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Taylor Swift's road to fame

Behind the scenes of the teen sensation's career, from guitar lessons to sold-out shows

By Chris Willman

Updated February 05, 2008 at 05:00 AM EST

”I love turning on pop radio and hearing my song,” allows Taylor Swift, the 18-year-old country music sensation. ”But,” she adds, mindful of her base, ”I don’t look at it as crossover as much as spillover.”

Her cup definitely runneth over. In 2007, Swift’s debut album was one of the top 10 all-genre SoundScan sellers. And all those sales came in while a lot of non-country-lovers had yet to hear of her…or, if they had, were still asking, ”Taylor Swift? Who’s he?” She’s harder to escape now: Besides several smash hits at country radio, she’s moved into the upper levels of the Top 40 format with a remix of her heartbreak ballad ”Teardrops on My Guitar.” (In recent years, only Carrie Underwood, with ”Before He Cheats,” has successfully managed that leap.) MTV is even playing it. And since the album has such legs, it’s a good bet to cross the triple-platinum mark, almost unheard of in this era of plunging record sales. She’s got to be the most popular high school senior in America right now. So: teardrops, schmeardrops… Did being 18 ever suck any less?

But she wasn’t always the belle of the ball, personally or professionally; those rejection anthems she’s so adept at writing weren’t penned purely as fiction. We profiled the rising siren in this week’s issue of EW. But for this exclusive EW.com bonus feature, we also talked with some of the people who were with her on the way up, including her mother, manager, and label president, to find out some of the strategizing that went into achieving one of the last year’s few true musical success stories.

NEXT PAGE: From karaoke to Nashville

The chipmunk years. ”When I was 10, or younger than that, even, I would watch these biographies on Faith Hill or the Dixie Chicks or Shania Twain or LeAnn Rimes, and the thing I kept hearing was that they had to go to Nashville,” Swift remembers. She talked her parents into letting her fly out for a visit. ”I took my demo CDs of karaoke songs, where I sound like a chipmunk — it’s pretty awesome — and my mom waited in the car with my little brother while I knocked on doors up and down Music Row. I would say, ‘Hi, I’m Taylor. I’m 11; I want a record deal. Call me.”’ They didn’t. (But you have to wonder how many of the folks who answered those doors suddenly flashed back to that moment when they saw a grown-up Swift screaming over her Best New Artist nod at the Grammy nominations press conference.)

Rather than discouraging her, that rejection was like rocket fuel. It dawned on her that karaoke-style singing wasn’t going to cut it at any age; she needed to become a full-fledged guitar-picking singer/songwriter. ”She came back from that trip to Nashville and realized she needed to be different, and part of that would be to learn the guitar,” says her mother, Andrea Swift. Earlier, she had tried picking up an acoustic guitar and had no interest in it, but things had changed. ”Now, at 12, she saw a 12-string guitar and thought it was the coolest thing. And of course we immediately said, ‘Oh no, absolutely not, your fingers are too small — not till you’re much older will you be able to play the 12-string guitar.’ Well, that was all it took. Don’t ever say never or can’t do to Taylor. She started playing it four hours a day — six on the weekends. She would get calluses on her fingers and they would crack and bleed, and we would tape them up and she’d just keep on playing. That’s all she played, till a couple of years later, which was the first time she ever picked up a six-string guitar. And when she did, it was like, wow, this is really easy!”

She started writing, too. Two of the songs she’d recorded (”The Outside,” on her debut album, and ”Christmas Must Mean Something More,” from a Target-exclusive Christmas EP she released) were written when she was 12. When she went back to Nashville with her own songs in tow, people took notice: At 13, she signed a development deal with RCA Records, working with that label’s Joe Galante and Renee Bell, a couple of legendary figures in town. But when the deal came up for renewal after a year, she opted out, because she felt she’d have to record outside material if she got to the point of cutting her debut — and at 14, she was already married to the idea of only recording material she had a hand in writing. Not coincidentally, at 14, she became the youngest person ever signed to the major songwriting company in Nashville, Sony/ATV Publishing.

NEXT PAGE: Taking chances

Nashville acceptance, hometown alienation. Swift started to feel cut off from some of her friends, since she was writing songs while they were either playing soccer or partying. ”A lot of people ask me, how did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry? It’s because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they’re gonna say no to you, at least they’re gonna be polite about it.” (Being unusually tall for her age, or any age — she’s now 5’11”, without her cowboy boot heels — may have made her more of a junior high outcast.)

Now that she had publishing and recording deals in hand, she convinced her parents, when she was in the eighth grade, that it was time to move where the action is. ”I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn’t happen. I actually went back a couple months ago and played a sold-out show in my hometown, and it was amazing; ever since all this stuff started happening, the people in Pennsylvania have been the most supportive people I’ve ever known. But I wouldn’t change a thing about growing up and not exactly fitting in. If I had been popular, I probably wouldn’t have wanted to leave.”

The Swifts never pushed their daughter toward a music career, and the family uprooted itself from the Christmas-tree farm where they lived only after it was clear that her stockbroker dad could do his job just as effectively down South. ”I never wanted to make that move about her ‘making it,”’ says her mom, Andrea. ”Because what a horrible thing if it hadn’t happened, for her to carry that kind of guilt or pressure around. And we moved far enough outside Nashville [to nearby Hendersonville] to where she didn’t have to be going to school with producers’ kids and label presidents’ kids and be reminded constantly that she was struggling to make it. We’ve always told her that this is not about putting food on our table or making our dreams come true. There would always be an escape hatch into normal life if she decided this wasn’t something she had to pursue. And of course that’s like saying to her, ‘If you want to stop breathing, that’s cool.”’

After getting out of her RCA deal, Swift found a believer in Scott Borchetta, who was then a big cheese at the Universal label group. ”I thought, ‘Oh, awesome, I’m gonna get to deal with Universal!’ I get this call a couple of weeks later, after I do this showcase and Scott’s on board and everything’s rocking. He goes, ‘I have good news and bad news. The good news is I want to sign you, and the bad news is I’m not gonna be with Universal Records anymore.’ Because he was leaving to start up this whole new record label.” She took a chance and went with what would become a new powerhouse indie label, Big Machine, figuring that at least she’d get more individual attention there. ”They only had 10 employees at the record label to start out with, so when they were releasing my first single, my mom and I came in to help stuff the CD singles into envelopes to send to radio. We sat out on the floor and did it because there wasn’t furniture at the label yet.”

NEXT PAGE: The viral marketing plan

The MySpace triumph. Swift’s album wasn’t Big Machine’s first release, or even its first relative success. Another early signing, Texas rocker Jack Ingram, had a song go to No. 1 on the country chart — but he still didn’t sell boatloads of albums. That would be up to Swift, and her success would help little Big Machine go on to become Garth Brooks’ new label, not to mention giving Borchetta the heft to sign Jewel (one of Swift’s childhood influences) to a country deal.

”The story that everyone is gonna tell with Taylor is her use of technology and viral marketing techniques — MySpace and texting — that are non-traditional for the country format,” says RJ Curtis, country editor for the weekly trade magazine Radio & Records. ”This kind of flies in the face of how to market a new artist from Nashville. It’s partly her being in that life group and using the things teens use to communicate and spread music around, but her label had a lot of savvy in that area too.”

But Swift’s manager, Rick Barker, gives the singer and her family most of the credit for working the Web. ”The parents already had her MySpace and her website up and running,” he says. ”The mom and dad both have great marketing minds. I don’t want to say fake it until you make it, but when you looked at her stuff, it was very professional even before she got her deal. And we put her music up there on MySpace before it was out, to help decide what was gonna be on the record. ‘Our Song’ made it to the record because of MySpace.” That song has been her biggest radio hit to date — written about her first real romance, premiered at her ninth-grade talent show, and nearly lost to the cutting room floor. ”If you notice the running order on the record, ‘Our Song’ is No. 11,” the manager points out. ”It was the last song added to the album, and a lot of that had to do with buzz that was being created on MySpace.”

Once the album was actually finished and ready for promotion, MySpace came in even handier. ”People laughed at me,” says Big Machine founder-president Borchetta. ”They said, ‘You’re starting a new record label and you signed a 15-year-old female country singer — good for you! You have a teenager — there’s a lot of those on country radio. You have a new female artist — there’s a lot of those on country radio.’ They were looking at me like I had two strikes. But I knew we didn’t want to count on country radio out of the box. So we went heavy on TV, putting the video out before the single, and doing a special with [cable channel] GAC, and we went heavy on her MySpace and online stuff. By the time we got to country radio, we said: We have you surrounded and you don’t even know it.”

