#i WILL use clown memes if you do this. can you see the scale of my desperation here? i fucking hate clown memes. please

[leatherbookmark]

sits up (very upset (but cartoonishly (picture a pingu)))

it is bad writing*, OR is it on purpose, that

*if you can even expect this sort of writing to be good

like. the fever-world series shenanigans were like... getting from point A to point B, puppets just saying their lines and doing what the screenplay said, but very little emotional depth, internal feelings, repercussions of their actions and lasting effects of Processes**. i bring up brainwashed yeosang all the time because my meat is huge and i'm a fucking genius, but this would have made Sense and caused Problems as well as Tension.

**if you can even etc etc

instead, everything was fine and they moved on***. nothing sad or worrying really happened, and then the gh installment began with "so once the bad guy disappeared, everything was neat and the world had a good future ahead of it, so we went back to our world safely"

***because we're talking about eight, nine tops pages (not full) of "stories" added to kpop albums, for fuck's sake

but, once in that world, the stupidest, saddest and most ??? thing happened, aka -- the guys just fell out. stopped hanging out, something something they only had time to see each other once a year, bam! three years timeskip, EMPLOYMENT.

what am i looking at here? is this like, the dreadfully dull "boys enter adulthood, and adulthood is about Jobs and wives and children and Having No Time For Joy Ever, obviously, it makes total sense you'd just drift apart with people who used to be your world, we're not even gonna explain how that happened, it just did"?

OR is it the point -- that the Other World in which you're crazy heroes fighting the evil regime along with your alternate selves is the world in which you always make it out unscathed, but the real world is the one where the worst thing happens and it's Normal?

help i have become that which i loathe aka some kinda nut overanalyzing the dumbest stuff due to suspected Lore

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What type of kids do you think the ikevamp guys would be if they went to high school?

Oh boy HERE WE GO

(Under a cut bc this post is a Long Boi^TM)

Napoleon. Would prbly be that kid that’s like somehow bafflingly in the top ten of his class but nobody ever sees him??? Like he’s always late to school or napping in the quietest places on campus (they found him in a locker once and the school was laughing about it for WEEKS bc he insisted he was just chillin, and it wasn’t like a bullying incident he just wanted to sleep LMAO). Surprisingly amiable? A lot of people are afraid of him at first but he’s just so casual and direct, he gains quite a few friends (and a good number of girls have a crush on him--he always diverts the attention of skeevy guys). Good friends with Jeanne because they fence together a lot, and people are always baffled at how easily they chat

Mozart. Where do I begin. Number one in his class, perfectionist prick. That one kid that’s a known prodigy and that everyone hates for his impeccable grades and musical talent. Always gets the solos and conducting roles in the school performances. He knows how to play a crowd--will always be sweet and cherubic in front of teachers. But when it’s just the students? All gloves are off. Frigid and incendiary, will not take any shit and will tear you apart with words in milliseconds. Do not cross. He will end your entire life and self-esteem, it’s not worth it. Has a few friends, and they often experience the disdain of jealous students--but they’re all steadfast about defending him. And Mozart will not tolerate it if people are mistreating his friends, he’s an iron wall of defense; to be his friend means to always have someone looking out for you, make no mistake. He and Jeanne often grab food together after practice and ask about each others day, they hella close but never really show it while school’s on--their class schedules are worlds apart bc of their grades, and at lunch they’re usually practicing/doing hw. When they hug it out at graduation and pat each other on the back everyone nearly falls the fuck out of their chair LMFAO

Leonardo. That kid that 100% could probably be in the top fifty of his class but just can’t be bothered to give a damn. Always argues points with his teachers and plays devil’s advocate until they are inches from exploding at him. Always the one to mercifully make class feel shorter with his absolute distraction-heavy shitfuckery (and sometimes you really learn something because of his line of thinking). He's a dumbass but like harmless, essentially. Used to be the perfect student^TM and then decided the system was bullshit and he wanted no part of it, thinks public education can kiss his ass. Nobody knows it since he asks people not to talk about it, but he tutors kids after school for hours--has brought kids from Ds to Bs. He always dodges nosy people, never goes to parties, and finds ways to intervene around kids that are struggling with smth (with ninja stealth of course). Despite how easily he laughs and chats with just about anyone, he’s...actually surprisingly v much a lone wolf. Only ever consistently hangs out with the heartthrob rich kid, but nobody understands why???? And they’re always roasting each other wtf, are they even friends????

Comte. Pretty boy genius, always in the top five of his class though doesn’t seem too worried about it or obsessed with rank as students often are. It’s more that his parents have high expectations for his future as their heir, so he tends to fall in line with it. Born into money but somehow....not an asshole??? He doesn’t really like showing off, tries to be quiet about his accomplishments but his parents won’t really allow it--and he’s the star of the soccer team so it can be hard to hide. Most often the one at a party trying to help people sober up (always designated driver) or hearing his friends out when they have a problem. Has never publicly tried to bust heads, but some of the guys in the school insist he’s got a dark side--probably because he threatened them (passive aggressively) within an inch of their lives for being disgusting to girls. But nobody believes them bc...I mean look at him, does that look like a threat?? He just bought that kid’s lunch for christ’s sake. TONS of girls ask him out and confess their feelings, and he always lets them down as gently as he can--conceivably doesn’t like anyone himself, as far as the student body knows. Like Leonardo he’s v amiable, but also manages to reveal nothing personal while getting close. Leonardo’s the only one that’s managed to scratch the surface, and the kid won’t leave him alone for some godforsaken reason. And yet, he seems to enjoy their minutes of banter more than the hours of time spent with “friends”

Arthur. Oh boy. Good lord. Well. He used to be a sweetheart that would always seek out the mousier students and bring them into discussion/involve them on the playground. But alas, Teenage Jadedness^TM hit him like a train and now he’s an incorrigible flirt and believes no single person can be good deep down (somebody get this bitch some eyeliner). Believes the world will always be a cruel and unfeeling place where victims are never heard, so he just kind of goes full skeptical and bitter (think Sylvain for those of you that are FE fans). Has fun with every girl he sees (usually dating several girls at once) and doesn’t much care for his grades, but somehow has perfect scores in English?? He insists it’s because he needs to keep his seduction game on par with the voices of older legends before him, but some of the girls that see him in the library from time to time--v serious--are struck by how attractive he is in such deep focus, entirely uncharacteristic of his nosy and boisterous behavior in the halls (can often be seen whirling around Isaac like a bird of prey while our little baby robin Isaac stiffly tries to get away from him, and Dazai often joins to make things even more chaotic bc why not? In reality they just love this feisty kid that never gives up on what’s right, even though they’ve both given up trying themselves)

Dazai. He’s one of those kids that like does weed regularly but is also like...alarmingly insightful?? Like those kids I was always told to avoid, but now and again I would have conversations with out of necessity and was just...kinda shook. I mean granted he’s a little weird but he’s fairly harmless?? He’s like a class clown but on a massive scale--there’s nobody in the place that doesn’t know who he is, that haven’t heard tales of his exploits (he always comes in through the windows and gets detention for it a lot, and he even brought a chicken with him to school once????) nobody gets what he’s doing at any moment (don’t even know if he does really, chaotic mofo) and honestly nobody wants to know they just do the side eye meme when he appears or laughs. The teachers lament his untapped potential or just hate him for making their lives an even bigger headache than usual, and his grades are...yeah let’s not look at those. Organized the senior prank with absolute GLEE, and it was talked about for ages after he was gone--an inspiration chaotic bastards everywhere

Theodorus. (I hate.......that I pictured him in those like Vineyard Vine white boy clothes.......for the record its mostly bc his parents force him to wear them). All business. This kid doesn’t have time for your bullshit, will absolutely walk away if you’re boring him or seeking social clout. Popular because he’s hot and has a mean streak a mile wide, all the girls that didn’t like Mozart for being ethereal and effeminate boomeranged to find Theo ready to fulfill their hopes and dreams. They only grow more feral when rumors of him actually being fairly nice one on one--and telling creeps to fuck off of vulnerable girls at parties--start to circulate. (If he isn’t with Vincent, Arthur is probably near. Nobody understands how the two are brothers????) Van Gogh name apparently is just “I can be your angel or i can be your devil” and no one understands how... Grades are average and he’s plenty capable, most of his time is spent working after school because his parents refuse to provide Vincent with any artistic materials (canvas, paints, etc). They ask him to go to parties more, but he only goes to piss his parents off (he’s v lowkey punk and it’s understandably sexy of him). Will literally only listen to Vincent, and got in a looooot of trouble after getting into a fistfight with Shakespeare. Only stopped because his parents blamed Vincent for the incident, and Vincent apologized and went quiet for days ;-;

Vincent. Always been quiet and shy, but he doesn’t dislike ppl--he just has a hard time speaking up now and again. His parents always talk over him and tell him nothing he has to say has any real value, so he tends to struggle with a lot of self-doubt. Not isolated because he’s not likeable, it’s more because people tend to take advantage of his mild and earnest nature--until Theo runs them off. He’s on amiable terms with most people but has no real, true friends and it makes him feel lonely a lot. Mostly copes with the emotional turmoil by painting as much as he can. His grades are average, he does reliably well but can often be found daydreaming or distracted. Theo tends to escort him everywhere because of his propensity to attract danger (namely Shakespeare) or walk into things cuz he’s in his head a lot. A few of the artsier girls and the quiet academic girls have HUGE crushes on him (he’s softspoken, sweet, and calm; come on now), but he’s so distant--and honestly nice to everyone in equal measure--that they don’t have much hope of it coming to fruition. This kid deadass doesn’t think a single girl would ever like him that way so he’s just c:???????? when Theo talks about “those nosy harpies coming after my brother”

Jeanne. EDGY MCEDGE. Isn’t amazing in the academic department, but he’s a killer fencer--the rallying cry of the entire team. He became leader his sophomore year and he’s pretty much the only reason they keep destroying at tournaments throughout the year. Despite the pervasive interest in him he intimidates most people away with his swift intensity and ironclad stoicism. Silent as a grave and very still, people are convinced he’s the Grim Reaper reincarnated (listen he’s juST A DUTIFUL BABIE N O). If he isn’t fencing or practicing, Isaac often offers him help in the library after school hours in one of the study rooms (can’t be seen who’s inside from the outside). The two develop a kind of uncanny bond; they’re both so...bad at human-ing that they find a lot of comfort in the atmosphere they create. There’s none of the bullshit grandstanding or clout obsession, just them genuinely trying to help each other (yes Jeanne absolutely teaches Isaac self-defense moves in order to crush the kids that pick on him, and Jeanne often either glares or outright threatens those students when Isaac isn’t looking). Only ever smiles or feels understood when he’s hanging out with Mozart, so he cherishes the time Mozart offers him to hang (he knows the kid is busy up to his eyeballs and under a ton of pressure by comparison, his parents don’t care much as long as they can brag about his fencing records)

Isaac. Mega nerd that just...does not know how to interact. Only understands math and DESTROYS in competitive math club, but otherwise is always alone at lunch or just in the library. A little bean pole because he doesn’t look after himself very well (neglects to eat a lot) and can sometimes be found asleep on his books. If approached he will be very thorny, doesn’t have any friends to speak of and trusts everyone about as far as he can throw them. Yells at Arthur and Dazai a lot when they flock around him, and has gotten into his fair share of fights. Never starts fights, but will finish them. People are surprised he can hold his own, and he comes away with blood that ain’t his. There are a few girls that are curious about him, but its mostly the ones that have seen his awkward thoughtfulness in club--or the girls that are sick of the assholes and appreciate how stalwart he is. He really just wants to be left in peace (his parents never show up to his meets or when he wins academic awards, and the few teachers that notice are pretty concerned abt his reactivity and complete lack of social savvy...) Leonardo always helps him sneak in at night to look at the stars on the school roof

Shakespeare is p much the like “kid most anticipated to be in jail as soon as they’re out of high school” He just. Has that like...serial killer vibe??? Idk if I’m explaining this well but he was that guy that would always cling to genuinely compassionate girls just trying to be nice like a LEECH, and would never fucking shut up if he did or didn’t get attention. You just can't win with this kid. Probably wanted to kill the kids that made fun of him or at the very least wanted to lash out against the confident/popular/nice kids. Only liked you if he didn’t deem you a threat, or if you didn’t make him insecure, or if you tolerated him (aka Vincent. Vincent PLEASE stop trying to reach out to dangerous ppl....I love you too much to watch this shit...) He admitted as much to Theo and the kid went livid with rage and pummeled him into the ground, though most of the rest of the student body doesn’t know quite what happened. (Theo refuses to explain to anyone, and just walks away if asked). Shakespeare will just change the subject endlessly and make passive aggressive threats until the person leaves if they try to bring it up. The only time the entire class has EVER seen Leonardo mad is when Shakespeare kept tailing this girl that wanted no part of him

Sebastian. Nerdy like Isaac, but is more of the silent observer type. Like Theo, doesn't want any part of the bullshit but won't be as blunt or outspoken about it, he's only open about it if pressed or pissed off. Doesn't have much patience for the clique-driven nature of high school and tends to take an interest in the people who stand out beyond the mind-numbing drama. Also is in the top fifty but studies like a lunatic, and can often be seen asking Comte for tips now and again. Has tried talking to Mozart and admires his talents, but Mozart gives a cold shoulder that would put Antarctica to shame. (Leonardo tries to ninja him into taking breaks but never succeeds). Has a great deal of disdain for the troublemakers (Arthur and Dazai) but doesn't intervene, just watches shit go down and sighs. Probably the most normal(?) one of the bunch, just does his best and keeps his head down

[bladekindeyewear]

HS^2 bloggin’ mainline 2020-04-02

Alright I’ll fix the broken images later right now lets goooooo read the updaaaate I’ve been only spoiled on the chapter title

I don’t even wanna guess.  Jake?  This makes me think of Jake for some reason, even though that doesn’t make much se-- oh right the Vriskas are locked in a school closet with a dead clown.

> CHAPTER 7. Distress Call From the Closet

Yep.

Also, this is how a car design looks when it was invented to have its first appearance be it flying with a human named Tavros looking out from an open side door.

(I’m not ENTIRELY against designing something for its immediate-art-use-purpose first and functional or historical-origination thought later, but usually when you make it that obvious that that’s what your doing it’s best to make that fact funny.  Like the Conveniently Shaped Lamp.)

Also I appreciate this using of Candy as kind of more lighthearted breaks in the action?

> (==>)

I thoguht that protruding fang (?) was drool for a second and wondered what the fuck they were up to in this closet all of a sudden.

Vriska, thriving on it, has not felt so decadently alive in a very long time. Tavros has never in his tragic existence felt so close to death, which is surprising to him.

Vrissy is trying her best not to grapple with any cosmic truths at the moment, since she’s getting a phone call in the middle of hiding for her life.

Vrissy’s implied to be somewhere in-between all that by this joke.  I bet she’ll be comparing herself to Vriska and Tavros alike throughout this mess, wondering where on the spectrum she lands and being ashamed of it AND both of them regardless.  Vriska Original had a ghost version who went on a fair bit of a Page dress-up thing and personality shift, so maybe we could expect Vrissy to struggle with being caught in the middle of the scales... or does that qualify as overthinking it classpectways?

VRISSY: Yeah Harry I would say we are Extremely Aware of the Situ8ion. VRISSY: As it Unfolded the fuck all around us.

Good Christ, Vrissy’s selectively-capitalized Kanaya-isms continue to be cute.

Oh, he’s on speakerphone.

> (==>)

Yep, telling Rose and Kanaya would be the smart thing to do, but it isn’t the Them thing to do.

--ROXY’S PLACE?!??  Hoo boy.  On the other hand, though, we get more Roxy, so it evens out.

Also, I like how Harry Anderson has to spell out Harry Anderson’s entire name for his Harry Anderson chat tag every single time.  Harry Anderson.

