#dont mind my underdeveloped skills

[lampshadely]

Decided to practice art by doing drawtober but it's Once Upon A Witchlight

Technically spoilers for episode 41

Day 1: ghost

Just finished episode 41 and the whole sheet ghost style worked with her dress so...

(I'm so sorry twig I forgot to check if my ink instrument was water proof)

[mapsofnonexistentplaces]

do you take your ocs for that ask game .. isel

WHY NOT itd be funny to do that

favorite thing about them

i like that hes jsut like the worlds sluttiest oldest 30 year old man who talks in the most obtuse overdone way and everyone loves him for it. except that some people hate him for it. hes a funny guy

least favorite thing about them

hmm hard to say because all his flaws are like. specifically very interesting to me. like the way hes pushy with others and secretive about very basic details about himself are technically things to hold grievances with and he does kind of eat shit about it sometimes but its like. yuuup dudes traumatised and has very underdeveloped coping skills it makes sense....

uh actually i do have an answer. i hate how much he lives in my mind like literally if any of my friends ever ask me like "oh name a character" my first thought will indubitably be ISEL "oh who should i draw" ISEL i dont like him and i hate him actually. for being so handsome and nice

favorite line

ones at the front of my mind come from a play scene i edited last night. i like it when hes mean

brOTP

i think his connection with freya is sweet. codependent guys with god complexes, isel acting as a sort of dying ringmaster directing freya and also protecting her.... theyve got some baggage between them but they do care for each other so much

OTP

sigh him and olzhas will forever be famous to me their arcs are so entwined and they were very precisely designed to like. complimentary to one another. ive written so much about the meta between them its complicated but theyre annoying and they love each other and it rules

mazin and isel is also very personally funny to me because it feels like basically the only humorous "guys who hate each other" ship and also because i think the idea of isel of all people being mazin's introduction to bicuriosity would hurt him

i also think the hypothetical isel olzhas thuyết polycule is worthwhile. pretentious old men who will argue with each other about anything. its fine

nOTP

hmm aside for like. evidently weird ones. i dont think i can call any hypothetical pairing between him and anyone else bad i think theyre all funny in some way.

random headcanon

hmm treating this as an opportunity to think of my favorite trivia about him. i think his hobby in like. maintaining old music for himself and being all old-fashioned about record players and the genres of music he likes is cutes

unpopular opinion

i think hes ugly or something

song i associate with them

so many.... found this specific song earlier today so ill share this one

favorite picture of them

i think he looks cute here i like his expression a lot.... i like pictures of him where his like. a stupid little joker facade is lessened

[phanyu]

You say a casual viewer might find Dan more funny, but I don't necessarily think that's the case. I don't mean for this to sound insulting, but I think a casual viewer of a certain age would find Dan more funny. By that I mean...young tweens, teens and early 20s. Especially at their peak. I think Phil is funnier to older adults. I'm not CERTAIN that's the case but there's a few reasons why I think this. 1. I've noticed older phannies tend to gravitate towards Phil more and prefer his humor. 2. Years ago I came across a video where someone showed their teachers Dan and Phil videos and had them react to them. The teachers all looked to be in their early-mid 30s. Maybe late 20s. They did not find Dan funny at all, but they laughed at Phil's videos and were really surprised when the student told them that Dan was the more popular one. I think Phil could succeed in comedy if he marketed himself to an older crowd who appreciate that dry, slightly silly, British style of humor. Like I could see him becoming a regular on a show like Task Master or Would I Lie to You. Dan's comedy is in a really weird spot where it's not really appealing to Gen Z bc it's too millennial but it's also not appealing to millenials or older adults bc he's trying to be too Gen Z. I agree with you. I don't feel like his talents lie in stand-up comedy. You know what I think Dan would REALLY be good at? Motivational speaking. He is SUCH an amazing public speaker and he has this unique ability to inspire people by sharing his personal struggles. He's also a really good storyteller. I'm not sure that Dan will ever be able to find mainstream success as a writer or a comic tbh. It's not that he doesn't have talent, it's just that his skills are a bit underdeveloped. I think that if Dan really wants to be a stand-up comedian, he can't keep playing to crowds of adoring fans who already love him and love what he does regardless of if it's actually good or not. He needs to humble himself and go do gigs at small clubs to an audience that doesn't know him. I can't really see him doing that though. He's really bad at taking criticism and he doesn't seem like he's willing to do what it takes to promote himself to a new audience. This has become a bit of a ramble lol. Basically I agree with you that they're not playing to their strengths but disagree as to what exactly those are.

context

LOL no i totally know what youre talking about when you refer to dan's humour, i think we may be referring to totally different things here. because correct me if im wrong but what youre talking about i feel like i see more in his planned humour like the way he tweets, wad, etc, and i do totally agree that that has NOT aged well in several aspects (though hes more innocent than people let him off as being sometimes). it's more his talking presenter aura that i think people tend to gravitate towards first (at least in my experience showing people dnp videos), not because he IS necessarily funnier but because he's louder, he's more forceful, and he takes up more of the energy on screen 70% of the time. like it's just natural to be attracted to that first. and then as you watch more, i think people come to connect equally or even moreso with phil, as you also start to recognize how much of dan's louder personality is a direct reaction to what phil puts down first.

hmmmmmm i kind of go both ways on your point about phil going into comedy though!! i agree that if anything he totally COULD succeed at that old school british style of humour. and appeal to a wide range of people in a way that dan's humour alienates these days. but i kind of stand by my opinion that i would prefer even more to see phil as a creative driving force in a way that doesn't rely on his name brand at all. pure philism boiled down into something that the public doesnt even need to know phil to love.

and finally, ok ur point about motivational speaking is blowing my mind a bit. SOOOOOOOOO TRUE. i dont know if i could ever see him going down that route because i think he'd look down on it because as much as he is obsessed with constantly using his persona and history as a fallback to lean on, he also hates himself for constantly doing so, and that would require him to embrace it. i also just dont think he respects it as an endeavour lmaktjnkgtn (and i mean neither do i but i dont respect wad or ywgttn an insane amount either) but purely in terms of what would complement his skillset, it's a perfect match. and yeah i agree on everything that you said about wad, him taking criticism, and his audience. he jumped into the deep end with that show simply because he could, and it hindered him massively. and also blew up his confidence enough probably that he feels he doesnt NEED to go back and start smaller. i could be totally wrong because it's been ages since i watched it but i remember that video on his side channel from when he does a proto comedy show in that club for pride was a lot more natural and suited for his current skill level? sigh. but now he's played venues far too big to go back for that! god im just really curious i guess to see where either of them are planning on going individually (since i am p confident theyll be continuing as a duo as well) after tit. interesting chat anon!

[false-cowboy]

having long term ocs is so fuckin weird to me because like when im away from them for too long i. miss them

i miss Lev a creature only existing within my mind and like three drawings. he barely even exists as an entity; hes just a mish mash of Things Cowboy Likes At The Time because its fun

and i think thats what it is, hes a representation of my fun. hes been a vampire and a worldhopper and a blood bender and a bird person and he hears voiced both real and hallucinated. he is never allowed a moment of silence and its both his greatest blessing and his greatest curse.

hes the most inconsistent, mary sue, 'i just thought it was neat' thing i have ever made in all my life and i love him despite and maybe because of that

all of my long term characters come with that core feeling; no real 'skill' or 'talent' behind any of my ideas, theyre contradictory and the magic system is held together with chewed gum and spite. any 'real' author would pass out with one look at my mess of a google doc. but its fun goddamnit! i dont want acceptable or good characters, i want to look at my hot fish woman with her mouth covered girlfriend and feel the same feeling i did when first making them over and over and over again every time i come back from a break

sure i get new ideas and such but nothing can every really replace my main characters; underdeveloped and overhyped and the best thing ive ever made and the worst thing ive ever made and i Love Them more than anything. all roads lead back to Vintreth no matter what i do to stray away, thats alright with me :3

[littlebabycrybtch]

honestly its still so heart dropping and disgusting to continue to see aspec ppl have to put on that like. trained, overly polite, overly passive, complete Lack Of Self Respect tone that forces a sense of ‘i know i dont matter’ just so they dont get completely automatically ground into dust when they go out on a limb and ask ppl they wanna interact with; ‘hey please dont start anything but can you just let me know if you’re an aphobe or not’ and its Still met with soo much mockery and disbelief almost every time like....... bro what even is there not to understand. you’re literally being the proof of why they have to ask abt it i cannot Fathom that kind of Blindness like lmfao bitch they just dont wanna be around some1 who hates them.... thats .. normal... thats human?? thats human behaviors. its having standards for yourself. its FEELINGS like unironically rn pls tell me you’re clowning and that you do understand how fucken LOUD you all are abt normalizing aspec hate and how often we obviously run into bitches like you and have to ask this question. you know how LONG we’ve begged for basic support so you have to know that reacting to being asked if you give a shit abt somebody with that kind of mockery is disgusting and bratty and ignorant af bc bro lmao its YOUR FAULT for being a Part of the people HATING THEM....?

