#add them to the trauma group >:D

[solar-wing]

⚣ Jason Todd: NSFW Alphabet 🔴

⚣🔴 A/N → I forgot I had written these out and had them on my old account. Did a little fine-tuning to them though. WARNINGS: 18+ MDNI | it's an NSFW alphabet so just expect the unexpected and the expected.

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A = Aftercare (what they’re like after sex)

This man can go from rough and hard to soft and gentle in literal seconds. It’s like watching someone come out of a trance or possession. He’ll clean you up with a fresh rag and make sure you’re comfortable, especially if you’re sore (you’ll most definitely be). He’s clingy though.

You won’t get anywhere without him right beside you. And he won’t say it, but he loves it when you try to take care of him too. Jason is dominant and prefers to be in control, but that man is as needy as a newborn baby, and it gets 10x worse after sex.

B = Body part (their favorite body part of theirs and also their partner’s)

Jason’s relationship with his body is difficult, but, if we’re talking about one where he’s healed, maybe been to therapy, and (slightly) moved on from his trauma, he probably favors his arms, chest, and hands. Jason prefers strength overlooking aesthetically fit, and he kind of always looks like he’s bulking but it's defined somehow. And because that adds to his overall size and level of intimidation, he loves working on those specific groups to increase them so he can in turn use them to intimidate people, especially those who try to flirt with you in front of him.

Now, on the other end, Jason is 100% an ass man. You can not change my mind. He loves you wearing any kind of tight or fitting material that molds to the shape of your butt and just being able to oogle and smack it when he wants. And smack it he does. Dude has the equivalent of 100 cheese necks in one palm and you feel it every time he lands one on your ass. 

Bonus points if you have thick thighs that jiggle when you walk. He’ll be paying extra special attention to those, especially if you’re wearing any kind of short shorts or fitted athletic wear. He also has a slight obsession or fascination with your neck. Whether in the act or just chilling, his hands will somehow find their way to your neck whether it’s a gentle caress or a firm grip. And if he’s feeling a little possessive or riled up in the moment (which is frequent) it’s his favorite place to mark, and if you try to cover them up, it’s more motivation for him to leave even bigger ones. He likes it when people can tell and see that you belong to him.

C = Cum (anything to do with cum, basically)

More of an oozer than a shooter unless he’s been holding a load in for a while. And his loads are thick. He may not shoot far but he’ll definitely give you enough to fill the bottom of a glass. 

Also, no questions asked, he’s coming inside you. You just have to choose if it’s going to be your mouth or ass. Don’t ask, it’s a territorial thing with him. The thought of you walking around and greeting people while his babies are lodged deep inside your ass or fresh down your esophagus does wonders for his pride.

D = Dirty secret (pretty self-explanatory, a dirty secret of theirs)

If you’re not around and he’s really horny, he’ll masturbate with a piece of your clothing. Sometimes, he’ll also call you in the middle of it and won’t tell you just so he can hear your voice while edging himself to completion.

He also will purposely start arguments with you so you can have a reason to have angry make-up sex later.

E = Experience (how experienced are they? do they know what they’re doing?)

Some small experiences before he died, and little hookups here and there when he came back and was somewhat in a good place with Bruce and himself. That being said, he gets most of his experience from his relationship with you. He quickly learns what he does like and what he doesn’t, and makes it known to you immediately. 

He also may or may not go to Dick for advice or tips on how to improve. Going to Bruce is out of the question. And not just because that’s still technically his dad.

F = Favorite position (this goes without saying)

Doggy for one. It’s something about him grabbing you by your hair or even better, around your neck and forcing your body against his while he pounds into you from behind. He gets an exhilarating high from having you at his mercy and you surrendering yourself to him.

He also does favor missionary if he’s in a slightly more tender mood. But, If he’s feeling jealous or pissed off about something, he’s putting you up against a wall or in a corner with his hands around your neck and ramming you like there’s no tomorrow. Your legs will not be functioning for 24 hours.

G = Goofy (are they more serious in the moment? are they humorous? etc.)

Tends to be more serious in the moment. When he’s in the mood, he’s fully in it. Especially if he needs to get his frustrations out. However, the sound of you moaning and screaming his name will definitely bring a smug grin to his face.

H = Hair (how well groomed are they? does the carpet match the drapes? etc.)

He keeps himself adequately groomed. May grow some facial hair and have a little bush down there along with a happy trail but he’s good about keeping it neat and clean. And, if you want him to, he’ll shave it all, no questions needed.

I = Intimacy (how are they during the moment? the romantic aspect)

This he struggles with at times. It’s something he wasn’t given much of (especially with Bruce) so he doesn’t really know how to act when in those moments and he tends to get really uncomfortable, especially if it’s a particularly vulnerable moment for him. As far as during sex, he’s definitely on the more rough and brutish side, but he’ll always do his best to check on you.

It’s something he’s getting better at though. Even in moments without sex where you two are just lounging and sitting together, he’s good at reading you and knowing what you want or how to make you happy with small gestures and actions. He just wants to make sure you’re happy and that you feel loved (and that you belong to him and only him).

J = Jack off (masturbation headcanon)

Mentioned with dirty secrets. Really only does it when you’re not around. He’ll rarely do it just for the heck of it. He prefers getting his pleasure from pleasing and fucking (owning) you.

K = Kink (one or more of their kinks)

Dominance/Submission (Power Play) - Jason has had many things happen to him that he didn’t want or couldn’t control. It’s basically what influences this kink more than others. You submitting to Jason, letting him lead and have full control in sex and even in domestic scenarios creates a very satisfying and pleasurable feeling inside him. It also serves as reassurance for him, knowing that you fully trust him to the point where you basically surrender yourself to him. Getting back to more dirty things, this kink can include other aspects such as orgasm denial, bondage (on you), and verbal affirmation of your submission (dirty talk).

Choking (giving only) - This plays into the dominant/submission kink as well. It’s a rush from the feeling of control he has over whether you get to breathe or not while pounding your brains out. But, he’ll never go too far and he hopes you know that. However, he’s not at all okay with it being done to him. He does not like his neck being touched at all for that matter. Call it PTSD from his time with Joker and other things that have happened to him in the past, so it’s a big no-no. Although, with time and him getting more comfortable in the relationship, if he gives you a clear consenting sign that he’s okay with it, he’ll allow a gentle caress and rub down his neck, but only from you. Anyone else who tries to touch him on his neck risks several broken limbs.

Mirror Sex - A key part of his possessive nature toward you. He loves seeing himself fuck into you and even more, his ego gets a big boost from seeing you turn into an erotic mess while he’s inside you.

Size Difference - The fact that Jason can pick you up and throw you around like a rag doll, dwarfs you in size, or that his clothes (even if you’re tall and broad) can look three sizes too big on you is a major turn-on for him. He won’t say it, but he likes the idea of someone smaller than him that he can protect.

L = Location (favorite places to do the do)

Weird enough, the thought comes to mind that Jason has a weird obsession with having sex with you in tight spaces. Mainly, places like the shower or the car. It ties a bit into his power and size kink. Something about the size of his body towering over you in a small space riles him up like no other. It’s the feeling or sensation that he’s got you cornered that drives that feeling. Kind of like an outlet for him to deal with his trauma of when he was actually trapped/cornered.

Also, he has it in his mind that whenever you move in together, he has to fuck you on every single available surface in your place. Christening your home with your love is how he likes to think of it. Plus, he gets a nasty kick out of when guests are over, imagining in his mind that they’re sitting in places where he had you crying out and cumming on his dick multiple times.

M = Motivation (what turns them on, gets them going)

#1:Jealousy & Possessiveness – The idea of you finding anyone else attractive, let alone giving them your attention which is only supposed to be reserved for him, he’ll be quick to snatch you into the nearest closet or bathroom to remind you who you belong to. And it doesn’t matter who it is besides your parents or his family. It could be the barista at the cafe, a random guy who gave you a friendly nod, or god forbid, an old classmate or co-worker you happened to bump into on the street. Jason is a selfish & protective little fucker who doesn’t even want to consider the idea of someone else thinking they can have what’s only for him.

#2: Clothes – Please, exercise caution when picking your outfit for any particular event. Jason’s never gonna tell you what you can’t wear, but keep in mind that again, he’s a selfish and protective little fucker who has the sex drive of a large animal. Wearing anything even slightly tight or a bit showy for his taste can and will land you in many situations where Jason has pulled you aside somewhere quiet and private to have at your body. And don’t let him catch others ogling your outfit or even giving you the slightest compliment or all hell is breaking loose. Not to say he doesn’t like it, he loves it. But, you’re for his eyes only. Now, if it’s his clothes you’re wearing out, please be aware that at some point, you may be buying him a new shirt/hoodie cause he’s about to rip it off you.

#3: Arguing – Something in that man thrives on chaos, and when you and he are going at it, he can’t help but get hard. And again, hot, angry makeup sex. Duh…

N = No (something they wouldn’t do, turn-offs)

He will not do any form of rape/forced play, including machoism and sadism. His vigilante life and past trauma already left a deep scar on him and anything that resembles that can and will trigger him. Plus, he knows he’s way stronger and doesn’t want to even take the risk of hurting you in any way.

Unless we’re talking Arkham Jason. That’s a completely different story.

He would clear it with you first that you’re okay with bondage and choking, but he doesn’t want it performed on him, especially the choking, as we’re already aware that he’s very sensitive about his neck.

Any extreme BDSM kinks like piss play or fisting is also a major turn-off for him. Exhibitionism is a straight-up no. Jason would rather drink from the Lazarus pit than have anyone looking at you in a state that he’s only allowed to see you in. Don’t even attempt to pitch the idea of a threesome or foursome or just any suggestion of bringing someone else in on your fun. It will turn into a major argument and not a good one that ends in happy fun.

O = Oral (preference in giving or receiving, skill, etc.)

Inexperienced but picks it up quickly and learns what gets more of a reaction from you. He’s a fast learner and loves it when he’s able to drive you over the edge with his mouth alone. Also, if we’re talking about eating out, he’ll happily do it till the sun turns blue. There’s something about tasting you on his tongue that just really gets him riled up.

