#I'M A LIL ODDBALL

[mnty-bubblegmyum]

And my brother also already kinda struggles to make friends and has been thru bullying in some way and honestly that js worries me more

🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁

[marierg]

If you get this, answer with 3 random facts about yourself and send it to the last 7 blogs in your notifications, anonymously or not! Let's get to know the person behind the blog!

Awe Thank You Nony! I'll go one better just cause

Let's see....

I'm going back to college for the second time while momming and working and writing

I looooooove the outdoors. Mountain hike I'm yo girl, beach day I'm in, rando open space or national park where I can collect shiny rocks or fancy sticks HECK YEAH!

I have at one time or another studied multiple martial arts, fencing, archery, and other combative arts. Some of it was work related, some just for fun. But overall there is nothing funnier than seeing the shocked look on a 6 foot something Mandude the moment you flip them to the ground....

But for all of these I'm a huge insecure worry wart. Like I worry that i'm too much or that i wear people out. Seems confident and mostly is but still warm and gooey and not quite right in the middle.

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

aita for playing taylor swift at work?

🎶🎼<- for an easy find

i work somewhere where you can basically play whatever you want and i have, let's go with, unique music taste. and sometimes i'll play this up by going 'i'm a lil sad i'm gonna play my happy song' and play something oddball. think born to be wild by fanfare ciocarlia.

here is where i might be the asshole.

i told the room at large that i wanted to listen to taylor swift and queued the song. one of my coworkers turns out to be a swiftie and got excited because i don't listen to music most people know. the song plays and it is taylor swift by enjoy music club. my coworker got a little sad and called me mean but, i didn't lie and it was just the one song.

aita? should i have played actual taylor swift?

(if anyone remembers i'm the sims music anon. i don't do that particular bit anymore, you gotta keep things fresh)

[feroluce]

Lmfao. That was 1000% where I was goin with that ask XD. We all share the same freaks Sampard brainrot here. Gepard, the only man in Belebog to enjoy being stalked haha.

N omg, love Sampo bein a lil peepin tom. Someone asks him if he's ever got into really big trouble:

"Yeah, twice actually. Nearly had my head taken off, off-world, before."

"By the Aeons! What about the second time???"

"Looked through Gepard's window one night, quite the sight"

"..."

Gepard overhears and has a full body flush as he panics over what Sampo could have possibly seen in his bedroom, at night, that would have him freak out. Goin redder and redder.

Sampo most definitely worded it that way on purpose.

ANON, MARRY ME SKZJJZKSMDKD

Fluff is all well and good, and sometimes I even like it with these two- there have been a few fics where I felt like I could at least glimpse The Vision. But I tend to get really bored as soon as they enter into a standard romantic relationship together. Personally, I hope they remain enemies with benefits and possessive little freaks about each other for all their days.

Like Sampo is already kind of an oddball, so no one's super surprised about him. But I love the thought of Gepard seeming like A Little Guy, then suddenly skyrocketing into Oh, He's A Little Fucked Up the moment people see how he acts about Sampo haha

Sampo embarrassing Gepard on purpose is so funny though I love that JDMSKNSKSME

You just know he would drop the fact that he's familiar with Gepard's bedroom whenever possible (he has never once actually been invited into said bedroom). Like Gepard is just trying to lead a small patrol and one of them remarks that he looks tired.

"I'm fine, I just didn't sleep-"

"I'm tellin' ya Geppie, your curtains are old and thin, they're lettin' in too much light for you to sleep!"

And all of the soldiers freeze, Gepard's face glowing red as they all slooooowly look up, and see Sampo lounging on a fire escape above them like a Cheshire Cat. ☆

[masquayla-the-splendid]

Some things from Twitter I grabbed from the limited amount of time SatAM was trending.

Thank you, team SatAM Reanimated. This is why I took 4 parts in that collab.

I think some need to realize localization does not equal bad. I can get behind "he's almost like a fairytale creature in that regard," but AM's "rad dude" contrasts more heavily with Mario at the time, I feel.

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Ex of localization: In Splatoon's Salmon Run, Mr Grizz is supposed to be the shady boss of the job you're working. The characteristics of a shady boss differ between cultures. In JP, he is characterized as overly nice and forgiving. In AM, he is characterized as ruthless, unforgiving, and rough, with the occasional compliment to keep you motivated. Either way, both cultures get the idea that something is fishy with this guy.

Bringing it back to Sonic, in both continuities, he is characterized as a carefree do-gooder with an attitude, more or less. He is cool. However, like the Splatoon example, he is given multiple ways to portray this to the right audience.

People have their aesthetic preferences, and it is incredibly convenient that we are able to communicate information across the globe, so we now know of these different interpretations, and can pick which one we like. It'd be one thing if that weren't the case, then I'd understand why people would be upset, because these interps would be gatekept from everyone else.

This one I thought was funnier than the original. It's generalized. (That's the Archie comic font iirc. 🤓)

It reminds me of how many Sonic copycats there were around the mid-late 90s because of how successful of a character he was.

The drawing on the left reminds me of some arcade collection games I played on my Xbox as a kid.

That also reminds me how many people who defend SatAM are 90s kids. This was their first impression, and they love it. I'm the oddball youngin who so happened to prefer this version after typing "Sonic Cartoon" into YouTube in the year 2013, but it makes me wonder how old are these lil petty babies who have nothing better to do than complain about a cartoon animal? (Trust me, you are going to look pathetic regardless of your answer.)

