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waitmyturtles · 9 months

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Let's do this! I'm so sad this lovely show is over, despite its structural flaws. But I was with the story from beginning to end. Be My Favorite, episode 12/finale!

Before I get into my FEELINGS, of which I have a lot, I want to note that I think I misread the timelines in episode 12, of which @lurkingshan in DMs (and here's her fabulous wrap-up post!) and @grapejuicegay in her meta (thanks for the tag!) both corrected me. During episode 12, I assumed that the intimacy of episode 10 was actually with future Pisaeng. I stand corrected: that future Pisaeng goes back to the future AFTER the conversation with Kawi in the amusement park. That future Pisaeng is left assured by past Kawi that future Pisaeng can't change what might happen that can't be changed. And that life should ultimately be lived with intention in the moment, and not with a design in mind to change anything that CAN be changed.

Okay, now that that confusion is out of the way (HA!), what did I take from this episode?

First, regarding my confusion (ha), I think the narrative structure depending on the jumping of the timelines ended exactly where it needed to end -- right at the edge of it getting confusing enough for an old mom like me to start forgetting all of them, ha. Unfortunately, I always have to take away a couple points from any show where me and the clowns are left to try to piece together a narrative after an episode is over -- my biggest demand of any show is that the story needs to be told convincingly enough, even if there's mystery, for us to end at least not confused, if not satisfied. But it's a small gripe, because by way of the previous philosophical references -- we kinda knew it was going to get confusing anyway. I appreciated that we left the jumping forwards and backwards behind in the end, that the ability to do so had expired. Honestly, though -- I think it also added a lot of intrigue and movement to the plot.

Leaving structure behind: after ALLLLLLLLLLLL of the references to SO MUCH throughout this show -- the philosophical references, @telomeke's INCREDIBLE post on Buddhist and other Thai cultural references, and so, SO much more -- what I LOVED about this episode was its utterly stripped-down approach, going back to a straightforward narrative after everything we learned about the past and the future. That what we were left with was dialogue and contemplative silence as Pisaeng and Kawi discussed HOW they would live their future, driving with the top down, and enjoying the breeze together.

These were such gorgeous metaphors for what would ultimately bring them both happiness and meaning in life -- that overthinking these things, that designing better futures for themselves with whatever powers they could muster, would ultimately not lead to ENTIRELY perfect outcomes for the both of them. That instead, a life that's well lived is one that can withstand outcomes that you may not predict. AND: despite your best intentions to change things that you THINK may not work.... they may end up working, after all. Kawi lives.

@telomeke: this entire episode may have been one big commentary on the biggest Buddhist philosophy of all -- that of enlightenment. I think Kawi emanated this the best during the conversation at the theme park. I love how Shan referenced @shortpplfedup's commentary on the Serenity Prayer, because I think that's part of what we got here. That ultimately -- we need to let go of control, of the tangibility of our existence, and focus on just living and loving, in order to find true happiness/satisfaction/fulfillment.

In the face of my gentle criticisms about the structural flaws of the show, what I'm left with here is satisfaction, emotionally, for Kawi and Pisaeng. I'm thrilled for where they ended up. I loved every minute of it -- I loved their contemplative happiness in the end.

But, this is me, right, LOL, and I'll posit one last clown theory. While we're talking about enlightenment and letting life live: we still have Max wearing a Pride pin at a wedding. We have Kawi and Pisaeng talking about getting married without legally being able to. We had discussion previously in the show that Pisaeng could move out of Thailand to get married and live a happy family life. He doesn't want to leave Thailand.

The back and forth of past to future, of communication improving over time, of lessons learned, of pushing forward in a path: if I'm to look at that from a political lens, I want to say that there's a lesson that BMF is offering, that we can LEARN from the past in order to live a better future. Again, after all the philosophical references -- I believe that what we're left with is a message of hope and optimism that things will change, over the course of its own time, that life will improve for every single person if we have the patience. (I always remind folks that it took DECADES of work to legalize gay marriage in America -- DECADES.)

Maybe the lessons of Kawi's illness, maybe even his dad's illness, not only serve to tell us that we can't change EVERYTHING, to EXACTLY the way that we want it, at the moment we are living. But if we want a life that is at least IMPROVED -- with intentionality, and with PATIENCE -- we can live that and do that, if we can trust and feel that our decisions will lead to some kind of betterment in the future. We know that future Max hasn't stopped working for equality. I think the lesson in this last episode is that we all shouldn't stop working towards that equality goal, despite the obstacles that all of us -- queer family and allies alike -- will face in our work.

Y'all: I AM SO GLAD I PICKED UP THIS SHOW. I recanted on Krist, I am TOTALLY IMPRESSED, WHAT?!, with Gawin -- this show was FABULOUS, and I loved every minute of it. Will GMMTV bring back GawinKrist? I'm going to guess not, but I appreciate the both of them biting the BL bullet and focusing on a show that had so many phenomenal themes to chew on. This was a great one, and it's going on my high recommendation list.

[I ALSO LOVED TALKING TO THE BMF FAM -- HEARTS TO ALL! @dribs-and-drabbles, @grapejuicegay, @lurkingshan, @bengiyo, @pandasmagorica, @twig-tea, @he-is-lightning-in-a-bottle (OOOOH, HEIDEGGER, GO OFF, I LOVE THIS!), @thegalwhorants, @rocketturtle4 -- I loved reading and being tagged in your meta! Will we assemble again for Only Friends?!]

#be my favorite #be my favourite #be my favorite meta #be my favourite meta #kawi x pisaeng #pisaeng x kawi #kristgawin #gawinkrist #krist perawat #gawin caskey

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laurzzz · 5 months

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FAQ

RULES FOR SENDING ASKS

No explicit NSFW. No heavy venting. No asking incredibly personal questions. I'm a "faceless" artist for a reason. No hate or rude comments towards myself as an artist and as a person as well as towards other people. I genuinely don't care if you think X is better than what I do, or what I do is better than X. It's not a compliment, don't bring other people down for the sake of wanting to say "nice things", please. Not going to mention way more extreme cases because they'd probably not be interacting with my blog if they read my DNIs list.

REPOSTS AND USAGE OF MY WORKS

NO REPOSTS but if you're using my art as pfp or a banner or something of the likes, ask me or not as long as there's proper credit then you're good! (Linking any of my active platforms in my carrd portfolio). You can also e-mail me (linked in my portfolio as well in pinned post) for other permissions you wish to ask for such as dubbing my works or adding them to compilations, etc.

ART REQUESTS

I don't do them UNLESS I feel like it AND make a post about asking for ideas on any art requests y'all may have that I can draw when I feel like it.

PROGRAMS

I use Clip Studio Paint EX to draw and sometimes animate on. My usual animation program is Toon Boom Harmony. And I write on Notion. I also edit with Capcut, Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Audition. My usual editing program is Capcut though.

UNANSWERED ASKS AND DMS

DMs have been closed because of xxx-bots and because getting DMs overwhelms me. If I ended up not answering your ask, it's most likely either I thought I answered them in my brain but forgot to actually answer them physically or you didn't read the rules. Every time I forget to answer asks, I feel a bit embarrassed to go back on them when a couple of time has passed by so they end up staying unanswered for the most part... I'm sorry! Sometimes I just genuinely don't know what to answer so I end up not responding and/or I wanted to keep your ask in my ask box for saving purposes.

FANART

I don't understand why people always ask me permission to make fanart for me, genuinely. And I don't mean it in a mean way, I mean it in a "You're asking me... If you're allowed to not only express that you like my works through making a work of your own but also to put in the time and effort to do so... You're asking me if it's okay? When I should be the one worrying a bit about that because I would want to compensate for those fanart if I had all the money in the world." Short answer, fuck yes. And please tag me, I always want to see them so I can save them. Unless they're NSFW then uhhh, no, no thank you... Enjoy doing that I guess, but respectfully, don't ever show me lmao.

TIMEZONE

I'm always mostly online when people of Tumblr are asleep, vice versa, because my timezone is GMT+8. I'm Asian.

NSFW CONTENT

I only go as far as suggestive/spicy jokes, poses, touching, heavy swearing, and maybe gore every now and then. I don't do explicitly NSFW works, despite being an adult and having the freedom to do that.

