#anti 50 shades of grey

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

Theory: ND watched the original she-ra, shipped She-Ra and Catra (which is why sea hawk was made into a buffoon) and eventually was able to bring their fanfics to life

yeah, spop was basically just an expensive and badly written fanfic. yikes.

[reachartwork]

Being anti copyright is the only coherent politics for fandom (Nintendo is a threat to ambitious fanworks, the "Disney vault" is just a cutsey way of withholding legal availability of media of the public, if we want to preserve and transform things more rights and freedoms to do so should be fought for. Like, have you heard about what happened with American McGee and the rights holders to his games legally threatening him if he ever touched alice in wonderland again? Its fucked. Why don't people see this.

The only reason to be a pro copyright fan artist is of the belief that you will eventually become the next vivziepop or 50 shades of grey or whatever or get your IP bought by a huge company and cash out. We generally call this being a “temporarily embarassed millionaire”

[myfandomrealitea]

I would genuinely love to know what kind of mental gymnastics antis do to hold mainstream media/producers and fandom media/producers to different standards and accountability demands.

Like the guy who wrote Game of Thrones isn't questioned whatsoever but the moment I write incest fanfiction about the incest characters, I'm a degenerate awaiting the noose?

"But you're doing it for gratification!"

How do you know George R. R. Martin doesn't play the pink maraca to the Lannisters, huh? How do you know he isn't AO3 user GoldenManeGlory writing 14k of incestual cumplay and breeding kink?

"But his smut wasn't explicit and clearly written to be arousing!"

50 Shades of Grey was considered groundbreaking in terms of explicit smut in professional publishing, and I would like to remind you that these quotes constitute as groundbreaking.

And these.

"You write it because you want to do it in real life!"

My brother in christ if I went to hook up with a guy and, without asking my safeword or even my name, he pulled out a taser and a gun, I can assure you the literal first thing I would do is phone the cops.

Say it with me; what is arousing in concept is not always arousing or wanted in real life.

Or even realistic, for that matter.

And again, I seriously doubt George R. R. Martin wants to bang his relatives and mass murder people with green fire.

(Although he does probably want to run around with cool swords and wear fancy outfits. He both looks the type and, lets be honest, most of us want to run around with cool swords and wear fancy outfits.)

"Nobody gets aroused by the things shown in mainstream media!"

Most of what is shown in mainstream media is specifically orchestrated to be appealing. All those slow-mo shots of half-naked women and men getting out of pools? All those ten minute long sex scenes? All those vaguely sexual fight sequences?

They. Want. You. To. Enjoy. It.

'Sex sells' is not just an off-hand observation.

So, again. I'm asking you. What's the difference between mainstream media, and fandom content?

[forthegothicheroine]

I sometimes get a little worried when I see media I love being recommended so hyperbolically that newcomers may end up feeling betrayed when they experience it.

"Black Sails is the ultimate leftist pirate show!" Sure, but the heroes do kill a lot of innocent people and some are stated to have traded slaves, it's a grimy crime show.

"Secretary is the healthy BDSM movie alternative to 50 Shades of Grey!" It's certainly a more interesting character study than 50 Shades of Grey, but the Secretary leads are the ultimate in "Please stay together forever so you never rope anyone else into your fucked up dynamic."

"Dracula is all about love and healthy polyamory!" I overall agree with that, but it's still a book of its time written by a very weird guy and there's a lot of benevolent sexism amid the love of Mina and Lucy and casual anti-Romani racism in the scenes at the castle.

I like all these works of fiction, to be clear! I do recommend them! But they should be recommended for what they are.

[just-antithings]

I just now realized, I used to LOVE Dominic Noble's reviews— but he's a massive Anti and spread misinformation about the relation between the psyche and the fiction we consume all to shit on 50 Shades of Grey.

Mf it IS badly written but otherwise people aren't really falling to abusive relationships due to it.

