#btw I’m probably gonna be less active

[panicky-pansexual]

Doodle drop🗣️‼️ Some old, some new

#ttte humanized #ttte #ttte thomas #ttte percy #ttte james #ttte gordon #ttte diesel 10 #ttte flying scotsman #ttte gijinka #art #drawing #doodles #btw I’m probably gonna be less active #I’m working on a tiny personal project on my main 💪‼️ #off topic love drawing Scott #he’s just a silly little guy

[gasstationlady]

GUTS | a lando norris social media au | pt. 2

pairing: lando norris x singer!reader, ex!drew starkey x reader

drew is still hung up on y/n, but the grid’s new it couple couldn’t care less.

notes: final part of guts!! thank you so much for all the love you guys showed the first part <3 and dw i have so many more smaus in the drafts! tried to write and add a bit more but i ran out of space :/ i hope the plot makes sense! i feel like bc i know how i wanted the story to go i can't rlly spot the plot holes as easily.

disclaimer: NOT PROOFREAD. let's pretend that jennifer lawrence "kym illman" picture is olivia lmfaooo. btw the events in “GUTS” sometimes does not line up with the schedule followed in real life. again, no hate to drew and, now also, to ppl on the today show aha. (CONGRATS LANDO FOR P2 AHHH)

masterlist ⋆ previously

yourusername

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yourusername thanks for having me vmas!!!! <3

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yourbestie STUNNING

user pls not drew liking her post when he doesn’t even follow her 😭😭😭

↳ user no he’s actually so painfully desperate lmaoo

↳ user i’m glad lando and y/n are just ignoring him

↳ user girl i’m not, i want the drama AHA

user love u more than anything

user lando liking and the two of them now following each other 🤔 yup him and y/n are forrr sure together

↳ user yea after the deuxmoi post and lando’s soft launch it’s basically confirmed at this point

↳ user i wonder if she’ll be attending the next gp bc i’d actually die and then come back to life if it happens

user you look BEYONDDDDD 😍😍

user are we fr just gonna ignore drew like..

thetodayshow

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thetodayshow It’s GUTS day! We loved having @/yourusername on the TODAY plaza. 🍒🎤🧡

We sat with Y/N to talk about her new album and recent scandals surrounding the topics of her work. “I just write songs; it’s not my job to interpret them for people.”

Tune in on our Youtube channel for extra clips of our interview with Y/N and her performances!

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user SHE ATE THOSE PERFORMANCES. DEVOURED.

user some of those questions were a bit invasive

↳ user i was thinking the same thing, but y/n handled that rlly professionally

user omg how have her vocals gotten better 😭

user lmaoooooo i see you hiding in the likes lando

↳ user it’s so cute that he’s following her activities 🥹🥹

↳ user he’s probably here bc of what she said in the interview

↳ user wait i didn’t watch everything, what did she say??

↳ user so they asked how she felt about her exes being a popular topic on the internet, and so she said “I just write songs; it’s not my job to interpret them for people.” they also asked about drew and whether they’re going to get back together (which, may i add, felt a little rude to me) and y/n replied with “Those who I’m close with can reach me anytime. I tend to not focus on anyone else.”

↳ user thank you for summarizing!! doing god’s work fr 🫡

user y/n handled the situation perfectly

↳ user no bc the way she said not too much but enough to stand up for herself and her privacy

user AHAHAHAHA SHE RLLY SAID AINT NO WAY SHES GOING BACK TO DREW

ynupdates

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ynupdates Y/n seen arriving in Singapore!

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user wait you’re lying??? actually? waaait 😭

user IS SHE GOING TO THE GP OMG PLS

user i mean i knew they were together but imagine a paddock appearance 😩😩 i don’t think we can handle it guys

user if she makes an appearance at the paddock with lando, i don’t understand why he didn’t just go as her date for the vmas too 😭😭

↳ user i doubt they wanted to hard launch at the vmas lol y/n was barely even in the audience, tbh i think she left early

↳ user y/n has said before that award shows make her rlly anxious, so yea she probably didn’t want too much attention on herself esp with all the drew drama

user did i miss something, i thought lando was still in ny? why didn’t they just travel together?

↳ user lando probs had to leave earlier bc practice started on friday, and y/n still had a few tv show performances which i’m assuming is why she arrived today instead

kymillman

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kymillman F1’S NEW FAVORITE COUPLE

The first driver to arrive this morning was Mclaren driver Lando Norris. For the first time he is joined with his new girlfriend, Y/N L/N, a famous Filipino-American pop singer.

For A3 prints, hand-signed & numbered by a range of drivers/team principals head to kymillman.com

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user omg it’s happening it’s happening

user HEY SIRI PLAY THAT SHOULD BE ME BY JUSTIN BIEBER

user this pic should be put in the louvre that is how monumental it is

user THIS IS HOW I FIND OUT?? FROM KYM??😭😭

user first💔hard💔launch💔is💔a💔paddock💔appearance💔

user the hand holding 🥹🥹

user don’t know if i’m more jealous of lando or y/n

user damn god really out here choosing favorites

user they’re already becoming my comfort couple omg i can’t i love them so much

landonorris

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landonorris Singapore 🥈

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user so proud of you lando!!

user AHHHH y/n cameo

user god idk if i'm ever going to get used to seeing y/n with lando

user SHE LOOKS SO GOOD

user yay carlando podium !!! 🥹

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8 months later

landonorris

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landonorris Happy one year, love ❤️

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yourusername there's nothing i love more than those chips

↳ landonorris 😐

user they're the reason i believe in love

user damn i think this is about to be lando's most liked post lmaoo

user the fact that he calls her love 😭😭

user luckiest man alive i stg

user how does she always look so good

yourusername

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yourusername cause i love to love, to love, to love you

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landonorris that guy's pretty handsome

↳ yourusername very :)

yourbestie LOVE seeing you happy

user omggg i'm crying i can't believe its already been a year

user might sleep on the freeway today

user let the light in is such a cute song to dedicate to someone

user LOL not the third pic

user i love them so much 🥹

user if you ever break up, love isn't real

#f1 x reader #f1 instagram au #f1 imagine #f1 social media au #lando norris au #lando norris x reader #lando norris imagine #singer!reader #lando norris instagram au

[icyminghao]

2023 with icyminghao!

to start off, to say i’m massively grateful would be an understatement. i honestly didn’t expect to start writing again after quitting like 5 years ago 💀 and just decided to write for boynextdoor on a whim bc they haven’t debuted yet and would probably need some writers on the blr 😎

i was really excited to try out writing again having been a ghost reader for so long HELP (i’m not proud) and fate just led me back to my ult seventeen!

when i wrote, i just wanted to get my work out there and published on the cloud, and the reception and friends i made along the way were certainly not on my bingo card but a welcome surprise nonetheless. i’m really, really grateful that people like reading my work and i’m sorry that i can’t push out fics regularly! i write on random spurts of inspiration and i have so many wips rn PLS i’ll do my best to publish them all soon!!!

and now to the friends i made along the way! i may not have been talking to y’all much lately but i’m still so grateful to have met each and everyone of you in my writing journey, y’all have been some of the sweetest, funniest, and most genuine people i have met ever and i love all of you guys:

zanna @slytherinshua my first friend on the blr!! so so in awe at how you’re in so many fandoms like it’s genuinely mind blowing to me (in a good way!) and i also like some of hoppipolla’s music and you’re the first person i’ve seen to like them too!! but anyways you’ve been so so sweet and kind and i love how you always strive to interact with everyone (hence the movie night and trying to accommodate to everyone’s schedules was so sweet btw)!! i hope 2024 treats you so well and i love you so much

yena @fairyhaos my butterfly :( you are genuinely the sweetest and cutest person i’ve ever met like i always have a smile on my face when i talk to you!! there is really never a dull moment in our conversations bc you’re just so so genuine and kind!!! i love your works too even though i may not have been interacting much (i try my best!!!) and i hope 2024 treats you well!! all the best for your upcoming exams too :)

skye @etherealyoungk skye!!! omg i always love talking to you :) you always feel like the older sister i never had and everytime i talk to you i just feel so warm all around like you’re just so sweet and kind and i hate how you’re always swarmed with exams but i know you’ll always just ace it anyway like the star student you are 😎 anyway if its possible i really hope 2024 brings you less academic stress and more fun!!!!!! i’m always rooting for you skye i love you sm :(

axe @blue-jisungs axie my honey pumpkin cupcake with buttercream frosting and 2 marshmallows and a cherry on top i love you sm :( you’re so so sweet and funny and i always love interacting with you and reading all the silly nicknames we come up with for each other i love you sm!! i hope 2024 will be the best year for you yet and it’ll only go up from here :) college is going to be so great for you too you’re gonna have so much fun!!!! and ace all your exams bc you’re just that smart 😎😎 love you!!

jada @kyeomyun jada :( i always love talking with you bc we always use all caps and it’s just so funny to me HELP but anyways you haven’t been active much and i hope life has been good to you and will be better in 2024 bc you deserve it sm!! i miss you sm and you’re literally so sweet and kind and i hope we get to talk more in 2024!

