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amatres · 3 months

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🌺 Layla loves receiving homemade gifts, but on the flip side expensive gifts make her nervous.

oh, interesting! layla is the sort of person who will appreciate any gift, no matter the cost, as long as the intent behind it was genuine. what doesn't matter so much is it's price or monetary value, but simply the person who gifted it to her did so because they cared for her. how she approaches being given one fully depends on the gift giver's demeanor!

if she thinks they did it just to buy her, she'd be much more flippant with it than say, someone did it because they were trying to give her a fun gift to make her laugh (how she at first interpreted daeran's gifts F) or because they're trying to make a romantic gesture of some kind and will go according to the situation

that was very long winded explanation Lmao. all that said however i am going to give this a 6/10, i won't lie and say expensive gifts dont get assumed to be more joke gifts (sorry daeran...) or someone trying to buy her off for one reason or another. the later definitely make it much harder for someone to approach her and continue to have a relationship with her after that point, as she'll get uncomfortable and perhaps even scared depending on the situation

either way, it's definitely not the best way of getting her attention if your intention is you're trying to court her lol

#ama mumbles #ask game #layla (oc)#thank you ash!!!#this was a very long answer for a simple headcanon lol sorry #all those flowers from daeran she was just like 'lol this is hilarious. yeah ill joke flirt back thanks i do like them'#and then the bath scene happens and she is just like 🧍‍♀️ 'oh no. i think. i have misunderstood.'#gifts are gifts in her mind! as long as there was feelings behind it she appreciates it #she was a noble so it is also hard to shake the casual attitude to just ridiculous ass priced gifts given to you #depending on how much effort was put into it would also change how careful she is with it!#if someone spent a long time making smthing or spent a long time saving up money or searching for smthing they bought for her #she will cherish it bc of the effort it took them. thats why she helps seelah buy the better ring for example!#all that to say the beads lann gives her are Always on her person #i need to draw an end game version of her some time bc those things are never leaving her #youll find them clutched by her dead hands in the grave #you didnt ask that part i just added it in. for me 💕

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eyesocketinchworm · 1 year

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i'm not going to complain about shadow and bone too much because i could obviously just like. not watch it. but just know that ohh my god. oh my god

#ziggy speaks #soc #anti shadow and bone #im being dramatic it's not terrible i guess #i hate so much when franchises and whatever make some kind of adaptation where they keep the characters but give them nothing to fucking do #it's clearly just for money with no regard to why the characters themselves are compelling and the fact that you literally need plot???#the entire plot of crooked kingdom is reliant on the plot of six of crows and the ice court heist but the show includes scenes or at least #nods to scenes from both books #but they don't work without the context #and theres so much mischaracterization and like they rush the character development so much because the soc characters have like no actual #time to be characters and the story they gave them makes no sense????#THEY NEED THE HEIST #THATS THE POINT OF THEM #the facades are supposed to be stronger than this.. you cannot have kaz saying how much he needs and relies on inej in like episode three #i am but a simple teenager and i have the potential for so much rage #idec idec #also my six of crows hyperfixation was like two years ago #apparently im ready to go to war over it today in the year of our lord 2023 #who knew

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halforcdad · 1 year

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Lucy mentioning the immigrant parents dream is so funny to me djsjsksldjfsh my asian parents would love him too lmao remind me of that one guy who is a doctor, navy seal AND astronaut

bruh big same, its so fucking relatable. but also if my asian parents heard that resume id be getting side-eyed to hell LOL

it does make me wonder if lucy's rich af parents see her going into ncis as on par with an immigrant kid telling their parents theyre pursuing an art degree or something Lol

and that guy is an asshole for setting such an impossible standard for the rest of us! 😩 like who has the time to do all that!!

