#his whiskers look alien lol | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

buff-electra-truther · 3 months ago

Text

(I don’t have a ton of photos of him onhand ao here’s some really random ones)

Stex Appreciation Month Day 3: Greaseball

Fav actor: Honestly I’m not very picky on Greaseball in general so I don’t have strong preferences. I just like as low, rich, and powerful a voice as possible for him. Vocally I like Andreas Wolfram on the 2013 cast recording (being great at rapping in German with an Elvis inflection is one hell of a statement) and the very brief Megamix footage I’ve seen of Lashane Williams as him.

Fav song/scenes: Pumping Iron, One Rock and Roll Too Many and clowning around with Dinah in the megamix. Honestly I liked basically everything he was in onstage irl last year, he was probably my favorite of the main characters since his numbers are almost more fun if you don’t know what he’s saying and view Elvis Train as the real protagonist for saving us from the REAL big bad: romantic ballads.

What Time Is It? is offensively bad as a song but I just love the concept of him and Electra having a rap battle and wish it was longer/more intelligent and more about beefing with each other vs fighting over some girl they both barely know.

Fav costumes: I’m content with pretty much all of the replica ones, since they don’t vary too much

Ships/Friendships: Him and Electra as enemies with benefits especially if it plays up the irl arguments of diesel vs electric. It’s not a very deep relationship, they just want to kill each other but also make out violently. If they joined as comrades maybe they could beat their real shared nemesis (automobiles, and Trucker Caboose as a minion of them) once and for all. I’m way more invested in the potential of their rivalry vs the actual main plot tbh.

He doesn’t deserve Dinah (and she deserves better than him) but I don’t see them separating, they just seem too attached to each other. I definitely prefer their more recent dynamics where she’s way more assertive because it’s funny to watch her boss him around (I love Dinah harassing engines in general)

Headcanons: He’s practical and pragmatic, if perhaps a bit too dismissive of doing things in newer/smarter ways vs past proven ones. Electra thinks he’s disgusting the way nonsmokers view smokers (it’s how he is about most combustion engines) but finds something alluring about his diesel clatter and how he feels alien to someone who mostly works in urban environments where it’s electric-only.

Unpopular opinions: I’ve been haunted by the thought experiment of “what if Mykal Rand played him in another timeline?”. He’d probably pull it off but has SUCH an un-Greaseball face that you have to just forget about him looking like Elvis and find what else works with the general vibe and themes of the character. Which opens the door to “what else could they have done with Greaseball if he varied as much as Electra visually/character-wise?”

I think he’s fine as is and doesn’t need changing because he just works (there’s a looot of things that need fixed in Stex before even thinking about that). But if I had to modernize him slightly, I’d make him more like Gene Simmons/KISS in general to scoot him forward about two decades. Still a VERY visually iconic inspiration and it would barely change the vocal style, over the top macho character, and “rebel” turned rock establishment aspect. You’d even have a free excuse to finally give him some fun makeup for once! It would also be relatively easier to genderbend him because Gene sings a bit higher and his costumes have always tried to make someone lanky/soft look bulkier so you wouldn’t have to struggle to find actual Chadettes with the right look already.

In a similar vein, I also like the idea of cat facepaint Greaseball the longer I think about it. It’s such an ironic animal motif for a macho character but it suits the “cat whisker” livery of a lot of midcentury locomotives and the diesel engine purr/growl. Also ties into the KISS thing in a way that won’t lead to copyright issues lol

(I can’t really say much on Wembley Greaseball other that I’m intrigued by the concept and will draw my own idea of female Greaseball eventually (metal-leaning design based on Floor Jansen and Noora from Battle Beast). From what I’ve seen just doesn’t seem to look/act tough enough for me and the costume is too narrow/glossy for my liking but I think the idea has potential. I am always in favor of randomly butchifying male characters because it’s fun.)

#Stex appreciation month #stex greaseball

2 notes · View notes

nucleiaster · 3 years ago

Photo

[Transcript under the cut]

So, uh... Here’s a quick intro post for my novel to provide more context for my illustrations. If you want to see more of these characters, check out my “radio isotope” tag.

Disclaimer : I’m a visual artist, not a writer, I write very slowly and in French because my English is shitposting-on-the-internet good, not writing-two-entire-novels good, so I won’t post writing excerpts unless I’m very proud of it (and after i finish writing this whole thing and find someone to help me translate it). Also I’m still working on the outline (rebuilding the entire thing from scratch), but I have a LOT of illustrations ideas so stick around for those i guess ?

Powerpoint ID :

A 7-slide powerpoint, written in comic sans.

Slide 1: The Radio Isotope (working title) : a comic sans presentation by Sanasean. This story has been a work in progress since 2016 and i’m finally making progress. also powerpoints are harder to do than i remember.

Slide 2 : What ? When ? Where ? Space pirates ! In the future ! In SPACE !!!! In the Andromeda Galaxy, approx. 1000 years in the future. Humanity left the earth and somehow ended up a whole galaxy away. Their spaceships were discovered by Isshan explorers (the Isshan are one of the many aliens species that live in Andromeda and the founder of the Union, the galactic government) and they were given a planet (Noutéra) and Union citizenship. Why did the humans leave the earth ? Where the fuck is even the earth ? idk lol (the Noutéran government says they fled because an asteroid was going to destroy the planet. Weirdly enough, people who try to investigate the earth and humanity’s exodus tend to disapear under mysterious circumstances). The inhabitants of the galaxy don’t care about why humans came to Andromeda, they just want to live their lives in peace. It’s pretty easy when you live near the Center, where the seat of the Union is located, but a bit more difficult for the people who live on the Edges, near the unexplored parts of the galaxy, where space pirates, mercenaries and bounty hunters thrive. And that’s where our story takes place.

Slide 3 : Plot (aka where are the protagonists and antagonists at the beginning of the story). The Captain is… the captain... of the Radio Isotope, a small spaceship with a small crew of space pirates. Well, space smugglers more exactly, but the Captain IS a space pirate so his crew are pirates as well. They are not having a lot of luck lately, and going from failed job to failed job. After a botched scavenging mission (the spaceship they were supposed to loot was not even there), they finally land a pretty easy smuggling job AND they get a paying passenger, a young human named Nua. Except luck is still not on their side because Nua is hunted by bounty hunters for reasons she doesn’t even know, and the tiny radio isotope ends up prey to the biggest bounty hunter spaceship of the galaxy, the Imperator. The Emperor is a mystery. Captain of the Imperator, immortal (?), a robot (???) and obsessed by the earth. They will stop at nothing to get the information they want, and with the imperator’s firepower rivaling that of a planet’s army, they do not fear Noutéra. They are the scourge of pirates, the hero of the Edges, a thorn in the Union’s side . And for some reason, they’re after the radio isotope.

Slide 4 : Main characters : the ones whose problems end up ruining everyone’s day. Above the text describing each character is a portrait of them.

The Captain (he/him) : Image ID : The Captain is a humanoid alien, with warm brown skin, four red eyes, dark red hair and beard, cat-like whiskers and a pair of horns, the right one broken at the base. He is looking at the camera, unimpressed, frowning slightly. End image ID. - Isshan - he’s the boss of the RI. - lived his whole life in space, and most of it as a pirate. - never stays more than one month in a place. - never talks about his past. - great storyteller, atrocious liar. - walks with a cane, which can turn into a rapier. he’s pretty deadly with it.

The Emperor (They/Them) Image ID : The Emperor appears to be a robot. Their head is vaguely shaped like a tortoise skull, with three more eye sockets, two behind the normal eyes and one on the top of the head. They have four fangs and the shape of their jaws make it so they are always slightly smiling. Neon green light comes from the inside of their head, contrasting with the dark metal the rest of their relatively humanoid body is made of. They are wearing a light gray-green cape covering their shoulders. End image ID. - ????? robot ??? haunted armor ??? - they have been haunting the Edges for more than 100 years. - there are a LOT of legends about them, and most of them are true. - where they go, the Imperator goes. - they have an informator network that spans half the galaxy. - strict but fair captain.

Slide 5 : The Radio Isotope’s crew : Lovable space pirates. Above the text describing each character is a portrait of them.

Etha (she/her) Image ID : Etha is a humanoid alien, with light blue skin, white feathery hair and very large white eyes. Her nose is almost non existent, and her mouth opens from ear to ear. She is looking straight at the camera, head slightly tilted to the right. End image ID. - the first mate. - armisian (alien with telepathic abilities). - cartographer, ethnologist and linguist. - braincell of the crew.

Jill (she/they) Image ID : Jill is a human with dark brown skin, straight black hair cut short on the left side and a black right eye. She has scars across her nose, her lips and around her artificial left eye. They are smiling to the camera. End image ID. - the mechanic. - fixed the ship so it could fly, lost her right arm and eye in a reactor accident. - first recruit. - fiercely loyal to the captain, but argues with him on a daily basis.

Meden (ael/aer) Image ID : Meden looks exactly like Etha, being her twin sibling. Ael is looking to aer right, and seems a bit confused. End image ID. - the doctor. - etha’s twin. - not really a fan of the pirate or spationaut life tbh. - mom of the crew.

Nua (she/her) Image ID : Nua is a human, with light beige-pinkish skin, green eyes and light brown hair in a bun. She has freckles on her cheeks and nose and a wide smile. End image ID. - the lost human. - pretended she could pay to travel to another planet to flee her pursuers. - stuck on the RI now. - kinda maybe in love with jill.

Slide 6 : The Imperator’s crew : scum and villainy (unless ?...). Above the text describing each character is a portrait of them.

Wënn (she/her) Image ID : Wënn is a human with pale beige skin, long straight black hair let loose on her right side and braided on her left side, and sad blue eyes. She has freckles all over her face and is smiling apologetically at the camera. End image ID. - the second in command. - she doesn’t really know what she’s doing here, she was a docker before the Emperor made her their second. - very kind. - swears like a (space) sailor.

The Lieutenant (he/they) Image ID : The Lieutenant is a humanoid alien, with reddish beige skin, short cold dark pink hair and cold purple eyes. He has small scales on his cheeks and long ears, and is smiling broadly to show his shark-like teeth while looking away from the camera. End image ID. - the mercenary. - somewhere between a human and a lizard alien. - very random loyalty, his only motivation is money and he’ll change sides on a whim. - excellent pilot, races regularly. - extremely arrogant.

Raki (any pronouns) Image ID : Raki is a human with very pale skin, short dirty blond hair and cold grey eyes. The right side of their face is covered in burn scars. She has a hearing aid in her left ear, and is looking pretty angry, frowning at the camera. End image ID. - the loose cannon. - who the fuck are they ? - cyborg, ~ 50 % of their body is artificial. - she has a tendency to appear where she’s the least expected. - tired™. - he’s looking of the earth too.

Slide 7 : What else ? ●LGBTQ+ characters, queerplatonic relationships. ● found family ! ● space magic ! Stories and words have power, semi sentient spaceships, space ghosts and weird spacey timey stuff, singularities as power source, playing very fast and very loose with physics, mentions of space dragons. ● billionaires and capitalism = bad. ● struggling with identity, wether it be lost by accident, shed voluntarily or imposed by circumstances. ● the futiliy of fleeing from the ghosts of one’s past, learning how to face them. ● also i plan to illustrate the whole novel so… yeah.

End powerpoint ID.

14 notes · View notes

nekobakaz · 3 years ago

Text

VICTORY!!!!

Celebrate with me @lilac-vode and @not-the-tie-youre-looking-for!!! I've finished Greater Good!!! (eleven days ago.... anyways!!)

