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raisinchallah · 1 year

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Naruto and/or yyh 1,3,8,12

the character everyone gets wrong

for naruto its sasuke 100% like literally the sheer number of bad sasuke takes humiliating insane mean that i a sasuke understander am forced to read them etc

and for yyh well i guess keeping on the edgy character theme i do think its very funny how many people take hieis edgy hot topic slogan t shirt quotes at like face value and dont realize hes kind of a loser who does in fact love his friends

3. screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr

literally whatever sasuke haters have to say oh you think hes toxic or actually no funniest take are people who think sasuke and narutos relationship is abusive or sasuke is simply too terrible for naruto etc or whatever i have seen so many bad sasuke takes in the world i cannot begin to list them all

yyh fandom honestly i have very little beef tho i am haunted by one random post i saw in the sensui tags claiming koenma and sensui were exes which i literally do not even know how to begin to process that one

8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

itachi being like cool or iconic edgy whatever dsfajkl;adkfdj;ls like ok his design very good no notes but like if u got yourself to the end of naruto and dont think hes just insanely lame in like a funny way idk

the fact its like yyh fandom consensus that toguros the best villain literally ZERO taste does everyone have a chip in their brains that makes them forget chapter black existed

12. the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

hmm i cant really think of a naruto character for this im really just a sasuke girlie now <3

but for yyh well as im sure you knwo from my side blog SENSUI GIRL TIL I DIE i dont actually know if i want the tiny 3 person sensui fandom to increase in size but also like stop hating gay people hes an iconic villain the fact hes not even acknowledged as the best yyh villain cuz people are invested in toguro of all people insane a slight against everyone the bad taste i respect no one but like literally the way hes such a perfect foil to yusuke and like reflection of the ways koenma used them both and how it opens yusukes eyes and he literally has a weird boyfriend who can make pocket dimensions and encourages him in his evil plots

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luckychild · 3 years

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What makes you so sure that yukina actually knows hiei is her brother? some how i still have doubts even now LOL. I really like your blog and keiko is my favorite female character from yyh

(If my tone here gets aggressive, it's because I'm passionate about Yukina, not because I'm mad at you or anyone else! Imagine me pacing around and waving my hands in front of a conspiracy theory board covered in red string.)

Basically I think Yukina is a lot smarter than the fandom gives her credit for. I don't think I've ever seen a fanfiction depiction of her that doesn't portray her as the "sweet and innocent maiden" archetype, but honestly, I consider that to be wildly OOC. People always portray her as the moral center of the group, the one who cooks and nurtures, the bestie, the ingenue...

But like... she was raised by cutthroat survivalist demons who tossed a literal baby off a cliff. She inherited their mindset, culture and attitudes. She was tortured for years and never broke. She saw a dude get murdered in front of her for trying to save her and still didn't break. She abandoned her people and left behind everything she ever knew in order to find a brother who would commit genocide on her behalf. She freaking wants to commit genocide, a fact this fandom often forgets.

My personal headcanon for Yukina is that she's a manipulative, coldblooded mastermind, and in my opinion, there's enough evidence of this that I feel it's almost canon as opposed to headcanon. She's a nice person at her core (eg: crying over birds) but that's buried under a hardened shell of cynicism and emotional detachment she developed while enduring years of abuse. She's not naive, but she's OK with people thinking she is. She keeps Kuwabara on a string for protection. She acts sweet so people underestimate her. And apart from a few moments where emotions break through, it's all an act.

So the fact that she looks Hiei dead in the eye and goes "Wow, you act just like I think my brother might," and says he looks familiar the first time they meet, and ENTRUSTS HER GODDAMN TEAR GEM TO HIM out of all the members of the Urameshi team... I don't think any of that was random. She and Hiei barely speak during canon. They share a handful of scenes (seriously, go count the number of words they share before she gives him the gem, it's not a lot), and suddenly she's comparing him to her long lost brother and entrusting him with her prize possessions...????

And people want to think that's all random? Coincidence???? She just gets lucky and just happens to be talking to her brother in those scenes? Uh. No. Not on your life. She knew, and the gem scene was her way of opening that door to him. She showed him that trust and vulnerability, so anathema to her, so he might feel encouraged to come clean and show her that same vulnerability in return.