But, if we’re talking dick-sucking, definitely prefers receiving over giving. Jason finds it extremely hot seeing you go up and down on him with your mouth, especially when he grabs your hair or head and starts to force your head up and down or starts thrusting in your mouth. He loves seeing you slobber and choke all over him. And if you look up and give him a teary-eyed but submissive look, game over (in a good way).

P = Pace (are they fast and rough? slow and sensual? etc.)

Definitely fast and rough. And if it’s not, you can bet he’s delivering some powerful strokes that will have you squeezing and clenching your legs all around him. Plus, he notices the harder he goes, the more you squeeze yourself against him while pressing your nails into his back and biting at his skin, trying to silence your loud moans and cries. Though, it’s probably not the best idea because he’ll just go even harder to force those noises out of you. And, those are marks and scars he will PROUDLY wear.

It takes him time (if you even decide at all that you want him to) to learn how to move at a softer, slower, and more sensual pace. But, if it’s something you truly desire, he’ll work on it and do everything he can to make you happy. But, that doesn’t mean rough sex goes away. It actually makes it even more hot, especially when Jason is in one of his moods.

Q = Quickie (their opinions on quickies, how often, etc.)

He’s not opposed to them. But, Jason likes to take his time with you. He doesn’t like to rush and hates the idea of feeling as if someone is going to interrupt him. No one should intrude upon your special time with each other. God bless (and protect) the unlucky souls that do.

But, if he’s really in the mood and he can’t get you to an ideal private place in a fast enough time, he’s not above pulling you into the nearest dark room or corner to get down and dirty, especially if he’s feeling a little territorial because someone decided they wanted to be brave stupid and hit on you. He’s more than happy to remind you who you’re in a relationship with. Or if you’re not in a relationship, then just who’s fucking you every single night, plain and simple. Either way, quickies to him are basically just his versions of reminders to you for what happens when he gets a bit jealous.

R = Risk (are they game to experiment? do they take risks? etc.)

You’d have to move at a snail’s pace with him if you want to introduce something new to your routine. If it’s something small, then he may go ahead and give in to it, but Jason craves consistency and normalcy, and that includes sex. Asking him to try something new can hit a sore spot cause it may seem like what you two are doing now isn’t enough for you anymore.

But, if you reassure him it’s not that, and just slowly introduce the idea to him, (double points if he likes it off the start) then you’re definitely in for a treat. For you, and you only, he is willing to step out of his comfort zone, as long as it’s not too crazy or on his no-no list.

S = Stamina (how many rounds can they go for? how long do they last?)

Depends on his mood and what prompted the sex. He could go for one round or two if he’s just feeling a little feral and wants a piece of you. If it’s a jealous or angry fit after an argument, you might wanna cancel any plans after, cause he’s certainly not letting you leave the bed, the house, or wherever you are until your legs are basically useless.

The same thing goes for the duration of a round, especially if you’ve got the good good (hehe). If you’re really giving it to him. Mans may be lucky to make it past 10 minutes, but that’s not too bad. It means he can cuddle you, or you cuddle him. Either way, cuddles are non-negotiable after a round. But, if you two just got done hashing it out over something or you decided to poke one too many of his buttons, he’s dragging it out as long as he can. This means exiting out of you whenever he feels like he’s getting too close, and denying you your own orgasm as well (that damn control factor strikes again).

T = Toys (do they own toys? do they use them? on a partner or themselves?)

Jason doesn’t own any toys and never really had an interest in them. It’s not something he’d really get into on his own and only would experiment with them if you asked. The most he’s got is handcuffs or rope he’d use for bondage but that’s as far as he would take it.

If you were to use toys, he’d definitely prefer him using them on you unless there was something else specific involved that didn’t cross one of his boundaries.

U = Unfair (how much they like to tease)

50/50. If you’re teasing him, payback’s a fucker named Jason. He’ll kiss all your sweet spots, nibble on your chest, and barely give any attention to your dick/genitals. Especially if he’s in one of his ‘I want to hear you beg for me, tell me who owns you’ moods.

If he wants to get to the point, then you can expect to be promptly thrown onto the bed or whatever surface is nearby, and the most he’ll do here is tie or cuff your hands so you can’t touch him, knowing how much you like to feel his body while he’s ramming yours.

V = Volume (how loud they are, what sounds they make, etc.)

Jason’s loud. But, in a very grunty-like way. You may have to fight tooth and nail to get him to moan for you, but by golly is he expressive when you manage to get it out of him. For the most part, though, he’s giving grunts, growls, and grumbles. You’ll mainly hear him whisper into your ear, reminding you that he’s the one currently plowing your guts and that no one else is allowed to see you like this but him.

W = Wild card (a random headcanon for the character)

He likes fucking you with clothes on frequently. You’re wearing a tight compression shirt that’s showing your pecs, abs, and just overall body, he’s got you bent over a surface while oogling your muscle constricting under a shirt. Wearing a jockstrap or thong in the gym and he can see it, he’s pulling them down and that underwear aside just enough to get inside you. You’re not complaining though. If he’s wearing his own compression and muscle shirts all the better for you, getting to ogle and rub his muscles while he’s hammering inside of you like an animal.

He also really enjoys massages. Particularly on his shoulders, back, and chest. He loves it when you lick and play around with the head of his dick and when you run your fingers through his hair while his face is buried in your neck kissing and leaving marks all over.

X = X-ray (let’s see what’s going on under those clothes)

Bigger than average.

8-9 inches minimum. He’s thick and girthy down as well. Maybe narrower at the base with a really large and bulbous head. Entering can be a bit of a challenge, but it gets easier the further he gets inside. Also has a curve to his dick.

Y = Yearning (how high is their sex drive?)

Jason has a fairly high sex drive and the Lazarus pit only increased that. His libido can sometimes be more emotion-driven so feelings of love, anger, or even just a slight irritation will get him hard.

Maybe you’re not fucking every hour of the day, but he’s gotta have you in some shape or form at least once or twice a day. Whether it’s a blowjob, hand-job, or one of his jealous reminder quickies.

Z = Zzz (how quickly they fall asleep afterwards)

He can go to sleep fairly quickly, but only after he’s properly cared for you and cleaned you up. Also, he has to have your body pressed against him. Cuddles are vitally important and you should never once not want to cuddle him. It’s the one intimate thing he’s got down perfectly to a T. 

However, he has more than once fallen asleep while still inside you and in the position you both finished in. It can lead to a comfortable or uncomfortable scenario, depending on the situation.

☀️ | Jason Todd/Red Hood | ☀️

☀️ | Masterlists | ☀️

[mortal-ethos]

On a Minthara rant again. Content warning for talk of trauma.

I hate when people say "she's actually kind by Drow standards"

First of all. I hate that reasoning because replace "Drow" with any real life group and you'll get the picture of why it's bad, but I'm not here to talk about how D&D racism pisses me off by reflecting and encouraging real world racism.

Secondly, Minthara is a kind person, end of sentence. But she's not nice. She's not going to exchange pleasantries. If she thinks she can trust the person, respects them, thinks they're worth the effort, she is genuinely kind and caring. This doesn't just happen with Tav/Durge, you can see her take this role on with quite a few companions even if it's behind the colder, pragmatic exterior she's been traumatized to keep up. She may not be the most compassionate person, that is true because being compassionate is often met with being murdered in the Underdark. But she is earnest, she is thoughtful, she worries for the people close to her all the time because she's hyper-vigilant (again, trauma). And you learn if you romance her in Act 1, when you rescue her in Act 2, that she desperately craves connection and affection. You learn how she desperately wants someone to see her and care about her, she wants to feel safe around someone because NOWHERE is safe for her. She is sympathetic, you learn from her after you defeat Ketheric. She's very understanding and observant. She's not used to kindness and people treating her with such, because it's usually done as they try to stab her in the back or poison her. Being kind is about being intentional and mindful. She's not nice, but she's very intentional.

She was raised to hide her emotions. To not show any sign of weakness. To not trust anyone. She was raised with exceptionally high standards. I was raised very similarly (aside from the assassination attempts) and it's part of why I love her character so much and why it's so upsetting when people don't give her the attention she deserves and think she's just the Hot Evil Drow Companion TM.

For my background, I was raised with a strict military father. My mother raised me on true crime and Law & Order: SVU. I knew about the Manson murders, the Branch Davidians and the timeline of the siege in Waco, knew what was in Jeffrey Dahmer's blue tubs, I could pick Ted Bundy out of a lineup before I knew my fucking times tables. I wish I was fucking kidding. I thought the details of these serial killers' crimes were common knowledge until COLLEGE. I grew up terrified all the time. I grew up with super high expectations and was never good enough, but was still always the trophy child and needed to be perfect for them to brag about me. I grew up raised under the belief that if you don't have a certain trait or do things a certain way, you don't deserve to live. I thought I wasn't a human being for most of my life because I had shut down all emotions, and had suicidal ideation by the age of 4. I don't remember most of my life and I couldn't tell you what my happiest moment of my life was a couple years ago, because I couldn't remember any. I grew up always facing the door to a building or room so I could see who entered at all times. I was raised that you keep knives or martial weapons around you at all times in case of an attack.

Trauma like that doesn't fade easily, it takes YEARS and I'm blessed I found a therapist that I work well with and have been able to get out of that hazardous environment. Minthara hasn't. She's surrounded by war and death and threats at all times, and she hasn't had someone she can truly confide in, in a long time. People that have closed off due to trauma are often some of the kindest people you'll ever meet, but they don't know how to accept it or offer it themselves. They don't know how to feel emotions, and it's really scary. Add on to that the mental torture and abuse she suffered in the cult, along with physical abuse, and she's terrified. There's nothing in the world that she is more afraid of than Orin. If you romance her, what do you think she's most afraid of after Orin's death?

It's losing you. Losing that safe person, that person she loves, the person that she can allow herself to care about and show kindness to, the one she can accept kindness from without worrying.

Her writing is so fucking well done and tells you everything you need to know about her, I just wish people would listen.

