#but not even for ethnic reasons - mostly for job reasons

[junipernoon]

Here have a WIP Why don't I draw more? I should draw more!

I've been wanting to draw this forever. It's Cyril and Imelda's wedding picture. He's Japanese/Korean and wearing an obi/barong combo and she's Filipina and wearing a kimono and I just think it's sweet.

They have an autumn wedding.

Cyril's nephew is the ring bearer and their dogs are the flower girls.

This is the first time I'm drawing these two. So designs were pulled out of my butt.

[3liza]

i think this is a pretty good cross-section of where the american voters are at rn. the teenagers calling the crowd "scammy" for charging $40 for a MAGA hat are probably the smartest people there, after the guys selling the hats. please note the classics of american citizenry:

self-identified democrats who fucking hate biden and trump

pro-Palestine demonstrators who also hate biden and trump

the normal evangelical MAGA guys (various ethnicities) shouting racial slurs

the Honduran immigrant who is vehemently pro-Trump, followed a little later by Trump starting his remarks by declaring immigrants the most urgent problem facing the country. this one is really common, ive never yet seen a reporter follow up with one of these guys on what they think is going to happen to them personally if Trump achieves his stated goals. idk why this is, journalists are mostly cowardly i think

not a single pro-Biden individual mentioned in any demographic (Slate is a liberal publication, Jon Stewart type paper)

social studies teacher on a fixie lol

everyone who expresses an opinion on "the economy" asserts that it is bad. trump supporters believe that trump can fix this

former Obama supporter reporting his switch to GOP after democrats empowered the gays too much, adding that he "has nothing against [gays]" but that "it does nothing for us"(?) another really common opinion that i think is genuine. again, the reporter does not pursue this line of reasoning with any followup questions like "how did the expansion of LGBT rights under Obama negatively affect you?" even though that is presumably their job and i would like to know what the answer is and self-identified liberals, democrats and leftists should want to know what the answer is

no other candidates (Bernie, Warren, et al) mentioned

biden is going to lose, badly. this is because he is a garbage candidate. maybe the democrats should run someone electable, as a treat. oh well

[xochosoxo]

the best patient ✮ | e.jaeger

MDNI-> warnings: afab reader, nurse!y/n, erenbrokehiswrist, cheater!eren, stoner!eren, dealer!eren, (pretend hes also a metalhead bc i love metalheads. and toxic eren oh my god its unhealthy), mentions of weed, blowjobs, hairpulling, missionary, cowboy, multiple creampies, dirty talk, eyerolling, tit sucking, hickies, pussy eating, cum swapping/sharing/consuming, squirting (cuz it wouldnt be a dysaren fic without squirting!), erens gf visits.

a/n: sorry im so inactive im actually so busy like all the time :( (save me.) anyway, enjoy this quick fic i wrote instead of doing my assignments!! i am a sucker for toxic,cheater,stoner,dealer,metalhead,has piercings eren. based on a scenario that i created with a character.ai bot ( i am ashamed.. it was a xiao bot.)

"hello. im nurse y/n and ill be taking care of you for the duration of your stay here." you say, walking into the ER patient room as you scan my clipboard for the details of the person staying here.

Name: Eren Yeager

DOB: March 30 XXXX

Height: 6'0 ft

"weight, ethnicity blah blah... reason of hospitlization: distal radius fracture..." you read to yourself, glancing up from the clipboard to meet eyes with the man in the hospital bed. his long brown hair was up in a messy bun, he had tattos running from his neck all the way down to his arms, and from what you can tell, he was built, rather... nicely. (he was buff asf.)

the man looked miserable. he had swollen undereyes, and his skin looked dry, but still, for some reason you found him incredibly attractive.

"hello nurse." he mutters, clearly tired.

"hello." you repeat again. "im just here just to check up on you." you explain to him, sauntering closer to his bed.

you flip the page on your clipboard to a new, blank sheet. "i will just be running some tests, checking your vital signs and see how you are healing."

eren nods compliantly.

you take that as a sign of consent and start writing some things down on paper. "he seems to be doing fine...even his arms are nice fuck." you get distracted, looking at his arms, the way the veins pop out. mentally youre drooling. his fingers are long and thick, and there are indentations of multiple rings on them which only gets you more excited.

you flip your page back to the information sheet from before, checking the notes: "frequent smoker and sexually active."

"so it says here you are a frequent smoker?" you ask him, just wanting some sort of confirmation from him.

eren nods again. "yes" he whispers. "some nicotine but mostly weed."

"oh i see." you say, writing that information down.

"i can get you some. once im out of here at least." he looks up at you.

"im sorry?" you mustive heard wrong...right?

"ive seen you around before." eren explains. "at parties...you know mostly smoking. like that last one...you were with jean and connie."

oh. you didnt hear wrong.

three days ago, on your day off, you had went to a party with your friends jean and connie. they said it would be a good idea since it would be a chance for you to finally relax from your stressful job, so you relunctantly went. that was your first time smoking weed. it was wonderful and you guess eren saw the whole thing.

"you must have it wrong... i dont typically smoke." you explain to the brown haired man.

"i know, jean and connie told me it was your first. looked like you had a good time though." he smiles tiredly up at you.

you were taken a back a bit. you didnt know that the two of them knew eren. do they know that he's in the hospital right now? are they the reason he broke his wrist? where were they?

"i see..." you ponder a bit. "are they here with you tonight? somewhere in the hospital i mean."

"yeah. theyre here with my girlfriend too since she's the only sober one who can drive at the moment... they just went back to my place to grab some things for me before you came in. they wont be back for a while." eren clarifies.

"goddamnit he has a girlfriend." you sob internally.

"thats good to know." you fake smile, looking back at your clipboard. "it says here youre also sexually active... are you taking any sort of pills perchance?" you continue with your questions, trying to get back to professionalism.

"nope its all just me." he giggles with a coy grin on his face. youd hate to admit that his laugh turned you on a bit.

you finish up your report of eren, rechecking his vitals once more to confirm things. "okay it seems as though youre on the right track... it can take up to 6-12 weeks for your wrist to comepletely heal. otherwise, you might want to lay off the weed consumption till then." you finish up.

before you can leave, he call out. "wait.."

you turn around. "what is it? are you alright?"

"i have a problem with something and i just cant seem to be able to do it myself." eren tries saying shyly, but the look in is eyes seemed to be more sinsiter than you thought. "after all... i did just break my wrist..."

he looks down at his jeans, putting the spotlight on the constrained buldge in his jeans.

youre flushed. "oh..." what were you supposed to do in this situation?? didnt he have a girlfriend?

right he had a girlfriend.

"im sure your girlfriend can help you out with that."

eren's eyebrows crease. he did have a girlfriend and she was amazing. she did basically everything for him. so why now was he so damn attracted to his nurse to want to take a risk and cheat on everything he had???

he presses his lips together before speaking, "i lied. i just didnt want to seem like a pussy to ya." sentences were forming right as he was speaking them. hopefully it was enough to fool you. "please. its so uncomfortable..."

his throbbing cock was being compressed by not only his boxers but also by his black rocker jeans. it was true. it was extremely uncomfortable so why not relieve it with the cute nurse who also happened to be the cute girl who had been sitting with his friends not too long ago, taking a drag from a joint he sold to jean and connie.

you were relunctant, but then again, you could feel your panties getting damper. you walk up to him slowly, keeping your eyes locked with his. you sit down on the bed beside him.

he feels your soft hands on his buldge and from that he lets out a restrained sigh. "fuck." he huffs.

god, there was no way this wasnt turning you on too. eren knew that. he saw the way you bit your lip as you started to unbutton his jeans.

"how long will they be gone?" you ask, hinting at the group of friends eren had mentioned previously. "for a while.. my place is pretty from from the hospital." he watches you slowly pull down his zipper. "fuck baby youre making me go crazy."

you smile, finally releasing his cock from his boxers. he was hung. youre eyes widened and he lauged.

"too much for you baby?" he questions.

"no..." you whisper, slowly kitten licking the tip, tasting his precum before fully sheathing his cock in your mouth.

eren moaned. loudly.

