#the way i had to do so much to get the colors poppin in this video ... my god

[nymphbroadcast]

Heartslabyul x MC! like Rosie

⊹Synopsis ⊹ೃ 🌹⋆The Heartslabyul boys with a MC! or Yuu like Rosie.

⊹Relationship ⊹ೃ 🌹⋆ Fall in love / free of interpretation.

⊹FEM! MC/Yuu/Reader ⊹ೃ 🌹⋆

⊹Clarifications: I changed the fact that MC! Rosie is a cannibal for obvious reasons and the age of the reader is not specified in case they want to interpret themselves as another species that is not human. I specify that MC! has great talent in the kitchen because Auntie Rosie really gives me THAT expert cook vibes.

⊹Rosie's Analysis ⊹ೃ 🌹⋆

• Rosie is a capable and articulate woman, quite gentle and friendly but no one knows if she is really honest, she is intelligent, patient, courteous, elegant and charming when interacting with others. She is especially kind and affectionate with those she considers her friends, she is very close to her group and is a very good and efficient leader, just as she is kind she can also be intimidating and authoritarian when she wants, her jokes can be somewhat old, which She is right with her taste for the old and old-fashioned, she is good at giving advice and can even offer to solve other people's problems herself, she is a kind host, giving her guests a place to sit and rest and offering to give them food before accepting listen to their problems and possibly offer help, however she also has her dark side, being someone very intelligent and astute, it is relatively easy for her to find people's weaknesses or virtues and manipulate them to her convenience. Among her tastes are cooking, old-fashioned music and meat, she is talented in areas such as cooking and music, especially in singing and charisma, and it is easy to get attached to her and her intelligence, deducing quick solutions to problems.

Riddle Rosehearts

🌹Riddle sees you as a kind of mother, the way you speak to him and see him proudly when he has an achievement makes his little heart feel warm with the maternal affection that he never really had.

🌹 You are his best advisor when he feels overwhelmed or stressed, your calm attitude helps him calm down and think with a cool head.

🌹 Your taste for old or outdated doesn't really bother him, in fact he finds it cute that you look like an ancient woman despite you're apparently being his age.

🌹 Riddle thanks you for calming down the uni-neural duo Adeuce's antics and keeping them calm at least for a while, before you has to be dragged with them into another problem.

🌹 Riddle probably didn't see many movies growing up and only saw a few with his mother, so he probably knows Mary Poppins and might find it curious how much you look like that old character.

🌹 Riddle loves your style and how you combine it with the aesthetics of his dorm, the red and pink colors with black in your elegant and sophisticated outfits remind him a lot of roses and in general of his dorm, along with your good education and good manners he thanks heaven (Crowley) that for once he doesn't have to deal with another troublemaker.

🌹 Due to his closed thinking, Riddle is glad that you like old music, because his mother used to listen to that type when he was younger and almost automatically he learned it by heart, so there are times when both of them do duets in private, singing songs that almost no one at school could recognize.

🌹 The first time he saw your imposing and somewhat... sadistic side... he was paralyzed, for the first time he saw you approach someone without your kind smile and instead it was a smile almost without emotions and as if you were about to eat someone alive (wink~ wink~), at that moment he swore never to turn you against him and even less to get you angry.

🌹 Hiss tea parties are the best since you are present at them and accompany him, your conversations never bore him, whether it is a story of mischief with the duo Adeuce and Grimm or that you have heard some gossip from a student, you always have something what to tell him.

Ace Trappola

♥ YOU HAVE BEEN PROMOTED TO UNOFFICIAL GODMOTHER OF ACE-

♥ This boy is very prone to getting himself and the others around him into trouble, so luckily you are there to control his recklessness.

♥ When Ace is angry or frustrated, whether because of Riddle or because the basketball club lost a game, he comes to you to feel comforted and pampered. You are good at listening to all his complaints and watching him vent without feeling judged. (even if you almost never understand him, because he speaks too complicated and fast-)

♥ However, you always scold him and avoid his disasters when he act like a brat.

♥ Your taste for things that are old-fashioned and old makes him wonder if you are really his age, in addition to your strange way of speaking and your manners reminding him of the old ladies in his neighborhood, however he will never criticize you and instead he may ask you one thing or another joke about that.

♥ It must be said that Ace has quite a sweet tooth, but you managed to convince him to come to you and not to steal Riddle's pies, Ace would never admit out loud the fact that he feels like a spoiled child trying the delicacies you cook for him.

♥ Ace is tender when he wants to, he really likes being with you without doing anything because you tend to spoil him and take care of him. (ROSIE HAS A LOT OF A CUTE MOM VIBES)

♥ Just as Ace is a total idiot, you are a sweetheart of a person, no one knows how the hell you ended up with him and they start to think that Ace put a spell on you or something.

♥ Aside from your good taste and talent in food, Ace is a little disturbed by the fact that you sometimes make either desserts or meals in the shape of human body parts... in addition to your jokes about cannibalism.

♥ Ace admires how easy it is for everyone to like you, he would pay anything to have your talent... I mean, even Riddle adores you!... that may or may not include the fact that he takes advantage of some people 'cause they have you appreciated

♥ In short, he loves you, although sometimes you seem like an old cartoon character because of your personality and tastes, he loves you because you are his compass in his impulse of idiocy.

Deuce Spade

♠️ Deuce... Deuce... this poor boy is exploding with love, we all know this boy LOVES his mother and the fact that you are like one really takes him through the roof.

♠️ Oh your food! Add Deuce to your list of the most loyal (free) customers in all of Twisted Wonderland! this boy dies for your food! It will actually eat anything you give to him, even if he ends up rounder than a ball.

♠️ Oh yeah, you're definitely what he needs, pull his ear when he does something stupid! or reward him with your love when he achieves a goal! this man is at your feet.

♠️ Regarding your tastes... he doesn't really know what to think, on the one hand he finds the fact that you look like an old lady in the fashion of the time adorable and on the other hand it confuses him... How old did you say you were? Are you sure you weren't born in 1920?... oh don't be offended! It just means that you see a lot of those times! It's a compliment!

♠️ Oh I really think Deuce would learn some of your songs just from you, plus he probably knows them if his mother used to listen to them or if he shares tastes with you! I really think Deuce would be a gentleman, even looking at the ground 7/24 when dancing with you so as not to step on you.

♠️ He probably takes photos of you to send to his mother or something, he's really fascinated by how your style combines with your youth and elegance. PS: Mama Spade is already scheduling everything to meet you, lady!

♠️ Deuce really appreciates your advice and teachings, he has improved a lot since he applied them, from his grades to his social relationships, oh my god, this man is going to marry you as soon as you both graduate.

♠️ Deuce believes that you were really meant to be in Heartslabyul, your care with animals, how you don't fail a single Riddle rule and how you have such a motherly relationship with everyone... Deuce admires you the most, girl.

♠️ Deuce notices how you tend to prefer his manners, often jokingly comparing him to Ace and saying something like: "Oh Deuce, polite as always. Ace! You can learn something from him!" And there you have it, as red as Riddle's hair as he feels blessed by the gods to see you so comfortable with him.

♠️ However, you also take care of reminding him that not everyone is good, taking care of his naivety, reminding him that an action can sometimes be worth a thousand words. He thanks you.

♠️ In the end, Deuce realizes that you are perfect for him: Intelligent, wise, educated, friendly and so beautiful in his eyes. You can bet what you want, but this guy will ask you to marry him as soon as he can! Do us a favor and take care of him, this boy loves you very much!

Trey Clover

♣️ Oh boy... There's finally a mom to take care of the big brother of all Heartslabyul! Girl, please take care of this man...

♣️ I think we all know Trey's caring tendency with his teammates, in the end he is surprised when he realizes that you are trying to take care of him and advise him, because usually the one who assumes that role is usually him.

♣️ Sometimes you have to remind him that just like his peers, he is a teenager and should focus on enjoying his youth! The poor man is always taking care of others and forgets about himself :(

♣️ You and Trey are a cute duo, you both cook excellent and take care of others... Who knew you weren't married huh?

♣️ Your old style and taste for the old-fashioned is curious, in reality it doesn't bother him since it is your own style and good for you if it makes you happy.

♣️ It only takes a few minutes for him to realize your resemblance to certain old characters cough Mary Poppins cough... And your exotic way of speaking, I honestly doubt he's ever heard someone with your accent and idioms before aside from one or another old woman.

♣️ Couple's hobby! You two definitely cook together! He is splendid with desserts and you with the common dinner! especially meat!... Trey sometimes doesn't know whether to laugh or ask for help when you start making certain black jokes about human flesh... (That no one understands)

♣️ Trey is amused by your musical nature, you actually sing or hum old songs while you cook or do other things my goodness! He may even end up learning them by listening to you.

♣️ Oh god, take care of this man for us! He's so tired of being the one who takes care of him!... please don't hesitate to pull his ear when he tries to disobey out of mere habit-

Cater Diamond

♦️ TAKE NOTE: CATER IS TURNING YOU INTO A MAGICAME MODEL.

♦️ My God. Cater loves your aesthetic, you give him the most beautiful vintage and dark vibes that he can't resist taking photos of you and uploading them to Magiacme. (with your permission.)

♦️ I don't think Cater will stop when it comes to teaching you about the technology, because even if you don't use it much you still agree to listen to him talk as much as he wants about it.

♦️ Let's say it, Cater is not really as we know him... And he tries to hide it, however you are always there to give him words of support and a sweet hug that takes him out of his turbulent mind.

♦️ Cater will definitely help you create content on networks if you access, cooking recipes, tips or pure photos with your aesthetic. Count on him!

♦️ Cater is amazed by your musical talent, although your voice may not be that of a modern singer who hits exaggerated notes, you know how to use your own voice and create a beautiful symphony and you can bet that Cater records it, even if it is just for him. (With your permission.)

♦️ Cater is already planning the wedding, he can already imagine you in a beautiful white dress with a "mermaid tail" skirt, a beautiful dress adorned with roses or white feathers, your beautiful smile that lights up her days... oh god, you have this man in your hands.

