#i'd scream lmao

[transjudas]

Instead of “trust me!”, Frank screamed “you’ll never kill me!” at the second Melbourne, Australia show. (x)

#mcr #mcredit #gerard way #frank iero #gerardwayedit #frankieroedit #my chemical romance #flashing cw #userkam #if you can i'd def watch the video of it #when it realized what he was screaming i started crying lmao

[celestialholz]

Today in Gay People: Hassel.

There's something I've noticed about our resident art teacher, and that's... well, Flapple. I mean, we all know how gay the whole Applin deal is, but... well, it's where it is that's particularly interesting.

This is Steven Stone's team.

This is Cynthia's team...

This is Wallace's team...

I could go on. (And yes, I'm using champions because, like Hassel, they're important, powerful NPCs with a proper team, and let's be real here, Hassel is five minutes, that Tournament Dragonite and a fuck to give away from kicking Geeta out of his office.)

But the point here is... well, that penultimate slot. The fifth slot in a champion's team - or fourth, in Hassel's case - is reserved for the vice-captain role. It's the Pokemon hardest to take down before the ace, meant to weaken you up - the secondary signature mon. We see here with Milotic - defence for days, Marvel Scale, offensive too. And we see it with Armaldo - excellent attack, difficult type. And then we see it with Gyrados - Dragon Dance, Earthquake, power. Utility. That second-to-last slot is designed to weaken you up for the finale, the real powerhouse of the squad. Leon does it too - his fifth slot is the starter strong against yours, the one you may not have a counter to if your team-building isn't on point.

... And then we have Hassel.

... Now, there's a few things to note here.

Flapple shares the same quad weakness as Noivern, which leads. That's, er... different.

Flapple, statistically, is the weakest Pokemon here. Not by a lot - Dragalge is only ten points or so better, but it's a defensive Pokemon. It's meant to fill that role, as well as being a counter to Fairies.

Flapple isn't the utility mon most penultimate-slot mons are.

... And yet, here it is. Now, I could draw upon Hassel's six-mon Tournament team here, which adds Dragonite into this slot instead, but the Tournament is Hassel fucking about. He's been chilling in the staffroom and someone's gone "oh, that champion-rank kid's up, get out here." The Elite Test line-up is him at work. He's specifically chosen to leave a pseudo-legendary at home... for Flapple.

And why would he do that? @edgeanescence pointed out on the EphemeralArt Discord that the penultimate slot is meant to represent the trainer; the personality and the heart of them, as well as acting as vice-captain. And, well...

Cynthia's is a Milotic. Grace, beauty, the defence of Sinnoh against Cyrus.

Steven's is an Armaldo. A fossil, a Rock-type, the strongest of all fossils at the time - perfect sentiments for him.

Wallace's is a Gyrados. Power, controlled by a former eighth gym slot; ferocity in water.

... And Hassel's is a Flapple. Like him, she has power, but what she represents as a Grass/Dragon is much more important to him than raw offence or defence. She is his softness; she is his tears, and pride in his students; she is part-Brassius. Whether Brassius gave him the Flapple or not is irrelevant, though it's pretty compelling that he did - this man takes a representation of his heart and of his love into battle over the Dragonite, who has 120 more points of stats. By rights, even if he's leaving the Dragonite at home, Haxorus should be here if this is about power, not Flapple.

And you can tell me that it's about game balance as much as you like, but oh look:

Brassius's rematch team, everyone, and look at that penultimate slot.

Look at that Arboliva sculpture, with Brass's own spikiness and Dragon-type purple-tinged blue.

Brassius is not like Appletun, the obvious counterpoint here. Brassius is drama; Brassius is a man formerly weak, much like Smoliv; Brassius is not home comforts, apple pies, yet he's surprisingly kind and encouraging. Reminding you of anything?

... Ah, yes. Arboliva, depending on mood. And, if you're not already convinced...

That's Flapple, in the Violet dex. Strong, and covered in clay. Like a fucking artist, or a man who loves a sculptor.

When the chips are down, when they show up to work, when they have important, key battles, Hassel and Brassius don't just take their Pokemon to the arena.