[transformersconfessions]

not to add to all the bumblebee discourse , but i just feel like i gotta get my piece in just once .

that is a full ass fucking adult . that is an adult with CLEAR AuADHD ( or one / the other depending on continuity ) and trauma among some other probable things .

and coming from someone with AuADHD and my own trauma , who sometimes sees themselves in bumblebee , the infantalization of him between continuities is really fucking tiring and just plain gross .

in tfa , people love using that excuse for because he’s short and the human form soundwave gave him for TWO EPISODES in season 3 correlate to him being a child . that form isn’t even based on age , it was more based on his personality - which could be stereotypically called ‘ childish ‘ . but again , having a childish personality does NOT immediately equate to actually being a child . ( and as another anon mentioned , buldhead and wreck-gar are on a similar level if not even MORE childish than bee , yet no one ever calls THEM children . ) ( people also just love using this excuse to bash on ships like prowlbee or blitzbee by calling them ‘ pedophilic ‘ when again , they aren’t )

and for tfone , bee/ b-127 had literally not seen any other living bot for millennia until orion and d-16 showed up . he knows all the high guard by name ( unlike orion who knows them but only from records ) suggesting that he’s actually OLDER than the other 3 , as well as generally being the ‘ comic relief ‘ character of the group - using humor to hide other things about him .

also , why do they think the autobots would stoop low enough to have a “ child “ bot fighting in a war ?? like please use that cobweb of a brain you have in your cranium hole and figure it the fuck out

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[historicity-was-already-taken]

pixeljade: #it IS very much a complex issue and I feel like saying that has been pissing off a lot of folks on both sides #one fact i would add to the table is that the current actions against palestine DO constitute a genocide by definition #its a word i hear pro-Israel people get very upset by because they think it is inherently comparing this to the holocaust #but its not. some people DO and thats its own discussion. but calling it a “genocide” is simply accurate and undeniable

Speaking as someone who was that pro-Israel person in her teens and very early 20s, the reactions you're describing are 800% cognitive dissonance freak outs. Most of these people, like me, received either directly or indirectly from their Elders in the Jewish community a very trauma-induced and deeply emotional information about the history of this situation, which boils down to: "They tried to kill us all once and they didn't now we finally have returned to the Promised Land, the only place we have to shield ourselves against It Happening Again. Israel's detractors hate that Jews can defend themselves now, and if any of them, including the Palestinians, were to have their way, they'd see us all dead. We must defend ourselves at all costs, and not let anyone ever put us in existential danger as a people ever again."

And then to have some rando 19 year old who knows jack shit about your or your community or your community's trauma to get up in your face and start screaming at you about genocide? It's only going to trigger that intergenerational trauma, and cause the party being screamed at to dig deeper into their defensive, cognitive-dissonance fueled response. Which, if we were to boil that response down to a thought process, looks like "This person hates me and all Jews. They think we're a hive mind who don't deserve to live. Thank G-d for Israel."

What's complex, is that not everything in that trauma response is wrong, and not everything the dumbass 19 yo who has no interest in unpacking their own learned anti-Semitism was wrong.

Israel's actions towards Palestinian Arabs since 1948 does fit several definitions of genocide and/or ethnic cleansing. And many of the Westerners who scream about it the loudest are fairly openly anti-Semitic.

Now, as someone with big Holocaust intergenerational trauma in her family, I am sympathetic to the Jewish kid in this scenario. But cognitive dissonance is just that: the domain of a child. Adults understand that cognitive dissonance is a little voice in our head telling us "Hey comrade our discomfort with this is a little much. Maybe this is a learning opportunity?"

I mean, that's what I did. But it's difficult. Its uncomfortable, and that scares people. It's much easier to believe that "They call it the Naqba because they hate us and think our survival and access to national self-determination is a disaster,"* than it is to understand that "They call it the Naqba because it was the near total dispossession and ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Arab populations from their generational homes and properties."

And again, everything I'm saying here is a result of my journey from a hardcore Zionist-in-the-contemporary-sense child (though always left in terms of domestic US Politics), to a grown Holocaust historian who understands that Israel is no better and no worse than all the other nation states (for new readers, I understand the nation-state as a political entity, the logical end point of which is genocide and/or ethnic cleansing), and openly criticizes it on those grounds.

*A rabbi in a youth group I belonged to told me this almost verbatim when I was 15. And when you're 15 and somebody tells you they love you you're gonna believe them.

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- Probably will close the ask box if it gets too full, might cap it at 20 0r 25.

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[*⚠️ *WARNINGS ⚠️]

This AU is estimated to be 15+  

While I don't plan to include shipping, it might sneak its way in here, who knows.

Swearing in Asks Is allowed plus the mod swears. (Steer clear of slurs, even if you can reclaim them.)

Scarring, Blood, Death, themes of unreality trauma & gore is around, Everyone was brought back from the dead. Additional CW for mentions Genocide considering this au is after one. 

potential mentions (& possible depictions) of suicide & Self harm, Fratricide, Mind Control (Possible Manipulation), & Divorce.

While this aims to be (kind of) joke au, General CW for potential disturbing content is out there. 

Feel Free the DM With any warnings I missed & should include

[*ACT - ASK] - ASK BOX STATUS [OPEN]

*Chara - 💔 *Frisk - ♥️ *Toriel - 🔥 *Papyrus - 💀 *Mad Mewsy - 💢 *The Undying - 🦈 *Muffet - 🕷️ *Mettaton NEO -  👾 *Sans - 🦴 *Asgore - 🔱 *Flowey 🌻

 DNI LIST

Homophobes, Terfs, LGBTQIA+Phobic, Racists, Xenophobes, Pro shippers, Anti-Anti's, Misogynists', Cancel Culture & Cringe Culture, NSFW/18+Blogs, Abelists, Zoophiles, Anti Semitism, Hate speech, MAPS/Pedos, Discourse Blogs, AI supprters, Y’know the basic DNI criteria stuff  (Just don't be a dick man this feels dumb to make.)

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[aihoshiino]

it ate my fucking 'ideal oshi no ending' ask??? Tumblr, whyyyyyyy

i didn't write shit down anywhere else, I'll try my best to 'member. i'll write down everything again as good as i can, lets pray i wont miss anything :'D

okay, so aqua does his super smart (stupid) plan, but he and kamiki survive and end up hospitalized. kamiki wakes up first and, while he doesn't regret all the things he did, decides to stop™ and to also honor Ai and her memory by telling aquas version of what happened. bc at the end, kamiki loves Ai. and Ai loves her children, and he wants to finally honor her and her wishes by doing what she'd want. (i had been pondering that one a bit more after sending the og ask, and i want his eureka moment to be smth like him being close enough to death that he actually manages to talk to Ai in the afterlife. or at least thinks that he is)

anyways, when aqua wakes up, he's surrounded by his friends and family. kana gets to bitch slap him bc she said she would do that and honestly i support her rights and wrongs. big affirmation of aqua being loved and supported by everyone.

then he gets a private talk with akane, who essentially goes 'okay what did actually happen' and they get to bond over both having had to deal with being suicidal and having attempted to end their lives, essentially a role reversal to the Love Now arc.

after that, ruby talk to resolve THE FUCKING KISS. let ruby finally properly break down and start to move on from the sarina/gorou thing. hell, use it so aqua gives her a push to talk to kana and mem-cho about how shit ruby was to them while going all black hoshigan. allow her to acknowledge that she has been imitating Ai and finally step out of her shadow. THANK YOU

also, solely needed, aqua and kamiki talk. idk if that was in my original ask (i think it was?) but let aqua find out about kamikis reasoning for going with aquas version of the story. and then, let them have a proper talk. (.... kamiki comparing aqua to Ai. aqua finally calling Ai his mom,,,, please,,,,)

then, timeskip pages where we get to watch rubys idol career now that she stepped into the light as herself. akane and kana acting together (akane and kana friendship. Please.) cute group stuff. aqua and ruby healing.

(bonus page: Ai smiling as she watches.)

bonus chapter gets to be aqua kana confession, can be ambiguous or ends with them dating, idc, just let kana confess.

This is. Not as well worded as the original, but this was the crux and i think the most important stuff? i did add a few scenes i thought about after sending the original ask.

(also, if anyone wants to use any of this as basis for an alternative ending fanfic /oneshot, this is the blanket permission for that.)

2024 - 2024 CLOSE ENOUGH WELCOME BACK ANON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is the ending Big Akasaka doesn't want you to see!!!

ok no all jokes aside I still really love this!!!! I think this is basically my ideal ending for the Oshi no Ko we got - obvs if you start really diverging from the canon material you can do basically anything with it but I think when I was still in my "surely aqua will live <- clueless" era immediately post 163, this is the kind of ending I was imagining - bittersweet and still marked by tragedy and trauma but that at least allowed everyone to start the process of getting back on their feet and working their shit out.

[blackbutlerfandomnerddomain]

Hey y'all! As promised, since I'm back in the TF2 fandom again, here's some stuff!

I decided to make this my "Welcome to my side of the TF2 Fandom obsession" post with headcanons of characters and THEN the official ships!

Also I don't 100% view the comics as canon, mainly due to my personal headcanons and AUs that I had before certain comics denied or confirmed something. I like the idea of the team being split since back when I played the game and didn't read the comics yet I thought it was weird the gang would basically fight people who look like their friends and themselves, so I always did the split, kind of like this pic on who would be in which team-

Also, it adds fun flavor of rival-friendships/shipping-

So I'll remind those who find this post these are mostly for my AUs as my headcanons. Don't like any of the headcanons, opinions, or ships or are just looking for a Tumblr post with 100% canon events of the comics/game/Youtube video series then kindly move along

With that out of the way, let's get started!

