#feel like it’s mostly Mel lmao

[rachadoodz]

Part predictions part wishlist

[magentagalaxies]

i have so much work to do for finals season which is frustrating bc on the one hand i'm very glad all my classes have project-based finals where i get to be creative instead of just doing an exam or a paper. however. i have a bad habit with every project-based final ever of accidentally getting an idea that's way too ambitious and creating more work for myself than i need to do

however this semester even tho i fell into that exact same trap my two most elaborate final projects each involve 1. editing a video essay which contains an interview i did with paul bellini and at least 45 seconds of it are bellini talking about why he thinks i have great potential as a comedian, and 2. editing a ten minute reel of the documentary footage i got on tour with scott. which of course involves rewatching various videos of me and scott being extremely chaotic together. so i stay winning ig

[miadearden]

Arcane Season 2 Act 2 thoughts!

I think there’s something to say about this show’s willingness to kill off kids that every time Isha was on screen in this act I was saying “is it now? Is this where they’re going to kill her? I know this kid is getting offed at some point the only question is when”

That said, I do like the death they chose for her - how it ties back to Powder use of the hextech gems all the way back in 103. Lot of parallels in general between Isha and Power, and it was pretty clear Jinx (and Vi) saw that.

While we’re mentioning Jinx and Vi - holy shit episode 5. Not that we have the last three episodes yet, but ep05 is definitely my favourite of the season so far, if not my favourite of the entire show. Jinx immediately going to Vi when she finds out about Vander, the parallels between their conflict and the conflict between Silco and Vander.

Also the bit of history we get of Silco, Vander and Felicia, Vi and Powder’s mum, being this trio of friends who were all envisioning a better life and wanting it specifically for these two little girls. Just adds that bit of extra tragedy to Felicia’s death, Vander and Silco’s rift, and everything that happened after.

And then we get Vi at the end of the episode trusting Jinx’s conviction that Warwick is Vander and because of that they’re able to reach that bit of consciousness left in him together. Yeah episode 5 had me feeling all the feels.

I don’t have too much to say about the other storylines lmao I’m mostly still thinking about Jinx and Vi but hey I’ll try.

Confirmation that Mel has magic! And somehow it ties to the black rose which is interesting. I liked that the rose was trying to use her brother’s image to get her to figure out her powers (paralleled nicely to the sibling theme with Jinx and Vi too) and that Mel realised that. Not much else happening there, no doubt it’s going to come into play more in the last act with the things that will be happening there.

I think the ball was dropped a bit on Caitlyn in this act? Like we see her push back a bit against Ambessa in the starts of the act, but generally she felt pretty passive up until ep06 when she decided to team back up with Vi. I might have to rewatch these three eps again (and closer to the last three eps) to get a better idea, but yeah generally I think Cait fell a bit flat.

Not much to say on Jayce, as I’m sure we’re going to learn what happened with him at the start of ep07 (and Ekko and Heimerdinger too - THERE WAS NO EKKO THIS ACT I’M SAD) - however it was very funny in our watch party as we were all screaming JAYCE NO YOU’RE GONNA FUCK EVERYTHING UP during his actions in ep06. And well, yeah lmao

All of Viktor’s cult members screaming in unison and bluescreening when Jayce killed him was fucking haunting.

I was getting kinda worried partway through this act that we’re doing to much that we’re not really going to be able to wrap up properly. I’m still a little concerned, however with the way the last episode ended I think we’ve cleared a few things off the board that will make the final act tidier.

Predictions - I think the Piltover v Zaun is going to be put into an uneasy truce at this point, as the main conflict will now be fending off Ambessa and the Noxians. Secondary conflict - whatever Jayce found out about hextech and the arcane. Also now that Jayce is back on the map and in the same area as Ambessa, its possible she’ll finally get her hands on the scientist she wants to make hextech work for her, so that’s how those two plots will converge.

I think for the most part, the Vander subplot will be classed as over now, and probably most of the Viktor subplot too (though I’d say there might be a few more effects on that part). And we’ll get a lot more Mel and Black Rose stuff going on as it relates to Ambessa. I wanna hope we’ll get a lot more Ekko too? (he’s in the opening twice, I wanna believe he’ll have a big part) Though at this stage, apart from him also going on the hextech trip with Jayce and possibly learning what Jayce did, I don’t see where too much more of him will fit in.

As for Jinx and Vi, I wouldn’t be surprised if Isha’s death and Vander’s going beyond the point of being saved might put a rift back between Jinx and Vi. Particularly with Vi reconnecting with Caitlyn and likely wanting to help her against the Noxians too. I wanna hope that won’t be the case, but I don’t really expect this show to be a happy ending type show.

Anyway, yeah! I think that’s all the thoughts I have. Until next time!

[gardenerian]

hey mel! i was thinking about ian and mickey (shocker!) and i wondered, do you think ian was mostly worried about his bipolar disorder when it came to his relationship with mickey? he did think that caleb would have left him once he’d share about his disorder and with trevor even as he started being maniac, not wanting to be on meds etc. he didn’t think of breaking up for his sake. when ian is hiding, coming down from the mania and has a talk with trevor, he doesn’t really think that what happened might have made trevor sad/worried about him etc. ( as trevor didn’t care about him at all but mostly about the attention being shifted lmao ). i thought that if ian really cared about his other relationships he would have had ‘the talk’ about it like he did with mickey in season 5 and season 10, right? but both trevor and caleb seemed not to care and just mind their business whenever ian’s mood ‘shifted’. would it also be something that messed up with his self esteem, having boyfriends that didn’t seem to care, leaving him behind when it got too much or seeing as a bother? i mean. i do think that he has never loved anyone else apart from mickey and when i think of his past relationships and notice these things, i feel like he really just wanted a distraction or forced himself to move on gaslighting himself? what are your thoughts on the matter if you want to share your thoughts of course!

oh hi wow hello. been a minute since i got an ask like this, thank you! let’s see if my brain’s still got it, hmm?

i think…. ultimately, mickey is the only person ian ever saw a longterm future with. even when he was very sick, he saw mickey as his partner. once the diagnosis and its impact came, i think ian stopped seeing a future for a while. and though i do think part of the s5 breakup is for mickey’s sake, i also think it’s just a result of a desperate, clawing teenage grief. ian was always someone who knew himself and knew what he wanted… once that foundation was shaken, he just shut down. 

so much of ian’s relationship with caleb is combative - almost like he’s daring caleb to confirm his fears about himself/his past and leave him. even still, i think it’s less of a fear that caleb himself will leave him, but an overarching fear that everyone and anyone would leave him. he’s still healing and his post-diagnosis confidence is shaky. part of this journey for ian is just figuring out what’s possible. i don’t think ian’s feelings for caleb are particularly strong, i just think the relationship is a catalyst for ian to start moving forward. caleb is a poorly-written character and that whole arc is super disappointing, but ultimately it allows ian to start imagining a future for himself… just one without caleb.

i always thought that ian was a bit more invested in trevor… his feelings didn’t match those for mickey, ofc, but i think he was finding his way a bit more. or at least, he was enjoying who he was with trevor? still, i don’t think he was thinking of trevor in any longterm capacity - the pacing of that relationship was weird. i don’t think caleb or trevor really knew ian, i don’t think ian really let them know him. i think they saw either what they wanted him to be, or what he projected to them. and i don’t think he let himself know them, really, either. i’ve always said that ian was looking to fulfill different needs with caleb and trevor, but it was never partnership. you’re right, i think that made it easy for them to let ian go. ian always worried about what he had to offer... i think mickey is the only one who just wanted ian.

this is all to say that yes, i think mickey was the only person that ian wanted to be part of his future. he’s the only one that ian let himself imagine a future with. for a lot of his s6-s9 story, ian did a lot of rebuilding, but i don’t think it ever truly included love. he made a lot for himself, but it was never fully realized. mickey electrified it all, y’know? so when it comes to his bipolar, and moments when the future feels uncertain, i think it scares ian. if his mental illness makes him feel unreliable or unworthy, of course he’d worry about losing mickey again. this is the only relationship that allowed ian to be his true, entire self - but if you feel like you might lose yourself, what happens then? THANKFULLY mickey is steadfast and devoted and so patient, and ian learned to feel safe in that!!! he will trust himself!!!! and he will trust mickey to help him when he can’t!!! 

how’d i do?

