#the way they're coloured or ordered or whatever idk

[xo-cod]

141 + reader

hc's when you five share the barracks together/just in general <3 (ooc, rushed my bad lmao, can be read platonically/romantically, reader is v close to them!!) kinda long oops 😩 might do a part 2 idk

nsfw version 🩷

there's a whole lot of testosterone and musk in the air when you're sharing living spaces with 4 men ‼️

all four men compete with each other to get your attention, even if it's unknowingly

whole lotta pouting when you're spending time with more man than the other, you're a great companion ;) and the army is lonely. they all need equal love and attention

speaking of, if you're smelling like one of them the other will immediately bundle you in his arms to put his scent on you instead and to cancel out the other (alpha behaviour 😵‍💫)

whole lotta flirting from each of them. they're all very intelligent soldiers, they know exactly what to say to get you going 😙

all of them adore the height difference with you. you get teased about it relentlessly (out of love obvi)

i don't think they're particularly messy men but ghost and gaz are the most cleanest, they like having their things in order and knowing where everything is

price is next because he's slumped with being captain so you'll see a lot of his paperwork around with coffee mugs from pulling all nighters

soap is more organised mess. it might look messy to you but he knows exactly where everything is

you, soap and gaz definitely have rap battles late at night. it starts of quiet but you'll usually hear price shouting at you three from his bedroom to stfu. ghost threatens to pull a grenade if you don't be quiet

assuming you're naturally a good cook, they'd all be so appreciative :") especially on bad days, your cooking reminds each of them of home (or lack of)

face masks! gaz would 100% be down to do them with you, soap would follow next because if gaz is doing it then he too???

ghost would roll his eyes, continuing polishing his guns with a rag "you ain't putting that muck on my face"

price would just look at you, shaking his head "got too much to do, sweetness"

but you're quite the convincer and all four men are on the floor of your bedroom, gossiping about the last mission with their preferred colour of face mask across their faces

assuming you're the only woman, they get very protective when you're hurt. soldiers get hurt from time to time but its different when it's you

"you alright, bonnie?" soap's gentle voice comes through your room as he hands you a warm mug of your fave drink

gaz had you wrapped in a big fluffy blanket, gently stroking your back

"who was it?" ghost's voice is firm, wanting to know who dared injured the youngest member of their team

"already got a handle on 'em" price follows, looking at the computer. whatever enemy dared to raise their hands on wished they'd be six feet under after all four men are done with them

you're the one each man needs when they're having a particularly bad day which are usually far in few between but sometimes it happens

gaz and soap are the types to seek you out, their faces settled in a troubled frown before they place their arms around you. no questions just yet, they just want to feel skin to skin for now. keeping them grounded before they can explain what happened. they're not looking for a fixer, just someone who'll listen

ghost and price are the type to isolate themselves for a while until it's night and then you'll find them gently knocking on your bedroom door and slipping inside, between your covers. their grip is strong, burying their faces deep into your neck whilst trying to wrap his arms as much as he can. these two won't talk much either, just looking to be held and stroked to calm down

ghost and soap are the type to show affection through lingering touches while gaz and price show affections through their words.

but speaking of hugs, each of them have their own special way they like to embrace

ghost thinks he's being slick but you realise just how touchstarved he really is, he gives hugs with his arms around your shoulders bringing you in to his chest. mostly because he's tall and broad but he likes how he can manhandle you from this position and smelling your scent <3

soap's the type to tackle you in a playful hug, maybe a spin to get a laugh out of you before he gently strokes your skin for a few seconds, a gentle kiss to your temple <3

price likes to hug from behind, resting his chin on your head while he looks at what you're doing. depending on you, his big arms are either wrapped on your waist or your shoulders <3

gaz gives side hugs because he likes linking his arm around your hips and he likes how you fit snugly into his body. and this way he can lean his head against yours and can bring you in closer with his other arm <3

all four can immediately smell you before you come in because they adore whatever perfume/spray you have

each of them would absolutely melt into pieces if you joined them/kept them company in what they were doing

and if they catch you in a towel after having a shower, best believe they're quickly walking back around to where they came from to help alleviate the growing... tent in their pants

lowkey kinda pervy 🫣 (never in a harmful way)

each of them have their strong points and would 100% train you in becoming stronger

even if you're a well established soldier, they all worry for your safety

price would teach you sniper techniques, ghost teaches you combat, gaz teaches you how to sharpen your aim and soap teaches you about explosives and how to construct/dismantle each of them

they take the training very seriously with you

a ton of cursing when their fave team loses lmaoo

if you're avid tea drinker, join the gaz/ghost/price club. if you're not, join the hater club with soap <3

ghost/gaz/soap will playfully fight with you, careful not to use their full strength and not to harm you. but it's so cute to them when you're struggling a little under them.

but when price scolds them in doing so, "i'm just helping in case there's an attack!"

if you're arguing against one of them, another will come to your defence. unless you're arguing all four then it's the silent treatment from you 🤭

all four of them melt when you call them by their real name instead of their callsign :")

ghost usually comes to you when his balaclava is broken and he'll keep you company as your fingers work their magic to the fabric, gently leaning against you as you speak to him

price will let you shape up his beard after you begging to do so and he grows to enjoy those tender moments

soap definitely calls for your help to shape up his mohawk, he trusts your hand to eye coordination above anyone elses

ghost will playfully ruffle your hair whenever you both pass each other

price gives you a gentle squeeze on the shoulder

gaz gives you a soft stroke on your arm or back whenever he's passing by

soap will gently tap his head against yours, not too hard to cause pain but just enough to know that he's there

but above all, the barracks you five share is definitely a safe space for each of them the second they come through the door <333

#call of duty modern warfare #cod mwii #simon riley #simon ghost riley #john soap mactavish #john price #kyle gaz garrick #141 x reader #task force 141 #cod 141 #simon riley x reader #john price x reader #soap mactavish x reader #gaz x reader

[eluxcastar]

This is so silly: Fatui Harbingers receiving a bouquet of flowers from their shy s/o?

Harbingers receiving a gift from their s/o

── ୨୧：harbingers x reader

୨୧﹑synopsis :: it's exactly what's written on the tin but with a side of me being off my head again

୨୧﹑content :: gn reader

୨୧﹑words :: 950

I'm so in love with the requests that let me answer them like a crackhead. but also I'm so sorry to the anons who want me to be serious I've just got the sillies. I spent the entire time calling it a pot until I realised the thing I was actually referring to is a vase and had to go back and change it all

if you're wondering where the shy part went, it was lost to this phenomenon called "I can't read" and by the time I realised it said that I was already done. I feel like this is the second time it's happened.

Alright usual order Tartaglia first. I'll be honest; I have no clue. Like, I literally left his here just saying, "Alright usual order", because what the FUCK would he do. He doesn't seem like a flower person, but also it being his s/o changes that so much because his s/o might make him a flower person. You could guess his favourite colour is yellow and suddenly it's yellow because he's so normal for you. He didn't even like flowers, but omg, you got him flowers. These are his new favourite flowers ever kinda thing.

Next is Arlecchino (more food is coming I promise), and tbh, I feel like she'd enjoy receiving flowers. It's not an overly flashy gift, and it probably took a lot for you to go out of your way to get that for her, let alone give it to her. She appreciates that you would get her a gift at all because receiving gifts feels nice sometimes. You can have a kiss for your flowers.

Third would be Pantalone, whose I kinda answered. Flowers are a gift, and honestly, I love the idea that as long as the gifts have sentimental value, that's what he'll treasure the most. He's gonna display those in his nicest vase for people to see. Why would you be nervous about that? The thought of what people think of them? No need. Nobody critiques his decor and means it. They know better.

La Signora would appreciate them, but they gotta be nice, yk? And like, you've gotta pay attention. There's no point if you just get whatever's available. Does she like those kinds of flowers? Do they smell nice? Compliment their surroundings? It's in the details that say you care because, to her, it means you were paying enough attention to consider it for what is a very standard gift for many people.

I did Scara then realised I forgot Sandrone omg anyway flowers, she would love those in her own silly little way. They're nice, and it's so cute that you went to the effort that she might just smile at you. She's 100% gonna keep those to herself and just stare at them for a while because someone got her a gift (this basically never happens) (if it did who the fuck are they?? unimportant 🙄)

Aight we got Scaradouche. Firstly no way this man is going to let you immediately know you got him a gift he likes. Flowers? That's such a girly present to give someone 🙄🙄 (They'll be in a pot on his dresser within the hour). He wouldn't usually want flowers, but since you already went and got them, he'll just have to. Just a little, I think he'd be losing it on the inside, kinda like when someone says they're so normal about something, and you know they're fucking lying. Like that

I totally missed Pulcinella last time, so he can get some flowers now. Honestly, I can see why I forgot him. I probably intended to do him but didn't have an idea and was like, "I'll come back to it", then got hit with this thing called filthy liar syndrome. Old people like flowers so he'd be happy with that, something nice to add some colour to a room or something Idk I'm not old (I'M SORRY I'LL BE SERIOUS). Some of you have no grandfather OR father you just like me fr so I'll throw in for y'all that he'd be proud of you for picking out such a nice gift and acquiring it of your own accord (which you are capable of) because it must've been difficult to get past the initial conversation starter problem.

Already off that train, we're finally at Capitano. I can't say for sure cause he has two lines but tbh, he seems like he'd like it. You can have a nice pat on the head and everything cause aww you went to all that effort just for him? That deserves a nice cuddle ❤️

Columbina thinks of it like anything else you do, more confused as to what the occasion is than anything and not very sure what provoked you to do this, but she accepts it and thanks you nonetheless because she still does like it. She just also wants to know what you're doing and why, but she's satisfied with the answer that you just wanted to and cuts you off before the apologies if she doesn't like it.

What the fuck did you get Dottore flowers for?? Like, what would he do with them?? That's awkward. He'll take them off your hands, but after that, he kinda just 🧍 because what else does he do? He can look at them and sit them somewhere, but like they have no purpose. The effort is nice. He probably doesn't want these again tho unless he can use them for something. You'll get a thanks, but like he's kinda bad at hiding that he's got no idea what to do with it. Get him some flowers that are useful rather than decorative maybe?

We are at Pierro, and I think it's a bit of a mix. On the surface, he may seem like he doesn't want them and only accepts them to save your feelings but secretly treasures them ❤️ I like the idea of him being sentimental toward his s/o because something about it is just cute. It also matches the vibe, like, he's got a very closed-off exterior that you are used to that's meant to hide that adorable and undeniably vulnerable interior that really, really loves you and all of the things you do for him.

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[crustaceousfaggot]

So... Idk maybe this was obvious to everyone and there's no point in me bringing it up. But can we talk about Ballister's armor?

The plate that the knights wear is standardized. It's their uniform. All the knights we see in the film are wearing the same armor and use the same swords. They're standard issue. With a couple exceptions.

Ambrosius gets much flashier armor, with the obvious gold and white colour scheme and the lion (?) design on his chest plate. He also has large lions on the sides of his pauldrons with embedded sapphire eyes, which - wow, talk about ostentatious. This is presumably because of his connections to Gloreth - his blood is special enough that he gets an entirely different and considerably flashier set of armor. Is it a family heirloom? Was it commissioned specifically for him? We'll never know. But the Institute designated this little boy Special enough to be exempt from the dress code in order to demonstrate his status as the Specialist Boy.

