#((because TECHNICALLY theres not really a spectrum?

[qoldenskies]

I wanted to share this, since I really connected with ccDonnie abt it: Ive never been diagnosed, but Im fairly sure Im on the autism spectrum, and a big reason is that I am. really bad at social cues. But i never connected it to what i assumed was autism, bc most of what i heard was, like, autistic ppl thinking someone was being nice when they were actually being rude, that kind of 'optimism', while i kind of read every facial expression as mildly angry at me even when they werent. I always just assumed it was some kind of social anxiety until I talked about it to a grownup and they said it sounded similar to Aspergers and I did more research into it and a lot of other things about me kind of clicked as well

Anyways personal story aside (sorry for the dump), I definitely feel like ccDonnie is going to struggle forward with not knowing how the ppl around him are feeling, but instead by jumping towards the worst case scenario, like he's done a few times already. Theres plenty out there about ppl thinking someone is nice when theyre actually mean, but its harder when its a person you are logically sure has to be nice to you but you keep reading them otherwise. For example, I misinterpret focused expressions as angry ones; I wouldnt be surprised if Donnies trauma associates even small, technically harmless things his brothers do to be signs of irritation

this is absolutely true!!! there's really signs of it all over; he's already so traumatized from how inescapable the punishment was in CL, how there was no right answer, and this is significantly worsened by the fact that he ALWAYS feels like he's stumbling in the dark when he tries to appease them.

i think its most apparent in chapter 6, because you can TELL donnie is guessing the whole time. april says "is that a no?" in a way that is barely even harsh at all and immediately he's fumbling and stammering in an attempt to say what he thinks will make her feel better, but he doesn't actually KNOW. and then april looks hurt, and leo tries to step in and console him, and donnie's even more confused, because they just told him what they wanted, isn't this what they wanted?? isn't it better that they get what they wanted?

and that's really what his frantic "i dont know" meant when leo cornered him about his meds. eventually he cracked open out of fear and called for his dad, but the ONLY thing he was focusing on was providing leo with the answer he thinks would make him the least angry at him, but everything he does only seems to make leo more upset and it doesn't make sense, he doesn't know what to do, he's sorry and he didn't mean to make him angry, leo's telling him i dont know isn't an answer but he doesn't have one-!

donnie just cant intuitively read and empathize with people, even though he's turned into such a people pleaser now. he's honed his compassion(? selflessness?? the way he puts their needs above his own and acts kind to please them, even at his own expense, in an attempt to mitigate their anger/distress) as a survival technique, but he really doesn't seem to notice that they're holding onto feelings until they directly confront him with them, still.

its really just a nasty combination with problems he already had-- the exact ones that sent him down into the mines in CL LMAO. when leo snapped at him and told him there had ALWAYS been a problem, despite the clear gaslighting from the reader's side of things donnie was genuinely shocked because the idea of it being a surprise isn't unfamiliar to him at all!! sometimes he's not aware of his behavior being harmful and it takes a while for it to be directly communicated to him. i think there was always a bit of a struggle for them to realize the indignant and confused behavior he exhibits when confronted with shit he's been doing for a WHILE is genuinely just because he was 100% unaware. they just had to tell him the second he pulled that shit and they didn't.

donnie hasn't stopped being a shitty liar in cc, but its still hard to wring the complete truth out of him when he was so blunt before, because he's thinking only in how his words might upset them, and he struggles to understand why his desperate, stammering people pleasing only makes them upset. he take their hurt reactions as him giving the wrong answer instead,

he's doing what they want. he's giving them what they want, he's giving to them and telling them its up to them. he's putting himself into a position where he WONT fail because it isn't up to him. he can't make the wrong choice if he's not thinking about himself at all.

so why is he still wrong? why are they still upset (mad. he thinks they're mad) at him? he's trying to fix it. why does everything he does just make everything worse?

(he already knows the answer: it's because there is something fundamentally wrong with him. there's no curing whatever he has.)

[spectralsleuth]

Now that we're entering into 2024, I'm asking some artists and writers that I follow:

1) What is the one piece you're most proud of from this past year?

2) What are some pieces that you would have liked more people to see? If you can include links, I'd love to go check them out!

3) What were your top three favorite pieces (art, comics, fics, etc) that someone else has made this past year?

(As always, no pressure to respond! Feel free to just ignore, or let me know if you'd rather I not send you these kinds of asks in the future.)

This is such a sweet and fun ask!! Thanks so much! I enjoyed seeing other authors answering this it’s so hype to get it myself.

1. This is hard to answer, because this year I tried to do something different with every fic I posted. When I got a concept I very pointedly didn’t shy away from it because it seemed difficult, or I thought I might be bad at it, so there’s something that makes me proud with each one. IF I HAD TO CHOOSE THOUGH I’m going to cheat and pick two.

What it Will Be I’m proud of this because it fell out of me SO EASY. I felt like the process of writing it was a testament to how hard I’ve been working at improving all year, and it came together very quickly and very well. I’m also proud because I incorporated @heckitall ‘s comic page to base it off of, and I’d never tried writing fic for a visual media like that. It was super fun!

On the OTHER end of the spectrum is Case of the Hidden City vs Lou Jitsu because it is VERY technically and narratively complicated and is by far the most ambitious thing I’ve ever written. It’s very hard, but I am VERY proud because I haven’t QUIT it. It’s not complete yet, but it is a good amount of the way there and I’m excited to finish it. Probably once I’ve recovered from surgery lol.

2. This sounds insincere maybe, but I really am happy with the engagement I get on my fic. I really do write my fic for me, and while I love to make sure as many people who want to read it can find it, at the end of the day I don’t like assigning people homework! I went through my whole works list and scratched my head and really tried to think of there was anything I wanted to plug, and I don’t think there is!

I guess I’ll post my lowest viewed, my Swanatello fic! @tangledinink ‘s AU I’m sure everyone’s familiar with lol. I knew that one would be lower when I posted it, if only because it has prior required reading (Swanatello). But I wrote it mainly because the AU was starting to reach a critical point and I REALLY wanted to write fanfiction of how I fantasized an ending might be, so I could go back and read it for comfort. I love Odette and the lore Kayson made for his AU, so I’ll plug this only because I think some people may have missed it!

3. Three works!! JUST THREE?? AUGH.

little kid with a big death wish

By @remedyturtles ! This made me leak tears the whole way through, so huge CW’s obviously. Not only was it one of the best fics I’ve ever read, but I got the privilege of seeing how talented Rem is behind the scenes a little and saw how they write and work and I really want to emulate them going forward. One of many all timer fics for me, for sure, I’d love to read any original fiction they put out.

The Whispering Forest and Other Tales

By @sroloc--elbisivni and @kithnkin ! I love love LOVE the feudal Japan fusion, the research, and the perfect blend of Usagi Yojimbo’s universe with what the Riseverse would have been like in this era. Even the little segues into what they’re wearing and eating is endlessly fascinating to me. Every single character is written to be the best and most interesting version of that character I could imagine. Theres Leosagi, there’s a PB&J murder mystery, there’s spookiness- AND Raphael Hamato gets wifed up!! WHAT MORE COULD YOU WANT? I love people that write a fully fleshed story that could be a standalone universe, without losing ANY of the flavor or humor or narrative of the original source material.

And last is I’m Sorry, Teenage Mutant What Now

@tangledinink has such a good grasp of family and writing, and realistic portrayals of what would HONESTLY HAPPEN if you discovered literally any aspect of the ROTTMNT narrative. Not even taking into ACCOUNT the turtle nonsense, how do you unpack a family that’s been devoted to destroying a magic monster and sacrificing themselves, or a Dad that fought in a death match battle royale for over a decade, or a RIVAL CLAN OF NINJA? All the characters are written SO WELL, and Kayson does a fantastic job of never letting the characters or story fall into cliche tropes. Their characters are always super detailed, to the point where I really feel it if they’re hungry or hurt or itchy. Which is a weird thing to point out but they make sure you really FEEL the situation. Also like, turtles in highschool? Body dysphoria? My CO-CEO of Hamato Yoshi???

What a great year!! I had so much fun in fandom this year and made a lot of friends.

