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everybodys gotta get back into the practice of using pseudonyms online... i remember the time of screen names where u never ever told anyone ur real name and that was just understood as basic internet safety. plus having a screen name is fun because sometimes it sticks so well that it becomes part of ur identity that u can use in whatever facet of ur life you choose. it rocks to pick your own name
#im living proof! i wasnt always called kiwi but now i am and it rocks#but mostly im just worried about all these kids wayyy oversharing personal info online#not to be like aaaggghh kids these days. but.#um people are sharing their full names and schools and deepest secrets with their FACE ATTACHED#i surely dont need to explain why thats scary#tiktok trends where u share stuff you would Never tell people irl.... WITH!!! YOUR FACE!!!!! IN FULL VIEW!!#WHHH.... WHY...........#Get Scared of Internet Strangers Again Please!
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i cannot stop thinking about the scene where peter b turns around like he just realized miguel is genuinely insane it is so funny
like ohhhhh. okay. yeah he’s gonna maim that 15 year old.
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the funniest thing you can do to a character who has a lot of different ships in canon/fandom is to make them aromantic. most eligible bachelor sees everyone as their friends
#this post was ghostwritten by sky about herb cookie#kiwi’s calls#kiwi’s aspec posting#aromantic#aspec
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i wrote a big long essay talking about tlt and how it engages with describing the skintones of brown characters its under a read more bc it is so long.
I already left a long comment about this on someone else post but I wish I could study tazmuirs odd little habit of dancing around the fact that Gideon and Harrow are women of color when she describes them, and how this kind of extends to other brown characters
We get a million descriptions for how sickly pale ianthe Silas and cytherea are, what a lovely golden tan corona has, the odd tannish yellow hue of colum, all imagined by her, in her own words, to be white. Then when it comes to Marta and Judith they're called dark like Once in the text. I don't think it's even mentioned for Jeannemary and magnus in the entirety of gtn though I will gladly stand corrected if I missed something. It's such a non factor for them, which normally I would overlook if it wasn't for the aforementioned specificity of how white characters are described on Top of one of the major themes of the book being how John, a Maori man, resurrected a largely Polynesian population and then proceed to rule them using the exact same methods that actively colonized new zealand. Like I just think it's really interesting that in many ways, the story is about two young Maori women completely stripped of cultural heritage, they can't even speak te reo maori they cannot even conceptualize the scale of that kind of loss. Theyve been to earth once and during her brief time there Gideon literally died on it's soil it feels so poignant
Back to them specifically being Not Pale, this is not me saying they would be "less" maori if they were light-skinned that's total bullshit and the entire paradigm exists as a product of European bullshit. My fascination is more with the fact that tamsyn has clearly thought of them as midtoned to dark skinned. I'm going to be really generous and disregard the Tommy Arnold covers- he is a talented artist but he's not the author and Taz stated in an interview that she didn't envision Gideon with an undercut either so he clearly has little liberties he can take and I'm fine with that get your coin dude. For these two I'm going to have to focus on Nona the Ninth, bc for the entirety of gtn, harrow is described as grey, and while I understand that's bc she's constantly under a mountain of white and black facepaint, we basically never get an objective description for either of them. Gideon stand out features are her build, hair and eyes, like a lot of characters, but it could have been pretty easy to throw in a line about how she seems less desaturated than what one might expect from a ninth cavalier, like a rich warm brown, possibly hinting to other characters that she isn't a ninth native
Htn also gives very little to work with, again harrows primary colors are the blacks whites and greys of facepaint and her hair and the reds of constantly sweating blood. The character who's darker skintone is Most remarked upon (also one of the few ever constantly headcanoned) as black, is g1deon. I've actually spoken to a few people about this and there seems to be some actual Mandela effect shit going on where people remember Taz saying he's black despite me never once finding evidence for this. However, this is not a case where I'd be overjoyed to be proven wrong, because g1deon being the one black guy in this entire cast, the one who's dark skintone is commented on the most, being the guy who barely speaks, tries killing harrow with a spear 14 times and then dies offscreen. Not good. Bad, actually
