#this ones a solid eh but ehhhhh

[bastardsofravenkroft-blog]

speak now tv for me on first listen:

in general:

i love the heavier and more unfiltered (?) guitar work, it suits speak now soooo well. hate whoever the backup singer dude is. their voice is not good with hers imo, its really throwing me off. i dont like how quiet her secondary/backup vocals/‘improvs’ are either. its hard to tell if i like the mix or not yet bc its just different yk

in specific:

i like all the vault tracks. theyre good. anyone who thought castles crumbling would be scream-y i have full rights to call you silly. i can see you was way more of a banger than i thought it would be.

fucking hate mine. i will not be listening to it i dont think. which is the first rerecord i absolutely cannot stand. remember when big wigs came up on you belong with me tv and said its a totally different song and thats me with mine. its awful

sparks fly - pretty good overall, doesnt quite match the heart of the og but i think thatll be a running theme unfortunately.

back to december - perfect. theres a sorta loud like horn or something after the first chorus but its fine. very good taysquared fans are FED.

speak now - perfect. solid. nothing to say bc its a pretty nothing song really but its great.

dear john - honestly was just okay until the middle really. then she really gets into i feel, and it fucking hits. the girl in the dress wrote you a song. and you shouldve known.

mean - i love it! sounds like how it did when they played it live. its fun

the story of us - meh. its not bad at all but its not like. magical either. i like the og better but this is still perfectly listenable

never grow up - three times as good as the original. listening to this was like hearing it for the first time at 14 when someone had one of the most prevalent thoughts in my head into one song.

enchanted - the model rerecord (kinda). this is what they should be. not all of them are going to be exact remakes, but this one is pretty damn close but still has its own personality. WIN.

better than revenge - BANGER. THE FUCKING BACKING VOCALS. i dont mind the lyric change, its hers to change, and i dont think thats much of anybody’s business. shes come to terms with the way she treated another woman when she was 18 and i personally wont shit on her for that. and she couldve intentionally made it shit so a lyric that still works well and illustrates the picture? yes please

innocent - better than the original. better. esp the bridge. no more words cause i will be crying. (also i didnt know for years this shit was about kanye and ngl that did sour it a bit but its MINE so I WILL NOT BE CARING. ty)

haunted - ehhhhh. this is one of my favorite ts songs literally ever bc i was born and raised to be an emo piece of shit, i love the second half, but im not sold on the first half. i hope this is one that mega grows on me, and im still so fucking disappointed not to have an acoustic rerecord :( hopefully itll be added later bc its so fucking good

last kiss - the two seconds of waiting for this to play were like every first day of school all over again. but like enchanted its stellar, she got into it from the beginning and i always forget what an amazing song this is until i listen to it again. i wrote this song out in full at least five times in the journal i had at the time. i really love this version just as much.

long live - so fucking faithful??? WHERE WAS THIS ENERGY FOR MINE??? UGGHHHHHHH anyways shes cute! i like. not super attached to this song anymore but i like this way more than the og even i think. a spruce up was what it needed for me i think

ours - its really really different, and i have no feelings really bc ive never really liked it lol. it flows better i think now, but its still a boring weee im in love song so eh

superman - i really didnt listen to this lmao, it didnt deserve to be on any version of speak now imo, esp now hearing the vault tracks, i wouldve liked foolish one more (timeless is more red to me, she was a bit too immature for when emma falls in love and castles crumbling to sound right, and the other songs were too pop for speak now really)

no matter what though, red and speak now will never be replaceable for me. i love these versions but listening to the originals as a young teenage girl and feel heard and seen in ways i never had been before and working through so many complicated things with the help of those songs is something the rerecords will never have.

also whoever said she could remove one of her best songs from arguably one of her best albums.

#music #archives #crimson speaks #taylor swift #speak now #speak now tv #speak now taylor’s version #if youre a swiftie and this pissed you off open a CIVIL DISCUSSION or keep it to yourself. im not dealing with toddlers over a ts post agai #also i didnt even read over this so who knows what it actually says #pinning so i dont lose it #crimson writes

[3amsnek]

for requests an aziraphale if ya want

went slightly ham with weird color stuff at one am, bon appétit ?

#good omens aziraphale #good omens #good omens fanart #go aziraphale #good omens art #my art? #snek asks #anon asks à la snek #this ones a solid eh but ehhhhh

[the3rddenialist]

EVO TIME TRAVEL TIMELINE

This will be loooong

And this is more of a ‘what if real life’ than an updates one. And I can’t be bother to calculate the years between each time but like, you might get the jest of it 

Warning for misspels, SUDDEN CAPS, and other weird writing things

OKAY

Evo_________________________________________________

FIRST WE GOT EVO! For pretty obvious reasons, but basically in canon they say thy go BACK in time, and assuming this applies to everyone I’ll apply it here.

