#Because drawing backgrounds killed my grandma

[starburstsobsessions]

I haven’t read the early years 💕

[cloroxcasserole]

I heard that Jillz (created by @sm-baby sorry for the @ btw) was well versed in gen alpha slang so uhm

[mitskikissme]

Take this ace into the new year with u. He'll keep u safe

[angstphilosophy]

tom lockjaw

[sheerakk]

comic assigment for school. The dialouge is really corny (because I spent almost no time thinking it through) so you're not getting any translation from me. Only fellow polish people can laugh at my writing skills (please don't, I'm already in tears).

[ocean-mare-art]

Pop Starfield makes her Tumblr debut!

[hanburgers]

A little fashion photography study! Good to get the ol brain whirring. Here's the reference.

[sandwichhour-too]

Because learning to draw backgrounds killed my grandma, okay!?

[prismjiinx]

I do not have the time to draw currently but I did manage to squeeze these two sketches because boiii do I have some thooooooughts about changing skies. (But mostly these two. It's always these two. Did you know they take turns rotating in my head? Now you do.)

Ramblings under the cut:

It's been theorized that the clans will be changing territories again in the new arc. I don't think I'd personally mind a new set of territories and locations, but then again it's all about the execution in the writing. In any case, these sketches explore the scenario of that happening: the world is dying around the clans again and they'll need to find a new home again.

And, provided they aren't killed off in a mass extinction event (which, lets be honest, we definitely need that. There are too many characters in Thunderclan alone), I'd like to see a little bit of the cast that isn't the main travel party react to the events around them, being old enough to remember the destruction of the forest and now witnessing it all over again. Birchfall and Whitewing would be two such examples.

Birchfall lost three of his siblings to the event, with his parents being especially distraught because of the tragedy. It would be nice to see him as the second eldest senior warrior, despite crumbling in the beginning due to his own awful memories, step up to the task. It would come full circle in a way: he was the youngest Thunderclan cat then, and now would be one of the seniors, guiding the younger cats through the journey and to reassure them that they can get through this, they have gone through this once before. They can do it again. They will do it again.

Whitewing's parents were captured by twolegs and missing for quite a while and her grandma Frostfur stayed behind as she was an elder and not fit to travel.

Now her parents are elders, possibly unfit to make the journey themselves, and will mostly likely stay behind.

From the very beginning, even as a background character, Whitewing was shown to be very close to her parents, much more so than other characters (when comparing the writing of parental relationships from the earlier arcs to now especially). So I could imagine that, should Brightheart and Cloudtail choose to stay behind, it would absolutely brake her spirits. She always had her parents to turn to, and now there's the very real possibility she has to leave them behind? And never see them again? She would try everything to convince them otherwise, but would in the end have to accept that she needs to move on.

[helmarok]

(descends into your inbox like the Lord ) hello brother … would love to know your favorite scenes / moments youve made in your brain for your interps of the mcsm gang . they are like specimens to me …

OMGGGGG this essay is gonna be crazy

i have many favorite scenes so ill give you 3 i havent drawn yet

1. the lukas and aiden fight

in my au, lukas and the blazerods are siblings raised by lukas' grandma. aiden and maya+gill are adopted (maya and gill being biological siblings). while maya and gill appreciated the life they had, aiden was always on a mission to get the most attention and be the "favorite", especially with lukas. he would snitch on lukas for sneaking out to help petra and only do chores to get praise. everything was a competition to him, he had to be the favorite. i could go further into the background of all this but i still have to tell you about 2 other scenes so ill have to cut it short. anyways, aiden still hates jesse ofc. its just most of the episode is centered around lukas because he doesnt get time to shine like petra does for a whole season lol. but yeah the reason aiden hates jesse so much after the witherstorm (before that he just hated jesse for being a loser) is because jesse, loser that he hates, now had all the attention on them, and aiden can't stand to see someone else in the spotlight! especially if that someone else is jesse. and *especially* if that someone else is his brother he's always had this one sided rivalry with.

