#i will keep my icon to keep it from being Totally Confusing

[accirax]

initial thoughts on DCAS episode 7

very notable that this was within the context of being about "love" specifically. (at least) one-sided trevek canon? (i'm not even a huge trevek shipper i just think this whole plotline is funny)

okay, so Yul's foot injury IS real. or at least, he's using it as an excuse to complain. still, the fact that it was brought up again an episode later makes me think that it's going to have SOME relevance to the plot.

any time that Yul has to parrot something in Emily's "you go girlfriend ;D" manner of speaking i cackle. he didn't choose the home decor saying any time is wine time lifestyle, the home decor saying any time is wine time lifestyle chose him.

Grett i am... genuinely confused. how can you possibly think that Yul is actually in love with you? did you really receive THAT little love in your home life? you have no ability to distinguish catty and fake praise for your accomplishments from real ones because your family gave you THAT little recognition? man. now i made myself sad :( ily Grett

okay, confirming that 1) it was Tom's trap, 2) they are willing to eat squirrels, 3) Tom is serving as the provider for the Cyan tribe. all things to take into account for any upcoming Cyan eliminations.

why

and how does said boyfriend feel about you kissing another man on television, Tom? this is a stupid lie.

again, why? it's probably already apparent from my earlier comments, but i changed my mind; i'm fully with Jake in this argument now. sure, Jake is really insecure and overly emotional, but what the HELL is Tom doing? making up a boyfriend is a really shitty thing to do, whether Tom had a legit reason for not calling Jake these past two years or if he didn't contact Jake due to his own mixed feelings/indifference. in either case, he should have told Jake the truth. at least when Jake was acting immature in S1, he was 24. Tom is a nearly 30 year old man. ACT LIKE IT.

Fiore slay

this is a really interesting response due to how vague it is, including in the vocal performance. was he taken off guard by his boss being nice to him? does he believe that she's telling the truth? does he feel bad for Trevor, or will he come to believe that he IS way better than Trevor? i'm glad that they're continuing on with the concept of the hosts having a plotline, because imo that was one of the highlights of S2, but they aren't doing it in a way that eats up as much of the screentime as it did in S2.

if Will was out of the picture i would be shipping these two so hard. who am I kidding, i kind of still am anyways.

Ally's other gf is here :,) glad that they got to reconnect (and neither of them were eliminated for it)

Fiore slay

the confirmation that Aiden thinks that the idea of him having any attraction to Tom is laughable and disgusting is HILARIOUS to me. bro really said, "why the hell would i be into YOU when i have JAMES lmao" straight to Tom's face. tbf, James and Tom are like... opposites in terms of personality and appearance (beyond being generally handsome and athletic young men).

"silly me, i keep forgetting that not everyone met their super cool and attractive boyfriend on reality TV. my bad!" (/pos)

(i tried to type "hubby" instead of boyfriend but i spared you all. it was too cringe even as the one subjecting others to the cringe.)

okay this was very fitting for her. iconic.

honestly, Alec and Riya's villainous alliance/friendship is really fun. leave it to Alec to always find himself in the least likely but most entertaining duos. Riya really benefits from being paired with a legitimate strategist, and someone who won't just let her totally get away with stuff.

we had to get in one last Fiore taking unnecessary damage for the road :,(

feeling like Jaiden is going to be winning the starting couples' survival roulette. and Wishley, to the extent they count.

now i'm no physicist, but how did this work? shouldn't the ball be a fast and heavy enough object at this point that it would jump over the log, not ricochet off of it? i suppose if the ball is made of something more like wicker than yarn, it could be a bit more likely to do that. but then why is it going to the side? it hit the log straight on!

... are you not allowed to help him anymore? what?

ellie is going full villain mode fr. if her and gabby's relationship gets messed up, that would definitely be karma. but, i suppose she survives this episode...

this is funny because nobody strikes me as the pizza and soda loving type. Alec, Grett, Yul, and Riya all seem like people who would want to eat something that's both fancier and healthier.

communication W (for both of them)

Fiore is such a best girl that she's not even a salty juror. she's not mad at them for so long that she can't use her final moments to throw a wrench in the works for everyone else. the grind never sleeps, clowns <3

and she even conquered her greatest nemesis, the bus, this time. fly high, queen. i'll miss you.

well, as a Fiore stan, this episode was a bit sad for me. but, i do totally understand why Magenta would both vote for Fiore and lose the challenge. (damn you, Ellie...) Fiore already did super well in both S1 and the original Adventure Camp, so i understand why they wouldn't have her go super far again in this season, especially when everyone knows she's such a threat.

i just hope that we can still get a little more closure for her and Alec than we got already in this season. all it has to be is, like, him being sad at her elimination for reasons other than pure strategy and maybe a nice conversation at the finale. it doesn't have to be Alec finally adopting her... even if i did want that to happen... i'd just prefer to know that they leave things on good terms.

anyways, another really solid episode! i look forward to the next one. thanks for reading!

#disventure camp #dcas #disventure camp spoilers #dcas initial thoughts

[dantedeservedbetter]

Okay listen, I absolutely ADORE Kim now as a character than I did when Season 3/4 was first released but sometimes I kind of wish Aphmau had used another character that she abandoned way back in the beginning or even someone from MCD, because they were cool characters who deserved a modern adaptation

Mystreet Emmalyn, her MCD incarnation is literally Ghost (but that plot line makes no sense I’m so sorry) and she had made an appearance in the original side stories and also had a major role in one of the S1 episodes titled ‘A New Years Kiss’ before never showing up again. She exists, shes just kind of living her own life.

Zoey, the magical elf who would have been a cottage-core icon in MyStreet and the one who essentially started the plot in S2, gave up her immortality in order to bring everyone back home, and also raised most of Aphmau’s children. At LEAST give her a voice actress so we don’t have to interpret her voice as Jessica anymore. Also, the supernatural element would’ve made sense to her magical abilities

Cadenza who was the baddest bitch ever, and probably wouldn’t have taken Ghost and any of her nonsense with Zane in the first place. I’m convinced she would attack Ein herself if she ever got under the Forever Potion. She had also made a couple of cameos (the last one being in S3, where Kim was also introduced, so it wouldn’t have confused anyone either to keep up with the cast)

Nicole, who can kind of fit this role but probably shouldn’t be the first choice for it, idk I just really miss her character a bit. Maybe Ein/ the Lodge Gang needed a steampunk and called her over, officially making her apart of the actual group without bringing Katelyn or Dante into it. I just don’t want her to be forgotten as the love interest to someone else :(( I think she had more room for potential

Jeffory, because his character is just so sweet! He would totally be chill with Ghost wanting to leave the lodge and allow her to use his body. He would probably be like “I’d like to establish some ground rules, if you don’t mind, but other than that I would be honored if you wanted to possess my body :D” boom, done. Most of the issues with Ghost would have been solved. Omg imagine Abby and Ghost playing dolls together? I think that would be sweet.

(I don’t think Dante or Laurance would fit into being Ghost’s vessel tbh so that’s why they aren’t included in this list, but I would also greatly appreciate it if they brought those two back)

(Thought abt adding Vylad into the mix too and then I literally remembered that Zane was her past lover, and honestly that would’ve been… immoral to witness. If that was just not added in he would’ve been a good contender if not THE BEST option for it)

#aphmau #aphverse #minecraft #mystreet #minecraft rp #minecraft diaries #aphmau mystreet #emmalyn #Zoe #cadenza #nicole aphmau #mcd vylad #vylad ro'meave #jeffory the golden heart #aphmau vylad #mcd nicole #nicole von rosenburg #mcd cadenza #cadenza zvahl

[kodzuken-chan]

Monster Trio + Law reaction to attending their Idol S/O's concert Headcanon

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A/N: Since Movie Red is coming out officially in Japan in 3 days, How about they react to a concert~!!

Oda & Toei going out there making my one piece dreams come true ( literally making my boys driving cars and racing in Movie Gold and now attending Uta's concert in Movie Red, JUST WOW)

Credits to the picture owners

Anyways Enjoy~!!

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Luffy

Chaos

Chaos

Chaos

Is all what he does

Really Loves all of your songs

And always attends your concerts

Either by himself or with the others

Of course they won't let him go by himself

They don't want him to cause you troubles on your concerts

Because when he attended your concert for thr first time

He Gomu Gomu no(ed) himself to the stage and started doing random dancing moves

Dragging you along with him

Which literally confused everyone and everything

Had to be forcefully pulled away from you so you can go on with your concert

At the end would be tied with your banners to stay still

But nothing can stop him, so he keeps singing and cheering for you excitedly from his place

High chances of him stretching his hand as higher ad he can to wave with the light sticks

Your concert are almost two hours long,

And this bby get hungry quickly

So he brings MEAT and lots of food as snacks

This bby knows that you're loveable by the whole world, he he loves it

Luffy is your chaotic iconic and well-known fan even by your fans themselves all over the world❤️

Zoro

This is dude, and I repeat

This dude, literally doesn't care about singing and concerts

Like doesn't even try to act interested

All he is interested in is Naps+ Sowrds and Sake

Of course you too as a well-being and his s/o

But that doesn't mean he doesn't enjoy your songs and performance

He secretly memorized some of your songs lyrics

He used to overhear you singing while he was training

You never actually forced him to come to your concerts and invited him just like you do with the others

But you'll always find him within the audience

He won't cheer or sing along with you

He won't even wave with your light stick

He basically won't bother to do anything

Only watches you with a proud smirk and makes you blush sometimes

But Sanji and Nami will force him to either wear one of the concert goodies

Or to engage with you during the performance

But would end up blushing irritatedly

Low chances of him getting jealous of the male background dancers

Except if it some how ended to be Sanji which won't happen, its only if lmao

His presence in your concerts is all what matters to you

It just gives you the motivation you need and he knows it💚

Sanji

Your #1 Fan

On his first concert ever

He would cheer his lungs out for you

Will bring different self-made banners and of course your official light sticks

The first one ever to buy all of the concert merchandise and goodies

Will force everyone to attend

Even ready to pull Marimo from his hair to come to your concerts

BECAUSE HE WANTS TO BRAG ABOUT HIS BEAUTIFUL IDOL S/O

And also make Zoro Jealous for some rivalry reasons

But later on when he gets used to attending your concerts

He would just keep doing the Fanchants along with the rest of the fans

And sometimes ends up singing the whole song with you

Will stare at you in adoration for how beautiful you look and how angelic you sound while signing

And of course how talented you are

Though he would seem pretty calm smiling proudly there

But you can still clearly see the #1 fan enthusiasm radiating from him

Tiny chances of him getting jealous if you had to make physical choreography with the male background dancers

Makes Free promotion for you to every person he interacts with

Basically Your one and only favorite #1 fan💙

Law

Would totally act uninterested in the concert

And of course you won't force him to come, you respect that he might dislike concert chaos

He might not sound like it, but he's your secret admirer

He never promises you that he'll attend, to avoid breaking them in the first place

Unlike Sanji, he won't bother to buy concert merchandises and goodies

Yet you would find him in each and every concert you held

Because he loves to see your smile

Like stick lights or banners

Unless Bepo forces him to do so, and he'll blush because he's not use to it

But he secretly loves it

Won't do much but look at you with proud eyes

Because you're doing something you love, and you're just shining out there

He might not seem like that, but he memorized every song you sang through your idol journey

Also chances of him whisper singing or humming the melody.

