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scige-archive · 4 years

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LIANA LIBERATO / CIS FEMALE. — saige beaumont is really making a name for themselves as a sheep. i think that she is studying criminal psychology + linguistics in their junior year at lockwood, living in alpha nu. originally from thibodaux, louisiana, saige is known to be blithe & energetic, but can also be evasive & irrational. — james / 20 / est / she/they.

hi !! this is mostly just a repost, but there has been added information to her biography section, as well as her connections to the victims. i’m excited to continue rping with u all !!!

TW DRUG USE, ALCOHOLISM, IMPLIED ABUSE, ADDICTION, HIT & RUN.

a e s t h e t i c s

stick n’ pokes at 2am – when your drunk and giggling too much in between purposeful stabs, avoiding the cracks in the sidewalk because they’re bad luck and they’ll break your mother’s back – even if your mother doesn’t love you, because you love her, the familiar riff in an old song – one that’s got you strumming along silently; there is no guitar, only empty air lit by the christmas lights you haven’t taken down. it’s may. swallowing down shots, and by default, swallowing down problems. laughing quick, easily, constantly. skinned knees from skateboarding, despite being rubbish at it. wishes on eyelashes stuck to your cheekbones, glitter sticking, running into the ocean at sunrise; feeling at home. excuses, and the many forms they come in. telling people you love them through hand squeezes and fresh muffins, sideways glances and soft, eager grins.

general info !!

full name: saige alouette beaumont

nickname(s): n/a so give her some uwu

b.o.d. - july 7th, 21 whole yrs old.

label(s): the hedonist, the icarcian, the reveler, etc. etc.

height: 5′7″ !!

hometown: thibodaux, louisiana

sexuality: firstly when aren’t my babies bi as FUCK but she also prefers masc-presenting folks

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biography !!

the fallible daughter of two very infallible people: robert beaumont, US lieutenant general, and manon levesque, world renown fashion designer. both calculating, cold, and purposeful.

saige never believed she was created out of love. it was an action with a purpose, intentions to create the perfect child. the hybrid of both military genius and fashion extraordinaire, molded to their will.

it took them no more than six months after her birth for her parents to up and move, thus beginning the cycle of packing and unpacking, flying and driving, state-to-state and country-to-country. the longest saige had ever stayed in one place was two years.

kept on a short leash, homeschooled, and learning skills she had no interest in – she was more like a pet, a project, than a child. the world moved all around her, but she felt restrictively tethered to her parents.

she had always felt this way. a bird in a cage of thorns.

it was hard to keep and maintain friends – saige would be there one day, and gone the next. a ghost, a very visible ghost. even so, she tried her hardest.

running from bodyguards (nannies, in a sense. her father is a paranoid man) into festival crowds and climbing out of windows in the dark of night to swim in lakes with locals she’d meet only a few hours earlier – she absorbed as much of what she could get; this intense, undying love for a world she had always craved to see.

it was the start of something near dangerous – a phase that seemed to never end, rebellion coursing through her veins. a wild child in the making, unknowing of limits. the bad sort of crowd was the crowd she found herself landing, more often than not – introducing the sheltered girl to a world she hadn’t quite known existed

she ran away, briefly, at age fifteen with a man three years older than her – which nearly ended up in a tabloid magazine if it hadn’t been for her parents’ money. though the guilt of her parents’ disappointed weighed on her, the thrill fueled something much worse

from that point on, she became a problem child. from public intoxication to vandalism – it was clear their daughter was unraveling and nothing could contain her.

boarding school was a small attempt to stop it – she got expelled.

she hadn’t intended to go to university, either – but, by some chance – and after a mysterious year-long disappearance from public eye during her eighteenth year of life, next thing she knew, she was a student at lockwood university.

she was involved in a getaway chase from an armed robbery at a bank which then turned into a hit-and-run in washington when she was on the brink of turning eighteen. it was a situation she had no control over, not knowing her role in the scheme until it was too late to turn back. the victim survived but saige’s family has been paying the medical fees since then. her parents haven’t spoken to her since.

ever since the accident, saige has avoided causing too much trouble - generally staying out of headlines and tabloids, partially in fear of her parents finally cutting ties, and partially in fear of doing something that’ll cost another person their life.

and while too afraid to visit the victim & their family, every month since the conviction of the others involved - she’ll visit one of them in particular. it’s been three years and saige has shown no sign of stopping.

during her last visit, he had sent her on a scavenger hunt resulting in her breaking into his brother’s (& his, technically) home and finding a second iPhone - one she had no idea he had, one with the watershed app installed. their intentions was for saige to be able to access the app - but his shepherd access had been revoked, and the phone had already been wiped clean. regardless, saige took it back to rochester with her.

