#breaking this down made me really put a lot of understanding to things tbh
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hiiii!! so sorryyy idk if you take requests BUTT could you do headcannons of being in an argument with the aot characters?
đŁïž aot characters & arguments
characters involved: eren, armin, mikasa, connie, jean, sasha, reiner, annie, bertolt, erwin, levi & hange
notes: i do take requests indeed!! :3 i luv angst, i hope this is gdâĄ
⧠eren jaeger - ïżŒ
okay, when you guys argue itâs honestly more cute than anything because youâre both so protective of one another. neither of you wanted each other to join the scouts because it was so dangerous but, you both joined anyways obviously. oh my god, you guys non-stop bicker when thereâs a mission! and donât even get me started if you get put into different teamsđ you start TWEAKINGG. after he finds out heâs the attack titan, oh it gets 10x worse. his absolute biggest fear is losing control and hurting you - heâs already so conflicted, confused & felt like an outcast. he definitely lashes out more and becomes snappier than usual but, it does come from a place of sincerity.
when this happens, you just leave it be. as soon as itâs not just bickering anymore, when a voice is raised or an insult is made, you just leave it. you understand heâs going through a lot and just needs a minute but, TRUST ME! when you walk off, you make sure it is known that your feelings are hurt.
âi said no! you are not being on my team! im going with the levi squad, thats final.â
⧠armin arlert -
you both love each other very much but, goddamn youâre both so up your own arses! you are the âsmart coupleâ you are both strategic and witty and have your own way you go about things. so, when it comes to deciding whose plan is better, you always think yours is better and admin thinks his is better. this has (and probably always will be) the main root of your arguments, tbh. nobody likes to get involved either because if someone picks a side then even more havoc will break lose. the only people whoâve ever come between you two is: mikasa, levi & erwin.
itâs just like a debate, you know the ones on jubilee where itâs just people speaking over each other with different facts and sources? literally you two. you both would keep going until the end of time if you didnât need to sleep, eat and drink water. itâs never that serious at the end of the day, you both love each other and i GUESS you can appreciate each others plans albeit you both think yours is better.
âif you actually listen to me when i say, my layout is better! look at how easy it is to manoeuvre from the castle to the forest!â
⧠mikasa ackerman -
wash the damn scarf. that is all you ask of her. she has literally never washed it and you love but jesus christ, stink LINGERS. not only do you think itâs weird she doesnât wash it but, itâs also from eren⊠now, you know mikasaâs lore, of course. however, itâs really hard to get over your girlfriend having this deep love for this smelly scarf that her ex-crush gave to her after he literally saved her from being kidnapped. at first, you try to ignore it but it gets to a point where you sit down and talk to her but, she is not having it. she clearly cares very, very deeply for this scarf and will defend it. itâs really awkward conversation that slowly turns into raised voices and some opinionated things being raised.
âwhy are you getting jealous over a scarf? thatâs so stupid! i just have fond memories with it!â
⧠connie springer -
again, not so much major arguments but just bickers. it usually starts as a joke but slowly but surely divulges into an argument about something stupid. one time, someone ate the last of jeanâs meal that his mum made for him and he saved until today, obviously he was super upset and jokingly you blamed connie. at first, all was well, laughs were being heard and he even poked fun at you but, somewhere along the way it became more serious for you two, you genuinely suspected connie of eating jeanâs meal and connie was getting visibly more upset.
âthat was so not me! why are you telling them that?! i didnât eat it, y/n!â
jean regretted asking who ate his food.
⧠jean kirstein -
jean is unfortunately a jealous guy. not for any malicious reasons, heâs just a bit insecure gang! heâs more scared that youâll leave him for someone âbetterâ more than anything but, these feelings of insecurity manifest as jealously. heâd get jealous over you spending time with people like eren, mikasa or armin. in so many aspects, theyâre better than him (in his eyes) and this will just make him reallyyy pissy. being in an argument with jean is painstakingly ambiguous like he never straight up says it, itâs always sly remarks or dry responses from him for a while. eventually, you know something is up and question him but he will avoid answering like the plague and itâs just so, so frustrating! eventually, when you break your calm demeanour, he will also break his ânonchalant-nessâ and just shout about how he feels.
he crossed his arms, âi just donât understand why you need to be around him so much, you have me?â
⧠sasha braus -
absolutely nothing. iâm sorry but, she is too sweet and loving. IM SORRY, iâm sorry⊠i tried so hard to think of something but this queen is too perfect. at most, she would snap at you in high stress situations but she would never turn it into an argument. for example, if you told her to slow down her eating because youâre going on a mission but, she hasnât eaten much that day she may snap and tell you to âlet her do what she wantsâ but, sheâs sooo quick to recover and apologise. literally not even giving you a second to even think about arguing with her!!
âah, iâm sorry. youâre right, i donât wanna be sick while flying through the air, huh?â she pouts.
⧠reiner braun -
youâre both from marley, you know damn well what youâre doing here but it seems reiner is straying off path. youâre there to try and remind him why youâre there and this leads to so many arguments. his split personality also plays a role in the arguments because itâs so.. scary and confusing for you because one moment heâs defending eldians than the next, heâs shouting at you about how he âknows the planâ.
when talking about stuff like this, since itâs extra sensitive for reiner he definitely flips out. iâm talking shouting, angry grunting, clenching his fists into balls and holding them against his forehead so he doesnât fully crash tf out. heâs just as confused and scared as you are about his split personality but, he doesnât want to seem weak or to seem like heâs losing sight of what is ârightâ - it gets him really worked up. obviously, you stand your ground against him, he doesnât scare you when youâre arguing. youâve known him for so long.. you feel like he just needs to be guided.
âwhen did i ever say i liked them? yes, theyâre okay people to be around for now butâ no, i never said that! i know what they are, you donât remind to tell me, y/n!â
⧠annie leonhart -
just the fact sheâs cold and distant, it makes it really hard to actually have a relationship with her. at first, she was closed off COMPLETELY but cracks began to show and eventually, you thought you were at a good point with each other but, you kind of realised you didnât know that much about annie. you try to ask questions to get her to open up but, she is one tough egg to crack so eventually, you just ask! hoping to help her more than anything but, this leads to an argumentâŠ
after this first argument, it became pretty regular like once every few weeks this would happen. you get super frustrated because she acts like she doesnât even care! so, youâre shouting and getting really passionate while she sits there, looking pissed off and bored, rolling her eyes and scoffing. she doesnât see the need to open up to you, sheâs done what she thinks is âenoughâ in her books.
âwhat do you want me to say? iâm not an open book, thatâs just how i am. weâre all gonna end up dead, anyways.â
⧠bertolt hoover -
sigh⊠oh bert. every time you feel yourself developing further into your relationship with bert, his friends seem to pull him back. youâre still not quite sure why and they always seem to be giving side eyes or glances when he talks about his life - its starting to piss you off, rightfully so. you feel like heâs got two other side hoes watching yours and his every move! you being this up in subtle ways as to not seem like a crazy, jealous partner but eventually you burst and tell him how you really feel.
arguing with sweet bert isnât fun because you can tell he tries so hard to please everyone in the situation, whether itâs you, him or now in this case, his friends too. he will raise his voice but, not in a bad way just in a general sense, things are getting heated, his voice will raise and he will fling his arms and hands. heâs a very expressive man when arguing because he is so passionate about it.
ây/n, theyâre my friends! theyâre just trying to protect me, why are you jealous?â
⧠erwin smith -
thereâs so such things as arguments in your relationship, erwin likes to call them âmutual disagreementsâ as your both in the scouts, he knows your time is limited. itâs a morbid and pessimistic way to think but, you have to be realistic when you live such a deadly lifestyle. he doesnât want to take your time together for granted - plus, heâs a MAN like, he is calm and collected and will always hear you out.
you both start off calm, having a mature conversation about whatever it is that is bothering you but, when you start getting rowdier thatâs when erwin quells the flames quickly. he takes a deep breath, hears you out and calmly walks you through it all. heâs so compassionate about it, i cant omg. heâll gently place a hand over your own hand or on your shoulder if youâre standing, letting you know heâs present, heâll sweetly talk you down, eventually calming you down and usually youâll both say apologises or just general sweet statements and move on!
