#I'M SOOOOOOOOO NORMAL

[chubbletea]

I SAW YOUR TAGS IN THSC CONFESSION POST. I WANT GALEFORCE FAMILY LOREE

HI HI HI HI HI HI HI HI HI HI HI. HI. I'M NORMAL AND I'M GONNA ANSWER THIS NORMALLY. OKAY

SO. OKAY. SHIT. FUCK. I'M NORMAL

before I get started, charles' name used to be william galeforce, so keep that in mind (it's not rlly a deadname Ig? but yeah.)

hubert is charles' uncle- charles' parents were melissa galeforce and giovanni galeforce (giovanni and galeforce are brothers)

hubert's been in the military for a long time. melissa was a toppat when giovanni met her, and hubert didn't approve of their relationship bc she was a toppat, but giovanni didn't listen and married her anyways, joining the toppats. hubert and giovanni's relationship got a little tense.

melissa and giovanni eventually had william/charles despite not knowing how to care for children (smh smh), esp bc their lives of crime got in the way

since melissa and giovanni were constantly absent, william was mostly raised by hubert. william was in the airship division with his parents, which is technically what introduced him to aircraft, but he became invested in becoming a pilot someday when hubert got him a toy helicopter for his 3rd bday (W hubert).

since he was very isolated from the toppats (the toppats who weren't his parents wanted to take better care of him but they rlly couldn't; his parents thought he was fine SMH SMH), hubert took him out to do all the fun stuff (yk. stuff you'd do when you were a kid. another hubert W)

william was uh. lied to a lot in the clan, whether they were white lies or genuinely harmful. he had interest in the military bc of hubert and wanted to join someday, having no idea that the toppats were criminals and not good ppl- he genuinely thought they meant well, despite having never been rlly told what they did

eventually william's parents had two more kids. (WHY.) they were twin brothers, named victor and vincent galeforce. melissa and giovanni didn't rlly care for them either, but william LOVED them. they were his whole world.

he basically raised his brothers from the start (and is very good with children as a result), and they loved him too. they were always there for each other when no one else was. victor and vincent were the sun in his life he loved them SO much

william's parents got arrested (common melissa/giovanni L) and this upset all three siblings despite them not being good parents. william took his job as an older brother more seriously from then on out. not long after, he found out what the toppat clan was doing (uh oh), got angry, and left with his brothers in a fit of rage

he took some of the stolen valuables the toppats had with him so he could return them and perhaps get them arrested. the first person they ran to was hubert, and he let them stay for as long as they needed to. this is when william got his name changed (for safety reasons; he was fucking terrified).

they dealt with a lot of conflict relating to the toppats (obv) so. shit went down. there was a big fight.

rhm (which, I forgot to mention, was basically william's/charles' best friend, perhaps in a teenage romance) was super pissed abt this. in the big fight with the toppats, rhm killed victor and vincent while everyone was away, despite him being encouraged not to. (rip the galeforce twins they were only 12 <//3 aug 18 2000 - sept 12 2012)

now you can obv guess charles was fucking DEVASTATED. esp bc he was taunted by rhm for not being able to protect them

charles was already working on becoming a pilot at this point, and victor and vincent were rlly invested in the military bc of hubert. charles was already thinking abt joining the military when they died, but their deaths were the final push to convince him. so he basically joined in honor of them.

edit: bonus I imagine charles is good friends with the bukowski twins (fav bg chars moment) and they view him as an older brother + he views them like younger siblings (I'M NORMAL ABT. FOUND FAMILY. I SWEAR). they make him think of what victor n vincent would've been like had they survived :]

so YEAH charles hates the toppats a whole fucking lot.

[monstermoviedean]

look how the sleeve covers his hand 😭

[specialneedz]

TWD SEASON 4 EPISODE 12.

[onlymagpie]

wanted to share this here with my fellow Witcher book enjoyers :3

A Paris based animation studio is making an animated project based on the Witcher books, and from the stuff they've teased, it's looking really cool.

Here's a screenshot of their instagram page: (please check out the amazing work they've put out so far!!!)

