#OOC | off the record

[lilislegacy]

*percy seen from a far, wearing a suit*

piper: do my eyes deceive me or is percy jackson wearing formal clothes? since when does he have the ability to look like a domesticated human being?

frank: how come HE, percy of all people, king of untidiness, can wear a cream linen suit and look like a celebrity, but when i tried one on i looked like a man-child going to a high school dance?

hazel: sweetie it’s just because it’s such a casual suit, and you’re much more elegant than percy is!

annabeth, turning to them: um okay, hi percy’s best friends? can you guys compliment him without insulting him?

leo: his ass looks incredible.

grover: has he been working out?

annabeth, side eyeing them:

annabeth: okay, you have all now either insulted him or hit on him. how about from now on, you do neither?

rachel: how about we do both? because i’ve actually just perfected doing them at the same time

[ask-neontiger]

Some reference updates for y'all on this fine day :3c

[ficoandleo]

((i was looking up how taxes are paid in japan because i realized that leo is self-employed

Normally your employer would file your taxes for you but if you're self employed or make a certain amount or have a sidegig that makes a certain amount you have to fill them out yourself

Which means Leo is like one of the only people on campus who's going to be like 'everyone shut up i'm doing my taxes i'll talk to you in like a week when i've stopped dissociating and managed to get them done' in February

(Sho doesn't have to pay his taxes until the year after starting his business so he's off the hook this year but since Leo often pays him digitally along with cash he has to do Sho's taxes too as his employer just so no one gets suspicious)

(Sho joining Leo like 'yeah I'm gonna have to do these with the fiod truck and all so I guess I have to learn now?' and just watching Leo file their fucking taxes. And both of them hate being bored and they will spend the entire month they have to do it getting extremely distracted by literally anything else. You could check in on them like 'hey how're the taxes going' and they've made a thousand little origami stars and the taxes are not done. Like at first Sho was teasing Leo for having to do something so boring but he was trying to watch and learn and then he got bored too and he's like. I would rather do literally anything else right now can we take a break please)

I just think it's funny to realize that Leo has to pay taxes. Like out of all of them he's one of the only ones that knows how to do his own taxes. Ritsu's family are his employers, their accountants do his taxes. Jin's family's accountants do any taxes he owes. Darkwick does the taxes for most of the students I imagine particularly since I'm pretty sure it's implied they get paid to do missions. But Leo, as an influencer, is self-employed and does it himself and has been for a few years so Darkwick makes him handle it himself lmao

And you might think Leo would just get an accountant and I can absolutely see him getting someone to it for him. On the other hand since he probably has less-than-legal income he doesn't trust someone else to do it for him lmao.))

[doyl1st]

Professor Doyle is very disappointed with your performance this quarter.

[extravagantliar]

epler possibly writing the regret scene makes me want to lift off as a. this half confirms that mary wanted to leave him in Kirkwall b. mary did not write jail, it was trick and john and that makes it WORSE c. He would have died in Kirkwall

[thenixkat]

Ted Kord (when he's actually in character) 🤝 Jaime Reyes 2006 > 'I simply do not wish to be a superhero. Like, I'll help people b/c I have the power to do so but being a superhero is not something I want to be'

[emoji is yellow handshake]

[glacialswordsman]

[nikis-records-deactivated]

((Hi ooc here. For this bit it feels like the lyrics of "For the Record" from 36 Questions... unless, of course, Hetch isn't lying? What do you all think?

"All I have to do is keep us focused on the questions. Each one of her responses will remind me how she lied"

...

"And of course I have sympathy, For the pathological liar who did this to me"

These lines are meant from how Niki feels she should feel. The man has killed her time and time again after all... yet she wants to forgive. Ever so gracious Niki...))

[folykill]

trying to focus on my(online, untimed) final exam but my head is full of hiveswap. what the hell do jadebloods do after exile.

[tennessoui]

About to go reread all your mob aus ✌️💙

!!

🤔🤔🤔🤔

new mob au obi-wan is the mob boss and anakin is actually just like. a normal civilian this time. no thoughts of murder, no bloody past, no bloodlust. just some dude, but he ends up seeing something he shouldn't and then taking out one of obi-wan's men when they go to make sure he stays quiet and obi-wan...likes that a bit too much

so instead of killing anakin, he threatens him into working for him occasionally.....after all, he has a wife and kids so he's pretty easy to threaten into compliance, either by threatening the kids directly or threatening to use his influence to charge anakin with the murder of his man

fast forward a bit and there's nothing obi-wan starts to like more than seeing the mayor's husband standing in his office with red hands giving him a report on what his wife and the police are gonna try to do next to clean up crime and corruption in the city.

and then eventually there's a shift down the line where anakin starts to think obi-wan is doing more for this city than anyone else and he's really actually helping people, giving them food and shelter and controlling the violence.......so anakin becomes a turncoat voluntarily, spying on his wife and her political friends and going to obi-wan to tell him things like what the police commissioner talks about after four glasses of win

and then the threats become rewards when they fall into bed together and there was no way obi-wan saw all this coming but he's always known skywalker would be a wise investment

