#<- im part of the committee to make this happen with you

[kirsteng42]

PP needs to revisit this look as this is him at his sexiest!!! Then him in the Din suit….but yep this side profile is epic…….

JAVIER PEÑA in every episode of NARCOS    ↺ S01E02 / THE SWORD OF SIMÓN BOLIVAR

[whoslaurapalmer]

hi. I can't sleep so here's a cute lil super vague picture of my mom, and me, from when I was born 💖

this was taken september 28th, the year i was born, when I was finally able to come home from the hospital, because I was born a whole two months premature. I'm so tiny!! and my mom's smile is so big!!!!!

when I look at pictures of her I can really see. how badly she'd been doing the past few months. I knew she wasn't doing well, but when you see somebody every day, sometimes you still don't always see-see it, you know? anyway this is how I want to remember her. not sick. but cute and precious and with her big smile, and with me. (even if this week I still told her she looked cute. cause she's my mom, of course she's always cute.)

she did pass away today. everybody who's been to the house has been so, so kind to me. the hospice nurse, even, was so surprised that everything happened so quickly. she thought there would be just a little more time. she gave me like three hugs, and when I told her, "I know this is part of your job, but you give great hugs." she dropped her bags and went "OH, you haven't SEEN the kind of hugs I can give." and hugged me AGAIN and said "you think I give out hugs to just anyone?? come on." which, damn. that was a squeeze. and the funeral arrangement guy who was here yesterday came back today, of course, and even he was in tears about my mom. best friend came over and we talked for hours, about my mom, about the usual everything we talk about. I got into contact with one of my high school friends just the other day, and we talked about how much my mom meant to him when we were teenagers. and I'm really happy there are people who got to meet my mom and understand how special she was and got to feel loved by her.

there's lots of people who are gonna help me with the house, and with me, and where I go now. so im trying not to be, uh, too horrified about that. our neighbors, my aunt, we actually JUST ran into someone who used to help my brother when he worked, who's now on a committee for senior and special needs housing -- she's engaged to the guy fixing my grandmother's septic tank??? what are the odds????? so. I keep telling myself that's gonna be okay. I made my brother pasta for dinner, and we ate it with our aunt, and we watched mythbusters. things are gonna be weird and not always. easy. but I'm gonna be okay. because my mom told me she knew I could do anything, so. I can be okay. And I don't always have to be, either. But I can be okay.

ive kept it together like. really well today. bc there's lots of things I have to help my aunt take care of. and while I had already been thinking a lot about like. my mom not being here. and rearranging my brain around that idea. i know it's still gotta really sink in. that she's not here. im gonna wake up tomorrow and she wont be here, waiting for me. she's not gonna be able to hold my hand when I'm upset or hug me or call me food nicknames or hang out with me. but we were really, really happy, the day after she came home from the hospital, when we talked about how much fun we've had doing things together. always together. and how we wouldn't change anything, and how we'd do it all over again. so i felt like we'd said everything we needed to to each other. I know she was so proud of me, always. and that she thought my silly bill crafts were the coolest things ever. and that I could never make her upset. and she could never make me upset either. she was so silly and so loving and so fun, and wanted more than anything to be a mom, and to be loving and caring, and she was so good at it. and I'm so happy she was my mom.

[schlattslonghairytoes]

chapter six

real life!

schlatt's pov

I walked into the party and quickly separated from the group, I walked over to get a drink when I see a familiar face. "hey, ilsa right?" I say to a brunette I recognize as my buddy Hasan's girlfriend. 

"oh hey! what's going on schlatt." she smiles back

"oh nothing thought id say hi, Hasan around?" I look around for him.

"he's over there with Jordan right now, im gonna go talk to hansum but I'll see you later!" she grabs her drink and walks to the main room.

I walk towards the bar and go to make myself a drink, I scope out the selection of what the bar had, and pour myself a glass of whiskey, my favorite kind. I take my drink and bag of baked lays and I find my way over to a small seating area fit for one to two people, I sit down on one of the beanbags and rest my head down on the wall

ive always gotten headaches in loud settings, so even though I love partying, im tapped out after  5 minutes. I look around the party and search for familiar faces, I see Tyler, and ted and maddie, Charlie and even swagger, but I can't find talia.

she's always there, whatever, she will be fine. I continue my scan of the party analyzing person by person, when I see talia walk back into the main room sobbing. 

Talias pov

I get to the party and immediately grab more to drink, im unleashing my inner slut tonight and the best way to start that is crossfaded, I drink and smoke until my brain feels like water, but by the i realize i need to chill its too late

I try to walk out the bathroom and end up banging my head on the door, its closed, I had been drinking and smoking for over 3 hours and there was no turning back now, the small part of my brain that was still working somehow led me to the main room

I didn't know I was crying until I saw schlatts face "hey, hey whats wrong tals? what happened? did someone hurt you?" he asks with urgency as he grabs my face and wipes under my eyes "holy shit your eyes are so red, oh god not this again, cmon lets go to the bathroom"

he grabs my hand and starts dragging me to the bathroom and then.

schlatt's pov

I'm holding her when all of a sudden she gets much heavier and I look on the ground to see her laying there. I panic but slowly realize that will only make it worse, we are in a hallway with no one around, and I thank god because pictures of her passed out being posted would only end horribly. She slowly starts to wake up and regain consciousness. "jay?" she asks slowly. "were going home lia." i slowly pick her up and call an uber as we walk outside.

i sat her down on my lap as we waited for the uber to arrive, and when it did we got home fast and i brought her up to her room. "ok tal im gonna need you to change into something more comfy." she groaned at that, after the car ride she seemed much better but i was still worried. "i dont think i can do it myself jay." her face contorted into a mix of fear and sadness, that i hadn't seen in a long time. 

i carefully helped her change into pajamas and got her laid in bed with her feet elevated on a pillow, just like google told me to, along with cold water next to her bed. "im feeling better johnny, thank you." her big eyes, still red, look up at me and everything in my body telling me to leave goes away. "talia, no matter what im always by your side, you know that." she blinked slowly and nodded up at me.

"i know jay. im going to sleep, love you" she said groggily, and at that moment my heart stopped. she laid her head down on her pillow and closed her eyes, as i walked back to my room, i felt my eyes fill with something unfamiliar, and as i closed the door to my room, i did something i hadn't done in years.

i cried.

schlatt sat in his bed, staring down at his stupid computer, and with teary eyes he read his future out to himself

"Dear Jonathan Schlatt, We regret to inform you that your application for admission has been rejected by our admissions committee. We are sorry to notify you that we cannot offer you...".

the computer slammed shut and his dreams closed with it. he knew it was possible that he wouldnt get in, but what he didnt know was that he was going to mess up the one good thing he had in his life, weeks before they were meant to leave for their summer road trip to college, and his one chance was gone with the wind.

they had applied to the same colleges, the duos dreams (and GPAs) aligning, leading them to colleges that offered what they both wanted. only now, schlatt was sat, alone, no future set. 

schlatt had been posting on youtube since 2013, and while he knew the quality of his content wasnt always the best, it could go somewhere, so from then on, he knew what he was meant to do. the persona he made formed simply from his deep-rooted anger at himself, or in other words, his anger at talia, for being just out of his reach.