because this episode is focused on lukas and aiden's relationship, the two of them fight eachother before jesse is able to make it back into the throne room. and lukas can win a brawl but hes not very good with swords, which aiden had. so he gets knocked to the ground, and aiden holds his sword pointed at lukas' throat, and tells him he's always been a spoiled brat and a coward, he never deserved to be a hero, and starts laughing at him and saying all he can do is freeze up like a deer when hes scared (which despite aiden not knowing this, makes lukas feel guilty about freezing at the nether portal again). and at this point, aiden is so off the rails with jealousy that lukas is thinking "is my brother actually gonna kill me right now?" and then jesse barges in and sees lukas with a sword at his throat and charges towards aiden, and their fight happens. i want to draw this scene so bad but i hate drawing 😭

2. recovery after the pama battle

i added a recovery period after pama, because people died and jesse almost did and petra almost did and lukas still wasnt doing too good either. erm basically in their battle petra fractured jesse's ribs, broke his arm, broke his nose, smashed his face into glass, he had adrenaline dragging him through but as soon as petra woke up and was okay he was out. but most importantly this recovery period is ivor's "redemption" and how he learns more about harper.

as the alchemist, ivor has been the "healer" of the party throughout the portal arc, though always reluctantly. someone would break their arm and he'd be all mad about having to use a potion to speed the healing process, and complain about how "you fools are wasting my precious resources on your petty injuries" (he had plenty of potions.) but after the pama shit, jesse almost dies, and because ivor has grown to care about them whether he likes it or not, he actually rushes to help them... he refuses to call them "friends", but these 3 fools are all he really has. ivor prioritizes helping jesse and petra, but harper asks for help too. her people were in even worse condition after being chipped for so long. the first people to get chipped 15 years ago actually ended up dying, and so did many others who were chipped for around 10 years. survivors were in critical condition. so ivor, who doesnt care about anyone, is asked for help. and because he sees himself in harper, he does... he gets harper to find him ingredients and he brews a giant pot of regeneration II, which he has all the survivors in town take a shot from. it's not enough to heal them completely, but it's enough to heal them so they are no longer on the verge of death. its kind of like the turning point of his character. he's still an old grouch of course but a slightly less selfish one. and no matter how hard he tries to push away any guilt, he still deep down feels like he owes something for all the lives he destroyed with the witherstorm.

3. jack and petra talk

i really like their dynamic... that's her dad man... so i wanted them to have a serious talk at some point in the underneath. while on the road to the oasis, the party takes breaks to rest. xara goes out to hunt, so jack volunteers to take watch while everyone sleeps and petra offers to with him. he asks her why and tells her she needs to get her rest, but petra says she cant sleep. they sit in silence until jack finally asks her if she's doing okay. petra says she should be asking this of him, cause he's been the one fucked over by romeo the most. but jack is genuinely concerned, cause he's noticed petra is a more jumpy than usual and been talking less, even to jesse. she's kept to herself since the incident in the sunshine institute. jack starts to ask her about being romeo's champion, what happened, what did he do. and petra doesnt want to talk about it at first, but jack gets her to trust him as a fellow tough guy who doesnt like looking vulnerable. so she tells him all about how romeo made her relive things from the past, would fight her as people she cared about, and showed her friends talking about her behind her back, the things they said about her. (none of which was true- again, just mind games to get petra to side with him) she told jack about something jesse supposedly said to him, but jack told her they didnt say that... whether she wants to believe him or not, it was true. so she starts to doubt what romeo showed her, though not completely.

they talk some more, and jack is the first person who petra tells that she's decided, if they make it through this alive, she's leaving beacontown. but she tells him she doesnt want to leave without jesse cause they mean a lot to her but doesnt know if they feel the same, or even if they do if they'd be willing to leave beacontown just for her. and it's jack who convinces her to talk to jesse and tell them how she feels. cause jack doesnt tell her this but he knows jesse loves her and would gladly go if asked, petra just doesn't see it since she's too caught up worrying if jesse even wants to be her friend anymore

literally starving writing this im gonna get a sandwich now lol

[muselixer]

dumb things my friends and I have said: 2023!

part one: january - march apologies ahead of time for length! feel free to change pronouns if need be. warning for foul and dirty language, and capslock-implied yelling :)

“Am I okay? Maybe. Probably not though.”

