (that thing with the necromancer's daughter in college was super trippy)

shu-of-the-wind

(Matt's brain, shrieking: MINE! MINE!! MINE!!!!! NOW MINE IN MY HOARD MINE I DON'T CARE IF SHE'S A WITCH AND THUS DANGEROUS M I N E)

amusewithaview

foggy: meets this grumbly witch with colorful knit hats and scarves and suddenly understands why matt is coming home with TONS of skeins of colored yarn

shu-of-the-wind

sjdjrjdjrjd

He leaves it on her fire escape every day until it rains and then he starts leaving it at her doorstep and Darcy just /sighs/

amusewithaview

foggy: sidles up to matt, "those don't even match"

matt: *twitches violently*

shu-of-the-wind

Because does he /have/ to do this with such /nice/ yarn

(Matt who buys yarn purely on feel because it's his dream to have something made by his witch and he couldn't stand it if it were scratchy)

amusewithaview

darcy: dude, stop leaving passive aggressive commentary on my sartorial choices

matt: you mean? presents?

darcy: what?

matt: *silently glowers and slinks away without explaining*

foggy: *dies laughing*

shu-of-the-wind

(also, he has a vague idea that softer is better quality)

S N O R T S

Matt is huffy for like a week

Because they were /presents/ goddammit

amusewithaview

matt finally finds a present that darcy WILL accept and spends like a week preening and joyful and then darcy shows up and wards his office to hell and back while he's out (this is where she meets foggy) because she has some harebrained idea that the present confers a DEBT and she knows better than to be indebted to a DRAGON

shu-of-the-wind

Matt who turns up one day with this really gorgeous set of knitting needles and leaves them on her desk and she's just

Is this an apology or????

/wards everywhere

amusewithaview

only it turns out that now she's just surrounded matt's workspace with the scent and taste of her magic so he's literally inundated ALL THE TIME with how talented and awesome she is and HE CANNOT STAND IT

shu-of-the-wind

Matt who has to /walk through her wards/ on his way in and out of the building every day and his knees give out every time

shu-of-the-wind

Matt just /whines/ and Foggy is like

Just write her a love letter or something you psychotic lizard

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(Karen thinks all of this is fucking hilarious)

SJFJDJJFJED DARCY REALIZING KAREN HAS MAGIC AND WINDS UP TAKING HER AS AN APPRENTICE AND MATT'S JUST LIKE

HE'S SO PROUD WHEN KAREN MANAGES TO CAST SPELLS BUT ALSO NO YOU'RE MESSING UP DARCY'S WARDS

NOOOOOO

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matt shows up at her place and just stares at her with intent until she opens her window: WHAT DO YOU WANT

matt: *literally just breathing her in*

darcy: *hello, anyone home???*

matt: thank you for the warding, it's giving karen a headache though

darcy: ???? i need to check on soemthing

darcy: so karen is a budding witch and also she's now my apprentice bye

matt: WHAT. W H A T. NO

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(Matt winds up being a cunning lil lizard and showing up at her bedroom window every night to "check on Karen's progress"

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karen's first project is putting wards on the office and she layers them with darcy's which is totes cool because since darcy is stealing matt's secretary she OWES him again so she goes and WARDS HIS APARTMENT BUILDING

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Really just to get himself covered in her smells and her magic)

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MATT IS UNDONE

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HE IS THE BIGGESY MESS

The only time he's a bigger mess is when Darcy takes it upon herself to make a protection charm for him

Laid into a cross made out of sterling silver and /drenched/ in her smells

And he's just like

HER MAGIC IS ALL OVER ME ALL THE TIME

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darcy does not realize that she is now part of matt's hoard until some big climactic event hits the city and he FINDS HER and takes her someplace SAFE with foggy and karen and a few others and darcy looks around and puts two and two together and goes NOPE, GOTTA GO VISIT MY GRANDMA OUT OF STATE FOR A WHILE

matt is like a cat wearing a catnip collar

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Y u p

He keeps /playing/ with it

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foggy: "you're gonna go blind...er"

karen: *snorts*

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(Darcy's grandma is just like. Mi amor, you have a dragon willing to do /anything/ for you. Get on that boy.)

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darcy's grandma: honey, you got yourself into this mess, might as well make the best of it.

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Yuuuuuuuuuuuup

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darcy is still in violent denial of matt's fuzzier feelings and only JUST THEN accepts that she is in a hoard and maybe friends with a dragon

the difference between darcy who thinks she is grudgingly allowed in the dragon's space and darcy who realizes she is hoarded and FRIENDS with the dragon is lots of magic. and hugs. and matt S U F F E R S

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(Matt who /freaks out/ when she comes back into the borders of the Kitchen and basically flies to crash into her and drown in her smells because YOU CAME BACK YOU CAME BACK YOU CAME BAAAAAACK)

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He might possibly bury his face in her hair and breathe as deep as he can each time

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darcy: oh my god are you like this every time somebody leaves and enters your territory?

matt: no

foggy: YES

karen: *looks at foggy skeptically*

foggy: college was... weird.

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(there was an incident after Foggy went on study abroad that they prefer not to discuss)

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YES

foggy escaped their dorm room eventually, but he was wearing matt's clothes and ONLY matt's clothes for like a week. MATT IS MUCH SMALLER THAN HIM AND IT WAS AWKWARD

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Sidifueud and Darcy gets used to the idea of being friends and then like. Possibly Kitty Pryde (ironically, a dragon were herself) shows up and is like

Girl that boy has been wooing you for months

Do you have any idea

You're driving him /nuts/

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He has basically done the dragon equivalent of lighting fireworks in the shape of MARRY ME and simultaneously peeing around her in a circle and also literally carving out his heart and presenting it to her

like, he gave her SCALES to use in her spells

HIS SCALES

darcy: ...but i used the scales on wards FOR HIM

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Kitty is /astounded/ when she hears that because oh my /god/ do you have any idea how we /feel/ about our scales

They're chips of our /souls/ basically

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kitty: *sees the wards and HOWLS with laughter because, seriously, that poor boy*

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Darcy: ....but... Matt...no...that's...I'm in his hoard, I'm not... you're--

Kitty: honey that boy would actually throw himself into ice for you and that could kill him

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kitty: next time you see him i want you to put both your hands on his cheeks and hold him and then see what he does

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darcy: whyyyyyyy?

darcy: wait do you think he's gonna... kiss me or something?

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Christ Matt would just fuckin drop into the floor his knees go out so fast

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kitty: i think he's gonna go catatonic

kitty: and it will be HILARIOUS

kitty: i'm gonna take pictures

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Sjdjdjsjdhsjdj Darcy doesn't work up the nerve for the whole day and then she just kinda does it in a joke way but Matt is like

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darcy: *firmly* you're wrong, and i'm gonna prove it

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Suddenly and completely high on life holy shit this is the /best best thing/

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matt just... is completely still but also vibrating so hard darcy's arms shake

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like he's going to burst out of his skin but also he is incandescently HAPPY

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And his eyes are /huge/ and he's just

There's this really slow smile that turns into something huge and brighter than she's ever seen on him

And then /whoops/ her heart's gonna burst

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I KIND OF WANT MORE DARCY DENIAL BECAUSE A RELATIONSHIP WITH A DRAGON IS *FOREVER* AND ALSO HE NEEDS TO DO MORE WOOING NOW THAT SHE REALIZES THAT'S WHAT HE'S DOING, LIKE - DOES HE WANT KIDS? HOW BIG IS HIS HOARD? HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE IN HIS HOARD?

what does it mean for HER and her MAGIC if she mates to a dragon?

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Y U P

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WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS, MATT

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Darcy like

Tears her hands away and /bolts/

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Because SHIT IF KITTY IS RIGHT THEN

U M M

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matt is literally too stunned to chase her

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Foggy: ... what'd you do now?