holy shit lol, nobody should be good with being around people who disrespect a part of them,,,, thats like a genuine personal problem if someone willingly wants to do that, so why tf would you be expecting that. bc its us? bc its us. bc its us and you feel THAT right in thinking that we’re so worthless, they we are just so Stupid for not knowing that too. its funny to you that we dont realize how little we matter. lmao its so ugly and warped like!!! god how fuckin evil can you get just calm down idiot lmao theyre asking if you respect them and you’re basically responding ‘why would it matter to you if i didnt?’ bhsejbjehg uhhhhhhjjjjjjjjj bc thats. a regular thing 2 care about. its standards like mam do you hang out with ppl who hate you. is that some normal thing to you like. avoiding the ppl who wish you werent around is sort of just . health and safety and basic emotional response and also common sense. really is. literally How dehumanizing and detached coudl you POSSIBLY be abt this to be directly asked by a marginalized identity group if you respect them or not, and actually say No, but Also be like ‘LMAO YOU REALLY ASKED ME THAT? IT DOESNT MATTER’ like. yeah it matters bc they stay existing actually, you dont have to hate them for that, and they wouldnt have to ask yall this stuff if you behaved lmfao. not to mention your reaction is literally the evidence that it apparently matters enough to You to make sure they know you dont accept them. fully, you are whats making it ‘matter’ so much bc you are the one going apeshit over a benign existence. you’re the one losing it over nothing.

like lmfafuckingo what is WRONG with your MIND dude im.... speechless like ‘dont drag me into discourse’ YOU HATING SOME1 AND THEM HATING YOU BACK IS NOT ‘’’’’’TUMBLR DISCOURSE’’’’’..............? WHAT R U DISPLAYING RN DID U NOT SPEND ENOUGH TIME IN THE GUIDANCE COUNSELORS OFFICE GROWIN UP WITH THIS ATTITUDE......... ITS THE NATURAL ORDER OF SOCIAL CONSEQUENCE......... ITS SOME BASIC ‘YOU STARTED IT’ TEE MOTHERFUCKIGN EM LOGIC...? YOU HATE THEM! FOR AUTONOMY! FOR HAVING AN IDENTITY AND ENOUGH SELF RESPECT TO STICK BY IT! THEY HATE YOU BACK I THINK THEYRE ALLOWED TO ASODLKFL;SDF AAAA DUUUDE lmaoooo and like good lord, passively existing around ppl who hate you and not challenging them isnt ‘avoiding discourse’. thats. so unhealthy sdjkf what kind of underdeveloped politics.... its toxic and absolutely batshit to genuinely ask that of Anyone. like bro stop Actually expecting ppl to hate themselves for ur comfort thats.... so weird i.... are you okay hhh nah you just need to step up and try to be a regular ass person actually and have sympathetic reasoning skills. being ace is fiiiine its nbd i dont need to to change for you, im allowed to be this, and i get to ask if you’re ok with that so i dont end up in a gross ass environment.

ace =/= discourse. you dont get a say in everything my dude. we’re not here for you to analyze, we dont give you permission and we dont need Your permission to exist, we’re not asking that of you when we send those msgs we’re tryna figure out if ur gonna be a bitch or not basically lol just seeing if we’re gonna be accepted by you or if we’re wasting our time like alksd;al its so traumatizing and unnecessary and MINDBOGGLING that u think its not fucked up ?? to feel like we are supposed to accept your hate of us as our truth?? you believe we’re that awful that its Funny when we dont Realize it or smth thats just so....... what would even make you respect us. literally absolutely nothing besides not existing in front of you. so. thats hate. thats irrational unwavering hate. beyond the fact that any group always has the right to ask you if YOU hate THEM, you cant sit there and mock the mere idea of caring when you are literally giving reason for it by trying your BEST to upset them and make them feel like they deserve to feel like shit for what they are afterwards. dfgjdfkgjdlfkgfd man the hypocrisy and like complete lack of self awareness in reg culture is like novacaine for my brain its so jarring sometimes. im allowed to have a problem with you having a problem with me bc i cant fix Being smth, you can fix how you feel abt it. balls in your court ill stay waiting. im not gonna hate myself bc you’re not right xoxo get a vaccine for w/e makes you this evil and selfish pls

[thinkingtomydumbself]

Specifically I love the possibilities that Bakugou & Mina's friendship has. (Even though Mina's character is woefully underdeveloped.)

The way I see it, Mina has a bright personality and some bombass social skills. I dont think she'd take Bakugou's surly personality and 'FUCK OFF's to heart but rather tease him with the other members of the Bakusquad. But I also think if Bakugou took it too far, she'd stop him immediately with a firm 'No'.

And at first they're just friends because they're in the same friend group. But eventually, they start sharing these disbelieving looks whenever someone says something so stupid. Looks like 'Can you fucking believe this idiot' or 'Yeah, this isn't gonna end well but let's let them fuck up anyway'.

Then one day Mina is MAD mad about something, and the Bakusquad is NOT helping things. Until Bakugou says 'you wanna go punch something?' and Mina goes 'FUCK YES i wanna go punch something'. They go to the gym and punch some things (and maybe each other a little) and bitch about whatever made her mad in the first place. And that's the first time they hang out alone together, but it's definitely not the last!

In my mind, they also:

-paint their nails together

-do face masks (with their quirks, they probably don't need them, but it's so relaxing for them)

-share a love for romance novels, and make fun of stupid sex scenes ('His throbbing man rod?? Seriously?')

-sometimes punch stuff together and talk about whether they could combine Katsuki's nitroglycering with Mina's acid somehow ('Acid. Bombs. It would be so fucking amazing!')

-are the two most prolific cursers in the Bakusquad (or maybe the entire class) and somehow always rev each other up so bad that they curse like every other word

-are both queer to some extent, and definitely talk about who's hot and who's not

-teach each other things (Mina teaches Bakugou to dance, Bakugou teaches Mina to at least boil water without melting half the kitchen)

[popculturebuffet]

Loud House Reviews: The Purrfect Gig

The Sam/Luna trilogy comes to an end here, as we get to the most recent of their now annual episodes, each so far produced and aired toward the end of the season. That being said like last season Sam had at least one apperance before this as I saw her in the thumbnail to “Deep Cuts”, the OTHER Lunacentric episode this season. And while it sounded bad to me at first looking into it.. no. The writers, for the most part, gave almost every kid two episodes a piece, and last season gave each 3, so to the writers credit they TRY to ballance out who gets episodes.  

The exceptions are Lincoln, who has around 5 that don’t also feature the girls as a whole, and 2 of those are with Lana, Lori who has 4, 2 of them shared and justifed as she’s possibly leaving for College next season and thus her episodes outside of one focus ont hat, and Lana and Lola: Lana has 3, and Lola has 2, and both have one together. And really even with those imballances it’s really impressive the show juggles 14 leads, with the parents themselves getting 2 this year too, along with Clyde, not counting his ones with Lincoln. | And that’s WITH the baffling decision this season to have the first 5 episodes be “With THe Cassagrandes”, i.e. 5 episodes of the Casagrandes that are counted as loud house episode that weren’t produced over at the sister show for some reason. And I have nothing against the Cassagrandes, what i’ve seen it’s not a bad show: I already have gone on about how much I love bobby, and I also love CJ and new comer Sam. I love the fact it has plenty of representation and a diffrent kind of big family, I love the theme song and I love the fact Melissa Joan Heart is on it because she’s terrific and spent the last decade really not picking her roles well. She was the lead in Holiday in Handcuffs, aka the movie where she kidnaps Mario Lopez and holds him at gunpoint to pretend to be her fiance until he gets Stockholm syndrome for really flimsy reasons. But I dont’ feel i’ts fair to the show to wedge it into another show’s spot: The Cassagrande-Santiago clan has shown up in 2 half hour loud houses and 2 15 minute eps. The kids watching KNOW these characters, and reception of the loudest mission was positive enough to get a spinoff made. You don’t need to spend a huge amount of another show’s episode order to promote a show kids will likely watch because it has characters from a show that airs all the time and is uber popular and has a similar humor style, and fans of the Loud House will at least try becuase they like the mothership and have known was coming for years now. This show HAD an audience going in. I watched both American Dad and the Clevland Show because it was from the same crew as family guy which I liked at the time. Granted American Dad had a decent stretch and Clevland Show .. had David LYnch as a recurring cast member I guess? Seriously david, this and not gravity falls? The point is it feels insulting that they felt the need to try and promote the show more, and all they did was take up episodes of the loud house and confuse children, and possibly turn viewers off a show they would’ve watched anyways. And if your wondering why I took such a massive detour it’s simple: Other than noticing the fact they’ve been specifically making sure each sibling gets more than one spotlight episode, shared or not, and this dumb decision.. Season 4 isn’t THAT much diffrent than Season 3. It carries on plots started there  (Lori heading towards college, Luann and Luna’s relationship), but otherwise it’s basically just more shipping and shenanigans. But really. .that’s far from a bad thing, as I consider season 3 a highwater mark for the show, and it introduced a lot of neat new elements (Lynn’s Table, Stella, Leni having a job) that are still prevelant in season 4. It’s not bad and it’s even more understandable given that next season, every character is growing a year (thank you press releases), meaning they have tons of new plots to explore, and large status quo shifts with Lincoln going to middle school, which out of the four schools shown is so far the most underdeveloped and will need development, and Lori possibly moving out of the house and going to college, among many other things that have me chomping at the bit for next season. But that’s probably a few months away so for now, it’s time to get back on focus and with everything else out of the way, the actual review of this episode starts under the cut. 

