#like i just thought that was pure genius and ive wanted to do something similar ever since

[misterbitches]

hi @yeedak thank you so m uch for replying with what you did. YAY ADHD!!!!! ur partner sounds like she rocks >:)  as do u

i found it really illuminating and i agree with all of it. and god as much as i understand reticence when black people are interracially dating (it is so hard) i also hate it when people dictate it and also to a degree that it makes it extremely uncomfortable for the person themselves. to me it really is about a sense of control particularly if you are a woman. constantly trying to pick someone’s life partner for them instead of letting them find out if it’s a) something they want or even want to do b) something they can handle and c) their experience. it can purely cultural as well. my mom is a black american but my father is nigerian and that was basically a sin. however my father’s siblings? the women who had to marry extremely quickly and had to be with nigerian men or at the very least african? divorced. because they had to clamor for love for approval, pop out babies, and look what that got them. i totally understand you and  your mother. and you’re right about all of it.

the idea of a man whore is so funny to me too because it’s not about sexual liberation it’s literally about them wanting to use people as disposable which is why sexual liberation for women as well can be confusing. but all of this isn’t so we can develop our own imaginations and find out our own inhibitions. like you said in all of it and i found this part very very interesting and true, “youth is for sex and no mention of asexuality.” when you get older you are not sexual, when you are a child you are unsure about it, but there’s a time in our lives where we shouldn’t waste it, where it’s only acceptable in that window, where it’s dictated. tangentially i think it’s very funny that the people we sleep with also become a point of pride. let’s say if he is a man (as a bisexual~**~ gorl) but he’s ugly, i should be ashamed, too?

so much boxing in and pushing and dictating. they really are here to spread a message. and i know things ar ehard. i can believe people ask you that but it’s still so.....weird? i remember saying something about my sexuality once and it’s not like i knew the people but then they started asking me questions and i honestly felt embarrassed and like an outsider. i dunno.

and your analogy of a mirror was perfect woaaaaaaah that’s what im gonna say now thank you so much credit to you. gENIUS!!! as real life changes, what we see changes. but media doesnt come first.

also totally agree about watching what people consume and not falling into those patterns. and when “bad” things are shown i do not understand why shows are so scared to show them as they are or not romanticize. a real issue to introduce when it comes to age gaps would be why it is frequent in the lgbtq+ community. that is a real thing because when you have to hide yourself of course you can be stuck in a state of arrested development and trying to re-establish times you may never have. that’s a geniuine fear and concern, it’s understandable even if i don’t particularly care for it, but it’s like for these writeres there’s no reason to look deeply or put that into their story. so why are they doing it? and what is the message here? uGH. and what ur mother said makes so much sense we are just constantly absorbing all these messages and culture absolutely aids to it and you’re right about the generations. and sometimes things stop and start but i genuinely think (and know) that for us to continue forward and not have the constant backwards taht means we have to push to get there and demand and that also means we have to make an effort to end the harm we then see on screen. rape culture dictates these shows. it relies on it. it is disgusting but rape culture is the norm, the norm is the oppression so we have to attack it otherwise it sticks and htat’s exactly why we see what we see.

and the unacceptability of gender fluidity is what keeps the genre SO INFLEXIBLE sincerely. it honestly just pulls so heavily from patriarchy and the roles in which we have to follow to uphold that structure. 

it’s really just not enough to show us things any more wihtout taking it into consideration. and like ive mentioned there’s soooooooooo much media that has a lot to say that embeds itself. there’s this thing my friend linked me to on re-examining queerness in korean cinema (much like my dad’s country; patriarchal, more “conservative, anti lgbtq+, reliant on capital. africa is different because of the blackness component but the structures aided by colonialism absolutely remain and continue and that’s how we see such similarities. thse countries are more “overt” in this output but still you know. america. sucks) because we are trying to re-evaluate what it means to be heard and seen. the different ways and sort of the message that a lot of us as lgbtq+ can feel. you know, how we can get a feeling on if a person has our same experience, how we kind of have to learn to identify that. not sure if this makes sense...

your mom sounds really cool. and i’m fucking sorry. so many men do that. i live with both my parents but even then i see this power imbalance i can’t stand and you know i would have believed it was normal if i wasnt able to learn aand had to build up thinking skills. there was one day that it hit me that there are parts of my parents relationship i abhor, that are imbalanced, that make me find my father disgusting and make me ashamed of my mother. i don’t want that to happen to me or my potential children. if i have a male partner for life, which i am sure i will because offffffff heteronormativity and homophobia and being half black american half nigerian, he cannot recreate that. i am optimistic on what people can do without needing such grand structures or the support of the elite etc you know? that’s how we know there’s good work that exists and people we can find that arent with the status quou!!! 

and who want a better world. we have to know we can rally that together. i think part of that is constant demanding of things to do better. there’s a rage against the machine song called settle for nothing and it’s about 0 compromise. there’s a famous quote i dont remember by who that’s basically like there’s an idea that there’s a limit to asking for dignity and what you deserve because when people realize they can live better lives they want to cultivate that more and more but that means a loss of control and a sharing of power from the top. nothing is ever enough if it can be better and we are allowed to demand it (or take it.) we deserve the world, we are being told that we’re asking fo rtoo much. are we? really? 

i was thinking about the children thing as well bc...lmao i was so tightly contorlled as a child and it really messed me up but at the same time, like you, i honestly do not want my children watching drivel. like even with youtube. a friend of mine said that what she thinks she will do is try and hammer home how fantastical these things are, they do not reflect reality, and to get them to understand the spectacle. at the same time i’m like does a child really need to watch these dumb tiktok stars or jake paul? but then im like i really dont want to control them. but like what if ur kid asks u to go to some like fucking BL concert or some shit like what do you say to that?!??! I DONT WANNA SAY NO BUT AT THE SAME TIME UHHHHlmao but at the same time we have to give them tools to analyze and do the right things and follow their hearts

however,

as you know

LOL

tysm for responding, lovely talking to you and hearing your thoughts!!!

oh btw so u r from kashmar? that is very cool......VERY COOL

[dear-dr-kenzo-tenma]

Doctor Kenzo Tenma - TV Tropes 

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/Monster

An Aesop: In-universe, he gives some of these.

Action Survivor: Dr. Tenma is initially an average person, insofar as a well-known brain surgeon can be average. The series' circumstances force him to become a hardened survivor.

Adaptational Attractiveness: In the manga, he starts off plain and downright funny-looking. The anime takes its cue from the later chapters' more adorable Tenma◊.

