#another weaboo post from me

[phantom-of-the-memes]

Please read before sending me an ask about Irish stuff

I am not going to be answering the same asks over and over again, so just to reiterate my OPINIONS.

Point number one:

Before you send me an essay an how you’re actually Irish and not American, please ask yourself this question: We’re you born and raised in America? Yes? Then you’re American! It’s really that simple.

Being Irish is a nationality and a culture. You’re Irish through lived experience in the country. Yes maybe you have Irish ancestry, that’s correct to say, but culturally and nationality wise you are American.

And you have to ask yourself why it is that you cling to the Irish part of your DNA and not any other country you have nationality from. That’s why it annoys us so much. It’s Celtic-weaboo behaviour.

Another reason it annoys us so much, especially with recent events in Ireland, is that it’s equating having “Irish blood” to the identity of being Irish. You can have zero Irish DNA but be Irish because of lived experience in the culture/ country! You’re not “more Irish” than actual Irish citizens who were born and raised here, but don’t have Irish ancestry.

Point number two:

Before sending me an ask demanding to know if you can learn Irish, just to reiterate, I never said it was a closed language that only Irish people to learn. Do whatever the fuck you want.

My point was connected with the Irish ancestry thing, and what your reasonings were for learning it. Yes it’s not a closed language, but we are touchy about it since it was taken from us.

Learning it because you “are Irish”, or for a little gimmick, or because it’s a “fairy, bog, cottage core, leprechaun” language, just annoys me personally. It’s very important to us and I just wish for people to respect it.

The view that people have that annoys me the most though is having a saviour complex when learning it. You random person in America are not single handedly reviving the language and saving it.

What we want from restoring Irish is for the people of Ireland to be able to speak it and for using it to be more common place. I mean yeah sure if people from all around the world spoke it in the future too that’d be great. But restoring a language means restoring it to the country it’s from. You learning it on duolingo in America is not “saving us”.

It’s just a nasty attitude to have. I got an ask from some American saying they wanted to use some Irish words in a comic they were writing to “spread awareness” about the language, and asking “my opinion of using the language to restore it”…

First of all, awareness doesn’t need to be spread. Everyone in Ireland knows what Irish is, we all learn it in school. What needs to happen is the use of the language outside of school, because we all forget it once we finish secondary school. I made a post correcting people in calling it Gaelic, because that’s the Scottish language. But my point wasn’t to “raise awareness”.

Secondly, omg the saviour complex? What the fuck do you mean what is my opinion on using the language to restore it? Like rhetorical question much. What, was I, an Irish speaker who loves the language so much, going to say “no fuck that, let’s never use the language and let it die”?. Just say you want praise and go.

And on that, it’s not a dead language! It’s endangered, but don’t say it’s dead.

Point number three:

People be sending me asks demanding I dox myself and tell them “where exactly I’m from in Ireland” to prove I’m Irish.

I don’t need to do that. I’m Irish. All you need to know is that I’m from the Republic of Ireland. I was born here, and have lived here my whole life.

Lastly:

I don’t know how many times I can say this over and over, but these are simply my personal opinions.

You don’t agree with me? Great! I don’t care, you do you.

[jacquelinemerritt]

Dragon Ball Z: Abridged - Christmas Tree of Might Review

Originally posted on December 25th, 2015

Goku starring in a Christmas special somehow makes perfect sense.

It is incredibly strange to me the ease with which Team Four Star blends the themes characteristic of a Christmas special with the universe of Dragonball Z. The idea that Goku would be the most stalwart defender of Christmas in the universe works surprisingly well, and making it so the Tree of Might sucks the Joy of ChristmasTM from the earth instead of its energy is a change that I didn’t question for a second.

I’m also reminded of Princess Snake, and I see this film as a good indicator of the growth experienced by Team Four Star between then and now. Back then, they wrote an entire episode based on the (unfunny) joke that Princess Snake and Solid Snake share the same name, so why not have her voice be a (albeit decent) David Hayter impression? With this film though, Team Four Star has taken the strange concept of a Dragonball Z Christmas film and built upon that in every possible aspect.

Part of the success of this is that they go out of their way to imbue every aspect of the film with signifiers of the Christmas season; the inclusion of Christmas music at every opportunity is one of the tricks they use most often, and their use of a metal rendition of “Deck the Halls” as the theme for the destruction of the earth is particularly clever.

All of the villains being “misfit minions” of Christmas is a great touch as well, and though the casual mentions of animal rape and child molestation tip slightly over the line of good taste, it’s still made very clear that these villains are just the type of despicable who would wish to destroy Christmas.

Except for Turle, that is. His story of the injustice of Freeza Day is just unfortunate enough to raise the question of whether or not we have a right to celebrate joy and peace when many around us are suffering, and Team Four Star wisely leaves that question unanswered. Even the reveal that Santa didn’t visit planet Vegeta out of fear for his own safety calls into question our willingness to actually spread the love we preach during this holiday.

Another significant moral question is raised when Gohan passingly mentions the rise of depression and suicides during the holidays, as he makes fun of Yamcha for his obsession with material possession causing him to feel destitute. Who’d have thought that a comedic adaptation of a silly Japanese anime would raise such significant questions about our holiday?

Rating: 4.5/5

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Stray Observations

I love that Krillin’s wish for a kickass Christmas tree is the reason for Turle and his gang’s arrival.

King Kai: “Are we laughing at Yamcha, ‘cause I’m always up for that.”

Gohan: “Santa’s just gonna bring me books again.”

Chi Chi: “He brings you what you like, and what do you like?”

Gohan: “I like books!”

Gohan: “Don’t talk s*** about Santa!”

Jinga: “Jinga!”

Beru: “And Beru!”

Tien: “F***ING WEABOOS!”

“This is so non-canon it hurts.”

Goku: “What’d you get for Freeza Day?”

Turle: “He blew our planet up!”

Merry Christmas, everyone!

[madeofvoid]

Just FYI, it's kind of messed up to call Toshiro (Shuro) a 'bitch ass weaboo shit', regardless of your opinion of him, he's a Japanese man written by a Japanese mangaka. 'Weaboo' has really negative connotations with Japanese people, mostly because of how it's been used by people to refer to anyone excessively obsessed with anime and Japanese culture. I'm not even going to say anything else about the rest of that post because I can't even find the words for it.

People can enjoy things however they want, whether in depth or shallow. But please think before you post stuff like this. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt and guess you were just trying to be funny or cute but that's not an excuse to act in a way that can easily be construed as racist, regardless of your intentions.

I'm glad you're enjoying Dungeon Meshi, and I'm glad you're having fun. Please have a good night.

Oh boy. One of these messages. I've only heard of them in legend. Alright.

Hi anon, I'm nora madeofvoid, and I've written four published papers on the subject of racism and ethnic diversity, as well as a few on sociology and modern culture. I was once the lead TA to the Dean of Sociology at my university. I have been a keynote speaker at events with congressmen in attendance. I have been lectured by them in turn at those same conventions(god i wish tampa 2018's closing ceremony was on youtube, what a riot). All of this to say, with full honesty and in good faith, that I am probably the worst person to open this discussion with in a freeform environment; I have no reason to be concise. Conclusions and TL;DR the bottom because I've had no better use for this part of my degree in 4 years and I will not shut up. That said, I'm not bothering to be collegiate on tumblr, either. Oh, and fair warning I'm not a good person. That shit is tiring.

You make a fair point. But the rest of the initial post provided context and perspective of which to view what I intended to be a haha funnee rant about a fictional man with a samurai sword.

First. Suspend your disbelief. Shuro exists as an analog of eastern culture as a whole in a world where the countries and culture as we know which (presumably) only exist in a handwavey "the east is where that comes from" fantasy way. Japan does not exist here, so I didn't bother thinking of it. This is where Elden Ring comes in. Another fantasy world with landmasses which are presumably analagous to ours and cultures that may or may not have developed in an absolute hellscape that are analagous to ours. But they are not ours. We view them through this lens as a way of gaining perspective and familiarity with a world that is entirely alien.

So, I have to disagree with the racism bit. Because it fundamentally can't be. And I, understanding this, made fun of the next best thing: his RPG class. In rpgs, there is often a class that makes you a samurai. be it the literal samurai class in FFXIV, or the katana/bleed builds in Elden Ring. In both cases, picking them opens you up to being called a weeb. I hate to say this specific phrase, but back in my day that was a term of lighthearted namecalling and endearment. Had I called him a squinty bug eyed rice picker, now THAT would be racist. Not to Shuro, but to actual real life asian people(to whom I apologize for that). And that's what you pointed out, so we agree there. Same with caling kabru a melon muncher. explicitly racist. Not to him; for all we know that mentalist weirdo has never seen a watermelon before. But that would be racist to blacks(scholarly designation referring to peoples of the pan-african persuasion as a whole. please don't make me go through my papers to find the citations)

I apologize if I put you off there with the most racist things I could think of as an example, but thats exactly what those are. Examples of what I would consider racist in the first place. Notice that I called Kabru a "mentalist weirdo" instead of anything else. A dig at his toolkit instead of him directly. Thats how to ethically insult a person, by the way. You could call me a wackjob airhead mad scientist, and that'd be on the same level.