> (==>)

Part of the reason, Tavros thinks, that he’s been so game to continue on with the worst plan anyone has ever concocted, is that the more bullshit they endure, the longer they can put off actually doing anything that matters.

If he’s getting sprayed with a sprinkler and getting clown feet in his face, it’s a farce. It can’t hurt him. But if they get to the part where he’s shoving the uncooperative weight of his uncle’s corpse in an incinerator, he will stop floating in protective semi-consciousness above his body and it will all be real.

Ouch.

Can’t one of you assholes just captchalogue him?  Or did you leave all the appropriate-strength moduses at home?  Even you Vriska??

Oh, right.  Everyone knows and you can just leave him here.  Good call.  I mean you don’t really have to worry about forensic evidence with the pictures circulating.

> (==>)

VRISKA: 8ye 8itch.

Oooh!  That feels satisfying!  Yeah, tell off Gamzee’s corpse!

...Wait.

If they just leave Gamzee there, Jane can revive him, can’t she.

Fuck.  Maybe it’s up to Jake to try and stop that.

> (==>)

Karkat and Meenah resistance-time, then, with them presumably hearing about this development on the internet.  Wow, Meenah’s horns are getting long fast.  Plus a hint more of her grown-up self’s height.  I didn’t think she’d keep maturing so fast with her absurd lifespan ahead of her.

Oh shit, I didn’t see at first--

Right, Candy might still be lighthearted compared to the broader plot just due to lowered stakes, but it’s still the Carpet-Bombing-and-War-Filled Shituniverse.

Trolls are made for the battlefield.

From the moment a troll oozes out of the mother grub’s pulsating sphincter, through the trials of the brooding caverns, across the brutal day to day slog of Alternian society, all the way to their Ordeals, to the sucking void of space. They are bred for nothing but endless war.

But Commander Vantas...Commander Vantas is different.

Is... is Meenah narrating right now?  Because fuck.

Or so all the pamphlets say.

The actual Commander Vantas has blisters on his heel and has been taking pot-shots at scouting drones for the last six hours. He could use a bath, honestly.

Or is this one of the trolls on the side narrating who’s kind of internalized the stories of trolls’ prior warlike nature?

> (==>)

MEENAH: yo nubs is that u MEENAH: pretty rank KARKAT: OH MY GOD. KARKAT: I FLATLY REFUSE TO BELIEVE THAT YOU CAN SMELL MY NATURAL MUSK OVER THE STENCH OF BLOOD AND BURNING FLESH.

I guess it probably was Meenah narrating, then.  Unless it’s a really biased alt!Callie doing the talking.

MEENAH: didnt i warn u bout thinking tho? KARKAT: GOD DAMMIT MEENAH, DON’T MEME AT ME.

I don’t know what meme this is and I really don’t want to know.

They have had this argument more than once. In fact, both of them could play either side of it. Karkat has done his time in the field, of course, leading small guerilla operations to free prisoners and sabotage Crocker’s supply chains, but Meenah and the rest of the council is right. Which is why he’s here, instead of at the front lines with his rebels, where he belongs.

His true value is his face. His symbology. At the end of the day, he is a fucking ad campaign.

...is KARKAT narrating here???

SWIFER: boss check the news!

Oh shit, right, Swifer is in the resistance in Candy instead of just a breeding assistant in Meat as the bonuses remind us.

KARKAT: OH FUCK. MEENAH: what KARKAT: JESUS CHRIST. MEENAH: nubs i swear 2 god KARKAT: IT’S GAMZEE. KARKAT: HE’S DEAD. MEENAH: oh MEENAH: well shit KARKAT: I CAN’T FUCKING BELIEVE THIS. MEENAH: u okay KARKAT: NO!

Huh.  Them’s some complicated feelings that could fall in basically all directions at once.

Also, I can’t believe Karkat has hung around humans enough to fully internalize the full-throated exclamation “JESUS CHRIST”, which wouldn’t even really be a thing on Earth C with people who aren’t from Earths B or A.

MEENAH: u outlawed fishpuns i gotta make my own fun

How could you, Karkat.

KARKAT: AND I GUESS IF YOU CALL AN OBSCENELY PUBLIC PALE ACT, PERFORMED IN A FUGUE OF DESPERATE PANIC INTENDED TO PREVENT HIM FROM MURDERING ALL OF MY FRIENDS INSTEAD OF JUST HALF OF THEM “A THING”. KARKAT: THEN YES, I GUESS WE HAD A THING. KARKAT: BUT IF YOU’RE ASKING ME IF I’M SAD THAT HE’S DEAD? KARKAT: ABSOLUTELY THE FUCK NOT.

Okay, I’d hoped not, good...

KARKAT: THAT’S NOT WHY I’M SAYING FUCK A BUNCH OF TIMES. MEENAH: u need a reason to say fuck a buncha times KARKAT: SHUT UP. KARKAT: LOOK AT THE PICTURE.

--Right!  That’s a good reason to not be okay.

KARKAT: I DON’T THINK SO? I CAN’T SEE HER EYES IN THIS PICTURE, BUT SHE’S COVERED IN BLOOD, AND SHE’S CARRYING GAMZEE, SO SHE’S CORPOREAL AT LEAST.

I love this form of analysis somehow.

KARKAT: OKAY...HERE. OH. OF COURSE. CROCKER IS CLAIMING HER SON WAS KIDNAPPED AND FORCED TO PARTICIPATE. KARKAT: AND THEY’VE NAMED ME AS THE MASTERMIND. MEENAH: well we woulda taken credit for it anyway so this saves us the time MEENAH: thanks jane owe u one

Meenah isn’t the “concerned” type.  Lemonade out of lemons.

> (==>)

That middle tweet is my favorite.

Oh dear, “#GamzeeAnon”...

KARKAT: SHIT. OF COURSE THIS WOULD HAVE TO DO WITH FUCKING SERKET. KARKAT: LITERAL MONTHS OF PLANNING, HOURS AND HOURS OF LOGISTICS, AND ALL OF IT GOES UP IN SMOKE BECAUSE OF ONE SPIDERY ASSHOLE. KARKAT: SHE *WOULD* FIND SOME WAY TO WRECK MY SHIT FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE.

indisputable

KARKAT: NOW? KARKAT: NOW WE PIVOT FROM THE SUBLIME TO THE RIDICULOUS.

Um...

What does that mean?

I’m having a lot of trouble not only understanding the basic meaning of what he’s saying, here, but understanding why KARKAT of all people would employ it.

......it’s a meme, isn’t it.  Gotta be.

> (==>)

(Ooh, an eyepatch designed to invoke a Strider-shade.  Nice.)

KARKAT: I NEED TO TALK TO EGBERT.

But....... why??

> (==>)

Oh right, cause his son’s girlfriend is involved.

> (==>)

Oh my goooood what a pair of John and Roxy caaaars! :D

He is too busy with these mental gymnastics to notice his father’s car parked outside.

Ah right.  John’s... not on the best terms with him, I recall that.

> (==>)

Ohhhh myyyy goooood what an image!!!

John, Roxy, and Harry Anderson proceed to have the tail end of a conversation they had before, in another medium.

What the fuck!?  Harry had that conversation WHILE this dead body situation was going on?!  Let me reread that linked bit...

(And she has such a somber smile on her face, but given the conversation content it’s not surprising.)

Harry Anderson looks at the two of them all teary and laughing and hikes his bag higher on his shoulder, shifting his weight. Roxy sees a muscle tighten in his jaw. Her beautiful, smart boy. She wants to run over and hug him, to protect him from the possibility of pain at talking to his father, but she doesn’t. She knows how much he’s wanted this, no matter how much he jokes about it.

She looks back at John, and sees her own awe mirrored in his face. She wills him not to cry, not to fall back on his self-imposed suffering and blame loop. Something about the last hour must have done the trick, though. John stands up, brushes his hands on his jeans, and walks, back straight, toward his son.

JOHN: hey harry anderson. JOHN: it’s really, really good to see you. JOHN: do you wanna go for a drive?

The muscle in Harry Anderson’s jaw clenches a few more times, but when he smiles, it is genuine.

HARRY ANDERSON: yeah, dad. HARRY ANDERSON: that could be cool.

Oh son of a bitch.  Well isn’t that entertaining.  Harry you’re just going to ditch your friends for I’m kidding, this is life fulfillment you’re aiming for, of COURSE you’re going to agree.  (Too bad bringing the current situation in is gonna throw a wrench in things.)

> (==>)

Oh right, that means more of THIS Vriska and THIS John.  They’ve had a good start talking already, I wonder what more they can learn from each other.

HARRY ANDERSON: but no worries, i asked my mom to pick me up some snacks so she’ll leave to go to the store in a sec. HARRY ANDERSON: just sneak in after she leaves and hide in my room, and i’ll be back in a bit.

Harry you enormous shortsighted asshole.  And John’s about to learn all this from Karkat over the phone to blow his cover.

> (==>)

aaaaa roxy art i cannot :D

Wonder if her stealthiness attunement is gonna catch them in the act?

> (==>)

From this jealousy bit, I wonder to what degree Earth C humans are used to Troll quadrants and their various interplay mores.

> (Room: Examine yourself.)

Oh, a proper room introduction for Harry Anderson!  Very fashion-focused, very liking the spotlight--

Oh wait, shit.  This is traditionally where classpect associations are hinted more obviously than anywhere else.  Time to stop holding back on the classpect stuff and take in every fucking word with capital-C Classpect fully in mind.

A bedroom stands empty. There is no boy standing in this bedroom, or indeed anyone else. However, if the boy whose bedroom it was were here, one might remark that his name was HARRY ANDERSON.

And FUCK, one might say, does he like MUSICAL THEATER.

Spotlight, definitely.  But is it for the attention? The possibilities? The acting?

He has been in his fair share of school plays, but he has LOFTY ASPIRATIONS to STAR in bigger and better productions. He especially appreciates modern MUSICAL REMAKES of classic OLD EARTH MOVIES. It's a craze that not everyone is happy about, but in the absent boy they have found a DEVOTED FAN. There is also just enough overlap between his taste and his father’s to allow for SOMEWHAT STILTED CONVERSATIONAL BONDING from time to time.

Hmmmm.  Is it about the majesty of important works of media (I see “Pokémon” and “Alien vs Predator” up there...), or is it about the fact that they’re remakes of past works?  Those are a lot of awards and stage lights now that I zoom in to look... and hats... hats could be important......

The boy who is not yet here has also been known to dabble in ACCESSORIZATION. He could be described as a COBBLER ASPIRANT, a NEOPHYTE MILLINER, or even a BIT OF A WHIZZ WITH A NEEDLE AND THREAD.

Oh, interesting!  Not just putting out different outfits, but making them?  And Milliner is hat-specific creation...

His mother got him his first SEWING MACHINE when he was 10, to keep him from using hers all the time. His looks are HAND-CRAFTED, often IMITATED, but never DUPLICATED.

Space is obviously possible from sewing, but-- A focus on uniqueness!!!  The broader theme is getting VERY specific.  You might feel where I’m leaning already.

His COSTUMES appear in various AMATEUR PRODUCTIONS, the devising of which takes up most of his FREE TIME. His friends are usually LESS APPRECIATIVE of his attempts to dress them up than he would like, though.

Holy fucking shit.  He dresses up and makes unique HATS for his friends and others.  Specifically so they can use them as COSTUMES to act parts!!!!

And the other unique thing mentioned about him here took the time aside to note how he appreciated the intersection in personal interests between him and his father for it.

So you all know what I’m thinking, right?  HATS???  It’s got to be Heart, isn’t it.  Maybe even a Page of Heart, with his long-off aspirations and talent for arming others with it.  Any other additive/giving class might do the trick, too, like Sylph or possibly Maid.  Knight could technically still fit pretty well, but I feel Page is better given what little we know so far, what with so much outward focus bleeding out.

(You can comb through the saga on my infamous hats tag or the summary on the Aspect Duality post, but the gist is that hats (and others’ clothes, but especially the hats. even shoes -- SO many shoes in that picture!) represent the gist of an expressed identity, personal uniqueness whether innate or affected ala a costume.  Nepeta, Dirk, Terezi, and even Stitch have given us examples, some of them deeper than we realized, MOST of them probably overthought bullshit like I thought when I first created the hats tag and started tracking the wonderful importance of hats. ¬_¬)

I’d like to see anyone else’s interpretation. (EDIT: One more potential Nep-allusion in this room.)

> (==>)

Oh nooooooo!!!!  Tavros’s sprite is the saddest looking thing I’ve ever seen!! D:  Like a mix of Jane and Jake that thoroughly regrets his entire existence!  Which he practically does!  D:  Why the Caliborn-like clothes though?

(Some hint at “how different alt!Callie’s Caliborn must have been” like the commentary suggested exploring in fanfiction?  Was the suggestion meant to divert attention from the idea that it’d be addressed in the plot?  Andrew pulled that trick a time or two, why not these authors?)

Also:

Pffff.  Vriska just accessorizing immediately--  Oh, wait.  That might just be a bandana she had at some point coated in Gamzee’s blood. 

Tavros is looking at the news on a borrowed phone -- nice call on disabling the tracking on yours, Tavros.

> (==>)

TAVROS: It’s getting a bit surreal to see my, uh,, frozen mask of horror on every news site,, TAVROS: It’s a good shot of you,,, though, Vrissy, VRISSY: It really is Shockingly well composed.

Heheheh.  It’s fun that Tavros knows exactly what Vrissy/ka would care about.

And yes, Vriska is over there trying out ALL the bandanas.

> (==>)

VRISSY: Oh, is trying on all my 8oyfriend’s accessories not passing the time well enough for you? VRISKA: Desper8 times call for desper8 measures, Vrissy. VRISKA: And this is some dire shit.

They stare each other down. Did she mean the fugitive situation, or Harry Anderson’s fashion choices? Vrissy feels silly wondering this, but despite the situation they’re in, she can’t help but feel more acutely anxious about Vriska’s presence.

She likes her life, and she trusts her own choices. But now, looking at everything from Vriska’s vantage point, it all feels silly. Unimportant. Childish.

She can’t tell if she wants Vriska to rip in to Harry Anderson or if she wants her to stay silent. To put off the moment where she has to defend him or join in.

Real interesting.  Like she’s caught between these worlds after all.

> (==>)

They say it was a long drive, but...?

...WOW.  What a chill, disinterested-looking affect his sprite makes for.  Huh.

He kisses Vrissy’s temple and she leans in to the warmth of him.

HARRY ANDERSON: aren’t you a sight for sore eyes. HARRY ANDERSON: so sorry it took so long. HARRY ANDERSON: can’t rush a heart to heart, you know how it is.

Stop making me deliberate whether you’re trying to drop teasing Heart-aspect hints.  You already know I’m going to be obsessively scrutinizing every word of dialogue around Harry to see if it fits, story. No need to rub it in.

VRISSY: You actually had a Heart to Heart with your dad? How many times did he Cry?

I DIDN’T EVEN READ THE NEXT LINE QUIT SAYING HEART TO HEART YOU EVEN GAVE IT PROPER CAPS THAT TIME

HARRY ANDERSON: but god, it was a mess. i had to keep talking to keep him from looking at his phone or turning on the radio. HARRY ANDERSON: i may have told him more about my deep passions and emotions in the last hour than the whole rest of my life combined, just to keep him from hearing the fucking news.

Holy shit.  You exploited conversation about your deep passions and interests for a separate goal???

Aaargh!  Classpect everywhere!  I’ve relapsed!!!  D:

> (==>)

JOHN IS SO HAPPY

John Egbert has not had a day like this in a very long time. He can barely keep track of this series of epiphanies he’s having. He stretches out on his couch to relax and process the gifts of advice and connection his friends and family and ex-family have just given him.

OH RIGHT TIME TO RUIN IT WITH MAXIMUM SHENANIGANS

JOHN: hey karkat! great timing! JOHN: so much just happened and im kind of reeling about it. KARKAT: YEAH NO SHIT.

Ohhhh.  Much of the time I hate dramatic irony, but those moments before someone is about to be let in on the discrepancy... oh man I love that.

