#i specify white girls because they're the ones who have said this to me

[fairynisse]

White girls: Omg, how are you so skinny?

Me: Poverty.

[hongssimi]

naruto running // lee sohee

ᝰ synopsis .ᐟ you were stunned. it was definitely your fault for assuming your online friend was a girl. for god’s sake, naruto’s a shonen anime, an animated show marketed to boys and men. but it wasn’t completely your fault too. i mean, sohee never clarified to you that he was a dude either.

ᝰ pairing .ᐟ fanboy!sohee x fangirl!reader

ᝰ genre .ᐟ crack // written & smau

ᝰ word count .ᐟ 0.9k+ (text only)

ᝰ warning .ᐟ please practice stranger danger, second-hand embarrassment moments, mentions of dicks, dirty jokes, and sugar daddy/sugar baby relationship

ᝰ author's note .ᐟ happy birthday to my favourite naruto fanboy lee ddori<3 this fic was inspired by sohee’s obsession with naruto and that one time he went to the naruto exhibition in korea… also the fact i have to specifically search "riize sohee" online for his photos because sometimes other sohees appear instead and they're all girls lmao

you were truly excited. you hadn’t met an online friend in so long, especially one that was in the naruto fandom, and lived in seoul. your friends in the fandom were mostly girls from other provinces, and the ones that were from seoul were all busy corporate slaves, so you barely got to meet them.

"you know how i look like… right?" you texted sohee.

"yeah ok i’m coming hold on"

"that’s what she said"

of course, you being you, you had to make a dirty joke when presented with the opportunity.

you were curious how sohee looked like. it was the first time you were meeting her, after being friends for about three months. you became friends with sohee since she first joined the fandom on twitter. she’d never posted her photos on twitter, which meant that you knew nothing about her facial features – except that she once mentioned she had four or five moles on her left cheek, and that her twitter profile photo was of her eyes.

she’s probably pretty, right?

i remember she told me that she studies applied music in university so maybe she can sing? if we end early, we can go sing at the karaoke after the exhibition too!

waiting for sohee, you imagined she was someone with a cute face but sharp jawline, a pretty smile, and long luscious hair – until she stood in front of you calling your name.

“y/n?”

you lost your train of thoughts as soon as you saw her.

she was a he.

you were stunned.

“you’re y/n, right? i’m sohee,” a handsome guy wearing a gray beanie and a track jacket stood in front of you, taking off his white mask.

“you’re sohee? user soheeruto?”

he nodded to your questions, asking you afterwards if you were okay as you had your mouth left agape. it was definitely your fault for assuming your online friend was a girl. sohee was such a feminine-sounding name, and was a name mostly used by girls.

you stood up and ran to the restaurant washroom, which was a few tables away from your table.

it wasn’t completely your fault, was it?

“um... hi?” you peeked out of the washroom door and slowly walked to your table and greeted him.

“was i that scary?”

“no, it’s just… i was shocked. i thought you were a girl because-”

“you thought i was a girl?”

“well i mean – you didn’t even correct me every time i texted you with feminine terms! and your name! sohee! it’s technically a name that leaned more towards girls!”

“okay, okay, calm down. can we order food first and then i’ll explain my… um, lore?”

as it turned out, it was indeed, not completely your fault. although sohee hadn’t put his pronouns in his profile or explicitly mentioned he was a dude, his profile biography wrote “naruto-loving shonen (i like sasuke more though)”, which he thought mentioning ‘shonen’ was sufficient in specifying his gender. though, gender didn’t matter much to him when making friends, as long as it was someone who enjoyed watching naruto. he was also used to being misgendered from just his name — which was socially known as a more feminine name — because he just didn’t care enough to correct unless he absolutely needed to.

“this steakhouse’s steak bussin’ though.”

“right? i always come here whenever i crave for steak, it hits every time,” you replied sohee.

“but do you normally naruto run – or did i just shock you too much for being a dude?”

“shut up, let’s go to the exhibition,” you got up to pay for the meal for the both of you, before exiting the store with sohee, as repayment for him paying your exhibition tickets.

“sohee, turn around and pose!”

the both of you were on an escalator heading towards the entrance of the exhibition, when you asked sohee to turn around so that you could snap a picture of him – that you sent after through the file sharing function on your phones. he returned the favor after by taking your phone to snap a photo, asking you to pose with the sign at the entrance. the both of you had so much fun looking at the exhibition, recalling episodes of the anime as you walked through each section.

as attendees, you had complimentary photo booth passes, which you chose to take yours with sohee while his own was a solo shot. it didn’t really matter to you if you didn’t have a photo booth of just yourself with the naruto exhibition frame compared to a photo with sohee for your first meeting.

sorry to everyone, but i’m gatekeeping my photo with sohee from the rest of the world.

“y/n, wait. i want a photo at this wall,” sohee asks right before the exit of the exhibition, unlocking his phone and opening the camera application, before passing it to you – which you found to be a weird habit he had as he could’ve accessed the camera app without unlocking his phone, but to each his own.

“thanks for today, y/n. it was really fun.”

you nodded and smiled at sohee, agreeing that your first meeting with the gray beanie boy was fun. the both of you took so long in the exhibition, enjoying every bit of it. you documented everything for memories’ sake, not realising sohee took a photo of you in the midst of it until he had sent it to you on twitter after parting ways.

✶⋆.˚꩜ AFTERTHOUGHTS .ᐟ˙⋆✶ not the author and seunghan cousin insert at the end lmaooo anyways hope you enjoyed this abomination of a fic... i don’t even know what i was on to have written this but it barely has anything to do with naruto besides the exhibition being a plot device

✶⋆.˚꩜ PERMANENT RII7E TAGLIST .ᐟ˙⋆✶ [OPEN]

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[astralnymphh]

I just got on and saw what’s been happening and bro…I’m glad people are talking about it. Mostly about the smut, inclusivity, Palestine, and the fetishization of trans people.

Reading smut is so underwhelming like it seems like that’s all what people write these days. Like I need ANGST! I need to CRY! I need SLOW BURN AND PLOT….

And to be honest, I personally feel like some writers purposely list the reader’s physical descriptions as being white… like damn you know multiple people are going to come across your shit. I would get annoyed asf when I see something like “she touched your soft pale flushed skin” BITCH- 💀 don’t piss me off 😒🦶🏽

I won’t speak too in depth about the fetishization of trans people in fanfics because I’m not trans and I don’t want to say anything inaccurate BUT I will say it’s so disturbing and off putting seeing shit like that and seeing how people are sexualizing trans people more than treating them like regular humans…I also came across that ‘femcel’ series and🧍🏽‍♀️erm… no.

I appreciate the account who made the post discussing how the word trans and the f word are completely different. I didn’t even know that word was derogatory and it shocked me... I hope that account takes it down and they educate themselves or something cause 🙁👎🏽

yes pook YES smut can be underwhelming and so overdone. we definitely need more angst/fluff.. or just PLOT in general. no, i'm not saying don't write it at all (incase anons twist my words, cause.. they're good at that.) i'm just saying that it would be nice to see some fully fleshed out pieces with emotion and storytelling. i have something in the works though, that encompasses all genres (fluff/smut/angst) so, there's that!

people will so clearly write the whole petite pale white girl bs like "ur delicate small hand" or the fuckass "doey eyed and blushing cherub red" like NEVER portray reader so specifically unless you're going to specify it in the cw!!!! do whatever for ellie's white ass but for the love of gods and goddess BE AWARE OF READER AS A SPOT TO FILL, NOT AN OC!!!! idk how else to describe what i just said. but. it is said. so it. yeah. that whole delicate small petite thing kinda trickles into writing childlike readers too but. thats a whole nother discussion. no clue if i ever used that phrasing in the past tho i have no bold memories of my writings in detail.

i think people will listen to anybody but trans people who are actively calling it fetishization, like. all the mfs arguing with them say "trans and f💀ta aren't the same!" yeah. they aren't. cause one is like, a genuine, flesh and bone person.. with a whole story.. and feelings.. and experiences.. and one is.. fetishization. how many times do trans people have to repeat that? bet most of the people trying to argue against it aren't even trans.

the whole thing about authors "flooding" the tlou tag with palestine posts is also dumb as fuck. is scrolling a bit too taxing on your poor smut-guzzling thumbs?? ur scrolling over big booty fics, i think you can scroll a little further past those posts if you're really that much of a basement dwelling fuck that's sitting comfortably in their homes while a genocide is happening. out here sobbing cause people are spreading awareness. eat my bum bum booty. ++ also add-on cause we're holding writers accountable for ignoring a strike (different than not knowing at first) but there's also the artists!! they're there too.

anons r gonna come into my inbox abt all this but i'm not even gonna answer like, don't waste your time. im not reading all that. especially coming from an ANON 💀

me when

[rewritingcanon]

i would just like to SPECIFY and go into a bit of detail about what each thing actually means:

this may not seem so bad, but when i mean they will comment on anything, i mean anything. it doesnt have to be marauder-related. it doesn’t even need to be related to harry potter. i saw a tiktok on a gorilla eating a banana and someone deadass commented “thats cool and stan james potter 😝” and lord FORBID if you include anything with snape in it. want to make an edit of him? backlash. want to talk about how you like him because hes interestingly written? backlash. want to deconstruct his character due to how badly fanon twisted him and actually analyse him? “anyways stan james potter” may be the dominant response to that, just so you know.

“sirius would never say that about mary!” said the marauder fan, heartbroken. “canon sirius would hate himself in atyd!” i respond usually with “canon sirius is a white boy in the 70s, hes not the ‘slay feminist yass 😍’ king you think he is.” this elicits quite a plethora of negative reactions, and i understand why. misogyny is stinky, no one wants their favourite character to be acting like that. so this option doesn't mean "fans who like a characterisation of sirius black that isn't necessarily time period realistic," but rather "fans who deny canon evidence for a fanon conception and then hate on things that expand on the canon evidence provided to them." "they are wizards, which isn't realistic, but you choose the time period misogyny as a hill to die on?" the marauder fan replied to me (and im quite literally quoting on what a creator said to me, this isn't an exaggeration). meanwhile canon sirius black: *harrasses snape for dressing more femininely/more outside gender norms* yeah and you think that boy would be a feminist...

you may think to yourself: when did [insert ship] become a thing? why is this happening? who even is this person? most of the time, it's all in good fun, sometimes, however, ships are created that purely contradict the entire point of said character. snily was criticised for doing exactly this, and now look at where we are.

after reading these points, you may come to the conclusion: holy shit the problem is just marauders fans. in fact, you may take it one more and remember more shit that had occurred due to this sub fandom of the harry potter universe. ever been criticised for not characterising purely fanon (dorcas, marlene etc etc) characters properly? ever been attacked for calling out the hypocritical stanning of barty, evan, regulus and peter whilst piling all blame onto bellatrix or snape? yeah me too babes.

i know we've talked about tiktok a lot, but i raise one more thing: the inescapable hell that is dracotok. this usually consists of those young teenage girls thinking they are very hardcore for participating in death eater practices despite its mirroring of being violent oppressors on a discriminated group so they can impress none other than draco malfoy. this, or they're the badass 'girlboss' that can change him. completely and ironically misunderstanding the point of his character aside, every cringey POV/thirst trap you have EVER seen on tiktok is probably replicated and 10x worse on dracotok.