Never gets jealous of male background dancers unless they seemed to make unnecessary moves with you

No one knows about it, but he secretly waits for your concerts announcement everytime

On your official website, where he's a member there.

Would definitely come to you after the concert to get your autograph

Claiming that Bepo wants it, but was to shy to approach

But actually, that autograph is for himself.

Bsically he's You're secret fan and supports you from behind the scenes 🖤

#one piece #one piece strawhats #one piece x reader #one piece scenarios #one piece imagine #one piece headcanons #sanji #sanji x reader #sanji imagine #sanji scenario #Luffy #luffy x reader #luffy scenario #luffy imagines #Zoro #zoro x reader #zoro scenarios #zoro imagine #Law #law x reader #law scenarios #law imagines

[theneighborhoodwatch]

Am I the only one who thinks the whrp team is just one person?? Like when I was first getting into wh my instant gut reaction was that it was just one person posing as a team to make it look more official. When I started looking at fandom theorys and such and I saw people refer to the team as an actual group of people I was genuinely confused because I had so strongly assumed "yeah this is just one guy".

In my mind there are only two human people involved in the story at this specific point in time. The singular person who made whrp and the qa.

Like logically I don't know whether or not this is actually true, but I just so thoroughly engrained this idea into my head back when I first discovered wh and now I can't get rid of it.

personally i'm more inclined to view the WHRP as a group, both bc of past versions of the website referring to individual volunteers (actually fictionalized versions of irl WH team members) which makes me think that the WHRP as a character was always conceived as a group, and because it's personally a lot more eerie to me if the WHRP is actually a group of people that have just become So consumed by their work that they've almost completely discarded any traces of their past identities (keyword being almost - obviously they have a hard time keeping their dissatisfaction from trickling out onto the page)

WITH THAT SAID i wouldn't totally object to a reveal that it was one person masquerading as a team the whole time. for one thing it would be frankly an iconic con and for another thing if we discover this hypothetical individual's identity it could be a neat way to lead into, like. how do i say this. the parts of welcome home concerning the show's actual production history (or the closest thing to it, in the event that it lacks one.) perhaps even something that leads to mr ronald dorelaine himself....

anyways. i suppose we'll just have to wait and see!

#anonymous #ask #welcome home #wh speculation

[zvmz]

Writing down my thoughts while watching monster high for the first time Pt. 2

alright y’all now we’re watching why do ghouls fall in love let’s go

oh oh new and improved intro

the one long shot as the intro is so cool

ohh shoot we 3D now

actually might like it better than the 2D

wait r they saying Valentine’s Day was literally made for Draculara?

im confused 😁

can I get a sugar daddy like clawd

CAN I GET DRACULARAS DAD?????

oh

um this is awkward

so guys it was all in our heads apparently 😊

clawdeen is kinda slaying this new animation style

oh this song goes so hard

the bats flying out of clawds wallet is so real

come again how old is draculara

why is she still in school

was she held back a few hundred years

and I thought my grades were bad

the cat people make me uncomfortable. stranger danger

damn these cats are menaces

arent they always

not the driving lessons book

just pass it the first time fr 🙄

GUYS

GUYS

GUYS

CUPID

SHES HERE

LOLL NOT THE STOOL CLAWD 😭😭

vampire daring charming???

“misunderstanding with the locals”?? 😭 what did girlie do??? 😭😭

is ghoulias back okay like fr

the collection of broken hearts is so extra

kinda metal idk I almost cant be mad

imagine eah characters trying to navigate the catacombs

girls would not last a minute

actually can someone make a fic I would totally read that

why am I just now realizing ghoulia can’t talk

like idk I just thought she was a bit quirky this whole time

WHY DOES DRACULARA HAVE KNIVES ON THE CEILING OF HER CAR

oh my god Draculara HIT HIM

FLOOR IT DRACULARA

she missed her chance :( vampire Elvis lives

The shot of them running towards each in slow motion just to maintain a 3 feet distance was so unnecessary

WAIT A MINUTE DRACULARA YOURE BETTER THAN THIS. YOU ALREADY HAVE A BOYFRIEND

why is dueces animation specifically so rough

he kind of reminds me of sparrow

i kinda like him

yes Draculara break it off

oh- um

THE ANIMATION ON THEIR PHONES OF DRACULARA DUMPING CLAWD?? WHO MADE THAT?? WHERE DID IT COME FROM?? 😭😭😭

wait a minute I recognize Frankie’s voice. Is that Barbie?

why does some random cow go to their school

CUPIDDDD

LOL NOT CLEO BREAKING THE CLASS

yeah Cupid shoot her

pow pow pow 💥🔫💥🔫💥🔫

okay now what the hell

get it together cupid

why does Cupid keep accidentally getting love enchanted? First clawd then Dexter lolll

the dog whistle?? 😭

clawds like. I guess you can say I got… W rizz...

”what u want” ABBY 😭😭 BEST CHARACTER ONG

this party looks kinda fire ngl

not sure how I feel about the food being served next to the body odor pit

okayyy frankieee kinda slaying her party look

cleo barely changing after being love enchanted to herself

Could this be considered a school shooting? like legally

um anyway Kitty Cheshire supremacy

rizz lord clawd

hell yea body odor pit for the win ✊🏻

why was the kiss sound so um squishy

abby is such an icon

okay it’s over

I liked this one a lot better than the last movie. I hope we see Cupid again or else I’ll rage

the pacing was like SO much better than the last movie.

my only complaints are that toralai and vampire Elvis's motivations either weren’t really explained or made no sense to me. Also the animation still isn’t great but what do you expect lol

oh wait one more complaint. where is Frankie’s personality. I do not see it

hopefully we get a good frankie episode to get to know her a bit more

also it keeps telling us clawdeen and draculara are best friends but not really showing it??

In conclusion clawd is the rizzard and Abby solos

#monster high #ever after high #eah #draculaura #abby bominable #clawdeen wolf #frankie stein #c.a. cupid #daring charming #kitty cheshire

[minaramen]

Idol Star 2023 - Prince Stage: Touma Inumaru

[Disclaimer: I’m NOT a professional translator. I’m using my knowledge from 4 years of university. Please, feel free to let me know if you notice  mistranslation/typo/error of any kind]      

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Touma: Hey!

Touma: So we're gonna meet at 12 today, right?

Minami: 

Minami: Aren't you confusing me with somebody else?

Touma: Mh?

Touma: Did I message the wrong person?

Minami: Who knows. I'm me.

Touma: I double checked the icon AND the home screen! I'm not wrong!

Touma: You’re my fellow ŹOOĻ member Natsume Minami, aren't you!?

Minami: Yes. I'm the versatile Natsume Minami: both your friend from ŹOOĻ and composer 

Touma: That’s enough, thank you, I didn't need so many details!

Touma: Being hacked on SNS is possible, y'know, and I was panicking that I had messaged the wrong person!

Minami: You were just in too much of a hurry, I think

Touma: 

Touma: We were supposed to go out for a meal today, right? 

Minami: Actually, no

Minami: I don’t know whether you’re mistaking me for somebody else, but I suppose things work differently for those who keep many people around 

Touma: Wait, I’ve never had many people around, actually! We decided to go to the diner together, didn’t we? The one where they make delicious stamina rice bowls! 

Minami: Are you possibly referring to the plans we had for tomorrow? 

Touma: Uh

Touma: Are you for real 

Touma: I'm sure it was today..

Minami: I thought we were supposed to go tomorrow after you finish filming for Idol Star 

Touma: Ah, yes, yes... you're right. I totally blew it 

Touma: Today they give you an extra fried chicken portion for free, I thought you'd be happy to go...

Minami: In other words since you knew I'd been happy to go you got over excited and made the mistake 

Touma: Uh?

Minami: What happened, then?

Touma: No, I mean, that's probably how it went 

Touma: I'm sorry Mina. I'll ask somebody else!

Minami: Wait. Don't give me the "that's probably how it went" speech. Explain to me exactly what happened 

Touma: Uh? Well...

Touma: I was like "Oh, cool, today they give an extra fried chicken portion for free! Mina will be over the moon with joy!"; I got over excited and somehow made a mess with the day

Minami: I see. I understand now 

Minami: Who are you going to invite?

Touma: Ah, it's a guy you don't know, Mina! A friend from my hometown 

Minami: But I'm your friend as well, right?

Touma: 

Touma: It’s pretty embarrassing to talk about that directly, but yeah, you definitely are! What about it? 

Minami: Nothing

Minami: Where are you now?

Touma: I've just finished the recordings, so I'm still at the studio!

Minami: It’s perfect, then. I happened to work close to there today, so let’s meet somewhere and go 

Touma: Really?? Is it okay with you??

Touma: Let’s go together!! Fried chicken is delicious, so I wanted you to eat lots of it!

Touma: Wow, I feel so happy! Thank you, Mina! It was sudden but you're still coming!

Minami: 

Minami: By the way, is it okay with you if I ask Isumi san as well? Apparently, he's nearby as well 

Minami: 

Touma: Ooh! Great! I'm gonna ask Tora, then! Apparently he got into restaurants' daily specials, lately

Minami: I'll go and meet Isumi san first, then 

Touma: Mina!

