#both are equally possible on this server.

[apollos-boyfriend]

so either juana's coming back or charlie's about to be fucking kidnapped

#icarus speaks #icarus liveblogs #both are equally possible on this server.

[rabdoidal]

(*before reading, please understand that going into the dropout discord to start the argument back up again is taking away from the poc this actually effects so dont start fights until people ask for support. this is about supporting palestine not taking away from serious discussions by spamming)

idk if you're all aware of whats happening on the dropout discord server but during the last few weeks since the war on gaza started, there has been both pro-zionist discussions and the silencing of pro-palestinian voices, leading to the banning of a person (grasstoucher666 on twitter) that spoke out against the zionism the mods didnt do anything about / mods were making the palestine conflict a personal issue - oomf squidias on twitter took screenshots of their announcement after people spoke out about it:

which on one hand, is understandable from a cooperate standpoint, but on the other hand, dropout has been an explicitly politically minded company since its inception. theyve sold merch items promoting anarcho socialism and anti-capitalism, openly supported black lives matter, several lgbt charities, ecological conservations, union strikes, and voting awareness. they've talked about communal funding, workers rights, fair pay, socialism, and equal rights for 5 years through both company-driven posting and individual talents associated with dropout posting about political and social issues. many of the talent associated with dropout have openly been supporting palestine, so i dont fault them, but the mods and social media admin are certainly making a choice.

the fact that now, after all that, theyre taking an apolitical stance on palestine by actively and literally silencing people is frankly despicable. also by their own rules, a lot of their content technically cant be discussed on the discord (tweets by asswalock and justariotghoul)

and lastly, on a personal note, real fucking bold of them to have a mug that says "the police are basically an occupying army" then not support a country that LITTERALLY HAS AN OCCUPYING ARMY ACTIVELY MURDERING AND TORTURING ITS CITIZENS

UPDATE 14/11/2023

personally im still on the fence - as i understand it, its hard for palestinians to receive donations right now, but i hope when it is possible, dropout can do a pin of the month to raise money for support or something. at the very least statements from brennan and sam would be great, and im glad people can talk about politics again

#personal #dropout #college humor #palestine #long post

[grandeoatmilklatte]

Pumpkin Spiced Kisses 🎃 (Ominis x F!MC)

Happy Friday! The theme in the Ominis discord server this week was Autumn, so here's some Autumn themed and pumpkin spiced flavored fluff!

Pumpkin Spiced Kisses - Ominis Gaunt x F!MC || Ominis accompanies his crush on an outing to Hogsmeade for all the Autumn themed goodies. || 1.4k words.

Warnings: None! This is pure fluff!

“Are you sure my hair looks alright? I’m trying to look as presentable as possible!” Ominis shouted at his best friend, who was sitting on his bed a few feet away from him.

“Ominis! You look fine!” Sebastian shouted back, shaking his head, well aware that Ominis wouldn’t see the reaction but doing it regardless. “Besides, what are you so worried about? I thought you said this wasn’t a date?”

Ominis huffed. “It’s not a date! But, this is still serious. You know how I feel about her. The more time we spend together, the closer I am to making her my girlfriend. I can’t mess this up!”

Sebastian saw the worry in his friend’s face and sighed. He did know how Ominis felt about her. Sebastian had been watching his two best friends fall in love with each other over the course of the past two years. And considering how clever they both were, they were somehow too stupid to notice one another’s feelings. He had already tried to tell them both, but neither one of them believed it, always assuming that Sebastian was playing tricks on them. “You’re going to do fine, mate. She was the one who asked you to accompany her to Hogsmeade, she clearly wants to spend time with you.”

Ominis let out a sigh, desperately trying to calm his nerves before his “date”.

Ominis stood by the north exit awaiting her. He was set to meet her at 4 o'clock, but was a few minutes early. He tried to focus on breathing, not wanting her to hear him gasping for air when she arrived. As he waited, he began to hear very slight footsteps behind him, as if someone was sneaking up on him. The identity of the someone became clear when the smell of a beautiful perfume filled his nose - her perfume. He smiled to himself, waiting for what he knew was coming.

“Boo!” He heard from his left side. The exclamation was followed by the most beautiful laugh he had ever heard in his life; a laugh he had committed to memory the first time he heard it - her laugh. A laugh that, if given his way, he’d want to hear everyday for the rest of his life. Her beautiful laugh was then followed by her equally beautiful and equally memorized voice. “Did I scare you?!”

“Oh yes! I had no idea you were behind me!” Ominis said back in a teasing tone. “Are you ready to go, dear?” She linked her arm in his as they exited the castle.

It was early October outside, which was evident by the coolness of the air that hit Ominis’s face as they stepped outside. He could hear the leaves crunching under his feet as they walked, still arm and arm. She began to describe the sights as best she could. She mentioned the fallen leaves, and that the scenery looked cozy, making you feel like you wanted to curl up in front of the fire, wrapped in a blanket with a book in hand. Ominis felt a warm feeling within him, associating the autumn scenery with this warmth. He loved when she described things to him, and she did it often, knowing how much joy it brought him. Sometimes she’d mess up, mentioning a color, or something else Ominis couldn’t perceive because of his lack of sight. But she always tried; she always tried so hard to make him happy, and that was one of the many things he loved about her.

Once they had arrived in Hogsmeade, she took him by the hand, leading him to Honeydukes as their first stop. His heart fluttered at the feeling of their fingers interlocking, and he began to fantasize about more places her fingers could touch him. He was so caught up in his daydream, he hadn’t registered that she was speaking to him.

“Omi! Try this!”

She fed him what seemed to be a piece of chocolate, but there was something different about it. It took a moment before he realized it was chocolate and pumpkin spiced flavored. Of course it was. She had brought him here for all the new Autumn treats, a large selection of “pumpkin spiced” flavored things. Ominis didn’t quite understand the appeal. After all, “pumpkin spice” was just a blend of spices, ones which Ominis had become good at identifying - cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove, to name a few. Although he was indifferent to the flavor, he knew she loved it, so he always indulged her.

After she had purchased enough pumpkin spiced sweets to feed their entire common room, they walked hand in hand over to Steepley’s, the tea shop. The shop also had some Autumn flavors of the pumpkin spiced variety, so of course she had to have it. She grabbed them a table outside, where they could enjoy the crisp Autumn air with their tea and sweets. Ominis drank his tea and ate his pastries, taking in the scents and sounds around him, and listening to her talk about her day. This was his favorite activity, just being with her. Ominis only wished that he could lean in and kiss her, that was the only thing that would have made this moment better. He once again found himself in a daydream, fantasizing about kissing her, once again unaware that she was trying to get his attention.

“Ominis.” She said as she took his hand in hers. “I wanted to tell you something…”

Ominis snapped back to reality, squeezing her hand. “Forgive me, dear! I must have been daydreaming. What did you want to tell me?”

“Well, I…uh…the thing is I…” Her usual confidence was met with nervousness, and it worried Ominis, until she continued. “I fancy you, Ominis. I have for a while now. You’re so kind and so gentle, even after everything you’ve been through, not to mention you’re gorgeous.” She giggled. “You’ve been an amazing friend to me these past two years, and I’d love to be more than friends…only if you feel the same of course.”