♦️ Cater loves your advice accompanied by a delicious meal or a simple cup of tea, Cater may not like sweets but you especially know how to make him eat some healthy sugar from time to time without making him feel disgusted or directly unable to swallow, now you're the Star chef of Heartslabyul. (Trey prepares the desserts)

♦️ Cater loves being with you, even if it's in silence or listening to your vintage music while you simply rest in each other's presence, this poor boy is tired and you are his comfort.

♦️ Congratulations, you have adopted five children with emotional problems! Now you are the mother/godmother of Heartslabyul, they love you and you love them, please take care of them! and I recommend that you start charging Crowley for the therapy of these boys, because you're leaving here married.

Nymph's Note:

My life is crazy, I had a flood in my apartment due to the negligence of a plumber... you have no idea of ​​the chaos of things I currently live in, documents and clothes got wet, I have had to send many things to wash... Well, life goes on :), I finally managed to finish this one! Rosie really is one of my favorite characters, she's a beauty and I really feel like she fits like a glove with Heartslabyul.

I hope you enjoyed!

Remember to tune in, end of this broadcast!

Heartslabyul Dorm x MC! Like Rosie Done!

Next: Savanaclaw Dorm x MC! Like Carmilla Carmine???

#twisted wonderland headcanons #disney twst #twst wonderland #disney twisted wonderland #riddle rosehearts #trey clover #cater diamond #ace trappola #deuce spade #heartslabyul #heartslaybul x reader #twst deuce #twst x reader #twst ace #twst mc #twst trey #twst cater #twst heartslabyul #hazbin hotel rosie #hazbin rosie #rosie the cannibal #rosie hazbin hotel

[inkdragonworks]

Hope you all had a nice Halloween! This was another quiet month for development. Started off finishing a round of updates to the cutscene editor, and importing it over to Fragaria Park for future use.

When I finally finished with that, I rounded off the final cutscene for Chapter 2, where Poppin and Jupa run into the main antagonists again. Came to the conclusion that one of them, Grab, needed a couple more poses.

I performed similar work with some NPCs, named Ruby and Topaz. They're miners you can talk to in Chapter 2. Something I really want to try doing with this game is having previous places update a little bit if you happen to backtrack through them, as a way to make it less boring and give a sense of time passing. For enemies this is a matter of swapping some in and out, but for NPCs, I'd like to update dialogue and portraits and such to reflect it.

Speaking of backtracking, I created a Tram that would take Poppin and Jupa around Snow Machinia... after they find a pass later on. Like the elevator it's meant to be a convenient way of getting around. I'm trying very hard to design the map so that navigation makes sense.

One other avenue of navigation, that I may have mentioned, are colored doors that zip you around the mountain. You can see one of them up above with the yellow door.

These doors are secret tunnels built by an underground race of robed cave dwellers (Jupa ends up calling them "Clock Twerps"). A route nearby has one of them running away and dropping the key to this door.

There's two other keys before this that allude to clock twerps dropping these keys and such, so I really hope the connection sticks. In other parts of the game there won't be so much emphasis on it, but you can presume one of these critters dropped a spare key. What they use them for and why they need them... you'll find out eventually!

And then I started on some enemies that are meant to populate the caves between future chapters/areas. This first one is Stalactmic, a bat with a microphone nose and speakers for ears. They shoot violent soundwaves that bounce around.

And then there's Mackerel The Knife, a lanky fish with sharp bones that it uses to attack prey. There's two variants: the one here that swims near the top of water, jumping out to attack. And then another you'd encounter while submerged underwater, that ends up spinning and bouncing around in place.

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The theme last month was rounding out content for optional, post-chapter places, excluding the Tram which is a prominent part of Chapter 3.

Chapter 3 is pretty intimidating. Of the 7 chapters I have planned, while I don't know if it'll be the longest, it is the most varied in terms of locations. While it's nice to get a break from making rocks, I'm still not confident with tilesets and backgrounds and picking good colors for them.

I'm planning to keep picking at the Chapter 2 enemies and additional areas first this month. That *may* involve the return of Dr. Thurston, and finally giving you an idea of what his gameplay involves, but I may end up using momentum from enemy work to finish up the ones for Chapter 3, as well as completing Rickity's boss fight.

I didn't end up drawing as much as I wanted in October, and I have been thinking of finding a way to talk about Poppin and Jupa's world more, but I'm still on the fence. My current job is pushing us to get software certifications, so some of my time is dedicated to studying. I'd still like to keep pace with the game though; I never feel like I'm doing enough. Until then, thanks for reading.

#my stuff #my art #monthly updates #poppin #jupa #poppin and jupa pocket adventure #game dev #game blog #game updates #game design #metroidvania #pixel art

[tangledbea]

I was just thinking about Wish and all the blatant references in it. I remember watching it in theaters and at first I thought "Okay cute, the friends are the dwarves, that citizen wants long hair, funny homage, Asha's looking at the stars like Tiana, that's nice..." then it all went downhill to "Just. Stop." by the climax. Especially the Asha/Fairy Godmother theory: as a POC I find that very offensive. Then I realized... Tangled was the 50th DAC movie, and it also had lots of references. (1)

There were all the hidden items in the tower, Pinocchio in the Snuggly Duckling, and the books in the library referencing other Disney movie covers. Not to mention the New Dream scenes that were similar to other DP couples, like the boat (Ariel/Eric), the dying love confession (Belle/Adam) and the whole princess + thief premise (Aladdin/Jasmine). And yet, those easter eggs didn't stop Tangled from being its own unique film. Same goes for Encanto, the 60th movie, and it referenced others, too (2) I think both Encanto and Tangled can still hold up as classic, rewatchable movies despite the anniversary celebrationz because the writers/directors/general crew put the references in the background. They were fun to find out about, but you don't need to know about them to still enjoy it. Wish, on the other hand... I feel like you would have to literally watch all the DAC movies and then some (Mary Poppins) before it even begins to hold up to the standards of the previous 'celebration' films (3) And even then, the story relies on the callbacks to get you to enjoy it. If I stripped Wish of every single Easter egg it had, I'd be left with barely a shell. Meanwhile, if I did the same to Tangled, the result would be pretty much the exact same movie. TLDR: Tangled is a much better anniversary movie than Wish, and that's a fact. So those are my thoughts, thanks so much for reading all this, I appreciate it! :D (4)

The thing is, the other movies you mentioned (Tangled and Encanto) were markers of "how many animated movies they've released" milestones, while Wish was 100 years of the Disney company. It's not the same kind of milestone at all, because it was marking time rather than progress. Not that this is excusing Wish of its disappointing story, but expressing the difference between the movies and the studio's approach to them. Tangled and Encanto (which, by the way, is my second favorite Disney movie from recent years) weren't written to be the 50th movie and the 60th movie. They were written to be their own things and happened to fall in line with the 50th and 60th release. In fact, some numbers had to be fudged a little in order to make Tangled line up with the 50th release, and Encanto was the tenth one after Tangled. Disney didn't even expect Encanto to do well, and were blown out of the water with surprise when it became a smash hit. Where as Wish was "crafted" (I use the word loosely) to be the 100 year celebration of the company.

Every time I find out more about earlier concepts of the film that they opted not to use (the Star being a prince, the king and queen being a power couple villain duo) I get very frustrated and angry about what we could have had. They had some really solid, interesting concepts in there, and they threw it all out the window in order to cram as many references as they could into it. Asha has seven friends (for example), to be the seven dwarfs, but their characters aren't developed at all. They had to tell us what the deal was with color coordination, alliterative names and gimmicks that lined them up with the dwarfs instead of focusing on them at all and making it clear through that who they were supposed to be. Just, "Get it? There's seven of them and this one wears glasses and Asha calls her 'doc' and this one's always sleepy and this one's always sneezing and this one's kind of dopey and this one's grumpy, get it?!?!?!"

I like Alan "I went to Julliard" Tudyk, but not only does he not need to be in every single Disney movie these days, they really didn't have to make Valentino, you know, a thing. "Get it? This is the origin of talking Disney animals, get it?!?!?!?!?!" And they really gave him way too much screen time. I'm often not a fan of the comedy relief animal sidekick as it is (there are some exceptions - some I really like and some I'm neutral to), but boy howdy did they overplay Valentino and make me actively dislike him.

The interesting thing is, I'm not a fan of Raya and the Last Dragon. I don't hate it, but I'm not a fan. I gave it a shot, I watched it, but it left no impression on me. It felt very... Millennial check-listed. POCs, found family, no overt romance but if it's there it's LGBTQ, dragons (cause who doesn't like dragons?), etc. Raya is fine. But for me, it's forgettable. I've only watched it the one time, I barely remember what happens in it, and I have a lot of trouble remembering the characters' names.

But Wish? Wish, I think about often. I have never been so disappointed in a Disney movie as I am with Wish, because Wish has the bare bones potential to be something great. And instead, it's that. What Disney should have done for its 100 year anniversary was make a movie that was finely crafted to show everything they've learned about animation in the past 100 years. I made an observation on a different blog that, when to you take a step back, King Magnifico is a stand-in for corporate Disney, and the whole movie is the crew railing against the corporation stripping the creativity from its workers and not valuing art, even though it’s in the art business. They just want everyone to love them, because everyone always has. Magnifico wants to hoard the wishes the way that corporate Disney wants to hoard talent, and the citizens willingly give up their talent and work because they believe something good will eventually be done with it. It feels to me like the climax of the movie is the artists and animators fighting the good fight against their corporate overlords the same way that actors and writers were striking for so much of 2023. It felt like a battle for the soul of the movie. But although the heroes of the movie win in the end, it was actually corporate who won, because the movie was stripped of all of its heart and soul in order to cram in more references. The artists did what they could, but they still had to follow orders if they wanted the movie to get made.

Oh, and as a side note, you can't just make a mortal human be a literal fairy by giving her a magic stick. That's not how that works.

Anyway, for my money, Once Upon a Studio is a much better homage to 100 years of Disney than Wish ever will be. Anyway, sorry for this incredibly long-winded rant.

#Tangled #Answered

[seriowan]

Congrats babe!! I have to contain myself not to make 100 requests

And I’m a real sucker for sex pollen so, with Rex??? 😳😳😳 maybe with 26. ❝ i don't want to hurt you ❞ 😫😫💘💘

Gosh I’m already nervous 🫣

Have a nice day!