#ncis hawaii #lucy saying that was so poc immigrant solidarity of her LMAO #its literally one line but my dumbass is immediately like 'lucy backstory? 👀'#its a nice little thing that no matter how rich they are theyve probably still been emphasizing the immigrant family dream to their kids #bc it is very true that mindset never leaves when u live in a foreign country does it no matter how much u succeed #and by nice little thing i mean nice detail bc her parents probably werent that nice abt it given what shes said abt them 💀#I'm overthinking this one simple line KANFNSKD anyway i love lucy in that scene

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catrillion · 1 year

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[img description: Two screenshots of the game Gnosia. Sha-Ming is groveling and says, "I... I... I'M SORRY...! I'll kiss your ass, I'll do ANYTHING! Hehe... Can we let this slide, just this once...?"

Raqio responds to this with, "Hah, Sha-Ming. You really know no shame. Did you really think you'd be forgiven? Go on, kiss the floor! Harder!" End description.]

#gnosia #this is me saying ''ok I'm finally posting my gnosia content again''#i have some of the romance scenes too but i still gotta edit those (it's the only way i know to get around the image limit)#so I'm starting with some simple stuff that doesn't need as much to be post-ready ya feel?

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millin21 · 10 months

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Finished watching Nimona a second time.

..... Ah... It did make me cry. Less of an "oh I am sobbing my eyes out" and more of a "there are tears on my face and they came in a subtle way I cannot pinpoint."

#nimona #the raw emotions in this. the way they say things. it feels so real... more likely because it was written by someone who experienced it #breathing your own experience into a work of fiction #'you know that feeling right before you sneeze? its kinda close to that' was such an interesting way of describing it #thank you for describing it in a way i can understand #while i still dont know or understand much about things... i am learning #and i aporeciate seeing films/scenes like this that explore it in such a simple way #i am sure there are other pieces of media that expkore things as well and they are on my watch list #rambling in tags #i might not understand it... but i will respect you

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chiropteracupola · 2 years

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hmmmmm can I have a shantay petoskey for the half hour drawing prompts?

she!!

#em draws stuff #the checquy files #the rook #stiletto #shantay petoskey #I simply love her So Much #but I haven't drawn her very much so I went for a portrait rather than an Action Scene #and even this took five attempts...#I thought that the leftover crystals from her fight at the end of stiletto would make a fun background/light source #but when I got around to doing her silver I was very very tired so I kept it simple for the moment #on that note that also got me to thinking that a potential either fight or team-up between shantay and eckhart would be incredibly cool #since they're both metal manipulators but in such different ways!#hm if I was more confident imitating daniel o'malley's style I'd say I feel a fic coming on there...#well if anyone feels like writing a bit of checquy fic I shall just leave that idea out for you like a nice platter of cheese and grapes #that aside... bishop petoskey are you free on thursday when I am free &c &c

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tragedykery · 1 year

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you wanna ramble about some of your visions of the little guys? because i would Love to hear <333 (also feel free to ignore this if you don't want to, haha!!!)

thank you so so much for sending this ask ily <333 and I am. so so so sorry this started out as just a short stating of facts but then it began to lead a life of its own (uh cw for animal death)

ok for background info I’ve got this post here with a character list doc etc but it’s not really necessary to understand this

anyway I’ll be talking about sita (tag) bc I love her <3

in the kyoshi novels it’s said that all air nomads are benders but I think that’s stupid. there definitely are air nomad non-benders but they’re uncommon and generally don’t live in the temples.

sita is one of those non-benders. as she grows up in the eastern air temple, she practices the katas and fighting style just as hard as the other kids—maybe even harder—but no matter how hard she tries, she cannot get the air to move as it does for her peers. she feels like an outsider. there’s one other non-bender girl there, but she’s a few years older. they play together a lot, and it helps, but when the girl leaves to travel the world, sita is left behind, and she feels more alone than she ever has before.

she knows it’s not the fault of the her friend or other nuns, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt. so one day, when she just can’t take it anymore, she stuffs her bag with food and all the airbending scrolls she can find (she cannot kill the hope inside her that maybe if she practices hard enough…). she gets her bison and flies away.

