#but how come some people get to take it hoard it and make it exclusive

[ano-po]

Naalala mo yung tito o kapitbahay mo'ng asa sa nanay kase hindi ganon kalaki yung sweldo n'ya para magkaroon sya ng sariling bahay? Sabihin pa ng ibang magulang na batugan s'ya kase andali lang naman sana magkabahay. Ikaw na bata, may pangarap magka mansyon tapos feeling mo kaya mo kase masipag at matalino ka naman. Tapos pagtanda natin wala satin kaya maka-afford ng bahay at 25 even though 4-7 years na tayo nagta trabaho 😆. At hindi lang 'to problema ng kapitbahay mong batugan, kase ikaw manager or tl na, pero nakatira parin sa nanay mo. Okay lang, kase napauso naman yung 'take your time, 30s is the new 25', hindi beh, by the time na 30 na ako, 6million na ang basic unit. 'take your time, 40s is he new 30s'. Just tell me nalang beh that I will never afford a house ever. You're just making me surrender my right. Kase kahit ma promote pa ako, the ratio of house prices to sweldo will never change, worse, lalaki pa. Ewan ko kung may sense tong sinasabi ko pero... Mabuhay ang rebolusyon.

[gabessquishytum]

I think not enough people have come to talk to you about chubby Hob. So I am here to push the chubby!Hob agenda!!

Human au maybe, where Hob has a long and storied past. He was homeless for a bit, he was food insecure for longer. And now that he's settled and secure in a decent flat with a good job (maybe this is an au where he's the chef at the New Inn?) He has to keep his pantry full. And he always cleans his plate. No leftovers in this house. He was intense about it for a while and it was maybe hoarding and binging, but he's got it mostly under control now. He just likes to know he won't go hungry. The side effect of this is he's put on some weight. He's got a belly, his thighs and arms are thick. He's honestly pretty happy with it, since it's more proof he isn't starving anymore.

Enter Dream. Dream is depressed and introverted at the best of times. But he's just gotten out of an abusive workplace that had him so anxious he wasn't eating and hes... kind of forgotten food can be enjoyable. Death takes him to the New Inn to get him out more, to coax him into trying something new. Dream orders the safest sounding thing on the menu. Something simple. And when it comes out it smells amazing, and when Dream picks off the tiniest bite to try it, it's incredible. He's ruined for this dish from anywhere else. Death watches him eat an entire plate of food for the first time in months and insists the chef come out so they can thank him personally.

And Hob and Dream lock eyes and sparks fly. Dream comes back and orders the same dish every day for lunch for 2 weeks until one day Hob sends out the usual and an extra side. The waiter hands him a napkin from Hob to go with the side that has "trust me" written on it in sharpie. And that's how Dream starts trying more things on the menu. Until one day Dream asks the waiter what dish he's been given to try today and the waiter says it isn't on the menu. They'll go ask Hob about it. Hob comes out and says it's an exclusive that Dream will only see again if he let's Hob take him on a date and cook him dinner personally.

🍰🐲

I see the words Chubby Hob, I light up like a christmas tree.

I love the idea of Hob being the new inn's chef, that feels so perfect! I bet he would find a lot of comfort in having this kitchen which is just as well stocked as his own kitchen upstairs, full of ingredients, and he can cook all day and make himself snacks and little meals during the quiet spots in the day, and also snacks for all the staff members. It soothes the part of his brain that is still cold and scared. And he doesn't mind that he'll always have a bit of a thing about food, because he's safe now. He can eat nice things and buy new jeans when he needs a size up. It's all good.

And when he sees Dream, he implicitly wants to make everything ok for him. And make food for him. Hot pies, lasagna, fish and chips. He just wants Dream to feel warm and safe, like Hob does now! It's not like he can fix everything, but maybe he can give Dream a little bit of hope?

Ultimately it doesn't take much to convince Dream to shyly head up the stairs to Hob’s flat, and sit at the kitchen table in the warm lamplight while Hob cooks dinner for them both. Hob even baked biscuits for Dream to nibble while he waits. Maybe while he's exploring the flat Dream finds a few pictures of a hollow cheeked, painfully thin looking Hob, and everything starts to make sense.

They have a little cuddle on the sofa after dinner, and Dream gets to curl up against Hob’s warm soft belly. He feels very safe there, with Hob’s arms wrapped around him. He likes the way Hob is padded and squishy with no hard edges, and Dream can just sink into him. Neither of them are really thinking about sex but much later, Dream will definitely fantasise about grabbing that soft belly, maybe rutting against it, maybe biting it.....

And maybe he'll get a little healthy meat on his bones too. Dream definitely wouldn't be mad about it if the results of all Hob’s good food start to show on his body. In fact, he might be a bit proud.

[8-bitpixelheart]

Diarus

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Summary

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Diarus is a very wealthy trading country. There are few others who have as many countries in their pockets, both publicly and privately. The mountains to the northwest boast a healthy iron mine and the northern eastern woods boast good logging and fine hunting. Combine that with their acres of farmland, and the country is rich in more ways than one. Diarus for the most part lives quietly, with the exception of its capital; The Nameless City.

Environment

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Most of Diarus is fairly temperate, featuring gentle winters and calm summers. While it gets colder towards the northern border, the tree line and mountains protect them from the worst of the winds that plague Halsia and Leluma. Diarus is spiderwebbed with rivers, but the two largest of them stem from the Nameless Lake, a lake so deep no one has yet measured the deepest part of it.

Settlements

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The capital city of Diarus is known as the Nameless City. A place where the nobility play freely, and perhaps cruelly. The law there works only for the wealthy and powerful and spends its time tormenting the weak and poor. Anyone who can’t afford to pay the noble’s safety tax usually find themselves lit ablaze. There are plenty of other towns and cities within the nation, but none that are as large or as infamous.

Politics

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Technically, there is a royal family ruling over Diarus, but they’ve been forced into hiding by the out of control nobility. While there are families who would be willing to back the royal family should they return, no one knows where they’ve gone. Currently acting as ‘regents’ are six noble families: House Elery, House Bathis, House St. Grun, House St. Haulon, House Yven, and House Calt.

Economics

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Diarus doesn’t export much, surprisingly. They do have a decent industry when it comes to the fresh produce and livestock, but they don’t really feel the need to share what they have. They prefer to keep it for themselves, and their frequent luxurious banquets. What Diarus does, and does well, is offer loans and negotiate trade between other nations. They import exclusively luxuries, fine goods and gems that they can’t get on their own.

Food

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If you are nobility, the food is immensely varied and open minded. The foods of other various nations are enjoyed as fads, coming and going, throughout the rich. Currently they favor the rich, slow roasted and earthy spiced foods of Roca. But they’re also beginning to take interest in the citrusy and well preserved foods of Esbin. The poor tend to eat more simply, with root vegetables and preserved fish making up much of their foods, as well as the discarded ‘unpopular’ cuts of meat, whatever those may be.