[crookedkryptonitebeliever]

At the beginning I thought this coworker would be mostly stoic to everyone save for his s/o but as in like other oc being a bit nice? As in I don't really like to interact with others but I like this one, that's why the whole trying to meet them or the bar scene, but then he turned out to be a sort of 'macho' how sad, just like Monty on best of both worlds, he's the kind of people I would run away from, yes Monty backs down after shouting or crying, this guy don't, and it's so infuriating

The more I read bout him the more I would be kicking and scratching and bitting just to get out, and for him to always be stealing something? Oh Lord have mercy

The only nice thing he's done is the stalker and the Jane thing, the bar scene too but seeing more of him I feel it was more for himself

unfortunately if hes the mostly stoic one and is nice to you, it would just be another Yves orchestrated Yandere story 😭😭😭😭

yess so theres this spectrum where

Yves is Slay girlboss superior Yandere

Cyprus is Mid Yandere

Monty is CringeFail Yandere

but then theres another spectrum

where Yves is technically still the best because although he does shit without consent,at least u don't know, and Monty will back off

whereas Cyprus is a fuckin parasite and should be put down

but then again, im trying to like go with the breaking addictions theme, ill see how ill develop Cyprus overtime, maybe il grow to like him in the future

[last-c2usade]

>that's al2ight! i know you don't speak fo2 eve2yone, and i am not expecting you, as a lowblood, to t2uly app2eciate the natu2e of ou2 natu2al o2de2. i know ou2 system does not favo2 you o2 tend to 2espect how impo2tant of a pa2t eve2y caste plays in ou2 g2eat wa2 machine, so it does not su2p2ise me that you would think i look down on you! i t2y to be open to eve2y caste because i unde2stand eve2y one of you is necessa2y to ou2 su2vival as a species

you can choose to igno2e my wo2ds and close you2 mind to the wealth the unive2se has to offe2, i would not be offended. lowbloods do not tend to be the b2ightest minds in ou2 glo2ious empi2e (though I will have to mention that you yellows a2e definitely the sma2te2 of you2 wa2m-blooded lot. and VE2Y 2espected in my opinion fo2 you2 usefulness to ou2 conquest as a fuel sou2ce)<

>hello twenty-two! you can call me adamantine or ada! the name comes f2om the name fo2 an a2chaic fo2m of diamond. while it is t2ue the cou2t named me, i do believe it is a ve2y fitting name as it not only means unb2eakable, but it fits in with my p2edilection towa2ds all things old and vintage! i am quite fond of books and poet2y fo2 this 2eason; i believe that many things can be lea2ned f2om ou2 ancesto2s and the people befo2e us! as a violet, i will be a2ound fo2 a while, so i believe it is of utmost impo2tance to me to be awa2e of the shifts in ou2 society as times change and the cu22ent cultu2e and beliefs shift

as fo2 my qui2k, i have based it a2ound my accent! i was 2aised like all good bright blooded citizens in the 2oyal cou2t, lea2ning the a2chaic and divine alte2nian dialect. sometimes i do wish to shake it because i do not like to associate myself with those lowly, gossiping, d2ama seeking individuals of the cou2t but i am unfo2tunately quite p2oud of my lineage and believe it is my duty not so much as an ex-membe2 of the cou2t but as a violet to keep my t2aditions in mind

it helps keep lowbloods like you in you2 p2ope2 place! so that you may unde2stand that we2e you fall on the social ladde2 in 2ega2ds to me is fa2 below me, no matte2 how impo2tant you2 caste may be to ou2 society<

[wellthatschaotic]

hi! i'm going to Sleep but are there any like. environments/biomes (idk if that's the right word) that don't exist irl? (ik its not the same thing but in my wip there's like. enchanted forests where a bunch of fucked up shit happens and i kinda want to learn abt other things people have??) (this is abt your parascom (?? spelling) in case its' not answered right away)

hope taht wording makes sense, i've taken my melatinin already and its Kicking IN

kdljsklfs hope you have a Good Sleep!!! and YES

we also do have Fucked Up Forests(TM) AND in multiple flavors!! you got the. "fucking annoying pixie forests" (<- direct quote from alisha) (i think theyre actually called sparkling forests). the whispering forest. the dead forest.

sparkling forest: as you can tell from alisha's. quaint description. that's where pixies live. they're very colorful and bubbly and. well. children's fantasy esque. do not be fooled because "the pixies are SO fucking annoying you think it'd be a nice place for a picnic but NO you turn away for ONE SECOND and your sandwich is GONE and theres a little pink PEST fuckin GIGGLING at you" (pulls alisha away from the keyboard). there are also creatures that are Very Cute but . Very Sharp. so uhhh be careful

whispering forest: one of my favorites tbh. it's like. Far Away from other societies? on the border of The Worlds- okay so imagine a venn diagram right. one circle is earth one circle is etheria one circle is asteria etc (those are our 3 main dimensions(?) so theyre the example). the whispering forest is like right on one of the the borders of etheria/asteria but technically in etheria but also like at a point nemo super far from Everything place (not an island but you get it right) (also i could go in more depth about the world connections if you want!!)

ANYWAY back to the forest. it's Dark and Spooky and...telepathic. it's where spirit elves & spirit foxes live (theres other wildlife but not like. sentient ones) who are both telepathic species. they speak different telepathic languages(?) though but can learn each other's. they can't really. speak out loud? their vocal chords and mouth structure just aren't made for that. the trees are also telepathic-y but in like a plant way so it's not like full thoughts its telepathic Vibes. and if you're not used to telepathy and you go there hearing the wind whistle through the trees combined with the Vibe Of Telepathy sounds very eerily like people whispering bc your brain is trying to make sense of what it's. Vibing. which is why it's called the whispering forest. and also why no one outside of it really goes in

the dead forest: it's. uh. dead. but alive? i don't think anyone truly remembers what happened to it but some sort of Magic Nuclear Fallout left everything dead-looking but just barely alive And Wants You Dead. as in look that tree's just sticks Oh Fuck Them Branches Are Coming For Me. there are even zombie/skeleton creatures held together mostly by magic that also Want To Get You. so.

oh also asteria is Mostly Forest (yknow how this world is Mostly Ocean?) and it's just. alien. like forests here can have big trees right? okay so like triple that. them trees BIG. and almost all the wildlife have white spots on them that can appear to glow in the dark (to human eyes). the plants too can generate light for human eyes but the normal light sources (sun, fire) generate light that humans can't pick up or generate very very little. so humans and (moon) elves evolved to see different light spectrums. which is pretty cool

hmm what other fucked up biomes do we have. well there's living islands. they're actually Creatures that float along and like. yknow how some turtles and stuff grow moss on their back? that but so big that it's like a whole ass island. not sure if that really counts as a biome? thankfully they're not usually predatory but if you hurt it. well. earthquake + raising sharp spines. it will not go well. so usually just leave them alone just in case

those are off the top of my head that aren't like. Earth Biomes But With Fantasy Creatures. ig weird shit also happens where the world borders are thin/collide but i wouldn't really count that as a biome.

might make another post about the worlds and how they interact if anyone is interested-

[ase-trollplays]

A Stern Talking To

It's been about two nights since the incident at the coffee shop, and you haven't really put much thought into the aftermath of what you did. You probably broke the law assaulting a seadweller since they're supposed to be royalty, and you're the bottom of the barrel on the spectrum. However, that's not a concern right now. You're not going back to that cafe, and you're definitely not going to see him again, so why dwell on it?

You're on your bed with a bag of hivemaid jerky listening to troll Pandora Radio as you log into trollian. It's been a month since you heard from Darius, and you're hoping he's online so you can message him for the millionth time. He probably won't answer, but you still want to try. After all, he hasn't blocked you yet, so there's still hope.

However, tonight he's not online, much to your disappointment. With a sigh, you prepare to log out when something catches your eye. You see Thiomi sign into trollian, and before you even get the chance to blink, a message window opens with her contacting you.

--chronicallyMousey [CM] began trolling sandstormHuntress [SH]-- CM: ...corali primer... )//:<

Uh oh. She used your full name and sent an angry face. Fucking hell, what's she mad at you for now?

SH: What's the problem? CM: ...do you realize youre all over troll tiktok right now assaulting a highblood doctor at the coffee shop???...

... Wait what.

SH: What do you mean I'm all over troll tiktok? CM: ...i mean youre *all over troll tiktok!*... ...s-someone was filming you and posted it online... and now its going viral!... ...i doubt theres a s-single troll anywhere who hasnt at least heard of it... let alone seen it... SH: Sonuva bitch. SH: I didn't know someone was recording that.

That's a bold faced lie. If anything, knowing you were being filmed encouraged you. It reminded you of the kind of attention you get in the ring, which has been dwindling since you've been complete ass in your matches lately. Except that time you were going to win, and you did.

However, that's not something you can tell Thiomi. She'd lose her mind, and she's upset enough with you as is. You wanted to take it even further than that single punch, but it's looking like restraining yourself was the better option.