We open with Luna sitting in bed sighing when her poster of Mick Swagger starts talking to her. Whatever she’s smoking I could really use some. Depression is a bitch. Anyways, her drug induced hallucination of her hero starts talking to her. I haven’t really talked about Mick yet since the show uses him sporadically but he’s exactly what you’d expect; The show’s version of Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger, only slightly younger.. maybe. I dunno. Maybe he’s been around since the 60′s and is just a timelord. Or a groovy robot. Or has a dorian grey thing going on. We haven’t really gotten into Dino Spimoni situation yet where Luna helps her idol and has to help him reunite with a partner or convince him to stop faking his death. Just a reminder that Hey Arnold is great and that if you think it’s odd his crooner dean martin based idol got talked out of faking his death by a 12 year old, keep in mind he also tracked down the daughter his vitamise neighbor gave up so she could go to america and have a better life, helped convince his neighbors not divorce, and had to save his pig from being eaten in a revolutionary war reinactment. Hey Arnold was far weirder than I remembered and i’m here for it.  Anyways, Hallucination Mick asks if Luna is coming to his concert this weekend, and she HOPES so she just dosen���t have the money for  VIP pass to meet the actual version and do drugs with the actual mick swagger for a change. He says you never know when opportunity will come a knockin and it does in the form of the McBrides! Clyde’s dad’s Howard, the skinny one voiced by national treasure Micheal McDonald and Wayne Brady whose also great.. and i’m not just saying that because i’ve seen this. Don’t be absurddddd....

Howard and Harold are Clyde’s dads... and while Clarence and Steven Universe beat them to having Gay parents in a children’s cartoon, their still the first interacial gay couple in a children’s cartoon, and on a nicktoon period, and even if they weren’t either of those it’d still be fucking great. Anyways the two are nice characters, while i haven’t seen EVERY ep with them their a loving couple, nice parents, and treat the loud kids as their own.. granted that goes too far in one episode, but still, thems good people.  Anyway Howards having a panic attack, respect, and as his husband calms him down, we find out why: the mcbrides are going to pick up nana for the annual family reunion, and their catsitter cancled. Hence Howard’s freakout and Harold worrying about the 20 pounds of amish potato salad in the trunk. So naturally their hoping someone can watch their cats, Cleopawtra and Nefurtiti for the day, and them going to the louds makes sense, both for the obvious of the Louds being their closest friends in the neighborhood, and the not so obvious of a previous episode I haven’t seen having established the older kids as the best babysitters in royal woods, meaning that in addition to knowing them they have skill and this likely isn’t the first time. Luna, not thinking about herself, admits Lori went to hit the golf course early and Leni is at work, a nice way to explaning why it’s Luna that gets the job: She was there and it was implied by the fact she was getting high and talking to her hallucination that Luann isn’t, so most of the other options they’d have without some reservations are gone with no contrivance necessary.  Anyways Luna’s Drug Fueld hallucination,  points out money can be exchanged for goods and services, such as VIP passes, and also mentions sam already has hers. Either Luna’s forgot or her hallucination can use her phone. Either is probable, and is backed up by Hallucination Sam, before both start playing their guitars and Luna air guitars with them. I”m unsuprsied by all of this. She offers and the McBrides take her up on it immeditley. I do like that it avoids the “I don’t know if your up to this” cliche that always happens in these types of scenarios, the McBrides have no reason not to trust her, so they just.. do. Hell Harold only sets out one rule: don’t invite anyone over.. and it’s not even because he dosen’t trust Luna to have anyone over or anything like that, he just knows the cats get anxious with a crowd, though their therapist is working with them on that. And of course the two rich men with a single child have a cat therapist. I would too if I were rich. Harold and Clyde throw and unconcious Howard into the car and their off, they’ll be back at 6. And TOTALLY won’t be home hours early for hyjinks. Totally.  Luna arrives to find a massive binder on feline care. Someone went to the Amy Santiago school of binders. It says to feed the cats at 10 sharp.. and it’s 10:02. Luna tries feeding them but the cats instead attack her in a full on psycotic rage and dump food all over her, so dinners on her. 

Anyways, Luna then tries walking the cats which goes as well as you’d expect.. not because she had to put harneses on cats and expect them to do anything at a certain time, but because they pull hard. I can relate to that with my dog.. not my cat. He just goes wherever he wants because he’s old and kind of an asshole.  Anyways, with the cats now messy from running over a guy with a cake, because of course, Luna looks up what to do next which is.. give.. them a bath. 

Who.. who does that. I know their messy, but use a rag or something. No animal likes being bathed but cats, esepcially one who this episodes shows aren’t declawed (And rightfully so but still), do not LIKE being bathed. Granted they wouldn’t like being cleaned off with a rag or something either, but it still feels less cruel to both them and any prospective babysitter to just hold one down and wipe it off then find the other and repeat. Look witht he walking thing I can see why someone would, in their case because their probably too skittish to let their cats wonder around, and in some cases because said cat is young. But this.. this even for a comedy contrivance is stupid. It’s not the worst uninetional cat abuse i’ve seen in media, Elmyra exists and the mother of the lead of get fuzzy tried putting her cat on a vegetarian diet, which Rob, said lead and a staunch vegetarian himself, not only found concerning but gave said cat the money for takeout.. keep in mind in this strip cats can talk and walk upright. Also I miss when Get Fuzzy was both daily and good. So Luna naturally ends up in the bathtub, soaked and depressed and not sure what to do when her friendly neighborhood sign that the drugs haven’t worn off yet comes by and tells her to shape up if she wants to go to the show with Sam. This gives Luna a great idea. LIke a Zack MOrris great idea it involves breaking the rules.. unlike a Zack Morris idea, it dosen’t involve sexual harassment or a zany scheme. She decides to call Sam, since she’s apparently great with cats and given we saw how she was with chickens last time, not a real stretch. She also pops Mick’s bubble which.. hurts him.. somehow. I dunno.  Anyway cut to Sam arriving. She arrived fast because she was picking a new character up from his gamer’s club meeting: Her brother Simon, who’d been mentioned in side materials but makes his first apperance here. I like him, he has a neat design and i’ts nice to give sam a family life of her own, and he’s a nice if glued to his not-nintendo switch kid. Frankly I hope he and LIncoln meet at some point. I mean he has an opening in his friend group starting next season there’s no way Rusty passes 5th grade. And even if he somehow does, it’s not like adding another member is too much of a stretch given, once they got past courting her, the rest of his group warmly welcomed stella in and it’d be an intresting dynamic having his sister’s girlfriend’s brother in the group. Also if your wondering if i’ll ever stop finding ways to bash rusty in these reviews even when he’s entirely absent..

Anyways, Luna slams the door in the kids face, which he takes in stride , and explains the situation, and after fred fliintstonning him is taken off the table, go with “Sneak him past the cats”. It works because cats never look up at the backs of a gay teenage couple sneaking a small child inside. Luna decides to leave Simon in the entertainment room while she and Sam watch the cats and he finds Clyde’s VR gear and asks to try it on, with Luna reluctantly agreeing as long as he’s careful.. which as far as we see.. yeah he entirely is. The Sharpe’s are good people. 

Cue a montage! Sam helps luna scrub the cats, with brushes as they should’ve done minute one, put them through spa type pampering which is also a call back to the first time we saw the McBride’s house in the series, take selfies, and then sing the cats to sleep, in a really sweet and really well sung lullaby, notable for being the first time Sam’s sung on the show and Allyson Stoner, who I haven’t mentioned but should’ve before this shame on me, does a terrific job and has done a terrific job as Sam in general. Luna thianks her for the help, Sam says no sweat they get to see the show together, and Sam ducks out... before realizing she forgot something. Her wallet... no wait she has that.. OH SHIT HER BROTHER. And before she can get him DOUBLE OH SHIT THE MCBRIDES ARE BACK.  Harold is grumbling about the potato salad... apparenlty Aunt Brenda brought some and wasn’t supposed to. I do like how both McBride dads have their own quirks:While Harold IS the more rational one, he can slip up just like anyone can. Luna prepares to leave.. only to realize oh shit her girlfriend’s brothers in the house still. Her not all complex scheme! She fakes having left something behind to get him out, and once sam calls comes up with a plan: Sneak Simon around back. Sam sneaks around with the bush she ducked into, and we get one of my faviorite tropes: A scooby doo doors sequence! Also the dads speak in unison. Dawww. We also get an adorable bit of Sam gesturing for Luna to hand her the boy. I couldn’t find a gif of it sadly, and I would’ve credited it, but I did find 50 tons of creepy Sam X LIncoln fanart. Just.. why. Why exactly. Why do you do this to me tumblr. And to be clear I have ZERO issue with shipping a character whose sexuality isn’t fully confirmed as just gay in canon with a male character, Bi and Pan representation is important. It’s why I get annoyed at the people who throw a hissy fit any time Della Duck is shipped with Launchpad. Here though I do because it feels like this ship is ENTIRELY a troll, especially since LIncoln has 80 other options, not at all including the icky incest ones, and that I cut and dry have every problem with, and is being done soley to annoy people who ship sam and Luna and are finally enjoying some gay/bi representation on children’s television. If this is a troll then kindly 

