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[solheimisms]

« I don't like your LITTLE GAMES, don't like your TILTED STAGE, the ROLE you made me PLAY of the FOOL. »

「 INDEPENDENT, SEMI-SELECTIVE 」 portrayal of [ miranda natalya lawson ] of the (( mass effect )) series. MULTI-SHIP and MULTI-MUSE FRIENDLY. oc's welcome (semi-selective). alternative verses available (me3 squadmate, post-war).   carrd.  interest tracker.  headcanons.   memes.   plot call.   starter call.  promo.

   DRAFTS: 11   LAST UPDATED: 11/01/23

CURRENT ACTIVITY: low – work is relatively busy. open for plotting, replies will be sporadic. OTHER BLOGS: @virmireisms, @akuzeisms, @furyisms

« I don't like your PERFECT CRIME, how you LAUGH when you LIE, you said the GUN was MINE. »

#important tags below! #promos. ❖﹙ you made a really deep cut ⋄ and baby now we got bad blood. ﹚ #selfpromo. ❖﹙ i'm sorry but the old miri can't come to the phone right now ⋄ why? oh cause she's dead. ﹚ #ic meme. ❖﹙ but if i'm a thief then you can join the heist ⋄ and we'll move to an island. ﹚ #ooc meme. ❖﹙ i forget their names now ⋄ i'm so very tame now. ﹚ #blog updates. ❖﹙ for so long your focus has been taken away ⋄ now you're breaking away. ﹚ #plot call. ❖﹙ i don't trust nobody and nobody trusts me ⋄ i'll be the actress starring in your bad dreams. ﹚ #starter call. ❖﹙ i see nothing better ⋄ i'll keep you forever like a vendetta. ﹚ #headcanon. ❖﹙ i don't trust nobody and nobody trusts me ⋄ i'll be the actress starring in your bad dreams. ﹚

[furyisms]

« it's always ENTERTAINING when you watch them do the DOUBLE-TAKE before realizing it's YOU they're looking for. »

「 INDEPENDENT, SEMI-SELECTIVE 」 original character [alisa marta dubrovsky] of the (( mass effect )) series. MULTI-SHIP and MULTI-MUSE FRIENDLY. oc’s welcome ( semi-selective ). various alternative verses available ( shepard verse, andromeda, squadmate au, post-war--more tba! ).   carrd.   interest tracker.   headcanons.   memes.   plot call.  starter call.   promo.

   DRAFTS: 10   LAST UPDATED: 11/01/23

CURRENT ACTIVITY: low – work is relatively busy. open for plotting, replies will be sporadic. OTHER BLOGS: @virmireisms, @akuzeisms, @solheimisms

« GET UP when your body's SCREAMING OUT, when your HOPE is FADING, when the light is DIMMING DOWN , when your STRENGTH is WANING. »

#promos. ❖﹙ you were a comet and i lost it ⋄ time to spread my wings and fly. ﹚ #important tags below! #ic meme. ❖﹙ can't hate us when we're just who you wanna be ⋄ we're what you made us. ﹚ #ooc meme. ❖﹙ every day a castaway ⋄ a vagabond battle born. ﹚ #headcanon. ❖﹙ you thought you broke us ⋄ don't tell me that you didn't hear. ﹚ #blog updates. ❖﹙ for so long your focus has been taken away ⋄ now you're breaking away. ﹚ #starter call. ❖﹙ i don't know where i'm going ⋄ but i know just where i've been. ﹚ #open starter. ❖﹙ once upon a time i had an open point of view ⋄ but that was just so long ago. ﹚ #visuals. ❖﹙ been knocked out been beat down ⋄ ain’t nothing you can tell us now. ﹚

[mawixtys]

[ID in alt]

what if a man was also a prehistoric fish

#hermitcraft #xbcrafted #every time i try to draw xb chubby all artistic skill i have leaves my body. i swear ill draw him like that some day. its important to me + #please ignore any and all jank anatomy is a suggestion to me <3 #also apologies if the id isnt the best. i fucking eepy + #anyways. tag rambling time. hes a gogo fish! scientific name mcnamaraspis #theyre a prehistoric fish from about 380 million years ago! #we actually know that they had similar anatomy to sharks because we have some of their organs preserved!! which is really fucking cool!!! #soft tissue almost Never fossilizes #they also had chambered hearts below their gills!!!! which is why xb is making the heart with his hands below his throat and not actually- #above his heart #another thing!! the rings of saturn are estimated to be about. between 10 million to 100 million years old #at the very earliest. there were complex chambered hearts before the rings of fucking saturn #and at the very latest. the triassic jurrasic and cretaceous all happened Before saturn had rings #anyways tag ramble over. i just think gogo fish are neat :] #rocky.png

[black-eyed-seas]

Hello! You can call me Sienna (she/her)

I’m a trans girl who’s only slightly obsessive about her interests :P

I like music, martial arts, weightlifting, and videogames.