âiâm sorry, y/n. no, iâm glad you talked to me about this.â
⧠levi ackerman -
oh lord, being in an argument with levi ackerman is nawwtt fun. iâm sorry but, iâd kms if i argued with levi đ. this man has such an awful resting bitch face as it is but, imagine his face when heâs arguing with you? IF LOOKS COULD KILL. he cant hide his emotions, so when youâre arguing even if heâs trying to be somewhat nice, his face says it all. usually heâll roll his eyes and scoff if itâs something minor, heâll hear you out, maybe give a half arsed apology or some sort of nice gesture to make sure youâre not upset however, if itâs a big issue oh brotherâŠ
silent treatment, i fear. he is so bad at communicating his feels correctly and often feels confused because this mf ainât been in love before?! it gets too a point where heâs so mad, he just cant even begin to think of anything to say to you. youâll be there raising your voice, becoming so passionate and when you ask what he thinks, heâll say âi have nothing to say.â then boom, silent treatment. however, heâs bad with his words⊠but good with his actions. he still wants you to know he cares, you two could be in the most rancid moods but, youâll go to your room and find your clothes ironed and foldedđ„Č.
⧠hange zoë -
oh my sweet hange, my probably neurological challenged sweet hange⊠an argument with them would definitely stem from them spending more time with titans than you. when sawney and bean were around, you werenât getting ANY time of day with them, trust. at first, you didnât want to say anything because of course, you understand! the lifetime you guys are living in, things like hangeâs research is soo important but, you canât help but feel neglected sometimes.
when you finally bring it up, an argument ensues. neither of you really shout or anything, itâs just that kind of weird sort of raised, high pitched voice people get when youâre really frustrated. you both stay relatively calm for the situation youâre in but, you can totally tell youâre both so frustrated because hange just doesnât see the problem. when you guys argue like this, it usually just goes in circles and after a while you both decide to mutually give up and leave it for another day.
âitâs all for science and the greater good of humanity though, i donât understand?â
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I do wish there was a bit more good faith discussion to talk about the phenomenology of IWTV vampires as vampires and how being a vampire does affect one's conscious understanding of their own world. It's a drastic point of view shift from being human.
Things such as:
Their baseline for the violence needed to survive starts at drinking blood to live, and most beneficially by killing humans. Which they also once were. It can really only go up from there.
Not getting blood in the beneficial way can be likened to an eating disorder based on being hung up on the morality of your own survival.
Escalation to inhuman levels of violence is something that's comprehensible to think of, since it's possible to do to someone else, or yourself, and to some minds it's hardly of any consequence or difference.
Question of what to do with one's immortality when stuck in this necessitation for violence. Occupying all that time. Confronting vampiric existentialism. Doing what one can to not be driven mad or disparaging by it.
In living forever all such violence risks becoming inconsequential to the conscious mind in how you outlive all of its importance. If not because of death taking it, then because time will simply weather it away. For the same reasons most things can end up carrying very little significance. Making one increasingly apathetic or nihilistic.
Because of above, enacting laws with consequence, even of death, naturally leads to some not really caring about them. Making them more useful as a means of power, threat, or as a way of committing suicide, than as something morally binding. If used in moral ways at all.
Those who survive the longest have to necessarily take on being okay with a level of violence that is incomprehensible to human scales. Necessitating that often the most violent, or accepting of violence, tend to become those who withstand the test of time.
Those fitting into this category extends fairly naturally towards walks of those accepting of or that act out other forms of immorality, dehumanization, and antisocial behaviors.
Your community is small and made up of violent killers. Developing paranoia or hostility towards violent killers is self preservation. You are also a violent killer, and take any hostility towards your person as an offense or threat. Without some kind of love, compassion, or trust in the mix, your community would quickly destroy itself.
Because of above vampires enter to greater degrees unfulfilling, pragmatic, or socially contractual relations with others they may dislike, or be indifferent to, and often might resolve interpersonal issues with fake shows of affection or remorse.
If you do happen to find a real relationship, the violence you enact out in order to survive can't ever enter into that relationship, without it becoming abusive. But the lines between those two can blur easily when you consider again how nurtured one has to be into violence to begin with.
Survival instincts look different based on their background for survival. And surviving as a vampire takes on different concerns for safety and endurance. How you survived being human is how you'd think to survive as a vampire, and those who had very little to survive through would lack a level of survival skills necessary to take on this kind of life.
Once you've seen a bunch of how this life is going to be you tend to take on a level of 'this is just how things are'. Since they can't place themselves in time, they can't place themselves properly in a forward progression. Those who last tend to develop a superiority on how to last through this the right way, or make judgments on who will or should be allowed to.
To make a vampire at all you have to actually decide on this last statement that there is anyone deserving of this life, and that it's a life one deserves.
You are stuck always in the bodily age of when you died. General feelings of stuckness are encompassing, as you're bound by your immortality, and often can only survive through those who are in it with you. Anyone and anything you knew in mortal life will be gone one day, and what you're left with are only those of your own kind.
In having such a substantially focused relationship to violence. One has to always make a hyper-conscious effort not to be violent, for the wrong reasons. Or just simply have a good conscience about such things. (some combination of the two)
One's life and culture as a human bleeds into who they are as a vampire. Even in rejecting humanity completely, they carry those ideas and understandings around with them. Including prejudices, ideologies, and sensibilities. Vampires lack a distinctly separate culture from that of humans, and instead live alongside it at perpetual outsiders. Only loosely being effected by it, and able to choose removing oneself entirely if they're white, or otherwise not subject to prejudice based on appearance. Vampiric alienation and loneliness is perhaps fairly common, and at a certain point this outside position lends indifference about the human condition and whats happening in the world.
Due to this, certain cultural shifts might take far longer to ever reach vampires, than it would in our naturally generative, and transformative human society.
Due to this as well though certain human hold ups about things such as homosexuality aren't very present in vampires.
The more vampiric you are the more it puts you into the throes of violence, while falling back into your humanity puts you at face with the qualms of your own morality.
Vampires have to find some way of justifying this existence has true worth to it despite such violence, and what it's done to their life, or simply abandon all sense of such morality, or care. Otherwise this fact of violence, and reminders of it, drive them to the flames or otherwise an all consuming resentment of all this.
The only ways you can die is suicide and being killed.
In trying to bring greater meaning to your violence you end up making a spectacle about it. Which fosters a manner of self importance, and egotism, about being violent. Or equally making it into a performance or ritualism.
BDSM is arguably a great way to contend with the fact you are violent, or can be subject to violence, in a controlled and consensual setting. It can be almost therapeutic, like taking power back from all the violence you can't control.
These sorts of things are interesting to think on when you don't have someone else making it apologia for abuse and egregious acts of violence. Because while they are violent by nature, they don't lack a consciousness about it. They have minds which can actively choose not to be violent, choose different paths to violence, etc. They're able to make decisions, and regret those decisions. And also, just like anyone in community with others, or in respect to themselves, have good reason not to be. They may possess inhuman abilities and understandings, but they don't possess inhuman feelings and are capable of being physically, emotionally, and mentally harmed or harmful.
And actually, given the fact they can take this to vampiric scales, is by scale, worse, not somehow made diminished by fact one can come easily to a conscious idea nothing has any real consequences when confronting one's own immortality. This inconsequentialness is a lacking and false understanding of immortality anyway.
Immortality can equally be about a constant uplifting of the present and future into something better, confronting their own impact on the world and those in it to generate some new way of living as a vampire, as opposed to stagnation, or depravity into cycles, and pits, of unnecessary and avoidable violence. Or just inevitable boredom.
A lot of those within this vampiric culture, don't necessarily foster well a society dedicated toward being as non-violent as possible. (I account for all forms of necessary violence, like self defense, as being non-violent.) Some might even find such an idea they could move in the direction of non-violence to be self hating. But the very fact they can be non-violent, choose that, and separate that for compassion, and love, and righteousness means their consequences and morality do end up mattering necessarily. If there's choice in that there's a way to effect things. An upstanding vampire, who's not just surviving through this, would have to dedicate themselves to consequences and morality as a good in itself, I'd think, to do right by others and themselves. To not give in to evil/violence as their only true condition. And somehow synthesize that information with how they can never be moral by a humanist standard, but those such standards are by nature more moral than their own. They can't fall into vampiric exceptionalism, but do have to accept the fact of themselves as vampires has special other conditions to it.
#iwtv#interview with the vampire#amc iwtv#breaking this down made me really put a lot of understanding to things tbh#anyway claudia had the right idea about this all along fuck these vampires#long post#another thing as well I'm realizing is that if your naturally inclined with time to start as a baseline of voided consequences it makes the#conscious idea of owning up to any amount of consequence as far more significant than would be if you were already considering yourself#as consequential#Though if you never lost this (as I think Louis never quite did and Lestat could just sometimes forget)#You're going to better accept a little more is needed to make up for wrongdoings#Armand probably just assumes little is needed and is one who has to learn about the truer level of consequences
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Initial Thoughts on Chenford in 6x07
All right... I'm feeling... a lot at the moment, so just sharing my initial reactions before seeing anyone else's. I'm sure my feelings will evolve. Also this turned into a GD essay and I'm sorry.
