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t0yac1d · 9 months

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THH boys x fem!reader who’s the ultimate sukeban/delinquent but is actually super freaking nice? :D thank u sm! and if you don’t feel comfortable doing this request, it’s no problem ^^

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc Boys x Ultimate Sukeban

Warnings: Chihiro Spoilers!

Notes: For those who don't know, a sukeban is a Japanese term meaning 'delinquent girl'. The usage of the word refers to either the leader of a girl gang or the entire gang itself, and is not used to refer to any one member of a girl gang. Also this posted while I was still working on it💔

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☆Makoto Naegi was a bit scared seeing you. Your aura was intimidating and dark, your clothing was bold and different from what he's used to seeing around the school. But one day, he felt brave and confident, wanting to know who you really are and if you're the same person he's seen. What he didn't expect was for you to give him a sweet smile, a genuine one. It wasn't fake nor did it have any hint of malicious intent. He was shocked that you're actually really kind. And he was ready to see more of that.

☆Leon Kuwata was also very intimidated when he first saw you. He'd always avoid your path and you as a whole. He didn't want to he near you or your group, in fear of getting hurt. But when you asked him for the notes in your shared class, he was dumbfounded. Your voice wasn't anything like your aura or how you dressed and acted. It was sweeter, kinder, softer. Nothing he was expecting, but now he can't keep you out of his mind.

☆Hifumi Yamada always dreamed of meeting someone like you, or even being in the same vicinity as you. He's written and read about sukebans before, he always prayed to the gods to meet one and here you are. Now that you're in the same school as him and some classes, he doesn't know how to approach you. He knows sukebans are violent and mean girls, so how does he approach someone who's known for being violent and mean? By hyping yourself up and going straight to the point. He'd walk up to you and your group, introducing himself and talking about his Ultimate. What he didn't expect was for you to compliment him with a smile. He'd walk away, flustered, happy and nervous.

☆Mondo Owada takes immediate interest in you as soon as he heard about you. He knows there's a 50/50 chance that you're nice and he's willing to take that chance, especially since he is also that 50/50 chance. You just look so beautiful and strong, and the amount of confidence radiating off of you just tells him to talk to you. So he does and he's relieved that you're actually nice, and when he gets to know you he finds out that you guys have more in common than he thought. And with that he can't help but want to get to know you even more.

☆Kiyotaka Ishimaru keeps his distance from you. He can't risk being seen around you. It'll ruin his perfect reputation. At least that's what he thinks. He'd catch you in the halls during class time, and as a hall monitor he has no choice but to confront you on it. Thinking you'd give attitude or worse he prepares himself and strides up to you. He asks if you have anywhere to be and if you don't then you'd have to either go to your respective classroom or the office. His voice is loud and carries itself through the halls. You'd respond, voice opposite if his and of what he thought you'd sound like. Apologizing for the inconvenience you walk away and go to your class. Knowing how you sound and how nice you just were he can't help but want you to continue roaming the halls, just so he can talk to you, and just so he can hear your melodic voice.

☆Byakuya Togami doesn't talk to you at all. He doesn't want to be seen around you or people like you. He can't be seen around people who will ruin his reputation and who would ruin the Togami name. He avoids you but that is until you asked him about his Ultimate. You were curious as to what a Prodigy was and were dying to know. He knew you'd try talking to him, that you'd try to get his attention somehow. What he didn't know was why you sounded genuinely curious. Why your face showed genuine interest. It caught him off guard and he just didn't know why he wanted to hear you speak again. Something about your voice and sweet looking eyes drew him in. Did he appreciate his brain and heart going against him? No. But he was surprisingly thankful that you didn't stop bothering him. He liked your voice, soothing and calm, a complete contrast to your outfits and Ultimate.

☆Yasuhiro Hagakure definitely stays away from you. He already has problems with the Yakuza, he can't risk having problems with another gang. Especially the leader of one. Hearing about what happened between him and the Yakuza, you thought about helping him pay off his debt. Calling his name from the opposite side of the hall caused him to jump, it also caused other students to look and scatter, fearing of what you were about to do to the guy. He nervously asked what it is that you wanted. Expecting you to rob him or beat him, just for being in the same hallway as you. But when you pulled out a brown paper bag and handed it to him he was confused. You told him to open it and also told him to keep it, saying how you wanted to help him and that no one should be struggling to pay off the Yakuza by themselves. You walked away and he was left dumbfounded, but thankful for you, smiling to himself and also beating himself up for not thanking you right there.

☆Chihiro Fujisaki doesn't feel safe being around rough looking people, scared of getting bullied for being too weak or to girly looking for a guy. He was working on something, sitting on the ground and typing away on his computer when a guy came up and took it, teasing the smaller boy and calling him names. That's when you stepped in, grabbing the computer back and asking what the problem was, your group surrounding the space. The girls grabbed the guy and moved him to a different end of the hall, "talking" to him and leaving Chihiro with you, the leader. As thankful as he was he's still scared, wondering if you're gonna do something worse to him. You handed him his computer and asked if he was okay, also asking if he wanted to hang out at a Cafe and relax a little. He was still shocked from the events that happened but even more shocked to hear your voice, kind and calming. He accepted your offer and you smiled at him, a genuine smile, causing the boy's heart to skip beat. When you walked off he couldn't help but smile to himself.

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capsyst · 5 months

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I am deeply touched that so many people enjoyed my little animation of Technoblade. I genuinely didn’t think that my post would get spread much, if at all, so thank you from the bottom of my heart for reblogging it and giving me such kind words.

While Procreate does include a playback feature, unfortunately the playback for how I animated this is 45 minutes long and well beyond the capacities of tumblr’s compression and limits. And since I don’t yet have a YouTube channel to host such a lengthy video, the best I can to is provide this quick and dirty breakdown of my process.

I animate the roughs in procreate and you can see that I am VERY loose with my initial pass. I often forget if I’m drawing him with 4 or 5 fingers, I changed his outfit halfway through the animation from a draping cape to a coat, and proportions fly all around. The most important aspect of this initial pass is just to get the timing and movement right.

I then do a second cleanup pass. It is not shown here, but this is what the lineart will eventually be based on. This pass is to refine the art and solidify it. Fix anatomy issues, those finger and clothing issues, and just generally work on sticking closer to the model I had chosen for my reference.

Then I do the lineart pass. I did this in Procreate Dreams by importing the animation as a video, lowering the opacity to 50%, and using it as a guide for the lineart. Here I refine the animation further and clean up any lingering problems.

Finally once the inking is done I color the animation. In Dreams I realized that groups are a godsend for this process. Every color was its own separate layer. But once I finished a layer I could group it together and Dreams treats it like it’s own singular track on the timeline. Then once I finished another color I would group those together with the group I already finished. And then again and again and so on until eventually I only had one layer for all the lineart and color. But if I ever needed to fix anything I could expand those groups and go directly to the frame in question. It’s a really handy feature!

Because he looks out the window at one point I wanted to have the light cast shadows on him. So I colored all the frames before and after the window in a darkened pallet, and the frames where he is at the window in the actual colors. Then I animated a shadow layer that I placed over those frames where he’s at the window at 30%.

For the background I drew an extra wide scene in Procreate and imported it into Dreams. I included an outside, and inside, and three curtains. Two closed, one open. With all of this in Dreams I then added the camera move, and a warp effect on the open curtain to make it seem like it was pulled open quickly. It was surprisingly easy to do!

