#grooming in the witch community

[unreachableniy]

Kitty’s Valentine Day Astro Game

Hello Lovelies , ASTRO GAME TIME💋

Status:Closed feb 14-16

Meowew! Rules:

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In my ask box :Send your groom persona chart! + a picture of how you think my Future spouse will look/Dress based off his groom pc big three: Virgo sun 9°,Sag moon 0°, Cap rising 7°!

Double check if you followed the rules!(those who do not, I will not answer)

And I will make a 4 picture moodboard based off what I think your future spouse will be like! + A song that symbolizes them

Looking forward to it~ mwah!🐾

[swagging-back-to]

no one; ...

lilsimsie after slipping up and mentioning harry potter one time; ''not that i want to even mention that womans name or talk about her at all. jk rowling is such a bad person---''

[serpentface]

SPIRITS OF THE HIGHLANDS: A POST

Depiction of a dragon in regional animal-style (simplified visual motifs that impart and communicate key attributes of animals), as used in decoration or tattooing.

The term ‘spirit’ in the Hill Tribes cultural sphere is a very broad category that includes souls of the dead, supernatural entities, and some legendary creatures, but does not include gods (entities that were involved in the act of creation). The boundaries between spirits and gods can be ambiguous sometimes- a select few spirits are venerated in similar capacities to gods and/or are reckoned as similarly powerful, and some gods are instead considered spirits in certain traditions. The commonalities among all are that they are ascribed sapience and some degree of magical ability, and/or are souls of the dead.

Spirits are understood to be a material aspect of reality, mostly existing in physical bodies (though some are disembodied). The notion of a ‘spirit world’ and a ‘human world’ is usually differentiated, but not in the sense that they are physically discrete planes of existence, rather that they are separate modes of living and different parts of the same landscape- the human world exists in the villages, farmland, and well-established roads, and the spirit world exists in 'wilderness', and in places that are wholly inaccessible (the sky, mountaintops, deep underwater etc). People enter the spirit world as part of routine movements of life (herders moving up to high summer pastures are within the spirit world) but it is regarded as unfit for permanent occupation.

Spirits are loosely differentiated into the categories of granul ('wild spirits', entities that live in wilderness) and daigh (souls of dead humans and animals). An additional subset of granul are '-folk', regarded as a type of person in similar capacities to qilik being 'birdfolk' and elowey being 'dogfolk', but living specifically as magical aspects of nature.

All spirits are regarded as individuals and many are known by name (either as key folkloric figures, or with the names of local spirits discerned through the divination of witches). Their natures range from benevolent to mischievous to malevolent to deadly, with some having the capacity for all these at once. The vast majority are not venerated (only ancestors receive this treatment in full), just accepted as aspects of reality that one must know how to engage with.

Spirits are assumed to exist throughout the world in great number and variety, it is just those of the Highlands who are best known and most important to the Hill Tribes. Most people will very readily adopt other spirits (and some foreign gods) into their worldview without this being an act of religious conversion or other such cultural paradigm shift, instead simply assuming these entities to be the unfamiliar local spirits of foreign places.

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Wildfolk: Humanlike spirits of the forests and mountains, associated with deer. These are tricky, sometimes malicious, and easily offended entities that must be dealt with respect and care. They mostly take the form of deer during the day and shapeshift into small, pale, long-bearded and wild-haired humans at night. They exist in a parallel society as deer herders, and are led by very powerful witches who can physically shapeshift into birds. The wildfolk witch Bernike is the most famous and has a prominent place as a major character in folklore, regularly interacting with gods and heroes and regarded as a (somewhat capricious) protective spirit of the Highlands.

Riverfolk: Humanlike river spirits, generally not as dangerous as wildfolk. They travel along rivers in canoes and will often rest and sunbathe along the shore, but are often very shy of people and will usually take the forms of trout to flee when spotted. They sometimes appear in folktales as seducers, or as brides/grooms (after being caught by fishermen in trout form). Said to once have had entire kingdoms to the southwest of the Highlands, but these were conquered by the Burri. (This aspect is partly a cultural memory of early Wardi tribes that lived in the lands now called Ephennos, most likely the eponymous Ephenni or a related group absorbed by them).

Seafolk: Humanlike sea spirits. The Highlands are fully landlocked (the far north of the region is fairly close to the coast of the Viper, but not enough for people to venture that far on any regular basis) and these mostly are just assumed to exist without being regularly encountered. They appear in myths in the migration and settlement cycles, described as being encountered by the ancestors of the Hill Tribes as they crossed the sea. They are described as akin to riverfolk, but more aggressive.

Dainhrudinnas: Spirits with the bodies of humans and the heads of dogs, who are excellent swimmers and are the spirits of lakes (dainhrudinnas having meaning akin to 'lake dogs', with the word for 'lake' translating dead literally as 'great river valley'). These are said to only live in far away places (usually regarded as being across the sea to the north, or somewhere vaguely 'east' or 'south' inland), but make semi frequent appearances in stories about distant lands. They may be partly rooted in cultural memories of various elowey peoples that were encountered by the pre-migratory ancestors of the Hill Tribes, and/or a loose conceptualization of the Jazait people based in secondhand knowledge. They are regarded as akin to elowey but not the same thing (in a similar capacity to wildfolk, riverfolk, and oceanfolk being akin to humans).

Kulsigranul: Minor wild spirits, mostly associated with barley. They are usually described as tiny (1 ft tall) humans who usually live alone in the wild, but convene in barley fields on nights of the full moon to engage in drunken revelry. They are also known to steal milk from the teats of cattle and horses, which is regarded as an intoxicant for them. Their presence is beneficial to the crops (though not to livestock), and cups of milk can be left out to attract them into fields. They hate being seen by humans and can cause bad luck or the withering of crops if their festivities are interrupted. On full moons, one should generally avoid entering barley fields and never follow sounds of distant music.

Virgranul: a malicious spirit with no body of its own, perpetually seeking to inhabit human flesh. It can enter the body only at moments of transition- during conception, or at the very moment of death. Virgranul possession at birth causes a person to become a witch, virganul possession at death results in the corpse wandering off and living as undead until it becomes too rotten to hold its shape (a dangerous situation for the original soul, given it is still partly attached to the body). Particularly experienced virgranul will mummify their corpse bodies to preserve them indefinitely, and some isolated places are known to be haunted by such undead.

Tírgranul: Minor malicious spirits who take pleasure in frightening those alone (especially at night) and spooking cattle. They are usually encountered as a human silhouette peering out from behind a tree or bolder, shadows darting out the corner of the eye, and the sound of footsteps that halt just after one stops moving to listen. Sudden and unexplained stampedes among cattle are attributed to their presence. It is often said that their faces are so horrifying that merely looking upon them can kill, but these spirits are very shy and will avoid directly being seen. One should never whistle at night, it attracts them.

Dulakgranul: Minor, benevolent wild spirits who live among rocks. Herders and travelers will build small cairns out of rocks along their routes, which will invite these spirits, who in turn displace less savory ones. They will grant boons to travelers who leave small gifts of food and drink at their cairns.

Dragons: legendary beasts, younger offspring of the goddess Ariakh and the King of Eagles, and associated with thunderstorms. They are massive birds with the bodies and wings of eagles, legs of pheasants, wrinkled bare faces and necks of vultures, and the heads and tails of snakes. They roost in eyries on mountaintops, and only emerge to hunt during storms. Horses and cattle are their favorite meals, but they will settle for humans given the chance. They are regarded as vain and egotistical, jealous of their bigger, older brothers (the Winds), and highly competitive amongst themselves (forming a hierarchy system in their level of venomousness). They are often defeated in folktales by manipulation of their competitiveness and vanity to turn them against one another.