"holy shit!" he huffs. "oh my god..." he leans his head back, grabbing your neat ponytail to guide you while sucking him off.

"ugghhfff!" you choke on his length, tears coming to your eyes. but you like it. it felt too good. at this point, your panties were soaking wet at this point.

"fuck baby you gotta stop or else im gonna cum." eren gasps, pulling you off from his dick. "cmon take it all off... show me."

you look behind you to make sure that the door to the room was closed. you look back at him with a playful look, pulling off your uniform and undershirt to reveal your cleavage.

eren smirked, watching as your skin reacted from the cold air, goosebumps forming. he reaches behind you and releases the hooks of your bra.

he sighed at the sight of your tits. they were beautiful. you were beautiful. he kneads at your chest as you remove the rest of your garments, underwear included.

you were fully exposed to him. internally, eren was freaking out. externally, he was entranced by your body, drooling a bit.

"eren?" you ask, waving your hand infront of him. he snaps out of his trance. "are you ok?" you look at him with a worried look.

"im ok baby. sorry. lets keep going." he says, rubbing his tip on your clit. he can feel your wetness and he smirks once again,

"you are dripping baby..." he whispers in your ear. "i dont even need to prep you..." eren slowly shoves his cock into you.

you were in heaven. both of you were. to him, you felt so fucking tight. he doesnt even know if youre a virgin or not. how couldnt you be? "youre so tight..." he groans, restraining himself from prematurely giving you a creampie.

you have never felt so full in your life. in your life, you've only fucked one guy and the rest had been occupied by your plethora of sex toys. but eren... eren was different. you were filled to the brim. eren could see the buldge of his dick lightly poking through your pudgy tummy. that made him go feral.

he started thrusting into you faster, sucking on your sensitive nipples, licking around the skin as well. he left mulitple hickies in the places where only he could see them. you still were on your shift of course, he wanted to be courteous.

"mmm..." he heard you sigh, smiling as he kissed your body.

eren lifts you up so now youre straddling him. he keeps his pace constant but you wanted to take control. so you start bouncing on his cock. he watches as your tits move with you, again trying not to prematurely cum.

"mmmhf!!!!" you try to conceal your moans, but it was so hard. "fuck daddy please!! i need more!!" you were being greedy, but it felt too good.

"youre bossy baby." eren laughs. he thrusts up, faster than before. "fuck im gonna fucking cum." you watched him gasp, bringing your face closer to his, kissing him with so much passion. he kissed back.

sure he had a girlfriend, but maybe now he's finally gonna break it with her. just for you.

"ah ah..." you gasp, feeling his thrusts slow down. you whine.

"shush baby, let me cum inside before i fuck it back into you." he moans into your neck, creampie-ing your cunt. you try not to scream as you feel the heat in your stomach release as you cum as well.

your eyes roll back into your head and oh how he loves the sight. yeah hes all yours now.

eren picks up his pace once again, like he said, fucking his cum deeper into you.

you scream before he slaps a hand over your mouth. "shut it baby... dont want everyone hearing how much of a slut you are."

"mmfgf!" you groan in protest.

eren doesnt stop his pace until he's shooting his thick load into you once again.

he's catching his breath as he pulls out, plugging your pussy with his fingers so the essence wouldnt leak from your cute slit.

youre all fucked out by the way. he watches as your face contorts into pure pleasure, feeling the band in your stomach snap as you twitch on his fingers.

eren shoves his mouth onto your pussy, licking up the mess in between your legs, tasting both him and you. he licks up your slit to your clit, flicking it with his tongue. youre overstimulated and tired. your couldnt take it anymore. you gush once more on his face, the liquid dripping down his chin and onto the sheets of the hospital bed.

"aahh..." you breathe heavily, recovering from your third orgasm.

"that feel good baby?" he says, bring his head up to meet your eyes. he could see hearts in them.

"mm... i think we're going to have to change the sheets." you giggle.

"well it was worth it." he watches as you sit up, making sure youre not in any discomfort. he rubs your back and fixes your hair. "you look beautiful like this."

"do i?" you say, questioning his taste.

he nods before leaning in for a comforting kiss. "let me take you out." he whispers.

you nod-

KNOCK KNOCK!

you glance behind you to look at the door.

"eren! its mikasa!" you both hear from the other side of the door.

you look back at him in confusion. "mikasa?"

he rolls his eyes.

"my girlfriend."

[dailyjermasparkle]

I realized that I have yet to make a post about the strike tomorrow, so I figured I should get on that.

I will be striking tomorrow and all throughout the week of Feb 18-25th and you need to as well.

Some things I didn't cover personally last time that I wanted to cover here:

Why are we striking?

As most people are aware, there is an ethnic cleansing going on in Gaza. Now more than ever, it is important to draw attention to the large numbers of innocent citizens being murdered daily. We need to let companies and those in power know that this is unacceptable and we can't stand by while these atrocities are committed. This strike is mostly designed to disrupt things to bring the situation to the attention of those with the power to change something.

What can you do?

Stay home from work/school

Only go out for necessary reasons

Only purchase things that you need, and purchase with cash if you can.

Donate to charities, or buy from companies that actively support palestine

Specifically boycott companies that support Israel

Spread the word, let everyone know that you are on strike

(let me know if I missed anything)

What if I can't do (insert thing)?

People are asked to do what they can. That means that if one of the things you are supposed to do for the strike is impossible, then that is okay. For example, if taking the whole week off of work would lose your job, and you cannot afford to do that, then you are not breaking the strike by continuing to work.

What charities can I donate to?

There are a lot of charities you can donate to, and I will add more as I find more, but it is also encouraged that you buy esims for Gaza, which I will reblog more information on, as it is not something I am educated enough to talk about myself.

Also, here is a reminder that even a small donation can go a long way. If you can spare even just a few bucks, I urge you to do so.

Charities:

https://www.pcrf.net/

https://www.unrwa.org/

[delusionsidora]

— oc . . .

tw,, just a severely mentally disturbed character. s#icide and bl#od I suppose lols

name; blythe silhouette

job; it’s unknown what blythe is even there for, nevertheless, it’s a miracle they got the job in the first place considering their instability.

gender; biological gender unknown. blythe is genderfluid but notable prefers they/them pronouns

sexuality; biromantic and omnisexual (has a preference for girls)

ethnicity; african american and french

age; unknown but is of legal age and is at least a few years younger than jimmy.

birthday; march tenth, is a pisces

nicknames; blythe doesn’t have any nicknames and also prefers to be referred to by their actual name.

pet names; none. but blythe’s given the other crew members pet names, even if in secret.

height; five foot eight feet tall.

weight; ninety pounds.

build; severely underweight.

eyes; has wide, creepy grey eyes.

distinguishing features; has freckles, a streak of white hair due to poliosis, and extremely pale skin that looks as though it’s experiencing pallor mortis.

hair; just black with a single white streak. their hair is down to their shoulders and is unkept.

health; 50/100. their physical health is mostly excellent save for their instability to obtain sleep and maintain healthy eating habits, but their mental health is completely deteriorated.

energy; is either tired to the point of swaying in circles while standing still or has enough energy to cause a stroke.

mental disorders; schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, major depressive disorder, intermittent explosive disorder, insomnia and sociopathy.

memory; depends. their memory ranges depending on the day and their mood, and sometimes they have memories that they aren’t even sure are real.

verse; mouthwashing.

mother; had an abusive mother that they never mention. blythe obviously hates their mother.

father; father was absent until their teenage years and ended up abandoning them again. they sent him death threats, harassed and stalked him until he eventually disappeared.

relatives; they have relatives but don’t necessarily have a relationship with any of them.

the crew members,,

curly; pre-crash, curly treated blythe a lot like he treated jimmy. they had a somewhat good relationship though it was obvious that curly was becoming fearful of their deteriorating mental and emotional stability. after the crash, blythe rarely truly sees curly’s actual condition, and often hallucinates curly as he was prior to the crash. they eventually are able to see curly and what had happened to him.

blythe made drawings for curly and hung them up where he was at, and also becomes closed with curly after the crash, for some odd reason.

