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lestappenforever · 8 months

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hi again!

did lestappen really unfollow each other after the Austrian gp 2019? why?

ps: im new here

Hi anon, and welcome to the unhinged world of Lestappen lore! We're so happy to have you. ❤️

Now have a seat and get cozy, because it's story time.

Charles made it into F1 in 2018 and after spending his maiden season at Alfa Romeo Sauber, his life-long dream finally came true as he was snatched up by Scuderia Ferrari to replace the man, the myth, the legend that is Kimi Räikkönen. Needless to say, 2019 was a big year for Charles. His first season in the team he had always dreamed of driving for. He was ready. He was hungry.

Now, enter Max Emilian Verstappen, who at this point had already been in F1 since 2015, when he was signed at the ripe age of 17. Already a seasoned F1 driver, which is impressive as fuck at that age. At this point, Max and Charles were following each other on social media. After all, they'd known each other for most of their lives, had grown up together in karting, and were now competing at the top level.

Today, we know Austria as the Lestappen holy ground following that podium in 2022. (Borderline pornographic podium celebration? Don't mind if I do.) But, it had potential to become the Lestappen holy ground even back in 2019, because Max and Charles were on fire. Talking, laughing, joking, mirroring each other in the pre-race press conference, and generally acting like teenagers with a crush. (As you do with your emotional support rival.) Things were good. Great, even.

And then Sunday rolled around, and the race happened. Charles and Max were doing what they do best and what they love the most, namely fighting each other on track, likely having the time of their fucking lives. But then this overtake happened, there's a little bit of contact and Charles briefly ends up off the track, and Max goes on to win the race, with Charles finishing P2. (Anyone else hearing "He's just unfair. I'm leading, he wants to pass, he push me, I push him back" and "Nothing, just an inchident"? in their heads watching that overtake? Just me? Okay.)

Charles was pissed, absolutely convinced that Max had done something wrong, that it wasn't a clean move, and the move was investigated, as all similar moves are. FIA, however, ends up deeming it a clean move and Max doesn't get a penalty, meaning his win stands. And, well, this is where Charles Leclerc shows the world what it means to truly be ✨dramatic.✨ (We love a dramatic king in this house, ngl. Nothing is more entertaining to me than grown-ass men acting like children.)

A look that could kill? Check. Dramatically fixing your cap? Check. Looking away dramatically while plotting someone else's demise? Check. Looking like finishing P2 is not a huge accomplishment in your first season in Scuderia Ferrari? Check. Squeezing past as the winner getting drenched in champagne because you're not about to stand there and watch him celebrate? Check. Whatever the fuck this face is? Check.

Now, here's where it gets really fucking hilarious: Charles and Max fly home from Austria on the same flight. On this flight, where Max is probably sitting in Charles' direct line of sight, Charles goes to Max's Instagram and unfollows him. Probably glaring at Max the entire fucking time. Because he's a fully grown adult man capable of making reasonable, mature decisions when things don't go his way. Clearly. And Max, upon noticing this (or his team noticing it), remembers that he is also a fully grown adult man capable of making reasonable, mature decisions, and responds by unfollowing Charles back. Obviously.

It has been four years and our boys have clearly moved past the events of Austria 2019, but the Great Unfollowing has remained. Has it become an inside joke between them, which is why they're still not following each other after all these years? Probably, if Charles threatening to unfollow Matt from P1 with Matt & Tommy during a Ferrari challenge (and fucking following through on the threat, too) is anything to go by. Does it still make me cackle every time I think about it? Abso-fucking-lutely.

#Asks #Anon #Anon asks #Lestappen asks #Lestappen

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lookbluesoup · 1 year

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I've had a lot of people interacting with my post yesterday about wishing there was more fandom meta discussion and exploration of "missing moments" with... huge amounts of fear and insecurity.

And I get that it's hurtful to share stuff in a fandom space and potentially be met with silence. It's easy to feel drowned out or get overwhelmed in a big fandom. It's terrifying to be in an online space and potentially get harassed by assholes who think anyone who looks at canon differently from them are evil.

I have definitely left spaces before where one or both of those things were so prevalent that I didn't feel like it was worth it trying to be part of that community. Your feelings are valid, they're legitimate fears. But it really hurts my heart to see so many creative people be so afraid.

Based on what I've seen, I assume that many DO want a more interactive fandom experience, in spite of that anxiety.

I can't tell anyone what they should do. I can advise you that fear and insecurity usually come from the inside - from past hurts, and that understanding them and deciding you don't want to be afraid anymore, that you deserve a space and a voice, is an important step in being able to reach out and form healthy, genuine connections with people over the things that you love.

But you are the only one who can decide what's good for you. Maybe you need therapy, or a different fandom, or a different environment. Maybe you need to cut some toxic people out of your life. I'm a stranger on the internet and I'll never be able to answer that question for you.

In lieu of that, I'll share some tips that have generally helped me feel safe in fandom spaces even though I have sometimes have anxiety attacks just trying to talk to friends.

Block people. I am dead serious. This bit is extra long because of how serious I am. 1) You're deliberately putting your comfort first, and that's a good thing to practice and 2) You won't have to worry much about those people invading your space

You don't have to hate them, they don't have to be evil, you just have to decide this isn't someone who's opinions you want in your corner of fandom. If they keep posting way off base critique of your favorite character, or imply liking a ship/character is somehow evil, or are just generally negative and you feel worse after seeing their posts most of the time? Take care of yourself. Block them.

If you really don't like their takes, you can go into your settings and use the filter tool to hide posts that their username is mentioned in from your dash. You don't have to see them or deal with them. Ignorance is bliss.

This is not being mean, it's not being an asshole, it's not being insensitive.. It's telling yourself "My comfort matters." We're in a hobby space, here to enjoy ourselves. You can always unblock someone later if you want.

If someone sends you anon hate. Block anon. If you MUST reply to the ask to show your friends or get the last word in, screenshot it and post the screenshot to respond to. But click that menu beside the actual ask and block the shit out of that Anon. Afaik they'll be IP blocked, it will be much harder for them to send you additional hate. (Not impossible, but harder, and most will move on to easier targets.)

You are not "winning" by leaving them unblocked, you're not proving that you're brave or that they don't matter, you're just leaving yourself open to more abuse. Block anon hate.

Unfollow people if the content they put on your dash upsets you. You don't have to dislike them personally. You don't have to justify it. Being "mutuals" is often overemphasized on here. You can be friends, you can read their fics or send them asks and be supportive without having to see every single thing they share. Following is about curating your dash, not picking friends.

Don't post when you're angry. I know that person bashing your fav character is an idiot but do not vaguepost or call them out in a fit of rage. Take a step back, remember it's fandom and not the entire world. If the other person seems interested in discussion, you can have a good-faith talk about it, but don't go into it determined to change their mind. You're just exchanging information, and you're allowed to disagree. If they're only hating and clearly not interested in talking, then write something positive about your character instead, in your own post, and focus on maintaining a space with people who you actually like talking to.

