#Ask Meme Thingy

[inbetween-beast-and-man]

//give me one fact about your oc and Ill ATTEMPT to make a collage for ya character

[altraviolet]

the thing. the thing he couldn't practice in the airlock.

or something like that i don't remember 😭

LOL oh yes. the thing he couldn't practice in the airlock >D

[flashbic]

Which of your bois would you stick in a salad spinner :D

That's just rotating him in my mind but with an extra step and I'm already doing that all the time, so. it gotta be Falconi

[stellarhoxy]

Tagged by @loniface

Last Song: (G)I-DLE - Put It Straight (싫다고 말해) (Nightmare Ver.)

Last Film: Star Wars 1

Currently Reading: One Piece manga

Currently Watching: Aint really actively watching any series really atm.

Currently Consuming: a can of cherry coke

Currently Craving: some fruit probably

Not gonna tag anyone who wants to do it can!

[starberry-cupcake]

Getting to know my mutuals! List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox of some people who liked or reblogged something from you recently (if you want)! (ू•‧̫•ू⑅)♡

Learning new things that I'm interested in

When a story comes together

Café con leche at breakfast and merienda time

Crafting or creating new things from scratch

Finding new perspectives on things I thought I knew

[tjerra14]

stealing from @finrays because this looks fun!

rules: choose 4 of your favorite characters from 4 pieces of media as options and let your tumblr pals decide which one most suits your vibe

please feel free to steal from me too (is it stealing if you were invited to it? You decide.)

[nomisupernova]

5, 11, 23, 26 for the Naruto ask game

5. Fav. Naruto movie

I've only seen a small handful so far, so my opinion may change over time, but I liked Stone Gelel... The little guys were so cute in that movie, PLUS GAARA WAS THERE. AND KANKURO. HELL YEAH.

11. Fav. technique

Probably a tie between Mizukage Mei's Lava release and Asuma's Ash Pile Burning technique. Both are a big inspiration to how I designed my oc, and also both moves look rad af....

23. Who is the best hokage?

Tsunade because she got shit done unlike all of the fuckin' failures before.

26. Which character you want to be your teacher and why?

I answered this in another ask ;)

[remmicreates-mlb]

This is just kind of a brainworm I wanted to share, and your art style feels like it vibes with the humor/mood of the piece.

Barbie/Ken mugshot meme. Ladybug is Barbie. Rena/QB/Chat/Carapace are all crowded in together, clowning for the Ken picture.

Wasn’t planning on doing this trend but this sounded fun soooo :)

Might render it later but we’ll see,

[ahamkara-apologist]

The only thing I want to know is #1 for Aeris.

Mildly concerned by the intensity of the bolding that you've got going here friend

1.) Do they sleep with a stuffed animal? If they have multiple, who’s the favorite?

-As of right now? None :( Aeris being a guardian means that he's got basically no personal belongings that are actually his, outside of what he's received for work. His bedroom is extremely spartan and rarely occupied; it's mostly just used to stash the various miscellaneous stuff he collects when he's out on call, like extra spinmetal sheets, festival of the lost masks, random crap Archie brings him, the like. Marcelline (his half-sister) tries to get him gifts sometimes, but since he doesn't really have any hobbies outside of getting bitten by venomous snakes (for research purposes) and is shy about receiving gifts, its just a lot of touristy knickknacks and shit. No stuffed animals :(( he just hugs the blankets in a ball in the rare event that he does sleep in a bed

When he was a kid in the Dark Ages, though, he did have one: a chocolate-brown stuffed hare made from a repurposed mink stole, given to him by a passing delegate who took pity on ambassador Yusif's* strange, quiet bastard son when they were visiting. It was just one of his kid's extra toys tied up with a ribbon to match Aeris's eyes, but he loved that thing to bits. He used to carry it everywhere, chew on its ears to stim, and be unable to sleep unless he was curled up around it. It was creatively named Mr. Rabbit- not by him, but by Marcelline, who had a whole fleet of stuffies herself

Yusif got rid of it when he hit his teen years, because he was embarrassed of Aeris's attachment to it and wanted his son to become a 'real man'. Aeris resented him deeply for it, and it just served to make him withdraw even more into himself, which didn't exactly help his case of growing from a strange, quiet little boy to a creepy, unsettling young man that most people stayed away from (unless he was bringing them food he'd poached from the forests). It was a raggedy mess by that point, but it was one of the only things that he'd had that had been really his

