#having fun matching songs to my blorbos

[strawberrylemonwedge]

and speaking of songs by the Parlor Mob that where made for mxtx characters, My Favorite Heart to Break is sooooo xuexiao and im obsessed

And also!!

absolutely feel this is also beefleaf with dark He Xuan, right???

[kuwdora]

A Vidding Primer

A guide written for @wren-of-the-woods who asked for advice about how to start vidding! This is far from comprehensive and I tried not to make it too dense because it's a big subject. I still wanted to share a variety of topics about getting into vidding because it's a hobby and art that is near and dear to my heart.

First Piece of Advice

watch a lot of vids and rewatch vids multiple times. Seek out vids on YouTube, AO3, Watch the TikTok and Twitter/X vids that show up on tumblr or wherever you’re browsing. They all have distinct styles and tools/techniques they use to make their vids and edits. Rewatch the vids and ask yourself what you like or dislike about them. The song, the editing, the source. That can give you a good starting point about how you might want to approach making your own fanvids. The TikTok style of 30 and 40 second edits are very different what you find on YouTube. YouTube editors tend to use a full song and a lot more effects and a lot more overlapping dialogue. Whereas the fanvids - Vids - from people who came into vidding in the mid 2000s/2010s have their own culture, different ways they approach song choice, clip choices and narrative. I also suggest watching vids for shows/films you’re not familiar with as well as your fandom favorites. You can learn a lot about how vidders try to tell a story even when you might not grasp the context behind certain scenes but you can still follow along with the emotional arc of the vid.

Second Piece of Advice

Have fun and enjoy yourself. Everyone starts a new hobby as a newbie. It can be a lot of effort to make 30 seconds or a 3 minute vid, but it’s such a unique type of fanwork that is fun to watch and fun to make. It can also be migraine inducing because of all the learning and technical issues along the way. But!! omg when you make a clip fall on the perfect beat with your blorbo crying that perfect tear or you find an idea and sources for the bestest perfect lyrics of the song, it’s a magnificent high. It can make you feel like a god. At least that’s how I feel a lot of times!

There are about 10 steps* to creating** a fanvid/edit:

• select your platform and software (phone/computer video editors) • gather your video and audio files • create a new project in your video editor • import audio into the editor • import the video into the software and mute audio tracks that contain your video’s audio • review, label and cut up the video into shorter clips - this step is known as ‘clipping’ in vidding parlance, but it’s also optional. Some people pull in movies and scrub through the whole film and just pull it directly onto the timeline • move the various video clips around on the timeline to match the audio track you’ve chosen for your project, add video effects and additional dialogue if you like • export the finished timeline • upload the video to a streaming platform and/or downloadable service • share your project!!! posting to ao3 and/or social media or share on discord, etc * there are a lot more steps involved with each of these steps. What what software to use, where to find video, how to deal with copyright blocks on Youtube, etc. Some of that will be covered in the links below but is not comprehensive. That would require separate posts and links and I don’t want to drop an encyclopedia on you right now! I’m happy to provide more resources that I can curate if you want more direction and pointers to resources and amazing vidders.

** like any hobby, there can and will be a learning curve and frustrations. Blank page for a writer, blank timeline for a vidder. Is anything you put down is any good, self esteem and confusion about what actually makes sense is part and parcel for any creative work. Once you're in the vidding process and committed, as long as you're enjoying yourself you gotta just keep going to get it done.

Getting Started Vidding

My knowledge and background and learning how to vid from people on livejournal and dreamwidth from 2007. I don’t have any experience in editing with a phone but if that’s something you’re interested in, YouTube will be a place for you to start finding tutorials for various apps and tools. Probably discord communities, too. Vidding Workshop - a great how-to/guide when you're starting out. This is on dreamwidth from the WisCon vidparty in 2014. Some of the tech discussions might be a little outdated but there’s a ton of relevant information. It covers technical subjects as well as developing vid ideas and actually getting started. If you have any questions about what you’re reading you can leave an anonymous comment and ask - some of these vidders responding inthe threads are still active. You can find them on AO3/YouTube, tumblr, discord and actually leave them questions about their vids. Many vidders are more than thrilled to talk about their vids and answer questions. Vexcercises - this is a dreamwidth community for short-form vid excercises. This is a very structured way of introducing vid concepts and constraints so that you can produce a vidlet. I highly recommend you check this out and participate! There’s even an AO3 collection so you can check out how people have done the different exercises, too.

The Process of Vidding

Watch Me Edit - @limblogs put together a fantastic playlist of YouTube editors who will show you beginning to end how they made their vid. A lot of these editors appear to be using Sony Vegas but the general process of vidding end-to-end will be similar with other nonlinear editors like DaVinci Resolve, Premiere, etc. It’s a great way to actually see the vid come together if you don’t know what that even looks like. Every vidder will develop their own workflow and approach (which might even change from vid to vid), but it’s useful to see in video how people actually DO the thing. @limblogs also created a handy YouTube playlist some vidders from Bradcpu’s Vidder Profiles (Fanlore page). These profiles are basically like a director’s DVD commentary on their vidding process, featuring the vidders talking over their own vids! So cool. Phenomnal insights from these vidders about how they choose song, use effects, think about their narratives.

