#and saying that you feel a certain way and have a certain reaction isnt the same as actually blowing up at someone for it.
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i feel like im not making any sense but does anyone else feel like there are stories that let u run with them and ones that spell everything out for you
#im reading that post that says artists are directors of audience reaction and not its dictator:#'you cannot guarantee that everyone viewing your work will react as you are trying t make them react. a good artist knows that this is what#allows work to breath. by definition you cannot have art where the viewer brings nothing to the table ... this is why you have to let go of#the urge to plainly state in text exactly how you think the work should be interpreted ... its better to be misinterpreted sometimes than#to talk down to your audience. you wont even gain any control that way; people will still develop their opinions no matter what you do#im thinking abt this again cuz i was thinking maybe the thing that lets adventure time work so well the way it does is cuz it doesnt#take itself too seriously that it gives the audience enough room to fuck with subtext and then fuck with them back yknow. i think it was#mentioned somewhere that they werent even planning to run with the postapocalyptic elements that are hinted in the show but changed their#mind after the one off with the frozen businessmen and dominoed into marcy and simons backstory. on the other side there are stories that#explain too much to let the story speak for itself and i think it ends up having to do more with the crew trying to lead ppl in a certain#direction than expand on what they have and i see a lot of this with miraculous. like when interviews and tweets are used as word of god in#arguments and it becomes a little stifling to play around with it knowing the creator can just interject. u can say its the crews effort to#engage with its audience but it feels more like micromanaging. and none of this is to say there ISNT room for stories that spell things out#theyre just suited for different things. if sesame street tried abstract approaches to themes and nuance itd be counterproductive#a lot of things fly over my head so i need help picking things apart to get it- but it doesnt have to be from the story itself. ive picked#picked up or built on my own interpretations listening to other ppl share their thoughts which creates conversation around the same thing#sometimes stories will spell things out for you without being so obvious abt it that it feels like its woven into the text. my fav example#for this might be ATLA using younger characters as its main cast but instead of feeling like its dumbed down for kids to understand why war#is bad its framed from a childs point of view so younger audiences can pick up on it by relating to the characters. maybe an 8 year old#wont get how geopolitics works but at least they get 'hey the world is a little more complicated than everyone vs. fire nation'. same for#steven universe bc its like theyre trying to describe and put feelings into words that kids might not have so they have smth to start with#especially with the metaphors around relationships bc even if it looks unfamiliar as a kid now maybe the hope is for it to be smth you can#look back to. thats why it feels like these shows grew up with me.. instead of saving difficult topics for 'when im ready for it'#as if its preparing me for high school it gave me smth to turn in my hands and revisit again and again as i grow. stories that never#treated u as dumb all along. just someone who could learn and come back to it as many times as u need to. i loved SU for the longest time#but i felt guilty for enjoying it hearing the way ppl bash it. bc i was a kid and thought other ppl understood it better than me and made#feel bad for leaning into the message of paying forward kindness and not questioning why steven didnt punish the diamonds or hold them#accountable. but im rewatching it now and going oh. i still love this show and what it was trying to teach me#yapping#diary
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sometimes it's really hard not to be bitter at Mental Health (Social Media) "Experts" stating the fucking obvious. "it's unhealthy to have strong emotional reactions to someone setting boundaries" ohhhh is it? wow....... youve really cracked the fucking code on human psyche there. should we throw a party? should we invite maszlow?
#charlie.txt#mental health social media influencers when they find out mental health makes you behave irrationally and unhealthily: 😡🤬🤬👹🤯🤮🤢💢⁉️⁉️#wanting to kill myself for accidentally crossing someones boundaries isnt a reaction id like to be having either stacey thank you very much#also its the presumption that having these reactions means youre putting that on the other person to manipulating them in silence#i shouldnt have to hide the fact that i fucking loathe myself just so the Drink Water!! girlies dont get upset at me.#and saying that you feel a certain way and have a certain reaction isnt the same as actually blowing up at someone for it.#i can want to kill myself without telling anybody about it. im actually really fucking good at it.#i dont want to kms rn before anybody worries. im being hyperbolic bc im mad.#and bitter.
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Can we get “calling Hazbin ladies pretty girl”, too, please?
Calling HH gals Pretty Girl
yes you may1!!! WOO YEAH!!! characters: charlie, vaggie, lute, velvette, emily, rosie notes: reader is GN for everyone but vaggie- vaggies reader is fem CWs: none
CHARLIE
very receptive to it and shows how much she enjoys it
she makes sure to tell you in return how pretty she thinks you are, even going as far as to point out what in specific she likes about your looks- though she may go on a little ramble if you let her
she has a noticeable bounce in her step after the interaction and generally seems to be in higher spirits than usual
definitely the type to think about what you said hours later, even as shes trying to go to bed
nearly kicking her feet in the air too/j
VAGGIE
its a little too sweet for her but she still finds the name endearing, you may get a small smile from her
dont let her lack of big reaction make you feel that she didnt appreciate your efforts to flatter her
shes not very obvious or vocal about a lot of her reactions but the subtle shifts in her behavior get it across that you got her feeling a certain way
in a good way, of course
despite that, she turns over what you said in her mind for a few days after the fact
LUTE
very similar to vaggie however shes much less experienced when it comes to affection/romance
for a moment you actually worry you may have offended her in some way before she plainly compliments you back- asides from that at most you may see a faint dusting of pink on her cheeks
theres still passion in her words but its going to take a while for her to become more.. emotive.. at least during any romantic moment
shes so deeply sucked into her work as an angel as well as the whole "keep it pure before marriage" mentality even though what youre doing isnt sinful at all
it lingers in the back of her mind for a while
ROSIE
very receptive although she doesnt let herself get too giddy like charlie and let it get out of hand
will shoot a compliment right back at you, likely turning it into a tease just to get under your skin... if it works shes going to tell you you look cute enough to eat
will lightly pinch your cheek as well
its... very hard to fluster rosie, sure she makes you aware that she appreciates you but you never quite get her to melt at your words and actions
loves your attempts though, finds them delightfully pathetic, in an endearing way!/lh
VELVETTE
shes heard that line before but it feels different coming from you, even if it doesnt evoke many feelings for her
you may get a smirk from her and a light huff before she shoots something right back your way- something far more intense than you had just said
nothing dirty, maybe, but whatever she ends up saying hits you close and makes you feel all flustered
almost takes it as a challenge even if it wasnt intended as one, loves seeing you scramble for words to try to match her energy
EMILY
giddy and excited, she will be smiling about it for a while afterwards- it doesnt matter what shes doing later... she can literally be at some angel meeting and shes still going to be smiling to herself
if the two of you were already cuddling or gently kissing one another shes going to end up peppering kisses all over your face while pointing out that she thinks youre pretty too
her feathers fluff a little too, further showing how much the name effects her.. they even spread a little, though not fully
will think about it for a long while and is not afraid to tell anyone why shes smiling so much
#hazbin x reader#hazbin x you#hazbin imagine#hazbin hotel imagine#hazbin hotel x reader#hazbin hotel x you#hazbin charlie imagine#charlie x reader#hazbin charlie x reader#charlie x you#charlie imagine#vaggie x you#vaggie imagine#vaggie x reader#hazbin lute x reader#lute imagine#lute x reader#velvette imagine#velvette x reader#hazbin rosie x you#hazbin rosie x reader#rosie x reader#rosie imagine#hazbin emily x you#hazbin emily x reader#emily x you#emily x reader#emily imagine#canon x reader#canon x you
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do you have any thoughts or opinions you'd like to share on the concept of "recovery"? id be glad to see your take if you feel like talking about it
I think whats especially interesting about the concept of recovery is the moral obligation to 'recover'. The question is why do we feel like we need to pathologize certain behavior/feelings/desire? I think the answer to that is that it relieves shame to say that its a disease causing us to not be able to do something that is expected societally. Its easier to say that you have a disease that makes you do/think/feel 'bad/immoral things' instead of feeling like you ARE a bad person for thinking/feeling/doing 'bad/immoral things'.
But what if it isnt immoral to want to kill yourself? What if you arent a bad person for wanting and/or needing to use drugs? What if your inability to work/study/go to school isnt bad and wrong and makes you have less worth in our society? All of these things are literally morally neutral if you think about it, even if they arent coming from a 'disease' in your mind/brain.
Also, to take it a step further, what if we stop seperating us into our mind/brain (which is diseased and ill and dysfunctional and that wants to kill us/harm us) and our 'Real' Self that is Healthy and that wants to Live and Thrive? If we think about it, we ARE our minds and body and brain.
