#ero nerd

[super-vinzo]

Spille di un certo livello.

[polintwitteraus]

Polin Twitter AU: The Wallflower Among the Wildflowers, pt 7/27

In case it's not clear Colin did not post any of the stuff about Penelope lmao, just the sad middle parts.

Thanks for all the love, I so enjoy reading all of your comments <3!

[devastatinglygreen]

hey, uhm, so...anyone else familiar with eros and psyche wonder just how far they're taking this metaphor for them now that cressida named them as such herself?

like, you know. that whole pesky moral of the story being that there is no love without trust and how psyche had to endure a whole lot before eros forgave her and begged for her to be saved by divine intervention?

gonna go fling myself off a cliff now that i remember psyche was usually depicted with butterfly wings as well. bye.

[apuff]

thinking about love in danger days

this is part of my conspiracy theory that that album is aroallo, but i've always gotten the sense that romance and romantic attatchment is much less important to danger days than any other mcr record. with bullets&revenge it's quite obvious as the demolition lovers take up like, everything, and the black parade has a heavy focus on a romantic relationship as well. 

while i do think there are lines in it that are romantically coded, there is a definitive lack of emphasis on it- like it's nowhere in the plot at all. 

i do think danger days represents a very familial type of love though. while other albums visit a sense of "i want you, i need you, i miss you, i hate you,", this is more like…"i love you, i want to protect you, i'm sorry"

i find this especially strongly in s/c/a/r/e/c/r/o/w:

"Nevermind about the shape i'm in, I'll keep you safe tonight"

"love, love, love won't stop this bomb"

"run, run, bunny, run"

and other songs: 

"i'll find you when the sun goes black"

"just save yourself and i'll hold them back tonight"

"how long until we find our way in the dark and out of harm"

relevant things i can't cover with just quotes are planetary go, oft-theorized to be about party poison and kobra kid, as brothers, leaving battery city together; sing, about the killjoys' last message to the girl while saving her; goodnite dr. death, phrased as him saying goodnight to children; and summertime, which i can't discern the meaning of but seems more like a family type of love. 

i think it makes sense that danger days is like this, seeing as it features main characters that take care of a child main character as opposed to main characters that love other main characters of the same age/ability. 

another thing i noticed while re-listening to the more sentimental songs for this essay is that there's just a distinctly different vibe to it. So much of it is focused around wanting to protect people, keep them safe and out of danger (<- ha that's the name of the album) and loved. i think this also makes sense, because the killjoys live a very, well, dangerous life without much security, and they'd want to provide what they lack the most. another semi-related thing i noticed is just how much of an emphasis there is on childhood in this album. i feel like there's a vibe of youth or teen-hood throughout the earlier ones, but this is just VERY strongly about kids. again this makes sense cause not only are the killjoys teenagers (a type of kid!) they also have a proper little kid to watch. 

also, i wonder how much of this stuff was due to gerard becoming a parent. just something to think about 

[edonee]

ho fatto un downgrade mentale pazzesco porcodio a 13 anni leggevo deleuze e guattari per divertimento e adesso passo il tempo a giocare a brawl stars

[dasniichts]

"Tha's why I didn't wanna disturb ya, I mean, y'must'a needed it-." And then she stops, flustering slightly at the question as she turns fully to face him, rather than looking upside down as she had been, tail flicking curiously. It really feels so out of place-. And then there's that grin. "What, do I like that cute in 'em~? If y'think so then maybe..~. Ah- but wait, what d'ya mean y'don't need 'em?"

Oh. No. He said too much.

"I uh... I don't. Not anymore." He coughed sharply into his hand. Well, this was going to be a bit... "I used to be nearsighted, but well... I just... thought they made me look cool so I found a way to make the lenses with a non-reflective anti-glare plastic and just... kept the look?"

Yes, he's prepared to get roasted for this.

[seirei-bh]

Jason Mendal headcanons

I wrote these headcanons for fun, however, keep in mind that there is only a few episodes of MCL NG out by now, so I may be wrong about some ideas due to later revelations. (I've also added some NSFW headcanons under the cut!)

-He loves luxury restaurants, especially Italian food, and everything expensive and exotic that is the specialty of five-star chefs.

-He has a limousine and a driver, but he only uses them on special occasions, since he prefers to drive his own car.

-If he were an animal he'd identify with a panther, a wolf or a shark

-He likes to listen to jazz.

-He made an anonymous Twitter account that he uses to insult Devemenentiel members (later Thomas found it and hacked it to permanently ban it, lol)

-He usually wears cologne, his favorites are “Sauvage” by Dior, and “Eros” by Versace (obviously very expensive and brand name)

-He doesn't feel close to his family. Most of them are unbearable to him, with a few exceptions.

-He tends to think that stable romantic relationships are a waste of time. Most of his romantic relationships in the past didn't last very long, almost all of his former lovers complained that "he was married with his job" or that "he was a self-centered asshole". He never had enough time for them and he got bored of them because they were not intelligent or interesting enough to him (something that changes with newsucrette/Ysaline)

-He likes women with self-confidence, who know what they want and are capable of challenging him.

-His poliosis was a consecuence of his Waardenburg syndrome. That syndrome also causes on him to suffers from partial deafness and has vision problems. However, he hides all this by using a very discreet hearing aid and contact lenses. Almost no one knows this except a few people very close to him, Jason hides these problems from the people at his company and any competitors to avoid look weak.

-He's afraid of one day becoming completely deaf, so he learned to read lips and sign language.

-He doesn't want to have children, partly because he doesn't have time to raise them, but mostly because he fears they could inherit the physical problems he has, like a partial or complete deafness.

-Since he was little he was always very good at maths.

-Jason pretends he was always popular, but he was quite nerdy at school, something that he decided to change later in high school and college, he went from being the nerd boy who other made fun of to being the popular boy who insulted and bullied the others.

-During his childhood and teenage years he used to dye his hair so that other children would not mess with him, but as an adult he learned to leave his natural white streaks with self-confidence and to see them as an attractive and unique feature.

-He likes the beach, the pool and going on a yacht. He hates mountains and nature.

-He likes to go to the theater and museums. He knows a lot about the life and work of artists, but he doesn't know as much about art itself, although he pretends he does.

-He has the philosophy of “the end justifies the means” and also that money does give happiness, or at least it can help buy it.

-As a child he learned to play the piano, but as an adult he has thrown away most of his former hobbies from his little free time, because he no longer has time for any of that.

-He got that tattoo on his arm because he lost a big bet once, but since Jason never talks about his defeats, when someone asks him, he says that he got that tattoo just because he wanted to and without any reason or meaning beyond the aesthetic.

-Devon was one of the few true pals Jason really respected and appreciated in the past, before “something” happened between them and they became enemies. Each of them has a different version about what really happened in mind, so that hostility due to differences in povs became increasingly stronger as the years went by. (Probably in this case it is Jason who is not right, but he is too proud to admit that he was wrong.)