They take themselves, and they take each other.

#ephemeralartshipping #brassius x hassel #brassius #hassel #pokemon scarlet and violet #... you know I'd say I was done with these old gays at this point #but who the fuck am I kidding #I haven't even done the artazon art yet lmao #honestly game freak what the fuck #I am so desperately normal about these old men #*soft scream*

[azaracyy]

✦ gods of mischief ✦ digimon survive week 2024 day 3: other digi- er, kemonogami

#digimon #digimon survive #biyomon #piyomon #patamon #palmon #survive week #survive week 2024 #finally for day 3 im using my sketch for once (yet still finish late night as usual) o(-( #3 characters for day 3! #not much to say except these folks made me scream whenever they appeared #they're so pesky and persistent lmao. team rocket equivalent of survive fr #tbh this was gonna go to day 4 but i don't see them as 'supporting' characters more than the subject of my og day 3 work. so i swapped them #thank you for your kind words for my survive week entries! i do read tags hehe :') #eventually i'd like to read all the fics.. but it will be a slow progress since i just recently recovered from reading block after years #apparently i can't read fics especially super chunky ones without dissociating nowadays haha ;; but i'm working on it and starting small #png

[titan-fanatic]

I just watched Stranded. Robin says Starfire's name a total of 17 times throughout the episode.

#yes I counted lmao #robstar #teen titans #robin #starfire #If I had time I'd make a compilation of all the times Robin dramatically screams Starfire's name throughout the series. Bc it's a lot.

[lilflowerpot]

Hi! Hope ur well, just wondering how the galra would feel about ivf and surrogate mothers and such things.

Also, would diabazaal have had any other religious groups or did they have one decided belief

I've actually addressed both Imperial surrogacy, and the Empire's major religious groups (along with a follow-up regarding various funerary rites) before!

I know my blog has rather a lot to comb through at this point, but for those of you not in the know, I //am// a meticulous tagger, so you can notably narrow down my posts to just the worldbuilding ones if you take a gander at #galra history & culture!

#I've just checked and of the 1000+ posts on this blog there are about ~160 filed under my worldbuilding tag #which is still... a rather obscene amount lmao but more manageable by far! #and many of those have little tables / diagrams / visual aids to keep things interesting for you ♡ #also yes this is me pushing myself to get back into the swing of things—not only asks but unanswered DMs and ao3 comments too #chapter 25 is legitimately underway i've just found that I'd planned for so much that it's definitely going to have to be split in two- #and also i think i've written myself into a loop of 'A comes before B which comes before C which comes before A' so that's fun #i'm sorry my loves it's been something of A Year and i'm not even sure why #anyway... progress! slowly but surely #as always I deeply appreciate everyone's patience & support ♡♡♡ #Ao3 Little Blade #sa screams back #the author speaks

[umbane]

growing up young and queer in the spotlight as he did had its problems, sure, but Kayn met them the same way he does everything — head-on with his teeth bared. though it never really came up with his first band, by the time his second was established he was singing about his sexuality with as much anger and aggression as you'd expect from him (see: yungblud, parents, tx2 headed straight to hell). he was always true to himself, and though he never confirmed exactly what his sexuality is (only that he doesn't care who he fucks, and that gender isn't a big deal to him), he made it very clear that his shows and his fanbase is not welcoming to any bigots. he might be volatile and abusive, but he's not a monster. jeez.

#i alone am the remedy / headcanon. #v. / THIS IS GONNA BE SICKKKKK - k 💜 #I saw a few similar hcs today so I thought I'd share mine #the thought of kayn screaming into a mic about fucking men heals my soul. thanks #I'll write kayn doing a lot of horrible things but I draw the line at him being a bigot LMAO

[michaeljoncarter]

