#anyways holy FUCK i relate to the op

[starbberryblue]

oh. oh wow.

I really appreciate the PTSD representation of Kabru Dungeon Meshi because very often traumatized characters end up leaning heavily into the "flight" portion of "fight or flight" but the reality is, many of us get pissed off when we're scared, or have the urge to hit back when we're triggered. It's easy to understand why: a scared person is easy to empathize with. An angry person--a violent person--is less so.

I have PTSD and it's taken a long time for me to get comfortable with the anger that wells up when I'm afraid. Like Kabru, when I get triggered, there's an immediate wash of, I'm going to fucking kill them.

Like Kabru, I never act on this impulse. It's just there in my brain, trying to take control, so it can protect me.

When Kabru is triggered and thinks, desperately, Maybe I should kill him! in order to avoid eating monsters, the scene is played for laughs. But under the inherent comedy of the moment (which I can recognize even if I can't make myself laugh along) is the reality that Kabru is deeply traumatized and is trying to manage his emotions so he doesn't endanger his relationships. For Kabru, a character built to maneuver with ease around the social interactions of humanoids (using the DnD term here), his past is not just a justification for his desire to close the dungeon; it's not just a way to create tension with Laios; it's not just an avenue for him to connect with the Canaries. Kabru's past and his lack of coping with it actively sabotages his relationships and even puts him at renewed risk, just like real PTSD! And I just think that's neat! sob.

[kiawren]

Heyy it's been a while I went off tumblr to focus on studying (although I barely am) but I was still plagued with kiawren thoughts..

Ugh I should have slept instead of writing this but I've been listening to pierce the veil and this AU is on my mind. I have like one post here tagged #suneater!kiawren for it but here's what it is basically: kiawe and wren as ace and yamato from one piece respectively. Wren has the Tiangou devil fruit and kiawe obviously has the flame flame fruit. Which for non one piece ppl means they have those powers. And if you've got a zoan fruit you're a furry basically (For mythical zoans like the Tiangou (a tiangou fruit is not in canon btw, but yamato has a similar mythical dog fruit) honestly have whatever the fuck powers you could just go ham with the lore to give them some op in universe power (idk this is from I've watched so far) so Wren can turn into a dog and also eat the sun or whatever I don't car I'm just writing that for kiawren don't care about the meta

Anyway so wren falls in love with kiawe in this AU. And in one piece I think yamato and ace only actually spent one night together? I think they loved each other though, maybe not necessarily romantic. And maybe it was more yamato. And I relate to that one sided desire to be near someone. Anywayyy Yamato is chained to an island and trapped, I didnt specify that wren is similarly chained but he also has certain ambitions he can't reach yet. And kiawe reminds him of those ambitions. And how it may be possible to reach them. And he wants to go with him. Obviously also reflecting irl me LOL ok. One piece spoilers here...

Ace dies so maybe kiawe does too iddk? I don't want him to die but just remove him from wren's life it's vague what happened to him but anyway that dog is gonna be so sad he's gone. And his hope and ambitions are crushed. And keep the vivre card scene (your vivre card burning means you're dying) I can be trusted to be normal about this scene and its composition and colours dont worryy also cuz burning. Is a motif here.

OKAY HERE'S THE WRITING I GOTTS SHUT UO

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When you first saw him, his form ablaze among those tiger-vermilion fires, did you not think it surreal, like seeing the sun, right in front of you. How alluring it was, how intimate. Merely recalling it feels like trying to remember a dream. Like trying to reach a sun, that taunts you with every sunset. You cannot reach what you want. All the colour in the world, and what are you? But he turned to you then. The flames grew gentler. He smiled. And it struck you. Less like a lightning bolt, more like sunlight after stepping out of shade. It made you lightheaded. In front of you was someone who could embody fire. But not in unbridled rage, or blind passion. He had all the strength of a sun's heat, but also a heart. He was not pure heat. He was warmth. And it drugged you. And you would spend the rest of your days chasing it, to bask in it. Not in it's whole. Just a sliver. You were just a like a dog. Dizzy, desperate. 

You are still a dog. It didn't take a fruit to make you a self-fulfilling prophecy. You were already a creature, but a smaller body housed grief perfectly next to pride. You would have done anything to see that sun again. That sweet, sweet fruit and its enlightenment. You could climb and climb. You could finally reach those skies, their blood red and bruise purple a naked mirror of your dying ambition. So you could only do one thing. Climb higher. Feel the heat. Is it just like an embrace? ...I've missed you so much. Higher still. It starts to burns. It only feeds a high. You start to cry. Higher, You're close. It's blinding. You see white. That's not death. It's life. You're right in front of it. Here you are. This is it. Widen your jaws. Wider. More. The flames kiss your mouth. It burns and bleeds. It almost feels like a communion. It will feel holy. Now place your mouth around it. This will be it.

It does not feel that big now that you have it. Where are you? Anguish boils like bile from your gut in your mouth. You close your jaws. You hope it brings catharsis. You hope he finds you. He doesn't. And there's no relief. It just stings. It just burns. That ugly grief you had culminates. You have him. So where is he. You have the sun in your mouth, and it burns. YOU HAVE THE SUN IN YOUR MOUTH AND. IT BURNS. WAS THIS THE RAPTURE YOU WANTED? IT BURNS. YOU HAVE THE SUN IN YOUR MOUTH AND YOU TASTE DEATH. THE TISSUE BLEEDS AND DRIPS RED, BLACK. IT ALL BURNS. WHERE IS HE, WHERE IS HE. EVERY SCAR BLISTERS LIKE LAVA AND YOUR LIPS DRIP LIKE BLOODY RAIN. YOUR MOUTH MELTS AND TEARS APART. 

THIS WAS NOT THE SUN YOU LOVED, YOU BLIND, DYING DOG.

[velvetvexations]

For two, I want talk about TRANSMISOGYNY to actually get taken seriously. I want to talk about how so many stereotypes of trans people as a whole come from shitty caricatures of trans women that THEMSELVES come from shitty caricatures of both "perverted" men AND "hysterical" cis women. I want to talk about how everything that is transandrophobic has a transmisogynistic flip side and vice versa. I want to talk about tokenism and the superficial support that vanishes the moment a trans woman isn't the "positive" caricature people made her out to be - and how the trans-specific version of that is only one example of a template that was codified against trans women but oh boy does it get applied to all trans people, see previous points. I want to discuss these things and have them taken seriously, WITHOUT people jumping on it as an excuse to just shit on transmascs and "theyfabs" and otherwise just take the path of least resistance by taking it out on another scapegoat minority. And I especially hate it, because the more I think about it, I'm pretty sure a lot of tumblr's most homophobic memes (e.g., twink (derogatory)) really did solidify right around the time that "homophobia" was damned near only being used to shut down ace people, and holy shit I do not want people to use this environment to do THAT.

I really feel the same way. I almost always have my hopes dashed when I see a really good post about transfem issues I really relate to and then it turns out the OP fucking sucks.

Reblog 5 posts about trans women every time I reblog one about trans men or else I'm bad If I make a post about my own problems, I have to be incredibly clear about how privileged I am and how other people have it worse or else I'm bad If I see a post that's transmisogynistic, I have to actively argue with the OP or else I'm some privileged dude doing nothing with my power and so I'm bad I have to br 100% clear about what my stance is on transcourse in the tags of every post or else I'll make trans women feel unsafe and so I'm bad It goes on and on. Eventually, I made up so many rules that I had to get off the internet bc every time I wanted to post ot reblog something I'd have to compulsively examine the post for days, search through the OP's entire blog, etc etc etc. It sucked! Glad I'm getting treatment! I wanna be clear though that I'm not blaming trans people of any kind for my. LOL! Caught myself!! Caught myself with "having to be 100% clear or else I'm unsafe" compulsion! Anyways, thanks for listening. I'm wondering if any other queer with moral ocd have had discourse affect them like this! 🤔

I'm sorry anon, I promise you don't have to live your life like that. You're not a bad person.

Ehhhhh. They are all those things, but I don't think most of them are former members of or directly sympathetic to 4chan culture. It's just that trans women are the in-group and 4chan happens to be where trans women who used to be (more obviously) problematic hung out the way that's TERFism for transmascs.

I haven't! A lot of things like that are triggering me in one way or another, either because it discusses hate crimes or just the general crushing opposition we face, but I like to read what I can make it through.

Happy to provide, anon. <3

[shit-taster-connoisseur]

BOO!

Haha, Did I Scare Ya?

Anyways I Noticed That You’re Looking For Some Silly Questions, So Your Wish Is Granted Mate!

A Simple One Of Course, What Are Your Thoughts/Opinions About One Of The Villains Such as The Interesting Twins?

JXJDB sure did

These guys, are by far my favorite villians, also im sucker for sibling dynamics

Wished they were taken more seriously, but won't deny some of their episode were my favorites by far (especially OP T.R.I.P). Less because of the gags they thrown them in, but rather we do finally see glimpses of their own personalities cause up until then there rlly wasnt much on them besides them failing and falling out a whole damn window all the time xxbdj honestly, that calls into question how resistant these guys are holy shit

The sister(if anyone got any name suggestions for them plz tell so I can steal them too/j), is fed UP, and I love her for it, cause with the amount of shit she's face i'd go fucking insane too. I vote we should give her gun, all her problems would be solved/j but actually, i enjoy that she's a little shit, impulsive, arrogant, etc, but i think it kinda stems from a fear of failure because how else would they've been known as father's bestest spies? Sector V had knocked down a pedestal, and that fucks with her head, but then their failures began to pile up and now she's becoming increasingly desperate to prove that she's still somehow #1– in turn she because implusive, impatient, etc. Sbe 100% cares for her brother, so at the same time she feels like she's dragging him down, it all piles on. Maybe a vaca would do her some good.

The brother, I absolutely adore him – tbh I adore both of them equally. He seems more like the younger of the two in terms of personality, we seem always following his sister's lead despite how irrational it could be. His loyalty and compassion to her is something that kinda pushes him to being my fav twin spot, cuz well im a sucker for good brother characters. And despite his more "softer" attuide compared to his sister's, they're both evil and flawed equally on the same level ‐ mo manipulation or pressure(well kind), nah-da. As the brother is just as implusive, selfish, and arrogant, but he hasn't let their failure get to his head just yet – in turn, he has more clearer head than his sister, so he ends becoming a voice of reason than a leader.