YOUTUBE

Yes. Yes, I'm also on YouTube. Yes I'm aware that I have a decent amount of following there and would probably get side-eye comments if people from YouTube see my simpish shit here on Tumblr. Do I care? Nah. Cringe culture is dead to me, I do what I want. 👍

THANKS FOR READING, HAVE SOME FLOWERS! 💐

#i just. i think it'd be better to have this instead of clogging up pinned so much lol #i might add on to this in the future but for now im pretty content #important post #long post

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try-set-me-on-fire · 9 months

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Tagged by @rewritetheending @forthewolves and @devirnis for fuck it Friday! Here's a Buck and Natalia date from the season 7 fight fic. This is after the first big Buck and Eddie argument and I want to make them like actually really like each other so it sucks when Eddie shows up at Buck's place after this like "I thought about what you said and I think I am in love with you so I broke up with Marisol" and Buck has to be like jesus christ why, why would you do that, why now, we were both happy...

He meets Natalia at a new coffee place. They’ve tried a new one every time, a joking promise to try every coffee joint in LA that makes him feel secretly giddy with the length of shared time it implies. They both get the same lavender latte, but try each other’s anyway, and he kisses her laugh about it right off her lips. There’s a movie theater nearby, in a sort of dingy old building that Buck very quietly and mostly jokingly points out fire code violations in, that plays old movies all day long. It’s October, so they’re doing a Friday the 13th marathon. Buck is unsure of his opinion on scary movies. As Chimney never lets him forget, he’s not particularly well versed in any pop culture, the Buckley household not much one for casual movie nights, and horror certainly would not have been approved of. “What if I get scared?” He asks, another mostly joke. “I’ll protect you,” she smiles, big and fond. “I’ll even let you hold my hand,” she whispers, like its a secret, like they aren’t already doing so. They get there just before Jason Takes Manhattan is due to start, and they’re almost the only people in the theater, the other patrons a couple of kids who sit close to the screen and are probably skipping school to be here. As soon as there's a dog on screen Buck makes wide frightened eyes at Nat until she makes her phone all the way dim to look up if it makes it through the movie okay. “Dog’s fine, don’t worry,” she whispers, “I am so curious to see how this one thing is going to happen, though…” “What thing?” “Nuh uh,” she laughs at him trying to read over her shoulder, leaning away and turning her phone. “You don’t like spoilers, just wait and see.” Throughout the movie she occasionally goes “Ohh, this is how- oh wait, guess not…” or “This time, surely…Hm, no…” and the increasingly delightful mystery makes him forget to think about being scared at all. Finally, when they’ve trapped Jason in the New York sewers which, apparently, get flooded with toxic waste every night and he starts barfing up the nasty water she gasps, pointing at the screen. “There it is! It said he was going to throw up after toxic sludge gets on him!” Buck laughs hard enough that the teens look back at them. “I can see why you got faked out so many times,” he gets out between giggles. “There were a lot of barrels of sludge in this movie!” “There really were!” They walk out still giggling, hand in hand, jostling together, and his body is comfortable with hers in a way that usually takes longer to find. The only other person he thinks he’s found his footing so fast with is- Ah, and he was doing so good at not thinking about it.

Tagging @shortsighted-owl @burins @thewolvesof1998 @buckactuallys @butchdiaz @alyxmastershipper

#tag games #fuck it friday #sorry buck youre going to get dumped by this woman #he tells her eddie confessed his undying love because he doesn't want to repeat the taylor lucy situation #and she asks if he loves him back and like. hes not going to start lying now #buck just thinks it would have been fucking convenient if eddie had come to this realization when they were both single and flirting with #each other for a year!!!

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railingsofsorrow · 5 months

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𝙾𝙲𝚃. 23rd; 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍 𝖑𝖔𝖛𝖊, 𝖘𝖕𝖊𝖓𝖈𝖊𝖗.

summary: spencer's letter.

pairing: spencer reid x oc!iris valentia

w.c: 374

warnings/content: mentions of headaches and medical procedures; description of irrational fears; fluff.

a/n: we're approaching the last letter... 👀

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[letter 1] [letter 2] [letter 3] [letter 4] [letter 5] [letter 6] [letter 7] [letter 8] [letter 9]

October 23rd.

Dear, Iris.

Yes, I went in for an MRI. It's “nothing”, according to them. The doctors can't see the reason behind my headaches besides, well, stress from work. It's more than that, I know it is. I guess I'll just have to keep trying other resources. You don't need to worry about me, Iris. I'll be fine.

I fear a lot of things. But fears are common for everyone, at least 20% of us experience some fear at some point of our lives, that includes specific phobias. Uh, I don't like dolls. You know, those human-like dolls? I'm not particularly fond of them. And, well. I'm also terrified of forgetting things. Losing my memories. That's pretty much it. My fears. What are yours? If you have any.

I had not heard about this TV show. But yes, I see why you're not fond of it. My friends also threaten me to watch pop culture stuff and go out more. It is a torture. But I seldom enjoy it.

Maybe your student is sick? The flu can last 4 to 7 days and some symptoms don't go away quickly if the person doesn't take the rightful prevention measures. Okay, send me the recipe. I've never baked cupcakes before, but I'll do my best. I'll take it as a challenge. I definitely can make you believe in magic. I'm a very persuasive person, Dr. Valencia!

I forgot to mention: I've read The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and I have to tell you that I quite enjoyed it. It is not my usual genre choice, but I'd read more of Murakami's works. Do you have any other recommendations?

I'm always careful :) I hope you are, too. And my best wishes to your student. I hope he's okay.

Yes, that was supposed to be a "<3". Sorry.

With love,

Spencer.

━━━━━━━━━━━━

taglist: @lilyviolets ; @chayceschultz; @cultish-corner

#sun-bleached paper petals #spencer reid x original female character #spencer reid x oc #sun-bleached paper petals fic #criminal minds fanfiction #spencer reid fanfic

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rigil-kentauris · 1 month

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URIANGER: 2,4, 7 OR 8 (whichever you prefer), 15-16-OR-17 (again, preference), 20, 23

RUBS MY GREEDY LITTLE HANDS TOGETHER HELL YEAH

urianger my beloved

okay let me go dig up my questions

2. Favorite canon thing about this character?

I LOVE HIS THEE AND THOU-ING. I especially love the fact that. There's no reasons like culturally for him to be like this, most sharlayans talk normally, if not a touch more formally. he made himself like this. i adore it.

i forget here it is (if its an npc who says it or if its a lorebook thing) but i like the part where the lore says hes Like This because of all those damn prophecy tomes he was on as a little kid. so i just imagine tiny little urianger looking at Ye Old Prophies and COMMITTING. he is precious to me

Small thing: I also love his stupid two sets of goggles when in his Potato Sack era.

4. If you could put this character in any other media, be it a book, a movie, anything, what would you put them in?

hmm... i feel like if i just sent him off on his own, he would wilt a bit. i would want to put him in something that gave him a fun, relaxing time, and think if thats to be accomplished I would have to send some of his People with him. he's been alone an awful lot and i see those as times that have also been or ended Bad. i think that might be something he dwells on.

OH I KNOW. okay weird one. but. BUT. hear me out. i would send him to Roller Coaster Tycoon. I know that's just technically just like a theme park but when i build them they are the BEST POSSIBLE THEME PARKS IN THE WORLD. if he could bring than, ryne, and gaia along, i just know he'd be really fulfilled by having a Fun Family Trip. i kind of see him as the guy who happily holds the bags and waits at the end of the ride. and i KNOW gaias got bags. also i feel like he is taking pictures and making the kids wear silly Park Gear. they go to some of the slow like Sitting and or Show type rides for him.

also if he was in RCT i could pick him up and Dangle him. not like malevolently but with the same emotion as I would have if I was Rotating Him

also also i have. forgotten everything ive ever read played or watched so im sure i have a better answer rolling around in there but alas.

7/8. What’s something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you like/despise?

I don't actually know much about the fandom takes on Urianger. Most of what I see is people analyzing his actions w/ The Warriors of Darkness and in Shadowbringers, and I haven't seen it be unfair yet. I think, though, I am not deep in the Fandom.