I wrote way too many comments in the book to take photos. Some of them are comments on names (Samakro is now "Sam", and Che'ri is "Cherry", and Bet'nih is "Betty", Lakinda is "Linda", Lakbulbup is "Lakebulb" and Dilpram... no, that stays, it just invokes the image of a dill pickle in a baby pram, HOW the fuck is Afpriuh pronounced???? Does Zahn use a random letter generator???), snarky comments on paranoia and all the fucking assumptions people make, including the assumption that Thrawn is playing any sort of politics... and then these:

p 40-41 Thalias mentions that Chiss knees don't bend "quite as far as the aliens' did" and now I want a comparison with humans. Chiss superiority my ass! they can barely sit cross-legged!!!

- at some point I comment how Chiss politics reminds me of Vampire the Requiem

- the usage of the word "plastic" vs not using the word "zipper"

- blinking at "growzer" and thinking "pokemon???" -- ... is a whisker cub a cat?

- hooded cloaks being a universal constant

- Janna's reaction to Agbui "I don't care what the fuck their 'cultural norms' are; they touch me, they're either get a broken hand, or I'll let Phoebe say hi" -- Janna is still amused by "sky-walkers"; the nickname for our current game is "the bonewalkers" and she thinks that suits just fine. here, let her show you, where's a corpse....

-okay, so that two chapters where Zahn mentions a disconnect between reality and the Council's manual for sky-walkers. my plot point senses are tingling.

- Page 108-9. just. all of it. the banter. the "who wastes a missile on an asteroid" (well, if it were hurling towards you..) "a harmless looking asteroid" .... no asteroid is harmless. anyone who lives with the threat of asteroids hitting their planet knows this.

- side-eyeing Thawn at the bottom of page 157. "All lives are important"? Excuse me while I stare at both past Thrawn and future Thrawn. -- pay no attention to Janna commenting about meat shields.

- staring at Tatooine when Haplif comments about "nobody around here but other yokels"; you never know who's hanging out on backwater worlds.

- "I don't anticipate any major surprises." Famous last words, Thrawn. You didn't expect purrgils either

- hibernation chambers, eh? that sounds convenient... -- "a storage compartment" Well, Thalias, you're not wrong

- what the fuck are "meat-striped fruit squares"?????

- there are so many places where I've written "Ethics are fun!"

- eating popcorn and laughing at Haplif's frustration. Also, cloud diaries sound needlessly complicated

- still laughing at whenever Pathfinders are mentioned, cause I'm a ttrpg nerd

- Lakphro is awesome

- Wutroow is awesome

- do you want to know how many times I wheeeeee'd at evasive maneuvers after things exploded? I did it a lot

- There are some odds I will not take. Thrawn not noticing something is one of those. Unless it's politics

- Ar'alani calling Lakinda to her ship "this could have been an email"

- "you have a problem with Thrawn" .... to be honest, you can probably count the number of people who DON'T have a problem with him on one hand

- RIP Yomie

- "what kind of crisis could possibly happen" please stop tempting fate. she's a bitch

- the image of Che'ri getting a hold of a tool kit and taking apart furniture :D -- Janna nudges a set of thieves' tools over to Che'ri and walks away whistling innocently

-Kharill's smirk :)

- p349 "Do you care?" "Not really" "Neither do I" lol

**stares at the very last sentence of the book** that foreshadowing is as subtle as a brick. thanks Zahn.

#neko reads star wars #neko reads #long post

3 notes · View notes

okayoonoh · 5 years ago

Text

JAEHYUN’S FAMILY

a/n here is jaehyun’s family! honestly, imagining jaehyun as a dad fills me with so much joy lmao

here’s a link to the masterlist with all things nct dad related! go and check it out if ya want!

JUNG YOONOH:

he has has two kids, 1 girl and 1 boy. jung lani is 4 years older than her baby brother, jung leon.

JUNG LANI: >> as a baby <<

smiles galore

she got her dad’s dimples

and she used them

she also got her dad’s little “smile whiskers”

jaehyun is honestly the best dad

like he is so caring

he did so much research and everything

he knew more than enough to raise lani

he was pretty calm throughout most of it

and lani was calm too

she really loved watching you and jaehyun

like if jaehyun was just walking around doing chores or something

or if you were working on something

her eyes were on y’all

like she had the biggest eyes too

they were full of wonder

jaehyun held her like she was the most precious thing in his life (bc she is)

he was confident in his skills from the start

she made it easy on him tho

she wasn’t a super needy baby

she could be pretty independent when needed

it was really easy to get her to smile

like all you had to do was play peek-a-boo with her and she’d smile instantly

she’s easily entertained

if you sat her down in the living room

a snack in one hand, a toy in the other

she’s occupied for at least 30 minutes lol

snacks are literally her favorite thing

she was a big eater from the start

but like snacks just hit differently for her

she had so much hair as a baby

like headbands were her aesthetic from the start

you had to baby proof anything and everything in your house

bc she really liked to follow you guys when she learned how to crawl

like if you guys had to put gates so she wouldn’t crawl into the kitchen

she just wanted to hang around her parents :,)

whenever you and jaehyun were both home, you would rock paper scissors or flip a coin for who’s cooking/cleaning and who’s playing with lani

the boys fell in love with lani

like jaehyun would bring her to practice and it would just be so much fun

they would be so amazed with how easy it is to make her smile

johnny would be like “it takes so long to make noah smile but if i just put lani in front of him, it’s all he can do... wth...”

honestly, most of the guys were just so amazed that she was so smiley and just chill overall

like if jaehyun left her with the dreamies, she wouldn’t freak out

even like if he left her with the newer artists she’s never met

just as long as she sees that they’re not weirdos she won’t freak out

she loves to friend everyone she meets

she’s just full with natural cuteness

honestly like return of the superman situations with lani and jaehyun would be the best

they would get so much content because everyday, lani would just bombard you with cuteness

she’s just really out here being the cutest.

>> as a child <<

still a sweetheart

she is still a huge daddy’s girl

she still loves to give the biggest smiles all the time

like even when she lost her front tooth, she still would flash her beautiful smile to the world

jaehyun is still so whipped for his daughter

he would buy her the most gifts every time he left for tour

she honestly wasn’t super defiant

like she would play a prank here and there

or something would go wrong with her playing

for example, one time she was playing salon with jaehyun

and he was kinda sleepy so he didn’t notice that much

then she grabbed the actually scissors and cut his hair

like a huge chunk of it right in the back

no one told him the whole day until you got home and noticed

he wasn’t even that mad lol

when she found out she was gonna be an older sister?

she was so happy

like she loved being an only child

but she was so excited that she was gonna have a baby brother to take care of

she’s honestly a pretty good older sister

she always makes sure leon is taken care of

like always

i cannot emphasize this enough:

HEAD!!!BANDS!!!

that is your family aesthetic

jaehyun wears his 2/3 dollar headband

you wear your own

lani wears one

leon wears one

your pets wear one

eVeRyOnE

omg imagine

like again, return of the superman situation lol

lani is marching around while jaehyun is cooking her breakfast

and she goes up to the cameramen/women in the tents and is like

“excuse me... do you think you can wear one too?”

and they don’t even hesitate

when jaehyun goes around to give the cameramen/women coffee or some breakfast

he starts to laugh when he realizes they’re all in headbands

she’s best friends with mark’s oldest, ethan lee and ten’s second child, somchai leechaiyapornkul (shawn)

they’re an iconic group

they all compliment each other so well

like ethan is pretty energetic and a little bit of a crackhead

lani is happy smiley and just good vibes

and shawn is super shy but he’s doing his best!

like lani and ethan really just do things to get shawn to be more daring and stuff

and shawn does!

they’re all pretty smart for their age

like if they go out to buy something, they’ll combine their money to get a value pack (i explained this a bit in ten’s family description if ya wanna check it out)

they’re just super cool and just a really good dynamic

lani is honestly the most empathetic of the entire group of kids

like from a young age she was already doing her best to listen and understand the emotions of others

and like from a young age her advice was actually good?

she’s really pretty

like a lot of the guys in her classes had crushes on her

the only dudes she cares for are ethan and shawn tho

pero yeah

like she was just a sweetheart who was really mature for her age and still shocked everyone haha

>> as a teen/adult <<

she becomes a solo artist

she does a lot of chill vibe songs

like she loves chill r&b songs

lani is just so aesthetic too

she films a lot of her music videos in nakamoto yui’s flower shop

she gets along well with yui because they’re both rather calm by nature

she’s honestly just super iconic

she inherited her dad’s poreless skin

like she’s so wholesome and kind

she’s more on the quiet side

she has so many fans lol

she get’s overwhelmed with them a lot tho

again, still jaehyun’s biggest fan

a lot of people like her because she’s not living the pish posh life

like you know those hidden cams that see the reactions of celebrities and stuff?

like her reactions are really really the same ones she shows on tv

like her personality is just so genuine and kind

everyone who meets her tells that she’s like that too

as a solo artist, she loves to learn more about music

she learns a lot from kun’s oldest, qian lei.

lani understands a lot about music and they work together to write songs and stuff

it’s definitely not a competition between her and the other music artists amongst nct’s kids

like they all are so supportive of one another with any and every concept

if the company has luna, youngmi, and aria’s group do something a little odd

all of the music artists in the group would still go nuts over it lol

they all support and love each other

anyway

the person she loves and supports the most is her brother tho

like they don’t usually quarrel a lot like kaleb and aria or noah and leo

almost every show/interview she’s on, everyone asks her about her brother

and she just fills with so much pride

she’s so proud of her little brother and all of his accomplishments

like no jealousy whatsoever

she’s also like super humble

she forgets that she’s an idol sometimes

like her manager would be like “lani, DPR LIVE wants to collab with you, are you down?”

and she’s like “THE DPR LIVE??? what??? why me??? what?? is this a prank???”

her manager is like “lani... don’t forget that your famous too...”

she takes a while to understand certain jokes

like her brother makes a lot of jokes but a ton of them just fly over her head lol

snacks are still her favorite thing

her manager has to stop her from eating snacks because her fans give her so many and she just wants to eat them all forever lol

ethan becomes a rapper and they collab the most out of all the people she collabs with

they honestly lowkey realize they like each other and just start dating haha

shawn is a pretty dense dude

but the second ethan and lani got together he was like “bruh even I COULD see that you two liked each other.”

they became the celebrity couple of the century™

they’re honestly that couple that’s like “okay, why haven’t they been together like this entire time?”

anyway, lani is just so empathetic and kind and just so happy to be alive and born into her big and beautiful family

JUNG LEON: >> as a baby <<

also inherited his father’s dimples and smile whiskers

he was pretty smiley like his sister

he also wore headbands a lot because he had so much hair lol

but honestly

he was an alien lol

he was weird

but it was so cute

like if people asked him a simple yes or no question

he’d answer incorrectly

allow me to provide an example:

“is your name jung leon?”