It still wasn’t an easy sell. ”Her records are not records that researched fantastically,” says R&R‘s Curtis — and he ought to know, because when Swift’s single ”Tim McGraw” was first coming out in late 2006, he was then the program director of L.A.’s KZLA, and one of the guys balking at putting her on the air. ”But the radio guys hung in there because anybody who’s programming a station wants to get some younger listeners. Country does a good job of naturally getting 35-plus listeners, so getting someone who fits the image of the 18-to-34-year-old, that’s an asset. There’s a need for [youthfulness] in the format. When Gretchen Wilson and Big & Rich and the whole Muzik Mafia thing came along a few years ago, I said that, for the first time since the Garth phenomenon in the early ’90s, there seems to be a real movement happening here. It didn’t last long, because it was more of a fad than a trend; Gretchen really only had that one huge hit, and while Big & Rich have continued to have big songs, it’s been with their more traditional-sounding ballads. But there is definitely a need for a younger artist, younger feel.” Curtis thinks Swift’s adolescent-themed songs have a dual appeal to older and more youthful listeners: ”A lot of the theme of the album is first love, and those are things everybody can get sentimental about, no matter the demo. With things like ‘Our Song,’ a lot of people can relate because it takes them back to their innocent years — and in her case, she just happens to be living her innocent years right now.”

Barker, her manager, offers up some specifics about how they used MySpace to make the Taylor Case to radio. ”Radio does research, and we have no idea who they’re researching, but it was saying people weren’t digging ‘Tim McGraw.’ So we had to go out and create our own research — and that’s what we did with MySpace. What she did was put up a blog on her MySpace that said, ‘Guys, I would like to thank whatever station you’re hearing my song on.’ And people started telling us” — even with stations that were only tentatively programming the song in the middle of the night. ”We were able to take those comments back to radio in individual markets and say, ‘You’re saying researching is telling you it’s not doing that great, but here are 85 people who are telling us they love your station because you played ‘Tim McGraw.’ What MySpace and online told radio stations was: She’s already familiar to your audience. And radio loves familiarity.

”MySpace allowed us to tell the story about Taylor. And it really is her space,” adds Barker. ”She wrote her bio, writes her blogs, and if someone gets commented back to, it’s from Taylor. A lot of times, you can tell it’s somebody else hired to sit there at a computer. Taylor’s space is her space — that’s our secret.”

NEXT PAGE: Embracing the fame

Taylormania. On a brisk night in late January of 2008, the nexus for all this popularity is the Rabobank Theatre, a sold-out 3,000-seater in inland California where Swift is doing a headlining show. About a third of the way back, one delusionally hopeful suitor holds up a sign with his plea: ”PROM? 343-7547.” In the front row, a college-aged dude in a cowboy hat patiently waits for a break in the shrieking before finally blurting out, with half-shy boisterousness, ”Taylor, you’re hot!” But it’s hard for a male fan to get a word in edgewise when the young women in the house spend the entire show standing and screaming, much as their little sisters would for Hannah Montana. There are enough kids and parents on hand that it’s clear she has some appeal to the Disney Channel demographic, as well as to the 17- to 25-year-olds who make up most of the audience, though she writes about adolescent romance not as an aspirant but a fellow survivor. Swift represents the countrified missing link between Miley Cyrus and Alanis Morissette.

She is introducing her soon-to-be-released fourth single, the gleefully vengeful ”Picture to Burn,” which, like many of her songs, was inspired by an old school flame she refers to as ”Bad Cheater Guy.” Swift’s so impressed by the screaming, while going into her nightly spiel about getting back at the boys who spurned her, she adds a nod to tonight’s host city. ”Please know that I try to be a really nice person, in general,” she says as her band vamps through the intro. ”But, if you break my heart, or if you hurt my feelings — or ANY OF MY FRIENDS FROM BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA — well, I will have to write a song about you!” Total eruption, as she marches across the stage in her spangly sun dress and cowboy boots, strumming on her six-string and singing: ”I hate that stupid old pickup truck you never let me drive/ You’re a redneck heartbreak who’s really bad at lying…”

Before the show, we watched her pose for photos for an hour at a meet-and-greet full of fan-club and radio-contest winners. (That’s nothing, for her; at most of the hundreds of shows she’s played so far, she stayed afterward to sign autographs till the last fan was gone, which might last anywhere from two-and-a-half to four hours. But as the crowds grow, those late-night signings are becoming increasingly more difficult to work in.) It’s clear that Swift doesn’t have the steeliness of a lot of starlets her age who were groomed for that by their parents almost from birth. Maybe because this whole massive career thing was her idea, she’s still digging it. When a little kid approaches, she gets down on her nyloned knees and cranes her neck in so that it is pressed against the tot’s. In pretty much every picture, she will look like that person’s conjoined twin. Every so often, with someone closer to her own age, she’ll say, ”Let’s do a funny one,” and urge the fan to screw up his or her face with her.

”She can’t go now to a store without having people come up to her — which she loves,” says her mom, Andrea. ”It makes her day when she’s gone somewhere and people have come up to her and said, ‘I love your music — can I take a picture?’ She’s always grabbing the camera and going, ‘Come here’ and getting the MySpace shot, holding the camera and posing together. She likes that attention. I think where she differs from some people who get to that spot and realize that they don’t really like their privacy sort of being restricted — well, for her that’s not an issue.

”But she never in her life ever said, ‘I want to be famous’ or ‘I want to be rich’ or ‘I want to be a star.’ Those words absolutely never came out of her mouth. If they had, I would have said, ‘Honey, maybe you’re doing it kind of for the wrong reasons.’ For her, the happiest I ever see her is just after she’s written a killer song. As a parent, I felt really good about that. If that’s where she draws happiness from, she’ll have that the rest of her life. She’s not always gonna have the awards, or the attention, or the celebrity, but she will always have the ability to write a song.”

”She has the combination of that 30-year-old business mentality with a real innocence,” says R&R‘s Curtis. But can country fans and programmers — who tend to be a little bit territorial — expect to keep Swift to themselves? Will the pop crossover success get to her? ”We’re talking about an 18-year-old, so it’s hard to know for sure what she’ll be doing five years from now,” Curtis says. ”But just from talking with her, I would say that her value system is a really good fit for country.” And though MTV recently did its first airing of her ”Teardrops on My Guitar” video on TRL, it did look a little bit uncharacteristically wholesome, programmed between Britney and Pitbull, so it’ll be interesting to see how things play out.

In the meantime, there’s still high school to finish up — home-schooled version, while her mom accompanies her on some dates this spring, when she’ll be opening an arena tour for Rascal Flatts. Says Swift, ”I already finished most of my course work, so I just have two electives left.” Which are? ”Public speaking and vocal performance. I guess I’m kind of coasting.”

#old interviews #EW.com #chris willman #I love that last line!

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comehereduck · 3 years

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I read this manwha called Carrier Falcon Princess, so I thought "hey, this would be a good AU for NHS."

- NHS goes comatose after Xuanwu cave and the Wen keep him hostage to keep NMJ in check. Did this happen because saber spirits? Qi deviation? Magic birds that NHS saved? Who knows 🤷‍♀️

- NHS wakes up in a cage and realizes that he is a birb now but where is he?

-Some dude takes him out of his cage and he takes the chance to escape only to run beak-first into NMJ... only NMJ snatches birb!NHS from the air and tells the falconer to take better care of the messenger falcons because the Wen keep killing them.

- Somehow NHS manages to sneak into Da-ge's tent to find out wtf happened to him and this happens enough for NMJ to get suspicious about this shady bird. Is it a Wen bird? Is it trained to carry top secret missives to Nightless City?

- NMJ keeps a close eye on the bird and tries feeding it, but "Ew! Da-ge, I don't want to eat worms!" Nie Zhonghui suggests that maybe it doesn't eat worms and brings NHS dead mice instead. The bird throws a tantrum until they bring in NMJ's food and they notice that the bird wants to eat that. They feed him cooked meat and breadcrumbs.

- “Where’s NHS when you need him?”

-”SQUAK!!!”

- NHS proves to be a very smart bird, but NMJ is still suspicious, so he sends the bird to a camp near a Wen camp. If the Wen attack the bird then it's not an enemy bird; if it dies, then the missive isn't that important anyway.

- NHS completes his first erand but his wing gets injured. NMJ's suspicions are cleared, and he starts treating the bird better, like a pet.

- NMJ starts talking to the bird but thinks it's ridiculous and maybe it's because he's worried about NHS being comatose, alone, and a Wen hostage, and here is this bird who reminds him of his didi.

- On one occasion, bird!Huaisang flies over a Wen camp and when he returns, he tries to tell NMJ the layout of the camp, and this becomes part of his job.

- NMJ still gets captured but not before he frees the bird. Or maybe NHS was on an errand when NMJ was captured. Anyway, NHS flies to Nightless City, somehow finds his comatose body.

- Maybe NHS returns to his body when the falcon makes contact.

- ... or maybe not.

- Somehow, bird!Huaisang manages to convince NMJ that he turned into a bird, but idk how that happens.

