#this tiger is weird colors because it's the year of the black tiger

[gimmethatagustd]

venor (1) | kth + jjk

The barista at the university's café keeps telling Jungkook not to come back, but Jungkook is too busy daydreaming about kissing the beauty marks on his face to be paying attention to his warnings.

○ Pairing: Tiger!Taehyung x Bunny!Jungkook

○ Rating: Explicit/18+

○ Genre: Hybrids, predator/prey, college au, strangers to lovers, slow burn, fluff, light angst, eventual smut

○ Word Count: 2,557

○ Warnings: None

○ Notes: This is my first hybrid fic, so I hope you enjoy it! It was written for the Taekook Hybrid Fest Season 2 on AO3.

○ Post Date: February 5, 2024

○ Masterlist | AO3 Cross-Post

○ What was Jai listening to? The series playlist

Sweat rolls down the side of Jungkook’s neck, soaking into the collar of his white cotton t-shirt. He tried to beat the heat by wearing light colors and thin five-inch inseam athletic shorts, but the weather seems out to get him regardless. The conditions aren’t ideal for moving into his new dormitory, but Jungkook is too excited to let a little sweat ruin the day. Even the heavy box straining his muscles as he carries it up two flights of stairs to his room can’t dampen the pep in his step. 

Stepping into the air-conditioned building feels good. The main hallway is stuffy and smells oddly like stale beer and burnt popcorn, but Jungkook’s dorm room smells clean and citrusy. Yoongi’s scent was the first thing Jungkook noticed about him. Scents are important to Jungkook, who has always been sensitive to smells.  

“Shit, Jungkook, you’re a lot stronger than you look,” Yoongi remarks with his eyes zeroed in on Jungkook’s biceps. It takes him a moment to get out of the way, sidestepping so Jungkook can squeeze through the front door of their dorm room. 

“There was this gym–” Jungkook grunts as he sets the box on top of a small stack of other cardboard boxes, “–that I used to train at back at my old college, doing kickboxing!” 

Yoongi shuffles around to stand on the opposite side of the boxes with his hands on his hips. Wearing an oversized black t-shirt and loose black basketball shorts, he looks adorably small. Although they’re both prey hybrids, there is something incredibly gentle about Jungkook’s new roommate. He’s got older brother vibes. They’ve only known each other for a few hours, but Jungkook already trusts Yoongi with his life. 

“They let prey hybrids kickbox with predators?” Yoongi’s feline eyes follow Jungkook’s movements as he starts unpacking. His long, orange tail swishes behind him with curiosity, and his cat ears occasionally flick. 

“No,” Jungkook twists around to scrunch his nose at Yoongi. What a silly question. “There weren’t any predators at our university. They weren’t allowed.” 

“Shit, I keep forgetting you said your old school was prey-only.” Yoongi whistles and shakes his shaggy black hair. “I can’t even imagine what that was like.”

“Growing up, all the schools I went to were prey-only. My neighborhood was only for prey hybrids, too. I guess I never thought about it much…”

Jungkook wants to tell Yoongi that being in such homogeneous spaces is boring, but he keeps the comment to himself as he works on unpacking. It would be weird to talk about it. He has already received slight comments from other students during new prey student orientation, most of them calling him privileged and sheltered for never having interacted with predators before. It’s a bit disheartening because Jungkook has been so excited to move to a new city and transfer to a new college. For months, he’s seen this as an opportunity to figure out himself – to live independently, away from his overly-protective parents, and have a real college experience. Independence is important to Jungkook, especially now that he’s attending a college of his choosing rather than staying at the one his parents picked for him – the safer one. 

With a drive to prove his parents wrong, Jungkook is determined to take care of himself. He’s twenty-one years old. It’s about time he got some freedom.

Besides, what does it matter that Jungkook has supposedly been sheltered from the world? Everyone knows there’s a social hierarchy, and hybrids like Jungkook certainly aren’t at the top. He can’t honestly blame his parents for wanting to protect him from an unequal society for as long as they could. Rabbits aren’t known for being well-respected, even amongst other prey hybrids. 

Luckily, Yoongi seems kind and accepting, even for a tabby cat hybrid. So Jungkook steers the conversation toward a more comfortable topic while he sets up his half of the bedroom. Their dorm is an upperclassman dorm with a small living room, kitchen, and private bathroom for the two of them to share. They also have to share a bedroom, but Jungkook doesn’t mind. 

Yoongi’s half of the room is tidy. His slate grey comforter is oversized and fluffy, neatly tucked in at the sides of the bed. His laptop sits open on his desk, quietly playing a lo-fi playlist in the background. If the minimalism of Yoongi’s half of the room is indicative of the kind of roommate he’ll be, Jungkook doesn’t have any concerns about living with Yoongi. 

“Do you need any help?” Yoongi hovers at Jungkook’s side. “I feel bad; I didn’t even do anything.” 

“No, no, it’s okay! It really wasn’t much.” 

Jungkook is nearly finished organizing his laundry in his closet, sorting the clothing first by season and then by color. He waves off Yoongi’s concern, suddenly feeling shy. 

“Are you sure?” 

Jungkook nods hard enough that his fuzzy black bunny ears sway with his hair. “I’ve got some decorations I want to put up, but that might be a whole process, so I’ll deal with it later.” Turning around, he gives Yoongi a shy smile and brushes his sweaty bangs off his forehead. “But, maybe after I take a shower, you could show me around? I never got a chance to tour campus.”

Yoongi makes a strange sound, something in between a hiss and a scoff. “They didn’t show you around campus during new student orientation? Ridiculous. The predators get a whole fucking ceremony, and what do we get?” 

“A free water bottle,” Jungkook pipes in, shaking the cheap plastic bottle at Yoongi. 

“Ridiculous!” Yoongi eyes the water bottle as if it has personally offended him. “Go get ready. I’ll show you everything you need to know.”

Still grumbling, Yoongi meanders into the living room. Jungkook watches him plop onto the couch with a scowl and tries to hold in his giggles. Despite a somewhat shakey start to the day, Jungkook feels good about his transfer decision. He ended up with an awesome roommate in a decent dorm. He already logged into his online student portal to view his class schedule and got all the classes he wanted as a junior computer science major. What more could a guy want?

Jungkook's stomach rumbles as he grabs clean clothes that are a replica of what he's already wearing and realizes the thing that would make this day better is probably ramen or fried chicken. Or both. Definitely both. He's pretty confident that Yoongi will know somewhere good to eat on campus or in the surrounding neighborhood. 

Hunger makes Jungkook fly through showering. Rubbing his head with a towel to quickly sop up his wet hair and ears, Jungkook slams his elbow into the wall. The yelp torn from his chest is rather unbecoming, and the clatter of his toiletries bag exploding onto the floor doesn't help.

"Are you okay, Jungkook-ah?" Yoongi calls from the living room, further embarrassing Jungkook without meaning to.

"Yeah, hyung! I'm okay!"

Jungkook must also mention how cutely the two men engage with each other, with Yoongi speaking to him in diminutives and letting Jungkook call him hyung already. What was Jungkook's parents' fuss about attending a large university? So far, Jungkook is loving it. 

In his excitement, Jungkook doesn't bother organizing his toiletries and hopes Yoongi is okay with the temporary mess, making a mental note to work on the bathroom next when he gets home. For now, a tour and food are his top priorities. Socializing and moving all day can make a person ravenous. 

"Okay, I'm done. Can we eat?"

"Shit, kid, yeah, we can eat," Yoongi grunts after being jostled around when Jungkook practically launches himself onto the couch. "What kind of food do you like? Salad?"

"That is not funny." Jungkook's pout earns him a hearty chuckle deep inside Yoongi's chest. "I like meat."

Yoongi snorts. "Good to know, kid. Let's get outta here." 

-

The university campus is relatively large, but Jungkook quickly discovers that half of it is off-limits to him, much to his surprise. He'd been under the assumption that, as a university that serves all hybrids, the entire campus would be open to everyone. The thing is, Jungkook still has to learn about inhabiting a world with predator hybrids - and Yoongi is determined to teach him. 

"So, the east half of campus is the predator side. All their dorms are over there, along with their gym and dining hall," Yoongi gestures down the sidewalk where the path goes through an archway between the stone walls that border the east side of campus. "Super gothic architecture and shit. It's because they're pretentious. Our side of campus is more modern because we're ahead of the times."

Yoongi continues rambling about the differences between the two halves of campus and how the library is the only genuinely coed space as he travels down the sidewalk in the opposite direction. Still, Jungkook finds himself staring past the stone archway.

A group of predator hybrids crosses through the archway, their voices echoing against the stone walls as they pass. They're boisterous and animated as they talk, occasionally all bursting into laughter when one of them says something. Jungkook has good hearing but is too caught up in watching the group to pay attention to what they're saying. 

"Jungkook-ah, come on. Aren't you hungry?" Yoongi gripes, suddenly at Jungkook's side again. "Close your mouth, aish. You act like you've never seen a predator hybrid before." 

"I haven't..."

"What?" Yoongi looks at him incredulously. 

"I've never seen a predator before. Well, not in real life." 

The group heads down the same sidewalk Jungkook and Yoongi stand on, slowly approaching the pair. Jungkook can't take his eyes off of them. There are four of them of various species, but one in particular steals Jungkook's attention. He's taller than the other three, with broad shoulders and long legs. Despite the chiseled look of his high cheekbones and sharp jawline, there's something boyish about how he laughs with a box-shaped mouth and how the breeze ruffles the unruly mess of coppery curls resting atop his head.