In a world where our struggles arent atomized, individualized and blamed onto us by calling our minds diseased instead of asking what real tangible societal/communal issues cause our real and justified distress, we could finally stop blaming ourselves (/our minds/brains) for the way we experience distress/pain/neurodiversity and the ways which we dont fit into this ill society. In a world where we are able to truly look after each other our needs will be centred and madness will not be seen as an individual failing but a greater incentive to solidify our communities.
Also I think the concept of recovery sucks in general. We deserve better than carceral systems seeking to "recover" our compliance and productivity in service of the state & capital. In my experience (as sb who was labelled with extremely stigmatizing labels like aspd/npd/...) if you dont embrace this concept of the 'recovery' that psychologists force onto you then you are denied your personhood+ the 'social absolution that embracing "recovery" offers.
I was told that 'I dont know whats good for me' in therapy. That my recovery 'goals' are something that Im too ill to set for myself (because what I want for myself doesnt align with what they/society expects of me). They tried to coerce me into taking/staying on meds that made it easier for them to deal with me (antipsychotics/mood stabilizers), not meds that actually made me feel better. I confused them to no end because I never suffered from the things that THEY said I suffer from (like for example hallucinations - to me they were a reaction to stress similiar to crying. I dont suffer from hallucinations in the same way others dont suffer from crying 😂). I personally am firmly anti-recovery. I dont plan on becoming more normal ,Im fine with being mad. Especially since I met people who actually value and like me for my neurodivergency/neurononconformity. Finding community made me feel so much better without having to literally change my whole personality (remember: Im diagnosed with personality disorders)
Thank you for your ask!
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[ Detailed Thread ] I've seen lots of debate but here's lists of reasons why I personally think Wriothesley is visually impaired/blind to a certain degree and hope that he is :)
This is listed down based on my understanding/research so if there's anything wrong pls do correct me
Firstly we need to know the term 'Blindness', i know you may be wondering like , uh what? But a lot of people are quite misinformed of what being 'blind' is. Blindness is the inability to see or a lack of vision. Meaning that Blindness is a SPECTRUM. Each person's experience of blindness is unique. 93% of blind and vision-impaired people can see something. It is very rare for someone who is blind that cannot perceive anything at all. Some people may be blind in their peripherals - some in the center, some can see colours and blurs while others can perceive light and shadows better. It varies. A LOT. Quote from an article on Blindness and its spectrum. "These visual impairments don’t all work the same. Macular degeneration, erode the central vision without affecting peripheral vision. Narrowed field of vision- central vision is fine but the peripheral vision is limited. Others include photophobia (inability to tolerate light), diplopia (double vision), visual distortion, and difficulty with visual perception."
Ok so now we've made that clear- here's why Wriothesley being blind isnt as farfetched as you may think , with the way he is acting in the Fontaine trailer. 1) So i've heard everyone say that he is teasing Sigwienne, but let's just go back, why does Sigwienne - put the cute beverage in front of wrio in that manner? Why is she putting the taller cup in front of him where it's simply closer for him to reach for in the first place? You can argue that she did that so wriothesley takes it, but why not just hand it to him then? If you observe the scene - the tea was already there beforehand, which means wrio has either prepared it himself or has even already drunk from it and placed it there. He knows there is a 'cup' on the table. It could be very much logical to assume Sigwienne wanted wriothesley to mistakenly reach for the taller cup she placed there. There would be no point in deliberately placing the cup as if with the intention to 'trick' him into taking it if he could very well see her place it there.
2) The visible jolt of his hands when he hovers over the tall drink that sigwenne places there. And the CLOSING of his eyes, as if to concentrate. On what? Here we can tell the drink clearly looks like a cold beverage, so when his hands hover on top of the cup , it'll make sense to have a reaction based on the wrong temperature registered to his hands - as tea is hot. He glances to sigwenne after , as if amused, only to look back to rotate the smaller cup of his tea. And even when 'rotating' , his actions seem purposeful - carefully interacting w the cup with his hands draping around the handle before holding onto it. As if again, he's mostly feeling around it. If he were to see perfectly well, why would he close his eyes - hover around the tall drink, and seem to jolt by reaction of registering what the object is? His eyebrow even raises up. It makes less sense as - if he were intending to tease her, he'd simply hover alternatively between the two without interacting w them purposefully but instead focus more on the reaction of Sigwenne from the start - and not After he seemingly 'felt' what the glass he is reaching for firstly is not his own cup of tea, but the beverage Sigwienne wanted him to take. Also added point, if you really take notice, while touching and rotating the tea for its handle, his eyes are set straight, not towards the cup.
3) paper argument - again brings back to my point about blindness being a spectrum. Some blind people can read if they really focus and if the object was near enough, and even more that they just show him holding the paper, his eyes were never shown 'scanning' it. And furthermore, we are not SHOWN the paper, it could be braille for all we know. 4) but he looks at sigwienne first before she places the cup - again , blindness is a spectrum. Many blind people can register vague figures of people based on combinations of colour, light, and shadows or other ways depending on the individual. 5) Lyney's dialouge - as we know, genshin loves littering clues and symbolisms around in the trailers. Here's the quote we got while transitioning to Wrio's cutscene. "But what you see, is not real. It's all a show. And every part of the show is carefully controlled" Here we've already got a literal connotation for 'sight' from "what you see" , and connotations of 'acting' what if he was just acting out that he is not 'blind' to the outsider's point of view, so it is shown that he has less of a 'weakness' to others? Covering his disability under a guise so no one knows how to use it against him? It may be a reach - but it is an interesting idea to think about. Esp with the entire theatre play theme surrounding Fontaine and us/people being the audience of the big show.
6) wolf motifs and inspiration - It is quite easy to see Wriothesley is very heavily wolf motifed. Wolves are known for their sharp senses and acute hearing. They rely much more heavily on scent and hearing compared to their sight. Sounds familiar? It would be very neat if wriothesley has heightened senses as he can't rely on his eyesight as much, thus being easily able to tell when Sigwienne moves around and puts the cup in front of him. 7) gameplay - having a disabled character can make interesting and unique ideas on their kit and mechanic. I'll leave most of it for imagination, but something such as a passive that could auto-link enemies aggro-ed for aoe skills? Many many more possibilities. 8) It will simply be good disability representation in media , we've already had collei with the chronic illness of Eleazar, Xiao with chronic pain from karmic debt, Yoimiya's father short of hearing due to working with fireworks etc. It'll be an amazing addition for irl people with disabilities to feel more seen. 9) there's literally a scar under one of his eyes what more can i say if not it being more of a hint. His beta concept designs even had a scar on his eyebrow along with heterochromia? Which can also be seen as being blind in one eye with the 'white' colouring. Also the eyepatch beta design? Yeah.
Also this slipped my mind, but do also note Braille was originated and introduced in france - invented by Louis Braille in 1824. And well, what do we know of where Fontaine is based of? wink wonks
My conclusion, live laugh love hc wriothesley w vision impairment <3 even if it turns out not being canon and just some weird coincidence of everything.
(also please do not steal this as i plan to post this myself on twt too, and again this is just a THEORY on why I PERSONALLY think he's such. You are free to disagree )
#wriothesley genshin#wriothesley#wriothesley hc#wriothesley theory#genshin theory#fontaine genshin#wolf guy² from hit game genshin impact#i am positively insane abt him#genshin impact#genshin
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Agreed. I was reading the comments of a AYS reaction video where the reactor asked about Jimin and Taehyung fighting (remember in episode 6 Jimin mentioned the members used to fight a lot) and tkkrs on the comments keep saying that unlike the other Jungkook and Taehyung never fight each other and that's why they're so special a.k.a that's why they're a couple. And I was like, have these people ever been in a relationship? Hell, have they even ever seen other people in a relationship? Cause if there's a couple in this earth that never fought then there's something up going on there. Of course couples shouldn't be fighting all the time, but a fight here and there is normal. When you spend a lot time with a person and have a strong emotional relationship with them, you're bound to clash. People who never fight are people in a more mild, most likely plantonic relationship where there isn't a lot of intense feelings so it's easy to never get on each other's nerves. All the biggest fights I've ever had have been with the people closest to me. There's a certain type of anger or disappointment that can only be caused by the people who mean the most to you, people who make you feel the most, and sometimes those feelings won't be positive.