Yukina is scarred. She knows her brother is, too, after what he went through at the hands of the Koorime, and she won't force him to come clean before he's ready. She knows what it's like to be forced. She would never do that to him, so she drops hints, and she waits.

And despite their lack of interaction, Hiei isn't exactly subtle about his relationship to her. Hiei can hardly bear to look her in the eye, but he saves her ass multiple times while ignoring the other comparatively helpless people in their party when they're in trouble, and he's got that fiery energy her people told her that her brother would have, and he's the right age, and their eyes are so damn similar...

I think she is entirely too capable to not realize who he is. But since YYH is told from the POVs of the main boys most of the time, it's kept intentionally just-this-side-of-vague so Hiei doesn't have to wrestle with a "She definitely knows; now what do I do?" plotline. There wasn't room or time for that in the story, so it got left on the cutting room floor.

But yeah. Yukina is not naive. Saying Hiei reminds her of her brother and giving that gem to him, specifically, was not an accident.

She knows.

And that's all I have to say about that. <3

#hiei #yukina #yyh #yu yu hakusho fandom #yu yu hakusho #yu yu hakusho fanfiction #yu yu hakusho headcanon #yyh fanfiction #yyh hiei #yyh yukina

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babywarg · 4 years

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Writing Tag Game

I've never done this and it looks like fun! Thanks for the tag, @visionarygalaxy 💖

No tags, but please do this, it is a fun fic retrospective thing.

(I apologize if I missed any tags for previous memes - this has been a terribly busy seven days. Please ping me via PM if I missed anything 💖)

AO3 Name: babywarg

Fandoms: recently, MCU; specifically, ironstrange. previously: tenipuri (RIKKAIDAI!!), katekyou hitman reborn, gensomaden saiyuki, hobbit movies, yst/rw, yyh, etc. i'm a one-fandom-at-a-time person

Tropes: Uhhh I am not sure I have one. Two switches with dominant personalities occasionally duking it out and then giving way just a little bit to let the other in, I suppose... (I privately refer to it as “semepile” but there should be a better word for it out there)

Number of Fics: 83 total for all pseuds; just 65 for babywarg

Fic I spent the most time on: definitely my first multichapter, Settling for a Miracle - i'm STILL spending time on it!

Fic I spent the least time on: all the fics that are below 1000 words 😺 His Storms has a special place in my heart because it came fully formed in my head; putting it down on paper was effortless.

Longest Fic: co-written: Particles (with the brilliant @amethyst-noir <3). solo ride: Settling for a Miracle

Shortest Fic: that is a complete ficlet and not a meta: Waking Up Beside Him for the First Time

Most Hits: No Longer Human

Most Kudos: Love Through Time

Most Comment Threads: co-written: Particles. solo ride: Settling for a Miracle

Most Bookmarks: Love Through Time

Total Word Count: 360,200

Favourite Fic I Wrote: here's a quick 10:

1. What Comes Next

2. No Longer Human

3. Our Time Together

4. Love Through Time

5. Particles (although I’m sort of cheating because I love the parts that @amethyst-noir wrote the most 😺)

6. Saying Your Names

7. Stigmata

8. Seven Days in Love

9. A History of Love

10. Hold Back the Night

Fic I want to rewrite/expand on: Saying Your Names. it feels like there's a lot of lore in this fantasy AU that i wasn't able to explore in just 5 chapters.

Share a bit of WIP or story you are planning: okay! tagging @wspaceblog for this because it's a WIP of something we've been talking about 😺

Tony grew up in his father's tailoring shop. In his three decades there, he had witnessed a lot of people coming and going - but few truly made an impression on him.

Off the top of his head, in fact, he could think of only two:

One was someone who never set foot in the shop at all. It was a boy about twelve (Tony's age), bone-thin and pale, with dirty blonde hair.

He always looked like he had come out of a fight - there was sometimes a bruise on his face, or a torn sleeve, or a ripped shirt collar. But always, he entered Tony's line of sight with a sort of rage burning in his baby blue eyes.

He would stand in front of the shop and look up at the display mannequins, which changed clothes every Wednesday - and, slowly but surely, the anger on his face would fade.

It would take on a serene look - as if he were staring not at clothes, but at works of art.

