#anyways. feel free to yap at me about my picks i can and will talk about this forever.

[fulgurbugs]

What would the travelers Pokémon teams be?

I can totally see Alfyn having a Blissey. Therion seems like he’d have a Gengar, potentially.

ok. upon literally hours of deliberation and team building (i actually already had ones for the OT1 travelers but decided to revisit them and change a few picks) me and my bestie @snailcruncher have settled on some teams. i will be going in depth on reasonings for these so prepare for a long post lol. im gonna put it under a readmore because really im not joking about how long it is

we also came up with some ideas/lore for why some of these would be picked in a pokemon AU setting, so i’ll be explaining any of those thoughts if they’re relevant too.

Ophilia:

one of the only teams left untouched, I think this is a good batch for her. i’m imagining a scenario where the sacred flame takes the form of a pokemon, and it’s a lampent. frosmoth and togetic felt just like… the right vibe. Lapras and Ampharos both have associations with guiding, so they’re in. Audino is a notable healing pokemon, and it feels in line with her personality as well.

Cyrus:

Alakazam for mr high iq smart guy. duh. oranguru for his role as a teacher, and Runerigus would be a late acquisition to his team in his ch4. Flareon, Glaceon, and Jolteon for the 3 scholar spell types. i also think him having 3 eeveelutions could also be kind of like, they’re really good for demonstrations for single-type stuff, as well as being popular with others. people might come up to him and be like omg you have a flareon i love flareon pleaseeee tell me more (flirtily) which of course would go over his head and he would start telling you flareon facts. I feel like Cyrus would excel in double battles.

Tressa:

Meowth: the pay day signature pokemon. this is as close as i can replicate to tressa randomly finding money. Skwovet (she can now take her pet squirrel with her in a pokeball)

Gyrados for sure. one, she lives along an ocean, so she should definitely have a water type, two, i’m imagining a scenario where she buys a magikarp cheap, seeing the potential in it, then raises it into a real powerhouse. just like her!

carbink: really funny scenario me and the bestie came up with that instead of eldrite the treasure was diancieite. the carbink is from the same cave. tressa did try to evolve it with the diancieite. it didn’t work.

pidgeot… felt like she needed a flying type (wind magic rep) and i feel like she’d gravitate to the humbler normal types… doesn’t get much more straightforward than pidgeot. Dhelmise… maybe it used to be captain leons, maybe she fished it out of the harbor in rippletide herself. either way, she thinks it’s cool

Olberic:

Aegislash: sword form, shield form…. this pokemon itself is the unbending blade. obviously i have given him several other sword based pokemon, too.

gallade, escavalier, and sirfetch’d badically all fit this. they’re knight-like, so they feel fitting i think to him.

as for conkeldurr and garganacl, they feel kind of… solidly built. like him. ( ⬇️ garganacl pick lore)

Primrose:

almost all of her pokemon can learn some kind of dance though their level up. Oricorio is the obvious choice, dragonair reps dragon dance, beautifly reps quiver dance, and lilligant… well they can learn so fucking many. we couldn’t decide on which one to give her, so we ended up giving her both. they’re her backup dancers or whatever.

mawile just feels very primrose to me. its cute or pretty or whatever, and you might underestimate it… but watch out. it bites.

Alfyn:

he feels like a guy who loves a big fluffy dog. and stoutland has also been used in games for its ability to sniff out items, so it feels like it’d be a good pick for an apothecary looking to sniff out herbs and such. Comfey is an obvious pick, i mean its signature move is. floral healing. meganium also has mentioned in its dex entries its healing and calming properties. it’s also a cool as fuck dinosaur so i think alfyn would like it.

chatot. does this even need explanation

we also wanted to give him an ice type, and settled on cubchoo. it has a perpetually runny nose… even Alfyn can’t fix it, try as he might.

as for leavanny, we had some trouble picking the last slot on this team. we were looking through friendship evos, and leavanny caught my eye. it’s dex entries mention that it’s very gentle, it also shows no mercy to foes who target young pokemon. seems fitting… we decided alfyn got it as a swadloon (maybe it could be taught to use its sewing abilities to dress wounds?) and it evolved during his ch3.

Therion:

I think Krookodile, mimikyu, and klefki are quite obvious picks, so i won’t go too in on them. Ninjask and Shedinja…. Ninjask is super speedy, so it felt right to give one to therion, but also i feel like.. he’d keep the shedinja around. even with 1 hp and one billion weaknesses… it’s still a part of his team. it and ninjask were born from the same nincada. he couldn’t abandon it like that.

and applin lol. something about therion gives me “guy who’s going for a cool as fuck hydrapple and ends up with an appletun actually”

H’aanit:

If anyone’s allowed to have legendaries, it’s the hunters. Chien-pao is as close as we can get to a snow leopard. and yeah maybe it’s a little evil but H’aanit is built different. Decidueye feels like an obvious pick, and spirit shackle is a great signature move for the h’aanit vibe. trapinch for. leghold trap. kilowattrel is literally a thunderbird. and ariados… well, it has the ability sniper, to reference hunter’s crit boosting abilities, as well as having some trapping moves like webs. for the Hunters, I’ve left their last spot blank, but this just means like, a “flex” spot that would be different each time you battled them. H’aanits got boxes of options to choose from.

now, onto the OT2 ones!

Ochette:

I’m sure you can see what i’m going for here. it’s just the closest i could get to Akala/mahina and her 3 story beasts. and again, like H’aanit, the last spot is “flex” not empty, so imagine her bringing some different new bullshit to every battle.

Cassti:

i wanted to do a few things with Castti: obviously, give her some healing-y mons, but also a few oddball picks that might have you looking twice. picked Shiinotic because of its ominous dex entries, and then. toedscruel because i realize shiinotic actuallt doesn’t get spore i think? and i think castti “put em to sleep right in the street” florenz should have a mon with spore. (edit. i actually just cant read the bulbapedia tables and shiinotic does get spore. anyways she gets two spore mons i guess cuz what if she’s gotta knock out two people at the same time. or whatever. dustox emits toxic powder from its wings, which seems like it could be something castti would want to keep on hand for poison axe. these three might seem a little weird tho, and reinforce her bad first impression in canalbrine, even though i’m sure they’d all be very well behaved and nice. Blissey and Arboliva are straightforward healing picks. I feel like these would be common for apothecaries to have in general.

and then galar-slowking. poison-activated brain nonsense. i feel like she acquires this one post-amnesia. they feel a kinship with each other.

Throné

Throné’s team is half-blacksnakes dedicated, half catered to herself. Every blacksnake has a seviper or an ekans, as well as probably most of them also having other grunt-esque pokemon, like zubats and such. throné’s taken care of hers, though, and friendship evolved it into a crobat.

chose furfrou because i think throné would like a prissy little dog she can dress up cutely. milcery, which she’s waiting on evolving until she can figure out what alcremie form she wants, and a shade-cherrim.

oh, and zangoose, of course. the natural enemy of sevipers. one appeared to her right after she left new delsta. what a sign, right?

Osvald:

Osvald we had some interesting stuff to work with, I think. we decided that most of his pokemon were newly acquired after his prison escape- not on purpose. they seem to just take a liking to him and start following him around.

the avalugg helped get him out of the frozen water at cape cold, and then stuck with him.

the teddiursa.. also just stuck with him. we wanted to give him something that felt a little oddball for him… so this doesn’t evolve. it stays cute and unevolved forever.

the shuppet was found hovering around the ruins of Osvald’s house. he was reluctant to take it, but if it was formed out of some semblance of his desire for vengeance… he has to be responsible for it.

the Indeedee is the only one of osvalds old pokemon, out of this lineup. since indeedee are so helpful to people, it was kind of a family pokemon acquired after elena’s birth (dex mentions they’re good at babysitting.) Osvald could probably also trust it with simple lab assistant tasks like moving stuff around. was a very beloved pokemon within their family. anyways, following his sentencing, clarissa managed to get ahold of the indeedee and took care of it all this time. when osvald returns, it’s clear it wants him to take her with him.

the drampa was acquired after the events of montwise, having shown up and basically just forced itself to go with osvald. somehow it seems to know what’s going on and who it can trust…

and slowking.. well, smart guy needs a smart pokemon. it’s another one that took a shine to him, though at that point he was getting used to this happening.

Partitio:

Talonflame: partitio’s aptitude for fire magic and the “chickadee” nickname made this an obvious choice for an ace. I can imagine a young partitio’s first pokemon being a fletchling, for sure.

bramblegast. the funny tumbleweed. put it on the team immediately.

Milotic: Paritio picked up a feebas. having a knack for seeing the potential in pokemon, he wasn’t wrong, and now hes got this thing. it’s very popular with other people, though it seems an odd pick for partito at first glance to strangers.

armarouge: ok this one’s a little convoluted so i will explain it later. kind of vibes based pick tho lol. revavroom kind of. uhh. steam engine. (we can pretend)

there ain’t a more partitio pokemon out there than gholdengo. everyone say thank you scarvi for giving partitio most of his team.

Agnea:

hey, it’s another oricorio! i think you can guess why.

volcarona: learns fiery dance, but we thought up even more lore on this one. the larvesta was a family pokemon. mostly belonging to Garud (we ended up deciding that the Bristarnis had a lot of bug types, who help out with the sewing stuff and larvesta does give a little bit silkworm, lol..)

anyways, part of his blessing for sending agnea off was telling her to take the larvesta, who also turned out to be a dazzling star in the end too… after a lot of hard work.

altaria and leafeon rep dragon and swords dance. i just feel like they’re good picks for her energy, too. lunatone reps the moonstep. I’ve also opted to give her a sunny cherrim, which i think would be cute contrasted with Throné’s gloomy one.

Temenos:

temenos has quite the oddball lineup for a cleric. but hes kind of an oddball cleric so i think it works.

Absol. man. a lot of shit happens to temenos. this absol is stressed tf out 24 fucking 7. sorry man.

Clefable: felt like we had to give him a healer-adjacent pokemon and this one evolves with a moonstone. feels fitting for mr night-ability mistral tbh.

Lokix. alright. another scenario based pick. Temenos caught this thing on the pilgrims way as a nymble at like level 2. probably rustling in the metaphorical tall grass, crick is all “get behind me, it could be dangerous” and then. lvl 2. nymble. doesn’t even need to be fought to be caught. and then temenos is all hey crick, it’s a “crick”et pokemon! (we’ll ignore that the dex says grasshopper) he’d keep it just to mess with crick, but it ends up sticking around.

Houndoom. well, temenos is the pontiff’s hound, so we did need to pick a dog for him. it’s a houndour in the beginning, houndoom by the end. probably evolved in a moment of crisis (in ch4?) the yamask is from crackridge.

wooloo. this is actually Crick’s. it wasn’t helping with the little lamb allegations… after the events of stormhail, Temenos takes it in.

Hikari:

Kingambit: i mean. come on. gotta get a kingambit for the future king.

Gardevoirs dex entire mention that it is dedicated to its trainer/cause to the bitter end, and would do anything to protect it. perfect for Hikari.

Morpeko and Zweilous. some literally two-faced pokemon. (maybe he feels a little bit of a kinship with them in that way) i also really wanted to give Hikari a pseudo-legendary, and i think that his zweilous would probably evolve just in the nick of time to kick some ass against mugen. Hydreigons might be notoriously destructive, but something about the personalities merging into one brain in evolution seems to have mellowed Hikari’s out. it’s remarkably personable, for a hydreigon.

lucario: i really wanted to give him a pokemon that learns copycat, and lucario fits that bill. plus, he definitely needed a fighting type.

Cerudelge: formed from bitterness of old cursed armor, but also an extremely skilled sword fighter… one of hikari’s aces.

I also like to imagine that a lot of hikari’s pokemon are quite difficult to deal with (his ceruledge in particular is quite belligerent and mean) but they all have utmost respect for him as a trainer, once they’re on the battlefield. but onlookers sometimes worry… how the hell does he deal with it all?

other notes about some of the picks :

Partitio’s amarouge. Paritio picked up a. charcadet later on, and hikari personally warned him that it might be difficult to deal with. (his charcadet and later ceruledge were super hard to train for him) of course, partitio did end up in possession of the cool nice armor that evolved it into the better mannered and nobler armarouge… but honestly, even his charcadet was far better behaved.

paritio and tressa both get those shitty fish that get cool. must be because they both have an eye for a diamond in the rough.

agnea and throné’s cherrims are best friends. throné rarely got to see her cherrim sunny-form until she left new delsta… she wonders if maybe it was upset about being so nocturnal before, with the blacksnakes.

castti and osvald, team mom and team dad somehow both ended up with slowkings. everyone’s a little concerned about castti’s, though…

after the events of his story, Osvald leaves indeedee and teddiursa with clarissa and elena. the teddiursa and elena in particular take to each other very well… when osvald finally is able to return to elena’s life, the teddiursa is really much more her pokemon.

also. H’aanit and Ochette and far and away the best battlers of both groups. i know i only have them with one flex spot, but you can imagine that they’d swap out a lot more for whatever they need to do to build a good team. they’ve got loads more options than everyone else.

you know that thing about giving someone an applin in galar? therion did trade it over to alfyn at one point. but really they have joint custody of that thing. which definitely ended up as an appletun.

we also had some npc aces sprinkled in there, so here’s some other thoughts, just as bonus!

Malaya: Pawmot (revival blessing), rapidash.

Elena: Abra

Harvey: Hypno, Bacephalon

Pala: Kricketot (formerly belonged to her and agnea’s mom)

Roque: Metagross

Kazan: Husuian Braviary

Ori: Chatot

Trousseau: Glimmora

Cordelia: ….ferrothorn

Erhardt: Aegislash, Hisuian Samurott

Z’aanta: Zamazenta

Juvah: is literally a solgaleo

Darius: Scrafy/Pangoro

Simeon: Malamar

Esmeralda: Mismagius (wanted to give her something with perish song)

Mattias: drifblim? darkrai?

Lucia: Hatterene

Miguel: Grimmsnarl

Werner: spectrier

Mugen: Kingambit. mirror match with Hikari, but mugen’s has supreme overlord while Hikari’s has defiant.

Kaldena: we couldn’t pick but maybe she goes like lusamine mode and fuses with something.

Claude: Cradily. (uh. literally fossil pokemon)

Dolcinea: belive it or not, also an oricorio. also, solrock. but her oricorio is the prettiest.

veronica: she has somehow acquired the worlds first and only female gallade through the power of lesbianism.

Crick: … wooloo….

I do wanna make some drawings for these ideas, but this post was literally already one billion miles long and has way too many images, so it’ll probably be a separate post. thanks for the ask! and sorry for talking so much, but i fucking love making pokemon teams so much it’s insane.

and a big thank you again to my bestie @snailcruncher who helped me with a lot of these picks (and did basically all of the npc picks thank you so much i love you). tysm for pokemon octopath brainrotting with me for like 4 hours.

[fisheito]

If you ever feel insecure about your yapping just know that I binged your entire account for the past few hours and I was hooked. Like your account to me is what cocomelon is to toddlers you have no idea how happy you make my overly stressed student heart 😔❤ (Anon because I have anxiety (for now))

??!?!? i have enough stuff on here to entertain you for HOURS??

....huh. guess i've amassed quite a hoard. porntime surely does fly....swim.move fast

[muniimyg]

𐙚₊˚⊹ sleepy boyfriend!yoongi⋆𐙚₊˚⊹

series m.list // taglist

boyfriend / uni au

fluff + implied smut

//

the campus is asleep.

fuck.

who wakes up this early anyway? it's 6AM and yoongi is half asleep, and irritated as fuck at the gust of wind that sends him shivers.

but he can't help but feel warmth begin to spread from his chest as he lays his eyes on you.

from a slight distance, he watches as the chill in the air makes your nose tingle. you clutch the litter tongs in one hand and a trash bag in the other and you’re mid-yawn when you feel familiar hands wrap around your body.

at first you jolt from the sudden touch, but the heat of his breath against your neck and the sound of his sleepy voice gives it all away.

“morning.”

you turn your head, your cheek meeting his lips.

he kisses them sweetly before letting you go.

you stand in front of him and take it all in—his sleepy glory.

yoongi inhales deeply with his eyes shut. hair is messy, hoodie pulled tight over his head. he blinks at you like he might still be half-asleep.

actually

he really is half asleep.

“what are you doing here?” you ask, eyes wide. you reach for his flushed cheeks and squish them. partly to warm his face and partly because he’s so cute all puffy. “you said you would never wake up before 10AM on a saturday. that it’s a sin.”

he shrugs, stepping closer. without warning, he leans in and presses a lazy kiss to your lips, his mouth warm despite the cold air.

“you were all pissed last night,” he mumbles, voice low and gravelly.

“no, i wasn’t—"

he scoffs at you. “you were pissed about how we don’t spend enough time together and how i never do the shit you like. so...” he gestures vaguely around you. “you like this? picking up trash at 6AM on a saturday?”

you can’t help the smile that spreads across your face.

“i do.”

he scoffs, rolling his eyes.

… but there’s the smallest hint of a smirk tugging at his lips.

“figured.”

without another word, he takes the tongs from your hand and starts picking up litter. you watch, stunned for a moment, before quickly falling in step behind him.

he moves lazily, plucking up wrappers and cups with minimal effort, while you practically bounce behind him, talking about everything and nothing.

“you know,” you say, pointing to a crumpled soda can, “this is so much better with you here.”

he hums noncommittally, picking up the can.

“and,” you continue, “i feel like this might actually be good for you. you’re always inside. fresh air is important. if it’s mandatory for little kids to have at outside time, what about adults? you’re so pale sometimes, i feel like the only light you get is from your pc screen. with winter coming—”

yoongi grabs another piece of trash, not even glancing your way, but his free hand slips into yours.

like second nature, your fingers curl together.

soon enough, you’re not even picking up trash anymore—just pointing things out while yoongi handles it. he doesn’t complain, though he does give you a flat look every now and then when you get too bossy. he mumbles something about how it’s not what you’re telling him to do, it’s how you’re telling him to do it. you snicker apologies and he accepts them rather quickly. truth is, he knows you’re just excited. he is too.. he likes seeing your eyes so bright even if it’s at 6AM on a saturday.

when the bag is finally full, and the volunteer session wraps up, you beam at him;

“let’s have breakfast together! we’ve never had breakfast in the morning together. we do brunch sometimes but this is gonna be our first real breakfast! oh my god, lovie! i’m so—"

he groans, rubbing the back of his neck.

“love, how about we go back to sleep?”

“no!” you protest. “breakfast is important! a-and you’re already awake.. please don’t take this away from me—”

before you can keep yapping, yoongi steps forward, leans in, and kisses you firmly.

it’s quick, but enough to shut you up completely.

he pulls back, smirking. “okay.”

“really?”

“really.”

“great. I know this really good pancake place—”

“love?”

“mhm?”

“i’m more of a breakfast-in-bed type of guy.”

you narrow your eyes at him, your cheeks warm despite the cold.

“we can make pancakes at your place then.”

he tilts his head and looks at you.

up and down.

then, he licks his lips.

“with lots of whipped cream?”

your shoulders drop and you let go of his hand.

crossing your arms, you huff at him.

“you’re impossible.”

“so are you,” he says simply before nodding towards the direction of his place. “come on, love. let’s go back to bed. you can wake me up like how i like to be woken up and i’ll eat you for breakfast.”

[boringgothgamergirl]

I have a bone to pick with SOME Sylus girls

(If you’re not like this then this post isn’t targeted at you but feel free to read my rant anyway also English isn’t my first language so pls excuse any grammar mistakes )

Listen when it comes to SOME sylus girls I usually keep my mouth shut and ignore their entitled ass behavior, but when I saw the promo videos for RAFAYEL BIRTHDAY BANNER (that’s right RAFAYEL NOT SYLUS) I kept seeing comments from sylus girlies how they are not going to pull because it’s not sylus…like girl who the fuck asked ???? (Also it’s not just rafayel banner it’s like that in other characters banners too) Nobody…we get it you like sylus good for you…but commenting under other boys promo videos about him is straight up disrespectful! Let other girls enjoy their favorites banner without being an annoying clown, again if you are a sylus girl and you’re not like this it isn’t targeted at you I’m only talking about the ones that do this shit, it’s beyond annoying and your behavior can make other not like sylus as a character in general he may not be my favorite (mostly because of his theme it’s just not for me) but I dont go around under his promotional posts and yap about rafayel unless him or other boys are brought up, like know you lane and stand on that fucking lane let people enjoy their favorite character without trying to be an annoying person everything isn’t about you and not everyone like the same shit you do so stop forcing it on everyone because I sure as hell know you wouldn’t like people commenting about other characters on his promo videos

Anyways thanks for listening.

[umbra-borealis]

Dimitri Lousteau is the most 'human' villain in Sly Cooper

Hello and welcome to my TEDtalk, I've been meaning to type out my yapping for a long time but always talked myself out of it because I mean, this is coming from a guy with Dimitri for a pfp and I figured people would just take it as a guy on tumblr simping for a weird lizard but no. The reasons I care for Dimitri the way I do goes pretty deep and I could sit here and talk about it point by point but to save us both some time (and because I am DEAD tired) I made a graph!

I used Luciano, my little sona, to personify myself in this.

I focused mainly on formative things and similarities in personality without inserting headcanons, even if based on traits or even symptoms I recognize. Most of these are rather straight forward but some run a little deeper. The funny pattern here (maybe aside from the drug thing lol) is that there's a high likelihood that you reading this right now can at least relate to just one or two things on those list and while you could argue that you could do the same with other characters, I picked these traits because in my opinion they ride that thin line between just relatable enough to apply to a lot of people, but not too superficial to be on the same an interest or hobby. Anyone can get upset when angry, it's HOW you express that anger that says something about you as a person for instance.

I also want to quickly mention that yes, a LOT of characters in Sly Cooper are very human, but I said 'villain' for a reason. After all I don't think your average college kid can relate to Contessa, Rajan or Panda King because mass brainwashing, destroying villages and being a literal drug lord are bordering on supervillain and that's not what Dimitri is. A supervillain can be relatable to a degree as well, but it makes sense that the Panda King had to have a whole Moment TM (several really) to come to terms with the kind of person he allowed himself to become. When we see Dimitri in Sly 3, he seems to have already done this perhaps because his sins aren't nearly as great. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

I'll insert a read-more here but I'd like to ask you to keep reading anyway if you can because my biggest pet peeve is that Dimitri is seen as a dumb, sleazy (and old??? which is dumb and I got math to back up that he's not in fact in his 40s during Sly 2 lmao) lizard who's only good as a level 1 boss for beginners to learn the game and all he's remembered for, though fair, is his manner of speech and not what he's REALLY saying. None of you ever picked up on what he was throwing down so I'm going to spell it out for you.

(PS I have ADHD and it's 3 AM so go easy on me this is coming from the HEART baby)

To make it easier on myself and you, I'm going to start sectioning the word soup in my head into four categories based on Dimitri's enterprises and roles and just kinda... waffle on about my thoughts regarding them. I'll start superficial and work my way down to the Deep Shit. Feel free to skip around to whatever interests you since I include some lore too, though changes are you're already aware of said lore.

Lets start with:

Dimiti, the club manager.

Nightclubs, and the people that run them tend to have a bit of a sleazy stereotype attached to them, which I suppose is fair. Though a large chunk is attributed to movies and other media, there were in fact some really large and important movements surrounding nightlife and club culture. Just look up the Club Kids if you want to go down a rabbit hole, in short they were a fairly large group of partiers from the 90s who contributed a LOT to fashion and art movements as well as being generally very fluid when it came to gender. Unfortunately that too would eventually be plagued by drugs and members getting addicted to drugs. Again, I digress.

Dimitri is seen partying in the intro of his chapter in Sly 2,

which is a nice touch because not only is it in-character, it's something that would actually happen. Owners of a popular joints would be popular or just enigmatic figures that would regularly get subjected to patrons schmoozing up to them. Some weren't a fan but there were many that soaked up the attention, bought rounds on the house when business was good, maybe get a little TOO cocky with confidence. It's a bit too simple to look at Dimitri in relation to all this info and say 'no doi he was in it for the money it checks out.' because if you spend enough time in his club or just, in the safe house after placing the bug there's signs of more going on.

We KNOW Dimitri is a criminal and he did his whole art forgery business on the side, or maybe it's the other way round? Either way he seemed fairly confident in his skills with this. His biggest risk being that time he tried to marry someone over a STATUE. (Really dude?) So then why was he so damn paranoid? While you could argue that he was sippin' his own supply I don't think that's what it was. He was so paranoid he played his music super loud in almost all areas of the club JUST to keep his security detail awake through-out night and day, whenever his club wasn't open to the public. To compensate he would promise them they could all 'retire early'. with that fake confidence chuckle that masks a sense of 'haha please don't abandon me'

So, ever heard of Imposter Syndrome? Because his behavior as a club owner SCREAMS it. He wasn't JUST cocky and sleazy, he was simply fitting in with the culture of the time because *everyone* was overly confident, over confidence was something to be admired, something to look at and go 'yeah that guy has it figured out' while in reality most struggled with something, anything. So what is Imposter Syndrome? To keep it short and blunt, the overwhelming feeling that you're not worthy of your accomplishments. We know that Dimitri is a 'failed' artist who turned to forging art to make money, it could just be a sense of guilt telling him something he's not ready to hear so he starts overcompensating and this insecurity bleeds into Sly 3 after Sly puts him in his place. His success with this insanely toxic coping mechanism lands him a new enterprise.

Dimitri, the Spice distributor.

Rather than going chronological, I'm going through the 'layers' that is this lizard. So if his career as a club owner is the tip of the ice berg with some neat little facts and info about the stereotype he conveys, this subject is a tier deeper. Dimitri the Spice distributor is Dimitri the next level criminal, or so he thinks. When you think about it, it's pretty strange that they gave Dimitri some Clockwerk parts at all. He was never mentioned by the other Klaww Gang members and thus seemingly not missed either when he was the first to get busted. In fact, nobody was upset that their DISTRIBTOR was arrested, putting a hold on their primary income... or so we thought until the Contessa was revealed to have a rather large and lucrative side hussle Dimitri probably could never compete with. Dimitri was expendable, sure he had a role and he played it well but he was also a loss they could cope with without much harm done to their wallets or their pride.

I think about it often, Dimitri in his jail cell, maybe hearing from another criminal or even his lawyer after the whole Clock-La thing about the full scope of the plan. He might've gotten a reduced sentence for ratting the other members out because if you think back to his legendary conversation with Sly he really doesn't seem to know what he's talking about. ("What is it with clocks bro!?") All of Dimitri's other crimes aside, he was young and naive, Sly 3 reveals he came from some form of poverty as well so it makes sense that he'd chase easy money. That's all it was though, he wanted the money and the fame, he didn't want to brainwash an entire city, he didn't know about the giant robot owl. He's once again left feeling like a failure, this time one that was easy to fool and all the confidence he had as a criminal would've seeped out of him, starting this weird cycle of him trying something only to be caught breaking the law and ending up where he began.

Like I said all of this would bleed into Sly 3 and it's pretty damn neat that for how little lines he had and how little he was on screen, they managed to convey this well in my opinion. By the time we reach Sly 3, most of us don't remember him as a Spice distribtor at all. Which leads me to...

Dimitri the Artist.

Being an artist is a pretty broad term and while we know Dimitri as a painter, I think he applies his artist mindset in way, way more. He's genuinely creative an smart, he thinks out of the box to protect his secrets and to cover his tracks. His identity as an artist is also his most vulnerable and 'real' self. Folks will say art is about self expression and usually mean conveying complex topics with pretty pictures or thought provoking stories, however it can be apparent in smaller ways too and the most obvious thing for Dimitri is his business in forging art. Think about it this way:

Picture you don't speak a LICK of english, you're from a lower in-come family or even straight up poverty but you grew up on tall tales of your grandpa being a total badass who lived freely and seizes every opportunity he could to make money... or take it rather but you get the idea. Your grandpa used his talents as a diver and deep down, you know what your talent is. It's art. So you somehow manage to move across the world to Paris, go to an art school work your ass off to develop your own style, your own identity and when it came to making a name for yourself you were rejected super hard. You're now probably in debt, in a foreign country and all you're known for is being the art community's clown.

One thing that gets overlooked is that Dimitri's paintings aren't actually that bad.

He very clearly knows the basics quite well, he's using color theory to shade and add depth but as he goes from student to independant artist, he breaks away from the basics and develops a style. His color use becomes brighter, he adds little stars just because why not? He likes em! This style is PERFECT for the nightlife club scene he ends up in down the line of course, but in the world of pretentious parisian artist hipsters? Absolutely not. So while he's just being himself, he's shown that that isn't allowed, that wont get him success. It reminds me of artists who say shit like 'I'll just learn to draw furry porn I guess!' thinking it's a guaranteed money printer (heh) and whether they enjoy making that kind of content is irrelevant, which leads to burn out or in case they DO find success, imposter syndrome. The dread that you do not deserve this recognition because it's not something you're actually that passionate about, not something you want to be known for. Say what you will about Dimitri but he never compromised. And while the cutscene shows shoddy painted depictions of classical paintings, I think this was more to illustrate him forging paintings to a younger audience than imply he was a bad painter as just before those crappy version, we see what's probably the REAL version he would've painted and sold.

This is conjecture on my part but I have to believe it because well, art forgery is HARD. You'd have to actually be a freaking genius to do it and sell it for so high, you can just afford what is basically a freaking opera house in PARIS and turn it into a nightclub. Also did I mention Dimitri just, HAS a ~mansion~ in Monaco? Because he does.

I've also always liked that scene for the expression on his face. It's smug, it's so full of petty, passve aggressive anger, a stubborness to admit defeat and instead to just 'prove a point' even if that point is lost to the means being SUPER illegal. That being sad, I don't think any of us feel bad over this man stealing a couple thousand from billionaire pockets. Billionaires that probably have their own little illicit ways to get that cash. Funny... It seems Sly isn't the only one who steals from other criminals.

And you might've stuck around this long and gone 'Umbra, get to the fucking POINT already." to which I have good news.

Dimitri, the Marine Iguana.

My favorite part, feel free to skip ahead to this headline if you want.

So who is this guy anyway? Well, from Sly 3 we see that he has a mother, a sister and his grandparents and that's about it as far as we can tell.

Just look at that smile! He looks like your average, awkward teenager. No struggling on the streets from what we can tell, no bullying by bigger kids, no weird sociopathic tendencies, no childhood trauma or grudges. The events that changed him seem to all have happened after he left for Paris. Sure it aint much to go off of but even if his life was hard, it seemed he was close with his grandfather and got to know him for a decent couple of years. Marine Iguanas are, like the name implies, an aquatic species of reptile. They're well adapted to land but due to low food availability in-land, they migrated to the beaches and started living off of sea algae, learning how to dive in the process. Even in Sly 2 the devs included plenty of references to Dimitri's affinity for water. The windows in the dancefloor area of his club are partially submerged, there are two massive aquariums in his office, he lives on a boat (or hides there anyway) and has several water features but inside and outside his club.

When you take a step back and look at all that, Dimitri is... just a guy who left his home country, his family, to follow a dream only to have that dream shatter and he's left to pick up the pieces all alone, making poor choices in the process. Choices based on anger and a broken heart. And the truth of the matter is that ALL of this, could happen to anyone. Granted in varying different ways as not everyone's life is the same and not everyone will make the same choices but I think many of us had a dream career as a kid only to become a jaded adult who thinks it's unrealistic or only does that thing as a hobby, I think there's many of us that remember the moment our hearts were broken and we realized the cold, unforgiving nature of real, adult life.

We see the effect of ALL of this come to a head in Sly 3, when at first he's not sure if he should still be mad at Sly for putting him in jail while he's currently the only guy he knows that COULD break him back out of jail as well. He still overcompensates, he's still overly confident and he put himself in that cell but still, he honors his word and helps Sly and Bentley find their friend. Then in Holland we see him behind a bar, seemingly as if he's actually got a job as a bartender there. Heck, he DOES have a job! He's the announcer! He may not super like it but he's being humbled by it all the same and when Sly comes for help a second time, the bravado is gone for a moment. He expresses genuine fear, not necessarily for his own safety but for losing a job, for *failing*. Of course the right answer in this scenario is to hype up his confidence again. And because Sly has proven himself to be trustworthy in the past he figures he can trust him with a favor of personal, sentimental value. If anyone would understand how it feels to have your family name dishonored and an heirloom stolen, it's Sly and Dimitri knows that damn well.

I think this is about as real as Dimitri can get, aside from the whole scuba gear thing. I know the gang is disguised but I don't think Dimitri is at all. I think that's just... what he likes to wear, further making me think he's just a regular guy with so much heart ache he lashe out in some pretty vile ways. Tortured artists are known to do some crazy shit after all. And while he continues to be his funny eccentric self we know him to be, he starts to have his first real moments of genuine care and loyalty while a part of the Cooper Gang. He tells Bentley he 'has his own flavor' which is his way of telling him that he's unique an valid the way he is. He dives after Sly's cane in VERY dangerous waters, risking injury or even his life, no questions asked. He sends Bentley postcards and letters to let his friend know he's safe and doing well. But perhaps something that hits me harder than any of that, is how angry and shocked Dimitri looks upon Sly's 'retirement announcement'.

Here he was thinking he made a friend out of Sly, and just like that he was gone. It makes me wonder if he held onto that grudge or not but a part of me likes to imagine that he didn't. I think his time with that gang made him realize that although he might not understand and he might be upset, it's not all about him. If anything he silently continued the rivalry by seeing how many girls he could cram into one post card with him to one up Sly's act of running off with a girl himself or perhaps he took it as a sign to make a career switch as well. Either way, Dimitri ended up changing for the better, he became himself in the end. A sweet, goofball iguana who loves the ocean and loves to paint. Making money became a nice bonus rather than his main focus.

Coming from a similar, rough background, having gone to therapy and trying to find my place in the world, this gives me hope. Hope that if I look hard enough, I can find my niche too and that being myself is the best I can be. If you read all this, thank you. I fgured it was best to just get it ALL out at once. I hope it was a fun read or made you look at Dimitri a little differently.

[applestorms]

books i wanna read in 2025 ^w^

lolol ty @dancing-lex for the @ this was v. fun to make. more yapping about choices below the cut. also uhh mutuals feel free to do this if you wanna but i'll also @shydroid3000 + @partingwayssoon + @kiyomitakada if you guys would like to and/or haven't yet!! ^w^

literally all of these books i have started/read part of in some capacity but i desperately need/want to finish All of them lol so. motivation. we got this 🎉🎉there's also a billion others i probably could've put on this but lets just stick with the 6 for now yeah =3="

anyways: top three are fiction, bottom three are nonfiction. are my tastes overwhelmingly obvious from this list? i feel like they are lmfao, but ig let's go thru it regardless.

the kurosagi corpse delivery service is the only manga i put on here since it's the only series i've been actively working through as of late (no, DN doesn't count lol). also considered putting junji ito on here since i have a long-running personal project to try and collect as many of his english-translated works as i can. both scratch a similar itch, and while i think ito's art is ultimately more impressive (hard to beat him when it comes to body horror tbh) i really really really like how this series treats death in terms of story-- it's very humanizing, less focused on the Fear of the Unknown or the Monster or whatever, and more on the realities of loss that come with it. good shit 👍

petals on the wind + ada fill a similar niche to each other, that being weird brother/sister incest books. shrug. petals is actually a sequel to another book i've already finished, flowers in the attic, which absolutely Captured my brain when i read it last year. i quite like the voice of the narrator, cathy, and both of these andrews novels really give me that deliciously nostalgic Vibe of something you might read on a whim one summer break which then fucks you up for the rest of the vacation LOL. ada i've been reading through verrrrry slowly for like, a year at this point, though i'm almost at the halfway point and i enjoy it Greatly every time i pick it back up. nabokov is a truly fantastic writer, and ada is hilarious in a way that i genuinely did not expect. also working on lolita + pale fire a little bit, though i'm trying to keep ada the priority since i'm the furthest along in it.

for the nonfiction, all of these books relate to different areas of philosophy i've recently been especially interested in. black rights/white wrongs is the sole book on this list that i'm basically Guaranteed to finish since i'm currently in the middle of reading it for a class. i'm actually very glad my prof assigned it as his points about epistemologies of ignorance, specifically related to race, is directly related to ideas i've been contemplating as potential areas of study for grad school. similarly, i had a chapter of wretched of the earth as assigned reading for one of my previous classes and Really enjoyed it, fanon has just this incredible perspective in talking about colonialism and the process of rebuilding after such traumas. (reminds me, i should ask my old prof about beauvoir's critique of him + i think sartre, since i believe he mentioned something about that?? i also need to read more of those two, actually. sighs.) also i found the entirety of wretched on audiobook so i really have no excuse to not listen to it all the way thru lmfao.

and then finally for the last one... i have an interest in nishida (and eastern philosophy) more generally, but i picked that one out since it's the book i have currently sitting on my desk. my dad actually gave me that one since i was asking him more about mu w/ regards to DN stuff, w/ a couple others too (the karma of words by lafleur as well). again, my current big interest in philosophy rn is on epistemology-- not just in terms of what knowledge we do have, but what we don't have, or the things that we know but are unwilling or otherwise unable to engage with directly (e.g. social taboos, the ways in which history might be written over/overly focused on a White Male POV, etc.). both my interests in fiction + nonfiction relate to this i think, for my reading and my writing, and there's a lot of interesting routes it can lead ya down, whether it be more social justice/political philosophy oriented "erasure of our histories" type stuff or like. incest. and necrophilia. but my god, mostly just a lot of fucking incest.

[bandsandwristbands]

Hihi! I would like to know more about some of your AUs? If its ok with you👉👈

I have a great many very roughly outlined in my wips which is wild because just 6-7 months ago I told a moot I don't do AUs lol

Character development I suppose!

My number 1 is my Religious AU:

my little bb that I won't stfu about (35k deep and counting in the draft, 19 pages and counting of a Sunan conlang (driving me nuts bc I am not proficient in languages), an entire pantheon of OC gods in the works) I've touched upon some of my earlier ideas for it here here here and here (<- that one really dives into more details) and here's my intro post about it on patreon (available to free members!) lol

I am into gritty whump rn so I've also been working my Gaaleesbians Evil Dead au

(literally just my own take of an Evil Dead movie w/ nart characters plugged in) here are some of my beginning notes for it,

Evil Dead Style slasher where everyone gets picked off in gruesome ways, final girl Lee, maybe Gaaleesbians?, Cast: Lee, Gaara, Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke, Ino. Gaara us likely the first to be possessed. Gaara has unspoken traumatic past that everyone knows about but politely doesn't talk about until it becomes relevant and a point of contention. Shitty run down cabin is Sasuke's inherited from a weird uncle.

Lots of spoilery stuff comes after that like scene outlines and death order and whatnot. (But if anyone is interested I can share more details/snippets) I have like 7k?? Drafted bc I wanted it ready before Halloween last year but uh that didn't happen. So this next coming Halloween probably!

Grimy stripclub au

with performer Gaara and respectful regular Lee (who is an underground street fighter) very vague and horribly spelt outlines for this one but a plot does in fact exist lol

There's the Heaven Hell Mixxxer AU

which I stole from Taz and bastardized (this one will be a comic not a fic) I have only posted vague fanart (1, 2) but essentially there's lots of sex related trauma/healing (like Gaara being an incubus but lowkey hating touching or being touched by others but also learning the joys of respectful consensual horniness (and also also angel nut is special compared to human nut in a very horny way) and Corny existential stuff about being assigned "good or evil" by a God they don't even know and yummy biblical inspired exploration (like Lee struggling with his worthiness and Gaara actually being very sweet but was taught to be cruel growing up in hell) I really should write out an outline for this I can already feel the ideas getting foggy

(I have more like MHA!AU (also stolen from Taz) and a Rave setting modern au wip (can you tell I like club/party settings) anyways if anyone shows interest in any in particular I'd be happy to yap more)

[alcapeasstuff]

Jacket hotline Miami

(My apologies if I get stuff wrong I haven’t played the game in ages I don’t have my pc right now)

I’m going to rant a lot, scroll now there will be dark subject matter including but not limited too: PTSD, sociopathy, sexual abuse, murder, etc. you have been warned.

I read a Reddit post about jackets mental conditioning and now I’m going to yap

From the first couple of moments in hotline Miami, jacket is implied to have a troubled past and to have done “some terrible things..." as stated by Don Juan, jacket is very well implied to have some kind of mental illness or something similar, the three people in the room upon the first visit all react in different ways, in my own interpretation at least, Don Juan is the personification of what jacket WANTS to believe, what he wishes was real, how he wishes things could be, Richard is seemingly the ugly truth, a horrible, gnawing thought in the back of jackets mind, the truth he hates, yet thanks to jackets delusions, Richard is still cryptic, he never gives a single direct answer to jacket, instead leaving him to suffer in his own hellscape of a mind, and then the iconic 4 questions: “Do you like hurting other people?

Who is leaving messages on your answering machine?

Where are you right now?

Why are we having this conversation?”, to me, Richard has always been the horrific knowledge of your own faults you can’t own up to, and then Rasmus, rasmus is so aggressive and hostile towards jacket, seemingly representing self doubt, survivors guilt, and hatred of the self: “why did you come back here? You’re not a nice person, are you? You make me sick!”, Rasmus and the other two are all personifications of jackets own warped and shattered mind, they all show some kind of level of pity, disgust, or disappointment with jacket, none of them are happy, they’re simply what he wants to think, and we enter the first mission:

The Metro.

It’s a fairly simple mission, slaughter the Russian mobsters, get the briefcase, kill the men from the train, and leave. But when you finally dispose of the briefcase, a homeless man approaches, seemingly panicked and angered at jacket, or more accurately, someone intruding on his camp spot, jacket proceeds to knock the man onto the ground, steal the man’s baseball bat, and mercilessly, brutally, and painfully beats the man’s skull inward, once the job is done, jacket tries to leave the corpse, only to puke onto the pavement, it’s possible that the adrenaline, or realization, or simply the clusterfuck of emotions all climax, after leaving, jacket is worn down seemingly, he stops by a convenience store, to which a humble, gentle and happy bearded man greets jacket, seemingly knowing him, implying something with “losing your girlfriend”, the man lets jacket get the six pack for free.

NO TALK.

April 8th, 1989 Miami Florida. Upon

Leaving the room in the intro, you can read a message from 50 blessings that’s mostly just them thanking jacket for subscribing to the newsletter. The phone is picked up to receive the following message:

“Hello, it’s ’Linda’ . . . I need a babysitter right away. Got a few kids that need to be disciplined here. I’m at east 7th street. Make sure you have a long talk with them, I really need someone to get through to these rascals. And like last time . . . Please be discrete!”

It begins, the level is two floors with the first being a simple entryway and stairs, after killing the mobsters you are once more told to

GO TO CAR!

It’s not important to my understanding, however the stark contrast between the pumped hyper and violent music in the level to the haunting silence of your sins quickly followed by a relaxed lo fi esque song.. feels wrong, like as if you simply realized what you just did and yet, never understood at the same time—is the best way I can describe the vibe from that. Anyways moving on

Jacket pulls into a pizza shop, inside there’s a man in glasses eating his own cheesy Italian disc, as jacket walks to the cashier it’s revealed—hey, it’s the guy from last time! The following (one-sided) conversation ensues:

“Hi there, welcome! Oh, you don’t need to order, your pizza’s already done. Had a feelin you were on your way here, heh . . . Well, let’s just leave it at that for now, shall we? Don’t worrying about paying,

It’s on the house!”

Trust me, that last part is gonna be really important, really, REALLY fucking important later. Jacket takes the pizza and promptly leaves.

OVERDOSE.

Once more leaving the room, jacket acquires the phone.

“ This is ‘Thomas’ from the methadone clinic. We’ve scheduled a short meeting for you tonight. We’re at NW 184th street, apt 105. And don’t worry . . . We know discretion is of importance to our clients.”

The level is a two floor and fairly easy, there isn’t much to comment on at this point.

Eventually we reach the

VHS PALACE

To purchase a film, well would you look at that, it’s the bearded man again! The following conversation ensues:

“Hey dude! Good to see you again! Did you hear about the ‘massacre’ the other night? A bunch of Ruskies I heard, no loss, if you ask me! They say some maniac wearing a rubber mask did it! Sounds like a scene straight from a slasher flick, heh! Oh yeah, k have the perfect film for you! The one on the desk. . . Take it!

It’s on the house.”

Ok so important thing (major spoilers ahead) jackets brain seems much more obviously fragmented, in this scene especially, it feels painfully obvious and almost uncanny that every single night, jacket is the only one to arrive in the store, and always gets free things, not to mention the same exactly guy always at the same exact job? It doesn’t make much sense. I interpret this as jacket trying to find comfort in the last happy thing he had, HAD is the key word, but I’ll get to that later.

Im not gonna finish this so im just posting it now

[johnny-but-emo]

I was asked to talk about fugo for this ask game!

How I feel about this character

wouldn’t it be funny if I said I didn’t like her. Fugo is one of my all time favorites in the series. I find her very relatable, and she’s a good pick for anyone who likes headcanoning characters a ton because of how little info we’re actually given in canon.

All the people I ship romantically with this character

Fugio is my go-to ship with fugo. I’m mainly drawn to it because their dynamic kind of lends itself to the toxic yaoi feel and that’s my favorite type of yaoi. I’m also a fan of how they fit the opposites attract trope. I would elaborate more but whenever I think about them for too long my thoughts turn into tv static. If you want a better idea of what they’re like to me listen to Icicles by The Scary Jokes. Anyways, I’ve never mentioned it ever, but I also like futrish. I think they’d’ve gotten along if they had the chance to get to know eachother better. Also because yuri is epic. Fugonara is another good one, and I don’t personally ship it, but I can see why someone else would.

My non-romantic OTP for this character

For this one, it’s a really hard choice since there’s a lot of fascinating relationships, but I think I’d have to go with Fugo and Bucciarati. Their relationship is interesting to me in ways that I don’t think I’m smart enough to elaborate on, but yeah. There’s a fic that I read somewhere that portrays it perfectly, so if I remember what it is, I’ll make sure to add it later.

My unpopular opinion about this character

Unfortunately, I’m still completely oblivious to the popularity of things, so I’m just gonna yap about my regular opinion. I think that hcing Fugo as trans fits with her backstory really well. I’ve talked about it here and here before, but basically I think it works because she was raised to be a prodigy child and didn’t really have the chance to learn about or express who she wanted to be as a person.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon I really really wish we got more info about her in general. She doesnt have a canon birthday. She didn’t even have an actual full backstory until the anime came out. If I’m not mistaken, we have more info about la squadra than we do about Fugo. Please I’d be happy even knowing her favorite color

Anyways, that’s all! I love answering these types of things so always feel free to ask!

[rhonissancee]

ZUZUZU HELLOOOO !!!!!! SINCE YOU’VE BEEN SENDING ME SUCH SCRUMPTIOUS ASKS ( and i’m so sorry i’m taking so much time in answering them 😿 my exams have been killing me and i really wanna sit down and reply properly :> but anyways ) now its my time hehe !! I LOVE YOUR STARWEB AU im so insane about them so i carry some questions with me ( ๑‾̀◡‾́)🧳

i would like to know soooooo much more about them ( sincere req for you to loredrop to your hearts content 🫶 ) soo since they are roomies 1. what late night meals do they cook together? 2. do they have any intersections in their morning / night routines? 3. how do they share the chore list :> 4. do they have any activities in particular that help them unwind — separately or together !! 5. what are some trinkets you’ve given danheng :3

ALSOO the upside spiderman kiss >:3 im so insane about it HAJAHSJAJD !! was it the first kiss or no¿ considering how flustered danheng was DID HE FALL DOWN OR SWAY TOO MUCH? assuming he needs to have a proper posture for that angle and stuff (*ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)

if we are talking about AUs I WANNA KNOW ABOUT DANCEE PJO AU !!!!!!! i think i can already guess dan heng’s cabin ^A^ BUT WHAT ABOUT YOUUU hehe :3c what activities do you both enjoy together? ( like strawberry picking at the patch, lake diving, archery/sword practice, sketching and talking with the nymphs in the woods, campfire cooking, etc. )

also wait pause… athena’s son dan heng and how you guys used to catch SPIDERS in starweb au PAUSE. FATED ENCOUNTERS !?! ARE YOU CEEING THIS OH MYYYYY

and oh i just knowww during campfires he’s always glancing at you as you laugh and talk with your cabinmates — he looks at you with his small ₍ ˶ . . ˶ ₎ expression and blushes without realising ( i bet he gets teased for his expression HAJSJK probably by iris’ daughter!march )

all the very best for your academics kazuzuu 🥹🩵 hope you have a great month ahead~ sending you so much love and energy to make it through as well as shooing all the negative 💭 awayy >:3c may dan heng manifest in front of you and help you in locking in 🕯️ <- starting a prayer circle ⭕️ also feel free to reply at your own pace !! no hurry or pressure whatsoever 💌

HANNIE ! I finally got time to sit down and lock in on this ask (you're such a sweetheart for sending this. I LOVE YAPPING ABOUT STARNOTES/STARWEBS SO YIPEEEEE + also take all the time you need! I sent that ask for you to enjoy and giggle over so pls don't stress out about it! Wishing you all the best for your exams)

Onto the Q's (this is like post awkwardness already and they're pretty close ! Making up for the lost times etc.)

Do they cook late night snacks? What do they cook?

They definitely do TT I imagine they both have terrible sleep schedules so there are many times where Dan Heng would leave the room only to find cee lounging around the kitchen table studying. Sometimes there's no talking just the silent agreement that the other would make extra incase they want some. Since it's college and this is practically a staple, NOODLES! INSTANT NOODLES! Canonically my and my own roommates can live on these things for day TT. Dan Heng enjoys it occasionally but usually doesn't indulge in it unless Cee is with him (health conscious ahh) + they cook together aka. Dan Heng does while Cee sits on the counter and yaps about anything. Spicy noodles > Cee loves them so much and would add all the spice packets possible + in my opinion I think Dan Heng can tolerate spice TO A POINT, which is not a far point hehehe, in summary: bro can't handle it. They'd eat the noodles usually outside in the small balcony they have (and star gaze + talk about life + talk about Cee's theories about who spiderman is etc.)

Intersections in their routines ! (I assume- this is like things they do together 😭?)

Okay remember how I said they both have super terrible sleep schedules? By default that means when one is sleeping the other one is also sleeping so there'd be times when Cee would pass out on the couch and Dan Heng would take the other end of the couch as well (assume they were studying for some major exams) + but they handle sleep deprivation so differently TT, I assume that Dan Heng can handle 2-3 hours of sleep and can still function well but Cee would absolutely crash the fork out. So Dan Heng has the astounding combination of 'fudged up sleep schedule' + 'occasional early riser', while Cee has the 'fudged up sleep schedule pt. 2' + 'would sleep the entire day if Dan Heng doesn't drag them out'. Their routine is similar, Dan Heng eats breakfast and Cee skips out usually but would snag a toast or smth, Cee leaves first for classes and usually makes it a habit to inform DH (even if he's not at the apartment.) and he'd always respond with an 'ingat' (aka. take care /affectionate) Their class schedules are also pretty different + their majors are in different buildings so seeing each other by chance on campus is so rare TT. BUT SINCE DH (I'm sorry I'm shortening it) IS PART OF JOURNALISM AND STUFF, he'd photograph some events the school hosts! And Cee often loves being the MC or a facilitator, so you can imagine that they'd meet up a lot during events. ("Dan Heng we said to picture the crowd and participants, why are there a lot of pictures of Cee?" "....")

How do they share a chore list?

Cee would do literally anything to not do the chores (feign sickness? Place bets? Pretend that they have other things to do? They've done it all) + DH cannot and will not put up with their BS and does call them out on it + "I'm sick" *DH puts hand on forehead* "you're not, take out the trash." + Okay not to make DH mean but he does find it amusing when Cee begrudgingly does the chores //and finds their complaints funny//. + "You're a dictator" "you're a slob." + I think the chores cee would do include: sweeping, hanging the laundry, taking out the trash ("DAN HENG WHY." "I don't like touching dirty things"), washing the plates. Dan Heng on the other hand: cooking, mopping, basically all the cleaning is for him. They both equally hate taking out the trash so there would be bets, "if I get higher in this exam you take out the trash for a week" (they share the same gen ed courses /not classes tho but the quizzes stay the same/ if you get what I mean TT)

UNWINDING ACTIVITIES!

Together? They read books in silence. Watch crappy movies (cee forces him too). Star gaze. I think at one point Cee does try to get him to come with them to catch spiders (like the old times) but in the city there's rarely any space for two adults to reminisce on their childhood TT. However during their spider search they did find this small anik anik store (trinkets basically) that they both equally love, so sometimes they'd spend their time there + the owner knows them both and welcomes them with open arms :> if it's separate, Cee draws, sleeps, crochets, origami, literally anything to do with creating they'd do it. Dan Heng probably does nerd things, researches his latest obsession, collects rocks (he does. He would), take care of his plants, photography, jog/work out.

TRINKETS FOR DH!

THIS IS SUCH A CUTE QUESTION WAIT TTT cee would give him doodles of himself and drawings etc. + anyways as for trinkets, they'd make handmade crochet things TT, like stars, mushrooms, flowers, coasters, cat beanies, everytime they want to try a new crochet pattern they'd make something for Dan Heng so he just had a collection of crochet things in his room. As for jewelry, cee is a hugee ukay ukay person (basically uh. Thrifting?) so if you see any jewelry on DHS person it's probably from them lolol. The first thing they gave him was a ring (Dan Heng stared long and hard at them.) it's a simple silver band with a small spider design on it + very demure very cutesy, Spidey! Dan Heng puts that ring on the chain of his dogtag necklace and tucks it under his suit whenever he goes out to fight the evil-doers! Think of it as a goodluck charm ! (Oh which finger does he put it on? Ohhhh idk man......maybe....eheheh...anyways.) + Oh and Cee would buy these cute matching keychains to match with him + they both place it in their ID's (which I will draw soon) + THEY ONCE GAVE HIM A SPIDERMAN KEYCHAIN BWHABWHABWHW and he sat there like: ah...thank you....ig.

Finally the ICONIC UPSIDEDOWN KISS.

I haven't thought much on it actually TT IM SO SOREY IF U WERE EXPECTING IT TO BE FULLY FLESHED OUT AHAHWHEHAH. but yes first kiss definitely + I imagine it's raining + and it's cee who initiates it BECAUSE HELL YEAH WHY NOT + DH did not expect it I think, he didn't fall or sway because he must keep up his cool persona, but his ears did turn red and his hands SHOOKK AHAHSKSJ. Oh he might be cool during that kiss but in the aftermath of it he was a nervous, loser wreck (reminder that cee does know he's spiderman so they're able to at least act normal around DH BUT DH. OH DUDE HE'D TRY TO ACT COOL /AND HE STILL IS/ BUT THERE WOULD BE SIGNS THAT HE'S STILL FLUSTERED OVER THE ENTIRE THING)

ANYWAYS. THIS WAS WAY TOO LONG. help me. I'll rb for a part two which is the PJO one (hannie you genius)

[ray935sworld]

https://www.tumblr.com/ray935sworld/770464509519413248/i-just-re-read-ami-amiche-amore-and-then-i-saw?source=share

I just read this and IMAGINE vale in an interview being like I would never hurt a child, they are free of their parents sins or whatever, him just yapping wild shit, fork found in kitchen, (maybe even about pedro who is jlo and dani's child, if you decide to include that) and then marc hearing this and getting so angry because he DID hurt david, a child who has done nothing wrong except for being marc's child

And then david hearing it as well and overthinking, and wondering what he did wrong if vale goes against his own moral code with him (and let's not talk about the can of worms it would open in his mind and thoughts like "maybe i am the reason papa (marc) gets so much hate and vale being so cruel to him and then Marc finds out about his thoughts (or worst, someone like dani or jlo) and them having to talk him out of it, having to convince a toddler about the fact that vale is just insane and that this has nothing to do with him)

Or even worse, if vale ever gets a question like "if the child didn't exist, would you and marc still be together" and vale the asshole being like "yeah, probably" basically confirming his biggest fear and marc's worst nightmare (his child hating himself because of vale)

Anyway, just a random thought

With love,

Mango anon 🥭

Hiiiii, okay how the hell did you hack my phone to read my drafts?

Because tell me HOW this is so similar to something that definitly will be picked up soon. I'm not going into detail to not spoiler you but I can confirm that David is going to have a very cruel moment of "what if I'm the problem?" Oh I am so close to spill the beans on that but I think it'd be more existing as a surprise so I'm biting my tongue...

Now don't get me wrong, I am in love with that first bit. Oh it is so sick and twisted, just perfect! But for me to really make it fit, I feel like I need to change it a little bit, if you don't mind? Vale is very careful and manipulative on what he says in public so I am not sure if such a blant statement of "A child is not responsible for their parents faults" would cause lots of blacklash. So how about letting the public statement be more like "Pedro was born as the product of deep love. And even if his dad (Jorge) is an asshole, you can't really blame that on that little angle" (cut to little chaos pedro - like that *evil laughter* meme from Lilo and Stitch) I feel like it still says the same thing but not as direct if you know what I mean? Plus it had the same/ similar reaction for Marc because David too is a product of their deep love which Vale actively denies with that statemant. So basically he isnt just denying being Davids father but also everything that had been between them, tehir relation, their love and everything else. And of course Vale is blaming David for Marcs allegidatly fault (cheating which he didnt but yk what I mean) so that aspect would be there too. I hope you dont mind and still like this

BUT OOOOH!OOOOH YOU GAVE ME A REAL TOY WITH THAT LAST THOUGHT!!!! Are you kidding me?! Vale confirming they'd still be together. I LOVE THAT! Now imagine Marc being asked about that in an interview. Like "Rossi said if it hadnt been for David, you'd still be together. Can you confirm that or give us your opinion on that?" And MArc just coldly stares in the camera and is like "No. If he even managed to use his biological son against our relationship, I'm sure he would easily find something else. And despite that I refuse to imagine a world where my son isn't with me. He is the most important person in my life and I will not budge on that for anyone. He will never be 2nd to anyone." Mind you, I used biological father for a reason. Rn Vale is just that. Not his father or papa, because there is no emotional connection. So he is just the biological father.

Anyway, thank you so much for you thoughts, really enjoyed them!!! I hope you dont mind the slight changes. Feel free to let me know what you think about them!!! (actually pls pls pls pls pls pls pls tell me what you think)

[starcollectorsilas]

this is just a little yap because I don't know really who to talk to about something like this so I'm screaming into the void instead, feel free to ignore <3

today i finally got pain medication that should help with the chronic pain I've been dealing with for roughly three years. I'm very obviously not upset about that fact, I am incredibly relieved actually and I'm really excited to see how I feel tomorrow after it hopefully begins to take affect.

However, this just feels very anti-climactic. I'm unsure how to word it (hence my unusually pretentious way of wording my sentences, I think it's a defence mechanism in response to the vulnerability-- detaching myself through the use of formal language), but it feels as though there should be... more?

I think this is rooted in a few different places, somewhere between the sense of loneliness I have yet to address since my mum moved out, and my need to prove that I am actually sick. Usually through every step of this my mother has been there, not neccassarily to 'hold my hand', as I first thought to put it, but as an observer. She was at least there for it. Through all the things I have tried.

Now, it's just like it's a normal night. I've talked about it a lot, persistent in my attempts to share how excited/nervous I am out the possibility of what a new medication may cause-- both in terms of pain relief and in terms of side affects and how my mental health may improve/worsen (at least if it worsens y'all can get some of the GOOD Dazai angst lmao) as a result.

But everyone else has something more important to do. It feels childish to ask my dad to just sit with me while I take it, I'm 15 so I should be able to do this by myself but there's just nobody there. Nobody's here while I try it, nobody will be there if it makes me feel sick or tired and I doubt I'll be asked how I feel in the morning. It goes past the medication, deeper than I could ever hope to pick apart in a tumblr vent post but this just to happens to be the catalyst for all the Feelings to start building up. I don't want to call my mother so she can sit on the other end of a phone line not paying attention for three minutes while I take medication that really isn't a big deal to anyone but me.

There's just normally somebody there and there isn't this time. There hasn't been for more than a year now but it's just different this time. Uhmmm anyway vent over I am now going to stop being a baby and take my meds 👍 I'm going to have some apple juice with them :3

[heliads]

hallo! id like to request 💌 with newt from tmr or ron weasly from harry potter!

im a pretty nerdy persn i like to collect glass shards and i like to draw as well ! :D

people say im either cold or shy at first before i open up and start yapping about all my favorite interests like saw and other spooky things !

appearance idk if you need that but i have blue eyes, snake bite piercings and short brown hair with blonde highlights

anyways feel free to skip me if thsi is not for you !

I LOVE YOUR WRITING HAVE A GOOD DAYYYYYYYYY<33333

thank u!!

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Y/N is by the water again.

Ron Weasley should not be noticing this. He shouldn’t be noticing anything, actually. He is supposed to be completing a Transfiguration essay due the next morning; even Hermione has sworn not to help him if he doesn’t get half of it finished by sundown at least, and Ron knows that he really does need to try this time, but he can’t. He can’t focus on the writing haphazardly scrawled across his parchment, because instead of thinking about the best way to turn a rock into a rabbit, he’s thinking about the student walking out by the lake, wind whipping at their robes as they slowly stroll down the shore.

Y/N L/N.

It makes perfect sense, then, that he couldn’t focus. He never can, really, not when they’re around. Ron can’t explain it. It’s just that every time he’s around Y/N, his brain starts short-circuiting. He loses his train of thought, he misplaces his bookbag, he drops things. Harry has started teasing him mercilessly about it, but Ron couldn’t do a thing about it if he tried.

So, he won’t try. Not at all. Ron abandons the essay without a backwards glance, pulling his robes tighter about him to ward off the chill as he heads out to the lake. Y/N glances up when he draws near, smiling slightly.

“Hey, Ron,” they say.

Ron ducks his head in greeting. “What’re you doing?” He asks.

He comes off a bit too brash, but Y/N has never seemed to have a problem with that. At first, Ron thought they were cold, never wanting to talk to anyone in the Great Hall, but as it turned out, that couldn’t be farther from the truth. Y/N is careful in who they trust, but once Ron managed to get them to open up, they’ve been close friends. He can’t help but wish, however, that they could be closer still.

“I’m looking for glass,” Y/N tells him. “Look, the water smoothes the edges.”

They stoop and pick up a piece, then show it to him, holding it up so the faint sunlight ripples through the whorls in the glass. This shard is the precise blue of their eyes, and when Y/N passes it to him, Ron can’t help the feeling that he’s cradling a piece of them in his hand. As long as he keeps the glass close, he has them all to himself. Maybe for forever.

“Show me more,” he says hurriedly, matching their pace when they start walking again. 

Y/N smiles and starts talking about what they’ve found so far. Ron’s hand drifts to his pocket, where he carefully holds the smooth glass tight. This, at last, is something he will never let go.

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[lovezbrownies]

Also something I want to contribute for BOTH jester readers if they were to ever somehow magically cross the universe and meet each other. I can just imagine both of them being so different yet being the same person yk. Like one from their past kingdom (Virelle) obviously gets anxious and scared of going back. While the one from Luminia wants to go back and practically yearns for their old life. So knowing this if they ever talk about their current employer (Nia) they will have widely different opinions. Ex:

LR: ..So I’m assuming you also must work as a jester for Nia huh? Considering how you are me…

VR: Yes. I am. Isn’t it so much better here compared to back home?

LR with their jaw dropped: ..What? Excuse me? How can you say that? We have friends and an amazing king how can you prefer..that Queen to our King?

VR puzzled: Excuse me what? What are you talking about?? The Prince and those nobles made us hurt ourselves for entertainment! Are you delusional? Queen Nia is better compared to where we were before!