[archangeldyke-all]

There’s so many things you noticed that I didn’t lol. I think that yes, the guy pulling the chain was ekko. He looks different cuz of no paint and new hairstyle but that him I’ve stared at it for hours.

Okay, I think I’ll just do that lol. It’s just that I prefer to talk with ppl person to person instead of like I’m groups with reboots and stuff. And arcane is going to make me sooo anxious? Excited ? Idk it’s gonna make my heart race and I want to rant about it really well knowing someone is reading yk ? I’m an anxious person and so many things happen in fandom that I barely interact when things are intense. I usually just wait for it to chill. But I can try that; watching as it comes out. It will be good cuz I also won’t be able to keep my excitement at bay hahaha.

This might be annoying, but I’m not a huge fan of Caitlyn, so I get what you mean by how she’ll probably be the character to annoy you the most this new season. I don’t hate her; I just really cannot stand her ignorance and naivety. It really irritates me how she really genuinely has not clue if he reality of things; while being overconfident in her opinions lol (like, “it looks like they bury dead ppl in there” when looking at VI’s home; or “what ? You don’t have parents ?”. Very small examples but the others are too long to talk about lol).

I won’t blame her for wanting to kill Jinx though. But if Ambessa really is manipulating her, I’ll never see her as anything more than a victim. An annoying victim lmao. I don’t know how to ignore abusive behavior, so it’ll be Ambessa then cait cuz despite being manipulated she’ll be doing some horrible shot that won’t help anything at all and it’ll be so frustrating to watch cuz that’s just one of the consequences of her naivety. (Also, how did you get the idea that Ambessa would ? I’ve seen ppl saying that too, but like I don’t notice all these small details all the time :(

And Viiii. There was this physical event organized by like RIOT or sth where they showed an exclusive sneak peak of Vi in her street fighter era (these are not the leaks since they’re official but it was a private viewing and no devices were allowed) and a YouTuber (schnee) that watched it talked about the clip and like made his predictions for the season. I’ve been so excited to see her since I saw his video (again, these are not the leaks but a sneak peak where the vibe was a you-had-to-be-there type vibe). I feel so bad for Vi, she doesn’t deserve anything that’s happening to her😪

I’m not a CaitVi shipper, but yeah I think I’d love to see their kiss too; or like, the start of their relationship being more than yearning. I don’t understand their ship fully but I’d like to see how they decide to be together after all this chaos. It would be very interesting cuz both of ‘em are entangled emotionally in a mostly negative way. What with the whole ‘my sister killed your mother and now you wanna kill her’ thing.

And ouuuu, I know Ambessa is hot but I hope she dies😞. She’s too obsessed with war smh. (I just thought of like, doing a character study on that lol. Like, why didn’t she think to actually do sth peaceful and productive? Why was her first thought ‘they’re must be war for peace to rain’ lol.)

Anyway, ppl were saying on the YouTube video that they aren’t showing Victor, Jayce and Mel to keep ppl in suspense or sth.

I really hope they don’t kill sevika off cuz I will actually also not want to watch much. Though I love the characters so I’d have to take a break if they do that. Even if they do, she’ll never be dead to me.

I don’t have any predictions for the season cuz I hate being wrong about them and wi to bathe way things are going, one can never be so sure tbh. I love your prediction though. It makes sense.

yes!!! i think the most fascinating thing about cait's character is her whole personality is trying to get out from under her parent's control, wealth, and influence-- but she's always falling victim to someone else's control, wealth and influence. whether it's by joining the enforcers-- piltover's military, essentially, where the lower levels are constantly controlled by their bosses, who are controlled by the council-- or by teaming up with ambessa!!! the writers are so fucking good at making characters make sense-- of course a naive rich girl would run from one system of corrupt power to another-- she doesn't know that they're all corrupt, she hasn't been hurt by them enough to see through the different facades because she's rich!! (but she will always have a special place in my heart... that scene where cait's out in the rain talking to jayce and she goes 'i suppose i've always been an outcast too' or something?? gets me everytime. tears streaming down my cheeks. that little lonely rich lesbian :( )

HAHAHAHA i agree with you 100% about ambessa, but i think unfortunately, she's the least likely to die this season. she's just too powerful and domineering and influential. but idk!! we'll see, arcane has a good way of killing off important, powerful characters.

i feel really bad for vi :( i wish she just had a few minutes to, like, breathe. she literally gets busted out of prison after 10ish years just to track down her sister, and the only reason she's not thrown back in is because of her relation to cait, which means she's indebted to her forever, but then cait goes and tries to kill her sister and her sister tries to kill cait and she's only been out of jail for like 72 hours!!! she needs a spa day. and some weed. give her a break omg.

i'm not a super big caitvi shipper either (mostly for the reasons said above, their relationship is so rushed and co-dependent) but i feel like i gotta root for lesbians life gives me lasjdflksa;dlfj. and i think it would be refreshing to see a show with writing like arcane's do a lesbian sex scene (or something intimate)-- because i have confidence the writer's wouldn't make it a cheesy lesbian porno hahaha

[ravenkinnie]

i love love love the way you write jinx and the way you talk about her and her relationships!!! not to be annoying bc a lot of ppl in the fandom are like 16/17 but the general interpretation of jinx as little more than a victim of her circumstances and silco’s manipulation who should make up with her sister, be caitvi’s slightly annoying third wheel and ekko’s (or lux? lmao nothing against either ship but yk) quirked up gf is soooo boring (like god forbid a girl contains multitudes and is both a meow meow and an absolute cunt) and your take on her is such a breath of fresh air! not sure if you talked about this in a post already but what are your hopes in general for the new season and ofc for jinx in particular?