And sometimes the boy would look beyond the mannequins, and set those baby blues on Tony's face. And when he saw that Tony noticed, he became flustered. A touch of color graced those gaunt cheekbones.

More than once, Tony opened the door to the shop, hoping to invite the boy in. But the boy always fled whenever he heard the knob turn.

- and in the end, it was all right, because Tony's dad hated letting "the rabble" into his exclusive shop. That boy neatly fit into his father's definition of "the rabble."

One day, the boy just stopped standing in front of the shop. Tony always wondered where he'd gone.

The other was someone who arrived way later: a boy about nineteen (Tony's age). He strode in with the confidence of someone who could afford the goods.

Tony never actually knew if the boy had money. He only knew that the boy was good at looking like he did.

And he only knew that the boy liked running his fingers over the finest cloth they had.

His dad didn't like this, of course, but didn't see any cause to throw him out. The boy wasn't damaging the merchandise.

He just sent Tony out to deal with the kid. And Tony had to deal with the kid a lot. The kid visited the shop several times, just looking and touching for a few minutes, and just letting Tony talk about the selections on which he lingered.

The kid had a self-important air about him that unsettled Tony somewhat, but at the same time, drew him in.

Tony's dad didn't like him.

That might have been part of what made it so much fun for Tony to escort him all over the shop, telling him anything and everything that came to mind - all but spilling his most precious trade secrets and sewing tips.

Tony didn't mind if the kid just came to waste time; his quiet, yet intense presence was welcome.

One day, the kid found it: the cloth with the exact pattern and texture that he wanted. His holy grail.

It was a good choice, too - one of their most tasteful, most expensive velvets.

"How much to make a fully bespoke suit out of this?" the kid asked him.

And Tony was taken aback, first by how soft and sultry the boy's voice was - exquisite, like mulberry silk.

And then, by how clear and brilliant his eyes were. Like subtly colored glass.

No choice, really, but for Tony to turn on the charm.

"For you," Tony said, all saccharine, "just six thousand."

(What? The kid was hot, but Tony wasn't about to go too low on a suit made of one of the best fabrics in the house.)

The kid didn't dispute the figure. He fell silent for a moment, feeling the scrap of cloth between his fingers in a light, almost reverent manner.

"I'll need a fully bespoke suit in a few years," the kid eventually said. "That fabric had better be ready for me."

"Years?" Tony echoed with unflagging sweetness. "We don't reserve for that long, especially not without a deposit. And especially not when people can still grow out of the cut." He gently took the fabric from the boy's hand. Their fingers briefly touched, and Tony brushed aside the light tingle that crept up his spine on contact. "Come back a few months before you actually need the suit, okay? And I'll personally see what we can do for you."

The boy just stood, staring into Tony's eyes as if determining his sincerity.

Then, the boy nodded, and wordlessly left the store.

He didn't come back in the following days. Or months. Or years, even, as initially stated.

The boy hadn't even left his name. By all accounts, this told Tony that he wasn't actually serious about the reservation.

But Tony still kept a few yards of the velvet material he had chosen stored away. He wasn't sure why.

#ironstrange #strangeiron #meme #tony stark #stephen strange #iron man #doctor strange #fic snippet

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sachinighte · 4 years

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Tagged by the wonderful @uintuva, here you go darling <3

AO3 name: Memories_of_the_Shadows

Fandoms: Naruto, One Piece, Sailor Moon, Dragon Age, Harry Potter, MCU, Hannibal, NCIS, Criminal Minds, Stargate, Bleach, YYH, Inuyasha, Ken Akamatsu universe, FFXV, Hellsing, Underworld, BTVS, RWBY, Teen Wolf, YOI!, Voltron, BNHA, Pokemon (these are in no particular order and I tend to vacillate between them at random times. More will almost certainly pop up and I’m positive I forgot a few)

Number of fics: 80 (published)

1. Fic I spent the most time on: And Now I See The Sunrise: my Isaribi/Hinata sentinel/guide fic which I adore

2. Fic I spent the least time on: oh, god, I’ve been writing for years and I used to specialize in drabbles. I have no idea but it was probably one of my shorter ones