Todd gets a slightly altered version of the uniform, with black bottoms instead of grey, and larger pauldrons. If we assume Ambrosius gets fancy armour because of his family connections, then that seems to imply Todd also has some ancestry notable enough to set him aside slightly from the rest of the knights. Not anywhere near as famed as Gloreth of course, but maybe a notable general or war hero or something along those lines. That would explain some of the ego. Whatever.

Both of them seem to still be using the standardized swords though.

And then there's Ballister. With his black armor.

In the book I just sort of assumed he chose that armor in order to compliment the whole aesthetic he's got going on. But in the movie that is explicitly not true. They gave him that armor, to signify in the most literal and inconspicuous way possible that he is the black sheep. He does not belong and he never will, no matter how hard he tries, because the Institute will make sure everyone who sees him immediately recognizes him as other. Street trash who has been graciously permitted into their ranks, but will never be allowed to wear the untainted, pure colours of their order, the divine white and gold. It was decided for him, before he even became a knight, that no matter what he did he would never escape that shadow. That he was let in, not born in. Allowed to exist. Always on their terms.

He doesn't even get to use their swords. He gets a black sword to match his armor, one which (by the looks of it) is significantly lower-tech than the standard issue swords, at least until it was tampered with.

The Queen could have stopped this, but she didn't, which indicates to me more than ever that, to her, Ballister was first and foremost a token. A gesture meant to inspire loyalty and goodwill from her subjects, to prove that she was willing to change. Slowly. And only so long as people remembered who really had the power. Am I saying she was evil or whatever? No. We haven't seen enough of her as a ruler to make those kinds of judgements. But to me she represents a very milquetoast, left-of-center, "Equal-rights-for-everyone-so-long-as-it-doesn't-negatively-affect-me-or-my-standing-in-any-way" kind of leader.

There was no way he could have ever been one of them. Never. And they made sure knew it.

#nimona #nimona 2023 #nimona analysis #nimona meta #ballister blackheart #ballister boldheart #nimona ballister #ambrosius goldenloin #nimona ambrosius #I'm in one of those Gay Autism Death Spirals about this movie sorry guys

[valve3nthusiast]

Octomer Ratchet is so good. I can imagine any chromatophores he might have going wild while pursuing Drift, if he has any natural camouflage abilities.

Perhaps he plays a game with Drift, hiding among coral and rock formations in order to "sneak up" on him, his usual brights reds and whites distorting to match their environment-- Maybe arousal causes some colour changing as well?

IDK I just really like the idea of Ratchet changing colour (or at least hues) like a mood ring lmao maybe it even frustrates him a bit, like oh no my fucking chromatophores are going to give away this huge crush I have -- he might try to hide in corals or swirl up a bunch of sand with his tentacles initially

If Drift is a land dweller, then maybe they figure out Ratchet is interested in him by studying how Ratch's colours change, and what patterns/colours only appear when Drift is around...

...and maybe Ratchet's attempts at hiding/playing hide and seek (lol) are mistaken for aggression at first, because they don't know why he's doing it

and then they guess it's some kind of broody behaviour, like maybe he's trying to defend a nest or egg clutch that he doesn't really have?? Because Ratchet's grumpy but not usually aggressive and it's weird behaviour from him as far as they're aware. So then he gets a little pity from the facility staff but it's hilarious because he does want to Do It but all the guessing isn't quite right. Like yes it's about Doin It and Eventual Eggs but not in the way they think. Communication Issues lol

"stop giving me extra companion fish out of pity and just give me Drift, do you not see my cream and burgundy-red colouring, is this somehow not clear enough? Oh god here he comes, sand sand sand I need more sand why is this coral so small" no it is not clear to them, Ratchet. lmaooo

Anyway this is earthstellar but Tumblr will only let me send asks from my main blog and not my TF blog lol so ayyy just wanted to say, loving this mer AU situation 🐙💖

This is such a good concept,,, besotted Ratchet accidentally telling on himself with his own colors is genius. Also blushy Ratchet is adorable <3

Hmm a really clear concept just came to me... Security guard Drift at the marine research facility, Ratchet is the only mer there who constantly avoids him, so he just disappointedly assumes he gives Ratchet bad vibes

One night when he's on a skeleton shift, he passes by Ratchet's tank and suddenly notices that something is fucked up with the filtration pumps (or whatever I don't know how aquariums work)

He immediately makes an emergency call to the aquarium techs who are at home. They tell him to get Ratchet moved till someone arrives to fix it. So he's hesitantly going up to the tank like, "hey buddy I know you dont like me, but I gotta pull you out of here for a bit, it's not safe" Ratchet quickly pulls himself right into Drifts arms... and now he's carrying a big squirming octomer. Drift's pretty surprised, but he brushes it off as Ratchet wanting out of his tank

When Drift finally gets to the temporary tank he expects Ratchet to jump from his arms and signal for him to basically fuck off... instead, he goes to put Ratchet down, only to get pulled into the tank with him. Now he's sitting in chest high water, pinned by a heavy wiggling octomer in his lap

For Ratchet, life is good 😎👍

Drift, meanwhile, is mentally repeating "don't get hard" like a mantra, while a purring Ratchet's tentacles caress every inch of his plating. Since it was the middle of the night, they have to wait a good bit for someone who can fix the pumps to get there and make Ratchet's tank safe again...

Maybe, as the hours go on, Ratchet gets a bit friskier... or maybe he just leaves it at intimate exploration, because he's too busy watching Drift whimper and twitch underneath his tentacles <3

#sorry this strayed a bit from your ask but the concept gripped me and would not let go #valveplug #mine #dratchet #drift #ratchet #merformers #3nthusiasts inbox

[verawhisk]

my drawing process (thank you @pepper-ika!)

i draw and colour for a long long time. i don't do the traditional sketch + lineart + colour -- sketches are hard to line, they're kind of time-consuming and usually they end up better than the lineart, so i just draw like normal and clean it up before colouring. i start at the head and end at around the feet, kinda like a person showering (lol). here i'm using your typical pencil brush you can find in any standard art program.

a tip i got from another artist was to colour using a thick, opaque pen brush that varies a lot in width. it saves a Lot of time. before they showed me that, i made the mistake of using a soft, painterly brush to colour my art. it hurt my wrist because i had to press really hard to get flat colour -- when all that time i could have just been using a pen brush! also, i start with soft colours because they're nicer to look at.

2. i do colourful midtones like redness in the skin or maybe a blue five o clock shadow if they have one. from this point onward, i use a flat square-ish brush combined with a painterly smudger and a soft airbrush.

i read somewhere that you should apply perfume on the moistest parts of your body so i kind of use that same idea when drawing redness. usually i do it where skin meets skin: folded arms, a crunched back, closed hands, and that place where the thighs touch the buttcheeks, lolol. and of course: the nose, lips, and ears. it makes the skin look real and warm and lively!

3. i lay down my shadows and lights, usually in that order. and at this point, i'm throwing extra shadow on wrinkles, fat, bumps, lumps, etc. a body without rolls is like an angel without wings!

also i smudge like CRAZY here. just like how it's impossible to have "too much gravy" on your chicken, it's impossible to have "too much blending" when you're drawing skin. blend that ish.

when it comes to the colour of the shadows, i always make shadows the base colour but darker and more saturated, and i move the hue a little to the left (for example: orange goes to red, green goes to yellow, purple goes to blue). i do that with, like, every colour. i can't tell if it's lazy or not but at this point i'm too scared to ask.

4. finally i make some minor adjustments like liquifying to fix lopsided eyes or oversized heads/hands. when i was in high school, my art teacher would say "great, but watch the size of the feet, hands, and neck," lolol. he was right ofc. when i go "hm... that looks a little weird," i have to trust that gut feeling because when i do fix it, it ends up looking way better. here is a horrifying gif illustrating that.

AHH!!!

alternatively you could do a messy line and color, then do a whole paintover like i did here. this is awesome for details because you dont have to go back and change the lineart - you just paint over and add whatever you want and redraw the line to fit it.

i dont really use the different layer modes that much. in this one i used a gradient map of the drawing as an overlay. idk if that really does anything major but it does create a new range of colors to play with. i also used a multiply layer to cast a big shadow over the card (layer 8) because it has this tiiiny little pattern that would be a pain in the butt to draw shadows over. everything else is pretty standard.

(and no i dont name my layers... yes i will be changing my name and moving countries)

another thing worth noting: i use airbrushing A LOT. i remember reading somewhere that using airbrushes is like. a cardinal sin. it’s not, man. it’s great. airbrushes and smudging are dope and i use them all the time.

i hope you found this helpful! have a great weekend <3

#long post #art tutorial #art tips #my art

[bearseulgs]

enhypen with a cute barista s/o

gn!reader x ot7

genre: fluff

wc: 991

warnings: food (duh), sad attempts at flirting, tiny mentions of creeps and rude customers but i don't go into detail !

requested!! tysm

- ͙۪۪̥˚┊❛ Heeseung ❜┊˚ ͙۪۪̥◌

he always appreciates when you make him caffeinated drinks or small snacks during late night gaming sessions

so when he finds out you're working at the new internet café downtown he was ECSTATIC (if internet cafés don't actually serve food or coffee or whatever i'm sorry i've never been to one 😭)

he never bothers you when you're working, but he'll come in and order a drink

and then once he's seated he just glances at you from time to time, admiring how well you work with the customers <3

bc Lord knows you deserve the appreciation for putting up w working in the food industry

- ͙۪۪̥˚┊❛ Jay ❜┊˚ ͙۪۪̥◌

he loves loves loves it

sometimes he comes in to order a coffee or smth when you're on shift

and he just sits at his table, admiring you in your element 🥰

i feel like he really appreciates candid moments with or of his partner so he loves watching you do your thing

also if your café doesn't have a uniform he lovesss seeing the outfits you pick

bc like obvi you're gonna dress up and get all cute and cozy

otherwise what's the point of working at a café

sometimes you even let him pick out your outfit and mans goes ham

plenty of my moots can testify to this, i think that brown is THE best colour in fashion

and it's the perfect colour for a cute barista like yourself to wear

so i think he'd pick an outfit based on that + cozy vibes, like cottagecore academia??

and he'd probs prepare a matching outfit for himself on these days <3 he's so cringe for it but i love him

anyways Jay when s/o is barista-ing = in love

- ͙۪۪̥˚┊❛ Jake ❜┊˚ ͙۪۪̥◌

he always shows you off

like he and some friends or the members will go to your café to hang out

and if you're working the register or making the brews he points at you and goes "see them?? they're my partner 😌 jealous??"

bc like,,, who wouldn't be jealous of him, he's dating you

cutie -3-

gives you tips every time he comes in

you're always like "whatttt you don't have toooo why would you waste your money like that" but it's in the telling-your-relatives-no-the-first-time-they-offer-then-accepting way of rejecting

false kindness and bashfulness, i like your strategy

he's so proud of you, his cute lil barista

- ͙۪۪̥˚┊❛ Sunghoon ❜┊˚ ͙۪۪̥◌

will wait in line every time you have a shift just to flirt with you

"i'd like a breakfast sandwich with a side of you to go"

what a dork

he actually bothers you on shift SO MUCH but you don't really mind

or maybe you do idk your life maybe you're trying to make that bank and i respect that

defo comes in EVERY shift you have just to watch you and make sure you're safe bc there are creeps out there :(

as much as he likes to pretend he does it to bother you and make jokes he's really just protective of you and wants to make sure you're okay STOP i'm so in love ✋