The Good
Grey acknowledging that Lucy was going through a lot ABOVE & BEYOND the break up. I just wish he'd mentioned the shooting, too. Lucy deserves to be more than her relationship with Tim and I need to actually see that in the future.
Lucy laying out 2 key things in her conversation with Grey - how easily Tim walked away and that he had no right to make that decision for her
Prior to the last scene (see The Ugly below), I thought Tim's interactions with the therapist were reasonably well done; if only therapy was that easy in real life lol
"You've always got a home with me" - I loved this final scene between Lucy and Tamara. I don't really have feelings either way about Tamara at this point, and this still hit me right in the heart.
Smitty's poll made me laugh, but also another solid indicator that these writers / producers do in fact really enjoy laughing at the expense of the fandom and shippers (which, whatever, I don't care that they do, I'd prob do the same; but it does irk me when people act like these writers should be worshipped because of all the things they "give" us)
The Tim
"I'm not depressed. I broke up with her."
"I was her TO." Not her friend, cuz god knows Tim has yet to deal with the fact that he started banging his former Rookie I suppose.
I dunno whether to put this in The Good or The Bad at this point; it depends on where they take it, so instead Tim gets a section all about why he's a dick.
To be clear, I do not like that Tim is a dick. But I actually do kind of like that it is very clear TO THE AUDIENCE that Tim is being kind of a dick. Do I still think people will bend over backwards to defend him? Of course they will.
From my perspective, I love Tim, I understand that he thinks he's doing the right thing, and has lots and lots of trauma. I've never seen Tim as a character that magically healed at some point between Seasons 1 & 5 (please see his storyline with his dad, his ongoing issues with UC work and unwillingness to confront or deal with them, his feelings about therapy historically, his inability to dump Ashley, etc. etc.). He's never been perfect and he doesn't need to be.
All of those things are true. None of those things give him a free pass to be kind of a dick. He still has to take accountability for how he treated Lucy (which, to be clear, was like sh*t).
The Bad
Lucy being petty AF with the invites to Tamara's dinner - let her be ANGRY, but give me villain Lucy over this dumb sh*t.
Lucy having no one other than Grey to talk to.
Others acting like Lucy is actually kind of pathetic (why do these writers love sh*tting on her so much? girl could not be down and kicked any harder at this point) -- Celina / Nolan and the double dumping crap, Lucy thinking Grey paid actors and him telling her she was out of her damn mind
The last interaction between Lucy and Tim. I am so angry for her. I needed to see that from her, but instead it felt kind of like her being dumped / a kicked puppy all over again. We got it, thanks. What's next? Lucy being incredibly happy with the hottest man on earth? I'm here for it tbh. Lucy plotting Tim's murder? Also here for it at this point. LOL.
The Ugly
I could not hate the implication of that final scene with Tim and the therapist and the door shutting more. There was ZERO reason they couldn't have had him show up during the day, and it actually disgusts me that they are pushing this line again, but especially with Tim. I am literally NEVER this dramatic, but in this case I really hope they did that to just get a reaction, because if anything were to actually happen between Tim and the therapist, I'd be 100% done with this ship and show as would a whole lot of the audience (I think). If I kept watching, it would only be to see Lucy be absurdly happy without Tim.
Well, what'd I miss? What did y'all think?
#chenford#the rookie#the rookie spoilers#see lana ramble#no one tell the writers that women can have storylines that are not about BABIES
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As someone who's college age: yeah, there's a TON of people my age who don't know how things work and don't try to learn. Can't unzip a zip file, want to know where to download anime but haven't tried looking it up, ask things on subreddits a Google search or quick search on the wiki would answer, ask questions answered in FAQs or by professors or in the syllabus, say they can't download and install a new browser or app or program because they don't know how and they never think to look up how to do so, go months without logging into their student email because no one explained to them how to do so and they never thought to ask anyone how to do it, go months without washing their laundry because they don't know how and they also don't know how to look up instructions on how to do it, don't know how to cook and can't Google a recipe so they throw things in a pan and pray it works out, don't understand how to back up files, don't know how to attach a pdf to an email to send to a professor, cannot manage to put stuff on a USB drive + go to the library + print it off of the library computer, etc.
I spent most of freshman year teaching people things. The year after, my patience got more frayed and "Google it" started coming out of my mouth a lot more. This last year I gave up and now if people fuck themselves over, that's their decision. I'm not going to stand there begging people to do basic things they should already know how to do.
It was really funny when someone from Career Services came to talk to us about resumes and said we didn't need to put down 'can use Microsoft Excel' on there because everyone knew that and all but three people said actually no, they didn't. People who are 40+ really think we're all good at tech by default, like we fall out of the womb clutching a little phone already making spreadsheets in Excel or coding computers or whatever.
Meanwhile in reality you see a ton of people posting on tumblr going, "How do I post fic on tumblr?" whose blogs proudly state that they're under 18. The thought that you could just type into a Word doc and then copy and paste onto here never hits. And it's not going to.
I hate to break it to millennials and older people but yeah, actually, my generation does in fact have morons. We're not a moron-free demographic. I'm pretty sure moron-free demographics don't exist, tbh.
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It infuriates me that my father (in his 80s) is always saying to me that he needs to find a 12-year-old to explain his tech to him. I (40s) keep telling him it's more like a bell curve or something. We had a blip of people being taught in school or having their asses kicked about technology. But then it went away again.
I think we made computers and then phones much more accessible, which is great, but we forgot we still need to teach people things. I know not everyone got explicit instruction in school even in my era, but it seems like the US, at least, phased some of that out as we started assuming The Youth automatically knew it all.
That said... in my day, college freshmen were also terrible about doing their laundry, so some things never change.
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2nd house profection year
itâs my 2nd house profection year and Iâm noticing some changes in my life. < my 2nd house is in cancer for ref.
~àŒŻ Iâm eating more this year than ever tbh. like I started having comfort food!!! eating whatever I want whenever and not holding myself back as much, which is very unlike me btw. I have a virgo moon and Iâm not just nitpicky but also strict with my diet, even tho I have a fast metabolism (aries stellium).
~àŒŻ usually when Iâm stressed I tend to starve myself or get over caffeinated but this year Iâm leaning more towards eating for comfort < yes taurus core.
~àŒŻ I started going to the gym again but Iâd slack off and become uninterested and bored, then find it interesting again, but that could just be my gem rising.
~àŒŻ It seems like life is more abundant. things come easier! there's less resistance. Iâm able to slow down and smell the roses.. đąđž  I even feel a bit too comfortable or stuck in my comfort zone. everything seems like itâs too much and I just want to enjoy life. Ë Ęđ„ ĘË
~àŒŻ I started buying flowers, planting flowers, decorating my house a lot more, got more perfumes, more beautiful things. currently as we speaking I have like 10 different types of flowers in my house. I started cooking more, I even made up recipes that my family liked and started making them regularly.
~àŒŻ Iâm taking care of my skin, my body, and overall health. I'm investing more in skincare and health supplements. though sometimes I overdue it, like get fixated on one thing or another.
~àŒŻ I'm someone that used to have high energy, I'd pull an all nighter or just wake up at 3am scroll non stop or put music on, it wasnât energy it was âË⥠anxiety âĄâË , but I'm having more quality sleep this year! I'm in bed by 10 and maybe I just got older, but there's that.
~àŒŻ giving my hair a well deserved break!! I used do dye my hair very often, this year I got a short haircut and Iâm growing my natural hair back, Iâve only added a few subtle highlights and I donât style it as often. I'm embracing more simplicity with my style, though could be that my ass got lazy đ(á”Ì€áŽá”Ì€)
~àŒŻ I'm planing more, working on my skills and hobbies, but not rushing or forcing things and not setting high expectations either. I don't feel like there's a rush like before. my values are changing significantly, I know what I like and donât like and what I can put up with.
~àŒŻ don't get too comfortable and not do anything about moving forward bcz you will be tempted to. remember to still challenge yourself!
~àŒŻ Iâm having a relatively comfortable year it got me having flashbacks of my 12th house profection year which was a fckin nightmare. It was all about the subconscious, mental health struggles, depression and overcoming these things. It really was about coming up with personified methods that help me deal with these internal conflict so I can move forward. It also was the year I became more spiritual.
~àŒŻ my 1st house profection year wasnât good either for me personally, it was super challenging and chaotic. it had me doing things outside my comfort zone. e.g. throwing myself in the ocean (i'm afraid of drowning). my individuality was constantly tested, my determination, my willingness to put myself first and not compromise my own needs and values.
