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EOA1 ==> Media, Agency and the Suburbs in Act 1 of Homestuck

It is April 13, 1959. Mr. Egbert, Sr. has recently made the move out of the city into a newly built house in the suburbs, because clowning isn't paying so well after the recession. His son John hasn't seen his friend Rose since they moved. Staring out the window at 4:13pm and glimpsing nothing but the neighbor's wall, John goes downstairs to catch the second half of a black and white episode of Truth or Consequences, losing himself for fifteen minutes in their world of pranks, hilarity and emotional family reunions. Hopefully for his birthday, his dad will get him that cool new board game and its all-important hours of distraction.

We pick up the daily newspaper, and flip to the funnies to see John's new antics.

(Essay below the cut - about 5k words.)

==> I: John’s Suburb in Historical Context, or: Johntext

During the 1940s and 1950s, mass expansion of the American suburbs was accompanied by a ‘best of both worlds’ promise. Families who moved there could enjoy easy travel to the city via car for work and leisure, but wouldn’t have to deal with the ‘undesirable’ parts of city life, such as noise, pollution, or people from marginalized groups. Suburbs were characterized by detached, single family houses that guaranteed each family their own bubble of space away from neighbors, but also promised a community of likeminded people with whom to form neighborhood associations and PTA committees. Residents could enjoy independence from city governance and increased control over their own living spaces, but anybody who might push back against current social norms would be quietly excluded. Utopian promises and attractive prices encouraged many Americans to make the move, and many of them have never left.

Here in 2009, it’s not uncommon for people to have lived their entire lives in the suburbs - often in a single house. Promises of progress and innovation within households have remained strictly cosmetic, while the values guarding suburban families and communities have changed very little. Although people of color comprise an increasing percentage of suburban residents, white people are still overrepresented. The same is true of married couples’ overrepresentation compared to other family structures. Suburban architecture remains centralized around the car as the primary means of transportation, and the separation of residential from commercial areas. Opportunities and reasons to leave the house are both minimized.

With the growth of the suburbs came increased criticism of their designs and ideals. Their dream of a spacious home for each family has led to feelings of isolation, while the promised communities have primarily formed around churches and strict Christian ideals. Residents lack trust in their neighbors, and as such, children are no longer left to their own devices outside of the house. The suburban goal of easy car accessibility to cities has ended in highway congestion, air pollution and lack of public transport or pedestrian access. And while the percentage of Americans living in the suburbs continues to increase, not everyone has the luxury of choosing where they live - particularly children and teenagers.

Homestuck’s main character John Egbert doesn't directly express a hatred of the suburbs - he seems more conflicted, showing fondness for the tire swing in a kid's yard (p.27), the fireplace (p.50) and the father smoking a pipe (p.74), while also expressing that he feels stuck in his home (p.30, 253), that he avoids his father's company (p.30), and that he feels something missing from his life (p.82). He doesn't seem aware of the source of his emptiness, just that he's always felt it, and we can only guess the source through incredibly subtle context clues, such as the work's title and the way John longingly gazes towards the outside.

It's certainly possible for someone with an otherwise privileged life to feel alienation in the suburbs, but those who differ from the white nuclear family ideal tend to have these feelings heightened, and may be ostracized by the community or threatened into conformity. Similarly, the gulf between John and his dad, and their separate perceptions of that relationship, could be simply generational, or could suggest bigger, unseen differences between them.

One interpretation I and others have discussed is that John is a transgender woman who has yet to actively realize her identity, but knows on some level that she can’t achieve the strict gender expectations of a suburban community. This loss of self-understanding would contribute to John's feelings of absence and lack of control, and strain her relationship with a father who expects her to fit a male gender role.

This might be my favorite possible explanation, but there are lots of others, any or all of which could be true. John being queer in any sense would mean he might not fit into the nuclear family structure of the suburbs as an adult. John being a person of color in an otherwise white neighborhood would visually distinguish him from his neighbors and cause them to judge him based on stereotypes, and if John is mixed race and Dad is white, this distinction could highlight differences between them too, the absence in John's life marked by a disconnection from a culture he's a part of. John being neurodivergent could impact his ability to interact with other people in the neighborhood, or to replicate the rules and performativity of daily life. Single parent family structures are more accepted in 2009 than they were in 1959, but it's still possible that some past scandal involving Dad and John's family life is hanging over them, fresh in the minds of their neighborhood - perhaps one that just like Nanna's death, Dad 'never wants to talk about'. Any of these factors could lead to John being ostracized by his community and mean that even at a young age he didn't 'buy in' to the idea of the happy suburban family.

I believe it is intentional that Homestuck hasn’t defined John’s location more specifically than ‘west of Kansas’. Although research has shown that different suburbs have their own individual characters, critics tend to emphasize their similarities. We’re supposed to think that John would have broadly the same experiences if he lives in Arizona or Colorado, Texas or Georgia, maybe even England or Belgium. The externalities of John’s life are the same as countless other kids in the Western world, not because of John’s choices or even his dad’s choices, but due to the larger structures that organize families into houses, houses into suburbs, and suburbs into sources of constraint.

==> II: If You Love Your House So Much, Why Don’t You Never Leave It?

The suburbs walk hand in hand with advances in technology. The 1950s saw a boom in the sale of household appliances, with devices for cooking and cleaning promising to lighten the housework load for women, and television providing entertainment for the whole family from the comfort of the living room. Various corporations created model homes to display the futuristic properties of their fantastical appliances, promising consumers that in the future, all homes would look just like this. This was a marketing tactic primarily benefiting the corporations - but in some cases, they were successful. General Electric’s ‘New American’ home in Denver featured a dishwasher as early as 1935, and these increased in affordability and domestic popularity across the 1950s and 60s. Disneyland’s Monsanto ‘House of the Future’ boasted a microwave oven. The house opened in real world 1957 but was ‘set in 1986’, and by 1986, one in four American homes owned a microwave. The Westinghouse ‘Home of Tomorrow’ contained the first ever portable radios - six of them, with radio outlets in every room to grant every family member a constant supply of media.

This idea of constant, individualized media consumption may have been the greatest called shot of these houses. In 1959, John would be limited to a handful of TV channels on a fixed schedule, fighting over the tuning dials with his dad, but in 2009 he almost certainly knows the delights of Megavideo on top of having a video game collection, DVD collection and TV on demand service.

Televisions were marketed to families in the 1950s claiming that they would keep families closer, as parents and children alike would want to stay home and watch together instead of going out to separate places, and many parents at first expressed relief at always knowing where their teenage children were, and consequently, being able to keep an eye on them. Television altered the boundaries between public and private space, allowing people to experience a public activity such as a trip to the movies, a performance from a live musician, even witnessing the moon landing, without leaving the home or interacting with strangers.

Increasingly, media is marketed with the promise of interactivity and agency. Television provided a world to passively escape into, but video games allow the player to actually embody a character in that world. They present fantasies of control, of being able to explore a virtual map according to the player’s whims, and offering in-character choices that allow the player to control the narrative itself. Players are compelled by the possibility of media they can customize to their own specific tastes, and media they can master and bend to their will instead of simply observe. In this way, the Nintendo Wii isn’t so different from the fridge-freezer that promised greater mastery over the family’s diet, or the modern microwave oven and its dozens of settings and options for preparing food.

As our society moves from home televisions to home computers and video game systems into an age of portable, all in one smartphones, we and the media become more dependent on each other, and we expect to have access to it more of the time. John Egbert has found connection with a close friend who lives multiple timezones east and stays in regular and real time contact with her. That friendship enriches his life, and wouldn't have been possible without today’s high speed internet and instant messaging services. John’s computer opens up an incredible social world, but - as we’ve seen with Rose losing power - if he lost that technology, he’d also lose that community.

So, advertisers ask, what possible reason is there to leave? Why would you go somewhere mundane, like a park or a youth club, when you could go up on a plane surrounded by dangerous criminals and outsmart them all in time to save your friend? When you can bike down the highways from Missouri to Virginia to save the girl you like from natural disasters? You can be a hard boiled detective, a monster's best friend, a scientist making contact with aliens, an oil magnate turned savior of the world, a FBI agent surgically given the face of a terrorist, and a world leading expert on ghost slime - and you’ll never get dirty, you’ll never get hurt, and your dad will be right in the next room with a constant supply of fresh baked cakes and fatherly affection. What possible reason do kids have to complain, or to feel like anything is missing from their lives, when they can master reality from couches and computer chairs?