❤️❤️❤️ that's my pookie and even tho I'm hoeing across runeterra she will always be the one

no fr fr and listen I do feel like I'm fighting in a kindergarten when I hate because I realise it's cause everyone I'm beefing with is 18 and just likes the same YA archetypes as everyone else at that age but if 10k bitches can post it on ao3 I can hate on it. especially because it erases a supremely well done character that they made out of a lol champion I wouldn't even think twice about when she first released like that's a talent and that's work

and also if people want to complain about female characters in media it feels disingenuous to then remove agency from complicated female characters we do have to make them one dimensional - like one thing you cannot say about jinx is that she's flat - in personality I mean cause well. she is an active dynamic character with insane narrative potential and a lot of layers and being both a victim and a victimiser is an important part of that

my main hopes for season 2 are honestly

*I hope its consistent internally with its own ideology </3 I think s1 at the end starts unraveling a lil because it seems to despair for this both sides ass take but it just wouldn't make any sense with league lore or the show itself. here I mostly fear for ekko gkbknj

*everybody should become a somewhat worse person, like vi provably will because she will become an enforcer, caitlyn seems to also be heading for some corruption arc, obv viktor is there, so I think this will be fulfilled teehee

*I want jinx to have her own arc and I mean an arc where she develops her own goal and motivations outside other characters too and maybe this goal will be to love evil till the day she dies, ill take it!! I just think seeing jinx grow outside that child/flighty troublemaker into a full on villain/terrorist will be fantastic and will also give her actual league lore another layer that hopefullyyyy they can continue to build on (and they will never stop banking on jinx like that's basically leagues mascot)

*mel survives </3 like it would be way too much of a loss of a great character to give her so little storyline of her own, she needs to be in s2

*overall, sorry to be a freak but I'm a tragedy lover and enjoyer and I know they are tied to champion lore somewhat now but I still hope it ends sad or bittersweet for everyone. and when you say tragedy people often think of character death but that's probably the least tragic ending you can give a bitch, the true hollowness in losing everything you once were and could have been is what im talking about!!

*I did say this before but I hope jinx kills imagine dragons in arcane universe. first of all they are touring in israel so they deserve that but also it would be really funny to see them on her list of victims like just whole ass imagine dragons under silco or sth

[penumbramewtwos]

Thank you to all of 169 followers/mutuals!

This has all hit me like an emotional tonne-of-bricks lately, mostly happiness and humble gratitude, as well as some mild confusion; me being someone who's socially awkward. You're all very special to me, as all I wanted to do was share my art progression, no matter how long it took, or how many trial-and-error attempts I took to achieve anything creative. I never would have thought I'd make friends with anyone along the way, that's something I thought was impossible after about 10 years of being off the internet and in my relatively restrictive home-life. Thank you, again, I don't feel as isolated anymore. I'm mostly going to be mention-thanking accounts that have followed me, but there will be some special mentions of accounts that don't follow, but have still been very important people along this journey! [Apologies, when I started this artwork there were 163 of you ^^;]

@ricksoo @mimiblue64 @martysgachaworld @eveeonaartz @mel-the-pirate @xhunterbeatsx Thank you all for mentioning me in the recent Love-Train! To read about how you all view me in positive attributes melts my heart to-no-end. To read the from some of you who commented about how you adore my artworks and even an artstyle of all things; makes me confused with bubbling-happiness! I never thought I had an artstyle, I just try my hardest to draw as best I can. Thank you all for your support and guidance through this journey. Some Ultra-special mentions to my longest known followers/mutuals (and more recent-ish, too): xhunterbeatsx, martysgachaworld, @paradoxiusblack @secret-mewtwo @oogaboogaspookyman @wren-idkfeather ricksoo @blues-sues @kantaroth @altaria-andthe-two @amateurcomics @drazegerzo @noodleartz @droberrymewtwo629 @spammykins @waffledragon10 @psychic-nature I wish I could talk about each of your beautiful attributes down to an individual level, but just know, you are the people/blogs/artists who have made me over the last few months. Your artworks/encouragement have inspired me to keep trying. mel-the-pirate @cinnatwo @a-shy-mimiktwo @ask-water-mewtwo eveeonaartz @greatgoldlion [distortionmewtwo] @umberarin [velvet-and-aspen] @minish-mews-and-twos mimiblue64 @askthemewtwofamily @justice-the-pandisaster @spikyegg @ask-the-royal-absol @medrawsart and dozens more of you. Ty also your active and/or passive encouragement, even if it's just a follow, comment, reblog, or like; it all means so very much to me! Lastly, thanks to xhunterbeatsx (third time, lmao) justiceandthepandisaster (second time), @xxtc-96xx, and @comedydoctor18: For your helpful artistic tips, friendliness, support and encouragement. I look up to all of you (and so many others) as artists and as role models. I may not come online often, or be the quick artist I want to be; but everyone's positivity and support through all of this means so much more than anyone could think possible. I more-or-less consider you my friends, who are all close to my heart. So, here's to all of you: The first friends/acquaintances I've made in over a decade! You've all made this mid-late 20's, intersex-dummy feel so welcome and free.

Apologies for the mass tagging and long winded thank you, I don't know how to thank people like a normal person, my ADHD doesn't allow it (I either don't do enough, or I do too much, like this time around :'>).

[momoemarias]

OK SO. ARCANE ENDED AND I NEED TO RAMBLE. finale spoilers!!

Jayce: Dare I say best written/best arc of the season. Consistent, protagonist energy, won back the crowd since he got so much over-the-top hate in S1 (the hate in S2 turned into a funny profile pic meme so I'd argue he won back the crowd with this as well, fans were having so much fun with that). I don't really have any notes.

Viktor: On a purely superficial level I think I hauve covid. ohhhh my goddd

On a writing level uh ? I guess I'm feeling mixed? Like the lack of autonomy for a large portion of his arc does not feel great. I think I'm mostly satisfied but it's probably the sheer high I'm feeling from the finale saying that. His arc started to come together w/ Jayce's imperfections speech. Probably the most anxiety-inducing, it's so over/we're so back graph.png arc of the season lmao. I'm sure I'll be thinking about it for a long while.

Vi: man. I don't want to say character assassination but I'm a little confused to say the least... it felt like her relationships with Jinx and Caitlyn just fizzled out near the end. I skimmed the leaks and hoped her having sex in Jinx's jail cell was a joke. Vi fans I'm sorry.

Jinx: Speaking of leaks, I was mad about her death but people are saying the ending implies she escaped so I feel better now. However... it lowkey pissed me off that she did that to Vi? Also how did she have TWO episodes basically to herself and it still feels like they speedrun her conclusion, like what made her ultimately fly the airship and join the war (as in we didn't see her reach a conclusion)? If it were any other character these things wouldn't bother me as much, but Jinx is the closest thing to a main character in this show. I think this won't be the last we see of her.

Ekko: I loved ep 7. I think his MVP status is deserved if only because he got a whole ep devoted to figuring out the Z drive.

Caitlyn: So. Jinx got a moment to tell Cait she didn't know she would kill her mom but Cait can't apologize to Vi. I also don't know how to feel about her arc being sooo wrapped up with Noxus. Another mixed bag I guess.

Mel: Similar to Ekko in the very minimal front half/very significant back half way, but I feel like the pacing made her arc feel a little off? My theory for why is I know that Ekko is going to involve time travel bc of the game, I don't know anything about Mel (but surely she'll be next to enter league after Ambessa right?) So I couldn't prepare my expectations properly? But like. that's not at all her fault.

I also really liked that Mel got to defend herself when Jayce called her out in ep 8. Both with her trying to be someone she isn't and not saving everyone/Viktor from the rocket.

Heimerdinger: I loved his song but his sacrifice felt a little unnecessary.

Ambessa: Wasn't fully convinced why she was included in a PnZ-focused show at first, but I think having a neutral party who wanted to benefit from an outside conflict made sense and made the world feel bigger.