“Well she deserves to look old.”

“Got spotted throwing it back...”

“I have never wanted to be someone else as badly as I want to be that bitch.”

“Should I be the most vampiric person in the Petsmart today?”

“Accidentally became a femboy again.”

“Femboys are a dime a dozen and simultaneously so rare.”

“MOTHERFUCKER CAN YOU LOOK?”

“Ooh, look at me, I answered a fucking question.”

“This is only proving that I either have a hyperfixation or a problem.”

“Ugh, it smells like a bathroom in here.”

“He scarred those poor people for life, and he’s my idol.”

“That man has never shotgunned anything in his life.”

“Okay, so I didn’t realize how midnight it was.”

“My teeth feel like there’s an Apple airpod in my mouth.”

“We can only commit crimes Tuesday to Thursday, after hours.”

“Ahh, Cheez-Its. My one true love.”

“Grease Lightning thought automatic cars were cool.”

“I was having loud reactions in my home. That were not voluntary.”

“I feel like a Waffle House that closed due to weather.”

“My humor is that of a roach.”

“I would Toot Canal him so hard.”

“Eat shit, lint-licker.”

“We all know ‘draw background’ killed your grandma.”

“Lo and behold, guess what you did boy. You died.”

“That man read Fifty Shades of Gray and thought it was based on a true story.”

“The way my arm just bent is NOT fictitious.”

“The things I’d do to be in a microwave right now.”

“Actually, YOU should shoot MY ass― That was bad, I’m sorry.”

“It’s not ACTUALLY meth because what the fuck, but it’s like meth’s goody two shoes cousin.”

“I have no defense but I also have no shame.”

“Wait a minute, I want free money just for being gay.”

“I CAN PISS LSD?”

“I was less depressed, but significantly higher.”

“No no, you have my permission to call me a slur.”

“You have the reaction time of a sandal.”

“Sorry, you’re saying I can’t think catboys are hot?”

“I used to have a last name, but she took that in the divorce too.”

“Oh, HA, the AI called the wrong person a Jew!”

“I don’t even lose an hour of sleep, I lose an hour of being awake.”

“Those are my brain cells. They are dying.”

“Deadass built like a Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 NPC.”

“I need to go home. I’m about to be so mean to an optician.”

“I need to eat my fucking keyboard, I’m so sick of these people.”

“The written language is a light switch and my ADHD is the Spongebob Nosferatu flickering the lights.”

“Violence isn’t an emotion, but it is now.”

“The worst part about dying is that I lost the spaghetti.”

“If it’s gay to be time-efficient, then I don’t wanna be straight.”

“I shat in it for flavor and then pissed to fill it up.”

“He got bitchified.”

“I’m ready to finally be a bitch.”

“Oh, so we’re seeing Star Wars characters now?”

“I wasn’t bullying you. You were just suffering in my regime.”

“Who needs art when I have infinite rizz?”

“He can’t tell you he likes you all the time? Lame.”

“Reason has left the chat.”

“Fuckin’ dump a gallon of bleach and ammonia into a toilet and just lock the doors.”

[vaingloury]

Disparate Thoughts on Dungeon Meshi

I'm an anime-only watcher, so no spoilers beyond what's currently aired (eps 1-3) + mild map spoilers for a random 3.5e D&D module (Sunless Citadel).

- I'm not the first nor will I be the last to harp on the English localised title but Delicious in Dungeon sucks. I do, however, think going with the "DnD" naming scheme was a nugget of a good idea (let's face it, "Dungeon Food" sucks too). Maybe "Diners in Dungeon"/"Dungeons & Diners" instead (as in those who dine, not a place where one dines). Or "Dungeon Dine" (like "dungeon dive"). Regardless, I'll just be calling it Dungeon Meshi going forward.

