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javier-penas-wifexx420 · 1 year

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Fictional men Lana album assignments

Ok so I’m always thinking about this, my fave fictional men are literally so lana coded and I have decided to assign them her albums hehe

Javier Peña- Honeymoon

First up we have my husband, Javi. Javi is 100% Honeymoon like COME ON. He’s so Salvatore coded. Honeymoon is all about romanticism but the darkness within it. And Javi is so cunty in his little tight pants like he’s so honeymoon. Also the lyrics of 24 align with him so well it drives me insane.

“Catch me if you can working on my tan, Salvatore. Dying by the hand of a foreign man happily.” Salvatore

“If you lie down with dogs then you’ll get fleas. Be careful of the company you keep” 24

“We both know the history of violence that surrounds you. But I’m not scared, there’s nothing to lose now that I’ve found you” Honeymoon

“It’s no wonder every man in town has neither fought nor found you” Honeymoon

“When I’m down on my knees you’re how I pray” Religion

“I was so wrong not to doubt your Medellín, tangerine dreams” Salvatore

Joel Miller- Norman Fucking Rockwell

Next we got Joel HEHEHEHEHE JOEL omg ok so this one is a no brainer: Joel is Norman Fucking Rockwell. Like come on how is he not. Like so many of the songs remind me so much of him. I could write a whole ass essay on this one. The whole Joe(L) part of How to Disappear like AHHH R U SERIOUS?? Also happiness is a butterfly and hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have- but I have it. HOPE IS A DANGEROUS THING FOR A MAN LIKE JOEL TO HAVE BRO. I feel like the aesthetic of NFR isn’t very frilly either, she’s in her wetsuit at the beach, in her lil shorts yknow? And I feel like that fits with Joel. Also the color green is very prominent in that album and I rlly associate that color with Joel. I feel like NFR can reflect the relationship Joel would have with a love interest but also the relationship he has with Ellie, like if you take her lyrics out of context I feel like it could relate to the relationship he has with her bc she really healed him and changed him and like broke down his walls which imo is all that NFR is about.

Anyway here’s some lyrics that I associate with him:

“You’re just a man, it’s just what you do. Your head in your hands while you color me in blue.” Norman Fucking Rockwell

“Maybe I can save you from your sin.” mariners apartment complex

“All the pills that you take, violet blue green red to keep me at arms length won’t work” cinnamon girl

“Joe(l) met me down at the training yard, cuts on his face cause he fought to hard. I know he’s in over his head, but I love that man like nobody can, he moves mountains and pounds them to ground again.” How to disappear

“If he’s a serial killer then what’s the worst that can happen to a girl who’s already hurt?” Happiness is a butterfly

“You don’t ever have to be stronger than you really are when you’re lying in my arms.” California.

-This is so him he j needs to be held. The fact that he was the little spoon w Tess :’(

NFR is just so Joel don’t even argue with me.

Negan Smith- Ultraviolence

Next we have Negan and I feel like the choice is pretty obvious. Ultraviolence is probably Lana’s darkest album and it fits him so fucking well. He literally wears a fucking leather jacket like that is Ultraviolence in and of itself. He’s also just a violent person and violence is how he deals with things. I can really see the relationship between him and a female oc being like ultraviolence: really toxic but she can’t get enough. So many lyrics for him. So many

“He hurt me and it felt like true love” Ultraviolence

“I can see my baby swingin’, his parliament’s on fire and his hands are up” West Coast

“When he calls he calls for me and not for you” Shades of Cool

“You’re fucking crazy” Cruel World

“Lay me down tonight, I’m your favorite girl.” Fucked My Way Up to the Top

“You didn’t warn me at the time, but you were worth it anyway” Guns and Roses

“You’re my cult leader, I’ll love you forever, I’ll love you forever” Ultraviolence

“If you send for me you know I’ll come and if you call for me you know I’ll run” Old Money

“Get a little bit of bourbon in ya, go a little bit suburban and go crazy” Cruel World (when he went to Alexandria, got drunk, played pool and murdered a dude)

“But I can’t fix him, can’t make him better” Shades of Cool

“Loving you is really hard” Ultraviolence

“I wait for you babe that’s all I do babe you don’t come through babe it’s just what you do” Pretty when you cry

HE DONT GIVE A FUCK ABT U BITCH CAUSE UR PRETTY WHEN YOU CRY

Tommy Shelby- Born to Die

At first I was vibing with Tommy being Ultraviolence but he’s more Born to Die. His whole outlook on life is very consistent with born to die- when lana said I wish I was dead already. Tommy feels like he’s already dead after surviving the war. He’s Born to Die because although he’s dangerous and a lil toxic he can be very loving and he’s always so gentle with his ladies. And when he falls he falls hard (i.e. Grace) also Off the the Races?? That’s literally Tommy bro

Lyrics:

“My old man is a bad man but I can’t deny the way he holds my hand and he grabs me he has me by my heart” Off to the Races

“Come take a walk on the wild side let me fuck you hard in the pouring rain. You like your girls insane” Born to Die

“I’m in his favorite sundress watching me get undressed” Video Games

“No one even knows how hard life was I don’t even talk about it now because I finally found you” Radio

“He headed out on Sunday, said he’d come on Monday. I stayed up waiting anticipating and pacing but he was chasing papers. Caught up in the game it was the last I heard” Blue Jeans

“I don’t know how you get over, get over someone as dangerous tainted and flawed as you” Million Dollar Man

FINALLY

Pedro Pascal- Did you know that there’s a tunnel under ocean boulevard

Ik I said fictional men but Pedro is the source of my comfort in this cruel world and I had to include him. I feel like Pedro is this album because it’s Lana’s most personal album. In the other albums on this post she’s kind of creating these stories but with tunnel it’s very personal and real. Since Pedro is an actual real person I feel like this is an appropriate choice since he has a lot of depth just like tunnel. Also Pedro really cares about family- his relationship with his sister, and has suffered loss to suicide just like Lana has. And tunnel explores themes of family, loss, healing and trying and struggling to find love. Like bro Pedro is Sweet. He’s sweet and he’s Sweet. Yknow?

Idk abt lyrics bc idrk what he’d resonate with but here’s the songs i associate with him:

The Grants, Did you know that there’s a tunnel under ocean boulevard, Sweet, Kintsugi, Paris Texas, Fishtail, Let the Light in, Taco Truck x vb

Ok that’s all thanks for listening🖤🖤

#dilf lover #fictional men #pedro pascal #jeffrey dean morgan #joel miller #negan smith #tommy shelby #cillian murphy #lana deal rey #lana album #javier pena narcos #i love joel miller #i love dilfs

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commonghost · 11 months

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do u have anything u associate w bronte? or thoughts in general - i want to draw bronte somepoint soon but idk where to start haha

thins i associate with him: the moon for that classic sun/moon symbolism with fintan. deers. the color red, hidden behind blue. spears and bows for some reason. ouroboros. piranesi's imaginary prisons. silver. the library of babel. the onyx (of course). house of the rising sun. message lost. stranger (him and fintan). that feeling of being a monster and being an awful person that you develop in childhood and never grow out of. the hierophant. oh and i cant forget thunder (because of his name).

as for my thoughts...

well im gonna be real with you, my bronte is so far removed from canon bronte that i dont know if they count as the same character anymore. i dunno man i just think bronte has amazing potential as a character and its not being utilized to its fullest extent.

also if you are not already aware i am a firm believer in half human bronte. actually theres a genuine chance im like the first person to have posted about it? idk tho. (something something that scene in nightfall where bronte longs for a world where the humans and elves are living together again. and that scene in nightfall where he's nice to amy. also something something why the hell would an elf develop an ability like inflicting when theyre literally wired to hate hurting people. ergo half human bronte. fun headcanon!)

(oh, and if fintan is sophie's dad i think he 100% knows. see: every post ive made about it and also that one post by fin)

ALSO. the fact that bronte and cassius both have that weird icy mental wasteland defense mechanisms in place is.... Interesting.

ive got some old (2021) thoughts about him here, too. courtesy of quil's blog bc the one i posted it on got deleted lol. + an alt link for the fandom site with a bigger layout if you want. not particularly well written (should probably go back and update it) but all in all i think he's a character who above everything only wants to keep people safe. that's it. that's why he does what he does. + more.

also i really really want him to stop being a councillor by the end of the series (either by death--preferable but i understand it might not happen--injury, or just resigning, im not picky.)

w8 i just remembered you want to draw him. uhhhh honestly im not the best person for this (my design is so far removed from canon its almost funny at this point) but!! curly hair bronte!!!!!

but fr at the end of the day. my most important #1 thought about bronte is that he lives only to serve his people. he has been loyal to this people, this society that would very willingly shun him for his ability, for who he is as a person. and he would die for them! i 100% believe that. and i also 100% believe they would throw him out like yesterday's trash if he wasn't who he was, and he knows it.

#25 tag #kotlc #councillor bronte #none of these thoughts r particularly good but i hope you like em anyway!#cg.txt

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millerbenny-moved · 6 years

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@tmrnetwork tmr challenge week → day two: favorite character

↳ minho | “tomorrow. somehow, some way.”

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yangrdn · 2 years

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hidden letters | y.j

pairing ও jungwon x fem!reader

a/n ও this felt so awkward to write, just because i haven't written for so long. but on a good note- first enhypen work! i hope you guys like it <3 (i'm also working on a ni-ki smau coming out this wednesday or tuesday, so check it out :))

summary ও who would've thought that a piece of paper could betray you like this- or was it something good?

w/c ও 5.9k

warnings ও a couple cuss words

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You’re known for being a creative girl. Everybody knows you love to write stories, poems and letters. even more reading them. your room is filled with different books of any kind. books you got gifted, ones you bought, books you found in a library and got told you could take them with you for free. Everything you associate with reading and writing is self care, peace, silence and comfort. You can write sad, happy, scary stories and only get a good thing out of them- whatever ending you desire. It’s a story in your hands that you can finish however and whenever you want it to finish. Writing is an escape from the real world, too.

When writing, it feels like the world has stopped and nobody else is listening to or looking at you anymore. The things you write are secrets you can share with no one but your pencil and a piece of paper. It’s a secret nobody can hold against you or let you feel bad for. it’s a secret you’ll never have to worry about seeing the light of the day when you don’t want it to. The secrets are fears and worries you can let out without having to worry or hesitate before writing down. a piece of paper could never betray someone.

One of your love languages is writing letters to the people you adore and appreciate. It’s easier to write down the stuff you want them to know without oversharing. You don’t have to worry about stuttering or saying something you would want to erase the second it left your lips. It’s always been easier to portray feelings through paper and it made you happier, too. Experimenting with words and synonyms, getting creative in using metaphors helped you for school- it could only be seen as a win!

You'd only ever tell close people how happy you felt with writing and reading, since it could be used against you. Sharing something so beautiful and personal is not for everyone to know, and you're happy you got friends that support your love towards it.

And Jungwon, your best friend, knows about it too. Jungwon knows about the comfort you seek in the letters written across an old page in a 100 year old book. He knows that you spent your day writing stories, escaping into a world only you can understand and would love to explain. Experimenting with concepts, your ideas and getting inspired by everything you see. He knows that when you two walk to school together in the morning or are on your way to the cafe that opened three months ago, your head is drowning in clouds of new ideas you’d write down right after arriving home. He also knows that with the way you’re walking towards him in the school’s hallway, letter in your hand, you spent your night writing a letter to motivate him for the upcoming week. He knows you probably sat at your desk for hours and wrote down all the happy memories you’ve made with each other and he also knows that you’ve spent minutes searching through different shades of blue to find his favorite and write his name down in the same color. She also might have gone through her whole closet to find a white envelope and stick some stickers on it, he thinks after you hold up the envelope in front of his face, a big grin on yours.

Your eyes shine as you see the smile on his face grow, his dimples showing.

You shake your head quickly and stretch out your hands to take his in yours. His hands feel cold in yours and you prevent yourself from asking him if he put on gloves on the way to school or left without them, again. He probably left them at home and would tell you Jay took them because he lost them.

“What 's this?” He takes the letter from you and eyes it slowly, turning it around and looking back at you. His fingers start ripping it open slowly, and your eyes widen.

What you don’t notice is how his smile falters and his eyes widen at the feeling of your warm hands on his cold ones, making his heartbeat speed up as you stare into his eyes with your wide ones.

“Don’t open it now! It has that one embarrassing pic of us and I don’t want anyone to see,” you explain in a rushed whisper, letting go of his hands.

“I thought you’d never let anyone see it.” He nudges your shoulder, a smirk now on his face. You roll your eyes and start walking besides him to your next class.

“Yes, but you’re an exception,” you whisper at him as Sunoo makes his way to you two. Once again, you don’t notice the blush coating his cheeks and the raised eyebrow Sunoo shoots at him after giving you a side hug, Jungwon a high five. You can feel your own face heat up, though, and decide to cover it up with a cough.

Why is it suddenly so weird between you two? Or more like, the things you say and do. It never was like this. You two got to know each other when you were still younger kids, 13 years old. Your mutual friend, Sunoo, introduced you to each other one day. You and Sunoo are neighbors and spend most of your time at each other’s house. One day, when you decided to visit him spontaneously after his mom approved of it, you walked into his room and instead of finding him sitting at his desk painting, like he’d usually do, you found him sitting on his floor building a lego set with Jungwon laying on his stomach next to him, an instructions book set in front of the two young boys. You frowned and asked who he was, which is how Sunoo introduced you. You remember having spent the rest of the day there with him and your new friend. And years later you three are still unbreakable best friends.

Jungwon and you used to joke around like this with each other, always. Calling each other special or an exception. You were loud with each other, always laughing and talking letting everyone know you were telling jokes left and right. How is it any different from what you said now? When did you two start feeling this way?

There had to be something that shifted between the two of you. Of course, people grow up. You’re still kids, but not the same you used to be. Feelings are more relevant now. There are secrets you keep from each other now. There’s stuff you’d rather share with others or even no one. But why is it that everytime your fingers brush against each other, it’s not normal anymore. It doesn’t feel like it used to. It feels like so much more, making you stay up at night and read into it. Did his fingers brush yours because he wanted them to touch? Has Jungwon always had an arm around you when walking home, or did he just start doing it? All these questions were being asked every night before falling asleep.

The feeling is so weird. Like a firework exploding everytime he gazed into your eyes with his, it made you feel so safe. He felt like home, like someone you could trust with your whole life. He’s the type of friend you’d go to whatever it is, whatever you want to ask. But who should you go to and talk about your feelings, when it’s Jungwon you’re feeling this way about? He’s the one that makes your face heat up when he jokes about something you’re afraid of, or holding your hands when he notices yours being cold. It doesn’t really help since his is cold, too, but it definitely makes you feel loved and safe. And he knows that, which is why he continues doing that.

And maybe, he felt this way too. When your hair brushes against his nose when you’re hugging, he can smell your shampoo and it makes his face go red because he realizes how close you are. He notices all the small things about you. He’s observant, that you already know, but never would you have guessed how observant he actually is. He noticed the way your face scrunches up when you’re focusing in class. Or the angry face you make when you’re searching for your pencil case at school, knowing Ni-ki hid it somewhere in the library and is trying not to laugh. He knows that you play with your fingers when you’re nervous, or bite your lip to try to calm yourself down.

Are those platonic feelings, he asks himself. Do the others feel about you the same way? The thought makes him kinda angry, and that’s how he knows it’s probably not platonic anymore. The idea of someone else feeling and thinking about you this way makes him feel uneasy and weird. Why would Jungwon, your best friend, be angry and pissed at his best friends feeling the same way he feels about you, though. Simple, it’s more than just being friends. And he hopes, deep down, that you may feel the same way.

After your last lesson, you decide to walk home with Yuna. Sunoo and Jungwon had to stay in school longer, talking about “working on a project” when you know they’d probably just end up joking around and not getting anything done.

“So, what did you give Jungwon this morning?” Yuna asks. Your head snaps to her, staring at her through wide eyes.

“What? I didn’t give him anything,” you mumble and try to prevent your face from growing a smile at the mention of your best friend.

“Oh, come on! Everyone knows you love writing. It’s not that hard to realize you give him letters. Besides, I literally saw you two last week and today in front of his locker again!” she notes. You roll your eyes and shrug.

“What? Am I not allowed to send him letters?” Your friend gives you a look and scoffs.

“Yeah, but you look like a girlfriend and boyfriend exchanging smiles and hugs every morning.” Your eyes widen and you try to hide your lips twitching into a smile by chewing on them and turning your face away from her.

“But we’re not,” you whisper.

“Everyone can see the heart eyes you make at each other. You should see his face when you wave at him after he stared at your face in class! He always looks like a tomato,” she complains. You can feel the butterflies in your stomach when she talks.

Does he really blush when you look at him, and does he really see you as more than a friend? It’s clear, you and Jungwon have always been closer than others would like. You’re used to some of your friends teasing you, even teachers pulling the old “stop flirting,” card when they warn you in class for the third time. It’s normal for you two to be attached to the hip, always holding each other or thinking about one another. But did it really look like a couple? Maybe, every time you look at him and his friends talking and he tells them to shut up when you’re walking closer it could be because they were teasing him, just like your friends do when they see him walking to you.

"What? You're being delusional," you roll your eyes at her and scoff. She's lying. There's no way Jungwon could feel the same way about you. In the end, you two were best friends.

"Trust me if I was, I'd tell you he does not feel the same way. Now take that however you want, but when you announce you two dating I'm not gonna hesitate saying I told you so," she gives you a look with raised eyebrows.

You go straight to your room after arriving home and sit down on your desk after disregarding all your stuff. There’s a white envelope with Jungwon’s name on it sitting on one of your textbooks, and you can feel your heartbeat pick up and your eyes widen as you take a better look at it.

Isn’t this the letter you wrote for him yesterday? No, it can’t be. You usually put the letters you aren’t planning on giving anyone into a box, so this one probably got left out and you forgot to put it into the box.

Who said you couldn’t open it and read it, though? So you do just that and quickly open the envelope while silently whispering how it should not be the letter you were supposed to give Jungwon today, and actually the one you’re supposed to hide from any daylight and person that could get their fingers on it.

You open the letter and start reading through it, starting from the top. And that’s when you feel your heart drop to your stomach, eyes widen and slamming the letter in your hand on your desk. It takes a couple seconds for you to find yourself again after staring out the window with a horrific look and realize what happened- you gave Jungwon the wrong letter. So now your best friend, who you’ve had a crush (it’s more than that, but you tell yourself it’s only that in hopes it’ll go away) on since years, is walking home not expecting anything from the letter in his backpack besides you asking how he is doing today and wishing him a great and amazing week.

Turning around slowly and walking to your bed, you throw yourself facedown on it and let out a loud whine. He’s going to go home, open his backpack, then the letter. He’ll read through it and then take his phone to call or message you and tell you how he doesn’t feel the same. And that’s only if he’s nice. He’d probably tell the others and secretly laugh at how you thought you’d have a chance with him anyway-

Your phone buzzes and you turn your head to look at your desk, still laying down on your bed, to see it light up twice. You received a message. Maybe if you close your eyes and try to ignore it, the message will disappear.

The phone keeps buzzing and lighting up with messages. It takes a couple of seconds to sit up and walk to your phone and unlock it. And you were right- it’s Jungwon who messaged you. You could open the chat, read his messages and talk about it. Or, an option you liked a lot, you could ignore his texts and act as if nothing happened. Walk into school tomorrow, greet him like you always do and try to change the subject everytime he brings up the letter.

Your eyes widen again when you see your phone vibrating in your hand, your best friend’s face showing up on the screen. Now he is calling?

“No, nope and no! Call as many times as you want, I will not respond,” you whisper and turn your phone off completely.

It’s only four, so you still have time to study and do some homework. And that’s exactly what you do, trying to distract yourself from the fact that you might have just destroyed a years-long friendship just by writing a letter.

The next day, you walk into school not looking up from the floor once. If you ignore the students around you and the weird looks you get as you pass by some of your classmates without saying hello, this all might stop.

You walk to your locker and try to take out your book as fast as possible, knowing Jungwon might show up any second if he really wants to talk to you. He ended up calling five times yesterday and leaving a lot of messages and you know him as someone who doesn’t give up quickly. It doesn’t help that his locker is three lockers away from yours, right after Yuna’s and Sunoo’s.