3. Longest fic: Philomel’s Lullaby: which is abandoned and terrible but still counts I guess

4. Shortest fic: Mikata: because I’m not going to count my terrible teenage poetry

5. Most hits: The Apple Now Is Sweet: you heathens. (Link is NSFW, click at your risk)

6. Most kudos: Don’t Ask Why It Works, It Just Does: which, fair, I’m also pretty proud of that one

7. Most comment threads: Again, it’s Don’t Ask Why It Works, It Just Does

8. Favourite fic I wrote: I have to choose!? Agggh, idk, probably Alive and Burning Brighter (my rule 63!Tony Stark), or And Till They’ve Seen The Light (my rift stabbing da crackfic), or And Now I’ve Seen The Sunrise (since I gave it to myself for my wedding, I sure hope I love it XD)

9. Fic you want to rewrite/expand on: Ack, okay, I know I only ever post finished work, and it is finished so I won’t do this, but probably Just A Dream? I just love it but I feel like I could do better. And I did start a sequel for it but I couldn’t get through it.

10. Share a bit of a WIP or a story idea you’re planning on: Hah, you asked for it, here’s a bit from my massive Cullanders magnum opus that keeps growing and growing because these two are just made for angst (also, yes, I write in html, it makes publishing on ao3 easier for me):

“I’m sorry. It’s been difficult to leave the Gallows with all the upheaval. The Knight-Commander has become… more demanding of my time as well.” Cullen sighs heavily, then grimaces, his hand moving towards his chest before aborting the movement. Anders is uncomfortably aware of the many different ways people try to hide pain and equally aware of how difficult that can be. He doesn’t want to sympathize with a Templar, but Cullen would likely be more gracious about any healing than Fenris ever is. It might be okay. If Cullen really is hurt. “I fear… it’s not… in any case, things will have to come to a head soon enough. Neither the Grand Enchanter nor Meredith are willing to back down and, well, there is no one in the Gallows who is unaware of how precarious the situation is.”

Oh, Anders knows. For every mage he helps to escape there are three more that he cannot get to because the Templars come for them too soon, without warning. No one is safe. (And Anders sits here with one of the perpetrators practically itching to heal him. Void take him, he hates himself some days.) “So Hawke says as well,” he says instead, guardedly.

Cullen shoots him a look that is far too wry and knowing for Anders’ comfort but he doesn’t comment beyond a small grin, a cocked eyebrow. So Cullen has guessed who it is that is sneaking mages out through the basement tunnels. Maybe he isn’t as dumb as he looks. And he doesn’t seem inclined to say anything about it.

Maybe, just maybe, there is at least one Templar who Anders can trust farther than he can throw them without magic or Justice.

“You’re stiff,” he offers, instead of dwelling on such a revelation, something so counter to everything he has known since he was a child. “Let me see.” Cullen sighs, shaking his head.

“People would notice if I was healed, thank you though. It’s just… a training accident,” he says as though he doesn’t believe that it was an accident, although Anders will grant that it did probably happen during training. And with Cullen himself letting Anders off the hook for healing, that should be the end of it. He should let this go and revel in the fact that Cullen is uncomfortable and will stay that way for as long as the stubborn arse will take to heal.

“Just tell them you bribed one of the mages,” he says instead. It’s a plausible enough story--every Circle he’s ever heard of has those who do it, although Anders is fairly sure Cullen isn’t one of the ones who would--and one that most Templars will accept even if it’s scornfully. (Anders remembers a time when he was the one getting bribed, though he was threatened more often than not rather than bribed. Anders had come to the conclusion very early on in his studies that he wouldn’t willingly heal Templars unless he had a very good reason and a laxer curfew, more candles or blankets, or someone ignoring a dalliance simply aren’t good enough. He remembers Flora was vastly more popular with the Templars as a result. Anders couldn’t have cared less.)

Cullen groans a bit, that aborted move to hug himself appearing once more, and sighes. “Fine. You’re right. Just because I can’t afford the downtime right now, not with the entire city like an overfilled flour mill with some young idiot striking a flint in the middle of it.”

Anders stifles a laugh. Cullen normally gives Fenris a run for his silent and broody money, or is shyer and more bashful--though similarly, and constantly, offended--than Velanna whenever he or one of the Rose’s workers brings up something particularly crude. But every once in a while he shows his Ferelden farmboy side and Anders can almost forget that Cullen is everything he hates.