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[youareatragedy]

Do you think there will come a time when everyone realizes what a piece of shit Rhys and the IC are like how we now see Andrea’s friends and boyfriend in The Devil Wears Prada as the real villains?

Since you brought up Devil Wears Prada, a book that got a movie adaptation, let me bring up a point about other book-to-movie adaptations.

I made a post a few weeks ago explaining that the reason I know 50 Shades of Grey is an incorrect representation of the BDSM community is because many people spoke up about it, and others took their critiques seriously. I think it’s the same case with the entire Twilight saga. Now, it feels more like a guilty pleasure for people, whereas back then, some thought Twilight could be the new Pride and Prejudice or something.

That’s why I don’t think the ACOTAR live-action adaptation will work (I’ve been planning to make a post about this it’s in my drafts, but I haven’t had the time to finish it yet😅). I think ACOTAR won’t survive the scrutiny of a larger audience, and dare I say, the chances of it flopping are high. ACOTAR will not be the next Game of Thrones, Hunger Games, or Harry Potter. Instead, ACOTAR will be the next Mortal Instruments or Eragon.

If those two flopped because they didn’t follow the source material, ACOTAR will flop because one, the fandom won’t be pleased with the casting, two, the plot is already being mocked by so many people as "fae porn" as of now. And three, many viewers who aren’t tied to the “it helped me get back into reading” sentiment will watch it and see its flaws for what they are.

There’s no chance in hell (unless they ensure from the very beginning that Tamlin is portrayed as the bad guy—which would in turn, make Feyre even less sympathetic early on) that they can convince viewers that Rhysand and the IC aren’t bad people. If they include an intro similar to GoT with a map, the Prythian map alone would cause an uproar. And do you think Rhysand hiding Feyre’s pregnancy issues from her wouldn’t have actual feminists everywhere cancelling the show and writing scathing articles in every major publication?

Why am I rambling about this live adaptation thing? Because I feel somewhat hopeless about this fandom’s ability to accept that Rhysand is a bad person. We’re in a giant bubble. However, if something as big as a series or movie adaptation happens, the audience will expand, and this bubble will burst. At that point, these “cult-like” fans will have to confront widespread criticism of Rhysand, Feyre, and the IC.

It’s one thing to argue with “antis” but imagine trying to defend these characters against millions of people who aren’t attached to blurry headcanons-fanfic-influenced perceptions or self-conjured justifications. Watching even more people mock Rhysand, Feyre and the IC on very public platforms—not just among the readers—will be a whole different experience for their mafiastancult because they cant keep saying "but if you read the book!" to defend it. Good luck with that.

I have a headache I hope my answer make sense 😅.

[erotomechanixxx]

my favorite releases of 2024 (in no particular order)