Your calm state gets interrupted when you feel a tall presence behind your locker. You try to ignore it, you really do. You try to distract yourself with the textbooks in your locker and act as if you were searching through them (you already had your history textbook in your arms, which was the one you’d need for your first class), trying to look through the papers and act as if you had to read through them. But the person won’t leave you alone and you only think about closing your locker slowly to look at them when you hear them cough uncomfortably- instant regret. There he’s standing, Jungwon, your best friend, lips pulled into a tight line and your letter being held up in his left hand.

You try to search for any sign of disgust or embarrassment in his eyes, but fail. How could you search through his emotions when you couldn’t even look straight into his eyes?

“Uhm, I think you might have given me the wrong letter. I don’t know,” he starts. He’s scratching the back of his neck with his right arm and that’s when you know you fucked up.

“Mh? Wrong letter?” Maybe playing dumb will help. Or you could avoid him. Right as he opens his mouth to say something else, you see Sunoo and Yuna walk to you from behind him. Jungwon frowns at you when he sees you staring behind him and turns his head to look at your two friends waving at you with big smiles on their faces.

He realizes he shouldn’t have turned around to check, because he notices you’re gone the second his eyes are back on the spot you were just standing on. He groans and throws his head back.

“Did Y/N just run away from you without saying goodbye?” the girl alongside Sunoo asks, her finger pointing into the direction you just ran away in. Jungwon nods slowly, chewing on his lip.

“What happened? She looked pretty nervous,” Sunoo notes. Jungwon’s eyes widen as his stare focuses back on the letter in his hand. They don’t know.

“Well, uhm, look for yourself.” He gives his friends the letter and asks them to read through it, while waiting for their reaction. He can see how their confused looks turn into shocked ones the more they near the end of the letter.

“Holy shit. I knew she was gonna be the first one to confess, but I didn’t think she’d do it so soon. And in such a romantic way, too!” Sunoo exclaims, holding up the letter with a big smile.

“What are you going to do next? Are you going to confess, too?” Yuna asks with a hopeful smile.

“Now wait. Who said I was going to confess? And I’m sure she didn’t mean to give me this letter. She seemed really nervous and embarrassed when she saw it in my hand and also asked why I called it a wrong letter,” Jungwon explains. He can see Sunoo’s smiley face fade and turn into a strict look when he talks about how it’s the wrong letter and that he doesn’t plan on confessing.

“Boy, you’ve been crushing on her since we were 14. If you don’t confess, I’ll tell Beomgyu that he should ask her out.” At that, Jungwon’s face converts from unbothered to offended.

“What? Don’t tell him that or else I’ll,” he stops talking to think about his next words- he doesn’t have any. Sunoo is right. Jungwon has been crushing on you for too long to not do anything against it. And what other amazing opportunity than having you confess first? Even if it was an accident and you didn’t mean to give him that letter, it still confirms that you feel the same way about him. It hurts and panics him to think about what you must feel right now. Is it shame, embarrassment? Are you trying to find another person you can befriend so you’re not alone anymore when you try to avoid him?

“Well, then you know what to do,” Sunoo tells him with a raised brow and continues walking to class with Yuna, leaving his friend behind.

You try avoiding Jungwon for the rest of the school day. It was already embarrassing enough that he read your letter, seeing him face to face wouldn’t be any better.

But it seems like he did the exact opposite. While you tried avoiding him, he tried his best to find you. Which is why you find him waiting in front of your doorstep with Sunoo.

“Uhm, what are you guys doing here?” You clear your throat and take out your keys, trying to open your house door as fast as possible with shaking hands. Jungwon doesn’t miss how you’re trying to avoid eye contact as much as possible and focus your gaze on your hands.

“I thought it wouldn’t be a bad idea to study together for the math quiz next week. Right, Jungwon?” Sunoo nudges him with his elbow. The boy shakes his head and his eyes widen.

“Uh, yeah that,” he coughs. You press your lips into a thin line and nod slowly, opening your door.

“That 's great. But I don’t think I’ll have time for that today and-” Sunoo frowns and steps forward, holding his arm out between you and your door, blocking the way.

“No, no. Who said you could leave? We always study together and you already said you were free this week yesterday, remember?” He raises an eyebrow at you, nodding towards his friend awkwardly standing behind him.

“Shit…,” you curse under your breath. So Sunoo also found out about the letter, you note.

“Now, Jungwon and I are going to walk up to mine. I hope you won’t be late or I’ll come back down and carry you up,” he says before turning around and taking Jungwon with him. You wait until both boys are out of ear shot and throw your head back, groaning.

Not only would you have to face Jungwon, but also Sunoo after he found out. It doesn’t calm your nerves knowing Sunoo has always been annoying you about how you and Jungwon are “just right for eachother,” as he’d say. This means he won’t stop trying to play cupid until you and Jungwon make up.

But does he even need to play, if Jungwon already found out about your feelings you wrote him in a letter and read it?

You walk into your room and change your backpack to a smaller one, only taking your math book with you.

The door to Sunoo’s opens immediately after you ring his bell once, being greeted with a smiling Jungwon. Your eyes widen and you try to look behind him, searching for the blond boy whose idea it was to meet in his home. Jungwon’s smiley face drops as he realizes who’s standing in front of him. His hand goes up to scratch at his neck, also avoiding your gaze.

Are we just going to continue looking at the floor, or.. ,he thinks. It’s awkward, really awkward.

He makes space for you to step in and closes the door after you come in, walking behind you slowly.

“Where is Sunoo?” you ask and drop your backpack next to the green sofa in the middle of the room. The TV is on, they must’ve been waiting for you to come up before starting to study.

“Uh, he said he needed to go to the bathroom.” Jungwon responds. You nod slowly and sit down on the sofa.

This isn’t like always. The atmosphere between you two is tense, and it’s obvious. It’s obvious by the distance kept between you two, with you sitting down and Jungwon still standing in the middle of the room. Your body’s stiff and you don’t exactly know what to do with your hands, fiddling with your fingers on your lap. Jungwon notices the interest you picked on your hands and lets out a sigh.

So I’m not the only uncomfortable person here.

He starts walking towards Sunoo’s room and disappears. For a minute, you think you’re safe until Sunoo is back and let out a relieved breath, closing your eyes and leaning back on the sofa. But only for a minute, because the silence gets disturbed by wrinkling paper you hear behind you.

Your eyes snap open and you turn around quickly, catching Jungwon’s unsure eyes. He’s holding a paper, your letter, to be specific. He takes slow steps towards you and sits down next to you, leaving a distance. You can feel your cheeks heat up and your face warm, also noticing the rosy color spreading on the boy’s cheeks.

“Uhm, I think we need to talk about this,” he clears his throat and holds up your letter, staring at it. There’s a silence between you two, Tom and Jerry being the only thing heard from the TV.

“I’m sure you didn’t mean to give me this, because you looked happy before finding out what letter you gave me. And I’m sure you wouldn’t want me to know what you wrote here,” he explains. You gulp. You scold yourself mentally. What the fuck had you written in the letter again?

“So I just wanted to ask if you-”

“No,” you cut him off quickly. He raises his eyebrows in surprise, frowns on his lips.

“No?” You nod slowly, suddenly feeling unsure of your response. You should’ve let him talk.

“I- I was going to ask if you meant what you said in that letter.” His voice gets quieter and you feel a pang of guilt in you. He’s clearly hurt and embarrassed, and it doesn’t help that you don’t know whether it’s because he wants you to feel something for him, or because he thinks you hate him and could never see him as someone who deserves love. You hope it’s the first one.

“I’m sorry. I should’ve let you talk first,” you say. You dare looking up at him and make eye contact for the first time since entering your mutual friend’s house. For a second, everything feels like usual.

You’re back to being friends only, the letters hidden in your favorite box not seeing the daylight. His eyes take you back to summer, when you two first met years ago. They take you back to yesterday morning, when you still thought it was a normal letter and Jungwon thought it was just one of your motivational speeches to get him through the week of school. They take you back to the time you saw his dimples for the first time after telling a stupid joke to impress him after Sunoo left the room.

“Yes. I just wanted to know if you actually mean it? Because, uhm,” he stops talking and frowns, playing with the letter in his hand. You purse your lips, lost in your own thoughts. He hands you the letter and you take it with a questioning look. He nods towards the paper.

“Read it. I think you might’ve forgotten about what it actually is,” he explains. You feel your face getting hot again, wanting to be swallowed by the ground alive.

Please don’t be something embarrassing.

You unfold the piece of paper in your hand and start reading through it after sending the boy next to you one last unsure look.

Jungwon,

I’ll actually never give you this letter. I have this hidden box in my room where I put all the pieces of paper I’ve written on and don’t want anyone to know about. Like what I’m about to write next.

I’ve had a crush on you for a long, long time now. And to be honest I don’t think I can call it a crush only. It’s more like a feeling, it’d be better to say that I’ve liked you for a very long time. I like everything about you, all the stuff you do. I like that I feel so safe and secure around you and that I can talk to you about everything. I get happy when you’re around and all I want is that you feel the same way about me, too. I want to be someone you feel safe around and I want you to be happy when you’re around me. I want to be the reason for the dimples appearing on your face when you smile and laugh, I want to be the reason why you giggle when you look down at your phone in the middle of class.

I hope that you can soon tell me whether you feel the same way about me, or not. Although I think, as I’ve already mentioned, these hidden letters will stay hidden forever, or at least for as long as possible. It’d be embarrassing to me if you’d ever touch one of these and see what I write, because I’m sure you’ll never see me as anything different than your best friend :(

But still, I keep hoping someday I’ll be the reason for your smiles and giggles. Still, I hope someday to be able to call you mine.

Your eyes widen and you’re sure, for someone looking at this from a third pov, it may look like they’re about to jump out of your eye sockets and roll on the floor. You fold the paper and put it back into the envelope he placed on the empty sofa space between you two.

Your Y/N <3

Where the fuck is Sunoo?, you think. Now would be a great moment for him to appear out of nowhere and calm the tension in the room. It’s like you could cut it with a knife.

“I- I forgot I wrote this,” you whisper and place the envelope on the empty space between you and Jungwon. He nods slowly, clearing his throat.

“Yeah, I had assumed that already. It’s, uhm, a really personal thing you wrote there. I doubt you’d want me to read it,” he mutters.

There’s another silence between you two and this time, it’s you who decided to break it.

“You know, it’s okay if you don’t feel the same. As I said in the letter, I’m sure you don’t see me as more than a friend and I also understand if you feel uncomfortable and awkward from now on,” you go on explaining, your gaze focusing on your fingers instead of Jungwon. His eyes are fixed on you, a small smile on his lips and any sign of embarrassment gone after listening to your small rant. He could cut you off and tell you he likes you, or stay quiet and hear you talk.

He decides to stay quiet and hear you talk.

“I also know you’re probably disgusted or weirded out because I wrote so many letters that I hid from you and I promise you it’s nothing weird. We can either act as if nothing happened between us and continue being friends. But if it makes you feel better, we can also just ignore each other. It’s going to be hard, but I’ll move on at some point,” your voice gets softer at the end and quieter, which doesn’t go unnoticed by the boy with you in the room. His smile falls slowly, realizing what pain it’d actually cause you if he decides to ignore you or act as if nothing happened between you two.

“All of this is unnecessary, Y/N,” he starts. You raise your head slowly, frowning and sending him a perplexed look.

“I mean it’s unnecessary for you to feel this way and be scared I wouldn’t want to be friends with you anymore. I could never picture my life without you,” he explains. You suck in a breath, preparing yourself for the rejection that is about to come.

But it never happens. Instead, your eyes snap down to your hand as he takes it and links his fingers with yours.

“I’ve liked you for a really long time, too. I was just too scared and shy to admit it, even though I tried sending you signals.” He pauses, breathing in and looking down at your connected hands.

“You never did anything to show me you could've liked me in that way,” you note.

“I guess you could say that. I was hoping that asking you to write me more letters and asking if you wanted to hang out every day was enough to show you,” he laughs. You’re even more confused now.

“But that’s exactly what we’ve always been doing.”

“I know. That’s the only way I could show you how interested I am in you and I don’t really know that much about showing emotions when you,” he pauses and purses his lips, “like someone like this” He motions between the two of you with his free hand, making the corners of your lips turn up into a shy smile.

“Wait so what you’re trying to say is-” He cuts you off by pulling you closer to him by your hand.

“That I like you?” he asks, and you nod slowly, staring into his eyes.

“Well, yes. Unless you don’t feel the same. Then it’s more like a friendly way-” This time it’s him getting cut off by you pressing your lips against his. You can’t really explain the feelings and fireworks exploding within you, and neither can Jungwon. He’s shocked at first, gasping and his eyes widening, but instantly closing in relief when he realizes what just happened.

He squeezes your hand and you feel your face heating up again, sighing into the kiss. His touch is different now. It makes you regret everything that made this moment come so late. It makes you regret not having confessed to him sooner, makes you think about where you two could’ve been with your relationship now, if only you had shown your attraction to each other sooner. His hand in yours mixed with his lips moving along with yours makes you drown, his scent and fingertips on your cheeks being the only thing you register.

You’re glad he’s the first one to break the kiss and pull back, else you’d stay like this forever. You open your eyes slowly, finding him already gazing back at you. His eyes are soft, shiny. You pull your bottom lip between your teeth, trying to hold down the smile creeping up your face.

“Uhm, I take that as something good?” he says, but it comes out sounding more like a question as he finishes the sentence with his voice going up.

“Yeah, I thought it was obvious after I just kissed you,” you giggle. He purses his lips.

“I’m just saying, what if I interpreted it wrong?” he defends himself, chuckling. You roll your eyes and look at him.

“Isn’t it obvious? I like you,” you say and glance down at your hands together.

“That’s good, because I really like you, too.” You frown after his confession, focusing your gaze on the bathroom door behind Jungwon.

“Wait, didn’t you say Sunoo was in the bathroom? Why’s he taking so long?” you voice your thoughts. His lips press into a thin line, avoiding your eyes. You tilt your head in question.

“Yeah, uh, I might’ve lied. He said he’d stay in his parents’ room until we confessed,” he confesses.

#jungwon x reader #jungwon x you #jungwon x fem!reader #jungwon x y/n #jungwon imagine #jungwon imagines #yang jungwon x reader #yang jungwon x you #jungwon ff #jungwon oneshot #jungwon one shot #jungwon one-shot #enhypen x reader #enhypen x y/n #enhypen x fem!reader #enhypen imagine #enhypen imagines #tima writes

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waterparksdrama · 2 years

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OKAY COULD THIS MEAN A NEW ERA ALREADY/AT LAST? i’m about to get all swiftie on y’all (or idk if that’s an exaggeration but here ya go anyway):

okay let’s review the facts and patterns and shit:

- low-key as hell came out eleven months after fandom, and it was the beginning of an era and the first single of gh but it came out around eight months before it, which is pretty long. buttt, i mean anyway, this almost follows that pattern, with the announcement for the new song just a few weeks in the year later than the announcement for the album a year ago, (has it really been so little since gh? 🥴 also, i wasn’t here for fandom’s release so i can’t really see if the pattern extends further to the past), the only difference would be that he didn’t announce lah like this but bare w me i guess. and this leads me to my next point:

- the announcement for gh looked almost the same as the photo he just posted, except for a different colour and different words (ik that sounds so stupid since words and the colour are the only things there but y’all get my point), the calligraphy is the same (which ik is just awsten’s calligraphy but it’s in all caps, but it’s done with a marker, instead of a pen or sum) and the back colour is literally just that. a colour. (gosh i sound so dumb i’m sorry)

- i would argue that the colours are a bit weird, since if it’s red, then there’s friendly reminder, plus the fact that it was one of the colours for gh, but, yellow and blue were the colours of dd so whatever

- thinking of awsten’s mind and what he would want, it makes sense that he’s kind of eager to move to a new era after the relative commercial failure that gh was and the amount of people who just didn’t like it. plus, with all of the emo stuff coming back so strongly, and awsten avoiding at all costs being part of that, it makes sense that he releases something in order to be like “hey, we’re still here, releasing music that’s not pop punk by any means, and we’re relevant and not that small of a band”

so. yeah. that’s my analysis. idk if this redundant bc like. yeah they’re releasing a song, that’s obvious, and with songs come albums, and he’s a pretty prolific writer so it’s not like it matters that it hasn’t even been a year, anddddd. well yeah idk, the possibility of being one of those songs that don’t come with an album exists but, let’s hope this ain’t the case lol. thanks bye

wow this is really long

they do move cycles quick i almost wonder if he took some of the pieces of those 100+ demos he made and already had the base for another album for a while

not really sure what he's doing now since last time he did the marker over a color thing it was blue and promoted that a new album would come out + the alright was the first tweet he made after his social media hiatus. not sure if this would entirely mark a new era already, especially with a color associated with something he already had planned for a scrapped one but who knows

i'm not really sure how he would really market this rn given that they would still have to release this under 300 if they're gonna tour for gh and release the song this year.

i do think he should take advantage of the 'emo revival' crap happening to promo whatever this is within the scene bc

300 ent won't do it for them/i don’t think their management is landing them any bigger opportunities at all

he's losing a good amount of longtime fans by acting like he's above everything that's built him (the fanbase that reflects him, the scene, etc)

if hardcore dudes don't like him, there an even lower chance of rappers/hip hop heads in 300's scene liking him either

embracing his scene roots in promoting whatever would be good for him i think. one thing i can say about parx is that they aren't that derivative of a derivative stale pop punk you hear with a lot of these "emo revival" artists and showing something new while still paying some sort of homage to those emo pop roots is what parx does better than these people

- iz

#but yeah anyways nice ask i like the long ones has some insight

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feysandfeels · 3 years

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Bless that T Swift/SJM crossover anon!! Can I add some other ones?!

The 1 - Chaol & Celaena after she’s Aelin again (or Chaol & Nesryn.....poor Chaol)

The Last Great American Dynasty - more like the Last Great Terrasen Dynasty lol

My Tears Ricochet - Aelin @ Arobyn

Mirrorball - Lysandra

Mad Woman = AELIN

The Lakes - Aelin talking about Rowan when she’s tired of it all

Not my (Chloe Ting sponsored) ass realizing just now that the original anon meant all the sjm pairings, but since I’m deep in the acotar trash atm I only made those.

ACOTAR I & II

Apologies jeje.

Manorian: generally speaking they have such reputation vibes. Immaculate record for immaculate couple.

... Ready for it? - “But if he's a ghost, then I can be a phantom Holdin' him for ransom” // “Younger than my exes but he act like such a man, so I see nothing better, I keep him forever Like a vendetta-ta” // “You should see the things we do, baby In the middle of the night, in my dreams I know I'm gonna be with you So I take my time Are you ready for it?”. Listen do I really need to explain this or do we all just see it?. This song has the electricity, the sexyness, the roughness, the daring aspect that makes manorian be the GOD tier couple that they are.

I’d Lie - Right, bare with me but I will lol at this forever because Manon is basically “And I could tell you his favorite color's green He loves to argue, born on the seventeenth His sister's beautiful, he has his father's eyes And if you asked me if I love him, I'd lie”. It’s such a weird song to associate with them but it fits her so well hahahahaha because my girl lives in such denial that I just can’t hahahahahahaaha and like “I don't let nobody see me wishing he was mine” this is MANON FOR DORIAN ALL THE TIME, and everyone is like but we see you wanting him so just do something about it!!!

Rowaelin

Willow - this screams Rowan looking at Aelin: “Wherever you stray I follow I'm begging for you to take my hand Wreck my plans That's my man”. He straight up left Maeve and the blood pact thingy they had for the blond girl he met three months prior. Also “Wait for the signal and I'll meet you after dark Show me the places where the others gave you scars Now this is an open-shut case Guess I should've known from the look on your face Every bait and switch was a work of art”, this speaks of the vulnerability shared through HoF about their scars and of Rowan realizng that every step he took was so he would met her. Willow is Rowan’s song for Aelin.

The Lakes- LET HER GO TO TERRASEN WHERE ALL THE POETS WENT TO DIE, LET HER STAY SO THAT WISTERIA GROWS AROUND HER FEET BECAUSE SHE HASN’T MOVED IN YEARS.