Self Rec: I recently did a vidding textpost series called: do it for the process - a naked vid draft: What (Yennefer of Vengerberg). How I Edit by @vimesbootstheory is another textpost about their vidding process. Self rec: Here’s my text interview: Vidder Profile - Kuwdora 2011. I talk about my process with a lot of specific examples from my previous work and lots of screenshots. This profile is over a decade old but a lot of this still holds true for me today! videlicet - this is an incredible vidding zine that @limblogs put togegther with a lot of amazing contributors. These articles and discuss about specific vids and aspects of vidding. It’s really detailed and a fantastic piece of vidding culture. I highly reading recommend the Demystifying Vidding article by lim and the A History of Vidding by @meeedeee and…pretty much every article in the zine!

Doing the vidding!

I recommend joining exchanges and watching vids that come out of exchanges and checking out fannish cons that have vidshows and discords to get more exposure to vidders and vids. Many people have joined @festivids (AO3 collection here) and made their very first vid, it's a very fun and great way to get into vidding. It’s not quite festivids season right now but time flies and it will be time to nominate sources and do sign-ups in the blink of an eye. Follow @festivids and check out the AO3 collection and see what people are making. Join the Vexcercises community and make some short vids and share them on your tumblr or on discord or somewhere and bask in the thrill of making your first fanvids. Check out who reblogged the vidder ask game - go and read other vidders responses and ask some new-to-you vidders questions. Everyone has their own take on process and tech and everything. It's great to hear and see what a lot people are doing and making.

Final Advice - talking about vids and doing the vidding

• watch vids • rewatch vids • leave a comment and ask a question about something you saw in their vid! • Again: find someone’s AO3 page of fanvids and ask them something about their vid in a comment or send them asks on tumblr (people usually have the same alias or link to their tumblr or dreamwidth pages somewhere.) • YouTube can be a valuable resource for tutorials so if you don't know something, there is likely someone who has made a tutorial about how to use a cross dissolve transition or anything else you might want to replicate in a video that you've seen in a vid. • start making a vid, scream and cry, ask for help, and keep going until you get it done. Celebrate and bask in your completed vid and share it with everyone! • Follow vidders on tumblr that you find from the vidder ask game • Check out the vidding discord for community and questions and vid recs and news about vidding exchanges and cons. • Have fun!

Hope this helps you get started! Thank you so much for the ask! Let me know if you have more questions and I can help you out or send you to cool vidders who have great advice and suggestions. And please send me your vid if you make one!

[sotwk]

Everyone is invited! You do not have to be a Follower or Mutual. However, Anon Asks will not be accepted for this event. 

How to Participate:

Pick one of the described games below that strikes your fancy.

Drop an Ask in my Ask Box with your request.

I will respond and we’ll have fun!

One Game/Request per Ask/Message, please. You may submit multiple Asks, but if I'm short on time, I will prioritize the first one you sent.

I will only accept Asks received during the event period of July 11-15. I will give myself until July 31st to respond to everything; past that date, I absolve myself of the obligation. (Use your own timezone to determine the start/end dates.)

Read on for the fun!!!

Pick one of the Special Guest Blorbos below and I will write a 300-word “drabble” for them with a summertime-themed prompt. 

This is the only time I will write or accept requests for these Blorbos, so this is truly ��limited edition”!

Need advice or a chance to vent over a problem? Send a quick letter to King Thranduil and/or Queen Maereth, and one of them will respond with some loving parental wisdom!

Updated (7/12): ANONS ARE ACCEPTED for this game ONLY.

Share with me 5-10 bullet points about your Original Character (any fandom), and I will match them up with one of my own OCs, or a Tolkien canon character. Please include a face claim if you have one. 

Fill in the blanks: “What would <name of Thranduilion Prince> do if <describe hypothetical situation>?” Send me the question and I will answer with some headcanons.

For example: “What would Legolas do if he got asked to dance by someone who is a terrible dancer?”

Quote a line from the lyrics of a song you love, and I will say which Tolkien character I think is most likely to say it. (Please name the song and artist.)

Pick a character you would like to receive a love note from:

Please turn on your Anon Asks for this game to avoid delivery issues.

Send me the link to a short fic (one-shot, 3,000 words or less only) that you wrote or you recommend. I will read it and “comment” by making a moodboard or doodle for that fic.

Please invite your friends, a.k.a. reblog to boost this post! :) Hope to see you there!