Always attentive to scents, Jungkook takes a deep breath of petrichor as the breeze carries the hybrid's scent to him - the deep, earthy smell of fresh rain falling on parched soil. There's something strangely nostalgic about the scent. It envelopes Jungkook, wrapping him in a comforting blanket that feels like childhood memories of playing in the creek that runs along the edge of the forest behind his neighborhood. 

Jungkook opens his eyes, not having realized he'd ever closed them. When he does, he finds a pair of sharp, feline eyes staring back at him. They're critical, deftly slicing into every inch of Jungkook's soul because he can't look away. 

"Hello," the hybrid greets with a deceivingly soft voice.

Jungkook has heard horror stories about predator hybrids all his life, and today, he thinks he finally understands. The hybrid is mere inches from Jungkook, close enough that he could easily snatch him up. How had he gotten so close? Jungkook feels as though he blinked, and suddenly, the other hybrid was there, having quietly crept up on him. It's Jungkook's overactive imagination, considering he quite literally watched the group approach him, but he's still intrigued.

The hybrid stands with an air of nonchalance, but Jungkook isn't stupid. He may not have any experience with predators, but he can sense the power in this one, even if his outward demeanor is relaxed. Jungkook's instincts are speaking to him.

This hybrid is dangerous.

When the breeze ruffles his hair again, Jungkook notices the pair of striped ears poking out from between his curls. If he'd been paying attention earlier, he would have noticed the striped tail, too, but he is too busy admiring the tiger's asymmetrical eyes and the little beauty mark artfully placed along his waterline. 

"H-h-hi-" 

"Sorry, he's new here," Yoongi interrupts and grabs Jungkook's wrist, pulling him to one side of the walkway to allow the group to walk past them.

"Oh really? I could show him around," one of the other predators says with a snicker. He licks his lips as he looks over Jungkook's body, but Jungkook misses it because he's still locking eyes with the tiger hybrid. 

"Yeah, show him around a knot," another says with a snort and reaches up to high-five the fourth predator, who throws his head back and starts howling. Or maybe laughing - Jungkook isn't sure. Whatever the sound, it stops abruptly when the tiger hybrid raises his hand. 

"Shut up," he says, glaring at the other three sharply. "You're acting like animals." 

The tiger's gaze slides back to Jungkook. He knows his usual floral scent is spiking with anxiety, but it isn't because he's afraid of the men in front of him. If anything, he's exceptionally curious and afraid of looking like an idiot by doing the wrong thing. Not that he's doing anything aside from standing with an awed look on his face. 

"Jungkook," Yoongi hisses and yanks on his wrist harder than the first time. "Ramen. Fried chicken. Let's go." 

Reluctantly, Jungkook lets Yoongi drag him away from the group of predators who have now started up again with their obnoxious laughter, though this time Jungkook is sure that he's the butt of whatever jokes they're telling. It makes his face feel hot, but he mostly can't stop thinking about how pretty that tiger hybrid was. From what Jungkook was taught as a child, predator hybrids are big and scary - which is undoubtedly true of the predator hybrids he just met. But the tiger hybrid had a certain aura to him that Jungkook can't quite name. 

"You're ridiculous," Yoongi grumbles his favorite word. "Stuttering and ogling like that. They're gonna eat you alive and pick at your bones if you're not careful." 

Once they're a decent distance from the group of predators, Yoongi slows down his speedwalking to a casual saunter toward the prey dining hall. Maybe Jungkook should be a little bit more concerned about what Yoongi means, but instead he asks, 

"What's a knot?" 

Yoongi nearly chokes on his next inhale. 

"I'm not gonna be the one to tell you that," Yoongi sputters, "You can fucking look it up. Wait! Just not right now! Oh god." 

With a furrowed brow, Jungkook slides his phone back into his pocket. All he wanted to do was understand the joke. He supposes he'll just have to look it up later like Yoongi said. 

"Do you know him?" Jungkook finally asks. 

"Who?" Yoongi gives Jungkook a suspicious look, but Jungkook's head is floating in the handful of clouds barely working to give them much needed reprieve from the sun.

"The pretty one," he sighs, "The tiger hybrid." 

Rolling his eyes, Yoongi opens the door to the dining hall. It's fairly crowded since they're nearing the lunch hour. Jungkook sticks close to Yoongi's side to avoid getting lost or doing something incorrectly. 

"Don't even go there, kid," Yoongi says with a shake of his head. "There's a reason we're on this side of campus, and they're on the other." 

Jungkook looks around at the other prey hybrids in their dining hall and doesn't find anyone as interesting as the tall boy with coppery curls and dangerous eyes.

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[miko32]

Born into the Seven Ruler's of Devildom

I was isekai'd to a world in a book. The title was "Kristin in the Harem of the Seven Demon Lords." Like its title, a human named Kristin was brought to Devildom against her will and had to survive through the temptation of the seven demon lords, who were brothers and avatars of the seven sins.

The seventh brother, Belphegor, the Avatar of Sloth.

The sixth brother, Beelzebub, the Avatar of Gluttony.

The fifth brother, Asmodeus, the Avatar of Lust.

The fourth brother, Satan, the Avatar of Wrath.

The third brother, Leviathan, the Avatar of Envy.

The second brother, Mammon, the Avatar of Greed.

The first brother, Lucifer, the fallen angel, the Avatar of Pride. My father. The one who succeeded in seducing the human Kristin and impregnating her.

I was in shambles with the ending. Lucifer had kicked Kristin out, banished to the swamp and died giving birth. The baby survived and was named Leilel by Kristin, and that baby is me.

I'm Leilel Morningstar, the child of Lucifer Morningstar.

Chapter List

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3 ---- Royal Academy of Diavolo

Like the name suggests, the academy is a school for demons built by the prince of Devildom, Lord Diavolo. He is the same demon who put my mother, Kristin, into this place.

The novel tells that Diavolo put two humans in the school. They were promised a wish if they could survive for a whole year. It was more of an entertainment for the dark prince to see who would win, the avatars or the humans.

The other human, a sorcerer, managed to survive.

But not Kristin. Tempted by Lucifer’s lies of love, she died giving birth to me.

“Jekejeje!!!” Pink exclaimed. 

I turned to the blops. “Thank you.” The blobs let out a weird cry, begging for me not to go. I laughed. “I’m not going anywhere, I’ll go home on weekends and vacation.

“Jheyeygeha,” Blue asked me whether I’m certain to do this. He is giving me a chance to go back and live normally in the swamp. I smiled and held his tiny hand. 

Going back to the swamp does seem easy. I can see myself living there until my old age, with the blops, of course. I will be safe, secure, and happy. And it's not like Lucifer and his brothers are out there hunting me. But going to RAD is the like going into the tiger's demon's den.

I exhales, holding Blue’s cheeks as we looked eye to eye.

“Blue, I need to do this. I can’t stay in the swamp for the rest of my life, I want to live.” 

Blue was quiet, he nodded. He kissed my forehead for comfort.

“Blehehegegheh!”

“Fejegeheheaja!”

“Gegehegeg!”

The blobs said their goodbyes as I walked toward the gates. “See you, everyone!”

The gates of RAD opened by themselves, taking a deep breath, I strode in. I still had my head looking back, watching the blobs getting smaller and smaller as I walked further. I turned back forward when I entered the building.

XxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxX

Walking into RAD is like entering a war zone, not in metaphor or like high school problems. This is a school for demons and a place where the seven lords are more often than in the city. There's a possibility I’ll be in the same class as them, not to mention my own father.

The thought brings shivers to my spine.

As long as I don’t get caught. I even changed my whole appearance. My hair used to be black, and I turned it blue. My eyes were purple lilacs, and I changed them to orange brown. The lenses are uncomfortable, but it's for the safety of my identity. Purple lilacs are very rare in Devildom, belonging only to two demons: Beelzebub and Belphegor, the two lords. It would be suspicious if a new demon suddenly appeared with the same color eyes as them.

I find my way to the RAD council room. Two heavy black doors in front of me make me feel intimidated. I take deep breaths, in and out.

"Don’t worry," I tell myself. Even if I look scared, they would think it's because a new demon is facing the lords of the demon world before her. They wouldn’t be suspicious. They couldn’t!

I keep telling myself to be positive and brave. "Step it up!" I say to myself.

If they do recognize me...

No, let's not go there. I shake my head and lift my hand, knocking a few times and opening the door.

"AGGGGHHHH!!!"

I yelp and almost slam the door closed again.

"No!!! I lost! No, no, nooooo…"

"Are you sure you’re a pro, Levi?"

"Don’t you dare question my profession when you just sleep all day, Belphegor!"

I peek from the door, and there I see the two lords of envy and sloth playing PSP.

"Seriously, why are you two here if you’re gonna play games all day?!" the lord of wrath, Satan, scolds them.

"Hey! Who wants to be at school on weekends before it starts?! This is all because Mammon ditched his work on me!" the avatar of envy complains, banging the table with his fist. "Lucifer too! Why did he let him get away just because he had some shoots?! No fair, no fair!"

"Mammon promised to pay your debt with the photoshoot, right?" Belphegor leans his head down.

"Don’t you know our scumbag brother-!" Leviathan stops as his purple-orange eyes meet mine. I shriek and close the doors again. Words come flooding into my head.

“Do what I say, human! After all, you’re just a stupid normie weak human!” the avatar of envy, Leviathan, shouted at Kristin.

I tightly close my eyes, taking deep breaths. In and out, in and out, in-!

I yelp when the council room door opens, revealing the three lords standing before me. I bow my head, hoping my hair hides my face.

“Good morning, my lords, I’m—I’m Lami! The new student at RAD!” I blurt out the words.

“Oh? You must be the new demon who's coming today, huh?” I hear the voice belonging to Satan.

“New demon? How old is she?”

I hear a rustle of paper as the three demons fall silent. They gasp, and my heart skips again.

