#I will do anything but use a persepctive tool

[smilesrobotlover]

Whumptober day 2- Trust Issues

Day two!

Warnings for uuuuh racism

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Though Rito lived in the snowy mountains and could handle extremely cold temperatures, Kass was grateful to be out of the snow and inside the strangers’ cabin. The wind was so strong, he could feel himself wavering and being threatened to topple over, and the snow was almost too much that Kass struggled to get it out of his feathers. His feathers did fine with percipitation, but there was only so much it could handle. When they were inside the cabin, the strangers instructed those that weren’t helping Talon to take off their wet clothes before stepping inside further, just to minimize water. Kass gratefully shook out his feathers, causing the men beside him to groan in protest.

“Agh, Kass!” Benji scolded, getting the snow out of his hair. “Watch where you’re shaking your feathers!”

“Ah! I’m so sorry!” He apologized, and shook the snow out of his wings more carefully. Once all the wet and snowy clothes were hung up to dry, the men followed their way to Talon, who was bundled up on the couch next to the fire. He was shivering, with his round nose red and his lips blue. Kass felt horrible for the poor man, but was grateful that the Hylian couple were so kind to help him out.

“He’ll be fine,” the woman said, getting a pot over the fire. “We just need to make sure he stays awake until he warms up.”

Leon nodded and walked over to Talon, putting a hand on his shoulder. The man only sighed, leaning into the couch cushions while shivering.

“You have no idea how helpful this is,” Rusl started, walking up to the strangers, “I’m afraid he would’ve lost some toes if y’all hadn’t come around.”

Rusl chuckled, but the couple didn’t join in, they only gave him a cold look which filled Kass with dread. This world that he found himself in seemed very hostile towards humans, specifically Ordonians. He didn’t quite understand the politics behind that, but poor Rusl found himself faced with scorn without knowing why. Apparently his world was very different, with humans and Hylians being friendly with each other. Humans were a rare sight in Hyrule for Kass, but not so much that they were treated terribly. Kass had a sinking feeling that they were going to be given a hard time for Rusl.

“Well, we are very grateful for this,” Ammon spoke up, picking up on the awkwardness, and the demeanor of the couple changed drastically.

“Of course, we are always willing to help,” the woman said, bowing her head. “My name is Lonni, and my husband here is Agus.”

“Nice to meet you, I’m Ammon.” He turned to the rest of his group. “The big guy is Kass, that guy is Leon, the hypothermic man is Talon, Rusl, Linebeck, and Benji.”

The group all muttered greetings to the two and they nodded.

“It’s nice to meet you all,” Lonni said. She then glanced at Rusl and pointed at him. “Your hair is still wet, could you go wring it outside for me?”

Rusl gave her a baffled look but complied anyways despite his own shivering body. Kass watched as he hesitantly opened the door and left, leaving the group alone with the couple.

“Why are you traveling with him?” Agus suddenly asked, in an almost accusatory tone.

“I beg your pardon?” Leon asked.

“The Ordonian. Why are you traveling with him?”

“Because he’s our friend.”

The couple gave each other a disgusted look but said nothing.

“Is there a problem?” Leon pressed, anger apparent in his voice, but they continued to say nothing. Rusl returned to the group, looking far more uncomfortable than before, with his hair covered in snow.

“I… uh… tried to get all the water out,” he stated, and Benji snorted.

“There was an effort, bud.”

It was silent for a long moment, the air growing thick between them. Finally, Agus stood up and checked Talon, shaking him awake and turning to the others.

“You folks can stay the night if you wish,” he started, but before they could respond, he pointed at Rusl, “but there’s not enough room for all of you. You’re gonna have to sleep out in the shed.”

“W-what?!” Leon shouted. “You can’t just kick him out in that storm!”

“There’s no room for him,” Agus repeated, and Kass knew it was a lie. They just didn’t want an Ordonian staying in their cabin.

Leon was about to speak up again, but Rusl stopped him.

“It’s fine, Leon, it’s just one night,” he said softly.

“But—I—”

“We were originally gonna sleep out in a storm so the shed really ain’t that bad,” he continued, but Leon didn’t seem convinced.

“It’s not right.”

“I-I know but if it means that Talon has a warm place to recover…”

The group was silent, knowing that sleeping out in the storm was a horrible solution due to Talon’s condition. But Kass worried for Rusl as well. He didn’t fall into the water, but he reached in to pull Talon out; he wasn’t exactly free from the freezing cold. Even now he was shivering slightly, though he was trying to hide it. He wouldn’t last out in the shed, even if his clothes weren’t soaked.

“I’ll stay out with you,” Kass offered, wrapping his warm wing around Rusl.

“Wh— spirits Kass, y-you don’t have to do that—”

“Nonsense, us Rito can handle the freezing cold. Besides, it’ll give you all more room,” Kass gave Rusl a reassuring nod. “It’ll be fine!”

