#After graduating from college

[asami246]

懐かしき私

大学を卒業して お仕事を夢中で覚えていた頃の私 見るもの 聞くもの 何もかもが新鮮で ドキドキ輝いていた頃の私です

[corpsentry]

a glass sun 1/2

[tea-cat-arts]

Shen Yuan getting transported into pidw isn't "the system punishing him for being a lazy internet hater," but instead representative of "step 1 of the creative process: getting so mad at something you decide to go write your own fucking book" in this essay I will

[alovember]

I am once again back on my bs w Stan and Kyle being Bill and Ted

[what-am-i-doing-in-this-fandom]

I was wondering, does Fiddleford still have a wife in your Halloween au? And if yes, does she know about him being a vampire?

I've been sitting on this ask for a bit, but I think I should finally answer.

In my AU, Fidds is actually pretty old-- not like ancient or anything, but surely a few centuries?

Anyway, so way back, when he was human, he did have a wife and a kid!! But when he got bit and became a vampire, he actually outlived them :(

He tries to think about them often, but it's definitely one of the things he chooses to erase when he creates the memory gun

[radioactive-mouse]

so i got to thinking about the timeline a bit

[anna-scribbles]

anna the way I am reading your discussions about felix’s degree whilst wearing this shirt

england’s youngest graduate

[peachsukii]

“Not for the right person.”

That phrase burns in Bakugo’s brain for days. What the fuck did Kirishima mean by that? That him and myself are in an open relationship…or wiling to be? It’s driving him batshit insane, but he’s too stubborn to press Kirishima for details. So, he stews in his own frustration for the next week or so.

Kirishima and I had talked about trying an open relationship, purely out of curiosity. Not that we were bored with one another, but it’s something we casually stumbled into talking about in the middle of the night while blissed out in each other’s arms. Needless to say, it was shocking that both of us were okay with it — excited, even. Neither of us named anyone, but I don’t think we needed to even say who we thought of.

Cut to a movie night at Bakugo’s place with everyone, we’re all gathered in his nice ass apartment. We’ve been here before, plenty of times, but tonight felt…different. Bakugo hovers around me more than usual, whether it be standing in the kitchen while snacking on some food or grabbing a drink from the fridge. Kirishima doesn’t bat an eye, in fact, he keeps leaving my side anytime Bakugo comes up to us, as if he’s testing his best friend’s control. He watches with a smirk on his face from afar every time, winking in our direction with approval.

“The fuck is he winkin’ at?” Bakugo snarls under his breath near me, crossing his arms over his chest. “He’s done that five times in the last ten goddamn minutes.”

I can’t help but laugh. “He’s being flirty.”

Bakugo’s about to make some snarky comment when the word ‘flirty’ registers. Kirishima was looking at him, not just me.

[chodzacaparodia]

Yes.

Yes, it is.

[constantvariations]

Thinking about Raven's feelings towards Yang and am now chomping at the bit

You have this woman with a hardcore survival-of-the-fittest, us-or-them mentality due to her bandit upbringing who attends a huntsman academy for the sole purpose of learning to kill huntsmen (because people trained specifically for Grimm somehow find time to be a threat to human bandits. Worldbuilding👍). She falls pregnant by Tai, a huntsman student, and carries Yang to term only to abandon them both as well as her twin at some undetermined point so she can be the bandit queen

That's confusing enough - especially when you consider how maternal Remnant's surname system seems to be (Ruby is a Rose instead of a Xiao-Long, Jacques takes Willow's surname rather than the inverse) and deduce that Raven renounced all claims to Yang by not giving her the Branwen name - but then Raven not only seems to know when Yang is in danger, but jumps in to save her life when no one else can

What was the motivation behind this? Was it a mother protecting the child she left behind but still felt something for? Was it an obligation? Are blood bonds part of some bandit honor code?