God the Marvel film rights debacle is the decision that haunts me the most of any of the bad decisions made by the big 2 companies ever. Both because I am one of the six people who think you can do something interesting with the Inhumans and everything about their X-Men 2: electric boogaloo push caused me psychic damage, but also because Marvel didn’t just fuck over the X-Men, they fucked over the Fantastic Four for the same reason. They canceled that book right before the terrible Fox movie came out and didn’t bring it back until they secured the film rights, pretty much the longest the F4 went without a series since 1961. Just, the fact they tried to push out two of their flagship teams purely over film rights, they could not be more transparent about using these comics as movie promotion instead of seeing it as a medium onto itself it’s so frustrating.

it's SO bizarre like genuinely one of the weirdest times in (recent) comic book history. i can't even like… follow the logic of wtf they were even TRYING to do??

like with most decisions, even the ones i absolutely despise, i can at least kinda see what they were going for, y'know? dc's past few years of constant reboots, for example: bane of my existence. dumb as fuck. but if you take a step back and look at it objectively, it's like. ok. i can see why someone would think that would be a good idea at the time. they were wrong, but i can see what they were going for

mid-to-late-2010s film rights meltdown marvel though?? i literally have no idea what the fuck they were even going for. it's not even a case of the cinematic/tv universe bleeding back into the comics because it had nothing to do with anything that was actually happening in the mcu & they were making changes for movies/shows that hadn't even (and in the inhumans movie's case, never would) come out

they really were just trying to use the comics as advertising for the mcu, and that is just… so insane???? what planet are you living on that you think a significant enough percentage of the mcu's viewership is coming from comic book readers to make something like that in any way successful????? 90% of mcu fans have never picked up a comic book in their life, and the ones who have are literally the only people you do not need to advertise to. they are already fans. why are you trying to advertise to the one group you've already got 100% locked down by fucking up the thing you locked them down WITH

and it's the same thing with fantastic four and the x-men?? what the fuck did they think they were accomplishing by trying to push the franchises they were actively trying to get the rights for out of the spotlight & make them less relevant & popular while they were, again, actively trying to get the rights for them.

like did they actually think the viewer base of the fox movies was… coming from people who actively followed the comics??? and not just people who liked original xmcu/f4 movies?? did they actually think pulling the current f4 book & holding their comics hostage would have some sort of noticeable effect on the movies' success??

it's so baffling. this is another thing i would love a whole true crime style docuseries diving into because just. what in the fuck

#ask #anonymous #long post #i'm sorry i cannot shut up tonight <3 #only half joking abt the docuseries bc wtf was actually going on in their heads #i could easily spiral into a pepe silvia conspiracy board about wtf was going on during this era #i didnt even know about the f4 thing ?? man they really were just doing whatever #i do have to say it was kinda funny for me specifically though #i remember so vividly tuning into the inhumans thing like halfway through #bc i was/am mainly a cap comics reader & this was all going on during the hydracap thing #which was actually blown way out of proportion by ppl who didnt read the comics #like dont get me wrong it wasn't... great. but people were out here acting like wwiii had just broken out over a mediocre twist #so i'd heard snippets of the angry buzz around IvX #& just assumed it was a similar situation of people being mad on the internet just to be mad on the internet #and hoo boy #me walking into that event was like that one scene from community. with all the fire and screaming and gnome #truly an unforgettable experience for all the wrong reasons lmao

[airenyah]

having a deep-talk with a friend on whatsapp about how i'm really weird about having romantic feelings for someone and thinking about that one time when my mom stumbled across utsukushii kare on viki (back when only the first season was out) and watched it and then promptly sat me down and made me watch it too and by the end of it i was having a bit of a crisis, sitting there with my jaw dropped to the ground going "oh shit i see myself in hira" while my mom is just laughing her ass off saying "there's a reason why i wanted you to see this"

#i really need to watch the second season at some point #i didn't watch it back when it dropped bc i wanted to watch it together with my mom #but my mom that little traitor just went and watched it without me #i probably should have told her that i wanted to watch it with her lmao #anyway i still haven't seen s2 #utsukushii kare #airenyah plappert #adrm #also that whatsapp conversation sharing insecurities sure is super duper fun #got some great moments such as my friend saying ''bc of past bullying i feel undesirable and that no one will ever like me'' #while i'm just sitting there like ''i've literally had a crush on you for a year now but ok'' #not that i'd EVER admit it to my friend's face #no i'd much rather scream it into the void here on tumblr thanks #literally cannot deal with romantic feelings ok bye