OH you know what I do hate. Every now and again people will mishear a bit about 1.0, and start popping off about how ~~~~~~secretly~~~~ Urianger is ACTUALLY a millennial old WISE and SCHEMING IMMORTAL WIZARD~~~~~~. I cannot blame anyone for thinking that, but it drives me off the wall. hes a 29 year old weird PhD haver who went around at aetherytes and chanting his insane End Of The World prophecies, he wears EITHER potato sack OR a backless dress and the only thing he knows how to do other than is eat hot chip be bisexual and tell the most insane lies possible. actually come to think of it i feel like HE was the one who started the insane lie ' is ACTUALLY a millennial old WISE and SCHEMING IMMORTAL WIZARD' so. either that or it was a general team effort. im getting into the weeds here so i digress.

urianger is so weird. i love him.

15. What’s your favorite ship for this character? (Doesn’t matter if it’s canon or not.)

I'm on that Urianger/Than ship if the bit about the theme park didn't give me away lol. I also like Uri/Moen but if I had to pick one it would be Uri/Than. Uri/Moen makes me sad to think about...

16/17. What’s your least favorite ship for this character?

Lol I havehit up the archive for this one. I'm genuinely not sure what the most popular ships are for Uri outside of Thancred. My guess is Uri/WoL, then Moen. But lets see.

lmao i opened the ffxiv tag and the first fic is an Uri/Than fic ive been reading which YIPPE! its updated!

okay im back its all than/uri and some uri/WoL. there are other ships but i got to the point where there were so few it would feel like kicking a life-raft to mention them.

20. Which other character is the ideal best friend for this character, the amount of screentime they share doesn’t matter?

I thought about this long and hard. I went at it from every logical angle. I took apart his characteristics, history, things he's done and to who. Interests, likes dislikes. I thought HARD.

I could NOT shake my immediate and initial thought of Estinien. I haven't got a stick to shake at my pile of evidence I just feel this in my heart.

I guess I was very impacted by uh... when was it. The Scions were in the Rising Stones, and Uri was mentioning he was going to get some books or something to try and share with Estinien to get to know him. It was the most endearing shit I have ever seen and it cut me to the bone. I think probably that attempt did not work but I do not care. GO FOR IT URIANGER! i also, i suppose, wonder how many friends Uri has every actively tried to make himself. like in childhood it seemed more like moenbryda Selected him, and that not many other kids liked him. his complicated history with the scions is complicated, but i think obviously he has to put in active effort to maintain those relationships (ESPECIALLY SINCE HE LOVE HOT CHIP LIES), but a lot of his character development w/ the scions seems more akin to 'hey this is the guy on our team we've known each other for like a decade so we are friends now' and less akin to 'hi my name is urianger can i show you some cool books'

its just intriguing to me why he did that. i hope so much it works out.

also come to think of it i dont know how many friends ESTINIEN have sought out of his own volition. he actively avoids aymeric half the time. orn kahi appears to have also gone the moenbryda route of Mine Now. tataru and krile had to actively hunt and Blackmail him into the scions. certainly i would call him friends with us now, and he cares a lot about alphinaud, but as far as Who Reached Out To Who, i think he is actually in the same boat as uri. huh.

vrtra, i think, is it. though i haven't had enough review time to say who lead that one.

now i want to see uri and estinien sitting silently in a room doing their own separate silent tasks (uri is reading a Tome, estinien is Caring For Weapons) SPECIFICALLY so i can caption it 'tag two blokes who do fuck all'. maybe its alisaie sneaking a bad blurry picture over her shoulder with her front camera and sending it to alphinaud.

23. Favorite picture of this character?

oh man i dont know. theres so much good ingame content and there SO MUCH GOOD ART and i do not have ANY of it tagged by character. let me go look.

OH NO I KNOW this is my favorite image of urianger of all time i want to cry every time i look at it. the fucking. expressions. i cant possibly describe in words how MUCH i feel when viewing this image. im going to pop.

#tag games #if my room was cleaner and i had a proper place to Display it i would get a print #the quantity of emotions #overwhelming #asks #ffxiv #endwalker spoilers

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redneaththedogwood · 3 months

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Introduction

Hi! Call me Red.

I am a queer young adult artist with a passion for making stories! My pronouns are he/they/it.

Red 'Neath the Dogwood is a feline centric xenofiction world building project that is inspired by the blogs @/barrenclan, @/bonefall, @/trinitywc, and @/cathedralcomic, as well as published works such as Warrior Cats, Ratha's Creature, Guardians of Ga'Hoole, and Watership Down. Other influences may show through, particularly the horror aspects present in media such as The Magnus Archives and Old Gods of Appalachia.

My goal with R'NtD is to create compelling groups with their own religious beliefs, food cultures, and a unifying language. The overarching story has not been decided yet, and while I flesh that out I will focus on characterizing the groups and who resides in them, along with creating unique roles and government systems for each.

This blog is a passion project and it is mostly just me working on it, with language help from my good friend @elkpaws.

Things To Know

Red 'Neath the Dogwood will not be a project for children and will include serious discussion of topics ranging from mental health, cultism, oppressive structures, and more. If these topics upset you, that is absolutely okay! This project will likely not be for you.

You are not bothering me with like spam or reblog spam! I appreciate the love and engagement :)

I ADORE seeing people talk and reply in tags and replies, it makes my day!!

I love asks! I will read them all!!! I might not get to all of them if I ever get super popular, but as a smaller work I will do my best to answer.

Please do not ping me on other people's work. It feels very rude!

The main theme I want to portray with Red 'Neath the Dogwood is generational differences, finding one's sense of self, and what drives people to fall into fascist ideas. GROWTH, CHANGE, and PROGRESS, for better or worse.

This will likely be a story that follows many characters and will grow to reflect that, with different "arcs" and offshoot tales about characters within the three groups present. I will do my best to tag for organization's sake, but be warned that I am forgetful and might lose posts.

I will also try to remember to tag for triggering or otherwise upsetting subject matter, but if I miss something send me an ask and I'll take care of it as best I can.

Closing Thoughts

For now I believe this covers everything I can think of, and as this project grows I will likely rewrite this pinned post to reflect those changes. In future I hope to have several original tags set up for this blog, including things specific to food, culture, and character posts.

Thank you for taking the time to read this! I hope I can make this blog worthwhile.

Ask Status: Open

#Red 'Neath the Dogwood #Original Xenofiction #Introductory Post #R'NtD #World Building Project #I'm not sure if I should tag this as warrior cats because it's not a WC project but. idk #I'm nervous!!!#R'NtD Character Tag #Steeple's Point Church #The HarborKin #The Union of Feline Colliers #R'NtD Fanworks Tag #R'NtD Asks Tag #Red Caterwauls

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inconsistentcharacterizationcomp · 11 months

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Bruce Wayne: Inconsistently Characterized?

Submissions propaganda will be here. Feel free to reblog or reply to this post with additional inconsistency in characterization, or to refute it!

See #Bruce Wayne Propaganda as a tag.

Inconsistent characterisation has been a part of his character since they started making superheroes Dark and Gritty™️ way back when. They forget that he just wants to save people :,). I guess the constant changeover of writers also has something to do with it.

Where do I even start he's so edgy nowadays he's turned into like the straight male power fantasy they all forget about the kindness at the core of his character

Usually he's a paragon of justice! Sometimes authors make him hit his kids! Sometimes authors stop him from having emotions!

Batman’s ethos is largely that he genuinely cares about people, believes life is sacred, & hates guns. He’s jaded & gloomy but still he doesn’t kill because he thinks taking a life is abhorrent & he wants people to have the chance to be their best self. Except sometimes he’s depicted as a murderer. Sometimes he will then have guns. He’s either a great father, an okay father, or an abusive monster. He is best friends with Superman & Diana. Except sometimes they all want to murder each other. Alpha chads have him as a ‘sigma male, alpha male’ model. Folks who grew up watching the Batman animated show in the 90s often see him as a father figure. He’s autistic or autistic coded one moment then smooth & totally in control the next. In one rendition he is a bleeding heart who will do anything to protect a child but turn around & then he is making his new kidnapped child live off bats. He has panic attacks in comics constantly but will also then be seen as this smooth gigachad the next. He’s been around so long & has been such a cultural touch stone & written & rewritten in so many different depictions it’s incredibly hard to even give his original origins. In one depiction he went to a boarding school run by a man who sold his soul to satan. In another he had a childhood friend who was kidnapped & came back to murder his girlfriend. In one depiction he was haunted by a ghost of a girl. In others he has an evil older brother. Alfred is abusive in some & loving in the next. Sometimes his dad was abusive others he was not. Literally every possible combination has been thrown around.