Hopefully you're seeing that the above advice is about building a safe, manageable fandom corner for yourself, and feeling powerful enough to enforce it. That's important. You don't owe people online interaction.

Fandom acquaintances can certainly grow into strong friendships, but not everyone, or even MOST of the people in fandom, deserve to be your friend and all the social obligations that entails. It would be exhausting and stressful to do otherwise, and it's not practical.

Now for positive action!

Nurture a handful of good friendships. If you brought some to fandom with you, great. You're a book club now. Each other's main "support", who (hopefully) do genuinely enjoy talking together. Fandom at large might not always give you affirmation, but a few good friends who know you giving you that support will be much more meaningful and sincere.

Talk to people you like! Say nice things about their art, writing, or characters. Reblog from them. Show a genuine interest in talking to them and seeing their creations. I know it's scary, but if you're trying to make connections, you do have to reach out! Lots of us are scared and most of us don't hear that we matter to someone else often enough. Be the change you want to see. You may be surprised to find that opening a door allows others to come through it, too, and they'll often try to connect back.

Not everyone will reciprocate the interest, for a variety of reasons which won't usually be your fault. That's ok! If you like their stuff, keep supporting them because that's part of what keeps fandom alive, but look for friendship elsewhere. Even if it doesn't work out and you don't hit it off, you tried!

More people agree with your takes than you think. A lot of them might be scared, too, because going against fanon mainstream is intimidating. But you'll have a much harder time finding like-minded folks if you never share your takes/writing/art/etc for people to find. Putting your voice out there is an investment that might take some time to pay off, but if it makes one other person out there feel less alone and more validated, surely that's worth it?

You're allowed to change your mind. About characters, about people, about fandom, about yourself. You are not beholden forever to your first or second opinion about a topic.

#idk if this will really help anyone but i figure its worth saying #its not a catch all but its an amalgamation of stuff that helped ME when i was in the worst of my states #fandom #wyn gabs #mental health #long post #text #anxiety #depression

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jaeheewillalwaysbemyfav · 1 year

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How Obey Me Shot Itself In the Foot: The Better Version of Obey Me That Lives In My Head

MASSIVE WARNING FOR DISCUSSION OF RELIGION. Specifically of Abrahamic religions (Islam, Christianity, and Judaism) and their shared God. I am doing this in a media analysis context, not to shame any particular religion or anyone’s particular beliefs. If that makes you uncomfortable, feel free to not read this post, stop reading at any point, and/or unfollow/block me. DO NOT try to start religious discourse on this post or in my askbox/DMs, I will clown on and block you.

Also spoiler warnings for a ton of different Obey Me lessons.

Intro (X), Michael (X)(X)(X)(X), Conclusion (X)(you're here)

aka The Part Where I Actually Talk About Why Raphael Should Kill MC

Why Raphael Should Kill MC

I've thought for a long time about how I'd handle writing Bible fanfic, so I have many ideas about how I'd portray Heaven and Hell. This section was originally going to be an in-depth deep dive into my Celestial Realm and Devildom worldbuilding, but that would take too long and potentially reveal some stuff I might use for my longfic that's in progress.

But the essence of it is:

The Celestial Realm is a militaristic and very protective/insular realm as a result of Father/God's paranoia over his loss of control over his creations. The Devildom and many parts of the human world are formed by rejected "imperfect" creations that were banished from the Celestial Realm. Only humans with "pure" souls are let into the CR, while the others are reincarnated or sent to the Devildom to face punishment.

There are three basic types of angels: the original extensions of God responsible for helping to create things, the warriors who fight off demons and protect the CR, and those who look after different aspects of creation, especially humans.

The Devildom is the product of a fucked up version of the island of misfit toys, as previously described. They are the rejected creations of the CR, sent to die in the void at the edge of existence. But they didn't die. However, adapting to this harsh environment created harsh and vicious creatures that came to be known as demons. The original Demon King earned his title by figuring out how to siphon power from CR and human-world beings, a practice that lead to most of the Devildom being divided into 7 courts of the 7 deadly sins.

Human souls that get sent to the Devildom don't face any organized punishment: they're fair game for any demons that find them though. If the human has a pact with one or more demons, that/those demon/s have dibs and can do with them what they wish.

There are many types of demons in terms of form, but nearly all are aligned to a sin. Only the very oldest ones are not, or aligned to multiple. They have a wide range of jobs much like any earthly civilization.

The Human World is largely unaware of the supernatural forces that shape it, but two primary groups who are aware are witches and sorcerers. Sorcerers are more organized: they have a strict code to follow vis a vis how they use their magic, are registered with the Sorcerer's Society, experience formal training, etc. Witches are more freelance and unstructured, though they may form covens who may occasionally meet up. Sorcerers tend to be more aligned with the CR, while witches tend to be more aligned with the Devildom. That being said, it's not unheard of for a sorcerer to deal with demons in the form of pacts.

Solomon is famously an exception to how sorcerers are expected to behave, having 72 pacts and a more experimental magic practice. But he's old as fuck and the best at what he does, so no one can really tell him not to.

Diavolo's exchange program is a genuine effort to unite the three realms, to bridge the gap that was created so long ago. The CR reads it as a front to gain better access to their magic, or even to attempt a takeover. But they refuse to truly strike first and restart the war, so they're at an uneasy stalemate.

Until the stuff with MC happens.

In the version of Obey Me that lives in my head, seasons 1 and 2 are largely unchanged. I'd probably remove/alter how our connection to Lilith works (and in fact Lilith's role would be very different overall), but the basic plot beats stand.

As I mentioned 800 posts ago, I lost my account at lesson 41, so I don't know much about how the human world arc goes, and honestly I don't really care. Because for me, if we're gonna put s3 in the human world, we're gonna learn about the human world's magic scene. Which means if MC's initiation into the sorcerer's society doesn't happen there in canon, that's where I want it to happen.

But I also want the Sorcerer's Society to be extremely suspicious of MC. Yes, they're Solomon's apprentice, but... they're Solomon's apprentice. They're a rogue element, and the beginnings of a legacy of rogue elements. A very powerful one too.

Something should be done about that.

S4 starts with the expanded roster of exchange students, Thirteen and Raphael. We were already introduced to Thirteen in s2 as a somewhat antagonistic force, but now we get to meet her in full. Yay! Unfortunately this isn't about her, so let's move onto Raphael.

Raphael was sent to the Devildom to kill MC. The CR was tipped off by someone in the Sorcerer's Society that they're too dangerous, too powerful, the cause of all the mess from s2, and they need to be iced. But the thing is, they're closely bonded with the demon prince, as well as the seven traitors lords, so he needs to make it look like an accident.

Throughout season 4, MC experiences a variety of strange and increasingly dangerous mishaps, culminating in an encounter where a group of hardline traditionalist demons accost them. MC has plot armour though, so they kick their assailants' asses, only to find out they were encouraged to action by none other than Raphael. MC is shocked to learn this, because other than being a weirdo, Raphael hasn't seemed all that threatening.