(she’s sixteen.)

she tries to find her old friend, but she could be anywhere. so she explores the world, and she’s happier than she’s been in a long time.

however, one day, her bison gets sick. she’s camping somewhere on an island in the fire nation, but no one there knows how to help her. she sets out toward the eastern air temple, but as they’re flying over the sea, they get caught in a storm. she worries they’re not going to survive, but by some stroke of luck, they get rescued by a bunch of seafarers on a ship called the ziyou. they’re friendly, and the captain promises to take care of them for as long as they need, but sita was right about one thing. her bison doesn’t survive.

taituk, the captain, promises they’ll drop her off at the nearest port, but.

she has no reason to go to the air temples now. it would only stir up painful memories. and her chances of finding her old friend, alone in the earth kingdom, on foot, are practically zero. she thinks about it.

she knows the crew she had initially thought to be regular seafarers are pirates. but they’re not like what she has heard about pirates. when she experiences a raid (she isn’t expected to participate and can just hide in the room she’s been staying in) she listens anxiously. she can hear taituk give the crew a sort of pep talk, and hears them tell the crew, with the practised ease of someone who has given a speech a thousand times before, to not hurt anyone unless absolutely necessary. “surrender and no harm will come to you,” she hears taituk call out to people on the other ship. and when the merchant ship’s captain surrenders, they follow through on their word.

she gets to know the crew. she learns about their motives, how they’re all outcasts, how they only attack the ships of rich merchants or other pirates, how most of them turned to piracy because there was no other option, to feed themselves and in some cases their families too.

maybe, sita thinks, she can figure out how to make this work.

—

sita’s been on the ziyou for almost two years. she’s gotten good at incorporating the fighting skills she’s learned on the ship into the air nomad fighting style she has such extensive knowledge of. she learns she has a talent for using projectile weapons—though nisha remains the best with throwing knives, she’s easily the second best, and her handiness with a bow and arrows more than makes up for it. she’s decent with a spear too, though she’s more defensive with it than the girl who teaches her, aki, would like.

(the cook, chusak, offers to teach her his weird fighting style of throwing pans at people, but she turns him down. that’s just weird and impractical and more often than not leaves people with bruises, concussions, or broken bones. well, she doesn’t need to learn to use every possible projectile weapon.)

she might not be able to bend air like she had always wished (and still wishes) she could, but as she pins an enemy to the mast with nothing more than a flick of her wrist or the release of a taut bowstring, or feels the salty wind ruffle her hair as she stands in the crow’s nest, she finds she doesn’t mind her lack of bending as much as she used to. she’s made peace with it.

she’s still shocked, though, when one day during a raid (the captain refused to surrender, proud as the beifongs he works for), she looks over her shoulder and sees a woman floating several feet above the deck. her eyes are closed and her long hair whips in the wind, and while she’s wearing earth kingdom clothing and doesn’t have any tattoos, there’s no way she’s not an airbender.

“what’s an airbender doing on a ship like that?” she muses to taituk as they’re hauling boxes of loot onto their own ship. “she must be powerful. to lift yourself into the air and create a storm like that takes a lot of strength.” (no one knows, of course, that was the avatar state, and they don’t realise it for a long time.)

“well, whatever the case, we’re lucky chusak knocked her out,” nisha grumbles. she turns to show the two of them a nasty-looking gash on her shoulder. “she almost got me with one of her own knives.”

taituk pulls a face. “ouch. well, better go see mallik, then.” nisha rolls her eyes and grumbles something sarcastic before walking off, but before sita can tease taituk about being “romantic” (she doesn’t have proof yet, but she knows!), taituk says, frowning, “iraluq said they seemed scared, though. the airbender I mean. scared and confused, as they threw up their arms and knocked her ice daggers away. as if they didn’t know what they had what they done or how.”

sita’s still pondering that over a few hours later, when she hears shouting on the other side of the ship. she rushes there to investigate. she makes her way through the crowd that has gathered on the deck. “what’s happen–”

she falls silent as she sees the airbender standing pressed against the wall, terrified.