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like he just kind of stands there and SWAYS for a minute

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Matt: ???!???!?!!?!?

Matt who essentially has just had Darcy say "yeah you can court me if you figure your shit out" with her hands and then she panicked and ran away

He's overloaded

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kitty hunts darcy down: you're going to have to talk to him

darcy: i know, that's the mature thing to do -

kitty: well, yeah, that too, but i meant that he's going to hunt you down sooner rather than later and you're gonna wanna be prepared

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Aidjdiej Matt who like

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darcy: hunt... me down?

kitty: if this was a couple centuries ago you would have been stuck in the back of a cave or castle until you didn't smell like anything BUT HIM and then MAYBE you'd get outings sometimes if the wind was right but luckily dragons have grown as a species

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He holds off until Kitty leaves Darcy alone because she's in /his hoard/ but Kitty is also better at breathing fire than him

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darcy: ???!!!!?!!

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Darcy: I will set his tail on fire if he tries that with me.

Kitty: You already have him mostly trained it's fine

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kitty: oh honey that's encouragement. use ice if you need to get the point across

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HEJFHHEJDD OKAY BUT

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I HAVE THIS MENTAL IMAGE OF DARCY HURLING ICE CHIPS FROM A CUP AT MATT WHENEVER HE DOES SOMETHING SUPER DUMB

LIKE, JUST, HANDFULS OF ICE

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AFTER THEY GET THEIR SHIT TOGETHER DARCY WILL JUST FORM ICE IN HIS CLOTH WHEN HE'S BEING AN ASSHOLE

AND YUP

Y U P

HANDFULS OF ICE AND SNOW

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and matt is just PAINED like "darcy this melts and gets wet everywhere"

darcy: THEN STOP BEING A DUMBASS

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"STOP BEING A DIPSHIT"

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darcy: I WILL FREEZE EVERYTHING YOU LOVE INCLUDING MYSELF

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Skdjjejdjejdj

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darcy: *encompasses her whole body in a two inch layer of frigid air

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Winter is the worst and best season

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Darcy comes in with snow in her hair

And Matt's just like

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but she also wears lots of knitwear

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I MUST P MY HANDS EVERYWHERE RIGHT FUCKING NOW

*PUT

Darcy, bemused: I have heating spells, you know

Matt: I AM GOING TO BREATHE ON YOU ANYWAY

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matt: *high on darcy smell and darcy feel* LET ME WARM YOU UP MY WAY

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I'm still just

The first time Darcy bites him Matt loses his fucking mind

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it's worse than that time darcy used one of his leftover scales to make herself a protection amulet

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He loses his /fucking mind/ and won't stop making little growly chirpy noises and nipping at her and hands /everywhere/ and Darcy's like

Holy shit that's a thing for you, huh

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matt: *literally beyond speech*

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He can't talk for /hours/

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darcy: *adds play-biting to her repertoire of 'how to drive matt absolutely nuts'*

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It's only after when Darcy kinda rests her fingers to the mark she left like "sorry I bruised you" and Matt is like

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darcy: proceeds to gently nip his fingers in public WHENEVER the opportunity arises

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"You should never ever ever apologize for that"

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matt: both hates and LOVES this

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"Please bite me all the time"

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matt: MORE BRUISES PLZTHX

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MATT IS SO FRUSTRATED BECAUSE HE WANTS TO DRAG HER INTO HIM AND NIBBLE AT HER BUT HE /CAN'T/

IT'S NOT HUMAN AND HE HAS TO PRETEND HE'S HUMAN BUT HOLY /CHRIST/

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and darcy just GRINS at him and she is SHOWING HER TEETH and he CAN'T DO ANYTHING

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I'm gonna have to write this in the morning goddamn

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and if she's feeling EXTRA mean, she'll kinda tap at him with her magic too and matt is just: total shutdown, cannot function, has to be guided like he's ACTUALLY FUNCTIONALLY BLIND AND DEAF AND MUTE TO THE WORLD

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Y U P

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I LOVE ALL OF THIS

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She gets frisky on snow days especially and will tap at him with her magic to kinda give him an excuse to cling to her as close as possible

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BUT ALSO I NEED TO GO TO WORK IN THE MORNING SO I NEED TO GO TO SLEEP NOW

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Okay I have to go to bed but please consider:

Darcy: I get to keep my job. And do what I want. I'm not gonna be in the apartment all day.

Matt: *buzzing out of his own skin* Obviously.

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i honestly feel like we should share this entire convo with the world because it's hilarious

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Darcy: You can't growl when people talk to me.

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Matt: sounds fake but okay.

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Matt, through his teeth: Fine.

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Darcy: And you can't bite my neck in public. Or my ears. Or anything really.

Matt: KEJDJEJFHEJDJJWD

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Darcy: You also can't growl when people touch me INNOCENTLY.

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Matt, darkly: No touch is innocent.

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Darcy: YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN, DO NOT LAWYER ME HERE.

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Matt: I DON'T LIKE OTHER SMELLS ON YOU.

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Darcy: THEN HELP ME SHOWER THEM OFF.

Matt: ....this is an acceptable compromise.

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Darcy: THEN WHEN I GET HOME AT NIGHT YOU CAN SHOWER WITH ME OR SOMETHING IDK

Matt: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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/snorts

Darcy: ....you don't want me to stop doing magic or anything right because--

Matt: DO ALL THE MAGIC PLEASE OH MY LORD

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Matt: NEVER STOP YOUR MAGIC EVER

Matt: YOU SHOULD MAGIC ALL OF YOUR CLOTHES

Matt: AND MY CLOTHES

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ALL OF THEM

AND THE BLANKETS

AND THE WALLS

AND EVERYTHING

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MAGIC THE FRIDGE

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Matt: AND MAYBE COME REFRESH THE WARDS IN MY OFFICE ONCE A WEEK JUST IN CASE

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I DON'T CARE

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Matt: OR DAILY, DAILY IS FINE

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Darcy: ....but Karen.

Matt: DAILY.

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Matt: SHE NEEDS THE PRACTICE

Matt: YOU'RE ONLY HELPING HER

omg i need to SLEEP NOW

IT IS MIDNIGHT

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Darcy: ....or I could just. Ward you in the morning

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Matt: EVERY DAY?

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I'm sORRY I JUST LOVE THIS SO MUCH

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Darcy: ...sure?

Matt: SOLD.

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Darcy: It takes like ten minutes

Matt: /swoons

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Matt: SHOULD YOU REFRESH IT AT LUNCH TOO?

Darcy:...no.

Matt: *pouts*

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I can't stop laughing oh my god

BDSM turned into dragoncrack I love it

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other dragons cannot decide whether to laugh at him or be jealous of him

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(jealous. Definitely jealous.)

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and darcy has to meet all of the local dragons so matt can show her off and also so he can say HANDS OFF

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SNORTS

Frank Castle, sadly: ....I could use a witch.

Years later: Karen is a fully fledged witch and fond of his dumb ass for some reason.

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darcy: HAAAAAAVE YOU MET KAREN?

karen is like: this is my dragon. he is an idiot. and he bruises easy. i love him.

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frank: *is always holding karen's flower no matter where they go*

frank: *literally has a necklace of flowers that karen made for him as a joke once, and then it turned into an actual protection ward and now he WON'T TAKE IT OFF EVER*

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FRANK LOVES HIS FLOWER NECKLACE

SO MUCH

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it is made of daisies and carnations

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THE TERRIFYING PUNISHER WITH DAISIES AND CARNATIONS AT HIS THROAT

NOBODY DARES COMMENT

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when he has to go into REALLY dangerous situations, karen breaks out the crown

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/clears throat

KEKFJEIFJISJFJS

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Oh My good

(go to beeeeeeeeeed)

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I KNOW

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The flower crown is all daisies and thistles xD

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BUT THIS IS HILARIOUS AND NOW I AM PUNCHDRUNK AND I JUST

DRAGON MATT

WITCH DARCY

I WANT TO SEE HIM SUFFER

like you should literally name this fic "i burn, i pine, i perish"

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I WILL DO THE THING AND SEND YOU SNIPPETS

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O H M Y G O D

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and it should just be like 10,000 words of darcy making matt suffer

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SOLD

I AM SO DOWN

I WILL DO THE THING

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darcy makes matt suffer and foggy is LIVING

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Foggy is overjoyed

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like he is making popcorn for the entire supernaturally aware portion of hell's kitchen

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Foggy, the first time Matt comes back from failing hard at giving Darcy presents: ....new pick not working out?