i swear i haven't heard the term "gryffindork" since 2016, but alas, there has been a comeback. i call hogwarts legacy fans 'baby' hp fans, because i seriously do believe that these people have not interacted with the fandom until now. that would be okay if they weren't regressing everyone to early 2000s discourse. are gryffindors not being invited to ravenclaw, hufflepuff and slytherin raves that deep? no. but those three houses wouldn't be having raves in the first place

we've all seen them, need i explain or go into detail? "b-but harry doesn't have any chemistry with ginny!!" so he does with DRACO of all people? "b-but lily and james are basic!" dont forget the roots from whence you came. its misogyny within the fandom disguised as allyship or whatever the hell this is. ship your ships, but leave the gals alone

this didn't get on my nerves until i suffered from years and years of randoms going into detail about why slytherin/hufflepuff was the best harry potter house and then getting genuine mad when idgaf. maybe you have experienced this tragedy too. there are grown people getting into genuine online beef with others because they made a joke about slytherin being evil or hufflepuff being useless. makes me think you are just evil and useless (just kidding, but please wake up and realise that slytherin & hufflepuff quite literally do not exist)

i sympathise for people who like snape, i do. i do not sympathise for those who attempt to justify or excuse his actions. this normally comes with a side dish of misogyny, because more often than not they will find a way to blame it on lily. other times, they will blame his trauma. i want to be clear: his trauma explains his actions, it doesn't excuse them. that is the whole point of him ruining his chances with lily (not even as a lover, but as a companion). you are doing your own injustice to his character by trying to make him innocent, please stop

it's understandable why the cursed child is so hated. it's meant to be seen, not read, in my opinion. there's a lot of things in it that i too wish didn't exist. but that doesn't make it "not canon" because it upsets you. and of ALL the things that these types of people would choose to complain about, these are the things they chose: albus potter's namesakes (we've been going on about this for years like can we stop now please), harry being a 'bad dad' (think about his own upbringing a tiny bit more and maybe your brain can make a little more sense of his actions), delphi being voldemort's child (probably the only thing that i agree with these people on), and albus' name again because they REALLY hate it (but then they will counter this by saying "james sirius" is a good name, when it's still mid asf). anyway, it doesn't matter how much you squeeze your eyes shut and writhe around about it, the cursed child is canon. soz lol

[songmingisthighs]

i really don’t understand why people are so upset about the blushing thing…

Like i get being a darker poc, because as a black/dark skinned woman myself, i don’t typically “blush” as easily as others, but really nobody is to blame.

That being said, if a writer specifically states that they are writing to accommodate to a certain “image” of themselves and others alike, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re any less inclusive than others. You have said many times that you write for yourself so i don’t understand why people are twisting your words and saying that you aren’t inclusive.. it just makes no sense

if people have such a problem with what words you use in your writing, then they honestly just need to look for a writer who writes what they are asking for instead of harassing you for using certain words

because people have too much free time and they're so narcissistic and entitled they think they SHOULD be considered by complete strangers who don't even know who they are nor have they interacted with. they only wanna interact when they feel like they wanna be heard, everything should be on their terms. it's like talking to my 3 year old little brother before i inflict the fear of god and me on him

if i'm not mistaken "blushing" is a biological function as well. it's the condition where blood rushes to your cheeks due to hormones triggered by your brain. like that one anon said writers need to "be creative" in writing but i'm just sorry that bitch isn't creative enough to consider other meanings of blushing.

and i feel like i have to address this because it seems like you misunderstood when i said "i write for myself". I don't put myself in the reader's position when i make (y/n), i simply put a part of myself in her like for example, i gave (y/n) a psychological condition in sans, (y/n) liking horror stuff and even liking to watch horror movies to help her sleep in cache, and i put real life conversations i had with my friends in the conversations. what i meant by "i write for myself" is just the act of publishing my writing. if i really do "write FOR myself", i wouldn't have used pictures of faceless korean girls or white girls in my smau bc i'm neither, it's literally a creative choice. I'm not mad at you or anything, i just wanna set the record straight.

and yeah i so totally agree with you on the last part. I welcome EVERYONE to my work but if people can't put themselves in the character i write, it honestly, take it as however you want it to sound like, doesn't sound like my problem. I know people who can't put themselves in fanfics so they create a character in their head that can fill the (y/n) spot and even using different names. I'm not saying there's one right way to enjoy fiction, but i'm saying unless the author specified who it is for like a specific audience or even for a friend, it's meant for NO ONE. it's AWESOME if you see yourself in the character or can imagine yourself as the FICTIONAL character but it literally is NOT about anyone in specific even moreso, you. how can people so easily forget that this is FICTION ???

[pink-strawberry-kissess]

I'm don't dive deep into the fandom because I've had enough with toxicity so I get all my news secondhand, but now that you reminded me that ID exists, I'm just so uncomfortable that cl*eon shippers will scrutinize every word that comes out of Ada's mouth but Claire and Leon literally had a disagreement that ended their friendship and the shippers just gloss right over that like it didn't happen.

I did see one tweet that was wanting Claire to be Leon's partner in RE6 instead of Helena and I'm pretty sure Claire was either super far away or busy at the time so I don't know how that would even work or why she would be there to begin with. Just seems like nostalgia and people ignoring the development these characters go through. Like, no one is the same person they were in RE2. IDK, I'm rambling, sorry.

for sure the fandom is extremely toxic in certain spots.

i think that's always going to be an issue with a growing fandom, as well as a younger newer fandom joining as also. lots of opinions and theories that have already been talked about and a lot of misinformed opinions because they're new to the lore. there's nothing inherently wrong with having a new misinformed or uninformed opinion- but just don't get angry at people who come back at you with facts from the canon because they've played all the games already.

i can immediately tell if someone has ONLY watched/played re2make because they usually end up saying some dumb shit because they don't know anything else about the rest of the games. again, nothing wrong with that, it's just a misguided opinion.

i really do believe that cl*on shippers use the canon whenever it's convenient to them. not to say that other shippers don't do the same. but there's such a formula to how they ship leon and claire. it hardly deviates from this formula. and if you "attack" it in any way. well you're a hater or automatically an ada stan or something or "a supporter of a manipulative bitch"

"oh so we support manipulators. okay"

a lot of them use tactics to try and argue their way out of it, the only problem is that i can see through it.

i don't need to go over the obvious points already. leon and claire are no longer friends in the canon. and he has specified that he sees her and treats her like a kid. he does not view her as a romantic partner. they seem to gloss over this.

no one (NO ONE) has EVER said that leon and ada's relationship is HEALTHY. but as adults, we realize that relationships are much more nuanced than that. not every single relationship is wholesome and pure, and if that's what you strive towards in real life, then that's gREAT.

people like the aeon ship for a multitude of reasons. because it's canon/interesting/captivating/a nice play on and reversal on the whole "damsel in distress / strong hero man." but no one has ever claimed that the relationship is healthy. so let's get that out of the way.

when you ship cl*on and you SPECIFICALLY do things where you mod ada out, and replace her with claire. you are SPECIAL PLEADING. you are choosing to allow claire these special privileges. and the reason why people tend to call cl*on shippers racists or misogynistic, is because you are FALLING into these thinking patterns.

if you NEED to "call out" ada on her sexuality. or compare her to claire in a way where claire is placed on this "pure wholesome" pedestal, and ada is a "slut or whore," you are catering towards misogyny.

that women who are sexual in nature, are automatically not worthy.

and YES YOUNG GIRLS ARE PERPETUATING THIS IDEA.

when you replace ada with claire in re2make, and you play out all these ada scenarios with claire's face, but ada's voice, and ada's narrative and mannerisms. but you ALLOW these things to be "okay" then you are BEING RACIST. boil it down. you are replacing ADA's FACE with a white girl's face. and suddenly everything she does is okay? all these scenes with ada previously, where she was "so manipulative" and "evil," they're suddenly okay now that it's claire's face?

explain to me why.

explain to me why in cl*on fics, ada is portrayed as an "asian whore."

tell me why these things are OKAY in any way shape or form.

sorry on HUGE TANGENT

lots of people have already stated that in the canon, claire was nowhere near them in re6 time, so they couldn't have had her in it. helena was written instead and it actually makes sense to have her there. leon and helena's campaign is entirely helena's story with ada popping in occasionally to help them.

i understand that people like claire. it's an easy character to like, and she's very much a self insert. and that's how a lot of the resident evil characters are written.

what i'm not going to tolerate is when people use misogyny and racism to back up what they think is appropriate discourse on characters. i'm not going to take misinformed opinions as truth, and im not going to entertain delusional ships that i do not personally enjoy. and in that being said, i do need feel the need to shit on characters to get a point across.

being in the fandom for this long, all i've seen are toxic shippers, and people being racist and misogynistic. some of the good ones are the ones that i follow and keep up with. and i try to allow myself to some discourse occasionally to ensure that i don't rely on an echo chamber of thoughts and opinions.

don't ever feel bad about rambling. i literally ramble all the time. i have so many drafts filled with random rambles

[sris-sys]

[IMAGE IDS:

First, a series of twitter screenshots. All tweets are by "that taylor girl" unless specified.

Last year, I stopped a guy who had a giant gosling following him and asked him if he was aware. He said yeah, he found it orphaned on the side of the road and took it in to make sure it was okay. He was letting it stay until it could fly. It looked like this:

(An image of a goose? I'm assuming there's something important about the way it looks but nothing stands out to me, sorry!)

Me: Uh, yeah. He's never gonna leave now.

Guy: Yeah, he will, and I'm totally sad already because he's such a cool little buddy.

Me: Dude follows you around without a leash. Those guys are mean but loyal. You're his guy now.

I have seen the two of them this past year, going for walks in the park for Duck-Duck (that's his dumb name) to forage for bugs. It's been over a year.

This week, I saw the guy and Duck-Duck (such a stupid name), going for a beer run at the local Mini-Mart.

They go for bug runs in the park, and beer runs at the Mini-Mart. The bird won't leave. They're bonded. I think it's both of their longest relationships.

(An image of the guy, walking around with a fully grown goose, beer in hand, in front of a Mini-Mart.)

Forgot to add, the goose bites. (Wincing emoji) because, of course.

I fed him some seeds and he air-bit me. Guy says he doesn't like to eat out of hands. It was a warning. Bites guy sometimes to communicate.

Just a regular guy and his goose. Duck-Duck knows to wait outside for the guy to do his shopping.

(A photo of the goose and the guy both standing outside of a shop. The doors are wide open.)

[A tweet from Maxine Vandate.]

I'm afraid that Duck Duck is fed crap like Cheetos, Combos, and Hot Pockets.

[A reply from that taylor girl]

No people food. They go for walks all day looking for bugs, and guy makes him smoothies of grass, bugs, and grubs. He contacted a vet and has been diligent.

[A tweet from Pandemic PIMO]

If he gets another one, he should call it Goose. "Cone on, Duck-Duck, Goose!"

[A reply from that taylor girl]

That kinda is his name. The goose part is silent. He thinks it's hilarious.

After all the tweet screenshots is the plaintext reblogs between. At the end is a black and grey lineart drawing by kityenok (Kitty en ok?), of the guy and the goose. The guy holds his beer out, while the goose has its wings spread and beak open, looking almost triumphant. The top of the page says "Duck-Duck Goose." The two seem to be in front of a sketchy explosion. There's a signature in the bottom right in all white, signing the artist's name, kityenok, and the month and year it was drawn; 10/23.

/END IDS]

WOW that one took a while to describe but!! It's finally done! Check the art out if you're able to see it, I'm not sure if my description did it justice but there wasn't one in the alt text from what I'm seeing so I had to at least try!!

(Also, I accidentally added a poll, don't mind it)

[sparklingichigo]

Main Story

Part 2

The RAD introduction continues for a few days filled with campus tours, book buying, signing up for a student ID, and many other things. Today is the third day of orientation of new students and Lucifer is currently explaining how things worked. How many student credits they're credit, how long are they studying there, and their mentors for each majors especially for the human students.

Haruka is confused to hear that, why did he specify only the human students? Weren't they all humans and new students? Weirdos.