They're so shocked, they don't notice him behind them, spear in hand.

They're captured and taken to the Celestial Realm, alive but bound in manacles that restrict their access to their pacts and powers. They meet Michael, who exposits the trouble they've been causing him. He then lays out their choices for them:

Break their pacts, have their memory wiped, and return to the human world to live an ordinary life.

Break their pacts and be accepted as an honorary member of the Celestial Realm's ranks (read: get a pair of mind control bangles slapped on them forever)

Use their pacts to bring the brothers back to the CR so they can be "purified"

Die lol

So if I was straight up writing a game plot, this would be the point that the brothers and co. show up, there's a big showdown, maybe they resolve things peacefully in the end, maybe the war starts up, idk, but for the purposes of plot bunnies, I like leaving it here because there's a lot of things that could happen from this point.

(Bonus: after this is resolved the Demon King wakes up and then we have a whole 'nother problem to deal with)

#obey me #obey me celestial realm #obey me raphael #obey me michael #obey me devildom #mine #How Obey Me Shot Itself in the Foot

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snowflake-owl · 1 year

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(whoops, unfollowed you for a second trying to hit the ask button lol) for the ask meme, Simon!

Yooo Simon Petrikov? let’s go!

Sexuality Headcanon: Heterosexual (yeah I ship him sometimes with Hunson Abadeer but that’s usually on AU basis, for those ones Simon is bi)

Gender Headcanon: Cisgender but Simon is so comfortable and confident in his masculinity he doesn’t care about deviating a little from what is considered standard. He’ll wear pink and not care about what anyone says if he wants to.

A ship I have with said character: Petrigrof, AKA Simon x Betty. OTP of all time, I just want them to be happy. I wish we saw more of their interactions before their lives were destroyed by the crown and the war, the series finale flashback with the sundae was a riot.

A BROTP I have with said character: I guess with Finn, tho more as a father figure than a friend! I just want them to get along.

A NOTP I have with said character: Simon x Marceline, I don’t even need to explain why lol

A random headcanon: The song “Oh Fionna” was originally composed by Simon and it was about Betty, Ice King repurposed the song because he doesn’t remember her.

General Opinion over said character: Simon is great but he’s massively underrated within the fanbase and he’s very under explored in canon. Obsidian gave us a little taste that not everything is fine in Simon’s head after being Ice King for so long, which is frankly the most logical conclusion to make.

This man has a lot of unaddressed trauma! He survived a war that killed everyone he knows, for centuries he didn’t even know what happened to Betty, he had to deal with a curse that was destroying his mind and erasing his memories, the only thing that kept him going was Marceline. Simon only lived for her sake, and when he became to dangerous to protect her anymore, he just gave up.

There’s a lot of potential for character exploration right there and we aren’t getting it for whatever reason, it boggles me.

Simon is a sweetie sure but I headcanon he has rage issues, the bit with clambulance supports the possibility that Simon has a lot of repressed anger, idk I want more flaws on the guy besides being timid and non confrontational. Makes Simon more human.

#adventure time #simon petrikov #ask

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grizzersmamma · 6 months

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MW3 | Thoughts on the Game | Spoilers!

Alrighty, some thoughts on the game now that I've let everything sit for a while. Spoilers below the cut, obviously.

Okay, so after taking a moment to get over the abrupt ending we got, I find that I really agree with the people online who say the game felt really rushed and unfinished? Like I know it's only the early access so bugs are expected, but that's not what I mean by unfinished. For example, when you compare near enough everything about mw3 to mw2 it's just nowhere near as good? The story was fun, but really short, as were most of the missions, and it feels really strange to build up Soap so much only to kill him off for no real reason other than what feels a lot like shock value? I mean, we didn't even get a cut scene or a moment to appreciate what happened, we were just expected to keep playing like nothing happened.

It honestly didn't take me very long to beat the game and the whole story felt very anticlimactic at the end. I do agree with a lot of people that a large part of the reason we love Ghost so much is because of his interactions with Soap, and I don't just say that from the point of view of someone who ships them, they just have great chemistry together and without Soap, Ghost is just… idk a bit of a boring, brooding character? He needs that bright, fiery personality that his Johnny brings to bounce off of.

The game just doesn't have the same feel to it as the other two games, it almost feels like just a DLC/Spinoff or something, like I'm struggling to consider it canon because it feels so off. That might just be me, but it doesn't quite fit imo.

I could probably accept Soap being killed off if it was done well, but it's just giving me "shock value" death vibes. And it did that, it shocked me with how it happened, but after actually thinking about it I'm more just disappointed then sad or upset? They wasted a lot of potential for his character to grow, especially since Activision said they were looking forward to continuing the task force's stories? If they just told a good story then they wouldn't have had to kill anyone off like that.

Pretty sure Neil wasn't too happy with the end result given I've heard that he's unfollowed the people he was acting with in it. Just feels like a very unsatisfactory ending, not just for Soap, but for the game in general :/

#call of duty modern warfare #modern warfare 3 #mw3 spoilers

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royaletiquette · 5 months

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Name: Rose

Pronouns: she/her

Preferred comms: Whatever, I've never had issues with IM's personally, so I like them. But I know no one else does lol. Discord is cool, especially when we start sending memes and shit to one another.

Name of muse(s): Hibiya and Hibiko. I've had one other muse that didn't last long, I just wanted an excuse to talk about my views and opinions on music lmao. An outlet to express that to a degree, but I just didn't have anything else I wanted to say, no overarching theme or anything.

Experience in RP: Started out the classic way of rp'ing via texts with a friend, where it was like [ "Stop doing that" *laughs* ] as Izaya from Durarara. Not terribly long after I moved to tumblr cause I was already always on it on my personal account and heavy in the durarara community in 2012, 2013, cause I wanted to write as Hibiya. And that was a blast because it started showing on Adult Swim so the anime got more popular and there were just a lot of people and alters to write with.

Stopped and started a few times, but I always wrote Hibiya publically and no one else. I think I barely wrote in 2016 cause the rp side of the fandom was DEAD and I didn't really venture out to find new partners. I had also moved countries so like, wasn't thinking about writing often. Completely stopped thinking about it in 2017 and was writing songs instead. Until after I graduated college and was working fulltime, and after all the lockdowns stopped (Toronto had multiple), I needed a new creative outlet I could work on while not home and kept thinking about Hibiya and Delic and having ideas I wanted to explore. And was very lucky to find my email and password! So now I'm like, I can't imagine leaving tumblr to write somewhere else. Privately I dunno, it's so boring.

Best experiences: It's so nice to have partners that equally gush over one another's muses and relationships, sharing ideas and potential threads and even just being like "lmao if this happened, it'd be over" / "I can't stop thinking about x."

Plus I mean to be honest, it's so, so exciting and nice to hear people excited to write with me and ask about my muses, having genuine curiosity. Asking questions I've never thought of and pushing them to be more developed and fleshed out. I love posting a reply or answering a meme and immediately getting pinged on discord of someone panicking and talking to me about it.