- ͙۪۪̥˚┊❛ Sunoo ❜┊˚ ͙۪۪̥◌

he always asks for randomized latte art bc he likes seeing what you make for him

more often than not it's some cute critter or a lil sun bc he's your sunny boy

he loves coming towards the end of your shifts so that y'all can have a lil date together over some coffee

he even pays <33 but insists that you use your employee discount (if you have one idk how the food industry works)

which you don't mind doing bc like saving money and being responsible with your spending is attractive don't judge me on that

he's so precious, he always encourages you after a day with particularly rude customers

what a sweetheart

- ͙۪۪̥˚┊❛ Jungwon ❜┊˚ ͙۪۪̥◌

i feel like he doesn't actually come into your work a lot ?

but that's just bc he doesn't wanna bother you

you've told him repeatedly that you don't mind him coming in on shift, esp if it's kinda boring and not super busy

but he doesn't out of respect HE'S SO PERFECT UGH 😩🤍

however he does enjoy dropping you off and picking you up to make sure that you're safe and had a good day (my brother does this with his gf it's so sweet)

sometimes you make him drinks when he pulls all nighters studying and he's so 🥺🥺every time you do

even tho he doesn't see you working very often he still notices the skills work taught you and loves them a lot

- ͙۪۪̥˚┊❛ Ni-ki ❜┊˚ ͙۪۪̥◌

he's only dating you for discounted pastries /J I'M KIDDING he loves u <3

he actually thinks it's so neat that you're a barista bc like . that's his partner 🥺

idk something in him goes 💖💖💖 (like specifically the sparkly hearts) when he sees you working, esp when you're making food

maybe he just likes eating who knows

or maybe you're just extra attractive (if it's possible for you to get more attractive) when baking

i vote the latter

bc you're just so in your element and it's like this candid domestic moment despite it being in the work place

and he admires you so much

a/n: i actually had no idea where i was going with any of this but here we are. also calling k-pop boys dorks is my new default setting. e s p r e s s o that's who i am

©️ bearseulgs 2022

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[chamaleonsoul]

if you would like to expand, i would love to hear about the "ash and awsten are so different but so similar" thing you were talking about in your post tags 👀

OHOHOHOHOHO YES i would like to expand, thank u, anon

Ok so. Let's start with the similarities:

-Both of them are so hands on people when it comes to creating music or art or clothes or whatever they're working on. They are (clearly) creative people, but they also manage every single detail (borderline micromanagers imo lol), they like to know how to do everything, and make sure everything has a solid, profound meaning. They seem to be always working on something, like the creative energy cannot be contained and they need multiple outlets for it. Also, they like to play and have fun, but when it comes to creating, they are all in.

-They are sarcastic caustic, witty, charming as hell (unfortunately for yours truly😪🤡) snarky and sassy whenever they want, however, both have a "be kind to all people and they will be kind back" social approach that keeps them from being absolute assholes. I think they discovered that communication skills take you a long way and really honed on them. (This doesn't mean they won't call people on their bullshit, they will).

-Speaking of!! They have Beef™ with past labels (fairly so), and aren't afraid to be loud about it.

-Won't. Shut. Up. oh my god ((affectionate)). These men will love to have monopolize a conversation, that's for sure.

-Obscure references; they just like to know things, all things. They'll pull out some weird fact unknown to humanity in the middle of a conversation. I think they're very curiosity-driven people.

-Then there's the duality of man: being very much sunshiney-coded, while having a very dark side.

-Song writing-wise, i love that they're both on the specificity wins the day team<3 And I would KILL to hear the song they wrote together years ago (during 2018 dare i say?). I'd also love to see their current selves collaborating!!

-That thing they do of being incredibly active online and then fall off the face of the Earth for months? Yeah.

(Potentially controversial, but i attribute a lot of these traits to their gemini moons, because of course they have gemini moons, and that's probably one of the main reasons i feel so insane about them, and want to slap them and kiss them simultaneously). MOVING ON

Their differences are a little harder to pin point funnily enough?? I can't think of that many rn but i'm sure there's more.

-They look very different (obviously), but because of how they choose to look, which connects directly to their personalities, habits and lifestyles. Speaking of universal the fashion styles, Awsten lands on: creative, dramatic-fashionista and natural, in that order. Which means he likes experimenting with indumentary and looks (we know he loves changing his hair colour), statement pieces and innovation (reflected on his own designs), and at the end of that it's comfort.

With Ashton we have: natural, creative (but leaning on the hippie/boho substyle) and from time to time, alluring. He prioritizes comfort, practicality and clothes that reflect his lifestyle/spirituality in this case, and then there's the rockstar in him who loves dark colours, leather and thight pants (bless his fucking heart🙏🏻).

-While both have a natural inclination to be cynics, Ashton clearly leans a lot into spiritual matters, while Awsten has a more "logical" approach to life i'd say.

-(idk if i should mention it, or if it counts but) Awsten is like,,, eternally sober and has openly said he doesn't like any kind of drugs. Ash obviously loves his lil dubbies and stuff, which I think it's also a huge difference between them.

-Their lifestyles are, at their core, very different? Like, i see Ashton buying a farm or leaving for the woods after retirement never to be seen again, while Awsten would (i think) never do that.

Anyways, for these and many, many more reasons, these two send me into fits of absolute rabidness and softness simultaneously whenever they want to. I hope this made sense and you can see how i made these connections. Thank u for asking!!🤍

#ash #awsten knight #anon #asks #sorry if this got too long jsjdjd #parxsos

[judasisgayriot]

I’ve probably fallen for the front Nathan puts up but maybe I’ve fallen for the consequences of his actions while masking? Idk. Maybe it’d help if someone elaborated (aka pls feel free to go off about Nathan but I still may end up disagreeing depending on the results)

Ohhh my god I didn’t mean to write so much but I have so uhh fair warning I have Feelings on the subject:

I have a lot of complicated feelings about Nathan the same way I have a lot of complicated feelings about Heroes, lol. Don't get me wrong, though I may seem like a grumpy fucker, the show holds a v special place in my heart and has for 16 years, it does mean a lot to me but at the same time there are whole chunks of it that I find just bad/stupid/infuriating, and that also colours my perspective on characters too -

I actually think villain!Nathan could have been done well/interestingly, for example, and the building blocks were there - Nathan is someone who is incredibly self-loathing about his power in particular and believes it makes him some kind of freak, and makes comments to similar effect in s1 about how he thinks they should all be locked up etc, so I can see how he could slide into that villain lets-lock-everyone-up thing if done well, but the way it's done in s3 is a mess and comes out of nowhere and makes no fucking sense lol, like he’s misguidedly going along with his dad’s idea of giving people powers, then peter knocks over his Vats of Stuff and for no clear narrative reason Nathan decides to do a 180 and like dob everyone in to the President lol, like it could have been done well as a “tragic self-hating villain who you kind of understand but his path of destruction is still bad” thing, not a “I guess he’s just an Evil-Now Kind of Metaphorical Racist” lol.

so I'm like ehhh *handwave* whatever, I don't even think of it as, like, in character, as opposed to the General Jerkery he displays in say, s1, which I do think is representative of him, or at least the front he puts up -

ALSO, it's not that I think 'Nathan is constantly masking/pretending to be someone he's not (which is true) so therefore he did nothing wrong' - he still hurt people and did morally questionable things lol, that doesn't absolve him. I just think it's easy to see why he is the way he is and it adds a lot to his character. Nathan has layers! Nathan is like an onion! Oh no I'm writing an essay! Lol.

At the same time I'd like to emphasise that despite being a Proud Nathan Apologist, I'm not like "Nathan has never done anything wrong ever in his life!" - he can be a jerk and a shitty person, he's done plenty of Bad Things and fucks up near-constantly, and I actually love him more for it - I love him bc while I find him deeply sad and sympathetic, he's a very complicated, morally grey character (well, I'd argue morally *confused*, lol) with so much compacted self-loathing that he takes it out on other people too, and that's Bad, and yet he's still so, so tragic to me (he's my poor little meow meow OK, I get to woobify him, SOMEONE has to - half the fandom are Sylar apologists which is their god-given Blorbo Right which I will defend, but I don't rly care for him so I'm just like *eyeroll* well *I* don't give a fuck that he's Sad or forgive him that easily lol. So I do 100% see the other side of the coin lmao.)

Anyway all that said (oh my god that was a long preamble sorry), it's easy to see how people miss it if they're not that interested in Nathan as a character tbh bc I think you need the context of like, s2/early s3 Nathan to see the full picture, but basically all of his arc in s1 is about how Nathan is wearing a mask all the time of being this kind of Jerkass Alpha Male I'm a Totally Normal Man that he's been expected to be his whole life

(see the way Angela blatantly manipulates and controls his whole life and simultaneously treats him like he's about 5 years old and a stubborn child to be given orders ("that's my boy") and told off, while also being vaguely creepy and clingy in a "you're the man of the house now" kinda way, see "everything we are is what people expect us to be, if you take that away nothing means anything" and his admission that without Peter he doesn't even really have a sense of self, cf. his COMPLETE spiral into rock bottom in s2 without him, see later in s3 Arthur's "I made you" and Nathan's admission that everything he's ever done in life has been because of his dad - becoming a lawyer, becoming a politician (which I genuinely think Nathan doesn't even LIKE or want to do lol. I'm serious, it’s presented as this key facet of his character but I don't think Nathan is even that Ambitious deep down or particularly, like, wants to be President or whatever - it's all what he keeps being TOLD he should want, which he goes along with), like even who he was set up to marry, apparently. His life is being like, puppeteered from his fuckin birth by his terrifyingly morally bankrupt parents who experimented on him and "wanted to be better than God". Jaysus. Ahem anyway this parenthetical got LONG-)

Anyway his arc is about how actually, that isn't the person he actually is at all. He feels like he has to be this Persona of Alpha Ambitious Arrogant Very Normal Heterosexual High-Flying (loool) Successful Manly Man but actually, the main choice he makes, which changes everything, is that even though this has all been conditioned into him from day 1, he does what he's told like a good little attack dog, he *chooses* Peter/love (and aren't they the same thing? Awww) over all of that, precisely when no-one expects him to. Of course, Claire is no small factor in this (see: how his parents LET HIM THINK HIS CHILD WAS DEAD FOR 14 YEARS, how he does clearly want to see her but then gets too overwhelmed to go through with it and conceal-don't-feel nearly cries in the back of the car on his way back (even tho he rightfully looks bad in Claire's perception at that moment), how Angela literally says that she knows that deep down under his gruff exterior "you're a sap" and if he sees her "sad weepy eyes", "you're gone, you're finished". Like Yeah, precisely lol). It's another tangent but she really is the one who makes him realise there IS a way to break free from everything that's been suddenly heaped on him re: The Plan in s1 (shout out to my babygirl Claire I love you so much Claire mwah).