Legends

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It was said that so long as the blood of the Bone family sat the throne, that Diarus would prosper. That no war would find its way to them, that no plague would shake their shores. The nobility took care to assure that the family would rule, but as time passed, the nobility became greedy. They developed a plan to slaughter the royal family and embed their blood in the stone. They successfully killed the king, but his family managed to escape and go into hiding. The bulk of the nobility are content, but there are some who yearn for the rule of the Bones again.

It’s said that all manner of people live within the Nameless City. That somewhere, an ancient dragon has set up a large hoard, which it promptly abandoned after getting slain by a group of nobles hunting monsters in the city. No one knows where the hoard is, or how much is in it. But many suspect that if you find it, you could instantly buy yourself a noble title and a lifetime of freedom.

[gayhenrycreel]

okay i filled out a google doc survey of aro experiences in the queer community and at the end i kinda went on a commie rant, so this is it copy pasted. (yes my mutuals, im aware as i reread this that this sounds like the blorbos 4.07 monologue)

i want people to know that no one should ever be in a relationship just because they want to be considered normal. alloros included. the relationship hierarchy hurts everyone.

hierarchy has always been the problem. its time that people start realising that we are all equals, and the idea of any particular thing being inherently better than another is the basis for amatonormativity, homophobia, racism, transphobia, misogyny, eugenics, and ultimately fascism. "superiority" does not exist.

even the natural world is negatively affected by human ideas of hierarchy. conservation efforts are for animals, occasionally plants, and never for fungi. fungi are barely even researched properly compared to other clades. how many fungi have gone extinct without anyone knowing, because no one cares?

this affects humans directly. penicillin comes from a fungus. hallucinigenic mushrooms can treat anxiety, depression, adhd, and even ptsd. lions mane contains biochemicals that prevent cell death, which means (and research is ongoing) it could slow aging, lead to longer lives, and quite significantly, prevent dementia.

those are just known fungi. imagine how many are out there that could save lives that are endangered and dying, but no one cares to save them because they are small and not very noticeable. theres an antioxidant thats exclusively found in fungi. that means it too could prevent cell damage, such as those that cause cancer.

if i were to get into human prejudice this would go on forever. hierarchy kills. it destroys entire species, cultures, lives. the solution to defeating amatonormativity is to remove hierarchy.

this would also solve infinite other problems. we could no longer have to work our asses off for the profit of billionares. we would use resources when we need them, not for some hypothetical world where they might be bought on mass. no one needs a billion iphones. the slaves who make them certainly dont.

things should be produced when they are actually in demand, not just so elon can get money he will never use. that money could go to education, science, sustainable energy, medicine, conservation, and literally billions of people who are starving because elon and bezos want to think about their sci fi fantasys that they do not allow to become reality by not bloody paying their slaves, as well as hoarding money that could be used by places that could legitimately get people to mars like nasa.

elon works closely with nasa, but nasa cant afford to pay their own scientists. many of nasas workers hate spacex. one even quit over it. there are so many people who could help humanity, who could invent cures for AIDS, vaccines for deadly diseases, better solar panels, solutions for space junk, more efficient farming, more nutritious native plants that people have harvested for centuries before colonizers decided nutrient poor cabbage is better than the vitamin rich indigenous vegetables.

like seriously, there are so many plants that indigenous societies have been eating for thousands of years that the world just doesn't know about anymore.

the wider queer community could do a lot for arospecs by taking off the hierarchy glasses. we all need to take off the hierarchy glasses. its killing the world.

[freshthoughts2020]

Nike Please Stop This !

Nike, Please Stop This Madness!

November 16, 2024

Nike just dropped LeBron's 22nd signature sneaker, the LeBron 22, and it’s everything we’ve come to expect: sleek, elegant, and versatile—designed for domination both on and off the court. One of its standout colorways, "Currency," draws inspiration from the iconic board game Monopoly. This bold design boasts vibrant hues and graphic motifs that celebrate LeBron's well-known love for Monopoly.

But here's where Nike lost me: a new Zoom Generation surfaced, also Monopoly-themed, but this one is Friends and Family exclusive.

Nike, Why Are You Doing This?

Nike, we need to have a serious conversation. Why are you saving your most fire colorways and silhouettes for Friends and Family only? Let’s be real—the Zoom Generation is an iconic sneaker. It’s the shoe that kicked off LeBron’s journey into sneaker royalty. Pair that legendary silhouette with an elite colorway like this, and the hype would’ve been through the roof. Consumers would’ve gone crazy for it!

And yet, Nike decided to hoard this masterpiece for an exclusive circle. Why? Do they dislike money? Obviously not—they’re a billion-dollar corporation. But decisions like this make me wonder if they’re leaving money on the table.

The Competition is Catching Up

While Nike keeps locking away grails, other brands are stepping up. ASICS and New Balance, once seen as “Geriatric All-Stars,” are now youth lifestyle icons. They’re taking risks, collaborating with cultural touchstones, and making sneakers that resonate with the streets and the runway.

Meanwhile, Nike is dangling exclusives in our faces like bait, only to pull them back and say, “Just kidding! You’re not cool enough to have these.” That’s not how you maintain dominance—it’s how you alienate your core audience.

Grails for the People: A Step in the Right Direction

To Nike’s credit, they’ve made some amends by re-releasing legendary sneakers like the Silver Surfer Dunks and the Wu-Tang Dunks. These were once mythical grails, but now fans can finally get their hands on them without dropping a mortgage payment. And seeing retros like this at retail again? That’s a win.

But here’s the kicker: why keep teasing Friends and Family exclusives if you’re not going to release them? It doesn’t elevate the shoe; if anything, it builds resentment. Knowing I’ll never own them doesn’t make me want them more—it just makes me irritated at the system.

A Solution: Limited Releases, Premium Pricing

Nike, let’s meet in the middle. You want exclusivity, and we want access. Here’s the move: release these Friends and Family editions at a premium price with limited quantities.

You keep the aura of exclusivity intact.

Consumers get a chance to snag something rare.

The higher price tag protects the value of the general release.

It’s a win-win. Everyone walks away feeling like part of the “inner circle,” even if it’s just an illusion. If I cop a pair, I’ll feel like I’m part of the family, too.

Final Thoughts

Nike’s legacy as the king of sneakers is unmatched, but even kings need to listen to their people. We want more than just a glimpse of greatness—we want the chance to wear it. Locking up your best designs for Friends and Family only does more harm than good. Take the W, Nike. Make these exclusives accessible, even if it’s at a premium. Because at the end of the day, sneakers are meant to be seen, celebrated, and worn—not just envied.

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Life Logs by Jaevonn Harris

[boycrazedboy]

Can't stop thinking about an alternate world where basically everyone can do vore, in a similar way to how everyone technically can commit theft or vandalism at any time, only with some evolutionary differences to make the act physically possible.

And in that world, vore is controversial as fuck.