personality !!

bubbly. so fucking bubbly. she’s got so much fucking energy on her – she goes running every morning and every night and swims like every afternoon and she’s n e v e r tired ?? the personality of a coke bottle shaken up but like if the bottle could laugh.

tries her hardest to be the Happy Fun friend, y’know, the one who can hook you up w/ some sicccc shit b/c she befriended/possibly slept with her drug dealer and now she gets discounts.

like, generally, comes off as very confident of herself and fearless and, like, yes–reckless, but like a fun reckless, y’know ??

talks a l o t, could ramble for days, hand gestures and all.

if she wants to do something, she will do it and there’s not much you can do to stop her tbh. she’s very easy-going, very go-go-go, very…mischievous, y’know? even if she’s trying to do something stupid you kinda just have to let her do it or otherwise she’ll mope for three hours and pout at you and you’ll feel ?? this weird sense of guilt ?? which isn’t the Best thing but she’s not the best person either so dfghjh

a vegetarian !! meat makes her sick, like, physically.

uuuhh her vocabulary consists of a lot of ‘likes’ and ‘ums’ and ‘y’knows’, y’know ??

i am like 99% sure she’s got adhd but she’s never been diagnosed with it b/c her parents suck with that stuff. her parents sort of suck in general.

like…she’s currently not on speaking terms with them. she’s not disowned…like, yet, but they haven’t said more than like five words to each other since saige was eighteen and it k i l l s her but they also send her a shit ton of money every month so.

owns like…four cars…..she has them all on campus…..she prolly isn’t suppose to…but she does…one of them’s a real sleek sports car, one is a jacked up pick-up truck that’s decked out in like LED lights n shit, one is the same exact fucking car from the princess diaries b/c saige is obsessed w/ the movie. the other is like. a mini cooper probably.

a photographer, her walls are covered in photographs and art and taped-down plants and in general her room is very ?? cluttered ?? like it’s very home-y but god. she’s a mess. clothes everywhere. she’s probably got a pile of instruments and other miscellaneous hobbies on a chair in the corner that she hasn’t touched in a while

speaking of !! she has a bunch of random, like, skills ?? like knitting and sewing and cooking and three different forms of ballroom dancing, and she can definitely work a gun and a car engine except she goes thru interests so rapidly and is disinterested in most of the other ones b/c her parents forced like half of them onto her.

she plays bass guitar. she loves her bass guitar. she knows other instruments but the only ones she’ll really fidget with are her bass guitar and like, her violin. everything else she’s like ~okay~ at

got really obsessed with languages at a young age and started learning them ?? her mother is like. super french, like genuinely from france, so she already grew up speaking both english and french but she’s learnt others for the hell of it and she’s still learning like three other at the same time which is a MESS but she’s a mess so like can u blame her sdfghj

but like i said, she’s v e r y reckless. very much a party girl. she uses like…quite a few drugs, both socially and alone and frankly – she’s rarely sober.

a budding alcoholic because she’s convinced that without it she’ll be Miserable and Horrible to everybody because she’s a Horrible, Awful person who is the absolute Worse and if drinking vodka mixed in with 23 crystal lite packets helps with not thinking like that then she’ll do it no questions asked

its a problem she’s been developing since she was younger, only amplified by … the situation, that happened when she was eighteen.

is essentially wearing this mask of confidence and giddiness and flirtatiousness b/c she doesnt want people to think she’s doing Not Okay.

she loves so much. she loves everything, everybody. falls in love like five times a day but nothing really sticks to her either. if ur a shitty person/come off as an asshole then she’ll be more likely to be attracted to her b/c shes Always been like this. finds them super interesting which is ?? questionable ?? sometimes i want to just. knock some sense into her but y’know what…it’s fine we’re Fine

she gets around p frequently but is also the type of person who’ll like, try n maintain a positive, good friendship with whoever she sleeps with b/c the idea of having regrettable encounters is smth that Bothers her and she just pretty much refuses.

it’s honestly a bit of a problem ?? she blurs the lines between friendship and Something, Anything More too often and with too many people b/c she just. wants to be loved. but there is never enough !

she does stick n pokes !! a whole bunch !! let her give you one !! she can’t draw for shit but i mean, who cares, right ??

uuuhh her mom sends her like…prototypes of things she designs n shit that isn’t out yet and saige 100% always gives it away or it sits in her closet and essentially that is her go-to gift for birthdays or christmas or whenever she feels like it

there’s literally sm i could say about her but i’ll stop Here b/c it’s getting too long sksksksk

connections to the victims !!

