#greta is tagged in things

[ginevrastilinski-ocs]

@goldenlilium-ocs tagged me in this game! Thank you very much! Using this uquiz, find out in which way your ocs likes to be touched.

(I did three of my babies, but you can do how many you want!)

Mia Barnes

Cautiously. Your teeth are bared, as they have been, your jaw aching for so long as growls slip free. You always have to defend yourself. You lash out in fear. You need someone who does not shrink back... a hand falling slowly to your shoulder, however briefly, in a reminder that you do not have to lunge. There is no danger here, now.

Jericho Valeska

Fervently. You crave a hug that cracks your ribs... the feeling of your wandering soul being crushed back into the bones that can't seem to hold it. You need a hand gripping yours so tightly you almost fear it may leave a bruise, a reminder that you are here. And that you are not alone.

Nate Simmons

Gently. You need to be held as though you're going to break. You need someone to trace your scars like cracks in a wall, crumbling. Their touch is almost painful; you've been without it for too long, without someone to hold you.But, you cannot bring yourself to pull away.

Tagging: @andromedalestrange @cecexwrites @randomestfandoms-ocs @eddysocs (You don't need to do it! But feel tagged if you want to 👀)

[sleepynegress]

On Greta Danesti...

I'm just taking this time to correct a certain anti-Black, (and anti-Romani) sadly typical fandom troll's misogynoir fuckery in the tag and establishing who Greta Danesti is in canon Castlevania animation lore. This is Greta Danesti's official character sheet:

She's the village headwoman of Danesti a few miles away from Alucard's castle. This is what her voice actress, Marsha Thompson looks like:

It's pretty obvious her character design took cues from the actress, who is Afro-British. In show canon, however, her family escaped from the Roman city of Carthage, which today, is located in the African country Tunisia. Alucard correctly speculated where her people are from while conversing with her, here (s4 e5):

Greta then confirms that her people did escape the Romans, but she now fully embraces her "family" in her village who are "from all over" and the responsibility of taking care of them.

This same troll used the g-slur to insist that she is Romani.

She is not. This troll used an early character design here, to make her case.:

And though it does have similarities to Romani clothing... It also looks like it takes cues from Tunisian clothing and likely local and non-local European clothing of the era with "fantasy" elements sprinkled in, as well, which would match the fact of her village's people coming from all over:

There definitely should be more Romani rep in media as it is so often whitewashed, but Greta is not Romani.

FYI, these women actors actually *are* of Romani descent: Fairuza Balk of The Craft, Oona Chaplin who played Robb Stark's wife in GOT (she's also Charlie Chaplin's granddaughter[!]), and Noomi Rapace from the Swedish movie, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo says her father may have been of Romani descent, as well.

And because I can predict it, as people like to find ways of discounting blackness in every way...

Yes, there are plenty of non-Black indigenous POC in North Africa, including within Tunisia. Another fun fact... Africa has more indigenous human genetic variation among its peoples than every other people on the planet has with everyone else on the planet[!]. All this to say non-white POC AND Black people are indigenous to Tunisia.

I feel I have to say that because there is a lot of anti-Black anthropological fetishization of North Africa. Egypt is a major example of that (see: Rami Malek, an indigenous Coptic Egyptian who self-identifies as African man of color and has likely had to clarify that *often* because people keep wanting to mislabel him as an Arab, but I digress...) And sadly, there is a decidedly anti-black movement to totally disconnect certain North African countries' identities from a continental African one, and to largely see it as mainly a part of the MENA world (it is both kiddies, BOTH). Here is an informative article (linked in the image) about that struggle:

So, this got heavy...but between the post insisting that Greta is NOT Black and the one saying she's not bisexual because that same troll is purposefully and maliciously being obtuse about how words go together... I figured clearing some things up and educating folks might be helpful. BTW, the fact of those issues in the article makes her blackness all the more resonant as rep in pop culture. And hey, poly folks have disagreements, just like the het folks do... -Still bi. I'm gonna end here with two images from the linked article of anti-racist Tunisian protesters (MENA and Black):

P.S. I also side-eye those keen to make her muscular... I mean yeah she wields a big-ass hammer and shortsword/dagger, but the tendency to masculinize black woman characters deserves a hardy eye-squint. Especially, given that the show has *no problem* making muscular women look like that and they DIDN'T for Miss Greta.

See: Zamfir and the Berserk-style sword-carrying Vampire warrior, Striga. Both of whom had that flex going on.

[melancholygirl111]

[paragal]

Happy Birthday Jack Manifold!!! He’s 21!!!

[anti-solidcoffee]

This piece was such a struggle and there's probably more I could do for it in the future, but I do really like how she ended up

[jmkho]

✨️👁Stay Weird👁✨️

[antlerlad]

some bust comms for @bloomingjellies!!! thank you so much for commissioning me (and also for your patience <3)

[builtbybrokenbells]

ah, so idk if we have time to unpack all that. um. anyway. hope everyone is having a wonderful day. remember this is a positive and safe space, I really try to emulate that and would love to keep it solely as such. thanks 🫶🏻

[notmoreflippingelves]

For the pairing ask meme: Jo/Laurie from Little Women (really curious about it!) And Carla/Mateo from EoA (because kinda love your Mateo roasting and takes 😁)

Jo/Laurie (????)