“You’re thirteen?!”

“That’s really young!”

I slowly look up at their shocked looks. It seems they care more about my age than my face.

“Um, excuse us, please come in, Lami.” Satan motions for me to come in. “Sit here,” He gestures to a long table with many seats. In front of the table is a higher table with seven seats in a row, and one seat is much higher. It looks like a courtroom rather than a council room.

The place is like a courtroom, and several men are looking my way. In that courtroom, Diavolo, the ruler of demons, introduces himself. Then he introduces his right-hand man, Lucifer.

"We'll see how she survives until the end of the semester," Lucifer smiles, something sinister and evil in it.

This is the exact same place where the demons summoned Kristin.

“Miss Lami? Why don’t you take a seat?” Satan encourages. I look up at his small fake smile.

Satan, the avatar of wrath and the fourth-born. The book tells that Satan may look like an average gentleman, but he is actually malicious and pretentious with all those smiles he gives away so easily, just like now.

I bow my head. “Forgive me, Lord Satan,” I say and take a seat.

The blond demon seems satisfied by my obedience. He takes a seat at his throne. Leviathan and Belphegor have seated themselves as well.

Belphegor speaks first. “Lami, you don’t have any demon scent on you?”

It's a tradition for demons to scent each other, much like a dog marking its territory. Belphegor's question refers to the fact that I have no parents.

“No, my lord, I have no parents.”

“And you were raised in a swamp?” Levi asks, his eyes widening in shock. “Don’t usually demons go there for isolation? Eheheh, you must be an introvert.”

I was thrown away by your brother.

I say the words I've practiced. “The swamp is a perfect place to strengthen myself, my Lords.”

“Is that a way to say that you’re poor?” Belphegor asks, he laughs off with Leviathan.

I clench my hand under the desk. I need to keep my composure. These demons would be satisfied with my reaction.

Satan coughs to hide his laughs. “Well, apart from you having no relatives nor money, I can see you are quite intelligent.” Satan looks through the documents in his hands. It must be information regarding my grades and tests I had taken.

Usually, it would take a hundred years for a new demon to take the RAD test because of the hard curriculum and the need to study subjects that involve millennial knowledge. Luckily, one thing I'm grateful for regarding my bastard father is his brain. 

Satan puts his papers down and looks at me. “So, Lami, why go to RAD so fast?” Satan asks, putting his hands together. “What’s your goal?”

The three lords look at me more seriously, gone are the playful demons. They must be evaluating whether I’ll be an enemy or not. Many demons are against the demon prince, Diavolo, and the Seven Lords must take action.

All I can do is be honest.

“My Lords, I’m interested in one program RAD offers, the exchange program,” I say with a stern voice. “I would love to go to the human world and tempt many humans.”

The Lords are silent as they consider my answer.

Yes, this is the goal. To go home, to the human world, my world.

XxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxX

"This is your room," the demon, guide of the RAD dorm, opened the door for me. Inside was a five-square-foot room with a single bed. There were desks and drawers for my clothes. A simple but quaint room.

The memory came in a blur when I was human. It was my college year, and I had moved into my dorms. Three old ladies came in with boxes and luggage. They said to call them often, then kissed and hugged me like my Blops did.

I frowned. Even in my first life, I was raised by guardians. Though the ladies seemed nice, I can't even remember their names.

"Here's your key," the demon tossed it onto the study desk. "There are the dorm rules at the bulletin, just read that. But... There's no curfew here," the demon shrugged his shoulders, eyes glinting dangerously. "So, a new demon like you should be careful around here," the demon licked his lips in a twisted smile.

I kept my composure, but inside, my stomach dropped. The demon waved goodbye and closed the door. I stayed still in the middle of my room, listening to the demon's steps fade away. Once they were gone, I dropped to my knees.

"Hahhhhhhh," I exhaled. "That was so intense," I pushed myself to lean on the bed leg, pulling my feet to my chest and hugging them. I stayed on the floor until I calmed down. I needed to pull myself together.

There are still four demon lords I need to face tomorrow, not to mention my father. I groaned and shook my head. I'm still not out of the woods yet. The demon guide me before was right; I'm a new demon with no relation with powerful demons, no money, no name, nothing. Every demon would make me their sacrificial lamb. That's why I needed a demon on my side. A powerful demon.

And there is one demon I could ask for. That demon has no relation with the seven lords and who hates Lucifer with all his might.

Mephistopheles

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[atopvisenyashill]

The Magic Users Before Old Valyria, Part One: Magical Nuclear Fallout

i am positive this post has been made before but i'm making it anyway because it's eating away at my brain so let's gooooo.

We are delving into a fever dream that Dany has in AGOT, that will take us to the Pre-Valyrian magical users and their link to Valyria.

so in Dany's fever dream in AGOT, she has a vision of her ancestors:

Ghosts lined the hallway, dressed in the faded raiment of kings. In their hands were swords of pale fire. They had hair of silver and hair of gold and hair of platinum white, and their eyes were opal and amethyst, tourmaline and jade.

They look just like other Valyrians - hair of gold, white, and silver with funky colored eyes.

But note the exact gems mentioned! In TWOIAF, we get a little background on Yi Ti and their belief system. read here:

[In the beginning] a single realm ruled by the God-on-Earth, the only begotten son of the Lion of Night and Maiden-Made-of-Light, who traveled about his domains in a palanquin carved from a single pearl and carried by a hundred queens, his wives. For ten thousand years the Great Empire of the Dawn flourished in peace and plenty under the God-on-Earth, until at last he ascended to the stars to join his forebears.

Dominion over mankind then passed to his eldest son, who was known as the Pearl Emperor and ruled for a thousand years. The Jade Emperor, the Tourmaline Emperor, the Onyx Emperor, the Topaz Emperor, and the Opal Emperor followed in turn, each reigning for centuries…

When the daughter of the Opal Emperor succeeded him as the Amethyst Empress, her envious younger brother cast her down and slew her, proclaiming himself the Bloodstone Emperor and beginning a reign of terror. He practiced dark arts, torture, and necromancy, enslaved his people, took a tiger-woman for his bride, feasted on human flesh, and cast down the true gods to worship a black stone that had fallen from the sky.

Opal, Amethyst, Tourmaline, and Jade Emperors, just like her ancestors. It's not a huge stretch to say that likely, Dany, and therefore Valyrians as a whole (or at the least the Dragon Riders of Valyria) are the remnants of this ancient empire, The Great Empire of the Dawn, the same way that the Ghiscari culture is the remnant of Old Ghis - changed a bit, but with many similarities passed down amongst its people.

But who exactly is this civilization and how did they eventually turn into the Valyrians? Well, let's keep continuing with that passage about the Bloodstone Emperor:

In the annals of the Further East, it was the Blood Betrayal, as his usurpation is named, that ushered in the age of darkness called the Long Night…How long the darkness endured no man can say, but all agree that it was only when a great warrior—known variously as Hyrkoon the Hero, Azor Ahai, Yin Tar, Neferion, and Eldric Shadowchaser—arose to give courage to the race of men and lead the virtuous into battle with his blazing sword Lightbringer that the darkness was put to rout, and light and love returned once more to the world.

Basically, the people of Yi Ti believe that the Great Empire of the Dawn stretched far across the globe, and that when the Bloodstone Emperor usurped his niece, The Amethyst Empress, potentially using some weird blood magic, it caused the Long Night and the collapse of the Great Empire of the Dawn.

I think that this blood magic he was messing around with was, to use a metaphor, basically a magic nuclear bomb and I think ground zero for this - and therefore the capital of the Great Empire of the Dawn - is Asshai-by-the-Shadow. It's very notable that Asshai is so old its people don't even know what its origins are:

The ancient port of Asshai stands at the end of a long wedge of land, on the point where the Jade Sea meets the Saffron Straits. Its origins are lost in the mists of time. Even the Asshai’i do not claim to know who built their city; they will say only that a city has stood here since the world began and will stand here until it ends. Few places in the known world are as remote as Asshai, and fewer are as forbidding. Travelers tell us that the city is built entirely of black stone: halls, hovels, temples, palaces, streets, walls, bazaars, all. Some say as well that the stone has a greasy, unpleasant feel to it, that it seems to drink the light, dimming tapers and torches and hearth fires alike.

Note that last part, about the city being built from black stone - Valyria is well known for having Weird, Cool Architecture that involves black stone, fused together by dragon fire. From ADWD prologue:

Across the wide blue expanse of the Rhoyne, he could see the Black Wall that had been raised by the Valyrians when Volantis was no more than an outpost of their empire: a great oval of fused stone two hundred feet high and so thick that six four-horse chariots could race around its top abreast, as they did each year to celebrate the founding of the city.

and again from Tyrion's POV:

The gateway to the Long Bridge was a black stone arch carved with sphinxes, manticores, dragons, and creatures stranger still. Beyond the arch stretched the great span that the Valyrians had built at the height of their glory, its fused stone roadway supported by massive piers. 

And one more time F&B/The Princess and the Queen, when Aegon and Sunfyre on are Dragonstone:

Sunfyre’s scales still shone like beaten gold in the sunlight, but as he sprawled across the fused black Valyrian stone of the yard, it was plain to see that he was a broken thing, he who had been the most magnificent dragon ever to fly the skies of Westeros

rip to the hottest dragon in westeros.