( i can't lie. this one was sooooooo much fun to write and i might have gotten a bit carried away but i'm shamelessly unapologetic about it. i mean, it's rex - he's literally pussy poppin' in any scenario. thanks for the request babes!! )

REX X F!READER 10. sex pollen 26. ❝ i don't want to hurt you ❞ w/c: 3k

masterlist ♡

You knew something was wrong the moment Rex returned to base with a slight limp in his step. He didn’t seem bothered by the small red stain on his leg, which had crusted and dried on his way to the base, but the slight pallor and thick layer of sweat on his face said otherwise. 

   Initially, you insisted that he and the recon team take a brief trip to your tent for a routine examination before their mission report, but standard procedure generally required the examination to follow the briefing and Rex was too focused on relaying his information to General Skywalker for a boring check-up.

   Yet the nagging sensation in your gut only grew when Rex assured you that he was fine, that the scratch on his leg was no more threatening than a paper cut, and left you behind to update General Skywalker on the scouting mission. 

   Given your status as a volunteer medic, you weren’t required to sit in for his mission report. Nonetheless, you lingered on the outskirts of the crowd donning white and blue plastoid, leaning against the side of a ship as Rex recalled the details of his team’s jungle reconnaissance. 

   “Our findings were inconclusive,” he explained, uncomfortably tugging at the armor around his collar. The movement was subtle, a simple action that could have been blamed on the planet’s sweltering heat, but you were too attentive to miss the way his throat bobbed with a heavy swallow. He blinked, cleared his throat, and continued speaking. “We found nothing but dense foliage and abandoned greenhouses. Jesse discovered droid tracks in the mud but weathering made it impossible to track, let alone date..” 

   Again, Rex paused to clear his throat and swipe his arm across his sweaty forehead. You took note of the small signs: hands rubbing together, feet swaying from side to side, eyes rapidly flicking from Anakin’s growing look of concern to the squad that hung on every word. He was trying to compose himself, and while he was successfully fooling his brothers, you weren’t so easily tricked.

   You forced yourself to look away from him when you spotted Jesse and Fives in the crowd. Ducking your head, you softly excused your way through the maze of soldiers until you were able to wedge yourself between them. 

   Jesse was the first to notice you, offering you a tired smile. “Hey, little lady. You alright? You look nervous.” 

   If only he knew just how nervous you really were. 

   “I need to know what Rex cut himself on.” 

   Abrupt and straight to the point. Fives scrunched his nose and glanced up, meeting Jesse’s confused frown. “A spiky plant, I think?” He scratched at his goatee. “Some funky-looking bush that he had to crawl through to get to our rendezvous coordinates.” 

   “Do you know what color it was? Did it have bright blue flowers on it?” 

   Jesse nodded. “Come to think of it, yeah. We didn’t get a good look at it since we were a few meters away, but yeah it had some weird blue flowers. Hey, you alright? You’re paler than paper-” 

   You pinched your tongue between your teeth to keep yourself from dropping a nuclear string of curses. Before you could break into a panic right then and there, you made a b-line for Anakin and Rex, ignoring the dirty looks and glares from the soldiers that you mindlessly shouldered and brushed past. 

   Belladonus Venerum. A deadly aphrodisiac that you looked into before leaving Coruscant. Rex always teased you for being ‘overly cautious’ when it came to traveling to planets in the Outer Rim, but situations like this were reminders of why you took the time to study and learn about the land. 

   If your information was correct, Rex had 24 hours to deal with the effects of the aphrodisiac before it would force his body into shock. You could only hope that his cut was fresh, for Rex and his recon team was gone for three days before returning to base. 

   As if sensing your panic, General Skywalker shifted his attention to you, locking eyes with in an instant among the sea of clones. His expression tightened, brows dropping with realization when you gave him a pleading look. 

   Anakin interrupted Rex the moment the Captain’s voice began to shake. “I think that’s enough information for now, Rex. Your team did well.” 

   He dismissed them all before he could be questioned. As the crowd broke apart and began to scatter, you hastily rushed to Rex’s side while Anakin placed a hand on his shoulder to steady him. 

   Rex furrowed his brows in confusion, glazed eyes bouncing from Anakin to your look of worry. “Mesh’la? I don’t understand-” 

   “Don’t talk,” you warned him, shaking your head. “You need to save your strength before the effects worsen. General, if you don’t mind, I’d prefer the medical tent to remain private while I treat Rex’s exposure to whatever toxin is in his system. I’m not sure how long ago he was injured and if the effects worsen, I’d prefer to keep him under my supervision.” 

   Anakin nodded. “Whatever you need will be provided to you, including privacy. I’ll make sure any future patients are sent to Kix. Do you need any help?” 

   Rex let out a small groan and you hastily shook your head, pulling him away from Anakin before you could waste more time. “No thank you, General. Unfortunately, natural toxins are no stranger. I’ll comm if I need any further assistance.” 

   Anakin said nothing, only giving you a muted look as you helped Rex stumble towards your tent. You scarcely made it without dragging any attention. The second you made it through the tent flaps, Rex stepped away from you, pressing his palms to his temples as he violently shook his head from side to side. 

   “S-Something’s wrong,” he rasped. “Y-You have to stay away. You need to stay away. I-I-I can’t think straight when you’re touching me. Why does my skin burn? I can’t, I can’t-” 

   Rex collapsed to his knees with a pained noise. You were by his side in an instant, pressing your palm against his chest while the other soothingly rubbed up and down his back. 

   “You have to listen to me,” you pleaded softly. “When you were cut, you were exposed to a poisonous aphrodisiac. If you don’t deal with the effects, you’ll burn from the inside out until every single fluid has sweated itself out through your skin. You’ll slowly dessiccate until you die of dehydration or insanity.” 

   Confusion burned in his eyes. “Wh-What?” 

   “You need to strip.” 

   He hesitated, brows furrowed in pain before he carefully nodded and began shedding off his armor. You tried to help by unlocking the straps on his shoulders and around his waist, but he gave you a warning glare, forcing you to remain a step back as he tossed each piece to the ground, remaining in nothing more than his body glove. But even the thin fabric of his undergarment seemed to be too much, for the moment he was freed of his armor, Rex began to mindlessly pull and tug at his clothes, forcefully breathing through clenched teeth. 

   “Stop, stop, stop.” You gripped his shoulders, digging your fingers into his burning skin to make him meet your eyes. “You have to promise me that you’ll let me help you. There’s only one way to fix this but I won’t do anything unless you know that I’m here to help you.” 

   “You can’t.” He took a step back, only to crumble to his knees when his injured leg weakly gave away. “You don’t understand, mesh’la, I can’t be near you without wanting to rip your clothes off. It’s like your smell is driving me kriffing insane and all I can think about is taking you right here and now, like every-” 

   “-every impulse in your body is telling you to have sex,” you said quietly. 

   He worriedly nodded his head.

   Again, you kneeled by his side and with cool, shaky hands, cupped the sides of his face, thumbs grazing across his cheekbones. His eyes fluttered shut and he exhaled a strained breath, leaning into your palm.

   “You need to give in to get the toxins out. Just…” 

   Your chest rose and fell with a deep breath. Before you could let your nervousness stop you, you gripped the hem of his shirt and helped him pull it over his head. Rex suddenly fell into thick silence and for a brief moment, you thought he had passed out.

   Until you glanced up and noticed that he was holding his breath, his bottom lip wedged between his teeth as his gaze flickered from your face to your stooping collar. 

   You couldn’t stop the quiver in your voice when you whispered, “You can’t fight it, Rex. The effects will just speed up if you keep pushing it away-”

   “Mesh’la.” 

   His voice was raspy, jagged with pain, and strained with fatigue. It was lower than before and a look lingered in his eyes that told you he wasn’t entirely there anymore. Something glazed over and though Rex was trying his hardest to fight it, that impulse seemed to slowly take over bit by painful bit. 

   “I don’t want to hurt you.” 

   You pulled him close and pressed your forehead to his. 

   “You won’t. I won’t let you hurt me,” you promised quietly, “but you have to let go or it’ll kill you, love.” 

   Rex leaned back against a stack of crates and rolled his head back, eyes clenched tight. The muscles in his cheeks rippled as he clenched his teeth, grinding them ever so softly at the waves of fire that rippled through his muscles. 

   You knew what you had to do. Reading about poisonous aphrodisiacs like the Belladonna Venerum had prepared you for situations like this, and as a medic, you were required to take drastic measures to keep your patients alive. Albeit, you never thought you’d fuck a patient back to health, but the knowledge that this was Rex somewhat soothed your anxiousness. 

   So you began to strip your uniform, removing each article of clothing until you remained in your panties and bra. Rex’s eyes were still closed in a last minute effort to keep himself contained, but you could see the tremble in his fingers as he gripped the fabric over his thighs with white knuckles. 

   Each thud of your heartbeat sent a shot of icy nervousness down your spine. Goosebumps prickled down your arms as you stepped over him. He finally opened his eyes to look up at you and for the first time since entering the tent, there was no pain. No conflict. No hesitation or urge to refrain from impulse.

   Just reckless lust, glazing over his eyes as you slowly sat on his lap. 

   “Tell me to stop and I will,” he growled through clenched teeth. “I’d rather die than hurt you, sweetheart.” 

   “You won’t,” you said again, promising him with a smile and gentle nod. Taking his hands in your own, you guided them to your thighs, slowly dragging his fingertips up to the waistband of your panties. Each breath quivered as it fell from your lips.

   “You won’t, Rex. Trust me.” 

   Trust me. 

   You knew the words were ringing through his head as he flickered his gaze across your face. Before you could assure him yet again, his pupils dilated and his fingers curled around your panties. 

   Twisting, he wrapped the fabric around his digit and yanked, tearing your panties as if it was made of paper. 

   Rex sat up, one hand tenderly cupping the back of your head while the other splayed across your back. Hot, burning lips locked against your own and you moaned, drowned by his intoxicating lust. 

   Though he was cradling you to his chest, holding you on his lap as if you were a breath of life, there was no gentleness to his touch. His kisses were rushed and sloppy, leaving strings of saliva from his tongue to yours whenever he pulled away to look at your face. Every kiss, every groan, every rocking wave of your hips against his painful erection was electrifying, contagious. 