As a final touch I added a reddish tint to the end when he goes full crazy.

If anyone has any questions about the animation process, or about Dreams or anything, please feel free to ask and I’ll do my best to answer as I can.

Again, thank you for enjoying this animation. I’m deeply touched by the response.

As an added bonus, here’s my 3 favorite smear frames!

#procreate dreams #procreate #animation #2d animation #procreate animation #hand drawn animation #dreams #technoblade never dies #technoblade #Minecraft #mcyt

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sarafinamk · 1 month

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Fallen Angel 50 Incorrect Quotes Special

The Smiling Critters Space Riders Au and the character Z belongs to @onyxonline

If you haven't checked out the Fallen Angel (Reader Insert) series, you can check out Part 1 and Part 2 here. You, the reader, will be referred to as both (Y/n) and Archangel.

Right now, I need to focus on writing my thesis paper, so I'm not sure when Part 3 will be posted. In the meantime, enjoy this crackfic as an Easter present. Some quotes will contain slight spoilers for future chapters. 😉 Enjoy.

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*During a training session*

Hoppy: Fight me, you nerd ass punk!

Archangel: At least TRY to sound sophisticated when you threaten someone.

Kickin: Dost thou wish to engage in a duel, my good bITCH?!

Archangel: *Facepalms* Somehow, that was worse...

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Bobby: Are you having another depressive episode?

Archangel: A depressive episode?

Archangel: I'm having a depressive series and we're just on season one.

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Z: What's wrong with you?

Archangel: Off the top of my head, I'd say low self-esteem, a lack of paternal affection, and a genetic predisposition for anxiety and depression.

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Crafty: How’s training going?

Archangel: Terrible. I want to stab everybody there.

Crafty: Okay, just don’t get any blood on your clothes.

Bobby: ...you shouldn’t be condoning this.

Crafty: Don’t tell me how to live my life.

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Archangel: Yesterday, I overheard the Captain saying “Are you sure this is a good idea?” and Hoppy replying “Trust me,” and I have never moved from one room to another so quickly in my life.

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Archangel: Helpful grammar tip: “farther” is for physical distance, “further” is for methaphorical distance, and “father” is for emotional distance!

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Archangel: raises eyebrows

Dogday: Put those back down!

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Archangel: Problem, I can't tell if this food is over-sauced or undercooked.

Kickin: Solution, just pop it back in the oven for another 10 minutes. There's at least a 50% chance that'll fix it, right?

Bubba: Result? Food has somehow become unpleasantly soggy and unpleasantly crunchy at the exact same time.

Hoppy: No better time than this to pull out my favorite word! Slunchy!

Picky: …put it away.

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Picky: One time I went to hand (Y/n) a bowl of soup. I wanted to say “Careful, it’s hot!”, and “Here’s your soup!”, so instead I blurted out “Careful it’s soup.”

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*Preparing for a mission*

Hoppy: Okay, who's turn is it to give the pep talk?

Catnap: It's (Y/n)'s turn.

Archangel: Don't die.

Kickin, wiping a tear away: Truly inspirational.

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Archangel: I can't take you seriously wearing that.

Kickin: Aw, you take me seriously at all?

Archangel: Fair point.

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Dogday: My level of gay has reached “sighing deeply whenever anything extremely heterosexual happens near me”.

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Archangel to Bubba: How do you tell someone politely you want to hit them with a brick?

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Dogday: If I say I love you, will you say it back?

Z: Yes.

Dogday: I love you.

Z: It back.

*Later*

Archangel: Why is the Captain crying face-down on the floor?

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*the Space Riders at Disneyland, in the teacups*

Crafty, Bobby, Bubba, and Picky: *spinning a little and talking*

Dogday, Catnap, Kickin, and Hoppy: *flying past them, spinning as fast as they can, screaming*

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Hoppy: I've done a lot of dumb stuff.

Dogday: I witnessed the dumb stuff.

Catnap: I recorded the dumb stuff.

Kickin: I joined you in the dumb stuff.

Archangel: I TRIED TO STOP YOU FROM DOING THE DUMB STUFF!

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Archangel: This is a bad idea.

Hoppy: Then why are you coming along?

Archangel: Someone has to get your injured ass home.

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Archangel: I feel awful about killing you.

Archangel: Even though technically you never even died, so I don’t know what you’re bitching about.

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Dogday: Hoppy, don’t go picking a fight with (Y/n). Don’t forget, they’re powerful, they could make life difficult for you.

Hoppy: Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life.

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Dogday: I’m so happy both angels are getting along now.

Catnap: Uh, Z and (Y/n) are not getting along.

Dogday: They’re not trying to kill each other.

Catnap: You may have a point.

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Archangel: The universe is cold and unfeeling. The only constant is chaos.

Picky: Was Kissy's place out of chocolate-chip pancakes again?

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Kickin: Yeah, I find it quite emotional. In like a cool way.

Archangel: Did you just say it makes you cry in a cool way?

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Archangel, proudly: I slept.

Catnap: Is that so much of a rare thing that you have to say it?

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Archangel: You're a lying piece of shit!

Hoppy: Oh yeah? You're the idiot that thinks you can get away with everything you do, WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD!

Dogday: I'm leaving and I'm taking Catnap with me!

Bubba, gathering cards: Aaaaand that's enough Monopoly for today.

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Poppy: It’s funny how well you and the Archangel get along. Didn’t they hate you at first?

Dogday: (Y/n) hates everybody at first. It’s their way of reaching out to people.

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Bobby: lifting weights

Kickin: Wow… She's so intense!

Archangel: I wonder what drives her.

Bobby, internally: Oh I am going to be SO good at giving hugs.

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*First two chapters of "Fallen Angel" summarized*

Archangel: I'm allergic to death.

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Archangel: Hoppy, I don’t think I can handle any more of your tomfuckery.

Hoppy: Oh yeah? Well I can keep going until you’re all tomfuckered out!

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Hoppy: (Y/n), what are you doing tomorrow?

Archangel: Having my day ruined by whatever you’re about to ask me to do.

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Archangel: Someone will die.

Dogday: Of fun!

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Something crashes

Hoppy: Shoot-

Bobby: running into the room in a panic WHAT FELL?!

Archangel: walking by the room calmly What died?

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Archangel: Can you be serious for five minutes?

Kickin: My record is four, but I think I can do it.

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Someone with a gun to Archangel's head: What happens if I pull this trigger? Heaven?

Archangel: Bold of you to assume I'll go to Heaven.

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Catnap: I like to play this game called nap roulette. I take a nap and don’t set an alarm. Will it be 20 min or 4 hours? Nobody knows. It’s risky and I like it.

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Z: When did you become a hero?

Archangel: Um… the moment I saved you from getting killed.

Z: You’re the last person in the galaxy I wanted to rescue me.

Archangel: Well… sucks to be you, don’t it.

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Bubba: It’s just that lollipop sticks last longer than the head, even if they’re less flavorful. I’m thinking of paper sticks, because you can peel off the layers with your teeth or leave it there until they fall off naturally, but plastic sticks can be chewed on too or left sticking out like a cigarette. Paper straws can be eaten layer by layer over time though, so they have the edge.

Hoppy, bored: Can’t we just leave while he's distracted?

Archangel, genuinely interested: But what about wooden sticks?

Hoppy: I hate you.

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Archangel: I am convinced the Captain and Catnap share a brain cell.

Archangel: And it's not in use very often, it seems.