And referncing Mine Craft lore, there was an apocalypse, people went zombied, places went to rubble. And you may ask if Evo is the beginning why was there people and structures? I’ll explain that later, in my personal absurd way.

So EVo is first, got it? got it!

Now what’s next? HAH you think I’ll go in LINEAR ORDER? PATHETIC.

NOpe i will go to the future! (as it’s also the next easiest to explain)

Evo_____________________________________________________Modern

MODERN?? WHO IS THY MODERN??

Yeah, next is Grian and Taurtis. With reasons that are probably really obvious. A lot of there series (including YHS, TS, DHM - CM) , especially when together is modern/or references a lot of modern things from videos games, to Santa. (BUT WAIT the OTHERS KNOW SANTA! yeah I’ll get to that)

Now who is next? ehhhhh, let’s go with the nature trio

Evo____Nature___________________________________________Modern

TRIO YOU SAY? trio i say! Now this is very much associated with their skins and themes. Mini, Martyn and Netty. Now do they feel like they should be a group of three? Eh, I’ll get to that. But with their themes of nature, and since I stated all as post Evo,  they go there. Peace Love and plants and all. Hah.

What next? hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

let’s go with Tomokawk.

Evo___Nature________________________________TOMOHAWK__Modern

Yes Tomohawk’s era is named after him, no I don’t make the rules. 

Tomohawk’s videos before Evo seem to include many other games along with MC and irl stuff. And i wasn’t too sure on anything besides the fact he’s probably a war criminal. So yeah, I smacked him between Modern era and war era.

WAR ERA??? (brilliant transition) 

Evo_Nature_____________________________War_TOMOHAWK__Modern

Now who on MC could be in the War Era???

It’s Jimmy. Timmy, Whatever his name is.

100% inspired by all his Captain America stuff, i’m sorry but my boy was basically asking for Captain America related lore. though he is no super solider lol, pathetic. Also thought him being in war era would make sense with all these Canary headcanons. And no, just because this is called the war era doesn’t mean it’s the only time with war, have you seen mc rps? there are ton. I’m just giving Jimmy this.

he knows guns.

but wait! conflicts, mafia. stuff liek that are refernced by people BEFORE THIS ERA, yeah, i know, 

NEXT ERA

Magic!

Evo_Nature_Magic________________________War_TOMOHAWK_Modern

hoo boi, welp, y’all probably know who this is, with ponies, and whimsical feels and dangerous powers. Here is Salem!

Now Salem gives MAJOR Nature vibes, but not like the other nature ones, if anything, martyn and netty both lean towards this era a bit, but they are more nature. Though I would put the duo between mini and salem. BUT BACK TO SALEM. Now Salem ALSO gives modern vibes, but like, they all do, cause they modern irl. and I wanted Salem to have her own thing. 

Now the last normal thingy before everything gets REALLY WEIRD

Travelling Steampunk Industrialisation 

Evo_Nature_Magic_Travelling Steampunk Industrialisation_War_TOMOHAWK_ Modern

Hah, you thought that space was for MORE ERAS?? HAH, Nah, it’s just a really long name.

Now this is Zee Time. Zee, Zee, Zee. Before War, Harbringer stuff, but after nature. Zee, gives off major wandering vibes, just searching, looking for something. and it all the crazy things he creates. Nowadays his things is just doing things to MC code, which can be linked to magic! But taht’s AFTER Eo though, so we’ll put that aside (puts into brings up later pocket) But also his skin gives off those major Steampunk vibes. He is also did a lot of how to build before Evo. hence the industrialisation. So I placed him there.

Wow I feel like I should be giving better explanations huh? Welp! NEVERMIND

And now, BigB and Pearl.... sighs..

Thinking about these two broke my brain and how I saw the tineline, cause suddenly it became 10x more confusing but made A LOT MORE sense.

Now them? to put it simply.

Apocalypse 1, Before Evo -BigB

Apocalypse 2, after Modern - Pearl

BUT ALSO THEY CAN BE SWAPPED!

Apocalypse 1, Before Evo - Pearl

Apocalypse 2, after Modern - BigB

Now how is that possible??? and why BOTH??

First Why.

Welp I could relate both of them to pre Evo and post modern. 

BigB skin is literally based on a zombie apocalypse, and he just felt like a type of guy to just have been there at the beginning. BUT, he is so modern that it’s constricting. This man is cookies and guns and all other roblox things lol. 