“NO!”

he was so giggly and stuff

loved to make people laugh from an early age

like whenever any of his uncles would watch him

he’d make them laugh so hard

like most days, leon would just be chilling in the living room giggling the day away

and like nothing is happening but he would find ways to make himself laugh

like there was a mirror attached to his little play mat

and he’d look at himself, smile, then laugh, then repeat

leon would learn this while jaehyun was on tour and like you would have to explain to him that your child isn’t insane

he just thought everything and anything was funny

those days were the best for y’all tho

like every single day, leon would do something that made you just laugh like crazy

whether it was somehow taking his socks off and putting them on his ears

or somehow moving his diaper from the front to the back

he just made you laugh

jaehyun was so happy to have a son

i mean, he’d be happy regardless

but still

i feel like he would just be so happy to have a mini him

and that is exactly what leon is

a mini him

lani looks a little more like you

but leon is all jaehyun

leon inherited the trait that turns his ears red when he’s crying/embarrased

he honestly loved to play too

like he honestly needed to be doing something all of the time

leon simply just didn’t know when to stop

he eventually learns, but still

he just can’t stop/won’t stop hahaha

>> as a child <<

still kinda weird

he’s really funny tho

like he’s genuinely a comedian

he makes you and jaehyun laugh a lot

he’s best friends with the squad™ of him, jungwoo’s middle daughter, kim jieun, hendery’s middle son, wong mochou, and haechan’s middle daughter, lee haeun.

all of them together is just a treat

they’re all so loud but all of their personalities are just so unique

leon is the oldest in the group so he’s sort of the leader

i’m just gonna say it

they’re all crack heads

the most calm out of all of them is kim jieun

but she even still has a huge personality

leon is like the clumsy leader

like he tends to fall a lot

but they’ll follow him when he falls lol

like if they’re just walking a line or just in a group

and leon trips

they’ll all fall with him lol

leon is definitely the class clown

but he’s not like super annoying

he has “class” (badum tsssss)

leon can just be so genuinely weird sometimes

he doesn’t really make any super inappropriate or bad jokes

he’s still a little bit of an alien

just a straight up weirdo sometimes

lani cares for him a lot

and he looks up to her

they don’t really quarrel with each other

like they’re both just chill with each other

every year, they work together to get a birthday gift for you and jaehyun

and every year they succeed in getting the best gift for the two of you

when lani was old enough to watch leon by herself, their gift to you was a date night lol

leon picked up a love for basketball at this age

he learned that he was lowkey really good at it lol

jaehyun would play basketball with him as often as possible

it was the sweetest :,)

leon is also really good with scary things

like he seems fearless

but

he is scared of one thing and one thing only

the pure and utter rage of the maknae of their squad, lee haeun

take all of the burning rage haechan has and put it in his daughter

that is haeun

when she’s mad, she’s MAD

leon isn’t scared of spiders, snakes, heights, etc.

he’s scared of angry haeun lol

he’s just a goofy soul that is just vibing tbh

>> as a teen/adult <<

ooh boy

he’s so handsome

he’s also so funny

he becomes a model™

like with a face like that? why waste it?

he works under noah seo

leon and noah both do a lot of modeling gigs together and stuff

leon is honestly following in noah’s footsteps

at first, a lot of the high class modeling agencies didn’t like leon because they thought he smiled too much and his dimples were too deep

but noah was like “exUSE ME THIS BOY RIGHT HERE IS ONE OF THE MOST HANDSOME BOYS YOU’LL E V E R MEET.”

noah teaches leon how to be an independent model and leon is honestly thriving

so many people use him in music videos like just because he’s so handsome?

people also started to realize that he’s like really really funny

like he’s almost always smiling

and his jokes are just so funny

they realized this and were like “okay, time to put him in front of a camera just to see what he does.”

and like

he’s just so goofy

not only is he a well known model

he becomes a well known comedian/tv personality

he embraces his goofy personality and honestly just vibes

he’s also really good at keeping up with the trends

like when he models, he’s pretty serious

but like right after? one of the funniest people you’ll meet

he’s just super quick witted and comes up with so many good jokes

lani can’t catch on to some of the jokes but it’s okay

he’ll give his sister a second lol

he’s also kinda dense when it comes to girls

leon is super confident in his looks and everything like that (like lucas level confident)

but when it comes to girls?

he just doesn’t think he’s good with it lol

which is a lie bc he’s actually really good with girls

he’s really really really good at making people like freak out over him

like he does the thing his dad does that makes everyone weak in the knees

he poses, runs his finger through his hair, and just stares

uGH

everyone melts whenever he does this

he still loves basketball

he plays a bit in his free time

when it comes to acting tho?

he sucks lmao

he just can’t stay serious for too long

like in front of flashing cameras, he’s fine

he can honestly fit any concept

but if you have him act like a serious role?

he can’t do it

he’s really good at doing the funny roles

but he honestly just can’t do serious roles

he still is scared of haeun

he also still respects his sister

he’s just a goofy dork who’s just living life lol

---

i honestly just can’T jaehyun’s my ult and just thinking about him as a dad just uGHHGHHGHG

also, i’m sorry if i started to get carried away, i just honestly couldn’t help myself

anywayyyy i hope you guys liked it! i’m so hyped for winwin’s family lol

again, requests are open and let me know if you want me to tag you so you can stay updated everytime i add onto nct’s family things!

- amy <3

216 notes · View notes

garbagegrimoire · 4 years ago

Text

podcast notes week 1

Here are the notes I had going into the podcast recording for week 1.

There are some spoilers in here & all of the doodle/synopsis posts have not yet dropped but the episode is recorded & here we gooooo...

Train to Busan

Starting out strong with a zombley deert (to speak in cursed rickyisms).

Giving his kid some yuppie bullshit talk & almost gets them clobbered in traffic, great dad.

Damn that escalated quickly. Why did it take so long for the first lady to turn but the others are like instantaneous?

The shots, effects, & choreography in this movie are crazy!

The grandma has lucid moments before changing which seems more than what the passengers got. & she used them to break hearts.

Ohhh he's a “fund manager,” ofc he's a dick.

Watching a zombie movie during a pandemic hits different.

I like that the bad ass in this movie is a soon to be dad with a dad bod & he's also a boomer who doesn't know how to change his ringtone.

Okay, they’re officially fit daddy & dad bod.

Okay legit tears at dad bod sacrificing himself even though I knew it was coming.

LOL young capitalist bastard fighting old capitalist bastard

This is capitalism & I hate it. OFC the motherfucker willing to screw over everyone else even if he doesn't need to prevails nearly to the end.

We need a zombie killing axe... Oh wait, nevermind, a shoe is good too.

Oh wow, that shit is poignant. The most ruthless capitalist of the group having a mama moment before he changes.

I'm sitting here yelling, get his nards, fit daddy! Do the nuts still have any effect?

Oh shit, fit daddy is infected. Human bites are gross.

This sucks, I hate it. :(

OH FUCK WHY DO THEY MAKE IT WORSE OMG!

& worse.

I didn't want to cry this much, not fair.

Re-Animator

Ooh, my German 101 skills are tingling.

Chaos nerd is everything in this scene. You wondrous ball of absolute cheese.

The security guard saying "Nobody wants in & ain't nobody getting out" is the Chekov's gun of this movie.

Fuckin’ nerd talk. Do either of you even lift? Why don't you duke this out in a tables, ladders, & chairs match?

I don't feel great about that transition between her playfully saying "no" & them full plowing. Greeeeeassy.

I'm with the cat on this one — scratch him!

"The world's last living puritan." LOL, come to eastern Washington tho.

How in the world is this lady's creep radar going off w nerdboy but not with the creepy old man trying to bang her?

They did a few things really well with this cat thing. Because usually I could not DEAL with violence against a pet. First the dead cat doesn't look anywhere near realistic, nonetheless once it's reanimated. Also, there's no like huge emotional connection between the character & the cat because the only experience the viewer has with it prior to it dying is it scratching his back after he's done banging, which I mean, solid choice there kitty.

"Because it's maaaad?" Best line in this mf movie.

I like how quick Halsey turns on nerdboy who he was stoked on like two days later. All because he insulted the creepy old man?

"Here's your meatball!" Writers were A+ obv.

"I know you're all by yourself now." Ew no. Again, she reacts to something other than the creepy old guy trying to bang her. PLEASE REACT, maybe punch him in the face or move to a different state without notifying anyone.

I’m dying, it looks like he's dribbling cherry applesauce out of his mouth.

This is the corniest, dumbest break up scene I've ever watched.

So once they're lobotomized they have like a mind link with the old guy head? Alright...?

Okay so we've arrive. This scene is fucking pure unadulterated cringe & makes me feel like I need to take several showers & drink bleach.

"Get a job & a sideshow." This entire movie is this nerd & that's what I'm here for.

How is there this seemingly endless supply of this green ooze? Also this reminds me of TMNT.

LOL the murderous colon strikes.

I'm very confused on the rules of what stays alive & how. Like the hand is still twitching but the guy in the hallway is dead?

Nothing gore-wise has bothered me so far but the chest compression sound is gross.

This guy is the worst. If he loved her he'd let her die.

Plan 9 From Outer Space

"Future events such as these will affect you in the future." You don’t say, friend.

Hillabilly gravediggers saying "sorta spooky like" is the mood here.

The scream is so good.

A conspiracy theorist manifesto delivered on a suburban patio made entirely out of wicker.

The walking dead in this movie are so much more chill than the last two, just saying. Like if you're going to kill me, fine, but be chill about it.

"The earth people who can think are so frightened by those who cannot — the dead." Truuuuuuu. Thinking sucks, bro.

The pillow talk is all kinds of weird.

Hey, I know you're worried too, but because you're a child that can't care for herself, make sure you lock the doors because that's something a feeble woman wouldn't remember to do.

"You are on the verge of destroying the entire universe." Ooof this hits different now.

Yeah, it's old timey & corny but there are some seriously artsy scenes in this. I love the glowing trees.

Vampira is aesthetic goals if: I was more feminine, if I gave a fuck, if anyone ever looked at me, lol.

If some big dead dude was coming for you why in the hell would you just stand there or sit there & scream? Like these are the easiest monsters to escape from, you all are so gd slow.

That's it, I'm dressing up as one of these aliens for Halloween. All I need is some black pants, a belt, & a shiny purple shirt.

LOL little green men. Shoot first, ask questions later. Get all the tropes in there buck-o.

I just realized the dude alien is called Eros & I'm laughing. Total heartthrob. "You're always right, Eros." Fucking yuuuck. Miss me with all of this.

Holy trigger happy.

Explode the actual particles of sunlight. LOL, OMG "STRONGER NATION THAN NOW." These fucking nationalist trashbags.

Yes, of course aliens are religious too. & the're sexists. OH MY GOD IM GOING TO THROW THE MONITOR OUT THE WINDOW STAHP!

This was so much. I mean it's the old humans are dumb, violent animals & need to be gently led or annihilated. Okay, that can be true. But the aliens here needed to FOAD too.

Dead Birds

Is Mark Boone Jr in everything & will he die early? (yes)

Very aesthetic theme

Bank manager's whiskers are on point.

The fuck? Oooh racist, niiiiice. I hate everyone all the time.

Yup this is how bank robbers would behave, wanting to kill of members of the gang to get a bigger share.

Gross, just listening into their friends banging, being creepy.

Is it turning into a bear? (Ohhh, the footprints)

Okay one of these dudes actually has something like a conscience, good to know, still hate him.

54 minutes in & I'm getting real bored.

Good jump scare w the little girl.

Okay the lady in the barn was too much for me. Gore was too much.

"There are worse things than dying" Best line.

Okay first I was like "that's not vomit, it's too white" & then I realized she'd been in bed with her dude earlier & yelled "ew, is she puking cum?" at my computer because that's where my dumpster fire of a brain goes.

Poor horses :(

He just disappeared? TF?

Nah, I’m not feeling this.

#sage31days

2 notes · View notes

joshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh · 4 years ago

Text

Xenoblade X status update since I’m about 30-something hours in and haven’t detailed anything of my playthrough, granted some of those hours are just idling for revenue, but, yeah. Because this is a Wii U game I don’t have a capture button so enjoy the photos I took of my TV screen instead lol.

This is my uwu kawaii anime girl Cross, except she honestly looks really normal so, whatever. She’s supposed to be cute and like, a type of girl I’d be attracted to, because hey why not play as a babe, you know? And her name is Hope, since I like that name a lot. I know there’s already a character in-game called Hope, but I didn’t really care. Her appearance here is actually a tiny bit different from how she started out - she had freckles and her hair was a little more brown in-game than it looked in the character creator so when I got Yardley’s thing I fixed her hair, and also I just ended up not liking the freckles that much.