- I don't know if this is coloured by me going into this series with the knowledge that Ryoko Kui loves Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 or a wider ripple effect of eastern dungeon-fantasy conventions being shaped by there not being an official Japanese translation of D&D between Basic and 5e, but the world-building's vibe is old-school D&D as hell. It feels like it was written by someone who maybe never got the chance to play the tabletop game much but spent hours poring over the 1e Monster Manual in hopes of getting a campaign off the ground (and ended up penning a manga instead, game scheduling be damned). There's the disarming of traps, feeling for secret doors, and even the iconic red dragon as seen on the covers of the Basic Dungeon Master's Handbook and 1e Monster Manual being the dungeon boss. Design-wise, the dungeon's layout it reminds me a bit of the map from Ruins of Castle Greyhawk or The Sunless Citadel (pictured below, right).

- The main cast is very tropey at the moment. Quite literally all the Basic classes are covered; the generic white man Fighter (Lv 1, no multi-attack yet :P) as the party face, the halfling/thief, the elf/wizard, the missing cleric, the dwarf... This works for this point in the narrative but doesn't make me particularly attached to any of them. They need another overarching obstacle.

- I generally don't like Studio Trigger's output (not the Imaishi-involved stuff anyway; Gridman fucks) but I respect how bouncy their animation usually is. So, I was excited to watch something animated by Trigger but not (originally) written by them. Dungeon Meshi, however, looks static and resorts too often to Dutch angles to maintain visual interest. There's a bit of an art shift in episode 3 where this improves; more fun "off-model" moments, the movements get a little bouncier, more color harmony. Hopefully, this stays and isn't just a guest director fluke. Form the snippets I've seen on the manga, Kui suffers a bit from "draw background killed my grandma", thus her ability to make her simple character designs emote well has to carry the page. The anime does the opposite; super detailed backgrounds but flat shading/lack of texture on the characters creates a need for them to over-emote with a "screen-shake" effect in order to stand out from their surroundings, which I could see getting old fast. The main event, the food, looks better in the anime than in the manga due to colour and animation bringing it to life.

- I don't usually laugh at Japanese comedies because they're either too slapstick for my tastes or too pun heavy for my JP comprehension level. Dungeon Meshi gets a point for making me "lol" more than once.

- Finally, a good panty shot:

- I watched episode 3 dubbed. EN Marcille > JP Marcille (I say this as a stickler for subs). The rest of the dub cast is fine but I'm probably sticking with JP because JP Laios' ability to scream > EN Laios (EN is a great generic white man, though). I'm not familiar with most of the JP voice cast. I think Chilchuck is my fave in JP.

Both languages have little breathing room between lines of dialog and I was hoping the EN dub would play around with the fact that the character speaking isn't necessarily the one on screen (thus less lip-flap matching, especially for Senshi, who has few indicators that he's actually speaking even when he's onscreen) but alas. I'll do another one of these if I have more to say later in the season 🥂

[riflebrass]

I had a dream a few years ago that would make a great novel if I could just flush it out.

In this dream my grandma was still alive. There was a big family reunion to see her and my wife and I decided to spend a few days with her since we hadn't seen her in a long time. Turns out the house is haunted in a kind of poltergeist seeming situation.

It turns out grandma had telekinetic abilities that she never really talked about. A lot of "lucky" things that happen like things randomly falling off a shelf and right into her hand are from her powers. The problem is that grandma is in the fairly early stages of dementia and is losing her ability to control it. During the day she's a little forgetful but can still keep a handle on things, but at night things get really bad and that's why the house is "haunted".

To make matters worse I had been told growing up that my parents had died in a car accident but the truth was that mom left us and dad crashed the car to kill himself. So when grandma calls me by my dad's name it's not just getting a little forgetful with names, a part of her believes I really am her son. She was kinda cold and distant towards my wife because she thinks that's my mom and she fucking hates her for taking her son away from her like that. It's completely illogical for my dad to simultaneously be there alive AND be buried in a cemetery but dementia is really like that.