Adorkable: Before his badass upgrade made him stop being a doormat.

Adrenaline Makeover: Ahem.◊

All-Loving Hero: This is both a large advantage and similarly a large disadvantage to him because of the complex location on the Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism that Monster inhabits.

The Atoner: As kind-hearted as he is, he sees his absolute biggest mistake as being something he alone can fix. And despite numerous opportunities he gets where he could abandon his self-set mission, he refuses every time. Johan: (Seconds after killing Junkers in front of Tenma) I was supposed to die that night. You're the one who resurrected me, doctor.

Badass Pacifist: He can take a beating, jump off a bridge to avoid confrontation, and save people's lives while avoiding the police and criminals alike.

Beware the Nice Ones: Tenma is kind and righteous, but false accusations force him on a path to become much more assertive.

Barbarian Longhair: Subverted, he's not, by any definition, a barbarian. But by most persons in the series, his long hair is perceived as ugly.

Beard of Sorrow: He is normally beardless, but after he learns about Johan's true colors, he attempts to grow a beard and overly disregards his appearance.

Beware the Honest Ones: Tenma's idealism turned out pretty bad for his money-grubbing boss.

Big Good: This is particularly evident in arcs where he is offstage or not the main character. In keeping with his nearly messianic role, by the end, nearly all the characters would do anything to protect him.

Break the Cutie: By all accounts, he's sweet and adorable, but his entire life was ruined by the actions of a former patient.

Care-Bear Stare: He frequently does this, illustrating his initial idealism.

Celibate Hero: Post-Eva, although there is some subtext involving Nina that may avert this. In Another Monster, it is explained that he was still quite the celibate during his high school years and even purposely didn't get together with a girl who liked him (and the feeling was somewhat mutual) merely because he was friends with her (cheating) boyfriend.

Character Development: He begins as a well-respected, compassionate doctor. Over the series, he becomes more driven and relentless.

Cheaters Never Prosper: Averted, though not soon enough for poor Gillen's complex. He cheated on a test in medical school, which made him excel, and caused jealousy in one of his classmates. This acquaintance later becomes an important character.

Chronic Hero Syndrome: Despite his goal of hunting down Johan, he'll never turn down helping a stranger, even if the person's a criminal.

Clear My Name: Averted. His reason for hunting down Johan isn't to clear his name, but rather to correct the error he made in keeping Johan alive.

Combat Medic: "This is the carotid artery. Even a ballpoint pen could kill him, if you pierce it in the right spot."

The Drifter: Justified, since he was a murder suspect and has to be on the run from the police.

Expository Hairstyle Change: Starts off clean-cut, but gets progressively more disheveled.

Extreme Doormat: He used to be very submissive to his boss and his fiancee.

The Fettered: His beliefs frequently make him question his mission.

Forgets to Eat: Quite frequently. At other instances, he'll bemoan the lack of soy sauce in Western cuisine.

Friend to All Children: The good doctor loves children, and he is perfectly willing to help them. He even formed an Intergenerational Friendship with Dieter, a kid.

Friend to All Living Things: He saved a hurt bird in the time he was training as a gunmen. Later, when he was talking with a former friend to all living things, a finch landed in Tenma's arm.

Gentleman and a Scholar: He is a highly-accomplished brain surgeon and an incredibly caring and selfless man.

Good Is Not Dumb: Well, he's good, and intelligent. Heck, he's a brain surgeon. Beyond fitting the literal trope title, however, Roberto underestimates him at one point because of his goodness and pays for it by losing the use of his right arm.

Good Is Not Soft: While a genius neurosurgeon, he is nice, humble and compassionate. When Johan becomes a threat, he takes a level in badass and takes a journey to stop him. Also, he doesn't hesitate to threaten people with his pistol if their actions endanger one or more lifes.

Grew a Spine: He decides to stop being the doormat of his fiancee and his boss after seeing the immorality of both (the fiancee is not that evil, but this counts).

The Heart: Tenma is the moral center of a morally complex series.

The Hero: He is inarguably the protagonist, and he's very heroic, motivations and rumination aside.

Heroic Resolve: Kenzo has one in his battle against Roberto.

Hero with Bad Publicity: Wanted for the very murders that he keeps trying to stop.

Honor Before Reason: Though he cares about the "right thing" rather than any type of personal honor.

Hospital Hottie: He has a cute appearance, be well-groomed or not.

Humble Hero: He never takes credit for his good deeds and maintains that all people are equal despite conspicuously being better than everybody else in every imaginable way.

Hurting Hero: He's haunted by the actions of a former patient, who destroyed his life.

I Can't Dance: According to Eva, Tenma claimed to not be able to dance. They stood and held each other on the dance floor instead.

I Just Want to Have Friends: According to Eva in Another Monster, he was chronically lonely and thanks to his workaholic tendencies, he was unable to make friends other than Dr. Becker.

Intelligence Equals Isolation: His medical capabilities make him isolated among peers.

I'm Not Hungry: When he was captured by the police, he refused to eat for so long they had to put him on an IV. Which doubles as Fridge Brilliance, as he was trying to end up in the infirmary in order to get in touch with Gunther Milch.

Inconvenient Hippocratic Oath. All the more so (or not) for being an integral part of what he comes to be about after the first episode.

Incorruptible Pure Pureness: One of the rare examples of this trope being pulled off successfully. No matter how complicated things get, he retains his idealistic views on humanity.

Just in Time: He saves Reichwein, who came VERY close to being killed by Roberto, just in time in episode 30.

The Last DJ: Both played straight and averted, in short succession. His integrity makes him lose his job.

Last-Name Basis: People tend to call him by his last name rather than his first name, even when they've got to know him well—including Nina and Eva (though the latter is the one that does it least).

Looks Like Jesus: His long hair and stubble look make him somewhat similar to Jesus.

Magnetic Hero: He's kind, charming, and persuasive.

Manly Tears: He does cry, but it doesn't make him appear weak; it showcases just how horrible his life gets, in spite of how much he tries.

Married to the Job: Noted constantly, one of his fellow physicians tried to hook him up with other loves, but he was more focused on his job.

Messianic Archetype: To counter Johan's Antichrist

Nice Guy: He's very nice and will help even his enemies. This is both a blessing and a curse, considering how dark the series is. It gets him a lot of friends, but it also gets him into difficult situations.

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: He helped Johan, and then he's framed for murder. Johan: I was supposed to die that night. You're the one who resurrected me, Doctor.

Parental Favoritism: It's mentioned in Another Monster that his father favored him, his youngest son, over his other brothers. However, his mother favored his two older half-brothers (who are unrelated to her) more than him.

