#anyways i like that nonbinary angel devil

[pcktknife]

everytime I hear smth abt csm I'm like damn I kinda wanna check that out but I never will lmao

[demonoflight]

Let's talk for a second about Bambie Thug though? Like I'm so happy they're here? And in the final even?

I mean, last year, could any of us imagine that Ireland would take such a big risk? Trying something new and sending something a little more artsy, a little more gothic, a trans nonbinary witchy pop icon who can be your angel or your devil? Someone who is so proudly themselves, who is not afraid to play around, who pushes boundaries, and does all of that with the biggest, kindest heart?

They really went above and beyond, Bambie did so much with so little. The Irish broadcaster should see this as an opportunity to revamp the way they see Eurovision and stop being stuck in the 90s - Bambie is the kind of thing Eurovision is looking for now. Ailsha (who came in second place in the selection) is the kind of thing Eurovision is looking for now. More of this! We want more of this!

And oh, seeing Bambie start crying after they qualified, bless their heart. They deserve this. They deserve all the love coming to them. I hope they continue to have the best time, and that the final is just as kind to them!

And honestly if the universe decides to be funny it would be hilarious if they win. Like, awesome hilarious. There are actually so many people I'd love to see winning this year it's the best. Anyway.

CROWN THE WITCH!!!

[fanby-fckry]

Actually, the more I’m writing Alastor and Lilith interacting post-Metamours, the more I realize that Alastor has a soft spot for her. Lucifer would never get away with this shit.

It’s not unpressidented, either. From the moment the switch flips in his mind from, “this woman secretly wants to kill me,” to “oh she actually, genuinely does want to be my friend,” there is a noticeable difference.

He’s quicker to warm up to her, to open up and allow himself to express vulnerability. And while some of that is probably because Lucifer loosened the lid on Alastor’s bottled up emotions, I don’t think that’s the whole picture.

He defers to her in a way he doesn’t for Lucifer, even in subspace. He’s willing to let her take the lead in conversations and trusts that he’ll like where she brings them.

He uses her title as a term of endearment and continues to indulge her in her more royal rituals. Mentally, he refers to her as “the Queen of Hell,” where Lucifer is “the Devil.” Lilith could just as easily have been, “the First Woman,” or simply, “Lilith,” but no, he picked the royal title.

He sees her on her throne for the first time in Metamours and thinks she looks, “every bit like the Queen of the Damned.” Then on the Survey Fic epilogue, she’s “as regal and dangerous as the day he’d first seen her there,” and Alastor experiences, “All of the awe and none of the fear from that day fifty-five years ago […] along with a fondness that had been given fifty-five years to take root and flourish.”

I haven’t written Alastor’s reaction to Lucifer on his throne yet, but something tells me it’d be a lot less awe and a lot more wanting to knock him down a peg. Either by fighting, biting, or intentionally being such a brat that Lucifer physically leaves his throne to go punish him.

I know he tells Lilith that he views her as outranking Lucifer because, “your husband spent six years making a fool of himself trying to seduce me while I kept a running tally of his failures,” but I doubt Alastor ever called Lucifer “your Majesty,” with the same reverence he uses for Lilith.

I do kind of have to wonder if it’s a gender thing; if I unintentionally gave Alastor a preference for women before it was even shown on screen.

Like, I had heard Viv’s thing about how he tends to get along better with women than with men, but I cannot stress enough that I didn’t think this aspect of his character would be applicable to this AU.

Especially since Lucifer isn’t even firmly in the ‘man’ category of Alastor’s mind; he’s in his own category because even without knowing the term ‘nonbinary,’ UH3!Lucifer is a shapeshifting Fallen angel who has never been shy about the fact that he does not fit within the human social construct that is gender.

It wasn’t intentional, but I think I’m gonna keep it in mind when writing UH3 Alastor from this point forward.

So, anyway, I had an incorrect quotes idea that wouldn’t leave my head about the dichotomy in the way he views the Morningstars, despite deeply caring for them both:

Alastor, about Lilith: All women are queens.

Alastor, about Lucifer: If he breathes, he’s a thot (affectionate).

[askfallenroyalty]

New Designs! Because of the polls and the darkworld taking place in Asgore's "Flower King" shop again, Feylow can be a goat again. design is more heavily daffodil themed, the head looks more like the corona while the shoulder... thing... (idk what they're called, its too big to be just a collar?) is the tepals. which makes more sense regarding the coloring as the corona is what typically gets the darker edges and not the tepals.

all skirt are the leaves, feet are the bulbs. sash based on a stigma.

(Feylow's redesign influenced by Moon's design)

The angel wings are tiny and fit on the back, normally not visible.

Ruler, the "Flower King" (Though Ruler is a nonbinary they/them) is based on a Crown of Thorns flower.

They're influenced by Chara's perception of what it means to be an adult.

Ruler is a mob "boss" (pun on boss monster), a greedy capital chasing murdering fem fatale. They sin, they're a "devil." A toxic (literally, as the flower they're based on is toxic) and have a blood/thorn visual motif. They rule with an iron fist, they're a dictator. (They're similar to Queen in some regards, but Queen is more... benevolent and (mostly) harmless. Has good intentions. This is NOT the case with Ruler. They're a proper villain out for themselves.)

There's aspects of the adults who've abandoned Chara in Ruler, mainly Chara's birth mother, Tom the stepdad and Asriel. Becoming an adult is something that corrupts you into something sinister. It's less so the poeple themselves, but the painful aspects that overshadow who they are. They're caricatures, boild down to simple ideas.

but that's hardly all they are. If you squint, you'll see those aspects, but it's more so what Chara fears they'll become like. In a sense, Ruler is a mirror to Chara's fear of what being an adult would look like AND what they could want. They're very much the IDEA of what's bad with adulthood -drugs, sex, violence, money. I never touch the topic of Chara's love life even when they become an adult mostly because I feel Chara's a very private person with a lot of trauma and mental health issues that a relationship is the last thing on their mind.

...But that isn't to say that stuff doesn't worry the hell out of them. There are feelings they repress. Despite their darkworld form being a cherub, Chara IS 16. It's a natural part of growing up to have more adult feelings and desires. (speaking as asexual, even asexuality is a spectrum. i'm not giving chara any specific sexuality here, just saying even asexuality is still on the table.)

Chara wants to fight this boss so frickin bad. Feylow is just embarrassed their older sibling is beefing with their new friend.

But yeah so there's never any 1-1 analog for either of these darkners, when boiled down they're "childhood innocence" vs. "sinful adulthood." They're neither Chara nor the people they knew, and they get their own histories outside the Dreemurr Family.