[yaccbs]

arcane s2 arc1 random thoughts now that i've had time to ruminate a bit

overall really enjoyed it, though parts did feel rushed. the "dont change/i wont" scene i feel should have happened earlier, because the change came like...15 minutes later lmao. if it had bookended caitlyn's descent into authoritarianism over the 3 eps it would have jived better imo

i am 100% on board for dictator caitlyn - i was expecting her guilt over not killing jinx when she had the chance and that resulting in dead mom + others would drive her into a bad place. i'm mostly nervous though for how they handle her inevitable redemption arc. really hoping they don't gloss over everything or morally white-wash the enforcers/piltover's relationship with zaun in general just because there's now some ~greater threat~

also broooo the domestic violence. i love cait/vi, but goddamn. like i get the parallel with vi hitting powder, but also vi was a kid and she tried to come back like 1 minute later. and making it vi - a woman who spent years being beaten by enforcers, only to trust one enough to finally let someone touch her gently again, just for that same person to hit her - idk, hard to see how they as a couple ever get over that. again hoping the writers handle it well but iiiii honestly don't have a lot of confidence they will

that said vi dropping her gauntlets to make out better was peak butch lesbian cinema

sevika has never done anything wrong in her life

i know viktor eventually becomes some machine dude or whatever. i did not know he was going to become jesus as a middle step. no idea if that's lore accurate or not. don't really care, i'm here for it lmao

im extremely intrigued by whatever psychedelic happenings are going on with ekko/jayce/heimerdigger. not sure why jayce thought touching the goo-spike-orb was a good idea though

what is singed's whole like...objective? does he have one? or is he just a dude doing science and turning dads into werewolves because he can

why didnt mel tell jayce about her golden whatever stuff that presumably saved their lives? is she worried he'll be upset she didn't also save his boyfriend?

the ambessa playing zaun/piltover thing was very obvious but that's okay. she's a bad person and i love her. can't wait to see her fighting people frfr

also would like to know more about this random drunk dude vi made friends with who was also apparently just handed a badge and was the only one with enough brains to realize dictator caitlyn is a bad idea. vander's brother or something? i assume we shall find out next week

[celestial-sapphicss]

Thai BL Favorites List Tag Game

thank you for tagging me mel @justafriend-ql & @dragonsareawesome123 & @solana-ceae !!! i always love a chance to talk about thai (mostly gmmtv) bl skksksksksks

favourite bl:

surprise surprise 0 points for guessing its *drumroll* bad buddy!!!!!! of course it is i don't even have to talk about it more

favourite pairing:

TinnGun - they took me by surprise i love them so much its unreal!!!!!

most underrated actor:

listen! book kasidet is so freaking underrated! like after seeing him play gun in abaab, im a lifelong fan! and also SEA!!!! vice versa & 55:15 my beloved 💘

favourite character:

i will forever and always be biased to pran like no character will ever even come close to an extent that it's unfair to include him in this listing i feel because no one even stands a chance lmao

favourite side character:

tiwson!!!! and literally every mark pakin character skskskks

favourite scene:

it's like suddenly every show ever vanished from my mind but like every time tan acted a little cheekily with dr. bun, it was a good scene lmao ALSO this scene below y'all it was a moment (I'm so sad tul decided to leave full time acting 😓)

favourite line:

lives were changed when pran told off his mom and said:

most anticipated bl and why:

yeah no I don't think any explanation is required for this one

healthiest relationship in a bl:

WinTops from Ingredients the Series! nobody did it better than them!

most toxic relationship in a bl:

there are a LOT. i didn't like how any of the pairings in LITA came about. or the second season mess that is IPYTM. and there are some obvious ones like TharnType.

guilty pleasure series:

my guilty pleasure shows are those which i can play easily without having to open my laptop or mobile aka YouTube/Netflix so (Still) 2gether lmao

bonus! most underrated series:

there are a lot, but i feel like we don't talk about the campy masterpiece that was YYY! like I don't remember a single plot point of the show but it altered my brain chemistry forever. also lay talay my beloved

this was the most difficult list i have made in forever thank you for tagging me mel i had so much fun 😭

tagging: @dribs-and-drabbles @grapejuicegay @i-got-the-feels @casualavocados @mantrisanu @morkofday @jyuubin @bellepark and everyone whose gifs i used here (no pressure 💘)

[gardenerian]

Seeing Debbie appreciation is so good. I never understood the hate she gets, mostly on reddit but reddit hates everyone.

lmao i can't use reddit for tv shows or media bc everyone has the dumbest takes of all time, i have to use it for other interests (mel, you have other interests??? since when????)

but yeah! i think debbie really suffered from dumbass writing at the latter end of her story. like the bones were good? the struggles made sense, the feeling that she was lost, the anger and complexes she was facing... it all makes sense! i understand what they wanted us to see. but wow, the execution was rough. there were moments where i was like WHERE IS DEBBIE??? THAT'S NOT DEBBIE??? like i couldn't see her in there. and i just wanted better for her and everything she's been through.

and lately with all the really lovely discussions about her, i am also reminded that like... she's so YOUNG. that's a little girl making her way and she's had so much that was never resolved for her. she doesn't get a lot of the same grace we often offer to other characters. there were moments in s11 especially where i was genuinely not okay with some of her behavior, but as a whole, my love for debbie (and carl, too, honestly) has really resurfaced these days! and it's been fun!

[loveandlegacy]

hiii, it's me again 👉👈 this time i'd like to send in sevika, ekko, jinx, & ambessa

helloooo!! thank u for a roster of more fun characters! i'm very <3 that you like hearing my opinions 😇 i hope these ones are interesting too!

sevika

How I feel about this character - ALSO ONE OF MY FAVES. the head bitch in charge!! i loved her from the moment i saw her!!! we have to stan.

All the people I ship romantically with this character - long headcanon i guess. i feel like she’s the kind of person who maybe wants it in an ambient sense, but also has had a hard enough life, and lost enough people, that she feels like the idea of ‘romance’ is childish or naive. she was probably a late teenager during the day of ash, and i think she actually did find love in revolutionary circles, and the woman she fell for in those spaces was already sick from a life of hard labor in the fissures. then the day of ash happened, nothing improved for the undercity, and the woman died and sevika? never really got over that one.

My non-romantic OTP for this character - MAN several.

grayson. GRAYSON. is it good? no. sevika hates her. she REALLY hates her. i think grayson is actually a zaunite who ranks among the few people who “got out” when she was pretty young (her family could send her topside for school or something) and she thinks she’s helping her people by acting as this intermediary in the position of the sheriff and sevika is so mad at her about it. class traitor!!! she’s pissed that grayson even shows her face in zaun, and grayson i think mostly weathers this rage because it feels welcome kinda? and honest. piltie ettiquette has never suited her. also the hatesex is amazing.

viktor. listen. sevika to me is gay. like Gay gay. as is viktor. with that said, i think they share enough of a mean disposition and an interest in the sharp edges of things that they could fuck and both like it. or not fuck, honestly. i think intellectually they exist as interesting points on a spectrum. i think sevika would be kind of pissed that viktor turned “traitor” and decided to keep the company of topsiders, but she might feel some kind of way about him once he returns to zaun as the (maybe) machine herald. plus he’s sick from his life in zaun and sevika’s last real romantic attachment (in my head) died from life in the fissures, so there’s Something worth picking at there. also i think she’d just like his personality? he’s kind of snide and mean in an understated way that i think she’d respect and appreciate lmao. and if he goes the way of the lore, he becomes sort of a weird zealous true-believer, which sevika i think also is, and i feel like they match each others' intensity in that way. also another honorable mention for mel/sevika/viktor. speaking of which!

mel! again, maybe not in a sexual way all the time? idk, i mean. i think sevika likes women and also has eyes, so it’s not like she won’t admit mel’s stunning, but i think more what interests me is the antipathy sevika might feel about someone on the council who is also not from piltover. mel comes from a much more combative culture than piltover, and i think once sevika found that out she’d be like ok well where’s the bitch under all that elegance. i know you’re pissed about stuff too. let the claws come out.