Touma: We're still having the meal together tomorrow, right?

Minami: That’s the plan, yes. Are you busy?

Touma: No, I was just wondering if it was fine with you to go eat with me for two days in a row 

Minami: If you don't mind...

Touma: Thank you!! Of course I don’t mind, I'm super happy! Watching you eat is quite a thing, Mina, I have so much fun every time 😄

Minami: I’m glad to hear that. What do you think about a change of plans tomorrow? I'd like to take you to a restaurant I really like

Minami: You can eat delicious meat for one coin

Touma: Meat? Amazing! If you're a regular customer, Mina, it must be delicious 🤤

Touma: Since we're all working at the same location tomorrow, let's ask Haru and Tora as well

Minami: Yes

Touma: Okay, once Tora answers back I'll let you know the meeting place 

Touma: 

Minami: 

The end

#touma inumaru #zool #Idolish7 #idolish7translation

[skzinka]

🖥 ... ⃕ WHAT'S ON STAYTUBE LATELY ?

introduction :

hello everyone 😙 i'm back with a new video of our amazing savage kitten, the one and only inka because, why not? we all know the remarkable way inka have to teach respect to mean people.. she's so cool, right? so why not make a video of all these moments?

let's go for a first episode of skz inka savage moments ! enjoy ^3^

clip one : the iconic 201201 v/live

turning on the vlive, inka is looking at her phone, busy reading the vlive chat. despite some small glances towards the camera, inka seems to be concerned about something.

« 'inka you look mad' » she said suddenly while reading the chat, « i'm not mad, i'm worst than that. » she knew she would probably regret her behavior, but she could no longer hold back what she was thinking deep inside. « i watched lee know's live earlier, and i must admit i was a little disappointed guys. » she said as she finally swiveled to face the camera, leaving her phone on the table. « some of you have told him, over and over again, that he was mean. » she rested her chin in her hand, watching the camera carefully, « i know that not all of you are concerned, but i still have something to say, even if i risk being scolded for it. »

« please, watch your words. being hurtful will not bring you anything good in life. acting like this by being mean on the internet will not make you cooler or happier. it won't change anything in your life. » a sigh left her lips as she straightened against the back of her chair, « free nastiness is not a good thing, and everyone will tell you that. you speak without knowing the person, and that is really deplorable. »

« you're angry? it's totally fine. but you can do something else than throwing your hatred on someone else. like screaming into your pillow or going out for a walk. but being gratuitously mean to someone online, behind your phone, just makes you horribly ugly inside. » after a forced smile and raised eyebrows, inka clapped her hands, more serious, « people don't appreciate gratuitous meanness, plus it's not going to make you feel better. »

« and lee know is one of the sweetest person i know, and i'm not saying that because he's my friend, but because i know him personally and respect him. what some of you should do, by the way. and it concerns anyone, not just lee know, or me. respect is the basis of everything. be nice to others and others will be nice to you, keep that in mind. »

clip two : insung little circle v-live

inka and jisung are doing a vlive to listen with stays, the new music they released together. little circle is playing in the background, when suddenly a sigh escapes from inka's lips who was reading the chat, that jisung did not notice, too busy singing the music's lyrics.

turning her face towards jisung, she watched him carefully before speaking in a nonchalant tone. « no, there is nothing wrong. » jisung seemed confused at the girl's sudden words, especially when she locked her phone and placed it on the side of the desk. « what? » jisung asked, looking for his phone.

but inka shook her head negatively and handed him the packet of chocolates she had in her hands, offering his friend some sweets. « stay, would you like some sweets? » she asked teasingly, before settling more comfortably into her chair, flashing a false smile and a jaded look. « ahh no, sorry, i forgot. my sweets are only for nice people who don't criticize others anonymously to make themselves feel better. »

as jisung looks at her incredulously, inka shrugs and eats another chocolate before speaking again, « some of you need to learn about cyberbullying, it will educate you a bit. i'm serious. »

turning her gaze to jisung who seemed to be speechless at her words, she offered him a tender smile, laying her head against his shoulder. « hannie, you're so pretty. you're amazing, never pay attention to the bad people in this world. they don't deserve you to feel bad because of them. » and finally a jisung becoming a blushing mess.

clip three : 220607 group v-live

half lying against hyunjin's legs, inka is busy reading the chat right after they all just watched 'your eyes''s mv together. but after a few readings, she noticed that the chat was getting quite nasty.

she didn't even bother to look at the staff before speaking, sighing and rolling her eyes, « if you're just here to be mean, you can leave the live. » chan slowly turned his head towards her, the same for jisung who did not understand what she was talking about.

some of the members started to panic, glancing at the staff who did not seem to react. « you ask us to do things that you like, and when we do, you find things to complain about. » a pout formed on her lips, as she straightened up to cling to jisung's arm, the boy questioned her with his eyes.

hyunjin hastened to read the chat to see stays' reaction, who seemed concerned about inka's reaction. hyunjin patted inka on the shoulder before showing her a message from the chat. she spoke again, shaking her head, « of course, not all of you are concerned, some of you are really caring people but some others are just gratuitously malicious and it pisses me off. my members are here to entertain you and make you happy, but you're bitching about nothing. it's tiring. »

after a last sigh, she left the corner of the live to join the staff behind and take something to drink, quickly joined by jeongin and chan who asked her to calm down. which she did, just after adding, « sorry, i'm really sorry. but i don't want my precious stays to be polluted by people who think it's ok to be gratuitously mean to others. »

clip four : hotel room v-live after returning to korea

with a cup of hot coffee in her hands, inka sat quietly on the sofa in front of the curtains. she slowly reads the vlive chat while sipping her drink, « 'inka, did you get back to korea safely?' yes, the flight went well. thank you for asking guys. » she replied with a smile.

« oh and, by the way guys. you know i'm always the one to speak up when something goes wrong, and today something happened. uh.. i'm not here to lecture you, and i know you came to the airport to see us, but.. please be careful the next time you follow us so closely as we walk through the airport. » a sigh leaves her lips as she scratches the edge of her head and looks at the camera again. « i know it's part of my job, but.. it was really dangerous as much for stray kids' members as for you. »

« i care about everyone' safety, and tonight... it was quite complicated to protect everyone. i think most of you have already seen the videos on twitter, but some members had difficulties at the airport. especially seungmin, or lee know who hit his head while entering the car. i, uh- i'm quite claustrophobic so i almost had a panic attack. fortunately i had my headphones on so i couldn't hear the noise from the crowd, but i was so jostled that i almost lost my balance and fell. » by pulling her legs up against her chest, we could see a hematoma on her shin, « someone unintentionally kicked me while i was walking, which resulted with a hematoma on my leg. »

« i mean, it's okay, i understand that you want to see us as much as possible, but please be careful and respectful. stick to us in the airport after a long flight, really made us feel uncomfortable. not because of you especially, but because of the way you behaved. we could talk and see each other better if you kept a good distance, without rushing us. » offering a beautiful smile to the camera, inka continued to speak while finishing her cup of coffee, « anyway, just be careful and vigilant in the future, because everything could have a domino effect. we could have fallen one after the other, and end up seriously injured. respect our living space so that we can continue to make good music just for you ! »

clip five : v-live after skz kingdom victory

one week after the end of kingdom : legendary war, inka, jeongin and seungmin went on vlive. talking about their experience during the competition, the subject of friendships between idols has become their main source of conversation. while they were talking about the boyz and ateez members, a war has been declared in the chat.

« wait wait guys, the war is over, why are you arguing in the chat? » inka took a better look at the chat, and sighed as he discovered the cause of their argument. « oh gosh, guys, stop it right now. why do you put others down like that? all the groups participating in this show deserve their place. everyone worked hard during these really long and tiring weeks, you really can't imagine how exhausting this show was, both emotionally and physically. »

« we have all worked very hard, together, to bring you all an incredible competition. some of us were injured during the procedure, it was very difficult. so i will never let anyone say that some groups did not deserve their place in the competition, because that's not true. they are all absolutely talented, they give their best all the time, even when they feel like they are crashing to the ground. so, don't try to destroy their hopes and pride, because as long as i am here, i will do everything to defend our talented idols who give everything for their success. »

jeongin and seungmin listened attentively to inka speak, nodding their heads at her words, « kingdom may have been a competition, but for us, it was a way to spend some time together, to support each other, and to console our sorrows. » turning her gaze to the two youngest, they nodded their heads in approval before letting her continue speaking, « we all created a strong friendship in a very healthy environment, you should do the same. no need to be mean to each other and belittle the efforts of others. »

clip six : skz-talker ep. 56

while felix and seungmin talk to the camera, for an episode of skz-talker, about their future performance at the golden disc awards, you can see in the background, inka talking with a staff member. but after a few seconds, joined by jisung, we can clearly see that her expression has changed.

the staff member is now talking to jisung, but in an unsympathetic way, which causes jisung to lower his head. but inka quickly intervenes between the two and slightly moves away the staff member who seems shocked by her behavior. we can't hear their conversation, but we can clearly see that inka doesn't agree with what the staff said to jisung.

then, joined by another member of the staff, this last one seems to apologize and inka seems to thank him. then the camera is suddenly directed on inka and jisung, who seem to discuss silently. the cameraman asks inka if everything is okay — inka hung her arm around jisung's shoulders while he smiled at the camera, then she finally replies : « yes, now everything is good. i really don't like injustice, so i felt compelled to intervene in a little misunderstanding. now that everything is back to normal and the culprits have apologized, we can offer you a masterful performance at the golden disc awards ! »

clip seven : another iconic inka queen solo v-live moment

enjoying hee chicken noodles quietly in her hotel room, inka decided on a whim to do a small live to spend time with her precious fans. and if at the beginning everything was going well, that both sides seemed to talk calmly, a message in the chat suddenly caught her attention.