I assume at the very least Asgore is going to be involved, with it being his shop. I think it'd be funny if Raine pulled a Berdly and tried to partner up with Ruler to get some authority -only to realize the extent of Ruler's depravity and ineptness and side with Chara & co. to defeat them. But I feel that's retreading what happened with the other fallen kids when usurping Asgore and too similar to Queen. But hey, first draft version of the ideas you know?

Anyway Frisk REALLY needs their own stuff going on the plot, they're too reactive and inactive in the story and needs their own B plot. (Or rather, Chara's needs to be the B-Plot, cause it can easily just turn into sulking/anger with little progress for a while)

[bludraws094]

i should probably make a new pinned post :/

ANYWAYS

basic shit

i go by the names blu, cy, pythia, iris, juno, and charlie (yes, juno like in ruler of everything, and charlie like in charlies inferno. and also two greek mythology fuckers and two that came from colors)

my pronouns are they/ey/he/any neos

im transmasc nonbinary and unlabeled

i have adhd and anxiety, and i might have ocd, arfid, and autism

im a minor (not saying my actual age unless i am asked or its relevant)

alt for dumb shit: @blualt

alt for reblogs: @blureblogs094

hyperfixations and shit

i may go back in the future and edit this

green: inhabits my every thought

orange: i will still go on a rant about this if prompted

red: hyperfixation is starting to fade

chonny jash

cjrp / cjrp anons (im feather, feral, interitus, courier, and more)

tally hall/miracle musical

object shows

my object ocs

bendy and the ink machine / bendy and the dark revival

CYMtime (some of my ocs)

sonic the hedgehog

pokémon

vocaloid (avanna and macne nana my beloveds <3)

project sekai (mizuki x ena is practically canon and i refuse to believe otherwise, just look at cellphone love story)

generation loss

hadestown (word to the wise should be longer and i will fight someone on this)

cjrpcraft (minecraft rp server im in)

the angel and devil on your shoulder (ocs)

ultrakill

raggedy ann

boundaries

no nsfw, no transphobia, homophobia, ableism, racism, sexism, antisemitism, or any kind of bigotry, and dont be a bitch on purpose (unless youre being a bitch in a lighthearted joking way)

im shit at reading tone through text, so please use tone tags

you are allowed to jokingly gaslight me, but please make sure that its very obvious its a joke, whether that be by using tone tags, using words like “definitely” and “totally” in a way that makes it clear youre lying, or by just clarifying that its a joke and im not going insane. i wont be strict about this with mutuals and friends, but i will be strict with strangers

if im being rude please tell me

and heres a pronouns page thing idfk

[theaethernetconnection]

For all the reblogging of hazbin hotel I've done I've never actually watched it...

So tonight I started it, I watched the first episode ANDDDD

It's basically everything I thought it would be from the fanart LMAO. Except for like, actual plot, forgot that would be here wasn't expecting it. Cool tho love me some religious rewriting of the beginning

Alastors "this face was made for radio" I was like !!!! It's realll and it's awesome unrelatedly wonder if he has dysmorphia or smth

Adam (who I've never heard of before) is really the original dick like REALLY the *original* DICK WJAT AN ASSHOLE I EANT TO KILL HIM HOW DARE YOU TALK OVER MY SWEET LOVE FOR LIFE MAIN CHARACTER

also that song she sang (forgot her name) what a Broadway entrance song Fr like Rapunzel levels of optimism even though she's lived in hell all her life fucking crazy /pos

There's so many famous actors in this show??? What's going on it's like professional out here

Alastors got smth funky going on why is he so powerful does no one else have his powers? Why does he not want to be videoed? Like yeah yeah I get it radio the superior medium but no one normal freaks out at themselves being videoed by burning the person's hand to get them to stop like bro what's up

The angel designs are amazing they've got as little features as possible and I think that's perfect

OH ANGEL THE PORN STAR they're fucking awesome I love their whole thing like they're sooo into it and it's somehow wholesome to me. Also the "tufts people think are boobs" line got me as a nonbinary person I was like soooo real GENDER

And the grumpy guy making drinks love his thing too he's so character

The main characters best friend is probably one of the best best friends I've seen in a show. Very qpr vibes but the MC is the clueless one lmaooo esp with that whole "I love your theatrics line" wow she's so 100% supportive of her. Made a whole commercial and deal with a devil just for her, peak lesbianism what who said that

On that note alastor and angel hitting on him was so funny they should get together I think

I also have no idea of the fandom ships yet so bear with me lol

This is such a ramble omg anyway I'm enjoying this show lol first EP down

[goddevouringserpent]

c'mon girlies (gender neutral) time for the SLOW YET STEADY CORRUPTION ARC, the DISCOVERY OF THE MOST FUCKED UP PARTS OF OUR SELF WHICH WE EMBRACE LIKE THEY'RE WORTH NURTURING BECAUSE WE ARE TOO AFRAID OF THE ALTERNATIVE, the ULTIMATE SACRIFICE OF OUR MORALITY FOR THE SAKE OF LOVE OR SOMETHING THAT BURNS LIKE ONLY LOVE COULD, TH

anyway, this is Angel, or yuor devil 😈, my MC for @homecomingvn ! definitely gonna be romancing Henry; still not sure if he's also going to be my MC for Lyra or if I'll make a different one for her, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it

more info about Angel below the cut because I cannot shut up ever. it's my curse and I bear it with dignity.

if you ever try to call Angel out on anything, her go-to reply will be "aw, do you really think I would do that, can't you see I'm an angel?" & a face that's a weird mixture of 😏 and 🥺. don't ask how he pulls that one off, it's a secret between him and god and neither of them's telling (when the Nonbinary hit, she briefly considered changing her name for something that sparked more gender joy, but ultimately decided against it because commitment to the bit is her #1 priority.)



I put 'chemistry' as one of the things he likes, but really she's super into anything science-related, chemistry is just her passion. one of the STEM bitches, basically. maybe a bit light on the TE part, but he would still read a 700-page book about, I don't know, How To Build Some Big Shit Like A Bridge Or Aqueduct and enjoy every bit of it. which doesn't necessarily mean he'd understand every bit of it, mind you, but it's all about the energy I guess



related to the above: WILL infodump about her interests if given the chance. WILL NOT stop unless directly and firmly told to. if you want him to shut up but are too polite to do anything about it? good fucking luck. Angel can keep going for hours and that is a promise.



hates the nickname 'Angie' and will never respond to it. will accept 'Annie' from friends, but really they tend to prefer more personalized nicknames—like Henry's 'Buttercup'—or just plain ol' Angel



extremely ride-or-die. if she considers you one of 'her people' there's next to nothing you could do to make her change her mind or give up on you. (though, to be honest, he probably IS going to be very confused as to how he managed to befriend not one Fucked Up Weirdo but two. didn’t even know there were two Fucked Up Weirdos in town! gotta be something in the water.)