And then there’s her full outfit, I think it’s cute, and it’s funny how much it’s just ‘normal clothes’ in this crazy sci-fi setting where you’re fighting aliens and shit on a whole different planet. She’s been through a couple of outfits, most of them just the game’s various swimsuits, because they’re hot, but this outfit’s good because I value cute over hot and also if someone walks in on me playing as her dressed like this it’s way easier to justify myself than if she’s wearing a micro-bikini or something. Except this look’s hot anyway because hey modest is hottest or whatever, also jeans in this game on the female models are like pretty tight around the ass so, yeah. I have no issue being unapologetically horny in this post since the game’s really horny anyway. Also I had headgear turned off in settings but I turned it back on entirely so she could wear her glasses.

I have mostly been going for more casual looks with the fashion gear, though if they can look sorta sexy in the process then fuck yeah dude.

Taking Elma for example, I think this is a great look, again it looks practical enough as everyday casual clothing but it’s still hot because tank tops are hot and the tight jeans are hot and I chose really good colours for Elma specifically also cause hey she’s a babe also.

Lao’s the other character I took a photo of just because of what my party comp was when I decided to take these photos to make this post. Lao’s honestly pretty hot, and there are plenty of fanservicey male outfits in this game I could’ve given him, but I thought this looked so much funnier without breaking my casual looks rule. Outfit looks a lot darker in game and I think seeing all the serious Lao cutscenes while he’s dressed as a fuckin hikikomori with a stupid fade in his trousers is great.

Those 3 have had the most thought and effort put into their looks, I’m still on the fence about Lin’s outfit honestly, and then the tons of miscellaneous party members end up having pretty random shit. One standout though is Boze, right, cause I fuckin, hate that dude, maybe he gets better after more of his affinity missions are done but I’ve only done his first one and for now I hate him. But anyway I didn’t get a photo but I shoved him in a school uniform since it looked silly as well as the bunny whiskers thing because I can’t stand listening to him speak as like, a person, and I think the bunny whiskers completely remove my ability to take him seriously, which is epic.

Outside of what I’ve been doing with character outfits and shit, my general approach to the game has been to do as much as I possibly can as early as I can. So I think in my first playthrough however many years ago I probably just did random shit and then story chapters whenever, which meant when I returned to some of the earlier missions I was overlevelled as hell. I’m avoiding that here though because I’ve just been like, I’ll do every quest and affinity mission I can find and do before the next story chapter, and then once I’ve done all those, I’ll do the story chapter, and then rinse and repeat. I’m level 28 and have done the first 6 chapters, and I believe I’ve done every affinity mission available with those parameters. I’ve also been trying for heart-to-hearts as well, which I literally didn’t know were in this game until a few weeks ago when I put Enel’s playthrough on in the background as I did other stuff. No real rush with heart-to-hearts though since I believe Lao’s are the only ones that are missable, so I’ll try and be sure to get all of those before he disappears on us.

Speaking of Lao, yeah this game’s main plot is still pretty trash, but I think the character writing for all of the side content (which itself is all really fun to do, especially compared to what 1 and 2 had on offer) is generally really solid. Since I opened with Lao there I guess like, I’m feeling his personality a lot, he’s a super likeable and tragic dude, and maybe me having the knowledge that he’s the traitor already is playing into that appreciation some. I think Elma’s a really boring character who just gets hyped up by everyone in the universe of the game as being a big deal, and that’s kinda lame. If she’s this game’s true protagonist, which she is, then she’s far and away the weakest Xenoblade protagonist, doesn’t hold a candle to Shulk or Rex. Lin’s cute, she’s a fun character, lots of the comedy with her and Tatsu is insufferable, Tatsu in general is insufferable, you know the drill.

All of the bonus recruitable characters who I’ve still mostly just done their first affinity missions for are generally really fun, they cover a lot of different character archetypes and it’s easy to appreciate much of the writing, they add to the world in nice ways.

And then even just some of the normal quests fuckin, can hit hard dude. I just did the Biahno Water Purification Plant quest and that one’s heavy, but I really love it a lot. I got the good ending in that one by the way by telling the girl not to shower, so now I feel epic. It’s also a really nice feeling taking part in the missions that add more xenos to NLA and unlock new merchants and shit, makes the world feel really alive and populated and it’s satisfying as fuck seeing that bio and cultural diversity shoot up. And it’s all constantly unlocking new shit too so there’s just an endless feeling loop of satisfying narratives that do honestly make up for the lacklustre main narrative.

And then since I mentioned the world there, I love exploring Mira so fucking much. It feels like such a carefully crafted and fully realised world - nothing about the aesthetic design even screams “video game” - it’s instead just completely immersive and enticing in literally every corner. And fuck it’s so god damn beautiful too, whether you’re speeding through it in a skell or stopping to take in the sights the world always just fuckin, it’s stunning, it’s so great to be in it.

Gameplay wise, you can see the dual swords in that first photo, I’ve went for the dual swords dual gun class I forget the name of at the moment. Currently in the last class tree of that lineup. It’s a really fast-paced and fun style that leads to lengthy and powerful overdrives and I’ve been having way more fun with overdrives than I did on my initial playthrough because of that.

Now with 1 and 2 I was kinda done with those games after their new game plus and I didn’t really grind to beat superbosses or anything, but I’m not really sure what my endgame for X is gonna be. I could honestly try and max my character to some degree, go kill Telethia or whatever. After I max the dual sword/gun style I could start switching things up and aim for full weapon mastery, who knows. I believe on my however many years old file, I was drifter for a while because the game’s bad at teaching you shit so I didn’t change classes for ages, but when I did I just stuck with the longsword and assault rifle class for basically the entire game, and I switched to the fuckin, psygun and other sword thingy at some point just because they looked cool.

Certainly I think I understand the game to a much better degree now and my experience with 1 and 2 as well has made this game’s mechanics a lot easier to grapple with, so I probably could go for an at least somewhat maxed character. We’ll see. Gameplay’s fun as fuck though, even though I acknowledged in my 2 review that the gameplay speeds up it still feels so great going back to this game where I can, I dunno, actually run and jump around in combat, and use more than 3 arts, all that fun stuff. X’s combat’s so flashy and intense and it’s so fucking god damn fun, the sort of character build I’ve gone with has that one skill that multiplies melee art damage from behind so I’ve been using that in combination with melee arts to be doing fucking shit tons of damage and that’s really satisfying, I know I could try an infinite overdrive build or something but for now this is how I want to play the game so, yeah.

I don’t think I was looking forward to getting a skell this time as much as I was when I first played the game. I was hyped to have it for the movement, and yeah I’ve got a couple of otherwise really hard to reach probes because of it, it’s great speeding around the map and stuff. But while on my first playthrough there was a lot of intrigue for me in the mystery of how skells would play, when you already know how they are, the novelty wears off a bit. And actually, maybe it’s because I’ve still only got the one level 20 skell with only a couple of weapons, but these things are a lot worse in combat than I remember. They don’t do nearly enough damage to justify the insane cooldowns on everything, and the couple of skell fights I did were way less fun than most of the melee battles.

God what else is a thing I can say about this game. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong to have so little research probes but my revenue is ass because of it, meanwhile my mining is more intense than my storage so that’s been a bit of an issue. FrontierNav is honestly a really weird system - it’s obviously extremely rewarding to do in that you get money, miranium, a fast travel point, useful info, all that fun stuff. But then idk there are like battle effect probes and shit that can go on, and some other stuff maybe. I don’t know why I even called it weird actually I think it’s kinda fun. Oh well, it’s 3am. I stopped playing the game for today like 3 hours ago but I’m only now writing this post so.

I guess the last thing worth saying is what I’m currently doing in the game. And uh, all I’m doing is a couple of quests for some NPCs. I’ve got Oblivia Trailblazing on and I’m having shit luck finding those fucking worms, I know where to go for them and I’ve got 3 but despite the fact that they’re apparently common I’m just not fucking getting any. I really love that you can use squad tickets to get enemy parts, that cuts out annoying grinding, but I wish you could use them for collectables as well, presumably with the criteria that they have to be registered in the collectopedia first so you can’t cheese that. But like wandering around for collectibles really sucks and the mission descriptions will always say “oh find X of this in Primordia” when they really mean “in this one tiny specific area of Primordia that we won’t indicate to you” so you kinda have to consult a guide and that’s lame. Just fuckin, let us buy collectibles or let us track them directly, the current system is ass. But hey, that’s room for improvement if X gets a Switch port??? Time will tell.

Uh, yeah. Going to sleep now.

#xenoblade #12.8.20

3 notes · View notes

reneehearts · 5 years ago

Text

Not doing this as an ask...because no one ever asks me any 😂

angel; do you have a nickname? Yes: Nee, Renizzle, Nee Nee, Doots

awe; how old are you? 27

baby; favorite color? Purple (I’d you couldn’t tell lol)

bloop; spirit animal? Monkey

blossom; favorite book/movie/song? Water for Elephants/Remember the Titans/Props and Mayhem

blush; what was your stuffed animal as a child? Lumpy! He was a lil pastel horse

breeze; most precious childhood memory? Working in the garden with my Papa

bright; mermaids or fairies? Fairies

bubbles; do you have a best friend? I have a few

buttercup; showers or baths? Showers

butterfly; dream destination? Key West or Bahamas...anywhere tropical

buttons; are you religious or spiritual? More spiritual

calm; favorite scent? Pine/Christmas trees

candlelight; what did you dream about last night? I had a dream I was freaking out because I didn’t do my essay for class and it was due in like an hour lol

charming; have you ever been in love? Yes

cozy; eye/hair color? Hazel-ish/blonde

cuddly; what’s your favorite time period? 20s, 90s

cupcake; favorite flower/plant? I have a few favorite flowers: Sunflower, Daisy, Tulip, Lilac/Evergreen tree

cute; what did you get on your last birthday? Jewelry and a designer purse

cutie pie; most precious item you own? My dog

cutsie; what makes you happy? My puppy, ice cream, family/good friends

daisies; describe a moment when you felt free. I don’t know if I ever really have

daydream; how do you want to be remembered? Kind, generous, strong, independent

daylight; favorite album of all time? Collide with the Sky - Pierce the Veil

dear; zodiac sign? Leo

delightful; concerts or museums? Concerts

dimples; have you ever written a letter? Of course

dobby; dream job? Ice cream/candy store owner

doll; how do you like to dress? Cute but casual; leggings, oversized sweaters, bralettes

dovey; any paranormal/magical experiences? I’ve had premonition dreams that have come true

dreams; do you want or have any tattoos? I have 8 and probably want more at some point

drizzle; do you believe in aliens? I’m not really sure

euphoric; talk about someone you love. My best friend: she would do anything for me, we have a bond through our ED that is so strong. It’s hard to explain how we are so close, we are very different and come from different lifestyles but she means the world to me. We don’t need to talk everyday to know that we are there for each other.

fairy; do you have a pet? I have my own dog; an Australian Shepherd and my parents have 4 dogs

fluffy; ocean or mountain? Ocean

forever; where do you feel time stop? Work

froglet; are you a good plant owner? Nope

garden; how many languages do you know? English fluently and then a little French and very little italian

gem; who are your favorite tumblrs? I don’t have any “favorites” I just like tumblrs that post relatable and pretty things

giggles; what is your aesthetic of choice? Unicorn/fairy dust/pastel

glittery; do you like anons? why/why not? I wouldn’t mind them but I never get them haha

glow; list the top 5 things you like about yourself. My smile, my hair, my kindness to others, my work ethic and my abs (since I work pretty hard on them lol)

heart; silk or lace? Lace

honey; coffee or tea? how do you take it? Coffee with 1% milk

hugsy; do you enjoy people watching or bird watching more? why? People because you can make up life stories about them and create scenarios. Bird watching would be fun for a little while but boring after a half hour

hunnybunch; what sounds help you sleep? Fan

jewel; what’s your favorite kind of weather? Hot and sunny!