JOHN: is something going on? i just spent the afternoon with my son, and i think he would have told me if something was up with his friends? KARKAT: OH MY LUSCIOUS SHITTING CHRIST JOHN LISTEN TO ME. JOHN: listening!

"Luscious”??  Did they try to type “Lusus” and get autocorrected?

Who’s writing Homestuck on their phone???

> (==>)

J...John?? Are you okay?? XD

This picture.  These two paragraphs.  I fucking love them.

(Wow, being closer to the “canon” story due to ridiculous shenanigans right after his back-to-back self-insights and outlook changes have really been healthy for him huh.  He can probably sense HS^2 reaching him out here.  And you can see the helpless comedian his probably-still-depressed ass became on Earth B in his reaction here. EDIT: Also, how appropriate that even by DYING, the Bard of Rage managed to fulfill his role and shatter the last vestiges of John's narrow-outlooked despair?)

John can’t answer. He can’t speak. His body has given itself over to the long-lost feeling of manic euphoria. It had felt like Harry Anderson was holding something back on the drive earlier, but he had already told John so much. He hadn’t wanted to press for more.

Yeah... after what John’s gone through across his life and session, finding out Harry managed to hide THIS for a whole car-ride is the best sort of punch-line for him.

John can’t breathe. Something is happening. Something is finally fucking happening, and he’s finally awake enough to appreciate it.

--yep.  I was just guessing earlier, but this kind of confirms it’s in part a closer-to-relevance, closer-to-canon feeling bleeding in.  Something is happening that’s important enough to SHOW onscreen and not skip over.  I guess he really does like being anchored in Light after all.

> (==>)

John wheezes himself into relative calm. He has to get Karkat to understand. He clears his throat and breathes.

JOHN: karkat, this can be how we win. JOHN: i know what we need to do.

...holy SHIT.

Karkat, how did you know calling JOHN about this would work out this well??

John actually taking confident action to solve a problem, in a way that isn’t going to end up depressing like his attempt to provide Tavros escape in the Epilogues... this should be interesting.

See you next time.  (I had to image-fix some stupid linked hat posts for this blogpost and I’m out of energy, so I’ll fix the other old post I promised that asker to fix in like, a day or two; I’ll post when I do.)

[cockbiteproductions]

multiples of 8, except in the misc section. all even numbers for the misc section

200: My crush’s name is: well well well this question again. you’re not getting anything out of me!!! they fucking use this website!!!

192: I am allergic to: nothing. but i found out like yesterday not everyone gets dermatographia and im kinda annoyed. what do you mean your skin doesnt get red and puffy the moment you touch it......

184: Xbox or ps3: xbox solely because of ah

176: Last YouTube video watched: my watch history says this, which is a scene from a show called billions. this scene in particular is about my favorite character asking about their introduction scene with their former mentor figure that they quickly outranked and asking why they were picked for the internship that lead them down this [entire shitpath].

168: Luck: [long sigh]. [puts on clown makeup].

[obi wan voice] im my experience there’s no such thing as luck. 

[rian voice] luck? there’s probability plausibility and actuality. luck is superstition. luck is lazy math. [winston voice] that’s what i always say.

160: Soul mates: again souls arent real..... nor do i believe that people are “meant for each other” on any sort of cosmic/larger level. you are more compatible with people based on your upbringing and your interests and your values and those are adaptable over time though some people are so different that they will never get along and other people match/complement each other incredibly well.

152: Phone or Online: lmaoooo this questionnaire once again showing its age. throwback to when these things weren’t synonymous. online for sure. what am i gonna do with a phone? talk to someone with my fucking voice? i think not.

144: Oranges or Apples: to eat by themselves? probably apples since they are easier and less of a mess. and apples are more consistently better than oranges. oranges, it’s easy to get a batch that just sucks. juiced? probably orange. i love me some fuckin orange juice. but i like apple cider more than orange juice.

136: Hillary or Obama: lmaoooo again.. the age of this. 2008 or 2012. going to guess 2008. obama but not like. enthusiastically. while he was certainly better than [what we got going on now] he still bombed the hell outta some countries......

128: Manicure or Pedicure: ive never had either but i would probably be more comfortable with a manicure. people touching my feet would make me ticklish.

120: Gay Marriage: the only type that should be allowed. sorry straights youre no longer allowed to get married. /s obviously.

112: Facebook: oh BOY are you fucking ready. are you???? im starting the readmore NOW because this is going to be something. i doubt anyone except robots maybe will actually read my deranged pro-privacy anti-facebook/social media/surveillance rant but im angry every time i think about it and if i were a more important person than a rando on the internet with a keyboard im sure facebook would hire someone to kill me one day.

FUCK FACEBOOK. FUCK THAT SHITTY ASS WEBSITE THAT AT EVERY TURN HAS BEEN REVEALED TO HAVE HORRIFYING PRACTICES OF DATA COLLECTION.

but before that, they need to pay some goddamn fucking taxes. they are profiting off the data of billions of people and getting away with paying SO LITTLE back. 

you ever hear about deepface? no this is not the beginning of a prequel meme. deepface is facebook’s facial recognition technology and facial recognition is fucking terrifying. that shit is as good as humans at facial recognition at this point. does that not scare you? that a bunch of computers can figure out if this photo contains you or not? it’s one thing if humans recognize each other, but another thing when computers who can process data almost infinitely faster than humans can are able to do it. the scale and speed at which these fucking nightmares operates is hard for us to imagine and so we are all not scared enough of what they can do. this kind of technology is so deeply privacy violating it’s hard for me to stress it enough. every image of you ever uploaded on the internet could possibly be put through facial recognition tech. and with the fact that there are cameras literally everywhere at all times now at this point it’s so fucking possible that if desired, someone could find out where you are at all times. and that gets SO scary when used by governments. are you comfortable with your government knowing where YOU are at all times? yes? what about if tomorrow your government is overthrown by a group of radicals you completely disagree with? you still comfortable with that? facial recognition is kind of a fucking pandoras box that we are opening and now that we have the technology available to us, unless we actively take steps back from it, it WILL eventually/already is being used in malicious, intensely privacy invasive ways.

and everything in that above bullet point goes for ALL DATA COLLECTED ON YOU, EVER. everything you’ve ever said on facebook is probably put through some multi layered neural network fucking robot who is learning how to understand what humans say on your input and also cataloging things about you as a person. it is doing SO MUCH more than reading the exact text of what you are saying and then picking up on keywords. neural networks are an attempt to copy how humans think by making an artificial version of a brain basically. in simple terms it’s a map of points and connections and you feed it data for a while and tell it what the desired outcome should be. it will adjust those connections and the weight of those points based on your data and expected outcome. that change in connections and weights is how it learns. then after a while it has fed on enough data that it will begin to expect what your desired outcome is. now imagine millions and millions of connections and points. it’s fucking huge. you ever hear about how we don’t know how machine learning/deep learning/neural networks works? this is that. it’s because they are so large and they have changed their weights and points so much that we no longer understand how it makes its decisions. ml is on a deeper level starting to understand what you mean when you say words. like a human. and can pick up nuances humans cannot because of its perfect memory. do you understand how scary this is? do you? i really do not know how to express this better how absolutely buckshit wild and terrifying the idea that everything i say online can be scraped and put through a robot and a profile on me and who i am and my ideals can be gathered almost instantly. how hard would it be to write a scraper that goes to my blog and grabs the text of every post in my talk tag? and then there’s free and open source nlp software (or you can pay for it) and you can feed in everything ive said on this blog ever. you can go to my facebook. you can go to my twitter. you can find my profiles on every online platform ive ever used and take everything ive ever said and determine what kind of person i am based on that. and then you can then make further distinctions based on that data. (sidenote: facebook wouldnt have to scrape the data on my profile, it’s all in their databases already. they have everything ive ever posted on public or private, on my old profile i’ve deactivated, every photo ive posted or been tagged in, everything ive ever uploaded to their servers or have been associated with.) and someone or robot can make decisions about me based on that data. it could just be am i likely to buy [this product] or it could be something much more like am i a threat? am i dangerous to you, the person using this data about me? what are my politics? what are my views on [this topic]? are they too extreme? should i be denied [real life thing] based on what this machine has determined about me from my data online? not to sound fucking crazy, but you ever watch that episode of black mirror? nosedive? and its system where you can rate interactions with people? how this one girl was trying to increase her ranking so she would qualify for a cheaper price on housing? how we’re already starting to see things like this in real life with china’s social credit system?

call me a fucking wack job but i think it’s so deeply creepy that we have digitized so many aspects of our lives and leave machines we no longer understand how they make their decisions to analyze every bit of data about ourselves.

by the fucking way facebook tracks data on people WHO DO NOT USE FACEBOOK. FACEBOOK TRACKS DATA ON PEOPLE. WHO. DO. NOT. USE. FACEBOOK. are you scared? i am.

i’ve been thinking about this tweet from @/malwaretech on twitter from a few days ago. text: On a serious note, social media tracking is more extensive than you may think. For example: those Facebook 'like' buttons you see on every website? They call home. If you're logged into your FB account, it records that you visited that web page, even if you don't click 'like'. doesn’t that sound a lil fucked up to anyone else? that facebook knows that i visited that webpage even though i did not tell it? that it will use that data to build a better profile on what my interests are and that it will use that data to better sell ads to me? i’ll be honest i am unsure of if facebook sells that information to other vendors. i think that might be not allowed but i wouldn’t be surprised if that data somehow got into the hands of people who arent facebook.

the fact that for the longest time you could NOT get your data deleted from facebook? that even if you deactivated your account facebook would still keep all of that in their shit ass servers forever? as far as i know, that’s changed now, but i would not at all be surprised if the next day it was revealed that facebook was Actually Keeping all that info anyways

the fact that by default facebook’s privacy settings are set to allow anyone to see most info about you? just this whole opt out culture is so fucking wack. it should be opt in. your privacy settings should default on the MOST PRIVATE and it should be up to you to ACTIVELY SEARCH OUT how to change them to public. it is ON FACEBOOK to actively cultivate privacy but of fucking course they don’t.

lmao cambridge analytica politics russia brexit trump. i don’t have the energy to even open this fucking can of worms but i will say that again, another layer of deeply fucked up that political campaigns can use that data to try to coerce or influence elections.

do you remember when in 2019. yes twenty. fucking. nineteen. 2019. two thousand and nineteen. 2019. i dont know how more to stress how recent but late this is. 2019. facebook admitted that it and instagram were still. STILL. STILL. S T I L L. storing passwords as plaintext? meaning your password that is “password123ilovedogs” is stored AS “password123ilovedogs” in their database. it is STANDARD AND EXPECTED PRACTICE that websites store SECURE hashes of passwords (not like fucking. md5 or something) meaning you do a bunch of fucking “irreversible” math on the password and store that instead of the actual password itself. so the db would be storing “298!79v@w8W#R;3,f9jf” instead of your actual password. anyways face. fucking. book. was storing passwords as plain text. which means if they ever have a data breach on their passwords db then all that data inside will just be your actual goddamn password. your actual goddamn password. what the fuck? what the fuck? and we still use this website? we? me? i use this website daily? i use this website on a daily fucking basis and allow it to continue to collect information on me? im so goddamn angry.

the fact that now in this day and age you are considered weird for not having any social media? super fucked up. the fact that employers will check your social media and if you don’t have one that is somehow a red flag? weird as hell. why must we participate in the world’s largest data collection scandal ever just to be a member of society? i cannot choose to opt out. facebook collects data on me even if i do not have an account. society expects me to have some form of social media and if i do not then that i am the weird one for it. if you choose to live a life of trying not to be tracked it is almost impossible. can you live your life in modern society without an email address? without a smartphone or laptop? there is an expectation that every person is available to communicate with digitally and if you find the practice of data collection abhorrent and don’t want to use websites that do so, then you’re the weird one who has a LOT of society’s services unavailable to you.

im not going to even touch on the psychological effects that facebook and social media have on people other than to ONCE AGAIN, say they are very real and deeply fucked up.

by the way check out haveibeenpwned. enter your email and it’ll check against databases to see if your email has been on recent dumps. i have been. lately there have been a few older accounts of mine that have been breached and it’s terrifying.

fuck jesse eisenberg man he fucked over spiderman crazy

fuck faang. fuck big tech. fuck data collection. btw edward snowden is a hero. fuck all of this.

104: The future: man we’re in for it. i am not optimistic about it at all. too much tech progression / not enough foresight / expansion/globalization of the world / global warming / political and economic issues are all coming to a head to make the world a fucking disaster.

96: Changed a diaper: never done it! i am not around children often.

88: Something I will really miss when I leave home is: having a vague idea of where things are locally. im very bad with directions.

86: The thing that I’m looking forward to the most: answered already.

84: People call me: yeesa, apparently. i have a fair amount of nicknames but i just call myself teresa.

82: I have gotten a speeding ticket: sure haven’t though i deserve one

80: The first person i talked to today was: soph​ because she wakes up at a normal goddamn time so i’ll sometimes have a text from her from a few hrs ago

76: Right now I am talking to: milo and a discord server im in for a group of friends i made when i was applying to college. though i havent responded in quite a while since i went on my angry facebook rant.

74: I have/will get a job: well i HAD a job for the beginning of the summer when i was a TA but i do not any more as that was first summer semester only. hopefully in the fall i’ll have a job as a TA again but who knows. and then after that when i graduate i hope hope hope hope hope i will have a job lined up.

72: Today: woke up. made a plum smoothie. played minecraft. took a nap. here i am. it’s all very riveting.

70: Next Weekend: it’ll happen for sure. odds are i will be waking up and eating food and coming on the internet and chatting with friends and doing a bit of writing and trying to learn a bit more html.

68: The worst sound in the world: answered already.

66: People that make you happy: will roland lmao. 

64: My friends are: well it’s basically the same people i tagged in my last post on people who make me happy.

62: My School: you tryin to doxx me? it’s alright. not the best for my major. and also stupidly trying to reopen for the fall because theyre greedy and idiots. it was like my 5th choice school but it is what it is.....

60: I lose all respect for people who: already answered

58: Your hair color is: black as fuck. im east asian.

56: Favorite web site: controversial but archive of our own dot org i guess. i believe in their mission and like how they have advocated for fans and have created a fan-owned space on the internet. they’re not perfect but i overall support them.

54: The worst pain I was ever in was: answered already

52: My room is: a time capsule of what i liked in late middle school/early high school.

50: Where would you like to be: im fine where i am. maybe visiting friends though. i would like to Hang With Them and Do Fun Activities.

48: Ever been in love: who’s to say....... what is love? (baby don’t hurt me). but for real the concept of love is weird to me, especially romantic love. i don’t know. i’ve certainly obsessed over people. i’ve noticed i kind of “pick people” to have crushes on. i can’t really say why. but then it creates a feedback loop of i pay more attention to them -> i think more about them -> i like them more. so i’ve made conscious decisions that have lead to me obsessing over people.

46: More guy friends or girl friends: girl but that’s just because people in fandom spaces tend to be women and most of my friends ive made through fandom.

44: One person that you wish you could see right now: kaity is coming to my town but we cant see each other because of a pandemic so im kinda fucking miffed about that. i didn’t get to see maria before she left my state so i’m also miffed about that.

42: Have you made a list of things to do before you die: lmaooooo no. i would just like to be satisfied with my life. would like to see friends. do fun things with them. 

40: Last person I got mad at: idk im not generally a mad person. mark zuckerberg probably.

38: I wish I was a professional: as in i suddenly have all the skills and talent needed to be a professional? i think a director &|| writer tbh. i would love to have the Creative Vision necessary to come up with dope ideas AND translate what i have in mind into real life. i would love the ability to be able to tell compelling stories that mean a lot to people.

32: Athlete: lmao if it was 2008 or 2012 i would ahve said ryan lochte but nevermind. idk. maybe katie ledecky.

24: Movie: am not much one for movies...... star trek 2009.