(Readmore cuz this is long jdbdb)

It's pretty popular theory that they're delightful, which is something I think about a LOT when it comes to their characters. And a bit more headcanon here: their non-delightful selves are still conscious, as to me(inspired heavily by my SS au with a friend), being delightful serves as just a filter for kids. Kinda like you feel the urge to chuck a plate, but because you're delightful, it's like a parasite keeping your hands folded in your lap, controlling your behaviors and words.

And they both don't like that their delightful-selves are fighting against old comrades because they were probably ex-KND operatives. perhaps got caught during a mission in Father's mansion, and faded to obscurity in KND history. Either that, or maybe they were father's first delightful experiments? Before the DCFDTL? Maybe that's why they aren't as insync as the DCFDTL, cuz you'd think them being related by blood would strength that bond.

Honestly, i just want an AU where they're happy:))

More headcanons:

Lesbian/Gay solidarity and hostility

They are the entire Evelyn Evelyn album(or not idk, havent listen to it in awhile)

If they ever do end up being undelightfulized, they'd have vastly different asthetics out of spite. Not sure which ones yet

They'd marathon Saturday morning cartoons to get the full childhood experience!!

They consider the DCFDTL sort like cousins, a familial connection is there at least

They're presumed missing, so they live alone in a house bought by Father. They're able to split the chores usually, but the Brother is the better cook between them, so the sister just does the dishes.

Alternatively they also live in Father's mansion, but because they keep falling out of windows at comical heights, they're in bed rest planning their next schemes, therefore more out the way

If they got turned into animals, they'd probably be panthers or owls idk

(Lord save me it's nearly 1am on a school might xmsb)

[panie-wanie-dean-bean]

Thank u so much for the lore answer, I love the cotton candy sweetness of fluff but ima lil drunk right now, so i wanted to share a f-ed up question if that's okay, (you'r free to not answer if not,) but since Bo is so determined to like not fuck upnot be sent back n stuff what kind of stuff would he avoid doing around MC 4hat he used to do around his previous masters?

and like, if its related or not, i had this headcanon that im glad u gave some bo backstory for bc where it was like, wat would happen if he accidentally caused a accident with all his adorbs puppy energy, like he's playing tag with Jack or somethin and with Bos megahuge beach boy buff arms just knocks MC down the flight of their fancy imported italian marble stairs edged with silver (they say this as they're fallin down btw 'ah! Im falling down my fancy imported italian marblestairshks Im stupid)

but anyway yea they break something or get like super injured or something and ofc the ambulance has to be called and they're taken ro the hospital to stay for awhile, which sucks bc like ofc society looks down on hybrids so everyone is side eyeing this adorable zoo mansion bc they're lame and 1 brain celled and like "thats wat happens when u have a house full of wild animals they should be put down if u ask me" and MCs attitude is like a grim but professional "if i had both my arms Id beat ur ass bitch, wats ur @? Soon as this morphine drip is done its over for u hoes" but like they probably have a cast or somethin . Anyway MC's worried about the boys, and me the OP is worried about Bo bc like Trauma city would hit his brain harrd, and i dont even know if the other guys would be so forgiving and stuff bc i mean they Should they're a family, but that was two(2) flights of imported italian marble dude, fuck, why play football tag,, in the house?? And idk i just felt bad bc jack n Bo esp probably would feel double bad even tho MC loves him so much he's just a hyper guy, he cant help his zoomzooms, i dont/cant fathom wat he and the boys would do in this situation probably pack his one thing (an old mc shoe) ina rucksack n try to run away miserably or maybe 24/7 at the hospitsl despite all the nasty looks and comments bc they're hybrids or magbe even hiding away bc he absolutely believes that mc will send him away once they lock eyes again, but regardless of either of those things, if MC has to roll up to the house in that (yknow that spongebob character guy who was born with glass bones and paper skin ass Giant ass full body cast on rollers??) To go find that boy and over the grand table firmly tell them not to harbor any horrible thoughts about themselves or each other, bc it was an accident and about lovin them unconditionally and being a family, i might cry or somethinf, the table is also imported italian maple btw MC-s parents had a thing i think they fucked an italian architect guy, or somethin anyway i luv u, im gonna eat a burrito so let me know if u want any thing from the kitchen luv u

Lemme know if tuis text is broken up enough bc i skimmed over it and i was like this is like the stat wars openin or some shit i put gaps in

🖤

First of all, sweety, for me, take a sip or two of water, ok? And make sure you sleep on your side if you're still drunk by then, forehead kisses all around

Anyways, Bo would just mask everything that brings him joy by the time you adopt him. No bouncing, no stimming in general, no talking unless asked, no indulging in his hyperfixations or special interests, he even tries to limit his tail wagging. He's come to correlate his own joy with bad behavior so he's just straight up not him when you first meet him

Holy shit, this is good, but fuck man. Bo wouldn't know what to do with himself. Once the ambulance takes you away he thinks you died. He's in full shutdown, no talking, no eating, no moving off your bed and your scent

Jack would also be distraught, both because he was playing with Bo and because he cleans those stairs so often they're just a little more slippery from how clean they are. He stays with Bo most days, Rory coming in with meals to make sure they don't starve in there. Jack eats a little. Bo doesn't

Rory feels bad for Jack and Bo, he knows they didn't mean it and trusts Jack's recount of events. Nick keeps himself busy by visiting you in the hospital, Shaun wants to go too but since cat's are a popular allergen he's not allowed in unless he needs care. Ian goes as often as he can so he doesn't have enough time to plot Bo's death. Jean and Berry are pissed and openly talk about kicking Bo out. They know better than to talk about Jack like that with Rory around. Joseph is stuck as peace maker until you get back, making sure that no fights break out and they Jean doesn't poisons Bo's food with onions, not that he'd eat it anyhow

When you finally get home and tell everyone that you forgive Bo seeing as it was an accident Bo finally lets everything hit him and cries. He's on his best behavior the months following, you'll have to reteach him to drop his "good boy" mask and be himself

[chidoroki]

Tokyo Revengers S3EP1

aka: city wide brawling

So the OP song is the same as last season but the visuals changed? I'm not too bothered by it but I would've loved another great song. The boys already looking so good too. Very excited to see more of Smiley and Angry and hopefully I can learn their names properly now.

Aww, Emma looked so pretty in that one shot.

Oh, that one captain of Toman whom I dunno the name of.. does he switch sides? That scene of him getting up from the chair with that pissed off look on his face ain't giving me good vibes.

I'm like 95% certain that Inui eventually cooperates with us while Koko doesn't and that moment with the both of them with the former disappearing from the latter's side sorta reinforces that idea in my mind.

Oh, yup, that Toman captain (Yasuhiro. I was good and looked him up) joins Tenjiku, with Sanzu right behind him too I think. I guess I should've seen that coming, which means Toman loses its fifth division captain and vice captain.

This fight looks insane already. My boy Chifuyu putting in work, Inui looking so unbothered while kicking ass and Kakucho nailing Takemichi with a heavy hit oh my god.. and that moment of Izana running up on Mikey with crazy eyes is definitely creepy.

I try my best to avoid spoilers, honestly, but Mikey and Izana have some sorta history, don't they? like, family related or whatever. And I'm so not looking forward to what may happen with Emma, if it happens this season.

Anyways, lemme actually start this episode.. and we're starting right where we left off, thank god.

“Takemichty, your mind can't even begin to fathom me.” Bro, my mind can't comprehend you either and I hate it. How can Kisaki just jump around to different gangs and reach an authority status so easily, like the hell is so special about you dude?

Hanma riding in on a bike sporting purple leopard patterns.. what an icon.

YO! Mochizuki! Can you not drag my precious boy like that?? And toss him through the air like a sack of potatoes?? I hope Chifuyu kicks his ass during the upcoming battle.

Tenjiku is already brawling with Toman's second division somewhere else? That's Mitsuya's division, yea? Oh dear.

Ain't no way the twins come rushing in by running over all the Tenjiku members with their bikes!! Seeing Smiley all happy like that is hilarious!

Angry doesn't play around, holy shit, his punches are deadly!

Okay okay, so Angry is Souta and Smiley is Nahoya, but if even their intros call 'em by their nicknames I just might do the same, although that'll just lead me to forget their real ones quicker.

Ah damn, so the twins had beef with Mocchi way before their Toman days huh? Alright, either one of them can get revenge on that dude. That's fine.

The twins are insane but I love them already. Well, I know they've been around since the first season, but finally seeing them more is great.

“What if Kisaki can also travel through time?” I'm not completely certain about him but I do know Takemichi isn't the only one capable of doing so at least.

Oohhh Takemichi is through playing games. That's such an angry and determined face!

I know it won't ever happen, but the fact that killing Kisaki has never been brought up as a viable option to stop this chaos is incredible.

Yuuupp, I knew Mitsuya was involved in that brawl happening far away, but at least he's landing a couple nice hits on Mocchi.

Okay what the fuck Ran?? Knocking Mitsuya down with a damn cement block. What cheap stunt.

“Sorry about the cheap shot.” OH well at least he's self aware!!!

I've seen how loved the Haitani brothers are so I'm interested to find out why, though I don't think causing harm to Toman is ca contributing factor..

Mhhhmm I know nothing about Shion aside from this little scene that was teased in trailers but he's intense.. and apparently he was the ninth gen leader of Black Dragon. That's terrifying.

I got a feeling the info the twins forced outta those two Tenjiku dudes was just bait, because if Kakucho is there then that's certainly not good.

I mean, it's nice he sent the swarm of Tenjiku guys away, but I doubt Kakucho is gonna struggle fighting a 1v4 either.

“First Division’s Captain means you’re the toughest of all of you, right?” “Uh, actually, that’s not really true. He fights with his kindness, not his fists.” Glad Chifuyu said what everyone was thinking.

Crazy to think all these fights are happening everywhere between Toman and Tenjiku while Manjiro and Inaza are just chilling by the sea..

So.. they didn't already know each other? Odd. Perhaps they don't remember one another?

That punch of Takemichi's really knocked down Kakucho so hard he's having a serious flashback.. or Takemichi is anyways.

Wait a damn minute, they knew each other in second grade?? Hello???

“You were my hero.” Another one huh?

“Beware of a traitor.” Well thanks to the OP I got a hunch on who two might be. Maybe.

[winterandwords]

Not writing-related but I'm reblogging it anyway with a massive ramble because holy shit, people in the comments, take a deep breath and repeat after me: Not everything is about everyone and that's OK.