[stackslip]

augh yeah as much as i do love the parts of COS that are very obviously trying to do something competent and genuine, the amestris parts are just so ????

ill be honest, im pretty sure i blocked those scenes out, so remembering that what happened on the amestris side is. yikes

definitely wish the movie was more focused and didnt try to add as much as it did. especially roy -- i dont mind the beginning, hell i think him exiling himself to the north is a good concept, but the fact that he takes back his position (iirc) is just. so are we throwing away the character development and him realizing that he CANT change the military from the inside or what.

in general i honestly wanted to see less of the military cast. they frankly dont have much reason to be there other than the fact people wanted to see them (esp armstrong... just. WHY). im sure there are still ways to work in roy if the creators really wanted him to be there but like. idk! they sure didnt have to do it like that! we couldve spent more time on exploring noah as a character. or let izumi die on screen. sigh

been a while since i rewatched COS but thanks for pointing out all the weird stuff, i'd almost forgotten it and i honestly shouldn't.

(and of course i have to say i love your posts on the series proper. i will never be normal about scar. ever)

the second i saw roy in there i was like why is roy still in the military at all. wasn't his whole arc about realizing that he can't do shit within the military because it is an institution built on atrocities and exploitation? why is he still in it then. why is he talking about serving his country. why's he talking about waiting for ED that makes no fucking SENSE. (why is he alive. someone said they thought roy was supposed to die by the end of 03 but they kept him alive bc he's a fan fave and i wholly believe this frankly). why is the country's military still seemingly intact with a whole surveillance network, when 03 ended on the military being severely crippled and amestris's neighbours getting ready to invade it and bring it to its knees? why are we literally seeing *the fucking weimar republic* in cos only for amestris to not parallel it in any way and instead be the brotherhood-type funland where once you've taken out the mean führer, everything is fine and there's nothing to fix?

and like. this is a short movie right! i know that they were denied a season, maybe even a season and a half to finish off the show and that some elements of cos were meant to be in the og show's ending. and it shows! bc again munich is fucking reasonably competent considering how much is crammed in on hour thirty. and i know that cos's production was also rushed as hell and that as an Anime Movie they were contractually obligated to 1) put as many recurring fan faves in as possible 2) have at least a third of the movie be a big action scene. so like. i can understand the limits. you have no time, you're told you have to put all this shit in, you want to finish off the brothers' story at the very least. but my gd! you're telling me you had an izumi death scene and it doesn't happen??? you could cut roy out ENTIRELY from this. you could not put ARMSTRONG IN LIORE. you could..... i know they had no time at all, i know once again it was 03 being shafted by production committees and time and budget but it's legit insane how the very stupid and seemingly innocuous choice of having armstrong "rebuild" liore comedically completely slapped me out of whatever headspace cos had managed to slip me in before. i was enjoying it a lot until we got to amestris. and this armstrong thing, followed by rose's line here:

it's just. it's almost comedic. i'm almost wondering if the writer is fucking with me here and acknowledging just how stupid it is to put armstrong doing alchemy in liore is. probably not but gd this is bad. this is brotherhood levels of obliviousness to the themes.

anyhow i'm not finishing cos tonight bc i'm too pissed about it lol. it's funny bc for years i was told it was bad but for the opposite reasons that it's actually bad. like folks kept saying the munich parts were bad/stupid/wrong and made no sense when to me they're by far the most thematically coherent and interesting/emotional bits of it. i LOVE the relationship between noah and ed. and like, i know the bar is is in hell when it comes to depicting roma on screen, but i can't help but appreciate the little and big ways both noah and her people get humanized, how they feel like the most real and concrete part of this world ed insists is a dream or hell. but really, genuinely noah is so good, alfons's weird crush on ed is hysterical, the general atmosphere and research around 1923 munich seems genuinely thoughtful (and it also tells me that the writers had been thinking about this long, long before even 03 ended). i genuinely believe that making munich! hugues a nazi sympathizer and a racist is a really inspired and brave choice that makes the audience reflects THEIR hugues and how the amestrian military behaved. so anyhow these parts are good, genuinely. it's sad that that's the first third and then you get thrown into this mess, and there's still a whole stupid nazi battle to come. it's stupid. it's stupid especially bc there's a genuine part of the movie that IS smart and thoughtful. it'd be so much easier if all of it were bad, or if the difference between the writing in each part weren't so obvious. anyhow. i wanna finish cos bc i wanna see wrath's arc end and envy eating hoheinheim and ed/al reunion and more of noah. but also i think i'm gonna be writing off large chunks of it lol.

(also thank you very much, i'm trying to preach 03 to whoever i can whenever i can. appreciate the love)

[thequeenofterror]

hi hi everyone! formally announcing that song sunyoung's fc is now miss im jinah ♔ while i adore park jiyeon, she's not as active in the industry anymore and i'm limited on what i can use for 2024 visuals and such. having nana as a fc gives me a lot more room to play with while also keeping that foxy eyed nature to the muse! aside from obvious physical traits, the only other difference to note is that now sunyoung's fashion style will feature a more prominent influence of preppy/sporty looks. other than that, everything is the same! i'll also use this opportunity to list down some wanted connections/plots! now that i've had the chance to plot with most of you amazing people, i have a better idea of my muse and what i'd like to write for her. below the cut you'll find timelines for both parts of the event, as well as some general non-event related plots i'd love to get to! tysm for being incredible all of you btw i'm in love with every single muse and having so much fun!!!!!! ily all ♡♡♡♡♡

𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟔 —

02:00 PM — arrival at the midas resort 02:00 - 09:00 PM — open for plots ! 09:00 - 10:00 PM — banter with han wonbin after yoojin's announcement 10:00 PM onwards argument with jin yohan on the way to the lake

𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 —

05:40 PM — arrival at the mansion 05:40 - 07:00 PM — open for plots ! 07:00 - 07:15 PM — argument with zhang xiaotian by the pool 07:15 - 07:30 PM — moment with kim seunghan in the library 07:30 PM onwards — banter with lee sowon over dinner

𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 —

family connections — sunyoung has two younger brothers that i'd love to use as a way to tie families together! the middle one was born in 1995 and hates sunyoung with a fiery passion, works for the immigration policy division and was never recruited to the club; the youngest one was born in 2002, looks up to sunyoung and is a 2024 chessmaster looking to be a civil court judge one day. perhaps your muse has relatives that would be dating/married to one of them, or got entangled with them at work in any way?

perpetrator — during her initiation days in 2013, sunyoung was quick to form alliances with a couple chessmasters and create a divide in the group. as a result, during a trial, a "rival" chessmaster caused an "accident" that resulted in a hand injury for her and set her off on her path of revenge and general bitchdom. would love to have someone take up this role!

human rights — sunyoung has always been an activist for human rights (funny, i know), and she was elected president of the snu human rights committee three years in a row, 2014-2016. throughout the undergrad program she would organize surveys, affirmative actions and projects to discuss and mitigate discrimination and sexism in the university. i would love to have some fellow students helping her champion the cause - or on the other hand, they can find her activism shallow and bothersome!

paganini who? — sunyoung plays the violin and loves classical music. it would be an adorable meet-cute of sorts if your muse walks in on her practicing one day as it's a rare opportunity to witness her softer side! (yes it does exist, shocking!)

favors — sunyoung knows everyone and plays 4d chess with herself to try and place people in positions that will boost her own power in the club and beyond. as a result, she can make almost anything happen for you by talking to a guy who knows another guy - but for a price, of course.

more favors? — it's also very possible that sunyoung one day overplayed her hand and failed miserably, and now she needs to run to your muse for help. she'll owe you big time and hate every second of it, but she won't let a debt go unpaid.