jimmy; blythe is the closest with jimmy out of all the other crew members and vise versa. it’s heavily implied that they’re childhood friends. blythe seems aware of how bad of a person jimmy is but doesn’t necessarily care due to being considered worse than jimmy in some ways.

jimmy often takes advantage of their mental state and convinces them that curly is fine which is why they’re so unsure of whether or not the crash happened until anya confirms it. eventually jmmy’s own codependency towards blythe causes him to isolate blythe from the other crew members completely. jimmy has negatively influenced blythe’s behavior which is why they’re a lot like him.

daisuke; blythe is seen the most sympathetic towards daiuske which is surprising considering that they’re a sociopath.

blythe views daisuke as somewhat of their younger, adoptive sibling. although emotions like empathy or sympathy for blythe are often fleeting and shallow they mostly express it towards daisuke and not really the other crew members.

swansea; swansea despises blythe. they’re like a smaller version of jimmy without getting everyone killed or assaulting anyone (at least not sexually since blythe isn’t like that). blythe never really noticed that swansea disliked them.

anya; blythe has a crush on anya. it isn’t as blatant as blythe’s crush on jimmy, but anya is at least aware of their crush and does not like blythe back. blythe often is very flirty towards anya and is very, unnervingly friendly. they get really upset when anya never reciprocates and often goes to jimmy to complain about it.

they often bug anya in a childlike manner. anya wasn’t afraid of them until after the crash, where she understood that blythe was, and always has been, unstable, destructive, and morally corrupt. afterwards anya tries to avoid blythe.

personality; blythe is immature and irresponsible. they’re prone to temper tantrums when they don’t get their way which range from childish to dangerously violent.

they’re pretty dismissive and nonchalant about anyone’s concerns. they’re impulsive and have a lack of regard for the safety of themselves and others. their view of death is unhealthy considering the fact that they don’t fear it at all and in fact lean towards it the second small things go wrong. their suicidal tendencies lessen after the crash but only because they don’t want to fail at it and not because they value life or fear death.

not only do they devalue their own life but they devalue the lives of most of the other crewmates, including curly, pre-crash and post-crash despite the fact that they do care for curly. they only really seem to care for jimmy and daisuke’s life. jimmy because they’re closest to him and daisuke for a more selfish reason, blythe feels as though caring for him gives them a chance to right their wrongs (specifically fix how little they cared for their actual family) back on earth.

most of the other crew members just view blythe as a smaller version of jimmy, just a lot less serious, more jokable and more prone to snapping than he is (surprisingly). only daisuke and jimmy view blythe as otherwise because in reality they really only share a few traits with jimmy.

blythe is very apathetic towards everyone, especially anya, after the crash. anya already avoided them before since they were a nuisance but when curly got injured their stability deteriorated completely and she understood just how dangerous blythe was. anya eventually avoided blythe out of fear. anya states to curly before the crash that there was something about blythe that was dark.

after the crash blythe is constantly hallucinating and even gives curly drawing made from their own blood. someone on the ship cleaned it up since it’s considered a biohazard though blythe was completely unaware of their actions. they act out more and isolate themselves from the other crew members. eventually almost everywhere was covered in their drawings (a lot like the drawings of serial killers or mentally disturbed children) so daisuke spoke to them about it only to be callously dismissed by blythe.

they have very morbid and dark humor and often draw things such as nooses and themselves as a corpse. curly wanted to take away their crayons before the crash…

history; work in progress

[dakaneeee]

SANDZAK HEADCANOND

HEY CHAT GET PREPARED FOR SANDŽAK HEADCANONS OR MORE SO JUST CANONS BECAUSE I MADE HER UP LOL

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1. Her human name is Emina Avdić. Avdić is just a common name from the area, though Emina was shamelessly stolen off of Šantić’s poem of the same name.

2. Relationship wise she is in the same spot as Srpska, which means everyone sort of finds her annoying except one person, but even then it’s a love hate relationship, that other person being Enis. She does love him but he might find her as a bit of a bother, I don’t think Herze would mind her much though.

3. Speaking of Enis, she’s more conservative and more religious than he is (tho that’s not a hard thing to beat, he’s basically secular)

4. She does look up to him, probably as a kind of islamic father figure (because uncle Turkey doesn’t care about her anymore) but i think she realized he isn’t as serious as she is about this whole Islam thing

5. She kind of dislikes everyone around her quietly, like they all know about it but she isn’t screaming it out as most of them are.

6. She shows that hate in little actions, or just by being straight up unpleasant

7. I have yet to decide wether she lives with Montenegro or Serbia? I guess both, maybe she just switches around if the other gets too annoying to deal with. Im edging to just say Serbia because then she’d be the opposite of Srpska but we’ll see

8. Typically they both make her do chores around the house, Monte especially, because it’s “a woman’s job to do so”, Vuk cares less.

9. Sometimes she does visit the BiH household though, she probably prefers staying there rather than with Serbia or Montenegro but I don’t think they let her go often

10. She might get along with Kosovo, fuck they might be related because of the Albanians that came to Sandžak in the past

11. Taller (~175 cm?)

12. Long legs and slim figure, typical beauty standard especially because she’s blonde

13. She wears converse, it’s all she ever wears in modern day LOL

14. She always has her white headscarf on, it’s like her distinguishing feature

15. Tho in general she typically wears lighter clothes, possibly with red accents.

16. Heterosexual most definitely

17. She doesn’t get laid anyways she’s too proper for that

18. Her and Srpska are around the same age (so I guess similar to Kosovo and Vojvodina in physical age as well?), they both appeared at the start of the Ottoman period

19. she was just quickly adopted by Turkey and kept safe like that

20. During this time period she was mostly shielded by him, though in the 1800s she met Ilija for the first time after he was islamized fully and most likely became a janissary. To keep it simple they dated and were smitten with each other

21. It’s true that janissaries actually couldn’t get married or well… date, though at this time the janissaries did start breaking the rules and rebelling against the sultan, so it could personify that

22. They fell apart after he ran off to start his own uprisings, she just felt betrayed

23. To this day she reminds me of all the glory he lost, so they basically hate each other now 💔

24. Tho, „Emina” by Šantić was also probably Srpska talking about her

25. She’s the reason he became an incel

26. She has a silver ibrik (same one mentioned in the poem haha) which she uses to beat people with when it’s full of water, mostly Montenegro and Serbia.

27. Chronically offline, she doesn’t know what a tik tok is

28. She loves reconnecting with nature whenever she’s upset

29. In fact she wants to live by herself, but she’s too poor to afford anything so she’s stuck with the two idiots for now

30. She likes gardening i feel

31. She appreciates ethnic music over anything else, buttttttt I think she’d also like Zabranjeno Pušenje

32. She prefers being outside, not in the city way but in the villager way

33. Not shy, just aggressively introverted, in the meaning that she pushes people she doesn’t know well away, in the literal sense probably

34. She plays sudoku :DDDDDDDD

35. Very clever and probably kicks ass at chess also

36. Fluent in Bosnian and Turkish, probably knows some albanian, arabic a teeeenyyyy tiny bit also

I might expand on her relations with the others furthermore, especially srpska cause i didn’t give their lovestory justice

Good night chat

[olderthannetfic]

People going on about how they're representing this whole Greek thing are missing that that one anon had a pretty good point about how "cultural appropriation" rhetoric gets misused. People do really need to be more specific about what the issue is, or it very easily turns into basically just arguing for cultural segregation. I've seen that happen numerous times on this website over the years. I've seen people argue that it's appropriative to do something like *learn about* another culture or learn its language. I think it's really important for people to keep an eye on what are the actual issues with cultural appropriation (mostly about exploitation and colonialism) and not just the idea that cultural mixing is bad, or that being interested in a culture that isn't your own is bad. Because the truth is, whether you intend this or not, if you're just arguing that everyone should only keep to the culture of their ethnicity or their place of origin or both, then you're basically in agreement with white supremacists. It's not that cultures mixing is bad; most culture is a result of some mixture. It's when it's done in a way that's exploitative and/or disrespectful: like reducing sacred symbols like indigenous war bonnets to a fashion accessory, or incorporating the art of another culture into your own art without giving credit and without paying anyone from that culture who taught you or added to your work.