1. american standard - uniform

2. impossible light - uboa

3. stigma - wage war

4. excessive guilt - thrown

5. half living things - alpha wolf

6. five dice, all threes - bright eyes

7. only the stars know of my misfortune - isleptonthemoon

8. devoured by the mouth of hell - heriot

9. maggot mass - pharmakon

10. accabadora - poolside at the flamingo

11. ai grijă - calinacho

12. all you embrace - one step closer

13. american motor sports - bilmuri

14. ancient hymns of apocalypse - marrow of man

15. artificial bouquet - frail body

16. artillery from heaven - contention

17. as spoken - knoll

18. aumicide - atrae bilis

19. banshee - abruction

20. bloom & decay - dawn treader

21. calico dreams - sugar wounds

22. candela - svdestada

23. ceremonia - blanket

24. chameleon - traum ray

25. chromakopia - tyler, the creator

26. chronic illness wish - genital shame

27. coma - gaerea

28. conjuration of unlight - black circle sorcery

29. cool world - chat pile

30. coup de grâce - seeyouspacecowboy

31. cure - erra

32. death is a little more - boundaries

33. death of a rabbit - your arms are my coccoon

34. deathcore is dead - brojob

35. deceivers - oracle spectre

36. deep sage - gouge away

37. degeneration - wristmeetrazor

38. devoid of love & light - extortionist

39. disaster trick - horse jumper of love

40. distortion - future palace

41. ecclesia gnostica - aoratos

42. eclipsing through the eternal night - sanguine wounds

43. enchantment - raat

44. every bridge burning - nails

45. everyone’s a murderer - to the grave

46. exhibition of prowess - kublai klan tx

47. an exit exists - blind girls

48. the forest of forgotten dreams - under the frost moon

49. the fragile silence - together to the stars

50. a gathering of forgotten dreams - hoarfrost sky

51. gospel of the claw - wolven daughter

52. here, hear iv - la dispute

53. hiraeth - the wind covenant

54. house of the black geminus - akhlys

55. how the beautiful decay - lightworker

56. hymn to a dismal starre - winter lantern

57. hysterical abyss - archurahl

58. i love you - sadness

59. iechyd da - bill ryder jones

60. ii - deafening

61. the imperious horizon - winterfylleth

62. in bloom - waste

63. in honorem mortis - ad mortis

64. in light - evergarden

65. in the twilight grey - necrophobic

66. íncst - ehtëk

67. infinite mortality - replicant

68. into the realm - castle rat

69. irreducible fear of the sublime - occulta veritas

70. it’s inside you - candy

71. janis - vestige

72. kaer morhen - hekseblad

73. king - immortal desfigurement

74. leap of death - left to suffer

75. les chants de l’aurore - alcest

76. a liminal heart paints the deepest shade of serenity - vampirska

77. living is easy - agriculture

78. lust hag - lust hag

79. make them suffer - make them suffer

80. manual manic procedures - 200 stab wounds

81. negative spaces - poppy

82. my anti aircraft friend - julie

83. nadir - groza

84. new order of mind - dealer

85. next time - bacchae

86. no name graves - the last ten seconds of life

87. nocturnal will - dodsrit

88. nothing - corroding soul

89. the nothing that is - fit for an autopsy

90. now i see light - toe

91. obsidian wreath - infant island

92. oath - mono

93. of mourning - psychonaut 4

94. only one mode - speed

95. paleobotany - botanist

96. passions laid to rest - all that heaven allows

97. the periapt of absence - mother of graves

98. the precipice of an endless dream - twisted horn

99. prepare to meet thy god - daedalus

100. pro xristou - rotting christ

101. the prophetic silence - gråt strigoi

102. saa morkt saa mektig - unholy craft

103. sacrifice - olhava

104. satan soldier of fortune - departure chandelier

105. seed of a seed - haley heynderickx

106. social grace - brat

107. solace - blood pact

108. songs of a lost world - the cure

109. songs of blood and mire - spectral wound

110. sparagmos - spectral voice

111. suffer & become - vitriol

112. summoning the beasts in the night of lycanthropic moon - wampyric rites

113. todbringerin - ellende

114. telltales and rituals - chained arcana & knights of rain

115. triumphant son of darkness - primordial serpent

116. umbilical - thou

117. vended - vended

118. upharsin - blaze of perdition

119. verses in oath - hulder

120. visual kill: the blossoming of psychotic depravity - saidan

121. the voluptuous fire of sin - deathless void

122. wavering - dawn brought saviour

123. what lies ahead of me - all under heaven

124. what’s left unsaid - foreign hands

125. who are you when no one is watching? - graphic nature

126. wormwitch - wormwitch

127. you could do it tonight - couch slut

128. you won’t go before you’re supposed to - knocked loose

129. the twilight robes - they came from visions

130. shining - swallow the sun

131. she reaches out she reaches out she - chelsea wolfe

132. tragedy as catharsis - drive your plow over the bones of the dead

[fandomshatewomen]

Re: Making fun of booktok, I feel like the post you rebooted is missing a vital piece of information, anti-intellectualism amongst book readers has been growing especially amongst the people that read these romance novels…

So I just found this video on my youtube and I think it partially addresses what you're saying.