Perma-Stubble: He grows one during his Expository Hairstyle Change.

Save the Villain: At first unknowingly, in the case of saving the young Johan from his asked-for bullet wound to the head. By the end, [spoilers] he does it again, this time intentionally, to defy Johan's point.

Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Thoroughly believes this, when he decides to operate on Johan's brain-bullet and disobey the director's orders to ignore the kid and work on the mayor's cerebral-thrombosis. He starts doubting himself, when he sees what Johan has become.

Skilled, but Naïve: Tenma's a surgical prodigy, but it's not his relative inexperience with a scalpel that gets him into trouble in the beginning. It's his inexperience with another aspect of being a doctor: hospital politics.

The So-Called Coward: "Tenma the Weenie! Tenma the Weenie! He peed his pants, too!" Even more so considering the full story given in Another Monster. After the first time the other boys scared him during hide-and-seek, Tenma decided to go through it again in order to conquer his fear. What ended up happening was that they couldn't find him and thought that he just went home, so when one of the mothers told them it was time to go home, they left Tenma by himself. When they found him still hiding in the abandoned yard at night, they probably stopped picking on him simply because he had the guts to do all that.

Technical Pacifist: Although he has no problem pushing, kicking, shoving, and threatening with violence, he has a hard time causing harm to others even if it is to defend his own life.

Think Nothing of It: Does not like to take credit for his achievements, e.g. denying that he'd saved the Turkish district.

Thou Shalt Not Kill: A personal philosophy that looks especially interesting when pitted against his initial tantrums of, "These people need to die."

Took a Level in Badass: Early in the series, after receiving weapons training from an ex-mercenary.

Trademark Favorite Food: Heckel notes that Tenma thinks that any recipe can be improved with soy sauce. And if the fandom on Tumblr has anything to say about it, sandwiches.

Turn the Other Cheek: Constantly, over and over again. He does this to his fellow doctors, as well as his enemies.

Übermensch: By the end of the series, although he starts out as a very clear-cut Last Man. His personal beliefs evolve over the course of the series. He becomes less conflicted, and more willing to do what's necessary.

Unkempt Beauty: He looks like a hobo and still looks very well. Even most fans think he looks better with the hobo look.

Unwitting Pawn: Used, reused, and subverted. A lot of his actions, even his goal are propelled and encouraged by Johan.

White and Grey Morality: How he sees the world.

Wide-Eyed Idealist: Determinedly and stubbornly so. Tenma is convinced that all life is equal, and that everyone can be saved. His beliefs put him at odds with nearly everyone, as he's one of the few idealists in the series.

Wrongly Accused: The whole plot is to save Johan who framed him in the first place, though he's more concerned about saving him and less concerned about being proven innocent.

source: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/Monster

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[castlehead]

makeshift feels from the opinion lab

kafka wrote in a journal urhmherm of being limited to prague, then his room, then his bed, then nothing at all. to be limited at last to nothing at all. well. turns out i guess the most kafkaesque sentiment came from franz kafka.

enjoi ya rickety gethsemane while it is still to be dreamed, young writers, young writers of youth.

after a job on a hot day back in april or may or something i started listening to this while walking out of the truck towards the gas station convenience store and abruptly pivoted away from the sliding doors to sneak around the side and weep near the green fencing around some boilers. it occurred to me how little i could ever forgive myself for doing.

the shit ive done, all of it, i havent forgiven myself. if i did it and it was bad, or even meagre, dumb, really no big deal, bet yr ass it still keeps me from thinking i deserve happiness. i do not forgive myself for anything ive ever done. no deed is too temporal to etch itself cleanly into my head as something unforgivable, if only it makes a small point.

i know this is true because no joy i ever feel is felt fully, because i do not think it is deserved; and because i allow myself to be joyous only when i think of the truth of my unforgiven, unforgivable state. never to be. Never will.

and that is what is depression.

There must be something here, in me. Here where the jackals caterwAul Like streetcats Mewing their gizzard After this night’s heat, What’ll it be Jackals, Buzz off, shit man

i feel like the key to life is knowing that 90 percent of anxiety & depression, either in degree or in its truth, and at least somewhere not wracked by war, is unsubstantiated (the ten percent being actual crises, like fear of violence, a death in the family, etc). The problem is how persuasive these feelings can be that lead to the fulfillment of the very fear or solidifying the reason for being depressed. But with positive feelings, the least thing, whether true or no, can always be rewarding. A bit of happiness must be allowed to be felt, indiscriminately, because it is more useful to us than a bit of sadness. Take the fierce dialectic u use to establish a depressing ‘truth’ and persuade yourself of something good. If one is far fetched, let it be the something bad. Until it happens, after all, all of it remains in your head, to do with what u will.

You don’t get to lower taxes on the rich and gut social services at the same time. The reason social services are in place is to provide a fair shake for john q public. Mostly investors are feeling the benefits of the corporate tax cut. They’re not giving the money towards a better product that would help the people. but one day there will be no sesame seeds on the bun of yr Big Mac and you’ll wonder how that’s possible with an entire sesame seed dept that just got a pay raise.

tax reform should be done to help a free market, so that the rich can be poor and the poor rich. Taxation helps the people so that social services become less necessary. Social services were developed because the percentage of taxation was unequal between higher and lower class. Poor folks felt the pain while rich folks shrugged it off.

Thats why I say you can’t do both: social services are a protection against the world being entirely controlled, if it’s not already, by those from the very swamp this president wants to drain. T**** hasn’t drained shit.

i feel like writing takes over for your thought process. You can’t think and write at the same time, or something. something turns off or it switches where it’s doing the shit it’s doing to a different place, like yr hands. I don’t think you can write down one linear thought with another thought being thought in your head. This is why people say their mind goes blank in extended periods of inspiration. The functioning has gone from being untethered and temporal, ie wandering thoughts, notions, speculating, to being possessed in a focused place, ie yr hands, which usually leads to a more focused expression of perhaps a thought of particular value, enough in the first place to require writing down. But tho this can be easy for some talented people, who might, as Joyce said, polish their nails while writing some genius thing, what does not come easy for anybody, because it is imposssible, is thinking two disparate things, of the everyday and of some behemoth philosophic concept, for example, without either one taken place after or before; or, one of them being intermittently disturbed, tho linearly, by the other, like a notification on yr phone- until at last one of the two breaks down, and the foxus superseded by the one left. This is especially novel. One thinks; one does not think and also think. That would make it two people in one head. Therefore we can presume that ones identity is found in the unity, or internal focus, of their story in thoughts down one narrow wire: thought can cross many paths and examine everything under and beyond th sun, but per person it is still in the singular. It cannot divide into two simultaneous paths of equal focus. there can be multilayered thoughts with a similar core concept behind them, and these can be thought simultaneously as much as one can ante up and dole out shades of emotion and shades of thought, and so on. But I cannot think of a teleological explanation for all creation and with the same focus Apply myself to letters in the mail. There is a dominant voice, and the rest, the mundane voice, is seen thru that lens.

