#don't expect answers from him

[tathrin]

The Extremely Serious and Scientific Legolas Fandom Hair Colour Poll:

What colour hair do you picture in your head for your personal mental image of Legolas of the Woodland Realm? (Not necessarily which one you think is more or less "canonical"; rather just what you see in your head when you're reading something.)

Ideally, you can also share when and how you were first exposed to Lord of the Rings in the tags or reblogs, and what you think most influenced your mental image.

No I'm not procrastinating from writing stuff, go away.

#personally i've pictured him and his dad both looking just like saaski from eloise mcgraw's ''moorchild'' since my first read of the hobbit #(and it'll take a lot more than his silhouette against the stars to pry that image from my cold dead and re-embodied hands lol) #that's just too good a visual to give up ESPECIALLY with all the gimli ''hands shall flow with gold'' stuff that comes in later #but i was around in the 2000s for when the fandom divided into two very distinct and passionate camps on this question #with the fact that he'd been often illustrated with blonde hair and occasionally with dark getting subsumed by Movie vs Book Snobbery wars #where everybody had to be Very Certain And Concrete In Their Canon Arguments about which was his One True Haircolor #so i'm curious what the general consensus (or if there even is one) is now #but i don't expect an actual answer from the ten people following my blog who will see this poll so instead let's do something silly with i #because what else are tumblr polls for? #polls #legolas #lotr #lord of the rings #lotr polls #fandom polls

[journey-to-the-attic]

Imagine if he sent that to IK???

uh oh, simeon!

or, alternatively:

#art #obey me #answering asks #anon asks #ik was expecting a nice conversation not to get confronted with her father's mortality and her mother's absence at the exact same time #obey me simeon #obey me satan #jtta ik #i don't even know what simoen was thinking when he sent that in-game #like WHERE did that thought come from dude #for this we'll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he was attempting a joke

[somegrumpynerd]

Started reading The Bad Wingmen by @topazshadowwolf and @paddie-ut and it utterly possessed me for a few days so I needed to draw some of my favourite bits

#UTDR #UTMV #Dadmare #Dust Sans #Killer Sans #Nightmare Sans #Balance Toriel #You ever read a fanfic so good you have to draw 4 pages worth of moments from it? #I think I probably could have done more but I needed to have some self control so this post wouldn't be enormous lol #I didn't expect to get so invested in this one but the Dust and Killer interactions really fascinate me #They're so chaotic and they get at each other's throats even though they're not that different but they have each other's backs deep down #I'm just. They're brothers your honour and I love to see it #Almost all of these are from one chapter but the whole thing is so good #Fuzzynight is growing on me I'm excited to see more of these two #And don't get me started on Nightmare's unruly kids trying to set him up because they want him to be happy #It's eternally sweet but also hilarious #The real question is are they still grounded now that Nightmare and Lyra have agreed to date? #The answer is almost certainly yes but I feel like they'll still argue they should get a reduced punishment for being right (and helping) #Also I tried to do the dappled sunlight effect you described with the last picture because it was so vivid to me #And I love to see a rare moment of Dust and Killer at peace with each other #Oh my god there are four million tags I'm sorry tldr I love this fic I want to print it out and eat it okay goodbye!! #My Art

[enhanced-operatives-division]

i would love to hear about the ollie and handler crack ship here’s a silly doodle as well

LOVE THE DOODLE YOU SEE THE VISION!!!

Also this got my ass to design Ollie so:

(Love him - Also redesigned Reggie for this too so thanks!!)

And idk if it's moreso a crackship or a rarepair that only works in an AU (HACKS up Starstruck), but Reggie's line of "...and I hope Ollie made it out too. I hope a lot of things." It's totally me reading into it but like,,,,I want them to talk because Ollie is not dead to me in my heart of hearts.

Maybe the only change is like Reggie taps into the communication on the radio in Hot Water instead of using the earpiece, so Ollie ends up hearing him also? And they end up getting along really well (with Reggie having to jump through a couple hoops to be like "haha what agency..."). There's an Agency base in the South-East coast of Australia and maybe the Agency ends up adopting him after he washes up on the shore with the escape pod (after HEAVY questioning).

Alas take a doodle of my own:

Transcript (it's just canon lines):

Ollie: "She's being controlled, it's not her fault."