"Why is she specifying it? We're all humans, right?" She whispers to her right.

"Not all of us." The student beside her replies.

"Oh! Like some of you are elves, fairies? That's cool!" She concludes.

In front of them Lucifer finally ends his presentation with a slide saying, 'Welcome to hell (literally)'. Haruka nods in agreement that this is hell, because studying can be hellish even for a princess.

Lucifer was about to introduce the students their supposedly mentor but, suddenly they see the ceiling opening up into a portal and a girl drops from there! She was screaming! luckily Barbatos is quick enough to kick a huge cushion, so she won't get hurt.

"Ichigo..." Diavolo gasps.

"Uh...where am I?" She asks.

"You're in RAD." One of the demon brothers replied awkwardly. He has strawberry blonde hair and sunset eyes.

"Ah, I must be in Italy!" She concludes.

"Where's Italy?" A white-haired demon asks.

"Wow, I have such an idiot for a brother, that's on EARTH!" A blonde scolds him.

"In that case, no, you're not." He says.

"But you told me RAD is in Italy. If this isn't Italy, where am I?" She asks again.

"No, you're in hell." Lucifer replies nonchalantly.

"The letter says Italy..." She says giving him the letter. Lucifer reads through it and glances to Diavolo who's avoiding eye contact with him.

"Ah, so it's Diavolo's work. Unfortunately, miss, you're in hell." He says, returning the letter.

"We're literally in hell?" Haruka mutters, looking around.

Ichigo is confused as she glances around, "So I'm literally in hell? Not because studying in here can be really difficult?"

"Yeah, literally in hell. Now who in their right mind would said you're going to Italy." Lucifer scoffs.

"In my defense, she lives with Sisters in a catholic oprhanage." Diavolo says causing the demon brothers to back off and the rest of the demon students to panic.

"She lives with who-"

"Mammon, calm do-"

"No, no, do you bring holy water?" Mammon asks.

"No."

The demons instantly sigh in relief, "But do you bring a bible?" One of them asks.

"I think?"

"EEEEEH?!"

"Guys, calm down, the bible won't hurt you unless I read through it!" She exclaims.

"I got burned by an Al-Quran once! Do not bring that thing near me!" A demon student exclaims.

"Why would I? Unless you're attacking me...." She shrugs.

"Everyone, settle down!" Lucifer tries to calm them down. "It's just a book, it won't hurt you."

"What if she's a catholic? Bunch of racist..." Haruka grumbles.

"It's scary! Because we're demons!" One of the demon student replies to her grumbling.

"Demons? Aren't you guys human too? Maybe not demons, perhaps elves?" She asks because she notices their ears being pointed like elves.

"No, we're demons and you're literally in hell!" They exclaim.

"Wait... WHAT?!" She exclaims in surprised. 'Oh wait, I have that protection blessing, I'll be okay.' Haruka sighs in relief and sits on her seat calmly.

Lucifer sighs and asks one more time to Ichigo, "Do you have any holy relics with you?"

"You mean this?" She asks showing him a cross necklace.

"EEEH?!"

"Alright, EVERYONE, RETURN TO YOUR SEATS!" Lucifer sighs once again.

"Including you! Do not go near me!" Mammon exclaims.

"Mammon-" Lucifer warns him.

Mammon grins awkwardly and gets off his back. Ichigo rolls her eyes and goes to her seat. Lucifer sighs and finally introduces the mentors to the new students, especially for the human ones.

"So, based on your major especially the main majors, you will have mentors. If you choose business, you will be guided by (unfortunately) Mammon, if you picked Oceanology, you will be guided by Leviathan...."

Haruka perks up at the time, fricking Leviathan, the sea dragon is here! That's amazing!

"Fashion design will be guided by Asmodeus, Latin will be guided by Satan..."

"That's literally his name? Satan?" Ichigo asks from her seat.

"Yes, that's literally my name. What? You got a problem with it?" Satan asks.

"Just asking..." Ichigo shrugs.

"Last but not least, the international communication majors will be guided by Beel. That is all. You may go to your mentors and settle down with your majors." Lucifer finishes his announcement.

The new students lined up by their mentors to get a tour guide for their classes. Honestly business and international communication is PACKED! Fashion design major is mostly packed with female students while Latin...not so much. Oceanology is ironically not as crowded but for humans it's unusual for oceanology to be full of students.

After the tour guide per major, Ichigo returns to her dorm, Barbatos did tell her where it was and luckily she didn't get lost. She was about to enter the dormitory just to see Satan entering with her,

"Why are you following me?" She asks.

"Because this is where I stay...?" He replies, glancing up to the label 'House of Lamentation'.

"Huh? I though boys and girls are supposed to have different buildings...?" She asks, backing away. Kinda creeped out.

"No, it's the same building but don't worry, I live in a different floor." He replies.

"Ah, okay." She sighs in relief and enters the building mansion to unpack in her dorm room. Ichigo is still struggling to get her luggage to the second floor because it's SO HEAVY!

Suddenly someone takes the luggage from her hand, "Here let me help," he says.

"O-Oh, Beel. Yeah, thanks." She says.

Beel didn't say anything further and helps her with her things although she feels bad because those are her things but then again, who is she to reject such kindness!

"There you go! This is your room, right?" He asks opening the door.

"Yeah...thanks." Ichigo says as Beel puts the luggage down.

"No need to thank me, but if you really wanna thank me, you can always treat me some food." He replies.

Ichigo side eyes him because she does have some money, but she hasn't turn it into their currency, "Right..."

"Well, see you around. If you need anything, I'll be at that room." He says pointing to a room to their right.

"Ah, okay." She nods. "Thanks, again." She says as she enters the room, unpacking. It turns out the princess was in the same room with her!

"Oh, it's the princess..." She mutters.

“And you’re the catholic girl, right?” Haruka replies.

“Yeah, that’d be me.” She answers with a grin. “Guess we’re roommates now.”

“Yeah, guess so.” Haruka nods.

“So…how are you adjusting in hell?” Ichigo curiously asks as she unpacks.

“Eh, it’s quite alright but they kinda tricked me too. They said it’s in Italy as well.”

“Oh that’s unfortunate but hey, at least you’re not the only human around.” Ichigo shrugs. “What major are you in, by the way?”

“Fashion design, you?”

“Latin.”

“Latin?!” Haruka gaps when she hears that. “Isn’t that difficult?”

“It is, but I’ll manage.” Ichigo sighs as she continues unpacking her stuff.

[thesunshineriptide]

I was thinking, what if while at Y/N's house the boys end up finding the Grimm Brothers/Original stories they're based off. Like the original Snow White or Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson. And Y/N admitting that they were more familiar with those versions than the Disney version was expecting to be skinned alive when they first arrived in Twisted Wonderland

I’m so so fucking pumped for this ask because I’m a huge NERD and I know the original stories so well. Fairytales and folk tales and mythology are one of my special interests you cut straight to my heart thank you anon. Also you didn’t specify what universe this is so I’m putting it in the our world au and if you want me to do the other characters I will GLADLY do them I adore these. ++ I will probably do Idia reacting to Greek myths sometime soon but my brain is honestly kinda mush and narrowing down just one myth is a little hard but I’ll get back to it

This Isn’t How Our Story Ends

Characters: Riddle, Trey, Leona, Ruggie, Azul, Jade, Floyd, Kalim, Jamil, Vil, Rook, Idia, Malleus, Lilia

Warning: the original tales of each story are dark. As such, there will be mentions of mature topics such as death, poisoning, drowning, murder, insanity, and more. Read at your own discretion.

Cw// spoilers for chapters 1-5, swearing, dark topics and themes.

“What’s this?” He had asked innocently, holding up the book in question.

“Huh? Oh, that’s…” Yuu thought of how to explain this, “Well, it’s a story. Kinda. Um…well…”

Hamlet

It’s fairly well known that the story of Hamlet is the origin of The Lion King (although interestingly enough it seems there’s a real life historical parallel with the story of Sundiata Keita) thus Leona and Ruggie’s interests in this particular story may wain. Shakespeare is dreadfully dry at times and best performed live, which means…Movie night! For this particular iteration I would recommend watching a live taping rather than a film adaptation because otherwise you just miss out on like, half the important shit. Also if you haven’t read or seen hamlet there’s a lovely novelized adaptation that actually adds MORE content and makes it very fun

Leona sat back as he watched the actors take the final bow. Ruggie was nervously sitting beside him, shifting from side to side like he couldn’t quite get comfortable.

“They all died?”

“Yep.” Yuu responded dispassionately.

“And the uncle…” Leona started, eyes looking over everything in the room except Yuu and Ruggie, “In the, uh…”

“That’s the king of beasts, in your world.” They said, “It’s…yeah.”

“He killed for the throne?” Ruggie asked, somewhat surprised.

“I mean, Leona tried to kill Malleus for a game, I’m not sure why you’re surprised.”

“I wasn’t gonna kill ‘im.” Leona grumbled, “Just put him out of commission for a while. Not tryina start a war or anything…”

“Okay, you attempted to maybe kill him.”

“That’s not- whatever.” He sighed, “So, I’m the uncle. Is Ruggie the guy who got stabbed? The…sheriff? Or whatever?”

“I guess in this analogy, yes.”

“Gross.” Ruggie wrinkled his nose, “I’d rather be the girl.”

“Ophelia?”

“Is that the one that drowned?”

“Yes?” Yuu worried.

“Yeah, her. Anything to get away from this analogy.”

Leona snickered and ruffled Ruggie’s hair, earning him a harsh smack to the forearm which he ignored.

“Did the king of beasts have his own sheriff? According to your world?”

“Uh, he had the hyenas. And Zazu, I guess, but none were exactly loyal.”

“Did the king of beasts kill his nephew?” Ruggie blurted out.

“Nah, but he tried. Instead, the nephew killed him.”

Leona wrinkled his nose, joking in a deadpan tone, “Guess it’s time to off the little furball back home.” When neither Yuu nor Ruggie laughed, he frowned, “You know I’m joking, right? I wouldn’t kill my nephew.”

“You tried to kill me.” Ruggie said.

“And me.” Yuu agreed.

“That was ONE TIME-“

The Little Mermaid

Fun facts the little mermaid was written by Hans Christian Andersen and depending on the historical lens you like to apply was maybe gay. Also, the sea witch doesn’t have a name and doesn’t have eels which means Azul and the twins will be sorely disappointed. Anyway the original story is an angst fest because Hans was an emo at his core and the princess dies at the end

Azul stared at the pages of the book as he slowly closed it. He adjusted his glasses, looking to the twins as he finished. The two looked sick, wearing grim expressions. Floyd stared to his shoes while Jade looked to Azul.

The Octavinelle dorm leader cleared his throat, then took a sip of his water. After a few moments, he turned to Yuu.

“This was a deeply unpleasant experience.”

Yuu snorted a little and nodded, “Fair enough. It’s honestly what I thought was gonna happen to me when I made that deal with you.”

All three of them looked shocked and stared at Yuu like they’d grown three heads.

“Yuu…” Jade started tentatively.

“You know turning to sea foam is like, the worst punishment you can get in the Coral Sea, right?” Floyd cut in, eyes blunt.

Yuu’s expression dropped. They turned and checked each of the trio to see if they were joking and…no, no that’s real.

“What?”

Jade stared at them in deep contemplation, before piping up, “I suppose you wouldn’t know that, it isn’t something the kingdom advertises, per say…”

“But it’s something almost every merman knows.” Azul finished, “This version of the sea witch is…cruel. Unusually so, to sentence a mermaid to that hell.”

“And a princess, nonetheless.” Jade agreed, “Incredibly vile.”