Elorcan

Hoax - the balance of the deep betrayal and the love, the hurt and the I would choose you again all of the nuances of Lorcan’s betrayal and the shattered illusions that speak of them even in their absences, are in Hoax: “Stood on the cliffside Screaming, "Give me a reason" Your faithless love's the only hoax I believe in Don't want no other shade of blue But you No other sadness in the world would dI believe in Don't want no other shade of blue But you No other sadness in the world would do”.

Lysandeon

Paper rings- “The wine is cold Like the shoulder that I gave you in the street Cat and mouse for a month or two or three Now I wake up in the night and watch you breathe”. This song matches their energy so well even if the lyrics don’t all offer exact parallels. They did however play cat and mouse for a month or two or three. “I like shiny things, but I'd marry you with paper rings Uh huh, that's right Darling, you're the one I want” Lysandra being accustomed to the finer things in life but she would slum it for Aedion; she is here for thick and thin.

Nesraq:

Gorgeous - “Of your magnetic field being a little too strong And I got a boyfriend (Chaol), he's older than us He's in the club (palace) doing, I don't know what (Yrene....) You're so cool (Sartaq really is the coolest), it makes me hate you so much (I hate you so much)” // You make me so happy (dude Nesryn loves spending time with him and he feels valued), it turns back to sad (fuck what about Chaol.. we promised each other it give it ago), yeah There's nothing I hate more than what I can't have (because he’s the prince and I’m not royal) You are so gorgeous it makes me so mad”.

Chaorene:

Dancing with our hands tied - even if the lyrics don’t create perfect parallels, I think the main theme of the song being two people that want to be together, but feel their relationship has a lot of baggage would fit them well. Yrene has to get over her hate for Adarlan (even though she has every every every right to hate Adarlan) and Chaol has to get over *himself*. “I, I loved you in spite of Deep fears that the world would divide us So, baby, can we dance Oh, through an avalanche? And say, say that we got it I'm a mess, but I'm the mess that you wanted”.

Sam x Celaena:

I know places - them trying to run away so they could find a safe place to be in love? indeed. Me crying right now because they never got to? you bet: “'Cause they got the cages, they got the boxes And guns They are the hunters, we are the foxes And we runBaby, I know places we won't be found and They'll be chasing their tails trying to track us down Cause I, I, I, I know places we can hide, I, I (...)”.

Dorian x Celaena:

The Way I loved you - To Dorian from Aelin... with love, friendship love that is. Because she recognizes the potential in him, in them, she knows he would be good to her and she knows that she indeed fell for him hard enough to want him for herself, but it just doesn’t feel like *that* anymore.

Red - From Dorian’s perspective: “Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street Faster than the wind, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly”// “Touching him was like realizing all you ever wanted Was right there in front of you Memorizing him was as easy as knowing all the words To your old favorite song Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword And realizing there's no right answer”. They were literally a crash and burn. But neither of them can actually bring themselves to regret it. It was fun while it lasted and in its way it brought them closer.

Chaol x Celaena:

We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together - self explanatory, this is them through QoS. My Celorian ass is here for this pettiness I will take no criticism.

Forever and Always - “Was I out of line? Did I say something way too honest, made you run and hide Like a scared little boy I looked into your eyes Thought I knew you for a minute, now I'm not so sure So here's to everything coming down to nothing Here's to silence, that cuts me to the core Where is this going? Thought I knew for a minute, but I don't anymore” This was essentially Chaol’s thought process wondering why him an Celaena don’t work anymore and feeling like... a “we were supposed to be together 5ever what happened.... besides me not doing much to prevent her bff’s death and working for the dude that orchestrated the murder of her nation ?”

August - if I’m being honest this song fits them too not my fave song from folklore being for my least favorite couple in this story but if I gave Feylin some of my all time favorites I can give this one to them, but like “But I can see us lost in the memory August slipped away into a moment in time 'Cause it was never mine And I can see us twisted in bedsheets August sipped away like a bottle of wine 'Cause you were never mine Your back beneath the sun Wishin' I could write my name on it” Even though Chaol was ready to leave it all for her (he would literally cancel plans.. his life plans in case she’d call) she knew that this was an impossibility, their time was brief and it slipped away like a bottle of wine. She could never be his, because she was not entirely herself with him being Aelin meant opening up a lot of things and if Chaol had a hard time getting past a lot of Celaena’s traits then we can imagine the work, literally work he would have to do to accept Aelin... you know what, we don’t have to imagine it... it’s right there in QoS and ToD, anywho, he could never write his name on her back because she was never his, because he did not accept her for all that she was.

Aelin x Dorian x Chaol:

Long live - “I said, remember this moment, in the back of my mind The time we stood with our shaking hands The crowds in stands went wild We were the kings and the queens�� // “Will you take a moment? Promise me this That you'll stand by me forever But if, God forbid, fate should step in And force us into a goodbye If you have children some day When they point to the pictures Please tell them my name Tell them how the crowds went wild Tell them how I hope they shine Long live the walls we crashed through I had the time of my life, with you” // I’m emotional right now and I need to cry it out.

I’m not 100% sure on the Chaoyrene one... but I think it’s good enough for me to post this hahaha

Anywho, I hope whoever asked for this enjoyed it 💛💛

#Feysandfeelsasks #Rowaelin #Manorian #Elorcan #Chaorene #Nesraq #Lysandion #Celorian #I don't know what Chaol and Celaena were #sorry

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ayzrules · 3 years

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✶ 𝐇𝐗𝐇 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐒: 𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 & 𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒, 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇 & 𝐃𝐀𝐌𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 Long story short, I have been thinking about this for wayyyyy too long now and wanted to get some ~thoughts~ & analysis written down! This post is going to be...fairly long, lol. Apologies in advance :D

Also, if you can’t see the last gif (the one for ‘holy’), click here. Tumblr keeps fucking up the image when i try to upload it :////

This post is probably going to be about 2/3 yorknew & phantom troupe/kurapika focused, 1/3 chimera ants, maybe with some references to other arcs (including manga-only arcs) mixed in. so, ofc, tons of spoilers ahead! also, i realize that my blog theme is hard to read (and i’m p sure clicking ‘keep reading’ sends you to the og post itself), so i’m linking the post w/ full text copy/pasted in on my art backup side blog (which has a more legible font) here.

✶ 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇 I’m sure absolutely nobody is surprised with me starting here - there is just. SO. MUCH. DEATH. in hxh. & right from the start, one thing I noticed that togashi really emphasized was the #4 and its connection to death. in japanese, chinese, and im p sure some other asian cultures the number 4 is pronounced like the word for death so it’s associated with death in general, and boy oh boy does the ‘deadly number 4′ thing show up E V E R Y W H E R E. we get to the hunter exam, and hisoka is applicant #44. kurapika is #404. i didn’t notice it at first, but this was so intentional holy shit. togashi is NOT SUBTLE.

So pika & hisoka are, right off the bat, associated with death. okay. and then there are even more clues to drive the point home: hisoka is member #4 in the phantom troupe, kurapika’s birthday is april 4th (aka 4/4). 100% not a coincidence (!!). with hisoka, it’s pretty obvious why togashi’s throwing all this death 444444 stuff around - dude is a psycho murder pedo clown, literally gets off on killing people (and there’s also the fact that judas sits 4th from the left in the last supper painting, and he’s sort of the judas equivalent for the phantom troupe). with kurapika, though, it’s a bit more subtle and woven deeper into his characterization, which i LOVE. togashi puts the mans in blue & gold & white (traditionally ‘pure’ or ‘heavenly’ colors), makes him so fucking kind & so good-hearted.....when he’s not relentlessly pursuing his revenge, ofc. more on this in the next section, but pika = death. togashi has made that v v v clear.

Backtracking a bit to hisoka, though, I also just wanted to point out the 4 is death symbolism in the fortunes too (GOD i love the fortunes): in one translation, he’s the false fourth moon, and in the og japanese (i think), he’s the false hare (4th in the lunar zodiac or w/e it’s called. i don’t know the japanese cultural influences here, but in the chinese legend that established the zodiac animals, they race across the heavenly river & the top 12 animals got zodiac slots. the hare finished 4th, so it’s #4 in the cycle).

And just as a final note, Tserriednich is the fourth prince of the kakin empire, and also another dude who has a hard-on for murder & other gory shit. again: togashi is not subtle with this, lmfao

✶ 𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐘, 𝐔𝐍𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐘 As probably everyone who’s gotten to yorknew knows, togashi is so 0 fucks given when he wants to be. I mean there’s the whole thing where he just. took New York and decided, Yorknew. LMFAO, but also, he made the main antag of that arc be named chrollo lucilfer, sit around in a ruined church, have a reversed cross coat, pale & dark-haired/dark-eyed, generally dressed in dark colors, very terrible murder guy. liiiike......chrollo x devil symbolism game is 1000/10 at this point lmaooo

And i know absolutely nothing about christianity in general, but pt/kurapika & yorknew arc is just so full of christian imagery/symbolism! one thing that i L O O O O O O V E though is how togashi really blurs the traditional christian-coded good/evil, holy/damned boundaries.

Back to kurapika: he wears gold and blue, his coloring is very stereotypically ‘angelic’, he’s precious and good and kind. his chains are all about ~judgment~ and ~healing~ - some of the chains are also in literal cross shapes, aren’t they? And the chain dagger in his own heart...the imagery is very startlingly similar to the immaculate heart of mary, where the swords stabbing thru the heart apparently represent seven sorrows. IDK much about this stuff other than the visual similarities; literally had to google ‘daggers through heart christianity?’ to even get the name of that thing LOL. anyway, at first, it seems like togashi establishes him as the ‘angel’, the ‘good’, the ‘holy’ in the angel/devil, good/evil, holy/damned dichotomy between him and chrollo.

But that’s not the end of the story. his entire storyline is driven by a huuuuuuuge giant desire for vengeance, first of all, and then there’s the scarlet eyes, which canonically are seen as demonic/cursed/what have you (according to one of the movies or smth? where they show pika as a 10 y/o?), and then we also have red eyes in modern culture being associated w pretty much the same thing (vampires, anyone?). the fight scene with uvo has everything in b&w besides the blood on his face & his red eyes & the moon (<<< more fortune foreshadowing & symbolism, i love to see it), and there are tonssss of scenes where he has to suppress his rage. so all of that is obviously not very angelic of him i would say LOL. in fact, what i find super interesting is that the scarlet/red eyes (which are ‘demonic’) is actually the driving factor behind his super powerful nen abilities; this ties in so well with the fortunes & death associations imo! the fortunes call him the ‘death-bringer’ in one translation, or ‘half-angel, half-death’, so that’s one side of pika = red eyes = death, but there’s also the fact that emperor time is literally draining his life force. so pika = death for both himself and others namely the pt, question mark?

Now for chrollo: togashi’s devil symbolism is EXTREMELY overt with him, but i love the subtler jesus references too. the church thing, obviously, and the st. peters cross which is cuz st peter respected jesus too much & didn’t think he was worthy to die in the same way as him (or something like that, i am the most atheist person in the world & hxh is literally my entire christian education pls) but is also used as an anti-christianity symbol these days. bandit’s secret looks like a bible, lbr, and mans has a cross tattoo.

Other things beyond visuals - 12 spiders, 12 apostles; hisoka’s betrayal, where member #4 can be thought to correspond to judas sitting 4th from left at last supper. and this miiiiight be a bit of a stretch, but i think the meteor city being the place of origin may also play into the blurred line between angel/devil and holy/damned here; meteors are defined as space rocks that are in earth’s atmosphere, becoming incandescent in the process. meteorites are for the kinds that actually reach the ground. and idk, lucifer was cast out of heaven / sky too right? so i think there might be some subtle fallen angel imagery/symbolism playing into the pt as well

✶ 𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 (𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒) Last section yay! i don’t have as much to say about this, besides when i was making chimera ant arc edits & realized that there might have been some subtle gon/meruem parallels???

So obviously, everyone knows that line killua says to gon - “you are light” - and then i was just remembering that meruem’s name means.... “light that illuminates all” (!!!!). maybe it’s a coincidence, but knowing togashi, i’m leaning towards nahhhh. there HAS TO be some kinda meaning there (!!).

Going back to the events of the chimera ant arc....ooh boy. let’s see: gon is optimistic & hopeful even in the face of kite potentially being dead, killua says he’s light, they find kite & dude is fucked up, gon is pissed. gets all angry & ~dark~, especially during the palace invasion when he’s staring pitou down as she fixes up komugi. then the actual fight against pitou: more darkness, more anger, but through it all there’s still light, namely his jajanken being very orange & fiery lookin.....and that final sequence, where he puts all his possible nen he’d ever have into his ~final form~ or wahtever & turns into a male version of true form!bisky but dressed in a crop top & short-shorts (i am SCARRED, btw. s c a r r e d !). there’s just huuuge flashes of light as that’s going on, and it reminded me of supernovas or dying stars when i was thinking about it, where the star is like, collapsing under its own weight? & burning thru its own fuel, until there’s nothing left except a dwarf or black hole or what have you. one final, extremely deadly burst of light & energy before death.

On the meruem side of things: born into a dark cave, exhibits a traditionally evil/cruel/wicked/whatever personality/traits so that has ppl associating him with darkness. then he gets to know komugi, starts to appreciate other aspects of humanity, seems like he could have actually turned into a decent person who doesn’t want to eat everyone - so that’s a ‘path to light’, maybe? - and then the extermination team yeets themselves into the palace, netero takes him out to bumfuck nowhere, they fight. netero’s fighting is just ALL light, from his giant ass golden 100-type guanyin bodhisattva to the poor man’s rose. again, there’s the sense of finality to it all, in a similar vein to dying stars: netero comes in determined to kill meruem no matter what, and we all know netero doesn’t flake. then we see netero get destroyed after the zero hand, and he triggers the rose, and everything is burning & on fire before the flames are put out and all turns dark again.

But wait!!! pouf & youpi revive meruem and all he does is play gungi with komugi, even with the poison of the rose. he eventually dies, and the gungi pieces in that final shot of them together (i am BAWLING just thinking about it holy shit) has one that’s all white, one that’s a black ring and white inside. i assume all white is for komugi, who has never done ANYTHING wrong in her LIFE, so i like to think that the 2nd one is for meruem - born “into darkness”, literally & figuratively, but he turns something like ‘good’ by the end. it’s interesting how togashi has sort of gone for a bit of a subversion here: the hero going from light to darkness, and the main antag from darkness to light.

✶ 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 AahhhhHHHHHhhh so if you read all the way down here through my LONG rambles, tysm! i would LOVE LOVE LOVE to hear what other people think about all this, and i’ve FOR SURE missed tons and tons of stuff - chimera ants is just. SO MUCH. and i don’t know it as well as yorknew eeek.

I’m not sure if i’m really ~knowledgeable~ in any other areas relating to hxh, so this might be the only one of these that i do, but i definitely think about some of this - esp all the religious symbolism & #4 stuff - a ton! so in the meantime, if it’s of any interest, i’m just going to shamelessly plug my hxh x religious beliefs/superstitions edit series :D lots of love to all!!!

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if you take a shower and you dry off with a towel, is the towel dirty or not??? cause you just got all clean but you are still using the towel so,,,,,??? 👀👀👀👀

do you think the people in our dreams are only people weve seen before? or people we make up in our heads? cause my theory is that everyone in our dreams (like the random “filler” people if you know what i mean) is someone that youve seen at least ONCE, maybe passing by on the street, a grocery store, the mall, seeing on an advertisement, etc. and your brain stores them away to be used in your dreams later. or do you think we just make up people on our own?

how do we know the colors were seeing are the colors people are describing? like how do we know that [this] is supposed to be purple, did people just come together and decide “yeah, thats purple” cause what if someone saw [this] instead but still agreed that its purple?? 🤔🤔🤔

did you know that apparently years and years ago people thought that eating the dead would have healing/healthy benefits? i forget the details so sorry bout that but it was in one of these books i had to read for my forensic anthropology class about different things people did to dead bodies and apparently there was a group of people whod douse their dead in honey and soak and preserve them for like 100 years and then just *chomp chomp* yummy 😋

lol i hope this clusterfuck of random thoughts and questions gave you some sort of entertainment (im curious to see what your opinions on these things are tho 👀)

gonna answer this under the cut bc its gonna be a bit long maybe

if you take a shower and you dry off with a towel, is the towel dirty or not??? cause you just got all clean but you are still using the towel so,,,,,??? 👀👀👀👀

i would say dirty, because when you decide to get a new towel it’s because the old one is dirty?

i remember reading smth about this and i’m pretty sure our brain is somewhat incapable to dreaming up their own people? cant remmeber if science backed this up or not lol but yeah everyone you see in your dream is someone you’ve seen before. although, there is an exception with the “have you seen this man” guy (i personally get a lil creeped out by the picture they have of him). if you don’t already know, it’s this face that many people all over the world have seen in their dreams, but no one knows who he is and their’s a sketch/generated picture of the face and a whole website for the guy but no one in the entire world knows who he is? also, i just did a google bc i just remembered reading smth recently about him and nvm its a hoax AHHAHAHAHA but yeah that’s always creeped me out.

OHHHHH I LOVE THINKING ABOUT THIS SO MUCHHHHHH and then you consider the fact that lobsters or shrimp or smth see more colours than we do and its so cool!!! like !!!!! there is so much out there that we don’t know or see or hear because humans just arent able to process the stuff and thats so funky cool! but the reason we all unanimously agree a colour is a colour despite everyone viewing it differently is becasue we just.. like... thats what we’ve been told and that’s how we see it? every inidivdual understands “purple” to be one thing, so if i told you that this cup is purple, you would also see purple even if the purple you see if not the purple i see; you’ve jsut always associated that colour with the word “purple” and i could tell you that if you mixed blue and red together you’ll get purple and you would agree because your understanding of colours is consistent within your own little brain and my understanding is consistent in my own little brain and so we just match up the parts that are similar (the word) and it makes sense to our own inidivudla selves? as kids we’re told that the colour we percieve is called X, and soo i guess it’s passed down what we call certain colours.

Hypothetically, then, if eveyrone in this generation and the next few generations told their kids that what we perceieve as purple was orange, eventually would what we know to be purple be called orange in the future?

idk if any of the above makes sense HAHA

Fun fact newborns see in black and white?? how funky is that?

OMG YOU DO FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGYYYYY tbh idk what that actually means but i kinda understand the words separately and they both interest me so i’m assuming a cool word/study + a cool word/study = a super cool word/study.

thats pretty interesting?? honeys a really good preservative so !!! but damn 100 years,,, but yeah i’ve heard of that happening in a few cultures!!

lol i hope this clusterfuck of random thoughts and questions gave you some sort of entertainment (im curious to see what your opinions on these things are tho 👀)

hehe ty this was very fun to read through and answer/share my thoughts etc!! i love having these type of convos where we (me and whoever im voncersing w) can just go batshit crazy and hypothesise and think about stuff!!! tyvm for sending this innnnnnnnn <3 mwah

#kat answers #anon

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kulliare · 3 years

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was a bit on the fence doing this but since i’m locked out of my room and can’t do the things i was planning to do:

creator tag meme

tagged by the ever iconic @dilfjaime

rules: it’s time to love yourselves! choose your 5 (ish) favorite works you created in the past year (fics, art, edits, etc.) and link them below to reflect on the amazing things you brought into the world in 2020. tag as many writers/artists/etc. as you want (fan or original) so we can spread the love and link each other to awesome works!