- the banquets happens as in canon but...

- Maybe they need WWX to help them turn NHS back? Which leads to agreements between NMJ, WWX, and WQ.

- and maybe WWX also does somethi ng about the saber spirits.

- wangxian happens because someone needs to play cleansing for NMJ while WWX does his experiments, and while JGY volunteers, LWJ also volunteers because Wei Ying is staying in Qinghe. LXC cannot deny his baby brother his chance at romance, so sorry A-Yao, you can't flex your fresh cleansing remix on NMJ.

- the falcon dies in the manhwa, but maybe it lives in this AU, and NHS keeps it as a pet.

- or better yet, NMJ keeps it as a pet and birds become the Nie bros bonding activity from now on.

- Bonus: JGS dies. Idk how, but he dies; I don't make the rules.

#mdzs #nie huaisang #my other birbs + nhs idea #i will never write this so if anyone wants to take this off my hands just do it #i lied about JGS's death #somehow an experiment blows up in his basement and he ends up in a perpetual state of dying a la gold experience requiem

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gabriel-agreste-has-no-rights · 3 years

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Rating: G

Summary: XY tries to steal Luka's non-existent gym badges. Instead, they both end up making a new friend. (For @luxyweek day 3: Pokemon)

Word Count: 2071

XXX

Luka woke up to a stranger rummaging in his bag.

He should’ve known better than to fall asleep in the Pokémon Center, especially in a city as big as Lumiose. Exhaustion after a late concert was no excuse to be careless. Even if crime was rarer after the takedown of Team Flare, there were still unorganized thieves around.

Like this idiot who thought Luka was an easy target.

“C’mon, he’s gotta have at least one…” The idiot was mumbling.

Without opening his eyes, Luka slowly moved his hand to his pocket. He pulled out the one pokéball he had on him.

“Who the heck carries so many metronome items…?”

While the thief was distracted, Luka pressed the button on his pokéball. One click, and his Loudred burst free.

“GWAHHHH!!!” She boomed, and the thief jumped back with a shriek.

“Wh-h-hey!” he stammered. Luka finally got a good look at him. Tall blonde hair, tacky outfit—was this some remixed Team Flare grunt after all? He was wearing purple rather than red, though.

“That’s an, uh, nice dude you got there.” He eyed Luka’s Loudred dubiously.

“Symphony is a girl.” He scratched her behind the ear, and she made a low rumble.

“Uh. Nice babe then.”

Luka snorted. Why had this thief bothered to stick around? He thought he’d have run off by now. Luka really hoped he wasn’t going to have to battle. Symphony had worked hard enough tonight.

“Why were you looking through my bag?”

“Pshaw, I wasn’t doing that. Besides, you don’t have anything useful.”

Wow. This guy really was an idiot. The Team Flare grunts were never too smart, either. Just a bunch of kids who got mixed up with the wrong crowd.

Well, Luka was no trainer like the ones who’d busted them up last year. But maybe he could keep one kid from following down that road.

“What do you count as useful?” Luka asked. “Money? Items? Pokémon?”

“Maybe Pokémon would be useful, if they’d stop being haters and listen to me.” The guy crossed his arms and pouted.

“...So you’re not a trainer?” Luka glanced around the Pokémon Center. Everyone else was very determined to mind their own business. Not that Luka needed their help to deal with a guy who couldn’t even use his own Pokémon, but still. Someone could’ve tried.

“I’m going to be a trainer. Just as soon as I steal a badge and get this Zorro dude to listen to me.”

Luka raised an eyebrow. “Zorro dude?”

“Yeah. Dark type? Sick red ponytail? Likes to copy me and make me look stupid?”

He sat up straighter. “You have a Zoroark?”

That Pokémon was rare enough to border on legendary. They didn’t even live in the Kalos region.

“Yeah, that’s what I said.” The guy looked at Luka like he was stupid.

“How did you catch a Zoroark if it won’t even listen to you?”

“Dad gave ‘im to me. He wants me to get famous here, but it’s harder to fake battles than I thought.” He sighed dramatically and sunk to the seat next to Luka.

Clearly the ‘get famous’ plan wasn’t working. Luka had no idea who he was. At least he was pretty sure he wasn’t a Team Flare grunt, though.

“And you’re telling me this… after trying to rob me… why…?”

“Cause you asked.”

Luka blinked. “Touché.”

He gave Symphony one last pat, then returned her to her pokéball.

“Traded Pokémon won’t listen to you without badges,” he told the would-be thief. “And I don’t have any of those, if that’s what you were looking for.”

“Really? But you look—” The guy gestured to all of him. “Y’know. Cool. Tough.”

“Thanks? I guess? I’m just a musician, though.” He patted his guitar next to him. It was pretty telling that this guy hadn’t tried to steal that. “I only battle if I have to.”

“Huh. Well that’s pretty cool too, I guess.” The guy shrugged. “I did Pokémon Contests in Hoenn for a while. Before I got banned for using holograms.”

Luka raised an eyebrow. “Any other international crimes you want to confess to?”

“Crashed my boat into a herd of Luvdisc in Alola. But that was an accident. How was I supposed to know they were endangered?”

“I was being sarcastic, man.” Luka shook his head. “Nevermind. Come on.”

He stood and hoisted his guitar over his shoulder.

“Huh? Where are we going?” The guy trotted after him.

“To catch you a Pokémon. Before you get yourself kicked out of another country.”

XXX

The stranger’s name was XY. It stood for Xavier-Yves. It didn’t sound like an Unovan name, but that was still the least weird thing about the guy. Maybe that was just a pseudonym. He probably needed one after all of his criminal acts, accidental or not.

“Alright, XY.” Luka stood knee-deep in the grass of Route 4. “You’re going to be borrowing Symphony for this. Borrowing. If you run off with her, she’ll suplex you into the ground.”

XY eyed the Loudred next to him. Sweat beaded on his forehead.

“Got it, Mr. Couffaine.”

“Just Luka is fine.” He sighed. This was such a weird way to be spending the night after a concert, but it was still better than going home.

“Got it, Mr. Luka.”

Close enough.

“Alright, now follow me into the grass.”

“I can’t do that! That’s where the Pokémon are!”

Luka rolled his eyes. “That’s the point. You’re going to catch one.”

“I thought you were going to catch me one. Because you’re cool and sexy like that.”

“Flattery’s not getting you out of this.” Luka grabbed his wrist and tugged him into the grass, Symphony following behind them.

XY squealed again. “But what if they eat me!”

“We’re on Route 4, dude. The biggest Pokémon out here is a Skitty.”

“...Those things eat meat, right?”

“No.” Even if they did, they would probably know better than to eat XY. They didn’t know where he’d been.

“If I die, you’re paying for my funeral,” XY grumbled, even though he’d already gone off on four tangents about how rich his dad was. Luka didn’t even bother responding.

Suddenly XY screamed again. A few Fletching flew out of the red flower patch. At this rate, they’d never catch anything.

“What is it this ti—oh.” Luka blinked down at the tiny Pokémon clinging to XY’s ankle. “It’s just a Flabébé.”

The little girl seemed to have mistaken XY’s socks for a flower. She was shuddering, cowering against the fabric even as XY tried to shake her off.

“Dude, cut it out.” Luka gripped him by the shoulders. “This is perfect. She already likes you.”

“Y-you think so?” XY set his foot back on the ground. The Flabébé tentatively looked up.

“You might not even need Symphony to weaken her. Here.” Luka took out a pokéball, but hesitated to hand it over. “Are you going to take good care of her if I give you this?”

“What gives, man?” XY snatched the ball. “You were gonna teach me about catching Pokémon, not about, like, parenting stuff.”

Luka hadn’t thought this through enough before seeing the little Flabébé. He couldn’t in good conscience condemn her to a life with XY without knowing that he would treat her right.

“Are you staying in Lumiose? I live at the edge of the city. I could come check on her. Just to make sure she’s not giving you too much trouble.”

“I didn’t know you were gonna want joint custody.” XY smirked. “But sure, whatever. Can’t complain if you want to do half my work for me.”

He knelt down and tapped the Flabébé on her head.

“You are just a little thing, aren’t you?” He let out a nasal laugh. “How do you feel about me being your new dad?”

“Please don’t say it like that.” Luka groaned.

The Flabébé fluttered into XY’s palm and nudged the pokéball. Wow. She must really have no standards.

“Sorry. Me and Lu are gonna be your new dads.” XY grinned.

“Aaaand that’s even worse.”

The Flabébé looked at Luka. He looked at her. She looked at him. He looked at her.

“...I’m not being your other dad.”

Symphony blasted out a honk of laughter. He glared at her.

“Don’t make me put you back in the pokéball.”

She just smiled innocently.

“Okay, okay. Shut up. We’re doing this.” XY took a deep breath and pressed the button on the pokéball with his thumb. It split open, sucking the Flabébé into its light.