Now Pearl, she is also definitely pre-evo, with so many  Watcher!Pearl Headcanons, and she is ALSO very modern too like Grian. and she’s like a bad omen of the apocalypse too

And i personally couldn’t choose, DIDN”T WANT TO CHOOSE

So i didn’t. :D They are both a part of the same apocalypse 

Now to what I refernced at the beginning

“ if Evo is the beginning why was there people and structures? “

Welp, those were my thoughts,

“ BUT WAIT the OTHERS KNOW SANTA! “

and those

“ but wait! conflicts, mafia. stuff liek that are refernced by people BEFORE THIS ERA, “

And this

and so I made it a loop

yep, please don’t leave yet.

Evo________Nature__________>____________Magic________________

|                                                                                                                          |

Apocalypse                                                                                                     TSI

^|                                                                                                                          |

__________Modern___________<_________TOMOHAWK____________War

I have no clue what this will look like for you all but it’s a loop.

The apocalypse happens, everything from evo to modern happen until the apicalyse happens again. Therefore people in the Nature era knows of things like GUNS cause the modern era was only a few era ago, and etc. Villagers know magic, writing and a lot of other things, some blocks in MC are a lot more modern than others etc.

Also loops seem to be a theme when it comes to the Watcher, as in Martyn’s lore, the 3rd life/last life is an endless loop, or something. Hence what i got major inspiration from.

You have experience from the previous loop, but this loop is new. And anytging can happen.

And so, instead of seeing it as a loop, I started seeing it as a SPIRAL

Are you still with me?  

What do you mean by that 3rd? 

Welp if it was just a loop, the same things would repeat over and over, but that doesn’t work right. Becuase there would be nature era’s that DON’T know what guns are, there are modern eras that have never touched magic. 

Look at the loop above and imagine that as the timeline (kind of)

The red is the apocalypse, that is the beginning and end.

And each apocalypse parallel each other.

But what if it took a couple looks for TSI (orange) era to be introduced/

What if it took even longer for a loop to reach modern (blue)? 

And magic to many loops is still a new concept, while to others it’s an old legend?

Basically. Remove Evo from the repeating thing, let’s say evo only appears on the 2nd loop, and that is the loop everyone is sent to.

But Mini and Martyn, while both from the nature era, one of them might be a bit more assoicated with TSI, while the other is more magical, CAUSE OF THE LOOPS and SPIRALS.

It’s all parallel but also all new! SANTA EXIST EVERYWHERE, HE IS OLD AND NEW!

AND THEY ALSO LEARN THINGS FROM EACHOTHER TOO

so...... anyone still here? It’s like, really late for me, and maybe none of this makes any sense, but like, it makes sense to me lol. geez, i put more though into this than like, any of my english assignments, HAH.

Was that a sudden end to the essay? yep, but technically if it all loops there is no end and in thIS THINGY I WI-

#*dies* #evo smp #evosmp #what is this? #I don't know #take it #lol #I didn't double check this #but please ask questions if you want #goodnight

[extreme-technicality]

does talking to an anon help about ninjago help? cuz I'm down

DHDKCKGSC YES IT DOES THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR OFFERING YOUR SERVICES

Okay now that I know I won’t be clogging people’s dashes buckle the fuck in my dude and I should stress that I literally would not be talking about this as much as I will be if I didn’t genuinely enjoy the show. I’m gonna go season by season and just Rant

S1 has the serpentine as the bbeg and like, as far as villains go they’re p lit. They’re early enough that they haven’t been done to hell, things are fresh, the characters and dynamics are being fleshed out, and all in all s1 is a pretty solid season. There’s some fuckery that gets brought up re: how the FUCK aging works and what the actual timeline of Ninjago is and how Wu and Garmadon fit into that timeline, fuckery that LITERALLY NEVER GETS RESOLVED IN A SATISFYING WAY BC ITS REVEALED IN A LATER SEASON (s8, dw we’ll get there lmao) THAT THE ONLY REASON THE FIRST SPINJITSU MASTER, WU, AND GARMADON LIVED AS LONG AS THEY DID IS CUZ THEYRE BASICALLY DEMIGODS AND ITS IMPLIED THAT LLOYD WILL ALSO LIVE FOR A LONG ASS TIME WHICH MEANS ONE DAY HES GONNA OUTLIVE ALL HIS FRIENDS AND EVERYONE HE EVER LOVED WHICH IS A FUN THING TO THINK ABOUT AT NIGHT But anyway I digress, s1 also coincidentally introduces Lloyd (he wasn’t in the pilot episodes that set up the rest of the series) and the existence of Evil Dad Garmadon.