Matt: Shut up.

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Foggy: ooooooo, feisty

Matt: /growls

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Foggy: What DO you get for the witch who has everything... and wants nothing to do with you?

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Foggy: You don't scare me, gecko boy

Matt: I'M NOT LISTENING

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Foggy: She's on Stark's payroll, pretty sure she could buy and sell us several times over.

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Matt: N O T L I S T E N I N G

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Foggy: Well maybe you should START listening AND using your WORDS.

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Matt slams the door and Foggy is just like

I KNOW YOU CAN HEAR ME

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USE YOUR WORDS, NOT YOUR NOSE

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Thor, meanwhile, is watching all of this from Stark Tower and COMPLETELY APPROVES of Darcy's new valiant protector.

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Thor shows up one day and is like

I HAVE SLAIN MANY MIGHTY DRAGONS BUT NONE HAVE HAD SO FINE A TASTE AS YOU

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Foggy: Does she smell as suspicious of your intentions as she looks? Because wow. She thinks you're sketch as fuck, man.

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I AM CONTENT LEAVING MY LIGHTNING SISTER IN YOUR CARE

Foggy is /losing his shit/

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Matt:...*is slightly relieved he doesn't HAVE to fight for Darcy BUT HE WOULD DO IT IN A HEARTBEAT*

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HE WOULD FIGHT AND WIN

DEMIGOD OR NO

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FOR HER

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Darcy, at a distance: STOP MEASURING YOUR DICKS JESUS

Kitty: Honey, no, it's a dragon thing

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Foggy actually receives knitwear from Darcy before Matt does and he actually feels kind of bad about it but Matt just tells him to wear it because it's soft and perfect and ONE of them should get to wear something from her...

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Oh my god Matthew you dramatic child

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Foggy: .... are you... getting high off of my new scarf?

Matt: NO.

Foggy: I'm going to put this in the closet.

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Darcy like

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Foggy wraps the scarf around Matt's stuff because he is a Good Bro and then takes his stuff before Matt so Matt has plausible deniability.

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Eventually starts giving Matt knitwear

And Matt doesn't wear it

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Because he's /hoarding it/

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WHYYYYYYY

OMG YESSSSSSS

it is his pillow

and darcy thinks he doesn't like the pattern or something so she KEEPS TRYING and matt is just like YESSSSSS GIVE ME ALL OF YOUR KNITWEAR

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Matt: IT'S IN MY CLOSET

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Foggy: I'VE SEEN YOUR CLOSET, IT IS NOT IN YOUR CLOSET, YOUR CLOSET IS FULL OF LIES AND SO ARE YOU.

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Darcy eventually confronts him like

Dude if you don't want it I'll stop giving you knitwear

Matt, panicking, shows up the next day wearing gloves and a scarf and a hat

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none of them match even REMOTELY

all of them are weirdly worn out

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(and socks)

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ALSO, I want Matt to be slightly inexpressive in human form because stuff doesn't translate well but he's actually the MOST EMOTIVE DRAGON EVER like other dragons are like Dude, Chill, CONTAIN YOURSELF MATTHEW YOU ARE MAKING US LOOK BAD

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Darcy: ....wut

Matt: MOAR

HE'S THE CUDDLIEST DRAGON

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He like

He's the most expressive lil bean of a red dragon

He wiggles and his tail flicks around and he flares his wings and he has all these cues

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And in human form he's this walking stump

With no ability to express himself

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in dragon form he has an entire MANE of semi-flexible horns that retract and lay flat and puff up and do all sorts of things

and in human form he has fluffy hair

it doesn't translate well

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It really doesn't

Oh my god just

With that in mind

Matt racing to Darcy when she crosses back into his territory

But he's flying and running because dragon form is faster

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And whoops there's a massive horse sized red dragon aiming right for her should she run

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IF SHE RUNS THEN HE HAS TO CHASE HER AND NEITHER OF THEM ARE READY FOR THAT OH SHIT

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Darcy: YOU ARE NOT CRASHING INTO ME WITH CLAWS DUDE

CHASING GAMES OH GOD

MATT LOVES CHASE GAMES

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I HAVE TO GO TO BED

I CANNOT

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IT'S HIS MAIN FLIRTATION MECHANISM THAT ACTUALLY TRANSLATES

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I HAVE WORK AT 8:30AM

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I mean me too xD

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Guh

GO SLEEP

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GOOD NIGHT SHUU

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Gnight :3

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THIS HAS BEEN AWESOME FUN AND GOOD NIGHT!

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I'll send you snippets

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YAAAAAAAS

OKAY GOOD NIGHT

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SLEEP WELL

Today at 4:39 PM

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Honestly want to publish this conversation of dragons on tumblr

May I, please?

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Of course of course

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YAAAAAAAS WILL DO WHEN HOME

#amuse writes stuff #darcy lewis #matt murdock #darcy x matt #darecy #devilshock #fantastical fun and devious dragons

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Stephen King: 10 Best Supernatural Villains

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Know the terror and madness of Stephen King's 10 greatest supernatural villains!

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The name Stephen King conjures up images of horrific creatures, monsters, places, and some of the most enduring villains in fiction. These are beings of unimaginable evil that test the limits of the protagonists' will to survive, and some of these villains have gone on to become almost as famous (or infamous) as the writer himself.

While many King villains are monsters of the human variety (serial killers, power hungry despots, nihilists, etc.), his most memorable are the supernatural ones who use their dark powers to twist the orderly world around them into chaos and pain.

Pennywise the Clown isn't the only monster you need to fear at night. King has created plenty of other horrific things that go bump in the night. Here are just a few of his best supernatural madmen and monsters...

10. Gage Creed and the Pet Sematary

Pet Sematary (1983)

“Don’t go beyond, no matter how much you feel you need to, Doctor. The barrier was not made to be broken. Remember this: there is more power here than you know. It is old and always restless. Remember.”

When Louis, Rachel, Eileen, and Gage Creed moved to Ludlow, Maine from Chicago, their cat Winston Churchill in tow, they wanted a peaceful new life in the more rural locale. What they got was a descent into death and madness almost unmatched in modern horror fiction. In the novel, the Creed cat is killed. Louis fears telling his daughter and buries the beloved pet at a nearby “Pet Sematary,” an old Micmac Indian burial ground. The cat returns home, much to Louis’ shock and delight, but it’s not the same friendly animal. It’s a listless, mean, half-alive creature that does not have a fondness for life.

Further Reading: Every Stephen King Film and TV Adaptation Currently in Development

When Gage is killed by a truck, overcome with despair, Louis buries his son in the Sematary. What comes back is a true horror of epic proportions. Gage is such a disturbing villain because he once existed as an object of purest affection. The once totally innocent soul is now corrupt and ridden with supernatural darkness. The Pet Sematary itself is rumored to once have been a burial place for cannibals, and the spirit of a Wendigo dwells in the soil.

Now, Gage is back with the most ancient of curses coursing where blood once flowed. Every father’s nightmare turned even darker. King felt the book was too dark even for him and shelved it until his wife, Tabitha, and his friend, the author Peter Straub, encouraged him to share his bleak vision of paternal loyalty with the world.

9. The Leatherheads

Under the Dome (2009)

“God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny?”