Pet peeves / dealbreakers: Too much ooc is the main reason I end up unfollowing people. Which like, listen, it's not like I outright say, I don't care about you. But if it's too much, even though I like you and your muses and want to write, I'm gonna mute your tag. I'd much rather someone repeatedly be like "I'll be on twitter if you care" or whatever passive-aggressive thing, than have a bunch of posts on my roleplay account that are nothing. Let me ignore it if I want to.

I've complained to the point of adding it to my rules, but I hate mains. And I honestly more and more feel like I'm making the right call in that it's very mean and you shouldn't do it. I understand feeling more drawn to some muns/muses than others, but when a mun is repeatedly answering someone's stuff immediately when you've been waiting for a reply for a month. Yeah, it's a little dog shit. There needs to be an effort to balance it out between partners.

A COUPLE ACTUAL PETTY PET PEEVES. That like, I've rewritten this a bunch of times cause I don't want to be dumb and rude even though it makes me want to be very that. I hate when muns make their muses short and are just weird about it. Like, it's obviously written from the perspective of a person that is average height, who sometimes feels short, so assumes someone shorter than them always feels short. And it's like no one thinks about their height that much, stop it. But this is absolutely me, a person who is the height of all those short muses, being like bruh stop being weird. I also hate when there is an unrealistic weight put to muses. Because it's something most people ignore, so just skip it if you're gonna be dumb about it. If you feel the need to be like, my 5'6" muse 90 pounds, think about how dysfunctional that makes a person. It's beyond the realm of "my muse is skinny." But!! Again! I know this is just me being like "your fictional character is unrealistic." People like to make their muses taller than Shaq and as buff of as wrestler, but also be like "it's natural, they would never track their calories/protein intake."

Muse preference ( fluff, angst, smut ): Of course it depends. Hibiya is fun because he's awful at being fluffy, so it's great putting him in those positions where I am also so horribly uncomfortable for him. He's always angsty. It gets a little tiring. Smut is all me though, I just get lost in thinking of the details and then I forget to write any of it and it takes forever. Practice though and I know it'll be more fun. There are at least muses now that Hibi wants to be gross with finally.

Hibiko however, is like, always bordering on fluffy, to the point that she really fights angst. Which in itself is fun because that's where most of her development comes from. Surprisingly, smut will be/is really fun for Hibiko because her walls are down, which isn't the case any other time. She also doesn't have as many preconceptions as Hibiya when it comes to sex, so it's more freeing and open for me to write.

Plot or memes: Memes are more freeing. They can be long winded ideas or just a paragraph, so that's fun. But when it comes to the long run, I need to talk about plots to some extent so we're not running aimlessly.

Long or short replies: Long. Mid, really, but I'd rather it be longer than shorter. I've learned I have a hard time tapping into what my muse is going through if I'm not seeing that in return. But short ones are a very welcomed break when they come along. It's nice to easily poop out a reply without being like oh fuck okay what happens first.

Best time to write: When I'm alone in the morning before anyone wakes up (which isn't the morning but pretend it is). I like sitting in silence and enjoying the nothing going on so I can focus. I like to watch movies by myself, and it'll take twice as long because I'll pause it to write while inspired, and watch another five minutes before pausing to write again. The way god intended, really.

Are you like your muse(s): Kinda. I relate to Hibiya more. I'm more aloof than I think I am and can be a little insensitive towards other people's feelings and my words. Emotions are not my strong suit lmao.

tagged by @sansloii

#it's me i decided to ramble!#ooc;#dash memes #i whine about the height thing but then also I'm like 'lol tiny bitch' to those muses #being short is only embarrassing when you gotta be like #'hello child who is clearly younger than me. i need help grabbing that item from the top shelf' at the store

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fandomsoda · 1 year

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Addressing the Ana situation, tw for mentions of Dreammare and by proxy proshipping but it is NOT the main issue though I will address it as much as need be.

This is not a callout post, this is an explanation of recent events and an inquiry on generally what the fuck is going on. Something has happened between me and @letsatomicbanana. I became aware of this via an anonymous ask. Said ask will be linked later on. The following is a paraphrasing of my explanation last time, edited to be more accurate and clear:

Found out yesterday that someone who I and Ana supported for seemingly a long time and someone I’ve seen Ana reblog from several times support Dreammare and are in some way proshippers, which I personally am not ok with, find triggering, and consider to make someone not worthy of support anymore.(I will address arguments one might immediately have regarding dreammare and debunk a common misconception later on. It is not currently important.)

The individuals in question are @/dreemurr-skelememer and @/syxadel. I have been a massive fan of the former individual for a long time, but had no idea that they supported this stuff. Apparently it was public knowledge, but I had never come across it and I wasn’t sure Ana had either considering he asked for proof, which I couldn’t give him as I desired not to go digging for potentially triggering material, but I told him about what I saw that tipped me off.

What tipped me off was a positive response from Kia (dreemurr) to a piece depicting the aforementioned ship that was made by syxadel. I’ve never followed syxadel, let alone been to their blog, I have only ever seen their art get reblogged by some people, most notably Ana. Upon further research their profile literally says “Dreammare inc” so uh- yeah this was very public knowledge. Now that I know this, I have a new perspective on how Ana responded to my messages. Ana’s never been much into shipping and he expresses having a misconception regarding the characters in our discussion. After elaborating on things and asking him not to support these people, he did not respond at all. Thing is, the whole conversation I just described to you is in the comments of a post of mine and publicly available, so you can go read it for yourself. For good measure, I’ve taken screenshots:

May I note that I do say something that is not true, corrupted and passive Nightmare are not the same person, I found that out upon further research this morning. But this does not silence my point. I will get there, I promise, but Dreammare is NOT the current issue. I am getting to the point now.

This would not be a massive issue if it stopped here, but here’s where it gets to the point of me needing to make this goddamn post in the first place.

This morning I received the aforementioned anonymous ask, and responded to it with the thoughts and information I had at the time, which wasn’t as much as I have now.

Apparently, Ana has been talking about me and this situation in the Ink Sans fan club discord server completely behind my back. And apparently, he was saying things that made people upset at me, upset to the point of the asker being afraid to attach their name to caring about me.(Also unfollowed me but less of a big deal.) What the fuck could he possibly be saying??? And why would he say it? Sure I’m a little annoying, one could argue even pushy in the previous thread, but like- is that worthy of such things?

I want to know what he said and why he said it, word for word. If anyone in the server sees this, please send me screenshots, I have a right to know what is being said about me and what potential misinformation is being spread.

This whole situation is honestly incredibly surprising, terrifying, and heartbreaking to me. Because this seems wildly out of character for Ana. I have always known and observed Ana as a calm, kind, level-headed person who actively speaks out against problematic misuse of media when he sees it, not someone who would ever do something like this. Hell, just yesterday morning he participated in a discussion and was very level-headed and reasonable. More than I was, to be entirely honest.