The wound is red with the start of an infection and poorly wrapped. Luckily, it was only a glancing blow, shallow enough that once Anders cleans it out and heals what he can it won’t even scar. Justice howls in anger at the edge of Anders’ perception and Anders mentally shoves him away.

“They should teach you how to field dress injuries in training, not magic you can’t even use,” he says lowly, maybe to distract from how warm Cullen’s skin feels under his fingers, from the wiry dusting of golden curls on his chest. Anders is surprised every time by how human Templars are. He probably shouldn’t be. Cullen sighes and pulls away.

“I don’t disagree that field dressing would be useful,” he says. Anders wants to get angry, wants to want to fight, but really, he’s just tired. Tired of political statements, of this arrangement they have, of still having to fear for his life and sanity. Anders didn’t ask to be born with magic. Nobody but the worst blood mages do.

(He’s seen a few of them, people who make deals with demons for magic because what they really want is power and they all think they will get away with it. Unscrupulous and bold, every single one of them think that they’ll be able to stop once they get the one thing they want, but there’s always another thing on the horizon that only blood magic and more deals can help with. All of them were caught eventually, and grouped with mages who have never done a single harm in their entire lives. Legions of power-hungry blood mages who thought nothing of selling another person into death or worse for the sake of fleeting dreams of power. And for what? A moment in time that they could try to satiate their greed. Is it any wonder that it’s mostly nobles who end up taking that path to power?)

“It’s done,” he says, instead of replying, instead of the rant that Justice is beating into his temples. Anders turns away and starts to gather up his things when Cullen blushes and touches his side.

“Thank you, Anders,” Cullen says softly, and it sounds so sincere that Anders has to leave without saying anything else at all. He needs to remember that Cullen is a Templar.

Not someone sweet and sincere, who blushes easily and listens well. Just a Templar. He’ll show his true colors soon enough. Five years is nothing against a lifetime of proof.

Ah, sh*t, I tag whoever would like to do this?

#my work #fandom feels #my fanfiction #long post #is long #sorry for this

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luckystarchild · 6 years

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I noticed that you were investigating YYH fic lengths. I looked into this a few months ago on fanfiction and found 7 fics besides your own in the 400 and 600 thousand word range (most on the lower end). There were two notably longer ones: Future Talk by Graphspasm (826,222 words) and Yu Yu Hakusho: An Alternate Reality by Last of the Star Makers (1,641,440 words). I haven't read either of them, but there you go. :) I'm loving your story so far, by the way. Don't let stats bug you too much.

[YYH Fandometrics Post from a few days back, referenced by the above Ask.]

How cow—1.6 MILLION? I haven’t read that fic, either, butthat’s amazing! Kudos to that author (or perhaps authors, plural, judging bythe story’s summary) for their hard work and dedication to that fic. And 800kisn’t anything to sneeze at, either! Definitely starting to wonder how long LCwill be, seeing numbers that high in the fandom.

I’m not too worried about stats, overall. Stories will bethe length they need to be to effectively convey their plot, so I’ll just letLC meander wherever it will. Sure would be neat to break a million words, butthen again, IDK if I have that many words in me. XD We’ll see, though!

Good to know! TBH, I wish FFnet had a more comprehensivesorting system in place. It’s tough to research some things and takes a lot ofsleuthing to pull some numbers. I really appreciate your efforts, my anonfriend! Thanks very much for investigating those fic lengths. You da best. :)

#Yu Yu Hakusho #yyh fandometrics #yyh #yu yu Hakusho fandom #yyh fandom #yu yu hakusho fanfiction

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carnelianwings · 7 years

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Rules: answer the 20 questions and tag 20 amazing followers you would like to get to know better.

Tagged by @justhanderspositive

Name: Anzu

Nickname: Anzu

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Height: 5′ 2″

Orientation: Straight

Ethnicity: Chinese

Favorite fruit: Strawberries, Peaches, Nectarines, Cherries . . . I actually like almost all fruit, even some of the less popular ones. Like durian.

Favorite season: Spring

Favorite book series: Oh god, which do I pick? Lord of the Rings? Harry Potter? Iron Druid Chronicles? The Dresden Files? The Cormoran Strike novels? Discworld? The Cinder Spires? (Wait does that one even count because there’s only one novel written so far?) Ms. Marvel? (Or do comic books not count for this question? XD)

Favorite flower: Oddly enough, not really one for flowers, especially fragrant ones because I’m really sensitive to really flowery perfumes and scents, although I do find Angel’s Trumpets really pretty (even though they can be super deadly too).