hana @wqnwoos quite literally my favourite writer i can’t believe i’m actually friends with you!! so starstruck HAHA but aaaa hana i love you sm your works literally bring light to my day like how do you write like that. and you’re so nice too like fr a whole package!! i hope 2024 brings you nothing but joy bc you really deserve it hehe

mellow @haowrld my fellow 8star!! i love you sm and i’m so sad we haven’t been able to talk lately (100% my fault i am absolutely horrible at replying) but you’re such a fun person to talk to and i hope 2024 will be a great year for you!!

rania @wheeboo rania!! i love your writing sm and you’re so so sweet too and quite literally the queen of reaction stickers i still love them so much HAHAHA we haven’t been able to talk much lately but i still love you with my whole heart and hope that 2024 is the best year for you!!

jem @pepperonidk jem!! i loved our conversations on movies and camp with the kids and i hope you’re having the time of your life in korea :) you’re so so kind and sweet and i always love talking with you, it really never fails to bring a smile to my face hehe i hope 2024 brings you all the joy!!

sky @weird-bookworm sky! omg i really need to get better at replying bc i love talking with you and would really really love to get closer AAA but you’ve been so sweet to me and i’m really grateful to have met you :( you’re always encouraging me to continue writing and i’m really thankful and i hope 2024 is your best year yet!

and to my other moots @woozvc @mirxzii @jeonride @trblsvt @hannyoontify @frenshushutoast @haecien @rubywonu we haven’t been able to interact much but i love you all sm nonetheless!! i’ll be interacting with you all much more in 2024 so be ready hehe 🤭🤭

and to my followers!!! i love you all sm and i’m so grateful that y’all like my work like genuinely ☹️☹️ i don’t deserve y’all!! i always love looking at your reblogs and it motivates me to continue writing!! and to the ghost readers (i’ve been there 💀) i appreciate y’all too hehe i’ll try my best to publish more quality work this 2024 that i hope y’all would like!!!! thank you sm 🩷

to 2024 😋

ps also wna thank some of my favourite writers out there i love your work sm literally my comfort: @leejungchans @wooahaes @thepixelelf @viastro @toruro @lovelyhan @97-liners @wqnwoos (😚) @wonwoonlight @twogyuu

#i love y’all #ICY THINKS OUT LOUD

[dangthatscrayz]

heyhey! im loving your slay the monster au so far, and i was wondering what the names for the monster would be in the chapter 3s? like what is the burned grey’s version of The Smitten called? same for all the other monster vessels

Tysm I love the support!

Like a sane person I’m up at almost 3 am typing this.

Also I’m probably going to add more chapters and endings for the other routes for funsies

But here’s the whole list of names and chapters just because

(Btw unless you kill the monster expect it to just slay itself like how in the actual game if you slay the princess yoru stuck in the voice until you do something and since all of them want to leave they just hit that slay button)

Chapter 1’s:

The hero (if you don’t bring the blade)

The captor (if you bring the blade)

The contrarian (step off the path)

Chapter 2’s:

Literally all the same as in the game minus ‘the voice of’ part

Chapter 3’s:

The Betrothed (I got plans for the smitten’s burned grey route it’s gonna be kinda crazy based on the name)((the voice of the damsel is just going to be hauling everything and since she’s controlling everything now, no sane decision will happen))

The Hunter (the hunted third chapter where if you die to his claws now the roles reversed from him being the scared animal to now being the one hunting the player)

The Empty ( if you kill the cold again or just go out and kill the cold after he asks to escape you come here similar to the spectre and wraith routes but less ghosting but still kind of not really tangible activity is happening)

The Bewildered (if for some reason you decide to hand the knife to the opportunist will stab you and like the witch did in the thorn chapter get so confused that he doesn’t even want to hurt you anymore he just doesn’t know why you did that or why he wants to hurt you anymore)

The Truth (basically the wild chapter)

The Rebuilt (the broken’s apotheosis, the voice of the tower is hyping up her new priest/pet/whatever he is to her)((do expect to be King Kong style yoinked by this kaiju and carried out this forest))

The Resistant (no matter how many holes you make in the stubborn body he somehow keeps getting up, he does not look very healthy after some point)((eye of the needle version of the stubborn btw))

The Savage (if you somehow screw up on the broken or stubborn chapters you end up here and like the fury in there game your options are ‘dying or dying’ goodluck, when the pristine cut comes out I’ll definitely update this)

The Cacophony (like in the moment of clarity for the paranoid all the voices are here.)

The Cheater (the cheated starts playing dirty therefore now a cheater idk what to say, it’s in the name)

Chapter 4’s:

The Winner (the cheated is the only one with a chapter 4 unless I add more later or the pristine cut comes out)

Also I wanted to add here that chapter 1 will always be grey (not the contrarian he doesn’t play by any rules anyways), every chapter 2 has added 1 color to the monster, chapter 3 has 2 colors in its monster, and every chapter 4 will add another color. I wanted to add some other elements of other monsters in it paralleling how in the og game the more voices you get each chapter. Like the betrothed will have some elements from the cold since that’s who you get if you kill the princess in the og game. Also some other additional stuff like extra eyes to look extra biblically accurate and because it’s hard to make a monster look more monster with each chapter so I’m doubling down on stuff like limbs and eyes so it looks kind of like there’s more than one in there

The voices for the third chapters like you saw with the witch in the current route the princess voices are also going to be swapped around to fit the personalities more.

#slay the princess #slay the princess au #slay the monster au #stp #stp voices

[lycanlovingvampyre]

MAG 148 Relisten

Activity on my first listen: mowing the lawn.

ELIAS: (mumbling) "Here we go" (normal) Good evening, Detective." [BASIRA IMMEDIATELY ASSAULTS HIM.] ELIAS: "Ow!" That whispered "Here we go"...(btw in neither the fan transcript nor the official one) Was it just "ah yes, Basira is back" or was it "ok, Basira is fuming and I know what she wants to do, let's get this over with...". He says it later, Basira is becoming predictable. Also very satisfying sound, 10/10, only MAG 200 is even better.

ELIAS: "– I’ve – I’ve always thought that a man’s eating habits were his own private business –" [BASIRA STEPS CLOSER] BASIRA: "Mm-hm." ELIAS: (strained like he is being choked) "– but… I can see how maybe I should have mentioned it." [ELIAS CATCHES HIS BREATH] Holy shit, I either can't remember Basira choking him or I never caught it before. Fan transcript doesn’t mention any sounds in this (I added them here), official transcript only describes Elias answer as "conciliatory".

ELIAS: "Look, look – I’ve been doing this a long time now, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned about the Web, it’s that it plays its own game. All you can really do is hope it doesn’t get in the way of whatever your plan is. Because the Spider usually wins." We know that Elias finally saw his chance when Jon came to him already marked by the Web. And yeah, the Spider does win.

BASIRA: "You always call me “Detective.” Is that supposed to mean something?" ELIAS: "Honestly, I just like the way it sounds." In 159 episodes this is probably the only time he's clear about something and honest xD

JON: "I can’t believe you’ve been seeing him all this time." BASIRA: "Oh, yeah. That’s the terrible secret sabotaging the trust between us." Yeah, compared to others things, this does seem quite as big of a deal. Still, I think it's something that would have been worth mentioning. Since of a lot of relevant things happened because of this, that seemed like a dead end to them. That's suspicion. I saw an old post from 2019 some time ago, where someone said something like "The way the Dark ritual lead nowhere Jon's gonna kick off the Watcher's Crown by accident". Oops...

BASIRA: "Yeah. John, We’ve been over this. the key is to not force people to feed you their trauma. You know – just don’t do it?" Oh yeah, Nicotine is bad for you health? Just stop smoking. Easy. You're depressed? Just be more positive. Wow! /sarcasm

JON: "It’s not that simple." BASIRA: "No. It is. Or I put you down." Holy... Threatening to kill him... Wow. After she has watched Daisy for years and said nothing. She’s kind of extra aggressive on this day, first Elias, now this... Frustration?

BASIRA: "Daisy’s been managing." JON: "Daisy is… yeah. She’s managing." Daisy is fucking starving. Even if she hasn’t crossed into full Avatarhood (I think that happens after MAG 158...), Jon also was already dependent on statements in S3...

JON: "I have been meaning to ask: the tape, the one of the uh… my victim. You said Martin gave it to you." BASIRA: "Yeah." JON: "How was he? How did he look – was he – uh –" BASIRA: [interrupting; sounding slightly less harsh] "I don’t know. I didn’t see him. He just left it on my desk with a note." JON: "Oh. Right." BASIRA: "Yeah." JON: "Can I ask what it said?" BASIRA: "Um, yeah. It said, uh. “Talk to him”" JON: [harsh breathing/sobbing sounds] T_________T  It’s been a while since we had a heartwrecking scene like this...

I'll be honest, I have no memory of this statement...

There is so much more rambling about their general situation and less things actually happening, I'm already losing track again...