[yeyinde]

KEEGAN P. RUSS CALL OF DUTY: GHOSTS

[fisheito]

@trainto1925 and now u got ME thinkin!!!

wondering when eiden would have gotten good enough at plushie making to create his entire harem in doll form. ...possibly around the time blade showed up. eiden got a lot of practice making thousands of Eiden Plushies as gifts 🤣

imagining how eiden starts to do a lot of impromptu "visualisation" exercises when blade joins the roster

BLADE: but why was lil yakumo embarrassed when i showed garugaru the box in front of-- EIDEN: (sighing goodnaturedly) ok, say..um *grabs the nearest two items* pretend this cup is garu, and this spoon is yakumo---

after some repetition, eiden wonders if blade will understand better if he just has dolls representing everyone thus begins the plushie brigade

[mujimujidaruma]

Black Butler (2024) trailer

[politemagic]

@tonguetyd you wanna talk about it? let's talk about it!!!!

stomach tat appreciation post! thirdeyevisuals / uglivia / tomise

[bimillythompson]

[trigun 98 spoilers]

there are a lot of reasons that i can't get over wolfwood's death but something i keep coming back to are these final image from his point of view:

because i can't help but interpret it as, at the very end, he realized that they had become his religion: something he could truly believe in and devote himself to.

that it might be better to live for something, instead of sacrifice himself. that he might be better alive than dead, if only to continue to be by their sides.

but he broke the cycle just a little too late.

[harurio]

and if i said the japanese softcore torture porn movie has the best most poignant most beautiful sex scene i've ever seen in anything bl or adjacent or otherwise. what then

[no-1-rosalind-lang-apologist]

The past day, a summary:

5:47 AM: I don’t think I can know this and not tell someone else about it I can’t be alone with this knowledge because I don’t know what to do now I think I need to go stare at a wall for a little bit but bts fanfiction based on foul lady fortune exists I am so so confused why does this exist I don’t know why this exists I’m just so confused why does the internet exist who reads foul lady fortune then is immediately like omg you know what I should do I should write bts fanfiction like how did that get from point a to point b what kind of a mental journey do you have to go on to get to that i have so many questions and I want answers to absolutely none of them also it is marked as explicit and I think it’s omegaverse I- who is reading this book and deciding to write bts omegaverse smut about it what kind of road does your brain have to go down where you read flf and the next logical step is to write 4,555 words of bts omegaverse smut.

5:58 AM: I’m trying to put myself in this person’s shoes. Just like. Imagine. You read this book. You enjoy the book. You enjoy the book so much that upon finishing it you think to yourself. Wow. I should write bts omegaverse smut about it. And then you do. In May 2023 you write 4,555 words of bts omegaverse smut that is apparently partially based on foul lady fortune by chloe gong. No one asked you to do this. But you did. And now it’s on the internet. And it exists. And it’s on the internet. And you put it there. And now. You go about your day knowing that you are responsible for 4,555 words of bts omegaverse fanfiction based on foul lady fortune by chloe gong.

7:10 AM: Somewhere. Somewhere out there there is a person who read foul lady fortune and the proceeded to write 4,555 words of bts omegaverse smut based on it split into three chapters and then published it on the internet in May of 2023 and they are presumably alive and living a life out there somewhere and I just have to go about my day with this knowledge and I don’t want to.

7:13 AM:I’m going to be on my deathbed someday and I’m going to remember this I’m going to die one day thinking about how somewhere there was a person who read foul lady fortune a young adult speculative historical science fiction novel set in 1930s Shanghai and written by chloe gong and then was inspired to write 4,555 WORDS OF BTS OMEGAVERSE FANFICTION ABOUT IT SPLIT ACROSS THREE CHAPTERS AND PUBLISHED IN MAY OF 2023.

7:14 AM: I don’t know how to persist knowing this information I am not strong enough.

7:21 AM: I am so tempted to read it now it is genuinely terrifying I don’t want to but also I want to know what specifically about foul lady fortune inspired this because I’m so confused

7:44 AM: I read it. It’s not even smut or anything remotely close to smut. It’s just. What.

7:52 AM: It was omegaverse though and I am still not entirely sure what the omegaverse is but I don’t want to know more than I already do and I don’t like it

*goes to class and takes notes despite being cursed with the knowledge of the flf bts omegaverse fic*

9:57 AM: I’m genuinely terrified that the person who wrote that may have seen or interacted with my tumblr posts. Like what if I have at some point in time interacted with someone who read the literary masterpiece that is the young adult speculative historical science fiction book Foul Lady Fortune by the Chloe Gong then proceeded to write 4555 words of BTS omegaverse fanfiction that they split into three chapters and published in May of 2023. What then. What do I even do with my life knowing that. And the thing that really haunts me is that I can never truly know.