Ominis felt like he had been hit by the Hogwarts Express itself. He had to shake his head to make sure he wasn’t still daydreaming. Did she really just confess her feelings? He must have been silent for too long, and he figured he must have been sporting the most confused expression because he started to hear the sounds of her shuffling to get up, letting go of his hand before speaking.

“I…I’m so sorry. I must have misread the signals. I..”

He reached out for her, grabbing her hand before she could get up. “No, wait! I’m sorry, dear, I just needed a moment to process that. I…feel the same. Hearing your voice, your laugh, smelling your perfume, feeling your presence beside me; I love all of it, more than anything. I was so nervous for our little outing tonight, I’m always nervous when I’m alone with you because I just want to impress you and I want you to want me as much as I want you. I love you.” The last part came out before Ominis could stop himself. His stomach dropped. Although she had confessed her feelings, he worried he may have said too much.

“I love you too!” She whispered. Within an instant, he felt her shift closer, so close that he felt her breath on her face. The next thing he felt was her lips against his.

Every worry in his life felt like it had been lifted off his shoulders when she kissed him, and his hands involuntarily shot up to her waist to hold her in place as he kissed her back. He felt her lips part slightly, and he took that as an invitation for his tongue, one he accepted willingly. He was lost in the taste of her mouth, smiling against her lips as his taste buds were hit with nothing but pumpkin spiced flavors from all the treats she had consumed.

When they finally pulled away from each other, they both let out shy giggles. She was the one to speak first. “We should probably head back soon. It’s starting to get a bit chilly.” When they had finished their teas and packed up the remaining treats, they set off back to Hogwarts. They took a slow walk, taking the same route back that they did to get to Hogsmeade, walking hand in hand as they talked.

As they made their way back, Ominis could help but reflect on the indifference he had towards pumpkin spiced flavored things when he arrived at Hogsmeade earlier. But after tasting it on her lips, it was now his favorite Autumn treat.

#ominis gaunt #ominis gaunt x mc #ominis gaunt x reader #ominis x mc

[titleleaf]

so many words about historical men's corsetry

(This got way too long to send via Discord -- Dangimace in the Renegade Bindery server asked about men's corset sewing/resource recs so here is my half-assed and non-exhaustive rundown. Most of my historical sewing is focused on fashions of the UK, US, and Europe for the second half of the 18th century and first half of the 19th century, so that bias is reflected here; also disclaimer overall that "menswear"/"womenswear" are socially constructed categories and real people's bodies have always looked a wider variety of ways than fashion and other social forces would dictate. I sew historical garments with enthusiastic disregard for the historical gender binary and I'm barrel-chested, thick-waisted, and narrow-hipped no matter what I'm wearing.)

Onward, lads!

Ok wrt men's corsetry: there's a whole lot of fogginess around how historical men's corsets were constructed for a bunch of annoying reasons but that means there's lots of possibilities to explore in pattern drafting and project planning. Stays and other stiffened body-shaping garments have a whole complex conceptual relationship to the body basically as soon as they start appearing. 16th and 17th century garments do a whole lot of shaping (both compressing and building up) for men and women alike, but things really kick off in the 18th century in terms of the symbolic weight placed on stays and (later) corsets. Whole lot of stuff about gender, social class, race, fatness, morality, etc. getting projected onto these garments. So I'm a little leery about people taking obviously satirical illustrations of fashion-victim dandies or Gross Corpulent Libertines getting laced into corsets as truthful and indicative of the way men were really dressing -- scurrilous gossip and exaggeration are both a pain to sift through if we want to know which men wore corsets, what kind, and why.

In the very late 18th/early 19th century corsets were part of the repertoire for achieving highly fashionable shapes in menswear. (Along with a whole lot of padding.) They weren't mandatory for all dudes, but for fashion-forward dandies and equally fashion-forward military men, male corsets/stays were definitely a thing. The whole Romantic-era pigeon-breasted, narrow-waisted silhouette can be emulated by shapewear worn beneath the clothes, pads in the garments themselves, or both; in addition to waist reduction it helped to maintain smooth visual lines underneath close-fitting garments.

(look at these minxy 1830s dudes and their tiny waists)

As the century goes on the desired menswear silhouette becomes boxier and less fitted, and male corsetry recedes into the background; we start to see patents and advertisements for men's corsetry, so they still seem to have been worn, but there's a lot more language around vigorous manly athleticism and supporting the structures of the body. It can be hard to tell whether a particular piece is intended to be worn primarily for some medical purpose or for its perceived aesthetic benefits. This is giving me such flashbacks to trying to find post-surgical compression garments.

(Side note: there's also a vigorous tradition of fetishist writing about corsetry all through the 19th century, in fairly mainstream channels, which is fascinating. Due to the relatively private and deeply horny nature of fetish tightlacing we don't necessarily know as much about what those same letter-writers may have "really" worn at home, but I hope they were having fun.)

I've seen very few specifically men's corsetry patterns from historical pattern-makers-- not even really big names like Redthreaded. I sewed my 19thc menswear corsets from the men's underbust pattern in Laughing Moon Mercantile #113 which afaik is speculative rather than reproducing a specific historical garment, but it's not too different from the women's late-19th-century underbust patterns in the same pattern pack.

(image credit: LMM)

However, a lot of underbust and waist-cincher patterns from more general historical patternmakers could be made suitable with some minor alterations. Here I'd also rec books like Jill Salen's Corsets: Historical Patterns And Techniques and Norah Waugh's Corsets & Crinolines, though their focus is definitely on womenswear and you need to be relatively comfortable scaling up or drafting from pattern diagrams.

The structural features and desired results for a man's corset are pretty much the same as any other corset (back support, compression in some areas, etc.) even when the desired silhouette is different; commercially-created patterns are drafted with the expectation of certain bodily proportions so like with all corset-sewing it's important to make a mockup for fitting purposes. (I ended up liking one of my mockups so much I finished the process and made it a whole separate corset.) I don't know much about this area but I seem to see a lot more belt-and-buckle closures and criss-crossing straps in corsets designated as being for men -- this might be a byproduct of gendered differences in how people got dressed, but it might be nothing.

There's some weird and wonderful historical examples, both extant and in images -- I appreciated this post at Matsuzake Sewing, "A Brief Discussion Of Men's Stays", and its accompanying roundup of images on Pinterest though the tone wrt historical fetishwear corsets in the blog post is a little snippy. I really want to make a replica of Thomas Chew's 1810s corset (which you can read more about here at the USS Constitution Museum) but it incorporates stretch panels made with a shitload of metal springs and I'm not ready for all the trial and error trying to replicate that.

(image credit: USS Constitution Museum Collections)

There's a pretty rich vein of modern men's corset patterns which seem like they could be easily pattern-hacked for historical costuming purposes, like these with shoulder straps from Corsets By Caroline or DrobeStoreUpcycling's waist cincher which also looks like it could be altered pretty easily to cinch with straps and buckles like some 19thc men's corsetry does. This pattern for a boned chest binder in vest form by KennaSewLastCentury is also really cool but I didn't get a chance to sew it pre-top-surgery. (I think I've also seen someone who made a chest-compressing variation on Regency short stays, but I can't find it now.) 