So during the day she realizes I'm her grandson and all but at night I'm the ghost of Robert or whatever and hell hath no fury like a telekinetic who thinks you are the reason her son is dead.

The heartbreaking ending is that grandma is about to kill my wife and I have to pretend I'm my dad. I hold her while she cries telling her everything is okay then I tell Lenny all about the rabbits...

I've never been married and almost none of that relates to my actual past. I had several uncles who don't really exist yet in the dream I had known them my whole life.

I think this would be a great horror story to write because there's a hint of my background to draw inspiration from but nowhere near enough connections to make it a self insert.

[shadowydonutperson]

@soaps-mohawk

This is Quinten (my OC)

She is a Mortem Omega.

Mortems are not aggressive and violent unless they are threatened or if they are provoked.

They rely on their animalistic brain, therefore they can smell the slightest bit of adrenaline and cortisol (stress hormone).

The kill instinct is there and will kick in if their mates, pack members, or if they are threatened or in danger.

Only allows trusted and bonded pack members in their nest. Is a mother cat to other omegas especially if the omegas are unbounded, and very nurturing to pups (children).

Can create a brotherhood/sisterhood bond with other omegas for both unmated and mated omegas.

(Unless she loves them romantically.)

Due to their instincts they do unfortunately get euthanized if they ever show their animalistic side.

Libido is extremely high when she is in heat and non heat cycles.

Can follow an Alpha's commands, and also be submissive to them.

(basically she can do just anything that an Omega's biology makes them do.)

Her scent is Vanilla, orange, and cherry blossom.

Has thick curly brown hair.

Vibrant green eyes.

Pale skin.

Has freckles literally EVERYWHERE on her. (All natural.)

Short, curvy but physically strong.

Has ADHD.

Insomnia.

Night terrors.

Can pass out due to high blood pressure.

asthmatic.

Autistic. (Loud noises, heat, or bright lights in general.)

Sleepwalks. (Worse after anything horror), under stress (if she takes melatonin for it. Also can worsen it).

Her favorite color is Teal blue.

Her favorite animal is a red panda. She has a red panda squishmallow she has gotten as a courting gift from Soap, and a beaded bracelet from Ghost. She takes very much care of them.

She's a cuddler if she's able to trust enough. When that happens she'll squeeze herself in between Soap and Ghost because she can. (Her words.)

Ethnicity: Swedish

Languages she can speak: English, German, Swedish, (working on Spanish.)

She is 21 currently.

She is a Sagittarius.

DOB: December 18th.

5'2.

Loves kids, wants a few in the future. Fine with biological and adoption.

Last name is Classified for legal reasons and due to her Biological Status.

Has a necklace that had once belonged to her baby sister, a watch that had belonged to her baby brother that was gifted to him by their grandfather who was in the Army before his passing.

She never takes the necklace and the watch off unless she is deployed, showering, or sleeping.

Laswall and Simon knows about her status as an Omega and has proven to Simon that she isn't a weight to be dragged but an asset to the taskforce.

She is claimed by Simon as his Omega via Bite mark. (I forgot to add it in the drawing.)

She can pick up Soap (Johnny) and pick literally drop him. 😂

Her parents are an Alpha & Beta pairing, her (Dad's parents) Grandparents Beta & Beta pairing.

Mom: Alpha

Dad: Beta

Grandma: Beta

Grandpa: Beta

Younger sister: Beta (not presented)

Younger brother: Alpha (not presented)

Younger brother: Beta (not presented)

(All family members have passed)

Since she had scent blocker collars she was able to pass as a Beta and get her piercings and tattoos without an Alpha's or a Beta's permission.

Background: (TW: DEATH, ABUSE, MOMMY AND DADDY ISSUES)

Quinten is the first born out of four children. She was born in Visby, Sweden. As a child she had a loving Dad, and a neglectful Mom, after her mom had her younger siblings she became extremely emotionally abusive. Her father became distant after the younger ones were born.