Currently working on finishing my bachelor’s

Dm’s are open!

(Taken!)

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Sissy/feeder/detransition/misogyny/nazi/terf blogs blocked on sight

Addendum: Probably a lesbian???

Addendum: just to clarify, this is mostly an rb account but i occasionally will yell about hapkido. Not rb’d will be tagged as personal or not rb probably maybe who knows

#deets below the cut #reference tags-> #lmao #fav #cute!! #personal #video #not rb #hellsite lore #read later #quiz #link #important #long post #transition #kibby #kibby! #reminder to self

[wonder-worker]

Queen Margaret (of Anjou) had written to the Common Council in November when the news of the Duke of York's coup was proclaimed. The letter from the queen was published in modernised English by M.A.E. Wood in 1846, and she dated it to February 1461 because of its opening sentence: ‘And whereas the late Duke of N [York]...." However the rest of the letter, and that of the prince, is in the present tense and clearly indicates that the Duke of York is still alive. The reference to the ‘late duke’ is not to his demise but to the attainder of 1459 when he was stripped of his titles as well as of his lands. If the queen’s letter dates to November 1460, and not February 1461, it make perfect sense. Margaret declared the Duke of York had ‘upon an untrue pretense, feigned a title to my lord’s crown’ and in so doing had broken his oath of fealty. She thanked the Londoners for their loyalty in rejecting his claim. She knew of the rumours, that we and my lords sayd sone and owrs shuld newly drawe toward yow with an vnsome [uncounted] powere of strangars, disposed to robbe and to dispoyle yow of yowr goods and havours, we will that ye knowe for certeyne that . . . . [y]e, nor none of yow, shalbe robbed, dispoyled nor wronged by any parson that at that tyme we or owr sayd sone shalbe accompanied with She entrusted the king's person to the care of the citizens ‘so that thrwghe malice of his sayde enemye he be no more trowbled vexed ne jeoparded.’ In other words the queen was well informed in November 1460 of the propaganda in London concerning the threat posed by a Lancastrian military challenge to the illegal Yorkist proceedings. Margaret assured the Common Council that no harm would come to the citizenry or to their property. Because the letter was initially misdated, it has been assumed that the queen wrote it after she realised the harm her marauding troops were doing to her cause, and to lull London into a false sense of security. This is not the case, and it is a typical example of historians accepting without question Margaret’s character as depicted in Yorkist propaganda. Margaret’s letter was a true statement of her intentions but it made no impact at the time and has made none since. How many people heard of it? The Yorkist council under the Earl of Warwick, in collusion with the Common Council of the city, was in an ideal position to suppress any wide dissemination of the letter, or of its content.

... When Margaret joined the Lancastrian lords it is unlikely that she had Scottish troops with her. It is possible that Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke, sent men from Wales but there was no compelling reason why he should, he needed all the forces at his disposal to face Edward Earl of March, now Duke of York following his father’s death at Wakefield, who, in fact, defeated Pembroke at Mortimer’s Cross on 2 February just as the Lancastrian army was marching south. The oft repeated statement that the Lancastrian army was composed of a motley array of Scots, Welsh, other foreigners (French by implication, for it had not been forgotten that René of Anjou, Queen Margaret’s father, had served with the French forces in Nomandy when the English were expelled from the duchy, nor that King Charles VII was her uncle) as well as northern men is based on a single chronicle, the Brief Notes written mainly in Latin in the monastery of Ely, and ending in 1470. It is a compilation of gossip and rumour, some of it wildly inaccurate, but including information not found in any other contemporary source, which accounts for the credence accorded to it. The Dukes of Somerset and Exeter and the Earl of Devon brought men from the south and west. The Earl of Northumberland was not solely reliant on his northern estates; as Lord Poynings he had extensive holdings in the south. The northerners were tenants and retainers of Northumberland, Clifford, Dacre, the Westmorland Nevilles, and Fitzhugh, and accustomed to the discipline of border defence. The continuator of Gregory’s Chronicle, probably our best witness, is emphatic that the second battle of St Albans was won by the ‘howseholde men and feyd men.” Camp followers and auxiliaries of undesirables there undoubtedly were, as there are on the fringes of any army, but the motley rabble the queen is supposed to have loosed on peaceful England owes more to the imagination of Yorkist propagandists than to the actual composition of the Lancastrian army.