In general a lot of underbust and waist-cincher patterns should work just fine for silhouette-shaping without much bust/hip emphasis -- my usual resource for free corset patterns (Aranea Black) recently took down all her free patterns but they're definitely still circulating out there. For general fashion purposes the sky is the limit and there are a lot of enthusiastic dudes in corsets out there. This Lucy Corsetry round-up shows a variety of modern corsetiers'  styles designated as being for men or more masculine silhouettes (including a SUPER aspirational brocaded corset with matching waistcoat made by Heavenly Corsets that I'd love to sew a historical spin on) and you can see some commonalities and possibilities for body-shaping.

I can also give some more general corset-sewing resources but I'm very much in the learning process here and I'd love any recs or input from people more experienced in pattern-drafting and corset-sewing.

#historical sewing #more information than you perhaps require #long post

[iamthekaijuking]

Skeletons for snart and gobul! I based their anatomy on what I personally classify them as.

Snart I made a member of Brachyopoidea given that both have similar proportions (although not as extreme as snart), they were the latest surviving temnospondyls (outside of perhaps modern amphibians), and temnospondyls have spiracles behind their skulls. Snart’s gills couldn’t be homologous to actual fish gills because they and the operculum are on backwards, so modified spiracles it is. I even included otic notches too! The latest surviving Brachyopoid was the Cretaceous Koolasuchus, and was the primary ref. Members of Brachyopoidea seem to not have ossified wrist bones, so I don’t think we’ve ever found any, and that’s why I didn’t give snart wrist bones even though logically they probably are ossified; I couldn’t find any references! Snart also has what is described in an art book as “a hooded seal nose” so that’s why the nostrils are in a big indent. Kinda fucked that his head is bigger than his entire torso.

Gobul’s was pretty straightforward; I based it on deep sea anglers, frogfish, and goosefish. All various anglers. Of course, gobul probably belongs to a unique angler group and it’s closest relative in this hypothetical is probably the new world andangler. Goosefish would probably be a sister group to them. Like my note in the video said, labeled angler skeletons not made by David Peters are difficult to come by, so it’s possible that the skeleton isn’t accurate. The bones the pectoral fins attach to are homologous to our shoulder and clavicle bones so just like with tetrapods I had it separate from the skull in gobul to give it a distinct neck. Also because the illicium is retractable and doesn’t fold back, I only made the esca solid and ossified.

I personally love and adore both Gobul and Snart, especially Snart’s bomb eating and fishing mechanic. Also the poopenshitter server basically equated Gobul with Jack Black and Snart with Adam Sandler.

Like my little note in the debrief said, whether or not a monster gets a skeleton instead of just the normal skull or random body part treatment depends entirely on its dimensions. I use ArtStudio and so how many layers I’m allowed to have depends entirely upon the canvas size. Bigger canvas equals less layers. The very large square canvas size I usually use is the maximum height but not maximum width, and allows me to have 6 layers, overall it allows for more detail while still having a workable amount of layers. The largest canvas size only allows half that. So something like rajang I can comfortably fit in my normal canvas size and easily work on, but something like dalamadur might be too long for even my biggest canvas to fit while still allowing a level of detail.

#Youtube #UHC #unnatural history channel #monster hunter #monhun #monsterhunter #monster hunter biology #speculative biology #speculative zoology #speculative anatomy #speculative evolution #speculative ecology #skulls #gobul #nibelsnarf

[metfell]

What you've said about Michael has opened my eyes to new levels of anguish hitherto untapped! any further thoughts on how this...less than ideal childhood would manifest?? Its always such an interesting thing to incorporate into the baseline of the character I their habits and behaviour and such!!

GLAD YOU ASKED. i mean. obviously this is because he is in fact just a zombie piglin child in canon so its not like beeduo really HAD to be there taking care of him. but what that ends up manifesting as in canon is cbeeduo hardly ever really being there for him. tubbo is there for him more than ranboo is, because ranboo is THOUSANDS of blocks away at the commune. and so i really think it would manifest in michael not really knowing ranboo very well, and i imagine later on once uhm. the.... canon...... ending happened, that ranboo would have a HARD time raising michael on his own, because lets face it tubbo did 90% of the work there. i think it would probably lead to a lot of arguments, and michael missing tubbo a LOT.

i imagine that michael is probably a very independent kid, and i dont know if ranboo would know what to do with that. hed probably take after tubbo a LOT with his personality, which means hes stubborn as all hell and does not like to talk about how hes feeling in any kind of productive way. and its one thing to navigate that with your spouse whos on equal ground to you, and another thing entirely to navigate that with your child, especially one you realize more and more that you barely know. and ranboo is only in their 20's, so i cant even imagine how stressful that would be for both of them.

later on, i think that they would have to come to some sort of compromise and start from scratch entirely. ranboo writes down everything that michael likes, his favorite color. his favorite foods. what he likes to do for fun. and they dont talk that much about tubbo because thats a really sore spot for both of them. michaels bitter, and ranboo because of their memory problems never really stops grieving tubbo in an intense way. honestly i can see later on MICHAEL moving on and ranboo not, and that being a sore spot for them too.

michael is so fascinating because while we dont actually know his direct personality because in canon he... doesnt really have one, we can probably get an understanding of him based on what happened to him. hes most likely got some sort of social anxiety from the isolation growing up, probably tubbos brand of shoving everything down, he has his chicken so he probably would grow very attached to- if not a bunch of animals- his pets as a form of comfort rather than the people around him. there are some different possibilities for the things he enjoys as he grows up, either he tries to connect to ranboo by getting into mining and armor and tools, or he leans into tubbos likes because he mimicked him as a child and builds things, or he resents either or both of those, and becomes the type of player who mainly just explores and stays away from any kind of permanent settlement. i can honestly see him leaving his family and traveling just to get out of snowchester or the greater server. he needs to find himself, and i think neither tubbo nor ranboo grasped that because they were all HE had, but THEY had other people.

#ask #I DONT KNOW WHAT TO TAG THIS AS ILL BE REAL #beeduo posting #just for archiving

[shitpostingkats]

your yugioh discord server au my beloved.

dunno if this already came up, but i tottaly see everyone chatting regulary (esp jaden the spammer-tm), minus yusei. he just lurks and gives a reply every second year/when tagged. </3

Yusei is the lurker who nevertheless responds immediately when tagged. The guy will never hop in and voice his opinion, but the second you @ him he has replied the nanosecond you hit send. He is, however, the biggest organizer of server movie nights, voice chats, and meet-up when multiple members of them are in the same city. This au is set after his series ended, after all. He's already keeping up long distance friendships with Jack, Crow, Akiza, and the twins. He is hardcore about keeping on top of online friendships. Sometimes he'll just pop into the vc while he's working and leave it open while he tinkers.

