#.i have been thinking about this SO much ngl

[milessunflowers]

okay very much inspired by your fic today of drivers crashing into you

can i request reader with maybe haas and/or the aston martin boys and reader gets into a crash, and has burns on his hands and is scared to let his bf see or hold his hand cause he’s worried they’re gonna be disgusted by them and just reassuring boyfriends haha

🥄 <3

imma do the haas boys with this one bc i love them so so much (ill do it poly then separately)

esteban ocon x male!reader x ollie bearman (together and seperate)

synopsis: after a crash that practically ended your career, you had been insecure about the burns that was left behind. they ran up your hands and arms, some lighter burn scars being present on your face. and no matter what you say or think about yourself, your boyfriend(s) are always there to remind you of how brave and handsome you are.

author's note: i need to start writing more for bearcon and gabico ngl like i love both of them sm and hardly see anything. (maybe i should start posting fics abt them on ao3?) if yall have any reqs for them send them in!

BEARCON!

they were by your side the moment you were taken out of the car and taken straight to the hospital. they refused to leave your side for days, only taking small breaks to get each other food, to shower, or to sleep. after you were discharged, things became a bit...weird. you tried to avoid your boyfriends. it worried ollie and esteban. you had never been this distant before, not for this long anyways. you wouldn't even let them help you change out bandages.

you only wanted to be left alone and do things by yourself. you stayed in the guest bedroom down the hall from them. you locked yourself in there most of the time. you hated the way you looked now, the burns and scars left made you feel like you weren't you anymore. it took you weeks just to let them back in. you tried to hide your face and hands, but it was no use at all. they would smile, kiss along your scars and praise you.

"you're so handsome," ollie would say, kissing one cheek while esteban gives you soft smiles and pecks on your other cheek.

"our pretty boy looks even prettier," esteban would add, making you flustered and feel secure enough to start making debuts back in the paddock. you wouldn't be racing for the rest of the season, but you would still go to support your loves, just like how they helped you to regain the confidence you once had.

ESTEBAN!

esteban had watched as your car stalled before catching on fire. he almost dnfed himself at the sight. he felt like his heart was being ripped directly from his chest. he was grateful that you weren't severely hurt, but he was still worried about the burns you sustained on your hands. he knew you already hated how shaky your hands are (totally not projecting), so this would be another challenge he would stand by you to help you through.

he helped you regain control of your hands, helped to reapply the burn creams needed as well as bandaging them, and, most importantly, reminding you over and over again how handsome and amazing you are. oftentimes, if he sees you just staring at your hands, he will grab them to place multiple kisses against them to make you giggle and smile. he always says cute little comments to make sure you aren't feeling down. he will write you little notes on the bandages to keep that beautiful smile on your face.

OLLIE!

he probably cried more than you did at the sight of the burns and scars that covered your hands and arms. you weren't so much as upset about them but rather disgusted. you hated the way they made your hands feel and look. it took getting used to but eventually you didn't hate them as much, not until ollie started helping you care for them properly.

seeing how careful and attentive ollie was when helping to rewrap them made you absolutely cry. he was confused as to why you were crying until you explained how loved he made you feel. that was the exact moment ollie got even more lovey about it. he'd kiss your hands and shoulders, your cheeks and nose, anywhere he could reach just to hear you laugh. he loved making sure you knew how loved you were and how badass he thought his boyfriend looked with all these scars. he even brags about it to the other rookies how his boyfriend looks the coolest.

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[bluejayadler]

DBDa NGL - Charles deflects

Ooo...Yes! And no! (Look, never gonna be a straight answer from me)

I think, yes, this is definitely Charles deflecting. That's his natural state of being when it comes to anyone prodding at any of his emotions that isn't just "happy". Its like its automatic script. "Someone getting to close to an emotion! Divert! Divert!" A smile, a cheery reply, an offer of help - especially as he does have HUGE people pleaser tendencies. Given all that, I think it is definitely deflection. A LOT had just happened and he doesn't want to think. The very next thing he does is jump into the huge distraction that is making out with Crystal (they both wanted the distraction). Charles has spent his life AND afterlife hiding his feelings, his scars, and his pain. He just broke down in front of everyone. He's the brawn, the protector, meant to be the strong one, and he broke down. And, at the same time, he revealed his secret, his shame - not being enough. He opened up, albeit accidentally cause it was kinda like he set himself off like one of his "provisions". But, he said more that night than he probably did all of his afterlife AND his life! Charles views his status as "not good enough" as fact and as his great shame - it led to him being hurt in life, it played a hand in his death, and he probably believes that once the others know it and see it as true, that it will lead to him being abandoned or hurt again. Charles has already physically rejected Edwin's offer of comfort - when he shakes off Edwin's hand at the lighthouse. Charles is still riding that wave of vulnerability, and to him, vulnerability is bad. It makes him weak. It means he'll be hurt. He has to be the happy one, the strong one, the positive one. He can't let the mask slip. But he did! It slipped and he's desperately trying to hold it back in place before the other show drops. So, yes, Charles is deflecting.  BUT I don't think that's all he's doing. I don't even know how much he is consciously deflecting versus that's just his instinctive response.