I'm not going to say that calling a Japanese man a weeb isn't racist. Because I don't fucking know. You're telling me it is, and I trust your good faith opinion. Was Shuro's race what I was aiming at? No. Couldn't have been. He's not Japanese. His race is Tallman. He is a Tallman from the vaguely defined "east." And for some reason he has a samurai sword. Weeb shit of the human-noble-fighter variety. Anyone who has played an RPG will call that out. A better comparison would be calling a fantasy city guard a pig as a nod to real world cops. A dig at the toolkit, nothing more.

In conclusion, while Shuro's fictional culture can be read as an analog of real world Japan, the man himself is not Japanese. He isn't even Human, or H.Sapiens Sapiens. He's a Tallman. He is a Tallman from a vaguely defined region of the world that in some ways mirrors asian culture, but is still fundamentally different. Hater that I am, I cannot in good or bad faith toss racial slurs at him. Doesn't apply. So I aimed at his RPG class, human noble fighter with a samurai sword. Which, if you've ever sat down for a TTRPG or partied up with someone who plays that class in an MMO, they're all weebs. That in mind, I called him a weeaboo shit. Because as far as I'm concerned thats the best way to shit talk him without becoming a PragerU talkpiece.

You brought up Japan there, not me. And you responded based on your own viewing of a show, whether in depth or shallow, and applied it to the real world. Personally, I'd call that a surface level observation. It's too easy to look at a fantasy character from "the east" and call them Japanese. Thats only the first layer. Kinda fucked up if you think about it long enough.

Tl;DR You can't be racist to fictional characters themselves. The cultures they represent, yes, but only if they are explicitly from that culture. This is not an isekai. Shuro is not a Japanese man, so the rules don't apply. The weebshit comment was aimed at his RPG class, hence the elden ring references. Learn to suspend your disbelief when interacting with shows. You'll stress yourself less. Enjoy Dunmeshi.

[jason-hit-the-ball]

Sorry, the old Prussia can't come to the phone right now. Why? Oh,

BECAUSE HES DEAD

[billsfangearring]

So you want to read about 2000s Harry Potter fandom drama

Let me introduce you to my favorite subreddit, r/hobbydrama, by way of posts about some of the most sordid moments in early Harry Potter fandom history.

Content warning: While most of these are amusing Internet dramas, the first one is genuinely awful, as will be clear from the summary.

I've put them in chronological order and pulled the summaries from the posts. Many thanks to everyone on Reddit who put these posts together!

Popular author turns out to be a cult leader (Late 1990s-2015*)

TL;DR: A famous fanfiction author turns out to be a real creep. He uses a lot of pseudonyms and sockpuppets, convinces some of his fans to move in with him, claims to mind-meld with fictional characters, insists his fanfiction is better than Harry Potter itself, and has questionable views on women. Oh, and he was involved in a triple homicide and used the girl's death for fun and profit.

*Edited to fix my "2005" typo. Sorry! Thank you @olderthannetfic for the catch.

The Cassandra Cla(i)re Saga (2000-2016)

TL;DR: The author of the fanfic trilogy that popularized “Draco in Leather Pants” is also a famous YA author, with a long, complicated history involving fandom drama and Ginny/Ron romance fic.

Married to Severus Snape on the Astral Plane: The Story of the Religion of Snapewives (early 2000s-early 2010s)

TL;DR: There was an actual religion centering on Severus Snape, who was portrayed as an eternal and divine being similar to the Christian God. It had theological arguments, early schisms, and its own vows and prayers, which were all taken completely seriously by its followers, the Snapeists.

Bored woman creates 12+ sockpuppet accounts, becomes a fandom celebrity (2002-2006)

TL;DR: Woman wants to be a part of the popular clique, uses a combination of ridiculous lies, made-up fangirls, and Christian strawmen sockpuppets to build up enough fame to join the popular clique. Is eventually exposed.

J.K. Rowling's husband's "fake" appendicitis, symbolic hippogriff romance, evil Chinese abortions, and the genetics of shipping the wrong ships: tales from the Harmony vs. Ronmione ship war (2005-2007)

A not-so-brief, still not at all comprehensive account of some of the earliest, stupidest Harry Potter shipping drama. Many thanks to the archived remnants of Fan Wank for detailing all of this, and to the people who made this extra funny by coming up with some of the most batshit ship names and insults I’ve ever seen. Merlin bless the good ship Ronmione/Romione/Heron/whateverthefuck, long may she sail. And, though the HMS Harmony/PumpkinPie/whateverthefuckelse capsized long ago, may her memory live on.

Goffick Harry Potter and Fabricated Child Abuse: The Saga of My Immortal (2006-2007, 2017)

Here’s another summary of ridiculous internet drama. This time, it involves Hermione Granger being an emo weaboo who speaks exclusively in broken Japanese, a satanist vampire Harry Potter whose scar has turned itself into a pentagram, a teenage girl’s shitty Mary Sue who gets darker and edgier with every passing chapter, and a YA author desperate to capitalize on the unlikely success of an infamous fanfic published a decade ago. Welcome to the increasingly weird saga of My Immortal.

[numptypylon]

Did another run through the face angle template I made, trying a simpler style with just Rayla.

I had specific or vague things in mind for some of them, feel free to ask if you’re curious!

Wee Rayla: -3B and 2B: Braids!Rayla from Bloodmoon Huntress and a middleschool dance hair fail special edition 😄

Fanfic AU Raylas: -3C and 1C: after and before haircut from @iwillhaveamoonbase’s Guide Me Through This Song, -2B: Sidecut!Rayla from @zuppizup’s Purgatory, 3C: Homeward Bound human Rayla

Miscellaneous: -2C: 4-horn concept art Rayla, -1C: Post-TTM Rayla, 1B: Homemade Shounen hair weaboo Rayla

[rory294]

thegrandkahuna33/object-battle / /let5-ago

hey, this is a lot on one post, so i made a carrd. i update it whenever i find new stuff so come check back at it once and awhile. enjoy,

https://puffycheeksanon.carrd.co/

thegrandkahuna33/object-battle /let5-ago is a dirty pedo

he likes asking kids to draw fetish art because he thinks its cute

if you look on his blog and see what he follows, you will see some pretty ugly faces. not cute at all

the third one is a dumb weaboo blog, but these two are straight up fetish blogs. tell me, does that look “cute” to you? i think not.

lets look at @heavingandpuffing​ because thats where the real dirt is

the first image is a cartoon woman pissing herself while holding her breath. that is not cute at all and everyone knows pee kinks exists. i’m not going to post that here because its gross but you can see it vaguely in the picture above.

the image of sandy cheeks you see is what i’m focusing on here into detail about a spongebob character drowning. if you go the bottom of the post, you will see a few lines of gibberish, almost like the user tried to make tags and failed

this is listed as “fetish” and “kink”

i am not saying these two blogs are the same person. i am just showing that alolaace/drv34 is a dirty ol peeedo who likes tricking kids into drawing fetish art.

he has changed his url from momo5yu to pummol88 because he’s a dirty little pedo on the run

he has changed his url from pummol88 to pokemonfan77 because he’s a dirty little pedo on the run. take note on how he removed the blog i mentioned but kept the other ugly ass blog up. its still fetish you silly pedo

he has changed his url from pummol88 to smlover3 because he’s a dirty little pedo on the run. of course someone as tasteless and brain dead as this motherfucker would watch something like that. he’s also removed the other fetish blog in his follows. this is him admitting that yes, it’s a fetish. yes he wanks off to it and no he doesn’t care if he tries to trick children into drawing it. what a pathetic life to live.

he has changed his url from smlover3 to super-mario-67 because he’s a dirty little pedo on the run. at this point he knows i’m here but is a little pussy bitch to do anything.

he has changed his url from super-mario-67 to Pokeblog5 because he’s a dirty little pedo on the run. he’s also made his blog dashboard only because another victim has spoken up. i would recommend checking out their post. love how this spineless little freak is so pathetic that he can’t confront me but continues to harass minors. typical pedo behavior i say. 

pokeblog5 has completely abandoned his blog altogether and became  danganfan7. unfortunately tumblr loves pedos so they took down one of the other blogs against him but honestly it’s sad to see the experience i gave him wasn’t terrible enough to make him go away. shame shame. just means i have to try harder ;)

so it’s been awhile but this guy’s swapped from his previous usernames and split himself in half! he’s got both drv34 and alolaace take note that he has two different ages on his profiles.

this is very much him trying to bring his sockpuppet brother here, despite being really fucking stupid and making him act JUST like him.