Scout - Jeremey :

Baby of the group, obviously :D

As I said earlier I don't do a lot of the canon stuff for my AUSs but I do love the fact Spy is Scout's dad. But in my personal AU BLU Spy is Scout's dad! (Which btw in a separate AU RED Spy and BLU Spy are basically the same dude, kind of? Think of him as a neutral who's main job is to keep people in check and report things)

Scout has not a lot of memories of his dad and was under the impression he died

Scout was bullied in his childhood due to being raised by a single mom and implied his brothers had different dads as well as his struggles in school

With that, I believe in the popular headcanon/theory he has ADHD

Originally joined the team to get away from the Vietnam War drafters, making him a draft dodger

Out of the rest of the mercs, he has a lot more trauma with being respawned/dying and has nightmares sometimes

Obviously doesn't admit it, but he has a cross in his bed side drawer. He hasn't prayed much since he was a kid but was raised Catholic. And on some bad nights he does hold it close

This boy as so many freckles it's insane-

Spy :

Born in the a underworld of sorts, obviously. Was raised to know how to use a knife the same time as walking and talking

With that, he has no idea who his family is. Most likely they died after his birth, more so his mother since she "wasn't needed anymore"

Before the mercs, he was a P.I. / trained assassin who traveled the world and did his jobs quick, easy, unsolved, and no strings or emotions attached

Then one day while out in Boston in 1945 he gets a job to go after a mob boss. And while out in town he stumbles upon a woman about to be mugged. He knew he could ignore it, like any other crime he overhears on the job, but helped once the mugger got too bold. He walked her home afterwards to make sure she was safe and something just... clicked... Then he finds out she was the girlfriend of one of the mob boss's toadies when he dug her past a bit which was not great to learn. Especially when finding out said toady got her pregnant and ditched town the second he found out she was pregnant

He wooed her and the two shared a romantic evening swapping battle scars and dancing under the moonlight. All he told her was he was a solider and a orphan, the closest of truth he ever had with anyone... By a month of this affair, the mob boss is killed and he has to leave. But he wants to stay, especially finding out she's pregnant and he got along with her other boys, whom he find out each were from different fathers who either were dead beats or just plain dead.

So he stayed under a new name and welcomed his son to the world ...But sadly the past caught up to him quick by 1946 and he had to leave his new life to protect them from the life of his sins and crimes...

He knew immidentally seeing Scout's file it was his kid and for the first time in years he visited his ex

It went.... well I guess-

He vowed to never let Scout knows who he is, not because mission oath but because he feels ashamed

Medic - Herbert Ludwig :

First and foremost, dude's fucked up due to trauma and fucked up childhood.

Like at first I was just going to leave it at that but got curious of when he was born if I guessed he was 38 (to match the mid 30's early 40s vague answer we got in canon for his age)

And when doing math I saw it came to be like 1930-

Then I just....remembered he's German... and had to triple check to make sure he wasn't a kid DURING WW2 cause I wasn't thinking it would matter-

...So yeah, he was 9 when WW2 started… was probably 14-15 when it ended and so in my headcanons knowing all this stuff I kind of get why he would be so fucked up.

Obviously he's just fucked up regardless, but now I headcanon in the start of the war he probably witnessed a lot of things he shouldn't have. Maybe his weird humor of death is tied to knowing people who died during the time

So let me just do the angsty headcanons out the way since it's JUST his childhood-

Born by a religious household of a father who failed med school before he got married but a sweet hearted mother

His dad took him hunting at a young age and since then he's always had a fascination with birds and life. His father hated this "sensitive" side of him while his mother encouraged it and even gave him a book of birds as a birthday gift

When the war started he witnessed just how cruel humans can be and how scary death is when his mother died when she was subjected to Aktion T4

Now alone with his dad, he worked hard in these stressful times to be a doctor. But along the way his mental health was taking a deeper and bigger spiral which soon led him to run to America for a clean break

Joined the Mercs surprisingly early on since he had "medical knowledge" a.k.a. dude knew how to stitch and tell the difference of a cold and a blood clot.

Unsurprisingly, he got along with Heavy right away and the two bonded over being the only two learning English and having a weird zone of which they lowkey hide where they're from in a lot of places

He sometimes acts more manic or scary to scare people away

Has abandonment issues (Duh)

Probably has autism

Like peppermint smells. I don't know why, but it makes sense

Baths his birds

Has a little garden of herbs and flowers in honor of his mother, plus some poisonous plants that look pretty but he knows what they're for

Least religious out of all of them, just gave up on God when his mom died

Surprisingly, despite Heavy, he's only close to Scout by a long shot. He just finds the lil' guy neat

Heavy - Misha :

Dad's dead. No questions ask.

Cause this is set in 1968, he does get a bit more racist things said by outsiders due to the whole Cold War thing, but luckily people don't try anything cause they're scared of his height and muscles

Shaves his head for less grabbing when he fights

Had a dog back then named Sacha who passed away being a good guard dog, thus why his favorite gun is named in honor

Was a underground fighter before joining the other Mercs and was purposely scouted out for and hired in person

Him and Medic have dinner together almost every night

Legit the definition of "looks like he'll kill you but is a teddy bear"

Mundy - Sniper :

Spent all his childhood as that kid in the playground more focus on the ants than playing with the other kids

His dad taught him hunting and how to work a gun

Went to a military like camp in his early teens and kind of intimidated everyone with how good he was at the paint ball course and hiding his presence in any hide-n-seek like game. Including hiding his smell.

Was scouted personally by some guy searching for someone willing to go kill a deer for him and won't ask for credit Somewhere along the way he got assignation jobs

Was actually scared the first few times he killed someone. There were even times he literally had to put his gun down and stare off thinking. But over time he knew it was the job, forced himself to not read too much of the file so he won't get attached.

Refuses any job related to kids unless getting rid of some monster who hurts kids

Closest to Miss Pauling since she's who he reports back to most

Claims to not like everyone but has soft spots for everyone

Scout is somehow his closest of a friend you can call for a anti-social assassin

Surprisingly smells good given the fact he rarely baths. He just smells not stinky and it confuses everyone!

Jane Doe - Solider :

FTM Transgender

I know that's a popular yet semi iffy headcanon in the fandom since there's people who say the headcanon is controversial, but I legit thought this was canon before I knew any better

Also, MORE ANGST

One of the sadly very popular things to do for those in the LGBTQ+ community back in the day was "treating them" in conversion camps and asylums. Did you know asylums were legally required to do shock therapy and lobotomies to trans people back them until it "worked"? I found this out for a rp with a friend with a similar time-frame as everyone else and it felt right for our best 'merica boy Mr Doe to have it

He managed to get out of the asylum after they fucked his brain up and went under several name changes while trying to join the army but ultimately failed to stick to one for one reason or another (some he was found out and some he was just "too crazy")

Also check out this video, cause it basically made me feel less alone in certain headcanons of Soldier

Did underground top surgery

His childhood was a lot of yelling and a lot of struggles in school

His whole family was military and wanted to do it too when he got older but was told against it

Though one bar fight he was in is how he got scouted to work for the team, works well since he had so much knowledge of weapons and stuff thanks to his dad and granddaddy.

While everyone is either not religious or religious to some fault, Solider does visit church often for confession or just to find peace and pray

Dell - Engineer :

Favorite guy. I adore him!

Loves his family a lot

Won science fairs back when he was a kid

Learned guitar from his mom

Him and Heavy and Scout lowkey rival of the one who loves their mom most title

Amazing cook. Like if he and Medic cook together the whole base is flooded in excitement

The second least common to think of romance out of the crew but does long to have a family of his own

His idea of paradise is the warm sun, a rocking chair or porch swing, a big glass of iced tea, and just an amazing few

Wants a dog one day

Tavish - Demo :

EEEEEEY WHAT UP FELLOW SCOTTISH BEAN!

His childhood was loud, but not full of yelling like Soldier's childhood, just loud from his family's bomb making legacy

Hasn't fully moved on in the grief when losing his parents

Started drinking when he was 12 and hasn't stopped since

Big softie but thick and high walls

Will lay his life for any of his teammates

Like Engie, he wants a family one day but is insecure about his looks

If someone is racist to him, you bet your ass and Scrumpy his team will kill and hide the bodies

Pyro :

To be honest, Pyro's a little hard for headcanons but AMAZING at deep dives

I can go on for HOURS of what could be up with Pyro, why they're so into fire, but that'd take forever so let me just do what I can do with stuff from AUs over the years

In one AU Pyro is a woman who has a kid to raise alone which is why she works with the Merc

In another AU Pyro was someone who went though Hell and back and was basically saved by the team

Pyro always smells like smoke but like in a good way. Think a roasting marshmallow

Besties with Engie and Miss Pauling most

Now, onto ships!

Starting with HeavyMedic!

Literally if you don't sense something's up with them if you saw them, then what were you looking at??

They literally get each other

I actually loved them before I ever knew shipping was a thing

First said "I love you"s when the gang finished a fight and Medic was patching Heavy up

Next up: Texas Toast

I just think they're neat

Like I feel like Engie would understand Pyro most

Not a lot to say besides that I like them

Except this is their song:

SPEEDINGBULLET!

Okay, I wasn't into it in the start since shipping wasn't my focus originally

And also while watching Emesis Blue I liked Medic x Scout

But GOSH DARN IT DID SPEEDING BULLET TRIGGER MY HEART FASTER THAN SNIPER PULLING THE TRIGGER

Deep talks when both are awake, swapping beers and cigarettes

Sniper thought Scout was hella annoying at first (Which he still is) but grew a soft spot for the pipsqueak after a while

He does feel bad knowing Spy is Scouts dad and can't say anything

Oh speaking of Scout-

Yeah again I blame Emesis Blue for this

Like what doctor would put a random patient above his own life in a sense he would legit go and face a dangerous place to save him???

Thank you @cheemscakecat for making a post talk about this, check out their actual post for more looks into how much our favorite doctor cares for Scout

Though in actual canon I would like to imagine Scout crushed on Medic was lowkey a daddy issues crush

With all that, I do personally ship Sniper, Scout, Medic, and Heavy as a OT4! I even made a playlist!

Moodboard making is up for requests, I know I promised it but I'm tired since I've been working this all night and only now went back and edited things

[theresattrpgforthat]

Hi! I'm looking for a game in the space opera genre, and I'd love some suggestions. More specifically, I'm trying to find something that's pretty easily customizable or setting-agnostic. Pretty soft as far as sci-fi is concerned, even science fantasy. (And my players have a very brief attention span when it comes to learning rules, so some degree of simplicity would be appreciated, too, haha!)

For context, I have a friend who loves worldbuilding and has fleshed out a whole galaxy, and I want to run a one-shot set in his world for his birthday. In the past, we've tried using a homebrew amalgamation of D&D, SW5e, and miscellaneous other bits, but I want to find a system that fits a bit better.