"So he found the manual. More of a pamphlet, really. Can’t have been more than ten pages of A5 in the whole thing, yellowed and water-damaged. Well-used, though. Someone had even put their name in the front, like they were afraid people were gonna steal a manky instruction book." Oh hold on, is that a Leitner?

Sounds like this Sampson really got into I'm On Observation Duty XD

"He kept saying, 'what do we do with his eyes?'" So the cameras?

"'He won’t stop,' he said. 'We can’t get rid of his face.'" On the CRT screen, Sampson wouldn't stop looking at them I guess.

Aw man, that post statement scene. It seems like it did something at least cause he says he's (feeling) better. But it’s not as nutritious as a new statement. And he’s needing more and more of the old statements. That’s also a effect of (some?) addicting substances. Getting accustomed to smaller doses and needing more to get the same effect as before. This is the only thing, which makes it seem like an addiction and not a need to survive. Though there are some indications that Avatars do need to cause fear to survive. “Feed your god, or it will feed on you” (MAG 89),  “Hopefully, he’ll fade away or burn out as they tend to when robbed of their purpose” (MAG 130),  “John Amherst was encased in concrete, and shrivelled away to nothing after just a few years” (MAG 184). Accepting less and less of old statements is probably just an effect of the Eye to bring him to get new experiences. And since there are some indications that also written statements given to the Archivist can cause those dreams (Dekker MAG 113, Salesa MAG 115) it will become more and more difficult to survive without harming others.

@a-mag-a-day

#a-mag-a-day #mag 148 #tma #tma spoilers

[katnissgirlsmakedo]

heyy! this is so random but i saw u made a post in 2022 about the bridge to terabithia robert sean leonard audiobook; do you know where to find it? i’ve been searching online everywhere and the best i can find is amazon for £30 or some sketchy looking website that i wouldn’t trust with my card details. if you have any idea i’d be so grateful, sorry and thanks!

ok so i’m gonna be real. the way i went about technically “owning” that book was that for unrelated reasons i did a free trial of audible. i like to do free trials of different things so i can complain about them knowledgeably. audible sucks btw don’t use it it’s not worth it unless you’re rich and stupid. anyway when you do that they give you a free book to keep so that’s what i picked. but that’s just what EYE did

and here’s what YOU should do, i’m about to put you onto some real shit. you’re gonna acquire a library card. you’re gonna download the libby app. and you’re gonna search for it there, it’s like an immensely popular children’s book so i can’t imagine a library with an audiobook archive wouldn’t have it. but if your local library doesn’t use libby i’d recommend checking the libraries participating in the books unbanned program, i personally use seattle for when my local one has less selection <3 the only thing is there’s an age restriction because the project is meant to open up book access to kids, most of them cap the age at 21, seattle’s is 26. and the other thing is you do have to be an american citizen, like there’s probably a way to cheat and lie but like. it’s the library so i mean. ethics

anyway. THE hottest activity of 2024 is listening to audiobooks through your local library’s libby collection… people are saying this

#i mean if you want to OWN it i personally think digital media isn’t owned anyway and you’d be better off finding a cd of it to buy. but that #costs money and i’m not here to tell you to waste your money on a cd of an audiobook you can listen to for free with library access #asks

[the-lone-witch-and-secret-room]

The Hunter discourse is a bit weird to explain, but basically it has to do with him overshadowing a lot of the other supporting characters, and him playing into some white favoritism in the show and fandom.

Ah. I’ve vaguely seen this mentioned in the form of a friend saying that now there’ll be people going into the show thinking Hunter is the main character rather than Luz because people talk about him so much, but nothing too in-depth.

I’m gonna admit that this is coming from someone who hasn’t seen much of the discourse myself, I haven’t been very active in social media fandom spaces a ton lately. (Also side note my personal opinion on Hunter is not important to this post whatsoever but this is not a character bash post, it is a fandom critique one.)

There’s one number I’d like to apply to this whole debate going into it, and that’s the number of character-focused fics. This number is not at all perfect because we don’t really have a reliable tag when it comes to who a story is focused on, but I’ve tried two things.

First of all: what happens if I exclude Luz as a character from Ao3 searches, since she’s the main character and fics that don’t feature her are more likely to actually be focused on the other characters (while especially Gus and Willow tend to just get tacked onto fics if they breathe in them once).

What ends up happening is, we have under 300 fics for Willow left, and Gus has even less than her. He doesn’t actually make the popular characters tag anymore. Hunter, on the other hand, has three times that amount, becoming second most popular character, right after Eda. (For some reason there’s also like 500 fics tagged Emperor Belos, but I feel like that’s probably him being tagged for appearing as a villain in a lot of cases? Though I can’t say for sure.)

The second thing I tried was just excluding Lumity, which painted a pretty similar picture: Hunter was, with almost 1800 fics, still the third most popular character after Luz and Eda, even beating Amity by 500 fics. He has twice the amount Willow and Gus have here.

I’m bringing this up because I’ve seen people say to stop whining because he’s “not as popular as Willow and Gus” because he’s not in as many fics, which may be true objectively, but if you look closer? Not so much. This is also reflected in how unbalanced fan spaces are when you look at Hunter fanart vs. Gus and Willow fanart (or even Edric and Emira fanart vs. Gus and Willow fanart, really).

The fandom as a whole definitely has had the issue for a while that the white characters overshadow the people of color in the cast—the “people who don’t know the show thinking Hunter is the main character”-thing was the same but with Amity a season ago, and there’s in general a lot of imbalance with the amount of attention the white characters get vs. the supporting cast of color, and depressingly at times even the main character of color. There’s so many people who’ve called Willow and Gus boring—and the show definitely isn’t great about it either, considering how much they get sidelined.

Even now that Willow is getting more attention from fans, a bunch of it is in the context of her properly being “shippable” which I have… mixed feelings about, because while I’m happy that that means more Willow content, she’s a super interesting character on her own (Gus too btw) and I wish people were able to appreciate that regardless of her having a potential romantic interest.

Adding to that is how white abusive parents are treated by the fandom compared to flawed parents of color, especially Camila compared to the Blight parents (but also even how Eda, who makes just as many mistakes as Camila and continuously puts Luz in danger especially at the beginning, is portrayed as this flawless perfect parent while Camila is somehow supposedly awful), but also the absurd fact that I’ve at one point gotten a person here that wanted a whole callout post on Willow’s and Gus’s parents after they got in trouble for being expelled, despite that being a very normal reaction from a parent… and the people who continuously call Luz “the Latina” under the guise of not repeating her name in fics while weirdly enough no one is referred to as “the white person”… it’s not good.

This isn’t my first time talking about a bunch of these things, so yeah that the fandom has a racism and white favoritism issue isn’t exactly news, and since Hunter has become super popular compared to other supporting characters that have been around far longer I very much get where that’s coming from and why people are so upset, especially with him being another white character gaining a ton of traction and in parts more than the main character. I was more active seeing this happen with Amity, but I’m not surprised this happening again has people upset.

There’s also the added fact that apparently some of the Hunter fans get incredibly upset at people for not liking him, resorting to actual slurs and hate messages, which, y’all, that’s not okay. It never is. It’s fine for people to dislike a character you like. That doesn’t mean you get to harass them! This shouldn’t even be a conversation we’re having!

I don’t feel comfortable resharing the link to the post I was sent since the OP is problematic in a variety of pretty major ways and I don’t want to add to her platform, but regardless, thank you anon for bringing it to my attention that it’s gotten that bad, I had no idea, Jesus Christ.

Idk if I should actually be that surprised though, considering my first hand experience with people deciding to be awful because I talked about my trauma and the issues I had with the way a character was being handled by the fandom due to this and got some people essentially telling me to get over myself 😬

If anyone following this blog thinks it’s okay to harass someone because they dislike a character you love please get off this blog. To people who are afraid of experiencing this, my advice would be to turn off anon asks because then even if you do get asks that make you uncomfortable at least you can block that person, and people in general tend to be more reluctant to be shitty if they have to put a name to it and can’t hide behind anonymity. I’m sorry to anyone who’s had to deal with that.

#asks #anon #racism tw #white favoritism #harassment tw #eleena rants #toh #the owl house #toh Hunter #Hunter #amity blight #Willow park

[blaithnne]

🍋 🍉 🍎 for lauren 👀

(Answering these under What If! AU conditions bc that’s the story I’m working on rn btw!)

GODDD there’s so much I could say here but they’re all spoilers for stuff I’m working on….so, I’ll just say it was the moment she realised her Dad wasn’t coming home :)

Her earrings! Her regular ones are pretty plain (either black or gold depending on how I decide to draw her lol), but she always wears them. She’s a little paranoid the holes will close up if she takes them out, so she constantly has keepers in.

But other than that she just likes wearing them bc she enjoys accessorising and looking pretty, she doesn’t get a lot of opportunities to dress up or anything tends to wear clothing that’s more practical than it is pretty, so her earrings make her feel pretty even when she’s in work clothes

I think people have very much picked up on the fact that she looks a lot like Johanna - and she’s inherited a lot of her features! She’s got her big nose and tall build. Of course her similarity with Hilda is in their shared hair colour, it’s hard to say what other similarities they’d have since Hilda is still but a baby

I’m also gonna use this as an opportunity to discuss their differences! Bc their similarities are so clear I think the differences may be less obvious, plus some of them are recent changes as I’m midway through revamping her reference sheet but here’s a few -!