John Egbert embodies constant media consumption. Two of his five stated interests are consuming media - specifically movies and video games - and even when he’s not actively watching or playing something, he’s surrounded by media. His room is filled with movie posters, the television in the living room is switched on even when nobody’s watching, and the first thing he does after loading his computer is check for webcomic updates. Even his thoughts are consumed. He’s constantly replaying his favorite scenes in his head, which seems to bring him genuine joy, fixating on the next game he wants to play, and filling his social interactions with references to his favorite franchises. Even before actually entering Sburb’s virtual reality, John already wasn’t present in his material space. He’s digitally transitioned from what Lynn Spigel describes as ‘the home address to “home page”... computer generations rather than genders’.

==> III: Kids These Days Just Don’t Respect The Cultural Idea Of Childhood We Created For Them

The suburban home loves technology, but the reverse may not be true. A significant amount of mass media depicts the suburbs as the place where creativity and individuality go to die, reflecting the cultural criticisms instead of the promises. Some of the earliest sitcoms, such as I Love Lucy and The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, predated widespread criticisms of the suburbs and presented an idealized suburban life. These soon gave way to the ‘fantastic sitcoms’ of the 1960s, including Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie. These shows have implausible premises, featuring supernatural creatures, aliens or futuristic settings while still depicting mundane suburban realities. This juxtaposition opened up new questions about the real world, asking why we exclude certain people from communities and playing with the strict roles within the nuclear family.

Media aimed at young people often presents a world where kids are in control and regular power structures are inverted. 1950s and 60s comic strips aimed at kids, such as Peanuts and Dennis the Menace, were also set in the suburbs - but an idealized version of the suburbs where kids could roam freely, not confined to the home and able to disobey the instructions of adults without consequences. Some parents restrict these from children, not wanting them to ‘get the wrong idea’ and copy the bad behavior they see in comics or on TV. Popular music is a site of rebellion amongst teenagers - The Kinks in the 1960s, Talking Heads and Bruce Springsteen in the 1980s, Green Day and Blink-182 in the 1990s and 2000s, and uncountable other acts have put criticisms of suburbia to music and created a cultural dream of escape by getting on the road, joining a rock band and never putting down roots again.

In a time of rapid technological change, parents fear the impact technology and new media will have on their children, partly because they didn’t grow up with those technologies themselves. Television was feared because it gave children access to knowledge, different worldviews, and the realities of the adult world that parents wanted to keep from them, lessening parents’ control over their kids. It was also feared for its all-consuming nature, for making children want to watch constantly at the expense of homework, chores and family meals. More recently, video games have been feared for these same addictive properties, and for the belief that they negatively impact social interaction and cause increased aggression and violence.

But John isn’t like other teenagers. His taste is striking for being exclusively movies that reinforce ideals of the nuclear family - usually suburban, with the exception of New York City-based Ghostbusters II - which suggests he doesn’t only want to escape his current life, he wants to legitimate it to himself. John’s movies end with family reconciliation, not with the kids getting one over on the parents. If John feels like he doesn’t fit into suburban ideals, he can try to connect with them by seeing them through the eyes of a character he likes. In a world where John’s primary source of agency is the media he chooses to consume, he could easily choose to reject his unsatisfying life altogether and live vicariously through outlaws and exiles, getting really into Westerns or Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, but he doesn’t. He chooses characters who are fundamentally conventional, despite their rough edges, suggesting he’d really like to just fit in and be content with what he has.

Sburb, however, is the game that actualizes parents’ worst fears, inverting the power structures of the house, giving Rose and John dominion over the space while Dad - formerly both the breadwinner and the homemaker - has been relegated to an unseen location. John has access to a physically dangerous inventory system and a strife specibus that encourages him to solve problems by hitting them with a hammer.

Media promises us an escape, and it undoubtedly has the power to teach us and open our eyes to new perspectives, but in many cases provides nothing more than a filter over our lives. Encouraging people to live in a state of distraction, a TV show or video game gives us an easy way to hide from reality. People look for a new technology to solve their problems instead of a social solution, placing parental controls over their children’s television and internet usage instead of having honest conversations among families about media consumption, and designing security systems to keep ‘undesirable’ people from trespassing in middle class neighborhoods without questioning why those people are excluded from suburban society in the first place.

==> IV: There’s A Fine Line Between Fantasy And Reality And My House Is Built There

In the 1935 movie Murder by Television, a money-hungry scientist manipulates the interference between telephone lines and television broadcast signals to create the ‘death ray,’ and murder somebody on the other side of a television screen. Released less than a decade after the world’s first television broadcast, this movie demonstrates our cultural obsession with the boundaries between electrical and real space, and our dream of making those boundaries permeable. The 1950s presented TV families (such as the Nelsons from The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet) as normal families whose lives just happened to be televised, but who behaved the same way on and off screen to the point of forgetting the cameras were rolling. To this day, reality television such as Big Brother and The Bachelor promise to show us contestants’ authentic private lives, and even when we as viewers know the show is staged, we choose to buy into the fantasy.

More recently, 1998’s The Truman Show literalizes our dependence on the media, its ubiquity in our lives, and the impact this has on our personal relationships by showing a man whose whole life has been orchestrated by a TV production company that broadcasts him 24/7. Through a lucky accident with a time portal I obtained a copy of 2023’s Barbie, in which a plastic doll lives the dream life promised by her marketing, but starts thinking about mortality and the ‘real world’ when her owner’s mother starts drawing pictures of her with typical adult problems.

In both of these movies, the characters are happy until they are forced to confront the constructed nature of their worlds. By understanding the production and design processes controlling their lives, they become disillusioned with the simulation of perfection and begin searching for something more authentic. Even though Truman and Barbie both escape synthesized worlds and achieve full human agency, their endings are bittersweet. Their ‘escape’ lands them in present day Los Angeles, with all the social constraints, local mass produced suburbs, and constant diet of blockbuster media that this implies.

Blurring these boundaries is an effective advertising strategy as well as a narrative one. Adverts invite players to ‘become’ the main character of a video game, such as a Kid Chameleon promotion inviting players to ‘change personalities faster than they’ll change helmets’ and ‘transform’ themselves into a variety of mavericks. A Mortal Kombat arcade machine advert showed real men bursting out of the machine to attack the player. Promotions for The Sims 2 featured real photographs of people with the Sims interface added digitally, presenting the controllable Sims within the game as more than just pixels.

Following in this grand tradition, Sburb takes the permeable boundary between electrical and real space and smashes a meteor through it. Sburb answers the question of ‘can technology transform our society?’ with a 'yes' loud enough to shake the neighborhood houses from their foundations. Sburb represents the greatest and most utopian promises of technology, as well as the worst of our cultural fears around it.

The appeal of Sburb as a game is that it promises teenagers control over their lives in a world where they’re otherwise powerless. It’s a way to speedrun growing up - alchemy mechanics offer the chance to manipulate space and create all the material goods the player wants, but the game also bestows responsibility for tackling a crisis, for maintaining the home, perhaps even saving the world. And the players who are going to want this badly enough to fight through the impossible challenges Sburb presents are the kids who really can’t wait, the ones who aren’t doing well, and who feel trapped enough in their everyday lives that they would risk it all on an experimental technology to escape.

In truth, many scholars challenge the concepts of interactivity and agency in video games, arguing that these are players’ perceptions and not their realities. Games invite players to participate in the creation of art, but the relationship is never equal, with the creators always having the final say on exactly how much free will the player is allowed. Even a game that aims to be open world and allow for as much free play as possible is bound by the limitations of processing power and how many options a human can reasonably write and code for.

Sburb also puts restrictions on its players. Most likely, there are limits on what objects can be created via alchemy, and Sburb would likely restrict any item that could be used to work against the game. Players being controlled by commands which are interpreted by a computer also ensure that only commands coded for in the game are transmitted to the player. When a command is incorrect, the narrator steps in to help the player (p.253). And so far, the game has dramatic ways of keeping John on a very linear path - first starting a clock so he had no choice but to focus on stopping the meteor, then cutting him off from the world so that he has to stay in his current location. It’s impossible to have agency while living within a game that can and will end your life with four minutes and thirteen seconds of notice.

The ‘homes of tomorrow’ discussed at the start of part II were designed as sentient spaces, responsive to their inhabitants and able to almost anticipate their needs. John Brehm said about MOMA’s 1999 Un-Private House exhibition, ‘one can prepare a meal with the help of a virtual chef from a favorite restaurant and have dinner with a virtual guest or friend through the liquid wall’ and suggested that the house was ‘an extension of the body or a transparency of the mind… that both protects and transcends the limitations of the body’. In 2000, the Microsoft Home in New York City showed a future where people could control the lights, thermostats, security systems and stereos directly from their phones, even from another location. The home of tomorrow promises it can be anything its owner wants it to be, without questioning the idea that the privately owned, individualized home should exist and be desired.