[fushitoru]

hi aashi!! i just need some love advice, and i know u're gonna think im a loner because why is some random anon in your ask box asking about love advice like HELLOOOO??? but erm all of my friends are in happy relationships and whenever i talk ab guys w them they give me this look of pity idek how to explain it and i genuinely have like...3 friends so idk who else to ask :(( and i feel like ermrmrm you're good at this stuff cause cause i get the vibes from you like cool older sister vibes!!! so you can ignore this if i'm being annoying or anything but i'm just gonna...yap it out rn so there's this guy in my college and he is THE cutest man i've ever laid eyes on. he looks like geto if geto was a real walking talking man. he's also super...intimidating and like crazy rich because he throws a bunch of 'exclusive' house parties and literally everyone on campus knows him??? also a bunch of girls are into him, and like...i doubt he even knows if i exist cause i'm super anti social and DO NOT take part in any extra events and stuff...but!!!! we got paired for this photobook committee thing and and he followed me on ig :3 but now i have like...0 experience w men okay like ive never ever dated i havent even held hands romantically so i'm just so stuck on how to approach him. i've tried to initiate convos regarding the project thing but he's just so BLANK ahahshsh idk what to do i'll cry.

HIIII BB :3 i gotchu <3 let's go line by line to unpack this

but erm all of my friends are in happy relationships and whenever i talk ab guys w them they give me this look of pity idek how to explain it

PLEASE. i'm sorry you can't get much more valuable advice from them, but sometimes that's the situation we're in and the friends we have. i hope you just can lean for support to them in case anything ever happens <3

i feel like ermrmrm you're good at this stuff cause cause i get the vibes from you like cool older sister vibes!!! so you can ignore this if i'm being annoying or anything but i'm just gonna...yap it out rn

my inbox is open whenever u wanna yap so i gotchu <3 and yes i am an older sister, and i swear i popped my younger sister out my own pussy i give her relationship advice all the time and im basically her second mother. anyways, take this with a grain of salt; i'm not sure what will resonate with you because you may have other priorities that im not hitting at, but i'll give you my advice based on MY experience and what I would feel would be best if i were you <3

ok anyways moving onto advice.

first of all, i don't think there's a big issue with him being dry, you're someone who's paired to him for an academic / extracurricular project. not everyone is super chipper when talking to their project about work akfnwekfn. just try to joke around, be your normal self. if he's not being *nicer* over time that would give me the ick. if he's giving you nothing at all, not even joking with you or, when you're meeting in person, you guys aren't vibing: i would drop him, love. at that point, if he's not even actually CHARMING, then you're just romanticizing a version of him that's not real. and then he wouldn't be geto bc geto would be a rizz lord to anyone he talks to :(

then, moving on to how to approach him. im going to be honest: in my mind, you only have a chance with a person to potentially date them after you let your intentions be known, that you view them as someone you would potentially want to be non-platonic with.

when (or if) you get comfortable with him, you can try to flirt, drop hints, and/or just straight up confess. for the flirting / hinting part, it'll be somewhat natural if you guys get a rapport going and become friends. if he's giving you that vibe, start getting closer to him. you could message him about something related to your project and then perhaps the conversation dive into something else that's not related to the project. im going to be honest i think these things are just like making friends, and then if you're comfortable, you can easily sneak in flirty comments.

now, about CONFESSION / asking him out: if you're scared of rejection (like me) i'll give you a roadmap on if you SHOULD confess to him.

first of all, im assuming he's not in a committed relationship. if he's not, DON'T DO IT BABES. and if he's single, he's either single single or in a situationship. if you know any of these details good! if he's in a situationship, watch out because you might also turn into a situationship. if he's single, then yippee! better chances.

now, if he's someone who's super distant from you and you guys don't have too many friends in common (which is what it appears to be like), i would totally confess when the photobook committee is near its end. that way, you might never see him again and there won't be *too* much awkwardness if you're finishing up the project. you quite literally have nothing to lose and everything to gain. DO ITTTT! what is college for if not young love, drama, and (potential) rejection from a popular guy on campus? take risks bb, that's the only way you're gonna get something. if you dont go out of your comfort zone, then you wont be able to grow the relationship at all. like what's the worst he's going to do? unfollow you on instagram, tell a couple of his close friends (the same ones you dont really know?).

ANYWAYS this got super long and idek know if this is what ur looking for, but this is what i would tell my friends based on the info you gave me. keep me updated, and my inbox is always open <3

[disquiet-dream]

disclaimer: this may be completely talking out of my ass because it's a part of the ttrpg sphere i only tangentially look at

anyway

honestly is kind of disappointing that afaict none of the games that were planning to be 5e-replacements after WotC did all that bullshit with the OGL seem to have amounted to much? i was kind of wondering what someone actually trying to go "ok. i like 5e. i want to make something that is like 5e but better" looked like, as someone who doesn't like 5e at all, and the answer afaik is just kind of uhhh nothing lol

i mean i'm not that surprised, i figure the three options there are like

deeply entrenched in D&D as a lifestyle brand and accepted WotC's backpedaling immediately

tried a significantly different game and (like people keep saying will happen if you do that...) went "oh, this fits my needs way better!" (option 2.5: made a game that fits their needs and, because they were only playing D&D 5e out of inertia, it doesn't resemble 5e at all)

actually is invested in the whole character building combat focused game thing and started playing other games over there instead (mostly pathfinder or lancer ime? idk how true that is though, and that's obviously a well served niche with many options) (option 3.5: which also means if they did make a game you'd probably end up with, again, something that doesn't resemble 5e much at all.)

the only game i know of that's actively trying to be "5e but good" specifically (rather than the vague D&D shaped fantasy niche) and like, actually exists is Shadow of the Demon Lord, and that predates that whole mess

(well, I assume Shadow of the Weird Wizard is also that and i guess that postdates it, but like that's still a different situation from someone who was deep into 5e going "oh this sucks i'm making my own game" because of the OGL thing, y'know?)

although ultimately i think like. literally no matter what you made, unless it was blatantly just "5e with some houserules in a new book", it would probably end up pretty divergent in feeling anyway. just can't capture that "designed by committee to pretend it can do anything" flavor with any sort of actual design vision. would be like trying to make a short film that feels like one of the worse MCU flicks.

[freakyunderclublights]

The Filler Fanfic

Chapter Index

The Filler, is series as a filler scenes that delve into the character and relationship development of the Bottoms characters. Started originally as Josie and Isabel, but has gone on to cover expand over different characters and events that happened after fight club.

Authors Note: Im still lowkey shocked by how much this took off…y’all are super reallllll for that❤️❤️❤️ Thnx to all who have supported & left comments, it has been such a fun journey.

Chapter 1 - Somethings Abrewin

Chapter 2 - This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

While Isabel's feelings for Josie are blossoming, and there might be a mutual attraction, the question lingers: Are the other parts of Isabel's life ready to embrace the girl's new crush and growing self confidence?

Chapter 3 - Moths To A Flame

There's no question in Josie's mind that she's going to be there for Isabel, no matter what. A magnetic force seems to draw them together, like moths irresistibly drawn to a flame. As their connection deepens, the question lingers: is it worth basking in the warmth if there's a risk of getting burned?

Chapter 4 - Bestfriends in Law

The aftermath of PJ and Hazel’s blowup in Fight Club, as well as Brittany and Isabel’s confrontation in the hallway from Chapter 2, all from the perspective of PJ and Brittany. This chapter will be Brittany and PJ character and relationship development-focused, with, of course, mentions of Isabel and Josie.

Chapter 5 - Forevers Gonna Start…Tomorrow

The characters are grappling with a lot of different things during the night of the canon bedroom scene. Join them.

Chapter 6 - Gal Pals

Read to see how the day of the pep rally unfolds. A compilation of drama, secrets, angst and unexpected feelings.... Isabel and Brittany pov centric. This chapter delves into the complexities of the story's relationships, loyalty, and the struggle to navigate the blurred lines between friendship and romance.