Finally onto ntn, in the beginning chapters Nona remarks her (harrows) skintone is the color of an egg carton. I assume she means the light tan, desaturated brown of the cardboard used in certain cartons, which is fitting for harrow, girls lived in an ice cave for 17 years. This is basically the only word we get on it. I believe a few times the text will say something about pyrrha's (g1deon's) brown Everything; brown skin, russet brown hair, rich brown eyes. that character gets to be viewed and constantly affirmed as a brown character in teh way gideon and harrow arent, it kind of others pyrrha. to contrast camillas hands are called tanned way at the beginning while recording nona's dream, then at the way end it says, "Her face still looked grey beneath its nice normal olive," olive being used to describe her once before in gtn as far as i can see. pyrrha's (g1deon's) skintone is one of her most notable features, its brought up to a noticeable agree the text wants you to keep it in your mind when you think of the saint of duty; "Most of Pyrrha was the colours of the building site: deep dried-out browns, dusty hunks of clay, rusted metal." "Pyrrha wouldn’t burn any colour other than her deep cool brown." "Nona took the water from Pyrrha’s brown, work-chapped hand and even sipped it" "Pyrrha had carried Camilla to bed in her big brown arms like Cam weighed nothing" "Pyrrha said, “Thanks, Nums,” and drained the whole thing. Nona,fascinated, watched the brown column of her throat move as she swallowed." its just notable to me when alternatively with nona you'll get a line like "Camilla didn’t say anything to that either, only rubbed her wrists where the tape had been. Nona’s skin was already back to its nice normal colour." like just the vagueness in nice normal color, we get one line about what shes supposed to look like in the beginning and thats it
towards the end during the broadcast, nona gets her first clear look at kiriona, described as: "warm-coloured skin that should have been a similar brown hue to Nona’s, except that there was something wrong with it." break out the champagne its official
Obviously, dying takes some color from you. If anything, gideons desaturation should make them More comparable given the egg carton comment and harrows general state of constant anemia. Has Nona gotten darker during her time on new rho? Was Gideon lighter than the cover led us to believe? We don't know. We well never know, which is odd, bc these books fucking love purple prose about people's appearances. We have like seven different synonyms for the shade of ianthes hair. New words for black have to be invented in order to convey harrows eyes which are Black, not the dark muddy brown of someone like ortus. It's less that I'm bothered by the text not hyperfocusing on their skin and more it picking and choosing when it will laser focus on a detail like that, and how often it's skipped over to the point that I like, constantly see people draw harrow as incredibly pale, which is very different from being light-skinned
Finally, I know people can dismiss this as like an audience interpretation thing. I know I actively draw harrow darker than Gideon which I know isn't canon. But this is less about Fandom response to the text and more the text itself and how it's like. Afraid to say brown. near the end of ntn i found One instance of it referring to gideons "slim brown hand" on nonas cheek and that is direct as it gets. even her other like, strongly non european traits are sort of danced around. her nose is "a nose that was the complete opposite of Nona’s nose, one that put her in mind of those big poison desert cats Born in the Morning was crazy about." a very fanciful description, you have to infer that nona means that its probably flat and wide, also giving us the information that harrows is most likely narrow and straight, possibly downturned. im not opposed to this, especially given the character talking about her is nona, but then you get the following paragraph:
"Her skin was very much dead-person skin, ashen and tinted the wrong colour around the nostrils and the mouth. But even if she hadn’t been dead, Nona was critical. Her eyelashes were very dark, but short and curly, whereas Nona thought all eyelashes should be long and straight (her own eyelashes were long and straight). The corpse had too much mouth and a dimple (nobody in her home had a dimple). You could not, at least, see the veins in her eyelids, which were heavy and cold and deep-set. But Nona thought it was going to be a shame to go from being so lovely as she was to being so—redheaded."
its a very frank description. dimple, curly lashes, red head, dead skin, probably a wide mouth. her nose is contrasted against nonas nose, which is also never directly described, and then compared to a fantasy animal we have never heard of until right now
kicks rocks. there isnt a point to this. the series is almost over, there is zero reason to like, knock on taz's door and ask why she did this or that. it doesnt stop me from loving the series, and the insinuation that noticing this means i must dislike the series is frankly insane (real thing that happened). if someone got the impression that harrow was white given how shes described i wouldnt blame them honestly, its most apparent she isnt in the third book (with the cover art being incredibly ambiguous) and a single blog post from taz mentioning shes maori, immediately followed by an "oh i dont care how you see the characters" addendum, which i think is like. an odd thing to tack on bc them descended from kiwis is like, very integral to the story, and gideon being the daughter of the maori man who took everything from her she didnt even know she could have and the (presumably, given her name and a very brief description) maori woman fighting to get that world back its like. damn. it feels a little important. that the audience knows theyre maori. like a little. it feels intertwined with the whole thing about john using european standards of imperialism and general aesthetics to hurt his own kid. actually.
