#SO WHY DOES RUBY GET THIS PRIVILEGE

[wispedvellichor]

Hate how the Doctor initiated Ruby to regeneration all tenderly and calmly and in the context of the Doctor's granddaughter of all things. I needed her to be jumpscared with that information in the most Traumatic episode of her life. Like a true RTD companion.

[kotohq]

##. MY HEART'S GOING LUB-DUB

♡ things he has said that flustered you.

♡ contents and warnings: established relationships, mentions of making out (nirei), mentions of marriage (sakura), reader’s ears are pierced in suou’s, mild, mild, possessiveness in suou's but not really 🐧

♡ characters: sakura haruka, nirei akihiko, suou hayato (x gn! reader)

Anyone who knows SAKURA HARUKA probably knows that contrary to the delinquent facade he puts up, he is actually quite innocent. A little naive, if you will, blushing at every show of romantic affection. And everyone in Boufuurin knows that’s why he’s become subject to Suou Hayato’s teasing when the brown haired boy needed a good chuckle. And of course, you, as his very lovely partner, had to also jump on the bandwagon of endearingly poking fun at your boyfriend. 

“Y’know, Haruka, you should stop me or else I’m gonna get carried away and keep teasing you even after we get married!” This was a sentence you often say for laughs after you had yet again successfully made Haruka agitated and his cheeks flushing a deep shade of red, all the way up to his ears. Granted, the first time he heard it he couldn’t look you in the eye for two whole days at the mention marriage (it’s not that he doesn’t like it, in fact it was because he likes it a little too much that he couldn’t even make eye contact without imagining you in fancy white attire). But now, he barely bats an eye at it now with how often you say it. But today, it’s evident that that particular sentence had poked at someone’s curiosity as you can sense someone staring at you as you banter with your boyfriend. 

“You know, Sakura-kun, I barely see you reacting to... that. You’re really planning to marry them in the future, huh?” Ah, it's Suou again. His soothing voice drips with mischief, the purpose of his question is obviously to tease his heterochromatic eyed peer yet again. Haruka’s features morph into one of confusion, brows furrowed as he turns to face his vice captain. 

“Hah? What are you talking about?” Haruka inquires like suou’s question is the most ridiculous question in the world. If you didn’t know any better you would have thought suou was asking him if he believed pigs could fly, or if the earth was actually a hexagon. 

(Of course, you can’t lie, suou’s question made you nervous despite how lighthearted he said it. Your self consciousness has already prepared itself for a heartbreak trip as you await your boyfriend to continue his response.)

“Why would I date someone I don’t intend on marrying?” 

Ah, now it’s your cheeks that are heating up. 

“Are you done?” The only answer SUOU HAYATO offers to your inquiry is a focused hum. His hand fumbles with the earring, his earring, as he tries to carefully slide the hook into the small hole on your right earlobe. Though, you have to say, you have nothing particular to complain about as you wait for your boyfriend to put the earring on you. After all, you’re getting the privilege of being in the front seat staring at Suou Hayato’s face as he carefully tries to put the earring on you. Lips pursed and eyes squinted a little, he looks extra handsome when he’s focused, you note. 

“Just need to secure them with the back. And... done!” he heaves out a breath as triumph takes over his features, pulling back slightly to admire his (hardly) hard work. His lips stretch into a smile, satisfied at how the red and yellow of his earring highlights your features more. 

“How does it look?” you feel quite nervous as you wait for his reply, shyly peering at him through your eyelashes. Being so close, you have the advantage of watching closely for any twitch of his features that might indicate satisfaction, dissatisfaction, anything that can indicate what kind of reaction he’s going to emit. 

You twitch slightly at the sensation of his pointer finger and middle finger grazing your chin, touch gentle as he settles them there. You swear you see something flashing in his usually gentle ruby eyes. Something akin to satisfaction, or, even, possessiveness. But you don't comment on it. He moves your head from your side to side as if to examine you thoroughly. (he quietly notes how cute you are for compliantly moving your head.) It’s only when you feel the earring faintly brushing against your right shoulder that you become hyper aware of how empty your left ear feels without an earring weighing it down. You also become hyper aware of the fact that the earring’s pair is still dangling from his left ear, eyes instinctively flitting to it. Your cheeks begin to heat up. Oh, it’s almost as if you’re wearing a couple ite-

He interrupts your thought before you can finish it.

“I quite like it, it’s pretty on you,” his voice breaks your train of thought. His smile is quite literally dripping with mischief, and now you can clearly see it. The tint of greed in his eyes is back as he moves his fingers that were formerly resting on your chin to stroke at the earring on your ear. His composed facade would have fooled you if it weren’t for the words he utters next.

“It gives off the feeling that you’re mine.” 

Oh he likes it, alright. Too much, maybe.

“Sorry. D’you need a break?” NIREI AKIHIKO’s voice is devoid of any teasing lilt, instead dripping with concern as he gazes at you through his eyelashes, eyes half lidded and cheeks flushed with a pretty tint of pink. 

It’s not the words by themselves. It’s the fact that he’s saying those words in this kind of situation. By this kind of situation, you mean with you perched up on his lap, legs splayed on either side of his thighs as he lay seated on a couch beneath you. He had uttered those exact words after what felt like 10 minutes straight of kissing

(it hadn’t even been 5 minutes, but you could barely think with how clouded your mind is). 