Chapter 7 - Alone

Inspired by “Alone” by Heart. This chapter revolves around the day of the "game", and what goes on beyond it. It explores the aftermath of all the canon events, and the impact it had on the characters.

Chapter 8 - After Midnight

Inspired by “After Midnight” by Chapelle Roan. Are drunk words sober thoughts? Do good things happen after midnight? The victory party is wild, but certainly not wilder than everything that happened after the party. In this chapter, we officially introduce Hazel into the madness.

Chapter 9 - Eyes Without A Face

Inspired by “Eyes without a face” by Billy Idol. New relationships have a way of turning everything topsy-turvy, and for the girls, there are some new lesson about to unfold.

This chapter is set on the eve of winter break, a mere three weeks after the Huntington ass-kicking, the after-party chaos, and Isabel and Brittany's fiery feud on the lawn.

Chapter 10 - Bizarre Love Triangle

Inspired by “Bizarre Love Triangle” by New Order. What would you do to save face?

Chapter 11 - Burned

Chapter 12 - Tip The Weight That Makes The Whole Thing Shift

Inspired by “Getting To Me” by Caroline Rose. What happens during winter break after Mina's party.

Chapter 13 - Prep Committee

Who knew Prep Committee could be so scandalous.

Chapter 14 - A Friend In Need

Some things just can't be ignored.

Chapter 15 - Goodnight n Go

Should it be this hard to say goodnight?

Chapter 16 - Complicated.

Things are complicated.

Chapter 17 - Two Can Play At That

Chapter 18 - How You Get The Girl

Chapter 19 - The Crowned Jewel

"Wear a fabulous smile, great jewelry and know that you are totally and utterly in control." - Donatella Versace💜

Chapter 20 - Some Freaky Shit

Inspired by “Freak” by Doja Cat. This town has a lot of freaky shit happening in it. 🍋 🚨

[spagheddiesquash]

OK. OC COMIC LORE INFODUMP AHEAD

WANNA KNOW ABOUT MY OC THING? YOU ARE IN SO MUCH LUCK…

so as some of u know im making a comic. with some ocs in it. ive mentioned it several times before. this post is where i will finally tell some details regarding it.

so basically its about a time traveler who winds up in the year 2012, and his time machine breaks, so now he’s stuck there until he can fix it or find a new one.

these r the two main guys:

(NOTE: there is a math error on venn’s height. hes actually around 190 cm. when i was figuring it out i accidentally calculated for 5 feet 3 inches instead of 6 feet 3 inches)

(another note: a lot of metric will be used bc its a scifi comic and science uses metric a lot)

anyway so yeah. venn is the time traveler guy i mentioned earlier. josh happens to be walking by as venn’s time machine breaks, offers for him to stay at his place for the time being, and so. thats how the story is kinda set into motion.

NOW FOR SOME OTHER STUFF. WORLD STUFF.

ok so, in this comic’s universe there are two main organizations for time travel. the ICTTA (International Committee for Time Travel Affairs) and the ITB (International Time Board). the ICTTA (also referred to as simply the Committee) make all of the different rules and regulations regarding time travel. now, the Committee’s members consist of specialists in time law. These people don’t do any of the actual time travel, they just know the laws regarding it. To make decisions a bit more fair, any time something is being voted on, they also get votes from the ITB, who are made up of actual time travelers.

some more on the ITB: in order to join, you need to have been a registered time traveler for at least two years. also, venn is on the board as well!!! usually you have more influence if you’ve been a member for a long while and have contributed a lot. There is also the High Board, which have the final say in decisions of the the ITB. They’re a small part of the Board, made up of like 5-ish people typically, and in order to become a part of the High Board, you need to be invited, and if you ARE invited, its like. a HUGE deal. like Pinnacle of your Whole Entire Career kind of moment that most time travelers aspire to experience.

some more on becoming a time traveler: so in order to procure a time machine and use it, you meed to be a licensed time traveler. how do you become licensed? by going to school for it!!! 6 long years of mostly physics and history, as well as some general time travel ettiquete. usually straight after high school. once you finish that, you are officially a time traveler. you have the job for life and technically speaking, you work under the ICTTA. the way its a job is basically you go on missions and you get paid each month. there are some benefits, like how youre given free housing and can get discounts on stuff.

some notes on time machines: in this universe, they arent the big elaborate ones you step into. rather, theyre handheld devices that are usually the size of either a nintendo wii or an ipad mini, depending on how recent the model is. the Committee provide their own time machines for free (which is what a lot of younger time travelers opt for), but if youd like your own from some other place, they typically cost a lot of money. there are some older models that can come secondhand for a bit cheaper, though. venn uses one of those.

SOME ADDITIONAL NOTES:

the “future” isnt really the future. it’s the widely accepted Universal Present Year, or UPY. when time travel was first invented, a present time had to be established in order to mark what counts as either the Past, Present or Future. There is also a UPD/T which is the same thing but more precise, down to the date and time.

in the UPY of 2148, (venn’s year of origin) everyone is under 24-hour surveillance everywhere. you may think that time travelers can get out of this, however, measures have been taken specifically to prevent this from happening. see, once you become a time traveler, you get assigned someone to basically follow you around wherever you go and make sure you dont do anything illegal. these people are typically nicknamed “watchovers,” and they are known to be very annoying, pushy, nagging people.

24 hour clocks are used in time travel because its a lot more convenient.

things that the ICTTA makes rulings on: general things regarding the act of time travel, splits in timelines and timeline taxonomy (theres a list of events the Committee deem “chronologically significant” which get their own letter or number in a timeline’s classification if they are diverted from. an example would be stuff like historic court rulings or famous political assassinations), whether or not to go back in time and erase an event and its collective memory by the public (i.e. the invention of the flying car), etc etc.

the identity of the person who invented time travel is confidential, so as to prevent something like assassination.

NOTES ON THE SETTING:

it is a city called Rose City. its somewhat based on new york, mainly because new york is the city i know the most about, but i digress. anyway, both venn and josh are from this city, just born in different years. josh was born in 1989 (so if he was real he would be 35 currently) and venn was born in 2114 (which, if he were also real, would make him exactly -90). below is some visual stuff.

SOME OTHER STUFF:

very big things to remember when time traveling:

blend in as much as possible, try not to change the timeline (incurs a fine, the severity of which depends on the severity of the alteration)

dont tell anyone you are a time traveler

dont bring anything back with you without express permission

if you are going to the future, TELL NO ONE WHAT YOU SAW. if you are going to the past, do not tell them of the future.

leave no evidence of assassination. (sometimes time travelers get hired to kill people from the past for specific reasons. it’s kind of rare, but when it happens it can only happen if it is voted on by the High Board.)

THERE IS PROBABLY MORE IM FORGETTING LORE WISE ABOUT ALL OF THIS BUT YEAH. MAKING ALL OF THIS INTO A COMIC, HOWEVER IM CURRENTLY DRAFTING IT. couldnt wait to explain my ocs to u guys so i figured id just make an infodump post abt them….

IF ANYONE HAS ANY QUESTIONS SEND ME AN ASK!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE I LOVE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT MY OCS. who knows. maybe ur question might remind me of some lore i forgot to mention??? it can also be about little things tho like “what are their favorite foods” or “what are their birthdays” or something. you can also ask abt all the rest of the lore tho!!! will probably reblog with some more soon.