*Aeris's father, Yusif, used to work as a delegate of sorts between warlords and the common folk in the Austrian Alps. He was a very slick-tongued, political sort who had a knack for fawning over powerful Lightbearers well enough to get in their favor, but he had a remarkably short temper and a rather outdated view of gender roles, even post-collapse. Aeris was his eldest son, but he came about after a drunken one-night stand with an Awoken soldier who'd been scouting Earth on Mara's orders (scouting mission- I'm not well versed on Dark Age lore but there's no way that Mara wasn't keeping an eye on Earth one way or another), and his subsequent dumping at his doorstep once he'd been weaned severely fucked up Yusif's brand new marriage. He harbored a resentment for the boy after the fact, which only grew worse when it turned out that Aeris inherited all of his mother's awkward eerieness and none of Yusif's charms, and then grew to outright hatred when Aeris's rudimentary medical training failed to save the set of twins he had with his actual wife when Aeris and Marcie were young adults. Aeris left for the Cosmodrome soon after that with Marcie in tow, seeking a ship to fly them both to what was soon to become the Last City, but they died in a blizzard before they could reach it, trying to shelter in the rusted-out car that Ghost found us in a few centuries later.

OC ask game

[fonulyn]

10?

10. If unpublished, can you show a sneak peek of what you've written?

:3

Piers tried not to let the anger show, but he wasn’t exactly sure if it worked. He pushed his hand between his thigh and the couch to hide how much it was shaking. He had no idea how to even react, not when all he wanted was the impossible, to save Leon from the life he’d lived. And he knew it was unfair to keep asking questions while Leon couldn’t keep from answering, but he couldn’t help himself. “She’s free now! Why are you still putting yourself through this!?”

The half-whispered answer was chilling. “It’s all I’m good for.”

The worst part of it was that Leon couldn’t lie. He truly believed what he was saying, and he thought that he had no value as a person beyond his job. That he had nothing else to give. Which was absolute bullshit. Piers wanted to scream.

(for this thing!)

[smg4-unofficial]

Okay 'club' as we know the plan, we are having to save mario, get candelabra out of his body and then put down a a dog time to egt to work

You name it.

[loumauve]

rules: make a poll with five of your all-time favorite characters and then tag five people to do the same. see which character is everyone's favorite.

tagged by: nobody, bc I'm a heathen who just steals poll setups and then ignores the rules. feel free to participate as well (tho I think a lot of my pals have already done this one, I have been living under a rock called dissociation from terrible circumstances)

I went with explicitly emotional support characters because otherwise the list would be even longer. I have too many faves. the more time you spend in fandom spaces the more the collection grows. I'm sure I'm forgetting some minor character faves from other books/shows/movies/games. rip I'll prob cry once I remember them and feel bad

[flashbic]

🔥 unpopular opinion pls 🥺🤲

You get 2 bc you didnt give me a theme!!

🔥Death Machine: i'd actually be curious to see a remake or a sequel to it in any shape or form? The OG movie is perfect by itself and i love it to bits, but i would also have tons of fun picking at literally anything new, good or bad. It's not something that's needed, obviously, and i would miss the original cast so much, but if it happened i'd take a look!

🔥Cartouche salty opinion time no such thing an unpopular opinion since there's no fandom to speak of im still annoyed that they spend like 5 different eps on the Fleur d'Épine backstory! while Cartouche gets 1 episode that's really more about his brother than about him??? it's still a neat one, but my boy deserved better......

[krys-loves-otome]

Trick or treat! Mostly treat, please!

Mostly a treat, you say? Which means there is a little room for trickery, yes?

And who is better at trickery than dearest Mitsuhide?

A while ago, I made an attempt of using clusters to try and map out my thinking process when it comes to fic writing, so I could try and visually see where ramblings could take me. Here's the IkeSen portion of that (admittedly quite large) clusterfuck of ideas, based on an idea from an old Fictober prompt: You Keep Me Warm

So, based on this image and that Mitsuhide is at the forefront of this idea, let's go have a lil wip!