As is very common worldwide, the depictions of dragons in this sphere are influenced by distant cultural memories (or culturally transmitted accounts) of giant azhdarchid pterosauroids, with mythological dragons in this world being far more ubiquitously described as a mixture of bird and reptile and almost always identified as winged, flying creatures. Eastern dragons such as these tend to have the feathered wings of birds (largely due to greater temporal space from encounters with these pterosauroids, whose last remnant populations were thousands of miles away in the far northwestern plains).

Fuldaigh: Malicious spirits of unburied/unburned (depending on tradition) dead, or those dead by suicide, who wander without rest. Fuldaigh are twisted by their suffering and aggressive and harmful towards the living. Their spirits can usually be freed by their remains being found and properly laid to rest.

Pylidaigh: Very dangerous, very malicious spirits who emerge during snowstorms, known to kill humans via a crushing hug and drink their blood to warm their own eternally cold bodies (in most traditions, they are a variant of fuldaigh, specifically ghosts of unburied dead who died in snow or of hypothermia). They exist as pale, naked humans with very long arms, which they use to wrap around and suffocate their prey in a close embrace. They are only capable of traveling over snow; doorways and windows should always be kept clear of snowfall so they cannot get close enough to reach their freakish arms into your house.

Duirdaigh: A little-understood type of spirit known to haunt the remains of ancient, overgrown burial cairns that can be found scattered throughout the Highlands. The builders of these cairns were already long gone at the time of settlement by the first Hill Tribes, and their exact nature is regarded as a great mystery. The spirits keep to their mounds and are thus generally harmless, but are regarded as ones to wholly avoid. It's said that people who walk over the cairns will often disappear, never to be seen again. This is attributed to duirdaigh, who drag them beneath the cairns to an ambiguous but certainly horrifying doom.

Ancestor spirits: This is what the honored dead become upon reaching the afterlife in the Celestial Fields, a great landscape hidden behind the stars. They will continue to watch over their descendants and can temporarily return to the land of the living as guides. Depending on tradition, they either come to land as invisible spirits, or physically manifest as birds and use this form to fly from and to the Fields. In either case, the flight and behavior of birds can be read and interpreted into messages and omens from one’s ancestors (with some care, both given that birdsign messages can be subtle, and that wildfolk witches can become birds too and use this for the sake of trickery). Ancestor spirits go through their afterlives much in the same way as the living, farming, herding, eating, drinking, sleeping, etc. Their basic physical needs are sustained by the Fields (they are fed on the milk of heavenly cattle and will never starve or thirst), but they still must labor if they want additional foods and goods, or receive them as offerings from living descendants.

While respected and generally assumed good-natured, ancestor spirits inflict punishments against lawbreakers and oathbreakers, and may also punish descendants who do not rightly honor them, or if they are merely insulted. A testy and contemptuous relative in life will likely remain so in death, and one should take care to keep them appeased. Naming and honoring one's ancestors and practicing routine offerings is the foremost form of spiritual protection, and will ultimately allow you to reach the afterlife. The veneration of and guidance from deceased ancestors is central to cultural practice, these are by far the most important spirits in day to day life (generally outstripping gods in importance as well).

Heavenly cattle: The cattle that inhabit the Celestial Fields. Traditions usually accept these as the ghosts of dead cattle, but some tales imply that they are separate entities created specifically for the afterlife (or a combination of the two, as they are known to breed). Their existence is credited to the agricultural goddess Od, who first brought them to the heavens to ensure the people remained fed in the afterlife. Ancestor spirits are sustained for perpetuity on their milk.

Queen of Spiders: a mostly benevolent entity, the first spider and mother of all other spiders. The hero Kulyos received her boon, and now her children feed on nasty biting flies and mosquitoes and trap malicious spirits in their webs, and are thus readily welcomed into the home. If you kill a spider, you should say an apology to the Queen of Spiders. Otherwise, she will punish you by not sending more spiders into your house.

King of Eagles: Created by and the husband of the storm goddess Ariakh, father of the Winds and dragons, the first eagle and chief of all birds. He is the one who brought fire to humanity, stealing it from the sun god Hraighne. He is elevated to the status of a god in some traditions (which describe him as the creator of birds, rather than simply the first), and is one of very few non-ancestor spirits to commonly receive veneration.

Animal masters: Spirits associated with each and every type of animal, being the first of each kind that was created. Most animal masters play little to no role in cultural practice and are merely acknowledged as an aspect of reality- there had to have been a first of every animal, so this is it. (This may have elements of syncretism with animistic practices ancient Wardi/Wogan tribes, accepting the notion that each kind of animal has a spirit, but not adopting additional levels of significance). Animal masters mostly appear as characters in folktales told for pure entertainment, with the biggest exceptions being the Queen of Spiders and King of Eagles listed above (having greater cultural significance). A few individual tribes place significance on additional animal masters (or interpret certain gods as also having been such), but no other animal masters have this degree of ubiquitous cultural status.

The Winds: spirits of the wind, the eldest sons of the storm goddess Ariakh and the King of Eagles. They are regarded as giant dragons, but will sometimes take the form of humans or hawks. They herd their mother's cattle in the clouds.

Mak-Urudain: A gigantic dírgrahdain dog with fiery fur and eyes like stars, who watches over the Celestial Fields as its guardian. He allows the honored dead to enter, ancestors to come and go, and prevents evil spirits or dishonored dead from passing into the Fields. He also guards the heavenly cattle that are grazed there, fiercely protecting them from mere wild spirits and powerful gods alike. The goddess Ariakh is the only one who has ever succeeded in stealing cattle from him. He is sometimes considered to be the dog animal-master, though usually just accepted as a very unique dog. Represented by the dog constellation.

[marshemillow]

I know I'm just preaching to the choir at this point, but I absolutely HATE how cancel culture has completely spiraled out of control.

Sorry to fucking break it to you, but nobody takes your callout posts seriously anymore because you've collectively decided that;

"This person is against harassment" "This person ships gross ships" "This person said something off-color on twitter when they were 13" and "This person is a current threat to real children"

Are all on the same level of bad. You really think anyone is going to care about your opinion on the "pedophile" you found this week when your definition of "pedophile" is so broad it could include anyone at any time??

I'm also sick of hearing about all the real predators that flew under the radar harming real children for YEARS just because they said all the right key words and started the right harassment campaigns against the right people, basically clearing them of all suspicion, so shipping gross ships is actually punished way more harshly than being a real child rapist, not that anyone would think otherwise anyway with how many times a callout post goes on and on about how bad some person is because they ship gross ships and have a secret AO3 account where they write stories about abuse and old DeviantArt drawings of zadr from when they were 7, and then right at the end they tack on "oh and also they raped an 11-year-old" as if it's only barely relevant extra information and not what should be THE MAIN POINT OF THE GODDAMN POST!!! Like nobody's going to read that far to get to the real point so the post overall was meaningless!!!

These people clearly need to go back to grade school to read the boy who cried wolf, because it's clear that they think just slamming the PEDO button over and over and over again will always have the same reaction every time, and when it doesn't, they think it means everyone else must be a pedo or pedo-apologist when the callout posters actually just created a reason why they can't be trusted, and don't think I didn't notice how many of these people who are canceled are queer or jewish, trans people are targets I swear like 1/3rd of the time!!! Why are so many cancelled people trans when they make up less than 2% of the overall population?? If you think it's because trans people are predators, then you clearly have worse problems than whoever you're falsely accusing.