Think of the whole pink sausage situation (I'm sorry I can't take that name seriously, why is ever BTS fight about food?). Notice how Jungkook didn't care much that Taehyung disagreed with him. He cared that he was being disagreed with but not that Taehyung was the one doing it. But the moment Jimin agreed with Taehyung instead of Jungkook he immediately got upset. Even though Taehyung was the one who started the argument, Jimin was the one Jungkook was upset with, cause that's who's opinion he cares about. If your friend disagrees with you then that's annoying but you'll get over it. But if it's your partner taking someone else's side instead of yours? Yeah, that's gonna get to you.
But the thing with tkkrs is that they have a very surface level understanding of what a romantic relationship is. They don't know what a real couple should be like because they don't ship a real couple, they ship a fictional one. And in fiction romance is always easier and less complicated then in real life. In real life there's no "And they lived happily ever after", but there's "And they lived in ways that were sometimes messy and sometimes difficult to get through, but the important part is that they lived" and that's more than enough.
When indifference starts to creep up inside of a relationship, that's when you know it's very low stakes for that person. Nothing to gain, nothing to lose there. Just stick to the status quo because it's easy that way, and you know what you can and cannot expect. Such friendships are easy and safe to maintain, especially when you're both very busy.
If, however, one is passionate and fiery regarding someone else's opinion and what will that person think of this topic, and how will they like that topic ect..whoah boy, that's when you know a relationship still has plenty of spark to last a lifetime because there is still curiosity there.
I totally agree. There's never a dull day whenever jikook are together.
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When antis go on about "writing fictional problematic ships will ruin the young impressionable minds" i just dont take them seriously.
1. theres a certain assumption that impressionable people will only copy fictional media and that the impressionable person will seek out taboo themes within that fictional media instead of avoiding it.
2. everyone has someone around them that they'll copy, someone that will leave a sort of 'influence' on that persons mind before they even can read, even if its just a passerby with a simple comment. that can stick in someones mind and it can be useless or useful, harmful or helpful. fiction is not the only way for impressionable people to be influenced by bad things
3. i feel like there's this idea that the people around the impressionable person are blank slates who showcase no opinions, no emotions or no physical reaction to anything and does not speak about anything regarding emotions, boundaries, relationships etc so the impressionable person is not able to get even a grasp from whats right or wrong unless it's from the internet
so what im curious about is why do the fandom wank go full force with fanfics / fanart and not touch upon about how irl people can fuck you up with how you view the world or even just share resources on healthy relationships, how to enforce boundaries etc or go after any real people for that matter who promote bad shit like those 'self help gurus' that spread dangerous misinformation and dangerous ideas (like the dating courses that say shit like if a woman says no shes playing hard to get). obviously i dont think they should be harassed but it definitely should be talked about if antis were really so concerned about peoples safety
i personally have the assumption they only value a fictional character over actual children, not only because their reasonings for how fanfic is 'normalising' shit which is fucking stupid but the first thing shouldn't be 'Fiction is at fault' when talking about kids (who are not the most reading inclined demographic and not the target audience for more graphic works that *might* influence them) it should be more 'What are kids being taught or why are they not being taught this' ,
for example why aren't kids being taught how to make sure to place boundaries, why do they not know whats a healthy relationship, why are they not being taught about what is and isnt illegal and are they being taught how to be safe etc.
the biggest part of peoples lives are school, family and friends. not the random ass fanfic authors and fanartists who just like being creative.
sorry its so long, needed this off my chest
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(mth observation) the fact that buttercup got so fast over butch's comments (and lusting) for blossom feels really weird to me 🙁
I think that his behavior should certainly be taken into consideration because he is a hashtag misogynist in the beginning. But taking in his character as a whole as he forms ~butch~and all that good stuff he definitely doesn’t treat women like trash for no reason you know what I mean.
If you think about it butch is a boneheaded guy and in the story the reader is supposed to have this like immediate distaste for him and I think that there’s like very little you can do to get this reaction for the reader than him being anything but that!
I made this graph one time idk where it is but butch is supposed to be like very hated at the beginning because of his behavior and attitude and all that boomer is like a good boy and slowly…but surely he has these like moments … and brick ofc is like up and down up and down like you love him and then you hate him.
but focusing on butch who does a lot of the yapping you can slowly see him turn more introspective about a certain things. He does actually have some brain matter up there he has displaced emotions about BASICALLY everything? He has unhealthy coping mechanisms yadda yadda yadda
AND we can see the reason why he specifically is going after blossom like he’s not having these outbursts about bubbles right? Blossom can take care of herself I think she gets why he’s around buttercup and for a lot of mth she has a distaste for him
i understand (loosely) why buttercup is being brought up I guess in terms of like butchs behavior and blossom is her sister but it isnt really about blossom is it? And I would say buttercup is a factor but it’s very little about her as well! (Buttercup does tend to stick up for her when he says some off handed shit tho) It has a lot more to do with brick and also butch having to prove some shit! I think as the story goes on obviously he makes less and less of these comments because his values and interests change (or rather they develop for once that mother fucker used to be so bored)
Idk this is more of an unfinished thought! Like but you get what I mean I guess like butch is not written that way for nothing! In my opinion buttercup “getting over” butch’s behavior shouldn’t even be considered KINDA?? LIKE THERES A LOT OF WEIRD STUFF THE GIRLS EXCUSED TO STAY IN PROXIMITY of the guys! Boomer and his ex gf?? Brick in general! Like he did kinda pushed bubbles into that vortex thingy MAYBE IDK! That sounds WAY worse! 😭 but right that’s the point of the story in my opinion teehee
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Do you have the source in which Luffy was confirmed aroace? I’m making a project on the ace and aro communities that includes a list of aro, ace, and aroace rep in media and I can’t find where it was confirmed, but I hear everyone say he is. Thank you.
luffy is very very much aroace coded but neither he nor the author have ever directly said the words "luffy is asexual" - one piece's canonical queer rep is limited to transgender characters
that being said, here's the relevant passages, and some context if its needed:
in chapter 516/episode 411, luffy stumbles across boa hancock, the worlds most beautiful woman, in the bath. she has an ability to turn people to stone when they feel some amount of "love, lust, or adoration" to her; ie. when they are attracted to her. heres how it goes:
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this is the first time hancock meets a man who isnt affected by her power. it basically suggests that, by not turning to stone, hes not attracted to her at all.
eventually, she develops a crush on him, and she wants to marry him, which he outright rejects (chapter 598)
in regard to the "mero mero" moment, a fan noticed a discrepancy, and asked the author about it in the SBS corner from volume 54. luffy had previously responded to the naked body of a woman the way all the other guys did. oda decided to blame it on luffy imitating his friend
"That's not the Luffy we know." "When Luffy is alone, his reaction is what it was with Hancock. He's interested, but he's not entranced by her." Luffy acting in a certain way because Usopp does - going along with the mood of the moment, or performing, or however you want to say it - feels awfully aspec to me. It's definitely a common aspec experience to try and force yourself into amatonormative - or, in this case, I guess allonormative? - behavior.
In the SBS for volume 88, oda was asked about why luffy called a woman a "beauty" at one point. The response:
Luffy understanding physical attractiveness as a classification, understanding it but not caring about it - that suggests he probably doesn't experience aesthetic attraction (appreciating someones appearance, disconnected from sexual/romantic attraction). this definitely speaks to my experience as an aroace individual.
also, this isnt necessarily evidence for luffy specifically, but moreso a general answer - in the SBS for volume 34, oda was asked if there would be romance between the main characters, and he brushed it off:
my impression, personally, is that Oda is generally fairly uninterested in pursuing any romantic relationships between his main characters.
in conclusion, I personally feel like the evidence here suggests that luffy is aroace, or at least aspec, given some of Oda's wording (which is probably a little up to interpretation, given it's been translated from japanese). His answer in volume 54 has always felt like a retcon to me, like Oda only came to a conclusion of sorts on this when Luffy met Hancock, and had to go back and find some reasoning for why Luffy would have responded that way. Luffy, more than anything, wants to have an adventure, and romance and sex aren't part of that for him.
I'm not gonna try to police how people view Luffy. it's not healthy for me to do that - luffy and his aroaceness is something that's very very personal to me and itd be way too messy. In addition, in the past I've had people point out that this evidence would only necessarily suggest luffy isnt attracted to women, and he could be gay; I personally don't see him that way, and I seriously doubt Oda would make that choice in canon, but people can do what they want. I think, however, it's pretty telling that a lot of aroace and aspec people see themselves in him.