vander. i don't think there's anything romantic or sexual there, but i think vander was a revolutionary leader who really inspired sevika when she was younger. she looked up to him and admired him, and then kind of got her idealist heart broken when he became more of a placating pacifist after the day of ash. like for better or worse, sevika sees him as having entirely abandoned the needs of people who will never benefit from 'peace' with piltover. it's like entirely unsurprising to me that she turned on him lol

My unpopular opinion about this character - i don’t know that i have any unpopular opinions about her? i think maybe that it makes sense that she dislikes jinx. not because jinx is actually bad or wrong or anything, but because their personalities are so vastly different, and i can understand why sevika has no real patience for someone like jinx, who tends to operate more erratically.

maybe actually unpopular: i was pissed when vi beat her in their second fight lmao.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon - i really would like to see what happens if she interacts with viktor or viktor’s cult in s2! i know people think she’s on the tier list to die, and i really hope she doesn’t. i think she’s one of the most interesting characters in the story and i’d like to see her story resolve in something other than death.

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ekko

How I feel about this character - THE BEST GUY!! like literally and sincerely. the only one doing any work. everyone else is running around with these personal vendettas and selfish ambitions and deep traumas and ekko who has just as much reason to struggle with those things as anyone else is out in the streets trying to build a safe haven for his people???? HELLOOOOO

All the people I ship romantically with this character - I KNOW THIS IS SO BASIC but i love timebomb ;A;

i love that jinx and ekko are mirrors of each other. they have similar childhoods and then the violence that comes into their lives sends them down completely different paths. they're like a bifurcated, lighting-struck tree, burnt down the middle, growing in parallel away from each other. i like that they're both mired in symbols of time, where jinx is never fully free of her ghosts and ekko's whole Thing is about finding a way to have just a little more time. small enough dashes of the past to change the future. i like that where jinx regresses emotionally, ekko has to grow up way too soon way too fast, and they can only meet in the middle when they are literally trying to kill each other. i like that they would without question be bad for each other canonically, because that makes it sadder. i like that they maybe could have been good for each other if everything had just been a little bit different because that makes it the saddest. i truly love the weird heartbreak and horror inherent in 'you look like someone that i loved once' even if that love was childhood best friends. two people standing on opposite sides of a smoky mirror, watching shadows move around in the glass.

MOST OF ALL i like that jinx doesn't call ekko his name. she calls him the boy savior which like. yeah, she's mocking him, but i don't think any of the other firelights call him that. i have a feeling that's a nickname that came to life as stories about the firelights spread in the undercity. i like that jinx knows him as that - some person in a story - and not ekko. things change, people change, they changed, and this is what they're left with. rumors and stories about each other 😭

but also if you want a happier version, in the modern au that lives only in the imagination space between me and a friend, jinx and ekko are little hellraisers who spend half their time committing crimes of minor ecoterrorism and half their time doxxing the shitty teachers at their shitty school. extremely logged-on gen alphas texting 'kys' to each other to flirt

My non-romantic OTP for this character - wahhhh here we go!

benzo! not in a bad way, i just sincerely spend a lot of time thinking about how benzo came to be ekko's adoptive father and what he taught ekko before he died. i choose to believe that ekko's parents were good friends with benzo, and that they died in the day of ash and benzo took ekko in. i think that benzo DID NOT have the same revolutionary spirit as ekko's parents and actually spent most his time with ekko trying to encourage pursuits other than resistance and revolution. i think he worked really hard to get rare books on physics (specifically) for ekko to study, because he could tell ekko was a really bright kid, and knew his parents would have wanted the world for him. i also think losing multiple parental figures to the enforcers taught ekko the lesson that no one in piltover would ever come to save or help anyone in zaun, the people of the undercity can only depend on each other.

viktor because i know in league lore ekko is supposed to hate viktor and i can easily see that going the same route in arcane, and i like thinking about how they would get there. i also think the two of them are interesting in their relationship to time - viktor is trying to find a kind of permanent futurity and ekko is trying to break the past (or he will be if he invents the zdrive). both of them know that time is limited. both of them are actually kind of haunted by this. i kind of wonder if part of why ekko might hate viktor in arcane is because viktor feels too similar to ekko for comfort. ekko says that it's not enough to help people survive, you have to give them a reason to live - but viktor is all about survival. and more than that, we have reason to believe that his faith in survival will reach people that not even ekko has figured out how to help yet. i do believe ekko WOULD help the people whose bodies have been decimated by shimmer addiction, but he may not know how yet. i think it would kind of terrify and infuriate him that viktor manages to reach those people, but by methods that i think ekko will find entirely distasteful. but also: magic is tempting. ekko himself i think will have to deal with some serious questions about his own ethics if he builds the zdrive. i don't think the zdrive is intrinsically evil or anything and it's probably less corrupt than the hexcore, but i do think that there are questions that come up about how much you can try rearrange the past before you turn out to be like viktor by another means. i want to see them interact! i want to know what happens when ekko, who is the only person who hasn't yet had to confront some darker version of his own morality, sees the full extent of what can happen when you try to outrun time.

My unpopular opinion about this character - i'm not sure if any of my opinions about him are unpopular? i feel like people kind of dismiss him because video game/internet culture is baseline racist, but that seems like an uncontroversial take

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon - i actually really hope he meets mel. i don't think he'll necessarily feel especially positively about her (although who knows. he's 100% fine w heimerdinger and i feel like that makes no sense given everything we know about ekko and about zaun), but i do think seeing them interact would be compelling, weird, and interesting.

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jinx

How I feel about this character - lol i feel like this is such a hot take on tumblr but i mostly feel....completely neutrally about jinx. i think she is a good character but i really hate how she's presented in the show and in the game, so much so that i almost stopped watching the show altogether when she showed up after the time skip. i'm glad i kept going, but there's a lot about her presentation that really irritates me, and i think all the most interesting stuff about her character is mostly recuperated by her fans. with that said, i do think that in the best moments she gets in the show (so like. the end) she is an exceptional character study of someone who has suffered serious multiple traumas and who struggles to direct her own sense of self. i love that she's a curious, inventive person and not purely just a hot crazy girl trope, and i do love that there is depth to her character AS someone who is clearly dealing with a lotttt of mental anguish and turmoil. i hope there's less of the like tee-hee cutesy stuff in season 2, bc i loved the note of absolute grief she ended on in s1

All the people I ship romantically with this character - ekko!!!!

again, i know it's basic. i don't think it would ever pan out in a happy-ending way in the show and i don't want it to. i think from jinx's side, i like it because i like to imagine that she HAS the space to feel strong and complicated feelings about someone she isn't literally related to and who isn't a parental figure in her life. i think a lot of how she's presented in the show, she's profoundly, unhealthily dependent on silco, and i think that suits the trajectory of her story, but i do sometimes wonder if she ever had moments where her loyalty to him wavered or if she ever thought some other life was possible - and i think that at least HEARING about the firelights might inspire that questioning-of-faith in her. not like she thinks the firelights are in the right, but i do think hearing about a gang of orphans running around trying to survive might make her think about how her own life could have gone if things had been bad but in a different way. i think she thinks she's entirely unforgivable in many ways, and can't imagine being accepted by anyone but silco, but i do suspect she wishes ekko could forgive her, the same way i think she wishes vi could still love her.

i love angst and sad shit is what i'm saying

My non-romantic OTP for this character - this is probably going to be the least verbose section of all the characters because i HONESTLY do not think super hard about jinx's inner world and life 😭

with that said, i think the obvious one is vi? like. the familial trauma, the fear of loss, the fear of being loved but loved the wrong way....it's all there. i also just like their relationship because i don't think it's the kind of angst you usually see presented between sisters in western media? i could be way off on that but that's how it feels to me!

vander, actually. OTP is wrong but i actually wonder how jinx perceived or related to vander before he died. we don't really see her interact with him 1-on-1 and i kind of wonder if she even understood what the day of ash was about before he died, or if he just never talked about it.