It's obviously just a tactic people use to be able to ruin the life of anyone they want as an act of petty revenge and NOT because they're interested in protecting anyone. These are often good innocent people who sometimes end up committing suicide because of how badly their reputation was ruined by allegations that weren't even true.

And that's not even the worst part; Which is that the more you falsely accuse people who are innocent, the less people who have real allegations are believed, the more abusers can get away with abusing.

And that's not even getting into people who are called transphobic because they talk about intersexism, trans men who are slammed for being men, bisexual people who are slammed for having "straight-passing privilage", asians who are victims of horrific racist harassment campaigns even by people who aren't white, and many many other examples, ending in entire communities that are easily groomed into extremist ideologies because they don't have the tools to see through their bullshit thanks to all the bad faith discourse saying shit that's actually nonsense but laiden with guilt, so you HAVE to agree if you don't want to be cancelled yourself, and in turn of course, that leads to even more people who will never admit when they're wrong because "admitting you're wrong" is the same thing as accepting whatever punishment the witch hunters have planned for you on top of losing your humanity because you have to be perfect all the time always and if you make one single mistake you're a monster who deserves to die.

It's so fucking horrific, and it needs to stop.

[lilacgaby]

01 | Mᴀʀʀʏ ���ᴇ

~1.3k

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the kingdom of todoroki ruled with an iron fist.

lands around were conquered easily, any resistance killed off instantly without regret. through their destructive forceful tendencies, they garnered a reputation across the many nations of the land for their brutality that rivaled even the nation of barbarians.

their harsh punishment to innocents came twice as hard if there was even a chance that the victims happened to be witches.

the tale as old as time went as followed: a witch had resisted the cruel king's orders face to face, which led to confrontation. what were these orders? that was lost to time, but the hatred for witches wasn't.

more specifically, the hatred that had arose from a fight that had left the king's face permanently scared across his eye.

since then, witches have been hunted down and executed in mere seconds, with the only witches allowed to live being ones who served the king himself. the todoroki who had set it into place, and enji who now ruled, all vowed for the same thing.

the murder of all witches who weren't 'serving' the kingdom.

this didn't stop born witch prodigy, [name], from embracing her powers.

even with the amount of books burned, the brooms and wands used as firewood, the king could not stop the generational knowledge that passed down through the witch bloodline. that very bloodline which coursed through her veins.

since childhood, she'd practice these powers. it had been awakened on a full moon when she suddenly found she had the power of ice, she froze over an entire lake just to go ice skating in the summer. feeling guilty, she felt she had to unfreeze the lake and save the now dormant fishes in it, which led to her discovering her fire.

each element of her magic was discovered through experimentation and coincidence, just like the first generations of witches.

because of her strength, personality, and kindness, she was well-known and protected throughout her town's very own taverns and cottages. the villagers would warn her of soldiers passing through, and would even give her space to practice in their yards. she would heal the townsfolk for cheap, start fires, and found other useful ways to apply her elemental magic through her assistance in the town.

in particular: shinsou, a worker at the tavern, toga, a knight, and midoriya, the town's intellect all worked to keep her safe.

everyday, after a hard days of work for them all, they'd sit in the tavern, drink, and chat. midoriya, who couldn't seem to keep his nose out of a book before too long. shinsou, who was eternally tired. and toga, always passionate. they were home to [name], and she was just as important to them as they were to her.

the town, which was abandoned from any form of assistance from the royals, had lost their main form of income which was magic long ago. but, the happiness and community that had been built from the tragedy of the loss was something that couldn't be robbed from them.

as such, this arrangement worked for years, where not a single incident where [name] was ever suspected as a witch had ever come to light. royal checkpoints, random searches, and even interrogations were never fruitful.

until a faithful day where [name] strayed out far too far for far too long.

it had been a necessary risk she neeeded to take. she ran out of frog mucus and birds tongue, which were huge parts of her healing brews.

colds and flus were abundant this time of year, the transition between summer and winter hitting harder for some more than most.

she had just gotten out of the swamp, when from behind she was approached by a man. he was dressed head to toe in expensive garments, hell even his horse was groomed head to toe.

"hello." the strange man said, a fancy air about him. his halfed red-white hair stood out from the rest of his outfit, which was all a royal blue. his heterochromic eyes watching her as she finished stuffing her small basket full of items.

"oh, hello. may i help you with something?" she tried not to show it, but she felt tense. not at the man himself, but because of the red-haired knightsguard member who was staring bullets into her, threateningly.

"yes, actually. i was hoping if you'd know of any healing remedies for my mother. the medics in my home are unable to help her, and you look like you know what you're doing."

she seemed shocked at his request. if royal medics couldn't help how could she? but she decided to indulge him anyways. "oh, of course. i'm not sure if what i can give you would be any stronger or different but, if you follow me to my town i can give you a remedy."

"that sounds perfect, i planned to head into town regardless. thank you..?"

"[name]."

he stuck out his hand, as he introduced himself back. "shoto todoroki."

she almost drops her basket at the revelation, but snaps out of it quickly enough to take his hand. this guy was the heir to the todoroki empire? and even the royal medics couldn't heal his mother? what was going on? why wasn't this headlines everywhere?

"oh, well, todoroki, you can follow me back to the village. it isn't far now."

"alright then, lead the way."

as she led him, his horse, and that red-haired knight to the village, she was deciding whether or not it was safe for him to head into town. he was a prince for godsake! or more accurately, whether it'd be safe for her to enter with him into town.

"todoroki.. if you don't mind me asking, why did you come all this way yourself? isn't it dangerous?"

"well, i suppose. but i have my knight with me here as insurance, and i can handle myself just fine."

"oh, okay. well, we're here. i'll just be a second." she ran inside a shop, and moments later came out with two vials of a pink liquid.

"these should help at least relieve some of the pain felt. while they're not a full solution since i don't know what exactly she's facing, they're a pain suppressive that will help her feel better."

todoroki looked them over, seemingly impressed.

"you have pretty potent remedies for a civilian. thank you for your assistance [name]."

"ah! well, you know, practice gets me pretty good at them!"

"don't mind my asking but, are you a witch?"

she nervously started laughing and denying the allegations. "what? a witch? you're crazy, what would ever give you that idea?"

"i went into another town before this on accident. a woman who claimed to be a witch gave me a remedy, yet called it a potion. and even so, it didn't feel half as powerful as yours [name]. just from touching yours, i feel a strong aura."

"well.. maybe she was just a liar?"

"no, [name]. i think i'm smart enough to know a witch when i see one, especially since my castle medics are witches."

[name] sighed, knowing she had been caught. "okay, fine, i'm a witch."

instead of slicing her head off right there, he just took on a thoughtful expression as he looked up at the sky.

he suddenly brought his eyes back down to her. "[name], i'm going to ask you something quite forward. i hope you can forgive me."

"forward?"

"i know this is sudden but,

would you marry me?"

she now dropped her basket to the ground, her jaw dropping along with it. was this man insane? he certainly didn't look it, he was actually quite handsome so.

why was he so crazy?

"i- i just met you? where did that come from?!"

"well you see, i really..

want my father off the throne."

next!

[r4wnz]

Radqueers trying to paint a picture of being comorbid with profic beliefs is SO dangerous to proshippers.

I'll never understand how these things got roped together but I suppose the radqueer community is already quite infamous for using false equivalence for acceptance. (Their tendency of comparing homophobia, slavery and ableism to anti paras) Literally an antishipper mindset to think your fictional beliefs reflect your real ones. Sure, every radqueer should be proship, but not every proship will be radqueer—very few of us are, I find.

Yeah someone who's apart of a community that largely grooms children is going to be okay with seeing those tropes in fiction because... if they are okay with it in reality why wouldn't they be okay with it in fiction??? That would be unbelievably stupid.