I'm saying this as a chronically ill and physically disabled person who is mostly housebound. I do find that occasionally vacating the interior premises with support and accommodations is fucking excellent for the soul. I fully recommend it if you're able to do it by whatever means make that realistic and possible for you. Even if it's just opening a window.

If it isn't helpful to you personally? If you're unable to do it for whatever reason? OK. Don't do it. Do something else instead. Or do nothing. Whatever.

But you know what? People are allowed to post things that are relevant to themselves and some other people without having to cover every possible eventuality and every set of circumstances that could possibly apply to anyone who reads it. Not for you? Move on.

Maybe make your own post talking about the issues surrounding accessibility and inclusion if you feel moved to. A lot of people mentioned in the comments that they live in unsafe areas or that physical or mental conditions prevent them from accessing outdoor spaces. Those are valuable points. But maybe this particular post isn't the place to make them because that isn't what the post is about.

OP didn't say "If you are unable to leave your house for whatever reason, you're a bad person and it's your fault you're suffering." They didn't say "Going out and doing things regularly will fix whatever you're struggling with." They didn't say "This post applies to everyone in every situation and should be taken as personal instruction aimed precisely at YOU." They didn't say "Force yourself to go out regularly to the detriment of your physical and/or mental health."

There's a world of difference between "Doing this thing can be beneficial" and "Everyone everywhere must do this thing no matter what." Can we please assume that people aren't being dicks 24/7? Because they aren't. Can we please understand that not every passing thought requires endless justifications and disclaimers? Because it doesn't. Can we collectively acknowledge, in the most loving possible way, that it's not always about you? Because it isn't.

There's also a world of difference between someone who knows you well and is aware of your challenges and limitations telling you that you should be doing something they can do even though they don't share your challenges and limitations, and a complete stranger just saying a thing.

Just because something appears in your field of vision doesn't mean it's about you. If you only ever encounter things that are very specifically about you and your limited range of human experience, maybe you need to broaden your horizons a bit. Or don't, because god forbid anyone feel the need to yell about why they can't do that.

This isn't even a Tumblr problem or strictly an internet problem. It's a people problem.

</vent>

life actually gets better when you leave the house consistently btw like im serious

[sadnesslaughs]

You died, you met a god(dess), and you got offered a new life in another world with the usual package -- OP powers, a personal harem, the works. Smelling a scam, you refused. That pissed them off.

(A response to a writing prompt)

“The fuck do you mean, I’m good?” Her perfect face contorted, lips closing in on each other as she gave a threatening pout. “No one refuses this. I don’t even have a Plan B, that’s how rare this is. So, take your stupid hero fantasy before I shove it straight up your-“

“LANGUAGE!”

“I CREATED LANGUAGE, I’LL USE IT AS I PLEASE.” An aura of holy light raged around her, blinding me momentarily. When it cleared, her blonde hair had become frayed, with strands standing in all directions.

I didn’t know what to say, rocking on the chair as I tried to think of a way to pacify her. “I’m not interested in the whole hero thing. I didn’t really enjoy those stories when I was a kid, felt a little cliché.”

“What about a harem? Beautiful ladies, who wouldn’t want that? Some may even rival my beauty.” She said, flicking her hair, which wasn’t helping the bad hair day she was having.

“I don’t need a harem. I just want to find the perfect person. Someone who gets me.” I explained, not wanting to mention that while I would love a person as beautiful as her, I wouldn’t want them to have a similar personality.

“Nerd.” she whispered.

“What was that?”

“Nothing, nothing. Such a nerdy answer.” She whispered again, although she did it a little louder, as if she wanted me to hear the nerd part. “Look, what about super powers? You could be Batman.”

“Batman doesn’t have any powers.”

“Huh? Yes he does.” She rummaged through her desk, pulling out trinkets, fire staffs and a limited edition copy of Batman. She pointed to the cover and smirked. “Bat-Man.” she drawled. “His powers are in the title. He’s a bat.”

She said it so smugly that I almost wanted to let it slide, feeling that any answer I gave her would be the wrong one. “Actually… He’s a guy in a suit with a lot of money. Well, not ‘just’ a guy, but he doesn’t have any powers.”

She peeled off the pristine wrapping, flipping through the pages, before laughing. “Ma-ha!”

I tilted my head, wondering what was so funny. Maybe the Joker had told a joke that tickled her funny bone? When she saw me looking, she turned the comic around, pointing to his dead parents.

“THEY GOT SHOT. MA-HA, How funny. Why did they not simply bribe their goddess and get resurrected? Are they stupid? What shoddy writing. Ah, that’s funny. You mortals do know your comedy.” She wiped a tear from her eye, tossing the comic onto her table.

I didn’t have the psychiatric skills necessary to dissect her humor, steering the conversation elsewhere. “Why do you have that, anyway?”

“Oh, this old thing? Some guy died while holding it. Think he got stabbed while fighting for it in a parking lot outside of a Mcdonalds. You would be surprised how many Mcdonald’s related deaths I see.”

“Because of the food?”

“No, carpark brawls. Do you humans set up a fighting arena there or something? Wait? MA-HA-HA-HA, MA-HA!” She smacked her table with her fist, creating a dent in it. My stomach turned, feeling I didn’t want to know what was so funny. Beyond my better judgement, I asked.

“What’s so funny?”

“M…MA….MAHAHAHAHAHA.” She struggled to speak, laughing for a solid two minutes before wiping more tears from her eyes. “Ah, well, that guy that gave me the comic wished he was Batman. So, he had to watch his parents die. Isn’t that funny?”

I sat there horrified, listening to her laugh, before she stopped, looking at my face.

“You mortals don’t have a sense of humor. People die all the time, build a bridge and get over it. Look, you’re getting your powers or a new job/world, so pick something and hurry up. I haven’t got all day.”

“Technically, you-“

“Technically, you should be very careful about what you say, unless you want to be his Robin.”

“How do you even know that? You didn’t even know Batman had powers.”

“I’m a quick reader.” She bragged, somehow gaining all that lore from a simple flick through the pages. It was scary how much power she held, having a dominating energy that made the room feel heavy, like she was a whirlpool and I was trapped in her vortex.

I had to choose something, but what? She looked like she operated on genie rules, which made things dangerous. I doubt anything I picked would end well for me. What task would be relatively safe? “What’s life like for a goddess and her fellow afterlife dwellers?”

She thought about it before shrugging. “Eh, it’s fine. Unlimited food, can sleep as long as you want, access to infinite knowledge, that sort of stuff. Why?”

“Was curious. What about the people that work here? I’m sure you have secretaries and helpers.”

She raised an eyebrow, crossing her arms over her chest. “They live comfortably. None of the gods or goddesses would allow them to be tormented. It would make us all look bad.” Suspicion poisoned her tone, making it obvious I needed to act quick.

“I’ll be your assistant then. That’s what I want.”

“NO!” She stomped her foot. “Go and get killed in some other world. I need entertainment. It’s so boring here. You idiots are the only things keeping me sane.”

“You said I could pick anything, right? Powers/jobs. I chose a job.”

She thought about it before sulking, leaning against her desk. “Fine, but I hope you know I’ll subject you to the worst working conditions that the afterlife allows. A whole hour of work without a break. Well, you get one twenty-minute break, but no additional breaks.” She smirked, calling this a victory for herself.

If I was going to survive this job, I needed to learn to play into her ego. I held my chest, dramatically turning towards the exit. “A whole hour. I can’t do it. That’s basically one whole portion of my day.”

“MA-HA. You can’t escape my wrath. You will work that whole hour, and you will like it. I’m going to make you do all the horrible tasks, like restocking the fridge and picking up my groceries. You’ll be exhausted.”

“NOOOOOO.” I screamed, dropping to my knees. “No..” I let out a whimper before breaking character. “Um, do I have somewhere to stay?”

“Duh, the hotel where everyone stays. You just walk into the elevator and it zaps you into your room.”

“Where is the hotel?”

“Ugh, I’ll take you there.”

I expected a tour. Instead, she flicked my forehead, flinging me through a portal. The portal flashed a rainbow of colors until I was on my back in the lobby of a hotel. The hotel was gorgeous, filled with beautiful angelic statues, a vending machine with free snacks and a whole decorated marble floor. I picked myself up, finding the entrance empty. There was a front desk, but since no one was operating it, I explored the area myself, stumbling towards the elevator.

Inside the elevator, I expected to find buttons, only for a beam to zap my body, throwing me onto a bed. The bed, made of an angelically soft material, almost lulled me to sleep with just a touch. Pulling myself out of its comforting grip, I rolled out of bed, seeing the rest of my room.

Calling it a room was an understatement. It was a home. Having everything a person could want. Gym, living room, pool, spa, sauna and kitchen. All of this wrapped in a clean and gold themed room, with glittery bits of gold adorning the tables and cabinets. After getting some bottled water from the fridge, I laid down, resting my head on the pillow.

A ring echoed through the room before the goddess appeared on a cushion. At least I thought it had been a cushion. The cloud shaped device floating off the bedside table, hovering in front of me, giving her a good view of my face. Like any old person, she had her face pressed against the camera, so I could only see the bridge of her nose and part of her eyes. Seems a thousand year old goddesses suffered from the same problems as sixty-year-old mortals.

“Ma-ha. I hope you get a good sleep because you’ll be working early tomorrow. That’s right, be ready to wake up at 1pm! MA-HA. You’ll be a tired mess all day.” She laughed before stepping away from the camera, pouting. “How do I turn this off?” I saw her lips moving again, but no sound was coming from the device.

“I think you hit the mute button.”

She mouthed something and then made a laughing motion, so I could only assume it was an insult. She hit another button, which only made the camera switch around, showing her office. After another attempt, she turned it off.

“She’s really bad with technology. Maybe I should help her out with it tomorrow?” I wondered, giving the cloud device a look over. It looked like a type of phone, but I still wasn’t entirely sure what to call it. Deciding to leave it for tomorrow, I closed my eyes, getting ready for my ‘early’ start tomorrow.

[mommyclaws]

i have genuinely never heard of a bluestar-hate video, what video is that??? o_o like. i am certain i won’t agree with whatever takes they have, but now i’m curious

You don't??? The damage it did to the warrior cats fandom for years after is still so vivid to me, holy shitt....