In ascending order of activity, Yusaku probably chats the second least. This tempered though, by the fact that they are always online. 4am in the morning? Yusaku is there. Yusaku's actually more vocal in the discord than in real life, after years of growing up raised by message boards an forums. If everyone sees it's been like 25 hours since they logged off, someone will shoot a message to Kolter, or they'll just log into vrains and hunt him down like it's the most dangerous game (getting Yusaku to log off and go the fuck to sleep)

Yuya took a while to warm up the the GC, but every day gets more bold with just kicking down the doors of the chat and going off about something or another. Also he's in a minecraft server with all his brothers and the bracelet girls, so if he's online but not responding, it's probably because he's griefing Yuri's dirt house for the third time this week.

Yugi's really active in the chat, a fact that never fails to blow Yuma and Yuya's minds. He'll be at a global release sponsored by every important duel monsters company under the sun, and he'll send pictures of Kaiba caught mid sneeze with the caption 'LOL'. He will be on NATIONAL TV AND TEXTING THE GROUPCHAT. His memes are legendary.

No one knows how to quantify Yuma's activity, because there's like a 90% chance most of the messages he sends are him???? But then there's also the possibility that half his messages are Astral feeling chatty, and it's very hard to tell because both of them are equally likely to start a rousing discussion on the morals of dolphins at 3 in the morning. Yugi is the only one who can reliably tell them apart.

And OF COURSE, AT THE TOP OF THE LIST, IT'S YA BOI, YOUR SUPREME MEME KING: JADEN YUKI. *insert airhorn sound effect* Spammer galore. Constantly uploading selfies of him standing in front of some eldritch abomination, or standing on the surface of Jupiter, or some other such equally questionable use of his powers. Liveblogs his annoyance at being made to do demonic paperwork. Makes incomprehensible memes that no one can tell if he's dunking on his henchmen again, or just really, really good at shitposting. He has a channel in the discord just for him where, every day, he just sends a single digit number, and some of the yu-boys are going crazy trying to figure out if it's a code, or some secret eldritch coordinates, or a massive ARG style prank, or what.

Yusei eventually reveals it's how many tries Yubel took to get the days wordle.

#*gives you the sticker of 'you asked a tumblr blog about their niche au so youre going to heaven for sure'* #yugioh gc au #yugioh #asks #answered asks #yugioh dm #yugioh gx #yugioh 5ds #yugioh zexal #yugioh arc v #yugioh vrains #ygo dm #ygo gx #ygo 5ds #ygo zexal #ygo arc v #ygo vrains #ygo #gx #5ds #zexal #arc v #vrains #yugi muto #yugi moto #yugi mutou #can someone PLEASE tell me how I'm supposed to spell his last name #jaden yuki #yuki judai #yusei fudo

[twistedminutia]

Twst Talk: Yuu is not the MC

Please note: I am an EN player and interact with English-speaking twst fandom, so these observations are based on that. I will only be referencing things from the EN server, since that is the only one I play. Please keep that in mind when reading if this isn’t applicable to JP or other sections of the fandom.

This post comes from me looking at how people in the twst fandom (specifically the EN fandom) refer to Yuu. People will use ‘MC’ to indicate Yuu in text posts or refer to Yuu as the ‘main character’ offhandedly. I have even seen people expressing annoyance that Yuu, as the main character, never seems to have that much of an impact on the plot, merely reacting to things around them. To which I can only say:

Yuu is not the main character.

I think the confusion with people believing Yuu is the main character and labeling them as such may be partially to do with the medium. Twisted Wonderland is, generally, a visual novel, and in visual novels, the player character is usually the main character. This can be for multiple reasons. First off, in most video games the player character is the main character since it’s generally more fun to play as the person the story is centered around. And second, the most common form of visual novel is the dating sim. The player character must be the main character in these games, because the main character is the one being romanced and the point of a dating sim is that the player is getting romanced themselves.

Players come in to Twisted Wonderland with the assumption from other games that the player character, by virtue of merely being the player character, must be the main character. But that’s never borne out in Twisted Wonderland. Yuu is never supposed to be the main character.

Before we continue, I’m going to define what I mean when I say ‘main character.’ The main character is the protagonist the person the story is about. They are the one the story focuses on. The one we learn about and who develops throughout the story, for good or bad. Tell me: does that sound like Yuu in Twisted Wonderland? Yuu is never developed because Yuu is not the main character. The story is not about them.

People often mistake the viewpoint character as the main character because that’s often the case. But even in other works of art, this isn’t true. Take the very famous example of The Great Gatsby. The narrator and the viewpoint character of that story is Nick Carraway. We see everything through his eyes. But the actual main character of the story is not Nick, but the titular Jay Gatsby. Even if Nick is telling the story, the person the story is about is Gatsby.

Similarly, Yuu is the person who observes and sometimes interacts with the story of Twisted Wonderland, but they are not the main character. The story isn’t about them. They’re just the narrator.

Okay, Then Who is the MC?

This is an interesting question to ask: if the MC isn’t Yuu, then who is it?

Well, there are a couple potential answers. First possibility: the overbotters are the main characters, trading off their MC status at the end of each book. Each book is about them, after all, so it seems reasonable that they are the main characters of their own books at least.

The second potential answer is one I am slightly more convinced of: there is no MC, not in a traditional sense. Twisted Wonderland is an ensemble game, where the game alternates the main characters and is about all of them in equal measure. I think you could argue that the overblotters are maybe more main than the rest of the characters, but even in overblot chapters, we get a lot of insight into other characters and the story is still somewhat about them. Not to mention that Twisted Wonderland is not exclusively the main story, but also the events and vignettes that give multiple characters time in the spotlight.

In Conclusion (or TLDR)

Yuu is the viewpoint character, but not the main character, and it is both inaccurate to refer to them as such and to place the expectations of a main character on them. It can be argued that Twisted Wonderland doesn’t have a main character at all, and shares the spotlight with multiple characters, even with all of them.

#twisted wonderland #twst #twst yuu #twst analysis #twisted wonderland analysis #twst thoughts

[magicalmanhattanproject]

what happened on qsmp purgatory today??? :0 also what’s the prize for winning??? is the winner joining the server?

both teams were told that they would be dissolved and it was every man + molly for themselves. both teams agreed that they would stay teamed until they had literally no other choice. both teams spent their final moments together reminiscing and giving motivational speeches and making sure everyone was equally geared and hanging out together.

final minigame was a multilevel backrooms maze. each level ended with an elevator that only had room for a shrinking number of people each death in the maze (mostly from hunting little guys) sent them back to the start

the first to fall were guaxinim brunim and himaru, three racoons who just got to the elevator late (and goularte who had to leave before the final game for irl reason but got to say goodbye to his friends)

the next level ended with parkour over lava to the elevator. eight survivors, only room for four on the elevator. through the whole maze, both teams are staying in contact with each other, moving as groups, and helping each other at every possible turn

first to the parkour: mike. makes it most of the way and pearls across. quackity, only now realizing ender pearls exist, rules that pearls are banned, but lets it slide for mike because it wasn't in the rules

mike is safe. three spaces left.

