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sweetlullabyebye · 7 months ago

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ok so during a strangers from hell rewatch i started looking at jongwoo and moonjo's outfits and

i find it pretty interesting how their outfits (well, their shirts) contrast each other so here is my analysis (feel free to disagree) (also i tried to apply it to other characters too but except for seokyoon it didn't work so well):

first time they see each other (first image): moonjo is doing that thing where he tries to pretend like he's 100% normal and getting jongwoo's trust. he got rid of his black jacket that he was wearing earlier in the day, and as you can see, they're both wearing more or less the exact same thing. jongwoo's trust in him is still high

second time: technically the second time they meet they're not wearing clothes, so it's pretty difficult to make a comparison here

third time (second image): i couldn't tell exactly whether moonjo's suit is navy blue something or black, but honestly their shirts' colors aren't too dissimilar. jongwoo still half trusts him, but he definitely doesn't trust him as much as before.

fourth time (third image): this time jongwoo doesn't trust him, moonjo just made the 'do u think it's human meat haha' joke-that-isn't-a-joke, their shirts are not so similar in colors (also their trousers are opposite colors with jongwoo's very light colored trousers and moonjo's black ones)

fifth time (fourth image): moonjo is being a little creep as usual, jongwoo realized that everyone in the building is very very weird, and their clothes are opposite colours (shirts are white/black)

sixth time (fifth image): jongwoo is growing convinced that moonjo is stalking him (and he's right) and he absolutely does not trust him and calls him a creep a few moments later, and their clothes are opposite again (jongwoo has a lighter yellowish white shirt, and moonjo is in all black)

seventh time (sixth image): this time completely opposite, with jongwoo wearing all light cream/grey colored clothes, while moonjo... is in the mood where you just don't want to change your clothes at all, so same as last image. jongwoo is disturbed and does not trust him, as per usual

seventh image (i'm not taking into account moonjo appearing to stalk him wearing his stalking outfit because i'm never sure when those scenes are real or not): actually seok-yoon doesn't appear in the picture, but he wears both jongwoo's white-and-some-red colors, and moonjo's black colors, as he is still in somewhat of in a middleground. jongwoo and moonjo still wear opposite colors, with jongwoo wearing a white shirt with red and blue lines (at least that's what it looks like on my screen), and moonjo is still in all black

eighth image: still the same day, but moonjo changed into a blue-and-white shirt with lines (although jongwoo's lines go - and his go |), as he tries to convince jongwoo to kill people. seokyoon and jongwoo are still wearing the same clothes, but seokyoon doesn't trust moonjo that much anymore, and his black patterns no longer match moonjo's black outfit

ninth image: jongwoo beat up some kids, just like moonjo wanted, congratulations, but jongwoo is very scared of moonjo and even if their buttoned shirts both look dark in this picture, jongwoo's is a lighter blue while moonjo's is a darker brown.

tenth image: jongwoo is scared of moonjo and doesn't want to be near him, is still wearing the blue shirt with blood on it, and moonjo's back in his black outfit

eleventh image: the whole massacre happens, jongwoo is in a dark brown shirt, moonjo is in his black outfit. especially with the lighting in this episode, the colors don't look too dissimilar, as jongwoo becomes a fellow serial murderer.

(also when we see seokyoon again, he is wearing white when jongwoo abandons him, which contrasts with both jongwoo and moonjo's darker clothes)

twelth image: congratulations to moonjo on completing his 1 week masterpiece, they're both in white and we even get the final shot of jongwoo being moonjo

#strangers from hell #seo moonjo #yoon jongwoo #hell is other people #hopefully i AM able to differentiate colors and this is not just me being bad at recognizing different tones

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burnwater13 · 1 year ago

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Grogu had thought his comment was pretty innocent. He had no idea that his dad was going to get so, ‘Let me put on the mantle of authority and lecture the youngling on what is and what is not acceptable for a Mandalorian foundling to say’. But wow, he sure warmed up to his subject and Grogu just sat there and listened because when you’re stuck in a tiny cabin being lectured by the person who feeds you and it’s almost dinnertime you do as they say until you can do what you want to do, which was eat.

But you be the judge.

All Grogu had said was the shipyard on Trask was one of the worst shipyards they’d ever been to. That was it. He didn’t say it was the worst shipyard in the sector or the Rim or even the Galaxy. Nope. Just one of the worst shipyards he’d ever been to. He thought that was fair and balanced. But not his dad. Nope. The Mandalorian was very annoyed with him.

“Buddy,” he said.

Din Djarin called him ‘Buddy’ a lot.

“Buddy, just because they used a lot of netting and stabilizing wires and the whole place smelled like rotting fish, does not mean they did a bad job. It just means that their standards and your standards aren’t a match. But functionally, the ship works and we can move around it. Probably on their planet this is great workmanship for the time and tools they had access to. You shouldn’t be so judgmental.”

Grogu was about to point out that the babycore tried to attack him but Din Djarin continued his lecture.

“You are going to meet a lot of people who aren’t like you. They have different needs and goals. They will be skilled at different things than you. You are going to need their help one day and it would behoove you to remember that differences make the galaxy better, not worse.”

Grogu was about to protest that he didn’t have anything against the Mon Calamari as a people. They were smart and friendly and helpful and all of that. But pieces of the Razor Crest literally fell off while they were climbing to the upper atmosphere of Trask. Fell off. Gone. Tumbled back down to the planet and hopefully didn’t hit anyone. The Mandalorian, however, was still in lecture mode and wouldn’t let him get in a word with a shim.

“I know when we go to Tatooine Peli Motto does her best, and the best those droids of her’s can do, to make repairs that meet our standards. Every thing fits, it’s wired correctly, there are no critters in the ship that weren’t there before, and she has the pit droids spray ‘new ship smell’ around the bridge and the sleeping quarters. I could do without that, but I know you like how that smells, so I let her do it. What she does makes us both happy, which is good. But I am sure that there are people who don’t get her and how she works.”

Grogu had to agree with that. There had to be people who didn’t like how when a bug landed on the bill she prepared and she squashed it and it looked like an extra digit on the price that she expected them to pay that amount. There had to be. Or people who found out that when she was repairing their speeder she had the pit droids take the old motivator off of it, spray paint it a different color and re-install it as new. And, he was pretty sure that ‘organic, artisanal, sustainable’ hide, was actually just plastic. But wow was there a price differential for adding those words to describe the stuff.

He would have said all of that to the grumpy bounty hunter, but Din hadn’t finished his lecture yet. Nope. Not by a long shot.

“When we get to Nevarro I’m gonna have the ship fixed up and you’ll be able to see how a third shipyard handles repairs. Then you’ll at least have a little more data to add to your analysis and and that will help you refine it. Then maybe you’ll be grateful that they didn’t just haul your home away as junk and suggest you catch a shuttle to the nearest spaceport.”

Ahh. That’s what this had been all about. Grogu had complained about his dad’s home. He hadn’t meant to do that. At least not really. He knew the Razor Crest was a safe space for the Mandalorian. Somewhere he could relax and do all the things he couldn’t do planet-side, like shave, or take his armor off, or walk around bare foot.

Sometimes Grogu just didn’t think about how his perspective on something wasn’t an exact match for his dad’s perspective on the same thing. After all, they both loved Diggle and Daggle, the Fish that fish. That had been unexpected. And while Grogu loved eating frogs, Din Djarin didn’t even like to watch him eat frogs or eggs for that matter.

Grogu supposed that they could agree to disagree on most of that stuff, but he was happy to agree with his dad that he was glad that their home was still their home, no matter how many parts fell off it on their way.

#calendar prompt a day #the mandalorian #grogu #din djarin

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virlath · 4 years ago

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The Dread Wolf

Some speculation on Solas’ dread wolf form (Tevinter Nights spoilers below)

All around us was light and color, a dizzying array of the magic that makes up the world of spirits, and it swirled around the Tevinter mage and his ritual knife as though he were the eye of a hurricane. Something huge trembled around us—a spirit so great that it shook parts of the Fade I had always considered to be neutral, devoid of life—and high overhead, where the Black City shadowed the sky, I heard a great booming roar.

But before the Tevinter mage could complete his ritual, the Dread Wolf arrived.

It was no elf, no mortal mage. It was a beast unlike any I had ever seen. Lupine in appearance, but the size of a high dragon, with shaggy spiked hide and six burning eyes like a pride demon, and it came to us on wings of fire that resolved themselves into a horde of lesser demons as the Dread Wolf landed before us.

-Dragon Age Tevinter Nights

So, I’ve been thinking about Solas’ dread wolf form, and what it it means /entails.

In Tevinter Nights, the Dread Wolf appears from the fade to stop the Mortalitasi’s blood magic ritual.

Based on the Mortalitasi’s story, I theorise the terrifying Dread Wolf form is Solas himself and not a separate entity like Nightmare serving Corypheus.

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First, the backstory

Personally, I think there is a lot of strong evidence Solas was originally some kind of spirit before manifesting as a physical, mortal elf. He doesn’t identify strongly with people and elves, saying to the Inquisitor he only thinks of himself as “me”. His only friends are spirits, and he has spent a lot of time justifying to himself why spirits should be considered people. He gets very passionate about this topic if you walk into his rhetoric on the matter.

Solas understands spirits because I think he was one to begin with. There have been hints that the ancient elves used spirits and bound them to their will. It would explain why Solas is so against using spirits and twisting them against their nature.

While we might visit the Fade, it is his natural home, and the spirits there serve him gladly.

After the events of Trespasser, and the events in Tevinter Nights, I think Solas has taken the form of the six-eyed wolf to reside in the fade physically. I presume this is advantageous for him so he can ensure his ritual to tear down the veil completes successfully. Using the dread wolf form allows him to build up his terrifying image while also scaring away mages and spirits from disrupting his plans.

We already know with the anchor he would have been able to walk the fade physically. With Mythal’s power now within him, there is nothing stopping him from living there permanently. Instead of shape shifting into a dragon like the evanuris however, Solas shapeshifts into a massive reptilian wolf.