« ah guys, do you really think i'm mean? » she asked, keeping her eyes glued to the answers on her screen. « so, you think that people who are against harassment and all, are the bad guys? » a nervous laugh left her lips as she tried to keep her composure.

a sigh of exasperation left her lips as she gobbled down some noodles before speaking. « sorry to disappoint you, but who do you think you are? i'm not mean. i'm just a respectful person made of common sense, able to know what is right and wrong. i know that to criticize a person for pure pleasure, is a petty and cowardly act. »

« you know me well, you know that i never hold back from saying what i think. then you should also know that my words are not malice, but simply a sincere and reasonable speech. i'm not here to argue with you, but rather to make you understand the line between right and wrong. after all, i can use my idol voice to tell you about the evil things of this world, right? i could also tell you that violence, both verbal and physical, never solves anything. but i'm pretty sure most of you already know that. »

« so no, i don't think i'm mean. i just think i'm acting a little too much on my own by proudly telling you what most people think. maybe in the end, it gives me the wrong role, but at least, i remain true to my values of always being sincere with the people who make me who i am today. » sipping her ice tea, she finally raised her head towards the camera, « i hope that you will eventually understand that i am simply defending people who are no longer, or cannot, speak for themselves. they also deserve attention, and i will always defend these values. »

conclusion :

inka is not mean, she's just like our big, caring sister to us all ! she guides us to the right path and ensures that we are kind to each other. so let's support her and stray kids together !

hope you enjoyed the video tho ^3^

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[ogradyfilm]

Andor: The Terrible Mundanity of Evil

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!]

How does a totalitarian regime solidify its reign? Through fear and intimidation? Although the Star Wars saga’s nefarious Empire is no stranger to flashy shock and awe tactics (as evidenced by their propensity for planet-obliterating super weapons like the Death Star), Andor—the franchise’s most recent Disney+ series—reexamines this brute force strategy. Tyranny, writer Tony Gilroy argues, is at its most insidious when it subtly permeates all aspects of everyday life, desensitizing the populace to its presence; the machinery of subjugation becomes normal, mundane, inevitable. Indeed, the inherent inefficiency of the bloated, underfunded bureaucracy—the false promises, the inconsequential concessions, the tangled web of red tape—becomes so utterly boring that it’s almost a comfort.

The show’s prison arc—which finds our protagonist incarcerated (without trial) on a remote penal island—explores this theme in miniature. The facility’s security staff is surprisingly minimal; instead of being locked behind iron bars and beaten with truncheons, inmates are forced to perform monotonous menial labor on an assembly line—twelve-hour shifts every day until their sentences expire. The work is as competitive as it is repetitive: the most productive teams are granted insubstantial “rewards” (food that tastes marginally better than their usual flavorless nutrient paste), while those that “neglect their duties” are severely punished (remote electroshock torture). Additionally, certain trusties—such as Andy Serkis’ Kino Loy—wield a modicum of authority, acting as overseers and enforcing the guards’ stringent quotas. These methods serve to dehumanize and isolate the victims, reducing them to individual cogs in a much vaster mechanism: by exhausting them with tedious tasks, making them resent one another, and convincing them that they pose no significant threat, their jailers ensure that they become too resigned to the abusive treatment to deviate from the routine, much less rebel.

Fortunately, the Imperials fail to account for one crucial factor: compassion. Despite his stern exterior, Kino legitimately cares about the men under his supervision, encouraging them to endure their fatigue and despair because he genuinely believes that silent, submissive obedience will guarantee their survival. Thus, when he discovers that their toil is for naught—that the calendar counting down to their scheduled release date is a total fabrication, and they will merely be transferred from factory to factory for the remainder of their natural lifespans—he immediately joins Cassian’s uprising, using the skills that he’s acquired as a foreman to inspire cooperation and unity among his former subordinates:

There is one way out. Right now, the building is ours. You need to run, climb, kill! You need to help each other. You see someone who is confused, someone who is lost, you get them moving and you keep them moving until we put this place behind us. There are 5,000 of us. If we can fight half as hard as we've been working, we will be home in no time. One way out! One way out! One way out!

Once they finally breach the exterior doors, however, Kino reveals that he can go no further: the final stretch of their escape requires them to paddle across turbulent waters, and he never learned to swim. He knew from the beginning that he wouldn’t be able to reach freedom, participating in the revolt solely for the benefit of his comrades—a sacrifice that perfectly mirrors the iconic monologue delivered by Rebel spymaster Luthen Rael during the episode's conclusion:

I burn my decency for someone else's future. I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I'll never see. And the ego that started this fight will never have a mirror or an audience or the light of gratitude.

When confronted with such altruism, despotism wilts and decays—as all systems of oppression should.

#Star Wars: Andor #Andor #Sar Wars #Tony Gilroy #Diego Luna #Andy Serkis #Stellan Skarsgård #Stellan Skarsgard #Cassian Andor #Kino Loy #Luthen Rael #One Way Out #Disney+ #film #writing #review

[asshlyyyy]

Green Sweatshirt (Jacob Custos x Reader)

Yay, here is what I’ve been working on... but not really cause I kind of wrote it all out now. It went into a different direction then originally imagined, but yay! For those of you who care, I will be posting the first part to my Elvis fic later tonight, and then Look Deep Within tomorrow. Hopefully. If not tomorrow, then Saturday.

Masterlist

Pairing: Jacob Custos x gn!reader

Warnings: Fluff, angst, and swearing

Word Count: 1.9k

New York didn’t get that hot. In fact, the hottest it has ever gotten in the state was a whopping 108 degrees Fahrenheit. That being said, summers weren’t too bad. They were nice when the sun was out, and cold once the sun went down. You had no complaints though because you loved being wrapped up in a blanket or a hoodie. it made you feel safe and at peace.

When you got to camp, it was no different. You still embraced those feelings you had before. Except for the fact that you had fewer bedsheets/blankets. That was the one downside of camp. They gave you one thin bed sheet to keep you warm throughout the night. Now, usually, you would be fine… but you were absolutely freezing. You didn’t pack many long pants and if you did, they were jeans, and there was no way you were gonna wear jeans to sleep. 

So, in the end, you mostly just suffered or stayed up. Any extra blankets that the camp had gone to the kids. So, You were head down to the fire pit and just sit. You would watch the lake... the stars from up above... the moon... You didn't think much during these times. It might've been worse to be outside than inside during these cold moments, but you thought differently. Once you got used to it, it was no biggie.

"Hey, didn't expect to find you out here," a voice said as they walked over to you.

"Mmm, it was cold," you comment, not daring to move your head. Mostly because you already knew who it was by the sound of his voice.

"So you came outside?" He questioned and sat down on the log next to you. You looked over to meet his brown eyes.

"Why not, better than shivering under a thin line of bed sheets," you replied and shrugged.

"Right right, makes total sense," he nodded like he agreed with you. You rolled your eyes playfully and pushed him away lightly.

"If you're going to make fun of me you can rightfully leave." You let out a light huff and folded  your arms against your chest. Trying to be overly dramatic.

"I'm nottt, wanted to keep you company. I saw you leave."

"Are you spying on me now, Jacob? That's not gentlemen-like. More like a creepy stalker." 

"I wasn't spying on you," he let out a laugh, "I just happened to look out the window as you left."

"Mhm, likely story," you teased the sports coach.

Jacob shook his head at his comment and looked out towards the lake. He knew that if he wanted to make a move, that moment had to be now. He couldn't wait any longer. If he did, he would keep chickening out. How do you even go to ask someone out now without being creepy? It's not like the two of you can go out on romantic dates out here in the woods.

You heard shuffling next to you, so causally you looked over and watched as Jacob struggled to get off his green sweatshirt. You raised your eyebrow in confusion. He finally got it over his head and looked over to you and held it out to you. You looked at him confused.

"To keep you warm," he answered your unasked question.

"Okay...?" You took the sweatshirt out of his hand. Slowly you slipped your arms into it and pulled it over your head. 

That was the first time you wore his iconic green sweatshirt. Ever since that faithful night, you wore his sweatshirt a lot more. Everyone was quick to notice it also. They figured something had to be happening with the two of you. Well, there wasn't. At least nothing was happening at that moment. 

On the last day of camp, Jacob grabbed your hand and pulled you away from the other counselors and children. You two had to be long gone from anyone. You looked at him as a giggle escaped your lips. A smile big on your lips, as Jacob stared at you with adoration in his eyes. 

"What, Jacob?" You asked as you pulled at the ends of his sweatshirt that you were wearing.

"I-" he tried to speak, but words just didn't come out.

"Cat got ya tongue?" You teased him and puked his side.

"Listen, uh... I really fucking like you, Y/n. From the moment I met you in fact. So cheesy I know, but... ever since you've been wearing my sweatshirt it's just... God, I just... I can't see myself with anyone else."

"Are your proposing?" You raised an eyebrow.

"What- no no no," he shook his head. "I... I wanted to ask you out. To be my significant other. My other half."

"Aw, Jacob are you asking me out."

"Yes, I literally just said that," he laughed gently in fear that he was about to be denied. You tucked a loose piece of hair behind your ear and nodded.

Truth be told, you felt the same about Jacob. The bubbly sports coach... The attractive strong... The sweet and caring, Jacob. Your cheeks dusted over your cheeks as you felt your heart flutter. Sure, you joked and teased him a lot, but... he made you feel things you've never felt before. It was a new... and strange experience for you.

"I'd love to, Jacob."

That leads you to today. A  few months after that whole incident. A few months after Jacob had asked you out. The two of you shared an apartment together near his college. You didn't go to school or anything, you mostly stayed in and worked. Thankfully you were allowed to work at home.

You didn't realize it, but that very same green sweatshirt became your lifeline. It became a sense of safety for you. You wore it all of the time, and when you had to wash it... well, you watched it be washed and then watched it dry. While Jacob found it cute that you were wearing his clothing all the time now, he knew that... it was becoming unhealthy. Here and there yeah you can wear it... but every single day... for the past several months.

Little did he know, it was his sweatshirt that kept you safe that night. The same one that saved you from death. You never told him this because you didn't want him to overly blame himself. You knew how Jacob got, and if you were so close to death... he would a hundred percent blame himself. It was in his nature. He wanted to protect you with all his life.

So, as you stared at the glass door to the washer, Jacob looked over at you from the door frame. He didn't want to hurt you, but he knew he had to put a stop to it. He let out a light sigh and made his way over to you. "Babe," 

"Mm?" You replied, not taking your eyes off the green that spun around.

