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slime-sandwhich-nom · 1 month

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List of tawog hcs because I'm bored you guys

(processing that charlie is a bimbo now, this is how I cope)

• gumball fuckin hates being picked up, held, petted or just touched in general. He's one of those assholes cats who will kill you on the spot if you breathe the same air as them.

The closest one who got to even hug him or just touch him for more than 2 seconds was Darwin. Gumball's mom literally had to fight gumball as a toddler to pick him up

Penny though, penny gets the favorite person privilege and gumball lets her pick him up, kiss him, boop his nose, anything. Deadass the only one who can do it.

• speaking of gumball not liking to be picked up, penny, knowing she can, does it whenever she has to kiss him somewhere that isn't the forehead or the top of his head because this guy is so short.

He lets her too.

• Darwin can't pick shit up or hold anything because of his fins, so his handwriting is so bad he can't even read it. he always asks gumball to get notes in class because his brother can write better and nicer than him but gumball just sleeps through the classes. So.

• Anais did get her father's metabolism. She hates it.

• gumball does that thing where he speaks to the wall and stares at empty spaces like some cats do, Darwin is convinced gumball is possessed or someone lives again in the house without them knowing. (because gumball did that whenever rob moved around the basement and Darwin associates Gumball talking to the wall to another secret room with a dude living there again) he called an exorcist for the house before. Or for Gumball. He needs it anyway.

• Anais actually has to wear glasses to see well, and red especially. Gumball should wear glasses to see from a distance and he does have glasses for it, he just doesn't wear them. Darwin does does see pretty good, he just can't tell how far something is (he bumps into walls a lot for it.)

• deadass everyone in the family is colorblind, aside from maybe darwin. they think gumball and nicole are blue because it's all they see. they don't know it's the actual fur color.

• gumball's favorite color is orange, because of Darwin, he just doesn't call it orange. He says "whatever color Darwin is."

• Anais Is the only one who actually wears shoes, gumball is neutral on shoes as he also used to wear them but he just stopped, then Nicole and Richard just hate having shoes. (We don't count Darwin.)

• Darwin's only kind of flexible part are his legs. He's super envy of gumball's ability to fold like paper

• whenever someone in gumball's class talks about LGBTQ+ or anything about that topic they all just say "oh yeah I know that one!! Gumball is part of that club or something"

• penny was the first one to get that gumball is bisexual she just has no idea that it has a name so she just says that gumball is "gay but not all the way" but she loves him still for it

• Tobias actually did try to go for the guys to try and flirt, deadass only Leslie actually did give him a chance

• Alan is the one who is actually informed about things like lgbtq and all, he always tried to educate the others about it

• gumball has fights on Twitter Daily because he thinks it's funny. Alan says he's being mean (gumball gave him a side eyes for 10 minutes for it.)

• gumball vs dream actually did happen and it was peak drama at Elmore's jr. High for a while like it was for us (it was too iconic not to make it actually happen)

• masami only went with Alan because she wanted a bf because in middle school it's kind of a big deal about it- she actually likes girls.

• gumball is actually aware that he's a cartoon and that he's the main character, reasons why he doesn't hate rob and takes it more on the playful way, it's all a script anyway.

• tall strong girlfriend (can turn into a dragon and can kick your ass) & her small and weak as hell boyfriend (can't open a jar of pickles and has to ask her for it.) for gumball and penny

• my guy Darwin is into goths and emos. (Carrie)

• Anais also argues on social media whenever she can get access to it, but she actually writes down smart and true facts while gumball says directly "kys" to piss people off

• bobert tried to date a tv before (he had a crush on the computer in SpongeBob)

• ocho uses terms like "fr","lol","lmao" irl and everyone hates him for it

• gumball is the only one who knows the difference between geek and nerd. Or smart words or synonyms kids just don't use, and he always uses them whenever he has to convince someone to do something for him because he sounds smart but he's only saying bullshit in a smart way

• Darwin doesn't understand half of the things Gumball says so he just agrees.