~àŒŻ there were instances where I felt like I'm compromising for the sake of keeping a friendship, which wasnât reciprocated. I learned to not be afraid to walk away from ppl and places that donât respect or value me. my cut off game wasn't particularly bad before, but I felt blinded, manipulated and pressured that year, I had to fully trust myself and only rely on myself. very much aries themes.Â
~àŒŻ If you're going thRU it with your 12th or 1st house profection, know that it will teach you valuable lessons that lead you to know yourself and love yourself more. you will understand your triggers, your strengths, know who your enemies and true friends are. it gets better! this feels like the perfect year to take a break from all the past challenges that I went through, I'm able to slow down, enjoy life and reflect until I see where the next tides takes me.Â
stay blessed, much luv <333
#12th house#profection years#annual profections#1st house#2nd house#2nd house profection#12th house profection#1st house profection#solar return#astrology#taurus#aries#profection year
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Iâve had more time to sit with HOFAS so here are things I loved and things that bugged me.
THINGS I LOVED
AZRIEL AND NESTA - Where to even begin. Their relationship and friendship is EVERYTHING. I'm so glad SJM chose to highlight both of them for the ACOTAR part because their chemistry is everything. I can't wait for more in ACOTAR 5
AZRIEL - Every new thing we learned about Azriel had me screeching. It's so clear SJM is setting him up for the next book. Every scene he appeared in I was obsessed! Finding out about truthteller, him being protective of his mom, him interacting with music, him being all hot and threatening....this bat has me in a chokehold I swear.
THE LORE - All the new information we got about Prythian and Midgard is so interesting. I wish I was a theories person because there's so much to theorize about!
RUHNLIDIA - They served in this book omg. When Ruhn was like "this is my first mission with my girlfriend I want to impress her" I almost threw my phone I'm not even kidding. They are so cuteđ„čâšâš
HUNT - I still feel like I need more Hunt. He's such a sweetheart and was truly a highlight for me in this book. I love him so much and I was totally rooting for him to fry Celestina.
THINGS THAT BUGGED ME
Ruhn and Lidiaâs mate announcement. I knew Ruhn and Lidia would be mates from HOSAB so I was only waiting for confirmation but the way it was written threw me off. Ruhn just said it out of nowhere and toâŠof all peopleâŠPolluxâŠ.like what? Why? Idk it could have been more emotional.
Ariadne- I donât understand the point of introducing this new character only to do NOTHING with her. I shipped her and Flynn sooo much. The way she was introduced in the beginning of the book had me so hyped only for her to disappear. Like imagine a dragon marching with the armies of Hel when they fought the AsteriâŠ
Sigrid - That entire plotline felt useless to me. She was set up to be this hope for the wolves and it all amounted to nothing. So why did we waste so much time on her. I enjoyed Ithanâs chapters because I really like him. But from an objective point of viewâŠmost of what SJM made him do didnât make sense. If she wanted him to become Prime (which I loved btw) she didnât need to waste all that time on Sigrid and her resurrection only for her to join Sabine the person sheâs supposed to hate and then disappear.
Tharion and Sathia - NoâŠjust noâŠ..
Bryce ignoring Huntâs trauma - She did it in HOSAB but again and on a larger scale in HOFAS. Everytime Hunt brought up his fears (understandable because he has now faced the Asteri twice and suffered insane consequences) Bryce just got angry and put him in such a bad position. She made it look like he didnât want to support her when he has very valid reasons to be afraid. After what he went through the first time in the Asteri dungeons for years and then again! Iâm surprised he didnât break down even more tbh. His feelings were so valid.
Bryce - SJM tried to do the âAelin is always two steps aheadâ thing with Bryce but honestly it didnât work. A lot of the times I was side eyeing and was like âthatâs convenientâ Bryce was guessing a lot of times so that whole thing just didnât work.
The plot was all over the place. The book really didnât flow well.
#cc hofas#houseofflameandshadow#cc3#bryce quinlan#hunt athalar#ruhn x the hind#ruhnlidia#ruhn danaan#lidia cervos#nesta stan#nesta archeron#azriel x gwyn#crescent city#ruhn crescent city
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helloooo!! â€ïž can i request some headcanons for jisungs (nct) first relationship? like how would he act, how would he show affection etc etc :))) i really loved your âthings he reminds me ofââ post, it was so cute and the jisung hickey part made me wonder what his first relationship would be like âșïžâșïž thank you!!
a/n: hihi! thank u so much for requesting (and for the love, mwah) <3 i hope you like this little word vomit lol :) [ps. i hope ur ok w me putting nsfw content at the end - lmk if u want me to publish a version w/o the nsfw at all]
tags: fluff, headcanons of jisung being a frat boi pledge oops, i'm realizing how unfortunately realistic i feel like i portray these boys, tw: nsfw content (mentions of handjobs, giving head)
word count: 1k
gif credits: @chenleemark
jisung's first relationship would be...
surprisingly normal
i feel like a lot of people headcanon jisung as a shy, flustered almost mousey person
and i can see why (jwisung)
but i think that that image is something that was carefully and deliberately crafted (and perhaps something that he eventually grow into a little more)
SO, i feel like this is rlly controversial, i feel like in jisung's first relationship, he would be kinda just frat boi af
like you know that vibe that pledges in a frat have, where they think they're hot shit bc they're 'in a frat' and then they realize that they're a...pledge. like they're at the bottom of the food chain
that's so american i'm so sorry
but that's vibes he gives me
i feel like in his first relationship, he thinks he knows everything. like he thinks he is the king of relationships and he thinks he is the Ultimate Boyfriend (even tho he cringes a little when he hears the word boyfriend irl)
but he's not
it's his first relationship
and i feel like there would be a lot. to unpack.
for example! jisung would constantly be running away in a relationship
especially for the first time that he's in a relationship, you constantly have to chase after him and hope that he's finally gonna open up to you
jisung just has so many layers
as a person
that every time you think you've finally cracked him, he does a 180 on you and gives you a whole new personality to deal with
bc jisung just doesn't do traditional romance
he kinda doesn't understand it but he's also such a romantic that when it comes to real life and when he realizes that real life is a lot messier than romance novels, he just kinda freezes
like he knows you're his s/o but not his S/Oâąïž if that makes sense
so he'd kinda just act like you're his bestie (that he likes to make out with) until he finally starts to open up and unravel his feelings
jisung's first relationship is a lot of navigating between his mood swings of "I Am The Only Boyfriend. I am God." and "fuck bro i just like to have sex w you and talk abt deep shit"
before he finally realizes that he is not, in fact, god. and that bro is not romantic but he gets away w it bc you're chill like that
he would grow a lot in a relationship fosho
he learns to expand his world from the world in his head to one where you're in it too
jisung would just greet you with a super steamy kiss (bc istg i don't care if this is his first relationship, i just know he's a good kisser) and then ask you if his hat was fly enough to wear in the dance practice video
that's just how he works tbh
but jisung is very observant
for all of his interesting habits, jisung will pick up in 30 seconds flat if smth abt you is off
whether he shows it or not, he pays a lot of attention to you and your habits and will literally sit down for hours and analyze if you hated his guts and wanted to break up w him if you said hi a half note lower than you usually did
and oftentimes, he would be right
i mean obviously, you don't hate his guts and you definitely didn't want to break up w him
but if you were having a bad day, no matter how well you concealed it, jisung would know
i feel like that's the one thing that keeps him being a good boyfriend in the beginning of the relationship
he's so good at reading body language and looking at small details that he never fails to pick up on slight changes
almost to the extent where you think he's reading your mind
but on the flipside jisung is hard to read at first
like i said, he's just got so much going on in his head that you're almost unsure which side of jisung you're dealing w
but as you guys mature together, he definitely opens up a lot more and you're able to read him almost as well as he reads you
NSFW CONTENT BELOW.
but beyond just in your sfw relationship, jisung would be equally attentive in the bedroom
i feel like jisung is a more experimental person than ppl realize
like he truly enjoys pleasureful experiences and he will watch your every microexpression to make sure you're having as much fun as he is
that being said
i think jisung is more of a receiver than a giver
but not by much
like a 60 - 40 split
and the main advantage comes with handjobs
idk what it is abt them
but i feel like jisung would find out very early into the relationships that he rlly likes handjobs
his first relationship is full of exploring himself and what he enjoys as well as exploring you(r body) and what you enjoy
and handjobs are the one thing that he just cannot resist every single time
whenever you rlly give him a good one, LORD KNOWS that he will be going down on you and giving you the head you deserve
bc i feel like jisung wouldn't have too much control over his body in his first relationship, he would probably cum a lot sooner than he would like
and he hates cumming before you - whether it be for an ego reason or bc he feels guilty that he feels good and you don't, he just doesn't like it
so he learns to give good head (and i mean good head. like i would tie him with mark as the top head givers in nct dream) so that he can bring you right to the edge w him and you can cum together
overall, just a very interesting and growth filled experience where jisung and you both learn to love and grow together <3
#jnnul#nct dream#nct dream fluff#nct dream headcanons#nct dream smut#nct smut#nct fluff#nct headcanons#nct hard hours#nct hard thoughts#nct dream hard hours#nct dream hard thoughts#jisung smut#jisung hard hours#jisung hard thoughts#park jisung
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Letâs talk about Mr. Keng
Thereâs something I found really odd about the interactions between Non and Keng, besides the whole fucking each other thing. Iâm not downplaying the misuse of power and the inherent wrongness of the teacher/student relationship here, but I am used to seeing it over the years in queer media so I wasnât shocked by it tbh. I donât know why but there are a lot of queer media over the many years Iâve been watching it that seem to pair an exceptional student with a teacher, or even adults with barely legal teenagers. Itâs some weird taboo in queer media and I honestly think itâs because of how common age gap relationships are in the queer community, but weâre not here to dissect that.