Lauren may have inherited her big nose from Johanna, but hers is actually a fair bit bigger

She’s a bit more…top heavy than Johanna is. She’s got a larger chest and smaller hips

It’s not hugely noticeable, but she’s a little shorter than Johanna too. I like the idea of Hilda growing to be just a little bit taller than her as well

Buutttt she’s much bulkier and more muscly! She’s a strong girl, she’s got big shoulders and arms and a thicker neck.

This doesn’t apply to canon designs, but I usually headcanon Johanna and Hilda as both having blue eyes, I like the idea of Johanna’s blue matching Hilda’s! But though I’ve gone back and forth a LOT, I think Lauren would have yellow or brown eyes (we’re just pretending yellow is a normal colour for eyes to be ok)

I think she’d probably have a few scars too, though I probably wouldn’t include them in her canon design as it seems like too much for Hilda’s design conventions. But yk, she’s an outdoorsy person who does a lot of physical activity, I can very much see it happening

I think her hair is just ever so slightly curlier than Johanna’s, not by much, but a little

That’s all I can think of in terms of physical features, but that brings us along to traits! Lots of fun shared ones here -

Like with her big nose, Lauren got Johanna’s social anxiety passed down to her, only amped up to a million. Poor woman can barely get through a conversation with the mailman when she first moved back to Trolberg, but she gets better with time

She shares Hilda’s love of the wilderness and the outdoors to an extent, she’ll always chose her family over adventure (though it was a close call that one time…), but she really is in her element roughing it out in the wilderness

When making or headcanoning for Pearson family meme gets I like to give them a creative trait, like one part of art they specialise in - Johanna is a Graphic Designer of course, Hilda enjoys sketching as a child but my personal headcanon is that when she grows up she’ll be a wildlife photographer, so that’s the one I’ve got her as. Lauren however is a painter! It’s just a hobby, and not one she indulges in much, but she finds it relaxing to just paint landscapes and still lives.

I don’t think this counts as a trait, but I’ll include it anyway - she was a sparrow scout and she LOVED it. She didn’t earn quite as many badges as Johanna, but she came close! I may have smthn planned out involving her becoming a Raven Leader someday too

Again don’t know if this counts as a trait but she likes board games, same as Johanna and Hilda. She’s not very good at most of them though, she usually ends up spending all of monopoly in jail

That’s all I can think of for now lol, I’d include some differing traits like I did with features but I’ve been rambling here for SO LONG now lmao, tysm for this ask it was really fun to answer!!!!

#ty for the ask! #existential-dread-crisis #waddles #ask #ask game #Hilda #Hilda the series #Hilda netflix #netflix hilda #Hilda lauren #Lauren hilda #Hilda oc #oc #my oc #Hilda (Hilda) #Hilda johanna #Johanna hilda #Hilda character #text post #headcanon #Sadie thinkin

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12, 17, and 26 for the ship asks, with fugio!! pretty please :)

(From this ask game)

12 - Who initiates kisses?

Early on, it’s almost always Giorno. He knows Fugo needs time and patience, but doesn’t always vocalize what he wants out of insecurity, so he takes initiative (which Fugo doesn’t mind, because it reassures him that, yes, Giorno loves him and actively wants to be affectionate with him). Both of them will ask permission verbally, too. Giorno started this trend before their first kiss, straight-up asking “may I kiss you?”, and Fugo picked up on it, too, even though he’s way less suave about it – he’ll fumble his way through the question, but Giorno figures out what he’s trying to ask pretty quickly. Eventually, they learn to read each other well enough that they don’t need to ask every time, but they still will, every now and then, so they know they’re not pushing each other’s boundaries.

17 - Who says I love you first?

I like to think Giorno would, for similar reasons. Giorno’s probably the first to think it, too – I love the idea that he’s the one who falls in love first. @aromantic-giorno put it perfectly – Fugo devotes himself to Giorno first, and Giorno falls in love with Fugo first.

Actually, now that I think of it, I think it’d be funny if they accidentally said it at the same time. Like, they’re having a cute moment where they’re laughing together, or sitting and looking at each other or something, and they both just blurt out “I love you” and stare in shock for a second.

26 - What would be their theme song?

Behind That Locked Door by George Harrison is so Fugio. Also Daydream Believer by The Monkees. Also Longfellow Serenade by Neil Diamond. Only Sixteen by Sam Cooke is VA Fugio specifically. Sunshine of Your Love by Cream is PHF Fugio.

ALSO I’m gonna say Kathy’s Song by Simon and Garfunkel for:

“And so you see, I have come to doubt

All that I once held as true

I stand alone without beliefs

The only truth I know is you”

Very PHF Giorno POV I think.

(I have a whole playlist here btw. I need to update it but. Yeah)

#i have so many fugio songs i can’t decide. they’re all important #also i’m on mobile and outside so if there’s typos or anything. sorry about that #jjba #jjba headcanons #fugio

[rosesradio]

btw i’m probably gonna become significantly less active and/or reblog some pjo stuff

#the newest olympian put me back into my pjo phase #but the fandom’s into mass tagging i gotta admit :/ #i’ll still try to write the things i said i would but i’m going offline to like learn hobbies and do holiday stuff #idk i think that’s it #rose.txt

[feuqueerfire]

KinnPorsche Finale Episode 14 Live Blogging

Been a while since I waited for an episode since I'm a binger (pretty sure last time was 2gether one of the later episodes lol like ep 11 or smth), so this is fun!

I don't know what I want in this episode... They're gonna explain Porsche's parents' deaths, have the main vs second family shootout, and probably give us more cute Kinn and Porsche. Maybe Kim and Chay will stay broken up, not sure.

Vegas and Pete are what I'm worried about most because I cannot see any satisfying ending for them. If they somehow speed it up real fast so that their arc kinda ends/has a happy ending in the finale, it might cheapen their story and not really hit. If they keep it dangling with nothing resolved, I'll be annoyed because who even knows if season 2 will come to fruition, if it'll be good, if I'll even be into BLs then, agh.

Idk idk, here's to hoping for the best I guess.

Episode 14 (July 9)

dang I was hoping at least an 1.5 hour episode but it’s less than 1.4. hope they can wrap everything up well

lol watching the whole opening credits and Previously for the first time since it's the last time

Bro the Porsche and Korn interaction is so confusing to me. Is this scene of Porsche at this house a flashback? Porsche somehow managed to bypass all guards and hold Korn at gunpoint and was just able to leave (with Vegas no less, was that man and motorcycle just hiding in a bush?) the premises no biggy after finding out Korn’s his uncle?

okay yeah that was a flashback

of course Vegas’ father Gun killed him lol I wish they’d made Korn the murderer, then it’d be like both sides are bad instead of acting as if only Kan is scum and Korn is fine and chill narratively

Aside, will we learn why Korn was telling Porsching that that random old guy killed his parents? He really was gonna let Porsche murder some man thinking he was getting revenge lol

Korn was better as someone who had a slight edge with the possibility of being a terrible person than soft-spoken “I did it all to protect you uwu” even though he kept everything from Porsche and Chay and didn’t look after them well lol.

I hope they somehow turn it around or there's another plot twist and Korn's evil

Is this the first time Kinn and Kim have been in the same frame together? fucking finally I suppose

Tankhun for real the only one I even semi-care about. His crying :(

What was that gaze Kim and Chan shared?

btw no dead body was seen lol

oh, Korn was poisoned?

I missed Kinn the ruthless killer. Seems like wherever episode 1 Kinn ran off to finally came back, though ep 14 is too late

lol Vegas using a bodyguard, one of his own no less, as a human shield is uhhh so good. terrible motherfucker, truly

did they still not give their bodyguards bulletproof vests? At least Chan should’ve had one, mans went to go greet Gun and Vegas

Chan choosing his last breaths to be cigarette smoke

fuckkkk okay Pete and Vegas actively shooting at the other’s side right now. I’m so anxious to know how it’s gonna go down

hello Porsche

I read a spoiler kind of where someone said they wish Vegas and Pete had a little more of a buildup, so I’m assuming they actually get together here?

oh hello, random lady with guns

girl random-ass scene of Kinn and Porsche pointing guns at each other where it doesn't mean anything and has no tension. It's still cute though "I'm not on the main family's side. I'm not on the minor family's side. But I'm on your side." with the last sentence being slightly softer, aw.