Oh, he also made a funny little post, I’ll link it here so you can roast or block as you please.

yikes, i don’t know why he keeps trying considering he’s made this kind of post before and all it’s done is given him harassment. very pedoy behavior here, imagine having to jump through this many hoops just to convince a bunch of strangers that you don’t jack off to “puffy faces”. couldn’t be me. also take note of the piss poor excuse to keep bothering minors. nasty.

another thing to mention is that he’s prone to send anon hate like a little bitch, here’s a screenshot from someone who wanted to stay anonymous.

honestly, if this guy hit my way with anon hate (he won’t because asks are off and again he’s a little bitch) it would make me laugh. I would show my friends on discord his ask and we’d just make fun of him. lol

Want more reasons to hate this thickskulled prick? Well here you go, ablest slurs!

I censored the person’s icon because I’m sure they don’t want anything to do with this but its nice to see we all live in this dickbutt’s head rent free (i mean it’s not too hard because he’s got such a small brain LMAO)

here’s puffycheeks Mcpedo using his sockpuppet account to send anon hate, not even hiding that it’s him lmao

hey remember on your DA about when you said you take medication so you don’t do bad things? yeeah maybe get a higher dosage dude.

Found another sockpuppet account YEEHAW -->gogogreg

Apparently he has several deviantart accounts in which he uses to prey on kids. typical pedo behavior strikes again. Would be a shame if I plastered them here for all to see!

Oopsies! Oops again! lets hope no one raids or reports them teehee

Good news! We found his furaffinty account! I will not be linking it here because it’s full disgusting crap in his favorites but his username is ugochu. If you ever need proof that this guy’s got puffy cheek fetish, just check there!

It seems he’s slowly becoming aware that people are going to kick him in the teeth whenever he sends anything, so being the groomer he is, puffy’s decided to become a total creep in dms!

Silly dipshit, now you REALLY look like a pedo! if you get a dm asking to draw you stuff privately, block it right away!

He still goin god damn!

literally sounding like a child groomer my dude

[pxppinmolly-archived]

I’ve done some thinking since this morning (last night?) and I decided to make a post.

This is by no means really a ‘call out post’ in the sense of like... Me wanting to start drama, or wanting a witch hunt or ‘cancelling’ someone. But more of the fact of me making something aware to the public that I tried to settle civilly but it’s come to my attention that my respect, privacy, and wishes are being violated still.

Now I reiterate, I do not want anyone sending them hate or any sort of harassment for me or in my name. I do not condone it and I am not trying to condone it. I am merely making my followers aware of an issue I have with someone, and if they choose to want to block/stop interacting, fine. If they still choose to interact regardless ... I don’t really care. I just want accountability and I don’t wanna sit on this and be forced to stay quiet, you know?

Do with this information what you will, because in the end I don’t care what your choice is and it doesn’t affect me personally very much. I just, again, want this to be made aware at the least and hoping with it out in the open that it may finally stop.

@/pinkpizza///pasta//spider//princess22 has in the past, and has continued, to steal content from me. She has been following me before she made her blog, and I even helped her in the creation of her RP blog and offered her help with certain RPC things, even. I know she has been following me for quite a while beforehand because she used to like all my content in my activity feed.

On her blog she has made HC posts that were similar to mine, but at one point she straight up just copy and pasted what I wrote and posted it as if she wrote it. I originally forgave her for it, because I am too kind for my own good and I felt for her since she seemed genuine and she was a long time follower and supporter of my content.

However, I was soon made aware that she has continued to steal my content, both via reblogging my queued posts (The aesthetics and musings) AND, more egregiously, copying my headcanons YET AGAIN but merely changing the wording/wording them herself. Not ONLY that, but even my OOC POSTS and some of my IC POSTS they would end up regurgitating the SAME THING but worded differently not too long after I posted them.

I decided and went and blocked both the sideblog and main account, and told them to stay off my blog and to stop taking my content. They sent me an anon apologizing to me, because Tumblr’s block system is a joke, and I once again told them to respect my wishes and stay off my blog.

However, it seems that they are still on my blog, as they have recently reblogged 95 percent of my queued posts from yesterday in the same order I posted them, on TOP of having the same ‘pride icon’ as me with the Italian flag. Which is also something I did last year. And, I forgot to mention, that they did also use the same theme I was using since the start of my blog that I only finally changed sometime last year.  Which, I didn’t mind at the time, but on top of EVERYTHING ELSE... It just makes me a lil’ :’/ yk?

But yes, it seems to me they are STILL lurking on my blog. Which, if you are reading this, mun, I am telling you once again to stay off my blog and stop taking my content.

On another note that isn’t related to me, however. I do want to say and point out the racism on their account with the ‘Italianese’, the mixing of Japanese and Italian. It’s possible to be mixed, certainly, but the way they portray and go about Molly being both of these is ... Insensitive, to put it lightly. It very well comes from a place of ignorance and, forgive me for saying, a ‘weaboo sense of Japanese culture’. Between the random mixing of Italian and Japanese words together to make ‘Italianese language’ and also just mixing both languages together, both even written improperly, the obvious ‘westernized view of japanese culture’ with the art and way they write it all, it’s just very ... Ignorant, in my opinion.

However, I will also state I am a white woman so I really can’t speak too much and say it’s racist, but I will say from my perspective and the perspective of others who I shared with seem to agree it DOES seem like it’s all coming from a place of ignorance. Again, if you ARE reading this, Mun, please reflect and take this information and work better.

I do not wish ill will on anyone involved. I don’t. This is just me taking a personal issue and making it public after trying to settle things as privately as I can prior without publicly name dropping, but since my wishes as I said are still being disrespected, I wanted to make it public so people were just made aware and also to hold some accountability.

Again, if you still want to interact that’s FINE. I don’t care. I just wanted this to be known instead of sitting on it and feeling like I can’t speak up about the mistreatment and unfairness I have been faced after being nothing but kind and respectful.

[itonje]

HI ur comment on my post abt how edward I activey tried to discourage notions of arthur returning was super interesting and i will be honest i dont know anything about edward I, if you want to i would love to hear your expanded thoughts on that? (also i dont actually know what his deal is lol)

hi rey! i have been wanting to talk about this cunt for months so thank you for giving me an opportunity to talk about him. for a little bit of background, edward i was the king of england from 1272 to 1307, and while he had a very important hand in english legislation he did a lot of things irt to his rule that i find...very unsavory (the conquest of scotland and the wars that followed as a result, he was the king who expelled the jewish people from england, went on a crusade etc etc) but particularly irt to this ask edward led a full conquest of wales and put the welsh under english law as opposed to the principality that wales was under after first being conquered by the normans, fully colonizing them. the edwardian castles in wales today (ala conwy) were constructed by him as an example of like, his way of flexing colonial power i suppose. 

anyways, he also took a high interest in arthurian legend! he even built his own round table that he put up in winchester castle with the names of arthur’s knights on it. now we get to arthur’s tomb. in 1190, monks at glastonbury claimed to have discovered the tomb of arthur and guinevere, finding remains with a cross describing [there are actually various accounts on what this cross actually says but the most famous today is ‘hic iacet arturus rex quondam rexque futurus’]. (the abbey itself had suffered numerous damages in recent history and there were less pilgrimages so this probably was a publicity stunt but thats just a theory a film theory). anyways, edward i, known arthur weaboo, held a grand ceremony to rebury the remains in 1278. 

now take what i’m about to say with a grain of salt because most if not all of the information we have on this comes from not welsh not breton not cornish sources (excluding figures like... geoffrey of monmouth because a. half of what he wrote about he was very much aware was just made up by him and b. this guy has more ethnicity debates than ariana grande.) but many norman texts say that the britons (like...people speaking brittonic languages) believed that king arthur would return and save them, particularly the welsh were attested to believe that arthur would take back the land that had been colonized by the english. there aren’t any extant welsh texts that explicitly hold the belief that arthur will return to save them, but stuff like armes prydein does attest to heroes who would finally drive the english out of britain so it’s possible there could have been a conflation with arthur, another welsh hero, in these anglo/norman accounts because they wouldn’t be intimately familiar with the actual belief...that IS just a literal crack theory of mine though. 

and here’s where we tie this all together: edward i, truly proclaiming arthur dead, could have used the image of him putting arthur in the grave as political propaganda. gerald of wales’ account of the exhumation of arthur certainly seems to believe so, saying that now arthur has been proven dead the welsh can’t keep telling themselves their fairy tales and have to accept the truth (ie, edward as their king), in an attempt to dispirit the people of wales to discourage further rebellion. granted, it’s not like other *english* kings themselves didn’t use the image of arthur’s return, lots of kings tried to emulate or play pretend i suppose at arthur and his court, even post medievally henry vii used arthur in his claim to the english throne (granted the tudors were of welsh origin so...i suppose that lends more credit to the idea this was a belief among the welsh in the first place) 

and like you said in your original post, the idea of king arthur’s messianic return is now very much an english ethnonationalist + monarchist thing, even if it had originally started out as a belief by a colonized people when it came to aid irt to reclaiming their power it serves as the complete opposite now. 

anyways this post kind of leads nowhere but i do think the idea of edward i using arthur, a welsh hero, to justify and solidify his wretched colonization and conquest by putting arthur in the grave and therefore killing further hope of english expulsion from britain both has some merit to it as well as just being. very interesting to think on in general when it comes to colonial propaganda and how colonizers warp the beliefs of the colonized to better suit their interests. (mentally i’m linking parallels to catholicism’s mingling with indigenous religion in spanish colonies during the colonial age as manipulated by the spanish right now). it’s all very depressing. 