The ball glowed red while rocking back and forth. Once. Twice. Three times.

Then it went still.

“I—I did it?” XY stared at the ball in his palm. Luka swore there was wonder in his eyes.

Hopefully this hadn’t been such a bad idea after all.

“You did it.” Luka clapped him on the shoulder. “Why don’t you let her out now? She should get used to you before you take her home.”

After fumbling for a moment, XY popped the ball open. The Flabébé flashed back out and hovered in the air. She quickly zipped down and plucked a red flower, hugging it close.

“Aww, our first date and she’s already giving me flowers.” XY laughed.

“It’s not for you. Flabébé has to keep one close for protection.”

“Ah. Like a comfort blanket.” XY nodded sagely. “That’s okay! I’ll pick my own flower. Then we can match!”

He snatched up another red bloom, then tucked it behind his ear.

Luka was surprised to find himself smiling. Who would’ve thought XY could actually be cute? When he wasn’t trying to steal Luka’s non-existent gym badges, anyway.

“Are you going to name her?” He asked to keep his thoughts away from that tangent.

“Huh? Oh. Uh… hmm.” XY’s brow furrowed. He stared at the Flabébé, who had fluttered back into his palm. “You can’t tell me your name, can you?”

She let out a tiny squeak.

“Hmm. Yeah. I feel that.” He nodded. “How about Cheeto?”

“Cheeto?” Luka burst before he could think better of it. Who named their Pokémon Cheeto?

“Yeah, ‘cause she’s got that yellow dust all over her.” XY rubbed a tiny bit of it off with his fingertip. Flabébé almost seemed to purr.

“You mean… pollen?”

XY raised an eyebrow. “Ew, gross. What kind of name is Pollen? Sounds like Pole-men. And she’s a girl.”

Luka wanted to smack his forehead. Symphony gave him a sympathetic pat.

“Well. Have fun with Cheeto, I guess.” He sighed. “I’m going to go get some sleep. You’ve got my Holo Caster number.”

“Wait!” XY jogged after him, cradling Cheeto close to his chest. “I didn’t get to say—thanks, man.”

Luka looked back over his shoulder, surprised. “No problem. This is better than stealing gym badges, right?”

“A lot better.” He looked down at his new Pokémon fondly. “Uh, sorry about that, by the way. I—I’m gonna make it up to you.”

“Yeah?” He raised an eyebrow.

“Yeah! I’m gonna—take you to the hotel I’m staying at! So you don’t look homeless!” XY grabbed him by the arm and started dragging him back towards the city.

“I literally told you I live in town…?”

“Then why were you sleeping in the Pokémon Center like a hobo?” XY smirked. Symphony laughed where she was lumbering after them.

You’ve turned my own Pokémon against me. Luka scowled.

“Didn’t feel like dealing with my mom,” he said under his breath.

It was stupid, running away just because he’d finally found out about his dad. His whole band was here. Including his sister. Lumiose was a big city, but he couldn’t play guitar for Kitty Section and dodge his parents at the same time.

“Perfect! There’s no moms allowed in my hotel room!” XY beamed.

If staying out was stupid, then even considering XY’s offer was downright moronic. XY had tried to rob him just hours ago.

But the dude was rich. Luka didn’t have anything else he could want. And whatever hotel room they ended up in was bound to have a more comfortable couch than the Pokémon Center’s.

“...Alright,” he finally agreed.

XY’s holler of joy could probably be heard in the next route over.

“Sweet! Bro co-parenting slumber party, here we come!”

Luka let Symphony laugh at him. He deserved it for ending up in such a ridiculous situation.

But somehow, he felt better anyway.

#luxy #fic tag #luxyweek2021 #luka #xy #pokemon au #au #tali writes

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originalbydondria · 3 years

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It's In A Book 2

So...continuing from the last post because I stalled in my reading and I was trying to figure out how to write this without hella spoilers....

Still on LA Banks' Minion and The Awakening.

Okay...characters.

The main main...queen of the things, my girl - Damali Richards. This is a representation matters moment for me. She is clearly described as a brown skinned girl with locks (I prefer the locs spelling when referring to dreads). There is an artist named Res that I believe would be a good Damali visual bit there is this amazing Black woman who is a stunt person and does videos with her sword (Shaina West)...her but with locs might be a good Damali, too. 🤔She is athletic badass, sword fighter and I love it. She is a Leo (gang gang!) and is serious about her art, making the world better, and trying to balance all of that with trying to have a life all her own. At this stage she has an idea of what she is and growing into an idea of who she is (who wasn't at 21, amiright?). So if you know anything about the signs, sis is damn near textbook Leo.

Without giving away her arc through the series, all I can say is she is written as a realistic but inspirational character, without projecting perfect-ness or better-than-thou-ness.

Carlos Rivera...okay. So in my head I cast Adam Rodriguez...I recently updated to ol' boy from Bad Boys 3 that played Will Smith's characters son (spoiler?). As you get into the series, there is a reason for that. Anyways, dude is a Scorpio and nuff said. (Also gang gang!) He keeps secrets, he is dark and light almost in balance but not always in harmony. I love this character because he is definitely a good dude with annoying tendancies. Like the whole "manly" I didn't tell you to protect you, shit. 😑 Read the book! 🤣 I do not want to spoil his...let's call it stagnant growth. Because he does this thing where he doesn't so much grow or learn as he remixes who and what he is and how he operates.

This is a big cast so I am going to round off this post with a character that really is the...information presenter of the book: Marlene Stone. When she speaks, pay a-damn-ttention!

I will tell you what I discovered about Marlene - she is the voice the author uses to tell the reader the amazing research/creative mash up she clearly worked hard on. There are moments in the series that can be a bit on the info-dump side BUT it is never, not relevant.

In my head, I would say Marlene is....Viola Davis...maybe Honestly, if it was my movie, I'm calling Mo'nique, too...either way, but not in description but in a kind of grown woman swag that embodies guidance, love, wisdom, and a confident beautiful inside and out thing. Damali calls her mom but she is more auntie to me. As wise as she is, as insightful as she is, she is a warrior in her own right. Marlene is the house mom in these two books kind of because the core group is mostly male at this point. She is a voice of reason and clarity, a source, and not without her flaws and secrets, too. OMG READ THE BOOK!

So in these two books, the cast is 7 in the main group (Rider, JL, Jose, Dan), 1 named bad guy (Fallon Nuit...who is EW!), 1 or 2 truly tertiary folks that carry on into the series for a while. And the cast only grows at the story goes on. The most impressive part in the writing for me is EVERYONE is memorable! They all have complexities and backstories that you get glimpses of and nobody is the perfect good guy or bad guy.

This went long...

So, Questions? Let me know. Comments if you read the books, let me know. Want to talk book, let me know! Comment here, send message, my @ on twitter is outwriterandom...

Peace.

D. Ondria

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#african american writers #blackgirlmagic #ecosystem of creatives #originalbydondria #african american authors #black creatives #black women writers #creative writing #original by d ondria #black writers #LA Banks #VHL series #Vampire Huntress Legend #vampires #book recommendations

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descendantofthesparrow · 4 years

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Descendants songs that i liked immediately vs ones that took 10 times to listen too till i liked it vs still Dont really like

loved on first listen:

Whats my name

Ways to be wicked

Queen of Mean

If only

Good to be Bad (its a bop but its still propaganda)

Set it off

You and Me

Break this down (if harry wasn't singing in this it would be in the 10 listens)

evil like me

vk remix (this is was fire from when it dropped dont @ me

Descendants 2 - Mashup Mix (honestly, love it)

took 10 times:

night falls

chilling like a villain (could only watch to the lyric vid or soundtrack, the music video made me cringe for a long while)

rotten to the core

its going down

space between (not because gay, gay is why i ended up liking it, just didnt vibe with me at first)

One kiss (this song is DANGEROUSLY close to being in the still dont like, fuuuck because its Evie and i love Evie but its a song about true loves kiss and it undermines Evie to just being a hopeless girl who wants a prince instead of the chemist, fashion genius she is)

Once upon a time (also dangerously close to being still dont like, because its just a pity party song for mal, only like it because 1) zero to no autotune, just pure voice which is nice, and it does have a nice tune)

Do what you gotta do (Hades carried that song and yall know it)

keep your head on halloween (....why just mal? why not Evie or Uma? easily could have split the verses between the girls, hell include audrey!)

still dont like:

did i mention (im sorry i really dont like this song i dont care)

be our guest remix from d1 (so unnecessary and just....ew, could have kept the original just give it a faster pace and some underlying remix stuff, it did NOT need to be rapped)

#Descendents #descendants #disney descendants

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detectivesplotslies · 5 years

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Passengers on the Road to Nowhere

Saioumota Week 2019 - Day 2: Road Trip & Long Distances

Description: Kaito, Shuichi and Kokichi pile into an old car and drive away from their troubles. Word Count: 2189

Read on AO3 here

The sun beat down on the bill of Shuichi’s cap as he leaned against the window, watching the signs flash by. The map was loosely grasped in his hands until they got closer to their next exit. He crumpled it a bit, tightening his hand, then letting it go again, staring at the tiny creases, like new markings on the face of the region. Maybe making somewhere new, just like they were hoping to find. His half lidded eyes drift to the driver’s seat, where Kaito sits at the wheel. His overly large sunglasses and gel free hair made almost look like a stranger, but the big grin on his face despite everything and his hand tapping along to the song playing through the crusty speakers gave him away.

