#Glow Ups by Colleen

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“A Little Chaos,” Moon Knight Annual (Vol. 5/2024), #1.

Writer: Dan Watters; Penciler and Inker: Marco Renna; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit

[astrotruther]

Astro Observations

misc. (ii)

🐉 Narcissists may have Mars-Uranus aspects in their chart. Mars’s energy can be either constructive or destructive; pair that with Uranus' erratic quality, and it could make one manipulative. In my opinion, Mars & Uranus having more harsh aspects to multiple other planets could further confirm this. Look out for squares, especially Moon square Mars!

🐉 Sun harsh aspects to Neptune, even conjunction can be somewhat superficial. Neptune may bless them with a mystique that attracts public attention, but they stick to a surface-level public persona. Artists with these aspects may stick to cookie-cutter projects. E.g. Colleen Hover responding to criticism by saying 'I write to entertain not to educate'. Jake Paul also has this aspect. In worst cases there's a delusional egotism to this aspect. On the other hand, easy aspects will be more willing to go within and proudly display their shadows, creating art that is meaningful and leaves a lasting legacy.

🐉 I've observed Scorpio Sun/ Moon in charts of those who backhandedly bully people over things like their appearance. Water Moons in general are capable of inflicting deep emotional wounds to others when unevolved. Having Mercury in a fire sign makes it a lot worse since the words become harsher. I've had a Scorpio Sun - Pisces Moon girl admit to me that she makes fun of people because she had the same done to her while growing up.

🐉 Libra MC are often told they should be models. Understandable because they're so photogenic!

🐉 Pluto-Ascendant easy aspects & conjunction are always reinventing themselves. It's easier for these people to let go of things that don't serve them and realign themselves with their inner true selves. They're skilled at coming to terms with their dark sides and alchemizing it to create a positive impact in the world.

🐉 On the contrary, harsh aspects may feel like they can't be themselves due to external factors or a certain image/ aesthetic that they have to uphold. Some may be child actors/ activists or made it big in early years making it hard to disrupt their public persona. It's way harder for them to branch out within their career field. Ascendant at 0° might have the same effect. E.g. Billie Eilish, Demi Lovato, Finn Wolfhard, Darsheel Safary, Malala Yousafzai, Meghan Trainor, Hilary Duff.

🐉 I've seen so many takes on the 0° & most people romanticizing it somehow. It may manifest in a divine way for those who are self-aware/ have evolved. however MOST people aren't. So it gives a somewhat negative quality to the placement, e.g. Jake Paul has his MC at 0°.

🐉 Moon-Pluto aspects not only symbolize a strained relationship with the mother but also with other women. A lot of trauma you accumulated while growing up was because of the women around you. Some of them may have made you feel bad about yourself because they were threatened by you. The signs Moon & Pluto are in could give more context, e.g. Aries Moon, Sag. Pluto = invalidating your anger, not letting you be yourself and forcing you to be someone they like, forcing religion on you from a young age etc.

🐉 Uranus square MC will have a career-ruining public scandal at least once. All I can say is avoid doing shady stuff and if it's external factors beyond your control, handle it with grace, lay low, you'll get your chance to shine again.

🐉 Moon square Lilith is an enemy placement. Moon person hates Lilith person's guts because Lilith person may have hurt them in some way. Moon could want revenge on Lilith for what they did.

🐉 Venus-Saturn aspects may have had people criticize their appearance while growing up, but they end up having insane glow-ups. Their most attractive years come somewhat later in life and they age very gracefully.

🐉 Moon in Cancer/ Moon conjunct Jupiter people possess the ability to manipulate, sometimes on a mass level. It's on them to use their emotional superpowers to influence people in a positive way and not just keep banking on their victim narratives. Nonetheless, these people can hold public interest for a long time.

🐉 Venus in 10th House synastry is often a clout/ PR couple. E.g. Glenn Powell & Sydney Sweeney.

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Ft headcanons nobody wanted part 2

-natsu will occasionally get genuinely jealous over his friends owning appliances for heating. Why should they need those things when they have him, if they just call him over her do a way better job then any of those stupid gadgets. He finds out gray owns a hair dryer and immediately becomes a jealous ex girlfriend. He confronts Lucy in her apartment one night acting so serious he she doesn't even get mad that he broke in, then just goes "care to explain this?" And puts a lighter on the table.

- Wendy is very very quiet. Creepily so. Not elaborating but I think you can imagine the kinds of situations this leads to.

- Mira's eyes glow in the dark and it creeps everyone the fuck out

- erza has the worst hoarding problem. Her dorm room is entirely piled floor to ceiling with boxes of meticulously organized random items she refuses to throw out for some reason

young Mira: "alright this is ridiculous why do you even have this"

Young erza: "say what you want but when you need 746 packets of Mcnolias sweet and sour sauce and find your supply baron I'll be laughing"

- levy is one of the few members of the guild who actively sought it out to join. Before fairy tail she was an orphan and a student studying magic. She left to join fairy tail to learn more about magic in general from real world experience.

- laki will sometimes build creepily realistic wooden statues of her guild mates and leave them around in inconspicuous places so when you find them they scare the shit out of you. Sometimes she hides them too well and it takes years to discover them.

- Lucy has actually written several unpublished novels and the only other person who's ever seen them is levy. Lucy thinks their crap but levy carefully annotates every single one.

- laxus used to occasionally be forced to go on jobs with erza and Mira when they were young both to help and to make sure they didn't kill each other and he hated it.

- I think I might have said this before but I firmly believe levy, Lucy, freed and jellal later on all form a book club because they love reading, the problem is they all have vastly different tastes in book so they can never decide what to read each week and usually just end up playing Scrabble and talking shit about their various teammates

"please guys trust me this one's good"

"I am NOT reading Colleen Hoover Lucy and that's final"

- this one's based on city hero but I personally believe erza and Erik find a shocking common ground over motorcycles. Erza likes vehicles in general and Erik took up bike racing as a hobby, since discovering this is the longest they've been able to be in the same room together without someone throwing a punch.