Thanks for the help! 😁

Theme: Simple Space Operas.

Hello friend, this sounds like such an awesome idea! I think I’ve got a few pretty good options for you to take a look at. Many of these games pull from Star Wars as their idea of what a space opera is like, but not all of them do. Also, don't forget to check the bottom of the post to see what I've recommended in the past!

Laser-Ritter, by Bad Quail Games.

Laser-Ritter is an analog adventure game about swashbuckling heroes journeying among endless stars to embrace their destiny. There are rendezvous in hazy tap rooms, chases across distant moons, and showdowns with the forces of galactic evil. We play to find out how our Laser-Ritters follow their passions and face their pasts to triumph over adversity.

Laser-Ritter gives space for you to create your own saga. There's no burdensome timeline of canon events or overwhelming lists of characters, spaceships, and alien species to be contradicted. Every group begins their saga by creating their own dramatic title crawl to establish what's happening when the adventure begins!

This is a game all about embracing your destiny, with plenty of space to build your own universe. The game can be played episodically, or cover a long-spanning story over a series of sessions. This means that if you just want to run a one-shot, it can be pretty easily self-contained, but there’s also room to expand the game.

Players in this game have 4 stats and a health track labelled Vitality. You also have something called a Pathos track, which represents how attrition and trauma affect your character. If you fill your Pathos track, your character becomes vulnerable to dying. If you want a game with dramatic action and tragic scenes, Laser-Ritter might be for you.

Galaxy Goons and A Goons’ Guide to the Galaxy, by John Erwin.

Galaxy Goons is a space fantasy adventure hack of the Ennies-award winning Tunnel Goons. If you want a light-hearted game about rascals just trying to make their way in the universe, this is worth checking out. Tunnel Goons is known for being pretty light-weight, and Galaxy Goons is true to this legacy. Your characters are rolled randomly, with stats used to add onto dice rolls to try and beat a difficulty level.

A Goon’s Guide to the Galaxy is made for the same kind of setting, but uses a different set of rules, namely the 24XX SRD. This means that instead of just rolling d6’s, your characters will have a few things that they have a d8 or d10 for, and there might even be a few skills that only allow you to roll a d4. 24XX games also tend to carry roll tables to help the GM come up with obstacles and goals, so that might help the GM decide what about this homemade galaxy might be interesting to follow.

Rebel Scum, by 9th Level Games.

REBEL SCUM tells the story of how scrappy, anti-fascist heroes can fight back against a government with unlimited power (including giant lasers and space magic). Inspired by a love for a certain line of 3 and 3/4 inch action figures, this is a fast paced, feel good, space opera of rebellion and adventure.

In this TTRPG, characters are all expressed as action figures, with their pertinent stats and abilities "on the back of the card." Choose your toy and get out into battle!

So Rebel Scum borrows very obviously from Star Wars, but of course the book can’t just put the game in the Star Wars setting, so they create their own. What this means is you can pretty easily throw out that lore and build your own world, although the expectation in this game is that your characters will be working to overthrow some sort of galaxy-wide power. The rules are very simple to learn - in fact the booklet is under 100 pages, and that’s including art, setting, and example characters. If you have a standard set of polyhedral dice (and I’m assuming you do, if you’ve played D&D) then you’ll be able to play this game.

Save the Universe, by Don Bisdorf.

Tyranny and cruelty have spread across the galaxy, and only you can stop it!

Save the Universe is a sci-fi adventure roleplaying game in which the players create their own great galactic menace and then portray the brave heroes battling against it.

I think the biggest pull for this game is that it encourages you to build your own galaxy. The game even comes with a number of questions for you to answer, and if you already have a world decided, you can slot in the answers according to your friend’s world. In fact, assigning world creation to one player is actually a recommended option in the game!

Even though this game is pretty open in terms of the details of your galaxy, there’s still an overarching theme of an Empire or large enemy that your characters will be resisting. Then again, I have a feeling that’s a common theme in space operas.

Plerion: Space Opera Adventure Game, by Zotiquest Games.

Intrepid spacers ply the vastness of the Five Galaxies in search of fortune and glory.

This is Plerion, a sci-fi hack from Cairn designed to play radiant space opera. Inspired by classic science fiction and the RPGs that emulate it, but with a more modern twist, winking at transhumanism and cyberpunk.

Plerion is an adventure game for one referee and at least one other player. Players act as hardened spacers exploring, exploiting and commerce through the vastness of space in the far future.

The author of this game cites Mass Effect, the Traveller roleplaying game and the Wayfarer series by Becky Chambers. Cairn, the game that inspired this one, is a game that makes survival difficult and daunting for the players, and asks them to put the fiction first. This means that combat shouldn’t always be the answer. Instead, players are encouraged to find ways to solve problems using their tools at hand, which is a common trend in many of the games that inspired this rule system.

What’s So Cool About Outer Space, by Jared Sinclair.

WSCAOS is a tiny little system for going to space no matter where you are! 

This is an incredibly tiny game, with just two pages to print out and use as a rules reference in any galaxy you like. It’s also the parent of a number of “What’s So Cool About" games that use the same philosophy - minimal rules, and plenty of agency left up to the group in terms of what possible backstories you might have, as well as what might be considered an advantage and what might not.

No-one Owns The Sky, by Free Radicals Press.

A band of misfits lives aboard a rundown starship, traveling from one frontier world to the next, hoping to make a name and a living for themselves. Along the way, things always seem to go sideways, but the crew holds on, no matter what.

NO ONE OWNS THE SKY is a sci-fi roleplaying game that is rules-light and relies on players to craft and flesh out the universe of the setting as a collective. This game was designed for two or more players. One player is always the referee (REF), a neutral arbiter and guiding force for the game. The others act and play as player characters (PCs). These players, with their REF and their PCs, will tell amazing, collective (and interactive) stories with the help of imagination, dice, roleplaying, critical thinking, and problem-solving.

This game uses a staggered success layout, which means that you could roll a failure, a success, or a mixed success during any given roll. Anything above a 5 is a success! It looks like the game uses more than just d6’s though, so the larger dice you roll, the higher your chances of succeeding. The setting is also up to the players, pretty good for folks who want to build their own galaxy.

Games I’ve Recommended in the Past

Space Fantasy Rec Post

Impulse Drive, by Adrian Thorn.

Syzygy, by Ostrichmonkey Games.

[humanthatishuman]

You have OCS?? 👀

You talk to me about them and I will share info about my OCS with you :3

LILLIA THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! <333333/p

i have quite a few bsd ocs but haven't gotten around to making blogs for them so ig ill just talk abt Yashima (whose blog is @the-crows-said-hi if you wanna check it out)

ummmm where do i start?? ig i can yap abt how Yashima as a character connects to the namesake of their ability, Crow Boy. Crow Boy is a children's picture book written by Atsushi Iwamatsu, more known by his pen name, Taro Yashima.

On the first page, we are told that on the first day of school, a missing boy was found under the schoolhouse floor. Nobody knew or recognized the kid, so they gave him a nickname. Chibi, because 'he was very small', as the book says.

As I described in Yashima's intro post, Mori found them hiding after their small group was massacred, I imagine he found them in a similar fashion. Also, Yashima suffered from malnourishment in his most developing years, which made him shorter than most of the cast (not chuuya lmao). It's not set in stone but they're anywhere from 5'4 to 5'6.

The next few pages describe that the boy was afraid of everyone, so he did not interact with others and was left alone at all times and found other, more mundane things to entertain himself. Yashima was in a similar situation when first joining the PM.

For these reasons, many kids picked on Chibi, both younger and older. Calling him names like 'stupid' and 'slowpoke'. In the PM and possibly in their hometown they were teased for their size or that they don't have a decent education.

But, this is only if I decide to add it bc at this moment it's just an idea, namely Dazai since Yashima was his subordinate. And all know how Dazai treated Akutagawa during training, so it would go beyond a few mean words. However, I am hesitant about adding this to Yashima's backstory because I don't know if other rp-ers would go with it. Like, if other Dazais would treat Yashima like that trauma happened.

Then, in the story, we get a time skip five years later to sixth grade, the last grade of their school, with the sentence '...slowpokes or not, day after day Chibi came trudging to school.' The sixth-grade class was taught by a man named Mr. Isobe.

Mr. Isobe is described as 'a friendly man with a kind smile.' The next pages discuss how impressed Mr. Isobe was with Chibi and generally how this teacher had taken a liking to the lonely boy.

This Mr. Isobe figure in Yashima's life was maybe a person in their old group or a kind PM member, but more likely the old group itself represented this one kind man. Since Yashima was so young (eleven to fourteen) it proved the 'it takes a village to raise a baby' saying true.

Everyone is shocked to see that Chibi is on the stage for that year's school talent show, supposedly about to mimic the voices of crows. And then he does, the entire life cycle of crows and how different emotions affect the bird's cries.

This ties into Yashima's ability. In which he can communicate with crows by mimicking their caws, this is also how they summon crows within a 100-mile radius to their side.

In the book, everyone attending is impressed and goes as far as to start crying. Not because of the crow impression, but because of the story it told and the reminder that in all of those six long years, even while being bullied, Chibi hadn't missed a single day of class.

This is where Yashima differs from Chibi.

Yashima never received this level of praise, the closest being in that group of theirs back on the streets. Which is what their chasing. The praise, the feeling of belonging that Chibi (kind of) achieved in the end.

The story ends with the boy's life after sixth grade. He would occasionally come to the village to sell things, but no longer was he nicknamed Chibi. Instead, he was titled 'Crow Boy', a name he seemed to wear with the faintest sense of pride.

THANKS FOR LETTING ME YAP FOR SO LONG :D PLEASE GO ON ABT UR OCS FOR HOWEVER LONG YOU DESIRE, ILL READ IT ALL DW

[stars-n-spice]

Welcome back to another OC Sunday Spotlight!

Aka the time in which every Sunday I'll come up with a prompt and anyone and everyone has the opportunity to answer with as many OCs as they wish!

You can reblog this post, answer in the comments, or come up with your own post to answer the prompts! And feel free to submit prompts as well!