... Two differing accounts of the Lancastrian march on London are generally accepted. One is that a large army, moving down the Great North Road, was made up of such disparate and unruly elements that the queen and her commanders were powerless to control it.” Alternatively, Queen Margaret did not wish to curb her army, but encouraged it to ravage all lands south of the Trent, either from sheet spite or because it was the only way she could pay her troops.” Many epithets have been applied to the queen, few of them complimentary, but no one has as yet called her stupid. It would have been an act of crass stupidity wilfully to encourage her forces to loot the very land she was trying to restore to an acceptance of Lancastrian rule, with her son as heir to the throne. On reaching St Albans, so the story goes, the Lancastrian army suddenly became a disciplined force which, by a series of complicated manoeuvres, including a night march and a flank attack, won the second battle of St Albans, even though the Yorkists were commanded by the redoubtable Earl of Warwick. The explanation offered is that the rabble element, loaded down with plunder, had descended before the battle and only the household men remained. Then the rabble reappeared, and London was threatened. To avert a sack of the city the queen decided to withdraw the army, either on her own initiative or urged by the peace-loving King Henry; as it departed it pillaged the Abbey of St Albans, with the king and queen in residence, and retired north, plundering as it went. Nevertheless, it was sufficiently intact a month later to meet and nearly defeat the Yorkist forces at Towton, the bloodiest and hardest fought battle of the civil war thus far. The ‘facts’ as stated make little sense, because they are seen through the distorting glass of Yorkist propaganda.

The ravages allegedly committed by the Lancastrian army are extensively documented in the chronicles, written after the event and under a Yorkist king. They are strong on rhetoric but short on detail. The two accounts most often quoted are by the Croyland Chronicle and Abbott Whethamstede. There is no doubting the note of genuine hysterical fear in both. The inhabitants of the abbey of Crowland were thoroughly frightened by what they believed would happen as the Lancastrians swept south. ‘What do you suppose must have been our fears . . . [w]hen every day rumours of this sad nature were reaching our ears.’ Especially alarming was the threat to church property. The northern men ‘irreverently rushed, in their unbridled and frantic rage into churches . . . [a]nd most nefariously plundered them.’ If anyone resisted ‘they cruelly slaughtered them in the very churches or churchyards.’ People sought shelter for themselves and their goods in the abbey,“ but there is not a single report of refugees seeking succour in the wake of the passage of the army after their homes had been burned and their possessions stolen. The Lancastrians were looting, according to the Crowland Chronicle, on a front thirty miles wide ‘like so many locusts.“ Why, then, did they come within six miles but bypass Crowland? The account as a whole makes it obvious that it was written considerably later than the events it so graphically describes.

The claim that Stamford was subject to a sack from which it did not recover is based on the Tudor antiquary John Leland. His attribution of the damage is speculation; by the time he wrote stories of Lancastrian ravages were well established, but outside living memory. His statement was embellished by the romantic historian Francis Peck in the early eighteenth century. Peck gives a spirited account of Wakefield and the Lancastrian march, influenced by Tudor as well as Yorkist historiography. … As late as 12 February when Warwick moved his troops to St Albans it is claimed that he did not know the whereabouts of the Lancastrians, an odd lack of military intelligence about an army that was supposed to be leaving havoc in its wake. The Lancastrians apparently swerved to the west after passing Royston which has puzzled military historians because they accept that it came down the Great North Road, but on the evidence we have it is impossible to affirm this. If it came from York via Grantham, Leicester, Market Harborough, Northampton and Stony Stratford to Dunstable, where the first engagement took place, there was no necessity to make an inexplicable swerve westwards because its line of march brought it to Dunstable and then to St Albans. The Lancastrians defeated Warwick’s army on 17 February 1461 and Warwick fled the field. In an echo of Wakefield there is a suggestion of treachery. An English Chronicle tells the story of one Thomas Lovelace, a captain of Kent in the Yorkist ranks, who also appears in Waurin. Lovelace, it is claimed, was captured at Wakefield and promised Queen Margaret that he would join Warwick and then betray and desert him, in return for his freedom.