Thank you John. So anyways Sam does grab the boy and nearly gets him out the door.. only for the mcbrides to run into their bisexual catsitter shoving a small chubby child out their kitchen window only to have a lesbian fall out into their kitchen. Naturally Howard faints again and Harold is displeased... probably because his husband fainted again.. and you know the shenangians in his kitchen. The only time shenanigans are allowed in that kitchen are when Clyde is sleeping at a friends house for the night and only on the table dammit. They got reinforced oak for a reason.  We cut to the boys playing, which is a nice touch: Clyde being a nice kid dosen’t mind sharing, Simon has similar intrests, and the only time we’ve seen him be eh on sharing is letting Lincoln borrow his new console.. and he not only felt BAD for not wanting him to borrow it and having to try and get it back, but he only did so because the Loud house is insanley chaotic and understandbly he wasn’t sure it’d get back to him safetly. His dad’s rasied him well, he’s a good boy once he got past his ‘Stalking his friends older sister” phase and got into his “anything besides that “ phase.  Luna comes clean to the McBrides and.. Harold appricates the honesty. And both are impressed with how well they took them, with Sam and Luna giving each other credit. So instead of getting upset, especially since Luna was both honest and only called in Sam for help and Simon was an unexpected guest and they both did a fantastic job, they offer to split the money instead. Sam, in a really sweet gesture, then gives Luna her half with no hesitation or prompting from her girlfriend, Luna gives her a cheek smooch and they hug. Then Luna acciently wakes the cats, and we end on the girls singing the cats, Simon and the McBrides all to sleep. Also Luna’s hallucination is alsleep.. those drugs wore off hours ago after all.  Final Thoughts:  A really fantastic setup. Once again the show shows it’s slowly gained talent for taking stock plots (in this case a babysitting episode) and making them actually intresting, mostly by having the characters behave reasonably. While it didn’t really expand Sam’s character, it didn’t really need to , the previous ep with her having fleshed her out as a sweet, kind girl with a talent for animals, and Simon is a wonderful addition to the series massive cast of side characters that , unlike some additions , will hopefully show up again. Seriously half the reason I bitch about Rusty is that the show is great at making charcters, and improving them after a few bumpy episodes as seen with Clyde, Lori and Luann, but yet still uses him and dosen’t make him any funnier, while I can name handfuls of characters who either need more apperances (Girl Jordan) Or haven’t shown up again at all (Carol Pingery, Rocky, Maggie). And that’s not even all of them obviously, but my point stands. But given he’s the brother of one of the main characters girlfriend and would fit in with the main character well, I have a feeling we’ll see simon again at some point.  I also really liked seeing the McBrides, mostly because I haven’t seen many of their episodes, and found them to be delightful, helped by having wonderful va’s behind them as standard for the show and great chemsitry and it was a nice bonus to have the shows two main gay couples interact, without it feeling at all forced, and neither did Sam’s inclusion. And while we haven’t gotten a full on kiss with Sam and Luna, which really they should, CN beat them again on that, the cheek kiss and hug was still very sweet, as is the episode really. It’s funny, heartwarming, and really enjoyable. While itd osen’t have as much emotional weight as the last two eps, I like that it didn’t: For once the conflict was low key but understandable and now Sam and Luna are a full couple, they can just do cute couple shit and get into wacky shenanigans like any other couple on this show without any angst attached. It’s really nice. It also shows that no, a couple being together isn’t boring fuck off will they or won’t they, but i’ve ranted enough about stuff unrelated to this episode. I really liked it and hope to come back to these two someday.  For now as I sign off Pride Month is far from over... as next up I have multiple things planned, but one of the biggest is a FIVE PART series on Red Action and Enid from OK KO. Yes FIVE. All 3 of their romantic eps, and Red’s first two for proper context both for the finale, which uses both episodes as part of the plot, and for a proper view of her character arc and to ease readers into the series better. So be there for that, and a donald duck birthday celebration, and until then, later days! 

[drearytweddiafawnx]

A letter to myself from 2030.

Hey Rim ! Wanna hug ?

It's me ......actually it's you from 2030.l know you've been dreaming of me . So i thought i should write you a letter. I was reading through all my old letters and braindump journals .It made me rethink about my past thoughts and write to you about them

The time you are in and the time I'm writing to you are both important moments of our life .

The year 2030 is the time when we are leading the world and 2020 is the time when we just started our journey. After the covid crisis days were not so good as you've already imagined. But your 'silly "plans helped the people who needed help . Heres a note from one of your writings.

10.06.20

To all the teens who'll be leading the world in upcoming days .look at our future main concerns 

*stoping global warming 

*giving freedom toall (everyone who has a life ,freedom of speech, lifestyle and everything )

*completing the necessary needs 

*fighting future disasters sensebly 

*solving problems unitedly .

*empowering huminity and human knowledge 

*being a good global citizen .

We have to be the hero of the next 

generation. 

Our ideas are the root of our life . Trying to understand the future problems and living in your future is

not bad . You like to do things keeping their future in mind . You wanted to build an education system where you create open minded people . 

I would love to talk about your ideas 

during the covid crisis like street farming ,street education and practical learning . I hope you remember this journal pages ....

16.04.20 

Practical learning - giving assignments and research topics during the covid crisis and after the crisis showing the research and assessments .Exams will be taken through activities and practicaly while kids learn something new while giving exams .

And this will be area based .

Like to a remote village maybe clean water is a big issue .

Childrens from that village will work on it .

8.05.20

Street education - using street billboards and ad boards to teach street children and passerby .

Using fun animation and video we can teach them general knowledge and make people aware of certain topics like childmarriege and dowry .

11.06.20

Street farming - using the footover bridges and street dividers to produce free and safe food for the poor ,begger and street people .

So that they can freely eat and cook .

It will also be beneficial for all the natives living there .

Most of your ideas were based on underdeveloped coutries . And I'm really looking forward to your both websites that you are working on . learning and asking questions about anything in their mother tongue gives kids an opportunity to write and ask with freedom and you wanted to make begging a respectful profession .giving a home and shelter . While volunteers will help them and take care of them.

People will be able to donate to their personal account using your website .

Some can get employed too. Nice ideas Rim .

I know its the first pride month you are celebrating and currently you are saving money for building an free open school for poor ,street children and everyone who is curious to learn 

But the best thing you learned these days was respecting everyone and trying to keep your feet on their shoes to understand their pain and sufferings . 

But the thing you were thinking about on those days was global warming . All of my life I wanted freedom and you wanted to free all animals giving all plants a chance to grow freely even if they were not helpful . Humans are soo selfish that they only spare those lives which benefit them somehow .

To you the new normal was not mask, gloves and social distancing ,you wanted the new normal to let everyone live ,everyone who has a life , give mother nature a chance to heal herself . 

One day you wrote that "The covid crisis has taught all of us equally at a time that how we all are connected even if we are separated and how we depend on each other and we should 

admire everyone and everything.

If nature is infected nature will cure herself too. Everything is important and being here to teach us something . Even the poisons from the earth has a healing power to save lifes .

Mother nature is teaching us to be humble , respectful to every element of the earth and give equal importance as we have over here .

Just give them the chance to be , to live , breath freely , to learn and seek and teach us . I don't think humans has the right to make laws and specialy making their own " natures law ".

So many wonders got lost before finding them and will never return only because of our foolishness .

Only because they are not helpful they should die , who are we to set this cruel rule ? 

Even humans are cruel to other humans . We are treating like enemies more than mother natures childrens . because we are unaware and selfish. Peoples are different because their mindsets and that's the beauty of our nature .There is no one like us and everyone is unique and connecting different perspectives can bring us a change . Physical boundries will be nothing in front of our inner connection . We should build huminity towards humans and all living matters and let everyone bloom in their own light , energy and power to prove everyones inner beauty is in their heart .Knowledge is our power the future is in our hand and we will surely make a change !"

Well dear Rim ,

In your imaginary world you knew that one day the earth will be healed and mother earth didnt let you go. Our c mkther earth is niow healed and healing herself everyday .

On 2030 some fun things happened like reuseable straws and paper clothes became trend people were buying them . We don't cut trees to make furnitures . We are doing upcycling and using alternative options .All animals are freed now only reliable universities has the right to research on animals without keeping them caged.There are some animals getting internet famouse everyday . We have equality and balance in our education any one can learn from anywhere anytime. Education is costfree now and age is just a number . All cuntries are united. There is no fight or war .No one breaks the rule ordoes crime intentionally.

Everyone is respected here no matter what their gender ,age or status is .We are building sustainable houses for everyone using alternative ways and on this process nature is not pollouted. Everyone is earning and

no one is staying unemployed. All professions are equally admired .Self employed people are increasing day by day . Over here we don't have bad people and they are being actually educated . Teaching us life skills while making our minds open and creative . Education is costfree and we are learning to get mastery on them.