[psychhound]

Tabletop trick or treat! 🦇

hello jade!!

it seems only appropriate for this to be ... a trick!! and treat kinda :) three treats maybe. so everyone lets all go say

happy birthday @hmooncreates

you can check out hollis's itch here for lots of very fun and cool stuff!!

i want to highlight a few of his games even though definitely poke around through the whole library

in want of a match - yall its so fun. its so so fun. ive played it twice now and i cant wait to play again. in iwoam you play as two characters, one looking for their One True Match and one looking for an Opposites Attract. and its ... a dating sim!! you throw all your blorbos in a blender and then they go on silly dates. its a bit of a numbers game where youre trying to roll similarly to the character youre on a date with, and the table decides which traits you roll on your date. we played once with original characters (god they all became such freaks immediately) and then again using blorbos from other ttrpg games, and both were suuuch fun. the character creation is pretty simple but works really well for the game, and then you just put all the blorbos in a jar and shake em up to see what happens. we want to play a third time where we make a roll table of all our characters from other games, roll randomly to see who were playing, and then just let chaos ensue. its not a hard system to pick up at all, great for silly one shots (especially if someone cant make your usual game), and honestly is really flexible with how much roleplay you want to do for it. you can totally roleplay everything out or mostly stick with broad descriptions and just run up those numbers. tons of fun either way. sometimes the characters that end up being great matches numbers wise are like. absolutely hilarious (freak ass lesbians i love you)

for truth's sake series - for truth's sake is a series of games (with a free srd people have made cool stuff on) where you are an anthropologist studying a fantasy culture and writing an ethnography on it. its a medium crunch solo journaling game that has four really cool settings/cultures (urban witches, a werewolf neighborhood, an inn on the border of the feywild, and a high fantasy city) that all have a unique cast of characters, locations, events, and questions you get to ask the inhabitants. all the games are very fun, but i think my best experience with it was playing urban witches when hollis was over at my house and i was narrating my game out loud instead of writing it down. i was rolling SO DOGSHIT and it honestly became a bit of a slapstick comedy of my guy just absolutely whiffing it with this apartment complex of witches. i was weeping i almost lost the game on like. day three. astoundingly bad at talking to these witches. but all of them are very cool and very fun and devs out there should check out the srd too!!! a lot of the groundwork is laid out for you so you just get to make fun roll tables!!!

the fool who got married (extended edition) - this one is a duet+ epistolary game where one player is a young bride moving away with her husband during the 1840s california gold rush, and the other players are female family members whove been left behind. the main mechanic is that you are on a time limit of crane wives and oh hellos songs as you write your letters to each other, with each character archetype getting a different album they have to put on shuffle as they write. i will be totally honest i was NOT sure how this one was gonna play for me but i ended up really really liking it. i chose to play as the aunt and even though i only went through like five songs or something, she ended up being a really dynamic character and also, as is my way, a little nuts. getting into the mindset of these historical women to this modern music was a really interesting experience. so many of the songs like. really tap into female pain and rage in a way that transcends this time gap and really makes you feel for the character youre inhabiting. the lyric prompts under each song are really evocative, and honestly as someone who hates handwriting things because of hand pain the short time limit on the letters was honestly really helpful. this one is definitely niche but like. i really suggest trying it out. it might surprise you like it did me!!

i think hollis's birthday is as good an excuse as any to check out her games, and if you already have & like them, maybe go leave some comments and ratings too!! :D hollis is an up and coming developer and i cant wait to see the next games he has cooking (i know what they are and im chomping at the bit). so go check out!! give a rating!! give a follow!! you wont regret it !!

[blueberrypie20]

I want to inspire my new oc off MAN WITH A MISSION - Koi Kagare! (A song from KNY s3 if i'm not wrong,,)

(Why i'm making a new oc is here. Have fun reading lol and tell me your opinion on my blorbos /nf :D )

It really fits Captain Tsubasa's vibe and making an OC off kf it would probably match the other characters good XD

but—

HOW SHOULD HE LOOK LIKE?

I don't want him to look like any of my other CT ocs to look like I'm biased lol-

Ideas???

@larz-barz @love-stvrs @hitoshi333

[samxc]

Guys and Chat shut up and listen to me I have something important to tell everyone this is crucial please I love these two characters please help me decide if they are fit for each others if they match each others freak please please tell me if they are good for each others if they match each others freak please please tell me this is a new ship I found out of nowhere so yay I am making a poll if you guyd want md to start shipping them so I really want to start shipping them so tell me if I should ship these two blorbos ok do your best and I have a few more ship polls that will be comming up like this sp please be prepared for some extremly extremly extremly extremely extremly extremly extremly DEEP talks about them so please I will do one on a secret little ship that I hatched up just for myself anf I will be making a poll about it on should I ship it my blog will now become a ship account where we talk about ships and other things and so be prepared for the change I will be yapping about hetalia ships and black butler ship except for Ciel×Sebastian we will not be talking about that ok but for now we will be hosting polls of ships and whether or not I should ship it and make a fanfiction about them I would love to make an amv with them they would be amazing together but my main question is would you ship or not this is an alternative universe where both of them are alive would this ship be angsty or not I need you guys to decide for me this ship is new and is being ready and when it officially becomes popular I will be extremely extremely extremely extremely extremely extremely extremely extremely extremely happy that would be my dream please fell free to ignore this post about me yappig about my ships but the ship for today is CLAYTON × DERRICK ARDEN which I just randomly came up with this ship looks super cool and fun so I thought you guys would enjoy it but the main question is should I ship it because this is extremely new and I never stepped out of my comfort zone so please tell me if you guys would like it so please make sure to recommend scenario so I will be hosting a poll on whether or not I should ship it so yeah I would love love love you guys to vote whether or not you guys want me to ship this ship I so here is the ship of these two so here we go I will ramble on and on qbout them so please be patient I will be asking questions about them and more so make sure to check it out so please I need you're opinion on these two characters and how should I ship them what should I do with them So that was the poll please make sure to recommend scenario so I will be making a poll if you guyd want md to start shipping them so tell me if they are good for each others if they match each others freak please please tell me God I am tired oc everything oh my good lord but imagine how clayton would react if he found out derrick was a reckless bad guy AND IF HE CHEATS ON HIM