I don’t think the wolf form is a separate entity, nor do I think this wolf form is a spirit serving him like Nightmare was serving Corypheus.

Solas may have many parallels to Corypheus but using a spirit or even a person as one half of his persona is not his MO. Solas only relies on himself- he wants to be the one in control at all times. He may rely on spirits to help with whatever tasks he needs to carry out, but I don’t think he would ever rely on a spirit so much so it formed one half of his dread wolf image.

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The Dread Wolf of the Fade

Now I think Solas’ origin/spirit self is important, because it will play a part in how we truly see him, and thus, form how we redeem or stop (”kill”) him.

Around the start of DA:I, he says:

The fade reflects the mind of the living. If you expect a spirit of wisdom to be a pride demon, it will adapt. And if your mind is free of corrupting influences? If you understand the nature of the spirit? They can be fast friends.

I don’t think his physical/fade form is like anything we have seen in any previous games or lore before. He says himself, the ancient elven gods weren’t truly gods but “mages”, or "something this age has not yet seen”. I don’t think he’s an abomination like Anders, but closer to a spirit that has manifested and evolved like Cole, over millenia. If so maybe the term demon is more appropriate to describe his form (and to be clear, I think Solas is definitely not a simple spirit but something much more - he says himself in dialogue with Cole “I am not a spirit, and sometimes it is hard to remember such simple truths).

What Solas has is the understanding and kinship of spirits coupled with the physicality of a mortal body. He can walk the fade and affect the minds of others through dreams. If you remember Feynriel in DA2, it was said a dreamer abomination would be extraordinarily powerful and they would be able to affect the dreams of others. Perhaps Solas is a bit like Feynriel except he *is* the only entity- rather than possessing someone, he is the sole physical manifestation of his demon self. When he is in the fade, he can shapeshift into his wolf form by using the fear inspired by his Dread Wolf persona, much like Nightmare can.

Whatever you know of this mage, put it aside. Whether he is truly the Dread Wolf of elven myth, I cannot say—it is not uncommon for powerful spirits to be worshipped as gods, as the Avvar do. But whatever fear the name of the Dread Wolf carries, he has earned. While we might visit the Fade, it is his natural home, and the spirits there serve him gladly. They whisper in my dreams now, accusing me of crimes I never committed and promising vengeance if my wards fail. A weaker mage would be dead already, or mad.

And as clear as the Dread Wolf’s anger at what we had done—the Mortalitasi binding spirits he considered his own, the Tevinter mage using forbidden blood magic—was the feeling that we had disrupted his own work.

He intends something for the Fade, and if he wants the idol, then whatever he intends will be terrible.

This is why Solas positions himself as this big scary wolf demon to begin with. He wants people to be afraid of him because he can use their fear against them.

If our protagonist gets the chance to see him as a person or even a friend, they will see him in the fade for who he truly is- someone who at the end of the day, is a morally grey person with "good” intentions. And if they see him as a big bad wolf who wants worldwide destruction, he can use that fear to feed his wolf form as well.

This is where it’s important to note the distinction between humans and spirits. In Cole’s personal quest, spirits forgive by simply “forgetting”. Contrast this to physical beings, who forgive by working through pain and accepting it. I think DA4 will feature a pretty big existential crisis for Solas - where (hopefully) we can steer him towards the path of being a morally grey physical being, or the one track minded spirit intent on fulfilling his personal destiny at all costs.

Solas vs. himself

If you look at the murals and tarot cards in DA:I, he and the wolf are in sync with each other. Benevelont, looming, scary, confident, prideful, terrifying. In all the Inquisition artworks, he is in a position of control, actively using the Dread Wolf persona to carry out his actions.

Contrast this to the teaser mural, where the wolf has literally turned it’s back on Solas. Meanwhile, Solas stands his ground with his hand outstretched against the evanuris (the semicircles), the idol, and the wolf all at once.

In Trespasser, if Cole is made more a spirit he says this:

“When this is done, I will slip back safely, a spirit. Someone is hurting. He needs me to remember who he is.”

I think he is most definitely referring to Solas in this case.

Cole knows way more about Solas than he lets on throughout the game, and in a way, he has access to the bigger picture which we can only speculate on. This is why, when you say you want to kill Solas at the end of Trespasser, Cole greatly disapproves. It’s also why so many spirits willingly serve the dread wolf in the fade. Solas’ actions are clearly beneficial for the spirits of the fade, but whether or not he accounts for people in reality will be up to our own personal choices in game.

The more Solas takes on the form of the Dread Wolf and the more he resides in the fade physically, the more of his mortal self he will forget. It’s just the nature of being “part spirit”. If spirits encounter information they don’t want to process or understand, they simply forget. His inner struggle is the part that wants to be a spirit vs. the part that has mortal ties and emotions based in reality. This is why when he says “I will never forget you” to a romanced Lavellan, it is so significant, and so tragic.

"Wisdom knows enduring is pain. He hurts for her, another of many he couldn't save. He carries necessary deaths." (this quote refers to his spirit of wisdom friend in his personal quest)

If Solas wanted to, he probably could simply forget. He did after all, make Cole forget “They sleep, masked in a mirror, hiding, hurting, and to wake them... (Gasps.) Where did it go?”

Him choosing to remember the pain is what differentiates him from any conventional spirit.

This is ultimately how I think Solas’ arc will culminate in DA4.

Will Solas inevitably lose control of his Dread Wolf persona and take up the mantle of the uncontrollable, power mad villain he swore he never was?

Or can we get him to realise the more human side to him, the side that accepts and deals with pain and mistakes and regret- the side that believes in the right of “all free willed beings to exist”?

#dragon age #da4 #theory crafting #tevinter nights #dread wolf rises #solas #da theories #drabble

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esperanzagalaxy · 4 years ago

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what do you think of Botticelli's version of Virgil? :o

DA I'M SO SORRY THIS ASK IS. 10 MONTHS OLD. IT WAS SENT BY THE TIME I WAS SUPER NOT ON TUMBLR SO I'M. I APOLOGIZE. AUGH but onto your question, cause it is such a fun one, are you mayhaps referring to this gentleman? if so hold on tight because this got a little long and i'm neglecting my day job and i am Unhinged. you've unleashed the art history beast

so! you meant him, right? cause we get a lot of straight up Funny dantes throughout art history but virgilios tend to follow a stricter line of design, in my opinion, much more on divine comedy depictions than on regular ol' Life Of Vergil paintings, but fact remains, i'm willing to bet the default image of virgilio you have comes from either that classic mosaic depiction of him with the muses, or the marble busts with the real good hair and lips. that is what i, at least, have seen 98% of classical and contemporary artists go for. cause, like. that was him. possibly. that’s as much confirmation as we can get.

now, botticelli, good ol' botticelli. my man sandrito. his virgilio is A Treat. now: take into account that when i mention the classical depictions we are most likely to have in mind, those pieces are possibly from the xix century. y'know, doré, wicar, ingres, and so on. That is our handsome prettyboy virgilio.

botticelli was painting his own divine comedy over 300 years before them, but only over a century after the completion of the poem and dante's own death. i won't lie to you, i sincerely don't know When the famed mosaic and busts were found or if botticelli had access to them -but i'm willing to bet he didn't. that said, our boy sandro simply did not have the long history of depictions that the artists that came way after him did have -he was among the first to make his own dante, virgilio & co! (and this is without even talking about his version of the kingdoms. Man)

might sound like i'm going around in circles but it's to tell you this: in botticelli's time, the Tendencies with which virgilio was later depicted hadn't been established yet. the favored canon was another one, and when you have no idea How this important person looked like, you do what's always been done in european art: make them an ideal according to what an ideal is in your own time!

and what was the ideal in botticelli's time? in the comedy virgilio is meant to be, among many things, the figure of the Wise Guide. for a european man in the mid to late 1400s, What was a wise guide? it had to be a man, he had to be white, he had to be Older, experienced, he had to Look exprienced and wise, so he'd be Aged and Bearded, but he still had to look respectable and regal -this virgilio is basically a socrates, or a plato! isn't that a delight? it falls into line with a representation i think botticelli Did actually know of, which was giovanni di paolo's, a contemporary of his!