ya cant say yr colorblind then gripe about people hatin ya cuz u r white. contradiction of terms no? if you really didnt see color, ud say people hated yr ass because yr a damnfool entrylevel, grunt-ass lowbrow. not because of the color of ya skin, which ya recognized and put to the forefront in making that very statement.

feel like uh, a priori is not intuition alone. Intuition is a function of the mind, while a priori is, if I understand Kant correctly, a representation synthesized before there is an object of focus available for the senses to interpret, ie an essentially true conclusion drawn, that has no need for a combined manifold, as, Kant tells us, is offered by merely living in space and time: time to extend and progress from cause to effect to cause, and space to do it in. In other words, intuition is cognitive- psychological, and a priori, theoretical- logical.

Pathos is the one thing most divine about people, for i see that in my worst state I can still grieve for the savaging of life’s last hope, and be uplifted, feel tears, at least for a little blessed while. There is no state so low that does not inspire one to at least pity themselves, and feel the comfort of passions, however mistaken or wretched the person.

i feel that / Some subjects do not even allow to be proved through the scientific method, yet they are still issues of a scientific nature and not just mysticism. the line is very thin however, since usually these subjects devolve into mysticism. In fact, if science only worked with that which could be proven, from the outset or otherwise, we’d have a pretty limited roster of discoveries. Sometimes discoveries can be made along the way towards proving; sometimes, discoveries can be made, scientifically, thru means that for lack of anything better, are entirely theoretical. And sometimes the search is not to prove something true but to clarify something. Science is not out to be incontrovertible.

The man in mismatched sox inhaled not as deeply as he would have liked at such a crescendo, even if on the third listen in a row, then, looked up at the massive pure blue upwards, cloudless, felt likely to cry for joy, but in the end simply mouthed the words:

“I’m gonna die of loneliness, fo sho.”

So often doth trespass our intuition upon realms and pathways of a more intimate enumeration of cause and effect than could be available to any witness, and that is available only to the actioning of objects involved in the event seen and analyzed by what and who were no player.

The crisis paid goodbyes in the form of telling your ass off, is what he said. But we all knew he thought he was merely a parable often enough already. We didn’t listen to the crisis, deliberately shut our ears like boxing them very slowly ourselves before anyone else could. Later in the year many terrible events would occur that were the direct result of ignoring his words. But nobody came around to believing he did it. The crisis was way off teaching prophecies someplace probably foreign. But if I refuse to be confined to learning from my own folly I should at least give the follies of others a chance. Fatass karma, and more hell than handbasket.

What the crisis he said was

HEY YOU DONT WANT TO FACE JACK, FACE? TELL ME ABOUT HOW CRUELTY CAN BE ELEGANT AGAIN. YOU ARE FACING NO SUCH BURDEN OF SIMPLY LIVING. TELL ME WHAT HALLUCINATIONS ARE, YOU SWOLLEN, DYSPEPTIC SHIT.

And to this day All I remember is him Looking slain already Like he’d be on the slab In days Or even hundreds of years from then And it’d be how, uh, how He looked then Slamming the door While my sister and things Was gatherin they buckets for weeping later In that queer disease of spite where You grieve for the vanquished enemy.

all triumph is in some sense humorous, for in itself triumph is the opposite of tragedy. that is why the soldier laughs as he shoots at a retreating enemy. there is an element of rowdiness that is somewhat comedic, taken in itself.

Numbers are the only symbols that stand for what they are. In this way they are more like hieroglyphs

is bed porn a thing? it should definitely be a thing.

THIS LIFE IS FILLED WITH DARKNESS THIS DARKNESS IS SO LIGHT GOD IN HEAVEN QUA SKY MUST BEAT WINGS TO KEEP ON GROUND NOTHING MUCH IS EVER FOUND NOTHING MUCH IS EVER FOUND. No symbols where none intended etc etc

No art is permanent, in that its aims in being created do not last, do not translate between epochs. I will never experience Homer as one living in Ancient Greece. Have not closely read Homer, but when I do it will be as myself in my time, with all the sullying context of those years from then to now only left to unguide me.

Kierkegaard tricks you into thinking he knows his insanity is illogical, the side effect of writing his labyrinths. The frightening moment comes when you realize how fiercely logical his insanity seems to him, and how insane the World actually is, and you wonder if it is that you do not understand it or just do not accept it.

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[insomniasix]

Chapter IV –Living Legend - Part I

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 As it was decided, Noctis was the one behind the wheel of the Regalia, Prompto never leaving his side as the older members of the company sat at the back.

“Just to be clear, this isn’t a race, it is a chase. You’re not to pass me.” Ardyn set his term while stopping his Vixen next to the Regalia “Lose sight of me, and you’ll lose your way. And no tailgating. An accident would spoil the trip.”

“I’ll cause you an accident.” Six breathed, thinking she had enough of his voice.

“Alright, alright.” Noctis was quick to cover her voice with his “Let’s hit the road already.”

“As you wish. Drive safely now.” With that Ardyn took off, taking the lead and driving ahead, showing the company the road to the Archean.

Noctis was quick to follow close behind, following his rules.

“First Galdin, and then Lestallum…” Prompto was the first one to speak his mind when Ardyn’s car moved further ahead “what a coincidence, huh?”

“Way too convenient to be a coincidence.” Gladio spoke what was in Six’s mind, he was positive that was what she was thinking too, judging by the way her eyes never left his car “I recon he’s following us around.”

“But to what end?” Ignis wondered out loud. His own eyes glued to the road ahead of the Regalia, keeping an eye on both Noctis and Ardyn “That question bothers me deeply, as does his origin.”

“It’s hard for me to picture that guy in the empire.” Prompto raised an eyebrow, looking back at Six, searching for answers.

She didn’t indulge him though, as she was deep in thought herself. What did he mean dreams? And how did he know she hadn’t told the company about his identity?

“But it’s even harder to imagine him as a Lucian.” Gladio answered on her behalf, intertwining his fingers with hers and drawing her from her thoughts.