[knightimehopes]

The Conversation.

Ult Dirk: …

Ult Dirk: I know you’re here, and listening.

Ult Dirk: You have no choice but to listen to this, so save yourself the trouble and show yourself.

Ult Dirk: We need to talk, and I’m not interested in you being a whiny, adamant little shit about it.

Ult Dirk: There you go, the young Prince finally got his ass in gear.

Ult Dirk: It took you long enough, I had thought I’d needed to taunt you out like one of those seductive pole dancers that old Earth apparently liked. Of course, nobody actually cares about that.

Ult Dirk: The web of realities finally connect to bring us to this very moment, tying together into a tapestry of universes showing off our huge ass face as if we needed a huge display of our collective ego any more than we did.

Ult Dirk: Which I did of course.

Ult Dirk: We were meant to speak again, in order to get to the true fucking culspe of our narrative importance.

Dirk: (Jesus fucking Christ.)

Ult Dirk: Look, I’ll get to the point.

Dirk: That’s a first.

Dirk: Thought you were going to suck off your own dick of infinite splinters for fifty hours so you can spout shit about random philosophy I’m pretty sure you don’t actually give a flying fuck about.

Ult Dirk: Do you really want to go down the road of selfcest?

Ult Dirk: I know you hate me, but let’s have mercy on the both of us and not bring that topic into this.

Ult Dirk: I’m not a fan.

Dirk: Aren’t you the motherfucker who said, and I quote;

Dirk: “I had thought I’d needed to taunt you out like one of those seductive pole dancers that old Earth apparently liked.”?

Dirk: I wasn’t the one who began to say the creepiest shit to a sixteen year old version of myself.

Dirk: So grow the fuck up and get to the point.

Ult Dirk: I won’t fall for your childish insults, because you clearly have no idea about the importance of this conversation.

Ult Dirk: I’m pretty sure this is the only point you’ll actually find any relevance in any timeline, and even that is a stretch.

Ult Dirk: You’re not something of worth because of your own actions, and you should honestly be thanking me that I brought you here.

Ult Dirk: Limelight finally shines upon your insignificant self, for the third time mind you.

Ult Dirk: This is your last chance to accept my offer, and I will tell you one. Last. Time.

Ult Dirk: I want you to allow me to use your body as my vessel in your universe.

Ult Dirk: I have my limits on where my influence can get to, as you know. I actually only cared about this timeline having my control dominationg it, at first.

Ult Dirk: But I had an epiphany.

Ult Dirk: Your timeline, among others, is within the Alpha timeline, as surprising as I’m sure you think it is.

Ult Dirk: A gleaming beacon shining through the god damn garbage of dumbass timelines that have no bearing on anyone or anything.

Ult Dirk: So I thought this;

Ult Dirk: You can help me bring your timeline, and universe along with it, to true narrative supremacy alongside mine.

Ult Dirk: Disagree with me if you want, go on ahead, but consider my offer before you decide to make yourself a fucking waste.

Ult Dirk: Everyone benefits from an actual point for existing, Dirk. Your friends are hellbound towards meaninglessness and redundancy, repeating the same old actions and the same old routine. You’ll get sick of it eventually, all of you will.

Ult Dirk: This cannot be stressed enough, you just can’t give up my chance to attain continuous relevancy. People won’t watch a story without enlarged stakes, and my supreme domination with thousands of stories to come will keep us in the public eye for a long, long while.

Ult Dirk: Make your choice wise-

Dirk: Okay, shut the everloving fuck up, please.

Dirk: I’ve had my patience with you the first two times.

Dirk: But it’s worn thin.

Dirk: Nobody is interested in an out of character incel who’s decided that the only way he’ll look appealing is if he cosplays in the worst Kamina cosplay anyone’s seen in decades.

Dirk: No one, and I mean no one, is going to give a fuck about what some random pompous poofy pants asshole says in his psychotic ramblings about some “Narrative” or whatever the fuck you keep spouting on and on with.

Dirk: Speaking of, what the fuck even is this long winded metaphor of yours that you keep on mentioning with readers and stories anyways? It’s gotten old after the first fucking mention of it.

Dirk: There is no goddamn point to anything you’re even saying with it, at least I have a method to the shitty fucking madness that is my life that I put all my friends through.

Dirk: You’re just spouting shit and acting out without even understanding the ramifications or even acknowledging how much of a shithead you come off as instead of how you want to be seen.

Dirk: Everybody knows you’re just putting on the act of being an all knowing holier than thou smug prick, but the only thing you are is a coward who can’t come to terms with anything.

Dirk: We’ve talked too many times, and you told me everything you did, and the only thing you accomplished is disgusting me more and more.

Dirk: I don’t know what got you to this point, how you got so far off the path we promised for ourselves.

Dirk: To be frank, I stopped giving a fuck when you told me what you did to our friends.

Dirk: You turned Jane into a facist Republican propaganda piece with your absolutely deplorable bullshit “narration” powers, you reduced Jake to a goddamn manchild who can’t even stand in front of a crowd without shitting himself.

Dirk: And I don’t even know if this is your fault or Roxy somehow was forced to lose brain cells, but for your Roxy, they’ve been essentially simplified into pink Dave at this goddamn point, not to mention that you’ve insulted them by not even dignifying their identity.

Dirk: That’s not even the beginning, mind you. But the fact that you decided that the people we loved for years deserved to be riduculed, infantalized, demonized, and reduced to imbeciles by your hand is something that you remotely deemed okay? That’s a transgression I can’t be anything but disgusted with you for.

Ult Dirk: You clearly misunderstand how inconsequential all you just criticized me for was and still is.

Ult Dirk: Dirk, misgendering and manipulation means nothing compared to what I have in store.

Ult Dirk: You don’t even have any proof to show that I did it in any case, all everyone knows is that I left on some mission that nobody fucking knows jack on.

Ult Dirk: How bad can I truly be, with just those as my only crimes?

Dirk: Perfect segway into how you kidnapped Rose, corrupted her, and manipulated her wife into believing everything I just stated and more was fucking okay by her when she clearly didn’t, and now she wants to fucking murder you, and so on.

Dirk: Not to mention, John Egbert.

Ult Dirk: I didn’t do anything to John.

Ult Dirk: Bare in mind that it still was useful for getting the Seer of Mind on my side, regardless of the blame for his death. Seriously, how the hell did I do anything to a guy far out of my reach?

Dirk: Sure, because you totally didn’t bullshit the concept of “Cherub Poison” that essentially one shot kills god tiers and completely bypasses our complete bullshit deus ex machina known as conditional immortality.

Dirk: Either way, doesn’t excuse that you used his death to manipulate a grieving woman either. I can go on, but seriously.

Dirk: It baffles me that you think any of this fucking shit is remotely excuseable. We’re done here.

Dirk: Get a life, you sorry sack of shit. You don’t even deserve any of the similes turned defemations or symbolic insults I can come up with right now.

Ult Dirk: You go when I say you go.

Ult Dirk: You want to play a game?

Ult Dirk: Fine.

Ult Dirk: I’ll humor you.

Ult Dirk: I want to-

Dirk: -Play a game in which I’m still a piece of shit trying to manipulate another person around him into his twisted schemes.

Dirk: That’s what you should have gone on to end it with. Because we know it’s the truth.

Dirk: Real fucking original line, by the way. Want to pull out the bro vs. bro strife drama out of your ass to add on to the shitty callback cake? Just sprinkle that shit on there?

Ult Dirk: You’ll never understand, will you?

Dirk: I could honestly say the same to you, especially when you try to look like the king of the weaboo neckbeards.

Ult Dirk: Don’t compare me to Tegiri Kalbur.

Dirk: Who the hell even is that? You know what, don’t care.

Dirk: What I’m saying is that despite your reasoning of this being all important because you’re suddenly the villain now out of left field, doesn’t explain how this has remotely any point to even happen in the first place.