CM: ... i cant believe you... ...what even led up to that?... ...thats one of the calmest places you can go... ...how on alternia did you wind up s-starting a fight??... SH: It ain't really a fight when the other person's spent after a single punch. CM: ...thats not helping your case... corali... SH: He provoked me. You know I don't cotton to highbloods. I told him not to sit with me, and he decided to anyways. I warned him. chronicallyMousey holds her head in her hands and sighs in frustration and disbelief CM: ...i know you dont like highbloods... but you couldnt have just ignored him??... ...its just a s-seat... ...was he taunting you about your caste or s-something?... ...or actively threatening you?...

Thinking back on it, he never threatened you or even called you a single name. He was really fucking annoyed and mad at you, but technically you showed aggression first.

You're quiet for what's probably way too long because you know Thiomi's not going to like the answer. Not that you have to even give her one. Your silence is answer enough.

CM: ...do you even realize how much trouble youre in?... ...and im not talking about with me... either... ...what if he has quadrants that decide to come after you?... ...what if he has legislacerators convict you?!... ...you could die or have your life ruined because you lost your temper!...

You're tempted to correct her about losing your temper. If you had truly lost it, you would have given him that gut punch or gored him with the retractable blade in your hand. No, what you did was wriggler mode.

However, you're not a complete idiot, so you keep that to yourself.

SH: If he's got angry quads, I say let them come. I'm more than equipped to handle any fight. As for the legis, I'll figure something out. CM: ...you dont know that!... CM: ...they could be a hitman... or a s-sniper... or s-something!... ...s-someone you cant beat by punching and s-stabbing... CM: ...and if legislacerators get involved... youre not going to win the case... ...not when theres viral video evidence against you... CM: ...and thats not even considering darius...

That gives you pause.

SH: What's Darius got to do with this? CM: ...you know hes definitely s-seen that video by now... right?... CM: ...how is he s-supposed to believe youre trying to change and be better when *thats* circulating?... CM: ...the whole reason youre trying to quit is to earn back his trust and faith in you... ...well... this might have just blown it all away...

... Shit. FUCK. You didn't even consider that. You don't have a rebuttal. She's got you dead to rights. The whole reason you agreed to get sober is for Darius's sake. You want him to trust you again. You want him to love you again. You want him to forgive you.

You may have just destroyed any progress you made. Sure, he never answers your calls or replies to your messages, but he hasn't blocked you. That means he's at least listening when you try to contact him. You've been giving him updates on how your sobriety is going and the progress you're making in addition to apologizing and begging him to talk to you.

What if he was starting to come around, and then he sees you...

The message notification beep from your husktop snaps you out of your thoughts.

CM: ...im s-sorry im being s-so hard on you... but you have to do better... ...you have to be better than this... CM: ...i just want to help you do whats best for you... ...believe me... i want darius to let you back into his life as much as you do... and i want to s-see you be healthier... SH: Yeh, yeh, I know. I'm sorry. CM: ...im not the one who needs an apology...

Oh no. You have a bad feeling about what she's going to say next.

CM: ...i need you to make a promise to me that if you ever s-see that doctor again... youll apologize to him...

God dammit, you were right.

SH: So, what. You want me to tell him how sorry I am, how he didn't deserve that, and beg him to forgive me? chronicallyMousey sighs. CM: ...you don't have to s-say anything you dont want to... ...you dont even have to mean it... ...just tell him that youre s-sorry... ...thats all i want from you... CM: ...can you promise me youll do that?... SH: Ugh SH: Yeah, sure, I guess. CM: ...i want you to promise me... SH: I promise if I ever see him again, I'll apologize. CM: ...thank you... (//:3 SH: So, are we done here. I got a lot to think about now. CM: ...okay... CM: ...have a good night... --chronicallyMousey [CM] gave up trolling sandstormHuntress [SH]--

You heave a big sigh and fall backwards onto your bed as you close your husktop. Thiomi's right about Darius probably seeing that video by now. Should you message him explaining yourself?

...

...

...

Yeah, but not right now. Right now, you just want to eat jerky and think about what you've done.

[so-i-grudgingly-joined-this-site]

AAA TY FOR ADDING MY TAGS TO UR POST!! (i wasnt sure how to reply so i thought sending an ask would be better than reblogging the chonker post lol) honestly this whole topic of immortality shifting a characters morals is something ive been thinking about a lot recently (even a few months back when i was getting more into vampires/dracula), bc if immortality was possible it would completely warp someones sense and beliefs!! theres a reason theres a trope in some immortal characters “going mad” or becoming complete psychopaths bc of all those amazing reasons and topics you mentioned! its so lovely though to witness and see dream TRY to change throughout his story even if he technically doesnt have to since no one can really hold him responsible for his actions

That is a really interesting angle to approach the story from! And yeah, it seems frustrating why Dream would be so set in his ways, until you consider exactly how not just immortality, but having that immortality *from your birth* (which is simultaneous with the birth of the universe itself) would probably affect your mindset and other people's ability to call you out on your BS. It could be argued that the fact he might even attempt to change is a sign that Dream falls on the "asshole, but not 100% a dick" side of the morality spectrum. There's good in him somewhere, even if even he isn't conscious of it.

And , in the past, I've read fandom metas about how Hob Gadling subverts a lot of tropes about "immortality madness", but lately I've been reconsidering that about him. Because yeah, sure, he does seem to be a lot more normal of a dude than the usual instances of "uplifted humans", but committing to self-serving absolute mediocrity century after century is arguably its own kind of madness. Like he is COMMITTED to being THE average white guy across time and space. "Better" is very much a relative term.

Speaking of "immortality madness"... I'd really like to know more about Mad Hettie. Is she mad because she's immortal, or immortal because she's mad?

[m1ckeyb3rry]

Tsumikis plot going down the drain actually one of the beginnings to my villain arc I remember being so hyped for it watching season 1 only for it to ??????? Whatever but anyways you fr have prophet abilities or something im actually convinced (manifest us episode Karasu/ Karasu light novel please)

CHIGIRIS FACE JN THE LATEST ONE HAD ME CRYING LIKE BRO WAS WEIRDED OUT it’s giving “mom come pick me up im scared” but YEAHH chigiri getting to let loose and be like a raging teen boy with nagi and Barou and zantetsu and do the “let’s go” pose and accompanied man roar (ykwim) sigh but HEAVY ON THAT yeah the whole girlboss counterpart idea is er interesting to say that least but on brand for fanon activities…..

AMERICASONA I SCREAMEEED THATS too funny but EXACTLY MY VISION like Bachira would be like “make her paper heart” or something and otoya would be like damn ok and when it actually works otoyas like bro you’re the rizz master mentor me Bachira LMAO banned from mcs building real for that

wait I lowk forgot about that game I had it downloaded for awhile but didn’t do anything with it oops but YEAH from what I’ve seen I bet there’s some nice interaction content there that the series desperately needed ugh

LMAOAOA THATS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING like imagine y/n being nagi and having to interact with reo and the soccer team and reo is fr like wtf happened to you (the possessed line is genius though omg)

LMAOO TRUE also wait YUKITULLI TIME?? also yeahhhh it was insane because the wording was so distinct too…I’m pretty certain a couple writers were like “yeah I saw this copy paste floating around so I’m

Not gonna write it!!” And good for them honestly also with your wc I don’t think you could ever be accused of plagiarism LMAOOOOOOO when the characters get unpacked instead of reverse haremed >>>>

SJHSSJ no because it’s technically still functioning and doing the basic things I bought it for so I can’t justify upgrading it yet….theres also a lot of backup prep work id need to get done before I get rid of that and I’m afraid now is most definitely not the time for that (speaking of now it’s my tablet that’s crashing out (literally) and I’m losing my mind everytime I try to open an app it CRASHES like LOAD PLEASE I BEG I literally came SO. CLOSE like the loading progress bar made it so far and then nope. SIGH)

LAMOAOA REAL NGL I watched it because my friend wanted me to and it was a good like no brain light hearted watch but the art style is not my type between the flat hair and face shape and eyes SORRY yeah no I’ll stick to my crow man…but yeah it’s interesting because hq is like the opposite extreme of the sports spectrum where it’s friendship is magic not I’ll climb your corpse and become number one

TIME FOR YOU TO START DRAFTIMG EPIKARASU that’s crazy fr though the chick still has me laughing it’s also like prime pfp material

Every time we circle back to this I have to take a deep breath because seriously get a life was it ever that serious…like people beefing it out fighting between two ships involving one character and I’m like……please….touch some grass….or even look at some pictures of grass….remind yourself of the existence of the outside…..