His question was thoroughly leaking with worry, caramel orbs boring through you as he awaits your reply. You wanted to say yes, hell, your lungs were begging you to say yes as they heaved desperately yes. You have to give your boyfriend credit, though. Sweet like always, he had noticed he had gone a little too far when he felt your lips part with breathless whines on his, and had asked if you needed a time out. Though, you don’t think he’s aware of how his voice shakes with want, or how his fingers that are resting on your hips squeezed hard like he was trying to ground himself, or how his eyes are swirling with something akin to need.

(or how he barely sounded apologetic when he apologized, and you suspect it’s because his pride soars with the knowledge that he’s the one making you breathless.)

“No,” you’re surprised at how hoarse your voice sounds, though, that is to be expected after you quite literally just had your breath taken away. Your thumb reaches out to swipe at his quivering bottom lip, gleaming with saliva and a little swollen from pressing against yours repeatedly. He leans into your touch, and you gulp away the feeling of your tugging heartstrings. “Keep kissing me, lover boy.” 

And as he lurches forward to clash your lips together again, the last thought that etches on your mind was that he really should put this on his resume: Nirei Akihiko, 16, not good at fighting (yet), hella good at kissing. 

[maplesyrupsainz]

˖⁺｡˚⋆˙summer lovin | PG10˖⁺｡˚⋆˙

pairing: pierre gasly x actress!reader y/n (she/her)

genre: social media au, established relationship

warnings: mentions of sex & sexual jokes but no smut

summary: in which you and your boyfriend run rampage on social media causing chaos during the break in the f1 season

a/n: FINALLYYYY PIERRE REQUEST!!!! this was sm fun hehe i may have alr started another pierre fic without a request..... 👀

request!!!: pierre gasly x singer/actress reader, so we all know about Tripod and 🐶 Emoji, and I had this idea about pierre dating someone as equally unhinged as him like Renée Rap

fc: ruby lyn

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THE END 🩷

[charmstrangebeauty]

I am seeing some takes that people don’t like that the Doctor still tried to save the racists. And that’s fair! Even if the Doctor regularly extends compassion to villains on the show, I see how doing it here and in this way was a Choice from the writers and I do see the arguments why it might not have been the best choice.

But I think one of the reasons it worked for me personally is because of who the Doctor is as a character. The Doctor chose his own name because he wanted to help people. The Doctor may change his face or race or gender but the one constant is that he flies around the universe saving people and making things better. That’s who the Doctor is. That’s who the Doctor wants to be.

So, if you wanted to show the impact of racism harming this character, how do you do that?

When Lindy blocks him, the Doctor just enlists Ruby to use her white privilege to help instead. Calling him stupid doesn’t make him any less smart. He’ll find a way to work the problem even if people don’t treat him as an authority the way they did when he was white. Hell, even if Lindy had successfully called the cops on him, he probably could have just sonic-ed himself out of Finetime jail. The Doctor is functionally a superhero, so there’s very little you can do to him that will actually harm him - he’ll just shake it off and find a way around it, because that’s what the character does.

But what you can do is take away his ability to be the Doctor. You can say: actually, you don’t get to save these people. Not because you weren’t good enough, or clever enough, but because you are Black. And that’s why Ncuti gets such a beautiful acting scene at the end. Because that is the one thing the Doctor cannot just ignore or workaround or fix. That is the one thing they could take from him that actually matters. They took away his ability to be the Doctor, because he is Black.

[howi99]

I dreamt of a blue butterfly 4

(i'm changing back to the normal way of writing dialogue, since i think people prefer it that way on tumblr.)

Ruby: So, uh... Cardin, right?

Cardin: *sigh* Yes.

Ruby: Where are you from?

Cardin: Vale... What about you?

Ruby: Patch. My dad and uncle are teachers in signal. They taught me everything i know!

Cardin: i see...

Ruby: You uh... You ok?

Cardin: *look at Ruby* honestly? I wanted to be in a team with my friends. I didn't expect a little girl to crash into me at Mach 3.

Ruby: Hey! I'm good enough to be here! I'm not too young or-

Cardin: I meant your height.

Ruby: .... Well i wasn't expecting to crash into a giant in armor either, but here we are.

Cardin: ...

Ruby: ...

Both: *thinking* (God this is so awkward)

________

Yang: Wait, you never trained!? How did you enter Beacon!?!

Jaune: I signed a contract? Didn't you do the same?

Yang: No! I- Holy shit, you could have died! You should have died! And that explains your lack of aura...

Jaune: W-well, i'm here aren't i? Alive and-

Yang: Dude! Do you know how dangerous your situation is!?! I wasn't trained to protect a civy yet!

Jaune: I got a sword... And a shield?

Yang: *sarcastically* Congratulations! You have a twig and a sheet of paper, for all the good it would make. *Sigh* I guess i should activate your aura, uh? It should give you some protection, at least.... Give me your hand, VB.

Jaune: already back with that nickname?

Yang: You lost your name privilege when i learned you were an absolute moron. *Taking his hand* Now, hold still and... Uh...

Jaune: What's wrong?

Yang: ... That can't be... VB, you are 100% sure you didn't get your aura unlocked?