Anyway there's that, but then you start to see just hoooow Mentally Ill Nathan blatantly, actually is (plus, very clearly ND/autistic to me in a lot of ways, which the masking is a serious part of too). In S2 obviously he's in just a complete black hole of depression, is hallucinating his Burned Self as this kind of conceptualisation of all the things he hates about himself, and literally self-harms because of it (punching the mirror), and then in early s3, when he's literally died and been brought back to life, has a full-on mental breakdown and is just literally so fragile and vulnerable and it makes me so sad - never mind the weird religious mania and delusions, he's terrified bc he's seeing visions of a man he hates and fears (which yeah is just his dad fucking with him deliberately, but like - yeah that’s WORSE) - no one really seems to like, care if he's OK at all, he pleads with Future Peter to tell him what "the right thing to do" is because he literally does not know (see "morally confused" as I said earlier, he straight up doesn't have much of an innate conception of what the "right thing" even is) and gets basically no help, like this man is NOT OK and to top it all off he has a complete mental breakdown LIVE ON TELEVISION and gets handpicked to become a Senator literally because someone witnesses that and decides that he looks like he'd be easy to manipulate and control (like, He Is Not In An OK Place! Let The Man Rest! Get Him Some Therapy, from a Person who Knows About Powers Preferably so He Doesn't Have To Mask Further! I'm So Angry Oh My God!) and like. Yeah. Yeah.

Anyway wrapping back around to the original question I guess (again I… don't know how this got this long. Clearly I Feel Things About This lol) I feel like a lot of people just take that surface-level Nathan, the one who's just a kinda callous jerk sometimes and doesn't really have much to redeem him, at face value and. hate him. and don't like Look Underneath! At the Layers! He's So Tragic and textually there was really no way for him to like, Live and Be OK. Like the only road for him was death and he didn't (despite all the jokes about how many times Nathan dies lol) get a Chance to get past all of that and feel, like, Relatively OK, Ever. Oh god you can fit so much repression inside this man *slaps Nathan's head* and then he kept being repressed despite tentative attempts to like Come Out of The Metaphorical Power Closet (sidenote Nathan is ostensibly meant to be like textually straight but he has literally such a Closeted Gay Man storyline that it's almost textbook 1-to-1 allegory. That's A Long Meta For Another Time though) and then he died :( and maybe he did a few war crimes too but that whole thing was stupid, man, idc

This is like fucking ungodly long now lmao and you DON'T have to read all of this but like. Anyway if you still just don't rly like Nathan or care about him as a character, 's all fine and I'm not gonna convince you otherwise bc everyone has Faves and Unfaves and Whatever, Blehs. I clearly just have a lot of fkn investment in Nathan's Layers, lmao.

#asks #anon #long post // #like. really long. like I just wrote 1700 words about my blorbo long. i have no defence #nathan petrelli #heroes #heroes ramblings #meta #am i an angel or a monster #you don’t have to agree with me of course lol. i kind of love him because he’s bad. but he’s also good actually. it’s complicated. #on fb we’re ‘it’s complicated’. same with me and the show as a whole Lmao #anyway I clearly fuckin care don’t I. now I look way less cool (Jk I was never cool) #I know it’s literally not that deep. i know. i am a fool. lol #the fact that literally no one cares Anni 💀💀💀

[pollyoxycotrain]

How I View: The Rising Signs Vol 1

This isn't in order at all.

Capricorn Rising 🖤

Anakin/Vader Vibes, just more serious look, deep down they cry, but they've been hurt too much to show it, they feel lile the Reaper when they're near, feel small next to them, Cold, Dark, Yet deep down Honourable, and Caring.

Everyone says black is Scorpio's Colour, but in my honest opinion, I believe black is Capricorn's Colour, I think if anything, Scorpio's colour is darker red, like the classic red lips, I guess black might be Scorpio's as well, because I do picture a Scorpio Rising as the Pulp Fiction Girl.🤷🏻‍♂️

Scorpio Rising 👄

I mean to me she could wear anything she wants, with those red lips, blue eyes, and chopped bangs, that's a fucking Scorpio Archetype if I've ever seen one, geez....

You know what I think the actual deal is? I think Ascendant is important for appearance, but in ALL reality, I think 2nd house really has an effect too, because both my brother (Capricorn rising) and me (Libra rising) love black and kinda emo clothing, and for me I guess I do have 2nd house in scorpio, and pluto in 2nd house, so I guess that's a good reason for mine, but in my conclusion with Saturn, my brother has Saturn in 2nd as well, and when I see Anakin Slywalker I feel that He really has Capricorn Ascendant, but when I look at Ariana Grande (Capricorn rising and saturn in 2nd just like my brother), I always see her in more brighter colors, so maybe the house venus is in might have more of a representation? Idk...maybe black isn't the point to Capricorn, they almost have a Warrior Archetype to me, so maybe it's the toughness? I mean look at Ariana, she's tiny, yet i feel as though she is tougher than she looks, but look at Megan Fox, I feel like she as that pure Warrior look to here, more than an Aries rising if not, I'd say tied, she looks like she'd fuck you up, idk. I guess the difference between Scorpio rising might be Scorpio Rising is more of a seductive aura, whereas Capricorn Rising is more of a Dominant aura.

Scorpio - Maneater?

Capricorn - Dom?

In a more sexual aspect, these rising signs could give off a more sexually dominant appearance, Scorpio the Maneater 👄 Capricorn the Dominatrix 🖤? Growing up in Pluto in Capricorn years, Megan Fox really was the Definition of HOT back then, she still is, but I think we've moved on as a society, at least in North America...maybe like my opinion about 2nd house sign being at era (what years pluto was in that sign) could be one of your favorites, maybe like that Whatever Pluto sign pluto is in, maybe that's the hottest Rising or Beauty Standard for that era? Idk, just playing with ideas.

BUT based of this theory Lana Del Rey kinda fits a bit with these pluto was in Scorpio in the mid 1980s-1990s and that's what this vibe gives me, idk idk idk I just feel like I see it, maybe maneater, maybe thug? I feel lile these fit the pulp fiction Archetype as well, and that movie was based in Pluto in Scorpio as well...

I think honestly pluto's style is so Seductive yet Trashy in a sense, like I have pluto in 2nd house (which I feels rules what clothing you like) and I've always felt drawn to big fur coats and pimp attire

So in my conclusion, I feel like Saturn and Pluto are either best friends or cousins, on one side pluto is the raw flex, sexual, extreme, like Pimps and Wall Street, whereas similar Saturn, can be Calm yet Powerful, Classical, Yet wealthy....I feel like 80s and 2008-2014 Kinda felt the same, just in slightly different ways idk though.

[hoseokslefteyebrow]

You've Met With A Terrible Fate, Haven't You? || BEN DROWNED

Pairing : Yandere! Ben Drowned X Reader

Genre : Fluff, Angst, Yandere

Summary : Appears as a normal dude, but plot twist he's really not.

Wordcount: 4k lol

WARNINGS : This is fic is labeled as Yandere, for those who don't know what it means: "Somebody who is sweet and kind at first glance. But when it comes to their love (crush)they will act obsessive and violent." - Urban dictionary, poorly (but still disgustingly) described dead people, I know Ben originally doesn't kill but in the story he does, idk? Shit written¿ 

Also disclaimer this is my first time I've tried doing a yandere and it's obviously not my strongest point. Hope you enjoy either way.

You glance at the abandoned game console which your friend had dumped at your place earlier this day.

According to him, something was very, very, wrong with it. The Nintendo 64 was old, of course, but your friend mentioned not being able to pass the boss battle. He mentioned something along the lines of 'it keeps glitching and Link keeps dying'. In other words ' I know you're a hacker and I suck at this game, please hack it for me so I can feel less like a loser'.

You keep writing the email you're supposed to sent to your boss for another thirty minutes, before letting your curiosity lead you. 

Before you know it, you've plugged in the old console with more cables than originally planned because of how old it is, and with how modern your tv is. The first odd thing that strikes you is that there's only one account on it, and it's not labeled with your friend's name. 

Instead of 'Noah', it's labeled with 'BEN DROWNED' in bold passive aggressive letters.

Simply pushing it to the back of your mind, you start playing.

The second odd thing about the game is that the game has a specific date and it mentions how far BEN, or well, Noah is in the game. Yet when you click it, you have to start all over.

You shrug that off too, simply noting it as the game being old.

Before you know it, several hours pass, and you're finally at the boss battle Noah mentioned. Deciding to see if you can beat it first, you do not plug your laptop in at the Nintendo 64, and opt to play instead.

However just like Noah mentioned, you die as soon as you're close to winning and the game starts glitching.

It takes you barely ten minutes before you're fed up with it, and soon enough you plug your laptop in. You start up some programs and open up a few sites, quickly starting to work. Your fingers glide over the keys of your laptop as you type in the codes in order to hack the game, however after a few minutes, the game starts glitching heavily, and suddenly there's a sentence in bold red letters on the screen of your tv.

' YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT'

It says before the glitching becomes way too much, and some weird kind of red circle appears. Your eyes widen before unplugging the tv and game console, forgetting that your laptop is connected to it.

You miss the small glitches on the laptop screen.

- - - ᒪᓍᗩᕲᓰᘉᘜ - - -

He gritts his teeth as the access to his portal is suddenly denied, the power cut early enough to avoid him.

His red eyes wander in the green coded space, looking for an exit, something that'll make sure he can get his hands on whoever this is. Lucky for him, there's a small white space what'll lead to the outside of it.

Once he's trough, he realizes he's still close to his victim. In fact, he's even closer now.

He smirks as he realizes.

Killing her is fair game now.

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You tap your chin as you look as the items on the shelf.

" Should I get the red one or green one?" You mumble to yourself.

" I'd recommend the green one. Green is always better." A voice from behind you startles you.

You whip your head around to look at the stranger who's talking to you.

Behind you is a male you don't recognise from anywhere. And as you start to study him, you realize he's quite handsome. He's got blonde hair, blue eyes and a rosy skin colour. He's wearing black ripped jeans, a dark green shirt, along with a black zip up hoodie, which is left open, he's got a few black ear piercings in his right ear, and has a gold chain around his neck, which disappears beneath his shirt, weighed down by a charm hidden away from your eyes. To top it all of, he's got a matching dark green beanie on top of his messily styled bangs.

" What? Did I say something wrong?" The blonde boy suddenly sweats.

You smile and shake your head.

" No, you didn't. I just tough I was alone here." You smile at him.

ØⱧ ₴₩ɆɆ₮ⱧɆ₳Ɽ₮, ɎØɄ Ⱨ₳VɆ₦'₮ ฿ɆɆ₦ ₳ⱠØ₦Ɇ ₣ØⱤ ₳ VɆⱤɎ ⱠØ₦₲ ₮ł₥Ɇ ₦Ø₩.

" I take that you talk to yourself then?" The male spits at you.

You're not sure if that's meant offensive or not.

" Um, yeah? I tend to do that sometimes yeah." You say, looking down at your hands who're still holding the red silk scarf and green silk scarf.

Đø₦'₮ ฿ɇ ₳₣ɽ₳łđ, ł ₩ø₦'₮ ⱨʉɽ₮ ɏøʉ. Øɽ ₩łⱡⱡ ł?

The unknown male's eyes soften subconsciously, looking at you with an emotion you're not familiar with.

" My name is Ben. What's yours?" 

Ben? Haven't you heard that somewhere before?

You smile at him, oblivious to the fact that you're talking to a killer.

" I'm Y/N. Nice to meet you Ben."

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His mind flooded with ideas.

There's so many options on what he can do to her.