Much more frightening than typical villains, the Leatherheads are an alien race responsible for the construction of the Dome that covers Chester’s Mill. They are in the same vein as H.P. Lovecraft’s cosmic horrors, beings much older and more powerful than humanity. The mere sight of them could drive a man mad. They are beings with the power of gods but no connection to or feelings for humanity. Just cold observers that exist on a different layer of reality.

The Leatherheads construct the Dome the same way a child makes an ant farm, out of a morbid curiosity to watch how lesser creatures exist. Their casual disregard for humanity makes them truly terrifying because, unlike some of King’s other antagonists, there is really no way to fight them.

The Leatherheads are mentioned in King’s chilling short story N., but it is in Under the Dome where readers get to experience the sheer paralytic terror that would occur if an alien species of ancient intelligence turned their attention towards our little backwater planet.

Read More: It Chapter Two Easter Eggs and Reference Guide

8. The Raggedy Man

Cell (2006)

“What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.”

Fans of The Walking Dead need to recognize. King does zombies too, and they are sphincter-tighteningly scary. In Cell, a pulse travels into cell phones all over the world. Anyone on their phone at the fateful moment is turned into a zombie. These villains are a different breed than the popular Romero clones, as the pulse also unlocks latent powers of the human mind like telepathy and levitation.

The Raggedy Man is the leader of the zombies. He thinks, organizes, and commands. He has all the nihilistic hunger of a zombie, but he has planning skills and foresight which make him a truly frightening antagonist. His goal is to spread his people around the globe and take the planet for his horde. He sees humanity as a threat to his people and seeks to destroy them to protect his new race, which could make him literature’s first sympathetic zombie villain. He is often seen wearing a crimson Harvard hoodie giving the creature an atypical zombie air of intelligence and capability.

The name of Harvard’s sports teams by the way? The Harvard Crimson. Well played Mr. King, well played.

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7. Kurt Barlow

‘Salems Lot (1975)

“That above all else. They did not look out their windows. No matter what noises or dreadful possibilities, no matter how awful the unknown, there was an even worse thing: to look the Gorgon in the face.”

King’s only foray into vampires (the classic ones, anyway), Barlow was the writer’s way of getting the whole mythos right the first time. ‘Salems Lot was King’s second published novel and his first of many novels centering on the idea of a preternatural creature releasing the beast inside of regular people. It was also his first small town novel, a setting King would return to many times over the decades.

Barlow’s story mirrors that of Dracula, from the shipment of his coffin and native soil from overseas to his arrival and reign of terror in a contemporary setting. He even has his own personal Renfield, Richard Straker, his own gothic mansion, his own legion of dark minions, and a twisted grip on the residents of ‘Salems Lot.

Further Reading: 10 Best Stephen King Horror Novels

Barlow was more of a catalyst, using embraced residents as pawns to tighten his grip on the town, but his very presence on the page was accompanied with a sense of urgency and dread.

In a 1995 BBC radio drama of ‘Salems Lot (that is well worth seeking out), Barlow is played by Pinhead himself, Doug Bradley, which automatically gives the vampire tons of villain cred.

6. George Stark

The Dark Half (1989)

“Cut him. Cut him while I stand here and watch. I want to see the blood flow. Don't make me tell you twice.”

Stephen King once wrote under the pseudonym Richard Bachman and published some of his more experimental works like The Running Man, The Long Walk, and Thinner. His experience as somewhat existing as another person inspired King to write the Dark Half and inspired the creation of one of his most cold-blooded killers, George Stark.

In the novel, Thad Beaumont was a successful author who wrote violent crime novels under the pen name of George Stark. After revealing to the world he was actually Stark, Thad and his wife stage a mock funeral for the author to symbolically cut ties with the violent crime fiction Beaumont wanted to leave behind. This is where King brings the terror.

Further Reading: Stephen King's 10 Most Terrifying Human Villains

The novel started with a flashback that dealt with the removal of an eye from the brain of a young Thad. It was the eye of a twin that was conjoined in the womb to the writer, an incident Thad had all but forgotten about. It was actually the eye of George Stark, who later rises from the mock grave the Beaumonts planted him in to go on a killing spree that leaves even the most seasoned reader with PTSD.

Stark is the embodiment of the darkness in the hearts of all men. The most frightening part of the book is that, even though Beaumont is desperate to rid the world of Stark, part of him is attracted to the freedom evil gives Stark and the realization that the evil is a part of him.

5. Rose the Hat

Doctor Sleep (2013)

“She's the Queen Bitch of Castle Hell. If you mess with her, she'll eat you alive.”

Rose the Hat, an immortal energy vampire from the 18th century and the leader of a cult of killers known as the True Knot, is one of King's scariest villains to date. Manipulative, ethereal, beautiful, and hungry for the "steam" -- psychic energy -- that keeps her and her band alive, Rose will whatever it takes for her next meal, even if it means torturing little children and killing them.

In Doctor Sleep, the sequel to King's The Shining, Rose becomes obsessed with hunting down Abra Stone, a young girl with a powerful Shine, which puts her at the top of the True Knot's list of potential food sources. Rose hatches a plan to kidnap Abra, but the girl proves elusive, especially after she teams up with Dan Torrance, a survivor of the horrors of the Overlook Hotel with his own Shine. Together, along with some help from some friends and one surprise guest from the afterlife, Dan and Abra are able to fight back against Rose and the True Knot.

But the road to the end of the book is soaked in blood, as Rose claims victim after victim. She might not look like a monster but Rose is as monstrous as they come.

4. The Overlook Hotel

The Shining (1977)

“This inhuman place makes human monsters.”

If there is one thing King’s constant readers have learned after decades of nightmares is that places can be as evil as people, an idea that is personified in the Overlook Hotel, the setting of The Shining. On the surface, The Shining is a classic haunted house tale, but beneath the surface, it is so much more. It is a deep look into the fragility of fatherhood, the bond of trust between father and son. As Danny Torrance, the psychic child who journeys to a secluded Colorado hotel with his caretaker father and loving mother discovers when the father he trusted is transformed in a raging madman by the power within the Overlook.

Further Reading: How The Shining Examines the Immortality of Evil

The novel’s most riveting sections feature past accounts of other times that the Overlook weaved its dark magic, transforming good men into monsters. The walls of the Overlook can barely contain the rage within the heart of the hotel, and as The Shining plays out, readers discover just how corrupt the place is. Make no mistake, it may not have arms to swing an ax, or legs to chase down its victims, but the Overlook is a hungry sort of evil that demands to be fed. Just try staying at a Motel 6 after reading King’s classic. I dare you.

3. The Crimson King

Insomnia (1994), Black House (2001), The Dark Tower series

“I am the Eater of Worlds.”

The Crimson King is often mistaken for It, and it is not completely clear if they are the same monster, but the regality and level of reverence the King’s minions hold for him seem to suggest that he is different than the sewer-dwelling eater of children. This beast is the embodiment of evil in King’s shared fictional universe. He is first introduced in Insomnia, where he tries to kill a child prophesied to topple the rule of the King forever.

The King is later revealed as the monster behind the events of the novel Black House, and he is the overarching villain of the Dark Tower series, the monster responsible for trying to bring down the structure of reality.

Further Reading: A Reading Guide to the Stephen King Dark Tower Universe

Stephen King suggests that all his villains, supernatural or otherwise, are pawns of the Crimson King. The name itself carries some great metatextual flavor as, of course, Stephen King himself is the one truly responsible for the evil in his worlds. The half of the writer that creates and is responsible for these horrific monsters is also named King. Stephen King is the writer, father, husband, and Red Sox fan. The Crimson King is the dark overlord of the fictional universe and the monster maker.

2. Pennywise the Dancing Clown

It (1986)

"Float?" The clown’s grin widened. "Oh yes, indeed they do. They float! And there’s cotton candy..."George reached.The clown seized his arm.And George saw the clown’s face change.