S2 is where Garmadon starts acting a lot more Evil and a lot less Dad. He’s the main antagonist for that season, and I actually read somewhere that the show was originally slated to end after s2 which high key explains the fuckery of literally every single season after this lmaooooo. Much like s1, I really can’t find much to complain about, the first two seasons are pretty decent as far as I can remember

Season. Fucking. Three. Where the fuck do I start??? I hate season three for entirely personal reasons revolving around the STUPID GODDAMN ROMANCE WRITING. okay lemme back up and explain a thing first so, Jay is dating Nya and they’re fine, they’re going steady, aND THEN????? THE BEGINNING OF THE SEASON INTRODUCES BULLSHIT LOVE TRIANGLE FUCKERY FOR ZERO GODDAMN REASON, BITCH I HATE LOVE TRIANGLES AND I HATE THEM EVEN MORE WHEN THEYRE DONE FOR NO GODDAMN REASON!!! AND THEN. AS IF THAT WERENT ENOUGH. THEY SHOEHORNED A ROBOT ROMANCE BETWEEN ZANE AND PIXAL AND I KNOW I RANTED ABOUT THIS A LITTLE BIT WHEN I WAS ACTUALLY WATCHING BUT I DIDNT GO INTO ENOUGH DETAIL!!!! THEY MADE THE OTHER NINJA OOC IN ORDER TO PROP UP THEIR SHIP!!!!!! AND AT ONE POINT ZANE GOES “its like we were…made for each other” AND I HAD TO FUCUCJDHVE I HAD TO SCREAM INTO A PILLOW BRO, IM SO TIRED!!!! NO THE FUCK YOU WERENT!!!!!! YOU WERE MADE FOR YOU AND PIXAL WAS MADE FOR PIXAL AND IF YALLS WANNA BANG BOLTS THATS FINE BUT DONT IMPLY THAT EITHER OF YOU WERE MADE INCOMPLETE!!!! THATS AN INSULT TO YOUR MAKERS AND YOURSELVES, MOVE ON, PLEASE AND THANK YOU. anyway that season also killed Zane (for the first time, but not the last) (spoiler alert lmao) and like, not to be an emotional little shit but I did cry a bit at his funeral.

S4 is honestly one of my favorites, even though the romance crimes continue (the love triangle bullshit is continuing and honestly I maintain that Cole, Nya, and Jay should all have gotten together and in my personal canon they DID, and also Kai has a forced romance) the VILLAIN makes up for it imo. He’s campy!! He’s funny!! He’s a clown!! He’s serious enough that if he says “I’m gonna kill you” HE MEANS IT and that’s so fucking refreshing!!!! S4 is honestly 8/10 just for the villain alone, don’t like that it retconned the SHIT out of the elemental masters and how many different elements there are TO master but eh, it’s ninjago, shit is stupid.

S5 was…interesting? OH WAIT I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT S3 INTRODUCED A GARMADON WHO WAS A LOT LESS EVIL AND A LOT MORE DAD, HONESTLY I THOUGHT IT TOOK A LOT OF THE FLAVOR OUT BUT THATS JUST ME LMAOOO. anyway s5 killed Garmadon, and I was a little sad cuz I like him okay??? I just think he’s NEAT, he’s got big dad energy, he was teaching Lloyd some shit that just got DROPPED and literally was never brought up again which is honestly a theme in Ninjago. Ninjago drinking game: take a shot every time they introduce a plot point or ability and drop it at or before the end of the season. WHICH THEY ALSO DID IN S5 WITH A DIFFERENT POWER ACTUALLY, so all the ninja are masters of Spinjitsu right, well s5 introduced the concept of Airjitsu which only Spinjitsu masters can learn and it lets them FLY and they used that for seasons 5 and 6 and then they nEVER BROUGHT IT UP AGAIN EVEN THOUGH IT WOULDVE COME IN HANDY FOR S E V E R A L DIFFERENT SITUATIONS ACROSS THE SEASONS, ONE OF THEM WOULD BE FALLING TO THEIR DOOM AND MY ASS WOULD BE YELLING “YOU CAN FLY, DUMBASS” - anyway, they do that again later lmao it’s fine. But what’s low key NOT fine is they made Nya the WATER NINJA!!! Like I’m not mad she has powers, except I kinda am, she was doing just fine as Samurai X and honestly the only reason she has super special ninja powers is for plot reasons. Also Cole got turned into a ghost, but by s7 he’s????? No longer a ghost????????? And that’s NEVER addressed or reasoned away, so like. Cool lmao

S6 didn’t happen. Like, canonically, s6 ends with wish fuckery that undoes the entire season and none of the characters remember anything that happened except Jay and Nya because S6 is the season where they get back together so they remember all those events for???? Feelings reasons?????? Unclear, moving on. The actual bbeg for S6 was a djinn with a vaguely Spanish accent, and to this DAY I don’t know why they made him have a SPANISH accent. Djinn are Arabic, not Spanish!! They’re not central or South American, either!!!! Your villain design makes no sense, do better