• ms simian hates how much gumball yap. That's why she doesn't care if he falls asleep in class, because she gets some peace from him

• gumball is smart, he just has no care for school. Sometimes he pulls out actual good arguments and complains about society about things only Anais or his mom gets and Anais is Always surprised for it. (The more he yaps about stuff like this, which is everyday, the more she's convinced aliens are real and they replaced his brother)

• gumball is not a morning person, he actually is super pissy and snarky if he wakes up before noon. (Reasons why he just hates everybody at school constantly)

Darwin is a morning person, and he always talks a lot in the morning (gumball hates him for it. Did try to tape Darwin's mouth.)

• Anais Is also a morning person, she just isn't too happy about waking up this early like her brothers because of how young she is.

• Gumball can't eat chocolate, and like any cats he's lactose intolerant (he still can tolerate milk a little because he's a kitten), and he always gets extremely sick from chocolate or just- throws up with lactose. He still eats both.

same goes for the rest of the Watterson, gumball just forces himself to eat both. (And also uses it to his advantage to skip school)

They all have no idea why gumball keeps on getting himself sick from it.

Btw chocolate and lactose ain't good (chcolate is toxic for cats.) for bunnies and cats- and fishes!! That's why my guy reacts badly to it

• neither Nicole or gumball can taste sweets, or anything sweet really. Still, gumball's favorite food is chocolate (and cheese.) which is ironic because he loves to eat it but it's tasteless for him, and he gets sick from it. He's truly a creature.

He likes the texture of it though, that's only why he eats both.

• penny feels like non-sticky peanut butter. Gumball is always looking for a way to knead on her for it, because it's relaxing (and because kneading is also a cat's love language.)

• gumball always forms half a heart with his tail whenever he's talking near penny, or together with her, because normally cats form a heart when they walk side by side, but penny has no tail. So it's only half a heart.

• Darwin is a tryhard on sports, Anais is a tryhard on academics, gumball just likes to sleep because he avoids doing anything that he doesn't find necessary (like any cat, really.)

• Penny likes listening to rock, gumball just enjoys listening to anything he likes the melody of.

Carrie likes to hear stuff like mlp opening, Darwin is with penny on this one.

Anais Just likes daisy the donkey's opening, really.

• Gumball is an introvert and just hates people, Darwin is an extrovert, the little guy is just a little shy.

• you know gumball has a stupid plan in mind when he starts calling Darwin things like "my fishy friend" instead of buddy.

• Darwin always watches documentaries about animals, specifically cats and bunnies because he wants to know about his family more.

Once he tried to slow blink at gumball and the kitten was just confused as fuck, but appreciated the gesture. He only understood it because Darwin stared then really slow closed his eyes.

• gumball sometimes pulls those deep sleeps and Darwin always thinks his brother died. Anais has to comfort him for hours until gumball wakes up

• Nicole is always overworking herself because of trauma, and sometimes envies how laid back her eldest son is.

• gumball can actually draw really well, art is probably the only class he scores in.

• gumball and Nicole actually hear everything I'm the house and they hate it.

• gumball has a tendency of calling everyone nicknames because he can't remember anyone's name for shit.

• gumball uses at his advantage the fact that he's considered cute because he's a kitten. he gets free stuff from it.

• Darwin tried once to mimic gumball loafing, did not end up well.

• all of the videos, or most of them, of cats on Elmore's YouTube are about gumball. He's that one cat that is being constantly recorded doing shit like stealing people's food at restaurants, breaking in by accident, just randomly coming up to people, stare, then go away, accidentally falling from the ceiling. Anything a cat does, gumball does it and gets recorded.