Of course, the houses of tomorrow are always singular, prototype homes built with no thought of neighbors and community, but perhaps sacrificing a whole neighborhood to build the perfect home is a tradeoff some people have to make. Far from the static, impersonal houses of the suburbs, Sburb allows players to create their dream houses, offering bigger bedrooms, additional floors, and an endless void to throw your father’s harlequin statues into. It’s another technology that offers transformative potential for the family home, but is ultimately still driven by it, forming an individualist utopian bubble within a larger, far more conservative and restrictive structure.

==> V: If I Die, I Wanna Die In The Suburbs

The remote control, the video game joystick, and the Sburb alchemiter all tell us we can master reality by mastering technology. If that’s the case, then John still has to master technology. A shattered window from stack modus failures and a desktop littered with enraged programming files show us just how far John is from mastering either of these things.

John’s lack of agency goes far deeper than being trapped in the suburbs. His simple choice to pick something up and put it down is controlled by external agents. Though he can choose to escape his father in the kitchen by going to his room, a variety of screens will follow him and keep him in his own personalized panopticon. Rose’s mastery over the cursor means that John can’t guarantee the objects in his room will be where he left them, and even John’s thoughts are surveilled, interpreted and transmitted outwards by the narrator.

The USA PATRIOT act of 2001 expanded the US government’s legal rights to monitor electronic communication, and the early 2000s saw increased covert network surveillance by governments and private corporations alike. John’s technological illiteracy means he probably doesn’t know how to use a VPN and might not have known as a kid that his internet activities weren’t private, but in Act 2, inside Sburb, he begins to realize. Just as parents fretted at PTA meetings, John’s media has allowed him to eat from the Tree of Knowledge and put an end to his carefully constructed childhood, all on the cultural milestone of his thirteenth birthday.

Sburb has compounded the problem of John being surveilled and puppeted, but didn't invent it. The first 136 pages of Homestuck establish the meta-narrative restrictions on his life, from his inventory system to his being guided by commands, before he installs the game. There are layers of control over John’s life that he’ll need to break through one at a time. The first will be acquiring the Sburb server disc, which will give John greater power within Sburb, and the ability to use the full extent of its abilities. The second will be escaping the game of Sburb, which could be accomplished by simply winning the game (like in 1995’s Jumanji), or by using some kind of cheat or glitch to break out of it (2003’s Spy Kids 3: Game Over), but either way John will need to master the game mechanics.

The final layer is Homestuck itself, and unfortunately for us, John escaping the player and narrator’s influence over his life would almost certainly mean the end of the comic. But in Homestuck the Earth is already being destroyed, and being a webcomic that doesn’t have the constraints of a two hour Hollywood movie, the story doesn’t have to stop at the level of escaping the simulation. It has the chance to go a layer further, and imagine a world where John and his friends are able to enact real and meaningful change.

John has clearly had an emotional dependency on media for a long time, and now, he has a physical dependency too. Sburb is the thing keeping him alive, and his only hope to save the rest of the world, but he’s not alone in seeing popular media as a sacred text necessary for his existence. Smethurst and Craps point out that the player reacts to the game as much as the game does to the player - if anywhere, agency can be found in players’ interpretations of a game. Increasingly we rely on fiction to shape our politics and our worldviews, while also reading texts at a surface level. While media itself is insufficient to give us agency, media literacy is a big step towards asking questions about what restricts our agency, how, and why. The way John discusses movies now isn’t too in depth, with reviews like ‘the applejuice scene was so funny’ and ‘cage is sweet. so sweet.’ But in a story about becoming part of a video game, media literacy could be a very powerful tool for John, and he could come out of this as a genuine movie critic.

==> Conclusion

While Homestuck is a distinctly modern multimedia experience, it exists in a much larger tradition of media that criticizes the suburbs, and depicts the fantasy of escape for young people. Like other metafictional works before it, it handles these themes self-reflexively, showing its main character combat the horrors of the suburbs directly, instead of depicting a fantasy where problems do not exist.

Based on its first act, Homestuck is a story about John Egbert’s quest for agency in a world that constantly tries to restrict it. John’s life so far has been defined by the suburbs, by a single but unremarkable point in space that he’s been trapped in for the first thirteen years of his life. John is both physically confined to his suburban neighborhood, and socially confined into being the ideal of the middle class all American boy that has been presented as his only option. John’s taste in media reinforces the ideals of his society, meaning he has yet to question the status quo of his existence or examine the source of his depression. John is also controlled directly by his server player, the Homestuck players, and the narrator.

John’s experiences playing Sburb show us that while the escape media provides for us is real and can change us in meaningful ways, it can only solve the first step of the problem - and isn’t without its own risks and drawbacks. In order to truly develop agency, John will need to question the existence of the suburbs themselves, and not only his placein them. He’ll also need to - at some point - quit the game, return to reality, and use the skills he’s learned in the game to develop mastery over both the physical world and the story itself.

==> Sources

I wrote this essay after reading Lynn Spigel’s excellent essay collection ‘Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs’ (2001), which I would highly recommend.

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#homestuck #john egbert #eoa1 #milestone #analysis #whoo BOY did this take longer than i hoped!#but this is discussing some themes that im hoping to return to lots if they keep coming up throughout homestuck!#chrono

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lv-iceprince · 2 years ago

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Hello 🤗 just came back from reading your poly hyunlix and I LOVED it. If you're up to requests, could do a poly Minsung one? Because God knows those two are my weakness

a/n~ oh my god hi!! it still surprises me that people see my writing, even if i do post it, on a public site, on the internet. but thank you so much for requesting! i was literally just talking about minsung to friend so challenge accepted!

also I'm so sorry this was overdue, the rona finally caught up with me :)

❁ when peter met rhino~ dating minsung

*siri play be mine by junji*

~sfw~

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🍃date nights are rare but when they do happen it's swoon worthy. both your boyfriends live for privacy which results in fast food on fancy plates, wine and heartfelt conversations.

🍃minho is a serial blusher, remind him to wear a coat and he turns to mush.

🍃loving the two of you actually brings minho to tears because it's the only way he can express himself. sometimes he just gets so overwhelmed with the care he receives from both of you.

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🍃also the way you guys compliment each other is sickening, you don't even have to do anything and they will claim you're a regular genius.

🍃you want to see some heartflipping shit? just picture the random pda they bombard you with. the most outrageous being when minho will loosely link his fingers with yours.

🍃 jisung is a funny guy, but he really goes out of his way to appear as the best, funniest, boyfriend ever. his love language is having a damn good time.

🍃 no one would guess that you are all in a relationship, they just think its a disgustingly cheesy friendship triangle.

🍃now while some people claim that they will be in a relationship with "the one" for the rest of your life, the three of your are just vibing. though jisung worries about this he will never mention it. not wanting to jinx your love.

🍃even if that's the case jisung still has a phobia of either one of you leaving. there's no way in hell that's happening .

🍃jisung is the most annoying guy ever and he knows it. his overuse of pet names is purely because he is begging for one of you to blush or scowl at him, he will take both.

🍃small pranks are inevitable so while this is the most serious relationship ever, you also like to torment each other out of love.

🍃minho could easily spend over an hour smugly saying that he is charming enough to date two people at once, but he opts for sneaking his simping into the songs he cowrites.

🍃but since it's minho we're talking about your tribute may come in the form of drive 2.0.

🍃when you decide to take your dates outside you do less dating and more staring at minho, who smirks into his cup of coffee trying to hide how flustered he is.

🍃 minho is the type to playfully scold the two of you for being all over him but that's literally just him saying that he wants more pda.

🍃even if you are living a dream 24/7, your favourite moments have to be when you're on the living room floor stretched out and talking while soonie, doongie and dori take their little cat naps besides you.

~nsfw~

🍃it's kind of scary how minho can seem so indifferent and not mention sex, hell he seems innocent until he gets that glint in his eyes. you better run (to your bed).

🍃jisung is so whipped for dom minho even if minho. he may be wholesome but he will beg for one of you to fuck him good.

🍃 your little hannie is oh so giving, he will play the part of whatever you want, his kink is literally trying out every kink.