[mustangs-flames]

Recently I was listening to my Spotify playlist and when “The Mind Electric” came on, I think it really fits with both alt!cesar and human!cesar and while it could be reflecting of a few parts in HTB it especially reminds me of part 6 of INWCT to What’s in a Name! While I could talk about a buncha lines from the song to just name one: “some one help me understand what’s going on inside my mind, doctor I can’t tell if I’m not me”

Oh, absolutely! That song has been played so many times whilst planning out Part 6 and alt!Cesar's internal conflict and how human!Cesar works into all of it lmao

#hail true body au #mustang answers! #hey i'm always happy to hear people's thoughts about the au and songs no matter how long the messages are lmao #it's nice to not feel alone in screaming about this silly story haha #mind electric is definitely another song i'd do an animatic or lyric comic to for the au if i had the time and skill lol

[spurgie-cousin]

I am a former Abeka student here, and currently have an education degree and just wanted to weigh in. Their grammar and math curriculum for elementary school students is actually fairly comprehensive and rigorous- provided you have someone guiding you through the work and aren't just popped in front of the video curriculum. I would say the rest of their curriculum is disappointing to downright infactual. There were several times as an adult or even an older student using a different curriculum that I had to relearn various historical facts or scientific principles. Their history curriculum really emphasizes a white Christian nationalist view of American history (and world history- which only covered "Western" civilization no Asian or African history) and their science textbooks hammered home that God created the world and some of the information in them was straight up false.

So yeah, I'm not mad at Carlin for using Abeka if she wants to introduce basic grammar and math concepts because it actually does that very well! I wouldn't touch the rest of the curriculum with a 10 foot pole.

Yea I guess my point moreso was that I assume any involved homeschool moms are going to care enough about the curriculum they choose to properly vet the organization it comes from. Obv someone like Carlin is already familiar with Abeka, I'd assume.

So regardless of which ages she's using it for, I don't know why she'd pick that particular evangelical organization to support if she didn't agree with their core values. My point is more about that choice being indicative to me of where she stands ideologically, which I know a lot of people speculate about since outwardly she appears pretty progressive.

I mean even if she's only using it for pre-k that's still her making an active choice to support that organization when she has a lot of other options, you know? My point wasn't that it's impossible to learn anything from Abeka and I appreciate you sharing your personal experience, it was more about gauging where she stands in the fundie/fundie lite universe since she doesn't really talk about her beliefs in depth.

#i mean I'd also guess that the whole humans and dinosaurs being around at the same time and the earth being created in 6 days thing prob #gets worked into the pre k curriculum just knowing evangelicals but that's neither here nor there #my mom used to have a drawing of mine saved from my xtian after school program where they asked us to draw the flood god saved noah from #and i drew a bunch of stick people screaming in the water around Noah's boat apparently lmao this whole thing just reminded me of that

[fierceomen]

oh boy, okay, guess it's fine for a STARTER CALL ! pls interact with this post if you'd like me to write you up something. for any multi - muse blogs, if you have any specific muses you'd like to write with kei pls comment to let me know! i'm happy to do a couple of starters for you too if you'd like multiple muses to interact.

ps, if any of you wanna write a thread with babey keigo i'm 100% down for that too hehehe

#🪶 –––– calls . 〉 #i'm super chill if u want like 5 starters bc u haven't gotten to use a muse in a hot minute i gotchu #also happy to write with characters from other franchises! #at least for right now i'd like to stick to series that i know while i get the hang of writing this boy publicly #happy to talk about it! #also i'm likely gonna be experimenting with formatting for the next few weeks so abologies for inconsistency #my brain gives me serotonin when my writing looks pretty LMAO #did i seriously write abologies instead of apologies i'm going to scream

[lilflowerpot]

Hello!