Dirk: If you wanted relevance through this Sburb session you’re trying to set up, then think about it. Would anyone have complained about you going off to make some new alien species on a new planet? I doubt they actually would have, if you didn’t go off and specifically piss off everyone in your five hundred thousand mile vicinity.

Dirk: Hell, I guarantee some people would have wanted to help you out with some of this shit, it probably would have been an entertaining experience for some of the more scientifically minded folks in our social circle.

Dirk: Not that you care, you’ve made that pretty evident.

Ult Dirk: I’m not letting you leave.

Ult Dirk: This decision has long left your capability to effect it. I gave you your chances to assimilate with me willingly, and you chose to shit on my offers time and time again.

Ult Dirk: So you’ve left me no choice but to beat you down myself, and make sure you finally understand your place, and your role in the frameworks of my greatest masterpiece.

Ult Dirk: My words explaining to you how you don’t understand weren’t me flexing the muscles of my ego in your face, Dirk. It was an explanation on how futile your resistance truly is.

Ult Dirk: Come at me bro. We’ll make this happen.

Dirk: Finally, some words we can agree on.

Ult Dirk: And I’ll cut this off for the dumbass posting this to Tumblr of all places with a nice, shoddily made callback.

Seriously, Tumblr? You have a fanfic you can just as easily post all this to on AO3, you could have made your own website, but you chose Tumblr. This is what I get when I let a sixteen year old have the reigns.

If you want some context on this motherfucker, too bad. I’m not promoting shit for this child who thinks that my work is child’s play written by a band of idiots. They can do it themselves.

The next page will be up soon, so you can truly see who’s in charge here.

Until this bastard finishes the art, Dirk Strider, signing off. (God, that was the most moronic sentence I’ve had the displeasure to say. Of course they need me to sign off this way.)

Pg 1. You are Here

Pg 2. Coming Soon

Divergent Reality so far:

[oikaw-ugh]

Hallo, AJ BB! @oikawa-thegreatking ✨✨✨ I saw your post the other wanting to get matched up SO HERE I AM!

I tried to make it as accurate as possible with the little things I know about you but I feel like I won't wing this so forgive me in advance 🥺 but I match you with:

Nishinoya Yū

Because I feel like you're a very gentle person (w the way how our convos sometimes go).

And Nishinoya can just be...very too much for himself, yk? It's sometimes overflowing I feel like he needs to pour the energy out to someone.

You recently started watching some anime series, right?

I actually headcanon Nishinoya and Hinata as hardcore weabs!

So when you approached Nishinoya one day, asking him if he was watching *insert anime* judging from his screen, his eyes just went: 💖💖💖

"YOU WATCH THIS, TOO?!"

Nishinoya is gonna pester you starting to this day because of that. Before you knew it, you and Noya became friends!

He just likes talking to you when classes and practices are not yet starting.

"AJ! Have you listened to the new OST on the new arc?!" He asked you one day the moment you took a step in your class.

"Y/N, what episode are you now?!"

"Y/N, did you know about the theory of..."

He just feels so refreshed to talk about other stuff with other people.

I feel like...you two won't make it official? Because you like to be passive while Nishinoya expressed his self in actions more?

But dw. You two know that the other is very important and you literally act like you two are in the honeymoon stage ALWAYS.

Like, Tanaka just groans whenever he asks Noya about you two and Noya is just like:

"Oh? AJ? AJ's very special and important to me!"

And when some of you're friends ask you?

"Noya is very special to me."

Dates? Dates always involved anime! At his free time, the two of you would watch anime anywhere! It could be at the room, or at the rooftop, even the gym (when they're not starting yet). With you two sharing one headset, shoulders glued to one another as you share Nishinoya's phone.

He knew you're still kind of new so he wants to convert you to a weaboo A S A P .

Late night calls? Could be. Especially when Nishinoya always recommended you different anime series?

You'd call him out of the blue and he'd answer (of course) and you're like:

"I'm sorry. But I just want you to know I hate this black-haired character."

That or he'd call you to talk about random characters and you two would share ideas and theories.

You: "I actually think he's the secret villain."

Noya perking up from his bed: "AJ, ME TOO!"

Anime aside, one thing Nishinoya likes about you is YOU B A K E.

Idk of what other pastries you can bake other things bb so let's stick with cookies

He loved it so much when you asked him to try your cookies because it was a new recipe!

He went *Q*

"THESE ARE SO GOOD!"

He may or may have not accidentally blurted out how much he loves you 👀

You love hiking and going to the woods, right? Nishinoya tags along, too! And he always said it was a good alternative training just so he could go with you.

Everytime you both went at places he's never been, he gets more and more inspired to travel the world as soon as he graduates!

In which you totally support because how can we not when he says it so passionately? 🥺

Going to malls, theme parks is also a thing! Noya loves rides and those games where there are prizes at stake? He'd try every single one of them so he could give you the huge or cute prizes!

"Noya, it's okay-"

"No, no, last one!" -Noya for the nth time

You mentioned to him once that you love turquoise! And he was like: "Should I dye my blond streaks blue?"

Noya, no- 👁️👄👁️

It's not even blue it's turquoise

At fights, sometimes they could be very petty. Nishinoya loves to insist his points and though sometimes they could be irrational, he hates it when people correct him.

Fights circulate on screaming and non-stop rebuttals. As much as you want to tone your voices down, Noya's senseless anger can sometimes rile you up and before you knew it, the both of you are screaming at one another.

Both of you avoid each other - which is hard as the two of you literally do anything together.

The vb club and your friends would immediately sense something's wrong but they know that they shouldn't butt in as they'd only fuel your anger more.

But don't worry! Making up comes naturally, though. As days pass by, Noya and you wouldn't be able to avoid each other anymore. One of you (mostly Noya) would suddenly approach the other one and like:

"AJ/Noya, do you...want to watch...the *insert anime*'s new episode?"

Then you'd both watch and at first, you're both silent. Not until a scene comes in that makes you two laugh, or get pissed and before you knew it, you two have made up! And you two would casually insert "I'm sorry," in the middle.

In conclusion: Being with Noya is roller coaster ride! You both introduce into different things the other never thought they would try

AJ, I hope you like it! 🥺

[undeadimpulsereviews]

Update/Goblin Slayer

Hello everyone, a quick update. I’m moving the Muse Dash Review to Friday around 3. No issues, just thought I should talk about something real quickly that I felt needed some clarifications.

So, back when the anime for Goblin Slayer aired there was a huge controversy. It’s not so huge now but, to put things simply, it wasn’t a pretty situation. Around that time I gave my opinion on the subject and the rest is history. First and foremost; I am seriously surprised at the traction that article got. I thought I’d get some views but never the amount I currently have. I also didn’t think I’d get quite the response for it, nor did I think it would continue to this very day.

Looking back on the article there are many areas where I messed up; a lot of things I could have done better. People have reached out to me and gave me their opinion. Others did what people on the internet will do and, for most of those people, I just ignored them. A few of those replies, regardless of their content, did point out a couple things I felt needed some editing.

After Tumblr went through that so called purge of adult material; I haven’t been paying much mind to tumblr or my past reviews and editorials. I wanted to start fresh and this editorial was among that. Yet, there are still people either liking the post, of hating me/my opinion or what they believe is my opinion.

To start, I just recently got a reply that said “Omg imagine literally comparing being outraged to a sexualized rape scene that was clearly made to fap for to being outraged about a gay character.” It’s a stupid reply, and normally I’d pay it no mind, but the “gay character” line confused me. I never said anything about a gay character, but I had a feeling I know what was being talked about.

In my editorial I made a comparison about how the actions of the community during the Goblin Slayer debacle were a lot like the action revolving around a certain characters sexual orientation. This was a huge error on my part; I meant to say Gender Identity, which is a completely different thing.

This is not the first of my errors in the article, but it’s definitely one of the worst. Back then, I did check for errors, but more grammatical than contextual. If I could re-do this editorial it would no doubt be leagues better than this given the effort I put into making them now (in my opinion); however, I won’t fix these issues, and I won’t re-do the editorial. The controversy is long past, and I’ve spoke my piece.

Now back to what I said before; I was comparing the actions of people and the anime community involving Goblin Slayer to the action of the same groups involving Zombieland Saga and the character Lily Hoshikawa. Lily identifies as a girl but, as the anime hints, was born as a boy. The amount of backlash, hate, and threats people received for a one episode revelation, was appalling. I wasn’t trying to compare the content that people were getting angry about, but the lengths these people were going to in their anger.

Another reply I think should be addressed was this one “Not everyone has to like your shitty goblin rape anime you fucking weaboo” I said it in the editorial and I’ll say it again. I watched one episode of Goblin Slayer; still to this day have only seen that one episode. The editorial was never to 100% defend the anime; please don’t read this editorial with that impression. 