This is one of the reasons why gumball specifically is known by ANYONE and either they love him because he looks cute, or they are terrified of what shit he can pull. (Depends on the day)

• Gumball gets free food because people like to pet him and hand him treats. He doesn't complain about it, even if he doesn't enjoy petting (which is the only thing he complains about, so he just moves his head and gets the treat.)

• when gumball was younger he had darker fur, and at night it looked like he was a black cat (same problem was for Nicole), so he was not allowed to go around alone on the streets, especially on Halloween because people tend to be aggressive or straight up kill black cats during halloween. The same rule was for Nicole, especially because she was also a girl.

• gumball just likes sleeping around, especially during the day. People need to look for blue shit around because it could be gumball.

• gumball fuckin HATES wool, he can't stand it. he'll go insane with wool, and it's texture and how it feels on his body. Darwin instead loves it, but doesn't wear it (he doesn't wear anything aside from shoes.)

• Nicole almost cried when gumball first sat on her lap to loaf. she's very emotional on the whole family thing. And also Gumball never does it to anyone, she feels loved, that's it.

• Richard's favorite kid is most definitely gumball, they both enjoy slacking around, it was their best bonding moment (and still is.)

• surprisingly gumball is better with kids, Darwin is not. Anais Just hates kids her age.

• Darwin is more of a people pleaser, gumball is just really firm on his own boundaries. And now he's also firm on Darwin's.

• gumball, when he was really small, just did not talk. he enjoyed meowing more (to his father) and thrill or mrrp to his mom. He only ever talked when he needed something and neither get what he wanted.

Then Darwin came and he started yapping constantly to the fish, who had a hard time talking because of his new features like feet, lungs and an actual voice.

gumball is those types of cats who yap a lot, Anais is just, silent (like bunnies that make no noise) and Darwin learned to be also a yapper, just a very bigger one than gumball.

• Darwin has the habit of eating fish food still, sometimes he just goes in the bathroom, fills the bath with water, puts fish food, gets himself in and eats.

• gumball drinks like actually cats do, Nicole does it as well.

• the Watterson deadass go to the vet, people like Leslie or Carmen go to arborists or generally people who know plants and take care of 'em. Like maybe 2% of Elmore's population goes to a doctor.

• gumball loves fireworks, but hates other loud noises like thunder. Anais HATES fireworks, but doesn't mind things like thunder.

• Leslie hates vegetarians and is almost glad gumball is a forced carnivore (gumball annoys Leslie with the fact his father and sister are technically "vegetarians".)

• gumball zoomies are almost nonexistent because of his shenanigans he pulls everyday, they always tire him out so he doesn't get zoomies.

• Gumball got accused of being the devil with how stupidly chaotic he is to the point he's the terrorizer of Elmore. Gumball is proud of it. His mother is very much not.

• nicole is the "man of the house", but this is because of cats being matriarchal. And Richard just will not go against his wife's words.

• Tobias feels like non sticky cotton candy, you could potentially stick you hand in there and find his actual body which is hidden under all that rainbow cotton candy thing.

• dude, gumball fuckin hates the boys in his class because they just don't care about hygiene and it just bothers him on another level. he's exactly like normal cats where he spends like half of the day cleaning themselves.

Regarding this, Darwin's only problem is that he constantly smells of fish (which he's self conscious about, and always worries about bothering gumball) but really gumball always tells him it's okay because he can't help it

(he forces the other classmates to take a shower though.)

• mr.small is just always high, there's no other explanation for whatever he's on.

• gumball talked so much about penny that Darwin had to tell him to shut the fuck up. (Gumball kept going)

• gumball has severe beef with Billy's mom to the point he's daily sabotaging her life just so she can move to another town and stop bothering gumball with her existence.

(Darwin is sick of gumball's bullshit)

• gumball swore once. (Reference to the video of gumballs VA saying "fuck") And when he got elected as school president once he won by saying "I will eliminate the middle class" (again gumball's VA saying it)

• gumball always tells rob "gay gay homosexual gay" to the point rob screams at him, like just yells at the top of his lungs and runs away crying

• "GET OUT OF MY GARDEN"

"I'LL SHIT IN YOUR FUCKING GARDEN" from south park but it's gumball and half of Elmore.