Shuichi shifted his shoulders with a wince, and turned to glance into the backseat. Sprawled across the entirety of it was Kokichi, seemingly asleep. The hoodie he had been wearing was pulled off and thrown over his face to blot out the sun. He hadn’t said much since the argument about seatbelts, and the middle one was still awkwardly clipped around his waist, even sideways. A bump in the road bounced him up, and Shuichi heard a groan under the fabric.

He turned back to the map, and then out the window. A rest stop was coming up. His tired eyes widened a little.

Coffee.

Carefully, Shuichi folded the map and quietly spoke, low enough so maybe not to alert Kokichi as he got back to his nap.

“Kaito, can we stop?”

He must have been too soft to be heard under the buzz of the radio as Kaito kept tapping along with his eyes on the road. Should he poke him? What if he startles him and they swerve. Shuichi cleared his throat a bit, and tried a touch louder this time.

“Kaito?”

“Hm? Everything alright, Shuichi?” This time he turned ever so slightly towards him, and Shuichi could feel the inspection he was getting behind the shades even if he couldn’t quite make out his eyes. Shuichi smiled and nodded.

“Yeah, I’m fine, but could we stop? There’s a rest stop coming up-”

“Hey we weren’t gonna stop until it was dark, you know that, it was your suggestion.”

“I know that but… I don’t think a quick little stop to get some snacks or something to drink would be-”

“Shuichi, is this another coffee stop?! We are gonna get spotted for sure one of these times!”

“No we won’t! It’ll just be real quick stop, I’ll be in and out before you even know I’m gone and-”

“We’re stopping?”

Kokichi sat up like a zombie rising from the grave in an old horror film, hoodie still wrapped around his face. He clawed it off quickly and poked his head up between the front seats, grinning ear to ear.

“We are NOT, and even if we were you are not getting out of the car again,” Kaito grunted.

“Come onnnnnnnn, puuuhleeease. My legs are gonna wither away to stubs before we get anywhere, and then you’ll have to carry me. Do you want that on your conscience?”

“Oh so you don’t like to be carried? Good to know.”

“HOLD ON, that was NOT the point! I’ll be good, I just wanna get some air!”

“I’ll crack a window.”

“I need some exercise!”

“You can probably do sit-ups from how you’re lying back there if you want to that badly, Kokichi.”

“Ew.”

Shuichi couldn’t help but laugh at the exchange. He knew that last time was a mess, but for once he was on Kokichi’s side. The quieter boy gently placed his hand on Kaito’s where it held the steering wheel, and the other boy’s grimace smoothed over. He glanced back at his navigator.

“Please Kaito, you could probably use a stretch too, you’ve been behind the wheel for hours. It’s not safe, you know.”

“Yeah! Just cause you can pilot a spaceship doesn’t mean you’re allowed to coop us up in here and crash!”

“That’s not what I said,” Shuichi hurriedly added. He could hear Kaito exhale a long held breath and sigh.

“Fine, but we’re sticking together, okay? That means you too, stub legs!”

“Yes sir!”

Kokichi snickered as he pulled his hoodie over his head, dark locks reemerging moments later under the hood. Shuichi adjusted his hat and checked his wallet. Kaito pulled them over into the off-ramp and toward the sign proclaiming Gas, Restrooms, & Food. The old car’s engine made some ominous clicking sounds as they dropped in speed, but steadily came to a halt in the parking lot. There were only a few spots taken, a good sign really. The trio piled out of the car. Despite his claims Kokichi was the least shaky on his legs as he bounced from foot to foot, and tugged the drawstrings on his hood tight, so only his nose and eyes showed, with a stray bit of purplish hair sticking out like a whisker. The three of them shared a quick look, checking each other over for anything obvious they may have forgotten. Then as one they started towards the little rest stop shop.

The ease they’d had in the car dissipated instantly. The tight knit trio bunched together. Shuichi’s shoulder brushed against Kaito’s arm. Kokichi’s finger hooked on Shuichi’s belt loop like a tether. Kaito kept pace with the both of them while watching the lot over their heads. This was how they were together in public. How they managed crowds, comments, and stares.

The troupe broke apart at the door to go in single file, Shuichi first. The bell at the top of the door chimed, announcing new customers. He made a beeline for the counter while Kaito held the door for Kokichi. It didn’t take long to spot the coffee machine, nothing fancy just the regular and decaf options behind the cashier. There was a line that Shuichi stepped into it while fidgeting with his hands. He turned to watch the other two while he waited.

Kokichi walked down one of the aisles plucking colourful snack packages up with excitement and handing them to Kaito who trailed behind him. Once his arms were full, Kaito started putting one back every time he was given another to avoid a juggling situation. He was nowhere near as good at it as Kokichi was. At least not yet. Both of them had promised Kokichi they’d practice their juggling when they got time to. As they stepped out before turning to the next row Kokichi skipped over to the line and handed him a package of Oreos and winked. Shuichi couldn’t help but smile as he hopped away with an exasperated Kaito in tow.

Shuichi turned his attention back to the line as the person at the front finished their purchase and left. One more person and then he was up. His eyes drifted to the tv behind the cash, it was playing some ads on mute while music played over the actual speakers. He swallowed. The same ad that had been haunting him for weeks popped onto the screen. He reached up and adjusted his hat self-consciously. Despite that his eyes were glued to the screen as the Team DanganRonpa logo spun on it.

Even though it was muted, he knew a remix of the theme music was playing while the convention date and location popped up in big letters. Then the words were shot to pieces. Clips of each fan favourite participant that was announced as a special guest played, one after another in a reel. He hoped Kokichi was still looking for snacks and not watching this like he was. He’d seen it plenty of times. The mute remained a blessing. Shuichi knew that each ‘character’ was introduced with their own voices. And on cue, there was the latest favourite, in his iconic checkered scarf. He remembered the day Kokichi had been called to the recording studio for that one. He had come back entirely drained. Closed off. It’d been a long taxing one.

That’d been the day they decided they were getting out of there. Contracts be damned, they weren’t here to be paraded around for show.

Finally, Monokuma popped up at the end to wave goodbye. The ad was over. Something innocuous about a fruit juice with a cute girl in orange dancing took its place. Shuichi finally was able to look away. He glanced over his shoulder with concern, trying to be sure the other two boys were okay, but he didn’t see them anywhere nearby. He turned quickly, trying to find them but that was just as the woman in front of him was leaving. They collided, her purchase and his hat falling to the floor.

“Oh I’m sorry, I-”

Shuichi froze mid-sentence. On her shirt was show’s logo, big in black, red and white. She hadn’t looked up, having bent to pick up her bag and mutter. His hat sat on the floor beside it. Shuichi’s hands shot up to his face automatically, dropping the Oreos as well in the process.

“Watch it this could have broken,” she was saying. “Seriously…” Shuichi nodded from behind his hands, trying to think. She hadn’t moved. Was she staring at him? He didn’t want to dare look. What if she recogni-

Shuichi felt the hat slide down on his head.

“Hey you dropped this right?” He heard Kaito say, playing up a gruffer voice to his side as he removed his hands. He got a pat on his back. “No harm done, right?” Behind the shades and the grin he could just be a concerned stranger, but if she noticed the goatee she might-

“C’mon, c’mon, you were gonna buy these for me, right?” Kokichi swooped in on his other side, linking their arms and tugging Shuichi towards the cash, past the woman who’s attention was now on Kaito. The fallen Oreos were already in his hand. He slid them onto the counter and through the still-pulled-tight opening in the hood he asked the cashier for a black coffee as well. As his thoughts finally caught up with the transaction Shuichi fumbled with his wallet.

Behind him he heard the woman huff and head out the door with her gathered things. The bell chimed. Kaito slid a couple of the snacks he was still holding onto the counter as well, putting it all together.

They paid cash and left. Kaito carried the bag, Shuichi held his coffee, and Kokichi clinged to Shuichi’s arm the whole walk through the parking lot. They didn’t say another word until they reach Kaito’s old car, and pile back in.

The doors clicked shut. They collectively let out their held breaths.

“‘It’ll just be real quick’ you said, ‘in and out before you even know’,” Kaito sighed, kneading his forehead behind the shades. The heavy moment hung in the air. Shuichi looked down at his coffee.