   It soothed him while igniting you with the very same fire that threatened to overwhelm you both. 

   Rex scooped his arms underneath your thighs as he stood, drawing a surprised yelp that was swallowed by another sloppy kiss. He carried you to an empty bed and rested you down on the edge, careless that it was just one of many beds meant for the sick or dying. By that glazed look in his eyes, begging and thirsty for more, more, more of your skin, you knew that he didn’t care. 

   He didn’t care about anything but you and your touch, your smell, the taste of your skin and tongue, connected by a trail of spit as he pulled away to shuck his pants off. 

   You blinked, dazed by the ferocity of his touch, only to suddenly part your lips in a surprised ‘o’ when Rex forcefully pried your legs open and pulled you to the edge of the bed. He spit into his hand, fisted his engorged dick, and lined the tip to your pulsing entrance. 

   Without hesitation, he shoved himself into your tight cunt, bottoming in one thrust. Your eyes widened and you gasped, arching your back at the heat that suddenly consumed you from head to toe. 

   Rex wasn’t done. 

   He gripped your hips until his knuckles turned white, pulled back until his tip was just kissing your pulsing cunt, before bottoming out once more with a single thrust. 

   Split by pleasure and pain, you sucked on your bottom lip to keep quiet as Rex continued fucking you at a brutal pace, colliding hard enough to send tingles through your legs. Desperate to keep yourself grounded, you locked your ankles behind his back - an action that drove Rex to lean over you until his face was buried in the crook of your neck. He hunched over, hips bucking into you while heavy grunts and breaths tickled your ear. It was rabid, rushed, messy in every which way, but he didn’t care. You didn’t care. 

   You were reaching the edge of insanity. If you didn’t keep yourself quiet, you would have wailed loud enough to announce the entire base. 

   “That’s my fucking princess. So fucking beautiful being split on my cock like this.”

   Open kisses lined your throat, followed by the hot and wet drag of his tongue across your collarbone. Clamping your hand over your mouth to stifle your moan, you hardly had the time to recover before his teeth sunk into your shoulder, biting just enough to send a shock through you. You clenched around him, squeezing enough to drag the filthiest string of curses from his swollen lips.

   Rex reclaimed your mouth before you could sob out loud from the pleasure. He sucked your bottom lip between his teeth, biting and dragging it down to open your mouth. 

   “Moan for me, baby,” he grunted, pleading ever so softly. “I want to hear your sweet voice. I-I want to remember it, memorize it. Fuck, I can’t get you out of my head. You’re so fucking perfect…” 

   “Oh gods, Rex,” you whimpered, turning your head to press a kiss to his temple. 

   He buried himself inside of you with desperation, pulling your hips against his with one hand while the other disappeared between your bodies. The second he rubbed his thumb against your clit, adding coal to the fire that crackled and flickered the space between you both, you felt yourself overflow, splitting at the seams with a loud gasp.

   Earth-shattering ripples shook down your legs. Spots and stars filled your vision as you reached behind his back, nails dragging down the skin, leaving angry red lines in its wake. Blinded with ecstasy, you were scarcely able to focus as Rex straightened back up. He dragged you to the edge of the bed, raised you a few inches above the mattress, and thrust into you with a deep groan before stilling.

   Every muscle across his torso seemed to ripple as he tensed up. Rex rocked his head back, biceps flexing as he squeezed your hips to keep you still. You couldn’t help but squirm at the sensitivity. Rex had been mercilessly pummeling you just seconds ago

   Time seemed to freeze as Rex held you in a tight grip, tense and still as he spilled inside of your warmth. It took a few seconds for your brain to catch up with your body, giving you the second needed to catch your breath and blink the stars out of your eyes. You placed your hands on top of his, giving his fingers a reassuring squeeze. When Rex finally dipped his chin to look at you, no longer panting for the air that was squeezed from his orgasm, you saw that his pupils had shrunk back to normal. The pale, sickly hue had lifted, revealing flushed red cheeks and glistening copper skin. Rabid desire slipped from his gaze, replaced with satisfaction and relief.

   Slowly and lovingly, his lips curled into a tired smile. His chest deflated with a long, heavy breath. 

   “Gods damn,” he murmured, words slurred from exhaustion. With a wince, he pulled himself out of your pulsing cunt, sucking in a sharp breath as he stepped back. 

   Though your legs were numb and your skin tingled as if full of static, you forced yourself to stand on shaky legs. Gripping Rex’s shoulders, you ushered him to the bed and made him sit on the edge. 

   “M’fine,” he insisted, kissing your palm before you could walk away. “I promise, baby.” 

   “I know.” You hastily put on your uniform and tossed Rex a white medical gown. The horrified look on his face made you grin. “Don’t be stubborn. You might be fine but you’re under my medical supervision until I say otherwise.” 

   He frowned. “But the General-”

   “-will live while you take a few hours of rest,” you said with an eye roll. “Anakin doesn’t need you to hold his hand the entire time." 

   “M’not so sure about that,” Rex murmured, huffing a frustrated breath while defiantly tying the robe behind his back. “I can’t understand how you’re still up and about after… that.” 

   “You underestimate me, Captain,” you mused. "I've got enough energy to spare another round... if you're up for it."

   Perching up on the tips of your toes, you kissed his lips as softly as possible, only to smile into his mouth when he cupped the side of your face and pulled you close. Your noses smushed together while he smiled, pulling away to peck quick kisses against your jaw and nose. 

   Then with a dramatic sigh, he fell back against the mattress and tossed his forearm over his eyes.

   “Good to know there are sex plants on his planet.” 

   He didn't sound as distraught as you figured he'd be. Grabbing the thing closest to you, which unfortunately happened to be a light roll of gauze, you threw it at his face. 

   “Don’t get any bright ideas, Captain.” 

   Rex slowly grinned. 

   “No ideas over here, mesh’la. None whatsoever.” 

-

@discarded-beskar @moonstrider9904 @cyanide-ghost @lucyysthings @corona-one @eloquentmoon @maulslittlemeowmeow @misogirl828 @theclonesdeservebetter @frietiemeloen @pinkiemme @torchbearerkyle @stcrmhond @ivela3 @kaminocasey @daddykin-skywalker @rexxdjarin @jedimastersovi @literallydontlook @love-like-poetry @blackyblack @littlemousedroid @queenquazar @twistedstitcher27

#rex x reader #captain rex #captain rex smut #rex x f!reader #seriowan's smutty sleepover #300 celebration #star wars

[wishingstarinajar]

what is your favorite Disney/pixar movie?

Oooh, good question and a tough one too. Let's see...

My favorite Disney movie has to be The Lion King, with Hercules and Mary Poppins being close runner-ups.

I was one of those die-hard Lion King fans when it came out. I had to rewatch it almost every day after school and collect everything I could get my mittens on. But I was a poor young teen living on a very small allowance so I had to do with magazine cutouts and crudely drawn (and traced over) art. I could quote it all from start to finish.

Nowadays, the movie isn't really on my mind anymore and I haven't seen it in a long time, but it still holds a special place in my heart.

Also, The Lion King 2 and 1½ are good too! The live-action version can die in a ditch somewhere...

Then there's Hercules, a funny and well-animated movie that felt different from all its predecessors with the type of comedy and parody it possessed... at least to me. I also love how Hercules was stylized with its animation and designs. I had a weak spot for mythical stuff back then (Egyptian and Greek gods) then so that movie just hit right, no matter inaccurate.

Also Hades. Bada-bing bada-boom.

Mary Poppins is on my list because it was the only live-action Disney movie that I really enjoyed as a kid. There were others but I think Mary Poppins (that beautiful woman who made me wish I was just as pretty as her and possessed magic) tickled the "going to another world for adventure" trope that I love so much since childhood. It helped that one of these little adventures was animated.

I wanted to be like Mary Poppins when I'd grown up; kind, helpful, stern and honest in the kindest way, and pretty. I can't say I managed xD but I still love young me for dreaming of it.

When it comes to Pixar, I love Turning Red. Yep, I do. I love the animation, color palettes, and the 90's/early 2000 (anime) aesthetics because I was an early teen during that time and well, the Turning Red setting resonates with that. I was never into boybands but my lady friends and classmates were and I recognize so much of that "early teen fan girl" behavior shown in the movie (especially before the internet was even a thing). Yeah, I remember your walls and ceiling completely filled with cutouts of various boyband members, Jeffica! And when you ran out of space, you used the inside of your closet. Now that's commitment! <3

The message Turning Red tries to convey didn't hit me in the personal(!) feels until certain things that were said towards the ending reminded me of past family matters and had me bawling.

What is y'all's favorite Disney/Pixar movie? Let me know in the tags or replies!

#wish talks #Q and A #disney movies #pixar movies #the lion king #hercules #mary poppins #turning red

[atths--twice]

20 Fanfic Questions

I was tagged by @baronessblixen during the craziness of Fictober and I didn't get a chance to read her responses to her own questions until today. I also had the time to answer my own 20 questions. 😊

1. How many works do you have on ao3?

283 

2. What's your total ao3 word count?

1,638,714. And the vast majority of those words have been written on my phone. I would say… about 95% of them. (Please imagine a blinking eye gif here, because whaaaaaat…😳)

3. What fandoms do you write for?  

Mainly The X-Files, but I have written one for Sex Education and also a Mary Poppins story. (Bert and Mary were my first ship. I saw it in the movie theater in 1980 when I was five years old.  Even that young, I had a little shipper heart because I wanted them to be together so badly.)

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Per Cor Meum 

Soulmates 

Shared Kisses

Green Is Not Your Color

After the Credits

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?  

Yes and no. I used to be much better about it, but I so often don’t respond on ao3, but I do on social media outlets. I think it’s more the ease of it and the accessibility of a social media site. But I absolutely love and appreciate every single comment. I cry or laugh over them and always share them with my bestie. They make me incredibly happy. ❤️

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?  

I don’t think I have any. I try to leave the story with a somewhat happy ending, or at least a hopeful one. That’s always my goal because… maybe there’s hope. 

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?  

Hmm… most of them. Like I said, I try to leave them hopeful and at least attempt happiness where it may not have been previously. 