Jaune: Yang, i didn't even know what aura WAS 10 minutes ago.

Yang: Well... Uh... It seems like it's already unlocked... That would explain why you survived but... Why didn't it activate when that branch slapped you in the face and why were you unconscious? You should have been fine...

Jaune: *looking behind yang* Uh... Yang?

Yang: *not really listening, thinking about the strange condition Jaune has* Hm?

Jaune: What does a grimm look like?

Yang: An animal with plaque armor, why?

Jaune: So uh... Not a floating pumpkin with a lantern?

Yang: ...What?

Jaune: *pointing behind her* because i see at least 3 looking at us.

[earthphoenixstories]

White tears, brown scars and the internet jumping on a black trans person hate campaign.

I realise that a lot of the OL fandom are under 25 and are still at an age where y’all are learning and maturing and that’s great. However as someone who is close to being 40 I need y’all to do some reading for me.

White Tears, Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hand.

The black person at the centre of all this is a trans person that doesn’t identify as a woman. Yet all I see is blatant misgendering. This black person upset you, therefore their gender identity becomes meaningless.

Sadly, this behaviour isn’t new to me. I’ve watched it happen for too long many times over the years.

So of course what is the next step when white people get in their feelings? They hit the pockets of creators. Demanding refunds, getting them demonetised, trying to silence them by any means necessary.

The most recent example of this that I can think off is White Woman Whisper on TikTok. During the man vs bear debate, she pointed out that black women generally, would feel safer in a board room setting with a white man than a white woman. Oh boy did the white women get all up in their feelings about that. Within hours, White Woman Whisper had been removed from the TikTok creators program and hate white women making endless think pieces about how upset they were.

Y’know what? Tough. Sometimes y’all need to ti be told the truth even if it upsets you. I don’t trust white people, and I’m half white myself.

When a white person makes a mistake it’s “they’re young, they’ll learn. Everyone needs grace to grow and become better.”

When a black person makes a mistake it’s, “wow, that’s so disrespectful how can you think that? I hope you get fired. I’m reporting your comments to your boss, your school, I’m going to blast you on the internet.”

We don’t get “grace”, we aren’t allowed to learn and grow. There’s immediately “discourse” and the need to hold that black person “accountable.”

Where is this smoke for 99% of white folks who use their privilege as a shield.

It’s not until a whole person does something that crosses a line and stars upsetting white women that they start to get called out.

See JK Rowling and Elon Musk as examples. Queen Terfette literally named the only black adult in the series “Shacklebolt” and no one batted an eye. Her name choices were praised for being “clever” and “imaginative.”

She even did an interview where she called her fans “delusional” and no one spoke up against her. Even when she started saying openly transphobic things, she was protected. Until the dam burst and the tables turned.

And yet all that time black folks and other people of colour were calling her out and pointing out the lazy and offensive ways she talks and writes about non white people.

Which brings me to this morning, and I wake up to y’all dog piling on a black trans person for … saying that the way black trans men are portrayed made them uncomfortable.

Y’all are exhausting.

No, we don’t have to sugar coat our feelings to protect yours. No, we aren’t responsible for your actions and reactions to us. No, we aren’t being “aggressive” or “mean” or “confrontational” when we speak up for ourselves.

I’ve read some comments about disliking the discord profile pic. Okay. I mean, I personally snorted at it when I saw it. But y’know what? Y’all need to ask yourselves why you don’t like it. Is it because a black person is holding a whip? Is it because some white dudes are working the fields?

Here’s a story from the book Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the origins of American Gynaecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens.

When white slave owners wanted to punish pregnant black slaves (who were forced to work even when they were heavily pregnant), they would get a slave to dig a hole large enough for the woman’s pregnant stomach, then have the woman lie face down - her stomach in the newly dug hole.

The slave master would then proceed to whip the pregnant woman with the hopes that the unborn baby would feel the mother’s pain and behave better when they born.

Did that upset you? Did it make you disgusted and angry? I felt that way. I was so horrified I had to walk away from the book and calm down.

Black people still feel that generational trauma. We still have to live with the knowledge that is it what was recorded. Who knows what else happened to our enslaved ancestors that never got recorded? We’ll never know. That will always haunt us.

And y’all are upset over a picture that never actually happened.

Stop.

When Kendrick said “they not like us” he was talking about y’all.

[what-gs-watching]

“Breathe it in baby, because I am EXUDING and I am one of a kind.”

Okay so, I fell behind in Doctor Who because I’ve been job searching for like seven fucking months and a few weeks ago one came up that could be a good fit so I was trying to super focus on doing well through the interview loop even though I was pretty sure it wasn’t going to amount to anything because I’d gone through a ton of interview loops by that point but 

Y’ALL, I GOT THAT JOB! My horrible, soul-sucking ordeal is finally over, the paperwork is signed and I have a start date and everything has settled. Which means, I can finally catch up on 15 and my girl Ruby. 

Let’s gooooo!

73 Yards

Alright, I know there was upset around this episode because everyone is like ‘what the eff does it mean?’ but ooooh, I really enjoyed it. It was creepy as HELL and it just never stopped.

Wherein, Ruby and the Doctor pop over to Wales (this mofo really spends much too much time in Wales) and while on a cliffside, he steps on something AGAIN!!!!! and everything goes wrong.