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Archangel: Why am I the bad guy?

Kickin: I don't know, why am I the pretty one? We all have our thing.

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Archangel: We’re having a moment, aren’t we?

Z: If by 'a moment' you mean me not wanting to strangle you for the first time since we met, then I guess we are.

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Kickin: Dumbest scar stories, go!

Picky: I burned my tongue once drinking tea.

Crafty: I dropped a hair dryer on my leg once and it burned.

Bubba: I have a piece of graphite in my leg for accidentally stabbing myself with a pencil in the first grade.

Bobby: I was taking a cup of noodles out of the microwave and spilled it in my hand and I got a really bad burn.

Archangel: I have emotional scars.

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Dogday: What leaves a bigger memory than a passionate kiss?

Archangel: A stab wound.

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Archangel: I sense hostility.

Z: Good, because I hate you.

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Archangel: slams down an absolute doorstopper of a tome I checked this out weeks ago for a bit of light reading.

Hoppy: This is light?!

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Archangel: What’s up with the Captain? He's been laying on the floor for like….an hour now?

Bobby: He's just a little overwhelmed.

Archangel: Why?

Catnap: Z smiled at him.

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Literally anyone: Go to hell!

Archangel: Where do you think I come from?

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Hoppy: Just trust me. Have I ever put you in an unsafe or uncomfortable situation?

Archangel: All the time.

Hoppy: Then you should be used to it by now.

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Archangel: I’m so tired.

Bubba: Did you get to bed late?

Archangel: No.

Bubba: Did you do something strenuous?

Archangel: No.

Bubba: Then why are you tired?

Archangel: I’m alive.

Bubba: Sounds exhausting.

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Archangel: Dear Diary, my teen angst bullshit has a body count.

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A cult member: Didn't you die?!

Archangel: That was weeks ago. Things change.

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Archangel: I’d kill someone if you asked me to.

Dogday: I’m pretty sure you’d kill someone even if I didn’t ask you to.

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mommy-mortis · 22 days

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Inspired by @thevanityofthefox I decided to make my own SuperHero OC (I used myself as a reference)

Mother Mary

Strongest Abilities:

The power of persuasion, can force anyone to do anything by just asking (ex: Mother Mary: Can you... victim: Sure thing no problem) can be used from any distance the only requirement is that the person has to understand them.

Secret Ability:

Can feel a persons true intentions (what their goals are/what they plan to do to Mary) through touch.

Other Abilities:

Can heal others by taking on their injuries

Can fly also has wings that are mostly just for show and are translucent

Can heal rapidly while not healing someone else

Extremely slow Aging

Disadvantages/Fears:

Is not strong physically (can't throw a punch or really defend themselves though hand to hand combat)

Though they can heal quickly while not healing someone else at the time, if the injury they are healing for someone else is too great they run the risk of dying (ex: if someones guts are falling out, they would most likely die if they were to try healing that person)

Hyper aware that they may live forever and have developed a strong phobia of watching loved ones die.

Being alive during the end of the world

Personality

Nonchalant to a fault

Survival at all cost

comes off as nice but really just uses niceness to survive

Chaotic Neutral

can be naive, but quick to understand when they're in danger.

Loves to cook and go grocery shopping

Shy with romance exhibitionist with Sex

Civilian Clothing

Glasses

Vintage American dresses think 1940's-50's

shoes with a slight heel (Kitty heel)

Demure compared to super hero get up

How would they fair against THE HOMELANDER (JOHN CENA do dodododo)

Mother Mary's power of persuasion would slow Homelander down, if she could say the right words to placate him she would be able to get away for awhile, but if Mother Mary failed and ended up angering him he would easily be able to throw her around like a rag-doll.

Homelander, would most likely not be able to kill Mother Mary with blunt force, but he would be able to just pick Mary up and put them in a cell if she became to much of a nuisance, where she would most likely go crazy, her body forcing her to live, which would be worst than death for Mary.

Her work relationship/friendship? with Homelander

Would most likely try to stay out of his way, but could end up in more trouble if he realized she was avoiding him on purpose.

Mother Mary is a people pleaser, would try and placate Homelander with overt friendliness (think Minnesota nice) knitting him sweaters, buying him mugs or stupid little knick knacks, which in turn could lead to misunderstandings.

Would peep Homelander's Mommy/Milk fetish immediately and use that to her advantage if she had to.

Mother Mary's greatest non-supe strength is adaptability, rarely surprised by the unusual things that might happen at Vought (oh look, Homelander painted the walls with the new intern, why? because he brought him skim instead of whole milk) she kind of just shrugs it all off, trying to flow with the tide (Yeah Homeland you're right that guy was an asshole who the fuck drinks skim? (would proceed to never stock skim milk in their fridge ever again))

#the boys #oc #my oc #mother mary #homelander #homelander x reader #my art #my writing #long post

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emo-gremlin · 5 months

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Adventures in Incorrect Quote generation!

Starring: My friendly neighborhood!

(Some dirty jokes are ahead!)

Tax: Are you tall enough to play basketball though?

Noir: Are you calling me short?

Tax: I'm calling you vertically challenged.

🤣

Ricky: Hey.

Noir: *pissed off* You… complete …ASS, Ricky! You show up here after WEEKS, and you say “hey”?!

🤣

Noir: Valentine’s day is just a consumerist holiday that holds no real value other than drive people insane buying heart shaped chocolates for their significant others and pos-

Dennis: I wrote you a poem.

Noir, already crying: You did?

🤣

Gordon: No more making fun of me when I misuse dated cultural references, alright? Are we cowabunga on this?

Norman, sighing: Fine. We're cowabunga.

🤣

Gordon: I do two things and two things only. I devastate sorry motherfuckers, and get shit done as an awesome leader.

🤣

Norman: I'm having problems with a guy...

Dennis: Like his dead body won't fit into your trunk kind of problems, or you like him kind of problems?

🤣

George: *Locks Junebug in the car.* Act like a child, get treated like a child.

Junebug: What? Isn't it illegal to leave a child locked in a car?

🤣

Lenard, learning to drive: What happens if I press the gas and the brake at the same time?

George: The car takes a screenshot.

Gordon: Please pull over. I’m driving now.

🤣

Noir: sapnu puaS.

Norman: What??

Dennis: What language is that.

Noir: Turn your phone 180 degrees.

*Noir was removed from the groupchat*

🤣

George: I like your new pants!

Norman: Thanks, they were 50 off!

George: I’d like them better if they were 100 off. *winks*

Norman: The store can’t just give away clothes for free.

George: Thats’s… not what I meant.

Norman: That’s a terrible way to run a business, George.

🤣

Norman: *banging a pen on the table out of frustration*

Dennis: Stop that. How would YOU feel if I banged you on the table?

Norman: I—

Norman: I don’t know the correct answer to that question.

🤣

Lilianna, with a headache: Advil me up, daddy.

Gordon: I will short out the language centre of your brain if you say anything like that ever again.

🤣

Tax: Fine! Judge all you want but...

Tax, points at Dennis: Married a lesbian.

Tax, points at Lilianna: Left a man at the altar.

Tax, points at George: Fell in love with a gay ice dancer.

Tax, points at Noir: Threw a girl’s wooden leg in a fire.

Tax, points at Lestat: Lives in a box!

🤣

Pillbug: Lilith taught me to think before I act.

Pillbug: ...So if I smack the shit out of you, rest assured that I thought about it and am confident in my decision.