Some cultures consider it a "barbaric" practice and have long banned it, training kids while young to not do it. Some others consider it a right, a biological necessity, even, especially for teenagers and young adults who are the most prone to impulsively eating their peers. So while it is discouraged - for instance, you'll be expelled from a college/university if you are found to repeatedly eat other students- you won't go to jail for it.

Many places have spiritual and cultural practices which manage the number and frequency of those eaten, but in a world of secularisation, what is there to stop people from eating others? Or make them?

The studies are very conflicting over whether or not vore is biologically necessary. While many suggest it contributes to mental well-being, whether it is better for physical health vs. just eating a balanced diet is a matter of ongoing debate.

People may have more children to compensate, expecting at least one to be eaten at some point. Given how large humans can stretch to eat, it means people can safely be pregnant with far more kids, so sextuplets aren't unusual. Perhaps to ensure their safety, humans come out a little more developed; so pregnancies can last far longer depending on certain circumstances. Pregnancies lasting three years or more are not usual.

Maybe you live in a country where it's legal to vore, but highly disapproved. Maybe in your university you might get expelled for slipping up even once. But maybe a fellow student is from a family which donates so much to the university that they couldn't expel a member of that family even if they wanted to. Even if that "kid" is literally eating their way through the rest of the student body.

Even though our bodies are designed to cope with the massive, simultaneous influx of meat, maybe they aren't designed to keep going as normal when digesting. Maybe predators can't actually support the weight of their bellies unless they work out enough to do that. Or maybe they hibernate. Or maybe mobility devices for preds are common- wheeled platforms, modified rollators, spacious scooters, and reinforced wheelchairs are available to whoever can afford them.

There might be regular protests outside of businesses which refuse to deal with an out-of-control predator. Or outside of government buildings to make the practice illegal. Or maybe in places where it's completely banned, hoards of "would-be"* predators are the ones protesting.

*let's be real, if you had the ability, would the law stop you?

Maybe people take holidays to places in which vore is legal, leading to an initial population drop, but then a massive influx of cash when the locals figure out how to exclusively pit the tourists against eachother. Maybe some locals even specialize in pickpocketing the meat-drunk preds when they're too busy eating or basking in the glow of fullness to notice their wallet being pinched.

Maybe in some places public vore is treated like exhibitionism, so it's only legal in private.

Maybe in others, the prey needs to consent, leading to a huge and impossible-to-prove issue of faked prey-consent forms.

I'd think in most places, going out with a writhing, full, post-vore belly will garner you dirty looks from the people who're against it. Maybe you'd even get harassed for it- at the risk of the person stupid enough to harass a pred, especially if it's in a place where it's legal.

Maybe some people have a strict pred-eat-pred policy, where they only target preds, viewing committing the act of vore as a waiver. Maybe those pred-eat-pred people only target preds who DON'T eat preds, as a form of vigilante justice.

[eurydicees]

Idk if anyone has asked this before on tumblr or if you made a post about it, but what are your favorite hq fics? (Or fics that stuck with you)

MY FAVORITE TOPIC* !!!! so i have a #fic rec tag that i collect fics in like a dragon hoarding gold, but here are some special favorites from my ao3 bookmarks**! sorted by ship/theme, but otherwise not in any particular order (under the cut bc this got WAY too long). if you've already read all these you should ask for more recs. i have them. i have so many.

*my other favorite topic is talking about MY fics. here is a link to my ao3. shameless self promo and all that <3

**i read a, um, concerning amount of iwaoi, so this is an iwaoi heavy list. sorry but also not really because there's a LOT of good fics abt them.

getting together fics <333333

my heart is where it's always been by foreverautumn (iwaoi, 21113 words)

Iwaizumi knows he shouldn’t care who Oikawa might have feelings for, but within the span of three days, it’s somehow the only thing he can think about.

State of Grace by lahdolphin (kuroshou, 6985 words)

Kuroo's relationship with Daishou had never been simple. Kissing him didn't make up for the many years Kuroo spent agonizing over him, but it was a very good start.

all that i see by princessofthebugs (iwaoi, 649 words)

Iwaizumi confesses to him on his birthday, as he sits on his floor, shredding paper into tiny bits. "I used to like you."

the strange music of your heart by caniculeo (bokuaka, 18446 words)

in which akaashi falls for bokuto first.

i was tired and you were standing in the best light by keishn (iwaoi, 7148 words)

It's the time of year that the sun starts setting when they get out of practice. Looking at Oikawa with the pink-orange light reflected in his eyes and shining off his hair is not something Hajime thinks he can survive.

open doors and plastic stars by ikeru (iwaoi, 22708 words)

Loving Oikawa has never been exclusive to Iwaizumi—not when Oikawa is a magnet, an incandescent star that pulls and pulls until you can’t help but watch him, love him. It shouldn’t have come as a surprise, but his heart breaks all the same.

life is chances that are taken by bohemianraspberries (iwaoi, 3970 words)

He isn’t afraid that Oikawa won’t want to be his friend anymore, because neither of them are like that and besides, he’s fairly sure by now that Oikawa likes boys too – it’s the fear that nothing will change. He might tell Oikawa that he thinks he’s not a hundred per cent straight, Oikawa might tell him the same, and they might continue to stay best friends forever, and Iwaizumi isn’t so sure that’s all he wants anymore. Because he’s pretty certain that it’s not just boys he’s into – it’s Oikawa.

the rest of your life by Queen_Dragon_Lightning_Castle (iwaoi, 2983 words)

When Hanamaki asks him what type of girl he’d go for, Hajime shrugs. ”Dunno. As long as she’s chill.” Thereupon, Tooru tries too hard when he doesn't need to try at all.

Underneath the Mistletoe by orphan_account (kuroken, 3811 words)

While Kenma and Kuroo are out together to see the local Christmas lights, they find a special display for taking festive pictures. If only they had paid closer attention to all of the decorations...

shut up (make me) by love_yourself_1358 (iwaoi, 11557 words)

alternatively: how Oikawa is the most oblivious person ever. But that's okay. Iwaizumi will still be his happy ending.

canon-to-me character studies

An Opponent Is Announced by agletbaby (genfic, 13141 words)

In which Sakusa is trying to prepare for the Olympics, but Oikawa Tooru's backstory keeps getting in the way.

don't talk to me or any of my fourteen children ever again by meregalaxiesandgods (ukai & karasuno vbc, 39963 words)

Ukai Keishin was not—and had no interest in becoming—a father. He’d somehow become responsible for fourteen children regardless.

most people never even get a single high school rival by sulfate (iwaoi, 5217 words)

Team Argentina gets to know Iwaizumi Hajime (27) Athletic Trainer.

Through a Mother's Eyes by aunnoo (iwaoi, 2427 words)

You might've only given birth to one, but you get to watch two grow. They are your boys. (If there's anything you'd wish upon them, it'd be happiness.)

silver fork by ratboyrussell (seijoh genfic, 2774 words)

Teammates, friends, family: those who help out when needed.