yep that’s him in red and dante in blue! (wonder where else have we seen a dante dressed in blue... ;)) ). the fact that vergilius turned out to be a fucking Snack came after, and since us artists have always been going hearteyes after our subjects and muses, artists started to latch onto those younger portraits of the vergster and ended up on the other side of the spectrum -which is, ignoring the fact that he was way older than he's normally depicted as when he reads the aeneid to augustus and octavia, which is a Whole 'Nother Topic (i only know one other old vergil and i don’t like it. wack). back to botticelli’s! now, do you wanna know the REAL awesome thing about botticelli's virgilio? get ready because this is beautiful. botticelli didn't make him into just Any kind of wise guide. botticelli's virgilio is the magician. the magician is a FASCINATING medieval archetype that found its zenith in Merlin. and what's our and their default image of the magician? old bearded dude! but let's talk about two wild things about the magician: first is that he and magic in general were ever present in the Collective mind of the people in the xv century. people would see this virgil and Would see the magician in him! it wasn't just any old dude, part of the public might not have known who virgilio was or why he was important, but This dude in the image? i'd trust him! good for the guy in red! remember that though art is famed for its elitism it's also developed for CENTURIES the capacity to teach and explain only through images. magician virgilio was Accessible. JUST LIKE THE DIVINE COMEDY BC OF HOW AND WHY IT WAS WRITTEN!!!!! ahem. and second, the magician is a figure that carries incredible dynamics and meanings with it. the magician is not an evil figure, unlike, i believe, witches and wizards (i think the word is wizard. bear in mind that i'm translating from spanish terms and some are tricky). it's more of a mash between druids, alchemists, but all through a very academia lens. the magician is a Keeper of Knowledge, and that makes him Powerful. this means that a great part if not all of his power depends on the keeping of the Secret. i'm sure you can see & imagine how keeping knowledge Away from people has just... been A Thing for centuries and centuries, esp in cultures built on inequality. so the thing is that if the magician has this power, for them to be able to share it or Entrust it to another, is a big fucking deal. and that's the thing: the magician can have Initiates. the initiate is the inexpert person that a magician takes under his wing and effectively Opens Up The World to them. they share knowledge otherwise forbidden, they're let into the Secret that brings them into contact with what all these self entitled white dudes from the middle ages believed make them Greater than the rest. as such, the magician is fundamentally the one who has skills that others do not, he is someone with the capacity to Change the world around him, he is a Transformative force, he can Accelerate and Cause things. where the alchemist tries to understand and imitate nature, the magician is believed to be one capable of Controlling it. it's worth remembering that an immediate distinction between white and black magic is made, one seeking good and the other bad, hence the differentiation between magician and wizard/witch, where the first of the latter two is usually considered something more Rural than academic, and the latter is just straight out evil because misogyny and racism. i'm sure you can see how, in a profoundly catholic place and era, white magic was also easily linked to miracle making, despite how shifty some bits sound. in short, the magician is a very respected figure in which numerous traditions and wisdom converge. now! does any of this ring a bell? try applying all these magician traits to virgilio, who was a poet now turned babysitter, being seen through the eyes of a man in the late 1400s. what is a poet if not someone who sees Beyond what ''regular people'' see? what is a respected Epic poet if not something of a prophet? what is a guide if not someone who Knows about what surrounds him, does not fear it, and has the capacity to Explain it to his charge? does the one who guide you through hell and back not Transform you in any way? isn't the relationship between an expert and an initiate who teaches you about the world around you and beyond it not only the next best thing to your love for your god, but also a direct reflection of what it means to be a poet who chose to follow on another greater name's footsteps? virgilio is part of the transformative force that drives dante to change. he is a figure of utter control and rationality. where latter artists would dress him as a roman, either in whites or colors of glory or suffering/passion (gold and red), botticelli dressed his in purples and blues, the (very expensive) colors of royalty & heaven, the world beyond, and trust me when i say that using ultramarine blue on a pagan poet is a big fucking deal, because that hue was Reserved for the virgin mary. goes to show you the respect sandro had for his virgilio, as well as a clear belief in dante's own vision that virgilio pretty much deserved the recognition of any other cool christian if it wasn't for the Rules. and do you wanna know what other figure worthy or respect for his wisdom was dressed in ultramarine blue. THAT'S RIGHT. MERLIN!!!!!!!! (wipes off sweat) so to summarize, what I think of botticelli's virgilio, is 3/10 on apperance because come on man where the fuck is my hot virgilio? good clothes though but sandro was in the textile industry so he should know; and 10/10 on concept for being a beautiful, EXCELLENT convergence & display of beliefs and traditions that, to my knowledge, no other artists really tried to show with such force in latter interpretations of the comedy. sandrito if you're out there

apologies for any mistakes! it’s been a while since i’ve had to be Exact about my art history musings but i can’t go into full investigation mode right now. hopefully there’s no blatant misinformation jdsfaasd

thank you for asking and i hope you’ve been as safe and healthy as can be!

#die-tenebris #renaissance #art history #sandro botticelli #virgil #yep tagging it in case its interesting to someone else #art talk #thank you so much for this ask and A THOUSAND PARDONS for taking so long. it Has Been A Year(s)#i hope this is fun for you! i had fun! i feel better! i was fuming all morning but not anymore #boy am i sweaty

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erasethedarkness · 5 years ago

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Hey, want a weird request? What about a MHA Characters x Reader, where the Reader straight up tells them that they are not real and are characters from a show, brought to life by her imgantion because she was lonely and ended up falling for either All Might and Aizawa?

Woo! I feel like it’s been a really, really long time since I’ve done a request. Thank you so much for this one, and I’m sorry it took suuuuch a long time. I really appreciate the patience for it!

I hope you enjoy this! I had a lot of fun writing it, and it was easy to get into, and hopefully means I’ll be getting to some other requests as well as continuing HDILT. :) This one got very lightly political, but I feel like I should give a little heads up about it. Again, very lightly. But it happened.

Summary: With another heat wave going on, most people stayed inside, clinging to air conditioned spaces for dear life. This was the perfect opportunity for you to get some painting done- after all, you were born and raised in the midwest. This wasn’t new to you and you were certain you’d be fine.

Theme Song: I Knew I Loved You - Savage Garden

Reader: Female

Words: 1708

Pairing: All Might x Reader

I knew I loved you before I met you…

It was the middle of summer, 2019. Advisories to stay indoors and bring pets inside were everywhere- on TV and the radio, sent out in work newsletters and emails. Everywhere you looked, there was some sort of notification warning you to do whatever you could to avoid the sweltering heat and humidity of the midwest. There was even a post going around on Facebook where a police station officially cancelled all criminal activity due to the extreme heat, asking aspiring criminals, seasoned veterans, and those who were just bored to simply please stay inside.

Fortunately for you, this wasn’t all that new. Having grown up with this fickle weather and being around it your whole life, a little bit of wet air and heat was nothing. Did you like it? No. But you could handle it, so you weren’t going to let it confine you to home.

As you set up your easel by the lakefront under the cool shade of the trees that hid your little sanctuary from the view of others, you sighed deeply. What an inconvenient time for a headache to develop. With a small roll of your eyes, you sat down in front of the canvas, looking just past it at the bridge overgrown with golden bougainvillea flowers. A small smile pressed onto your lips at the view- this was easily your favorite landscape to paint. In the past, you were only able to capture its full majesty in late summer, but thanks to global warming, summer started so much sooner- to the point where the flowers were in full bloom by late July.

Inspired once again, you put in your headphones and ignored your headache until you couldn’t notice it any longer. The more you stared into the mass of yellow, the more you lost yourself, completely entranced in your brush strokes. Your gaze constantly fixated on the bridge and your canvas, switching back and forth between blinks. Everything else blurred together in your peripheral, and soon, you were so tunnel-visioned with your painting that even parts of the canvas and scene that weren’t being worked on started to blend together.

“Huh?” Your brows furrowed as you made the quizzical little sound. You’d been staring so intently and letting your hand work mindlessly that you just now noticed a handsome, broad smile beaming at you. Placing your brush and palette down on the tray beside you, you dropped your head to the side with the most confused expression. “Uhhh… All Might?”

“YES!” He declared, jumping from the bridge to you in an unreal leap. “I am here!”

You gawked at him for a moment, taking out your headphones and slumping back into your seat. What in the world was happening? The man was straight out of an anime about aspiring teenage heroes- there was no way he could be standing in front of you.

Yet he was all you could see right now. His muscle form blocked out the sun and hid the lake, bridge, and flowers from you. The yellow of his suit replaced the bougainvillea you were painting, and his smile looked just like what you imagined it would if he was real. In fact, he looked exactly like what you daydreamed he would. This was too good to be true- you were certain of it.

“You’re… not real,” you stated with empty conviction. “You can’t be real.”

“Oh? Why not?” he asked, placing his knuckles on his hips and bending over to bring his face close to yours. How could he maintain that smile?

“Because you’re an anime character. You’re just a figment of my imagination that I-…” You trailed off, lowering your eyes as your confusion sunk into a sadness you were all too familiar with.

Seeing this, All Might crouched down, squatting with his arms resting on his thighs, hands hanging between his legs. He tilted his head to try to look into your face, that smile softer but ever present. It was like he never stopped smiling in his muscle form, and you admired that. You loved it.

“What’s wrong?” he pressed gently.

“…You. You don’t belong here. I just…”

“You just made me up?”

Silence fell as you let the words sink in from a man you knew wasn’t there. How could he be? This was impossible in every sense of the word. Slowly, you nodded, lifting your eyes to look at what could only be a mirage.

“Yeah… I just made you up,” you sighed with a deeper huff. “It’s just… things have been really lonely lately. And you…” you paused for a moment, “when I first saw you, I thought you’d just be a stereotypical hero, kinda like Superman, y’know?” You forced a smile on your lips, watching as he moved to sit down beside you, head practically level at yours despite the fact that he was on the ground and you in a chair.

“That’s an odd compliment,” he chuckled. You scoffed and giggled lightly, the smile on your lips softening.

“Well, that part isn’t the compliment. You’re not the cliche I thought you’d be. And honestly, I fell in love with that. All your flaws that were overshadowed by your big dreams and the weight of carrying One For All- the lone path you took, and the way you hid the real you from everyone so they could keep believing in heroes- I couldn’t stop myself from falling for you. People aren’t selfless like that in the real world.”

“Hmm…” All Might brought one of his hands to his chin, rubbing it with his thumb and index finger in thought. “That isn’t such a bad thing though. If people were selfless like that, they’d practically be martyrs. A hero’s purpose is to protect the people, (Y/N). Maybe it’s a good thing your reality doesn’t have heroes like me.”

“How can you say that? If we had heroes like you, All Might, I feel like the world would be so much better. It’d be so much safer for women, people of color, and everyone in the LGBTQIA+ community. Children wouldn’t be torn from their parents, immigrants wouldn’t be detained or deported, and global warming wouldn’t destroy the earth in 50 years,” you argued in earnest, as if you could plead him into reality- and part of you- part of you really wished you could. “And I- … I wouldn’t be as lonely.”

“Even with heroes like me, evil would still exist. These problems wouldn’t miracuously disappear, despite how much my existence might deter them. It’s a theme in the show, isn’t it? One For All has passed down from one host to another because this fight is more than just power against power.

And… if I were real, (Y/N), I would only break your heart. I’m a hero first, and you could consider that a tragic flaw of mine. But even if you could love it, it’s still a flaw, and you’d still be lonely.”

A quietness settled between you two as you both looked away from each other. How dare he rain on your daydreams- why couldn’t he just say he’d be with you if that was a possible reality? Wasn’t he supposed to be the perfect All Might for you? He was in your head, after all.

“Besides, I’m such an old man,” he added with a lighter tone and a bit of laughter, looking back to you with his unwavering smile. “The world needs more of you than it does me.”