“I’d sooner not rely on him.” Six spoke again after a while and both Gladio and Ignis nodded at her words.

“But he may be our only way into the Disc of Cauthess.” Six knew Prompto was right. She, herself didn’t know how much had changed since she was last there. From what she heard, the Imperials had set up an inspection post, similar to the one they had outside Insomnia.

“What’s His Highness’s opinion of this ‘Ardyn’?” Gladio asked, nodding his head towards Noctis who hadn’t said anything in a while; making everyone wonder about what was going on through his head.

“Don’t really have one,” Noctis answered with a sigh “he’s nothing more than a creepy old dude to me.”

Six laughed at his answer “You hit the nail on the head right there, Noct. Nice!”

Noctis smiled and looked at her through the rear-view mirror, searching for her eyes as she smiled up at him.

“Well, that’s why we came up with a plan.” Gladio gloated proudly as Six gave him a wondering look.

“Gotta ‘watch our backs’ the whole way.” Noctis answered the same way.

“Well, that’s not really a plan…” Six stuttered a little, not wanting to ruin their proclaimed victory “You know that right?”

Noctis and Gladio didn’t answer, they both just huffed a laugh, knowing she was only teasing and that she would have their backs in case they needed her to.

It didn’t take Ignis much time to notice Six’s clenched fists. Thinking she was hurting and connecting the dots of her sharing the same headaches as Noctis, he spoke again, placing his hand on top of hers and giving a reassuring squeeze “Noct, how are the headaches?”

‘Of course he knows.’ Six smiled to herself, stretching her fingers to intertwine them with his as a silent thanks for noticing her trouble and for caring.

“Fine for now, but they come without warning.” Noctis answered with a sigh, relieved the headaches didn’t occur while he drove. The questions bombarding her head were the reason for Six’s clenched fist, not the headache the Archean was causing, as Ignis thought, so it surprised him to hear Noctis wasn’t experiencing anything just now.

“Wouldn’t want to have one behind the wheel.” Gladio said concerned for the Prince.

“Yeah, Gladio is right.” Six agreed “Stop if you need to, alright? We’ll handle Violet over there if he imposes.”

After a few more minutes of driving, Ardyn made a stop at the Coernix stop. Parking his Vixen and getting out gracefully. Noctis followed close, bringing the Regalia to a full stop and staring at him, waiting for instructions.

“What say we call it a day here?” Ardyn asked, placing both his hands at the lowered window on Prompto’s side.

“What say we continue on to Cauthess?” Gladio almost barked back at him before opening the door for him and Six to step out of the car.

“The Archean’s not going anywhere.” Ardyn gave the couple a sly smile.

“Neither are we, under your stewardship.” Ignis said, matter of factly, staring at his direction since he was getting out of the other side of the car.

“So we make camp…” Prompto said, moving closer to where Six stood, arms locked in front of her chest “with Ardyn.”

“Hell no.” Noctis answered, moving to stand on her other side.

“Might as well get the tent up.” Gladio sighed, watching the way the three kept their eyes on the man, clearly not wanting to spend the night anywhere near him.

“Oh, I’m afraid I’ve never really been one for the outdoors.” Ardyn joined in the conversation they had about him “I shall foot the bill, so let us stay at the caravan over yonder.”

“Well, if he’s paying.” Prompto almost whispered making Six smile at him.

“You really don’t want to spend the night in the tent do you?”

Prompto blushed at the thought of her actually catching what he said as he ruffled the hair on the back of his head.

“Fine.” She sighed, dropping her arms to her sides “But no funny business.”

“How are we all gonna fit in the caravan?” Noctis asked like it was the biggest question in the world, making everyone consider it as well.

“We take turns.” Gladio answered matter of factly “It’s not like it hasn’t happened before.”

“Right.” Six answered, pointing a finger at the ‘teams’ she called out “You guys go first. Gladio and I will go second.”

The company agreed and everyone moved along to the stop. Ardyn, true to his word, rented the caravan for the night while Ignis, Noctis and Prompto visited the store to get provisions and something for dinner.

After about an hour of Six and Ignis keeping an eye on Ardyn while he ‘danced’ around Prompto and picked on him, seemingly enjoying the fearing reaction the boy had, it was time for the first group to go to sleep.

…

Six and Gladio sat outside the RV, staying close just in case. Six had laid her leg on Gladio’s while he kept massaging her calf “You’ve been quiet.” He said, not taking his eyes off the spot he was rubbing “You alright?”

“I don’t like it.” Six said, looking at the same spot “I don’t wanna sleep when I know he’s around. He makes my skin crawl in an ugly way.”

“Don’t worry, babe.” Gladio chuckled, bright eyes looking at hers “I’ll protect you!”

It wasn’t hard for her to believe him.

A few minutes later, Ardyn was the first one to move out of the caravan, stretching his arms above his head and grunting “Good morning to you.” He said, placing his fedora on his head.

The couple turned to look at him, not paying much attention.

“Right, I’ll go wake the rest.” Gladio said as he placed a kiss on Six’s forehead and she smiled before he moved inside.

“How dangerous.” Ardyn said, taking a sit next to Six as she searched her jacket for her cigarettes.

“What is?” she asked, placing one between her lips before lighting it up.

“To have something worth losing.”

The look she gave him could have killed a behemoth right there and there, but he just smiled at her “You do realize I’m gonna snap at you at some point, right?”

“I wouldn’t dare do any foul by you or the company you keep my dear, I am merely admiring the bond you share with the young Shield.”

“For your own good, sir, I hope that’s true.”

“Do you not trust me?” he asked, a smile creeping up on his lips as he already knew the answer to that.

“No.” she said simply, letting some of her smoke out, towards his face.

“You, my dear,” he finally smiled brightly “are-”

“A genius, talented-” she cut him off before he did the same.

“Dangerous; more than you seem to know.”

“Why, thank you.” She faked a smile, opposing the threatening voice that was leaving her lips “How about you keep that in mind?”

“You do not have a reason to despise me as such, you know. There’s a reason you have kept the knowledge of my identity for your troubled mind alone.”

“That’s because I don’t know you; only who you claim to be. The boys shouldn’t be alarmed by something I can handle.”

“Are you certain of that notion?” his smile got wider at her words “Or do you feel the connection as well? There is something binding us, my dear.”

“You and I have nothing in common.” She answered, almost tasting the poison in her words “So can you please go be stupid somewhere away from me?”

Ardyn gave it a thought for a few seconds before answering, smirk never leaving his face as his eyes never left hers “You might be correct. I am not as pure as I once was. So tell me, oh pure heart. What is it that you regret?”