Lastly this reply “ You missed the whole point. Portraying rape isn't inherently a bad thing. But using it for cheap shock value in order to justify a genocidal crusade is extremely poor writing. Rape in media is almost always only used to motivate a hero -- twisting it so that instead of being about the struggle and pain of the victim, it's about the effect it has on the male protagonist instead. It's long past time we stopped victimizing women as a tool to uplift male characters.”

As I said, there were also many people who raised valid points about the scene and why it was a terrible scene. Are their opinions the end all be all, no, and neither is mine. I didn’t make it clear in the editorial, which is why I’m writing this. I never was trying to say every opinion on the scene, that says, it’s bad is wrong. From my initial viewing of the episode/scene, I didn’t examine thing thoroughly. From the original perspective it felt like a lot of claims I was hearing held little water; however, it wasn’t until I wrote this that actual worthwhile opinions showed themselves. There are things on both sides I can agree with and, even in the editorial, I wanted to convey that I don’t think the scene is a perfect depiction, or driving force, or what have you. Just that there are some stupid arguments as to why it’s bad, and that both those who hate the scene and those who defend it can and are in the wrong depending on how they’ve been approaching said debate.

Again thank you for the support you’ve shown with this editorial and other works I’ve posted before and after said work. As much as I’d like to fix every issue with my editorial and discuss each opinion that has come up about the editorial. It’s old news and I can’t dwell on it any more. I need to move forward and work harder. You can keep liking, reblogging, and replying; however, I’m done with the controversy. I’ve said my piece, just keep what I said in mind.

[lgbtsheep]

my aj characters

buckle in pardners cause this is gonna be a looong ride

ya this is gonna be a really long post lol

i finally got a membership!!!!!! so i can make a post with all my characters!!!! which ive been wanting to do for AGES

i’ll put my Main Kids here and then put a read more for those who are interested!

so get ready folks because this is like a big dysfunctional family

MAIN KIDS

Meadow

the “main” boi, the face of the whole group

usually manages stuff like den stores and trading

genderfluid, will go by any pronouns

pansexual

very friendly and sociable! he’s the one you see and think “i should talk to them”

lives in peck’s den, but needs to redecorate it

he loves his bedroom, even if desert went a little crazy decorating it...

this is his pet, Mumbleimus:

he’s a star and he knows it

will probably strike a pose for u

gender roles whomst? he only knows fashion

occasionally makes bad puns

Desert

secret mira fanboy

kind of edgy

tries to act mean or secluded but he’s not really that mean

he/him but he isn’t totally a binary dude

his sexuality is a mystery to everybody, even himself

his bird tendencies are. through the roof. he is just. so very bird.

wants to become a therapist stationed in the basement of secrets

lives in peck’s den or the treehouse

he......... lov his bed................

this is his pet, Musicalfrost!

desert’s PRIDE AND JOY, he would kill for this little gal

punk rock

might try and attack you

mischievous

Atom

me, but cooler

Hip With the Kids™

they/them

bisexual

starts celebrating halloween in august

probably a demon

cryptid and space enthusiast

lives in any of the dens, but most primarily peck’s den and the enchanted hollow

what a nerd.

this is their pet, Oddpebble!

a little fucking rascal

very good at percussion (he has many hands)

definitely a demon

lovable weirdo

Magical

THE OG!!!

very first animal, ever

literally just me

he/they

pansexual

has anxiety issues

tries very hard

huge nerd

lives with greencloud in the default den, but is putting together another den to move into

one of the nonmember kiddos

goes on the land missions/adventures

they really like plants

this is his pet, Windowbee!

kind of creepy but aesthetically pleasing

a lot like onion from steven universe

those feathers he’s holding are what remains of his enemies

Magical loves him

that’s all the main kiddos! the rest are under the cut!

PRIMARY KIDS

Greencloud

was going to be a tertiary, but he complained so much he became a primary

the cooler Magical

probably cooler than you

also hip with the kids

unmedicated ADHD

he/they

bisexual

kind of annoying

acts like he isnt trying, but he really is

lives in the default den

this is his pet, Silverysky!

quiet, tiny punk

kind of shy

is actually pretty cool when you get to know him

Soft™

likes metal and screamo

Bean

kind of freaked out by all the other animals

lives in the default den, but is rarely ever seen there

quiet

always weirded out but tries to go along

he/they

heterosexual (or... attracted to women?? idk) aromantic

the other nonmember kiddo

never talks to anybody

this is his pet, Misscrystal!

the mom friend

all of the animals adore her

she loves u

Pear

a REAL PIRATE!!

goes on the water missions/adventures

adventurous

he/him

heterosexual

YARR

isnt lgbt but is a very enthusiastic ally

lowkey a softie

lives in either the treehouse, the lost ruins den, or the sky kingdom

this is his land pet, Microbook!

he’s very old and kind of kooky

has embraced the pirate aesthetic

wants to be a pirate just like his dad

gets very excited about adventures

loves adventuring w Pear

this is his ocean pet, Summershell!

he loves her to death

isn’t necessarily fond of the pirate aesthetic but doesn’t mind it

she especially loves when Pear gets excited about dressing her like a pirate and coos over her

loves attention

was the product of a crappy trade but Pear didn’t want to get rid of her

not as enthusiastic about being a pirate

Apple

an absolute ray of sunshine

very carefree and friendly

there’s a running gag between the animals about Apple and Pear being a duo called “the fruit bowl”

doesn’t talk very much but will make sure u know he loves u

he/they

asexual aromantic

lives in the lost ruins den, but they really need to decorate it

this is their pet, Uberimus!

he’s pretty spooky but actually very friendly

needs more friends. he scared all his old ones off

quiet

just wants to be loved

gets lots of cuddles from Apple

gentle

Rainy

avid australian

very adventurous

tomboy aesthetic

loves all the freaky animals out there. the more exotic, the better

wants one of those shows where they go to australia and do a lot of dangerous stuff with the wildlife

“that over there is the most venomous animal in the world!...”

“...I’m gonna poke it with a stick.”

she/they (usually they)

homosexual

lives in the treehouse

the only time they’d be seen without their aviator’s hat is if they were dead

Desert got to decorate the bedroom, and, uh... yeah.

this is her pet, Macroimus!

she would kill for this “dapper little fellow”

used to have a top hat and monocle

recently went into an anime phase

loves adventures

Rosy

loves pink

has a very masculine build that he is very happy with

loves flowers and cute things and everything girly

lives in peck’s den

he/him

sexuality? who has time for that? i only have time for fashion.

probably asexual homoromantic (but he’s never really looked into it)

total fashionista

fuck gender roles

luxury.

this is his pet, Toyturtle! (sorry for the bad picture oops)

very pampered

the sweetest little turtle

loves her little beetle friend

friendly but a little airheaded

Lilac

is an artist

a nervous nerd

likes anime

she/her

grey asexual panromantic

lives in the enchanted hollow

shy, but once you get to know her she never shuts up

this is her pet, Sircrystal!

narcissistic

very much like King George’s depiction from Hamilton the musical

probably plotting your murder

he is the best. everybody else in inferior.

thinks he’s an actual king, higher then the alphas

“i’ll kill your friends and family to remind you of my love”

possessive

materialist

Lilac is kind of terrified of him but she still loves him

Sunny

obsessed with nature

an actual child

impulsive

has to be closely monitored or else she’ll probably make stupid decisions

ridiculously friendly

a mildly annoying ray of sunshine

she/her

she’s a literal child she doesn’t know romance

the equivalent of like an 8 year old

lives in the mushroom hut with her brother (she needs to decorate it though!!)

this is her pet, Gummyturtle!

can kick ass

kind of like a tiny bodyguard for Sunny

loves being dressed up

essentially teaches Sunny how to take care of her and properly treat pets, since Sunny does behave much like a child

kawaii as fuck

big,, floppy ears,,,,,,,,

likes spicy food

from Japan

DJ Kawaiimoon

demands you call him by his full name while staring him in the eye

tsundere type

grumpy

secretly soft

likes screamo bands

he/him

bisexual but still figuring it out

the equivalent of 13 years old

Sunny’s brother

lives in the mushroom hut

relatively quiet, but usually complaining if he’s talking

this is his pet, Jellyninja!