This morphed into something of a modern take on my thesis here instead of just answering your question; sorry about that. I'd be interested to see your project when you're done, if you're able and willing to share!
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I'd like to ask your thoughts on your Foster Parent AU, please!
(scuttling towards you at the speed of sound) WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR ABOUT PARENTAL LOVE AND THE HORRORS
OK so. i. do not remember how this came to me BUT i am half certain it was due to my "the turaga are the mata's parental figures whom they love dearly and are loved by and artakha has lost the custody battle So Severely that he can see them once every two months" view of their relationship (which i have exaggerated in that description for comical effect) and then bloodborne got involved in it bc im watching a blindrun of it
this resulted in what was at first a Superpowered Teens AU becoming a Parenthood And Other Horrors AU. sort of. my thoughts about it are still unfortunately vague and the more i write it down the more incomprehensible it becomes BUT take this mess
Very simply put: six parentless teens, separated from birth but vaguely aware of having five siblings somewhere out there, are serendipitously handed over to six very loving foster parents who all happen to be friends and like to hang out.
except its not a coincidence, their instinctual knowledge of one another's existence is not just a gut feeling, their guardians are very aware of everything thats actually going on but wont say anything, a weird man claiming paternity of them keeps showing up and very aggressively demanding they be handed over to him, and they are not human.
So anyways!
the relationships between the turaga and the mata are the Big Focus for the chunk of story thats like Normal bc. i love them. ofc
Whenua and Onua hit it off immediately despite Whenua being the one whos the most tense abt this whole situation of Taking A Teen In His House - this is partially thanks to the fact that he has a business handling and selling bugs and especially worms and Onua loves being in the fucking dirt as much as possible, so they go on nice hikes collecting crawlies of all sorts and having a fun time bonding over their shared love for beasts that live in the ground. Onua used to get yelled at for being always dirty so hes having a blast with his foster dad who starts shaking and hooting in excitement when his incredibly autistic teen son pulls an entire mole out of the ground and proudly shows it to him so he can identify it properly. Onua has a small pocket that is always SQUIRMING with worms and he hands one over to each of his siblings when he meets them for the first time to... varying reactions (mostly baffled polite disgust, tho Lewa falls in love and decides thats his new pet)
on the completely opposite end of the spectrum, Tahu fucking HATES Vakama at first. he has a reputation for running away to "find his siblings" (nobody believed him) and this old man is NOT going to stop him. as in he literally isnt. Tahu glares daggers at him on the drive home and tells him hell disappear as soon as he can and Vakama deadpan goes alright, can i at least get you a tent first. can i get you a sleeping bag first. can i get you a portable stove first. can i teach you valuable working and cooking skills so you can find a way to keep yourself alive and indipendent first. and he manages to keep Tahu around by legit just preparing him for living alone when he inevitably runs off - which he ends up not doing bc of All That and also Vakama has a FORGE in his HOUSE and Tahu loves fire so much and also hes actually a very cool dad but hes embarrassed to tell him bc he was so mean to him at first. Vakama gets him into glass blowing (so he doesnt try to put his whole hand in the furnace) and he is so so proud of his lil crafts. Tahu gives him a necklace with beads he made and you bet your ass that old man is keeping it on 24/7
Gali has been on her best behaviour for all 15 years of her life and she has so much Insane Wrath in her that shes desperate to keep inside. ofc Nokama (a very mellow linguist who likes to lay on the beach for five hours in her time off) decides its time to teach her the most insane martial arts combination possible and let her go to town on a training dummy until shes about to rip the stuffing out of it until she feels better. then they can do a bit of meditation and go down for her surfing lessons :) Gali was. deeply confused the first time around but Nokama was just like "sweetheart you need that. trust me i do it every saturday its a good way to get the pent up rage down. but do actually talk to me abt whats upsetting you also so i can lend you a hand if i can. that helps too" and wouldnt you know it She Was Right! and Nokama is like so smart and also so stupid and its SO GOOD to be able to tell her "thats a dumb idea" and not immediately get told to shut up. in the course of two weeks and a half Gali's shoulders and jaw finally unclench and shes bitching about school and whatnot and theyre telling each other stupid crass jokes and shes just so happy. thank you mom :) (not pictured is Nokama trying her hardest not to burst into tears bc oH MY GOD IM MOM NOW...... IW ILL PROTECT HER W MY LIFE)
Onewa got handed over this incredibly anxious people pleasing kid who crosses his legs weird to keep them from bouncing and hes like ah..... this one is NOT a sculptor. so he puts off the mallet for a while and tries to see which ball sport he likes the most before letting him loose doing soccer trickshots in the yard for about four hours while hes filing down some rocks into shape. Pohatu then runs twelve laps around the house, passes out, wakes up, runs twenty more laps, eats like a horse, passes out on the couch. thus begins Onewa's quest to get him enough enrichment everyday, which is actually pretty fun and also good for his posture now that he has to Stand Up and Go Places. it takes longer to get Pohatu to act completely genuinely around him bc hes used to some of his snarkier jokes getting him left alone or reprimanded so hes always walking on eggshells, but luckily for him Onewa has No Such Problems and will tell anybody to fuck off and snark back at him playfully and generally just make him feel a lil easier abt being mean. its also very fun to get yelled at by him when racing him bc he gets winded after five meters. Pohatu is still polite but by god if Onewa's influence isnt turning him into a lil bit of a bastard. and we love him for it
Kopaka and Nuju's first interaction was not talking for an entire day and then, at breakfast, Kopaka asking him "are you deaf?" and Nuju replying "are you?" and those were the first words they ever said to each other. and they continued to keep this pattern of minimal conversation for like three months. possibly longer. Nuju is trying very, very hard to remain detached for Reasons and i can tell you already that he is failing. he is respecting Kopaka's space n interests n introducing him as his "flatmate" instead of foster son bc Kopaka is refusing to call him dad at first, but he is NOT saving himself from getting deathly attached to this edgelord. He Is Not. he got Kopaka into photography by handing him a professional digital camera and telling him to do some nice shots so he can print them later if he wants, and Kopaka did just that and turned out to be VERY good at it. now if you look at the walls theyre covered in his photos. Nuju the unflinching astronomer never comments on them but prints them out all fancy and gets them in frames and all. he has set them up as his wallpaper on All Digital Devices. they Do Not talk about this. Kopaka is very flustered about it actually. not that hell say it of course, theyre the same in that regard lmao
Lewa on the other hand starts calling Matau dad after roughly two hours. he has Imprinted On Him and dad has Wholly Accepted That. it helps that the kid is as chaotic as him and loves to listen to him tell him abt his old days as a stuntman while hes custom modding motors and bikes. he very quickly realizes, however, that Lewa needs to be in his natural habitat aka At The Skatepark or he will start peeling the paint off the walls with his bare fucking nails so he puts a pair of rollerskates on that beast (plus protective gear) and unleashes him upon some unsuspecting ramps. he treats his practice like its the olympics. im talking full commentary, arbitrarily pitting him against random kids, and screamed cheering that scares off several smaller children and gets him ugly looks from the other parents. Lewa is soaking in that attention like its a hot bath, hes having the time of his life. Matau is also... surprisingly? good? at making him feel safe? Lewa has vivid night terrors and Matau knows how to ease him back down from the fear and panic without being silly or dismissive about it either. like hell lay down with him if it can help even tho Lewa is techically too old for that by now and just not. make a fuss of it
so anyways things settle into normality, the kids meet each other via their foster parents bein very close pals and become friends, theyre hanging out, weird elemental stuff happens sometimes but its so minimal they dont even notice it really (the turaga do, and theyre monitoring that closely)
and then Artakha shows up.
and Artakha's mere existence ANYWHERE in the kids' sorroundings is enough to make the turaga incredibly on edge and territorial. which in turn, together with Artakha claiming ownership over them, clues the mata in that something is going on and that it is not normal at all.
Artakha is. oh boy. he is certainly A Guy. he is incredibly cold, unfeeling, relentless in his insistence that the kids come with him. his skin is excessively smooth and his movements feel calculated in a way that is hard to describe. his hands are always cold. he seems to be a scientist of sorts, or at least he dresses in a way that reminds of a stereotypical scientist. he does not refer to the mata as his children or as people in general, but he claims to have made them and as such demands custody. he never touches them, but being near him stirs something confusing in them. he instigates a visceral reaction from the turaga that makes them almost literally bark at him by simply being in their line of sight. its so bad that their worry and discomfort is literally physical and they will sometimes puke or get a fever during or after an interaction with him. its like he activates some kind of lizard brain response from them.
he puts so much pressure on the kids that the previously dismissable element-related strangeness ramps up in intensity together with weird dissociative episodes to the point its genuinely getting scary.