It's very much a Valyrian thing, this fused black stone...yet the entirety of Asshai is built with black stone, even though the city predates Valyria, and the black stone of Asshai is just a little different - a greasy, unpleasant feeling. I think that this greasy feeling comes from the remnants of the magic that caused the Long Night - going back to that idea of a magical nuclear bomb which is poisoning the land the way radiation does. I think this because there are actually several ancient cities of mysterious origin with black stone and a greasy, oily feeling to them, all of which seem to have suffered some sort of magical nuclear fallout the way Asshai has, and they're all not too far from each other either:

The Idol on the Isle of Toads in the Basilisk Isles

Ruins found upon the Isle of Tears, the Isle of Toads, and Ax Island hint at some ancient civilization, but little is now known of these vanished men of the Dawn Age. If any still survived when the first corsairs settled on the islands, they were soon put to the sword, so no trace of them now remains … save perhaps upon the Isle of Toads…

On the Isle of Toads can be found an ancient idol, a greasy black stone crudely carved into the semblance of a gigantic toad of malignant aspect, some forty feet high. The people of this isle are believed by some to be descended from those who carved the Toad Stone, for there is an unpleasant fishlike aspect to their faces, and many have webbed hands and feet. If so, they are the sole surviving remnant of this forgotten race.

The Five Forts

The Five Forts are very old, older than the Golden Empire itself; some claim they were raised by the Pearl Emperor during the morning of the Great Empire to keep the Lion of Night and his demons from the realms of men … and indeed, there is something godlike, or demonic, about the monstrous size of the forts, for each of the five is large enough to house ten thousand men, and their massive walls stand almost a thousand feet high.

Certain scholars from the west have suggested Valyrian involvement in the construction of the Five Forts, for the great walls are single slabs of fused black stone that resemble certain Valyrian citadels in the west … but this seems unlikely, for the Forts predate the Freehold’s rise, and there is no record of any dragonlords ever coming so far east.

The Ancient City of Yeen

Maesters and other scholars alike have puzzled over the greatest of the engimas of Sothoryos, the ancient city of Yeen. A ruin older than time, built of oily black stone, in massive blocks so heavy that it would require a dozen elephants to move them, Yeen has remained a desolation for many thousands of years, yet the jungle that surrounds it on every side has scarce touched it.

And even more suspicious is the fact that Sothoryos, where Yeen is located, is known for its large wyvern population:

Most terrible of all are the wyverns, those tyrants of the southern skies, with their great leathery wings, cruel beaks, and insatiable hunger. Close kin to dragons, wyverns cannot breathe fire, but they exceed their cousins in ferocity and are a match for them in all other respects save size.

Now there's different stories on how dragons came to be, but most interesting to me is what the Asshai'i claim:

The Valyrians themselves claimed that dragons sprang forth as the children of the Fourteen Flames, while in Qarth the tales state that there was once a second moon in the sky. One day this moon was scalded by the sun and cracked like an egg, and a million dragons poured forth. In Asshai, the tales are many and confused, but certain texts—all impossibly ancient—claim that dragons first came from the Shadow, a place where all of our learning fails us. These Asshai’i histories say that a people so ancient they had no name first tamed dragons in the Shadow and brought them to Valyria, teaching the Valyrians their arts before departing from the annals.

Septon Barth later writes that he believes Valyrians used wyverns and blood magic to make dragons:

In Septon Barth’s Dragons, Wyrms, and Wyverns, he speculated that the bloodmages of Valyria used wyvern stock to create dragons. Though the bloodmages were alleged to have experimented mightily with their unnatural arts, this claim is considered far-fetched by most maesters, among them Maester Vanyon’s Against the Unnatural contains certain proofs of dragons having existed in Westeros even in the earliest of days, before Valyria rose to be a power.

So to sum up basically:

Dany's vision shows us her ancestors, who are almost definitely the rulers of the Great Empire of the Dawn

We know several cities - Asshai, Yeen, the Isle of Toads - that have an architectural resemblance to the fused black stone that the Valyrians used, but their structures predate Valyria.

We know Septon Barth believes dragons were made through blood magic with wyverns as a base stock and that there are a lot of wyverns in one of these ancient places, Sothoryos/Yeen, where the black stone architecture is found.

The people of Yi Ti believe that a magical calamity of some sort caused the Long Night.

THEREFORE: The Great Empire of the Dawn had its capital in Asshai, and used blood magic to start the Long Night (by accident, most likely), which caused a huge magical calamity that affected the entire world, and while their people never recovered from it, they brought their magical knowledge with them to their new home in Valyria, where they made more black fused stone architecture and turned their wyverns into dragons. Meanwhile, the "ground zero" for much of this magical calamity still experiences the magical fallout of this calamity.

OKAY. That's part one because this is getting super long winded. Part Two will be....JUST HOW BIG WAS THE GREAT EMPIRE OF THE DAWN ANYWAY?

#valyrianscrolls #old valyria #the great empire of the dawn #house targaryen #getting on my soap box #septon barth #yi ti

[leonscape]

rating and commenting on last year’s ikepri fits

first up we have yves, the fashion icon

8/10 yves always slays

i like his jacket it’s got some texture around the edges. but the plaid(?) pattern on his jacket also adds some kind of extra 🤌🏻

i also like the necklaces. they don’t look too chunky..? the bracelets and the rings are cool too! and i love his cat choker lol

overall, yves’ outfit is harmonious and it’s not too much to look at if you know what i mean i think his pink aesthetic works really well for him too

next we have clavis the leopard guy

6.5/10

his score is higher since he’s showing titty. the ruffles on his shirt add some nice texture. they didn’t go too heavy with the accessories but i think that’s a good thing because the print is already enough.

his outfit is more on the simple side but it’s quite bold at the same time. it’s not too busy and it’s not an eyesore

purple man looks great here, it’s just im not a huge fan of animal print like that.

next big man chevalier

9/10 i said what i said.

yves was a little too safe, so chevalier is ranked a little above him. he’s showing titty and i remember in the instagram live people were going feral over chevalier tits

the white suits him very well (maybe because we always see him in white) but the tiger stripes on the belt and the lapel is great!! it’s not obnoxiously im your face like clavis’ leopard print.. the stripes are great otherwise, it would just be boring and flat. but chevalier looks like he’s going to the met gala lol

the accessories are great too!! they don’t go overboard with chunky necklaces and they’re not all the same length and we love a nice layered necklace look. also chevalier in a choker looks interesting to me.?

the ring also stands out and i wonder why they chose to give him a green(?) ring. feels kinda random but it’s interesting! i think this outfit suits chevalier very well!

we got nokto and licht twinnem slay

8/10 it’s not as bad as you think

idk why twins are so fun to have in a story. i love how they’re mirrored. anyways i love that their animal crest is a pin, it’s a subtle detail. again, not too heavy on the accessories and that allows the designs to stand out and not make it feel heavy.

i kinda like the jewels and the chains design tbh but maybe that’s an unpopular opinion

their outfits look like nct u make a wish outfits. i would’ve loved to see this on leon

back when i was in the kpop fandom, jaehyun was my bias and seeing the twins’ fits reminded me of jaehyun so maybe my rating and thoughts are biased

finally we have leon my beloved but they did him dirty

3/10 perhaps i had high standards

the base is black which fits him, but there’s only a smidge of red?? how come everyone else got their usual colors for their outfits but not leon?? yves is pink, clavis is purple, the twins are literally drenched in their signature colors, chevalier looks normal in white… so why is it just leon who looks so foreign and weird???

i absolutely love the black, red, and white combo but this ain’t it. i think it should’ve been more black and red with white, rather than black and white with a little red… also they’re obsessed with leon in turtlenecks and i think that’s funny but why not change it up a bit?

and that monstrosity on his shirt, the huge ass lion face 💀 it’s just really not it, it’s quite tacky in my opinion. it just doesn’t work. also that necklace is just so random. it looks like the type of necklace you make when you're young and you bead whatever you can on the string.

this outfit is literally only saved because leon is cool.

okay that’s all. thank you for reading all of this and watching me complain about leon’s outfit

#ikemen series #ikemen prince #ikepri #ikepri leon #ikepri licht #ikepri yves #ikepri chevalier #ikepri clavis #ikepri nokto

[theladyofrosewater]

Currently struggling with stylizing some of the animatronics ( shapes are a struggle and I don't want to copy other people) and I'm cold so I stuck the chaos trio as I like to call them in winter clothing some notes on the designs under the cut

• Mike is the weird guy who'd where shorts in negative -20 degree weather if he wasn't slightly bothered by people staring at him, this isn't like a weird remnat thing or anything Mike's just like this.

• The letterman jacket is his but I don't know what sport I'd put him in as I have no idea what sports Hurricane had in the 80s, fun fact I looked at Hurricane's high school website and apparently their mascot is a tiger and I think their school colors are black and red.

•Anytime Charlie is mildly fashionable 9/10 Jessica helped her pick it out because she has no idea how fashion works

•Charlie is naturally VERY cold because I headcanon the Emily family used to live in South Texas so Charlie almost always has like 3 layers on in winter and is a regular coat theif.

• don't really have any notes on Jeremy except red is his favorite color and that scarf was a gift from Mike. Also I know a lot of people use or used to make Jeremy a blonde but as someone used to draw a bunch of zelda art I'm tired of drawing blonde people so you get Jeremy post his hair dyeing phase

• They're all around 19-20 years old here

#theladyofrosewater #art #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #michael afton #charlie emily #jeremy fitzgerald #fnaf fanart #fivenightsatfreddysfanart

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

charlotte!! congrats on your milestone 💚 i would love Vigée Le Brun, mostly because i am always looking for new artists that exude the kind of ~feelings~ i like from art

i love dark and atmospheric works, my favourite artists are francisco goya, jamie (and andrew) wyeth, edward hopper, paul klee, van gogh, and théodore géricault (specifically his anatomical studies on corpses and his work with the mentally ill), and dragan bibin

it has only also just now occurred to me we haven't talked about art lol 💚

visit the art gallery

ahhhh finnie!! thank you so much for the request! you are the first visitor to the gallery and I'm so excited!!!!! 🥰🥰

dark and atmospheric art also holds an incredibly special place in my heart, and all the artists you've listed are so wonderful! I hope I can suggest something that gives you the same vibes 💙

here's a list of artists I think you might like (with more details and images below the cut!)