DJ Kawaiimoon LOVES him

is like the only person DJ Kawaiimoon is nice to

friendly and boyish

really likes sweets

TERTIARY KIDS

Juniper

still figuring out what the hell her look is supposed to be

frenemies with Lilac

the bad kind of weaboo

pretty problematic

probably posts edgy things in hopes of getting attention

probably fetishizes “yaoi” (ew)

she/her

calls herself bisexual to look “cool” but is actually straight

lives in the enchanted hollow

this is her pet, Snowytitan!

smol

love-hate relationship with Juniper

quiet

absolutely loves everybody (except Juniper sometimes)

if you feed him he’ll keep you in his heart until he dies

quiet

River

is a witch

very very creepy

takes the hyena laughter trope to heart

freaks everybody out

not as mean or scary as everybody thinks she is

they’ll still hex your ass if you wrong them though

she/they

demisexual aromantic

lives in the sky kingdom

not many of the other animals understand her; only really Mellow, Atom, and Magical

this is her pet, Puppyfrost!

also very creepy

spooks everybody

probably posessed

River’s loyal assistant

quiet

can receive prophecies and communicate with spirits

Mellow

blind

mute

just trying to get by

nonchalant and just sort of accepts all the weird shit that happens with the group

mildly edgy

he/him

bisexual demiromantic (has a preference for dudes)

lives in the volcano den

gets along with Bean

sometimes helps River with their magic

this is his pet, Mirrorfrost!

he adores her

sometimes mischievous

quiet and very intelligent

from China

DJ

is a dj

“yooooo that’s radical dude!”

surfer dude personality

very leisurely and kind of lazy

he/him

bisexual, but the type of person you wouldn’t expect to be lgbt

lives in the volcano den and needs to decorate it

very friendly

this is his pet, Zippynote!

DJ thinks he’s such a weird little fellow

and he is

very quiet

kind of just there?

relatively friendly

Quill

moved from India

think’s he’s the “chosen one” picked by Zios to defend Jamaa

wants to be part of “the fruit bowl”

self-proclaimed air-bender

he/him

heterosexual

lives in the sky kingdom

doesn’t really know anybody

heavy accent

this is his pet, Starrymantis!

he ADORES her. he thinks she is the absolute most adorable thing

he still needs to dress her up though

very sweet and friendly

loves cuddles

Mister Wonkybuddy

literally just. a dad. he is dad

he/him

heterosexual

lives in the volcano den to “keep track of those rascal teenagers”

really likes mythologies

used to be an adventurer and even got to meet sir gilbert

this is his pet, Gummypeach!

quiet and kind of creepy

it’s probably just because of his outfit though

Mister dressed him up when he was really absorbed in a book on Egyptian mythology

loves his dad and Mister loves him

Peach

the newest member to the family!

like, she is BRAND SPANKIN NEW. she doesn’t even have a pet

soft pastel nature aesthetic

clumsy due to her masculine frame

socially awkward

autistic

she/her

heterosexual (shes been experimenting with girls though)

lives in the treehouse

WHEW THATS ALL OF THEM!!!

i really hope you love my kids as much as i do!!!! if you like them please reblog them!! i’ve put so much energy into these kiddos. my children. i love them

if you’ve made it this far, holy shit thanks this took me a really long time to put together

bye!!

[safeklancewriters]

Fic Rec #4

Date ending: May 21

Below the cut are the fics chosen by us for our monthly rec! Including two community rec’d fics

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YOU’RE ALL THE WARMTH I NEED BY CHERITSUNDERE Rating: Teen Pairings: Keith/Lance | Hunk & Keith & Lance Additional characters: Allura | Coran | Pidge | Shiro | Matt | Lance's Family Tags: Tales of Zestiria AU | sorta - Freeform | Oblivious Lance | platonic klunk | Friends to Lovers | Friendship | Found Family Stats: Words: 6253 Chapters: 1/1 Summary: In this world, Spirits, or Seraphs as they are better known, and Humans live in perfect harmony with one another in a symbiotic relationship. Humans provide Seraphs with energy through a bond with their happiness while Spirits in turn help Humans with their magical abilities, such as providing light magic in their house, blessing them with luck charms for good fortune in their occupation, or even preparing food or giving transportation to them. Lance has been bonded to his best friend Hunk, an earth seraph, since they were little kids. Together they work at Lance’s family-run grocery store, where Hunk helps grow the produce and Lance does just about anything else. It isn’t until meeting and bonding with an abandoned fire seraph that Lance truly feels his life is complete though. With the new addition to their home, Lance finally has all he really wants in life. This is the story of that fateful day, of the days after that, and of the day that Lance became probably the luckiest human in the world.

FATED BY KATSUDONACE

Rating: Teen Pairings: Keith/Lance Additional characters: none Tags: Alternate Universe - Fantasy | Alternate Universe - Magic | annoyances to lovers | Fate | Fate & Destiny | Curses | Witch Curses | Curse Breaking | Alternate Universe - Wizards | Wizards | Fortune Telling | Prophetic Visions | Fluff | Light Angst | Keith can't cook | Mutual Pining | Pining Keith | Pining Lance | Hurt/Comfort | Abandonment Issues | Soul Bond | Self-Esteem Issues | Lonely Lance | Socially Awkward Keith Stats: Words: 11283 Chapters: 1/1 Summary: In a world of magic, Lance is a wizard and traveling performer. He possesses a special talent, the talent to read the fates of those he meets, which he uses to bolster his act. Life is good, though lonely, until he meets a hermit wizard named Keith, and both have their fates changed forever.

SAY MY NAME (AND EVERY COLOR ILLUMINATES) BY TALKING_BIRD Rating: Teen Pairings: Keith/Lance | Hunk & Lance | Hunk & Lance & Pidge | Keith & Shiro | Keith & His Dad Additional characters: Keith's Family | Lance's Mother Tags: Alternate Universe - Soulmates | Dreamscapes | Alternate Universe - College/University | Alternate Universe - Modern Setting | Alternate Universe - Flower Shop | Alternate Universe - Reincarnation | Colorblind!Lance | cheesy montages | Fluff and Angst | Angst with a Happy Ending | its the happiest ending tbh | Emotional Hurt/Comfort | Mutual Support | Pining Lance | Cancer | it's not keith or lance tho | Minor Character Death | Slow Burn Stats: Words: 27834 Chapters: 1/1 Summary: “Well, that’s what you are, right? My subconscious talking to me? That’s what my aunt says dreams are, but it’s kinda weird that my subconscious hasn’t seen the ocean before since I’ve been around the ocean my entire life.” “What? No! I’m--I’m not your subconscious, I’m your--” Keith starts, but he slams his lips together in a tight lock, then looks at the waves, while Lance sits up taller and leans in closer to him. “My what?” “Just--!” Keith starts, getting frustrated and pinching the bridge of his nose. “I’m real, okay? We’re not--this isn’t--we’re having a shared dream.” Lance never thought he had a soulmate, but when he finds himself dreaming about a boy on Varadero Beach and in a southwestern desert, he learns they have an incredibly rare soul link–-one that allows them to form an unusually strong bond before they meet, but also exposes their greatest vulnerabilities to each other.

DARK BLUE CHAPTER 10 BY TALKING_BIRD Rating: Teen Pairings: Keith/Lance | Hunk & Lance | Matt Holt & Shiro | Keith & Shiro Additional characters: Shiro clone | Allura | Pidge | Lotor | Coran | Ezor | Zethrid | Narti | Acxa | Alien OCs Tags: Corrupt!Lance | Corruption | Mind Control | Manipulation | Emotional Manipulation | Emotional Hurt/Comfort | Canon-Typical Violence | Canon Compliant | Canon Continuation | Self-Esteem | Mutual Pining | Angst | Lance-centric | Slow Burn | Major Character Injury | Injury Recovery | Angst with a Happy Ending | Reunions | Kidnapping | Prisoner of War | POV Multiple | Free-indirect discourse | Quintessence used as a mind control device | Garrison flashbacks | Action/Adventure | Female Pronouns for Pidge | Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence | canon continuation of season 3 | Team as Family | broganes Stats: Words: 115078 Chapters: 10/19 Summary:  As the war between the Galra and Voltron continues, Lotor has a plan to tip the odds in his favor including a well-placed android, the power of quintessence, and a kidnapped Paladin. Good thing Lance was never the complacent type.

BREAK EVERY CHAIN ON ME BY KATSUDONACE Rating: Teen Pairings: Keith/Lance | Keith & Krolia Additional characters: Kolivan | Lance's Family Tags: Blade of Marmora Lance | Blade of Marmora Keith | Season 5 Spoilers | Post-Season 5 | Angst | Angst with a Happy Ending | Mutual Pining | Pining Keith | Pining Lance | Abandonment Issues | Self Confidence Issues | Violence | Injury | Visions | Trials | Keith and Shiro are Adoptive Siblings | Mother-Son Relationship | Cuban Lance | Homesick Lance | Lance is Bad at Feelings | Keith is a Mess | lotor is evil | This fic works under the theory that Shiro is a clone | Insecure Lance (Voltron)Socially Awkward Keith (Voltron) Stats: Words: 14406 Chapters: 1/1 Summary:  Lance is tired of no one listening to him, tired of his fears and concerns being brushed aside. With his suspicions about Shiro and Lotor being ignored, Lance decides to go to the one person group that he knows will believe him, Keith the Blade of Marmora. However, emotions run high and situations become complicated. Lance must grow to move forward, but that's easier said than done when his insecurities bind him. Keith was finally carving out a spot for himself in the Blade, finally feeling as if maybe he belonged somewhere. That's until his mother decides to return to the main base, and his crush suddenly shows up unannounced. It's hard for him to face his feelings when he's so used to fighting them. He needs to confront his issues or forever be locked in place, never finding a place where he fits.