"We need to talk." That snapped your eyes away. You looked over at him with fear. Was he about to break up with you? Was it something you did? What did you do to cause this? Jacob was quick to notice your shift of mention and shook his head.

"We're not breaking up, I promise."  He reassured you. You let out a light sigh and relief and went back to looking at the washer.

"Babe!" Jacob said to get your attention once again.

"Mm?" 

"Can you look at me for more than a fucking second?" He was getting frustrated. You didn't blame him, you were acting like a child.

"No can do," you replied. You were worried that if you looked away too long something back would happen. The color could fade, or it would end up ripped. All these possibilities scared you. So, no. You could not look at him for more than a second. 

Jacob let out a huff and walked over to you and picked you up from the ground and pulled you away. His arms tight around you, just so you couldn't escape.

"Jacob no!" You looked back over towards the washer and dryer frantically.

"This needs to happen, Y/n," Jacob spoke and carried you all the way to the bedroom where he locked the door and stood in front of it so you couldn't escape.

"I mean Jesus fuck. You're sitting in front of the washer and dryer in your underwear." He started off.

"So? Don't you like me in my underwear?" You saw no problem in what you were doing.

"I like you in whatever you wear, but..." he started to shake his head, "you need to give that sweatshirt a break. Hell, even throw it away. That's all you wear!"

"I wash it! Not like it smells or anything." You looked at him. You still didn't even know why you were getting an intervention right now. You did nothing wrong.

"What is wrong, Y/n... please... you've been wearing it ever since that night. You don't let me take it off you, you won't let me wash it. What is wrong?" He asked. His eyes were full of care and love all for you.

You looked down at your hands and walked over to your shared bed. You sat down and brought your legs up to your chest. You knew you had to tell him... He was your boyfriend after all and you two never kept anything from each other. You told each other the nastiest of things in fact, and you were scared to tell him about that night?

"It's about that night..." you spoke softly. Jacob walked away from the door and sat next to you on the bed.

"When you weren't around me... I got attacked. Could've died really... it grabbed hold of my shirt... or technically yours. Because it was so much bigger on me, I was able to slip out of it and run towards safety. It saved my life and it's stupid but... I just feel safe every time I wear it," you explained as shortly as you could. You didn't want to think much about it, knowing you would end up crying. 

"Baby... why didn't you tell me?" Jacob spoke softly from beside you. His arm snaking around your shoulders.

"I was scared you would think... I was a baby or something. Wanting to always wear that sweatshirt."

"The only baby you are... is mine. I would never think something about you, ever.  If anything, I'm insanely proud," he explained as he kissed the side of your head. You looked over at him and smiled gently.

"Thank you," you said softly.

"Now, I have no problem with you wearing my clothes. But please... don't overly find protection in them. You're safe here in our apartment, and I will always be there for you. To protect you and keep you safe." He looked into your e/c eyes. 

"I love you," you said.

"I love you too," Jacob responded and pressed his lips against yours.

#The Quarry Jacob #jacob custos #The Quarry #The Quarry x reader #jacob custos x reader

[boxwinebaddie]

did suzie die during the ravesey divorce :(

EXCUSE ME!!!!!! NO, SHE DID NAUGHT!!!!!! rUDE!!!!

kyle would literally NEVER! honestly, the fact that he couldn't keep...his relationship alive meant he was committed and i think honestly a little hypervigilant/hyperfixated on keeping suzie alive.

...riiiiiip. </3 ;-;

i was gonna say he probably forgot one day to water her ( my hc is that after he gets off the clozapine and starts to recover from the constant ptsd episodes, as he slowly regains control over his thoughts again, he regains control over his memories/that part of his brain where they are stored ) and had a HUGE panic attack about it, but bc she's a succulent, suze actually doesn't need 2 much water.

buuuut bc he's unhealthily obsessed and losing his Mind during that period of time, ky over-waters her and she ALMOST dies. he wants to ask stan about it because he is literally persephone in an emo pretty boy rockstar body ( he also misses him to death and wants to talk to him so bad, but because kyle has the emotional availability of a turtle, when him and stan fought/stan left, kyle caved right back into himself and put the scary, inpenetrable cold boy kyle wall up and pretended like he wasn't hurt/doesn't feel anything abt the divorce )

buuuut x2, like i was saying, ravenstan blocked jerseykyle on EVERY POSSIBLE social media platform, so while marj is in the bathroom kyle gets hella desperate, holds up a picture of marj he has saved on his phone to bypass the face id ( yes, he's an evil genius, yes i know ) and Texts Stan About It on marjs phone PRETENDING TO BE MARJ??? kYLE STOP BEING FUCKING INSANE AND DESPERATE CHALLENGE??? LITERALLY FAILED???? HELP?!!! and marj comes back from the bathroom but before kyle can delete the message, it pings and marjorine is like *stern southern mom tsk tsk tsk vc*

Kyle Matthew Broflovski, You Are In A World Of Trouble, My Friend...

bc stan gives marj the info which...kyle, marj would have figured that out anyways, you are delusional...but he's like "btw, if ur gonna impersonate some1 u should @ least do ur research, jersey. marjorine would never say undoubtedly, dork." fuuuuuuckin embarassing oh my god, the dork was...kind of cute tho, fmlll. </3 kyle's cold black heart did do the flippidy dippity, also the restraint it took not to type mi sabelotodo...stan is stronger than me, ik he wants a freaking red skittle, lavender latter kyle kiss so Bad, smhhh. BOYS MAKE UP AND MAKE OUT ALREADY LIKE MAAAAN IT'S VALENTINES DAY!!!!

also, side-note, kyle actually has a surprising...canon dedication to suzie. he's never kept a plant alive before, but it's his special raven plant and he is a simp, so he was like...I Can Do This. ALSO X2 THIS IS A SPOILER AND I WAS TRYING TO GO IN ORDER OF THE CHAPTERS, BUT Y'ALL KNOW I CAN'T DO THAT SO...storytime.

pretty closely following the ravesey hate and the beginning of the iconic kyle having a big fat secret gay boy crush on raven of crimson dawn era, the blondies falling apartment...LITERALLY falls apart. or rather, the falling apartment above it FALLS INTO THEIR KITCHEN LIKE A WHOLE ASS BATHTUB FALLS THROUGH THE CEILING. thankfully curb is alright and they pack him up into lady in the carrier, yes it was difficult, he bit the living shit out of tweek...tweek bit back.

SO THEY'RE IN THE CAR ABOUT TO PULL OFF and kyle's eyes go WIDE and he's like???? where the fuck is suzie?? and everyone is like *squints* what...is a suzie? who is suzie? and kyle is like sUZIE THE SUCCULENT??? MY--HOLY SHIT, SHE'S STILL IN THERE???? and he's unbuckling his seat belt, everyone is SOOOO confused. except for marj, she is totally pleased and bebe is like "sweetie, where are you going???!!" and kyle is like "to get my fucking PLANT obviously!"

and tweek is like "aRE YOU CRAZY, THEY SHUT THE WHOLE PLACE DOWN THERE'S -ACK- ABESTOS AND DEBRIS AND SEWER WATER EVERYWHERE??? YOU CAN'T GO IN THERE, M-MAN!" and kyle is like "I. Am. Not. Leaving. Her. In. There." hops out and sprints

he still has the key to blondie's obviously so he swings the door open, there is water and shit Everywhere, the floor is alllll fucked up and the workers are fucking SHOUTING at him like hello??? you can't be here! it's a liability ft. kyle goin*deadpan lawyer voice middle finger up*

Sue Me.

does crazy ass acrobatics across the floors and coffee table and counters to get to his plant...actually iconique and SLAMS! the door.

the crew drive off, kyle is cradling his plant in the car, his headphones are in and he opens his email to rewatch a video his professor sent him ( you know the one...*stan vc* hi dummy :') <3 ) as they head...

to the crimson dawn manwhoresion where raven and co. have graciously allowed them to stay while blondie's gets renovated...

or you know,

Forever. ;)

-uncle nina, admitted accidental murderer of plants :/

#spoiler alert: suzie lives #kyle is very dedicated to her #and stan...rip #i am sad #but no its fucked up bc kyles coping mechanism is literally to shrivel up & go ice cold again like he goes dark when stan does #i hate my life so much like kyle ft. blonides is hanging out mostly bc theyre Worried abt kyle and tweek accidentally starts talking abt ho #literally batshit insane raven is being via all the negative press abt him and bebe nudges him like tweek ur not boston harbor #quit spilling the tea...ur not supposed to talk abt s-t-a-n #and kyle is just like *drink slam* his glass of boxwine like you can talk about him i couldn't care less...whilist caring so much #BOOOOOOOO i hate u aloof psuedo insensitive kyle #he's hurting so bad it sucks oh my god

[yangzhouman]

CLOUD STRIFE and the YAOI IDENTITY

[note: this is my slightly-edited submission to yaoi zine vol. 1: what was the yaoi that changed your life? organised by our beloved @tshirt3000. it’s 81 pages of nostalgia, poignancy, and really fucking amazing creativity, all about yaoi. i wrote about FF7, and the zine ranges from arthurian legend to currently-publishing webtoons and all the way back. it’s a real labour of love! and it kicks ass! please check it out here!]

what’s gayer than absorbing the identity of another man? doing it twice. i’m talking about cloud strife from FFVII, a yaoi icon who has carried fujoshi gamers on his shoulders for nearly three decades. i owe everything to him, and i’m sure my highschool friends wish his pointy polygon form hadn’t plagued my mind for all these years. sorry girls.

pretty much everything about cloud is yaoi, from his design to his character to his story. did you know the designers deliberately made him “less masculine” so that he could better rival sephiroth? direct quote. until this week, i didn’t — he was meant to have smooth black hair, but was given his defining blond spikes instead. sephiroth, with his long hair and his long sword, exists in deliberate, calculated comparison. it’s easy pickings for people looking for yaoi in a classic contrasting uke/seme dynamic.

but the previous design of smooth black hair and less ambiguous masculinity, now a contrast to cloud, still exists. it went to zack fair, who is notable as the first man that cloud absorbs. he’s the origin of it all in the truest sense: let’s begin with him. 