Tahu steps into the spent furnace and immediately ignites a flame. Onua tries to bury himself and almost digs through a sewage tube. Gali falls off her surboard and does not resurface for half an hour. Pohatu clips through a block of marble and has to be carved out of it. Lewa leaps off during a grind and he just disappears into thin air.
Kopaka becomes snow.
One night Nuju feels a sudden cold wind coming from inside the house and runs straight into Kopaka's bedroom praying it hasnt happened and find only a small tornado of snow violently tearing the place apart. hes despairing over losing his boy when he notices something that looks like a hand trying to reach out to him - so he grabs it and pulls as hard as he can, and the hand slowly grows an arm and an elbow and a forearm and hes yanking as hard as he can until he finally rips Kopaka out of the snow and falls to the ground with him. he hugs him as tight as he can and tells him how wonderful hes been, fighting back like that. then he notices, to his horror, that Kopaka has gone into cardiac arrest.
in five different households the mata instantly know something has happened. they dont know what, but they know its bad.
minutes after Gali tells her this, Nokama gets a call from Nuju. she drives herself and her daughter to the hospital to find her friend bawling his eyes out about his boy, his little boy, trying to tell her how it happened and how he almost killed him and while Nokama is trying to calm him and call the other turaga Gali sneaks off to see Kopaka, who is stable but catatonic. as the turaga arrive with the mata in tow, the latter all gather around their brother: touching him seems to let him live through them (or is it the other way around?) and he begins getting out of his vegetative state while they move him around and speak his thoughts as though they were him
which is. you know. Not Normal
so this extremely unnatural situation (and Nuju holding Kopaka and kissing his face like his life depends on it and let me fucking tell you It Just Might) is the perfect time to talk about WHAT in the FUCK any of this is about. you know. just in case all this happens again.
as it turns out, Artakha IS a scientist and he DID make the mata. the reason behind this is still unknown to the turaga, who know him as they were previous test subjects of his for the same project who managed to escape after essentially being sequestered - the main difference being that they were humans who underwent the side-effects of what he claimed to be a "vaccine" of sorts, whereas the mata were physically created in a laboratory and are something else. their bets were on very advanced robots, since the facility they were in did have some robot-making stuff. going back to the turaga, whatever the vaccine was had meant to elevate them in some sense or other; what it did was, effectively, giving them the ability to undergo a very painful transformation when encountering specific triggers. this also led to more or less useful sidepowers, like the ability to understand a "star language" and in Vakama's case getting The Visions! You Know The Ones. these two combined clued them in on the creation of the mata, and they decided that they would NOT have allowed Artakha and his buddy* to pull some shit on what the stars essentially described as newborn children. their plan was to break into their facility again and steal the babies and maybe raise them?? try to???? that seemed to be the plan in the stars?????? but effectively they. uh. Dont Know What Happened. they just collectively woke up with the knowledge that the kids were dropped off to the fostering/adoption system. between them making a plan to go get them and After there is a giant black hole and they have been desperately trying to find them again for fifteen years to try and give them a normal life away from everything as like. an apology for being born in such terrible circumstances
*wait Artakha has a buddy? yes! apparently! its hard to explain. there was certainly a second person, but the turaga never saw them properly. its possible they were one of the triggers that caused the transformation, as their memories get muddled if not just ripped away from their minds while transformed
from here to the next part of the story there is a gap of plot that i Do not exactly have in mind. the mata definitely experience the same thing as Kopaka, becoming their element and needing to be physically taken out of it before they are lost completely in it. Artakha might actively trigger this a few times, for example with Lewa (who kicks his ass as a result) and generally becomes much more aggressive in his pursuit of the kids while the turaga do their best to keep him at bay
AND THEN ITS FACILITY TIME. i do NOT know how they get there i just know they DO and the HORRORS are coming
first of all: the place is effectively some kind of very powerful observatory around which some insane sci fi bullshit was built. here the mata and turaga find themselves pursued by Artakha as well as his buddy - an enigmatic woman named Velika who observes them through the cameras and eventually corners them in a specific area of the facility
before that, the power briefly goes out due to the kids trying to make Artakha lose their tracks. during this time, Gali finds a locked door filled with medical equipment meant to keep someone alive through a coma. the room is covered in dust, very quiet, and there is a bed in the middle of it. someone is clearly on it. when the lights come back up the machines restart and she is able to see the state of the body on the bed just as a monitor loudly announces a flatlining. it is not shown, but baby you can bet that it is Not Pretty.
This, as they will find out later, is Karzhani.
who is a researcher who once partnered with Velika and was then replaced by Artakha.
Velika and Karzhani had different fields of expertise, essentially having an equal split between studies of the mind (Velika) and the body (Karzhani). while running completely different tests they had by complete chance made tentative contact with some kind of ineffable thing which they dubbed "the great spirit": this mostly unilateral relationship (as the great spirit showed very little responsiveness at their probing, providing them what they asked in an incomplete way and rather distractedly) very quickly consumed them, and from curiosity they slowly developed completely different obsessions. Velika remained focused on the strange creature and her studies, growing an unhealthy desire to bring the great spirit down to dissect its brain as she slowly stopped viewing living beings as sapient and began seeing them more as a series of increasingly more complex puzzles for her to crack; Karzhani, who instead had been heartbroken by his inability to have children, began obsessing over the concept of fatherhood and the possibility of creating his own offspring from scratch through the energy and materials they were picking up from the contact with the great spirit. These obsessions coincide in a singular project when it turns out that, in order to bring the great spirit to them, they need a number of sentient minds made with the aformentioned materials to "open the sky" beforehand - hence the idea to create the mata
Velika and Karzhani were on amiable if somewhat apathetic terms before getting their brains boggled by Knowledge Beyond Human Comprehension, but afterwards Karzhanis obsession with parenthood got so bad that he sort of deluded himself into believing Velika was going along with his fantasy of becoming parents and started talking about her like she was his wife who was 100% into his goal, which gave Velika INCREDIBLY BAD VIBES so she decided to replace him. by essentially putting him in a coma, extracting his consciousness, altering it to fit HER goals, placing it in a robot body which shed convinced him to make (bc she cant make bodies, thats his deal) and just leaving the real Karzhani to rot in a vegetative state as like a side experiment. bc as mentioned. she wasnt exactly sane either.
the result of All That is Artakha! who is incredibly despondent to and barely tolerates Velika since she regards him as another side experiment instead of a properly sentient if artificial being. he is essentially a refined version of Karzhani, though Velika was unable to eliminate his possessiveness towards the mata - which was useful to find them but becomes a problem when he refuses to let her use them for her alien contact attempt
so she brutally kills him by disabling his bodily autonomy and throwing him in a shredder as he screams in morse code for help
Livestreamed for the kids and turaga to see!
Because She Is Totally Normal
and speaking of unnecessary cruelty she decides that shes too lazy to trap the mata and go get them herself, so she triggers the turagas transformation to use them as guard dogs fetching her the kids <3
slight problem in her plan being that the turaga get so stressed about this that they manage to slow down the process enough to throw their children to safety aka as far away from them as possible and give them at least some instructions on how to deal with them from their own experience and what little memories dont get blotted out by the transformation. once theyre fully gone tho they are Terrifying As Hell Beasts and start hounding the children like starving bears while the poor things scuttle away into the ventilation and Velika watches the whole thing with great interest
during this escape Lewa ends up finding their seventh "sibling" - that being Tren Krom, made entirely from cosmic material and technically not yet born as he is a failed first attempt by Karzhani to make a child. hes the one whos been pestering Lewa with all those fucking night terrors like a git in the attempt of getting him to find him and let him just stop existing in peace bc hes tired of this not-life not-death situation hes in
hes the most aware of everything thats going on due to being such a simple organism that the cosmic knowledge doesnt faze him. he reveals to him Velikas plan of getting the great spirit in this realm, as well as the fact that the great spirit itself does Not have a body and will have to inhabit one, possibly that of one of the mata (Lewa Will Remember That). before Lewa shuts his containment down and lets him drift to sleep Tren Krom also tells him that Karzhani would have been a terrible father for them, and it was for the best that the turaga got them out of there and still tried to give them a normal life despite everything going to shit so quickly even years after theyd last seen them as itty bitty beasties
speaking of the turaga, they DO each corner their respective mata eventually, bc theyre big terrifying monsters and those are highly stressed teens panicking as they try to scramble away, and they DO NOT HURT THEM nor bring them back to Velika bc that idiot did not account for THE MOM/DAD INSTICT. YES THE HORRORS ARE INEFFABLE BUT SO IS PARENTAL LOVE BITCH.