Before I start, I am not trying to start drama. I'm actually a fan of the op. This isnt a cancel or callout post. The video is probably 6+ years old now. No clue if it or the related videos are still up, but I'm not gonna go fishing for them and if someone else finds them, I'd appreciate if you DO NOT link it on this post! Just to avoid any drama yknow yknow

So to sum it up the video was basically saying that Bluestar is a bad person for what she did to Brightheart/Lostface and went on to nickpick things about her, like interpreting her personality as entitled and I vaguely remember some implication that she was judging ThistleClaw unfairly. Which is... fine on it's own. You don't have to like the character or the things she did, but they also had a similar video "defending" Thistleclaw. Obviously not in a condoning his actions kind of way, but it was something along the lines of "You guys are hating him for the wrong reasons. You should hate him for being violent and a gr*0mer. But he was actually nice to Snowfur and loved her so stop making art/content where he's mean to Snowfur!"

And it probably didn't sit well with alot of people because... what difference does it make?

And god I could rant, I could rant, I could RANT about why showing Thistleclaw in any positive light when it is common knowledge that a majority of this fandom are in middle school was not a good idea. And besides that, he canonly calls Snowfur and their son weak after she died. Thistleclaw isn't and was never supposed to be a sympathetic character.

I genuinely dont care if you like him or headcanon him, blah blah whatever. I'm not here to police people over fake cats. Idc. but any Thistleclaw defense is completely uncalled for and has no purpose when his fucking character is a canon ped0 and gr*0mer who might put the age group this book is made for at risk. The things he does in Spottedleaf's Heart are bad, and the book just never acknowledged that the gr*0ming and age gap were the issue, rather just the fact that he was training in the Dark Forest. I think this could be very easily misinterpreted by children because it doesn't show the true weight of how bad Spottedpaw's situation is.

But anyways, after those videos, the backlash against Bluestar was intense and there was definitely a bigger Thistleclaw fan crowd for awhile. I mean this spread like wildfire. Any video, art posted, or mention of Bluestar would always have a ton of people making unnecessary side comments like "I hate her but-" "I don't like her but-" etc. I would even see people link the video if you mentioned liking her😭?? Which is just 1. rude to say on someone else work and 2. Blantantly parroting for the video just because the op was popular.

I don't blame this video specifically, and I know the fandom is mostly kids- even more so back then- but I do think it had a bit of a part to play in how the warriors fandom has long since blurred the line between "This character is bad" and "This character did a bad thing."

Yes, Bluestar did bad things, but the narrative VERY MUCH portrayed those things as bad. The reader knows what she did was bad. The characters know what she did was bad. That was the entire point. Completely opposite of characters like Bramblestar, who do bad things but are defended by the narrative and it's way more appropriate to bring negative attention.

Imo Bluestar was one of the best written and tragic characters in the series and before that video alot of people agreed, but for years after it she was reduced to "She did bad thing so I can't like her anymore". The whole Bluestar stuff has blown off since and I'm glad, but it's so frustrating how many characters get this treatment as well lately instead of being seen as narrative tools.

You can comment and reblog stuff but if anyone starts dropping names, URLs, or video links I'm turning reblogs off okay?

[homosexchad]

yooooo pog question. i wrote this so fast, this is such a mess, i probably have like 300 typos and this may not make sense but hey ho

trans man, NO NIPS

reasonings:

1. i was already worried about post DI healing what with me having:

a. absolute fucking melons

b. the worst skin elasticity you’ve ever seen (7 years of binding, woowee)

c. and being a barely ex-smoker (i did the 6 weeks minimum for pre op, my surgeon said i would need to do 6 months no nicotine for 0% nicotine related impacts)

d. i’m a big fat guy. i’m working on it, post op working out is amazing, but pre op working out was a no go, and i’d piled on the pounds since puberty round one. i knew i had higher risk of complications all around.

so i was like “bro i’m fucking worried”, and i know nipple grafts are the part that need good blood oxgyen for 100% success rate so i was like “fcukk, smoking impacts blood oxygen and healing and shit, and i don’t wanna deal with nipples falling off or partially rejecting”

2. i didn’t trust any surgeon to know what the fuck a good nipple looks like. there are so many amazing free nipple grafts, but i’d seen too many nipples where i genuinely had to question whether some of these surgeons knew what a nipple was. sometimes they’re too high, too low, too widely / narrowly spaced, way too big, tiny tiny and small, etc - and while many other people would be perfectly happy, or able to get a revision, or lucky with their body type and where their nipples could go based on that, or had an amazing surgeon, i just ??? i wasn’t gonna test my luck. i was fully prepared to come out of surgery with mega dog ears and 70 complications, i wasn’t gonna risk it. i just knew that while my chest could come out looking like a piece of shit, if i was gonna have nipples, i wanted them to be like god’s perfect nipples, and i knew no surgeon could guarantee that.

3. idgaf about nipple sensation. there’s a million other ways to nut, and FNGs don’t tend to regain 100% sexual sensation, so it was kind of a “eh, whatever, you win some you lose some”, and if i was gonna likely have no nip sensation anyway, what was the point in risking complications for them?? again, i did massively get in my head about complications, the percentage of complications with nipple grafts is pretty low. i only realised later that the only people posting on reddit are the ones who have had issues or have insane surgery stories, and that it probably wasn’t a good idea to check that out pre op lmao

4. holy shit nipple tattoos look so realistic. i found plenty of tattoo artists in my country and local area who did hyper realistic nipples for women who had lost theirs to breast cancer, and a bunch who did them for trans men, and jesus christ. they look identical to bio nips. i figured if my chest looked empty, i could just get tattoos?? and they look the same?? and i can control exactly where they go, how big they are, etc?? like. that’s perfect. only difference would be that they wouldn’t actually stick out, which wasn’t smth i was bothered by

5. i looked at some pics of people post op. prior to getting to the point where i was actively like “holy shit i’m having top surgery”, all i’d seen is pics of skinny twinks who got peri or magically perfect DI that underlined their perfect pecs, and i didn’t even know no-nips was an option. i deadass thought free nipple grafts meant u didn’t pay for the nipple grafts 💀 anyway, i just saw so many pics of guys who were big, small, tall, short, nipples, no nipples, dog ears, no dog ears, excess skin, weird nipples, perfect nipples - *everything*- and i realised that regardless of what happens, i’m gonna be happier post op. even if i get every complication and my new chest explodes, even if there’s loads of excess tissue left - it’s gonna be either be far easier to bind, or at least feel good with clothes on, which was better than what i was at pre op. anyway, part of looking at all of the complications and worst case scenarios was me realising that the worst complications come from nipple grafts. and like, the percentage is so fucking low, and of course all i saw were the pics of people who were scared and looking for guidance, but i was ALSO scared and stressed.

my surgeon said 3% of his patients get complications or come back for revisions, and the most common was aesthetic issues that patients were pre-warned about (like “hey heads up, ur probably gonna have dog ears” and then the patient has dog ears). i was talking about how i saw one dude online who had necrotic skin after surgery and had massive holes in his chest and my surgeon was like “WHAT?? i’ve never seen that in my LIFE, or even HEARD about that in this country”. but i got in my head and convinced myself that if i got nipples i would absolutely implode and die.

anyway basically i was just scared of nipples. i knew that my post op chest could be shit and i’d still be happier, but i wasn’t convinced at all that i would be happier with complicated nipples vs no nipples

TLDR - i healed suspiciously well and i had no complications other than a really mild bit of dog earring which isn’t really noticeable and is going away with time (i’m currently 6 months post op), but also i’m so chill without nipples, so while i reckon i could’ve got perfect nipples, i don’t miss my nipples or regret going without them. i was like a maniac post op, it was insane. i took 2 weeks off work like recommended and proceeded to be fine without painkillers after like 4 days. shit was wild.

i probably will get some tattoos to cover up my scarring, i’m first gonna wait and see what my lil dog ear does as i keep building muscle and healing and if i don’t feel like i need a lil revision on it. cuz i don’t want to pay £500 for some sick dragon tatts on my chest one to realise i need to let my surgeon cut me up again lmao

poll for ppl who have had/are planning to have top surgery (any sort, mastectomy/reduction/augmentation/whatever) cause im wondering about how many ppl here opt for no nipple grafts. I'm assuming if this gets votes most will b trans ppl for obvious reasons, but cis ppl feel free to vote you if got something relevant, your call

(no "show results" button bc i dont want the results mega skewed, pls dont use the "other" as "show results" just wait a week. schedule a reblog or st. ty.)

QUESTIONS FOR THE TAGS if u feel like answering any:

gender+what surgery+nipples yes/no

for ppl who opted for no nips, any partic motivations for your decision? comfort, cost, easier healing, just like the vibes, etc?

any plans on tattoos, or just gonna leave blank? (still trying to decide if i wanna do coraline buttons for myself....)

as usual reblog to give this very scientific poll a slightly different sampling bias

[makeste]

BnHA Chapter 334: Horikoshi Apology Chapter

Previously on BnHA: Horikoshi was all, “hey, guess what! Remember Star and Stripe, that new badass female hero character I introduced out of nowhere about six weeks ago, whose super-OP quirk is powerful enough to either end TomurAFO for good, or give him a game-changing upgrade at a critical time right before the final battle? Anyways, so you guys will never guess what I’m about to do to her!” Fandom was all, “are you going to kill her off.” Horikoshi was all, “HOW DID YOU -- okay, fine, whatever, yes. I’m killing her off.” Fandom was all, “( •̀ _•́).” Horikoshi was all, “(・∧・   ).” Fandom was all, “(  ・ _ ・).” Horikoshi was all, “.........whatever, I’m still gonna do it.”