- Wendy visits lamia scale regularly still to hang out with chelia. she usually brings romeo and they all go out to do whatever dumb kid stuff they want. (Tbh I just like her having friends her own age)

-lucy sometimes randomly lets her rich girl's heritage show in random conversation and it's always jarring. You'll be having a normal chill convo with her and then she'll look you dead in the eyes and ask you what colour your personal carriage was growing up.

- Natsu is genuinely a really good cook he just has a terrible taste so nobody wants to eat his food. For reference he only ever cooks his food because he enjoys doing it to him it tastes fine either way.

- if you had asked the fairy tail guild who the scariest guild member was in early season 1 the answers would have been erza, guildarts, laxus etc all the usual suspects. Once season 2 starts however the answer is unanimous. It's juvia. Juvia is fucking terrifying when she gets mad. You don't realize how scary water can be until it's filling your lungs and as your vision blurs until all you can see is her merciless stare.

- Mira and freed can drink blood for demon reasons. gray can too after getting devil slayer but he thinks its gross. Surprisingly so can gajeel because of the high iron content.

- gray the type of guy who's bed has only the smallest thinnest blanket on his bed and usually it's on the ground cuz he gets too hot

- meanwhile erza is the type of girl to have so many pillows, blankets and plushies on her bed you wonder how she fucking sleeps in it. Mf has a NEST.

- Lucy isn't even surprised anymore when she finds people in her house, she doesn't know how they keep getting in and honestly she doesn't care anymore she's to tired to deal with it.

- freed plays a lot of really fucking weird instruments. Idk it just seems like something he would do.

- bixlow can speak most languages and it's always really surprising when he randomly says smth like "oh yea I can speak ancient nirvid no prob" like that's totally normal

- if laxus and freed ever did get together (in my heart it's cannon) evergreen and bixlow would be their biggest haters. Yea they love them and they're happy for them but also EW. GROSS. GET A ROOM.

[toomuchracket]

bday party girlie and Matty sitting around, reading reviews of her newest book. Maybe on goodreads. And they’re just shouting snippets they’ve read like Matty going, ‘BABE! Babe! Babe! A triumph of a novel with a brutal honesty that will remain with me for the foreseeable future’. And he’s just so happy that everyone loves her work as he loves her work. Girlie is perhaps a bit bashful but Matty is having none of it like YOU ARE THE NEW DIDION. And then perhaps he jokes like ‘god the greatest frontman in the world and the greatest writer in the world. I think u might actually birth the next messiah, babe’.

Maybe they do something somewhat similar when the 75 release a new album. Though Matty is less arsed about reviews so perhaps it’s more girlie just reading them and glowing silently with pride.

omg like you're fine not knowing how the book is being received (or so you say) but matty's convinced it's the best thing ever written and he's determined to show you that he's right lmao. maybe you're on tour or something and he literally has you trapped in his arms on the sofa on the tour bus with goodreads up on his phone to show you the reviews and make you take the compliments lol. but he's in charge of scrolling in case there's any bad ones that he doesn't want you to see - he snatches the phone away like "well, here's someone who needs their brain checked... ah, yeah, colleen hoover enthusiast. s'what i thought. tasteless", and you just look at him all heart eyes like "i love you so much lol". anyway - obsessed with that comment about you birthing the next messiah, i can just hear him saying it and then softening like "nah fr. you're amazing. i'm awed by your talents every day, my darling. and so is everyone else, as they should be". and god knows you're the same when the roles are reversed; matty's literally hiding his face in your tits so he doesn't have to look at the nme or rolling stone reviews, while you quietly scan them and read out the best parts like "they love it. they love you! not as much as i do, obv, but still. you're the shit, baby. maybe you were right about our kid being the second coming". he just giggles and kisses you like "maybe we should have one, then. people have been asking for us to collab on something for ages, after all" with the most shit eating grin, and you're like "we can try! and then we could write something about it. i'd like that", and matty's like "me too. i love you!" lmao. cute! <3

[colleenmurphy]

"Oh Jesus, Col's comin' and she's got an armful of papers and that..that.." Cage tapered off as he shifted upright in his engineer's seat at the mixing board.

"She looks like she's the cat that got the cream..."

"Fucking christ I know she was up all night last night."

'So do I but for entirely different reasons.' the drummer of the quartette had thought to himself as he busied himself clicking a rhythm in his head out onto his knee. Jerry Withers was a quiet man who kept good time in the studio and very much to himself when out on tour.

"I wonder who she's seeing these days to put a smile on her face like that."

'Drummer's keep better time, asshole.'

A whirl and a jangle and in Colleen bustled glowing brighter than any of her bandmates had ever seen. That same shine had dulled after they had lost Charlie but here it was all over again. The drab earth tones she'd taken to wearing the last four years had been replaced back with the rich jewel tones and the heady scent of weed mingled with the orange blossom, amber and vanilla of her perfume. It made Whip smile softly to himself as he woken up to find that she'd curled herself around him just enough for the scent to linger on his skin. Sully he noted just scowled as he appraised the songbird before him.

"What's with the sudden spark of productive creativity?"

Regarding the guitarist with a cool blue green gaze Colleen merely handed Sully the top set of papers and then went about handing the rest out to Cage and Whip before plopping herself down into the leather loveseat that was kept in the sound area.

"Maurice told me this morning about your plans to leave us, Sully. Might I remind you that you're still under contract for the rest of this album?"

"And?"

Getting to her feet she was nearly nose to nose with the lanky sandy haired guitarist that had once shared a life with her. Her long dark hair spilled from it's clip and down her back like a flow of jet black ink filling the room with the scent that made Whip shift in his seat away from Cage's confused view.

"And that means I own your bony Irish ass until I am completely satisfied with how it sounds."

"Oh when you're satisfied? What about the rest of us? Last I checked we weren't your backing band."

"Technically you are. Without me there would be no band, no music to record. Without me you are nothing, David."

Pushing past him she stepped into the recording booth and signaled Cage to start rolling. Whip shifted to his feet quickly and joined her much to everyone's amazement. He was usually the last one in record his tracks if they didn't record together as a band.

Slipping behind the drum kit he settled and started the beat on the high hat for her. Colleen started to gently sway in time until she opened her eyes, something equally strange for her, and locked onto Sully's almost daring him to look away from her and truth she sang to the reel to reel.