So going back to Mr. Kengâs interaction with Non, in episode five, six and seven. Itâs clear that he zeros in on Nonâs exceptionality, the only student to actually understand his question and Non was barely paying attention. Mr. Kengâs interest was piqued right then and there, and my first thought was that they were going to make him a total creep. Which they seemed to be leaning toward when he put special interest in Non, then in episode six we get Non breaking down and finally admitting to him what was going on and why he needed the money. Mr. Keng offering the money so readily also made it seem again that he was a creep, it was a clear grooming tactic. Making Non feel like he owed him something without Keng even having to say; you owe me.
You could say that Non was a willing participant in their first sexual encounter as he was the one who went in for the more passionate kiss, but again that is what grooming does. And while yes Non is sexually active, heâs 16/17 at the most, sleeping with Phee is completely different. Phee is older by less than a year considering he finished off 12th grade with the other boys after Non âdisappearedâ. Being able to consent to sex with an equal is completely different than âconsentingâ to having sex with someone who should know that what theyâre doing is not right!
Moving onto episode seven, thereâs a new level to Keng, heâs working to bring down the illegal gambling ring with an undercover reporter. So heâs just using Non, right? He found out what Non was into and saw it as an opportunity to get names and information, so heâs a groomer and a manipulative liar. Great, send this fucker straight to hell!
What I found interesting though was that by the end of episode seven, we find him comforting Non about the video, Non sobbing in his arms and Keng reassures him that things will be okay. That⊠doesnât seem like the reaction of a man whoâs just found out that his entire career might be over, that he could very well face jail time. There was no blame, no anger directed at Non, just concern. And then Phee showed up, he attacked Keng, rather violently if the bruises on JJâs back are anything to go by. Phee kept telling Keng to leave, to fuck off, to just go! He kept shoving him into chairs and walls, but Keng never once left. He stayed there, quietly, not trusting Phee to be alone with Non.
And after Phee broke up with Non, telling him to go die, Non has a full blown breakdown. Heâs screaming, sobbing hysterically, hitting himself. What does Keng do? He gets down onto the floor and he grabs Non, stops him from hurting himself, shushes him, holds him, comforts him, rocks the sobbing teen in his arms. None of these things seem to be the action of a person who doesnât care. Am I saying Mr. Keng is in the right? No! Absolutely not! The dude is a creep, he did terrible things and never shouldâve done the things he did. But what I was hit with was that it seemed like Mr. Kengâin his own weird wayâactually did genuinely care about Non and his wellbeing.
It was very odd to see, because for the previous two episodes there was a very clear set up of how youâre supposed to see him, how youâre supposed to view his interactions with Non. Then by the end of episode seven, heâs caring and concerned and refuses to leave Non in his moment of need even as Phee demands that he does. I think Keng genuinely liked Non, in his own weird highly illegal way. So itâll be interesting to see who exactly kills him (my money is on Phee or Jin) and if he repents whatsoever or doubles down on his claim that he actually did like Non, as both a student but a lover.
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Pregnant trans masc anon back again and coming off of anon because... Well, why not?
I just saw the other anons you got about my ask saying that pregnancy is always feminine or whatever bullshit. And I want it to be known:
Being pregnant was the most masculine I have ever felt. Never in my life have I felt stronger. Never in my life have I felt more connected to my body. Being pregnant helped me learn to love my body in a way I never have before. The parts I resented had a purpose: to care for, to nourish, and to protect my kid.
There's lots of cishet normative garbage in the world about what it means to be a dad. But being the partner to carry and birth our child? To me that is peak fatherdom. All of the things a father, a dad, is supposed to be - the provider, the protector, the solid ground in which to seek refuge - I got to be from day one. And because of all the garbage people have thrown at me because I am a masculine person who got pregnant, I know that I did the most fatherly thing I could do: I put the needs of my child and my family first. I let my transition take a backseat for almost 2 years so my wife and I could finally have a family after years of trying.
So fuck anyone who wants to make me feel like being pregnant isn't masculine. Pregnancy is only feminine because of cisnormative bullshit. And if being queer for as long as I have has taught me anything it's that societal ideas of masculinity and femininity really mean nothing once you break them down. Anyone can be anything. Anything can be masculine or feminine.
I am a trans masculine person who is sometimes a man. I am a husband. I am a father. And I am so tired of people refusing to question the ideas they've inherited from cishet society. Acceptance of what has always been is a problem queer people have been fighting for as long as society has hated queer people. And maintaining societal ideas that work to silence some or render them invisible is not going to get us, as queer people, anywhere. Maybe it's because I'm considered old now, but I've given up trying to fit into a box that was not made for me. Because, at the end of the day, the people who are going to hate queer people and want to erase us aren't going to stop just because we squeeze into ill-fitting labels they built. Claim whatever labels you want. Feel as much or as little of that label that is comfortable for you. But don't tell others that their understanding of that label or how it fits them is wrong.
I'm sorry for getting angry at your anons and sending you an essay. But I'm coming off of anon, so perhaps they'll come directly to my askbox if they want to make claims about pregnant masculine people.
^^^^^
also I think being angry is justified here tbh
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Ok now that Iâm fully awake. Itâs time try and organize my thoughts on that audio oh my god.
Also trigger warning for mentions of suicide under the cut
Thatâs actually the first thing I wanna talk about, and is the only gripe I have with the entire video. Why the fuck wasnât mentions of suicide tagged in the description??
Like I understand the concept wasnât dwelled on and Sam didnât outright say âIâm gonna fucking kill myselfâ but he PRETTY EXPLICITLY talked about how he planned to commit suicide even if he didnât say those words. idk âchosen moralityâ doesnât seem like the right warning for that? Iâm not gonna complain abt it like too much, I just was a little confused on why it wasnât tagged.
But anyways onto my jumbled up thoughts about the actual audio! Because as a member of the Sam Collins fandom, I have thoughttsssssss!!
THIS AUDIO MADE ME SOB! I couldnât sleep because of how sad I was over it. Sam and Darlin need to be happy just for fucking ONCE, god give them a BREAKKKKKK.
The idea of them just silently holding each other on their roof with the night sky above them, a few tears probably falling from both of them. IM DUHXSJDIJFDJFHFHJ
AND MOTHERFUCKER THE VIDEO ENDING ON âBrown. My eyes were brownâ I FELL TO THE FLOOR SHUT THE FUCK UP!
On a happier note about that, I KNEW Samâs eyes were brown. I feel like almost everyone did tbh. Iâll tell you what gave it away though, the gentle way he says âpleaseâ to Darlin in some of his audios. Automatically gave it away that he would have had the biggest brown puppy dog eyes you have ever seen in your life. Iâm physically sick over it, itâs not even funny.
Now back to the thing I desperately donât wanna think about. Sam telling Darlin that he wasnât planning on living forever.
Thatâs where the dam broke for me, I started bawling. It totally makes sense, I get it and I canât say that itâs not a choice that makes sense given that Sam never wanted to be a vampire in the first place.
Do yâall think that he was planning to watch the sunrise on his roof? Because that was my first thought and it hurt real bad. Sam finally getting to feel the sunlight after so many years of having been deprived of it, only to be ash when the sun was fully in the sky.
Also I know damn well he probably would have done it after Darlin died and thatâs what hurts so bad. If Darlin chose to be a vampire I think he would happily spend however long their eternity would be by their side, but once they were gone he probably wouldnât feel a reason to stay. Especially because if Darlin turned into a vampire the two of them probably would have completely pulled away from all mortals before that would happen.
On that note, I donât think Darlin is gonna want to be turned. I never really thought they would, unless they were under very specific circumstances. Sam telling them to spend time in their wolf form and with their pack before deciding solidified that for me 100%. I donât think they would be able to lose their wolf which we know is a pretty big part of shifters, talking from Miloâs audio where he breaks down worried he was never going to be able to shift again. I donât think they would be okay with the idea of watching their friends, and their family all start to wither away and eventually die while they remain.