This is hard, because I don't know whether I ship it or not. I do but I don't. I think if I were to guess I'd say overall, I primarily don't except for Winona Ryder!Jo/Christian Bale! Laurie from Little Women (1994). I guess I'm going to go with "no" overall, because honestly as much as I love that adaptation, Christian Bale Laurie is arguably too "cool"/suave compared to book!Laurie (who tbh is more than a bit pathetic sometimes). Like I'm genuinely a little "What are you thinking?" when Winona!Jo turns Bale!Laurie down but I am mostly okay with it in all other incarnations. I do also mostly like Amy/Laurie and Jo/Bhaer as much if not more , so yeah I'm not really cut up about it Jo/Laurie not being endgame.

Why don’t you ship it?

For me, it's largely that there is a sense (more pronounced in some adaptions than others) that Laurie wants to be a March Girl™ (gender-neutral) more than he wants to be Jo's life-partner which is not really the idea ship vibe--even if I can't exactly blame him as I too would do almost anything to be a March Girl. Like sure Jo was his first choice by far and I do believe that his eventual relationship with Amy is genuinely based on more than "settling"--but I also feel relatively sure that he might have hypothetically settled for Beth or Meg under other circumstances. And that's just not a solid start for a relationship, if your s.o. could've hypothetically is always low-key considering your sibling as a backup plan if things go south with you too. (I mean you could say that the same is true of Laurie/Amy, but I do think it's less bad b/c Amy has literally been in love with Laurie since she was 12 and because overall their personalities "mesh" a little better than Jo/Laurie).

I also worry a bit about how Laurie's wealth might hypothetically impact the Jo/Laurie relationship. I do think that he would continue to be supportive of her writing and theatrical dreams, but I can also see him overcompensating/supporting her "too much." Unlike Bhaer, I don't think Laurie is capable of offering her constructive criticism that is necessary for her work to improve. He's too much of an inherent simp who thinks Jo March is already the most amazing human to ever exist (again can't totally blame him for that) to even conceive of the possibility that she has genuine strengths and weaknesses. I can also see him throwing his money and influence around a little in order to get her published/earning favorable reviews. Jo is fiercely independent and so achieving her dreams on her own terms/by her own merit is supremely important to her--arguably more important than her achieving them at all. Laurie interfering in her career even positively/with good intentions would inevitably cause a lot of conflict between them and create some self-doubt of Jo as to whether she really "earned"/"deserves" her success at all.

What would have made you like it?

As I mentioned I do sort of like it even as I also dislike it. I guess I would like it more consistently/wish it was endgame if Laurie was just a wee bit less eager/obsessed/convinced they were "meant to be." Also if we had a stronger sense that Jo herself wanted the romance specifically as opposed to just Laurie staying in her life. Another thing that makes me a little wary about Jo/Laurie is the meta-aspect of knowing that Louisa May Alcott was very adamant about not wanting them together. Her publisher pretty much insisted that Jo needed to find love in Part 2 and so she created Professor Bhaer in order to give Jo an alternate love interest

Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?

A lot, especially since I don't not ship it even if I don't ship it. Their "meet cute" scene at the ball is one of my favorite scenes in the book and arguably one of my favorite "character introduction scenes" in all of literature. I think that the two of them have great chemistry and a really supportive dynamic. They care deeply about each other and have so much fun together. (You see this as well in the sequels. Even though they're both romantically with other people, they are still go-to confidants and partners-in-mischief for each other).

I also think that narratively Jo/Laurie has to "work" on some level in order to justify the direction that story takes. The first time that you encounter the story, the reader/viewer needs to really like them together and assume that them being endgame is inevitable. It gives Jo's decision to reject his proposal more poignancy and agency. She needs to love him deeply and know that he loves her--even if they can't love each other in the same way--in order to fully be able to choose herself and her goals over him. If he's not an otherwise desirable option, her choice not to choose him isn't a real choice. She needs to be conflicted, tempted even, if her decision to prioritize her own dreams and needs over his and her family's is to hold any real weight.

And Alcott (and most of the adaptions) do a fantastic job of making Jo/Laurie seem plausible/desirable so that the rejected proposal emotionally fulfills its narrative purpose for Jo's character development (and a lesser extent Laurie's and Amy's as well).

Carla/Mateo (I ship it albeit very low-key though Carla probably deserves better)

What made you ship it?

Probably their interactions in late S3 most of all (especially the finale). I think there is clearly attraction and chemistry between them. They seem to have similar, slightly dorky and clumsy personalities that seem like they would mesh well. And shallow , I know, but their character models are also attractive and look good together.

What are your favorite things about the ship?

Is it bad if I say that I like how easily Rita!Carla was able to make Mateo look like the biggest fool in all Avalor?

