#everette taylor

[germesthegenie]

She was so silly for that

Loosely based on this bit from Arc 24.1

[freddie-mercury-rising]

[not-the-coffee-machine4]

[buried-in-autumn-leaves]

I need to make everything about ME so here's what I think every our life / xoxo droplets love interest would add to your altar.

Cove: Seashells. It does not matter who the altar is for. He finds one he thinks is pretty, adds it, then asks if they're going to hate it.

Derek: I was thinking motivational notes. He wants you to be your best self just as much as they do <3

Baxter: CRYSTALS ! Like fitting ones too this loser will look up 'love crystal' on google when dating an Aphrodite devotee and think he's all that giving them rose quartz.

Qiu: Drawings !! Cute little doodles like suns and statues and trees. I can also see them getting into poetry writing.

Tamarack: Sort of like her stuff from the forest in step one, I definitely see her making a REALLY good altar for Demeter, but just natural stuff in general !

Nate: I'm gonna be real I just see him looking over your shoulder at any writings / prayers / letters and correcting your spelling and grammar. (He means well– They're for someone important, after all.)

Everett: Jewlery and other trinkets ! However he is not going to actually admit they're FOR you, he'll pretend they're his that he just doesn't like anymore, wdym you've never seen his pomegranate charm ??? Stfu.

Bae: He's the one I see bringing the food offerings. He thinks he's better at everything so he'll make food for you and act like he just did everyone in the world a favour.

Shiloh: Just... the worst (best) additions. I don't know how to explain exactly but like your Hermes altar now has a rubber chicken on it. No, he doesn't know how it got there, why would he ?

Jeremy: A little bit of a cop out but I think he'd like help clean and cleanse your offerings before they go on. He doesn't really care about the practice in general, but he also doesn't trust you to clean anything properly yourself.

Pran: More drawings but in like a darker way- I see her art fitting more on something for Ares than for someone like Apollo.

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valentines day art（LATE）

i love cringe

[xoxo-jb-brainrot]

Pran and Everett pre-Last Summer™

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

Speak! Speak! – John Everett Millais // my tears ricochet – Taylor Swift

[peaceinthestorm]

John Everett Millais (1829-1896, British) ~ Love, 1862  (watercolor)

[Source: collections.vam.ac.uk]

[ofoceansandtombsanew]

My OL/XOD thoughts spurned by your post is Qiu joining the Jeremy&Pran squad. Moody bitches unite <3 "Fuck the world" mindset havers. They would enable each other into being better in a twisted, roundabout way. Most terrible trio to be around as an outsider but they make it work

Loved your tags adding to the chaos!

Honestly, Step 2 Qiu would be the perfect fit for a friend group with Jeremy and Pran. They all hate the world but are great at tolerating each other. Jeremy was persistent in being Pran's friend, so was Qiu. Now they're all stuck going to the same boarding school, hating everyone else.

Qiu still flirts with being popular, however, since unfortunately their aloofness sadly makes cool in the eyes of a good chunk of the student body. And to Everett who really went from Pran to Qiu, an absolute legend. But Qiu stands by their homies. If you beef with Pran and Jeremy, you're inherently beefing with Qiu. So Everett can't catch a break if Qiu is in the Misanthropic Trio. The Populars cannot get this star of the halls even if they were to beg.

But compared to Pran who can't tolerate Shiloh at all, I think Qiu would be right there with Jeremy in being able to tolerate him but still not considering Shiloh a friend or someone they'd be interested in knowing.

As for Nate, he's Tamarack's childhood friend no matter who develops a romantic interest in her. If it's someone other than himself, he's twice as much of a jerk to them than usual. Tam has no 7 evil exes you have to defeat to date her, she just has her asshole childhood friend you have to get through. And if it's Nate himself crushing on Tam, he has to defeat... himself.

[germesthegenie]

Did some doodles of the Chicago Wards spending their time out of costume! Because they are still my favs despite not only Wildbow but the fanfic writers forsaking me on more content of them! So guess I’m filling the void myself!