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🍃jisung may be a soft giving guy but he has it in him to absolutely wreck you. he will always make sure there are no hard feelings and that all of this is in good fun.

🍃but with minho whispering in his ear, telling him all the ways you deserve to be punished jisung can't help himself.

🍃the marks left behind are sore to the touch but the drastic shift between jisung's harsh words to soft kisses and even softer words is enough to give you whiplash.

🍃both of them have different versions of a corruption kink.

🍃minho wants to break you down in the neediest of ways, he wants to take away all of your innocence and self-control. on the other hand jisung will innocently taunt you, encouraging you to lose your innocent cover. he knows just how needy and sinful you are and is too willing to push all of your buttons.

🍃jisung's tongue is superior, not much can match the sensation of him going down on you or when you decide to wreck his mouth. give it your all, his gag reflex is so good.

🍃basically he has a major oral fixation, he just wants something in his mouth, he doesn't care if it's your fingers or minho.

🍃all of you have such intense sex drives, it isn't as gentle as you would think, you really just lust after each other.

🍃though you would have your gentle moments the majority of the time is spent trying out each one of your kinks.

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chiropterancreed · 1 year ago

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back on my batman shit for a second; but what if the joker was just eric andre on steroids?? a tall, skinny man with green hair going around gotham and harassing people and pranking them for a tv show. he gets famous and it all goes to his head, taking the "pranks" further and further. going from theft "pranks" to straight up stealing shit. kidnapping people as a "joke", bank heists, dressing up in cop costumes and falsely arresting people, being a genuinely awful public nuisance. harley quinn as hannibal, only taking the pranks further and further, all while getting it on camera. joker thinking stealing chemicals is a good idea for some reason, falling into the vat and it changing his brain chemistry irrevocably. joker becoming the epitome of chaotic evil, but still doing genuinely funny stuff. hiding from batman while on the run, absconding into an abandoned warehouse. there's plenty of empty crates to hide behind, but he picks the lone pole in the room because he can't resist a good gag. slapstick violence, straight up three stooges impressions, all while spiraling further and further into actual violence. no joke is too out there, no prank too harmful. does all his own stunts, all while laughing his ass off. to me, the joker should just be some clown!!! some funny guy who's a terrible person who doesn't know when to quit!!! bee gee's "i started a joke", a combination of larry, curly and moe; the marx brothers, pagliacci, a mime, and eric andre rolled into one!!!

#the joker #batman #dc #gotham #arkham asylum #harley quinn #dr harleen quinzel #jerome valeska #bruce wayne #dc comics

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sadfruittheatre · 2 years ago

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Name: Tomor

Age: Over 5000 (equivalent to a 15-year-old)

Gender: Male (he/him)

Species: Shinjin/Core Person (I lovingly call them fruitboys)

Height: 5’8

Likes: tea, fishing, reading, pranks, and generally being outdoors

Dislikes: people who can’t take a joke, clutter, beating around the bush, change, and Universe 7

Fears: public speaking and dying of some horrible Universe 7 disease or food poisoning

Personality: Tomor is a jokester. A class clown. A funnyman. He will say or do anything in the name of a bit, and if you don’t like it, maybe you should be a little less sensitive and learn to take a joke. Tomor is a massive jerk, an edgelord with an immature sense of humor. And good luck trying to combat that, because he tends to seem pretty unbothered by most things, and is much more perceptive than his jokes tend to convey. He will just banter right back and have a great time doing it.

However, he is actually far more bothered by things than even he’s aware of. Underneath that chill, detached demeanor, he’s very wary of others and holds them at arm’s length. He’s incredibly close-minded, believing that there is a natural order of things that should not be changed or even questioned. He’s definitely a bit of a control freak, and when people aren’t acting right by his standards, he can get pretty angry. He sort of just thinks he has everything all figured out and that he’s the smartest person in the room, but really, he is just suffering the curse of Being 15.

Background: Tomor is from Universe 5, one of the four most put-together universes out of the twelve that make up the omniverse. He’s lived a pretty ordinary life, hanging out with his friends, Bragi and Aneas. They had a reputation for pulling pranks and getting into all sorts of trouble, and it was an absolute blast. However, things started to change a little once Bragi was placed into advanced education. He started hanging out with them less and less, and it kind of sucked, but Tomor wasn’t too surprised now that his friend had become a hotshot. There was still Aneas, but things weren’t quite the same with just the two of them, especially with Aneas beating his head against a wall trying to catch up. Tomor eventually convinced him to stop and let it go, but he was never quite the same after that. He tried his best to cheer Aneas up to bring some life and levity back into things, but it never really worked.

Then one day, they were holding a lottery for the next West Kai, and Tomor got a hilarious idea and dared Aneas to throw his name into the drawing. Wouldn’t it be funny if he won? But there’s no way that was going to happen. Except it did happen and it wasn’t exactly funny. In the beginning, Tomor tried to keep in touch, but the awkwardness and the guilt of the whole thing made him slowly step back until communication became incredibly sparse and sporadic. And so, while his friends went on to be fancy-schmancy gods, he ended up becoming a tea farmer.

Things were relatively mundane for awhile after that. Tomor mostly just kept to himself and did his work, but one day, when writing to Aneas on a whim, he learned that Aneas and Bragi were talking again, and so he decided it was about time they got the whole gang back together again and pick up where they left off. The only problem is, they’re a lot different than he remembers. Aneas has apparently gone a little nuts and is out here talking to plants and married to a demon??? And Bragi appears to have lost the plot entirely, gallivanting around with mortals in a completely different universe instead of doing his actual job. But with everybody here, surely Tomor can get everyone back on track so things can go back to normal! …Right?

Will Tomor be able to get the gang back together? Will he learn to accept and embrace change? Or will he end up alienating everyone by being a jackass? The answer is probably obvious, but find out anyway on the next episode of SAD FRUIT THEATRE!

#intro #tomor #if you're going in chronological order you probably won't see much of him for awhile because he doesn't show up until waaaay later lmao

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pantherlord4 · 13 days ago

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I know an RPG net thread that helps expand on Captain Clown here

Here's the thing about him

"He is the master of oppression through comedy.

His "humor" is crude, uncreative, lowest common denominator and very, very mean spirited. Alichino loves to punch down on oppressed and marginalized people, turning them into offensive sterotypes or making jokes about perceived flaws. When called out on this he goes to the old defenses of "Its just a joke" and "Don't be so thinned skin." All of this is a calculated psychological attack in order to erode empathy towards these groups and everyone remembers who is in the lower classes.

Alichino will also direct his "comedy" towards legitimate good aligned rulers, painting them as weak, incompetent, or exaggerating minor flaws in their characters, again this is a calculated effort to undermine public confidence in these leaders and get rules more in line with Asmodeus' world view (IE Fascists) put in charge. Alichino and his followers target anyone who is trying to make the world better, trying to fix broken systems, anyone who cares as idiots worthy only of mockery and scorn. He also delights in cruel mean spirited pranks which can be outright dangerous to the victims.

Ironically, Alichino himself is incredibly thinned skin. He can't stand be heckled, and he hates being the butt of a joke. Doing so can easily send him in a rage, at which point he drops all pretense of humor and tries to kill whoever upstaged him as gruesomely as possible. His arch nemesis is Picoperi, the merrygleam, the Empyreal lord of jokes, pranks, and surprises, not only for being legitimately funny, but he has managed to prank and bamboozle Alichino on numerous occasions.

Alichino's cultists consist of indivudal bards, playwrights, novelists and satirists who all publish and create nasty unpleasant barely disguised racist screeds meant to divide people and push oppressed people down. Most Alichino cultists work solitarily, but occasionally cults dedicated to him will spring up among groups of wealthy affluent people, who pass their time holding private parties where they kidnap random poor people and torture them to death in creatively horrific ways."

I can totally also see the clown subscribing to the "one bad day" ideology too(though in my eyes,one bad day is just the straw that breaks the camels back,it requires a series of misfortunes beforehand to work. Hence why Bruce didn't go mad but joker did; Bruce didn't have a bad life before that night in Crime Alley,joker was struggling for most likely MONTHS to YEARS and lost basically everything that night.)

Sorry I went overboard

It really is a pity, if I'm being honest. If you told someone who had never dove into Pathfinder's lore that Golarion has its own version of the Joker and that he was an extremely powerful devil whose job and entire purpose for existence, specifically, is "conquer Golarion," this hypothetical person would probably have their flabbers gasted if you told them he has never been the Big Bad in an AP or even so much as a Module.

