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[venuscnjunctpluto]

📸28 Degrees 📸

Credit: @venuscnjunctpluto

1000% sure this contributes to someones legacy and it is a cancer degree so this could imply the persons family played a huge role in their success.

ASC🦋Audrey Hepburn has this degree and she is known for her look and her name is referenced a lot. Along with Lindsay Lohan and Miley Cyrus. Actor Warren Beatty has this and his mom/sisters inspired him to become an actor which led to his acclaim. I think it could point to childhood notoriety or coming into the world with a purpose of achieving a household name. The family could have an impact on this persons entire persona and tied to his persons name in a way.

SUN🌞 Michael Jordan is extremely famous but also carries a cheerful image. He is listed as one of the greatest in his career field and has received a lot of accolades. In Aquarius, he was in the classic film Space Jam which blended animation and live action.

MOON🌜Kim Kardashian has this and her family are extremely famous. Their Show keeping up with the kardashians has allowed the family to hold onto the fame they might not have had before. She has numerous memes of her crying and also her mother Kris Jenner is well incorporated into Kim’s image.

MECURY🧠 Vince Staples known for being funny and extremely witty. He is heavily associated with his neighborhood and literally has an album called “Ramona Park Broke My Heart”. Solange has this as well and she is known as Beyoncé’s sister (which I do not condone or support but let’s be real) and mercury rules siblings. PartyNextDoor’s references a neighborhood hood and he is well known where he’s from. This might suggest being mostly known within your town/city. Will Smith is known for his role as the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (neighborhood)

JUPITER 🏹- Reaching an Intense level of fame Michael Jackson.

VENUS💄Marilyn Monroe is known for her beauty and alleged relationships. Asap Rocky is known for his attractiveness, his fashion endeavors, and now his relationship with Rihanna. Angelina Jolie is known for her beauty as well as her relationships.

URANUS🛸 Megan thee Stallion became well known very quickly (collab w beyonce, song w Nicki, and a song w bts not too long into her career) and incorporated being tall in her name. I remember before she got super duper famous there was an article and her interest in anime was highlighted.

MARS🔥Rihanna known for being a go-getter and having a masculine edge. Nicki is known also for being able to occupy a genre that was male dominated. “Sexy B*tch but my money real manly”.

NEPTUNE 🪞Steve Jobs has an image curated in illusion. I read his bio and was shocked at how neurotic and insensitive he seemed to be. People dream to be like him and he serves as motivation for a lot of people. Jay a has this as well and I immediately think of the “would you rather have money or a sit down with Jay Z” conversation.

LILITH 🌶️ Ariana Grande has this and her scandals become extremely known for example the donut incident and her pattern of dating men w partners. People make comments about her getting away w a lot which could be due to her Lilith being in pisces. But no one can deny everything she’s been accused of/has done becomes known to EVERYONE. There was an athlete who got outed for sleeping an OF model (who also exposed his k*nks) and I check his chart to find 28 degree Lilith.

PLUTO 🦇 Nicki Minaj has had many eras and is known for changing the way female rappers are seen. (She also has pluto in 10th). Justin Bieber has this degree as well and he’s also has gone through many eras. He went from having the teen idol image…bad boy image…more spiritual image …

[hearts4chriss]

Hearts4chriss Homepage ↴

all borders from @fairytopea

What I will write

Chris sturniolo ( mostly )

Matt sturniolo

Nick sturniolo

smut ( Matt and Chris )

fluff

angst ( with happy ending bc I can’t do sad ones💔 )

kinks ( literally any and all except a few in the next part I will absolutely NOT do )

snaps & texts ( all 3 )

what I won’t write

nick x fem reader smut

abuse, sexual abuse etc

Matt and Chris threesome ( not against it I just dk how )

r*pe, incest, non consensual

period sex ( .. )

weird kinks, spit, piss, shit ( ew )

illegal age gap. Ex: 17-20

Request rules ↴

Requests are: open/closed

pls don’t rush !! I have many requests

I do black girls because that’s what I am :) ( if u do request otherwise I will write that but majority I do black girls bc that’s me )

snaps texts and fics and series’s ONLY for now !!

Pls give me a prompt it helps !!

Get to know the writer ↴

my name is Nevaeh

I’m 18

bday on feb 14

I’m African American

I do have terrible anxiety and adhd

I love elephants 🥹 ( fave animal )

fave shows are, The vampire diaries & The originals ON TOPPP ( always rewatching it ) baddies east/west, dance moms, bridgerton, Gilmore girls, scream queens

im an athlete I run track

Im a DIE HARD Chris girl ( like I will get on my knees for this man any day )

I live in Philly ( cold ashit )

I’m from Texas ( I promise in some places it is as bad as it sounds)

AP student, bio, chem, calculus, history, Spanish ( I’m smart don’t playyy )💋

im in college now @ THE Harvard University so I will be busy !!

I will block if u start some bs !!

I’m kinda funny

extroverted but introverted at the start

I mainly listen too, nicki, cardi, ice spice, travis scott, beyoncé, lil bit a t-swift, Ariana grande the weeknd, sza, kehlani, lil skies, bryson tiller, stunna girl, latto, brent faiyaz, & city girls, summer walker, jhené aiko, Rihanna, drake ( rap and r&b mostly )

[naibfr]

－𝒜𝒷ℴ𝓊𝓉 𝓂ℯ

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Hii! My name is nailea pronounced (nai-lay-uh) I’m a girl and and on this account I mostly just want to post relatable thing and just in general funny post! Most of the photos I get are from Pinterest so there’s creds. Some things I like to do are listen to music. My favorite artist are people like Kendrick Lamar, Kanye west, Travis Scott,xxxtentacion,Tyler the creator, the weekend, and Ariana grande! Some of my favorite song are “ hold on we’re going home” -Drake “pride”-Kendrick Lamar “I THINK” -Tyler the creator. My friends don’t have tumblr but their names are yegor,kendra,mathew,Carter,Ezra,Mikah,Kimberly,fatima,Reagan, and James! You might see me post things about them and I’ll probably just put their names in my bio. If I’m being honest I only really created this account because TIKTOK KEPT ON BANNING ME UGHH. Anyways I just needed another app to be on 24/7 other than TikTok and Pinterest. I just realized I forgot some pretty basic info about me 😭 I’m Mexican and I’m 4’11 (yes I know I’m pretty short🤦‍♀️) and my favorite game is call of duty my favorite color is pink and I LOVE hello kitty (just in case you can’t tell from my post) I play three sports volleyball,soccer, and fast pitch ( it’s like girls bace ball) you can’t probably expect me to post pretty often when I’m bored due to me always be bored. So yeaaa if you have some questions for me make sure to put them in my question box and I’ll try my best to respond to them as quick as I can! And one last thing I’m looking for friends (because I just joined DUH?!) so if anyone’s wanting to be friends with me just lmk so that’s really all I have to say so byeee!

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-𝓃𝒶𝒾𝓁ℯ𝒶 𝓍ℴ𝓍ℴ❤︎︎

[itsmannymichael]

Hairlines....thank u, next. (HOW I REGREW MY HAIR IN 3 MONTHS)

[yesitsmewhataboutit]

Hey Everyone!! I’m so excited I hit 500 milestone and now I’m doing my own Collab!!!

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This will be my Spin The Wheel Collab!! You can chose a character and a theme (SFW, NSFW, or Angst). After that I’ll spin 2 wheels and assign you AU theme and a song. Your fic will have to be based off the AU and song (or mention the song) I’ll already have a list of SFW, NSFW, and Angst songs for the wheel, plus lists of AUs.

Joining example: “Hi! For your Collab could I join with Mikey and NSFW.”

My response (after I’ve spun the wheel): “Yup. Your spin landed on….. your AU is hybrid and song is Often by The Weekend”

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Rules-

You have to have an age in your bio and be 18+

Dark Content is allowed

You can join with fluff, angst, smut, anything. But like I’d rather not have to read bad ending angst so have mercy on my heart and consider a happy ending 🥲

I will be reading all fics that are joined and they’ll be set in my queue to reblog at high traffic hours

To join: Send an ask or a dm

If you aren’t comfortable with a certain AU please tell me (in the ask or a dm) and I’ll make sure you don’t get assigned that AU

On the wheel, there will be the option of “freestyle au” meaning you can chose/come up with your own

If you have a question on your AU just send an ask or dm and I’ll explain it or help with ideas

Character repeats are ok!

Some songs might be under both SFW and NSFW

If another writer chooses the same character and theme I won’t let you have the same AU and song. You could have one, but not the other

Word count minimum is 650(no maximum)

Headcanons allowed as long as it fits the word count minimum

Fandoms included: My Hero Academia, Tokyo Revengers, Haikyuu

Due date is January 14th~ I really don’t care just join and I’ll be happy

X female, male, and gender neutral all accepted

Threesomes and poly all accepted

You don’t have to be following me to join

Please tag me in the final work when you post it and put it under the tag #yoko.collab

Please reblog when you’re added :)

Special thanks to @kirishimasensei for being a major help in coming up with my theme and ideas

Some of these song and AU combos are gonna be so funny

⬇️Below is all AUs included and the Masterlist ⬇️

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All AUs- Hybrid, Omegaverse, Vampire, Soulmate, Apocalypse, Werewolf, Omegaverse Werewolf, Supernatural, Athlete, Bodyguard, Blind Date, College, Club, Fake Dating/Engagement/Marriage, Mafia, Mermaid/Merman, Neighbor, Nurse, Podcast, Freestyle, +1 Vampire, +1 Omegaverse, +1 Werewolf

The +1 are for a AU plus another spin and you get both. Just cause I love omegaverse au and vampire au so much teehee

I’m a softy and if you ask nicely I’ll let you do a second fic of a AU of your choosing or if you want to add one of the +1’s😶‍🌫️

MHA-

Sfw: Shinsou Hitoshi / Blind Date + Omegaverse AU, Butterflies by Queen Naija — @lil-pine-mha-drabbles

Sfw: Denki Kaminari / Soulmate AU, All You Need by Victoria Monét — @lil-pine-mha-drabbles — Swimming Through Honey

Sfw: Katsuki Bakugo / College AU, Best Part by Daniel Caesar (Featuring H.E.R) — @sukisluv — Love-Struck

Sfw: Katsuki Bakugo / Mafia AU, Perfect by Ed Sheeran — @lavenders-writing

Sfw: Tomura Shigaraki / Bodyguard AU, Ellie by iAmJakeHill — @astralwaifu — Without You In My Head

Sfw: Izuku Midoriya / Soulmate AU, Shape Of You by Ed Sheeran — @miichii — Sunshine

Tokyo Revengers-

Haikyuu-

Sfw: Issei Matsukawa / Omegaverse AU, Moonlight by Ariana Grande — @dragonslayer-5fanfiction

Nsfw: Kenma Kozume / Nurse AU, P*$$Y Fairy (OTW) by Jhené Aiko — @kuroosimp1000

Nsfw: Tetsurou Kuroo / College AU, Or Nah by Ty Dolla $igh (Featuring The Weekend, Wiz Khalifa) — @tetsusangel

Nsfw: Kiyoomi Sakusa / Vampire AU, Birthday Sex by Jeremih — @kenzumekodma

[icydeku14]

Hey, I really like your blog and I was wondering If I could get a Bayverse 2016 match up, please ? 👉👈

My name is Gabriela, but my friends call me Gigi, Raven or Gabi. I'm 15 years old girl from Slovakia 🇸🇰, Libra ♎, 5'9 ft tall and I am an ONLY child.

I have brown-green eyes, brown hair to my shoulders and slim figure 'cause I work out daily.

I'm sassy, flirty, hothead, sarcastic, stubborn, impulsive, calm, quiet, shy, sweet, kind, nice, smart, funny and loyal and honest person.

I like knitting, work out, music, video and mobile games, pizza, non-alcoholic beer, cappuccino, coffe and tea. I like ice tea too.

I'm nerd. I love technique, my fav is Hi-tech. I like to invent and repair things. I'm hothead and brain of my friends and family. I'm a good listener and I give people a good advice when they need to .

I start a lots of fights and I'm not afraid to stand myself or others. I'm not afraid to slap or beat a 6 ft tall people.

I'm mix of bad girl and good girl.

I play on accordion, piano, tamburine, harmonica, electric and acoustic guitar and I sing. I love to sing in high notes like Ariana Grande and others says that I have really beautiful and powerful voice.

I write songs and poetry. Mostly I write songs. I have always with me notepad or notebook, because when I hear some melody or music, automatically come to my mind lyrics of my song and I must write it down.

I wear always mascara and some eyeshadow. I love to wear pants and T-shirts. I HATE skirts. I always wear red, blue, purple and black clothes (my favorite colors).

My BIGGEST passion is cooking. On September 1 I'm going to High school Hotel Academy. I love to cook for others.

I have lots of break downs like I lean against wall crying, I go down until I touch the ground, sit down and crying because I random remebered my grandfather. He died three years ago and it's so painful for me, because we had a special relationship.

I love to dance. I dance like TBD dance group in movie Work It.

My favorite subjects in school are History, Chemistry, Biology, History, English, Physics Art and Music.

My favorite music genre is pop, rock and rap. I love bands G.O.A.T, Little Mix, AC/DC, Kiss, Depeche Mode, Queen, Pentatonix, Set it off, Halocene and first to Eleven.

I'm like Raph in girl version. My temper is really short and I love quarrels.

I love action, sci-fi and horror movies. I love It, Invisible Man, Star Trek, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Hocus Pocus and Doctor Strange. I like X-men series too.

I'm rebel and I hate when someone tell me what to do.

Ok, that's it. Thanks for your time and I really appreciates that from you 😍😍. See ya

So I will start this off with saying I have never watched the bayverse movies so anything and that I'm going off of the wiki and what my friend who did see the bayverse told me. So I deeply apologize in advance. And I will put that I have yet to see the bayverse in my bio. So now let's get into it

I think you would be paired with I went back and forth with him and Donnie .....

MIKEY!

Now alow me to explain why I didn't chose the others and just some you and Donnie things.

I didn't go with Raph because how frightening the two of your tempers could be faced against eachother. Also two tempers like that could easily get toxic. You will work out together sometimes

I didn't go with Leo for some obvious reasons first being you called yourself a female version of Raph and from what I've gathered, that could easily grow toxic. I feel like there would be arguments and fighting and not alot of support.

I didn't go with Donnie but it was a close call. While reading through his wiki I had this really soft thought where his favorite moments are building with you. I ended up not going with him because I feel like he would get to focused and hyperfixsaded on his projects.

Now for soft things with you and Mikey..

He'll support you and be cheering you on alot

He understands your anger and will show you things he dose to help Raph calm down.

He'll sit and let you talk about your shows and will watch them with you even if he doesn't fully understand.

He'll ask you questions and let you talk and ramble about your favorite shows.

He loves to dance with you.

When you get sad over your grandfather Mikey will hold you close and let you cry. He'll rub your back and put on your favorite show.

He'll sing rap songs with you and will smile and dance. He adores having fun with you.

He adores cooking with you and will try to get you to sing with him as you two cook together.

He adores listeng to the songs that you write and will do any thing to help you out.

He adores you playing an instrument and will purposely leave unfilled note books out so you can use them.

He will do his best to listen to you, and I feel like you'll listen to him muttered and ramble on any topic he find interesting.

Sometimes Mikeys a little confused but his heart is always in the right place.

Sometimes he'll have nightmares form the night where he was being drained and almost died. He'll come you and the two of you will talk through it.

He loves working out and training with you.

I hope you liked again I've never seen bayverse but I think with the research I did this was good. Again I hope you liked this.

[tabloidtoc]

Globe, August 31

Cover: Prince William and Prince Harry seeking the truth about their mother Princess Diana’s death -- Diana exhumed again 

Page 2: Up Front & Personal -- Sylvester Stallone, pregnant Lea Michele, Jason Priestley wears a mask while picking up a package 

Page 3: Alessandra Ambrosio puts on shorts at the beach, Scott Baio riles up the crowd at a political rally in L.A., Sofia Richie strolls along the beach in Malibu with a wineglass in hand 

Page 4: Music diva Mariah Carey is turning her back on her sister Alison who’s caught in a raging battle over revelations charging shocking sex abuse and devil worship -- while Mariah is out promoting her new bio due in stores next month her troubled older sis Alison is suing their mom Patricia for damages claiming she was forced to perform sex acts with strangers when she was as young as 10 during satanic gatherings that included ritual sacrifice 

Page 5: Rachael Ray and her husband John Cusimano and their dog Bella narrowly escaped death when a huge blaze tore through her luxury upstate New York home, Lady Gaga’s sharp dance moves and killer manicure left fellow pop star Ariana Grande with a nasty scratch on her face as the pair rehearsed for a music video 

Page 6: Garth Brooks and wife Trisha Yearwood were terrified when their youngest child Allie was stricken with killer COVID-19 and the girl’s chilling brush with death turned their world upside down -- it hit them hard and reminded them about the importance of health and family and taking precautions plus how precious life is, Antonio Banderas has been laid low by COVID-19 -- he took to Twitter on his 60th birthday to reveal he tested positive for the deadly disease and is keeping himself quarantined 

Page 7: Nearly 4 years after her death Zsa Zsa Gabor is going on a farewell tour of Europe in a fancy dog carrier -- her last husband Prince Frederic von Anhalt plans to take the ashes of the icon to her favorite places in the Louis Vuitton pet case in which she carried her beloved dog Macho before burying her in her native Hungary -- Zsa Zsa’s former publicist Ed Lozzi slams her husband’s scheme saying she would have wanted to be buried beside her only child Francesca and sister Eva Gabor in Hollywood’s Westwood Cemetery 

Page 8: Fearing she’s losing ground in her continuing custody battle with Brad Pitt Angelina Jolie is demanding the judge deciding the dispute be booted from the case -- Angie insists that Judge John W. Ouderkirk be ousted claiming he’s a business crony of a lawyer working for Brad but Brad’s fighting to keep the judge on board and he thinks Angie’s desperate and willing to do anything to trip him up because she’s backed up against a wall, Alyssa Milano claims her brush with COVID-19 has left her losing her hair -- she was struck by the dangerous disease back in April and spent time in a hospital and recently in a Twitter video she brushed her wet locks and pulled a large clump of separated strands 

Page 9: Simon Cowell is facing a life of agonizing pain and possible paralysis after a horrific bike accident left him with a back broken in three places and a rod inserted in his spine -- he may be left with what’s known as failed back syndrome which is chronic back pain that remains even after successful surgery or even more chilling may lose control of his legs and arms if the rod doesn’t hold and the vertebrae collapse 

Page 10: Demons do exist swears exorcist Bishop Plato Angelakis who for the first time reveals his terrifying battle with an evil fiend that possessed a granny-aged woman and gave her the strength to overpower four grown men 

Page 12: Celebrity Buzz -- Billy Dee Williams out and about in L.A. (picture), there was a backstage battle between The Office star John Krasinski and producer Greg Daniels in season three of the smash comedy Daniels wigged out when John who played scruffy-haired sales guy Jim Halpert begged for a haircut in an attempt to launch a big-screen career by starring alongside George Clooney and Renee Zellweger in Leatherheads but the boss said no -- determined to nab the juicy role John recruited the show’s hairstylist and paid for a human hair wig and fooled the cast and crew, no funny business involved when it comes to Amy Schumer making sex appointments with husband Chris Fischer because without them you’re just roommates, Paris Jackson broke off her two-year relationship with Gabriel Glenn because she just couldn’t figure out who he was, Melissa Joan Hart is starring in Dear Christmas an upcoming Lifetime romance with her real-life teenage crush Jason Priestley who is playing a handsome firefighter who warms Melissa’s heart for the holidays, no baby talk is the rule for Marie Osmond’s husband Steve Craig who hates it when she calls him cutesie names 

Page 13: Scruffy Jude Law in London (picture), Mindy Kaling out and about in a mask (picture), Goody Grace and Kate Beckinsale wear masks while shopping (picture), Heidi Klum is packing on the pounds during the COVID crisis confessing she can’t zip up her old clothes and doesn’t fit in her favorite jeans anymore 

Page 14: Tiffany Haddish has lost 20 pounds since hooking up with boyfriend Common, Jennifer Lawrence sold her NYC money-pit apartment for $9.9 million which she bought in 2016 for $15.6 million but at least now she can stop paying the ritzy building’s ridiculously steep $5700 monthly fees and the $100,000 cost for taxes and insurance and upkeep, Fashion Verdict -- Tina Fey 3/10, Sarah Paulson 7/10, Emily Blunt 1/10, Aubrey Plaza 8/10, Olivia Wilde 2/10 

Page 16: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has topped a list of Hollywood’s highest paid actor hauling in a hefty $87.5 million this year followed by Ryan Reynolds and Mark Wahlberg and Ben Affleck and Vin Diesel at $54 million, Lisa Marie Presley’s future looks grim as her liver problems have roared back and she faces death if the vital organ fails -- she’s been battling liver ailments and an abdominal muscle tear for some time forcing her to seek treatment in the days before the heartbreaking suicide of her son Ben Keough 

Page 17: The late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin’s daughter Bindi Irwin has made it official that she’s pregnant, scores more women have come forward to accuse porn star Ron Jeremy of rape and sexual assault dating as far back as two decades just a few weeks after he pled not guilty to sex offenses against for West Coast women 

Page 19: 10 Things You Don’t Know About Alex Winter, for Grey’s Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo the show is all about the Benjamins saying she made a decision to make money and not chase creative acting roles and for her a healthy home life was more important than career, thugs robbed Alanis Morissette at gunpoint and nearly grabbed all her work for her 1995 hit album Jagged Little Pill

Page 20: True Crime 

Page 23: Scandal-savaged Ellen DeGeneres wants to put her woes on pause and pamper herself with a morale-boosting plastic surgery blitz -- she’s been rocked by sinking ratings and allegations of a toxic work culture and the strain has made an ugly impact and it shows in the bags under her eyes and the saggy cheeks and jaw and she’s breaking out and her skin looks blotchy from all the stress she’s been under and even with makeup on she looks haggard, grieving mom Melissa Etheridge admits she steeled herself for the possible death of her drug-addled son Beckett 

Page 24: Cover Story -- new Princess Diana death probe -- Prince William and Prince Harry have secretly arranged for the body of their late mother to be exhumed for a second time and subjected to another autopsy in a desperate last-ditch bid to learn the truth about her death in Paris 23 years ago -- the brothers suspect Diana’s death may have been ordered by the same people who forced Harry’s wife Meghan Markle to flee Britain -- William is worried his wife Duchess Kate Middleton may be in danger too 

Page 26: Health Report -- miracle drug slams brakes on MS 

Page 33: Debra Messing dropped from a size eight to a twiggy two while filming Will & Grace and says the extreme slim-down harmed her health

Page 38: Real Life -- Victoria Price of WFLA in Tampa gushed with appreciation after an eagle-eyed viewer pointed out a bump on her neck that turned out to be a deadly thyroid cancer

Page 44: Straight Talk -- Earth to Luann de Lesseps: quit being a boozy floozy 

Page 45: Tiger Woods is set to marry Erica Herman if she signs an ironclad prenup to protect his $800 million fortune -- Tiger has agreed to wed Erica but he’s still gun-shy after shelling out a record $750 million to divorce first wife Elin Nordegren after he was caught in a sex addiction scandal 

Page 47: Hollywood Flashback -- Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic, Bizarre But True 

[dontmeanlove]

Let Me Down Slowly. | Part 3

Pairing: peter parker x female!reader

Word Count: 1.4k

Warnings: nothing, this is fluff.

Plot: You suddenly have powers and have to find a way to deal with them. All while you’re dealing with boy drama and partnering up with your friendly neighborhood Spider-man to fight crime.

N/A: so I’m trying something here guys. I’m not linking anything in this post because I’ve heard that Tumblr performs posts with no links better, so I’m trying this theory. You can find the rest of this series on the link in my bio.

The rest of the week was basically the same. Go to school, study, ignore Peter, go back home, suit up and meet up with Spider-Man. I really had to sort out the situation with Peter, but I just couldn’t get myself to do it. 

Something I wasn’t counting on was Spidey being so cool! He was funny and witty and so fricking smart, and I just felt I could talk to him forever. He told me he had this AI on his suit just like Iron Man and I was seriously considering talking to Mr. S if I could have it too. 

But this conversation would be long and weird because I hadn’t really told him anything yet. However, the prospect of being able to talk to Spider-Man through the suit was really tempting.

That’s how I ended up in Stark’s lab. “What do you mean you got powers and has been fighting alongside Spider-Man and I didn’t know any of it?” Tony was a bit offended. 

“uh… I’m sorry for not telling you?” I answered uncertainly. “But could you include an AI on my suit?” I tried smiling at him, but I’m not sure it worked.

“yOU HAVE A SUIT?” He was outraged. 

“yeah, kinda. It’s a Black Widow suit but I kind of modified it a little” I said as I got the suit out of my backpack and handle it to him.

“Ok, I’ll have it updated and I’ll give it to you, but I expect reports on what you’re doing out there,” Tony said with finality on his tone.

“Deal!” I think I had the biggest smile on my face.

As I was getting out of his lab, Spider-Man was getting out of the elevator and I just couldn’t even acknowledge him because, well, I had a secret identity to preserve so I just smiled at him and nodded my head. 

He nodded his head back at me and waved a little. Right there, in my head, I declared our wedding date and how many children we would have. FYI, It would be in May and we could have two kids. Maybe he wouldn't leave me stranded as Peter did. Oh boy, I just made myself sad.

Heading to Steve and Bucky’s apartment I made myself at home and right when I sat on the couch Bucky came to talk me sitting by my side.

“Tell me all the boy drama.” He said putting all his attention on me.

“Oh, Bucky, you’ve got no idea.” I sighed and then proceeded to tell him the drama with Peter and how I may still like him, that face is kind of irresistible. But on the other hand, Spider-Man was so cool and I think I was maybe feeling something for him too? I really didn’t know. Bucky was serious and nodding along with the story, paying attention to everything I said.

“I think I messed up by not letting Peter talk to me and then ignoring him all this time.” 

“I mean, (Y/N), it really wasn’t the smartest thing you’ve ever done, but it’s not a crime to give yourself time to reflect on something.” He said gently. “Though I do think you should clear things up with this Peter-boy so you can move on.”

“It's incredible the wisdom of the hundred-year-old man,” Steve said entering the room. Bucky threw a couch cushion at him, but he easily got it before it hit him. “Bucky's right, though, (Y/N)” 

“I know. I’ll try to talk to him when I see him at school.” I knew what I had to do, even if I didn’t want to face Peter about it. It took me almost a full week before I mustered enough courage to come clean to Peter.

There I was, lunchtime at the cafeteria, I’d have to go and talk to Peter Parker about Feelings™ after having ignored him for a good month and a half. 

I felt like it was so much trouble for nothing, like ok, we were going on a date for a hot minute but then he didn’t bother showing up and I was hurt and made sure he was being ignored. 

I realized I was being petty, however, I felt it was already too late to say something and apologize. Well, I was going to have to suck it up and just talk to him.

“uh, hey Peter,” I said standing awkwardly in front of him. “Can we talk?”

“Woah, (Y/N), uh, sure. Now?” He said standing a little awkward there too.

“Yeah, if we could go somewhere else, I’d appreciate it.” 

“Of course, let’s go.”

We ended up walking to the hall and away from the cafeteria. I took a deep breath and said “so… I’d like to say that I’m sorry for the way I’ve been treating you this past month, I had no right. But I was upset, I really hope you understand.”

“No, (Y/N), I am so sorry, that’s what I’ve been trying to tell you all this time. I’m sorry for making you wait for me that day and never showing up, I didn’t even text you after I realized I couldn’t make it to Delmar’s" He reached to the back of his neck, he was nervous too.

“I guess we have a lot to apologize for” I gave him a tiny smile. 

“Yeah, we do. I got a little upset too when you wouldn’t look even look at me.”

“I really don’t have any excuses for that, but I want to do something to fix it, can we, like, get past it and try to be friends?” 

“That I can do.” He smiled at me.

“Good, can we do something after class?” 

“Yes, and I promise to show up this time.” His cheeks heating up after realizing what he had said. I just laughed. 

“Meet me at my locker so we can leave together?” I asked, trying to lessen his embarrassment. 

“Alright, and I still wan- “ He was saying something when the bell rang meaning the break was over.

“See you later, Parker”

“See you, (Y/L/N).” He was beautiful, smiling big at me. All I could do was smile at him and head to my locker, which was on the other side of the school. 

Being just friends was going to be tough. The thought came and went through my mind. I was screwed. Crushing on my two male friends, couldn’t I have a break?! The first lines of Greedy by Ariana Grande started playing in my head and I laughed as I shook my head still walking to class.

My last class ended and as I was headed to my locker to leave, Peter joined me. “Hey, friend”

“Hi, friend" I answered looking at him.

“Where are we headed to?” He asked watching me put my things in my locker. 

I smiled and took him to an ice cream parlor. We ended up having so much fun. Peter was easy to talk to. Almost too easy, for the record. It was like I had known him for ages. We made each other laugh and geeked out about movies and The Avengers.

“Who's your favorite?” He asked.

“I know them, I can’t say who is my favorite they would never let me live it down.”

“I promise I won’t tell on you.” He showed me his pinky finger. I blushed.

“Okay, I don’t officially know him, but Spider-man is my favorite.” I proceeded to gush about Spidey to him, how awesome was his moral, his fighting technic, his choice of not being recognized as the other Avengers, but never saying anything too personal, of course. When I finished my fangirl blabber, Peter was the one who was blushing.

“Wow, that’s cool. You’ve put a lot of thought into it, uh?”

“Yeah,” I laughed a little, “When you know most of the Avengers sometimes the ones you don’t fascinate you the most. But what about you? Who’s your favorite?”

"I think it’s Tony. I like how he tries to do what he thinks is the best, even if it sometimes turns to kick him in the ass.” Peter said after thinking about it.

“Oh, Peter, Steve would like you,” I said smiling fondly at him. One afternoon with him and I was already acting like a fool.

We finished our ice creams and left for the subway station. While we walked there we kept our conversation going, it was like there was always more things for us to talk about. Even with MJ sometimes we didn’t have anything to talk about, so being with Peter surprised me in a good way.

We got to the subway, but then we heard police sirens and saw people running.

tag list: @falling-stars-never-cry @gabriella-superwholock-universe

[jcnebug]

what up, i’m julia, i’m 22, from est timezone & i never f*cking learned how to read ! i’m also unoriginal af so that’s my excuse to this shocking start to a shocking intro dkfjdk, i’ll get to writing up an acceptable bio later but i’m really excited to be here & can’t wait to introduce u to my kid ! if anybody wants to plot then just give this a lil like/hit up my IMs or message me on discord so we can figure something out :~)

.*｡･ﾟ☆彡 [ ariana grande, twenty-one, cisfemale, & she/her ] → i just saw [june pugliese] on eastwood’s campus. she has been attending eastwood for [3 years] and is in the [journalism] program. i heard [she] can be [+ easygoing], but also a bit [-impulsive]. when i think of june, i think of [sound of typing, smudged red lipstick, sleepy eyes].

background !

june was born on may 18th, 1997 in calabasas to donna and eric pugliese.

her mother, donna, owns a well know salon and is known for doing some celebrities hair. her father, eric, own a building company that was passed down by his family. her father is the reason that the company is now well known across california

even though they were very busy people, they always made sure their daughter was included in everything they did. 

june is an only child. her parents had a hard time getting pregnant but they luck with june, after they had her they didn’t want anymore because it took so long and they were in love with their little girl

she was brought up in a modest environment. her parents taught her to be polite and kind to everyone despite how wealthy she was growing up

growing up, june was never the popular kid and she didn’t have a big crowd of friends. tbh she only had like 2 close friends growing up! 

but honestly her mother is her bff, they would go shopping, go on vacations together, and just do everything together lmao

in school she was a straight A student up until high school. after graduating she took a year off from school before deciding to go to eastwood!

june thought the whole being away from her family and the few friends she had would be scary but it wasn’t

as soon as june started college she came out of her shell, slowly but surely. she joined the school’s newspaper as well as a sorority. 

before she knew, she was becoming a party girl and more outgoing as well as making tons of friends !

she also lost her virginity in her freshman year.... yeah it was just wild for her lmao

june still does pretty good in school, never getting below a B but she is okay with it.

 when the semester is over and june goes back to her family, she becomes that shy girl again lol. her family has been the one holding her back and she still hasn’t realized it but yahh

basically college brought out the wild side that she has been hiding her whole life and so much can happen with this like im so excited

personality & headcanons

she writes a lot of poems; usually having something to do with the stars or planets or flowers bc those are all her fav things

she is literally the most opportunistic person she will do whatever it takes to get what she wants 

hypersensitive as hell !!

she def puts up a lil bit of a front when it comes to sharing stuff about herself, like her sensitivity & emotions

she likes to think she’s badass as fuck when in reality she’s kind of a loser (who most definitely laughs at her own jokes)

speaking of jokes lbr, she pretty funny and sarcastic so she isn’t the only one laughing

always down to have a good time n go on crazy adventures she loves life n loves to go crazy n she’s super friendly n chill

always thinking, always learning, always caring

v v romantically compulsive !!! it might be a problem !!

she constantly longs for partnership; whether it’s romantic or not

she is a problem-solver, and will spend a lot of time helping others solve problems if needed

while her spirit’s lively, it is also cunning & she often acts without thinking, throwing herself into things

she has a good sense of organization and she loves life and all it has to offer <3

anyways im babbling now so this is all i got

an actual bio will be coming soon !!

[iscosbitch-archive]

I was tagged by @thiagoalcntara , ty cutie!!!!!

Get to know me!

*Nickname: My girls call me shorty, but you can call me dumb bitch if you want

*Ethnicity: Brown?

*Eye color: Brown

*Do you have siblings?: A little brother, aka my favourite person in the world

*Country: 🍁

*Do you have any pets?: No

*Hogwarts house: Idk

*How many languages do you speak?: I speak 2 but understand 4, but that’s not the question, so 2

*Guilty pleasures: Barbie movies lmao

*Favorite thing to do with your friends: This question makes me sad bc I miss my girls so much but the last time we hung out, we went to this park and ate a whole bunch and talked about random ass shit and had photoshoots so. Yeah. Anything I do with my friends is the best

*Favorite songs at the moment: Ariana Grande- Goodnight n go, Kacy Hill- Static, been feeling kinda down lately so One Direction- Strong, Anitta- Medicina

*Favorite movie: Don’t have one, but I do wanna watch tatbilb again  

*How many countries have you visited: If airports count, then 4, if not then 2 lmao

*What are your favorite hobbies?: Sleeping, Dissociating

*Any phobias?: I have extrEME arachnophobia

*Name 3 things you don’t like about yourself and 3 other things you love (physical and/or intellectual): Bold of you to assume I’ll be able to pinpoint only 3 things I hate about myself lmao. K but anyways I don’t like my skin, I don’t like the fact that I lose interest in things easily, I don’t like the amount of negativity and pessimism that’s present in me. For things I like, uh, okay. I’m good at giving advice I think, I’m emphatic and my lips are nice I guess

*What was/is your best subject at school/uni?: I used be a math/bio person up until highschool but lmao now, nothing

*Favorite sports: I can’t play anything but I like football (not the american one obvs)

*What style best describes you?: I don’t really have a style, I kinda just wear whatever

*Is marriage included in your life goals?: Yeah

*Write a funny fact about yourself: My entire existence is a joke, does that count?

I don’t really know who to tag um I’m v sorry, but if you see/read this, consider yourself tagged!! Actually no I change my mind, I tag @lukafc @lautaromartines @aussenrist15 and @edenshazards

[sixthwater]

❤️ hello this is for your ask game! my initials are do and a fun fact abt myself is that i become obsessed when i have a crush on someone. hope that helped lmao :) now thank you so much! xx

(Gender Neutral Term That Is Equivalent To An Exasperated Voice Bank Of Someone Saying Brother)

Cards:

- IV of Swords – Queen of Wands – The Lovers – The Devil – Wheel of Fortune -

So listen. I play this little game sometimes with my cards where when I get some weird ass cards or a confusing answer, I shuffle the Hell out of them when I put them back and go ‘hey if you Really want me to get these cards you better hand them back’ and see what happens. I kept getting them back or splitting and seeing the cards and one of them flew at me. So hello. At First, I thought there was this hot and cold feeling coming off of the cards because you got a sign of rest and then suddenly this fiery passion and then a stroke of luck card, but it’s aallll coming together. So, in relationships, you are someone who is Extremely passionate, but at the same time you need your space and freedom. Free self-promo but if you are an Aquarius Rising or you googled Descendants in relationship to romance and you skimmed over the Leo section, then yeah...same energy. The Queen of Wands is supposed to be a confident lover and she’s gorgeous and you know what maybe sometimes materialistic but in a good way because how else is she supposed to look good???? Either way, she knows what she wants, goes after what she wants, and if you’re not up to par you can screw off to be honest, but like in a cute way haha xoxoxo. Then we got The Lovers with The Devil. So splitting this up, The Lovers just tells me that you really are- you take pride in your relationships. Like you’re the type to fill out your relation bio section and not be afraid to show off who you’re with—All the couple selfies All the hashtags matching icons all that stuff. Maybe not literally all that loud about it, but this is your person why would you not have your heart so full if they weren’t worth it, I mean first of all why would you even choose them if they weren’t worth it but yeah. There’s a weird soft feeling underneath all this strong overwhelming energy that’s just You in love but to describe it it’s like showing off your person in the streets and cuddling up for movies in the sheets. Now with The Devil—hehe its funny that you said you become obsessed because I guess that just doesn’t stop once you get into a relationship lmao. So I’m not getting the normal addiction or lust feeling I’m getting- AH you know that picture of Ariana Grande when she was dating Pete Davidson and she was eating a lollipop and she was just. Looking up at him. Like this :) all dreamy-eyed. That’s what The Devil is giving me mixed in with The Lovers haha. There might be a tendency to- mm. It’s not looking through rose-colored glasses or idealizing your partner but it can lead to this? You just end up being so full of love and care and it’s like your heart is bursting because ‘ah! This is my partner I love them look at this cute thing they did today oh my god I took a picture of it’ like, it’s really adorable. So wrapping these cards back around, with the Wheel of Fortune, you’re very flexible which we can attribute to the fact that you’re your own person anyway. The IV of Swords gives me the feeling that you need your own space and alone time too so if your partner ends up being too busy or something, that’s cool you wanted some time for yourself anyway this is Perfect. I have a feeling that you also can handle sudden changes in relationships pretty easily as well? Not like Big ones obviously but like, if something pops up that you guys have to adjust a good amount of stuff you’re probably going to be the more adaptable one within the situation. There's also a lot of male dominated cards here (The Lovers, The Devil, Wheel of Fate) and I got the male version of The Lovers which I can't ignore. I kept all version of The Lovers in here for that purpose and even after I shuffled again it gave me this Specific one so I really can't ignore that, uh do what you want with that information if that's Specific for you <3

Deck Used: Star Spinner Tarot

[naaf]

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[timalexanderdollery]

Teens are calling themselves “ugly” on TikTok. It’s not as depressing as you think.

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Instagram is a beauty pageant. TikTok is where kids are free to be mediocre.

There’s a TikTok that’s just a boy saying, “I may be ugly, but at least I’m also … dumb and annoying.” Then he dances while Ariana Grande’s “Successful” plays. It’s extremely funny, and a little bit sad, and I think about it every day.

Kids on TikTok call themselves ugly all the time, most of the time as a joke, but not always, and I’m never sure how I’m supposed to feel about it. “Why do I look like this? What’s the reason?” asked the popular TikToker @emmwee in her car without makeup. “Me being shocked at how ugly I look,” wrote Brittany Tomlinson, better known as the kombucha girl, at one moment in an unrelated video. “I like a boy but I’m ugly, what do I do with that?” sings 18-year-old high school senior David Postlewate, in one TikTok about a highly familiar experience.

David isn’t ugly by any means — none of these kids are — but the internet has created a never-ending conveyor belt of people so bafflingly good-looking that everyone else is immediately rendered ugly by comparison. “I know that I’m not going to look like Benji Krol,” says David, referring to the TikToker with a nest of raven hair and 5.6 million followers. “But I’m my own person, and that’s what makes you beautiful,” he says, not consciously referring to the One Direction song.

The thing about TikTok is that as much as it is a place for teenagers to goof off in their bedrooms, it is also the world’s largest beauty pageant. After all, part of the fun about making TikToks is getting to stare at your face for as long as you want, and if you happen to be very, very beautiful, then other people will enjoy staring at your face, too. A stunningly massive portion of the app is devoted to genetically blessed users, e-boys like Benji Krol and human Barbies like Loren Gray. A scroll through the TikTok’s home For You feed will reveal plenty of content where, despite whatever action is going on in the video, the real takeaway is “I’m hot.”

It is against this backdrop that its inverse, “I’m ugly” culture, has proliferated. Rather than trying to compete for views and likes with the genetically gifted, kids are pivoting to self-deprecation in a way that’s less depressing than it might seem to concerned parents: it’s a reclamation of mediocrity in an online space where everyone else is an overachiever.

17-year-old Annie Pham was satirizing TikTok’s culture of hot people and glow-ups when she made her viral video in late August. Using a popular meme where people would show their “before” selves and their “after” selves on the beat drop, Annie’s instead showed her “before” self trying and failing to transform. “Why isn’t it working?” she complains to the camera. “After like, a week, I was reading the comments, and it was really cool to see how much people relate to it,” she says.

Relatable videos are why people like TikTok in the first place, and feeling unattractive on TikTok is one of the most relatable experiences of all. David, of the “I like a boy but I’m ugly” video, for instance, has a TikTok bio that reads “ugly is my only personality trait.”

David only made the video because that’s what was happening in his life: He liked a boy who he thought was out of his league. (“He’s really cute, he goes to my school. We’re both in theater,” he says.) He describes himself as a “really confident person,” by the way. He just doesn’t take himself all that seriously.

Normal kids have created an entire genre of internet comedy devoted to how constantly seeing exceptional talent and beauty go viral makes the rest of us feel like ugly losers. On my feed I see videos of kids turning the shitty aspects of their lives into funny content: their most embarrassing sports mistakes, hideous childhood photos, dilapidated apartments, unfortunate haircuts, leg nipples, imprisoned parents, disproportionately long thumbs, sexual ineptitude, mental illness. And of course, their minor physical insecurities: girls who feel like they’re asymmetrical, girls who hate their smiles, girls who have a cute, pretty face but a body that “looks like a fucking potato.”

The layers of irony on any social media app that young people are using can be difficult for adults to parse, but when it relates to topics like body image and self-esteem, psychologists take it seriously. “I kind of celebrate what they’re doing — they’re trying to push back on the idea that we all look perfect on social media,” says Sara Frischer, a psychiatric nurse practitioner at Union Square Practice in New York City. “But I think it’s just a little misguided in how they’re doing it. It’s deflection, and it’s self-protective to then make a joke about it. It protects people from feeling vulnerable.” She gives the example of being a bad speller. If you say to yourself that you’re the worst speller in the world, that’s protecting yourself from someone else pointing it out.

But what if you’re just objectively a bad speller? What would true acceptance of that fact even look like? “That’s where self-compassion comes in,” she says. “Saying, ‘This is something I really struggle with, and I just happen to not be such a great speller.’ Having compassion for yourself, talking about how hard it is to struggle with this, and all the emotions involved. It’s adding self-compassion instead of self-deprecation. That’s the missing element.”

“I’m ugly” culture has spread so far on TikTok that now even TikTok’s “pretty people” are co-opting sounds and memes meant for those self-described uglies. That’s given way to a wider culture of policing, wherein those users’ comments sections are flooded with fishing rods to signify that they’re fishing for compliments.

In July, Ryan Sterling, a 23-year-old in the Chicago suburbs who has had alopecia since he was in middle school, uploaded a video that begins with a picture of Britney Spears with a shaved head followed by a picture of Mr. Clean, and then himself: “It all started when my mom met my dad, then they fell in love, and they had me. Hi, I’m Ryan,” he says. “And my life? It’s kinda crazy.”

Within a few weeks, the “Hi, I’m Ryan” video had spawned a massive viral meme, even ending up on a segment of Ellen. But whereas Ryan’s original video made fun of the way he looked, iterations that came after — often where a person would show their two very attractive parents and the punchline was their even more attractive self — were little more than excuses to brag. In September, Ryan posted another TikTok directed at them: “Get off my sound, it’s for ugly people!” he says. “All you pretty-ass people with your pretty parents and your perfect genes, get out of here! We uglies and the balds and the grosses and the ickies, we need to fight back!”

Olivia Chesney, a 19-year-old at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island, was in the middle of homework when she went into the bathroom to make a random video. She’s standing in front of the mirror and asking, “Why do I be looking so good from the front?” Then she turns to the side and bursts out laughing. The joke is that she looks bigger that way, and the video now has more than 2.5 million views.

That video isn’t the only TikTok she’s made about her body, and not all of them are self-deprecating. There’s one where she shows cute photos her friends have taken of her, and another lip synching to the 1958 swing song “The Bigger the Figure.”

Olivia, like all of us, lives in a world where even if you aren’t born skinny, or distractingly gorgeous, or whatever, you’re still supposed to do everything you possibly can to become those things; to starve your body down and add on some lip fillers until you’re deemed presentable. Americans continue to spend more money on plastic surgery and weight loss plans every year, and one study of UK youth showed that Instagram had the worst effect on body image among any social media site. There are an ever-growing number of billion-dollar industries built upon the profits that come from making people feel awful about themselves, even if those products are shrouded in the aesthetics of positivity and empowerment.

Calling yourself ugly on TikTok, then, is a form of freedom from the expectation of hotness. It’s a self-deprecating in-joke that only excludes the extraordinarily beautiful, who could maybe stand to be excluded from something for once.

“I’m ugly” culture on TikTok also obfuscates its happier subtext: That yeah, it’s okay to be ugly, because now you can focus on more important things. Olivia explains this feeling while talking about a video where she calls herself fat: “People who are ugly, people who are fat, it’s just like, why are we trying to hide it anymore? We can still live our lives and be that way.”

It’s not like “ugly” people don’t happy lives or fall in love or get rich or go viral on TikTok. The boy that David sang about? The one he liked? It’s possible that they’re maybe, sort of in the process of getting together.

“If I’m going to be completely honest, and I don’t know yet because things haven’t really been official,” he tells me, “but I think that stuff is starting to happen with him.” It’s all extremely beautiful.

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[gracieyvonnehunter]

Teens are calling themselves “ugly” on TikTok. It’s not as depressing as you think.

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Instagram is a beauty pageant. TikTok is where kids are free to be mediocre.

There’s a TikTok that’s just a boy saying, “I may be ugly, but at least I’m also … dumb and annoying.” Then he dances while Ariana Grande’s “Successful” plays. It’s extremely funny, and a little bit sad, and I think about it every day.

Kids on TikTok call themselves ugly all the time, most of the time as a joke, but not always, and I’m never sure how I’m supposed to feel about it. “Why do I look like this? What’s the reason?” asked the popular TikToker @emmwee in her car without makeup. “Me being shocked at how ugly I look,” wrote Brittany Tomlinson, better known as the kombucha girl, at one moment in an unrelated video. “I like a boy but I’m ugly, what do I do with that?” sings 18-year-old high school senior David Postlewate, in one TikTok about a highly familiar experience.

David isn’t ugly by any means — none of these kids are — but the internet has created a never-ending conveyor belt of people so bafflingly good-looking that everyone else is immediately rendered ugly by comparison. “I know that I’m not going to look like Benji Krol,” says David, referring to the TikToker with a nest of raven hair and 5.6 million followers. “But I’m my own person, and that’s what makes you beautiful,” he says, not consciously referring to the One Direction song.

The thing about TikTok is that as much as it is a place for teenagers to goof off in their bedrooms, it is also the world’s largest beauty pageant. After all, part of the fun about making TikToks is getting to stare at your face for as long as you want, and if you happen to be very, very beautiful, then other people will enjoy staring at your face, too. A stunningly massive portion of the app is devoted to genetically blessed users, e-boys like Benji Krol and human Barbies like Loren Gray. A scroll through the TikTok’s home For You feed will reveal plenty of content where, despite whatever action is going on in the video, the real takeaway is “I’m hot.”

It is against this backdrop that its inverse, “I’m ugly” culture, has proliferated. Rather than trying to compete for views and likes with the genetically gifted, kids are pivoting to self-deprecation in a way that’s less depressing than it might seem to concerned parents: it’s a reclamation of mediocrity in an online space where everyone else is an overachiever.

17-year-old Annie Pham was satirizing TikTok’s culture of hot people and glow-ups when she made her viral video in late August. Using a popular meme where people would show their “before” selves and their “after” selves on the beat drop, Annie’s instead showed her “before” self trying and failing to transform. “Why isn’t it working?” she complains to the camera. “After like, a week, I was reading the comments, and it was really cool to see how much people relate to it,” she says.

Relatable videos are why people like TikTok in the first place, and feeling unattractive on TikTok is one of the most relatable experiences of all. David, of the “I like a boy but I’m ugly” video, for instance, has a TikTok bio that reads “ugly is my only personality trait.”

David only made the video because that’s what was happening in his life: He liked a boy who he thought was out of his league. (“He’s really cute, he goes to my school. We’re both in theater,” he says.) He describes himself as a “really confident person,” by the way. He just doesn’t take himself all that seriously.

Normal kids have created an entire genre of internet comedy devoted to how constantly seeing exceptional talent and beauty go viral makes the rest of us feel like ugly losers. On my feed I see videos of kids turning the shitty aspects of their lives into funny content: their most embarrassing sports mistakes, hideous childhood photos, dilapidated apartments, unfortunate haircuts, leg nipples, imprisoned parents, disproportionately long thumbs, sexual ineptitude, mental illness. And of course, their minor physical insecurities: girls who feel like they’re asymmetrical, girls who hate their smiles, girls who have a cute, pretty face but a body that “looks like a fucking potato.”

The layers of irony on any social media app that young people are using can be difficult for adults to parse, but when it relates to topics like body image and self-esteem, psychologists take it seriously. “I kind of celebrate what they’re doing — they’re trying to push back on the idea that we all look perfect on social media,” says Sara Frischer, a psychiatric nurse practitioner at Union Square Practice in New York City. “But I think it’s just a little misguided in how they’re doing it. It’s deflection, and it’s self-protective to then make a joke about it. It protects people from feeling vulnerable.” She gives the example of being a bad speller. If you say to yourself that you’re the worst speller in the world, that’s protecting yourself from someone else pointing it out.

But what if you’re just objectively a bad speller? What would true acceptance of that fact even look like? “That’s where self-compassion comes in,” she says. “Saying, ‘This is something I really struggle with, and I just happen to not be such a great speller.’ Having compassion for yourself, talking about how hard it is to struggle with this, and all the emotions involved. It’s adding self-compassion instead of self-deprecation. That’s the missing element.”

“I’m ugly” culture has spread so far on TikTok that now even TikTok’s “pretty people” are co-opting sounds and memes meant for those self-described uglies. That’s given way to a wider culture of policing, wherein those users’ comments sections are flooded with fishing rods to signify that they’re fishing for compliments.

In July, Ryan Sterling, a 23-year-old in the Chicago suburbs who has had alopecia since he was in middle school, uploaded a video that begins with a picture of Britney Spears with a shaved head followed by a picture of Mr. Clean, and then himself: “It all started when my mom met my dad, then they fell in love, and they had me. Hi, I’m Ryan,” he says. “And my life? It’s kinda crazy.”

Within a few weeks, the “Hi, I’m Ryan” video had spawned a massive viral meme, even ending up on a segment of Ellen. But whereas Ryan’s original video made fun of the way he looked, iterations that came after — often where a person would show their two very attractive parents and the punchline was their even more attractive self — were little more than excuses to brag. In September, Ryan posted another TikTok directed at them: “Get off my sound, it’s for ugly people!” he says. “All you pretty-ass people with your pretty parents and your perfect genes, get out of here! We uglies and the balds and the grosses and the ickies, we need to fight back!”

Olivia Chesney, a 19-year-old at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island, was in the middle of homework when she went into the bathroom to make a random video. She’s standing in front of the mirror and asking, “Why do I be looking so good from the front?” Then she turns to the side and bursts out laughing. The joke is that she looks bigger that way, and the video now has more than 2.5 million views.

That video isn’t the only TikTok she’s made about her body, and not all of them are self-deprecating. There’s one where she shows cute photos her friends have taken of her, and another lip synching to the 1958 swing song “The Bigger the Figure.”

Olivia, like all of us, lives in a world where even if you aren’t born skinny, or distractingly gorgeous, or whatever, you’re still supposed to do everything you possibly can to become those things; to starve your body down and add on some lip fillers until you’re deemed presentable. Americans continue to spend more money on plastic surgery and weight loss plans every year, and one study of UK youth showed that Instagram had the worst effect on body image among any social media site. There are an ever-growing number of billion-dollar industries built upon the profits that come from making people feel awful about themselves, even if those products are shrouded in the aesthetics of positivity and empowerment.

Calling yourself ugly on TikTok, then, is a form of freedom from the expectation of hotness. It’s a self-deprecating in-joke that only excludes the extraordinarily beautiful, who could maybe stand to be excluded from something for once.

“I’m ugly” culture on TikTok also obfuscates its happier subtext: That yeah, it’s okay to be ugly, because now you can focus on more important things. Olivia explains this feeling while talking about a video where she calls herself fat: “People who are ugly, people who are fat, it’s just like, why are we trying to hide it anymore? We can still live our lives and be that way.”

It’s not like “ugly” people don’t happy lives or fall in love or get rich or go viral on TikTok. The boy that David sang about? The one he liked? It’s possible that they’re maybe, sort of in the process of getting together.

“If I’m going to be completely honest, and I don’t know yet because things haven’t really been official,” he tells me, “but I think that stuff is starting to happen with him.” It’s all extremely beautiful.

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Teens are calling themselves “ugly” on TikTok. It’s not as depressing as you think.

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Instagram is a beauty pageant. TikTok is where kids are free to be mediocre.

There’s a TikTok that’s just a boy saying, “I may be ugly, but at least I’m also … dumb and annoying.” Then he dances while Ariana Grande’s “Successful” plays. It’s extremely funny, and a little bit sad, and I think about it every day.

Kids on TikTok call themselves ugly all the time, most of the time as a joke, but not always, and I’m never sure how I’m supposed to feel about it. “Why do I look like this? What’s the reason?” asked the popular TikToker @emmwee in her car without makeup. “Me being shocked at how ugly I look,” wrote Brittany Tomlinson, better known as the kombucha girl, at one moment in an unrelated video. “I like a boy but I’m ugly, what do I do with that?” sings 18-year-old high school senior David Postlewate, in one TikTok about a highly familiar experience.

David isn’t ugly by any means — none of these kids are — but the internet has created a never-ending conveyor belt of people so bafflingly good-looking that everyone else is immediately rendered ugly by comparison. “I know that I’m not going to look like Benji Krol,” says David, referring to the TikToker with a nest of raven hair and 5.6 million followers. “But I’m my own person, and that’s what makes you beautiful,” he says, not consciously referring to the One Direction song.

The thing about TikTok is that as much as it is a place for teenagers to goof off in their bedrooms, it is also the world’s largest beauty pageant. After all, part of the fun about making TikToks is getting to stare at your face for as long as you want, and if you happen to be very, very beautiful, then other people will enjoy staring at your face, too. A stunningly massive portion of the app is devoted to genetically blessed users, e-boys like Benji Krol and human Barbies like Loren Gray. A scroll through the TikTok’s home For You feed will reveal plenty of content where, despite whatever action is going on in the video, the real takeaway is “I’m hot.”

It is against this backdrop that its inverse, “I’m ugly” culture, has proliferated. Rather than trying to compete for views and likes with the genetically gifted, kids are pivoting to self-deprecation in a way that’s less depressing than it might seem to concerned parents: it’s a reclamation of mediocrity in an online space where everyone else is an overachiever.

17-year-old Annie Pham was satirizing TikTok’s culture of hot people and glow-ups when she made her viral video in late August. Using a popular meme where people would show their “before” selves and their “after” selves on the beat drop, Annie’s instead showed her “before” self trying and failing to transform. “Why isn’t it working?” she complains to the camera. “After like, a week, I was reading the comments, and it was really cool to see how much people relate to it,” she says.

Relatable videos are why people like TikTok in the first place, and feeling unattractive on TikTok is one of the most relatable experiences of all. David, of the “I like a boy but I’m ugly” video, for instance, has a TikTok bio that reads “ugly is my only personality trait.”

David only made the video because that’s what was happening in his life: He liked a boy who he thought was out of his league. (“He’s really cute, he goes to my school. We’re both in theater,” he says.) He describes himself as a “really confident person,” by the way. He just doesn’t take himself all that seriously.

Normal kids have created an entire genre of internet comedy devoted to how constantly seeing exceptional talent and beauty go viral makes the rest of us feel like ugly losers. On my feed I see videos of kids turning the shitty aspects of their lives into funny content: their most embarrassing sports mistakes, hideous childhood photos, dilapidated apartments, unfortunate haircuts, leg nipples, imprisoned parents, disproportionately long thumbs, sexual ineptitude, mental illness. And of course, their minor physical insecurities: girls who feel like they’re asymmetrical, girls who hate their smiles, girls who have a cute, pretty face but a body that “looks like a fucking potato.”

The layers of irony on any social media app that young people are using can be difficult for adults to parse, but when it relates to topics like body image and self-esteem, psychologists take it seriously. “I kind of celebrate what they’re doing — they’re trying to push back on the idea that we all look perfect on social media,” says Sara Frischer, a psychiatric nurse practitioner at Union Square Practice in New York City. “But I think it’s just a little misguided in how they’re doing it. It’s deflection, and it’s self-protective to then make a joke about it. It protects people from feeling vulnerable.” She gives the example of being a bad speller. If you say to yourself that you’re the worst speller in the world, that’s protecting yourself from someone else pointing it out.

But what if you’re just objectively a bad speller? What would true acceptance of that fact even look like? “That’s where self-compassion comes in,” she says. “Saying, ‘This is something I really struggle with, and I just happen to not be such a great speller.’ Having compassion for yourself, talking about how hard it is to struggle with this, and all the emotions involved. It’s adding self-compassion instead of self-deprecation. That’s the missing element.”

“I’m ugly” culture has spread so far on TikTok that now even TikTok’s “pretty people” are co-opting sounds and memes meant for those self-described uglies. That’s given way to a wider culture of policing, wherein those users’ comments sections are flooded with fishing rods to signify that they’re fishing for compliments.

In July, Ryan Sterling, a 23-year-old in the Chicago suburbs who has had alopecia since he was in middle school, uploaded a video that begins with a picture of Britney Spears with a shaved head followed by a picture of Mr. Clean, and then himself: “It all started when my mom met my dad, then they fell in love, and they had me. Hi, I’m Ryan,” he says. “And my life? It’s kinda crazy.”

Within a few weeks, the “Hi, I’m Ryan” video had spawned a massive viral meme, even ending up on a segment of Ellen. But whereas Ryan’s original video made fun of the way he looked, iterations that came after — often where a person would show their two very attractive parents and the punchline was their even more attractive self — were little more than excuses to brag. In September, Ryan posted another TikTok directed at them: “Get off my sound, it’s for ugly people!” he says. “All you pretty-ass people with your pretty parents and your perfect genes, get out of here! We uglies and the balds and the grosses and the ickies, we need to fight back!”

Olivia Chesney, a 19-year-old at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island, was in the middle of homework when she went into the bathroom to make a random video. She’s standing in front of the mirror and asking, “Why do I be looking so good from the front?” Then she turns to the side and bursts out laughing. The joke is that she looks bigger that way, and the video now has more than 2.5 million views.

That video isn’t the only TikTok she’s made about her body, and not all of them are self-deprecating. There’s one where she shows cute photos her friends have taken of her, and another lip synching to the 1958 swing song “The Bigger the Figure.”

Olivia, like all of us, lives in a world where even if you aren’t born skinny, or distractingly gorgeous, or whatever, you’re still supposed to do everything you possibly can to become those things; to starve your body down and add on some lip fillers until you’re deemed presentable. Americans continue to spend more money on plastic surgery and weight loss plans every year, and one study of UK youth showed that Instagram had the worst effect on body image among any social media site. There are an ever-growing number of billion-dollar industries built upon the profits that come from making people feel awful about themselves, even if those products are shrouded in the aesthetics of positivity and empowerment.

Calling yourself ugly on TikTok, then, is a form of freedom from the expectation of hotness. It’s a self-deprecating in-joke that only excludes the extraordinarily beautiful, who could maybe stand to be excluded from something for once.

“I’m ugly” culture on TikTok also obfuscates its happier subtext: That yeah, it’s okay to be ugly, because now you can focus on more important things. Olivia explains this feeling while talking about a video where she calls herself fat: “People who are ugly, people who are fat, it’s just like, why are we trying to hide it anymore? We can still live our lives and be that way.”

It’s not like “ugly” people don’t happy lives or fall in love or get rich or go viral on TikTok. The boy that David sang about? The one he liked? It’s possible that they’re maybe, sort of in the process of getting together.

“If I’m going to be completely honest, and I don’t know yet because things haven’t really been official,” he tells me, “but I think that stuff is starting to happen with him.” It’s all extremely beautiful.

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Teens are calling themselves “ugly” on TikTok. It’s not as depressing as you think.

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Instagram is a beauty pageant. TikTok is where kids are free to be mediocre.

There’s a TikTok that’s just a boy saying, “I may be ugly, but at least I’m also … dumb and annoying.” Then he dances while Ariana Grande’s “Successful” plays. It’s extremely funny, and a little bit sad, and I think about it every day.

Kids on TikTok call themselves ugly all the time, most of the time as a joke, but not always, and I’m never sure how I’m supposed to feel about it. “Why do I look like this? What’s the reason?” asked the popular TikToker @emmwee in her car without makeup. “Me being shocked at how ugly I look,” wrote Brittany Tomlinson, better known as the kombucha girl, at one moment in an unrelated video. “I like a boy but I’m ugly, what do I do with that?” sings 18-year-old high school senior David Postlewate, in one TikTok about a highly familiar experience.

David isn’t ugly by any means — none of these kids are — but the internet has created a never-ending conveyor belt of people so bafflingly good-looking that everyone else is immediately rendered ugly by comparison. “I know that I’m not going to look like Benji Krol,” says David, referring to the TikToker with a nest of raven hair and 5.6 million followers. “But I’m my own person, and that’s what makes you beautiful,” he says, not consciously referring to the One Direction song.

The thing about TikTok is that as much as it is a place for teenagers to goof off in their bedrooms, it is also the world’s largest beauty pageant. After all, part of the fun about making TikToks is getting to stare at your face for as long as you want, and if you happen to be very, very beautiful, then other people will enjoy staring at your face, too. A stunningly massive portion of the app is devoted to genetically blessed users, e-boys like Benji Krol and human Barbies like Loren Gray. A scroll through the TikTok’s home For You feed will reveal plenty of content where, despite whatever action is going on in the video, the real takeaway is “I’m hot.”

It is against this backdrop that its inverse, “I’m ugly” culture, has proliferated. Rather than trying to compete for views and likes with the genetically gifted, kids are pivoting to self-deprecation in a way that’s less depressing than it might seem to concerned parents: it’s a reclamation of mediocrity in an online space where everyone else is an overachiever.

17-year-old Annie Pham was satirizing TikTok’s culture of hot people and glow-ups when she made her viral video in late August. Using a popular meme where people would show their “before” selves and their “after” selves on the beat drop, Annie’s instead showed her “before” self trying and failing to transform. “Why isn’t it working?” she complains to the camera. “After like, a week, I was reading the comments, and it was really cool to see how much people relate to it,” she says.

Relatable videos are why people like TikTok in the first place, and feeling unattractive on TikTok is one of the most relatable experiences of all. David, of the “I like a boy but I’m ugly” video, for instance, has a TikTok bio that reads “ugly is my only personality trait.”

David only made the video because that’s what was happening in his life: He liked a boy who he thought was out of his league. (“He’s really cute, he goes to my school. We’re both in theater,” he says.) He describes himself as a “really confident person,” by the way. He just doesn’t take himself all that seriously.

Normal kids have created an entire genre of internet comedy devoted to how constantly seeing exceptional talent and beauty go viral makes the rest of us feel like ugly losers. On my feed I see videos of kids turning the shitty aspects of their lives into funny content: their most embarrassing sports mistakes, hideous childhood photos, dilapidated apartments, unfortunate haircuts, leg nipples, imprisoned parents, disproportionately long thumbs, sexual ineptitude, mental illness. And of course, their minor physical insecurities: girls who feel like they’re asymmetrical, girls who hate their smiles, girls who have a cute, pretty face but a body that “looks like a fucking potato.”

The layers of irony on any social media app that young people are using can be difficult for adults to parse, but when it relates to topics like body image and self-esteem, psychologists take it seriously. “I kind of celebrate what they’re doing — they’re trying to push back on the idea that we all look perfect on social media,” says Sara Frischer, a psychiatric nurse practitioner at Union Square Practice in New York City. “But I think it’s just a little misguided in how they’re doing it. It’s deflection, and it’s self-protective to then make a joke about it. It protects people from feeling vulnerable.” She gives the example of being a bad speller. If you say to yourself that you’re the worst speller in the world, that’s protecting yourself from someone else pointing it out.

But what if you’re just objectively a bad speller? What would true acceptance of that fact even look like? “That’s where self-compassion comes in,” she says. “Saying, ‘This is something I really struggle with, and I just happen to not be such a great speller.’ Having compassion for yourself, talking about how hard it is to struggle with this, and all the emotions involved. It’s adding self-compassion instead of self-deprecation. That’s the missing element.”

“I’m ugly” culture has spread so far on TikTok that now even TikTok’s “pretty people” are co-opting sounds and memes meant for those self-described uglies. That’s given way to a wider culture of policing, wherein those users’ comments sections are flooded with fishing rods to signify that they’re fishing for compliments.

In July, Ryan Sterling, a 23-year-old in the Chicago suburbs who has had alopecia since he was in middle school, uploaded a video that begins with a picture of Britney Spears with a shaved head followed by a picture of Mr. Clean, and then himself: “It all started when my mom met my dad, then they fell in love, and they had me. Hi, I’m Ryan,” he says. “And my life? It’s kinda crazy.”

Within a few weeks, the “Hi, I’m Ryan” video had spawned a massive viral meme, even ending up on a segment of Ellen. But whereas Ryan’s original video made fun of the way he looked, iterations that came after — often where a person would show their two very attractive parents and the punchline was their even more attractive self — were little more than excuses to brag. In September, Ryan posted another TikTok directed at them: “Get off my sound, it’s for ugly people!” he says. “All you pretty-ass people with your pretty parents and your perfect genes, get out of here! We uglies and the balds and the grosses and the ickies, we need to fight back!”

Olivia Chesney, a 19-year-old at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island, was in the middle of homework when she went into the bathroom to make a random video. She’s standing in front of the mirror and asking, “Why do I be looking so good from the front?” Then she turns to the side and bursts out laughing. The joke is that she looks bigger that way, and the video now has more than 2.5 million views.

That video isn’t the only TikTok she’s made about her body, and not all of them are self-deprecating. There’s one where she shows cute photos her friends have taken of her, and another lip synching to the 1958 swing song “The Bigger the Figure.”

Olivia, like all of us, lives in a world where even if you aren’t born skinny, or distractingly gorgeous, or whatever, you’re still supposed to do everything you possibly can to become those things; to starve your body down and add on some lip fillers until you’re deemed presentable. Americans continue to spend more money on plastic surgery and weight loss plans every year, and one study of UK youth showed that Instagram had the worst effect on body image among any social media site. There are an ever-growing number of billion-dollar industries built upon the profits that come from making people feel awful about themselves, even if those products are shrouded in the aesthetics of positivity and empowerment.

Calling yourself ugly on TikTok, then, is a form of freedom from the expectation of hotness. It’s a self-deprecating in-joke that only excludes the extraordinarily beautiful, who could maybe stand to be excluded from something for once.

“I’m ugly” culture on TikTok also obfuscates its happier subtext: That yeah, it’s okay to be ugly, because now you can focus on more important things. Olivia explains this feeling while talking about a video where she calls herself fat: “People who are ugly, people who are fat, it’s just like, why are we trying to hide it anymore? We can still live our lives and be that way.”

It’s not like “ugly” people don’t happy lives or fall in love or get rich or go viral on TikTok. The boy that David sang about? The one he liked? It’s possible that they’re maybe, sort of in the process of getting together.

“If I’m going to be completely honest, and I don’t know yet because things haven’t really been official,” he tells me, “but I think that stuff is starting to happen with him.” It’s all extremely beautiful.

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