I personally don't follow many booktokkers, the majority of those I follow are bipoc. I know that there's a lot of booktokkers like the ones at the beginning of her video do exist (0:30ish mark) but like you gotta realize that there's two different sides of booktok. There's the anti intellectualists that got into reading because of books like 50 shades of grey, colleen hoover, and sarah j maas (so ww books).

And then there's booktokkers like tomes and textiles (latina booktokker that focuses on latine books always and is very political) there's others too if you want recommendations.

there are smart and politically progressive romance writers out there like natalie cana, alyssa cole and talia hibbert (here's a review I did on one of Natalie Cana's)

you can't lump all romance readers/writers all together.

[spopsalt]

Spop fans: " omg, your so obssesed with hating catradora! "

me: says the person who is also obssesed with an incest abused ship and at least us anti C//A shippers don't support abuse irl

Spop fana, when they see a glimmadora fanart or when they see a valid opinion about hating C//A: " always the glimmer stans "

me: oh sorry, i didn't know having a valid opinion was forbiden in spop fandom also if you don't wan't to see glimmadora fanarts maybe block the tag so you cannot see it

srs friend, spop and C//A are the most childish fandom i ever seen, like they critic us for having valid reasons to dislike the ship but they always act rude and mean toward us anti C//A comunity just for hating c//a ?? i mean did they now the word " respect " or "opinion " ?? but well looks like for them shipping sister and abuse is their whole world for them but well here are the questions: do you wish the fandom would be less childish and that learns about respecting opinion ? what do you think when a C//A make comments like " always the glimmer stans " or " C//A on the top " in a glimmadora fanart or edit ? also do you wish there would be more anti C//A shippers ?

Yeah, the stans are really childish. One of them blew up at me because I used one of their few seconds gifs, and like I expected, they went straight to insulting me. They could've ignored the post or calmly asked me to remove the gif, but nope! They complain about seeing our posts like they can't just block the tags. They also called us obsessed for hating a show that ended years ago....but people hate twilight and 50 shades of grey, and that ended years ago? Make it make sense.

[ladyandith]

Polin playlist

Dandelions - Ruth B.

The Man - The Killers

Dancing On My Own - Robyn

Yellow - Coldplay

POV - Ariana Grande

Focus - Ariana Grande

Wildest Dreams - Taylor Swift

Anti-Hero - Taylor Swift

Watermelon sugar - Harry Styles

Adore You - Harry Styles

John Hughes Film - Maisie Peters

Stuck with You - Ariana Grande & Justin Bieber

Earned it (50 Shades of Grey) - The Weekend

Sorry - Justin Bieber

Not Over You Yet (Metro Radio Edit) Diana Ross

Our Song - Anne Marie & Niall Horan

Into You - Ariana Grande

Belter - Gerry Cinnamon

The Very Thought of You - Al Bowlly

Love is The Sweetest Thing - Al Bowlly

Your Touch - Blake Lewis

Ooh La La - Goldfrapp

Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal - Custer Larue & Nicholas Dodd

You Give Me Something - James Morrison

Apologize - One Republic & Timbaland

Stay - Rihanna & Mikky Ekko

The First Time I Saw Your Face - Roberta Flack

Can’t Resist - Texas

Wonder - Shawn Mendes

Monster - Shawn Mendes & Justin Bieber

Love Me Like You Do - Ellie Goulding

I Need Your Love - Ellie Goulding & Calvin Harris

[fandom-blahs]

The "anti-booktok" discourse, for a lack of better term, has evovlved into a disgusting monstrosity.

On one hand yes the stories are lame and cringe and objectively bad but on the other hand these trashy stories have always existed you know this! Why are people pretending like it hasn't existed?