And honestly by biggest fear is that there are no lies at all, and that I’ve genuinely done something wrong to piss him off. That all the messy situations that have led to my own personal growth have piled up and tumbled over all over again. That my loud personality has made another person see me as unlikeable.

But if that is the case, I want to hear about it. I’m still not mad at Ana, I am just so, so confused and feel betrayed (if he’s lying, that is, but even if not, still- tell me things). If he has a problem with me, I’d like for him to say it to my face. Not because I believe venting to others is “cowardly” or anything, or because I want to argue or fight, but because I want to know what’s wrong with me so that I can improve. I want to know what I’ve done wrong so I can do better in the future. Hell, I added a segment of my intro post that actively encourages people to call me out and tell me when I’ve done something wrong. Sure, my initial responses to criticism aren’t always very good, much like many people, but rest assured, if you actually have a point (and people usually do), I’ll take it to heart and likely apologize (though I am actively working on trying to respond right the first time).

I do not think Ana is the Devil. Nor do I think he is (though I fear he may be,) two-faced. I’m more wondering what I did to piss off an angel this badly. And how I can change so that I don’t do it again.

I just want answers and screenshots, that’s all I ask for.

Ana, if you see this, I’m @/ing you so you do,… I really do just wanna know what’s up and get it sorted out, I can’t handle being ghosted. And I really, really don’t appreciate what you’ve done, based on how it’s made others feel about me. Just tell me the truth.

Major update:

Screenshots have been received, I am not happy. Ana did in fact twist the situation to villainize me and misrepresent my behavior. He has also blocked me for some indiscernible reason, probably trying to cover his tracks because apparently he thinks he can just ignore the situation. A lot of the people in that server who witnessed him talk about me were people I believed I could trust but I no longer feel that way. Also several of them+Ana have admitted to being careless with who they support and use “but they’re one of my favorite creators 🥺” as an excuse to support incest apologists. Kia was one of my favorites too, too bad I actually have integrity and conviction in my beliefs.

I do not want to be these people’s friends, but I do want them to know the truth of what actually happened and maybe for them to, y’know, not hate my guts due to false claims. I cannot go anywhere on the Ink or Star Sans part of Tumblr without seeing these people and it is nerve wracking and I just want the assurance that they don’t have misapprehensions about me…

The only reason I approached Ana about this instead of just unfollowing him is because I considered him a friend. I thought I could trust him. I figured we were close enough for me to at least ask him to try and accommodate me. This wasn’t an attempt to push my opinions or beliefs, it was only me asking someone I viewed as trustworthy to consider me because I thought that I could. The only thing I will apologize for is making that misjudgment. Based on how Ana talks about me in the provided screenshots, it is clear he never viewed me as more than a follower and I apologize for getting the wrong idea, but it really hurts to have been swatted away like a pesky fly when I actually cared. I cared about Ana a lot, and to know he never cared as much is disappointing to say the least.

That doesn’t excuse his blatant misrepresentation of me and my posts, however.

In fact, he openly LIED about one of my posts. In the screenshots provided, he claimed that I “made an anti-Errorink post and tagged it as Errorink”, which I did NOT do. I know that that is bad etiquette, and would never do such a thing. The post he was referring to was actually a hypothetical excerpt of a poem or song depicting an ANGST PREMISE based around a qualm I usually have with how Errorink is presented. It was one-sided Errorink with Ink expressing frustration over Error putting up a very cruel tsundere act, NOT A HATE POST. An angst premise with inherent critique built in is NOT A HATE POST. That is a blatant misrepresentation that I very much fail to see as anything other than willful, but I will be willing to grant the benefit of the doubt and say that he might have misinterpreted.

I think that the most weird and damning thing about this is that he interacted with said post in a very measured and mature manner and never came to me with his qualms. He never communicated to ME what upset him and instead went off and blabbed in a PUBLIC SERVER behind my back to poison the well and ruin my ability to have a friend group in this corner of the community. He is behaving in a VERY two-faced manner and I won’t stand for it. I no longer desire to be Ana’s friend, nor anyone who sides with him, I just want everyone to know the truth. If you’re gonna hate me, hate the real me. Not Ana’s idea of me.

I just… I don’t feel like I deserve to have my reputation in my favorite part of this community ruined just because I tried to ask someone I thought was my friend for some consideration and make them aware of the situation. I literally just tried to say “hey friend, did you know this? It worries me, and I’d appreciate it if you could do something to accommodate me because I believe we’re close enough for me to ask that of you”. I don’t think that deserves what I got. I’m actively trying to be better and better every day, every mistake I make is a learning experience, it’s not like I stick by bad takes when I have them. I learn, I grow, I take advice, I don’t stick by shit ideologies if I’m wrong. Unlike some of the people they actively still support and forewent my friendship to do so.

I didn’t deserve this. I know I didn’t. And it hurts to be hurt so deeply for something so small.

Conclusion: June 8 2023

Ana has apologized for his behavior. He didn’t mean to do any of this to hurt me or anything. Our friendship is healing again.

That’s the gist. If you’re only interested in the story/already don’t support dreammare you can stop reading, the below section is just some clarification for those unsure/on the fence on the matter. I’ll keep it brief, otherwise signing off from here:

If you ship dreammare knowing and acknowledging full well that they are brothers/are a proshipper, kindly just leave and dni. I have no interest in changing your mind, you are too far gone. But for the people who believe in the misconception Ana has in the screenshots above/are on the fence due to the same misconception, I’m here to inform you that while corrupted and passive are separate people, corrupted still counts as Dream’s brother, according to Joku. Below the cut is a screenshot of her saying that point-blank. I hope this changes your mind. If not, oh well. Soda out.

Small edit: apparently pressing “expand” on auto-shortened longposts also automatically opens “read more” tabs so uh- there is no cut for those who see this on their dash.

#text post #regarding drama #serious post #important #tw inc*st #idk why the only popular iteration of that tag is censored #tw immoral shipping #tw dreammare

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incorrectfbaaquotes · 11 months

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Blog PSA: Upcoming Spoiler Warnings

TL;DR: Since the release of the first 3 chapters of A Soul of Ash and Blood, the release of the blurb for A Fire in the Flesh, as well as all of the teasers from the JLAnders Facebook group that have been released and circulating around social media, I feel this is the best time to remind everyone that this is the time to be cautious around spoilers. So get your filtered tags ready and beware (see further down for the tags I will be using)!

WARNING: LONG POST ALERT!!

As far as this blog specifically goes, I will do my level best here to avoid any potential spoilers for the upcoming books, particularly ASOAAB since we are so close. Once ASOAAB is released, I will try my hardest to prevent any unintentional slip-ups. I will do the same thing with AFITF once we get nearer to the release date and send out a reminder then also.

I do not currently plan on stopping, pausing, or otherwise altering the schedule for daily posting on this blog. I will try to stop posting anything even slightly related to ASOAAB from release day to around mid-August, so you will likely see a lot more Fire and Flesh series related posts during that time. Expect the reverse with AFITF.