John Atkinson Grimshaw

Leonora Carrington

Odilon Redon

William Blake

John Atkinson Grimshaw (Thro' the Woods and Roundhay Park Lake)

I picked Grimshaw for you because he has these lovely, haunting nighttime landscapes that are both beautiful and unsettling. the darkened trees and lingering mist seem to engulf the small, featureless figures as they traverse deeper into the darkness. these are two of my favorite examples, but he has many others in this genre as well!

Leonora Carrington (The Ancestor and Self-Portrait in Orthopedic Black Tie)

on the more abstract/surrealist side, I picked Carrington. she is such a compelling yet very under-studied artist who painted in a surrealist style for most of her career. for me, surrealism is often an "I love it or I hate it" kind of thing, and I love Carrington's work. her pieces really give off that dark vibe that is kind of creepy and slightly off-putting, yet also make you want to lean in closer and figure out the story behind the images. there's that element of both horror and fascination, which is why I think you might like her art.

Odilon Redon (The Eye, Like a Strange Balloon, Moves Toward Infinity and Mystery

Odilon Redon was actually quite heavily inspired by Goya, so he seems like a great fit for you! just like Goya, he was a prolific printmaker as well as a painter, and he produced tributes to other artists like Goya and even writers like Edgar Allan Poe (the first image here comes from his tribute to Poe). he was a symbolist artist, and his art is just really fucking weird (affectionate). there's darkness, there's horror, there's weird uses of color, there's strange, indistinct spaces, featureless figures, and just this sort of nebulous floaty-ness to many of his works. not only do I think you'll like him because he was inspired by Goya, but also because of this kind of whimsy and weirdness he mixes with horror elements.

William Blake (Ancient of Days and Hekate)

although he is much better known as a poet today (he's the "tiger tiger burning bright" guy), Blake was also an artist and illustrated his own poems as well as other works such as Dante's Inferno. his work feels almost symbolist, but about 100 years earlier. he was close to being a contemporary of Goya, and I think you can definitely see some resemblances in his art. at the time, his work was considered the product of "madness" and "visions," and it certainly has an eerie, otherworldly quality to it. kinda like Redon, some of it is just plain weird. I picked Blake both because of his resonances with Goya, but also the strange, mystical, and terrifying worlds he creates in his art.

I hope this was interesting/fun/helpful and that you found a new artist or artwork to explore further!

again, thank you so much for the request! 🥰

love and hugs,

charlotte 💙

#charlotte's art gallery milestone celebration #charlotte speaks #charlotte talks art history #john atkinson grimshaw #leonora carrington #odilon redon #william blake #art #art history

[itsbrucey]

hihi brucey you mentioned naga glenn and uh i have some snake suggestions for him :] IF YOU HAVE A FEAR OF SNAKES I’M VERY SORRY/GEN (i’ve never had an intrest in snakes and all of a sudden my brain was like i need to share the beauty of australian snakes so i am so sorry for this nahdkhdskhdk)

Red Bellied Black Snake!! They’re know for being very venomous and deadly but also they just lie in the sun a LOT and can be confused for truck tyres and fun lark fact i stepped on one once and it tried to bite me :] i was wearing a gumboot so it was fine but yeah yeah- a glenn snake because of the colouring tbh i think it’d be cool especially if he’s wearing a cool leather jacket as well

Tiger snake! Never seen one irl before but again very much deadly also a glenn snake but more on the yellow side but like firey naga glenn does that make sense?

This is a blue bellied black snake! Basically the first one but cooler (like colours cooler pun unintended sorry that was a bad one) A very Jodie snake if i think about it but could also be glenn!

This is a desert whip snake and fun fact about the little guy is that apparently he was discovered last year in 2023!! Apparently but the internet can lie akdhdkdjkd but again glenn colour pallete but also nicky? since orange and blue are jodie and glenn’s colours and put those togehter you get nicky?

Uh that is the end of my weird snake talk :D i think i was possesed by Steve Irwin or something becuase i’ve never felt more passionate about snakes. I will draw naga glenn and harpy henry and stuff ahhdjhrhehhe but just wanted to share design notes/ideas? Sorry for falling into your inbox with something completely unexpected!!

NO DUDE I LOVE SNAKES!!! I'm not super knowledgeable about them but I adore them and I'm seated and listening.

THAT COLORING FOR GLENN??? SO TRUE??? Looked them up and they got these dope black tongues....a metal snake. A cool ass snake. This snake IS RAD. GLENN-CORE!!!

The tiger snake also works so well,,,,,grrrrrrRHAHAGGAGHH. WITH THE GOLD????????????? I can almost imagine. The two mashed together bc the fiery golden yellow and the red and the almost metallic black...... Both are so good I literally can't pick.

AND THE JODIE SNAKE!?!?!??!.......?..! I like the idea of it being Jodie bc y'know. Blue n Red. Jodie n Glenn. At least Jodie is blue-coded and Glenn is red-coded to me but I've seen it switched up :] If they're red n blue bellied black snakes though that would be so funny... they are forced to be foils in every timeline.

I love the desert whip snake...it's one of those animals where the head is a smidge too big and it's so cute.. big agree on the color mash-up btw!!! I'm throwing my hat in the Snake Headcanon Ring by offering up either the Regal Ringneck snake or the CLASSIC Horned Viper bc.....well.....get it....he's a...demon...badum tssshh

( the Regal Ringneck snake btw which is SOOOO PRETTY. I was tinkering with a Swap au for my OCS a while back and Marley would've swapped with Eli, making her a big naga creature and I thought it would be silly if she color scheme was a blue n yellow to contrast his red n green!! And this snake was on the Vision Board)

PLLLLEASSEEEE SHARE ALL THE IDEAS AND NOTES YOU WANT. I love OCS. Worldbuilding. And character design so much and you can fall into my inbox anytime :] I'll try to fish you out in a timely manner next time /j

#brucey answers! #in case thw audience was worried. yes i am still in fact. deranged about werewolf darryl and i still want to Monster the daddies #and please please please just show me dnakes or the animals you like. i can stop by sometime with the bears like!!!! #THE KODIAK BROWN BEAR IS MY BEAR OF CHOICE BUT THE SPECTACLED BEAR IS ALSO UP THERE!!!!! #Henry is Spectacled Bear-coded. #also grolar bears. pizzly bears. all about them too.

[sundersea]

TOP COMICS OF 2022 - PART 1 So this was the year I discovered the Webtoon app which completely ruined my life and reading habits for the past three months. The upside? So many brilliant new comics to sink my teeth into! This is essentially a list of all my favorite graphic novels, webtoons, webcomics, and manga from 2022. Happy reading!

The High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere (Graphic Novel) A...young man’s immersive reckoning with identity, racism, clumsy teen love and belonging in an isolated California desert, and a search for salvation and community through punk. A really moving, thoughtful examination of a young, Black teenager finding home in the punk scene in a hostile environment. I love stories that make full use of the story’s location and reading this felt like pulling back a flap into the past

Inhibit (Webcomic) As a kid, Victor dreamed of training to be a superhero. That didn't go so well. I’m usually a superhero hater because superpowers rarely ever feel integrated into the world of the story...which is why I loved Inhibit so much! It’s a really grounded look at how superpowers might give rise to institutional failure and repression. Also features some of the best comic dialogue I’ve read in ages

Talentless Nana (Manga) In the near future, mysterious monsters begin to appear, and with it so do children with supernatural powers called the "Talented". To prepare them for the upcoming battle, all the Talented are sent to a school located on a deserted island. One day, a new student named Nana Hiiragi arrives at the school. BNHA if Izuku had snapped in middle school. So iconic, with one of the coolest female protagonists I’ve read this year and several fun, inventive murder mystery scenarios. The dichotomy between Nana’s moeblob appearance and her actual zealous, desperate, grief-driven character makes this manga worth it. (cw: some weird twin stuff in the later chapters. just skip it)

The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya (Webcomic) A two-volume Eisner-nominated graphic novel set in 17th century Istanbul and 18th century England,  about a carpet merchant's reconcilitation with faith, love and home in the aftermath of his death by a vampire. The one comic on this list that actually made me cry. Every single page was so full of care for its characters, for Turkish Muslim art and culture, for its paneling, for everything. If there’s one comic on this list you read, read this one!

This Isekai Maid is Forming a Union! (Webtoon) Bridgette is a young woman who has been Isekai'd 10 times as a maid, and she has had enough of Otome protagonists abusing their power, slapping maids, and using them as pawns to do their dirty work. Her solution? Form a union, protect her coworkers, and bring the worst house down! Damn....I actually haven’t read that many otome isekais and I feel like I can’t even start because none of them are going to hold up against this one. Read for an epic anticapitalist, anticolonial isekai story!

Stick & Poke (Webtoon) Mal Hassan is just a girl living on her mom's farm, but when she is offered a once in a lifetime chance to work with her favorite band, she drops everything to follow them on tour. How could she pass up her one chance to hook up with that hot guitarist? ALERT! STRAIGHT TRANS GIRL ROMANCE PROTAGONIST!! A total hidden gem with really incredible art, a lovely story, and the cutest female lead ever!! This comic makes color theory its bitch btw

Tiger Tiger (Webcomic) Tiger, Tiger is a story of a young noble lady, who steals her brother's identity and his ship to sail across the world to find love and adventure, and to write a book about her favourite subject: the fascinating life cycle of sea sponges! Yeah, this 100% deserved an Eisner. Brilliant art, incredible comic timing, hot butch monstergod girls, and a mystery of the deeps unfolding at its core.