"So I'll begin not to love you  Turn around, see me runnin' I'll say I loved you years ago  Tell myself you never loved me, no  Don't say that she's pretty  And did you say that she loved you? Baby, I don't want to know..."

The realization of Sully's infidelity to Colleen over the years became the elephant in the room as she sang. How he had used her and all but thrown her away until it became time to record a new album or head out on a tour came tumbling out.

"Fuck this! Fuck her!"

"Dave wait!"

Cage turned just in time to see Dave Sullivan grab his coat and slam into the heavy door of the studio only to have Maurice shake his head. If Mr. Groves were here to see this he'd be quite amused he noted to himself. The drumbeat took on a heartbeat rhythm as she sang.

"Time cast a spell on you, but you won't forget me I know I could've loved you, but you would not let me  I'll follow you down 'til the sound of my voice will haunt you.."

The only sound that could be heard from the parking lot was the squeal of Sully's tires on pavement as Colleen continued to purge her soul into the reel to reel.

"He's hurt her badly, Mo..."

The manager simply smiled and pointed towards the booth where the dark haired songbird was now chatting with the drummer.

"But whoever her new fellow is is doing a world of good her."

"Two musical perfectionists together..how sweet."

[sea-owl]

I’m just wondering how Colleen would react to a pregnant pen

This sounds like it would be in my omegaverse polleen au.

Well, I personally believe all the Bridgertons have some sort of level of a breeding kink, and the omegaverse setting probably doesn't help with that sooo. . .

I imagine once their married and mated Penelope writes Lady Whistledown like articles for Colleen to find around the house when she has news to share.

Colleen found this one in the library where she got to taste her omega for the first time.

Dear Gentle Reader,

This author has just heard the news that the Featherington estate might have a new heir in the coming months. Ms Penelope Featherington, now Bridgerton, has been glowing lately in a way only a lady does when she is with child.

Colleen gets clingy when Penelope is pregnant, like she has to be touching her all the time clingy. They eventually work out a system that boils down to them sharing a desk when they have to work, and Penelope sits on Colleen's lap. Colleen is very happy about that arrangement. Colleen is respectful of asking for permission from Penelope about touching the baby bump since most people are rude about it. Colleen also makes a point to get others to ask Penelope to feel the bump. Colleen will not have her wife be constantly touched, especially when it makes Penelope uncomfortable. Thank you very much.

Colleen also finds Penelope's waddle so adorable. She could watch her tiny wife waddling around the house for hours. Colleen is also constantly showering Penelope with compliments and praise for carrying and growing their pups inside of her.

"You know you could technically do the same," Penelope tells Colleen one day.

Colleen makes a face at the suggestion. First of all, Colleen would never stray from her wife, and out of the two of them, Colleen is the only one who can impregnate someone else. Second, Colleen knows herself and knows she could not handle pregnancy the same way Penelope did.

Colleen bends down and kisses Penelope's baby bump. "We both know I don't have the same strength you do, my darling, to carry our children."

Due to Colleen being an alpha and her ovaries creating testosterone and sperm during her ruts, the two can technically have sons, but it is highly unlikely. Like 8 times out of 10, a baby between them would end up being a girl. So Colleen and Penelope were shocked when they got an even split between their four kids.

[cybrstalkrdotgov]

I got random roommates and don't know a thing about them so these r my fears

what if they hate christmas

what if they are OBSESSED WITH CHRISTMAS like wayyy too much

what if their fav holiday Thanksgiving 🫥

what if they put those jelly holiday stickers on the windows

what if they are all evil on their period and we sync up and become triple as evil

what if they think shooting games rots peoples brain (I love call of duty)

WHAT IF THEY HATE MY FAV YOUTUBERS

what if they write really shitty affirmations on the room mirror

what if they try to pull tik tok pranks on me

what if they complain about every single thing

what if they give me no quiet time

what if they care what everyone thinks

what if they do yoga RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOM

what if they read colleen hoover books

what if they are a type A person

what if they are really sensitive

what if they are like “aesthetic” and i dont fit into that

what if they analyze everything i do

what if they have really firm morals

what if they think the world is out to get them

what if they sleep with one of those neon glow masks things on and have a 200 step routine

what if they are the sloth

what if they hate rap music/kanye hater

[literaticat]

Pardon me if Im not understanding re: that big breakout ask, but why wouldn't all editors always want books they believe could be big breakouts? It doesn't serve anyone if they're sure the book would be small, does it? It's another thing if they bet on the wrong horse but I sort of assumed that no one would buy or rep anything they don't think could be huge. Is that wrong?

ICYMI, the asker is referring to this question from a few days ago.

Yes and no? I would say all editors (and agents) would like for their books to be successful, of course -- but "success" can be measured in lots of ways, and there are lots of TYPES of books and readers in this wide world of ours. Different imprints/publishers have different needs and expectations.

If a publisher is publishing, IDK, highly literary or esoteric works, "success" would look like getting some good reviews from the right kind of literary or cultural figure, and becoming lauded by cognescenti -- they aren't TRYING to mix around with hoi polloi.

If they are publishing books about some niche topic, they are hoping that everyone who could ever want to know about that topic will get the book, but they aren't expecting that to be literally EVERYONE.

Some publishers, on the other hand, really focus on highly commercial books for a mass audience -- thrillers, romance, fun fantasy -- the kinds of books you see not only at bookstores, but at the airport, big box store, supermarket. There's nothing wrong with that AT ALL, hooray and more power to them -- but you can totally understand why expectations would be a little different for that kind of book than for say, a book of children's poetry about glow worm habitats. Even if the glow worm book exceeds expectations -- it's simply not gonna be sold by the dozen in the airport.

But the publisher always knew that the glow worm book would have a more limited audience and would not be a "huge" book. (That's why the glow worm author got a much much much lower advance than the highly commercial romance author!) -- The agent knew. Hopefully the writer understood that, as well. NONE of them were watching the bestseller lists waiting for glow worm to show up. Should they not have published it at all? Nah. Success just looks different for different kinds of books!