16: Book: i don’t know how to read.

8: Yankee candle scent: idk about yankee candle specifically but i love the smell of apple. 

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The AskArcana Questionnaire

From: here. 

Using the asks the Arcana devs have answered on their tumblr, I’ve composed together a list of questions you can use for your own MCs/fan apprentices/etc if you so wish! You’re by no means obligated to answer all questions, but rather use it as a tool to help develop your character(s). This list will also be updated as the devs hold more Q&A’s over time. Have fun! (Warning: long post ahead).

[ intriduction not mine ].

Part 1.) Characterization. Use these questions as a way to flesh out some of your character’s personality, background, likes/dislikes, etc.

Their surname? - Actually none HAHAH

Halloween costume? - Horror clown. That bitch

Familiar/animal friend? - Basma, an hummingbird!

Big spoon or little spoon? - HAH, both. Depends on the partner, yknow... ;^)

Religious? - “What the fuck?”

Favorite fruit? - Coconut.

Idea of a nice date? - Dancing in town square or watch the stars.

Favorite season? - Spring.

When is their Birthday? - 9th December!

Favorite carnival ride? -  Probably bumper cars

Favorite emoji? - ALL OF THEM. Imagine a text from Sheba: full of emojis.

Like to do in their free time? - She dance. Sheba is a bellydancer. Or she makes some trouble around the city.

What sports would they play? - Athletic, gymnastic, kickboxe... HAHAHA

What kind of car would they drive? - She wouldn’t drive a car. She would ride a bike.

How do they treat their significant other when they’re feeling unusually affectionate? - A lot of handholding and kisses on the neck. you naughty girl.

Favorite manga? - Probably Magi: the Labyrinth of Magic. But Sheba get bored easily and prefers spending time outside.

Main store to shop for clothes (if they lived in our world)? - H&M hahaha but yknow, Sheba is more type of market stalls and things bought there.

What were they like growing up? - Hyperactive and fierce kid, optimistic and a quite rebel. Secretly escaping from her room since 8 years old.

What kind of drunk are they at a party? - Now she giggles, and now she’s crying from something happened a century ago

Reaction to someone telling a dirty joke? - She can laugh or she can answer with a dirtier one and playing around.

Reaction to stubbing their toe? - Starting drama about how much it’s painful.

Favorite color? - Neon green.

Favorite See’s chocolate? - She doesn’t like chocolate...

Favorite poptart flavor? - None, she doesn’t like sweet food, desserts or stuff..

Favorite hobby? - Doing shit. Bellydance

How they sing at karaoke parties? - YOU’RE MAD, OF COURSE NOT.

Preferred social media platform? - Intagram, probably

Opinion on puns? - Loves them and makes them everytime

How do they typically deal with their problems? -  Solve them in the worst way possible. Directly

Spice girl nickname? - Spice Spice (??)

Personal hygiene routine? - Shower and brushing teeth.. very simple

Favorite alcoholic drink? - She doesn’t know the names. It’s Julian that bring some alcoholic drink to her

Favorite genre of music? - Probably indie pop. But she’s the type that would listen raggaeton, too HAHAHAHAH

Modern AU job/career? - Dancer / actress or... scammer, sought in 18 states NOTHING

Favorite musical? - She doen’t even like musicals

How would they celebrate their significant other’s birthday? - She would probably spend a day out with him. The dancing in the moonlight... AND THEN I have to put that “nsfw” tag. But I won’t so you have to imagine

Would they rather turn into a tiny rhinoceros or a giant hamster? - GIANT HAMSTER

What would they do for their significant other for Valentine’s Day? - She won’t got outside like in his birthday. But she would took home some food (she can’t cook, she’s a mess, guys) and dinner together. Then dancing, with him and alone

Pros and cons to having them as a roommate? - OH WELL DUDE Pros - never at home. But when she is, she’s funny. She can introduce you to all her friends, teach you how to dance and teach you self-confidence. Every day can be like an adventure. Cons - disaster and messyhouse. With animals, sometimes. Also, you can be involved in her troubles.

On a scale from 1-10 how Extra are they? - 11

Favorite meme? - All of them. Astology memes in particular

Favorite three pokemon? - Pikachu, Luxray, Jolteon 

How tall are they? - 5′1′’

Part 2.) Scaling. Using your best judgement, where does your fan apprentice fall on these scales?

[Example: Shortest to tallest?

Portia, Asra, [MC name here], Nadia, Lucio, Julian, Muriel]

Most to least superstitious?

Portia, Julian, Nadia, Lucio, Sheba, Asra, Muriel

Most to least excited to be at a WWE event?

Portia, Sheba, Lucio, Asra, Julian, Nadia, Muriel

Worst to best at handling children?

Sheba, Nadia, Lucio, Muriel, Asra, Portia, Julian

Worst to best alcohol tolerance?

Sheba, Muriel, Asra, Lucio, Julian, Portia, Nadia

Best to worst at keeping secrets?

Asra, Muriel, Nadia, Lucio, Sheba, Portia, Julian

Best to worst dancers?

Sheba, Asra, Portia, Julian, Nadia, Lucio, Muriel

Most to least likely to slap you for stealing a mcnugget?

Sheba, Nadia, Lucio, Asra, Portia, Julian, Muriel

Least to most likely to eat something weird on a dare?

Nadia, Julian, Muriel, Lucio, Portia, Asra, Sheba - even not for a dare, like Asra

Least to most old?

Sheba, Asra, Portia, Muriel, Julian, Lucio, Nadia

Part 3.) Extra characterization tidbits (whether you want to make a description or insert a photo for these is up to you!)

MC as a:

[ I won’t answer to all of the original questions, bc I’m lazy and I don’t want to research shits ]

[...]

•a piece of furniture - The chandelier

[..]

•Tarot card - The Fool

[..]

•cliche high school student stereotype - the one that always ends up with the headmaster

[..]

•deadly sin - Pride

•DnD class - Sorcer

[..]

•hogwarts house - Gryffindor

[..]

[robininthelabyrinth]

"New writer ask meme: based on my body of work, what’s something you’d like to see me try to write?" like. you wrote a story within a /menu/ so you can take this as a prompt or just respond but. if you can make a menu compelling, what about something else. like a professor binn's history lecture, swapping in for the teacher and subject of your choice, but something where the students have fallen asleep five minutes in but there's a compelling story under the surface. idk if it's possible, (cont)

re: the hist lecture thnx for letting me know tumblr didn’t send it! can’t remember xactly what was in each ½ of the ask but short version: if any1 can make a dry lecture (note: not just any lecture, but a boring one), abt history or other, compelling, it’d be u. just as people say that x celeb reading the phone book could be cool, I feel the same could be true for u, which brings me to thing I’d like to see u write 2: a phone book story. idk how the flip it would work but it’d be interesting

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I think that my Makers of History fic might fulfill your first craving - it’s not boring, but it’s written in the style of a history textbook :) 

That being said, your SECOND prompt irresistibly caught my eye.

It’s not a phone book, but I hope you still enjoy!

Fic:  Central City Classifieds: December 2017 Edition (direct link to Ao3)

Fandom: Flash, Arrow, Legends of TomorrowPairing: Leonard Snart/Mick Rory, suggestions of unfulfilled Mick Rory/Caitlin Snow

Summary: Central City Picture News is a respectable news organization, with serious journalism, editorials, opinion columns, sports coverage, arts review, and international news.

So why does everyone keep reading the classifieds?

(Answer: because they’re hilarious.)

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CENTRAL CITY CLASSIFIEDS - December 2017

New Business Opening:Super Tailoring: For All Your Superhero or Supervillain NeedsAsk for ~Leo~–New Business Opening:Supersuit Construction Corp.Super-suits for Superheroes, Supervillains, and More!Theme-appropriate nicknames included!Ask for C. RamonOur Motto: “We make proper supersuits here – our competitors should just go back to their stupid earth where the bad guys need suspenders to hold their outfits together.”–New Business Opening:Super-RepairsWe Fix Mistakes In Science Done By Supersuit Construction Corp.Ask for Harry W.–Announcement:All creditors to whom Harrison Wells owed money, please come to STAR Labs for a pleasant surprise. Ask for C. Ramon; he’ll direct you to the right place.–New Business Opening:TherapyVery Reasonable Prices – Sliding Scale AvailableFree to Superheroes and SupervillainsPLEASE YOU SHOULD ALL GO GET THERAPY RIGHT NOWAsk for ~Leo~

–Announcement:39 Surprisingly High-End Possibly-From-The-Future Toasters for Sale. No returns.Ask for B. Allen.–For sale, goods:One Cold Gun, barely used. Must go to good home. Must agree to take angst, hallucinations, budding drinking problem, and mourning of 30 years of partnership and marriage with you.–New Business Announcement:John Constantine – Exorcist, Demonologist and Master of the Dark ArtsIn Town for a Limited Time Only!–Wanted:Better security system capable of removing unwanted stowaways from advanced-future time ship. Call and ask for Sara.–Wanted:Any security system. At all. Please. Villains just walk in all the time.Call STAR Labs.–New Business Opening:Legendary Security ServicesBe Protected By the Legends of Tomorrow(no warranties apply, please ensure you have appropriate insurance before hiring)–Job Opening:Legendary Security ServicesSeeking Security Consultant – Superhero Experience WelcomeMust have Zambezi Totem To ApplyAsk for A. Jiwe and Z. Tomaz.All Time Periods Welcome.–Wanted:Any OTHER security system.Call STAR Labs.–New Business Opening:Colorful Light Show & Anger Management TherapyProcess Your Emotions, See Beautiful ColorsAsk for R. G. Biv.–Job Opening:Individual with meta powers wanted for long-term scheme against the Flash.Applications can be left by the statue of the Thinker in Central City Art Museum.–Announcement:Are you fucking kidding me?? Does that actually work?? – B. Allen.–Job Opening:New Mentor Figure. Must Not Be Evil.Harrison Wells doppleganger preferred.No individuals named Eobard need apply.Stringent interview process being implemented.Applications can be sent to STAR Labs. Honestly, just walk in, there’s no security system.–New Business Opening:Outdoor Wedding ServicesPlanning Your Outdoor Wedding? Worried About the Weather?Don’t Be!Call M. Mardon To Ensure Your Perfect Day!(Also available to ruin your exes’ wedding, but it costs extra.)–New Business Opening:Welcome to The FLASH Museum!Learn all about your favorite local Supehero in intimate, behind-the-scenes detail!Call: the H.R. Wells Estate.–Cease and Desist Order Lawsuit Filed Against the Flash Museum. C/O the Flash, STAR Labs.–While I’m at it, Cease and Desist Order Filed Against Local “Team Flashers” Club. It’s not funny! C/O the Flash, STAR Labs.–Wanted:Someone capable of making puppets in a wide variety of shapes and sizes.Preferably soft and capable of resisting impact; designed to be used in therapy sessions.Ask for ~Leo~–For sale, goods:Slutty clothing, barely used. Very reasonable price, just need to get rid of it.Ask for Snow at Star Labs.–For sale, goods:All clothing in my closet. Basically free. Need to get rid of it in revenge.Ask for Frost at Star Labs.–For sale, services:All the ice you could possibly want, no need for ice machine.Ask for Frost at Star Labs. Say that Snow sent you.–For sale, services:Under-the-table medical care. Reasonable prices.Feel free to report to the local medical licensing board afterwards if dissatisfied.Ask for Snow at Star Labs. Say that Frost sent you.–Announcement:Local man with flamethrower seeking attractive girl with ice powers for NSA good time while he is in the present location/time. Willing to annoy additional personality for free.–Announcement:Nice try. No.– Snow and Frost–Business Announcement:Therapy – now offering relationship and family counsellingAlso lessons in pre-planning, emotional openness, and honest communicationAsk for ~Leo~–New Business Opening:Ever wanted to swim with the sharks, but afraid or unwilling to pay for travel? Never fear!Swimming Lessons with King SharkReasonable prices.Call ARGUS for additional details.–Wanted:Secret room for plotting and/or emotional processing of grief. No spying devices allowed.If you have any locations, call John Constantine, Leo Snart, or Mick Rory.Payment available only in Earth-X cash, since the other two are broke.–Announcement:Oliver Queen and Felicity Smoak are pleased to announce that they will be wed in a ceremony on the Star City Central Green at the end of this week.–Announcement:Another one?! Didn’t you two get married ALREADY?A Totally Not Bitter Central City Picture News Journalist–Announcement:Oliver Queen and Felicity Smoak are pleased to announce that they will be renewing their vows at the end of this week, this time before a rabbi and their friends.–Announcement:You didn’t have a rabbi the FIRST time?Noah Kutler & Donna Smoak–Announcement:What the hell are you two doing filing a joint newspaper announcement???Felicity Smoak–Announcement:Answer us about the rabbi question.Noah Kutler & Donna Smoak–Announcement:They would’ve been able to use the rabbi we used at my wedding, but they got him killed.Frost–Announcement:That was MY wedding, not yours!Snow–Announcement:Best wishes to Felicity Smoak and Oliver Queen on their upcoming vow renewal.We’re sorry for accidentally setting your entire extended family on you.Team Flash–Announcement:Did you REALLY re-gift us the espresso machine we gave you??Oliver Queen–Announcement:It was on your registry in exactly the same way it was on ours.Iris West.–Wanted:Someone willing to obtain a list of ingredients, some very esoteric, without asking too many questions as to why. Speed of the essence – need to get all the ingredients before the next full moon.Call John Constantine, Leo Snart, or Mick Rory.–Wanted:An army willing to destroy the world and worship at the feet of GRODD.No need to apply. Just think the name of GRODD and we will come for you.–For Sale:Telepathy-Resistant Emergency Evacuation Devices, available to help you resist Grodd’s mind control long enough to escape. The newest fashion statement. Also, basically free.Available at STAR Labs.–Job Opening:Qualified therapists with an advanced understanding of ethics, client confidentiality, and self-defense. As many as possible. At once. This is so much worse than I could have possibly believed.Ask for ~Leo~–New Business Opening:Freaky Supervillain Carnival(Totally NOT a set up trap for the Flash)Come see the Dangerous MIRROR MAZE! The magnificent, nauseating WHIRLYGIG!Job opening available for a clown, preferably with teeth, to keep away certain unwanted old acquaintances.Call S. Scudder and R. Dillon.–Wanted:Surveillance method capable of keeping an eye on three grown men with the capabilities of John Constantine, Leo Snart, and Mick Rory (included for comparison).Something’s up, and Gideon’s not sharing.Must be compatible with 25th century technology.–For sale, goods:Exploding dreidels, for a ridiculously deadly Hannukah prank!Totally not the CCPD trying to trap the Trickster again.Entirely by coincidence, please call the CCPD if you’re interested.–Wanted:Young black men who for a variety of flimsy reasons are no longer currently engaged in active super-heroing except in awesome but sadly brief cameos.We’re making our own club over in Keystone.Call c/o W. West and J. Jackson.–Wanted:Bounty Hunter capable of tracking and eliminating that pesky C. Ramon for having made a crude comment at my precious and perfect daughter.Call Josh (Breacher) on Earth-19–Wanted:Bodyguard capable of protecting me from a crazy overprotective asshole dad who can’t accept the fact that we’re ALREADY SLEEPING TOGETHER.Female bodyguard capable of extreme badassery preferred.Call C. Ramon on Earth-1–Announcement:I, Josh, hereby apologize to my adult daughter for having sought to control her sexuality in such an inappropriate manner. She is free to date whomever she wishes and progress in her relationship at her own chosen speed.Please call off your Amazons.–Business Name Change:Legendary Security Services will now be known as Legendary Amazon Security.Because we’re just that awesome.A. Jiwe, Z. Tomaz, K. Saunders–Police Announcement:Will anyone with any knowledge of what caused that giant blue-green explosion in STAR Labs please call the CCPD immediately? Ask to speak with Detective West.–Retraction:Cold gun no longer available for sale following explosive retrieval process.Bill for all property damage may be directed c/o John Constantine.–Announcement:We are sad to announce that John Constantine has passed away.Please send any bills for property damage care of Zatana.–Announcement:John Constantine is not actually dead. He’s just hiding away on the Waverider again.Personal note: John, if I get one more bill, I’m coming for your balls.Zatanna–Retraction:The reports of John Constantine’s death are greatly exaggerated.We apologize for the inconvenience.He is, however, unavailable to accept any bills.–New Business Opening:Magic Tricks by Abra KadabraMention Harry Potter One More Time And I Will Break My Parole And Kill You All–Invitation:The Epic Len and Leo Welcome Back/Going Away PartyAll Welcome – Bring Presents(Puns preferred)–For sale, goods:One freaky supervillain carnival set up, barely used. Very reasonable price.Have to leave town ASAP because there are now TWO Snarts and that’s two too many.Call S. Scudder and R. Dillon.–Wanted:Seeds for Golden Delicious Apples, Golden Berries, and Golden Corn.Please send to Gotham City, c/o Lisa Snart.–Announcement:Lisa, why are you in Gotham? And what’s with all the plants???With love,Your Concerned Friends and Family

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MEME: SENTENCE STARTERS

Envía una frase para un starter.

