#do you have a secret list?

[zappedbyzabka]

[bilbao-song]

secret rocker santa participants needed!! (11/17/24)

oookay after another review of the Spreadsheet™, currently we are most in need of fans of following musicians and bands (or even just people with a passing interest in them):

⁃ the who ⁃ emerson lake and palmer ⁃ the velvet underground ⁃ led zeppelin ⁃ supertramp ⁃ queen

everyone is welcome (the only requirement is that you’re a fan of some kind of music from roughly the 50s-90s) and there’s plenty of time left!! these are just the ones that so far seem like they’ll be the hardest to match, which means more fans signing up would be very helpful :^) if you or your followers fit this criteria, please consider reblogging this post!

remember, sign-ups are open through november 28th and anonymous messaging begins december 1st :-)

➜ more information about secret rocker santa ➜ F.A.Q. page ➜ sign up here! (or here if you’d prefer to stay on tumblr)

[glasskoi]

& have i mentioned magical girl ace

[messrsrarchives]

i absolutely need to sleep but i have to make a Phone Call at 8:30 which means i've spent the last many hours sitting and scripting what to say in my head and practising what position to sit in to stay Comfy and Calm yet Defensive and Firm in my stance.

[patchyworx]

People talk about fast metabolisms like it's all fun and games and eating whatever you want but they fail to remember that it also means your body is Incredibly Stupid and decides that you become deficient in everything in a couple or so days where it takes most others a week. Or months compared to "oops you forgot to photosynthesize sufficiently :( no i don't care that it has been freezing and overcast for the past week, you didn't absorb enough sun. Perish Badly."

Or at least it would be if i didn't like citrus fruits so much, probably

[redstringraven]

For Cassia: 3, 8, 11! And for Nyxram: 1, 6, 11!

<:D!! AAAAA thank you so much!

Secret Ask List

-------------------- .: • CASSIA --------------------

3) what song describes your oc?

cassia is one of those ocs where the music i find for her playlist is almost all vibes and not really based on lyrics. it's the energy of the music, the way it makes you wanna move or bob or sing along. that being said: "rage" by hyper crush and "joyride" by kesha immediately make me think of her. lyrically, "i love it" by icona pop might be a good fit.

8) what hobbies does your oc have? what do they do to unwind?

cassia's major hobby is rollerskating! but she's also super into street art, and she enjoys beautifying her favorite areas of new york in a manner of silly or meaningful ways. when she's at home, she also enjoys random doodling--mostly ideas for graffiti or future street art--learning dances from her favorite music videos, and playing a variety of video games.

11) what was your inspiration for your oc?

i distinctly remember driving to my local movie trading company to see if they had any physical dvds for tmnt'03, and "girlfriend" by avril lavigne came on spotify shuffle. for whatever reason, i got the image of a pink-haired girl in rollerskates, and she wouldn't leave my head. cassia's my first tmnt oc, and i think she was always meant to be kind of like april in that she's a grounding presence in their otherwise chaotic lives. despite how high-energy and mischievous she is, she's extremely stable and does regularly go to therapy, which has made her more thoughtful and aware of others along with herself. her biggest conflicts come from being an out trans-girl in the 90s and early 2000s, but none of it is tied to her immediate family (her parents ADORE her). she is, for the most part, about as ''''average'''' a civilian in the tmnt'03 world as you can get. i dunno! i think i kind of just wanted to give them all another anchor of sorts, another safe haven. cassia's parents, oliver and esme, also become guardian figures to the turtles in a sense (especially mikey). esme loves to mother them.

-------------------- .: • NYXRAM ----------------------------

1) does your oc have a voice claim, if so who?

god yes. nyx's voice claim is shohreh aghdashloo. the moment i heard her as enforcer grayson in arcane, i pointed at the screen and muttered: "you". as someone who's very picky about these sorts of things i seriously feel like it was gift-wrapped to me. >xD shohreh also provides the voice for the dragon in damsel, which is a dumb as hell movie but i will continue to listen to it for the sake of hearing her talk.