(Success in the glow worm's case is a long-term thing. Success means it gets a starred review or two, maybe wins an award, it gets on some state lists and over the course of years finds its way into school curriculum and stays in print for ages and ages and teaches lots of kids about the power of the glow worm. Maybe it becomes your kid's FAVORITE book? Maybe it inspires little Matilda to become a poet and scientist? It finds its audience. But it's simply never going to be selling on par with Colleen Hoover!)

[kidgetrash]

Heyy , ever since you said that every questions of the ship meme were done, I was wondering another question: what were the thoughts of their friends and family about them being a couple ? Like , the reactions?

This is great! I so enjoyed doing this one!

Team Voltron:

Shiro: Shiro is so happy not only for Keith, but for Pidge. Until Krolia came into his life he had no one to call his own for a long time, and this was not only different but meant he was finding his own family (excluding the team who obviously he is close with but not close with). He knows family is important to Pidge too and that Keith has just been unofficially adopted into the Holt clan.

Lance: Oh, Lance. AND JUST HOW LONG HAS THIS BEEN GONG ON UNDER HIS NOSE?! He goes through the five stages of grief trying to get his head around the fact two of his best friends are now romantically entangled! Nope, this is some sick joke, where's the Earth calendar, it must be April Fools! Mullet?!?! And Pidge?!?! How dare he steal her innocence by actually loving her!?! Listen, Pidge, if you were that desperate for a relationship, I can date you, just to give you the experience, and then you can go back to being you and not being a girl who does...things with mullet. No? He pouts for about a week and won't speak to either of them. Finally, acceptance. If that's what makes you guys happy, then fine. But if you hurt her...

Hunk: Teary-eyed, excited, great big group bear hugs during which Pidge pulls a face and Keith secretly enjoys because honestly he's touch starved but doesn't realise it. Hunk offers to cook them a fancy meal for date night, he just needs a few days to source the perfect ingredients!

Allura: So happy for them. She gets excited thinking this means Pidge will start wearing girly clothes and makeup for dates. Is very disappointed when this isn't the case.

Coran: "Oh, I thought you were already an item. Isn't that why you were always undressing each other with your eyes at the dinner table? No? Oh well, I look forward to seeing what human courtship rituals entail. Now, go ahead and act natural." *starts observing them both far too closely until Allura drags him away and has a quiet word about boundaries.*

The Holt Family:

Sam: Can't believe his little girl is growing up so fast. Realises how much Keith has changed since his days as a garrison cadet and that they are probably going to be good for one another. But it's just a nice simple innocent relationship. Will not tolerate thinking about his little girl being...active!

Colleen: KNEW IT! She called it months ago, and has been asking very indirect direct questions that only a mom can get away with. "Why don't you invite Keith to family game night this week?" Appearing in the garrison mess hall and acting surprised that they're together, then joining them for lunch. "So, Keith. What's new? Katie told me about just how form-fitting your Blade uniform is..." "MOM!!!"

Matt: Happy for them, but still has the big brother talk with Keith. He remembers just how disruptive he was back in the old days when he was a cadet and hoped that, as he appeared now, he had matured beyond his fiery temper. He had watched them together though, and could see how tenderly he looked at his sister, which did set his mind at rest but also made him contemplate far too much how Pidge had grown (glowed?) up, and how happy he made her. He's absolutely ready to go to bat for her if Keith ever does anything to hurt her!

Krolia: This man before her, the little boy she wasn't sure she would ever see again, in love! She knows a relationship between a human and a galra (even half) can be tricky, but also how rewarding. She can see just how happy the smallest paladin makes him and hopes that now the war is over they can have the relationship she always wished she could have had.

Bonus:

Bae Bae and Kosmo: NEW ADOPTED SIBLING AND PLAYMATE!

Ask me my Kidge headcanons!

[apixellife]

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[babacontainsmultitudes]

Taylor Playlist :]

Cause if you haven't noticed I've been a bit fixated on my little guy recently and I meant to share this one forever ago anyways. I'll be real, I really didn't bother to figure out the song order for this one.

Track list below the cut + annotations and relevant lyrics :)

(slightly long post you've been warned!)

>> Here you go bestie <<

Seeya (by deadmau5 feat. Colleen D'Agostino)

“Don't wake me up, I'm winning wars inside my head

And maybe I'm weak, but not beneath the covers of this bed

Asleep, I'm undefeated in this world of mine

So, let me stay inside this dream and keep me from the light

(…)

I've built this place, behind my eyes, you'll never see

And you can move my body, but please keep my mind asleep

Beyond the galaxies, where there's no space or time

I will transform, I am reborn to rule over the skies

(…)

Escape the world I know, it's all in my control

I, I just wanna stay this way

(…)

Don't try to save me when my mind is finally free

'Cause I'd rather run my own world, than face your reality”

The Main Character (by Will Wood)

I don’t think I have to explain this one.

World Is Mine (by Hatsune Miku)

Lol

Life Is Fun (by Boyinaband feat. TheOdd1sOut)

Well this one for me is basically an interaction between Taylor and Scary haha.

Cloudbusting (by Kate Bush)

Largely about Nicky! But in a way that is like… From Taylor’s perspective? Maybe also the reverse. A bit hard to explain exactly but maybe I’ll just share what sticks out to me and you can come to your own conclusions.

“You're like my yo-yo

That glowed in the dark

What made it special

Made it dangerous

So I bury it

And forget

(…)

On top of the world, looking over the edge

You could see them coming

You looked too small

In their big black car

To be a threat to the men in power

(…)

I hid my yo-yo

In the garden

I can't hide you

From the government

Oh, God, Daddy

I won't forget

(…)

And every time it rains

You're here in my head

Like the sun coming out

Look, your son's coming out

Ooh, I just know that something good is going to happen

I don't know when

But just saying it could even make it happen, oh

Ooh, just saying it could even make it happen”

Chosen (by The Living Tombstone)

Hm how to put this… It’s like, one part “Taylor seeing himself as some kind of chosen one”, one part “Taylor unlocking his inner demon” and one part “Taylor being along for the ride- potentially at his own expense/risk”

“A mind without a home

Leaving behind, the comfort that I've known

Where do I roam? A stranger to myself

Born to be here, but living somewhere else

And I'm searching for the reasons I've been

Chosen by a force beyond control

Beyond remorse and I don't know

If I will make it through this

Losing who I am

(…)

Losing everything I called "human"

Free will is miles away

I heard you play

In the digital cabaret

But I'm okay

I won't disobey

If you take me by the hand and make me

Chosen by a force beyond control

I'll play a part, you'll make me whole

You'll be my voice, I'll be your soul

You'll take my choice and I don't know

How you will make me new but

This is who I am”

Open Up Your Eyes (by Tempest Shadow)

Like this could have gone in a Nicky playlist cause this is literally just Nicky talking to Taylor and warning him of betrayal but it’s a MLP song so ultimately Taylor won out lol. Also someone please make an animatic of this I want it so so bad.