❛i don’t get what you even see in ____.❜ ❛they’re not right for you, you know.❜ ❛why do you keep staring at him/her?❜ ❛why do you always win?❜ ❛hey – can you get off their dick for five seconds?❜ ❛it’s almost like you’re dating them.❜ ❛it’s almost like you married them.❜ ❛you like him/her a lot, don’t you?❜ ❛i never thought i’d lose to someone like him/her.❜ ❛chose between him/her or me.❜ ❛me? JEALOUS?!….. HAHAHAHAHahaHAHAhAhahHA… yes.❜ ❛me? JEALOUS? you’re out of your mind.❜ ❛ Whoa, are you okay? ❜ ❛ You took that hit pretty hard… ❜ ❛ Don’t stand up yet. ❜ ❛ You look like shit. ❜ ❛ Here, let me help you. ❜  ❛Shit, I’m being attacked by porcelain clowns.❜ ❛I think ___ and I just cringed from how white that was.❜ ❛I’m fine with you punching me in the nads, but don’t you mess with my Pepsi.❜ ❛I need to like, cry.❜ ❛We have to put a warning label on _____.❜ ❛What? Is my three-inch thruster too much to handle?❜ ❛Yeah, but isn’t your ego as big as your dick? WAIT, FUCK.❜ ❛If only you knew I made 32k since June. Then you would treat me differently.❜ ❛Once I got punched in the dick and I didn’t even give a fuck. I have really high pain tolerance.❜ ❛Nootnoot. The musical.❜ ❛I want ______ to go to Cowboy Camp.❜ ❛Eternal suffering isn’t as bad as they all say!❜ ❛I can’t believe ______ is fergalicious.❜ ❛on a scale of one to ten… how illegal do you think doing this is?❜ ❛okay, but, consider this: i don’t care. i’m gonna do it.❜ ❛there are certain moments where i consider you someone with brilliant ideas and a good future. this is not one of those moments.❜ ❛ You don’t have to be afraid of me. ❜ ❛ Why isn’t it coming after us?  ❜ ❛ You mean… you aren’t going to eat me? ❜ ❛ I’m gonna make some weird shit. ❜    ❛ Aww man, what’d they do to you? ❜  ❛ I told you something didn’t feel right. ❜  ❛ I told you so’? Just what I need to hear right now. ❜  ❛ You look like Mary Poppins. ❜  ❛ No. I’m not leaving without him/her. ❜  ❛ Many things about this are not good. ❜  ❛ It’s so ugly you could almost feel sorry for it. ❜  ❛ You sure you’re okay? ❜  ❛ Hey… are you alright? ❜  ❛ I’m finally ready to face my fears head on. Let’s do this. ❜ ❛ There goes my appetite. ❜ ❛ You aren’t seriously…? Yes, yes you are. ❜ 

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making work for my theme

I decided to use makeup as my medium and my face as the canvas. I did a White shape of mask -drama mask to magnify the way women/men of India look when they apply skin whitening creams or lighter foundation to look white skinned. they usually forget to blend to their necks and bodies so it looks really weird and ghostly, especially because when lightening skin it kills the pigment giving a grey tone to the skin, it does not look natural, in a similar way wearing these white foundations on top of darker skin gives a grey shade, it does not look like skin ; I did a Clown eye to show how society will make a fool of you . I did an Eye crying and showing the real skin colour under the mask because it is upsetting that you feel pressured into looking like something you’re not in order to be deemed beautiful by your own culture/society/country. it also emphasises the fact that people are forced to hide behind these masks I did a Red lip for the culture. In weddings brides traditionally wear a red lip along with a red outfit, I made a joker side of mouth, again to show how society will make you look like a clown to make you think you look their definition of beautiful 

(The first set of images have been manipulated in photoshop, I did this to show the invisible element of control which is me controlling the image outcome but metaphorically for colourism controlling people in this manner. I edit the mouth to make it mild, it’s very forced and resembles the joker which is again part of my makeup look. I could have carried on with the picture manipulation but I decided it was a good round I tried but the more ‘natural�� images just show it to be a more everyday life occurance and issue)

I was happy with this makeup look, I wouldn't change much I think it is quite powerful in accentuating my point and my theme.I could have made the mask more grey than a realistic colour to also symbolise death or just a soul/personality/originality/ culture dying with all these changes to look anything but themselves as well as the effect of the skin whitening creams . 

Women/men think they need to have white skin to be accepted in India Indian brides will wear a mask of white foundation to appear lighter,  Hypnosis eyes would be a good addition to the makeup because the whole community is blinded by this skin whitening consumer culture driven ‘trend’ or beauty standard Broken doll makeup ? because all the constant criticism and being told how you should look and being taunted if you don’t look a certain way. it breaks your spirit. your confidence. your character. you lose yourself.

Writing around the picture, ‘am I pretty now’? to show the longing for acceptance in India

along with the makeup look, I decided to make memes to show these colourist mindset people how deranged they sound, and just to poke fun at certain Indian sayings and comments that are very common to hear.

Is bridezilla India’s perfect bride ? meme idea

Perfect bride? Checklist -I have white skin -I look rich -I look like an upper class woman -I am of higher status that dark skin Indians -I will get whatever job opportunity I want because of my white skin -men will love me, I can marry anyone of my choice -my mother-in-law will love me

{screenshots of men from documentary}-in post above due to image limits per post.

I wanted to present the invisible element of control within Indian culture. Colourism/shadeism dictate a persons worth I showed it through makeup- I made a mask looking face to exaggerate what women in India do to be considered beautiful/worthy I added a joker smile, women are so used to being told dark skin is ugly , those with darker skin have become numb to the idea that they could be considered beautiful as they are. They fake their skin colours with makeup or bleaching elements and throw on a smile as their self esteem is slowly destroyed

I did a clown eye, India’s society makes fun of their own coloured skin.

I did tears in the other eye so you can see the makeup melting away and her true self coming out

The images themselves, are to mimic wedding pictures as I feel this is an area where indian people are judged most, marriage. Due to all the pressure to look their best, they give in to peer pressure from relatives and elders and try to look whiter skinned in order to be thought of as beautiful. Usually in the arranged marriages, family decide on the bride for their son based on skin colour. (Among other things)

In India, skin colour can affect the quality of life you live quite heavily. It will affect the way people look at you, your life opportunities, how people treat you.

with all my images/memes and historical information print uts i decided to arrange the pictures to spell out , ‘am I pretty now?’ Because everyone in India is looking for this acceptance of beauty.

Writing, text, memes, photography, makeup were my mediums

I was happy with my wall arrangement, however if I was to do it again, I’d add more colour to the background wall, perhaps the coloured powders of holi (indian festival) But being smaller it does draw you in and  make you go actually see what it’s about 

I would also consider doing a large scale painting to go on the wall of my photograph and then have a plinth with a book of all the memes and pictures and information in it.

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FUCK MY LIFE: WHY I HATE MONDAYS

It’s normally mid to late afternoon on a Sunday when all of a sudden that little timer goes off in your head. ‘Fuck me it’s Monday tomorrow’. Unless you absolutely love your job, or just can’t wait to dump the kids off on someone else after a troublesome weekend, chances are you are just like the rest of us mere mortals and don’t especially love Mondays.

Mondays suck. Tick the box, close the book.

That is why there are so many GIFs and Memes about Mondays because we all hate the beginning of a new week. Five more days of spending time somewhere we don’t especially like, with a bunch of people we may or may not especially like. The only thing we often have in common with them is that we work in the same office and they too fucking hate Monday.

Monday’s are often made worse because most of the ‘Clints’ and ‘Cynthias’ you work with. You know the type: do a chillax Friday also known as ‘working from home’ whilst actually either not doing anything or doing plenty, but nothing relating to work. These corporate clowns are the type who get to Monday and realise that they need their work request to be delivered ‘by the close of play’, even though they have known about it for weeks. And guess what, you are the lucky minion who gets to have your already shitty start to the week dumped on from a great height by one of these Clints.

The thing about Monday is that it is the realisation that your reality is not as good as you hoped it would be. The weekend was either spent getting absolutely shit-faced with your friends, a dirty weekend away with the object of your affection, a camping trip with the family or the quintessential Netflix marathon in your pants covered in a takeaway.

It is and always has been far better than being cooped up in work or doing something because you have a monster mortgage to pay for.

The weekend is the equivalent of day release for the masses who are imprisoned each week for at least four to five days a week in asylums filled with moronic minions acting out all manner of craziness. If you’re lucky, Friday is the transition into your weekend, you may be allowed to wear your own clothes and even kick back a bit, clock off early after a long lunch because all the ‘management’ is pretending to be busy at home. Even though their status is more often than not: ‘offline’ or unreachable.

Think for a second of the Clints in your office. He’s the kind of guy who turns up on a Monday full of stories to rub in your face, just how much better his weekend, no, his life, is than yours. Clint lives for Monday, he has no one else who will talk to him after 5 pm on a Friday, except maybe his mother because she feels obligated to or another bunch of other Clints from some other office.

Or perhaps Cynthia brings you back down to Earth with her tales of woe that just need an X Factor backing track and Samaritans on speed dial for when she’s done. Welcome to Monday, and that is after your shitty commute into the office.

The only good thing that ever happens on a Monday, is a bank holiday and they are best days ever. For the rest of the year, Monday is miserable. It’s confirmation that if there is a God, he fucking hates you because that’s the first day of the rest of your week.

The Monday Phenomenon

It isn’t just the work thang that gets up our nose when it comes to Mondays. Given it is a brand new week, we often set ourselves up for that belief that maybe a new week means a new you. Monday is suddenly a beacon of hope, a change in the grand scheme of things, a time for a change and new dawn.

This euphoric and inspired feeling often doesn’t last long, you are after all diving into a pool of zombie-like miscreants who just want the day to be over. Fuck it, they don’t really want it to start at all. Before long all of your mojo is drowned within a sea of dying souls all just keen to get a coffee fix and find a hiding place until lunch.

How many best intentions start off with a Monday launch?

Most I’d guess, it’s a fresh start; a new week. Time to hit the gym and start eating like a rabbit, having just consumed every last morsel of ‘naughty’ treats over the weekend that may have induced diabetes.

It’s okay though, Monday is here and the new you is going to kick ass like a Marvel superhero. Until of course, the Monday morning meeting sees all of your greatest hopes dashed as the reality of the week ahead drowns out the rays of sunshine with apocalyptic clouds of gloom.

Then Cynthia politely informs you that you are not going to get your expenses paid this month because you didn’t check something on her overly complicated form. It isn’t long before that new you has bent over and allowed Monday to royally roger it for another week. Then you’re off like an angry Gorilla, ploughing a trail through co-workers all the way to the vending machine.

Never use Monday as the day for a fresh start. You will never see a new dawn as long as you follow the first day of the week rule. Quit smoking on the weekend, after a heavy night of debauchery on the town, by lunchtime you’re like the Marlboro Man on crack, chain-smoking your way to lung cancer.

You see, we have been indoctrinated into hating Mondays, from an early age. From double Maths on a Monday at school, all the way through to your shitty 9-5 existence waiting for death somewhere doing something not entirely captured by your job title or paycheck.

Growing up, I loved the cartoon character Garfield and he absolutely hated Mondays too, even though he was a cat and had zero concept of what Mondays meant in reality. Point is, even he knew the drudgery and affliction of Monday-itis.

There are countless songs about how crap Monday is, ironically written and performed by people who probably don’t even work on a Monday because they are too busy coming down from immense highs from the weekend or banging groupies like a bunny with a Duracell battery up their bum.

From the ‘Rainy Days and Mondays’ of The Carpenters, through to The Boomtown Rats ‘I don’t like Mondays’, and ‘Manic Mondays’ of The Bangles. They all caption our pain, whilst churning out huge royalties to these clever folks who wouldn’t know a true Monday if it slapped them in the face. Still, it’s good that they can give us some jingoistic anthems to get us through the fucking day. I am rather partial to some heavy metal or ‘Rage Against The Machine’ whilst simultaneously imagining myself armed with an AK47, creating COD4 carnage, on an epic scale. But, whatever floats your boat I guess.

Managing Monday-itis

That irritating cough or a lousy headache that emerged after 10 pints of Stella and a particularly raucous night of Karaoke classics has lingered throughout the weekend. Monday is coming for you like a Bailiff on commission and all of a sudden you realise, ‘haven’t taken a sick day in a while’. It’s easily done and routinely so.

Before long, Monday-itis will be rightly recognised for the debilitating illness it is. Much like ADHD and all manner of bullshit made-up conditions to justify people’s behaviour, Monday-itis is characterised by a sudden onset phobia to pressing work deadlines that were not met in the previous week. It leads the poor soul inflicted with this heinous curse developing all manner of ‘flu type symptoms’ that means they will be unable to attend work until the aforementioned work problem is resolved.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Chances are that after the self-certification is expired you will return again on a Monday, no doubt with two times the burden of a normal week. This double whammy Monday aka Thundercunt Monday will burn more than Satan’s balls when it comes around. There are other ways to manage the transition.

If your workplace operates a flexible working or agile culture, get your own back on management and make Monday, your work from home day. Technically, you are able to complete your duties and manage incoming calls and emails without anyone being able to micromanage or monitor you doing it. You’ll avoid all the usual office guff from the Clints and Cynthias about their meaningless and made up lives. You can do your work in your pants, or gimp suit for that matter, and no one would be any the wiser.

No commute, which is even better than a commute when the spawn of the planet are on their holidays. You can even reward yourself with a lie in. It’s a nice smooth transition into the work week without all the heaviness and bullshit that comes along.

If you have kids and need to drop the little buggers off at school, see if you can come to an arrangement with a friend or neighbour (preferably one with kids at the same school) to take it turns on alternate Mondays to drop them off.

Plan to do something on a Monday that feels like a reward or is something you actually enjoy. I work from home on a Monday and like to work out. My favourite day is Push Day, so, I save this for lunchtime on, and you guessed it: a Monday. Half the day has gone, and now I’m feeling pretty awesome. Before you know it, the end is near and you have escaped another wretched start to the week.

Then when the work day is done, because you don’t feel quite as pissed off as you normally do, you might even plan something fun for the evening. A few drinks, a takeaway, or back on to the Netflix marathon you began the previous weekend.

Over time, you will begin to find that Mondays are not so bad after all. Then, when you apply some of the same thinking to other days in the week and get a bit of a balance to life you’ll feel like a completely different person. Then when you are in work and only putting up with the nonsense a few days a week, you will not feel quite as drained. Cynthia will be miserable as sin, but she hasn’t got any friends anyway. This is actually you showing compassion to the silly sausage and creating space in her life to make some better decisions.