ZACK FAIR

the most important thing about zack is that he’s dead. it gets weird from here, because every time we see cloud, we see zack — in this sense, he is entirely defined by his connection to cloud, and by how cloud keeps makes space for him even when he really, really shouldn’t.

see, cloud believes he is zack. this is psychological and somatic: for a long time, cloud thinks that he is a soldier working for the megacorporation that runs the planet. but he isn’t. this identity actually belongs to zack fair, who truly was a soldier, and who died protecting cloud from that megacorporation. 

zack died for cloud. cloud becomes zack. this confusion of identity is borne both as a trauma defence and a grief response: cloud believes he is zack so thoroughly that he forgets zack exists, thereby removing that horrific memory from his mind while paradoxically ensuring that his friend is not lost forever. zack is safe within cloud. here he cannot be hurt. 

and cloud’s absorption of zack is total, taking on his mannerisms, his sword, even his skills and relationships. his style of fighting, his attitude to the world — everything. in doing so, zack fair lives on; it’s not zack who died, not if he is standing right here in a different skin.

i struggle to think of something more yaoi than subsuming another man into your being, other than gay sex. nothing says that zack and cloud don’t have gay sex, but it’s unlikely, as cloud is catatonic for a long time — it’s the reason why zack dies, protecting his vulnerable friend. the lack of physicality between zack and cloud works nicely though. there’s a desperation around cloud’s actions here, an unreasonable response to grief/loss/love that speaks of unfulfillment. zack and cloud’s relationship is all about uncrossable distances, and reaching across anyway. there is little response between the two: they can never reply to each other, only assume permission and act in the way they think the other would want. the other’s existence becomes cerebral, established in thought-space rather than physical-space. and the result is a loneliness so desperate it destroys. zack was as lonely as cloud; zack mythologised cloud too, dreaming of delivering him to safety so intensely that he gave his life to this fantasy.

cloud feels immense shame about his inability to save zack, and later on when he realises what he has done, shame about how he has treated zack’s memory. but i think there’s something here about cloud’s respect and love for someone who took care of him. zack is physically and emotionally stronger, openly affectionate and protective. by taking zack on as a mantle, cloud stays safe. by becoming his own protector, cloud embodies zack more truly than zack himself could manage. he understands what it is that zack truly dreamed of, and gives him another chance to be a hero. 

what i’m saying is: cloud did what zack wanted, though maybe in a more extreme form than he had imagined. i don’t even need the authorial stamp of approval, but i have it anyway — in the movie sequel ADVENT CHILDREN, zack appears in ghost form to support a struggling cloud. and his support is simply to ask cloud to repeat the final words that zack ever said to him, knowing that cloud will understand: “you’ll be my living legacy”. 

these words are imprinted on cloud’s yaoi identity. zack totally meant it as a wish for cloud to survive, but i love the weight of burden here: it sounds like something an overbearing parent would say. cloud subconsciously shapes himself around it. and i can’t ignore how it calls to trauma theory of living legacies, too, though i’m sure square enix didn’t mean to express the theory so textually. here trauma is not solely marked by scars, but by the emotions and behaviours that a person experiences afterwards, which grow and take life of their own. it’s about carrying your trauma around with you, and having it change you physically. as janina fisher tells us, trauma manifests in a person’s life beyond the event as “fear, shame, anger … startling, impulses to run or hide or fight, even against one’s own body”. zack had carried cloud’s body around with him, and the weight of it encouraged him onward to his death; cloud truly was his living legacy in that sense. but zack positions himself as cloud’s living legacy, which cloud’s body must carry not as a physical weight, but as emotion and behaviour that cloud cannot help but follow through. this kind of intense doubling-back and doubling-down is the kind of stuff that makes fujoshis crazy, by the way.

this fucked me up for years. i have always loved stories where important characters are already dead: it’s a style of writing that really impresses me, and i enjoy what it does to the remaining characters who have to live with that hole, or in cloud’s case, in that hole. the fact that cloud fills his hole with zack, and also himself, is so twisty and fun. forgetting and becoming a dead guy is fucked up — absorbing the man who died for you is fucked up. but i think zack would have been ok with it. and what’s better than two guys aligning in their fucked up views?

this brings us to sephiroth.

SEPHIROTH

if sephiroth had his way, cloud would also be his living legacy. he’s the most famous villain in FFVII, driven crazy by his mommy trauma and god complex, and cloud becomes his enemy because he keeps thwarting his plan to destroy the planet. he’s also the other half of sefikura, one of the most enduring and epic ships in the yaoi world. cloud has earned his place as a yaoi icon, and sephiroth is on the podium with him.

during FFVII, cloud pursues sephiroth. this is more than just plot — square enix built this dynamic into the game itself, and it was a resounding success within the industry and the genre. this pursuit mechanic involves looping back around the world map to find this villain in previously-explored locations. by updating the map with sephiroth’s presence, we get to feel his omni-presence in cloud’s mind. the pressure that sephiroth exerts upon cloud to think of him becomes more discernible, and more complex, in sephiroth’s response to being hunted by the protagonist: which is to remove any thoughts that are not of him. he turns cloud into his puppet — he forces his way into cloud’s mind on a psychic level, and imposes his own will onto him. chasing sephiroth makes cloud vulnerable; but he must keep chasing the bad guy. he must knowingly open himself to sephiroth because that is his role in the game; and we as the gamer behind him are pushing him onwards, making him dance on those strings again and again so that we reach the ending. becoming implicit in the roles of martyr and murderer is a heady rush that speaks to the success of sefikura in FFVII. we yaoify cloud. how fun is that?

here’s a quote from cloud: “i wasn't pursuing sephiroth... i was being summoned by sephiroth”. he’s being literal here. sephiroth is deliberately drawing cloud closer, forcing him to follow and find him, because he wants to, um, ‘form reunion’ with him. this is also literal. sephiroth wants cloud to be with him, but more importantly, he wants cloud to be him — to obey his commands, to align with his views, to be in total sync with what sephiroth thinks and feels. this part of their relationship is all about sephiroth: narcissistic to the bone, sephiroth’s obsession with cloud is rooted in how cloud continually pulls away from his call and rejects him.

cloud is meant to be sephiroth’s vessel, by the way. not immediately obvious, especially with the care that the designers took to make their visual appearances contrast. but it’s a really fun plot twist, and one that puts cloud’s identity crises into sharp focus. sephiroth’s identity has been forced onto cloud through medical trauma, with his dna inserted physically into cloud’s body, which turns his mental and verbal objections into something of a painful joke. he doesn’t want to be sephiroth. sephiroth sucks, and keeps killing his friends. but cloud’s body betrays itself, betrays him and keeps him from feeling secure in his own identity. there’s no part of him that he can cut out to get rid of sephiroth; and even after sephiroth is dead, cloud feels him. sephiroth is still in him. whose body is it, anyway?

i’ve made sefikura sound fucked up, and it is, kinda. but it’s easy to understand the hold that it’s had on fujoshi gamers. cloud doesn’t go quietly. sephiroth’s oppressive manipulation is what ignites cloud’s will to fight back. 

sephiroth’s insistence that he is the original, and cloud a copy who must submit, is the kind of crazy that appeals to me more now that i’ve come to terms with my leo sun star sign. i suppose it’s visually similar to how zack and cloud had existed, but in practice it is a more dynamic and charged relationship. like his mother before him, sephiroth is a virus: iterative, defined through the suppression of others and the subsequent displacement with himself. he exists only in this state of violence — is made real through it — and he doesn’t want to live in any other way. as derrida puts it, “as soon as there is the One, there is murder, wounding, traumatism. L’Un se garde de l’autre. The One guards against/keeps some of the Other. It protects itself from the Other… The One makes itself violence.”

sorry for putting french in front of you. this aptly describes and complicates sefikura, because actually, it’s cloud finding himself in that abjection of sephiroth. who is he? not sephiroth’s copy; not sephiroth. he is as much a One as he is an Other, and makes himself more of both as he rejects sephiroth. in that rejection he provokes sephiroth again, who must respond. it’s an equal relationship only through its dynamism, in the constant flux and flow of violence that they put each other through. there’s no real hope of reconciliation between them — they are on guard, always conscious of the power they hold over each other. it’s sustainable only if the two of them live forever, and cloud is the protagonist. eventually sephiroth loses.

sephiroth is measurably more yaoi than zack, by the way. zack has a girlfriend, for all that his character is defined by his homoerotic death scene. sephiroth has an obsession with cloud that follows him into the grave and beyond. in ADVENT CHILDREN, sephiroth somehow manifests into physical fragments in an attempt to resurrect himself — and when he does, he runs to fight cloud. (cloud fights alongside his friends, but always ends his fights with sephiroth alone: their relationship is unique.) it’s here that we get sephiroth’s yaoi line: “i will never be a memory”. once again, it’s the final words that cloud hears before sephiroth dies (again, and hopefully more permanently this time). 

i kinda like it more than “you’ll be my living legacy”. i think it’s more comically connected to living trauma theory: yes, sephiroth is in his nightmares, but he does keep physically appearing to haunt him. it ties in well with sephiroth’s narcissism, but also his place in the wider story as a lapsed war hero that cloud had, at one point, idolised. as a young boy, cloud had looked up to sephiroth and tried to emulate him; cloud had joined the army to be like sephiroth. in a way, sephiroth is more of the origin to cloud’s story than zack is. sephiroth’s fall from grace is something a lot of sefikura fans tap into, recognising the toxicity of that connection. all yaoi should have a healthy dose of painful, hilarious irony. 

i also like how in plain text it seems… relatively mundane? not normal, and definitely terrifying to a man recovering from his protagonist status. but also a little bit like sephiroth is cloud’s crazy ex who just can’t accept the breakup. that does trump zack’s parenting line for me. 

anyway, with sephiroth in place, cloud moves from a fujoshi’s delight to a fujoshi’s icon. it’s in sefikura that we see cloud at his most fierce and dynamic, which is hugely appealing. i think the stakes add rather than detract here, and the pain of finding yourself in/with a man who keeps killing your friends is very thrilling. as true rivals, sephiroth gets to transgress some of the barriers that kept zack from cloud through sheer force of villainy, and the intense mirroring between them is revitalising for cloud. sephiroth gives cloud purpose, defining him as an individual again — a One. that’s yaoi.