This one took me by surprise! Talk about sabotaging a Sonic story! I don't like this guy too much, but he is occasionally a credible source. I feel like that's the case in more recent times than say at least 10 years ago. This one you can take his word for, as there are mutple pieces of evidence to support this. (Im not your mom, do your own research. The feds wont be after you if you type "SatAM production history" into your search bar.) The first sentence is a full on mood. It felt like Lily Orchard's "Steven Universe is Garbage, Here's Why" video, and 90% of it is them struggling with story comprehension and changing their opinion every 5 minutes.

Anyway, I'm gonna go draw various localized characters, and there's nothing you can do to stop me! >:D

[anticidic]

Today I'm thinking about a fallen angel Soukoku AU.

Dazai was cast down from the heavens and lost his wings and halo and has one of two options:

Either try to earn the goodwill back to reclaim his position among the angels

Screw it, assimilate into the mortal realm

He's a total oddball and sticks out pretty badly while trying to adjust to the customs of humans in general but also Japan-specific customs so people either think he's an oddball foreigner or he's just...yeah. He sometimes slips and calls people humans.

Dazai's also super nosy so when he comes across Chuuya, he has no shame in just walking up to Chuuya and asking about his hair and his eye color and how magnificent that combination is because he's never seen it in another person yet!

Chuuya's also a lil nosy though, because they get to that dreaded what's your life story question at some point in their friendship and Dazai's just like uh. How does he casually bring up that he's technically a sinner and a tempter and he's considered tainted and cast out because no one wants to deal with him now? He's pretty ashamed.

The whole time up until then Dazai's been working on earning that goodwill to return to the gates of heaven, but there's just something about Chuuya that's fascinating and as his time in the mortal realm starts coming to an end, he's getting cold feet about going back? Like maybe he likes this new life after all, it isn't so bad and DEFINITELY isn't as bad as all the angels said.

People smile. They laugh. They know how to love. They're not all bad out to get others and be evil. And some people are just fumbling and trying to get through life with the cards they've been dealt.

[basedkikuenjoyer]

Transmission Transition

Yeah buddy, I'd want some time alone too after that full-blown verbal holy war Kendrick Lamar dragged your ass with. Kinda shit that makes you need to stop and reflect on your life choices. Drake is back and he is straight-up pulling a Crane Wife hot on the heels of Stussy putting words to some interesting concepts we've seen.

It's been a while, so for a refresher I care a lot about X Drake coming back around because we dangled his report on Wano as a Chekov's Gun way back at the start of Egghead. If he's the one to open up a reinterpretation of Wano...Drake's scenes overlap with Kiku/Izo's a fair amount. So once again, hot on the heels of Stussy speaking that potential baggage aloud here's Drake playing very nice as a followup. Drake, Stussy, Marco. That was the trio I was looking for in this pseudo-anthology's third side story. Speaking of...

It's been a while. Always had nascent ideas about the idea Zoro busts out an attack called Rashomon with Kuma way back when. Of course I've made plenty of mentions of the film reference. Even if you haven't seen it you've seen the story structure. Three POVs on the same event, the real magic is in stitching the truth together out of three unreliable narrators. Marco's perfect to spell it all out as the sorta "framing device" between Wano & Egghead.

It's hard to tell week-to-week what we'll do with this one, but I think we can see what our trio is for Egghead:

First we step away to see a collection of side stories, end on filing in the truth of Sabo/Vivi in Reverie. This though obscured what happened in the lab.

Next we give Bonney a whirl through her backstory with Kuma, where he'll both be a bit of an unreliable narrator and also rewrite some events we've seen prior through giving his POV. When we return we reiterate last night was a gap and add the mystery pile of food for Luffy.

Vegapunk's Broadcast, duh. It was more of a distraction while we saw some relation to the main plot but it still fits the bill. We've done Stussy, we're getting Drake, if you do loop Marco in than it's a way to complete the ASL theme with an Ace connection too. And don't sleep on the York focus here either.

Of course, we'll need to see the next few chapters to really evaluate that. Each one have had their content that raises questions, unreliable narrators and oddball tropes like that. But let's get back to this chapter, there was a cool running line in there I liked:

I could riff on Koby, Grus, & Kujaku getting a bit meta here but I'll save that until I know the next few steps. Kujaku gets to shine a lil more in this SWORD segment as the one checking on Drake but her line here gets a lot more interesting when Bluegrass & Doll have a similar mindset attacking the giants. Bluegrass especially encouraging the young ones to step up and become a star. Makes me think a lot about our OP for the anime adaptation The end of the dream, the end of the sea...but first we have to make a shining legend of ourselves.

It's just funny to me one could interpret the lyrics to "Us" as a threat this arc maybe will break the direction I've long hoped it would is all I'm saying. Let's bring this all home with the main highlight of the chapter though.

It's not just the stinger, the Gorosei seemed a little shocked their first hits on Robonosuke stopped everything. York is relieved but recall last time we talked about her theory that's where the antenna snail was hiding was just that, a theory.

Type of thing that could go either way and either option could have a lot of ways of unfolding. That said...this is a perfect ending if some unknown force is about to take advantage of these gaps to justify being in prime position to hijack the broadcast. Kinda feels like it'd be a cop out to have Robonosuke hanging around this whole time just to get smacked around a little. Still very, very excited for this next stint.