Your brows furrowed as you returned the gaze and tilted your head. “More of me? But I’m not a hero or anything special. I’m just a girl who watches anime, reads fanfiction, and reblogs fan art.”

All Might’s smile softened as he looked from you to the flower laden bridge. “You undersell yourself with words like “just,” (Y/N). You watch anime, read fanfiction, and reblog fan art. Do you really think it “just” stops there? You’re supporting creators. Fan artists and authors have it rough, and your support means everything to them. It keeps them going and reminds them what they’re doing isn’t worthless- that their dreams are valid.”

“How is that going to make the world any better though?”

“… It already has for someone.” He turned his face back to you, smiling with great encouragement. “I think it’s time for you to wake up, (Y/N).”

“What?” you asked, confused by what he meant. Before he could answer, that headache from before returned in more than full swing. The pressure in your head felt like your brain wanted to break past your skull, and honestly, if that was going to help, you weren’t all that opposed to it right now. Dark blue and black spots began to speckle your vision until you couldn’t make out All Might’s smile, and then everything went black.

A soft and steady beep began to bring you back, the sound like a little ECG. Coldness gave you goosebumps- you hadn’t noticed the heat before when you were talking with All Might, but suddenly you were aware of how cool and almost chilly it felt. With half a breath, you opened your eyes as more white noise began to differentiate itself. Footsteps, phones ringing, and voices… so many voices.

It clicked almost immediately that you were in a hospital bed. The pain that you blacked out to remained, but much duller and right behind your eyes and ears. You turned your head and looked for the ‘Call Nurse’ symbol, pressing the glowing red button when you found it. Within a minute, a nurse strode in.

“Hello, Miss (Y/LN). How are you feeling? I paged the doctor and she’ll be in shortly. Is there anything I can get you? Water?”

“Uh… yeah, sure. But, first, how did I get here?” you asked, your body catching up with how much you were processing.

“Oh, a gentleman brought you in. Said he found you slumped over at an easel. It must have been a pretty sight to draw you out in such extreme weather.” She smiled at you, taking the empty, plastic cup and disappearing for a short moment to fill it. “Here you go. Drink slowly. The doctor will be in soon.”

…I think I dreamed you into life.

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Hey, Megan. This has mentions of abuse so if it triggers you don't read any further. What do you think about these new revelation in Johnny Depp case? I'm seeing two very conflicting arguments and I'm not sure who to believe at this point. Believing a female is the first instinct but apparently the evidence of abuse by her was submitted too.

Hey friend! Thanks for the message. I feel ok talking more about this even though I know it’s a difficult topic. I’m tagging this with abuse cw, domestic violence cw, and dv cw-- hopefully that will catch stuff for filters but if not I think it’s good to have a warning here too!

I’ll start off by saying I have been seeing a post going around about this that really upset me deeply. The entire point of it is that JD is innocent and should never have been “cancelled” and that now AH is the one who deserves to be “cancelled” because she’s the true abuser. I made a brief post earlier saying that my tendency is to believe a woman when she comes forward with abuse allegations, especially when there’s a big power differential between her and the person (man, in this case) she’s accusing, because historically women have not had anything to gain from being open about being abused.

I don’t want to go into a list of names, but it’s really long and full of women who have produced evidence-- pictures, recordings, witnesses who corroborate their stories --only to find their own careers ruined. Yes, the tides are turning somewhat with the me too movement, but there are no guarantees.

That being said, I’m reminded of some friends I had when I was younger. They had a particularly bad break up that ended with physical violence and both claimed to have been abused. I talked with both of them and I believe both of them. Often times abusive relationships look like one powerful abuser vs. one less powerful abused person, and I think that’s the dynamic that we’re expected to see play out along gender lines, but abuse looks a lot of different ways. Abuse can be verbal and emotional, and it can be physical in ways that don’t require a lot of strength or leave lots of marks. It can be quick and volatile and rare. It’s also possible, as it was with my friends, that both people are emotionally and physically harming each other. It can start out as something that seems harmless for both people and escalate into something more as other aspects of the relationship dissolve.

At this point, we don’t know enough to know what was going on. The evidence that JD has brought forward (what little I could find online) definitely shows signs of physical abuse. So did what we saw from AH. I am not a black and white thinker, so for me this makes sense. The situation is colored in shades of grey, many of which I won’t be able to see from my vantage point as someone who knows neither of the people involved. If we were friends, maybe I’d have a stronger opinion. Maybe I would’ve seen abusive behavior from one or both people before, or maybe conversations with both parties would clear things up. But really we’re all just sitting here on the internet not knowing anything but the limited information we’re fed by the media.

So. I would just urge people not to “cancel” anyone immediately. And for the people who want to be upset that JD was “cancelled” well. For me it’s better than the alternative. Yeah, I know some people will think that’s messed up, but I would rather not get into the habit of forcing someone who comes forward with abuse allegations (especially a woman or any marginalized person) to withstand endless questioning that assumes they’re lying just so that we don’t accidentally “cancel” someone (in this case a powerful white man).

Finally (sorry I’m longwinded I know), you probably noticed that I kept putting “cancelled” in quotation marks. This word. Ugh. It’s fine for a joke, I guess, something along the lines of telling your friend they’re blocked/reported when they send you a post you don’t wanna see. But it’s being used seriously in this instance and that just won’t do. You can’t delete someone’s existence from the earth, and you can’t blot out their past. We are all problematic, we all do things that would absolutely appall one another. Just yesterday a friend and I were talking and it turns out we fundamentally disagree about what constitutes a reasonable omission of truth in a certain situation. My stance-- that it’s fine to not tell someone about an aspect of yourself if you feel it necessary for self protection --is most likely problematic to some people! That’s ok!

You’re never going to understand or agree with everything another person says, thinks, or does. You can only draw lines for what you find unacceptable. Just like you can decide not to go to group activities with someone you don’t like, you can choose to not watch movies with a certain star or director. This can be arbitrary, even! You get to decide what you do. You don’t get to cancel the person, though. So yeah, AH isn’t cancelled and neither was JD. He still has jobs, he still has fans.

ANYWAY a little tl;dr: we don’t know what happened because we don’t actually know these people or their lives, and can we maybe please stop trying to “cancel” anyone and maybe just decide on our own whether or not we’re going to consume their media?

#long post #text post #dv cw #domestic violence cw #abuse cw #hoping this doesn't go in the tags for ah/jd #but once again i won't answer anons about this #just messages or direct asks #i'm tired so hopefully i made sense #also gonna say i looked at the blog of the post that's going around and just don't think they're the source whose words need boosting #there's a lot of misogyny/internalized misogyny in the way the argument is framed #thearrowsheart #answers

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01.02.19

I am here, and I have finally finished my video for this teaching project. It took around 14 hours if I had to estimate (not in one sitting, over two weeks). It’s interesting that it took so long to create a three minute and thirty second video—which reminds me of Wallace and Gromit and how long that took to create just one single frame. I think that the final piece is decent. It’s not like I’m extremely pleased with it, but overall I do like it and I am proud of what I’ve created. I think that it is good for what it is and does its job well; to teach a young class about a chosen subject while also still being fun. At the time of writing, I have not yet imported sound, nor have I created the work sheet that I will be handing out after the video has finished playing, but I will add the sound later, and I will probably detail that later on in this post when I have (if not it will be in a separate post). The work sheet process will most likely be a separate post.

Now I must write about my process of the entire thing. Now, I’m not about to bore everyone and use 50 screenshots detailing every single thing that I did throughout, but I have some of the most important ones, which I will be talking about briefly. So firstly, how it all started. I made black solid layer and immediately got to animating the words to come onto the screen. I’d had the idea to have each word separately fly onto the screen to form a sentence for a while, and now was time to put that idea in to motion. This wasn’t so hard to do, but it definitely took the longest time to make out of everything that is in the video. It was very tedious to be honest, there was a lot of duplicating and fiddling with layers etc. The final animation of these parts honestly doesn’t look great, since some of the words follow each other a bit slowly, but I couldn’t do anything about that as that would interrupt everything that came after it.

Once I’d done this part, and added all the easy ease to make it look more fluid, I decided to use a technique that I had recently learned from Irene, which involves using trim paths to create some confetti-like things that look like they’re flying around the place. Here’s a link to my experience with this technique. I made the colours correspond to the flags of the UK and USA, which conveniently have the same colours (albeit with different shades).

The screenshot below shows a dark screen with a flag in the background. This was the first image to appear after the black screen, which I made fade out using opacity keyframes. I chose to start with USA for no particular reason, and then move onto the Union Jack shortly after. A lot of the early parts of this video are drawn out maybe a little longer than they should be due to me being stressed over the fact that I needed to get the video to four minutes. I was taught by another tutor how to make the flag wave a bit using some technique called turbulent displace, which I couldn’t tell you how to do now, but it definitely adds to the video, instead of having static footage. In fact, I originally had planned to have footage for every single different segment of the video, but I was quickly shot down as soon as I visited various different stock footage websites, and found that there was a lot of bad footage. That or it was incredibly expensive. I quickly abandoned the idea of trying to find footage for flags, though luckily, I was much more fortunate in my search for other footage of the later sections.

I wrote out some messages that would appear on screen while the flags would be in the background, like “I hope that you enjoy, and learn something new.” and the screenshot below. I had them last for a while to draw out the video, but I also knew that drawing something out for so long would not be entertaining for an audience, so I didn’t go overboard, hopefully. Not much else to say about this screenshot.