If working from home is not an option, create a Monday game in the office and get your co-workers to join in. Perhaps set up a sweepstake of Clint Bullshit Bingo, with the winner claiming the pot based on whatever nonsensical shit they correctly predict Clint spouting off about when he does his Monday monologue. You could also, inject some fun, by stealing items off of Cynthia’s desk and placing them all around the office creating a faux treasure hunt that means she’ll be occupied all day so as not to kill your Monday mojo.

If it is truly unbearable, set up an email or Whatsapp group and invite all your fellow Monday-itis sufferers to it and bombard each other with humorous messages and content to get the laughter flowing.

Book out your diary every Monday with a two hour private and busy meeting that on your monitor reads ‘Fuck all’. This should give you ample time to adjust to the new reality of the work week without allowing the more moronic minions the chance to rape your soul like a Harry Potter Dementor.

Try doing a gratitude journal for the first time, but do this as though you are coming from the perspective of how much worse your life could be if you were, say: a Clint or a Cynthia. Be careful not to type this out in plain view of said Dementors though, Mondays with an HR meeting on office bullying probably wouldn’t be a great start to the work week. Alternatively, you could write a long list of things you could be doing had you not been stupid enough to have children.

No More Manic Mondays

Too often the wonderful weekend has been cut short by the early onset of Monday-itis and the anxiety that its symptoms bring. The transition into another week in your miserable existence is ramped up tenfold on a Sunday evening and several times higher the following morning.

The stress of another work week Monday takes its toll on your soul. The pressure of a new beginning or the familiar anxiety of yet another week afflicts millions every single week. Then like the extras in The Walking Dead, we all descend to our paycheck prisons or weekly workhouses to be used and abused for another week. The only tool we previously had in our arsenal is the hope that either a bus would knock us down before we got there, or that we could sleepwalk through to Friday.

The truth is, Monday is just like any other day, the stigma attached to it is largely because we have to end something fun or something we chose to do (the weekend or week off) for something we have to do (to pay for the shit we do on said weekend or weeks off).

How we navigate this transition from awesome back to mundane is entirely down to our ingenuity and individual approach. Manic Mondays are often due to lazy arse Fridays, so as long as you play hard through the week and get sufficient stuff done then you can reward yourself with a stellar weekend of fun.

Monday is the first work day, so anyone who plans a Monday morning meeting at 9 am is probably worth avoiding in or out of work. These people tend to be the types who book the 4 pm slot on a Friday too. That’s classic Clint right there.

Making your transition into the work week should be your number one goal to stave off that Sunday evening bah-humbug feeling. To end the sleepless night before the Monday morning rush, find a more flexible approach: start later after a trip to the gym, start earlier and plan an evening event to look forward to, or work from home to avoid all those competitive conversations about who has the best/worst life of all.

Normally, once you have gotten past the mid-point of the day, you are back in work mode, so make sure you manage your diary and time in a way that is both rewarding and low pressure (where possible).

The week is a marathon, not a sprint, so getting everything done on a Monday morning just isn’t going to happen. This is especially true after a week or so off. Book out the morning for just acclimatising back to work, finding out who fucked up whilst you were away, flaunting your tan lines to colleagues and just ‘catching up’ with corporate bullshit life.

Saving favoured activities that motivate you and booking them into a Monday will also make it less likely that you succumb to the temptation to do a Monday-itis phone in.

Never start a new thing (diet, exercise routine, quitting a bad habit, etc) on a Monday as the pressure of the day makes it highly likely that you’ll get triggered and fall into the old pattern. You’ll end up hating yourself even more than you already did. And if you must, be sure to allow yourself a restart on a Tuesday or at some later point in the week. Mondays are hard enough.

Injecting fun shouldn’t be limited to a Monday, but may prove incredibly helpful in the navigation of this troublesome day. The stressors that trigger the Monday Blues, like those annoying co-workers you have imagined executing in multiple ways in your head, should be reframed within this humorous approach. Nullifying them from the monstrous problems they cause to realise the ant-like irritants that they really are.

When they start to get under your skin and you are close to a full-on transformation into the Incredible Hulk, just ask yourself what they didn’t get up to on the weekend. In all in all likelihood, work is the only place where anyone shows them a modicum of emotion, try to be gentle with them and feel free to fuck with them a bit, until they learn the error of their ways.

By the time you are done for the day, you’ll realise that Mondays can be okay. The things that worked for you can be applied throughout the week. Make life a bit more bearable and to give your hopes and dreams of becoming something better a real chance. Mondays do not have to suck. They just need to be managed.

The best bit about getting over your phobia of Monday is that your weekends tend to get longer. That period after tea on a Sunday creates an opening for something fun. If you’ve successfully made the work arena a little bit less like a prison, you might find that by Friday the ease down into the weekend is smooth and all things are in place for a nice restart come the following week.

If you’re a Clint or Cynthia and you’re reading this. Stop booking meetings on a Monday morning. While you are at it, try to make friends and then you’ll have some real experiences to share with, rather than vomit over, your colleagues the next Monday. Life is hard enough without Monday being a total motherfucker. So stop being you, and strive to be awesome.

Make Monday the new fun day.

‘Dear Monday, I want to break up. I’m seeing Tuesday and dreaming about Friday. Sincerely, it’s not me, it’s you’ - Anon

[imaginemycroftholmes]

Mycroft Submission Form

I saw the new updated form and had to try it out.

Name: Melissa

Nationality: American

Age: 22

Personality Type: INFP/ENFP (I switch back and forth depending on the day/weather)

Level of Education: 4 years of College, still working on my Bachelors for Animal Health Science

Best Subject: Art, History, Psychology/Social Studies, English

Worst Subject: Chemistry (Any science class really) and Math (was my best subject, until they added the alphabet to the numbers)

Favorite Subject: Art, Karate, Textiles and Home Economics

5 Hobbies (if applicable): Drawing, playing video games, cooking (lots of steak and lamb), baking (cookies are a specialty), sewing and watching TV

Favorite Genre of Music/Movies/Books: Movies: Anything but horror/suspense, Music: Mostly Country but pretty eclectic (no jazz/screamo/or other heavy metal), and Books: I dare say that I don’t read. Like at all, but I love the original Grimm Fairytales.

Last song you listened to on repeat: “Unsteady” by X Ambassadors

Last phrase you said to another living person: “I got burned by Holy Water once while at the Vatican.”

How many blankets do you sleep with: Just 1, my “Clown” blanket (but really it’s a crying opera singer holding a rose, that’s been in the family for 30+ years. I do sleep with like 6-7 pillows though)

7 note worthy skills: Loyal, Altruistic, Kind, Compassionate, quiet (yes I consider this a good trait), very open-minded, and strong (physically I mean, mentally is up for debate)

7 noticeable sins: I’ll admit I’m lazy, somewhat immature (I swear a lot and my favorite is the F word), I do procrastinate, I am food aggressive, a wee bit selfish and show no mercy to backstabbers, bullies or people who just annoy me (a kick to the groin, a harsh, tear-inducing insult, a dark secret exposed or get them in trouble with a teacher.)

Allergies/impairments/illnesses: I have what I’d like to call illness-induced asthma, and I am near sighted and have to wear glasses, but no allergies at all.

Level of Intelligence on a scale of 1 to 5: 4 (Just above average, but I’m no Einstein)

Level of Fitness on a scale of 1 to 5: 1-2 (currently dieting and exercising, but I love food too much)

Level of Attractiveness on a scale of 1 to 5: I think 2, but everyone else says 4 (liars).

Feline, canine or both: Canine (loyal) and Feline (keep to myself)

Confidence Level on a scale from 1 to 5: 2-3 (1 on bad days, but hardly ever higher than a 3)

Position in the Family (oldest, youngest, middle): Only child, so oldest (I never had to share my toys!)

Eye Color: Brown (Always wanted blue eyes or green)

Hair Color and Length: Long, brown, wavy hair (I hate it. Get’s frizzy in dry/humid weather and gets burning how in the summer, but I can’t cut cause I don’t look good with short hair)

Height: 5’ 2” (Short. So very short, but have so many tall friends)

Combat level on a scale 1 to 5: 2 (currently in Karate)

Your normal dress: A pair of worn blue jeans, a loose fitting T-shirt, a Zip-up Hoodie, a good pair of socks and an old pair of running shoes (with insoles cause I have no arch)

How well you take rejection on a scale of 1 to 5: 5 (I’ve been rejected numerous times)

Languages known: English, currently learning Esperanto and Spanish

Cleanliness of your bathroom on a scale of 1 to 5: 4, would be a 5 but I have a roommate who’s messy

How big is your circle of friends on a scale of 1 to 5: 2, not fond of big groups.

How would you rate your mental health on a scale of 1 to 5: 3-4 (I can get depressed easily on bad days)

Opinions on the current Holmes family members (Siger Holmes, Violet Holmes, Sherlock Holmes and Eurus Holmes): Sherlock is cool and I like his intelligence, his violin sills, and he’s pretty good looking, despite him being a bit, well rude or too honest. As for Siger and Violet, I haven’t met them or got to know them but I’m sure they’re lovely (if they’re your parents, I’m sorry for not realizing that, I’d just like to say that they are what I would want for grandparents, they are so sweet, I love them.) Eurus, I feel that she had so much potential, but I really don’t know how to feel about her. On one hand I am just as impressed with her intelligence and skills as I am with Sherlock, but I’m also pretty terrified of her.

Please bold the following below that applies toward your submission:

Friendship (You will be smothered with gifts but will ask for nothing in return)

Mentorship (Need time to learn, but can I will get the idea)

Relationship (If you’re up for it, then I’ll give it a try)

Partnership (So like be the John to your Sherlock?)

The Question portion:

Please note that you do not have to submit the pictures within your submission (save the puzzle) but you must answer them honestly and do so without cheating.

1)

The angle of C looks to be 45 degrees, while A and B ~15 and ~30 degrees. There’s no attempt at math on this one, just looking at the pictures, I can assume the angles A and B add up to C.

2) Solve the puzzle:

First off I love Sudoku, I play it whenever I get the chance. Couldn’t figure out how to write on the pic so: (This one was a good one, had to really sit and work on it for a like an hour)

            812       753       649

            943       682       175

            675       491       283

            154       237       896

            369       845       721

            287       169       534

            521       974       368

            438       526       917

            796       318       452

3)

Don’t know, and Cheryl is being really “extra” as the kids say now, by not saying what her birthday is, I would have not given her a gift.

4)

Shoot Mr. White. I don’t know but he hits his shots all the time I’d at least try and hit him.

5)

Change the first plus sign into a 4 (545 + 5 + 5 = 555) 

6)

He can’t reach the button for the 10th floor in the elevator so he has wait till there are more people to press the button for him.

7)

Seen this one too. You pick two switches to turn on, one stays off, after waiting a bit, pick one of the switches that is on and then go into the room. If the light is on then it’s the switch still on, if off, touch the bulb, cold=the switch that was always off, warm=the one that was on then turned off.

8)

Don’t care. These gods sound like dicks.

9)

Why can’t he just go to Mary’s house and give her the ring? John is lazy and illogical, that is my deduction. I don’t know.

10)

Flip it upside down and it’s 87. Seen this one before too.

11)

I don’t know! This is the kind of riddle that makes me want to hit the creator in the face. Hints would be nice too.

12)

Alex is screwed. He jumps, he dead. He somehow survives, he’s burned or he starves, he dead.

13)

A. Anne could be married or not. If she is married and looking at George then yes, a married person is looking at an unmarried person, but if she’s not married the its still yes, cause Jack is married.

14)

Nope. Math was not my best subject.

15)

1? No clue.

16)

This type of math I can do, n=10. (10^2 - 10 - 90 = 0)

17)

Vince did it but I’d say “you’re all paying for the new window, I don’t care who broke it.”

18) Where does the English horn (Cor Anglais) come from? I’m assuming not England. Cor Anglais is French, but I doubt it’s from France. I don’t know.

19) What is brass composed of? Copper and Zinc

20) Who was the FIRST great artist that contributed to the Italian Renaissance? Masaccio. Thanks Art History!

21)

No.

22)

Don’t know but I known that I wouldn’t be at that party.

23)

How about nope

24) Is the dress blue and black or white and gold?

Blue and Black and I never want to here about this dress again. I hate dresses and I hated this meme when it came out on the news.

25)

I had to read this damn thing like 6 times, but I figured it out! There is no letter “e” in the entire thing. Kind of cool given that “e” is the most common letter used in the English language.

(I liked this submission form. It’s defiantly more challenging and has to do with a lot more problem solving than the last one. I like puzzles and some of these really made me think.)

Mycroft’s answer:

Melissa, I must say that I have heard many odd phrases in my lifetime both directly and in passing but never something akin to ‘I got burned with Holy Water once while at the Vatican' even with faulty translations at best. I would assume their would be a good story in correlation with that statement? I find it refreshing that you can take rejection so well despite stating that this is a regular occurrence for you. It takes a lot of time and practice for something like that not to effect you anymore and in the few times that I have been on the brunt end it does still carry a sting for me. But in private mind you as I cannot have my competitors or coworkers see me in a state of disarray. While I cannot say with any true glee that I have always been for the sciences ( my heart has always been on external things that tend to change more rapidly and could be controlled at a faster rate) than what concerns the inner workings of the human body much less than that of an animal however, I do have some know how about avian species and reptiles as Sherlock was wont to play with them. I am quite pleased that you attempted the puzzle and even more so that it is correct. My only issue is that if I took you up on a partnership is that you cannot be vindictive toward clients in a direct way. As a partnership with me would include dealing with some rather self-centered diplomats or government officials I'm afraid that in any instance of 'wrong doing' we would simply grin and bear it until the proper time comes to exploit it for personal gain. You can't exactly run the world if you burn too many bridges and make far too many enemies and you can see that with Mr. Moriarty's circles as well.  You may not be too fond of the partnership considering on how  big these meetings tend to run but rest assured we do need more  Esperanto speakers. Just remember that in public everything must be clean and pristine which includes talk, work and the like but in private I will find no complaints from me. 

Friendship: 8.6/10

Mentorship: 8.1/10

Relationship: 6.79/10

Partnership: 7.56/10

[connorrenwick]

James Turner Asks Us to Choose Love This Holiday Season

For this month’s Design Store(y), we talked to James Turner, founder of Glimpse – a collective for creative people who want to use their skills for good – about their decision to open three pop-up stores with a difference. As of the first weekend in December, you can step into Choose Love in London, New York or, new for 2019, Los Angeles, go on a shopping spree, and leave with nothing but the warm fuzzy glow of having done something good. Instead of adding to the literal, mental, and environmental clutter that increasingly seems to define the holiday season, every purchase goes straight to Help Refugees, a grassroots charity that supports more than 80 projects across Europe, the United States, and the Middle East. When you buy a child’s coat in one of the three stores, a child refugee in Greece, Iraq, or Syria gets a coat. You leave with nothing but a beautiful card which you can gift as a token of your choice. This is holiday gift-giving with real meaning.

Choose Love’s newest pop-up storefront in Los Angeles. Photography courtesy of Choose Love.

Why did you pick this city/neighborhood/storefront?

Choose Love stores are about bringing compassion to the heart of major cities around the world. London was the first one in 2017. Last year we opened in New York, and Los Angeles felt like such a natural progression for this concept. Help Refugees are the driving force behind all this – they support these incredible refugee organizations around the world including on the US / Mexico border, so it feels very relevant in California.

Choose Love’s newest pop-up store in Los Angeles. Photography courtesy of Choose Love.

Where did you get the name for the store?

The ‘Choose Love’ name came from Katherine Hamnett, the iconic fashion designer. She donated the name and logo to Help Refugees a few years back, when they were just starting out. It has since turned into a meme of sorts: a positive, defiant message which people are spreading and sharing organically, by wearing the t-shirts, coming to the stores and posting their support. It’s an amazing thing to be part of, because it feels like this message has tapped into something that we can all believe in and proud to be associated with.

Choose Love’s newest pop-up store in Los Angeles. Photography courtesy of Choose Love.

Has it changed much since it opened? How?