“It's time you learned a lesson

It's time that you understand

Don't ever count on anybody else

In this or any other land

(…)

I once hoped for friendship

To find a place among my kind

But those were the childish wishes

Of someone who was blind

Open up your eyes

(…)

Give up your sweet fantasyland

It's time to grow up and get wise

Come now little one

Open up your eyes

(…)

We all start out the same

With simple naïve trust

Shielded from the many ways

That life's not fair or just

(…)

But then there comes a moment

A simple truth that you must face

If you depend on others

You'll never find your place

(…)

And as you take that first step

Upon a path that's all your own

You see it all so clearly

The best way to survive is all alone”

Pretty Little Head (by Eliza Rickman)

It’s mostly:

“Boy, where's your mother? Fall down dead

Dirty mind, dirty mouth, pretty little head

I wish you were here, I wish you'd make my bed

Dirty mind, dirty mouth, pretty little head”

Mama (My Chemical Romance)

Heheh.

“Mama, we all go to Hell

I'm writing this letter and wishing you well

Mama, we all go to Hell

Oh well, now, Mama, we're all gonna die

Mama, we're all gonna die

Stop asking me questions, I'd hate to see you cry

Mama, we're all gonna die”

In light of recent episodes maybe even

“Mama, we all go to Hell

It's really quite pleasant except for the smell

Mama, we all go to Hell”

Takes on a funny little meaning now.

Holding Out For A Hero (by Frou Frou cause I really like this cover)

Partially an antihero goof, but there’s also a bunch of lyrics that are funny/interesting to me if you remove the intended context and think about Nicky instead. Perhaps especially:

“Up where the mountains meet the heavens above

Out where the lightning splits the sea

I could swear there is someone somewhere watching me

Through the wind and the chill and the rain

And the storm and the flood

I can feel his approach like a fire in my blood”

Heads Will Roll – A-Track Remix (by Yeah Yeah Yeahs)

Because it makes me laugh and I couldn’t resist.

Special (by Shinedown)

“Stop waitin' on your fifteen minutes of fame, 'cause you're not special

I'm not tryin' to rain on your parade, but you're not special

I'm not tryin' to bring you down, I'm not tryin' to sound so ineffectual

But you're not special

(…)

We all live to love, we all fall apart

We'd all go to war for the faint of heart

Instead we're condescending

There are no happy endings

I won't hold my breath, I won't cast a doubt

I'd never sell you out

But I'll give you one last chance to own it

'Cause you're not a god or a poet, so...

(…)

Stop waitin' on your fifteen minutes of fame, 'cause you're not special

I'm not tryin' to rain on your parade, but you're not special

I'm not tryin' to bring you down, I'm not tryin' to sound so ineffectual

But you're not special”

^ Anthony probably lol.

:) Okay that's it thank you for entertaining this besties!

[touyubesposts]

The Pixar Youtube theory, Part 1: Escape with Markiplier

Hello! The first two I would like to tackle are the With Markiplier series and Escape the Night, and hopefully, next, I can tackle Iris and Sander's sides, talk about Dad Feels and Genloss, try and cross the talking points between them, and at the end I’ll make a post on how they’re all connected and what I think the timeline would be.

Note: I don’t know everything, this is just a theory, tell me if I’m wrong or if you like it!

Let's start with something big;

The houses. In Escape the Night season One, Two, and (arguably) Four are set in houses. In the first season, they contained the evil, trapped in the 1920s, but it sunk its way into Joey. In the second season, they broke a seal to allow them to leave the house, stuck in the Victorian era, and Joey dies and is revived by the crown of oblivion. And the fourth season is the afterlife. Or, I guess, an afterlife, set in a museum, where Joey decides to open Pandora’s box and gets trapped inside.

Now let's look at Markiplier Manor. It is Mark’s estate that he grew up in that has spirits and evil living in the house. Every time he dies, he comes back and gets closer to the entity. The entity then helps him come up with a plan to kill all his friends because the entity wants to leave the house.

Right off the bat, just looking at these two series, we see some obvious similarities. House is evil, has weird spirits roaming inside of it, and makes the people who own it murder their friends. And nobody leaves the house the same. They are still affected by this magic when they leave whether they’d like to admit it or not. Remember this, I’ll come back to it.

Every single time someone new is invited to the chaos, it always comes in a little invitation. Whether written by him or by someone pretending to be him, it always comes in a letter. And what do we get before ‘Who Killed Markiplier’ came out?

Exactly.

Evil house, invitation, good people turning into bad people, and death. In Joey's, there is a lot more beating around the bush, but it gives us a lot of information on how the world works. This leads me to my next point.

The idea of time not being linear, hoping through universes, and getting stuck in loops over and over again. Their dimension-hopping and teleporting back and forth between time all comes... from stones. In Mark’s Space series, you, as the player, replay events, restart over and over again, teleport to different times, and teleport to different universes. And it's all thanks to the warp crystal, this little, blue, glowing crystal tower. It was also used to power the warp core, which caused time loops and paradoxes, and the warp device, which allowed teleportation to different universes.

And now let's look at Escape the Night. Specifically, at the very end of season four, where Bretman and Colleen used ‘The cosmic sphere’ to open a portal and escape purgatory. And what is in the center of this device?

A little blue crystal tower.

This. This one little detail is huge! They look the exact same, they do the exact same things, and they both need to be attached to something to be used properly. And, when attached to something different, it does something different. When attached to the box in Heist, it gives you whatever item you want or need, assuming it takes it from a different time or universe. When attached to the warp core, it's supposed to cause the ship to warp to where it needs to go but caused a time loop in the process. When attached to the warp device, it teleports you to random points across the multiverse. All of the devices work, but it acts erratically and unreliably. But when attached to the cosmic sphere, it projects a portal that you can then walk through. No weirdness, no unpredictability, just exactly where they needed to go.