Every twenty-seven years It rises to devour the children of Derry. It awoke when a homosexual couple was beaten by a gang of thugs in 1984 to again reign terror on the children of Derry. It was put to rest by the Losers Club, a group of misfit teens, in 1958 only to rise again, decades later. It killed the leader of the Losers’ (Bill Denbrough) little brother in one of the most hair-raising prologues in horror history.

It is another of King’s manipulator villains, as It controls the darker residents of Derry, such as bully Henry Bowers to do Its bidding. It is a cannibalistic clown that lives in the sewers, a leprous mummy, a giant spider, or a series of orange lights called the Dead Lights that drive people mad when gazed upon.

Unlike the similar creature, the Crimson King, It does not commit evil for glory or power. It devours because It hungers. The lives of innocents exist only to fill the void of It's being. And let’s face it, nothing, NOTHING is freakin’ scarier than a hungry clown in a sewer.

Read More: It Chapter Two Ending Explained

1. Randall Flagg

The Stand (1978) Eyes of the Dragon (1986) Hearts in Atlantis (1999) The Dark Tower series

“My life for you.”

Not so much a single villain, but the archetype of all villains, Randall Flagg is King’s greatest singular creation of evil. Flagg first appeared in The Stand, the Dark Man who gathers the worst of humanity to rebuild a new civilization in his own dark image. The Walkin’ Dude had a propensity for crucifying any whose beliefs ran contrary to his.

Flagg is the greatest of King’s manipulators, able to inspire loyalty in those with dark hearts, as seen by the Trashcan Man in The Stand and even Mother Carmody in The Mist. All they have to do is say “My life for you,” and mean it, and Flagg will be there to inspire their dark deeds.

He was revealed to be the main antagonist to Roland in the Dark Tower series and is the ever-present evil in all men. Flagg is walking the back roads of reality just waiting for a chance to whisper in humanity’s ear and stir up some good, old fashioned chaos.

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The Three Stages of Obsession

‘Jimin was a chronic user of (y/n),

and there was nothing seasonal about his interest.’

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Stage One Observation. /ˌäbzərˈvāSH(ə)n/. the action or process of observing something or someone carefully or in order to gain information.

He never did care for atoms or electron microscopy, all he desired was to pass the course. A low C was all he desired. Seventy-percent was alright for him, but as the teacher droned on about the different Hydrogen Wave Functions, he quickly found his attention wavering from the lecture to focus on the people who sat amongst him in the auditorium.

Choosing the latter, Jimin skims the crowd of fellow students. Sadly no one quite piqued his interest. Not the girl filling up her wish list on Brandy Melville, nor the boy drawing obscenities onto his hand.

He continues to scan the class hoping to find someone worthwhile when a hand on the opposite side of the class shoots up in his peripheral. He redirects every drop of attention to the girl who so earnestly shot her hands up to answer the question no one else was willing or confident enough to.

Her hair had a natural glimmer under the fluorescent lights, eyes gleaming with a spirituous passion for learning. Once the professor called on her she gave him a detailed answer that seemed to come straight out of a text book. Jimin was so stunned at how knowledgeable she was.

When the teacher moved on with the lesson, Jimin didn’t. His eyes stayed glued to the girl’s back and even if there wasn’t much to see, it was enough for him.

After weeks of admiring her from afar, there was finally a shift. An opportunity to talk to her. It was during a lab day, and this was a time he wished he had taken the time to get acquainted with someone, instead of staring off at the girl during lecture.

Everyone rushed at the chance to click up, meanwhile he sat at his seat idly looking around for someone that seemed to be in the same boat as him. A tap on his shoulder interrupts his desperate search as he whips his head around to be met with eyes he’s only rarely seen, when she’d take a glance back at the clock.

Her hair was put up into a messy bun, the only thing holding it being a wooden pencil. He was surprised to meet the only person who probably still uses those. The loose strands that refused to obey the ways of the bun hung sloppy around her face. Even with such a laid back look he still found something comforting and elegant about you.

Her smile is nothing less of contagious as Jimin unknowingly shows her his killer smile.

“Um would you like to be partners?” She asks softly, pushing a strand of hair behind her ear nervously.

This was crazy. He knew she had friends in that class, hell it seemed her whole squad was in there, so for her to pick a total stranger was beyond him.

“Uh…y-yeah sure.” He’s quick to slide over all of his books to the other side of him to give her room as she sits beside him. He watches as she makes herself comfortable, neatly placing her striped pencil case at the edge of the desk, flipping open her notebook.

Her notes were definitely a representation of herself, uniformly color coded. They could make a font with how sharp her penmanship was, Jimin thought.

His stare must have been burning a hole into the side of her head because she caught him staring. He bashfully smiled and turned back towards the teacher. His foot hadn’t stopped its shaking not once since she asked to be his partner.

Stage Two. Fixation. /fikˈsāSH(ə)n/. an obsessive interest in or feeling about someone or something.

The project comes and goes as they slowly adjust into spring, and love is in the air.

He was sprung, high off of the thought of her. Jimin was a chronic user of ___, and there was nothing seasonal about his interest. His eyes were fixated on the curve of her lips as they formed each syllable. He had no idea what exactly was being said but he didn’t mind not one bit. As long as he got to be around her, able to freely gawk he was satisfied.

“Hey you! It’s not polite to stare.” Jimin whips his head around to see a tall blonde with a pink visor strapped around his head approaching.

“If you like her so much why don’t you go talk to her?” His hands are respectively covered with the gardening gloves but it doesn’t seem like he’s broken a sweat with the lack of dirt or sweat coating his form.

A nervous sweat breaks out on Jimin’s brow as he looks from side to side.

“I’m talking to you dude. Hey are you deaf?”

“N-no.”

“Then why didn’t you answer me.” His arms are folded now as he impatiently awaits an answer.

“Because I don’t share my business with strangers.” At this the boy throws on an amused smirk leaning over to whisper in Jimin’s ear.

“What if I told you I could get her over here?” He chuckles at the interest swarming around in Jimin’s eyes.

“I’d like to see you tr-”Jimin can’t even finish his sentence before the boy rushes over to her side.

Jimin stares at him and ___ trying to decipher what is being said but once both their gazes switch over to him he knows he was brought up. Not a moment later they are both making their way over to him. He curses under his breath and shoves the hand shovel into the dirt, furiously digging away at the earth.

“Hey Jimin, Jin said you needed some help?” Her smile has his heart speeding up.

“Uh y-yeah I-I was wondering how exactly I was supposed to plant the seeds.” Jin is standing behind her evil glint in his eyes as he silently laughs at Jimin’s expense. She bends down beside him and he can smell the hard work coming off of her. Something enthralling about the scent has him leaning in a little closer to get a better whiff of her.

“All you have to do is dig a hole about this deep and-”

He tunes her out instead taking in the light sheen of sweat coating her brow. Dirt was painted on every inch of her but she didn’t seem to mind.

“Easy enough?”

“Oh uh yeah thanks.”

“Jin, I expect you to be filthy by the end of the day you got that?”

“Yes ma'am!” He salutes her and she gently pushes his shoulder, urging him to get to work. Once she’s far enough out of earshot Jin bursts into laughter.

Jimin is anything but amused. He glares at Jin, dusting the dirt from his bottom as he stands up.

“Why are you even here if you’re not gonna do any work Jin?”

“I could say the same to you, but I guess I have an idea.” Saying this he turns his head in her direction watching as she talks to fellow volunteers. Jimin huffs a breath out of annoyance chucking his shovel into a nearby bucket and storming off.

Stage Three. Declaration. /ˌdekləˈrāSH(ə)n/. a formal or explicit statement or announcement.

No progress had been made.

The year was nearing its end and he had made no move to further his relationship with her. Aside from the tons of activities he forced himself to join for the sake of being near her, nothing, nada, zilch.