[biff-adventurer]

ok so this actually IS ffxiv related

this morning i saw some comments in a lore channel that uh... it was clearly a joke. but this kind of joke hurts me.

it's ok to make jokes about the garlean empire. IT SUCKED. the garleans in charge, sucked. the cultural purity ethos was god awful. they are meant to be villains. meant.

like the viator says to jullus, "they gave you slop to eat like pigs and you ate it all up." (this is the general idea of the jpn line)

but if we're going to look at them from the side of de-colonizing liberals, marginalized people who want to be empowered, it's not great to essentialize all the culture of any one nation down to its worst qualities.

i'm super NOT pointing at the game. i'm talking about player behaviour. like, if you call yourself a liberal, then you must look at these issues with real nuance. if you call yourself compassionate, you can't then turn around and dehumanize your enemies. that's not how this fucking works.

you look at the culture. you look at the history irl. you understand how they got there, why they got there, and you realize we're having these same problems all over the world, again. ethnosupremacy. racial supremacy. caste supremacy. those who deserve greatness versus those who are born in suffering because they fucking deserve it, apparently.

it's justified to take up arms against the intolerant. it's not justified to essentialize an entire group of people because of a political wave.

i come from the stance that garlean imperial culture, the ruling class and the capital, are highly roman influenced. but that the people and their homeland are russian influenced. and when you look at the russians, at the very least, they are not without their suffering. the people today are not happy with their government. they are not.

slavic peoples carry the cultural story of survival. that every generation has their own suffering they must endure. this includes the russians.

it's just not black or white. we can't tolerate intolerance. when people oppress, we need to say something. do something. that's the important part. so when you're in a fictional setting when you can be a literal fucking super hero, which is something impossible in reality, why would you make the choice to further essentialize and dehumanize your fucking enemy. that takes you back to square fucking one.

extremes work from the same logic, despite overtly espousing different ideas. when in conflict, we require balance. compassion is a balancing act between mercy and truth. how much mercy? how much are we straying from the truth? what level of responsibility is owed? do we owe?

everyone starts somewhere. when it comes to any kind of rp or story telling, everyone starts somewhere. but we are people who exist in a real world. fiction should make us better. it should help us think through problems abstractly so we can observe and refine our own ideals. i just can't agree with making sick jokes about how the nation where the villains come from is inherently bad.

emet-selch? awful. hate him. sphene? literally the better version of emet-selch, has empathy, still unforgivable in action and ideology.

the ancients actually being superior human beings? ridiculous, racist, steeped in ethnocentric bias. does that mean we can't have fucking beach episodes with artemis, apollo and fucking hecate? of course not. so long as we KNOW it is fiction. and that they are NOT superior.

it's all about knowledge and how you use it. it's all about compassion and the choices you make. stupid comments reveal your bias. don't settle on your bias. always reflect on who you are, what that means, what your positionality is, and what you ought to do. especially when you presume to put yourself on a pedestal of leftist ideal in the first place.

for context, i'm an indian who grew up with relatives who hated the british. my grandfather was born during the raj, my uncle said we name dogs english names b/c the british are dogs. my people, the punjabis, suffered a lot of bullshit b/c of the raj and its aftermath. but my first language is english. in the US.

so i'm not talking out of my ass.

[theholmwoodfoundation]

out of curiosity, which characters will you be holding auditions for later down the line? Apart from Dracula of course.

We currently have our Jeremy, Maddie, Jonathan and Mina, as well as our Arthur.

We'll be looking to cast Tom, Jonny 3 and Henri, as well as various supporting/ensemble cast members! Hopefully more about that very soon.

[doyl1st]

Ehhh personal post below the cut

Sooooo…. I think I’m going to take a step back from tumblr for a bit. Obviously I haven’t really been writing much for a while now, but I don’t even think I’ll be lurking for the next little while.

To be totally honest, I’m just very depressed right now, and being here isn’t helping. It just makes me feel inadequate and unpopular. I feel heartbroken over the relationships I’ve lost, and i’m unable to build new ones.

2024 has been the worst year of my life by far, and I feel very alone right now, so I think it’s best if I’m just not spending time where that feeling is so frequently reinforced. if we’re mutuals you can add me on discord. Other than that I’ll probably be on every few days to tend to things.

[extravagantliar]

I have my gripes but the SHEER feat of foolery that ( FOGHORN NOISES ) took is beyond me and to have tonal cadence that close I’m honestly screaming in my office.

how close were you two

[lunaetis]

[ not taking today off after 4 days event was a mistake. i'm falling asleep at my desk rn hjklhkl ]

[nikis-records-deactivated]

A cat? Is Charlie making things up? He is no way responsible enough at the moment to take care of an animal.

[❄️]

I trust him. He isn't alone in this, remember? He has Sneeg and Ranboo too. If he says he has a cat, I'll believe him. Besides, check out the trio's blog, they have the content to prove it.