-He felt attracted to newsucrette/Ysaline from the first moment he saw her. At first it was just desire and he wanted to manipulate her, but over time that feeling grew stronger and turned into love. Something that he also tried to ignore and deceive himself, denying it until he realized about the truth. He knew that maybe she would hate him, that maybe he would hurt her, that everything could end very badly, but still he couldn't resist to try it.

NSFW headcanons

-He loves bondage, specially tying your hands with his tie.

-He enjoys giving you orders in bed and see you obeying them, but also he enjoys secretly even more when you're a "bad girl" and refuse to do what he orders.

-Praise kink (both give and receive)

-He absolutely adores when you claw your nails on his back, so he has more excuses to call you “kitten.”

-Also when you grab him by his tie to drag him to the bedroom and passionately tear off his clothes.

-His favorite place is in his house, although it can be in bed, against the wall or on a table.

-Too excited by the idea of f*king you in Goldreamz's office, on his desk table sometime.

-He almost always prefers to be the dominant one, but also loves when you fight for dominance and you get to be the queen in his bed who is able to doms him.

-He loves to tempt you beforehand, whispering sexy and dirty things in your ear, kissing you on the neck and caressing you softly and subtly, until you can't take yourself anymore.

-Hard. Savage. Passionate. Sometimes very fast for all the sexual tension you two can't handle, sometimes unbearably slow on purpose because he wants to hear you beg for more and praise him how good he is and how much you want him.

-You two always end on a bed after an argument. He's turned on by how beautiful you look when you're angry and how you fight back fierly. Sometimes he makes you angry on purpose because how much he enjoys the moment and what comes later.

-He loves when you tell him that you hate him. That turns him on too even more.

-Skilled with his fingers and proud of it *wink*

-Proud of his own body. Yeah, his size too.

-He loves to kiss your neck, caress your legs and grab your thighs and butt.

-He loves looking at you. His gaze is especially intense and challenging when you're riding him, and he likes to hear you gasp as he watches your beautiful face and body.

-Sometimes is a competition between the two to see who shows better skills in bed and how much you both can last (how many hours and poses). He'll give you his best sexy smirk and won't stop f*king you until you beg him, but you would never beg your enemy... right?

Extra! A few nsfw sweet headcanons too:

-If he notices that you feel too uncomfortable and nervous, he makes humorous comments to break the ice and make you laugh.

-Although he likes BDSM, he will always ask you if you feel comfortable or not with it and will stop if you ask him to do so.

-He's not very used to aftercare, but he knows that you need them, so he tries to give it to you. Plus, he likes it when you rest your head on his torso, close to his heart, and he thinks you look gorgeous while you sleep.

[pholla-jm]

Space Nerd

IMAGINE: SPACE NERD~ YUJI X READER GENRE: FLUFF cw: unestablished relationship. gn! reader. use of (y/n). not proof read. ~~~~~~~~~~

The crickets chirped late at night as you walked through the halls of the dorm. It was reaching morning hours, yet you couldn’t fall asleep. So a midnight stroll would surely be the answer to your restlessness. 

One thing that you were not expecting was to bump into Yuji. 

Even though it was unexpected, you still welcomed his presence with open arms. 

“Yuji.” You greet him with a large smile on your face. 

His eyes were wide for a second before he returned your smile, “(y/n), what are you doing up so late?” He asks. You shrug, “I couldn’t really sleep. What about you?” “Same.” 

It was quiet for a couple of seconds before Yuji came up with an idea.

Late nights with Yuji were always the best. They were spontaneous, but you always had the best time of your life. 

Of course, you agree to any notion he told you. So that’s how you found yourself in the chilly outside air, even though the both of you were wrapped in blankets, looking up at the clear night sky. 

It was truly a rare wonder. Somehow the city lights failed to pollute the sky, allowing the both of you to see the stars. 

“Oh, look, it's Andromeda.” You say pointing at the sky. Yuji follows your finger, trying to find this ‘Andromeda’. But all he could see were clusters of stars. 

“The what?” 

“Andromeda, also known as the chained maiden. It’s named for the daughter of Queen Cassiopeia and King Cepheus of Greek mythology. Andromeda has the nickname of the Chained Lady because her parents chained her up and offered her as a sacrifice to appease the sea monster Cetus… so it kinda looks like a woman that’s chained.” You ramble while staring at the constellation. 

It was silent and you realized that you might have rambled a bit too much. You look over to Yuji who was staring at you with such wonder. “I’m sorry. I can get a bit carried away when talking about stars. I really love anything to do with space.” 

Yuji chuckles a bit and shakes his head, “don’t worry about it. I liked it. It’s amazing that you know this. You’re really smart.” You shyly smile at him, thankful that it was a bit too dark for him to see the growing blush. 

“Can you do another one?” He asks and you nod your head. 

You look back into the sky, looking for a constellation to name. Unaware of the cold still nipping at your skin, even though the blanket is wrapped around you, you started to shiver. 

“Are you cold?” Yuji asks, breaking you from your concentration. “Oh, um-” “Here. Come over here.” He says opening up his blanket to show the empty space between his legs. 

You didn’t really want to pass up this opportunity of being really close to him, but you were lying if you said you weren’t nervous. 

Swallowing your nerves, you scooted over until Yuji helped you sit in between his legs. He moved around a little so he could get comfortable. His legs basically caged you in, arms wrapped around you, so that your blanket and his blanket were now over you and him. You could feel the warmth Yuji’s chest was radiating. 

Not only was your body warming up but your face was warming up at close proximity.  

“The next constellation?” Yuji asks and you nod your head. “Right.” 

You look back up at the sky, only now noticing how close Yuji’s face is. His face right next to yours as he rests his chin on your shoulder. You had to admit, it made it really hard to concentrate. 

You spotted one. One that you were quite familiar with since you knew it was Yuji’s zodiac sign. 

“There’s pisces. It’s a zodiac constellation… your zodiac sign. It is associated with a story about the goddess Aphrodite and her son Eros transforming into fish to escape the monster Typhon. It kinda looks like the letter ‘V’...” You say and Yuji laughs. 

“Yeah, when you say it like that, I see it.” 

“It’s easier to remember it that way.” 

“One more?” He asks and you could basically feel the puppy dog eyes accompanied by the pout. 

You couldn’t say no to him. 

“Fine, one more.” 

Your eyes skim across the sky until you find one of the easier ones, “ Right there- Hydra. Also known as the water serpent. It was named after the Lernaean Hydra, the monster from the myth of Heracles’ Twelve Labours. It’s one of the largest constellations. It’s almost like a line that looks like a snake.” 

Yuji tilts his head, trying to see this ‘snake’, but the stars all look the same to him. 

“I don’t see it.” 

You turn your head to face him, “well that’s cause you’re not looking in the right direction.” 

You lift your hand to his face and push his head in the other direction. With another hand, you point along the line. “You see? It’s right there under Corvus and Crater.” 

“Well now it just sounds like you’re making up words.” 

You burst out laughing, “no. No I’m not. I swear.” “Well how am I supposed to find it if I don’t know what Corvus and Crater is?” 

“I guess I have to just teach you about those too.” 

Normally, Yuji would pass on the idea of learning something like that. But when it came to you, he’d learn anything. 