Baby boy, did you not learn anything from the mine? Do you not take a scan around when you land somewhere, or are you just too excited about being adorable in your little yellow jacket and the hat and the stripes? You look fantastic, I get it, but peep down at those cute ass boots once in a while. 

I have to say, I’m impressed by Millie Gibson in this episode. It’s a lot of pressure to put on her to carry the entire thing, and she did it really well. How devastating is it to have your best friend disappear, realize you’re being followed by some crazy apparition that literally scares anyone and everyone away from you? 

Without any explanation. That’s the part that gets me. She becomes a piranha with this horrific THING attached to her and everyone she begs for help leaves her. Eve her MOTHER! It’s a mind fuck.

And I really wasn't sure where the episode was going, so I was excited for Kate Lethbridge-Stewart to show up, I was like ‘yeah let’s get UNIT into this mess’ and then she’s affected too and oh hell, that’s like, the last line of defense. 

Ruby, completely and utterly alone. And they just make her live out her entire life like that. And she tries to fix it, of course, the whole thing with the Welsh politician was a really good attempt babe, I would have done the same thing but then that doesn’t even work?!

And so everyone is all ruffled because, what was the point of it, really? What was the message, what was the meaning??!

Was she actually the apparition? If not, who was she? And then, it just ends and none of it ever really happened at all and there’s absolutely no resolution. 

Why do we love making companions live these horrible alternate timelines? How many times did we make Amy live different lives? I feel like she at least remembered most of them. But with Ruby in this one, there’s no lesson. She learns nothing, neither of them do.

But still, I loved the creeping sense of unease, so I guess I don’t really need all the details.

Dot and Bubble

I’m simultaneously annoyed and intrigued by shows that keep telling me allegories about the dangers of technology and how dependent we are on it. So far, it’s mostly been annoyed, but oh my god y’all really hit the nail on the head with this one.

Wherein, a bunch of privileged youths are existing in a perfect society that enables them to basically LIVE social media, literally surrounded by a bubble that feeds them other people’s inanity all day long. 

One thing I have to say about this episode is that the angles are something else. Lindy, the girl we’re seeing everything through is alternately absolutely beautiful, and kind of weird looking? She’s got perfect social media face. Is that a weird thing to say? I stand by it. It’s like she’s covered in the perfect ring light. It was distracting. And probably part of the point. 

Basically, this girl has no idea that there are monsters in her fake ass society that are eating her friends, and she is very not into the Doctor and Ruby trying to help her. Like, they’re trying to get her out of danger, only to find out that she doesn’t have any idea how to walk without wearing her ‘bubble’ is so deeply disturbing. Watching this girl say “forward” to convince herself to move is amazing and upsetting on a lot of different levels. 

And then out of nowhere, media star Ricky September shows up and he literally starts giving her directions like the bubble would do and I’m like ‘okay that’s interesting’, we’re subverting the idea that this incredibly popular personality is a vapid idiot because it turns out he READS and he’s taking pity on this girl that is literally a shell of a person without the aid of technology. And it was so sweet. 

Basically, this episode is infuriating because at one point Lindy hugs Ricky and tells him she’s never been hugged before (even though we know she at least has a mother) but THEN later, when the Doctor tells her everyone is being killed in alphabetical order and Ricky is trying to fight off the dot that is literally trying to murder her, she RATS HIM OUT. His real last name starts with C, he should be dead already. 

Confusingly innocent and absolutely cut throat at the same time? I guess if you live your entire life exclusively online you don’t go through things that would actually cultivate compassion? Which honestly, is not an unfounded idea. That should make y’all feel queasy. 

And to make it all exponentially worse, they flat out tell the Doctor they can’t accept his help because he’s not “one of us”. Just straight up, really gross, really overt racism. 

15, honey, I get it, but please  don’t beg racists to let them save you. You’re too good for this world, babes. That gut wrenching shout though? Absolute perfection. And the tears. You marvelous thing. 

TL;DR Humanity is disgusting and technology will continue to feed our uglier tendencies. I felt that one deep in my damn bones.

Rogue

Okay hear me out. This episode is EVERYTHING. 

Y’all know I have a thing for boys in love. And I also have a thing for the Doctor flirting with basically anyone. I don’t particularly have a thing for the regency era necessarily, but I AM about incredible costumes and ridiculous plots. 

I was honest to god squealing this entire episode.

Wherein, 15 and Ruby show up to a ball in 1813 so they can pretend they’re in Bridgerton, meet a handsome young bounty hunting rake, talk a LOT about cosplaying, and deal with bird???! aliens???

There are a million details I loved in this one. The orchestra playing an instrumental version of “Bad Guy” and then later “Pokerface”. The absolutely incredible suit they put on 15. 

Not to mention: JONATHAN GROFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Loved him in Mindhunter, loved him in Glee (before it got absolutely ridiculous and when I didn’t know any better) but holy shiiiiiit I would watch him as Rogue every. damn. day. 

River Song will always and forever be my number one love for the Doctor, but I was absolutely immediately charmed by Rogue. I’m not sure why, and it doesn’t really matter. 

How absolutely adorable was the psychic paper displaying “you’re hot”? Or the bit where the Doctor figures out Rogue’s ship is wired for sound and the system blares “Can’t Get Your Outta My Head” and he lip syncs along while Rogue dies of embarrassment? 