8. Do you get hate on fics?  

I have before, but only a couple. The one that sticks with me the most though was from an anonymous person who left a comment that said when an idea is discussed on social media and a story is suggested to be written about said discussion, I’m always quick to get a story out, before giving others a chance to do the same. So as a result, I’m a horrible person who writes “insipid” stories just to say I did it first and “you just… you SUCK at it.”

When I first read that, it hurt for sure, because it made the time I spent writing a story that immediately popped into my head and would not stop begging for my attention, seem trivial and small. It made me feel as though my writing was inconsequential and I should stop wasting my time doing it. It put a dark cloud over me for a wee bit, but then I got past it, though it still sticks in the back of my head there and I think about it from time to time. But I’m still here and still writing stories, almost at 300 now, so whoever wrote that can go ahead and get fucked. ✌

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Yes I do, but not always. And I suppose by kind, it means mild or hardcore, so I would say somewhere in between. 😂

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written? 

No. I’ve not done that as of yet. 

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Stolen, no. But I was approached by someone about the dialogue that I used in a story being similar to what they had written in their own story. But as I pointed out to them, it was the dialogue from the show itself, so… 

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

I don’t think so. 

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I have a few times! It’s fun and I enjoyed working with all the writers. 

14. What's your all-time favorite ship?

Mulder and Scully for sure. I adore them so much. 

15. What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I have a couple that I do want to finish so badly, I just need to do it. So, I’m going to choose to say, please continue being patient with me. 😊

16. What are your writing strengths?

Humor, I think. And banter. I love writing fun dialogue and imagining the way it would be said for real. 

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I think, without sounding like I’m being pompous, and also because I've been told by a few people, I’m pretty good at creating a story a person can fall into, imagine and enjoy. So, I think my personal weakness is sticking to one story until it’s done, although I’m better about it now than I was in the past. At least I think so. 😊 

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I would be nervous to do it, wanting it to be perfect. If I did, I would seek out help from a native speaker so I would then get it right and not just rely on the translation feature. 

19. First fandom you wrote for?

The X-Files 

20. Favorite fic you've ever written?

Soulmates ❤️ I spent over a year on that story, off and on, and then six months of writing it every day, with other stories created in between. It’s the one I’m most proud of and the longest one I’ve ever written. 

I'm tagging @tofuttim @agent-troi and anyone else who feels like playing.

#getting personal #hi there #20 questions #hope you enjoy getting to know me better

[xwesley]

closed starter for @trismp4 ❝if  we  get  caught,  i  definitely  think  we  should  ruuuuun  for  it!❞  he  informs  tristan,  backpack  filled  with  different  colored  cans  of  spray  paint,  alcohol  and  drugs,  both  of  them  high  and  drunk  of  their  asses,  walking  towards  some  abandoned  billboard  tristan  claims  to  know  all  about,  nearing one  am,  like  a  pair  of  damn  degenerates.  of  course  it  would  be  tristan’s  idea  to  vandalize  a  billboard by  spray  painting  it  at  these  ungodly  hours,  and  of  course,  wesley  is  quick  to  agree,  his  dumb  ass  mind  thinking  it’s  the  best  idea  anyone  could  have  ever  thought  of  since  the  hangover  movies  (  he’s  completely  serious  about  those  movies too, they're a work of art in his eyes  ).  they’re  by  some  grass field  filled  with  daises  and  random  flowers,  some  very  much  dead,  some  very  much  alive,  all  to  get  to  this  said  billboard.  the  moon  hides  behind  the  trees  they  encounter  along  the  path,  the  most  aesthetic  passage  way,  while  they’re  about  to  do  the  most  chaotic  thing  on  such  a  peaceful  landscape…  figures. ❝this  is  the  best  idea  you’ve  ever  had,  you’re  such  a  genius,  hold  on,  stop!❞  he  jumps  in  front  of  him,  and  it  almost  seems  like  he’s  about  to  give  the  other  some  life  changing,  altering  news.  instead,  he  reaches  for  the  bottle  from  his  backpack  and  giggles,  already  clearly  out  of  it,  but  willing  to  go  even  more  far  out.  ❝my  alcohol’s  poppin',  my  alcohol’s  cool,  all  the  boys  keep  jocking,  they  chase  me  after  schoooool!❞  his  own  remix  of  lip  gloss  by  lil  mama,  followed  by  a  mini  dance  and  him  taking  a  long  swig,  accidentally  spilling  some  on  his  shirt  in  the  process.  ❝woops.❞  he  wipes  at  the  corner  of  his  mouth,  handing  him  the  bottle.  ❝okay,  hurry  up,  why  did  you  stop?!❞  as  if  he  wasn’t  the  one  to  literally  jump  in  front  of  him  and  start  singing  like  a  maniac.  ❝i  can’t  wait  to  get  up  there  so  the  wholeeee  world  can  see  my  art,❞  more  like  the  randos  living  in  the  shitty  apartment  buildings  about  two  blocks  away,  but  okay  wesley,  ❝i’ll  draw  a  cloud,  a  string  of  emoji’s,  no,  no!  a  yin  yang  sign,  because  i’m  the  most  peaceful  man  on  the  planet.❞  definitely  not  the  meaning  of  a  yin  yang  and  he  couldn’t  be  more  far  off,  but  it’s  the  drunken  effort  that  counts.  ❝what  about  you,  what  are  you  gonna  spray  paint?  should  i  be  worried?❞  realistically  speaking,  the  last  thing  wesley  should  be  worried  about  is  what  tristan  is  going  to  draw.  he  should  be  concerned  over  how  risky  this  is,  and  what  a  terrible  outcome  this  could  bring  them,  but  is  he  thinking  about  that?  no.  does  he  particularly  care  or  is  he  even  remotely  afraid?  also  no.

#❝ ♡ 𝒘𝒆𝒔𝒍𝒆𝒚 𝒍𝒂𝒇𝒍𝒆𝒖𝒓 ╱ conversations . ❞ #c: tristan #alcohol tw #morons tw #idek #KNKJVNDFJKNV

[kitgundy]

hey darling omg!!! *squeezes you*

im so curious about your pokemon series!! youve got me hooked! a couple questions for ya.

1) fave character headcanons and why??

2) any top-tier whump tropes you absolutely adore??

3) currently so into enyo's storyline!! what are some things youve truly enjoyed writing throughout it and some things you found a little trickier??

4) a certain evil researcher;)))) never ceases to amaze me with her simultaneous wickedness and complexity. is there truly hope for her?? are there any peculiar motives that you want to talk about regarding the direction her character has taken??

5) overall, what would you say keeps enyo going and persevering through so much??

6) are there any future pokemon species you plan on writing for?? why??

no pressure to answer all of these!! just poppin' by to ask for whenever you've got time.

enjoy the rest of your day!! a heart for you in our colors!! hehe💙💕✨love you.

-lina!!

Hellooo!! *squeezes you back*

1) Enyo liking the smell of Lavender. You suggested it at some point and it’s been in the back of my head ever since. Also Olivia/Lidia/Sarah is autistic and she and her brother got really into this one show about a mad scientist (it doesn’t actually exist I made it up) and to this day she has a tendency to copy the mannerisms of the main character in that show. The Trio (Keyo, Ana, and Cheri, for those who don’t know) collecting moms is also pretty funny. As for canon character headcanon favorites, Cyllene (Pokémon legends arceus) is such a mom figure and I love her so much.

2) Burns. Fire. You probably have already realized this but burns. Also it’s less fun for me if whumpee’s on their own, I like character interactions. Defiant whumpee. Make em angry. Make em spiteful. It’s very fun to write And to read.

3) It took me a while to get her backstory worked out. Also it took me a hot minute to figure out whether Whisper (her wife basically) was dead or not

4) At this point, she’s so far gone that Rewriting Time’s the only way to really. Fix it. When the thing with Enyo and the group happens, Lidia had been in jail for like 18 years for being Literally Horrible during the Hisuian story. She had been spiraling deeper and deeper into rage, and there was no coming back from that for her without something big happening to shake her worldview and change her mindset. (Currently debating which should be the catalyst for rewriting time, either Enyo has enough and starts illusioning to look like her brother to make her feel bad or she gets what she wants, kills her parents, and then realizes it wasn’t worth it because she hurt so many people and Pokémon that she’s become just as bad as her parents. Maybe both?) As for the direction she’s taken, she started out as “ooh scary scientist lady I need for plot in Hisuian”, became “scary scientist lady who’s trying to copy the moves of Pokémon with technology”, and then I was like “Why is she like this? What happened to make her act like this? Why isn’t she nice? Why does she do these things? Something in her past made her think it was okay, so what was it?” And then her parents came to mind, and I realized she hates them so much she wants to use the copied moves to kill them. And she wants the hisuian zoro’s malice-fueled attacks for that. And that’s when she became a complex character. She hated her parents so much that she decided to destroy them, but on her way to doing so, she became them. She wasn’t meant to be this complex, she wasn’t meant to be a tragic character, but one thing led to another, and she became my greatest fear: turning into the people you hate the most. Every character I have comes from a piece of me. Lidia is my rage, my thirst for vengeance, and my fear of what will happen if I let that consume me. And to think she started out as just some random evil scientist! It’s fascinating to reflect on.

5) She needs to protect her family- she knows if she gives up, Lidia will end up going after.. probably Cheri first, and she can’t let that happen. She’s fiercely loyal to them, and she would die to make sure they were safe. Or stay alive in the face of impossible odds, like what’s going on with Lidia.

6) Mmmmmaybe? I know in any Pokémon story I write, there’s always gonna be at least one zoro involved, it’s happened since I was little haha. Zoro are the best Pokémon in my opinion. But I do have this one story on the back burner about a girl who rescues Pokémon from bad trainers, there’s only One zoro in that one so far hsjddjkf

Love youuuu ❤️🥰😊

#hisuian fanfic #the unnamed trio fanfic #the trio #Enyo #Sarah/Olivia/Lidia #talking whump #the unnamed fanfic where Caris rescues Pokémon #anyway I have opened asks :D #ask answering #Lina Beloved 💜❤️ #oh also if you don’t like whump any whump stuff on this blog will be tagged talking whump but it will never be a main focus here so. #I do have a whump sideblog #it’s fairly inactive but if you want that I can send you there #anyway feel free to ask questions about any of these characters because I have So Much Brainrot it is incredible

[survey--s]

414.