In some countries overpopulation was a massive problem but now its not and we also controling our population by supporting one child . What ever that child might be , a life is always special. We have wonderful botanical gardens and reserved seed banks which has so many rare seeds . Internet is now the most safe place and resourcefull place 

All the waste is recycled and used as energy .

Spacewaste and e waste are sorted too. 

Big countries are helping small countries and now we all are equal and same no big or small.

Mills and factories use green energy to produce theur work and they dont throw waste in the water or soil .

All professions are equally admired and learning and education is free 

Now we have a no meat day in every month of the year and it is celebrated the whole world wide.

People now do their chores by themselves and donate their belongings which they no longer need ,no one extra stuff to clutter their home .

Everyone has a place to live a sweet home and a shelter and we dont need fill rivers or cut mountains or clean 

forests to build home . Refugees are loved and cared too ,many countries are helping them to survive .

We all truely have a home to live.

There is no cage no zoo but we have virtual zoo and world tour .

Many aninals got mentally sick staying in cage for a long time ,now they allare under good treatment .

keeping pets in cage is also agnist law .You will see " No entry" billboaard in front of many forests and importaant places. Government is helping people when they need . The quantity of doing crime is very less now 

There is no injustice . laws are very strict and mandatory. We have reliable snd trustworthy judiciary. I should say there is very less pending cases .

Everyone is working hard to spread positivity .

Government is really concerned about the happinesss of their citizens . People give mental health a big priority. Government encourages to take selftime and selfcare .

We can get safe and healthy food in a very cheap price .

We understand others feelings and respect them .

We use green energies now .

Other energy sources which we used before is now where they belong ,

to the nature . We are researching very hard on various topics nowdays to seek in the beauty and mystery of mother nature .

Our biodiversity is now very increased .

Our homes can now deal with earthquakes and other disasters .

We've build durable dams to stop getting fload and bush fires are also controlled.

We no more make cigarettes or tobacco products. 

No one smokes not even vehicles ,mills and factories. No human trafficking and less fishing .

Our youth is so positive nowdays . Youth exchange programmes are increased too . We understand how important staying globally connected is .

Each of the countries has a special bugdet and plan to deal with future diseases and disasters .

We are now shareing our love .working hand in hand .

There us no negetivity and no hatred agnist anyone .

Everyone gets to drink clean water and eat fresh safe food.

We don't 

have sewage problems nowdays .

Everything is by design and mother natures order . We dont want to harm our nature and so do our mother nature . 

Earth has now chaged a lot we have wonderful seasons and climate .

Whereever I look I see greenery and beauty ,love and peace .

Everyone is working hard to make our world a better place .

We only have one earth and we love her so much , we don't want to leave her or make her unhappy or sick .

We are working thinking about our future and having a sustainable world 

You would not believe ! my eyes are now filled with soothing greenery 

! 

Pond with ducks ,plants, butterflies bees ,dragonflies , grasshoppers everywhere with farmers and villegers .

And there is no pollution , no dirt 

literally zero waste . Everything is recycled reuse reduced and upcycled .

We have mighty leaders reliable law and trustworthy government .

At this time the world is so beautiful , everyones heart is so beautiful .its the happiest world ever .

I know its still like a dream to you .

But if i say its true you would ask me who did it ? And my answers is us , all of us everyone unitedly . One by one from various countries bright minds and leaders came up and worked for the change .

You everything you wanted to be. I'm nothing different from you .

I am you and you are still in me. 

On this world of 2030 .

Im compltetinng all the dreams that a teenager saw on her 16's. Teacher and connecting with hearts through internet .helping the poor and helpless ,working with the UN , studying in Japan and doing a research .

While your reading even if 

you believe in my words the law of attraction will make it true because youve already started working on it .

I wrote this letter for a competition but never end up giving it to someone or somewhere because it became special.

[ltfad]

Rex, Cody, and Fox personality types

So I went looking up personality types trying to fit a few boys and man do they fit how we’ve written them. Here are my fav aspects according to a site (you can click the names to read the full descriptions):

Rex - ISTJ - The Duty Fulfiller (obviously)

quiet, reserved, strong internal sense of duty, tend to have a serious air.

organized and methodical approach to tasks leads to frequent success in whatever they do

very loyal, faithful, dependable. Place great importance on honesty and integrity. “good citizens” who can be trusted to do the right thing for their family/community. Family-minded.

believe in laws/traditions, expect same of others. Not comfortable breaking laws or going against rules, but can be convinced with solid reasoning. Will prefer extablished procedures.

May be obsessed with structure and doing things by the book if underdeveloped (Dogma-like cadet Rex). Perfectionists.

May have difficulty saying ‘no’ when people put more work on them due to their sense of duty. Often unwittingly taken advantage of.

Will put tremendous energy into achieving tasks they see as important, but very little energy into things that dont make sense/dont have a clear practical application.

prefer to work alone, but works well in a team. Enjoy being in positions of authority.

Big respect for facts, remembers facts easily.

May have a hard time seeing another point of view, but once they are shown its importance to someone that matters to them, it will become their own personal cause as well. Will make sure they fulfill duty to the cause and provide support wherever needed.

Not naturally in tune with their own or others feelings.

Care deeply about their loved ones but likely uncomfortable expressing affection and emotions to others. Sense of duty helps them overcome these things to support someone they care about. Are more likely to use actions than words to show affection.

Do not usually give themselves enough credit for their achievements, seeing it as just fulfilling their duty.

Cody and Fox under the cut

Cody - ENFJ - The Giver

People focused, excellent people skills. Understand people on an intuitive level.

Due to this, they know how to draw out even the most reserved individuals (Rex!!!)

Very good at persuading people to do what they want.

Tend to be hard on themselves, turn to dark thoughts when alone so avoid being alone - fill lives with activities and people.

May not be aware of own needs

Have strongly held believes but reluctant to express them if they expose their inner self.

May feel alone even when surrounded by people due to concealing their true self from others.

Can express less personal values and opinions strongly and succintly. Straightforward and honest.

People love them, think they’re fun and truy understand people

Enjoy being center of attention, and inspiring and leading others. Know just what to say to inspire or support someone.

Strong need for close intimate relationships, very loyal and trustworthy in these relationships

Fox - ENTJ - The Executive

(Fox hasn’t been in LTFAD or oneshots much, but we have a whole fic planned out with him and about a billion headcanons and this fits him soo good. I should make a Fox headcanons post.)

natural born leader, sees challenges and wants to surmount them personally, driven to lead. Quick, decisive, take charge people

quick to grasp complexities, can absorb large amounst of impersonal information

constantly scanning environment for problems and solutions. Tireless in their efforts to fix problems.

See things from long range perspective

no patience of inefficiency, little for mistakes. Does not want to see mistakes repeated. Harsh when patience has been spent.

Not naturally intune with peoples feelings. Are unlikely to adapt behavior/judgments in consideration of peoples feelings.

Hard to see outside their own perspective and little tolerance for people who dont see things their way. Must consciously work on valuing other opinions and feelings. Otherwise will be forceful, intimidating, overbearing.

Tendency toward self aggrandizement which can alienate them from others.

Frequently have a strong sentimental streak that is very powerful, they hide it from others and consider a weakness

Love to interract with people, have “lively challenging conversation”, and respect people who can stand up to them and be persuasive for their differing point of view.

Tremendous self confidence, excellent verbal skills, tend to win their arguments and persuade others to their view.

I love. All these boys. I can’t wait til we produce more Fox stuff. I MUST CONVINCE THE WORLD HE IS GOOD even if he’s a little hard to get along with.

[dead-ghouls]

Hey I love your art~ About the thing about Shuichi. Shuichi's arc honestly didn't end after chapter 1, taking off his hat was only the beginning of his arc imo, he was at his lowest point in chapter 2. Every chapter he gets more assertive and independent. Let's be honest, Shuichi in chapter 4 is different compare himself in chapter 2. I believe he grew as a person thorough the game but his problems never 100% solved. But it's okay if you found him boring though~

Heya! Thank you!Firstly, please take my writing w a grain of salt and please dont take offence to it;; I do not hate, like actually hate Shuichi. He’s nice and funny as fuck when you explore tiny things he does, and im really passionate about expanding his character. I do hate how he was handled, I have v3 writing overall and believe they couldve done better. I also might be wrong about some things, because it takes time for me to analyze stuff and I havent done any research besides playing the game. Now you may proceed uwu Yeah I can get behind that - he’s not completely the same person as he was in the begining, but whatever happened to him wasn’t really remarkable? He was way dependent on Kaito (and I wouldnt mind that if Kaito was good motivation, but all he did was annoy me and yell “believe”) and his problem in ch 1 was that he was afraid to find out the truth because it only filled him with regret. It happened in his past. Then it happened in ch 1 and it was supposed to inspire him as Kaede told him to stop being afraid. Yet ch 2 comes and he has the same dilemma. Then, in ch 4 he finds out the truth, of course it hurts but he’d deal with it, BUT Kaito blames him for finding the truth and wouldnt speak to him, making him regret it again. Then in ch 5 it happens once more, he regrets that he could go past the bluff and wishes he’d follow along with the trap. 