tatiana samuels / saige & tatiana met when they were freshmen and junior, respectively. they quickly became friends - mostly seen together at parties, where they’d encourage each other to do more, more, more. their friendship was ended after they’d taken a friend’s car on a joyride and wound up crashing it off of a back road. saige freaked out about it & tatiana ... did not. as a result of their very different reactions, and saige’s fear of landing in the news, they cut ties.

george craig iii / saige had met george after bringing tatiana back to her dorm one night where they accidentally crossed paths. one thing led to another and they wound up sleeping together. it hadn’t meant to be a thing at all, but there had been two other incidents of them ‘accidentally crossing paths’ before his disappearance.

hana williams / for the two of them to not be friends would be, frankly - weird, due to their similar friendly personalities. they got along well, but weren’t the closest pair.

christoph wainwright / they had hooked up numerous times before without issue, but christoph’s jealous yet emotionally unavailable personality & saige’s own conflicted feelings had resulted in a huge fight, which led to their falling out - which led to them quickly becoming enemies, instead.

wanted connections !!

give me. a best friend. just somebody who sticks by her side even though she’s a Mess

like, a ride or die ?? is that the same as a best friend ?? idc i want both :)

and just in general, like, people she’s p close to ?? she’s really friendly and is the kind of girl who’d be really popular in high school but doesn’t care abt popularity n talks to literally Everybody like she’s known them all her life.

ESP if ur muse is a lil grumpier !! she will fuck their shit up, but like, in a friendship way.

party pals, where they don’t talk that much outside of parties but inside them ?? super close. glued to the hip. hold-your-hair-back kinda tight.

frenemies ?? fake friends ?? toxic pals ?? ppl using her for her money or like, sex, or something ?? anything ??

bad influences ?? who just encourage all of saige’s shit ??

good influences ?? who are like YOINK stop being an idiot.

a tutor b/c she’s like…she’s smart, okay, but she’s also really stupid LMAO. she’s rly bad at math and science. somebody help her.

hook ups ?? fwbs ?? that one, rare one-night-stand that went weird ??

exes ?? she’s sorta noncommittal so idk how long they would’ve dated but like sjdfkbo yolo ?? ex hook-ups too ??

…somebody who just. hates her. but she doesn’t realize bc she’s a big ol’ idiot. she thinks theyre pals !!

let her b a thorn in someone’s side, just like, an absolute annoyance LMAO

gimme an enemy, or like an ex-best friend where something happened between them n it ruined their friendship

i will take literally anything i dont know

she steals ur character’s mail ?? ur cat keeps escaping and she keeps letting them inside even tho she’s allergic ??

one of those friendships where theyre always bickering like an old married couple ?? but it’s Purely Platonic (or is it ??)

an off-and-on again that just. it’s not good for either of them b/c they keep enabling each other and then getting pissed off and it’s a Mess but ?? it’s so hard to stop.

the drug dealer she keeps sleeping with even though she can just … pay for her shit. b/c it’s funner this way !

just … people where their like … relationship status is Blurred and it’s like, are they a thing? are they not? b/c she’s a mess and gets involved with too many people without intending to !

please. take her. give me connections.

#wshintro #alcoholism tw #drugs tw #implied abuse #addiction tw #hit and run tw

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aspiringminimalist · 4 years

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How I Broke Up With My Wardrobe

I have been in a funky place style-wise. Which is shocking to anyone who knows me: as a relatively fashion-forward, clothes-obsessed woman. I love shopping, I’ve worked in retail, and can literally spend an entire day just “trying things on.”

But about a year ago I started feeling nostalgic for my time abroad. I planned a trip for “next summer” (now this summer) to sate my wanderlust. Fast forward a year and now I’m thinking about studying abroad for a few years(!), which would require some serious changes to make my closet fit in my suitcase.

Thus began my 5-Stage Breakup With My Wardrobe:

Stage 1: Limited Space Breeds Careful Decision-Making

When I last went to Europe, I lived there for 6 months out of a carry-on. My wardrobe was uneventful, I picked up a few accessories at local shops, and on the whole, no one cared. I look back on photos of my time there and see myself looking rather normal (jeans and tees) with a few exceptions, but I remember feeling amazing—because I was on a mega adventure in Europe!

Of course it’s important to always feel good in the clothes we wear, but I began to wonder if the actual style piece mattered less than I thought.

Stage 2: All Clothes Begin to Look The Same

I used to read hella fashion magazines as a kid. I’d rip out my favorite outfits, and collect them into folders. Now that the world has evolved to electronic everything, I do the same: pinning all my favorite IG posts to a Pinterest board for “capsule: winter” and “70s vibe.” 20 years later I still keep up with the trends, especially in the minimalist fashion world.