I don't know what his job is going to be yet, but I do know he's already had like 15 jobs minimum; all because she's very thorough about "following your dreams" and it just so happens that her dreams generally last around 10-20 business days before he moves on to another dream. Angel, stop hoarding jobs, you fucking maniac. you're gonna destroy the economy. and yes that's sexy conceptually but you gotta be more careful about it bro (gender neutral)



tends to play wizards in D&D/any TTRPG. she likes the complexity and versatility.



speaking of, it's time for the most nightmarish scary fact about Angel, VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED READER BEWARE: she thinks THAC0 makes perfect sense and is intuitive & easy to understand. if you just felt a cold chill run down your spine, it's okay, I did too 😔 (in this house we tolerate AD&D in a "respect your elders" kinda way, but fuck THAC0 what was up with that shit)

Notes:

I don't actually know if school newspapers are a thing or I got tricked by media from the USA and also my ex-girlfriend; it's just that the concept of being some sort of unhinged investigative journalist at the tender age of 14something+ was too fitting for Angel and I had to take the risk of looking like a clown.

the Picrew used is Black Centered Picrew <3 by naylissah. I'd link it but I've been led to believe that This Website makes it so that you can't put external links or the post won't show up in tags/mentions, so uh. it's on the first page of Picrew, if you can't find it send me a DM or something??

[didsafehaven]

As a heavily nonhuman system we hear you and understand you. Your brain is still processing trauma, and even when you feel like you've come to terms with the abuse and understand how it affected you, you may still split nonhuman alters simply because that's how your brain is used to handling stress, and that's ok.

TW: for mentions of abuse, religion

I'll be talking about some of my trauma and system formation/functionality as a solidarity, but i don't expect you to read it or even feel like you relate.

A good portion of our trauma, in regards to our upbringing anyway, was primarily religious-based. We grew up in a traditional conservative Christian home, and the priority of religion was put above our emotional needs or feelings. My parents were towards the extremist side of religion believers, even going as far as trying to non-consentually arrange a marriage while we were still a child (though luckily they failed, as the parents of the other children they attempted to marry us to didn't agree to it). In addition my parents (namely my dad but my mom was a huge enabler for every aspect of our abuse/neglect in regards to inside the family) facilitated the golden child and scape goat with me and my brother. I was the golden child (high and unobtainable expectations were placed on me) and my brother was the scapegoat (the blame for all my parents' problems).

One example for why we have a lot of nonhuman alters is, we felt demonized for who we actually are. We were not allowed to be who we are or who we wanted to be. We were meant to be an extention of our dad and an extention of his religious beliefs as well and if we failed that expectation, we were equated to being aligned with satan.

As a result a huge portion of our alters are demons/half-demons (i am one of them), or satan-adjacent (going by names like the devil, lucifer, satan, etc). We also have a lot of death related alters (a personified representation of death, reapers, etc) that we believe may be representations of us feeling like a part of us has died as a result of conforming to our dad's rules for a "perfect child" and also angels (some biblical like Raphael, or completely made up figures that are meant to be representations of who we are "supposed to be" or "follow the teachings of" or else we receive "righteous punishment" from said alters). The few human alters we have are often "outcasts" of their innerworld "stories" such as an alter we have that was banished from her home for s*x out of wedlock, or another who was banished for being gay.

However, after many years of healing, many of us (at least the main fronters or alters we have relatively good communication with) have come to accept how we are. We have detached from the picture of us our dad forced on us. And we accept our non-human selves as only a part of who we are, a staple of what we endured. We have redefined what it means to be a demon, etc, in our system. I am a demon, but i have never purposefully tried to harm anyone. I am not someone who is bad for existing or having certain qualities of me existing either (trans/nonbinary/queer, etc). Therefore, I am not evil. I am not someone i should be ashamed to be. I am simply me. I am a demon, but i am a demon only because i chose to be myself despite the war i faced that was against that idea, and eventually won because i preserved that part of me as a child and let it grow as an adult. It was the same (or at least similar) war my dad was having inside himself for his entire life but lost (and projected that loss onto me). And that is something i am, now, proud to be.

This form of healing may not be right for you and your situation. But i just wanted to give an example of what healing looked like for me so you may have an easier time figuring out what healing should look like for you.

Just remember though. You are allowed to be yourself. You are allowed and deserve to be loved for who you are. You are allowed to unlearn the traumatic habits that were forced upon you, no matter how difficult or how long that may take. You are allowed to redefine your self image and love yourself.

I wish you the very best on your journey of healing. Much love. ♡

~Elsie

Vent post because this is still bothering me. I don't know exactly why. Maybe I need the attention/validation to stop it bouncing around inside my head, or maybe I just want it to be Known what this kind of abuse does to people. - Terry Content warning for child abuse, treating people like animals.

So after this whole... thing that's happened recently with our old splits coming out, a whole lot of memories have come back, including traumatic ones, and including ones I didn't realize were traumatic until now. Like, for example, we're an autistic system. This means eye contact is sometimes difficult for us; it's a forced thing, a learned thing, and feels more unnatural. My parents weren't happy about this because they weren't happy with having an autistic child. And instead of doing, you know, the non-abusive thing - maybe something like sitting down with us and telling us why it's important to make eye contact, giving us positive feedback when we did so, they did something else. They trained us. Like like one would train an animal. By making a distinctive mouth sound at us to prompt us to make eye contact. We were a child, their child, and they trained us like a fucking dog, and they never saw anything wrong with this because it got the results they wanted. It made us behave the way they wanted, because like so many other things, it was a constant struggle for them to try and train us into the thing they wanted us to be. We were never fully a person to them. We were never recognized as human, never as an individual, only a thing with undesirable behaviors that had to be trained out with punishments and threats. What we actually wanted was irrelevant, and was given to us only when we'd satisfied some desire for what they wanted us to be. We were pushed into things over and over and we were told it was "for (our) own good". And here I was as the host, wondering to myself why only one of us, out of all 36 of us, is human inside our head. And it's not me. It's not any of our former hosts either; none of them are human, even our earliest split who's just five years old is part animal. Our in-system forms reflect how we see ourselves, and none of us see ourselves as human. The only one of us who IS, is Vimes, and he's here because we needed him to give us hope. Fucking hell, man. What do I even do about this.