Yes it's cringe to see fanfics get published into novels, the separation between "lowbrow" and "highbrow", in the most reductionist way, eroding must be frustrating for people to see. I imagine it's the same feelings people had towards 50 shades of grey (a twilight fanfic) getting published and then made into a movie or that South Park mlm fanfic getting published. It's easy to mock, almost harmless to do so. The premise is ridiculous yes I agree. We all laughed at the absurd horny horse romance book covers (which predate this whole booktok discourse)

I get that completely but for the discussion to just demonise the hell out of women so quickly especially in female dominates spaces is disheartening. People want this issue, if it can even be considered one, to be taken so seriously that they honest to god think it's comparable to porn????

You think reading shitty kink books is the same as watching or creating porn?

[mooestriovermind]

I followed you before because your art was awesome. I follow still because it's still awesome.

Honestly love your use of shadows and sheen.

I'm glad you like my art! :>

I will now take this opportunity to describe why I think my art is good!

I learned most of the techniques from watching tutorial videos.

There's no tutorial that can, like, tell you how to accurately portray form with shading (which is partially why my art is so stylized), you just kind of have to feel out the shape of an object if you're not using references (which is part of why references are SO important)

but there are tutorials that can tell you the basics of shading (digitally, in this case)! this is the process I usually follow, with some variations depending on context- it uses a lot of terminology that I am assuming you know the meaning of, but if you don't, google is your friend

this is NOT a step by step tutorial to shading, I am just explaining the process that I follow in a manner similar to a tutorial

(long post warning)

Things to keep in mind before reading:

I do NOT use airbrush for shading unless explicitly stated. Airbrush makes ONLY soft shadows, where you usually want a mixture of soft AND hard shadows to create an interesting composition. I personally usually cel shade, which is ONLY hard shading.

This assumes you have basic things down like the position of your light source and how to shade, like, where exactly to put your shadows and what shapes to make them. If you're unsure, try to figure out the shape(s) you're trying to create (everything is made of shapes, break an object down into the most basic forms possible and go from there) or just, like, use a reference lol.

This isn't me telling you to always use this method- I vary the method a lot myself while using it, based on context, so please experiment with different layers and techniques to find what works best for you and your style!

If you're not confident in your line art, shading the piece is not going to make it look too much "better" than what you're seeing. Shading uses value to create volume and describe form, but if the form being described isn't quite right, it probably won't come out the way you want it to (I have learned this the hard way).

Seriously, use references. Multiple.

Use the magic wand tool to select the area around your lineart, then invert selected area and grow your selected area by 1 or 2 px. On a separate layer from your lineart, use the fill / paint bucket tool to fill the selected area with exactly 50% value grey.

This creates a base which you place underneath your line art, which is very useful, because you can then clip layers between it and your lineart directly to the base layer, making it impossible to color outside the lines

(but why don't you just use the fill tool to make a color layer?)

This can be a useful shortcut if you're in a rush, but the fill tool can often miss pixels or have unintended side effects if you forget to turn off anti-aliasing or something else. I also don't 100% understand how to properly use the fill tool sometimes, so avoid using it unless the context calls for it

use a multiply layer + greyscale value to convey shades that are darker than your base color

Even if you put a white that is, like, 90% value, a multiply layer will darken any layer underneath it very sharply. You can use this to put various greys and create volume with darker values. While it can be tempting to make an overlay layer or a soft light layer and put all of your shadows and highlights on it (I used to do that) you can get a greater range of value if you use separate layers for your lighter values and your darker values.

create an overlay layer to enhance darker shadows and begin forming lighter values

Overlay, being the cross between multiply and screen, is a perfect way to start exploring lighter colors in your piece without pushing the lever all the way to bright bright highlights while also making some parts of your shadows even darker

put a screen layer on top of the overlay layer to convey shades that are lighter than your base color and create white highlights

Screen can and will lighten your color to a very aggressive degree. I recommend using darker shades of grey in the 10-40% value range to convey "normal" lighting, and going over 50 up to 100 depending on how close you want the visible color to be to white.