Whatever it is, it's well known to Raven's people. When Yang reveals her daughter status to Shay D Mann, he's immediately shitting himself because he laid hands on his leader's kid. Yang isn't even punished for barging in and beating the shit out of everyone! She gets tea, a conversation, and a teleport uber. Even more, Weiss gets to go free simply because she's Yang's friend despite the frankly absurd price she would fetch for the bandits

Not once in any of their interactions does Raven seem to harbor any malice or violent intent towards Yang. I can't recall her having a hand on her sword hilt even when Yang is acting aggressively or when Raven's hurt and cornered in the vault room. Yang gets her way every time they talk (maybe Yang should have tried the "friendship is magic" tall instead of Ruby lol)

Raven clearly loves Yang in her own way, but what that means, why she left, why Yang was so desperate to find her, everything about this dynamic goes unexplored and it drives me NUTS

[tricoufamily]

a current day nils and a 90s college student nils who's way too intense about his internship walk into a bar

[asciuto]

all that you ever wanted from me was sweet nothin' 🐝

[skunkes]

I thought my "struggling to get anything done until its very very late at night, and only for a few hours, after a full day of fatigue and laziness" behavior was a recent thing, in the wake of graduating and being unemployed and out of schooling, but its been at the very least 5 years because I made a comic about this when i was still IN college.

[spocksgotemotions]

I saw a stupid post on instagram about how being called skinny made this person change how they dress and wrecked their confidence and blah blah and with very few exceptions all the comments were like “oh mean fat people! It hurts just as much getting told to eat a burger than being told to stop eating burgers.” And its like I’m sorry you feel bad about your body, but until skinny people are consistently being told to get invasive surgeries or to take potentially dangerous medicines to get fat I will not feel bad for you for being skinny. Like genuinely, I do feel for anyone who is insecure about how they look, that is a shame. But you cannot tell me that it’s because you get bullied for being skinny.

[pinkaditty]

How have you been doing, pink?? Are you recovering well?

Also I saw your tags in that one thing we did abt things we could talk abt for an hour and I almost forgot to ask: how did you get into gyaru??

hihi aya i am recovering well!! not in much pain anymore besides my legs bc they were nearly crushed in the accident but im otherwise okay! my immune system is total dogshit though so i was immediately hit with a bad cold after most of my pain had left and im STILL recovering from that cold. im so tired of being ill

and please call me mal or malibu, ur a trusted moot atp

also i read ur tags on ur post 4 the same thing and im soso curious. please. what do u know about celtic mythology....

anyways. me yapping about how i discovered gyaru. sorry! tw 4 mention of racism.

im just gonna immediately dive in2 the gyaru thing: it started when i was in my first year of college. i hadn't learned of it earlier and almost every day i wish i had discovered it sooner but so be it! i think it was in a random twitter thread about j-fashion that caught my interest. iirc gyaru was the most interesting out of all of them so i decided 2 do some more research on that one.

relevant background: by this point in my life, as all late teenagers do, i was working on completing the mesh that was supposed 2 be my sense of self and i hadn't really decided on a style that was perfect 4 me. i had styles i liked and disliked but nothing that really felt "perfect". i had robbed myself of allowing myself 2 be girly in most of grade school out of the internal need 2 be "different" and simultaneously being depressed, so i was going through my fashion discovery phase a bit late.

anyway, upon going through threads abt gyaru, i found myself just wanting 2 try it out 4 fun. id found myself more attracted 2 girly things lately, so it was hime gyaru that caught my eye first. as cool as yamanba, tsuyome, and ganguro seemed, i just didn't think i quite fit the bill 4 those, so i half-heartedly settled on hime gyaru. the label of gyaru felt right, but being hime gyaru in specific didn't feel like the best-fitting glove 4 me. this is why 4 the first month or so of being in2 gyaru, i wasn't super emotionally invested, but i found myself wanting 2 start anyway. my wardrobe slowly shifted and began 2 include things along the lines of hime gyaru outfits, which were cute! but after a while grew old far quicker than id anticipated. at first, i was dissatisfied, thinking that maybe this was just a fashion phase. despite that, i still decided 2 stick with gyaru, because i liked it, but i still couldn't put my finger on what substyle suit me best.