second to the parkour: wuant. makes it most of the way and falls at the same spot mike did. while he's frantically guzzling tea and trying to figure out what to do, fellow crow mike places down a boat and wuant gets in and gets to safety

quackity yells at them to stop helping each other but this also isn't against the rules as written so he can't punish them for it.

wuant is safe. two spaces left.

next: cpk actually knows how to make ladder jumps.

cpk is safe. one space left.

badboyhalo arrives at the parkour. badbayhalo also knows how to make ladder jumps, but we don't get to see if he makes them. mike bows him off into the lava and he dies. quackity is shocked but points out there's no rules against this. i get the sense that this is the kind of bullshit he was hoping for someone to pull rather than the other kinds of bullshit mike has been pulling

aldo arrives to the parkour. aldo falls at the ladder jumps and pearls. since quackity had already said in chat that this was illegal, aldo doesn't get a pass for it and the plan is to tp him back to the start of the parkour

while they're doing that, gabe arrives to the parkour. gabe falls at the ladder jumps and pearls. quackity is getting pretty annoyed at this point and spams in chat to not do that but agrees to also tp gabe to the start of the parkour

aldo and gabe are both doing the parkour as close together as they can. they both fail the ladder jumps. the rest of the team can't help this team since trying to help would mean sacrificing their own spot on the way up.

badboyhalo arrives back at the parkour. he starts bowing down aldo and gabe to clear his own path for a second attempt. unfortunately for him, one of the arrows gives aldo the damage boost he needs to claw his way to the elevator side.

aldo is safe. no spaces left.

racoons all perish as does gabe. only crows proceed to the final maze.

this maze is longer and deadlier but honestly not more exciting. there is some minor bullshit because the admins are late to place the doors that actually go to the final room so a couple people turn away from the door once they discover it, but by a stroke of luck, the first people who find the door are also the first people who refind it

those are aldo and wuant. they are the final two survivors. they are stripped of their items and told to fight to the death with their bare hands

at first, they ask what happens if htey refuse. can they win together? quackity says no. they can lose together if they want, but not win. they decide together that the crows deserve to win this so as much as it pains them both they'll fight so that the crows win

they fight. aldo shouts pvp tips to wuant as the blows rain down. this makes the results of their epic predictable.

the winner of purgatory by a 2-0 battle is aldo_geo!!! congratulations!!!

"how do you feel about winning by betraying your friends?" elquackity asks him

"the crows won today, not just me," he replies

the prize is a cool trophy in minecraft, a "winner's package" that they'll be sending to aldo irl, and a lava bath which elquackity describes as a trip to his office to discuss purgatory 3.

#Anonymous #qpurgatory 2

[bokutosmochi]

UNDENIABLY YOURS ♡ KOZUME KENMA

kozume kenma x gn!reader

"two orders of ice cream bites for kozume kenma and @nyaaaaanma please!"

ingredients? kenma did not approve of making your relationship public, but he wasn't going to deny you.

what's it? fluff

allergen warnings? a fan is rude to you for a short while

sugar level? 1k

regulars? @tokyometronetwork @tahonet

parlor's note? i think this is my first time writing a one shot/drabble for kenma and i found it really fun writing for him. this is also such a cute concept/plot, i hope you all enjoy it!

bon appetit!

"you know it's not like that. of course you're important to me, but they don't have to know every detail of my life." his voice was as calm as ever. this was the reason why you didn't get into arguments often; the both of you are able to keep calm and avoid saying things that you don't even mean. that doesn't mean arguments never happen though.

"people knowing we're together isn't every detail of your life though. it'd just be nice if your fans knew you're in a relationship so they would stop trying to get with you."

he stared at you blankly after that. "do you really think they would stop when they find out that i'm in a relationship? it doesn't even matter. i don't respond to their dms anyway."

you knew he had a point. knowing about people already being in relationships never stopped certain people from going after someone they yearned for. this happens especially to public figures who a wave of strangers sometimes treats like mere objects that solely exists for their entertainment. but still, was it so bad for kenma to let his viewers know that you were together? or that he was in a relationship?

sensing your unhappiness, your boyfriend stands up from where he was sat on the loveseat and grabbed his wallet, reaching for your hand. he knew just the thing to cheer you up; it was something you indulged in whenever you had a bad day, or an exceptionally good day where you thought you deserved a special treat. it was something that was always kept in your freezer for emergencies. it was something that you could count on as emotional support for whenever you needed it.

"c'mon, let's go get some ice cream."

you went into your shared bedroom to chance for a few minutes; you tried to dress as quick as possible, excited by the idea of ice cream before the two of you hailed a taxi cab to get to the nearest ice cream parlor.

the both of you said a quick thanks to the server who laid your paper bowls of ice cream in front of you, then began to dig in.

the parlor had a few limited edition flavors, brought on by valentine's season so that was what the both of you bought instead of your usual orders -- your favorite flavors. you couldn't help but taste a spoon or two of what the other had bought, curious about the taste of tiramiss-u and berry much in love.

you were indulging in the taste of kenma's before a stranger came up to your table. judging by his wide smile and equally wide, in-awe eyes, he was a fan of your boyfriend.

and you weren't wrong, "oh my god! are you kodzuken? i'm such a big fan of you. you really helped me out during the pandemic. i was sooo bored." he gushed out.

kenma made a face, somewhere between a grimace and a grin -- it was an awkward smile that he would unknowingly flash whenever he was uncomfortable, like how he was right now. he wasn't a people person, and it's clear that being a famous youtuber, unfortunately, did not change that. and because of how the fan took him by surprise, he wasn't able to gaslight the fan into thinking he wasn't kodzuken like he would do in most situations -- how he was able to convince his fans that he wasn't the public figure when his two toned hair was so recognizable, you did not know.

"thanks," he said through his teeth. "do you want an autograph or something?"

an autograph, right? that's usually what fans want. that's what they always ask for whenever they come up to me. the sooner i can give him one, the sooner i can get back on our date. you swore you could hear kenma's thoughts, being his partner for so long, you were bound to have an idea of how his intelligent mind works.

"sure!" the guy exclaimed, pulling out a notebook and a marker from his backpack. "at first i was thinking of ditching school, but i'm so glad i didn't!"

"don't ditch school. it's not as cool as movies make it seem." was all your boyfriend responded with while he signed his signature on the notebook. "here, have a nice day." it was an attempt to have the fan walk away from the table, kenma wanted nothing more than to converse with you again, but the teenage boy had other ideas.

"are you his partner?" he asked, pointing at you. it made you uncomfortable, to say the least. not only was there a finger shoved in your direction, but you also knew where your boyfriend stood when it came to making your relationship public -- he was against it.

much to your surprise though, he gently shoved the boy's hand down so it wouldn't be rudely pointed at you anymore and spoke "yeah they are and we're on a date, so please." he made it seem like he wanted the boy to leave you alone - and he did - but instead, he was the one to stand up, beckoning you to do the same and leave, bowls of half-melted ice cream in hand.