create a soft light layer, set your color palette to 10% and 90% value "grey" and break out the airbrush, set the brush size so the cursor circle covers roughly 1/8th - 1/6th of the drawing

Using the airbrush on top of your other layers and also in a soft light layer is like a cheat code for rounding out your shading where your shading may be a little weaker in some places. As long as you don't overdo it, you can create a very convincing composition by combining the airbrush and soft light layer with your harder shading that has more value range.

use a normal layer to add marks of solid color on top of your drawing, like white lines reflecting on glasses or straight up 0% value black in some of the darkest parts of your drawing. this can also be useful for adding additional details and contour / cross contour lines that may be missing from your line art

This step is not always necessary. It is nice to add a little bit of final rendering, but it can be superfluous, especially if you were particularly thorough in your previous steps.

I also use it sometimes to add things like glasses that just appear as the frame without any rendering regarding the lenses.

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Feel free to repeat any of these layers to get even darker or even lighter values, or add more definition or multiple light sources. Like I have said, the decision to do so is purely contextual, and may vary from piece to piece.

If you have any specific art questions, or any holes I may have left in my process, my ask inbox is always open :>

If you are a digital artist and you see any flaws / room for improvement please feel free to leave criticism on this post or anywhere else like my asks or DMs! I'm always looking to get better.

Thank you for reading my long ass post, or at least scrolling through it all the way.

Either way, have a gold star!

⭐

[critical-quoter]

April Books

Holy moly, I have surpassed the 50% mark of my reading goal for this year. BookTok still has a chokehold on me so my TBR on Goodreads on consistently over 1200 books, and constantly being increased.

Stay Over - Kaylee Ryan ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Warrior - A. M. Brooks ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Wild Heart - Lacy Chantell ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Spark of Obsession - Victoria Dawson ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Plus Size for the Billionaire - R. J. Stevens ⭐️ You Can Follow Me - Jo Brenner ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Lose Me in the Shadows - Jo Brenner ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Meet Me in the Dark - Jo Brenner ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Owned by a Sinner - Michelle Heard ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Siren - R. J. Lewis & A. R. Rose ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Savage Seduction - Didi Sands ⭐️⭐️ Sick Boys - Clarissa Wild ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Dreaming Forest - L. B. Black ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Where's Molly - H. D. Carlton ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Pieces Left Behind - Ryan Marie ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A Rebel's Promise - Sara Blackard ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Brawler - Colleen Charles ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Thalia De Luca - Jaclin Marie ⭐️⭐️ When It Ends - Penelope Black ⭐️⭐️ Sorry. Not Sorry - Emily James ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My Anti-Hero - Titan ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Axel - Samantha Whiskey ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ To Wake A Kingdom - Nisha J. Tuli ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Butcher & Blackbird - Brynne Weaver ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 'Til Encryption Do Us Part - Cathleen Cole & Frank Jensen ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Saved - Hazel James ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Fearlessly Bound - Zainab Samba ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Piece That Breaks - N. J. Gray ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Easy Like Sunday Morning - Kenya Goree-Bell ⭐️⭐️ The Pucking Wrong Guy - C. R. Jane ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reckless Hands - T. L. Smith ⭐️⭐️ Resisting the Grump - Ashley Muñoz ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Pucking Wrong Date - C. R. Jane ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Blood of My Monster - Rina Kent ⭐️⭐️⭐️ In Your Wildest Dreams - Rebecca Jenshak ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Liees of My Monster - Rina Kent ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Blood of My Monster - Rina Kent ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️��️ Fearless King - Zainab Samba ⭐️⭐️ Saving Vienna - Vikki Jay ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Evergreen Ivy - Ada Taylor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Payback - Mila Sin & Manuela Rouget ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Fifty Shades of Grey - E. L. James ⭐️⭐️ Grey - E. L. James ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Welcome to Fae Cafe - Jennifer Kropf ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Born of Mist and Dragonfire - Ava Thorne ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Keeping My Bride - Angela Snyder ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Battle Within - Christina Mattingly ⭐️⭐️ Dark Obsession - Hope Ford ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Small Town Swoon - Melanie Harlow ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Hate Like Ours - Nikita ⭐️⭐️ The Deal Dilemma - Meagan Brandy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Dig - L. A. Ferro ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Rancher's Seduction - Nicole Simon ⭐️ I Almost Do - Evangeline Williams ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Plays Well With Others - Lauren Blakely ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Heart Trick - Kristen Granata ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A False Start - Elsie Silver ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Falling for You - T. Thomas ⭐️⭐️ Mafia and Protector - Isa Oliver ⭐️⭐️ Recklessly You - J. Morales ⭐️⭐️⭐️ All Rhodes Lead Here - Mariana Zapata ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