i should probably clarify that the reason i wanted 2 stick with gyaru so badly was probably because of the history i had found behind it after some digging. gyaru was inspired by many, many things, but an important factor was the style of western african american women in the 70s-80s. bold makeup, long nails, showy clothing, and lots of accessories were in pretty strongly then, considering the surge of black pride after the jim crow era. as a black woman myself, i was immediately inspired. it can be hard 2 interpret when you've never experienced it firsthand, but an entire life of rejection, assumption, and limitation simply due 2 a feature about your skin that you cannot control really sucks, so i, at that point, was also learning how to take pride in my own skin after years and years of being subjected to questionable, at best, and abusive, at worst, treatment from my surroundings. i was totally in awe that something made by people i descended from had become so popular that it inspired one of the biggest J-fashion movements ever. plus, i liked the droop makeup. it was a cute twist. and something really filled my heart upon discovering that japanese women created this style 2 break free from limiting beauty standards. no more conforming. no more coloring in the lines. they wanted 2 escape, and that was admirable. i wanted 2 escape, too.

after a while, a switch flipped. im not sure how or when or why, but a switch flipped. suddenly the girly, frilly, cutesy vibe of hime, roma, and himekaji no longer attracted me. i wanted bold colors, bold nails, bold makeup, and a bold attitude. i wanted 2 do away with the classic girliness of hime and instead veer towards more crass, wild, and colorful styles. "get wild and be sexy" was all i thought about. i wanted 2 get wild and be sexy and stop conforming 2 whatever the white-dominated society of america deemed appropriate. and suddenly! my favorite substyles were yamanba, ganguro, banba, tsuyome, and onee! suddenly i wanted 2 tan my skin a bit more! suddenly i liked hibiscus flowers and plumerias and wanted them in my hair! suddenly my favorite braiding hair color was blonde! suddenly i had the confidence 2 wear bikinis! it was like a tidal wave of change. once the wave had cleared, it had left an entirely new beach in its wake, and that beach was me.

2 be honest, i think the switch was triggered by realizing i didn't have 2 conform 2 the girly standard if i didn't want 2. i could just. be me. and accept the truth that it didn't matter if people liked me or not. at least i was being me.

not much else 2 tell besides that! i changed my wardrobe, started getting long acrylics (i can't function now if they're not xtra long), practiced makeup, decorated my room, changed my attitude (this took some time), and changed the way i type! the whole reason i use "2" and "4" is 4 the sake of the 'textspeak' vibe and because it's cunt. that and i use a lot of gyaru language, but with my friends specifically. im working on integrating it in2 my general lifestyle.

i still have a lot of steps 2 take, but gyaru lives in my head at this point. its been 3 long years of self-discovery, and each step has been perfect. this style is perfect. even before i discovered gyaru, when i would do my makeup 4 fun, i would draw my eyeliner downturned and connect it 2 my eye, like a droop! in a way, it was meant 2 be.

anyways that's that. i promise there's more between the lines here but im tired and its late and i wanted 2 get this ask out b4 too long. just know that if there was a gyaru version of the scarlet rot that Melania from Elden Ring has, i would have it. if you want more details, feel free 2 ask, but they won't be answered immediately... still writing a romeo x reader fic in which he teaches u makeup and that's currently sucking up most of my commitment.

[sukibenders]

Looking back at Girl Meets World, it will forever irritate me especially for how they handled/treated Angela. Oh this show really hated black women because how do you not only 1.) describe her, one of (correct me if I'm wrong) only few black and MAIN characters of the og show, as a "concept" 2.) have characters show obvious disgust at the small mention of her name 3.) depict her as a homewrecker for a new relationship that, really, shouldn't have ever happened 4.) have her old friends treat her like dirt and her old lover like she is the root of his problems, when there was nothing but positive love there 5.) reuse all the concepts from said previous love story just to elevate the new ship with a yte woman and 6.) compare her to Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest hurricanes that caused significant numbers of death, harm, misplacement, and trauma to people, largely of whom were black? Mind you, all these points I mentioned were toward the only main black character of the OG show before the spinoff, and the only, from what I can remember, black female character of the spinoff who didn't even stay long. Not even getting into the racist drama with some of the members on set, but you cannot look me in the eye and tell me that the way the show handled Angela, her story, and her relationship with the other characters + Shawn wasn't fucking disrespectful, you can't because I won't believe you.