AUs

The Whole Of The Moon by IetjeSiobhan (kuroken, 9253 words)

Tetsurou has never thought about it before, but right now, he is absolutely and thoroughly terrified. Because he’s so, so in love, and he’s always known that Kenma is it for him, but what if he’s not it for Kenma?

just hear me out by loveclouds (iwaoi, 7679 words)

Iwaizumi's beeper has been going off for Oikawa since they've been kids. Oikawa's has only ever been silent.

other favorites

"Blankets" - Feb 2020 Prompts by hightopboots (kuroshou, 1472 words)

There's a blizzard, Kuroo and Daishou are stuck in a cabin together.

bad days and stomach pains by kittykawas (iwaizuumi & matsukawa genfic, 3705 words)

Iwaizumi isn’t one for dramatics, generally. He tends to be straight forward and pragmatic and he doesn’t like to catastrophize - not when Oikawa is right there catastrophizing enough for a small country - but sometimes, life gets the better of him. He has bad days. And today is a terrible, horrible, fucking bullshit day.

Comfortable by queerjab (bokuroo, 3108 words)

“Dude,” Kuroo covered his eyes with one hand, feeling how red his face was getting. “I promise you cannot help with this.” “Well how would I know? You won’t tell me!” “I started my fucking period!” Kuroo exclaimed, instantly regretting the admission. “Fuck,” he mumbled, keeping his eyes covered to avoid any further embarrassment. He’d never wanted so badly to sink into the floor. “Oh,” Bokuto breathed, and Kuroo considered slapping him. “Is that all?”

can we always be this close (forever and ever?) by lunarumbra (sakuatsu/osasuna, 3128 words)

Or: Sakusa visits Onigiri Miya one night to talk about weddings and rings.

The years shall run like rabbits by ladyoflalaland (ushiten, 7292 words)

Or, Ushijima Akemi watches her son’s relationship with Tendou change over the years and finds herself changing with it.  

[the-writing-moon]

so i work in a well-known library, right, as a part-timer, and it's been great working with the books, they're real friendly and everything. but this is a very exclusive library, right, you have to send in an application and maybe get interviewed to get in because we're dealing with really old archival material here; i've had to dust crumbled paper off of desks and some of the spines of these hundreds-of-years-old books have been replaced with electric tape with their titles rewritten with wite-out from how much the spines have fallen out. i look up and see dead white men glaring down at me from murals and paintings and busts from the ceiling, probably aghast and wondering how a fucking little island girl is handing their precious books and poking at their dutch-painted glass windows with her grimy brown fingers. this is just set-dressing, so you really know where i'm coming from.

anyways, you know those memes that go around writing communities? doesn't matter if you write fics or manuscripts, we've all seen them, liked them, reblogged them.

"writing a slash fic instead of writing i've been googling what jewelry young german women wore in the 1700s"

"i'm pretty sure i'm on the fbi and interpol hitlists because of my search history"

"story prompt: overly helpful serial killer sweetheart x clueless crime fiction writer"

"when you don't know long division but you can talk about the taxation laws in victorian england because you needed to find out how taxes work to make your story believable"

they're memes that make you chuckle, guffaw, and nod because they're relatable! everyone hates the idea of being corrected by a random poindexter who can call you out on your bullshit on victorian tax laws, you uncultured fool, or who happens to know how blood sprays look if you shoot a person a certain way, you gormless coward, not because they were shooting the gun but they were part of the forensics team, pinky promise, i wasn't there on the 15th of november. and it's a bit absurd. like, who exactly knows - or cares - about victorian tax laws? does it really matter to write about reality in all its facets into fiction? majority of your readers probably aren't vampires or other extant immortals so does it really matter if you don't hold history up as accurately as possible in your 30k friends-to-enemies-to-lovers dark academia yuri slashfic? does historical accuracy matter when you're writing about samurais in the heian period in modern english with modern sensibilities? who would even know what stuff was really like back then? some things aren't googlable, and you can't always trust google anyways.

i don't know the answer to all these questions. but i know the answer to one.

so, back to the library.

one day, i'm shelving history books one after the other, listening to an audiobook from a public library using a library card of which i faked my address for me to use. reparations. and way more ethical than piracy in my eyes. support authors, patronize libraries, and all that. when i shelve books, i like to wonder about who reads them and why. what research they're doing. what they're doing here. whether they know how lucky they are. i envy this library where i work. i envy the people who live in this town. i envy the readers. they have all of this because someone recognized the value of hoarding, the value of taking and tabulating and preserving. one could argue it's the colonial way. but enough of that, i'm shelving books, books that i sometimes wonder at, because i never could have imagined so many books on so many topics, and sometimes they are topics that are so trivial and-

and i'm holding, in my hands, a book about the jewelry young german women wore in the 1700s.

being in a university town, you come to understand that academics have their pet projects; the drive to understand the minutiae of their field, of humanity, of nature. think of a topic and there's probably a dissertation for that. you also understand there is a lot of publishing politics, that researchers' papers are paywalled behind exorbitant fees for which they receive no royalties from. you also understand that academia can also be elitist, even when the people inside it call for open access.

to other people, i'm sure i sound incoherent and raving. but i'm sure that there are people out there who understood why i took several moments staring at this book, recalling all those fucking memes about historical accuracy, of people joking that they're looking for things even the internet has no answer for. because the answers do exist. someone's written about them. someone took the time to look at and tabulate and write about german jewelry. someone else, tax laws. some other person, blood sprays, either through study or applied experimentation. the knowledge is out there. they just aren't available to you.

[intcritus]

SHIPPING INFO. answer the following for your muse(s) so people know how shipping works on your blog.

What’s your OTP for your Muse(s)?

I don't really do OTPs, but Hua Cheng and Xie Lian is the only one to ever exist in my head. Other than that, I don't really have many if any at all because fandom tends to ruin any sort of OTP for me and I just don't even bother anymore.

What are you willing to RP when it comes to shipping?

Mmm, I'm pretty open to write anything but no non-con, I just don't see myself going that route after somene shoved it on me in Bleach fandom days, I'm still traumatized that shit happened. That and I find that it's a harstop for me to write stuff like that in general with the way I've mutred over the years and it's a trigger for me. Generally though, I'm happy to write pretty much anything else, but there has to be communication involved.

How large does the age gap have to be to make it uncomfortable?

I try to make my characters from 27 to damn near 50, and I have a lot of immortal muses. That being said, no one below like 27 because most of my muses are just old enough that they'd be bothered by certain age gaps. For my 27+ muses, no one below their age but upward ? Yes please. For my immortal muses, give them them 30 + always. They don't wanna feel like grave robbers. As for any muse I have below 27, i.e Edward, Shoto, Shinso, they're dating in their age bracket.

Are you selective when shipping?