This guy

is Asmodeus' most trusted agent for the purpose of conquering Golarion, arguably THE most important planet in all of creation for Asmodeus to have total dominion over due to it containing Rovagug.

And yet, scarcely a mention in any book not specifically about fiendish divinities! One of the scant bits of lore about him (in Council of Thieves: Infernal Syndrome, pg. 89) tells of when his trickery was reversed upon him, while his second largest scattering of lore (throughout Rule of Fear) reveals him as the secret patron of a clown school, with his most fervent follower being a mime, who work to gather enough blackmail material to secretly control a whole city from the shadows.

NOT including him in more material feels like leaving proverbial money on the table, if you ask me.

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sporadically-writing · 2 years ago

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Amber Wayne

Basics

Full Name: Amber Wayne-Kyle

Nickname(s): Gem (Selina), Bams. Ambs, Finch

Age: 16

Sexual Orientation: Panromantic Asexual

Appearance

Skin Tone: Fair

Eye Color: Brown

Hair Color: Brown

Hairstyle: Double braids

Makeup: Various eye makeup based on outfit and artistic expression

Build: Strong and flexible

Height: 5' 5"

Style: Black jackets and jeans, shades of browns (and the occasional amber orange) in sweaters and shirts and spiky punkish jewelry, but not a lot of it

Personality

General Personality Traits: Spunky, Independent, Outspoken

Strengths: Versatile, Unflinching, Intelligent

Flaws: Irresponsible, Trouble maker, Short-tempered

Habits and Mannerisms: Runs hand through her hair; Taps finger on her chin when she thinks; Drums her nails on tables; She often calls certain male family members by their code names. She calls Bruce "The Bat" and when referring to all four brothers of hers that share the common mantel, she calls them "the birds." She thinks its funny

Secrets: She occasionally follows in her mother's footsteps but more like a robinhood, taking from criminals and gangsters and giving back to those it was stolen from. Don't tell the Bat about this!; She also keeps her love life on the down low from Bruce, her siblings are better at figuring it out though

Regrets: When she was younger and Bruce didn't know about her, she joined her mother in her nightly activities. She sort of regrets some of those jobs now. She loves her Mom but she sides more with her father in regards to morality, rebellious personality or no.

Skills/Talents: Stealth, pick-pocketing, Observation from various distances (ie very good at casing places and people), Fiction writing, Photography and Make-up art

Likes: Monster movies, playing pranks, the arts

Dislikes: Inactivity, too much repetition, hats

Sense of Humor: Witty and snarky

Guilty Pleasure: Cookie dough

Defining Moments: Greeting her own hero alter-ego, Finch

Relationships

Friends: She's got a small group of rascals she runs with at school

Family: Selina Kyle, Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth, Dick Grayson, Barbara Gordon, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Cassandra Cain, Stephanie Brown, Damian Wayne, Duke Thomas

Enemies: The Rogues Gallery. (Very specifically the Mad Hatter thanks to a rather unfortunate run in with the villain she would rather not think about.)

Lovers: TBD

Relationship Status: TBD

Reputation: Amber is many things, an annoyance to some, a source of entertainment for others. In public, non family or vigilante settings, she is a quick witted, intelligent girl who thrives on causing small amounts of trouble. This does not make her many friends in school administration but she does have a small group of rascals there that she hangs out with. She doesn't ever cause any serious harm, small class-clown like pranks and disruptions are the furthest she goes. Most teachers, though, appreciate her intelligence. She is always one of the top in her class, with parents like hers (not that the public knows about half of her parentage) you would almost have to be. Amber does her best to do the right thing too, she can have her fun but that doesn't mean she can't also do a little good around the community (vigilante or otherwise) as well.

Miscellaneous

Current Residence: Gotham

Collections: She did keep a few of the small things her mother stole for her as gifts, she snuck anything big back where it came from but, in the end, she is Catwoman's daughter, one or two small things couldn't hurt

Accent: American

Voice: Spunky but smooth

Signature Quote: "Why not? What's the worst that could happen?"

Song: Wings - Little Mix

Backstory

Amber is aware that she was probably an accident. She's always been very smart, even when she was younger and living with her mother. She knew who both of her parents were and she knew how more often than not they were on opposite sides.

Selina, however, loved her daughter and was more than happy to teach her the tools of her particular trade. Things continued this way until things got a little hairy. Selina had to get out of Gotham for a while and there was only one place for her to go.

Being one of the youngest of the Wayne brood, pretty much all of the children were in the manor save Damian when Amber was dropped off. To say that that first day was a little awkward would be an understatement. Alfred had suggested a one on one meeting between the girl and her father which was fairly awkward in its own right. There was no mistaking that she was his daughter though. Every chance she got to prove it, she did, not that she really knew it at the time. She was raised by Catwoman, yes, but there was a fair bit of justice seeking Batman in there too.

Living in the manor was a bit of an adjustment. Amber had only ever lived on her own with her mom. She was used to seeing only one other person, used to things being quiet, small rooms. Wayne Manor was the opposite of that in nearly every way.

Amber, despite her personality, was a bit reserved at the beginning, trying to figure things out for herself, not even really knowing who she was outside of what she and her mother did. So, she did what she had been taught to do. She snuck around, taking things in from various angles. Out of all the children that had ever found themselves living in the manor, Amber found the Batcave the quickest. And Bruce couldn't find it in him to be anything other than impressed and a little proud. That wasn't just the mark of a thief, it was the mark of a detective.

Things begin to look up slowly from there. Amber wasn't as solitary after that and she opened up to her siblings more, started seeing them as such.

Things didn't really pick up through until one fateful night. Everyone in the manor was gone except for Alfred. It had been about an hour or two after everyone had left for their nightly escapades. Amber had crawled out the window to her room and was sitting on the roof, watching over the city, looking up at the Bat Signal shining into the foggy night sky. The idea hit her like a bolt of lightning.

She was quiet, grabbing some money she had been given and a few tools she had and snuck back out of the house. She was careful, avoiding any danger zones that night (Gotham may be infested with crime but for goodness sakes there can't be a criminal on every corner. Most of them, sure, but not all of them) and found a small craft store. She snuck in, taking the items she needed, dropping the necessary money on the counter with a note (not signed) and left. Once she was home, she started working on a suit of her own. The next time The Bat went out, there was a little black and brown clothed vigilante following after him from a distance.

There was an argument that the rest of the finally was present for after that patrol, how could she be so reckless? Anything could have happened to her, you get the gist. However, Amber never wavered. She wanted to be another force of good in this city, like her Dad, and if he wanted to stop her, then he had another thing coming. That was the first time Amber had ever called him that and as mad as Bruce wanted to stay, he couldn't argue with her. All her siblings got to do it, why shouldn't she? There were modifications to make, a real armored suit to work on but alright, she'd passed the Batfamily initiation.

That was the moment where Amber really felt a part of the family, and isn't that just fitting?

Selina still calls on her, checking to see how her daughter is doing, along with an occasionally attempt to get her to help on some jobs. Amber only occasionally agrees to this.

#amber wayne kyle #amber wayne #amber kyle #oc: finch #batfamily oc #batman oc #gotham oc #batsis oc #dc oc #batfam oc #batfam x reader #batsis!reader #my oc stuff #oc intro #oc bio

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literaticat · 2 years ago

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The "these publishers are kids at a school" question but ALL THE OTHER PUBLISHERS, please and thank you #hilarious

OK well not all of them, come on. But a lot of them!

Here's PART ONE if you missed it -- the question is, if various publishers were kids in a school, how would you describe them. Bear in mind that THIS IS ALL FUN AND JOKES AND VIBES, don't come at me, I'm not insulting anyone, I love the publishers! xoxo

PART TWO:

FSG Macmillan – A serious-minded girl but never a stick-in-the-mud, FSG is the daughter of two professors (English Literature and Sociology). She goes to a Waldorf school, so she doesn’t watch TV or anything, mostly she does art with potatoes and leaves and things, though unlike many Waldorf kids, she learned to read quite early on her own. Her parents give her the run of their library, and she has a flair for the dramatic and can recite just about anything so it will give you chills. She’s also passionate about social justice issues; she’s allowed to take the subway to rallies and protests with friends, where she brandishes her home-made signs with gusto!

Roaring Brook Macmillan – FSG’s younger sister. She’s more of a sporty type, plays soccer, and is outside all the time – if you don’t know where she is, you are likely to find her up a tree with skinned knees and a bunch of weird rocks in her pocket. (She also gathers the raw materials for FSG’s art). She’s too young to take the subway without an adult but she IS allowed to have a knife, with which she whittles funny little woodland creatures that look like they could come alive. It’s really a gift!