Should he mess with her laptop?

Should he just kill her now?

Or should he become closer?

Maybe he should.

He looks at her trough the screen of the laptop, which is almost always open, today not being any different.

He watches her as while she watches something behind the laptop, from the sounds he can hear trough the mic, she's most likely watching tv.

Perhaps he should become closer to her.

Pull her closer only to have her blood staining his hands.

Oh yes, her blood shall soon become his.

- - - ᒪᓍᗩᕲᓰᘉᘜ - - - ᖴᓰᒪᘿ ᓍᘉᘿ - - - » ᖽᐸᘉᓰᐺᘿS ᓍᖇ ᕼᘿᗩᖇᖶS  ? ¿ » - - - ₭₦łvɇ₴

She doesn't realize it when her laptop suddenly starts itself up, nor does she know that there's a figure crawling out of it.

He stared at her with deciphering eyes, silently wondering how she isn't dead yet.

If this was anyone else, he'd had them killed already. Their blood would already be staining his face and she would already be screaming in pain and dispair.

Yet here she was, laying peacefully on her bed. Asleep, obviously not dead. 

He wonders exactly what he should do next. She doesn't know that he's standing right next to her. It almost makes him laugh.

She doesn't even know that he exists.

She doesn't know that he's here.

He glares at her before moving back into the world of codes and technology.

For now, she lives.

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" And then it suddenly started glitching and stuff. Weird isn't it?" You finish off your story as you look at your new friend, Ben.

After meeting in the grocery store, he had suddenly texted you. 

Not knowing how he got your number, you got concerned, and asked him. According to him, you had given it to him yourself. At first you didn't believe him, until he told you to check the time of his first message, which somehow was indeed around the same time you were in the grocery store. After that you just shrugged it off as that you forgot it yourself. After all, you knew yourself to be a person with the memory of a goldfish.

Today the two of you met up again, for the fourth time this week.

" Odd indeed. What did you do after that?" Ben asked, acting as if he's interested, even tough he's really not.

" I unplugged it. I think I'm gonna lay off hacking for a while." You shrugged, taking a sip of your drink.

Before he could even think of a response, there was an unknown woman at your table, also holding a cup of coffee.

" Y/N? Long time no see." The new woman greeted you with a smile, sitting down beside you on the booth.

Ben scowled at the newcomer.

Ⱨø₩ đ₳ɽɇ ₴ⱨɇ ₴ł₮ ฿ɇ₴łđɇ ₩ⱨ₳₮'₴ ₥ł₦ɇ ₩ł₮ⱨøʉ₮ ₥ɏ ₱ɇɽ₥ł₴₴łø₦

" Hey, Sara. It's indeed been too long. How are you?" You started chatting with Sara.

Meanwhile Ben's anger only grew.

" My names Ben." Ben suddenly dryly joined your conversation as he slammed his drink down onto the table aggressively, looking straight into Sara's eyes.

" Sorry. Didn't see you there. I'm Sara nice to mee-"

" Yeah, yeah, whatever. Leave. We didn't invite you to come sit with us." Ben spat at her, looking at her with an intense look in his eyes.

Both you and your friend turned to look at him in confusion.

" Is something wrong with me being here? Did I offend you?" Sara asked, genuinely concerned.

Ben was fuming now, on the inside. Who does this girl think she is? First she comes to sit at their table uninvited, then she's capturing the attention of his new favorite plaything, and now she's questioning him? She has to go.

- - - ᒪᓍᗩᕲᓰᘉᘜ - - - ᖴᓰᒪᘿ ᓍᘉᘿ - - - » ᖽᐸᘉᓰᐺᘿS ᓍᖇ ᕼᘿᗩᖇᖶS  ? ¿ » - - - ₭₦ŁVɆ₴ - - - ᖴᗩᓰᒪ - - - ᖇᘿᗷᓍᓍᖶ SᖻSᖶᘿᘻ

He heard her conversation with a male he certainly doesn't know trough her phone, using the microphone without her knowing.

According to what he knows, they're on a date. And according to her contacts, his name is Jaime. He can't find where they met, nor did he know why they met up.

But now that she's checked her reflexion one too many times, and made a pic of her full outfit to send to him, probably to mock him for not having her, ɏɇ₮, he realizes that she's on a date.

After some research by surfing quite literally trough the internet. It turned out this 'Jaime' person was Mexican, and had a soft persona. On his facebook page were pictures where he's working with animals or doing volunteers' work or overall just something where he's helping others. He found the black haired male pathetic, weak even.

In all honesty, even he himself didn't really find him a threat. Not when he looked like that and was overall just kind and bambi looking.

However, all his expectations are thrown out of the window when he hears them say their goodbyes.

" You know, I had a lot of fun tonight. You're really a nice person. In fact, I'd like to go on another date with you again." This voice was definitely that of a male's, probably Jaime.

" I agree. I had a lot of fun too." She said.

₣Ʉ₦? ⱧØ₩ ₵₳₦ Ł₮ ฿Ɇ ₳₦Ɏ ₣Ʉ₦ ₩Ł₮ⱧØɄ₮ ₥Ɇ?

" Good. Do you have a ride or would you like me to drive you home?-" He blocks out the rest of their conversation.

It appears that the good guy needs to go too.

- - - ᒪᓍᗩᕲᓰᘉᘜ - - - ᖴᓰᒪᘿ ᓍᘉᘿ - - - » ᖽᐸᘉᓰᐺᘿS ᓍᖇ ᕼᘿᗩᖇᖶS  ? ¿ » - - - ₭₦ŁVɆ₴ - - - ᖴᗩᓰᒪ - - - ᖇᘿᗷᓍᓍᖶ SᖻSᖶᘿᘻ - - - ᖇᘿᗷᓍᓍᖶ ᑢᓍᘻᕵᒪᘿᖶᘿ - ᓍᕵᘿᘉ ᖴᓰᒪᘿ ∆

" We should spend more time together." Ben says randomly as the two of you snuggle on the couch.

You giggle, your ears tinting red.

" We're already together all the time tough." You tell him softly.

" I know, but still. By the way, did your stupid date reply yet?" He asked, eyes focused on the tv in front of the two of you.

" No, and don't call him stupid." You pout, softly scolding him.

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He grins at you with mysterious eyes.

You shrug it off, knowing it's part of him. The two of you have been hanging out for a while now. Almost three months to be precise. And you two have gotten very close. What used to be keeping distance and keeping the line between acquaintances and friends, had turned into friends or something more. You two almost hung out every day, you were basically attached to each other's hip now.

After a few peacefull moments, you excused yourself to the bathroom.

Right as you left, your phone rang.

He turned to look at the disturbing sound  his eyes widening at the name which is appearing on the screen.

 SARA

He stumbled over the couch to pick it up, an unpleasant feeling of suprise rising whitin him.

" Y/N?! You have to listen to me! Ben is not who you think he is! He's this-"

" I'm this what?" Ben smirked.

Damn you were taking a long time in the bathroom, not that he minded.

The other end of the line was dead silent.

" Don't worry. You don't need to say anything. I'll come home soon. And trust me, once I am, you will never be able to speak a word again." He spoke, an eerie calm in his voice.

" Goodbye, Sara." He said before hanging up.

" Sara called?" Your voice suddenly startled him.

" What? Oh, yeah. But she was in a hurry so she said she'd call you later." He smiled innocently.

You nodded and the two of you resumed watching the movie.

" Isn't there a way, that we could spend more time together?" He suddenly wondered out loud.

You sighed and turned to face him.

" I'm sorry Ben, but I have a job and I like spending time with other people too. So I'm afraid not." You told him softly.

An idea coded itself into his mind.

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You sighed in dispair in the night air as you walked home. Once again, you were rejected in a job interview.

A few days ago you were fired from the job you actually liked. You couldn't understand why either. You didn't do anything wrong, you were quite hardworking and always finished the documents in time.

Your supervisor looked afraid, terrified even when he told you to immediately pack your bags and leave, and ever since you just can't seem to get in anywhere. Not even the gas station wanted you in charge.

" Well hello there. What do we have here." A creepy voice suddenly sounded from behind you.

You turned around only to be greeted by a man with a creepy smile and even creepier, eye lid-less eyes. He was holding a knife, making his intentions obvious.

You didn't need to think twice about his intentions and whipped your phone out of your pocket with the intentions to call the cops and running.

The killer sadly isn't stupid, and has you on the ground under him whitin seconds.

Your phone's screen crack and slides to the other side, the dialed number not pressed on call yet.

" Don't cry sweetheart. It doesn't suit your pretty face. Don't fret, I'll make sure, you'll smile forever. " The killer tells you happily.

Both of you don't realize that your phone screen suddenly lights up in a green colour. Nor does either of you realize the figure crawling out of it.

The both of you don't realize, until the killer is off you and tackled down on the ground beside you.

" I've told you before. She's fucking mine. Go bother someone else." Ben's voice sounds suddenly.

You turn your head to look at him.

This time he does not wear jeans and a sweater. No  this time, he looks like he came straight out of a... Video game? He looks like Link, the main personage of the game which your friend Noah had dropped off at your place around six months ago. 

Ben never told you he was into cosplaying.

Your ears suddenly tinted pink as you realized, he called you his. Suddenly you felt a little giddy, the guy you like so much might actually like you back.

The killer underneath Ben growls out something you can't hear before throwing the shorter off him and leaving.

" Are you okay?" You ask him.

He turns to you with red eyes.

Red. Fucking. Eyes.

And that's not the only thing about his eyes that changed.

Instead of the usual white eyes have, his are now black.

And even there it doesn't end.

There's blood running down his eyes onto his cheeks, as if he's crying blood.

You take a step back.

What the fuck is this?

" Don't be afraid! I know I look a little... Weird, but it's all just part of my..... Cosplay." He explains.

You ponder over it.

He's never gave you a reason to not trust you right? Or did he? 

You ignore the instinct to run away from him, instead choosing to calm down and follow your heart, which is telling you to trust him.

" Come with me. You can stay at my place tonight." Ben tells you, holding his hand out to you.

You take it.

₲ØØĐ ⱠŁ₮₮ⱠɆ ₱Ʉ₱₱Ɏ

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It took longer than expected to reach his house. The whole road to his house is creepy. Ben appartly lives in this supermodern house in the woods.

Which is off already, the woods are known troughout the whole town as mystery. According to urban legends, there's creatures loving in there who shouldn't exist. Because of that, there's barely any people there. According to Ben, everything is all clear and safe, and you trust him with your heart.

You don't question him after his answer and instead follow him into the,indeed very,modern little house which is situated hidden behind the trees.

You get directly hit in the face with a copper scent as soon as you step foot into his house.

" Would you like something to drink?" He asks you as you enter his house, neither of you bothering to take your shoes off.

" Just water please." You tell him as you study the place.

The inside of the small house is more modern than the outside, with a big living space and an open kitchen. There's also three doors in the hallway.

One to the bathroom, one leading upstairs and one leading into the basement.

" Here you go." Ben returns, handing you a glass of water.

" Thanks, aren't you going to take off your make up and lenses?" You ask him.

His smile fades a bit, and for a moment you think you've accidentally offended him, but he nods with a pout before you can think about it twice.

" Yeah, that's probably a good idea. The livingroom is at the end of this hallway, feel free to make yourself comfortable." He smiles before going upstairs.