But proship beliefs say absolutely NOTHING about queer identities it's literally just anti harassment/censorship belief.

Insinuating proship is comorbid with radqueer beliefs is going to result in even more harassment of us. If anti-shipper think we are pedophiles over FICTION, seeing people who ACTUALLY encourage real pedophilia they're going to tear Us apart even though we have nothing to do with that community.

If we receive death/rape/torture threats, doxxing, and witch hunting over emotional speculation what do you think will happen to us when pro contact paraphiles represent our community???

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(originally this post was expressing confusion on smth regarding radqueer beliefs however I've been informed that what I was thinking of was radinclus! but I still agree heavily with the other part of my post so I decided to edit rather than delete as I think it's important to talk about!! apologies for issues in text- I've been fighting with Tumblrs post editor it's been majorly laggy)

[shadow-cat-with-red-roses]

i’m going to explain this to you slowly: proshippers are mad about a kid playing ciel because ciel is a consistently sexualized figure in PLENTY of canon material. also i don’t care about the safety of ciel the character because he is not real. not to mention the story sets him up to die gruesomely at the hands of a demon from the beginning and puts him in danger constantly. But yeah people are upset about a real life child being in a production about a child who gets abused and painted in a sexual light over and over again in canon because the child actor in question is real and therefore can be harmed and the pretend person who is actually a drawing that sometimes has audio in addition to it is not real and therefore all of the bad things that happen to him (both in canon and when people ship him with whoever they please) do not actually matter. Hope this helps

If it was just that then why (in the original post that I saw) call oCiel a shota icon? Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of the argument?

If it was just being mad that a real life minor might be sexualized because of the character he is playing. Then why do proshipers still ship Sebaciel? Why is there is countless of fanart and fanfiction of oCiel being sexualized?

Speaking of oCiel being sexualized in canon material he’s only sexualized by other predators. Like Baron kelvin, Viscount Druid, and the cult. And in the wired fan service chapters and cover art that stoped after Emerald Green witch arc.

Also have you watched any of the musical’s that follow canonical manga arcs that used to have that fanservice? If I remember correctly all of them were taken out. And the actor playing Sebastian was instructed to be very careful in his interactions with previous actors playing oCiel because of ships like Sebaciel.

Saying that it doesn’t matter because it’s fiction is just false. As actual children have also been harmed with Sebaciel even if it’s just drawn or written or an audio. I should know because I was one of those kids where that the ship has done actual harm to. That’s why as an adult now I don’t like it. Because to me shipping a csa survivor with a 20000th year old demon that looks like a 25 year old man is gross to me as a victim of grooming.

I understand I can’t change people from shipping it and that wasn’t the point of the post I made. It wasn’t to harass anyone who is a proshiper. Me writing a post about it in a community of people who don’t like the ship how post on it, minding my own business and venting my frustrations about it. Again in a now private community where only people in that community can see it. And not on the original post shows that. Nor is this an attack on you or hell anyone.

If you want to continue debating this then feel free to. But next time have the guts to not be anonymous. If you’re truly convinced on what you believe then why are you hiding yourself?

You could care less on what I think and that’s fine. I could care less on what you think and that’s okay to. As this isn’t to prove anything. If your that upset with my opinion just block and not interact. That’s what I do when I see art or media of Sebaciel or a Proshiper account because what they do isn’t my business. And I move on with my life

[scaryspears]

Walburga vs Tobias + Black Family Things

So I read this post, which inspired me to write this ramble.

When I write a fanfic, I always write Walburga to be the one with power in her and Orion's relationship, with her even sometimes going as far as to groom him (yuck!) because she's older than him by 4 years, so was maybe manipulative enough to convince him to marry her to keep things 'pure'. Walburga loved having power, and what other way could she have lordship unless it was through her husband? Taking it from him, even. Regardless of gender, there's a power dynamic. If Orion was 16, Walburga was probably 19-20. This goes against another headcanon I've made, but food for thought.

When I write Tobias it can get complicated, because I want more than just 'abusive dad'. There is the possibility that Tobias very much loved Severus, but they weren't on speaking terms because of the whole magic thing. I don't think we're even aware of the real reason they didn't get along. We can assume it was magic, but what if it was something else? What if Tobias occasionally got in trouble with the police? What if he was bad with money and the landlord was threatening to throw them out if they didn't find a solution? Maybe the biggest problem Tobias had with Eileen isn't the fact that she was a witch, but the fact that she presumably hid it from him? Deceived him? "If this is what you're hiding from me, what else are you hiding that I don't know about?" I also headcanon/believe that Severus was autistic, so maybe Tobias was really lost on how to communicate with him.

The Black Family Itself (Mostly headcanons)

I like to believe Sirius was raised to be a carbon copy of Walburga by Walburga herself, but she was too successful,which ended up back firing on her. He inherited all her rebellious traits because he was modelled after her. I like to believe Sirius' obsession with tormenting Severus started out of his own insecurities, but soon began to become a power thing. Sirius enjoys feeling power, at least I like to believe so.

Just because Sirius surrounded himself with 'mudbloods' doesn't mean his family's views on them magically disappeared from his mind. He could easily be keeping any rude comments to himself. He did maintain his friendship with James out of rebellion as well, not to say they weren't true friends.

I like to believe it was Pollux's side of the family that inherited the madness, and thus it spread to Sirius and Bellatrix. Both of them had to deal with the pressure of being the oldest, and being the face of their families, so they must always be ready. Always high strung, smug and confident. I think that Bellatrix was specifically married to Rodolphus because she was the strongest out of her siblings. The Lestranges didn't treat women well, so if it ever came down to it, Bellatrix would set Rodolphus straight before he could ever lay a hand on her. She's ruthless, and all too willing to go off the deep end if it means getting what she wants. She and Walburga have that in common.

Cygnus II having Bellatrix, Andromeda and Narcissa during his school years (+ Pollux having Walburga) actually sets up a tone for an interesting, yet messy story. The fandom dismissing it as Rowling getting her maths wrong is actually so boring, and they refuse to experiment with what's written in canon. If you guys are interested, I have experimented. (Not to be that person that advertises, but my name is CruelBritania on Ao3). I think Cygnus ended up being a little distant, but also involved with his daughters. He wanted to live his life freely, but also be there for his daughters. Being a teen dad is chaotic, and I guess his relationship with Druella was messy, because she kind of resented him for not being there enough. Cygnus isn't treated seriously because his parents had to help him raise his children. Even at an older age, he's immature. He never truly knows what to do, and always runs to his parents for help. Bellatrix was closest to her grandparents anyways, but Andromeda grew to resent his absence. Narcissa was a mommy's girl, so she didn't really care.

Regulus is the opposite of Sirius, which makes him an Orion copy. He doesn't rebel out of lack of control, but because he genuinely believes he should. That's why he died the way he did. Sirius was erratic, whilst Regulus was calm and collected. Regulus the embodiment of what a Black was supposed to present themselves as.

Arcturus didn't approve of the whole Voldemort thing, but Regulus was obedient to his mother. As I said, the Blacks loved power. Infiltrating the Death Eater circle was Bellatrix's and Narcissa's husband's job, not a heir's. He was suspicious of Voldemort, and what his intentions could be for the future of magical Britain. Being a descendant of Salazar Slytherin and speaking parseltongue doesn't make you special, it makes you worthy company.

The very second he learned Regulus took the mark, Arcturus knew it wasn't going to lead to anything good. He had to embrace that his family's long history was coming to an end. He watched as his family's influence became forgotten as The Boy Who Lived rose to fame. Magical Britain became more open to muggle influence.