Lt. Colonel Bume, in a rare spirit of chivalry, credits Margaret with the tactical plan that won the victory, although only because it was so unorthodox that it must have been devised by a woman. But there is no evidence that Margaret had any military flair, let alone experience. A more likely candidate is the veteran captain Andrew Trolloppe who served with Warwick when the latter was Captain of Calais, but he refused to fight under the Yorkist banner against his king at Ludford in 1459 when Warwick brought over a contingent of Calais men to defy King Henry in the field. It was Trolloppe’s ‘desertion’ at Ludford, it is claimed, that forced the Yorkists to flee. The most objective and detailed account of the battle of St Albans is by the unknown continuator of Gregory’s Chronicle. The chronicle ends in 1469 and by that time it was safe to criticise Warwick, who was then out of favour. The continuator was a London citizen who may have fought in the Yorkist ranks. He had an interest in military matters and recorded the gathering of the Lancastrian army at Hull, before Wakefield, and the detail that the troops wore the Prince of Wales’ colours and ostrich feathers on their livery together with the insignia of their lords. He had heard the rumours of a large ill-disciplined army, but because he saw only the household men he concluded that the northerners ran away before the battle. Abbot Whethamstede wrote a longer though far less circumstantial account, in which he carefully made no mention of the Earl of Warwick. … Margaret of Anjou had won the battle but she proceeded to lose the war. London lay open to her and she made a fatal political blunder in retreating from St Albans instead of taking possession of the capital.' Although mistaken, her reasons for doing so were cogent. The focus of contemporary accounts is the threat to London from the Lancastrian army. This is repeated in all the standard histories, and even those who credit Margaret with deliberately turning away from London do so for the wrong reasons.

... The uncertainties and delays, as well as the hostility of some citizens, served to reinforce Margaret’s belief that entry to London could be dangerous. It was not what London had to fear from her but what she had to fear from London that made her hesitate. Had she made a show of riding in state into the city with her husband and son in a colourful procession she might have accomplished a Lancastrian restoration, but Margaret had never courted popularity with the Londoners, as Warwick had, and she had kept the court away from the capital for several years in the late 1450s, a move that was naturally resented. Warwick’s propaganda had tarnished her image, associating her irrevocably with the dreaded northern men. There was also the danger that if Warwick and Edward of March reached London with a substantial force she could be trapped inside a hostile city, and she cannot have doubted that once she and Prince Edward were taken prisoner the Lancastrian dynasty would come to an end. Understandably, at the critical moment, Margaret lost her nerve. ... Queen Margaret did not march south in 1461 in order to take possession of London, but to recover the person of the king. She underestimated the importance of the capital to her cause." Although she had attempted to establish the court away from London, the Yorkist lords did not oppose her for taking the government out of the capital, but for excluding them from participation in it. Nevertheless London became the natural and lucrative base for the Yorkists, of which they took full advantage. The author of the Annales was in no doubt that it was Margaret’s failure to enter London that ensured the doom of the Lancastrian dynasty. A view shared, of course, by the continuator of Gregory’s Chronicle, a devoted Londoner:

He that had Londyn for sake Wolde no more to hem take The king, queen and prince had been in residence at the Abbey of St Albans since the Lancastrian victory. Abbot Whethamstede, at his most obscure, conveys a strong impression that St Albans was devastated because the Lancastrian leaders, including Queen Margaret, encouraged plundering south of the Trent in lieu of wages. There must have been some pillaging by an army which had been kept in a state of uncertainty for a week, but whether it was as widespread or as devastating as the good abbot, and later chroniclers, assert is by no means certain. Whethamstede is so admirably obtuse that his rhetoric confuses both the chronology and the facts. So convoluted and uncircumstantial is his account that the eighteenth century historian of the abbey, the Reverend Peter Newcome, was trapped into saying: ‘These followers of the Earl of March were looked on as monsters in barbarity.’ He is echoed by Antonia Gransden who has ‘the conflict between the southemers of Henry’s army and the nonherners of Edward’s. The abbey was not pillaged, but Whethamstede blackened Queen Margaret’s reputation by a vague accusation that she appropriated one of the abbey’s valuable possessions before leaving for the north. This is quite likely, not in a spirit of plunder or avarice, but as a contribution to the Lancastrian war effort, just as she had extorted, or so he later claimed, a loan from the prior of Durham earlier in the year. The majority of the chroniclers content themselves with the laconic statement that the queen and her army withdrew to the north, they are more concerned to record in rapturous detail the reception of Edward IV by ‘his’ people. An English Chronicle, hostile to the last, reports that the Lancastrian army plundered its way north as remorselessly as it had on its journey south. One can only assume that it took a different route. The Lancastrian march ended where it began, in the city of York. Edward of March had himself proclaimed King Edward IV in the capital the queen had abandoned, and advanced north to win the battle of Towton on 29 March. The bid to unseat the government of the Yorkist lords had failed, and that failure brought a new dynasty into being. The Duke of York was dead, but his son was King of England whilst King Henry, Queen Margaret and Prince Edward sought shelter at the Scottish court. The Lancastrian march on London had vindicated its stated purpose, to recover the person of the king so that the crown would not continue to be a pawn in the hands of rebels and traitors, but ultimately it had failed because the Lancastrian leaders, including Queen Margaret, simply did not envisage that Edward of March would have the courage or the capacity to declare himself king. Edward IV had all the attributes that King Henry (and Queen Margaret) lacked: he was young, ruthless, charming, and the best general of his day; and in the end he out-thought as well as out-manoeuvred them.

It cannot be argued that no damage was done by the Lancastrian army. It was mid-winter, when supplies of any kind would have been short, so pillaging, petty theft, and unpaid foraging were inevitable. It kept the field for over a month and, and, as it stayed longest at Dunstable and in the environs of St Albans, both towns suffered from its presence. But the army did not indulge in systematic devastation of the countryside, either on its own account or at the behest of the queen. Nor did it contain contingents of England’s enemies, the Scots and the French, as claimed by Yorkist propaganda. Other armies were on the march that winter: a large Yorkist force moved from London to Towton and back again. There are no records of damage done by it, but equally, it cannot be claimed that there was none.

-B.M Cron, "Margaret of Anjou and the Lancastrian March on London, 1461"

#*The best propaganda narratives always contain an element of truth but it's important to remember that it's never the WHOLE truth #margaret of anjou #15th century #english history #my post #(please ignore my rambling tags below lmao) #imo the bottom line is: they were fighting a war and war is a scourge that is inevitably complicated and messy and unfortunate #arguing that NOTHING happened (on either side but especially the Lancastrians considering they were cut off from London's supplies) #is not a sustainable claim. However: Yorkist propaganda was blatantly propaganda and I wish that it's recognized more than it currently is #also I had *no idea* that her letter seems to have been actually written in 1460! I wish that was discussed more #& I wish Cron's speculation that Margaret may have feared being trapped in a hostile city with an approaching army was discussed more too #tho I don't 100% agree with article's concluding paragraph. 'Edward IV did not ultimately save England from further civil war' he...did??? #the Yorkist-Lancastrian civil war that began in the 1450s ended in 1471 and his 12-year reign after that was by and large peaceful #(tho Cron may he talking about the period in between 61-71? but the civil war was still ongoing; the Lancasters were still at large #and the opposing king and prince were still alive. Edward by himself can hardly be blamed for the civil war continuing lol) #but in any case after 1471 the war WAS believed to have ended for good and he WAS believed to have established a new dynasty #the conflict of 1483 was really not connected to the events of the 1450s-1471. it was an entirely new thing altogether #obviously he shouldn't be viewed as the grand undoubted rightful savior of England the way Yorkist propaganda sought to portray him #(and this goes for ALL other monarchs in English history and history in general) but I don't want to diminish his achievements either #However I definitely agree that the prevalent idea that the Lancasters wouldn't have been able to restore royal authority if they'd won #is very strange. its an alternate future that we can't possibly know the answer to so it's frustrating that people seem to assume the worst #I guess the reasons are probably 1) the Lancasters ultimately lost and it's the winners who write history #(the Ricardians are somehow the exception but they're evidently interested in romantic revisionism rather than actual history so 🤷🏻‍♀️) #and 2) their complicated former reign even before 1454. Ig put together I can see where the skepticism comes from tho I don't really agree #but then again the Yorkists themselves played a huge role in the chaos of the 1450s. if a faction like that was finally out of the way #(which they WOULD be if the Lancasters won in 1461) the Lancastrian dynasty would have been firmly restored and #Henry and Margaret would've probably had more space and time to restore royal authority without direct rival challenges #I'd argue that the Lancasters stood a significantly better chance at restoring & securing their dynasty if they won here rather than 1471 #also once again: the analyses written on Margaret's queenship; her role in the WotR; and the propaganda against her are all phenomenal #and far far superior than the analyses on any other historical woman of that time - so props to her absolutely fantastic historians