FTR, I don't think you can "appropriate" ancient mythologies. I think people are getting twisted around though because there is a genuine history of colonial exploitation of Greek artifacts by colonial powers to fill their museums, as with the Elgin marbles. I do think it's still a good idea to be properly informed about them, regardless, at the very least because those make for the more interesting retellings. For all that people (who IME, largely haven't read it, I'd love to hear if people who have read it disagree though) rag on Song of Achilles, I actually thought it was a pretty good example of a retelling because the author, who has an educational background in mythology, takes great pains to try to recreate the society and cultural norms of Greece at that time rather than sugarcoat it. Achilles may be even more of a jerk than he was in the original Iliad, tbh. It's telling to me that the author's other books that are less "shippy" don't have as negative of a reputation on here in that regard as Song of Achilles, despite being fairly similar, and it makes me wonder how much of that is because it's popular among "fujoshi fandom" so people just assume it MUST be shallow and fandomified, and I was super shocked at how much it really wasn't that at all. As well as I saw that a lot of people expecting something more like that were disappointed by all the period-accurate misogyny and so on.

Which brings me to another point: another reason I'm skeptical of a lot of this discourse is that it seems like often it's more of a high-culture, low-culture thing. A thing that is popular with M/M fanfic writers can't POSSIBLY be doing it right. A thing that is a popular video game or Tony-winning Broadway musical that is popular with the fandoms for those things, can't possibly be accurate. And I get that a lot of that is because a lot of populist things that took from Greek mythology have been inaccurate (Disney's Hercules, for instance) but if you're going to criticize the accuracy of something, I think it is worth engaging with the original work and what it actually does rather than just assuming It's Popular It Must Suck. It feels like a lot of this turns into lording that you were into it before X over others. And being aware that Tumblr Recommendations often do a poor job of actually giving you a good idea of what the work is really like.

As well as, of course, asking yourself - as we should with any sort of historical inaccuracy etc. - if the inaccuracy was deliberate or not. Sometimes people are not really telling that story in order to tell the most accurate version of something but to make a different kind of point, and so the changes might be deliberate. I would argue this is true with something like Hadestown.

That doesn't mean you can't still dislike it for that reason, of course. I know a lot of classical musicians who dislike the movie Amadeus for being so inaccurate about Mozart's and Salieri's lives. I like it despite that because I think the point it is trying to make is stronger for not sticking to the historical fact. I just wish more people did know the historical fact, though.

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One would think the "Is it bad if I learn to cook Thai food?" thing was a strawman... but I've seen it in the wild far too many times.

[mcfallen-god]

Tagged by @zaegreus thanks bestie ✨💜

Do you make your bed?

I often make the bed when I leave for a couple of days, or for a night over, so when I come back home I feel comfy and all hehe.

What’s your favourite number?

Yub, 3

But why? Eh.. The shape? The 'color'? The vibe? Occurrences in my life liked to the three? Idk, just 3 and all the 3 related numbers (33, 333 etc)

What is your job?

Student is not a job, because I am the one losing money, but yeah

If you could go back to school would you?

Probably, I'd like pre-school/middle-school, when I could learn new but easy things lol and I loved the smell and things at my school back then. I'd like to go back in whatever you call that period between 15-18 yo school time, but not for all aspect, let's say I was in a school specialized in art and it was a lot of fun to have a class like that. And for some reason too (but definitely NOT ALL ASPECTS) I'd like to be back to study literature, a part of it...

Can you parallel park?

Yub kinda but I don't like it, and I think it is easier to park on the left part of the road than the right (note: my country drives with wheel on left and road on right)

A job you had that would surprise people?

I didn't had any real job, but maybe the fact I study English literature... Because when I was a kid, until hmm 13/14? I had a deep hatred for English language xD don't ask me why, it is just a fact... This, and me studying literature to begin with, when I barely ever read.. (note: I love to read, but due to other reasons I have a very, very hard time to read even things I really really wanna read :( sed)

Do you think aliens are real?

Sure, but not in the sci-fi kind of way. I think it is absurd to think Earth is the only planet in the infinity of space that met the right conditions for life to develop. But I doubt these forms looks like... humanoid-green/grey skin beings or that they look anything as we know on Earth. I don't even know if there's any 'developed' (in human's terms) form of life, but definitely things that feed and live. (Once again, I doubt they come on Earth with super technology and such... if they do, I really hope they see their mistakes before making first contact and go far far away, before getting involved with the toxic humanity...)

Can you drive a manual car?

Lol of course I can (this question sounds very American oriented question(?) but in my country, manual car is base, we have many non-manuel, but majority is manual) but yeah, I can drive it

What’s your guilty pleasure?

Uh... I don't really know... Some shows? Some I don't even 'like' but more because it reminds me of my youth? (Glee, Ugly Betty, Bones, etc) Idk if it is count as guilty pleasure... If anything else... uh I have unspeakable kinks (only in fictional/role play dimensions, nothing sicko irl), collecting PopMarts figurines? Fried chicken with spicy sauce?? Chocolate biscuit with chips??? I DONT KNOW

Tattoos?

Not yet, I wish to have some one day, but first I need to find *the one* I have many artists/kind of tattoos I like, but eh

Favourite colour?

Green and Purple (mostly all the hues) but also: pale mint, pale yellow, pale peach, pale pink, pale bleu, pale lavender, black, white and orange...)

Favourite type of music?

I literally can enjoy anything, from rock, pop, electronic, classical, ethnic/traditional, etc... I have some issues sometimes with some form of Jazz or RnB, but I still enjoy songs from these genres, so I can't say I hate it... I would say rock is always a go-to?

Do you like puzzles?

Most of the time yeah, if it is like puzzle board game 🧩 or puzzle video games 🎮 or riddle games ❓I love it all (Im not saying I am good at it, I say I like it)

Any phobias?

Won't say it is phobia? But I feel grossed at any .. milling bugs? Like colonies of ants or when baby spiders get out of mother spider 🤢 This and I'd say it is more anxiety, but I have a hard time being in crowded place/windowless places (a bit agoraphobic/ claustrophobic but since I can manage to deal with these situations sometimes, I won't call it phobia)

Favourite childhood sport?

Maybe archery🏹 ? Or hmm basketball 🏀 and badminton🏸 ... And I kinda like to play football ⚽ but the toxicity around that sport is making it annoying and boring

Do you talk to yourself?

Rarely out loud, but pretty often in my own head. I feel dumb when I hear my own voice/sometimes it is even stressful because I grow aware of silence around me after I spoke....

What movie(s) do you adore?

Hmm tough question... Many for many different reasons.. But let's say: Legally Blonde (the vibe and the topic, go girls, can be barbie and have a brain), Princess Mononoke (base), FFVII: Advent Children (thirst), Nanny McPhee (chiiill), Crazy Kung Fu (top tier), Ne Zha (2019) (bery nice), ... That's it for TODAY's pick, what about tomorrow..?

Coffee or tea?

Both but ✨☕C O F F E E☕✨(even if Earl Grey Yin Zhen is honestly DOPE)

First thing you wanted to be growing up?

🤔 Idk which come first, but I remember I had the mad project to do "all my dream jobs at once", so I'd have been: a painter, going around the world with a circus where I'd be acrobat and magician, and yet, using the world-travelling to heal any animals I find on my way 😂🤣

A forever go-to @davi-doo

I tag... *go through mutuals*

@beardedladyqueen @kales09 @chinchilla-7 @astraluxe @general-kalani @alladeline @chromium-siren

PLEASE LEMME KNOW IF I AM PESTERING YOU! I WILL STOP!