Also, I don't even know if I believe Korn lol mans was a liar

Vegas really kicked Porsche's face lol aw my motorcycle besties frenemies :(

:O Vegas really went @ Kinn "Should I shoot first your Head. Chest. Or Heart [points gun at Porsche]" that's romantic lol

selfish, selfish Vegas keeps using his guards as shields <- compliment, by the way, I like that he's still literally terrible and dishonourable

love Tankhun and Arm and their funny little destructive gadgets

yaaas Erika

There's like no tension in this fight anymore since they decided even this needed to be comedic but like it's cute I guess. The show can continue to disappoint in the same way even in the last episode

they really got Chay playing video games while people shooting and fighting in the bg

ooh okay Gun flipping the narrative. I don't trust that man but I'm slightly more likely to believe him maybe because he has no reason to make himself look good lol, he's literally storming the main family and killing people without remorse

Oops, read another spoiler that apparently Korn shoots Gun. So guessing the no body really did mean not dead

did Gun have a romantic interest in Nampheung or something?

lmfao okay that actually made me laugh when Tankhun accidentally made the gadget go off and Arm and Tankhun just stared at each other

oh wow, Pete actually shot Vegas, wasn't expecting that tbh O.O

Damn, Pete for real just going ham punching Vegas face as he should. I'm glad they're showing Pete actually fuck Vegas up

60% of what Vegas has said in this episode has been in English so far wtf

aklsdjfkalsd;fj BITCH "If I die today, could it be you who kills me?" Vegas asking Pete alsjdfksdf it reminds me of Vegas' "If Kinn asks you to kill me, could you make me not suffer?" @ Porsche but this is even more askldfjsdklf romantic and dizzying. Although, is the manipulation level less or more or equal?

Kissing after Vegas asks Pete to kill him kind of and says "I love you" (which: hmmmmmmmm) and with blood in Vegas' mouth due to Pete punching the shit out of him ummmm <3

Vegas pushing Pete off and running away (with a gun), so true. His survival instincts are not drying up just because he's in love or whatever

Pete my love wiping his mouth on his arm before running after Vegas with the gun

I was thinking that maybe Vegas would have to sacrifice himself somehow (jump in front of a bullet for Pete or something) but lowering his gun in front of Pete and also letting himself get punched are like smaller sacrifices that still align with his character, so I'm not mad

lol Korn

omg I was like no body for Korn means he's not dead but that applies to Nampheung too ?!

Dang Vegas sexual assaulter, his father Gun sexual assaulter

how come they showed so many versions of the flashback to Porsche's house on that day but now that apparently the real truth is coming out, they're just describing it with words

no way Gun got shot in the head just as he said "The truth is Nampheung is..."

Anyway, they really had this woman come, be timid for 3 seconds, then faint lol Even in the flashbacks, it was her fainting

I... guess I can't be mad at Kinn for stepping in front of his father so that Porsche doesn't kill him? Even though I'm team Porsche-should-kill-Korn (but only after finding out all info). The reveal that his mom has been alive and hidden away all this time is so... anger-inducing? to me at least lol Porsche hardly has any rage

Ew, Korn called Porsche his nephew

Damn girl they all really just waiting and staring as Vegas tries to process that his father's dead and aims at Korn

Oh I see more bodyguards came

Pete's confession, resignation, taking off his uniform...

Sorry, why is Vegas covered in his own blood and sweat and contemplating killing himself so... I really don't know the word here and the words I'd usually use (endearing/attractive) don't apply here. It is wild and captivating

they keep talking about Pete being hungry

Everything Pete says is killing me by the way. "Why do you keep saying there's nothing left, I'm right here." "You dare to push me away!?" "I'm your pet, aren't I?" "So I had to come find my owner" :) Dead ha ha

Here's the thing: I needed Pete to be the one who pursues the relationship, who explicitly tells Vegas he wants him. But also, Pete was doing so much of the heavy lifting that it's like bruh, Vegas, after all you've done, how dare you push Pete away (in his own words)?

BITCH! No fucking way!!!!! No way some random bodyguard just shot Vegas right now (and then got fucked up by Pete lol)

How much do we believe Korn? Agh, he's a dick fr though

bruh Chay finally realizing lol

Did I read something about Porsche being the head of the minor family in one of the fics I read?

a one-month time skip

Porsche being head of the minor family would hit a lot more if I didn't care more about Vegas than Porsche at this point. Either show me Vegas being head or show me Vegas' anguish at losing the potential title, idc about seeing minor family's guards bow to Porsche

These rings mean nothing to me because I have seen fairly little of the power/influence/dangers of being the head of the minor/major families. These bitches were having fun little polaroid dates in broad daylight and doing very few crime things throughout the series

This show really deprived me of brotherly relationships considering just how many sets of brothers there are. Only Kinn and Tankhun could be counted and I wish Porsche and Chay had more interactions but nah, they really said fuck Feu

rip Chay. So no KimChay endgame for now?

lol speaking of the major and minor family rings meaning nothing to me, they're all just drinking and celebrating now in public like there is no difference to me so this "significant" event is like k, what changed except status perhaps? It's not like y'all do any mafia shit

I don't care about happy cute Kinn and Porsche, give me more VegasPete right nowwwww there are less than 10 minutes left and I'm about to scream

Tay asked about Vegas so I really thought we were going somewhere but it's just more KinnPorsche wtffff

Not Korn looking at Kinn and Porsche's cute photo sent by Tankhun and saying "History is written by the victor" lol yeah I guess we'll never really get the truth about what happened

Okay so Nampheung definitely remembers and hasn't lost her memory for real, right? The expressions she had while meeting Chay and Porsche...

What do you mean end... we get no VegasPete? After credit scene PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

Okay whew, there's after credits and even though it's only 2 minutes, I'll have to take it I guess

It's actually interesting how night and day my reactions to VegasPete vs KinnPorsche scenes are rip. Like the plot/action/violence scenes are like excitement 4-6 depending on how interesting the plot point is, KinnPorsche are like 3-6 and VegasPete are 8-9, I'm literally smiling wide because I'm about to watch the final VegasPete scene of the season and I just read that it's a cute scene

Vegas saying it's alright if Pete wants to run away now

Vegas, bro, it doesn't matter if you "have nothing" now it's not like Pete's after your minor family title

"From now on, you're not my pet. You're the most important person in my life." Those titles aren't mutually exclusive by the way

lmfao Macau saying "That's pretty fast. You're absolutely something" @ Pete like well buddy you have no idea

Okay, cute, sure. Is it quite what I wanted? Especially after how dark the rest of their story has been? How much depth it had? Not quite but like sure. Fine. Cute. Somewhat unearned and the shift from Vegas getting fucking shot x3 to that was certainly a choice but like still cute. Too cute and like family-friendly fluff, I might say, considering their relationship thus far but sure why not. (EDIT: It's been less than 24 hours but there are a handful of VegasPete post-canon fics already and I'm reading through them. I think the ones that write this hospital scene or a bit after it with an edge are doing really well and delivering what I would've wanted. The ones that are like Pete can be both Vegas' pet and the most important person in his life? Yes. Exactly what I'm looking for right now)

That was a fairly fine finale as long as I think 0 thoughts about it (VegasPete garage shootout scene + pool side scene not included). The shootout was fun enough, I liked getting ruthless Vegas using bodyguards as human shields. The mystery/explanations of what happened to Porsche's parents were... well... The writing's weak but also how can Porsche be so happy and calm about it? Shouldn't they be angrier and more distrustful of Korn? For hiding away their mother, for leaving them to fend for themselves, for lying to Porsche about what happened again and again (no but literally who is that man who Korn was like hm he killed your parents). It's just kinda interesting that the audience is like wtf Korn is evil but they made Porsche so stupid and somehow complacent that he doesn't see/challenge Korn. I didn't give a fuck about the major and minor family stuff (why is Porsche even taking the position? I guess it's in the book?), like they do way too little mafia stuff to care about things like this lol

The two VegasPete scenes were so good because it felt like them and the after-credits VegasPete scene felt too cute for what we've gotten of them so far but it was still good because it was cute and we get a cute little family with Macau there as well.

Also, I went on Twitter and knew that there was of Vegas and Pete in a white room, so I knew Vegas wasn't dead when he was shot because that scene wasn't there yet. I wish I'd just finished watching the episode before going on Twitter lol, I think the pool side scene would've impacted me a lot more if I didn't know 100% that they had a happy ending.

Overall:

Extremely weak plot. Extremely weak character development for Kinn and Porsche. How did they manage to make me not at all care about, and sometimes even dislike, KP when I was literally so ready to love them? I was even reading fic for them from before the show aired. Many side characters are under developed and thus don't hold any emotional weight (ex. Ken and Big). Also, Kim's love life is a dead-end and also his investigation didn't turn up anything, so there was no progress for him lol. Korn's evil, the audience can tell but the characters cannot for some reason. Also, the weak writing meant the pacing was off and we spent a lot of time meandering or watching stuff I hardly cared about. Not to mention the plethora of plot holes or the many story threads they just dropped/forgot about.

Vegas and Pete were freaking great. Unexpectedly great considering how weak other aspects of writing were. If there was just a bit more meat to their story after Vegas is shot in the this episode and before we get cute, adorable, cuddle pile with no problems, they would've given me everything I wanted. I'm just amazed they gave me nearly everything I wanted. Not to mention my ultimate weakness: food as love language.

Great acting from the cast, very impressive considering it's the first acting job for several actors. Would be curious to see them in more.

It looked sleek and like there was money put into the show, which there was.