I know that he becomes more confident (though I’d argue he’s become independent, he just switched from relying on Kaede to relying on Kaito; and again, its not a bad thing, some people just need that and its okay) but the whole theme of his character in ch1 was “i am afraid of finding out the truth, it only brings despair” and he havent moved past that. He either regretted to find out the truth or other people blamed him for doing so. The only trial when he wasnt like that was ch3 when pretty much everyone was “welp off you go my friend”.Compared to previous MCs he’s very,very weak despite him being the first MC who has an actual talent.Naegi has his positive attitude and bad luck of being framed for murder twice (plus aside of becoming ultimate hope, most of his growth can be seen in udg, sdr2 and dr3), even without considering Hinata’s ~lore~ he still has a strong personality: he’s cocky and roasts his friends to hell and back and he acts confident (though its not actually true, he does comes off like that at the first glance)Compared to them he doesnt have much. He changed, because well duh, the plot progressed and he had to adapt to changes, but none of his issues that were presented in the begining were solved. Plus I found him boring not only because of his lack of development, his character overall wasnt strong enough for a MC. Like he was just there. His replies or reactions to situations didnt add anything, when Hinata actually participated in convos, they evolved, he delievered the punchlines, other characters acknowledged his personality (calling his attitude spiky or talking abt his skills of communicating w other people, making them open up).Shuichi has underdeveloped angst, his submissive attitude (that could have been explored more, but im glad we at least got a couple gags out of) and fanservice he doesnt know what to do with. 

[far-from--perfection]

I am imperfect... and am happy with it!

I am not a saint...i can be stupid , make bad decisions, choose the easiest way to do things...and be a drama queen sometimes..

I am weak when its about fighting my own feelings... i fall and stay down maybe for too long before getting up...

I dont repeat positive quotes and thoughts in my mind ... my thinking can be too intense for nonworthy stuffs and come up with no final conclusion..

I open up debates in my head that never come to an end... i got great ideas on mind to realise when i have free time but i never do..

My socializing skills are way too underdevelopped... i sit on a throne of loneliness... i have troubles expressing myself that i ended up not expressing at all...

I have a better personnality on the internet that i cant really incarnate on real life...

my physical appearance doesnt suit the beauty standards ... its not appreciated by everyone who sees me , it even happens that i dont appreciate it myself ,and i dont have a specific gorgeous thing about my face to focus on while taking selfies so that it makes you forget about other imperfections ...

Beside that...i am not even photogenic !

Am not a book eater...not an adventurer ... i am not passionated for anything specific and i dont have a specific goal in my life except becoming a better person which i dont work much on...

My picture of the future is really foggy , my reserve of ambition ends a little too fast , i often dont give my projects everything i can give ...

But its okay... i am okay with all of it !

As long as i have the freedom to be me ...

[twinkrundgren]

hi i hope you dont mind me popping in!

disclaimer, i like the concept of AI art, especially as a concepting tool, but right now, it cannot be denied that AI art was not created with artists in mind.

i do not enjoy the idea of copyright, but it is a tool artists need to protect themselves from exploitive systems in capitalistic societies. AI art does not respect copyright, it doesnt respect the consent of artists who may or may not want their art to be used as training data. is it selfish? maybe. but when artists are underpaid and treated as worthless, being able to say "i can draw like this and you cant" is a good way to keep yourself employed. if a company can just replace you with an AI, that's not good for your employment.

my other gripe is not so much on the ethics, but rather... its too underdeveloped to be a skill of its own. right now, our only way of manipulating AI to create art is through prompts. that's about it. if we are to take AI artists seriously (remember, AI is a tool. the person who put in the prompt is technically the artist) the tool needs to be more controllable. imagine, in the future, a control deck of massive proportions, each with dials controlling different parts of the AI generation process. the person using the AI would learn how to manipulate those dials to produce an intended result and honestly i'd consider that a skill in itself. but we dont have that control right now. AI is too uncontrollable to be of much use unless you spend hours generating the same prompt (which is what the contest winner did, afaik)

i hesitate to knock AI art because of ease of use or skill, though. art should be accessable to everyone, but right now, i honestly think AI art where its at is nothing more than a novelty.

regarding the art contest... id just consider AI art another medium. its distinct enough in technique that it shouldnt be grouped with other mediums and instead be judged on the merits of AI art rather than digital art or photography or anything like that. there, problem solved.

I feel like saying "AI is STEALING art from ARTISTS!" is inaccurate, maybe even wrong

[galimatios]

fear thy fortune chatlog notes

thinking abt the underdeveloped au i have in that weird off color fantasy universe that i realized is probably similar in ways to bloodborne even before i knew abt bloodbornes plot but this is nice bc i can solidify parts of it and i can probably also combine it with the knights au i have

OK I FORGOT TO PUT A CW HERE BUT CW FOR ABUSE MENT AND GORE MENT

somewhere located in present day west asia slash east europe theres a country divided into numerous states in which princes and princesses (princex (poc)/princen/etc for gender neutral options) are perpetually in contest with eachother for the right to be the divine ruler of the country

monarchy is not guided by blood, rather the church is responsible for finding the chosen candidates via prophecy, fururesight, dream interpretation, etc, and these kids are taken from their homes and reared as royalty the nature of this country is ... severe. pain is a gift, proof that one is alive. much ceremony is based in sacrifice, bloodspill, bloodsports, and pain endurance. magic as practiced by the church is extremely powerful in terms of healing so almost all wounds can be healed provided the heart still beats its essentially one big huge freakish cult of a country that has customs that seem barbaric to outsiders

the divine ruler of each state is the princens, though more often than not their councils do most of the governing with the princen merely being a puppet figurehead. they go through rigorous training to sharpen their minds and endurance against all types of pain, so training includes physical, mental, emotional trials in which the princen is supposed to keep a clear mind, concentrate on mediation or some mantra, bearing whatever is thrown at them. additionally they receive the best training in both combat and politics as well as magic. not all princen can withstand the requirements ofc so they.. vary quite a bit in terms of stability/constitution. its a p sick system even without the knights added in bc thats super messed up

the knights essentially belong to their princens in heart body mind and soul, and each princen receives exactly one knight soulbound to them. they also undergo the same scouting process once the princen is identified, and they undergo similar training except theyre also essentially brainwashed into believing their entire purpose in life is to serve and protect their princen no matter what. obviously this aint healthy! knights delude themselves into it so hard theyll fight for the system that literally abuses them! but thats how cults work

that being said knights are extremely powerful. they act as the sole bodyguard of their princen and believe me you dont want to get inbetween a knight and their prince. they are known especially for their brutality when their lords are threatened. it is extremely common for limbs to be lost in skirmishes btwn assailants and a knight

this takes us to the games! which are essentially gladiator coliseum type bloodsport contests between knights of different princens. its a pretty big affair like how the Olympics are for us so the fanfare the cheering the everything is all there i prob dont need to describe it in detail but its very violent. its considered practice for the knights before the true battle-royale type event thats even BIGGER bc it determines who becomes god-king of the country. this time the princen join their knights in the battlefield and basically whoever is left standing is the new king

is it worth it? probably not bc i think being king actually means being killed to be sent up to the heavens bc god kings dont need bodies any longer in truth the entire debacle is a distraction set up by the church to keep the country under its own control. its super corrupt. the council behind every princen is actually made up of high ranking church members that convene regularly to manipulate the politics of the region

but thats mostly the governing sphere of this world. the commonfolk are removed from most of this violence aside from the indoctrination by the church and the messed up religion they practice. a lot of the belief system here relies on this concept of karma and fate over free will. fate is oppressive, cannot be changed, but god do they try that belief ties into how princen and knights are fated to be pairs, how princen are fated to either ascend to godhood or die trying

but there is one way to manipulate fates in this world there exists in independent of the church a monastery that practices the art of transferring karma. think of karma as a type of currency that can be spent, saved, used, etc. lots of good karma may be distributed amongst loved ones via a ritual headed by a monk, or bad karma can be "paid off" essentially. the amount of good/bad karma a person has directly affects their fortune and luck. this practice is more or less outlawed by the church but the monastery is slowly gaining power over the commonfolk and the church mostly leaves the poor folk to rot anyway- their agenda mostly concerns the monarchy

altho i can definitely see tensions rising with the witch hunting as influenced by the church. particularly nefarious visions may result in blame being thrown around and commoners getting killed for crimes they have yet to commit and thats thanks to the teachings of the church

anyway as of rn though the monastery is still pretty small but it is an old, ancient organization with magic that runs far deeper than the magic of the church. it is a much more subtle magic- monks practice little offensive magic (they are a nonviolent sort anyway) but the ability to exchange karma is rare and has far more reaching impact in the long run i imagine they have strongholds further to the east but anyway theres one trump card the monastic order has

a subsection of the order is dedicated to the keeping of miracles. and miracles are... monsters! they are semi-physical manifestations of literal suffering and the sheer emotional energy provided by them is enough to give miracles the power to.. well. perform miracles.