10:27 AM: 4,555 words of BTS omegaverse fanfiction split into three chapters published during May of this year that is apparently based on the young adult speculative historical science fiction novel Foul Lady Fortune. This is a real thing that exists that I read with my eyes and now it’s in my brain it’s in my brain and I can’t get it out

10:40 AM: I do not say this as an insult or an attack on the person who wrote this but I want to study them in a lab

10:49 AM: I genuinely think that this is going to stick with me for the rest of my life.

10:56 AM: I want to be quarantined away from the internet. I need to go touch grass I need to go live somewhere with no cell service but if I do would it be too late would I forever be haunted by the idea that someone. Somewhere. Out there. Read Foul Lady Fortune. Then decided that they liked it so much they should write bts omegaverse fanfic about it. I fear quarantine would not be enough.

11:02 AM: Also. It was supposed to be based on Rosalind and Orion’s relationship. And I have seen many many many objectively incorrect interpretations of the New York Times bestselling masterpiece that is foul lady fortune by Chloe Gong. However. I do not think anything could ever possibly be more incorrect than omegaverse. So. Congratulations to the person who wrote that because they somehow managed to have worse reading comprehension than booktok which should not be possible.

11:10 AM: I genuinely think I might not ever forget this and from this moment on I will simply be trying to live my life while suppressing thoughts that do nothing but remind me that someone somewhere out there read flf and thought that something about it was just perfect for a fucking omegaverse bts fanfiction

3:14 PM: Okay. I watched a 40 minute video essay on the omegaverse. I now have so much knowledge that I never wanted that is now also going to haunt me for the rest of my life. I genuinely am so confused. How. How does someone read about Rosalind and Orion and be like. Aha. Omegaverse. I should put them through an omegaverse blender and project their personalities onto the versions of jungkook and namjoon from fucking bts that I made up in my head. This is a logical normal thing to do.

3:17 PM: THEY FUCKING. OMEGAVERSIFIED ROSALIND AND ORIONS RESPECTIVE PERSONALITIES THEN TRIED TO FUCKING COPY AND PASTE THEM ONTO THE MADE UP VERSIONS OF JUNGKOOK AND NAMJOON THEY HAVE IN THEIR HEAD. WHYWHYWHYWHYWHY

3:34 PM: AND LIKE HOW THE FUCK. DID THEY CONNECT THE FUCKING OMEGAVERSE TO FLF

4:53 PM: Someone wrote bts omegaverse fanfiction inspired by flf someone wrote bts omegaverse fanfiction inspired by flf someone wrote bts omegaverse fanfiction inspired by flf. Bts omegaverse fanfiction inspired by flf is a real thing that exists on the internet and I read it. I read it with my own two eyes. All 4,555 words of it.

5:08 PM: There is a person out there. And they read Foul Lady Fortune, a New York Times best selling young adult speculative historical sci fi novel by the one and only Chloe Gong. And their first thought after reading Foul Lady Fortune was. Man. Yknow what I should do? I should put the two main characters through an omegaverse blender and project their fake omegaverse personalities that are not book accurate onto the fake versions Of jungkook and namjoon that I made up in my head who I have decided are gay and in love with each other. And this person wrote a 4,555 word fanfiction about this that they broke up into three chapters and published. On the internet. In May of this year. There is a person somewhere out there. Who did this. That exists. That is a real person. A real person who exists.

[kitausuret]

well now I'm on a roll so I'm gonna keep going lol

re: my last post I guess

It is actually pretty fucked up how so many WOC in Spidey comics get just like! Fucked over! Especially when it comes to being love interests! Which isn't like an outlier because love interests are very common in Spider-Man comics -- it comes with the territory of "the best stories in Spidey could be a soap opera plot".

The most egregious example is obviously Sha Shan. Yes, she is a product of her time but let's be real, the White Savior stuff is just cringeworthingly bad. Do I get why she and Flash and their relationship are written the way they are? Do I recognize that in some ways Flash was just trying to repay her for her having saved his life in Vietnam? Yes to both, but there's really no excuse for the way their relationship just imploded in the 80s. Why couldn't they just have a normal breakup. Marvel, please. And of course she's been mostly shelved since then.

Next we have Glory Grant. Does she ever become Peter's love interest? No, but around the time of Inferno she does get into a pretty serious relationship with Eduardo Lobo. It's complicated (he's a mutant/werewolf, also organized crime shenanigans) but she loves him! And she's a huge romantic! She wants to be swept off her feet! Eduardo is dashing and adores her and guess what happens. She accidentally kills him while meaning to shoot Spider-Man.

And then there's her relationship with Randy -- I never understood why they got together tbh. To me it always felt like Mackie just stuck them together because he wanted to do something with Randy post-divorce without actually considering either of their personalities or compatibility. But at least she had a normal relationship I guess.