(My working theory is that the warp crystal needs to be in the cosmic sphere to work properly. If it isn’t, it will be unpredictable.)

The crystal was taken from the afterlife, purgatory. A place completely identical to this one, but slightly different. Darker, scarier, a place filled with spirits and evil, Dark entities.

Kinda sounds like Mark’s upside-down, don’t you think?

But the real question is which one comes first? Well, let's look at what time period each ETN season came from. The events of what happened in the show are linear to how they come out, but the dates of what happens change the timeline completely. Season 2 was the Victorian era, which was between 1837 to 1901. Season 1 was in the 1920s, very cut and dry. And season four was mainly set in the 1940s, but can go completely across time. We know this from the things collected from the different time periods. (Irrelevant for this post, but season three is set in the 1970s.)

And Who Killed Markiplier, according to Google, is set somewhere between the 1920s and the 1950s, meaning the order of events would’ve been S2, S1, WKM, S4, S3. God damn time fuckery, making my job hard.

In season one, the original manor, they ‘contained’ the evil, meaning it couldn’t leave the house. Or we thought it couldn’t leave the house until we see Joey leave the house being corrupted by this evil. Meaning that the evil needs to inhabit someone so it can bring others in. The longer in the house, the worse the effects get. The same thing with Mark’s manor. Two, unnamed, evil entities leave the house through both Celine’s body and your body.

What I’m trying to imply is that, maybe, Mark’s manor is the same house in ETN season 1. “But Devon,” I hear you asking, “How does that make sense? Mark would have to have owned the house at the same time as Joey for that to make sense, considering Mark grew up in the house and Joey ‘inherits’ it at the very beginning.” And to that, I say, “Consider the pockets of time.”

If Joey exists in this pocket of time and then leaves to go back to the modern world, that means the person that owns the house no longer exists. At least, not at that time. Mark was 28 when he made ‘Who Killed Markiplier,’ Meaning he lived in his own place for a while. Since Mark grew up in that time and that house, and since Joey abandoned that house in the 1920s, that means the exact events that happened in that house happened around 1948 at least, which puts us squarely in our timeline.

If Mark’s Manor and Joey’s estate are the same, then that means that the evil and the entities are the same beings. Just like how the warp crystal and the cosmic sphere are the same stone. However, I would like to add one last thing.

Cc! Mark has said that the entities not only trick C! Mark into doing their bidding but also convince Mark that it was his idea the whole time. That idea was to have Wilford kill him in a game of Russian Roulette, have everyone turn on him and kill him as well, and then him and the entity could take his body and get out of there. And I’ve noticed that death description fits two deaths in escape the night season one.

The death of Timmothy DeLaGetto, also known as ‘The Mobster.’

And the death of Arthur.

For those who don’t know, Arthur’s entire role was to manipulate the evil to do what he wants. He was ‘The butler’ of the house, convincing all of the other past owners to feed into the evil so he can do what he wants. It feels like he’s not just working as a butler for the owner, but a butler for the evil. He gets found out, the remaining guests free his brother, the brother then shoots the other two residents of the house along with Arthur.

If I were to guess, Arthur doesn’t like being dead. So after Joey leaves, the bodies get cleaned up, Mark and his family move in, and Arthur is forced to watch Mark, Damien, and William grow up in front of him. Arthur gets replaced with Benjamin, Mark falls in love with Celine, Celine after realizing the house is evil (Because she’s a seer) leaves the house and runs away with William, Damien becomes Mayor, Mark feels worthless and alone and kills himself.

Arthur talks to Mark, Arthur convinces the evil to bring him back, Mark comes back, Mark kills himself, so on and so forth. The entity that works with Mark being Arthur makes sense. He would know that killing Wilford like that would work because he’s seen it work. Once with the mobster and once with him. All he did was combine the two and convince Mark he came up with it.

When Celine comes into the picture, he’s ecstatic because he gets the chance to not just get his own body, but a more powerful body. A body that could do what his and Wilford’s couldn’t. Talk to the beyond and commune with other entities. So he changed the plan and had Mark kick out Celine and Damien from their bodies, forcing them to take yours when they die. But not without taking some evil on their way out.

But, of course, this is just the beginning. This isn’t the last time we see the evil. The evil spreads, and my god does it spread.

(Author’s Note: Joey needs better friends both in and out of canon.)

[charliespoetrygarden]

My Greatest Accomplishment: Colleen 2/7/14

I never would have thought that our love,

Would feel like I’ve known you forever.

To me, you are my greatest friend,

And fill me with hope.

Together we are eternally young,

Similar to the stars.

I wonder what they think of us, those stars,

Do they look down and envy our love?

Seeing us as so young,

As they’ve been the same for forever.

I ponder if we give them hope,

That soon too they’ll find a friend.

But maybe they already have a friend,

Among their fellow stars.

Lighting up the night sky is where we’ll end up, I hope

Up there, we’ll see a version of our love.

To watch beautiful humans forever,

Continuous belief, endlessly young.

Through affection we see the old grow young,

Their joy radiating through their friend.

Maybe they’ll think that they too will be forever,

And picture themselves as stars.

I see the glow within them, and know it’s love,

And it makes my thought on humanity grow with hope.

I will always look to you with eyes filled with hope,

For I know you will never hurt me, though that thought may be young.

I am clean with the shower of your love,

Is that a weird thing to write about a friend?

Whatever people say, I know that we shine like stars,

And we will last forever.

Through the Sun exploding, our endearment is forever,

And maybe that’s why my thoughts on Death are crowded with hope.

Because when we do become stars,

I will feel again as though I am young.

Worried about nothing but my friend,

Lighting this bright universe up with our love.

Intimacy is like a constellation, illuminating our paths with love. Our bond is forever.

You are my foremost friend, and we will be eternal, through trust and hope.

I’ve known you since we were young, and I will know you when we are stars.

