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honestly i think the conception of proselytizing is what made people nowadays so concerned about what other people do/look like/identify as/whatever
#i think its the root cause#or at least a big contributing factor#the whole idea of needing to 'save' people by converting them to whatever you believe. it just devolves from there.#suddenly i need to save becky from the social trauma of being made fun of for wearing that ugly pink dress! dont worry becky! jesus will#save you from your social sins ! you just need to ask for forgiveness for dressing so ugly !! jesus will totally like. say its all fine#you just have to be sorry for all your choices! and then you can join our clique and everything yknow#and yes as most positions of authority we are using jesus as a stand in for ourselves to try to assert our will is gods#dont you want to not get beat up becky ???????????????? you better be fucking sorry for wearing that stupid ug;ly pink fucking dress\#with the stupid ugly pink unicorn on it#*tries to make comparison between the unicorn and satan*
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ty to @icedmatchawoatmilk13 for sending this to me! i may have gone a bit overboard but this was so much fun to fill out/think about BAHAHA💖 ill still never get over how perfect the song sarah smiles is for them...the lyrics AND the fact that its an alliteration...im gonna do an animatic about seb and clora to that song one day i swear 😩 ((blank template by oakwolves!))
#like fr....'i was fine just a guy living on my own/waiting for the sky to fall/till you called and changed it all doll' LIKE!!!!!#makes me think of seb just waiting/dreading for anne to die but then clora comes along and changes everything/saves anne AND him#ok sorry my squeeing and yapping about how perfect this song is for them is done#choccyart#clora clemons#the hardest part of this chart for me to fill out was the starting arguments one honestly...but i think theyre pretty even LOL#clora is the ROOT of their arguments usually and then seb just reacts to her bullshit......so its a 50/50 LMAO. cause and effect#also sebs pda WOULD be at 100% if not for clora LMAO#and sorry for making seb h*terosexual😔 honestly i cant see either of them with anyone else hes just clorasexual tbh#also if i could have given seb an autumn birthday I WOULD HAVE but i needed his bday to be early on in my fic...for reasons...#looking at aquarius personalities tho i DO think it unintentionally suits seb a lot#i wouldnt have made cloras bday in april either if i could have chosen freely i would have done either summer or december#but then again i just recently learned that the birth flower for april is DAISIES!! so its perfect🥰#youd think i would know this since my bday is also in april LMFAO i like how i only care/do this research when its about my ocs and not me#BAHAHAH priorities!!!
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@kkobweek Day 6 - Fashion choices / Flowers
It's a useless trick, the kind that Danzo would chastise Kinoko for wasting valuable time and effort on mastering, if he ever learned about it. Doesn't matter. The flowers are worth it, if only because Kakashi's embarrassment is a rare thing. (There are words Kinoko cannot say, sealed as they are along with the life Obito used to live. But maybe, hopefully, Kakashi will get the message anyway.)
#kkobweek2025#kakaobi#kakashi hatake#obito uchiha#naruto#yumi's art#root AU#flowers#trash boyfriends#drawing all the flowers was both fun and hellish#cause theyre all mixed together#so following the stems and knowing where they go#'s kinda hard 😔#i had fun tho. havent drawn flowers in a while#i think its the first time i draw orchids also#also kakashi's gay little pose ✨
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I draw a sketch to simply offer my own personal little headcanon and theory that Zenos was the only other descendant Emet got close to (knowing him probably unintentionally) besides Lucius.
Obviously we never see them interact directly, but several little worldbuilding tidbits do make me ponder about certain things, like the possibility lorewise that it could've been Emet that named Zenos, and the fact that they share certain habits and potentially interests.