[vollerey]

pov adam

no lovely, u didnt meet vincent at wonder world yesterday. it was me. these hips do lie and they lied to you, lovely. shakira shakira fucking dies

IM OSRYRYYR THE REFERNECE IS SO SILLY I LOVE MY BRAIN HEEPEPDODJDLEPEPEJFRJDKDPPL>€~£{€}€£#¥{¥]’nnwban

#redacted audio #redacted asmr #redacted lovely #redacted adam #shakira shakira #LOL #im so silly sorry #god should give lovely a free day #can we get a lovely freelancer and darlin meet up #theyre besties i swear #i love hiding stuff in the tags below it all #if u see these hii :3 #do u think lovely actively enjoys fnaf #and then u try to explain to like idk gavin what fnaf is #and how its so fucking important #yknow #maybe? #am i just a fnaf fan??

[cute-as-buttons]

It's that time of year again!! (Board exams) and I want to remind you guys: just do your best. Your best doesn't have to be your 100%. Know that whatever percentage you end up getting, it isn't reflective of your intelligence, especially if you're in 10th grade, cuz once you come to 11th, the first thing your teachers tell you is to forget your 10th marks and focus on what comes next.

You can do it<3

#Saying this cuz my mum's been reading me some articles abt kids who. Didn't make it #And it makes me rly rly sad because I know so many other kids are struggling under the same expectations I did #And a lot of their parents won't let it go like mine did if they don't succeed #Just know that you're not a failure if you get below a 90 #Far from it #You're doing your best in this wreck of an education system #You're important and you matter #desi tag #icse #cbse #board exams #sara. exe #nta #desi

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: December 5

"Funeral Bell" by Phildel

#song of the day #not gonna lie there's a good chance this song popped in my head earlier just because of the line 'oh brother I long for sleep' #anyway I made a curry today that was so fucking good. it was so good. #I spent a good chunk of the day in the kitchen with my work laptop open (gonna get access to a frankly alarming amount of third-party data! #is it terrifying every time I catch a broadened glimpse of the reality of our surveillance state? oh yeah. ohhhh yeah. big time. #but am I going to let the pervasive anxiety keep me from accessing the data needed to provide context for my 5yr projections? #not a chance! if anybody's gonna benefit from our nation's hideous blatant data-grubbing it'll be me #and every coworker downstream who benefits from my automations) #and our whole house smelled like coconut and ginger and peppers all day it was /lovely/ #anyway I can't do justice to Phildel's incredible crystalline voice on my best day but I like to croon along a million octaves below #and it is a gorgeous song #uhhh I didn't sleep at all! possibly recognizable in the hopskip multiple-'anyway's formatting of this tag ramble. I am Sleepless #but I have curry and also the personal info of over eighty thousand students at universities across the US and isn't that what's important #edit! hahahahahaha everybody laugh at me laugh at my foolishness. it's eight hundred thousand students. I've got the shakes.

[whatinthefuckingninjaturtles]

round 3 / part 1 -- voting information

(original round three information post)

theme: pastries date: july 16th (next sunday) at 1:00 PM MDT*

(other information, including this upcoming rounds' brackets can be found below the cut!)

first off, round three's theme will be: pastries

i don't even particularly like most pastries, and also find them hellish to try and create, so the heat is on!

we'll see if i can come up with something even more painful for round four (/lh)

(if you guys have any ideas as well, feel free to send 'em in!)

second order of business: date and time!

during the preliminaries, one of our creators mentioned that the polls went up while they were otherwise occupied. i knew that i should have got more info out about it beforehand, but i was in a rush so i just ran with it.

for this round, i'm planning on the date/time listed above (july 16th, 1:00 PM MDT). if this is a problem for any creators involved, feel free to shoot us as ask/message me or sun via tumblr (or sun on discord!) and we'll see what we can do.

third: iteration cover images

you may or may not have noticed the change in set-up for the poll image. while i can only do so much about the blur (it vexes me continually), i did put background colors behind the cover art.

if you are a creator and are in this upcoming poll, make sure sun or i have your preferred cover art, but along with that, feel free to send in the hex code of what color you want for your background.

this is by no means a necessary component. if you don't care, i'm happy just making them up. but if you do care, feel free to shoot me or sun a message or ask. @/ing sun or i on the discord will work as well.