“everyone give us some space!” taituk calls. “go on with what you were previously doing. nothing to see here.”

“what happened?” sita whispers to nuvuja, who’s, for some reason, is opening all the crates they had gotten from the raid and checking their contents.

nuvuja’s reply is brisk. “xuan managed to accidentally kidnap a person.”

“how?!”

nuvuja slams the crate she’d been rummaging through shut and opens the next one. “he was supposed to help check the loot but got lazy. just carried crates onto the ship without checking if their contents were the same as the labels. and apparently the airbender fell into a crate of rice when she got knocked out by chusak. lid slammed shut. we just found out while getting stuff for dinner.”

she grimaces as she looks over at the airbender. taituk is speaking to her softly, and while she looks less scared than before, her eyes are full of tears. “poor girl,” nuvuja murmurs. “we’ve got no clue where her ship is now. stranded on a ship in the middle of the sea with a bunch of pirates. she must be terrified.”

sita thanks nuvuja, and walks off to join taituk. maybe she can help.

—

apparently the airbender—hira—does not, in fact, know she is one. or she didn’t, until now. she and sita become fast friends. sita’s a friendly presence, a reassuring constant in the scary period waiting hira’s caught in until they reach land.

“I guess I should go to one of the temples, huh?” hira says a few days after her arrival on the ship. she tries for humour, but sounds breathless. scared. “if I want to learn”—she hesitates for a moment—“bending.”

she’d been both scared and elated to learn she was a bender. apparently she’s grown up as an orphan with no knowledge of her heritage.

“I can try to teach you some stuff, if you want,” sita offers.

hira’s eyes widen. “you’re an airbender too?!”

sita tries to keep the bitterness out of her voice. “no.” she tries for a smile. “but I grew up in the temples, so I know a few things.”

(she knows more than a few things.)

—

it’s weird, teaching someone to bend when sita can’t herself, but they make it work. hira’s a prodigy, easily executing techniques sita remembers took the other girls at the temple months to master. (techniques sita will never be able to do.) sita can help her, teach her, in a way hira will never be able to do for her. you can’t give someone bending, after all.

they meditate together, and cook air nomad recipes with chusak’s help. she teaches hira to read, write and speak the most common air nomad languages, and hira teaches her her earth kingdom town’s language in return.

it would be so easy to be jealous of hira. and maybe she is jealous, just a little. but she doesn’t let that jealousy fester, doesn’t let it turn into resentment. she won’t ever be able to bend, but she can be proud of hira, can be happy for her. can laugh with her as they mess up the recipe for fruit pies and smile at her when she masters yet another kata. she can participate in her culture with another air nomad, one who she knows won’t judge her for being a non-bender. (she spent the first twenty-seven years of her life as one, after all.)

and it will be enough.

(she doesn’t know that hira is jealous of her in the same way, for growing up in the temples. (hira’s spent her whole life wanting nothing more than connection with her culture.) but much in the same way, hira doesn’t allow her jealousy to lead her. she and sita are both air nomads who will always be a little bit of an outsider, and they’ll have to stick together. it’s not just that, though. she likes being around this chatty, lively kid (“I’m eighteen!” sita always protests). she likes to gossip with her and sit in the crow’s nest together and play silly games and have competitions who have climb the masts the fastest. sita is one of the main reasons hira decides to stay when the ziyou reaches the port taituk had promised they’d drop her off at.)

(the rest of the crew notices, that since hira’s arrival, sita seems happier than she’s ever been.)