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The road to recovery wasn't an easy one, Mitsuhide was quick to realize, when he had found you had thrown your blankets off, once again. Even wrapping you as if you were a small caterpillar in the chrysalis did little to deter you. Perhaps he should next seek out midwifes for advice on techniques swaddling fussy infants as clearly his method was lacking. With a sigh, he knelt beside your bed and corrected the sheets, pulling them over your shoulders. It eased his frayed nerves that you were steadily gaining your strength back, thankfully. What he didn't like was discovering your chilled limbs whenever he checked on your during the night. Doubly frustrating was finding other parts clammy with fever. He wiped your brow with a cool, damp cloth. "…Is cold." you whispered hoarsely, shivering. "You'd be warmer if you kept your blankets on." Heavens above, he was turning into Hideyoshi, he thought with a bitter laugh.

Askbox Trick or Treat!

[starberry-cupcake]

For the fairy tale ask, 3 & 13, I'll bring popcorn

Hi!! Thank you for sending some! 

3. What is one of your favourite non-romantic fairy tales?

Actually, my favorite fairy tale in general is non-romantic: The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen.

Andersen had, I think, a very good handle of relationship dynamics that weren't plain or just archetypal, for the genre and the time in which he published. Maybe because he was writing in a place of self fulfillment and poetic intent rather than educational, moral or linguistic pursuit, maybe because he wasn't hetero or allosexual, maybe because he was born at a time in which he could and wanted to deconstruct what he didn't agree with in other stories (especially classism), his relationships don't tend to ever be simple or clear cut, and sometimes are not even endgame.

Not only the main motivator for the story is Gerda trying to save her friend Kai, Gerda also finds friends along the way, like the tough but sensitive Little Robber Girl who turns to care for her very dearly, or the Princess who is in search for a Prince who'd be, more than anything, a good companion for conversation and shared interests.

There is a lot of strength in love without romance in The Snow Queen. Which is probably why it always confused me that people at large thought that Frozen was somewhat doing something revolutionary.

13. Do you have a folklore rant you're holding in? (Let It Out)

I've mentioned this before but it still bothers me greatly: it angers me when people think that, in order to strive for diversity and representation in fairy tales and folklore, they have to slap Eurocentric stories into non European cultures. That's colonialism.

Taking a European story like Snow White or Little Red Riding Hood and stamping on some other culture into it for more diversity is to shoehorn a lot of folkloric remnants of culture, beliefs, religion, social categories of a time and place to people who not only don't hold them but who also have our own stories to share.

To name just one example of the culture I'm most familiar with because it's my own, Berta Elena Vidal de Battini, in the early to mid 20th Century, compiled 3152 texts throughout the territory of Argentina, annotated, cataloged and accompanied by a study of the diverse language changes of all territories and the cultural influences that combined in day to day life of the territory, both the native peoples foundations and the immigration influences.

3152 texts. Stories, fairy tales, fables, rhymes, cryptid encounters, poems, native peoples narrative, popular characters, etc.

Differently from the Grimms, Laura Gonzenbach and other compilers that set to do a similar job, Vidal de Battini preserved, as much as she was able, the linguistic variety of the story tellers, bending Spanish (from Spain) grammar to adapt to the regional vernacular and pointing out why some of these cases occurred and what influence did these things have linguistically.

And that's just one example. There's so much richness in folklore and stories of every culture, because every culture has stories.

I think that what Disney is trying to do lately, of creating new fairy tales that are conceptualized on more diverse cultural foundations, is a step forward, especially since most often there are, as of late, at least partially own voices in the crew. Disney became, whether we like it or not, the biggest platform for fairy tale distribution in the world. When people think of Cinderella, most people think of a light blue dress and a blonde updo. Still, they are a US based company with a capitalist nature and a majority of white folks in positions of power, and that ends up constructing filters and problematic situations, as well as it creates a landscape in which your story needs to pass through those filters in order to be listened to, which implies, it being a US based company, that the story becomes a monetized intellectual property.

I think it's just time to pass the microphone. If you want more diversity in stories, let those people you want to know more about tell their stories. If you are from a culture that doesn't get represented often and are more familiar with Hansel and Gretel than you are with your own folklore, or your first instinct is to re-write a European story to fit you, look around and search, because I assure you there's a lot of stuff there for you to discover and it's more wonderful than what you expect.

Thank you for sending some questions @demigodinmybed ♥ 

[reginrokkr]

Starter call. With classes around the corner, I won't be posting any more calls like this because I want to keep things at a manageable number so I can be consistent with my replies. So count this as one last starter call until further notice!