[dayurno]

more than a woman is the ultimate kevin day song to me……. im so glad you agree…… i knew you would understand. i was listening to that playlist the other day and realized i HADNT added it yet and it felt like an oversight so i had to fix it immediately. it was very important to me the whole playlist wasn’t sad. i stsrted my kevin playlist in the height of me losing my mind about him last year in july (i read the books for the first time at the end of may!) but it only made me crazier so i held off making the jean one until november LOL. his is def a little more sad but i think a good portion of the songs are hopeful :-) and YEAH jean is soooo hozier to me. i gave myself a limit on how many hozier songs i could add. it will probably be broken eventually

UR PINTEREST BOARD that fic is going to kill me. im so excited every time you share something about it…. the dynamics seem so fun ^-^ also the richard siken tweet in there Took me Out. i own and have read crush by him so many times like it’s such a big part of who i am and relating that to kerejean makes me. sbdjebx. sweating. nauseous. so excited. the vibes are so good, it feels very nostalgic and warm already….. btw your jean playlist hit me over the head and gave me a.Concussion. i wanna get better???!?! under the table???? OOM SHA LA LA? that song changed my brain chemistry like three years ago and im going to associate it with him forever now. your kevjean playlist being so long is so very real too….. i need to sit down and listen to the full nine hours of it.

DBSIDBSID. the kandrew beef is Personal and it’s so funny. i am working on making them get closer it just takes a lot of time bc andrew simply does not like to stick around. he comes to a sort of truce with them at some point, mostly after he and jean have a Talk alone, but he still doesn’t like kevin for a while. there IS side andreil tho…. neil is 26 :3 he comes to visit kevjean in paris for a bit and immediately causes problems. but the problems help them get their shit together so it’s fine! andrew is of course intrigued. most of it happens in the background tho bc they like to disappear together…… but neil actually ends up in foster care and gets adopted by wymack when he’s around 13, which is around the same age andrew is adopted and meets jeremy, so they understand each other still :) they do a lot of sneaking around and do not want their relationship perceived at all vs jeremy knox head of the PDA committee and very happy for his own friend finding love.

the biting…….. jeremy falls somewhere in the middle of the spectrum but he does suffer from the most intense feelings of love anyone has ever felt and will latch on like a dog and not let go sometimes. it really depends on his mood and what they’re doing how hard he bites ^-^ jean almost never complains but kevin always does. as is how they are. and they really both love attacking kevin. sitting there biting at his neck and shoulders and jean in particular likes gnawing on the wrist bone. jeremy is only a few inches shorter than kevin but will not hesitate to push him around….. dreamy sigh. at first he’s very nervous about overstepping Anything around either of them but once he knows that they actually like him he becomes such a menace. it’s his life’s duty to make kevin day, his childhood celebrity crush, a little embarrassed and whiny. both he and jean are soooo happy to tease kevin and kevin complains constantly about being ganged up on. jeremy is actually still IN college too, he turns 23 toward the beginning of the fic (i. hc him as a cancer!) and he and andrew have their fifth year to get through so he’s really just some college kid nibbling on and picking on them and taking over their apartment. trust that jean gets teased too he wouldn’t want anyone left out!

JEANFO….. jean….. my apple strudel….. there is so much i could say about him but it feels hard to do him justice…… he really is so special. he’s a little more healed of course bc he’s 28 and has always had kevin keeping contact with him. kevin got out at 14 so jean was there for 6 years without him and it’s really. it’s not a good time for him. but kevin refuses to lose contact and even sneaks across state lines to see him at 16 when he gets his license (with 14yo neil). jean has always had something to hold onto and live for. so jean is doing okay……. he still struggles and he’s very stubborn so he would rather AVOID things and kevin isn’t the kind of person who’s going to push him to face them (kevin has his own things to avoid) but he gets a good push from jeremy. and he LOVESSSS keremy. it’s one of his greatest joys that the two people he loves most care about each other the way they do. he’s so obsessed with them and so excited to show them off when they get together with friends. he’s really a little bit of a clingy freak :-) ESPECIALLY if he gets drunk. he’s a very needy drunk and if someone doesn’t kiss him (or if he doesn’t get to bite) his whole night is ruined and they certainly can’t have that. he learns quickly he cannot keep up with jeremy Party Boy knox tho. he’s a silly guy <3 sooo bitchy to everyone outside of his boyfriends but tender with them…. they’re trusted with his girlish little heart. i could talk about him for ages but i fear tumblr will cut me off LOL our responses to each other are getting so long like we’re writing letters by candlelight to be sent post-haste…..

HELLO MY LOVE im sorry for the late reply my pc was out of commission and answering asks on mobile is terrible but i am back now as your penpal. I LOVED MORE THAN A WOMAN OFC i understand i think i've had so many kevin day playlists since i first read aftg in 2020 (which feels like such a lifetime ago!), so i try not to keep too much track of them and not to take them or myself too seriously either. in a way all the playlists i've made have been an abstract of my life at the time of making so i want to preserve them that way! which is why my kandrew playlist is 6 hours long. because i am preserving.

THANK YOU FOR LIKING MY PINBOARD i wanted this fic most of all to be an ode to friendship. in kandreil i think theres so much history and tension there that sometimes it's easy to forget that there are other reasons people can stay together, so i wanted to write a kerejean where they felt like they were genuinely friends before it ever started careening into romance!!!! i think it's working. Probably. it's a very joyful and warm fic (or at least i hope it is) and i've been having a lot of fun with dialogue specifically because so much of friendship is just talking! anyway ah i have to stop myself before i spoil anything so just know it's going to be fun. hopefully. and there's a scene where jean calls kevin the first flower of edgar allen (direct rip off from tlt but bear with me)

I LOVE THEM BOTH TEASING KEVIN!!!! is there anything more genuine than teasing your crush together.......... that's the kind of thing i live 4 in relationship dynamics................ ohhh i just know this fic will get me so bad if it ever sees the light of day (heh).... ALSO HE'S STILL IN COLLEGE KEVINNNNNNNNNNN kevin youre letting a man still in college boss you around youve been better and more dignified endings. AND I LOVE DRUNK JEAN THANK YOU especially needy aiyayayaya..... my favorite senseless hc is that jean is a lightweight and he cant keep up with neither jeremy nor kevin nor renee. he's drunk off of one glass while the other three compete to see who can get liver failure first. he has been consistently getting drinked under the table by kevin for years. our beautiful apple strudel....... our little cabbage as the french say. :-)

i hope my candlelight letter reaches YOU post-haste and ofc im sorry for the wait!

[expfcultragreen]

The allegations attracted significant public and political interest until late 1990, when separate state and federal grand juries concluded that the allegations were unfounded and the ring was a "carefully crafted hoax."

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In July 1990, private investigator Gary Caradori, hired by the Franklin Committee to investigate the allegations, died along with his 8-year-old son when his plane disintegrated in mid-air near Chicago. Foul play was suspected by Caradori's brother and state Senator Loran Schmit, but was not proven by investigators. No definitive cause for the crash has been established.

Why cover up a hoax? The plane disintegrated??

This is reading like, the court preferred to believe the witnesses were perjuring because the claims were so extreme? Like, its very "michelle remembers" but i dont know the details of the evidence collected that undermined the testimony, or the validity of the evidence simply being absent

But as ive said before, dont trials like this make it obvious that outlandishness is actually a feasible way to get away with shit that would otherwise be believed because it's more in the realm of things courts have actually heard a million times? IE how many people accepted only by the "satanic ritual abuse survivors" community were in fact actually abused by people who knew crazy sounding stories made the whole thing less credible? Ergo the more bizarre the abuse is the easier it is to get away with, no? (Part of the epstein lists problem is the known facts are relatively banal, its all kind of boilerplate--a depressing thought--from what people have said, except for the weird temple on his island that no one seems to mention)

Like, real questions. Theres got to be some stock aphorism about making crimes so ridiculous that no one believes they happened....