I think the family having sexist views isn't too out of place, but I don't believe they were against the women having independence. For example, Elladora and Cassiopeia were unwed for their entire lives. The women of the family possibly acted like Genghis Khan's daughters, which is to get married to a prince and then send them off to war, while the daughter rules the kingdom in her husband's absence. In this case, infiltrate a family and spread their influence through their husband regarding their occupation. If I remember correctly, the Black family were known for being influential. The women were just as important as the men.  Not enough to be heirs, but still very important.

I don't think the Black family took the Hogwarts house thing too seriously. Yeah, they were competitive, but at the end of the day, these are just traits that they valued. They still married into non Slytherin families if the surnames are anything to go by (Macmillan, Potter, ect.). When Sirius was sorted into Gryffindor he wasn't disowned for it, unlike Marius who got burnt off for being a squib. Who even knows if Marius was killed or given away? Phineas and Cygnus were brothers, so maybe Phineas ended up caring for Marius. Who knows?

I believe that not all of them had extreme views on muggles and muggleborns. Some of them preferred to be segregated, others didn't mind their presence so long as they remembered their roles in life, while a handful did believe in exterminating them. Racism comes in levels, after all. Bellatrix, Andromeda and Narcissa are classic examples of this, with Andromeda learning that her family's beliefs on muggles are ridiculous, and even going as far as to marry one. They were normal every day people, in a 1950s white power kind of way.

I headcanon that the hatred the Blacks had for muggles wasn't too bad until they started losing some family members to them (marriage, witch trials, ect.), and only then did their resentment for muggles become more prevalent. How is it that some family members were able to have enough empathy to fall in love with mudbloods and blood traitors? Support muggles? They have madness, but they're not all heartless.

Here are some of the headcanons I've made:

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Make your fiction Smell (preferably good).

So about a year ago @canisalbus posted exactly what cologine their gay tragic renaissance dogs wear, and it broke my brain.

It was, this, by the way:

Vasco

État libre d'Orange - Tom of Finland (iris, leather, tonka bean) Dior - Homme Parfum (leather, iris, rose) Tom Ford - Tuscan leather (leather, woody, amber)

Machete

Heeley - Cardinal (linen, myrrh, frankincense) État libre d'Orange - Rien Intense Incense (frankincense, amber) Lalique - Encre Noire (cypress, vetiver)

and I loved it because so few creators mention how people smell. So, one reason I keep coming back to a Song of Ice and Fire depite the many problems is a little detail I really, really love. It’s not the worldbuilding (great) or the characters (great). It’s not the epic scope or the fact that it and animorphs are the only two series I’ve seen actually use shifting point of view chapters well, and it’s defiantly not the way GRR treats women (bad) or POC (worse). It’s this.

It's the food porn.

This is something Redwall also gets points for: people love reading about food. It fills out the world, it informs us about character personal tastes, economic and social strata, and even their personal morality and state of mind (think about how delicately Legolas nibbles his waybread and how heartily the hobbits look forward to their second breakfast, vs Golem ferally munching on a raw fish or Denethor managing to make eating tomatoes the most disturbing  moment of a three hour film that involves an army of the undead).

Hell, I’ve held for a long time that Charley and the chocolate factory is the best known Roald Dahl book and film not because it’s the best (objectively either the Witches or Fantastic Mr Fox) but because it’s about chocolate, and it all described in luscious, beautiful terms. In fiction we mostly get descriptions of how things look, less often how they sound, (picture a literary character’s face… then picture their voice. Did the author actually describe the voice, or are you headcanoning it, or imagining the voice of an actor who played the role?) and we’re generally starved (hehe) for descriptions of how thigs taste and smell, and it makes the rare exceptions where that happens stand out so much, and I love it, it’s great.

But… even when it’s done, it’s so seldom done well.

Going back to GRR Martin, who only ever describes how someone smells if that person is evil: they are ether perfumed backstabbing manipulators (Littlefinger, Varys, Shavepate) or unwashed evil brutes (Vargo Hoat, Brown Benis, Victarion). Twice, he uses the simple act of a man wearing perfume to indicate to the reader that the man is both secretly gay and too weak to be a good ruler (Renly, Daemon II Blackfire). If he ever describes a person’s breath it either you show he’s been sweetening it to hide his inner foulness (Littlefinger, most of Danny’s suitors), a drunk (Dearon the Drunkard, Bobby B, Cersei and Tyrion after their dad’s death) old and crusty (the mad king, John Aryn) a foul unwashed brute (Bitter, the hound, the Mountain) or going feral (Arya). And… it’s so fucking boring. How someone grooms themselves and presents themselves can present so much more interesting information to the reader, how someone smells is so so intensely intimate compared to all other senses, and it can communicate so much to the reader in so few words, it’s wildly underutilized.

Also my current hyperfixation is buying cologne and perfume so buckle up as I run down a basic guide to perfume and scent theory and how to use in in text (or just read the book Perfume: the story of a murderer by Patrick Süskind. It was Kurt Cobain’s favourite book (I guess it Smelt like Teen Spirit), and also my head cannons on how my varios blorbo’s would smell

A Brief guide to what various terms actually mean:

1, The terms Perfume/Parfum, Eua da Parfum, Eua da Toilette, Eua de Cologne and Aftershave tell you nothing about how a product smells, or if it’s marketed towards men or women. It’s just a measure of how much aromatic compound they contain, in descending order. Perfume/Parfum is strong, and meant to give a scent that lasts several days (and thus has fallen steadily out of favour in the modern world where most people shover daily), Eua de Parfum is a little weaker, Eu de tolet lighter still, and Cologne is a lot lighter and lasts a few hours at most. Aftershave is a weird term and generally is just a reality weak scent marketed towards men, and was originally a separate, unscented product, basically just raw alcohol you splashed on after shaving to sterilize any cuts you might have given yourself. Ouch.

2, What scents are “Masculine” and “Feminine” wasn’t really a thing until the recent past, and is very culturally specific. The deployment of perfumes over time.

So, humans have used artificial scents to decorate their body since the start to written history, and possibly long before. Perfumes appear in ancient Sumerian texts, ancient Egyptian texts, the old testament of the bible, and bear-fat mixed with fragrant herbs is a thing in some prehistoric European and north American prehistoric sites.

Later, by the mediaeval period… I you know what? Since I started writing this The Internet Historian Did a full video on this, go watch that it goes over it better than I could.

But in summary, the idea that some scents are “masculine” and some “feminine” is quite a recent western idea, and mostly a marketing thing. Wear whatever the hell you think smells nice.

However, certain tropes about what scent "should be for" whom exist, and like all tropes they can be used in writing to deliver character information in a shorthand form…

Scent and writing.

If a character is wearing scent and what scent they choose is best used as a shorthand for Class and Gender information: given that scent is historical expensive and its advertising is highly pretentions and highly, needlessly gendered, it’s a good shorthand for “This character is rich” or “This character is mildly gender non-conforming.” But beyond that here is some other things you can play with.

If a scent has big flashy adverts you’ve seen on TV, it’s probably “New Money.” Whereas if someone is wearing something from a niche old perfumer in Paris (for women) or London (for men) this can be a signifier of old money, or pretentions to high society: my favourite example of this is that Hercule Poirot canonicaly always wears Geof Trumper’s of Mayfair, a niche, pretentious, and even at the time of writing in the 20’s, old fashioned gentleman’s barbershop and perfumers in London (it’s also worth noting that while women’s perfumes were traditionally made and sold by fashion brands, or standalone perfumers, old-school male scents were by and large the house recipes of fancy barbershops).

Calvin Cline or Ralf Lauren? New money. Trumper's of Mayfair or Truefitt and Hill? Old money.