“Regret?” suddenly her attention turned towards his words.

“Regret is the most powerful thing. It can destroy anyone, no matter how pure they once were.” Ardyn explained, his eyes staring at hers, watching the gears turning inside her mind.

“I regret a lot of things, Ardyn.” She said sincerely “This conversation is at the top of the list.”

Six dropped her finished cigarette on the ground before getting up as Ignis and the boys moved outside the RV, just in time to save her from another philosophical question Ardyn could have had for her.

She said her goodnight and moved inside to join Gladio who was already laid on his back. Sleepy eyes staring up at her as his arms opened, waiting for her to come closer. She took her shoes off and joined him, quickly falling asleep in the warmth of his embrace.

Next

#game rewrite #for hearth and home #chapter 4 part 1 #gladiolus amicitia #gladio x oc #six ulric #prompto argentum #ignis scientia #noctis lucis caelum #ardyn izunia #ffxv #ffxv fanfiction

[nomoresuckers]

(part 1) Going back to what you said earlier about Marina having different sounds on each album -- I've had this thought for a while, and I realize that we take Marina for granted more than we know. Each one of her albums has a unique and different sound that is completely unlike the others. TFJ has an indie pop sound to it, Electra Heart was mainly electronic/bubblegum pop, and FROOT was very organic/fresh sounding.

The majority of artists today do NOT change up their sound as much as Marina does, and I’ve noticed this across all genres that I’ve listened to. In a way, I’m really glad that she does change up her sound a lot, I appreciate it and I know her Diamonds do as well. But when people flat out expect her to make something different for the next album and it ends up sounding like something she’s done before and they get mad… it just irks me bc what she does is not commonly done by artists. And then when she actually releases the album and people don’t like it, it bothers me even more because why even support her when you know this is how she makes music? She’s not gonna do something she’s done before, and if she does, then we should be happy either way… I’m just so done with people having unrealistic expectations and then getting mad when it’s not what they want… if you truly like an artist then you will support whatever they put out. Rant over lol

very well said!! the only artist i would even think of comparing her to in terms of versatility is lady gaga. (im not bringing up gaga to pit them against each other–bc thats super lame–but just as an aid to my point btw, gaga is one of my queens)

lyrically, she has proved to be a talented artist, able to change her tone depending on the production. in fact, aside from her voice, if you heard just the lyrics amongst each era you probably wouldn’t even think that they were all written by the same person!! and thats amazing. pop music sounds like it was all written by the same dude, and here u have a young woman writing as if she’s 8 different people lmao

there will always be ppl complaining its too different or too similar. ppl are never satisfied, and the rude ones always feel its their job to be loud abt it and annoy the rest of us or make us look bad

idk if i expect her to do something completely different for matd4, but honestly im really looking forward to it. ive seen of the producers shes suspected of working with and they seem to be very edm-ish sounding, and im pumped. anything she releases is pure genius–covers included–so im fine with anything she does, seriously. i dont have a problem with fans having a preference, its just when ppl are mean abt it that i have an issue

idk, my response is to any1 who doesnt like marinas sound after EH is to go listen to top 40 bc most of those artists never change. marina is a person, and people, along with style and perspective, change.

im glad im getting a lot of questions about this topic–its nice knowing im not alone in feeling this way altho the situation itself kinda sucks. thank u for sharing ur thoughts!

#dee answered #anon #long post

[barbaraboatright]

Giving your product a soul

After a few years of designing products for clients, I began to feel fatigued. I wondered why. Turns out, I’d been chasing metric after metric. “Increase those page views!” “Help people spend more time in the app!” And it kept coming. Still, something was missing. I knew that meeting goals was part of what a designer does, but I could see how my work could easily become commoditized and less fulfilling unless something changed.

I thought of how bored I’d be if I kept on that path. I needed to build some guiding principles that would help me find my place in design. These principles would help grow and would shape my career in a way that fits me best.

What I’d like to share here is how I found my principles and regained a sense of fulfilment. I’ll also discuss one of them and hopefully convince you that it’s worth considering when we design products. Speaking of convincing, I’d also like to help you convince your boss that these things are important.

One small string that began to tie it together was watching Bret Victor’s talk “Inventing on Principle.” The first half is mostly a code demo; then, he gets philosophical and talks about how goals and principles help you. I believe that living by principles can lead you to some really interesting places — for me, they’ve helped me to find the right ways (and places) to work and the right projects to take on (like designing a typeface), and they’ve helped me to identify which areas of my life need to be nurtured so I don’t burn out.

Advocate For Design Having A Soul Link

I’ve worked on projects whose goals varied from increasing email signups by 10% to boosting ad impressions by 30%. It was honest work, to be sure. It’s important that our designs meet the needs of the product owners and our clients — this isn’t art school, and there are real constraints and requirements we need to address.

However, it’s not enough to do metrics-based design. That in itself is a bit too clinical and detached, and where’s the fun in that? We need more.

Validating and then meeting a project’s requirements should be the minimum of what we set out to do. Once we set those metrics as our baseline, we’re allowed to be more impactful and thoughtful as we get to the root of a design problem.

What we need to shoot for is to help people fall in love with our products. That means pushing to give our designs a soul.

Here’s what “emotionally connecting” means: It means you’ve created a product that stands out in someone’s heart. The product becomes what people reach for because it’s the most helpful. People might not be able to understand what you’ve done, but they’ll perceive that it’s better. This is one way to make a product that’s indescribably good.

I usually ask these two questions, which get at part of what helps people fall in love with a product:

What’s going to help someone really find this useful?

What’s going to make them care about it?

For years, we’ve focused on making our websites and products be functional, reliable and usable. These qualities are the bedrock of any good product, but it’s when we add a soul to a product that it really comes alive.

My first hint of a design having soul came back in 2005 when I logged into Flickr for the first time. Sure, Flickr has undergone many, many changes since then, but I’d like to explain how it helped me, as someone who hadn’t shared much online before. I wasn’t sure how to share something, but I noticed right away that the website greeted me with a friendly “Hello.” The website helped me breeze through the process, and the friendly tone was really assuring.

My Flickr experience was like a pal gently leading me through the process, making it easy to succeed. It was a warm experience that made me want to return. Incidentally, I can say “hello” in a lot more languages now, thanks to what Flickr taught me.