S7 had MORE time fuckery, and retconned what happened to Kai and Nya’s parents and hmmmhmhmhmhmhm that makes me Upsetti Spaghetti :3 not just the retconning, but the fact that they LITERALLY brought them back oNLY TO NEVER MENTION THEM AGAIN!!!!!! LITERALLY!!!!!!!! Okay so at the VERY very beginning, like pilot episodes beginning, Kai talks about their dad like he died/left fairly recently, BUT s7 contradicts that and claims that both of their parents were essentially abducted when Kai and Nya were little kids, which makes me question what in the fresh fuck two little kids were doing for all those years alone. SETTING THAT ASIDE FOR A HOT SECOND, their parents were also apparently good friends of Wu’s and old war buddies (from the Serpentine wars, which is YET ANOTHER bit of the timeline that doesn’t quite add up but honestly I could make a whole other post about that shit). But if they were such good fucking friends, why didn’t Wu check in every now and again??? What the fuck was Wu doing that was so fucking important that he couldn’t have been assed to visit his friends ONCE in like TEN MOTHERFUCKING YEARS and realize “oh shit, they’re not here and there are two tiny children running around unsupervised…My Kids Now : )” LIKE????? WU YOU LOW KEY SHOULDA LOOKED OUT FOR YOUR FRIENDS’ KIDS BETTER, THEY COULDA DIED BRO!!! Uhhhh the time fuckery also results in Wu getting yeeted ahead in time a bit and the ninja gotta find him

Season. Eight. I have…mixed feelings about this one. The beginning absolutely SLAUGHTERED me, and not in a “this is so fucking funny” way. No, the beginning made me feel like I was being flayed alive with just about every episode because Ninjago was back on its forced romance bullshit and this time it was Lloyd’s turn on the chopping block. That hurt my soul cuz like, look at that mans color scheme, he’s CLEARLY alloaro, why are you forcing romance on my aro man, why would you hurt me like that, BUT ALSO BECAUSE HE AND THE GIRL HE WAS BEING SET UP WITH HAD A LITTLE HEART TO HEART REALLY EARLY ON AND IT WAS THE MOST QUEER CODED SHIT!!!! IT DEADASS READ AS A CONVERSATION BETWEEN AN OUT AND PROUD QUEER AND A CLOSETED QUEER AND THEY MADE!!! IT!!!!! STRAIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!! The only thing that kept me watching at first was wanting to find Wu, and then I started enjoying myself once Cole found a plot-relevant baby and had fatherhood thrust upon him. Everything went from “ehhhhh” to “holy shit this FUCKS” once it was revealed that Rumi (Lloyd’s love interest) wAS PLAYING HIM THE WHOLE TIME AND WAS EVIL AND HAD AN EVIL GIRLFRIEND!!!!!! LITERALLY IMPROVED EVERYTHING ABOUT THE SEASON FOR ME, I COULD EVEN FORGIVE THE WHOLE “let’s resurrect Garmadon, but as evil as possible” BULLSHIT!!!!!!

S9 is a continuation of s8, Garmadon is back and 1000% Evil, 10% Dad, but none of the Dad energies is directed at Lloyd - it’s all directed at Rumi, and honestly I could write a whole ass post on just RUMI cuz that’s honestly my DAUGHTER and I LOVE HER and I’m MAD SHE DIES AT THE END OF THIS SEASON!!!! SHE DESERVED THERAPY AND TO LIVE WITH HER GF AND MAYBE SOME CRIME. AS A TREAT. RUMI DESERVED BETTER AND LOW KEY IM GONNA WRITE A FIC ABOUT IT, BUT ANYWAY WHERE WAS I

Ah right, so s9 has the four major Ninja stuck in the original dimension with no way home, while Lloyd has no powers (cuz he almost died last season) and has to somehow lead a resistance against Garmadon (who has taken control of Ninjago City and is working on the rest of Ninjago). Actually, s9 is pretty cool. Like, the end of s8 and into s9 are low key my favorite episodes, and I kinda wanna rewatch them now -

S10 is a FUN one. Garmadon got got last season, but he didn’t DIE, so he’s in cold storage and now there’s Another Threat and he’s the only one who knows wtf they’re up against so they let him out and he works with them. The funny part is, he is still Very Much Evil and doesn’t quite Get emotions like he did when he was, uh, human lmao, sO HE WOKE UP EVERY DAY DURING THAT SEASON AND DECIDED TO CAUSE PROBLEMS ON PURPOSE. IT WAS THE FUNNIEST FUCKING SHIT. 1000000/10 MY FAVORITE GARMADON, he ended that season by literally fucking off into Ninjago and they never decided to track him down 😭😭😭😭😭and I’m so SAD about it dude