Chanel Number 5 gets a special shout out as its symbolism is now almost indistinguishable from that of Coco Channel herself: classy, glamorous, social claiming, ruthless new money, might be a Nazi.

And if in doubt when writing of what a scent might communicate to a reader, the common scent shorthands I have encountered in ther wild before are:

Floral scents= innocent, feminine. Doubly so it its rose.

Woody scents= manly. If worn on a woman= Horny.

Musky scents= Seducer, Horny.

Citrusy= light and fun.

Grassy = innocent, tomboyish or boyish.

Spicy/resinous= more serious or old fashioned.

Leathery = Manly, maybe a little bit gay.

Lavender, Violet= old fashioned, old lady.

Clove, Bay rum = old fashioned, old man.  

Old Spice specifically = Bommer dad, this is why all recent Old Spice adverts are desperate to shift that image. Aggressively manly in a boomer way.

Brut = This old man fucks.

Dior, Poison or Givenchy, L'Iinterdit Rouge = This old woman fucks

Oud, Attar, Spikenard = “exotic”, non-western.

Patchouli = Hippy, stoner (covers the smell of weed really well).

Too much scent= universally untrustworthy, covering something up.

Axe/lynx or other bodyspray = teenage boy. If on an adult man they’re either a manchild or a bit scummy.

Tom Of Finland= Gay, probably butch.

Dior Sauvage, Mugler Angel, Gucci for men= classic old-school dyke.

Does not wear scent = Honest, no nonsense, innocent, possibly a bit uncultured.  

So, onto the real reason I wrote this: my deranged headcanons for how my beloved current stable of blorbo’s smell.

The headcanons, sorted by the shows I’m mildly obsessed with:

Beastars:

Louis: Okay so as a deer I’m going woody scents; Tumper’s of Mayfair Curzon cologne (Mossy, woody, earthy, warm spice, amber, light citrus and musk), Truffit and Hill Sandalwood cologne (woody, spicy), Pineward Perfumes, Fanghorn (earthy, woody, mossy) and most certainly Penhaligon's “The Tragedy of Lord George” (wood, brandy, tonka, amber) because just look at the fucking bottle!

Legoshi: In reality, I doubt he wears scent given how sensitive his nose is (and Louis comments he only smells of wolf and the school soap, which is a wildly horny thing to say about your frenemy), but my headcanon is that my wolf boy needs some good musk-forward scents: Trumpers of Mayfar Wellington (Aromatic, Spicy, Musky) Ahmed Al Maghrib Musk and leather (musk and leather, vanilla) Nose republic Bad Wolf (I couldn’t resist sorry) (wood, musk) Neon, Criminal elements (animal notes, musk).

Haru: must have floral and garden scents as a gardener, but also a bit of musk: Weekend for women, Burberry (floral, grassy), Chanson, d'Eau Jasmine Coty (floral, Jasmine, Musk), Penhaligon’s Gardenia (Jasmine, gardenia, fruit, musk)

Pina: a mix of grassy scents, and a few that blur the line between classical masculine and feminine: Trumper’s Astor (citrus, aromatic, fresh spice, light floral), Ralp Lauren Polo (woody, aromatic, grassy) Tom Ford Black Orchid Eu de Parfum for women (warm spice, wood, earthy), or Penhaligon's Halfeti. (woody, spicy, aromatic).

Riz: Tom of Finland. I don’t make the rules, this is just what bears wear.

Juno: Jo Malone, English Pear and Freesia (Very popular in Japan) (Pear, melon, rose, freesia, musk)

Dungeon Meshi

Laios: Never seen without armour, so metallic notes, as well as ambergris and animal notes to reference his love of monsters; Bullfrog, secret potion number 2 (metallic, mineral) Rammstein, Rosenrot (metallic, rose, ambergris) Rammstein, Zwinger (animal notes, musk).

Falin:  It has to be By Killian, The Louts flower and the King dragon (dragon blood resin, citrus) or something with frankincense to reference her role as a cleric/healer. Dior, new look 2024 (aldehydes, frankincense, amber) or Myrrh to reference her death and resurrection, Jo Malone, Myrrh and Tonka (Myrrh, amber, Tonka bean)

Marcile: The Fox siters, Fantome (dragon blood resin, cardamon, vanilla, orange). As well as something classically feminine and a little bit pretentious, with a dark past, so Chanel number 5. Maybe Dior Sauvage to hint at some sapphic street-cred (bergamot, pepper, geranium, patchouli, amber, ceder).

Chilchuck: The most grumpy old-man fragrance I can think of: Trumpers of Mayfair, old bay rum (cloves, spice). Old spice (spice, woody). Brut (spice and musk). He smells like a stressed single dad, okay?

Senshi: Senshi does not wear fragrance, are you mad?

Izutsumi: Calvin Cline, obsession for men, (Cinamon, citrus, amber, myrrh, patchouli, musk) or for women (vanilla, basic, citrus, orange blossom, spices, civet) purely due to the meme that big cats find it irresistible. Something with both Asian floral and animal notes, so Don Giovanni, Fueguia 1833 (Civet, Jasmine, tuberose)

Hellava Boss

Stolas: Given he likes Absinthe, I’ve gone for Jo Malone of London’ Leather-Artemisia  (Anisse, wormwood, leather, light Cypriol) and something very, very gay, so Tom of Finland again, and something that references his astrology and or full moon hookups, so Zara, Full Moon Over the Desert (Leather, Iris, wood, caramel).

Blitzø: he’s an imp from hell, so spicy, smoky scents: Urban Scents, Gunpowder (he’d buy it based just on the name) (Citrus, Green Fresh Spicy). Strangers Perfume, Punk 2077 (Gunpowder, metal, pine, tobacco leaf). Tom ford, tobacco vanille (tobacco leaf, spice, tobacco flowers, tonka bean) Kerosine, Copper skies (fitting for the Pride-ring) (Clove, Amber, Tabaco leaf, beeswax, cedar), Neon, Criminal elements, again (because why not?) as well as something that references the Full Mood, so Eau de Luna, The Smell of the Moon Eau de Space (Gunpowder, smoke). Game Gordon, Horseplay (couldn’t resist the pun) (Hay, leather, rose)

Moxxie: What scent would a bisexual, and very neurotic, hitman wear?  Helluva Hugo Boss, bottled (Fruit, citrus, moss, cinnamon, carnation, leather, wood). Ballistic therapy, 9mm (Gunpowder, bergamot, spices, orchid, jasmine, wood, musk). Jean Paul Gaultier, Classique Pride 2023 (Blood orange, Yuzu Neroli, orange blossom, Musk, wood)

Mille: headcanon is Mille doesn’t wear scent at work, but at home or on a date with Moxxie might wear something nice, and a little bit western. Havenhollow, Somersol (Sweetgrass, bran, straw, Iris, musk, vannila) Serge Lutens, Chergui (Tobacco leaf, honey, amber, hay, iris, rose, leather, musk) Juliet has a Gun, Calamity J (cinnamon, isis, amber, musk, civet, castoreum, tonka)

Loona: Classic Goth girl, so Juliet has a Gun, Lady Vengeance (lavender, bergamot, rose, patchouli, vanilla, musk) Serge Lutens, La Fille de Berlin, (Rose, geranium, blood and honey) Tom Ford, Lost Cherry (Cherry, bitter almond, Rose, Jasmine, Cedar, spices). Maybe something a bit more hipster like anything in the Tokyo Milk Dark range, Excess (patchouli, oak, amber, blood orange, gravedirt)  or Tainted Love (vanilla, tea, sandalwood, orchid).