So that was the poll please make sure to recommend scenario so I will be making a poll if you guyd want md to start shipping them so tell me if they are good for each others if they match each others freak please please tell me What should I make with them they are almost perfect for each others I think they would be cool together maybe a bit haughty with each others I would love to hear your opinion about them and more please do not hesitate to say no and ask I will reply I am always here so no problems please I am also in the Hetalia fandom so please message me hetalia moots I will be making a poll if you guys want me to start shipping them so please I would love yo ship these two ok I would honestly love that and what song should I use for them I seriously want you guys to know about this ship so I can make a fanfiction about them I would love to make a playlist about them please should I ship them oh by the way here is the ship please vote y'all please dont hesitate to say no and ask I will reply I am always here so no problem maybe I can ship him with Cheslock they would be better I would love to ship them together I think they would work better that way maybe Cheslock saves him from Derrick that would be cool I would want to see that happen but I really wouldn't hesitate shipping him with Edgar I would love that I love their differences

[no-psi-nan]

[Context] Long list so I'll do a lightning round on this one!

Kaido x Saiki: ❌ Doesn't make sense, ❌ doesn't compel me. Guy who lives in his daydreams and has zero emotional intelligence + tsundere mfer who thinks he's not allowed to have wants or needs = recipe for disaster. Saiki does best with partners who can help him admit to and work through his own feelings, and Kaido's just too focused on himself and his fantasies. Kaido should only date people who are well-adjusted enough to help fix him too lmao tbh.

Kuboyasu x Toritsuka: ❌ Doesn't make sense, ❌ doesn't compel me. Kuboyasu has honor too deeply engraved into his spine to put up with Toritsuka's bullshit. Kuboyasu deserves way better also.

Kuboyasu x Aiura: ✔️ Makes sense, but ❌ doesn't compel me. Ex-yankee + gyaru is thematically a really good match! They'd definitely bond over American movies and songs, plus speak English really badly at each other. They'd have a lot of fun together tbh but there are just more compelling options for Aiura out there imo! Polyamory can solve that though... 👀 I still think that the Psychickers all being gay for Kuboyasu and simping him while he's clueless about the whole thing is funny as hell, and there's a lot of fun possibilities if Aiura, Saiki, and Akechi eventually succeed in adding Kuboyasu to the polycule lol.

Kuboyasu x Yumehara: ✔️ Makes sense, but ❌ doesn't compel me. Honestly Yumehara deserves a beefcake ex-gangster boyfriend who is just as swept up in romantic ideals as she is! Kuboyasu would be so impressed by Yumehara's mastery of the occult too, I think! Very much serving Way of the Househusband here tbh. Unfortunately neither of them are my blorbos sowwy 😔

Kuboyasu x Saiki: ✔️ Makes sense, but ❌ doesn't compel me. They're giving retired battle couple except one of them is way stronger than the other. They're both the most reasonable guys in the group and Kuboyasu is straightforward as hell. They're gonna be alright, kind of a normie relationship even, once they settle into it. The initial period could be really fun and interesting with Kuboyasu's U-haul lesbian instincts vs Saiki's tsundere bullshit though! However, I had to put them in a wild au to be inspired to write them, so not that compelling to me personally.

Thanks for the ask! <3

[buff-electra-truther]

Stex Appreciation Month: Electra

Fav actor: Koffi Missah is the best overall.  I think the MJ/Prince train angle is the most effective characterization for Electra and he looks, acts, and sounds perfect for that approach.  It’s fun and recognizable in the cheap seats in a language you don’t know.  But it also has a lot of potential for depth, there’s a double entendre to be made about the government/big companies conspiring against electric trains for being too successful and certain tropes about electrical powers. 

Mykal Rand is basically impossible to beat aesthetically for me.  I cannot look away from the absurdity of how smooth and girly his face is combined with how cartoonishly ripped he is.  Even footage of him on tiny tour stages in beat up ill-fitting costumes is captivating. He’s just so extreme and maximalist yet alien looking.  

I’m surprisingly unpicky on Electra actors as long as they aren’t boring.  That’s the only real crime.  But I tend to prefer ones who have/could pull off Greaseball because I prefer a bolder, louder Electra (and basically require it post 2018 so I don’t forget he even exists with that borderline camoflouge costume)

Fav songs/scenes: Dinah’s Disco because I love watching him get shoved, a nice more intense version of AC/DC, anything involving No Comeback or its leitmotif.  Once again, What Time Is It? is a terrible song but purely redeemed because Mykal is hilarious in it.