6) if your oc is in a fantasy setting, what profession would they be in the modern day?

kind of a weird question, since 'modern day' implies that this is more a difference in time period? e-e;; i imagine she'd likely still have assassin roots, but. after the rebellion succeeds, the republic begins to rebuild, and the games are disbanded, nyxram takes it upon herself to use her family's "estate" as a sanctuary for the animals used in the games, since most of them can't be returned to their natural habitats due to injuries and/or being raised in captivity. so! i think a potential "modern day" or "human" profession for her might be owning and managing something like an old friends senior dogs sanctuary. providing housing, love, and comfort for older animals when most folks want younger pets, and ensuring that their last few years are happy and safe. she's taken so much life, so... it feels like giving back, in a way.

11) what was your inspiration for your oc?

@/plantdonut doesn't live with me (alas), but if she did, i would have turned to her during our '03 rewatch a few years ago and asked, bluntly, "why do all the triceratons gotta be dudes? where're my giant, amazon warrior dinosaurs?". and within a few days, i was practicing my hand at drawing triceratons, so i could make it so. my two major points of inspiration for nyx come from cassandra cain (2nd batgirl, pre-new52) and john wick. cassandra for being... basically born and bred to be the perfect assassin, only to have 'too much' compassion and love and guilt and go hero instead, and john wick for being a 'baba yaga' to anyone who knows his name. not the boogeyman, but the one you send to kill the boogeyman. the idea of a triceraton assassin was very cool to me, given that they're often a straight-forward, loud, and blunt force to face with little concern for being subtle. it also draws an interesting connection to her and the turtles; at some point nyx comments that despite their practice being tied to assassins such as herself, any blood on their hands comes from self-defense. in some ways, she envies them. but in many more, she doesn't. she's the sole survivor of her clutch, and the only one of her siblings to 'earn' a name. she was, in a way, a political move--a gift/tool offered to the prime leader to ensure that her parents had a connection to power and could continue their own work with protection from punishment. ...they just didn't expect for her to want something else. since the triceratons seem to have a handful of 'nods' and aesthetics pointing toward the roman empire, i named nyxram after the greek goddess 'nyx', the personification and substance of night. i also specifically use greek spelling with her, whereas her parents will have roman spelling of their names to further emphasize her 'otherness' from triceraton society as a whole.

[crystalkitty1220]

Man I wonder where the leader of the fear realm could've gone, it's alMOST LIKE NEVIN HAS AN

[spacetrashpile]

i am probably doing comics reading wrong but i am also doing it great and the only right way

[fairytalesofforever]

the urge to nichepost about my fanfiction and its associated OCs because I HAVE IDEAS

[merakiui]

OMG MERA…. ROOK ALCHEMY CLUB CARD IS HERE…..

GRR.. he was so difficult coming in at exactly 100 pulls…. I’ve used up nearly every everything on him :((

IT WAS WORTH IT THO… HE LOOK ADORBS…. Look at his Bob!! He’s so silly uhm I thought u should see this

HE'S SO CUTE AAAAAA >w< thank you for sharing Mr. Hunt with me hehe!! I'm happy he came home to you, even if it took one too many pulls. ^^;;; I'm relieved he didn't give you too much trouble unlike a certain basketball eel for me... >:( but this Rook card is so cute!!! He is worth every key and gem. Everything for Rook!!!!

[bunnyb34r]

Whyyyy is the regional manager so OBSESSED with getting rid of the winter shit?? It's still december what is your problem?? We don't get bathing suits in til February calm your ass!!

And she was like "the big coat rack needs to come down." WE STILL HAVE SO MANY PALLETS IN THE STEEL! YOU JUST CAME TWO DAYS AFTER CHRISTMAS BITCH!!

Our manager was like "if you can cram it full, and I mean FULL of kids coats, you can keep it. Otherwise it's going away til September."

And I had to swipe aaaaall my low items to be liquidated on the baby side and fill fill fill (still had a space left... I just threw messy stacks of onesies sgdgdggdgd)

And it's like I have 10 fucking playsets but I can't pull them bc they're on order and it's like bro... I'm good at remembering how much we have/what we have... but I ain't gonna remember those if we put them in a box until we get the refill...