when a person dies in anguish, there is a chance that their bodies will not decompose the way they are meant to. instead they slowly dissipate, bodies turning coal black and ashen to the touch. these cannot be disposed of the normal way (curses, contamination, all kinds of horrible things happen) so instead these corpses get locked up inside brick cells within the monastery

once, one of these was opened only to reveal that the bodies were gone- only a humming, massive shadow that seemed to move as if made of flies or soot combined. and it spoke, too. this was the first miracle created it was discovered then that these creatures had immense power but could not leave the rooms they were imprisoned in, touch sunlight, and similarly they could not die

imagine like the witchs nightmares in pmmm and you get what its like to be a soul trapped in a miracle. u get to relive ur worst fears and regrets forever. it suck miracles also cannot direct their powers towards their own will, only the will of others. ofc they are still monsters and exact a price for their services, whatever it may be.

a meeting with a miracle does not come cheap or without consequence, bc although miracles can be performed, karma always rebalances itself in the end. monks tasked with guarding and curating the miracles are called gatekeepers and are often someone close to one of the souls trapped in the vortex anyway i think thats the basics of everything in there... i got an au w cyrus as a prince and alex as his knight and instead of sticking around for their inevitable deaths the pair run off into the countryside far far away

actually i think something went wrong in the ceremony. cyrus and alex win godkingship of then... something goes wrong. probably the whole die-to-ascend thing is a secret kept from the princen and the public and. alex does a thing a knight should not do a refuses to let the ceremony continue. and im p sure as soon as cyrus learns of the truth hes like haha well fuck that

then they spend the rest of their days actually experiencing what life is like outside of a freakish cult and my fucking feels

i think.. meanwhile the monastic order grows in influence and power making them the enemy of the church... and jonah (yonah in this au) sacrifices himself to the miracle containing his brother in order to give the miracle a corporal form. which means august and company now have a physical conduit for all that power they had.

bad news for the church! bc august was unrightfully killed bc of a prophecy saying that hed become a huge threat and a killer

funny how prophecies work!

so now hes out for blood and he probably uses his own charisma and power to stage a coup against the church and basically the country goes to hell and i think at this point cyrus thinks. i got out of there alive. i need to do something about this. so he and alex probably join in and become arbiters of the game esp since cyrus and alex were probably the best synced, most skilled prince/knight duo the church had seen up to that date so theyre very powerful. ofc theyre still only two people so i really wonder how theyll step in btwn these two opposing parties

augusts side isnt good either bc august... is only out for revenge and self interest. he has no interest in fixing the country or helping anyone in fact once august is firmly seated on the throne of power he probably declares himself god-king anyway the end game probably looks like augusts body (which is jonahs body) being destroyed and the miracle contained in it finally put to rest jonahs soul must have something to do with the exorcism process- theyve tried to exorcise miracles before and only ended up upsetting it into violent outbursts anyway thats enough rambling from me time to paste this all into a blog post

god what if august picked keith to be his knight. thats messed up. keiths so easy to manipulate and hed be such a wildcard of a knight. he has more magic potential than alex and hes faster on his feet. im imagining bloodlust frenzy almost hyena-like behavior. also i mostly just want to see keith being violent and evil and i have an outfit in mind that would look great with a little splash of red

think like minimalistic ouji but like all black and keith with knives and serving a clearly twisted (even more than usual bc of the miracle’s influence) august

god even better the aftermath of augusts death TIME FOR THE FUCKING FEELS TO KICK IN BC now Keith has no purpose/he FAILED to protect his king WHICH WAS HIS ONLY PURPOSE IN LIFE then alex coming in with cy and just no, you have inherent worth. what happened wasn't right im upset this is how alex and keith become family in this au

miracles i think in this case are definitely more of a means to an end i think narratively ie jonahs brother being killed and augusts soul being trapped within it- tho i think its a good tie-in into how the severe paranoid cultish way the society works ends up producing a lot of People Dying In Extreme Anguish

almost a buildup of sickness so to say.. a plague of the soul that's a cool avenue to go down tbh the idea that miracles are more like viruses spreading misfortune in the long run for some quick gain in this life but bc karma always collects her debts if i throw in some nice reincarnation that would effectively damn someone in their next life... that implies that this story may need to expand across different generations

mechanics being so much bullshit has happened in this country it houses multiple miracles whereas elsewhere its like one, or none, very few in their histories except possibly during wartime and famine

since magic is Exists in this it makes sense that the emotional energy combined w ambient energy would manifest in some kind of grotesque Being

oh no thats maybe why the church is manipulating things by purposely generating that emotional trauma in its society its producing unprecedented amounts of energy they can utilize as magic power oh  no thats super bad august would definitely take advantage of that bc hed definitely figure the truth out once hes back to being alive

im upset bc i think they use princens and knights to specifically create emotional energy

energy released upon death which typically happens after a knight/prince duo has been chosen... then the resulting STRONG ass char plague on their bodies are collected to make artifacts? yes

gems created from the ashen plague are embedded into a huge mandala that actually ... is the god-king itself

[micronecro]

character ask - uraraka ochako

Why I like them: she’s so determined, and not in that Plucky Waif way, her determination is raw and fierce and it really feels like all her cheerful energy is synthesized into Kill. She has such a direct way of thinking that really lends well to both comedy and combat.

Why I don’t: She’s never really given much depth beyond where she puts her energy. Not a lot of characters do but she’s supposed to be a main character and while todoroki got a lot of little quirks and groundwork after his personal character arc, ochako literally doesn’t get one at all, leaving her not only underdeveloped but also underfocused and less important to the plot than kirishima. 

Favorite episode (scene if movie): Her unleashing hell against Bakugou...icon

Favorite season/movie: sports festival arc...its where she has the most autonomy out of the entire series

Favorite line: she...doesnt say a lot of iconic stuff

Favorite outfit: her winter coat and scarf from her introduction is sooo cute

OTP: tsuchako & ochamomo....Good

Brotp: her and bakugou as hatemates and her and iida as normal, emotionally stable friends who support each other

Headcanon: she’s reached the same level as Tsuyu in terms of Perfect All-Rounder development, but on the other hand, she’s trying to specialize in skills she won’t need in her line of work, leaving her torn

Unpopular opinion: It’s not popular amongst people I follow but Ochako’s crush is mostly inoffensive as it exists currently and I don’t care if she likes Izuku. On the flipside it implies more negative things about her character than positive (in a good way, but I doubt Horikoshi would capitalize on that lol) so it’s not exactly cute

A wish: Horikoshi sort of left her dangling after her comphet crush was used to introduce Toga and while i think that was actually handled pretty well and it was good writing, I’m praying Ochako gets an actual dedicated arc. I don’t actually mind if she’s been shafted for other story beats - Assassination Classroom’s Kayano didn’t get her own arc until the last third of the entire series, and even if she wasn’t built into Koro-sensei’s backstory, the satisfaction of her introducing a major conflict was super satisfying in isolation - so I wish Ochako gets one of these moments at some point, and it’s not based on how much she loves Izuku. Without Toga it’s a useless value, and with Toga it’s just retreading stale territory. Idol Worship of Izuku because he doesn’t spend a lot of time around her anymore and she’s given a greater opportunity to falsely build him up is such a better character beat

An oh-god-please-dont-ever-happen: Ochako gets together with Izuku without any opportunity to see them date or show more than superficial attraction to each other. Comphet Epilogue is worst case scenario

5 words to best describe them: Heroism Is Uhhhhhh, Like Izuku?

My nickname for them:

[littlebabycrybtch]

bro..... im sooo tired of ppl being whiny freaks about ppl liking fictional shit ‘~too much~’. like bitches are literally fully convinced if you prefer acting out certain ideas in fiction but not irl, thats not your normal preferential boundaries but rather your brain is a mental illness BOMB and you need to be fucking hospitalized for being imaginative and having autonomy. like yall if its not taboo or smth shut uuuuhp man you’re not ‘concerned for their health’ or w/e you’re fully just tryna get away with being a nihilistic asshole who lacks sympathetic reasoning skills. listen to me. fiction is valuable. the thoughts we have on it are important. the personal lack of value you happen to put on a media is next to worthless. its not a fuckin waste of time dude, creators are people, who live in the real world, they experience it and have ideas through it and about it, they form and tweak their ideas while still definitely existing in the real world, and then put that back into the world with a new angle and new perspective, to share with other people definitely encountering it in , you guessed it , the real world. thats not disconnected. its not nothing. these things do not magically appear from fairytale land, they are created. stories mean smth, people tell them for a reason, its ok to feel smth for any story, why would we even tell them if not with the intention to impact others emotionally somehow i mean??? fiction does not Just affect reality, it is valuable to real life society, it is a functioning thriving part OF reality. 