#propaganda #character intro #bruce wayne propaganda #bruce wayne #batman #dc

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blueberry-lemon · 5 months

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What I Did In 2023

Ever since finishing school in 2017, I've always had a hard time feeling like I've "accomplished anything" in a given year. The months all blur together, and it's crazy how quickly I will forget something that happened or something I did.

To help myself with this, I wrote up a post last year of What I Did In 2022, which honestly felt good. So I figured I'd try again.

Sorry if you find these kinds of posts obnoxious. Hidden under the Read More just in case you do!

A few things I accomplished in 2023:

I wrote some stuff

I wrote Chapters 3 and 4 of Soul Symphony: Abandoned Encore. This is a sequel to a webcomic called Soul Symphony that I made and completed from 2010-2015. Olivia Myers, former music maestro and magical-girl adventurer, lives life as a depressed freelancer after quitting her teaching job. I think literally only like 2 or 3 people are even reading this, but good enough!

I wrote about JOMO, the Joy of Missing Out, when players have to work with different characters and resources in games.

I wrote a review of Bittersweet, an album by Jamie Paige.

My big piece of the year, which I chipped away at for months, reflected on nostalgia in culture and our personal lives.

I wrote about Cozy Games, which bizarrely was recognized in a Critical Distance weekly roundup.

I wrote about my fear for the direction of art and social media, a review of the writing in Sea of Stars, and other Cohost/Tumblr posts, which you can find in the #blogofkylelab tag.

As usual, I've continued my work as a Writer working on Rhythm Doctor, detailed below.

Art and Game Dev

Another sad year of barely 👏 drawing 👏 anything 👏 which is a huge bummer but I'm coming to terms with it.

Don't have anything finished to show for it, but doing a lot of messing-around in Twine and RPGMaker, which has been good for practice at least.

I funded the guest art and music for an upcoming card game, Isle of Swaps. I commissioned around a dozen artists, who I think drew around 50 total cards. Getting paid work as an artist is getting rough out there, so I wanted to help freelance artists the best I could.

Still working on Rhythm Doctor and A Dance of Fire and Ice at 7th Beat Games

We released Act 5 of Rhythm Doctor, which was our huge undertaking of the year! I co-wrote this with fizzd, and for the first time we were working with a completely blank slate with no levels made beforehand. I was recently looking through my Google Docs and was reminded how many different drafts and outlines I had come up with for this Act, some of which were long before the "athlete" story was even decided upon at all. I eventually helped come up with the character of Lucky (designed by our pixel artist Winston), and we got it all built out from there. I had a part in almost every sentence you see in the Act, I believe. I think I did an okay job, and players seem to really like the story and characters of Act 5, so that's a big relief.

Other Stuff

I've been running IndieGamesOfCohost for more than a full year now! I hope people have been enjoying this. It's been really tough to make the spare time for it, especially getting multiple developer interviews up per month, but I'm gonna keep pushing forward. Maybe "one interview a month" is a better goal to aim for. It's hard to tell how much people enjoy the efforts, but people do keep Liking and Sharing and Following so hopefully that means I'm doing something good with my spare time lol.

My partner and I moved! Aside from Act 5 of Rhythm Doctor this was probably the biggest thing. It was my first time apartment-hunting, as well as finding and paying for a moving truck and buying big furniture, getting renters insurance and all sorts of annoying stuff. In past apartments, I was lucky enough to be invited in as a roommate after the place was already set up. I also helped my parents pack up to move from the house they lived in for 28 years. Lots of moving. Hopefully no moving in 2024.

I hope your 2023 was bearable! Take pride in the little things you were able to get done. Let's all push through 2024 together.

#blogofkylelab #gamedev

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tessabennet · 1 year

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I got tagged by @booksandabeer to share 8 shows to get to know me. I've been thoroughly overthinking it for the past few days, which is why this list sounds a bit like a series-watching-history resume. And I still feel like I'm forgetting some very important ones.

Anyway, thanks for the tag, J! Hope you enjoy 😅

I'll pass the tag to @tree-of-blue-squirrel @somanywords @hedvig-ulrika @tripfourconcerts and @myauroraborealis, if you guys want to do this 🥰

Avatar the Last Airbender

I'll start way way back in my childhood. I had this girl in my class in primary school who was obsessed with this show (to the point where it got kinda scary) but that's how I ended up watching it for the first time. And I just fell in love with the worldbuilding amd the characters with their found family.

Honourable mentions of shows I liked as a kid:

Suite Life, Drake & Josh, Glee

BBC Sherlock

Flash forward a couple of years, and here's me, in my late teens. And with that came my first queerbait experience! Hurray! But. If not for that, if not for the overanalysing of the queer subtext and the unbelievable disappointmemt in how it all turned out, I don't think I would have ended up as an english major. Which I have mixed feelings about, yes, but I feel like that represents my relationship with this show pretty well.

Honourable mentions of shows I watched in my late teens:

Shadowhunters, Doctor Who, Outlander

Supernatural

*clears throat* I know. I know. But I can't not include it, okay? It's been... let's call it a formative experience. My first real deep dive into fandom culture. How I first made fandom friends all over the world, who I love and treasure with all my heart now. I hate it as much as we all do, but yeah. *clenches fist and grits teeth* Supernatural had an impact on me.

Honourable mentions of my early fandom days shows:

Game of Thrones, Sex Education, Troy - Fall of a City

The Umbrella Academy

This one is a prime example of a type of show that I really like: the ones where, at times, I could not care less about the plot and am just here to thoroughly enjoy the characters.

Honourable mentions of shows I watch only for the characters:

Brooklyn 99, Stranger Things, Young Royals

Agent Carter

So. It's no secret that I am a firm, pious defender of all things Peggy Carter. This puts me in a somewhat awkward, sometimes even controversial position since I am also firmly, piously in the steve/bucky corner. But like. I love her? And since she (and like, the Captain America movies as a whole) were my way into the MCU... well, where would I be without her?

Honourable mentions of MCU shows I like:

Daredevil, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Hawkeye

Good Omens

This one is really simple: it's silly and I'm so here for it. The humour, the characters, the absurdity of it all, the underlying political themes.... yeah, I don't think I need to explain to anyone why a Neil Gaiman show is a good thing to watch. Like, just for the fun of it.

Honourable mentions of shows I watch just for the fun of it:

Arrested Development, Heartstopper, Our Flag Means Death

The Mandalorian

Okay. So. This is the last show I watched with my dad before he died. We got to the first episodes of season 2 and I haven't watched the rest of it yet. Star Wars was our thing, you know? And I really miss watching stuff with him.

Honourable mentions of shows I would've liked to share with dad:

Kenobi, The Witcher, The Sandman

Shadow and Bone

This one's the most recent thing I watched, and it's where I'm at show-wise at the moment. Really, really liked it, and doing my part to get another season and hopefully, that Crows spinoff. My biggest current obsession. You get the gist.

Honourable mentions of shows I'm currently into:

Interview with the Vampire, The Crown, 911

...

Phew, this took way more work than is reasonable

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GUNSPLURALTM, is an independent and private RP SIDEBLOG for Nancy Wheeler; Max Mayfield; and Vickie of NETFLIX’S STRANGER THINGS. Portrayed by Melody. follow backs from @aworldofyou Eddie Munson is request only.

RULES:

001. CANCEL/CALLOUT CULTURE. First and foremost, I under no circumstance whatsoever support the callout/cancel culture. If I see you reblogging callouts or anything in support of the callout culture I will not follow you, and will no longer follow you. I do not agree with the mindset that a witch hunt must occur for every little nuance that you don’t agree with, I don’t agree with gathering your friends to gate keep friends in who they talk to, I don’t agree that any disagreement be approached in this standpoint.

SUPPORT =/= UNFOLLOW. I don’t care about the situation at hand, I don’t care what excuse is presented, and there will be no discussions of the matter. You are in charge of your experiences just as I am mine, and I choose to have nothing to do with the mob mindset. That is it.

002. RACISM. When I say that I do not forgive racism in all forms I mean it. That includes the widely accepted tumblr view that gatekeeping and erasing people’s own cultures is okay. Fact check. It is not. And I will not tolerate any forms of racism in any way. When I speak on my culture, or want to write a negative aspect involving the history, you have no right to tell me what I - or the people I trust - and have educated with what - with this, what can be done. If you try, you will be blocked till the end of time. No questions asked. You are not allowed to gatekeep me, you are not allowed to tell me what I can or cannot do in my own culture. Erasure is racism. Do not try it. You will be blocked.