🤣

Norman: Someone take me to art museums and make out with me.

George: But they said not to touch the masterpieces.

Norman: Well somebody's got to pin the artwork to the wall.

Gordon, on the walkie talkie: This is Gordon, those idiots are fucking around in the East wing again.

🤣

Noir: Bro-

Tax: No, no, hold up, rewind.

Tax: My tongue was down in your throat just a second ago and now you're calling me bro??

🤣

Lenard: You call yourself my soulmate, but where were you when my meme only had four likes?

Norman: Making four accounts.

Lenard, tearing up: Really...?

🤣

Gordon: Hey, it’s your turn to wash the dishes.

Noir: I’ll wash the walls red with your blood.

Gordon: Okay, but before that, wash the dishes. Also, use soap this time.

🤣

Norman, carrying a box: What would you say if- if I, hypothetically, came home with 7 kittens one day?

Gordon: …

Gordon: What’s in the box?

Norman: What woul-

Gordon: Norman, what’s in the box?

Norman: I think you know.

🤣

Dennis: My knee just cracked so loudly that I half expect it to glow in the dark tonight.

🤣

#gremlin approved meme #my friendly neighborhood ricky #my friendly neighborhood norman #my friendly neighborhood game #my friendly neighborhood #mfn junebug #norman mfn #mfn norman #mfn #mfn game #mfn gordon #mfn george

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femchef · 4 months

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Pretty sure I haven’t posted any wig posts in a long time - but!!! Here is one. Also I’ve decided to focus on collecting more pink for 2024, so #goals I guess. ✨💕🎀

The dress is Classic Teahouse Chiffon Frill from Metamorphose Temps de Fille. The blouse and head bow are also from meta. Socks are from Sock Dreams (honestly I’m torn about the color pairing, but I kinda love the luminous yellow stripes with the pink?) and the shoes are Angelic Pretty. The earrings and necklace are from a small maker called Jelly Cherry Accesorios (you can find them on ig).

By this point it’s safe to say I’m a meta girl. I’m really impressed with their size inclusivity. I’ve been around the egl community for about 18+ years at this point, and while a lot of brands have scaled back on their sizing (especially btssb, they very rarely release anything larger than 38 inches anymore), metamorphose actually jumped into making their clothes more accessible to different sizes. I took a break from egl fashion for a while because looking at the sizes of most brands is… not always good for mental health - and I made a promise to myself last year that I would only buy things that felt comfortable, and not just things that fit by the strictest definition. There IS about a 4,000¥ difference in their sizes, but for the quality of the garments AND the fact that their larger sizes are designed for larger bodies (longer skirt lengths, longer bodice cuts that accommodate larger busts, longer straps and softer elastics that aren’t tight on the skin to start with) I’m perfectly ok with that. Their plus size line typically maxes out between 50-66 inch bust line for reference, and they do an inclusive release for nearly all their designs, which is honestly pretty singular for egl brands - instead of doing maybe one plus size release in one cut, like angelic pretty tends to do (with less frequency), and which is nearly always some kind of full-shirring bodice (typically not very flattering on larger bodies). So far, the only other Japanese brand that makes decent plus size pieces is Artelier Pierrot. Some brands - like Emily Temple Cute and PhysicalDrop, are experimenting with plus size releases, but so far the largest I’ve seen from either of them has still only topped out at around 48-49 inches in the bust.

To be fair, part of this is because the western audience is pretty small. Aside from that western lolitas have a really developed second-hand shopping and collection culture and are a lot less likely to purchase new products directly from the brand (we also have a scalping problem with Angelic Pretty products but that is another issue).

ANYWAY - let’s end this plug for now, but if anyone out there has ever wanted to ask someone about meta products, or has questions but is interested in purchasing, send me a pm?

#egl community #egl fashion #egl coord #ott sweet lolita #metamorphose temps de fille

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cassiesart · 1 year

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I’m flirting with the idea of having the shapeshifters change form by using a coat, like a selkie. 1) this would allow me to give people overdesigned impractical coats they would not normally choose to wear that they cannot get rid of 2) of course there are all sorts of plot opportunities any time someone has a very important item that would cause them severe problems if it was lost/stolen/destroyed, especially if it can be easily inferred by 3rd parties that said item must exist (because every shapeshifter must have one by the rules of the universe). the coats could even be given additional properties that make nefarious parties want them and target people who are known to have one, which gives me a free ticket to have a villainous character go after any shapeshifter at any point. It could also be a helpful limitation on a character with a powerful second form to be able to lock off that form by taking away access to the coat, so it can’t be used to solve problems :) 3) the way a given character interacts with the coat would be a potentially useful metaphor for the feelings that character has about the other form, for example, Sindri would be wearing his coat almost constantly even when it’s unwise or even dangerous to have it on, because he would panic if the animal form wasn’t available to him at all times. More pragmatic characters like Sal might have the coat in an underground safe guarded by several booby traps, thinking that the risk of having it stolen or destroyed is worse than the risk of needing to transform on short notice when the coat is ten miles away in a safe. Characters could have it shoved away somewhere because they’re ashamed of it, the coat could be well-maintained and pretty or gross and moldy from neglect, etc. 4) it’s also handy if a character has a default item of clothing that spawns onto them when changing from animal/creature to human, so I don’t have to tailor my scene compositions around hiding people behind strategic objects every time they transform without clothing handy 5) I watched song of the sea one (1) times

TL;DR That’s why orc!Sindri is wearing a coat with a fur collar that kinda resembles the furry scruff around his neck in his other form. Sal has a neon green crocodile-skin-looking jacket, which he will go to great lengths to ensure you never see.

Toyhouse: Oddborg | Mallory | Sindri

Dust and Sal do not have toyhouse profiles yet because they are too new, but they have posts here and here

If you ever feel bad about yourself: when I was looking up the football gag for reference, I discovered that Charlie Brown fell for that trick for 49 years. He didn’t even get the cold semi-satisfaction of getting it to a nice, even 50 years. 49. 49 years. Whatever’s going on in your life, I doubt you’ve fallen for the football gag for 49 years running.

#project: the four corners of the earth (working title)#some orcs have tails and some don't #dust doesn't have one and that's not weird #it's also not weird that sindri retains his tail when he transforms #they're actually the same subtype of orc #aside from the fact that one of them can turn into a dragon and one of them can't #long post #I'm coming to realize #that anything that helps the antagonist in a story #also helps the author

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solarpunk-0possum · 7 days

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white queers and antiracism

hi hotties. this is my second post written on the thoughts i've been having about the intersections of race and queerness in my community. I'd suggest you go read my first post so you have a little more context.

Since moving to SE Colorado, I’ve had the opportunity to spend time in communities with people that are new to me. I grew up in eastern Iowa. I haven’t had any experience living in a community that isn’t entirely white before moving to Colorado. Where I moved to, on the other hand, is very diverse. White people are a demographic minority here, with 43% of the town identifying as white. I’m thankful for the many opportunities I’ve had to listen to the Brown people I know here. I’ve learned a lot. Like a lot a lot.

Two times since moving here I’ve encountered organizations that claim to be all-inclusive, but end up being filled with white people. The first was a campus queer organization that I quit. The second is a volunteer organization that I’m definitely reconsidering my relationship with. For both organizations, I have asked the question- in a city that’s 50% Hispanic, why don’t our demographics reflect that?