It's an excuse to yap about your OCs so feel free to do so! Add pictures, links, or anything else regarding the OC in the spotlight if you'd like! And in addition, feel free to tag any mutuals to hop on the stage :D

Let's get this show started!

SPOTLIGHT ON: Oldest and/or most recent OC(s)!

Here are mine :D

OLDEST: KHEA NULTEZ

🌟 aaaa those doodles are when I first came up with the concept of her at the beginning of last year 🌟 she was the first like,, fully-fledged Star Wars oc I've ever had actually - i'd doodled ocs for star wars before but they were all only headshots and nameless :/ 🌟 she's been through a handful of changes and I keep giving her more and more trauma (whoops-) 🌟 find out more about her here!

NEWEST: HUIHANA 'HANA' YUN

🪷 recently came up with a BUNCH of new ocs but Hana is the most recent one of them all 🪷 she's the adopted mirialan/human daughter of Hunter and Jung (another OC)! 🪷 she's part of the group of fan kids I have for the bad batch and I initially had it so that Hunter and Jung were only raising Omega but then I was like - "nah, they'd adopt so many kids" - and came up with her :D 🪷 her name means "lily/lotus" in Maori while 'hana' means "one" in Korean 🪷 find out more about her here!

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[brionysea]

Question for you: How do you think a one-on-one convo between madwheeler pre-s4 would go from Mike's pov?--like how do you think he would treat/talk with Max, who's isolating herself/depressed? Because I've seen a lot of fics with that premise, but it always seems to be them only talking about their relationships (whether it be Byler or Mileven in Mike's case, or Lumax with Max. Which I don't have an issue with, it's just not always the main focus I want on Madwheeler), but rather how Mike perceives Max post s-4. Sorry if this is rambly and doesn't make sense, I'm struggling with getting in Mike's head, and you're obviously very good at interpreting his character.

answer for you: according to the one (1) season 4 episode where max and mike were both in hawkins, the dynamics with max and the party pre-s4 seem to be as follows:

lucas chases after her at school and tries to get her to talk about her feelings and/or go to his basketball games. she's not into it, but she listens to the games on the radio at home anyway

dustin chases after her at school and tries to get her to hang out with the group (hellfire) (max doesn't seem to like eddie) (it's a d&d group - a game she had no interest in before she lost all capability to care about the things she previously enjoyed). she's not into it, makes fun of him for missing her sarcasm, and skates away

and mike, instead of doing any of that and making her feel cornered (or worse, pitied) when high school is already bad enough, leaves her the hell alone.

some people (non-madwheeler understanders) would think that means that mike just doesn't care or their friendship isn't Like That. those people would be incorrect. bothering each other and cheering each other up while they're in the Mental Health Trenches is what max and mike do. just look at the skateboard scene

madwheeler always have their Friendship Moments when no one else is around. the gym scene, the conversation in the byers kitchen, when mike called max's house and nobody else could hear both sides, when max radioed mike at the sauna, watching el get a coke can out of the bin together, after they both got knocked out by billy. it's a very private friendship, so playing into the "there's more here than meets the eye" concept and having them possibly share things with each other that they otherwise wouldn't share with anyone makes a lot of cohesive sense - even if it's just in a "distracts you from The Horrors until you blurt it out in a fit of annoyance" way, like what happened when max first heard about el from mike

people just think it's all fighting because that's all they see, but even that is always in an attempt to make each other better. and it always works eventually (although if we're being technical, the dynamic is max trying to make mike better, while mike tries to keep max safe). mike wouldn't fight with max when she's depressed though, i believe that's only a yearly occasion for the single week we jump back into these people's lives when tensions are high as a kite. if he was around during season 4 he would have fought with max over her willingness to self sacrifice (you know, like a hypocrite)

simply put, mike doesn't push because he gets it, which is exactly why max tolerates him more than the other two - she pushed through the crowd to stand next to mike at the pep rally while she ran away from the others when they seeked her out later - and might even open up a little. s2 mike and s4 max, both dealing with the trauma of witnessing a death (where the person's last words were directed at them) and feeling responsible for it while the world moves on and nobody else seems to care, are the same. mike knows that max doesn't want to hang out like everything's normal or talk about her feelings and admit that it's not. especially not with lucas, who has plenty of reasons to hate billy, and max is selfless enough to not want to add her own messiness into it. max's mother's distance would resonate with mike too

the thing about mike interacting with any of his friends is that he's the most persistent person who's ever lived. he called el every day for a year; he probably did the same for will after the byers moved; he wouldn't stop radioing lucas in season 1 until he answered; he would not shut up about trying to get in contact with dustin in season 3. mike doesn't give up. what this means for max, is that once he's sure she won't mind him being there (and even if she does, a little bit, but that might just be the Performatively Hating Each Other part before they get back to enjoying each other's company, so he's gonna stick it out regardless), he'd kinda just... be there. and continue to be there. they might talk, they might not, but he knows that it sucks to be alone like this and he's not gonna let that happen to max if he can help it

this last bit is kind of just a headcanon of mine, but i like to imagine that if mike ever searched for an Activity that max actually enjoyed (dustin's got the right idea, but at the same time the wrong idea), he would try to bug her into teaching him how to skateboard. their conversation in the gym was heading in that direction before el interrupted, so there's the connection to the Mental Health Trenches and implicitly returning the favour of that kindness and moment of connection (even though mike really wasn't doing great pre-s4 either, but whatever), and something about the "bambi on ice" line in lenora makes me think it could be something max said to him when he fell over once

[safety-pin-punk]

hi, so I’m a teen who’s starting to get into punk culture bc a while ago I was researching punk culture for an oc I was making (cuz I wanted it to be accurate) and I realized ‘oh shit wait this is really cool and aligns with my views and stuff and the music is really good too’ and i just have a couple questions about it:

What are some good punk rock bands you would recommend? (and also are there any problematic ones I should know of so I can avoid them)

2. With lace code, does combining colors change the meaning/add other symbolism (other than black and white/checkerboard for racial unity)? Like if I were to put purple laces on one shoe (LGBTQ+ pride) and green on the other (anti-racist) would that change the symbolism at all? Also does the way you lace the boots change it bc I’ve heard lace code only applies when they’re ladder laced but I haven’t had a chance to look into that more so idk

3. Are there any problematic movements/groups within the punk community that I should be aware of?

4. anything else i should know/general tips and advice for baby punks?

also I saw on your blog that it’s ur birthday so happy bday! :D

0. Thank you for the birthday wishes!!!

1. That is a *whole* question in and of itself that really deserves its own post. But the short answer is that it really depends on your own personal taste. There are a lot of subgenres of punk rock too. (This site is actually a pretty good map of the genres and how things connect)

But as far as bands I recommend: Ramones, the offspring, sum 41, greenday, rancid, afi, linkin park, misfits, the cure, magnolia park, dopamine, teenage bottlerocket, anti-flag, pennywise, the living end, street dogs, the smashing pumpkins, slapstick, left alone, dog park dissidents, the virus, hotel security

That should give you a decent mix of different sounds to check out

And in regard to problematic bands, to be honest, I try to stay away from any news like that. Sooo, Im not your best resource there. If I like the music, then I like the music. But yeah, due to the trauma of *life* thats just not my fight, ya know?

2. Gonna direct you to *this* post for lace code. But, yes it only applies to ladder laced combat boots. And a LOT of lace code rules are very subjective to your area too. (Example: I’ve never seen the black/white checkered thing.) but having different colors on either side shouldn’t be a problem

3. Every group is going to have either problematic people or some problematic ideas floating around. Thats why it’s important to be able to think critically about things, people, and ideas so that you can form your own opinions. Though, I will say that there is a reason why ‘nazi punks fuck off’ is a commonly see phrase. Punk groups are great! But it’s important to educate yourself of the signs to know when something is *not great*

4. Gonna direct you to *this* post. Its my big masterlist that sometimes gets updated lol. You can find the link to it in my pinned post as well

[crippling-pages]

the grandest game review part two; chapters 25-59

*TW SPOILERS!*

*Note: bullets may not be in order of the chapters*

okay so they finished the ball and now their in groups/teams

SJHGFRJNHBGYVTFVHQB GRAYSON LIFTING LYRA STOP

Odette ships them. Odette ships them. ODETTE SHIPS THEM SAY IT WITH ME!

Knox and Brady, childhood friends... or more?/j

nah but Knox calling Gigi these nicknames is kinda adorable man ToT

Speaking of nicknames "Savvy" SAVROHAN>>>>>>>

not Savannah responding by calling him British- tbh its funny but sav sweetheart your social awkwardness and lack of knowledge on how to interact with people (especially cute boys) is showing..

rohan calling sav love will also be on top <3

STOP THE MOVIE

LYRA MY GIRLLLLL TOT

HERE'S THE TRAUMA let it happen plz

GRAY COME AND SAVE THE WOMAN YOU LOVE!!!!!!!!

he got her out of a panic attack mHMmMHH

Brady protecting Gigi from Knox ToT its so sweet

omg i bet she reminds him of calla

AHHHHHH

ngl i feel like they're might be a tiny minor love triangle between them?? probably not cuz Knox is 26 but like they're something between the three romantic ot not

lmao imagine Slate just coming in, picking up his girl Gigi and walking out

i really want that actually

ODETTE WORKED FOR TOBIAS l IUYTFRGYBH

"He was the best and worst man in all times"

yeah she's Alice.

LYRAYSONNNNNN

gray just needs to realize the reason he wants to kiss her to bad and then lyra needs to realize she's in love with him and all will be good<3

AJHUGYTFRG NOT THE SPY IN GIG'S NECKLACE

okay but the backstory of calla and brady and knox... im gonna cry

they better find calla

Of course Xander would add pie in the puzzle. This is Xander we're talking about<3

kJHUGYFTRDES AH AH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH TRUTH OR DARE

OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY

guys i'm actually obsessed with reading about my fav characters doing t or d and this time its wtih ROHAN AND SAVANNAH

AHHHHHHHHHHH

wait... rohan's parents put him in the ocean when he was 5?? and couldnt swim?? thats a literal child... omg what.

he's brushing her hair<3 without all the weird and emotionally traumatic feelings in the air it would've been cute

i love how he asks multiply times if she wants to do a different dare. gotta love a man who respects you<3

HOL UP HE CUT HER HAIR??? SAV DEARY, OMG-

ngl sav in braids will always have my heart, but short hair savannah isnt that bad either..