Holt Macmillan – Roaring Brook’s twin brother. A rough-and-tumble lad with a sweet but slightly naughty disposition. The prank situation is LIT at their house. Like his sisters, he’s a Waldorf kid – but unlike them, this dude is desperate for screen time! He is not allowed to take the subway, but he IS allowed to go to his neighbor Scholastic’s house, at which he watches all the TV shows and plays all the video games he can possibly cram into his eyeballs – his parents pretend not to know. He is NOT allowed to touch his sister’s knife!

Scholastic – He’s in public school, where he’s the class clown. He still has an imaginary friend, an invisible big red dog which he says he rides to school and who stays on the playground while he is in class. When he’s not looking out the window, he’s cutting up and getting into scrapes. His parents are the school principal and a librarian, and they are a little worried that he’s having TOO much fun, but also don’t have the heart to discipline him. He’ll grow out of it! Holt is his buddy.

Balzer & Bray HarperCollins – Twins! These girls are little private-school influencers already – they travel all over, they are sophisticated beyond their years but still like to have fun – they just have quite a polished way about them. They were raised by their mother, a Disney-channel celebrity turned ‘mommy-blogger’ who featured the twins heavily in her social media and gave them this shiny, commercial persona, but now they have spun off into their own thing. Their grandfather is a meglomaniacal billionaire who, we assume, is friends with Tr**p. Let’s not mention it, they certainly won’t! They don’t take the subway, they get Uber Blacks.

Greenwillow HarperCollins – More introverted than her sisters or best friend FSG, and might seem like a head-in-the-clouds dreamer if you don’t know her – but really, she’s low-key funny and brilliant, just somewhat introverted, and not a show-off – she just keeps her head down and does consistent, great work -- but very much on her own timeline, not really paying attention to other people's expectations. (She also plays tennis solidly -- not heading to Wimbledon or anything, but she's really good. And, she can throw darts expertly -- who would have thought?) She’s probably going to be the one who suddenly goes to college at age 14 or wins the Amazing Race or something and everyone’s like “huh! Didn’t see that coming!” She doesn’t take the subway, she walks.

Clarion – Recently adopted into the HarperCollins clan as an older kid, she does feel a little like she needs to work to keep up with their fast talking and inside jokes, but she does well most of the time and is learning to fit in. She’s just a little more serious – but luckily for her therapist, she doesn’t have the baggage of having been raised with the billionaire. She is also into social justice and slam poetry, and I don't want to embarrass her, but she may have a little crush on both Abrams *and* FSG. In the family, she gets along best with her sister Greenwillow, and walks to school with her.

Knopf – this girl is CLASSY. Like you know how sometimes people are described as “American Royalty” or something? That’s Knopf, babe. Glamorous, a bit mysterious, superb taste, plays piano and flute expertly, aces the tests, everyone wants to be friends with her or pretends to be friends with her. Even adults perk up when they see her coming – the power! She and Little Brown are often vying for the same awards, lacrosse titles, class prez votes, etc. Her parents are a reclusive movie star and the scion of an old-money New York family, but nobody has ever seen them, not even the nosy PTA moms – the rumor is that they live in their villa in Lake Como full time and Knopf lives alone in NYC in a houseful of servants. (There is some truth to the rumor, but it's not the whole truth). She doesn’t take the subway, she has a driver.

Random House BFYR, PRH – (goes by Randi because her real name is a mouthful let’s be honest). A bubbly, vivacious kid who brings a smile to people’s faces – she’ll probably be a cheerleader when she gets to high school. She’s a good friend, popular and outgoing, but unlike her cousin Knopf, there’s little mystery to her – she’s really an open book. Her parents are a doctor and a SAHM, she loves puppies and baking cupcakes and wants to be on a kids baking reality show OR an animal rescue show. She does Girl Scouts, and she's on the soccer team with Roaring Brook. She doesn’t take the subway, her mom drives her in their Volvo and picks up her friends, as well.

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steve0discusses · 3 years ago

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Yugioh S5 Ep 36 Part 2: It took like 100+ Episodes, but We Finally Found Seto’s Dead Wife

For April Fools I decided to actually make an update on this blog in a timely matter from the last update. Consider yourself Pranked.

So Shada and Seto are having a bit of a fight about how Seto’s just kind of throwing everyone into prison and we’re running out of essential workers. Not that much of a surprise that Shada and Seto don’t like eachother, but it does make you wonder--does anyone in the cult even like Seto other than Aknadin (which...that’s stuff we will get to later at the end of this episode) honestly, it’s kind of hard to tell.

Oh and PS they’re being carried on one of those hand held chariots which makes this whole segment just a lot more funny.

(Even in the past, Seto largely is being used for a ride).

Anyway, he exits the roller coaster and is like “For your information, I’m NOT a mass murderer, SHADA.” In front of like allll these people standing behind him within earshot. To which Shada was like “but you can calm down, youknow? Like can you ever calm down? A little bit? Maybe?”

It was a conversation that does not matter because Shada decided to go along with it anyway, and is now going to help Seto for the rest of this episode just slurping up soul demons, as you do.

Freakin Shadi, man. To think he was just always like this. Helping people one moment, screwing people the next...whatever Shadi, you do you.

(read more under the cut)

During this Episode, Bakura did a lot of artsy shots for the commercials, just shooting his own music video, doing things that really had like...eh no bearing on the plot but I’m sure they looked cool for the trailer.

Here he got really wet and then was like “Time to go kill everyone else, I guess” and then exited the scene.

That’s it, that’s the whole scene, and I’m glad that the creators of this show knows what the fans of their show want: wet Bakura with little reason as to why.

So Seto decides to do some public trials with Shada just square in the middle of the street. A very Monty Python “bring out your dead!” moment because I’m sure everyone just started chucking their neighbors onto the pyre. Like I have this neighbor who has this brand new lawn mulch and bushes they put in because it’s a freakin drought, and they stuck a bunch of signs on it that say “Do Not Poop Or Pee. Be Respectful.” with a picture of a dog with an X over it and also a picture of the police and also a picture of a security camera (which I guess they will hand over to the police? Not sure). That guy would hand over like half the town in a heartbeat.

Really want to know what “disrespect the pharaoh” means in this context, especially since their current Pharaoh has been Pharaoh for 5 minutes and has already burned down the town once and then the next day put the entire city under martial law.

Right about the time Seto was about to give up and go home with just a single dumbass clown in his arsenal, Season 2 happened.

Some footage for your AMVs. Yugioh knew what teens wanted in 2003.

Speaking of over-done fx and what teens wanted in 2003, did you hear that the Avatar the Last Airbender live action Netflix remake cost 15 million dollars an episode to make? :) :) :) :) :) :) Only a matter of time before it gets cancelled and we’re one adaptation closer to an absolutely terrible Yugioh one, you know it’s going to happen. :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

Anyway it’s been five minutes and Joey ran out of snacks.

(right after I made this post PS, I went onto twitter and saw a tweet that said “You ever open a TinTin from the 80′s that looks like it was drawn in 1870?” so like apparently I was being way more gracious than I thought.)

I figured I’ve used enough TW’s for one Yugioh blog, lets just crop out his entire face, because that’s funnier. Honestly the worst part of him is his accent, and thankfully that can’t be truly expressed with written words.

Besides, we gotta get sidetracked from the genie and meet the wife, who is getting literally stoned to death.

Kind of a lot of whiplash this episode, huh!? But it wouldn’t be an anime without whiplash, would it?

Joey remarks “oh, that’s why the rocks aren’t hurting me like at all.” And it was like...Joey.

Anyway, welcome to Seto’s girlfriend. From what I can gather this episode, this girl is constantly in a state of distress. Like honestly I don’t know much about her, but I dunno if there’s been a single moment in this girl’s entire life where she isn’t in the process of getting killed or being killed, except when Seto is around or when she is a Dragon.

I get that her having the worst monster around means no one likes her, but also...she should just eat them. Like I can see why people like this ship--I don’t want to sound like a ship hater--because she lacks security and he can give her security, and that’s very much part of writing a romantic lead. You have to have two people that lack something that the other person can give them for the audience to fall for it.

But this is very much the token girlfriend that you fall in love with because she needs to be saved by a powerful man, however, she’s already the most powerful monster besides the God Cards. Like she’s freaking buffed as hell, man. So...maybe it made more sense on paper. Maybe it’ll make more sense next episode.