The biggest thing I’ve found? Even after 2020, after the anti-racism work (performative or otherwise) we did, white queer communities still have a racism problem. It’s just more subtle. More than that, most of us (when I say “we” or “us” in this essay, assume I mean white queers) haven’t done enough decolonization work. Many haven’t even started it. We still live in bubbles of privilege, and people who don’t live that way can tell when we do.

What do I mean by decolonization? As a white AFAB person from the midwest, I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not the best person to define this. I beg of you, don’t let me be the only person you learn about this from. My experience with decolonization so far has entailed a willingness to learn, a willingness to stare privilege in the face, and a radical humility. The first aspect of my life I really worked to decolonize was my relationship with nature. (I strongly recommend reading Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Anything I have to say on the matter is better said by her.)

The thing about decolonization, though, is that it’s kinda like taking the red pill. (The Matrix was made by trans women. The red pill was intended as an allegory for understanding gender. I do not use this in a bullshit conservative way.) You decolonize one thing about yourself, and through that process, you find a whole lot more stuff to deal with. It’s a slow and uncomfortable process, that requires scrutiny of the most integrated and normal-feeling patterns of your life. It has changed my diet, my relationships with family and friends, my approach to education, my creative process, and much more that I don’t even realize. I’ve had to consider my own relation to race, gender, sexuality, work, ethics, everything! The harms and attitudes created by colonization are still deeply embedded in white American culture. While many white American queers have physically left the communities where this behavior originates, we have yet to decolonize our minds.

Let’s reference the cultural iceberg here. I use this all the time. I love it. It’s a great way to talk about leaving hurtful communities. When white queers leave their hurtful communities, it’s pretty easy for us to change the tip of our cultural icebergs. We start going to pride. We wear new clothes. We go by different names. The surface-level of our lives changes drastically. This is an important part of deconstructing one’s shitty past beliefs. It’s a vital first step, but it’s far from the last one. This is what a lot of white queers fail to understand. Just because you now visually fit into a new group, doesn’t mean you are completely free of the deep culture that you were raised with. While you look different, the shitty puritanical attitudes most of us white queers were raised with haven't gone anywhere. Therefore, there’s a bunch of white queers who are going around taking out their unresolved shit on each other. It sucks.

There’s a lot of ways this manifests in everyday life. Being of that culture myself, I don’t even notice it sometimes. It’s subtle and easy to miss if you don't know what you're looking for. I can only speak to my personal experiences, but I’ve spent a lot of time around white queers. I’m by no means an expert, but I do have pretty good pattern recognition. There’s some repeating behaviors I’ve noticed that I want more white queers to marinate on.

While there’s a lot of incredibly important discussion about the harms of colonization on the colonized, as white people, we need to discuss how it’s hurt us. Colonization, imperialism, and the shitty domination attitudes it brings has caused spiritual, mental, physical, and emotional sickness in white Americans. While we must decolonize for the sake of justice (and that should be reason enough alone), it’s just as important to decolonize for our own sake. In the process of creating a system that gives us white privilege, we’ve given up vital parts of ourselves. We’ve lost our connection to nature, to our pasts, to spirituality, all of it. We’ve sold our souls for the sake of comfort. We must give up that comfort for the sake of our own healing.

White queers need to be far more committed to anti-racism. In both organizations I reference, I have been the person to speak up about the whiteness. I’m one of the younger members of both of these groups. There are people with much more experience in advocacy than I, yet I am the one to speak up. I have a feeling that if I didn't say something about it, things would continue as they are. For people who claim to be so radical, they sure seem ok with the status quo. I’m a little ashamed of it, to be honest. White queers need to do a lot better. If we aren’t committed to decolonizing ourselves, any work we do is going to carry evidence of that, and people will pick up on it.

We really need to figure out how to communicate with each other in healthy ways. I don’t know what it is, but the white queer communities I’ve been in have been notably marked by the most annoying, pointless drama out there. In one org, a lot of people like to joke with each other, but sometimes jokes have gotten mean enough that they’re not funny anymore. As members of an emotionally sick society, we must realize that we’re emotionally sick, too, and we must do the work to be better. We have to take accountability for all of our behaviors.

The definition of “safe space” needs to be fundamentally reconsidered, especially among white queers. I am of the opinion that there is no such thing as a truly “safe space.” We don’t know how to create safe spaces because many of us haven’t experienced one in the first place. We carry unresolved traumas from the past (often ones that are direct consequences of fucked up colonizer behavior, and it's commonly generational) and instead of taking accountability for them we enact them on each other. I’ve been on the receiving end of this multiple times. It is unbelievably soul crushing when a place claiming to be “safe” actually isn’t. In fact, it was places calling themselves “safe spaces” where I have been the most hurt. We say somewhere is a safe space and close our eyes, plug our ears, and whenever someone has an issue we say "BUT THIS IS A SAFE SPACE!" without doing any real work. It's performative. If that's not annoying-ass white people shit, I don't know what is. We need to put our money where our mouth is. Just because a place is safe for white queers doesn’t mean it’s a safe place for others. We really need to figure that shit out.

If we are truly seeking justice, we must understand solidarity. In fact, we must be radically committed to it. My liberation is fundamentally wrapped up in the liberation of everyone else. Even if I as a white queer person can live a life with relative freedom, if someone else doesn’t get that, my freedom is at risk. If one person isn’t free, than none of us are free. Even if we have perceived freedom, what we call freedom is actually privilege. If systems of injustice exist anywhere, than any of us can have our rights taken away. To be the best allies we can, white queers must accept that systems of injustice are still alive and well in our communities. We will not be liberated until everyone is!

We have to do the work. It’s not easy work- like I said earlier, it really does involve a fundamental reassessment of your whole paradigm and way of life. We have to look our privilege right in the face, really sit with that discomfort. That’s not easy. Through that work, we will be able to truly see the dynamics of our privilege. It is not any of our faults that we have privilege, but it is our fault if we are complacent in it. White queers must go beyond being aware of privilege. We must decide how we are going to use our privilege to dismantle the system that creates it. It isn’t comfortable, but it’s worth it, and it’s the only way we can find genuine, sustainable, long-term healing.

I am reminded of a quote from Mindfulness in Plain English, by Bhante Gunaratama. (Total side note, this book is great, the way they teach meditation was the first thing that worked for me!) It goes “Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation."

Ignorance is a privilege that not everyone has. If we truly want liberation, we must understand this an make a radical decision to give it up. It might not be comfortable, but do you know what’s more uncomfortable? Being a Brown person in a room of ignorant white people who think their queerness exempts them from antiracism work. I'd rather deal with the emotional discomfort of decolonization than make someone else go through the discomfort of dealing with my ignorant white ass. It's a privilege to be ignorant. Don't be a jackass.

I think it's good practice to leave some advice on decolonizing yourself, to turn this from complaining about problems yet doing nothing about it, into complaining about problems and doing something. Do your own research for sure. I'm no expert. Just a jackass on tumblr with some big feelings about how my fellow european americans are really failing to be good antiracists. I mentioned Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer earlier, but honestly, just set a priority to learn from Brown people. Read books written by Brown authors. Look for diverse entertainment. Make it a radical priority in your life to seek out the opinions of all marginalized groups no matter the issue. The people who are being fucked over by the system usually have the most valuable insight on how to fix it. Humble yourself, shut your mouth, and listen. You will have time to yap later. People are usually pretty down to share their thoughts with you if you approach the situation with humility and a willingness to learn.