If there's a next season, please get better writers my gosh.

I think the rating is actually more like a 6.5 on enjoyment scale but I'll give it a 7 because I'm reading so much fic. It may not make sense why that would affect the rating of a show but for me, it does make a difference if I care about the characters enough to go seek out more content about them and for VegasPete, I do. I hope someone writes a good fic about what happens in the 1 month that gets Vegas and Pete to become so comfortable and cute instead of Vegas apparently having just woken up then.

Rating: 7 7.5/10 [Oct 29, 2022 Update: Increased by 0.5 stars when rerating my top BLs]  7/10 [Jan 24, 2023 Update: Decreased by 0.5 stars when rerating my top BLs]

Tiktoks I <3ed:

Before I started watching KP:

Ep 3 Drunk Porsche on the pier being cute and wiggling his feet - I thought this was sooo endearing

Ep 5 "He used to stare at Kinn with longing eyes. 🥺 Now, the spark is gone." of sparkly eyed vs cold eyed Porsche (bg: Ang Wakas)

Ep 6 Porsche watching Kinn struggle before producing a lighter

Ep 4 Behind Apo playing around with the condom and lube Big had Porsche deliver

Ep 7 Vegas' bathroom where Kinn slaps Porsche + Porsche slaps Kinn even harder - this killed me by the way :) Porsche smiling at Kinn then it dimming as he realizes Kinn's serious and Kinn's angry little punishment face slap was a lot lot lot for me personally um I truly considered starting the show right then and there

Ep 6 Kinn letting Porsche go at the end + Porsche coming back for a kiss - this was so touching to me, this also made me consider just starting watching

Ep 9 Chay confessing to Kim and the cheek kiss and hug - I was quite into them from the tiktok clips I'd watched of them lol so it's a little disappointing that I didn't really feel anything in the actual show (bg: Thodi Der - so it worked the magic that hindi/urdu songs work on me for edis lol)

Ep 10 KimChay cuddling

Ep 7? KimChay sitting down edit to Kim: You say how I got your address? Don't even worry bout that bro

Ep 7? KimChay hanging out and it seems like Kim's endeared by Chay (bg: Training Wheels - Love everything you do when you call me fucking dumb for the stupid shit I do"

Ep 7 Kim finding Chay's bedroom filled with WIK merch - I actually didn't know it was WIK merch or that Kim was famous at the time so I was like lol is this a Secret Crush On You Toh situation. I only watched the 1st half of the clip too lol I just got the jist

Chay, Porsche, Pete -> Kim/Porsche, Kinn, Vegas edit (bg: you shouldn't mess with me because if you mess with me, you're messing with my family)

Ep 10 Kim looking at Chay leaving the couch with kind of fondness (bg music says 'are you falling in love? have a feeling you are')

Ep 11 Chay confronting Kim + Kim leaving him

Ep 11 Vegas smiling noodle scene (bg: Khoya Khoya) - also saw a clip on twitter of this but with subs like Pete spitting it all out + Vegas eating it. Or was it the pill mouth-to-mouth scene? I think it's the pill scene actually, that one on Twitter made me willing to watch more spoiler clips on tiktok

Ep 10 Vegas electrocuting Pete precursor

Ep 11 Chay confronting Kim "Have you ever loved me?" and compilation of Chay from Kim's POV

"I wanna be your slave, I wanna be your master" edit including all 3 couples and the lyrics fit quite well

Ep 10 Reaction Barcode literally Gripping his pillow and saying "oi" when shirtless Vegas comes on screen lmfao

"Vegas showing what he's going to torture Pete with" but it's Bible showing his gears? electrical stuff? (bg: Welcome to Vegas baby lol)

Ep 11 full noodle interaction with subs - this is probably what I was thinking of in the abone noodle scene lol

Ep 7? Chay describing his crush + KimChay interactions (bg: Tum Jo Aaye)

Ep 4 Apo hiding behind the curtain + getting exposed while Kinn's tryna have sex

Ep 12 Vegas and Pete's sex preamble

Ep 12 "Why didn't you run away" + talking about Vegas' hedgehogs - I didn't fully watch this clip back then when I liked it

Ep 12 Vegas realizing something's wrong + mourning his hedgehog - also only watched the first part of this clip back then

Bible "jealous" of Build and Tong

Ep 12 Pete reading blood type information from Vegas' book - also only watched the first part of this clip back then

Ep 12 Vegas and Pete's sex preamble but make it kinda sad (bg: Glimpse of Us)

tbh I don't know when I started liking tiktoks after I started already watching the show lol I started watching June 27 and these tiktoks were posted June 25 because that's when ep 12 came out but did I like them later on? Don't know. Everything after this next one is from after I started watching for sure 100%

Ep 12 Porsche backing down from killing the old man after seeing his granddaughter (bg: Unconditionally by Katy Perry x another sad song idk)

Tay edit to "He needed more than me"

Minor Family edit to Punk Tactics

Ep 13 Vegas Pete meeting again in Yok's bar + Pete unable to shoot Vegas

VegasPete and Not Me ToddBlack parallels

some Twitter Space chaos from the cast

Reaction to episode 11 Chay crying "The reason for Kim doing this? Better be good!" "Is this the helicopter scene? How am I supposed to watching this and my baby cryin'? I don't wanna see this man get slopped, I wanna fight Kim!"

Vegas and Pete cute interactions before uh episode 10

#kinnporsche #vegaspete #ep by ep commentary

[a-froger-epic]

I know this probably isn’t socially acceptable because I don’t have kids but I have to ask you please please please please establish open communication with your kids while they’re young. And actually follow through with it. Don’t just say “ you can talk to me about anything” once and never bring it up again. And when they do wanna talk about something, listen to them. don’t get mad or offended, don’t punish them for expressing their feelings, don’t invalidate them. Fucking. Listen. And above all love them unconditionally, and SHOW them that you do.

You seriously don’t understand how badly not having a safe space at a young age fucks up a person for the rest of their lives(if you do understand the feeling I’m sorry that you’re in the same boat as me). So much of my childhood trauma would have never happened if my parents did this. But I spent my life on eggshells trying to never upset anyone and grasping at any tiny speck of affection I was thrown. Now my mental state is so fucked I don’t even think therapy would help. Genuinely. I don’t think there’s any fixing me. I’ve been suicidal since I was 5 years old, attempted over 12 times(yes I am that terrible at everything) none of them know and I don’t think they’d care.

Tomorrow there’s a family gathering. My parents will be there. They’re going to smile and hug me and act like they love me and that they’re so happy I’m there. Ans it’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt so much because I want it so fucking badly. I want their praise, their love, their acceptance, I want them to want me. But I know as soon as we’re back home it’s gonna go back to normal. Back to them ignoring me, yelling at me, hating me, treating me like I’m horrible, a burden, like they regret having me. I know they wish I wasn’t here and a lot of the time I wish I wasn’t either.

I’ve been crying off and on all night and I keep having to actively stop myself from self harming. I’m trying not to but I honestly just don’t see much of a reason not to anymore so it’s hard. I probably will barely sleep tonight knowing how rough tomorrow is going to be. I know I’m gonna wanna do terrible things to myself once I’m home again. So it’s gonna be another fun night.

Sorry for dumping all this I’m just trying to distract myself I guess. Just love the fuck out of your kids. Or they may end up like me. This is was not being loved as a child does to you.

Or at least what it did too me. I’m sorry this is so long I just don’t wanna be alone rn and this just feels less alone but I am gonna stop now. You absolutely don’t have to reply either btw it’s fine. It’s a lot, I know. Especially about someone you don’t even know. So sorry.

Hi, anon. ❤️

I'm so sorry for the late reply, I've been very busy and didn't want to reply to this without giving it my full attention.

My heart hurts for you. 😢 No child should grow up feeling like they are not wanted or not loved, and yet your story is not rare, which is just awful. Parenting is just about the most demanding thing in the world, and sometimes people simply do not rise to the challenge, which is never the child's fault because they did nothing wrong.

You did nothing wrong. There is nothing wrong with you and you deserved love, even though you didn't get it. I'm so, so sorry.

The only thing I can tell you is that the human heart (and psyche) is so much more resilient than we often think, and it may not be an easy path, but there is a way to healing. You will find people in your life who WILL be your family, who WILL love you, who WILL care.

Please stay safe. ❤️

#ask response #Tw self-harm #Tw suicide

[pwnyta]

Apologies for my mistakes in advance.

Ok, so, I have a question for you.

Some time ago (honestly, it might have been kind of a long time ago) you’ve been talking about Genshin and how you prefer when the mc is not the point of view character but just someone who spectates from afar while other characters living their lives/stories. Tbh I’m not entirely sure that it was the exact thing that you said, but at the very least, that’s how I’ve remembered it xD

(Not trying to put words in your mouth btw, again, that’s just how I’ve remembered it)

So, my question is: do you not like MCs, like, in general? Like I know that it’s a strange question and that mc from Genshin feels more like a self-insert (I think they get better as the time goes on, maybe they’ll be their own characters by the end of the game lol), so it’s strange to question whether or not you like MCs just based on this one answer, but I was wondering about it so I decided to ask.