It would be a lie if he said they hadn't gotten close. They’d studied together one on one and in groups. He knew way more about her family than just any old acquaintance, too. The expectations her family full of doctors, lawyers, and politicians had for her. He even knew trivial things that might have slipped out in conversation like her favorite ice cream flavor, pecan butterscotch, and her favorite color.

Gentlemanly manners automatically taking action whenever he was around her. He held doors, made her walk on the inside of the street, even held her bag on occasion.

People around campus thought they were dating, curious as to how the lazy underachiever scored a date with the active overachiever. He was always jumping at the chance to deny such false claims, afraid of scaring her off. He had no idea how hurt she really was at his blunt rejection each time someone asked.

This happened to be one of those times.

They happened to be shopping together when a street vendor unexpectedly stopped them.

“Pretty flowers for your pretty girlfriend?”

“Ah sorry we aren’t together.” Jimin was sporting a sorry expression but the man wasn’t buying it.

“Oh come on no need to be sh-”

“He said we aren’t together now can you please leave us alone?” Her voice was menacing and had the vendor shrinking back over to his stand. Jimin was shocked at how out of character ___ was being, standing there trying to take in what just happened. She didn’t wait for him as she continued walking.

He struggles to keep up with her fierce pace and it turn chooses to jump in front of her.

“What’s your problem? You didn’t have to be so hostile to the poor man.”

“How was I being hostile? I just told him the truth.” Jimin raises both hands in defeat and takes his spot beside her.

“I do not like this side of you.” He says lowly, not for anyone to hear, but she heard.

“Apparently you don’t like any side of me from what you’ve been telling everyone.” She snapped out sharply.

Jimin can’t help but look to her with a brow furrowed in confusion. He had no idea what or where she was going with this.

“I love you, Park Jimin!” She declared suddenly, with no warning.

The street seems to completely go silent as all eyes are on her after hearing such a bold declaration to the blonde haired boy. He was just as shocked as the next guy, never seeing the confession going this way, or coming from her. He subtly pinches his wrist not believing what’s happening right now. The very moment he’s lusted after for so long come and he struggles to find the exact words to respond with.

His silence doesn’t sit well with her as she quickly turns back around and heads into a book store. He comes in after her but she was too fast. When he enters there is no sign of her. He asks around to see if anyone knows where she went but they are no help. He resorts to just scouring the store.

Having looked around ¾’s of the store he finally finds he huddling away in an aisle that might only be known to regulars. Her face is buried in one of those self help books. He would have thought she was actually reading if it weren’t for the barely audible sniveling and the fact the book was upside down.

Not being able to hold it in Jimin’s laugh bubbles out from his throat.

“You think my pain is funny?! Asshole!” She flings the book aiming for his head but he swiftly dodges the hard cover. He walks over and crouches in front of her smoothing down her hair.

“I’m not laughing at you crying. I’m laughing because I’ve loved you for a long time but just never knew when or how to say it, and for you to just blurt it out like that makes me feel like an obsessed idiot for stressing over this.”

The falling of tears slows as she looks up to him like he’s flying. He wraps both of his arms around her, rubbing soothing circles on her back. Once she calms down she sends a punch to his chest.

“Ow what was that for?” He winces out faking hurt.

“That was for making me wait.” She chokes out, half way between laughter and tears.

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I love these things! Can you do 5-50?

5: are you self-conscious of your smile? Sometimes I feel like I smile too much, and I often giggle at inappropriate moments, but my smile itself is fine.

6: do you keep plants? No. I wish I did.

7: do you name your plants? No.

8: what artistic medium do you use to express your feelings?Loads of writing, and lately also a lot of printmaking and typography.

9: do you like singing/humming to yourself? Yes, but only when I’m alone.

10: do you sleep on your back, side, or stomach? Kind of awkwardly sprawled on my side and stomach.

11: what’s an inner joke you have with your friends?@mrs-depp @highwaytovengeance @avenged-seven-times @valovalmieni Chicken nuggets!

12: what’s your favorite planet? Eris.

13: what’s something that made you smile today?I never have to deal with my abusive ex-friend again.

14: if you were to live with your best friend in an old flat in a big city, what would it look like?Very bohemian. We’d have a ton of art supplies, random scraps of newspapers and drawings on the walls, and lots and lots of books. Books are mandatory.

15: go google a weird space fact and tell us what it is! Mark Twain was born on the year when the Halley comet passed, and died on the year when it went by again. Both times he had missed it.

16: what’s your favorite pasta dish? The shrimp linguini my mom makes very rarely.

17: what color do you really want to dye your hair? I don’t want to dye my hair. I just wish my hair naturally grew out of my head in the weird blonde-to-red ombre I have right now, leftover tint from when I dyed my hair back in July.

18: tell us about something dumb/funny you did that has since gone down in history between you and your friends and is always brought up. @voxiferous and I were having a sleepover and it was late at night and trying to figure out writing logistics. This included elvish anatomy and biology and thus the “smaller livers” joke was born. There’s no good way to explain how this conversation started, continued, or ended, but basically we googled and discovered that a smaller liver does not help anything in a humanoid body. And that’s why I’m not a science major.

19: do you keep a journal? What do you write/draw/ in it? Everything. I have so many journals for different things. Sketchbook, notebook, diary, more sketchbooks, bullet journal…

20: what’s your favorite eye color?Soft brown.

21: talk about your favorite bag, the one that’s been to hell and back with you and that you love to pieces. It’s a tie between my Kånken backpack and my Doc Martens purse. Little Black Kånken and I went all over Helsinki together. Originally I was just going to take my Jansport galaxy backpack to my classes while I was studying abroad, but I quickly realized it was too big to fit under most of the seats at the University of Helsinki, and it marked me clearly as a foreigner since Jansport isn’t really popular over there. When I carried my Kånken, people took one look at me, assumed I was Finnish, and I blended in perfectly. And when they tried to speak Finnish to me, saw my blank look, and realized I wasn’t Finnish, they’d occasionally try to speak Swedish to me. I got my Doc bag in Paris. Pickpockets are a real thing, and I didn’t want to wear my backpack while I was in Paris, so on a whim I bought a tank of a bag that carried my sketchbook and pens during my stay. It was new and not broken in at all, so it was basically bulletproof and nobody could have pickpocketed that if they tried. Also could be used as a weapon.

22: are you a morning person? I’d like to be, but I’m not.

23: what’s your favorite thing to do on lazy days where you have 0 obligations?Reading and watching youtube videos.

24: is there someone out there you would trust with every single one of your secrets?@voxiferous

25: what’s the weirdest place you’ve ever broken into?I jumped the fence at the historic girl’s school ruins near where I live.

26: what are the shoes you’ve had for forever and wear with every single outfit?My favorite pair of black Docs finally got too worn out to wear last month. They lasted for eight years, but were no match for the Tuska festival mosh pit, where they lost their watertightness.

27: what’s your favorite bubblegum flavor? Classic regular bubblegum.

28: sunrise or sunset? Sunset.

29: what’s something really cute that one of your friends does and is totally endearing? @lustarcana HHHHHNNNNGHHHHHHHHHH!!!Also @weareinvictus‘s liberal use of the word “pure” to describe everything good.

30: think of it: have you ever been truly scared? Yes.

31: what is your opinion of socks? Do you like wearing weird socks? Do you sleep with socks? Do you confine yourself to white sock hell? Really, just talk about socks. I like socks. I tend to wear plain, dark socks. I do not sleep with socks. I hate white socks. For some reason my socks get holes in them faster than average.

32: tell us a story of something that happened to you after 3am when you were with friends. My best 3AM story isn’t really with friends, more casual acquaintance turned enemy, but it’s good. I’ll post it later because it’s REALLY long.

Edit: It’s here.

33: what’s your fave pastry?Korvapuusti.