Overall, Yugioh ain’t great at writing girls (or romance) and that is nothing new. They had SO MANY EPISODES of building up this girl, too. But my expectations were low, and they were met.

Anyway Seto arrives and is like “oh crap I know this girl from my childhood oh crap.” and suddenly has a moment of “should I steal her soul demon like I said I would, although no one actually wants me to do that at all, or do I...not?”

Remember that like 10 minutes earlier Aknadin and Shadi and basically everyone was like “just stop taking the demons for five seconds you have enough monsters in your obelisk” but like...Seto promised to do this, because in Seto’s mind, he’s doing this soul stealing to help the Pharaoh, after all--the Pharaoh who is Yami and absolutely doesn’t need him to steal a damn thing because he already has God Cards.

Bro was like “Seto might be ripped but look at the bricks behind him” and yeah. Basically everyone in Egypt lifts in their spare time. Life before the internet, man.

That’s also what I assume everyone in the 1980′s was doing too, instead of sitting around writing Yugioh blog posts and eating these offbrand thin mints.

(You wouldn’t believe it but I drove all the way to Safeway in This Economy and not only is Girl Scout season over, but all of the Keebler grasshopper cookies were gone, so I had to get the Safeway storebrand of the offbrand thin mint and it’s fine. It’s a fine cookie, but it has an aftertaste that is very weird.)

And so Seto whisks away this girl while Shada just kinda lets it happen, because Shada just does whatever.

Not sure why he needed to keep it a secret from Pharaoh though. Was he worried that Yami would be like “No saving dying girls in this house, Seto!” Because while everyone else seems to know about Yami’s personality and overall willingness to save dying human beings--Seto seems dubious.

But Seto is a sort of paranoid person anyway so that tracks.

Next time we find out more about dragon girlfriend and if she ever had a good day in her entire life and you already know, she has not.

Anyway, here’s the list of each episode in chrono order for you if you want to read these from the beginning:

https://steve0discusses.tumblr.com/tagged/yugioh/chrono

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kinokoshoujoart · 1 year ago

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rbing to add everyone’s banger rockaganda since it goes hard

w-wait that’s not rabbit propaganda at all! uh… guess i’ll write my own out of fairness to rocker rabbit. under the cut

he’s a wascally wabbit!?

literally bugs bunny coded and also roger rabbit coded

“every day i aspire to be insane flirtatious androgynous and violent just like bugs bunny” — real and canon quote from rock sosawl

small and very fast and lithe

many bunny and hare traits childish and and enthusiastic and cute and juuuust ever so slightly crazed

hyperactive, extremely energetic (lazy by choice because he’s playing)

hedonist personality

public nuisance and menace

trickster type character (child inherits maxed out mischief stat from him) he is so much trouble and so silly and plays funny wacky little pranks like the “asking ‘do you want to sleep over’ 300 times in a row” prank and the “until the end of the night i’m all yours” prank and the “we should get married” prank (rabbit coded pranks)

clown (clowns, too, are rabbit coded)

chaud lapin…

unlike the other candidates who are like “i hope that day comes soon” he literally screams about how he can’t wait to be a dad and how ready he is to have kids. in front of god herself and everyone. rabbit behavior

spends nearly all his time in the woods like a silly little woodland creature

loves fodder (rabbit food)

#to be clear rabbit is not my bias but the one i am biased towards is doing well already so. should give fairness to all species #cora clownposting content #rock tumbling (sos)

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shlutnutt · 3 years ago

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The Evans (goofy or serious?) headcanons

ps. creative names ;)

warnings: very slight murder mention, just fluffy headcanons

Is Colin dilf Zable serious Or goofy?

Colin's definitely a clown on the low

Likes to appear serious to people to feel much more masculine

thinks being a detective means he has to be a serious dork

makes accidental jokes all the damn time though

Will eventually show his real him once he's comfortable enough so no worries

his fake serious man pass expires sooner or later

Is Kai caroline Anderson goofy Or serious?

obviously has an inner child to heal

total serious asshole

takes everything serious, whether that'd be his cult, significant other, family, friends

the man just wouldn't joke around

nor less even show off his pretty smile

he smiles though. fake smiles

although a little push or two might slightly force a real one, he'll feel so uncomfortable

can be a total softie on the low, but rathers keep his 'mean guy' picture for the public

Is Kyle bottom Spencer serious or goofy?

total goofball

a literal pre-teen stuck in a grown man's body

always smiling, always laughing

jokes about everything with no shame

doesn't mind if people view him as immature

totally loves it though since he doesn't wanna be considered 'like everyone else'

soft puppy material

Is Malcom Gayllant goofy or serious?

definitely attempts to seem serious to the public to feel that spice of mysteriousness

but a total prankster

to the people he's close to of course (he totally doesn't get along with everyone)

will either laugh at your jokes or laugh at you (no in between)

makes people laugh accidentally all the damn time though

he kinda hates it

Is Kit daddy Walker serious or goofy?

this man's a gentleman

a perfect mixture between goofy and serious though

will be the type to either make jokes at the wrongest of times or remain serious when he's.. well, supposed to laugh

he'll be too obsessed with your smile to not make little awkward jokes though, just to see it

sarcasm king

Is Quicknutsilver goofy or serious?

a literal child.

yes. a child.

laughs at everything and of course jokes about everything

expect him to laugh literally anytime, at the childishest of things also

sees someone trip slightly on the crack of a sidewalk? just know his cheeks will be balled up preventing a chuckle

also jokes at the wrongest of times

for god's sake the man can be in a near death experience, just know he'll joke about it

call the man the clownsilver king at this point

Is Jimmy fingerling Darling serious or goofy?

pure sarcasms

nothing but sarcasms

you wouldn't know when he'd be serious about something by how many sarcastic jokes he makes a day

this man laughs from time to time obviously, but not the goofy type

jokes about offensive things for sure

will be too busy trying to make change to even make time for his hilarious real inside jokes

sensitive little thing

Is James papi March goofy or serious?

oh yeah this man is a prankster

will be the type to slaughter his victims whilst singing a low tuned lullaby into their ears

James wouldn't be James without his little jokes here and there

always expect them

this man will make your day much better for sure

damn jokester

Is Tate crybaby Langdon serious or goofy?

Tate jokes around, but it's extremely rare

extremely rare

rathers keeping his serious boy composure to the public

slightly immature though, just not a goofy boy

more of a protector rather than a clown

Is Jeff Pfistingser goofy or serious?

oh yeah this man is freaking hilarious

he jokes, pranks, etc.. and they're all absolutely hilarious

everything he does is just simply funny

like a natural talent

kinda struggles for people to take him serious from time to time for that same reason though

taglist: @divineruler @thatspookyagent @kai-andersons-cheeto @kaismessiahbb @evanmybeloved @billyhxrgrove @sinnersblood

(dm to be in taglist)

#evan peters #american horror story #headcanon #jeffpfister #kit walker #jimmy darling #tate langdon #james patrick march #quicksliver #xmen apocalypse #malcom #gallant #fluff #kyle spencer #kai anderson

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rinnntastic · 3 years ago

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G’morning! 👉👈 May I join the match ups train? Jujutsu Kaisen & Demon Slayer

Zodiac Sign: October Scorpio♏️

Gender✨: Female

Personality: INFP, Shy at first but more social once I’m comfortable, Girly but tomboyish, Sweetheart, Funny, Playful, Artsy, Silly goose/Crackhead, Secretly dead inside, Loyal, Crybaby, Hopeless romantic, Resourceful, Polite, Kinda lazy sometimes, Huge Scaredy Cat, Accident prone, Responsible

Likes👍: Crippling sugar addiction, spending quality time with others, reading, drawing, video games, shopping, daydreaming, listening to music, attempting to cook, swimming, any kind of adventure, walking in the woods (daytime only!!), anime, anything cute, cats/birds, spooky stuff, sleeping, winter/fall seasons, singing, I’m left handed btw

Dislikes👎: Math, discrimination, vegetables, spiders, clowns, homework, being in public for “too long”, boredom, the act of cleaning (but I do love a neat home), bullies, being watched/stared at, when it’s hot outside, heights

A/N: When you said you only like walking in the woods during the day I totally relate I have watched too many horror movies to be in the woods at night

Also so sorry it took me so long to post this I got in an accident LOLOLOL

For Jujutsu Kaisen I match you with…

Toge Inumaki!