Reggie: "Agent, I have 0 experience dealing with giant security squids."

#idk i know realistically JJ and Reggie will probably never interact so like this is the one I can root for right? #<- ollie is probably still at the bottom of the ocean #alas. i think they could be silly together. because like. idk. they have the same vibe to me #i feel like they would have a GREAT TIME at a barbeque actually #i digress #in terms of the art though!!! Ollie!!!!!!!!n #I've never drawn dreads before shdjdkf i had to redraw the hair on that first one genuinely about 6 times #idk it came from like. if he's been underwater for a long time dread would prolly be somewhat convinent in terms of hairstyles #also we don't talk abt how ollie probably knew fabby because it's implied she was working down there???? #tbh she probably hated himshsjekdld he would be clueless #and uhhhh back on my I can't draw reginald crane in a way im happy with ever. an example ahdkdlf #I've liked exactly 1 drawing of him I've ever done i think i need to do a completely different design over just the little tweaks here idk #anyways ty for the ask sorry it took so long to answer you can see why lmao #it was fun though!!! like i say it got my ass to draw ollie finally and i do like his design #ieytd #i expect you to die #[agent moose's art] #reginald crane #ollie ieytd #oh ship name ummmm #hm #earpiece??? uhhhhhhh radio signal???? idk #leavung it for now im so bad at naming things

[paimonial-rage]

will they try to fix you and tighnari?

[Character Analysis Ask Meme]

Will Tighnari try to fix you?

Though he may garner the fear of many, for people that know him well, it is quite easy to see that Tighnari cares for the people around him. And, well, he is also a bit of a nag too. How quick he is to notice when you haven't been showing your face around as much as usual or if you're finding yourself in more and more trouble. He does not hesitate to call you out right on the spot and point out your faults before a listening crowd. But that isn't all, isn't it? Then his voice will soften after scolding you. And with a scowl on his face, he'll soothe the harshness of his words with an invitation to dinner or to an academic lecture he will be having soon. He may complain about your various shortcomings, but he'll never abandon you. He will not let you go through your problems alone.

#genshin x reader #tighnari #tighnari x reader #i'm sorry this took so long #i was feeling really under the weather this past week so i've kind of been really out of it #long story short to your question though... the answer is both yes and no #the easiest way to see it is the way he treats collei and kaveh #for collei he is her master and for kaveh he is kaveh's friend #however you'll notice in both cases while he will harp on them he does not force his will upon them nor does he live their life for them #he will tell collei to sit out forest ranger duties but he does not control how late she stays up or what she does in her free time #for kaveh tighnari will scold him when he drinks too early but he won't do more than that #in the same sense while he would try to fix 'you' by nagging you and whatnot don't expect him to be on your butt about it #he will not constantly check in on you nor will he order you around #he'll scold you and will call you out #he'll invite you to spend time with him to get away from troubles #but that's the extent to how far he will go for you #in the end what you do with your life is your choice #he retains the right to judge you for your decisions though lol

[talentforlying]

@thicketville: meta: did john ever want to go to college? what would he have studied if he did? if not, did he ever want any sort of higher education, like a vocational degree or apprenticeship? — META TOPICS.

i think college was always a very distant concept for him growing up: more 'something that happens to posh people in the big cities' than a potential career path. john's father was a dock worker before losing his arm and most of their relatives did labor-intensive jobs in and around either the coal mines or the docks, so for anyone who actually thought john had a future — which was very few people, if anyone — it was sort of expected that he'd wind up in the same realm of work. they could never hope to afford college, so cheryl wouldn't have brought it up to him as a possibility, because john was a dreamer of a kid and would've gotten himself in trouble with their father if he insisted on pursuing it.

honestly, john's childhood was lived one day at a time, and nobody really thought he was going to survive past the teenage years (least of all john), so he really never considered a future for himself at all, other than "one day i'll get out of here". and even that felt like a pipe dream before he discovered magic. these days, i don't think he spends time considering what might have been anymore, because the past is the past and it eats him alive already without him helping it along, but in a perfect, perfect world, i think he would've loved college, and maybe gone into creative writing.