Now I will briefly talk about some of the footage and images that I used for the video. This first part of the video was going to be about the vocabulary, by the way. The first image that I used was one of a faucet, or tap. I got all of my images from Unsplash, and footage was from Pexels. I simply placed the image and then had it move slightly throughout its duration of being there, so that it wouldn’t look too boring. Next, I made the flags that I would be using to differentiate each word. There was a lot of duplicating and then removing things etc. I wrote a word out, and then parented that word to the image of the flag, so that they would move at the same time, but I could simply edit the word to whatever I wanted to without everything messing up. I tried to get each flag and word to move on the screen in a unique way, though I ended up running out of ideas later on, so some of them copy the earlier ones, but I don’t think you would really think that unless I pointed it out. Like right now. I chose to screenshot this scene, as I really like the footage that I chose for it—it may be my favourite footage. Not much else to say, though there were some more creative ones that I did after this one, like with the cinema, I made the words appear on the big screen. The footage for the apartment scene was also nice, it almost looks like I went out and filmed it myself.

Another scene I liked was this one below, of a girl walking on the street, wearing trainers/sneakers. The way that it is zoomed in looks really good, as well as the flags that fall onto the screen, and then fall off at the end. I think that the contrast between the real life footage with the little icons I made in Illustrator is probably best showcased here, in my opinion. After this was a football/soccer scene, where I ran into a little mishap—there was this short black screen that appeared for half a second, which I was able to avoid by duplicating the footage and moving part of it just before the glitch, which covered it up nicely. That’s pretty much it for this screenshot.

The next part of the video was going to be about spelling, which may be my favourite aesthetically pleasing segment that I made throughout the video. I really like the specific image of the flag, along with the white text over the top of it. I tried to keep it lighthearted, and added a little “(yay!)” under the big word “Spelling”. Some people may catch it. I’ve noticed that throughout the video, the font seems to switch up a lot. I always used the same font, yet it still looked different.

The first part of this category would start with the motorway/highway, which again, very aesthetically pleasing to me. I think that it is pretty perfect footage for this particular part. After this was one about colour/color, which also had the same error that the football/soccer scene had. I was able to cover it using the same technique. After this, theater/theatre, meter/metre, which I think I chose a pretty nice image for from Unsplash, and then organize/organise, which again had some really cool footage to accompany it, and it also looks like I could have filmed it.

Next is undeniably my favourite scene from the whole video. It was of a plane that was just barely in the shot, while there were clouds blowing across the screen. I used this to my advantage and decided to try something new with the animated flags and words. This time, I lowered the opacity of both flags once the cloud went over it. Also, the way they appear on the screen also looks really good (albeit unintentional) as they look as if they’re blowing onto the screen following a cloud that seems to have blown them along with it. The whiter the screen got, the more I lowered the opacity of the flags—even going down to 15% when a big cloud essentially covered the screen. I think that this ended up looking really good, and honestly like it could be a separate thing of its own. I’m hoping my audience will be able to catch the words, with them being covered by the clouds as well. It doesn’t help that the words in this case are incredibly similar; traveled/travelled.

After this was the segment that introduced prepositions into the video. I didn’t exactly know what those were, so I thought I would add a little “(what?)” under the word, just a little lighthearted addition, as I assumed that not everybody would know the word either. Also, before this, I typed: “You made it! Now it’s time for...”. In retrospect, this may seem like I’m being patronizing, but at the end of the day, this was created with the intention of appealing to younger people.

Next, I thought about how I wanted these prepositions to be for awhile, until coming up with the idea of having a chalkboard as a way of teaching. I had no idea what stock footage of image that I would use, so I thought to just make my own thing this time. I took to Illustrator and started working on a little scene that would have a chalkboard in. The chalkboard itself was easy to create. I just made a square and gave it a slight dark grey to darker grey gradient. Just to give it some slight detail. I also did this with the wall in the back, just going from light purple to a more blue purple. I made a border for the chalkboard, and added some chalk sticks using the rounded rectangle tool. I resized them and placed them on the corner of the board. Then next thing I made was the window on the right. This was easy to make, all I did was create a little scene of some hills, and some clouds, then blur them using the gaussian blur to make the whole scene look like it was in the distance. I then made a border around this, and them thick line through the middle to make it look like a window frame.

The last thing that I did for this scene was create a little picture for the wall. I made a white rectangle and then gave it a drop shadow. I made a small rectangle and then made some triangles to cut into the rectangle. I then coloured it the same as the border of the chalkboard, and shrunk it. I then duplicated it and placed it over the paper on the wall—to look like tape. I then made a character out of some shapes and the pen tool. I guess you could call it an Easter egg, since it kind of resembles me.

After this graphic, I made the second to last segment—Past vs Present Tense. I got another American flag and placed it into the background. This lead into the final part of the lesson which was just using the graphic that I made of the chalkboard again, and then it came to the final slide, which thanks the audience, and then fades to black, which I did by getting a solid shape layer which I coloured black, and adding a keyframe at the start set to 0%, which moved to 100% at the end.

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threemoonsareshining · 6 years ago

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hey i can’t sleep it’s 1am and i’m too out of it to pick i can’t properly express how much i love reading your answers so just answer any / all of those fruit asks i know i said that last time but time is a lie and you’re a cool person yeet

Hi! Oh my god it’s me the one who can’t properly express how much I like getting your asks, and how weird it feels when someone tells you that they like your answers (I still don’t get how you find my ramblings interesting!), but I actually find writing them quite liberating, and it helps me practice my writing skills in English even though they’re not very good! Ok, so you ask for it, here are some long-ass answers

peach: do you have any piercings or tattoos? No! I just had my ears pierced when I was a baby and I wear normal earrings. I don’t really want any kind of piercings because I find them soo unnecessary (for me personally), I don’t see the use in involuntarily mutilating my body you know (I hate needles). I don’t have tattoos either, and I’d like to get one someday, just something tiny and pretty, but then again we encounter the problem of needles…….

raspberry: favorite flower? I honestly love all kinds of flowers but I really like… orchids for example, and when I was little I used to be obsessed with wildflowers (I made bouquets all the time) and now every once in a while I go out to my garden and pick flowers so i can press them in a book and then stick them to an empty notebook (so cliche I know) but I just think they look so so nice.

passion fruit: how would you describe your style? Mmmm I don’t really know if I have a style, I’m really basic tbh. I wear simple clothing but somehow I always manage to differentiate myself from the rest, sometimes without even trying. Like, when I go shopping I get really annoyed because 90% of the shops in every mall are owned by the same company (Inditex) and want it or not, they always end up selling the same stuff, because it’s what everybody is wearing and they sell more you know, but I hate wearing That Exact Garment That Everyone Is Wearing This Season, unless I really really like it. But most of the time I just stick to a simple style, with plain colors, although now I’m trying to broaden my horizons and feel a little bit more comfortable showing a little more skin, which I don’t always like but I’m trying you know.

pineapple: sexual orientation? Ah, the eternal question. I’m honestly not sure. I spent a lot of time believing I was ace, I have always been “mocked” for my lack of sexual behaviours. When I was in middle school people thought it was because I was a lesbian, but I gave it a lot of thought and I arrived at the conclusion that I wasn’t, I just didn’t have attraction towards anyone, which apparently people find completely incomprehensible. But this last year I’ve experienced some situations that have made me realise I might not be 100% ace, but it’s weird because I don’t think those feelings were towards anyone in particular, so I’m pretty confused. What I have more or less clear so far is that I need a lot of trust, and when I say a lot I mean a lot, like I need to “click” with that person in a special way so I am capable of feeling the minimum sexual desire, or at least to feel comfortable enough to engage in some kind of physical contact (even kissing, like, last year I couldn’t even stand people touching my arm, so yeah all kinds of physical contact are kind of big deal to me, specially with the opposite sex, idk why), and even then it doesn’t always happen. I still have a lot to figure out, but I’m not really stressed about it, right now I’m pretty much craving some human contact (this sounds contradictory to what I wrote above, I just think I avoid physical contact because I don’t really know how to react to those situations) and hopefully I’ll get it tomorrow, even if it’s from someone that hasn't been really been really nice to me

strawberry: favorite desserts? Always ice cream, or any of the cakes that my mom bakes because they are all delicious.

cherry: can you play any musical instruments or can you sing? I used to take violin lessons and I self-taught a little of piano, but last year I didn’t have time to do anything and I ended up dropping everything art-related, which pretty much killed my soul. Giving up violin was to be expected, since it was never my passion, it felt more like an obligation because my parents pressured me a lot, and by doing that I refused to practice as much as I should so I never got to see much progress and I got stuck, while the rest of my mates kept getting better and better, which discouraged me even more. With piano, I enjoy a lot playing the little I know, and I’ve composed some themes (without any actual academic knowledge of music of course) but I think they sounded pretty good given that I came up with them with 14 years old or so. Right now I have some themes in mind (it’s amazing because I came up with them like 4 years ago and I still haven’t forgotten them, which is dangerous because I haven’t written or recorded them…). Regarding singing, I like to do it (as I type this I’m performing Africa by Toto with my heart and soul and I bet my neighbour wants to kill me right now) but I’m too shy to sing in front of people, even though I’ve been told I’m good at it (my voice isn’t strong at all btw). I’ve just performed alone in public once and I still don’t know how I managed to do it without having a nervous breakdown. Anyways, yesterday I was home alone and I started singing while doing my hair and I was surprised by myself like “woah bitch when did you learn to do that with your voice” and it was a nice feeling.

banana: favorite horror movies? Mmmmm I’m not a fan of horror movies, I’ve only started to watch some this year. For example, the only horror movie I’ve seen in an actual cinema was A quiet place, and it wasn’t even that scary, but I really liked it. I’ve also seen The Others and The Shining, which were also pretty scary for me hahah

blackberry: is your life an action film, a comedy, a romantic comedy, or drama? My life is one of those pretentious indie European drama movies in which nothing happens, except it’s not aesthetically pleasing

pomegranate: when do you feel the most confident? The other day I was wearing a clean pyjama and I was freshly shaven and honestly, I had the confidence to kill a man.

guava: dark & dramatic makeup or natural makeup? I’m trying to perfect the art of achieving a natural makeup that actually looks natural, but problem: I’m bad at it and I don’t have the right products to do it.

tangelo: if you could be any mythical creature, which would you be? I’d be a dryad, an elf or something that lives in the forest, nothing like a mermaid or a creature that lives in the water because I’m afraid of it, just let be me eaten by the moss please and thank you

papaya: what song describes your aesthetic? I’ve said it like 461654 times but Plant Life by Owl City is me, like, if that song was a person, it would be me.