“‘M real glad that’s now our real history. Just somethin the land folk made up, although it’s still rude.” Floyd said, taking the book, “It’s a real stupid deal anyway, the sea witch didn’t even get anything from that. And she didn’t even have any eels!”

“Maybe it was a different sea witch? I dunno man, it’s honestly kinda what I thought I’d be in for.”

“Is that why you were so fearful when we intervened with your proceedings?” Jade asked, looking somewhat amused, “Prefect, we wouldn’t be that cruel.”

“I mean, we could.” Floyd leaned in, teeth sparkling white as the sun shone off them. He could have given a lens flare. “But we like you, so we won’t.”

“We couldn’t be that cruel.” Azul said firmly, “The fate of becoming sea foam is certainly no joke. We wouldn’t dream of it.”

Yuu was a bit flushed in their embarrassment, turning away to mumble something.

“What was that?” Azul hummed

“I said I feel stupid.”

“Sorry, one more time, I couldn’t hear you.” Jade grinned, leaning in closer.

“I Said,” they turned toward the trio, “That now I feel stupid.”

The three just smirked smugly back and Yuu felt like maybe they wished they’d turned to sea foam (not really)

1001 Arabian Nights

The original story of Aladdin and his magic lamp was honestly very different from the Disney film. Beyond some basic plot points (princess in a castle being in love with a street boy, a genie, etc) the story is virtually different. The main apparent thing being that there’s not one, but TWO genies, and the evil schemer is a wizard pretending to be Aladdin’s uncle, not a vizier taking advantage of the king. On the whole, I think Jamil and Kalim would be interested but wholly unimpressed. Oh, also a lot of murder.

Jamil hummed as he looked at the last page, tilting his head to the side as he thought.

“Aladdin doesn’t…seem like a good person.” Kalim said, staring at the book Jamil was holding. “He just…killed someone?”

“Granted, it was to save the princess,” Jamil began, looking to Kalim for only a moment. He gazed back down, “I can understand something like that. However…”

“There’s a lot of…slavery in this story.” Kalim finished, messing with his fingers, “I don’t like that.”

“The Asim Family-“

“I would never want you to do something you don’t want to.” Kalim said solemnly.

Jamil went silent, looking out the window. He tapped his finger against the edge of the book, lost in thought. “I still do, though. There are plenty of things I do for you that I don’t like.”

There was a silence as Yuu looked between them. Kalim looked hurt, and ashamed. Jamil looked…carefully put together. But deeply uncomfortable.

Yuu cautiously reached forward, taking the book from Jamil, who didn’t acknowledge it but did allow them to take it.

“I’m quite interested in this Roc bird that’s mentioned,” Jamil said suddenly, “It is to be the master of all genies?”

“Maybe it commands Azul.” Yuu joked, thinking back to Jamil’s words just before he’d overblotted.

Jamil glowered in return, but this did earn a laugh from Kalim.

The vice housewarden turned to contemplate the coffee table rather deeply, then murmured, “This tale does ring similar to our history, but rather different. It’s…odd. Like they were cut from the same cloth.”

Yuu shrugged, “It’s just a story. Nobody really got hurt.” They assured when Kalim looked momentarily uncomfortable again.

Snow White

The Grimm telling of Snow White is also fairly similar to the Disney telling, with the exception of the Evil Queen being WAY more persistent in the murder thing. She attempts to kill Snow three times. The first by cinching her corset so tight that she passed out, but it was unable to kill her. She tries again by gifting her a poisoned hair comb, which again fails to kill her. The third time, the poisoned apple, is the charm. She bites the apple, goes into a coma, glass coffin blah blah blah. Prince finds her coffin, decides she’s a real babe and takes her and the coffin home with him. On the journey back, one of the prince’s servants trips and knocks the coffin into something, which somehow manages to dislodge the piece of apple in the princess’s throat and bring her back to life. Yay! Then she tries to kill her again, fails, and is punished to dance in red hot slippers until she dies. Yay…?

Vil and Rook sat on opposite sides of the couch. Rook was staring pointedly at the wall while Vil was staring directly at the hunter.

“It’s quite interesting-“

“Not a word out of you.” Vil cut him off, turning his attention to his nails instead.

Yuu sat across from them, snapping the book shut to put it away, “Maybe this wasn’t a great idea.”

“You think?”

Rook looked like he wanted to say something, a finger up as though he were conducting an invisible choir.

“Rook Hunt. Keep your mouth shut, you fucking traitor.”

“You said you wished for me to be true in my heart!” He defended.

Yuu took this as the moment to leave the room, clutching the book close,

“Spudling, where are you going? Come back here.”

Yuu squeaked nervously before coming back to stand in front of him, a sheepish smile on their face, “Hmm?”

Vil looked them up and down, before leaning forward to straighten Yuu’s clothes, “Spudling, is this why you were so nervous when Trappola and Spade ate that apple tart?”

“I honestly kinda thought you killed them.” Yuu admitted with a titter.

Vil’s eyebrows shot up as he glanced to make eye contact with them, “Do you think I’m so cruel?”

“I didn’t know what to think.” They said honestly, hands reaching to stop Vil’s from moving, “All I knew was that Rook calls you the king of poisons, and my friends suddenly collapsed after eating apples. Two and two together lead to poisoning.”

Rook began to laugh loudly, then coughed to cover it and continued to not look at Vil.

Vil frowned, “I would never kill anyone, Spudling-“

“Except Neige.”

“NEIGE KNOWS WHAT HE FUCKING DID-“

Sleeping Beauty

Honestly this one is too graphic for me to explain in detail but let’s just say that the prince is even worse in this one than in the Disney version. Consent isn’t even a question for him he does not care. Also the cure in this version was kind of similar to snow white’s, in which a fragment of the spindle is stuck in Briar Rose’s finger and once it is dislodged she’s freed from the curse. Seriously though, wouldn’t recommend looking this one up to anyone who’s faint of heart. It’s seriously gross.

Malleus and Lilia don’t seem to surprised as you finish the tale. In fact, they don’t even bother to keep talking about it, and it’s totally not because the author of this doesn’t want to get into how absolutely disgusting it is that the 100 year old 16 year old has two kids that she definitely didn’t want, or how fucking gross the prince is to do what he did, it’s because they’re old as fuck and already kinda knew.

Lilia just goes back to setting your kitchen on fire while Malleus decides he’s going to read every other fairy story except this one because this one sucked and his grandma didn’t even turn into a dragon :/

Alice in Wonderland

Strictly speaking, the 1950’s animated film of Alice in Wonderland is not all that different from its inspiration. Most story beats are faithful to the original, with the exception of tweedle dee and tweedle dum, which actually appear in the sequel Alice through the looking glass. It appears that within Twisted Wonderland’s universe, while there is some misinterpretation of the Queen of Hearts herself, the information given in the film is well known based off of the comments given in the ‘chats’ with each character. It is unknown whether the Tim burton films have any bearing on twisted wonderland’s history, though based off of Riddle’s design and character it appears it may have been a source of inspiration at the least. All of this is to say that none of this particular story would be much of a surprise to any of the characters, as for them it’s very grounded in reality. This isn’t to say there wouldn’t be a surprise, though….

Riddle had been quietly sitting on the couch reading a book for about an hour now. It seemed as though he was nearing the end, and he looked both confused and enraptured by it.

“What’s that?” Yuu asked.

Riddle looked up, and with a carefully crafted blank face he held up the book so they could read the cover.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

“Ah,” Yuu said nervously, “Good read?”

Riddle tilted his head, “You never told me there were stories of twisted wonderland in your world.”

“That’s cause it’s not twisted wonderland.” Yuu defended, “That’s just regular wonderland.”

“The difference being?” Riddle asked, tone taking on a biting edge.

“It isn’t twisted?” They tried, shrugging, “I didn’t think it would interest you, honestly. It’s a lot of the same stuff as history class.”

Trey took this EXACT moment to walk into the room. He took one look at Riddle’s twitching eyebrow and realized that, oh shit, time to intervene. “What’s going on here?” He asked tentatively.

“This- ah…” Riddle took in a deep breath, trying to calm himself, “This world has stories of Wonderland. Yuu neglected to mention this, in my opinion, rather imperative information.”

Yuu shrugged, “It’s just a children’s story. What could be so important?”

“Perhaps the fact that someone travels to and from Wonderland?” Riddle bit back, “Or perhaps that if your world has information on ours, then it isn’t fiction?”

Yuu blanched for a moment before calming themself. “Riddle,” they began, frowning, “I’m sorry. I didn’t think of that. But I have a very…different look on it.”

Riddle raised an eyebrow, urging Yuu to continue. Trey in the midst of this sat down beside Riddle, taking the book from him.

“This was written by someone named Charles Dodgeson, also known as Lewis Carroll. He wrote this for a trio of girls he used to tutor and babysit.” Yuu began, sitting down on the coffee table in front of Riddle and Trey. “He would often take them on canoe rides and tell them stories, making it up as he went along. He favored one particular girl, named Alice Liddell, and favored to write the story about her.”

Riddle looked unimpressed and confused at the same time, “But-“

“Riddle.” Trey said softly, “Let them continue.”

“Dodgeson was eventually fired by the Liddell family due to what was described as a ‘family affair’, the nature of which was never known. After that, for a bit of money he printed the story and sold it, then made wrote a sequel called ‘through the looking glass’.”

Riddle and Trey sat in silence before Riddle piped up, “Through the Looking Glass?”

“Mhmm.” Yuu said, “Alice returns to wonderland after walking through an enchanted looking glass. The rest of the adventure is similar to the first, changing from moment to moment.”

Riddle stared, fists curled in a ball and shaking. “So there’s a way home?”

Yuu looked surprised, “N-no, Riddle, it’s just a stor-“

“IT’S NOT JUST A STORY!” He cried, “It has to be real, you see that don’t you? You got to our world through a mirror, we got stuck here through one too. So there’s got to be another way back! Alice- Alice is real. She had to have gone….” He began to settle down, eyes filling with unshod tears.

Trey looked between Yuu and Riddle, “He’s right. It…would make sense. And…that’s a pen name, isn’t it? How do we know Alice didn’t write that?”

Yuu looked lost, staring down at the sobbing Riddle, who was murmuring various incoherent thoughts all in a long string.

“I’m so, so sorry…” Yuu said quietly, “We…I didn’t….I’m sorry. We can look, okay? I’ll do some research. We’ll get you home…”

[lex-n-weegie]

Alright, here's my Deltarune s/i: Palette!

Palette is a monster who's always down to help other people, even at her own express. She's known for her kindness and love of art/painting, but she also adores spooky scary things, which is reflected in her dark world outfit. She's sorta friends with Noelle and Berdly, and ofc crushes on the bluebird.

More detailed stuff about her in Deltarune under the cut! (Be warned of spoilers ofc lol)

Currently, she goes into the dark world along with Noelle and Berdly in chapter 2. Due to the uneven number of classmates (and her being fast asleep in her seat), she was paired in a group of three with Noelle as Berdly, as Alphys was sure that they wouldn't abuse her kindness. However, in the Dark World, Berdly does, and has Palette help him, help Queen.

She rides the same rollercoaster cart as him, but actually doesn't fall with him. In battle, they sit on their broom, so then the car explodes she's actually fine. She does follow him though, worried about him being hurt.

Kris(and Noelle) encounter them again later on, and she's actually taken up being a shopkeeper, just so then she can help out the other folks around the City. She does attempt to persuade Noelle to come back, but Noelle does a small white lie and Palette lets her be. She doesn't sell much, but it's at low prices (and she even gives you an item for free!). If you ask her why she's not with Berdly, she says that he insisted that they split up to fine Noelle and Queen. She does say that she wished to stay with him, because it'll be harder to find him later, but they wanted to make him happy and said sure.