Now, do I think Darlin is going to want to be turned? No. Do I think the dynamic of Darlin choosing to remain mortal opens a lot of really good angst possibilities? Yes. Do I fully trust Erik to not turn them anyways? Not really no.
If I had to put a bet in for how it would happen if Darlin got turned, it would be by Quinn. Quinn would find out or catch wind of the fact that they chose not to be turned (if he didnât already know they would chose that) and turn them anyways just to hurt them.
(I think Alexis turning them is an interesting idea to think about, from any angle but I highly doubt thatâs gonna happen lmao)
All in all I genuinely think that was the only audio that has affected me that much (aside from maybe listening to the inversion for the first time??)
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This isnât really a question for you but to the other anons who say they âhate aus but love yoursâ and I kind of want to know why? I also LOVE your AUs and itâs not an insult to say they both (streamer/bnf) push the limits of the canon characters to almost breaking point. Theyâre really their own characters and itâs a good thing. But if youâre someone who hates aus Iâm surprised they would go for the extremes? Have they just not given aus the chance? I think in their rush to praise you theyâre unintentionally punching down on other aus. bBut if they like yours so much thereâs so many other possibilities they could also love if they give aus a chance
i get it tbh! and i donât think itâs inherently insulting to other AUs, because itâs not a matter of quality, itâs a matter of preference.
for some ppl, the charactersâ roles as angel & demon and the STAKES that come with that, are so integral to their characterisation, and a key part of what makes their pining & their personalities recognisable. what theyâve been through, fighting the apocalypse and sneaking around under the noses of literal heaven and hell have formed them as people*, and their relationship, to an incomparible degree. and 6,000 years hits very different than a human lifespan.
itâs valid to prefer the setting that turned the characters into who they are. thatâs the crowley and aziraphale we all love, after all. i love canon compliant or divergent fics, but for me, i just get restless reading such a narrow selection of plots and feelings, and have always loved the open-endness of AUs (in every fandom).
the other problem with AUs is that, by taking them out of their primary roles, itâs a lot easier for writers to tangent and drift away from accurate characterisation. without the tether of canon roles and settings and past decisions, you can very easily forget what makes them Them.
there are plenty of readers who consume fan fic because they want more stories about the characters AND the story/setting/context theyâve grown to love on the screen/page. i daresay most of them lol! i personally love characters more than anything, and like finding ways to tie their canon personalities and decisions into new settings, to see how they would approach human problems. but i understand feeling like crowley and aziraphale are only crowley and aziraphale when theyâre in the universe that made them who they are now.
this isnât to say that every other AU is badly written or unenjoyable. itâs just that itâs harder to get it right, which can be off putting for readers who value that to try and scour through the archive for something to read; and even when they are characterised well, it doesnât change the fact that people who prefer canon simply donât enjoy tearing them away from it. those people likely enjoy mine because i try very very hard to NOT make them their own characters, i want to change the setting and the stakes but iâm gandalf pouring over scrolls and documents trying to get every nuance of characterisation right, despite how Out Of Left Field the initial concept might seem. and so iâm lucky theyâve decided to give me a chance, be it from my art, my writing style, the snippets i share, or all the wonderful people whoâve recommended me.
source: i prefer human AUs and @thewolveswolf prefers canon compliant and weâve had this discussion on the daily LMAO
#ask a rat#good omens#ugh pleeeease donât be a controversial take#iâve tried so hard to word this well#tldr everyoneâs preferences are their own and no oneâs insulting other writers
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I think this episode put it even more into view now
like, the reason 3 still resents 4 so much is because of living in his shadow
it shows in a lot of ways, the more I think about it
christmas wars was a part of that, considering he wanted to throw a better party because he finally wanted to overcome him
you used to be cool him trying to establish himself again (but tbh it making him lean into this insecurity even more) but also showing that he cares, which once again, it's so obviously painful to him
also one of my fav episodes, the elevator
with the scene w their thoughts
this episode... it made me reinterpret it
like 4 is still just. bisexually checking him out, I'm sorry, I don't know how to see it any other way. just. him denying his attraction by roasting him inside his head is exactly what he'd do, yeah
but that "SMG4, I hate you" is so so genuine it stings like hell now. he means it, with his whole heart but he also doesn't (like considering how much he cares yknow. wotfi 2023, Perfect) he wants to mean entirely, but he cares too much about 4, and he especially did before like, christmas wars, boy's heart was absolute mush for 4, like that drawing.... he is so in love, it's stupid- but with christmas wars, then you used to be cool, him remembering why he even started to hate 4 all the way back then. And I think... even then... even now. he adored him. I think this whole duality could absolutely be interpretted all the way back.
Like, imagine being 3, seeing someone so amazing, you just can't help but adore so much you start to yearn- you start to get jealous, and it gets to you, and time doesn't heal you, it only makes the wounds bigger. you get closer to him, and it feels like things are better, although still healing. AND when you thought you're on the right track, you're right back there again, openly bleeding, bleeding for that all that deep hatred and adoration you hold in your heart for ONE person AND now this person is close to you too, and has to witness it, and has to care
remember the ep where 3 made his own studio and 4 made it go down thinking it was a scheme?
"You never really cared about me"
and now 4 does and I feel like 3 often wishes he didn't
also not to alarm people again, with the parallels, but the same way 3 helped 4 w the video making when shit hit the fan, 4 did that for 3 for his café
I'm- I'm just saying-
but. in the same manner I want to say. I hope to see these 2 work hard together again, Perfect showed it (they, TOGETHER literally made The PERFECT video), literally them using meme energy whenever, literally all moments of them working together showed that by god, when they get down to it, they can empower each other to the stars
and considering the amount of duality between him feeling jealous but also this time we see him open up and also 4 understanding and being there for him n stuff-
consider: instead of 3 just simply being corrupted
what if... it's both, in a sense? he just gets more and more of both things, more and more overwhelming- because even when he opens up- even when 4 listens- even when 4 HELPS- it doesn't save him from his fate. it doesn't save him from reaching his breaking point at all
he's gonna get there and we can't do anything about it. 4 wouldn't know what to do about it. all he could do is just... stand there. and watch. as it all goes down right before his eyes, because fate was so cruel to them in that way
and because I think one of the biggest things that will be at fault for it, is 4 not understanding him in time, because he's spiteful and doesn't see when he should be kinder to 3 instead of throwing mean words right back at him
who knows what kind of power that angst in 3 could achieve. considering, he was ALWAYS an angsty villain, with his newpowered angst he's not even used to, who knows where that might push him, even if he doesn't want it at all. Yet... fighting it is useless.
but hey, that's just a theory, an smg4 theory!
#smg34#Nicc-thinks#I've been sitting on this post for so long and it's only getting longer#at least this is practice for me to write the video essay of my dreams or something Idk#maybe that will be a summer activity for me
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marinette is FAR from being a ânormal girl, with a normal lifeâ (general criticism, and analysis of the location concept art)
pardon any mistakes, this is a rant post lmaoo
first and foremost, she is the daughter of parisâs most popular bakery. everyone knows it. and it's not loved the same way a long time neighbourhood bakery is loved. sleek high class interior design, like i bet a simple croissant costs 4 euros or smth.
now how about the earlier bakery design?
cluttered, lots of bread stacked everywhere, but it coneys well their love for baking. wonder why those "run down eating places" are always the one that have the greatest tasting food? it's because their heart is in cooking the meal. tbh, reminds me of the bakery in kikis delivery service actually. and why does these two bakeries feel so much nicer despite being so simple looking? because you can feel the hardwork (oh and the brown is a true vibe). full offence but the neatness of the current bakery feels like its a corporate business.
two, while she goes to a public school, itâs like the kids of all the most rich and famous citizens of paris are gathered there. adrien, model and son of renowned fashion designer. chloe, daughter of the mayor. juleka, daughter of famous rock star, alix, daughter of historian at louvre. mylene, daughter of a leading mine performer that had his posters plastered everywhere. thatâs like just some of i remember. definitely not normal. unfortunately no concept art of the school. but knowing that the PV did reference marinette's bedroom, im going to assume the school design existed as a brief sketch.
this seems like a classy, rich college, same like the current one. but the design is better, imo, looks more school-ish. and third, itâs so clear that marinette is super rich. like man what the hell that room is thrice the size of mine. yet it lacks so much personality. what does this tell us about her? she likes pink. i seriously cannot find anything here that stands out to me.
this is why i much prefer the concept art locations. at least they look sort of middle class. it also gives marinette a âcozyâ vibe, and someone who makes the best out of a given situation.
marinette is given the attic room. lots of beams, not very well furnished. yet she takes advantage of a seemingly bad room by using the beams to place boxes and toys. she also uses cloth to decorate the place, showing her appreciation of cloth design. itâs small, but has character, compared to marinetteâs pink spacious room thatâs a mess to look at.