Fav costumes: Broadway/Bochum toothpaste is a classic, but I’m also weirdly fond of Late London because I love the cartoony look (especially on Chris Copeland since he went all in on the makeup style to match)

Ships/Friendships: already went over how I view him and Greaseball the other day.

I like to look at pictures from the JPN/AUS tours out of context and think Electra looks cold and lonely and in need of a buddy and Caboose coaxes him into fun bad ideas

Headcanons: 

-I habitually call Electra “he” because it’s what canon does 90% of the time, but view the character as neutral (all of them really).  Electra and the Components are about the only ones smart enough to realize these forms are an illusion and there’s no reason to play by human paradigms, it would be equally stupid if they subscribed to blood type personalities too.  They are VERY smug about this but slowly the message is spreading.  

-I vary in what exact basis I’ll give him but see him as either irl, alternate timeline, or outright sci-fi Amtrak’s choice of successor to the GG1.  He isn’t weak or terribly delicate if the infrastructure works (unless you keep him as 40101 lol), he follows in their tracks of being a huge effortless machine that’ll run away with basically anything you stick on it.  If he actually played it clean, he’d probably dominate going uphill vs Greaseball and especially Rusty, he just doesn’t flaunt strength much in canon because it’s not relevant to the race.

-Electra is a  Fully Automated Bi Space Communist who wants to run catenaries across the Rocky Mountains and Siberia

-If you turn the dials and knobs Electra will morph like a game’s character slider just like how it’s simple to regear electric locos for passenger/freight use.  

Unpopular opinions:  lmao I think all my Electra preferences are moderately to very fandom unpopular.  I’m a contrarian who likes the character for fundamentally different reasons than most.  I’ve vaguely known of the character for years but didn’t really fall in love with him until recently when I saw those 2013 tour videos people either love or hate. Yeah they have the worst staging and costumes but I went “oh hell yeah finally a less problematic alternative to my blorbos Ganondorf and Velvet von Ragnar”.  I think those two names alone make it pretty clear why I like a bulkier, hotter natured, more affectionate and competent Electra than most.  I crave novelty and get bored by oversaturated things so I’m naturally drawn to androgynous characters that aren’t twinks or prettyboys so seeing Mykal vs the more typical tall skinny Electras really made me more interested in the character, even if I think there’s more interesting characterizations than his.  

[players-of-intrigue]

In order to keep myself sane while I was studying for finals, I got around to making playlists for my three PCs, woe thee:

These are still WIPs but most of the songs that I want are in there — self indulgent blorbo jams ft gut wrenching songs that only i and a friend of mine have the context to

extra notes below the cut:

I apologize for the amount of The Amazing Devil songs, their discography works too well (and makes me cry, but thats normal)

Elio and Vox share some songs because thats intentional, thats their songs as a duo exclusively (and also the order of the shared songs match so, fun-fun.)

I did put a little too much thought in the order of songs for this (also why there’s some instrumental songs thrown in there, its for vibe transitions) so its gonna be at least a little more fun if you listen to it in order (or at least I hope so)

I may have put too much ouch-y songs for Elisha. My bad.

And also, most of these songs won’t really make sense if you don’t know these characters’ backstories I realize (my fault I’ll be honest, I’ll write it up in another day)

Everyone is open to send asks for elaboration on the songs and their stories btw, I’ve been wanting to ramble about these three but I need someone to enable it

[rocketonthemoon]

Ask Game

Woohoo a game!!! Thanks @sideguitars for tagging me - I've missed these!

Last Song You Listened to: Well I'm CURRENTLY listening to "Christmas Song" by Escape the Fate and the song before that was "Yule Shoot Your Eye Out" by Fall Out Boy cause I'm listening to my Punk Christmas playlist while packing for my flight tomorrow.

Favorite Color: Blue!!!

Last Movie or Show You Watched: Attacking Third - sports pundit show that talks solely about Women's Football/Soccer! They have a podcast as well as put their episodes on Youtube.

Which do you prefer - Sweet/Spicy/Savory: Sweet for sure. I'm a wimp about spice and savory just doesn't excite me very much for some reason. But I've got a huge sweet tooth so I am THRIVING this month.

Relationship Status optional: Single and trying to mingle!

Last thing I Googled: "Premier League Standings" to see exactly how nervous I have to be tomorrow morning about the Arsenal match.

Current Obsession: This feels like a bit of an unfair question because my brain has just been "Workishellworkishellworkishell OH FUCK IT'S CHRISTMAS" for the past three weeks while also dying of respiratory illness but Baldur's Gate 3 is probably the closest thing? Definitely Shadowheart is the new Blorbo I'm having fun mashing (physically/emotionally/spiritually) against my Tav in a google doc.

Tagging: hmmmm we'll do @phraven @mike-wachowski and @appropriatelystupid! No pressure and of course if you want to play please consider yourself tagged! I want to get to know my mutuals/friends!!!