Next time you see her is AFTER you fight Berdly with Noelle. Her dialogue changes depending on what happens in the battle, but for a quick summery of each one

Normal: She notices that Berdly is tired out, gets worried, and drags him away to help him feel better, sticking with him for the rest of the chapter unless specified that they're apart.

Snowgrave: They ask Kris if they've seen Noelle or Berdly, "joking" that she's "almost starting to feel abandoned." She comments on the ice "sculpture," even saying that it almost look like something is inside, but afterwards she asks you to tell her if you see the two of them and runs off. She doesn't appear for the rest of the route, besides a small mention of her from Queen ("If Noelle can't help me...maybe I can have that mushroom fellow help out? They seem eager to help constantly...")

Afterwards, along with Ralsei, she's not captured with the rest and ends up spending some time with him. Afterwards when the fun gang comes back, Susie informs Palette of the plan Berdly made and she flys off on her broom, wanting to make sure he's ok. When you meet up with Berdly again, you switch off Susie and Palette, so you temporarily get her on your team! After Susie comes back though she flies off to join Berdly again. (Fun fact too: her default weapon is called "FuzzyBroom." The description: It's soft to the touch.)

During the Queen fight however, she's off to the side, hurt from battle. She attempted to save Berdly herself, but his attacks were too strong for her and she couldn't dodge that well, so of course she got hurt. Again here there's some differences depending on the outcome of the fight.

Loosened Berdly: Everyone actually heard Berdly's whole "I need a gamer girl's kiss" thing, and Palette(happily) offers herself up for the "grueling" task. Berdly though, immediately stops and is all "Wait you play video games?" And then they just start talking about video games. The Fun Gang decides to leave them be and have them chat with each other.

Berdly hurts his arm: Kinda same as above, except she's much more worried about how hurt he is and tries her best to help ease his pain.

Afterwards, she's with Berdly and helps with the trash mech, adding "some lovely colors!" And finally, in the light world, she again does different things depending on what happens to Berdly.

Everyone is fine: She's a little said it all was a dream, but still remains her happy helpful self. Before leaving however, Berdly does ask Palette if she wants to hang out sometime, to which she excitedly agrees.

Broken Arm: They're super worried about Berdly's arm and helps carry his books for him, claiming that they "don't have anything better to do than to help!" (Also they want an excuse to be with Berdly but shhhh)

Snowgrave: After Noelle runs out of the room, Palette tries to shake Berdly awake, to no avail. In the end she decides to leave him be, thinking that maybe he didn't sleep last night and is super tired.

Aaaand that's it!! There was something else neat I thought of, but it's more of an AU route, ya know? I'll post about that one another time (maybe soon if I can get some stuff figured out)

[number1villainstan]

episode 33. it's way later than i'd like and i've got something of a sleep deprivation headache but i'm anxious for the next episode SO

it's called "the prince who runs through the night." is said prince utena? akio? dios?

the utena storybook backstory! but without the animation this time! it's just a pan over a...fairground i wanna say? a city? ferris wheel in the background, all lights against a midnight sky

fuuuuuuck, the way the sound of the planetarium windows slamming shut cuts off the storybook music. something evil and stark and Adult is intruding on our childish fairy tale

and the way the audio continues through the title card. the phone ringing. the complete lack of music. the breath the world holds before the storm hits

"I didn't want to look at the real [stars]" that means something but i don't know what

utena's in a dress. that's odd. and the bouquet is red and pink roses, represents akio and utena? and who is she talking to? why did she go to the fair alone?

shadow girls on the radio. so many patterns are being completely upended in this episode. did i skip an episode by accident? i watched both nanami episodes and this one says it's number 33 so i don't think so, it's just weird

shadow girls telling everyone to look at the (real) stars. "couples can glimpse eternity" HELLO????

"what does it mean to be 'eternal'? / that's an eternal mystery!" HELLO???????????

...akio writes to the shadow girls as end of the world. now that puts their plays in a whole new light

"which of the following is eternal?" 1) diamond--the shining thing. 2) a beautiful memory--mikage and mamiya. 3) canned peaches--not actually sure which one this is supposed to be. and we don't get an answer.

wait so it was just a postcard that akio wrote to the girls, not like--instructions. which actually implies that he's not directing them, because then they would recognize the name End of the World (although it's possible they did recognize the name and just acted like they didn't)

also wait, aren't peaches linked to immortality in japanese (or maybe chinese) mythology? the Queen of Heaven keeps peaches of immortality? which would make peaches a standard symbol for immortality (and therefore possibly eternity), plus the 'canned' part--canning is used to prolong something's shelf life, and if it's done right then that shelf life can be prolonged almost indefinitely. if it's not done right, though, there's the risk of botulism, which will kill you, and unless you believe in resurrection or reincarnation death is pretty fucking permanent lmao

...is this like a weird recap episode? i don't think it's a recap episode, it doesn't fit that. but it's definitely way weirder than the last three episodes have been. like the last three episodes were frugal with their symbolism/surrealism so that this one could gorge itself on it

the side job, huh? akio never did specify what it was. and then the summoning-the-akio-car-music came on and akio starts speeding up to speeds that i don't think are physically possible in that car. plus his outfit has changed to the slutty-ass open-shirt white prince suit

oh the streetlights changed to! i think. and they're coming directly at the viewer instead of passing overhead. this whole thing feels like a liftoff for an airplane

except there was no liftoff. instead he slams to a stop...in front of saionji and touga

oh so it IS a recap episode? cuz we went way back to saionji in episode 25

"what do you want? what do you aspire to? what do you wish to be?" all very probing questions! and all things that akio will definitely use against the askee! which is saionji, apparently. are we getting New Content as to what happened during the Akio Sex Car rides???? i'm legit so hyped for that

oh no wait those are touga's lines from the episode. not akio's. nvm. in my defense akio and touga have nigh-indistiguishable vibes

"you believe you can find eternal friendship, perhaps?" hey thanks for reminding me how lonely and tragic of a character saionji is

"the champion loses by a hair" are those the shadow girls again? the radio called saionji champion...also King of Imposters???????? tf????? oh wait no King of Imposters isn't Saionji...is it Utena? or is it Akio?? DIOS???

Grand Champion Imposter King--oh, huh, so it's a challenge of imposters? to see who can be the best imposter? like a look alike challenge?

but utena says she wishes she could compete--which. technically she is competing? in the metaphor? or maybe it's a man-only competition, which would make the metaphor more about Who Can Be The Manliest Man, and utena's barred from it on the basis of not being born male? TRANSMASC UTENA TRANSMASC UTENA TRANSMASC UTENA--

kozue falls and then the shot cuts to the reveal of anthy being the one to marry their dad--

damn they didn't even show miki's duel

utena's out of the dress. now she's in a bathrobe after a shower? talking about--the guidance counselor? we've seen her act as a teacher? "Alum" and "The Teacup" as nicknames--i'm betting "Alum" stands for alumnus, or a former student

...utena forgot the third nickname, huh? that's definitely significant somehow. maybe a comment on how time is weird at Ohtori. and we still don't know who she's talking to. maybe chu chu? but chu chu hasn't shown up in the frame

was all that stuff on the table before the halfway-cut?

what's all this about leaving bread out? it seems so mundane but it's definitely a symbol (everything in rgu is a symbol) but i have no idea what it's indicating

oh there's miki's duel

forgot about that talk of 'purity' with miki. i think it's supposed to refer to the whole childhood innocence thing, cuz miki's whole thing is that he wants a 'shining thing' to recapture the 'pure' feeling of playing piano in the garden with his sister

god, anthy looks so dead in the scenes where kozue's coming on to her. just staring ahead or straight up and not responding. like she was ordered to do this. i bet she's dissociating

"after all, miki's more..." "more what?" more what indeed

"you're still doing that?" "those are the rules!" how long has it been between akio hanging up and them calling him back? like several days, right? that's so long jesus fuck. but is time even like...real on Ohtori campus

"which of the following is a miracle?" 1) Edison's inventions--not sure which story element this refers to, if it refers to one at all. 2) meeting a prince--utena's backstory. 3) canned coelacanth--again with the 'canned' part, and coelacanth is an ancient fish that's barely evolved since the Mesozoic era at least, makes me think of that one dueling song about paleontological eras

miracles equated with miraculous power. and then juri's up next. i think i see what's up with this, saionji and miki were after something eternal while juri was after the power of miracles, so that's what the quiz questions are about--probing the psyches of the characters. clever. very very clever.

fucking ruka man. fucking set shiori up, set juri up, set everyone up to play out his fantasy of being The Man Juri Needs. she's a fucking lesbian fuck OFF

still that weirdly drawn shot where ruka's supposed to be looking at shiori but he looks like he's looking into the camera. shiori looks like she's looking at ruka so i know the animators knew how to do it, this had to be intentional

utena playing an othello game. with who? also i remember that game from my childhood, it was weirdly difficult but also really fun

utena says she tends to mess up measurements. huh. i've done similar things, i'm terrible at estimating larger distances or whatnot, and i once filled my biggest pot to near-overflowing with taco soup once cuz i doubled the recipe heedlessly. i've heard it's related to adhd. and my aunt has dyscalculia. utena with dyscalculia lol. or maybe it's ohtori messing with her head.

girl you have got to pay attention to the board

i remember seeing a post about the othello game. about how those moves are illegal. and like--yeah! those moves are hella illegal! there's no way for black to cover that much of the board like that that quickly! her opponent has apparently just been putting a bunch of pieces on the board while she was distracted lmfao

also i find it kinda interesting that she's talking about her failings with cooking, a traditionally 'feminine' activity, while she's losing at othello (because her opponent is clearly cheating). also why does her cooking never "taste quite right" even when she "tries to" follow a recipe exactly? is she making bad substitutions? is she using bad ingredients? is she not setting a timer and letting stuff overcook? are the recipes she's following vague? does she even know what it's supposed to taste like? wait, what's the altitude of the place--cuz i know altitude can change cooking time, at least. probably the why/how of it isn't actually important but as someone who has cooked for sustenance before uhhhh yeah

juri shambling around in pure grief after losing her locket... :(

there's something about how the rose is whole when juri forfeits, instead of scattering into petals like all the other roses that get chopped off

man. that locket was fucking shattered. oh shit metaphor--the locket was metaphorically juri holding onto the hope that shiori would like her back, and when it shattered like that it was because juri's hope shattered (because shiori got with ruka)

"miracles happen every day", huh? what on earth does akio mean by that

salmon, asparagus, omelette. fish, greens/plants, eggs. what else? and why those three? then a sandwich, mixing salmon and asparagus with mayonnaise (which is also made of eggs). and then a hard boiled egg. so many references to eggs. and utena's slowly slipping into despair. and the references to carelessness...and then the reveal...

...oh. oh no. oh god please no. so that's who she was talking to. but god please no

the song that's playing is the dissonant/minor key version of the sunlit garden. uh. yeah that sounds about right

wait, did akio take utena away from Ohtori campus? it's not anywhere near a shoreline, is it? at least there's no shoreline shown in the overhead shots of Ohtori. ...and Ruka was also associated with a place by the sea, that incongruous bench overlooking the ocean--and Akio took Wakaba for a 'seaside drive'--the ocean being associated with manipulation?

anyways that episode was. :(. much like the nanami episodes

Oh also, along with writing the December 2023 Monthly Short Piece today, I finally watched the first episode of Revolutionary Girl Utena after days of seeing a moot post about it and--

"I am the Rose Bride. From this day forward, I belong to you."

i am going to murder everyone in this damn school for anthy

[fayeimara]

Meant To Be Series || One For Every Billion

5. Thank Some Gods

You end up in Hyogo for a real hot minute over your winter break, thanks to your cousins Akira and Akari who decided to drag you along when they were forced to visit with their mom and older brother. Being a year older then them and already a seasoned solo traveller, the parents all thought you'd be a great chaperone. Woohoo, yay you.