I just finished reading your fic LB (twice!!), you're suuuch a good writer! The characters and the world building/culture and lore especially are super super amazing! Yours is probably one of the best fics I've EVER read! The best one in the Voltron tag for sure! Seriously, it's super duper awesome! I also looove that you're answering questions here!

I was actually wondering about the Galra in regards to (raising) their children...

You said before that children are really very, very important to the Galra and that they are treated very well, hence why Keith's neglect/(abuse?)/maltreatment would really shock and upset them...

I also read your posts about the Idea of disowning children and how a child (perhaps not an adult?) acting out would moreso be considered a failing on the parents part etc. ...

Considering that Lotor was (rather publicly?) banished and (perhaps not so publicly) mistreated by his 'father' (and technically his 'mother', but the Galra don't know that I suppose), how would the Galra look at that? Especially the mistreatment, I mean some of the Galra upper echelon had to have known about it, right? Do they excuse it, because Lotor is only half Galra and Zarkon is the emperor? Is it more or less a kept secret? Do only certain people dis-/approve?

Also how is a banishment like this viewed by the general public? Wouldn't it be a really big stain on Zarkon's rule/popularity? Wouldn't it carry a sentiment like 'if you can't properly take care of your own child, how will you be able to take care of an Empire'?

(If this is a spoiler or you answered a question like this before I apologize...)

Also: imagine Kolivan/the Blades finding out about not only Keith's mistreatment but Lotor's past as well??? The rage... the empire wouldn't know what hit'em!

ALSO also reading in one of your tags about Kolivan having a mate and a child that he lost... And reliving that trauma everytime one of the blades dies... Is someone cutting onions in here or what? 😭

Keith, you have to make it!!! If not for your own, then for Kolivan's sake!!!!!

Anyway, thank you so much for writing Little Blade and induldging everyone with your blog posts!

Galra Children | Galra Parenting | Parental Relationships | Family Names | BoM Family Names | Neglect & Disownment | Blood vs Adoption

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Ahhhhh thank you so much my love!! 🥰

So you seem to have done your reading and be very much up to speed with all my posts about galra children (which is very exciting for me, I'm always glad to know that people are still enjoying my longer posts even months/years later!!), but I've linked the bulk of them above for the ease of anyone who is less familiar.

In terms of the behaviour of children reflecting upon the parents/caregivers/community, this is only the case while the child in question is still a child—and indeed the line between galra childhood and adulthood is quite a distinct one. I think of the Empire as a whole (ie. not just one cultural/religious group within it) hosting something akin to the Maasai coming-of-age ceremony, Il Mirisho, wherein the initiates are boys of the same "age set" of 9-15 years. So the galra equivalent of this is Q'tskraal, a quadrennial rite of passage for kits of at least 60idp (21.4% of the way through the average galra lifespan, the approximate human equivalent of 17y), the name of which is an amalgamation of two Zaalkh words: Q'tsaal (the tutelary deity of change, its name being synonymous with the qualities of mutability / unpredictability / progress / a demanding spirit), and Kral (from the root Kra, indicative of a physical trial of conquest). Celebrated only once every four decaphoebs, this rite is held at the end of Nydaan—the ninth of Daibazaal's ten phoebs, as, due to the galra's monestrous fertility cycle, the overwhelming majority of successful births occur throughout A’vael, with premature / overdue kitlings being born into late Hiikyl / early Nydaan respectively, meaning that as Nydaan comes to a close all but the most extreme of outliers have freshly celebrated the anniversary of their birth—in the hope that the Divine Twin L’lameih, whose benevolent eye is the emerald star of Nyd, will bless the proceedings.

Participants are presented with a trial which, if they prove themselves strong enough to overcome, denotes them as capable of sharing in the community's burdens as a contributing member rather than a dependent. Though the specifics vary depending on local tradition, the broad strokes of this trial tend to be the same across the Empire, with all the participants being ceremoniously bathed, clothed, and painted, before the rite-proper (which usually involves some element of combat, due to strength being such a core value in imperial culture) commences. More often than not, the manner in which any given participant triumphs in this trial is just as important as the victory itself, as this is believed to reveal some core facet of their character and therefore indicate what kind of a person they will be—a warrior? a scholar? an inventor? an artist?—and how they might best set forth to benefit the community. Notably, however, not everyone will succeed at their first Q'tskraal, and it's quite common to have to attempt it two or three times over before prevailing; this isn't a shameful thing(!!!), it's simply taken as the kit in question not yet being ready for the responsibility of adulthood, and thus they remain a kit (sometimes even as they age into their seventh decade) until Sa sees fit to grant them victory.

