#AM I OVERTHINKING IT?!

[the-original-skipps]

Suo likes to stand in this pose ↓

What it could mean ↓

[egophiliac]

was this anyone else's first thought, or

[shuaaflower]

I‘m a burden for everyone. I’m even a burden to myself.

[jel-jel-jel]

I have to get these out quick before side order releases

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

something i noticed

A while back, I wrote this analysis reviewing how unfair the magic education system is in Twisted Wonderland. I would recommend reading that before this post, as it provides tons of context for what I’m about to talk about and add onto the discussion.

In 2-6 of the Tapis Rouge event, Vil has stylists from Luxe, a high end fashion brand, dress up Azul, Jamil, and Ace to be a part of his red carpet entourage. Once the boys come out in their new threads and makeup, Jamil and Azul, two individuals who are meticulous about details, provide some telling commentary.

According to those two, the team of stylists that helped them were mages. Azul further remarks that they were quite skilled mages and that having this kind of talent indicates a “first class brand store”. Their hair and makeup is also suggested to be done via magic, though this service is not normally performed for customers. Previously, we knew that skincare can be infused with magic (Vil does so with his own) and that magic can be used to style one’s hair (Jamil tells us in his Birthday Boy vignettes that he does his intricate hair with magic and used to take far longer with it when he lacked the precision). Idia states in book 6 that Jamil had no formal magic training before NRC, so that means Jamil was self-taught in his hair-handling magic.

… Okay but 😭 WHAT DOES THIS IMPLY ABOUT MAGIC AND CLASS??? Is it just a coincidence that the teams of stylists who staff a high class store are ALL mages? Surely not, given how uncommon mages are in the general population. The store (or maybe the brand itself?) must be going out of its way to hire them because I guess being dressed with magic is a more “luxurious” experience than the normal way. We can also guess from Azul and Jamil’s accounts that the degree of magic these staffers use requires significant skill and precision, which either means they need formal instruction or lots of practice on their own. Neither option is afforded to people with naturally low or no magic reserves at all 💀 meaning jobs like this are gated to mages only.

Now, this doesn’t inherently mean the rich and famous people who frequent these stores are also all mages (Kalim’s dad and Vil’s dad are two non-mages who are extremely wealthy and influential); the majority of them must still be regular people since humans seem to be the majority, and 90% of humans are non-mages. It also doesn’t guarantee that the Luxe stylists are paid more than a non-Luxe stylist (although I do think this is possible for a prestige brand, especially if we factor in commissions on sales).

What’s sticking out to me here is that there exists an association between magic and luxury. The reverse also appears to have some truth based on what little other lore we have; Ruggie states that there are not a lot of mages from his hometown, which could imply a history of non-mages being driven into poorer communities. It all fits together a little too well to seem coincidental… but obviously, Ruggie’s hometown is just one place and could be an outlier rather than the exemplar. We know that most non-mages must live an average lifestyle, not the extremes that Ruggie has experienced. Still, the claim that magic is typically associated with the upper class holds and it continues to be perpetuated in the lore.

Anyway, Fellow and Rollo were right—

[starsapphire]

the thing about tim is that his teammates will be like "he always has a perfect plan and it always works and he's always right" and tim will be in the batcave with three separate notebooks and the batcomputer open in front of him just trying to plan a trip to the grocery store because the fridge in titans tower is empty

[nell0-0]

Mask will let the captain have this. Just this once. It wasn't just once.

Poor Mask kept falling to the ground. Luckily for him, either the captain or Tune are there to catch him

A continuation of THIS

Fun fact I didn't know until I started researching for this: apparently when someone looses an eye, it's possible that the other eye adapts. This is not good in the beginning as the remaining eye stops working for a while (???!). While long term it's not as noticeable (just less field of vision and some problems with depth perception sometimes) it's, uh... interesting :,D

Correct me if I'm wrong about this tho. I did my research, but sometimes there's misinformation out there so don't trust it 100% without checking it first.

[im-the-j-in-anthony-j-crowley]

Good omens tag game

Name two things you have in common with Aziraphale and two things you have in common with Crowley

More reasons to love them!

Crowley

1.- Taste for black clothes and... I WANT TO BELIEVE that I look good too

2.- I love Aziraphale Dramatic

Aziraphale

1.- I love books

2.- Stubborn. Really stubborn

No pressure tags: @fearandhatred @bildads-shoes @harbinger-of-existential-dread @di-42 @sayeverythingwillbefineplease @littlekhaos626

And of course, open tags!

[teaboot]

Okay so there's a person I meet with at work events sometimes and when we do meetings the person says "pass" or just a head shake during pronoun introductions and I can't tell if it's awkwardness or discomfort or transphobia or what- I introduce myself as He/She so the person should know it's a queer-friendly space but I'd understand if they wanted to stealth it without lying, but I am unsure what pronouns to use when talking about/referring to the person

The person is traditionally masculine-presenting, and if they're transphobic then deliberately switching up pronouns until the person corrects me might open up a long-term workplace conflict that I'd rather avoid

Is this none of my business?

And yes it is fully possible I just need to touch grass, I'm on new medication today and may be taking things too seriously

[shuaaflower]

Sometimes I think about going totally insane, so maybe the people believe me when I say that I’m not doing well.

[hellenhighwater]

Did you intentionally encorporate the different classical elements into your mythology pieces? I find it really cool that they match up pretty well: prometheus being fire, narcissus is water, orpheus as earth, icarus as air, and then the minotaur as aether. Whether intentional or not, theyre very very cool c:

Actually yeah! Before I'd decided to make Narcissus, this Icarus had been planned to fill the water element.

[enii]

🦔🪞🥺💕

[r-aindr0p]

Uhhh Elias stuff, twisted from no one, he's just a guy !! Since I draw my twst ocs once every century each I'll link his introduction here

Basically an ignihyde student w/ a prosthetic arm (upgraded by idia) and a nature based unique magic + something something "I'm the better hunter here !!" (he is miserably failing at it) Trying to step out of my comfort zone in art context wise and mere text makes my whole being cringe and retract on itself like grafield's face after unsweetened lemonade... So I left it in French, ough

[violinsandblood]

messy polycule for the win

[itslilacokay]

ACTUAL CHODARK?!?! WHAT THE FUCK

bonus

[itsallaboutthebirds86]

Ify is a genius for the reflection move, but it is a sucker punch of implications for the universe of NSBU. By the calm, encouraging way that Vic (and later G13) talk to their counterparts, one can assume that these characters are somewhat aware that they are characters in a movie. Or, at the very least, they are aware that they exist in a universe where certain people are sometimes possessed by, essentially, aliens, that they then have to guide through their lives in order to regain control of their own bodies. By all accounts that should be a horrifying thing to reckon with, but the reflections we’ve seen so far seem at peace with this. It seems like they’ve been through this who knows how many times, and it also seems like they retain memory of their previous possessions, and likely have clocked their possessors use of movie tropes to survive NSBU. Ergo, the six main characters of NSBU are likely AWARE they are main characters in a movie and retain a certain level of invincibility that most people around them do not (i.e. the expendability of the grunts trope).

Which begs the question, what are these guys actually like when nobody from our world is around????