#rai replies

[raideoarts]

pointy teeth foo fighters! foo gone full SHORK. dun dun dun dun

I love drawing foof with pointy teefs! :3

#sorry this sucks i drew it on my phone with my finger lmao #rai replies #jjba foo fighters #jojo foo fighters #jjba #stone ocean #raideo arts

[raideo]

woe, crabs be upon u

YESSSSSS!!!!!

#CRAB #crab day #crab day 2023 #time for crab #tungle dot hell #rai replies #THANK YOU

[hyunpic]

#hyunjin #🧼 #skz #these were my faves.. he replied to so many comments but waaHHHHHH #he really feels like a warm ray of sunlight on a foggy morning 💘 #i feel so bubbly inside after all of his comments.. like i feel like a lil soda just fizzy with love for him 😔 #feeling like i was meant to love him in every life 😔

[silver-embersss]

...which one's which

#there IS a right answer #will I tell anyone it? #no #TRG watchers please let me know your opinions in the replies i WILL judge you <3 #the real ghostbusters #egon spengler #peter venkman #ray stantz #winston zeddemore #ember.txt #ghostbusters

[0sbrain]

@rayclubs helped me to make a funny

([email protected])

#tf2 #medic tf2 #photoshop crashed 3 times and i lost my will to make this look good #thanks ray! this was really fun to do! #disclaimer: this might not work 100% well #update: it doesn't work :( #ill show the automated reply later :( #transgender fortress 2

[piraytoro]

hi important question . what are your top ten favorite ray images

That IS a very important question. However asking me to pick my favorite ray toro images is like asking me to pick a favorite child. Or a favorite movie, or song. Or book. Or Pokémon. Idk I was supposed to be a Libra and according to Gabe Saporta this means something. So instead I will tell you my ten favorite genres of Toro post, with two examples of each that are not my favorites but simply the first ones I can find on my camera roll that fit the category.

1) Most beautiful man you’ve ever seen in your life. Self-explanatory.

2) Hair in his face and all you can see is his million dollar megawatt smile.

3) Still the most beautiful man you’ve ever seen but he doesn’t know how to smile on command for photographs.

4) Gamergirl/On his puter

5) Pictures where there is a mirror there (aka hey elle why does your mom let you have TWO ray toros in one image)

6) He is singing

7) Loves his friends

8) Beverage

9) He is on his back and food is involved somehow

10) Ray with little guys

Honorable Mention: There is a 30 image limit. Here are the next 10 ray images in my camera roll

#ray toro #my chemical romance #mcr #my chem #replies #charbutonmain #he is so so so so beautiful #thank you for this ask ily #rimages be upon ye! #none of these are sourced bc they’re from my camera roll but they have all been sourced elsewhere on tumblr #you can find them all in my ‘my chem’ tag! #long post #my posts

[howlonomy]

What are your notes looking like after monster Clover blew up?

absolute chaos AHDJFDK regularly waking up to 200+ notes is pretty funny

#asked and answered #ray rambles #a lot ofthe time its just someone who finds the au and goes thru and likes/rbs every mclover post ever #its really funny #i try not to miss fun tags and replies and mentions but its very easy for things to get lost so im sorry if i did!!

[signedjehanne]

dear white bandom tumblr, what the hell do you want us to say?

i’m tired. i’m really, really tired. 

look, what do you want us to say at this point? this was supposed to be a safe space, for the freaks and the outcasts, but we’ve long established that it is very much not safe. it’s crystal fucking clear.

and honestly, pretty much every white user on here is actively contributing to the hostility here. whether you like it or not, it’s not good to only reblog empty reassurances of anti-racism that do more service to yourself than to others. it’s not good to see poc on the dash trying to educate the white majority and doing everything possible to educate you, and either A) ignore it, B) like it, but don’t reblog it, because god forbid you sit with your discomfort for more than five seconds, or C) send racist anon hate to the original poster, or try to deflect their points. it’s not good to see something racist and let it slide. let me get this straight: none of these fans of color owe you anything. fans of color don’t owe you the time of day, fans of color don’t owe you education, and fans of color don’t owe you the dignity of a levelheaded reply in response to your racist comments. 