And I'll stop because I'm writing something longer than the bible

#gumball #tawog #tawog gumball #the Watterson #gumball watterson #the amazing world of gumball #anais Watterson #penny fitzgerald #darwin watterson

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calliettes-posts · 5 months

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If you had to how would you rank the skams wlw couple? With mayla season 6 (let’s forget about s9)

1. Kieutou

This is me being incredibly biased, but watching Fatous season live did something to my brain, because as long I can remember there's never been a black main character like her on german TV, and that's why I'll defend Fatous season with everything. Also I loved how Kieu My and Fatou talked about being children of immigrants and how they related to eachother about that topic. And I loved that it wasn't a season about coming out, but that in s5 and 6 at least, everyone was casually gay and it was no big deal and they could talk openly about it. Additionally, even though the general audience may have not liked it, i absolutely lived for how the season was catered to non-white people, and our struggles, and for that druck s6 will always be the best skamverse season for me.And also, the symbolism. I lived for all the symbolism regarding Kieu My being the ice queen and the axolotl, and Fatou the warmest person ever, and how they complemented each other. And lastly for now, Kieu My climbed on a fucking roof for Fatou, alone for that they'll be always my top 1 skamverse couple

2. Anobbie

I don't think I've ever seen a skamverse couple in general having such great communication, and I don't think there's a skma season where a couple is already together early in the season and staying together and growing together throughout the clips and episodes and learning more about each other. And just like Fatou and Kieu My, Anais and Bobbie really complement eachother and I love that. And I also love how Anais season is lowkey Fatous season from Kieu Mys perspective and I also love how there are so many parallels between those two seasons. I also love how Bobbie tries to help Anais to stand up for herself, and just how much she cares for her, and also how much they can't get enough of eachother, they're just really cute so far

3. Mayla

First of all, Lola really went through it in her season, I don't remember everything from s6, but her suffering is what I remember because there was so much, I love how cute Lola and Maya were together and honestly I just watched skam france for them, I didn't even watch the other seasons, which shows just how popular they were as couple

4. Crisana

I've actually never watched Skam España before, but I've seen edits of crisana, and I know their season was iconic because it was a wlw of an isak season. Honestly they're really cute, but I need to watch the season to make a better judgement

#ask #druck #wtfock #skam france #skam españa #fatou jallow #kieutou #kieu my vu #anaïs davis #bobbie de bruyn #anobbie #lola lecomte #mayla #crisana

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thegreatcrowdragon · 11 months

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Concept; so we know that dragon's in most well known and iconic folklore around the world like to hoard/steal item's, but what if in dragon culture (since they probably have one if they have a whole language, symbol's, leaders too!!! we just haven't seen it yet) giving someone (like a lover) expensive jewelry or something precious like gold or diamond's from your hoard is essentially the Dragon equivalent of asking someone to date you and that there deeply in love with you. It also usually has said dragon's scale's, or small part's of there nest embedded in it as well, so if there apart they can still be together. It also tells other Dragon's that "hey, I have a partner/mate! Don't be messing around" most of the time Dragon's are pretty respectful of this, especially if it's a powerful dragon who's there partner. So come to Royal Margarine Cookie's surprise when he finds out that there are dating term's for dragon's and they've been (technically) dating for months before he even confessed. (Although he does have a pet Wyvern in game, there a subspecies of dragon similar to the larger, more scaly one's, which means they probably do thing's a little differently in terms of courtship similar to spider or lizard subspecies. Since dragon's look a LOT like lizard's. Just the first thing that popped in my head haha!)