[callmearcturus]

Arc Plays Games: Nora to Toki no Koubou: Kiri no Mori no Majo (NDS)

(apparently in English that's something like "Nora the Time Witch")

I'm gonna try something and try to keep track of all the games I play this year. First up is this extremely cute little that honestly got me through being sick as hell over the holiday. It is kind of perfect as a game for your brain at 40%.

Nora is a DS game that has better "Cozy" feel than most games under the cozy game genre. Basically, Nora (the character) is a chronomancer, so she can do time magic. She's a rookie so she's supposed to be learning how to get good at chronomancy. She's sent to a lil cottage in the woods to bone up on her skills.

The house and garden are extremely precious. You can redecorate the cottage, move furniture and crafting items around, change the walls and floor. The garden has friends and you can lure in cute creatures.

The main loop of the game is in three parts. First is making items to fulfill requests for townsfolk and friends. You'll be asked to make a certain item, and have to figure out the best way to do so with time magic, dismantling raw materials, and processing materials into new stuff. You start off with just a work table and the time magic thingie, then get more and more crafting options like sewing tables and smokers and stuff.

Then you turn in those items and get other items in return and make people happy!

There's also foraging, bc obviously you need materials to make stuff.

There's a whole map with multiple places to go and each of those locations has different materials to gather.

When you arrive at a location, there are interactable things that will give you different materials. Some are sparkly and also give you random effects, like increased rarity, more items, or monsters.

You might want to grab the sparklies first to try and booth the number of materials you get, but on the other hand you might find a monster instead.

Battles are the third pillar. There are a SHOCKING amount of party members, and you can pick and choose teams depending on what you want.

Want to make sure you survive really tough monsters? Go with the errant knight lady and the big friendly city watch guy. Want to get more materials? Go with the soft-spoken clinic worker who can spot more herbs of the 12 year old shop girl who fucking LOVES rocks and can find you more rocks. But the clinic girl isn't great in a fight, so you gotta be careful.

Party members include: a weird mercenary dude who just wants to be the cool knight lady, the buff city watch man who has tea parties and tries to kill monsters with stale bread, the clinic lady who secretly can deadlift a tree, aforementioned 12 year old who thinks rocks are just soooooo cool, the hot knight lady who i think has the hots for Nora but i'm not sure, a Capitalist, a thief who kinda sucks, and a mascot character.

I weirdly ADORE the economy/shop system in this game.

Sometimes when you are selling off old equipment or excess materials, the shopowner will counteroffer your request for money with rare items instead.

YOU CAN DO THIS TOO. Most of the stock in the shops can be bought outright OR you can choose "Buy with items" and offer up stuff in exchange for the item you want.

Shops have normal stock but also special stock you can only get by trading the right materials. The armory guy has swords and stuff BUT if you want the good shit, bring him a dragon scale instead.

I bounce off a lot of these kind of soft, cute games because they don't feel like they have depth but this game sooooo does. I would say the only downside is when you struggle to make a certain items or find a certain material, you... sometimes just gotta figure it out, because this game was an oddball Japanese-only Atlus title and the fan translation isn't super well-known, there isn't a robust wiki to refer you. Just figure it out!

Anyway, solid fucking 4 out of 5 on this game. If you can emulate DS games, you can locate this one pretty easily if you know where to look. (And if you don't know where to look, send me an ask off-anon and I will direct you a bit.)

gd i maybe need to try an atelier game...........

[inlovewithpandora]

I hope I'm not bothering u or anything, I noticed u were still taking request(?) I was gonna ask if u could maybe create a story for Roxto x y/n , where she's feeling insecure about herself and she decides to tell him after keeping it in for too long and so he gives her some kisses to make her feel better?

Just a small lil fluff <3 and if ur able to do it thanks !

Have a great day! ☆

Thank you for this request Anon💗! I hope this meets your expectations!

And yes I’m still taking requests so if you have one leave them here and your not bothering me at all i love creating these stories for you guys💗!

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Pairing: Rotxo x insecure! Sully Omatikaya fem! reader

Both characters are 18!

Warnings: insecurities, slight angst(but not really), fluff

Word Count: 1,425

Authors Note: please excuse any mistakes

You and your family have been living among the metkiyana for a while now. You've been adapting to this new way of life and you've had your eye on someone ever since you came, Rotxo.

You loved everything about him from his black curly hair to how his smile always lit up the room he entered. You and him have been inseparable since your feet touched the tan-colored sand of Awa'atlu.

He adored you so much. To him, you were the most beautiful girl Eywa planted on Pandora. But to you, you felt like you weren't pretty. You felt like an oddball when it came to beauty. You felt like the other Metkiyana girls were ten times prettier than you. Every time you were around the other village girls they made you feel so small, almost like you were invisible. You felt like your appearance was inadequate.

Every time Rotxo would give you a compliment about how beautiful you looked, it just went in one ear and out the other. You just couldn't receive his words of affection because you didn't believe in them. You didn't believe that his words were true.

Every time you looked at your reflection in the crystal blue waters you just felt like you were unattractive. You didn't understand what Rotxo saw in you, you didn't know why he thought you were beautiful when you just felt so ugly.

As you sat in the mauri that you lived in by yourself you looked out your window and saw a tall palm tree swaying in the wind, you walk over to the window and opened it slightly so you could feel the wind glide against your cerulean-colored skin. As you let the breeze hit your skin you heard voices walking past your pod

"Who do you think is the best-looking girl in the village?"