CLOUD STRIFE AGAIN

the thing is, i’m not sure cloud wants to be a One. not in the sense that sephiroth means it, anyway. cloud’s identity is a fractured thing, broken up by amnesia and survivor’s guilt and the burden of being a protagonist, but it’s deliberate. it’s a defence mechanism, as fredric jameson puts it, against the eroding currents of life that cloud must continue to run through. a poignant image for a broken midgar, and a textual experience, rather than theoretical, for cloud. yet his healing is not to discard parts that do not resemble cloud-before-the-game, but to try and make amends with what’s left — or rather, what’s there. the final third of the game is cathartic for cloud’s identity, when he reconciles the two truths of being neither zack fair or sephiroth. so, what happened to cloud? is he still there; if so, how does he find that part of himself again? or does he throw it all away and start again? no; cloud refuses to live in rejection any longer. he cannot exist parcelled away in the spaces between people, butting up against their edges. instead he starts to acknowledge and appreciate how they touch him. he is made through the interactions of their identities against, and with, his. cloud has always been there. 

in this way, i think he is yaoi. writing from the perspective of his ship halves makes him appear reflective rather than transformative, but in truth he absorbs. he is a space for other characters to go through (i am calling him a hole) and in doing so, those characters are different. it’s in that type of connection that cloud finds his identity, and i find that really beautiful. deleuze and guattari talk about how a fragmented identity shows an unfettered desire that is rooted in the current of life, and who craves life more than someone who keeps being denied it? refusing to cohere to a single, impenetrable ego is a choice, and it’s one that shows a determination to experience the present whilst not letting go of the past. it’s too hard to be done accidentally, and especially to do it twice. cloud’s showing us something here. 

he’s my favourite kind of protagonist, really. cloud resists the archetype of a lone(ly) soldier trudging on, because he keeps seeking out connection, be it for love or security or purpose. it is only in experiencing relationships that cloud can begin to make sense of his life. he can’t exist on his own. he needs to know someone, and they need to know him. 

and that, to me, is yaoi.

[now read yaoi zine!!!!]

#🐸 #FFVII #this is so long and yet there's loads more i wanted to say #i wanted to think about yaoi in an ecological sense: what does it mean for cloud to hold onto other identities (and other men) in midgar #i.e. a world that is being eaten by hypercapitalism #and i wanted to do a lacanian reading of cloud's psychosexual identity. there's nobody who embodies the a #nal stage more than cloud but i really like the concept of the mirror and how it fits into ffvii #basically: i was unhinged by tshirt's proposal and am still shoving things back into the box #if you cut me open like a stick of rock you would just see cloud strife's face #yaoi zine

[drstonetrivia]

Chapter 208 Trivia

Brody-Os! Part of a complete breakfast.

Magma is posed here like Senku is in the manga volumes' character introduction pages. He's also next to Senku's two best friends rather than Nikki and Yo.

I don't think it means anything but Magma did beat Senku this chapter… Is Magma the replacement for Senku? 🤔

We finally see Joel's arm, and it does seem to be fully functional given he's rapidly weaving donuts between Luna and Yuzuriha (while blushing, because he still hasn't gotten used to women).

I think this implies that broken/crushed bones heal similar to piercing wounds.

The mathlympics coincides* with the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, and the little icons on the banner they faxed are based on the ones Japan used for the sports.

*Technically the closing ceremony was a few weeks ago but the manga was on break.

This panel is interesting: either they're saying this person was revived 51st in Corn City and had the number written on him, and that it stayed on his skin despite having been written on the outer/damaged layer of stone, or that tattoos don't count as healable injuries.

This could mean that the petrification only heals life-threatening injuries, as Soyuz's head scar and now this tattoo (technically the body treats the foreign ink as an infection of sorts) have stayed.

This does imply Kaseki's arthritis was considered life-threatening though…

If the number on the soldier's arm was in fact his revival number, then the population of the world is probably close to Dunbar's number already, since 51 + 75 = 126, plus the Spaniards, making the total Earth population ~150.

The corn harvest here may be telling us Corn City has been back up and running for the last 60-100 days, as that's about as long corn needs to grow. If we assume the start date is October 1st, then it would be around late November/early December now.

(It could also be much earlier if this corn was still the corn growing naturally over the last 7-8 years, rather than them planting it.)

Just for fun I compared the ring size to Kinro's thumb width and I think it's accurate, at least it is for my hand. His hand is a little smaller than I was expecting though…

(0.5 * 33.6 = 16.8mm if you want to check your own thumb!)

Just because nixie tubes are cool, this is how the calculator number display looked. Depending on the noble gas/gases they filled it with, it could be orange-yellow, blue, or purple-pink.

(They should also have 12 pins on the bottom, one for each number+decimal point+1 anode)

Gen mentions they're crossing the Indian Ocean, so I guess Math City is considered established now. The next ones are Rubber City and Aluminum City, but since they're both across the Indian Ocean from India, they could be going to either one of them. Rubber is closer, however.

The scrawny scientists are fine, but Magma is too big for his contestant podium and has to straddle it.

Magma's studying payed off, he can read numbers!

Ukyo's such a good teacher :)

The calculator itself is a 32 bit floating point calculator, has four functions (+, -, *, / ) and with a display that shows 12 digits, the sign (positive or negative numbers) and status (for example if a number is too big to display or some other error).

The name on the calculator, Senku Intelligent - 1, may be a /very/ loose reference to the TI calculators you likely used at school, though "TI" stands for "Texas Instruments" rather than "Texas Intelligent".

These candies Minami's has next to her are definitely corn syrup based, and are probably getting stickier by the minute because sugar candies should be stored in an airtight container and that looks like an open jar.

If anyone's confused by how Ryusui Bank works, I believe the plan is to add and subtract any transactions people make and save their totals on the calculator, or keep a paper record of it (=ledger). It's entirely trust based, there's nothing of physical value being traded.

The time difference between India and California is 12 hours 30 minutes, so it's probably mid-morning for the ones on the Perseus and evening for the ones in Corn City, going by the skies shown.

From what I could tell, all the magnetic memory parts were basically exactly as they described them, including the little history lesson Senku adds on page 8. There just wasn't much more to add! (I know I said this before but I loved this chapter haha)

#trivia #dr stone #chapters #208 #magma dr stone

[basedkikuenjoyer]

I hit 100 followers a while ago. It's not the biggest thing ever I know, but I also didn't really expect anything like that when I started this silly little blog about a mysterious lady and her goofy samurai gang. For 50 we did 27 favorites. People seemed to like it. Main cast taking up a bunch of spots is boring, though I do think a few of these could potentially end up in the main one. For now though that's Nami, Brook, & Jinbei. This time is more measured, I actually thought about a Sweet 16 and why. It's fun to see how it changes over time:

Cabbage: I love pretty idiots in anime. This one was necessary to keep me invested in Dressrosa. But there is a real amount of nobility there and the story of actually being a fallen prince obsessed with stardom is a good one! Most little guy Leo is surging but Cavendish is still my favorite of the Grand Fleet captains.

Queen Otohime: I've already said a lot about her with our Seafloor Sidestory. Such a great examination of a political leader, a civil rights icon. I've flirted with that role myself at times and always been around it as a quirk of fate...so it's cool to see someone who gets the nuances like Oda did with this story. How it plays off of Tiger's, influences someone like Jinbei. I rate Fishman Island very high and Otohime is a huge part of that.

Pudding: Pudding is such a two-faced little snot but young enough and cartoonish enough about it I think she's funny. Whole Cake is a great arc, love how she plays off of Sanji, the "Doll" element hits a little close to home.

Crocodile: He's got style, he's got grace. He'll throw sand in your face. Cool villain, loved him in Impel Down/Marineford, epitome of T-Boy swag.

Miss Goldenweek: Marianne, Goldie...such a treasure. Girl makes me laugh so much. Comically lazy but the secret weapon that was a nightmare for Luffy. Cover story that made her shine as a capable operative and Rainbow of Dreams rocks. Please come back to Cross Guild you little weirdo. I need you and Buggy playing off each other, I need Crocodile hyping up one of his superstar agents to Mihawk only for her to doze off/ask for snacks in the middle of it.

Nekomamushi: He is a massive yellow cat man. This is a great start. Had a nice theme song too. He loves lasagna but isn't an asshole like Garfield. Rising love. Samurai cat man. Then he's Kiku's lil bro and I enjoy pondering that dynamic. Goro nya nya.

Kin'emon: He was pretty funny before, making the chauvinist a simp for his classy af wife and the confused, but caring father figure to a sweetheart trans girl is hilarious. I love his devil fruit and impersonating Doffy was classic. His supernatural luck forced his way deeply into my heart.

Conis: Conis is lovely. Sweet angel girl...with a big ol bazooka she is not afraid to use. People forget Conis but I still love her. Sky Island was fun.

Jewelry Bonney: Being an angry child makes her so much more fun. Always thought she was a solid Supernova. Being such a glutton is funny. Egghead has elevated her. Interesting devil fruit, it's the one my sweetie would want to eat himself which is neat.

Izo: Izo is very, very pretty. He is also good at shooty but have you seen how pretty he is? He is also the dashing elder brother of #1 blorbo...

Kiku: I know this inclusion will surprise some of you. She's a total sweetie with hidden narrative weirdness. What's not to love and obsess over? Plus she's really tall and forgets that when hiding behind things. Imagine if we saw her trying to hide behind Chopper sticking most of his body out from behind a hiding place. That would tick us back at least one minute from midnight.

Cindry: The other Okiku and subject of our Spooky Sidestory. Maliciously compliant zombie with a showgirl vibe. Far out. Hucking plates rules as a combat style.

Ginny: Some might say she's too new. Some Might Say is a pretty good early Oasis song. Neither of those are relevant right now. I love Ginny. She's wonderful. She got done dirty because flashback characters always get done dirty.

Hina: Hina pleased to be included. Hina pleased. She was our Shackled Sidestory and I love her. The cool vibe mixed with a couple of childish traits. One of our truly good Marines who probably hasn't gotten high enough up the ladder to really know how depraved the World Government is. Cool fruit too, perfect for a Marine.

Monet: Punk Hazard came out right before I went into grad school. I love thinking of her as the beleaguered, far more talented assistant to Caesar Clown who I hate and should just die. Harpies are also classic cool and I will not accept statements to the contrary. I love her snow power too.