However, since it is well known that this upcoming book will heavily feature scenes from From Blood and Ash from Cas' perspective, there is a chance of having some crossover between now and mid-August or that some quotes already posted may have unintentional spoilers. Please be aware of this! This has also never been a spoiler free blog. If it's been out for longer than a month, chances are there are spoilers here somewhere.

Anything between release day and mid-August that might even remotely qualify for a spoiler warning will be tagged with #asoaab spoilers and #a soul of ash and blood spoilers for your filtering pleasure. You may also want to consider unfollowing or temporarily blocking this blog for the time being and I'll catch up with you on the other side!

I only put this too long warning out because this blog did cause some inadvertent offense around the release of A Light in the Flame in late 2022. This is when some silly quotes I did earlier in 2022 were accused by anons over the course of a few months of being "alitf spoilers" months after they were originally posted (in early 2022) when ALITF was finally released and people found my older pre-release posts for the first time. I never would have made this public and thought this had all died down, but it has since started again.

Please know from the bottom of my heart that spoiling someone's fun is NEVER my intention, coincidences are sometimes real, and I am only one human, not some faceless, soulless Tumblr goblin. If there are problems, questions, or concerns, I am always open to listen. However, please don't curse at or "flame" at me. I won't respond publicly but I will cry and it will ruin my day. I truly try my best and I just want to make sure this time that there is no confusion for those who may already be here.

With all of that said, you will probably hear from me once more closer to release day with yet another, much more concise reminder and I hope everyone has a great ASOAAB release!! Happy reading everyone!

#blog information #blog psa #spoilers #long post #not an incorrect quote

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Scully Was Not a Victim

Let's see how many of you unfollow me after this... which is fine. But let me say, I've made my bones, kids bc I watched the show in its first run and probably about 20 times through since, so I was there and I experienced it as a woman of the nineties which means something different whether you want to acknowledge it or whether you want to stay comfortably ensconced in the dewy bliss and ignorance of your youth.

These posts that harken how Dana Scully has been done so dirty by CC and how she has been victimized in so many different ways rub me sooooo wrong. Ok... why? Because she was the "victim" of kidnappings/abductions/etc, etc etc??? Because she had a mysterious and potentially incurable illness? Because she got pregnant and had a challenging pregnancy? Because she was a single mother for a while? Because she worked a challenging job while she didn't know where the alleged father of her child was? Because she was a literary device moving an engaging plot forward at a breakneck pace? Alright. . .

Well, if we want to claim misogyny, then we would have to say that is not true since Mulder was also kidnapped (Tunguska/ Terma), abducted (Within/Without), given illnesses (that black oil stuff?), and that other arc where he is the subject of the Cancer Man's experimentation (Biogenesis/ The Sixth Extinction). He doesn't go through a pregnancy, but he certainly does suffer during Scully's abduction. . . so, I am pretty confident in stating that the X-Files and CC are an equal opportunity angst employer.

((And don't even get me started on y'all who want to make Mulder into a dummy with your silly incorrect quote posts of him being stupid like he wasn't an Oxford educated psychologist/profiler who was literally correct every single time on the series. but I digress. . . ))

So, I guess I am curious if people are just triggered in a vicarious trauma way by Scully's experiences, which is valid, or if they are genuinely convicted in stating that she was unfairly targeted by the writers and producers of the series, because I do not believe this is true.

I also believe it is disingenuous to her character to reduce her to a victim mentality.

She's a motherfucken survivor.

Everything anyone throws down and she's like, "challenge, accepted."

LIKE. WHAT??? She fights like hell to conceive, carry, and bear her child, and then she makes the most difficult and agonizing decision a mother can make- not because it is easy or convenient but because she thinks it will help him be safe and happy in his own life. How much strength do you think that has to take??? And if you haven't had children of your own, you don't get to comment. Yeah. I said that.

Furthermore, Scully has on so many occasions sacrificed her own happiness and safety for the better of the X Files, for the greater good of the truth. That is pretty much what American Heroism is built on. And heroes are a complex mix, if you look at any of them. They are kind and savage and sad and they long for things they can never have so that the greater good can be served.

At the end of it, maybe on some days Scully was a victim.

So fucking what?

We are all more than one thing.

Read that again.

We are all more than one thing. We are weak and strong and happy and sad and we love and we hate and we are completely warped mixes of contradictions. But this is why we love Scully. She is more than just a victim. She is so many things. She is all the things and if you reduce her to just one then you lack the ability to think and you don't deserve her.

#scully #dana katherine scully #the x files #meta x files

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give-soup-please · 2 years

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Is there a way we'll be able to keep updated on how you are after the blog closes? I've seen things like this happen before and I always wonder if the person that ran the blog is happy or even ok! If you want to leave it at this that is also fine. Either way, safe travels and a happy life to you.

(warning, long personal post ahead)

(I'm sorry. You probably wanted a simple answer, but I don't have one.)

I've had this in my inbox for a while, and I still don't have an answer, despite the fact that we've got less than a week to go. I'm honestly feeling very conflicted about what to do next. A lot of my wants and needs are clashing, and I don't know what to do. I want to keep in contact with people I've made as friends, I really do. There are definitely some users who come into my notes and make me happy to see. I love chatting with people in this format, and people actually care about what I have to say. It's remarkable.

I need a break from writing and social media. I started getting caught up in obsessing over notes and follower count, which ugh- There are so many other ways I could use my time. I need to write for myself again, but posting about myself and my snippets feels like crafting something for an audience.

I've been debating a few different things. I have a PO box now, if someone wants to send me something. I'm debating whether to make it public so everyone can join the fun, or to DM it just to the people who specifically asked for it. I don't know how connected I want to be to other people right now. I'm debating creating a second blog as a personal one, and leaving this one as an archive. I want to digitally hang out with people, but I'm a naturally anxious person and hanging out with people stresses me out.

The narrator is still in my head, and I have so many ideas that I want to explore with him. Not as headcanons, not as requests, but longer fic ideas. A friend and I were chatting about this earlier. I want to do a longfic slow burn about the narrator coming to our world and getting a chance to explore. This would be slow character development and have him go from his gameself to his more mellow and kind version that I created. Something long and fulfilling, more than 50K words if I could manage it. And that's just one idea of about five that I have. He has so much potential as a character. There are so many aspects of him that I'd love to play with.

There's so much I still want to do. I want to stay connected to you guys, but only if I can find a way that's healthy for me. Don't even get me started on the issues that come with being a full time student at a university. Competition is tough here. I'm already tired from the move in, and I've gotta be mostly recovered by the time school starts or else my grades are going to suck. Something far worse could happen if I'm not gentle with myself. And I have personal issues that I don't talk about often. I don't want the sight of my personal stuff to be a stressor for anyone. There are a few people who I used to follow, who constantly posted about their problems and their mental health, and I couldn't find a way to detach from them except to unfollow.

There's an active and angry part of my brain that wants to purposely self sabotage and burn out in my first quarter, because I really don't want to be in college at all. But there's nowhere else for me to go. Housing and food are covered for me due to scholarships and a hell of a lot of luck.