"Definitely Tsireya, I would tap that anytime" one of the boys said which made you roll your eyes

"You know her and Lo'ak are together man"

"I know" the boy said with a sigh

"Anyway have you seen his sister Y/N she is just so..." the boy couldn't even get his words out so his friend decided to finish his sentence

"Ugly right?! She doesn't look half as good as the other girls around here. I don't see why Rotxo likes her when he can have a normal metkiyana girl and not some girl filled with demon blood"

The boys continued talking and laughing about you which made your ears fall flat and your tail curl up and wrapped around your leg. You knew that your appearance wasn't appealing but hearing those same words fall from someone else's lips made saltine tears cloud your vision.

As you cried, Rotxo was walking towards your pod. As he walked through the entryway of your mauri he heard light sniffles. As he walked deeper into the mauri he saw you standing near the window as tears flowed down your face.

"what's wrong baby? Are you okay?" He asked you as he wrapped his arms around your torso and put his head in the crook of your neck

"I-It's nothing Rotxo" you told him as you hurried and wiped the tears off your face so he couldn't see them

"No baby I can tell something is wrong talk to me" he said sincerely trying to figure out what was causing you to feel unhappy

As a response you just shook your head, you didn't want to tell him know about your insecurities. You didn't want him to know that you were self-conscious and that you felt so inadequate.

"I don't want to talk about it Rotxo" you told him sternly which caused Rotxo to step back from you and sit down on your makeshift bed

"Okay, that's fine just come sit down with me beautiful. I love this top on you it's so pretty" Rotxo told you as he pulled you onto his lap and began to rub his hands on your thighs

As he complimented you and showed you affection it only made you angry, angry for reasons you didn't fully understand.

"Stop Rotxo" you mumbled softly but he still heard you

"Stop what?"

"Stop complimenting me" You told him as you felt a mixture of anger and sadness stir up inside of you

"What do you mean Y/N? Your beautiful and I want you to know that" he told you as he planted wet kisses on your neck

"STOP ROTXO OKAY?! JUST STOP!” You yelled at him as you stood up abruptly and brushed his hands off of you

Rotxo didn't understand why you were so angry, he didn't know why you lashed out at him so suddenly.

"Stop lying to me Rotxo! Ju-just stop lying to me!" You told him as hot tears ran down your face

"What are you talking about Y/N?! I've never lied to you!"

"Yes, you have! All these compliments, t-telling me I'm beautiful, always kissing me and showing me all this affection, just stop Rotxo! I know that I'm unattractive! I know that I'm weird because of my demon blood and I'm nothing compared to the other girls here. Why do you even like me?! Why do you want to be with me so badly?! Huh?!"

As you were talking all of your built-up emotions were overflowing and running out of you like a waterfall. You didn't want to tell him all of this, you didn't want him to know your deepest insecurities but it was too late now. You were already spilling your heart out to him.

"Is it because this is some type of joke?! Are you doing this because you feel pity for me and my family?! I don't understand why you think I'm beautiful when I just feel so ugly?!"

As those words rolled off your tongue Rotxo just stood there like a dear in headlights. He didn't understand where all this anger came from, but hearing you say all those words about yourself made him feel so crestfallen.

"I-I I just feel ugly Rotxo so ugly. Every time I see my reflection my stomach churns, and my body fills with disgust. I hate my skinny tail, my huge eyes, my frail body, I just hate everything about myself and I don't know why you like me Rotxo. I don’t know why you would want me when I look like this" you told him as your eyes were stinging from crying and your heart was throbbing from doing the one thing you told yourself you wouldn’t do which was tell Rotxo how you truly felt.

You looked at Rotxo and saw him just standing there in front of you with a glaze of sadness in his eyes. As you looked at his twisted face you immediately regretted telling him all of those things “R-Rotxo I’m sorry I-I didn’t mean to lash out at you, I shouldn’t have do-”

Rotxo walked up to you and began to shush you, “You’ve been holding that in for a long time haven’t you?” He asked you as he caressed your cheeks and wiped the tears off of your face

You just nodded your head in response because you didn’t want anything else embarrassing to fall out of your mouth

“Y/N the reason I like you is because of your laugh, your kind heart, the way you treat me, and how you truly see me. Your not ugly baby and I don’t want those words to ever fall off your lips ever again.”

He leaned your head down and kissed you on your forehead, “You are beautiful *kiss* pretty *kiss* gorgeous *kiss* and the sexiest na’vi I’ve ever laid eyes on. No girl has ever made me feel the way you do.” Every time he gave you a compliment he planted a kiss on a different area of your face

He then moved down and planted kisses on your neck and collarbone. He wanted to show you his affection through his body language, he needed to show you that his words were true.

As he did this you finally were able to believe his words. He made you see that you were beautiful. He showed you that you were pretty even if you couldn’t see it.

“Your beautiful Y/N okay? You are beautiful and I love everything single thing about you. I see you Y/N” Rotxo told you as his eyes were filled with love for you

“I see you Rotxo” you told him as you cupped his cheek and pulled him in for a kiss

At this moment you felt so much love, you were so glad that you told Rotxo your true feelings and that he didn’t dismiss them and instead he reassured you that you were beautiful.

You were so grateful for Rotxo.

You were so thankful that Eywa brought you two together.