Because the other thing he is doing is placing Edwin's emotions above his own and also trying to feel like he's enough and to get back to some semblance of solid ground that he's lost. To the first point, Charles is a people pleaser, and its implied heavily that he values Edwin more than himself. And something has clearly been bothering Edwin beyond what Edwin has shared with him. He would view Edwin's crisis and emotional needs as more important than his own and want to give Edwin priority processing time. 

To the second point (being not enough), consider what Charles said at the Lighthouse - his entire rant about not being good enough, which included "not good enough to fix whatever is going on with Edwin." There's two things here to unpack. First, that Charles DOESN'T KNOW what is going on with Edwin. Edwin has withheld information about his interactions with the Cat King, and that has set off all the alarm bells for Charles. Because why wouldn't Edwin tell him. Why would Edwin hide things unless he didn't trust Charles, unless Charles failed somehow? Second, Charles assumes part of it is him not being "enough". Part of Charles is waiting for Edwin to finally open up - because while Charles keeps his trauma a secret, I don't think he believes Edwin keeps secrets from him. Considering how Charles has reacted to Edwin simply not giving details about the Cat King encounters, Charles isn't used to Edwin hiding things from him. And if Edwin is hiding things, he has to have a reason. Given Charles's low view of himself, he's gonna assume it's a failure on his part. Charles needs Edwin to tell him the truth and not hide things from him, because that is their norm. I understand that a lot of fans view Charles's reactions to Edwin hiding facts about the Cat Kind encounters as Charles being jealous. I don't see it that way. To me, Charles is in a state of having his world suddenly become unstable. The Cat King is a threat - he has the power to whisk Edwin away for hours to a place Charles can't get to, he has the power to bind Edwin to this place AND the willingness to keep him bound even after knowing how dangerous it is, and SOMETHING ELSE! But Charles doesn't know what that something else is, just that there is SOMETHING and Edwin won't tell him. Charles cannot protect Edwin if he doesn't know what the threat is, and in his mind, the most likely reason that Edwin hasn't told him is that Edwin doesn't think Charles is enough to deal with it (which is probably reinforced by the fact that Charles can't actually deal with the threat he is aware of).

To the third point (shakey ground) Charles just lashed out at Edwin (kinda) after scaring Edwin and the girls. Charles is probably extremely upset with himself and seeing his father more in him in that moment than for a long time - makes sense given next episode when that all comes out. Charles probably feels like he hurt Edwin and is waiting for Edwin to lash out back or to agree with what Charles said on the cliff, that Charles isn't good enough. Part of him is also waiting for Edwin to prove him wrong, to deny Charles's own claims. And again, there's Edwin's caginess about the Cat King and withholding information from Charles. Then we consider the scene that happened in ep 3, with Monty, when they come back from the Devlin House. Again, many fans reason Charles's facial expression towards Monty after Monty rejects his handshake and goes to Edwin as jealousy. I don't. I view it as rejection. Not rejection from Monty, but a small rejection from Edwin. Because everyone SEES what Monty does. The girls pointedly give a look. Edwin would see to. And while Edwin is often out of the loop on modern day things, he knows the current etiquette for greeting and would've seen that for the snub it was. At least, he should've. But he said nothing. To Charles, that could be tacit approval of Monty's behavior, or at least, a failure to reject Monty's behavior. Also, Charles is very visibly off. He hides it, but part of him probably is hurt that Edwin chose to stay outside with Monty instead of coming in with him after such a hard case. The entire foundation of Charles's afterlife is being shaken up in Port Townsend, and he can't do anything about it. But Edwin can, if Edwin would just say something. Charles has handed all the power to Edwin because while he goes to Crystal for a distraction, its Edwin's words that he needs to return him back to solid ground. 