#thicketville #i'm so very normal about constantine's childhood i swear :') #the fact that the issue 'dead boy's heart' that shows us his childhood is talking about both the story content And john.... #he was a dead boy from the second he was born. expected to die early or be in trouble forever. nobody caring which one it ended up being #but he had SUCH a big heart and SUCH an active imagination!! he was SO smart and well-meaning and compassionate!! #he was always making up stories and play-acting and reading and inventing new worlds to put himself in! he SO would have been a writer!! #but everyone told him he was dark. told him he was nothing. told him he was broken. and he started to believe it and become it #god i just think all the time about how everybody looked at him as a kid and went 'don't worry dear the world will break you soon enough' #and Nobody thought to try and protect him from that. ends me #( headcanons. ) I'M JUST LIKE THE BASTARDS I'VE HATED ALL ME LIFE. #( answered. ) THIS IS JOHN CONSTANTINE. FUCK OFF.

[theflyingfeeling]

hellooooooo 💗💖💕 I hope the reason why we're not seeing Olli's face so far is because he's been clinging to Allu like a cute sleepy koala from the very moment they saw each other again

I know it has been days since the end of the US tour, but just imagine them laying on their beds counting the days until they can be together 🥺💘💗💕💗💖 and when they're next to each other again, Allu doesn't dare to leave Olli's embrace until they have to board the plane, and Olli kisses Allu's face non stop since he's sorry because he wasn't able to celebrate Allu's birthday 😭😭

(for whatever reason, because my delulu brain likes to think that Olli didn't go back to Oulu after the US tour and stayed at Allu's place, but this is another setting so delulu thought not valid here)

meanwhile the band and crew are like......... yeah can't show this on social media without exposing your secret relationship or whatever you guys are doing 😬

anyway, I do miss Olli 😭 have a lovely weekend 💘💗💕💖💘💖

omg that must be it!! they can't post pictures together anymore because by now they're so in love it would just be painfully obvious to everyone 🫣 and funny you should say that, because just the other day I was thinking a lot about how they both (or Olli in particular) probably do a lot of spontaneous resting-their-head-on-the-other's-shoulder and stuff like that because they just want to be closer to each other 😭💕

but yeah, it would be nice to see Olli's face once more before he goes into full hibernation mode 😔

same to you, have a lovely weekend!! 💖✨

#i know nothing but i'm expecting there to be one more single (and hopefully mv) from the upcoming album before album release #i also don't know when the album will be released (and i'm wondering when they'll tell us the info other than 'in the spring' 🤨) #but i assume the album will be out before the tour that carries the album's name lol #so maybe we'll at least get some promo content for a new song during the winter at least #(perhaps even new merch since there was none for deadzone 👀) #but other than that i'm not expecting to hear from olli until album release / the tour starts in march and that makes me so sad 🤧 #and no of course i don't expect him to post on his social media all the time #he doesn't owe us content and we're not entitled to anything from him etc. etc. etc. #but...just a little something every now and then would be nice? 🥺 #which is why i need aleksi to start streaming again asap to offer us crumbs of olli content on the side 🤲 #answered asks #ollixallu #catboyolli

[arcxnumvitae]

Lifetrap Test

You have a fundamental belief that you will lose the people you love and be left emotionally isolated. Whether you imagine that they will die, send you away, or leave you, somehow you feel that it is inevitable that you will be left alone. You expect to be abandoned, and you see the state of loneliness as the default condition in your life. In your heart, you feel it is your destiny to live completely alone. You often read the intent to abandon you into even innocent remarks made by others. Anything that feels like others have disengaged can trigger these fears in you, even if there is no actual danger. Once triggered, you tend to go through a cycle of negative emotions – anger, grief, and fear.

People with abandonment can be alone for long periods of time. They might withdraw from close relationships out of hurt, or out of fear of being hurt again. Many have already faced loneliness as children and know they can survive it. Loneliness is not the issue. Rather, it is the process of separation that is devastating – that is, having a connection and then losing it, only to be thrown back into loneliness once more.

#q 4 cash #{Mhoirbheinn Games #{Mhoirbheinn Headcanon #this could've been so much worse but there were so many questions where I went #'No because of Bal' #Bal thinks he's bad for Mhoirbheinn but the internet psychology test doesn't lie #honestly I don't even think the blurb is fully correct because of Bal's presence at Mhoirbheinn's side over the years #he doesn't /expect/ abandonment but he does fear ever losing Bal which was the basis for those answers I picked #but it is still correct in a way in how we've seen Mhoirbheinn react whenever he's faced with the thought that he's 'messed up' and will #ostracize Bal or cause Bal to leave him #i.e. the accidental biting scenario #or that argument that sprang from the kids attending meetings

[miabrown007]

mal in the grishaverse is to alina what jacob in twilight has been to bella. in this essay i'll...