The concept has stayed pretty much the same. Every single item in the store represents a similar item or service for a refugee. When you buy a child’s coat, a refugee child will receive a coat somewhere in the world. It’s really important for us to stay true to that concept as it’s so direct and simple. But refugees also need non-physical items like mental health support and safe spaces for women. So we’ve had to find ways to represent these items in the store, and we now use hand-made quilts and artworks from people who have benefited from these services to help tell the story.

Choose Love pop-up store in London, 2018. Photography courtesy of Choose Love.

What’s one of the challenges you have with the business?

To be honest – and this sounds like a brag – the main challenge is scale. We believe that more and more people are becoming tired of shopping for the sake of it, tired of buying stuff they don’t need, or presents they don’t like. Choose Love is offering a positive alternative and making it joyful and celebratory. The main challenge is how we bring this concept to more cities to help more people express their compassion. We would love to open UK stores outside London, and explore how Choose Love might work in other countries around the world. But the stores are staffed entirely by volunteers, many of whom spend time in camps or supporting refugees themselves, and we want to make sure that this doesn’t turn into a big global franchise without that human element. That’s so important and it’s very different from a traditional commercial model.

What other stores have you worked in before opening this one?

None – this was my first!

‘Safe spaces for women’ item available from Choose Love stores. Photography courtesy of Choose Love.

What’s your favorite item in the store right now? There are literally no bad choices in Choose Love – every single item is a winner. But the ‘safe spaces for women’ item is both beautiful and massively important. If anyone is stuck for what to buy, I always point them in that direction.

Love Has No Borders artwork by Mike Andrews pictured in the London pop-up store. Photography courtesy of Choose Love.

What is this season’s theme/inspiration/story?

Our overarching theme this year is called ‘Love has no borders’. We decided it was time to be bold and clear in the message, at a time when vanishingly few of our leaders seem willing to do so. Our design director Mike Andrews created a Rorschach-esque graphic of continents facing each other and it works so well. Design-wise, we’ve chosen a very bright, 90s feel this year which is joyful and unexpected. There is no reason that you need to use dull, muted colors just because you’re talking about a humanitarian issue. Choose Love is about people helping other people – it is about hope and love and compassion. Our ethos at Glimpse is that charity doesn’t need to feel like charity – it can be confident, uplifting and aspirational.

‘Bundle of Love’ available from Choose Love stores. Photography courtesy of Choose Love.

Are you carrying any new products and/or undiscovered gems you’re particularly excited about? 

This year we have something called a “Bundle of love’, which is a collection of items to provide warmth, shelter and dignity to people living in camps. For £100 you can buy a tent, tarpaulin and pallet, hot showers and washing facilities, boots, sanitary products, and a month’s supply of diapers. That’s an incredible boost to someone in dire need and the best use of £100 I can think of. These bundles are a fairly new concept, but we think people will love them.

What has been a consistent best seller?

The child’s coat, because people can pick it up and imagine what it’s like to raise a child in a freezing cold and exposed refugee camp. Using the language and format of retail to encourage empathy for refugees is so important to the store experience. It is amazing how emotional it can be simply handling a pair of boots or a pack of diapers, and imagining what it would be like to leave your home and everyone you know, to set out for an unfamiliar new country.

Choose Love t-shirts designed by Katharine Hamnett for Help for Refugees pictured in the NYC pop-up store. Photography courtesy of Choose Love.

Does the store have its own line? If not, any plans for it in the future?

The Choose Love t-shirts are always a massive hit, and this year we are expecting some very special editions. We also have a series of Print Club prints, which are absolutely beautiful – and have a very special “Love Has No Borders” print, which I definitely want in my house.

Any special events/exhibits/pop ups/collaborations coming up?

This year we’re working with some amazing DJs and artists who are performing in-store throughout the month of December. I can’t reveal too much yet, but there will be some really big names popping in at various times. In the London store, our friends The Flying Seagulls will be in residence for at least one of the weekends. They provide playtime and clowning for children living in refugee camps, and will be bringing their energy and hilarity to everyone in-store too.

Do you have anything from the store in your own home?

The concept for the store is ‘shop your heart out, leave with nothing, feel the love,’ so that’s not really the vibe! But, of course, I do have a t-shirt.

What’s next for you and your store?

We want the concept to spread around the world, becoming an annual fixture in towns and cities everywhere. Imagine if every high street had a Choose Love store, where you could learn about the refugee crisis and do something practical to help. Imagine if the holidays – and every other festival – became more about compassion than consumerism. This doesn’t just have to be about refugees either; there are lots of opportunities to use empty retail spaces to encourage empathy and repurpose all of the energy and creativity of commerce into something that really matters. And if that all sounds impossible, come into one of the stores and see for yourself.

What’s one lesson you’ve learned since opening your store?

People are generous, warm and thoughtful. Beyond the gloom and doom in the media, the polarization and the shouty headlines, most of us are really moved by the refugee crisis. We want to help, but we often feel confused or overwhelmed by the scale of these problems. And it really helps if someone can break things down into smaller pieces, offer us something practical to do, and make it as engaging and creative as they possibly can.

If you could give one piece of advice to someone who wants to follow a similar path to yours, what would it be?

Don’t be afraid. When you’re working from your heart, when you really put energy and meaning into your work, people will respond to it. To borrow from Talking Heads, ‘we are creatures of love’.

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[dearyallfrommatt]

Never Give A Fascist An Even Break.

 So you’ve probably seen the above floating around Twitter, maybe it’s made its way to Tumblr, I don’t know. In a nutshell, it’s a recording of alt-right butthole Richard Spencer having a full-on meltdown after being escorted away by police from the “Unite The Right” rally in Charlottesville, VA, back in 2017 that resulted in the death of activist Heather Heyer.

 What’s particularly interesting about this audio, about a minute in length, is how unambiguously it shows just what Spencer really is and what he champions, especially when he faces any sort of resistance. Apparently, this will come as a shock to some people. I know, right?

 Previously, Spencer had been normalized in the mainstream press like The New York Times as a fresh new kind of hate monger, one that kept his cool and looked sharp doing it, a Nazi you could have a drink with. CNN, the network so loathed by the very people who think Spencer is worth listening to, had him on as a guest as recently as this past July. Even liberal magazine Mother Jones, in a stunning display of poor judgement, referred to him as a “dapper white nationalist”. We have to listen, they said. Marketplace of ideas or something like that, they said. Or maybe it was free speech, I don’t know.

 And of course, everyone has seen him take that well-deserved punch last January that launched a thousand memes, which apparently hurt his delicate feels more than the sock to the jaw. Even so, by October he was speaking at the University of Florida, my alma mater for whatever that’s worth, as the president of the National Policy Institute, a “think tank” based in Arlington, VA. He wasn’t invited by the university, though. Indeed, they denounced Spencer because he’s a fascist douchenozzle and a smelly racist, but being a state university they had to rent him the space and just had to charge students and alumni up to $500,000 for added security. 

 Amusingly enough, this audio was released by former ally and two-bit grifter Milo Yiannopolous. Formerly good buddies, the two had a falling out after Milo went all pro-pedophile, blowing his con and causing American conservatives to abandoned their Gay Best Friend. Milo’s fall from grace has seen him recently begging for money and losing book deals while pissing on his former fanboys.

 Here’s a quote from Spencer’s whine. Trigger Warning: All sorts of racism and antisemitism.

“I win! They fucking lose!” he continued, before railing against Jews and non-whites, whom he said should be subservient to people like himself. “Little fucking kikes, they get ruled by people like me,” he snarled. “Little fucking octoroons! … My ancestors fucking enslaved those fucking pieces of fucking shit! I rule the fucking world! Those pieces of shit get ruled by people like me!” 

 Well... what can you say? Are you really surprised? You shouldn’t be. Though tech-savvy and media smart (supposedly), Spencer and his alt-right are the same foul racists, antisemitic poltroons, and general bigots we’ve seen from the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party and Christian Identity adherents and John Birchers and any manner of human garbage that has infested the American soul since the country started. 

 It should be noted, of course, that this has yet to be independently verified (as of 2 a.m. Monday morning) and, naturally, we shouldn’t believe Milo goofy ass as far as we can throw him. Nevertheless, whoever’s voice that is, that’s what white supremacy says. That’s what Richard Spencer has been espousing since he broke on the scene, even if he said it nicer and calmer  and more controlled manner than that. Well-spoken racist dickbags are still racist dickbags.

 Even though this was released late Sunday evening, so we don’t have the corporate media’s take on this particular egg on their face, wingnuts are already starting to cut their losses. Sleazy wank stain Jack Prosobiec is trying to distance himself and blame everything on Jake Tapper. Well, Bumble Jack, believe you me, there’s plenty of blame to go around, so buckle up. Your time is going to come eventually, I imagine.

 Now, children, what can we learn from all of this? Well, for one, when someone tells you what they are, believe them. If we, as a culture, reject bigotry, white nationalism, white supremacy, antisemitism, general hatred, and all the rest like we say we do, why should we even give cheap rats like Spencer a second look? After the aforementioned suckerpunch, conservatives and not a few liberals wrung their hands and clutched their pearls at the incivility. “Why must we engage in violence,” they mewled. “Can’t we defeat his ideas with discourse and debate?”

 See, here’s the thing: his ideas have already been discredited and discarded, so everything the geek says should be disregarded no matter how sharp his suit is or how friendly is. This may come as a shock to you, fellow honkies, but there is no “debate” with someone who wants to eliminate rights for large segments of the population or, if they’re being honest, just full on eliminate those segments of the population. In the ‘90s, we called Richard Spencer “David Duke”. This ain’t the first rodeo with this sort of clown.

 We owe him no consideration and no debate. Read your Karl Popper, specifically the Paradox of Tolerance, if you need more persuasion. However, after treating these guys as the pitiful butt of jokes and guilt-free villains in video games at best and the outright scum of the Earth at worst, I really can’t understand why it’d behoove us to even bother.

 I know I’m not the only one to say it, but Donald Trump did not bring us Richard Spencer. When it comes to America’s bigotry against historically oppressed groups, he is merely a symptom, not the cause of the disease. Indeed, it could be argued that Richard Spencer - the people who agree with him outright or just those who tacitly allow the sufferance of his ideology - brought us Donald Trump. Way, way too many people were just waiting on someone in “charge” to give them the okay; treating guys like Spencer seriously helped encourage that environment

 The scales should not be falling from our eyes on this one. We really, really should know better. We shouldn’t allow the corporate media to get away with shit like this. We all share a little guilt on this one. Next time, don’t be so easy on complete bastards, okay?

[theliterateape]

Interview With The Nine Year-Old — Halloween Edition!

By Brian Sweeney

This is an in-depth Halloween interview with my girlfriend's 9-year-old daughter, Charlotte.

This is 100 percent real.

OK, Charlotte, how old are you?

What do you think?

Alright. Are you excited for Halloween?

I guess.

Are you scared?

No…

Do you believe in ghosts?

No.

Why not?

Huh?

Why not?

I don’t know. It’s just, apparently, people believe in ghosts and don’t believe in ghosts. I mean, my friend Evie, she is like saying all these things like, “Oh my God, there’s ghosts everywhere! They don’t see them! I see these 3 a.m. videos!” And she talks about 3 a.m. sometimes, and what I tell her is — I ask her some questions, and I tell her, “One, editing. Two—”

That’s not a question.

Well—

That’s a one word statement.

Stop it. So, I ask her some questions and she answers, and what I tell her is, “They’re not real and they’re just trying to trick you for views and just to get in the Halloween mood and stuff and there’s editing, so they edit stuff and it might be a scene. And plus, how did they know this was gonna happen? How did they know all this stuff so they could get it on camera? And like, she used to believe in Charlie, Charlie.

What is that?

It’s like a doll. Like, what you have to is — How to play — like, there’s a game and it’s like a horror thing. So, Charlie, Charlie, apparently possesses— You have to get a piece of paper and then, it’s a game, and you have to say, “Charlie, Charlie, are you here?” And then it would move if it was — if Charlie was there and it would go to “Yes” or if it was staying — if it pointed the “No,” to “No” or just didn't do anything, then Charlie, Charlie wouldn’t be there.

Do you know what Ouija boards are?

I know something about it.

Because that’s kind of the same thing as Charlie, Charlie. You’re like “is there a ghost here?” And the thing moves and it says “Yes.”

Um, there’s these things, I don’t know what they’re called and you have this giant board and this little thing where lots of people have to move—

Yeah, thats a Ouija board.

Yeah, um, so, um, there’s this meme and it said — and so all the people said, “What’s your name?” And then, they moved it and they said “WHAT THE F!” And then everyone was choking each other.

So you don’t think you can buy a board game and talk to a ghost through it?

Nah.

Do you know what Bloody Mary is?

Yeah. Where you go into a bathroom and you say like something, you do some stuff. All I remember is, you say “Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary” three times and then you flush like two times.

You flush?

I don’t know.

Like, the toilet?

I don’t know. So, I think it’s, you turn around three times, you flush the toilet two times and then you— And then you spin around again and say “Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary.” I don’t know. Something like that.

So, what is the scariest thing?

Clowns.

Would you rather fight a vampire or a killer clown?

Uh… Get a gun and shoot them. Easy way!

You can’t kill a vampire with bullets!

Ahem. I meant, just frickin’ get a flashlight and shine it at them.

Do you know how to kill a vampire?

Yeah, like, light. And tomatoes.

What?

I mean onions!

Garlic.

Garlic!

And sunlight. Not just light.

Yeah.

And a stake through the heart.

What?

Stake through the heart.

Steak?

Yeah. It’s a wooden… It’s a wooden… Never mind. So, on a scale of one to five, tell me how scary this is.

Oh no.

How scary is this on a scale of one to five?

Three.

Really?! You were that scared by it?

No, I’m not! Three.

So you are kind of scared by it?

Yeah.

How scary is he on a scale of one to five?

Not really scary.

Do you know who he is?

Frankenstein.

Frankenstein’s Monster.

How scary is that on a scale of one to five?

Two.

Two? So Dracula was the most scary.

How scary is he on a scale of one to five?

That has a visible mask.

Yeah, but he’s supposed to.

Four.

That’s scarier, right?

Yeah. Don’t show me that. It’s nighttime.

There he is in New York.

(laughing) Why? What?

Because they made Part 8 and he goes to New York.

But why?

Because he’s on a ship and he goes on the ship and kills people and then the ship goes to New York and he gets out and he walks around New York.

That’s stupid!

Hey, you said he was really scary! Everything becomes stupid after a while. So, is Jason scarier than the clown from IT?

Who’s Jason?

The guy in the hockey mask.

I’m not sure.

So, they’re equal scary?

I guess.

What about this.

Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.

So dolls are scary?

I mean, I like dolls but I don’t have an aphobia of dolls.

So that was scary?

Yeah.

Five out of five?

Yeah! What do you think?!

I don’t know! Because you were talking about how stupid the other stuff was, and with dolls you can just kick them across the room. If a doll doesn’t sneak up on you— That’s the only way a doll can do anything. If you see it you can just pick it up and throw it out the window and lock the door. What’s a doll going to do?

Get a knife and stab the door!

But it’s still a doll. You can just get a large box and put it over the doll. It’s not a doll with super-strength. So, that’s why I wasn’t sure if it was scary or not.

I mean, I know it’s fake but my imagining gets the best of me.

But, that’s like what you were saying about the 3 a.m. videos. It’s the editing and stuff to make it scary.

But, I know it’s fake. for some reason I keep telling myself, “It’s real. No, it’s fake. It’s real. No, it’s fake.”

But, that’s the fun of watching movies because you know, like, Iron Man is not flying around for real, but your brain stops thinking, “That’s not real, that can’t happen,” and you just start enjoying things.

For once!

Brian Sweeney is a contributing author to the book Welcome to the Future Which is Mine.

[rayybaby14]

Just a little bit about me 🍂🍁🌻

1. What is your full name? I would rather not put my full name for security reasons, but my new married name is Ray Davidson.