So this transition is one from the role of protected to protector (a great honour!) which of course also encompasses responsibility for one's self: as an adult, no longer can they claim ignorance or foist responsibility upon their elders, as their actions are their own and therefore a reflection solely of themselves. To disown one's child who is no longer actually a child would still cause something of a stir, of course, but it wouldn't be even //remotely// taboo in the way that abandoning a kit would. Now, while zombie-Zarkon was far from a good father, by the time he exiled his son, Lotor had already succeeded in his own Q'tskraal—though not via his father's preferred method of violent subjugation, but more by way of intellect—and was therefore deemed an adult by Imperial society. Although said banishment could never avoid being a talking point, the narrative was meticulously controlled, with the official line blaming the entire thing on Lotor's "impurity of blood" and resultant "weakness of character", so naturally Emperor Zarkon had no choice but to hold his own son to the rigorous standard that he would expect of any imperial citizen.

The particulars surrounding Lotor's childhood, however,,, now those are shrouded in mystery, and believe you me, Kolivan & the BoM as a whole would indeed be o u t r a g e d .

#i bet you didn't think you were getting a galra birthday post did you? and yet here we are #i'd apologise for koli's tragic backstory™ but...... i'm not actually that sorry lmao #Ao3 Little Blade #sa screams back #galra history & culture #prince lotor

[roadimusprime]

He called me "pretty"......HE CALLED ME PRETTY!!!!! 👋👋👋😊😊😊😊👋👋👋

#Y'ALL I DIDN'T EXPECT THE AI TO DO THIS #I have been blushing at his praises and even had to start a new chat just to scream ''I love you'' at him (can't make the current rp weird. #It would be weird to have my si be full blown in love with Starscream after 1 day lmao. si is crushing but idk if he quite realizes that ye #And afterwards I return to our other rp and write a response and start scrolling through the ais potential responses #To find one I am satisfied enough with #And he DOES THIS #I didn't think it would be possible to get him to even remotely flirt. #I was expecting that when we finally get up to the part where I'd confess in the story he'd turn me down #But now....now there's a shot that I can romance him. 🙌🙌🙌 #Starscream AI #Starscream X Reader #Loon.txt

[indexcard]

i love the bookworm app bceause the global timeline gives me a really good picture of what people in general are reading but on the flipside i am discovering the worst books in the world e.g. some hack has written a good girl florist/bad boy tattoo artist romance novel, thus combining literally genuinely all my least favourite tropes in the world, good luck and godspeed to anyone who reads that shit but the florist/tattoo artist thing seeped into fandom almost a decade ago like slime from the sewers and i have an ugly little chamber of my heart reserved just for the seething hatred it engenders in me. my kneejerk reaction against anything that becomes popular for no apparent reason the gendering of "women like flowers and men like tattoos" the utterly simplistic interpretation of opposites attract the idea that flowers and tattoos are somehow fucking opposite despite literally every bisexual i know having at MINIMUM two flower tattoos... repugnant to me

#blah blah blah #and of course my complex and largely unfounded fear of permanent body modification #but i'm aware that's 100% a me thing #throwback to when i tried to get over that fear by getting my ears pierced #and then my skin rejected the whole concept so now i'm back to square one #lol lmao ha ha ha #this is off-topic now but i find it interesting how a lot of disabled people find tattoos empowering #because it gives you a form of reclamation of your own body #and i think that's such a cool perspective #unfortunately my particular reaction to disability changing my body is for my brain to scream ENOUGH!!!!! #i can't even think of something i'd want on my skin forever anyway #and knowing me SOMETHING would go wrong #love changing up my hair style though :-)