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Kitty's Mayhem Magic: Sex and Intimacy Edition

Welcome to Kitty's Manifestation Pawlor! Today's lesson is Manifesting with Sexual Intimacy 101! Also known as "The Big O Method" Taught by yours truly Professor Kitty💋🌙

Steps/Framework:

Rule number 1: Unless you are trying to manifest something together with your Spouse, keep your manifestation private.

The reason I say this is to stop outside energies from getting into your subconscious mind and limiting your beliefs regarding your reality.

This can also be used in self pleasure time!

For example: Let's say you and your partner are having a spicy time, Upon climax , you would envision your goal in your mind or say the affirmations you created for yourself out loud or in your head!

But Professor kitty , What if I feel bad ? Or even guilty? 🐾Great question! Like all things the energy you give you will get back so if your doing things with a pure intention all things will remain in order.

What I do not advise: I REPEAT DO NOT USE THIS AS A BINDING SPELL. This is not the way you keep someone forever, they must decide using their own free will.

As always thanks for stopping BY! MEOW~~

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Also for people that didn't know me for that much of a long time; I know I semi-consistently make it sound like I was practically "trapped" with some raging bigot and couldn't escape because Abusive Relationship Moment and never elaborate, but I was not. It is a long story but if anything, I knew exactly what I've gotten myself into, and why I did. I saw what he was like and what he was saying, and I chose to jump in. I don't deserve compassion, only pity for being short-sighted and picking a responsibility I was no match for, but there was a guy who triggered a lot of stuff, and we were both victims. Of each other, and of the world.

I often call him 'basically a Morgott' and this is what he was: a person jealously and fanatically guarding a ruined, corrupt system he himself was and is oppressed by. He didn't deserve to experience a single traumatising event that guaranteed that he ended up being like that. At some point certain people came to lynch him for the shit he didn't fucking do, and it was beginning of the end. And when I insisted on being loud and proud about our bond, certain people came to lynch me for the shit I didn't do. I guess despite everything, I've found a lot of romance and value in knowing that he sort of passed his "curse" onto me, although not intentionally. Just like him after he survived witch-hunt, I, too, went to lick my wounds and seethe in the company of very questionable people. I walked back when I saw the bunch that promised me safety was just as rotten, and I sure hope he walked back from his weird bunch too. I had a chance to learn about his life updates, but I didn't.

All this is to say, not he was ever an actual villain of this fucking mess. It were always the witch-hunter people. He would hate me for speaking like this, I guess. Because he is up against "woke NPCs" and meanwhile God will forsaken me for choosing "degeneracy" or whatever... 🙄 Still, I saw enough to know that any group who separates people on worthy or unworthy is inherently bad, regardless of their ideals and goals. None of this shit would've happen if witch-hunters stopped doing their darnest to kick anyone they deem "heretic" out of society in the beyond, where members of other cults can swipe them up and ideologically groom them. People should do their hardest to preserve members of their community regardless of inconveniences of suspicions, and my enemies will always be those who refuse to do it. People like him or me are just symptoms of what you can diagnose humanity with, and the only reason I was able to recover my compassion, faith and willingness to support was because I've found true friends and he struggled with that. I could've been a good friend to him too, but I've failed. I took too many things too personally when they were obviously expressions of insecurity, distrust and past trauma... I should not speak ill of those who act cruel to "bad victims" as much as I do when I didn't practice what I preach when it mattered, though I hope I will become better.

In any case, humans can't exist without humans. Nobody is safe from becoming a hateful bigot if it is only other hateful bigots who give them community after their previous one discarded them. I was ever so close to "everyone is an NPC except for us" mindset and only persisted because genuinely good and innocent people chose to keep pulling me out of bad place over and over and I was always given second chances. I don't hate someone who never got enough help and safety, and I sure don't hate someone for failing to meet their emotional needs. I hate witch-hunters tho, they are the problem. They, and their opposition that always picks up what they've thrown away.

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Thoughts on the whole Mr. Beast situation?

None at all and even googling it doesn't really spell it out very well. I guess someone in his network was accused of grooming? Not even he himself. Just someone he employs. And people were upset it took him so long to say or do anything about it.

Listen. If there is one person on this planet I do not care about, it's MrBeast. He is incredibly rich, getting richer, and he exists in a world entirely separated from all my interests. He is way too much of a general purpose Youtuber for me to care about. He is a content factory brand to me and I am deeply suspicious of him on every level, because he feels like a fake plastic human putting out fake plastic videos.

In my entire life, I have only seen half of one MrBeast video, ever, and it was fairly recently: I was pet sitting for a cousin last week, her son watches MrBeast, and their Samsung Smart TV auto loaded to the 24/7 MrBeast channel where he was doing some kind of isolation chamber challenge.

I was surprised how earnest and personable Jimmy himself actually was, but his entourage controlling the isolation chamber were like... they reminded me of Biff Tannen's goons from Back to the Future or something.

That vibe of being like, some combination of Yes-men, nobodies, and D-list clowns. Most people probably don't even know Biff's cronies even have names (from left to right: Skinhead, 3D and Match). They are only here to crawl around in the star's shadow and laugh at all their jokes.

The dudes in that MrBeast video felt the same way. They felt like they were grown in a vat of Youtube Prank Channel parts.

So strike one: I do not care about MrBeast. Unless he gives me two million dollars. Then I'll watch every MrBeast video ever made until the day I die.

Two, I feel like pointing fingers and accusing someone of being a groomer is like, the most boy who cried wolf witch hunt of our era. I am rapidly reaching my tolerance level for finger pointing about intent because I feel like half the time I hear about it, it's nothing. Obviously it's different when it's DrDisrespect and multiple investigations have proven he was arranging a meetup with a minor and even the man himself has come right out and said "it's true but I never went through with it so technically by the strictest letter of the law I didn't do anything illegal!"

But I also feel like there are certain communities both on discord and on tumblr where accusations of grooming get thrown around a lot more casually by the younger crowd because it's an easy way to lash out at somebody you don't like.

From the perspective of a guy like MrBeast, I'm sure if he really put his ear to the ground he'd hear a hundred accusations of grooming going in all kinds of directions.

If he was a little slow launching an investigation? He's only human. His team is only human. And treating allegations like that seriously enough to do a real thorough investigation takes a lot of work. Again, if he jumped at every time somebody pointed a finger, he'd be wasting a lot of resources. I'm willing to give him slack here. It's terrible when it's real, but a lot of the time it probably isn't.

I know sometimes I say dumb things on this blog. I can think of at least two posts right now from the last year where it sometimes hits me that I said something really dumb. And that's not even counting all the stuff I'm sure some people just straight up misunderstand me about.

But this feels like busy-body stuff. The supposed groomer was already fired on the same day the investigation was started. They haven't even found anything for or against her yet. Beyond that, who cares.

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Korekiyo: backstory involves him getting groomed- and thats never acknowledged. Gets treated as a "sister guy" (he has romantic feelings for his groomer). Is "half possessed" by his sister which comes across as an alter and it's very very bad. Also all his memories are fake and the writers in story and in real life did not need to include the incestous grooming

Ironwood: Big bad of the series is an immortal witch who can control creatures of darkness that eat people. After the big bad takes out an entire kingdom, and severely lowers the potential of another to protect itself, he starts putting an embargo on resources, a curfew, and and increased security while also trying to get global communications back up and running. He entrusts the main heroes with his plans, offers them training, new equipment, and high ranking positions in his army. He's not aware the big bad is immortal. Two of the main heroes reveal his secret plans to a vigilante who has been stealing supplies and not using them to help the poor like she claims she is doing. They hide the fact that the immortal witch is in fact immortal. They hide the truth about why the big bad's magical ex-husband who used to be in charge of the destroyed kingdom's defenses isn't around anymore.