Royal Margarine Cookie accidentally stumbling across a dragon destroying a village while adventuring solo with his Wyvern buttercream and he's wearing the necklace Pitaya Dragon Cookie gave him, the absolute second the Dragon see's the necklace it flees the village immediately because it knows exactly who, and what it could be messing with right now or later. Royal Margarine Cookie is confused, but helps out the villager's put out the fire's, asses the damage and head's back home a little shaken up and curious as to why that happened in the first place, but thinks nothing of it, happy to have helped some cookies in need (and got several cookie's asking for his number.)

Also an interaction between Anais Dragon and Royal Margarine would be so funny 😭 especially if there like in-laws or something and Anais had no choice but to tolerate him because that's Pitayas mate and they can't really judge... especially when they don't even have one.

This is very interesting in theory and would work great as a fic :0

#cookie run kingdom #cookie run #royal margarine cookie #pitaya dragon cookie #I'M A LITTLE SPEECHLESS RIGHT NOW BUT UM. WORDS GOOD I LIKE-

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melnathea · 2 years

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Free icons for Howl and Anais on twitter

Needed icon comm examples c:

#art #my art #icons #commission #pokemon fusion #halloween #howls is the halloween boy

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moxxiejoestar · 1 year

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The book of thoth the god of knowledge (3/?)

To see future like crystal ball

Petunia the skunk AKA wonder petunia is the character from HTF but with her favorite capes made out of shiny as crystal of rubber & superpower also her favorite superhero suit (permission latex rubber flared bile dress like this but made out of rubber & latex

+ Angeldust's gloves but purple colored & shine as crystal like this gloves

+ purple shine as crystal rubber boots like this

+ purple & blue color mixed shining as crystal rubber ski mask with zipper for mouth & eyes = superhero suit) to take a picture for herself & she makes a new plan to swallow all HTF female characters alive with her elastic stomach but she heard the teaser came out of nowhere.

She looked behind of her bedroom & she saw a black hole on floating in petunia's room then suck her into the 4th dimension (4D) to send to earth 2030's then spits petunia to speedwagon foundation.

In speedwagon foundation that it has many of room full of laboratory but except one that it wasn't the laboratory that hole spits petunia out the room is carbonite chamber room that will freeze character alive for many years & months.

Petunia bumps the button to activate the carbonite then she had confused that what was sound from then she bloody curly screamed that she got freeze on the carbonite platform.

Meanwhile the co-workers heard scream & see the smoke come from the room so they open & they saw a female skunk in a carbonite.

Robert E.O. Speedwagon the founder of speedwagon foundation saw it too then he see the tree tag so he picked up & he read "petunia the skunk AKA wonder petunia".

Speedwagon had enough about two characters come from different universe & dimension that they came out of nowhere so he told tails & cream to get rid two characters in carbonite to some good spot that nobody will find.

Meanwhile at TAWOG universe the city name Elmore there was an fairy yellow glow her name was Penny Fitzgerald so her family gone so she heard a big loud crash in her backyard. "What was that sound?" Penny said so she get up & head to backyard for hear an loud crash then she saw a black box on the ground.

She opened the box & she saw a potion of superpowers & superhero suit that she wanted for favorite (permission latex rubber flared pink dress with A-line rubber pink skirt & heart, star or diamond icon + longer sleave rubber red gloves like this gloves but Angeldust gloves version

+ form fit/straight rubber red boots like this boots but Sallie Mae boots version

+ long, longer or longest rubber red capes + no mask = superhero suit) so she brought it inside & wearing it.

She love it & she feels tight & comfortable so she turn on the fan for her cape to fly & take a selfie record video with her pose like this.

Then the plug swallowed her alive with thin skinny black wire, stomach sloshing sound, stomach growing sound & mumbling sound.

Penny: mmmph?! Mmmmmm! (What the?! No one can defeat the Super Fitzgerald!)

She craw like a scratch from ice age (the one wires connect to UFO & astronaut suit).

Penny: mmmph! (I, super Fitzgerald will escape from this stomach wire!)