And after that, nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. How do I know? Because I read every single one of her appearances.

MOVING ON.

We get to Miss Arrow, who was actually Ero, an aspect of The Other. (Don't worry about it.) Anyways, while she was not actually a Human Being, she did take on the appearance of a woman of color, so when it turns out she's been manipulating Flash the whole time she was pursuing him and she's going to forcibly impregnate him? (yeah, really, that was the plot.) Like, oh, okay. I guess here we are. But we can't get any worse, right?

WRONG.

Enter the impeccable and stunning and beautiful and gorgeous and perfect Lily Hollister. (I am very normal about her.) She's introduced as Harry Osborn's latest squeeze. While the narrative initially tries to paint Harry as some kind of playboy (lol. lmao, even) it's clear he's REALLY into her. Or at least he thinks he is. We can dissect the comphet another day. But, lo and behold, it turns out a good chunk of her motivation for sticking around was because she's secretly Malice! AKA a supervillain!

That's the worst it got though, right? WRONG.

Then there was the whole subplot where it's revealed Lily slept with Norman Osborn, she's pregnant with probably-Norman's-child, blah blah blah I don't wanna talk about American Son. There's a bit of a course correction in Origin of the Species but let's not pretend she didn't get royally fucked over by the narrative. And she STILL hasn't recovered. (The whitewashing is terrible in many comics.)

Since then I honestly can't think of any WOC love interests in Spidey that have had any kind of prominence. Even on the symbiote side, we have (checks notes) Manuela Calderon, who hasn't appeared since Conway's Carnage series, even though Vicki Montesi has been around. Flash's latest paramour is Aria, who I love, but she doesn't even have a last name! We don't know anything about her! Yes I want to write half a dozen fics about her anyways but LET'S GET SOME CHARACTERIZATION!!!!!!

So many of these wonderful gals we don't get to know things about them - what are their life goals; their hobbies; their dreams and desires.

Of these, Glory is the best developed, but she's also been around since the 70s. I would argue that the fact that she's not a love interest most of the time has meant she occasionally gets development. But we should be able to have both! Women like Betty, Liz, obviously Mary Jane and Felicia, all get a chance in the spotlight. No, it's not consistent, and yes their stories have issues as well, but at least they have stories. We get to see them in love and heartbreak, often in great detail!

The Spidey office can and should do better by its ladies of all colors -- and not just relegate them to "sacrifice" or "surprise supervillain"!

[seeinganewlight]

next to normal 15th anniversary remaster finally got rid of the bad and unnecessary autotune on aaron's "death defied" in i'm alive (reprise) and after 15 years i finally know peace 😌

[aurosoulart]

the CEO of NIANTIC liked my art on twitter?!?!?!?! 🫠 I am passing away 👻

[incesthemes]

yeah i'm totally capable of being normal about this. dean doesn't want his brother to leave him alone. i'm fine. this is okay

[unkn0wn-n0n4rt1st]

HE LOOKS SO FUCKING GORGEOUS I LOVVEVVVEVEVVEVEVEVEVEVVEVEEVEVEEVEVEEVE HIIIIIIMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM AAAJAWHKSHSKQHSKAJLDFKBSKSKSAKAJAKBSKSKAJAAKDKXJWKDKDKBCKDDLNDLDJLDNDLDJKDJWOAJLABSBXKDDDJFKKDJXKKCODKDLKDJFDKJCLSSLLSSODKFDLPDPDLDKDOAIWOWOODKCDKKCK <<<<<<<<333333333333333333333

THEY MADE HIM LOOK SO GOOD SO FINE SO AKAJSJDJKD SO EVERYTHING I LOVE HIM I LOVE THE STUDIO I LOVE THE TRAILER I LOVE EVERYTHING I'M DO FULL OF JOYOUS AND POSITIVENESS I'M FILLED WITH GRACE AND IT'S GRACE I NEVER THOUGHT I COULD FEEL BUT IT'S HERE. IT'S RIGHT HERE. HERE HE IS. THE MAN. MY WIFE. I LOVE. THIS. OH MY GOOD LORD I LOVE THIS. I'M SO HAPPY. SO SO SO HAPPY.

God waking up to this was grrrrrrreat I love all I love everything I love everyone i'm filled with whimsical and joyful thoughts this is so good..... so good..... God bless...... siiiiiiiiiiiiiiigggghhhhhhhh.......... i'm happy so happy. Yes. Yessssssssss<33333333