S11 has another Serpentine as the bbeg, though in the setup to that they retconned how the fucking Serpentine tribes and history work??? I think???? Also Wu was a good 150% angrier and generally Done with the ninja’s shit, which was honestly refreshing tho I’m not quite sure I liked what the refreshed view was, but whatever lmao. S11 also had the ninja get yeeted to the dimension farthest from Ninjago, and honestly - okay, so they didn’t all go at the same TIME, Zane left about a week or two before the others did but there was time dilation fuckery afoot which I’m not too mad about cuz low key it makes sense. What I AM mad about is that they didn’t play the angst up to its full POTENTIAL!!!!!! Zane was EVIL in the other dimension!!!! Okay so I’m Ninjago he was only gone for maybe a week or two, but DECADES had passed in the other one, and all that time Zane was alone and disconnected from everyone he knew and loved, with a staff that boosted his power while slowly corrupting him and Turning Him Evil to help him, and like???? The thought of Zane trying to find a way home, trying to get SOME sort of message back, while he has to use the staff more and more to help him survive the long, lonely decades, so that by the time his family DOES show up its too late??? BRO. B R O. THAT JUST HITS DIFFERENT, BUT NINJAGO DIDNT DO THAT!!! THEY MADE HIM EVIL DUE TO MEMORY WIPE!!!!!! MEMORY WIPE IS BABY SHIT COMPARED TO A LONG, SLOW CORRUPTION!!!!!!

S12 was alright. It went into Cole’s mom, touched on some of the adventures she had had, threatened another forced romance (this time on poor Cole, just leave my mans ALONE) but thankfully didn’t follow through this time, introduced cool new powers that honestly hasn’t been elaborated on since that’s the most recent season I think lmao

Anyway thanks for reading and letting me rant!!!! I have,,So Much More I could talk about, PLEASE ask me about Rumi, some of my headcanons re: Garmadon and Wu’s dynamic, the Serpentine, my top five times they butchered Kai’s character for Plot Reasons, or anything else I brought up here that you want me to elaborate on!!!

#technical talks #ninja hoe #ask dadzawa #nonnie #this was honestly therapeutic tysm #and it let me kill time before I play Mario kart so bonus points!! #I definitely forgot to mention A Lot (like all the times one or all of the ninja lost their powers) #so like!!! feel free to bug me for more shit!!!!

[starlingsrps]

alexander redding char. dev.

BASIC INFORMATION

FULL NAME: alexander stephen redding

REASONING: solid name.

NICKNAME(S): nope. don't. there are like, five people allowed to call him alex and he's not accepting new applicants.

PREFERRED NAME(S): alexander

BIRTH DATE: september 19, 1984

AGE: thirty five

GENDER: male

PRONOUNS: he/him

ROMANTIC/SEXUAL ORIENTATION:  heterosexual

NATIONALITY: american

ETHNICITY: caucasian

CURRENT LOCATION: greenwich, ct

LIVING CONDITIONS: p good. he has an apartment but is also the technical owner of a (small) estate outside of town. it's entirely too much for one person so he cleared out the family stuff and rents it out for events. pops by now and then to check on things, that kind of thing.

TITLE(S): no.

BACKGROUND

BIRTH PLACE: new york city

HOMETOWN: greenwich

SOCIAL CLASS: lower upper? upper middle?

EDUCATION LEVEL: business degree from yale, mba from wharton

FATHER: stephen redding, deceased.

MOTHER: laurel redding, deceased

SIBLING(S): charlotte redding, 25

BIRTH ORDER: oldest

CHILDREN: noooooooope.

PET(S): a rescue mutt named hamilton (shut up, it is too funny)

OTHER IMPORTANT RELATIVES: not really. it’s mostly just him and charlotte.

PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIPS: not a lot tbh. he kept himself busy with work for a long time and now he's like "how make conversation how date?" but when a bear is hungry, he eats so he gets out now and then.

CURRENT RELATIONSHIP: just him and ham, two bachelors on the town.

OCCUPATION & INCOME

PRIMARY SOURCE OF INCOME: hedge fund manager

CONTENT WITH THEIR JOB (OR LACK THERE OF)?: it's by no means a passion but he likes to make money so there ya go.

PAST JOB(S): interning. more interning.

SPENDING HABITS: reasonable

MOST VALUABLE POSSESSION: his plants. #plantdad

SKILLS & ABILITIES

PHYSICAL STRENGTH: aight - he works out and lifts but nothing too over the top.

OFFENSE: nah.

DEFENSE: just gonna walk away.

SPEED: fast

INTELLIGENCE: p high - he's well read and makes it a habit to seek out new knowledge

ACCURACY: not bad

AGILITY: average

STAMINA: endless

TEAMWORK: quietly bossy

TALENTS: he's highly competent. like he can take care of himself and others, assemble ikea furniture without throwing a hissy fit, goes about his days without too much fuss. he's also an excellent gardener but he keeps that on the dl.