She reached the lamp but it had a stomach tighter & stretchy.

Penny: *flys out the lamps stomach with her face just same like this

but the stomach is stronger & stretchy* MMM! Mmmmfffph!! (BLAST! this belly was stronger & tighter of this!!)

She finally gave up & leave it inside the lamp stomach so her final word in mumbling is "I, superhero penny Fitzgerald! To save the world!" She use pose like on time before lamp swallowed her & hold it forever. Superhero penny Fitzgerald has been stop thinking.

Anais watterson & nicole watterson got swallowed by wallpaper with there favorite superhero suit just like same what penny wear it then they spits anais & Nicole out but added the vacbed/vacbox then began to mumbling & rubber squeaking sound.

This is what boingo & thoth told me about this future So beware of it

#Book of thoth the god of knowledge #Lamp vore #vacbed #Vacbox #htf petunia #petunia #Wonder petunia #Superhero penny Fitzgerald #Super Fitzgerald #speedwagon #robert e o speedwagon #speedwagon foundation #carbonite #thoth #book of thoth

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thiefscant · 8 months

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all's well that ends...

#THIEFSCANT;; an independent, selective, and private roleplay blog for ANAIS EVERNIGHT, my tav aka the PLAYER CHARACTER from baldur's gate 3. my name is bean (32, they/she) and i will be your guide! pls don’t hesitate to approach with questions or plot ideas. i'm here for it all!

a study in: learning how to trust, moving from chaotic neutral to chaotic good, what's a god to a nonbeliever?, discovering life can be about more than just surviving but maybe there are some things worth dying for.

✑ CARRD » MEMES » HEADCANONS » PLAYLIST

beta editor + xkit rewritten only. rules under cut + everything else on carrd.

travels with: @bolyde, @crowshoots, @dwylafn, @highaver, @sacrificedmore, @scarbound, @stormlit, @weavewilled

currently playing: baldur's gate 3, act 3 (game unfinished)

currently most interested in: canon/bg3 rp, dragon age rp, tolkien rp.

blogroll: @heartsdefine. @thiefscant.

...not as bad as it could have.

✒ RULES & GUIDELINES.

GENERAL: SELECTIVE AND PRIVATE. this means i’m particular about who i follow and i will only write with mutuals. my blog is semi-iconless (depending on the muse/if i feel like making icons or not). NOT SPOILER FREE. NO GODMODDING, metagaming, etc. EXCLUSIVITY IS RARE but not unheard of so you can find my mains/exclusives list here

WRITING: I USE PRIMARILY THIRD PERSON PAST OR PRESENT TENSE. i'm not entirely comfortable roleplaying in first or second person (yet). when it comes to verb tense, i'll often check to see what my partner is most comfortable using and go with that. i can do one-liners or multipara threads, but longer things will likely take a bit more time.

SHIPPING: I SHIP CHEMISTRY, and i do not force ships because i’m not a monster. i definitely enjoy a good romance, but platonic and queerplatonic dynamics, rivalries, etc. are just as interesting to explore! i am unlikely to ship romantically with more than two portrayals of a canon muse, so as to ensure things don't get stale for me or my partners.

FOLLOWING/UNFOLLOWING: IF I FOLLOW YOU, IT MEANS I LIKE WHAT YOU HAVE GOIN' ON AND WOULD LOVE TO INTERACT. it doesn't have to happen immediately, just down the line! i'll give most folks at least a week to follow back (thus indicating mutual interest in writing together at some point) before unfollowing. but if i really enjoy your blog/portrayal, i may stick around as a passive follower so long as i am welcome!

BLOCKING: I PREFER TO BE HARDBLOCKED IF YOU NO LONGER WISH FOR ME TO FOLLOW YOU for any reason. this is so i don't assume tumblr unfollowed you for me and refollow, inadvertently crossing your boundaries. if i suspect someone has softblocked me, i will likely hardblock them myself to avoid refollowing in the future. (i am generally quite liberal with the block button, as i'm serious about curating my online space.)