I got onto the topic from a video where a journalist who pursues these stories is discussing epstein, and he seems to find this case im asking about here entirely credible which is so at odds with the initial ruling (one accuser did end up with 1mil in damages after the accused dude later went down on like a 38mil fraud charge for using his position as an avenue for massive embezzling) ....basically it seems like the journo's thinking is, if we agree there was for sure one dude trafficking kids to rich people, ie epstein, theres gotta be/have been more in the business, like its unlikely he was the first and only one if there's such a market/appetite for it

And i guess my question then is, was epstein so tame by comparison that someone who's seen it ALL would have a warped frame of reference and call him a fun guy to spend time with like trump did before immediately admitting he was basically aware the girls were minors. If he's just like "ho hum not for me but you do you" about much younger kids being put in even shitter situations it would really be the most compelling reason i can figure out for him thinking epstein is cool and that hanging out with him doesnt look bad

[solardick]

Like closk work at the exact same time everytime it happens. Time to sleep? No its time to wake. Agotation in the chest. Noy sleeping again for the third night in a row.

Detaching em from natural rythem. Ot would advists according to the planetary cycles but its doest.

Be like if they were pumping notrogine into the appartment of some shot like that. Radiowaves.

Be a couple days almost done daredevil again.

Oills make me feel dead inside fuck that.

Im never workign again. No more in er work. No more cards no more reaidng. Just tv.

Isoloated and alone half thr month serrounded by foreigners and no other people woth no one to speak to only to be agitated by.

Which probably all just serves as a distraction yo maneuver me into an ever greater fall. As is my first memory of life. Rolling down a staircase ever falling further.

The promise of joy and fun at the bottom. A treasure room of toys and airplanes.

The devil has been playing with me since the day i was born. More and more. People and people. Its corruption just grows ever larger. Fed and supported by all the other corruption in the world.

“I am surrounded by people but, i am not with them”

Same time of evening again. Can feel the air curretn flowing through the apartment. Temperanture drop with the breeze. Chest gets agitated. All ability to sleep leaves with the air flow.

Well since im going to be up all night and sick. If y’all cant be open and ipfront with me you can all go and fuck right off.

Well, 4-6 hours a night. Isnt all that bad. Still gonna quit the committee. Im not really have any part in it anyway. And i dont like the whole baby proofing everything cause other people dont have the two cents it takes not to nail their hand to a board or into a machine or whatever else. So. Yeah. Oh and i dont trust anyone for my own health and safety. So. As the least decade of queer conditioning attests to. And thr life time before that. People have always put themselves over me. Not just metaphorically. And the fact that jot a single person will be open and honest and wothhold information from me as a fool. Alot of them delighting in it.

Inbrought up that the forklift check book was in french and a battery one, not a propane one and the “csst” guy was like that doesnt matter. Doesnt tend to give me much confidence does it.

Its a pussy lip.

I know god. You’ve outdone yourself here. Some of your best work i do believe. Pure artistry. Its usually an animal or an insect. The colour of the wind. A fluff.

A sign when people are fucken around. Being stupid and evil.

Walked out. Flipped left work. Dont know if im going back tomorrow. Pretty sure i was dosed again. By a boss man was going on a out gay me. With this hanging over the door. Incompetency. No more constitution for patience and tolenrence of fycken morons.

Devils in the clouds walking around in sheeps shoes. God is in thr details. Giving warning and filling lacks and needs that are supposed to happen. One hears the oppositie from

Media. But there isnt much not corrupted by evil.

Stand sthere for teo fucken hours watching me work. Ride him about doing somwthing. Go help the others. Looks at me all dumb like and does nothing but smile and goes back to watching me.

Start lookin g for another job again. Get passednon to the next group of fucks to fuck woth me.

Well they already turned me into a sexist. Now im guessing tehy trying to tirn my into a racist.

Beside the moron im working with. Who cant speak any english. Cant understand and cant be understood. I go over tell the line working how to pack the crate. Does it wrong. I go over fix it explain it again. Turns out, i couldnt fit all 40 boxes. Ao o go back. Explain to do it the opposite eay to see if we can fit the teo missing boxes. And he starts doing it like the first time. That with the moron im with and justin with his gay talk one onf the fucktards respomsibilble for raping me. And in on the whole drugging thing. Man i widh i could kill people.

Im not a femme bot, sadistic fucktard. I dont beleive in torture. Frank castle is my hero. I iked the ending to that season. Where the villain at the end. After winning a shread of sympathy, and tries to appologize to him. And bamm two to the chest. Cuts it short. Dead. He’s mistake was getting soft hearten by daredevils sympathetic bs and getting a bunch of women killed.

Which is like 99% the message of the bible

Torture men into a state of passive surrender.

Last time i call the clsc. I was the one social working the social worker. I have only have the equlavent of a ome semester course in American social work. I just needed her to grt me an appoitnement to see an english soeaking doctor at a clinic for time off work. Because 811 is crooked as fuck. Which is part of being a social working knowing how the system works and maneuvering it. The same with soychology, spychiatry(much lower extent), spycho therapy, sociology and astrology.ive soent the majority if my life spand being fucked with by others and looking for answers. Turns out they just retarded.

Spent too much time living in the devils playground aka north america. Where enerythign is a out sugar, drugs anto patriarchal bs, tv and homos. Let younin on a secret. Their all connevted.

Welcome to the emericas a land populated by heretics whi ran away from home, raped, tortured and genocided an entire peoples and way of life who lived close to nature amd are now wver stricing further and further away from it. Who stood back in the midst of the wws. And over glorified their part in it while ignorinf the fact theyve commited the same if bot worst atrocities. Whats worst is that they let some of the natives live in poverty on patches of country within the boarders and do nothing about the accesories to crime with the tobaco drugs and gun trade. All this fear talk about nuclear arms when the americas are the only country to actovly use them on others. Get bent. And burn in hell. I know

Im mixinf canada and the states. Theyr all the same

Countey as far as im

Concerned.

Sorry gay community. Truth is your eay off life was oaid for with the lives of over 60 million people and years of torture, inhumanitarianism and genocide. And iut of those -60 million the americans only lost a fraction some 300 thousand people. Paper cut. Remember that time i cut myself on my homework. Never using paper again. Fuck the patriarchy. I got a smart phone.

Oh yeah, it only cost me my entire fucken exiatemce. Fuck you.

I just dont understand human biological evolution. Its dors t mske any sense. I like the aquatic ape theory. But i question way nails and head hair never stop growing. Teeth are second to that. Othe rspecies live and thrive on citrus high sugar fruit and do not suffer tooth decay to such an extend. Maybe the bibles right and we were engeneared by god (or an alien robotic lifeform to boost evilutionary speed its bit like cave men were going to the barber shop. Or getting pedicures. So at some point something happened to fuck that up. Aqua. Can eat raw fish and thrive. Some raw red meat and survive and zero raw birds or die. Eating fush a ling time begore eating red meat and red meat a ling time before bird. Which makes sense.

Next thjng that happens lions will be shaving off their manes to look mornelike lionesses and actually go out and make their own fucken sandwhiches.

What haopens after the rest of the world burns through the rest of the dwindlign natural

Resources. Invaded russia or beg?

Hoe much longer can such an ever increasing high density population thrive for before trash consumes the world? Amd everyother species dies except for domesticated pets? All this ignore the pisces function by equilivating it with brishing bs under the rug. Poor pisces people.

Hoe many tome can you recycle the same

Peice of plastic. Ehat happens to gay men When you run out of condoms? How will you paves the streets. When you run out of dead matter. The river nile.

How will you fly around in space with no fueled propulsion? Why do you need constant propulsion in spacece if there isnt any counter pressure to

Slow you down?