You stand still for a moment in the hallway as an eerie feeling suddenly starts crawling up your spine.

You ignore it, and instead start walking towards the livingroom.

Until the sound of something falling reaches your ears.

A sound that is directed from the basement.

Your first idea is to call for Ben, to alert him that you two probably aren't alone.

You don't do that however, because it could just be something falling off a shelf, right?

And so you decide to investigate it yourself.

As soon as you open the door to the basement, you're directly hit in the face with a very prominent copper scent. The same on you already smelled when you entered his house, except it's way too strong and there's something eerily familiar about it which you just can't pinpoint.

You silently push the door open, and turn on the lightswitch to the basement. Behind the door is a stony staircase, the rest of the basement is hidden away behind a wall. Curiosity takes over you, and you make your way downstairs before you can think about it twice.

As soon as you near the bottom, you spot blotches of red. The deep red substance is spread like a trail from he bottom stairs onto the rest of the room.

And then it clicks in your mind. It's blood. That's also the smell in the air. Was the intruder injured?

You step down the stairs while following the blood trail with you eyes.

You stumble back in fear and unpleasant suprise at the sight that greets you.

There's dead people down here. Most of which you don't recognise, but a few you do. 

You gasp as you look into a pair of wide blue eyes.

Sara.

She's sitting there, eyes wide open, with cuts all over. There's big ones in her rib case and near her organs, you can even see Intestines spread over the floor.

She's obviously dead.

But how come she's here?

Ben didn't do this? Did he?

Next to her is Jaime, who's eyes are closed but his chest is rising and falling.

He's alive.

You run over to him and shake him awake, not minding the blood that's now on your hands.

" Jaime! Please! Wake up!" You say desperately, tears now escaping your eyes.

" Y/N? Y/N! You have to get out of here. Ben, he's not who you think he is!" He tells you desperately.

" I'm not leaving you! Can you walk?" You ask him trough your tears.

" I'm chipped Y/N, you have to go. Get help. Ben's insane. He's a de-"

" Demon? Mass murderer? Failure? Dead? Is one of those what you wanted to tell her? How dare you lie to her! I'm none of those!" A voice suddenly booms trough the air.

You turn around while starting to shake. Jaime tries to hold you close to him with the little strength he has left. There Ben stands, still with red pupils and black eyes, dried red streaks still on his cheeks.

" Don't fucking touch her." Ben screams angrily, ripping you all but gently away from the male, causing you to tremble against him.

" Don't be afraid my love, he won't touch you again." Ben sushes you.

Is he really thinking that you're afraid of him?

" N-no. Let me go. Do-don't touch me." You tell him, pushing away from him.

He looks confused by your behavior.

" What's wrong baby? Please don't believe whatever lies he told you.-"

" What lies?! That you've killed my friend?! That you've killed these innocent people?! That you've chipped him?!" You yelled.

" They all deserved it Y/N! They're all in the way of our love!" Ben yells back desperately, stepping towards you.

" I don't even know these people!" You say, stepping back into the wall, knocking into a shelf.

You turn around to see what you knocked into.

Wait, is that the Nintendo 64?

" They all stared at you with sick twisted ideas! They really do deserve it." He tells you.

Suddenly it clicks in your mind.

" You're Ben from the game." You state.

He nods.

" Yes bu-"

" How?.."

" You clicked my game onto your computer remember."

" It was you wasn't it? You're the reason I've lost my job. You're the reason my friends all turned their back to me." You wishper, eyes now gathering in your eyes.

You've been so incredibly fucking stupid.

He's the reason your life has turned down the drain.

" Yes. But it's good right. Now we can finally be together." He says like a crazy man in love.

Which he is.

You start sobbing as you fall onto your knees realizing, all these people here. They've all died because of you.

" Hey, don't worry my live. We can now finally be together."

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 ᘜ ᗩ ᘻ ᘿ  ᓍ ᐺ ᘿ ᖇ.

#creepypasta fanfiction #creepypasta #creepypasta x reader #ben drowned x reader #yandere creepypasta #yandere #angst #creepypasta one shot #jeff the killer #jkjk #first time lol #idkeitherman

[capri-ramblings]

Idk if anyone still remembers this but I actually forgot I finished chapter 3 about a week ago and didn't even posted it 🙂 still kinda confusing I think? But I promise, It'll come together soon 😤💖

[ R a p t u r e d ]

Chapter Three

The walls encasing your freedom began to simmer your frustration, and when a spiral staircase immerged from the wooden floorboards right across the room, your hands reflexively balled into fists.

Though when an unfamiliar face greeted you, they uncurled and from where you sat on the chaise beside your only window, your figure hunched over to pull your knees closer to your body. You'd been reacting so defensively lately, it almost felt natural now.

"Did they send you up to finally get rid of me?" Your words were harsh, a deep grating rage lacing each enunciation you spat out and yet the girl seemed unfazed as her lips curled into a small smile.

"I don't think they're that merciful, but Prince Leona has stated multiple times he'd rather you be dead."

"Who are you then?"

"An ally" She answered then rather hastily added, "If you'd allow it."

You scoffed,bitter and dry you almost sounded gruff and nasally.

"Like I allowed to be imprisoned and kept like an animal?"

The girl's expression softened and she gave what seemed to be an understanding nod before she placed both hands behind her back and stood poised before you.

"Boe" She said, "My name is Boe. As in the kind you'd use to hunt with but with an 'E' at the end because my nan felt it was creative." She sounded pleasant, to be honest,she looked decent as well, like a very familiar face you'd seen somewhere and yet nowhere at the same time. She wore her hair in two loose twin braids,her simple beige coloured tunic and short khakis gave her overall soft, feminine looks a rather boyish touch. And when she smiled it was genuinely given.

Despite yourself, Boe's appearance had you feeling a little less hostile and perhaps even a bit more hopeful.

"I made them an offer" You told her and again she nodded her head.

"To kill your brother in exchange for your freedom. Why?"

"Isn't that what they wanted? That bastard killed their beast and the only reason I'm here is because he's traded me off for his glory."

Boe seemed surprised at how you caught onto the situation at hand but you could see how calculative her eyes were. She may have looked pleasant but you weren't foolish enough to trust her, and if she knew your captives then chances are she wasn't just some typical servant running errands. They sent her up to you to talk, which meant they trusted her. And they didn't look like the trusting type.

"He and I aren't related by blood" You told her, scornfully. "It doesn't take much to piece up my being here, and I'll tell you now that he's not coming to save me. Not when he has every village folk singing his glory and the King welcoming him in his halls."

You sounded so dejected, Boe practically felt the heat of rage circulating through the room, but she also sensed sorrow. A sort of grief from the way you hunched yourself over. You've been through a lot, she could see that much.

"Tell me, did you ever believe the story your land has? It's history with the Faefolk and magic?"

You knew little. Simply enough to have your mind wander, but every child was like that, and when it was time to face the world and grow up, the stories you used to cling to before sleeping became just that; Stories.

So, you told Boe you didn't. You told her you knew the land has always been lavish, that it had always been easy to farm and make produce because it's forests were endless and green. It was because it was placed right in the centre of a growing land, wasn't it? Magic felt too foreign to have been a part of it all.

But then she told you of the story of a man planting a seed given to him by a generous Fae, and that the seed grew into a tree and another and another, until it formed a forest so lush and rich with life, people came to the land as a place of salvation. She told you that the Fae was the Mother Goddess Gaia and that she had made a pact with the humans who stayed in her grounds. They were allowed to grow and live as they wanted as long as her generosity was remembered. Thus the human built shrine after shrine in her name, and the land never once withered. Until weeks after your brother slayed the beast.

You sat there facing her,baffled and refused to believe in such a tale so easily, told yourself that no such thing could be possible...

Yet, the tower that kept you had nothing but a single window and a door that only seemed to appear when called. You remember how you tried climbing down through the window and how your makeshift rope snapped and you thought you'd fall to your death but instead you stayed in the air. Frozen.

As your hardened gaze looked to Boe and the faint light of the sun peeked through the window and into the room, you noticed the slight point of her ears and how in that specific lighting her features looked ethereal,as if she was carved out from a completely different mold.

You've seen those features before. A long,long time ago. The brief memory tucked behind the grains of your mind.

You must've laughed because Boe's expression shifted into confusion, and you ran your hands through your hair as a slight colour flickered to life in your eyes.

"You must think I've gone crazy. Wanting to kill my own brother but I've never seen him as family, and I'm sure he feels the same. It's the only thing we have in common."

"You'd really kill him for your freedom?" Boe asked, almost quietly.

You lifted your gaze,heavy and dark but driven with determination.

"Wouldn't you? It sounds selfish and maybe it is but hasn't he done the same to me? Ever since mother died, I was left under his care which meant he'd been shackled to me against his will and now I'm here and he's drinking in the castle." Your voice shifted, breathless and worn. You wanted to stand, to show to her that you weren't as weak as your captives had force you to be. That you meant what you said.

"I don't care about being kind and understanding anymore. I want to be released. I want to take back what I've lost and if that means killing Cyril and appeasing your Princes, so be it."

***

"You could be their Champion" Boe said as she stared you up and down,her gaze flickering with something you couldn't quite put a finger on. But she smiled when her eyes landed on your face, and a slight shade of pink dusted your cheeks. Though you felt it was because she had been nothing but open in her discussion and all you ever did was scowl and kept your distance.

And perhaps,you couldn't really be blamed for any of it given your own situation, but maybe it wasn't too harmful to act a bit more cooperative...

"A champion?" You repeated the words with your brows furrowed and lips down-curled.

Boe nodded her head.

"Faes often keep champions in order to settle certain affairs,like a representative or a tribute on their part without having to physically attend said affairs themselves, and unlike most dealings, this one has the exceptional perk of not being entirely enslaved by the Fae you serve under"

"...You mean if I agreed to being their... Champion? I wouldn't owe them anything?"

You know the tales of giving your thanks to the Gentry, and how such unfortunate humans fell to the mercy of the cunning creatures. A slight shiver ran up the length of your arm, but you fought the urge to look disgruntled, and simply crossed your arms.

Boe's smile widened a fraction.

"Yes, and I can't tell you why such a thing is possible in the first place, not because I don't want to but because I also do not know the reason behind it. It's said that this pact Faes have created with humans is a rare thing and a ritual they hold with great respect. If you so desire to kill your brother and gain your freedom, being the Princes' Champion is perhaps the best and only way."

"But how can I trust them to hold onto their end of the bargain? I might not have full belief in all your fae nonsense, but I know that whatever you are, your kind are known to be cunning and slippery!"

You felt like jabbing an accusing finger to her chest then,but you bit back the venom on your tongue and swallowed your carousing temper from erupting. Anger did no good in discussions after all. You learned that from years living with your step brother.

Despite it all however,Boe didn't seem to mind your frustration or hostility. In fact, she remained informative and calm, you began understanding why she had been sent up in the first place.

Unlike the Princes themselves, Boe didn't have any intimidation oozing from her demeanor. She came as a neutral party, neither to nurse nor make you submit.

Perhaps her words were the most trustworthy you'd have here.

Perhaps being a Champion was your only way out.