Nah fr shipped logic is honestly so hypocritical most of the time that I can’t even get myself to read their arguments because it makes me like rage quit equivalent of reading like you just contradicted yourself get out…..

Also isagi pedestalling nagi will never be not funny to me he’s fr like “he’s a monster/genius/god” and I’m like chill bro we get it

BAROUUUUU can’t wait to see him on the field also wait I think it’s really funny that the recent promo has basically spoiled the three subs because they include them in official art specifically for the u20 match team and I’m like imagine getting spoiled by the official accounts themselves LOL

LMAAOA literally me I will not be stepping out of the closet with this one guess this is my sign pay more attention to notes now you’ve got me intrigued LMFAOO STAY IN SCHOOL

IM CRYING TRUE for me I don’t think any experience will beat being sick it’s actually the worst like why am I being put out of commission for like a week and a half but anyways yes manifesting bacteria be gone…

LMAOAOA in classic Mira fashion indeed this is actually really funny but I’m sure it’s actually cooking so hard based off of the previews you showed honestly the MLP fan in me almost wants to expand this into a separate bllk universe and give every character their own Pegasus just imagine but anyways the angel take in the Kaiser fic too was a really refreshing fantasy au take too your brain is so big

Ok time to pull out the big brain mode and ponder the themes again lowk….but SHSHSH I would say NOOO but also so real for that I’ve definitely felt that with other platforms too like but OK we’re safe then although I’m ngl I don’t even use all that many things anymore and actually don’t use discord oops (I have trauma from that one friend telling me i have off discord user vibes like WHAT GOODBYE tbf it was also a friend who’s also into like anime and whatever so wasn’t closeted but still I did NOT ENJOY THAT EXPERIENCE) but should the time ever come we’ll figure something out I’m sure LOL

Ok first off from a purely pokemon standpoint Charizard and hiori is a crazy matchup even though I know that’s not what the event is doing LMAO this is truly a unique experience there’s another thing I didn’t think id hear bringing yuki into this is crazy work wait I’m crying yuki is fr just getting the short end of the stick in every miraverse au getting one sided beef from Karasu being the villain in hollyhock this is too funny justice will never come to him LMFAOOOO also I’m crying the “KENYU MF YUKIMIYA IS INTO ME” is SOOOO FUNNY LMFOAOAOAAOAAOAOA ok but now that they mention bm dorm i kinda get it although bm Yukimiya is NOT my favorite but anyways

HE WHAT??????? DAMN I lowk thought you just meant yeah i like him now so im adding

Him to the bottom of my list of characters I like but REPLACING REO I was not expecting that but considering what you wrote for sae i can see if seabird has me on the edge of swerving too wait ok i know that’s a sae tiktok but Isagis ghost white face in the beginning made me laugh oh wait that edit kinda goes hard especially with the music….oh…LMFAOO SAE THEME imagine sae theme before Karasu theme that’d be wild anyways maybe the carnivorous pegasi will make me swerve who knows

Your memes are actually way too funny i lost my mind at the Oliver one fr i need that framed on my wall the otoya yuki one is also hilarious sorry yuki but i find the blind jokes really funny THE YOU JUST TALK TO THEM IS TOO OFOYA CODED actually hilarious peak comedy right here STOP THE KAISER ONE IS SO FUNNY TOO ITS LOTERALLY THEM???

Ok the panel of nagis ego disappearing after he shoots the five shot revolver volley thing is actually so majestic one of my fav panels of him fr

CHEISTMAS NAGI wait the way they edited the Santa hat onto him is some crazy work talk about editing skills

I’ll never get over Nanamis goofy ass color palette and his goggles like wtf and the tie pattern is atrocious but I’m dying I read your comment about needing it to make its way into a Karasu edit and my fingers automatically saved the tiktok to my bllk folder LMAOOO BUT REAL PMG THE AUDIO wait it’s so Karasu someone edit this RIGHT NOW ugh I miss Karasu wtf

NAGI MOMENT so real honestly he gets the best quality scenes too like they’re pulling all the stops for him

LAMAOA IM CRYING THE WAY YOU ACTUALLY TJOIGHT OF NESS BUT YES I SEE THE VISION!!! I never willingly think of ness though ngl you just work overtime on the opps too but the audio does makes sense with him I’ll admit LMAO

RAGHHHHH KARASU SHIDOU BESTIES unironically love the spiky hair duo

CHIGIRI COMING IN CLUTCH FR!! I actually love that scene omg but also Isagi has NO survival instinct bro wasn’t going to duck or dodge or anything like hello

KM CRYINF IVE SEEN THIS OTOYA KARASU ONE LMFOAOOOO AIKU IN THE BACK LMFOAOOOOO REAL

IVE SEEN THIS ONE TOO AND SO REAL

When I tell you I almost passed out when they showed us that scene of Karasu doing pre match analysis like HE LOOKS SO FINE IOSKNDKDJSJS and the second to last scene in that tiktok GOODBYE I NEED MY MAN BACK NOWWAS

- Karasu anon

no literally like she was set up to be so cool and honestly even the yorozu thing wasn’t. HORRIBLE. per se. but it was just executed in a weird way and it just felt like another case of gege lowkey being unable/unwilling to write female characters and so just shelving them and giving them shitty conclusions instead of proper story arcs and development the way their male counterparts got…LMAOOO PLEASE i fr can just predict the future #praying for a karasu and otoya light novel release soon SDFHK the third person can be kiyora (provided he’s staying in the manga) ngl they might wait until nel is over so as to not spoil who’s staying since a lot of characters (kiyora, nanase, etc) are hanging in the balance and might not pass this arc so they might just not want to release until we know for sure they’ll be continuing onwards?? because a karasu - kiyora - otoya release would make a lot of sense given epinagi and their backstories all coming out at relatively the same time

CHIGIRI WAS SUFFERING BROOOO he was just trying to be nice and show concern for reo but he was NOT prepared for THAT…i know for a fact bro went straight to bachira and isagi to let them know what was going on because that was a DIABOLICAL interaction 😭 and agreed we really get to see a diff side of chigiri in epinagi which is really fun…he’s so silly with nagi barou and zantetsu (that one panel of him jumping on nagi’s shoulders while nagi’s like :x is SO FUNNY and it’s so cuteee too plus the one of him and zantetsu flexing at one another) it feels like epinagi also treats him like a guy more?? idk if that makes sense it makes sense to me 😓 but yeah pretty much just fandom doing its thing there with regards to that relationship SDKHF they’re honestly not even shown interacting THAT much if you think about it i think people just have their headcanons and run with them or smth because we see chigiri and like bachira interacting way more but i hardly ever see people talking about THEIR friendship

I LOVEE COMING UP WITH AMERICASONAS LMAOAOAO like yukimiya’s is bradley, chigiri is jesse, uhhh who else, i think isagi would be kyle?? KARASU’S IS TYLER SDKFH anyways imagine otoya is just indulging bachira because he and bachira are the only ones doing anything on their team so he’s like “ok sure i’ll make her a card and tell her she has a beautiful smile” and then it works and otoya’s like hold on bro…you cooked…and bachira’s just like 😄 LMAOAOA imagine lavinho gets involved too but his advice is HORRIBLE so it’s like otoya alternating between doing sweet stuff like drawing us holding hands in crayon and then like a day later he pulls up and is like “hey girl 😉 you remind me of my little toe 🙂‍↕️ because i’m probably going to bang you on the coffee table later when i’m drunk 😘” HAHAHA omg wait a new wingman has entered the villa…aiku shidou and now bachira…miraverse blue lock wingmen agenda is too strong