Today on BnHA: Horikoshi is all, “ACTUALLY, STAR REALLY WAS THE GREATEST HERO OF ALL TIME. AND OKAY FINE, I WON’T KILL THE PILOTS, AND ONE OF THEM IS ACTUALLY SUPER HOT. AND HERE’S SALAAM, FOR NO REAL REASON ASIDE FROM HE’S THE FUCKING BEST. AND HERE’S A CREEPY BABY TENKO, AND AN ACTUAL CLIFFHANGER ABOUT AFO THAT FOR ONCE DOESN’T HAVE AN OBVIOUS RESOLUTION. AND HERE ARE YOUR KIDS!! AND A FUNNY KACCHAN FACE! AND A SURPRISE APPEARANCE OF THE WINTER COSTUME EVEN THOUGH IT’S SEASONALLY INAPPROPRIATE! AND MORE DEKU ANGST, BUT THIS TIME TRIO-CENTRIC! THERE, I’VE DELIVERED EVERYTHING YOU COULD POSSIBLY ASK FOR, SO NOW WILL YOU PLEASE GIVE ME YOUR FULL AND UNRESERVED LOVE AND AFFECTION AGAIN.” You son of a bitch. I’m in.

okay Horikoshi, go ahead and get it all out of your system man

one last hurrah of playing around with all of these screentones and funky line widths and shit. fine. but then we really have to go back. it has been seven weeks. your other characters are wondering what happened to you. “say guys, whatever happened to Horikoshi?” “oh, he said he was going out for cigarettes.” “seriously? that was like seven weeks ago”

seriously man. hasn’t Deku already been through enough?? are you really gonna abandon him too? just like HIS DAD?? Deku where are you buddy. I need you to come over here and give Horikoshi the Guilt Trip Eyes

(ETA: holy shit it worked.)

lmao what the fuck

what the hell. does Tomura have wings now?? or is that the Noumu?? which just happens to have Tomura’s head now for some inexplicable reason?? and is spewing lightning everywhere for bonus incomprehensibility?

oh wait lol I scrolled down three inches and the narration is all “yeah so Tomura has wings now” WELL OKAY THEN

lol so he’s just zooming off all panicked like FUCK FUCK FUCK I NEED TO GIVE THIS TO SOMEONE ELSE FUCKING SHIT FUCK

and he’s heading for... is that his tropical island hideout?? no fucking way you guys. no way that the Spinner theory is actually going to come true. right??

(ETA: our little lizard buddy lives another day. on a related note, r.i.p. to our very short-lived new friend Kashi Kashiko.)

okay so the next page is just more of Star’s vestige intimidating the shit out of TomurAFO, and Tomura/AFO bitching about how YET AGAIN, All Might somehow symbolically showed up to ruin his day

yes yes, more flying panels yes okay we get it. so he’s running and they’re chasing him

but now they’re being blown away by some kind of shockwave or something? okay

FUCK YEAH MAN. LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

okay real talk, I’m glad at least one character finally acknowledged that S&S was leagues above All Might and who are we even kidding. that said, maybe next time we can get a moment like this before you brutally kill the character off for the sake of furthering TomurAFO’s character development. does that make sense? do you understand where you went wrong here, Horikoshi? are you taking notes?

oH MY GOD we are finally transitioning away from this battle holy shit. A CHANGE OF SCENERY AT LONG LAST

lol okay, so these two new characters are just chilling out and trying to watch some TV, and also just as an aside one of them is wanted for fucking murder

“anyway so that’s a brief two-sentence summary of my life up till this point. hope you enjoyed that, my companionable Fellow Murder-Person or whoever you are. anyways but yep, things are really starting to look up. I just hope nothing ludicrous and improbable happens to ruin it all, like for instance a crazy guy with monster wings suddenly crashing through the wall like the Kool-Aid Man and melting my brain by giving me a cursed-ass quirk”

LMAO

OHHHHHHHH YEAHHHHHHH

lol that was perfect. so this is what it feels like to be on the same page as the mangaka for the first time in almost two months. thank you Horikoshi I will cherish this

aaaaaaand here we go

so what exactly is the deal here. he gets to keep New Order but in exchange he lost almost all of his other quirks? I mean it’s better than nothing, don’t get me wrong

hahaha what

(ETA: don’t wanna badmouth the typesetters here, because they’re doing this shit for free every week just out of devotion to the fandom. that said, ngl, I totally read this at first as “still willing to help each other and they will surely the will of a hero...” lol.)

S&S: [shows up 328 chapters late to the party] [proceeds to become the main character for six weeks, most of which are spent finding increasingly outrageous ways to punch TomurAFO in the face] [casually tries to kill TomurAFO with some cruise missiles] [deliberately lets her quirk get stolen so that she can wipe TomurAFO’s Quirk HDD clean from the inside out] [melts into a giant floating skull and calls him a nameless punk] [flips the double bird and vanishes into the night]

huh. just... huh

well, whatever else, she certainly Came and Saw. and I guess time will tell if she also Conquered. I hope she did! please at least let her sacrifice play stay relevant. that’s all I’m asking at this point

anyway so AFO is all “WHATEVER, I LIVED, BITCH” because he doesn’t want to admit that he totally got his ass kicked by A GIRL omg. how embarrassing. sure hope nobody was watching

DSLKJSDFWERGJSLFKHGJ WHLAKJFSLD

THIS FUCKING SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME. THIS FIVE-YEAR-OLD CHILD’S FACE APPEARING OUT OF NOWHERE SURROUNDED BY SO MANY CREEPY HANDS THAT IT’S OVERKILL EVEN FOR HIM. WHY ARE YOU STARING INTO MY SOUL LIKE THAT

AND NOW WE’RE CUTTING AWAY JUST LIKE THAT LOL OKAY THEN. YOU HAVE FUN PONDERING THAT SPEECH THEN TENKO

oh my goddddddd we’re finally cutting away from the battle holy shit. WE SURVIVED, YOU GUYS. HOW IS EVERYONE. IT’S BEEN SO LONG

OMG WELCOME BACK YOU FUCKING LOSERS

I’D ASK WHAT YOU WERE BUSY DOING THIS ENTIRE TIME, BUT I ALREADY KNOW THE ANSWER IS “ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.” IT’S BECOMING A TRADITION OMG

DYING FROM THE SECONDHAND AWKWARDNESS OF IMAGINING THE HAWKSQUAD HAVING TO BREAK THE NEWS OF HOW THEY TRIED TO CALL IN A FAVOR FROM AMERICA’S COOLEST BESTEST BADDEST SUPERHERO AND IMMEDIATELY GOT HER FUCKING KILLED SMDH. “FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS, OUR BAD”

OH SO NOW SHE’S HERALDED AS THE STRONGEST HERO HUH

ONCE AGAIN, SO GLAD THIS IS ALL HAPPENING POSTHUMOUSLY. IT REALLY IS AN HONOR. VERY MEANINGFUL TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED

omfg it’s Salaam

you guys. the last time we saw him I hadn’t seen movie 3 yet and so he didn’t leave any kind of impression on me. but now that I have seen the film, let me just put it out into the world that I fucking love Salaam and he is the greatest meme hero to ever walk the earth. sorry Jeanist, it’s time to give up the crown. you had a good run

anyway and he’s right, too. the fuck do these guys think is going to happen if they just abandon Japan now. supposing AFO wins, do you think he’s just going to stop there? “not my country not my problem” is all well and good right up until it does become your fucking problem, and by then it’s already too late

but you know how it is though. governments gonna government

whatever. more importantly, holy shit

holy hell my man. that pilot helmet was not doing you any favors. please never put it on again. can we get this man and Naomasa and Aizawa all together in the same room and have them all just standing next to each other you guys. no particular reason, I just think Horikoshi owes me after all of that bullshit lol

anyway so the hot pilot guy is now explaining that their fighter jets were recording the battle, and so they have all kinds of cool data and shit which they’ll be happy to share with All Might and the rest

man I really want to see them actually sit down and watch that video lol. “okay so this is the part where Star turned into a giant and made a sword out of lasers and stabbed Shigaraki with it. and this is the part where we were all ‘fuck it’ and dialed up some hypersonic cruise missiles”

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

“THAT FREAK” OMG SAY NO MORE. ONLY ONE CHARACTER IN THIS SERIES COULD TAKE SUCH AN OTHERWISE NORMAL SENTENCE AND EFFORTLESSLY THROW IN THAT “FREAK” PART TO MAKE IT CRUDE LOL. SHOW ME MY SON, BELOVED MANGA

EYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

it’s really bothering me that there was no simple way to crop that last panel out (which, nothing against All Might, I just want to put the focus where it belongs right now) because of the other two panels being connected by Kacchan’s spiky hair which I have missed so fucking much. eh whatever it’s fine

“MORE IMPORTANTLY,” Horikoshi says as he brazenly strolls back in from the doghouse, “I BELIEVE YOU WERE SAYING SOMETHING ABOUT FORGIVING ME IF I PROVIDED YOU WITH A NEW HILARIOUS KACCHAN FACE” okay first of all, I didn’t say I would forgive you, I said I would let you out of the time-out corner. and second of all... dammit

HOMG IT’S THE KIDS

TIME TO OVERANALYZE THIS EXTREMELY UNFINISHED BLOB OF A PANEL BECAUSE THAT’S HOW DEPRIVED I AM OF GOOD WHOLESOME 1-A CONTENT

THEY’RE ALL WEARING THEIR HERO COSTUMES BUT SOME OF THEM LOOK TO BE IN CASUAL MODE? OJIRO ARE YOU NOT WEARING A SHIRT?? AND JIROU TOOK HER JACKET OFF BECAUSE SHE WAS HOT OR SOMETHING I GUESS? AND OCHAKO ROCKING SOME KIND OF NEW “IMMA JUST THROW A FLANNEL OVER IT FOR THE AESTHETIC” SORT OF LOOK WHICH I’M ALL IN ON?

WINTER COSTUME? IN THE MIDDLE OF APRIL? IT’S MORE LIKELY THAN YOU THINK. AND NO GAUNTLETS EITHER?? ARE WE OFFICIALLY BACK IN THE GOOD TIMELINE

DON’T KNOW WHY BUT TODOROKI’S PANTS SEEM BAGGIER THAN USUAL AND NOW I’M HAVING THIS IMAGE OF HIM TRYING TO BORROW A PAIR OF PANTS FROM BAKUGOU. “HEY BAKUGOU CAN I BORROW YOUR PANTS.” “HAAAAAAAAAAAH?”

DID IIDA’S COSTUME GET TOO DAMAGED FOR HIM TO WEAR, OR WAS HE JUST LIKE “FUCK IT, I, IIDA TENYA, HAVE DECIDED THAT IF I’M GOING TO PUT MY LIFE ON THE LINE FIGHTING ALONGSIDE MY FRIENDS IN AN APOCALYPTIC BATTLE AGAINST A DEMIGOD SUPERVILLAIN, THEN I MIGHT AS WELL BE COMFY”

“WELL SAID, IIDA,” KAMINARI CHIMES IN WHILST ROCKING HIS SOFT KNIT CASUAL V-NECK

“MEH,” SAYS HORIKOSHI, SHAKING OUT HIS SORE WRIST. “THE TRUTH IS I PUT MOST OF MY SPOONS INTO ALL OF THOSE SCREENTONES EARLIER, AND THEN USED UP THE LAST OF THEM ON THE KACCHAN FACE. WHATEVER, TOKOYAMI DOESN’T REALLY NEED LEGS ANYWAY. AND KOUDA, SHOUJI, AND MOMO ONLY NEED ONE EACH. LET’S SEE... SERO... TSUYU... IT’S ENOUGH IF JUST DRAW THEIR HEADS, RIGHT?”