Later her mom became physically abusive to Quinten and her siblings. Unfortunately she had to step in to take the hits, her "mom" would give them.

A year later her father owed a debt to some very sketchy people but unfortunately wasn't able to pay it off. Which caused these people to pay them a visit to the family.

A few weeks later when Quinten had gone to the store for some after school work as a janitor, (she had a scent collar that blocked off her actual scent allowing her to pass as a beta.) she came home late at night and smelled something extremely foul and cortisol (stress hormone) she knew something was wrong.

Her parents and siblings were long gone when she came home. She was 17 years old at the time.

Within the months of her 18th birthday she had enlisted in the Swedish Royal Marines for Women. (Idk what they call it there.) After paying for some very expensive scent blocker pills she had passed her training as a mechanic, Laswall had recommended Quinten to Price to TF141.

She is a gifted mechanic, her talent came from her Grandfather who was a Norwegian engineer in WW2 (before the invasion and takeover of Norway.) for the Allie forces and taught her when she asked him to. (Before her presenting age.)

She met the guys not long after the Taskforce was created, took a while for her to trust and bond with them. Which wasn't easy for some of them. (Ghost) At the time she kept to herself and never told them that she was an omega the whole time. Mostly because she had a history with abusive Alphas, and asshole Betas who treated her like shit solely because she was an omega.

Her having a pack was an odd thing for her to get used to. But still couldn't tell them what her rank really was yet.

Personality wise:

Keeps to herself, unless trust is formed. Intuitive when something or someone is sketchy or odd. An ambivert (introverted and extroverted). Very independent, does not like being told what to do unless for a reason. Knows what to say and how to approach it. Emotionally intelligent, either your biggest cheerleader or your biggest pain in the ass. (There's no in between. Big sister instincts.) Very sarcastic. Only throws hands when the situation calls for it, her words hurt more than her two hands. Dark sense of humor. Far more mature than her actual age. Very empathic. Basically FAFFO. A smartass. Has a colorful dictionary, (habit of swearing).

Likes: Rain, animals, poetry, art, chocolate Carmel candy, hockey, winter, Halloween, dubbed anime (how funny the English dub can get.) food, movies, winter.

Dislikes: Thunder, fireworks, heat, raw tomatoes, scrambled eggs, lace fabric, silk fabric, horror movies, cinnamon (the scent) pumpkin spice, (literally everything about it.)

Common sayings:

"Shut your face hole."

"My heart fell out of my ass.."

"It's hotter than Satan's ball sack."

"Well, shit."

"Bitch. 🖕"

"You good? Nope nevermind you're fine."

"I don't speak cuntanesse."

"Fucking whore..."

"Fuck off."

"Better find a way to leap through my window, bitch."

"Sir, yes sir."

"Negative, sir."

"Ma'am yes, ma'am."

"Negative, Ma'am."

"I don't know who pissed off Zeus, but he's not happy..."

"Älskling?" ("Loved one" in Swedish.)

"Gullet." ("Cutie" in Swedish.)

(Dr. Keller knows due to her access of the team's medical history files.)

Left (Quinten) and Right (YN)

A/N: I'll color this when my hand feels better.

[ysabelmystic]

Please tell me about the boat story. Oh and can you also tell me why your family made you get drunk when you were a kid I forgot to ask about that

Okay so basically my grandparents had a time share in at those old condo Hawaii thanks to my grandpa’s “service” in the navy. Every other year, all six of us would cram ourselves into this one-bedroom condo and spend a week or two fucking around on the beaches of Kauai. This particular year, we got to do something Extra, and go on a snorkeling tour out at the more remote islands. A tour complete with an 8 hour round trip boat ride, fancy sandwiches and fresh fruit, and unlimited mai tais.