PLEASE omg wait i have a nagi request that’s just “can you write for nagi” dare i say freaky friday nagi version may be incoming…the only thing is like how would they end up switching bodies 🧐 because with y/n and karasu it was that they were beefing and then karasu yelled at the witch so she switched their bodies but i a) don’t see nagi beefing with anyone and b) don’t see nagi yelling at a witch LMAOO something to ponder when i’m at that point ig 😭 omg wait speaking of freaky friday somebody reblogged it a while back saying it was a “peak fic but should’ve been yaoiful” i was like what 😭 very confusing comment i’m still not sure how to take it

yukitullia would be insane…but tullirin…ngl i think it’s just going to come down to what plot idea i have first and whether nagi or karasu fits it better LMAOO and then tullia can be with yukimiya or rin based on that actually wait ykw would be another hilarious pairing is tullisae i feel like they would be very seabird sae and reader coded ☝🏻 but if she’s with sae who would reader be with…hmm…sae is even more friendless than rin and he also doesn’t have the benefit of having any really interesting pairings that i would want to look at (like rin with nagi) sooo actually wait i wouldn’t write it but imagine tullisae and then reader with AIKU SKDJHFSDLK

yeah i def respect them for saying no!! i don’t think i’ve ever said no to a request i just let them rot in my inbox for ages 😭 actually wait someone requested a sequel to seabird for my 1k event and i was like okay i don’t want to waste an event spot for something that everyone and their mother has been asking for so i’m going to veto that idea because if i do write a sequel to it it’ll just be because everyone wants one?? although ngl idt i will just because i think part of the fun and magic of seabird is the fact that we don’t really know what happens next (except we kinda do because rin mentions in the cherry tree sequel that sae and seabird reader are getting married) tbh i don’t think i’d be able to do their relationship justice if i did a sequel 🧐 so that will probably remain sequel-less ANYWAYS back to the original discussion HAHA yess i think tropes like reverse harem/love triangles only work if they are being used to reveal something about the character like if it’s just “i want a hot guy to like the mc” it feels shallow but if the love triangle is being used as an exploration of the characters or furthering the themes i think they can be really cool to include

HELPPP you need to like do an exorcism for your electronics or smth omg why are they all tweaking at the same time 😭

two of my best friends and i watched the first couple of episodes of hq together in my basement and halfway through i went upstairs for like fifteen minutes and threw up and then i came back downstairs and we continued watching and the next day i tested positive for covid LMAOOO so that’s my hq experience in a nutshell 😭 it’s like a meme for us now…we’ll bring it up like “remember when we were watching hq and you got covid???” yeah the artstyle really does not do it for me i could not imagine myself finding any of them attractive

EPIKARASU TIME FR omg i love the chick though it would be such a funny pfp actually

i miss when people used to ship literally anyone and everyone i think there’s so much discourse about it now that it’s like. CRAZY. not that there weren’t ship wars back in the day but i feel like the vibes were different…anyways i accidentally ended up reading a fem karasu x fem kaiser fic last night so that’s where MY opinions are re:shipping (it was kinda hilarious actually i was like how am i here…but then i was like wtvr for karasu ig i’ll do it…)

ISAGI GLAZES NAGI SM IT CRACKS ME UP like damn bro we get it you think he’s cool (ngl me too) in second selection especially it’s SO funny because he cannot stop like nagi will literally breathe on the field and isagi will be like holy shit…he’s unreal…the god of breathing…LMAOAOA honestly most unrealistic thing about blue lock is that isagi didn’t choose nagi’s team in third selection like i know for plot reasons he had to choose rin or else he wouldn’t even have made the bllk11 but like who in their right mind wouldn’t choose “guaranteed chemical reactions” when you have ONE game to prove yourself 😭 also let’s be real i think nagi would’ve been way more willing to pass to isagi and let him shine and whatnot than rin was…obviously that’s against the mentality of bllk and shit but still

wait i didn’t even think about that tbh i forget that there are anime onlies for bllk because the manga is sm better that if anything people are mostly manga onlies if anything ☝🏻 but YESSS AHHH I AM SO HYPE FOR BAROU just gotta get through an itoshi fest before we can see him shine

HELPP i really do think it’s a product of how small the fandom is so like the groups are very overt/in your face which makes it easier to identify them 😭 it’s like a game for me honestly like it’s very unserious

ANGEL KAISER WAS SO FUN okay your inner mlp fan will be pleased to hear that there will be quite a few characters featuring with pegasi of their own!! well not their OWN because they’re just jockeys but ykwim…off the top of my head sae, kaiser, leonardo luna, bachira, maybe isagi, noel noa, ego, hiori so far all have a named pegasus they are or will be mentioned riding 😛 they’re not all as relevant (some are literally just there to fill out the races so it’s not just two pegasi that we know of racing LMAO) but they all have names and colors…i won’t spoil them yet EXCEPT leonardo luna’s just because it is cracking me UP i think i’m going to name his pegasus “lunar eclipse” because is that not the funniest shit ever 😭😭😭 anyways yeah this is another one that’s going to end up being LONG i think however a surprising amt of people seem excited for it?? one of the sae reqs actually got changed to kaiser with dark/ghost (supernatural au/reincarnation) because the person said they thought my fantasy au ideas were so cool and they thought i could really cook with a more unique prompt (as opposed to normal/rock with sae which iirc is just fluff/modern au)

LMAOOO HELP I FORGOT YOU ENDURED THAT 😭 i’m the opposite people are always shocked that i watch anime and use discord and whatnot (IF they even find out) so i literally use it in public FJDJS my mindset is that my face card lets me get away w being weird…is that realistic NO but whatever i am #cringebutfree anyways if anything we can always just be tik tok mutuals or something…or we can exchange emails and email each other when new bllk episodes drop LMAOAAO IMAGINE 😭😭😭 jokes aside yes trust it will all work out and besides i don’t plan on deactivating atm so it’s a concern for later

PLSSS JUSTICE FOR YUKIMIYA 😭 at least he bagged yayoi in bfb??? but otherwise yeah bro is struggling omg and agreed everything about it is kind of blowing my mind but i think it will be fun!! ngl both love triangle requests i’ve gotten have been kinda random like kunigami and karasu is no less random tbh the difference is that i actually would pick karasu over kuni 😩 agreed though bm yuki is fr a diff character or smth tbh…bring back third selection u20 rough and tumble yuki 🙏🏻 wait ngl going back to earlier parts of the convo imagine ROUGH AND TUMBLE yukimiya with tullia (or even reader) that would actually be soooo fun orrr speaking of character backstory adjusting aus i was talking to jeirin abt what blue lock would be like if (somehow) nagi was discovered by aiku and became the u20 team’s ace instead of being discovered by reo and that would also be really fun to write at some point i think…people would hate me because i would make it so blue lock is dissolved but let’s be real blue lock 11 without nagi ever being in bllk is cooked — isagi and probably barou would never awaken, reo would also never really awaken or even be involved, and nagi also scored their first goal?? but him + sae is a lethal combo i fear they would in fact win (also i’m a nagi glazer plus it would be cool to write that i think) tbh that’s actually one where i would write it as just a character study on nagi instead of a reader insert story but idk i’m scared of opps and i’ve never written something from the pov of a canon character (except aiku ig) so it would be a little out of my comfort zone…hm…many thoughts atm

LMAAOAO RIP REO i feel like i haven’t cared much abt reo in a while he’s kind of in the chigiri bucket where his fanon version is so annoying i stopped liking him except with reo his additional times are also kinda giving his fanon self so i’m like oh…now FIRST SELECTION reo?? UNBEATABLE but him ever since then has been slightly meh i fear 😭 ngl sae is one who i do like but specifically and only my version of him FJDJSJ like seabird sae/carnivorous pegasi racer sae my BELOVEDS but i could never read him written by anyone else because i only like a very exact characterization of him and most people don’t really do that LMAOAO so he’s like a conditional top five for me 🧐 ngl of my top favs i can only occasionally read about karasu because everyone else is constantly mischaracterized to the point that i’m just like eugh this isn’t even my glorious bf this is just some white haired mf who hates women 😢

THE SAE EDIT IS SOOO HEAT ISN’T IT like the combo with the music and the scenes they used are soooo good 😭 shocked isagi is so funny though agreed he is FLABBERGASTED

LMAOOO I’M GLAD YOU LIKED THE MEMES I HAD SM FUN MAKING THEM 😭😭😭 they are sooo silly bro i need more yuki and otoya interactions ik for a fact that yuki thinks he’s dumb asf wait lowkey it would be hilarious if otoya thinks he and yuki are chill and yukimiya is just rude to him in the way karasu is but then he sees yuki w nagi and he’s like wait am i the problem…yukimiya can’t escape one sided beef HAHA at least this time he’s the one hating not being hated

THE PANEL OF NAGI’S EGO DISAPPEARING AND THE ONE OF HIM CELEBRATING HIS GOAL ARE SOOOO COLD call me isagi the way i’m abt to glaze him so horrendously 🤤

christmas nagi is so precious princess pookie like imagine him drinking hot chocolate wearing a santa hat 🥹 actually ngl shidou would jump him because he hates santa but it would be so cute

NANAMI IS SOOO GOOFY i fear i will always hate…the fanon shidou friend was obsessed with nanami also so extra reason to find him an opp 😭 but RIGHT it’s SOSOSO karasu coded like him in the third selection especially ughhh #needthat

been saying from the start nagi is the fav and it’s not a close contest 🤩 even in third selection w the worst animation yet he still looked cute