often times, we try to educate because we want this space to change. i mean, i didn’t have to write a five paragraph essay dissecting anti asian racism in mcr’s content. i did it because i was angry, and tired, and frustrated, and wanted the space to change. the same reason that every other ignored dissection and analysis that spent blood, sweat, tears, and emotional labor to make was created. a lot of the time you guys just don’t understand how much effort things like that take. and to be clear, this is not just the usual “oh my post didn’t go viral and i’m not a celebrity i’m so sad,” this is “i poured all of myself into trying to educate people that turned out to never care. i have been blatantly shown that the people around me aren’t interested in changing, no matter how much they claim to be.” 

and like, do you want me and countless other users to go in depth again? do you want us to jump from racist incident to racist incident? to hold your hand through explaining why making art of ray being arrested is bad, why gerard’s fetishization of asian people is bad, why making rising sun art and designs is bad, why reducing all of pete wentz’s work to being about mikey way is bad, why shaming people with non-european features for “not looking emo enough” is bad, why insulting and degrading pete and ray for their natural features is bad, why cropping ray out of tour videos is bad, why calling people slurs in their askboxes is bad? (and so much more that i didn’t add.) do you want us to go over the history of racism in alternative spaces as a whole? do you expect us to do all of those things for you on a whim, to make it palatable to you, as if we weren’t real people with real feelings behind the screen and as if we had infinite time and emotional energy? really? when there are many resources already out there, both online and offline? 

what all this tells me is you don’t see us as human. simple as that. you expect us to be able to take the abuse, to be able to silently let your racism pass, and if we ever speak up, you ignore the work we give to you and demand inhuman feats of patience and generosity, answering your every question and responding to your every debate and coddling you as you refuse to sit with the reality of the space you’ve helped to create. and that’s only if you claim to be on our side. 

it’s insane hearing you try to placate yourselves. trying to mindlessly agree without looking inward. i know this sounds harsh, but i know that most of you need to hear it. i just want this space to actually change, like i was begging for back in january and february. of course, i was foolish to believe that it ever would. and i’m foolish now, writing this as if people are ever going to pay attention. even if it does break a few hundred notes, it’s not like the message is going to stick around. sure, you’re “doing the work”, “listening and learning”, but how am i supposed to know that when your responses never change, and this scene stays the same as it ever was?

#seb speaks #mcr #fob #my chemical romance #fall out boy #gerard way #frank iero #ray toro #mikey way #pete wentz #bandom racism #racism cw #long post #prematurely turning asks and replies off #if you want to say something say it with your chest. #i'm literally terrified to post this because i KNOW white fans will be mad about #having to sit with discomfort #but. idk it needs to be said #if you don't hear from me for a while just know that the pressure from them got too much #this wasn't sparked by anything in particular i had just been noticing it for ages and ages and got fed up as usual

[puppetsoftomorrow]

i think a fun character trait for ava in s3 would have been she's inexplicably good at everything like. she arrives on the ship like. what do you mean none of you can dance the tarantella. what do you mean none of you can rewire a toaster. what do you mean none of you know all the lyrics to orinoco flow. what do you mean mone of you can read pig latin. what do you mean -

#phoebe returns #i know ray cld probably take apart a toaster #but i believe he could Not put it together again #tell me in the replies more things ava is good at lmao

[casteliacityramen]

Previously: Hana ordered a bowl of Kitsune Udon and Ray asked a rather deep question to which Hana responded with clarity. @pokitsune

Ray listens attentively. But, as Hana takes a pensive stop to think, his hands sneakily shifts to the x-transceiver behind the counter away from their view.

Sounds easy enough...

His attention is brought back to Hana as they started to talk once more. Other than a slight twitch at the words "I hated it-", Ray gives Hana his full attention..

It wasn't long until Rio came back.

She trots off, shooting a thoughtful glance over to Hana to see if her presence bothered them any longer. Nevertheless, she continues to do some "book keeping" away from Hana’s area–most likely to give them the reprieve from the cynophobia she was informed about.