2.2 CONCERNING BILLY. I first and foremost believe that Billy’s throw away line was just a CLEAR reminder that the 80s was a REALLY racist time. This was mindset that MOST people had, don’t forget that. And the gang and main characters were probably considered odd balls for NOT practicing racism. (Especially with all that is going on, and just coming out the 60s, 70s which was a really active time for movements such a AIM and MLK and many more great movements.) THIS IS NOT A BILLY HATE BLOG. The fact that Lucas or Max both weren’t concerned with that, should be a testament to the very sad fact that Lucas likely heard worse. Doesn’t make it okay by any means necessary but I believe that any racist mindset he had before would have been changed after Season 3. He still would have been a fucking asshole, but he wouldn’t have been a RACIST asshole after.. This is not a Billy hate blog.

003. 18+ ORIENTED BLOG. I will not interact with anyone under the age of 18. My content is very 18+, and while everything is tagged I will not interact with anyone under the age of 18.

004. ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS I AM NOT OPEN TO WRITING ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS WITH MAX MAYFIELD. WHILE SADIE IS NEARING 20, MAX IS STILL MEANT TO BE 14 CANONICALLY. CASUAL THINGS LIKE KISSES AND HAND HOLDING, AND THE CANONICAL RELATIONSHIPS CAN BE DISCUSSED IN THREADS BUT OTHERWISE? NOTHING BEYOND THAT. OTHERWISE PLOTTING IS REQUIRED.

05. PASSIVE AGGRESSION Will not put up with passive aggression under no circumstance.

007. PLOTTING. And on the note of plotting. If an attempt toward plotting is being made, and I find that I am only getting single non-interested responses. Then I will likely, very quickly, lose interest. It takes a lot for me to comfortably outright chat with people. Lots of energy, lots of nervousness at times, and if the plotting reduces to little half answers that reflect things like ‘oh that’s cool-’ or ‘oh nice’ then I will likely just lose interest in trying. If I’m putting effort into interaction and it very clearly looks one sided, I’m going to show myself out.

And on that, if there is little or no interest shown in the character(s) that I am trying to best put forward to compliment the canon, or my efforts are constantly ignored. Then I’m likely going to stop trying. I’m not gonna beg for your attention or chase you, especially if I’m here to accommodate you as best as I can. Take it, or leave it, because if any of the above is going to happen I’m likely going to leave it myself.

I will also likely still make my exit if I sense an underlying aggressive tone in any and all attempts to plot. Because again, it takes lots of energy for me to keep my focus in one place - and I’m not going to waste it on attempts that make it seem like I’m the inconvenience for even trying to talk.

008. TONING DOWN / DARK CONTENT I will not water down the negative aspects of my muses, do not ask me to.

There is dark content on this blog, you are in charge of your own experiences do not follow me if these topics make you uncomfortable. If you come at me for this, know that I am pretty readily using the block button and will rarely backtrack. Once you’re blocked, you’re blocked. Nothing will change that. So don’t even try contacting me.

009. MUTUALS / DO NOT SOFT-BLOCK ME I’m very good at keeping track of who is my mutual and who isn’t, I’m not one to go by the whole ‘please soft block me if you unfollow me’, if I have you on my dash I genuinely like the content that you produce, if you choose to unfollow me it’s perfectly fine and dandy. (For whatever reason that our characters don’t mesh, our writing doesn’t mesh, for whatever perfectly sane reason that isn’t conflicting with our persons. I don’t care, it’s fine.), please don’t softblock me. I’m not one to go by that standard, chances are if we’re not mutuals I’m respectful of that.

9.2. I don’t believe in ‘liking posts’ to stay mutuals. I followed you and I value you, and I believe if you genuinely wanted to keep me around you would. So don’t ever expect me to like those posts, it does nothing but raise my anxiety.

010. WRITER OF THE BLOG. My name is Melody, I am in my late 20′s. I am every bit native american as one can be, and I am a very passionate soul. I love to ramble, but I am also very slow. I can go from chatting your ear off one moment, to disappearing for days the next. It’s nothing on you, I’m just slow. I’m a nice person, friendly, and one of the most understanding souls you will likely ever meet. I prefer to plot everything, so my ims are always open! Don’t be afraid to reach out to me on any of this. We’re all adults here. We can talk it out.

I’M ALSO A HUGE AVOCADO FAN. so on that note, if you want to get my attention in any way, you need only mention the word and I’LL LOVE YOU FOREVER.

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okay hold up I am extremely sick but I have two (2) things. First, I started typing an addition to that Artem post you rb’d a while back but cannot currently finish it because i think I may be hallucinating the sound of someone singing?? I may die. Shrug.

AND then I just read the shoes-in-house thingy in relation to Vyn and im like,,, hmm. Because my family is strictly ‘take your shoes off’ (im from burger eagle healthcare hell) but I know that doesn’t apply to all families, which I think is ew, but hey, I’m not the one cleaning their carpets. Just asked my mom and she said it’s what she grew up with, but my dad was an inside-shoe heathen. We def don’t have house slippers though, everyone’s just in socks.

ANYWAY. THEN I was thinking ‘okay but Vyn is European’ so I googled it, & the general consensus in Western Europe is that people wear shoes inside sometimes-maybe-perhaps. But I am not From Europe so I have no idea either lol. Though, from what I’ve seen ppl’s guesses of where Svart is to be, I’d probably say he’s sane and takes off his shoes :)

waaa, hi worms!! and also AAAAA WORMS??? are you okay DDD: i hope whatever is ailing you gets outta ur system soon huhu, being haunted by sirens doesnt sound like a great symptom (unless the singing is of a genre you particularly like. free spotify premium)

JHKVJHAFJSF BURGER EAGLE HEALTHCARE HELL, my deepest condolences :(( and ooohh, yea! on the og post of me speculating about Does Vyn Wear Shoes In House, i originally had assumed it was a general western culture thing simply cuz thats what i always saw in western media, but then some friendly folks pointed out that it's a case to case basis. im also just fascinated by the concept of carpets in general, we dont have any and it's not very common over here, also they look very much like a hassle to clean? i hope your carpets cooperate with the cleaning process.

socks indoors sounds comfy tho i also cant imagine that but only cuz i live in a house containing 5 dogs and many of them dont understand (and/or are fucking with us) that the place to Go is outside in the garden so stepping in an unidentified liquid accidentally indoors is always a scary possibility, none of us wanna be in socks for that.....house slippers are nice, we dont have any closed toe ones like they got in tot because Tropical Country and 99% of the time i just go barefoot cuz i forget that slippers even exist ajhvksjhfasa

some europeans also replied/tagged to the og post and it does seem like while some countries have a propensity for one or the other, it's still mostly a case to case basis. i just enjoy giving vyn funny habits HAHA

tho liTERALLY JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO AS I WAS TYPING THE FIRST PARAGRAPH i got a reply that said that newer cards indeed show vyn in house slippers in his own home. drat...

looks like i can only make fun of vyn's probably bad driving due to europe having the steering wheel on the other side......

(well, not really, the beauty of hcs is that anyone can do whatever they want, hyv cant stop us. MWAHAHHHAHA)

anyway i hope u get well soon!!!

#worms-i-think #asks #me looking at vyn: play that funky psychology white boyyyyy

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△ What was your dad like? You haven't mentioned him much.

3/10. Only as high as it is because of the timing of this ask.

... He always wanted to make people laugh. If the name 'Robin Williams' rings any bells, he had a very similar sense of humor to that guy when he was on Broadway. Foul-mouthed and raunchy, but one of the most cartoonishly goofy guys ever.

Loved fishing. Loved playing games with me, we'd play CTR and Dragonball Z Budokai together. Duck Hunt, too.

Conservative guy, though. Sometimes he'd spew some ignorant shit about immigration and would say some old fashioned racist boomer bullshit about the "good" blacks and gays. Sorry about that, I'll tag this post appropriately, but I can safely say that in his later years, learning more about me? He got more and more progressive.