[stackthedeck]

12 & 18 for the ask game 😊

12. Do you prefer writing in silence or to music?

I have a playlist for all my favorite characters so I listen to those when writing them and do my best to skip the songs that don't match the tone of the scene lmao I hate silence I need stimulation at all times

18. Are there any themes or tropes that you enjoy writing? Any themes or tropes you hate writing?

I've found myself writing more gender fuckery into fics especially smut. I don't know what this means, hopefully this is a gender-affirming act and not like... a secret fetish. Idk I'm projecting myself onto my blorbos and it feels like when a teleporter glitches and creates an imperfect copy.

Really there's no trope I hate writing, only tropes that I hate playing straight, even tropes that I refuse to read I can find something interesting in it and twist it to a critique that is very fun to write... like a soulmate au or the omegaverse

[misssakuramochi]

hey!! if it's alright, i'd like to request for a one piece matchup?

my name is mika, i use she/they pronouns, i am an infj-t, and i have no preference when it comes to what gender i'm put with! i am reserved, anxious, naturally pessimistic yet hopeful at the same time, i can actually be very outspoken and wild out in public (like doing weird stuff while out and about), and i tend to get lost in thought about the things i enjoy.

i like rock and indie music, i play electric guitar, i write and draw, and scroll through tumblr for hours to look at fanart and headcanons of my silly little loser guys (blorbos)

when i was in kindergarten, i ate sand from the sandbox once and i sometimes still taste it in my mouth, after all these years lol

anyways that's it really! tysm for having these matchups open, i was looking crazy hard for open ones but i couldn't find one until this godsend of a blog spawned in my radar <3 ty and have a good rest of your day

I match you with...

FRANKY

○ While you can be reserved, you come across as having a high-energy, spontaneous nature at your core. You just need someone to draw it out of you. Franky is perfect for that. With his own wild antics any and everywhere, he makes you feel comfortable being yourself. The two of you have a lot of fun together

○ Franky has a way of making you feel like everything will work out, even at your most anxious. Not only is he actually great at giving advice (he's been through a lot deep down, and he's learned a lot too) but he's so self assured all the time you can't help but actually start to hope for the best

○ Creative minds get along well, and while you're creative in different areas, it still draws you together. You love talking about both of your current fixations and projects

○ Franky thinks it's the cutest thing when you get lost in thought. He does it too, and he can always tell the difference between a happy and not so happy lost in thought, as to know of he should just leave you to your peace.

HEADCANONS

○ Franky BEGS you to play guitar so he can make sick entrances. He thinks you're metal as fuck. He's your biggest supporter and forever backup singer as he will make up songs to go with every tune you play.

○ Franky respects that you're more introverted with your thoughts and need time to process. He's very happy to just sit and tinker on machines relatively quietly while you do your own thing, but he does love to be around you whenever he can be.

○ Franky makes you things all the time. Most often it's little replicas of your Blorbos, or other things related. He tries really hard to make sure he makes things relevant to your interests

○ Franky's favourite thing in the world is to make you laugh. He knows how hard it can be to stay positive, and he wants to be the brightest light he reasonably can be in your life. He's always pulling stupid stunts to get a giggle.

○ BONUS! You mention the sand thing to Luffy. He tries sand. Gets very upset when he finds out its not I'm fact edible, and also does not taste good. How could you trick him like that. Smh. /j

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TYSM for requesting! I'm glad you found my blog too! Thanks for your patience and I hope you like your match!!

-mochi

[randomreadingtimewithtsuki]

Hi hi so i wanted a match-up i never did one of these things but im super excited and i would like Bnha!

I'm Tara

My personality ; shy around new people but when you get to know me i can be very VERY extroverted person im passionate and my mbti if you know what that is is INFP 9w1!

I have a preference for male!

Also im a female))

Hobbies; Dancing, drawing, painting, listening to music actually anything creative!

And my pronouns are she/her.

My star sign is a Cancer with q Sagittarius moon.

Sorry if this is to long but in any way thank you! :)

If you wanna call me an anon it will be 🌸anon!

Hello anon 🌸! You did well! These events are kinda weird at first, but its fun to see who people would ship you with if you were a character! Anyway!

I match you up with…

Mirio!

I will explain, don't worry!

• Mirio would love you because you could be a small bean and at the same time an energetic person!

• He loves your shy side and loves it when you lean you him when first meeting people!

• That being said, he tries his best to see if the other person is an ok match for you to meet.

• Will they make you nervous? Do they deserve your cute energetic self?

• He also loved how you could be so full of life with him, it meant the world to Mirio that you were close enough to be like that with him.

• He doesn't quite know how to dance but he is down to it if you ask!

• He likes to peek over your shoulder to see what you are drawing/painting.

• Sharing earphones with him is a nightmare. He moves a lot so…

• You have different taste in music, so he did a playlist you both could enjoy! Mixed songs!

Now for the little scenario…

Tsuki's note: do you have a blorbo? Let me know about them!

Imagine: You are feeling a little down and missing him, so Mirio decides to have a little couple moment.

• You miss him so much, you know he is a hero to be and often stays out.