jiggly; what do you usually like to do on weekends? Have leisurely breakfasts on Saturday and Sunday morning, go to the city either Friday or Saturday and go on adventures, shopping, watch tv and relaxing

joy; do you laugh loudly or giggle more? Laugh out loud

kinky; do you blush easily? Nah not really

kisses; what romantic cliché do you wish for most? Grand gestures once in a while

kitty; what’s your favorite time of the day? Breakfast time

ladybug; what’s your favorite artist to listen to when you’re sad? I don’t really have an artist I have various songs by a lot of different people

love; what is your favorite season and why? Summer because I love the heat and being able to wear shorts and flip flops and not wearing 7 layers

lovey; what is your favorite flavor of macaron and ice cream? Macaron: I haven’t had too many but probably either chocolate or cotton candy. Ice cream: a mocha flavor with either brownie hits, Oreo pieces, or chocolate covered espresso beans

magic; what are five flaws you have? I can get mad easily, I’m not patient, I have ridiculous eating habits, I can be lazy and I have trouble communicating how I’m feeling

moonlight; do you prefer soft pastels, warm neutrals, or cool darks? Soft pastels

munchkin; what do you look for in your significant other? Humor, good looks, kindness, generosity, optimistic

paddywack; how would you describe a perfect date? It depends on the season! Hah

pebbles; how do you spend free time by yourself? On the internet, social media, playing with my puppy, working out, listening to music, watching tv.

precious; what is something valuable that you learned in your life? Always be kind and respectful because why not?

pretty; do you like to cook or bake more? Bake

prince; how would you describe your handwriting? Neat but after I’ve been writing for a while it turns into a print/script writing

princess; do you play any instruments? if not, are there any you wish you could play? I can play the flute but I haven’t in a while

prinky; how do you relieve stress? Snuggle with my puppy

pumpkin; what is your favourite kind of fruit/vegetable? Raspberry/asparagus

rainbow; what was the last line of the last book you read? I have no clue

roses; what is the most significant event in your life so far? I really have no idea

smile; what is one thing that has greatly affected you? My gramma’s death

shine; art or music? Music

shimmer; do animals tend to like you? Yes

smitten; do you collect anything? Pins

smoochies; how many pillows do you sleep with? 1 tempur pedic type pillow then a small pillow on the side

snuggle; what is your favourite candy? Chocolate specifically dark

snuggly; do you have a camera? if so, what kind? I have the camera on my phone

sparkle; do you wear jewelry? Yes, rings, bracelets and earrings

spooky; sunrise or sunset? Sunset

sprinkles; do you like to listen to music with headphones or no headphones? No headphones

starlight; what was your favourite show as a child? As a young kid: Barney, as a teen: Lizzie McGuire/Hannah Montana

soft; describe your favourite spot in your house. Either my bed or the couch

soothe; digital or vinyl? Digital

squeezed; who do you miss right now? A few people

sugary; what traits do you value most in friends? Loyalty, kindness, humor

sunshine; do you prefer for things to be practical or aesthetically pleasing? It depends on the situation but usually practical

sweet; do you find it easy to open up? Depends on the person honestly

sweetie; do you like kids? if so, do you ever want to have any? I do like kids and I want them but I’m not ready yet

thimble; is there somebody you look up to? who are they? My old boss even tho I have lost touch with her

toot; what is something you find unique about yourself? How observant I am

tootsie; what kind of friend are you? Loving, generous, loyal

treasure; what was something that made you smile today? A student that said hi to me

velvet; are you an early bird or a night owl? Unfortunately an early bird

whiffle; if you could have a magical power, what would it be? Teleportation

whimsical; do you prefer doing stuff at home or going out? Depends but usually home especially in the winter when it’s freezing

whiskers; do you usually wear makeup? Nope

wiggly; are you a messy or tidy person? Mostly tidy

wispy; do you like the place where you grew up? do you think you will live there when you get older? I do love the place I grew up and I��ve moved away and now I’m back, but I just can’t take the cold weather and how expensive it is to sustain yourself here

wobbly; have you ever wished upon a star? I think once

Source: luneve

1 note · View note

12setsofchopsticks · 7 years ago

Text

A Post About Goldfish

To be clear: we are talking about the animal, not the delcious cheesy snack.

So. Kingyo--or Goldfish as we say in English--are my favorite animals. I’ve always kept them as pets and loved watching them in ponds. However, since moving to Japan I haven’t quite had the resources to start up my own tank. Sad!

Luckily, Japan loves goldfish too and I’ve had a whole bunch of really cool opportunities to see some really beautiful fish!

To give you a better understanding of my favorite fish, let me tell you a few things about them (For the sake of this blog post, I won’t be talking in scientific terms but will instead use more common language)! The first thing you have to understand about goldfish is that there are essentially three different “kinds” of goldfish that you typically see. Those kinds are:

Common goldfish, Fancy goldfish, and Koi

Common goldfish

(PSA to please not put your goldfish in a bowl like this!)

Common goldfish are exactly what you think they are. Just your regular orange fish, although they do range in color from black to olive to pale yellow and white and everything in between. These are the guys that you see at pet stores for about 15 cents each and they tend to have an (unfair!) reputation of being short-lived and disposable. This is probably because, due to their hardiness, availability and price, they are often used as feeder fish—meaning if you have a hungry predator pet (like a turtle) that requires live food to survive, you probably go to Petco a few times a month and stock up on those 15 cent lil guys. However, given the right conditions (AKA if your lil buddy is living in the proper sized aquarium rather than a miserable existence in one of those so-called “goldfish bowls”), it is not unheard of for regular goldfish to live many years and sometimes grow to obscenely and unusually large sizes.

In Japan, these fish are also famously featured in the festival game 金魚すくい, 金魚掬い( Kingyo-sukui), which means “goldfish scooping.” It’s a common game for children where they use a paper net to catch as many goldfish as they can before the paper deteriorates in the water.

Whatever the children can catch in bowl, they can then take home as their prize! I played this game once and it was a lot of fun, but surprisingly difficult. I did catch myself a friend, but I decided to release it back into the pool with the other fish because I didn’t have a cozy tank for it to come home to!

Fancy goldfish

Oh, these guys are my little loves! Fancy goldfish is kind of an overhead term that is actually comprised of many different varieties of strange-looking goldfish! They have been selectively bred over hundreds of years of fishkeeping to accentuate various bizarre deformations such as bulging eyes, brain-like growths on their heads, and many other unusual traits. However, almost all fancy goldfish can be distinguished by their split “fantail” and more egg-shaped body compared to their common cousins. Similarly to their common cousins, though, fancy goldfish also come in a vibrant multitude of colors, but my favorites are the red and orange ones. While some varieties of fancy goldfish appear kind of ugly and alien-looking, others can be supremely beautiful. I just love these little suckers.

These are the kinds of goldfish that I love keeping, partly because they are truly stunning fish, but also because they have really wonderful personalities (and YES, fish CAN have personalities!). Here is a picture of my beloved pet fancy goldfish (Ryukin variety!), Lips, may god rest his fishy soul RIP.

Fancy goldfish are everywhere in Japanese culture, specifically in art. I often see them on stationary, fans, and other textiles as well and, of course, I always buy things with goldfish on them because I am a huge sucker. Recently, I was super lucky to actually catch a fancy goldfish ART EXHIBIT with Shota!! It was called the Artaquarium (he really knows the way to my heart) and it was so so cool!!

There were dozens of really intricate aquarium tanks with different species of fancy goldfish (there were other kinds of fish too) and I was super fangirling out over them. I don’t think Shota knew what the difference between a telescope eye goldfish and a celestial eye goldfish is (spoiler: Telescopes have bulging eyes that face outward whereas Celestials have bulging eyes that face upwards) but agreed that it was an awesome exhibit.

Koi goldfish

Finally, we have Koi. These are the super big and beautiful fish that you often see in garden ponds. While koi look just like bigger goldfish, they are actually considered an entirely different species that common and fancy goldfish! It’s true that they are both in the same family—goldfish and koi are both species of carp—however, their ancestral heritages are not at all the same! Goldfish were developed nearly two thousand years ago in ancient China by selectively breeding Prussian carp. Koi, on the other hand, were developed in Japan from the common carp and became a popular hobby in the 1820s. Today, there are over 20 recognized varieties!

SO, what is the physical difference? Well, of course if you have ever seen koi fish in a Japanese garden, you might know how enormous they can get. On average, a koi can reach up to about 3.3 feet in length, but goldfish, which are generally smaller, usually only grow to about a foot in length. Koi also have little whisker-like things called barbles at the corner of their mouths which they use to sift around the bottoms on ponds. Koi fish also have a reputation for being much longer-lived than their common and fancy cousins—likely due to the fact that people who have koi often keep them in large ponds with adequate filtration where they can live a happy life mucking about in the silt and detritus, versus your regular carnival fish that you put in a makeshift bowl made from a two-liter bottle of diet coke (yes I did this, but we all make mistakes). Generally, koi have a lifespan of around 50 years but with proper care they can live to be over 100 years old; the oldest koi fish on record was a fish named Hanako who lived to a be a whopping 225 years old! Maybe you are thinking that I am “full of carp” (LOL) because there is no way a fish could live that long! BUT her age was scientifically verified by counting the rings on her scales, similar to how you would count the rings on a tree to determine it’s age.

One time, I was with some friends of mine wandering around a part of Tokyo called Ueno and we just happened upon this enormous and wonderful KOI SHOW. Like, it was this whole giant area filled with 50 gallon tubs of water that all had between one and three koi in them and it was marvelous.

These koi were slightly different than your run-of-the-mill koi that you might see in any old pond—these were competition-bred, show quality koi, meaning that, rather than the <$10 you might pay at a pet store, these guys can fetch a price tag anywhere between $1,000-$10,000. Of course, many things can affect this price, like color, pattern, age, and size. The most expensive koi fish was sold for today’s equivalent of 2.2 MILLION DOLLARS. Let that number sink in for a second. That’s the cost of my college education EIGHTY TIMES; or the cost of a house in my hometown—and a really nice one at that. Not sure if there were any fish of quite that caliber at this event I found myself at, but damn, that must have been some fish.

CONCLUSION / LIFE UPDATE

OKAY so now y’all know everything about goldfish. Congrats on making it through this post, it took me a long time to write. SO LONG, in fact, that I have a very important edit/announcement to make since I began writing this post, and it’s that I finally splurged and got MY OWN fish tank here in Tokyo! Its 60 liters (Liters? What are those?) and it’s the new forever home for two very genki ryukin goldfish. The red and orange one is named Shippo, which means ‘tail’ in Japanese and the little calico is named Sprinkles, which means ‘jimmies’ in Bostonian. They are both slightly (re: very) naughty and love messing up my plants and have also eaten every cleaner shrimp that I have attempted to introduce into the tank ecosystem.

Welcome home, fellas!