IS HAGAKURE EVEN HERE OR IS SHE BUSY TRAITORING. I DON’T SEE AOYAMA HERE EITHER. I ONLY COUNT FIFTEEN CHILDREN IN TOTAL WHERE ARE THE REST OF THEM

LAST BUT NOT LEAST, GOOD ON YOU KIDS FOR BURNING DEKU’S COSTUME OFFSCREEN. IT WAS THE RIGHT CALL. I’M PROUD OF YOU

OH NO I FINALLY SCROLLED DOWN AFTER TEN YEARS, AND

I fucking can’t. USE THIS TIME TO GET THIS KID SOME THERAPY I’M BEGGING YOU

WOOOOOO, YESSS, ALL RIGHTTTTTTTTTTTT

I’m not gonna analyze the conventional run-of-the-mill trio pose cliffhanger panel. I am not going to fucking analyze the conventional run-of-the-mill trio pose cliffhanger panel. I am not... ah fuck

Todoroki unbuckled his neck strap thingy because it’s casual day lol. as usual your face gives away absolutely nothing. just as handsome as ever though. good to see you

KACCHAN WHY DO YOU LOOK SO WORRIED WHILE LOOKING DIRECTLY AT DEKU COME ON MAN. YOU CAN’T JUST SHOW UP AFTER TWO MONTHS AND DO ME LIKE THIS I HAVE A FAMILY. PLEASE STOP MURDERING ME WITH YOUR OPENLY SOFT GAZES

DEKU LOOKS SO DETERMINED AND ALSO SO ANXIOUS AT THE SAME TIME SOMEHOW? I THINK IT’S SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE ADDED LINES DRAWN AROUND HIS EYES? LIKE THEY GIVE HIM THIS SUBTLE KIND OF WORN, STRESSED-OUT LOOK. HE REALLY DOES LOOK LIKE SOMEONE WHO’S BARELY SLEPT AT ALL FOR THE PAST HOWEVER-LONG-IT’S-BEEN-SINCE-JAKKU-I-LOST-TRACK. ANYWAY BUT HE IS ONLY JUST A LTTLE BOY STILL, AND HE’S GOT THE FATE OF THE WORLD RESTING ON HIS SHOULDERS, AND HE’S JUST LIKE “OKAY” BECAUSE HE’S A GOOD FUCKING KID, AND BECAUSE WHAT THE FUCK ELSE IS HE SUPPOSED TO SAY, BUT HE’S ACTUALLY STILL UNDER SO MUCH STRESS, AND OH MY GOD. WHY DO YOU KEEP TORMENTING HIM LIKE THIS HORIKOSHI

anyways omg. I am so full of energy right now. literally all he did was hide the kids from us for two fucking months and then bring them back for like two pages and I’m over the fucking moon about it lmao. this manga has me fucking whipped

but what can I even say though. “glimmer of hope on the horizon” haha, fuck yeah

[joshriku]

hi! I really enjoyed your last cherik fic list, you have great taste. do you have more recs about old cherik? maybe also some post dark phoenix (I mean, they were supposed to be old but they forgot lol). only when you have the time!

you're so lovely omg thank you! i do!! here u go

get out of town by firstlightofeos: i recently read this and it's so fucking good omg. i am not immune to tropes where a 3rd character has to be like 'can you guys get over yourselves and FUCK' and especially if it's old men cherik :sob: OF ALL PEOPLE. THEY NEED IT SO BADç

all you are made of by fengirl88: oghgojoOGH theres this bit:

“Two minutes to make you drop it,” Charles says, mock-outraged. “I must be losing my touch.”

“Menace,” Erik says lovingly, “stop distracting me.”

IT REALLY LIKE......FUCKS UP WITH MY MENTAL HEALTH...........LIKE SHUT UP HE LOVES HIM SO MUCH. THEY LOVE EACH OTHER SO MUCH. IM GOING TO DIE

tempus fugit by franzbibliotek: the character writing on this one is so fucking insane. you have to work with me here bc this is comic cherik and comics just have things happen in them. . anyway charles comes back from the dead after stealing a body that's like in it's mid 30s, jsut, your casual stuff. anyway. holy shit. charles' inner monologue on this mmmmmwah im fucking obssessed

pillow talk by pearl_o: i might have recced this already BUT IT BEGS RECCING AGAIN this is literally my favorite kind of fics where they just. lie next to each other. talk for a while. they're old and in love :(

a day when we can finally rest by pocky_slash: i am no timmune to fics where they depict how long they both have waited and waited to be together because it makes me cry ok. wow. love can thrive and continue and they jsut lvoe each other so much :( FUCK!!!!!

pity the man by franzbibliothek: this is kinda angsty i will warn you since i usually just read happy stuff but it's GOOD ok. pre dark phoenix when charles is just like on his 90th mental breakdown,. my g od. the way op writes charles. you get it.

adventures in babysitting (worried grandpa remix) by sebastian2017: literally my favorite thing about erik is that he's a grandpa. okay. it might be bc tommy is my fave character but i am just,,,,,,,,SOBSBSBS... DO U KNOW WHAT I MEAN.

one night in westchester by brotherfromanothermother: this is literally the funniest fuckign fic in the world. just. old man magneto buying condoms. it makes me cry. i lvoe it

close enemies by andraste: i might have recced this? MAYBE? but this is animated series cherik. and if i have recced it..THEN ILL DO IT AGAIN. THOSE SAVAGE LAND EPISODES WERE INSANE

habitual by xtinethepirate: i love dark phoenix cherik. i love erik in this fic. i like when fic writers write erik caring for charles but not being overly indulging like he Is willing to call him out. ESPECIALLY post dp cherik. SO GOOD.

marks by unforgotten: i love. i love. love the idea of erik 'kidnapping' charles and him being too busy grading to pay attention to him. which offends him greatly. i think magneto should always be funny and dramatic.

necessary downtime by unforgotten: AND THEYRE MARRIED. OOOH MY GOD THEY WERE MARRIED. not related to me also being a teacher but i love when it's just fics like charles being really tired from school work. he's so me. that's also me. finally realistic mcs

fossils (the something old, something new remix): AHHGHGHG I LTIERALYJL CANNOT GET ENOUGH OF FICS WHERE THEY GET TO ENJOY BEING MARRIED LIKE. ITS SO GOOD. IT MAKES ME CRY SO MUCH . MAYBE OLD MEN IN LOVE ARE MORE EFFECTIVE THAN THERAPY..? JURY IS OUT ON THIS ONE

rue de la paix by ireliss: (THROWIGN UP AND CRYING) GOODNESS. MOURNING. OLD MEN. TOUCH STARVED CHARACTERS. IT CANT GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS. post dark phoenix

everything about it is a love song: if i told you how many times i cried reading this id have to be taken out and immobilized. it's bad out here. it is really bad out here!!!!! (ITS A REALLY GOOD FIC!! I LOVE IT!!) it's probably one of my fave old men fic ever just like someplace that is green which was on my other post but its osjhfddohfdj ITS OSO OGHG OGGH OGH!!!!!!

sing me to sleep: i love dofp cherik. I do. i love them so fukcing bad i love seeing those old men reunited and helping each other and being deeply in love despite the world going to shit it is SO deeply personal to me this fi ci ss os much.

the o(l)dd couple: i love fics that involve the press and such reactions to Them. and outsider pov is always so enjoyable. i love this fic i think its one of the first few i read?? SO GOOD

into the open by clockworkrobots: i just. this fic is so good. it's like the first fic i bookmarked almost. the tag erik's gay socialist farm island cracks me up every time then ir ead this and i sob and cry again fr

hope u enjoy!!

[afro-elf]

fine, i’ll elaborate on my thoughts about tylor sift but they will be disorganized

disclaimer: i know a few people will read this and be like “op is a hozier fan can she really talk about the cultural obsession with mediocre white art?” and the answer is yes because a) i’m black and i have an english degree so can do whatever i fucking want, b) hozier is a better artist than taylor objectively, like his mediocre tracks would be considered her great ones, and c) the comparison of taylor to hozier is part of the problem Genuinely because i don’t even think white people like half the music they listen to, they just don’t wanna be left behind, we’ll get into this later. i’m sorry to everyone who is tired of hearing about him but hozier will be returning later in this post jsfglsjlgldsjlfd

second note: read this

i don’t just dislike taylor because she’s white. i don’t dislike taylor because she’s a woman. i don’t dislike her because she writes mean and petty lyrics about past relationships and people who wronged her. i don’t dislike taylor because her public circle of friends is almost exclusively blonde white celebrities with their own laundry lists of issues that includes ryan reynolds and blake lively who are poster children for white privilege and pseudo-excellence if i’ve ever seen them. i dislike taylor because the amalgamation of all of those things is so exemplary of a huge problem i have with the music industry in general but also like american society

fuck it, numbered list!

1. taylor swift consistently releases the same mediocre album but in different colors. every album is the same lyrically and tonally. her body of work rarely goes very far above “good for taylor swift”. folklore as both title and musical aesthetic is irrelevant to the actual content of the album, which is just every taylor swift album except set to folk pop and with a bit more cussing, congrats for baby’s first swear. i’ve seen folklore compared to much better bodies of work and even propped up by stans as album of the year, a distinction that rina sawayama and chloe x halle will be battling it out for if there is any justice in the world at all. the fact that she is allowed to do this and still be considered great when this is something that even white male artists are butchered critically for... astounds me. like we all know how well received all of coldplay’s similar sounding albums are.... Come on. 