cranberry: favorite time of the day; morning, afternoon, dusk, or night? I love the night because it feels like time stops. If I’m alone, I don’t feel judged because there’s no one else to see me, I can just enjoy the world when everything’s quiet and if I stay awake till dawn I get to see how the world wakes up which is also really nice. I also like the night when I’m with people, I can’t describe the feeling, like, when I breathe deeply, I feel some butterflies in my stomach (sometimes it’s the anxiety and I want to end my suffering right there but other times it’s like a nice way of feeling excited), just being surrounded by people... it gives me a weird feeling (my way of expressing this is so shitty i’m sorry)

nectarine: would you consider yourself an emotional person? I’ve always been known for being stone cold and emotionless, but actually I am Very Sensitive, everything affects me, even if I’m not the target of it (I would get really upset at school when my classmates were mean to teachers because I felt so so so so bad for them and my mom told me like “but the haven0t done anything to you!” and I’m like I know but my soul is in pain what can I do). Despite this, I never cried once at school, I just let it all out when I got home (I would cry a lot outside), and that’s why everyone thought I had no feelings, when actually I had a lot of them, too many, I just got really really good at hiding them. This is now a problem since I find myself incapable of expressing my feelings to other people. I’m good at rationalising them to myself, I can distance myself from my own perspective and think “You’re feeling this because of that”, but there’s a difference between being able to acknowledge your feelings objectively and actually having the capability to control them, or change them (that’s why they’re feelings, they’re the opposite of “objective” and they can’t just be turned off whenever you want). This is the reason why it’s so exhausting to be concealing them all the time like I do or not even that, just trying to canalise negative feelings instead of avoiding them can be really hard. So yeah, to sum up, I’m very emotional, but I’d like to believe I’m very self-aware so I can find some kind of balance.

orange: do you have long eyelashes? I actually do, but only because I apply ricin oil every night before bed. I did it just to give it a try but my lashes are now not only longer, but also denser (I have lots of new hairs popping out, it’s very nice to see). I do it because I hate wearing mascara, and I want them to look fuller without having to apply anything.

apricot: what do you do when you’re sad? When I’m very very sad I just get this sinking feeling in my chest, which I can’t express with words how much I hate it, it reminds me of all the times I’ve gotten that feeling in my life and makes me feel completely miserable. When I feel like that, there’s literally nothing else I can do but lie feeling just kind of paralyzed. I often try to watch a tv show, and even though I can’t concentrate on it and I’ll probably end up having to rewatch that episode, it distracts me a little. I also play music, but it sometimes makes it even worse. Lately, when I feel really down, or anxious (specifically anxiety over things I know are stupid and no big deal, but things that my brain decides to worry about anyway), I end up cleaning something very thoroughly, like my bedroom or bathroom while listening to some playlist with mainstream songs that I know the lyrics to but that I’m not emotionally attached to so I can keep my mind busy until lunchtime or until I have to go out.

star fruit: favorite sea creature? I used to be obsessed, and when I said obsessed I mean obsessed with whales, specifically beluga whales. I have a stuffed beluga toy, a beluga notebook and I still have the picture of a beluga hung on my wall (it’s not big I swear it’s not that bad now). I also made my mom tell my tales about belugas for like 6 or 7 years every single night (I can’t remember when exactly she stopped doing it but I can tell you I was old enough to feel really, really ashamed of it if anyone found out about it), now I feel sorry for her because it must had been a really big effort for her… I was obsessed with dolphins as well, I remember crying while watching dolphin documentaries on tv because I wanted one so bad and my parents tried to explain me that that was just… not possible. Oh I also have those figurines that glow in the dark with whale shapes (you know those stars that are on the ceiling of kids’ rooms? well just like that but with whales, I still have them)

dragonfruit: do you drink alcohol? I do, and I know it’s really unhealthy but I mean… besides that I’m a pretty healthy girl, I don’t smoke, I don’t eat processed foods and I work out every once in a while… you gotta live a little. And it’s also nothing like drinking every day or anything, it’s just that when I go out with friends I drink, heavily, but I still know when to stop (I’ve only gone overboard like… twice, and it was nothing serious, like, you end up getting all your dinner out and with a terrible hangover the next day). It’s funny because when I’m drunk and my head is spinning, I can still see myself trying to rationalise everything and i have some principles as a drunk girl: 1. Watch your step as gracefully as you can 2. Be nice and try to help everyone, stranger or not 3. Pick up the things you drop on the ground because the environment is still in danger 4. If someone needs to go to pee, especially if it’s one of your girlfriends, don’t let them go alone. It’s actually a little sad because one of the main reasons why I drink at parties it’s because I get really anxious in social situations, and it helps me feel a little less self-conscious, but lately it doesn’t do the trick, and I just stare into space and my mind goes blank every time someone talks to me, and them feeling terrible about my lack of social skills… I should fix that

This was really nice to write, it kept me busy for a while, just what I needed. I don’t know if you go through all of it but hey at least it helped me!

Have a nice nice day!!! 🍃🍃🍃🍂🍂🍂

#ask #mutuals #long post #suspended-in-gaffa #niceeeeeeeeeeeeee #have a nice day #or night #idk #aa

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bwicblog · 7 years ago

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EE: Hellooo

EE: ånyone here?

JV: --ok how do we have so many nerds -n th-s group that an h - s t o r - c a l fa-re makes th-s place dead

JV: --sup ee

SA: i am alive.

SA: hello.

AC: Ø Oh, Prisma! Are you all right in the back? Ø

AC: Ø I'm busy out front, but I can get you anything in a few minutes if you want. Ø

EE: Hey JV EE: Seems like most of the people here åre gone somewhere

SA: yes. my neck hurts but otherwise I am fine. Thank you for helping me.

SA: they are at the faire in Cascara.

AC: Ø It's no problem! And yes, many of us are at the historical fair. .u. Ø

AC: Ø It's very busy! Though Emerel and Hadean's fight hasn't happened yet, that's later. Ø

AP: I'm there too.

AC: Ø ouo!!! really, Budino? Ø

AP: I've been selling what I bake.

AC: Ø Where are you? I'd love to come see you! Ø

AP: Last minute booth entry

AC: Ø Um, if you wouldn't mind that Ø

AP: Cobblestreet Alley

AP: I don't mind. I'm giving out samples, too.

AP: Apparently people buy more when they get to taste.

AC: Ø Ooh, that's a bit of a walk, but I'm sure Pheres will let me have a break in a bit. As long as Prisma's all set I'll go visit you! Ø

AC: Ø I'm glad you're getting lots of customers Ø

SA: yes, it's because they know the product isn't secretly bad.

AC: Ø Pffft Ø

SA: this is a logical advertising scheme.

AP: My product's never been bad.

AP: I taste everything myself before I send out the batch.

AC: Ø People in general won't know how delicious it is though. .u. Ø

AP: Point being. AP: Free samples.

SA: I am fine. I could watch the booth while you are gone, AC. Pheres permission or not.

AC: Ø .n. hmmm, maybe, you don't know our products very well, though! Ø

SA: but I don't want to miss Hadean's fight. I have to see who else they destroy today.

AC: Ø Some of the people here are real sticklers about knowledge, too Ø

AC: Ø Haha, I'm sure you won't miss it, it's not until later Ø

SA: I suppose that's true also... I don't know very much about clothes.

AP: Who is Hadean fighting?

AC: Ø Neither do I. .u. I sympathize Ø

AC: Ø Emerel! Or well, he's MN on here Ø

AP: Clothes are for...covering yourself, pretty much. AP: Then again, I never got into the fashion thing.

AP: Oh. Him. AP: Please tell Hadean to give him a punch to the face for me.

AC: Ø .n. but Emerel's my friend Ø

EE: ooohh, whåt do you måke?

AP: It's our thing. AP: He keeps complaining I stole his sign.

AP: I bake. Bread, cakes, pastries, you name it. AP: I have a booth set up here.

AC: Ø .u. but that's not how that works...at least not according to Kit Ø

AP: Someone should tell Emerel that, then.

AC: Ø .n. but I don't pretend to understand it very well. I...I don't want him to be mad at me Ø

AP: Honestly, he doesn't strike me as the type to get mad easy.

AP: Just something about him, you know? It's hard to explain.

AC: Ø .n. I don't want to risk it, he's always been very nice to me Ø

SA: This emerel seems to be an eternal mystery.

AP: I wouldn't call him a mystery.

AC: Ø And Pheres would never forgive me if I upset him Ø

SA: No, but they are some sort of ambiguous figure everyone knows who everyone eitehr wishes to fight or be friends with.

AP: Maidel, why don't you come down here? I've got something for you.

AC: Ø .u. uhhh, give me... Ø

AP: Don't tell him he's a figure of mystery. His head will swell ten times bigger than it is already.

AC: Ø ...five minutes! It's not very busy right now, so Pheres said I can go. Ø

SA: larger than Pheres's?

AP: Larger than Pheres'.

AC: Ø that's just his hair .u. Ø

AC: Ø easy mistake Ø

SA: Perhaps he should invest in a comb.

AC: Ø It's so poofy Ø

SA: and a straightner.

AC: Ø Noooo, his curls are so nice Ø

AC: Ø I wish mine were nice like that Ø

EE: åw, I wish I could håve gone. EE: I love cåke

AP: I'm not particularly worried about his hair. AP: As much as I am the fact that he's hard to get along with.

AC: Ø .n. oh Ø

AP: I have a bakery in Fiendcroft, outside of Hithliene. AP: You're welcome to stop by there sometime.

AC: Ø Budino makes really good bread! Ø

AP: I try.

AP: Thank you.

EE: omg!!!

EE: I'll håve to måke the trip next time I get some leåve time

EE: Fresh breåd is heåven

AP: I agree.

AP: If heaven was real, fresh bread would be where you'd find it.

SA: it's fresh treats.