After unpacking the groceries, Ray takes stock of what he has in front of him.

Hana has already humored him with a deep response to a heavy question, so to keep them waiting without food would just be rude. He’s going to have to work with what he’s got and take short cuts.

Short cuts or not, this was a delicate operation. Skipping the steps to soak the seaweed to boil it might risk a bitter and slimy stock if boiled too long. Take time too little to twice fry the tofu and you’ll end up with a sad addition of soggy tofu. He has to time it right…

The broth shimmers with golden clarity. The noodles look like they are not too firm and not too soft. While there may be traces of some of the spice falling to the bottom of the bowl, it looks complete and carefully concocted.

A tasteful addition of the necessary toppings sit proudly on top. The Inari-Age looks like it's not typical of what you'd expect from Kitsune Udon, but reminiscent of the sweet and salty taste despite its hardened and crispy texture.

This is the type of a lunch that will have you ready to take on the afternoon without feeling too bloated. 

By all accounts, Ray thinks he did a pretty good job. He’s quite proud of himself for this one. 

I followed this recipe to do some research!

I gave myself the limitation of "ok there's a customer who needs their food asap." So 10-15 minutes max. Here's what I found:

The recipe is absolutely right in claiming that dashi powder isn't as good as homebrewed dashi. HOWEVER I live in a place where Japanese ingredients are hard to come by. I'm actually surprised I didn't find bonito flakes.

You can skip the soaking konbu part, but I hiiiighly recommend it. You'll end up with a broth that doesn't feel complete if you skip this part. Speaking of broth, udon noodles are also extremely filling--if you make a broth with it, it better not be heavy because you'll be a vegetable after you eat. But if you get all the ingredients right, you'll end up with a good meal that I totally forgot to take a picture of. Just imagine it's what I drew because that looks better anyway

I didn't read the instructions close enough--the inari-age is supposed to be a marinated/seasoned in dashi, soy sauce, and mirin. I just had bland tofu puffs... In my defense, there's a lot of Japanese terms thrown around and the recipe blog was un-intuitive to follow.

Granted, there's absolutely no way you can make inari-age in the span of 20 minutes, especially if you're making the tofu from scratch. One way to change that, however, would probably be in the process of combining the seasoning/marinating process with the frying process. I can't confirm this, I haven't tried it and I was getting too antsy to let this reply go unfinished.

#if you wanna hear me ramble about udon you can peep the readmore #pokeask #ray #rio #pokemon ask blog #plot #this reply took so long because of a lot of life stuff BUT we're back on track now #udon #greninja #rockruff #pokemon bw #pokemon #pokemon fanart #ask

[friendlyfatbee]

do you still need aod drawing suggestions? how about angels in karaoke booth? 👁️👁️

Zack then proceeded to miss the one word in the entire song.

#yeah this is referencing how the song Tequila by The Champs just has Tequila said three times and no other words #aka easiest karaoke song ever #but thank you for the ask! :> #my art #my reply #shitpost #angels of death #aod #angels of slaughter #satsuriku no tenshi #Issac foster #Zack foster #rachel gardner #ray gardner

[darubyprincx]

responses you can give to people asking you rude/invasive/homo or transphobic questions at school:

"what's in your pants? / do you have a penis or a vagina?"

look at them for a really long time then go as disgustedly as you can manage "i don't want to fuck you"

"do you have a warrant?" (if they ask about what that means, say that you need proof in writing that theyre allowed to do that. if they write it down on paper then politely ask for the paper and eat it in front of them)

"dude, what the fuck"

"are you a boy or a girl?"

"i'm... pretty sure her room is downstairs? maybe you could ask [teacher] i don't know"

"sorry, i've sworn off false dichotomies"

"i'm not going to fuck you"

"really? you're going to ask me that in front of my [subject] assignment?"

"don't worry about it"

"are you gay?"

"what is this, twenty questions?"