[creatingblackcharacters]

May I get some thoughts on an idea I had for a story? I fear it comes too close to stereotype. Okay, idea is a Black phys ed teacher (set in the UK) gets threatened with job loss because she responds with anger to a creepy White guy taking photos of her butt while she's teaching sports outside and possibly breaks his phone. I don't think this is an Angry Black Person stereotype because she has actual reason to be angry. However, I want it to end with her keeping her job and winning her court case and the only way I can think of for her to do that is to say she was protecting the children from both bad influences and being caught in a sexualised video, because misogyny and racism might lead to it being dismissed otherwise, plus it may not technically count as an illegal "upskirt" shot if she was wearing trousers, or at least that'd be the White guy's defence. If she uses that as a defence, is it too close to the mammy stereotype, since she'd be at least claiming to be protecting other people's mostly-White kids, even if her actual primary motive at the time was protecting herself? The characters would be conscious of the stereotype and might bring it up, but at the same time it's a defence that could work and they would probably consider that more important from their own perspective. It's a fanfic involving an existing character, so for that and various other reasons I'm not gonna just make the teacher White, and the story involves multiple Black women NOT being there just to protect other people's kids and plenty of women of other ethnicities who do protect kids. I don't think this is a huge problem but I wanted to get some advice, and if it is too stereotypical we can always do something else with the character.

It sounds fine to me 👍🏾

[acslytherpuff]

Get to know my MC:

Alvin Hayoung

Name: Alvin Hayoung

Birth date: october 6

Pronouns: he/him

Age: 16 (in game) = 17 (real age)

Sexuality: straight

Blood status: pure blood

Ethnicity: German - Korean

House: Hufflepuff

Birthplace: Mainz (Germany)

Languages: german, korean, english, french, japanese

patronus: dragon

amortentia: sweets, jasmine, leather, almond

personal color: grey - black

APPEARANCE

Alvin has a mixed appearance. His hair is really fluffy and a bit long. His eyes are his top feature (they‘re showing his a bit of korean side which he is really proud of). He has a little stub nose. He is really tall and you can see the quidditch player in his build. He is mostly smiling.

hair color: dark brown to black.

skin: pale / beige

eye color: brown

build: normal, sporty

height: 6‘3

features: Moles on his Face, little dimples when he smiles

Clothes: he really likes to wear a plain shirt with his House Tie or his Quidditch Uniform.

PERSONALITY

Alvin is a really cute, friendly and calm soul. He is called „Hufflepuff sunshine“ not without a reason. He is everybodys darling because he is really capable with everyone. He likes to help people and making everyone happy. He also has a good sense of Humor and can be a very good class clown. He has very good manners. He will never judge anyone! He is very open minded and likes to interact with other people/ students. He is also very emotional and empathic. The only situation where he is really really really serious is while playing quidditch. When someone is attacking his friends he can get serious to and *protector mode on*.

Positive Traits: Funny, Caring, Loving, Sweet, very very Friendly, walking green flag , passionate

Negative Traits: sometimes to open to people, naive

Likes: his friends, baking, pets, quidditch, winter, physical and verbal affection, travelling, sweets, dinosaurs, music, family time

Dislikes: Negativity, mean people, lies, betraying

Fears: being alone, nightmares, fire (not including spells which he‘s casting)

QUICK BACKSTORY

Alvin was born and raised in Germany in a wealthy household full of love. When he was 10 he, his brothers and his parents moved to Korea because his Mother found a job there and he should learn more about his other culture. One night he had a Nightmare in which he saw really strong fire and a lot of dead people. Later that night his parents got alarmed that his Grandma died in a House fire. He had a really strong bond to his Grandma so he didn‘t slept for a long time after that tragic accident because he thought it was his fault. He also had a lot of strange dreams before it which got all true. His Parents believed he could see the future or like predict the future in his dreams. One night he dreamed that he got spelled with a unforgiveable. His parents got worried so they did teach him the Imperius Curse to protect himself, but nothing happened. When he reached that age he got invited to Hogwarts and moved back to Europe with his Parents and siblings. Even with his Trauma alvin always stays positive and has the best Time in Hogwarts. Also learning more about his ability in combination with Magic. He keeps his ability a secret to protect people. (Only a few does know about it)

RELATIONSHIPS

Matty Ambrose - THIS IS HIS GIRL and only his ! Matty is his Girlfriend and he is madly deeply in love with her. 🥹 he would do anything for her. They‘ve known eachother from classes but he fell in love with her while playing quidditch.

His Brothers and Parents - alvin has a really really close relationship to his family and does everything for them. His brothers are his best friends. His older brother is one year above him (but has to re-do 7th year) while his little brother is studying abroad.

Cassie Luna - Alvin and Cassie are really close. Besties. She is one of the few who know about his Dreams and she comforts him when he is anxious or had such dreams. He loves her like a sister and his parents are also hers. She‘s precious family to him.

Other Students - alvin has love for everyone and so do everyone for him. He is quite popular and not without a reason. He does everything for everyone and doesn‘t want to have anything for that only a smile :) he is good with everyone!

close friends: tori, alyn, ellie, jamie, florence, damien, val, theo, ale, cal, Phillip

> RANDOM FACTS < (… more incoming)

- alvin has a Maltese dog as his Pet which is called „Minky“

- He is the Hufflepuffs quidditch Seeker, he started as a seeker because he was already so good.

- He can sing and play the guitar

- He has a Korean accent when he‘s talking in german but a German accent when he‘s talking english

- his laugh is very LOUD

- he smells very good (cassie says he‘s the best smelling boy at hogwarts)

- he uses a lot of korean slang words

- he‘s in „the rizzies“ along with theo and jamie

[beardedmrbean]

[Huey Zoomer Anon]

I’m feel sorry for many Jewish people who feel betrayed by several artists and fandom blogs where you have to now hide your identity and such despite several years of them saying I “I’m a ally towards Jewish people!”

Well…I mention before I’m an African American with ADHD and Autism. And I felt alienated af even when I prefer very tamed villains that was coming out in the 2010’s

Pffft, the amount of pre 2010’s maniacs I like…

And another thing….a lot of leftists tend to forget the modern Jewish people ARE the descendants of the Hebrew tribes which you know are in the Bible/Torah?

Like…I think a lot of leftists (especially Americans) can’t comprehend that people in the European, Middle East, Asia, etc…see ancient civilizations in similars ways American see the Pilgrims.

Off tangent, it like people saying Dreamworks take on Moses is historically accurate…it almost like a fuckton of his descendants or those who are part of his tribe are still alive? Hint they are

And the left only really knows the exodus and holocaust part of Jewish history. And for the latter tragedy, they use it as a crunch to bash white people…while infantilize Muslims because remember the left mainly relies on the POP CULTURE take of history. So the fact that our education and entertainment systems mostly ignore Arab/Islam Imperialism.

They now think the original inhabitants of the Promised Land are colonizers because a lot of the Jewish Diaspora came back in masses in recent generations

Calling modern Israel a colonial place…are you saying that indigenous people who was heavily forced into financial, scientific, and other “white collar” jobs due to centuries of persecution are going to modernized themselves and make sure that are at mercy of monsters again.

Especially when the nearby Arab/Muslims basically said they want the Jews extinct or become their Dhimmi again?

Oh right right I read up on Middle East history before the euros part of it.

I don’t want to downplay, but I realize something

We are taught to hate the Nazis image, not it ideology. Because at the end of the day Nazism is built upon conflict theory which plagues colleges and systems to this day

I heard people (who are mostly likely adults) say that they loose empathy towards Anne Frank because they learned she was roughly our idea of upper middle class and had maids and such before the rise of the Nazis.

I think that should have been spread around Jewish communities to prepare them for the mess they are in rn

I mean I foreseen because my experience with the left…well at least you guys can counter it this time.

I’m feel sorry for many Jewish people who feel betrayed by several artists and fandom blogs where you have to now hide your identity and such despite several years of them saying I “I’m a ally towards Jewish people!” Well…I mention before I’m an African American with ADHD and Autism. And I felt alienated af even when I prefer very tamed villains that was coming out in the 2010’s Pffft, the amount of pre 2010’s maniacs I like…

There's a lot of people that got some really rude awakenings about the circles that cried about antisemitism over a horn in a game or yelled about having safe spaces for ethnic minorities to go to that they thought would be on their side.

Also a good number that were prepared because they saw the writing on the wall when the womens march decided that Pride flags with the Star of David on them would be banned, still gotta hurt though.

And another thing….a lot of leftists tend to forget the modern Jewish people ARE the descendants of the Hebrew tribes which you know are in the Bible/Torah?

ya, we're supposed to trust the science when the covid vaccine hit, but for some reason a plethora of genetic studies proving that are invalid somehow.