“I’m sorry, I-”

“Talk about a deer-in-headlights, jeez Shumai. You’re so lucky you brought us huh? And what was all that about definitely not needing wanting me out there, hmmmm?” Kokichi leaned into the front seat and sprawled himself across Kaito’s shoulder. He poked Kaito’s cheek. “You should have seen this idiot’s face until I went to get the cookies. You two matched! Frozen like statues!”

Shuichi’s eyebrows shot up and he glanced up at Kaito’s reddening face. “H-hey this is serious, Kokichi, we could have-”

“But we’re fine. We stuck together like you said and we’re fiiiiine.”

Shuichi chuckled and reached out to loosen Kokichi’s hood, and swiping away bits of hair from his face. They really did look like whiskers stuck like that. “You’re right, we’re fine.”

In return he got a brief soft look that broke into mischievous smirk. Kokichi gave Kaito’s face a light pap with his hand and rolled off of him to the backseat again. They heard the fizz and pop sound of the unscrewed cap of a soft drink.

It took the other two boys a moment to realize the snack bag was unopened in the front seat.

“Kokichi! We talked about this!”

“We have more than enough just to buy it-”

“No one noticed, don’t worry about it~”

“We don’t need more risks! You-”

“Can’t hear you over the bubbles!”

The squabble continued as the car pulled back out onto the highway. Shuichi fell out of it after a bit to sip his coffee, enjoying the light mood’s return. This cramped vehicle may not be the best living situation, but for the time being it was their safest place. Where they were themselves. Where there was no audience. Shuichi wasn’t sure how long it would last, but he had a new shred of hope. The ad had still listed Kokichi as appearing at the convention. The company wasn’t telling anyone they’d gone. Any search they were doing was internal and hushed. They were trying to save face, and the public didn’t know to watch for them.

That they could play to their advantage. This might just work. Their getaway might have a destination after all.

#saioumotaweek #saioumotaweek2019 #saioumota #shuichi saihara #kokichi ouma #kaito momota #road trip #my writing #my content #hope you guys like iiit :'D #vr au #postgame #fic

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ggukcangetit · 4 years

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Long Tag Game

Thanks for the tag @ezralia-writes

tagging : anyone else

tell me the first song that made you stan your current fave group and why did your faves attract you so much?

first song by bts that i heard was probably IDOL but what made me stan them was probably Boy In Luv lmao. the aggression that all the liddol bangtan babies had in the Boy In Luv performance + Tae in orange hair growling. yup that was it.

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T W O

rule: answer the ten questions and write your own!

1) what’s your unrealistic goal for life?

idk if goals can be unrealistic lol. dreams may be unrealistic. but whatever. unrealistic goal 🤔 that i can change my sleeping and eating schedule in one fell swoop lmao idk

2) if you had known that we would be in a global pandemic, what’s one thing that you would’ve done before things shut down (if they have for you)?

that’s morbid lol. but i would’ve cleared my desk at my workplace. idk if i’ll ever go back and it has a lot of pictures of my friends and family there.

3) what’s an unconventional thing that you carry around with you when you go out?

okay full disclosure but im basically always prepared for a zombie apocalypse. so i carry a lot of things with me when i go out.

4) favourite type of plushies and why?

anything soft and not creepy looking idk???

5) favourite song right now?

Black Swan has been looping in my brain the last few days

6) something that you’ve always wanted to learn?

archery

7) tell a funny story about yourself (or just something that you’ve witnessed)

i was once asked to take my aunt and cousin around the city and we got tragically lost and this story basically never leaves me now lmao

8) headphones or speakers? why?

in public its obv headphones (what kind of question is that) but if im at home id always prefer speakers.

9) craving any food right now? what are you craving?

everything? lmao. but specifically food from home which i haven’t had in more than 6 months.

10) which music streaming platform do you prefer? why?

i use itunes because its there. but maybe changing to spotify soon?

My Q’s:

what was the weirdest dream that you’ve woken up from?

if you were an ice-cream flavor, what would you be?

if you could meet a fictional character, who would it be?

what dish/food/meal do you hate to prepare?

would you rather live in the mountains or at the beach? why?

what’s the first thing you see in a potential friend?

which is your favorite Sherlock Holmes adaptation and why?

if you could play one sport with a celebrity of choice what would it be? and with whom?

what makes you the most angry?

if 2019 was a color, what would it be?

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T H R E E

rule: bold the statements that apply to you, italicize your aspirations, then tag nine people.

AIR ༉⋆͙̈

i have small hands / i love the night sky / i watch animals and birds when i pass them by / i drink herbal tea / i wake to see the dawn / the smell of dust is comforting / i’m valued for being wise / i prefer books to music / i meditate / i find joy in learning new truths from the world around me

FIRE ༉⋆͙̈

i don’t have straight hair / i like to wear ripped jeans and overalls / i play an organized sport / i love dogs / i am not afraid of adventure / i love to talk to strangers / i always try new foods / i enjoy road trips / summer is my favorite season / my radio is always playing

WATER ༉⋆͙̈

i wear bracelets on my wrists / i love the bustle of the city / i have more than one set of piercings / i read poetry / i love the sound of a thunderstorm / i want to travel the world / i sleep past midday most days / i love simply lit dinners and fluorescent signs / i rewatch kids shows out of nostalgia / i see emotions in colors not words

EARTH ༉⋆͙̈

i wear glasses or contacts / i enjoy doing the laundry / i am a vegetarian or vegan / i have an excellent sense of time / my humor is very cheerful / i am a valued advisor to my friends / i believe in true love / i love this chill of mountain air / i’m always listening to music / i am highly trusted by the people in my life

AETHER ༉⋆͙̈

i go without makeup in my daily life / i make my own artwork / i keep on track of my tasks and time / i always know true north / i see beauty in everything / i can always smell flowers / i smile at everyone i pass by / i always fear history repeating itself / i have recovered from a mental disorder / i can love unconditionally

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F O U R

the ultimate tag: answer whichever ones you want to because there are a lot and then tag a few blogs you’d like to get to know better!

PERSONAL

name: cha

nickname: over here it is cha and cha only lmao

birthday: september

zodiac: virgo

nationality: Asian

languages: 3+

gender: Female

sexuality: Straight

height: 5′9

BLOG STUFF

inspiration for muse: movies/series sometimes make me super philosophical lol. plus i’d say people around me also inspire my creativity.

meaning behind my url: it is so hard to come up with a catchy bts related blog name D: but i wanted something with gguk because its super endearing.

blog established: 2 months.

followers: 84 i think 🤔

FAVORITES

favourite animals: turtles

favourite books: a thousand splendid suns by khalid hosseini is still one of my favs

favourite colour: shades of blue

favourite fictional characters: i love sirius black lmao. also death from sandman

favourite flower: i don’t like flowers ew

favourite scent: coffee + freshly baked bread/desserts

favourite season: summer

RANDOM

average hours of sleep: 6

cats or dogs: both?

coffee, tea or hot chocolate: coffee (iced tho)

current time: 5.31 pm

dream trip: i really want to go to Seoul and Tokyo

dream job: i had a random dream of becoming a patissier. maybe i can do that later in life who knows.

hobbies: i’m bad at this. anything that i feel like doing at the moment i guess

hogwarts house: ravenclaw

last movie watched: the last thing he wanted (that anne hathaway movie on netflix which deserves to be thrown into the trash imo)

last song listened to: Yeah! by Usher

no. of blankets you sleep with: one

random fact(s): hmmmmmmmm i like to have something savoury after dessert. always wanted to be good at some sport.

F I V E

10 things i can’t stop listening to

Black Swan - BTS

Yeah! - Usher

In Silence - Janet Suhh (It’s Okay to Not be Okay soundtrack)

December, 1963 - Frankie Vallie and the Four Seasons

Friends - BTS

Filter - BTS

Shove It - Santigold

Boy With Luv - BTS

Mic Drop (Steve Aoki remix) - BTS

Airplane pt. 2 - BTS

#that was LONG

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This Week in Gundam Wing (May 19-25, 2019)

Blog link:

https://www.tumblr.com/blog/thisweekingundamwing

Hello! I hope the week finds you well. Thank you for all your contributions!

Mod Duointherain

May 20 - 26, 2019

Fanfiction:

Doctormegalomania, Eldritch Holiday Ch 20 https://doctormegalomania.tumblr.com/post/185041737678/eldritch-holiday-creature-of-the-night

There’s something wrong with Happiness. Duo doesn’t know what...

Duointherain, Beneath

Ch 7 https://duointherain.tumblr.com/post/185059008499/fic-beneath-7

Heero saves Duo after he falls back into the lake

Ch 8 https://duointherain.tumblr.com/post/185138585664/beneath-8

Well, that didn’t go as expected... Relena calls her mom.

Fanart:

@ana-karenina-blog https://ana-karenina-blog.tumblr.com/post/140551670066/gundam-wing-pilots-i-was-recently-re-watching

Lovely pretty boys! :)

@Blancaxlobo https://blancaxlobo.tumblr.com/post/185103760741/one-of-the-most-unfortunate-hairstyle-designs-in

Duo and Trowa - unfortunate hair designs

@Chronicwhimsy https://chronicwhimsy.tumblr.com/post/157288516047/fapuary-day-14-gundam-high-school-host-club-i

The Gundam Boys host club!

@Gundayum https://gundayum.tumblr.com/post/184983150346/okay-at-least-drool-outside-and-water-the

Hilde and Duo (dad bod Duo) taking a comfy nap!

@Gundayo https://gundayo.tumblr.com/post/185027035406/quatre-raberba-winner-52019-done-with-ugee

Beautiful Quatre

@lookitsmorefandomtrash https://lookitsmorefandomtrash.tumblr.com/post/184031207265/this-occurred-to-me-once-in-a-dream

Duo vs Duolingo - There will be blood!

@SapphireGamgee https://www.deviantart.com/sapphiregamgee/art/Seekers-795155096

Seekers - Trowa, Duo, WuFei, Quatre, Heero, Ryoga

@Snuffie https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard/blog/snufffie/134314772065

Heero and Trowa Baking

@bluesquishylemon https://bluesquishylemon.tumblr.com/post/185076915502/title-wufei-sketch-source-gundam-wing-character

Classic sketch of Wufei

@yaboycoach https://yaboycoach.tumblr.com/post/185104301367/gundam-leg-sleeve-start-51819

Super cool Heero tattoo

Cosplay: (in Alphabetical order by blogger’s url)

@exasperatedagent https://exasperatedagent.tumblr.com/post/184969923943

Une and Noin, in a very cool cosplay

Photosets/Screenshots: (in Alphabetical order by blogger’s url)

@Bluesquishlemon https://bluesquishylemon.tumblr.com/post/184929642507/title-i-used-to-be-sweet-inspired-by

A lovely pic of Quatre - I used to be sweet, until life hit me in the face.

@Wingslanding https://wingslanding.tumblr.com/post/184951390986/im-a-little-obsessed-i-mean-passionate

photo of manga and art, Heero/Relena

Chats/Dialogs/Discussions:

@Cinderellaincombatboots https://cinderellaincombatboots.tumblr.com/post/84701884994/a-soldier-of-peace-lucrezia-noin-episode-04-the

An interesting discussion about Noin

@Cinderellaincombatboots https://cinderellaincombatboots.tumblr.com/post/83201371025/episode-03-five-gundams-confirmed-trowa-barton

Trowa and Quatre meet for the first time

@Helmsmistress https://helmistress.tumblr.com/post/184951251024/how-fanon-becomes-canon

It was bad chili... how to make Frozen Teardrop canon.

@Lemontrash https://lemontrash.tumblr.com/post/185103417709/game-night

Only Duo could roll a 20 for getting done by the devil...

Quotes:

@gundaaamn https://gundaaamn.tumblr.com/post/185136231062/quatre-i-heard-you-like-bad-boys-trowa

Maybe not that kind of bad, Q...

@Incorrectgundamwing quotes

Heero and Trowa - some dancing at a bar: https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/184957186214/heero-being-carried-out-of-bar-by-bouncers

Duo and Trowa discuss sandwiches and Quatre https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/184995991408/duo-you-ever-ate-something-so-good-that-like

Dorothy thinks we’re all extras https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/185029699177/dorothy-out-of-my-way-extras-zechs-stop

Heero promises to kill Relena ... this time. Going to be hard to do with a teddy bear. https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/185025017284/doctor-j-and-you-will-definitely-kill-relena-this

Duo and Relena discuss Heero’s mental health, or lack thereof https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/185020068827/relena-you-dont-want-heero-to-die-relena-and

Heero does not know the bright side... https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/185000573538/heero-look-on-the-bright-side-quatre-heero

Heero and Trowa - Did you miss me? https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/185008999206/trowa-undercover-did-you-miss-me-heero-i-have

Zechs who? https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/184980645248/at-preventers-hq-sally-duo-you-need-to-stop

Hilde’s in labor, married to Duo, she’s got a lot to do. https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/185044179958/911-operator-whats-your-emergency-duo-my

Alpha!Heero during the wars... https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/185053522384/i-understand-that-ft-is-a-dumpster-fire-and-that

Bubble wrap safety for everyone! https://noirangetrois.tumblr.com/post/185042675656/terrablaze514-incorrectgundamwingquotes

Life’s a freak show https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/185118145541/quatre-whats-a-freak-show-trowa-its-like-our

Dorothy’s notifications https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/185148104337/dorothy-is-she-crying-is-she-crying-sylvia

Zechs may have a head injury https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/185122051486/zechs-pointing-at-noin-thats-my-girlfriend

Insufferable People https://gundayum.tumblr.com/post/185067883091/incorrectgundamwingquotes-heero-about-the

Illegal contacts https://janaverse.tumblr.com/post/185068368388/incorrectgundamwingquotes-quatre-you-have

Cold Hearts https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/185033256206/at-the-antarctica-base-heero-im-cold

MoodBoards/Aesthetics: (in Alphabetical order by blogger’s url)

@janaverse https://janaverse.tumblr.com/post/185137327258/this-is-my-actual-license-plate-with-the-location

Heero and Duo

Heero and Duo again: https://janaverse.tumblr.com/image/185107799718

Stickies from Heero: https://janaverse.tumblr.com/post/185134611013

No Idea What To Put This Under:

@christianmswanson GW opening Remix: https://christianmswanson.tumblr.com/post/184938390981/extended-version-of-the-previous-post-i-know

Revisit the opening, with the EW gundams.

@bobo-is-tha-bomb https://bobo-is-tha-bomb.tumblr.com/post/185090557001/the-building-drive-is-big-lol-after-completing

Lovely new Sandrock model

Calendar Events:

This Week In Gundam Wing Events: https://thisweekingundamevents.tumblr.com/post/185146959405/mini-bang-rules

Mini Bang Rules! Theme for this Bang: Unorthodox Undercover Work

This Week in Gundam Wing Events: https://thisweekingundamevents.tumblr.com/post/185146909570/mini-bang-results

Voting results are in!

Event name, host, and link

dates

News:

News: AnimeNewsNetwork, Anime Limited Acquires Gundam Wing, Char's Counterattack https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-05-24/anime-limited-acquires-gundam-wing-char-counterattack/.147089

#Thisweekingundamwing

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ilikemypancakesfresh · 5 years

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AU where the bakuboys are the try guys

GUYS. HEAR ME OUT. THE BAKUSQUAD (- MINA AND JIROU) ARE THE FUCKING TRY GUYS. ( All of these are based on real life shit the try guys have said and done )

KEITH IS KAMINARI, NED IS KIRISHIMA, ZACH IS SERO, AND BAKUGOU IS EUGENE.

Kirishima: "So my wife and I, *camera points at Mina* just recently had a child." Bakugou: "Dogs are easier than babies because I can drop my dogs."

____

Sero: "My goal for today is to take the most classic, basic pranks and pull them off."

*puts whoopee cushion on Bakugou's chair*

Bakugou: *sits*

Bakugou:

Sero:

Sero: "Ew did you just fart?"

_______

Kirishima: "Kaminari's probably just running around screaming 'what's up' at plants!'"

*Camera cuts to Kaminari shouting at trees*

Kaminari: "OOoOOOoOOOOHHHH WhAt yOU WANT WOODS!!!!!!????????"

Kirishima: "Bakugou, at this point has to strip down and try to become nature."

*camera cuts to Bakugou ripping his shirt off*

Bakugou: "Let's play a game of: Can I eat you?"

Bakugou talking to a plant: "Can I eat you?"

Kirishima: "And God, I just hope Sero's not dead."

*Camera cuts to Sero struggling to carry logs*

______

Kaminari: "Let's do a game where I put on like, 6 diapers," Bakugou: "Uh huh......" Kaminari: "and then it's like, guess how many diapers I have." Bakugou: Kaminari: "And then I kinda do like a strip show," Sero, driving: Kaminari: "And if they guess seven it's like, uhh ohh."

_________

*Kaminari's wedding w/ Jirou*

Bakugou: "So I talked to Jirou and I asked her, 'who's gonna cry first?' and everyone went 'Kaminariiii'."

*Wedding speech*

Kaminari: "I've always known I loved you but I didn't know that I couldn't live without you until I moved away from you..... for a year."

Kaminari: *crying noises*

Kaminari: "And I just desperately need you to take care of me because I'm a mess, all the time."

Jirou, s o b b i ng:

________

Bakugou: "Hey Kaminari,"

Kaminari: "what,"

Bakugou: *pulls out a knife*

Kaminari, shocked. : "OH-

Bakugou: "Need me to cut anything?"

Kaminari: "PUT THAT KNIFE AWAY!"

Kaminari, looking at Kirishima: "MAKE HIM PUT THE KNIFE AWAY!"

Kirishima, busy, looking at a map:

Sero: "Remember when you sliced your thumb cutting an avocado?"

Bakugou: "Yeah that was a butter knife though," *starts walking away*

Sero, shouting: "then what do you think's gonna happen wITH THIS- BAKUGOUUUU!!!"

Kaminari, also shouting: "DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT WE MEAN BY THAT!!!"

____

Bakuboys LIVE in vidcon: The evolution of viral video

Kirishima: "WE'LL DO IT LIVE!! FUCK IT!!"

*Cooking by the book remix ft. Lil Jon starts playing* *crowd cheering*

"ITS A PIECE OF CAKE TO BAKE A PRETTY CAKE" * BAKUGOU ENTERS THE STAGE SKIPPING WITH A PINK WIG*

"IF THE WAY IS H A Z Y" *BAKUGOU DOES A MOTHERFUCKING SOMERSAULT*

Kirishima: "IF THE WAY IS WHAT!!!???"

"YOU GOTTA DO THE COOKIN BY THE BOOK" *KAMINARI JOINS THE DANCE*

"THEN YOU'LL HAVE A- YEAH BREAK IT DOWN BITCH!" *SERO STARTS RISING FROM THE DJ BOOTH*

"LEMME SEE YOU BACK IT UP" *BAKUGOU FUCKING DROPS SOME MOVES*

"DROP THAT ASS DOWN LOW AND PICK THAT MOTHERFUCKER UP" *BAKUGOU AND KAMINARI STARTS TWERKING* *KIRISHIMA.EXE HAS STOPPED WORKING* *SERO CAN'T DANCE*

"You gotta do the cooking by the book! Tee-hee!" *BAKUGOU DOES A SPLIT.*

_______

Kirishima: "The sun,,,, is really heating down-

Sero: "Will you stop with the dialogues, Kirishima!"

Kirishima: "will yOU SHUT UP, OR IM GONNA PUKE ON YOU!"

_____

* Kirishima's baby gender reveal with Mina *

Kaminari: "I don't think Kirishima's gonna have a girl, because............ he's just- so aggresive.."

Kaminari: "I think all of his sperm have Y chromosomes"

_____

Bakuboys try the weirdest beauty trends

Sero, complaining: "bEinG wOMaN- being A woman is hard enough aLRiGHt- I doN't-

Kaminari: " B e i n g w o m an H A R D "

Sero, laughing:

Kaminari: " B E I N G W O M A N ( ( H A R D ) )

Sero, crying:

*camera cuts to Kirishima and Bakugou*

Kirishima: "Alright you shut the FuCk up Ba-"

Bakugou: "You shut the fUCk up-"

Kirishima: "you shut the fUcK up imma-

Bakugou: "bITCH-"

Kirishima: "Imma dig a real knife to your eye-

Bakugou: "imma fUcKing stAB you with-

Kirishima pointing eyeliner at Bakugou's eye: "wOw!1!1"

Kirishima, looking impressed: "Wow!"

Bakugou:

Kirishima: "You- Your're- Your eye looks really Niceeee!!"

Bakugou: "Awe thank you!"

_____

Bakuboys try get kidnapped

Kaminari to Kirishima: "Don't touch me-"

Sero with his hand TAPED behind his back: "I think I can maybe just slip out of this, I'm sweating so much."

Kaminari: "No way,"

Sero with his hands free: "Yeah-"

Kaminari: "Wow........ WOW!

Sero: "Look how wet I am."

Kaminari: "Sero's panic is the best secret weapon"

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countdion · 2 years

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detached?

Apple Music

Spotify

Youtube

· Dark Red (Steve Lacy)

· Forever Rain (RM)

· Love (Daughter)

· It’s Ok I Wouldn’t Remember Me Either (Crywank)

· Choking on Flowers (Fox Academy)

· Carry on (Fun.)

· Daiichimaku Kaien (Interlude) (KikuoHana)

· Lili. (Ewe)

· Never Say Never (The Fray)

· Two Slow Dancers (Mitski)

· Sic Transit Gloria … Glory Fades (Brand New)

· Black Dahlia (Hollywood Undead)

· Shelter (Porter Robinson & Madeon)

· Owari Kigan (KikuoHana)

· Ventilator (feat. Mvko) (Jasxn)

· Dirge (Yoshihisa Hirano)

· I Just Loved You (In Love With a Ghost)

· That One Time -S (Feat. iDakota [Ur Remix] (Limbo & Sour)

· Ankyo (Kikuo)

· Introversion 2.0 ($uicideboy$)

· Hibidarake No Me (KikuoHana)

#kikuohana #kikuo #hollywood undead #brand new #mitski #ewe #crywank #RM #Steve lacy

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a-queer-in-spaceland · 6 years

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What I Liked and Hated About TLJ

Spoilers ahead kiddos

We'll start with the good shit:

Poe and Finn interacted well and honestly I love the onscreen chemistry between Boyega and Isaac! They play off each other brilliantly

Paige and Rose Tico are the best characters in the whole franchise. Paige had perhaps 3 minutes if that of screentime and her actress (Veronica Ngo) outshone half the main cast. Rose has the best character arc in the franchise thus far as well. We see her beliefs surrounding the concept of being a hero and 'greatness' along with her own worth change drastically for the better. Kelly Marie Tran deserves acclaim for how easy she made Rose to love and look up to.

Snoke dies because of his own hubris and that was lit

The fight scenes are beautifully choreographed and just wonderful to watch, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Gwendoline Christie (though her part was small) and Adam Driver did a wonderful job in their hand to hand duels!

Visually it was stunning -in some parts- the space battle sequences were utterly beautiful and dramatic

They got John Williams to do the music so it was banging, I adored the remix of "The Imperial March" during a few of the scenes.

Every single scene with Carrie Fischer was brilliant, it was wonderful to see General Leia on screen

Finns gets some character development and it's okay. Could have been better written, but Boyega did a fabulous job.

Hux's sarcasm

Rey's parent's reveal was lit and I enjoyed it, some of the only writing I enjoyed.

if I'm being 100% honest having the white male who is unstable and needs a woman to heal him get rejected and shown as the villain was glorious and I'd watch Crylo Ron have his little breakdown a million times and laugh while it happened.

Now let's get to the shit I hated and there's a lot tbh:

The slapstick comedy. There's so much and it wasn't needed and at some points undermined the tone of the story they were trying to tell. Some bits were good, most were not.

I'm all for throwing Nazi's around, but not when it takes the previously established characterisation of a character and the relationships around characters and warps them for no other reason than a funny gag.

Hux's new personality was awful, despite loving watching him get thrown around like he deserves. The only part I agreed with was when he was straight up gonna shoot Crylo Ron while he was knocked out.

Almost every moment Rey and Kylo were on screen together.

It made NO SENSE for Rey to want to see the light in him at all. She was resistant at first but honestly that hatred of him should not have evaporated the second she learned his tragic backstory. Like no. That's lazy writing.

Speaking of Lazy Writing, ho-ho-ho the plot of this is honestly just not good. Lots of stuff happens, but most of it is ultimately useless and barely advances the plot. I get that this is the second movie but the ending could have been achieved not only better but more quickly. Perhaps leaving room for all the character development for everyone who wasn't Finn and Rose.

Crylo Ron's Tiddies, why did they have to be there? Oh for another bad joke? Of course.

The movie was trying to have an overarching message, but instead of it being clear or useful it was all jumbled and hard to follow. Not great.

They have a shot of a force sensitive kid at the end and imply he'll join the resistance. I didn't like it. For two reason, it was a wasted chance for diversity and it felt less "hopeful" like the movie was trying to make it but instead terribly depressing as it implies this war will keep going on and on and on for so long this child will be a soldier.

Luke in general. Just, I cannot handle his motivations and reasoning because it is utterly foreign with my understanding of Luke Skywalker. I'm not a fan of his characterisation. Mark Hamil was great tho.

Yoda. I like that they tried to make hi look OT, but uuuuh the word that comes to mind quickest is "terrifying" it was so creepy looking holy heck.

While I liked Finn and Poe's interactions could have been gayer better.

Snoke's Red Room. Just it was ew to look at.

Personally, I know there was other directions these characters could have gone and I disagree with the paths taken by the movie. They weren't great in 9/10 cases and I'm disappointed.

Finishing TFA left me excited to see were they would take the characters and seeing the result now I am disappointed.

There was no Jar Jar so I don't wanna burn it down, but it is firmly one of my least favourite Star Wars Movies. @.JJAbrams I'm sorry I doubted you, please come back.

#The Last Jedi #Spoilers #tlj spoilers #review #Star Wars #looooong post

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