34: tell us about the stuffed animal you kept as a kid. What is it called? What does it look like? Do you still keep it? My classic Winnie the Pooh bear (old style teddy, not disney version) still has his place of honor in my bedroom. I never really slept with stuffed animals, preferring dolls, but he was always there to chase away bad dreams.

35: do you like stationary and pretty pens and so on? Do you use them often?Stickers and pretty pens are the best. Also stickie notes.

36: which band’s sound would fit your mood right now?Folie à Deux-era Fall Out Boy.

37: do you like keeping your room messy or clean?Tidy chaos. Everything has a place, but it looks messy to the untrained eye.

38: tell us about your pet peeves! People who ask dumb questions. People who sit/stand way too close. People who are super obsessed with famous people to the point of having no identity outside of fandom (see response to 32). People who stalk celebrities.

39: what color do you wear the most? Black.

40: think of a piece of jewelry you own: what’s it’s story? Does it have any meaning to you? The heartagram necklace I have I got at a HIM concert in 2014. I took it with me on study abroad. K noticed me wearing it and said he ought to sell something like it in his shop. I wore it once upon a time because I’m a fan of HIM, but now I wear it because I’m a fan of K. I think of it as the Valo family crest.

41: what’s the last book you remember really, really loving?I reread Tithe by Holly Black a week ago. I still love it.

42: do you have a favorite coffee shop? Describe it! Ipi Kulmakuppila in Kallio. Just up the street from K’s shop, very hipster-y place, but the people are nice, the space is very open, and I went there a lot while in Helsinki.

43: who was the last person you gazed at the stars with?Pretty sure it was on New Year’s Eve when I was standing on the porch with Butterfly. It was freezing and neither of us had a coat, but in the middle of our conversation I looked up at the stars and he looked up with me and that was that.

44: when was the last time you remember feeling completely serene and at peace with everything?About a week ago when I thought I was completely done with the issues of my toxic ex-friend, before this fresh wave of chaos from him began.

45: do you trust your instincts a lot? Not nearly as much as I should.

46: tell us the worst pun you can think of. Anything about Finnishing something for my study abroad paperwork.

47: what food do you think should be banned from the universe?Any icing with way too much food dye.

48: what was your biggest fear as a kid? Is it the same today? Dying in a fire. Yes.

49: do you like buying cds and records? What was the last one you bought?I don’t. The last one I bought was a sampler CD that came with a Kerrang magazine in a thrift store in Helsinki. It’s not good.

50: what’s an odd thing you collect? 4-leaf clovers.

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for that weird headcanon thingo- allura, lance, hunk, shiro, pidge, and keith. :3c

SO MUCH www

Allura! Ok prepare for an essay about my wife;

What they smell like: Mostly like shampoo. So much hair??? Smells a little like Kenzo’s Flower perfume.

How they sleep (sleeping position, schedule, etc): Side sleeper, no set schedule. She sleeps in bouts of 3-4.5 hours whenever feels like it/has the time, but is easily anxious and sometimes! Just cannot.

What music they enjoy: ??? I feel like most of the time, she just likes white noise bc that doesn’t interfere with her thought process. Otherwise, she doesn’t like any specific genre or band, just random songs that she finds catchy.

How much time they spend getting ready every morning: about 10-15 on a regular day. Hair is brushed and tied up night before so she can just undo it and look amazing in 2 seconds, outfits coordinated last night (unless she’s coording with someone) so maybe 3-5 minutes changing clothes and picking accessories, makeup is maybe 7 minutes for moisturizer, bb, eyeliner, eyeshadow, mascara, lip tint. 30 minutes if she showers in the morning instead of at night.

Their favorite thing to collect: Photos of her friends and family. She wishes she had more photos of her parents and friends from Altea, but covering her bedroom walls in photos of the new people in her life make up for it, a little. (the first thing the team gets her when they go to earth is a polaroid camera, you know, the hipster kine.)

Left or right-handed: Right, but sliiiightly ambidexterous.

Religion (if any): Probably whatever was the dominant religion on Altea, though she’s probably out of touch with it now.

Favorite sport: Wife throwing ilu Shiro An Altean version of basketball but in zero-G with jetpacks. She’s also gotten into surfing thanks to Hunk and Lance.

Favorite touristy thing to do when traveling (museums, local food, sightseeing, etc): Sightseeing, esp to see natural wonders of the planet and historical landmarks. She likes seeing how other planets have changed over the 10k years she’s been out. Taking part in the culture and getting to know the people is also handy since she’s a diplomat.

Favorite kind of weather: Since rain on Altea was, like, glass and on fire, she preferred clear weather. Once they get to Earth, she still prefers sun bc she likes outdoor activities and humidity makes her hair annoyingly high-maintenance, but she enjoys storms that are so bad the day is cancelled and everyone hangs out and they cook on a gas burner and play card games by lamplight. But, everyone enjoys those days.

A weird/obscure fear they have: mushrooms in places mushrooms shouldn’t be.

The carnival/arcade game they always win without fail: Carnival games: any strength-based games 100% she’s got. But she’s also fairly good at knocking shit down with balls.

OK ONE ESSAY DONE. LANCE NOW.

What they smell like: b4 covering himself in three entire cans of axe like the doucheass he is? Laundry soap and dryer sheets. Very slightly of skin/haircare products, if you’re face-to-face with him. Overall, very nice b4 the axe.

How they sleep (sleeping position, schedule, etc): A morning person, generally sleeps before 11 and gets up at 5 or 6 feeling great. Back sleeper, is perfectly still in his sleep and sleeps like a fuckin’ rock.

What music they enjoy: He loves music! He has a lot of acoustic covers, some of which he did, and a couple of songs he wrote himself. His music library is mostly pop, stuff that’s good to sing along to, the occasional rock or rap song…and a ton of anime OPS and J-pop from the weeb phase he never QUITE outgrew and K-pop that he knows the dances to by heart. He’s only a little ashamed that he can sing all the way through Snow Halation and Go!!! but knows like 7 words in Japanese.

How much time they spend getting ready every morning: It’s bad. Depends on if he has a uniform or is stuck in space with one set of clothes. Shower is necessary, 10-15 minutes. Skincare is 10 minutes to apply, 10 minutes to sink in while he wanders around his room naked, drying off and picking out an outfit. 5 more minutes to remove and then do toner and moisturizer. Changing is like a minute, but then accessorizing and re-picking his outfit takes maybe another 5-10. Hair is usually less than a minute unless it’s being especially uncooperative. Makeup is blessedly just BB, eyebrows, shadow and liner on a regular day. 10 minutes. Total time is about an hour, but he can cut it down to 30 minutes if he MUST.

Their favorite thing to collect: Skincare products. You know that bin of product Stef has in the bathroom? That times like 5.

Left or right-handed: Right.

Religion (if any): …I’m honestly not sure? I feel like he’d follow whatever his family follows. Maybe catholic?

Favorite sport: Surfing, then beach volleyball, then basketball.

Favorite touristy thing to do when traveling (museums, local food, sightseeing, etc): Local food and shopping. He bring back omiyage for days if he’s not travelling with the team.

Favorite kind of weather: Sun, he also likes going out.

A weird/obscure fear they have: Too many birds at once.

The carnival/arcade game they always win without fail: Shooters, rhythm games. Music gun gun is his jam. He is also the currenT DDR champion of the team, although Shiro and Hunk are returning challengers. He’s also hands down the best at that one sniper game.

god these are so long holy shit. HunK THO:

What they smell like: A REASONABLE amount of TASTEFUL cologne and a little laundry softener. Not the douchey kind that smells vaguely of money. Otherwise, smells like whatever’s cooking, or coffee.

How they sleep (sleeping position, schedule, etc): Side sleeper also, holds things. Also a morning person, but a little later than Lance at 11-12 to 6-7. Sleeps light and moves, snores slightly if he ends up facedown.