Yes and no. As someone who needs active communication when it comes to shipping, I realize things don't really progress or develop if we aren't talking. And I don't mean everyday, because that's unrealistic. But if we're in the midst of shipping, I would like to hear your thoughts on the way they're developing together. I would love to share thoughts about the ins and outs of them just being in the same space. I love to ship, but empty ships with no substance fall flat and get dropped overtime because shipping is a two-way street and if one part is not putting in the work, the whole workload falls onto the other partner and that's a no go for me. In the same token, I'm happy to talk about dynamics, I'm all about what'll work and what won't work, especially in romantic ships, but familiar and friendships work out perfectly without much chatter.

How far do steamy moments have to go before they’re considered NSFW?

There's steamy, then there's suggestive. Steamy is them grinding against one another, dirty talk and the like. Suggestive is just them probably making eyes. Either way, I'm tagging it as is because I don't want the tumblr police in my ear.

Who are other muses you ship your muse with?

Honestly, couldn't tell you off rip. I have friends who I've been friends with for years that occupy most of my ships. It's such dynamic and rarepairs that it's hard to list them all. Its so much fun when I think about just how rarepairs, pairs I've hardly thought about can work once talked about. It's so good.

Does one have to ask to ship with you?

Absolutely. I feel like if there's some blooming chemistry for our muses, and you see it, feel free to tip yourself into my IMs or my inbox and shout in capital letters about them, I'm always happy to discuss it. Because I'm not an insta-shipper, but I love when muses develop crushes, or if there's potential for a certain dynamic and I'll never turn down anything, as long as there's adequate communication.

How often do you like to ship?

As someone who takes the time to develop ships, not as often as I used to. Mutual interest goes a long way into getting me to ship. Sometimes I'm there for shipping and I'm like hell yeah, other times I'm just eh. Depends on the why and if there's interest on both ends.

Are you multiship?

That, I am. But I don't do multiples of the same muse. I'm all for a friendships but I refuse to be ship with multiples because it's messy and my brain doesn't like to feel like someone's hoarding my muse or vice versa. Most people don't do exclusives but in my head, I do because it gives me peace of mind. That and my muses are very devoted to their person and the thought of trying with the same muse, different writer shrivels up their muse as a whole.

Are you ship obsessed or ship more-or-less?

The only thing I'm obssessed with when it comes to my ships is probably everything me, Sis and Aven come up with. Because those pairings come outta nowhere and are all the more dynamic for them. Shipping has become a rare thing for me these days because stuff tends to fall off, and I am okay with that. Developing ships is different because muses aren't one dimensional and it's fun to see them opposing one another, for them to be realistic and have conflicting feelings. Those are the things that make me want to ship rather than ' oh my god, they need to kiss', it's more ' could they agree on world destruction ? ' or ' is that thing a deal breaker ?'

What is your favorite ship in your current fandom?

Don't really belong to a single fandom tbh. Like I said, most of my pairings are rare and odd, so....

Finally, how does one ship with you?

Like I've been saying, communicate with me ! I'm not gonna bite and the worst thing I can say is no. I'm big on communicating because it goes a long way in letting me determined if there's mutual interest there and if not, we can always come back to it another time. But if not, I'm not always in a rush to jump into ships, it takes time.

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[themarginalthinker]

so, going off of @oldestenemy 's comment about the Boys being a family unit, but not like what Max seems to want, I'm going to ramble a bit about my Thoughts on that. Thisi s going to be pretty stream of thought so bear with me.

So, first off, let's talk about vampires in general.

The world of the Lost Boys gives us precious little to use by way of greater vampiric worldbuilding, AND A BIG NOTE HERE, I HAVE NOT SEEN THE OTHER MOVIES OR READ THE COMICS AND I DON'T PARTICULARLY WANT TO, SO THIS WILL ONLY BE USING THE FIRST MOVE'S CANON, THANK YOU. We are left with a lot more questions than answers about how vampires even work, let alone how the Boys may deviate or conform to what's considered the 'norm' for vampires. This leads to having to use two things following that - extrapolation, and headcanons, not mutually exclusive, but I do like to make the distinction because one is 'using details in the canon to read between the lines' and the other is more 'this feels like it fits or make sense, despite nothing explicitly supporting it in canon'.

SO, GETTING TO THE MEAT AND POTATOES HERE:

Non-traditional family dynamics and the Boys. I love 'em. I think their group dynamic is fascinating to toy with. I also think Max was a fuckin' headcase, and has been for a while. Like a guy walking a bunch of wolves on leashes and swearing up and down they don't bite, which is basically what he's doing.

It's implied that Max is all of the Boy's sire, and thus has some sort of...parental complex about it, because as far as literally the rest of the movie is concerned, the Boys don't give half a shit about Max. They taunt him, if from a distance, they break rules he's explicitly set for them (ie, 'I told you not to come here anymore' when in the video store). Max has less control over the Boys than I think he'd like, which makes me think about what a head vampire even is, and if it even exists at all.

The only 'evidence' for such a thing in the movie, is whatever the Frog brothers are presenting us - WHICH IS ALL BASED ON COMICS. In the movie, we get no other explanation from anyone, and certainly none of the vampires. Star gives us her take on it, but she never says 'David told me this what's true', it's just what she assumes, which can also be flawed. She's unreliable as well. All we knows for sure is that David was sired by Max, and with the way Max refers to them as 'his boys', the rest of them are his as well.

So, there are a couple ways I think that vampires can organize themselves socially:

one, is as the Boys do: packs. Groups of vampires who all share a common sire living together

two: clans - vampires who may not have the same sire living together; clans tend to be a little less close than packs, and a bit more common as packs geeeenerally don't (can't) get much larger than the Boys' pack

there's also a secret third option, but that one is almost entirly made up by me and my writing partner, ask us about it if you want, but it's strictly oc stuff, so I'm not putting it here.

Max is basically trying to force upon the Boys a way of living for vampires that not only doesn't seem like they want anything to do with because WE HAVE NO IDEA IF MAX EVER MENTIONED THIS TO THEM AT ALL?? THEM BEING INTERESTED IN MICHAEL SEEMS ALMOST LIKE A COINCIDENCE, and on top of that, as vampires, like, the species, they may not be able to live as anymore.

I could go on forever about vampire psychology, but I'll leave it at that. The Boys don't want 'family', they want 'pack.'

As my partner says, 'found family, but make it like, 10% more intense'. The Boys want nothing to do with anyone outside their pack if it's not eating them, or fucking around with them. Vampires are both more social than 'lonely, stalking monsters of the night' and less social than 'literal hive of undead monsters crawling like zombie hoards from the sewers'. They want their pack, the people they Connect With, the people they hunt with, sleep with. They don't want some...human thing. I would be uncomfortable to them.

And for the Boys' specifically, it would mess with their group dynamic. David and the rest have things just the way they'd like it, and Max interferes with that.

My partner and I have come up with a known phenomena for packs in the Lost Boy's universe.

Sire-Killer packs. :)

[lost-technology]

What if... they played Fallout?