That's the kicker. I brought home some non-white friends, and he'd start learning more about them and their culture cause he wanted to be involved in my life as much as he could. I started showing interest in men, and while he stuck his foot in his mouth sometimes, he tried. I dated a trans guy? His first question was "okay what should I call them, I wanna make sure I don't fuck it up". He's where my foul mouth comes from if it wasn't obvious.

He was the first I came out to as trans.

His response was, and I will never forget it.

"So long as we can still fish, I don't care if you're my son or my daughter."

... that was the last year we COULD fish. But I'm glad we did. Really glad we did.

#racism tw #tw racism #pokemon roleplay #pokemon rp #rotumblr #pokemon irl #rotomblr #rosy ramblings #anonymous

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coolspacequips · 6 years

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lance, smiling sleepily at keith across the sheets: hey :)

keith, sleepily smiling back, forgetting to hide his accent: howdy :)

lance: *feels his heart physically implode over this cowboy shit*

#like listen in a teen summer romance lance would be the popular beauty in his small town and keith would be like a badboy cowboy type #reliving that tag is dredging up this cowboy shit inside of me #tbh i denied it for a long time but its my heritage and w mcree and wynonna earp hitting the mainstream its sexy again so #IM JUST BEING H O N E S T #ive been rly into southern gothic fantasy and horror lately and its a RICH fucking vein #if u include the black latino and native american influences that actually created and defined that culture u have a lot to learn and work w #ppl forget that poc live here and have a very long and deep legacy and i guess reclaiming cowboy culture has become a Thing so #U KNOW let me make cowboy memes abt this mixed boy from the south OKAY #tho w tdp and keith im getting a little tired of studios proud of racial diversity in their show but making their protag a white 'mixed' kid #i was excited about the news at first then saw meta abt how callum is probs half elf and im sick of it i M SIC KOF IT #ANYWAY #dangerously close to discourse down here time 2 go #text posts #klance #keith #lance #my hcs

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russett-pots · 2 years

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Trouble Trouble Trouble

Kriesha Tiu and Kim Minju

Tags: Threesome, Slight angry sex, Cheating

Words: 3.3K

If you know a bit more about Minju then you'll know who she is.

I'm not sure if they are still friends but I think they are. Just haven't heard of much interaction between them since pd48.

You and your girlfriend walk down the airplane aisle to look for your seats.

“Your parents are weird.”

“Oppa, what did you expect? They are Filipino. You are Korean. I told you to be ready for culture shock.”

“Kriesha, whatever. At least they liked me, right?”

“They did for the most part...”

“What do you mean?”

“Your incessant bowing weirded them out. They aren’t used to that.”

“When you meet my parents, you have to do that. Trust me, and they are very conservative.”

“Oppa, did those conservative parents raise a guy that fucked a celebrity ten times in the past two weeks?”

As you grab her butt, “Shut up!”

“Oppa, not here!” she giggles. “Here are our seats.”

You and your girlfriend, Kriesha Tiu, just celebrated your 2nd anniversary by meeting her parents over the Christmas break. It went well, meeting her parents, grandparents, cousins, and whoever else was considered part of the family. It was exhausting trying to remember all their names, but you made it through, and now you have to fly back to Korea. She needs to return to her company to prepare for her long-awaited comeback.

The following six hours just become a blur as you ride the airplane home.

“Oppa, wake up. We are landing.” Kriesha shakes your arm

“Oh. Huh? Okay. What?” you try to sit back up and remove the eye covers that are misaligned on your face.

*Good evening, ladies and gentlemen; we are on initial descend to Seoul. Local time is 9:25 pm, and we should be down in touchdown in 10 minutes. *

“Kriesha, is Minju going to pick us up?” you look at her then away.

“She is. She is already waiting for us at the terminal.”

“Hehe, I’m excited.”

“Oppa, you should stop that. I know she is your IZ*ONE bias, but she is my friend, and don’t forget you are my boyfriend!”

“Hahaha, I’m just messing with you. You know I always love you. It is just sometimes it is fun poking around that I like her.”

She rolls over her eyes, annoyed that you are always teasing her about how Minju-angel is and will always be your ult. But of course, Kriesha knows you are hers, and you always constantly assure that is always true.

The plane touches down. It bounces up a bit, showing the slight inexperience of the flying pilot. But it is a quick procedure, as the aircraft hit the apron and the deboarding process begins. Ordinary things, walk to immigration, passports get stamped, and pick up the luggage from the carousel.

As you hold hands with your girlfriend to walk to the visitor’s welcoming lounge, There she is, Minju.

“Unnie!” Minju shouts, running towards Kriesha and giving her a big hug. “How was the Philippines? Did you bring dried mangoes for me?”

Kriesha shuffles through her shoulder bag and pulls out the bundle of the sweet 7D dried mangoes just for Minju. “Of course, I have plenty of pasalubong for you.”

A/N pasalubong (Filipino) - souvenirs or gifts that people who travel give to their friends and family when coming home

“Unnie, I’m excited!”

You approach them pushing the cart with your bags and two boxes of the pasalubong Kriesha promised.

“Can we go home now? I exhausted from the flight,” you desperately ask

“Okay, Okay. I’ll call the driver now. He should be close.” Minju replies

All three of you stand outside in the cold January wind. The snow is still fresh on the ground. The black Hyundai Grand Starex stops in front of you. While Minju and Kriesha board the van, their manager helps you load the bags in the trunk. Everyone gets in and settles for another long ride from the airport to your shared apartment with your girlfriend. You go back to sleep, trying to get some rest after the long flight.

Kriesha pokes your shoulder. “Oppa, we are here.”

Startled again, you wake up. It is already the drop-off area of your building. As the man in the situation, you unload all of the luggage from the trunk.

“Manger-nim, Is it alright if Minju stays over with us?”

He looks at Kriesha, flustered by the question, “Just make sure you are ready for tomorrow; you have dance practice in the morning.”

“Okay! Thank you! Thank you!” Kriesha now looks at Minju. “I’ll tell you all about what happened!”

They both hold hands and jump around in circles, ecstatic.

“Unnie, I don’t like sleeping alone. I’m happy that I’m with you again!” Minju gives another hug, even tighter than the one at the airport.

“Girls, can you help me?” You try to pick up everything, the bags, and the boxes.

“We can do two tri-“

“No! No two trips. We can only do one. Trust me, it is possible. If you can hold the smaller box and pull your bag and Minju, you can take the bigger box. And I can carry the two strollers and three backpacks and place my shoulder bag over on my right side. That’s fine.”

“Are you sure? We can take two tri-“

“No! No two trips!”

“If you insist….” Kriesha says as she complies, doing her share of your stupid plan.

Minju does her part. But of course, the weight of everything you are carrying almost breaks your back. But your pride is everything. No person shall take two trips. As everyone enters the elevator, you hope that everything will fit, and it barely does.

“Minju, Oppa, actually, I think I have to sleep early. I have my schedule, and I need the rest.”

“Unnie, no problem. I can get the juicy stories from Oppa then.”

*Ding*

You wear the backpacks, readying yourself again for the challenge. It looks like you’ll struggle for a bit, but your determinacy is still strong enough to carry everything.

“Oppa, we-“

“Don’t say it.”

You shuffle towards the door, still carrying everything, holding on to dear life to show that you aren’t too weak to make two trips.

Kriesha sees your struggles and gets back on your teasing. She strolls to the door, taking her sweet time as she sees your face become hot red. She slowly presses each button of the 6-digit combination. But on the last digit, her finger hovers above 7.

“Ops, Oppa, what’s the combination again?” as she looks back at you with a vengeful smile.

“1-2-2-0-9-8!! It is your birthday! You know it. I know it. Even Minju knows it! Open the door already!”

“I’m sorry, what was it?”

“1-2-2-0-9-8! Fine! I’m sorry! You were right! We should have taken two trips!”

“Haha!” she kisses your cheek and correctly punches in the correct code, opening the door.

You rush in and drop down everything. Kriesha and Minju walk in laughing at your misjudgment but are still impressed with your insistence and success in carrying everything in one trip.

“Okay! I’ll listen to you next time.”

“Oppa, you said that last time. When we brought in the groceries.”

“I was right, though. One trip. But next time, I promise.” With your hands on the ground and still panting

Krisha laughs again, walking away. You stand up to collect yourself, grabbing a special small bag out of your backpack.

“Minju, I was able to buy new coffee beans. Do you want to try them?!”

“Sure, Oppa! Those are from Mt. Apo, right?”