In the scene, Edwin says "you can talk to be about anything." There's a beat. A beat where the audience sees Charles's face, what Edwin sees - Charles's pauses, fixes his expression as best he can, and then says "you can talk to be about anything too mate". Then there's NO pause! The camera shifts to a wide shot of the two and Charles is already turning. And I think the saddest part is that while Edwin opens his mouth, Charles doesn't wait. Charles doesn't expect an answer then even though he desperately wants it. When he says it, his voice is tight. He turns and LOOKS DOWN! Dejected, hurt (gonna point out that Edwin is not in the wrong and has not actively hurt Charles here in my opinion. Neither are wrong. Neither owe the other all their truths. Its just that neither of them learned how to fucking communicate and process emotions!). This isn't Charles is full deflection mode. Full deflection more is up on the lighthouse saying "all I need is my best mate and a case". Full deflection mode is going to Niko and asking about whatever object she is holding she he doesn't have to focus on what just happened. This isn't that. There is no fake cheerfulness. There is not desperate attempt to change the subject entirely. There's just exhaustion and hurt and "not enough". Unstable ground and Charles is drowning again.

So yes, a bit deflection. And a bit everything else...humans are complicated.

[isalisewrites]

Is Bellamort a misunderstanding of canon in your opinion? To be honest I find more sense in them but I don't dismiss Tomarry or anything like that, I respect your tastes. However, if we're talking about canon we also have to face the reality of what we might not like. Hinny falls into this category and is practically a parallel to Bellamort. Ginny seems to have been inspired by Bella in her personality and that doesn't diminish the character because JKR wrote both as complex characters.

My beautiful wife says, "I'm gonna hold your hand with a ten foot pole and say, No."

Damn, you got my girl to rant so much. Thank you. That was hot of her.

*coughs*

Anyway~

So, there are a few things to unpack here. Once again, I see we're talking about canon and what people perceive as 'making the most sense.' I also see a fundamental misunderstanding of Ginny's character and an inflated opinion of JKR's ability to write.

Okay, so.

One: JKR did not write Ginny and Bellatrix as complex characters. Neither are complex beings at all. Bellatrix is a fanatical simp for Voldemort in canon. Nothing more, nothing less. She is not shown to have anything more complex about her.

Meanwhile, Ginny is a cardboard cutout. She is a very flat character. My girl called her tofu, where other characters add flavor to her. Ginny loving Harry makes sense, but Harry liking her in return doesn't make much sense. My girl said, "Bellatrix/Voldemort makes more sense than Ginny/Harry because Bella is a fanatic." But the fact that you pointed out that Hinny and Bellamort could be parallels of each other... that just makes me dislike the ships even more, ngl. Gross.

Second: canon doesn't make sense. There are so many events in canon that DO NOT make sense. The amount of plot devices in the series is insane. Characters are often used as plot devices, rather than as living, breathing people who make their own choices in spite of what the Author God demands the plot to be. I can often tell when a character is being boxed into something because of JKR's writing.

The TRUE reality is JKR isn't a good writer. Have we been given something to play with, absolutely. But I will not put canon on a pedestal and act like it's god. It has many, many flaws that contradict itself on too many occasions. So, when people argue that I oughta accept what 'makes sense in canon,' there is no sturdy foundation to this. There's nothing that convinces me. Anything in canon can go anyway. The amount of pathway possibilities are immense.

And, again, I don't need anything to make sense in canon to do whatever the fuck I want in these fandom spaces. There is no reality that I don't like in canon. I don't need my favorite ships to be canon.

I don't want them to be canon!

You think I want JKR to write Harrymort??? Good lord, she'd butcher it. She can't even do Dumbledore/Grindelwald right. Why do I have to hear her in the behind the scenes of Fantastic Beasts 2 say, "Dumbledore and Grindelwald has a very strong, sexual relationship."

Bitch, if I don't see them in bed, naked under the sheets, I don't fucking believe you.

Anyway, JKR needs to keep her hands off our fandom ships. *shudders at the thought*

Finally, if I DID look at canon like I cared about it, I say Bellamort somewhat makes sense, but also no because I can't see Voldemort very often as a sexual creature. To me, it takes certain parameters for him to get to that point. A simpering Bella, to me, just isn't it. (And I'm a lesbian and I think she's fucking hot, okay??? None of this is because I don't like her)

ALSO, yall, do you know how many times I saw Bella lusting after Voldemort in fics and vice versa in the 2000s and 2010s before Cursed Child came out? Too many. So, the fact that it became canon just disgusts me because it feels like it was stolen from fandom. Smh. Ew. It pisses me off. Cursed Child just pisses me off. It's like a slap in the face. We wouldn't be having this discussion if it weren't for Cursed Child.