And I still didn't even get done with all the liquidations bc I didn't get to the big kids side and I have to find out if I have any stragglers of open robe packages (it said -5 inventory... bitch I have 71+ wtf do you mean?)

And I was able to change my endcap to fill a big chunk of the baby table, but I have limited quantities and this shit will SELL I know it 😩 girl fucking HELP

Oh and an audit on the pjs that I have 1500 of ☺️ yay... (I'm not allowed to do audits but sometimes they pull me to count my items bc I know where everything is)

[cheswirls]

looking @ old fic i started when i was 14/15 is so funny bc im realizing once again why i never mark fics as abandoned even if its been literal years since i've touched them. specifically i was checking docs for stuff i started and either did or didn't post to ffn.

and its like. nothing is bad??? like i can see where my outside-the-box ideal of fic writing comes from. not just fics but writing in general, i'm p sure. even if it's a total cliche plot setup, there are details on each that rly make it stand out like oh yeahhhhhh i did have this great idea once upon a time.

funny too bc was it executed well in prose??? no absolutely not i wrote like shit when i was 15. would i revive an idea one day and revise it to be less cliche or cringy while still keeping the stand-out elements??? yea maybe. i might. everything i'm currently working on that i started from 2021 up to now still holds my supreme interest, but like i'm not gonna say never.

esp since i write fic first and foremost for my own need and specifically what i like to read, it makes it impossible to consider an idea i've thought extensively about "not worth writing anymore". anyway not making this too long i jus found everything interesting to consider

[thogwithablog]

My thoughts on the Armored Core episode of Secret Level

(Spoilers below)

It was alright. There were things I liked and things I didn't. The protagonist seemed very generic, along with his imaginary girlfriend. The music also seemed generic. The dialogue was pretty cheesy (especially the gratuitous use of "fuck"). It was too short to establish any kind of narrative. It felt more like a trailer or an advertisement than an episode of a TV show (The excessive ambiguity. Basically the entire thing being an action scene. Keanu "Chungus" Reeves. What are they even trying to do with this show, anyway?)

The action scenes and mech animations were good though. I especially liked the scene where John Core goons to the feeling of the drugs entering his system as he is being stabbed by a copious number of needles. They definitely got the "eroticism of the machine" part down, despite its brevity. In general, I liked the overall "aesthetic" it had, too.

However, I still think the AC6 story trailer did it way better.

[sirenthestone]

It's really hard being a single mother of three. Especially when you're nonbinary and have no actual children.

[lock-my-feelings-in-a-jar]

sometimes when i watch music videos, i see the band doing things and making me laugh and i'm like "if i was watching this with gail, i would've pointed that out"

🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡

omgg i love that so much please. that's the fun of watching things with people!! sharing different things with each other and pointing out things that happen together.

i think that's part of my thing about gifs, i didn't have anybody to do that with for a long time and i always was like "i wish i could just take a piece of one part of a video and send just that to somebody so we can see and acknowledge it together"

and like a lot of people have made me feel like watching a whole video is always too much work or an inconvenience if i post/send a link somewhere, just ignoring it or something, so i'm like. i want to just show that ONE little part at least. it would make it so much easier to share things with people if i could just take those few seconds and put it in front of their face so they don't have to do ANY work to see it. i will do all of the work, just look at it with me.

and that was why i found a way to make gifs, and then after i made a tumblr(and actually used it this time), i was thinking "what if there's a part that somebody else likes that i don't notice myself? i'll just do EVERY SCENE so it's ALL there in gif form"

and then i started loving more things about the whole process i made for myself and everything and yeah. ANYWAY. making the different speeds of gifs and giving certain ones their own posts is like me pretending i have somebody to point those parts out to, even though i don't(not directly at least)

but i love so much that it's in your mind to point things out if i was watching with you 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

we do need to watch music videos together sometime so that this can actually happen, i don't care what they are, i'd watch anything with you

[theflyingfeeling]

fanfic rambling in the tags, nothing interesting really, just me talking to myself lol, okay to ignore or read as you please ✨