[cartoonfanaticmonsterrobotalien]

Solar Opposites in Mighty Solars Issue #50: “Monster Mayhem Pt. 3” Ch. 2

Marissa awaken from the rubble and then gasp upon seeing Luke unconscious.

Marissa: Luke!

The Mighty Solars heads inside the destroyed abandon warehouse and gasp.

Pezlie: babbling

Cherie: Oh my God…

Nova/Heartstar: Damn. What happened here?

Cherie began to moan as she suddenly starts glowing. Then, Marissa began to beg for Luke to wake up as she holds him close to her.

Marissa: Luke! Luke wake up! Please Luke! Don’t leave me….

Suddenly, just as Marissa kissed Luke on the cheek, something caused her to be fly off and crash towards a wall as metal bars trapped suddenly by twisting and then she looks up, she gasp and sees Cherie in her own Mighty Solars suit giving her a death glare.

Cherie/???: You’ll pay for what you have done…

Marissa: Wait. Cherie?

Cherie began to approach Marissa furiously, until Heartstar calls out to her.

Nova/Heartstar: Cherie! Wait! We’ll deal with her later! Right now, we have to save Will, Cindy, Colleen, Hayley and Min-Gi.

Marissa: Ugh. If you go out there, nothing can keep the girls from returning to you.

Cherie/???: And if they do, will that stop them?

Marissa: Yes. For now.

Suddenly, Mundane Mighton and Super Shlorpian Qausarblast turns back to their normal Shlorpian selves as they grow amazed.

Terry Solar-Opposites/Mighton: Oh my god. We’re back.

Korvo Solar-Opposites: gasp in joy as he cries in tears of joy Yes! I’m me again! hugs Janiz Thank you Janiz… you saved my life.

Super Shlorpian Janiz hugs Korvo back. Then, she turns back as Vil-Gil-An-T, Fung-Irl, Mighty Pupa and Nighthowler runs up to their dads in tears of joy. Korvo wipes away his tears and then turns back into Quasarblast as he embrace his kids along with Mighton.

EVA: joins in on the hug Aaaw!

Korvo Solar-Opposites/Quasarblast: EVA?

EVA: Hi, Korvo.

The kids scream as Fung-irl slaps EVA who keeps dodging it while giggling in joy.

EVA: giggles I see you got your daddy’s arm strength.

Jesse Solar-Opposites/Fung-irl: Aw, thank you.

EVA: Sorry to scare you sweetie pies. I’m your AI AISHA’s cousin, EVA.

Vil-Gil-An-T faints. Laserblast laughs and helps Vil-Gil-An-T up as he awakens the two superhero boyfriend kiss. Then, Might Pupa hugs EVA.

EVA: Oh. Hey there.

Miss Frankie/Night Saw: Wow. What a big happy not-so-normal but awesome and loving family.

Pupa Solar-Opposites/Mighty Pupa: EVA.

EVA: Aw your Pupa is a Mighty Solar too? Aaaw, so adorable.

Fizziepop then hands Pezlie over to Cherie who happily embraces her baby daughter.

Pezlie: Mama! Mama!

Yumyulack Solar-Opposites/Vil-Gil-An-T: But damn, isn’t there any other option then going out there and risking our lives to dive tortured out of control monster teenagers. No offense.

Cherie/???: Guys. I think Black Mirror choose them for a reason. We have to try.

Marissa: Quasarblast can’t do this alone! He’ll need my help-

Quasarblast sighs and sheds a tear. But then, Janiz gets up in her face furiously with big brother instincts towards Marissa in disgust.

Janiz: You’re not going anywhere near my brother. Ever again!

Marissa snaps and attacks Janiz.

Marissa: Why you little-

But then, Janiz luckily turns into her Super Shlorpian and manages to get Marissa off her while Fung-irl takes Marissa’s amulet where her powers are in and smashes it with her foot.

Jesse Solar-Opposites/Fung-Irl: That’s for making the 9 princess think I am a monster! Before I even became Fung-irl!

Marissa growls. Quasarblast surprises Janiz with a hug.

Super Shlorpian Janiz: Wow. You are real happy to see me ever since Shlorp blew up, huh?

Quasarblast starts crying.

Korvo Solar-Opposites/Quasarblast: smiling through tears Of course I am. Thank you Janiz.

Janiz smiles.

Cherie/???: Shall be shown the ropes at this darkest hour?

Nova/Heartstar: You bet! Oh and what is your name now Cherie?

Cherie/???: Shining Light!

Cherie, now Shining Light, does a superhero stance. Detroit whistles in smitten.

Montez/Detroit: Damn. You are gorgeous.

Principal Cooke/Trailblazer: Well, what the hell are we standing here?! We got a town to save guys! Let’s fucking do this!

Mighty Solars: Yeah!

As the Mighty Solars rushes off, Marissa looks down in shame with her eyes close.

[colleenmurphy]

"There's a step here, Miss.."

He instructed with gentle ease as he guided her up the front steps of the rambling victorian she called home. He trailed off at her last name until he got the mailbox.

'Murphy'

Judging by the digs this fine upstanding young woman found herself the proprietress of the town Bed and Breakfast.

Either that or a she's a lone pea in a very large extra fancy can of peas.

He reasoned to himself as he guided her up onto the tidy enclosed porch. He liked the fact that she had her front door painted a very welcoming shade of Heritage Red.

The lanky dark haired green eyed woman all but hung off of him like a coat at this point. Mary Colleen Murphy had defended him to the very teeth against a pissy little fuck boy named Boyle? Bends? Ben-something. Michel Caffee never ever forgot a face in his life. That man was marked.

"Dibs."

He was semi startled as she fumbled to find her keys, leaning slightly against her. Her voice was husky from the joint they'd shared afterward with the cook and the bartender after the place quieted down. He was sporting a sliced left brow and he felt the forming of a black eye starting. Nothing Advil and time couldn't fix maybe a band aid or two.

"His name is Joel Benson. I call fucking dibs in parting him from this mortal coil."

She was warm and she smelled like warm lavender and honey and clean skin mixed with weed. Another sneaky sniff as she fumbled to get the key into the lock, an ancient skeleton key for her front door, and his head was reeling. It was almost like she could read his mind.

"You ever know your front step's loose?"

He ventured to her as the ancient front door creaked open.