#okay so in twilight jacob is like bella it's unnatural that edward is alive he should have been dead long ago. and if he was and he didn't #meddle with natura and the timeline i would be the one for you in our timeline. but he's here because he's extra special and that makes me #obsolete. because like alina and mal matched until they were both common and not special but now alina is a summoner and #she's the specialest of special girls and mal is throwing a tempter tantrum over that right #and they are like. they should be best friends and nothing more. #anyway that was point A #I'm over not one not two but three glasses of wine but even like this I know that one point justification belongs in my friends DMs not #an essay so let me present point B #so he's like the firebird right (he just circled her hand where the last amplifier would go and they felt weird #incredible foreshadowing btw) so like he belongs to her but only part of her belongs to him and that's very jacob vibes with all the #renesmee business. and also mal is just. so desperate to define himself by what he is to alina like he expects the answer to his own #identity crisis that is the consequence of his own actions (deserting literally no one asked that of him) from her #like the only way he thinks about defining himself is in relation to her . and like yeah ig they are teenagers and 'in love' or whatever #(they have zero chemistry while the darkling and nikolai are constantly standing next to alina and it works but ig I digress) #so i'm just constantly being told and they are in love and want a simple life (and that's the very thing that made me side with Gale instead #of Peeta back when so I'm probably primed to not want that for characters) but idk I just don't see it that they'd make such a good pair #anyway I guess this is a Mal hate post and I'm dragging the moder YA lit's each and every love interest into this 'analysis' #blueberry wine is excellent by the way would recommend #miaing

[journey-to-the-attic]

HC that the brothers like to joke about IK being an Avatar, but they're all super inane and or specific things to be Avatar of. Belphie teases her and it's immediately a chorus of "I can't believe you'd say that to the Avatar of Beats You Up If You're Mean." IK gets a good grade and the dinner table that night is all just "As expected from the Avatar of Acing Exams!" Mammon tries to convince IK to get in on a scheme of his by appealing to the better nature of the Avatar of Helpin a Guy Out.

whenever anyone needs help around the house they'll call for the 'avatar of helping hands' and ik immediately comes running to help like a superhero arriving at the scene. whenever she's being stubborn about staying up belphie'll be like "aw come on, doesn't the avatar of being so sleepy she's yawning every five seconds wanna go bed?"

each time she helps him out with something asmo'll call her the 'avatar of being a sweetheart', and if she likes a character that he doesn't in a book they're reading together, satan jokingly calls her the 'avatar of bad taste'.... there are so many possibilities

#answering asks #anon asks #one time levi calls ik 'avatar of my bestie' as another level to the bestie inside joke #if mammon suspects ik's hiding something from him he'll be like #'WELL I DON'T KNOW WHAT I EXPECTED FROM THE AVATAR OF NOT TALKIN' TO ME WHEN I'M FLIPPIN' WORRIED AND I'M NOT HURT AT ALL!!'

[blorbosexterminator]

Raquel and Alicia would be in the berlin spin off? What do you think of that? What possible plot line that could have fit in with them?

This simultaneously came as the biggest surprise related to the spin-off possible and also completely unsurprising LMFAO. A few weeks ago, @roccinan and I were joking about this exact same thing and went if 'what if instead of everyone else, Alex Pina gets Itizar to play Raquel in the spin-off, wouldn't that be insane?' And as always, the conversation took so many different turns and twists and we joked about everything but I think we both concluded that it actually wouldn't be that insane and that it's HIGHLY plausible if he did want to do it. Because Raquel is a major policewoman/detective in Madrid and it would actually be very interesting if we watched her rise as a policewoman in parallel to Andrés rise as a thief; they are both young and still haven't made that formidable name but they are incredible at what they do and show this potential and as a viewer knowing how they end up it would be very cool. And the other thing we talked about would if basically Raquel is just running around the city always constantly 'nearly' catching Andrés but he always slips out of her finger at the last moment and maybe she doesn't know 'who' exactly she's looking for, and maybe she does.