2. Are you named after anyone? No, but I am named after the poem ‘The Raven’ by Edgar Alan Poe.

3. What does your name mean? I’m not really sure.

4. Where are you from? A small town in nowhere, Texas.

5. Where do you live? West Texas currently.

6. Where were you born? In the great state of TX.

7. Which of your parents are you closest to? My mother. My “father” isn’t much of a father. I don’t really know him.

8. Which of your parents are you more like? Definitely my mom. Very hard headed and stubborn.

9. What is your favorite drink? Vanilla root beer for non alcoholic, and Bloody Mary for adult beverages. 😋

10. What is your favorite food? Anything with shrimp. Haha. But my mother’s chicken spaghetti is my absolute favorite.

11. What is your favorite holiday destination? At home snuggled up with my family. 🍁

12. What is your favorite childhood memory? I don’t have a lot of great childhood memories, but my 16th Birthday was probably my favorite.

13. What is your favorite way to pass time? Netflix or napping.

14. What is your favorite snack? Cereal. Specifically, fruit loops.

15. What is your favorite sport? To play: softball. To watch: college football. Alabama fan all the way.

16. What is your biggest regret? Not letting my brother know I loved him before he died. We didn’t get along well. And sometimes I regret my decision as far as my son goes...but I know it was the right one in my heart.

17. Are you a fan of any sports team? Huge Alabama crimson tide fan, and a lover of the Green Bay Packers

18. Are you a dog person or cat person? Dog, no doubt. I have a Great Dane named Titan and a little Blue Lacy named Masyn. My babies.

19. Are you scared of heights? Not really.

20. At what age did you go on your first date? 16 or so.

21. What is an ideal first date for you? Anything that’s not awkward vibes. I want to feel comfortable.

22. What is at the top of your bucket list? Raise my daughter with the man of my dreams until I see my son again.

23. What is something you are gifted at? Making people laugh.

24. What is something you look for in a partner? Humor. Romance. A free soul. Someone like me. Someone like my beautiful husband.

25. What is something you wish you were gifted at doing? Neonatal nursing. Those with that gift are so special to my heart.

26. What is the one item you can’t leave home without? My chapstick. Lol.

27. What is the best compliment you have ever received? “You are the best mother your babies could have ever asked for.”

28. What is the first book you remember reading? The Junie B. Jones books.

29. What is the first movie you remember seeing? The Little Mermaid or some Disney movie.

30. What is the last book you read? Currently reading ‘Everything, Everything.’

31. Do you like pets? Of course. I want more animals some day.

32. Do you have any pets? A Great Dane who warms my heart and a little Blue Lacy who heals my soul.

33. What is the name of your first pet? A little Blue Beta fish named Nemo.

34. What is your best physical feature? My eyes.

35. What is your biggest accomplishment? Becoming a mother.

36. What is your eye color? Blue.

37. What is your favorite color? Blue 💙

38. What is your favorite fairytale? Cinderella.

39. What is your favorite ice-cream flavor? Strawberry cheesecake.

40. What is your favorite music genre? Texas country, forever.

41. What is your favorite nickname? “Ray”.

42. What is your favorite quote? “And she loved a little boy very, very much. Even more than she loved herself.”

43. What is your favorite type of clothing? Sweaters and hoodies.

44. What is your most commonly used swear word? “Fuck” as much as I hate it.

45. What is your star sign? Virgo ♍️

46. Do you have a best friend, if so, then who? My husband.

47. Do you have a tattoo? 8 of them.

48. Do you have any allergies? Chocolate 🍫

49. Do you have any birthmarks? If so, where? No birthmarks.

50. Do you hold any convictions that you would be willing to die for? A few.

51. Do you prefer kissing or cuddling? A little of both.

52. What piece of technology can you not live without? Netflix.

53. What was the first concert you ever attended? Gary Allan.

54. What was your favorite subject in High School? English, band, or softball.

55. What was your first job? Babysitting. But my first “real” job was a sonic carhop.

56. What was your least favorite subject in High School? Math.

57. What is the furthest you’ve ever been from home? Alaska or Florida.

58. What is your biggest fear? Clowns.

59. When did you suffer your first heartbreak? When I was around 14. But it was for the best.

60. When was the first time you were on a plane? Probably 2007, to Alaska.

61. When was the last time you cried? Today. Every day.

62. When was the last time you got in a fist fight? Freshman year of high school. So roughly 8 years lol

63. Who has left the most impact on your life? My little boy.

64. Who is the best teacher you ever had? My senior year English teacher. She will forever be special to me.

65. Who is the first person you call when something exciting happens? My mom or my husband.

66. Who is the first person you call when something horrible happens? See number 63.

67. Who is your favorite musician? Luke Combs

68. Who is your role model? My sweet meme.

69. Who was your first Boyfriend/Girlfriend? JR Enriquez. What a train wreck that was.

70. Who was your first Celebrity crush? Robert Pattinson.

71. Who is your favorite actor? Seth Rogen.

72. Who is your favorite actress? Kristen Bell.

73. Describe yourself in a single sentence? Humble and very broken.

74. Have you ever dated two people at the same time? Sadly yes.

75. Have you ever suffered a fracture? A few times.

76. Have you ever visited a country outside your continent? not yet. Someday.

77. How many Boyfriends/Girlfriends have you had? Hard to say. Probably more than I should.

78. How many relationships have you been in? Only one that really matters. My sweet husband.

79. If you could give your younger self any advice what would it be? Don’t grow up too fast. Slow down and enjoy your life while you can. You think it’s hard now, but you have no idea.

80. Last time you swam in a pool? Summer 2016.

81. What is your most embarrassing moment? Slipping on ice in front of my high school boyfriend.

82. On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest and 1 being the lowest, rate your fashion sense? Probably a 7.

83. On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest and 1 being the lowest, rate your driving skills? Probably..a 7. 😂

84. On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest and 1 being the lowest, rate your cooking skills? Right in the middle of being good and awful. I’ll say a 6.

85. On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest and 1 being the lowest, how good a kisser are you? I’m married so I guess a 10 😋

86. One thing you know now that you wish you had known as a kid? The heartbreak you think will kill you as a kid is nothing compared to the heartbreak you feel in the “real world.”

87. The first app you check when you wake up in the morning? Usually Facebook.

88. What app do you use most? Facebook, Twitter, instagram, Netflix, Snapchat, tumblr.

89. What are some of your bad habits? Cursing too much, eating too much junk food. Not brushing my hair often enough.

90. What are your favorite things about yourself? I’m compassionate. I’m helpful. I can make people laugh.

91. What are your hobbies? Netflix 😂

92. What countries have you visited? None other than my home country.

93. What countries would you like to visit? Ireland, Scotland, Greece.

94. What do you consider unforgivable? That’s a tough one to answer..

95. What do you do for a living? I work in correctional health. I am a dental assistant in a max security prison.

[imperfectjulicia]

1: How tall or short do you wish you were? 5′6 2: What’s your dream pet? (Real or not) Octopus (; 3: Do you have a favorite clothing style? Grungy or punk 4: What was your favorite video game growing up? Pokemon All the way 5: What three things/people do you think of most each day: Austin <3, Going home and food 100% 6: If you had a warning label, what would yours say? Warning: Emotional on the inside bitch on the outside 8: What is your Greek personality type? [Sanguine, Phlegmatic, Choleric, or Melancholic] Have no clue... 9: Are you ticklish? Anywhere and everywhere 10: Are you allergic to anything? Frozen strawberries  11: What’s your sexuality? Demi-sexual 12: Do you prefer tea, coffee, or cocoa? Tea or Cocoa 13: Are you a cat or dog person? All animals the fuq 14: Would you rather be a vampire, elf, or merperson? Elf probs 15: Do you have a favorite Youtuber? Markiplier or Jacksepticeye  16: How tall are you? 5′5″ 17: If you had to change your name, what would you change it to? Don’t want to change it, but I guess Luna  18: How much do you weigh? HAHAHAH 19: Do you believe in ghosts/spirits? When you get haunted you believe that shit  20: Do you like space or the ocean more? oh for sure the ocean but I like space a lot  21: Are you religious? Once I have proof 22: Pet peeves? Nail biting and whistling  23: Would you rather be nocturnal or diurnal [opposite of nocturnal]? Nocturnal  24: Favorite constellation? Piscium 25: Favorite star? I don’t know... 26: Do you like ball-jointed dolls? um no? 27: Any phobias or fears? Spiders Clowns Bridges and heights  28: Do you think global warming is real? Sadly yes it is 29: Do you believe in reincarnation? 100%  30: Favorite movie? Probably  31: Do you get scared easily? Oh yeaah  32: How many pets have you own in your lifetime? 6 cats 2 dogs 1 bunny and a shit ton of fish  34: What is a color that calms you? blue 35: Where would you like to travel and/or live? HAWAII 36: Where were you born? Hayward, California 37: What is your eye color? Brown  38: Introvert or extrovert? Both :P 39: Do you believe in horoscopes and zodiacs? Whole heartily  40: Hugs or kisses? Kisses 41: Who is someone you would like to see/visit right now? Austin /:  42: Who is someone you love deeply? Ellis </3 43: Any piercings you want? Nope got enough  44: Do you like tattoos and piercings? Well I hope so since i got a lot of each  45: Do you smoke or have you eiver done so? I smoke daily 46: Talk about your crush, if you have one! He is someone that helps me feel better when my depression kicks in. He tells me about shit he’s done and it turns me on haha  47: What is a sound you really hate? Whistling  48: A sound you really love? Babys laugh  49: Can you do a backflip? HAHAHA no 50: Can you do the splits? Use to be able to  51: Favorite actor and/or actress?  52: Favorite movie? 53: How are you feeling right now? Tired and Depressed 54: What color would you like your hair to be right now? Teal <3 55: When did you feel happiest? When I lay in his arms  56: Something that calms you down? Cigarettes  57: Have any mental disorders? A couple..  58: What does your URL mean? Um i dont know really 59: What three words describe you the most? Emotional, tired, and friendly 60: Do you believe in evolution? obvi 61: What makes you unfollow a blog? Racist or plain rude blogs  62: What makes you follow a blog? Funny blogs  63: Favorite kind of person: Nice and funny  64: Favorite animal(s): Elephants and octopus if i had to pick  65: Name three of your favorite blogs.  succeeding ,  ruinedchildhood , and my bae  re-poet  66: Favorite emoticon: the upside down smilie face 67: Favorite meme: Joe Biden ones  68: What is your MBTI personality type? INFP 69: What is your star sign? Pisces  70: Can your dog roll over on command, if you have a dog? One can yes 71: What outfit out of all your clothes do you like to wear the most?Black Skinny jeans a long shirt and my boots 73: Do you have platform shoes? Nope 74: What is one random but interesting fact about yourself? Ive been to more schools than fingers on my hands  75: Can you do a front flip? Haha No 76: Do you like birds? Domestic ones yeah  77: Do you like to swim? Love it <3 78: Is swimming or ice skating more fun to you? Equal  79: Something you wish didn’t exist: Criminals 80: Some thing you wish did exist: Good People 81: Piercings you have? Have 7 2 lip, Gauges (1/2), Cartilage, Septum, Eyebrow, and tongue :P  82: Something you really enjoy doing: Smoking that good good Haha 83: Favorite person to talk to: Austin <3 84: What was your first impression of Tumblr? This is dope!!!! 85: How many followers do you have? 95.... 86: Can you run a mile within ten minutes? Done it once!!! 87: Do your socks always match? Lately yes but thats  cause i bought a new pack with just white ones 88: Can you touch your toes and keep your legs straight completely? Yes  89: What are your birthstones?  Amethyst 90: If you were an animal, which one would you be? Elephant  91: If a flower could aesthetically represent you, what kind would it be? Tulip  92: A store you hate? Abercrombie & Fitch   93: How many cups of coffee can you drink in one day? 0 I hate coffee  94: Would you rather be able to fly or read minds? Read Minds  95: Do you like to wear camo? Nope  96: Winter or summer? Fall  97: How long can you hold your breath for? a minute maybe  98: Least favorite person? Donald Trump  99: Someone you look up to: My mom or P!nk 100: A store you love? Zumiez  101: Favorite type of shoes Jordans  102: Where do you live? Washington State  103: Are you a vegetarian or vegan? If so, why? Was at one point but got super sick.  104: What is your favorite mineral or gem? My birthstone  105: Do you drink milk? When it was with cereal  106: Do you like bugs? Nope 107: Do you like spiders? Not even one bit 108: Something you get paranoid about? My future  109: Can you draw: I like to think so  110: Nosiest question you have ever been asked? Anything sexual  111: A question you hate being asked? Anything sexual haha  112: Ever been bitten by a spider? Yup in the bathtub... 113: Do you like the sound of waves at the beach? Love <3 114: Do you prefer cloudy or sunny days? Sunny  115: Someone you’d like to kiss or cuddle right now: Austin <3 116: Favorite cloud type: Full white ones or rain clouds 117: What color do you wish the sky was? Light Purple  118: Do you have freckles? Nope  119: Favorite thing about a person: The way they smile  120: Fruits or vegetables? Fruits  121: Something you want to do right now: Smoke 122: Is the ocean or sky prettier? Ocean  123: Sweet or sour foods? Sour 124: Bright or dim lights? Dim  125: Do you believe in a certain magical creature? Yeah aliens  126: Something you hate about Tumblr: Not enough time  127: Something you love about Tumblr: Community  128: What do you think about the least? School  129: What would you want written on your tombstone? Well That was exciting  130: Who would you like to punch in the face right now? Donald Trump 131: What is something you love but also hate about yourself? Everything  132: Do you smile with your teeth showing for pictures? Depends  133: Computer or TV? TV  134: Do you like roller coasters? Love them  135: Do you get motion sickness or seasickness? Nope thankfully  136: Are your ears lobed or attached? Unattached  137: Do you believe in karma? 100% yes  138: On a scale of 1-10, how attractive would you say you are? 5/ 5.5 139: What nicknames do you have/have had? Oh so many: Jay, Juju, Jumo, Jellybean, Mini me, Jolly, Skittles. 140: Did you have any pretend or imaginary friends? Yup a new one everyday  141: Have you ever seen a therapist/shrink? Nope.  142: Would you say you are a good or bad influence to others? I’ve been told I’m a bad influence  143: Do you prefer giving or receiving gifts/help? Both haha  144: What makes you angry? Donald Trump 145: How many languages do you speak fluently? 2 English and Spanish  146: Do you prefer boys, girls, and/or non-binaries? Guys and slightly girls  147: Are you androgynous? Maybe  148: Favorite physical thing about yourself: My calfs  149: Favorite thing about your personality: Can be funny  150: Name three people you would like to talk to right now in person. Famous? Obama, Abe Lincoln and P!nk  151: If you could go back into time and live in one era, which would you choose? 60′s 152: Do you like BuzzFeed? Kinda  153: How did you meet your spouse/girlfriend/boyfriend/partner? [If you have one.] TINDER!!!!!!!! 154: Do you like to kiss others’ foreheads or hands for platonic reasons? No  155: Do you like to play with others’ hair? Austins yes <3  156: What embarrasses you? Myself  157: Something that makes you nervous/anxious: To much to list  158: Biggest lie you have ever told: I’m not hungry  159: How many people are you following? 118  160: How many posts do you have on your blog(s)?2,583 161: How many drafts do you have on your blog(s)? 0 162: How many likes do you have on your blog(s)?5,600 163: Last time you cried and why:  last saturday I’m an Emotional wreck  164: Do you have long or short hair? short 165: Longest your hair has ever been: to my butt(: 166: Why do you like, dislike, or have neutral feelings about religon? that people use it as an excuse to harm or belittle others >:(  167: Do you really care how the universe and world was created? nope becasuse we are here and thats what really matters  168: Do you like to wear makeup? sometimes  169: Can you stand on your hands or head for more than thirty seconds? nope  170: Did you answer the questions you were asked truthfully? yes i did