I hope you enjoyed💗!

Likes, Comments, and Reblogs are appreciated💗!

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[chemzee]

Soooo... Morgan... Oh Morgan.

This guy was hell to design at first: I had so many attempts to capture the vibe I wanted to go with him and for a long time, I wasn't satisfied with the way he looked. But now I can say I'm definitely very satisfied with it (maybe not with the clothes but it´s easy to fix).

ofc I still gotta think about like his patronus n wand and whatnot

Just how I created Melly for sake of Cassandra's character development, so did I create Morgan for Daniel's development.

What crossed my mind was "Now that Daniel has high chances of joining NOTME now (if he didn't join it already) , given everything, he might get more and more isolated from his friends. So how about I give him a friend there, around his age? A genuine,healthy friendship with no ulterior motives?... Except I'll give that friend a tragic fate."

I wanted Morgan to be an oddball among NOTME members of sort, like despite believing in their cause he feels out of place/different to most members, but I went a lil too hard and an oddball part. :"D

Other than that, I always wanted to have a character who's sorta very unceremonious about more macabre topics and is rather calm about concept of death or the idea of dying in general, as a defense mechanism at least. Rest of my characters with death motifs (almost an entirety of DSAA cast + other ocs) were outwardly very sensitive about death/the fact they are going to die, so I wanted to go in opposite direction, explore a different grief coping mechanism.

[sparklykat-hideoutenthusiast]

I finished my lil story thing! :D

It's for school but I thought I'd share it here! :3

If you don't want to click the link I'll paste the story under the cut:

ミThe girl with many coatsミ

Once, an exceedingly long time ago, there was a young lady. She was a very strange young lady. So strange in fact, that many of her ornery ordinary peers would tease and pick on her. They would attempt to squeeze a reaction from her to amuse themselves or feed their ego. Many chose calling her names as their form of torment, most often, “The oddball,” or more plainly, “Weird.” They thought her to be a nuisance in their standard lives.

“Young lady, please don't feel less of yourself! You have the eyes they threw aside!”

I had kicked off school on a bad start once more. It appears as though I had become an outcast there. Perhaps it was because of my rugged, worn appearance? Or perhaps I was fated to be outcasted. Not that why I was cast away mattered for no matter the reason, it did not feel good to be ostracized so bluntly. 💭

My steps echoed loudly through the empty hall as I arrived late to my third class this year, per my usual.

The teacher, one not very fond of my continued ignorance to her clear instructions, immediately reprimanded me for being late no more than the average, “young lady! If you're late all this year again, I'll be calling your mother!”

Out of fear of punishment, I quickly apologized, “Sorry Miss Darlene, I'll do better next time,” the words tasted no bitter on my tongue, no less than a lemon. A rehearsed phrase for every mistake I made.

(Her mentality was that of self pity and hatred for those around her. She yearned to taste freedom from those she considered far more ignorant than her but even when given the key to her cage, she would never figure out how to turn the lock. Instead she would complain about the dust and rats despite the fact the rats brought her food and the dust was not nearly as insufferable as it could be…. though..a cage is a cage no matter how decorated)

The little lady had put on another coat. The students thought it strange when she'd apologize with the same phrase no matter how severe or small the punishment appeared.

(The coat was a way to protect herself from others, hiding behind a mask she'd soon come to hate. But how many masks will she adorn before she can't see?)

“Young miss please don't shun your beauty! A diamond does no good stuck in the dirt!”

The teacher grumbles as I shuffled with heavy feet to my seat. I had grown accustomed to setting down my bag and retrieving the books corresponding to the class from it. A routine, one I hated very much. I could feel the stares of the other students as I did my work, only occasionally would I ask our teacher questions on the subject. too many questions and I would get more pitiful eyes on me.

(Routines, again, she yearns to be free, unable to experience the beauty of life while stuck in a glass cage. Fear grips her heart, stopping her from reaching her full potential as she fears standing out. “It'll only cause more problems,” she tells herself.)

Yet another jacket, it was starting to get stuffy under her coats. The atmosphere was suffocating for her, she couldn't wait for lunch.

“Oh please darling, be patient, soon you will have the ears you need to speak”

Lunch soon arrived after the hours of waiting in that miserable classroom. “Sigh,” I let out an audible breath I hadn't even realized I was holding in despite the well apparent stress of being here. I'm sure the teacher noticed my behavior, I can tell by the look in her eyes. She must pity me. I have to get to lunch or else I won't have time to eat before recess, and so, I head out of the classroom with my lunchbox.

(Self pity, yearns for others attention and concern but refuses to accept it. She starts to hate every second of her “miserable” life now.)

She puts a hood over her ears, refusing to listen to the concern of others. Her teacher worries for her but she's deeper in the grave she dug for herself than her teacher thinks. The teacher wants to reach out a helping hand but our “ oddball,” Elise, already requires a ladder.

“I see how many shun you, I see how many make fun of you, please don't let the words of the ignorant affect you”

I made it to lunch only after tripping over my own feet. The room didn't hold much of an aroma, only the dry miserable biscuits gave off any indication of today's lunch. The line wasn't long as I got here late but it was still an agonizing walk there as I could feel the other students scrutinizing me. The lunch lady handed me my tray impatiently, as if it wasn't her choice to work at a school full of obnoxious children. My shoes scuffed on the ground as I walked to my seat. Even my “friends” didn't sit close to me, instead choosing their own friends to sit with. My food was the same quality as eating desert sand.