(as a side note: if you are in a team, feel free to collaborate on your cover art/background color choices!)

i will only be accepting changes to art/hex codes up until saturday, july 15th. if you're redesigning anything and know you won't have it finished until the day of, please let me know so i can plan accordingly.

finally: the brackets.

(the moment you've all been waiting for...)

poll one: doublestep & sewer punks || @tomatoshapedstars @kettle-bird eon rewind & mirrored mutation || @rubberducky2pointoh @gayemeralds

poll two: ez's turtles || @ezgurple Mystic forest || @bluepeachstudios + @wondrous-art

the winner(s) will head off to round four. the losers will be disgraced from the pastry world... forever (/j /nsrs)

now, an important part of this: ties going forward.

while sun and i have agreed that two-way ties will still be allowed moving forward, three-way or four-way ties are messy and a little unfair. soo, in the event of three-way or four-way tie, a separate elimination round will take place.

if one of these ties occurs, i'll release the information about how it will all go down. for now, i won't make this post any longer than it needs to be.

if you have any questions, feel free to reach out to sun or myself either here or on discord. the ask box, as always, is open.

best of luck to all of our contestants, and we'll see you there!

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#''tldr'' version above the cut. more in-depth + brackets below the cut #the stars indicate other maybe important information that i elaborate on farther in the post #mod ˗ˏˋ ´ˎ˗ #tmnt iteration bakeoff #round 3 / part 1 #long post #i did mean to post this earlier but i think sunday will work better for me than the day i had it planned on before #and i've been busy enough that the break was good for me #however we are back! #tag us send asks etc etc and i'll try and reply when i can

[starsanddragonflies]

Did Jared ghostwrite season 15 or something, why are they talking so much shit about Dean and complimenting Sam every other sentence I-

#For real #they’re CONSTANTLY talking about how ‘mediocre’ or ‘below average’ Dean is and then praising Sam for his luscious hair and giant stature #wtf #I mean this might be the whole discourse thing (I am SO late to the party) painting my view but seriously what is UP #Idk man #spn #supernatural #I don’t really remember my original tags and I don’t need to advertise my rants so I’ll just #not use all of them #it’s just a rant anyway nothing important #oh well #Oh and I am not done with s15 yet #I am on 15x11 I think? So I don’t KNOW EXACTLY how it ends yet #I don’t want any more spoilers dear god #I need to get off of tumblr

[crystallakec]

holy hell i love your art 😭 HOW ARE YOU SO TALENTED omfg

(if not too much to ask: got any art tips IM SORRY I GOTTA KNOW. i gotta know what you do to make your art look like it was made by gods)

*nervous sweating*

#LONG LONG LONG TAGS BELOW BE CAREFUL BECAUSE I GOT EMOTIONAL #OH MY GOD HOW COME I DIDNT SEE THIS EARLIER #dsaudhuisadh tysm anon!!!T_TT waaah this means a lot #for any art tips...well since me myself is totally an amateur so I cant really give out any cool useful advice #but one thing that came to me earlier this year that is kinda important #is to absolutely. draw for yourself. do whatever makes you happy. trust me just try to snatch back that vibe you have in your cringest year #if you like oc x canon do it!!!oh you like this cringy little character ??draw them one million times!!! #I think after I kinda made some progress after I realized this. It's still ok to care about numbers and get sad or jealous or anything. #I understand that. but try whatever makes you happy..!! #just so you know I basically started learning anatomy(or adults etc)from end of last year. I was always a cartoon/chibi artist before that #Ive always wanted to draw adults/muscle/anything other than chibis but i was so afraid that ppl will laugh at me if I did it too terrible #then I realized...who cares..!! I'll do it anyway because that's what ive been!!thinking of for so long!!it will makes me happy idc!! #and here we are ^_^^ yayyyyy!!!still bad at it but you see at least i have the courage to post my works!! #sorry for saying so much I just hope ppl who had the same troubles like I do to be happu T_TT draw for yourself #dont stress yourself out!!