Is Christmas your all-time favorite holiday? If so, why?  Definitely. Mike and I both take two weeks off at Christmas so it’s really nice to have a guaranteed chunk of time together. I’m not so fussed about Christmas Day itself, though. Is Christmas more about presents or family? Family. Do you have your Christmas tree and decorations up? No, we don’t bother with a tree anymore. The cats just climb it and knock it over and I end up spending half my life picking up after them, lol. Do you even decorate? Not anymore. We have fairy lights up all year and sometimes have the fire on so it feels festive, but that’s about it.

Have you ever told a person that they are all you want for Christmas? Not seriously, lol. What are you hoping to get this Christmas? Riding boots, money for riding lessons/beach rides. By any chance is it a game console? Nope. We already have three of those. Do you even make Christmas lists? No. Are you grateful with anything you get for Christmas? I mean, I love that people think of me, but I wouldn’t say I was necessarily grateful to get generic gifts, no. Have you ever given away a gift because you didn't like it? Yes. I always re-gift stuff I don’t like or won’t use. Have you ever gotten a gift that you felt like you couldn't accept? Yeah, just because it was too much and I felt bad, ha. Are you going to do any traveling this Christmas? Nope. Maybe a few day trips but that’s the extent of it. Is anyone coming to visit you for Christmas? I’m not sure. I’m going to see my parents on Tuesday and I expect Mike’s family will come and visit at some point. In your opinion, what is Christmas really all about? Family, time off work and relaxing. Do you enjoy the 25 days of Christmas on some TV channels? I have no idea what that is, so I’m going to assume we don’t have it here lol. What Christmas movie is your favorite? The Grinch, Elf, Love Actually, Bridget Jones, Mary Poppins. I realise they’re not all Christmas movies, but they remind me of this time of year. Have you seen 'A Christmas Story'? If so, did you like it? No. Do you think that 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' is lame or classic? I love it but I wouldn’t call it a classic, lol. What is the first Christmas movie you have seen this month? The Grinch, ha. Do you enjoy listening to Christmas music? I love it as long as I’m in the right mood for it. Do you really get involved in the Christmas spirit? Hmmm, no not really. I like Christmas but I’m not into the hugely OTT stuff that some people do. Does the Christmas environment make you feel comfortable? It feels nostalgic and comfortable, yes. Do you donate toys for the toy drive this time of year? No, but that’s only because we don’t have any toys and I can’t afford to go out and buy unnecessary gifts, in the nicest way. What is the best Christmas gift you have ever received? I couldn’t pick just one - I’ve had loads of great gifts over the years. Have you ever cried on Christmas day? I’m sure I have at some point, yeah. I mean, little kids often have tantrums at Christmas as it’s just so overwhelming. Are you usually the first one to wake up on Christmas day? Yeah, but normally because I need a wee rather than out of excitement, hahah. Are your favorite colors red and green? No. Even when I was younger, our tree was blue/pink/purple and silver. What colors do you like to see in Christmas lights? Multi-coloured ones are nice, but I think soft white ones are more traditional. Have you ever helped your friends decorate for Christmas? Nope. Do your Christmas decorations stay up until New Year's? They did when I was younger, yeah. Are you usually the one that takes down the decorations? My mum always used to do it. In your opinion, what is the best gift you have ever given someone? I have no idea, you’d have to ask other people that question, lol. Have you ever given someone a gift they didn't like? I’m sure. Nobody can get it right all the time. Is it really the thought that counts? Hmm, to an extent. I mean, yes, it’s nice to receive gifts but it feels really wasteful when people just buy stuff for the sake of it. Do you throw Christmas parties every year? I can’t think of anything worse, hahah. Do you even enjoy Christmas parties? No, I find them too noisy/busy and quite overwhelming. What happened on the worst Christmas you ever had? I can’t pick out a Christmas that was really awful.    Has Christmas been on your mind more and more as the days go by? Yeah, just because I finished work for the holidays yesterday and had a Christmas beach ride yesterday, and we had mulled wine and mince pies afterwards lol. Do you usually count down the days until Christmas? Not really. I did as a kid, though. Do you know people who hate Christmas? Yeah, a few.  What age did you stop believing in Santa Clause? I think I was maybe around 6-7 years old. Do you host any kind of Christmas event or help with it? We sometimes have Mike’s family over but I wouldn’t say we hosted, really. We just do tea/coffee/drinks and some snacks. Do you like eggnog? Yeah. Have you ever done a 'Secret Santa'? Sure, in pretty much every single workplace ever. Do you hate to see people sad on Christmas? I mean, I don’t like seeing people sad at any time of the year. Have you ever ruined someone else's Christmas? I mean, I hope not. Do you decorate any online profiles for Christmas? I use Christmas themed photos on here, but that’s the extent of it. If you could live Christmas over day after day, would you? No, I’d be fed up after a couple of days. Part of what makes Christmas special is that it only happens once a year. Do you have any pets that you buy Christmas presents for? No, but they all get a pet-safe Christmas dinner, lol. The cats get roast chicken, and the dog gets roast chicken, potatoes and veggies. Are you or have you ever been in a Christmas play? If so, which one was it? Yeah, in primary school. We did normal nativity plays as well as ones that were written by our drama teacher. Does Christmas get old year after year? I wouldn’t say it gets old as such, but I think it becomes less magical as you get older, unless you have young children to celebrate with. Do you like, love, or hate Christmas shopping? I hate it. Has anyone ever ruined your Christmas? Having to work Boxing Day was always a bit rubbish as it meant you could never fully relax. I had to drive to work so I couldn’t really drink, and I was always mindful of having to go to bed early too lol. Have you witnessed your neighbors arguing on Christmas? (I have, bad scene) Sure, I think arguments are pretty commonplace around the holidays. Are you working on Christmas? No. I finished work on the 16th and go back on the 3rd. Have you ever had to work on Christmas? Not Christmas Day, but prior to going self-employed, I always worked either Christmas Eve or Boxing Day, sometimes both. Have you ever lost someone special on Christmas? No. Is Christmas better than New Year's or are they both equally awesome? Christmas is better.  Are you really excited for Christmas? Not really, it’s just nice to be off work. Did you like this survey? I hope so. Well, bye! ^_^ Sure. See ya.

#survey #surveys

[darlingoddity]

Retrograde Survival Kit: Everything I’ve Ever Known

Happy Retrograde. Words we never hear. I was born during Mercury in Retrograde and I’m currently living near my Mercury transit line on my astrocartography map. So, Mercury is kind of my thing. 

So much so that I just slept for 28 hours to welcome it… I went to sleep Sunday around 11pm. Woke up around 1:30pm to watch some youtube videos, fell asleep during those again till 6pm… stayed up for about 4 hours and woke up at 7am on Tuesday. I can’t remember the last time I did something like this, but I highly recommend! I’ve been on a JOURNEY the last two days without leaving my bed except to poop and eat once.

In that time, I dreamt a lot. And cried. I woke up crying at one point. I cried about my ex—I swear at one point a corner of my sheets smelled like him and I missed being hugged. I cried about my mom and how we haven’t had a healthy relationship EVER and I”m not sure I’ll ever know what it feels like to be loved by her, even though I know in her own way she loves me very much.

I did a lot of breathing. I guess that’s the caveat—don’t do this unless you’ve been doing breathwork exercise for quite some time, at least 6 months. These episodes without breathwork can tunnel down into depression. I however, woke up wanting to start a blog.

I’m alone. I’ve been alone for over a year now, and kind of my whole life. People hurt, so I usually only get close to them in seasons. 

I was crying about these old pains that I feel are somehow trapped in my body, and I’d really like them to leave. And that’s when a voice—a voice? A thought? Spirit? You know, GOD maybe? When that More Knowing voice in my head reminded me: it isn’t your pain, it’s theirs. People spread their pain because it’s the only color they have to paint with. And how do we ever feel “ideal” love without knowing its hue. 

I’ve worked very hard my whole life not to hurt people, and I’m sure I have. And yet, I carry other people’s pain inside me. Why do I identify with their pain and not the kind I create?

Something symbolic happened Sunday, hours before my slumber, my mirror fell off my closet door. It’s like the world—YES THE WORLD—my own little precious world inside my Los Angeles apartment, was telling me to reflect in a new way. I had to put the mirror in a new place for the time being.

I think that’s what retrograde is: reflecting in a new way. Resting so we can notice what pain comes up while being in the position to see it, feel it, and give it breath and rest. 

I’m not sure I have ever known love the way I’ve dreamt of it. I’m not sure anything has ever lived up to my wild imagination, except maybe in pockets of time when it has actually superseded my expectations. I don’t know why pain is easier to remember than these ecstatic moments, which I know I’ve had, because I remember telling myself to “be there, in that moment and never let it go.” And then I step in shit or something and it’s gone immediately.  

Retrograde comes 3-4 times a year. On purpose. Like Mary Poppins trying to feed us a spoonful of medicine with maybe a little sugar… and the sugar to help it go down is REST. The memories, the pain, the retrograde will come back regardless. So you might as well rest, breathe, and cry. I think it helped me realize it was never all up to me to make these things go right. That if I sit some things out, I’m stronger for it. Because an uphill battle doesn’t change whether you take a break or not. The hill remains upright and uphill. And sleep and dreams are a gift. I spent a lot of time with my dad in my dreams. We shared a lot of cool moments like a car chase and eating at a diner he owned in this dreamland. We bonded. And even if it was a dream, I felt very loved and woke up refreshed at the beginning of retrograde. 

[dorefasolsido]

3.

Grease

What clique were you in in high school? 

We didn’t really have cliques the way they do in American high school movies, but I can say with great certainty that I wasn’t among the popular kids. I was just that one quiet invisible kid people remember when tests come up.

Would you liked to have lived in the 50s?

No thanks. I don’t think women had a great time back then tbh

Did you go to prom? How was it?

Yes, because my mum was very adamant about me going even though I didn’t want to. It was literally just meh. Like, it was so meh that I can’t even remember what I was doing. I'd been nervous for months before it, and it turned out to be such a non-event in my life. It’s almost like it didn’t even happen tbh.

Moulin Rouge!

What is your favorite cover of a song?