Like…I think a lot of leftists (especially Americans) can’t comprehend that people in the European, Middle East, Asia, etc…see ancient civilizations in similars ways American see the Pilgrims.

Some do I'm sure, there's others that have been there forever too, but human migration is nothing new at all

Off tangent, it like people saying Dreamworks take on Moses is historically accurate…it almost like a fuckton of his descendants or those who are part of his tribe are still alive? Hint they are

Last name is Cohen, there's a fair chance you're in the Levite line I believe it is.

And the left only really knows the exodus and holocaust part of Jewish history. And for the latter tragedy, they use it as a crunch to bash white people…while infantilize Muslims because remember the left mainly relies on the POP CULTURE take of history. So the fact that our education and entertainment systems mostly ignore Arab/Islam Imperialism.

That's been wild to me the entire time I've been aware of all of it, these guys hacked and slashed their way all the way into Spain with their 3 choices of convert, pay jizya, or die.

Not even going to talk about the slavery they did, I don't care what privileges some of them may have had, you're still someones property.

They now think the original inhabitants of the Promised Land are colonizers because a lot of the Jewish Diaspora came back in masses in recent generations

Calling modern Israel a colonial place…are you saying that indigenous people who was heavily forced into financial, scientific, and other “white collar” jobs due to centuries of persecution are going to modernized themselves and make sure that are at mercy of monsters again.

not 100% on who the original are, but they sure as shootin are the oldest we know of, and I'm not sure what the cutoff is for years living somewhere as a people and culture it takes for folks to be considered indigenous and how many away it takes for them to lose that status.

Especially when the nearby Arab/Muslims basically said they want the Jews extinct or become their Dhimmi again? Oh right right I read up on Middle East history before the euros part of it.

Both on that first one, and ya it's wild how short on information about that region so many people are, as I've told you before I don't actually recall learning much if anything about the Ottoman Empire in my k-12 years, and I'm sure that's not unique.

I don’t want to downplay, but I realize something We are taught to hate the Nazis image, not it ideology. Because at the end of the day Nazism is built upon conflict theory which plagues colleges and systems to this day I heard people (who are mostly likely adults) say that they loose empathy towards Anne Frank because they learned she was roughly our idea of upper middle class and had maids and such before the rise of the Nazis.

First bit is shown out when you have people all over that have absolutely no clue how to classify fascism,

And ya, the loss of empathy for her and her family is beyond depressing there, it should actually go to show that it didn't matter if you were well off financially and socially when the ss showed up, all that mattered and all it took to sign your death warrant was your grandmother on your mothers side being Jewish, you could be Catholic and it didn't matter, you were still Jewish to them.

I think that should have been spread around Jewish communities to prepare them for the mess they are in rn I mean I foreseen because my experience with the left…well at least you guys can counter it this time.

Good number of them knew and all, even if they weren't prepared for the level it would get to, when the previously mentioned Anne Frank discourse started and gained traction folks started getting the idea I think.

[dream-bandit]

My Dreamchaser headcanons bc im so cool and right

Mateo - Genderfluid and bisexual i like to think he uses he/they/she pronouns. Mexican and Dominican (Mexican from her dad and Dominican from her mom, their mother is 1st gen and jose is 2nd #awesome)

Izzie - she/her cisgirl lesbian shes sooo cool and helps mateo with his crushes even if he keeps denying he has a crush on anyone. Ethnicity same as Mateo

Cooper - he him transguy hes gay too. Hes out to his family but they are a bit hostile with it. White. White as fuck. Outrageously so. Also he's left handed (this is canon I swear. Like, actually. I'm not kidding I swear he's shown in the instruction books to be left handed)

Logan - she/her/him coolest girl ever Shes also a lesbian. Chinese

Zoey - unlabeled as fuck She/they Their gender is None they are attracted to multiple genders but dont you dare try to squeeze her into a category I think she'd hate that for herself. She also has a sweet tooth. They're Nigerian from their mother and caucasianfrom her dad

Hannah - she her woman awesomeness Shes nigerian but her family is american born as far back as she knows. She played guitar as a life long hobby and was the one who raised zoey. They share a heart of justice that Hannah developed after Beau leaving her 2-3 years after zoeys birth. She gave everything into raising her daughter, the most precious thing in her life. Hannah died due to chronic illness. She was in her mid 30s

Beau - he him man 🤢 American with heav French heritage. Childhood friends with Hannah, they went to the same middle school and met there. Mr oz was already an experienced science teacher by that time. Beau and Hannah would go on adventures together before being recruited into the Night Bureau. It was all well until the sword corrupted his heart and mind. He would have arguments with Hannah until he decided it would be best if he left. He gave her no notice, one day he was simply gone. He told nobody where he'd go but he eventually ended up in New York, a bit away from Brooklyn though as to not encounter his sister or anyone else he knew. He lived mostly in shelters until he could find a shithole apartment and worked a crummy job. He- wait I think i lost the reason for why im typing this. what was the point of this. Oh yeah. He's in his mid 30s and has a nicotine addiction He usually smokes but he's been trying to work on it after reconnecting with zoey he would rather die before letting her know he smokes. He has changed to nicotine gum and is always extra cautious zoey (and others of the Brooklyn bureau) doesn't get to it accidently because addiction runs in his family. I'm normal about the night hunter can you tell

Mr oz. There's something about him. He might be transmasc but I couldn't tell you. There IS an answer but I do not know it. I need to solve the riddles and free the oracle first. there's something lgbt about him though. He's born in america

Mrs. Castillo okay look I really like her okay. She gives me the vibes of someone who's lesbian but because of homophobic culture pushes it down as just a silly thing that doesn't mean anything. She's an immigrant and is Guatemalan I am Fucking RIGHT about this

Lunia - she her lesbian from Guatemala

[lxdymoon0357]

Meet my OCs again!!!

Name: Reo Takahashi

Age: 20 years old

Height: 6'4

Ethnicity: Japanese

Species: Human

Job: Mafia Boss

Personality: He's known to be cruelest Asian mafia to be there in the whole underground fanction, and though that reputation is true to some extent, he is mostly a sweet person to his loved ones and kind of clueless about world, even though he is a mafia he was mostly a protected child.

Likes: Cold coffee, chow-chow, raspberries, koto, resin flower dagger, eyeliner.

Dislikes: Being late, dark chocolate, sausage, uggs.

Yandere type: obsessive, protective, manipulative and loving

Name: Ceseline Lynea

Age: 16-19 years old

Height: 5'4

Ethnicity: Japanese-Indian

Species: Lion hybrid

Job: A café shop owner/ manager

Personality: Ceseline is well known in her social circle to be motherly, but though that's true, she's also very chaotic and weird, often confusing people if she has a twin. Her duality helps her with her friendships and every single one of her relationship, sometimes she needs to be motherly and calm and other times she can be chaotic and weird.

Likes: Baby animals, swings, Indian sweets, saree, soft blankets.

Dislikes: hunters, people who are rude for no reason, sweaty people, her height

Yandere type: serving, protective, possessive, obsessive

Name: Emilianna Mylena

Age: 17-19 years old

Height: 5'5

Ethnicity: German

Species: human

Job: Uni student/ part-time barista for Ceseline

Personality: Quite a playful person, loves to spend time with the ones she loves except for her parents, who though were around didn't took part in her raising a lot, only her uncle who was single and she would often spend time with her grandmother, she's quite a sweet person, often helping people she loves and prefers to spend her time alone.

Likes: cranberries, shakes, beaches, volleyball

Dislikes: crowds, people who are loud, pushy people, coffee

Yandere type: Sadistic, caring, possessive, obsessive

Name: Allistor Hillard

Age: ???

Height: 6'0

Ethnicity: british-latino

Species: half-angel half- demon

Job: Librarian, part-time Assassin

Personality: He was raised by two mothers, he's knows to treat someone nicely despite their colour, age, gender, label, sexuality and Ethnicity. He is deemed the perfect 'boyfriend/husband' material by his friends and he knows how to treat someone the way they deserve to be treated. He loves to give affection, get someone gifts, be of service to someone or be possessive, fight someone, get jealous enough to keep you home, it's one thing he's made about a perfect mix of an angel and a demon.