• But you still miss the times he wasn't so busy, the times you would go for a walk in the park.

• Not like his hero work was bad! No it wasn't, it just took him away from you and his family.

• Like today. He had to help the remaining pro heroes now, since the prison break out and the whole Dabi thing made many heroes quit.

• It was in the middle of the afternoon, you were drawing something for a current blorbo, when you heard the doorbell ring.

• You grunted, it was the worse to stop in the middle of a sketch!

• You dragged yourself to the front door and as soon as you got there you heard a knock. You asked " who is there?"

• The reply you got: Owl. You didn't quite recognize the voice. But you decided to play along:" Owl who?" This time, a familiar voice replied: Owl will be seeing you again soon.

• You laughed a lot and swung the door open, to see Mirio standing there with a bright smile.

• You hugged him tight, he picked you up and spun you around.

• You asked him many questions as you led him inside: Why he was there, what happened to his duties, how things were going,if he was hurt.

• He avoided the most serious question - which was " how things were doing" - and replied the first one: he missed you. Decided to come relax with you.

• You were overjoyed, but worried by his lack of answers.

• You decided not to push though. Mirio would come around to it when and if he wanted.

• But he did notice you were a bit down.

• You soon forgot about your drawing and wanted to talk to him, but he got up from the couch and offered his hand to you.

• You were confused at first, he smiled at you: " c'mon! Take my hand!"

• So you did. To your surprise he decided to dance with you!

• No music, just you two waltzing around the living room - or trying to.

• You both laughed so much.

• You were so close to Mirio, you missed everything about him, the warmth, the laugh, the smell, the voice - all of it!

• This little session lasted until you two almost knocked a vase.

• Then you two busted out laughing.

• After this moment he apologized for being so absent.

• You forgave him. He was here and now, but asked him to take a bit more time to himself.

• Sure, everyone needs the heroes, but if he is not ok how he is going to help others?

• You could see he felt a little bad about it.

• So you just pulled him back to the couch and decided to use some white noise.

• You just wanted to cuddle with your favourite hero ever.

• Ah, if you ever say that to him, he gets ridiculously happy and blushes a lot too!

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Let me know what you think! Thank you for participating and requesting!

Cheers!

[nejishadow]

Neji’s Pinned Post - What Is Up My Dudes

Greetings! I’m Neji / NejiShadow!

[ 25 - They / Them - Agender / Asexual ]

I’m best friends with @shadowfreak98, so you know why I mention her in my descriptions and tags so often, and also why we commonly match.

I do commissions, but they’re closed until further notice - I don’t have any place to drawn and my tablet is all wonky right now. I don’t do requests unless I put out a post for it, and art trades are for muts / people I interact with often only.

[ I CAN still do my Sketch Commissions, which can see on our Ko-Fi ]

Can contact me on any social media if interested!

[ If you wanna check out my stuff elsewhere, all my things are on the Carrd ]

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AU tags:

# Shadow Weapon Ken

# Persona Fursona 

# Sonic Future AU (by @shadowfreak98)

Writing tags:

# Fanfiction (for finished fics)

# drabble (for collections of ideas and rambles)

Meme Tags:

# Persona Memes 

# Persona 3 Memes

# Persona 4 Memes

# Persona 5 Memes

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My Persona meme edits are generally free to share and use, just please dont claim you made them, and if they inspire you to do anything please tag or show me - I need to see or I'll die unfulfilled in this life [and I'll def share / like / reblog / something]

This doesn’t apply to my drawovers / art memes!! Those take way more time and effort, don’t share those unless the description explicitly states you can, and please credit me.

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- I’m an anti, so pr*ship and their supporters get out.

- I do not answer DMs that only say “hello / hi / what’s up” or any other variation. I don’t like talking to strangers, period, honestly.

Fun facts and other things below the cut so this post doesn’t just... go on forever

If you ever wanna ask me questions in my askbox, feel free! I don’t mind being asked fun stuff. I turned off anon mode after getting asked questions that are clearly answered by the part of the post you’ve read by now. 

My queue is usually set to post thrice a day. The pattern being two reblogs, than a new post. Occasionally there will be a day nothing new is posted to give the last new post breathing room, or to give me more time to make more art.

Currently it is set to post five times a day until I can get a desk so I can draw again!

Every once in awhile reblog extra stuff in the moment, but mostly save stuff for my queue so I’m not running out of art to post too quick.

My queue easily has 400+ things at any given time, so there may be multiple month gaps between me liking your posts, and them getting a reblog, in case you wonder why you’re suddenly getting a buncha reblogs from me This also means if you have some variant of “don’t like this without reblogging” on your posts, I just won’t interact with you to avoid getting blocked

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Currently trying to focus on (read: failing to focus on):

- Writing more fic for the Shadow Weapon Ken AU, because I keep getting distracted - Shopping for furniture. Spending money?? Gross

My general favorites:

Color: yellow-orange (leaning towards orange usually) and royal blue

Food: Sharp cheddar cheese

Song: Live and Learn by Crush 40

Music Artists: Owl City, Daft Punk, Crush 40, nostraightanswer

Fic Tags: Wholesome. Happy Ending. Fluff / tooth rotting fluff. Café AU. 