My unpopular opinion about this character - i said it like 3 seconds ago but i really dislike a lot of how she's presented/characterized in the show. it's better than the game, but it still irritates me that a seriously traumatized young woman who has episodes of what are arguably psychosis is flattened out into "sometimes she giggles around like she's five years old". she doesn't even act that way when she's a literal child. in fact powder is kind of solemn and shy; the tilt-shift into this cackly manic pixie harley quinn type character feels like borderline insulting to the idea of what her character is about

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon - i don't know that i have any clear wishes for her. i am excited to see what she's like in season 2, since the few glimpses we've gotten so far make her seem like a much grimmer character? and i think that'll be neat

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ambessa

How I feel about this character - AND THE WORST MOM AWARD GOES TO MY DEARLY BELOVED DEADBEAT DAD AMBESSA MEDARDA. you say child abuse, she says 'good parenting'. never quit, ambessa.

All the people I ship romantically with this character - literally no one? i don't think she loved her literal husband and i don't think she thinks romance is good for anything except weakening your resolve when it comes to making hard decisions. marriage is something you do to shore up power, and ideally you can tolerate the other person, but romance is certainly not a prerequisite to a marital contract.

but having said all that, i do spend time wondering what her husband was like. i assume he's dead based on how she talks about him in the show, and i think he probably wasn't as directly assertive as she is or they would have killed each other. i mostly imagine a very cold, austere man who was very well-learned and actually a really capable military strategist, but from a less powerful house than the medarda clan. i think her father arranged the marriage to shore up land holdings in the medarda name and ambessa and her husband did their duty of basically having an heir and a spare and nothing else 💀

not an especially loving home life, is what i'm saying. i'm not entirely sure how he died, but i think he did pass away when mel was like 8 or so - not the first and not the last of many tragedies in her life 😭 probably also compounded by how actively not ambessa herself seemed to be about the whole thing.

also i wouldn't put it past ambessa to have contrived circumstances to get her husband killed in battle if she really felt like it.

My non-romantic OTP for this character - ok i'm just going to say up front that i think ambessa has had a lot of non-romantic and toxic sexual entanglements in her life because i think she feels about sex the same way she feels about combat and war: it's all about power and there's always a winner and she likes winning regardless of the forum or the medium as it were. so here we go:

swain lmao. i basically agree with you that she fucked him when he was younger as a flex on him, and was later surprised/annoyed that he didn't die when he was supposed to in ionia. and then he coup'd darkwill and man. MAN. she hates him. for outmaneuvering the black rose. i don't even think she feels especially fond of darkwill or of the black rose, but she doesn't like being outdone and swain outdoes basically all the other patrician houses with his takeover of the entire empire. i think she hates him also because he embodies a "better" noxian ideal than her. he puts the empire before everything, and proved that through patricide. ambessa would never (maybe could never) put noxus before her family and it makes her furious that swain does this thing she can't do. that she has this weakness where he quite literally has none (that she can see. i think he has his weaknesses but they're all way. weirder. than filial piety or something). and then he has kino killed, to add insult to injury. ambessa would probably let all of noxus burn to put an end to the grand general for that.

jayce, and i would like to preface this by saying NOT in an "i'm sexually competing with my daughter for the same object of affection" way. i mean it mostly in a menacing way? i think ambessa doesn't think very highly of jayce like. at all. and i believe in my heart of hearts that she fucking hates that mel fell in love with him and sees it somewhat as her solemn duty to manipulate him into behaving in a way that best serves the medarda family interests. i don't mean to say that she succeeds all the time. i just think that she sees him mostly as an annoying player who's in over his head in a big, violent world. as a result, i think all their interactions are pretty terse and slightly-to-very antagonistic on mostly ambessa's end, though i can see a more grim/exhausted version of jayce who antagonizes back, especially in s2. obviously also part of why ambessa hates the idea of mel being "in love" with this guy is because she thinks mel is making herself (and the medarda family by extension) more vulnerable. my friend and i hold to the belief that there's at least one universe here ambessa threatens to mel's face to have jayce killed if he does something she really doesn't like, but i also think that could feasibly happen in canon 😭 it's just that the circumstances in the actual show never led us there. once in a while i think she does have to admit that jayce is actually smart, even if he's a naive idealist. and in spite of any threats she might make on his life, she does know she needs him around because he's her key to hextech. which of course means she wants to get at least two warmasons to learn how to manufacture and use it, so that she can dispose of him if she ever feels she needs to.

singed. idk dude. they don't fuck but they do match each other's freak in a really specific, really bad way. i think where ambessa sees a world to be conquered, singed sees a bunch of specimens to be dissected and catalogued and pinned up into little butterfly boxes. SUBJECTS, to both of them. if ambessa's whole thing is power, singed's whole thing is survival. not his really, just like. seeing how much you can cut up or pare away or peel off or burn out and still keep something alive. and where they meet in the middle, only the worst stuff can happen in a very war crimes 4 war crimes way.

mel!!! it's just. so awful??? i mean in the best bad way, but their relationship IS awful. like no matter which way you slice it, ambessa's version of mothering basically amounts to ongoing psychological and emotional abuse. from her perspective, mel is too soft, too sweet, too sensitive - ie not destined for a life of survival in a cruel and gruesome world. so ambessa did her very best to break her of those things at every turn. if you cut up a kid's heart enough, eventually there'll just be scar tissue left, and that's what you want, right? <- ambessa's logic. because of this i think she also in general deeply underestimates mel. like she knows she has a smart daughter, but she thinks she also has a weak daughter who can't stand up to the world and who certainly can't stand up to ambessa herself and who doesn't know what's best for her own life and so on and so forth. it's bad. it's brutal. it's maybe actually the ugliest kind of love that appears in the whole entire story.

My unpopular opinion about this character - i'll be real. i don't even know what the popular opinions are about ambessa. i think it rules that she clearly keeps an entourage of twinky dudes at her beck and call and i have been led to believe that some people think that's """cringe""" so maybe that's an unpopular opinion???

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon - i actually want to see a lot more of how she interacts with jayce in s2!! i think it'll be horrible. i think she will exploit every emotional weapon she can with him. i think that as his idealism slowly starts to ossify and he becomes a harder, crueler person, he'll have less tolerance for her manipulation, but he may actually agree with her worldview more as time goes on, and i want to see what all those interactions are like and i hope they're absolutely miserable especially ESPECIALLY if mel has been cordoned off from power or if she's down in the undercity somewhere (or just too injured i guess??? i like that option the least) so she can't try to intercede between the two of them to deescalate anything

[ruiineedsfood]

Ruii's twts OC dump (will be updated)

So in order from top left

Yona Stone

Note : ignore how badly drawn the wheelchair is because i haven't made an updated rendered version hshsh

She's inspired by medusa in greek mythology, I know she appeared like 5 seconds in the disney movie, but like how can i not put such an iconic character??? also, medusa is quite villainy in the mythos, so i feel like it fits the twst theme yknow.