I don't like myself very much, for a variety of reasons. Resisting this part of my brain that wants to destroy myself is taking a huge amount of concentration and willpower. There's a reason that when I write personal stuff, it's always characters telling me that I deserve good things. "A story is not always for the listener, sometimes it's for the one who tells it." (paraphrased, welcome to night vale)

I usually keep my political beliefs out of my blog, but I so wish we had some sort of help for people who don't want to follow a preset career path. Universal income, or something similar. If I had the ability to have housing and food taken care of, I'd keep writing all the time. If there wasn't so much stress and pressure to be a student, to be productive, I'd be so much happier.

I guess I'm asking the crowd for advice. I don't want to leave, but I can't seem to stay either. That's the thing, I've always wanted segmented, clean breaks. But life is complicated, and my emotions keep getting in the way.

Many of you are very sweet, and I couldn't keep myself detached forever. You all collectively wore me down, and got access to my heart.

I can't tell if it's rude or charming that you guys got to me. (half-joke)

And the narrator- Don't get me started (or do, my inbox is still open) on this guy. If he was real, I'd be shaking him by the shoulders in frustration. I accidentally made him too real in my head, and now he's a constant companion. I'm working on getting my computer repaired so I can play the demo, which I haven't yet. It involves a three hour round trip to get the components fixed. I could watch a video, but I'd rather play the game myself so there's less of a barrier between us. There are no other characters I would go to these lengths for. I love him so much, and I want to write dialogue for him until the stars burn out. To put it another way-

The absolute bastard. If I ever find a way to crossover to his place, I'm going to have strong words with him because he had no right to capture my heart like this. He didn't even have to try. I'm furious about it. (but not really)

Hey, we got way off track in this ramble. Call that narrator-core.

#personal #not tsp related

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penname-artist · 2 years

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Autumn Blues

Author’s Note: You know it’s gonna be a long discussion when I have to open a Google Document around it…[also: this was planned ahead of time for after my surgery. Wanted to make sure I was alive and all. Which I am, though I now have a mouth full of holes and blood. Good times.]

In summary, this post is another personal one, and I likely won't be doing so again very much, if at all, until October. There's several reasons why, but it's mostly for my health. I also want to address something about unfollowing and/or blocking some people, which is relevant to said health.

In case you find you've been unfollowed, or in a single case, blocked, please do not take them personally. These have nothing to do with the individuals; I have not been wronged, I was not offended, there was no personal reason towards any other person that is the cause of these things. I have finally come to the decision, after almost a year of push-and-pull attempts, to cut out military/navy/air force topics from my dash and from several areas of my life. They've been collective semi-tolerable triggers for a long time now, and though I have been trying to overcome it with exposure and engagement, it has reached my capacity of tolerance, and I really do not have the mental strength to risk it anymore. I do admire and respect my mutuals that post on these areas, as they all have amazing content and they're wonderful people. But for the sake of my well-being, I need to walk away from this area. This is also why I’ve officially added these topics into my Discord carrd under a list of potential triggers, as while tolerable, they can easily capsize.

I still intend to post the occasional Kittyhawk or Flysenhower bit, but only to minimal, controllable amounts. There are simply too many unwanted memories surrounding the fandom circles of those characters for me to apply myself too much to them. My enjoyment of the characters are for almost entirely different reasons than most, and so any future posts of or around them will mostly only apply to that aspect of it. I like them for me, not for the sake of anyone else, and I need to stop convincing myself that those are the same things. Easier said than done of course, but it's a process, not an event. I spent too long convincing myself to enjoy something for the sake of other people, and now I'm un-convincing myself of that.

The reason for my extended hiatus is partially because of this, but additionally for the reason that I desperately need to recollect myself after this massive burnout. The transitional weeks between July and August were so hard on me in so many ways that I dropped writing and art almost entirely for a good bit. When your natural instinct is to doodle and drabble daily, that's a scary thing to realize.

I'm really trying to come to grips with my own abilities right now, my limitations, and how to still be productive with these limitations. People in person have been clawing at me for commission work, and I barely managed halfway through the last one before giving up on the time constraints and cutting my estimated pay in half to compensate. Commissions are not something I can feasibly do, even lightly, let alone as a main source of income. As well, my requests, gifts, and personal projects have all been collectively piling up, and the paper tower of those ideas has fallen down as a result. It's a mess.

The time I'm taking off is to rest and reorganize the mess, hopefully with finished projects I can check off the list finally. As bad as I feel for taking such a long break amidst an incomplete and long overdue major collaboration, I NEED to take this time off if I have any hope of even finishing it. And I need to continue making personal adjustments and filters to my feed, lest the precious bits of creative energy I have left be drained faster than they should be.

I am - again - stupidly grateful for all of my friends and people who have my back in this admittedly terrifying change. Shu, Mac, Dusty, Storm, other Storm (yeah there's two lol), Bobbly, Rotor, Jackal, all of the rest of the Volo Pro Veritas cult, my social media mutuals and friends, and anyone else who has reached out. It's really scary, admitting that I am not as strong as I once was, that my trauma has put limitations on me, even in the places where I feel safest and most at home. But no one else is or has ever been obligated to take care of me; that's my job. And I've really been needing to clean the junk out of these corners of my brain.

If you were able to make it down this far, thank you again so much for the bit of support in this effort. I'm not down for the count just yet, so long as I'm still breathing I'll find a way to do what I love. Even if that means scaling back a little bit.

Got ideas and plans for future projects, but not leaving any details here. They'll get done when they get done, and I'm very excited to show you all the finished products. Here's to the morrow, fans and freaks. Take care of yourselves, and I'll see you on the other side.

-Pen

#updates #personal update

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𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒 𝐈 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐌𝐘 𝐑𝐏 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖.

I like to be called: Livi, but I don’t mind any other nicknames used for me!

one thing you should know about me: Despite being a queue-based blog, I tend to be very fast with replies if only because I just generally don’t have a lot on my plate, meaning I very often have nothing I owe even after reblogging memes or posting open starters... to the point where it’s quite common my replies would either post later on today or tomorrow. That, though, is no fault of my mutuals! I just happen to have abysmal luck when it comes to posting at a time where my stuff isn’t easily drowned out by more active folks or when more of my partners are active. However, to prevent burn out, I’m more than happy to slow down my reply speed for those who might already be overwhelmed and would appreciate a longer turn about time when it comes to threads! I’m unable to take hints, though, so unless you request me to withhold replies, chances are high I will keep replying very fast without really knowing you’re overwhelmed by my speediness.

thing you should know about rping with my character(s): Vivian isn’t very easy to ship with. Granted, as long as she happens to like a muse platonically, chances are high she would agree to date them (especially when it comes to her default modern verse where she’s 20-22), but her actually being happy in that relationship would be another story altogether, so there’s a chance she would grow to resent your muse for trapping her in a monogamous relationship she can’t escape from.