#tlt meta#hi im black but not maori or kiwi so thats where im coming from with all this#i am fully aware some fans of color will disagree with me thats chill this is just where im at#i have never been a fan of being cagey with how a character looks#it feels like. idk kind of leaning into the fact that the audience wants a blank slate to project onto#and with her being So specific about it like this guy is nz chinese these two are tongan these two are mixed maori this guy is pasifika#it just kind of intrigues me like do you have reasons why as to each one specifically or did they jsut kind of. happen upon you#spring up fully formed#this isnt like a 'tlt is bad' 'you should feel bad if you thought this character was white or black' thing#its strictly about how the text communicates certain ideas and how the audience reacts to them#were kind of primed for . a waifish snobby pale aristocrat. ianthe is Right There harrow being white or pale feels like a natural assumptio#but it is. directly contradicted by the text. and done in a way that can be easily ignored
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I think it would be cute if Miku aged with her original release date
#miku hatsune#hatsune miku#vocaloid#kiwi fanart#kiwi art#tbf this is older than that#but i don't draw age different from about 20-40
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the crows would have absolutely loved monopoly
#i feel so sad they never got to play#au where all they do. every day. is play monopoly#thats the heist thats the plot#them enjoying and bickering#all six of them#cuz all six are happy and alive#(im ignoring kiwi sorry guys)#kaz would get waaaaaay too into it#wylan would be incredible#he memorises the property names based off the colours#nina doesnt even care about winning she just buys the properties that kaz goes for#they never let jesper be banker even though he begs to be every time#the only person who can be banker is matthias#inej secretly moves her piece extra steps during other people's turns and only kaz realises#but he doesn't say anything even though he wants to win#the winner is almost always either kaz or wylan#inej comes close a few times#jesper has never once won but still claims he's best#nina tries to seduce matthias into giving her more money#it (almost) never works#soc#six of crows#ck#crooked kingdom#kaz#inej#kaz brekker#kanej#matthias helvar#jesper
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So I watched Death Note (relatively) recently Bonus Halloween Scribble 👻🎃
#death note#light yagami#l death note#his legal last name is death note isn’t that crazy#I thought about drawing the chains and then i decided i didnt want to . Laziness Wins!#naomi misora#touta matsuda#the kiwi scribbling zone
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waughh ok im very new to this but!! first post yayyy....hello world.....i like wandersong and i like drawing. here's kiwi and miriam pumpkin shenanigans in the spirit of autumn
#wandersong#bard wandersong#kiwi wandersong#miriam wandersong#im very nervous about this#anyway miriam deserves to blast and explode things for fun#my art
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It's soon to be here...
After 6 months of hard work, I’m proud to bring you this (nearly) 3 hour long Witcher video essay:
The Rise and Fall of The Witcher
How did the fate of Poland in the shadow of World War II affect the development of Polish sci-fi and fantasy? How did "Witcher" get its start, and why was it such a literary phenomenon? Why do so many Witcher fans DISLIKE the Netflix show? What do George Orwell and Aldous Huxley have to do with any of this? In the wake of the Netflix series’ cancellation—with its fifth season being its last—I am retracing the story of The Witcher.
Premiering Friday, June 28th, 2024 at 8:00 p.m. GMT [2 p.m. CT, 9 p.m. CET, 5 a.m. AEST]
[YouTube Premiere watch page] (Click "Notify Me"!) with full description and timestamps 💕
#sorry aus and kiwi friends for being timezone shafted...#the witcher books#the witcher games#the witcher#geralt#geralt of rivia#ciri#cirilla of cintra#it is also about netflix but i know lots of mutuals have that tag blocked lmaooo#analysis#IV
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suggestion: wandersong guys as bug fables bugs ! OR bug fables guys in the wandersong universe if you'd rather but the bugification beam idea sounded more fun to me so i thought id toss it ur way in case it interested you! (unless youve already done this and i missed it!! sorry if so!)
i've actually never done it! I think I was intimidated with trying to think of bugs that fit but then I decided bug fables isn't always 100% accurate so I don't have to be either lol
anyways here's my designs for them!