LMAOOO THE INNER EDITOR IN ME COMES OUT REGARDLESS i too usually forget abt ness but i heard the audio and i was like holy SHIT it’s perfect i just need someone who actually likes him to get on it (although he doesn’t have the panels/moments for it yet…most of his scenes are him crying and being emo over kaiser he needs to have his glow up to be edited like that)

KARASU AND SHIDOU BESTIES FOR THE RESTIES (karasu does NOT approve of this message) I LOVE THEM SM TBH PEAK DUO

THE WAY ISAGI JUST STANDS THERE LIKE 🧍 IS SO FUNNY bro was fr just going to let shidou rock his shit 😭 god bless chigiri fr (or not…that would’ve been one less opp to think abt 😒 maybe we should be manifesting shidou absolutely taking out isagi next chapter)

AIKU IN THE BACK AND THE WAY HE ZOOMS INTO THE FRAME CRACK ME UP it’s sooooo oaeu coded like this is actually what happens in the otoya chapter when otoya reforms himself and aiku gives reader “rizz advice”

HFSKSJ i love every single video that uses one of those genre of audios…like the “naw 😨 that’s CRAZY” or the “jit TRIPPING” audios idek where they’re from but they’re all hilarious and so out of pocket it makes me laugh every time

KARASU IN THAT EP WAS SOOOOO GLORIOUS OMFG that episode doing the MOST for us karasu fans and then the episode right after being nagi’s goal genuinely healed smth in me LMAOOO now we wait because next ep will probably be rin’s goal + aryu’s block but then. BUT THEN. BAROUUUUUUUUUU (i mean technically shidou first but shidou is in this weird spot where he’s not an opp but also not a fav…admittedly his goals are really really hype though so it’ll be fun to see them playing out)

[notedchampagne]

im tempted to take as many “what homestuck character are you” quizzes and tally up my answers to discover my Ultimate Homestuck Assigned Kin

[crayonverse]

HEY LOOK OC

i did some little unhhuh un colored sketches of the Guy i guess. i also made him in sims becuase it was easy . anyways (ill make a colored reference later. probably idk)

Kalos "Gills" Kweeny

since mighty med has a lot of like. parodies of real world superheroes for characters, i decided to make Kalos a parody of Lois Lane. but like. very erratic and weird

i also based a lot of his mannerisms on ferrets/weasels! he moves with his head and like, swivels? alot .

would be technically considered a superhero, based on the fact He Does Have Powers, but hes more like ambrose, where he isnt in the fight and such.

since theres a superhero news network, i think theres probably superhero journalists and whatever. hes like a field reporter.

i think in canon, he'd be introduced around evil skylar arc. someone leaked there being a mole in mighty med and hes there to investigate.

he's called "gills" because of his powers, he has fish gills on his upper waist. he has a lot of fish traits (sharpened teeth, webbed hands and feet, beady lil eyes, smells weird). he doesnt share this info with a lot of people because he thinks its a little weird. people know he has powers, just not what they are. some larger superheroes know

Other stuff

he/him, trans guy (every OC of mine has to be trans in some way. its my gift to them)

he doesnt have any romantic/sexual preference. however, he does feel very little on each, putting him on the aroace spectrum.

hes half-romani!

he hasnt really talked with the mm trio that much, mostly in passing. hes talked with kaz the most, since he offers up his pov on anything in mighty med to be on TV. also friends with tecton and does a lot of personal interviews with him (a driving force for oliver to be on TV as well)

heres his headshot. i need to find more cc to update him tho </3

[drabbles-of-writing]

Beastars AU

Luz going feral hcs?

Or just beastar AU hcs in general?

Luz wouldn't really go feral per say. Yes she's a omnivore technically speaking but mostly eats fruit and plants and only rarely has a bug or a fish to be healthy, she doesn't enjoy the taste all that much. so she wouldn't really go feral, doesn't get very agitated at the smell of meat but isn't revolted by it like most other herbivores, pretty much just neutral to it.

as for headcanons;

Hunter and Amity are both quite protective of Luz and it took them a little bit before they realized they were technically on the same side. Amity goes out of her way to try and be as non-threatening as possible and break away from how her parents raised her and the twins and just. be a non-threatening carnivore bc she still worries about freaking out Luz or her new friends and only going feral when a predator messes with them. Hunter? Hunter don't give a shit. he was never once taught in a way to look meeker or sweeter to herbivores and thus just. acts like a dude who was pretty messed up and also doesn't quite realize or care that hes generally very threatening. he has no problem growling and baring teeth at minor annoyances because thats just how a wolf is, they use body language to communicate and theres a big difference between his "god your so annoying please shut up" growl and his "okay time to rip someones THROAT OUT" growl. Luz is desensitized to it at this point and has zero fear at Hunter's barking, growling, howling, and otherwise flashing claws and teeth. so. Hunter and Amity don't exactly get along too well with Amity seeing Hunter as a carelessly dangerous delinquent who could seriously accidentally hurt someone and Hunter seeing Amity as an overly cautious pushover who believes Luz couldn't handle herself in any rocky situation. this is cat on dog violence over here.

pretty much every carnivore Luz has met has tried to eat her at least once. it doesn't bother her too much anymore because Thats Just Life I Guess and I use "almost eat" in a wide spectrum which ranges from 'eda went feral and literally almost ate her whole and it was kinda traumatic' to 'boscha contemplated eating her for a few minutes while they were talking but amity was hovering ominously in the background so nothing happened.' Hunter had a moment when he was half-starved and dealing with his care for Luz, mixed with his protectiveness, and fierce nature, all combining after he was having a Very Not Good Time and while clinging to her protectively was This Close to eating her and he has no idea if Luz knew or not and it very much haunts him, could go on a lot about that. Amity also almost did it for a few seconds when she and Luz were chilling and Luz was being very careless and thought the trick of sticking ones head in a lions mouth was cool as hell and just Did That (with permission) and Amity had an thought in that moment of "i could just close my mouth right now" which didnt help with the fact its a Thing in beastars that some carnivores literally cannot tell the difference between wanting to kill or love a herbivore. Amity ended the thought in like 7 seconds but she still feels very weird that she even Thought about it and every time a similar intrusive thought appears she wallows in misery for like an hour

it took Eda a good few moments before she remembered why Luz having a crush on a giant predator would be a problem since shes, you know, mainly a prey species and could be crushed like a grape. Luz at first thought this was just because Eda was careless and forgot normal things sometimes but then, of course, she met Raine. the fruit bat who had known Eda since they were kids and neither of them saw a problem that Eda is a near complete carnivore hybrid and Raine being pure herbivore. nobody ever really gave them side-eyes about it since most of them were always focused on Eda being a hybrid, and bats are most often associated with bug-eaters or blood suckers. so ofc Eda knows how dangerous she can be to herbivores but hearing little ol' Luz having a crush on a predator? eh, same situation, different perspectives to her, really.

speaking of Raine! love them, got some stuff to say. since they're a bat, they would definitely have a good ear for things like music and the like, so it wouldn't be too uncommon to see a bat in a music career, though very unlikely something loud like drums or trumpets since that would usually be too much for their sensitive ears. but heres the fun part: nearly all fruit bats don't use echolocation! they have no need for it and physically cannot produce the sounds needed for it. except for the egyptian fruit bat. those guys actually use echolocation to communicate with others rather than catch prey. so surprise! Raine is an egyptian fruit bat, which can be kind of lonely when only your own specific sub species understands what you're saying in your own specialized language, some regions of egyptian fruit bats even have their own dialects! Raine, of course, taught all of what they knew to Eda. Eda can't exactly replicate it all that well, but it still gave the two their own 'secret' language when they were kids, and you bet neither of them ever really forgot it.

[hisui-cotton]

Here are my thoughts on the genshin outfits. It is what I typed up on my twitter with some added stuff I wanted to say but didn't have the space to, bc threads are hard.

Its only being fully enforced within China, which I kinda expected sooner or later, but it's still kinda disappointing that people's reactions are just "So what about future sexy outfits?? Will they now be censored??" Like? What do you mean now be censored? They're not even out. If Mihoyo was really so reliant on fanservice outfits then I doubt it'd actually be as interesting of a game as it is, no need to think they cant work within censorship. You can't even be aware of the fact that this is like a minor thing within the world of ccp and that it could become a bigger problem to other portions of gameplay or story telling in the future. You just see the desexualization censorship and think "But what about future sexy?" And the changes are actually nice, mihoyo is definitely trying their best to go about the changes to make it as pleasing and character fitting as possible. It will be disappointing when a character that actually has a sense of sexual enpowerment ever comes along because she likely won't be able to actually feel sexually empowered. It unfortunately happens that all of this, all the unsexy changes, also fits what a lot of female players have been asking for within the spectrum of "gaze" and is being done by the enforcement of censorship.