Moving forward to newer examples, we can also consider Slack, its competitors and email. All of these options help people communicate, but Slack has a personality that helps you feel more connected with it. Slackbot helps you get started by asking you questions in a conversation, much like a real human would when you meet them for the first time. The makers of Slack eschewed the standard idea of filling in a registration form in favour of something more conversational — this makes other services feel stale and unfriendly by comparison. Slack has soulful flourishes everywhere: from smooth animations to a cute little emoji that is shown when you’ve scrolled all the way to the newest message in your group.

To be fair, Slack and Flickr (which, by the way, share co-founders) weren’t the first to try for something more human — that desire has spanned centuries. Lovers of typographic history may recall that Gutenberg wanted the movable type he created to mimic the look of handwriting. He used blackletter-style letters, which were similar to the bible manuscripts that monks illuminated.

These examples makes a strong case for design having a soul. The personality that develops from having one is what wins someone’s heart and makes competitors feel like poor (or, at best, passable) copies. Consider this statement by John Medina in “Brain Rules“:

Emotionally arousing events tend to do better remembered than neutral events… Emotionally charged events persist much longer in our memories and are recalled with greater accuracy than neutral memories.

In other words, we’re wired to remember products with a soul. Let’s use that to our advantage.

Next, let’s get a little more specific and see how that can play out.

FIDDLE FACTORS

One example of a way to give a product a soul is by adding a “fiddle factor.” A fiddle factor is a playful part of a product that imparts a sense of joy or playfulness when used. I first heard this term in Jony Ive’s unofficial biography, Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products. Ive had a new take on, of all things, a pen. Noticing that people tend to fiddle with their pens when not writing, he added something to his pen design to give people something to play with when they were idle. Of course, Ive started by making the best possible pen, then added the fiddle factor.

According to Clive Grinyer, Ive’s once-boss:

This was a new idea back then, to put something on a pen that was purely there to fiddle with. He was really thinking differently. The pen’s design was not just about shape, but also there was an emotional side to it.

Fiddle factors invite people to idly toy with them and form a deeper connection with what you’ve made. They become that warm little blanket that wraps a product around your heart and makes you want it more.

I’ve described one already with Slack and its emoji use, but here are a few more digital fiddle factors:

That pull-to-refresh spinner with the really cool spinning animation? A fiddle factor.

That fun animation you click to like something on Twitter? Fiddle factor.

In MailChimp, when you find out that Freddy’s arm can extend almost forever when you’re testing an email’s responsive breakpoints? That’s a fiddle factor (albeit a cruel one).

ONE WAY TO ADD A LITTLE SOUL TO YOUR PROJECT

To give a project a soul is to cultivate a relationship with it. You need to know what it needs and understand its nature. In this sense, this relationship is the same as a potter with clay or an architect with wood and steel. Once you understand the nature of your materials, you will know what it can become and what its limits are. This will help you to mould a soul in the right ways. Not doing this will ultimately cause your project to feel inauthentic and fail.

Let’s say you’ve built a playful iOS app. It’s meant to send short, fun replies to friends. In the app, you’ve got an overview page showing the latest emails, and the user can go into a detail view to read a particular message. You could go the standard route of sliding in the email from the right — it’s a simple thing to do, and it’s built right into iOS.

The drawback with built-in transitions is well covered: Anyone can use them. Sure, there are definite benefits to them (namely, that they’re cheaper and faster to implement), but it’s difficult to build something that’s soulful if you only use stock components and animation.

Instead, consider an alternative kind of transition. Think about it like this: Consider the personality you think the app should have. Think about the people who will use this app. I use this chart to help me determine the tone of a project:

Back to our email app. Let’s say it���s a fun email client. In this chart, it shows most strongly in the casual, energetic and easy-going categories. If we think about the animations we’ll use here, it makes sense to be more playful.

So, let’s animate the email message to come up from the bottom of the screen with a little spring in its step. When you’re finished with it, you can swipe it away or pull it back down.

Let’s take that even further, based on the chart and animation:

Maybe the animation could be the basis for how you approach other animations in the app. Your other animations could be similarly fun (but don’t overdo it).

Maybe it will affect which typefaces you choose.

What’s important here is to avoid forcing something in where it doesn’t belong. Don’t be different just for the sake of being different, and don’t overdo it. If we saw the President of the United States deliver the State of the Union address in a Hawaiian shirt, we’d probably feel like something’s amiss and might not take him as seriously as we should. Same here — what we do has to feel natural.

OTHER IDEAS

Any interaction, be it with a button or a scroll, is a perfect place to explore adding a fiddle factor. Explore what might happen when the user scrolls to the bottom of the content. Or perhaps you could come up with something unexpected when the user hovers over a photo for a long time. Maybe you could make a neat hover or focus animation.

Adding soul isn’t limited to animation, either. It goes much deeper!

How does it sound? Each person’s voice is totally unique, and your product’s should be, too.

How does it look? We need to stand out and be ourselves; so do the things we make.

How does it act? Could your product know the user on a deeper level and anticipate their needs? That would be deeply soulful.

Convincing Your Boss And Team

It’s all well and good for designers to talk about giving their products a soul, but here’s where it gets real: You have a deadline, and a budget. Your boss might not want to go for it, and your engineers might be resistant because it would take them extra time. Let’s talk about a framework for those conversations.

The framework I use to have these discussions centres on the effort required to implement an idea and the idea’s impact on the customer and the business.

While there will inevitably be high-impact, high-effort items in a project, the sweet spot is low-effort, high-impact ideas. These types of ideas help the user in meaningful ways, without significantly affecting your timeline and budget.

This way of looking at ideas also helps me to let go of ideas that might be a little too egocentric. Those usually have low levels of impact and high levels of effort. Mapping them out in this way helps me to focus on what matters most.

I’ve found this approach effective because it enables us to differentiate our products, while making the most of our time.

Let’s go back to custom animations for a moment. If we’re talking about adding fiddle factors and animation to our email app, we can’t build something great by assembling it entirely from off-the-shelf components. If we use only basic components and built-in animations, the product wouldn’t be memorable enough to matter to people. Plus, it will make it difficult for us to fall in love with what we’re building and to give the product a soul.

One additional framework to keep in mind is the Kano model, which was developed in the 1980s by Noriaki Kano.

There is a great explanation video, but, in short, this model covers three areas:

basic needs (Does the product work?),

performance needs (How efficient is it?),

attractive needs (What makes me love it?).

The soul of a product lives in the attractive needs. The Kano model invites us to think of one or two features that set the product apart from its competition. Framing your high-impact, low-effort ideas with this model will help you make a strong case for soul.