AP: That is generally what bread is, yes.

SA: No. Bread is the wrong kind of treat.

SA: I mean desserts.

SA: I don't care about bread. It's bread.

AP: I make desserts.

AP: My table has plenty of chocolate on it too.

SA: but do you have tarts.

EE: Breåd cån be dessert

SA: or historically accurate treats.

AP: Apple or strawberry?

SA: neither...

SA: 😦

AP: I don't know much about history, I admit. But I did at least try to do some research.

SA: Maybe I will visit then.

AP: Please feel free.

AP: Hopefully you'll find something to your liking.

SA: Aren't you going to enjoy aything else about the faire?

AP: Probably. AP: When I run out of things to sell.

AP: It's really the only reason I'm here, though. AP: I'm not that interested in anything else at the faire.

EE: Whåt else is there to do?

AP: Socialize. Eat. Buy. That's about it.

AP: Not much point to it. The setting is the only difference to any other faire.

SA: there' so many things to look at, though. Surely they aren't all the same?

SA: We would never have something like this in Provenance.

SA: And everyone is in costumes.

SA: or.

SA: Hadean and Pheres are in costumes.

AP: I suppose I'm not very daring. It just doesn't hold much interest to me, I guess? AP: The music is nice, at least.

SA: I love the sound of greensleeves playing on an endless loop.

AP: The musician is actually very good. I give props to her.

AP: How is the faire on your end?

VV: ♚ ~Evening all~

AP: Hello.

VV: : ♚ ~mmm I'll have to acquire a little contacts book soon. There's always a fresh face or two or more anytime I come into here. How excruciatingly exciting!

AP: If you say so.

VV: : ♚ ~Oh and I do! I do say so. Here let's get the delightful introductions out of the way, darling jade. Perdia Averic, pleased to make your acquaintince, and you....?

AP: Budino.

AP: Don't call me darling, please.

AP: I just met you and that's very personal sounding.

SA: Oh, the little princess is back.

VV: ♚ ~Very well, Budino since you asked so kindly! VV: ♚ ~Ooooh! My favourite mustard hued friend is here. ❤

AP: Mustard hued.

AP: Somehow that just brings up weird mental images.

SA: I don't necessarily appreciate mustard hued. I would like at least a honey, little princess.

SA: It is rather strange.

VV: ♚ ~ Weird images? Dijon is rather high class in terms of condiments but if you prefer honey, then honey it is.......honey mustard

AP: Why not saffron?

AP: It's rare depending on where you are, expensive, and yellow.

AP: It's a much nicer thing than mustard.

SA: What makes me so mustardy...

SA: Yes, but I am less of a saffron. in all honesty, I am more of a chartreuse.

SA: but most chat clients don't accomodate for that. so.

SA: Here am, with the least apalling version of my color.

AP: Sounds fancy.

VV: ♚ ~It does sound appealingly fancy!

VV: : ♚ ~Very well Honeycomb prince, we'll shed your mustardy name then.

VV: ♚ ~ I feel you're smart enough to not lie about your hue so I'll believe it.

SA: I can show you a selfie, if you would prefer that.

SA: My scelera are the same color as my blood, so there is no way to hide them.

SA: 😃

VV: ♚ ~ I would! I've shared photos here before, so we can do a trade even if you desire.

SA has shared SelfiePart2.png

AP: What happened with your eyes?

AP: Psionics that don't turn off or?

SA: No, it is a completely natural cosmetic differentiation.

SA: I have met other trolls with the same thing, but they are oftentimes from the north or east.

SA: Not the south, like I am.

SA: Or the approximate south, I assume.

SA: I prefer honeycomb prince much more, thank you.

VV: ♚ ~Ah! Someone actually deserving of such a title too, I must admit you aren't horrendous to look at quite the opposite really !

VV: Friendly and a charmer, such a rarity 😦

VV: ♚ ~ Budino, since you brought up hue related....alterations, mm there's a better word for that but no matter, since you brought it up, are you perhaps, one of those incredibly pale jades or do you still happen to not glow like a star?

AP: Drinkers don't exist, Perdia.

AP: It's myth.

AP: And you shouldn't believe everything you hear.

SA: 😊

SA: You are very polite yourself, little princess. I am happy to meet someone so composed.

SA: Rainbow drinkers might exist. It is as believable as a psion being able to lift a skyscraper, or change a city.

SA: I think it's a perfectly acceptable notion, if romantic.

AP: No, they don't.

AP: I know my own caste.

AP: The only dead that walk are covered in mushrooms or what have you.

VV: ♚ ~ Mmm I don't believe you.

SA: they are called cordycepus, sometimes.

AP: You say that like I'm trying to lie to you. AP: But whatever.

AP: Don't believe me. I don't really care either way.

VV: : ♚ ~Are you simply being secretive, maybe, Budino?

AP: You don't matter much in the grand course of my life, after all.

VV: ♚ ~I suppose that's true. Just as it may be true there aren't Drinkers, at least...you wouldn't be one I guess. They're lovely with skin like porceline. Something to be jealous of and write amazing romance novels of but, why would anyone write of a jade who's so crude and uncaring?

VV: ♚ ~Let alone read it I guess! Hehe

AP: Trust me, I'd love to be dead. But unfortunately, that's not in the cards yet, apparently. AP: I'd rather they didn't write about me anyway. There's nothing to say.

AP: He made bread and wrangled a barkfiend. Nothing interesting happened. The end.

VV: ♚ ~Something of a sticky note rather than a novel, yes?

AP: More like AP: A napkin

SA: mistake.

VV: ♚ ~What sort of napkin do you think? A diner or, perhaps one of a fast foodery?

AP: Perfect.

SA: many people find the idea of someone being cruel but able to win over to be a romantic notion.

SA: rainbow drinker literature is like that.

SA: they are mystical and vicious and alluring with a predatorial and authoritive quality over most trolls.

SA: but it's boring as a psion. they are inferior.

SA: If you feel your life is such a tale written on a mcdonald's napkin, perhaps you should do something about it instead.

VV: ♚ ~Oh but there's plenty of militaristic novels. I may not partake in such trashy readings but there are others I know that partake in reading Helmsmen romanticized books!

VV: ♚ ~Psion romanticism is just bubbling under the surface waiting to take the market of literature, Honey prince.

AP: Wish fulfillment sells.

SA: If only that were the case, perhaps I would have a quadrant by now

SA: there is an aspect of forbidden love to psions. They are doomed and property.

SA: and yet.

SA: also, what AP said.

SA: What do you read, little princess.

VV: ♚ ~Unfortunatley a busy schedule such as mine doesn't lend much time for such leisure! Primarily messages I guess haha!

VV: ♚ ~ You could always write your own wish fulfillment novel Budino, maybe you'd be promoted from Napkin in the bin, to say....paper liner on a table with crayons.

SA: I think that is a worse fate than the napkin in the bin. getting bulges draw on oneself is not the picture of success.

AP: I wouldn't recommend quandants AP: It never ends well

VV: ♚ ~ Or it ends wonderfully.

AP: No AP: It doesn't

SA: someone is very bitter.

SA: and very bad at hiding it.

VV: ♚ ~Correct. Once can almost find undertones of sour in the bitter .

AP: Well, I could say plenty of things about your undertones, Perdia. AP: But I'm not that rude.

VV: ♚ ~ Obviously you can't say much if after all these sweeps you can't say a damned thing about your own life.

SA: 🐱 🥊 🐱

AP: Fitting face...things.

VV: ♚ ~"things"....

VV: ♚ ~ Pardon me for a moment.

AP: Things.

VV: ♚ ~ I've returned and I hope you've managed to do a simple internet search for what those are called otherwise I'll have to excuse myself again.

AP: Things.

VV: ♚ ~......Budino, how old are you exactly?

AP: I could ask you the same.

SA: the pinnacle of retorts.

SA: are you proud of that one?

SA: you will need more than that to usurp me as the king of snark.

AP: ...The king of snark?

AP: I wasn't aware I was competing for the title.

AP: Do I have to wear neutral colors for this one

SA: You opened your mouth and tried to get clever.

AP: I guess I'm competing for a previously unknown title, then.

AP: Well then.

VV: ♚ ~ I didn't even think you were close to being in the running.

VV: ♚ ~Also it's incredibly rude to ask a lady her age, and the only ones that even do such a thing tend to be.....rather uncouth so actually yes that seems fitting for you.

SA: 😃

AP: And it's also rude to make demands of a stranger.

SA: we're going to go in circles with this. 🙃

AP: Yes.

VV: ♚ ~Oops! I hadn't noticed I'm not paying too much attention actually, hehe

SA: please don't leave me.

VV: ♚ ~Do I entertain you that much? Or is the lack of stimulating conversation from this non-drinker wearing on you?

SA: No, I am just very bored.

SA: And I like company.

AP: I've never been called a non-drinker as an insult before. AP: I don't know how I feel about this.

SA: yes, you are a typical, average troll, with no ability of note or life of interest.

SA: Like almost all of us.

SA: I don't know whose side i'm on anymore.

SA: I enjoy this orange drink, however.

AP: Is it the fizzy one?

SA: yes.

SA: You are the grape one.

AP: The red one is better, honestly.

SA: little princess is the strawberry one.

AP: It tastes more like cherries.

SA: the best.

AP: I hear they're making a lemon fizz, though.

SA: a mistake

AP: Honestly, that sounds like organ disintegration waiting to happen.

AP: You just drink it down and...everything melts.

SA: there is a melon flavored powerade and that's all i need to know that this planet must be destroyed.

AP: Goodbye world

AP: May you never again taint the universe with melon powerade.

VV: ♚ ~Thats....atrocious.

AP: And that is why this planet must be destroyed

VV: ♚ ~I'd agree but I do have some plans before that happens. I've worked rather hard to get some business in order and finished up practice for a show! I'd hate to have the world end and ruin all my hard work....

VV: ♚ ~ We'll have to reschedule the destruction

AP: No

AP: It cannot be rescheduled

AP: Your show is cancelled

SA: it can be rescheduled for little princess.