GAH these emotions ajhbgvftcdrctfvg

Rohan gets Savannah. He understands what she's feeling. Points to Rohan.

YES SAVANNAH!!! WOO! THROW THAT GLASS ROSE!!!!! FEEL THE RAGE INSIDE OF YOUUUUUUUUUUUU

honestly the truth or dare thing with savannah and rohan is keeping on hooked tbh. for a while i read the book but i read it really slowly... tbh savrohan is keeping me going (and rohan in general tbh)

anyways have a lovely day<3

[catch-me-hello]

YG Treasure Box, Episode 2:  CEO Yang breaks my brain.

Okay.  Back down the tunnel of trauma we go.

When we last left our trainees, they were being judged harshly by a future felon CEO who, earlier in his career, had decided that Rain wasn’t good enough to join his entertainment company.  So this is definitely someone whose opinion we should trust.

We return to the D-Day assessment, and the J Team is being called into the room.  Good.  Maybe we’ll get the full performance this time.  Right away, the camera zooms in on Haruto and Yoshi. 

The other teams are not happy about the new competition, but no time to dwell on that, because it’s flashback time, and we’re off to Tokyo!

We learn that YG Japan held its own auditions for this show.  Thousands of Japanese kids audition every year to be a trainee with YG, and only one or two are picked.  We see the crowded dorms they live in and the classrooms where they learn foreign languages (especially Korean) and music composition.  Aaaaand…. End of flashback!

Back to the D-Day assessment.  CEO Yang tells our J Group that the other teams have disappointed him.  He says he’s looking for “someone who dances deliciously,” and the look on his face when he says it creeps me out.  Can he just go to jail already?

Time for Team J to attempt a delicious performance.

We only get to see about a minute of the performance, but that’s more than we saw in the last episode.  They dance well enough to make the other trainees look nervous.  When it’s over, instead of evaluating them, CEO Yang asks Bang Yedam to give his opinion, because CEO Yang is a very mean man.

Yedam chooses his words carefully, saying that Team J was more powerful.  He adds, “Like you said, they dance more deliciously.”  Okay, everyone please stop using that word.

CEO Yang declares that the J Team’s performance is, and I quote, “a crushing defeat for Korea.”  Again, he says they danced deliciously, and I never want to stop punching him.  He scolds the Korean trainees and makes them applaud the J Team.

Here’s the thing.  Just based on the few seconds I saw of each performance, they were all fine.  The J Team was good but not the electrifying explosion of talent he’s making them out to be.  The Korean teams were a bit out of sync but not an embarrassment.  CEO Yang is playing mind games with his own trainees.  He’s pitting them against each other.

The J Team is happy.  Don’t get used to it, boys.  Your CEO will pull the rug out from you eventually.

After a break, CEO Yang has a great idea.  He says YG is going to try something they haven’t done in 22 years.  What could he be thinking of?  Being encouraging and supportive to the trainees?  No longer using creepy words to describe their dancing?  Focusing on talent as well as looks? 

Well, I’m an idiot.  He tells the trainees to decide who is the best-looking member on each team.  He’s looking for the best visuals, and instead of making an executive decision like the head of any entertainment company would do, he’s making the trainees do it. The teams discuss.  Everyone is too modest to be chosen, plus they’re probably scared of what the CEO has planned for them. 

One by one, they start coming forward.  Junkyu for Team A.  Jang Yun Seo for Team B.  (I can’t believe Team B didn’t choose future Treasure guy Jaehyuk.)  The C Group chooses In Hong, who won’t get into Treasure but will go on to be part of a trainee group called M.I.C.  Finally, for the J Group, it’s our confident Haruto.

I’m thinking they’re going to have to walk a runway or pose for selfies, but no, they have to sing.  Junkyu goes first, and his voice is gorgeous.  I’ve also gotta hand it to Jang Yun Seo – he’s also a wonderful singer.  In Hong does a melodic rap, but Haruto is a much better rapper.  More aggressive and sexy dangerous. 

Junkyu and Haruto

Suddenly, we get yanked into a flashback as Haruto tells us that his parents are BigBang fans.  We cut to his mother in a room full of BigBang merch she’s collected over the years.  I’m confused.  What are we doing here?  I know BigBang is a legendary YG group, but are we really trying to plug an already successful group on this show?

We see Haruto’s mom at a BigBang concert, screaming and waving her light stick.  Haruto tells us that her love of this group made him want to join YG.  When he got accepted there, his parents were over the moon.

Another sudden jump in time, and Haruto and his family are going to another concert the day before he flies to Korea for this show.  We see the poster.  The concert is by former BigBang member … oh no.

Okay.  We have to talk about someone else who is eventually going to prison.

The concert is by Seungri.  A year after this show aired, he went to prison for his role in the Burning Sun scandal, a crime that is too horrifying to discuss here, so look it up on your own if you ever feel like losing complete faith in humanity.  I didn’t think I would say this, but can we please go back to CEO Yang talking about delicious dancers?

I fast-forward through the concert footage, but it just keeps going because after the show, Haruto and his parents and his innocent-looking underage sister get to meet Seungri backstage, and now I’m throwing all my weight on the fast-forward button.  Let me be clear, I know this isn’t the show’s fault.  This show was being filmed before the allegations started.  I just hate this.

I feel better when we leave the concert venue and see Haruto having a final dinner with his family before flying to Korea.  He has a loving, supportive family.

Thankfully, we return to the practice room, where our CEO decides to put Haruto up against his future bandmate Junkyu in a vocal battle.

Haruto’s up first and raps with that sexy aggression.  He’s already K-pop idol material.  He gets enthusiastic applause when he finishes.  CEO Yang says he has a good voice and his own groove in the way he moves.  He calls it a very indie kind of rap with visual appeal.  I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop, but no.  He means it.  It’s a very positive review.  Haruto is pleased.  Junkyu looks worried.

It’s Junkyu’s turn.  He steps up and sings, but both his hands and voice are shaking.  He’s too nervous.  We get a flashback showing how the constant criticism from YG coaches has been getting to him over the years.  We already saw Junkyu in the first episode, exhausted and losing focus.  Now he’s up against a member of Team J, a team that just decimated the Korean teams, according to his own company’s CEO.  Of course he’s shaking.

But after that shaky start, he seems to slowly gain confidence again.  I love his voice.  It’s soulful and has a wide range.  He can hit some high notes without straining for them.  He dances to the beat, and the other trainees are caught up in the positive energy of it all.  It’s uplifting.  He’s finally found his footing.

CEO Yang tells him he did well.  He says he finally sees Junkyu’s potential.  His fellow trainees cheer for him.  I actually get a bit misty-eyed.

Our CEO declares the battle a tie.  Is he starting to mellow out?  He now wants a dance battle and tells everyone to choose the best dancer from each team.

Team A chooses future Treasure member Doyoung.  He’s going up against Team J’s Kotaro, who won’t make it into Treasure but will later join a Japanese co-ed group called Diavo.  I did not know co-ed groups were allowed in this genre, and I guess they still aren’t because they seem to have disbanded.  I can’t find anything about them online. 

Kotaro goes first.  He’s high energy hip hop in motion.  We only get about 15 seconds of the performance, but I like it.

CEO Yang doesn’t.  He says Korean trainees dance more in the latest style.  He tells Kotaro he needs to make the latest dance trends his own.  I feel incredibly out of touch with modern trends.  I mean, if Kotaro had come out wearing a fedora and dancing the Charleston, I would have known something was off, but I didn’t know what he was doing was already outdated.

Doyoung’s turn.  In a quick flashback, we learn that he’s always been the best dancer in his trainee group.  That’s a setup if I’ve ever seen one.  Showtime!

Again, we only see a few seconds of the performance, so I can’t really judge, but it looks good.  I don’t really see how it differs from Kotaro’s style of dancing, but I’m not the expert.  That would be CEO Yang, who loved it.  He likes that Doyoung chose a recent style of dancing and a great song.  He declares Doyoung, and by extension, Korea, the winner of the dance battle.

Now for a rap battle.  Each team sends up their best rapper, and I don’t know why Haruto didn’t choose to be in this battle instead.  Among the rappers, I see future Treasure members Hyun Suk and Yoshi.  I am so ready for this.

Hyun Suk steps up first.  He’s doing a song he wrote himself, called “Go Yard.”

I love it.  I love his flow, his expression, his confidence.  The beat gets right into my bloodstream, and I’m bouncing in my seat along with the other trainees.

When he finishes, CEO Yang looks skeptical.  He says Hyun Suk had too much going on.  “You make gestures before you rap,” he says.  “I can’t hear you rap because of those distractions.  Too much, too salty!”  He tells Hyun Suk to learn to get down to the essence of a song, or he won’t make the final five.

I’m so confused.  In all the recaps I’ve done so far, I’ve gotten pretty good at judging performances and predicting how the judges will react.  On this show, I’m getting it wrong almost every time, and I don’t know if it’s me or if CEO Yang is just trying to create drama for the show.

All the trainees look bummed, and I think they weren’t expecting this kind of feedback either.

We’re moving on, and I guess we’re skipping Yoshi.  Next up is Jung Jun Hyuk from the Junior Group C.  He’s so young and much shorter than the others, looking like he’s part of Bring Your Kid to Work Day.  The show even plays baby gurgling noises on the soundtrack.

In a flashback, we learn he’s a first year trainee and just recently took his first steps and graduated to solid foods.  (Sorry, that was mean.  But am I deleting it?  No.  Look at this picture.  He’s practically daring me to leave it in.)

Okay.  Let’s hear this kid spit some bars.  But wait.  CEO Yang tells Hyun Suk to step forward.  He wants Jung Jun Hyuk to school Hyun Suk by rapping directly at him.  I thought Korean kids were taught to respect their elders.  I want to see how our first year trainee keeps his confidence when rapping at someone old enough to tie his own shoes. 

It’s a verbal beatdown.  The kid is GOOD.  He earns the respect of all the other trainees, including Hyun Suk.  Although I maintain that it’s still a little weird watching a little kid rap with that kind of attitude.  He needs a few more years on him for that kind of credibility.