[g4rchomp]

my tags have been screenshotted on a popular post it is making me so uncomfortable lol why am I here I feel like a groundhog being used to determine the weather pls put me back in my burrow

#I haven't received any attention/activity from it thankfully lol #I am very verry happy with having below 60 followers #also the tags aren't anything important lol it's about that book in a bathtub it's just for fun but idk it makes me feel weird 😭 #I don't really mind it's just funny and kinda weird

[variousqueerthings]

#bella ramsey #tlou #the last of us #spoilers in below tags: #it's odd that this article doesnt mention the second game when it talks about the character being a lesbian #it mentions a dlc but not the sequel in which her lesbianism + relationship with a woman are very very important to the plot #HOWEVER as for the rest of it yay! #(pinknews did take the line that the sequel was transphobic which was... ehhhhh playing right into transphobes not wanting #people to play the game) #anyway!!!! wish all love and luck to them

[ar-knightinsourarmor]

I haven't screamed enough on this blog on how much I love Shoto's and Iida's friendship, but hell, these two can easily turn to my OTP.

#( spoilers below the cut. ) #( i wonder what they are saying. ) #— ooc | moonstuff of zero (0) importance #— (tag tba) iida tenya. #— todoroki shoto | clothe yourself in beauty untold and see life as a means to a triumph #— (tag tba) bnha. #— spoilers (bnha). #— spoilers. #— (tag tba) shoto & tenya.

[strwbrymlkshake]

I wanna post about my recovery + ramble in tags at the same time but I'm not motivated enough to come up with a mediocre yandere post rn , so just know that my life is going?? Somewhat good in terms of romance

#mine #💿 #i can only ramble in tags. posts feel too official im shy</3 i feel like tags are less likely to show up on search engines as well... #just forever paranoid about the blog being discovered you know how it goes. personal stuff (proceeds to post it online) #in the general scheme of things im doing alright. tho im currently obsessed with a game instead of a man so idk if that counts #feels like im just waiting for an important event to happen. like ill have a great life changing thing but rn im just in limbo. waiting! #i dont mind it because i take joy in the small things in my day to day life but i feel like i should be doing bigger things. doing more #hell. BEING more. theres lots of cookie cutter paths i could take but none of them fit the mould im making yk. its boring. #on one hand im proud of myself for being able to stay focused on my interests instead of wasting time on a guy who doesnt care abt me #like i still am doing that a Little Bit but its not as detrimental to my daily life as it used to be. like its fine now #on the topic of.. him. we dont really talk much but i feel theres sort of a weird air between us now and he could tell i was in the yanzone #im not too broken up about it because i repeatedly told myself this would happen n i knew it would but everythings okay as it is rn #i still do admire him but not as intensely. the moment he stops hinting at even the possibility he could be interested my attention drops #i want to be everything but at the same time i want to be nothing. i want to be god and the earth and the sun and death and disease. #im working up to being perfect but at the same time i know no such thing exists so meanwhile im just. working up. to SOMETHING #i want everyday of my life to be an adventure. at the same time im much too tired for that. guess thats why i stick with emotional trifles #im not in love with him or anything. its the same as everyone else. like various dials in a lab that i have to keep below 50 #or else bad things will happen. like a scientist with anxiety. its like i be insane for a little while and the dial goes down #but any others could easily skyrocket because i find little things i adore about one person and latch onto them!!! like art #i feel im the most socially acptble level of yandere out of them all rn. in insanity specifically tho. in othr aspects im still weird #the power of autism is condemning me from learning proper social skills but by god i am TRYING my hardest n learning new things #i sit around waiting but atleast im building skills while doing it. part of what life is about i guess! #you come for the yandere content and then i just post philosophical rants. a tragedy most awful to those who can relate #but im okay with it as long as these strange lengthy rambles help me recover better!! no problem at all. one day i will be better #tl;dr i havent found love yet but im not miserable either. trying to improve myself through numerous mental quarrels n experience

[last-laments]

Nobody asked for this but I’m posting it anyways this is how I feel abt enstars and I will take no criticism thank u

#enstars #michael talks #no way am i putting this in any other main tags #finep dni #RIP KAORU I JUST REALIZED I PUT HIM SO FAR BELOW THE REST OF UNDEAD #nothing personal king just not a fan of the trope #i added madonee myself btw #shes very important to me #i will take questions also #as long as ur not rude :gun: