#both of whomst are wearing red

[memento-mori-twilight]

Alright, I know everyone and their cousins are all gaga over the Superboy reveal but

Let's talk about that new villain lineup!

And more importantly, how a lot of them are Honest-to-God head scratchers. Well, I have my guesses. As usual, more rambling explaining why is below the cut.

1) Like, Sir to Lex's immediate left, whomst the fuck are you?

You're too old to be an alternative of Clark, don't fit the previous design of Zor-el, still have both eyes unlike Jor-el...

Unless you are an Alternative Jor-el. Like the Fortress AI Jor-el. But even then, the outfit is slightly off since there's no Kryptonian armor (or symbol for that matter) and Jor-el would have no reason to be a threat to either of the Super Crew.

Speaking of AI, could be Eradicator as a more stable construct now that it's no longer one of Brainiac's protocols (echoing how it went from possessor to physical entity in the comics)...but I think someone else in this picture fits that bill.

Maybe it's Zod? But if so, Jesus are they making him look *exactly* like Jor-el, which DC has famously NEVER DONE. Since Zod is often seen as more of a brutish and ruthless character compared to Jor, he's often bulkier in build.

But then again, they've also built Kal's father like a truck in this adaptation so who knows, maybe that hair style was an official military mandate?

2) Speaking of hair, I see that curl on Lex's right.

HI HANK!

Looks like Lex found you after your plane exploded and fixed you up, huh!

Now you're well on your way to becoming Cyborg Superman officially and cementing yourself on the Permanent Superman Hater Squad!

3) Ah Lex! I see your luscious red-brown locks are finally gone. Wonder what caused it? Was it a bad outcome due to an experiment backfire, or are you sick from being around all that Kryptonite for those Metallos for weeks? You looked pretty run down last time we saw you. Maybe some new competition would bring some life back into your face.

4) Maybe another super genius on your level will challenge you? Maybe someone like...

Ultra-humanite! (On the villain screen bottom right)

Yeah I know the popular take on U-H is the super smart white-furred Gorilla with a surgery scar, but that's just his final form. And I think they're gonna pull what they did with Ivo/Parasite with him by only showcasing his final form on the Villains screen (only it looks like they're not going full Gorilla if he still has a human head).

He started out as Superman's oldest archenemy, a mad scientist who was obsessed with getting rich, getting revenge and living forever, predating Lex by a long while! So it will be fun watching Lex bump heads with what is essentially his ancestor until Ultra morphs himself to something beyond human.

5) Speaking of beyond human, I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA what to make of that creature to Ultra's right.

Is that Ivo/Parasite fully free and morphed into a rabid alien creature? Is that just a normal alien creature?! Is that Dubbilex?! Is it Krypto?!?! I have no Earthly idea!

6) Last but not least on me still being confused, on the bottom left where the League of Lois Lanes used to sit, you will noticed there's a whole new group of people there.

And you will also notice that 2 out of that group of 4 are wearing helmets disgusting their features, but the other 2 aren't.

One looks like Lois in a pageboy cap with a sun and the other looks like Kara.

But wait a minute, it's not our Kara bc she's in the showdown squad at the bottom with the other 3 and that one is still in K-armor with the shoulder pads.

Maybe this is a fully Eradicator-pilled Kara as Brainiac tried to create during the season finale or..

What if the League of Lois' return, this time with their own Kara, but this isn't quite the same take on Kara that we got in Season 2?

What if this is a form of Power Girl Kara?!?

Would make sense for Clark and Kara to have matching brain conflicts meeting Kon-El and Power Girl at the same time, wouldn't it?

Or maybe this is another certain League making their appearance, this time with an Action Lois™ in tow? Maybe this is a glimpse at a version of the Legion of Superheroes, who are initially perceived as a threat until it turns out they're just trying to help?

Possibilities abound!

Those are just my predictions.

I have no idea what to expect for this season or what Josie, Brandon, or Jake have cooked up for us

But I have absolute certainty it's going to be one hell of a ride, and they haven't disappointed us yet!

Can't wait for Season 3!!!

[tomriddlehyperfixataion]

Tom Riddle x reader - blurb/how you(blank) because i need to write SOMETHING

How you meet - During 5th year, its a simple paired potions assignment and you end up getting paired with Tom. he's polite and charming of course, one must be to gain allies, even if they are...less, in his view.

How you gain his attention- Oddly, you don't pay attention to him like most of the girls do(frtho we all be drooling over him and blushing), you just get your work done and be polite. it gains his attention because 'whomst? doesn't react to my charms and face? i must find out the cause'. mans likes a puzzle to solve.

How it starts- he starts hanging around to try and solve the puzzle of you, he wants to know everything, every weakness and every tiny piece about the person who caught his attention. he surmises that he'll lose interest at some point once he learns enough/gains your attention like the other girls always give him. but the longer he hangs around, the more...comfortable he gets. he finds himself gravitating towards you, not really realizing whats happening until its already too late.

How he realizes- during another potions class, Slughorn was reviewing Amortentia and Tom smelled a particular scent that had him reeling back-his eyes going wide and ears turning pink. it was your perfume/shampoo/cologne/body wash/whatever. a smell he had gotten way too acquainted with over the last few months. (yes it takes him literal months to get to this point he is not a love at first sight kinda guy, he has to have some sort of connection) and he has a bit of a breakdown-because haha-WHAT!?

What happens after the realization- He distances himself right away, practically cuts contact. doesn't look at you, doesn't speak to you unless he HAS to. just goes cold turkey. right away he misses you and is just like *AHHHHHHHHHHHHH* but internally...this only lasts about two weeks before he decides 'fuck i miss them' and just stares at you for a good while before he gains to courage to go up to you and start talking again. he keeps his cool, of course he does, but inside he is screaming.

How he confesses- its right before summer break of 5th year, yes he takes forever to confess and he does it right before everyone leaves for the summer, just in case he gets rejected and doesn't have to look you in the eye until the next school term. For once he's fumbling over his words and he cant keep eye contact, his face slowly turning red as you stare at him with a small smile. depending on how you react, he'll either leave with a hidden smile or the STUPIDEST grin he's ever worn, or will wear. the grin will be if you kiss him on the cheek.

When you both come back for 6th year- Oh-he is NERVOUS-he didn't even know he COULD BE nervous. his hands are shaking slightly and he cannot focus on anything he is just so nervous about seeing you again. he hides it well, blank face and everything, but he moment he sees you at the train station, and you smile at him, he cannot help but smile back because holy shit they like me back and i wasn't delusional

lowkey i hc Tom is insecure in relationships(genuine ones)

How he is in a relationship- it takes him a long time to get properly comfortable. pulls back from any pda and wont even let you hold his hand. you can hold his sleeve or something but hand? nope. he's just so unused to being touched in a loving way that he's-almost grossed out by it? but once he finally starts to settle? ooooh he is the cuddliest thing on planet earth. feral cat that felt the loving touch of their human and now will never let them go. pda is at a minimum but now you're always holding hands in some way, pinkies interlocked and everything. study dates are the main dates, but he wont mind a date at the three broomsticks once in a while, as long as you find a quiet corner to hang out in semi-privately. will help you with homework but has to be offered something(wink wink just kidding its candy.) Major! sweet tooth, you could make him commit murder with the offer of sweets(lets be fr he wouldn't need candy to commit murder) jealous! jealous jealous jealous! and possessive, no one is allowed to talk to you, not with out several interviews from Tom and being cleared after taking a written exam on why they wouldn't try anything on his boy/girl.

loves to see you in his hoodies/sweaters, thinks its the best way other than hickeys to mark his territory. will happily give up all his hoodies to make sure everyone knows that you're his.

side note; i see so many tik toks(Slytherin boys react n stuff) that make him super threatening and menacing and willing to kill during the Hogwarts years. like he's smart. really fucking smart. he wouldn't risk anything just for someone he cares a lot about, torture? yes. kill? no. he's not stupid. he's not going to get caught over a stupid boy who gets handsy. will he later kill that idiot after graduation? yes, but during school? when Dumbledore is around to keep an eye on him? no. he's not stupid. he's not a murder machine, he's homicidal not stupid.

Anyway back to the point

Other relationship stuff-

Would take a long time to get to the point were he wants to go past kissing, hell it takes him forever to kiss you for the first time-like legit three months into the relationship. he would do knuckle/hand kisses and cheek kisses here and there-but it takes months for you guys to kiss properly for the first time. but anyway's he had never been attracted to anyone before you and takes a long time to get sexually active with you, mans is a virgin-everyone makes him a playboy and i look at his ass and go 'that man has never touched a girl a day in his life'.

So he learns with you, once he starts? oh yes he goes full horn dog. he is insatiable! cant keep his hands off you in private/semi-private. is pretty vanilla at first but he finds a spicy book and is very intrigued. learns he has a breeding kink very quickly and is very into choke play and control.

First and last love, if you ever leave him(haha you wont), he will probably never get attached to anyone romantically ever again.

Very protective and will keep you out of his 'darker' business, like the chamber and his followers and plans, wants to keep you innocent, to have something that isn't total darkness and evil. now if you're into that kinda thing he wont stop you, but he will keep you away from it all just in case.

Cold hands-will warm them up between your thighs-thick or not.

Has naturally curly hair, and only lets you see it-everyone else gets the polished hair gel look. it took him months to let you see it-but once you proclaim your love for his natural hair-he makes it a point to let you see/play with it before he puts his gel in/after he washes his hair at night.

can and will fall asleep on you, esp. if you're playing with his hair or scratching his scalp/neck, arms fully wrapped around you and konked out, very cute panther lookin ass.

steals ur pillows and switches it with his(he has good pillows and washes his bed sheets/pillow cases routinely)

mayhaps have stolen one of your blankets...you're not getting it back.

will help you do any homework you have trouble with, might even let you copy his homework for a price(wink wink fr this time)

by the end of 7th year, and you're still together, fully plans to buy a ring and marry you. no doubts about it.

[not-goldy]

Umm but Tae cross that line tho. You said you can't support taennie because what Tae doing is unfair to her I.e pushing tkk by namedropping JK while not claiming his gf and indirectly nodding his Fandom to attack her. Which is disrespectful for both Jikook and his relationship with Jennie.

I agree about JM coz personally the only member I take seriously when they speak about love and commitment is Jimin. Because when he says it he means it 101%.

Tae crossed that line with whomst?

Shipping and fan service is a normal part of Kpop and a member name dropping another member is not crossing the line in my opinion.

The part he's not protecting his alleged girlfriend is a very valid point. There's no excuse for that I agree. And yes I can't support that at all because I wouldn't want to be Jennie in that situation.

And showing love to the same people hating on your SO is wrong on every level. I would have deleted my account and only showed up on live if Hybe forced me to. I would make shitty music dissing my fans and drag them to hell if they don't buy or stream it🥲

Stream this song called my fans ain't shit armya.

I'll shave my head bald.

Wear socks for masks in public

And I'll gave a butched tattoo on my forehead.

Like forget the Y. Jx write Armpit on my neck.

Drop she's better than you out of no where.

Ipost and delete "love you armed robbers" and repost with the correct fan name so you know I meant yall.

I'll be such a terrible idol you'll regret stanning me. That's how petty I actually am.

Oooohhhh, you mean Tae's behavior is disrespectful to Jikook because of the way he acts with Jk sometimes?

I mean.... yes and no.

Stay with me alright,

People are allowed to do whatever they want. Just because there's a boundary or wall don't mean it will keep people out. Sometimes people go over walls, burn down and break walls.

When that happens it is up to the individual to take steps and actions to address those breaches and to prevent them from happening again.

Where you try a peaceful settlement and that fails cutting people off completely or keeping your distance becomes the ultimate solution.

Does that ring a bell with any ship dynamics in BTS to you? Ding ding ding

Tae "disrespecting" someone's boundaries is not what's important. It's that person enforcing those boundaries or allowing it that matters.

After all JK is not a child any more and so he shouldn't and wouldn't allow things he's not comfortable with. And in that regard, what may be a hard limit to you may not be a hard limit to him so he might allow it.

It's the same with JM and every body.

I think from Tae saying he wouldn't be willing to do red line tattoos with his members, it's safe to say he does understand some sort of limits or boundaries when it comes to relationships.

His limits may not however be the same as every body's.

For instance while he said he wouldn't do the red line tattoo at all JK didn't mind. He was willing to do it save for a few modifications.

It doesn't mean JK has no sense of boundaries because he is the same individual who said he wouldn't be okay with his SO feeding his friends perilla leaves or whatever.

Those two have different sense of boundaries.

Tae tend to be very liberal, carefree and has a lower social threshold. When he was younger the members used to say he had zero sense of boundaries and we could all see that too most times.

A reminder, he's the same person he stripped young Jk naked in the shower so he could have that male bonding experience and stop his shyness.

Yet he is also the one who wouldn't share his close friends with his band mates and said he likes girls that looked mean (unapproachable) on the outside.

So we know he has some sense of boundaries too. It's just not what you'd expect.

What is a boundary to you might not feel like a boundary to him. I recall him posting TKK photos on his birthday when Jk had gone out of his way to edit himself out of those pics.

The environment a person is raised in has an impact on their understanding of social dynamics and so we all have unique social needs and boundaries.

When it comes to Jungkook, he does put up boundaries where he feels he needs to and allows things he feels he's comfortable with including his one bandmate nibbling on his neck 🙃

He"ll quick punch us in the throat if any one of us tried that shit🤧

And I don't know if Jimin will be down to bump dicks with us- or it's just a jikook thing. Idk idk😩

[opalsiren]

thinking about the h2o girlies as magical girls on this day

cleo in a cute sparkly blue outfit like her locket, or maybe purple since emma wears blue, too. she is the leader of the group since the shy, reserved one tends to be thrust into this position in magical girl media, and honestly i would love this for her. has powers over hydrokinesis, and also aerokinesis, so her element is air. idk i like to think that, since she's the leader, the girlies are all more powerful when she's with them? or mayhaps she is the only one able to trigger the magical girl transformation with her locket or sth. given her aerokinesis she is definitely the most proficient at flying too

emma definitely wears a pale blue get-up, maybe with white or silver accents like her locket. she has ice and snow powers obvi, and is able to control clouds and storms with cleo and rikki's help. definitely takes to being a magical girl easily, but struggles with cleo being the main decision-maker of the group since she sees herself as a leader. water is her element, and i can totally see her with healing abilities à la katara avatar the last airbender. i think reckoning with these powers would help her overcome her jealousy and control issues with cleo, since emma is deeply compassionate at her core, seeing herself as someone who helps others above all else

rikki for sure has an adorable red 'fit, mayhaps with accents of orange or black. her element is fire, a pyrokinetic queen who can conjure up lightning in an instant. she probably takes to being a magical girl the easiest out of the three of them. she thinks the transformation is the coolest thing to ever happen to them, maybe to anyone, while cleo and emma struggle with the secrecy and their new roles within the dynamic. def starts dating zane in secret and hates having to conceal her powers from him

i am an earthbender!bella truther first and a person second, so i am giving miss girl earth powers. she can create earthquakes and manipulate flowers and plants too, because i say so. she probably has a green locket and an outfit to match. i'm gonna give charlotte powers over quintessence, the fifth element, like fellow redhead extraordinaire will vandom; she is able to shoot miscellaneous power bolts from her hands, can speak to animals, and animate inanimate objects, especially those that are electric. a purple locket and matching sparkly outfit is necessary (or pink, if cleo wears purple)

i notice lewis and zane wear a lot of white and black respectively, so if (and that's a very big if) either are involved in the magic of it all, they definitely wear the two opposing colours. not sure what their powers might be but they definitely both deserve midriff-exposing, wing'd outfits too. if lewis has powers they are definitely something science-oriented, while zane is a proficient engineer in canon, so perhaps he could be like an atla-type metalbender? i do like the idea of lewis and zane as accompaniments to charlotte's powers, since they are both 'additions' to the group and arguably could be sympathetic to her, too

where the 1950s girlies fit into this whomst knows. thanks for coming to my insomnia-induced rant 🥰

[diabolikpersonals]

okay YAY 🎉🌸🧡🌸🌌🌸🌌🧡🎉🧡🌌🧡🎉 I'm gonna write all about it :]

it's yui x tomoko kuroki from watamote/it's your guys fault im not popular

tomoko is the exact weirdgirl thatd make yui go 'oh no, I'm in love with her' and I think yui would genuinely help tomoko become a better person. she's my little failgirl whomst I love an appreciate

reasons to ship them!

tomoko is a fan of {in her universe} diabolik lovers and would get really attached to yui after getting out her initial bitching since I know tomoko would do that about her video games. think like the people who complain about fem mc's then get attached and become big fans or something

I believe that yui could genuinely help tomoko become a better person. and it's the perfect 'I can make her better/oh no I made her worse' type of situation but yui just loosens up and has fun gf time <2 like showing yui games and the stuff she didn't grow up with and then it becomes a bonding activity!

if they both were at the sakamaki mansion at the same time {just pretend with me} tomoko would like yell at yui/push her away, then her fantasies would be like obliterated before her about the brothers, then it'd be a 'you and me against the world' because I love them. and yui would totally try to help tomoko if yui has been there longer, like hiding tomoko in another room when the brothers try some shit

if they were classmates in the watamote universe {pretend with me again} I think it'd kinda be like yuu and tomoko where they're friends, but if tomoko did... tomoko things I think yui would smack some sense into her, then they stop talking for a while, and yui would probably apologize and then they'd be friends again

yui is exactly the type of girl tomoko would complain about then realize that she's attracted to. tomoko hates on the cute, nice, pretty popular girl who surely has alternate intentions and totally wouldn't just be nice to her for no reason whatsoever. no way no how. why does tomoko want to hold her hand?--

they'd both be weirded out by one another and make wrong footed first impressions, yui thinking tomoko is a bit odd and tomoko being a hater for no reason, then they realize the other is kinda cute and they'd both get too shy to say anything {moreso scared in tomoko's case and yui having to realize that she likes girls {really they'd both have to realize they like girls}}, and I feel like yui would be the first to confess and tomoko would do the anime thing where she'd go all red and her ghost would fly out her mouth {please tell me you know what im talking about}

I have so much art of them together and they're so cute! like the way I've been showing tomoko growing is that she wears more of yui's hair flowers and it's so CUTE and like yui kinda incorporates tomoko's clothes a little idk how to explain it but they start sharing more and it's adorable <2 also tomoko's hair gets shorter because I think it's nice on her :)

the way things expanded is how I just started adding tomie from junji ito. just stick with me. I had a tomie idea of 'tomie like tomoko' so she just stays at home all the time and since my tomie doesn't go outside she doesn't have to worry about being killed

so in my weird jumbled-up stuff it has my tomie {mt}, tomie-accurate tomie {tat}, my tomie's friend {tf}, yui, and tomoko and they're all friends who hang out. it starts with tat coming back to class like in the original story and everyone is uncomfortable, but tf was home sick during the field trip events so she gets tat to skip classes for the day and go hang out at mt's house! tat has that instinctual tomie sense of 'I can be the only one i have to kill her' but then mt doesn't have that reaction so they just go upstairs to lend tat some non-uniform clothes and then tat realizes she can relax for once and then just. be a person

SO the way this connects back to yui and tomoko. all of them are friends who hang out, mt and tomoko always play games together since they share a lot of interests, tat still hangs off to the side since she's still a bit nervous and then opens up and let's herself have fun, tf usually tries to pry tomoko and mt away from the tv screen to play social games like cards or sleepover stuff, and YUI AND TOMOKO ARE DATING IN THIS ONE!!! I think this just boils down to girls being girls and just having fun together as teens lol

I know a lot of this is me just saying 'I love them' but like your honor. I adore them!!!!! also sorry for the long ask/tangent, I have a lot of things to share all of the time and feel the need to explain myself fully ^^;; I love drawing all of them together since they're so cutesy 🧡🧡🧡 I love my wife and her cringefail girlfriend

what a beautiful world you've made here!! I'm down for the yui/tomoko ship!!! I think that's so sweet, and yui's genuine kindness would absolutely get through to her ;-;

I feel so dreamy talking about yui with other girls, whether it's ships (especially ships lol) or female friends she might have, it always makes me so happy. I've played plenty of otome games that have kind of a female sidekick/friend character and I really wish yui could have one. I wanna see her with another girl so bad. tomoko is totally the type of girl I would ship yui with too!!!! augh!!!!

[bunnakit]

4 minutes ep 2 raw reactions

oh ok starting out intense again, i see.

still so fucking in love with the opening. what a haunting gorgeous image. no notes.

oop room 4 we know who that is. ooh 10:04pm

oh now i feel bad for saying tyme gave me bad vibes, he just has rbf. i get that lmao same

ohhh yikes great's friend sucks but i also don't trust dome.

i really feel like this shit with title is a red herring bc this would be way obvious with how aggro and shitty he's being.

ooh shit it's dat time - 11pm.

is his cheek bruised? oop yes it is.

oh. well. huh. hmm. OH. HEY MAN. WOW. THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY.

HOW IS HE ASKING HIS BESTIE TO MURDER SOMEONE SO CASUALLY? BRUH. THE FUCK.

i dont like how lackadaisical great is about things and how complicit he is. like. i get this whole show is giving him a chance to NOT be complicit and give him 2nd chances to do the right thing but like. my guy. why are you like this? why don't you give a fuck about all the terrible shit happening around you?

rewinding real quick to see if i missed any numbers aside from the 00:04 and 00:00 - okay i did not.

but like... someone really needs to get view away from this guy pls. he still has a whole ass other person in his nasty clutches.

BOI LMAO. i thought he was gonna be shitty to great bc of his "mom" but no dr. rbf has a lil crush. but like, who can blame him?

DAYUMN OKAY. you're both fucking ridiculous. the palpable gay panic. but like, again, fair.

IT'S PRETTY DEEP LMAAAO. i shan't say it.

i'm wearing headphones and this song is way too bass-y in my ears, it's rattling my skull.

my guy half of that bandage is on his hair, you're a terrible doctor.

man i really love sammon shows, they really build this perfect level of tension.

OH HE'S DEAD. HOW FUCKIN' HARD DID HE HIT HIM DAMN.

that blood was left at midnight, it would NOT still be that red at, what? 6am? but okay. the magical humidity of thailand i guess.

EVIDENCE MARKER 4 I SEE YOU.

UH OH UH OH UH OH UH OH UH OH UH OH UH OH UH OH WHUH OH WHOOPSIE OOOOH THIS WILL HAVE MORE LASTING REPERCUSSIONS ON THE NARRATIVE THAN I EXPECTED

great really doesn't seem like a bad guy, just more like he's not taking any sort of active role in the world around him.

whoa whoa whoa wait. what??? if title is there who the fuck is dead?

bruh this rich boy garage? there's no way there isn't-- yeah. that. a camera. dipshit. love the clock ticking effect on the perspective tho.

dr boyfriend!!! what are you doing here?

wait now that we know title is fucking crazy is he the one who shot tyme in the ep 1 preview thingy?

god DAMN tyme's legs are long.

BRO HE WANTS TO FUCK YOU SO BAD IT MAKES HIM LOOK SILLY. LMAAAO WE LOVE A RIZZLESS LOSER.

it's 11!! but at least there's a pretty kitty.

ohhh no. oh wow. korn buddy. i know you're working but like, at least a single word to him, c'mon. OH DO NOT YELL AT HIM.

BITCH I'LL KILL YOU IF TON KLA DOESN'T DO IT HIMSELF.

still REALLY confused who is dead and why tho, not gonna lie.

oh whaddup gun theerapanyakul 2.0

BUDDY USE YOUR NOGGIN. HE "TOOK CARE" OF HIM. C'MON.

straight sex in my bl??? also like. man. i was hoping to like korn but he can go to hell now for all i care. hope her pussy tastes like soot and ash.

how did i know detective man was gonna be a rebound. he was looking at him a little too intently.

WHOA. WHOAAA. DR RBF???? WHAT'RE YOU DOING? AND WHO IS DEAD? like am i stupid??? dome, title, and great were all at the field. great took dome to the hospital. title confronted great in the garage. so whomst is dead??

I UNDERSTAND EVEN LESS THAN I DID AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EPISODE.

[naazyalensky]

365 DAYS OF GLEE ||| Day 305

[britishsass]

T-Time lord AU? I am going to assume Dr. Who, but my knowledge on that is WOEFULLY near 0 sooo *pulls up a chair and popcorn* TELL ME ALL ABOUT WHOMST IS THE TIME LORD AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE BOX TARDIS IS XD (legit tell me more am curious)

OOOH MAN I'M HYPER TO TELL YOU IT ALL

It is, in fact, Doctor Who based! However, since I'm too much of a DW nerd to actually make someone the Doctor (That'd be getting their characterization all weird, and I don't want to do that rn, there's so much stuff in DW I don't actually know--) I made my own time lords.

Yeah, that's right, time lords with an s. There are three in this au. I'll detail all three of them under the cut-- This is gonna be a long one.

First off, the main character is a time lord known as "The Ranger." His TARDIS is actually stuck as a Ford F-100 truck, so he goes by Ford to seem a bit more normal to regular folks.

[Image ID: Ford as a time lord, drawn with lighter skin, a red vest, a green cape, and a white collared shirt. He has a gear-shaped brooch and a pocketwatch chain as well. Next to him, his name and a list of quick details ("2nd Regeneration," "About 450," and "QPPs with Otto (the Mechanic)") are written. End ID]

His regeneration was a bit more of a mess, but it's mostly focused on him in this regeneration, so I'll let that part sit for a while. Just know that this is not his first face. He's the second Ranger. His last name was based on the first name he saw, so it wasn't much better, but he does enjoy changing his name.

The story I'm currently working on has his companion as Bob, with Helmut only just joining the TARDIS team.

(Also, yes... This is the AU where Ford drifts a truck.)

The interior of his TARDIS is rather rustic, with strange branch-like structures to make it feel more natural. At least, that's what it's like in this regeneration.

~

The Mechanic is the second of the three, and doesn't actually have a concrete design yet-- I'm still trying to decide how he dresses, after all. This guy has had at least 4 regenerations already, mostly caused by scientific experiments going very wrong. This is Otto. He's basically normal Otto, to be honest, except now he's a time traveler, and he accidentally/on-purpose took Compton with him solely because he wanted to properly thank the nice guy at his favorite restaurant.

He does show up around the Ranger a lot! However, he isn't as well-known for interfering, since he finds much more interest in just watching events, trying food, and learning new things-- Not saving the world or anything like that. Think of him more as a passive observer, except he's chaotic if they ever do interact with him.

Also, he likes to take an extremely long time to decide on a new name for each new face. The name "Otto Mechanus" was his goal, but it got misheard as Mentallis, so now he's stuck with it.

His TARDIS tends to look very out-of-place, a lot like something you'd find in Otto's lab. And the interior is... Well, it's what you expect.

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The final time lord of the trio is one who hasn't been seen in quite a while. They had at least two different regenerations, both of whom were quite the troublemakers for the Ranger and the Mechanic.

This time lord is known as the Ruler, and he's also known as Gristol, since he required a "normal" name for humans to trust him in his most recent known face. There's been multiple incidents with him causing trouble in the attempt to take charge of various places, but at the moment, he's not been seen for a while... Maybe he's finally gone?

Or maybe he's just wearing a different face now.

~

Anyway, thank you for the lovely question! I'm happy to talk more about the other regenerations too, but I think it's better to just focus on the current ones I'm writing about, hah.

[anxietea-and-cookies]

DUNK-A-ROO IS SUCH A CUTE NAME, PLEASE I WANNA KNOW WHOMST

Dunk-a-Roo is also called Roo for short.

He's 6'9".

His magic color is neon orange.

He got his nickname because his favorite snacks are dunk-a-roos.

He and his brother are both Fresh-types.

He is very, very, very much against smoking, though he does have an oral fixation he satisfies with suckers.

His outfit consists of a neon hoodie in pink, yellow, blue, and green, black cargo shorts with retro bowling alley print on them, red fingerless gloves, and black converse hightops. This isn't mentioning his neon orange beanie or the sunglasses he wears that have the colorful words, "wut up?" printed on them.

He likes rollerskating more than skateboarding, so he'll leave that to Sketcher.

He likes 90's rap music, for the most part.

[emile-hides]

Mini Disasters

What do I always say? Make the content you want to see in the world. Even if making that content starts at 4 in the morning, do it.

Fatgum X Reader (gender be damned), with a lot of funky intern shenanigans because I personally love the entire FatFam and wish to write for them.

“And this is....?” You stood just beyond the door to Fatgum’s agency, chaos reigned behind you that you’d more or less chosen to ignore.

Fatgum had rushed to go on patrol this morning with Suneater and someone else you only barely caught a glance of. He was hiding them from you, which on it’s own was a problem, but more so the issue was he left you alone with a very easily bored Red Riot and Real Steel, whomst were now causing the aforementioned chaos behind you.

“Momo Yaoyorozu!” The girl stood perfectly straight, her hands placed politely folded in front of her... skirt? Belts? What were kids thinking with these hero costumes now a days?

You glanced up at Fatgum, who was wearing a face desperate for approval, a shaken smile and sweat of bullets as he happily proclaimed, “Creati! She’s interning here at the agency! Just started today!”

“Thankyou for having me.” Creati, the new intern, as you just learned, bowed gracefully to you, “I look forward to learning from you.”

Well. That was a better introduction then Real Steel had given, at least. You glanced back at Fatgum, still desperately awaiting your reaction, clearly hopeful you’d except the new intern.

Taking a soft breath you asked in an almost wicked tone, “And who recommended you to us, Creati?”

The girl popped up from her bow, eyes sparkling, completely unaware of your dripping with ill intent tone, “Amajiki-Senpai! Sense I’m in the same class as Kirishima, I decided why not.”

Your head turned so fast it gave an ominous crack as your eyes honed onto Suneater, the true culprit behind the ever growing sea of interns.

He was a bleeding heart, that one, anyone who shows the slightest hint of self doubt, he sends to Fatgum’s care. It shows what a good job Fatgum had done with the boy, and that he trusted his mentor to do the same for others. Overall it was a good thing.

But there should still be a limit.

Suneater did his best to run, but with the destruction of two rambunctious 15 year olds in his path, and the emotional exhaustion of going on patrol with Fatgum, there wasn’t far he could go.

“Amajiki...” You spoke low, speaking his name like a raged mother may do. He gulped, pulling on his cloak. Before you could say much else though, a pair of delicate hands took yours.

Bright eyes sparkled at you, Creati held tight to your hands, shining like the sun before you, “I look forward to learning from you.” She’d said that before but... God now with her eyes on you, shining, hopeful. 

You were weak to sunshine like hers.

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“Honeycakes...” Taishiro gave a whine from his desk, even his massive form was positively shrunk by the stacks of paperwork on the wooden surface.

“Busy.” You spoke bluntly, gathering up the sharded remains of a very nice wooden tea table Yaoyorozu had made to show off her quirk. It existed for only a few moments before Tetsutetsu power slammed Kirishima into it.

You could feel Taishiro’s puppy dog eyes from across the room. You glanced back at him, he was sunken, with his head on his desk and his pen balanced on his nose. He was bored, and tired.

You sighed, “What do you have completed?” You walked over to the desk, making Taishiro lift himself up as he slid a much smaller stack of papers to you, placed for no reason in an ‘out’ bin.

Sat comfortably on his knee, you looked over the completed cases and files Taishiro had already filled out. With you in closer proximity, Taishiro found himself invigorated to get back to work.

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“They’re out...” Amajiki spoke softly, glancing back over his shoulder at his fellow interns.

“What do you mean they’re out??? Should we call somebody???” Tetsutetsu spoke at his regular, maximum volume.

Kirishima, quick to put a hand over his mouth, asked “Like asleep? What did they sleep in Fat’s office? All night?”

Yaoyorozu gave a soft gasp, “Scandalous! Are they dating? Oh let me see!!” The girl’s excitment got the better of her as she pushed her way to the door, almost toppling Amajiki on her way.

Inside Fatgum’s office on a couch not far from the door, you rested atop the massive hero, still asleep despite it being rather late into the morning, almost noon infact. Very unprofessional of both of you. Though to both your credit, you’d been awake 2 hours ago, and all hours before then, finishing paperwork.

“Please be quiet...” Amajiki gave a soft protest as he attempted to close the door, only for Kirishima and Tetsu to dog pile onto him, trying to peek in on your love life as well.

“Yeah, are they dating?? You’ve been here the longest, Amajiki, surely you know!” Kirishima looked down at his squashed upper classman, who just gave an exhausted sigh.

Tetsutetsu took the moment of shuffling to pull away from Kirishima, pushing the office door the rest of the way open, “Who CARES if they’re dating, let’s get a move on!! We’ve got interning to do!!!!”

Tetsu’s three fellow interns quickly tackled him to the ground, struggling to cover his loud mouth as they floundered on the floor. They’re lucky that, despite the ruckus, you remained asleep.

“Shhhhh!!” Yaoyorozu hissed at Tetsutetsu before carefully crawling off him, “Let them rest.” She spoke softly, pulling a blanket from her arm to toss over Taishiro’s sleeping form. “I’m sure we can find something small to do until they wake up.”

Yaoyorozu led Kirishima and Tetsutetsu back out of the office, confident she could keep the two well entertained and under control until either of their mentors were ready to take them on patrol.

Amajiki made the correct decision of joining the two of you on the couch for a well deserved nap, deciding if the agency caught fire, or collapsed, or exploded, this would be a much better final resting place than in the middle of whatever those three would get up to.

They’d have a lot of cleaning to do before any of them were allowed back on patrol.

[saharzahids]

Starkid Rewatch: The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals 🎼

Finally we have reached the hatchetfield series

My paulkins brain is ready let's gooo

I'm that one lady in the audience who's genuinely jamming out to the intro

Thinking back to how the intro was just foreshadowing the ending and that Emma gets infected too

🎶what an ass, what a bitch, what a cuuuuuuuuck🎶

I love how every musical with them has lauren and robert having a cute dance number

Paul was clearly set up to be the asshole character but we all chose to love him so they just went along with it

LATTAY HOTTAY ☕

Does she know i would die for her

I have very low blood sugar

Paulkins interaction here we go

Knowing that ted is the homeless man...

I don't know how it changes things here but somehow it just does

Reluctant friendship hcs for paul and green peace girl come through

Once again: props to June saito for understanding the duality of lesbian fashion

Hey it's everyone's favorite murder grandpa

Oh, look a new blouse

Pitch perfect whomst?

I love that for Bill it's never a question of alice being gay..it's never really that big of a deal. He just does not like deb

He even suggests other girls for alice

Its just really comforting for me to watch it be normalised so sweetly

Lah...dee...DAH. DAH. DAY?!

I will 100% believe this is the man behind the paul clones. He is so fucking unhinged look at him

🎶black coffee, I'm your coffee gal- NOOOOO!!!!!

He has to bend to half his height to meet her eye level i love them

Promise me you'll think about the implications!!

Jaime had no business being this hot during cup of poisoned coffee

They're constantly just holding hands or reaching out for each other it's too cute

YOU GRABBED THE WRONG ONE, YOU NOODLE!

The purest friendship

Ted casually jamming out to Robert's dance

[alien/turkey noises]

His brain fell out

Who is it? Professor hidgens! Don't lie to me whoever you are, I'm professor hidgens!

This is paul and...them

I'm going to...kick your...head

Iconic

Get you someone who looks at you the way paul looks at emma

Or even the way emma looks at paul really they're both equally soft

The biggest plot twist would have been if Paul had been the one to crash Jane's car

FUCK CLIVESDALE

So I guess I'm the supervillain? I don't think of you like that at all emma

I'm soft for them

Jaime i love u

Seriously her voice 😯

Jeff just jumping around while jaime sings like a goddess honestly same

Anyways paulkins are being all adorable in the background

I love how they're just screaming out for bill like fuck ted

I shot a charle-ton

Appreciate his jokes please

SING THE BEGINNING OF MOANA

The best starkid song honestly

Can we talk about how paul remembered most of the lines? Like emma and ted were just repeating whatever he said and bill was fucking singing the circle of life

Ted's voice cracking

I just realised he's sitting directly in front of charlotte's body and I know he's 90% an asshole but this fucking scene man

Like he cares just a little and we can all see it how he's trying to keep whats left of his friends from dying too

Honestly joey's acting here gets me

Height difference™

When he said "I respect her choices but..." I honestly initially thought some homophobic crap might follow but bill you absolute angel

He did not dissapoint

Bill Woodward 🤝 Steve harrington

If you get what I mean

(team i have no issue with you being a lesbian but please have better taste in girls)

Fancasting for denise or angela to play grace chastity in NPMD

Corey's expressions in this scene honestly breaks my heart

He just wanted to save his daughter 😔

prove it asshole, we're the army

he boop

WEAR A WATCH ⌚

I'm authorising you to use my firearm

Hidgens and mcnamara are both dramatic gays but with completely opposite energies

[foot sweep]

The way he skip-runs across the stage

Draco would be proud

For a 63 year old he can really work those hips

The audience losing their shit

Should I take this chair? I'll get the piano

The light slowly turning red as infected!mcnamara smiles

The audience slowly realising what the lyrics mean

Honestly iconic

One of my favorite moments in the show

So the last thing paul ever told emma was "byeeeee"?

Nah fuck that they both survived and are living happily in colorado running their pot farm

What ending?

The theatre being Paul's worst nightmare and starlight theatre being the place where he's killed, and starlight also being miss holloway's nightmare time? Methinks he might be her descendent of some sort

Watch out paul, he might kick your head

Mr. Davidson didn't want to be a mindless alien slave! He wanted to be choked by his wife!

Starkid stroking their villain takes a whole another level here huh

Jon slipping between normal talking to singing after every other word is pure talent

All jokes and paulkins related angst aside the ending is actually really amazing for a multitude of reasons

1. Inevitable is an absolute masterpiece of a song and it ties in all the previous songs that were there in the show

2. It provides context to the intro song (its all a fucking loop babey)

3. We get this one final moment of softness

4. Emma's scream perfectly harmonises with the ending of inevitable

5. It spectacularly breaks the 4th wall for the second time and integrates the audience as characters in the show

6. They never once break character through the whole thing

7. It proves once and for all that the hero of the story was never paul, it was emma. paul was just the final villain

That being said I am happily going back deep down in denial-town. You can find me drowning in a bucketload of paulkins fluff fics goodbye

[miukid]

i’ll have u know i am this 👌🏼 close to qi deviating bc of this post

this wen qing with this yanli .... arranged marriage slow burn falling in love au where yanli is the more calm rational one and wen qing is the more fiesty distant one and yanli goes to talk to wen qing about how, if she is willing to, they both can make this marriage work for the sake of their families and be happy in it too ....... 🥰🤧

[bonzai-bunny]

An Incomplete Guide to Makeup featuring: The Face

So you walk into a Sephora for the first time and are, understandably, a bit lost. There are so many different brands and colors and tools, it’s all quite dizzying. I think, at its best, makeup can be a wonderful tool of artistry and self expression. I won’t get into makeup at its worst tho….

Anyway, I want to go over the basics in a way that hopefully makes sense to those who want to learn. I’m going break this into sections of face, eyebrows, eyes, and lips. And I want to preface this by saying that makeup has no rules! If you want to wear concealer as eyeshadow whomst am I to stop you? This is just a guide of how things are typically done. So let’s get started!

First things first: Skincare! I won’t pretend to be an expert in skincare, but your skin is important. Keep it moisturized with lotion/cream/gel and protected with sunscreen and please, please, please wash your makeup off before you go to bed! If you exfoliate, don’t do it everyday, no matter what Kylie Jenner says. (I can make a separate post for skincare if y'all want more detail.)

Things you typically wear on your face are primer, foundation, concealer, powder (setting and finishing), blush, bronzer, highlighter, and setting spray. You do not have to wear all of these things at once or, any at all if you don’t want to, but some people do. Just know that, unless you want it to move around your face, any liquid or cream product should be set with powder.

Primer 

So you know how if you need to paint a wall, it needs a primer to help it stick to the wall and to protect the wall? Makeup primer works the same way. It protects the skin and helps the foundation stick (more on foundation later), can control oil, and can blur “imperfections” such as some texture and large pores. There are two main types: silicone based and water based. I’m told that matching the primer brand and foundation brand is good because the products are made to work together but I have never tested this myself. I’ve also been told that you should match silicone based primer and foundation and water based primer and foundation.

Silicone based primers: (If you see words ending in -cone,-methicone, or -siloxane in the first few ingredients then the primer is silicone-based). These have a smooth, kind of thick, texture and are good for blurring pores, fine lines, and texture.

Water based primers: (water is probably the first ingredients). These have a watery texture, are light, and are good for dry skin (1).

These are very Your Mileage May Vary on what works for you.

Foundation

If makeup primer is like paint primer, then foundation is the paint. It gives you a blank canvas to work with. This is your base. It evens skin tone and depending on the coverage, covers blemishes, redness, dark spots. Coverage can vary from BB/CC creams (basically sunscreen/lotion with some tint in it and also very difficult to find in darker shades) to super full cover up your past mistakes type coverage. Just like paint, it comes in a spectrum of matte (no shine) to gloss, called radiant or glow, which is all shine. What you want depends on preference and how oily your skin is. For example, if you have really dry skin, a super mattifying foundation might make your skin *too* dry.

This section primarily focuses on liquid, cream, and stick foundations as I don’t and have never worn powder foundation.

Next, we need to talk shades because the whole point of foundation is that it matches your skin. To find a good match you need to know your undertone, which can be a little complicated. Generally, when makeup says it’s “cool toned” they mean pink, reds, and blues. If they say “warm toned” they mean yellows, golds and peaches. Neutral lands somewhere in the middle. It’s not an exact science but this page may help you.

Shade ranges typically go, from lightest to darkest, Fair -> Light -> Medium -> Tan -> Dark -> Deep

Some drugstore* options with good shade ranges are: Maybelline, Nyx, Colourpop, L’Oreal Paris, Covergirl and E.L.F

Some higher end options with good shade ranges are: Nars, Too Faced, Estee Lauder, Fenty, Lancome, and MAC

Tools for foundation

You can use a brush or a sponge (or both!) to apply foundation. I like to apply with a brush and blend with a damp sponge, but that’s just personal preference. :)

(Image: A picture of 5 different types of foundations brushes that are labeled, from left to right “flat/paddle brush.” “stippling/duo-fiber brush,” “flat-top kabuki brush,” “buffing brush,” and “round-top kabuki brush (good for powder foundation).” In between the buffing brush and round-top kabuki, there is a pink, tear drop shaped sponge.)

Drugstore: Morphe, E.L.F, NYX and Real Techniques

High end: Sigma Beauty, MAC, and Sephora Brand

I think I’ll do another post some other time about techniques with each but moving on!

Concealer

Think of concealer like heavy duty foundation. It is thicker and more full coverage than foundation and more for small areas than the full face. Just like foundation, it does vary in the amount of coverage. It can go above or under foundation. There are three ways to use concealer: Spot covering, color correcting, and highlighting and contouring.

Spot covering is what it sounds like, covering small spots that the foundation might not have covered. Typically done with the same color as the foundation.

Color correcting is taking a color and that isn’t your skin tone to “correct” some blemish or darkness. So brief rundown:

Peach: Dark spots on light to medium skin tones Orange: Dark spots on tan to dark skin tones Red: Dark spots on deep skin tones Green: Persistent redness from acne Yellow: Mild redness Pink: Dark circles and overall dullness on light skin tones Purple: Dark circles and overall dullness on dark skin tones (2)

Highlighting and Contouring** 

Popularized by Kim Kardashian. Highlighting is taking a color that is lighter than your skin tone and, well, using it to direct attention to certain parts of your face (or brighten up the under eye area). Common areas to highlight are under eye/above cheek bone/center forehead/chin/bridge of nose. Can also be used under an eyebrow to help shape it. Contouring is taking a color that is darker and cooler than your skin tone and using it to deepen/chisel your features or create the illusion of shadow. Common areas to contour are under the cheekbones, around perimeter of forehead, around the jawline, and the sides of the nose.

You can highlight and contour with foundation or powders, but it’s often done with concealer.

Drugstore: Maybelline, Colourpop, Milani, L’Oreal, NYX

High End: Nars, Too Faced, CoverFX, Makeup Forever

Can be applied with a sponge or a brush, like the few below. They tend to be smaller than foundation brushes because you use less concealer.

(Image: 5 small brushes shown vertically) (3)

Powders

There are two main types of powders, setting powder and finishing powder. 

Setting powder, which may be loose or pressed in a pan, prevents base makeup from moving and can prevent areas of the face from getting oily and breaking up makeup. Often done with translucent powder. Despite its name, MOST white translucent powders are not actually translucent on dark skin tones. It will appear as a grey cast, but you can get “translucent” powders in tan, beige, and yellow. It can be very hard to find good translucent powder.

Drugstore: Maybelline, Morphe

High End: Laura Mercier, Beauty Bakery, and Fenty Beauty

Finishing powder is what it sounds like. You put it on after all of your makeup is done to get it all nice and airbrushed looking. These are typically are loose powder and aren’t really used as much as setting powder. Sometimes finishing and setting powders are used interchangeably (4). At the end of the day it is just powder that goes on your face.

Drugstore: Colourpop, Maybelline, Morphe, NYX

High End: Sephora Brand, MAC, Ben Nye

Setting powder is typically applied with a sponge (damp or not) and pressed into the oiliest parts or parts you want to highlight, called baking.

Finishing powder is typically dusted over the face with a big fluffy brush like this one.

(Image: A black makeup brush with a round, fluffy, white tip that is widest at its top) (5)

Blush!

This, along with lipstick, is probably one of the most well known aspects of makeup. Blush can be powder, cream, or liquid and is used to bring a bit of flush back to the cheeks (or nose for some people). Can be matte or sparkly. Not all blushes work for all people and this largely depends on skin tones. A light pink blush will look grey on me for example. And yes, blush can work on dark skin, it just depends on the color blush.

Drugstore blushes: Colourpop, NYX, Maybelline, Milani, and Morphe

High end blushes: Nars, Makeup Forever, Lancome, MAC and Bobbi Brown

Cream or liquid blush can be applied with fingers or a sponge. Powder blush is applied with a powder brush, which is also the brush above!

Bronzer

Many people confuse bronzing and contouring. The purpose of contouring is to make your face look more chiseled (or snatched as the kids say). Bronzing is to make you look a little more sun kissed and tan. It’s typically a powder (I have never seen a cream or liquid bronzer but I’m sure it exists) and can be matte or sparkly. It’s applied in about the same place as a contouring might be, but softer and more diffused.

Drugstore bronzers: NYX, Colourpop, Maybelline

High end bronzers: Anastasia Beverly Hills, Nars, Bobbi Brown

Applied with a fluffy powder brush or angle brush or short stipple brush.

(Image, a black brush with a silver hilt and black bristles. The brush is flat on top and angled to the right) (6)

((Note: You can also do a powder contour with that type of brush!))

Highlighter

And here, the shiny champion. 

I don’t know how to describe it other than it’s put on certain spots to make light reflect there. It can be liquid, cream, or powder. Some people want a nice subtle glow. Some people want to look like they’re trying to flag down a plane. It might be put on the cheekbone, under the brow bone, on the tip of the nose or down the nose bridge.

Here is an example of it in use:

(Image, white woman with dark hair in makeup and wearing Stila Glitter and Glow Face Highlighter on her cheek bones, under the brown bone, on the bridge and tip of the nose, in the inner corner of the eye, and on the forehead) 

I find that silvery/white highlighter tends to look washed out on dark skin, but there’s no hard and fast rule on what colors to use. You can go from more traditional colors like gold and silver or you can wear purple or green or blue highlighter. It’s all up to you!

Drugstore highlighters: Physicians Formula, Maybelline, NYX, Colourpop, and ELF

High end highlighters: Anastasia Beverly Hills, Stila, CoverFX, Hourglass, and Laura Geller

If it’s a liquid or cream it might be applied with fingers or a sponge. If it’s a powder, it can be applied with a tapered brush or fan brush like so

(Image, two makeup brushes. One has a round tip that is wider in the middle and slimmer at the top. One has a tip that is shaped like a fan.) (7)

Setting spray

Last but not least! This is spray that helps melt your makeup into your skin/reduce the appearance of powder, and helps your makeup stay put. This is the last step for the face. All you do is just spray it all over your face.

Drugstore: Morphe, E.L.F., Colourpop

High end: Too Faced, Urban Decay, MAC

More parts to come! xx

*I know Colourpop and Morphe are not sold alongside drugstore products but the prices are comparable 

**I can do a post on Highlighting and Contour techniques if anyone wants

[storm-dragoness]

An incomplete list of birds I think are cool and why

Up first is a real good bird its crows

I like crows a lot, and not just because theyre cool black birds and i like and appreciate the goth *~*aesthetic*~* though that is part of it to be sure! They're also really smart! They use tools, they do things for fun, they have a sense of value and exchange, they dance and play in the snow, they wear hats (pictured above!) and in general are very cool. They’re considered bad luck but that’s just because they’re scavengers and are smart enough to see something doing something stupid and go "that’s gonna be dead soon and then i can eat it." Fucking superb you funky little death omen.

Up next is another good bird, its Crow 2 electric boogaloo, aka the Raven

Its bigger its stronger its smarter too the next member of the corvid crew.

This is as good a time as any to mention that I just like birds I don’t actually know how verifiable any of my information is. I’m aware of that. But i like ravens! They’re like crows but more! I remember reading a story about a raven who scared a small mob of crows and then laughed about it. And another about a raven who fed its mate who had a broken beak so she didn’t die. They’re smart, and have emotions and that’s cool.

Next is the other side of the goth bird aesthetic its the albatross!

Lookit that bird! Lookit those wings! Long thin wings for gliding and cruising on ocean winds. I think they’re neat because they’re (the only?) Birds that can lock their wings and fly while they’re asleep! They do this and cruise long distances over the ocean. That’s cool! Additionally, symbolism. Any bird ripe with symbolism is good in my book even if the symbol is regret. They’re good birds that do nothing to harm anyone so killing one is "a sin" and anyone who does so wears regret around their necks. I haven’t read the rime of the ancient mariner in a long time but i remember enjoying it.

Next bird!

Red-tailed hawk! These friends live in my area of New York and they’re really cool. They’re also the first bird I ever looked at and went "oh shit that’s a cool thing i think i like birds" because when i was in 4th grade this girl whomst i hated, her father was like. A wildlife person and he did a demonstration and he brought in one of these fellows and i was awestruck. They are very neat and even if i don’t know a lot about them, i like them. And they were the first bird i was able to identify in the wild going "that bird has a red tail and it looks like a hawk i bet its that!" And then being right. Also i think its the bird that tobias animorphs got stuck as. And i liked those books even if they’re fucked up as hell. 10/10 good bird though.

Moving on! Secretary Bird!

Secretary bird is cool! The guy who named it called it that because his secretary put pens in her hair, and he thought the feathers sticking out back looked like pens. Which is pretty funny. But funny names aside, these are cool birds! They stomp on snakes to kill them for food. Which is kinda badass. Don’t get me wrong i like snakes, but these fuckers see a snake and go "oh shit, food, and just wail on that motherfucker til its tenderized and ready to eat. They’re also fast, and really distinct looking which are both bonus points.

Next bird is Owls! Specifically barn owls, tyto alba.

Pros: very pretty bird. Look at those patterns. They've got the moon for a face. Theyre kinda spooky

Cons: kinda hard to draw. They all look p similar tbh.

Barn owls are among my favorite birds for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is the guardians of gahoole series. I loved those books and at one point read the first like. 13 in a single day. Soren was my favorite, and then coryn too. And nyra was a good villain. Idk its a good series about owls! Barn owls are silent fliers and have very good hearing because their ear holes are not symmetrical on their head which allows them to triangulate more accurately. And as previously stated, v pretty.

The next bird is a common friend, and to be honest not very popular, but i love pigeons

Pigeons are rad! People hate them, because they're plentiful and kind of a nuisance in cities and they poop everywhere, but non public pooping is a human concept and birds aren’t bound by your laws! Pigeons are beautiful, look at that iridescent plumage. I also think they’re pretty cute as far as birds go. It used to be the case that people kept pigeons as pets in cages on rooftops and they were showbirds, bred for ornamentation. I forget why this fell out of common practice, but for some reason people just stopped doing that and now everyone hates the city chickens... :c

Speaking of chickens... Chickens!

Chickens are great birds, they’re the mom friend. I think they’re just like, pretty funny as birds in general, but at the same time they’re pretty cute sometimes. And they’re friend shaped! Which is a plus. Besides that I love reading all sorts of different stories about how people will put different animals in a chicken’s nest and she’ll just. Adopt them. Like, oh I sit on you and therefore I am your mother. It’s a very fun instinct that they have and I find it really endearing. 

I don’t have a smooth transition to this next one, but next is the Peregrine falcon!

These little fuckers are cool for what I think is a pretty well known reason: their ability to become a perfectly aerodynamic little bird bullet and dive at impossibly high speeds. They’re not big birds, but if I’m not misremembering (and no I will not take 10 minutes to search for the video I’m about to mention) but I believe I saw a video of a peregrine taking out a bird at least twice its size, a fellow raptor who was encroaching on its territory, by diving out out nowhere at blazing speed and raking the fucker in a high speed flyby. Now I hate to see birds be taken out, but that’s nature, and frankly that ability is kinda cool.

There are more birds I like! But these are some of them!

[wellntruly]

Camp: Notes on Fashion, or: The Met Gala Goes Full Galaxy Brain

Camp is sincerely not serious. It is elevated kitsch. It is high-art appreciation of the banal, the pop, the tacky. It is good taste in bad taste. It is queer. It is exaggerated. It always exists in context. It is both nearly impossible to achieve at something as styled to the nines as the Met Gala, and yet also the Met Gala is one of the most camp things on this planet.

Basically, at the end of the day camp is like The Game of aesthetic philosophies, where the instant you try to define it you’re already lost. And at the end of this day, we’re left with a pile of celebrity red carpet photos that are just OUTRAGEOUS. Is it camp?? Shhh. None of it is. All of it is. It does not matter. It was *sublime*

JEN AND I ARE BACK AND WE TALKED ABOUT THESE:

LADY GAGA

Co-Chair Lady Gaga had three successive on-carpet costume reveals and ended up in spangly undies with a pink Radio Flyer wagon full of cowboy hat boxes and rosé. Anything Lady Gaga was going to do was going to be camp, but melting Met Twitter from the jump with a Gala game-changing PERFORMANCE of her studied exuberant weirdpop whimsy was a ~primo~ choice.

BILLY PORTER

Frankly, frankly??? This is too high art to even be camp. IT’S HIGH ART.

FLORENCE WELCH and SAOIRSE RONAN

Putting these together because a) the similar wing-flame structural shoulder thing (this year was big into SHOULDERS wasn’t it) and b) because while it wasn’t reading particularly camp to me (this was when I was still trying), Jen then laid this on me:

Jen: Florence and Saoirse both sort of look like they’re wearing things rejected from previous Met Galas (Heavenly Bodies and China Through the Looking Glass, respectively) because they would have been called campy.

AND NOW I’M IN2 IT, conceptually

CELINE DION

Celine Dion, Vegas superstar, in replica Ziegfeld Follies? Caaaaaammmp!

ELLE FANNING

Wow I’m impressed. I mean it’s all very ironic but also, the woman is wearing nail charms. She committed.

HAMISH BOWLES

FUCKING MEANWHILE.

Tarra: WHOMST is THIS!! Jen: Boy I wish I knew

This is apparently the English editor-at-large of Vogue. He’s killin’ it.

KATY PERRY

Katy Perry as an entire ass lit up chandelier. An entire. Chandelier.

Tarra: What truly would have sent this over the edge would be Sia swinging on her Jen:

Hahahahaha holy shit, that does it.

LIZZO

THIS IS JUST SILLY AND DELIGHTFUL. CAMP IS ABOUT DELIGHT.

JANELLE MONAE

Tom & Lorenzo: Ruling: SURREALIST CAMP. The high-art Miro undertones paired with an actual winking eye boob make this hit the mark. Jen: Hers is so good. More surreal than camp, I would say, but I just like it generally. Me: An EYEreola!!

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH and SOPHIE HUNTER

THE TASSLED WALKING STICK. Cumberbatch came in like, BRITISH DRAG?

Tarra: Apparently his wife (mauve) is an avant-garde theatre director, so thank you lady for this camp colonialists couples costume. Jen: *Raises a gin & tonic to Lord and Lady Cumberbatch*

JOAN COLLINS

Joan Collins came as herself on Dynasty. This is the winner. Like the amount of cultural currency she just flashed. Effortless. Iconic. Unbeatable. The purest high perf camp.

SOPHIE TURNER and JOE JONAS

Tarra: I think I think couples costumes are inherently camp... Jen: I think they look like they’re wearing abstract art pieces, and that would be more camp if it were the MoMA Gala, not the Met Gala Tarra: *snort*

CARA DELEVINGNE

This just seem pretty phenomenal. I have no idea why. The lines are on her body.

ASHTON SANDERS

Moonlight boy this fucking rules. Again I can’t explain why but it feels VERY camp, way to go.

NATASHA LYONNE

I just love it!!!

RICHARD MADDEN

Tarra: I think this guy came as Susan Sontag (zoom on that hair) and honestly I’m interested, this may be camp Jen: It’s Robb Stark! Tarra: Aaakjdfafskf* Jen: Would have been better with a braless turtleneck, but you can’t have everything, I guess. 

*Note: Tarra has never watched Game of Thrones, but once played a guessing game with Jen they made up where Jen would send her pictures of characters and she would attempt to ID them. She never fared well with the Starks.

HAILEE STEINFELD

She came in that ‘No Photos Please’ dress!! With a camera prop and posing!! All of these elements combine for a FUN SUCCESS.

THALIA

Jen: There’s like a Space Age-iness to this that I find fitting, or just kind of cool Tarra: Star Trek The Original Series chic!!!!!! Oh the hair MAKES IT.

ZENDAYA

Zendaya is a light-up Cinderella figurine with an interactive wand effect and a pumpkin coach bag. This is so gooooood. Jen also appreciates the camp of her male Fairy Godmother very much.

KACEY MUSGRAVE

Kacey Musgrave as Barbie® is another good good pull from the Mattel genre. Another fab handbag detail with her hairdryer on a chain, god, yes.

DANAI GURIRA

Jen: circus ringmaster/Fred Astaire vibes gets a campy thumbs up from me Tarra: I need no further excuse to post this jaw-dropping look

EZRA MILLER

I gasped so high it turned into a scream.

Jen: Ahaha ha WOW Tarra: I don’t even know what it IS!!! I’m just SCREAMING!!

Like, fellas, is it camp to go to a gala as a haute alarming seraphim-eyed living illusion wearing a diamond corset over a suit with a train? Do we even know what appearance is anymore??

And anyway that was the Met Camp Gala. “Camp” Gala. ““Camp””? Oh my god I have to go bed.

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My theories proven/disproven/thoughts, and thoughts on the trailer.

1. Looking for Vera will be the season goal. Well...its seems to be a goal, but it all seems to be building up to stealing/trying to steal the crown jewels.

2.  Carmen’s love interest will me made clear: Julia, Graham, or no one. Well, since neither of them were in the trailer at all!!!!!!! I don’t know. Could, still, be misdirection (Again with the SPOP S5 observation I made)

3. Zack will get an episode where he saves the day. Well, we don’t see him alone in the trailer at all, only helping out with ground support and (possibly) finding Carmen or something? Unknown

4. Julia will take initiative over Devineaux. WELL SINCE SHE DIDN’T SHOW UP IN THE TRAILER and Devineaux did-! I don’t know. Could be misdirection..

5. More ACME-centric. Mmmmm. Seems like the same balance, VILE showing up maybe even a bit more.

6. VILE will take more of a backseat; however, the fewer attacks we’ll have will be more ferocious. Still yet to be seen, but I don’t think so. 

7. VILE House Hunters. Maybe for a little bit, but it looks like they settle down in some unknown castle. You know. Discreetly.

8.  Roundabout content! We’ll see him in action. Yes yes yes! Totally more Roundabout in S3!

9. As much as I would love more info on Player, I don’t think we’re going to get much/any. Remains to be seen (we did get some info on his family in Secrets of the Silver Lion, though!)

10. Maybe some background on Chief? Unknown.

11. Based on the end of the Crackle Goes Kiwi Caper, ACME will interact with Graham. Again, unknown, but maybe this is why he wasn’t in the trailer...

12. Julia and Carmen will have a different sort of relationship after Stockholm/the hack. *Inhales* WELL

13. Hoping for some silly Shadowsan-Zack ninja training. Unknown again, but this season does seem more focused and serious.

14. Based on the flag teaser from Twitter, I’m hoping we’ll get an episode in Venice. (However, they already did have one in Milan..) Yes! Yes! Yes! Pretty sure that was Venice in the trailer! Yesssssss

15. Hoping for some more angst, as both VILE and ACME’s main directives are now taking Carmen down. *Glances at Carmen getting electrocuted into unconciousness and nearly getting hit by a car and gettig bola’d to a pole and fighting a bunch of people* so

16. Based on 15, maybe Carmen gets captured? This could also be Zack’s big moment, or a turning point for, perhaps, Julia or Graham (if he were to be recruited). So, maybe. Maelstrom says “Who will escort our little lost sheep back to VILE?”. Also, again, electrocuted into unconsciousness.

17. Counting on a small return/mention of the Duke, as he was mentioned in passing in the Need for Speed Caper. Unknown.

18. More. Fancy. Outfits. OH MY GOD I AM LIVING FOR THAT STAR OUTFIT JDJHHHHHH

19. El Topo and Le Chevre...doesn’t everyone want them to get together? weLL since they weren’t in the TRAILER

20. Vera Cruz...I don’t know if they will find her, or if she’ll be alive. To add such a potentially important character in S3, especially after Shadowsan, might be strange. Unknown again; though who is that buff lady who kicks the crap out of Brunt? Hmmmm

21. Building on 20, maybe Carmen will have a “my team is all the family I need” moment. Sounds like she’s still very adamant about finding her, from sneaking in to wherever to Ivy telling her they’ll find her

22. Hoping for some cool, deadly new operatives! Yeah!!!!!!!! Flytrap and Spinkick, plus electrocution lady, and perhaps a few others. (Also, lots of Neal, it seems!)

23.  Return of Mime Bomb. Yeppers yeppers yeppers!

24. Perhaps a stuck-together-for-survival situation (either Team Red-ACME, TR-VILE, or VILE-ACME). Didn’t see a hint of anything like that, but who knows.

25. I know we all want backstory for Ivy and Zack, but they got their little moment in S2, and their “family over career” moment. WELL- who was that lady? The one who sounds like Ivy, then Ivy-Julia, then Julia. You know the one. Maybe she’s family to them?

26. However, maybe Chase’s backstory? It seems to be quite a popular theory that he used to smoke (hence the mints). Maybe this will cause us to be more symathetic to him. Unknown again.

OKAY, MISC. THOUGHTS ON THE TRAILER!

-Again, yay glasses zack!

-Hideo! Hideo’s back and helping! It seems he was either wearing a mask or helping steal one.

-Pirate hat Carmen!

-I am in love with all the masks

-Wrestling lady!? Whomst!?

-The guy talking to Tigress was at C Cleo’s dinner party. The painter, I think.

-Spinkick and Flytrap seem pretty cool, actually. 

-Carmen’s reflexes seem so slow? She couldn’t avoid the loud whistling bola that tied her arm to the pole or think to drop (if possible) the thing that was electrocuting her into unconsciousness

-WOW That car did not slow down or anything, just honked

-Again! The star outfit! Oh my goodness gracious!

-Hey! Tigress and Paper Star working together, that’s going to be really interesting!

-Mime Bomb finally learned how to run

-Suit Chase is not horrible. I’m not thrilled. But its not horrible.

-”You care too much.” WHO ARE THE ROSES FOR SCREAM

-Most impossible heist keeps coming up. Again, like many, I think its the crown jewels.

-Hahah Zari looks so done when Carmen just zooms past

-ACME Graham is totally something I want to see. Maybe thats why we don’t get many ACME clips. Maybe he’s partnered with Julia...

Very very excited!!!!!!!! Its not what I was expecting but I’m very anxious to see how it goes. October 1 can not come soon enough! That was a really long rant and lots of stuff but I’m reallly really excited really really