Velika, loading a gun: ah dangit, they were such a fun experiment
SHE DOES NOT KILL THEM DONT WORRY but she does knock them out and wound them enough to incapacitate them so she can actually get her hands on the kids and drag them into her Fucked Up God-Calling Contraption
she fires it up, the kids almost get atomized by it for a moment as their elemental part gets almost torn out of them...
aand then. it.
doesnt do anything.
the whole process goes through successfully and then everything stops, and the kids are catching their breath but still alive, and nothing happens. to say Velika is anything less than fucking pissed would be an understatement.
her up until now eerily cheerful demeanor drops. she starts checking her machinery and data trying to understand what went wrong, and all she gets back is that, technically, everything went perfectly fine. she turns to the kids who are still horrendously weak, shaking them and yanking them and demanding an explanation because it HAS to be something THEY did that caused this (she is only partially right*). shes pacing angrily everywhere. what the HELL did you do. WHERE is the god i wanted to dissect. im going to kill you. you damn kids. and why am i cold all of a sudden. (puts hands on her neck) wait wheres my pulse. (checks properly) holy shit i have no pulse.
she then spends about. i dont know. ten minutes? slowly going insane as she loses control of her body piece by piece. she reverts to a giddy scientist except now shes very audibly panicked about the situation, and loudly dictates the description of her demise to her computer as if it was another experiment. she ends up almost completely paralyzed on the floor snarling orders at the mata to come pick her back up until she finally stops breathing and hushes completely
and then her voice rises again. but its not her
*because in the brief moment while the mata were closest to getting Fucking Spaghettified, their supernatural bond shared the info Lewa had learned from Tren Krom and managed to contact the great spirit as he started looking for a body to inhabit in order to come visit, directing him to Velika instead of any of them :)
they didnt fuckin know that would have KILLED HER bc the great spirit DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO USE A BODY and Velika was VERY MUCH UNAWARE IT WAS THERE so to stop her from hogging the controls it just SLOWLY SHUT DOWN ALL ORGANS
so this cosmic entity is just There, On The Ground, calling for them through Velikas mouth without moving it bc as mentioned it does NOT know how to use a body. it knows theyre there bc they called it but it doesnt know how to move its eyes so he has no clue where they are but he wants to see em :( its been a while since its seen those six stars and it was so happy to hear their voices again so it was really looking forward to seeing them :(
except the second it sees them (when they manage to get up bc theyre. struggling) the cosmic horror experiences the Cosmic Horror right back! because it Does Not Have a body, and it hasnt seen any body, ever, and all this skin and flesh and bones and hair and stuff is SO absolutely nightmarish that not only does it not recognize the kids, as they are humans, but it also just leaves back for whatever recess of space it came from in no time. all this fucking unethical as hell work and descents into madness and then those two/three idiot scientists didnt even realize their alien mightve had this bad of a culture shock and felt compelled to get out in less than two minutes. fuckin hell.
the kids sort of let everything sink in very quickly. because goddamn that was a lot. and then they remember OH NO OUR PARENTS and hurl themselves back to the turaga to make sure theyre alright bc theyve had enough trauma already for today theyd rather their guardians be alive and possibly not big terrifying monsters anymore
theyre alright :) they get to hug their kiddos tight
and then i guess they all go to the Fucking HOSPITAL and as soon as theyre all safe and sound and fine they can take a fucking break
and that is. an absolute clusterfuck of an au dhgjsgdgkf
it sounded better in my head. damn
anyways take this hellish thing hope you find SOMETHING of value in it bc im slowly clipping through the wall thinking about it
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I think Jin is the ultimate proof that marketing or narratives matter so much to people that they will disregard things they see with their own two eyes just to nod along to prevailing sentiment
Taehyung is the member i dislike the most in BTS so this isnt an emotional bias and yes he's had some hairline work done compared to Jin who I think has almost no surgical procedures done but I still think objectively he's ten times more attractive than Jin. However armys (outside Tae biased) will swear to you that Jin is the ultimate visual. Same thing with Hobi and Jimin regarding dance.
It's not that Jin isn't handsome or Hobi isn't a good dancer but people need to be fr. Hobis dances never go viral like Jimin's. Same for Jins visuals compared to Taehyung. First time BTS fans who haven't been mind rotted yet would all say that. Similar to what you said, I find Jins visuals so cold and lacking any kind of - well to be crude - sex appeal or it factor. He's a bit ken doll-ish. Which is fine! It's not a failing in any way. It's just annoying when people try to tell me that Jin is somehow the greatest visual when in practice I only see people mostly thirsting over the maknae line or writing odes to Jimin and Tae's faces but yeah Jin and the other members told us he's the most handsome so it must be true. Just like they told us Hobi is the best dancer 🙄
Amis are too susceptible to hybes marketing and mediaplay. "JK is the most successful member". "BTS have a lot of power in hybe because they are shareholders". I wish people could be more honest and objective and look at actual evidence instead of following whatever they're told
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
But also, calling yourself Worldwide handsome and reinforcing an aesthetic superiority upon yourself, works. Branding works, promotion and narratives works, that how the world is.
J-hope IS a great dancer and performer, and Jin IS objectively very handsome, especially for Korean standards. But they are forgettable, they don’t cause abrupt sensations. I would describe their individual brand as pleasant. A skilled dancer and a comfortable package to look at, its safe and true. What I think both lack from our perspective, because they have fans and they sure see something that we don’t, is charisma. That “can’t stop looking at you” feeling, bordering on becoming obsession is what Jimin has that no one will ever be able to replicate.
Jungkook is perceived as hot, and he is exploiting it now more than ever. But he also is pretty engaging with fans, he knows how to keep audiences entertained doing just silly things ( I am talking about his lives and reactions to things). He is a walking meme and armys love that.
Taehyung, the idol, looks like a real life video game/anime character. His features are striking and make a lot of people spill poetry because is what he causes. He is a stirring person, he makes people talk…except for his music, which is very unfortunate.
Armys are not only susceptible to Hybes Marketing, they were fundamentally built to be that way and to never question what members say. Members words are sacred and that is very convenient because it gives the company and the group a certain sense of control of what they would like to be and what they sell. That’s not bad, is business. But what you can try but not always succeed with is having a 100% control of public perception, and that’s how Jimin comes and disrupts. His role and how he should be perceived, and this is micro level still because he is only building his solo fandom and soloist brand and that takes time and investment, but the thing is that he has the ability to draw attention, you can’t stop looking at him, he fucking shines, and I am not even talking as her fan, I was an army, I have seen how he is perceived by social media or the fandom and he is not someone that you can cast aside. He just has it, and it can’t be learned. You learn how to be charming, you don’t learn how to be charismatic, you born with it.
You see people gushing about maknae line and it’s because they are damn good products, and pardon my deshumanizing way of expressing myself, but I am talking about the idol persona, not the human behind. I am talking about the marketable side. And it’s not about beauty or talent because we see how the firstly mentioned members are, but at the same time, they are not.
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I am absolutely insane abt c!TNT duo, and don’t have anyone irl talk to abt them :[. Pls info dump to me abt c!TNT duo and pls bestow upon me any and all c!TNT duo headcanons that u have. It’d absolutely make my day (also, ur pretty cool and I like ur Tumblr)
i am SO mad i had entire PARAGRAPHS OF AN ANSWER to this but it didnt save as a draft. TWICE. Anyways i finally decided to check my inbox..!!!!!!!!!!