“Yup, just roasted seven days ago! Kriesha, do you want to try?”

While walking to your shared room, she answers, “None for me. I’ll go to sleep. Goodnight. Love you,” as she yawns.

“Goodnight, Love you too.”

“Well, let's get started, Oppa!”

A/N for those coffee connoisseurs, I’m sooo sorry if I’m wrong

You grab the grinder and the French press from the cabinet.

First, boil some water in the kettle.

Second, use the water from the kettle to preheat the French press.

“Minju, do you want one cup, or do we share?”

“One for me, please.”

Thirdly, measure 16 grams of the beans, just enough for two cups, then grind them coarsely for the French press.

Fourth, heat another 472 mL of water to 90 degrees Celsius.

Fifth, pour out the water that pre-heated the French press, then add the coffee inside and pour the water in a swirling motion. Stir to make sure everything is adequately mixed.

“Okay, now we wait four minutes!”

“Oppa, what do will it taste like.”

“Well, according to my friend. It is supposed to be more citrus, fruity, and nutty. But it is my first time trying this out.”

“So, how was the trip?!”

“Well, kinda tough meeting Kriesha’s parents. Good thing I could speak a bit of English. They also tried speaking Korean, but anyway. Kriesha said they had fun. I hope they did.”

Minju looks at the timer. “Four minutes it up. Can I push it?”

“Sure, do it gently.”

As Minju slowly presses on the French press, you grab two mugs. She pours for both you and her. Then as it fills. The fresh coffee aroma envelopes in your nasal cavities. The smell already gives off its flavor.

“Oppa, here is one for you and one for me.”

“Minju? Cheers?”

*Cling*

Both mugs touch. You both move to the living room and become comfortable, sitting at the opposite side of the couch made for three. You sit down, leaning back, relaxing, and taking a sip of the aromatic drink. In contrast, Minju sits down, crosses her legs, slightly revealing her thick thighs.

“So, Oppa, how was the Philippines?”

“We didn’t go to Boracay, surprisingly. We stayed in Manila first, then we took a flight to Cebu and went snorkeling and swimming with the Whale sharks.”

“Oh, that sounds fun. What did you wear…?”

“Why are you asking?”

“Just want to try to get a better picture of your bod-. I mean trip. I’m sure Kriesha was wearing her sexy bikini. I wouldn’t be surprised if you got a nosebleed.”

You lean forward and place your mug on the center table. “Do you think that Kriesha is sexy?”

Minju stands up, placing her drink on the table as well. “I’m not focusing on her. How about you?” She knees in front of you, spreading your legs wide open, showing off the slowly growing bulge.

“I don’t think we should do this….”

“Don’t worry as long as your girlfriend doesn’t find out.”

“Don’t you want to enjoy the co-“

Before you can finish, Minju lunges in and swiftly unbuttons your pants, pulling them down along with your underwear.

“Wow, you are ready. You are already hard for Minju?”

“We shouldn’t do this….”

“We should. Unnie wouldn’t mind, right?”

You nod in fear and excitement, knowing that Minju will do next.

She dives in, kisses your tip, swirls her tongue around it and moves down to the bottom of your shaft, and gives a good whiff of your crotch.

“Unnie always mentions you put on perfume down here. I had to find out if it was true.” As she continues to slowly stroke your cock. “Were you supposed to do naughty things to Unnie tonight?”

You look down, seeing Minju’s face. The face isn’t of an angel anymore but a sexually desperate demon.

“Were you? Minju is asking.”

“We did have sex before the flight.”

Minju takes in another whiff. “Aahhh, cherries. She does have good taste.” She lets go of your cock and removes her shirt. “It is Minju’s turn now.”

She dives in and swallows everything at once. Her lips surround your entire girth as it delicately tickles it. You let out a gentle moan as she goes in. She continues with her sucking, bobbing her head up and down. Her hand grabs onto your thighs to support herself.

The sound of her sloppy blowjob echoes in your ears. The only focus right now is Minju and her sensational ability.

“Minju, you are good.” You groan.

She pops her head from your cock but leaves her hand to continuously stroke it. “Am I better than Unnie?”

You pause for a second. Of course, your girlfriend gives good head. But Minju’s technique is too different to compare. “You are both excellent. It isn’t the same.”

“Well, I can show you more if you want?” Minju stands up and unhooks her bra, revealing a pair of perky breasts. She stands her topless, hand on her hip, leaning at one side. “Whose is bigger?”

“Umm-“

“Never mind. Don’t answer. I already know.” She unbuckles her tiny jean shorts and pulls down, exposing a tiny slit waiting for you.

“Minju, are you sure about this?”

“Are you?”

Before you can answer, Minju sits on your lap and wraps her legs around you. You instinctively hold onto her soft, gentle waist. She places her left hand on your shoulder, and her right moves down to rub it against your length. Minju leans in for a soft kiss, touching it gently. Each meeting sends shivers down your spine.

“Ahem”

You both look back at the bedroom door. It is Kriesha.

“Ay-nako. I went to sleep, and this is what I find you doing here.”

Unable to escape Minju’s weight. You sit down stammering. “Kriesha, I know what it looks like…. And it is exactly what it looks like….”

“Oppa, I’m not mad.”

“You aren’t?”

“To be honest, I didn’t know it would take you this long before you started fucking Minju.”

“Don’t worry, Oppa, Unnie, and I had a bet. And I guess I won.” Minju smirks

“So, Kriesha, you aren’t angry?”

Her tone changes. “It depends.” She slowly undoes each button exposing her pair, and seductively walks towards you; each foot moves one at a time. “It depends on what will happen tonight.” She comes in, leans for a kiss, and then sits on the couch's arm.

Minju gets off your lap, and both she and Kriesha moves in between your legs.

“Now, Minju and I will have a second bet. Tell me, Oppa. Do you enjoy this?”

Kriesha then comes in to lick your shaft thoroughly from the base to the top then engulfs it. Her lips move down all the way. As her mouth moves up, her tongue drags your cock inside her mouth. She then removes herself from your cock.

“Or this?”

Minju repeats the same thing, the lick, the suck, then the release. The same, but both feel different. Kriesha is rougher in her approach, but Minju is gentler. They both look at you, waiting for an answer, but you sit there speechless.

Unhappy with the silence, your girlfriend goes back down again, but this time rigorously swallows everything. Her mouth takes everything at once. She continuously moves up and down, using her hand to aid her approach. Minju, annoyed with being left out, moves up and smacks her lips against yours.

Your hand moves to her breast and starts playing with it. The other starts caressing her soft, bouncy ass, squeezing it, and slapping it. You start fingering Minju. Frist with the index. It slowly starts going in from behind.

Minju breaks the kiss to give her some space for the both of you to give a gentle moan. At the same time, Kriesha pops her head off from your cock, removes her bottoms, and interrupts you and Minju. While your girlfriend pounces you onto the couch to move her hips above you, Minju hovers her pussy above your mouth.

You become the first by slowly kissing the entrance of her pussy. Down below, Kriesha aligns herself on top of your cock to tease herself, using the tip on her entrance. But finally, with what feels like forever, she drops herself. The familiar walls surround your shaft as the warmth welcomes it. Kriesha releases a loud moan as your cock enters her. She uses her legs to move up and down, slowly increasing her pace.

For Minju’s pleasure, you start to eat her. Your tongue entering inside her. She cannot stop herself from screaming in pleasure. Her hands get a firm grip on your hair as yours wraps around her meaty thighs to try to make her stay still.

“Oppa, are you enjoying Minju more?” Kriesha gets slightly angry and gets up and pulls Minju away from you. You get up, surprised by her actions. She forces Minju to face her hands on the coffee table to expose her ass to you, and she does the same.

You look at them both as they look back. To your right is Minju and to your left is Kriesha. You use your respective hands to feel the aroused pussies and see which hole you want to insert first.

“Oppa, try me first.” Your girlfriend asks.

You lean into her, but before you put your cock inside.

Minju protests, “No, Oppa me first.”

You look again between both. Their eyes are begging that you’ll enter them first. Your cock instinctively moves towards Minju. It is something you haven’t tried; you might as well go there first. You push in first. Her face shows a painful expression. The same one when Kriesha had when she first took on your cock. You fully slam your hips against Minju.

She grunts as finally, you can fully enter her. You move in and down slowly and increase your pace. To not leave your girlfriend out, you push your finger into her and move in the same motion you are with Minju.