#twisted wonderland #twst #twst wonderland #twisted wonderland scenarios #twisted wonderland fanfic #twst wonderland yandere #male yandere #twst wonderland au #twst mc #twst riddle #twst leona #twst vil #twst idia #twst kalim #twst malleus #twst azul #yandere riddle #yandere malleus #yandere azul #yandere leona #yandere vil #yandere kalim #yandere idia

[cosmiccat09]

Aaa hi!!

So, here's a genshin oc I made!

(This is for an event so, anyone who's seeing this who doesn't know about the event, a lot of this probably won't make sense but, you're welcome to read about my random genshin oc if you'd like to!)

Honestly I'm pretty awkward when talking about any ocs I create since I'm not that creative and kinda get worried that people may think they're weird or boring or whatever, but, I thought this event might be pretty fun so, I decided to join! :D

I.. think seeing who you would match them with would be nice since, I have no idea who my character would pair with XD

Aaaa okay so

I named her Tessa

She's 20

From Fontaine (but she moves to Snezhnaya while she's young)

She's a Claymore user with an Anemo vision!

She values trust, courage and growth!

Likes:

Positivity, dogs, going out drinking, and she's a big adrenaline junkie so probably doing risky/dangerous things too lol

Dislikes:

Simple, mundane things, being in one place for too long, entitled people

She's very laid back! Rarely gets angry and has a lot of control over her emotions. She's quite a joker and is very easy to talk to/get along with.

Ooohhhkay so-

I kinda created a lot of her likes, dislikes and values from her background.

I gave her quite a sad background. A father who cared more about his work and a mother who wasn't around very often. She got into trouble a lot and began lying/being secretive. This is why she values trust and growth, she grew to learn that lying is bad and now loves when people can trust her!

Well, her father lost his job and spent the little money left to move to Snezhnaya, hoping the change in opportunities and scenery would be a good start to getting back on track. However, he got sick, forcing Tessa to have to find a job for hersel to keep them both alive. She ended up joining the Fatui, even though she dislikes what they do, and started using fighting and the adrenaline rush from it as a way to distract herself from her stressful home life. With the money she got from there, she looked after him as best she could until he passed. She became a harbinger (idk what number, I guess I'm adding a 12th now lol) and, now with her great fighting abilities and a great amount of money, she became more carefree and relaxed. This is why she values courage, as she sees having to join such a dangerous group in order to survive and getting to the point she's at now as courageous.

Oooo okay fun facts!

1: I imagine because both her and Childe love fighting, they'd get along quite well and maybe have occasional sparring matches. I also imagine they'd be drinking buddies lol

2: She likes positivity because she's quite optimistic. She likes to believe anything is possible with enough effort, and tries to not let anything drag her down.

3: She's bisexual! 💗💜💙

4: She dislikes entitled people because of her childhood being stressful/sad. She hates when people complain about something small and silly, rather than being appreciative. Especially if it's something to do with their parents, as Tessa, as a child, tried almost everything to get her parents love and attention, and was appreciative of even the smallest things they gave her.

5: Even though she's a harbinger and works for the Fatui, she doesn't really see herself as bad. She loves fighting but hates harming people unnecessarily, and would only do so if it's needed for her job. Outside of the Fatui, she sees herself as any ordinary person.

6: Her hair is half green/turquoise type colour and half purple because of her vision being Anemo and her delusion is Electro!

Sorry this is so long aaa but I hope people like her! And I hope this is enough info for the event! :D

Also, heres a very quick and very messy picture I drew of how I imagine her :D

With a very uncreative outfit on XD

#genshin impact #genshin oc #hazelandfriendsoc

[parisakamali]

Hello, new editor here. Any tips from this talented editor?

hi hello!! 💐 thank you for the compliment, and welcome to the noteless world of editing!! it's gonna be so much fun 💛

i don't have a bunch of tips cause i'm still learning my way through, but ill try to be useful. i'm gonna focus mostly on photoshop cause that's what i use, so here are some tips and some advice, if you wanna take it.

im gonna divide these into two sections: tips and advice.

tips.

don't use the magic wand. she's a useless little bitch and no one likes her. use the selection tool instead! it's way easier to work with and 10x more useful. you can Actually select stuff,, (is2g the magic wand is the reason im not concerned AI will take over the world).

group your layers. this might be my personal preference, but i found that if your workspace is organised, you make it easier for yourself while editing. group your text together, your textures, your adjustments layers.

adjustments layers are your friends. they're not the best of friends and can be tricky and annoying, but give them a chance. especially selective colour, levels, and curves, my besties. (if you need your colours to be more intense, raise the blacks and the neutrals with selective color.)

layer mask everything. whenever you think to yourself "im just gonna erase directly from the layer, i won't need it in the future", you're wrong. you will need it. you will mess up and then have to Ctrl+Z everything and get mad. just. put a layer mask and delete from that, don't be a hero.

pair the ugliest fonts together. that's how i, personally, do my text placement. you get two ugly fonts that don't really work together and you make them work together. the bulkiest one with the most delicate, two serif fonts, two script fonts, whatever.

stretch, squeeze, distort your textures. beat the shit out of them if needed. rotate them, flip them, cut them. this is how you can use the same texture for multiple panels without them looking the same, but looking ✨consistent✨. also. just add a bunch of textures on top of each other and see how that looks, you might end up with the coolest thing.

keep your psds. i know this might be hard depending on how much space you have on your computer, but i always save my psds, especially for edits i made and i really like. that way, if i like a texture combination or how i made a coloring, i can use it again in the future.

sharpen them bitches. no, for real, sharpen your edits. i wish i could tell you the best sizes for tumblr, but i don't know them and i don't really care, but what helps me the most is sharpening. my usual sharpening settings are Amount: 400% Radius: 0,3px Remove Noise: 0% Remove: Gaussian Blur.

here's a thing i do and idk if it's useful, but. whenever i edit, especially when i make 6 panel edits, i always create a big canvas (3500x4000) and i use it to put my layers in the same order i would on tumblr. so every once in a while i merge my layers and drag them into this bigger canvas. depending on my process, i usually put the option with just coloring first (put them all in a folder), then as i go on i drag the version with the textures (group them again), then the one with text (the final one). it's fun to see your process that way imo and you don't have to keep uploading them on tumblr to see if they look good together.

work with high quality pictures. it makes a huge difference when it comes to the way your edits use. lq pics are such a pet peeve of mine, like it doesn't matter how cool an edit is, if the pics are grainy, i don't like it. if you found a cool picture you like on pinterest but it's tiny, reverse google search is your bestie. drag it there and find a bigger one, trust me it's worth it. if you can't find a big one, but still want to use a pic, use the Reduce Noise option.

this is not a tip, but here's a really cool pinterest board full of textures and whatnot (i know it's chaos, but there are like 8k people in that board so. yk) and here is my deviantart where i have a bunch of psds, textures, and other things saved.

advice.

do not pay for ad*be products. 🏴‍☠️ everything, they don't deserve a penny. i can assure you there are links for everything on the internet, and if you don't want to risk it, use Photopea!! it's literally the same thing, but online AND free.

let yourself be inspired!!! this is honestly the best advice i can give you. get inspired by other people's edits, by posters you see on the street, by stuff you see online. literally by everything cause it's the only way you're gonna try new stuff and evolve. even if you don't end up making the same thing you originally intended, you'll get to try new stuff and learn.

ask other editors if you want to know how they did something. if you see something and think it's cool and want to do it yourself, ask. most people here are absolute sweethearts and will definitely help you.

watch tutorials. i'm not even kidding when i say that most of the things i know how to do i learned from tutorials on youtube or tiktok.

learn the shortcuts! this is. so useful. i'm still learning a bunch of them, but knowing the shortcuts makes editing a little quicker and i'm, personally, all for getting shit done faster. (for almost all the photoshop tools, you can press the letter for it and it will switch to it. gamechanger.)

i said i will focus on photoshop, but another advice i have is play with other programs. i started editing in PicsArt and i still do sometimes cause it's fun. i made really cool edits using Polarr. so try them all, see what they bring to the table and see what works for you.

take breaks. this is something i always tell my friends whenever they say they think their edits are ugly, and also something i do when i feel like giving up on an edit. save the psd, close photoshop, go take a deep breath, and come back. sometimes, after you work on a thing for a long time you really start to get pissed at it especially if you don't feel like it's coming along. i think it's important to take a break from it and come back with new eyes. but i'm also a big believer in "fuck you, i'm gonna scrap everything and try again", so you do you.

click on everything. okay, listen, i'm not joking. you have no idea how many new things i learned just by clicking on random stuff in photoshop. but make sure you're not in the middle of an edit when you do that...

here's a harsh truth. your first edits will suck. i swear everything i made on my old blog is horrendous and i don't even look at them, but i did learn stuff while making those edits. so don't let yourself be discouraged by that, and keep learning.

don't limit yourself to one style. unless you want to. this is funny because i don't think i have a style but people keep telling me my "style" is so distinctive. i don't like to limit myself i don't like repealing myself, but that's me. i am a huge believer in "you don't have to be good at everything, you just have to be the best at something", but in order to become the best at that thing, you must learn how to do the others too. so make posters! make graphics! make gfx! make gifs! try everything and see 1) which one is the prettiest, and 2) which one brings you the most joy while creating (or at the end of the creative process), and then try to find a balance between them. i don't think i make the best gifs but learning how to make them was very useful cause now i know how to work with gif overlays. so you learn something from everything.

have as much fun as you can possibly have. this is corny, but at the end of the day, we're doing this shit for free on a website full of people who forgot the reblog button exists. so have fun and try not to pay attention to the notes. what matters is doing something you like and having a blast!

#anonymous #human interaction

[lacertae-dreamscape]

I love u pls teach me how to write I want to start but idk how to put ideas into words

honestly the first thing is just... write, u know?

it seems trite and stupid logic suggestion, but. if you don't start, u never do anything with it.

put your idea down in whatever way you want -prose, poetry, etc- and then work on it. polish it with more words and details, colour it with gentle brushes and its ok if its not satisfying. that's what trying again is for. you take what you've written and rework it. (god. edit. edit 10 times. add things. remove things. look up things on the internet for inspo. do ALL the things. unapologetically.)

but also don't do it like me where i start with a basic idea and then build an entire novel on it bcs im too verbose

build on your words, experiment, abandon what doesn't work and try again. like neil gaiman said once, 'just write'

then, if it feels better for you, write for yourself. and i dont (just) mean 'haha ignore other people and just write what u want' that. can work a lot of the times but if you are like me and crave feedback, it doesn't *quite* help. part of u will always write for others too.

what i mean is: when i started writing, i didn't publish things. i did super self indulgent shit like every other teen writer out there by doing, wait for it, mary sue fics and self inserts. *FOR YEARS*

i wrote pokémon fanfics and animorphs fanfics without at the time knowing it was 'fanfic' (bless sheltered mini-me for being like 'i wanna write me inside the animorphs' and not realising it had a name bcs i was completely abstracted from the concept of a fandom)

it was easier because there was a constant script to follow (hi. my name is [name]. i cannot tell you my surname, because aliens will find me, and everything will end. [here's a description of what happens in the general plot, who are our enemies, who are our alllies, who i am, and then the story starts, and it goes from there) so i found it easy to get into it, bcs the rules were easier. now i abhor first person stories but back then it was normal and i liked them.

and i would probably die of shame and embarrassmnt if anyone were to find the actual *papers* i wrote it on, or after that, the pc files i wrote, but ive grown enough at least to be able to admit i did it.

nobody will ever ever ever EVER catch a single whiff of that. its done and gone. for my eyes only. cringe shit. i wrote my version of entire animorphs books of fanfics.