What I want to say is, they are many scenarios they could fit in because it's not at all weird that a major policeman like Raquel would be working on a major heist case in Madrid. And putting Alicia in too, makes a lot of sense because they graduated together and it's very likely they worked together on some cases, and also very cool because their dynamic obviously have a lot of fans. And it's basically two spin-offs in one: one based on Berlin and his rise, and one based on Raquel's younger years in the force.

That's on one hand, on the other, it was a genius marketing trick by Pina because he's basically ensuring at least 80% of the original audience will watch the spin-off now. Either because they genuienly just love Raquel (which most general audience and also fandom do), or now they will be waiting for any 'prequel' thoughts on serquel (and the serquel fandom is hugel), or for Alicia, the s3 villain that gained a huge amount of fans.

Bottomline is, I think it's something that is making me way more excited for the show (and I already was) and will have the same effect on many other people. And I think it promises that the show will be pretty fun, playful, and paying homage to the original show. So overall, a good move (they obviously can ruin it in the show itself, but until now, it seems very promising to me); I can imagine a lot of storylines that can organically involve Raquel and Alicia, and on a marketing level, I think it's genius to ensure the show is watched by enough people to get a second season, which I believe what Pina wants and is planing for.

#I also think it's cool in other dynamic introductions #like Alberto when he was maybe still a good boyfriend but with red signs that the viewer see how it'll end up #(there is something always insanely cool to me about a viewer knowing the character's future that they don't know themselves) #we can actually have German as a character which could be very fun to see the man that a woman like Alicia loved that much #and maybe (PLEASE GOD PLEASE) we can get my dude my man my icon Tamayo #and also Prieto because I actually find him fun #the only downside to this is the expected annoyance from certain parts of the larger fandom who won't shut up about rapist berlin and how #they cannot stand him even though they are willingly watching a show that's named after him #and who will be loudly complaining about the lack of serquel because they would be 100% expecting it to be a serquel spin-off now #and/or complaining about why the romance between Raquel and Alicia isn't the central thesis of the berlin show #but also that would be enough talking about the show to convince netflix that it's popular enough to be granted a second season lol #but fingers crossed that we all enjoy it and that it's genuinely just a fun good show that adds to lcdp rather than takes from it #(and that we get an answer to 'you didn’t even tell the truth to your own brother son of a bitch' lik #lcdp #Berlin netflix

[fairweather-fangs]

All texts except for lyrics ;)

We are now living in an alternate world where F actually looks at his phone.

㊁ : emergency

[Txt] [Bees]

:Hey i thunk i fell down the stairs

:I can't find K or C i need help please

:I think i broke my arm. I might be being dramatic

:I can't go to the nurse I'm like bqlck our drunk

:Please

♡ : endearing/affectionate/loving

[Txt] [Bees]

:This might seem out of no ahere but... i really like that you out your hands on me alot

:It’s cute. I like the random touch

:You should be more handsy with me morenoften. Not in a weird way. Or maybe it is i don't know

👅 : sext/suggestive

[Txt] [Bees]

:I'm feeling a little bored...

:And a little needy...

:Do you wanna come to my room and have some fun or do I need to come to you?

[Semi blurry picture of him shirtless in a body harness smoking a blunt, the top part of his face isn't shown]

★ : wrong number

[Txt] [Yoriko(?)]

:Ok so if you could nake any mystical creture real? What one?

:I'd say like, specifically east asian dragons because then westher predicting would involve asking a lizzrd which os better than asking cclouds

:That or clownfish because they are very cute and I want one as a pet. Or to just see one i don't know

:Hey oh my god wait this is Yoriko right? C changed all my contacts. O don't know which ones are which i forgot to ask first haha

☯ : angry/hateful

[Txt] [Bees]

:Hey not to be rude but do yiu have any othwr setting that "super mean and judgmenral?"

:Because i feel like you're just really bitchy 100% of the time

:It it cause you can't more number one or dose A not suck you off enough?

♖ : drunk/drugged

(=That’s like all his messages ajejaja=)

[Txt] [Bees]

:Are your feee?

:Cause i need hslo shsomehtjnv

[Blurry image of what might be his floor in his room, very filled with smoke, absolutely nothing can be made out in the image]

:THEIS!!