"i'm sorry about that, that was rude of him." he apologized to you before looking away in the other direction. "that's the reason why i didn't want to make our relationship public. people trying to treat me as an object because i'm famous and stuff is one thing, but it's a while 'nother thing when they do it to you."

you smiled softly to yourself, looping your arm around his and resting your head on his bicep, "i love you, ken."

you heard a small i love you too breathe from his lips before you realized something.

"if you didn't want to make our relationship public, then why did you tell the guy that we were dating?"

he stopped walking after that and looked at you plainly in the eyes as if he was about to state the obvious -- and in his point of view, he was about to. "well, i wasn't about to deny you or anything."

i get: reblog

you get: socks with sandals

#a date with u event #order of the day! #order up for kozume! #one matcha mochi #with a side of coconut italian ice #kenma fluff #kenma kozume fluff #kenma x reader #kenma kozume x reader #kenma x you #kenma kozume x you #kenma x yn #kenma kozume x yn #kenma one shot #kenma kozume one shot #kenma scenarios #kenma kozume scenarios

[dreamnoblades-diaries]

In this essay, i shall tell you all how The archer by taylor swift is dnb coded. Anything that reminds of dream will be green, techno’s will be pink, and purple means the lyrics descripe both of them.

————lyrics:————

I've been the archer

I've been the prey

Who could ever leave me, darling?

But who could stay?

Dark side, I search for your dark side

But what if I'm alright, right, right, right here?

And I cut off my nose just to spite my face

Then I hate my reflection for years and years

—meaning:—

Both dream and techno have been haunted by people, been the casted out, the “not trusted under any circumstances” which made them bond with each other stronger, and understand each other’s feelings as they both have been through the same trauma.

But also, Everyone would want dream or techno to be their ally, but never a friend, never someone they talk to about everything, tell them their hopes and worries, because if they told a new friend of what they have been through, they would leave.

Also, i have a headcanon that dream hates seeing his face after the prison. His face is just filled with scars, which made his self-esteem low, so low he’d hide his face at the beginning from techno, turn around to the other side so techno wouldn’t pity him (even though techno has never pitied him, he sees him as his equal even at his worst).

————Lyrics:————

Cause they see right through me

They see right through me

They see right through

Can you see right through me?

They see right through

They see right through me

I see right through me

I see right through me

All the king's horses, all the king's men

Couldn't put me together again

'Cause all of my enemies started out friends

Help me hold onto you

—Meaning:—

While they progress into their relationship, Techno and dream slowly realize that they have never met someone who could understand them so effortlessly like each other, They finally found each other, across all the possible timelines and all the possible universes.

They always had a hunch that what they have is fated, like they were meant to be able to see through the other, know the other like the balms of their hands.

Like soulmates.

And finally, with all the scars and pain dream had, he knows nothing will get him back to what he was before, the dream that started the server as a place for him and his friends to hang out, the same friends who later turned into his enemies. Also the same with Techno, back in Pogtopia, he thought the resistance were his friends, but then he found it he was only a tool they were planning to get rid off after they win, hence the “all of my enemies started out as friends” line.

Later, techno and dream’s unbreakable trust for each other is what made them hold onto each other, more than what expected, as they slowly turn into lovers.

#dreamnoblade

[y0noirs]

anyone want an analysis on the newest tears of themis MR cards from the cn server? no? here it is anyway. obvious spoilers for the new MR card set (empyrean touch) under the cut. you can see the PV here. you can see the cards in HD here, and the cards in video form here (credit to both nxx_eun_03 and NXXgallery respectively for those)

i’ll mostly be writing about the visuals of the cards and the imagery (in my own interpretation) in this post. there’s other analyses on twitter about other parts of the PV and the cards, but i just want to talk about the visuals because they are causing me great agony and yearning. also to note, for transparency’s sake: even though i look at the new cards, i do not read story spoilers that often. my frame of reference is still what’s released on the global server. even then, i mostly pay attention to my favorites (that being marius and luke). i may get things wrong or miss things. 

right off, the cards are referencing one of the pre-release(?) promotional pics for tears of themis, as well as the login screen in-game. there’s a great thread that analyzes it here, which i will be referencing here and there. for the most part, all you need to remember is that rosa is depicted as lady justice, or the greek goddess of truth, themis. depictions of lady justice include: scales, a blindfold, a sword, and a snake. artem, vyn, luke, and marius are in those respective positions, which the linked thread goes into.

also interesting is that there’s absolutely no dialogue in this PV. usually, the boys will have a line or two that they say, somewhat related to their MR card. but it’s just music and visuals here, which is interesting! not sure how exactly but it is!

side note, it’s interesting, given that the CN server is approaching the 3rd anniversary of the game, that they chose to return to this original promotional picture. the boys are wearing the same outfits and designs in the picture as they do in the MR cards. i believe we’re approaching a very important point in the story for the game, seeing as this set has a lot of implications for rosa and the boys. but enough of that - let’s get into me agonizing over these MR cards!

starting with luke, he’s already interesting right off the bat. you can notice that, of all the other leads, he’s not touching the statue at all. it’s already one thing that he was gripping a sword in the original promo pic to the point where he was bleeding, but it’s another to have him make absolutely no contact with the statue whereas the others are intimately touching it.

you could say that he’s in a position of worship with the statue. his face reaches up, tries to lay a kiss on the surface of the statue’s face, but doesn’t make it all the way. he’s kept his face close, almost as if that’s all he can let himself do. like it’s almost blasphemous to love a deity this intimately. additionally, his hand remains wrapped around the sword’s blade, but it no longer draws blood like it did in the promo pic.

this can be seen as growth. people have pointed it out, but the fact that he’s no longer bleeding could symbolize the fact that he’s no longer pushing himself as far for rosa’s sake in the story. their relationship, which was previously sort of unbalanced due to the lengths luke would go to for rosa’s happiness, is now one of equal standing. he is still very devoted to her and would likely do all he can for her, but he no longer keeps himself at length from her to preserve her happiness. he’s not hurting himself anymore when it comes to their relationship. 

he still has a lot of hang-ups, but he’s definitely devoted, almost worshipping rosa. and the aborted kiss in his card definitely reflects the yearning, and possibly the control he tries to maintain when it comes to her. 

next is artem in the position of the scales. he has a rather intimate position with the statue, but to focus on is how his hand holds onto the statue’s hand.

in the original promo pic, artem has his hand directly on the scales, almost as if he were keeping them balanced. however, in his MR card, he is instead holding up the statue’s arm, while the statue herself holds the scales on her own. i believe this symbolizes a sort of equality in their relationship. one of the more concerning things between artem and rosa is the fact that they were in a working relationship where artem was technically rosa’s boss. however, they moved past that as much as possible as they became partners.

with the support he offers to the statue’s arm, as well as his arm around the waist, i believe his MR card evokes how artem supports rosa. their relationship isn’t unbalanced - instead, he provides support and guidance when she needs/wants it. through her struggles, artem will keep her steady, and when it comes to justice, he will assist her. he doesn’t influence her sense of justice. i don’t think he ever has. he always supports her view as much as possible.

i think his MR card has depicted their relationship in a very lovely and intimate way. in the context of worship, he will trust in her judgment, because he trusts her wholeheartedly.