When the big bad shows up with a giant army of monsters when they're not prepared to fight her, he wants to do the sensible thing: leave with the magic mcguffins the big bad wants to a safe place, and regroup to fight another day. Sadly, this would result in a lot of people being left behind, but a majority of the kingdom were already evacuated to the giant floating city. The heroes end up ruining everything by has because he refuses to try and save EVERYONE despite THE BIG BAD BEING RIGHT THERE ON THEIR DOORSTEP MORE PREPARED THAN THEY ARE. Then the next season happens and they turn this thoughtful, hard working, caring man wanting to protect people, into a power hungry monster willing to shoot everyone standing in his way and willing to bomb civilians if he doesn't get his way. And the only reason he's written this way is because the writers notices a lot of fans were ACTUALLY SIDING WITH HIM DURING THE PREVIOUS SEASON. THEY ADMIT THIS IN THE DVD COMMENTARY THAT THE ONLY REASON HE'S WRITTEN THE WAY HE IS NOW IS BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T REALIZE THEY WROTE A SYMPATHETIC CHARACTER AND THAT WASN'T WHAT THEY INTENDED AT ALL. And by the end of it all, it's all for nothing. The big bad gets two of the four missing mcguffins she needs to destroy the world. Ironwood's kingdom is sun into the ocean, a good portion of the civilians and soldiers died and those that remain are dropped into a desert kingdom they have bad relations with. This kingdom was also the tech hub of the entire world so anyone who uses certain machines or needs prosthetics or medical equipment can't get them anymore. And we're supposed to be rooting for Team RWBY and their friends, and not Ironwood? He wasn't perfect, but he was far more competent and sympathetic than any other character in this show and the writers decided "let's make this multi-prosthetic, ptsd ridden warrior be the worst person alive since too many fans thought he was right to retreat in a terrible situation

[aziraphales-library]

Hi! I read an au fic involving a Tadfield community band or orchestra. It was called “friends of the lower tadfield community band” or something but I can’t get a close enough search to find it - could you help me find it again? Thank you! <3

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The Greater Tadfield Friends Of Music Autumn Concert by CopperBeech (E)

Anthony Crowley, marketing consultant and competent amateur flautist, finds he can at least flee the smoke and congestion of London if not the golden handcuffs of his job. He’s got no personal life to leave behind; he likes things anonymous, and rough, and even a little dangerous, and far enough from home that he won’t have to deal with entanglements. So what’s he doing obsessing about a mannerly, daintily groomed, kindly man who he’s not even sure is gay? And how’s he going to cope with a hotbed of gossip, a lovelorn tubist serenading the witch next door, and an irascible music director with a Black Belt in baton-throwing?

A pro-tip I've mentioned before, if you're searching for something where you have specific details from the title, summary, or author's notes of a fic, is to use the "search within results" box in the filter options. I put "friends tadfield" in there and only had two pages of results to check through to find this fic!

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[proshipmahiru]

GREETINGS PROSHIP NATION

Learn more abt me under the cut <3

I'm Mappi!! Not new to the proship community, 19, she/her, proship for both coping reasons + for funsies!! This intro post is subject to change for any reason ^_^

I write proship as a catch-all but I mainly identify with the label of "Dead dove: do not eat"! My ideologies lie with ship and let ship and I myself am a darkshipper!!

This is my only blog just for that problematic goodness <3

No DNI, I block freely (mainly THOSE antis and people who are pro irl)

I'm an aspiring psych student who is very hyperfixated on the concept of consuming problematic media and how the brain perceives it. As such, I'm always up for a good mature debate. Or feel free to put anything in my asks in general, I don't bite!

I'm currently hyperfixed on:

Project Moon, Milgram, Wuthering Waves, Witch's Heart + more!!

Oops! All darkships!!

Genshin Impact - Any iteration of Hearthcest, Kaeya x Diluc, Diona x Diluc, Tartaglia x Bennett, Wriothesley x Sigewinne, Baizhu x Qiqi, Alhaitham x Nahida

Project Moon - Tiphereth A x Tiphereth B, Tiphereth A x Netzach, Yi Sang x Sang Yi, Don Quixote x Sancho, Sancho x La Mancha Quixote

Your Turn to Die - Sara x Shin, Sara x Sou, Shin x Kanna, Sou x Shin, Gin x Sara, Keiji x Sara, Sei x Kai

Misc - Fuuta x Amane (MILGRAM), Ashley x Andrew (The Coffin of Andy and Leyley), Ib x Garry (Ib game), Aubrey x Mari, Aubrey x Hero, Sunny x Mari (Omori), Zack x Rachel (Angels of Death), Sal x Wadanohara (WATGBS), Rin x Len (VOCALOID), Encore x Aalto (WuWa), Ame x KAngel (NSO), Asriel x Chara (UT), Saki x Tsukasa (Project Sekai) + SO MANY MORE

♡ Age gaps | Incest (mainly siblings but anything goes) | Stockholm syndrome/corruption | Yandere/obsession | Teacher x student | Grooming ♡

✨ DON'T LIKE? DON'T LOOK! ✨

[loonybun]

making a whumptroduction post because it seems appropriate to do for my first post :3

Blog/Whump Introduction

hello! my name is crep/loony and I use any pronouns!! i started this blog because i’ve been really interested in the whump community for some time (since like maybe October?). It pretty much has all my favorite elements of stuff all put into one genre loll. I don’t have any plans to start a long-term story as of now, but that could change in the future! I have a ton of characters, but I mainly just use them for roleplaying (if you are interested in roleplaying with me i’m totally down to try it out and see how we mesh together!!!)

some fun facts about me: my favorite color is pink, i’ve been roleplaying for around 7 years (online for closer to 5), i love coming up with new characters and intertwining them with other people’s characters!!! it’s really fun to see how they interact with each other for me. it’s like how you played w barbie’s as a kid but infinitely better. for roleplaying i can use tumblr dms or discord. i am audhd, and my primary special interest is Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll!!!

ONGOING STORIES:

- Aisling CYOA story

BASICALLY ANYTHING IVE WRITTEN CAN BE FOUND UNDER #my writing!! working on a better organization system but i struggle with it lol

(more under cut)

Favorite whump tropes: kidnapping/captivity, doll whump, tiny whump, lab whump, medical whump, inhuman whumper, inhuman whumpee, immortal whumpee, fae whump, cult whump, religious theming, heavy/detailed gore, body modification, drugging, display whump, academia whump (so hard to find but so so good), carewhumpers, defiant whumpees.

Things I may interact with but will probably not post: generally suggestive stuff 👍

Squicks/things i will not interact with: almost all nsfwhump (i am a minor and do not feel comfortable reblogging smut on my page. no hate to yall it’s just a comfort thing), anything related to S/A, pedophelia, rape, or sexual grooming, pregnancy whump, and slave historical whump. If your blog is centered around any of those, I ask that you do not interact with my blog.

DNI conservatives, anti-lgbtq+, racists, antisemites, islamophobes, xenophobes, terfs, general bigotry, dark/proshippers (dunno which term to use but i mean this as in people who ship incest, rape, and pedophelia. while i believe that it’s okay to write about these things, a lot of pro/darkshippers seem to glorify/romanticize these dynamics and that’s what i have an issue with. i want to specify that while i personally feel uncomfortable with such, i do not agree with witch-hunting or harassing people. i just will not interact and i ask you to do the same.), straight up nsfw blogs whump or not, pro-zoophiles, pro-maps, etc…

thank you all for reading!!! looking forward to being a part of this community!!