So, a thing came across my dash showing off Wolfwood's amazing carrying capacity and it led to me joking about what if Wolfwood were in Skyrim? Honestly, Fallout is more like their world and I've given thought to how the characters of Trigun would play the Fallout games - whether they were caught in a crossover that put them in a world even more bleak than the one they live in or they...discovered video games and played. (This accounts for characters making play-characters that actually reflect themselves if latter. I mean, I'm a weakling who loves to play a heavy-melee and sometimes big guns characters... I doubt I'd be able to lift a sledgehammer with ease in real life, but my motto in game is "Super Sledges don't run out of ammo!") Vash - Small Arms specialist. High agility and perception. Uses V.A.T.S. constantly (I think hey may canonically have some kind of Plant-inborn version of V.A.T.S!) Downs more Nuka-Cola Quantum that that Petrovita-lady. Luck stat is in the toilet. Is one of those "Hold my beer, Bethesda!" pacifist-challenge players. Despite a low luck stat, he has the Mysterious Stranger perk for whatever reason. It's Wolfwood. The Mysterious Stranger is Wolfwood and Vash gets P.O.ed when he saves Vash's life by killing a tough opponent. Meryl - Small Arms specialist. High intelligence. High Charisma. Takes on a lot of the sidequests that let you explore the world and find out little things about it. Definitely there for the lore. Stampede version Meryl is doing ALL of Piper Wright's quests and will take her as a main companion. Wolfwood - Big Guns. Uses V.A.T.S. sometimes, but prefers a simple target and rapid-fire. High medical skill / all the Medical-related perks. Hoards and owns ALL the Stimpaks. Milly - Big Guns. Carries a Mini-Gun because it reminds her of her stungun. "I had to kill those Supermutants, Mr. Vash, it's just a game! Don't worry about it!" Likes all of the good karma quests were she gets to help people. Would probably enjoy Fallout 4's DLC Striker (the gun that shoots bowling balls). Likes anything with abnormal ammo. Elendira the Crimsonail - Concentrates on doing all of the little quests / getting all of the blueprints for building the Railroad Gun and hoards every railroad spike she finds along the way. Uses the Railroad Gun exclusively. Millions Knives - Melee specialist. Starts out with things like switchblades, graduates to swords as soon as possible. Isn't much for the sledgehammers, but will take a baseball bat and mod it to have razor blades / Bladed Swatter. A murder-hobo who slaughters everything, especially every human he comes across, settler and raider alike. Doesn't do any main quests, just kills stuff. Probably feels some kind of kinship to one of the non-human or left-of-human downtrodden races, like the robots or synths. Ghouls are probably still too human for him to like. Legato Bluesummers - Being more of a telepath than heavy on weapons, I imagine him finding that Vault in the Fallout 4 DLC you can run or downloading Fallout Shelter and running a Vault - in the most evil way possible. Just horrible manipulation on the human residents to torture them and see how they tick.

[hxhhasmysoul]

Okay we're getting nowhere and I don't have the char limit in asks to counter properly but just wanted to make clear that when I said you were being rude, I didn't mean to me personally but in saying things like "gojou's fans know no cringe".

"I don't have the char limit in asks to counter properly" - then dm me.

"Okay we're getting nowhere" - i don't know where the destination is so i can only trust you on this.

as to that particular tag being rude, yeah, it absolutely is. this is some unfortunate coincidence that you haven't come across the posts or tags where i talk this way because i often do. and i'm being very sincere here, i do not expect people to know all my posts. it's just unfortunate that you weren't forewarned and got a wrong impression of me.

i have for a very long time expressed extreme exasperation with the juju fandom. i have written that it gives me brain damage. i compared it to toxic waste. these are rude things to say regularly, especially without caveats like "some people in the jjk fandom ... ".

but i also have an about section on this blog which very explicitly says that this is my personal hoarding blog. this blog exists exclusively to cater to me and my fandom experience. that's why i vent and rant on it.

for example i vent on in about how gojou, getou and stsg fans are making the fandom quite insufferable for me, a person who:

1. used to like gojou but liked him because i see him as extremely flawed;

2. despises getou as a person for being a fascist and supremacist but used to like his descent into that ideology, not the execution in 0 though,

3. who gave zero shits about them as a pairing, like never thought about it on my own.

thank so the fandom now i can't stand gojou, getou and their ship anymore.

i love kenjaku and the getou and stsg fans who constantly erase them are aggravating.

getou fans who consistently pretend he wasn't genocidal are aggravating, especially considering how anti fascist and leftist a lot of juju is. gojou fans who act like his shit doesn't stink are frustrating too. these two exist probably 80% as fanon on this website.

stsg and gojou fans who think every fucking panel and every fucking moment in jjk is a parallel to either gojou or stsg. that will flood the juju tags with these inane farfetched takes even on moments that are specifically about other characters. yuuji, my absolutely fucking favourite character in juju is probably the main victim of this. almost everyday i look at a post with a manga panel or screen cap of characters i like, click to expand the post just to read some absolute gibberish about how this particular panel, this particular moment is actually about gojou or getou or them together...

this is how the fandom feels to fans of yuuji, kenjaku, megumi and others. gojou and getou fans think the fandom revolves around them, that it's their job let fans of other characters know that their favs are nothing more than stand ins for gojou and getou. that their stories exist only as reference to gojou and getou's stories... instead of, and i know it's fucking wild, letting others enjoy their thing without having to be bombarded by characters they don't give a shit about.

my friend witnessed a situation when gojou fans literally invaded and spammed a jjk server. making everyone else in that server have a bad day.

idk if there are any yuuji or kenjaku fans who go into gojou or getou's tags to create posts about how gojou or getou moments are actually just reference to yuuji or kenjaku moments. is that an actual thing that happens?

what have we done to gojou and getou's fans? what is our fucking crime that we can't enjoy our parts of the fandom in peace?

there are so many blogs that love gojou or even focus on him. and you came to me, a person whose interest in jjk can be boiled down to:

i'm not normal about yuuji

i love the mindfuck that is kenjaku

i love all the leftist themes in juju, its convoluted magic system and the way the multiple parallel plots used to run

i thirst after sukuna especially in his true form

i miss nobara a lot

i actually like angel, hana, yorozu, uro...

a person who wrote things like: gojou die challenge, or how i wanted sukuna to graphically and gratuitously eat gojou at the end of this fight to compensate for the brain damage i was getting from reading text posts on this website. that i hope that if he dies his fans will rage quit the fandom and we will finally be allowed not to think about him.

a person who practically never reblogs individual art of him because i can't look at him anymore.

and you come to poke me, to insinuate that my subjective opinions are somehow lesser from yours which you apparently consider objective or whatever, dear gojou fan.

and now you come here sulking that this is going nowhere... what is going nowhere? what did you set out to do? evangelise to me about gojou? because it's not enough that the majority adores him? no one is allowed not to care about him or the crime dislike him? no one is allowed not to be impressed by him? no one is allowed to prioritise different things about juju than you?

please, for the love of the manga gods, what did i fail to guess that you want from me? and how am i responsible for that, dear stranger who approached me?

i'm so exasperated. this is not an excuse, this is an explanation. i vent my frustrations in a rude way, it is what it is.