The same as always, every day, all day, no matter the day.

(Frustration only builds. She's become hyper aware of how pitiful this sad routine is.)

Recess passed agonizingly slow Elise as her friends were all already hanging out in their own groups that she didn't particularly fit into. It had felt as if someone made a small cut into her heart each and every time it happened. Something akin to a paper cut but deep enough to draw deplorable weeps from her eyes each time. Perhaps she wasn't cut out for this life.

“I will be your shield if only you can be my sword”

“Sigh,” maybe one day this won't hurt as much..

In the years that followed, memories of her torment began to fade. She had grown and shaped herself based off of the agony she faced due to the “ordinary” life in place. She had learned to ignore the detractory glares, the loneliness of it all, and of course, just how imperfect she was. Her heart felt warm and yet free, cold yet not alone.

"Nothing made me more myself than the time I spent learning myself," i continue with a smile, reminiscing of the past both on my own and with friends.

Her imperfections made her beautiful. Truly indescribable in words and yet described perfectly by her experiences.

“Both the shield and the arrow are wielded by the same person”

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Key:

orange = the narrator/third person type view

Red = me <3 (this me 😌)

Purple = Elise's future self communicating with her past self.

pink = an insight to her mentality.

White = Elise

•

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“A tear, only one.

A release, quite the rue.

So close.

so far.

One must remain ignorant of the obtuse

One must not acknowledge the ornery”

Poetry cuz why not ↑

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@yourfavoritecuntist bc you said you liked my writing hence why we're moots :3

[amethystfairy1]

Hi! Hope you’re doing well.

I’m not sure if you’ve noticed me in your kudos lately (stardrxp) but I just wanted to pop in and say how much I’ve been loving all your fics! They’ve been the one thing getting me through my 1.5 hour commutes to uni lol.

I absolutely adore your writing style and how you write each character. And you can really tell the amount thought you put into world building, backstories, relationships, ect. I can see these projects are something you love a lot.

And don’t get me started on the found family dynamics-... Doc and Ethos’s story in TTSBC had me kicking my feet, and even though I’ve only just started Travelling Theives I can already tell buttercup trio are gonna be my favourites.

Keep doing what you’re doing! Absolutely love your work <3

I certainly have, thank you so much for coming to say hi!

I love them so much, I spend so much time thinking about them, they're my nice little happy mental break from the throes of higher academic hell 😆

I'm so glad to hear you enjoyed the Oddball family from TTSBC! Yes, if you liked them, I'm sure you'll enjoy your time with the buttercups, the lil Swagon gang headed out the old continent!

Thanks again for coming by and letting me know you enjoy my writing, I really really really appreciate it! 💖

[empresskatarina]

New Month! New (Last?) Shirt Post!

Our favorite baby girl is back for our fashion analysis of... Does Calam really own TWO white shirts? I think our boy has indeed taken the plunge on a 2nd shirt.

I know, Ireland AM dude, I know. "Look at ch'ya...Look at ch'ya" with all those seksi threats! 🇮🇪

Sorry in advance, but I'm not referring to this one from his ig. 🙈 Let's continue with our fash past.

In May of 2022, our lil' boo wore these rounded toe boots 🥾 that really shorten the leg visually (which is why a pointier shoe is better, but I digress as I have a personal vendetta against smelly steel-toed work boots). We can see here that our broad shouldered, snack illustrious actor is a lean, mean ⚽ soccer football machine. It is a slim cut that's close to the body.

(Look at that baby face! They grow up so quickly! 🥹)

Even though in his above Ireland AM interview, it looks like he is wearing a looser shirt, there are other photos floating on the Internet of this one with a stretched out neck, which is exhibit A.

(well, Google images is now dominated with that faded navy shirt if he's even wearing one... good luck! And for our young readers, please be careful of LPSG. It's neither his talent agency, nor a site for minors! Sorry Getty images - this is for educational purposes under fair use law, probably, idk)

Let's flash forward to the recent Archie panel premiere in November 2023. As you may have noticed, our baby girl has bulked up (what is in his cereal?! And is he still baby girl whilst turning the dirty thirty this year?!).

If you have better pics, please send my way, but if you squint hard enough, you can see that this white shirt looks to have a little extra wiggle room on top of all that man meat muscle mass. You can also see that he is very guilty of manspreading. Look at his costars trying to have their own personal space. Ugh to that!

And here we come to Exhibit A. I think I've figured out why the necks always look stretched out. Is this just a normal man and toddler thing? I'm an arms first then delicately place my head through to neither stretch my 'fit nor smudge my makeup. Am I the oddball here?