Rusl didn’t look convinced, but he nodded anyway, looking slightly relieved.

“Are you two sure about this?” Leon asked, and Rusl nodded.

“Just make sure Talon is alright. We’ll be fine.”

Leon let out a sigh and nodded, clearly not wanting to let the couple have their way, but not wanting to risk getting kicked out in the storm with Talon’s condition. The couple stood there awkwardly, focusing solely on Talon, before Agus stood and gestured to the door.

“The shed is just out in the back. I’ll give you two blankets if you need it.”

“Blankets would be perfect!” Kass said with a smile. Agus nodded and left to collect the blankets while Lonni gestured for them to leave. When the two got their blankets, they went back out in the storm, with Rusl’s wet clothes making him shiver. They reached the shed, and Rusl looked around it, his eyebrows drawn together.

“Th-this is the shed?”

Kass shrugged and opened the door, having to pull hard in order to open it, and the two stared at the inside in silence.

“Oh wow,” Rusl blurted out, his arms crossed.

The shed was tiny, so small that Kass could barely fit in there. There were a only few tools like snow shovels and shields, but it was still cramped. Rusl gave Kass a guilty look.

“Kass you really don’t have to stay out here if you don’t want to—”

“No, I don’t want you to stay out here alone,” Kass said, squeezing his way through the shed. He glanced at the ground and sat down. “At least it’s warm.”

“I’m glad you’re warm, Kass,” Rusl chuckled, and Kass patted his knee.

“I know it’s awkward, but I can at least help keep you warm with my wings!”

“You sure?”

“Of course, Rusl. Come on. I know how cold you are.”

Rusl was hesitant, but the cold got the best of him and he sat down next to Kass. For the first time, Kass was grateful that he was such a big Rito as his wings wrapped around Rusl fully. The man stopped shivering slightly and he sighed, leaning into him.

“Spirits, your wings are warm,” he muttered, and Kass laughed.

“I’m glad. I tried to get as much snow off of them as possible.”

“Yeah? Is it hard to do that?”

Kas shrugged. “Sometimes. But Rito have adapted to the snow.”

“That’s nice. I wish humans could handle the snow well.”

“Oh, the clothes you all have made is impressive.”

Rusl glanced up at him and chuckled sleepily. “Sure, but without them…”

“Oh at least you can swim in the water.”

The two laughed, the sounds of the wind being heard outside, but the shed remained warm. It didn’t take long for Rusl to fall asleep despite the cramped room, and Kass smiled at his soft snores. Sleeping in the shed wasn’t an ideal situation, but at least Rusl wasn’t alone. Kass leaned back against the bench and let out a sigh, listening to the howling winds outside before drowsiness got to him as well, and he let himself be whisked away into dreamland.

[timaeusterrored]

so im listening to Air Catcher by Twenty One Pilots and i had to ask, who's persepct do you thiiunk it'd be from? for any of your ships. river and mike, vax and kerry, silvindyne. and what are your thoughts on it? gimme all the word vomit you can muster 😈

Oh my god so I was fully ready to say it was Giving Mike and River (are we shipping them? Are they a ship? I’m down with it if everyone else is) UNTIL

“Cause I’m not sure I want to give

You tools to destroy my heart”

Vax and Kerry are fucking TERRIFIED OF FALLING IN LOVE! V is literally dying and Kerry just has the worst luck with love, and is also somewhat aware of V’s fate. Kerry doesn’t want to let this guy in, he’s dying, he won’t stick around long, and he doesn’t know if his feelings are true when they first meet. That maybe V was just a lucky fan with Johnny Silverhand stuck in his head and Kerry is paying him to go around with him during the Us Cracks stuff.

“And I don’t believe

In talking just to breathe

And falling selfishly”

And then

“But now, I’m here to give you

Words as tools that can destroy

My heart.”

Is such a Vax line. I believe in the V fell first Kerry fell harder thing. And I think during the concert, or better yet after when Kerry and V get to talk a bit, V’s like ‘oh fuck’ and Johnny just thinks it’s his own emotions mixing with V’s, that it doesn’t mean anything. But then the Us Cracks thing happens, and V starts the first kiss. And he’s realized that if he’s gotta spend these last few weeks with ANYONE, he wants to spend it with Kerry.

And time and time again, V trusts Kerry with his heart. He gave it to him a while ago, fully knowing Kerry could break it if he really wanted too. And V thinks he’d be okay with that, because at least even for a bit, he got to love Kerry.