I think there is a lot of potential for the two of them to bond. They're both very family-oriented, and I think there's a lot of potential for them to grow closer as being the only (and a little coddled/spoiled) children of very loving but somewhat smothering single parents (Victor and Rafa)--as well as missing their absent other parents (Ash and Mateo's father).

They are also arguably THE characters (well them, Victor, and Olivia) who are most actively interested in learning magic. (Gabe and Elena express some curiosity but specifically in the context of magic being a tool to protect the kingdom as opposed to something they want to learn just for itself). So it's nice to think of magic being another way that they can grow closer/flirt/have fun together.

I also adore the Delgado father and daughter relationship and enjoy thinking about how Carla/Mateo would impact Victor and his relationship with his daughter. Whether he's supportive (most likely) or hesitant (my personal head canon), it has the potential to be really fun/funny and heartwarming.

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

Carla/Mateo is one of the only Mateo ships that I can tolerate. Sorry not sorry. It's this and like two non-existent rare pairs . And even then, I don't think I am ever doing more than casually enjoying it, since my Mateo indifference is so strong. (I do really like Carla though and have a few more ships with her).

[ginevrastilinski-ocs]

WIP Snippet Game!

Thank you @goldenlilium-ocs for tagging me!

Share a random line of text from your current WIP or a part of dialogue from one of your characters. Do not give any explanation or context, and see what your followers think. Then, tag a few friends to keep the randomness going!

"I bet that they'll find a way to make a disaster"

Tagging: @randomestfandoms-ocs @eddysocs @andromedalestrange @cecexwrites

[gvf23]

I feel like no one knows who I am on here, so this is meeeee ☺️

Fav artists:

Greta van fleet

5sos

Twice

Straykids

Chungha

Blackpink

Sabrina carpenter (I think that’s how you spell it)

Doja cat

Jonas brothers

About me:

I am the oldest of six and the only girl (rip me)

I’m 5ft 2”

My fave foods are French toast and Reese’s peanut butter cups

I’m from West Midlands, UK

I’m a may Taurus ♉️

My fave shows are stranger things and teen Wolf 🥸

If any of you wanna do this feel free, also if you wanna be friends don’t be afraid to message 🤪

[dimdiamond]

Just watched Barbie (yeah I know super late) and (maybe) unpopular opinion but this movie was less about feminism (as you all kept talking about) and more about the ordeal and the beauty of life.

[acacia-may]

Hi Acacia! Can I have cactus and abelia for the ask game?

Hi Greta! Thank you so much for the ask! 🥰

Questions from this "Get to Know Me" Ask Game

cactus ⇢ something you’re currently learning (about)?

I wasn't sure if this question was asking about skills or information I'm learning so I've decided to answer both.

In terms of information that I'm learning, I feel like I'm always picking up random facts and tidbits and falling down the research rabbit hole without meaning to. The most recent thing I learned was about the history of wedding rings around the world. (To tell you the absolute truth, I was researching for a fanfiction and ultimately learned that, no, these characters would not have had rings 😅).

In terms of skills that I'm learning, my sister has been teaching me about digital art, and we have a bit of an art club. I'm not very good at it, but I'm learning...😅 I think I'm much more comfortable with writing as a creative medium, than with drawing, but I always try to pick up a new creative hobby in the winter. In the past, I've picked up clay sculpting, scrapbooking, knitting, old school paper and pencil sketching, and (last year) writing fanfiction on AO3, so digital art is the newest in a long line of artistic hobbies I've tried. I liked writing the best by far though and actually kept up with it. 😁

abelia ⇢ do you have a particular piece of jewelry you always wear or can’t part with?

I don't wear a lot of jewelry usually (mainly because I forget to put it on 🙈), but I do have a couple of rings I like to wear, and I always wear a golden medical bangle (which tells first responders I have a bleeding disorder in case of an emergency). Since I have to wear that one, I spent a lot of time trying to find one that I actually liked and that wasn't too "medical" (if that makes sense?), and it makes me super happy when I get compliments on it from people who don't catch the Rod of Asclepius on the side and think it's just regular jewelry. 😊

In terms of fun jewelry or jewelry that is important to me, I inherited a set of earrings from each of my great grandmothers before they passed away so those are very special to me. (I rarely ever wear them, however, because of sentimental value and fear of losing them). I have quite a few necklaces, but the three I wear most often all have butterflies on them. One has a silver butterfly with open wings, and another has four golden butterflies (I wore that one today actually). The one in the picture below, however, is my favourite because the body of the butterfly is (very subtly) a semi colon for mental health awareness. The necklace is actually tarnishing because I've worn it so much, so I’m afraid I might have to try to replace it someday. I've always loved butterflies and, to me, they have always really symbolized hope so I really like my butterfly jewelry. 🦋

[secretly-of-course]

THE SAPPHICS ARE GETTING MARRIED AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

[iloveyouimsorrry]

sadly i’ve never met someone who talks as much as me but if i did i think i would find them rather annoying

[mikimeiko]

Albums I listened to in 2024

Anthem of the Peaceful Army - Greta Van Fleet (2018)