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[edelweissacermacrophyllum]

Biblical literalism

Job 8-10, Proverbs 3:11-20, Matthew 19:16-30

It's funny how many people claim to take the bible completely literally but try to find clever ways around this passage. "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven." - Jesus.

Some have said that there is a city gate that is notorioiusly tiny, called the needles eye, and that is what Jesus was talking about. But his disciples clearly didn't think so because they were shocked and asked who then could be saved.

Whether Jesus is speaking idiomatically or not here the point is clear: Rich people will never (or will rarely) go to heaven. I do spend too much time on Reddit, so this may just be the prevailing mood there and not elseswhere, but I suspect there is a growing discontent with rich people. They have become rich by exploiting other people's labour, exclusively.

Here's the thing, though. What separates rich people from non-rich people. Does a summer cottage on a lake make somebody rich? Does having a new car? I myself have a decent chunk of savings, such that I don't worry about day to day finances. Am I rich? I live in one of the richest cities in the world in a well developed nation. My privelege to live here has come at the cost of South American labour, Chinese products, and the death of an entire Indigenous way of life. My money is not innocent.

To have money is to be a bystander to any problem that money would solve. I don't know if hoarding wealth is defensible at all, although I do feel that in my case it should be.

Make no mistake, I'm not equivocating the normal middle class lifestyle with the ultra rich multimillionaires and above. In my mind, those people are villains, dragons sitting on their piles of gold that they stole in legal ways from their employees and those who used to live on the land they "developed". They are damned. I think.

The question is: Am I? Has my wealth cursed me? Is Jesus saying to me, specifically, "Sell your stuff and empty your bank account into the stomachs of the hungry." I can't answer this question because I have no intention of doing that and therefore any argument I have for why I do that is clearly motivated reasoning.

Spiderman's code implies that people have responsibility proportional to their power. Money is a measure of power, yes, but God is all powerful. What is Their responsibility? Can we even treat God as responsible? Job is certainly trying as he grapples with a world that he sees as unjust.

It's late, but I do want to end with this question for which I have no answer. Do we as humans have the right, responsibility, or even ability to think about God's actions in the context of Their responsibilty?

[ultraericthered]

Is Magnifico's system a good political system? Is it reasonable/fair/etc.? Is he justified in keeping the ungranted wishes? Should he have as much power as he does, even if his people agreed to live under his power?

Does he have malicious intent? Is he "evil"?

These aren't really the same thing. You can answer "no" to both questions.

The answers to those would be one resounding "no" and a "not at first". From the start of when we meet him, Magnifico has done bad things and is very capable of going on to do more bad things, but his intentions for the kingdom he built up and for his subjects who live there under his rule are not without valid rationale, and he's not what I'd call evil. He makes himself evil later in the story via the book.

This would have been an obvious route for the movie to go in order to make him more conventionally villainous, but the thing is, there is absolutely no indication that this is happening.

It WAS the route the movie was going to go at one point given what Magnifico says in the deleted "hulking out" climax scene. I don't understand why the angle got lost in the final film, as Magnifico using the magic of the wish orbs to keep his power charged and his and Amaya's life span going could work even within the framework of him not knowing what happens when he breaks/absorbs wishes.

He's a hoarder, but it feels more like "old lady in a small apartment who has 20 cats because she can't stop adopting strays despite the health and safety concerns this causes" type of hoarding as opposed to "a calculated amassing of power" type of hoarding.

The issue there is that old ladies in small apartment who has 20 cats have no status of power and have made no promises to anyone that maybe one day they'll give one of their cats to them. Magnifico knows that A: every person in Rosas will be waiting for as long as possible for him to eventually grant them the wish they gave to him but now cannot recall, and B: there are some wishes among all those he's been given by the people that he has deemed too high risk to ever be granted magically, thus he will not ever grant those ones. Yet he still keeps those "never to be granted" wishes for his own personal comfort and pleasure, rather than do the responsible thing of giving them back and leveling with the owner that it's a wish he cannot in good conscience grant with his magic but they're free to try to fulfill the wish on their own with whatever means they can find. Unless we're to assume this ages old sorcerer monarch is ignorant, forgetful, and out of touch with his subjects, we have to put A and B together there and the conclusion we'd come to is that Magnifico knows he'll never grant certain wishes of certain people AND that those certain people are still waiting for him to grant their wishes, so he is very deliberately putting into practice a "carrot on a stick" tactic to keep these people both complacent with his rule and adoring, respecting, and depending on him as their ruler for the remainder of their lives. Evil or not, that is a douchey, self-interested approach to take.

You could say that just having the wishes still gives him control in the sense that he's stringing people along with the hope that he's going to grant their wish, which is true.

Yes. Literally what I just said, thank you!

But there's also the fact that everyone in Rosas agreed to live under this system and did so with full knowledge of what it meant. It's a relatively new society; most of the people there settled there sought it out because they'd heard it was a great place to live, and then they're given the grand tour where they're told how everything works, and none of it is a lie. They're aware that they have to give him their wish as a precondition for living there, that they forget about it, and that whether or not it ever gets granted is left exclusively under the king's discretion. It's authoritarianism, but of a style that the citizens have all decided they want.

If Asha really had not realized or put together that Magnifico was intentionally keeping people's wishes that they entrusted him with (and then forgot what they even were) fully committed to never ever granting them to those people, then no one in Rosas is likely to have realized. And this would count as a betrayal of trust by a ruler to his subjects AND a form of theft by deception/fraud. By not levelling with the givers of the wishes with whom he's formed this social contract that many of their wishes he's given might be ruled by him to be too high risk and unsafe to grant by magic yet also never to be returned to them so they thus go on not remembering them for the rest of their lives, Magnifico is befrauding the kingdom. There's just no way around that. That's what puts him squarely in the wrong.

It's kind of weird, actually, how the movie seems to go out of its way to stack the deck in its ostensible villain's favor by emphasizing how informed and enthusiastic the citizens' consent is, and also by completely glossing over what happens if someone who's born in Rosas isn't willing to give up their wish. The movie gives the impression that everyone except Asha (and maybe Simon) is onboard with this system and pretty content with it and then really does nothing to contradict this. Even Saba says he doesn't want to know what his wish is. And then Asha just kind of takes it upon herself to say, "No, this status quo is not good for you. I've decided that what you all need is more agency. Open wide. You're getting agency whether you want it or not." And the movie never really engages with the messiness and contradiction of all this. They introduce a lot of genuinely interesting themes about the nature of freedom, of desire, agency, and the cycle of trauma. And then it all gets dealt with so half-assedly.

This is all valid criticism that I do agree with. The execution was just not up to par with the ideas, for this and other aspects of the film.