Favorite scent: Grapefruit (or at least the kind they use for soaps) is one of the few scents I can tolerate

Favorite color: Blue and turqoise. The fact Mikleo wears those colors is pure coincidence (and clearly a ploy by Bamco to make me throw my wallet at them)

Favorite animal: Cats

Coffee, tea or cocoa: Yes. I love my espresso drinks, I love mochas, and I love green tea lattes. I refuse to choose, lol.

Average sleep hours: 6-8, depending on how late I stay up blogging.

Cat or dog person: Cats, definitely cat.

Favorite fictional characters: Oh dear. Time to show my age and my love for 90s/early 00s anime, lol. Um, off the top of my head, more or less sorted by fandom/genre and in no particular order:

Tales: Mikleo, Sorey, Yuri Lowell, Leon Magnus/Judas, Emil Castagnier, Marta Lualdi, Lailah, Kohaku Hearts, Hubert Ozwell

Square Enix games: Terra/Tina Branford (FF6), Celes Chere (FF6), Lenneth Valkyrie (Valkyrie Profile)

Gundam: Heero Yuy, Quatre Raberba Winner, Kira Yamato, Athrun Zala, Lunamaria Hawke, Setsuna F. Seiei

Other mecha anime: Sagara Sousuke, Chidori Kaname

Magical Girl anime: Kaname Madoka, Akemi Homura, Ami Mizuno, Fate T Harlaown, Takamachi Nanoha, Kinomoto Sakura, Kusakabe Maron, Kouyama Mitsuki (does she count as a magical girl? XD)

Shounen anime: Himura Kenshin, Kamiya Kaoru, Mutou Yuugi, Yami/Other Yuugi/Atem, Mazaki Anzu (yes, that might have been where I got my online name from), Kirisawa Fuuko, Kurama (Yuu Yuu Hakusho), Hiei (YYH)

Actual books: Legolas, Harry Dresden, Rowl, Samuel Vimes

Comic books: Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel, Scarlet Witch (at least, her MCU incarnation), Black Widow (MCU), Hawkeye (MCU)

I’m sure I’ve forgotten a few, but I have a lot of characters I’ve grown to love over the years.

Number of blankets you sleep with: 2

Dream trip: Japan. Or more accurately, hitting up Akihabara, Shibuya, and Harajuku with actual disposable income, lol. Been there once in 2007, before I had a real job (plus this was before the Tales store was a thing), would totally love to go back and basically raid the Tales store for all the character merch, if nothing else, lol.

Blog created: July 2016

Number of followers: 1805

Tagging (only if you’d like to): @talesofsymphoniac, @koko-ai, @amarietie, @neodiji, @talesofgay, @8bittheatrics, @pengiesama

#soymilkheaven shares a little bit about herself #I can't believe there's so many of you guys following me #definitely motivates me to look for content to reblog every day though!

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twelvemagpies · 4 years

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For the ask meme, whichever of the odd numbers that speak to you (or all of them lmfao)

“and lo, the odd numbers spoke unto them, saying, ‘prepared art thou, mortal fool, for the uncomfortable and intimate act of being known, knowing also that thou art utter shite at recalling any personal information on cue?’”

1. if someone wanted to really understand you, what would they read, watch, and listen to?

read: pet shop of horrors - matsuri akino

watch: yu yu hakusho

listen to: the crow & the beekeeper (both by dessa)

3. list your fandoms and one character from each that you identify with.

hxh: kurapika

ygo: bakura

the hobbit: gandalf

yyh: kurama and shizuru

5. do you think of yourself as a human being or a human doing? do you identify yourself by the things you do?

i had to double-back and make sure i understood the concept in general but tbh i’d say both. i define myself by my actions and the things that i do because i do them because they reflect and expand on the sort of person i want to be, even if that means that sometimes i’m not doing them for some greater-minded or zen reason but because i want acknowledgement or to be seen. idk i think separating either into a vacuum overlooks both how the world works whether we like it or not but also how humans as a species interact with it and each other