The entire episode was just two dorks flirting and my heart was so happy. I don’t know why, but when 15 started singing “Pure Imagination” while showing Rogue around the Tardis, I thought I was going to die. 

I love that he can be so carefree and fun and adorable, but also extremely emotional and unafraid to show it. We’ve seen so many different facets of 15 already, and his obvious and silly flirty self is definitely my favorite part so far. 

Also, the fact that the Chuldur (again, bird aliens I guess? Sure) were basically just a race that went around cosplaying other people was so camp. I’ve seen a lot of posts about how the newest theory is that 15 and Ruby are somehow in some weird sort of tv show universe this season, and this episode definitely fuels that a little bit. 

And maybe y’all are onto something with that, but I honestly don’t care to figure out what’s going on, I just want to be along for the ride.

Of course though, we can’t have an episode that’s all fun and games. The Doctor went all in on shooting his shot with Rogue and it distracted him and it put Ruby in trouble, because of course. Maybe we should stop promising random mothers that their kids are gonna be safe? Doctor, baby, you know that they aren’t always going to be safe. 

But if you weren’t charmed by Rogue before that point, you had to jump on his bandwagon when he pushes Ruby out of the transport trap and just says “Find me” before he’s blasted away with the stupid birds to some far off dimension. 

BALLER MOVE, baby boy. Baller ass move. Because ya know what? 15 is not going to be able to resist that. And you know how I know? Because that boy put your ring on his finger and I will ship the fuck out of you two forever and ever because of that. 

The doctor has definitely been known to  kiss people he’s only just met, but this time might be in the top 3. I thought Madame de Pompadour was good? Nah girl, ya bumped down. This kiss was better. Just me sat on the couch with heart eyes for days.

So yeah, I think I’ve decided I like letting a few stack up so I can watch them in a row. Watching them boomerang between crazy scenarios and thinking about all of that at the same time is more fun. 

I’m loving this season. It’s ridiculous, it’s different, it’s a bunch of things I didn’t even realize I wanted. Gimme more pleaaaaase.

[blair-the-juggalho]

The Twdg gang reaction to you being attractive and somehow keeping up with your appearance in the apocalypse? Thank you

Hello love! Thank you very much for this amazing request!!<3

TWDG gang with a very attractive reader

Violet

This girl was stunned the first time she saw you

How the hell can a person look that good

Especially when it’s rare to wash your face now a days?

She’s never been one to care for her appearance since she doesn’t really see a point

And she doesn’t really see why others do it

But that doesn’t mean she can’t respect a pretty face when she sees one

She wouldn’t say anything outright but sometimes when we daydreams you’ll sometimes catch her looking at you

And if your really luck when you smile at her she might get a little red in the face

If you ever call her out on her actions tho she’ll just tell you to piss off

Mitch

A bit like Vi, he doesn’t care for his own appearance and he doesn’t see why others do it

But once he saw you he looked at you wide eyes in awe

How tf can someone end up so beautiful in times like these???

He won’t really say anything about it but he’s try to get closer to you

He will always look at you out of the corner of his eyes

He’s not good with compliments but sometimes he’ll give you a slight one

“Your hair look alright today.”

You’ll never see it coming and it might not seem like much but my boys trying

Sometimes he might even adjust his posture or fix his fringe just a bit when you enter a room

He doesn’t want you to think of him as a smelly little man lmao

Louis

Now this dude immediately says something

It’s hard to find someone like him, who keeps up with their dashing good looks now a days

He will always compliment you

and vi always make fun of him for it

He doesn’t care though

I mean at the end of the day who can blame him!

He’ll also mess around with you but in a light hearted way

“We would stay and chat but me and name have to go wash our hair and trim our nails.”

He has a lot of respect for you for putting effort into the way you look

But don’t get me wrong he also pays a lot of attention to you personality too! (They all do btw I’m just saying it now ���3•)

Marlon

This man was also in awe when he first saw you

God damn you’d like really hot!

Like Mitch, he’d also try to sort out his hair (tho what could fix that mess /j) and his posture

He’d always try to talk to you

In times like these everything’s gone all dreary so it’s nice to see something fresh and well looked after

After seeing you try so hard with his looks, he will try to do the same

He’s praying that you’d pick up on it and compliment him lmao

He will also be extra salty if anyone picks on his hair or anything like that especially if your around

He also can’t help but look at you like you’ll see him form across the courtyard just looking at you

If you called him out on this he’d just give some rubbish excuse like “I was just checking up on you.”

Aasim

Was also shocked by your beauty

He wouldn’t even talk to you at first and when he would it’s the bare minimum

He would definitely write about you tho! And all things positive about you

As much as he loves your appearance, he would also try to learn more about your personality

He’s low key hooked

He doesn’t have a crush on you for your looks alone

But it always makes him get all flustered when you agree with him or compliment him

He doesn’t know how to respond but his embarrassment is clear lol

He also always hopes that you get paired up to do the same job as him

Just so he can spend more time with that beautiful brain and face of yours ;)

Omar

He loves how attractive you are!

He thinks pretty privilege should never be a thing! That is until he meets you

You best believe your getting first picks at dinner and lunch

And if you wanted a certain meal he’s already made it for you!