61 total books read for April 2024!

[dont-f-with-moogles]

Terra Darling 💖

What about 50 with Armin ? [The other character(s) involved is/are up to you]

Tysm 😘

Drunk Drabbles 50: "This is girl talk, so leave.” Here you are, Val! Avec Armin as you requested.

Girl Talk Characters: Levi, Eren, Mikasa, Armin, Sasha, Jean, Connie, Historia Word Count: 686 words

Levi stood in the shadow of the old storehouse. Peering from beneath his cloak, he surveyed the empty streets of Trost. The sky was hung heavily with grey; the promise of an impending storm. 

He lowered his hood and retreated back inside the building where he had left the younger recruits. All were crowded under one of the brick arches which ran abreast of the long, dimly lit room. As Levi approached, the clamour of their voices grew even louder.

“You can’t apply foundation that thickly,” Mikasa was scolding Historia, “look, you’ve left a tidemark on his neck. You need to blend it further down, like this.” She leaned down to rub the skin of Armin’s neck with two outstretched fingers. 

“This isn’t a fucking makeup tutorial!” Eren exploded, his voice echoing around the storehouse’s lofty ceiling. “If we don’t split up now the anti-personnels will just ambush us!”

“Hate to admit it but Jaeger’s right,” Jean sighed, “can’t he just go like that? I can’t even see a tidemark.”

Levi stood listening in quiet disbelief.

“You know, maybe you two should just go on ahead then,” Armin tried genially, despite the tremor in his voice, “after all this is girl talk, so leave, why don’t you?”

“I’ll hurry this up!” Eren dived upon the makeup bag which Historia was clutching. He withdrew a mascara wand and brandished it at Armin’s face. 

“Tell me how to do it!” he demanded.

As Mikasa stepped aside, Levi could see Armin seated upon a wooden chair, his hands clutching his knees. He was dressed in a white blouse which clashed horribly with the clownish shade of orange coating his face. A long, cotton peasant skirt fell from his waist past his ankles. He was eyeing Sasha who had been clicking an eyelash curler experimentally at him whilst Eren advanced upon him with the mascara. 

“Sasha, I’m begging you… let me do my eyes myself. It’s standard procedure when applying makeup, I believe. I- I’ve read books…”

“But I’ll try my best!” Sasha assured him with a particularly emphatic click of the curler, “um, how many eyelashes do you not need?”

“Don’t pull too many,” Mikasa warned her. “He still needs to be able to blink.”

“Uncanny…” Levi breathed, thinking back to the long night he and Hange had spent extracting various parts of Sannes’ face. He shook the memory from his mind with a quiet grunt of disapproval.

“Oi.”

All heads turned towards him. 

“I told you to never congregate in a group! It’s not safe.” Levi swept out an arm, sending the group scattering like a flock of birds. “Get out of here now!”

As Connie stumbled last out of the door, Levi glared once more at Armin. To the boy’s surprise, he lifted the makeup bag and inspected its contents carefully. Then Levi withdrew an eyeliner pen.

“Stay still.” 

Armin could scarcely believe it as Captain Levi, Humanity’s Strongest, grasped him by the chin. He tilted Armin’s head upwards and, holding the eyeliner in his free hand, bit down and tore off the cap.