THE STARS ABOVE NEVADA BY QUASARII Rating: Teen Pairings: Keith/Lance | Keith & Shiro | Hunk & Keith & Lance & Pidge | Keith & Pidge Additional characters: Iverson | Keith's Father | OCs Tags: Major Original Character(s) | Gay Keith | Bisexual Lance | Laundromat AU | a dash of angst | lowkey slow burn | Gays In Arcades | Wannabe Contemporary Novel | Coming Out | Lance Likes Philosophy | Bilingual Lance | Cuban Lance | Texan Keith | Pretentious Philosophy | Alternate Universe - Laundromat | Don't Ask Me How This Fits Into Canon | Galaxy Garrison | Keith has Social Anxiety | Shiro Is Flawed But We Love Him | Pre-Canon | i guess | Don't Examine This Too Closely | some time skips | finished fic | Greek Mythology References | if nevada-boo was a thing like weaboo i'd be it | a ton of broganes Stats: Words: 92071 Chapters: 36/36 Summary: “Tell me,” Keith asked, finally tearing his eyes away from the sky to look at Lance. Lance frowned in confusion. “Tell you what?” “What the desert whispers into your ears.” – One night, a few hundred years into the future, in a dark laundromat in the middle of the vast Nevada desert – Keith ends up meeting Lance by a turn of fate. When they meet again in Galaxy Garrison for their junior year, an unlikely friendship blooms between them, as lively as the star-scattered skies, and as strong as the desert wind.

OUTWARD HONOR FOR INWARD TOIL BY ASTRAL-KLANCE (KILLJOYCATLADY) Rating: General Pairings: Keith/Lance Additional characters: Pidge | Shiro | Allura | Matt | Lotor Tags: Slow Burn | Alternate Universe - Royalty | Arranged Marriage | Enemies to Lovers Stats: Words: 28070 Chapters: 1/1 Summary: As the rival nations of Márea and Altea form an alliance after years of tension and border issues, Prince Lance is forced to deal with a treaty that is far too involved in his personal life, an infuriating Altean knight surrounded by shady rumours, and the rising threat of the Galra empire closing in on Lance's kingdom.

Community Rec

ON THE LINE BY NOTROVER Rating: Teen Pairings: Keith/Lance Additional characters: Shiro | Allura | Pidge | Hunk | Coran Tags: Alternate Universe | firefighter keith | Policeman Lance | Work-related Incidents | Pining | Mutual Pining | Allura is a great wingman | And Lance has a dog | also this is so cheesy im | Shiro's a total bro Stats: Words: 14357 Chapters: 1/1 Summary: “Is it as fun as it looks? Sliding down the fire pole, I mean.” Lance’s voice was full of curiosity and what sounded like a tinge of envy. His breath curled into small clouds due to the cold. Keith pretended to think about it. “No, it’s not.” He paused and gave Lance a smirk. “It’s more fun, actually.” Lance laughed. “Way to rub it in, Red.” “You asked,” Keith said, grinning. Lance made a face. “I’d let you try it for yourself,” Keith continued, “but it’s a sacred right of brotherhood handed down from fireman to fireman. I’d be kicked out if I let you try.” Keith pretended to get teary-eyed for a moment. “Shiro would be so upset.” Lance scoffed. “You’re so full of it, Red.” But Keith could hear the laughter that threatened to bubble out of Lance’s voice and suppressed his own smile. “Maybe. But you’ll never know for sure.” Alternatively: Keith is a firefighter and Lance is a cop.

WE’RE INTIMATE ACQUAINTANCES (TANGLED UP AGAIN) BY NOTROVER Rating: Teen Pairings: Keith/Lance Additional characters: Hunk | Pidge | Matt Tags: Alternate Universe - Soulmates | Fluff | Light Angst | Alternate Universe - College/University | Time Loops are a thing | also it's not a date but it's totally an aquarium date Stats: Words: 6301 Chapters: 1/1 Summary: When Lance wakes up to the second Monday in two days, he knows there's only one explanation: He's come into close proximity to his soulmate. If he doesn't want to be stuck repeating the same day for the rest of his life, he needs to find his soulmate. The only problem? He's started falling for someone else.

[utopianparadoxist]

My take on Dammek is Prince of Blood, personally; he's looking to destroy the status quo as it is, and even kill another hero of blood. However, he's kinda bleeding (heh) over into himself; he's destroying his own relationships with what he believes are more important commitments (IE leading the rebellion; which is important, but not to the point where he should treat his Moirail as he does) However, Theif does make a lot of sense too! He has been taking Xefros' stuff for a while

I can totally see that, and still think its a real possibility!

What tips the scales for me is the Archetypal background I typically associate with each Class. Prince is a Royalty class, which implies some kind of high/noble birth or status, and an internalized sense of superiority over others that the Royal must overcome to take control of his ego, and so his destructive power.

The Makaras and Amporas are the highest blooded members of the hemospectrum short of the Fuschias, and both Meenah and Feferi keep themselves rather seperate from the idea of actually being better than others due to their class--both of them renounce the title of Heiress and abandon the throne, one way or another.

The AR considers himself “above” his friends because he is a post-singularity AI, and often makes statements positioning himself as “above” their corporeality. So on.

Thief is an outlaw class, which implies being removed, outcast, or alienated from society and its rules. Nepeta and Vriska both consider the hemospectrum irrelevant, for example.

All Thieves and Rogues spend some amount of time either literally living outside mainstream society (Nepeta’s cave, Rufioh’s lost weaboos tribe, Meenah living on the moon) or thinking about living outside of it (Vriska’s fascination with Piracy).

The latter sounds a lot more like Dammek to me--living on the fringes of society in his own rebel network, a network that’s apparently robust enough to provide him with a shitload of loot and goods he wouldn’t otherwise have access to. Feels a lot more like Vriska’s hoard, gathered through roleplay exploits, than it does like Eridan’s born wealth and status.

Also Dammek is referenced using the “take” verb in Act 1, and I haven’t noticed him being linked to Royal verbs like “Destroy” or “Break” just yet. That said he is a noted revolutionary, and I’ve been thinking revolution/revolutionaries could be conceptually linked to the Royal classes for a while.

So I really do think its a possibility! I think it’ll become clearer as we figure out what makes Dammek tick. i want...more hiveswap

[lestatdesade]

1, 2, 6, 14 (Crossing of the Lines), 25, 49, and 50?

1) How old were you when you first starting writing fanfiction?

I was 12 and I'd pass around notebooks w/ the other middleschool weaboos and we'd take turns writing down the story. I also wrote some thing online but most of it is lost to the ages. I did find some snippets and posted them on AO3, though.

2) What fandoms do you write for and do you have a particular favourite if you write for more than one?

None right now, but I've got a steven universe fic in the works... kind of??? Like I've written an outline and some dialogue for it on paper but no actual writing. it's really disturbing and the SU fandom is a cesspit of angry teenagers. I'm not sure if I want to have to sift through moderated comments, tbh. :/

homestuck was the best fandom for fanworks that didn't suck. like you guys can make fun of homestuck all you want but that fandom had an incredible amount of passion and love in it. like it so hard for me to explain it but if you were in it, you KNOW it was like.... people went HARD for homestuck and sadly i don't think any other fandom will live up to that kind of fervor.

6) If you had to delete one of your stories and never speak of it again, which would it be and why?

I already did that w/ one of my stories!

14) How did you come up with the title for the xxx? - You can ask about multiple stories.

"At the Crossing of the Lines" is a lyric from the song "Axis" by the band Egolikeness.

http://lyrics.wikia.com/wiki/Ego_Likeness:Axis

25) Have you ever cried whilst writing a story?

Yes. And it was as stupid and embarassing as you can imagine.

49) Can you remember the first fic you read? What was it about?

Oh boy. It was a fanfic in which the characters (most of them) from yugioh have sex w/ inanimate objects. I was still in elementary school.... it got deleted but the author re-posted it online in 2004. It's still on the internet.

http://ygo.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=24966

here's a small snippet:

"Yami paid no attention to his little hikari, for he had found the love of his large refrigerator. After running his sex up and down the awaiting refrigerator twice more, he cried out in ecstasy!

Yugi wrenched Yami away from the refrigerator as quickly as he could, but already he knew that he would have to buy Jonouchi another birthday cake."

REST IN PEACE BIRTHDAY CAKE. 2004-2004.

50) If you could write only angst, fluff or smut for the rest of your writing life, which would it be and why?

Smut because it's the only thing that makes $$$$$ on amazon anymore.