Likes: rabbits, chai-tea, white chocolate, Rainy days, stone paths

Dislikes: Hot days, Glitter, anybody who tried to belittle or harass anybody for their own pleasure, Annoying people

Yandere type: puppy, servicing, loving, possessive

Name: Rikurou Takahashi

Age: 20-26 years old

Height: 6'2

Ethnicity: Japanese

Species: human

Job: assassin, hacker, part-time mafia

Personality: Rikurou, Reo's elder brother is somebody who refuses to say he loves his brother, but he shows it, but unlike in front of his brother, he shoes his whole affection in front of his darling. He loves to spoil them as well, though quite delusional and extremely good at manipulation.

Likes: Gaming, vanilla and white chocolate waffles, red velvet waffles with white chocolate, milkshakes, sakura flowers

Dislikes: pollution, marshmellows, cockroaches, mud, beer

Yandere type: Manipulative, manipulative, manipulative, possessive, obsessive, spoiling, servicing, loving

[t-t-tau-me]

Mystic Flour and Cultural Confusion: part 1 

Hello there, stranger. I see the smell of cookies has guided you through the white mist. Why don't you kick back and relax while I talk your ear off about the cultural significance of a baked good…

This is what I'm doing with my life.

So, Cookie Run: Kingdom. A game that starts with the tone of Dragon Tales and somehow mutates into Lord of the Rings territory (Which I love by the way). Cookie Run as a franchise has always had dozens of characters from all different walks of life, many of them inspired by our real world. Devsisters dedicate a lot of time and effort to getting the cultural significance of their characters and plot lines correct, and they do a pretty good job…

Mostly…(I ain't going anywhere near that until I get more research and opinions on it.) 

When pulling direct inspiration from a real-world culture and introducing it to an audience of a separate one, It can lead to a surprising amount of confusion. A good example of this would be when something originated in one culture, but is far more known in a different one, causing some people to believe that a certain thing only belongs to one culture.

Incomes the main subject of this post. (finally,) One of the first cookies baked! The hero of Volition turned beast of apathy! Put your hands together for Mystic Flour Cookie!

She's excited, I swear.

So…what does an overdesign treat have to do with what I just said? A lot actually. But alas, there's still one last thing I need to clarify, less I get mauled to death for not covering my bases.

Now, I'm not going to disclose the entirety of my identity as I care about my privacy. All you need to know is that I'm a minority in the Western hemisphere. The reason I feel it's important to disclose this is because people will use my identity, or lack thereof, to discredit anything I say, all because I MIGHT be some white guy in my 30s. One of the reasons for this behavior could be people trying to make sure someone isn't just trying to profit off of someone else's beliefs or culture, which I completely understand. I know what it's like when people attempt to use your identity just to benefit them in some sort of way, Even if it's not on the level of a religion or practice. It completely erases you as a person and just makes you an accessory.

However, the problem comes when you overdo it. I've seen a decent amount of people being attacked over interacting with cultures outside of their own, All because they don't fit the criteria of being enough of a certain ethnicity to do something. It's understandable to be mad when someone's making a mockery of what you care about, But it's entirely different when they're actively trying to learn and you still treat them horribly. It's kind of hard to learn about something when you're being told You're a monster for trying to do so.

To those who are curious or want to get in touch with your ancestry, You're still valid even if you don't breathe that culture every day. The only thing you really need is patience to learn and respect to understand.

Oh yeah, you're still here. (Whoops) 

The reason why Mystic Flour Cookie is important to this conversation is due to her cultural influence of Buddhism. Those who are at least somewhat familiar with the belief could probably pick up on the inspiration just by looking at her. (Keep in mind, children play this game so not everyone is going to know this.) From what I've seen, a sizable amount of people think Mystic flower is Chinese-inspired which…isn't wrong, But there's a bit more to it. I'll be showing quotes in links I used in my research, feel free to do your own digging. if you like.

Before I go ahead and start going into detail on Mystic Flour, I'm actually going to split up this post into 2 parts so it's easier for people to read. If you're interested you shouldn't have to wait long, and thanks for even bothering to read this.

[sweetkiitsunez]

❞ 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐲 𝐖𝐇𝐁 𝐎𝐜 - 𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 🍯

❞ 𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 🍯 - Sweet and sticky from the nectar from Bees.

❞ Warm tone color of yellow, and the sun. The old English name for a baby girl, similar to, "sweetie," "darling," and, "honey."

a/n: I pretty much give up writing about her, but she is the most anxious girlie uwu💕🫶

❞ Why her name is, "Honey?"

This may sound silly, but I randomly chose this name. I don't have a reason, but it sounded silly. I think her appearance suits her a lot when brainstorming a character. I was kinda really into cute things and coquettes fashions and aesthetics when I was in my first year of college. I already knew that "Honey," is used for pet names, but I can't really think of another name.

I'm not a big fan of brainstorming a name for my OCs and finding a bigger meaning. I do hate remembering every single name despite I have a goldfish memory. I like to keep it simple and creative.

Honey is also used as a cute British name. If I am correct...? However, it's not just British, but also Hebrew too. Their name kinda sounded as familiar as, "Honey," but spelled differently due to the similar pronunciation. However, Honey isn't British or European.

❞ Ethnicity & Honey's Parents

Honey's ethnicity is Half Korean and Half Japanese. Her mother (who is the Solomon of Descendants) is Japanese and her father who is South Korean works in the Military. She is halfu basically meaning that she was raised and born with a different race. She was born in Yokohama but later moved to South Korea in Busan due to her father's military jobs.

Both Honey's parents knew how to speak English, but they rather raised her speaking mostly Korean and a little bit of Japanese.

Did Honey know that she was hafu? Yes, she knew because she taught at a young age how to accept her culture and religion. However, both Honey and her parents are religious, but rather be religion-free. However, she wasn't aware that she was the descendant of Solomon, even her own mother doesn't know that she was the Solomon of Descendants before she passed away. Honey wasn't aware that she was gonna be the next Solomon of Descendants before her mother passed away. The father doesn't know, either.

Honey's parents both have different jobs. Honey's dad works Armed Military forces, while Honey's mom works at a convenience store. Nothing fancy as long they had each other. Honey didn't know much about her family growing up since everyone was very private about their life. She doesn't know her parent's names since they didn't want to reveal their name, so it is basically, "Honey's unnamed parents." Until she went to their funeral that's when she found out about their name.

Honey doesn't know if her parents have siblings or grandparents or other families, despite that they never mentioned their family history. It remains unknown for Honey since she always called her parents, "ママ" (Mama) and, "아빠" (Appa). They never mentioned about their other families to Honey since Honey had never met them.

A little bit about Honey's parents. Honey's mother aka the previous Daughter of Solomon or Descendants of Solomon. She doesn't like talking about her life growing up. The only information coming from Honey was that her mother isn't close with her family, since there is "favoritism" in her family's tree, and haven't met them since she was married to her husband, gave birth to Honey, and moved to South Korea to start a new life. She mostly relies on herself to survive and likes to work hard to support herself and her family (her husband and Honey.)

Honey's father also doesn't talk about his family a lot, either. Despite that, he has been in the military forces for his whole life. He doesn't take Honey or his wife to see his family, but his parents passed away in a car crash. His siblings cut contact with him and completely abandoned him on his own. Honey doesn't know how old his parents passed away and his siblings cut contact with him. Only the military forces can financially support him since he is enlisted in the military in Japan and that's where he met Honey's mom.

Honey's parents passing is a tragic for her. Imagine being in class and you are being pulled into an office to inform you that both your parents were found dead in their own homes, lying in their own pool of blood after a burglar attack that broke inside their own home. However, the attacks remain unsolved since there is no sign of breaking in, but the attacks were brutal and there is no sign of a burglar stealing any valuables. Both of her parents passed away from a "burglar" attack. The case is still remain unknown as Honey was taken by Minhyeok's parents

❞Meeting Minhyeok and his family

When Honey and her parents moved to Busan, South Korea. They moved into the suburbs in a friendly neighboring area. Honey is 2 years older than Minhyeok, but also a year younger than Minhyeok's older brother (it remains unknown how old Minhyeok's older brother is).