And thank you! im not creative when it comes to hcs so heres ramble about metaphors and comparisons that are canonical/headcanon for ctntduo. Would base this on canon divergent interpretations but Nah
1- yin/yang
very obvious. “he is my yang”. recognizable and iconic. Two opposites which bring harmony. self perpetuating cycle of two interconnected sides.
the self perpetuating part is very important. it has always been established that they have a push and pull for everything, because they relish in the other’s reactions and its almost instinct. it all started this way too, their upbringing puts them in a very strange position slash relationship. they “balance” each other out — rather,, they teeter on a tightrope keeping them entertained and enabled . they are sides of the same coin, and complement the other. they always have a quick witty quip ready for the other’s petty insults, so so predictable. they dont keep harmony and peace between them, more so a light to keep them going similar to a smoker lighting cigarettes over and over again (insert the 10000 arts of wil lighting his cig with Qs light and vice versa. my fave ever) its close to an addiction, they need each other to keep running and flowing in the most unconventional ways they can find. if you look carefully, they are always circling enabling balancing each other
2- fire/light/burning
i like the metaphor of cwil being under the spotlight of people's perception .. sure, its cool to finally be able to see and interact with people but Q is different. he isnt and never will be afraid of wil. he is only "unpredictable" to him. freakishly enough this is also entertaining to Q. what will he destroy next? graffiti next? say next? do next? he cant help himself but to react. wil on the other hand will do anything to get a petty reaction from Q, to get his precious eyes on him that makes him burn in the light. tearing each other apart then rebuilding each other is an important component of their relationship me thinks
3- president/vice president
usually, i tjink this is a concept used to try and dethrone the other of their humongous egos and get that feeling of a win lol its all about reaction
their relationship is so interesting and weird because of the fact they wanted to over throw the other in politics — i dont think you see two POLITICAL rivals have that homoerotic tension often … anywhere! but i think its so funny that they became a version of the other further down the line (menace -> president, president -> menace) and it also goes back to the yinyang, over time and under certain conditions one can become the other because the other will always be present in the other. (like yin contains yang vice versa)
4- cannibalism Sorry /j
ok this is Strictly fanon. does this count as a headcanon i dont know.
if anyone remmeberes there was a certain point over on ctnttwt a handful of people were crazy for cannibalism ctnt go read whispers of blood and love. recently its become a not too uncommon/pretty popular characteristic for oc ships etc. of course its usually metaphorical in (ctnt) art and sometimes written but the act of giving yourself up completely to another to become a part of them goes pretty well with the psychology of ctnt/the game they play so i very much see the vision when people use this concept to depict Wil’s “devotion” (i guess? idk Refer back to ‘I am your servant’) to stay w Q in order to keep feeling that feeling of being “alive”.
it also goes hand in hand with quackitys want for power over people/things from beinng deprived of it in his earlier days. biggest stretch ever but also his capitalistic ideals to consume consume consume. and wil is willing to give him that opportunity because it is beneficial to him as well. horrible mutualism psa guys dont eat your boyfriend
these r mostly cwilbur centric mb. i also hate being wrong Which is why i hate having HCs. but why should i when theyre practically my ocs and the whole point of hcs is that theyre YOUR canon but oh well
anyone and everyone add on if u Like. Humble me if im wrong idc
#ctntduo#Woah havent dont that in a long time.#its been literally 3 months#cw cannibalism#kind of#its only like mentioned not described#kae infodump#kae asks
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What would be the reaction of Alastor, Charlie, Lucifer, Adam, Vox, Husk and Angel to a reader who has diction problems, like where they confuse words for others because they forget the name of the objective and mispronounce it...
Note: I have diction and my friends when we are playing together always laugh at me for doing these things... I just wanted to know
Various HH characters x reader who struggles with words
God I felt this request so bad, I'm bad when it comes to words/speaking them, usually it's the long pause and struggling to actually start saying the word hisshiss.. also sorry for not doing all the characters asked for!<\3 requests are limited to only 3-4 characters <\3
Characters: Lucifer, Charlie, Husk
Notes: reader is GN, admin admittedly does use their experience to write out the readers experience so!! Obligatory his experience isnt universal!
CWs: none
LUCIFER
hes very similar to his daughter in regards that hes pretty patient with you, finishing your sentences is like second nature for him
its a little sweet that he visibly looks proud of himself for helping you out
while charlie will gently try to remind others that youre still talking, lucifer is going to be more bold and just say it out loud that you werent finished
will not tolerate any disrespect thrown your way, he will at minimum give a dirty look if someone is even slightly rude to you
if youre fine with a friend teasing you, its best to let him know that otherwise hes going to be giving the stink eye to said friend the entire time
hes... going to be a little.. confused on it but hes not going to stop you from indulging in the humor
CHARLIE
shes so so patient with you and doesnt push you to try to get your words out faster, sometimes she even offers to finish the sentence for you if a certain word or two keeps evading you
though she will keep from doing that if you express that it makes you feel bad about your struggles, and she'll be sure to apologize in that case
if theres anything she can do to help you, just let her know! shes going to do everything she can to accommodate you- not only because youre staying in her hotel but because you two are close!
makes sure people give you the time to get your thoughts out, and will advocate for you if the conversation is moving too fast before you can speak
HUSK
more often than not hes going to let you finish talking on your own, only really offering to help you find a word if its clearly distressing you
its not so much fear of overstepping, its... something else, its hard to explain... likely because hes so used to being the only one taking care of himself, that he applies the same mindset to others- you can help yourself, you can get the words out
at least he believes in you! thats something! of course he doesnt deny your struggles, thats the last thing hes going to do
will give you the chance to stand up for yourself if the conversation carries on without you, but if it happens over and over... and youre clearly hurting, hes going to snap at the group to remind you that youre still in the conversation
is it a little confrontational? yes, but hes not exactly known for being gentle
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Married Life with Thrawn 💗 - a headcanon
Let me add this headcanon for your daily Thrawn related daydreams. 💙
Enjoy!
🔞 This contains smut! 🔞
Reader's gender is not mentioned.
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You’ve gotten married and returned from your honeymoon to your life aboard the Chimera. You settle in your everyday life by Thrawn's side now.
Marrying your former boss brings changes to your life you have not foreseen, some are good while others are… not so good.
Before your marriage, when you still worked for the Imperial Navy, you saw Thrawn often during your work day. But now, since you're no longer employed in the Navy, you have to get used to seeing less of your beloved husband. As a Grand Admiral he’s very busy, but he makes time for you whenever his schedule allows it.
You stay awake long enough, waiting for him to return to your quarters. It's important to you that you get to speak with each other every day.
You spend your days making money doing something you love, like a hobby turned job. That's your way of maintaining a certain financial independence since you don't want to rely on Thrawn's income, no matter how much he earns as a Grand Admiral.
You don't wanna spend your entire life in your quarters, so you help out around the Chimera in your spare time. Technically you're not allowed to since you're no longer under contract with the Imperial Navy, but nobody bats an eye when they see you helping out.
You receive the same if not more respect from the crew since you're the Grand Admiral’s spouse now.
While helping out, you meet crew members you haven't met previously due to your higher rank. You actually make a few friends that way. You’re wary at the beginning, but eventually figure they like you as a person and don't want to use your closeness to Thrawn for their own careers.
They feel a bit intimidated when you invite them to your quarters for a night of sabacc and drinks. When Thrawn returns to your quarters that night they leave immediately, intimidated by his rank and looks. Thrawn is slightly amused by their reaction and he's glad to see you settling into your new life so well.
You have just as much time for sex as before your marriage. Thrawn always makes sure to be thorough when he takes you. He knows exactly what you like, including every spot on your body that gives you extra pleasure. You will never be left unsatisfied. Same goes for him, you have figured out what he's into by now.
Your inner alarm clock is still set to Imperial Navy working hours, a habit hard to get rid of. You're glad you get to spend time with your husband under the shower in the morning though.
One morning you pluck out his first grey hair while getting ready. You start teasing him relentlessly about it, and every time he shuts you up with a long deep kiss, knowing that it's just friendly banter. Until the day comes you find your own first grey hair. He will tease you in Basic, Cheunh and Sy Bisti, and he chuckles every time you complain about not understanding a word.
Speaking of languages, you further improve your Cheunh and Sy Bisti gradually. Thrawn helps you with that when he has the time.
He knows exactly how to praise you for good learning. It usually ends with him between your legs, pleasuring you in a way only his mouth can. He could go down on you for hours and never get enough of your taste. Tasting you and watching you come undone on/in his mouth is one of the few weaknesses he allows himself to have.
You still go on date nights and romantic excursions when Thrawn's schedule allows it. Quality time is so important to you both. You talk for hours. It never gets boring with Thrawn. Everything he says always carries a certain weight and he always knows the right place to take you to. Sometimes you think he knows you better than you know yourself.
One day the thought of having a child crosses your mind. You never really considered the idea of children. You just know that Thrawn would make an excellent father, despite his job keeping him so busy. You're not yet telling him about this particular thought though.
You want to enjoy some more couple time before talking to him about children.