Never Ending Darling (Webtoon) Ha-im Yun lives in a world where people register their DNA into cloning databases, invented by her boyfriend of five years, Geunhu Ji. Their relationship isn’t perfect, but they make it work -- or so Ha-im thinks, until she finds her dead body at her boyfriend’s house...her body! The next day, she finds a note from herself in her room… “Ha-im, if you’re reading this, you’re a clone.” We all love to see girls outsmarting their abusive partners. Especially if said partner can literally clone you forever. WILL have you on the edge of your seat.

Castle Swimmer (Webtoon) What happens when your entire life is ruled by a prophecy? Such is the story of two young sea creatures. One believed to be a guiding light, a Beacon who will lead them to a bright, prosperous future. The other a teenage prince for who’s destiny is to KILL the Beacon. When both reject the course set for them, it leads to a raucous adventure as big and unpredictable as the ocean itself – and a romance that nobody could have predicted. I’m not going to lie - I did judge this book by its cover. Like, I fully thought this was going to be some cringe timepass fantasy where the author just wanted to see anime mermaid boys kiss or whatever. Which just....no. Get ready for the emotional thrill ride of your life.

The Croaking (Webtoon)  The Roost - the world’s most prestigious military academy - has never accepted a Crow into its ranks. Until now. However, the conditions surrounding Scra’s acceptance are shrouded in conspiracy, and his new roommate Ky won’t rest until he finds out just where he goes every night. Scra, Ky and Ree must band together to uncover the truth about their utopia and the whispers of a superweapon - “The Croaking” - that are seeping from the cracks. AGAIN, I thought this was going to be some cringe timepass fantasy where this time, the author just wanted to see winged guys kiss. Yeah, no. Get ready for the most intricate political thriller you’re ever going to read on webtoon. 

Okay, that’s it! There’s definitely more, but we’ll save that for next year!

#comics #2022 comics roundup

[midnightactual]

Yoruichi's Beast Transformation

I'm deciding that House Shihōin's beast transformations are mostly limited to Felidae (cats), with maybe the rare member being more generally from Feliforma (cat-like). Personally, I'd restrict them to Panthera tigris (see below), but I'll allow that it could vary away from a particular species because of handwavy supernatural genetics, since Bleach has got giants and all sorts of weird stuff in it.

Anyway, based on the below screenshot and my own allusions on this blog in the past, Yoruichi's transformation is a giant black tiger. While tigers apparently only entered India about 12,000 years ago (as they never made it to Sri Lanka, and despite being in Southeast Asia for up to 2 million years, which feels rather strange but that's a matter for paleontologists) and leopards are perhaps the better fit, I just like tigers more and I think they fit her better. Black tigers have never been fully scientifically confirmed, but again: I don't care. (It also makes her having tiger stripe tattoos for a while highly ironic.)

Yoruichi at the shoulder is almost exactly 11 times (roughly) the width of Ichigo's skull. Based on production drawings, Ichigo's skull should be about 134 mm wide, so she should be about 148 cm tall at the shoulder. To quote Wikipedia quoting an old book, "39 adult female Bengal tigers weighed an average of 132 kg (291 lb) with a maximum of 156 kg (344 lb) and an average total length of 254 cm (100 in) ranging from 239 to 277 cm (94 to 109 in)." By comparison with males, their average shoulder height should've been around 89 cm. This would suggest Yoruichi ought to be about 1.66 times bigger than average, suggesting a length of 421.6 cm and a weight of 219 kg. Considering we know Soul Society Arc Yoruichi is scrawny and is actually well below a healthy weight as a human at this time, while using her human bulking up as a guide (42 kg to 56 kg) would suggest 292 kg, which is heavier than the heaviest known female tiger (164 kg scaling up to 272 kg), it ought to probably wind up in about the same place as she'd be starting from below average.

Having said all that, I personally get the feeling that as portrayed, she ought to be taller at the shoulder than Ichigo standing up as of this time. (The square-cube law would apply in real life, but magic, so again: who cares.) Thus I'm going to instead scale her to 180 cm (5'11"). This would make her 513 cm (16'10") long, and using the known maximum would give her a "fit" weight of 331 kg (730 lbs). This would make her about as tall (though much longer and not nearly as heavy) as the tallest Clydesdale horse.

I'm also going to just assert here that Chika was the equivalent of a white tiger or golden tiger by comparison, thus his hair being a different color but not his eyes.

To really get into the weeds of how this all came about, we have to do some digging. Doing more homework now, and discovering that based on genetic evidence the Toba supervolcano eruption almost certainly did not result in a population bottleneck feels hard to square with the supposedly "Pompeii-like" excavations noted here, but at any rate people were apparently in India before Toba erupted. So I'm going to soft-delist "Story" as blog canon.

So the basic gist is probably something to the effect of, there were Tiger Yōkai in Southeast Asia, one ran off to India, fell in love with a human there, had a kid ("Yuvan") that was a Hanyō, and he was a great warrior and was around when the Soul King appeared and was involved with his binding. This could've happened up to ~80,000 years ago, or notably nearer to the present (but probably still more than 15,000 years ago).

#Out Of Character #Headcanons

[autumnfebreze]

You have very good taste in posts. Do you have a pet? If so, can I see it, if not, why and what pet would you get if wanted one?

Hi, thank you! I actually have a lot of pets. 6 cats and a dog to be precise, all of them are rescues and were either strays or had previous owners but were returned. My family's kinda weird about not having pictures of our pets and ourselves on the internet, I'm sorry, but I can describe them all in detail and find similar looking pictures online.

Cat #1: Houdini

Houdini is my cat, he's 9 years old, and the shelter we got him from named him as such because he used to open his cage and walk around the facility once it was closed and sometimes let out his comrads. Houdini was brought back for pooping in his ex owners' sink and we adopted him as a present for my birthday when he was 2. The picture above is pretty accurate, except Houdini's eyes are green.

Cat #2: Fern

Fern is also my cat, she's 8, and we just got her from that same shelter in early December. Her purring is so loud you can hear it on the other side of the house. Fern was brought in with eight other cats from a hording situation. The picture looks pretty close to her, except her eyes are green and the shovel is only a half one on the right side of her face. Fern's nose and toe beans are mottled pink and grey.

Cat #3: Milo

Milo is one of my mom's cats, he's a 5 year old tuxedo cat that's mostly black with a white half-shovel design around his mouth and nose that goes down his neck to his underside. He has a patch of black fur in between the white on his stomach so it looks like he's wearing a cardigan that doesn't close all the way. His eyes are yellowish but when you see him in the window from outside his eyes look blue. Milo was a stray before he was brought into a different shelter that we adopted him from when he was 8 weeks old. The picture of Milo is pretty accurate, except he's chonkier and the half-shovel is on the wrong side of his nose

Cat #4: Flip

Flip, also referred to as Mr. Flip or Flipster, is my sister's cat, and he is very sweet but the light are on but nobody's home. He doesn't really know his name and he is very scared of noises and stuff. He's also a tuxedo, mostly black except for the tips of his paws, a couple of white patches on his stomach and throat, and a white mark on his mouth that looks like a milk mustache. Flip is four now, but we got him when he was 10 months after he was brought back because his owners were looking for a kitten that would be playful, but apparently he was too energetic for them. His eyes are yellowish green with brown rings around his pupil and his eyes are normally super wide like he just did coke, though the picture looks pretty similar to Flip in his relaxed state except the white pattern is above his mouth and not below

Cat #5: Mavis

Mavis is my mom's second cat. She and her sister Mochi (who we'll get to in a moment) just turned three at the beginning of January. They were found abandoned in an apartment a couple days after they were born with their mom and three other siblings. All the kittens were adopted, but Mavis almost got eaten by her first family's dog, so she came to us instead. Mavis is fully black but if you look closely you can see darker black tiger stripes. Her eyes are greenish yellow. The picture looks identical to her

Cat #6: Mochi

Mochi is one of Mavis's siblings, though we only own those two. Mochi was deathly sick before, but once she got better we adopted her too. Mochi is a tuxedo cat, but she's mostly white with black on her back and sides. She also has thumbs and extra fingers, so she looks like she's wearing mittens or oven mitts. Her eyes are yellow, and there's something about her that makes you unable to feel anything but pure love and joy when looking at her. The picture looks like nearly identical to how she did when she was a kitten.

Dog: Mazie

Mazie is my dog. She will be eight in February. Her coat is light brown, her eyes are an amberish color, and she has dermatitis. We have no clue what type of dog she is, but she is definitely part pitbull and part lab and part hound. She was at a local organization that finds hones for pitbulls or pit mixes and when we saw her she was eating woodchips. Her other owners gave her up, but with how scared she was of the broom they clearly had hit her with it, and she still doesn't like stuffs with handles like brooms or vacuums or mops, etc. She also apparently got free from them and almost got run over by a cop car one time. The only difference between Mazie and this dog is that her color is a little less red and her eyes are brown.

[iheartgracie]

campus nights reagan funny quotes

“Help!” a muffled voice calls from one of the bedrooms. A girl with hair the color of honey pulled up in curlers rushes out wearing a silky robe. “I don’t know what to wear.”

“I’m nervous, which is ridiculous, right? Who gets nervous about going to a party where their crush is? It’s like junior high all over except without the zits and braces. Thank god. I’ve been trying to talk to this guy for… a long time. I get all weird and shy around him. Well, shier than normal.”

“You’re hired. Someday when I’m a big well-known actress, I’m going to force you to do my makeup every day. In fact, I wish you could do my makeup for the winter play.”