I’m not gonna lie, I am (kind of) a main character truther, they usually end up being my favorite characters, and if I don’t like mc, then I usually drop the work as a whole (because I don’t want to consume something that’s going to anger/annoy me, and bc MCs are usually a huge part of the story, I would rather just not interact with the story as a whole. Kind of unrelated, but my hatred for Bak*go forced me to drop mha bc he started to gain more and more screen time, and even though he is not THE main character, I still think that’s a good example).

Like. I hope you don’t think that I’m looking for troubles or anything, but as a person who likes MCs and as someone who would rather drop the work if I can’t emphasize with them/don’t like them/feel like they are NOT treated or behave like main characters, I’m just interested in the perspective of someone who doesn’t care for those characters/don’t like them in general.

Sorry if my message was confusing, I hope you got my point.

Well honestly I do tend to find MCs significantly less interesting than other characters. MCs tend to be the most generic character so that people can relate to them… thats just not how I read stories so it does nothing for me.

Like Naruto (& honestly the rest of his team) I found him (them) largely annoying and was always more interested in the stories of other characters with weirder powers (like Shino) & because I like more minor characters I Guess Im just more tolerable of their absence so long as the story is fun (Shino was probably THE most neglected of class but I stuck through Naruto until it wasnt fun anymore.)

But yeah especially in something like Genshin where Aether/Lumine are both the MC… and nothing really changes based on the character you pick... they arent a real character and what they do doesnt really matter because its just a stand in.

Like if you made QIQI the main character things would inherently change because she is her own character and the world would have to change based on what she might do. Her options to choose would be SO much different since shes a child and a zombie and w/e the world couldnt possibly be the same…. or CYNO would be interesting because hes got such a different temperament and also struggles with discrimination from being a desert dweller so there would even be more resistance... Hes basically got 2 personalities the quiet professional who keeps his head down and the goofy little meme boy who likes puns and YGO thats closer to who he really is and only shows to his friends (who hate it… OMG WINDBLUME IM STILL DEVASTATED LEARNING CYNO IS QUITE WHILE WORKING BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE RACIST AND HE ONLY JOKES WITH HIS FRIENDS BUT HIS FRIENDS ARE ACTIVELY ANNOYED BY IT AND DONT WANT TO HEAR IT…. IM SICK. …anyway.)

You can interchange Lumine and Aether and nothing changes because theyre not a real characters with their own personality so I just cant give a shit about them. The only thing that makes them tolerable is that its pretty clear Aether is supposed to be the main character canonically.

That said I wouldnt completely dismiss an MC just for being an MC…. some are interesting or serviceable enough to be somewhat likable. I love Luffy from One Piece, I like Tsuna from KHR and I did like Deku from MHA at first though recently he just feels like he doesnt matter at all (which normally I wouldnt mind since I usually prefer side characters stories but cutting screen time of Deku and focusing on characters who genuinely dont fucking matter or are terribly written like Endeavor or the side villains whos stories are forced and/or dont fucking MEAN anything… its frustrating. As much as I cant STAND Bakugo I actually wouldnt mind him having more screen time because he IS important to the story (or should be)… same with Todoroki but Bakugo is just a FLACCID and stagnant character and Todo was fucking wasted as Hori somehow thought itd be a better idea to build his abusive POS father without him present… DONT UNZIP ME NONNY. IM SO MAD…).

UM…. yeah. I didnt take offense or anything to the question… I actually love having an excuse to bitch about silly shit like this. Fandom discourse used to be one of my favorite pastimes before people started pretending it was serious business because theyre too lazy to do any actual social justice.

#Dear Nonny.

[luna-spacedoodles]

btw i’m gonna be a bit less active starting from like. an hour and a half ish from when i post this until monday probably bc i have to go to texas of all places

#not yet but again in like an hour and a half

[therealvinelle]

Hello! Why do you think Carlisle likes Aro? (Love your meta btw!)

This blog lasted 25 days before becoming an Aro/Carlisle blog. The sanity was nice while it lasted, I suppose.

Oh well, I embrace my trash ship.

(Anon is referring to this post)

(This one is also relevant)

So, while on Aro’s end it was a case of “did the gods just give me my very own Enkidu?”, for Carlisle we must look at the circumstances. The Carlisle Cullen who walked into Volterra is not the Carlisle Cullen who works at Forks General.

Carlisle was a demon-hunting priest who brought his religion into his new life. Having no idea what he’d just become, apart from the obvious things like “I desperately want to kill people for their blood” and “I sparkle?!”, many of the things that are obvious to us would not be at all obvious to him. His only experience with other demons was the slum-dweller that killed him. It was brutal, and three other people from his parish were murdered as well. He’d been able to track the vampire down, something I can only take that to mean that the vampire used his parish for hunting grounds. He’s so horrified by what he’s become that he tries to destroy himself. This fails, and instead he finds a way out that lets him live without having to kill, and with that comes to the realization that vampires retain their souls (which is for another post).

My point being, Carlisle wakes up as a demon, and has no way of knowing how any of this works, nor of how to explain the fact that he is able to retain his soul. It’s telling that even after centuries of being a vampire he still thought something might be fundamentally different about him, as he chose to turn Edward by simulating his own transformation, even though it meant more pain for Edward. In other words, Carlisle was not guaranteed that his experience was universal. By the time we meet him in canon he’s wonderfully friendly to everybody regardless of what they eat, but I strongly doubt he got from point “Demons are monsters and I’ll rally a mob to lynch them!” to “Vampires are people who sadly eat other people.” right away.

So, you have freshly immortal Carlisle Cullen wandering around Europe with no way of knowing that other vampires are as (for lack of a better word) human as he is. How can they be, when they choose to eat people? (My personal headcanon is that he went by a Persephone theory, and figured that by resisting human blood he’d remained a man.)

It was this Carlisle who met Aro and the other Volturi. According to Edward (I unfortunately don’t have Twilight with me so I can’t quote his exact words), they were the ones who showed him that vampires can in fact be sophisticated.

Sophisticated. Not just as in Aro, Marcus, and Caius eat their virgins with some fava beans and a nice chianti, but as in they’re civilized and intelligent beings. Carlisle was no longer a one lone freak who somehow retained his soul while everyone else went full Buffy vampire, or any other such theory. I can’t even imagine the impact that must have had on a young Carlisle who would have been even lonelier than the Carlisle who found Edward in Chicago. That Carlisle at least had friends, this younger version had absolutely nobody.

Aro changed that.

More than being sophisticated, Aro turned out to be a kindred spirit, an absolutely brilliant mind and a generous host. Carlisle chose to live with him for decades, leaving only because of their dietary differences. And even if people disagree with me with all of the above, I don’t think anyone can argue that this one isn’t huge.

Of all the people Carlisle knows in canon, Aro is the only one he stayed with just for Aro’s own sake. Carlisle loves the Cullens dearly, but the cornerstone holding them together is their shared diet, and the fact that Carlisle turned four of them, the other two joined. He did not happen upon them and then like them so much that he decided to move in. As for his other friends, he cares for them all, but he didn’t share decades of his life with them.

Regardless of how we’re interpreting their relationship (as in, platonic, UST, or raging homosexual affair), I don’t think anyone can dispute that Carlisle and Aro are each other’s best friends.

But beyond proving that vampires aren’t all sewer-dwelling, priest-eating rascals, what exactly made Aro so special?

I’ll just list his qualities in no particular order.

Sophistication This guy is a lover of the arts and of knowledge. His gallery and library must have been the most extensive and diverse in the world, and it probably still is. I can’t even begin to imagine the wealth of knowledge and treasures that Aro must have collected over the years. If the Holy Grail exists within the world of Twilight, Aro has it. Where I’m headed with this, is that not only would Aro’s collection be the coolest thing ever to Carlisle, but also that this was a time when the number of books and an art collection was a sign of high class, of intellectualism, of all things fine and noble that was considered virtuous. Aro acts very much like wealthy European nobility, he even lives in Italy, the cultural epicenter of the Western world of old. He physically could not have been more impressive to Carlisle.

Kind of a continuation of the previous point: Aro is from Ancient Greece (well, he’s Myceanaean, but same difference to a “You predate Homer?!” starstruck Carlisle). Ancient Greece was the ultimate, perfect, civilization to Europe, and Carlisle got to Volterra just ahead of the Enlightenment. This alone would have made him so unbelievably cool to Carlisle.

Nerd I think this one speaks for itself. Carlisle is an unbelievable nerd, an inquisitive mind who’ll study anything and everything, and in Aro he found someone who also has an inquisitive mind and will study anything and everything. They’re both very intelligent. Carlisle went from being that sad whale that sings on a frequency no other whales can hear, to having someone who just got it.