1) icon art

my icon’s my dnd character lmao! a bit too lazy to link the full pic, and while it’s on my art ig, i don’t really wanna share it because it’s associated with me irl (honestly, whenever i see someone mixing their fandom persona w/ irl shit where everyone can see it, it scares me). i had dabbled in like digital art before but i think this was around where i was like ‘maybe i’m not entirely shit at drawing’ lmao-- i think this piece touches on colours well which is smt i’m not always great with. if you can find the first pic of my art on my blog w/ jaime, i think you can see me struggling w/ how to color digitally and stuff especially. legit can’t look at that pic lmao bc it’s so ugly. but here it turned out nice-- now i can see the errors in like the proportions but i think it just looks ~stylistic~ so it evens out

2) fic-- a date, a dress, a cat

common issue with me is that i’m a perfectionist and i feel like my writing nor my art is like ‘up w/ the best’ so that just makes me not want to do shit. i don’t think i’m ready to read this yet over again and i have to wait another year but i’m just happy i put this out there and unlike the rest of the fics i wrote kind of halfassed it so i could just say i wasn’t trying if someone ended up criticizing me lmao

3) art from now on folks, here’s sun + moon

my most recent shit and it kind of makes my heart warm looking at this lol i just keep thinking abt how i’ve alrdy grown this year ;_; i love the coloring lots here and i like to think i’ve improved a bit!! i’ve also noticed it’s easier for me to really draw what i see even if i’m not perfect at it yet. also noticed how much i am of a slag for blue over this year but is any one surprised :eyeroll:!! also i love jaime here and while drawing him i was seriously considering just running off in the woods and becoming a furry artist. seriously if anyone wants to pay me i will do it. alas, i think no furries follow me

4) jaime doodle?????

this was v fun. and i like the coloring here too. i think i’m just repeating myself here but like??? how do people do this in art shows??? ok i just like it. ngl i think my ‘favorites’ are based on sentimentality there is no rhyme or reason

5) this stupid fucking comic

this took 100 years from my life and was thoroughly irritating. i really do prefer to do like just paintings rather than comics bc i think you can see how tired i got of it mid way thru-- but i do think drawing this much did make me get better. i really do like the starting panel, i still think it’s pretty, but for the rest i’m a bit :< about. you might be asking why i added this if i’m frustrated abt it but the rest of my stuff i feel a bit mmh about (probably because i did it very quickly! at this at least taught me something-- no pain no gain right??)

i doubt anyone read through all this but this blog is about ME! and i’m extremely shallow (/s). but i think doing this did make me feel a bit better about all the shit i made because i remember when i was 13 i always wanted to make shit for my fandoms and stuff but wouldn’t so. i kind of am living what i want to do now...??? (i’m saying this like it’s a goal and it made me laugh irl bc it’s so tiny but like. i really am proud of myself for doing something this year ok.)

tagging @albatrossisland and @tiredandtoothless and @pearly--rose (if you want ofc) and anyone else who wants to be tagged! really rec doing this bc it did make me feel better bc the shit i’m hawking out lmao

#also albs i am working on the drawing i'm just trying to look away from it so i can get rid of 'obvious; errors im not seeing but it should #be w u in a few days at the latest #also thank u dorieann <3 #long post //#cw: ari talking extensively abt themselves jkjk

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surveys-at-your-service · 3 years

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Survey #338

“i can’t decide if you’re wearing me out, or wearing me well”

Are you a fan of techno? I've gotten more into it lately, actually. I've never minded it. Who’s your favorite horror movie villain/monster? Pyramid Head, though he's called Red Pyramid Thing in the movies. Do you have a favorite muscle car? Nah. I'm not big into cars. What would be a total deal-breaker for you, relationship-wise? You so much as lift your hand at me, bye, motherfucker. Would you consider yourself to be accepting of others? Yes, but not as much as I used to be. There are certain opinions I just don't tolerate in people anymore; I feel like by staying associated with people whose views invalidate or in any way harm others (racism, homophobia, transphobia, etc.), you're on the side of evil as well, even if indirectly. However, I genuinely do feel I have a wide range of viewpoints I'm willing to accept in others, even if I don't agree with them. Are you flirtatious? No. I think I'm only capable of flirting with someone I'm already with and very comfortable around. I'd feel way too shy and awkward otherwise. Have you ever just felt "drawn" to someone, but you didn’t know why? "Didn't know why," no. I've felt drawn to people with good reason, like if I was romantically interested in them. Is there anyone you currently want to reach out to? There's a number, honestly. Especially with the aid of therapy, I'm being motivated to strengthen bonds with old friends and/or acquaintances via Facebook. Freddy or Jason? I think Jason is scarier. Freddy tends to come across as cheesy for me. Have stickers or gems on your cell phone? Nah. Ever teased your hair? Bitch I damn well tried in high school because I wanted the ~ l e g i t ~ emo hair, but mine was just too heavy to hold, at least with the hairspray my sister had. Have any friends with benefits? Nah, that's never been my thing. Ever lost of bunch of valuable information? Ummm I don't believe so. I've lost massive RP posts before, but I can't really call those "valuable information." What drinks or food make you hyper? None, really. Most expensive thing you ever bought? With my own money, my snake. She's a champagne morph ball python. What type of toothpaste do you use? Crest. How much time to spend putting on makeup daily? Zero. When listening to a song, what do you listen for (lyrics, bass, beat, ect)? The beat, more than anything else. What is the color of your toothbrush? It's a white electric one. What is your favorite color(s) of eye-makeup? Black. Just black. Are you sexually active? I'm not. Do you have sensitive skin? Very. Are you attracted to several guys atm? I'm actually not attracted to any guys in my personal life atm. How many toilets are in your house? Two. Do you have an older sister? Excluding the one I don't know, I have three older sisters. Favorite song by Owl City? Probably "Hot Air Balloon," but I don't know many at all. What color is your mum’s car? White. Do you truly understand the (LDS) Mormon religion? I don't know what "LDS" means, but as my former best friend developed into a Mormon, I learned some stuff from her in her self-discovery. I don't remember a lot of it, not that I knew all that much in the first place. Where do you keep your kitty litter box? Ugh, Mom's unmovable about it being in my fucking room for some reason. And we have an extra goddamn room no one uses yet. Roman's shit STINKS, like we think something might actually be wrong, but nope, it has to stay in here. e_e It would literally inconvenience nobody if we moved it in the spare room. Are you a lighter complexion than your father? MUCH lighter. He's very tan. Do you like apricots? No. Solid soap bar or liquid body wash? 100% body wash. Bar soap slips so easily, and as someone who lives with another person, I'm not rubbing my body with the same bar my mother uses, no offense to her. Sharing it's just gross. Where do you live (country or state)? Shitty 'ole North Carolina. Do you use plastic, wooden, or wire hangers? I think we have a mix of them, actually. What is your favorite shade of yellow? I only like pastel yellow. Otherwise, it's one of my least favorite colors. Are there any shades of blue that you don’t like? If so, which ones? Ehhh not really. What is something you want to accomplish before you turn 30? God, can I please have a stable career by then. Who has the best decorated house in your town? I don't know. We live in a cul de sac community thing where it's just houses next to houses, so there's a lot to choose from. I don't pay attention to them. What is your favorite part of Halloween? The decorations. Do you feel a connection to the moon? "As above, so below," as the saying goes. What does your heart long for? Peace and contentness with myself. Did you decorate a pumpkin this year? Last year, I didn't. I do want to this year, though, if I can just think of a really good idea. I have to be motivated. What are some fall activities you would do with your kids? I'm not having kids, but I'll follow along, hypothetically. With how much joy Halloween brought me as a kid, I'd want to do SO much as a family with them. Homemade decorations, carving or painting pumpkins together, and hell yeah I'd be taking them trick-or-treating once I felt they were ready and they wanted to. I'd be one of those parents that probably spends too much on whatever costumes they want, haha... Oh, and then besides Halloween, I'd certainly rake leaf piles together for them to jump and play in. This question has brought to mind like ONE thing I could enjoy as a parent, haha. Have you ever seen a fox? I have; besides in a zoo setting, I've seen one or two in the wild run out of sight, and I also found one poor fellow as roadkill that had been disemboweled by I'm assuming vultures. With my whole roadkill photography thing, I literally almost kneeled into a strand of intestines I didn't see at first. :x What color are the squirrels where you live? We only have brown ones. Is there anything about Halloween you find offensive? lol no What do the trees look like where you live? Lots, and lots, and LOTS of pine trees... There are others, but I'm not well-informed on tree species and such. Oh, then of course there are dogwoods (our "state tree"), which are unmistakable because they smell like fucking manure. What is your dream vacation? Maybe the mountains on the western side of NC during the fall... ugh, that would be breathtaking. We actually have an abandoned The Wizard of Oz-themed park around there that allows tours at certain times of the year, and I'd love to visit and photograph there. As well, western NC has the zoo, which would be spectacular to visit with autumn weather and, once again, load up on photos. Did you like field trips when you were a kid? I LOVED field trips. Do you find museums boring or interesting? Very interesting! Would you ever wear a shirt with your country’s flag on it? No. I'm not patriotic enough at all for that. What’s a medicine that makes you sleepy? Historically, larger doses of Klonopin can knock me the fuck out. Do you like bath bombs? Never used one, because I don't do baths. Who are your favorite small YouTubers? I'm going to guesstimate you mean less than 1M subs as "small," because I really don't know what you consider to fit that description. I watch a lot of people with less than 1M, so it's hard to say, but lately it's probably been a let's player John Wolfe. He's really funny. Then there's some tarantula YouTubers, along with the animal educator Emzotic... and really just many others. I think most of the people I watch actually have sub-1M, but more than 500k. Who are your favorite big YouTubers? Markiplier is absolutely, positively #1. I also really enjoy Snake Discovery, GameGrumps, Jeffree Star (don't judge me ok, he's a fuckin hoot), and while I haven't watched them in years, Good Mythical Morning will ALWAYS be deeply, deeeeply embedded in my heart. What was your favorite girl group when you were growing up? Ummm probably the Spice Girls? Have you ever used an outhouse? Ugh, yes, at old childhood sports games. What was the last good cause you donated towards? When I cut off like 8+ inches of hair to accomplish the style I have now, I donated it to Children With Hair Loss. My hair has always been mega-thick and healthy, so why in the world waste it? One of my most cherished items is the certificate I got in return many months later that my donation had been used. Have any of your exes gotten married or had kids since your breakup? I haven't had contact with Juan in many years, don't know what Tyler's up to either, and I haven't spoken to Jason since 2017, so. I'm very doubtful he's married or has kids yet, though, just knowing him and how "I need to be fully prepared for this" he is with big life stuff like that. Does it bother you when people get super emotional? Not at all. I'll do my all to comfort them. Have you ever worked in a restaurant? No. Do you get a lot of thunderstorms where you live? Depends on the time of year. Summertime? Brief but super intense thunderstorms every late afternoon. What was the last drive-thru you went through? Taco Bell w/ Mom. Do you know anyone who claims they can see/feel spirits or other supernatural ‘things?’ No. Do either of your parents have a mental illness? My mom has depression, and Mom is also convinced Dad has either depression masked as anger and/or bipolarity, but following the divorce, I don't see it in him at all. He's never seen a doctor in that field to be diagnosed with any mental illness. What fun things are there to do where you live? Jackshit. Do you know anyone with a really poorly-trained dog? Mother of fucking god, yes. My little sister lives with her best friend, and said friend has a colossal black lab named Hudson that is absolutely uncontrollable because she neglects the shit out of him. Won't listen to you even if it saved his life. He jumps on you, barks endlessly, and if he escapes the house? Good fucking luck getting him inside. She has absolutely no right to own a dog with how shitty of an owner she honestly is. When you were growing up, did your family rent or own your home? They owned it. The idiots who were moving in after us accidentally burnt the place to a fucking crisp, and my parents were SO not happy to lose that house because people were dumb enough to place boxes atop the goddamn stove. Do you do meal-prepping? No. Do you know anyone who got preggo less than a year into their relationship? Multiple people, not that that's my business. What did you dream about last night? I don't remember it clearly, other than I was with Jason and his mother was also present. What's the biggest age difference you've ever had in a relationship? That would have been with Juan, but I don't remember exactly how old he was. I just know I was a freshman and him a senior that got held back a year or so in HS. If you could save one animal from ever becoming extinct, what animal would you pick? Probably bees, given how vital they are. Name the coolest thing about one of your grandparents. My maternal grandmother worked at Disney World. I can't remember what her position was, though. Do you ever eat peanut butter straight from the jar? If I want a healthy snack, sometimes I'll have a scoop. Do you prefer your clothes loose or close fitting? They need to be loose. Favorite thing you’ve ever painted? This big painting of meerkats grooming on burlap I did in high school. Do you always wear a bra? I question the self-love of anyone who can sleep with a bra on. ;__; Do you normally finish one book before starting another? Oh yes, I can't read more than one at a time. Do you prefer reading books, comic books, manga/graphic novels, magazines, or the newspaper? The normal book. Do you know how to play chess? I don't. Are you watching anything? No, but I do have Manson's "Third Day of a Seven Day Binge" on in another tab. What is your blood type? A-. Has anyone ever borrowed something from you and never returned it? Yes. Do you twitch when you're falling asleep? Dude, I more than "twitch." I can just suddenly spaz out and look like I'm seizing for a moment. Another side effect of my nightmare suppressant medication. Are any of your pets “overweight”? No. Has anyone ever bought you a ring? My mom has bought me a few, and Jason gave me one for one of our anniversaries. Where was the last place you took a bath/shower, other than your own house? My sister's place. What first attracted you to the last person you kissed? Just how unique and happy that way she is. And her pretty much undying loyalty. Has someone ever taken a pic of you while you were making out with someone? No, considering I wouldn't go that far with someone unless we were alone. Had a crush on someone you thought shared your sexuality, turns out didn’t? Yes. What’s your favorite color to wear? Black. Does it gross you out if a guy has hair on his chest? I personally don't find an excess of it attractive, but it doesn't "gross me out." If they bathe themselves just like everyone else, why should it? Do you think sexuality is a choice or not? It is absolutely not a choice. If it was, I'd assume most people would choose to be straight, given phobias, hatecrimes, etc... I could write an essay on this. Do you like industrial piercings? Yeah. Do you think stretched ears are disgusting? "Disgusting" is, once again, the wrong word. Gauges don't really gross me out - hell, I want tiny ones -, but they can reach a size that, to me, is not visually appealing. Did you watch animated Barbie movies when you were little? I do remember loving Princess and the Pauper as well as the Rapunzel one; my sister was addicted to them. Oh yeah! Then there was the Swan Lake one that she adored, too. We usually watched movies together. Do you like fruit in your cereal? Big No. Do you like raw vegetables? Ugh, no. Do you listen to A Day to Remember? I do! They're on my list of faves. Do you like funnel cake? I actually don't. Have you ever been with someone while they were getting a tattoo? Yuh.

#survey #surveys #questions #lyrics: ''third day of a seven day binge'' by marilyn manson

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anotherkpopvictim · 3 years

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Into a New World (Through the Gate) - BTS OT7 Fantasy Story Chapter 1

(Pic Source - Jaiho? (I found this on a pinterest but I don’t think it was this person’s) ((Edit is by me tho))

A/N: Hi, so, this is a multi-chaptered story that I’ve had swirling around in my head for a while. I’m not sure how many chapters it’s going to be, and I’m not sure how often I’ll update (especially because I have a few other stories I need to update first) but I will finish this story one way or another.

Happy Birthday, our Hobi <3

Relationship: BTS X BTS

Rating: T (for now)

Words: 2928

Hurt/comfort, fluff, fantasy

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Chapter 1: The Banishing

Worldbuilding Notes on Fairies:

The origin of how fairies came to be is rather unknown. Their attributes and used honorifics suggest they are of Korean descent.

Fairies can be creatures of trickery. Though not inherently evil, fairies possess the ability to manipulate easily if they so please (not all use this ability, though). While they can also sometimes use aura reading to detect whether someone is lying or not, a fairy’s downfall is that they themselves cannot lie. Despite this, they are talented at twisting words and finding loopholes in different situations.

A Fairy’s magic ability is similar to that of witches, but it is easier for them to learn as they are born with a close connection to magic itself, while witches spend years and years learning to connect with magic. Fairies are often good spies as they have their smaller form that can easily hide. Fairies are born with a given color - the color of their hair and eyes. These colors represent common personality traits (though not always 100% accurate from person to person, and not all fairies have all the traits the colors represent). A mix of two or more colors just means that the person has personality traits of multiple colors (i.e. a very dark blue would have traits of both blue and black).

(Link to the basis of color symbolism I’m using - https://www.color-meanings.com/)

Colors and their meanings:

(This part is optional to read, but I will be using this as a basis for fairy personalities in the story)

Red - The color of passion and energy. Red draws attention like no other color and radiates a strong and powerful energy that motivates us to take action. It is also linked to sexuality and stimulates deep and intimate passion.

Orange - The color of enthusiasm and emotion. Orange exudes warmth and joy and is considered a fun color that provides emotional strength. It is optimistic and uplifting, adds spontaneity and positivity to life, and encourages social communication and creativity. It is a youthful and energetic color.

Yellow - The color of happiness and optimism. Yellow is a cheerful and energetic color that brings fun and joy to the world. It makes learning easier as it affects the logical part of the brain, stimulating mentality and perception. It inspires thought and curiosity and boosts enthusiasm and confidence.

Green - The color of harmony and health. Green is a generous, relaxing color that revitalizes our body and mind. It balances our emotions and leaves us feeling safe and secure. It also gives us hope, with promises of growth and prosperity, and it provides a little bit of luck to help us along the way.

Blue - The color of trust and loyalty. Blue has a calming and relaxing effect on our psyche, that gives us peace and makes us feel confident and secure. It dislikes confrontation and too much attention, but it is an honest, reliable, and responsible color and you can always count on its support.

Purple - The color of spirituality and imagination. Purple inspires us to divulge our innermost thoughts, which enlightens us with the wisdom of who we are and encourages spiritual growth. It is often associated with royalty and luxury, and its mystery and magic sparks creative fantasies.

Pink - The color of love and compassion. Pink is kind and comforting, full of sympathy and compassion, and makes us feel accepted. Its friendly, playful spirit calms and nurtures us, bringing joy and warmth into our lives. Pink is also a feminine and intuitive color that is bursting with pure romance.

White - The color of purity and innocence. White is a true balance of all colors and is associated with cleanliness, simplicity, and perfection. It loves to make others feel good and provides hope and clarity by refreshing and purifying the mind. It also promotes open-mindedness and self-reflection.

Black - The color of power and sophistication. Black is an incredibly strong and intimidating color that exudes authority and makes us feel secure and protected. Often seen at formal and prestigious events, this mysterious marvel arouses and seduces our senses with its elegance and sexiness.

Gray - The color of compromise and control. Gray is neutral, conservative, and unemotional. It is practically solid as a rock, making it incredibly stable, reliable, and calming. It has a peaceful, relaxing and soothing presence. Gray avoids attention but offers mature, insightful advice to anyone who asks.

Brown - The color of stability and reliability. Brown is dependable and comforting. A great counselor and friend full of wisdom. You can count on its help if you need an honest opinion, support, and protection. It stabilizes us, helps us stay grounded, and inspires us to appreciate the simple things in life.

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Hoseok listened to his older brother babble on to the other five high council members, trying to manifest the courage to speak up to him about what had been weighing him down since the last meeting.

Minseok, his brother, was not a bad person. However, he also wasn’t necessarily a good person either. As the crowned King of the Fairy Kingdom of Aurora, he wasn’t the worst candidate in their long history, not by a long shot. Hoseok had watched him exile a butler after he brought him an indigo-colored robe instead of a dark purple one by accident, but had also seen him send fresh-baked loaves of bread to the orphanage nearby as a treat for the children. He was a man capable of coming up with creative solutions but sometimes allowed his power and authority to cloud his judgment.

An enigma, his brother most certainly was.

This was why Hoseok was so nervous to bring up the topic on his mind. He wasn’t sure how Minseok was going to react, though no one ever really knew. Nevertheless, he needed to give it a try, for the good of their people.

“King Minseok,” Hoseok addressed, standing up from his seat when a lull came in the conversation. He bowed politely towards his brother. “There is a concern of mine that I needed to bring up, brother.”

The older man with a head full of shocking dark purple hair and eyes the same color looked at him curiously. “Yes, Hoseok-ah. What is the matter, brother?”

Hoseok gulped against the lump forming in his throat and forced himself to speak. His brother was being kind right now, but he knew the man could turn on a dime. “The army, brother. They have been urging us for some time now to give the soldiers more time before sending them to war.”

Minseok raised an eyebrow, “We have an alliance with the jinns, a promise to fight with them against the demons.”