“Yeah, I’d like that.” 

You only now realize that your hand is still on his face. “Oh, I’m sorry.” You say while putting your arms back down into the blankets. 

Yuji smiles at you, finding how you react to getting nervous to be endearing. His heart would beat faster every time and he could only hope that you didn’t feel it on your back. 

“It’s fine. I kinda liked it anyway.” 

He could feel your body shake a little, assuming that you were laughing a bit. 

Yuji let out a sigh of content, his arms wrapping around you a bit tighter. After a while, he could feel your body relax against his and when he looked down he saw that your eyes were closed. 

A soft smile graces his face, as he admires your peaceful complexion. He leans down a bit, his lips placing a gentle kiss on your forehead. One that he was too scared to do if you were conscious. 

“Good night, my little space nerd.”

[aliciavance4228]

Some of my Favourite Vases

1. This one in which Gaea gives Erichthonius to Athena

Not only that this is one of the few depictions of her in which she doesn’t look like she's going to attack you, but she wears her Aegis backwards, probably not to scare little Erichthonius.

2. Clio reading

She's the Muse of History so imagine her spending ten years writing The Iliad, only to start writing The Odyssey right after that. We don't give her enough credit for her work.

3. Helen hatching from the egg

Girl is seconds old and she's already slaying.

4. (Probably) Eros being beaten with a slipper

The favourite weapon of your mother since ancient times.

5. Heracles beating an old man

For some reason Heracles is sometimes depicted chasing after an old man and then beating him. Many people consider that this is Geras. In this case it would be hilarious since Heracles is already wrestling one of his siblings, Thanatos, in some versions of a greek myth.

6. This tiny little dancer

You are the dancing queen

Young and sweet

Very short and greek

7. Athena standing, writing on wax-tablets, her shield leaning against her hips

She looks like the ultimate nerd here.

8. Hades and Persephone working together to tend fields, with Hades adding fertilizer and Persephone plowing the land

You know for a matter of fact that either Persephone or Demeter forced him to do that.

[vaguely-concerned]

Stray Gods Character Design Thoughts

In order we're going Pan, Apollo, Persephone, Eros, Aphrodite and a little bit of Venus! Disclaimer that I have no professional experience in character design at all, so these are only my vibes-based ramblings and observations purely for fun and because my brain simply won't shut up about this game haha. Also I will freely admit Pan probably gets the most attention in this because of who I am as a person and where my heart truly lies at the end of the day lol

PAN

Ok, first of all I have so many questions and they all delight me. This guy is the god of the wild places ("Where else would I be, but among the trees and the wild things?"), he lives in a magical garden on top of an office building... and he’s walking around everywhere in an expensive three piece tailored suit (when Freddie accuses him of being a sleaze in a cheap suit he protests mildly that his suit is anything but cheap haha). The cut of it is really carefully thought out and planned, but the bold colours under the grey coat and (studied I am sure) careless details like the tie also make it fun and playful. Which is pleasingly coherent with the general theme of his character in the writing too and I adore it.  

This is not the point, I know, but I’m wondering how he makes that work just like. Practically now. Has Athena fixed up Olympus with in-house laundry service? And other sentences I did not expect to type out today lol. Ah well he’s wily I’m sure he has his ways. 

I can't heap enough praise on it, this design is SUCH an interesting and elegant marriage of the immediately recognizable satyr features and thus animal symbolism with all its added pagan weight in a post-Christianity setting, and the sort of ‘man of wealth and taste’ imagery of the devil at the crossroads they clearly want to evoke, especially in his first scene. And partially through his mannerism there’s also an added element of like… eccentric but surprisingly competent college professor — just look at the way he carries himself whenever he isn’t putting on the charm or when he’s being guarded and self-contained. That little hands resting on his back pose exudes ‘nerd’ so deeply to me haha. (Incredibly fuckable nerd, to be sure, but still!)

you don't fool me buddy I know what you are. I know all the trouble you went to to get a book.

His body language shifts very quickly between wild playful expressiveness and a sort of nonchalant urbane detachment that borders on coldness sometimes, and it fascinates me. Especially since that more refined unavailable side seems to be something he’s deliberately cultivated, to some extent. When Grace calls him out on how boring it sounds to just let yourself go numb and distant to survive, he doesn’t deny that at all, only saying that at least it’s been quite effective. 

Putting the rest under a cut to save people's dashes! I may, as they say, have gotten a tiny bit carried away.

Physically he’s not very imposing — he’s only a little taller than Grace, and the shortest of all of the love interests, which I find somehow very charming and also plays into him being more of a guile-based character. “Seeing as I am neither big nor truly bad, it behooves me to be wary of those who are both” indeed!

I’m fairly sure he’s the character wearing the most layers. Even his hands are mostly covered by gloves. He partially covers up his eyes with the tinted glasses — interesting, as one of the features that most give his real nature away with their sidewise pupils, and the lenses are tinted purple as the complimentary colour to yellow, so it downplays just how bright they are. All together it’s very much a ‘well, he’s certainly got to be in there somewhere’ sort of vibe at times. (Since he also seems to care about his clothes quite a bit — he complains about scuffing his pants during the climb in the Medusa mission if you go the lockpick route — I have drawn the conclusion that getting him out of all of that must take quite a bit of time, no matter how much practice he’s probably put in over the years of meeting 'delicious people' lol) 

It’s a design that manages to give, at the same time: animal-featured ancient god, deal with the devil, teacher, overtones of con man if you’re inclined to be Freddie-levels of uncharitable lol, eccentric rich weird uncle… there’s a lot going on here and somehow it all works haha. He isn’t wearing any jewelry at all unless you count the glasses, which now that I’m looking at the rest of the character designs in this game is actually fairly rare among them!

His eyes really are incredibly bright when uh naked as it were, though. I like the implication that he is aware of this and actually goes out of his way to downplay it, even when he’d normally be wearing glamour anywhere it would strictly matter for it to show. Between that, the meaningful zoom in on him at the Underworld when Apollo says that all the Idols can be themselves there even if they don’t look human, Pan claiming he’s been distrusted and side-eyed by the others basically since the beginning and seeming kind of frustrated and hurt about it, in his deflecting way, and the implication of a hierarchy among the Idols at least under Athena’s leadership in this stained glass painting (notably all the visibly non-human Idols/hangers on are at the bottom, and Hecate, Asterion and especially Medusa are the characters most affected and confined by the oppressive status quo Athena upholds)...

this one! sing it with me now EVERYBODY LEAVES THIS PLACE ALIVEEE ok we can move on

you know, some possible Subtext and Implications going on here, I’d say. (It is only potential subtext and implication, though, so, you know, take my extrapolations here with a grain of salt!) He certainly doesn’t do himself many favors with the persona he’s built up in regards to being trusted and included either, but his status as a little bit of an outsider does seem to precede that so I feel like it’s more of a response than the main cause. Along the same lines he gets much more testy about the Green route of ‘I Can Teach You’ than he does about you just not choosing him in the Red one, he takes that pretty gracefully. So it is the being deliberately kept on the outside and openly distrusted and dismissed that gets to him. (To be clear I don't think openly distrusting a strange guy showing up in your living room like that is at all unreasonable either haha I just think the nuances of his response are enlightening as to where he's really coming from)

this one isn't even to illustrate anything it's just because I love him so much and think he's pretty I'll be real with you all

Anyway I just keep thinking about how incredibly tender it would be if sometimes, when they’re in private, Grace takes his glasses off to see his eyes better and he lets her. That shakes something deep in my soul apparently. That fucks me up but like in a good way.