Gecko Moria: Touched on this in a post about him for Halloween. He's grown on me a lot as a villain as I've gotten old enough to understand him. There's a realism in his motivations that makes him more of a unique villain. I actually believe if he was serious from the start Luffy would never have stood a chance. Shadow fruit is cool and Thriller Bark is an excellent arc.

Bellemere, Kawamatsu, Denjiro, and Hancock would be the honorable mentions. But these are my true One Piece loves.

#one piece #100 sub spectacular

[micahulrichdraws]

you collect warhammer too? AOS is superior

i just collected but don't play WHFB or AOS, and i'm hijacking this ask for a hot take, but I'm going there because this is a good art business allegory if you're as batshit as i am: in this essay i'm going to talk about how AOS is strictly a worse version of the WHFB setting as an art business and fantasy setting. AOS is a great example of why 'unique' doesn't necessarily mean 'good' - the idea of planes/realms/etc with some of the most forgettable characters somehow spun into a pseudo Heroes of Might and Magic-esque batshit setting. in order to get there though, we scrapped basically all of the unique and interesting parts of the Warhammer universe from an RP perspective.

the empire had a ton of awesome, unique, and straight up gorgeous art opportunities that the teams in the past squandered, and GW failed to make a relatable human faction (in marketing for any fantasy game IP most users will default to the most relatable, boring human possible) which lead to issues with the entire brand. instead of leaning into witch hunters, warrior priests, and completely forgetting about the other human faction of brettonia, they focused on producing a ton of monoposed forgettable foot soliders and created a barrier of entry that was insanely high. they failed to update their art line of some of their most iconic and unique ideas, like the Skaven/Greenskinz/Tomb Kings, and they sabotaged their own product and then replaced it with AOS.

AOS has the clunkiest design for story, lore, and entry point for anyone who wants to get into the expanded universe of the setting. the main 'human' faction, and faction that GW has their local shop employees and team market the most, are the Stormcast, which are a combination of their 40k space nazis mixed with roman armor. the stormcast are boring, unless you read a handful of books, which most people won't, and figure out what was retconned and what wasn't. From an art direction standpoint, they're boring: every model is identical, it's hard to tell two of them apart, and they all have the same structure, down to their description. during rebranding, GW scrapped a ton of the fun elements of the old factions (greenskins being ridiculous vs kruleboyz being just... generic mean mordor orcs) and benched a bunch of their past artistic successes (chaos dwarfs and skaven are two factions even people who aren't into the setting know, but either haven't had major model releases for decades or straight up were ignored). it makes it hard to expand the brand beyond being just a tabletop game, and why interest in any expanded stuff like video games or rpg systems doesn’t exist. The most popular games to come out of GW currently are all WHFB stuff, total war and vermintide. there's equal interest in a currently supported product as one that was retired, and a lot of the interest in the current product is updated models for the old product.

so here's my point in regards to why two nerdy ass miniature lines were a great masterclass in how to and how not to run an art business to me: If you are doing something that is different and it is working, keep messing with it and find what works and change what doesn't. Think about how people will view your art, and how they will be introduced to your portfolio - if it's a super high barrier of entry, a lot of people won't be able to access it, and if it's super low, people will forget about it and move on. Find a middle ground of accessibility while being true to your art - if your stuff is too abstract and you never share it, it'll be hard for folks to find and appreciate it. If you just create life drawings that could be confused for a homework assignment, most folks will think it's just academic and move on. Scrap the stuff that doesn't work, and double down on the stuff that does. Yes, some of your ventures will not be profitable, but you'll at least learn, and maybe even grow interest in the art you are making, which will lead others to help innovate it on their own and in turn help you innovate yourself. Other studios picked up the older Warhammer art and story, put their spin on it, and renewed interest in the main artistic brand, years after it had been retired. Other artists picked up on my designs, in the form of tattoos and clothing partnerships, put their own spins on them, and that introduced folks to what I do. Finally, be respectful of your audience. The team at GW chose to nuke their old setting in a way that offended a lot of their long time fans, in favor of what they hoped would be a more profitable business option, instead of listening to what the fans had been asking for in regards to expanding the setting. Your audience and your fans are what let you be an artist, without them you ain't anyone to share your art with. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

PS: im a mordheim kinda dude

[anxious-art-block]

LU Headcanon’s Part 2: Electric Boogaloo

THE EDGY BOOOOOYY

[Legend it’s Legend’s turn]

Would rather saw off his legs than wear pants

Could and would probably slap Hylia if given the chance 

These are my headcanons so therefore I make the rules and so I say he is 100% engaged to Ravio 

Legend is an insomniac, and has gone a total of 71 hours and 42 minutes without crashing before

Is absolute besties with Hilda and Styla, despite one being from another country and the other being from an alternate dimension, it doesn’t stop him

“Bureaucracy will never beat a shift iron rod to the kneecaps.” 

Agender icon [He/She/It]

!!Hyrule!!A baby!!

Can’t read, and therefore can’t read a map [hence getting lost at any given point] because he was never taught how

“Yes, ma’am/sir!”

Wouldn’t often go into large towns in his Hyrule, and is often overwhelmed and scared of large crowds, so when they go to another or go to a town in their current one, will cling to Legend’s arm like a baby koala

“There are young and innocent ears in the room, and by that I mean Roolie.” “Gah?!”

I’m pretty sure it’s LoZ canon that he would be blood-relatives with Legend so I’m gonna make him and Legend have similar mannerisms and faces [Hyrule has a more rounded/babyish face and button nose, while Legend has sharper eyes and flat yet tall nose] 

They have the same confused and pouting expressions

Even more broke™

Snorts when he laughs

Twirls a lock of hair on his neck when nervous

It’s fucking WIMDY

Wind’s Hylian is based on Polynesian [Mainly Samoan, Tokelauan, and Tuvaluan]

“I lived on a WARSHIP-“ ok I’ll stop

The absolute BEST BIG BROTHER in the W O R L D

Uses the word fuck like a comma

Probably a medium 

Misses Linebeck :[[ 

Has a thing with large birds, things like seagulls and small birds he has no problem, but if there any larger than half his size he’ll lock up, and will always make sure it’s where he can see it

Has to keep a notebook of EVERYTHING after Phantom Hourglass, cause he still isn’t entirely sure if the journey actually happened or if it was just one big hallucination caused by the Ghost Ship

Wind and Tetra’s love language is beating the shit outta one another

The OG problem child

Loves Sun so fucking much he cannot even stand it

Princess Peach lips mf

Is a narcoleptic 

Has trouble breathing on the surface, it’s hardly ever too serious unless he seriously overexerts himself but there will pretty much always be a slight wheeze to his breathing 

Is mostly stressed about leaving Sun not just cause he misses her, but because he doesn’t know what could happen if he’s not there, especially since last time he WASN’T she was taken 

!!Him and Groose are now besties!!

Good for him good for him

Little to no reaction during a switch 

Weather is both his best friend and mortal enemy 

The scariest when angry

Will cry at the drop of a hat and doesn’t know what to do about it 

“No one will know the violence it took to become this gentle.”

FINALLY ON BRAND

Is very careful about not stepping on small things

Is pretty fuckin’ sick of Vaati at this point

“It’s funny when short people threaten me, like what are you gonna do?” “Say goodbye to your kneecaps asshole”

Thought of this when I first read the manga when I was like 13

So I often draw/write Four like a fusion from Steven Universe 

No I don’t take constructive criticism 

“This is who we are, this is who I am.”

Did he exist before the blade split him? Yes. But when he merged for the first time afterwards was he basically a new person? Also yes.

I rest my case

Misses Shadow :[[[[[[

Has a tooth gap!!

!!Has rainbow colored eyes!!

A whopping 4’10”

Puppy eyes work on him really well, it doesn’t matter who is making them, he will cave pretty much upon contact if you give him puppy eyes

G e n d e r

Alright I’m done for now

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[wyvern-flames]

𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝 - 𝑆ℎ𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑙𝑎𝑚𝑒, 𝑊𝑦𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛

Semi-Selective, Spoiler Heavy but tagged, 25 y/o mun, Under Construction

♞ Important Notes below for Mobile! ♞

I. hello there! my name is kuroki! i am 25 years old and have been roleplaying around tumblr for quite a while. i have many blogs around and cannot seem to stop making more. hopefully, you can enjoy your stay here for as logn as it lasts!

II. i am semi-selective, oc, duplicates, canon and crossover friendly! i am also more than happy to receive interactions/asks/requests from personal blogs, as long as you respect the other roleplayer's privacy during interactions. chances are, if you follow me, i will be following you back (unless your rules are too complex for me to follow.)

III. though i do not know how to edit or make icons (and whenever i do, it is catastrophic,) i will be trying my best to make some for clive. if you find that the posts are iconless, i probably gave up trying. aside from that, i am only recently starting to rp/write smut, i usually try to avoid it unless i am suddenly comfortable to try it (or unless the other person doesn't mind me not being experienced writing it.) normally, i prefer to keep things sfw unless really needed so as to not embarrass myself. even so, you can be flirty or suggestive, that’s totally fine. if we somehow end up requiring nsfw down the road, we could discuss it and work it out. as you may have expected, this blog will have dark themes, that includes potential triggering content (will try to tag but may forget sometimes,) so please tread carefully.

IV. very important to note that my portrayal of clive rosfield might be slightly different from others, especially with the tone and usage of words as i follow (and play) the latin spanish dub of the game (it's so excellent, i could not ignore it) and have noticed a few changes on what the characters say (for example: slight location name changes, though those i will look up and follow the english translation to avoid confusion. other than that, some flavor text that i am sure i have already adopted.) i will understand if you refuse to interact because of it, just make sure to softblock or hardblock if i followed you and you do not wish to interact so i don't accidentally either re-follow you or try to interact with you.

V. feel free to send me a message or follow back if you want to roleplay or just ask anything if you’re curious about clive or my portrayal of him. i also accept anonymous questions, random memes, and random starters!

VI. my face-claim is Ritsu Namine and i can roleplay in both English and Latin Spanish. the icons used are made with poohsources's aquila psd and the screenshots were provided by capsource.

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