Jokes aside, wanted to do some practice on character designs and a bit of background/foreground and decided to take the opportunity to do some more drawings of these guys. Designs and stuff are I think like 75% canon compliant and 25% headcanon / personal intepretation of the characters

[adoribullpavus]

it's funny how each member of the xoxo droplets gang has an "enemy" but it just feels like they forced pran and shiloh to be enemies as it's only mentioned once or twice and just doesn't make as much sense as the rest of them.

also it makes me laugh how everett is basically the most hated one in the group and ends up being everyone's enemy despite jeremy being his TRUE enemy. i genuinely think he complains about shiloh just as much as he does jeremy.

[otomes-and-tears]

Wondering what your thoughts and opinions are on the rest of the jerk squad boys, especially Nate?

Know that asking me this was a mistake because I’m RABID for them. I’m FOAMING at the mouth and shaking just at being asked to ramble about my boys because I am plagued by thoughts of them that I’m absolutely going to unleash upon you now.

This is not going to be coherent at all. I apologise for that.

By the way— since I already talk about Shiloh way too much, he’s not going to have his little section here. If you want to see my rambles about him, please check my masterlist!

I’m probably going to talk about Jeremy separately because…. I actually haven’t finished his route. It’s the only one that’s left.

Since you asked about him first, Nate is one of my favourite boys. I have a special place in my heart for him because he kind of reminds me of my girlfriend, and I do think that his dynamic with JB is one of the most entertaining in the bunch. He’s always snapping back at her and it’s so fucking funny. Every time they’re out together I keep getting this mental image of JB being strapped in a baby leash with Nate trailing behind her like an exhausted parent.

Like Shiloh, he’s also a character that I think about a LOT, particularly about the way he handles (or does not handle) his emotions and his obsessive need to have control over everything around him.

I think it’s really telling that Nate continuously strives for perfection and frequently neglects his own emotional needs when he practically raised himself, admittedly saw the school as his home, and when we know for a fact that he was seen and treated as a mini-adult throughout his life.

Like, you cannot tell me he wasn’t praised endlessly as a child for being independent and self-sufficient and then when he grew older people were constantly exasperated that he was too independent and didn’t know when to ask for help when needed! Nate is probably endlessly confused as to why something that was touted as being such a good trait for a good portion of his life suddenly became a problem.

Anyways, I think it’s kind of tragic how he spent most of his life at that school and I legit teared up when they graduated. It’s also very sweet how despite being a perv and living to make him uncomfortable, JB is surprisingly respectful of his boundaries regarding physical touch and doesn’t push him to kiss or hug her. Yeah, she teases him about missing the perfect moment but she’s happy to let him decide when he’s ready to do all of that!

It’s also nice that she tries to support him, even if she isn’t exactly good at it. SHE’S TRYING HER BEST BC THEY LEGIT LIKE EACH OTHER EVEN IF THEY BOTH HAVE ISSUES!!

Regarding Everett… I didn’t expect to like his route as much as I did, but he has SO MUCH ANGST POTENTIAL.

Like, his whole relationship with Nate? The fact that he’s a momma’s boy?? HE WAS REJECTED BY PRAN In like, the WORST way possible??

It’s just, chef’s kiss. A whole lotta angst wrapped inside a tiny, hipster-shaped package. Pure perfection.

My only issue with his route is that the whole time, I felt like JB was getting in between him and Nate. This is my headcanon, but I feel like after high school, if JB and Everett don’t immediately have an explosive, dramatic breakup there are only two possible routes: either he leaves her for Nate or they add Nate into the mix.

I’m sorry, but no other alternatives compute for me, not after their conversation in the tunnel of love. That shit goes way past just a codependent friendship.

I think I’ve mentioned this once before but Bae is likely my second favorite jerksquad guy. I can’t really explain why his condescension is so funny to me, but it might be because my favorite parts of the game were the group meetings and Bae’s borderline paternalistic attitude towards the other characters (because he’s mAtURE and knows what’s best for them) and his sarcasm made for some really great dialogue and some of the funniest scenes in my opinion.

Just as a side note— I played xoxo blood droplets and Bae’s route made me realize how much potential he has to be a yandere in an au! And now that I’m thinking about this I NEED to write about it. Even if it’s just headcanons or something.

I love him in game. I’d probably throw hands with him three minutes into a conversation if he existed IRL. I sent my girlfriend screenshots of his sons of his scenes while I played and she said that I was a bit like him. It made me reevaluate my life LOL

Okay so, I’m going to be real with you: Pran is my least favorite of the boys. I’ll admit that when I played through his route last year I kept complaining about not having that much fun and not liking him a lot as a character. My view changed as I got to the end of the game:

Pran’s is still my least favorite route but he’s one of the most interesting guys to analyze.