the meaning of the blindfold is, as we know it, the protrayal of “justice is blind.” as the thread linked above says, it was also a depiction of deception. however, the statue in the MR shows that themis herself is removing the blindfold, while the promo pic has vyn simply holding the blindfold, possibly taking it off.

of note is that vyn is holding rosa’s chin up, as well as pressing a kiss to the blindfold/her eyes. he also has the other end of the blindfold in his other hand, signifying that he is taking off her blindfold with her. my initial belief was that his lips on her blindfold was a reminder that justice must remain impartial as possible. that she must remain steadfast in her judgment.

after further thinking, i believe that vyn truly is taking off her blindfold so that she can see the world as it really is. throughout the story, he doesn’t really shy away from showing her the truth of things. vyn taking off her blindfold is a reflection of that, but holding her chin up symbolizes how he will support her in the struggles she may have while facing the truth. his hand is a reminder that she will struggle. that the truth is often not pretty. the cracks on the statue’s face reflects this. but he will be there for her, to help her through her hardship. there’s an almost melancholy expression on her face that implies he knows what sort of hardships she will have.

even if it hurts her, even if he is aware of the suffering she will face, he will be there for her to encourage her through the pain. 

the hand that marius holds is supposed to hold the scales of justice. in his MR card, though, the statue no longer holds them; instead, he has entwined their hands together with a necklace that has a snake on it.

there were a lot of theories of marius in the place of the snake for the original statue. with the snake being the symbol of evil, and the original statue of lady justice stepping on a snake to symbolize her triumphing over evil, it was almost like they were setting marius up for this position of betrayal and evil - especially since he and his family are so closely associated with serpents.

but in the in-game login screen, the statue of themis is not stepping on the snake. there was never going to be a scenario where rosa would defeat marius or anything. marius’ MR card means something entirely different, with meanings completely true to him and the development of their relationship.

by entwining their hands with the snake necklace, marius is willingly involving rosa with his family and his name. his hold on her hand is gentle and intimate, almost in the same degree of worship as luke. he boldly holds her close, leaning in as if to whisper in her ear.

i personally think that the act of whispering in her ear is marius is trying to ask/beg something of her. marius is not the type to burden others, keeping his suffering close to his chest so that he can appear the tall, confident heir to pax. with his position of bringing her close, whispering in her ear, and entwining their hands, he makes a request: to bear the burden of his name and legacy, maybe even help him purge the evil in his name. again, marius is not the type to ask for help. but as he grows closer to rosa, and grows more selfish, he will allow himself to burden her and request things of her. it’s a very good reflection of how his character progresses through the story.

anyway that’s a lot of words to describe how insane this MR set makes me. the yearning and love, the accurate symbolization and representation of character growth and dynamics, this is a very beautiful card set. i can’t wait for when this comes to global, and i can’t wait to see what 3rd anniversary has in store (:

(and just a reminder - this is all very biased and possibly even inaccurate. most importantly, this is my interpretation. i’m open to talking about it, though, because holy hell this MR card set makes me insane!)

#text #tears of themis #luke pearce #artem wing #vyn richter #marius von hagen #this post is what happens when i wake up on the morning of a final exam and stare at these cards for too long #the day these cards drop in global is the day theres a breach in containment #shut up chou #you know what its actually fucked up that this is a bingo MR event #all4marius tho

[gacha-incels]

Do you think that there is a possibility of Hypergryph splitting from Yostar for global publishing of Arknights and moving it to Gryphline instead? The traditional Chinese server got moved from Long Chen to Gryphline recently, and the new ambience synesthesia concert merch is on the Gryphline store rather than yostar’s. It may just be wishful thinking as yostar and hypergryph both own large shares of each other, but if there is a planned split from yostar would it potentially be a reason why Hypergryph hasn’t made a statement condemning Yostar Korea’s actions? Is there any precedent for publisher changes for a sort of legal clause preventing them from hurting each others’ image prior to the split being announced?

Gryphline is situated in Singapore, having what I guess you could call a “proxy” company for global business in Singapore is something a lot of companies in China have done for a while, increasingly within the past couple of years, for a multitude of reasons. Last time I checked Mihoyo had “Cognosphere” in Singapore, and when you buy gachabux in that game on servers outside China I believe your bill is from Cognosphere. The slave labor fast fashion site Shein has been operating under the Singapore-registered “Roadget Business” which some have speculated makes it easier to list in the USA. Yostar has HQ in Hong Kong which used to be the proxy location but according to this FT article-“Traditionally, Hong Kong was the choice for many such companies, said Kia Meng Loh, a senior partner at Dentons Rodyk. But with Beijing “flexing its muscles” in the semi-autonomous rival finance hub, Singapore is the obvious next choice, he said.” Hypergryph has multiple games coming out in the near future, I believe a regular (non-gacha) 3D anime mobile game and a 3D Arknights spinoff that will have a weapon gacha, and I think another game that’s TBD? They could be rearranging their internal structure due to this expansion if they’ve switched around their Chinese server already, but I’m unsure if this means they will completely split with Yostar who I believe publishes the US, Japanese and Korean servers.

Admittedly I can’t say I’m super well versed with this type of business and therefore it’s harder to really predict what they will do in the future, but I’ve been watching the situation since AK KR posted that notice to see what happens. I don’t have anything against the game itself, if it comes out that somehow their hands are completely tied in the situation or something I’ll post about that as well but I’m not holding my breath. In terms of my read on the situation, I think a huge message has ready been sent to the fans as to whom the company deems most profitable to listen to, regardless of any future handwringing over the situation. I would think between a woman posting extremely basic feminist thoughts on her personal twitter (equal pay etc) and enjoying the woman’s day google doodle years ago, and the Arknights KR/Yostar employee liking extremely violent fanart on the official twitter account and hanging out on extremist, misogynistic chat boards, that the employee would be seen as more of a problem and should have been the one disciplined. In reality, not only was the woman punished by having her work deleted but the official KR account posted that diatribe calling basic feminism a “dividing force” or whatever. This action and the following statement are absolutely not neutral, especially during a time a which violent misogyny has been increasingly ripping through South Korea as a whole but also gacha games specifically. In terms of PR I do think this is something Hypergryph could address, if HG doesn’t want to rock the boat with Yostar so to speak because of some upcoming split, it seems Yostar has already rocked the boat quite a bit with this action to begin with…

in terms of a main developer punishing the publisher, one example I can think of is Fate/Grand Order’s DelightWorks (after the sakura wars fuckup FGO is developed by “Lasengle” now, but when this happened it was DW) changing an in-game reward that FGO’s Korean publisher Netmarble gave out. In terms of them splitting as well, I’m still looking into it 👍 If anyone knows anything else feel free to reply or send me stuff and I’ll post it, sometimes I feel if I wait too long to reply to messages it comes across as rude lol so I’m not getting lost in like thesis tier research

#Arknights #yostar #hypergryph #feminist ideological verification

[bunting27]

congrats on 100, love!!! <333 may i request 🍄 prompt: ❛ it’s hot when you talk back. ❜ with scarborough’s one and only, please?