His gift So you’re all gonna have to stay with me on this one. Aro’s gift is one most people would find very invasive, which as I touched upon in one of the posts linked above must be very isolating. And yet we know from canon that Carlisle has no problem at all with Edward reading his mind all the time, and more, if Aro reading his mind was a problem then Aro and Marcus would both have known, and I doubt their friendship would have worked out. So, I think that Carlisle not only didn’t mind having his every thought read, but that this was an actively good thing. Because what is less lonely than the company of one who knows you as intimately as you know yourself? To be friends with Aro is to be truly understood, known more deeply than anyone else can ever know you. And to someone who seeks companionship as much as Carlisle does, I imagine this is an extremely attractive feature.

Offer of friendship Carlisle would have been hopelessly lonely when he met Aro. And as no one else is mentioned as being close to him, Jane hadn’t even met him which I find pretty telling of how he interacted (or didn’t interact) with the Guard, and he wouldn’t yet have any of his other friends that he later made, he only had Aro.

He enforcers a law that keeps the known world from descending into chaos Human civilization wouldn’t last a day without the Volturi. There would be nothing stopping vampires from taking out entire villages in one go, immortal children would be everywhere, and the newborn armies would spread like wildfire. In the world of Twilight, the Volturi are a necessary evil. And Aro is their leader. The fact that he not only keeps the world together, an ungrateful task with no end in sight, but had the idea to create a law in the first place would make him all the more amazing to Carlisle.

And I’m sure there’s more that is currently slipping my mind.

Just, Aro is on every level the most impressive, awe-inspiring, and dare I say dazzling, that anyone can be to Carlisle. And he came into Carlisle’s life at the best possible moment. If he’d agreed to do the animal diet, Carlisle would have stayed. If he wanted to seduce Carlisle, I think he’d succeed. I also think that their time together was far more formative for the person Carlisle became than anyone gives Aro credit for.

(And if Carlisle had never found anyone who’d share the diet, he would eventually have returned. I imagine Aro thought the same, but that’s for another post.)

Oh, and last bit - in Breaking Dawn we get this beautiful moment where Carlisle learns that Aro robbed the British royal family, and he just goes, “yup, that’s my guy”. Even after Eclipse, he remains fond of Aro. I mean, there’s also the fact that he’s been lugging around this giant painting for centuries, even at a time when he didn’t have a house and I can only speculate as to where he was keeping it.

Of course, over the course of Eclipse and Breaking Dawn everything goes to hell, but that’s for another post.

TL;DR, Carlisle went from a priest’s son to living with an evil vampire overlord for decades because he’s just that great, in the present he keeps a giant painting of him in his office. I feel it’s safe to assume he likes the man.

(Edited on the 13th of April to fix some phrasing and add a link)

#this is... not my most eloquent production #OH WELL #the last time i thought as much was the bella is doomed post and that one took off so maybe that's a good thing #carlisle cullen #aro #aro/carlisle #twilight #twilight renaissance #twilight meta #my glorious ship #i just don't know what to make of people who want to insist it's one-sided and carlisle ran away screaming from that evil aro #you guys have to bend canon far more than i do to arrive at that conclusion #is it because he's a threat to carlisle/esme? #Anonymous #ask #long post

[fluffynexu]

marriage and birthrate in the empire

like with many cultures and societies, the empire has its customs and norms when it comes to things like marriage.

for the vast majority of ppl in the empire, sith or imperial, monogamy is the most common type of marriage seen. and within monogamous unions the couple can be of any combo of gender or sex.

for simplicity’s sake the color code is as followed: RED, female BLUE, male PURPLE, trans/nb/intersex

those in higher castes have more stipulations, considerations, and thought put into their partners rather than those in lower castes who can casually hook up with whoever they want.

another type of marriage that is seen, though not very commonly, are polygamous marriages.

with a poly marriage there is the head of house (crown icon) and the spouses/consorts (no crown).

these unions are typically only seen among sith families with prestige and history, but it’s not completely unheard of for some imperials to have them as well.

a monogamous marriage can turn into a poly one. if the head of house is like “hey, there’s this person i met... and i kinda like them? maybe if you vibe with them, i can bring them into our union?” and their spouse says “cool beans.” then yea, more spouses lol.

within a poly union, all children must be of the head of house’s bloodline. and the children produced with the first spouse (grey box) become the household heir(s)... usually.

and while all of the spouses/consorts may be married to the head of house, any/all parties can engage in whatever intimate activities they want with each other. the only “unacceptable” thing would be to produce any children that does not involve the head of house.

so you could have two husbands or wives that are way more into each other than the head of house. and it’s all seen as totally cool and fine. such attitudes however are more common among the sith than with humans.

now speaking of heirs.

for those in the upper castes, having An Heir of some sort is important and kind of a big deal. it’s part of the reason why getting juuust the right marriage partner is so important. it’ll usually be a thing the families discuss and negotiate over months or even years.

it’s serious business... lol.

but regardless of type of marriage (monogamous or poly), there is the one getting married (crown) and the one being married off (no crown).

those that are married off take the family name of their spouse and all resulting children of the union have that family name.

with the children you’ll either have an heir or a chosen heir.

in the GREEN circle up above you have an example of a plain, regular heir. that is to say, the firstborn.

in the ORANGE circle you have a chosen heir. not the firstborn.

there could be a myriad of reasons on why the family decided on a chosen heir over a regular one. maybe the oldest kid is a dumbass and fucks up. maybe they died before getting married. maybe the kid didn’t want that responsibility. etc.

again, as we move down the caste ladder, the less and less important all these inter-familial details become.

most “common” folk simply hook up with whoever they like, have kids, and their kids go off and do the same. they may not even take on their spouses name depending on how much they care about that.

just on a side note, if the married couple isn’t capable of producing children by themselves modern medicine and technology can help. or if the option exist, they could go the old school, natural route.

for example, among same sex sith couples (PINK rectangles) they will look for and hook up with other couples and... help each other out.

these unions don’t happen too often since they’re only there to make the babies and go on their way lol. though, the two families could stay connected and friendly if they wish.

now this is a lot of pomp and circumstance to get some babies! and you’d be right lol.

bringing in some REAL LIFE FACTS lol, but here’s how things went down and are going down for ppl irl on earth.

you see everywhere on the planet, before the advent of industrialization, you had populations like this.

all the babies. so many babies. but not too many old folk. 

and it’s obvious why. no birth control, lack of modern medicine, famine, diseases, wars, etc etc etc. a lot of ppl died before getting ripe and old.

nowadays, or at least among the Wealthy Industrialized~ nations, it looks something like this.

also a couple of real graphs just to show how drastically things have changed.

a lot less babies!

this is attributed to a LOT of things. full super in depth research here if anyone wants: https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate

but in short... yea. birth control, women being educated and being allowed to work means they don’t have to just pump out kids. (which is GOOD btw). and the fact we have a lot more food and access to medicine means more ppl are living longer.

this ofc, is leading to Actual problems tho. bc if you don’t have enough New Ppl to replace the Old Ppl... yea, there will be some societal issues. now, i’m so nOT an expert but imho countries like the US could off set this by... immigration. by letting other ppl into the country to make up for a declining birthrate... but i digress!

within the empire you could have something like this during wartime where you’d have a portion of your adult population go off to fight and probably die.

but the IDEAL is this:

a perfect square of population if you will lol.

as older generations age out and die off, you have newer generation to fill their roles and keep the imperial dream going.

now unlike some modern countries irl that do a terrible job of trying to incentivize young adults into having kids (we all know who lol), the empire aids and supports parents 110%.

paid leave (for both), govt run daycares and schools so that when the kids are old enough to go to those the parents can focus back on their work. either tax breaks or monthly allowances from the govt to help pay for the kids. and usually, extended familial support is more common in the empire. so the question for most ppl in the empire isn’t “do you want to have kids?” but rather “when are you having kids?”

if however someone just vehemently opposes the idea of being a parent, there is no down side. the empire will not force parenthood on ppl since that’s a terrible idea for everyone involved.

that’s basically it... a more informal and jumbled post i know lol.

a few side notes?

teen pregnancy isn’t really a thing. if it happens the attitude is “you’re basically a child so no, you’re not gonna have baby.” (abortion is seen as a health service)

when imperials join the military at 20 (the legal adult age in the empire) everyone, regardless of sex, gets a birth control implant. bc having a lot of young adults close together... ppl are bound to get horny and you don’t wanna have the possibility of anyone having kids in inopportune circumstances so yea. they can have the implant removed whenever their mandatory service is done and get straight to making babies if they want lol.

children born out of wedlock def exist. very frowned upon in upper castes. not really a big deal with lower castes.

can you adopt kids. yes. and unlike rl where you have to pay lots of money, you don’t really pay anything. but the govt will require a lot of forms and check ups and visits and etc etc.

can adopted children become house heirs? yes. if that is the wish of their parent.

god the drama and tropes there must be in their media... “well your father is a lesser consort, so how bout you stfu!” “D:<”

are there “pure love” marriages in upper castes? yes. but a lot of drama revolve around those depending on who is the one being married off.

also, sith can and have been totally disowned if they decide to marry someone without their family’s approval. (this is serious business for them! lol)

y’all are free to send me questions or comments or whatever.

#swtor #worldbuilding #god idk what else to tag this as #literally just... brain vomit #composing some thoughts into one place #long post