People on Instagram complaining about Dave (and Martin too) wearing makeup (especially too much mascara) is the same vibe as a toxic boyfriend criticizing you for wearing too much makeup or dressing a certain way...
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nika & romance
thinking abt that alia + romance thing @lavampira did and as it would seem that today is nika romance day (since it's all i can think about) so i'm taking inspo, i hope you don't mind <3
silvairre
minor crush back when he was in gridania. nothing truly exceptional. they're not really in contact anymore, although they bump shoulders sometimes.
minfilia
first love. when nika first joined the scions, he was largely aimless, aside from wanting new materials for his songs; minfilia gave him a sense of purpose, even if the key part - part where he too deeply cares for eorzea and does this out of selflessness - didn't really show up. they became friends, and eventually nika fell in love, though minfilia never really returned his feelings. instead, he was glad to simply serve wherever she sent him, and that was enough. her happiness was enough. unfortunately, by the end, nika started feeling used, yet nurtured his love for her for long enough to swallow his feelings on the matter.
his feelings may have even become more intense simply because he knew, deep down, that he had no chances with her. he never tried anything, never bothered her about it, it just floated unresolved for years before her death. she's still a sore spot, and he isn't really sure whether he will ever entirely finish grieving for her, even if he allows himself some measure of anger she left behind. but hey, what is grief if not love persevering? there is no world in which nika does not love minfilia, in whatever capacity.
lyse
a small crush that would have been if there wasn't artoirel. a love that would've gone very sour, very quickly. best left at a single hookup.
artoirel
another case of nika catching feelings for someone he can't, initially, have. nika's equal in a lot of respects; honest to a fault, not very nice, competent yet reserved. nika doesn't begrudge artoirel for trying to get him killed at first. there's a lot of ease in accepting each other, faults and good qualities, between them. artoirel, thus, began to feel like a certain safety. they bonded greatly over their shared love of music and their shared grief for haurchefant. artoirel doesn't ask anything of nika the same way minfilia did, nor does nika himself look for a superior, even though artoirel outranks him by far. to him, artoirel's rank isn't something that matters all that much, just as nika's status as the warrior of light doesn't matter to artoirel after a while.
instead, what they end up being for each other is a partner and an equal, because brothers doesn't quite cut it. it's the one place in this star where nika doesn't have to be the warrior of light, where he can simply be himself, and vice versa, where artoirel isn't the count de fortemps. they're just two guys of equal yet opposite vibes, and at some point, they allied to try and make sense of their respective lots in life. sense is nowhere in sight, but they're too bound together to undo that alliance now. at least they have each other's company on the road.
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These Milkvans are hardcore Millie stans on twitter who hate Noah They are the ones who call him ugly, jobless, stupid, homophobic etc. and try to say that Nillie are not besties.
There is something so concerning about them being convinced Millie hates Noah… like just imagine, he’ll very likely be in her wedding (something she herself has talked about him being a part of, less than a year ago and before she even got engaged) and watch them try to gaslight themselves into thinking he forced her to do it or something 😭
Millie and Noah are probably the closest cast-members coming out of ST (besides maybe like Charlie and Natalia).
Tbh I don’t even care about fictional ships when it comes to this level of delusion. Like just seeing them be so completely outside of reality, that they are so threatened over a fictional ship they have to make up their own version of reality where Millie hates Noah in order to subscribe to all the stuff they want to believe?
Anyways when s5 promo rolls out and then drops and Millie and Noah are having the time of their lives in interviews and bts being their usual bff selves, milkvans will be spiraling enough as it is, only for byler endgame to come in and really fuck it all up 😭
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The lack of self awareness of Grizznom shippers has always baffled me. Shippers that romanticize abuse and toxicity by denying it and sweeping it under the rug can already be unnerving enough but they go even beyond that. Like, they obviously don't care about Grizz at all. They just see him a tool to make Nom Nom happy because "he's sooo sad and lonely, he deserves it:(((". They don't care, otherwise it doesn't make sense to look at a guy that struggles with insecurity, bottles up negativity because he must be "the supportive one" and is still kind to jerks despite being uncomfortable and go "ah yes, I will ship him with the dude that constantly tries to use, belittle, humiliate him and was more than ok with getting him killed for a video, made the police hunt him down for a crab, and never tried to apologize to him and his family he also hurted, this ship is soooo healthy and wholesome💕💕💕"
[edit: read my self-reblog for follow up]
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it can be annoying when a creator successfully writes complex, emotionally realistic characters in mediums or genres that don't traditionally have complex, emotionally realistic characters, because the fandom is frequently very black-and-white about their views on a character - not even necessarily because the fans are malicious or thinking uncritically, but just because they're not expecting the medium/genre to have such emotionally complex writing and are unused to approaching it in a critical manner. which is how you get webtoons comment sections insisting that a character who's in the middle of a messy character arc needs to be dumped/jailed/publicly humiliated or youtubers complaining about intentionally flawed characters like they need to be completely rewritten to be a "good character" instead of *gasp* flawed
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Hello, just dropped by to say I loved Use Your Words and Everything Will be Alright...!👍👍👏Hope this is not too weird/out of the blue
It's not weird at all, don't worry! That's why I left that option open despite all the negativity and insults I got hurled at because my tags were messy and wrong (according to their definition of wrong). So it really means a lot to get some positivity. Thank you so much for reading and taking the time to come over here to say something kind. I didn't think anyone would bother, but here you are and I'm glad to stand here corrected :') All the best x
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Dear figure skating community: please stop.
I was scrolling through instagram, and i found a video of Ilia’s quad axel. The people who had posted the video titled it something similar to “Ilia Malinin lands first ever quad axel in competition.”
I checked the comments of this video. Everyone, we don’t need to bring another skater down to recognize someone’s ability. Please don’t leave comments on Ilia’s video about Yuzu being the first to land it, and about how Ilia shouldn’t be given credit.
In the other direction, fans of Ilia, please don’t say that Yuzu’s attempt at Beijing shouldn’t have been counted.
Yes, Yuzu was the first to have it certified, however his olympic attempt was under-rotated and fell over. Ilia is the first to land it on his feet, fully rotated in comp with a +GOE.
So let’s get two things straight. Ilia = ratified/landed. Yuzu = certified.
Thank you for listing to my rant, and one last thing. I think that both Yuzu and Ilia are amazing skaters, and I love them both. Neither of them have done anything wrong in this situation, I would just like those toxic fans to stop. This post is not intended to criticize the skaters.
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