He could sit and look at you for hours

And he does!

When he’s cooking he will look up from his food just to see you

He feels so proud whenever you compliment him!

Ruby

This girl in impressed

She’s very really bothered about looks but like Vi she can appreciate a pretty face

Will definitely call you nick names

“Well hey there , good looking.”

She too can just get lost in thought when she’s looking at you

She will always lightly adjust her posture and rub her face a bit when she sees you

She just wants you to think she’s pretty too

She will also try to grow a flower just for you!

Cheesy but cute!

Brody

She blushed when you first made eye contact with her

She just wants to know how you do it???

How do you make your hair so shiny?

You skin so soft?!

And you actually smell good?!?!

She’s a tiny bit jealous but all n all she doesn’t mind

She definitely does one of those clique sighs when she sees you

Heaven forbid you compliment her

She gets all giddy as exited and compliments you back x100!

[the-path-to-redemption]

You know what I think was wasted potential.... RWBY VS CINDER group that was always teased in the openings of vol 2 and 3

For a reminder in the opening of Vol 2 towards the middle to the end we were teased there was going to be a battle between Weiss vs Emerald, Blake vs Roman, Yang vs Mercury, and Ruby vs Cinder.

While in Vol 3 towards the end we were getting a with the same battle except Blake was now fighting with Adam. And with what we knew about RWBY and the villains at that time made sense.

Weiss vs Emerald (rich vs poor, privileged vs oppressed)

Blake vs Adam/Roman (justice vs corruption, peace vs radical)

Yang vs Mercury (hot tempered vs aloof, kick boxer vs boxer)

Ruby vs Cinder (good vs evil, naive vs mature)

It was confirm that Monty help written Vol 3 so everything beyond that is Miles work. Which means silver eyes and Salem are part of Monty work. Now I don't know how much he was involved but let's just say vol 3 is what he have in mind. If we were following what we know though what we know from 1-3 my guess Monty wanted at least 8 or 9 volumes (without the wonderland trip). Which makes sense because how are you going to repeating tease Cinder group as the final boss (with Salem) and don't even bring them up again.

Long Post Ahead

It's what happens when the writers do not go through the OBVIOUS set ups for their characters and instead pull the weirdest shit to make their narrative more "interesting".

The writing of RWBY is eerily similar to the writing of the new Star Wars Trilogy; the author pussied out of committing to the plot line they planned out when the audience figures out the flow, so they pull out asinine events to "surprise" us and "subvert" our expectations for better or for worse.

To all writers, beginner or veteran, it's okay if the audience figures out the themes and plot twists. YOU PUT THOSE THINGS THERE FOR THEM.

RWBY is a show that writes itself. I've said this over and over again, it could have been so good had the writers actually tackled what they were building up to instead of copying the things they saw from other shows because they looked cool and refuse to understand the reason why those things worked in their original media.

This is not something new; even when Monty was working on the show, the first episode was a direct reference to Cowboy Bebop, and while it was cool, the sequence does not make sense for Ruby as a character. If anything, the Bunta Kinami version worked much better for her as a character who wants to be the hero instead of just BEING at the crisis point out of pure coincidence.

I know hindsight is 20/20, but the continuous refusal to actually commit to their themes and truly understand the point of their work + characters was what killed RWBY's narrative. It has no direction because it refuses to pick what it wants to be.

[lesbian-jack-barnabas]

Asking you about agoraphobic Nureyev agenda

WELCOME TO THE INNER WORKINGS OF MY BRAIN. I’ve already made a post detailing the reason behind why I headcanon him as agoraphobic (which is here) so im taking this as an opportunity to give some more specific headcanons pertaining to his agoraphobia

aside from having maps/layouts of it memorized, having a job to do when going to a new place is really important to him!! he’s a little thief man ofc so said job can be anything from pickpocketing to a big heist- but having that job to keep him occupied is a big help and can keep him from spiraling and panicking

he sometimes uses a mobility aid (usually a cane) as both a grounding tool and a crutch in case he gets lightheaded/disoriented- but when he doesn’t have access to an aid, he’ll hold onto Juno (who is always more than happy to help his boyfriend)

this is just me projecting honestly but big flat expanses of land like a desert or a big beach?? he CANNOT do those. whatsoever. even looking at a picture of a place like that gives him anxiety. not to say he isn’t a beach lover though- he totally is, as long as it isn’t too big

everyone on the carte blanche knows about his agoraphobia and they’re all so sweet and accommodating,, Jet always makes sure to keep the Ruby close by (in one form or another) when they’re traveling by foot in case Peter needs somewhere to sit. Vespa may not be the best at calming people down but hey she’s a doctor! She knows her shit! And sometimes her explaining the mechanisms behind a panic attack to Peter and telling him exactly why he feels the way he does can help him. Buddy’s got the most calming energy you’ve ever seen on a mf and is always more than willing to be there for him to hold onto when Juno’s not available. And Rita tries her best to distract him (which she is luckily very good at) when they’re together in a place she knows is triggering for him

being asked about my agoraphobic Nureyev agenda is ALWAYS the highlight of my day thank you dearly for allowing me the privilege of presenting you with my brain soup