#solarpunk #antiracism #intersectionality #queer #seriously guys it's not that hard #you will learn more and be more effectively challenged by listening to people different than you. always #and know the discomfort this causes is pretty temporary. because then you get the benefits of decolonizing ur mind #and trust me it's pretty worth it #my life is better all-around because i am committed to decolonizing my brain. i feel better

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keshetchai · 10 months

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Sorry I need to just scream and find a new place to live lol

I recently told my roommate and best friend of like, 9 years that I'm planning to move out because living with her girlfriend is not sustainable for our very different needs (I have adhd. I am convinced she is OCD but not ADHD, because we conflict in terms of brain management in like 50 million ways) and gf's expectations and like, I even recently told gf the same thing - that I intend to move out when I'm able to afford to - so of course she threatens to move out and leave my friend over??? my continued existence in the meantime. I'm too old for this shit.

I am a grown ass adult and am tired.

This latest fight came about because I was trying to start washing literally every piece of clothing I own Sunday night (so that I could donate or sell things I don't like or wear, in preparation for an eventual move. Which i didn't announce). I even announce at one point I'm pausing from running more loads in the wash for the night because I want to take a shower, but won't leave out the clean laundry and will put stuff into bags so it's not a huge mess.

Then Monday morning I called out sick for a half day from work, not feeling well, and I get a text demanding I remove all my things from the common living room space downstairs and also all my remaining to be washed laundry (which is in Ikea bags, not like, strewn about) so that she can clean everything and do laundry on her day off from work tomorrow.

I point out I didn't know this was her plan, and I would've like, planned better had I realized, but would try to do so. Her day off was not on the physical calendar, and I don't conceive of time well, and also I don't pay attention to everything her and roommate talk about when they talk to each other (sometimes I have in headphones and am listening to something!!) so I didn't know this was her plan.

Somewhere in all the arguing back and forth she claims she's frustrated she can never say anything about my mess bc it upsets me, and points out that my being annoyed about the laundry is proving her point and I'm like...

No??? 1) I didn't ask you not to say things to me because it upsets me, you decided that. What I asked was for you to detail chores and how you want them completed to your needs for comfort on physical to-do lists so that we could split them up as a household and so I could just do like, task list A if you ask me to as needed, but always do task list B on Wednesdays or whatever, but you never did this.... and

2) I was annoyed she didn't say something when I spent like 4-5 trips going up and down stairs to bring down my dirty laundry and bring up clean laundry or when I announced I was taking a break. I literally just "hey you could've said 'actually I also need to do a ton of laundry on Tuesday so can you make sure you're done by then?" Is something that could be said! Or "don't forget I have Tuesday off and planned to do XYZ chores so I need the washing machine and dryer," on Sunday night.

Like I am a messy person. I have ADHD and clutter/time blindness. I do work hard to correct my mess and my problems and to clean whatever people point out. I am never going to be perfect but I ask myself all the time "what am I missing," and "what should I do?" And try to do those things.

But also like... "Left her oil painting to dry on a table easel she put on her own coffee table for several days, with the reference image placed beside it," is not an invitation to stack the reference image papers on top of my still wet painting because you thought it looked cluttered!!!

Every compromise or improvement I've tried to make hasn't been good enough, I've never had any actual accomodations that I asked for, and I have already given up and begin planning an exit strategy and then she had to go do all of this. I'm tired. This is exhausting.

I'm sick of having my stuff touched and moved and when I said demanding something of me last minute puts me in the position of scrambling to not be a household obstacle she was like yeah you are an obstacle. Like. Thanks. Great. Love that.

She also tried to argue she pays attention to mine and roommate's plans when we discuss them in front of her (because I said I don't pay attention to everything they plan or discuss in front of me) and I just.... Lol??? What??? Plans????

I've literally had multiple convos with roomie that we have stopped hanging out altogether. The last two things we did the two of us alone were 1) something the gf opted not to join us when we'd all talked about going, and 2) something I only got to do bc gf declined one of the two available tickets and *then* I was invited.

I was just....baffled. what is she listening to? What plans does she pay attention to? Before thing #1 happened (which did get gram'd) the last time I featured on roommate's Instagram was FORTY ONE WEEKS AGO so we truly haven't had any big plans.....in nearly a year. Before gf even moved in.

Literally just have a constant neverending headache and I'm going to need a new place and a license/car or a new job and I'll need to replace sooo much of my shit, and I just...hate everything I really do.

My aunt warned me this could go badly and I should've listened more.

WAIT AND ANOTHER THING LMAO the other day she sent a text asking if I was free on a specific date late September for a belated birthday party for roommate whose bday is in august and I just.....

1) why wouldn't you ask me to help you plan and coordinate it

2) why wouldn't you ask me in person when we live together

3) "uh, I might be free but I have to check that's not falling on a high holy day because it's late September....." ....by the grace of G-d it's the day BEFORE Yom kippur starts, and not Yom kippur itself because of course she wouldn't have looked this up.

#im sorry im still living here but i am actively trying to leave with my sanity intact

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hplovecraftmuseum · 11 months

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Clark Ashton Smith (Jan. 13, 1893 - August 14, 1961) corresponded by letter with H. P. Lovecraft from 1922 until Lovecraft's death in 1937. In the letters which passed between the pair (they never met in person) there is a remarkable similarity in style and literary form. Certainly in Lovecraft's letters to Smith there was a tendency to reference fanciful ideas and a further development of his own fictional mythic backstory. Lovecraft never dared to lecture Smith, who was very close to his own age, on literary subjects. HPL took the attitude of 'teacher' and father figure to some of his younger correspondent friends like Long, Derleth, and Conover. Considering the sympatico elements of their fictional styles it is perhaps surprising that Smith and Lovecraft never created any tales together. Smith, however, was much more varied in his fictional creations than HPL. Many of Smith's stories were "interplanetary" whilst Lovecraft's nearly always centered on earthly events. Certainly there were alien beings from other planets or dimensions in Lovecraft's fiction, but in every case they had colonized our planet from other origins and the 'action' was always centered on Terra Firma. Lovecraft and Smith may have been hesitant to create a story together because the possibility of creating a row over any disagreement over particulars was always a potential. Most of the collaborations created by Lovecraft and others had been with the master essentially helping out younger writers. E. Hoffmann Price though close in age to HPL shared credit with Lovecraft in writing, THROUGH THE GATES OF THE SILVER KEY, but Lovecraft changed all but 50 words of Hoffmann's drafts and was never happy with the result even then. Collaboration was always a potential for stiffness and restriction for Lovecraft. Though it seemed that HPL respected Smith tremendously as an artist there were certainly glaring differences in the two men otherwise: Smith often explored erotic subjects in his tales and poetry, Lovecraft avoided discussions on sex whenever possible. In his letters to friends like August Derleth, Smith on the other hand was not hesitant to mention "making love" to his female dates. Smith had no problem enjoying a few glasses of wine either - Lovecraft claimed he had never touched alcohol of any kind in his whole life. Smith wore a moustache for most of his adult life. Lovecraft had a dislike of facial hair of any kind. Clark Ashton Smith had a tendency to wear clothing styles that Lovecraft would never have been seen dead in! Shirts with large lapels, barets, and somewhat ' progressive' jackets would never have been seen on the ultra- conservative Lovecraft. Lovecraft had a certain ability to overlook or forgive disagreeable elements in persons who otherwise showed creativity as poets or artists. Even in his day, artistic types displayed a tendency to be a bit eccentric in dress, speech, morality, or personal values. Lovecraft may have objected to certain persons in the abstract, but those who knew him personally nearly all claimed that he was a very loyal friend. (Exhibit 336)