You and Thrawn train in his dojo together once or twice a week - a little tradition you started before you were even engaged. He teaches you some useful tricks in self defence. He would never admit he lets you win from time to time just to see your eyes light up with pride.
The assassin droids are a no-no for you! You are prohibited from using them. They're deadly and only Thrawn knows how to defeat them.
One of Thrawn's love languages is gift giving. Throughout your relationship he has given you plenty of practical and rare gifts. This man wants to spoil you to make up for the fact that he can't leave the Chimera permanently and settle down on a lush green planet with you. There are times where he feels because of that he might not be good enough for you. Yes, even a Grand Admiral can have self doubts. He won't tell you that though.
In return to his gifts you do nice things for him, like surprising him with his favorite food. Even if you're not good at cooking, he still appreciates that you have tried.
You got used to sharing a bed with him so quickly. You can no longer fall asleep without Thrawn by your side. The sound of his heartbeat and the gentle rise and fall of his chest has become essential for a good night’s sleep.
In conclusion, married life with Thrawn never gets boring. Some changes take some getting used to, but the good things outweigh the bad. You have married a man who unconditionally supports you, loves and cherishes you, who's loyal and honest. You are Thrawn's everything and vice versa. He makes you feel whole.
There's a foreshadowing for my next hc in this one. Yep, it will be a pregnancy hc I'm working on you can look forward to.
Thank you for reading!
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Writings Claires PTSD - Dinotrux New Dawn stuff
I never traumatize my ocs, but when i do, its uh... heavy.
Trigger warning: mentions of (sexual) abuse
Claire is in Dinotrux New Dawn a victim of PTSD. I, as her creator and writer, wanted to make sure her symptoms were as accurate as possible. I am very well aware everyone experiences things like PTSD differently, i do not have it myself and i tried not overloading Claire. A lot research has been put into Claire - including talking with actual people with PTSD, looking up how to write traumatized characters, looking up symptoms, reading about in in books, blogs, therapy sites and more. Claire is very sensitive, wich was my base. The following symptoms she shows the most in the story.
1. Needs personal space & hesistant to touch
Claire is sensitive to touch. Because she is a machine (T Trux - Dinotrux) she has certain parts of her body where she does not allow touch whatsoever. These parts are her neck, her torso and her lower body. When she gets touched she either will freeze, immediatly start looking out and keeping an eye on the hand thats touching her, or she will flinch away. She dislikes hugs the most.
2. Has an incredibly hard time saying no and setting boundaries
Claires reactions to being touched are a reflex. Claire is scared of saying no, because in her past, it had no effect. Her way of refusing something is backing away. She drives backwards when she sees something as intimidating or scary - wich is something she hates, considering she's an apex predator trux.
3. Has a hard time relaxing & bad at taking care of herself
Claire is tensed up most of the time - she finds it hard to calm down. It sometimes keeps her up at night. Her fear of relaxing comes from unwanted physical touch, wich makes it even worse. Claire likes to go on part runs or ore hunts because its one of the very few times when she feels happy and safe. She has the tendency to push trough no matter how badly malfunctioning she is. When Ty first met her at the Flatirons, she was searcing for food, as she tells him: "well, i've been driving for 3 straight days and there isnt a lot of food in the Outlands, so.." as she later gets into the garage, Revvit tells her she is severely underfed wich almost caused her digestive system to collapse so it could save energy for the engine. She also turns out to lack a few tread bolts and one of her head lights is busted. Claire tells them she was simply scared and in a rush, and she had no time to worry about anything, including basic needs like food, water and sleep. When Revvit asks her if she was seriously considering not eating or drinking for more then 3 days, she has no response.
4. Well written panic attacks!!???!???
If there is one thing i learned while writing panic attacks, its gonna be this: panic attacks include a lot of thinking. A lot of rushed thoughts. When Claire gets a panic attack, she has a HUGE tought progress. Its not just "help im panicking help im panicking." Its:
"I DON'T FEEL SAFE!"
"I HAVE TO GET OUT!"
"DO I RUN OR FIGHT!?"
"I JUST GOT SCREAMED AT! DO I SCREAM BACK? NO OF COURSE I DON'T SCREAM BACK! BUT I CANT JUST LET IT HAPPEN!"
"OH TY IS SUCH AN IDIOT, BUT HE LISTENED TO ME. BUT HE JUST YELLED AT ME!"
Its like, she is panicking. She doesnt know what to do. A panic attack or a mental breakdownn don't usually include clear, strategic, calm thinking. Its a rush of emotions. In Claires case, its being stuck in the "fight or flight" response. She knows she's a big strong Dinotrux standing 37 feet tall, has a wrecking ball on her tail and one of the most powerful bite forces of all land trux. She is a predator, in nature her kind KILLS. But she feels like prey, wich is very humilliating for a T Trux. Adding hyperventilating and trembling too. Claires panic attacks are a mix of humilliation and pure fear. At least that how i wrote it so 🤷♂️ thank you
#dinotrux#writers on tumblr#dinotruxnewdawn#poor baby :(#character writing#my way#yes more dinotrux stuff leave me alone#Claire is so traumatized what di i do to this poor girlie#yeet
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how do you feel about the whole 'phantom ruby originated from The End' theory. i personally love it, the cyber corruption sonic gets is like a mild version of what infinite has to deal with every day & there's more voices fucking w him
OKAY tbh originally i didnt think id have too much to say on this(and i still might not lol but Im Thinking really hard abt it so it COUNTS !!!!!) n whatever cause i personally don't really give a shit abt sonic frontiers it just doesnt intrigue me as a Complete *thing*
HOWEVER !!!!!!!!!!!!
i just watched like over an hours worth of End related videos and????????? THIS SHITS CRAZYYYYYY its so insane how this fits in w my lore n shit 4 the phantom rubies personally (Sega upholding the tradition of stealing ideas directly from my brain<33 im just that good😏)
my actually genuine reaction when the celestial bodies n space rocks r sentient w power that rivals the chaos emeralds:
LIKEEEE. okay. okay. not to be infifi lorepilled on main r anything. *i explode💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥*
I THINK ITS A VERY FUN IDEA. idk how i feel abt the phantom rubies coming directly from The End but i can def see how they can be related to each other, esp knocking sonic out of his super form briefly COME ONNN literally phantom ruby reference?!?!!?. i rest my case💼. i still dont think i know enough about The End to give a full comparative analysis on The End and pts abilities n such but i can 100% see the correlation anf thinks its a VERY VERY fun idea even if i dont necessarily agree w them being one n the same... ill have to do more research n come back to this for sure.
ill end this w a silly thought of my own though(lmk if this has already been said lol... i dont keep up w all this lol): obv ive seen ppl compare the dialouge of The End and infinite..... AND. hear me out if we were to run w the phantom rubies and End being of similar origin and ignore every other supplementary material that expounds on infinite besides Sonic Forces there is a teeny tiny bit of room to consider infinite rock possession😳 like the way they speak in certain contexts is similar and like.... if we can consider the phantom rubies as vessels that serve as an extension of The Ends power perhaps....?😳😳😳
OBV ik this is a MASSIVE stretch and isnt fully backed by canon but. a silly theory to consider to regardless lol. if someone else has already come up w this idcccc its mine now. bajabnsbbd
#asks#woven#didnt touch on the cyber corruption bit specifically cause i idnt think i had much to add........ n i dont really know the extent of The End#s power n whatnot so i cant say for certain butttt sonic cybercorruption bit is interesting but also id say its also a reason i DONT think#The End and the phantom rubies r too closely related. tails said that sonic was 'stuck between realities' n if this is directly related to#The End then it would imply that the The End n the ohantom rubies powers. while similar. dont exactly line up#it seems like to me based on the. WAIT#wait hold on i just thought of thi mid thought. fuckkkk okay#i was Going to say Teh End and the ohantom runies powers r similar but not one to one cause it seems like to me The End is more related to#like actually other realities whereas the ohantom rubies power obv deals more in the augmented reality sorta thing. BUT THEN i just#remembered that null space is real and a Thing so. HJWBSJBDBWJSH#so much to consider !!!!!!!!!! will def have to look more into this...#this is literally gonna keep me up tonight damn you man !!!!!!! jwnkdbndb#interesting..... very interesting...... *i pace around the room intensely*#also i literallyyy had the sentient space rock thing before frontiers even came out I HAD ITTTT I HAD IT!!!!!!#sega is tauntig me ik it....... augh !!!!#anywayss. goes insane<33333
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