#kingyo #goldfish #ryukin #when a hobby becomes an obsession

9 notes · View notes

monicalozzano · 7 years ago

Text

Sentimental education

MOVIES

Disney Classics

Alice’s Wonderland (1923), Snow White and the seven dwarfs, Pinocchio, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Make Mine Music, The Jungle book 1, Peter Pan, Dumbo, 101 Dalmatians, Alice in Wonderland, Anastasia, The Sword in the Stone, The Ugly Duckling, The Jungle book 2, The Practical Pig, The Aristocats, Silly Simphonies, Lilo & Stitch 1 and 2, Plane Crazy, Robin Hood, Little Marmaid 1, 2 and 3, Pocahontas 1 and 2, The King Lion 1, 2 and 3, Mulan 1 and 2, Hercules, Bambi, The Rescuers, The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1 and 2, The Three Caballeros, Aladdin 1, 2 and 3, Tangled, Meet the Robbinsons, Tarzan 1 and 2, The Princess and the Frog, Frozen, Moana, The Beauty and The Beast, Saludos Amigos, The Many adventures on Winnie The Pooh, Lady and The Tramp, Oliver & Company, The Emperor's New Groove, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Home, on the Range, Wreck-It Ralph, The Leyend of Sleepy Hollow, Animation from Disney/Pixar

Toy Story 1, 2 and 3, Monsters Inc, Monsters University, Cars, Cars 2 and 3, Finding Nemo, Finding Dory, Inside out, The good Dinosaur, Brave, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, A Bug’s Life, Up, WALLL-E, Bolt, Chicken Little, Zootopy, Gnomeo and Julieth, Big Hero Six, Coco

Disney live-action

Mary Poppins, The cheetah girls, Alice in Wonderland, Alice Trough the looking glass, High School Musical 1, 2 and 3, Camp Rock, Camp Rock: The Final Camp, Wizards of Waverly Place, Wendy Wu: homecoming warrior, Princess Program Protection, The Beauty and The Beast, Stuck in the suburbs, Maleficent, Cinderella, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Enchanted, Princess Diaries 1 and 2, Pixel perfect,

Dreamworks

AnimationRaise of the Guardians, The Boss Baby, Trolls, The Croods, The Prince of Egypt, Turbo, Shark Tale, The Road to El Dorado, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Home, The Guardian Brothers, A Monster in Paris,

Paramount Pictures

How To Train Your Dragon 1 and 2, Shrek 1,2 & 3, Shrek the Third, Shrek Forever After, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, Monsters vs. Aliens

Universal Studios

Lorax, Despicable Me 1, 2 and 3, Sing, Pitch Perfect 1, 2 and 3, Mamma Mia, 50 Shades, 50 Shades Darker, Bruce Almighty, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Psicosis, Les MIsérables, The Land Before Time

Blue Sky Studios

Robbots, Ice Age 1, 2, 3 and 4, Río, Horton

Studio Ghibli

Tonari no Totoro, Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi,

Sony Pictures

Hotel Transilvania 1 and 2, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The Smurfs 1 and 2, Goosebumps,

alittlebitofeverything..

A lot like love, Basquiat (1996) Fight Club, Spring Breakers, El ciempiés Humano, Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, 12 monkies, Psyco, Casablanca, 50 First Dates, Get Smart, Love Rosie, Romeo and Julieth (2013) La vita e bella, Batman Trilogy (by Nolan) Ramona and Beezus, The Neon Demon, Under the Skin, the perks of being a wallflower, The proposal, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, Pollock (2000) Charlie St. Cloud, The Danish Girl, The Notebook, 10 things I hate about you, Titanic, Pretty Woman, P.S: I love you, (500) Days of Summer, A Walk to Remember, Letters to Julieth, Nothing Hill, About Time, Dear John, The Crush, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, No String attached, A Cinderella Story, Grease, The Breakfast Club, My Best Friend's Wedding, 27 Dresses, The Vow, Shakespeare in Love, The Last Song, Another Cinderella Story, One Day, Ever After, Remember Me, The Longest Ride, The Lucky One, If I Stay, Paper Towns, Tres metros Sobre el Cielo, Tengo Ganas de Ti, The First Time, Cinderella (2015) Pitch perfect 1 and 2, Mean Girls, Clueless, Wild Child, Not Another Teen Movie, Easy A, Cruel Intentions, La Vie d'Adèle, Bring it on, John Tucker must die, Monte Carlo, Just like heaven, What Happens in Vegas, Runaway Bride, Definitely maybe, Friends with Benefits, Black Swan, The sweetest thing, La la land, Moonlight, Crazy stupid love, Grease, Bad moms, Love and other drugs, The Social network, Just go with it, Grown ups 1 and 2, Bedtime stories, Click, We’re the Millers, Big Daddy, The devil wears Prada, The Intern, Bride wars, Coco avant Chanel, The Theory of Everything, Sabrina, The Pursuit of Happiness, Marie Antoinette, Last days, Blue valentine, Singing In The Rain, Cecil B. Demented, eXincenZ, Back to the Future, The day of the Jackal, Roman Holiday, I, Tonya, Phantom Threat, Ginger and Rosa, Lady Bird, Dunkirk, Fifty Shades of Grey (Trilogy), The Orange Workclock, 2001: Space Odyssey, Roman Holiday, Matrix, Dead Poets Society, The Edge of Seventeen, V for Vendetta, Lion, The Glass Castle, Hacksaw Ridge, Arrival, Independence Day Resurgence, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), Suicide Squat, Wonder Woman (2017), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Justice League, Batman: Lego Movie, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Avengers: Infinity War, Thor, Thor: The Dark World and Thor: Ragnarok, Iron Man, The Square, Wonder, Murder On The Orient Express, Before Midnight, The DUFF, Peter Pan, Snowman, Anabelle 1 and 2, Insidious: Chapter 2, The Greatest Showman, A Dog’s Purpose, IT, Baby Driver, The Mask of Zorro, The Legend of Zorro, Me Before You, Wish Upon, Happy Family, Atomic Blonde, Water for Elephants, Agora, Ted, LOL (2008), LOL (2012), Hairspray, The Healer, A Question Of Faith,The Danish Girl, Mr & Mrs Smith, Spice World, Bed Time Stories, Pixels, Spy Kids, Sharkboy and Lavagirl, Valentines day, Intern, Little Prince, The Theory of Everything, We Are Your Friends, To Kill a Mockingbird, Me and Earl and The Dying Girl, Heaven is For Real, Saving Mr. Banks, Life as We Know It, Dorian Gray, Twenty, Nerve, Batman: The Lego Movie, Baywatch, The Emoji Movie, Captain Fantastic, To The Bone, The Lovely Bones, Flipped, Homeless to Harvard, Ghost World, Divergent, The Hunger Games Trilogy, El Club de los Incomprendidos, Final Destination Franchise, Neon, The Longest Ride, Before I Fall, Matilda, My Babysitter's a Vampire, Endless Love, No Se Aceptan Devoluciones, Latin Lover, Now is Good, How I Live Now, Que Pena Tu Boda, Que Pena Tu Familia, Cásese Quien Pueda, Que Culpa Tiene El Niño, Nosotros Los Nobles, Cantinflas, Memorias del Subdesarrollo, Child of Rage, El Amor En Los Tiempos del Cólera, La Vendedora de Rosas, Rosario Tijeras, Soñar No Cuesta Nada, Los Colores de la Montaña, El Acorazado Potemkin, F for Fake, Agarrando Pueblo, Ojo y Vista: Peligra la Vida del Artista, El Tigre de Papel, Sex in The City, Mirror, Mirror, Stepmom, Adore, Think Like a Man, The Three Stooges, Vamps, Zambezia, The Beatles: Eight days a week, Storks, Ghost in the Shell, Bad Moms, Liar Liar, Clueless, Shape of Water, Woody Woodpecker, Everything Everything, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, Fallen, Dude, The Space Between Us, The Kissing Booth, Barefoot in the Park, Mamma Mia, American Beauty, Guardians of the Galaxy, Fathers and Daughters, Mr & Mrs Smith, world War Z, When We First Met,

SERIES

Friends, How I Met Your Mother, 13 Reasons Why, Sense8, The Vampire Diaries, Glee, The End Of The Fuking World, Las Chicas del Cable, Stranger Things, Riverdale, Jane The Virgin, Gossip Girl, Luis Miguel, Grace and Frankie, Abstract (the art of design), Velvet,

SERIES ANIMADAS

The Simpsons, The Powerpuff Girls, Dexter´s laboratory, Ruglats, All Grown Up!, Courage The Cowardly Dog, Star vs the Forces of Evil, Steven Universe, Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, We Bare Bears, Caillou, Hey, Arnold!, Ed, Edd y Eddy, CatDog, SpongeBob SquarePants, South Park, Johnny Bravo, Recess, The Angry Beavers, Futurama, The Wild Thornberrys, Happy Tree Friends, Super Friends, Mike, Lu & Og, Pepper Ann, Bob the Builder, Oggy and the cockroaches, The Animated Series, The Pink Panther, Cow and Chicken, I Am Weasel, The Fairly OddParents, Codename: Kids Next Door, Lazy Town, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, The Flintstones, Regular Show, Adventure Time, Gravity Falls, Las Tres Mellizas, Woody Woodpecker, Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies, The Tom and Jerry Show, Tom and jerry Kids, Scooby-Doo ¿Where are You?, Scooby-Doo Creepy Cities, Pokemon, DragonBall, Pucca, Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, Kim Possible, American Dragon: Jake Long, Lilo & Stitch: The Series, Popeye the Sailor, The Proud Family, Phineas and Ferb, The Replacements, Dave The Barbarian, Doug, Danny Phantom, Brandy & Mr. Whiskers, The Buzz on Maggie, The Emperor's New School, Phil of the Future, Dragon Tales, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Clifford Puppy days, Care Bears, My Little Pony, Bear In The Big Blue House, Zaboomafoo, Curious George, Jay Jay The Jet Plane, Sesame Street, The Book of Pooh, Blue’s Clues, Rolie Polie Olie, Jojo’s Circus, Little Einsteins, Barney and Friends, Go Diego Go!, Pocoyo, The Backyardigans, Higglytown Heroes, Dora the Explorer, Silly Simphonies, Heidi, Animaniacs, The Jetsons, DuckTales, The Ren & Stimpy Show, Tiny Toons Adventures, Inspector Gadget, Pinky and the Brain, Top Cat, The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, The Huckleberry Hound Show, The Yogi Bear Show, Yogi's Treasure Hunt, Captain Tsubasa, Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks, Stanley, Pinky Dinky Doo, The Koala Brothers, Cubeez, Troll Hunters Tales of Arcadia, The Boss Baby, Gravity Falls, The Little Lulu Show,

KDRAMAS

Goong, Uncontrollably Fond, My Love from Another Star, The Heirs, Love Cells 2,

still in process...

7 notes · View notes

stormears · 4 years ago

Text

Sefikura Opening Snippet

This is the opening scene to a oneshot I’m working on. I’m sneaking this in the tag even though Sephiroth isn’t in most of it and Cloud is only hinted at, because I’m wondering if someone will critique it or tell me if they’d read the full thing. I don’t love some parts of the writing, wrote some while sleepy, but I’m excited to get it out there anyway.

Title (tbd but might be, or idk, use the word): Kraken

Summary: Cloud Strife has disappeared off the face of the earth. For half the year he’s been gone and rogue Shinra experiment Sephiroth has torn friend, foe and country apart to look for him. For a month, he has been missing, too, while Gaia citizens recover from his rage. For one week, the unassuming cargo ship Monstrum has been sitting still at sea hundreds of miles from land with a secret kept belowdecks. One night, a monster boards the ship in search of its prey.

Snippet length: 2.2k.

The oneshot features my self-indulgent and brilliant plot of Sephiroth finding weak, tortured Cloud on a ship in the middle of nowhere. Cloud has fled(??)/been stolen from him(??)/both(??) and Sephiroth finds him, wrecks the crew for stealing Cloud from him. Briefly nurses Cloud back to health and lies in bed with him in a ship officer’s appropriated quarters so he can rest. Followed by waking him up later to fuck him and punish him for daring to leave him. Because I want my fluff, possessiveness, power dynamic and dubcon cakes and I want to eat them too.

Features a couple FF creatures called a “coeurl” which is a giant cat with two big tentacles for whiskers and looks a bit different in each game. (I pronounce it koh-EARL”?) The one in this opening scene is the FFX coeurl.