[dragynkeep]

y'know...I feel like I must've like, blocked out half of Ilia's character short and 90% of everything from volume 4 on, because I remembered Ilia's whole "punched out the teeth of the people who laughed at the literal death of her parents and made fun of the fact that her people were enslaved and other heinous shit" thing, but I was always like. yeah! good! she did right! her feelings were valid and I fully support her actions. go get 'em Ilia. everything you have ever done was morally correct. and somehow DID NOT REMEMBER that the canon narrative...disagrees with me on this?? I only realized it does disagree with me because I was scrolling through your blog and now I'm just sitting here like. shocked pikachu face

admittedly I also remember next to nothing from volumes 4 on in general, so a lot of the things on your blog have me going "what the FUCK?" not because I think you are wrong but because I think CRWBY is wrong and I also didn't remember the show did that, but it's led to me realizing why I probably stopped watching RWBY.

the show's persistent need to cling to nonviolence as the only valid way to deal with specifically racial conflict will make me put cement in rooster teeth's pipes i swear to god.

because it's only racial conflict: every other time there has been a conflict in the show, solving it with violence has been perfectly fine. from the goddamn first scene we have a human ruby throwing grown men through the window as a response to their threats. yang resorting to harassment with violence by bouncing shay d mann through the ceiling & out the door is funny. nora threatening to break cardin's legs specifically for bullying jaune is seen as noble.

but the moment it takes a racial element in characters like ilia, adam, sienna: then it becomes a problem. then these marginalized characters need to choose the path of nonviolence because if they stand up for themselves, they're "just as bad" as their oppressors.

but then it becomes an extra kick in the teeth when that violence once again becomes acceptable so long as a human is perpetuating. weiss throwing the drunk racist into a dumpster because blake is cowering like a child? how noble of her, what a good friend! yang finally giving a shit about the faunus only to threaten a racist old woman verbally? awh, she cares now that she has a faunus girlfriend, let's all totally forget her past canonical racism.

the narrative is baked in this racist white comfort coating where the marginalized characters are villainized for no longer wishing to be marginalized & fighting back against deadly violence with the same. pushed to the limit, after having canonically trying nonviolence & having it not work repeatedly: characters like ilia, adam & sienna all become villains in regards to the white skinned, privileged belladonnas because of their violence. it's sickening & shows just entirely how white the writing team behind this show is.

justice for ilia fr!

[fiannalover]

OC Tag Game

Tagged by @mountainashfae! Sending it ahead to @marquesspm, @tlozypaka-tina and @misecinn

Favorite OC: Medeia Camille, my little overcompetent Potion Maker.

Newest OC: uuuuuuh, I think Viana Asclepias, pokémon game verse therapist, specialist in poison antidotes and the like. Pastoria native from a family used to the Great Marsh mons.

Oldest OC: Medeia again! My oldest girl, she's from my The Sims 3 high school phases. Which is also why she gets crossover privileges dibs.

Meanest OC: I'm too much of a softie normie to properly write non villain mean people /half-j. Gonna go with Faris, my fair youth. The sadism drips from him with ease if he doesn't like you enough.

Also, my b for the fact you're lucky if you so much as saw him being namedropped once before.

Softest OC: Conversely, this is tough competition, but gonna go with Zena Florine... winning a close race with like at least 2 others because she does not physically fight people.

Most aloof/standoffish OC: Tempo Reis. He's still learning how to Not Accidentally Be Rude to people who aren't, like, hiring him, so generally keeps to himself most of the time.

Melieu has been dragged Out of this against his will. it is being painful.

Dumbest (affectionate) OC: They are all dumb and smart in different ways, is what I feel like saying... think I'm gonna go with Ruby, out of you know, The Religious/Paladin-ness.

Smartest OC: Oh, Myldrid. He's a pokémon professor. So much multidisciplinarity.

Horniest OC: shrug

OC you'd be best friends with irl: ... Medeia. Friendly, outspoken, will speak to you in an equal level, no major trauma issues, fun hobbies, writer. She has it all!

[ecruteakfashiondesigner]

Since you're a fashion designer 🎀 what are your pokemon's favorite accessories?

(@twilight-rose-pokemon)

heh, well, ok then

Kiwi prefers simple things, like tiny bows and hats, but his favorite of all time is his bell collar. This one was bought one day cause he walks very silently, which can be very dangerous since I work with needles and stuff. He loves wiggling the bell all around, which can be kinda annoying, but it's very cute as well.

Sweater loves fancy clothing. She's always wanting to try something new, but one of this days I decided to surprise her with a gift. In my childhood, I had a indigo sweater made of cashmere that was the whole reason why I got her in the first place, but sadly, the original sweater doesn't fit her anymore, so I decide to spend a lot of money on materials to make one for her in her exact size. She loved it so much she refused to take it off for an entire week.

Cotton doesn't mind accessories much. He wears them mostly because he likes making me happy, but he does have a favorite one. It's a simple hat he made himself using his silk combined with, well, cotton. It has a tiny flower on top that he switches from time to time. He made it to show me how capable he was of helping me, cause I used to keep my pokemon far from my work for safety reasons, but he insisted so much I just couldn't keep refusing him this privilege.

Madam likes fancy things even more than Sweater, with her favorite accessory being a ruby necklace I bought for her when we went shopping. I wasn't gonna buy it, but she insisted so much I just couldn't refuse (aka, she scratched me until I got it). Of couse, I had to make some changes so the necklace would fit her, but it makes me happy to see how much she loves flashing those gems all around her for the world to see.