[zer0comma]

just wanna show my appreciation for gorillaz and my gratitude for them because they opened my eyes and ears to new different forms of art and genres of music. it's kinda long but ive been feeling a lot of love for damon and jamie recently so i had to write it down. before discovering them i never really cared about animated music videos. and even tho i draw, and i did enjoy watching them, i never really appreciated the hard work that was put into making them and just considered them as short cartoons that were made to catch your attention or some sort of a replacement when the artists weren't creative enough to film their own music videos (very stupid of me, i know. i was dumb and judgemental). it wasn't until i was 16 that i started to become more curious about the whole process of making animated videos and that started mainly because of gorillaz. for some reason i have always felt attracted to their music videos even tho i wasn't really into their music back then (i did enjoy some of their hits like clint eastwood, feel good inc and dare, but being the dumb and judgemental edgy, grunge lover teen that i was 3 years ago, i didn't allow myself to enjoy them). i remember reading the comments and seeing fans mention the characters and i was very intrigued by that. eventually, in april 2018, i decided to give them another shot. i was just getting out of my grungy and edgy phase even tho i still hated on anything that was released after the 90s. i kept listening to their singles and i was just blown away by the animation. how smooth and original and creative it was. how much it fitted the music even tho the storyline and the music weren't that connected. i was just fascinated and it was after listening to rhinestone eyes and looking at the storyboard that i started to realize that this band was very special, and the more i learned about them the more i started to appreciate all the time and energy and money and passion and love and devotion that have been put into this project. i started looking at a lot of pictures of the official art and i loved it a lot. it was so absurd at times, but also very unique and original and fun and lively. and what made me more interested was watching the bananaz documentary and seeing jamie hewlett work behind the scenes, and listening to the interviews that the animated band members did. i really, really liked how each character is different from the other and how interesting and unique and funny they were. reading rise of the ogre made me even more attached to them. it was during that time that my appreciation for animation started to grow. i started paying attention to all the small details that make animated videos so damn special. i started to appreciate it as a tool for entertainement and a tool for self expression. it was seriously a huge turning point for me, and i started watching a lot of different animated movies and most of the time they manage to blow me away. now let's talk about the music! i can never thank this band enough for making me get out of my comfort zone and give other music genres a listen. as i said, i was really into grunge (ironically, it was one of the main reasons why blur never made it in the us at the early 90s, but now im huge britpop fan), and i had this very wrong idea that rap music was bad, that pop music was trash, that keyboards and synths and electronic music in general didn't deserve a lot of praise because it wasn't played with loud electric guitars (im literally facepalming at my own stupidity rn, i was a very cringy 15 yo). i literally did not listen to anything else except nirvana for almost 2 years. discovering gorillaz (and later blur) completely changed my persepctive on music. it literally changed my life. i'm not even exaggerating. the year i discovered gorillaz, 2018, was the worst year of my entire life so far. and if it wasn't for the artists that i discovered thanks to gorillaz and the artists i finally allowed myself to enjoy after gorillaz changed the way i listen to music (like the strokes!), i would have done a lot of dark shit. anyway, back to gorillaz. at the beginning, i wasn't really into the songs that had rap features on them. i didn't like plastic beach that much because it was heavily influenced by electronic music. i didn't even listen to humanz. i was very selective when i was listening to their music at the beginning. but then i tried to push myself to give them another chance. i decided to listen to demon days without skipping a single song. i read a little bit about the record and what it was supposed to mean to put myself in the context of the album and i listened. my 1st listen didn't do much for me. it was during my 2nd listen however that i felt like my third eye just opened. i tried to pay attention to the lyrics, to put myself in the mood of the album, and that's when i started to understand the message the album was trying to convey and i started to emotionally connect to the music. i started to realize the importance of each of the guest artists. how honest the rap on dirt harry felt. how scary and powerful de la soul sounded on feel good inc. how smooth mf doom sounded on november has come. it was a wonderful moment. that's when i started to accept the fact that ITS OKAY to listen to anything that wasn't 90s noise rock. eventually the rest of their songs started growing on me and i found myself introduced to a lot of artists ive never heard of before. i'm currently listening to de la soul and i'm still mad at myself for not giving this kind of music a chance. last week i started listening to fatoumata diawara's discography after hearing her for the 1st time on désolé and i'm just blow away by how great she was. her music makes me emotional and ive been only listening for a week. also this may sound embarrassing, but being an african girl myself, a tunisian girl from north africa to be exact, i never learned to appreciate the music of my own country until last year, and it's basically because of damon albarn and his interest in african music. i know that having a white man encourage you to embrace your own culture is weird, but the main reasons why i decided to listen to our music again were as i mentioned before, damon's love for african music and my willingness to listen to different genres and styles thanks to gorillaz. i just want to thank damon and jamie and everyone who's been involved with the project. i know that the band has been facing some small issues related to the storyline and the consistency of their music but that doesn't stop them for continuing to be an inspiration not only for me but for hundreds of thousands of people over the globe. i'm just very grateful for their existence and i wish them nothing but the best because they truly changed my life for the better.