APOLLO

- Apollo’s style of dress leaves his navel helpfully exposed for the copious amounts of depressed gazing he habitually subjects it to. (I say this not entirely without affection.) 

a crumpled tissue of a man

In keeping with his incredibly emo mode, there’s very little colour involved and he doesn’t take much care to present anything with care (look at the state of that shirt and tell me if Apollo has picked up an iron in the last forty years), BUT interestingly he’s not entirely open and unadorned, he does wear that network of jewelry across his chest and neck. Which I think is to show that the old Apollo is not entirely gone (“There he is, god of the sun”), even if he has been a sack stuffed with sad for a long time now. I wonder how many of these things are leftover preferences from being only Lucas — presumably the tattoos at least are from before he fished Apollo up from the sea? If I’m reading the vibes right on that, the blue of the tattoos and the gold of the sun… thingy he wears with the jewelry are the main splashes of colour in his design aside from his hair, and they’re both ‘leftovers’ from both his previous lives, surfer bro and solar deity recently fallen on hard times. Physically he would be tall and imposing, parodically built, except that he carries himself with all the confidence and panache of a damp depressed dishrag. 

Also I can’t believe this guy is walking around everywhere in sandals. Apollo makes sad flip-flop sounds wherever he goes, including when he steps up during ‘The Trial’. That’s so amazingly pathetic (affectionate). 

We can see from the photo with him and Calliope that he wasn’t always quite this much of a mess. Once, he did his shirt up a whole maybe four buttons and wore something that wasn’t beige!

Intellectually I acknowledge that it's a design meant to provide fanservice, even though I personally could not consider this guy in a sexual or romantic light if you gave me a thousand years to build up to it. (I've said it before but if he's anything to me, he is the incredibly fail father figure continually letting me down in tiny ways I never had.) Godspeed to the Apollo-enjoyers out there, though, Summerfall gave him those abs and that poor little meow meow energy just for you and it's your right to enjoy that

- Pan and Apollo also bring out some really interesting contrasts both as characters and designs when you hold them up against each other:  

Once you scratch the surface a tiny bit Pan clearly has just as much self-loathing as Apollo (“If Athena had taken me up on my offer, the Idols would have been better off” uh. Okay buddy we’re gonna have to process that one together later what do you say), but where Apollo is completely helplessly open in his misery at all times, you need to unbutton Pan at least three layers until you get a honest or straightforward emotion out of him and I think that’s amazingly carried through into their visual designs. It's Good Visual Storytelling Brent   

PERSEPHONE

- I’m fairly sure the colour of Persephone’s suit is supposed to evoke pomegranate seeds. See and judge for yourself I suppose: 

She also has details on her coat that depict foliage and growing plants, but colour-wise they and the rest of the detailing is in the blue-green that symbolizes the Underworld and so death. Her jewelry is gold, which — and I’m about to do some reaching here, I’ll be big enough to own — could play in with Hades being the god of riches as well as of the dead/the underworld. Probably it’s because it works well with the colour scheme, but I’m going to pretend that it’s because even if she didn’t get the throne she did get that motherfucker’s hoard when she killed him <3 Love that for her. Her jewelry is more rose gold than Apollo’s yellow gold, too. Watch me go for even more of a reach: between the necklace and the watch, those round discs of gold remind me of the coins put on the eyes of the dead but like you know repurposed since she doesn't need them to pay the Ferryman. I never promised I'd be reasonable in this did I.  

The short hair works real well for the butch vibe and looks amazing no notes, but I think it’s also a deliberate way to differentiate herself from her younger self — when speaking of Demeter’s death, she says that moment was also the final death of that young her, ‘that girl with the long hair who loved her gardens’. Clearly the Idols do a lot of reinventing themselves over the ages in more and less conscious ways.

She has a tattoo of what looks to be foliage and a skull across her left chest and arm. I really like that idea of her having the testament to both sides of her — goddess of spring, queen of the underworld — directly on her skin, under two layers of clothes that each represent those aspects. The one on her arm looks like stalks of grain tied together to resemble the bones of the hand/forearm, maybe? which is metal as fuck, needless to say. 

She is TALL and scary and the staging always plays that up, Grace tends to look up at her like O.O. I love how sharp she is too. 

Also she is incredibly hot but you don’t need me to tell you that you all have eyes I assume. 

EROS, APHRODITE and VENUS:

- I love literally everything about Eros’ design except his hair. Not even the concept of the haircut and colours or anything, just the way it’s rendered. It looks like one strange flat cap I can’t quite make understandable in three dimensional space as hair in my head lol. Other than that it’s a banging design though, the delicate see-through material over the leather BDSM harness is genius. Choosing this form of sensuality and attractiveness for him to embody -- one that is so deeply queercoded -- also works super well. The warmth and vulnerability of his body language on top of it is *chef's kiss*. just. please define his hair a bit more and it's perfect haha.

- I'm not sure I have that much to say about Aphrodite’s design except that of course she is beauty she is grace etc., it takes a lot of thought to make such a simple design shine and by god did they do it she’s so stunning. Also interesting how her dark blues and greens with cool/silvery details contrast with Venus’ warm reds and pinks and… brass? Idk I don’t really understand jewelry haha. All warmth and soft romanticism, anyway, it looks nice. (Side note but I love Venus’ rose tattoo.) Eros and Venus have much more matching colour schemes and they both bring those islands of warmth standing around Aphrodite in her shimmering ocean coolness. (Which of course is something she has to deliberately put on before going into public these days, and is unselfconsciously glamorous in the way of an old timey Hollywood starlet, as the blue route of 'The Ritual' lampshades)

:') *whisper* everybody...

Venus is wearing pearls, which is pleasing considering her connection to Aphrodite (and the backgrounds of the 'Lost in a Moment' variant of 'The Ritual')! and both of her and Aphrodite's outfits go for a shoulderless look to great effect.

ETA: When the camera is close on Aphrodite you can actually see that she has dark circles under her eyes, only partially covered by the makeup :'( I didn't notice that before I played through 'The Ritual' on a bigger screen today

All in all I just want to acknowledge what a fantastic job the character designers at Summerfall Studios have done! There are some really fresh new takes on these mythological figures here, and it makes so much sense within the world the game presents without resorting to well-worn and tired iconography, I really do admire it greatly.

[winxwannabe]

I’m frothing at the mouth for as much info from the Winx encyclopedia thing as you’re willing to post thank you for your service

Good news! There are a series of pages regarding the girl’s childhoods that are ripe with✨family dynamics✨ and L O R E. I forgot to take photos of the pages before leaving for a weekend trip, but I can tell you what I’ve learned and post the images on Monday!