Story Genres: Fantasy / sci-fi. Stuff from those genres but modern AUs

Game Genres: Platformer. Action / adventure. RPG. Most things heavily story driven. Any fusion of those genres.

Game: Sonic Adventure 2 Battle

Comfort Characters you’ll see me cry over:

Tails the Fox

Pidge Gunderson

Turing (2064 ROM)

Vocaloid Oliver

Ken Amada

Yuuki Mishima (more a blorbo but he deserves to be here)

Favorite Ships you’ll see me reblog more of:

Sonadow, Sonally and Sonaze [STH]

Akishinji, Shuryu, Shuyuu, Souyo [PERSONA]

Zerox/Xero [MMX]

Pearlina [SPLATOON]

Strowill [MRF]

My “active” fandoms (meaning I interact with posts more often from them) are:

Sonic the Hedgehog

Persona

Splatoon

Ace Attorney

Metaphor RF

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OCs are tagged under their name. So if curious about them, simply click the name hashtag and it’ll bring up all their posts. Only ones that might be confusing are:

Neji is my persona (Tagged simply “Neji”, “NejiShadow” is used for update textposts)

Salem (Tagged “Salem”) is my fursona.

My sonicsona / sonic mascot is tagged “Salem (Sonic)”

Lance -- in order to differentiate him from VLD Lance -- is tagged “Lance (OC)”

[fineanimesideblog]

Dbz or Trigun!

🥰🥰💕💕💕 hello beloved and thanks for this im gonna do Trigun because i already did dbz and i NEVER get to talk abt Trigun so thank you!

blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most)

meryl oh my god. Meryl. I've never self-projected so hard on a character in my life as i did on Meryl Strife in my teenager years. I wanted to be her and now I just want her hand in marriage she's so cool did i mention she has a cape full of guns?? For her insurance job???

scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped)

OK on the one hand i hate when people infantalize Milly because that kind of misses the point of her character entirely. She's not a baby she's a grown woman who's naive and sheltered but who navigates complicated situations with her morals and steady instincts nontheless. I would give my left tit to be bear hugged by her because she IS, in fact, so shaped.

scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave)

So no offence to Generic Dead Anime Mom Rem but she had nothing on the original manga Rem, who was a suicide survivor and a badass and not just a hippie with a catchy hit song. Manga Rem is SO underrated and ill die mad about it.

glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week)

Livioooo oh my god. They didnt include him in the anime because they knew he would serve too much cunt and there would be no room for a story.

poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave)

this catagory was supposed to be for your "problematic fave" or whatever and Vash isnt really that but he definitely is pathetic. That is an objectively true fact about him however i have to also say, Vash will always hold the very special honor of being the first time young me was In Love With An Anime Man and those experiences never really leave you. He is an icon he IS the moment. The definition of "wet and pathetic" the true MEANING of "get you a man that can do both". Call me baby i miss you 😘

horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason)

why are you the way that you are? well. Actually i know why never mind i retract the question. I dislike you but by virtue of your Tragic Story it's impossible for me to hate you, and because that frustrates me you get the worst fate of all; my apathy. Enjoy the endless plinko.

eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell)

to be perfectly clear he is not going to superhell because of his many atrocities and attempted genocides but for the much more egregious crimes of a) that yee yee ass faux-nazi haircut and b) NOT getting a sexy little earring on his other ear to match his brother's. Also his name is knives and i think he ate a spider or something.

[beastenraged]

reread anon, ruse is absolutely blorbo from my fics, and I think her theme would be very upbeat and electronic, synthesizers etc... tbh I might just be thinking about toby fox' music... Anyways heres another song, 'monsters' by run river north (funny story in looking for daemon aus I read that one daemon fic before the main fic and was sorely lacking context lmao. if I gain enough confidence to come off anon I'd tell you about my own daemon au, animal symbolism my beloved)

Oh, that matches my thoughts too, on her theme. "Death by Glamour" makes me think Ruse.

That's goood one, thanks for sharing.

HDJAFHK THAT'S A GREAT WAY TO GET STARTED.

Since you mentioned that daemon AU, I guess I'll talk a little about Gambit.

I made a Gambit a hyena due to:

-Hyenas having REALLY bad reputations. Ruse w/ Darkness, you get it. 

-Wanting a large spotted animal to contrast directly against the big cat I picked for Riku.

-Hyenas are matriarchal, so Gambit's always following Ruse's lead for a biology reason not just daemon stuff.

-NEARLY EVERYTHING about hyenas online and such hyper-focuses on their jaw strength and how they can crack apart bones and stuff. Seriously? But honestly that really came to mind, considering Ruse’s odd eating habits. 

Gambit gets his name to emphasis Ruse’s overall talkativeness in her attempts to win over everyone in the first arc of Tell Me. 

Side note: If daemon AU took a similar path to Tell Me, then Namine’s daemon would have settled as an ardwolf mere minutes before she decides to sacrifice herself. Fun times.