2. i don’t think taylor or her work is particularly feminist and yet for some reason every time she frowns an army of white women brings her kleenex. i’m not saying taylor’s anger has always been unjustified, but her feminism to me has always felt like “i can do whatever a man can do” feminism, which is utterly fucking useless to me as a black woman. it’s only useful to her because as a wealthy, white, straight, cis white woman her ONLY obstacle in life is her gender. and if she just didn’t have that tricky little bitch then maybe people would take her seriously. like, just think about her music video for the man... what was the thesis of that? what was the point of that? with all of her privileges she’d just be gaining a single extra privilege. she’s a blonde blue eyed thin white girl, the world kisses her feet. i have no interest in proving myself any better or any worse than white men, they are not the standard for how a person should be treated, they’re cautionary tales, and white women are too. i think taylor capitalizes off of white woman victimhood, and it’s all over her writing style. even when she’s trying to be empowered, like in mad woman for example, there is this tone to it of victimization, poking the bear, unleashing the beast if you will. she invokes the imagery of salem witches and even more boldly chooses a noose to write about in the song which is..... surely going to be a white tumblr staple for many gifsets to come but holy shit is it hollow. she also tends to come back to teenage memories in her music and she’s thirty. i don’t think about being seventeen unless i’m being held at gunpoint but she seems to think about it All The Time. and part of this is to keep herself young, at least in her music, which only further ingrains this image of fragile teeny bopper taylor into the mind of the listener, fueling her victim image. this imagery and language means nothing because the world always rallies around taylor. even when she was the butt of jokes for not being beyonce (which she is not and never can be) and writing about her exes (which she does), she was largely supported by the industry and by critics. look at how many fucking awards she has!

3. folk and indie and alternative music is in a moment of transition, where musicians of color are getting the chance to really speak about how they’ve been treated in these overwhelmingly white circles and create their own standards and their own voices. and for taylor swift to swoop in with aaron dessner and jack antonoff fantano and almost reassert that mid-2010s indie sound as The Sound of folk pop in the popular consciousness.... it makes me violent! it! makes! me! violent! 

4. back to hozier! finally, i wanna talk about white standom, fandom, bandom, and womandom. i often see these very superficial comparisons between hozier and taylor (and hozier and florence and hozier and stevie nicks and hozier and whatever other white woman in fashion) and they frustrate me for more than one reason. i know that hozier has met taylor and said she’s cool, which is nice of him and he’s a nice man, but i’m not a nice man so i’m going to just say it: none of the people who have made those posts have listened to more than four hozier songs and it shows. the reason why this matters is because these posts catch on and create an image and preconception of hozier’s music that is divorced from reality and divorced from his influences and most importantly divorced from the deliberate and reverent blackness of his musical style. hozier has his white male privilege in the industry for sure but he’s not as towering of a giant as taylor and taylor’s music is an unsalted chicken, plain oatmeal, white paint drying on a white wall, a stick of unflavored gum. her music is so white it told me that its dad is a cop. i am, as a black hozier fan, exhausted with having to share space with white women who don’t know why hozier’s music kicks me in my lungs sometimes and think that taylor mentioning a tree ONCE in her 3 minute acoustic guitar slog about whatever suburb is the same when it simply is not. i swear some of you are pretending to love taylor because your friends love her and you don’t wanna be left out of the hot new musical discourse but she’s only the hot new musical discourse CONSTANTLY because she’s a white woman, she’s almost the Perfect white woman. like if someone asked me to describe a white woman, it would be taylor swift. her position at the top of the musical pyramid among people who eclipse her musically, vocally, and lyrically is only allowed because she’s The Perfect White Woman. she’s an ideal. white girls relate to her immediately because of it and now we have this unshakable mob of unbearable white women who think that the world has wronged someone who literally wrote fanfiction about the rich oil heiress white woman who owned her rhode island mansion before her aklghlghdhlgs it drives me fucking NUTS 

anyway that’s all. if you made it this far, listen to adia victoria, kaia kater, samantha crain, valerie june, kelsey lu, corinne bailey rae, brittany howard, kimya dawson, japanese breakfast, cold specks, left at london, rhiannon giddens, aisha badru, shea diamond, nadine shah, xenia rubinos, karen o, mirel wagner.... Anyone

[ao3cassandraic]

ope OP you hit my music bone

(it's not much of a bone but I do have it)

Benjamin Britten was a 20th-century British composer. He was an avowed pacifist. He was also gay (and y'all, be careful if you investigate this further; there are some ugly allegations about Britten's behavior toward teenaged boys that I'm not biographer enough to accept OR refute).

If you sang in a Christmas-concert choir, there's a good chance you ran into Britten's Ceremony of Carols, a fun and energetic (if largely slight) series of pieces on various Christmas-related themes. The "Deo gratias," with its Middle English lyrics (butchered on the web, I'm sorry, I can't find the less-modern spelling I remember), is rather ineffable:

Né had [an] apple taken been The apple taken been Né had never Our Lady A been Heaven's Queen

Blessèd be the time That apple takèn was Therefore we moun singen:

Deo gratias! (repeat ad nauseam or until you lose the count, a crime of which I was unfortunately repeatedly guilty)

Yeah, so, thanks, Crowley! You did do the good thing! Oops, sorry, nobody's supposed to tell you that ever.

Anyway. In 1962, Coventry Cathedral, which had been bombed to rubble in World War II, was to be rededicated after its rebuilding. Britten was asked to write music for it. And oh, did he ever. Did he ever.

He wrote his towering War Requiem, the only Requiem Mass I know that's specifically written not toward the tragedy of one life lost, but the colossal, unholy, incomprehensible tragedy of millions of lives lost. Do not try to listen to this piece if you are not in a great headspace. Britten is not playing, okay? He is intense, and he's going straight for your emotional jugular.

When I sang in this, a bit over a decade ago, the only way I could get through the actual performance without fleeing the damn stage outright was to shut my feelings in a little mental matchbox and focus really intensely on getting every detail of the music right (not a bad thing; the music is fucking difficult in spots) -- and even so, the matchbox broke open and I started crying while awaiting my section's entrance (soprano, semichoir 2, we were last) for the "In paradisum." (I wasn't alone. There were lots of tears in the audience.)

I still can't listen to the whole thing in one go. It makes me want to crawl into a cave and never come out.

Britten chooses a slightly-unorthodox selection of chunks of the Requiem Mass text (few Requiems set the "In paradisum," for example), and intersperses poetry from the British World War I soldier-poet Wilfrid Owen. Here's the full text with translations of the Latin if you'd like to read it -- a lot of the juxtapositions are simultaneously fucking inspired and fucking devastating.

This guy. THIS GUY. This guy has the choir sing the first movement, which translates to "Eternal rest grant them, O Lord, and perpetual light shine upon them" on a crapton of uneasy tritones -- yep, devil's interval, all the way through! -- and when they're done, the tenor soloist wades in with an Owen line, "What passing bells for those who died as cattle?" Not playing. Britten is not playing. I'm TELLING YOU.

There's one other devastating juxtaposition of Mass text with Owen text that I think is especially ineffable, particularly if @liquidlyrium is correct that we could see the story of the binding of Isaac in a putative s3, to close the cycle of stories about God harming children.

The Latin goes Sed signifer sanctus Michael / representet eas in lucem sanctam / Quam olim Abrahae promisisti / et semini ejus. "But let holy banner-bearer Michael lead them into holy light, as You once promised Abraham and his descendants."

Which Britten follows up with Owen's retelling of the binding of Isaac, with the bitter, mocking alternate-universe ending, "But the old man would not so, but slew his son -- and half the seed of Europe, one by one." Britten? NOT. PLAYING.

There's even a sort of parallel to the Ineffable Husbands. The tenor and bass soloists come to represent two soldiers on opposite sides of the war; near the end, they sing an Owen poem about passing beyond death together: "I am the enemy you killed, my friend. I knew you in this dark..."

(Damn it. I'm crying again. Singing in this really wrecked me.)

So if s3 really is about The Big One, all of us against all of them, I think David Arnold could do a lot worse than nod to the War Requiem. (He's got to know it. There is no way on Earth or in Heaven or Hell that man does not know about this piece.) It wouldn't necessarily be easy -- the forces required for the entire piece are massive, a huge choir (because it gets divided) and a children's choir and an orchestra and an organ -- but he could nip out a few pieces without too much expense. Or, of course, license a recording, or adapt part of it.

The part with the tritones, quite possibly.

fun musical bit about this scene!:

the piece that the car is playing (the "classical music that stays classical music") is a tone poem, saint-saëns' danse macabre. it's a super famous piece that you've probably heard before and is associated with all things spooky. but it's not just spooky bc it sounds spooky: it's spooky bc it tells a story! a tone poem is a piece of music evokes a poem, short story, landscape, etc. in short, it's a piece of music that's describing or outlining something.

danse macabre tells the story of the devil, who every year on the stroke of midnight on halloween plays his fiddle to raise the dead. the dead dance for him until the following dawn, where they return to their graves until the next year. (musically it does a lot of cool things to reflect this: there's 12 notes at the beginning representing the 12 strokes of midnight, and the frequent use of a specific musical interval called the tritone. in the medieval period the tritone was also called diabolus in musica, literally meaning "the devil in music" bc of how dissonant it sounded to listeners at the time. it also quotes the dies irae chant as well!)

so the fact that it's what the car chose to play is SUPER cute. bc it's classical (technically it's from the romantic period, but w/e), like aziraphale wants, but it's also reminiscent of crowley. bc i bet the car knows just how much aziraphale loves crowley, too. it's a really subtle nudge that the car knows both of them and it's like the car is finding a musical middle for them both, almost.

it's also a subtly brilliant choice bc in the flashback prior, aziraphale said that crowley asked to meet aziraphale in the graveyard at midnight. just like the devil met the dead on halloween.

[yostresswritinggirl]

@butterfly-mochi​ Rewrote this freaking thing thrice because it keeps getting deleted wth tumblr agjvahkfajkvk- I enjoyed writing it a lot tho and since I’m too weak to the characters I ended up writing for all of them (except for Sucrose, im sorry bb huhu, I ran out of brain power). This is my first time writing for so many of them in one go so please excuse me for any mistakes or blandness ywy thank you for letting me write for my baby Ganyu too hhhhh

Universe Reversal 2

Genshin Impact Character Reader and Modern Players with Zhongli, Childe & Ganyu (how they simp for you) (event masterlist / Part 1 / Part 3)

Zhongli the F2P

The most relatable out of the bunch because this man is still broke and can only rely on the primogems he can farm. And he had a LOT. The one thing he doesn’t have a lot on, however, is his luck.

So how did he manage to pull you?: Well after exhausting all his primogem on your banner with nothing but weapons and other characters, he has lost his resolve. But by some weird luck, there was a character bug that was fixed and in his email was the almighty consolation primogem. Enough for ONE pull. And by the Gods he FINALLY got you.