SHORTCOMINGS: GRUMPASAURUS REX

LANGUAGE(S) SPOKEN: english, duolingo spanish

DRIVE?: yes

JUMP-STAR A CAR?: yes

CHANGE A FLAT TIRE?: probably, given time to read the instructions.

RIDE A BICYCLE?: probably but it's been Awhile.

SWIM?: yes.

PLAY AN INSTRUMENT?: he took piano lessons as a kid and could probably plunk out a little bit still but nothing exceptional.

PLAY CHESS?: nope.

BRAID HAIR?: yes. but it's not going to look pretty.

TIE A TIE?: of course.

PICK A LOCK?: no.

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE & CHARACTERISTICS

FACE CLAIM: gwilym lee

EYE COLOR: blue

HAIR COLOR: brown

HAIR TYPE/STYLE: short, neat.

GLASSES/CONTACTS?: depends.

DOMINANT HAND: right

HEIGHT: 6'2

BUILD: beanpole with the shoulder to hip ratio of a dorito.

EXERCISE HABITS: gym five days a week before work.

SKIN TONE: fair

TATTOOS: nah

PIERCINGS: nah

MARKS/SCARS: various freckles and moles

USUAL EXPRESSION: resting bitch face

CLOTHING STYLE: suits for work, jeans and a sweater off the clock. good shoes.

JEWELRY: nice watch every day, a small collection of cufflinks that he received from his father and grandfather.

ALLERGIES: soy

DIET: reasonable

PHYSICAL AILMENTS: —

PSYCHOLOGY

ENNEAGRAM TYPE: 1 - the reformer

MORAL ALIGNMENT: lawful good

TEMPERAMENT: melancholic

MBTI: ISTJ-A

MENTAL CONDITIONS/DISORDERS: anxious af

SOCIABILITY: introvert

EMOTIONAL STABILITY: steady

PHOBIA(S): he do esn't do well with death

ADDICTION(S): nah

DRUG USE: nah

ALCOHOL USE: not often but he likes a good red now and then

PRONE TO VIOLENCE?: nah

MANNERISMS

SPEECH STYLE: dry

ACCENT: neutral

HOBBIES: gardening, cooking, reading.

HABITS: walking ham, working out, visiting with his sister

NERVOUS TICKS: he had a bit of a stammer as a kid and it comes out when he's especially anxious but he masks it through long pauses.

DRIVES/MOTIVATIONS: jeez.

FEARS: charlotte is about all he's got so he's very protective of her. losing charlotte, really.

POSITIVE TRAITS: just, devoted, generous, rational, honorable

NEGATIVE TRAITS: aloof, awkward, stoic, proud, judgmental

SENSE OF HUMOR: dry, bitchy.

DO THEY CURSE OFTEN?: not really

CATCHPHRASE(S): does he even talk enough?

FAVORITES

ACTIVITY: spring gardening at the big house

ANIMAL: dogs

BEVERAGE: he's slightly addicted to coke zero.

BOOK: in the heart of the sea

COLOR: green

DESIGNER: please don't make him shop.

FOOD: cheese and crackers

FLOWER: roses, for the challenge of growing them.

GEM: emeralds are pretty

HOLIDAY: not super big on holidays but he and charlotte do christmas somewhere warm every year and that's nice.

MODE OF TRANSPORTATION: driving

MOVIE: the princess bride

MUSICAL ARTIST: death cab for cutie, he guesses

SONG: "bixby canyon bridge"

SCENERY: the grounds at the house once they get going

SCENT: sandalwood and dirt

SPORT: ehh no

SPORTS TEAM: see above

TELEVISION SHOW: he'll park it and watch like, seven hours of criminal minds.

WEATHER: summer

VACATION DESTINATION: mexico

ATTITUDES

GREATEST DREAM: eh, this is fine. he gets lonely sometimes and starts to think he wants a wife and kids and such but he's not really one to push the boat out on that just yet.

GREATEST FEAR: failure.

MOST AT EASE WHEN: with charlotte, when gardening.

LEAST AT EASE WHEN: things are off schedule

WORST POSSIBLE THING THAT COULD HAPPEN: kind of already has - his parents died in a car accident ten years ago. he buried his own grief about it way down deep to take care of charlotte and get her through high school. she's well adjusted, he's really not.

BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT: career wise, he's very successful so that's good.

BIGGEST REGRET: nah

BIGGEST SECRET: he's a cuddly fuck. little spoon 4 life.

TOP PRIORITIES: ehhhhh

#c: alexander redding

[pixelbirb-choices-blog]

aleister and estela from endless summer?