So, for background, my grandpa is the most obnoxious, self-absorbed dumbass I’ve ever met. He wants to be Elon Musk, he’s a flat-earther, he’s an mlm hon who tries to sell his products to strangers in public, he tried to cure his skin cancer with essential oils, he’s ex military, he cooks hamburgers to rare, he’s Chevy Chase in national lampoons vacation franchise, he makes a 500+ photo long slideshow every holiday that includes his cousins open casket funeral and pictures of the car vs train accident that killed them, he flirts with waitresses, he gets mad if you out-pun him, he thinks the silent treatment is a punishment, he’s friends with a local self-taught artist who draws like the average 5th grader (it’s not a stylistic choice), he maims squirrels for fun, he tailgates cars on purpose, he hates animals… basically, his greatest contribution to the world will be dying since he’ll no longer be a waste of oxygen. And what does a waste of oxygen do on a boat ride with unlimited mai tai’s?

Get fucking CRUNK of course

Now, not only did the tour have fancy sandwiches, but they also had unlimited red Hawaiian Punch. That drink was a forbidden and thus very coveted thing in my house so my brother and I probably drank 8 cans apiece. We also ran into rough seas during the last leg of the trip. I guess my grandma took one for the team because she somehow ended up below deck with two sleepy, seasick children on her lap.

This, unfortunately for us all, now meant that my grandpa was left unsupervised.

I don’t know how long we were knocked out for, but I woke up to my mom standing over us, whispering to my grandma with a very concerned look on her face. (Fake names from this point).

“Bev? Bev. Bev. Your husband is-“

The loudspeakers turned on and she was interrupted by the captain.

“Sir! What you’re doing is just stupid. If you fall in the ocean, we will not be coming back to help you. I repeat; we will not stop this trip to save you. Get back in the boat and stop being stupid.”

Silence.

“Don’t do that again”

Queue my mom and grandma looking absolutely fucking mortified.

Apparently that dumbass saw the waves and thought it’d be fun to walk the plank. Every time the boat went down off the back of a wave, he’d jump, and somehow, he did this several times without actually falling into the water.

My grandma does not believe in showing emotion. After getting off the boat she was the maddest I’ve ever seen her. She ripped the keys out of her husbands hand, pushed him into the back seat, and drove him to the condo while the rest of us went out for dinner.

Quite frankly I wish he had fallen off the boat, and the captain had followed through. Because the next time we went to Hawaii, he spent a 9 mile hiking trip harassing different people to buy his mlm granola bars and vitamins since his “business” had just gone international…

Anyways… to answer the other question.

My parents believed that wine knowledge was an important life skill. So when I was like 12 I was allowed to have tiny sips of wine, and at 15, once or twice a week, I’d get a half glass of wine with dinner (occasionally more if I agreed to help my mom grade papers).

At 17 I was allowed to have alcohol whenever the family was drinking (so like if my mom made margaritas on a Friday night I would be allowed a margarita or two) so I wouldn’t go overboard when I got ahold of it in college.

Unfortunately this did not stop me from going overboard I just knew that 1) I could be very productive after 2-4 shots of rum and 2) the optimal “good time” range was 5-8 shots and that’s how I lowkey became an alcoholic until I discovered weed!

[shiroi---kumo]

//Do you have a favourite moment/episode of FFU? What's the most (or one of the most) memorable moments for you?

|| Oh boy do I and I was trying to think about how I wanted to answer these because they are both MAJOR SPOILERS but this series is 23 years old and while I normally post these under cuts because I had friends watching through the series for the first time.

I don't have people going through the series anymore so here we go. These are spoilers, you've been warned, but you'll learn a lot about Kumo in this post I promise.

I have a very strong attachment to episode 18 or "The battle of Kiri and Kumo".

This is Kumo's episode of the series and it is important to remember that Kumo is not the main character of this series so what we got of him, we got of him. He is a main player in this series but it is not about him. It's not even about Kaze. It is about the main party of the series - Ai, Yu, Lisa and Chobi.

So when we got a whole episode dedicated to Kumo, his past and one of his family members I was ecstatic and my little 15 yr old self carted myself all the way to town with my grandma to get that dvd on release date. I wrote it down in my planner and everything. I was very excited.