It's a bittersweet kinda change, knowing that there were some views of a portion of the player base finally getting recognized but it had to happen under the circumstances of a developer being politically censored to make over extensive changes. Amber's changes are practically nonexistent meaning it was probably enforced because of technicalities and Mona's feels a bit strange in general where she's wearing like a short body suit rather than the sheer tights, which also feels like it's almost more of technicality enforcement as well. But in between that is obvious updates to the models which are needed as well, there are more details and the designers are definitely trying to keep an interesting design within the limits they're being forced to hold.

And it is totally okay to say you appreciate the outfit changes when coming from a view outside China. You're speaking as someone who wanted the change not because of the purity of a political and societal image, but as someone who has seen plenty of oversexualized characters in video games and just wants a few less. I know people were so half and half on rosaria when she was released, where people didn't like the fishnets or that she didn't really look like she had anything to do with the church, and then the other side pointed out how it actually fit her abandonment or rebellion of the church so that was point. But I feel the middle ground found in the redesign is actually quite nice. It's more obvious she's still technically a nun, but she has her flair with a split skirt and thigh high boots, she is a rebel with a cause. And Jean's is fair as well, it fits well with attire of other guild masters and personally gives her kinda a "hot lady in a suit" vibe.

If changes come for male characters also, I won't be surprised. It's there that I have to make sure people understand on both sides why the censorship is much more broad then censoring sexy or graphic content. China recently had some laws regarding "feminine male characters" to which I'm sure could be enforced in the future on Venti. Theres much more to these changes than "no more future sexy?" or "Less male gaze" mentalities, it could very literally affect some of the things that make genshin so inviting to many people or make it such a big step forward in video game development.

Overall I hope that it doesn't become something for mihoyo that is breaking thier back. In thier apology to cn server players, it was really obvious they were disappointed in having to make the changes, and I'm sure in some part because they were breaking new ground for Chinese developers. Even if they were breaking it really lightly. If the enforcement gets even worse, in that it quite literally effects story, I'm sure there will be many people who just give up rather than try to give the support mihoyo and other Chinese developers need. There may not be much we can do outside of China, without people in China speaking up for change, but if it ever happens please remember to support them in the pursuit against censorship, not just in video games but in the many aspects of life.

[haljordangreenjedi]

okay so somebody asked me to rank the green lanterns a couple days ago and i just did it based on the general Vibes i got off each one because i don't know enough about the lanterns and now i want to hear from an expert SO: RANK EACH OF THE GREEN LANTERNS (the human ones but if you want to include others go crazy) FROM NOT-SO-BEST TO BEST AND EXPLAIN WHY

OKAY SO, first off, i love you. you should know that. second off, there’s good and bad sides to all four human green lanterns and really this is just personal preference, and 3/4 of these are subject to change at some point, but this is where we stand as of right now:

4. Guy Gardner

first off, he was Hal’s case worker in Emerald Dawn II (1991), because Hal got in trouble for drunk driving and got sentenced to a maximum security prison for 90 days to be used as an example. And I just, I don’t like this plot in Hal’s life, it doesn’t make a ton of sense with his character or his profession (it would literally end a pilot’s career.) anyway, enough about Hal Jordan because I’m supposed to be talking about Guy here. Guy’s trying to help Hal out which, gets him points in my book, but he also ends up like hating Hal at the end of this arc and it’s just like, I’m sorry, that’s unoriginal, pls try harder. 

I also don’t understand this whole Vuldarian DNA plot that’s a thing with him, but his time owning a bar is cool. I just, I haven’t read a ton of his comics and i haven’t gotten attached to him yet, so that’s that. He’s in 4th, sorry Guy. Better luck next time. 

3. Kyle Rayner

Kyle gets third place for two reasons: he has some pretty great interactions with Hal, with some key points of believing in Hal when he needs it the most (and that panel with the stacked rings and Hal taking Kyle flying. That panel gives me life for reasons I can’t fully put into words.), and his girlfriend was literally murdered and stuffed into a fridge. I have to respect the trauma. 

Reasons I don’t like Kyle: you know how in middle school there was always that kid who would show off in gym class? or like your favorite teacher would pick some new kid to champion and you just kinda... hated them on instinct? Kyle’s an artist, but he has that vibe. He’s the kid in school that suddenly everyone has decided is the Best and it’s annoying. I get it, he’s meant to be like the “best green lantern,” the one to restore the corps when Hal and Parallax tore through it and then he’s a white lantern. I just... idk, he’s nice, he’s cute. I want to read more about when he was teamed up with Jason and some people have made it so that Hal has become his bother father figure which is also adorable, it’s just instinct to not make him my favorite. I’ve already done the whole phase of liking the ‘Chosen One,’ I don’t need to go back to my Harry Potter phase. idk, please universe don’t hate me for this.

2. John Stewart

okay, I have mad respect for John Stewart. It’s also instinctual. He’s the brains of the human Green Lantern operation. No, like, literally. If the four of them have one collective brain cell, John has it at least 89% of the time. He’s an architect and a former Marine, he punched Hal in the face in a bar before they were both Green Lanterns, which is hilarious because as far as I’m aware, it’s never touched on as being something either of them remembers. Kudos for not holding onto that rage, John. Hal has something to learn from you. 

There’s also an interesting change in his way of thinking from when he was a Marine to his duty as a Green Lantern, and I like that growth even if it’s not always acknowledged. There is a bit during the Color Spectrum War arc where they go over his guilt at the destruction of a world, and it felt remarkably deep for a DC comic, even if it was technically part of a Hal series. He’s just one of those guys that you can’t help but respect because he seems to have all of his shit in one basket, and it’s a good counterbalance.

1. Hal Jordan

you knew this was coming. if you didn’t, then you need to go look back at what my username is and think for a while. I love Hal Jordan almost more than life itself and it might be because of how well i can relate to this man. he is the most cocky, depressed, stubborn piece of shit in the galaxy, and I LOVE HIM. okay, like, there are so many different arcs about Hal and I know people have a tendency to not like him because like he’s the modern OG and he can be a piece of shit, and like, he was the bad guy but he came back from it and I just want to say: my dudes, that’s the POINT.

Hal has flat out stated that HE doesn’t even like himself, and you think that you as a reader are supposed to like him all the time? The man's life is rife with trauma, okay. Not everything he does is going to make perfect sense if you’re not paying attention and it’s just like. Honestly I can’t explain it all. Hal runs on spite and coffee and the list of people he lives FOR is very short, but the list of people he lives IN SPITE OF is very long. 

The dude runs with his gut constantly because that’s what keeps him alive. Even Sinestro has pointed out that HAL DOESN’T MAKE SENSE. He acts on instinct, he doesn’t plan out a shitload of battle strategies, and that’s how Hal manages to keep besting these people over and over. 

Also just, he’s sad boy. He wants to protect people, even if it means staying away from them. He’s willing to take the blame and appear to go rogue MULTIPLE TIMES for things he believes in and to find the root of the problem and it’s just like... you really think a guy that was happy-go-lucky and didn’t sit awake at night because of how prominent his failings are in his mind would be willing to do that? you’re wrong. sorry. you don’t designate yourself as public enemy number one AFTER ALREADY FIGHTING TO COME BACK FROM THAT ONCE if you don’t have a part of your brain saying you deserve it.

ALSO HIS GRIEF FOR COAST CITY WAS JUSTIFIED AND THERES A LONG LIST OF PEOPLE THAT COULD HAVE HELPED PREVENT HAL FROM BECOMING/SUCCUMBING TO PARALLAX AND A LOT OF THEM ARE ON THE JUSTICE LEAGUE OR TINY ANCIENT BLUE SMURFS. 

THANK YOU FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK, GOODNIGHT.

(also i’m not sure if my answers were coherent towards the end but yeah!! send me asks about green lanterns because I have a lot of feelings. Anyway; Hal Jordan.)

[trans-axolotl]

(CW question about intersexism)

What is the most common intersexist thing that you most frequently encounter that you wish perisex people wouldn’t have done that probably is overlooked? I’m trying to learn and I am doing my reasearch obviously but I wanted to ask actual intersex person and I don’t know anyone intersex (or at least that I know of) irl.

oh gosh there’s like so many things i can’t just choose one but like. 