furthermore the rooftop clearly isnât meant to be used like that. but she adds little features to it, such as a simplistic bird house, wood planks to allow an even surface to place stuff/ sit, and a tent tied down by random pink strings and ribbons. it shows how sheâs adaptable, creative and caring (bird house). plus it alludes to a sense of defiance and her âwanting to take a breakâ.
on the other hand, the current (itâs not even called a rooftop itâs called a balcony) is in big open space, smack right in front of the eifel tower, nicely floored with a proper fence and proper table for teapot. nothing here is "make shift" like the previous design. even if marinette did spend time making this place nice, how can we tell? there's nothing that hints to us that she worked on it. it doesnât convey anything about marinette to us anymore, other than: âoh holy shit she's pretty richâ.
even this even earlier design is simple, but still says more about marinette than the current balcony. she carried her teapot all the way up there even though it's insanely difficult to. this tells us she's willing to put extra effort into things.
you could say im looking too deep into things. but i really am not. people fail to understand that even art, animation and film, every little detail, no matter how small, is important and should tell us the personality of the character.
with all the choices made in the series, how could you convince anyone that marinette is supposed to be normal? the whole concept of marinette and ladybug is that she looks average on the surface, but is capable of being a superhero due to all these favourable character traits of hers that tend to be overlooked. marinette dupain cheng? writers can't even make her look average for gods sake. from her appearance (stereotypically good-looking instead of charmingly cute, there's a difference), and her life in general (blessed with all the chances in the world that basically spoon feeds her her dream).
its exactly like those famous hollywood stars saying how much they suffered before they could succeed. except they were rich from the start with famous parents.
#ladybugclassic#miraculous ladybug criticism#mlb#ladybug pv#i hate everything about the show on god#marinette cheng
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đșïžMy Fingers In Creases Of Distant Dark Places
Pairing:Â Hanzo Hasashi/Kuai Liang Length:Â 1245 Words Rating:Â Teen Warnings: University AU, Fantasy AU, Magic School, Student!Hanzo Hasashi, Elemental!Hanzo Hasashi, Student Librarian!Kuai Liang, Qilin!Kuai Liang, Libraries, Studying, First Meetings, Kuai Liang and Bi-Han are half brothers AU-Gust 2024 Day 3: Dark Academia
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Notes: I have no idea if I did dark academia right, but well⊠I tried so *shurg* Kuai Liang as a Qilin is a concept Iâve thought about before (and drawn a lot tbh) but never written about so :D Title is from Set Fire To The Third Bar by Snow Patrol
Hanzo huffed at the book in his hands. In the dim lights of the library, he was just about able to make out the information he needed. He hated studying, and if it were up to him heâd never do it again. But heâd made a promise many years ago to his mother that heâd go to this specific university and get a degree. She may have lost her life years ago, but Hanzo still remembered that promise, and knew he had to honour it.
⊠I still hate studying though.
He squinted at the book, trying to write down notes as he read. Fire magic is strong to ice and nature magic, but is weak to water, air however feeds it and makes it stronger, while itâs neutral towards light, dark and earth. This was pretty basic information, the sort you learnt when you first started studying elemental magics. Still, he wanted to go back over the basics so he could understand the more complex theory later on.
When heâd chosen to major in elemental magic, he figured heâd ace it, on grounds of himself being a fire elemental. And well, he did ace it, the practical parts of it that was. He was top in his class for control and mastery of his magic.
But theory? God, he didnât realise there was more to that than just weaknesses and strengths. There were entire books about the history of each element, about techniques and how they were developed, about notable users, ways they were used and battles won using such magic. It was enough to give him a fucking headache if he was being honest.
He could pass all the practical classes, but if he couldnât get the theory down he was fucked.
I wonât fail. I refuse. I need to make Okaasan proud.
âExcuse me.â
Hanzo jumped at the voice. It was so late in the night heâd forgotten he was in the Universities public library and not his own room. He looked up to be met with a young man looking at him. He wasnât a human though, he had a branch like horn on his head, pointed ears, scales in various spots of his body breaking up human-like skin, and a long scaled tail with a fluffy mane running along it. If Hanzo had to guess, the man was a Qilin. Other than that, he had a large scar running down one side of his face, he was wearing a cheongsam and had a pair of glasses on.
As Hanzoâs eyes flicked down, he could see a lanyard around his neck, with an ID badge that read âStudent Librarian; Song Kuai Liangâ.
âSorry to disturb you, but are you finished with any of these?â He gestured towards the piles of books on the table. âJust if I can put some away for you, Iâd like to be able to do so.â
âOh. Uh. Those are the oneâs Iâm done with.â He pointed to the pile of books he had finished reading. Wait, those were the ones Iâve read, right? He stared at them. âYe- yes. Yes, those are the ones Iâm done with.â
His eyes flicked between his piles. His done pile consisted of two books. He still had about 7 he still needed to read. Heâd been here for like 2 hours and it was almost midnight already.
âAw fuck,â he groaned throwing his head into his hands. âIâm never going to get out of here.â
Kuai Liang chuckled, and Hanzo lifted his head up in time to see Kuai pick up the two books. âI guess studying isnât your thing, hm?â
âNot really,â He huffed, staring down at his notes. âI didnât expect there to be so much writing in this major to be honest.â
Kuaiâs ears twitched slightly and he tilted his head at one of the books in his hand. âAh, youâre studying elemental magic?â Hanzo nodded and watched as Kuai opened the book and started to leaf through it. âMy brotherâs studying that. I wonder if you share your classes with him?â
Hanzo paused at that, because now that he thought about it, he did have a classmate with the surname âSongâ. But he wasnât sure he believed that person was related to Kuai Liang. Mostly because as far as he was aware, they were fully human, and not half qilin. Still, it was the only person in his class he could think of.
âHis names not Bi-Han is it?â He asked, and when he saw Kuaiâs tail wag in excitement, he knew heâd gotten it right. Oh. Thatâs⊠pretty fucking cute.
âYes, thatâs him,â Kuai confirmed, but given the slight grin on his face it was clear he knew Hanzo was confused. âWeâre half brothers, if youâre wondering. We share a father.â
âRight. Sorry, that should probably have been obvious.â He wasnât sure why he hadnât considered that. There was another reason that Bi-Han wouldnât have been exactly his first guess without the surname being involved. âMe and him donât exactly get along though.â
âYou and about 90% of the world,â Kuai replied with a giggle. âI grew up with him, trust me, I know what an asshole he can be sometimes.â
Hanzo actually laughed at that, âdamn, it must be bad if even youâre saying that.â
âHe just takes time to get used to people,â Kuai explained, still looking through the book a bit. âBut if he does start to become a real bother, feel free to find me, I tend to be able to get him to stand down.â
âIâll keep that in mind.â He suspected it would never come to that. Or at least he hoped it wouldnât. Bi-Han was a bit rude and very stubborn, but outside of that it wasnât like he was a bully or anything. Just a bit of a dick sometimes. Hanzo sighed, looking back at his notes and grimaced. âSorry, I should probably get on with this.â
âYou knowâŠâ Kuai said in a long drawn out way. âSometimes, when Iâm studying, I find it useful to have someone to read aloud to. I just find it helps the info go in better, somehow.â
Hanzo had never considered that before, but weirdly it made sense. At this point it was worth a shot. Anything to make studying feel less like pulling teeth. Although, he got the weird suspicion that Kuai Liang was bringing it up for a very specific reason.
âAre you offering?â He jokingly asked, watching as Kuai looked away nervously. He was biting his lip, and a small blush came over his cheeks. More interestingly, the end of his horn was glowing blue. Qilinâs horns glow when theyâre embarrassed? It should be illegal to be so adorable! âJust, I figured youâre working right now. I wouldnât want to take you away from that.â
âAh, well, Iâve done all of the other work I was supposed to do, which is why I was bothering you about the books.â Ah, so he was trying to find something to do with himself. âPlus youâre the only person here right now. SoâŠâ
Hanzo looked Kuai up and down, before smiling and patting the seat next to him. Kuai Liang jumped at the chance, hurriedly coming to sit down next to him as he peered at the book Hanzo was holding.