Johnny Cash’s Hurt comes to mind.

Have you ever been to France?

Yes, on a short exchange for about a week.

Have you ever been in love with someone who was fatally ill?

Nope.

West Side Story

Are you Puerto Rican?

Nope.

Who is your favorite character from Romeo and Juliet?

I’m not really sure I remember, which is funny because I read Romeo and Juliet probably around three times for different classes. Just, when we talk about Shakespeare, some of his other tragedies left a much stronger impression on me.

Have you ever been to New York?

Nope.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

What’s your hair color?

Right now it’s very very dark blue that looks black for all intents and purposes. I was purple before that, and I’ll probably go back to that soon.

Do you own any diamonds?

Nah.

Have you ever been on a cruise? To where?

Only those short cruises around Greek islands for summer holidays. You hop on a boat in the morning and come back to your resort in the evening, so it’s not like a serious cruise.

Chicago

What is your favorite kind of liquor?

Not big on alcohol, but I usually go for cocktails (Mai Tai and Tequila Sunrise). Lately, we’ve got a Korean supermarket here, so I tried soju for the first time and omg, the flavoured ones are so delicious. Maybe my alcoholic arc is finally starting.

Have you ever been to jail or prison? For what?

Nope, never.

Have you ever been to Chicago?

Nope, never been to America.

My Fair Lady

Is grammar important to you?

Have you ever received or given a make-over?

I won’t correct strangers online, nor do I care that much if my grammar isn’t 100% when writing comments or whatnot, but it’s very important for my job. So, in some sense yes.

Not a full-blown movie make-over lol. I got my makeup done once or twice for some events. That’s as close as we can get to that.

Are you English?

Nope.

Mary Poppins

Have you ever been a nanny or hired one?

No, but funnily enough I was thinking of joining this programme where you get to travel and take care of strangers’ kids. I still love the idea, but I genuinely can’t imagine myself taking care of anyone.

What do you do to make cleaning more enjoyable?

Play music.

Do you know anyone who works at a bank?

Yes, my parents’ friend.

RENT

Do you know anyone who is HIV+?

Not that I am aware of.

Are you behind on your rent?

No rent.

What is your sexual orientation?

Asexual with demi/heteroromantic tendencies, maybe? Idk for sure

Hairspray

What is your favorite brand of hairspray?

Don’t use it.

Have you had any best friends or SOs who are a different race than you?

No, my country is very homogenous.

Have you ever been on TV?

I think I was once when I was in elementary school and I came first in some maths competition. I didn’t see the interview, but I know it was a mess because the interviewers got my grade and my name wrong lol

The Sound of Music

What are a few of your favorite things?

Chocolate, cats, BTS, travelling, books, learning different languages, sushi.

Are you Catholic?

Nope.

Are you German?

Nope.

Jesus Christ Superstar

Have you accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior?

No, I was never religious.

Have you ever been to a desert?

No, would be cool, even though I really don’t like hot weather.

If you could ask Jesus for anything, what would it be?

I don’t think he works like a genie, right? But let’s say maybe just for a bit more confidence and a bit less of constant and obnoxious self-doubt.

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Are you engaged?

Nope.

Who did you lose your virginity to?

No one yet.

Do you know any trans* people?

Yup.

Little Shop of Horrors

What is your favorite kind of plant?

I love cacti and bamboos.

Do you like your dentist?

I don’t have a specific one, but sure, all the ones I’ve been to were cool

Have you ever donated blood?

I’ve tried so many times and there’s always something -- underweight, low iron levels, etc. I’ll get it one day tho.

Across the Universe

What is your favorite Beatles song?

Maybe Yesterday.

Who do you know that’s gone off to war?

Now? No one.

Have you ever been in a protest?

Yes, I go once in a while for various causes.

Mamma Mia!

What is your favorite ABBA song?

Umm, idk, maybe Dancing Queen.

Have you ever been to Greece?

Yup.

Do you know your biological father?

Yes.

Les Miserables

Are you French?

Nope.

Do you know anyone who has committed suicide?

I don’t think so.

What is the poorest you have ever been?

I’m really not sure. Thankfully, my family has never struggled financially.

#surveys #personal

[hueningshaped]

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#anon🧃

[gojuo]

markson laughing together 🥺

#markson #mark tuan #jackson wang #thegot7network #got7 #the way i had to do so much to get the colors poppin in this video ... my god #mark #jackson #*got7 #*benim #the color grading is the got2days is ... gross rip

[prismatic-bell]

So the other day I said a thing about how I felt like a line could be drawn between antis, and the rise of 24-hour news networks. I’ve given that thought some time to bubble to see what, exactly, my brain meant by that statement, and here’s what I’ve got:

When I was a kid (back in Ye Olde 1990s), we had three major news stations in my town: Channel 12, Channel 24, and Channel 35. These corresponded to NBC, ABC, and CBS, but I don’t remember which one was which so don’t ask me. Anyway--you had a half hour of news at 8 or 9 am (depending on which station you watched), an hourlong program at noon in which half the program was stuff like “here are today’s beach closures and some recipes and also if you’re looking for stuff to do with the kids this weekend here are local promotions,” and half an hour at either 5, 5:30, or 6 (again, depending on which channel you watched). One of the three stations also did a half-hour capper at 10pm. So unless you were watching all three stations, and picking the news every single time, the max amount of news you were going to get was like an hour and a half. If you wanted more news than that, you read the newspaper. When my mom was a kid (back in Ye Olde 1960s), this would have seemed like an inordinate amount of news--for her, it was half an hour at 6pm and ten minutes at 10pm and then the station (there was only one station that did the news) played the National Anthem and went off the air until 6am, at which time you might get like . . . the weather and a traffic report.

For anything else, you read the newspaper.

Now with only half an hour to present a whole lot of news, what are you going to do? You are going to stick to the facts. You don’t have a choice. You have a very short time to fit a whole lot of information. “Notre Dame cathedral caught on fire today. French firefighters are working to get the flames under control, and authorities in charge of the cathedral are doing their best to remove relics, paintings, and other holy objects while it’s still possible. French President Mr. Somebody addressed the nation and stated every attempt to save the building, and to rebuild the damage, will be made. In local news . . . “ And that’s it! If you want more information, you’ve got to wait for the newspaper in the morning, and you’re going to have to get a copy of the New York Times or USA Today, because the local paper will only have a blurb, and that blurb will mostly cover what you just heard!

But then the news changed.

By the time I was a teenager, the non-cable news looked like this: All three channels had a morning show that started at 5 or 6 am (depending on your station) and ran until 8 or 9 (depending on your station). The station that ended at 8am then had a half-hour morning news show. The mid-day news at 11 or 12 was still an hour. Channel 35 did a half-hour news segment at 5 and another at 5:30, back to back. The other two stations simply did an hourlong segment. And then one station did half an hour at 10:30, and the other two did hourlong segments at 10pm.

What do you do with that much time? Well, you expand. Yes, you can fit more news, but you can also fit more about the news. “Notre Dame cathedral in Paris went up in flames today. The fire began in the famous historic bell tower, and spread to the roof. At this time, portions of the roof appear to have caved in, and there are concerns about the integrity of the medieval stonework in the cathedral walls. French firefighters have been working since 8am Paris time to get the flames under control, and authorities in charge of the cathedral are doing their best to remove relics, paintings, and other holy objects while it’s still possible. Some firefighters are also helping with this project, as portions of the building have become too unsafe to enter. French President Mr. Somebody addressed the nation late this evening and stated every attempt to save the building, and to rebuild the damage, will be made. Of the cathedral itself, Somebody said, ‘Our Lady has weathered worse troubles than this. Paris as a city, and France as a nation, will overcome.’ In local news . . . ”

Still facts, but a few more facts. At this point the internet as a public thing is just past its infancy, and in theory you could go look up some stuff on, like, AOL, maybe, about what was happening.

(Nina, you were talking about antis . . . ?)

(Yes, I was. Bear with me.)

But at this point you also saw the rise of Fox News and CNN.

Now up to this point, I could trust the news. That is important to know. “Nina, American news is full of propaganda--” Listen, you’re not wrong, but the point is, if Scott Brennan told me Notre Dame cathedral was on fire and priests were trying to remove the holy relics, I could safely assume Notre Dame cathedral was on fire and priests were trying to remove the holy relics. If Channel 24 told me “the blizzard of the century” had occurred the night before, I could look out the window of my snowed-in house and go “yeah, that seems legit.”

I grew up, in other words, in a world in which facts were facts. We didn’t waffle or wring our hands over whether or not Notre Dame was on fire. And this allowed me to take a similar approach to fiction: it is a fact that murder is wrong, and knowing this, I can read a book in which someone commits murder for very good reasons, but still know they did something wrong.

But now you have 24 hours of news to fill.

No matter how you pad it, no matter how many voice clips you play or retrospectives you do, you cannot find enough news in the world to fill 24 hours, seven days a week, 365 days a year. You just can’t.

So they started adding “opinion pieces.”

Notre Dame is on fire--is it worth saving? Notre Dame is on fire--but is it as big a catastrophe as it’s made out to be? Notre Dame is on fire--but France has been steadily calling themselves a secular nation, so is this the punishment of G-d? Notre Dame is on fire--

--wait, what was that?

Yep. You saw it, I saw it, we all saw it. But as the “opinion pieces” slowly took over the regular news and stopped being called “opinion pieces” and started being called “programs,” it became less and less clear what was and wasn’t fact.

Now obviously Notre Dame is on fire. But now we have to ask ourselves: is it worth it to save it or not? Is the financial cost outweighed by the history? Will those answers change depending on how bad the damage becomes? And you, lonely elderly person in your chair whose predominant socialization these days is at church, how does this make you feel about French people? These are questions that once would have been asked of the church caretakers and the French government. Now every single person is being asked to think about them, without being provided all of the context that is available to the church caretakers and the French government. And along the way, you get these nice, nasty little bits of prejudice and slanted thinking and bias sneaked in.

I told you I’d come back to antis. And here we are.

The vast majority of antis are very young. They grew up in a world where those “programs” were the norm. They were not provided with a cultural basis of “these are the facts.” They were provided a basis of “here is what I think about the facts.” They were provided a basis of, as Mr. Banks said in Mary Poppins, “kindly do not cloud the matter with facts.”