"Oh yeah, I've been meaning to fix it but I've been a little busy trying to run the bar. I'm not home much. Not that it's..home."

He followed her inside and was pleasantly surprised to find a very welcoming front foyer. It was painted a deep shade of green.

"You know someone that does repairs? Handyman stuff? I can pay.."

She was leaning against the immaculately polished newel post studying him through semi hooded green eyes. He watched as her nimble fingers rolled a second joint for them to share. Part of her deal in him giving her a lift home.

"I could do it for you. I..I'm Mike Caffee...I've got a construction company."

A smile of recognition blossomed over her face, a truly enchanting sight if he was honest.

'Everybody goes on about how women glow like the sun but she's the fuckin' moon.'

He thought to himself as he watched her venture further down the tiny hallway connecting the kitchen to the dining area. She waited for him bathed in the light of the full moon. She was molten sterling silver darting along dusky blue velvet.

"Would you like a coffee or something? I've got wine, whisky, port."

"All that for the house?"

"Dad was a fanatic about the drink cart."

He understood.

"I'd love a beer if you have one."

A sly smile crept over her face as she crooked a finger for him to follow her out to the garage. In the clean startelingly white GE fridge was a six pack of Hamm's, the former man of the house's preferred beer during baseball games. Offering him one and raising it in cheers she motioned for him to follow her.

"Let me take a look at your eyebrow. I've got a first aid kit for this type of shit."

He felt himself being steered quite expertly by this mysterious mind reading woman.

"The green is called picholine if you'd like to know. I saw you looking before."

The hair on the back of his neck stood straight up again.

"Are you a fucking a mind reader or something lady?"

Holding out the joint to him as an olive branch he accepted just as she plopped him down into a captain's chair at the head of the old oak table.

"Something like that. I just feel like you and I have met before somehow. I've seen you around yes, but we didn't go to school together. We didn't grow up on the same street. But I can tell you that you like your coffee with one sugar and a splash of half and half. If you have to drink tea you take it builder's style. More milk and sugar than leaf water."

She shocked him into a silence so deep he could hear the hum of universe. Something told him she loved herbal teas and made her own. If she was ordering out it was earl grey with honey. She used Rose Milk lotion because her mother did. She misses her and the feeling is mutual. Her mother was built much like her, a dancer fluid and graceful no matter the circumstance.

"You use Rose Milk because your mother did."

"Touché, Mr. Caffee. Hold still, this is going to suck. Does it ease your mind to know that I used to be a nurse?"

A pop and a sting and his brow was numb. He felt a tugging as she worked. This was nothing new to him, he'd grown up a hoodlum in Rhode Island. He'd scrapped with his younger brother and Flannery boys from down the block. He'd had his head damn near stoved in by a pissy fisherman who had just been dumped by his girl. This was nothing new. The grey tiger tabby cat Mrs. Danvers, who had a bit of a pudge stared him down alongside a rather intimidating long snouted wolf type dog.

"This is Mrs. Danvers and her canine charge, Manderley. We just call her Winter. It's easier."

At the mention of her name she perked her ears towards him for a moment and brought her head to sniff in his general direction. Glancing towards her feline partner in crime they agreed. This dude in the leather jacket with the icy blue eyes and high cheeks bones was cool. Their lady was safe with him. He'd even remembered to lock the door after her.

"You've got a sense of humor."

For a moment her hands stopped. She was running her fingers through his hairline. Probably to make sure the cut wasn't deeper towards his scalp. That asshole's beer bottle had come down hard. It hadn't been his fault he'd seen red when he spotted Benson trying to man handle Colleen. She had stepped in for a friend. A doe eyed sweetheart that worked over at the Spina's Floralist. Really sweet girl. He had made a call or two to the owner, Eddie Spina after hours after she was well out of sight and earshot. The fact that he'd put in the coolers and the misting system for him in exchange for weed on tap had been the agreement. On paper, so it was legit in the eyes of the law and the state, he still owed Mike the cool sum of $25,000. The schmuck hadn't even bothered to attempt to pay him back. Anything. So to see his best florist, she'd handled his Granny MacCool's funeral spray and arrangements as well as his cousin Mickey's wedding. So, to see her get the shit knocked out of her let alone at all, pissed Mike right the fuck off. It ticked Colleen who was there as a customer, The Old Towne was busy with the Sox game on. From the sounds of it he'd had too much to drink and had wasted is last tenner on beer instead of his bet cover. Helene, he remembered her name, ended up bearing the brunt of his temper tantrum, in front of everyone on Delaney street.

"My Mother did, she was a novelist."

He was intrigued and his interest was piqued.

"Really?"

"Yep. You're eyebrow's going to be ok. No lumps or bumps deeper or further back. "

"Oh color me ever so relieved. Who was she?"

She offered him her lighter he accepted and lit the hand roll she'd gifted him, took a puff and passed it up to her. Shaking her head she finished up by putting a bandaid over the stitches.

"Who was who?"

"Jesus, I'm gonna call you Edith like Edith Bunker. Your mother, who was she?"

"M.C. Delancey. Writer of both romance novels and mystery novels."

"No shit!"

"Scout's honor."

"How would you get rid of him?"

He had to know, he was more or less thinking to himself or trying to figure her out. Get a deeper more primal read on her.

"Let me see your hands."

"What? Why?"

"Gimme your hands."

Checking him over she was satisfied. This could be the very best thing she'd been compelled to do or the absolute worst lesson of her life. Either way, she was interested in knowing more.

'So is he.'

A familiar voice she couldn't quite place said in the back of her mind.

"I'd gut the sonofbitch like a fish and leave him where he drops."

Mike watched as her face changed, the soft lines gone hard and rigid. Her spring green eyes turning to cold deep grey pools of storm. She was a cold December day at sea. He could see her, proudly carved on the bow of a ship.

"Something tells me you're serious."

"Only about that. Other than I'm pretty much a calm person. You?"

"Drug him, shove him in a trunk and take him on a long ride out a very deep lake. Cement blocks help."

"Ooh..I like the way you think."

"We're insane."

"No...we're...sane adjacent."

"You're a pip ain't you, Murphy?"

"You've got no fucking idea, Caffee."