“but last spring she had me looking like a clown. There’s stage makeup, and then, there’s straight-up too much blush.”

“My boss has a giant crush on him.”

“What?” I ask at the same time Reagan mutters, “Who doesn’t?”

Dakota and I look to her. “What? Come on, he’s hot. No, not only hot, he’s nice and…” She trails off. “I’m just saying, it isn’t totally ridiculous that she has a crush on him.”

“What did he say?”

“I don’t know. I haven’t seen him. I’m hoping that he hasn’t found it. If he has, I’m moving and changing my name.”

“Why? I thought you were ready to tell him how you feel.”

“Do you really think a red heart cut out of construction paper with glitter is the way I should do that?”

She giggles. “We were going for fun and heartfelt. My brother is a romantic.”

“He’s also a twenty-one-year-old man. I don’t think bedazzling the sentiment was my best-laid plan.”

“I think it’s sweet.”

“Well, when I decide to tell you how much I like you, I’ll keep that in mind.”

“What if he’s already seen it?” she asks.

“Then I’ll send a postcard when I get settled in my new town. I have to go.”

“Promise me you’ll never let me craft for a man again.”

“I can’t promise that. Two glasses of wine and my judgment goes right out the window.”

“Again, helpful.”

“What’s with the all black?” she asks. She looks me over like she’s just noticing my outfit.

“I’m in mourning.”

“Oh my god, who died?” Her expression is horrified for a moment.

“No one. Just my fake relationship and any chance of ever dating your brother.”

“But I’m sure you just took him by surprise.”

“Oh, I took him by surprise all right, but not the good kind of surprise. The truly scary kind that should only happen in cheesy horror films.”

“Please don’t tell anyone else about the fake engagement,” I whisper while we’re still alone. “I’ll tell Dakota eventually, but I can’t do it right now. Retelling it was almost as painful as living it the first time.”

“I’m quiet because you make me nervous. I get this total body lock up around you. I can’t think or talk. It’s sort of humiliating how into you I am.” She screws her eyes shut and then peeks out, opening one and then the other.”

“My hands go to my face.

“I’m a narwhal, Ginny’s a tiger, and Reagan’s a llama. Duh,” my roommate tells him.

Oh shit. I’m a llama. I’m a llama standing in front of my incredibly sexy crush. A freaking llama.”

“Are you trying to politely ask if I turn into a drama queen, tortured artist every time?”

“Your words, baby.”

“I’d invite you over to meet the guys, but we’ve got training in thirty minutes.”

“Training?”

“Hockey.”

Also known as my new favorite sport.”

“Reagan nods in agreement. “Yeah, I need to go intervene before that girl standing next to Adam touches him one more time. Does anyone have bail money just in case?”

#campus nights #sports romance #romance books #rebecca jenshak

[icarusthelunarguard]

This Week’s Horrible-Scopes

It’s time for this week’s Horrible-Scopes! So for those of you that know your Astrological Signs, cool! If not, just pick one, roll a D12, or just make it up as you go along. It really doesn’t matter. Better yet! Check out “Heart of the Game, Fredonia” and see if they can sell you those D12’s with the symbols on them. Tell them “Shujin Tribble” sentcha. And “Hail, Hail, Fredonia!” Home of the Blue Devil!

Since there’s no theme specifically selected this week, and how the weather in Buffalo brought out ALL THE FREAKS TO THE SHOP… sorry. We’re getting you all of the Weird But True facts that we can find from the nice folks at We Are Teachers Dot Com”. 

Aries 

What level of biometrics are you familiar with? Retina Scans? Voice Print? Skin Sweat Composition? That’s nuthin’! Take a swing over to the National Library of Medicine and read a research paper by Radhika, Jeddy, and Nithya titled, “Tongue prints: A novel biometric and potential forensic tool”. So This Week… You know that Jr. Detective Kit you got for Christmas? The one with the ink pad to make fingerprints with? We hear that ink is really tasty. You should try it out.

Taurus 

You think you’re “You”, but that's not quite right. And no, we’re not going down the Ship of Theseus rabbit hole. Research finds that the average human is around 56% bacteria. So This Week… If you take showers before you sleep and after you wake up you'll be more yourself in no time. That’s a sure-fire way to make you Above Average. 

Gemini  

In 1838 Samuel Morse made the first public demonstration of his new invention, the telegraph. In 1903, 65 years later, the first powered airplane flight by Wilbur and Orville Wright took place. And in 1969, another 65 years later, Apollo 11’s Lunar Excursion Module, “Eagle”, touched down on the Moon. So This Week… How old are you again? Can you even imagine how things will progress by the time you’re 65? We bet you can’t, but do try.

Cancer Moon-Child 

And speaking of the Moon, did you know that it has Moonquakes? It’s TRUE! Every once in a while its surface experiences stresses from the gravitational attraction with Earth. So This Week… be glad you weren’t around for Apollo 12’s  mission. Because NASA deliberately crashed the Ascent Stage Lunar Module, “Intrepid”, onto the Moon's surface to get seismic data from it. And since NASA reported that the Moon rang 'like a bell' for almost an hour, people have floated the idea that the Moon is actually a hollow spaceship.

Leo 

Tigers don’t just have striped fur, they have striped skin to go with it! And better yet, no two tigers have the same pattern, so they can be picked out from a group if you know who you’re looking for. We know you don’t want to believe us. So This Week… get up close and personal with a tiger, bring along some hair clippers, and buzz-cut the edges of those stripes so you can see for yourself.

Virgo 

We know what it’s like for you to go through allergy season. We also know that it gets pretty bad just as the cold sets in and the heater kicks on; all that dust in the furnace vents getting kicked up sucks. At least you can take antihistamines to fight it. You know who can suffer from allergies but can’t just go to the medicine cabinet and get better? Our pets! Dogs can be allergic to pollen, cat dander, and get this… People Dander! So take comfort in knowing that it might not be that your pet actively dislikes you. Maybe you just make them sick with your presence. 

Libra

Astronomers have observed some amazing things in the Universe from stars whipping past Super-Massive Black Holes at significant fractions of the speed of light, to the light coming from other galaxies. And what’s special about that light? It has a generally agreed upon colour referred to as, “cosmic latte.” That’s right, the average color in our observable universe is “beige”! So This Week… find that old Gateway Computer Case and build a sleeper PC that shoots fire out the back! 

Scorpio 

We’re going to spoil some Movie Magic for you, and you’re gunna hate us for it, but… Oh Well! Have you ever seen “Game of Thrones”? Yeah, well… Ok. Fine, maybe you haven’t. BUT… The Night’s Watch cloaks in Game of Thrones were made by shaving and dyeing IKEA rugs to make them look like medieval cloaks. They do this kind of thing all the time. Because it’s cheaper than coming up with something original. So This Week… Don’t watch the original Star Trek when Dr. McCoy is using those silver surgical tubes to operate on someone. Those were actually Salt and Pepper shakers from the commissary.

Sagittarius 

If you look up at the sky you might wonder about what’s up there. All the planes and satellites and clouds… OH! Right… Did you know that one cloud can weigh more than a million pounds? You don’t realize just how big clouds can be up there - how much volume they have. And remember, when you increase volume, you decrease pressure. You do remember your basic Earth Science classes right? So This Week… You’re not “overweight”, you’re just in need of more volume. So grow your arms and legs out.

Capricorn 

We have to ask.. Are you a Grow-er or a Show-er? Now before you get uncomfortable with this, let’s take this over to Paris and piss off the Frenchies. Did You Know the Eiffel Tower gets taller in the summer; specifically up to 15 centimeters (6 inches) taller due to thermal expansion. So This Week… You’ve got nothing to feel inadequate about. You just need to date in the summer instead.

Aquarius 

Here’s a little something to think about. Most of us know that the number “Zero” was the last number added to the Arabic Number System; but do you know what the most recently added letter to the English, or Roman, Alphabet is? Jokes aside, you’ll jump for joy to hear that it was the letter “J”! It dates back to 1524 when it was separated from its twin, the letter “i”. So This Week… Re-read the story of Romulus and Remus, but not the version with Starfleet in it.

Pisces  

We all know bananas are radioactive, but do you know what other common house-found items are also radioactive? Potatoes, spinach, Brazil nuts, oranges, and granite countertops can all set off your geiger counter. But let’s stick to bananas a little more. Do you know how many you’d have to eat at once to get a dose that would kill 50% of the population? You’d have to eat 50 million bananas at once! So This Week… We know you can fit at least two in your mouth at once, but for crissakes, would you PLEASE STOP holding them like that when you eat them! You’re making all the normies uncomfortable! 

And THOSE are your Horrible-Scopes for this week! Remember if you liked what you got, we’re obviously not working hard enough at these. BUT! If you want a better or nastier one for your own sign or someone else’s, all you need to do to bribe me is just Let Me Know - or check out the Ko-Fi page ( https://ko-fi.com/icarusthelunarguard )! These will be posted online at the end of each week via Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, Discord and BLUESKY.

#parody #horrorscope #funny #horoscope #humor #comedy #weird stuff #strange #odd #bizarre

[macaroni-rascal]

Oh I am watching everything and taking names. Nobody is safe from my fashion takes this weekend, I don't have to work until Tuesday. I could go back and cover whatever I missed if you guys want, was it only the pairs SP?

The women's event was such a struggle in the outfit department. Before I say anything, I'd just like to emphasize that I'm not dragging the girls themselves, most of them are teenagers and we all know what they go through in this fucking sport. No, who I have beef with is the grossly overpaid adults in their lives who are advising them or even outright controlling what they do and wear. I might have to do this in 2 parts, we'll see.