"did you know that some species of antarctic sea sponges can live for over a thousand years? i can find you an article if you want" / other unrelated fact

some responses i've used that cover all of these questions are "are you a cop?", "legally i can't tell you that", "who are you again?", and my personal favorite, which is just silent prolonged eye contact

#ray's tag #these are only to be used if somebody doesnt shut up by the way. i know youre going to be tempted to reply with an epic clapback #but i promise you honey you have better things to use your energy for

[raideo]

What app did you use for your nutrition stuff?

Oh MY GOD i am so sorry I never replied to this!!! anon I hope you're out there and you see this 🥲

Anyway the app I use is called LoseIt! I wish it had a different name/icon tbh bc it's weight loss centric but it is crazy useful for tracking other things as well. Unfortunately i think the free version doesn't do quite as much but ive used the free version before and its still useful for remembering what you ate, it might have less functionality when it comes to tracking your macros and micros, sodium, sugar etc.

You can set your limits too, i strong recommend doing some supplemental research on what ratios you need based on your body type and not just take the stock recommendations at face value. There's different diets you can try also, like protein heavy diets geared towards curbing hunger, I'm personally trying to do a loose attempt at the Mediterranean diet as far as the ratio of healthy fats/carbs/protein is concerned. Definitely don't get too bogged down in counting calories, just make sure you get the right nutrition and i stg you will feel better and if weight loss is a goal for you it will come easier when you have more energy and don't feel like a zombie all the time. You can be heavy and healthy 👍

And for the love of god drink more water

The 8 cups a day thing is bullshit, a lot of people actually need way more, and don't try to drink it all at once you can make yourself rly sick!

#rai replies #anon #nutrition

[yel-ashaya]

I hope some people — especially those budding writers — find this post helpful!

I’m an English teacher and one of my responsibilities is to teach creative writing, whether it’s description, a short story or the beginning of a longer story.

Here are some helpful tips I give my students:

Language

1. Show, don’t tell. This means to let me, as a reader, imagine what the scene looks like. How do I know a character is scared? Is their thinking disorientated? Are they short of breath? Are they sweating? Don’t simply say, “She was scared.”

2. Stay away from cliches. Reading something like “It sent shivers down my spine” or “My heart was pounding” really spoils the mood in something like a horror/thriller/Gothic story.

3. Appeal to the senses. Instead of telling me what the scene/character looks like, tell me what is smells, sounds or feels like. (Admittedly, taste might be quite hard!)

4. Don’t sacrifice description for dialogue. It’s enough to say “He/she/they said”. There’s no need to look up fancy synonyms for “said” as you’re writing will end up looking weird and forced. I never want to read “He expostulated” or “She sighed”

5. Use more than similes, metaphors and personification. You could use the rule of three, hyperbole, rhetorical questions

6. Vary sentence lengths. You could have a one-word sentence, a simple sentence, a complex sentence, a compound sentence and a compound-complex sentence. You could even use a sentence fragment. Don’t overuse the idea of the one-word sentence!

Simple sentence (one independent clause): I kicked the ball.

Complex sentence (two or more independent clauses): I kicked the ball because I wanted to.

Compound sentence (one independent clause and one or more dependent clause): I kicked the ball, and it hit Tom.

Compound-complex (two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clause): I kicked the ball because I wanted to, and it hit Tom.

Sentence fragment (adds onto a previous sentence): I kicked the ball, and it hit Tom. Hard.

Triple (three related words listed): Cold, fragile, vulnerable.

A one-word sentence: Abandoned.

7. Contrast a character’s internal thoughts with their external actions. This isn’t to show that a character is two-faced. This is to tell your reader that something might not be quite right, that the character is thinking one thing and then doing another. Perhaps they’re scared or confused?

8. Use pathetic fallacy. This is when the weather reflects a character’s mood. Very simply, if it’s raining and dark, the character will feel sad; if it’s sunny and warm, the character will feel happy

9. Redraft, redraft, redraft. Write your work, and then use a thesaurus to improve word choices. Be careful though of mis-using words e.g. “Pulchritudinous smile” might sound better than “Beautiful smile” but it really sounds silly. In addition, sometimes simpler really is better e.g. the sentence “The snarling professor floated genially past us” doesn’t make sense at all! Sometimes it really is better to say “He walked”!