- People making jokes about hermaphrodites or shemales or like jokes that use andorgyny and ambigious genitalia as a punch line

- people saying that there are only two sexes and refusing to listen to or accept that biological sex is a spectrum and a construct 

- Bullying people for the signs of their intersex variations stuff like body hair or breast growth or like any of those things. i get this SO Much irl and people are REALLY cruel and stay stuff stigmatizing intersex traits

- Saying that intersex people can’t be cis or trans (people assuming that intersex people don’t have the ability to self determine gender and that we can never actually be a “real” gender) People do this all the fucking time, saying that we’re not “real” women or men or any gender or saying that being intersex makes us lesser

- making jokes about intersex genitalia like micropenis jokes 

-Obviously stuff like intersex genital mutilation is a huge problem so that’s not really overlooked but im kind of just listing out intersexist stuff now and i dont want to leave that out 

-Intersex medical abuse beyond genital mutilation-we face so much abuse from doctors 

-People saying that intersex people are biologically more likely to be criminals because of that one fucking study (i know this sounds weird but this is a sterotype that i encounter irl ALL the time) 

-Comparing intersex people to aliens, comparing intersex people to animals

- Saying that all intersex people are inherently trans

-Saying that intersex people shouldn’t have children and that it’s good we’re all infertile (we aren’t all infertile. that’s a fucking lie) 

-  Saing that theres such a thing as an AMAB or AFAB body and using AGAB terms to talk about bodies and like childhood experiences

- Saying that intersex is a disorder or a defect, and saying that all intersex people are just male and female. (you’ll see intersex radfems and TERFs saying this all the time and one of the things they claim is that intersex isn’t a third sex which like. that’s technically true in that intersex is a term for a whole collection of variations and biological sex is a spectrum and a construct so intersex isn’t like a coherent third sex but its ABSOLUTELY not true that intersex is just male or female but disordered) 

- People using intersex people as props in arguments to like stick it to transphobes and prove that there’s more than two genders (obviously there are more than two genders that’s not what im bothered by here) but like people only using intersex people when it’s convient and spreading misinfo and talking about us in clinical terms and never actually supporting intersex issues 

-Saying that you “want to be intersex” or “want an intersex body” (i see this in trans circles a lot 

-Fetshizing and weirdly sexualizing intersex bodies (im thinking about stuff like futanari) 

I’m losing focus and there are tons of more intersexist things that happen and this is just like a short list but these are some things I can think of off of the top of my head. other intersex people feel free to add on!

[dalishthunder]

okay so ive never like actually wrote all this down and this is gonna be long and kinda rambly and inspired by many many hcs ive read, but i DO have some hcs for the troll species as a whole! so ive been trying to make sense of the troll life cycle and i realize that i couldnt do it because i was trying to think of them as insect people (cause of the grubs n stuff) and i shouldnt have been! so after that i let my brain run wild and i came up with this crazy shit. so the idea is that trolls, the mother grub, AND the lusii are all the same species! the lusii came first, and they were the first semi-intelligent life on the planet. they all telepathically communicate and are generally chill with each other like an avatar planet hivemind kinda thing. theres other lesser cratures as well that they prey on, so for the most part the lusii didnt eat each other. at first they all look mostly the same, but as time goes on and with different habitats they develop physical distinctions between blood colors. but, as populations rise the need for specialized workers rises too. the jadeblood lusii, being pretty much in the middle of the spectrum, evolve into a subspecies. already being vaguely insectoid moth things they form a hive system with many breeders and one queen (lets just say the biggest lusus became queen idk). they fill up their food reserves (much like honeypot ants), travel and breed with as many other lusii as they can, and then all go underground. after brooding for many sweeps they all produce the first troll eggs. now, heres where i go crazy. the eggs hatch into grub babies (.....grubbies) which are insectoid looking at first because of the mother grub. the blood color of the first group of troll grubs is entirely dependent on whatever lusii that mother grub bred with. all the mother grubs then take the grubbies above ground and travel to join the queen mother and her brood in her volcanic caverns. the other mother grubs then die, and the grubbies are left in the care of the queen. the heat of the caverns starts the pupation process, and after cocooning and liquifying they take a humanoid form with traits dependant on their lusus parent. after they got a little older mom kicked them out (except the jades, sorry) and they went to the surface. the lusii, upon seeing the trolls, recognize them as their spawn and the parental relationship starts. i like the hc that the lusii communicate with the trolls telepathically so we're going with that. when the trolls mature they return to the queen and provide her with the first slurry and the cycle begins! now, at this point, fuchsias dont exist yet. crazy, but i got a point. fuschias never had lusii (i think doc scratch created fefs lusus), so by this hc they were never made with the rest of the trolls! i think that fuchsias were first made by accident. the first fuchsia was made when the slurry for that sweep had a lot of violet and burgundy contributions. that, plus a cooler temperature in the caverns, created an entire new blood caste! the fuchsias had no lusus, so they were raised communally by the adult violets and the violet lusii. as the trolls advanced the fuchsia lifespan proved to be the longest so the first fuchsia empress, a violent warmonger, slowly took control of the whole planet and established the caste system. it kind of all went downhill from there. the trolls forgot their origins due to empire propaganda (cant let the other castes know that fuchsias were made by accident!) and the lusii became nothing more than custodians to the young trolls (and became dependent on trolls for food/habitat), and the queen mother and her daughters after her nothing more than grub factories. the only ones who know that fuchsias are technically mutants are the jades, which is why i hc that the dolorosa was so quick to go "hey lol fuck the empire!" and steal a baby and why kanaya and porrim dont really treat feferi and meenah with any special treatment just because theyre fuchsias. ((sorry for the bomb in ur ask box i just had to share this hc))

anon your brain and your meat are huge

I love this very, very much

I topo think that trolls and at least the mother grub are the same species but honestly this headcanon makes a LOT of sense and it's right up there with perfection

[ranocchiowo]

hi! 7, 8, 34, 38 for the gender ask game :)

hi!!!

7. What is your favorite part of being transgender?

oooh thats a hard question to answer lol

i really really really love the sense of community that comes with being trans! i also really love the freedom that being trans offers, which sounds strange at first when you think of how trans people are treated in society, but i love the freedom to be able to explain who i am with other people who understand and who will accept me with open arms! i love seeing a trans flag and knowing theres others like me, others who have faced the worst society has to offer and keep going. i love our elders, who fought, who keep fighting. i love all trans people and i love being trans because it feels like home to me!

(oops i put so many sknsjsms)

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8. How would you explain your gender identity to others?

i still dont really know haha

i could get all technical and say that im somewhere under the nonbinary umbrella, a little bit agender, a little bit greygender, somewhat male aligned, parts that i dont even know about yet, etc. but the queer and trans/nonbinary labels fit me and i love them for it! also the flags are gorgeous, which is always a plus lol

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34. What advice would you give to other trans people, or what message would you like to share with them?

(okay im super bad at advice so bear with me)

the best advice i can give to other trans people is to slow down.

being trans is fucking hard, and it becomes a lot harder when you feel pressured to come out, start hormones, get surgery, etc. and i want you to know that you dont have to make decisions like that immediately. although i realised i wasnt cis a few years ago, it took until a few weeks ago to realise that i might want to start t at some point but i dont want to at this point in my life, because its a big decision to make and im nowhere near ready for it.

i feel the same way about coming out. while incredibly drunk with a sober friend i told her about my name and pronouns and i regretted it the next day, not because i dont trust her, but because i didnt feel ready. theres people in my life i dont ever plan on coming out to because i simply dont want to. and thats okay

i feel like trans people can rush into their transitions in case people call them 'trenders' or whatever when the only person who should be concerned about how and when you transition is you! you decide when or if you tell people! you decide when or if you get hrt or surgery! its your body and your life and its okay to take your time to make decisions like this! youre gonna be okay, i promise <3

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38. What is your sexual and romantic orientation, and what are your thoughts on it?

if youve been on my blog in the last month or so you might remember the little... crisis... i had about this where i had trouble letting go of the lesbian label. im very happy to announce that not long after that i let it go, and it didnt feel like i was betraying a part of myself anymore, and it actually helped me figure out my gender more so wahoo!

anyway, i usually describe myself as an arospec acespec queer.

i consider myself to be demiromantic and somewhere along the asexual spectrum that i cant figure out (idek if i am on there lol! joys of discovering yourself).

i use the queer label because every other sexuality label just does not fit, like at all. im attracted to people of all genders (i think 😬) but although ive used labels like pansexual in the past, now... just doesnt fit! so dont worry if thats happened to you, even if a label fits you definition-wise, if you dont like it - dont use it! i love love love the queer label, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside and thats why i use it!

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okay this is so so so long!!! im so sorry!!! but i hope you got something out of my answers <3 <3 <3