Including these coeurls in the story because I’m going to write some horseshit later on about how Sephiroth acts like a big cat in a few ways, acting territorial towards Cloud, licking and biting him to teasingly “groom” him, reclining in a bed, calls Cloud a kitten once, knocks something off a shelf lol AND IF THERE’S CATS IN THE STORY BEFORE ALL THAT, THEN IT’S CALLED NARRATIVE THEMING I SWEAR

Snippet is just a suspenseful scene of the ship as some ship residents realize a cat-eyed ~invader~ is near, and then that he has arrived.

- CLICK BELOW FOR SNIPPET -

Midnight on the sea and at the end of the world. Another night without sighting of land or ship. A night of a new moon and oppressive clouds. It was darker out there than ever before. Workmen patrolled the deck with lazy flashlights and flicked them overboard every once in a while, shining a yellow beacon into the perfect black just beyond the railing. There was nothing out there.

There might be nothing anywhere. They drifted in circles in uncharted water as far from the west side of the great continent as the east. Sometimes lone little islands were discovered here, sometimes undiscovered beasts in the deep water. Creatures and shades of things with no names.

Only in these far-flung wilds would they be safe. Only the privileged captain and his favored men knew this. Land wasn’t safe, hiding in plain sight wasn’t safe, but the unknown was. Here they were cut off from all things, they and their cargo both. The captain and his favored ones knew theirs was the most dangerous job on the planet.

The Monstrum had dozens of other crewmen, and they knew their secret cargo was sparkling treasure to be sold in Wutai when a contact signaled them, somehow, to set off for land again. It was all for money and nothing else. For intangible numbers they drifted to uncharted water, prepared to linger for months, and stared out at the empty, dark ocean. They watched the railings and their wild, unknown coordinates with unsettled spirits.

The captain had a litter of coeurls aboard which did not improve everyone’s spirits. They were cats larger than bears with twin whiskers just as long. They spat magic spells and could tear steel barrels in half with one lashing claw, and they stalked any men who walked out of line on the ship. There were three of them: one striped and two spotted. The watchmen on the bow today couldn’t tell which one was watching them from the top of the shipping containers.

“Don’t look,” said Olson, the elder of the two by far. It was the closest he could offer to comfort while his own body was chilled by its stare.

“How much longer till we move somewhere already?” said Goen, or Golen. They never bothered to learn each other’s names. He was almost too young to be here. “I’ve seen some things in the water, that I…I just hate it out here.”

“It’s nothing but boring,” Olson tried again, and even clapped his back this time. “We sit and we fish and wait for a phone call and we rack up salary. There’s no sea monsters or portals to evil worlds coming to get you. Just fuckin’ ugly fish. That’s what you saw. The kitties like to eat ‘em, even.”

Golen scowled at the reminder and kept his eyes downward. Far below there was darkness too, a soft almost-black of the surf pushing up against the prow and little waves breaking. Olson went on to bemoan how the coeurls would sometimes dive off the boat to land atop one of the aforementioned ugly fish when they came too near the surface, and men would have to lift them out with nets, them and the bleeding slice of fish flesh they’d torn easily free like fat sliding off bone. Last night one of the spotted ones had dived and come up with a sleek tailfin that crew members fancied was the back end of a mermaid.

“I bet it’s not even treasure they keep down there. It’s some special materia, or like, a bomb,” Golenn said and interrupted the story. Olson stopped and listened. “For Wutai to use on Midgar. Stupid to come somewhere like this, just for some funds.”

“It’s your second voyage, kid, you don’t know that at all.”

“I know nobody’s been to this spot before us, ever. I seen the captain’s charts.”

“…Oh?”

“And I think it’s why he has the coeurls. They’re good guards, right?”

“They are.”

They were.

The striped coeurl knew no human tongue, but it knew human behavior and voices, and it knew some humans had coeurl hearts. The wild, ferocious ones who were exceptionally watchful, like its master and captain, but not like these men below.

It knew they feared its gaze. It knew to guard them, and to guard against them. They might wander belowdecks if they became too curious. The coeurl was trained to discipline them like an unruly adolescent kitten if they did. Unruly kittens were lashed with claws, pinned and trapped to the floor, and licked with unforgiving tongues so that they knew how close they were to being eaten.

No men could be permitted to breach that secret hall below, for it was the captain’s territory and so the coeurl’s. Something more precious than a coeurl’s newborn kitten lay below. At least one of the cats prowled near it at all times. One of the spotted sisters did right now, on watch since this afternoon. In turn, the striped brother knew to stay here.

All of them had felt a prickling at their whiskers, at their defensive instincts, at their drive for self-preservation. They had felt a sting.

Both the big cat and the lone men watched the water, seeing little through the pitch-black. Olson could never soothe his companion’s sourness and dread and eventually stopped speaking to him. When midnight came, they slinked away with hunched shoulders, saying nothing. They did not look at the predator laying on the steel containers above. They disappeared into the innards of the ship and melded with the other men; they did not matter.

It was past midnight. The three cats were awake in and upon the ship, listening.

Monstrum stood alone as far from land and prying eye as could be, and it was watched.

It was present in the air, down in the water, above them in the heavy black clouds. It was felt along the coeurl’s long whiskers like living electricity. It was pressure. It was silence. It was not man or beast—not natural and not manmade. Alien. And so the coeurl felt a touch of fear, and sat up on the shipping container.

It was seeking. It was pushing into the coeurl’s territory. It was full of killing intent so intense that the cat instinctively bared its teeth and hissed into the quiet air. Its hiss was the only sound.

It made no sound. It smothered the predator with killing intent, an instinctive desire creatures like coeurls knew well. It meant to claim its territory.

It—it’s arrived, thought the coeurl, in the closest approximation to thought that it had. The unknown pressure had all coalesced into one point, in one second: just behind the coeurl’s back, standing on the shipping container with it.

The coeurl screamed in a mind-melting mix of rage and horror as it whirled around. It swung its huge left paw through the air, expecting to feel the impact of flesh. But it was dumbstuck to find nothing at all. The pay swung at empty air. Now it was off-kilter and unnerved. It was a feeling for prey. The coeurl hissed at the strangling sensation, at itself, at the sea spraying up near the bow.

Now it faced the bridge of the boat where the steering and offices looked out over all the containers. But there was nothing in that direction but dead steel and lit windows where men were working. It looked in all other directions to find the invader.

When there was a too-loud splash just below the prow, the cat screeched and whipped its long whiskers in the air. They glowed white-gold and buzzed as it cast a lightning spell over the railing and into the water. Briefly, sparks and light shone upwards and were just visible over the edge of the deck.

When there was a second splash, it cast a second lightning spell to destroy whatever was making the noise. The water was quiet then.

The coeurl turned around to face the bridge again and pace the top of the container. When it had nearly turned, the invader stood on the container in dead silence, facing the bridge with it.

The gut reaction was faster than the cat could process: it leaped straight forward with all claws out and whiskers buzzing with electric power. The whiskers swung to lash around the invader before even the claws could land. For a moment the strange being was circled by electric white light. For a moment it was in danger. Then it turned away from the bridge.

Two pairs of cat’s eyes met in the magic-made light. Then the invader forced them both into darkness; with a swing of its forearm it severed both whiskers halfway from the coeurl’s face. They began to fall away from the container, down to the deck, still sparking.

No time had passed for the great cat to scream or wail. Its paws were still aimed down to crush the attacker. The invader removed one of them, too, and then it wailed.

The sensations of the next second were swift and brutal brands in its unthinking head. The shrieking pain greater than its body. The flying rivulets of blood. The pulse of fear in its body, making it wish to run. The visual impact of a human sized invader, inhuman in sight and smell and strength. All these passed in a blink, all an instantaneous shock. The coeurl faltered in mid-air. The remaining front leg left became limp. It finally struck its target.

The coeurl crashed into the invader as the invader’s sword speared the cat’s chest, lung, spine. It fell upon the weapon and stayed there. The invader was half the big cat’s size, but held up its limp body with one arm and while still standing.

It was only prey now, no challenger and no guard of anything. Its territory lost. The invader touched its fur, pressed on it, in order to shove its body back off the sword. The coeurl fell backwards, nearly off the container entirely.

With one eye, it could see the thing that had killed it: human-shaped, black and white. There was a man’s body with a warrior’s clothes and a warrior’s weapon. There was a long silver mane and the eyes of a catlike beast. There was a supernatural power emanating from him like the stench of disease.

The cat’s only instinct left was to recoil. It curled its lip at the man who had killed it. It died that way. It never saw the swing of the weapon that cut its head from its body.

The quiet surf deadened the sound of the removed head slipping messily off the spine. It mattered not to the invader, who was the greater predator.

With the immediate threat removed, the territory was open. The cargo ship was an impressive size, impressively filled with worthless cargo atop, and worthlessly staffed. There were no men or women of import, only a few animals. The only strength of the place was its location. It was undetected here in the middle of nowhere. It was undetectable. It had tried to make his own territory undetectable, so that he could not find it and reclaim it. They had dared to steal and hide what belonged to him. But it was absolutely here and at last so was he.

His eyes were drawn to the bridge, where stairways would let one into the bowels of the ship. Cabins and halls and unknown secret rooms were below. The path to his only desire. Thousands of miles from him before. Now none at all. It made him shiver with joy.

‘I’m coming,’ he projected, and a keen mind in the ship might have heard his call and felt him coming near. The closeness was nigh unbearable now.

He grabbed at a section of the coeurl’s striped fur, spattered red on the shimmering grey, and pulled. He dragged the body with one hand and walked with it trailing behind. He walked across the surface of the next two shipping containers dragging the headless cat’s body. Not far ahead was the bridge, where half a dozen windows were lit bright gold from within. Men were still working night shifts throughout the ship, unsuspecting. They were nothing to him. Nothing he would forgive.

Sephiroth announced his arrival and his judgment. He lifted the beast’s body in one arm and hurled it ahead and upward. The headless coeurl body crashed into two windows on the second uppermost floor, cracking one and shattering the other.

The men inside shouted and cursed. Objects within the room dropped to the floor. Light spilled out into the blackness outside, some shut off entirely. He could hear them fleeing the room and running into the halls within. They knew the threat immediately. Their attempts to elude him were over.

Their attempts to hide him were over. He was here. He was here. Finally. He was somewhere below.

Below his only desire was waiting.

Below, men were fleeing.

Below, two coeurls slunk silently to their posts, panting with fear.

Below many layers of steel, Sephiroth’s call was heard.

#Sefikura #fanfiction #SephCloud #FF7R

1 note · View note

tandem85 · 8 years ago

Text

Survey...thing

Okay so this is gonna be a bit weird. I came across this copypasta survey thing and thought it looked interesting judging by the first question. Had no clue of it's true length and I've been just kinda rambling on for close to 2 hours now. This tumblr has possibly the lowest traffic in recorded history, so I shouldn't have to worry about too many eyes stumbling across this. At least I hope. Eh, oh well, whatever, here it is.

1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, and find line 3. - Good machines don't guarantee success, though, as RCA and Xerox and others had discovered. (The Soul of A New Machine, Tracy Kidder)

2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can, What can you touch? - The wall and pillows.

3. Before you started this survey, what were you doing? - Browsing the internet after pulling an all-nighter due to insomnia and painful recollections of past mistakes.

4. What is the last thing you watched on TV? - 'The West Wing' on Netflix

5. Without looking, guess what time it is: - Eight fucking A.M.

6. Now look at the clock. What is the actual time? - 8:03 AM. End me.

7. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear? - A desk fan and the faint sound of traffic

8. When did you last step outside? What were you doing? - A few days ago, to pick up an old iMac off Craigslist

9. Did you dream last night? - No.

10. Do you remember your dreams? - On average, no. Sometimes a decent one lingers, though.

11. When did you last laugh? - I honestly have no idea.

12. Do you remember why / at what? - Not at all. Probably just a passing chuckle at something I read somewhere.

13. What is on the walls of the room you are in? - Various posters, most either from Club Nintendo or Nintendo Power, along with a few more obscure ones.