[slaytherqueer]

reid x garcia x alvez hcs

i finished criminal minds and i've always been a polyshipper and my 3 fav characters are penny, spence and luke! so here are my headcanons of them in a poly relationship pls and thx u!!

some disclaimers: they are queer! Spence is greysexual, agender (any pronouns), and so in love with his partners; Penny is pansexual and a sweetheart; Luke is nonbinary, uses they/he pronouns, and a chaotic bisexual.

ALSO!!! Spence as autistic, Penny and Luke have ADHD no i will not discuss it!!

this contains spoilers so pls proceed with care!

so penny and luke start dating

we know thats almost canon since they asked her out in 15x10

penny is doing great at her new job, and keeps tabs on her besties at the bau!

One of those besties is Spencer, ofc.

so, penny and luke are dating and they move together almost immediately. and in that process, penny notices that luke tends to speak about spencer way more that their other coworkers

also he has like this wonderful twinkle everytime they tell her the random-fact-of-the-day they learnt from reid

and penny just knows

reid isn't exactly sublte either

he, as penny bff, usually hangs out at their place so they can have doctor who marathons

or startrek marathons

or any science fiction u could think of: penny and spence will watch it

luke, of course, joins them, because they are the best boyfriend and friend and he is also kind of a nerd, tbh

the thing is that garcia can't help but see all the glances reid keeps stealing towards alvez

and it's the kind of look that he had when talking about maeve, or max... hell, even cat.

and luke, more than once, steal glances towards spence, and sometimes they meet and just softly stare at each other before turning away, all blushed up and pretty

bc penny knows they are her pretty boys, so she has a plan

it had never ocurred to her that her best friend could actually meant more for her than just a... a friend? but he does

i mean, he actually listens to her when she starts rambling about all that knew stuff she just learnt and he is so excited he rambles back (and every and each time luke is right behind them staring lovingly)

anyways, penny does the only thing she knows: go to derek

derek won't deny that he is between amazed and utterly confused

"i thought you and alvez were already dating?"

"oh we are!"

"but you just said you think u like reid"

"yup"

"and you said that reid likes luke and luke likes reid?"

"if you understand it, then why are you asking me this again?"

she finally has a plan

it's a thursday night, and it's sleepover at the galvez's

however, at the last minute, she bails to emily's and leave the guys alone

this gals are dumb

they just awkwardly giggle and not really talk yet scoot closer and closer

when penny gets home they are barely holding hands

"oh my god"

she kisses luke first

and then she just grabs spencer's face and softly pecks him

"now is your turn!"

"m-my turn?"

"i swear to god if you don't kiss as in this second i will kick you both out"

so they kiss

and spencer wonders if this is how teenagers actually feel with their first crush

also luke's stubble it's itchy and it's now spence's mission to make him shave

"if you shave i will call you newbie once more"

"if you don't shave i won't lend you my sweaters any more"

"i did not sign up to be emotionally manipulated by two devils with angel's faces"

penny and spence smile and look at each other, before pushing luke out of the couch and holding hands

they eventually climb back on and sit on spencer's lap while honding penny's hands

luke feels safe

spencer feels safe

penny feels safe

the end <3

[cheesyotpprompts]

Me ranting about my OTP cause nobody else would listen to me:

They’re OC x canon, their names are Marley and Parker. (I’ll let you figure out which fandom they’re from.)

Parker is this badass nonbinary person who struggles with being a good person despite being unable to stop all their bad deeds (like beating someone up or blackmailing someone so bad until they switch schools) even if most of them come from a place of good intent. They’re basically this weird ball of moral contradictions who’s honestly here to make the world a little better. They’re usually very snarky to hide how cold and calculated they can be (read: sad). They’re kinda misunderstood (or not) and they have a fearsome reputation- to the point where people call them the Devil of their little town.

Marley is the adorable ray of sunshine whose life constantly shits on her like some annoying cloud. She’s the polar opposite of Parker. She’s a pacifist, Parker’s not. If Parker was a devil, she’d be an angel. She actively tries to make the right choice and has a pretty solid moral compass. And she’s just so kind and sweet and shy…

They’re so soft together. Like the entirety of both their lives is pain and they’re both very very tired in general. But when Parker meets Marley they kinda just fall in love at first sight. And even in their friendship they’ve always toed the line to something more. Marley is the only person Parker will ever ‘obey’ in a sense, even though both of them do function really well independently of their relationships. They just… don’t want to.

They just… have do much hurt/comfort, angst and fluff rolled up into their relationship to the point where I just wanna hug them both tight and not let them go… but alas since I am the writer, they were kinda doomed not to have a happy ending from the get go. When I created their pairing I wanted to dive into the idea of ‘no matter how strong their relationship may be, life will always find a way to force them apart’ and it works especially well with them since life was always trying to find them a way apart even in AUs. I didn’t expect to love them both very quickly.

If you want maybe I can show one of their happier AUs when they have their proposal. Shenanigans ahoy.

(Kudos to you if you can figure out their fandom!)

I WILL ALWAYS LISTEN TO OTP RAMBLES sorry it took me so long to get to these lol 😭

anyway I love love love morally grey characters like that.. and when they fall in love ?? And try and be a better person for their love?? GOD TIER CONTENT.. they sound absolutely amazing I would love to learn more about them ;w;

[mythicaldemigoddess-of-deltarune]

Ozzie In His Simp For Fizzy Sweater (2022)

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Credit for Helluva Boss goes to Vivziepop & SpindleHorse

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there could be some fans who had the same thought

that Ozzie is possibly a Simp.

I also want to say that if Ozzie dislikes Sappy Love Songs, then what would happen if he listens to Leah Kate's song "10 Things I Hate About You"

that song is not a sappy love song, and it kind of owns the guy who probably had it coming...and I guess I am curious as to what Ozzie’s reaction would be to that song that’s called 10 Things I Hate About You. 

and if I was in love with Ozzie, that song would so fit the feeling....

probably would fit Ozzie from Casino Cups Au, that is a Awesome Cuphead AU.

no matter the Ficto-Universe, that song would so fit a few of those Ozzie Boys... probably would fit the Real Ozzie, too....