Anywho, he is indeed the age of majority here and you can see how far baby girl has come along. 😘

[charaofthedead]

ITS D O N E

I WAMMIE VON WAMMIE PRESENT MY NEW AU

now i know what your thinking ... wammie what in the ultimate grilled cheese are you talking about?! ok so ill explain the origins of this.

so one day i was watching an undertale cringe cop re-living the early days of the fandom with my boyfriend when i saw a woman sans and i had a brain blast and ran to ms paint and drew what isaw in my head and then i drew a chara n marph and then i drew a frisk then a papyrus then a flowey then an alphys but i decided to line, rework and color the first 4 but while i drew and lined i was listening to an old song from my childhood days .. lil johns get low and then i had an idea why not make the au about things i had when growing up and then listened to another song called oh oh oh sexy vampire and then transparent soul (the song) and more and more and i just let my imagination loose on this one! i really hope y'all enjoy what i have so far i really let my autistic obsessions came out on this one

plot summary

the aftermath of a world where everyone came together to fight off and end a genocide route a reward is given to those who fought a choice is given a choice is made to keep the underground safe it must be hidden.

sans

MOTHERLY LOVE

so yes sans is a girl i wont explain in lore reasons why but just know it was cuz of sans fan girls potentially LMAO this sans is quite different from your typical sans she enjoys ice fishing she loves to tinker with things and is even a professional gunsmith shes also a bit of an artist doing graffiti so shes more MOTIVATED than a normal sans but their still lazy but lazy with a mischievous child to take care of aka chara yes in this world chara is sans'es kid this does have lore explanation but i wont say it for now abiltys:{redacted]

chara an marph

DORKS

chara is strange to cuz im not sure what they are i mean i like to think their a bizarre vampire but also more of a devil this chara loves to cause may/ham cuz their a they/them who was revived 8 years ago and was taken in by sans the one who gave them life chara is of course and oddball creature of chaos but chara is also righteous and has a heart of gold their also a mega lameo dork

chara loves to spend time i with their best friend marph! they love to draw they think cars are super cool they also have a shared interest with sans and that's guns and art and they both love animation but chara hates ice fishing but still goes to spend time with their mamma

(also eyes may change color depending on mood idk)

abiltys:{redacted]

nickname:rose

now marph is marph he is a box who marphs around he is just a lil guy where he comes from no one really knows marph loves chara their best pals and they like to run around and mess with people marph loves pizza its their absolute favorite! marph can also store items he has infinite space within his box self

frisk

GAY

ok so frisk is also an oddball they LOVE vampires to quote their favorite son "Oh oh oh sexy vampire I'm falling in love ..So just bite me baby And drink all my blood (oh yeah) Sexy vampire I'm falling in love with you" as you can see frisk dresses a bit oddly well see i was trying to make them as 2009 internet fashion as possible while adhering to my own design philosophy they look fine but it may be remade but its fine for now but any way frisk is also a big dork nerding out about sonic or invader zim writing fanfics drawing ship art of their favorite ships they also love old technology and their really good at DDR their a total nerd who wont apologize for being them self and encourages others to be them self too well along as it doesn't hurt anyone this frisk is a pacifist to a point they will defend them self abiltys:metal hand

SNOWED UP TOWN

snowed up town is like snowed inn but bigger more advanced more monsters more buildings some with sans'es graffiti on them and then you have the train on the save roof i just think its neat it shows how big this underground is

SNOWED UNDERCITY

snowed undercity is a big downtown area of snowed up town its like an old 80s anime kinda city pop place lots going on never a dull moment there the light's, the music, the coziness the new have to get ridge leading to it it's the only way to get there and yes its by train and then below you have the void stream of hope and dreams (temp name maybe) it is bottomless and doesn't to feel like water and yet you can float if you have hope

THE RAIL RUINS

the ruins of a long lost rail yard..? but why does it have a sky? how are the fields so long and unraveling how does it have life...truly a bizarre place as the train does not move and there are multiple cars filled with different items... monsters seem to live nicely here..why don't they just go through the door? the sense of hope hear is intoxicating the feeling of adventure is alive a sense of FUN is very alive here

MUSIC

sans's theme funny name cuz they a mamma who wanna protect their family

i would like to say that i used a melody from a song i like in the first half its from a klaatu song called were off you know and i used a zelda song too, song of storms too

extra art i did

you may draw these characters if you wish there will be more designs soon i h o p e

im unsure if this should be a comic or not or maybe it should be something else im unsure i have alot of ideas for it!

[arospecbandgeek]

I'm back in the inbox again (expect a lot of me, I tend to lurk teheheh)

Anyway- new string of questions, plus a lil bit of what I think my ocs would do in presence to her teehehe

1- Let's put her in a scenario, You said she's scared of Bonnie right? What if, during a bus ride to a competition, because Bonnies on color guard, and your OC's a cheer leader, what if they had no choice but to sit next to each other on the bus? How'd she react?

2- Would the cheerleaders have beef with the color guard? (I think they would tbh, but I wanna hear your opinion)

3- How tall is she?

4- has she done anything illegal?

5- Another scenario! (This may or may not happen lmao)- Sabrina (Imma be honest, she probably wouldn't like her) doesn't like her. She's meh Abt her. Now, let's say, somehow, someway the two get into a physical fight. On a scale of one to ten, how badly beat up would your OC be? And why do you think they'd get into that fight?

6-lastly, how does she feel Abt homosexuals? Like I know it's a weird question, but I couple of my ocs are 💅and I wanna know.

Also, if you get the chance, check out @oddball-artz OC! She's part of the AU as well. :)

damn you’re really making me work here 😂. but i asked for this so…

length warning again.

1- Let's put her in a scenario, You said she's scared of Bonnie right? What if, during a bus ride to a competition, because Bonnies on color guard, and your OC's a cheer leader, what it they had no choice but to sit next to each other on the bus? How'd she react?

Internally panic. She’d probably just blast her earbuds and look out the window, trying to look cool about it. Blaire is all bark and some bite, but she knows when she’s going to lose. She doesn’t want to get her ass beaten by a sophomore in front of her friends, so she just tries to keep quiet.