Truth be told, you love spending time with them and you're really happy to be able to see your aunt and other cousin, their brother Kazuya, that you'd missed over the summer, as well. Although you did have to apologize to Tobio and his family because when you'd promised you would stay with them next, you should have specified you meant next time you were in Miyagi. Not Japan in general. You think they were just taking the piss though.

Oh right, your vulgar new phrases are courtesy of Akira, thank her very much. Spend a few minutes in the twins' company and you end up talking like them, or whatever their west coast academy friends are currently teaching them, at least. Akari has a valley girl phase going and you think Akira is gearing up for a Tarantino-inspired life. Can't see how your family is let that going to happen, but it's not your job to tell him that.

"Y/nnn, did you try this dango!" Akira runs right into you, appearing from the crowd of people on the festive street of the shopping district you're in, and locks her free arm around yours while waving a stick with round balls on it in other other hand.

"No, but I waited 10 minutes standing still in the cold and crowd so you can bet that I will. Half of that is already mine."

"Hmph," She scoffs, "No one told you to stand still and wait around, silly."

You give her an exasperated look, "You literally said, 'stay there a minute, I'm grabbing us some sweets!' and bounced off."

"Okay, okay, chill your roll, girl."

"Not sure that's a saying, girl."

"Maybe not at the snooty east side preps."

"Yo." Akira appears on your other side. "Half that's mine."

"A third. Or none at all." Akari sticks her tongue out at her twin.

He looks over at you and you nod, twisting quickly so you can grab and hold her occupied arm still while he plucks the dango from her hand.

"Hey! Looks like it's none at all!"

"No. Looks like it's half mine, half Y/n's." He bites off one of the chewy balls (okay, we all know how that sounds.. slow your roll, girl) before holding the stick in front of your face so you can grab one too. Oh wow. It is good. Why did you wait so long to try it? So many years wasted without enjoying this sweet texture.

You can see your third cousin approaching, holding onto a tray of steaming drinks, as you chew over your thoughts on the delicious dessert (see what you did there?).

"I got your coffee", he holds the tray between us so I can grab one of the cups with my free hand, but like.. Kazuya, which one is it?

"Kazuuu, they're bullying me!" Akari pouts for sympathy only for Akira to fire back almost before she reaches the last word.

"She bullied me first!"

Instead of responding to either, he rolls his eyes at their bickering but they're only having fun. You've never met siblings that have each other's backs more than these two. You think Kazuya misses it too, having decided to study in Japan and live with his mom who consequently chose to work here, while the other two live with their dad - but really at a boarding school - back on the American west coast.

"Whatever, are you grabbing your drinks or what?"

Akari only smiles at her older brother's deadpan expression, "Which one is my hot chocolate, niichan?"

"Please don't call me that."

"Why not?"

But it's Akira who answers with a snicker, "Because you don't even go here, brat. It's cringy coming from you."

"Shut up, ugly clone."

"That's literally impossible unless you're calling yourself ugly too."

Okay, you're just going to go for the cup closest to you on your left. You pick it up and sip slowly... success. The sweet, warm flavour of your white chocolate mocha slides down your throat.

Kazu is giving you an arch look now, he knows how much you live for coffee but he's still going to say something about it, right? "You know it's already dark out, I don't know how you can drink this stuff so late. Don't you want to get some sleep tonight?"

"Bold of you to assume I need sleep." You smirk at him over the rim of your cup while Akari makes an attempt at snatching the remaining dango back from her brother around you. Please don't make me spill.

"Nah, I just assume you're a robot and this is your regular maintenance or something."

You consider his words before shrugging, nothing too mean that you can call him out on, you guess. "Down the hatch then."

"Sure thing, but I'm not staying up late bingeing your crappy shows with you when you're wired."

"But you'll binge a non-crappy show?"

"Maybe."

Another smile for your favourite cousin of the minute. He did get you coffee, you know. Akari's managed to grab the third sweet off the stick with her mouth like some rabid animal, but it makes sense because the hand not still holding onto you is holding back Akari's arm. They're going to smac-

And they hit the tray that Kazu was only just holding. He somehow manages to grab one of the drinks you assume is his out of it's spot while avoiding the wreckage spill of the other two cups. He didn't even try to hold on to it, which is partly why you're laughing as both twins start simultaneously apologizing and complaining about their spilled drinks.

Kazuya's deadpan expression is actually pretty communicative for the the moment, "I'm not going back for another, this is on you guys."

"Kazu, do you like being mean to us?" They actually ask this at the same time but Kazu's not even phased.

"Yes, I want you to suffer." He's dry as ever.

You chuckle but they're so sweet, most of the time, so you'll make it up for them, "I passed a stall selling hot chocolate, since we don't need to replace my specialty coffee, I can go there to get you some."

"Me too?" Akira asks hopefully.

"Yes, you too, puppy."

He rolls his eyes, trying to adjust his expression back into an uncaring one. It's more natural on his brother currently, but you can definitely see him grow into a more serious demeanour someday.

"I'll come with you while these two stay put." Kazu gives his younger siblings a stern look.

"No need," You wave him off, grabbing the stick with the last piece of dango and handing it to him, "Enjoy this as repayment from us all for making you go all the way back into the mall for our drinks. In the meantime, I'll be right back."

"Hold on, you're going to the one next to the onigiri stand, right?"

"Yeah?"

"Okay, straight there and back in fifteen minutes or I'll come find you. And if I have to worry, I won't be happy."

"Okay niisan." You roll your eyes with your sarcastic tone. Older brothers. No wonder he and your brother Raiden get along so well, they're under some misassumption that their younger siblings just can't help getting into trouble, as if you all only live to annoy them. And he was doing so well as your favourite cousin for the time being.

You stroll away from the benches you were waiting at by the end of the street where the outdoor stalls meet the main street shopping mall and melt back into the crowd. This festival really is something, so brightly lit with pretty twinkling lights strung up everywhere and curled around any available post like glowing, warm yellow vines. You absolutely love the vibe but you know you're on a time crunch.

You notice the onigiri stand just ahead of the drink stall and debate for a quick second before stopping in the surprisingly short line up. A piece each of sweet dessert does not a stomach fill. Unfortunately, just as you take a sip of your coffee, someone bumps into you from behind, causing it to spill over your lips and dribble down your chin but you adjust enough in time, holding the cup out and away from you, so that you're not covered in any more than that and the little bit on your hand.

You hate wet clothing with a passion, especially when it's cold outside and it clings to you with that awful chilly, sticky feel. Not so bad when it's on your coat, but on principle, that's just as unpleasant if you run the cuff of your sleeve over it or it get on the collar and then you have the tiniest bit of discomfort right by sensitive skin and that makes it all the more glaring.

You realize the person who bumped into you also reached out to steady you at the same time and is now speaking, "Shit, I'm so sorry."

It's a little quiet but you make out his apology through his thick dialect. Hm, you think that's where the odd changes in Kazu and his mom's speech are coming from, a regional osmosis of accents?

"No worries, it's pretty crowded." You only half turn while you search your pockets for a tissue or napkin, spotting a flash of grey in your peripherals. Then an arm covered in that grey reaches out to hold a napkin in your field of view and you finally look up to see who it belongs too.

And now you're just staring. Hi there, I'd like hear your voice more. Preferably while you stare at his mouth move on his beautiful face. You can't believe he just had his hand on your waist, even if it was just for a split second and over layers of clothes, and you didn't get to appreciate it.

"It's not dirty." He shakes the napkin, you're assuming because he thankfully thought you were thinking that over instead of ogling him.

You chuckle, thinking how you definitely need to send thanks to some divine power on the new year for all the interactions with some serious eye candy these past six months, but out loud you say, "I really need to thank some gods out there, huh?"

What?

He gives you a confused look but you catch yourself and, before he can respond and question your sanity, quickly follow up with, "Or just you. For this. Thank you for the napkin."

"S'alright. Wasn't a big favour, really, just makin' up for my fault bumpin' into ya." You're not sorry he did, though? You can't tell what he's thinking, this guy is a closed book, folks. It's kind of jarring, since you consider yourself exceptional at reading people and acclimating to them.

You finally actually accept the napkin and wipe at your mouth and chin first, then your hand, responding, "At least you didn't make me drop the coffee or we would have had a real problem."

You think he realizes you're teasing because the corner of his mouth actually inches up the tiniest bit. You're not imagining, you swear it on your mocha!

"Coffee this late?"

"It's 11am somewhere."

"Ya wake up at 11am?" What an interesting thought process he has.

"Are you not on winter break? Or do you just assume your typical hours in every conversation no matter what day of the year it is?"

"Huh." You think he sounds thoughtful? Or was it just the word and you're associating it with how you use it..

"That's not an answer, but I'll take that to mean you go the typical route." You smile again because like you said, he's unreadable and you really don't want him to think you're being bitchy. You're really grateful for the napkin. And that face. So... yeah.

You're moving up, thankfully, because you thought you were blessed but this is just turning into what feels like an awkward encounter.

"I like sleepin' in, but sometimes I get too hungry so I'm up when my stomach is."

You look back at him in surprise, obviously because he bothered to continue a seemingly closed conversation, but that quickly turns into amusement and commiseration, "Oh I know! It's mostly coffee for me because not a lot of people bother to make breakfast in my house, but if I smell something delicious cooking, I forget I'm not a morning person."

He does smile fully then and it's beautiful. "Me too, but I'm usually the one doing the cookin'."

"Oh wow, that's dedication. I can respect but never reach that ideal." You hold your hand to your heart in a silly salute but also because he's still smiling and you're trying to tell your unreliable organ to be still. Not too still though, you're enjoying the moment and want to keep living it.

"Eh, I'm used to it."

"Well then, for once, let someone else take care of your food. I'll get your order for you."

"Seriously? It was just a napkin and my fault too.."

"Yeah, no, don't worry about it! Consider it a gift in essence of the festival!"

He doesn't say anything for a moment before, "I was going to try the different flavours. That's a lot."

"No way, that's awesome! I'll do that too, I don't even know what they have available, I just stopped here on a whim on my way there." You indicate the stand next to the one you're almost to the front of with a wave of your hand.

"Ahh.. if ya like, I can suggest some?"

You happily smile at him as you accept, "That would be great, thank you so much."

The two of you step up to the counter together and you listen while he orders. While you both wait for them to place each of your requests, he explains some of the fillings and why they work best depending on personal taste and even situation. You tell him about having just tried dango, sad about having realized you missed out so long, and he actually smiles widely at your exaggerated pained expression but also recommends some other desserts, including which shops to stop at in the city.

It's starting to snow as you two talk, which is not rare but still unusual for this region, but thankfully it's not much longer before you're each handed your containers and move aside. You look over to him and laugh when you realize this guy is already munching on one of the onigiris, your breath puffing out in a small cloud before you. "Which one is it?"

"Fatty tuna." He talks around it with his own little puffy cloud and it's pretty cute actually, instead of the usual cringe when people talk with their mouths full. Oh, the benefits of being good looking. Also, he's tilted his head down ever so slightly so it's almost polite in a perfected way.

"I'm just going to go ahead and assuming you're enjoying it."

He nods while swallowing and then makes some pretty intense eye contact while speaking way too seriously, "Thank you. This is amazing."

You smile, feeling like in the minutes the two of you were conversing, you've gotten a little more comfortable with the minute changes in his expressions. "You're welcome. I'm going to head over to the drink stall now, but it was nice to meet you!"

With a laugh as you walk away, you also add, "And thank you for sharing your knowledge with me, at least I'll know where to feed myself when I'm craving different things this week."