Honey is well-known in the neighbor area because they would call her, "Shy baby," because she would cry whenever she met someone new and would hide behind her mom or her dad. She would sometimes cry due to her feeling overwhelmed and nervous too. (Would later talk about her mental health in another paragraph.) Obviously, the neighbor would tease her for her shy behavior but would stop because she would cry.

Minhyeok and his older brother were the ones who welcomed Honey and were always patient with her. Now, she would cling to them like a koloa looking for a shield.

Somehow, Minhyeok's parents had befriended Honey's parents and now they're like neighbor-friends and very close with each other. Even, the school had to assign Honey and Minhyeok to be in the same classroom because Honey would start crying if they were in a separate room. However, they are aware that Honey was diagnosed with anxiety disorder both social anxiety and separation issues at a very young age.

Minhyeok is still attached to Honey and would never leave her, since they still have a strong bond together and would never leave each other side. She is still close with Minhyeok's older brother, but she doesn't have feelings for Minhyeok's older brother, but she is clueless about Minhyeok having feelings for her.

❞Her Disorder

She was diagnosed with anxiety at a young age around 5 years old. She had an Anthropophobia meaning that she is a person with anthropophobia who may avoid crowds, fear eye contact, or worry that they are being judged and always anxious with other peoples that she isn't very familiar with. She would cry, yes, since she has gotten a nickname called, "crybaby," but she doesn't cry ALL the time.

Honey, ever since she was a child had suffered from social anxiety and separation anxiety growing up when her parents were around. They thought that she was just nervous until it got so severe that they had to take her to a professional as they diagnosed her with terminal anxiety. She would cling to either, Minhyeok or her parents. Honey doesn't have any siblings or any relatives that she knows since she doesn't know much about them, since they're bad news to her parents.

She had stutter issues, whenever she spoke to someone that she didn't know. This doesn't mean that she is Y/N or a "pick me" girl. She is afraid of people and always avoids making eye contact or speaking to them. She couldn't order food in the front register, so she needed an assistant with her. If no one assist her, then she would order it, online or order delivery, so she could avoid being with people.

Honey is under medication for her anxiety, but nothing helps to relax as she is more fidgety and more overwhelmed about others judging her actions. She can be sensitive and sometimes would have a mental breakdown if it was too much for her. She'll mostly fiddle her fingers or her skirts or her shirt, whenever she is feeling nervous.

❞Her paraphilla

I haven't decided about her paraphilia or kink, but I was thinking of being Odaxelagina (fetish of bite or being bite).

My honest thoughts about this kink or fetish was that it could help Honey calming herself down when having intimacy with other Demons, especially when her anxiety or her nervousness breaks out. She does like being biten anywhere on her body, but gets nervous or anxious when someone or some demon pointed it out. Yes, she will bite other demons' body part if she gets nervous, however, it does turns her on.

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ok i just saw this while going thru the tags and i need to yap with someone about it but. opinions on [HEADCANON] different ethnic groups strewn throughout Zhou, but mostly Libei and Bianjun and potentially some of the characters being from different ethnic backgrounds than most people in Qudu might be.

I made a post abt it and I'm only in book 2, I don't mind spoilers related to this topic I just want to talk about this headcanon and its possibilities. canon universe but not related to plot-ish?

Anyways I'd like to hear your thoughts!!

This is such a fun topic! I will say that I am unfortunately unfamiliar with specific ethnic groups to draw one-to-one or inspirational correlations, but I am a fan of the idea that each prefecture/region has different sub cultures. Though I feel it's impossible not to have diversity when you're dealing with an empire as large as Dazhou/Great Zhou.

Much like real life, the land the prefectures and cities reside on greatly affects the society of the people who live there. I love the world building in general. When it's mentioned that some characters hide their dialects after moving to Qudu for official positions, it serves as a reminder for how big the nation really is.

I will try not to be too spoilery, but to make up for my ignorance, I would like to go into some of the silly things I remember from each region of Dazhou/ Great Zhou~

Libei is hands down my favorite. The residents are badass, but on top of that, Libei is known for it's grasslands and mountains. So naturally (light pun intended), the people that grew up/choose to live there are very in tune with nature and care for animals. They do not play when it comes to their horses. They're also know for their skilled craftsmen and they take great pride in their work. I love to see it. I could honestly make an entire brainrot post on Libei and their values, but I really want you to read and experience it for yourself. It's really interesting and sweet in my opinion~

Next is Qudu: I hate these people. I could go on about these weirdos forever, but it is truly so jarring going from three volumes with Qudu as the main setting, to all the other places. Obviously, bad things tend to happen where the elite congregate, but jeez. If you're not rich, it sucks to be in Qudu. Even the well meaning imperial officials are serving cult. It's honestly humorous how much people outside of Qudu could not care less about who the emperor is. To give them a little grace, I suppose Qudu is considered the center of education. Qudu is home the Imperial College, which is a place quite a few side characters mention trying to get into. ...But the students there are INSANE, so I can't take them seriously. Qudu scares me. Moving on.

Juexi is known for it's port , merchants, and it's granaries. Very straight forward. I'm honestly a little sad we didn't get to learn more about it. I feel like if I were to live anywhere in this empire, it would be in Juexi. The Biansha ain't gonna get me, plenty of job opportunities, and life just seems pretty chill. Except when they have natural disasters, but that's okay. The characters we meet from Juexi are pretty normal, which also affects my overall positive opinion of it. Cool place.

Qidong is mostly desert...I think? We eventually go to a Qi Clan estate and I was genuinely shocked to realize people actually lived there lmao. A lot like Libei, the people that live there are mostly military families. If you aren't joining the Qidong Garrison Troops, why are you here? I don't remember too too much about Qidong, but from the few things I do, I got the vibe that the men are very macho and really value their legacy. One of the main conflicts surrounding Qi Zhuyin is the fact that she can't get an official title, and the reason that's important is because all of her military achievements won't be recorded in history without one. And while every region values legacy to an extent, the way each one differs in the intensity of that importance makes a huge difference in my opinion. I feel like the people in Qidong are much more individualistic compared to the other prefectures, but the topic is nuance I think.

Finally, we have Zhongbo! Now, Zhongbo is interesting because we get to read the prefecture go through many manifestations. We get to see it after the massacre. We hear what life was like before the tragedy. We see it slowly change for the better and what the characters hope for it to become. Before Juexi took over as the "nations granary" after Zhongbo's fall, Zhongbo provided most of the military provisions to Qidong and Libei. We learn a lot about Zhongbo over the course of the story. And once again, I don't want to spoil much, but I will say the people from there tend to really value their family. Obviously everyone cares about their family in the story...well... most of them... anyhoo. But there's something about the way family and relationships are discussed by those in Zhongbo that really resonates with me. I feel like the reason family is an especially sacred topic in Zhongbo is because so many people lost theirs in the Biansha attack. And that grief over the years transformed into really holding onto those they have left. I don't know how to articulate it, but I think it's very beautiful how a lot of my favorite romantic moments happen in the various cities Zhongbo~ Residents in Zhongbo tend to be really resilient. A lot of terrible stuff happens there, and as a woman, I would never willingly go there. But the people who care about their fam care about them HARD! It's really nice. But seriously, it's still a nightmare there.

And because I can't help myself, mini bonus: The Twelve Tribes of Biansha!!! Okay, I won't actually go into every single tribe, but I adore the detail the author put into them! While, overall, they share some values, each tribe has their own thing going on and intertwined history. I love how they weren't just a "mindless evil enemy", but another group of humans with their own wants and needs. Their reasons for fighting are just as valid as Great Zhous! And both sides have done evil crap to "win" so I'm even less inclined to "pick a side". The world building in this story is just too good man. I'd love to one day read a spin off if the author ever felt like it njsduegfi

I don't know if this quite what you meant, but I sure did yap a lot ToT

Thank you for the ask. I went to read your original post and thought it was really fun! Other readers of this post, you can find it here!!!