♛ : worried

[Txt] [Bees]

:Hey.

:So I cannot find some of the expensive stuff in my room and I'm freaked out someone took that.

:And that's alot of money so I was wondering if you knew anyone who came to possess a suspicious amount of my product as of late.

:Seriously this is like a net loss of a good several hundred pounds. C doesn't know shit I'm gonna loose it.

♘ : late night

[Txt] [Bees]

[Picture of a clear night sky, taken from the garden outside]

:That’s kinda fucked up huh?

#ask meme answers #beyondthebackup #ooc posts #the funnest part of this is going to be figuring out what F has evedyone saved as #I'm just nor gonna change mybtyoing mistakes for these #because F is typing most of this very much impaired #also F learned enough English to be coherent and pass English class and sometimes learns big words from movies #and then he gave up so don't expect him to type reasonably #and don't expect him to hold coherent conversations in Chinese or any other language spoken in Taiwan (there are several and F ia familiar #with alot of them) because he's just bad at language period

[holyshit]

anons from earlier today ⬇️ (sorry for doing so much tag answering but it’s a heavy topic to me so i don’t want to get too... out there with it lol)

#'not ready' anon #oh yeah i completely agree with you 100% #it's a whole different beast and i really wish she was advised to put her socials on private bc it's gonna get brutal quickly :/ #so many aspects i don't like about this rip #'dare i say it' anon #yup exactly- it is a very uncomfortable choice in general from whoever was deciding this #and it doesn't surprise me that probably a bunch of men who are likely involved in this decision would not see how gross it is to actively #choose someone so much younger for him #like i fully expect they didn't recognize that it would be an issue because so many older men don't see an issue with dating women in their #early twenties #so it's very much a disappointed but not surprised moment for me lol #if they really thought this would be a good way to market to his younger fans- there are other! ways! you fuckers! #'answer in tags' anon #don't worry- you are very much entitled to feel that way and i totally understand where you're coming from #different topics are gonna hit different people harder and this is also a big Ick Factor conversation to me because of personal experience #so i 100% understand the feeling of needing to back off. even if this is not a breaking point for you i do always recommend taking steps #back occasionally to cool off and with that distance you can see whether you are still deriving joy from this fandom #or if the stress/things that upset you overrides it #also remember you are always free to dm me off anon if you ever want to have more of a one-on-one conversation about it! #i feel like i can at least give a decent ear since i have experience leaving fandom AND coming back lmao #asks #anonymous

[bahrmp3]

.

#personal #my brother has been writing online for a couple of years now and recently he started doing commissions #one of the commission has a gay story to it and it always made me go ??? like you someone who is openly homophobic writing for a woman who #specifically asked to include lesbian text as the moving reason for what's happening? and ofc bc I can never keep my mouth shut #today I was like (how are you writing this? for someone who says he doesn't believe /gay/ ppl have a right but not minding their money?) #his answer was (it's not im writing anything explicit...) then he back tracked and was like (ill tell you what dad always says two women #together can't be gay) and when I told him ok but as a homophobe (there is no such thing as homophobia don't fall me that to say homophobia #is like saying you are backwards and an idiot I am neither are you also not []) I feel dumb lmao #what else did I expect? why would I go and ask him that? isn't the answer clear enough? what's even more fucked imo is the commission comes #from one of his online friends? she is paying him 100+ dollars to write this and ok his writing is good but like he must not show her that #side of him and he has been writing so many chapters already it's cheap it's disgusting I shouldn't have said anything #at least from his words he must have forgot me stupidly kind of coming out at some point or is electing to ignore it fuck

[fictionadventurer]

Imaginary Books Recs: Congratulations! You've been granted further ILL access to the Coregean Library. Shall we start with Ardour and Introspection? An early nineteenth-century romance that was a favorite of, of all people, Delclis.

Ardour and Introspection by Giora Shorr

Emina Verden has a passion for plants that her loving father is more than willing to let her pursue, but after his death and her mother's remarriage to a fashionable baronet, Emina is thrown into a high-society world where she is expected to attend balls and concerts and dinner parties while enduring the company of Vivana, her over-exuberant stepsister. As Emina struggles to find a place in this new family--and a moment of peace--a friendship with a young scholar unexpectedly blossoms into something that makes this new world worth exploring. But Vivana is the one who catches his eye--and, perhaps, his heart. Will Vivana keep Emina from her one chance at happiness? Is it possible for the stepsisters to overcome this rivalry, or will it tear them apart forever?