2- Would the cheerleaders have beef with the color guard? (I think they would tbh, but I wanna hear your opinion)

Oh absolutely. They likely would have to share a practice field, which ends up causing a lot of fights. Blaire doesn’t take it out on the underclassmen too much, but mostly shit talks Lorelai. They’re both the same age and she’s the captain. Monica (who was Jennifer, Blaire’s best friend, from the last post, but my dumbass forgot that there was already an EE character named that) is the head cheerleader, with Blaire being the co head, so she essentially hates Lorelai by default.

3- How tall is she?

5’9. She’s about an inch or two shorter than Car Crash / Fred, but since he doesn’t have a canonical height this was mostly a guess, comparing him to Giovanni’s height.

4- has she done anything illegal?

Blaire is a banzai blaster, so yes. Out of uniform, she’s probably shoplifted some clothes from the mall with her friends. Nothing too big.

5- Another scenario! (This may or may not happen Imao)- Sabrina (Imma be honest, she probably wouldn't like her) doesn't like her. She's meh Abt her. Now, let's say, somehow, someway the two get into a physical fight. On a scale of one to ten, how badly beat up would your OC be? And why do you think they'd get into that fight?

It would probably be because of the beef between the cheer squad and color guard, but I can’t think of a specific situation. She doesn’t spread rumors about people (anymore), so it would probably be her saying something bad about Dalia that would get Sabrina angry.

For the fight itself, on the scale, with 1 leaving her with a scratch, and 10 being hospitalized:

Without epithets? Probably like 5ish. Being a cheerleader does take some strength, so if it was just a mundie battle, it would be a fair fight.

With epithets? 11. Blaire is a mundie, so no way she winning that. She’ll either hightail out of there or end up like Sylvie at the end of the museum arc.

6-lastly, how does she feel Abt homosexuals? 💅 Like I know it's a weird question, but I couple of my ocs are and I wanna know.

Blaire is a straight ally. Because she totally is. She may have wanted to kiss a girl. Maybe even marry one of her female friends when she was in middle school. But all girls have crushes on her friends in her mind. That’s not gay. Obviously.

But in all seriousness, she’s a closeted bisexual with a male preference. Closeted in the sense of her not knowing it yet. All her friends know except for her. She has some internalized homophobia.

Until she figures that out though, Blaire doesn’t identify as LGBTQ+ herself, but supports anyone who does. But I’d give her another month to figure it out.

Also, if you get the chance, check out @oddball-artz ‘s OC! She's part of the AU as well :)

I already have. ^^ Her art is very well done.

thank you for the ask! 💞

[bucketkicked]

if I had to pick a few songs to REALLY represent Hugo (despite having a lil playlist for him):

1. Radio Head by Talking Heads

Super self-explanatory, given it was the inspiration for him!! Underrated song imo. ❤️😁

Baby your mind is a radio, Got a receiver inside my head. Baby I'm tuned to your wavelength, Lemme tell you what it says: Transmitter! Oh! Picking up something good Hey, radio head! The sound...of a brand-new world.

2. Planet Earth by DEVO

Really sums up the crazy, overwhelming experience Hugo’s had on Earth. He’s so confused and lost. But even then, he’s not leaving any time soon.

On planet earth I'll probably stay. On planet earth, It's a place to live your life Where pleasure follows pain. People go insane, fly around in planes. Pray that it won't rain, drive around in cars, get drunk in local bars, dream of being stars.

3. On The Outside by Oingo Boingo

I get in my feels with this song regarding Hugo… like the lyrics really feel like his inner thoughts. He doesn’t quite know how to fit in and really is just pretending to be human.

They laugh at me aloud, They say I'm just a clown, That I ain't got no pride. I'm on the outside. They think I'm just a jerk. I never could sit still, I never was too hip, I never caught the ride. I'm on the outside, I'm on the outside now! This is where it all begins right here! On the outside lookin' in, I'm on the outside! Looking in At you! I'm just an alien through and through, Tryin' to make believe I'm you! Tryin' to fit, Just a stranger on the outside looking in.

4. Psycho Killer by Talking Heads

Besides the “psycho killer” part, this song really feels like his personality to me. It captures his oddball self.

I can't seem to face up to the facts, I'm tense and nervous and I can't relax! I can't sleep 'cause my bed's on fire, Don't touch me, I'm a real live wire! You start a conversation, you can't even finish it! You're talking a lot, but you're not saying anything! When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed! Say something once, why say it again? We are vain and we are blind, I hate people when they're not polite!

5. Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads

Also a good song for summing up his confusion/trepidation of Earth, as well as showing how strange of a guy he is.

You may ask yourself, "What is that beautiful house?" You may ask yourself, "Where does that highway go to?" And you may ask yourself, "Am I right, am I wrong?" And you may say to yourself, "My God, what have I done?" Same as it ever was, same as it ever was! Same as it ever was, look where my hand was! Time isn't holding up, time isn't after us!

6. What You See by Oingo Boingo

Another song for his inner thoughts / personality!!

What you see is what you get, Don't relax; you're not home yet! It's the '80s, idiot, What you see is what you get! It's the '80s, little fool, Don't forget the Golden Rule: What you see is what you get! What the hell did you expect? Pretty red roses, wet puppy noses, Men with rubber hoses is more like it!