In conclusion, you don't have to justify why you enjoy Bellamort. You like Bellamort? Have fun. I'm sure there are some great fics of them. I will not be reading or writing it because it simply does not interest me. There are no 'realities to face because of canon' because canon has holes in it and is poorly written.

I can logic battle about why any ship is good and how it could come to pass, but instead, we should just go write them.

Fuck canon and go write the wild, fun ships!

Isa

[digitaldoeslmk]

Hello! I hope you are doing well. I have a few questions to ask, if you don't mind them.

How do you feel about LMK S5 and its finale ending? What do you think of Nine? Does he have a legit counterpart in Chinese mythology? If you aren't satisfied, how would have changed it?

Do you think LMK Sun Wukong would make for a good parent, your version that is? Not as a communal grandpa or a guardian/teacher, but an actual parent to his own child. I won't be surprise if Wukong got a direct child, spiritual deities' birth are weird, the baby could have just come from his by mitosis. I hope my ask is comprehensible.

May a kind week come to you, drink plenty of water and eat vegetables 🥦💦 ☀

Hi hi!!

Wow been a while since I came back on this blog, its all dusty TAT thank you for the questions btw! I always welcome them even if Ive been a beit derelict xD

welp. i watched it a while back, so mind you, my memories of the season are a bit wonky. that said, i do recall not caring for it in the slightest, even from episode 1 of it. talk about a fumble on so many levels. needless to say, basically of this season makes it to my au lololol

As for Nine, ngl i did not register who the hell he was supposed to be at all when I watched it. Turns out he *is* part of Chinese Mythology, but NOT from JTTW! The Nine-Headed Demon appears in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, a wonderful catalogue of mythological beasts, and its super duper old! If youreever interested in mythological beasties and critters from Chinese mythology, thats a wonderful book to start with! Some creatures and myths from it do have connections with myths of Nuẅa. so its fair that they brought him in.

A clever enough reference, if anything, but not my jive cus I'm not that fond of the turn the season took. like at all. the way i would have changed it is. not even going there at all lmao

i do have a s5-like plot line that i meant to outline here. but iiiiii got distracted by other interests and never got to it. might as well do it now. and by "now" i mean later cus its like 4am for me and i should be asleep instead of answering oops? ill get to it i prommy ahbsashsbhdf

ANYWAY, funny you mention Wukong as a dad, cus on at least two JTTW sequels, he has kids!! Notably with Princess Iron Fan from when he went inside her in one of his several vore excursions, which, talk about family drama right there?? I havent personally read those books to verify his skills as a parent, they are a thing!

As for my Wukong? Hard to say. I think he would stick to his role as a mentor, which in some aspects is meant to supplant and replace your blood familial bonds. in fact, some of Nezha's early myths and narratives go around him replacing his old man for Buddha, and likewise a pupil's loyalty to their master is meant to be as strong as their filial bonds with their parents. so we are going into a territory that blurs the lines between western and confucian parameters of fatherhood.

that said, my au does focus on different filial relationships, particularly when it comes to MK and Hai'er. I've mentioned it before but I never got too into it, actually. when it comes to MK and Wukong in specific, Wukong reflects his own learning experience under Subodhi. its about adapting to the needs of your student and what kind of learning they seek from you, and in this case, there's a lot MK needs, esp after The Incident. he's supportive and reassuring, and very protective without falling into the 'helicopter parent' trap, especially cus he has no wish to replace either Pigsy or Tang as MK's fathers. likewise, MK doesn't see him as a father figure either.

likewise, i hope this reply made some sense too! wishing you much healthy sustenance and hidration as well <33

as for how MK is a celestial monkey and why? ............ill get back to yall when i post the Cintamani Arc plotline uwu <3

[bygone-paramours]

hi so i'll be copy-pasting my og essay from the el noli community to here ^_^ im ngl im proud of myself for the symbolism stuff HAHAHA so im putting this out there (Again. Because im so normal abt this book) so here it is:

Exploring El Filibusterismo's Themes of Violence Vs. Non-violence Through The Use of Color

please keep in mind that this will also dive into my personal interpretations of some events the book!!

the idea first came to me through isagani's poem in chapter 2 (penguin classics translation):

We are water, you say, you are fire, What you want will be done! It’s peace we require, The blazing flame we shun.