#they are sososo dear to me <33333 #elli replies #corey tag #ask #again thank you SO much for sending this ask and I am SO sorry #oc tag #the birates #wind in the sails #sita #hira #oc rambles #hira & sita #that said. there’s a certain hilarity in the avatar’s airbending master (and later spiritual master) being a 18-19 yo kid who is not in fact #a bender #another random scene is taituk (who’s like a love interest for hira but in a decidedly polyam & also aspec way) making hira beaded earrings #the way they learned from their mother (who’s an artist/crafts…woman?)#they’re air nomad symbols but in both earth kingdom and air nomad colours #and maybe also simple mandalas?#they made them during their stay at the south pole for hira’s waterbending training #they asked sita for help with the ideas/designs <3 #the reason for the earth kingdom colours is that taituk wants to help her realise that the culture of the earth kingdom town is just as much #*her* culture as the air nomad one if she wants it to be #I have another scene in my head about that which is that taituk’s sitting on the floor in the qasgiq trying to carve something for hira #a cousin of theirs sees and teases her like ‘oooh are you gonna propose?’ ‘you know damn well engagement necklaces aren’t a thing in our #tribe.’ (grinning) ‘yeah but /she/ doesn’t. and you never know what she might have heard about water tribe marriage customs. where did you #say she grew up again?’ ‘…the northwestern earth kingdom.’ ‘ha! I knew it you’re in love with the new girl! oh [other cousin] owes me five #strips of seal jerky!’ (runs off) (taituk rubbing their temples wondering why they had to be both the eldest sibling AND eldest cousin)#(but they’re also smiling)

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todayisafridaynight · 5 months

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JUST finished Unlucky Monkey and MANNNN. The use of color and sound... so so so well done. ESPECIALLY sound- the scenes where stuff just gets completely drowned out are. chefs kiss. Also!! the heavy emphasis on luck/coincidence... I know i should've seen that coming goin by the title but its so neat to see how that was woven into the story! anyway 10/10 fun ride i enjoyed it

ICHI FINISHED DA MOVIE EVERYONE REJOICE

i'm SOOOO glad you enjoyed it tho !!!! as much as it is a comedy, it's also a REALLY good thriller and it's SO fun watching ttm's character spiral more and more throughout the movie and ultimately never getting what he wants in the end, just left to be tormented forever without receiving any satisfying punishment for it

i love the sound design of sabu films so much i HIGHLY recommend checking out sabu's other stuff (esp if they include ttm lol..... sabu loves putting ttm in situations and i love sabu for that). monday/mandei is another really good film in the same vein of Guy Whose Day Starts Bad Seemingly Gets Worse. if you ever wanna give it a watch, i watched it on this site here (tho warning, subs are missing sometimes BUT its generally easy to make out the context of what's happening. except for the ending uhhH BUT IT'S WORTH THE WATCH LOL)

#snap chats #SORRY FOR THE VOMIT LOL I JUST REALLY LOVE THE SABU MOVIES #unlucky monkey is sooooo good like Aside From My Heinous Commentary it genuinely is a phenomenal watch #which feels pretentious to say for a comedy but TRUST it really does a great job blending its thriller elements with its comedy elements #eveything just intermingles so beautifully especially on rewatches UGH im obsessed #AND TRUUUEE I LOVE THE SOUND DESIGN SO MUCH UGGHHH IT'S SO PERFECT #the immediate segment after yamazaki finds out yoshida died is such a good spiralnig scene #especially when he just starts muttering and whispering to himslf. like i gushed about ttm's acting prower during stream #but ill do it now and forever how he can just fit himself into ANY role that needs him always makes my kokoro go dokidoki. SORRY.#i was not exaggerating when i said it was one of my fave movies #Seemingly Simple as sabu's movies tend to be but very good nonetheless...#driver's also another really good sabu movie but at this point im just listing all the movies with ttm in it LOL #may as well have just linked the ttm/nakai watchlist doc i have.. lol..#ok movign on ive rambled enough.. point is im glad you enjoyed the movie !!!! <3

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