LR offended: Are you delusional? Are we not the same person? We should both feel the same yet you somehow say these things?

—Cue both versions of us puzzled and offended with what the other says— PS: VR= Virelle Jester Reader & LR= Luminia Jester Reader

YESSSS OMG THIS IS SO INTERESTING I NEVER THOUGHT OF THEM MEETING BEFORE OMG

That is really interesting, this is why every situation can be different depending on the people handling it! I feel like VR represents a lot of people who consume a lot of yandere content, for me I had a horrible childhood where it was either abuse or neglect, so a craving for someone to love me obsessively without ever being asked to? God does it fulfill the need for love. Im not saying everyone’s experiences and reasons are the same, but it truly shows how your childhood is what shapes you as a person as you grow, a lot of likes and dislikes depend on how you grew and were nurtured. Life is hard, it’s why I try my hardest to be compassionate, even when i genuinely do NAWT fw a person, there’s a lot of reasons behind a person’s actions, and a lot are surprisingly due to them trying to cope!

SORRY. Yap major over here! Anyways!

I see your take, and I shall give you mine; imagine the darling’s swap Nia’s? Like VR with LN (Luminia Nia) and LR woth VN (Virelle Nia)?

VN being used to the reciprocal love between her and VR, gets stuck with LR who just wants to punch her in the face from how touchy and lovey dovey she is with them, meanwhile LN is having the absolute time of her life as she sits back and you WILLINGLY are cuddling her!

VN: Give my darling back to me, demon! And take your demonic version of my angelic darling with you!

LN: You don’t want me darling? That’s okay, I’ll take them, but I’m keeping this one! More for me, wink wink!

Lotsa arguing later both of them turn to VR.

VN, LN: Pick!

VR and LR just stand there, VR visibly panicking because its best of both worlds either way while LR hopes to god you pick her Nia so she’s free to leave.

[handsinterlaced]

hi this is gonna be my niall experience as I just need to get it out and I’m sure irls are SICK of me talking abt it <3 pls enjoy or ignore up to u

proof being delusional works!

june 27: I fly my ass out to toronto!!! and at this point I’m just giggling w a friend joking around what if I meet Niall

june 28: today is niall’s 1st show in Toronto hehe

I was eating lunch at a random restaurant I stopped by on queen st and I was soooo excited / nervous I couldn’t eat! basically forcing myself to eat so I don’t die at the concert fjdjskks but yeah after like half an hour of picking my food I start to feel unsettled.. and a lil bit uneasy! idk it was suchhhhh a weird feeling but u always gotta listen to ur gut!!

U GOTTA LISTEN TO UR GUT!!

DONT IGNORE IT

it was sooo strange like at that moment I knew I had to leave the restaurant RIGHT NOW and so I did! I was like half an hour walk away from my air bnb so I’m like that’s fine I’ll just walk back & still have plenty of time before the show to get ready and stuff! there were so many different ways to walk back. I could’ve crossed the street earlier or turned the corner sooner but the path I chose led me right to Niall 😭😭 I wasn’t even looking for him!!! but I was waiting for the crosswalk… look up and who do I see? NIALL FUCKING HORAN RIGHT THERE

- ngl tho niall in a cap and sunglasses is such a great disguise FJKSKAKA I would not have recognized him if tour manager wasn’t with him! shoutout to jstir (I met him when I was like 13 when he was working for Cody simpson and taking everyone’s m&g photos fjdjskks that man’s face is engraved in my mind so I was able to recognize him pretty quick!) like who knew my 13 year old phase would come back 10 years later and help me out !!!

anyways so Niall is across the street and I’m just fighting w myself debating if I should go up to him or not 😭😭 the saying never meet ur heroes is kinda true JDKDKAKA it changes u & all the expectations u have! Ultimately I figured that this was my 1 chance to say something so I just went for it. If I didn’t I’d probably regret it for the rest of my life!

I just know my voice was shaky and I was super nervous but niall was so sweet and patient <3 like I felt so bad just going up to him 😭😭 hes just out and about… trying to be incognito & enjoy some free time FJSKKA like I am quite aware but when else could this happen u feel 🥲 anyways here is the convo from what I remember bc I blacked out (as u do when u meet ur fave)

me: hi Niall!! just wanted to say hi and let you know how excited I am to see you perform tonight and tomorrow <3

niall: hi how are you! oh you’re going to both shows? is that right? we’re actually headed to the venue now

me: oh! If that’s the case I don’t wanna keep you guys. Would it be alright if we took a photo?

niall: yes of course!

the photos (cropped myself out bc Toronto humidity is my enemy & I was a sweaty mess from walking back to the air bnb)

and then I just say thank u so much! see u at the show hahaha and SPRINT OFFFFJFKSKAK like I ran so fast bc I needed to get away and scream 😭😭

mind u I be carrying my leftovers the entire time JFKSKAK SO FUNNY

I DIDNT EVEN INTRODUCE MYSELF! WISH I TOLD HIM I FLEW MY ASS OUT! THAT HE NEEDS TO TOUR MORE CITIES IN CANADA! TO PUT NEW ANGEL ON THE SETLIST!! so much I wish I said but again thankful they were on the way to the venue so I was forced to keep it short so I didn’t continue to yap and embarrass myself further. it could’ve been so much worse! just gotta remind myself that.

sat in the air bnb for like 2 hours in silence trying to process what happened fjdjskks would’ve been longer but I had to get to the show! anyways I was like 15 rows back on the floor and had the best time <3

june 29: Toronto night 2!!!

I’m sat 2nd row floor… right next to the barricade and I’m so close I know that niall can see me 😭😭😭 idk if it’s the delusion but I keep making eye contact with niall and he keeps looking at me! probs thinking oh is it that weirdo from the street yesterday 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 LMFAO but U TELL ME!! IS IT DELUSION BC I THINK I GOT PROOF RIGHT HERE

felt too perceived by him tbh JDKKA needed to run and hide! like eye contact was crazy djdjjsjs

OKAY THAT IS ALL FOR NOW I THINK! if u made it this far I am so amazed ty for reading the rambles <3

[imaginespazzi]

Bestie, I have returned to the "yap zone"🗣️

Hope youre feeling all the way better by now! And credit to you for still gifting us with a great GH chapter amidst illness. Hooray for the heartwarming resolution portion :). Though other readers & I are already dreading it being completed.

Been a hot minute, so prepare for a passel of my random thoughts in terms of a hoops recap: CWBB - Man did I enjoy watching S. Car/LSU. Was sad that UMD wasnt healthy for their matchup with UCLA. But was an entertaining weekend + Monday with a number of upsets (plus some near ones)! Vandy finally got theirs and the Vols lose yet another toughie. Unrivaled - Sigh, Mist remain the lovable losers. Plenty of factors at play impacting things, but it still blows my mind they havent stolen one win by now. Though fair to say this particular 3x3 is just an unforgiving format. Personal fav game of the last week was probably Owls taking down Vinyl (yay)! Battle of undefeateds on Fri should be good 👏.

Ok and this sudden, significant player movement in the W has been wild - Im def still processing a little. 😵‍💫 Thoughts? feelings? Future predictions? Cant decide whether Im more surprised w Plum or Griner deal. Failing figure out why Kelsey would pick the Sparks (they just have org/front office stuff to improve, lets be real). Maybe a style of play match short term? Nor do I see exactly how she helps them massively either, especially given the high draft pick now gone. Curious to see what Storm will do with #2 now! And Brittney just took me off guard w ATL given the lack of connection to the place, and the fact that its seemingly a step down from Phx's org. Feeling a bit bad for Tash being collateral after she jumped there.. (she'll always be a Mystic to me anyway)

Now you know my feeling is Loutea > Louzzi, but I just appreciate getting the cute content w her, so thank you Azzi. (And hey really what am I supposed to do about the fact that nice brown eyes are my #1 weakness 💁‍♀️..)

Now some miscellaneous pazzi centric content for your & everyones entertainment:

https://www.tumblr.com/bballlvr8/773867970010185728/aww-thanks-anon?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/mygaynesshasnolimits/773693036846776320/quarterback-paige-bueckers-if-only-this-went-in?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/iloveuconnwbb35/773601816895176704/jesslovesswbb-on-tiktok?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/pazzi4lifee/773513652105084928/cuties?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/azzibuckets/773587603015467008/if-yall-dont-just-sit-your-asses-next-to-each?source=share

Happy 🐪 day!

-☕️

Bestie welcomeeeee back

Awww you're too kind my love <3

Okay great day to yap about SEC hoops actually because yes LSU/SCAR was great but can we talk about Vanderbilt, but especially Mikaylah Blakes??? 53 POINTS??? She's insane your honor and that's my SEC FOY AND POY.

It's insane what's happening with the Mist. Like so much talent but NOTHING? ZERO? Seriously?? Definitely a coaching issue and some injury shit there but it's still so damn questionable like what is going on.

WNBA free agency is free angecy-ing. Pure chaos and pure cinema and it feels like there's something new everyday and honestly barely anything is making sense to me. Speaking of Griner and ATL, I'm so confused what that frontcourt is gonna look like with Brionna Jones there too now? It just feels so crowded and ion get why?

Ugh thank you for the crumbs as per always. They just make me wanna giggle and cry and scream I adore them your honor.