Ozzie and Fizzy are really cute together, they are just really REALLY cute together.

they are the adorable OTP, who hide their love for each other.

and you know, no matter if it's Lust or Love, both end up in Heartbreak....that's what I believe is fact.

and even if by some chance someone did fall in love with the Real Ozzie, and it isn't just like lust....and the feelings come from the heart.

it is possible he wouldn't give a Sugar Honey Ice Tea about it....

one of the good things about the Ozzie-Sweetie of Helluva Boss, is that he does give a Sugar Honey Ice Tea about Fizzy....

so even if he doesn’t care too much about Genuine Love & Sappy Love Songs, he does seem to love Fizzy, even some fans could see that.

they have a Love Under Sensitive Temptation....

like a acronym, just like how LOVE

can stand for Level Of Violence. 

the sweater that Ozzie is wearing, is suppose to give away that he seems to be a Simp for a Imp, and that Imp being Fizzy.

the blue mane fluff in a jar, that has a Lion on it, is suppose to reference the whole Asmodeus losing his lion half, I forgot the name of the Angel that was suppose to pull the lion half from him....I know I read it somewhere.

Fluffmodeus can’t hide from fans, that he is in deep devotion for Fizzy.

I wonder if the nickname Fluffmodeus sounds a little weird...?

well I’m weird, I mean I can’t help but see Devil from the Cuphead Show

as a Himbo, or Devi-Himbo.....he just seems like that way to me.

the Cuphead Show is awesome by the way, but it’s okay that not everyone likes it.

even if Ozzie is in more into the Lust, at least he isn’t a jerk and cross the line like that shisno who is named Matt Walsh.

I mean excuse me if I’m a Earth Angel, who so happens to be Aroaceflux (also a Ficto as well...) and he can’t accept that.

but he needs to learn that Asexual Reproduction and Asexuality ain’t the same thing....I still hope that video that I found out about that talked about that jerk, does get more views, that video does deserve it.

and excuse me if I’m not some perfect Princess, and yeah technically I am....not the perfect part, but the princess part.....but like a Nonbinary type.

and well what makes me technically a Princess, is because of the whole being descendant of a few royal families....

one of them being like King Solomon, which by the way I don’t see as a curse, and it is freaking blessing, still not touchy that throne.

I know I went through most of my life not knowing about the whole “Royal Family” thing.....I think it was surprise when I was first told about it...

I still think that King David is a butt head, because he didn’t do anything to punish that sicko of a son of his after what he did to Tamar...

he might still be family, but it doesn’t mean he was in the right about not do anything when his son does something really bad...

I get some still respect King David, but it doesn’t mean I will respect him when it comes to not giving the proper justice for Tamar, she deserved better.

and the brother that did take revenge for her, probably only did it as a excuse...

like making it seem like it was for her, but really it could of been because he was looking for a excuse to get rid of that sicko...

anyway I guess in some form of theory, even if Ozzie can be a jerk and show some form of sweet fluffy cutie side to himself when it comes to Fizzy...

he might not do something as insensitive as Matt Walsh.

or like that Toxic-Religious person who kept misusing the whole “May God Have Mercy On You.” or “May The Lord Have Mercy On You” on me....

I know it was one of those two, but I know even though I did try to say that it was hurting my feelings, and yeah it did make me cry....

they kept throwing it at me, probably thinking they are helping...

but it wasn’t, they could of respected the fact I believe in the Divine Mother as well, and well you know the Earthly Mother...

I think that incident can count as Religious Trauma.

like even if you do believe in a God and Goddess, you can still get Religious Trauma, that can be caused by Toxic-Religious people who take it too far.

like I can share my new belief, but I ain’t gonna force others to convert to it.

converting someone by force isn’t right, and a person can only convert if it’s what they want and it’s done by their own free will.

one of the things I still hope, is that I wont run into that Toxic-Religious person on here, I did block them at the place where it all happen.

I know that not everyone who is religious, is well like that person and other Toxic-Religious people.

and I guess even if you do get better from the deep emotional harm that is thrown at you, it doesn’t mean your fully over it.

like a part of you can still be unhappy about it.

like if you had some bad experiences too many times in some of your past lives, the trauma could stick to your soul.

there can be far worse Toxic-Religious people in this world, besides well that person that wouldn’t stop misusing those words at me, even I had pointed out it was hurting my feelings.....that freaking jerk....

like finding out that you were born into a Toxic-Satanist Family in one of your past lives, I’m not really a big fan of Toxic-Satanist that cross certain lines, and that is why they are on the Toxic-Religious list, just like a few others.                             

I use to go by Christian, I go by Neo-Spiritual now, and I can still go by Ma-Acolyte as well.......which has to do with Mother of All Angels...

I am in different closets, like the Gender Identity, Asexuality and Neo-Spiritual closets....there can be different types of closets that don’t always have to do with a person’s sexuality....

anyway hope some like this drawing of Ozzie, this is all I’m gonna post for tonight....so yeah, see ya later and stay safe everyone....

[mymarifae]

people really just put the dumbest shit into the cookie run tag and act like they're scalding hot takes like............you're not big brained for this one. you're really not

anyway making lgbt hcs for the kid cookies (cherry, soda, pancake, etc) isn't. a bad thing. lgbt children exist i promise. lgbt identities are not inherently sexual or somehow inappropriate for children. literally angel and devil are nonbinary and that's canon. kids can be gay and trans, too, and if u think there's something inappropriate about that you need to like.

reevaluate how u view lgbt identities because holy shit

[kira-moonrabbit]

I wonder how my brother's gonna react to this. I was just browsing music for fun and remembered touch-tone telephone existed thanks to it apparently being Dib's theme song and I decided hey. Good use of violin in this one. I like violins in places they arent supposed to be. Is there more of this?

There was. And their names were Eighth Wonder, Cabinet Man and Ancient Aliens.

Anyway, I'm notorious among my family (especially my brother, the biggest musichead among them) for only listening to video game music on a daily basis. As well as just constantly talking about video games. So me, [realname] [lastname]? Liking music? That isnt from a Bideo Gaem? Wild, dude...

But my brother's weird. So's my grandma. My mom's ok. She likes Green Day like I do, and we generally have the same taste in music, actually. But my grandma only listens to modern country (aka the exact same songs just with the words twiddled around a bit. Just cowboy boots and Objectifying Women. The tune doesnt even change.) and songs about America And Patriotism (esp. covers of the national anthem. She fucking cries and claps along and even STANDS, even tho 9 times out of 10 shes just at home watching tv). Drives me nuts. Shes constantly watching those damn cowboys singing on stage. Why does that shit move you? It's all the goddamn same...

Ahem. Um. Meanwhile my brother's... better, but he's got annoying taste in a different way. He's into The Beatles and old ELO and Elton John and Queen. Not bad on it's own. But he's stuck in that general time period in music. He has never tried newer bands. Just bands in other languages. Which, yeah, it's fine, mostly, especially since unlike my grandma he doesnt crank it up for all to hear, but it's still rather annoying when I go say hi. Modern music has so much more to offer in terms of themes and style.