If all the dinosaurs died and birds are decended feom them. Then wtf happened?

Told him i was a tolerant man. He scoffs like an evil idiot. Not knowing i was actually talking about him.

So far ive only been placed with either degenerates, drug dealers, morons or homos. Or all in one.

People would rather defend, drunk driving kitten killers.

Takes a real man to snap a kittens neck and blame it on an accident. Ighoring the long standing pet death in his wake.

Also takes a real man to blow a rabbit in two and then let it get eaten alive by crows. Ah the shadows that falling hiding there identity.

The older i get the more a regret having any compassikn for anyone.

Oh no her life depends on modern science and pother people donations to charity. My bad. I dont care. Im one of those fools who had donated hundreds of dollars. I pray god takes more peace if mind from you than that. He knows you deserve it.

The guys at wirk not nailing these crates properly. Theres up to 7 thousands pounds of pressure on thr one on the bottom. What happens when one goves out one day while someone is passing by. Thats 2 thousand pounds of weight falling from three stories high.

T’all wanted me to come in on over time during the noght shift while taking sleep meds that make me incompetamt for 12 hours time to teach fucken morons how to nail

A fucken board. Fuck man.

The only reason i var eis caus eim one of those fools who might die because of other peoples stupidity. Same as 40 fucken years ago. Nothing has changed.

Csst? Your a fucken joke man.

You know. Niw thats its pass. Y’all may actually participate insteadnof stalking me. That be great. Get somethign going.

A single stick is easily broken but a fagot is strong.

Im sorry i thought it was a derogetory. Make up yo minds.

Where’s my. Moroccan wife at? When she coming to tell me something?

Its been over a decade now. Of this treatment from others not primarily my famikh so i started doing this. And the. It guts used as an excuse. Its been 26 years. Since i was 14. Its been 40 years since ive been alive. Lifes treatment of me as never cease to cause me harm. Or 13. Dont remember. When puberty spiked. But its been 27 to 28 years till reality dawned on me. And i took my first step forward in life. The only step that ever mattered. Theres been a couple others but they all got sabotaged and their trying to erase my first. Fuck their dumb. Man jesus. Evil and fucken dumb.

An i ever leaving thsi sadistic fucken prison cell you call my premeditated social circle?

I dotnnknwo how many years ive been being drugged for. Probably more than i think.

Welcome to the new world whwre everybody shits on wverything else that isnt self gratification.

Ive only ever known a coupel people. Who werent fucktards. And a couple more. Youd said their a friend. But not even them knowing the truth of ehats to come would say

A fucken thing.

Theyr weong but that doesnt matter. People have alsways been deiven to outs themselves over me. To relish in the feeling. Thats the majority if my life experience.

And now theyve stolen my mind. No more curricular activities by my lonesome. No more learning. No more growth just assholes. Who need to prove to their master how worthy they are

Iron fist season one episode 6 immortal emerges from cave. “Because of who you are…” blah blah your life is gonna suck.

Now excuse me i have to shamelously play with my ass while i cry.

[stabethadeathwhisper]

can you explain this first paragraph further? “For reference to this anon, most artisans who make a living already do so via public and state work. Your most reliable source of work, unless you have connections or happen to get lucky, is through public fairs, workshops, and other publically funded ventures.”

So, in order to make a living as an artist, you need regular work. You can't float by on large intermittent sales forever. So, you have a few options: first, you can focus down on a smaller, easier to produce version of your work (small scale landscapes, little tchotchkes, that kind of thing). This is a branch that leads to entrepreneurship. You need a place to sell these things. You need to sell a specific amount per day/week/month to stay in the black. You need manpower to sell these, if you alone aren't enough. Second, you can try and sell your artisan product as a high price commodity, and target high income audiences. Bespoke furniture, custom work, high end paintings, that sort of thing. These are the two paths that get presented to most artists as "how you become an artist" and actually is why so many artists struggle to get their feet under them. They require starting capital, space, materials, and time. If you dont have these, you cannot pursue these paths without help.

There's also selling your skill as freelance or contract labour, which is good if you have the necessary experience and skills for a given job listing.

But what do you do if your art isnt lucky enough to get noticed, you dont have at least 3 years of work experience, and you're already broke?

This is the public artisan path, and despite the relative lack of resources promoting it, this is how most artists make their living and gain notoriety. Somewhere in your community, there is an arts committee. They work with the city hall, usually, or local galleries, and their job is to make the city you're living in interesting. Be that public sculptures, or culture festivals, or random workshops, this is what they do. And they are reliant on the labour of artists within your community to produce that culture and interest. By going through them, you have a guaranteed path, usually with monetary compensation, to engage in your local community, and get your work out there. Because it's a public good, they front the costs, you provide the labour, and they display your work and details for any other potential people looking for someone with your skills as a side benefit.

This is the number one best way to become a paid artist. For reference, this is the track that i am on right now in my real life and career. Im a part of an arts committee, i pay dues to an artists guild, and i put in work every year to show up to local events with new work. I have had exponentially more forward progress just doing this for a year than i did doing commission work for 7 years.

[nanjokei]

i just have a lot on my mind lately thats why im talking about this stuff suddenly.

but i have been thinking. like people catastrophizing gundou getting the boot when they have no idea how thin the ice she's been skating on is anyway, im not sure if they even know who she is aside from watching some gunkan clips and maybe a few solo clips— honestly, shitposting about baseball during the biggest match japan has had probably this century, in the country where Baseball is Serious Business, honestly is so ill advised that i can only think she should have known to stay in her lane as someone who had been doing social media as a job for so long.

i think what people are missing is that she was a Controversial Tweet factory. shinzo abe died and she made fun of it, like on the day of, and yeah honestly i think its pretty based but let that set the tone for you. when the baseball shit happened it wasn't JUST the baseball tweet, if you searched her up on twitter at the time people were making threads of all the insane shit she's said, and she got blasted on national tv for being a dumbass. like... i think that people have to realize that it's a job at the end of the day. in the eyes of many japanese people this wasn't unfair or bullshit at all lol. your opinion as an overseas "fan" who shitposts on reddit or 4chan or even twitter DOES NOT MATTER. (most of these people just hover around certain talent without actually watching anyone)

my opinion on it? play stupid games win stupid prizes lol. yeah it sucks an og got the boot on some level but to act like she was 100% in the right is kind of crazy and ignoring a lot of things. like i said, it's a job, you work for a company. a lot of people forget it is a job. and there is a responsibility especially given how anal jp netizens are to not do stupid shit to make yourself a target. she absolutely fell on her own sword. these people are ADULTS. i hate the overseas fandom bc they think the companies are at a liberty to defend them at every junction. like, if it's like that, isn't it just better if both parties part amicably anyway. i'm sure she is much happier as an indie and hanging out with warabeda.

ofc thinking like this gets you called a shill. by all means, if you think so, call me it in your mind. personally i'm very critical especially this year. i just have the common sense not to get in my emotions and see things objectively rather than act like they're actually anime characters who are unable to have any agency. people leave their jobs all the time over disagreements and creative differences or just plain idk, Wanting To Move On after 5 years of anime kayfabe (no matter how thin). so i rarely get sad about retirements the way overseas fans act like either someone died or was abused by some kind of investor pleasing shadow committee is so immature and offputting to me

also. way worse controversies have been overlooked 🤷‍♀️

[skelebellie]

FIRST MEETINGS

million knives [stampede] x plant?reader drabble

synopsis: you meet knives for the first time. he thinks your someone else.

content warning: mentions of sharp weapons, blood, and physical altercations

this an equal household. i pine after all siblings equally. [aka i think knives is a goofy dude and his characterization in stampede is kiss kiss].