yeah. ✏︎ m. bunting

bunting27's 100 follower celly !

a/n: i have a working theory that bunts' type is either painfully shy or as abrasive and upfront as you could possibly get. this is somehow both

prompts: “it's hot when you talk back"

wc: 0.8k

taglist: @nylwnder @sidcrosbyspuck

✏︎

y/n had never had an amazing relationship with her mom, per se. she was overbearing and strict, and she would project her insecurities onto y/n from a young age. that’s why she was shaking with nerves while she waited for her parents to come meet her and michael at a restaurant 

“if she says anything wildly inappropriate, i’m so sorry in advance, she’s just-” michael shook his head, holding her hand in his while looking down at her with soft eyes and a smile

“i can handle some criticism, if that’s what you’re expecting” she tilted her head slightly with a nod, and michael took it as a sign that the criticism he could be getting tonight would be less like what he received on the ice and more like a dissection of everything he did wrong tonight explained in detail right to his face

he had been scrolling through his phone when he felt her tense beside him, and he looked up to see a short haired woman and a tall bald man beside the table they had been sitting at.

there was no greeting before who he’d assumed was y/n’s mother went “it’s a bit rude of you both to have already ordered your drink. don’t you think you could have waited in the car so we could all get equal service?”

y/n shoved her head in both of her hands and he grabbed her hand under the table again when she had taken her arms down, then he smiled politely at her parents, ignoring the comment.

while everyone waited for the food to come out, michael, y/n and her dad all caught up and got to know each other, and the basis of what michael was learning was that y/n’s dad was a saint, and that her mother was not actually interested in meeting him, only watching him.

when the food came out, the server called for his meal first, a chicken burger with various toppings. before he could even think of signalling that it was his, her mother spoke up for the first time since her original comment

“that’s me, but i wanted the side salad, not a fry and i wanted mayo and onion with no tomato. god how hard can it be to write down an order” michael cleared his throat, and y/n glared at her mom

“jesus, mom. it’s mikey’s, not yours. sorry, honey, that's for him” she smiled politely to the waitress and he did as well, helping out by taking the plate from her so she didn’t have to reach.

her mom scoffed, and seemed satisfied enough when her plate was placed down and it was all correct.

when everyone was done, they began chatting again, save for her mom, and when the bill came out, michael offered to pay. 

“are you trying to buy my acceptance, michael? i’m well capable of-” she was cut off by y/n, who had dropped her phone on the table and sucked her teeth angrily in order to get her mom’s attention

“holy shit, mom. he’s trying to be nice! i’ve had a long day, this is one of his only nights off this week, and frankly, nobody wants to spend their free time hearing you bitch and complain about nothing. this night could not have gone better. the service, the food, michael is great. so for once in your life you need to stop picking apart everything so that you can find a reason to be a raging bitch”

her mom just looked at her with her mouth agape, her dad had a small smile, and michael just placed his hand on her thigh. he put enough cash on the table for the full bill and a generous tip before sliding out of the booth and guiding y/n to come with him. 

“bye, dad. thank you for coming” her dad nodded slightly, waving goodbye to michael and he made quick work of walking y/n out of the restaurant.

“it’s hot when you talk back” y/n smiled at the comment, biting her lip.

“this parking lot’s pretty empty and you have a really nice backseat…” he raised an eyebrow, grinning from ear to ear as he helped her into the back of his car.

he had her jeans unbuttoned in record time, and she was trying at the buttons of his shirt

“ah ah, don’t go thinking you can do whatever you want just cause i said that attitude of yours was hot, it won’t go over so well this time around” she giggled, placing herself in his lap and continuing to untie his shirt regardless 

“oh, yeah?” he smirked 

“yeah.”

#michael bunting #michael bunting x reader #m bunting #nhl blurb #hockey blurb #toronto maple leafs #bunting27's 100 follower celly

[darkrpfinder]

hey! looking for 21+ rp partners, as i’m 22 myself.

i’d love love love to develop an oc x oc pairing… preferably m/m! i don’t have desired plots immediately, but would love to explore possibilities with you :)

additionally…

i am a selective literate writer, who primarily writes in 3rd-person, past tense. i don’t mind adjusting tense.

nsfw, as well as darker themes (🕊️), are welcome. let’s chat about it first though!

i use discord more than tumblr, and will prefer to set up a server for us.

the biggest thing for me is having fun, honestly! i’m a big fan of headcannons, and i want us to both be equally as invested and interested in developing things further.

if all of this jives with you, like this post and i’ll reach out! 🎆

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#oc rp #oc roleplay #fandomless rp #fandomless roleplay #mxm #rp search #dark roleplay #dark rp #spicy rp #18+ mun #dead dove

[klayr-de-gall]

Hi, Everyone!Let's do this fun challenge together!

What's a Broken Phone Challenge?

It's like a game of telephone, but instead of whispering in your ear, you get a super blurry image and have to draw what you think it is before it is send on to the next artist in line, who gets your equally blurred artwork to make their own interpretation.

Each participating artist will be given a two weeks timeframe to finish their artwork, before it is send on.

Pairings: Destiel & Reed900

Theme: Beginnings

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All participants are welcome and encouraged to join the "Artsy Streamers" Discord Server for updates and additional fun. (If you decide against joining for whatever reason, make sure to check your mail often!)

🎨  Interpret the blurred artwork in your style

🎨  You can take liberties, but still stay true to what you (think you) see and the Pairing

🎨 No NSFW art Interpretation's allowed (this time)

🎨  You have to finish your artwork in two weeks, there will be no Check-In

🎨  If you struggle with your timeframe please tell Klayr as soon as you can, so adjustment's can be made

🎨  AI-Art is not allowed.

🎨  It's possible to sign up for both pairings (Fill in the Sign-Up two times)

🎨  At the end of the challenge, a masterpost will be posted on Klayr's social Medias with the compilation of all art-chains. A small version of your art will be included and you will be tagged accordingly!

🎨  After the challenge has finished and the compilation image has been posted you can post your art on social media!

🎨  If you have any questions you can ask in the discord server  or send Klayr a dm

🎨  Have fun!

Other things to know:

The Starting Artist will be randomly selected. Before the start of phase 1, everybody will be contacted to confirm they are okay with the timeframe they will be given.

If there are more then 7 participants (per pairing) multiple groups will be formed. (That can have an impact on how many phases there will be and when the challenge will end. If everything changes, information will be send around accordingly!)

After finishing your Art, you will send it back to the Mods, and they will blur it and send it on. So neither you know who will draw your artwork, nor will the person after you know who made their blurry inspiration.

Important Dates:

Sign-Up Open: 10th February

Sign-Up Close: 26th FebruaryBefore 1st March: Check in about timeframes

Phase 1: 1st March - 14th March

Phase 2: 15th March - 28th March

Phase 3: 29th March - 11th April

Phase 4: 12th April - 25th April

Phase 5: 26th April -  9th May

Phase 6: 10th May - 23th May

Phase 7: 24th May - 6th Juny

Reveal: 10th of Juny

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