Before the good stuff let’s get the boring out of the way: there’s no new info on Bloom’s childhood since it was covered so extensively in Season 1. Expected, but I will tell you my favorite part: Bloom says no matter what Mike and Vanessa are her parents. You love to see it.

Flora has a distant relationship with her dad compared to her mom and Miele. He’s a landscape architect for ‘The Senatorial Chamber of Public Greens,’ and wasn’t around much. She was also one of those kids who could make flower jewelry. So jealous.

Stella was raised mostly by the Solarian royal staff instead of Radius or Luna. Big day for the Radius Haters. She always had a thing for brunette boys and either A) got the magic equivalent of Lasik or B) wears contacts. I’m going with B in my own head cannons.

Layla has childhood trauma from being forced to stay inside. Yay? We knew about that but you know what I found that was new: ANNE LORE! Aisha knows where Anne moved - a planet called Eros. There’s no mention of it anywhere else in Winx, so re-write people can go ape with it. (This is apparently on the wiki now but it’s not mentioned in the series so I never looked whoops)

Musa’s pages are just…a right mess of contradictions. Ho-Boe wanted Musa to become a singer like Matlin was, a TOTAL 180 from the series where he’s worried about Musa following in her mother’s footsteps. He’s worried about her going to Alfea to be a fairy? I don’t know I’m missing a key word in the translation or something, but I will report back!

Also, there’s a footnote about her mom’s hologram being stored in a camellia flower, which is important in Chinese and Japanese culture. Not surprising, but makes the whitewashing Fate did funnier.

And lastly, Tecna heavily implies on Zenith it’s common to have memories stored in virtual reality? A true gold mine of potential story content (especially when you did a season about time travel). They give Tecna anxiety to look though - which to be fair is a mood. But it does mention specifically Tecna’s always been a smart kid, even on Zenith, and that she had friends. I don’t know why that made me happy but it did (probably because ‘nerd’ characters are usually portrayed as outcasts, so I appreciate Tecna not going through that).

[devastatinglygreen]

Okay so now do what you think will happen after Colin finds out about Lady Whistledown. 🙏

so i sat on this for a little bit because i didn't really know how to answer it but i was chatting with @gleefullypolin, while totally not talking about polin nonstop, no. talking very normally i assure you.

i'm going to put the rest under the cut because it might have spoilers or speculation that people don't want to see:

alright so we know when colin finds out about LW, right? and we know they have a fight. a big one. obviously.

i think colin has to have a regression of his character. he's only been vulnerable around one person so far this season. penelope. and he loves and adores her and she's going betray (hello eros and psyche!) his trust.

there is no love without trust.

there's something very interesting we noticed while chatting about colin and his bro friends. they've been there each time he makes a choice about penelope.

the first ball, he chooses her over them after they're like, "the featherington girl? why concern yourself with her?" but then he tries to take it somewhere private and she checks him hard and cracked his armor. she was not impressed with that version of him and he knew it.

and he definitely will when he learns she's LW if he wasn't aware before

when he's not near them, he chooses her without thinking about it, he runs out after her at a ball when gossip about them is pretty much being said to their faces. even at the first brothel scene, he tells them he's late but then we see him at the market waiting for penelope. this man is a fake and a liar and we see him, we know what he's about. nerd.

in episode 3, he's with them at the balloon thing and they're messing with him about helping penelope and he's so dumb because he's like "i'm done with all of that. it's good to back" all cocky and lame like he wasn't just eating the same cupcake thing she did and staring at her. i was a dramatic teenage girl who once had a crush on a guy who i only saw at lunch and never knew his name and even i wasn't down that bad. good lord. embarrassing.

not really i love it, i love him so much

but he picks penelope over them again when he runs off to save her from the big mean hot air balloon.

we see them again in episode 4, at the library while he watches penelope through a mirror. because that's definitely not crying, screaming, throwing up behavior. they invite him out. for revelry. regency bro speak for possible syphilis and liver disease, it's fine.

he can't get down with his ladies of choice because he's knee deep in wishing he was balls deep in penelope instead. he stares at a wall. they manage to make us feel bad for a man sitting in a brothel. amazing.

we see them at mondrich's. they're talking about girls they probably didn't actually sleep with. oh sure, totally buy that you had access to a woman for 6 months straight. you bet, my guy, totally believable. colin is unhappy. he's like don't you ever want to have a feeling? they're like, no, i just feel the syphilis. it burns, bridgerton. we need antibiotics.

antibiotics won't be a thing for like another 100 years give or take good luck i guess

but he stays and drinks. he's picked penelope but he can't have penelope at this moment. he's in bed laying there waiting to sleep. or die. idk. he's a bridgerton, they're dramatic.

he sees them one last time in episode 4. they stop him. they're dicks. rude to will on top of it? pls. they invite him out and he says no. he's picked penelope once more but he doesn't say anything but "excuse me" and pushes through. they don't push back. they're like, fine. more chronic liver failure and fake stories for us, bro.

he finds penelope. causes a huge social upset that no one pays attention to because he's too busy ragging on debling for having the audacity to leave penelope for years. which is fair. colin would never.

chases penelope. catches her. not quite balls deep but knuckles deep at minimum, let's be real.

which, i am very sorry for this being this long at this point, is why i think we could see his "friends" again before the end. he's going to go through something world shaking and they're always there when he's making a choice but i think what's important to note is that he always makes the right one, he always picks penelope. i think he's not fully dropped that armor and it's easy to slip back into someone pretending not to care, especially when you're hurting. he's got to reject the man society wants him to be and, essentially, be the man penelope needs him to be. she's his purpose.

eta: colin loves to be penelope's hero. i think he's going to feel that pull over whatever else is going on.

i'm just saying it's a mirror of how penelope needs to reconcile how she's both penelope and lady whistledown. they both need to come to terms with who they want to be moving forward. symbolism or some shit.

or i'm totally wrong and all those words above mean nothing. either way i got to avoid folding laundry. time well spent if you ask me.

[brazilian-whalien52]

So the boop and a conversation with my mutual (@killerandhealerqueen) made me want to bring back an old tumblr tradition! So prepare yourself

QL Blogs

@subtextsays / @thisonelikesaliens / @chitaprrrrrrrr /@petraplatypuspan / @qt-qtoey / @my-rose-tinted-glasses / @iamdarthbader /@telomeke / @sunshinechay / @khathastrophe / @wen-kexing-apologist / @ohtehhh / @negrowhat / @shannankle / @23point5degree / @callipigio / @sparklyeyedhimbo / @respectthepetty /@slayerkitty / @ebdbd / @braceletofteeth/ @absolutebl / @kristsingto / @lurkingshan / @hyperfocusmadness/ @babetanatat / @mikuni14 / @benkaaoi

Danmei

@ahhhnorealnamesallowed / @killerandhealerqueen / @averydedicateduck / @foralleternityidiot / @dual-domination