#lovecraft #clark ashton smith #lovecraft collaborations #HPL and fashion

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90s-html-lesbians · 1 year

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beatrice hcs pt 1

- nonbinary autistic butch

- mainly uses she/her pronouns & neutral gendered terms for herself, but loves when people use different pronouns or gendered terms when referring to her

- sweet tooth

- take her food recommendations with a grain of salt, she can and does have great taste in food a lot, but she’s also still british, so it’s 50/50

- strong + healthy, but not chiseled and she’s more insecure about that than she’d like to admit

- not the cause of it, but knowing/thinking that ava’s type is obviously muscular people ala michael doesn’t help at times either

- type of person who fine listening to most about any music, even if she does have her own preferences

- loves loves loves her documentaries, she gets cranky when she doesn’t get in her allotted amount of documentaries for the week

- technically listens to podcasts but mostly when she’s trying to fall asleep

- Doesn’t really get most current memes, but has studied up throughly on a select few just to drop and use them in casual conversation to fuck with people

- often does math problems to calm down when sparring isn’t an option

- hates most movies marketed as a “historical piece” or set in a specific time period because her brain just keeps noticing all the historical inaccuracies

- on one hand, loves being bigger and taller than ava because she loves to wrap ava up from behind and just rest her head on her

- on the other hand, sometimes hates being and taller than ava because she doesn’t often get to have the experience of wearing her gf’s clothes that are slightly too large for her :(

#warrior nun #sister beatrice #headcanons #hcs #wn

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rubykgrant · 6 months

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Dodgeball (2004) is not what I'd call a "good movie", and is in fact full of unnecessarily unpleasant "jokes" (major issues with ableism and fatphobia), however... if you ever want to practice spotting subtext/themes/tropes/story structure/and all that other stuff in movies, this stupid thing is actually oddly interesting-

-The two main gyms are Globo-Gym and Average Joe's Gymnasium; Average Joe's is, obviously, a pun on the term "average Joe", meaning a common person, not identical to everybody else, but not perfect either, and the members are all various odd-balls. Globo-Gym is meant to be "globolization", everything is connected and interdependant, but to the point that if you do not conform to the same set standards, you will be excluded/punished

-The guys who run the gyms are White Goodman and Peter LaFleur. While Peter is a bit more nebulous with the meaning of his name (it could, potentially, be connected to "Peter and the Wolf", a story about taking chances, compared to Dodgeball's Peter's apathy. also, perhaps a bit of the idea for Peter Pan, in that he is an adult who has "grown up" and "given up", losing any youthful sense of hope/determination. LaFleur, meaning flower, could possible imply a need to bloom/grow), White Goodman is OBVIOUS; he's a villain. He is very much the bad guy. He is a white man, who does whatever he wants, justifying his selfish and harmful attitude with his own "morals", so he considers himself "good". It's also all kinds of blatant commentary on his racial status (this man is white, whatever he does is seen as good, so even though he is HORRIBLE, he's thinks he's the hero)

-Within the Globo-Gym, TVs constantly run recordings of White giving random "encouragement" for gym members to work out, sometimes using names, saying "Don't slack, Trevor". He is not aware of any Trevor in the gym, There might not be a Trevor there at all. It still gives the impression to gym members that he is all-knowing and all-seeing, and just by playing the odds, he will EVENTUALLY say the name of somebody who is actually working out

-When the dodgeball teams are formed, White has a group named- "Blade, Lazer, Blazer". Yet again, their individuality does not matter, they are part of a set, just there for him to use for his own purposes

-A young member of the Average Joe's team is still in high school, and assists in his school's cheer team competition; they are called the "Virgin Donkeys". A very weird "biblical reference"... and ironic, because in the epilogue, the young man is seen happy with one of cheerleaders, now his girlfriend, who is pregnant

-One of the Average Joe's members is a man named Steve the Pirate; he dresses and talks like a cartoonish pirate character, often by saying "Gar!". Most people simply accept this. Near the end, he is told by an upset Peter "You are NOT a pirate", leading Steve the Pirate to have identity crisis. When he returns at the climax, he is dressed in modern clothes, his hair cut and with a clean shave. He begins to explain that yes, he knows he's NOT a pirate... which is when Peter explains that he needs somebody to help him with "all this treasure", revealing that the prize money has been delivered in a decorative treasure chest. Steve emotionally lets out an over-joyed "Gar!" at the sight

-The prize money itself is a twist; White had Peter sell the shares of Average Joe's to him, seemingly bribing Peter to just give on the tournament and the gym. However, peter bet that money on HIMSELF, at odds 50 to 1, resulting in a huge pay-off. Peter can now just buy total control of Globo-Gym, making it a new location of Average Joe's. When the prize money is delivered, not only is it in a pirate themed treasure chest, the words "Deus Ex Machina" are printed on the side (a "Gift from God", literally solving all their problems)

There is other stuff too, this is just what I remember off the top of my head (it has been... maybe 17 years since I watched it?). Like, this movie SUCKS, and some of the especially offensive language used is an just plain awful, but if nothing else; this shows even a stupid story has some form of substance hidden in there (seriously though, major warning for use of the r-insult and other hurtful terms, with some really bad fat-shaming throughout). Y'know what, you don't have to watch the movie, you aren't missing anything. These are the most interesting things in there, so enjoy that

#movies #my thoughts

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ifihadaworldofmyown · 1 year

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Super7 Disney Ultimates Wave 2: Alice figure review

Back in June 2021, I pre-ordered Super7′s Alice figure. Yesterday, it finally came in after numerous delays. Was it worth the wait?

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It pains me to report that the final product turned out to be a huge disappointment. For starters, here’s what the figure looks like as advertised on Super7′s website.

And here’s the actual figure...

Did I get a bootleg? Nope. This is the real deal. As you can see, the figure looks nowhere near as good as what was advertised on the site.

I actually broke off one of her legs by accident trying to get her out of the plastic casing; I have since superglued it back on so she now has one immovable leg. Not that it matters, since the articulation on her limbs is less than stellar overall. The legs can barely be moved to different positions, so you can’t really put her in a sitting position for example. Her arms fare only a little better, as they can be moved up and down at the base. However, you can really have them stretch out to the sides much.

As you can see, there are accessories, such as additional heads, hands, the Drink Me bottle, Dinah, the glasses bird, and a shrunken Alice. I’ve only switched her neutral face with the more surprised face since I think the latter is the “best”-looking of the three. It’s not by a wide-margin though, as none of the faces are anywhere near as good as what was in the promo images. And after accidentally breaking off one of her legs, I’m too intimidated to try messing with her hands for fear of damaging the figure further. Her long hair prevents her head from moving in just about any direction, so you more or less have to move her upper torso in order to make her look in different directions.

Posting a back view of the figure for comparison with the previous image. The skirt and petticoat are cloth. There’s a velcro patch on the skirt near the ribbon, although the skirt is more or less attached to the waist. As for what’s under the skirt...

“Just look at those stems!”

“Rather scrawny I’d say.”