“I know, my King,” Hoseok replied. “But our soldiers are being slaughtered on the battlefield. If we could change the laws in place and give them a few more months of training to build up their skills-”

“So, what you’re saying is that I should spend more money and time on our soldiers when the war they are fighting isn’t to be a long one?” The King asked, interrupting Hoseok’s words.

It was predicted that the jinns were going to win the war with the demons, though it was a slow process. “We’ve lost thousands of our citizens, Minseok-hyung.” Hoseok urged. “Lives were lost when they could have lived if only they had more skills and endurance. The captains have been coming to us since they realized the pattern months ago.”

Minseok furrowed his eyebrows in annoyance. “We already give so many resources to the military, we don’t have anything to spare.”

“We’ll find some, we’ll find a way-”

“ENOUGH!” Minseok boomed, standing up from the throne and slamming his hands down on the table. “The way the laws are written right now give our soldiers plenty of time to refine their skills before they are sent off to fight. More soldiers come back than don’t and that’s more than we could ask for. I will not spend another second on this unimportant topic when there are other issues to be resolved.”

“But, hyung,” Hoseok pleaded. He knew he should just shut up, but the worried words of the captains wouldn’t leave his mind. “Perhaps you could just allow some of the captains to tell you their worries personally. I really think that we need to-”

Minseok’s dark purple hair began to lift around his golden crown, glowing and sparking with magic. That was when Hoseok knew it was over for him.

“Hoseok-ssi, you know better than to talk back to your King!” his brother hissed.

“Hyung, my King, I’m sorry-”

“You’re banished!”

Hoseok nearly choked. “W-What?”

“I’m banishing you from Aurora. How dare you rebel against the King!” Minseok raged, motioning for guards to grab onto Hoseok.

Hoseok could see the anger in his brother’s eyes, the betrayal, and knew that there was no changing the crazed, overdramatic sentence given to him.

“Minseok,” Hoseok looked at his brother with one final plea, “Please don’t do this. I didn’t mean to offend you in any way.”

Minseok snarled, his bright purple hair starting to glow and move as his power began to build up inside of him. “You’ve betrayed the crown. You’ve betrayed me. There is no place in Aurora for you any longer.”

Hoseok bent his head, knowing that his brother had truly made his decision and nothing he could say would change his mind. His own shocking orange hair lay flat against his head, no spark of power anywhere to be found - a sure sign of any fairy’s defeat.

The five councilmen who were occupying the table with the two brothers sat in silence, eyes sympathetic as they watched Hoseok being escorted out of the room.

There were ten guards that led them towards the Gate that was situated just outside the castle walls, two of them holding onto Hoseok’s arms like he was going to even try to get away. He knew better than that.

A misty, swirling wall of fog lay just behind the golden bars of the Gate. Hoseok could only watch with a defeated look in his eyes as his brother opened the right door of the Gate and then turned to look at him.

“Jung Hoseok, you are hereby banished from Aurora under my authority, King Minseok of the Fairy Kingdom. Shall you ever choose to return, you will be greeted with death.” Minseok snarled out his brother’s sentence with such malice it made Hoseok cringe. Then the King turned to the two guards holding Hoseok’s arms and ordered, “Throw him through the Gate.”

Hoseok, whose heart was racing with fear in his chest, didn’t fight the two men at all. As he was forced forward, he shut his eyes tightly and braced himself. He merely accepted his fate as he was pushed harshly into the swirling fog.

Now, Hoseok had never traveled worlds before, so he hadn’t ever experienced what it was like to go through a Gate before.

At first, it felt as if he was falling at a great speed, the breath snatched from his lungs. Then, he suddenly felt himself slow down before dropping onto some sort of hard surface.

Laying on the ground, Hoseok was reluctant to open his eyes. He knew that he must be on Earth now, as Earth was the center of the worlds, but he didn’t know exactly where. He couldn’t hear much besides the ruffling of some leaves in the breeze and birds chirping happily. The temperature was slightly cooler than he was used to, and his attire of matching silk shorts and a shirt certainly didn’t do anything to keep him warm.

Taking in a brave breath, Hoseok opened his eyes and took in the scene before him. He was in a forest lush with tall, green trees. Pretty blue flowers bloomed in patches on the ground, bringing Hoseok a bit of relief. Surely the place couldn’t be too bad if there were beautiful flowers blooming, right?

From Hoseok’s limited knowledge of Earth, he knew that it was the center of the realms and welcomed those of all supernatural backgrounds. While most supernatural beings had their own realm to call home, there were a few that didn’t. Vampires, shapeshifters, and witches lived primarily on Earth. Creatures like jinns, goblins, demons, and yes, fairies, all had their own realm.

Gates only existed between Earth and these worlds, but they were plentiful all across the Earth. Most Gates were situated in Gate Stations (just like a train station) but there were some that were simply situated in the middle of nowhere.

Of course, it appeared that Minseok had to make things even more difficult for his brother by sending him somewhere obscure. Hoseok hadn’t had the chance to see exactly where he was sending him to. A childish move on the older man’s part.

“Well, gosh marbles!” Hoseok shouted into the trees as he stood up and dusted himself off. “What am I going to do now?”

Where was he to go? What was he to do? The Fairy Kingdom was all he had known his whole life.

“E-Excuse me?”

Hoseok yelped with a start at the sudden voice, his head whipping around to find the source. He caught sight of a young-looking man peeking out from behind one of the trees to his left. He had big, curious doe eyes and didn’t appear to be much of a threat, but Hoseok knew from experience not to let his guard down.

“W-Who are you?” he asked, kicking himself when he stuttered.

The young man came out from behind the tree, revealing his all-black ensemble; jeans, a leather jacket, and some army boots. Hoseok remembered reading that fashion was quite different on Earth, but he was still surprised. “I’m Jungkook. Who are you?”

(JKs look) (except no beanie)

“Hoseok,” he replied cautiously.

“Did you just come through the Gate?” Jungkook asked, head tilting towards said Gate right behind Hoseok.

“Yes.”

Jungkook hummed thoughtfully. “No one’s come through that Gate in years.”

“Oh...” Hoseok said intelligently. “Um, could you perhaps tell me where I am?”

“Well, I would assume you at least know that you’re on Earth, but more specifically, you’re just outside of Seoul, South Korea.”

“South Korea...” Hoseok repeated, wracking his brain for anything he knew about this place. He knew that he’d heard of it, but he wasn’t sure where from.

“You’re a fairy, right?” Jungkook asked, rather excitedly. “Many fairies seem to have Korean in their blood. So technically, you’re in your ancient homeland!”

Ah, Hoseok thought, that makes sense. Fairies were rather sheltered about things outside of their own Kingdom, so while Hoseok had heard that they were possibly descendants of Earth’s South Korea, he didn’t know much about it at all.

Hoseok blinked at the smiling young man before him, whose grin and scrunched-up nose made him look uncannily like a rabbit, not to mention his adorable front teeth.

“Ah, sorry!” Jungkook turned a little sheepish. “Ever since my Jimin-hyung came, I’ve really wanted to meet another fairy so badly!”

Hoseok didn’t have time to register that apparently, South Koreans used the same honorifics as fairies, as the more important part of the young man’s statement caught Hoseok’s attention. “You know another fairy?”

“Mhm,” Jungkook nodded his head dutifully, his shaggy dark brown hair bobbing up and down with it. “Jiminie’s color is pink. And he lives with us.”

“Us?”

“Me and my hyungs! There are six of us. We live just a couple miles away from here.” Jungkook answered with a fond smile.

“A pack, huh?” Hoseok gave the young man a once-over when he realized he had no idea what creature Jungkook was. “Are you...human?”

Jungkook shook his head before opening his mouth and pointing at some very tiny but pointy incisors that hadn’t been there a moment ago. “I’m a vampire, like my Yoongi-hyung. I was obviously a human, though, before he saved me.” Jungkook’s smile faded a bit as he seemed to get lost in a memory.

“A little vamp, I see,” Hoseok replied, feeling like he needed to lighten the mood. “How old are you?”

“I’ve been a vampire for seven years, and I was twenty-three when I was turned.” A pretty young vampire then. Hoseok had read about vampires who lived to be thousands of years old.

“Well,” Hoseok began with a gentle smile, “I’m one hundred thirty-eight, so I guess that makes me your hyung.”

Jungkook let out a sigh of relief. “Good, I don’t like being a hyung.”

Hoseok chuckled at the younger’s adorableness before he remembered where he was and what had conspired for him to be here.

Jungkook must have noticed his expression sadden because he gave a little gasp. “Hoseok-hyung, do you need somewhere to stay? I’m sure my hyungs wouldn’t mind housing you for now.”

Hoseok honestly questioned the young man. Who in their right mind invited a total stranger into their home? Jungkook the baby vampire, apparently. Hoseok doubted that he had any nefarious ulterior motives for inviting him, as fairies were fairly good at reading others and he didn’t sense anything from him, but it was strange nonetheless.

However, Hoseok really didn’t have anywhere to go or any money to get a place to stay. He’d been thrown out of the only world he’s ever known and didn’t know what he was supposed to do. And he was tired, just plain tired from the eventful day.

So, he gave the only answer he really could.

“I would love a place to stay, Jungkook-ah.”

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A/N: So...what did you think?

I’ve never written anything in the fantasy genre but I’ve been loving so many fantasy fics lately that I just had to take a try at it. I don’t know much about the specifics of the different supernatural creatures in legends and such, so these will mostly be of my own making, but with some common traits you probably know.

Please do not expect me to update this for a while, as I need to update a few other stories first, but I will not abandon this fic.

I tried to make it clear that Hoseok’s brother, Minseok, has an unstable mentality, and thus feeling like his brother betrayed him over something rather ridiculous and banishing him seemed reasonable to him.

Please leave comments and likes as they fuel my motivation to write exponentially <3 And if you have any suggestions now or in future chapters for what you would like to see, I would love the ideas and will try to work them into the story (though I don’t have much solidly planned just yet anyways).

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So far we know:

Seokjin - ?

Yoongi - Vampire

Hoseok - Fairy (138)

Namjoon - ?

Jimin - Fairy

Taehyung - ?

Jungkook - Vampire (30)

(I think you’ll meet the others in the next chapter!)

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Tristin Saints X Barnaby Fluff Alphabet

For everyone who follows me for my Hogwarts Mystery content, sorry I haven’t posted in a while. I’ve been kind of distracted with other projects of late and have gotten a bit out of habit of playing the game. That being said I am getting back in, slowly but surely and am hoping to have more things to post about soon

But to tie you off until then, have some pure unadulterated fluff about two dorks in love. Warning, the following is made out of pure 100% sugar, ingest with caution.

A = Attractive (What do they find attractive about each other?)

Tristin: Physically, the first thing Tristin noticed was Barnaby’s Broad shoulders and big muscles. He also really loves Barnaby’s handsome face. As they get older Tristin starts to notice other ASSets his boyfriend has. He loves that booty though *w*. Personality-wise Tristin just melts at just how sweet Barny is. Barnaby can just say something in a way you can tell he’s not even trying be flattering, he just genuine thinks these wonderful things about Tristin and it makes him melt into a puddle.

Barnaby: Barnaby loves Tristin’s face, and his smile. Tristin doesn’t actually smile that much but Barny can always bring it out and it makes him feel special. Barny also really likes that Tristin is a bit smaller than him. He likes picking his boyfriend up and carrying him around. Personality-wise Barny likes how smart Tristin is. Well it’s less how smart he is and more about how Tristin gets really passionate and lights up when he talks about the subjects that fascinate him. Barny might not understand anything he’s saying but he’s just so happy watching Tristin talk about what he loves he could just sit and listen for hours.

B = Baby (Do they want a family? Why/Why not?)

Tristin: Tristin is a bit more hesitant. He doesn’t really like children, and is much more comfortable with people his age and older, as well as creatures. But his home life with Barny is just so full of love, that if his boyfriend wanted to, he could be convinced with time.

Barnaby: Barnaby hasn’t really thought about kids to be honest. He’s good with kids, but having some of his own? It’s something he’d have to sit with more, but he’d probably be very down to have a little one running around calling him “papa”.

C = Cuddle (How do they cuddle?)

Tristin: Tristin’s favorite position is resting his head on Barnaby’s chest with an armed wrapped around him. Tristin can just drift to sleep listening to Barnaby’s heartbeat.

Barnaby: Barnaby loves to be the big spoon. He really feels like he’s protecting Tristin when he’s wrapped around him. He loves to fall asleep with face resting in Tristin’s neck.

D = Dates (What are dates with them?)

These two dorks were the most awkward daters. They would often over plan and over think everything to the point things usually go astray one way or another. But as they got more comfortable in their relationships just about anything was considered a “date” so long as it was the two of them. Going to Hogsmeade? That’s a date. Studying in the library? That’s a date. Dueling each other? That’s a date.

E = Everything (You are my ____ (e.g. my life, my world…))

Tristin: You are my bowtruckle, fierce and brave.

Barnaby: You are my niffler, smart and cute.

F = Feeling (When did they know they were in love?)

For Tristin the feeling had been creeping up on him for a while. His chest would get a little tighter and his face a little warmer when he saw Barnaby, and being so young Tristin wasn’t sure what this meant. He and Barnaby had been together for a while and friends even longer why was he suddenly getting this flustered just at the sight of his boyfriend? It all culminated after a long adventure of vault hunting and dealing with the typical magical dangers of Hogwarts. The Curse Breakers were all tired out from their latest escapade and Tristin would make his way down to the lake to try to catch some air. And there Barnaby was, sitting under the tree by the lake almost like he was waiting. Tristin sat down next to him not even saying anything, he doesn’t have to. Barnaby wraps an arm around him with a smile and Tristin rests his head on his boyfriend’s shoulder. And just a feeling of safety, and contentment washes over him. A feeling like even if everything in the world goes to hell, so long as he has this it’ll all be okay. He looks up at Barnaby whose looking back smiling softly, and Tristin just knows. This is it. This is love

G = Gentle (Are they gentle? If so, how?)

People see how big Barnaby is and expect him to be ruff handed, but he is the single most gentle giant you could find, except maybe Hagrid. Barny will just hold Tristin when there sitting together under the trees by the lake. If Tristin falls asleep somewhere, he’ll pick him up and carry him to bed without ever waking him up. And Tristin loves to hold Barnaby’s face in his hands while gently rubbing a thumb over his cheek.

H = Hands (How do they like to hold hands?)

Fingers interlocked. They’ll often bring the other’s hand to their lips to kiss it, sometimes kissing each finger trying one-up each other in the affection department.

I = Impression (What was their first impression?)

Tristin: “Oh no! He’s cute! And I’m gay!” Barnaby just flat out telling Tristin he was spying on him was a bit perplexing, but darn it if Barnaby wasn’t the cutest thing Tristin had ever seen. There was no way this sweetie was really in the same league as Merula in terms of nastiness. He had to get to the bottom of this.

Barnaby: “He can’t be as bad as Merula says he is can he? He’s so nice!” Barnaby had his first impression a little tainted but Merula’s interference. But when he actually talked to him Barnaby was kind of taken back by how nice Tristin was to him. Everyone else had only noticed him for how tough he was and told him what to do. Tristin actually seemed to be interested in what Barnaby had to say.

J = Jealousy (Do they get jealous?)

Tristin: Tristin has kind of had to get used to people ogling his boyfriend. I mean, it’s hard not to notice that face, and those shoulders. But there is a line that can be crossed. If someone has the nerve to flat our flirt with Barnaby, especially if Tristin is right there, you can just imagine his hair rising in anger anime style.

Barnaby: Barny is bit too sweet to get jealous. He knows his kniffler loves him and isn’t going anywhere. If someone is flirting or bothering Tristin the big guy just has to wrap an arm around his boyfriend, say “what’s up babe?” and whoever is messing with Tristin usually sees the mass of muscle and backs away slowly.

K = Kiss (How do they kiss? Who initiated the first kiss?)

Because these two are absolute dorks, their first kiss was bit of a mess. Neither one really took the lead ,they just moved their faces together too fast and ended up slamming their mouths together. But once that monstrosity was over, they both immediately wanted to improve.

As they got older it was a lot gentler. It typical starts with Barnaby wrapping his arms around Tristin’s waist and Tristin wrapping his around Barnaby’s shoulders to pull himself up. The trials of having a boyfriend who is so much taller than you.

L = Love (Who says ‘I love you’ first?)

Barnaby. Barnaby says it on one of their star watching dates, and he does it so suddenly as Tristin is pointing out a shooting star the latter almost doesn’t hear it. Tristin nervously asks his boyfriend to repeat himself, and Barnaby just gently says “I love you.” And Tristin.EXE just stops responding for a minute. Barnaby tries to shake his boyfriend out his trance, but Tristin is just staring into space. Finally after rebooting Tristin lunges at Barny with their roughest kiss since their first and says “I love you to.”

M = Memory (What’s their favourite memory together?)

Tristin: Tristin’s favorite is all of his memories of Barnaby in Care of Magical Creatures class. That’s where he really just falls hard for Barnaby watching him loving and caring for all the different creatures.

Barnaby: His favorite is really all the adventures they’ve had together. From exploring the cursed vaults, and the forbidden forest, to just about all the other crazy things that tend to happen at Hogwarts.

N = Nickel (Do they spoil one another? Do they buy the person they love everything?)

Tristin and Barnaby both come from prominent pure-blood families. As such both of them are in a position to spoil each other, but it’s never really an issue. They both are rather simple in the things they want and can often just get it for themselves.

That being said if there is a special occasion and the other notices they’ve been eyeing something, they will usually surprise them. But usually the two are very vocal if they want something.

O = Orange (What colour reminds them of their other half?)

Tristin: It’s kind of hard not to associate Barnaby with Green. Not just because of his house colors but there’s also his eyes. Tristin also associates Barnaby with bowtruckles cause they’re both brave and fierce. So any kind of bright, forest green makes Tristin think of his sweet, brave bowtruckle.

Barnaby: Tristin usually has on his Ravenclaw blues, but Tristin likes a lot of dark colors like blacks and purples. Tristin has green eyes as well so Barnaby has a bit of a wider color palette to associate with his smart and cute niffler

P = Pet names (What pet names do they use?)

Tristin: Pet names include, but not limited, babe, baby, honey, darling, barny, barnykins, bowtruckle, and my big strong man

Barnaby: Per names include, buy limited, babe, baby, honey, tristy, trist, tristypie, niffler, sugarcube, and my cute little man.

Q = Quaint (What is their favourite non-modern thing?)

They love traveling together and finding quaint muggle villages. They love seeing all the different building and just the feel of town with building that have been around for decades if not centuries. They often take vacations to these towns and will stay in local inns. They love any town that has a lot of wide landscapes for them to hike around and sight see at.

R = Rainy Day (What do they like to do on a rainy day?)

Tristin can usually be found curled up by the window with a light and a book. Barnaby usually shows up with hot drinks, depending on the time of year either tea, coffee, or hot coco, and a blanket. The two shift around until they’re all cozy and can just sit and listen as the rain drizzles down the window.

S = Sad (How do they cheer each other up?)

Tristin: Barnaby has a lot of guilt about his brief stint as Merula’s henchmen and even more insecurities about his intelligence compared to others. But Barnaby mostly gets upset when he sees his friends fighting because it reminds him of home. Tristin usually just takes him aside and tells him what he’s really worth to him. He give him kisses and asks “Whose my brave bowtruckle?”. And Barnaby smiles and blushes while answering, “I am.”

Barnaby: Tristin some times goes into depressive states when he’s overwhelmed. He gets quite and curls into himself. His friends try to help but usually only stresses him out more. Barnaby will grab him as soon as possible and take him somewhere quiet. Barnaby knows he doesn’t have to say anything, he just holds Tristin softly until he starts to come out. Then Barnaby offers kisses and asks if Tristin is ready to head back. If not they just stay in hiding until he’s ready.

T = Talking (What do they like to talk about?)

Anything. Whatever is interesting them at the time. And the other is always happy to listen. But what is without a doubt their favorite thing to talk about is magical creatures. Barnaby is a savant with them and Tristin loves them to so they can talk about them for hours. Everything from the large and ferocious to the small and adorable and everything in between.

U = Unencumbered (What helps them relax?)