Seoyeong Wi, sigh. There's a reason no one has managed to make a truly successful P&P 2005 program when even Marina tried - the soundtrack is too short and too specific to the scenes (as any good soundtrack should be). They just played a light and bright piece before a tense and very much period-sounding one and called it a day, no transition, no nothing. A composer would have to sit down, deconstruct and have an orchestra re-record a bespoke P&P program for it to work. The dress, while okay, had nothing to do with the theme, and muted neutrals just don't look great against the cool white of the ice and the harsh TV lighting.

Nini, my long-suffering child. Her mom better pray our paths never cross. Wildly inappropriate music choice and opening pose for a 16yo. The outfit I can only describe as goth Coachella. Great body alignment and mechanics into the elements but knowing the expense at which it came kinda ruins it for me. I hope she can be free and fly away one day soon.

Clare - yet another Tammy victim. Why is the V in the front of the dress so sharp and deep when the one on the back is much softer and rounder? What are those bedazzled flowers at the hip and why do they exist? Why the second strap across the hips? The dress is a strawberry macaroon, it does anything but elongate her lines, and the music is equally saccharine. They should've kept her in junior.

I'm so proud of Mana's dress for surviving that tiger attack to be here. No, but seriously, who did this? The color isn't the worst but paired with the black edges and the not-quite-matching mesh, it's a hard miss. Don't even get me started on the music - she was skating through it, not to it, and disappointingly, this wasn't the only case of electronic music that would be playing at a daytime DJ gig in a riverside cafe in any major city in the world rn. It only made sense after I saw her coach wearing a crocheted blanket over a checkered tablecloth.

Hana - god help me. I actually thought the cut was great, it really flattered her figure, but why that color, why that pattern, and most importantly, why the randomly placed black straps? Ka2sh straight to jail for the music choice too, did she even listen to the lyrics? Bury this song next to Big Spender, if you ask me. We've seen so many programs trying to replicate the success of Wakaba's Energia and just falling flat, just give up already, none of you are Shae-lynn or Wakababy.

It's awful that I knew Mone was skating to Dark Eyes as soon as I saw her in the warmup. The top of the dress is at war with the bottom, the sleeve length is truly random, and why are we doing a Russian song this particular season? The top is overbeaded like last year and I was worried it would rip under the arms every time she lifted them. I like the shape, movement and length of the skirt but it's all just sooo outdated, I'm literally begging these coaches to not underserve these talented girls like this.

I'll be back with Part 2 after I put myself through the men's event.

Fasionista nonny!

Agreed on you caveat, I have gotten lots of weird/angry messages from people when I criticize anything about young women's skaters under the guise of 'they are just kids' as if I am attacking them personally just because I think their jump technique is bad.

I think one day a 2005 Pride and Prejudice program will be possible, the music cut just has to be right, as you said. Clare 100% should still be juniors, she wasn't ready for this. I did not understand the Mana dress or music choice, she is not performing to it, the movements don't match the music, there was a weird dissonance on the ice the entire program, she just had a bland smile on her face the whole time. I actually liked Mana's dress, I just wish there was no blue on the bottom, that was weird, should have just made it simple black.

#konner talks skating #fashionista nonny

[blackhorrorblog]

Blog Post #1

Over the last two weeks, we have gone in-depth into the history of Black Horror in my class at UCLA. Black Horror is a theme of film more famously seen in Jordan Peele's 2017 films "Get Out" and 2019 "Us". After watching "Get Out" for the first time after taking the first two weeks of my class I was able to pick up on minor details that I had not seen before. Some of the motifs that you should look out for next time you watch are microaggression, code-switching, and fake liberal racism In the film, we can see the family have microaggressions like the brother Jeremy at the dinner table scene when he wants to wrestle Chris (Daniel Kaluuya). This shows not only a microaggression but also his real self and his mindset of targeting Chris because he is black.

A major theme that I saw in this film was code-switching. I have studied code-switching in a couple of my classes in the past year. This film shows the code-switching from the perspective of the white characters which I had never really seen before. The white people at the party and the dad Dean all spoke to Chris in a different dialect. Dean had a specific scene where he says "My man". This is clearly not in his vocabulary and he seems to be forcing a persona on Chris to make him feel relatable. This was a painful scene to watch because it was just incredibly awkward.

Finally, liberal racism, which might sound backward but it also makes sense at the same time. In the movie, we can see all these people being kind to Chris when they meet him however there are certain phrases that the people say that you can catch and think "What a weird thing to say". Things like "I voted for Obama", "I love Tiger Woods" or "Black is in". These sayings definitely caught me off guard but it was not until I took this class that I learned how normalized this speech is toward black people. This speech just tells us that all these white people only see Chris for his skin color.

Just watching this movie in class has taught me so much about Black Horror and how it is important to learn about the history and relevance of these films and literature. After these first two weeks, I am only more excited to learn more about Black Horror and the tropes that we can find in all kinds of art.

[chicagosfinest2021]

I don't like sitting around waiting for my followers to put questions in my inbox (cuz if you wanted to, you would 😜) so I'm just going to steal this from @wolf-of-wakanda and answer these myself.

~ 💖 ASK GAME 💖 ~

📷 What’s set as your phone’s lockscreen?

My niece!! 😍😍

🍫 Cheese or chocolate?

Cheese all day

✨ Do you have any nicknames?

My sister calls me "Unnie" (which is Korean for 'Big Sis', we're big into K-dramas 🇰🇷 haha) She calls me 'Sissy' sometimes too. My niece calls me "Titi" 💖

🎵 Last song you listened to?

For some reason I haven't listened to music all day. . .too much on my mind. . .

✏️ Have you ever written fanfiction?

I actually published a L&O:SVU fanfic sometime ago. It's very dark but got a lot of positive feedback! Feel free to read/comment if you think you can stomach it. It takes place during the William Lewis Saga.

😏 Are you on discord?

Nah

 💛 Do you have any piercings?

Just my ears, might do my navel in the future. I thought hip dermals were actually cool for a minute. . .

🐰 What do you think says the most about a person?

Whether or not they watch their movies and TV series with subtitles on.

🍪 If you were a cookie, what kind would you be?

A stuffed cookie! Them things changed my life 🤤

🐶 Are you more of a dog person or a cat person?

I honestly love both but if I *have* to pick, definitely kitties.

🎧 Headphones or earbuds?

Earbuds definitely

🌼 What’s the last thing you said out loud?

I was reading these questions out loud a minute ago LOL

🙃 What’s a weird fact that you know?

Although it is considered part of the North American continent, Greenland is technically part of Europe (Denmark specifically)

🦉 Are you a morning person or a night owl?

It is exactly 1:00AM as I type this answer 🦉

🧸 Favorite place to nap?

My bed, duh!!

🏳️‍🌈 Are you a member of the LGBTQIA+ community?

I think so, still working out the details though. . .I definitely know I'm not 100% straight

🦋 Describe yourself in three words.

Crazy, sexy, cool

👖 Jeans or sweatpants?

Neither, who actually enjoys wearing pants?

🥤 What’s your go-to Starbucks order?

I don't order Starbucks much because I don't like coffee, but their vanilla bean frappuccino is actually really good. They have other seasonal drinks that aren't bad either.

🧡 A color you can’t stand?

I'm not very fond of orange and I JUST got into pink in the last couple of years.

💎 What’s your most prized possession?

Me

☕ Coffee or tea?

Tea

🦖 Favorite extinct animal?

Sabretooth tiger

🌙 How long have you been on tumblr?

I thought it's only been about 6-7 years but I remember being on Tumblr back in college, and I've been out of college exactly 10 years this year, so it's actually been a decade and some change!

🌴 Desert island item?

I don't understand the question. . .😐

🐸 Describe your aesthetic.

Neo-soul and slow jams, cityscape at night, high rise apartment overlooking a busy street, rainy days, jazz music, lofi/chill music vibes, vanilla and coconut, thick books, hoodies and bulky sweaters, hot tea

🔮 What’s your dream job?

I actually don't dream of working LOL BUT if I had to choose I'd like to either be a food/travel blogger or a historian (I'm a certified nerd deluxe).

💙 Relationship status?

Perpetually single, not looking to mingle

🌿 Describe your favorite outfit.

T-shirt and panties, although when I'm home I usually don't wear anything on my top half

🎤 Is there a song you know all the lyrics to?

Most nursey rhymes(?) LOL

🤎 What color is your hair?

Black/dark brown

💌 Do you talk to yourself?

Consistently

💄 Do you wear makeup?

Not more than once or twice a week, I'm not trying to impress anyone

🌸 Best compliment you ever received?

I love it when other women tell me I have a nice ass. I also love it when people tell me I look like one or both of my parents.

💞 @ your favorite blog.

@chicagosfinest2021

Reblogs are appreciated!

[redbootsindoriath]

Happy Lunar New Year!  And to any Korean followers (I’m not sure if I have any, but just in case) 새해 복 많이 받으세요!

I can’t believe I forgot to queue a post for lunar new year...I could blame it on me being in the United States right now where there isn’t as much widespread hype about it so I didn’t go “oh I should make a special post on the blog”, but I’m still ashamed of myself.  So here’s a tiger to apologize for my oversight.  Again, happy new year!

#the world isn't in your books and maps #my trash #/end classification tags #sorry i only have korean there #i never learned japanese or mandarin or cantonese or any other languages from that area #this tiger is weird colors because it's the year of the black tiger #and the red is for luck and the gold is for fancy #and it's sitting in a little pool because it's ALSO the year of the water tiger #for anybody who didn't know #also fun fact: tigers are one of my favorite animals #i have a pretty big white tiger stuffed animal that i bought in 2021 #i wanted one for YEARS and then i saw the one i have now #and i went ''i could literally just buy that and then i would finally have one'' so i did #and then realized that it was just in time for year of the tiger