What music they enjoy: he has a few songs Lance sang for him in the library. He ALSO does covers on ukulele or guitar (Mostly ukulele) and has a few original songs he did, but doesn’t record them for the most part. Lots of rock and alternative, some pop, some acoustic covers, some music he picked up from the others (just the catchy stuff)

How much time they spend getting ready every morning: To make up for Lance, he takes about 15 minutes. Quick shower if it’s hot (long showers at night) an all-in-one toner/serum/moisturizer that Lance got him on, brush teeth, comb hair, change clothes, done. He usually has time to make breakfast.

Their favorite thing to collect: Tools, gadgets, materials, etc. Stuff he can scrap and use to build new stuff. Similar to Pidge’s collection, but more focused on hardware. They usually cooperate on projects, so this works out.

Left or right-handed: Right, but pretty capable with left.

Religion (if any): Not really, but his family is Catholic.

Favorite sport: Surfing, hiking and judo if those count.

Favorite touristy thing to do when traveling (museums, local food, sightseeing, etc): Getting to experience the culture. Local food and talking to the people and taking part in the culture. He looooves the universal translator.

Favorite kind of weather: Rain, and storm parties.

A weird/obscure fear they have: Shiro in his kitchen wormy lookin bugs

The carnival/arcade game they always win without fail: ALSO good at shooters and rhythm games. Taiko no Tatsujin reigning champion and a returning competitor for Lance’s DDR crown. Also Lance’s music gun gun partner, they literally never play with anyone else.

oK SHIRO:

What they smell like: Clean. Just like soap and deodorant. Kinda fob, actually. Maybe kinda sweaty if he’s been fighting or training or something.

How they sleep (sleeping position, schedule, etc): side sleeper, tends to curl up a bit and needs to have something or someone pressed against his back, so will wedge himself between pillows or against the wall. Will also spoon anything left in arms reach. Moves a lot, sleeps light, prone to nightmares and sleeptalking. Also restless and prone to anxiety whenever he’s trying to relax, so he doesn’t sleep much. A night owl, he usually sleeps from 3-10, give or take an hour.

What music they enjoy: Probably indie stuff, mostly. Kinda hipster stuff, he’s the type that has favorite bands.

How much time they spend getting ready every morning: 30 if he showers, 15 if not. Skincare/makeup is just moisturizer, then bb and eyeliner and MAYBE shadow if he’s feelin’ it. Change clothes, brush teeth, hair wax if necessary, and good to go. Except he’s tired for like an hour after he wakes up so.

Their favorite thing to collect: Books, star charts, stuff about space. He was kind of obsessed and is still pretty fascinated.

Left or right-handed: He was reaLLY right hand dominant, but the prosthetic lacks some precision for certain tasks so he’s adapted to be more ambidextrous. His handwriting is appalling and he can’t use chopsticks anymore.

Religion (if any): some branch of buddhism he grew up with, but he doesn’t think about it much.

Favorite sport: If martial arts counts, judo, then basketball.

Favorite touristy thing to do when traveling (museums, local food, sightseeing, etc): Museums and festivals. Enjoys the history and science, and festivals are fun.

Favorite kind of weather: Storms and rain. He likes being outside in the rain and running through puddles and shit. Will come home looking like he showered fully dressed bc he was out playing in the rain like a fuckin five year old.

A weird/obscure fear they have: Isopods

The carnival/arcade game they always win without fail: ALSO good at throwing shit at carnivals, but generally monopolizes any and all racing games with Keith at arcades. Challenges Lance to DDR regularly but has, like, a 6:1 loss-win ratio. Shiro’s not bad at it; Lance is just really good.

PIDGE

What they smell like: Coffee. Depending on how invested they get in a project, they might smell kinda sweaty from hours of nonstop work, but usually someone stops them and reminds them to eat, sleep and shower every 24 hours.

How they sleep (sleeping position, schedule, etc): stomach sleeper, drapes over things. They don’t sleep so much as they crash at about 4 AM, or they power through it and when they’ve finished whatever they were working on they crash for like 15 hours. Sleeps like they’re dead, and is out wherever they fall. Is often carried to bed by their team when found passed out in a hallway or something.

What music they enjoy: Uhh probably like punk rock or something. Regrettably appreciates Keith’s shitty music library.

How much time they spend getting ready every morning: They roll out of bed and usually remember to brush their teeth. They shower if they didn’t the night before and get back to whatever they were working on.

Their favorite thing to collect: Scraps. Like Hunk, old devices and robots and gadgets that they gut later for parts, with a heavier focus on software. Hunk and Pidge share collections, but Hunk’s is organized and neat while Pidge’s is a pile in a corner of their lab.

Left or right-handed: Left.

Religion (if any): None

Favorite sport: They aren’t super sporty, not that they dislike physical activity, they just find normal sports too boring and the rules annoying so they make up games to play with the team. So far capture the flag with floor-is-lava rules and Assassin are their favorites.

Favorite touristy thing to do when traveling (museums, local food, sightseeing, etc): Museums definitely, especially on other planets. they prefer the sciencey-ones and will also try to stop by libraries and universities they pass.

Favorite kind of weather: Clear, because rain means slow internet, though they also like the storm parties.

A weird/obscure fear they have: Being abandoned by the team. Despite being an invaluable and much-loved member of the team, they aren’t super social and worry occasionally that they’ll be left out. This is never the case, though.

The carnival/arcade game they always win without fail: The bishibashi master, first of all, and also somehow really good at any carnival game involving throwing stuff. Rings, darts, etc.

ANNNNND KEITH FINALLY.

What they smell like: Line dried clothes and sweat, but not in a bad way, just very natural. Smells like shampoo for hours after a shower, tho (bc thick hair) which is nice.

How they sleep (sleeping position, schedule, etc): side sleeper, no set schedule. Like Allura, he sleeps whenever he’s tired and feel he needs it, in 3-6 hour bursts. Sleeps light. Also after returning to earth, he never has a bed of his own–he sleeps in his car, under the stars, in rented rooms, or on the couch when he’s alone. Otherwise, he sleeps next to a team member. None of them usually mind.

What music they enjoy: Obscure indie rock, punk rock, and whatever’s on. Also acoustic covers. Also likes that Lance sings at him.

How much time they spend getting ready every morning: Like, ten minutes. He showers at night and wears most of his clothes when he sleeps so he just rolls out of bed, washes his face, brushes his teeth and maybe brushes his hair or ties it up. Done.

Their favorite thing to collect: otHER PEOPLE’S SHIT. Why’d he have Shiro’s clothes when he found him in the desert? Stole all his shit. Where’s Lance’s bathrobe? Keith has it. Pidge’s notebook? Keith. Why are you wearing Hunk’s jacket? Are those Allura’s hairpins? Did Coran SAY you could use that glass? Things get back to their owners eventually, except some small things they just let him keep.

Left or right-handed: Right dominant but is slightly ambidexterous. His left hand writing is legible, but ugly.

Religion (if any): none

Favorite sport: Again if martial arts count; aikido, which has come in handy oFTEN bc he was a tiny kid. In general he likes any kind of close-combat bc he’s gooD at it; sports in general he’s not stellar at bc short legs.

Favorite touristy thing to do when traveling (museums, local food, sightseeing, etc): Local food, but mostly bc he likes eating. He just likes exploring in general so as long as they’re seeing new stuff he’s interested.

Favorite kind of weather: Another person who likes to play in the rain, but is more likely to take an umbrella and stay half dry at least. Likes relaxing indoors and warming back up afterwards.

A weird/obscure fear they have: plants that know too much.

The carnival/arcade game they always win without fail: He’s pretty tied with Shiro at, like, every racing arcade game ever.

#thiS WAS SO LONG BC I CANT SHUT UP #anon-tan #replies #thankkkk :>#kyesspeaks

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