As students they have a bunch of little things to help them relax after classes and vault hunting. They’ll head down to the lake together for lunch and have a little picnic. Barnaby loves seeing the giant squid rise and drift along the top of the lake.

Tristin can usually be found in one of many nooks around the castle reading some kind of adventure story. Strangely, reading about other people endangering their lives for a change is kind of relieving. Barnaby usually finds him and just rests his head on Tristin’s lap for a nap while his boyfriend keeps reading.

V = Vaunt (What do they like to show off? What are they proud of?)

Tristin is a excellent flyer and he isn’t afraid to show it. He’ll zoom past the castle windows doing flips and loops for days. His most dangerous one is where he takes his broom up high into the sky before going into a free fall. He lets himself get real close to the ground before pulling out and shooting off like a rocket. He does this a lot less since Barnaby told him it scares him.

Barnaby is a bit too sweet to really brag or show off per say. But he knows he’s tough, and strong. And he isn’t afraid to show someone up in a duel. Sometimes he’ll be in dueling club and just to show off he’ll wink or blow a kiss to Tristin while he’s dueling someone else. He usually gets hit by something doing this, but again Barnaby is built like a brick house and brush a lot of things off before getting back in the fight.

W = Wedding (When, how, where do they propose?)

It’s the summer after the Tri-Wizard Tournament. News of Lord Voldemort’s return are spreading and Barnaby and Tristin have both already been recruited to the Order of The Phoenix by Bill. Dark times are coming and soon. So Barnaby takes Tristin out for another stroll through the woods to get their minds off it while they can

They find a little cove with a river running through it. Magical creatures are all about and Tristin just takes a moment to breathe it all in. This peace will soon be gone if what they’ve been told is true. And honestly he’s a little scared. But he tenses even more when he hears the rustle of the grass behind him. He turns and see Barnaby down on one knee.

“What are you doing?” Tristin asks, with both panic and excitement in his voice.

“Tristin Joshua Saints,” Barnaby had never used Tristin’s middle name before, “I’ve known you for so long. You are the bravest, smartest, most beautiful person I’ve ever met.” Barnaby pulls out a little box from his robes and Tristin places his hands over his mouth already unable to breath as the tears build in his eyes. “I know there are dark times ahead for all of us. But in the darkness, you’ve been my light, and I want to face all the hardships with you from now on until forever.” Barnaby opens the box and inside is a glistening silver band, carved with the outlines of forest trees in a dark cobalt. “Tristin Saints, will you marry me.”

Barnaby doesn’t get an answer… not right away. Tristin pounces on him knocking him to the ground, already smothering him in more kisses than could be imagined. They’re both laughing on the ground and Tristin is hiding his face in Barnaby’s shoulder so he can’t see how hard he’s crying.

“Is all that a yes?” Barnaby asks as he smiles and holds Tristin’s face in his hands. Tristin laughs and cries as the same time as he shakes his head.

“Yes. Yes I’ll do it. I’ll marry you.”

X = Xylophone (What’s their song?)

St. Patrick- PVRIS

“I know it’s chemicals that make me cling to you, you are a miracle I’ve got to stay with you, and I’m not spiritual but please stay. Cause you’re a glimpse of bliss and a taste of heaven.”

https://open.spotify.com/track/7nt0UGUluM18eNRHIxrZix?si=mbMlaCEzTCizAtSSnBC23w

Love Like You- Steven Universe

“I’ve always thought I might be bad. Now I’m sure that it’s true. Cause I think you’re so good, and I’m nothing like you. Look at you go, I just adore you. I wish that I knew what makes you think I’m so special.”

https://open.spotify.com/track/3z9OnsnvM6SFN2dzrSDdVO?si=lSsghMjZRxyipVo16zQewQ

Rather Be- Clean Bandit

“If you gave me a chance I would take it. It's a shot in the dark but I'll make it. Know with all of your heart, you can't shame me. When I am with you, there's no place I'd rather be”

https://open.spotify.com/track/3s4U7OHV7gnj42VV72eSZ6?si=J2vnEhvAQCmm8MYN9RyZ3g

Y = Yes (Do they ever think of getting married/proposing?)

(Feel like this one should have come before the wedding one, but oh well.)

If some one mentions the idea of marriage to either Tristin or Barnaby the two just get really flustered and start stammering. A recurring theme in their relationship is they’re both kind of dorks who don’t really know what they’re doing but they make it work. So for something like marriage to come across their minds is like imagining diving into the deep end when you’ve only been waddling in the kiddy pool. But as they get older the idea gets less scary, hopeful even. Tristin is just concerned with the state of the world. With all the dark wizard activity building up he doesn’t know if now’s the right time to be thinking about marriage. But Barnaby has different plans.

Z = Zebra (If they wanted a pet, what would they get?)

If? If? IF?! Their home is a magical zoo! They have bowtruckles, they have crups, they have thestrals , they even have an abraxan! They had to buy a home with the biggest plot of land they could get and even then they need to use interdimesion charms on their home just to have enough room for all the creatures they had. It got so bad Penny had to write to them.

“My dearest Tristin and Barnaby,

NO! You cannot keep a chimera in your home!

Your dearest friend (and had better be bridesmaid!) Penny.”

“Our most darling Penny,

Mind your own business.

Lots of love (and of course you will be) Barny and Tristin.”

#Harry Potter #hogwarts mystery #hphm mc #jacob's sibling #barnaby lee #barnaby x mc #barnaby x Tristin #Tristin Saints #fluff alphabet #pure unadulterated fluff

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W. C. Handy

William Christopher Handy (November 16, 1873 – March 28, 1958) was a composer and musician who referred to himself as the Father of the Blues. Handy was one of the most influential songwriters in the United States. One of many musicians who played the distinctively American blues music, Handy did not create the blues genre but was the first to publish music in the blues form, thereby taking the blues from a regional music style (Delta blues) with a limited audience to a new level of popularity.

Handy was an educated musician who used elements of folk music in his compositions. He was scrupulous in documenting the sources of his works, which frequently combined stylistic influences from various performers.

Early life

Handy was born in Florence, Alabama, the son of Elizabeth Brewer and Charles Barnard Handy. His father was the pastor of a small church in Guntersville, a small town in northeast central Alabama. Handy wrote in his 1941 autobiography, Father of the Blues, that he was born in a log cabin built by his grandfather William Wise Handy, who became an African Methodist Episcopal minister after the Emancipation Proclamation. The log cabin of Handy's birth has been preserved near downtown Florence.

Handy's father believed that musical instruments were tools of the devil. Without his parents' permission, Handy bought his first guitar, which he had seen in a local shop window and secretly saved for by picking berries and nuts and making lye soap. Upon seeing the guitar, his father asked him, "What possessed you to bring a sinful thing like that into our Christian home?" and ordered him to "take it back where it came from", but he also arranged for his son to take organ lessons. The organ lessons did not last long, but Handy moved on to learn to play the cornet. He joined a local band as a teenager, but he kept this fact a secret from his parents. He purchased a cornet from a fellow band member and spent every free minute practicing it.

While growing up, he apprenticed in carpentry, shoemaking, and plastering. He was deeply religious. His musical style was influenced by the church music he sang and played in his youth and by the sounds of nature. He cited as inspiration the "whippoorwills, bats and hoot owls and their outlandish noises", Cypress Creek washing on the fringes of the woodland, and "the music of every songbird and all the symphonies of their unpremeditated art".

He worked on a "shovel brigade" at the McNabb furnace and described the music made by the workers as they beat shovels, altering the tone while thrusting and withdrawing the metal part against the iron buggies to pass the time while waiting for the overfilled furnace to digest its ore. He called the sound "better to us than the music of a martial drum corps, and our rhythms were far more complicated." He wrote, "Southern Negroes sang about everything...They accompany themselves on anything from which they can extract a musical sound or rhythmical effect." He would later reflect, "In this way, and from these materials, they set the mood for what we now call blues".

Career

In September 1892, Handy travelled to Birmingham, Alabama, to take a teaching exam. He passed it easily and gained a teaching job at the Teachers Agriculture and Mechanical College (the current-day Alabama A&M University) in Normal, then an independent community near Huntsville. Learning that it paid poorly, he quit the position and found employment at a pipe works plant in nearby Bessemer.

In his time off from his job, he organized a small string orchestra and taught musicians how to read music. He later organized the Lauzetta Quartet. When the group read about the upcoming World's Fair in Chicago, they decided to attend. To pay their way, they performed odd jobs along the way. They arrived in Chicago only to learn that the World's Fair had been postponed for a year. Next they headed to St. Louis, Missouri, but found no work.

After the quartet disbanded, Handy went to Evansville, Indiana. He played the cornet in the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. In Evansville, he joined a successful band that performed throughout neighboring cities and states. His musical endeavors were varied: he sang first tenor in a minstrel show, worked as a band director, choral director, cornetist, and trumpeter. At the age of 23, he became the bandmaster of Mahara's Colored Minstrels.

In a three-year tour they traveled to Chicago, throughout Texas and Oklahoma to Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida, and on to Cuba, Mexico and Canada. Handy was paid a salary of $6 per week. Returning from Cuba the band traveled north through Alabama, where they stopped to perform in Huntsville. Weary of life on the road, he and his wife, Elizabeth, stayed with relatives in his nearby hometown of Florence.

In 1896, while performing at a barbecue in Henderson, Kentucky, Handy met Elizabeth Price. They married on July 19, 1896. She gave birth to Lucille, the first of their six children, on June 29, 1900, after they had settled in Florence.

Around that time, William Hooper Councill, the president of what had become the Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes (the same college Handy had refused to teach at in 1892 due to low pay), hired Handy to teach music. He became a faculty member in September 1900 and taught through much of 1902. He was disheartened to discover that the college emphasized teaching European music considered to be "classical". He felt he was underpaid and could make more money touring with a minstrel group.

In 1902 Handy traveled throughout Mississippi, listening to various styles of popular black music. The state was mostly rural and music was part of the culture, especially in cotton plantations in the Mississippi Delta. Musicians usually played guitar or banjo or, to a much lesser extent, piano. Handy's remarkable memory enabled him to recall and transcribe the music he heard in his travels.

After a dispute with AAMC President Councill, Handy resigned his teaching position to return to the Mahara Minstrels and tour the Midwest and Pacific Northwest. In 1903 he became the director of a black band organized by the Knights of Pythias in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Handy and his family lived there for six years. In 1903, while waiting for a train in Tutwiler, in the Mississippi Delta, Handy had the following experience:

A lean loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept...As he played, he pressed a knife on the strings of the guitar in a manner popularized by Hawaiian guitarists who used steel bars...The singer repeated the line three times, accompanying himself on the guitar with the weirdest music I had ever heard.

About 1905, while playing a dance in Cleveland, Mississippi, Handy was given a note asking for "our native music". He played an old-time Southern melody but was asked if a local colored band could play a few numbers. Three young men with a battered guitar, mandolin, and a worn-out bass walked onto the stage. Research by Elliott Hurwitt for the Mississippi Blues Trail identified the leader of the band in Cleveland as Prince McCoy.

They struck up one of those over and over strains that seem to have no beginning and certainly no ending at all. The strumming attained a disturbing monotony, but on and on it went, a kind of stuff associated with [sugar] cane rows and levee camps. Thump-thump-thump went their feet on the floor. It was not really annoying or unpleasant. Perhaps "haunting" is the better word.

Handy noted square dancing by Mississippi blacks with "one of their own calling the figures, and crooning all of his calls in the key of G." He remembered this when deciding on the key of "Saint Louis Blues". "It was the memory of that old gent who called figures for the Kentucky breakdown—the one who everlastingly pitched his tones in the key of G and moaned the calls like a presiding elder preaching at a revival meeting. Ah, there was my key—I'd do the song in G. In describing "blind singers and footloose bards" around Clarksdale, Handy wrote, "surrounded by crowds of country folks, they would pour their hearts out in song...They earned their living by selling their own songs — "ballets," as they called them — and I'm ready to say in their behalf that seldom did their creations lack imagination.

In 1909 Handy and his band moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where they played in clubs on Beale Street. "The Memphis Blues" was a campaign song written for Edward Crump, a Democrat Memphis mayoral candidate in the 1909 election and political boss. The other candidates also employed Black musicians for their campaigns. Handy later rewrote the tune and changed its name from "Mr. Crump" to "Memphis Blues." The 1912 publication of the sheet music of "The Memphis Blues" introduced his style of 12-bar blues; it was credited as the inspiration for the foxtrot by Vernon and Irene Castle, a New York dance team. Handy sold the rights to the song for $100. By 1914, when he was 40, he had established his musical style, his popularity had greatly increased, and he was a prolific composer. Handy wrote about using folk songs:

The primitive southern Negro, as he sang, was sure to bear down on the third and seventh tone of the scale, slurring between major and minor. Whether in the cotton field of the Delta or on the Levee up St. Louis way, it was always the same. Till then, however, I had never heard this slur used by a more sophisticated Negro, or by any white man. I tried to convey this effect...by introducing flat thirds and sevenths (now called blue notes) into my song, although its prevailing key was major...and I carried this device into my melody as well...This was a distinct departure, but as it turned out, it touched the spot.

The three-line structure I employed in my lyric was suggested by a song I heard Phil Jones sing in Evansville ... While I took the three-line stanza as a model for my lyric, I found its repetition too monotonous...Consequently I adopted the style of making a statement, repeating the statement in the second line, and then telling in the third line why the statement was made.

Regarding the "three-chord basic harmonic structure" of the blues, Handy wrote that the "(tonic, subdominant, dominant seventh) was that already used by Negro roustabouts, honky-tonk piano players, wanderers and others of the underprivileged but undaunted class from Missouri to the Gulf, and had become a common medium through which any such individual might express his personal feeling in a sort of musical soliloquy." He noted, "In the folk blues the singer fills up occasional gaps with words like 'Oh, lawdy' or 'Oh, baby' and the like. This meant that in writing a melody to be sung in the blues manner one would have to provide gaps or waits."

Writing about the first time "Saint Louis Blues" was played, in 1914, Handy said,

The one-step and other dances had been done to the tempo of Memphis Blues. ... When St Louis Blues was written the tango was in vogue. I tricked the dancers by arranging a tango introduction, breaking abruptly into a low-down blues. My eyes swept the floor anxiously, then suddenly I saw lightning strike. The dancers seemed electrified. Something within them came suddenly to life. An instinct that wanted so much to live, to fling its arms to spread joy, took them by the heels.

His published musical works were groundbreaking because of his ethnicity. In 1912, he met Harry Pace at the Solvent Savings Bank in Memphis. Pace was the valedictorian of his graduating class at Atlanta University and a student of W. E. B. Du Bois. By the time of their meeting, Pace had already demonstrated a strong understanding of business. He earned his reputation by saving failing businesses. Handy liked him, and Pace later became the manager of Pace and Handy Sheet Music.

While in New York City, Handy wrote:

I was under the impression that these Negro musicians would jump at the chance to patronize one of their own publishers. They didn't...The Negro musicians simply played the hits of the day...They followed the parade. Many white bands and orchestra leaders, on the other hand, were on the alert for novelties. They were therefore the ones most ready to introduce our numbers. Negro vaudeville artists...wanted songs that would not conflict with white acts on the bill. The result was that these performers became our most effective pluggers.

In 1917, he and his publishing business moved to New York City, where he had offices in the Gaiety Theatre office building in Times Square. By the end of that year, his most successful songs had been published: "Memphis Blues", "Beale Street Blues", and "Saint Louis Blues". That year the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, a white New Orleans jazz ensemble, had recorded the first jazz record, introducing the style to a wide segment of the American public. Handy had little fondness for jazz, but bands dove into his repertoire with enthusiasm, making many of them jazz standards.

Handy encouraged performers such as Al Bernard, "a young white man" with a "soft Southern accent" who "could sing all my Blues". He sent Bernard to Thomas Edison to be recorded, which resulted in "an impressive series of successes for the young artist, successes in which we proudly shared." Handy also published "Shake Rattle and Roll" and "Saxophone Blues", both written by Bernard. "Two young white ladies from Selma, Alabama (Madelyn Sheppard and Annelu Burns) contributed the songs "Pickaninny Rose" and "O Saroo", with the music published by Handy's company. These numbers, plus our blues, gave us a reputation as publishers of Negro music."

Expecting to make only "another hundred or so" of "Yellow Dog Blues" (originally entitled "Yellow Dog Rag"), Handy signed a deal with the Victor company. The Joe Smith recording of this song in 1919 became the best-selling recording of Handy's music to date.

Handy tried to interest black women singers in his music but was unsuccessful. In 1920 Perry Bradford persuaded Mamie Smith to record two of his non-blues songs ("That Thing Called Love" and "You Can't Keep a Good Man Down") that were published by Handy and accompanied by a white band. When Bradford's "Crazy Blues" became a hit as recorded by Smith, black blues singers became popular. Handy's business began to decrease because of the competition.

In 1920 Pace amicably dissolved his partnership with Handy, with whom he also collaborated as lyricist. Pace formed Pace Phonograph Company and Black Swan Records and many of the employees went with him. Handy continued to operate the publishing company as a family-owned business. He published works of other black composers as well as his own, which included more than 150 sacred compositions and folk song arrangements and about 60 blues compositions. In the 1920s, he founded the Handy Record Company in New York City; while this label released no records, Handy organized recording sessions with it, and some of those recordings were eventually released on Paramount Records and Black Swan Records. So successful was "Saint Louis Blues" that in 1929 he and director Dudley Murphy collaborated on a RCA motion picture of the same name, which was to be shown before the main attraction. Handy suggested blues singer Bessie Smith for the starring role because the song had made her popular. The movie was filmed in June and was shown in movie houses throughout the United States from 1929 to 1932.

In 1926 Handy wrote Blues: An Anthology—Complete Words and Music of 53 Great Songs. It is an early attempt to record, analyze, and describe the blues as an integral part of the South and the history of the United States. To celebrate the publication of the book and to honor Handy, Small's Paradise in Harlem hosted a party, "Handy Night", on Tuesday October 5, which contained the best of jazz and blues selections provided by Adelaide Hall, Lottie Gee, Maude White, and Chic Collins.

In a 1938 radio episode of Ripley's Believe it or not! Handy was described as "the father of jazz as well as the blues." Fellow blues performer Jelly Roll Morton wrote an open letter to Downbeat magazine fuming that he had actually invented jazz.

After the publication of his autobiography, Handy published a book on African-American musicians, Unsung Americans Sung (1944). He wrote three other books: Blues: An Anthology: Complete Words and Music of 53 Great Songs, Book of Negro Spirituals, and Negro Authors and Composers of the United States. He lived on Strivers' Row in Harlem. He became blind after an accidental fall from a subway platform in 1943. After the death of his first wife, he remarried in 1954 when he was 80. His bride was his secretary, Irma Louise Logan, who he frequently said had become his eyes. In 1955, he suffered a stroke, after which he began to use a wheelchair. More than eight hundred attended his 84th birthday party at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

On March 28, 1958, Handy died of bronchial pneumonia at Sydenham Hospital in New York City Over 25,000 people attended his funeral in Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church. Over 150,000 people gathered in the streets near the church to pay their respects. He was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.

Compositions

Handy's music does not always follow the classic 12-bar pattern, often having 8- or 16-bar bridges between 12-bar verses.

"Memphis Blues", written 1909, published 1912. Although usually subtitled "Boss Crump", it is a distinct song from Handy's campaign satire, "Boss Crump don't 'low no easy riders around here", which was based on the good-time song "Mamma Don't Allow It."

"Yellow Dog Blues" (1912), "Your easy rider's gone where the Southern cross the Yellow Dog." The reference is to the crossing at Moorhead, Mississippi, of the Southern Railway and the local Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad, called the Yellow Dog. By Handy's telling locals assigned the words "Yellow Dog" to the letters Y.D. (for Yazoo Delta) on the freight trains that they saw.

"Saint Louis Blues" (1914), "the jazzman's Hamlet."

"Loveless Love", based in part on the classic "Careless Love". Possibly the first song to complain of modern synthetics, "with milkless milk and silkless silk, we're growing used to soulless soul."