14. Seen anything weird lately? - Plenty.

15. What is the last film you saw? - All the way through? I, uh, honestly couldn't say...I have a habit of just watching bits and bobs of films I like over and over again, usually to just take in detail or just to confirm a stray thought or something. If that's the case, then Star Wars w/the theatrical mono track. If an *entire* film, then probably Aliens a month or so back.

16. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live? - Small suburban town a few miles out from some city in some state, preferably more northern than where I am now. Countryside of Oregon seems nice.

17. If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy? - Probably just save it all and try to coast on it for the rest of my life.

18. Tell me something about you that most people don’t know. - the fuck is this copypasta quiz? Er, well, nobody really *knows* me so just any facet of trivia about my life would do, I guess. I'm really, *really* obsessed with EPCOT even though I've never been and I haven't even visited Disney World since 2002. I genuinely have a copy of every pavilion and attraction's soundtrack from Future World burned to CDs sitting in my car right now, and if I had to pick favorites, Horizons and Communicore get the most play time.

19. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do? - Give everyone some common sense and a better sense of care towards others. That would ((hopefully)) end a majority of conflict out there.

20. Do you like to dance? - Not really. Haven't danced since my sister's wedding back in '09. Yep, even missed prom, not that I really care.

21. Would you ever consider living abroad? - Maybe if it's like Japan or somewhere with similar power standards...I couldn't make it a month in Europe and it's 240v mains standard. My life hinges too much on tech.

22. Does your name make any interesting anagrams? - Never really thought of it. Probably not.

23. Who made the last incoming call on your phone? - ...my mother, a few days ago. I only have my immediate family's numbers saved. Not like anyone would ever really want to call me.

24. What is the last thing you downloaded onto your computer? - Some shitty (what I presume) in-ride recording of Horizons I wanted to play around with in an audio editor to get a decent loop or two out of...before I realized YouTube had better resources for that.

25. Last time you swam in a pool? - Years. I used to love swimming all the time when I was younger (weather permitting; my skin goes from moonlight pale to lobster red faster than it takes to boil an egg on the sun). Heck, I don't think I still have any trunks that fit anymore...

26. Type of music you like most? - Normally I'd say 70s/80s rock/pop, but I haven't listened to much outside of, er, soundtracks the past few months.

27. Type of music you dislike most? - Either country or EDM/dubstep/whatever. I can't stand singers in country, it's so painfully obvious they're forcing their voices to have this bogus accent, and dubstep/electro whatever is just screeching garbage that sounds worse than playing a data cassette through a walkman.

28. Are you listening to music right now? - No, I was trying to go to sleep earlier, now I'm just laying with a laptop sitting 2 feet from my face listening to the fan whir.

29. What color is your bedroom carpet? - Beige

30. If you could change something about your home, without worry about expense or mess, what would you do? - Expand the floorspace somehow. If where was an extra bedroom, a lot of storage problems would be solved. (lot of books and furniture. Takes up a lot of space.)

31. What was the last thing you bought? - iMac G3 off craigslist.

32. Have you ever ridden on a motorbike? - nope

33. Would you go bungee jumping or sky diving? - I tried zip-lining once. Nearly broke my hands and fell 30+ feet into a ~40 degree lake. High-flying stunts ain't my thing.

34. Do you have a garden? - No, but I (as in my family) used to years ago. It was nice.

35. Do you really know all the words to your national anthem? - Yes, thanks 4kids /s

36. What is the first thing you think of when you wake up in the morning? - why am I still here

37. If you could eat lunch with one famous person, who would it be? - Steve Wozniak, but my brain's so fried from exhaustion so often I'd probably royally fuck that lunch up.

38. Who sent the last text message you received? - My sister a few days ago. By mistake. Wrong "Andrew".

39. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card? - If I had one and if I was stupid enough to max one out, definitely 100% my local game store, The Video Game Cavern.

40. What time is bed time? - My life is in such shambles that a bed time isn't even a functioning concept in my life. It's whenever I pass out.

41. Have you ever been in a beauty pageant? - I'm a guy, so, no.

42. How many tattoos do you have? - None. I'm a total square.

43. If you don’t have any, have you ever thought of getting one? - Nah. Being broke + being a bear = never even a passing thought.

44. What did you do for your last birthday? - Nothing iirc. Had classes (then), didn't have that fancy a dinner, and just crashed that night.

45. Do you carry a donor card? - Can't be due to [insert some crap about bad bloodline]

46. Who was the last person you ate dinner with? - Ha. Ha. ha...

47. Is the glass half empty or half full? - depends on how the water got into the cup.

48. What’s the farthest-away place you’ve been? - Ohio. eh

49. When’s the last time you ate a homegrown tomato? - Not a fan of tomatoes. I think my dad still grows some during the summer (not a full garden, just like 3 veggie plants he tends in the flower beds)

50. Have you ever won a trophy? - Not really

51. Are you a good cook? - Well I haven't burned anything or cut myself yet so maybe.

52. Do you know how to pump your own gas? - Yes

53. If you could meet any one person whose deceased, who would it be? - You know, I never really thought about something like this. Honestly, not as much 'meet' but more of just have a good long talk with, my grandfather. He passed when I was 8, so I never got to really *know* him that well. I've learned more about him from his service papers than being around him a lot when I was young. So yeah, that.

54. Have you ever had to wear a uniform to school? - Lol yep in middle school, uniform and enforced dress code. Everyone hated it back then, however since it was a small school in a massive district I never kept up with anyone afterwards so I can't speak for them, but I actually adopted practices from that dress code. Belt and polo not so much, but always wearing a nice shirt and keeping it tucked in, yeah. I've dressed that way every single day since then.

55. Do you touch-type? - Yep, but I'm weird and don't use the normal home-row hand layout thing. I can type proficiently, it just looks sloppy af

56. What’s under your bed? - A lot of junk. Binder of Gen 1 Pokemon cards, a case of cassettes, stack of old model railroading magazines, old busted up laptop, some blank paper.

57. Do you believe in love at first sight? - HA. Ha. ha......

58. Think fast, what do you like right now? - warmth. seriously, it's cold and my blanket is doing nothing.

59. Where were you on Valentine’s day? - Home, all day, doing pretty much nothing. just a typical day.

60. Life motto: - I don't really have a motto but if I want to be sappy I'd just lift the one from Horizons: "If we can dream it, we can do it" but I have no dreams and I literally do nothing

61. What was the name of your first pet? - I named all my fish once, but I was 5, so I'll just skip to my first cat. 'Whiskers'. Very imaginative.

62. Do you like to go camping? - Yes. I miss it. My sister and brother-in-law used to take me camping all the time years ago...but they've since settled down, had kids, and haven't done anything like that in a while. Meanwhile I'm broke, have no gear, no friends or anything like that so I can't do jack shit about camping.

63. Is there anything going on this weekend? - Not really. Just working on that iMac I keep mentioning

64. Do you have any nicknames? - Not really. Only thing that could vaguely qualify is 'swiss', the first word of my normal username everywhere else. Which is ironic since I'm 100% not Swiss.

65. Who is your favorite musician/band? - Genesis, Collins era. aaaaaaaaaaaaaand I've just earned myself a beating.

66. What time do you get up in the morning? - I STILL HAVEN'T EVEN SLEPT YET

67. Do you wear pajamas when you sleep? - usually. just a t-shirt and pj bottoms.

68. What is the first thing people notice about you? - dunno. don't really interact with enough people to notice anything

69. What is the last movie that you saw at the cinema? - err, probably Ghostbusters. The original, not the new one. They re-released it briefly in promotion of the new one. Fucking loved the new transfer and audio mix, blew the earlier (2014 30th anniversary edition screening) out of the water.

70. Do you sing in the shower? - Nah, I prefer the sound of running water

71. What do you do most when you are bored? - browse the internet, die a little on the inside. whatever's left, at least

72. What do you do for a living? - eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

73. Do you love your job? - EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

74. Which came first the chicken or the egg? - the egg because evolutilkjoirwjga;slkdfja;lkgja;eruhmynf;djva;n

75. How many keys on your key ring? - 3

76. Are you close with your parents? - physically too close, emotionally, further than the moons around jupiter. though that can be said about many things.

77. What kind of car do you drive? - Pontiac Grand Prix. Jumped through freaking hoops the past half a year just to be able to drive it since the damn title was stuck in limbo since March 2016. Just got the tag for it a week ago.

78. What are your best physical features? - people comment on my hair and eyes a lot so those, I guess

79. What are your best characteristics? - oh god. Well, guess you can say I'm determined. Like how I keep on with this survey even though I only thought it was like 20 questions long, not 100 or so. Also you could probably punch me in the face and I'd be the one apologizing.

80. What was the name of your favorite teacher? - Ms. Hamm

81. Where did you grow up? - At this point I've spent most of my life in this hell hole, so Greenville, SC. wait, fuck

82. How far away from your birthplace do you live now? - err somewhere around 300 to 400 miles. Essentially really just one state away.

83. Can you do any impressions? - I've perfected an impression of a sad sack of shit living in emotional isolation stuck in a permanent state of panic

84. Are you a morning person or a night owl? - Night owl by far

85. Can you touch your nose with your tongue? - No, ew

86. Can you close your eyes and raise your eyebrows? - kinda, yeah

87. Are you an introvert or an extrovert? - I couldn't be more of introvert if I lived in a literal hole in the ground

88. What is your best childhood memory? - driving a golf cart up a tree. Don't ask me how, but I somehow managed that when I was like 6. And by tree I mean massive pine. And by up it I literally mean the thing was hanging 5 feet off the ground on a branch.

89. What are some of the different jobs that you have had in your life? - (Re: 72, 73)

90. Do you light candles where you live? - yeah, I enjoy LIGHT scented ones. In open rooms. Strong candles are migraine invoking pieces of shit

91. What was your favorite toy growing up? - wooden Thomas the Tank Engine

92. Do you play any musical instruments? - I am a defect in my familial lineage

93. Have you ever been involved in a crime? - I'm a goodie-two-shoes meh-fest, only thing I've ever stolen is a pencil off a teacher's desk and even that was an accident

94. Do you have long or short hair? - too long for my taste, but it doesn't really look long at all. crazy curls.

95. Have you ever spread a secret to others someone asked you not to? - Never been given many secrets, but I've always kept them.

96. What is your favorite movie? - Oh jesus christ. I just have a slew of movies I enjoy above average, I'll be damned if I could ever properly rank them. In no particular order: Jurassic Park, Short Circuit, Blade Runner, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Star Trek: The Motion Picture

97. Are you getting tired answering all these questions? - I'm already tired. This was supposed to be more amusing than anything, but it's actually felt good to just let my mind flow into the keys and out into this notepad file.

98. Last question. Without looking can you remember what the first question was? - Something about lines in a book. It's what hooked my into doing this whole thing.

Wait, seriously, only 98 questions? Thought this thing would've rounded off too 100, then again, I thought it wouldn't be longer than 20 when I started and have just kinda been dragged through this whole thing. Well, it did feel kinda nice I guess. I'm debating if I should post this or not....eh, screw it, I'll throw it on my tandem tumblr. (Which it's short for TAND-EM, I was a retard and got the Tandy emulator confused for DeskMate, the proprietary Tandy OS shell. Nothing to do with bikes, but I guess the latin [at length] humorously applies as well.) I should probably write a header for this...oh, regarding the time questions, that was genuinely the time as of answering those questions. It's currently 9:46 AM. That's how long I've been at this. This...can't be healthy...

0 notes