Like, if they didn't want it so gray, another obvious route to go (which has been brought up by more than one person) would've been "Asha decides not to give her wish on her eighteenth birthday, and then quickly finds out that it's not as optional as it appears because the king's knights try to abduct her and take her wish by force (or whatever) and then threaten to hurt her family if she tells anyone." That would have been villainous! Like this movie had tons of options they could have gone with to make Magnifico more devious, more of a manipulative and ruthless schemer in the vein of Scar or Ursula, but it fails to take any of these routes. Instead they go with the whole evil book thing so all his worst actions are committed in an altered mental state.

I mean, the evil book, the power it grants him, and his altered mental state/addiction is all the result of his own conscious decision he made when feeling unappreciated, undermined, and desparate for a quick fix, so that's still on him. The movie just muddied his motivation by having the earlier scene where he's talked down from it by Amaya and seems sincerely thankful to her for it, so it didn't seem like a whole lot changed between that point and when he does unseal the book in the midst of a comically self-obsessed villain song.

I've talked at length about that in other posts and this is already long; my point is that the writers of the movie just failed at their task of making a "classic" villain. Some Wish rewrites lean in the direction of making him more of a straight-up baddie, others have leaned into the "sympathetic antagonist with psychological issues" angle, but there seems to be pretty widespread agreement that he doesn't come across as a Jack Horner type so much as a flawed, misguided man, one who accomplished something genuinely impressive in building a kingdom that people wanted to live in because in spite of everything it was a pretty nice place (better than much of the world, I'd say) but the first time he came up against genuine opposition, he was overwhelmed by his personal demons.

Magnifico got heavily and very enjoyably "classic villain"ish in the movie's second half (from his song and onward), but the writers of the movie failed to properly motivate his character on the road to getting there. For comparison, when Gaston shifts from being just a boorish, egocentric jerk and antagonistic figure to Belle in the story to being a true full-fledged evil villain with an evil plot and readiness to harm others for the sake of fulfilling his desire, it checks out and feels natural given the way Gaston's character was set up. When the shift happens with Magnifico, it doesn't really go together with the character's set up in the first half, where he seemed like "a flawed, misguided man" who clung to his God complex and the love, respect and dependency of his people out of insecurity and a need for tight-fisted control to make everything in his life go fine for him rather than a douchey narcissist who could become this cartoonishly nefarious, egomaniacal, and power-hungry character we see in the second half.

This is not to say that there weren't flaws in Rosas from the beginning; any isolated society which is built around a single charismatic figure is bound to turn somewhat cultlike, which comes with risks even when the community is relatively benevolent.

Exactly. Which, again, is why Magnifico was always set up as the bad guy in this story even before he devolved into a truly evil villain.

Wish and King Magnifico?

Ever since the trailer dropped, I’ve been seeing more and more people coming to King Magnifico’s defense about his wish granting, and it’s honestly really weird to me given that he is a literal villain. Like the do-an-evil-laugh-in-the-dark-while-casting-a-forbidden-green-spell kind of villain.

Like I’m fully aware that not every wish needs to come true, and that the world would descend into chaos if everyone got what they wanted, BUT Asha just doesn’t seem the type to be selfish in wishing. I feel like she’ll learn early on that Star’s wish magic has limits

This was more than likely the intention of the design team; having a villain wear white will subconsciously convince your audience that he’s not utterly and entirely evil. That, and also he’s hot. No wonder everyone’s giving him the benefit of the doubt.

I just wish that they alluded to more of the plot in the trailer. They should’ve shown the part that tells us that the wishes are erased from the wisher’s mind if they are not granted immediately and instead sent to the tower; it seems rather cruel to keep a piece of one’s memory away from them. Asha’s grandfather’s 100th birthday is also a subplot of the movie, and she learns that one of his wishes has long since been neglected in the palace walls. The knowledge of these two things act as the catalyst in her confrontation of King Magnifico. She more than likely wants the people of Rosas to just live freely with the memories of their wishes, instead of keeping them in a tower.

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An introduction:

Hello, good day. This introduction of me (not my story's world) is something I should have done when I first made this account, but completely spaced and wanted to do a worldbuilding intro over this. Anyway, no time like the present.

My name is Elyse or if you want, you can refer to me as Night Fox or Fox. Whatever is the easiest to remember or you are comfortable with. Pronouns are She/They.

I'm just your local Bi, Nonbinary, Disabled Adult Fantasy Writer and Art Doodler.

My current writing projects. My main projects are a loosely connected series. Set in the same world known as the Kaeyama, but has different MCs and Countries in each book. The side stories/spin offs are usually set in the same country as their main counterpart, but as I'm going to explain there's an exception to this rule:

The Legend of Bolyra - This story follows a Magic/Physical Disabled, Bi, Polyamorous Snow Elf Thief, who's a Princess in hiding, named Aerilaya Lithrina (later Likuri - a combination last name of her husband and her wife's). Who stumbles upon a sacred orb belonging to the LifeBlood Tree and a journal from a High Priestess who served Two Twin Goddesses during an investigation to make sure a local greedy noble isn't hoarding extra wealth at a seemingly abandoned temple at the edge of town.

The Legend of Huisong - Follows 3 misfits, who try to find their place in the world, while dealing with one another's dark and potentially dangerous secrets. A Runosu (a humanlike being with Iridescent Glowing Skin, Light Purple Eyed, and Natural Multicolored hair) named Sairi, a Kayosei (a humanoid butterfly person known for having beautiful purple wings) named Murasaki, and a nonbinary, trans Kitsune named Hiraku.

The Legend of Iecruinia - Follows 4 dragonborns who end up on a quest to find their kidnapped parents and the sacred crystals their parents were guarding. Before the floating islands of their lands come crashing down and watch their country being thrown into destructive chaos.

Side stories:

A Winter's Dance (tentative title), a novella that follows three human nobles who live in the oppressive monarchy dictatorship country known as Helina. Thornton Sr, his wheelchair bound cousin with Time Magic Luciana Nightwork, and Fire User Nym Andronicus. This story is a play on Romeo and Juliet (but none of the three MCs dies. Yes, yes, you can boo me and throw your tomatoes. 🤭) This is a prequel back story to these three characters, how they wound up in Bolyra, and started a Thieves' Guild. This also gives insight to the Slave Trade and how people - regardless of status feel about it (I do a lot of characters who are in high positions of power and reject their status at one point or another.)

Short Story Collection 1 and 2 - These collections take place about 100 to 200 years after the main events of TLoB (haven't finished this, but the muse wants semi cozy stories at the moment and wants me to build up some characters that makes appearances in TLoB.)

Art Projects:

I'm currently working on some printable bookmarks and digital (which can be printed too) stickers for my Ko-fi Shop. Also, for funsies and to improve my art skills is doing fan art of video game characters for both Ko-fi and Patreon.

Anyway, that's enough about me. I hope you enjoy my content, if you have any questions about my stories, my art, my Ko-fi or Patreon, please feel free to ask, and I hope to see you all soon.

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