YET. that cringe shit motivated the fuck out of me, esp in a period where i was already sad and stressed and anxious. was it badly written? u BET. but i was RLY into writing it. it was fun. it was indulgent.

this allows you to write whatever the fuck you want without fear of people judging or nosing around in your business, and it lets u explore and try things out in a way that makes it fun.

i started posting in my first fandom (haha it was beyblade. no judgement, i missed all the big serious fandoms by 10 miles and 10 inches) and looking back it was pure shit. i was the specific 'god this person uses the thesaurus too much' bcs i wasn't native english speaker, so i did a lot of grammar mistakes

yet there were people who in that fandom looked out and reached out for me with nice comments and it helped me thrive, even if the fic was shit. it helped me feel like it was ok to continue.

i feel a lot of fandoms now miss that delicate feeling of 'helping this writer out even if they're not good' because nowadays most fandoms don't actively comment on fanfic in general, unless ur in one of the big fandoms, so its hard to feel motivated to continue, but writing takes time

so you have to start now in order to build urself a base to stand on.

another suggestion is, from a person who went through it over time, find people who enjoy your ideas with whom you can talk it out, and expand them. start putting down ur idea as it is, like 'so i had this idea that i wanna write and its like. just character A standing on top of a hill, reaching out for character B who is grappling at the edge and about to fall, and i want them to look at one another with despair and urgency and then A's hand slips and B lets go- and i want to write what happens next but im not sure' and have someone go 'do u want B to die so u explore that, or do u want B to go through some shit but with a happy ending' and u move from there.

you have no idea how many times ive been saved simply by talking plot out w others to fix some shit.

also something neil gaiman said is that if a friend tells u something needs fixing they're right, but if they detail to you exactly *what* needs fixing and how, they're wrong. people can help you, but the writing is yours. u feel it in ur heart, even if it takes a bit, ok?

there's no big, secret way to write, except take inspo from writers u enjoy reading from (both published or not) and find your own way. do you like writing dialogue more? do you like descriptions?

find something u RLY RLY like and write that thing, obsessively, and without shame, until you're satisfied.

if you really want to start writing, if it calls for you, nothing can stop you, except starting. so give the middle finger to that big hesitance and throw urself into it.

so what i meant is, tl;dr = if you want to write, start writing. close ur ears to everybody else and throw words down. the editing will come later, adding and polishing will come later. even if what you write is simple and barren, you work on it 10, 30 times and add to it. take inspiration from what writers you like wrote, their styles, the way they word things, experiment, find friends to talk it out, and go for it. i believe in you, and in the kind of person you want to become. if u truly *want* to write, u don't need to start strong or be awesome right away, u just need to want it enough to continue through.

#fran talks #nice anons #writing #long post #also look up for forums or sites with people writing #like NANOWRIMO #zero expectations but a lot of willingness to help aspiring authors write #it's how i wrote my first original book! #i had been putting it off for years and then without even an idea of what i was doing #i started nanowrimo #took me 2 of them but i wrote an entire 100k original story to then spend years editing it to my satisfaction #it's not there yet even #but u know #at least its out of my head #once its on paper be it physical or digital #it's out and it feels different #u made it its real #sorry if this was mostly a rant but anon. i support u 100% #writing now feels like home to me and even then its hard but it feels good. i wish u to have this homey feeling too

[inkykeiji]

heyy are the matchups still open? if so could i have one ? im 4'11 with curly brown hair !! my favourite subjects are computer science and English language and i absolutely fucking DESPISE maths on god,, i pride myself on being funny and being able to make someone laugh by being fucking stupid LMFAO anyways,, i have a mostly grunge aesthetic,, mostly reds and blacks and blues bc idk they're sexy colours 😏 ANYWAYS ummm idek much abt myself tbf i kin toga and nishinoya if that helps LMFAO

pls ur precious!!!!! definitely get that noya energy from u too ehehehe 🥰 (also omg ur the last one <33 🥺)

i match you with ⇢ tanaka ryuunosuke! first off, he LOVES how tiny you are. absolutely loves it. he hates all academics, but is extremely interested in your computer science work and will regularly ask you about it!! tbh he also just loves seeing the way your face lights up or your eyes get bright when you talk about something you’re interested in. HE HATES MATH TOO and will let u rant to him about it while he sits on the couch and is all ‘when ur right, ur right, babe’. humour is of utmost value to him, especially in (any kind) of relationship, so the fact that you take it seriously means a lot to him <3 i think your sense of humour and the pride you take in it would be the first thing he falls in love with about you <33

what you carve into your pumpkin ⇢ the stay puft marshmallow man ghost from ghostbusters!

which halloween candy you eat the most of ⇢  airheads + tootsie rolls!

couples costume ⇢ pugsley + wednesday addams OR for some reason i keep thinking he’d get a real kick out of the two of u dressing up as lion and lioness???

how you celebrate halloween ⇢ y’all host a special fx make up contest/party! everyone has to bring their own materials (meaning everyone can go as all out or as basic as they wanna), and everyone knows the winner will most likely be whoever ends up with the most hilarious and creative make up, not necessarily the ‘best’. after, you order ur favourite takeout and spend the night in a huge nest of blankets n pillows, watching whatever ur favourite halloween movie is, drinking + eating halloween candy and chocolate <3

clari’s 1k halloween matchups! 👻 requests are CLOSED <3

#ur the last one bb!!!! <33 #your whole ask had me giggling aaah #yes u are definitely noya i can feel it #would've been a crime not to give u tanaka gonna be real w u #both costumes are great!! #figured i'd give u two tho just in case the addams family really isnt ur think u know??? #please tanaka would fucking PROWL around you and growl and he'd be so embarrassing but hilarious #would definitely make the two of u wear leotards and spandex #ANYWAY #thank u so much for ur support sweetpea!! #have a super fun and v safe halloween pls <3 #inky.1k

[malzenn]

Back with more analysis, this time, it’s A Song Written Easily, again, not really focusing on the overall story, but just looking at the pieces that may be useful later when I try to piece together the whole story.

Flowers In ASWE

All the information I have found regarding these flowers is from the internet, and it anything is wrong, I’m sorry, I’m not an expert on flowers and their meanings.

Ravn - White crysanthemum

- Symbolises condolences

- However, because of reasons, this flowers has multiple different meanings, such as: purity (especially white ones), spirituality, loyalty and honesty

- In Asia they can symbolise health and happiness, while in western Europe, they can symbolise truth

- Has medicinal purposes

Seoho - Paprika Yarrow

Turns out his wasn’t a paprika yarrow but a different variety, however, I can’t remember what it was so I’m leaving the mistake in here, have fun, however, finding information on paprika yarrow specifically was n o t happening, so I used yarrow in general

- It has healing properties and can slow or stop blood flow

- While healing, also is a reminder to protect yourself

- Associated with Achilles 

- Also means lasting love and to nurture your love

- Supposed to represent good luck and success

- Aries

- Also low maintenance

Leedo - Safflower

- Represents attractiveness to others, good luck and love

- Associated with happiness and marriage

- Also low maintenance but needs plenty of sunlight

- Associated with Leo (Leedo is also a Leo, this was a fun lil’ coincidence)

- I really couldn’t find much on this wee flower

Keonhee - Daylily

- As the name suggests, this flower only blooms for one day (is it connected to him getting d u s t e d? More at 10)

- Frequently associated with the Virgin Mary 

- Common meanings are: innocence, purity, perfection and honesty

- Orange or yellow daylilies often symbolise joy, love, courage, beauty and devotion, while darker oranges suggest a deeper passion

- As they don’t last long, they are also a symbol of flirtation, as that too doesn’t typically last

- Also has negative connotations, as the flower doesn’t last long, it can be a symbol of forgetfulness or memory loss, this can be turned positive as it can help you forget painful memories

Hwanwoong - Alstreomeria

- Friendship, love, strength and devotion

- This can be given to a loved one to mean “I’ve got your back” and suggests mutual support

- Each petal has a meaning, these are: understanding, empathy, patience, commitment, humour, and respect

- This flower has no scent, which is kinda rare

- As with other flowers, colour is important, white has connotations of love, strength, support and once again, purity, while red is passion and love, it’s a way to say I love you without red roses

- Victorian flower language often associated this flower with sympathy and condolences

- This flower also has the meaning of overcoming difficulties and following your dream

Xion - Delphinium 

- This flower is about reaching for your goals and trying to achieve them, as well as expanding your options in order to gain new opportunities

- Also is connected to scorpions because apparently, it wards against them, like it symbolises protection because it defends against scorpions, how? Idfk

- Some people plant this in memory of a lost one

- This flower is also used to kill internal parasites, fun fact, because warding off scorpions wasn’t enough for this plant, however, too much can kill as it causes blood pressure to go lower

- It also is about enjoying the brighter side of life.

Keonhee

 I will be making posts about each Oneus member and their role within the overarching story, I just need to put the pieces together first.

However, considering Keonhee’s flower is one that has an incredibly short lifespan, and he disappears, I’m fairly certain there is a connection, especially since the next scene is Ravn collapsing. 

This makes me think that Ravn may be connected to Keonhee’s disappearance. (Next MV I will be analysing is Valkyrie because Keonhee also is disappearing there). However, theories as to why he disappears is going to be its own post.

Another important thing to note about Keonhee, before I move on, he’s the only one where the plants around him are edited to be red, while red has many meanings, passion, love, anger etc, I think the important one is danger, mainly because he disappears, which doesn’t seem safe, idk tho.

Hwanwoong

We’re looking at Hwanwoong’s eyes as the MV moves from the city to the oceans or mountains, which gives me main character vibes, or at least, we’re getting the story from his POV, in general though, he does have main character vibes, especially in TBONTB

Ravn

He starts off with his flowers, while the other members find them during the MV and pick them up, he has his from the beginning and drops it later. The flowers are supposed to mean a new or fresh start, so could this be Ravn sacrificing his fresh start? Possibly, especially since he’s The Hanged Man and Ravn does not know what being subtle is, it makes my job easier I suppose.

Seoho

He has a scene where sand is slipping through his fingers, sand is connected to time as sand slips from your fingers, so does time from your life. In dreams, sand falling can suggest that you’re running out of time. Depending on where this song falls on the timeline, this could mean that they're running out of time before they wake up in TBONTB

Waves 

In general, represents forthcoming events/occasions/threats

Silently watching the waves indicate that there’s hidden emotions eg. someone you love a lot but cannot express feelings for. Hwanwoong is watching the clam waves, which could indicate that he’s hiding something, which means it’s something I have to try to figure out.

High crashing waves represent overwhelming emotions that threaten to drown a person. This might point in the direction of why Leedo became a fallen angel (I will have a whole post about Leedo being a fallen angel, but this isn’t exactly a new theory). So I believe it was probably his actions but not necessarily his fault.

Especially since Leedo is blurred, whatever overtook or overpowered him was strong.

#oneus #oneus theory #mv analysis #ravn #seoho #leedo #Hwanwoong #keonhee #Xion #oneus ravn #oneus seoho #oneus leedo #oneus hwanwoong #oneus keonhee #oneus xion #a song written easily #a song written easy theory #keonhee getting dusted #mal analyses