That episode gives us so much information about 1 Cloud in the span of 30 minutes it's crazy. Most of my worldbuilding roots in that episode. The face Kumo shows to the main cast is completely different then anything we've seen for 18 episodes. Kumo's voice shifts for the first time in that episode. I did a whole write up about the importance of Kumo's voice (with clips) to explain this.

He goes from absolutely monotone and emotionless to pleading with his brother and openly showing a range emotion from confusion, to panic, to begging to worry to openly expressing depression and grief. Episode 18 is ROUGH for Kumo.

But he's been the only living member of his people to his knowledge for years at this point and then his Older Brother comes back from the dead and the only thing said brother does is challenge him to a sword match and actively try to kill him. The power of Kiri (Usva's) mist is paralyze, so that means the main party and the people of the Comodeen in the surrounding area are stuck where they are and forced to watch and they're stuck like that until Kiri either releases it or something happens to him.

Kiri puts his baby brother in a you or them situation and forces him to fight. He's forced to take his older brother down even though the entire episode Kumo spends his time trying to talk Kiri down until Kiri makes him fight back.

"Use your sword not your mouth. Use your sword to calm my spirit, my brother."

Let me make it perfectly clear that Kumo DOES NOT want to take his brother down but he doesn't have a choice, and this episode continues to fuck with him in coming days. In current times, in the timeline of my blog it is STILL fucking with him. His brother was his best friend and the only person he ever had around that was close to his own age. He idolized his brother.

But if we wanna talk memorable moments in FF:U we need to fast forward all the way to the LAST EPISODE because it is burned in my brain for the rest of my life and it never gets any easier to watch. It's hard every time I see it. By the end of the series, Kumo has thrown his "I'm totally a bad guy believe me" act in the fucking garbage and he basically works in the background in the 2nd to last episode to destroy everything The Earl / Chaos ( The Lords of Gaudium) have worked to accomplish all series in the matter of half an episode. Needless to say, The Earl is PISSED about it and even more so because it was Makenshi who did it.

The Main Party + Kaze / Kumo get captured at the end of the episode by The Earl when he comes before the main party / Comodeen / Kumo and Kumo draws his blade on him. Again The Earl is pissed about it because how dare he (bite the hand that feeds him) and he sinks the Comodeen's submarine (Jane) and the fishes the main party + Kaze/ Kumo out of the ocean to captures them the end of ep. 24.

In 25 (the last episode) at the beginning of it while captured, once Kumo wakes up (bound in one of Herba's plants (the hughug)) The Earl proceeds to explain his evil plot ™ to him just because he knows it'll get under Kumo's skin and boy is he right because we get the clearest animation in the entire series of the fact that Kumo can in fact, control his sword with telepathy.

How can this man get anymore bad ass? He can block bullets, summon, tame Kaze, fly, cause explosions with his breath AND he can control his sword with telepathy. Seriously, a God in his own right. Truly an Unlimited being. He's the definition of Over Powered.

But this is where the "it never gets any easier to watch" part comes in. In response to Kumo just controlling his blade with telepathy, the Earl CATCHES IT mid-air and throws it back at him.

Kumo is impaled on his own blade in response for his actions of trying to wreck Chaos' plans (even further) and save everyone's lives. He's killed instantly and seeing this man die, never gets any fucking easier. Even if he is fucking immortal. Even if he does come back from this.

Kumo was my favorite character from the start and has been for the entire time I've been in this fandom (all 21 years of it(the states didnt get FF:U until '04)) So seeing him die had my little brain screaming and it gets harder to watch every time honestly.

Even if I know mid episode he's going to be revive with his blade still in his stomach and he pulls it out on his own strength and when all hope seems lost in the episode we see this:

Floating high above the entire party + Kaze. (Please note how he's covered in blood) This when he uses his own soul to summon, go forward with Symphony of the White Cloud to fire his own life force as energy back at Chaos so he can hold the beast at bay from within to give Kaze a clean shot.

The last episode is a fucking ride and I feel robbed that After/ After Spiral / After 2 didn't get animated because of Square going bankrupt every day.

Guys I just really really really love this Cloud okay.