And another thing about my brother's taste. He's weirdly hateful towards video game music that isnt from like, the 3 franchises he loves. I showed him touhou and len'en music and all he had to say was "it's all the same. It's just boring." I mean, yeah, len'en I can partially forgive since the current latest game is full of remixes from older ones, but touhou??? A game which, even when characters return, never uses remixes like 90% of the time? The only thing most touhou songs have in common is the ZUNpets. That's it. The whiny honk-honks. The actual TUNES and like... technical music stuff? Totally different between each song! They stir up emotions in me! Theres a reason I've assigned each of my favorite cookies a touhou or len'en theme! And with len'en jynX made the remixes different in mood! I just... raaagh!

And another thing about my brother. He's fucken... he thinks nonbinary people are making it up for attention. What would I even call that really? An nb-levier? As in inbeliever? Ah? Ahhhhhh? Anyway, beside the point. He says he'll never respect any "different-gender people's" (sorry if that's not the proper term or a rude term for the various binary labels) pronouns unless they're "unisex or transvestites." His words, not mine. Which might imply hes transphobic too. Or maybe I'm looking into it too much. The main point is he hates nonbinary people. Which means that whenever I talk about cookie run with him (which i often have no choice to do since he's the only one that i can contact easily who enjoys and understands it) I have to endure cookies like Snow Sugar, Devil, Peppermint, and Roguefort get called "he" and cookies like Fig, Squid Ink, Angel and DJ get called "she" and it just... drives me insane. I'm not nb and nobody really knows my brother as a friend because he doesnt socialize much and because he comes off as pretty cold so it shouldnt bug me as much as it does, but it bugs me so so much!!! And hes the only guy I have to talk with about cookie run! Everyone else is either too shy, has better things to do, is in a different timezone, or is too cool for me to just say hi to! And even THEN all he wants to do is talk about the cookies HE cares about! I cant say anything about Snow Sugar or Walnut or Yogurt Creme because they just arent COOL enough, are they?! No, only fire spirit, dino-sour, mint choco or gumball, that's it. Vampire and werewolf on a good day. And, while I love those cookies too, it's really disheartening when I wanna talk about Matcha and he's just like "meh."

...WOW this post is a trainwreck. I go through like 90 different topics. But hey, I have officially become comfortable enough on tumblr to complain about my brother. What do I do about him? Do I just ignore his existence? I cant make him change his ways because trying to convince him on ANYTHING is like talking to a brick wall with bricks made of iron.

[steppenfuchsden]

I love the recent Cinnamon Cookie addition to the OvenBreak! BUT they were canonically nonbinary in the previous game and now these sudden he/him pronouns - - maybe they use he/they pronouns now. Just a masc-aligned nb, yes. HOPEFULLY. bc I was so happy to see them - -” don’t take nbs away from me

ANYWAY, as far as I can see in Cookie Run OvenBreak among canonical nbs rn we have

a magician

a sea kid

a squid kid

an edgy warrior

an angel (I really like this costume)

and a bi icon DJ

EDIT: I’ve got a few more

a winter cookie (im love)

a doughnut

a devil (makes sense with angel being nb too I guess)

and a zombie

[prdslstdrfts]

⬥ DIANA WHITNEY ⬥

twenty-four ⬩ gender & pronouns UTP (female or nonbinary) ⬩ junior editor at envy magazine

“SPOTTED: D looking disappointed on the steps of the MET. Was high school not everything you thought it was going to be? Did you think you could walk through the doors and become Queen? Cheer up. The year’s only just begun. And if you’re looking for a word of advice: No one ever became Queen without a bit of treachery.” — XOXO, Gossip Girl (dec. 2011)

Your mother was the most beautiful woman you’d ever seen. You’d idolized her from the second you were born. Your parents made the perfect couple: Him, a restaurateur notorious for luxury dining. Her, the beautiful retired stage actress who’d ridden the waves of her career and settled down to start a family. You didn’t want to be one of the prim and proper Park Avenue Princesses—you wanted to be bold, bright, new, just like her. You didn’t understand why her door was locked so often, why she snatched the phone out of your hands when it started ringing. She was mysterious in a way only she could pull off. You believed everything about her was perfect. You would never admit it, but sometimes, you still do. One night, she asked what you wanted. You answered very honestly. I want to be adored. Three days later, you found your father yelling at someone on the phone in his study. You didn’t realize he was talking to your mother until you heard him screaming Rebecca over and over and over again. Her name. Just her name. You wouldn’t see your mother again for fifteen years.

At least, not in person. She made the papers occasionally, spotted here and there with the many men she’d been having affairs with. Slowly, you distanced yourself from the vision you’d once. You had been seeking for a way to be just like her, and even as you tried to become your own person, you knew you would be intrinsically tied to her forever. You told her that you wanted to be adored, and you would make that happen. She may not have loved you enough, but everyone else would. It wasn’t about being perfect, it was about being noticed. You wanted to get the attention of everyone that mattered so you made headlines. Sixteen years old and partying at clubs with men twice your age. Seventeen and sneaking out of your boyfriend’s townhouse before school. You were something of a shadow on Page Six, always noticed, only sometimes named. Until Gossip Girl. It was your first real taste of publicity, only a freshman and you were named in her first post ever. You still remember every word of the blast: Diana Whitney seemed to have had a fun night. Dressed up like an angel, but it seems dear Di loves to play devil. According to the numerous photos I’ve got, looks like angels love to play in the snow. You were one of the most talked-about subjects of Gossip Girl for four years, and you reveled in it.

But even you get bored of high school games eventually. With college looming in the distance, your senior year was barreling towards the finish line, and you were ready to move on to something bigger. Gossip Girl was cute, but you wanted to make real headlines. You were eighteen and ready to give the city something they could actually talk about. You and Richard left the graduation party early, sneaking upstairs. With nothing but a video camera, your favorite nightie, and the person you believed to be the love of your life, you planned to do something drastic. Maybe your mother’s elegance and grace wasn’t for you. That was just fine. You didn’t want to be anything like her, anyway. You waited until the time was right and, seven months later, TMZ got hold of the tape and it exploded. You tried your best to act innocent, reassured Richard the two of you had been as careful as possible with the tape, but someone must have hacked your computer. The best course of action, obviously, was to deny. Besides, the lighting was dark, no names had been spoken, and you could barely see any real features. All of that, of course, was done on purpose. The outright release of a sex tape would never do you any good—you’ve seen enough reality television to know. But the suggestion of it, to have everyone guessing Is it Diana Whitney even after you denied it in every interview you gave? That was gold.