#imaginary book recs #answered asks #the blackberry bushes #isfjmel-phleg #i must once again fall at your feet in gratitude for the interlibrary loan opportunities #coregean literature is a whole new world of delights #i've heard good things about giora shorr and she did not disappoint #just the kind of thing i love #thought tbh a good chunk of my initial interest was curiosity over the fact that this was among king delclis' favorites #not at all the kind of thing i'd expect from him #or so i thought #then i read two (2) pages of this book and was like 'oh i understand' #the plant thing alone would have drawn him in #(though i'd love to know his thoughts about how accurate the science was) #and then the life parallels! #though i see a bit of irony in his love of the book vs his life choices #though of course i don't know enough about the historical details to make very specific comments

[angelizs]

Everytime I see someone say Idia wouldn’t know what a period is I always wonder whether they know he has to do stuff at his parents company which is literally about health /nm

hi anon!! I've actually never seen anyone saying this, but that might be because I'm very new to the fandom and haven't seen much Idia content so far. I agree with you, tho, I think him (and most of the boys at NRC too) would definetly know what it is!

wait I'll put this under the cut it's time for my (not so in depth) Idia analysis!!

ok so first things first, fair warning: this is my own personal interpretation and it might not be a 100% correct, anyone is allowed to disagree!

another fair warning: I've only caught up with the english server so far so I haven't read the Ignihyde chapter yet, which means I still have a lot to see about Idia, but I don't wanna get spoilers so I'll be going with the knowledge I have from the main story, events and vignettes.

the thing with Idia is that, at a surface level, he's just another Gamer Nerd TM stereotype that's a shut-in with no friends nor social skill and yada yada, and that's what some people might take him for, especially at first glance. I've seen people saying he'd be those misogynistic gamers that have never seen a girl in his life or the ones that think you absolutely have to prove you know everything about a game to be a fan of it. and I know that's all in good fun of course but! I don't agree with it at all!

in my point of view, yes Idia is very introverted and reclusive and he's socially awkward, but that doesn't mean he's that stereotypical gamer, which is what makes him so interesting in the first place! he breaks those expectations you have for his character and shows a lot more depth than this label! I'm not saying he doesn't play into the role at all, but I think he's very well written to break some common patterns.

like! he's such a sweet older brother! he might love his games and his alone time and his room, but he loves Ortho more than those things and would go out of his comfort zone for him (like in the recent Wish Upon a Star event which is one of my favorites btw). he gets very talkative and almost sassy when speaking about something he likes! (like in Azul's school uniform vignette). and yes he can be selfish and headstrong and rude (like in the Ghost Bride event), as is expected for a student of NRC, but that doesn't eliminates his positive traits.

where am I going with this and how does it even ties into the question? it's because in those gamer stereotypes, you'd expect him to not know anything about afab people that isn't in one of his games and have no friends to tell him otherwise. but I think he (and most at NRC) is very educated and would know, you know, basic biology. plus I actually wasn't aware his family's company is about health (I thought it had smth to do with technology, since as I mentioned I haven't read the chapter yet), but since that's the case it's even one extra motive for him to know about it.

like, it's definetly not on top of his mind and he probably never has given it any thought but he does know, it's just not something he has do deal with on a daily basis.

TL;DR: I agree with you anon, Idia is very interesting and there's more than what meets the eye to him, so he doesn't fall into a clear cut stereotype that people often take him for!

#tea time #don't lose your head #I'm sorry anon you probably were expecting a yes or no answer but. I like to talk so. you gave me the chance and I ran with it #also thanks for the tone tag I appreciate it!! #I love to talk about your thoughts on the characters so I really liked this ask #I could talk more about him (or any other character really) but I don't wanna bore you or stray too far from the original topic #also one hc that I like is that he isn't misogynistic at all. in fact it's the contrary. he'd comment stuff like 'common redditor F' #in those types of posts or make fun of people that treat girls weirdly on online games #common Idia W #NOT F IT'S L. IDK WHY I PUT F #F of failure ig??