Nerds

@geometricalien / @kennyomegasweave / @momofmysquad / @hhuta / @rhomaa2 / @invisiblewords-invisibleworlds / @uozlulu / @anaiblack / @gloster / @nenehyuuchiha / @jackpoompkin / @kami-no-ikku / @morganadelacour / @dollopheadsandclotpoles / @hometothecanyonmoon / @lamb200345567 / @eros-avalon / @italianpersonwithashippersheart / @artemis-in-space / @bianxiousandcute / @kattahj / @kuronekonerochan/ @hautegirl07 / @superwholockian93 / @free-to-be-no-one-but-mee

Otaku

@latinokokonoi / @hyperbolicgrinch / @enteisabo / @sundaesonthursdays/ @ashedddaisy

Chilling

@chaotic-aro-incarnate / @mistsinthenight / @loomss / @apeirotilio / @mellstheprincess / @thepancakelady / @desmonds-comic-sans / @gravedangerahead / @peatbogbody/ @diekatimitdemhutohnehut / @of-fishes-and-birdcages / @justheretohangout / @softneomiro / @umbelina-e-helena-na-luz

Now you may ask what does this category mean? Well nothing, most people I follow post about anything. I just thought it would be easier to find blogs with similar tastes this way. I based the categories on the day I open their tumblr and what they are posting. Chilling are for people that I saw a lot of memes over fandom stuff and nerds is for more western fandom (tv shows, books, movies) and also anime. I also know that a lot of danmei fans don't necessarily watch other QL that is why I put them in a different category. The others are more self explanatory but like I said, I love to follow chaotic posters like me so it is worth checking them all. By the way, I am quite forgetful so there is a lot of blogs that did not make here, but if I do another one I may add.

[fandomfics]

We Found the Intimacy Coordinator 

A Tumblr Made Me Do It fic 

Pairing: none

Based on this

Description: Wade is on the hunt for the intimacy coordinator, what he finds is not at all what he expected. 

Masterlist 

A/N: Takes place before the Honda Odyssey fight after they first get the car. Also, I had ridiculous amounts of fun with this. Contains original character named Cupid, not to be confused with Eros. 

⚠️Warnings⚠️

Slavery, language, violence, really shitty smut.

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"Tell me why we're doing this again." 

"Becaaaaause Peanut, the intimacy coordinator will keep Cassandra from finger fucking our brains out. She'll also be so grateful that we rescued her that she'll help me co-write the filthiest smut Tumblr has ever seen!"

The drive to Dracula's Lair is uneventful and far too long for Logan as Wade chatters away about everything and nothing at all. When the van finally comes to a stop outside the ruins of a massive castle Logan breaths a sigh of relief. The castle is perched on the edge of a cliff overlooking a lush forest, dark clouds of an impending storm roil overhead threatening to break any moment, and an eerie silence hangs in the air. The two men exit the vehicle and look up at the towering expanse of the structure in awe, absorbed in the ominous surroundings.

"Okay Van Helsing, what's the plan?" Wade looks to Logan.

"I don't fucking know, what are we even walking into?"

"Dracula's castle obvi. You've totally fought him before!"

"Nope."

"Well at least two of you has!" Wade shouts throwing his hands in the air. 

Logan's brows knit together in confusion before he answers, "eh, let's just take off his head, I'm sure that'll work, right?"

"Cool, good plan. Very well thought out, tons of detail, I'm sure nothing will go wrong at all. I am not being sarcastic whatsoever." 

. . . 

The heavy doors open easily for Logan, the hinges groan under the weight of the timber as they swing inwards, slicing through the silence and echoing through the stone halls. There isn't a living soul to greet them as they step over the threshold. 

"Well this is creepy." Wade whispers, "They could turn this into a haunted attraction and make a killing!

Logan rolls his eyes and immediately acends the staircase ahead, "Stay quiet."

Wade puts on a serious face and salutes Logan as he follows him up the stairs. 

"What do you think Drac is like?" Wade's whisper is harsh and grating on Logan's ears. 

"I said. Be. Quiet."

"Sorry Sir." Logan's head snaps back to wade, giving him a scowl. "Oh, like being called Sir, wolvie? Gonna store that in the ol memory banks for later. I-"

Logan turns as he reaches the top of the stairs growling, "Shut the fuck up before I make you." 

"Is that a promise Peanut?"

The metallic shink of Logan's claws barely rings through the air as he lands an uppercut to Wades jaw, the three blades piercing through the mercenary's head. Wade moans in pleasure causing Logan to retract his claws in disgust before turning away to move further into the castle with an exasperated grunt. 

A long hall lined with portraits and suits of armor stand between the men and another enormous door. The muffled sounds of music and chatter waft through the air and meet their ears, "Sounds like a party!" Wade sprints to the other end without a second thought and slips through the door. 

Logan reluctantly follows, surprise etched on his face when he opens the door to find a near exact replica of Jabba the Hutt's throne room.

"This is every nerds wet dream honey badger. They got Sy, Max, the whole gang is here!" Wade says in aww as Logan comes to a halt next to him. 

"What the fuck is going on here, what is this?" His eyes sweep the dim room, lingering on the tall brooding man that sits on a throne. His hand grasps a chain that leads to a young woman in a metal bikini laying on a fainting couch.

"Are you kidding me? You've never seen Star Wars? Come on." Wade's disappointment is clear, "We are so watching all of them when we get back. Question is do we go chronologically by when they came out or how the story takes place?" Wade trails off as Logan steps into the middle of the room, causing everything to fall silent.

"What brings you to my humble abode?" 

"You call this humble?" Logan looks around with a chuckle. "Seems pretty self indulgent to me, Bub."

The man rolls his eyes, "I am Vlad Dracula, and you are?"

"A huge fan, I can't believe I'm actually meeting you in the flesh! Ugh, I've seen all your movies, TV shows, I don't know how to read but if I could, I would have read the books too, probably. Maybe." Wade practically screams as he runs to Logan's side. "This is Logan, I'm Wade. We are looking for an intimacy coordinator!"

"A what?"

Wade takes a few steps forward, "They're like a simulated sex magician, they ensure the well-being of actors and actresses who participate in sex scenes or other intimate scenes in theater, film and television production. Blind Al was reading me this post on Reddit all about the different methods the use, taking advantage of angles-"

Wade is interrupted when a trap door opens beneath him and he's plunged into a deep dark pit.

"Deadpools," Dracula sighs, "always talk so god damn much!" The platform his throne resides on slides back revealing a large rectangular opening covered by a grate.

"Oh my god. This is the best day of my life," Wade shouts up at the newly opened viewing window into the depths, "I can't believe I'm gonna get to fight a real life-" 

He's interrupted again when a massive hand slams into him, sending him flying face first into the rocky wall before bouncing off and landing on his back. 

Logan looks on as he moves forward with the crowd, almost giddy at the prospect of watching Wade fight the monster below, a smile twitches at the corner of his lips. The crowd around him claps and cheers. This feels right, he thinks. 

The Rancor towers over Wade, he giggles in delight as he jumps to his feet, turning on his heel as he draws his katanas. He slowly side steps in a circle, the beast turning as it sniffs at the air. It lunges forward, allowing Wade to leap onto it's outstretched arm and flip up onto it's head. He drives the katanas into its eyes causing the monster to rear up and fling him off, and he crashes to the floor with a grunt. 