Estela is done; see my previous post.

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life

hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would bang

hogwarts house: This is also hard because we haven’t found his dossier yet and he’s still putting up his walls at everyone (except Grace). He values knowledge and competency, but I don’t know if it’s for its own sake or as only a means to an end. Boy’s a solid Slytherclaw, but if I were the Sorting Hat and had to choose just one….I still don’t know. We’ll just have to wait and see!

best quality: all that knowledge in that head of his?

worst quality: Prickly. Rude. Arrogant. Bossy. Too hard to gain friendship points with! I love shit-talking my son, lmao.

ship them with: Grace, obviously 😏

brotp them with: Raj.

needs to stay away from: ehhhhh IDK, he already distances himself from everyone.

misc. thoughts: I can’t wait to learn more about him…if he’s Rourke’s son, what he /really/ knows about the island… 🔍👀📝

#playchoices #endless summer #aleister #endless summer theories #aleister is rourke's son #anon #graleister #the birb answers

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October 14, 2017 | #GABBAFEST2

It was Saturday night when one of the best gig I’ve ever attended happened: The birthday gig of Gabba Santiago (Tom’s Story). Consisting of lots of wonderful musicians and bands, held at 19 East in Muntinlupa City.

Few weeks back, when I first saw the Raccoon Productions’ post about Gabbafest2, my nerves went up and feel giddy about it. The very first thing that came up to my mind was “hindi ko na dapat palampasin ‘to” (because sadly, I didn’t made it to gabbafest last year) I know solid line up talaga and its going to happen at 19 East; that I must say favorite gig place ko ever because of its peaceful ambiance and the soothing sound system. And wow! I wasn’t wrong, indeed it was a beautiful night. Here’s the complete line up of the show: (photo from Raccoon Productions)

Oh diba sulit talaga ang 300 mo dito bes.

Everything was fine according to plan. Saturday is approaching and im so gig ready.

Finally Saturday na!! The show started at about 8pm. Unfortunately, my out from the office is at 9:30pm so I knew that I won’t be able to start the show  I have my officemate with me to watch the gig pero nauna sya don since her out is 3:30pm.

Well if you’re a friend you know how much I love Clara Benin. And one of the main reason why I really wanted to watch this gig is because I’ve been longing to watch her perform on a live show since she had her hiatus last year. So this is my chaaaaaaance to see her perform live once again. Pero nakakaloka, the friend messaged me that she’s on stage na, eh kakaalis ko lang ng office huhu. Thanks to the grab driver for bringing me safe and sound to the place.

To my surprise, when I arrived at 19east, sobrang daming tao! Parang block buster sa isang movie screening na parang kasabay ng isang 3-days sale sa isang mall. And I won’t forget what the receptionist outside told me, “sure ka na ba jan?” sobrang dami kasi talaga (me on my mind that time: omg dami ngaaaa pano ko makakapasok, pano ko makikita si ate Rochelle?) pero dedmabels na, desidido ang ate mo gurl haha. So to cut it short, naabutan ko naman si Clara on her last song nga lang. Pero atleast!! And not only that I got to have a photo op with her and she even signed my copy of her album (ehhhhh kilig, haaaaay happy heart) I’ve waited for that moment to come and I can’t believe that it happened on that night. 💛💛💛💛

And then performances followed by The Ransom Collective, Reese Lansangan, and Autotelic who ended the night with their super cool and beautiful songs. Huy sobrang I love how they ended the show, dahil sobrang ganda ng songs nila!! Galing nila forever.

I got lucky to have photos with the birthday boy, Gabba Santiago and my fave CB and with the other artists as well. Hihi kilig overload. My fangirl heart is so full that night.

And lastly, a very special thanks to my awesome gig-mate Rochelle “Salt” Mabalot Hahaha more gigs to come!

Wow! Just wow. It was indeed a night full of beautiful moments, feel good music and a place filled with wonderful people. Really, I wasn’t expecting that its going to be a jam-packed-evening. Though I know maraming pupunta, pero di ganon kadami ang inexpect ko. Well, nga naman “expect the unexpected”. Kahit super late na eh madami parin talaga. Im just so proud how this Indie Music Industry had grown into something really beautiful; That finally, a lot of people can appreciate its wonder.

I really had a superb night: Happy heart, happy soul. More of these please! I’m looking forward to the next best gig that’s going to happen hopefully very soon 💕

Yours Truly,

happy heart, happy soul, and beautiful lights from 19east haha.

#gabbafest2 #autotelic #clarabenin #gabbasantiago #raccoonproductions #19east #reese lansangan #ang bandang shirley #tomsstory #ben&ben #theransomcollective #ibelongtothezoo #rochellemabalot #music #band #opm