humans have told stories since the dawn of our existence. it is literally all but an inherent species trait for us to imagine things, its tied to each and every one of us, and to reject ‘fantasy’ as smth worthless to human life is frankly just fuckin wrong and weird of you. bitch we are Supposed to get outside the box, the fandom ppl you cringe your pants over arent thinking abt fake shit too much, you guys very often just arent exercising abstract thought and imagination enough, which actually hurts your ability to engage with it critically in all the ways its meant to be. if you dont see the value in fiction its because you put in no effort to form the analysis skills. in other words, you idiots dont get the hype bc you’re too stupid to get how you're supposed to compare a book to the real world it came from. ‘uu but cmon not everythings valuable what about [tumblr designated cringe media]-’ 1. ok! somehow you havent come to this conclusion yourself yet but thats not real, whatever ppl get to enjoy is not all abt you, your bias means less than dirt to others outside of hivemind social medias, you can keep it to yourself, ppl shouldnt care about it bc it means nothing outside of ur own space, its literally funny to me that you’re so elitist you want me to cater my interests to you, Your Standard Of Quality Isnt Universal, 2. ranking the values of fiction is the waste of time here, if you compare mlp to pride and prejudice ill dissect your teeth, different emotional impacts from tragic to funny to Just A Vibe are all able to be assessed as ‘valuable to somebody else so leave well enough alone’ if you dont have 2010+ funnyman brainrot disease that makes you incapable of reflecting on anything you can find a way to joke abt first.

i mean seriously like. whenever randos start engaging with medias you ppl dont like or in ways you dont get, the strawmans yall make up to get to be cringe culture vultures abt such benign shit, and almost Always at the expense of neurodivergent people with a deeply rooted undertone of extreme ableism might i add..... its just so selfish. u have a brain ok, you’re manipulative but we both know you dont Actually think ppl automatically default to being a waifu obsessed incel rotting away at their basement computer, stagnating their social skills and straying further and further from reality with each passing day, a poor disturbed wretch that you just HAVE to save from themselves, all bc they say they. prefer fictional porn or w/e to having sex irl. buddy thats not a big deal, theyre normal, just different from you. theyre fine, you’re just uncomfortable. as a functioning adult you’re gonna have to try and recognize that sometimes that feelings gonna be 100% on you, and you cant always just lie abt the validity of it to make ppl feel obligated into agreeing with you. this is gonna be one fragment of their personhood and your self obsessed brain imploding over how unrelatable that is doesnt fucking matter, grow up bitch like. how detached do you have to be to think thats so unstable or morally wrong.... its just a completely inconsequential preferential decision that only affects them and isnt a wrong choice at all cuz nobody has to get their dick wet if they dont wanna for any reason ever and thats gotta be that tbh.... and it kills me cuz they still inherently experience the real world and are capable of thinking abt it critically,,, even tho they... masturbate to drawings or w/e the fuck ppl think is unhealthy ???? like? imagination is just fun we dont need to moderate it anymore than we moderate other fun activities i mean lol ksdjfsd this is the DEFINITION of ‘just vibing’ no one FUCKING cares and it deosnt fucking matter the way you desperately try to make ppl think it does just so u get to be loud abt ur shortcomings as a decent understanding person. 

‘uuuuuu im sorry but thats unhealthy :///’ you sound like a goddamn maniac dude stories are not unhealthy having feelings abt them is not unhealthy thinking some anime bitch that was DRAWN TO BE HOT , IS HOT, is not UNHEALTHY and you clowns arent convincing anybody you ‘care’ abt that concept anyways !! im losign my mind here skdlsdfsd medias are literally DESIGNED TO DO THIS TO PEOPLE... WE’RE SUPPOSED TO FEEL THINGS FOR IT.... IT IS WHAT MAKES THE ART WE’VE TAKEN PART IN FOR CENTURIES, “ART”.... ITS JUST... HAVING IDEAS AND EXPERIENCING IMAGINATION..... whats wildly unhealthy actually is yalls toxic obsession with ‘harsh truth’ and validating your stupid ass cwinge feewings to the point where everything that gives your underdeveloped selfish ass hives has to be a matter of health and morals and whats ‘best’ for everyone. u dont know that shit!!!! ur a petty brat and im not ur mommy ok i wont baby you so u dont feel like the shitty whiny person you are, you need to grow and do better and think outside urself already, dont put the responsibility of making u feel right for judging somebodies benign hobbies on me. i wont bc its wrong and unnecessary. you’re not a savior no ones falling for that lmao you’re just a bitch girl xoxo get over it shit truly does not matter. let them write nsfw self insert fics instead of banging !! 

to make it real do yall really not Get that basic consent kinda doesnt just mean ‘no when im not in the mood at the time’ but it means ‘no if i just dont fuckin feel like having sex ever for literally any reason at all bc i choose what i do’ and pressuring them, even with what your warped brain translates as the best of intentions, is inherently disgusting? especially with the ‘i know how to help you’ attitude like......... ohhh die soonly ew lmao! lay off this nasty shit already please it doesnt matter! stop trying to make it matter!! its not hurting you or them you stupid tumblr phd ass!! and like again yeah some media shits just truly gross but tbr now its like even That kind of shit, the Real social issues caused by Actually problematic media that ppl should discuss Genuinely without ulterior motives, is being used more and more rampantly as just a stepping stone to get to the needless mockery of other harmless things in the media they want an excuse to bag on.......... like a bitch cant just be grown and talk about problems at face value without getting a bully jab in. smhhhhh you all fuckin suck please just stop talking already. so anyways yeah being attracted to fictional characters instead of real people or w/e IS funny, funny how many boyfriends they have when u have none xoxo theyre having fun and you can die sad abt it they get to die 5 times in an angsty fantasy fic and be brought back with mouth to mouth by fuckin kakashi every time and then they go get lunch irl while ur updating tinder bitch ... different fucking strokes ig !

[sharkiethedork]

(For the OC thing) Alice and Tarla

Bless you

Full Name: Alice Regnier (her last name might change cause i dont know how to pronounce it lollllll)Gender and Sexuality: Female, lesbianPronouns: She/herEthnicity/Species: Previously believed to be human but learns she’s FaeBirthplace and Birthdate: Pattersburg (which is somewhere in the Midwest, still dunno where exactly lol) Guilty Pleasures: She loooooves any and all kinds of junk foodPhobias: As a fae, she’s very adverse to things made out iron the sound of bells, and other anti-fairy things but she’s not particularly afraid of them. She is however afraid of her recklessness and her ties to magic hurting her human friends.What They Would Be Famous For: Improving relations between humans and magical/supernatural entitiesWhat They Would Get Arrested For: Killing someone tbh. Although the poorly-worded treaty between the town of Pattersburg and the supernatural creatures living in/near it would mean she wouldn’t really have to face consequences.OC You Ship Them With: Evangeline, they are so much in love aaaOC Most Likely To Murder Them: Not anyone in particular I don’t think? No one i’ve made right now at least.Favorite Movie/Book Genre: Crappy science fiction and horror, the campier the better.Least Favorite Movie/Book Cliche: Unnecessary sex scene in something thats not even a romanceTalents and/or Powers: Flying, superior healing…..ehhh probably more, what do faries doWhy Someone Might Love Them: She’s got seemingly unending energy and optimism. If you’re nice to her, she’ll repay the favor tenfold.Why Someone Might Hate Them: As I said earlier, she’s terribly reckless and prone at getting herself and people with her in really terrible situations;How They Change: She grew up thinking she was human, but when she’s a teenage she learns that she was a changeling and swapped with her mother’s real daughter. Also as she matures she eventually becomes more mellow and aware of how her actions affect others.Why You Love Them: She’s one of the characters I made for some short stories for my creative writing class in high school, and they’ve all stuck with me for a good while. I wasn’t even planning on making her a changeling actually, i just kinda decided it would happen while i was writing the last one that was due the next day lol

Full Name: Tarla….I don’t think I ever gave her a last nameGender and Sexuality: Female, aroacePronouns: She/herEthnicity/Species: HumanBirthplace and Birthdate: Greenwood, on the island of CarilandGuilty Pleasures: She likes to sing when she’s alone but she isnt very good at itPhobias: hhhhhhhhhWhat They Would Be Famous For: Trying to overthrow the two magical “goddesses” that have been ruling Cariland for centuriesWhat They Would Get Arrested For: ^OC You Ship Them With: *points violently at Sexuality section*OC Most Likely To Murder Them: One of those Goddesses probably! or one of their many many loyal subjectsFavorite Movie/Book Genre: uuuuhhhhLeast Favorite Movie/Book Cliche: uuuuuuuuhhhhTalents and/or Powers: She’s a skilled with a sword and archery and on her journey she learns all sorts of magic abilitiesWhy Someone Might Love Them: She is not afraid to stand up for what she believes in, and will do all she can to protect the innocent and the things she loves.Why Someone Might Hate Them: She’s incredibly stubborn. Once she’s made up her mind about something, there’s nearly nothing that can be done to change her mind. How They Change: She goes from blindly following a being that claims to be divine and the ultimate force for good, while hating anyone who works against that being, to looking deeper into what exactly is going on and realizing that not everything is as black and white as she had thought.Why You Love Them: As underdeveloped as it is (I only just named the deuteragonist a few months ago (hes a griffin and i fucking……..i named him Mekle i basically named him after Griffin fuckin McElroy)), her and her story are really important to me. I’ve had it bouncing in my head for going on seven years. If I ever were to get one of my stories out there, I would want it to be hers.

Hey if anyone else is interested ive got some more in the tags of this post if ya wanna hear about em ∠( ᐛ 」∠)＿