In the end, even if it took me a bit to get into it, I still ended up enjoying it immensely anyway.

I think what made me dislike him at first was that, ironically, I think that Pran as a character works best in group scenes. He’s a contrarian and he’s very quiet most of the time, which makes his very occasional interjections some of the funniest moments in the meetings, but that’s also why I didn’t find his dates as fun LOL

I think that with the other characters I had a better time because how they played off JB during their dates, while with Pran it was funny to see JB trying so hard to engage with him or get a rise out of him just for him to barely react (and it makes the instances where she does manage to catch him off guard very rewarding) on the first few times, but it started to get old for me. There’s only so many times I can hear him say no, and that he doesn’t care before it gets annoying.

For me the highlight of his route was seeing Shiloh have a weird, one-sided beef with him. Shiloh pretends to like everyone but this is where he draws the line apparently 😭

Anyways, you might be wondering why I said he’s one of my favourites to analyse if I didn’t have much fun playing through his route. That’s mostly because of his backstory, which I genuinely find to be fascinating.

He’s basically a textbook example of avoidant attachment, which is due to the severe neglect he suffered as a child. Honestly, I could make a whole post about this alone if anyone is interested.

That coupled with having to adopt a mentality where nothing he ever did or said was ever right, because either his parents or grandparents would get upset, which led to him always being quiet or choosing the contrarian option, and you get a pretty fascinating character to think about. It’s interesting to examine his relationships through this lense: it makes complete sense that Pran has a difficult time engaging with JB and connecting to her emotional needs. The few relationships he has maintained exist out of necessity! And he tries so hard to push her away, in the same way he pushed everyone else away, but she just refuses to leave. Refuses to accept defeat. She’s fully determined to figure him out and make their weirdass relationship work and it’s something I admire JB for. That girl is a TROOPER.

[buried-in-autumn-leaves]

I am forever thinking about the endings where the jerks confess to JB, they got me sitting there like "actually maybe they are not so bad"

JUST EVERETT BEING A LITTLE COWARD WITH HIS ERMMM IDK WHAT YOURE TALKING ABOUT

Nate's comes across as like lowkey protective of her JUST THE IDEA OF LIKE HIM BEING MAD BC IN HIS MIND SOMEONE'S LYING ABOUT HER

Shiloh idk how to feel I'm watching that mf.

BAE'S ENDING SLAYS IM NOT TAKING ANY CRITISISM HES SO FUNNY

Jeremy's.......... HE IS SO WET CAT CODED THANK YPU GBPATCH

Pran's confession makes me so ill I actually can't take it, Jeremy telling her bc he knows it'll make Pran happy at SOME point I'm going to throw up.........

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Some xoxo stuff

[peachiseas]

photodump of gb patch games meme bullshit i made (1/?)

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

Today - March 25th, 1977 - Queen Story!

'Teo Torriatte' bw 'Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy' released in Japan

Taken from album 'A Day At The Races', 1976

- 'Teo Torriatte' (Let us Cling Together)'

Written by Brian May

🔸“Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)”, which features a chorus sung in Japanese. The band offered the song for inclusion on the charity album Songs for Japan, a compilation of recordings by international artists put together to support people affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011.

👉 The song was originally included on the band’s fifth album, A Day at the Races, released in 1976. It was apparently Mercury himself who had the idea of including Japanese lyrics on the track. When the band came back to Japan for another tour, Tōgō says, “Freddie wrote down the lyrics by hand and asked the woman who was working as their interpreter to translate them into Japanese.”

- Tōgō Kaoruko, music critic and journalist Music Life magazine

➡️ Full article↘https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/g00703/let-us-cling-together-queen%E2%80%99s-special-ties-with-japan.html

(Originally published in Japanese on May 31, 2019. Interview and text by Itakura Kimie of Nippon.com.)

- 'Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy'

Written by Freddie Mercury

🔸Freddie Mercury: "It’s called 'Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy', and it’s in my ‘ragtime’ mood that I get a chance to, (laughs) to do on every album and this time, this is something I’ve come up with this time around"

Kenny Everett: "Right, a little frilly number from the pen of Fred."

- Mercury interview

November 1976, Kenny Everett Radio Show

📸 Japanese Sleeves