PRONOUNS: ANAIS USES THEY/SHE PRONOUNS INTERCHANGEABLY. you will likely see me alternating between them in my posts, headcanons, replies, etc. if there is ever a time when this is too confusing (ex: I am writing opposite a muse who uses strictly they/them pronouns, making the prose easier to follow if I use strictly she/her for Anais), I am happy to use one or the other. If you find it too confusing to use both in your replies, our preference leans towards they/them (but she/her is also acceptable esp if your muse uses they/them also).

PLEASE DO: BREAK YOUR REPLIES FOR ME UP INTO SMALLER PARAGRAPHS if we write together, as my adhd makes hugelong paragraphs difficult to read; ASK ME TO TAG YOUR TRIGGERS if i’ve neglected to do so (whether i’m following you back or not); like my starter calls, SEND ME MEMES, turn my meme replies into threads (if we are mutuals); SHOWER ME IN PLOT IDEAS and ooc chatter; HAVE PATIENCE with me on all of the above; FEEL FREE TO UNFOLLOW ME at any time for any reason, as i will be reserving the right to do so myself

PLEASE DO NOT: USE SUBSMALL TEXT or multiple spaces between words in our threads as i find both difficult to read; UNFOLLOW/REFOLLOW to get my attention (it won’t be the kind of attention you’re hoping for); EXPECT ANY KIND OF IMMEDIACY FROM ME IC OR OOC. i love making friends via roleplay, but i’m one smol nerd just trying to have a good time and i won’t stress myself out by trying to keep up with everything at once. just know it’s not personal, and i’ll get back to you as soon as i have the energy.

I WILL GLADLY: TAG NSFW AND TRIGGERS appropriately and accommodate those who ask to the best of my abilities; WELCOME LGBTQIA+ HEADCANONS; USE MY SHITPOST TAG (#blacklist for less soft nonsense.) on most of my inane ooc content so feel free to block it, that’s why it’s there

I WILL TRY: TO REMEMBER IF YOU DON’T LIKE TO BE REBLOGGED FROM, but please note that I have ADHD and may forget. Often and repeatedly. (A bit more info about this can be found here.) If being reblogged from on the reblogging website really bothers you, please feel free to soft/block me as needed. Relatedly, I don’t really care if you reblog things from me that aren’t in-character roleplay posts and/or headcanons. I do think it’s polite to reblog a meme from the source if you don’t send one in, but I don’t personally consider it a blockable offense.

I WILL NOT: FOLLOW BLOGS THAT DON’T HAVE ANY RULES OR GUIDELINES set up; exceptions to this are reserved for muns i already know aka those whose boundaries i’m already familiar with; FOLLOW VERY MANY BLOGS THAT INCLUDE CHARACTERS from game of thrones and/or house of the dragon, as i’m just not comfortable having a lot of ASOIAF content on my dash; exceptions to this are typically reserved for people i already know and/or multimuse blogs that include other fandoms/muses i’m interested in

MUNDANE: MY NAME IS BEAN/BEE. they/she. i’m 31, neurodivergent, and twelve different kinds of anxious but i’m working on it. I’M WHITE. in the event that i fuck up and/or swerve out of my lane, i invite my friends and followers of color to let me know. you have my thanks for bringing any such behavior to my attention. i can and will do better.

#!pinned.#!a suspicious lack of dragons. ( ooc )

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showmeyouricons · 26 days

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#anais mali #anais mali avatars #w:30s #1991 #400x640 #400*640 #showmeyouricons #icons #roleplay #200x320 #rpg #pbf #faceclaims #200*320 #face claims #avatars

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thevideosociety · 10 months

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WE ARE ALL COWBOYS

By Mitzi Starkweather

Several months ago we took my 2-year-old to an "old time photo" attraction in the heart of the Ozark mountains: Branson, Missouri. (If you're not familiar, Branson is like Las Vegas but smaller, and instead of alcohol there's fudge.) We walk into a musty patchwork of a building and immediately an employee hands my toddler a toy revolver. He accepts it with glee and I ask him, "Do you want to be a cowboy?"