He’d nonchalantly post his screenshot of pulling you using a single acquaint fate in his friend group without any words and everyone else just loses their shit. “You got them in one pull?!” “Yeah” A riot.

This was partnered with the fact that not only is Zhongli an F2P player, but also barely has any five star characters.

He looks calm and apathetic over the news, but behind the screen he’s exhausted and relieved, silently livid.

He has no primogems left to squeeze for a constellation so you’re instead pampered with the best weapon suitable for you (because that’s all he keeps getting).

Zhongles spends most of his time farming for materials to quickly level you up, unlocking all your stories and voiceline, but he fucked up on your build (his artifacts are messy).

He follows communities, forums and videos regarding your character to know all the things he needs to perfect your build. You can barely make a dent against normal mobs, so he knew he was doing something VERY wrong.

Is the type of person to keep refreshing the page for new content, very updated.

Ask him a question about your character and he’s gonna bring you the word vomit that is his research. He’s not gonna stop- probably accidentally developed a copypasta for you.

Also follows your VA in both Tiktok and Twitter to indulge in every bit of content. He also has that screenshot of his pull saved and locked.

On his birthday, a friend of his gifted him a chibi plushie of you and he has treasured it ever since, treating and handling it like its a figurine.

“It is merely pure luck and grace from the gacha gods that I got this character, and I will make sure that they know I am very grateful for this fortune.”

Favorite Voiceline: Birthday Message

Childe The Whaler

This lucky wealthy bastard with no remorse for his money whales for EVERY character. He’s making a collection, which is to get all the characters, especially the five stars. So when your banner finally popped up, he’s gonna square up and trigger a whole ass meteor shower.

How he pulled you: Money. His luck with this games are actually not the best so he always compensates with money, he got you halfway through the first failed pity, almost giving him a heart attack that he might actually break the bank just to get you.

And then he pulls more to raise your constellation lol.

The first thing he does is look over your character info and read through it all; constellation infos, your base stats, artifact compatibility.

At the end when he’s maximized everything, he would then focus on playing around with your character *coughs climbing noises coughs*

He thought you’d just be another part of his collection but playing with your character was very enjoyable and in-line with his playstyle- oops 100 screenshots with the Kamera-

Any and all merchandise that he fancies would be his, and he’s definitely flexing it to the other sweetie nerds who call themselves simps. He’s fighting for the simping title, and he’s currently neck and neck with this fanartist in Pixiv.

Speaking of that fanartist, he definitely commissioned an expensive and detailed portrait of you, full rights and everything. No one else was allowed to use it but him.

Was also the first one with the audacity to call out your VA to create an account on Tiktok to create more content with your voice. He was successful.

His obssession also comes in the form of self-indulgent contents, and had been keeping track of the ship wars happening. During conventions, he cosplays as the character shipped with you the most (or the character he thinks should end up with you).

Silently scrutinizing those who cosplay you, only ever taking pictures with/of the best looking one, sorry haha

Definitely flaunts that you are his waifu/husbando and will fight for best girl/best boy during debates or polls. Has mobilized the community to vote for you once. He’s very persuasive.

“Hm? Why I’m just the best collector in the game, and I am more than happy to let everyone know that I am their number one fan haha, everyone who claims otherwise is definitely wrong!”

Favorite Voiceline: More About (Y/N) I-IV, (Y/N)’s Hobbies...

Ganyu the Employed

Ganyu, our dearest overworker, is one of the players in the older stage who actually has a job but still plays Genshin for their past times. The gorgeous sceneries and the music is her main focus in playing the game, not much of a try-hard but still decent in the combat mechanics.

How she pulled you: You came home within 50 pulls! And you appeared again after another 10 pull! Ganyu was so SHOOKT and so distressed because oh goodness, what does she do? She doesn’t know anything much about you!

Will rewatch your three trailers to try and understand your skills better, ended up saving the soundtracks from them because that was such a nice trailer music! Tnbee gains a new follower!

Ganyu will take a while before she can properly play or build you up because she’s so busy with work, she only ever plays when she feels fully done with her work.

During her break she plays with your character while multi-tasking on eating, earphones plugged in and sight on the phone as she farms materials and artifacts for you.

The moment she gets more help from her player friends tho, holy shit, you just ended up being so OP. She had so many good artifacts and weapons for you because she didn’t know what they were for before.

She loves how you’re so easy to use and can easily solo the enemies and even the boss fights. A huge breather, because now Ganyu can cheese the battles that takes a while, to give her more time to focus on the storyline and lores.

Since Ganyu plays for the story and aesthetic, she’ll find you almost always in her team. Still very proud of her pull, she makes the best screenshots of your fights or in the best angle through exploration.

Treasures you so much she starts talking to her phone- “Ah, no, please don’t fall.” “There’s violetgrass up there, let’s try and get it”

Blushes everytime you produce a sound when climbing, doesn’t change you anyways tho

Hums to your trailer music while working, and if permitted, would have the song on repeat while she buries herself in work. She finds it really refreshing and the time she spends in work miraculously flies by fast when she gets lost in the sound.

At one point, when she was given a day-off or if the convention was on her free time, she attends to look for cosplayers of you and take a picture. No one rejects her because she’s so adorable and cute when asking shyly.

Had brought a decent amount of merchandise, preferably the functional/practical ones like a phone cover, mug or keychain. Also has an earphones clamp with your little chibi self as the holder.

When asked, she would shyly announce that she likes your character the most.

“Their character theme and music really soothes me during work, it feels nice to have them, and I have not once regretted ever pulling for them. They are the best.”

Favorite Voicelines: Good Night/Afternoon..., About Us, Something To Share..., Interesting Things...

so enjoyable...

@moaa @zelos-simp @legionqueensav @dandelion-dreams @snackgod @rxsalinee

[swearingcactus]

Ajay and Jason: Co-Workers in Crime

there's this fic that had Ajay and Jason somehow ending up as co-workers, working as journalists specializing in reporting news in failed states after their respective games. and the op didn't continue the story but HOLY SHIT THE POTENTIAL YALL (op im sorry for yanking your idea and bastardizing it but ahhh!!) here's my very long Ideas of How That'll Work Further below

Jason chose the save his friends ending and Ajay left Kyrat after he fulfilled Ishwari’s wish (because really that’s all he came to Kyrat to do and after he learned about the truth maybe he just decided to go home instead of burn Kyrat further after handing it to the next dictator in line.)

Anyway Jason started off as a videographer but winds up as a reporter and Ajay’s a photographer that doubles in videography, and they’re the only ones who never say no to visiting any kind of war-fueled country cus it’s just another Tuesday for them, so they wind up as partners most of the time.

Bonus points if they didn’t really know each other’s background– like Jason thinks Ajay’s just a quiet nerd and Ajay thinks Jason’s a cynical douchebag until they wind up at the wrong place and the wrong time and has to fight their way out to safety and they’re like *spiderman pointing meme* at each other on how they’re both way too good at too many weapons.

“Do you know Liza Snow?”

“That woman who wrote that best-selling book about surviving Rook Island, cus her boyfriend went to a local cult leader lady who periodically drugged him and turned him into an insane warrior, and he managed to bust them out?”

“Yep. She’s my ex-girlfriend.”

“Oh ok–WAIT??”

vs

“When you said you’ve been to Kyrat and ‘handled’ the civil war.. You didn’t mean you wrote an article about them did you.”

“I mean I did write an article about Kyrat when I got back, so I wasn’t lying.”

Jason finally has someone who doesn’t force him to ‘talk it out’ because Ajay is super quiet but he just Gets It, Jason’s experiences are actually relatable. “I got tied to a rock and got thrown down a cliff into a lake by a maniac who I then tried to kill while I was tripping balls and he just didn’t die, I killed him and–” “... They just kept showing back up?” Ajay supplied cus he’s remembering Yuma and Jason’s like “YES, FUCK, YES, YOU GET IT!!”

Jason’s fucking insane and sad about it but Ajay’s used to insane people and is also sad about it so they kinda work well??

Them talking about their past and then Jason said “Well I got helped by a CIA dude called Willis Hunt–” *Ajay snaps a pen in half*

Ajay remembering the 'SoCal douchebag' line and putting two and two together and Jason couldn't sleep that night cus he has NEVER seen Ajay look at him like that before and Ajay just seething quietly while sharpening a knife the entire night.

DRINKING BUDDIESSS WITH FUCKED UP NEVER HAVE I EVER GAMES.

"Never have I ever… killed a civilian accidentally with a C4."

Ajay takes a shot in shame, "You've never done that?"

"I have but I did it on purpose."

"Jason what the fuck."

Then they start purposely trying to get the other drunk from the bits that they know.

"Never have I ever gotten my fingers cut off."

"Oh fuck you. Never have I ever been in a gladiator fight--"

"You definitely have--"

"NEVER HAVE I EVER--"

"You were in so many fights in that fucking island there's gotta be one that--"

"SHUT UP, NEVER HAVE I EVER BEEN IN A GLADIATOR FIGHT, NAKED."

"Oh fuck off-"

Them actually laughing at the other's experience which somehow helps them come to terms with their own. At least a bit.

"I bet I can fucking kill you." Jason says unprompted one day and he regrets saying that immediately because he hadn't meant to be that comfortable with Ajay to just say what he's currently thinking.

But Ajay didn't even flinch and continued picking photos out on his laptop like, "Go ahead and try, asshole."

and it's a huge relief for Jason to not have to pretend he doesn't go on bouts of extreme violence, and that even if he does Ajay could most likely handle himself.

Them having to camp out in a makeshift tent. Jason worrying about possibly attacking Ajay just out of reflex but instead it was Ajay, incredibly sleep deprived who mistook Jason for something else--pinning him down and trying to slit his throat.

If Jason wasn't such a light sleeper and with reflexes that jump before his brain does, he could've died and Ajay spent the next few days being even quieter and it’s kinda awkward between them but Jason Gets It and Ajay is appreciative about it and they get over it.

They both hate their boss and throw ideas at the wall on more and more creative ways to kill him.

Jason gets pulled as hostage once cus the terrorist think he’s just a random press guy and it goes like that incorrect quote:

Ajay: please don’t kill him

Terrorist: THAT DEPENDS ON WHETHER OR NOT YOU CAN DO AS I SAY

Ajay: i wasn’t talking to you

Just, JASON AND AJAY AS CO-WORKERS.