There are no facts! Who fucking cares! An anti who’s 15 years old today was eleven years old when we were introduced to “alternative facts”! Is it wrong for a 27-year-old man to pursue a relationship with a 13-year-old girl? Depends on which news channel, and which presenter, you ask!

They literally grew up in a world in which critical thinking was discouraged. Once upon a time, you would have seen on TV that Notre Dame was on fire, and at dinner--or whatever your family did for together time--you might say things like “going to be expensive to fix that, I wonder what they’ll do,” but you wouldn’t have been hit with six presenters telling you exactly why Notre Dame should/shouldn’t be rebuilt. And don’t forget--even if you, personally, do not watch the news (or read it on the internet, which is just as bad, because everybody’s after those elusive advertising clicks, everybody needs the “scoop” two seconds before it happens), you know people who do. You hear their opinions and their hot takes and their retellings all around you. And those  opinions and hot takes and retellings will be colored by which “program” that person saw first.

Watch the first thirty seconds of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn2RjahTi3M

Walter Cronkite, a legendary news anchor, giving his opinion on Vietnam. You will notice that he states, very clearly: “it seems very clear to this reporter.” This is Cronkite’s opinion, nothing more, and he makes it clear that he is speaking only for himself.

Now skip to approximately 1:05, and watch him report the Kennedy assassination. You can see he’s emotional, but also keeping it under wraps as best he can because he has An Important Job To Do, and that job is twofold: to deliver the news accurately and concisely, and to keep the American public calm (you can see this when he hurriedly says Johnson is probably taking the oath to become President; a missing VP would be a crisis at this moment). This is a man who’s just found out the most beloved president in modern times is dead. And not just dead--murdered. It’s not like Kennedy had a heart attack, his damn head was blown off. This news is still coming in so quickly that you can see him glancing off the screen to get fresh reports. He’s one of the first to receive this absolute blow--and he’s still holding it together, barely wavering. (When I was a kid, this role would go to Dan Rather. He was no Cronkite, but he tried.)

Where is that kind of rock for today’s teens? Imagine--heaven forbid, in the state our country’s in right now--that tomorrow we get the news Biden was shot.

How would we get that message?

Would it be delivered by an even-keeled, just-the-facts reporter like Cronkite? Or would we get it from a bunch of half-hysterical articles and crisismongering “programs”? And would it be delivered to us straight, like Cronkite did, or would it be buried in three days’ worth of opinions on his “legacy” and policies and What This Means For America?

Now: how are you supposed to build any kind of strong convictions and moral compass on a world like that? Where anything can be true if enough people have an “opinion” on it? Where the facts get immediately buried in a wave of bullshit?

Antis are reacting to a world of “opinions” and “programs” being thrown at them 24/7 by trying to create a world they can control, where there are in fact things that are true, in a world that has actively refused them the opportunity to learn how to parse and process facts. And so what they’ve come up with is this grossly distorted version of facts, because gross distortions of facts are all they know. It’s all they’ve ever seen. They’re perpetuating a system they don’t even realize they’re part of, because they never experienced life before it existed.

They’re not lying when they say they were heavily influenced by fiction because the bounds between fact and fiction have been actively erased. On purpose. And it’s difficult to grok that, if you grew up in a world where you didn’t have to go seek out photographic evidence to be absolutely certain that Notre Dame was, indeed, on fire.

So what we need to be doing, first and foremost, is rebuilding that wall of facts, that line of truth. Otherwise, what we’re going to see is more of this, but getting worse daily.

We set them up for this, and now we’re paying the price for it.

[nuitthegoddess]

What you said about people only knowing the Twst cast by headcanons might be right. I'm sure that a fair amount of people haven't actually played the game and just read about the characters online. Thus their version of the cast will likely be incredibly warped since most fan works tend to soften the characters. So when they find material that portrays the guys in a more villainous light (either in canon or fanon) they find it 'weird' because it's not what they think the character's like.

Yes! Exactly! It’s like Malleus for example! Some people find it weird that he is portrayed as a villain evil dude. But it’s like (he is based on 1959 Maleficent not 2014. There is no connection) we don’t know much about him? We got to know him a bit from the events. The main story is just him poppin in at ramshackle. >> don’t get me wrong, if you’ve been following me pfpffp ya know I’ve been in love with this man 😂 I do love the headcanons of him being a romantic and such. But when people think he is REALLY a “Silly soft uwu dragon boi” like… it doesn’t feel like it’s him? It’s fun to dabble around it, but when they make his character it’s… eh? There were parts of the main story and events that showed there is mischievous side to him. In the arc 3rd in the fan translation When Malleus said he would like to see Azul in face into despair and it would be such a sight to see! In twst eng too he said he would be a fly on the wall to see Azul like that! Like yo Mal that a bit sounds sadistic PFPFP 😭 halloween event when the magicam monsters was going on, he change the plan for him to blow “a little flame” around them (no it was not a little flame🧍‍♀️) For his way of satisfying himself and he was smug about it with Lilia. Halloween event 2 I don’t think he ever apologized about the Halloween night fiasco >> (unless prove me wrong it’s been a while) yeah he wanted to have the ghosts to have a Halloween party and I was “🥺” at that part. But when I think about it like brah u are the reason why everyone had a full panic over some students being missing. Like I’m sure a “soft uwu silly dragon boi” would actually apologize. It makes me some wonder about episode 7, and I hope we see his true colors. He can be kind in his own way but it’s literally like the rest of the other characters. He’ll do it when he feels like it if it relates to him or unleashing his wrath on someone.

#also a bit shady I don’t like 2014 Maleficent #I love Angelina but the story should have been better than a tragic romance story between Maleficent and Stefan #malleus draconia

[littlesolo]

Amelia Eve - Gold Rush Virtual Event

So, I think most of the Amelia Eve events are done for the day. If not, I'll add to this tomorrow, but I'm going to post what I've gathered so far here under the cut.

One important thing to note: Everyone agrees that Amelia is the kindest and sweetest person out there. She's also adorable.

Her dog's name is Nala, like from the Lion King.

The domestic Dani/Jamie scenes from episode nine were all shot in one day.

The lake scene felt the most real. She had hoped she wouldn't have to swim wearing jeans, since they're so heavy when wet. She wound up filming wearing a scuba suit, denim jeans, Converse, and a weight belt.

Amelia feels Jamie's Dad (Dennis) influenced how she carried herself.

The offer of company and pinky swear scene was an improvised scene.

Wasn't aware she was the love interest when she booked the part.

Didn't think of it as a lesbian role - just two people who loved each other - focusing on the love and not the type of relationship is why she thinks it worked. “Even once I found out I never thought of it as a lesbian role. I didn’t think of that side of things. I just was like this woman loves this woman We were just like these people love each other. That’s kind of where it starts and ends.”

Apparently, she's found more than one thing out on the street. There's the red couch that she posted on her Instagram ages ago, a XBOX 360, and a plant that she adopted and named Octopussy.

She plays a lot of GTA on the XBOX 360 she found.

She would love to work with Mike Flanagan again. He wasn't able to be on set much.

Recommends the book Just Kids by Patti Smith. All Patti Smith's works. "It's just dope - can't deny it! That'll keep you busy for a while."

Said "You alright Poppins" in Jamie's voice

She used her mum's wedding dress to be Bride of Chucky one year for Halloween. She's thinking of doing Three Blind Mice this year with her sisters.

Might have believed in ghosts before, but after filming Bly Manor, she blames odd noises on the cat. One odd (ghostly) thing that happened on set was that the lights went off all over set for some reason.

The song she'd use to describe today is Baby by Misun

Wants to play an assassin.

Wants to do period pieces or biographical.

Has a clunker of a car in real life.

Due to Covid, her life hasn't really changed that much since doing Bly.

Doesn't like Yorkshire tea. She prefers PG tea.

Asked for an uplifting quote: Be the change you want to see.

For the Q&A, she missed being able to see everyone (cameras were off and questions were submitted online).

Was asked if she'd listened to anymore Taylor Swift since last con. "I'm sure it's lovely, but it just isn't my jam"

It was her decision to wear Dani's pink shirt and Victoria loved it.

Her favorite movie as a kid is either Hocus Pocus or Dumbo.

Is going to buy Jamie's Blondie shirt and grow moonflowers

Knows nothing about Harry Potter.

"Hopefully Leopard Skin is going to come out next year."

She's really into lilies at the moment.

Her favorite color is blue/teal.

Was drinking a Corona beer while chatting at one point.

Parts of the proposal scene were unscripted - all the kisses Jamie gave Dani after she said yes.

Would have loved to stay a brunette because she loved it, but her roots didn't let her. "No one wants to see that."

Feels lucky to have us (all her fans). Even though she doesn't spend much time online, she feels like we always get her back.

Her favorite thing about Jamie is the way she loves the people in her life.

Wants to play Ripley if they ever remake Alien.

Says she'll make a post on social media and then run away from her phone.

Says that the proposal scene was her other favorite to film besides the lake scene. Says it was a standout scene, was so special because it was a time where Dani and Jamie were both truly happy. How the emotions cam naturally while filming.

One of her favorite quotes: "A weed is a plant out of place."

Hasn't seen Imagine Me & You, but loves Lena Headey.

Was wearing overalls.

Asked what it was like working with Carla again "It was amazing! Do you know how beautiful she looks on tv? She is so much prettier and amazing in real life."

EDIT:

She was asked her eye color, but she has no idea. "Hazel? Sometimes blue?"

EDIT 2: Asked what football team she supports: (paraphrasing) "Fulham but only because I went to one of their matches with some mates one time and Fulham never win but that one time I went to their match they happened to win for like the first time ever so I bought a bunch of their scarves and t shirts and decided to support them but I don’t really watch football so i don’t know if they’ve ever won a match since but probably not."

EDIT 3: Amelia's favorite Eminem song is "The Kids" and after she said that, she started really badly rapping a verse. (A valiant attempt to smile politely and not to burst out laughing was made.)

EDIT 4:

That's all I have at the moment. Let me know if I missed anything! Enjoy!

#amelia eve #moments from today's events #dani x jamie #bly manor #the haunting of bly manor #amelia eve trivia