And even in the event she does fall in love with your muse, Vivian is still a very obsessive/destructive person, so unless they happen to be fem-aligned, she will attempt to push boundaries and do very questionable/inappropriate things (like tattooing their name somewhere on her body, stealing their underwear, etc), to the point where your muse would potentially have trouble staying in love with her.

Fem-aligned muses have it way better, though, because she generally tends to be less sexually attracted towards them compared to masc-aligned muses, but her having compulsive sexual behaviour means she still might send them inappropriate texts when they’re out with friends or say very questionable things to them (ie: ‘You know, your clothes would look much better on the floor’) very impulsively.

In her older modern verse (where she’s 24+), however, Vivian is more likely to turn others down/enforce boundaries, especially since I default her to have gotten out of an abusive relationship with her ex-girlfriend and ended up having these sorts of thoughts when it comes to love; therefore, she’s less receptive to the idea of commitment/being in a relationship overall. Either way, she’s very much a slowburn oriented muse and will probably spend a long time, remaining oblivious to the fact your muse views her in a romantic light.

joy to work with: ...Gosh, that is certainly an open-ended question. Of course, those I have actually gotten around to writing with (and who I have not unfollowed/blocked at some point) are all genuine gems to me, but as of now, the ones I talk most with are @spiritpyro and @eliteimperialism, if only because I’ve known them the longest and find myself being the most comfortable around them. Then again, even though I have no qualms really communicating with others, I’m also not exactly much of a talker, so my social circle on Discord happens to be very small; therefore, I’ll sometimes end up feeling very lonely/inept due to this.

It also doesn’t help that I have more creative energy than social energy, meaning I often spend a long while, typing and re-reading what I wrote like a paranoid autistic bean because I’m terrified of accidentally offending someone... that trying to maintain conversations with others is very draining for me. In short, I suck at befriending most of my partners without writing with them/feeling them out for a while.

first language: Cantonese, but as I’ve gotten older, I’ve lost most of my ability to actually speak it, OTL.

age range: under 13 | 14–17 | 18–22 | 23–25 | 26–29 | 30+ | 40+ | 70+

am I okay with nsfw?: yes | no | some nsfw (While I don’t mind NSFW themes, I’m very picky with who I actually write smut with.)

this rp blog: does contain ooc posts | doesn’t contain ooc posts | occasionally contains ooc

TAGGED BY: Nobody. I ended up stealing this from Rae!

TAGGING: Anyone who is currently wearing socks, i guess.

#⸾ ❖︎ ⸾ ( DASH GAMES ) ⤹ •• 𝕞𝕖𝕞𝕖𝕤.#⸾ ❖︎ ⸾ ( QUEUED ) ⤹ •• 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕝𝕚𝕓𝕣𝕒𝕣𝕪.#[ OOF... i ended up rambling again ]#[ BUT IF YOU ENDED UP READING THROUGH ALL OF THIS DESPITE IT BEING LONG AF you deserve a cookie! ]#[ and yeah i should probably talk to more people but me being an anxious introvert kinda makes that difficult otl ]#[ I SWEAR I'M TRYING MY BEST TO BRANCH OUT THOUGH ]

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jaeheewillalwaysbemyfav · 1 year

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How Obey Me Shot Itself In the Foot: Michael, Part 1

Also spoiler warnings for a ton of different Obey Me lessons.

Intro (X), Michael (you're here)(X)(X)(X), Conclusion (X)(X)

Part 2 of my way-too-long-essay about why Raphael should definitely try to kill MC. We are still not at the part where I discuss why he should. But we'll get there.

The next rung down from Sky Daddy Himself is Michael. At least, it tends to be him in Abrahamic mythologies. Considering that Michael Obey Me is acting as Diavolo’s foil in many ways, that seems to be maintained in the game. But he’s also foiled against Lucifer: in Abrahamic mythology as the one who defeats him, and in Obey Me as a brother, even a “twin”. And Lucifer is both a leader (as both leader of one side of the Celestial War, and as patriarch of his family) and a right hand man (to Diavolo, and likely formerly to God in a shared position with Michael).

We know a few scattered facts about Michael:

He is physically the complete opposite of Lucifer (according to Satan)

He can drink like a champ, keeping up with Raphael and Lucifer (this just amuses me to think about)

He likes sweets (mentioned several times throughout the game, most often by Luke and Simeon)

On that note he can be kinda childish and whiny (he once, to quote the wiki, “moped dramatically” when Raphael and Lucifer didn’t bring him any human world food from their trip there)

Lucifer has described him as “too upfront about his desires” and others have also called him very strict and demanding, putting a lot of responsibility onto those under him.

He’s Luke’s mentor/supervisor, as he sees a lot of potential in him. It’s Simeon who says Luke was chosen for the exchange program so he could learn more about the three realms.

He likes astronomy (apparently he taught Mammon and Luke about human world constellations, and Lucifer annoyed him by visiting the first Celestial Realm planetarium when it opened before him — a planetarium that Michael himself asked Raphael to make)

He’s the current leader of the angels (mentioned by Barbatos)

He used to be Mammon’s mentor, but later pushed him onto Lucifer because he didn’t know how to handle him

On that note, Mammon says that whatever punishment Michael would subject him to back in the day still gives him shivers to think about — and this is coming from a guy who gets strung up to the ceiling by Lucifer nigh constantly (still-a-morosexual-help has an excellent post about this!)

He was the one originally sent to the Devildom as a liaison, but made Lucifer go in his stead

He often wanders the great hall in the Celestial Realm palace, staring at the place where the brothers’ portraits used to be, lost in thought (Luke attributes this to missing them)

He keeps a collection of Lucifer’s things, including the ring of light, which he quickly notices is missing after Simeon steals it for MC

It’s a pretty safe bet to say that he’s responsible for Simeon’s loss of his angelic abilities (which turned him human?! God i need to make a separate post breaking that shit down), possibly even his first demotion from seraph to archangel

With Simeon’s help, he once sent the brothers mind-controlling bangles that made them act like “proper angels” for a party (angelic demons event — not letting go of that shit btw, that was fucked up)

He’s broadly respected by those who work for/with him, even if he’s not always easy to work with based on the other shit we know

He seems generally on board with the exchange program, but has some kind of tension with Diavolo: he once used Simeon to threaten him, saying that he didn’t like Diavolo’s habit of keeping secrets and that if anything were to be found out that impacts the Celestial Realm, there would be Consequences

I cannot find a source for this bc the ring of light is mentioned like, Once on the wiki, but I’m pretty sure when that all came up, Solomon mentions having a ring of wisdom he got from Michael, which is another tidbit from Abrahamic mythology.

There’s a lot happening there, and some of these traits seem difficult to reconcile into one cohesive character.

So fuck that! Let’s look at Michael’s character through three lenses: as a surrogate for God/Father, as Diavolo’s equal and opposite, and as Lucifer’s foil. (These categorizations, you’ll see, won’t be mutually exclusive, but that’s kind of the point.)

#obey me #obey me michael #obey me shall we date #mine #How Obey Me Shot Itself In The Foot

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