SA: but only her highness.

AP: But how do we know she's the real princess

AP: And not an imposter

VV: ♚ ~My, my well I'd think a psionic, if anyone, of course would be able to put destruction on hold.

VV: ♚ ~Imposter? You wound me so...And I fear for damage to your skull if you are mistaking someone as lovely but also rosey hued as I to be an heiress.

VV: ♚ ~ For you I truly hope drinkers are real, our time together can't be cut so short Budino 😦

VV: ♚ ~ We haven't even promoted you to soiled linens yet for your life novel!

AP: No, I'm quite fine with our time together being cut short AP: I'm too busy being blinded by your imposter crowns

VV: ♚ ~ They are rather dazzling aren't they...?

VV: ♚ ~ Would you like one?

AP: Anything to fix my pan damage

VV: Very well I'll drop this one just for you, generosity is a hobby one should dabble in occasionally!

AP: I am honored, your highness

VV: ♚ ~Aw so you can be sweet! I knew it was in there somewhere. It simply needs some bribery and a touch of planetary disaster on the horizon. Tell me Budino, are you political at all? You'd be rather good at it I think.

AP: My first political act is to reschedule planetary disaster

SA: is generosity a hobby or a trait...

SA: i think to dabble in it is too easy.

VV: ♚ ~ Is that so, dear honeycomb?

SA: No, I am rescheduling certain disaster.

SA: stop trying to usurp my one responsibility.

SA: I do not appreciate this.

SA: i think the crowns are cute.

AP: Certain disaster is now rescheduled

AP: I'm the royal politician here

VV: ♚ ~ If you play nicely with Budino's new plan to reschedule planetary disaster perhaps you could get one as well.

VV: ♚ ~ There's truly no other way without resorting to some violent means to usurp the royal position yourself after all...

AP: I also schedule SA in such a way that he misses the date of our duel AP: Thereby rendering me the winner by default

VV: ♚ ~ How underhanded! But clever! I'd of course have gone about it differently but the effort and use of your hues new power is nice.

AP: I wear this badge with pride

SA: I will murder you with ease.

AP: Not when you miss the duel you won't

VV: ♚ ~ My fair maiden heart can't handle such intensity ...

SA: your fair maiden heart has already chosen AP as your champion, as you are pleased to see him using dishonest and unhonorable means of winning the duel.

SA: You are no longer my little princess.

SA: Hadean is my new little prince.

VV: ♚ ~ Ah--

VV: ♚ ~ I could almost weep...You would me my prince....

VV: ♚ ~ I hadn't chosen a champion I simply was commending him-- I see you're the jealous type however oh no

SA: You didn't even slap them on the wrist....

SA: yes. Very jealous. My little princess must be mine and mine alone.

SA: clearly.

AP: Well this isn't turning into an unfortunate anime

VV: ♚ ~Very well then it is so! Whisk me away now before the royal Jade's rescheduled planetary destruction occurs! hehe

VV: ♚ ~ I believe you mean highest rating Novella

SA sends kisskissthisisfuckingridiculous.png

AP: AP sent Iseethatandraiseyouthis.png

SA: my princess already said her heart was mine, how dare you.

SA: put your hand down before i slap it.

AP: AP Sent Talktothehand.png

SA: 😡

AP: Hmph

VV: ♚ ~Perhaps you two should schedule another duel, oh goodness.

SA: why, so you can cheat on me again... i think not.

AP: The only weapon allowed is the white glove

SA: oh so it's a sissy fight.

SA: I see.

AP: Hell if I know AP: I just saw some guy hitting another guy with a white glove earlier

SA: if there is no blood it is not a real duel.

VV: ♚ ~ I am not one to cheat I promise you my honeycomb prince. Fret not. I'm a proper lady after all~

VV: ♚ ~So brutish! Yet admirable. 😲

SA: 🤺

VV: ♚ ~ For traditional standards of our species at least

AP: Hold on let me look through this emotional dictionary

SA: it's a fencer.

AP: 🗡

AP: ...That was not what I wanted but I'll take it

SA: 🔫

VV: ♚ ~ !!

SA: put them up.

SA: I will not be trifled with.

SA: 🔫

AP: ☠

SA: victory

AP: 🦈

AP: This is kind of...fun

AP: I'm not used to that

SA: your edge is showing again.

AP: 🐺

AP: 🐹

AP: I can't believe I ignored this dictionary

SA: little princess 💍

SA: emojis are wonderful.

SA: sometimes i can't find words, and they are very useful.

AP: 🌹

VV: ♚ ~ !!! oh my

VV: ♚ ~ My poor delicate heart can't possibly pump so much to such a rouged face! VV: ♚ ~ A virtual glittering stone for me from a prince. What a delightful night of deathly duels.

AP: 💠 I too offer diamonds your highness

VV: ♚ ~ I accept but on different emotional terms from Prisma's as it wouldn't be polite to upset the duel winner.

AP: But does his diamond have a dot inside

VV:♚ ~ Not inside but outside for wearability!

VV: ♚ ~ Which I would bet is rather important as a feature

AP: It looks like I've lost AP: I must resign in shame from my post

AP: I will exile myself to the furthest reachers of the galaxy

AP: Where I may yet locate my ancestor who has become unexpectedly evil

VV: ♚ ~ I'll have to wish you both a good light then with that turn of events! I'd say it's for beauty rest but I'd be silly use rest for such a thing considering how I already am~ VV: ♚ ~ Good light exiled Budino and Honeycomb Prince.

SA: I apologize, I had to free myself from the booth.

SA: good light, little princess.

AP: See you around your highness

AP: Or I won't because I'm in exile

AP: But goodbye in spirit

SA: I need to go find the others, AP. I'm sorry I can't stay.

SA: until next time 🤺

AP: ☘ I tried to use shame but accept this nice leaf instead. Since shame isn't there

AP: See ya

SA: (shamrock)

AP: (It's a very nice leaf)

#c:perdia #c:maidel #c:budino #c:taz #c:prisma #c:hadean #c:bassil

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melissabrownbridge-blog · 8 years ago

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How Do You Get Their Attention?

I am a huge lover of games, and therefore I would love the chance to transform my classroom into a giant Candy Land game board. I love sweets, I love the bright colors, I love the characters involved, and I love the idea of working through the game to reach the kingdom/goal!! If my students walked into my room and they saw a bright colored path, complete with the pictures of matching “milestones” or “jump-ahead(s),” I think they would love to be a part of it. Not only would it be inviting and interesting, but it would gain their attention for sure! I am a firm believer in rewarding good behavior, good decisions, good manners, being a good friend, etc. and would use the game board as an incentive chart to work toward rewards. Giant licorice, lollipops, and popsicles will line the walls, and characters from the game will be inviting them into our reading nook, computer center, etc.

It would be wonderful if we could have an endless supply of funds to purchase anything our minds could think up. If that were possible, I would definitely want to have a full set of laptops for each of my students so that they could work on their own level activities that may differ from our whole group discussions. I would love to be able to have these also to write back and forth to each of my students to keep track of how they are doing inside and outside of the classroom. This can also work on their writing skills. I love the idea of talking/writing (using the computers) with each student without the fear for them of others overhearing. I want them to be able to talk to me about anything, ask for help without the fear of feeling embarrassed for not fully understanding it in front of their friends, let me know if someone is bothering them, etc. An open line of communication, differentiated instruction for each individual, research, online links for textbooks, reading/listening activities, etc., the list could go on for a set of laptops. This would help keep my students interested in learning as well because I would tailor their learning experiences to what intrinsically motivates them (or extrinsically). Maybe they would enjoy simply having me tell them “you’re doing great,” or maybe they would like me to show off their good work to the class on our “Look At Me Go” board, or possibly they would simply like to have free time to play a computer game or read a book. Who knows! Keeping them interested and paying attention is by far the main first step. If they don’t pay attention, they won’t get anything we are saying.

I have found that at home I use the sayings that were mentioned in the book, something along the lines like, “please try your hardest because you are going to need to know this.” This is asking our children/students to rely mostly on will power to pay attention—and that is just not fair to them. Especially when they are young, asking them to do something for the sake of doing something or for the sake of a future they can’t seem to grasp, isn’t going to end well. We must reach our students a different way—show them shiny things for example!!

In chapter 5, it mentioned that using visuals, humor, and rewards is a great way to keep the attention of our students and to help them retain the information for a longer period of time/ be able to retrieve it later easier. Letting them play with stuff, for example hands on activities are a great way to grab their attention and get them interested in the lesson for the time being.

One thing that made me a bit nervous was the section that talked about competition, and how it is more bad than good. This may cause some issues with my plan to have the game board on display for the whole class, or it may push everyone to try even harder. This would be something that I would have to iron out. I completely understand how competition can be a negative thing for some students. My daughter is a hugely competitive person and gets very upset if she isn’t PERFECT. I could see how this may cause her/others some anxiety to not be in first place. This would be something that I would have to think more on, and how I could eliminate this possible issue in my future classroom. It would be the last thing I would want, for the theme of my room to cause anxiety.

I can remember being a kid, and I loved when my teachers had us get out of our seats and do some sort of game to learn. Even if it was lining up in two straight lines waiting to go to lunch and practicing our math facts. This did involve competition (but it worked for me). I still remember when I beat the best kid in our class at a math fact! This sounds grand and wonderful, but I never beat anyone (I wasn’t very good at multiplication memorization) and yet I was able to spit out “zero” before that kid who always won did. I didn’t beat him any other time, nor did I win the game, but I beat him on that one day, during that one round, on that very easy problem—but to me that was the greatest feeling ever!!

I loved when my teachers would surprise us with trips outside or to another teacher’s classroom to work together on something. I loved when we got to work in groups or with our best friends. I loved when we got to make something for a class project. All of these ideas and experiences will help me shape my classroom, gain the attention of my students, and hopefully keep their attention long enough for them to learn what I intend for them to learn—all this while making sure they feel capable, safe, free to make mistakes, etc. Sounds easy, right?

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