10. Vary the start of your sentences

Start with an adverb: Mercilessly lashing the window panes, the rain never ceased.

Start with a present participle: Lashing the window panes mercilessly, the rain never ceased.

Structure

1. Use cyclical structure. This means to mention an idea/word/theme/thing at the start of your writing, and to mention it again at the end. Using cliffhangers is lazy, and it often leaves readers unfulfilled.

2. Use a repeated motif. Repeat an idea/word/theme/thing throughout your work. This can be anything e.g. mention the weather, mention a character’s internal monologue.

3. Include a contrast. Could you contrast the mood at the beginning with the mood at the end? Could you contrast a character’s internal thoughts with their external actions/words?

4. Don’t keep the story in one time or place. Flash back or forwards to a different time period. Flash to a different location, perhaps from inside to outside.

5. Zoom in on a tiny detail (a grain of sand, a leaf, a beetle, someone’s thoughts), and then zoom out to deceive the bigger picture (the weather, the landscape).

Any other tips?

Read, read, read! An author I particularly recommend for getting inspiration about crafting dialogue, imagery and narrative is Ray Bradbury.

#writing tips #fanfiction #fic #creative writing #I hope I haven’t patronised anyone! #ray bradbury #I will add to this list #please reply in the comments or tags if you have any other top tips

[raiswanson]

so I may have decided to work on a short (or...a series of shorts) that serves as backstory/a prequel to another cluster of WIPs, instead of working on the WIPs themselves, and--

-drops a gift- uh merry christmas happy new year idk -sprints away-

Another snippet shared in [this] post!

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“I plead for your protection, honored one. For safety.” I wet my lips, all too aware of how many eyes were watching from the corners of the room. “My family aims to send me away for their own gain, but I wish for happiness. I will not sacrifice myself for them.”

A low chuckle rumbled through the roost. “Are familial ties not precious to mortals? Do you not consider such sacrifice to be your duty?” He asked, amber eyes glowing through the thin curtain.

I stood taller before realizing it could be taken as defiance and tipped my head forward again. “This mortal does not,” I said through gritted teeth. My hands trembled as I reached for my collar—not from fear, from rage—and unbuttoned it to reveal my throat, still ringed in vibrant bruises from choking fingers. “I’ve given enough in the name of family. I desire only freedom.”

Silence answered. Long enough that my gaze slid toward the attending priests, certain I’d been dismissed before I could finish pleading my case. But no, their eyes remained on the curtain. Waiting. Listening. I took a steadying breath and remained on the platform, tapping out the seconds on my knuckles.

“Why have you come here, to me?” He asked finally, and I was surprised to hear what could almost be genuine curiosity in His voice. “My sister by the sea is better known for offering safety to those who plead her favor, and I am certainly not known for the same generosity. Yet you made the long, hard journey to my cliffs instead. You will find little protection here. Seekers come to me for vengeance. Power. I fear you’ve come to the wrong place, mortal.”

#writing #rai writes #Three Hill Bluff #Song of Freedom #''I will work on Silent One'' I said. full of hubris and hope #''But what if we focus on something that happened hundreds of years BEFORE that???'' brain replied. with a sly smile #''oh no'' I whispered hours later with a 4k long doc of notes in front of me #anyway its not what I PLANNED on working at but Im having fun and it IS useful to me so #I guess this is what Im going to be poking for a bit lol

[ask-the-shiny-pokemons]

(Response) @johto-succession

Translation Protocol - Activated

Test test. Hopefully ya can understand me. Sorry if I caused you a bit of a shock when I used my Rotie, but anyway, I'll ask you again: I see you havin' some nice headphones. Are you perhaps a music fan? If so, can you recommend some songs to listen?

#rp reply #rimilycanroc #ray #pokemon #pokeask #/ have a sketchy (and messy) response (mostly how p2h is working within other universes if humans cannot understand mons) #/ also sorry if he is a bit off I'm still sucker at drawing hair and doing human perspective