Since that day, you’ve managed to not only appear in headlines, but write them yourself. It’s not surprising that someone like you ended up in journalism, and what better way to get your foot in the door than by stepping in to the offices where your father’s sister made her name? Your aunt had been the one to point it out to you, how well you’d do in journalism, so you decided to take the plunge, and it turned out that you loved it. High school prepared you for the real world in ways your peers didn’t yet realize—while they were so concerned with never letting a secret past their lips, you knew they were all going to come out anyway. Might as well have them come out on your own terms. But ghosts do love to haunt, and your mother has always been your biggest shadow. So when she returned to the city only three months ago, after fifteen years of barely a word, you felt like the world was crumbling. You’d spent years making sure everything in your life happened according to your plan, and Rebecca Dangard (going by her maiden name once more) had no right to show up unannounced. It’s all you can do to keep her out of your life, and hopefully she’ll be gone once more, disappearing without a word just like she did so many years ago.

RICHARD, ISADORA & DAMIEN → the love club

Childhood friends are always there for you, and yours are no different. Affectionately dubbed The Love Club by Gossip Girl during your freshmen year (less affectionately received by the four of you, though the nickname stuck and has never faded since), the four of you are inseparable. They each take up a part of you: Richard is on your arm, the perfect pair to show in front of the cameras. But it’s not just for show—you love them, truly. You just hope it’s enough. Isadora is at your side. Best friends since pre-school, you don’t know if you’ll ever find someone you trust more than her. She’s the sister you never had, the other half you need. In all of history, two Queens have never been able to rule—until the two of you. You, the It Girl; Isa, the Ice Princess. And Damien is by your ear, always strategizing with you, always pushing you to be your best. They’re one of the smartest people you know (though if you said that to Isa, they’d surely have your head), and for that, you’ll always listen to their council. The four of you share a bond that’s not easily broken, and you hope you’ll always have them.

RICHARD → boyfriend

The Golden Couple of the Upper East Side. You love them, truly. You fell in love with them when you were only twelve years old, and you knew they would be the person you spent the rest of your life with. Nothing could ever have fit so perfectly. Your families were longtime friends and they rejoiced in knowing that the two of you had made it official during your sophomore year. You’ve been together ever since. But you can’t help but feel your relationship has grown stagnant, almost bland. You’ve been waiting for an engagement ring for what feels like years now, and you’re worried you’ll only ever be seen as high school sweethearts instead of a force to be reckoned with. That’s not the life you want. You want something bigger, something brighter. You want to go supernova. You knew you would spend the rest of your life with them. But the question has become whether or not you even want to.

ISAAC → dangerous pastime

It’s just a bit of harmless fun. While Richard is getting you champagne at a charity ball or a polo match, you’ll sit with Isaac and you’ll smile at them like they’re your oldest friend. Once or twice, you’ve put your hand on their arm and brushed your hair over your shoulder the way you once saw your mother do when you analyzed every move she ever made. You like the fact that Isaac smiles at you like they know exactly what game you’re playing—maybe they do, and you’re not as subtle as you believe yourself to be. Or maybe they just like the attention. Maybe they’re like you, and they like playing with fire. But you’ve always been a bit too cautious; it’s the skin you’re trying to shed. Careful, though. You’re not used to playing with matches, and you might get burned if you don’t watch out.

FRANCESCA → “friend”

A socialite from Texas is not someone who should be on your radar. But they have old money, and you have connections to every place worth knowing in the city. You both have a mutual interest in each other, but that doesn’t mean you have to like each other. Francesca thinks they’re twice as smart as they actually are and three times as clever, but that’s alright. You don’t need them for conversation, you need them to stabilize your reputation with those who don’t think you align with family values. A few wild stints as a teenager and suddenly you’re not suitable for exclusive society clubs, but Francesca can change all of that for you. They want to become an insider with the elite on the Upper East Side, and you want to move further up the 1% than anyone in your circle ever has. It’s a deal.

THE BRING YOUNG THING is portrayed by ZENDAYA, and they are OPEN.

[aion-rsa]

Donuts & Demons: Ryka Aoki’s Light from Uncommon Stars

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Shizuka Satomi, a violin teacher known as the Queen of Hell, owes one more soul to demons due to an infernal bargain she struck. Young violinist Katrina Nguyen needs to escape her homelife, where her transness is rejected by her family, and to start anew, hopefully making videos with her music. And Lan Tran and her crew are striving to build a stargate—before the Galactic Empire falls to the Endplauge—while selling donuts at Starrgate Donuts in Los Angeles. Light from Uncommon Stars is the story of how these three women’s lives intersect, and is a novel filled to the brim with music so beautifully described, readers can almost hear it in the narrative.

Katrina opens the novel with her flight and her passion for music; Shizuka comes in quickly after with her soul-contract deadline and her desire to find one last musician to condemn to hell. When readers first encounter Lan and her alien crew, they may wonder how author Ryka Aoki can pull off a story that is at once soul-bargaining-with-demons and refugee-aliens-building-a-stargate. But as the story progresses, the themes and characters dovetail together so beautifully that readers will wonder how they ever doubted. 

Aoki explores what it means to be human, the nature of souls, and the importance of hope and love even in the face of what may seem hopeless, filling the novel with both good humor and acknowledgment of suffering. There is pain, and yet a sense that better things are to come. The love and care with which the characters imbue parts of their lives—whether it’s the music they play, the instruments they shape, or the food they create—gains a greater meaning by virtue of that love. The result is an incredibly powerful story of hope and redemption, of small voices shouting into dissonance and being heard. Ahead of the novel’s September 28th release, Den of Geek had the chance to pick Aoki’s brain about how this novel came together, and insights into her inspiration…

Den of Geek: First, what brought together the two very different speculative fiction tropes—soul-bargaining and stargates—together into the same story for you? How did you create a universe in your head where both things worked without contradicting each other?

Ryka Aoki: I respect both science fiction and fantasy, but I had honest intentions and reasons to mix them in Light from Uncommon Stars. I was a little bit worried about how people would accept this—or not. But I’ve been thrilled with how readers have embraced and accepted this book.

I think this book might resonate with readers because we all hold seeming contradictions. In the book, Shizuka Satomi mentions how great pieces of music contain such different-sounding sections and movements. And, as music reflects the soul, doesn’t that say something about us, and our own shifting arrays of motifs and counterpoints?