“Close your eyes,” he slurred over the plastic cap held between his teeth. Trembling, Armin obliged. Gently, Levi drew a small black flick upon the boy’s eyelid. It was all Armin could do to suppress a flinch.

“You just want to sweep it across the lid,” Levi advised, gently adorning Armin’s other eye. The young scout made a small, nervous sound in reply.

“And if the others ask, I was not part of this girl talk shit. I have a reputation to uphold, Arlet. One word and I’ll force feed you the entire contents of this bag.”

Bonus: Outside, Jean was tugging a dark, brown wig over his sand-coloured hair. He ruffled the top of his head and then stood back to check the effect in a shop window. Swearing, he hurled the item to the dusty pavement. 

“I’m not wearing this! I look nothing like you anyway!” he snarled. Eren, who was slouched by the adjoining wall, gave a shrug.

“Exactly. That’s cause I don’t look like a fucking farm animal.”

My askes are always open. So who you gonna call? 👉 Drabble challenge.

[unemployedbarbiesblog]

I watched Barbie last week. My heart was just full to see a theater full of people wearing pink. I love how there was no memo, and still everyone just knew. The solidarity everyone had just amused me.

And just like most people, I really didn't expect it to give me an existential crisis. One minute, I'm wearing pink and dressing up all cute, and before I know it, I have a whole new personality based on the movie. I went for the jokes and laughs, but then I CRIED when 'What Was I Made For?' by Billie Eilish played.

'Barbie' was so much more than I expected. I don't even have words to explain how I feel about the movie. It was just PERFECT! Every minor detail..just perfect. It makes me wanna write a thesis about the movie.

It's funny how people say 'Barbie' was a shitty movie and how it was so "unfair", "anti-men" and "man-hating", promoting matriarchy and misandry. Did we watch the same movie? DID YOU EVEN WATCH THE MOVIE? I mean, saying you didn't understand the movie was way easier. If anything, Barbie was the exact opposite of unfair.

It's ironic when the hate comes from the same people who are romanticizing the most toxic movies like 'After', '365 Days', and '50 Shades of Grey'. Some people are either so blind to their own biases or they just like the attention.

If you are one of them, hating on everything feminine doesn't make you cool. Did Andrew Tate pick you yet?

[edsforehead]

Comfort Movie Tag!

Rules: post 10 of your favorite comfort movies and then tag 10 people.

Thank you for the tag lovely!! @mcbeanzontoast 💛

Men in Black- I just watched 1 and 2 recently. Honestly most will smith movies are comfort movies for em but esp these ones

Spirited away- do I even need to say anything. It’s my little anti-depressant, even tho the end gives me a little ache

Howls Moving castle- again, do I need to say anything 🥹

The Mummy - All the ones Brendan Frazier is in. I rewatch these like once every one or two years. They’re still so good and fun all these years later. Two hot leads, mummies, suspense, romance, whimsy, what more could you ask for?

Lord of the rings- such a good throwback and so good for a lil escapism

Nightmare before Christmas- i watch this like every other Halloween or Xmas. So good and gives me the feels, and I love the little twist on a Christmas movie, I wish there were more like it.

50 shades of grey - ok I cannot explain this one, it’s not nostalgic nor is it very good. Idk why maybe because it’s so predictable and straight forward?? I don’t even find it particularly hot 😩 idkkk

90s Disney movies: The little mermaid, Aladdin, Beauty and the beast- pure nostalgia. Honorable mentions: 101 Dalmatians and lady and the tramp.

Clueless - again, pure nostalgia. Also, this era of Paul Rudd was just 👌

Home Alone + The Santa Claus - classic holiday movies that just give me the feels

No presh tags 🥰 also I forget who might have already done this lol: @mantorokk-writes @bewilderedbunny @ceriseheaven @hellfiremunsonn @thefreak0fhawkinshigh