âWell. I hope youâre ready to learn the history of fire magic, because this is gonna be a long one.â
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Thoughts on TBB s2 finale
Spoilers under the cut. Most of this is a compilation of thoughts Iâve previously expressed on twitter and discord so nothing new to some of you perhaps! Disclaimer: I still love the show with my whole heart and greatly respect the hard work of everyone who worked on it, so please donât hate on the show in replies and comments to this post. Either keep it to relevant constructive criticism of the narrative and thoughtful analysis/discussion, or make your own posts, thanks
Idk I was just left.. hollow after s2 finale of tbb, like, there were no upsides/positive stimulating moments? It didn't leave me with an excited feeling for what's to come, more like "this is very bleak and miserable, I want s3 purely in the hope of it getting better somehow". I really was expecting some sort of catharsis from tbb s2 finale but got the complete opposite. It's a tell that something didn't work for me when I got no inspiration to draw anything tbh. S1 finale was confusing and not all that happy too but it left.. idk, something to be hopeful about, something affirming to it, amidst all destruction and separation. I wonder what s3 will look like with this sort of a cliffhanger. Unless they somehow resolve it in the first few episodes of the next season, the whole format would have to be changed, no more one-off adventures between the main plot heavy episodes etc. Regarding Hunter and his complete lack of emotionality and motivation outside of his relationship with Omega, at this point I seriously canât tell if the writers are purposefully writing Hunter in a way that makes him come off as, well, failing as a brother and a leader. All I know is that after each finale, s1 and s2, Iâm left with a desire for him to own up to his mistakes to grow. I love Hunter a lot and I enjoy flawed characters with good hearts. But when they mess up, I want the narrative to frame it such, and for them to grow from there. Otherwise itâs just inconsistent writing. At this moment, I feel like Hunter needs a âredemptionâ arc as much as Crosshair, as far as family drama and letting each other down goes. This is why I was so happy when it seemed like theyâd finally go to rescue Crosshair specifically (welp.) They needed to do that imo, Hunter most of all, he needs to own up to leaving his brother behind once and for all and actually *do* smth about it. Was it understandable when they had to flee and couldnât come back for Cross before they knew about the chips and arguably after? Absolutely. Doesnât change the fact that Cross was left behind and got hurt, doesnât make it better. So even if Hunterâs decision is justified, his lack of regret over his brother getting hurt in the process is not. I can see him repressing it all bc thatâs Hunter, he is the king of repressing his emotions for the sake of moving forward, but his issues do not excuse him, and I want him to gain awareness and grow past these issues. And speaking of Crosshair. Itâs so weird, structurally if nothing else, how the previous few episodes built up all these emotional stakes over Crosshair, specifically his withstanding intense torture from Hemlock meant to break him just to protect his siblings, only for the finale to completely drop the ball on it. Tech sacrifices himself on a mission he specifically urged Hunter to go on because âCrosshair is still our brotherâ and then Hunter is like âyeah letâs not waste Techâs sacrifice and forget all about Crosshair, okay?â. It made no freaking sense. S1 finale left me confused & unsatisfied with the way characters reactions didnât fit some of their previously stablished experiences and narrative arcs. S2 put things in perspective for me somewhat, so my best hope is that s3 does the same to resolve my confusion over s2 finale. When it comes down to basic story break down, the core theme of TBB gotta be either about a family coming together, or it is about a family separating, one way or another. Until s2 finale I was convinced it was about coming together but now.. âWe donât leave our own behindâ seemed like a clear set up for the coming together theme. Now it feels almost like a misdirection, an ironic twist to subvert our expectations or mb to explore how old convictions/priorities of these characters crashed against new realities of life. And now that theyâll never truly be able to be a whole family again (allegedly), my hope for the main theme to circle back to a family coming together in a satisfying way has been critically diminished tbh. I think it could still work with someone dying, but def not like this. Even if everyone else survives and sticks together and Cross comes back, heâll never have closure over Techâs absence, for example. There will be no satisfaction for us as the audience in his brotherâs sacrifice on a mission to save him, no pay-off. Then what is the point? A character death is a very powerful tool within the story, so when it happens, it needs to be done extremely right to hit the right emotional chords and not just cause frustration. What frustrates me, personally, is not the factual death of a character in the canon version of the events, but when the presentation and use of it makes no sense to me in the story but the writers are trying to sell it to me as if it should. Then I feel like Iâm being emotionally manipulated and nothing makes me feel more betrayed tbh. I can come up with an infinite number of explanations for Techâs survival. Itâs incredibly easy to suspend my disbelief and just say âsomehow he survivedâ. But if the creators themselves actively try to beat me over the head with their insistence that no, it happened and I should be sad over it, nope. Thatâs telling, not showing. If you want me to feel strong emotion, make me, donât tell me that Iâm supposed to be sad over a character dying just because you decided to kill them to make me sad. As for Techâs status, the whole Schrodinger Tech situation is exactly the same as Crossâs chip in s1 finale. Everything in the narrative (Hemlock bringing his goggles is sus as hell, 100% reads as hints at him recovering Tech and then lying to Hunter to manipulate him) points to it being one way (Crossâs chip still affecting him, Tech surviving) but knowing the writers, my gut tells me itâs exactly what they say on the surface with their words and heâs gone. I hope Iâm wrong because the way this death was handled is meaningless and closes so many possibilities, like I mentioned above with the family coming together in a satisfying way etc. It just doesnât work for the story beyond cheap emotional shock value imo. So here we are. I decided to chill until s3 and hope things will make sense as the story progresses and the intentions of the writers become clear. Right now they sure as hell arenât.Â
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Hi again! If you don't mind me asking (again), what are your top 5 (or top 7) favorite media ever (can be anime/manga, tv series, books, movies, games, etc)? Why love them? Thanks if you want to answer....
Omg idk why but the question gave me flashbacks to my middle school hyperfixationsâŠ
7) My Little Pony: I guess this is how I come out as a brony. Itâs honestly just my comfort show. I mainly love it because I love Rainbow Dash
6) Musical Theatre: I canât narrow down which ones I liked more than others tbh but my main ones were Hamilton, Heathers, Beetlejuice, In The Heights, and the Waitress. Thatâs all I can think of right now, but Hamilton was probably my favorite now that I think about it. I used to listen to the entire musical three times a day in high school without failđ
I just really like music and stories so having them mixed together blew my mind. I was actually a wannabe song writer for like 6 years and even went to college for composition for a while. Thatâs just a little bit of Puff lore though :)
5) Steven Universe: I DONT UNDERSTAND HOW THIS SHOW MANAGES TO MAKE ME CRY WITHOUT FAIL EVERY TIME I REWATCH IT!! The fact that itâs able to hit hard topics in a way that kids can understand is extremely admirable to me, and I honestly love everything about it. Plus itâs one of the only shows with a majority female cast where every single one is actually written well⊠and theyâre like actual people with legitimate flaws. Cartoon Network never misses
4) Deadpool: I say this, but basically anything marvel related. Deadpool is just my favorite marvel character and honestly⊠Iâm not sure why. I just latched onto him and ever since then, Iâve had a growing collection of random stuff with his face on it. Including a chairâŠ
But yeah the Deadpool movies and Deadpool: Samurai, are like my favorite things to rewatch/reread. Again, itâs just a comfort thing.
3) My Hero Academia: itâs so embarrassing to admit but bnha changed my life. It changed the way I viewed the world and how I view my relationships. I know that seems so stupid but it actually got me to enjoy reading and it made me pay more attention to the kind of media I consume. It legitimately made me grow as a person. I feel bad for putting it at 3 considering this is a bnha blog though⊠I absolutely love it and it plagues my brain, but I just get so emotional over the next two.
2) Attack on Titan: I donât think tumblr talks about attack on titan enough. Like bnha, it made me reevaluate how I viewed the world and made me consider things outside of myself. I was a pretty selfish and inconsiderate teenager, as most are, but aot just kind of hammered into my brain that there are more problems in the world than just mine. Itâs dumb, but watching aot and coming to understand it was the first step in me developing more âradicalizedâ political views and just overall setting my moral code and my values in stone.
Honestly the only reason why this isnât just tied with bnha is because I never get tired of watching it ig? I got tired of watching bnha really fast and clung to the manga after a short while, but aot I can rewatch over and over again and never get sick of it.
1) Nana: I think itâs just cuz Iâm in a really bad Nana phase rn, but this story just breaks me. I relate to Hachi a lot and again, the show just changed the way I view my relationships and made me realize that Iâm my own worst enemy by letting myself indulge in the company of toxic people simply out of fear of being alone or unloved. I ignore the bad moments in favor of trying to savor the good ones as much as I can, and I feel undeserving of anything else. Minus relating to Hachi a lot, I really like the music and the style and just everything about it has me in a chokehold rn. Maybe itâll pass, but I honestly donât think it will. Iâm in pretty deep.
Anyways, thatâs all I got! Thanks for the question! I love talking about my favorite things :)
#bnha#my little pony#hamilton musical#steven universe#deadpool#attack on titan#nana#puff speaks#ask puff#puff answers#I put âradicalizedâ in quotes because I genuinely donât think equal rights for everyone is a radical way of thinking#I see it as basic human decency
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