All three of you scream in pleasure. The sound reverberates all around the living room. Your cock and fingers slide in and out faster after each minute. But you pull out to give Kriesha some time to feel your cock. You finger Minju the same. You resume the fast pace that was before.

“Oh, Unnie. Why…didn’t….you….tell….me….he…was….so…good?”

“He…is…mine,…Minju. He…is…mine.”

The girls argue about you. Slowly, their voices become silent. The only thing you can feel on your cock is how each pussy feels around your cock. You move back and forth between them. Kriesha is the familiar one, the one you have felt at home for the past two years. But Minju is a whole new horse. Her tightness constricts your new cock, welcoming it as your thrust in and out.

“Oppa, is Minju better than me?” Kriesha snaps you out of your trance.

All she sees is your eyes struggling to open as it closes in pleasure. Your mouth can only groan at how each girl gets tighter each second.

“Tell me, Oppa.” Her voice starts to get irritated.

“Kriesha! It is yours! Your pussy feels the best!”

She smirks at Minju. Showing how she can please a man more.

As your cock switches back to Minju, “No! It is Minju!” you can only scream. The pleasure of Minju is now more evident than before.

Slightly annoyed with your sudden change of answer, Kriesha gets up and pushes you down to the couch, still inserted inside Minju. She now moves up and down on your cock. While Kriesha leans in and whispers to your ear.

“If you like her so much, cum inside her Oppa, please cum inside her.” Her anger turns to pleads for breeding

“Oh, yes, Oppa, please cum inside!” Minju shrieks after begging for your seed.

Kriesha leans in for another kiss as you fondle with her breast. She cups your face and rubs her hand on your cheeks.

“You want it inside?”

“Oh yes, Oppa, shoot it in me!”

Suddenly you burst inside Minju. Your entire load gets shot inside her. You grunt as each wave of cum runs inside. She gets up, leaving the breeding leaking out of her as she walks to the bathroom to clean herself.

But your lips still locked in with Kriesha’s. Your limped cock touches Kiresha’s soft ass. You slowly move in to lie down together and cuddle as you drift to sleep.

The following day, Krisha is gone from you. You are still nude from last night. Minju is sitting at the dining table eating some cereal for breakfast.

“Minju, where is my girlfriend?”

“Oh, she already went to work.”

You get up and see that Minju is still naked.

“Oppa, thanks for last night!. Yesterday was a long day for me.”

“Uhh, no problem?”

“Anyway, do you want to try again? This time the two of us?”

~The end

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Black Girl in a fantasy world without racism, has experienced racism in other worlds

@theoneandonlymagiscientist asked:

Hi, WWC! I asked about a Snow White retelling back in May, and Colette’s answer was super helpful and encouraging! I didn’t win the contest (but the story’s up on my author blog), so now I’m back to working on my fantasy series.

I’m currently about 8k words into the second book. The POV character is a girl from our world, though the story takes place in the fantasy world. The girl is a Black fantasy nerd who rides horses and just… is generally pretty happy about life and getting her own fantasy adventure and all. Racism does not exist in the fantasy world, and she knows that, but I know she’d be affected by it in her real-world past. I feel like it would be, or seem like, erasure if I don’t at least acknowledge that she has grown up with microagressions, but I’m white so I also don’t want to trust my first thought. So, if it would be erasure, what would be some good ways to acknowledge that she is a Black girl who grew up with racism, and maybe to show the differences between the worlds?

Thank you so much for your hard work! Your blog has already been unimaginably useful, to me and to many other people. I recommend it every chance I get.

And, because it can be hard to remember even in the best of times: You are wonderful people. You are beautiful, and brilliant, and kind, and thoughtful, and helpful, and amazing, and gorgeous inside and out. Don’t forget it.

I guess you can make hints about it, but I don’t think it’s a problem at all if it’s not mentioned. I mean, it’s okay to write about Black characters without making comments about racism. If it doesn’t move the story forward, no need to do it ! :)

- Lydie

A story without racism

You can mention racism she has faced without making her actively experience it in the story world.

Or you can have her go through the story without much / any mention of racism of all. Instead, focusing on physical descriptions, cultural hints, and the plot itself, which of course doesn’t need to evoke topics of racism.

Note: You could accomplish all of this without explicitly eliminating racism from the world.

For, even in a world set in our universe in this very year, you don’t need to make your Characters of Color face racism in your story. This isn’t erasure. It’s simply them not encountering racism and / or ignorant characters in your particular story. Stories are a snapshot of their life. In a story where racism is not meant to be the focus on the plot, you absolutely have the right to fade-to-black and off-screen any racism they may receive as a BIPOC.

Constructing a story world where racism 100% does not exist at all can be tricky, though. I’d want to know how and why racism is not a thing, and how that affects the other discrimination and inequalities that exist in our world. Are they excluded too? What is the history of this other world?

Here are some pitfalls that you’d need to be mindful of.

If other forms of discrimination exists - it can feel as if you’re raising, say, homophobia as more important for discussion over racism. As if, “we’ve resolved racism, so let’s ignore it!” This erases the intersections and complexities of both issues. Plus, the combined experience of homophobia that BIPOC may face. Whether it’s homophobia, transphobia, medical racism and/or ableism, these topics plus race go hand on hand and are experienced differently depending on the background of a person and even history and outside influences.

Fantasy racism / discrimination - This creates a new form of discrimination. Sometimes it replaces existing forms of it. For example, discrimination against dragons is the form of “racism” in the story. I’m not a fan of fantasy racism that acts in this form as it feels like erasure. We’ve addressed asks where the OP proposed including fantasy racism while also noting that human racism and other discrimination still exists. In that case, sure, that’s definitely a more improved plotline.

See “fantasy racism” or “fantastic racism” tags for more information on the two topics above.

Colorblind racism - The colorblind “all are equal” mindset can feel like a prison for BIPOC. A terse peace that serves to silence and ignore real issues. Colorblind racism makes discussing race and our differences taboo, which is oppressive and again, erasure. Pretending like we’re all the same isn’t curing racism. It’s certainly a good thing to acknowledge it, and to also celebrate all of differences and cultures!

So, your world would not truly be racism-free if it holds a colorblind mindset, and doesn’t welcome cultural diversity.

Microaggressions - Because even innocent curiosity or someone with no context or even comprehension of racism can use microaggressions. So, this is worth mentioning. Microaggressions are “small” incidents but they’re still racism, and can be triggering and are bothersome.

For example, someone from your story has never seen a person with hair texture like hers. So they touch your character’s hair and start asking 21 evasive questions about it.

“But see, there’s no historical context for that being a problem in this world. Therefore, they should be okay with it!” Nah.

See how this can become oppressive and suppressing? This leads to my next point.

The character (and reader) still live in a world with racism

Do keep in mind the history this character brings to the table, as a person who has experienced racism in other worlds. Her worldview is colored by her experiences, even as it adjusts to the new world she lives in.

Also keep the reader in mind.

It’s still problematic storytelling for the author to write BIPOC who:

Fall into caricature-like stereotypes

Are underdeveloped

Receive disproportionately unhappy endings, or

Experience grotesque levels of pain and suffering compared to white characters

Real life people have to experience the story. Even in your utopia, you have to write in a manner that respects your characters and your readers.

Escapism

Escapism is important. There are a lot of Black readers (present company included) that are looking for a good time, not a struggle novel. We want a story to get lost in and forget about the troubles of the world. Personally, I mainly read for pleasure. Now, if I’m reading to be informed, I’ll pick up a book that does just that.

The girl is a Black fantasy nerd who rides horses and just… is generally pretty happy about life and getting her own fantasy adventure and all.

Sounds amazing! I’m exposed to the racism that affects me, my family, friends, etc. on the regular. The hatred and tragedy I hear about Black people and other POC on the news and social media. So it’s quite lovely to open a book and just not experience that for a moment. Microaggressions do add some realism, and don’t really “shake” me, but I don’t want to be hit with the hard stuff without knowing what I’m getting into. That’s just my opinion, though.

Summary

Feel free to let your character not experience racism. Whether it just doesn’t exist at all or the character doesn’t stumble across it in the story (the latter is honestly the worldbuilding I recommend). Contrasting the different worlds could help to bring it up without getting into the nitty-gritty, so I like this idea.