But I am so bored of so-called “fashion” right now. Especially in the minimalist and slow fashion communities. Fuck me if everyone on Instagram isn’t wearing some shade of camel or burnt sienna, high rise jeans, low-profile booties or slides/mules, curling their hair in long waves with some kind of “wand”—and calling it their “fall uniform.”

Don’t believe me? Here are the closets of three prominent slow-fashion bloggers. See any similarities?

I live currently in New Orleans, city of color and self-expression! And I work in the entertainment industry! I am a soft-summer, so finding colorful statement outfits that don’t wash me out is no picnic. But even though I know what I like, I still feel stuck in a societal pressure to wear shades of brown, black, white, chambray... and look like every other Instagrammer.

And in response to that pressure, my brain would rather me look like nothing. To not stand out in clothes, but to stand out as me. Let me explain:

Stage 3: Am I My Clothes?!

Has anyone ever told you,

“That Outfit Is So You!”

????????

What they mean is, the idea that they have of you is reflected in the clothes that you are wearing. Your clothes have become you. You are now your clothes.

While years of watching What Not To Wear have engrained that clothes do matter, and that people will gather a perception of you based on your look: how you choose to act to confirm or counteract those perceptions matters more.

My focus now, instead of clothing, is how I carry myself. It’s a lot harder to present well when your outfit isn’t doing the heavy lifting for you. You actually have to let yourself be seen... ::shudder::

Stage 4: Everything Wears Out Anyway

My online friend Ariana of Paris To Go, a zero-waste blog, has long since detailed her extremely tiny wardrobe of all high-quality designer pieces, which she lived in while she was living a high-fashion/high-function life in Paris. On a recent travel, her beautiful camel (lol) coat got ruined and is unable to be repaired. So she had to say goodbye to it. Her only coat!

I wrote to her immediately because I feel our community is missing the exposure to the flipside of minimalism, how when you have less, you feel each loss so much more.

I had one pair of sandals, shown at the top of this post. When they finally wore out, I was devastated because I had no “perfect” footwear for summer. Plus, because I buy so much secondhand, I knew I’d have to spend the most valuable resource of all, time, to find something comparable.

But as I prepare to embark on an overseas adventure, time feels precious to me! So I wonder if I shouldn’t just prepare my mind for loss, and let go early.

Stage 5: Letting Go Early, Or, Lessening Initial Attachment

Since I started to feel this push-pull, I haven’t been shopping much. But yesterday I went to the GoodWill, and as I browsed the aisles, I thought about all the usual screening questions:

is it a lasting fabric?

is it a color that matches other things I own?

is it a style I feel at home in?

is it soft/comfortable?

is it machine-washable?

But then I asked one more:

If this item got ruined tomorrow, would I feel ok?

I’m tired of feeling let down by the inevitable wearing of clothes, or loss of them.

If I had kids, maybe I would’ve written this post long ago, what with the finger painting and vomit and spills children as so prone to. But I’m single and child-free, so I’ve been in “perfection-culling mode” for ages. Too long, really. I’m ready to start feeling ok with things that are bound to happen sometime, even if they happen before I expect them to.

I want to teach myself to be flexible. And I think step 1 is to pre-breakup with clothes. Before I grow to love them. Before I come to miss them. <<Cue Christina Aguilera’s “What A Girl Wants”: “They say if you love something let it go, and if it comes back that’s how you know it’s for keeps...”>>

If my clothes are meant to be in my life for a long time, they will be. And if they’re meant to leave my life, they will. When they’re ready. Which may not be when I am ready! So I want to get myself ready, in advance.

Final words

Recently I reposted an amazing quote:

Look around. All that clutter used to be money. All that money used to be time.

BOOM! I want my money back. I want my time back. And I want to spend those things a different way. Do you? Because if you do, that’s the only thing you have to remember when you think about making a new purchase, or even venturing out of your house to maybe make a new purchase: What else could you spend your time/money on? And if your brain is doing circles at the thought of letting go of your precious closetful of goodies, think about that thing, or experience, or place, or person—and decide if they’re worth more than your closet...

#minimalism #trueminimalist #aspiringminimalist #aspiring minimalist #minimalist #meant to be #lessening attachment #attachment #nostalgia

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aroseofyork · 7 years

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SHIPPING INFO // answer the following for your muse(s) so people know how shipping works on your blog. REPOST. don’t reblog.

WHAT’S YOUR OTP FOR YOUR MUSE?: pretty much everything i ship with this muse i consider an otp!! mary and cenred hold a special spot in my heart as they were my FIRST ship on this blog and 4 years later, they are still going strong with 736 verses and 27 au’s lmao.

WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO RP WHEN IT COMES TO SHIPPING?: anything and everything really. i want it to be as real as possible.

HOW LARGE DOES THE AGE GAP HAVE TO BE TO MAKE IT UNCOMFORTABLE?: um i think it really depends for each ship? like in one au there’s a 300 year age gap. and my first ship mentioned about has an 18 year age difference in main historical verse and 12 years difference for modern. certainly nothing to young, definitely.

ARE YOU SELECTIVE WHEN SHIPPING?: sort of. if there’s no chemistry on my end at all, i will just shut it down. but i don’t mind trying. if i know you ooc, i find it much easier to ship with you than someone i never speak too/have never spoken to. i stick to being selective but i’m very quick to change my mind if there’s good chemistry.

HOW FAR DO STEAMY MOMENTS HAVE TO GO BEFORE THEY’RE CONSIDERED NS.FW?: when the unders start coming off.

WHO ARE OTHER MUSES YOU SHIP YOUR MUSE WITH?: squeals okay @apurekindness/ @kingcenred / @seafaringkingx / @hearkenedsouls - we have so many ships, i’m surprised we can keep up! @daniellecountessofderby - cries! our ship is so cute! it’s an adorable best friends to lovers thing. @ofspaceandmyth - this literally came out of nowhere but mark and mary adore the the alien princess! i love their banter! @xunconquerableheartx - screams at the top of my lungs!!! i swear sigyn and mary was one of my first ships on here? love love love and i love them just as much as i did when we first started writing them. @goddamndeadpool - things be heating up between the superhero and the princess.

DOES ONE HAVE TO ASK TO SHIP WITH YOU?: not so much ask no. more... state they think there’s some chemistry there or chance to ship. it’s very possible i’ve been thinking it too or never thought about it!

HOW OFTEN DO YOU LIKE TO SHIP?: whenever it occurs really? if it works, it works.

ARE YOU SHIP OBSESSED OR SHIP MORE-OR-LESS?: i’ll think about ships i’m really into / engaged in over here on tumblr throughout the day, sure, but i’m my head’s too clogged up w my own problems for any more than that. in any case, i do tend to funnel thoughts / aesthetic ideas etc. into pinterest boards for my pairings to help organise my thoughts. :’) in between? i tend to go through phases where i love them and then i really really love them. ones i’ve had the longest i tend to obsess a little more over.

ARE YOU MULTISHIP?: yep.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SHIP IN YOUR CURRENT FANDOM?: in totally non-au historical, i have none so lmao.

FINALLY, HOW DOES ONE SHIP WITH YOU?: roleplay with me. talk to me. explore. it’s kinda simple. if we’re on first name basis and talk often, then we can just chat and ship straight away ngl.

tagged by: @mindsmade tagging: @thewiccanmechanic | @qceenmother

#... ( ooc. ) ᴏᴜᴛ ᴏғ ʏᴏʀᴋ |.#i feel like not much of this made sense but oh well XD #... ( queue. ) ϙᴜᴇᴜᴇ ᴏғ ʏᴏʀᴋ |.

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mindsmade · 7 years

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SHIPPING INFO // answer the following for your muse(s) so people know how shipping works on your blog. REPOST. don’t reblog.

WHAT’S YOUR OTP FOR YOUR MUSE?: eh. i mean, i have a few otps for several muses but they also tend to shift with time. i’ll grow more enthused and inclined to call something an ‘otp’ if i’ve been given the time to explore it in rp threads as well rather than just watching it on tv / in a game. fact remains that i’ll rarely have only 1 ship i stan 34838x more than any other. i just geT REALLY EXCITED IN GENERAL OK.

WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO RP WHEN IT COMES TO SHIPPING?: p much everything, really. even touchy stuff, should the need arise, but only well acquainted with the mun behind the other character. in fact, any and all shipping’s just a lot easier if i’m free to yell at you about our dweebs, lol

HOW LARGE DOES THE AGE GAP HAVE TO BE TO MAKE IT UNCOMFORTABLE?: depends. any supernatural muses / muses that are immortal or just grow really old will handle the age of 18 - 20 probably as the lower limit — which might’ve been a higher number if my muses didn’t all look relatively young, themselves. barring them, the likes of e.g. krem will maintain about 8 years down, 10 years up; whereas nate, being the youngest on here, will probably not go below the age of 20 nor above the age of 35.

ARE YOU SELECTIVE WHEN SHIPPING?: HM. i’d say i’m somewhere in between selective and easy to ship with. i’ll give every idea some thought at the very least and whilst i’ve had a fair amount of ships ( that have come and gone across my accounts ), i’m not the sort of person to just ship anything. besides, some muses are just easier to ship with than others. for example, i’m not gonna ship celebrían with anyone other than an elrond and nothing of yet has managed to change my mind on that lol, whereas the likes of ethan chandler i find quite easy to ship with to at least some capacity, and then sylvan ( an oc of mine ) is a single dad so that takes Serious Thought™. tl;dr: i’m sort of selective.

HOW FAR DO STEAMY MOMENTS HAVE TO GO BEFORE THEY’RE CONSIDERED NS.FW?: i tend to just go with what you really wouldn’t want to be caught reading at work. anything beyond a make-out session’s 99% likely to be tagged accordingly.

WHO ARE OTHER MUSES YOU SHIP YOUR MUSE WITH?: WELL THAT’S HARD TO ANSWER HERE. i’ll just refer you to my muses page; there are icons ( linking to active blogs ) on the side of each bio with descriptions as to who / what a person is to each muse.

DOES ONE HAVE TO ASK TO SHIP WITH YOU?: more like i’d rather be informed about someone shipping their muse with mine. of late, there’s a significant chance i’ll already be bouncing to ship said characters as well LMAO. seriously though: at worst, i’ll defer to an unrequited sort of thing or platonic ( though the latter only works if my muse likes yours to begin with, tbh )

HOW OFTEN DO YOU LIKE TO SHIP?: ... i entertain the idea/s of a lot of ships, though there are precious few that actually reach any sort of fruition on tumblr, in small part due to the fact that i try to keep the number per muse down to 3 at most since i also want to explore platonic / familial bonds. that doesn’t change how i’ll have a few additional ships in the privacy of my own thoughts in the meantime, though. the ones on here just take precedence ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ARE YOU MULTISHIP?: yep, save for over on @peredhellen. had a very brief dual ship thing going on in another verse there a long time ago, but that all fell through before anything really came of it here, which makes me all the happier to have a superb shipping partner in @vezely tbqh. on a side-note: i don’t ship with duplicates of canon muses. i’ll only do that with 1 rendition. uwu

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SHIP IN YOUR CURRENT FANDOM?: i have too many fandoms on here tbh and, really, i tend to get equally hyped about my ships once i get to thinking / talking about them. though i’m sure you’ve all noticed my heart’s been stolen by liam & peebee as well as ethan / eve LMAO.

FINALLY, HOW DOES ONE SHIP WITH YOU?: the first thing i’d recommend is to just write with me. get a first thread or two set up so we can get a feel for the ship ( of whatever nature ) as well like the other person might’ve. second: talk to me out of character! it really helps to get the gears spinning, i’ve found. third: give it time, fam. as much as i love pre-established relationships, i don’t like pre-established romantic things unless it’s been set in canon. and even then, if we’re not given a lot of background to work with, i like to flesh out what led to these people being together. basically, development is one of the biggest prerequisites for me to become invested in a pairing.

tagged by: @archontem ( thank you!! ) tagging: @kaleiidoscopehearts / @motherwolf / @siirensung / @ghulardi / @bloodiedicon / @aroseofyork / @allianceofficer / jgfoidjgoi whoever wants to tbh just take iT

#ooc.#this is actually supposed to be centred around 1 muse so @ all the multis on there: pick a muse if u waNT #or follow my shitty example and just be super vague / unspecific LMAO

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graciepiefinale · 6 years

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The minute I read the first line of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, I was hooked… Because who doesn’t want to be a demigod? Admittedly, I was introduced to Percy Jackson through the first film (starring Logan Lerman), and I fell in love there and then… Little did I know that the books would be so much more and pretty much take me into a world that I return to it almost as often as I return to Harry Potter.

As I said, I was late to party when it came to reading Percy Jackson, the entire series had been out for a while and a second movie was being made. Now fans of the books are not necessarily fans of the movies. The movies changed the storyline too much to be forgiven by the fans of the books, in fact, don’t even mention the movies to them unless you wish to be given a death stare worthy of Medusa. But I think, what has been agreed upon in the fandom, that Logan Lerman was an excellent choice to play Percy Jackson…. even if they aged the character up a bit. I actually found (through my obsessive scrolling through Pinterest) that someone had found images of Logan when he was younger and compiled them in order of the ages that Percy should have been in the films.

Whilst the movies don’t do the books justice, the fans have answered the call. Just look up the fan art. My personal favourite (and a lot of others’ favourite as well) is an artist called Viria (follow the link to see more of her work). She has often be dubbed the unofficial official artist for the fandom, because of how well she seems to capture the characters, I have even been reduced to tears because of how perfect her work is.

Art by Viria, Percy Jackson

Where the films seemingly failed, the fans took up the call and produced some amazing art work – be it scenes from the story or just interpretations of the characters. Here are some more examples (it is incredibly difficult to choose from the amazing art so be sure to look some others up yourself):

If we take a step back and look at the actual story and characters that Rick Riordan has produced, it is pretty easy to see why the fans are so dedicated and protective of the series. Percy Jackson really exemplifies the message that the Disney film Hercules produced: “For a true hero isn’t measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.”

Percy’s fatal flaw, as we are constantly told, is that he is too loyal to his friends (and family). It’s his fatal flaw that we, as readers and fans, make us fall in love with him time and time again. That and his sass when he is speaking to the gods. I honestly could go on and on about Percy, but there is more to this series than the main protagonist. Because what is Percy without Annabeth or Grover or Luke? Each character that Rick introduces us to, teaches us a lesson (something I find lacking in a lot of YA/children’s novels).

Grover: a satyr. Grover introduces the readers the importance of nature, and why we need to take care of it. His journey to find Pan, and his witnessing of Pan’s death was one of the most heart-wrenching moments in the series, but its message was clear: it is not up to a god to save the earth, it is up to each and every one of us.

Luke: a fallen hero. Talk about a redeeming character. Luke was a reminder about how bitterness can turn into something ugly if you cannot learn to get passed it. Luke almost destroyed the world because he hated his father… But it was his family (Annabeth) who brought him back to the light… He proves that a hero isn’t someone who has done great deeds, it is some who learnt from his mistakes and tried to make things right.

I had to add this, because it’s true. Sea of Monsters was not loved by the fans at all, but this moment almost made up for it

Nico: the adopted baby brother of the fandom. Nico represents the difficult task of accepting yourself. Nico is a child who is seemingly in the era. He grew up learning that being gay was wrong, something to be ashamed of. He seems to hate Percy with everything he has, but in truth he loves him so much that it hurts. He thinks people will turn away from him because of who he is, so he doesn’t let himself get close to anyone. Which is why Will Solace is so amazing, he doesn’t let Nico feel sorry for himself, he doesn’t let him lock himself again… (I know I fangirled so hard in Blood of Olympus)

Annabeth: what can I say about her that you don’t already know? She is Percy’s other half. She keeps him from making an complete idiot of himself (most of the time, it’s a difficult job okay?) Her relationship with Percy is the most cherished thing in the series (aside from Percy himself). It grows from her disliking him (seemingly) to them falling in love. They work well as a team and complete each other. It made perfect sense that the daughter of Athena and the son of Poseidon would fall in love, because of the feud between Athena and Poseidon. Their relationship helped heal the divide between the two gods. Percy learned from her, he became better because of her.

When new characters (Jason, Piper, Leo, Hazel and Frank) were introduced in Heroes of Olympus, it was difficult not to compare them to the original characters.

Jason: our new hero…. my first thought when I met Jason in The Lost Hero was he is no Percy. He is respectful, follows rules, is neat, polite and able to control his temper. But I loved him any way. He grew into himself, discovering that just because his dad was a Roman god (Jupiter) did not mean he had to conform the one set of rules. He brought together the two sides together. Maybe it was because we traveled and grew with Percy that we could never really love Jason as much. But in a way, he still under estimated the strength of the Greeks as this post from pipercyofficial.tumblr shows.

Leo: the humorous best friend…. I loved Leo. But again, he was no Percy. It seemed to me that Rick divided what we loved about Percy into two characters. Leo was a perfect example of how people try to hide their pain through humor. Better to appear happy than allow people into your pain.

Frank and Hazel: I’m putting these two together because I don’t really have much to say about them. Hazel was brought back from the dead and used her second chance to save the world. Frank… the nicest child of Ares/Mars…. depicts how looks can be deceiving. He possible has more power than any of the other demigods, but is the sweetest and most caring out of all of them. He is riddled with insecurities that make him endearing, but he is also proof that sometimes you can only become who you are supposed to be by accepting who you are and proving your worth to yourself.

Piper: She was my least favourite out of the new characters. Every time it was her turn to narrate, I had to suppress a scoff… It wasn’t that she wasn’t brave or intelligent or powerful… It was that the only thing that appeared to matter to her was Jason… And I just could’t get passed that… Or maybe it was that one of the first things she said about Percy (after meeting him) was that he was unimpressive compared to Jason… I was like: “Excuse me girl… You’ve known him (Percy) for what 5 minutes and you are judging him because he doesn’t look impressive? And you called Drew shallow…”

And then there are the gods… I think this is Rick’s most important lesson… You can believe in whatever higher power you want but without you, they are nothing. Gods cannot interfere with the lives of mortals but they need the mortals to believe in them to remain powerful. It makes sense that the children of gods would feel abandoned if they had no contact with their parents or their parents won’t help them no matter how many times they might ask. It shows that BELIEF is a powerful thing. Believing in yourself, in others, in higher powers.

On the subject of the Greek gods, I have to say that Poseidon is my favourite. Out of the three “big” gods of olympus, Zeus is actually the weakest. Hades controls the legions of the dead and Poseidon controls the oceans (it helped me realise how powerful the ocean actually is). Zeus controls the winds and lightning… But he struggles to admit when he is wrong and needs help. In the Battle of Manhattan (The Last Olympian), Poseidon was the deciding factor when it came to defeating Typhon and the demigods would have been defeated had it not been for Hades’s help.

One of my favourite things about the fandom is that the fans want Percy and Annabeth to be happen… When Rick threw them into Tartarus, the fandom exploded!!!! Like “you just separated them! Made Percy forget everything except Annabeth and then they finally are reunited and you do this????? Just leave them in peace!!!!!” But when Rick releases a new book (or series) the first question is: Is Percy in it? Is Annabeth in it? How can you write a book without them?

Percy Jackson is a series that is timeless. It is well-written, easy to read and for all ages (I’m looking at you, the people who classify it as a children’s book). Rick Riordan and his fans have a wonderful relationship (if you don’t believe me check out his twitter or just look at the dedications for House of Hades and Blood of Olympus).

Maybe if we are really good, we might live to see an accurate television of movie series of the books… (*fingers crossed*)

[Repost] Look, I didn’t want to be a Demigod….. The minute I read the first line of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, I was hooked...

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Dumalneg, Ilocos Norte

Photo by Reu Dawner Flores.

May 10, 2017, 12:56 PM

Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte

I am 23 years old today. God, that sounds exhausting. But in all honesty, I am exhausted and that has been the general state of my life since 2017 began. My wired, obsessive self tries to convince me that I got it all good and now is the time to get my life in order. But my young and reckless self says to just fuck it all up and just go with the flow. Here is how year 22 went by:

At 22, my soul is tired, restless, and broken.

At 22, I lost the love of my life, Janlee. The stories that surround our break up do not really matter anymore as being loved and loving him at one point in time outweighs everything. I still see him at every moment I close my eyes but by now I have come to terms that there is nothing I could really do than to be hopeful for the future and be warm about the past.

At 22 (well, at the latter parts of the year), I am relearning the value of being alone—of depending not to anyone but only to myself. Just yesterday I passed a beautiful but morbid quote over pinterest that says, “Everyone you love is going to die.” Go figure.

At 22, just like when I turned a year older last year, I still do not know where the fuck I am—but there is this nudge of reassurance that I think I am slowly getting there. I recently passed the Philippine Law School Admission Test, you know that examination everyone needs to take up now if you want to study law. On the day when the results came out, I felt so motivated and overwhelmed—a feeling that I have never had for such a long, long time. It was as if the universe unfolded and gave me something that I could finally like doing. Go make this happen and don’t fuck it up, self.

At 22, I finally know who my truest friends are. You know, the kind where I can say to myself that “fuck, these are the people I will grow up with for the rest of my life.” While there is always something to learn about meeting others, I just think that at this age you can’t just easily trust people, and it’s exhausting going around, right? I think it is one of the most beautiful thing in this world when you have this set of people who know the rawest of your soul and still loves and accepts you nonetheless.

And at 22, I finally learned that family is everything. Need I say more?

Maybe here’s to growing up: learning to acknowledge the truth that things just keep on changing, that what you actually have now will soon disappear. Or maybe, growing up means constantly seeking for things that will last—something that will make us hold on longer to whatever we consider important—,and maybe ensuring that the one you love will be there by your side the next time you celebrate your birthday. But I don’t really know. Maybe it’s good, maybe it’s bad. How would I know?

I have learned so much about acceptance and letting go this year. I have lost so much that I am still putting things back together and trying to make sense of everything that has happened, but I’d like to believe that I have also gained things I never thought I needed.

So persist, self. Persist.

With all the love and gayness in this world,

Michael

PS. Thanks for all the lovely, lovely greetings. I’ll have them all read one by one tonight. Keep ‘em coming. xx

[This entry was originally posted at facebook on the day of my 23rd birthday on May 10, 2017. I reposted it here as I try to get myself into writing which I have done for so loooooong.]

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