But united, by science made sage, In the cauldrons of a fiery beast, Without anger, without rage, We make steam, the fifth element, Progress, life, light, and movement!

i was immediately interested on the use of water and fire imagery in the poem, and the first thing that i thought of how it could be a metaphor for violence/non-violence, especially in the first verse.

second thing i thought of was the fact that the colors of water and fire are coincidentally also the colors of the philippine flag.

so going off with that in mind, i had an idea. obviously, i'm going to explain this the most normal way i can: through a cartesian plane

fig. 1 - What the hell is he yapping about

this is kind of insane to look at but hear me out

on the x-axis is the degree of violence & non-violence through one of the two colors of the philippine flag, red and blue. these two colors also allude to water and fire

on the y-axis is the positive/negative definitions of the meanings of the colors that can change depending on the tone (i.e adding black or white) (this is also my personal interpretation on how the meanings are changed but it is heavily influenced by both noli me and el fili)

okay! so getting that out of the way i'll go through the characters one by one to show you what i mean :-)

Simoun & Juli

simoun i think is self explanatory, he is a man that is completely consumed by his personal desire for revenge. he is in shadow, and the only light that reaches him is the light from the fires (both literal and metaphorical) he's been feeding. his hair is literally one with the flames.

for juli it's important to note that her clothing is blue and yellow, but that deep blue hue is overshadowed by the harsh orange-red lighting emitting from the back. and she looks like she is looking towards the abyss, on the verge of falling (iykyk...sigh.)

these two drawings reference chapters 7 & 30 respectively

Isagani & Padre Florentino

isagani and padre florentino to me are the highest manifestations of non-violence in this story, though in completely different ways. with isagani literally "saving" the philippines, and padre florentino throwing away simoun's jewels at the end of the book.

for isagani, it is heavily implied he regrets throwing away the lamp; therefore, he is surrounded by the deep, dark blue of the lake he fell into. his naïve worldview has been shattered, and is consumed by the abyss. his future looks murky, unclear, and we will never know whether or not he still clings to his idealism. this is why he’s my favorite of mine mostly because of how compelling he is, and how much potential he has for future development (both in a positive and negative way hehe). he is a man full of love both for his nation and his former lover, who has sharp wit and ideals that can truly shape the philippines for the better. however, in a moment where true selflessness is needed, he learns the hard way that idealism will never be enough.

(i actually have a lot of thoughts abt isagani's actions in this chapter. i'm not defending him tho. he's on his own after allat)

padre florentino is also self explanatory, since his entire monologue at the end of chapter 39 is a whole spiel about how greed and violence corrupts revolution, and how only those with good and selfless intentions can succeed. so i don't think i have to say more abt that.

these drawings reference chapters 35 & 39

Basilio

finally, we have basilio at the center, who has both blue and red lighting shining on him. he is caught between the crossfire of simoun’s revenge plot, and the castilian academy’s development. one of the central plots of this book is basilio’s struggle in maintaining a sense of normalcy which comes to a screeching halt after learning about juli’s death, which is subsequently his breaking point. he is then consumed by vengeance just as much as simoun, but in the end, he is still mostly cast by blue light. his bitterness faltered in the end as he could not fully commit to simoun’s violent revolution.

i think it is also important to mention that one of his eyes has been covered in shadow. i also made an intentional decision to cover some of the characters’ eyes (specifically basilio and simoun) to metaphorically represent blindness, which is an allusion to noli me tangere. since title is a reference to the biblical passage john 20:13-17, it refers to the cancers of the eyelid where José Rizal describes it as "…a cancer of so malignant a character that the least touch irritates it and awakens in it the sharpest pains." they are the only two characters in this poster who come directly from noli me tangere. and they are both "blinded" from the events of those books (in a sense that they both have trauma that heavily influences the way they act in el fili does that make sense)

anyways so that concludes my yap sesh on my el fili poster/book cover >_> putting this out again since this work May or May not be displayed at my school's exhibition which will happen at the end of june!! i honestly hope my drawing's gna be exhibited so im hoping for the best HUUUUU T_T

tbh guys i would KILL to make an el filibusterismo book cover oh my goodness

closeups :3

i’ll make a separate post about the composition of this post soon!! (ill link it here) hehehehe i put Way Too Much Thought into it tbh

[striveattemptfail]

a cursed realization: wade and logan are old men. logan especially so.