He pauses. "Mooo?” he asks. I realize he doesn't know what a cowboy is.

"A cowboy is a man who rides a horse, has a gun, and wears a big hat. He fights bad guys and goes on adventures."

I continue, in my own mind, "and he is alone.”

The staff wrangles my toddler and manages to get adorable photos of him — hat, chaps, and all — on a saddle. They throw a horrible vignette and sepia filter on it and I hand over my credit card with joy.

For some unknown reason it feels right to see my two-year-old portrayed this way: with a hat, lasso, gun, and somber expression. Yet, our family doesn’t own livestock or a farm. We don't keep guns in our home. None of us has ever worn a cowboy boot. I was even born in Canada! So why did this experience mean so much to me?

I’ll never forget one of my history professors in college commenting on how interesting it is that while American cowboys remain iconic symbols of America, freedom, and manhood, they actually existed for less than two decades. And now, I recall this comment nearly two decades later. I recall it through the lens of the study I began after I got that college diploma, a study that is sacred in my mind, heart, and closest relationships: the study of cinema.

Movies have resonated with me since childhood. They taught me about life and love and conflict and revenge, good guys and bad guys, darkness and light. From a young age I was able to find the patterns, decipher the meanings, pay attention to the visuals, sounds, scores, performances, motifs... My literature major in college helped me understand all stories in a deeper way. I learned the recipes, the cliches, the twists. Most importantly, I learned that if you, the viewer, see something in a story and can back it up with at least a little bit of evidence, then it's there.

After all,

"We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are." -Anais Nin

This is true for art, love, and of course, movies.

My Father-in-law loves movies, but he insists they make him feel good. “Why would I pay money to be sad or scared?” he said to me many years ago. I've thought of his question many times since. Sure, the "feel good" movie has its time and place. It's like pizza: even if it's bad it's still pretty good. And some people live on pizza. (They just miss out on vital nutrients.)

I want movies to illicit different emotional responses in me because I want to process my emotions but I need help. I need to watch a character on a screen feel it and then when my heart beats fast and my face feels hot I know that's my body saying, “Me, too." I, like most others, faced incredible challenges the past three years. I dove deep into horror movies because having a baby during a pandemic (first baby, first pandemic) was the most terrifying experience of my life. And I fell more deeply in love with cowboy movies last year when I faced cancer. When I say “cowboy movies” I don't just mean Django. I mean John Wick, Rocky Balboa, Royal Tenenbaum, Luke Skywalker, agent Dale Cooper, The Bride. I mean I finally saw myself in every main character who, bruised and bloodied, experienced loss and had to find the answer within themself — every main character who had to face death to decide they actually wanted to live.

America keeps getting lonelier. As we stay inside and online, as physical third spaces are abandoned for virtual ones, as one-person households become more common, we need stories. Stories connect us - all peoples throughout all time, and American ones tend to follow the hero's journey. Truly our "cowboy "is nothing new... but it continues to resonate in our modern context for a reason.

When we watch movies and talk about them we are cowboys gathered around a fire, sharing stories, eating canned beans, looking up at the stars and allowing ourselves to feel in a world that tells us to shut our feelings off so we can work harder. We want stories that make us laugh but also need stories that help us grieve. We have all experienced loss. Only when we release the pain of the past can we hope for the future.

We are all cowboys, weary and searching for anything to give this daily fight meaning, and we are stronger together.

“When there are clouds in the skies and they are gray,

You may be sad but remember they'll all soon pass away.

Oh Django after the shower comes, the sun will be shining.”

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