King and Cupid are still new to the team, so I gotta get some accessories for them, but for now, King seems to like the rain boots I gave him so he could play in the rain and Cupid likes the tiny white bow I made for her yesterday.

[anankelotus]

Blood Red Tar of the Broken Heart

@disgracedvessel continued from here

Julius listens thoughtfully, though he doesn’t lessen the pressure that his eyes put on Anankos by looking elsewhere. He sees how the man seems to withdraw farther, yet he relinquishes an answer readily enough. And quite an interesting one, at that. Julius raises an eyebrow and his lips set into a line as he hums. Then Anankos’ apology snaps the thoughtful look into a frown.

“Stop that sniveling. God you say you are - were - but here you are acting like a reprimanded child. I, for one, have not come to chastise you for anything but that needless apologizing you do,” he scoffs, disgusted. Here, he looks away long enough to shuffle rare sympathy back into its prison and school his expression into hardened contempt, but the facade is far too soft to be the real thing when he finally turns his ruby eyes back to Anankos.

“Why does it matter how others feel?“ He’s appalled that one would hide away for fear of making others uncomfortable, to make oneself as small as possible so as not to take up any more space than necessary in the world. “Behaving like that, you might as well be dead,” and this time he speaks with a vitriol that surprises even himself when he hears his voice outside of his own head. It’s an assertion, not just for Anankos, but against his own circumstances too. Then he quiets again, staring hard at this oddity which confounds him with each new piece of information.

“Where I come from, speaking to a dragon in this way is a privilege only the highest ranks of the clergy can attain, if at all.” He smirks, an expression that says and here I am doing exactly that. “Have you lost all of your followers then? Is that it? You’ve hurt them, or perhaps they decided that they no longer needed you, so instead of death, you’ve chosen the next best thing: an inconsequential eternity spent beneath the ground like a pathetic earthworm.“ He grins, but it doesn’t quite reach his serpentine eyes. “How close am I to your truth?”

Behaving like that, you might as well be dead. By all rights, he should have been. He had died, he remembered it well. It was the last thing he could remember from recent years before coming to academy. He remembers clearly the look on that girl’s face as the life had faded from him. He didn’t understand why he was alive, but he could wager some guesses. It probably had something to do with that long cast off part of himself, using what was left of its soul as a pathetic puppet. That would certainly explain why he didn’t have any memories of that time, and he wouldn’t put it past it. All it had done was use people, both ones that they had once loved, and those that they had not known at all. But somehow, in the tone of Julius’ voice, when the boy says that, that there is something deeper than an insult or rude words. He wasn’t sure what, but it was definitely there.

He listens quietly as Julius continues, playing with the loose strands on his hood. The boy has no idea how close he is, other than the fact that he had chosen the next best thing besides death. He didn’t get the chance to decide. It had chosen for him. Without its intervention, he very well would have been dead. And how many times had he died over and over again for its conquest, only to be resurrected and forced to do it all over again? Such thoughts made him feel ill to his stomach, and made his head spin away with all of the horrible possibilities.

“Anyone who would have dared to obey my word as gospel and worship me is long dead. And I wouldn’t want anybody to again... But that was oddly close for simply hazarding a guess. I hurt so many people... including people who were supposed to be my friends. I suppose that’s what happens when you let a dragon losing his mind too close to such fragile creatures as humans... I deserved the death I got, but I’m still here aren’t I? The most I can do is try not to hurt anyone again...”

[scentedchildnacho]

She asked me how my food was at church so I thought I don't know uncle sam wants me it's a modern facility at church and so i only care about modern infectious disease control.....I said its church food just dont have evaluations and a lot of people who dont test like rubi bridges to go to white church finally stop haunting around annoying people and killing women of poor creepy addicts

Its food better be good there have always been ways of getting creepy free loaders away from christian women

Its designed so only it's superior officers as men care about its fight get the fuck out of battered christian women's faces

People don't understand opportunities like not having to privilege the sensorial to abstract capabilities

Monique is a Jew she don't eat bread and still stalks white church to help her and gets her victim ego boost...if she is a Jew chabad does have food they give charitably also

Their annoying mean passive aggressive people that dont practice white church or reform like ida b wells i the queen bee like some of these dark characters at presbyterian church and white churches treat monique like she is a mixed bitch that is into consumer conformism and wont go get a job at the mall because it's what she practices and leave church people alone....she isnt dark and african

Monique acts mean jewess and negro men could help her and take her with them and they don't because they would have to just be some hegemony to all her true needs

What I have learned from bipolar people like these all need to be confronted about their mentality....your a bitch....thats your life you are a bitch

Anyway the only dialogue............at the time is how is your food i dont know its church food i dont evaluate it.......and she said no they have to have service points.....i thought that horrible klan hick beater always wants lots of meat and this is all the korean pastors had to put him on for him to get an unappreciative record and go to the virtual cages.....and that's why I find the experience resume learning

Thats some people about latin american rights people who aren't very white or very black have no existence without new things from German counter terrorists.....the apostolics will do some business and that's sects like these those attitudes are for new churches and they want people needy to go to new emigration