they MUST have weird old man habits and general body weirdness. and not the endearing shit like preferring to use old school tech, or having a "get off my lawn, my favourite miscreants" kinda attitude, or being unable to keep up in sex, or any of that kinda cute stuff

i mean the unpleasant sweaty old man smell, having walking farts, snoring while awake, their stomachs just making noises for no goddamn reason bc their digestive systems are no longer 30 y/o

all of which they don't even realize they're doing bc they're old and either a) have more pressing things to worry about [at their age]; b) stopped giving a fuck; or c) both of the above

source: i live with two very old men (my dad and uncle). one is a few years away from retirement and the other is already at that age. they are family but they are still gross old men who act like drunk uncles given half the chance

and while neither logan or wade are in their 60s, these habits don't just magically appear once you hit that age. they begin long before that and accumulate over time until the stinky old man package is complete

"but jercy," you say, "they have perfect regeneration!! they can't have any health problems!! they're too self-conscious to be that gross!!"

1: (re: perfect regeneration) that is an even worse argument for wade, who has mega cancer and canonically does not smell pleasant or have a properly functioning body. he'd 100% have old man problems as a symptom of his cancer bc his mutation is physically keeping him in a constant state of dying. everything he does is out of sheer stubbornness and willpower to make a joke out of his life

1b: to play on a popular headcanon: any aromatic, artificial fruity skincare routine he has can easily be used as a reason for him to cover up his old man smell

2: see point B above for logan

2b: see the movie, logan (2017), or the comic, death of wolverine (2014), for the fact that logan can canonically age/die. albeit it's at a vastly slower pace than everyone else, but it means logan WILL eventually have these issues with his body too, if he doesn't have them already

2c: feral/animalistic logan who takes on animal traits would be so much worse bc wolverines are called "skunk bears" for a reason. wolverines (and any wildlife/animal that you can compare logan to) fucking STINK!! they have EVEN GROSSER ANIMAL HABITS!! you just gotta accept it

3: (re: self-consciousness) you got a point there, but once again refer to point B. most folks i know at their age are on their way to or have already stopped caring about what others think of them. and even if wade and logan are somehow the exceptions to this, i'm sure they let loose in private and probably indulge in their grosser habits when they're alone

4: if you want biblically accurate old man yaoi you're gonna have to contend with the fact that it comes with the non-sexy old man problems. i'm sorry i have to break the illusion but this is the reality we must face together

5: suspension of disbelief, friends. do engage with that once in a while lol

in conclusion: i unfortunately have every bit of confidence that wade and logan are not exempt from old man behaviours and bodily functions and i will die whining about it. thanks for coming to my ted talk

[ohitslen]

*Vampirizes your Vashwood*

keep reading for more :)

If there needs to be much closer close-up please let me know!

[sengenism]

wdym if the petrification didn't happen, modern world gen wouldn't know how to flirt with girls while senku would be ur average dude with 18+ thoughts on his mind all the time....... this is just too funny

[bonesandthebees]

sigh feeling nostalgic for my old fics/the old community these days. I miss it man.

[starflungwaddledee]

Oooo starstruck dee has little stars at the bottom of her feet! Are they just aesthetic or would they make imprints into the ground? (like pawprints)

exactly like that! though she's not the only one...

edit: might need to add some additional dialogue to this to make it more clear, but a clarification in the interim; he knows about his own footprints. he's just surprised to see something similar already there when he knows he's only just landed. he lifts his own shoe to confirm that they're not identical (and also to reveal this to the viewer). seems his stoicism beat off the clarity in this one, sorry 😭

[loveme-likeyou]

whats your favorite way to beat the summer heat with your f/o? do you guys like to go out for ice cream, hang out at the pool or the beach? maybe just staying home with all the fans blasting and trying not to melt?

[casualavocados]

Learn from who? Learn from you? You are still a brat. What do you know? You're only three years older. Like you are any better than me. You're 21, and still a virgin. What are you proud of? I think you can't do it.

KISEKI: DEAR TO ME Ep. 06

[bonetrousledbones]

i am sending this ask to a bunch of people. the reason is that i am curious. here it is.

what is your favorite thing about Papyrus in undertale?

do you think Papyrus will be important in deltarune?

what do you think will be Papyrus' role in deltarune?

what do you think of the "Papyrus is the Knight" theory?

what do you think his age will be? adult or teenager? (kid is not an option cus it would be stupid and no fun)

in what chapter do you think he will show up?

if Papyrus is the Knight do you think he will be nice or evil?

if Papyrus is the Knight do you think he knows what the Roaring is?

you are the fourth person i am sending this to.

well lucky you, you caught me in a rambling mood!