"Aunt Hagar's Blues", the biblical Hagar, handmaiden to Abraham and Sarah, was considered the "mother" of African Americans

"Beale Street Blues" (1916), written as a farewell to Beale Street of Memphis, which was named Beale Avenue until the song's popularity caused it to be changed

"Long Gone John (from Bowling Green)", about a famous bank robber

"Chantez-Les-Bas (Sing 'Em Low)", a tribute to the Creole culture of New Orleans

"Atlanta Blues", which includes the song "Make Me a Pallet on your Floor" as its chorus.

"Ole Miss Rag" (1917), a ragtime composition, recorded by Handy's Orchestra of Memphis

Awards and honors

On May 17, 1969, the United States Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp in his honor.

Handy was inducted in the National Academy of Popular Music Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.

He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1983.

He was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame in 1985, and was a 1993 Inductee into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame, with the Lifework Award for Performing Achievement.

He received a Grammy Trustees Award for lifetime achievement in 1993.

Citing 2003 as "the centennial anniversary of when W.C. Handy composed the first blues music" the United States Senate in 2002 passed a resolution declaring the year beginning February 1, 2003 as the "Year of the Blues".

Handy was honored with two markers on the Mississippi Blues Trail, the "Enlightenment of W.C. Handy" in Clarksdale, Mississippi and a marker at his birthplace in Florence, Alabama.

Blues Music Award was known as the W. C. Handy Award until the name change in 2006.

W. C. Handy Music Festival is held annually in Florence, Alabama.

In 2017, his autobiography Father of the Blues was inducted in to the Blues Hall of Fame in the category of Classics of Blues Literature.

Discography

Handy's Orchestra of Memphis

The Old Town Pump/Sweet Child Introducing Pallet on the Floor (Columbia #2417) (1917)

A Bunch of Blues/Moonlight Blues (Columbia #2418) (1917)

Livery Stable Blues/That Jazz Dance Everyone Is Crazy About (Columbia #2419) (1917)

The Hooking Cow Blues/Ole Miss Rag (Columbia #2420) (1917)

The Snaky Blues/Fuzzy Wuzzy Rag (Columbia #2421) (1917)

Preparedness Blues (Columbia) (unreleased) (recorded 9/21/1917)

The Coburn Blues (Columbia) (unreleased) (recorded 9/24/1917)

Those Draftin' Blues (Columbia) (unreleased) (recorded 9/24/1917)

The Storybook Ball (Columbia) (unreleased) (recorded 9/25/1917)

Sweet Cookie Mine (Columbia) (unreleased) (recorded 9/25/1917)

Handy's Memphis Blues Band

Beale Street Blues/Joe Turner Blues (Lyric #4211) (9/1919) (never released)

Hesitating Blues/Yellow Dog Blues (Lyric #4212) (9/1919) (never released)

Early Every Morn/Loveless Love (Paramount #12011) (1922)

St. Louis Blues/Yellow Dog Blues (Paramount #20098) (1922)

St. Louis Blues/Beale Street Blues (Banner #1036) (1922)

She's No Mean Job/Muscle Shoals Blues (Banner #1053) (1922)

She's A Mean Job/Muscle Shoals Blues (Puritan #11112) (1922)

Muscle Shoals Blues/She's a Mean Job (Regal #9313) (1922)

St. Louis Blues/Yellow Dog Blues (Black Swan #2053) (1922)

Muscle Shoals Blues/She's a Mean Job (Black Swan #2054) (1922)

Handy’s Orchestra

Yellow Dog Blues/St. Louis Blues (Puritan #11098) (1922)

Louisville Blues/Aunt Hagar's Blues (Okeh #8046) (1923)

Panama/Down Hearted Blues (Okeh #8059) (1923)

Mama's Got the Blues/My Pillow and Me (Okeh #8066) (1923)

Gulf Coast Blues/Farewell Blues (Okeh #4880) (1923)

Sundown Blues/Florida Blues (Okeh #4886) (1923)

Darktown Reveille/Ole Miss Blues (Okeh #8110) (1923)

I Walked All the Way From East St. Louis (Library of Congress) (1938)

Your Clothes Look Lonesome Hanging on the Line (Library of Congress) (1938)

Got No More Home Than a Dog (Library of Congress) (1938)

Joe Turner (Library of Congress) (1938)

Careless Love (Library of Congress) (1938)

Getting' Up Holler (Library of Congress) (1938)

Oh De Kate's Up De River, Stackerlee's in de Ben (Library of Congress) (1938)

Roll On, Buddy (Library of Congress) (1938)

Olius Brown (Library of Congress) (1938)

Sounding the Lead on the Ohio River (Library of Congress) (1938)

Handy's Sacred Singers

Aframerican Hymn/Let's Cheer the Weary Traveler (Paramount #12719) (1929)

W. C. Handy's Orchestra

Loveless Love/Way Down South Where the Blues Begin (Varsity #8162) (1939)

St. Louis Blues/Beale Street Blues (Varsity #8163) (1939)

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10: confused

Fake it til you make it.

In the middle of the City, fairly close to the Academy, there is a chrome-colored building that is taller than almost all of the rest. Night and Sugar stand in front of its doors, wondering how they’re going to get in.

The building is called “Mecca.” It’s filled with headquarters for top companies--mostly builders, but also fashion and interior designers, medical technicians, and game developers. Thousands of civilians report here for work 5 days a week. But since it’s Friday, as soon as it’s 5 o’clock, these workers will leave their desks and head to the top floor.

At the top floor of Mecca is LOUNGE, an exclusive night and day club where windows are always blacked out and the passing of time can’t be measured. A night club meets speakeasy meets casino, this is where the elites go to unwind. After a long week’s work of building, the business men and women of Mecca can swipe their membership card at the top floor and indulge themselves in the darker parts of life.

And this is exactly where Sugar intends on taking them.

“There’s no way we’re getting in.” Night mutters, hitting his forehead with his palm. This situation feels seriously illegal and seriously stupid. As he and Night stood at the front of this massive building, Night begins to wonder if he’s made a big mistake.

“Hold on now, don’t give up just yet, man. Listen, the separation medical facility is in this building.” Sugar explains.

“So..?”

“People think we’re Vacaters. So, we’ll tell security that we have appointments today, they’ll let us in, we’ll head to the facility and…”

“And what?”

“And figure it out from there? Let’s go dude!”

*buzz*

*buzz buzz buzz*

Suddenly, Night’s phone starts blowing up in his pocket. He can’t ignore it, because it just keeps going.

“Hold on a second, Sugar…”

Night reaches into his pocket and sees that he has several missed texts and calls. From Julian.

Oh god, what does he want from her so desperately? What could be so important that it can’t wait?

This is why he’d tapped Emma’s phone. It wasn’t because he’s creepy or trying to infringe on her privacy, though, he’ll admit, that’s exactly what it looks like. No, it’s because she’s unpredictable, and surrounded by people who don’t know what’s best for her. And because he really needs her to make it here.

JULIAN: where are u

JULIAN: stopped by your house and u weren’t there

JULIAN: ur mom said u were out for a walk, but i don’t think that’s true. Tell me what’s happening

(3 MISSED CALLS)

JULIAN: your friend zoe says that you’re out somewhere with her boyfriend. Care to explain? Wtf is going on...we’re leaving in a few days Emma

(2 MISSED CALLS)

JULIAN: we’re leaving tomorrow

Leaving?

Leaving where?

Night had known that Emma was planning something, just not what. Apparently Julian does.

Sugar taps his foot impatiently while Night composes a response to Julian. With the software he installed on his phone, it will be rerouted through Emma’s number. He’ll have no idea.

“EMMA”: Going where?

A pause, and then Julian is typing.

JULIAN: there you are. Fuck. don’t do that to me

“EMMA”: where are we going, julian?

JULIAN: what are you talking about? Are you trying to distract me from the fact that ur out chilling w Gabriel? The fuck?

Now Night is actually confused. Is this why she didn’t answer him? Because she was busy with Gabriel? And for that matter, who the hell is Gabriel?

What’s going on Emma? Everything you need was sent straight to your doorstep. Couldn’t have been easier. All you had to do was get the mail. So what went wrong?

Sugar yells to him, “DUDE, NOW.”

“Ok ok, I’m ready!” Night says, while composing and sending one last text.

“EMMA”: i’m not going anywhere with you julian. I’ve changed my mind. Don’t contact me again

Night runs after Sugar. He wonders to himself...what does such a smart girl see in such a profoundly stupid guy? Is she that starved of attention that she’ll settle for anyone who gives it to her? Note to self: that question will probably be offensive to her if he were to ask it. So he will not.

But hopefully he’ll at least have the chance. Soon.

Sugar storms ahead, and Night basically has no choice but to follow.

Sure enough, they head through metal detectors on their way in, and are then greeted by a squad of security guards. A guard steps in front of them. How many times is this going to happen today?

“Please swipe ID cards on the way in.”

This guard is nicer than the last one, he said please. He’s still in the way though. Sugar steps up.

“Hello sir, we don’t have ID cards because we don’t actually work here. We’re merely here for our appointments at the separation facility. We’re wearing our uniforms to indicate our status.” Sugar says, oozing with professionalism and aggressively overdoing it. Night fights a laugh under his breath (“merely..?”) and Sugar elbows him discreetly. The guard frowns.

“Is that so? We weren’t told of any separation appointments scheduled today...in fact, it’s rare that they’re ever scheduled on Fridays. What’s the reason you’re here for the service today instead of Monday?”

At this moment, both Sugar and Night are hoping that the other one has more knowledge of who the hell Vacaters actually are and what the hell the separation facility actually does. Unfortunately, neither of them do. Night realizes that he’ll have to throw another hail mary pass and hope for the best.

“Well it’s because, the...service...is going to be followed by a session with some other associates at LOUNGE.”

Now it was Sugar’s turn to try not to laugh. That was officially the dumbest ass response ever, which is why he is the resident debauchery mastermind and Night spends every night in front of a computer and a dead plant.

Night tries to remain confident. He couldn’t bank on these guys not understanding Vacaters, like the last pair of idiots, but he gambled that he could bank on them not knowing much about LOUNGE. From the look of it, these guys don’t seem like the type to be invited to an exclusive, glamorous party. They’re wearing jumpsuits.

“What? Really? That’s so...unusual.” One guard says. The other nods in agreement. They actually seem a bit...jealous? As in, why have these two bratty teenagers been invited to the top floor when we who have worked here for five years never will?

“Well yes, my father is a builder and it’s, uh, a sort of rite of passage for me to be vacated, er, separated, alongside him. In a celebratory way. After work.”

If Night got away with this, he’d owe the forces of the universe one.

The guards just nod in admiration while Sugar looks incredulous.

“Well then, good luck young man. We hope your last night will be a special one.”

The guards exchange nods with Night and Sugar, who head forward to the glass elevator.

“Separation facility is on 43!” Calls one of the security guards from behind, almost wistfully. Maybe one day he’ll get the chance to see what’s up there. But not likely.

Once inside the glass elevator, Sugar hugs Night around the shoulder.

“Ok honestly, I’m a bit shook that you’re a bad ass. Was pretty sure that you were just a virgin computer nerd.”

Night laughs to himself. That’s all that anyone has ever expected of him. But right now, seeing himself through Sugar’s eyes as a genius lawbreaker feels good. Intoxicating, even.

“What floor’d he say? 45, was it? Sugar asks.

“Why not go straight to the top?” Night asks, with a mischievous grin.

He hits the number “100” without waiting for an answer.

* * *

Emma crashes through the front door of her house, ready to have to explain herself to her parents and hoping to get through it painlessly.

But they don’t seem to be home. “Mom? Dad?”

They must be out looking for her. Now it all makes sense...her neurotic mother was blowing up her phone because she couldn’t even trust her daughter to take a walk around the damn block. Then her phone got destroyed in the parking lot. And now, since she hasn’t answered, they’re out looking for her. And when they eventually get back, she’ll probably be sent to prison. Cool.

Emma decides to take this time as a gift. Tune everything else out. This is her shot to save Isabel.

Emma runs upstairs to her room and tears the cardboard off the headset. She tosses the instructions aside because she has enough knowledge to put one of these together without them.

Does it need to be charged? It does not. It’s ready to go.

Now, to check on the download…

7 HOURS REMAINING

She groans. It’s speeding up, but not enough. She needs to plug in now, not in 7 god damn hours. She sees on her computer that there are a shit ton of unread G-chat messages from Zoe. Ugh, she’s probably dealing with some sort of jealousy moment right now and Emma just doesn’t have time to deal with it. So she doesn’t open them. Sorry Zo. You’ll forgive me.

Emma wracks her frazzled brain--there’s gotta be a way for her to get online and contact Emma.

Wait.

Emma runs across the hallway to Isabel’s room, carrying the headset and headphones. Isabel is still slumped over in her chair, alive, looking the same as before. Well at least she’s alive, which is cool. Emma examines the game on the computer--scanning the twisted map view of a city for any sign of her sister. None. Hm, guess it doesn’t work like that.

Emma looks at the game settings.

Ah, input/output. Yes. This is it.

If she can’t join from her own game, maybe she can join Isabel’s.

Emma sits down on a pile of clothes in the back of Isabel’s closet. She might as well get comfy, she could be here for a while. She puts on thick noise-canceling headphones and the headset, and everything goes dark and quiet.

Power on.

Emma wirelessly connects to Isabel’s computer, then sees the icon for the Universe game pop up in front of her eyes. With a nod, she selects it.

Black becomes blue.

Silence becomes ambient drone music.

Isabel’s done VR before, so she expects this. She still feels excitement. This technology never ceases to amaze her.

It’s when the feeling of the laundry beneath her fades away into a rush of cold air...

This, she does not expect.

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cruddyborderlandstheories · 5 years

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Troy’s Crystal Necklaces are IMPORTANT AND IDK HOW and other insane ramblings

No matter what happens from here on out, I think those crystals are important and I GOTTA know what they’re for! At the very least, they’re important to me. So cool... So glowy... *o* I want one...

So there are a couple possibilities for what they could be used for and my main guess is Stealing/Storing/Transferring Siren powers (Yes, I know, that’s probably Tyrene’s power, but, hey, humor me! I think it’d be an interesting twist to something we already know.)

Troy being able to steal siren powers and possibly keep them in the glowy crystals around his neck? Hell yeah! How? I have no fuckin’ clue!

Since his tattoos are red they could be derived from the crystals and, if this is the case, he is probably the one who stole Lilith’s tattoos during the trailer and possibly transfers them to Tyrene. (I’ll get more into this later as to why I don’t think he kept them) I lowkey kinda think they’re like raw seraph crystals or smth bc male siren goes against all the lore (maybe he’s like a seraph himself or some bullshit? yaknow, red vs blue... or he just used the crystals to steal a siren’s tattoos and put them on himself...) unless he’s actually trans which I'm afraid they wouldn’t have the balls to do. but oh mama if he is, that representation will be like nothing we’ve ever seen

Troy having gotten Siren powers from his sister Tyrene stealing them and giving them to him? I mean,,, yeah that’s probably what happened but GLOWY MAGIC CRYSTALS THE ERIDIANS DIDN’T LIKE BECAUSE SERAPHS COULD THEN STEAL THEIR POWERS AND USE THEM AGAINST THEM IN WAR (THAT IS [APPARENTLY] COMING)??? Now that’s some good reintegration shit mhmmmm. The Eridium buffeth and the Seraph taketh away.

Also, a siren being able to steal another siren’s powers seems kinda counterintuitive. Her power is useless unless she meets other sirens (THERE ARE 6 IN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE - despite what the games want us to believe, that’s pretty fuckin’ rare!) and what is it even used for? All the other sirens we’ve met have very powerful, combat-oriented skills (even w/ Angel, while I’m still not sure what her power was exactly tbh. technological integration? (Phaseshift-ing of the bits???) that’s p powerful with Eridian tech I'm sure). If the Sirens were created by Eridians, they were probably made to be on the same side. If that’s the case, wouldn’t it make a lot more sense for something that didn’t want the Sirens around to have the power to steal theirs and redistribute them to their own forces?

Consider:

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I mean, after all, “their return is to be feared” and Seraph crystals only started appearing after the opening of the second vault on Pandora (which could be triggering the return of the Seraphs... thus causing them to want to plunder vaults/kill Sirens? who knows lol). Also, the cultists leaving Pandora and heading to Promethea could very well be bringing back Seraph crystals. Shit, the guy you sell the crystals to in order to get some seriously powerful gear could have been shipping them off to Promethea.

My only problem is they’re pink, not red, but it might be a product of activating them/”storing” the siren powers in them/some weird bullshit. I know raw eridium is a shade or two darker than processed Eridium, so it could possibly be some bullshit like “raw seraph crystals are redder while processed seraph crystals are pink” or something.

Actually, now that I think about it, the only way to get Seraph crystals is through Seraph Guardians. Disregarding the Dragons bc its a DnD Campaign, the Seraph Guardians are all hopped up on whatever the seraph crystals did to them. Maybe the crystals are drained of their power once we kill the Seraph Guardians and that is why they are that shade of pink. Maybe when they’re charged up they’re a more saturated red color. I mean, Hyperius is able to grow to the size of a skyscraper and Gee can absorb elemental damage so 👀

This is all a huge reach, but I’m having fun, so let’s continue.

Now there is this tidbit from the Battleborn Easter Egg: “VISIT PROMET[H]EA CHILDREN OF THE VAULT. WE ARE NOT ON PANDORA ANYMORE. TANNIS IS NOT WHAT SHE SEEMS. DO NOT OPEN THE VAULTS”. Ignoring the Tannis bit, I’m very curious why they don’t want the vaults open. Maybe it would bring about the return of the Eridians and they don’t want that? I mean... technically the Watcher is already back after opening only 2 vaults (Pandora1 and Elpis). Which is a whole nother thing that I could totally get into if the twins (either of them) are actually stealing people’s Siren powers lmao, be it with just the magic crystals or their own magic alien powers. The war the Watcher mentions could 100% be against the Calypso twins. I can’t help but wonder if it should be something bigger though lmao... sounded so ominous...

Now of the theory that Tyrene is the one who can steal powers and gave Lilith’s to Troy: Totally possible. Boring, but possible. There is that screenshot of her holding a really glowing lookin’ orb (AND THE INSIDE IS GLOWING REDDISH: THE SAME COLOR AS TROY’S CRYSTALS OHHHHH-) which is probably someone’s Siren powers. My only way to dispute this is to say she also doesn’t have any facial tattoos like Lilith does, (Angel doesn’t have facial tattoos either) though Maya and Steele did have tattoos on their faces, and Troy totally does have a unique facial tattoo that wouldn’t match up with Lilith’s at all (I mention this because it could hint that she is the one to get the powers transferred onto her, not the other way around). Also, immediately after the scene with the image below, there is a shot of an area being absolutely BLITZED by fireballs and Lilith is usually associated with fire (Firehawk).

I do think this snapshot happens right after they steal Lilith's powers. Tyrene looks so smug like “oh, let’s see what this baby can DO”. So either she just got Lilith’s powers, or she’s about to shove her glowing ball into her brother and idk which is worse lol

Now, I mentioned before that Troy has facial tattoos, which don’t match up with Lilith’s tattoos at all. You would think transferring the powers would transfer over the same tattoos. But Alas, to disprove this part of the theory, Tyrene actually has a unique set of tattoos as well, as far as I can tell.

Her tattoos. I can’t tell if Troy’s are similar or not because of her jacket, but you can catch a glimpse of them here! (At least, I think those are his tattoos. His arm is kinda a weird gray color... 🤔 🤔 🤔 🤔 Maybe the transference did an ouch of some kind)

AFAIK neither of these match Lilith’s.

Also, fun fact! Tyrene is the only Siren we’ve seen to not show off her chest tattoos. IDK if its a Siren thing or if they just want to show off their cleavage or what, but unlike the others, her clothes are not revealing whatsoever (in fact, she seals up her neck and stuff? Is weird). Troy, on the other hand, looks like he went on a shopping spree with Macklemore and V from DMC5. He’s also showing a fair bit of abdomen lol (Have you seen his ab tattoo that says Calypso? Neat). Interestingly enough, his red tattoos don’t seem to go down the left side of his abdomen like Siren tattoos do (easily seen on Lilith), nor his chest, and although they could be hidden by his jacket, I don’t think that’s the case.