7. do you care about your ethnicity?

y’know, i used to care so much about it bc i was so desperate to find like, One Source Of Belonging? or no not even a place to belong but like, a concrete point that i could refer back to and be like “this is where i come from, these are my very clear-cut roots, i live in flagrant disregard of a lot of what being a member of this community and culture means bc some of it hasn’t updated with the times At All and now actively hurts people, but it’s mine”, especially since growing up i was always in-between communities and often joked about moving someplace i would always be identified as an outsider already bc that’s how i was gonna be perceived by my actual communities anyway (which is hilarious considering where i live now)

but lately i’m just.......idk, tired? maybe it’s just bc interrogating and coming to terms with and identifying with the stupid big number of ethnicities i belong to requires more nuance than i’m willing to put into it right now, or i’m just burnt out by the fact that there’s no way to be part of an ethnic group in an apolitical or amoral way (like, if i had a penny for every time as a jew i get harassed about israel like it’s my personal fault what a government in a country i’m not even a citizen of does to other people, regardless of my own opinions of how deep a well the israeli govt can fall down, i’d have enough pennies to walk right into another stereotype about jews). either way i try not to think about it very much at all lately and largely fail miserably at it lmao

9. are you an artist?

allegedly! i actually got an art scholarship in high school to go to uni but i don’t think i’ve Drawn™ anything in a very long time, and despite having a sketchbook that i literally just purchased in oxford burning a hole in my backpack, i am Afeard to start drawing again in earnest

11. describe your ideal day.

i don’t know about my Absolute Ideal Day bc that changes a lot, but today was pretty good and i enjoyed it and wish more days were like it. i went to the lab and got some stuff done, then went to the diner and ate my weight in sushi rice and now i’m sat at a coffee shop doing work (tbf i’m sat in a coffee shop bc i have a dreaded feeling that my landlady will be back home today, but also i just work a lot better when i’m not at home, so)

13. inside or outdoors?

both!

15. five most influential books over your lifetime.

idk if this means “of all books published in my lifetime so far, which do i think are the most influential in general” or “which five books have influenced me the most” so i’m gonna go with the latter bc it feels like it makes the most sense. also all of these are fiction in no particular order bc every nonfiction book i’ve read in the last 21 years has suddenly fled my mind

the girl who owned a city - o. t. nelson

the bartimaeus trilogy - jonathan stroud (yes i know there are four books now but ~back in my day~ it was a trilogy)

the orphan tales - catherynne valente

inkworld trilogy - cornelia funke

fire - kristin cashore

(this question was really interesting bc i was.......not quite expecting these books to be the ones that would be the answer to this question and when i started thinking about why they came to mind it got Very Existential fjdslkfa)

17. would you say your tumblr is a fair representation of the “real you”?

i......guess so? i mean i reblog stuff i’m interested in and i talk about my ridiculous shenanigans, so i suppose it’s fairly representative??

19. which Harry Potter house would you be in? or are you a muggle?

general friend consensus is that i’m either a slytherin or that mix thing that people started doing a while back? idk i’m not in the hp fandom but there was that test a while back and i was like a slytherclaw or something.

21. do you love easily?

i don’t think i do, but once i do love somebody i’m really at ease with telling them/showing it

23. how often would you want to see your family every year?

at the moment i see my mother and grandmother two or three times a year and bc of where i live and it’s like That’s Just How It Be™, especially considering we’re in contact literally every day via text/calling/etc. besides that, there’s a time limit when i do get home on how long they’re happy that i’m back and things are pleasant to us starting to get into the same old shit (or them starting the same old shit and me being too Tired™ to engage). that being said i have extended family that i don’t see for years at a time and i’m unbelievably alright with that

25. could you live as a hermit?

i absolutely could, but bc of the speed and surety with which i was like Hell Yeah i think it’s better for my mental health if i don’t fjdsklfa

27. do you feel like your outside appearance is a fair representation of the “real you”?

oh my god no

29. three songs that you connect with right now.

no plan - hozier

bremen - pigpen theatre co

grand canyon - the wind and the wave

#this took ages and i still like.....fdsjkfla feel like i didn't answer it very well #but thank you!! it was v fun 💖💖💖#mirto if you ever read this don't @ me for 3 #knife-em0ji #tire fire talks back

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