Nickname : Yona , Yonyon

Grade/class : 2-B

Club : Honestly, idk maybe board game or magift

Birthday : she's giving leo vibes idk what exactly but leo 100%

Homeland : Shaftlands in the big city area

Favorite subjects : Alchemy and Defense magic

Hobby : darts, swimming(used to be)

Talent : Good eye in fashion

Favorite food : seafood

Least favorite : beef

Bellaire Witcher

So her inspiration is basically a mix of the cheshire cat and mad hatter. she's a tortured artist, so not exactly based on a disney character i just find it fun to make a very wild and artistic character. now i don't know if i should keep her clover design maybe I'll change it because i gave her a clover bcs i thought it looked cute lmao.

Ruth Burn

I just wanted a fox oc lmao. I thought omg twst doesn't have foxes, and then fellow popped up, and I'm like, welp. So personality wise, Ruth is a very responsible person, but she has a cheeky side that is kinda like ruggie in a way. Her motivations are more social rather than self-preservation like ruggie. i didn't really base her on any character from disney i just knew i didn't want her to be text book cheeky fox character, wanted her to be more of like a normal teen with bits of fox like slyness in her.

Mielin Schoerin and Mimi Schoerin

They're kinda inspired by the twin cats in lady and the tramp. The first two that i designed, actually.

Mielin (dark hair) is the oldest between the two, and she's the most developed character in the cast because i just fell in love with her LMAO. Mielin's name came from a part of a cell in the nerve system cmiiw, so its main job is to protect, and i was like, hell yeah, that name sounds cool. So she's the more mellow twin takes things more seriously than her sister. She's usually seen to be very uptight and awkward by the other students but that's mostly because she's just quite dense with her surroundings. funfact but i like to imagine she's the girl crush of campus bcs i want to give her so much love shhshsb

Mimi (blondie) is the younger one, and i like to think she's the more energetic of the two, but she is more analytical than mielin. Mimi has this aura of being more laid back of the two, but she has the sense of being all knowing of things. kinda like floyd but not as wacky as floyd.

Naima / Zahra (can't decide but im leaning towards Naima)

Honestly, she's my fav design, but i have no clue on her background yet. I'm leaning towards her being a passionate dancer whose roots are from traditional dances from her culture, or i could go the other route of her being an ex athlete or ex idol. since the story i want to tell through her is to be her own self and come to terms with her choices because, like, what if our choices are just not right for us? Im trying to make her into a character that isn't similar to the existing cast in twst, idk im finding myself making her into a jamil 2.0 and im putting more thought into her to not be like that. the disney movie doesn't really have a character that i want to adopt to be her so im still thinking about it.

Melissa (Mel)

so diasomnia's book is still ongoing, i dont have any fixed plans for her involvement with the existing cast yet. but my plan is to make her a race of beings opposite to faes in a sense, since her magic doesn't come from her but the magic of others around her. so, like sucking the life out of them and repurposing it to be her own type of thing. Malleus finds her abandoned in the forest as a young kid with all the magic in the surrounding area gone. She gets adopted, but lilia refuses because she can be dangerous with her inate powers that can weaken malleus and endanger silver since in my head, they found her after lilia took in silver. so they came to an agreement to take care of mel with the condition she stays away from silver and malleus before learning to control her powers. Now, what makes mel okay with this treatment in her head is because she remembers everything from her birth and how her mother abandoned her and stuff so she feels like its normal and devotes herself to Malleus as a guard as a sense of gratitude for letting a monster like her in. Her arc is realizing that she's not a monster that she was made to believe. Instead, she was a neglected kid who wasn't taught properly. Honestly, i just feel really sad about her, and initially, i want her to explore lilia's character since he's one of my favorites but after concocting this i just want to give mel a hug.

Also, her OB-ing would be cool

[qiankunnies]

bias tag game

tagged by: @lee-minhoe (ty beloved 💜)

rules: you're going to pick 10 of your biases (or as many biases as you have and then fill in the rest of the spots with idols you like) and number them 1-10, then answer the questions below. try not to look at the questions before you make your list!

tagging (ofc only if you want to): @cheolmatez @sunminshine @boobzi @kimsmingyu @janggtoco @choiyeonjuns +anyone else who sees this and wants to do it!! Pls tag me if you do 🫶🏻

questions below the cut

My Bias List (narrowing down to 10 biases was an impossible ask. I'm still very much in my exo brainrot so I have all 3 of my exo biases on this and also moon taeil ily. Also sorry to all the women I bias. I could literally make a list of 10 gg biases and do this a 2nd time):

Baekhyun

Taeil

Jongin

Chanyeol

Minho (shinee)

Dokyeom

Wonwoo

Haechan

Donghun

Kihyun

QUESTIONS

1. Between 7 and 5, who did you bias first?

Minho. Choi Minho is my og bias wrecker. Plus I started stanning shinee in 2010 before seventeen was even a thing. Wonwoo was just a babe in the woods at that point 😂

2. Between 2 and 6, who are you more attached to?

TAEIL v. DOKYEOM?? Well, it should come as no surprise to anyone but the answer is Moon Taeil. I adore that man with my whole being (I hope he's recovering and resting well rn). Lee Seokmin is very important to me too, but he was up against my moon man and stood no chance. Sorry, DK 💔

3. If you were to spend the day with either 3 or 1, who would you choose and what would you do?

I have to pick between Kim Jongin and Byun Baekhyun??? This game is rude 😒 but ofc I'm choosing Baekhyun. Mel had a really cute answer to this that I'm not going to be able to compare to. But I feel like Baek just needs a break. So I'd probably choose to do something chill (I say as tho I wouldn't be a basket case and like I can speak Korean). Maybe go to a coffee place, preferably one with baked goods, near a park or a river and just take our coffee (and pastries) to a nice spot to chill and talk. Maybe get some pizza for lunch. Play some video games (truthfully I'd probably just watch HIM play since I only play single player games due to being shit at them). Idk 🤷‍♀️ I'm bad at this lmao

4. What is your favorite physical feature about 9?

HIS SMILE!! I know he's known for his sad eyes while singing but COME ON!! LOOK AT HIM 🥺 (yes, I'm stealing mel's idea of including a picture, but mostly bc more people should know and love Donghun)

5. What is your favorite part of 6's personality?

Dokyeom is like the literal embodiment of sunshine. He is so bright and happy!! You can tell he loves life and finds joy in little things. His laughter and smile is such a serotonin boost! I know that he feels and thinks about things deeply and can be a little (a lot) hard on himself. But he's got this big, big heart. I just love how full of light he is, yk?

7. Between 1 and 2, whose closet would you raid?

Why do I feel like neither Baekhyun nor Taeil have much that I would want to raid from their closets? 🤔 idk that I pay that close attention to their own personal styles either tbh. I think I'm picking Baek tho. I don't have a great reason other than I know he's always wearing these oversized things. And oversized clothes are cozy 🤷‍♀️ I'm stealing one of that man's hoodies and keeping it for the rest of my life thanks so much

8. What is a style that you want to see 3 try?

I don't feel like I have any notes for Mr. Gucci. Jongin has a much better grasp on fashion than I do. AND he's done pretty much everything and can pull off the craziest things.