At our core, we’re people who care about our craft. We want to build great products, and the products need to have those nice touches. Being able to fully ply our trade also helps with employee retention. We’re happier when we’re able to do our best work. If we’re able to fully stretch ourselves to make something great, we’re going to keep giving our best in future. Conversely, if we’re prevented from doing our best work, we’ll become disconnected and disinterested, motivating us to go elsewhere when the opportunity presents itself.

If your boss or company doesn’t give you this freedom and you think it’s important, it might be time to plan your next transition.

Wrapping Up

It’s not enough to simply design something and meet a goal. This is a surefire way to burnout and boring products. We’ve got to do more for ourselves, our products and our industry. Finding our principles will help us find the right place to work and to do our best work.

Giving our products a soul will make them better, more engaging products. The next time you’re designing, ask yourself what would make someone find your product useful, and what would make them care about it more than another product? Once you do that, you’ll be well on your way to cultivating a healthy relationship with your products and building things that people really love.

Also, it’s not enough for us to have these ideas; convincing our team members and bosses to come along with us is important. Once we test and articulate the value of what we do, we’ll have a much easier and more rewarding time.

  By Joshua Mauldin.

This article first appeared in Smashing Magazine.  |  Image credit: Pixabay

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[bibliobasilisk]

Who's Chiyo? What can you tell me of the gadfly trio? You've peaked my interest! Please tell me you're writing this!

oh boy. ohhhh boy. OHHHH BOY. im so freaking excited now i whipped out my laptop for the sole reason of answering this bad boy :DDDDDDDDD

shhhh im supposed to do doing other things *cough* sleeping *cough* but i love this au too much

ive also got the a-ok to answer this because chiyo is @chanlyeya 's character technically so….. i can go hog-wild :D

ps please ignore the grammar again ill fix this later but its 1am and i dont particularly care

shit this actually got really long im inserting a read more here 

Chiyoko Amarante is chan’s baby character. her quirk is “Composition Touch” btdubs thats a temp name that chan and i literally just came up with as i write this lol which is that she takes on the properties of any material she touched with all five (5) fingers. consequentially, she always wears gloves, unless the situation, ie, a battle occurring, calls for it otherwise. during her childhood she was thought to be quirkless, but some heavy trauma from watching her beloved big brother die awoke her quirk, which incidentally is very similar to his own.

but i cant talk about chiyos past without talking about chisaki, her big brother.

chan and i love this boy so damned much and hes dead before the freaking story even begins. were dragging yall down into this hell with us

Chisaki Amarante was a star of the support class of ua, and everyone wanted him to go into heroics because his quirk was really awesome???? but no????? this boy?????? just wanted to help people and felt that hed best do that in a supporting role in the heroics department. this boy!!!! is PURE!!!!! he supports chiyo unconditionally in her dreams as a child!!!!! even though she faced all kinds of discrimination as a child because of her perceived quirklessness!!! this boy is a Good Boy.

fun fact: chiyo and tokoyami grew up in the same general neighborhood and were friends of a sort more like acquaintances but they were children 

anyways back to my original point: not only was he super loving and unconditionally supportive of chiyo, he ALSO helped toko get over the fear of his quirk!!!!! at least until he got to the point where he was in canon

actually while i think about it here’s some links to chan’s art:

https://chanlyeya.tumblr.com/post/163889951928/here-have-some-eyes-because-i-wasnt-able-to 

https://chanlyeya.tumblr.com/post/163801612688/and-heres-the-flats-and-line-art-because-im-a and hopefully write. maybe. hopefully eventually?

ok back to chiyo: she definitely has trauma issues from her brother’s death. incidentally he didnt even die in a hero accident or anything. he just.. got sick and died. 

flash forward into canon era: shes in class 1B heroics department with Nozomi Hizashi MY DAUGHTER!!! and the rest of the canon kids. just so you know, weve created a whole lost of kids and quirks for the sole reason of filling in those missing blanks in class b. it was hard. while nozomi worked hard and got a scholarship into ua, chiyo actually got recommended thanks to her brother. actually her brother is the only reason shes attending, thanks to her battle with depression and trauma. she can be a little cold and distant (for obvious reasons, see: depression) but she can hyper-focus on things shes interested in. just… sometimes those things can be… strange. off of the top of my head she once got super into competitive hula-hooping and something with the history of oranges i think. i may have just made that up. who knows? not me. she is SUPER SMART though. like i said in the nozomi post, shes a genius. before she met monoma and nozomi though, she was cold and distant. shes battling her depression with them at her side though!!! it sure would be tragic if something happened to her support system huh?? ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ ᕕ( ᐛ )��onto part two of the ask!!!! THE GADFLY TRIO :DDD

seriously i love these three. but im saying up front: monoma causes most of the incidents with bakugou. because rivalry issues. hes an idiot i know.

each member has their own niche, though it can change depending on the plan of action and other factors. but suffice to say the roles are:

nozomi- the distraction, the innocent face, the fall woman (she can get away with almost anything)

chiyo- the mastermind and the planner, with a side of being the muscle when shes not interested in being the mastermind

monoma- the henchman, the thief, and idea guy (like i said he instigates a lot of pranks, but both chiyo and nozomi instigate a lot of things too)there are several That-Must-Not-Be-Named Incidents with the Gadfly Trio, one of which includes macaroni and a feather boa. do not ask. Midoriya is still traumatized because that’s how he was first introduced to the trio. he was warned. he met nozomi. he did not listen. and now here we are. in therapy. Moral of the story is, dont mess with the gadfly trio.

if anyone was wondering, their teacher, sekijirou kan, named them the gadfly trio accidentally. its because the trio are gadflies, ie, they like to exasperate the situation past the boiling point all for the sake of their own amusements. they dont do it maliciously, however. most of the time, see: monoma vs bakugou. 

before they were all formed, it was mostly up to the class president, itsuka kendo, to restrain monoma from his animosity with class a, but now its mostly up to the trio. it doesnt always work lol. haha i just checked and its 2am and ive written almost 1k words on this subject thats way more than i though i was capable of lol. to answer the final question, no were not currently working on ksk right now, but hopefully we will return to this in the future because i genuinely love this au a lot and i really want this thing to take off but with chan working on upwards of……………… 7 wips??? and i lack the confidence in my own writing skills to do anything why do you think im the beta lol???  but we will return eventually! i hope! if people are genuinely interested ill try to answer any questions!

psst dont go to chan right now shes overloaded with the letter asks because she doesnt know how to restrain herself lol

#bnha oc #chiyoko amarante #chisaki amarante #nozomi hizashi #monoma neito #gadfly trio #i love these assholes