You're turning away as he seems to stand there watching you with some hesitation, but you can't do all the heavy lifting in a conversation when you're on a time limit, so you'll chalk this up to another fun run-in with a cute guy for the books.

You're lucky there's no line up, you're really short on your deadline and your fingers are getting pretty cold along with your coffee, so you pay for the hot chocolate, they pour, and you're back off towards the end of the street where your cousins are waiting.

You can't move too fast given the bag dangling from the wrist of the hand that's also carefully holding the tray of four hot chocolates, but the crowd is also thinning out a little now with the snow. Hopefully, if you're a couple minutes behind the expected time, the diverse and sheer amount of onigiri you have in the bag you're now holding, as well as the new round of warm drinks, will bring you forgiveness.

You finish up the last, cool dregs of your coffee just as you pass by a trash can, making the split decision to quickly reverse so you can toss your cup and free up a hand. As you execute your smooth move and then turn back, you unsurprisingly bump into someone yet again. Not so smooth then, you think, looking up.

It's deja vu and for a split second, you consider that he might actually be a weirdo and followed you, because stopping in your path as an apology drops from your lips is the guy you were only just talking to, same face, same dark hair, even same height... but with a different jacket on.

It takes you all of one more second to notice the small differences like the eye colour, the way the hair naturally parts, and the slightest difference in size, not to mention the more obvious difference in openness and personality literally exuding from this one. He's actually smiling wide right away with no provocation. So not a weirdo who changed his jacket and followed you.

Also, have you ever considered the odds of multiple sets of twins being in pretty much the same place at the same time?

"Oh, there's another one of you, huh?" You're talking again before he even has a chance to respond to your apology, but you guess you feel familiar thanks to your brief encounter with his twin. "That's unfair, don't you think?"

You step around him calling out, "Anyways, sorry about that. Enjoy your night." and walk away, back towards your own set of twins.

Ugh, Kazu's going to kill you. You won't be making it in time, for sure.

Miya Atsumu's POV

Atsumu turns to follow the stunning girl's progress as she moves around him and away, catching her last words but still more interested in her previous statement. 'There's another one of you, huh?'.

People have been confusing him and his twin for as long as they've been alive and only those that know them really well can only sometimes make out the difference.

It's no longer amusing, and actually irritating enough that he and 'Samu have been considering a little aesthetic change some time next year, maybe before their first year of high school.

'Tsumu knows it's his brother without looking when someone walks up to his left side from behind him. What he's surprised by is his first words, "She think you were me? I was talkin' to her a bit at the stall."

When he glances over, he notices 'Samu staring after her as well, with a lot more interest than simple, piqued curiosity. Does he know her?

"No.." He contemplates her words again before sharing with his brother, "She said 'There's another one of you, huh? That's unfair, don't you think?' and then walked away."

He can feel 'Samu looking over at him curiously, "Did ya talk to her?"

Why is he asking? He hasn't even picked up a new onigiri from the open box in his hand. "I just bumped into her. Didn't even say a word. Do ya know her?"

"Like I said, I only just met her." Pausing, 'Samu seems to think it over before adding, "We only talked a few minutes, maybe."

The twins are silent for another couple moments, while the snow continues to drift around them. The girl is long gone, swallowed up by the crowd at this point, but they keep staring at where they last saw her retreating figure, each in their own intrigued thoughts.

Finally, 'Samu's the one who breaks the silence, "Do ya believe in coincidences, 'Tsumu?"

"No, 'Samu, ya know I don't."

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Behind The Scenes!

-Tee was called out in the first thread because he doesn't use emojis often, especially not the half assed ones he used for a scenario like that so... caught slipping lmao (aw he does care about Y/n <3 Maybe more than he should?)

-Y/n was NOT expecting to get called out like that for saying she likes Oikawa when she'd literally just called him her friend... Iwa, you slick wingman ;) <3 He might bully the shit out of Oikawa (to keep him in check though) but he really is his best friend :')

-Ushi says what he means and means what he says lol, yeah, he wasn't really surprised

-Y/n's friends aren't all necessarily happy about this development; they've been aware of her various interactions as they usually are (some more than others) but... they're getting older and, well, all not sharing as much with each other as they once did

-But they're still going to call her out and roast her because they're her best friends lmao who else will? They have to keep her in check too loool

-Oikawa's last reply... <33 Take it how you will :D

-And Shin just dropping in to screenshot his cousin's embarrassing moments, hoping for a dirty delete so he can roast her all over again for the same crime lmao, probably shouldn't have warned her though... whoops

-I HC the Miyas' hair dyeing happening at/around their first year of HS, anyone know any different? It was only Osamu's jacket that was grey in Y/n's peripherals, just a little tease for us all ;)

A/N: Guys, I'm really, really sorry about the Miyas' 'accent'... you might see a couple different attempts in there but I had to edit a lot of what I tried out because it sounded just awful however I was originally trying to write it earlier. If you guys do have any suggestions, I'm very much all hears (and eyes lol - heart eyes specifically because I've seen some write them incredibly well!).

That aside, I hope you all enjoyed this one, I loved writing it so much, it just flowed once I started and I love the Miya twins, each in their own way <33 I've been dying to introduce them and the other 'main' characters but there's definitely going to be a difference in the weight of interactions Y/n has for a while. It's not favoritism, I promise; Y/n's time spent with various characters is just going to be uneven at various points due to the natural progression of her story :') but I plan for it all to even out as we move along the years (:

Taglist: @delusivist, @prettyinblack231, @kac-chowsballs, @sakusasimpbot

[electricprincess96]

That previous ask made me think that sometimes the way these (predominately American) woke people talk about race is very weird, and it sometimes comes off the same as some rhetoric by extreme racists. Same with those Khalidstans that attacked you and others a few months ago. It's just so worrying to me.

Oh the spectrum of racist/woke "anti racist" is a perfect circle and they will loop back around to being just as racist as your typical neo nazi in some instances. A non white person doesn't agree with something they said? They'll invalidate that person's own experiences and opinions in favour of pushing their agenda.

I seen a Korean Language learner saying that when she went to study in Korea her teacher asked her to take on a Korean name (I should specify she didn't give her a Korean name, she asked her to pick a Korean name for herself) because her name was extremely difficult to say for native Korean speakers. A Korean-American in the comments of the video said that was appropriation because Korean names have very important meanings (often derived from the meaning of the names Chinese characters) but a native Korean, from Korea came in and said that while Korean names have meanings yes they aren't like spiritually or massively sulturally significant and that most Koreans if they meet a Foreigner with a hard name to say they will try to give them a Korean name to make it easier and that they often enjoy doing this and sharing their culture. Now this wasn't a case of a white person being ignorant, this was a case of an American (even a Korean American) not quite understanding what actually happens in the country they're talking about (in this case South Korea).

I saw another example of a white woman who married into a Vietnamese family (and I think maybe even living in Vietnam, not sure about that one) and she celebrated Lunar New Year with the family wearing traditional Vietnamese Dress and the comments were full of white saviours and Vietnamese-Americans (although significantly less of them but I seen a few who claimed she wore it as a costume and that her husband was a traitor for not marrying a Vietnamese girl which... yeah not touching that one) calling her racist, problematic, a cultural appropriater, saying her daughters can wear it as its their culture but not hers, she isn't allowed and she had to explain that her mother-in-law bought the dress for her, dressed her up in it and asked her to take part in the families celebrations for Lunar New Year because she is part of the family and that it would have been more disrespectful and rude to refuse her Mother-in-laws invitation or to turn up dressed in something not appropriate for the occasion. And still some people wouldn't accept that.

So honestly when it comes to things like race and culture and shit like that I try to just stay out of it as best I can because as a white girl sometimes I feel like I'm in a no win situation but when it comes to people stupidly claiming very Japanese inspired characters are white.... yeah that's dumb enough I'm not gonna get cancelled for calling that shit out (at least I'd like to think people are smart enough to guess the person called Hinoka isn't French or something like that).

[istanhooman]

I'm going to be making head canons and the like on these characters by @yesimahooman

Totallyahooman, the owner of these characters, said I should make a post about her characters so you all know what you're getting into hehe. They're all cats btw, and I'm on my phone so there's going to be mistakes. Most likely.

Apparently these characters are called the "meme team" because Totally made four of them (Toby, Oliver, Gingerale, and Milo) for an animation meme and fell in love. They didn't even have names until like a month later ig lmao

Toby: He's really friendly, but unlike Two-Tone understands boundaries - even if he's a little hyper and annoying. Toby will happily drop anything for his friends. Basically the generic "good guy" Character (But Totally says he had an edgy phase in a cat's version of teen years). He has three little sisters, who always insisted on playing with him, which didn't work well with his edgy phase. Totally told me he doesn't have a father, but he has a mother that looks a lot like him and she's the sweetest darling ever. Toby's the peach-ish, brown and white one.

Two-Tone: Speaking of Two-Tone, the wittle baby man omg I love him. Totally said he was originally made for the weird animation memes, because she had the nice one, the anxious one, the dad-friend, the angry one and the murderer. And yeah, you can use an edgy killer for weird/edgy memes, but she wanted WEIRD. And so Two-tone was made. But he apparently evolved into a really sweet cat who just doesn't understand how to communicate with people. He's been friends with Toby since childhood (kittenhood?) and seemingly came from nowhere. No parents at all. Toby's family basically adopted him (though I kinda ship them???)

Oliver: Anxious boyo. He's the blue one with big worried eyes. I also love him, he's so adorable. Anyway- Oliver's worrying about everything, constantly. He's also really easy to pick on because he'd be too scared to defend himself. Actually, Cinder tries killing him the most out of the team, which forces Gingerale to protect the bb. Totally told me that when she draws the two, she can't help but draw Oliver huddling behind Gingerale for protection and I live for that. She also said that he was an only child, so he learned how to be by himself and is still getting used to actually being around other cats. She said that Oliver's mom is also really sweet, but she was too soft and didn't force Oliver into anything he was uncomfy with (which were simple fears like the dark or strangers) and so he never got that exposure that's needed to NOT be a crying mess.

Gingerale: The ginger cat. He's a very grumpy boy and hates all things fun. Actually that's not true, but he's very tsundere. He'll bully his friends, but as soon as someone does it, he's going OFF on them. He somehow always catches Cinder when she's trying to kill the team, too which would he so much fun to see. Totally said Gingerale's used to being ignored because he was one of the middle kittens of TWELVE. YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP RNAKKD. kinda sad to imagine tho, poor bby.

Cinder: Finally, the one I kept mentioning. The gray and white gorl. To explain her murderous ways, Totally gave me a run down: As a kitten, Cinder was severely bullied by three older ones. Their mothers didn't do anything to stop it, and Cinder's own mother was too deep in self-pity due to her mate leaving her. All because he didn't want kittens :(. So, Cinder didn't get anyone to defend her from these bullies. One night, Cinder's mom stands up and straight up leaves. Totally gave a small, sad detail of "So, wondering where her mom was going, Cinder followed after her. But Cinder's mom turns only to push the kitten away, giving her an angry glare before leaving for good. Cinder's never seen her again." And i- that's so depressing. Anyway, Cinder finally snapped and killed one of the kittens bullying her. Finally the mothers cared, but only for their own. They exiled Cinder from the area, and Cinder complied. But she never forgot how nice it felt to finally have some power and since then, she's just kinda- killed cats. Totally finished it with "Cinder found the meme team and thought they'd be easy, but Gingerale's a good match against her. So... She's just for comedy's sake now I guess". That was long, sorry.