9. Between 5 and 4, who are you closer to in height?

Minho, but I'm not actually close to his height either. Chanyeol's just a tol boy™️

10. Between 10 and 9, whose music do you like the best?

Oh man this is such a difficult question. Out of the 2, Kihyun's the only one with solo work. But Donghun's voice is SOOO 👌🏻💯🤧👏🏻👍🏻 I feel similarly about Kihyun's voice tho. If we're saying between a.c.e's music and monsta x's tho...?? I *think* I'm choosing a.c.e's, but kihyun's solos are so good 😭😭 this is such an impossible decision to make 🙃

[starlightkun]

hiiii mel <3 i’m.. thinking of starting to write for nct.. mostly jaemin.. and i more or less have an idea for formatting but it’s been a really long time since i’ve had to do graphics for fic’s (like the banner and stuff!) and i was wondering if you had any tips for that? like where to find good pictures (solid backgrounds seem like the best choice for not clashing with the lettering, a problem i ran into unfortunately…) and also is there any particular place you get your fonts from? if you aren’t comfortable answering that (or any of this!) then that’s totally ok and feel free to just give general advice or ignore this completely :]

now i leave you with renjun… https://www.instagram.com/reel/C117-m9JGuo/?igsh=aXI1YmZ6M2YycHg1

hiii! under the cut!

so you've already got a good idea with using solid backgrounds for fic headers to make it easier for the text to show up! i source pretty much all my images from the groups/idols' official social medias. i just caution you not to take screenshots of say, instagram uploads, because this will degrade the quality of the image. either download it from twitter or wherehaveyou, or from an updates account like neocatharsis or wayvment here on tumblr! another word of caution: DO NOT DOWNLOAD TEASER IMAGES/PHOTOSHOOT IMAGES FROM CONTENT CREATORS WHO MAKE EDITS TO THE IMAGES, SUCH AS CHANGING THE COLORS, UN-WHITEWASHING, ETC., WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION. THAT IS THEFT FROM OTHER FANS. updates accounts like neocatharsis and wayvment simply reupload the original images posted by the entertainment company/idol in the exact same form without making changes to them. editors make alterations to the image and that new image is their own creative work, separate from the original one posted. you need the editor's explicit permission in order to use their edited version as a fic header.

i do all of my editing on my phone for my fics (except for the thin section dividers that i use, which i make in pirated photoshop cs6 so i can get specific dimensions, 540x2 pixels, and make the gradients super quick in a way that i know how to do. there may be a super easy way to do this w an app on ur phone too, that's just how i know how to)

anyway, if i have a photo that i really like, that i just knowwwww matches with the image of the guy in the fic in my head or smth, that i just rlly want to use but has a busier background, sometimes i'll use the portrait editing settings on my phone to blur the background a little bit and that makes the text a lot more legible (i have a samsung but im 99% sure iphones can do this too)

i typically don't bump it past 1 or 2, or the edges of the blur start looking a bit harsh, and i find that i don't really need more than this for the text to pop against the background anyway!

as for putting the text on the photos, i've the used the app phonto for years! it's completely free, doesn't put any watermark on your photos, comes with a bunch of fonts pre-installed, isn't super ad-heavy (it has a rlly small banner ad all the time at the top, and only shows u a skippable 10s ad when u save a finished photo), and you can download fonts from the internet to install straight into the app!

my favorite free font website is dafont.com, i literally will spend hours just browsing on there looking at fonts to download lmao. anyway here's how i find fonts for stuff and download, install, and use them with dafont and phonto:

once you have phonto downloaded, open dafont.com

up at the top, it has a bunch of different categories of fonts. for this example, i chose fancy > groovy, and then on this first page, i liked this font called "lostar" (there's also a search bar up there, but it only searches font names, not kinds of fonts, so if you're looking for a groovy-feeling font and you searched "groovy," only fonts with the word "groovy" in the name would come up)

i then press download, and open in my browser (i use firefox btw, which is why it looks like this lol). make sure you're opening the .zip file with the phonto app (it opens directly into into phonto on my phone, you may have to choose to open the .zip file using the phonto app from several options, instead of your phone's file explorer or some other app on your phone)

in the phonto app, you have to click install, then install again (it gives you the option to rename it, but i just keep the original font name bc why would you rename it?).

that READ THIS.txt file is a message from the font maker, it's the personal use license for the font (most of the fonts on dafont.com are free for personal use ONLY, and these .txt files that are contained in the .zip files are notes from the font makers telling u what u can and can't use the fonts for. generally, as long as ur not a business, u should be good this is not legal advice, please read them. also there's usually little thank you notes from the font makers in here as well!)

click ok.

then you've got to slap some text on an image. you can choose an image from your camera roll, use one of their plain images, or open a pre-saved work-in-progress. for this example i used one of their premade gradients to make it easy

type whatever it is you want, click font. the left tab is the pre-installed fonts, the middle tab is the fonts that you've downloaded from elsewhere. here's the lostar we just got!

oh can't see it.

there we go! how fun! i'll probably use this in a fic header in the future. download button in the top right.

[paigemathews]

Okay, so I finished episode eight (Bug a Boo) and thoughts (actually tracked through the episode this time):

my sister said that Jada gives off Bianca energy and I vibe with it. she also is questioning my sexuality bc I said Jada was hot, which. mostly bc I wanna look like her tbh, one of my ideal style categories is "witch" sooo. But also Jada really is just cool as hell, I like her.

this whole dating app plot would be great for a Cupid girl, tbh. Like there are a couple of plot points or episodes that'd been great for a next gen kid, but I think that one of the Cupid-witches getting a plot with a dating app would be really cute.

Maggie and Parker have been dating for like. five minutes. why the fuck are they talking about spending the summer together?? y'all don't even know if you'll still be together, what the fuck

Hunter sticking up for Parker thoooo. I'll be honest, demon bros relationship is actually really adorable and funny. It's definitely a highlight of the episode.

Why are they two different kinds of demon though?? Hunter is a shapeshifter and Parker is a shadow demon, like. Their dad doesn't seem to be either kind either, how do demonic genetics work

👀 okay but Julia and Macy's relationships possibly paralleling Elise and Phoebe's relationship in the original? Older female boss takes on a slightly more maternal role to the witch who never had her mom?

Their powers are already really fricking strong, idk how they're supposed to advance when it seems so easy for them already

The argument between Charity and Mel about helping in mortal affairs seems very similar to the discussion Paige and Henry had in s8 of the original, but uhhh Mel is dumb (shocker) and fundamentally misunderstands what the Elders and the S'Arcana told her. No one told her to just stand by and do nothing when bad things are happening right in front of her, even using her magic to do it. (I mean, the original sisters never just let bad things happen in front of them bc they didn't want to use their powers.) The difference is that the S'Arcana want to go out of their way to aid in mortal affairs that aren't directly happening in front of them, aka a proactive and direct role, while the Elders want to stick to magical affairs. Mel manages to fundamentally misunderstand both groups, bc she is dumb.

Oh, God, I hate that bug demon, it's fucking horrifying.

Why are all of the Elders dressed in white? (I get the no faces thing, but uhhh, that definitely hits nightmare fuel for me.) It's kinda. on the nose, man, bc at least the og Elders were all wearing the same type of robes so it was more of a uniform. This just feels cultish.

Why does Macy like Galvin? Babe, you can do so much better, this man is boring af.

lmao, Mel got smacked with a board bc she just. wandered in like a dumbass

lmao, Galvin just got fucking hit by a car, I hate this miscommunication trope but it's kinda funny bc of how random it is. (Also shoutout to my original note being that he got hit by a cat.)