It slowly turns giving him time to stand up before its able to wrap a hand around him and lift him to it's mouth, swallowing him whole. The crowd goes silent for a moment before erupting in a fit of cheers and Logan joins the chaos. 

Maybe he can enjoy the rest of his life in the void like this. No rules, no one looking at him like he's a fuck up.

Suddenly the Rancor roars pulling Logan from his thoughts. It's guts spill from its stomach along with Wade as he yells, "Baby knife!"  The beast falls backwards taking its last breaths and a reverent silence hushes the crowd. 

"I've always wanted to get eaten by something and then cut my way out of its stomach!" He yells as the removes his katanas from its skull.

A door on the far side of the room opens and Wade walks through, trying to wipe the slime from his body, "downside, this is dry clean only."

Before he's able to further comment he sees that the room he has walked into is lined with Deadpools frozen in Carbonite, "it's like a me museum." His eyes widen as he drags his hands along each specimen. 

. . .

"Alright, he defeated your monster, you gonna let him go Bub?" 

"I was thinking of adding him to my collection. Why don't you stick around, have a drink?"

"Think I'll pass. We're kind of on a time crunch here."

Dracula stands from his throne, handing the chain off to a guard before taking his place in front of Logan, "if you want him back, you'll have to battle me."

"Like a dance battle?!" Wades voice raises above the crowd.

"What the fuck?" Dracula looks over the crowd until he spots Wade pushing through to the front, followed by every Deadpool that should have been encased in Carbonite. "How did you get past the guard?"

"My sex appeal," he shakes his hips, "and murder. I murdered him."

A chorus of laughter from the Deadpool variants echoes in the hushed room, Causing Dracula's face to morph into rage, his body lifts from the ground, hair and cape floating above ethereally as he unsheathes his sword and the crowd scatters to the edges of the room, "I'm going to enjoy this."

"Why do bad guys always say that?" Wade looks to Logan who shrugs, "like we get it, you're kink is revenge slash killing me. Fuck. Hey, you know that thing-" Dracula brings his sword down hard towards Wade who manages to move out of the way just in time. "From X-Men #100, with Colossus? The speedball special, we should do that."

"It's the fastball special. Speedball is-fuck, nevermind. Yeah, let's fucking go."

Wade positions himself behind Logan to get a running start, once he reaches his mark Logan lowers his interlaced hands as a makeshift step, the moment Wade's foot makes contact he uses his immense strength to send the mercenary hurtling above the vampire. 

Wade turns in the air and grabs Dracula's cape, swinging down under him and throwing him off balance. He maneuvers through the room trying to to shake a screaming Wade off to no avail. The Deadpools whoop and holler, cheering Wade on, furthering the vampires disdain. 

"You've gotta try this Peanut! Wheeeeeee!" 

Logan shakes his head, placing his hand over his eyes as embarrassment flows through him. 

This is supposed to be the man that's going to help fix his world. What the actual FUCK. 

Wade loses his grip on the cape and crashes to the ground, "I've never riden someone's coattails quite like that before!" 

Dracula lands in the center of the room, charging headfirst at Logan. The sound of metal clashing fills the room, for minutes they dodge and perry each others attack until Logan gets an opening. He Perrys Dracula's sword with one hand while the other swiftly separates his head from his body. 

The body collapses unceremoniously to the floor and the head rolls back, coming to a stop at the feet of the slave woman. "ugh, he was getting boring anyways." She seats herself on the throne. 

"Who the fuck are you?"

"I'm the intimacy coordinator, but you can call me Cupid."

"Ooh, I wanna hear EVERYTHING about you." Wade rolls from where he was still on the ground and lays on his stomach in front of her, hands holding up his head as his feet kick back and forth. With a roll of his eyes Logan grabs him by the scruff of the neck and pulls him to his feet with a dejected sigh. 

"We don't have time for this shit." He snaps at Wade. 

"Fine," Wade rolls his eyes behind the mask. "I can get you back to your world if you'll help us."

"Why would I want to go back? I can manipulate people with my powers free of consequence here! I can have whatever I want, whenever I want! Drac was a fun plaything for a while but-"

"Ooooooooh, it was a sexy thing..." Wade interrupts, eliciting a scowl from her. Her eyes glow slightly and Wade giggles, "Oooh, that tickles! Not gonna work though, I'm already deeply in love with my lil honey badger!" Logan's brows knit in confusion at the admission. 

Her face turns to Logan and he lets out a hearty chuckle, "Not gonna work on me either sweetheart, I hate this fucking idiot." 

Her exasperated groan pierces the air and her fists ball up, she stands, ready to fight, "If I can't turn you against each other, I guess I'll have to take you out myself." She moves forward just as Wade speaks again, "We just really don't want our brains to get fingered by that hot bald bitch again."

"Cassandra?"

"That's the one!"

"Well fuck, why didn't you start with that? I've been trying to get to her for so long! She drives me fucking crazy. I haven't been able to get past her goons by myself. I'm in."

. . . 

"So you can manipulate people's emotions, and you were an actual intimacy coordinator on your earth?" Wade raises a brow.

"Yeah, it was pretty helpful to the job. If the actors weren't feeling it, I just worked my magic and BOOM! Beautiful moment captured. With their consent of course."

"How the hell did you end up here then?" Logan interjects.

"Well a producer crossed me and one thing led to another and I tried to dominate the world with the aid of a tempad I found on a TVA agent I came across when they were hunting my Earth's Deadpool."

Wade gasps, "I made a cameo!"

"And now you just...?" Logan prompts. 

"Wander around, ingratiate myself into different groups and cause chaos. It's like watching reality TV, but I get to control it."

"Wow, that's fucked up. I wish I could do that." Wade says in awe. "Oh, when this is all done, I was wondering in you could help me write some spicy scenes for my fanfic?"

"Sure, I don't see why not."

. . .

"I'm gonna fight you now." Wade says before landing a punch to Logan's nose.

"I'm gonna wait outside while you take care of this lovers quarrel." Cupid states plainly before exiting the vehicle and sitting against one of the surrounding trees. 

In the early morning hours when the men have finally exhausted themselves enough to pass out, she gets behind the wheel and finishes the drive to their destination.

When the men wake up and are introduced to the others Cupid lays on the bed staring at the ceiling as they pep talk and come up with a plan. She adds tidbits here and there to help until it's decided that they'll invade Cassandra's the following day. 

. . . 

The group fights wave after wave of Cassandra's minions until the trio is able to infiltrate the Ant-Man carcass and find themselves in front of her. 

"Cassandra."

"Cupid." Cassandra says with a sly smile, "Last time we spoke you were grovelling at my feet. I quite liked you on your knees like that."

"I'm sure you did," she replies with a wink. "We could do that again...I've missed you so much, Baby. I know I messed up, but I can make it up to you."

"What the shit? I thought you wanted to kill her, not fuck her." Wade blurts out. 

"Can't it be both?" Cassandra and Cupid say in unison. They laugh as they run to one another embracing before their lips meet in a passionate kiss.