i talked more about this a lil while ago now, but to me the biggest appeal of papyrus is that i relate to him a whole lot, lol. his specific form of loneliness where he's very clearly trying really fucking hard and clearly doing all the things people say you're "supposed" to do to try to make friends, but it's just. not working, for whatever reason. it's a pretty hard-hitting feeling for me and it hits deep, and while it's not necessarrily a good feeling, it's definitely my favorite part of Papyrus if only for how well communicated and "real" it is.

putting the rest under a cut because it's gonna get long lol

when it comes to deltarune, my biggest thought towards it since way back in 2018 has been "i don't have any way of knowing what the hell is going on in that dog's brain." so i don't tend to speculate on the game very much outside of fun hypotheticals! i've honestly never been much of a theorist, i prefer letting everybody else be crazy while i'm just sitting back and letting things play out in their own time.

personally, i'd say it'd be nice for papyrus to have a big important role, but in full honesty i do have some doubts about how likely that actually is. for one, he's very much rooted in being a comic-relief character, so he very rarely seems to be written seriously in general, and for two, i don't think he would have much actual weight?

like, we know him as a character from undertale, and papyrus fans might know how mysterious he is, but most of the fandom doesn't see him as mysterious at all. on top of that, the characters in deltarune have no connection to him whatsoever. he's not one of their classmates, or neighbors they grew up with, or anything like that- he's just the grocery store clerk's shut-in little brother who nobody has ever met.

but, again, that brings me back around to "i don't know what's happening in that dog's brain." maybe they'll finally get to hang out with him & he'll become more involved in the story, or maybe he won't ever show up at all! idk!

naturally, all of that applies to my opinion on knight papyrus, too- it would be awesome and so so so so cool if it turns out to be real, but with the issue of nobody knowing him except sans, my faith in it gets a little dimmed. i do think the amount of hints that could connect him to it have been crazy, though, since most of them genuinely don't even feel like that much of a reach. i'll still be pulling out my cork board and red string whenever i possibly see a chance, rest assured

i really want him to be college-aged, ideally the same age as Asriel. one, so they can be besties obviously, and two, because if he suddenly becomes an underage character after ten years of papyrus fans fighting back against rampant infantilization i am going to fucking lose it

my own headcanon until we get to actually see him is that he's much more nervous, borderline agoraphobic, and much more awkward since he hasn't met any of the people that he very likely gained a lot of his personality from in undertale. considering he spends all his time in a dark undecorated house, the angst-loving part of me genuinely really hopes he's not just gonna be written the same as we're used to, lol

and sadly- judging from the previews we've seen of chapters 3-4, and the fact that they'll most likely take place in kris's house and then the church, i have some doubts that we'll see papyrus on june 5th :(. then again, the light world sections are apparently long enough to need their own save points, so maybe that's a good sign too! i'm personally not getting my hopes up, but it'd be a very nice surprise if we see him at all before chapters 5-7, even if it's just a really quick cameo or something :>

and finally, as for what he would be like as the knight & if he would know about the roaring, i actually thought about this some time ago too! i think he could know about the roaring and even actively be trying to cause it, but i don't think that makes him evil, per se. he doesn't know anyone in this town except his brother, making him even more desperately lonely than he was in undertale, and he's not even trying to overcome it this time around.

so, i think he'd get too attached to the fact that darkners literally have to like lightners and want to be their friends, and he'd want to cause the roaring either to be able to live in a world like that forever, or to then stop it himself and make friends by becoming a "hero." i can imagine him being not evil, and honestly not even all that bad (if you ignore the "casting the world into darkness to maybe make some friends" part), just really, really desperate.

[skunkes]

Redoing my answer for this now that its been 2 months I am kinda step-dad adjacent to her. Snile.

[skitskatdacat63]

Happy One Year Anniversary to Boy King AU!!!! 🎉

Okay wait before I start talking, look at these close ups and the process!! Aren't they so beautiful aaaahhhh

Wow, can you believe it’s really been a whole entire year since my very first post about this AU? Well technically I first started talking about the statuette a day earlier, but the very first sketch was exactly a year ago!! Let us not forget the incredibly prophetic tag on that post: “also in the sense of this au i think the only ship that would work(historically accurate wise) is Vettonso.” Who knew that after that my entire life would devolve into vettonso, this specific period of history, and the lovely combo which is Boy King AU. Also wow this means it’s taken me almost a whole entire year to actually draw a joint portrait of them hahaha. I drew this sketch around the beginning of the AU, but never finished it. It’s fine though because this one is a lot better, and I’m in love with it. Took me a year to draw a couple portrait, and took me almost a whole entire month to finish said piece. 