Milo: Big boi. Big soft boi. I really like him, but also I couldn't help but think about Milo from Pokemon Sword and Shield. I told Totally this and she went "Yeah, I made him before the game was officially out and before I played it. I had no idea" And I'll just accept her word. He's cute tho, the gray tabby. He's bigger than his friends and is super fatherly to them, even though he's around their age. Always making sure Oliver isn't so scared, Two-Tone and Toby are out of trouble, Gingerale actually socializes and the twins are recognized more. Very sweet.

Aidan: Speaking of the twins, they're the last two I need to tell you about! First is Aidan. He's the one with sunglasses. And also the spikier fur, and he's the boy. I like him because he thinks he's really cool and popular, but he's not. In fact Totally always forgets the twins exist. She's getting better at it, she says. She told me that Aidan is that one "I'm so cool" character who's calm and collected usually, but if a girl (or boy, she claims their sexualities are never specified and up to interpretations for the creativity) flirted with him, he'd DIE. I need to make hcs on this.

Nadia: The pretty girl. Basically it. She's really nice and understanding, but always finds a way to insult her brother casually. The twins have always been there for each other, but at the end of the day they're siblings. They're going to argue with each other. In fact, Totally said she likes to take a bit from her own siblings and say things like "Oh yeah, and Nadia one day would be all 'Aidan, brother, listen to me. I love you, but you're ugly. No girl would like you' And Aidan turns to his sister, slightly pulls down the sunglasses that somehow stay on his face and glances at her up and down before sighing, 'But Nadia, you're forgetting. You look just like me, but curly. You're just as ugly as I am, and you won't find love either.' Or smth like that. Just the casual insulting chaos that is siblings".

EDIT: Totally told me she updated character sheets and said I should replace the old ones! So most of these aren't old now

[chromium7sky]

Abstract Mark part 10

A/n: it has come to an end for this story. Thank you for reading it..aaaaaaaaa you can follow this story with #abstract mark or #damirae. Honestly, if they're making Raven into DCU , this plotline is what I had in mind. Anyway, enjoy!!

" You dare to challenge me!? You own father??!! " Trigon is enrage.

" What you did back to Azarath makes me sick!" Rachel scream.

 "Then,  you shall face your doom, Traitor!!! " Trigon activate his laser eyes.

Rachel hold it by projecting her energy against it. As both father and daughter energy colliding, Damian run toward Trigon.

He swiftly climbing Trigon's back and held the sword over his head. One slash,  one of Trigon's horn was cutted. Damian smile as he succeeded.

 Trigon was distracted and Raven's energy pass over his and knock Trigon down.  Frustrated defeat by his daughter,  he seen Damian and fired him with his laser eyes.

 “Now, that’s a coward move!” Damian shouted as he avoiding the lasers. "Dang it, John! I can't attack him at closer range!! " Damian huffed as he tried his best avoid the deadly ray from the gigantic demon which leading him closer toward Trigon.

Trigon smirked, using both of his hand amplify his powerful blow toward the young assassin.

Damian saw it as the shadow coming close to him.

However it is halted. Raven using her strength as she levitated above Damian's head. Her four eyes now glow in red along with aglaopoctis crystal sending terror to anyone who lay their eyes on her. "I shall banish you." Raven's voice echoed in the enveloped atmosphere.

Using her magic, seven shadow cloak suddenly come out from her forehead crystal. Each of them reveal different color of their cloak represent seven point cakra. As they swirl and combined with Raven's body, her vessel ignite white light.

"What the.... " Damian witnessed something beyond his logic explanation. The girl he sees now appeared in white robe and with ease she thrown off the weight of her father's hands.

Trigon surprised with as all of his four eyes went large when he sees his conduit, Raven now emitted painful ray for his eyes.

"You will not come here. You will not touch this land with your feet. For you... Are NOT welcome here. " Raven warn him.

Raven held her hand as it glows with both light and dark color aura. Her shadow grown out and rise in the shape of a bird, emitting high pitch shriek that almost deafen Damian's ears. "Thou shalt be sealed to the other side!! Now and Forever!!!" Raven's shadow enveloped the giant embodiment of evil and quickly went to the dimension portal.

The red sigma beneath start to fade and so as the blue sigil around them. Raven waves her hand, drawing the Mark of Seal in Azarath's language placed in front of the broken dimension seal that held Trigon.

John quickly join them as the process begun. He then, stood there with open arms, reciting ancient language and the blur ancient rune start to appear surrounding the portal.

As soon as Raven completed another mark of seal, John tied the rune around it like chain, hoping Trigon won't be escaped from that portal opening again.

The girl slowly settled herself on the ground right in front of the young assassin and the british mage.

She removed her hood revealing her face. Solace and at tranquility. " I'm sorry for the trouble. If it wasn't because you guys help me thing wouldn't be like this. " she bowed her head as an apology.

"Well, actually I'm trying to save you from being killed by psycho homicidal group, miss Roth. " Damian dust off his shoulder as soon as he unsheathed the sword.

"Thank you, for believing me. " Raven smiled. "I'm guessing Robert wasn't your real name, O Brave one?" as Raven greet the young man who used to be her lab partner.

Damian scoffed as he heard Raven address him like a hero character from rpg game. "Damian Wayne. The assassin, from Gotham." he held his hand.

She grab his hand, slightly shake. "Rachel Roth. Actual name is Raven, from Azarath." as her lip slightly curved.

"Seems a lovely evening for ice breaking. " John Constantine joined them after he called someone,explaining the situation, Damian presume that he called his father, Bruce Wayne because only his father could uphold on this matter.

"The name is John Constantine, part time mage, professionally. " John bow down, introduce himself, Raven bowed her head soon after. "Raven, from Azarath. "

"Well, it seems that the situation is under control. " as John looked at the Sealed portal that about to dissappear, hiding from naked eyes. "Aren't you going to continue your --"

"No. " Raven cut off John's sentence. " I know where I came from so, I need to learn how I could control this power, this curse. "

"Consider it as a gift. " Damian spoke as he give a pat on her shoulder.

"Gift? " She looked at him.

"A gift that makes you different. A gift that has been entrust you to protect this world from whatever at the otherside. " he added.

"My father. " She whispered under her breath.

"Maybe, you could join me. " Damian at first look at the other side before he turn his eyes on her.

"Join you? But I'm dangerous. I mean, can you see what I'm capable back then? " Raven gestured her hands towards the seal portal door which that has vanish.

"So am I. " Damian straight up his pose. Showing that he's a proud warrior while holding his weapon.

Raven realise that Damian was not ordinary trained kid, still she's afraid of her power that goes out of control.

John reads Raven's expression and thus he made an offer. "Why not you join me first? The sentinel of magic? "

"Sentinel of magic? Is that some kind of club or something? " Raven confused.

"We're just like Damian's, but specifies on Magic properties. " John explain the objective, briefly. "Don't worry, as soon as you're in control of your power, You could join this little boy tree house club. " John playfully sneered at Damian.

"It is called Teen Titan. " Damian with his arm crossed. "Still mad at me, old man? " he added.

"What you did are dangerous, young lad. Thank god I've handle this. " John sighed followed by Damian's scoffed.

"If that so, I would gladly to learn my magic property, Mr. Constantine. " Raven smiled and nod as agreement.

"It is settle then. " John clasp both of his hand. He glance at Damian. There's a bit of dissapointment on his face but quickly turn into his usual brooding mood.

"It is settle then," said Damian as he tied the sword over his shoulder.

"Hey. "

Damian stopped as Raven's hands holding his, steadily.

"Uh... "his eyes glanced at the hands then to the girl's face.

"As soon as I be able to control my ability, I will join you. Eventually. " Raven speak as her eyes stare deep into his green ocean eyes.

Damian stunned for a moment then he smiled. "You are welcome to the Titan's tower anytime. " His lips curved upward. He didn't realise John was observing his face as he talk to Raven.

"Deal. " she nod. A promise is sealed.

"I might as well need to go back to Gotham." As he glared to John, "If you tell my father about this, I will hunt and KILL you. "

"Tell whot? " John smirked as he thicken his accent. Damian continued to give him the death stare.

"I'm going. Farewell then. " Damian fish out something from his pocket. A small remote with two button. As he pressed it, a loud humming sound a long with gus of wind came.

Raven mouth went agape as she sees the source of annoying disturbance. "Is that a plane? " she's in disbelief as batplane landed further from them.

Damian smirked as he looked back. "Batplane." then he jump into the driver seat as soon as the doorlid open. Putting headphone and clicking some button of the panel Damian give simple salute before he take off.

As soon as he's gone, Raven look at John for explanation. John chuckled, "I know. They have cool gadget."

"So, when will we start training? " Raven asked him as John summoning the Mystery house. "When you're ready, Raven. "

Raven with confident." Let's do it."

Abstract mark master post: https://chromium7sky.tumblr.com/post/170432315598/abstract-mark-and-other-fanfic-masterlist

[whimsically-ominously-auspice]

According to 23 and me I am 95% European. And I have immology issues as well as my daughter.

So while I am hearing Native American and Latinx and African American all have these same issues -- white people don't miss out.

It doesn't make this above video any better and in fact adds to the problem but the answer has been provided in videos last night totaling about 3 hours long.

In short as I have said the population is incorrectly recorded.

The population of Chicago African Americans do not include the outrageous numbers of enslaved in the Chicago underground.

Actual Chicago numbers are 1/3 are dying of COVID-19 that are African American and they are 2/3 the population as records from 2017 will show, stemming from the 2010 collection of demographic data.

In my opinion 1/3 is very high.

Then you realize in New Mexico the high population will be Hispanic, Spanish or Mexican.

In places like Utah it will be a high percentage of white.

Florida will be white elderly with a classical mix of Cuban and African American of all ages.

States like Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and even Alabama will be a large population of Africsn American.

Arizona will not be. Oregon. Washington state.

Canada the high percentage will be French or English.

In Italy and this is where it gets really mind boggling -- they are all Italian. Nearly all.

In China they're all Chinese.

In The United Kingdom there is a recorded 25% African American population and only 20% of recorded COVID-19 are falling ill are African American the majority 78% are Caucasian (white).

Its all about demographics.

Remember we just pulled out over one Zillion people from human trafficking world wide that have never or have not in years been recorded and are now being recorded.

In last nights video all evil humans that are evil due to being victims of slavery are being redirected to a specified heaven for relief and education. Where they are catered to and treated like royalty. In hopes they would like to return to Earth.

And some are indeed aliens.

So dont look at densly populated areas and freak the fuck out

Know your Geography. Know your demographics.

Those that travel you go state to state who do you see working most? In New Mexico its Mexican.

In Arkansas is African American.

In Oregon it's Caucasian (white)

In Italy its Italian

In Australia its Australians.

So don't be ignorant.

I already explained the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad and how we don't have many African Americans in New Mexico due to the Spanish Wars. We pushed them back East and up North to keep them safe from war and from emancipated slavery due to the wars.

So yes Chicago has many. For why now class? To keep them safe.

I do again thank P Diddy for sounding the alarm about this so the videos could be released in order to share a different news in these trying times.

Although we don't usually put Friday news on the weekend test it will be on this weekend because it started last night and then onto next weekend as well to ensure you are retaining the information.

And again MSNBC news is a debate news to see how news settles in the mind and soul and how people react.

Check out how the girl in the middle, I assume she's Latina, see how she uses body language to indicate how shes listening.

She keeps her head down initially to show respect like a student at her desk

When mention of the CDC she straightens up to significantly show the CDC should be as stand to attention as she, rolling her shoulders to get to work. Like any child in her mind she is "if i was at the CDC i would find this important and would do it"

Then at the end she opens her mouth to argue. The solution of going to the hospital for care is not good.

This is standard school institution body language. A lot of times people aren't super aware of what they're saying.

But none of us will be shut up. Even in silence We all speak.