In my case, being of Japanese descent, and being queer, and being trans, means that I play a lot of different things to a lot of different worlds. Yet working toward true acceptance and love of self can be like composing your own sonata—you’re striving to express and share your entire music. The person who I am with my family lives in a different world than the person who teaches English and Critical Thinking. And that person seems very different from the writer, or the martial artist.

And yet, I don’t feel fragmented. I feel pretty whole.

And so, when I wrote Light from Uncommon Stars, I always had faith that it would work out, somehow—because I worked out, somehow.

(At least I’d like to think so…) 

Demon Tremon Philippe and Shizuka’s relationship may bring to mind more of Mephistopheles and Faust than the devil at the crossroads. But there is a long tradition of musicians trading souls for greatness, brought into American folklore via blues musicians, who may have drawn on tales of Papa Legba rather than the European devil-bargaining stories. In the novel, you’ve brought many cultural traditions into play—where did you start from in the soul-selling elements? What did you borrow from earlier tales, and what did you invent whole cloth?

Thank you for asking this question because it lets me talk about another tradition. The early days of Internet message boards were the first time ever that trans people could speak freely yet relatively anonymously with people like them around the world. In fact, one of my dearest friends had such a board and they live in Iceland. We needed each other. We helped each other go through some horrible times… But there were also some goofy and fun times come as well—it was the first time that we realized that we’re all a bunch of science fiction and fantasy geeks. I mean, anywhere we can dream, right?

And I remember at the time being struck by how many trans women had created their own creation myths, to explain how their soul was placed in this other body. Many religions ignore trans people. Yet to know where one came from—and why—is a necessary question for many human beings.

In these stories, and the discussion surrounding them, there was much talk about having the soul of a woman, or the soul of a man if one were a trans man. “Do you have a female soul?” was a very relevant question to those with trans binary identities. (Discussions of nonbinary identities and gender fluidity were happening as well—entire vocabularies were being invented. Those were some exciting times.)

I think that even now many trans women, perhaps when first trying to make sense of who they are, still ask themselves this question.

And so, the cursed Shizuka Satomi, precisely because she is so focused on acquiring souls that she finds bodies irrelevant—offers Katrina the space and place to find her answers.

The descriptions and understanding of music and violins—and violin competitions—in the story are tangible. What is your music background?

I love writing music. I used to play in a band, and when I do my spoken word pieces, I compose all my own soundtracks. My main instrument is the piano, but I also play guitar, and some flute, and harmonica. For the most part, I am self-taught. However, I’ve been taking lessons for the past couple of years with a wonderful piano teacher—the irony is because I’m promoting this book, I’m on a brief hiatus from that.

However, I had no idea how to play the violin. I remember the first time I went into a violin shop. There were violins, but violins of different sizes, and cellos and violas and basses, and I was laughing to myself that I have no idea how to make music with any of this. I couldn’t put a tune together with one of these instruments to save my own life.

I did manage to teach myself some violin. And I really love the instrument. I have an acoustic violin from eBay, and I also have an electric violin now. This Christmas season, I am looking forward to jamming to some holiday music. We may never be ready for a committed relationship, but the violin and I have become good friends.

So, although I didn’t grow up in violin culture, as I researched violin culture, I found many parallels with a culture that I was familiar with—martial arts. Like many communities with overachieving children and parents with unrequited dreams, I found that in violin competitions, it was sometimes difficult to tell which was more important, the violin or the competition. This was so much like what I had seen as an annoying little martial arts kid. And so, those were the experiences upon which I drew.  

The posturing, the pressure, the mind games…the nausea in the bathroom…so different, but not so different at all.

In addition to being a writer, you are a teacher. Are any of your own feelings about teaching reflected in Shizuka’s feelings about mentoring?

*giggle* ALL of them…the good, the bad, the obsessive, the self-serving, and the hopeful.

This novel felt, in many ways, like a pandemic novel–in a situation that should be full of hopelessness (the Endplague, a coming soul-deadline), there’s still this tonal quality, even in the early pages, that things will turn out right, even if we have no idea how that will happen. Was any part of the novel written during the pandemic? Do you see it differently now that it’s coming out as we’re still dealing with the coronavirus?

During the first few months of pandemic, most of the novel had already been written, and we were deep in edits. I was pushing so hard to get my story just right that the first part of the lockdown went by unnoticed. Plot hole here, inconsistency there…even without a lockdown, I don’t think I would have gone out, anyway.

These days, I’m feeling the pandemic more, especially because this is when I was to tour, sign books, and meet people in person. And, as I engage with the lockdown more actively, I do notice how the pandemic does seem to echo the themes of the Endplague. Although Covid-19 did not inspire the Endplague, I based the Endplague on how civilizations can often fall, not from outside cataclysms themselves, but from the conflicts and fissures they cause their populace…and a collective loss of hope.

In the book, without going into too many spoilers, Lan and her family come from a very advanced civilization that has conquered many diseases and social ills, but is still battling with divisions, suspicions, and fatalism.

Looking around at world today, the parallels are hard to escape.

Late in the novel, you use Bartók as a way of framing and understanding transness in a beautiful way. Could you talk about the theme of Katrina finding her voice through the violin, and about how music and self-intertwine in the novel?

Provided the instrument is well-maintained, when you play the piano, you’ll automatically play in tune. A violin can be perfectly in tune, but that is far from enough—you need to be in tune with yourself.  

Furthermore, when I actually played the violin, I learned that certain notes resonate very well with other strings. In fact, sympathetic resonance is one way that a student can know if she’s in tune. If we listen for the resonances, we can feel the entire violin glow. There’s no better way to say it—it seems like the instrument glows.

This is very important to Katrina’s development, for human voices—and human souls—don’t have keys, or even frets, either. And when you’re playing in tune with yourself and others, you do get this internal glow. I think feeling this is very important to Katrina. It gives her security, weaves her into the songs of others.

But we are not always in harmony, nor should we be. Sometimes, our true songs are dissonant, or expressed in notes between notes. At that point, for all the rest of the world knows, your composition is wrong, or your intonation sucks. So, when your own music is so insistent, yet so at odds with what people expect—what do you do? Well, there goes Bartók.

There is a difference between playing with people in harmony and speaking to them in melody, after all. What does this mean for Katrina?

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I think I’ll just leave it there.

Starrgate Donuts cannot fulfil online orders for their delicious donuts, unfortunately, as it is fictional, and videos of Shizuka Satomi’s performances are still not available to watch, due to interference from demonic forces, but Light from Uncommon Stars is available at bookstores everywhere on September 28, 2021. Find out more here.

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