Okay let me explain this piece, which I am very obsessed with!!! I dragged the process out more than I usually would, but I’m glad, because it was so enjoyable. But also look at that fucking crown, no wonder this took almost a month. Usually I’d write like 50 paragraphs detailing the characterization. HOWEVER! I’ve spent over a month writing little bits of characterization, mostly for fun, but also in preparation for this very post. A lot of the earlier ones, I had this drawing in mind, thinking on how I could expand on the ideas I was drawing. Though there’s definitely some things I could still write about. I’ll probably continue to write more Lore a Days, but yeah, they basically amounted to this drawing where you can actually see the characterization I was talking about displayed. Anyways, here are the explanations of bits in the drawing:

First of all, this is some part of the long process of their wedding. Look at the married couple!! Look at their rings!!!

Okay, but why are there two, almost identical looking pieces?? Because look at their hands!! I talked a lot about how Fernando is the one to give out affection more easily, especially in public, where he knows he can easily fluster Seb. He’s acting all grumpy and out of it, I mean to be fair, it’s probably been such a long ceremony across weeks. But he notices Seb is out of it too, just better at keeping his smile (let’s be honest, even if he’s distracted, he’s super smug.) So Fernando catches him off guard by squeezing his hand. Before that, as you can see, Fernando is just resting his hand on Seb’s outstretched palm, like that one scene from Succession. Very: yes I’m getting married, but I’m not happy about it. The combination of Fernando refusing to even touch him more than lightly beforehand but now going full force, them being in public, and Seb already being distracted catches Seb so off guard he has to try to cover his blush with his fan. He thought Fernando was being super impolite, but now he’s the impolite one!! Getting all blushy and giggly over a simple display of affection, perhaps even ha-

So. Their crowns. Seb’s wearing the crown of Austria, because he is in fact only a king still! Also, because I really wanted to try drawing it after I wimped out of it before in this drawing. Fernando’s a king as well by the point, but the fact he’s wearing only a tiara-like hairpiece is to represent how much of an outsider he still is. At this moment, he’s just Seb’s wi- ,I mean husband, to all these guests. Of course this bitch wears a black veil instead of a white one, to signal that he’s mourning the loss of his autonomy and personhood. Don’t worry too much about his mental state though, considering he’s not depressed enough to be able to resist teasing Seb. 

The fan, oh my god. Back in this era, people would gift/make fans for basically any occasion. To symbolize an event, to celebrate something, to show a story, etc etc. I wish I could have drawn something more narrative, but I think the bull vs. horse is good enough. Also you can see those same symbols on the pendants they’re wearing!! I’m so happy when I can fit irl, modern stuff like that into these drawings, it feels so clever!!

It’s so funny, I wrote a lore a day from a prompt about what they’d be like when doing a joint portrait, while I was already almost through painting a dual portrait of my own! So I got to explain some stuff like their clothing colors and poses before I even posted this. I feel very coy about that still honestly. 

Hmmm what else? It feels so weird to not expand on the characterization, considering I already did it for myself weeks in advance. I can’t imagine what it’s like opening this read more, and seeing more than 10 in-text citations. Happy reading!!!

 Happy anniversary to  this wonderful, crazy AU that makes me download 500pg German papers about 18th century etiquette. I drew a couple pieces of fanart before this AU, but I definitely think it jumpstarted my insanity about drawing/making AUs, and literally is what made me insane about Vettonso in the first place. Remember, if I hadn’t learned about Joseph I/Charles VI, most of my blog probably wouldn’t exist in it's current form. Thank you if you’ve stuck around since the beginning, or if you’re even just learning about it now!! It’s so incredibly niche but I’ve had so much fun researching and building this world and these characterizations, and I hope you’ve enjoyed what I’ve made in the process. I hope I can draw/write many more things in the future. I think next, I’m gonna maybe open up requests. I’d like to try to either write ficlets or draw chibi comics about specific Lore a Day posts on request. I think that’d be a lot of fun, but also will probably kill me. We’ll see!! Anyways. PPlease enjoy this absolute labor of love, which is a result of a year’s worth of work.

[stiffyck]

Can we talk about how Karen definitely has some sort of PTSD because you can't just wake up one day with a knife and bloody hands and a dead coworker on your carpet one and then be fine. You don't get arrested and then almost strangled to death while in custody and be fine. You don't get kidnapped and threatened and then kill someone in self defense and be fine.

Oh my god can we PLEASE talk about Karen and her trauma oh my GOD.