- Since you are a crackhead/funny person I KNOW you and Inumaki would get along. It’s literally canon that he spends most of his time trolling people

- The two of you would create such elaborate pranks to try on the other Tokyo students, which usually end with the two of you running for your lives from Maki or Nobara

- During the fall around Halloween, you guys go all out to celebrate; visiting haunted houses, getting matching costumes, crazy decorations, etc.

For Demon Slayer I match you with…

Zenitsu Agatsuma!

- You guys definitely take naps together! He spends half his time asleep so it might as well be done with you by his side

- Definitely ok with only taking walks during the day, walking in the woods at night terrifies him and he would probably use you as a shield lol

- Spends so much time daydreaming about you (kinda like the way he does with Nezuko)

#demon slayer #kny matchup #zenitsu x reader #jujutsu kaisen #jjk matchup #inumaki toge x reader

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blu-joons · 4 years ago

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DATING BTOB A⇴Z HEADCANON ⇴ Lee Changsub

A ⇴ AFFECTION

Changsub is always incredibly cuddly around him, it’s very much a habit of his to wrap his arms around you whenever you’re in reaching distance, he can’t help but have you as close as he can into him as often as possible.

B ⇴ BEFORE DATING

Your first meeting was all a bit of a misunderstanding, you caught Changsub pulling a funny face, presuming that he was doing it in your direction, pulling one back. It was only when you noticed a guy behind you, you realised it wasn’t actually at you, but Changsub was far too much of a tease to ignore what you’d done.

C ⇴ CONFESSION

It all ended up working in your favour though, and the two of you got to know each other well. Changsub ended up confessing how much he enjoyed getting to know you through a short song that he’d written. Music was his best way of expressing himself, and so he invited you over to his place one day, with plenty of instruments laid out in the living room, inviting you to sit down and listen to what he had to say.

D ⇴ DATES

His love for music often resonated into your dates as well, Changsub loved to take you to live gigs and other events in the city, whether it was music, a film, or even sometimes a comedy event, he loved seeing someone else go through the adrenaline of being on stage as he often experienced. You just tended to trust him and his suggestions on places that the two of you could go to, but they usually turned out to be a pretty good time anyway, with only a few minor hiccups along the way with some acts.

E ⇴ EXPERIENCE

Changsub had some old dating rumours which certainly played on his mind when the two of you began to get together. He was determined to keep you protected out of the vicious cycle that the Korean media could be, and make sure that you were sure that a relationship was something that you definitely wanted before things got too serious between you both. Changsub couldn’t help but worry, and also the last thing he wanted was to deal with the attention of a dating rumour once again.

F ⇴ FIGHTING

If there was one thing you learnt about Changsub quite early on in your relationship, it was that no matter how hard he tried, he just couldn’t hide whenever he was in a bad mood. It usually ended up working in your favour as you’d know when to steer clear of him and when not to start an argument because he was feeling pretty low. But if you managed to catch him off guard, then the bad mood would very quickly be very obvious to you, and once you’d been caught by his vents of frustrations, it was usually a pretty terrible loophole for you to find your way out of without the two of you arguing with each other first.

G ⇴ GETTING TO KNOW HIS FAMILY

Changsub was incredibly close with his family, which made you incredibly anxious to meet them all. You were terrified, putting off your first meeting for as long as you possibly could, until his sister’s birthday came around, and Changsub promised that you’d be in attendance without even asking you to join him.

H ⇴ HOME

You were quite quick to move into Changsub’s place, he loved having you there and the company that you brought. It was no fun for him to mess around in such a nice apartment all by himself, and so having you there to enjoy it with him was definitely something that he wanted sooner rather than later in your relationship.

I ⇴ “I LOVE YOU”

Changsub ended up being the first of the two of you to say, ‘I love you,’ on a letter that he wrote whilst BTOB were in the middle of a tour. He was far too nervous to ring you or say it in person, so at the end of a lengthy letter about all the adventures he’d been on so far, he signed it off with his name, and his confession too.

J ⇴ JEALOUSY

Just like with his bad moods, it was very apparent to you too when Changsub would be feeling jealous too. His face always managed to give it away, how his eyes would narrow at whoever was making him feel jealous, and how he’d always poke his tongue against the inside of his cheek. Whenever you’d challenge him about it, he’d always vow that he wasn’t jealous, but as soon as you’d imitate the face that you saw him pulling across the room, he’d know the game was up and that he didn’t have a leg to stand on.

K ⇴ KIDS

You certainly felt the pressure from his family to start considering a family of your own quite soon into your relationship. They knew the two of you were great, and it was obvious to them all that the two of you were going to stick together, and with that, their minds instantly looked to kids. Changsub could often only apologise for how forward they were, assuring them it was something you’d think about when the time was right.

L ⇴ LAUGHTER

Changsub had plenty of quirks and weird habits that meant there weren’t many times around him that you didn’t have a smile on your face. You never knew quite what to expect from him next, one minute he’d be serious and an adult, the next minute he’d be running around the place like a kid, trying to get you involved in all sorts of pranks and jokes on the other members. Changsub loved to enjoy himself and was more than happy in expressing himself and how crazy he could be without the fear of what others would think. All that mattered was that you loved and enjoyed the person that he was.

M ⇴ MISSING

Just like with many other stages of emotion, it was very clear to the group when Changsub was missing you on the road too. Of course, as with his jealous, he’d argue that he was fine, but the group hadn’t spent a decade together for no reason, they knew Changsub better than he knew himself sometimes. Eventually they’d manage to wear him down into admitting that he was struggling, but not before he made them all promise that they wouldn’t tell you how low he was feeling, because as he always told them, and you, the last thing he wanted to do was make the tour more difficult for you.

N ⇴ NICKNAMES

Changsub loved to give you cute nicknames that he knew would make you blush. He was always coming up with new ones, sometimes very random, but each one always managed to get him a reaction out of you.

O ⇴ OBSESSION

He was obsessed with your eyes, he could always tell exactly what was going on and how you were feeling, usually just by the way that you looked back at him.

P ⇴ PDA

You could never expect Changsub to be normal with his affection in public, he loved to clown around, and would often play up to any cameras that were around too, knowing that the fans loved to see the two of you too. No matter what, it would always take you by surprise, and leave him scolded when you got home too.

Q ⇴ QUESTIONS

He’ll always make sure to check in and see how you are at various points throughout your day together. Your eyes are always a giveaway, so if you lie, then he’ll just keep asking until he gets the truth out of you.

R ⇴ RANDOM FACTS

You’ll often find yourself falling asleep with your fingers tracing over Changsub’s tattoos, usually with him already fast asleep beside you. You’ll often doodle new ones too, tracing random patterns along his arm or his ribcage. Although he never lets on, the feeling of your fingers trailing along his skin is definitely a feeling that helps him sleep tonight, although he’s far too scared to admit that to you in person.

S ⇴ SEX

For the most part, Changsub is always incredibly loving when it comes to intimacy, he enjoys the moment and the adrenaline rush that comes with it. However, it usually isn’t long before he starts up with his usual antics, when he finds himself falling too deeply, he’ll come out with a joke or make a funny remark to try and make things a little less intense between the two of you, never quite knowing how to cope with the sudden passion.

T ⇴ TEXTS

If he can’t ask you in person how you’re doing, then Changsub will often text you instead. Although he never wholly trusts in your response, the fact that you responded alone is usually a good enough sign for him.

U ⇴ UNIVERSE

More than anything else, Changsub loves that you’re someone who can really appreciate his sense of humour and give him somewhere to be himself. He never has to hide or pretend around you, because you love every part of who he is.

V ⇴ VACATION

It had been quite a while since Changsub got to spend some time with his family, and so when the chance to go away came around, he decided to create a huge trip for you, him, and his family too. It was also the perfect chance for you to get to know them more too, and another event that you couldn’t back out of.

W ⇴ WHINING

There were definitely times that Changsub would whine, whilst he didn’t crave attention, sometimes he just couldn’t help but want your eyes on him.

X ⇴ XXXXX

He would love nothing more than when he was able to tease you with his kisses, he loved to pull away just as you began to deepen a kiss, or tug gently against your bottom lip when you were busy in the hope that it would distract you from what you were doing and put your attention on him. However, if you ever did that to him, you could be guaranteed to be in big trouble with him, unimpressed by your antics.

Y ⇴ YOU

You were his best friends, together you were the best possible team.

Z ⇴ ZZZ

The struggle was definitely real when it came to trying to wake Changsub up in the morning. You’d never known someone sleep as well as he did, often resorting to dangerous tactics to try and wake him up and get him out of bed.

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