"This is too fucking much." Logan scoffs and runs towards Cassandra. She lifts a hand, still mid kiss, sending Logan flailing backwards through the eye socket of the Ant-Man and to the ground below. 

"I can never stay mad at you Honey Bee." Cassandra brushes her nose against Cupid's, "you can make it up to me by getting rid of this Deadpool." She waves in his direction. 

"I can get rid of him and the Wolverine with that little ring from that strange doctor. They'll never come back." Cupid says with a wide smile. 

"Or you could just destroy them."

"Ugh... You know how difficult that is. Especially for someone not nearly as powerful as you." She says running an index finger over Cassandra's lapel with a seductive smile.

"I know darling, but you could put a little effort into this relationship if you want it to work."

"How about a compromise. We send them through the portal and I'll do that thing you've always wanted me to do with the wings and the whip." Cupid says with a wink. 

"Bye boys!" Cassandra hurriedly opens the portal just as Logan returns and flings both men through with the flick of her wrist. 

"Wait, I needed help the fanfic!" Wade yells as the portal closes. "Dammit."

[zoerocksand1]

Shout out to my fellow aros, aces, aroaces, and anyone else on the aspectrum:

here are some aspec book recommendations, from both an aroace and a bookseller haha!

Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao

Loveless by Alice Oseman

Bloom into You by Nakatani Nio

I Want to be a Wall by Honami Shirono

Is Love the Answer? by Uta Isaki

Aces Wild: a Heist by Amanda DeWitt

Common Bonds: a Speculative Aromantic Anthology by Claudie Arseneault (Editor)

Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection by Madeline Dyer (Editor)

How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual by Rebecca Burgess (not pictured)

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen (not pictured)

and-

Gravity Falls Journal 3 by Alex Hirsch, because we all agree that Ford is aspec, right?? I know a lot of us agree on that at least, so yah, he's one of us

(also mini shoutout to the Owl House's Lilith Clawthorne, my beloved aroace nerd witch 🐦‍⬛🦉 )

🏳️‍🌈.🏳️‍🌈.🏳️‍🌈.🏳️‍🌈.🏳️‍🌈.🏳️‍🌈.🏳️‍🌈

also, my aspec OCs:

Eros: panromantic asexual

Mari: demiromantic asexual

William: aroace

Angie: aromatic asexual (but she doesn't use the term aroace)

Now, go forth, and READ, my friends!! :D

[glubby-guppiez]

*Random TMNT 2012 (mainly side characters) hc's bcuz hyperfixation

*(this is the best divider to ever exist btw)

*Warnings: Spoilers for TMNT 2012 ofc, mentions of gender dysphoria and trans related insecurity, transphobia, accidental arson, bullying, manipulation, ptsd, also the tone of the headcanons shift randomly also also typing quirk

*Chris Bradford is trans. )(e did a full transition, he did hormones, voice training, top and bottom surgery, a few different surgeries to make him look/feel more masculine, all the bells and whistles, even went the extra mile to do procedures to hide his surgery scars. )(e's closeted and does about everything in his power to make sure no one even question that he was assigned female at birth because he's scared of his social image of being the great macho man, Chris Bradford, crumbling.

*Leo mainly or solely uses fandom and fanfic socials like Wattpad, AO3, Amino, Tumblr, and maybe Twitter. She mainly interacts with Space )(eroes and Crognard The Barbarian fan posts and shows a special interest in gender swap aus.

*Later on, post show with Muckman's help the mutants are actually able to freely walk around humans without them completely flipping out and starting a mob to witch hunt after them.

*Speaking of walking around humans, Napoleon and the frogs down in Louisiana are considered local urban legend and humans get really excited when they spot the frogs in the woods.

*Dr. Rockwell is a very big coffee enjoyer and used to secretly steal coffee from the nearby shops around the mighty mutanimals hideout and on the rare occasion when someone caught him and called him out he would always use the excuse of the shops being owned by big corporations.

*Don Visioso is a deadbeat father of 5. )(e also has had multiple wives and many divorces.

*Mondo Gecko will call people posers if he's jealous enough of them.

*Ivan Steranko is also trans but has only had hrt and face masculinizing surgery and refuses to get top and bottom surgery.

*Anton Zeck is incredibly smart and performed extremely well in high school and even got free scholarships for how well he did.

*Shinigami is a big video game nerd and will geek out if anyone mentions one of the games she plays.

*The reason Anton hated the mutant name Mikey gave him at first is because it either sounds a lot like or straight up is a nickname old bullies of him gave in order to make fun of him.

*Premutation, Chris acts transphobic towards Xever (despite Xever being cis) out of jealousy and insecurity.

*Baxter Stockman is either a gay aroace trans mspec nonbinary man or a cishet ally. No in-between.

*Mini April cluster!!!:

*April has a deep love for literature and writes poetry in her spare time.

*She almost burned down the culinary class in her school once.

*She's questioning aroace.

*She felt extra empathy for Muckman because he reminded her of Kirby a little bit.

*She likes to hide stickers around the lair whenever has them on her person.

*She thoroughly enjoys having long conversations with each of the individual turtles. (It's her favorite way to spend time with anyone tbh)

*April does eventually take some time to properly learn Japanese and becomes pretty decent at speaking and reading it.

*)(er and Donnie often like to geek out together whenever they find anything new about aliens (both species they haven't seen yet and ones they know well like the kraang).

*End of the mini April cluster!!!

*Kirby O'Neil is a pretty decent cook. That man can make a mean chicken stew.

*Shinigami actually owns multiple cats. 2 ragdoll, 1 sphinx, 1 Persian, and 3 British shorthairs (I could name them all, but I don't wanna). Also, the majority of them are black cats. She feeds strays, too.

*The last headcanon is much to Karai's dismay because she is somewhat allergic. She gets headaches, her skin gets slightly irritated and she gets the sniffles if she's around cats for too long.

*Casey's younger sister wants to be a hair stylist when she grows up, so Jones let's her do his hair every once in a while and he flexes it to every one at the lair like: "Oh? My hair? Yeah, my sister did it for me. Pretty metal, what she did with it, right?"

*Tigerclaw is the only Foot Clan member to not bully Baxter Stockman.

*Someone manipulated and lied to Alopex in order to make her hate and hunt down her brother.

*After season 4, Baxter Stockman leaves New York and takes over Stockman Industries. (If you're unaware of what that is, it's on billboards that the turtles pass throughout the show the most notable appearance being in the ending scene of the final season 4 episode, 'Owari'.)

*Slash deep down still misses The Newtralizer.

*Leatherhead kind of freaks out (apologies for the bad wording) when someone fully wraps their arms around his neck when hugging him because it reminds him of the restraints the Kraang put him in.

*Pigeon Pete learns how to bake so he can make his own bread.

*The turtles get a Wii (or whatever the universes equivalent is).

*Mondo Gecko gets an old Xbox and plays Tony )(awk games, Bully, and Twisted Metal on it.

*Ivan and Anton actually move out to New Jersey post show.

*Alr, that's all for now, toodles!!!