CEO Yang tells Hyun Suk he could learn a thing or two from this kid.  He asks Hyun Suk if he’s embarrassed and gets an affirmative reply.  And that’s it for the rapper assessment.  I don’t know what the other competitors were doing up there, unless their parts were edited out along with 90% of the rest of the performances.

Everyone takes a break, and Team A says they’re worried because they’ve been getting bad reviews so far.  Wait a minute.  (checking notes)  No they haven’t.  Junkyu’s on Team A, and the CEO praised his performance  He had even more praise for Doyoung in the dance battle. 

After the break, which I hope Team A spent watching the footage of their own show, it’s time for the remaining twelve vocalists who haven’t done their assessments yet.  This group includes future Treasure bandmates Bang Yedam, Jaehyuk, Jeongwoo, and Asahi. 

But first up is Wang Jyun Hao.  He has a lovely voice, but the song is in English, and he struggles with the pronunciation.  His dancing is also a bit awkward and doesn’t really fit the tone of the song.  But our CEO is entranced.  He loves the performances.  I give up.  I’ve clearly lost my ability to properly critique these performances. 

Now we finally get to see Asahi. We get five seconds of his singing.  I can’t even form an opinion based on those few notes, but the CEO says he lacks charm.  I can’t even with this guy.  Well, bye Asahi.  Good seeing you for those apparently charmless five seconds.

We get just two or three seconds of the other singers, and I have to scramble for the pause button when Jaehyuk steps up so I won’t miss him.  He also stumbles over the English pronunciation, but I love the quality of his voice – a very smooth low register. 

Asahi and Jaehyuk

But CEO Yang is displeased.  I’m just going to assume that he and I won’t agree on anything for the rest of this entire series.  Pavarotti could rise from the dead and flawlessly belt out a piece from La Bohème, and our CEO would tell him it wasn’t beatboxy enough.

After a series of more “bad” performances, CEO Yang is getting fed up.  He wants a vocal battle between the two remaining trainees – Bang Yedam from Team A and Jeongwoo from Team C.  These are two excellent singers, so I’m sure the CEO will hate them both. 

Right away, the other trainees are betting on Yedam.  Yedam doesn’t look so confident.  He’s going first with a song he wrote himself, called “Blackswan.”

I love his voice and this song.  I’ve always loved Yedam’s voice, even before I knew he used to be in Treasure.  He already looks and sings like an idol.  The whole room is bopping along with him.

Jeongwoo’s turn.  He’s singing an Adele song. 

It’s a ballad, and his voice is absolutely gorgeous.  It soars with emotion, more than I’d expect a kid his age to understand.  He’s spellbinding. 

I don’t think it’s fair to compare these two performances and pick a winner.  These two singers have very different styles and sang very different songs, and they were both wonderful.  They’re my favorite performances of the episode.

But CEO Yang finds a way to wreck the mood.  He heaps praise on Jeongwoo and then tells Yedam the song he wrote wasn’t trendy, which made him lose that uniqueness.

Let me see if I can unpack this.  By definition, being trendy is not being unique.  A person is unique by defying trends.  Yedam’s song wasn’t trendy.  Therefore, he is unique, unless you live in CEO Yang’s head, in which up is down and down is up and ice cream tastes bad and earthquakes are good and PUPPIES ARE EVIL AND ROOT BEER IS POISON, AND I LIKE ROOT BEER BUT WHAT DO I KNOW SO I GUESS I HATE ROOT BEER NOW AND EXCUSE ME I’M GOING TO GO OUTSIDE AND KICK A TREE.

okay.  i’m okay now.  let’s just get through the rest of this episode.

So Yedam the Trend-Lacking Non-Unique Trainee loses to Jeongwoo.  We cut to later that night at the practice studio, where the 29 trainees return from dinner to find the rankings posted on a wall.

I don’t read Korean, but here are some of the translated rankings, presented to us out of order because why the hell not:

1st place:  Jung Jun Hyuk, the babyfaced rapper.

4th place:  Bang Yedam.  Urge to kill rising.

3rd place:  Wang Jyun Hao, the awkwardly dancing singer.

7th place:  Ha Yoon Bin.  I have no idea who this is.  I don’t have him anywhere in my notes.  I looked him up, and after this show, he takes two different stage names (VIIN and Ben) and joins a group called OWAVE.  I don’t know if that’s “Zero Wave” or “O-Wave,” but it doesn’t matter since CEO Yang probably hates both names because waves are SO last week.

8th place:  Mashiho.  He’s not in my notes either, so I looked him up, and guess what?  He’s going to wind up in Treasure at the end of this series, and then later, he’ll leave the group.  I can’t imagine what it’s like to be this group’s manager.  That person must drink a lot.

2nd place:  The soulful singer and future Treasure member Jeongwoo.  Well-deserved. 

13th place:  Jeongwoo’s future bandmate Doyoung.  Doyoung won his dance battle, and CEO Yang raved about his performance, so in the Salvador Dali School of Realism that is this show, he’s ranked low on the list.

11th place is a tie between our Style King Hyun Suk and his future bandmate Junkyu.  Hyun Suk lost his battle and Junkyu earned praise, so yeah, let’s rank them both the same.  Fun Fact:  if you dig your nails in hard enough, you can lose all feeling in your left arm.

17th place is Lee Byoung Gon.  Literally no clue who this is.  He’s not in Treasure.  I looked him up.  He will go on to join a group called CIX.  Oh, I know them!  I love their song “Thunder”!  Or maybe I don’t.  Someone go ask CEO Yang what I should think of it.

That’s all the rankings we get translated.  Hyun Suk is pissed off.  In a confessional, he tells us he’s mad, embarrassed, and upset.  This is probably what Tumblr’s Treasure fans were warning me about.

Team A returns to the dorm and mopes. 

And it’s on this depressing scene that this episode ends.

Wow.  I’ve recapped some strange shows in my day, but never one where a judge appeared to be getting his opinions from the voices in his head.  Maybe it’s a good thing that CEO Yang gets arrested.  I hear your nicer prisons offer mental health treatment.

As for me, I’m going to find some Excedrin and lie down for a while.  See you eventually in Episode Three.

[where-are-the-spooky-gays-2]

One thing I've always struggled with is what kind of musician Virgil would be.

That started very trauma-y but hear me out LMAO

Because one half of me really wants to say, if he was in a modern au and in a band, he'd play music that sounds like Whore by Get Scared and just songs that generally sound like that. Because it fits with the vibe and I think would be a really cool way for him to handle his anxiety — play it with an instrument and play it loud. Be so loud he can't be anxious, y'know?

But the other half of me wants to say he'd play songs like She Doesn't Sleep by Anthony Amorim (IT'S AN AMAZING SONG PLEASE LISTEN TO IT I CANT STOP LISTENING TO IT) or some select songs from Letters For The Oddities (really big P!ATD AFYSCO vibes, can't wait for his new music <3) where the songs are less loud and more follow a story.

Now, this isn't to say the two couldn't combine with loudness and a story, but they are two very different vibes and then they become two different Virgils in my head. They even look different depending on which type of music it is. Ahh, AUs <3

I think either way Remus would be in love with him. Be it because he's in the band too or he's a fan of the band or (my personal favorite) Roman knows Virgil and was like "rem come to this concert with me it's not my crowd but it's my friend" and then Remus is like aight bet and they have that stereotypical eyes meeting in the crowd moment of like 😶😶 love at first sight. Then they meet after the show and they both hilariously fumble and neither get each other's number but Roman realizes what's going on and gives them each other's number later. Or adds the three of them to a group chat and then leaves so the two are forced to be together.

Yeah genuinely think Rem would be in love either way but I'm so stuck </3 but it's the weekend tho! :D time to go listen to She Doesn't Sleep... again...

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I think too regardless of what route you go Ree would be absolutely head over heels for Vee like "H E L L O hot Emo in a band what are you doing later 👀" But I L O V E L O V E L O V E the fact that Ro tries to set them up and the two just blow it cause they're too Gay to function XD (You have plenty of time to think it over there's no rush but if you're really stuck you can always have both but one being more frequent than the other if you vibe with it more after all it's an AU and E V E R Y T H I N G is in your hands <3)

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Strip Weathers HCs (Human AU)

If Strip’s list looks longer than Chick’s, it probably is. I like Strip and I hate Chick, so…

Might add more and/or edit these later

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-only Lynda’s allowed to call him Richard (although Tex & Roger have gotten away with it)

-does not & will not call himself ‘The King’, doesn’t really like the nickname, just tolerates it

-was born in 1946, making him 60 in the events of the first film

-is 6’4” in height, had blond hair but it’s now gray, brown eyes, no facial hair (can’t imagine him with it)

-might be somewhere on the autism spectrum

-has(d) four younger siblings: Martha, twins James (Cal’s dad) and David, and Robinette

-witnessed his uncle’s murder at the hands of a neighbor when he was 6

-lost his youngest sister when he was 8 & his mother passed away when he was 15 (yeah, I’m dumping a lot of trauma on this guy)

-his father was a successful racer in the lower circuits

-raced in the lower circuits for a couple years before getting signed by Dinoco

-started in the Piston Cup in 1970, won his first Piston Cup in 1971

-holds the record for most Daytona 500 wins at 7 (a record his VA holds in real life)

-in his 36-year career, never fell outside the Top 5 in the points standings

-his racing friend group included Mario Andretti, Darrell Cartrip, and Dale Earnhardt Sr

-He and Lynda have two daughters: Claudia Robinette (b. 1971) and Susanna Lynn (or Sue Lynn for short) (b. 1976)

-considers Cal his own son (we all know this)

-has two step-grandchildren through Claudia’s marriage who he considers his own and adores (he’s an awesome grandpa)

-is a pretty decent singer (except when he’s doing karaoke with Sue Lynn)

-has a shit ton of scars all over his body, majority of them are on his back and abdomen, though he has a bunch on his arms and legs

-has a tendency to suppress his emotions (a trait he got from his father)

-has a death glare that you do not want to be on the receiving end of.

-if he goes out and doesn’t want to be recognized, he uses the alias ‘Richard Petty’