Sorry, I couldn’t resist making that reference. Anyway, yes, she does have sculpted bloomers. While I appreciate the attention to detail, it does present problems with regards to articulation. The frills on her bloomers make it impossible to move her legs into different positions (she can’t kneel for example). They also gave her unusually-pronounced buttocks for some reason, maybe to help with leg articulation (not that it helped at all)? Still, it’s kind of an awkward detail. >_>

The petticoat has a wire in it making it possible to flatten the skirt out or move it into more of a bell shape like in the movie. Having two layers of petticoats does seem a little excessive though.

Another big problem is the feet. I feel like this is an issue with my figure specifically (I’ve seen YouTube videos covering the figure that feature ones with functional feet), as the right foot is bent at an angle making it impossible for her to stand.

With very little articulation and a dodgy design, it’s a big disappointment as an action figure. I’ve heard some people say it looks worse than Super7′s April O’Neil figure, but I wouldn’t quite go that far. Still at the $50-60 range, this figure is way too expensive for what it actually offers. Overall, I’d have to give it a 3/10. I definitely will not be buying the Mad Hatter, Queen of Hearts, or any other hypothetical Alice-related figures from Super7 in the future. Super7 in general has gotten a lot of criticism for lack of quality control and stretching their resources too far with too many licensed IPs.

#Alice In Wonderland #1951 #Disney #super7 #action figure

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gamerbearmira · 9 months

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(Evillious chronicles explained. Part 1! And for context... I'll be using timeline, shown in this playlist : https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL864E18DE40C5A739 )

I think it'll be most logical to start with prologue/first arc, I prefer to call "First and second period".

Even through starting with First period is something, you'd usually would start with... this time, we take this one off in second period.

On itself, Second Period, on my understanding, is a simulation or artificial intelligence of sorts, created by scientists of First Period.

We start off with seeing/hearing a girl, who doesn't really have a canon name and usually referred to as "The mysterious Rin". But in my head, this is Levia Barisol, a small child, who was just set into the simulation/her world and she starts learning, which is shown in "Wordplay". In the beginning, she learns good words, like "Mom", "Dad", "Water" and "Friend", later on, it turns to dark with "Wound", "Sin", "Punishment", in the end, she starts wondering, which words would be more suitable for one situation or another, so she continues her game to learn more

Next is "Bloodstained switch", which shows another big aspect of the story, that will come up more than once. It's a HER syndrome, which is short for Hereditary Evil Raiser, sometimes also can be called simply Malice... it's a syndrome that the story explains all evil doings in people (they can be wrong, but evil is exactly pointed at that syndrome). As it's explained in song, it's like there's a second person inside of you, who only wants to kill and destroy, but it can be held back, if you take pills or have something injected in you. But that song shows on what can happen, if person with HERS forgets to take those pills, as a girl's evil side takes over and pushes a button, which kills her father, so she now has to explain this to scientists. (That's how I understand this song)

Last (or pre-last) song for prolouge is called "Barisol's child is an only child" AND WE FINALLY GET TO VISIT FIRST PERIOD! Okay, so, from what I can understand, every person in second period is created as a copy of person in first period and we take a look on Levia's counterpart, Behemo Barisol (voiced by Len).

Behemo is only child and heir of the wealth of his family. A pretty little boy, everyone envied, but with one "problem". That is that he only plays with dolls and wears only dresses and "girly" clothes (some people also headcanon them as a trans woman... but both are valid for me, so it's 50/50 in my head). And still, this behavior of the child pushes everyone around him away from him.

It's in contrast to Levia, he himself made to be the perfect version of himself, but also a girl. To explain Levia... she is serious, perfect daughter and incredibly smart, which leads her to go to collage at ripe age of 6 years. Now, her interest to learn more lead her to also be interested in how the man's mind works. Why do people commit crimes? Why do wars happen? Why are they so mean to each other? And to it, she lead her to discover another world, First Period, where she thinks all the Malice comes from.

Time goes on, Levia continues her research, Behemo gets married to his maid. But neither side is happy... Behemo wants to wear his wife's clothes, but she finds it disgusting, while Levia seemed to have developed HERS. She comes to seek help from her colleague, Seth Twiright (voiced by Kiyoteru Hiyama) that the only way to get rid of it is to kill her other self.

Levia thinks about it, before opening portal to First Period, where she meets Behemo (who hides from angered people for some reason) and nearly kills him, before she realizes that killing him isn't the way she can get rid of her Malice, but it would be a way for it to win over her and, how song plays it off, it would all be a trick of Seth, so she couldn't get onto the Ark and he can take her place (a space ship, where only people without HERS/Malice can get onto, in case something bad happens to the world). Upon realizing this, she sets out to save Behemo and taking him to her world.

In the end, the evil does take over the world and the Ark takes off with 72 people inside of it, two of which were the two Barisols, who now go by as "twins". And, with their knowledge of mind (Levia) and body (Behemo) of the mankind, they now hope to create the "better" humanity one day...

There is also a song, called "Clockwork lullaby. Key of the world", but I'll be honest, I have no idea, how to describe it, other than it can be sung with many characters from story and it's catchy. Also it's the first song to openly have the Clockwork lullaby, a magic spell that, if played differently, can do many things. (Another place, it can be heard earlier, depending on version/cover, is "Wordplay")

And so... this is the first arc of the story! I hope it doesn't break your brain, because we have over 80 of other songs and stories to cover XD

A lot of killing and beef between these people 😭 seems interesting tho! I gotta look up the characters and correspond them to vocaloid (if they have one)

#my asks #my asks are open #evillous chronicles

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sp00kysk3lly · 10 months

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First therapy session today with the psychiatrist today…

Feelings: Anxious. Scared. Worried. Wanting to make myself ill so I don’t have to go….

I don’t know what to think about it. I’m scared they’ll be like all the others that I had at that place, (I’ll call it CC).

At CC I’ve had a psychiatrist tell me to go online and see which mental health problem fits me best…. (It’s not a fucking clothes shop mate!)

I’ve also had a CBT therapist spend 50 minutes EACH session, sit and talk about diabetes and testing me on my diabetes knowledge. Every. Single. Session. The only thing I did for CBT was a story of how I’d kill my friends. That’s it. Nothing else.

Then I’ve had 2 people don’t really know what they were to be honest (I doubt they had any medical degree, they didn’t seem to know a lot). They fobbed me off on some “support worker” who turned out to be weird. Kept wanting to come to my house even after I told him I wasn’t comfortable with it and I’d gladly meet him somewhere else. I don’t know if it’s because he was a man or if I just had red flags thrown into my face, but I was certainly 100 percent uncomfortable.

They always tell my doctors or whoever referred me that I was “reluctant” when I simply just left because I wasn’t getting the right help or support. Why should I stay somewhere when I’m not being helped?

I don’t think talking about my diabetes for 50 minutes each week was helping me with my thoughts, was it?

Hopefully these people are better. I’ve looked up the psychiatrist I’ll be seeing, and she seems qualified enough. But I still don’t understand why they’d have a occupational therapist in the appointment??? It doesn’t make sense as I’m there for PTSD and Pure O OCD??

And I’m also not very good with new people so I hope they can understand that. Sometimes these mental health professionals, they think people are going to go in there and be all talkative.

Considering that I’m also angry at my current therapist for ending my sessions early. I was suppose to have 8 sessions, not 4!!! Making me comfortable and then make me leave and go somewhere new with new people that I don’t know?? How am I suppose to feel? Happy?

What annoys me most is the fact that on the 28th, in my session with the current therapist, I slightly made eye contact, something that I don’t really do much and haven’t done since HJ was in my life.

Wish me luck I guess!

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