#wandersong#bug fables#kiwi wandersong#bard wandersong#miriam wandersong#audrey redheart#bug designs#anonymous#asks#requests#fanart#i hope the bug types make sense... cicadas sing#moths do magic and are also as colorful as mim#black ant cause ants are about as regular as you can get and audrey said she was just a regular ol chum before#but i put her in the guard so she can have a sword like maki#etc so on so forth
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i forgot i was wearing lipstick today
#doodles#dogs#chihuahua#art#kiwi#cant draw dogs; referenced a photo i already had 💖#shes so scrinkyyyy#so ouppyyyy#ma'am why are you#also the b*t problem.... nearly stopped almost very suddenly#ive only gotten 100 since like yesterday evening#so thats about 7500 bots including the ones i Shot; nearly as many as i had Already#that was weird. ill clean those out later. anyway
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tbh what if i said i wanted to be all up in sohee like i wanna turn his prostate to mush what if i said i wanna hold his little hips against the wall while i jerk him off just to see him struggle to meet me halfway what if i said i wanna hear his soft pretty moans and whines for me to stop bc it's too soon he doesn't wanna cum yet WHAT IF!!!
#where my sohee girlies at‼️‼️‼️‼️#kiwi im in ur walls btw#can some1 write abt yn overstimming sohee i need it soo bad#all i can think about is his little body#i want my tongue all over that tbh#what if i said something so crazy#like jow i have three sohee drafts typed up ...#ts is nawt funny anymore#euughuuuhh sohee 😩‼️😁🫣😁‼️😭😩☺️😔😔☺️🤫☺️‼️☺️😁☺️‼️☺️🤫😔☺️#sohee hard hours#sohee hard thoughts#riize hard thoughts#riize hard hours
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every single other character: OH MY GODDD FALIN A CHIMERA WHAGGHH DARK MAGIC BWAGHG
Falin:
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i pity people who say “yeah it’s nice to see these two characters as friends but their relationship becomes so much more meaningful if you see them as romantic.” how has the dredges of the amanormative world poisoned you this bad? have you never had a friend or wanted a friend who changed your life for the better? or if you do i feel bad for them because of so obviously little you value them
#and my friend xy whom i stole some lines of this rant from#aphobia#amanormativity#kiwi’s aspec posting#aromantic#APPARENTLY MY TAG RANT PICKED UP THE SHIP???? i’m so sorry for all the people who thought i was hating on it#i’ll have you know i made a post about qpr ze / li nk (TRYING NOT TO TAG IT BY ACCIDENT) so yeah i do like the ship myself#i just don’t like it when people say it can Only be romantic
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john chapters dashboard simulator
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It's an honour to blog the end of the world with you all
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localcryptid 🔁 gaydesandpersephone
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why is everyone more upset about the cows and not the actual people he killed
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because cows offer something of value to society and cops don't
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oh my god it's not funny that he killed so many living creatures?? killing cows should be considered a serious red flag for the love of god. cows are intelligent animals. they can problem solve. they have best friends. stop memeing about this
#new zealand #cows
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Why take it out on the cows though?
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the cows were spies for the government, obviously
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well of course he used sheep
#kiwi mutuals please don't unfollow I love you I swear #new zealand
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given the discourse it is time we settle this once and for all. vote now or forever hold your peace.
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he's literally not a necromancer, he's a scientist who discovered new elements
#propaganda
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hillo yewchewb todey I'm redickorating my necromantic lair
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you're just jealous you still have the union jack on your flag
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idk elon musk's involvement feels like a red flag
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they cut my funding I'm gonna [remembers suicide jokes only worsen my mental health] blow up this entire planet
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#the locked tomb#john gaius#I think john would appreciate the self-destructive nature and cycles of revenge in the radiant emperor#in a I relate to these characters a normal amount 🤡 way#also I don't know enough about homestuck for the perfect homestuck joke I'm sure exists. alas.#I did not check any urls any resemblance to real urls is purely coincidence. except for those I stole from my friends#hello darling rapha kenzie and meg I hope you don't mind giving you cameos when I ran out of url ideas or wanted to make a cowspy joke#in my heart nz has the laser kiwi flag by the time john blows up the world. at least the silver fern flag or something.
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more scaraether doodles, I think it’s cute when tsundere with an extremely high ratio of tsun
#scaraether#genshin impact#wanderer#scaramouche#aether#kiwi scribbles#kiwi fanart#being very extremely normal about him#not like i have another five sketches to upload or anything
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