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it was a particularly normal day as you spent your time around town, discovering odd patterned geological formations that helped adhere the homes to the sand below it.

was it the smartest idea to go into a dark alley alone. no. did you think anything would happen to you in the middle day. also no.

you were lost in the sauce. failing to notice the screams of town folk as you observed the calcified rock. one moment you were holding it and then boom, it was dark.

when you woke up, you were shocked to be in a white room. it sent shivers up your spine, as the environment caused old memories to rise to the surface. questions could wait until later, for now you’d try to get out of here. hopefully the town was still there when you got back.

the door was unlocked, odd considering you were kidnapped.

you also didn’t have shoes on, thankfully that old socks separated the floor and your feet. you could sense your bag somewhere within the building, your body able to feel the shawl of plant material that you had been born with, always tucked into your bag.

it was like you were an assassin, peering around every corner and ears on high alert.

the closer you got to your objective, the quieter it seemed to get. an odd sense of loneliness filling the room.

you had found your bag and shawl, even your shoes (thank god, you didn’t have the money for new ones). the only downside being that some blondie covered in a robe was holding it, allowing light to shine through the transparent shawl.

you became defensive knowing he was touching something as important as your shawl, so you started making fast paces towards him. “Hey! You shouldn’t touch things that don’t belong-“. The sense of danger came first, luckily stopping you from making too much contact with the tail of sharp objects that wrapped around you. it certainly didn’t save your overalls, as a large rip formed across the front panel. damnit, now you’d have to sew it back again.

“anything plant belongs to me. im its rightful owner, a god” blondie chided at you, only causing more anger to bubble up to your throat. “J.J Doe, right? Elusive scientist who has published series of plant based experiments. No committee or board to shift through your work, your research seems to pop up in small town libraries. Never the same one.” The man stepped down from his pedestal, inching closer to you. You backed up, only for a reactive spindle of metal(?) to wrap around your neck. it swiped, leaving a sliver of blood and for the stop part of your turtleneck to fall to the ground. the more he keeps going the more work you’ll have to do to fix whatever clothes you have.

“i detest humans, a species of parasitic worms who use plants as tools for their selfish survival. however, I hate those who knowingly use their will to torture my brotheren even more.” he was too close for comfort now. a string of knives swiping close to your forehead, which you barely dodged by shifting backwards. the shift in weight caused you to fall backwards, rows of spindles wrapping around your legs, keeping you from getting up from the floor.

“should i take a finger for each sin you have committed. maybe slowly sever you limb from limb, so you may know the suffering of the plants who you experimented on. maybe-“ You were too focused on the rows of knives wrapped around your legs to notice that he now stood atop of you. crouching to straddle you as his eyes sent daggers into your mind, like a searing hot flash of static. “i should do it with my own hands. as disgusting as you vile creatures are.” his hand slowly began to approach your neck. his weapons should have instilled enough fear into you, but now you seemed petrified, tears threatening to pour at the very thought of him touching you.

“disgusting.” he muttered, looking down as you. his hand wrapped around your neck, and immediately began to squirm, your leg receiving shallow cuts as it brushed against the sharp cage around it. the contact sent an immediate blossom of heat from your neck. you wish it was another gang of badland raiders, anything but an independent plant. you covered yourself up to avoid making contact with anyone, trying to prevent the surge of information that you would receive and give which writhed out of your control.

behind closed eyes, you could see the blossom of blue, geometric shapes spreading from your chest to your neck, reaching out to the man who’s hand was around your neck. the closer it got the more erratic you reacted. It seemed like the man above you no longer intended to kill you, for now. Instead he fixated his eyes to the spread of patterns slowly approaching his hand, his own body reacting in a similair manner. the contact left your mind heavy with shocks of malice, anger, and pain? The scorching sensation caused a moan of pain to spill from your lips as fat tears fell from your eyes.

The man above you felt the fear over the connection, a dark pit of misunderstanding and embarrassment overflowing with an ebb and flow of confusion. flashes of images of syringes and scalpels as you held the blade towards yourself, harvesting your flash to run under analysis. you hadn’t been experimenting on other plants, you had been experimenting on parts of yourself.

the cage around your legs unwinded, as did the hand around your neck. you quickly moved your arms to cover your eyes, still unable to cope with the wave of information that was forced into your head. however, your action failed as another hand wrapped around your wrists to move your arms from your face, revealing puffy eyes and still falling tears. another hand came up to caress underneath your lashes, gathering the salty tears before they could run onto the floor.

“interesting. not entirely human, not entirely plant.” the contact caused a shocking sensation underneath your skin, flinching as his thumb made lazy circles on your cheek. you relaxed, feeling as if the threat of danger was finally over with. until the blunt end of a knife slammed into the already bruised skin at the base of your neck. knocking you out once more.

[zvezdacito]

TWST HALLOWEEN THEORY TIME

So i was watching Never Ending Halloween translations on youtube and Trein says this line to them before sending the remaining students off. so i think it might be hinting at something and what is actually going on with the missing students (aka im overthinking😋)

so the animated teaser for scary monsters showed as a frame with everyone looking evil with glowy eyes and the only reason i could think of at first is that they might have gotten possessed by the malicious Halloween ghosts they briefly talked about in last year's event? but idk it still didnt really seem like that was what was going on. they looked like they weren't themselves but not like. possessed.

There was also the malleus timeloop theory but the timeloop part got proven wrong by canon already and malleus also looks wack here lol

So I was thinking. what if the reason the missing students looked evil is not cause they got possessed but instead bcs they got amnesia'd and so now they are under the delusion that they ARE the scary halloween monsters FR

I feel like they might go with this one fr more than the other two previously proposed since it's safer and more kid friendly than POSSESSION and having characters like Lilia and malleus getting possessed sorta exposes too many of their weaknesses early and ruins the ominous build up to diasomnia in my opinion😭

Making the characters go nuts because they just THINK they're someone else has all the benefits of writing them getting possessed minus the gross not kid friendly parts so it basically still works maybe even better and the authors are pretty safe there. Diet possession, if you will😎.

Everyone basically just too wrapped up in halloween roles and not wanting Halloween to end that they manifested this onto themselves 😂😂😂

What Trein tells the remaining unkidnapped students here may be brought back and become relevant again cause like. What if whatever made the halloween committee go nuts starts affecting them the longer they stay in black and white halloween land too. and they like gotta take what Trein said to heart and not forget who they are lest they be trapped in the Halloween world forever...

idk maybe the malicious halloween ghosts can still play into this by probably being the ones who manipulated and trapped the halloween commitee in the mirror world to begin with but not straight up possessing them. The halloween committee just got way too into character basically😂

TLDR: what probably happened is that the halloween committee forgot who they were before halloween and now think theyre scary monsters FR because of halloween magic and the rescuers gotta try and not forget who they really are too. fun time to be an NRC student, really

Idk if you guys can tell but I'm doing everything in my power to manifest it not just being just a prank and everyone in the Halloween committee was in it cause like. Not only would that be lame as hell and a waste of hype they also went way too far😭 MFs kidnapped most of the school and the 11?? remaining are literally at the point where they are fearing for your and their lives so it would be like super 😶. if it was all just a joke bro™

+ BONUS THEORY‼️ you know how in this new event crowley said that the defense system of the mirror includes STOPPING THE FLOW OF TIME INSIDE THE SCHOOL. what if thats how everyone got time looped after they couldnt beat OB grim. it was the mirror's defense system acting up 😂 + maybe a small extra enchantment by crowley/malleus/whoever. maybe thats why our first scene in the game is having to take the hand in the MIRROR. idk I thought of most of this at 3AM while I was sleep deprived so yeah🖖