Also, I kinda wanna go on a tangent here and talk about his face? At first, I thought he had maybe gotten some Glasgow scars, but if you look up where his sideburns are, that is way too clean and almost mechanical to be scarring (plus, its super symmetrical, he has one right down the middle of his chin as well- which interestingly enough is not visible on his bust in the Mask of Mayhem... then again neither are Tyrene’s scars. Worship at its finest). My first thought after that was that he peeled someone’s face off and stapled it to his own 😅 I mean! He works with psychos, right? It’s not too far fetched? right? (tbh the placement of the metal bits (cheekbones, cheeks, one on his chin) gives me a huge Jack vibe, so maybe it's just his homage to the man, the myth, the legend)

Maybe the tattoos are fake/implanted technology in order to keep the cult in check and the crystals are there to keep them powered/working. Maybe he had to get a face stapled back on after whatever took his arm ripped his face off too. Who knowwwws. Maybe he had to have head implants for his arm to work (if its a prosthetic like Rhys’s, it could just be a huge exoskeleton arm) and being on Promethea (Pandora for a while before they left as per the easter egg I guess), they probably don’t have the greatest medical expertise, unlike Hyperion. Also, the crystals could totally just be a power source for his arm. That’d be super badass, just rip it off his neck and shove it into that ring looking area and power up. I’ll be honest, we’re throwing theories at the wall here to see what sticks!

But back on the topic of Power Stealing! For either one having the power of transferring (be it magic crystals or magic alien space superpowers), they could already have taken another siren’s power and are just adding onto it. Could be the reason Troy has 2 crystals (one for lilith, one for another siren), could be the reason both their tattoos are different from all the sirens we’ve seen so far.

Personally, I like the theory that they stole the new little girl character’s siren powers and we’re going to help her and Maya get them back. Somewhere in the process, Lilith probably loses her powers to them. It would explain why he has two crystals instead of just one. Maya probably knows all this smart shit about who the twins are and what their cult is and has a plan but needs our help getting to the twins.

I also just came up with this now, but I like the idea that the little girl is either actually working with the Calypso twins or being manipulated by them in order to get Maya and Lilith to show up on Promethea. Think about it. They need/want to collect Siren powers, right? What better way to do so than to jerk at the heartstrings of two super powerful sirens with a huge connection to their own powers by sending a little girl out who “got hers stolen by some big bad cult leaders”. In the Mask of Mayhem trailer, we see the little girl a few times. At one point, in the top right, right next to Troy and Tyrene, we see an unfamiliar smoll character who looks like this (below) and has the beginnings of what I think are growing wings at her back (meaning Siren) although her left arm is covered, which might mean she probably doesn’t have tattoos. Yet.

Maybe she was promised her own powers if she lured the two Sirens to the Calypso twins. I was going to use her earrings and gages to see if they were the same character but the girl below just so happened to be conveniently wearing a pair of headphones lol. Maybe its just coincidence. I do think their hair is different, the statue has a bun/ponytail, but that could be solved by her chopping it off with that huge knife or keeping it in a bun and keeping her hood up. Maybe the two characters are twins themselves and one joined the cult and the other wants to help her leave. Who knowwwwwsssss

I don’t trust her lies.

Also, one more thing, during the scene with Lilith on the floor, when they’re locking arms, Troy pulls away first, while Tyrene slowly retracts her hand like she’s unsure of what to do. Not the greatest of proofs indeed, but something to think about. Perhaps he’s just impatient to try out his new powers. Maybe he’s done this before and knows what he’s doing. She could just be annoyed and is giving him a death glare behind that fabulous collar. We may never know. There are plenty of ways to read into it.

Of course, Tyrene seems like to big boss type out of the whole thing anyway, so its more than likely she is the one that has the power to take and transfer Siren powers. She is the one in the Mask of Mayhem with the wings, and I find it interesting that they made it a point to have Troy’s left arm (the arm Sirens have their tattoos on!!) to be “under construction” during the video. It’s very likely the reason is because he gets his tattoos through his sister during the game. If that’s the case, well fuckin’ played Gearbox. Foreshadowing 100.

Shit, idk, maybe it's all just some weird shit that happens when your twin is a Siren. You get like... negative siren powers. it would explain his Shadow the Hedgehog color scheme smh. She stole all the blue pigment from him in the womb so he’s just red in the places her tattoos are lmao

Maybe his crystals are just Promethea’s version of Eridium, after all, the Vault key here seems to be producing a shitton of red light. be weird tho, since eridium didnt exist until we opened the vault so... maybe tannis just grabbed one of them siren-power-holding-crystals you just brought her after beating the shit out of an emo biker fuck and shoved in the vault key and prayed it would work while t-posing to assert dominance

who knowwwwwsss

#bl3 #borderlands 3 #troy #tyrene #calypso twins #bl3 theory #Borderlands Theory

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fandima-moved-read-pinned · 4 years

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Would it be awesome to see you do all 100 asks? Yes. Will you do them? We shall see.

Wanna bet

1: when you have cereal, do you have more milk than cereal or more cereal than milk? - More cereal than milk!

2: do you like the feeling of cold air on your cheeks on a wintery day?- No, actually. I hate the cold ^^' And if there's cold air on my cheeks then it's on my nose and that's no good

3: what random objects do you use to bookmark your books? - Usually a post it note! Not very random, but it's normally what I have on hand.

4: how do you take your coffee/tea? - Depends on my mood! Sometimes I'll take my coffee black, other times ill add a fricc ton of creamer, whipped cream, and sugar. Also sometimes I mix coffee with hot chocolate and it's amazing.

5: are you self-conscious of your smile? - Very.

6: do you keep plants? - Always. I still have the carnations from Valentines Day (which surprisingly haven't died yet)

7: do you name your plants? - Nope.

8: what artistic medium do you use to express your feelings? - just a mechanical pencil or a graphite pencil. They usually end up being sketches. But if I like how it looks I'll go over them in pen.

9: do you like singing/humming to yourself? - Yes and no? I'd do it more often but I don't want anyone to hear me. Especially my mom.

10: do you sleep on your back, side, or stomach? - Side, always facing the wall.

11: what’s an inner joke you have with your friends? - The only one I can think of off the top of my head is *slap slap slap* *jumps out window*. No I will not explain.

12: what’s your favorite planet? - Pluto! Or Make Make. Make Make used to be my favorite because me and my brother would pronounce it wrong on purpose. But Pluto is ver pretty.

13: what’s something that made you smile today? - seeing my brother's reaction to his birthday present from me! I made a little felt monkey with bushy eyebrows (I needle felted it)

14: if you were to live with your best friend in an old flat in a big city, what would it look like? - Probably very messy. But also it would constantly smell like food!

15: go google a weird space fact and tell us what it is! - Mars is shrinking. It is Smol.

16: what’s your favorite pasta dish? - Fettuccine Alfredo with Shrimp! It's what I usually ordered at Olive Garden until I found out that it was expensive and was probably stressing out my parents.

17: what color do you really want to dye your hair? - Don't laugh okay but pink! I want to dye the bottom half of my hair bright freaking pink. Like hot pink.

18: tell us about something dumb/funny you did that has since gone down in history between you and your friends and is always brought up. - That time I slapped a guy twice for picking me up. That guy was my best friend. He picked me up from behind and I sorta whipped around and slapped him. The first time he didn't put me down, he just laughed. So I slapped him again. He got the hint.

19: do you keep a journal? what do you write/draw/ in it?- I don't. I tried a while back, but I figured it would be easier just to talk to people about my issues instead of writing them down.

20: what’s your favorite eye color? - Green. Or dark brown.

21: talk about your favorite bag, the one that’s been to hell and back with you and that you love to pieces. - Not sure what this means, sorry. I've got this pencil pouch that has a tree print on it that I've used for a few years now even though it has a hole it it. Does that count?

22: are you a morning person? - No. I wake up at 5:30 am on weekdays and usually don't get out of bed until I have ten minutes to get ready and leave.

23: what’s your favorite thing to do on lazy days where you have 0 obligations? - Stay in my room and draw! Although I don't have lazy days. Every time my mom comes upstairs I immediately start cleaning because if I don't she'll yell at me for being lazy.

24: is there someone out there you would trust with every single one of your secrets? - Yes. Take a look at who sent this ask. Also my other two online friends! One of them I spam with worms on a string and the other I just know I can trust and I don't know why.

25: what’s the weirdest place you’ve ever broken into? - the only place I've broken into is my own house. I had to climb the backyard fence to go through the back door because me and my brother forgot our keys.

26: what are the shoes you’ve had for forever and wear with every single outfit? - My plain black tennis shoes. I need to get new ones because these ones are old and barely fit but every time I mention it, it's like I never said a word.

27: what’s your favorite bubblegum flavor? - Candy Cane!

28: sunrise or sunset? - Sunset! I get to see the sun setting behind the Rocky Mountains and it's really pretty.

29: what’s something really cute that one of your friends does and is totally endearing? - exist

30: think of it: have you ever been truly scared? - Yes. I'd rather not talk about it.

31: what is your opinion of socks? do you like wearing weird socks? do you sleep with socks? do you confine yourself to white sock hell? really, just talk about socks. - socks can burn in hell for all I care. I hate socks. I only wear them if I have to (like while wearing shoes)

32: tell us a story of something that happened to you after 3AM when you were with friends. - I remember being at a sleepover a few days before I moved (this was in South Korea) and I woke up at 3:34 am (yes I remember the time don't ask why) because one of my friends was playing Megalovania on the keyboard. Then she turned around and asked who the hell took her pretzels. They were under her pillow.

33: what’s your fave pastry? - c w a s o a n t (with jelly inside!)

34: tell us about the stuffed animal you kept as a kid. what is it called? what does it look like? do you still keep it? - I still have this stuffed animal now (I have all of my stuffed animals. I haven't brought myself to get rid of them). It's a little pink blanket with a bunny head named Squeek. Not Squeak. I didn't know how to spell that.

35: do you like stationary and pretty pens and so on? do you use them often? - No. I don't have any.

36: which band’s sound would fit your mood right now? - https://youtu.be/7TqLXIBG-6g not a band but still

37: do you like keeping your room messy or clean? - Messy! It may sound strange, but I can't find anything when it's clean. It also feels empty unless I've got stuff all over the floor.

38: tell us about your pet peeves! - When I tell remind someone of the rules and they say "okay" and continue breaking them. Like we aren't supposed to put pans in the dishwasher because it ruins the pans. Yet my brother always puts them in there. I remind him and take it out, and he says "okay" and puts it back. I also hate it when I ask someone to stop doing something (usually when it's making me nervous or upset) and they ask "WhY?" in a really annoying tone and keep doing it. I ALSO hate it when I'm in charge and yet no one listens to me.

I also don't like it when no one says thank you. It makes it seem like they don't appreciate me.

39: what color do you wear the most? - Grey. I want to wear colorful clothes but the last time we went clothes shopping and I asked for pastel colors, I walked out of the store with grey, light grey, brown, and dark blue clothes.

40: think of a piece of jewelry you own: what’s it’s story? does it have any meaning to you? - I have a locket that I made for my seventh birthday. It has little charms in it (a rose, my first initial, a heart key, and a birthday cake) and it's gold. I love it and I don't know why.

41: what’s the last book you remember really, really loving? - There's a book series that I don't remember the name of but it's about a girl who is forcibly turned into a siren by three other sirens. She has to eat human hearts to live. It's kinda gorey, kinda romantic, lots of action. I love it.

42: do you have a favorite coffee shop? describe it! - Unfortunately no, I usually get coffee at a gas station ^^'

43: who was the last person you gazed at the stars with? - My dog Freyja! Whenever I take out trash, she comes with, and when the sky is clear I like to point out the starts with her before we go back inside. She's very sweet. But I can't stargaze for more than a minute.

44: when was the last time you remember feeling completely serene and at peace with everything? - Last year I went on a trip to Florida to stay with my grandparents for a week. I remember waking up one morning with a beautiful view of the ocean and the sound of waves crashing onto the shore. My grandparents have an apartment of sorts that faces the Atlantic and you can literally go down the stairs and go swim in the ocean if you want to, it's like a two minute walk, not even. I love the ocean and the sound of waves and seagulls is always calming to me. But my house is very loud and there's no peace here.

45: do you trust your instincts a lot? - Yes. When I have a bad feeling about something, I address it. It's not always true, but I don't want to risk anything.

46: tell us the worst pun you can think of. - Sorry, I don't know many puns. I guess I'm just not a pun-ny person.

47: what food do you think should be banned from the universe? - fucking macaroni with bread crumsb that shit is nasty af

48: what was your biggest fear as a kid? is it the same today? - Storms, especially tornados. Now my biggest fear is death. Whether I'm the one dying or its someone I care about.

49: do you like buying CDs and records? what was the last one you bought? - Not really, I don't have money to buy anything ^^' Even when I do have money, I spend it on art stuff. That reminds me that I need to fix my radio.

50: what’s an odd thing you collect? - Fabric. I have so much and I don't even use it. But when I see a nice fabric, I get it (if I have money).

51: think of a person. what song do you associate with them? - 'Old Timer Rock and Roll' (probably not the name of it) always reminds me of my dad. One day we were driving in his Jeep, just us two, and I mentioned that I wasn't a fan of the music on the radio. We ended up compromising and that song was the first one on the radio station that we switched to.

52: what are your favorite memes of the year so far? - I am unfortunately not up to date with the memes. Although the ones where it's like "you've mc-ed your last Donald" or "you've ratted your last tatouille" always make me exhale aggressively.

53: have you ever watched the rocky horror picture show? heathers? beetlejuice? pulp fiction? what do you think of them? - None of the above! I've been wanting to watch Heather's though. I just never get around to doing it.

54: who’s the last person you saw with a true look of sadness on their face? - My brother. Not the same one from before.

55: what’s the most dramatic thing you’ve ever done to prove a point? - nothing, sorry. I'm not very dramatic.

56: what are some things you find endearing in people? - when they pour their heart out about a certain subject that they love. I know a lot of people tend to bottle up their opinions but when someone trusts me aniugh to tell me all about it, it's just sorta nice.

57: go listen to bohemian rhapsody. how did it make you feel? did you dramatically reenact the lyrics? - I just sorta spaced out for the first have then did a little dance for the rest of it. I love the line "I see a little silhouetto of a man" and it's more upbeat and the music just makes me dance a little

58: who’s the wine mom and who’s the vodka aunt in your group of friends? why? - bold of you to assume I have a group of friends

59: what’s your favorite myth? - There's this one I heard as a kid that involves a faceless girl on the side of a highway who tries to steal faces.

60: do you like poetry? what are some of your faves? - I can't think of any off the top of my head, but poetry is nice!

61: what’s the stupidest gift you’ve ever given? the stupidest one you’ve ever received? - I don't really remember. I try to only give gifts that are meaningful.

62: do you drink juice in the morning? which kind? - nope! I usually drink milk!

63: are you fussy about your books and music? do you keep them meticulously organized or kinda leave them be? - I usually leave my music to its own devices, but all the books are organized by series and genre.

64: what color is the sky where you are right now? - Blue! Just any other afternoon sky.

65: is there anyone you haven’t seen in a long time who you’d love to hang out with? - My older brother. We don't get to talk much.

66: what would your ideal flower crown look like? - Colorful, with a few white flowers!

67: how do gloomy days where the sky is dark and the world is misty make you feel? - Those are usually the days that I don't feel anything.

68: what’s winter like where you live? - The weather is all over the place. A little snow, then the next day, it's like 60°F. Not even joking. It snowed Friday and Saturday was warm.

69: what are your favorite board games? - Monopoly and Battleship!

70: have you ever used a ouija board? - No, but I really want to. But my dad won't let me.

71: what’s your favorite kind of tea? - I don't really drink tea, sorry!

72: are you a person who needs to note everything down or else you’ll forget it? - Nope. I'll forget it anyway. I usually set alarms for certain things but then I don't do it.

73: what are some of your worst habits? - Biting the inside of my cheek and scratching/pinching my arm when I'm nervous.

74: describe a good friend of yours without using their name or gendered pronouns. - kind, a good listener, talented, and understanding

75: tell us about your pets! - We have four dogs. There's Emrys (the dog I've posted pictures of before), Cirilla (a husky German Shepard mix, very sweet), Cayde-6 (a Rottweiler mix I think, super energetic, loud, and steals food off the counter even when someone is watching), and Freyja (a German Shepard mix, puppy, also very sweet! She knows the phrase 'give hugs' and she always comes with me to take out the trash for whatever reason). I also have a Guinea Pig (who I want to get a friend for because she's lonely, but my parents keep saying no) names Neo.

76: is there anything you should be doing right now but aren’t? - Working on my Someconsious series, cleaning, and probably checking in with some friends.

77: pink or yellow lemonade? - Pink

78: are you in the minion hateclub or Fan club? - Hate club. I don't like them. They're just annoying and bright and their language is stupid to me.

79: what’s one of the cutest things someone has ever done for you? - One of my exes surprised me with a cars and roses out of nowhere. It wasn't Valentines Day, it wasn't my birthday, he just went out of his way to do something nice for me when I was having a rough week.

80: what color are your bedroom walls? did you choose that color? if so, why? - They're a sort of off white. I want to paint them light lavender or pale blue but my parents have only painted the living room and refuse to paint anywhere else for whatever reason. I know we can afford paint, I know we have time. They just stopped caring.

81: describe one of your friend’s eyes using the most abstract imagery you can think of. - Not sure what it means by abstract, but I'll try. Her eyes are similar to the bottom of a small river. The brown in the middle with green rings on the edges remind me of a river I used to go fishing in back in Oklahoma.

82: are/were you good in school? - I'm okay. I have all A's and B's, but I have easy subjects that aren't very hard.

83: what’s some of your favorite album art? - I don't really listen to albums, my music taste is mostly individual songs. Even then I don't really pay attention to the art.

84: are you planning on getting tattoos? which ones? - I want to get a quote of sort on my ankle. Something in another language so I can tell them it means something mysterious and deep when in reality it's the description of a toaster oven that hasn't been cleaned since 1995.

85: do you read comics? what are your faves? - I read a few webcomics if that counts! I like Castle Swimmer a lot! Gay fish bapeys are best fish bapeys.

86: do you like concept albums? which ones? - I don't know what those are, sorry

87: what are some movies you think everyone should watch at least once in their lives? - The Princess Bride and the Last Unicorn. But I'm biased because they're both a part of my childhood.

88: are there any artistic movements you particularly enjoy? - not in particular!

89: are you close to your parents? - I'm only close with my dad. My stepmom can go fuck herself. She just told us that's she'll be making a schedule for the next two weeks because there won't be school. One of the weeks was spring break anyway! We aren't missing much!

90: talk about your one of you favorite cities. - I like Palm Beach in Florida! It's fairly quiet, right next to the ocean, and filled with retired people who are all really nice.

91: where do you plan on traveling this year? - Nowhere, we don't travel much. I really want to go to Florida again though.

92: are you a person who drowns their pasta in cheese or a person who barely sprinkles a pinch? - I don't add cheese at all! It sort of ruins the texture for me. Especially the grated sprinkle cheese stuff l. I hate now it feels.

93: what’s the hairstyle you wear the most? - I just keep my hair down. I don't like it in any other way.

94: who was the last person you know to have a birthday? - My brother. His birthday is today!

95: what are your plans for this weekend? - cry a lot cry some more lose feelings for a few hours draw watch YouTube art videos then try not to yell at my mom like I did last week

96: do you install your computer updates really quickly or do you procrastinate on them a lot? - I just get it over with so I can do whatever needs to be done. Or I schedule it for when I'm not going to be using it.

97: myer briggs type, zodiac sign, and hogwarts house? - INFP-T/Mediator, Scorpio, and Hufflepuff

98: when’s the last time you went hiking? did you enjoy it?- A few weeks ago. And no, I did not enjoy it considering I was supposed to be working on an important project that day.

99: list some songs that resonate to your soul whenever you hear them. - Where We Started, If You're Going Through Hell, and We Like to Numb (a mix of We Like to Party and Numb)

100: if you were presented with two buttons, one that allows you to go 5 years into the past, the other 5 years into the future, which one would you press? why? - Future. In five years I plan on being in college and I want to see what I should be prepared for and if my interests have changed.

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