#ffxiv#concept#fan art#sketch#zenos yae galvus#solus zos galvus#emet selch#ffxiv spoilers#potentially I suppose#just wanted to draw something sweet#and maybe it was also an excuse to draw little baby faced Zenos before I work on some other comic ideas#obviously I still don't think Zenos got a lot of warmth from Emet especially as he got older or think that he really raised him directly-#however#the theatrics- their tendancies to nap when theyre bored- and the fact that Zenos is a garlean who's name is greek rooted not roman#those little parallels just makes my writing brain go brr#though I will admit a part of this characterization was also inspired by the april fools manga#and its cute that even not directly involved- and often causing him more trouble than anything- that Emet was looking out for Zenos there#like its not canon#but I hope that was meant to still be fully in character- I adore the little bits of interaction and characterizations we got#it is also interesting to me that his name (iirc) is supposed to mean 'gift of zeus'- and he turned out to be quite literally gifted
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idk how to put this but in a world where anime with characters who are physically time frozen tend to be like visibly child looking or like given a specific 'visual age' when we really don't need one for the understanding of the character I fuck with adult watanuki looking considerably different even if it's partly due to the trauma and career change and emulating his mother figure. like i like that he very clearly has a different design that's visibly adult and it encompasses ways he's shrunk back into himself and ways he's grown up
#heck even the way the clothes frame his body when usually before hes dressed in his school uniform or random shitty tshirts or smth#it FEELS like his body has changed even if it technically might not have#his maturing is obvious and party of it are premature in terms of his mental state and how he expresses himself#but parts of it are also just inevitably the kind of adult he was always going to become#xxxholic#idk#forever slaying despite the urge to slay himself...#by specific age stated i mean like. when a character is a time frozen adult and could pass for one#but the media specifically states an age. like holo in spice and wolf lol#its like. the characters functionally an adult and we know for some reason their body is taken or time frozen in some way to look younger#but do we need a specific age lol#often those are unnecessary and just make me sigh lol#i mean its not like holic would do this anyway they never do it for yuuko and we know when watanuki got turned#but thats besides the point#idk i just think the intricacies of how they handle this visually and narratively r rly interesting#never forget i have some srs plot point misgivings with rou but in other senses i find it the coolest juiciest fucking thing everrr#this is extra important to me i think cause if it werent rooted in this kind of aesthetic change and stuff it wouldnt be able to#tackle repressed halfway sexuality the same way it does#and we all know how much i like repressed sexuality as a key theme of rou...
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#i dont think im a bad person. i dont think i behave in ways that are especially terrible. i dont hate myself. but i do believe i deserve to#suffer. and im not sure how to align those incongruent ideas. its hard to articulate because a lot of my rigidity stems from restrictions#without cause. i don't do things for a specific reason. im not afraid that if dont do specific things it will cause bad things to happen. i#behave in specific ways because thats what i have to do. thats just the way it is. without reason. without cause. like im getting dictates#from some higher power. a lot of my restrictive behaviors manifest in a sort of religious way. not in a religious trauma way. the church i#grew up in was all love thy neighbor and not fire and brimstone. its more that this rigid views is deeply and profoundly rooted in how i#belive i need to behave. i behave imperfectly. i make mistakes. and there has to be a consequence. i have to suffer. and thats just how it#is. like preying for forgiveness or committing self flagellation. i repent through self punishment. and when i try to imagine why i do this#all i can think about is being a little kid. praying before i went to bed. not aloud. the prayers i kept silent. that nobody would get sick#and die. that all the kids in childrens hospitals would get better and that nothing bad would ever happen to anyone. i had a pretty idealic#childhood. it was stable and my parents loved me a lot. i was never really bullied in school. my family was comfortably middle class without#money troubles. and i guess i find that difficult to contend with because i didnt do anything to deserve that. it was just luck. and why#should i have that when other ppl dont? but random things dont happen to you because you did something to warrent them. thats not how the#world works. so maybe im seeking to balance the scale. maybe im trying to pay for my good luck because it makes more sense that way.#sins must be punished and good fortune must be paid for. but only for me. i am an isolated entity controlled by an angry god.#and again. i dont hate myself or thing im a bad person. it only seems fair and correct that i should suffer. thats just how it is.#and how do you classify that? its a rigid worldview that sprauls out into restructions and compulsions. a lens warped from through#existential fear? the rot from which 0cd manifested? a set of restrictions born of aut1sm? i dunno. it doesnt really matter but i try to#classify anyway. maybe it doesnt fit neatly into one box. so it goes.#just stupid bullshit im being forced to deal with now that im basically in triple therapy lol#unrelated
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im usually very very picky about art "trends" or whjatever theyre called but i must say iam quite fond of the [character+layers of portraits] and [select all images that contain Subject] versions
#u show me smthn that messes with computer uis and iam onboard instantly immediately.#piktalk#its not that i think these things are Bad or anything but i find it hard to engage when you like...#do the same thing as someone else. like yea its cool and fun and etc but itll always feel like im stepping over some invisible line..#with like anim memes and stuff its not so bad cause you Can just do your own thing but have a like; shot or two connecting the thread#but with these oftentimes theres no Room for said spin. yk?#art is for fun and anyone can do whatever they want and all that; but again. doing things 1:1 has never been fun to me. notsure..#roots burrow deep and all. etc etc etc.
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rereading random bits of descendants of olympus (as one does) and. vera <3 still soooo obsessed with how she takes lupa's divinity. like MAN.......there is something to how shes had to scrape and claw her way into every single good thing shes ever had. that she's never just been able to KEEP these things, that she is always always always fighting for them. and so of course she takes divinity. she wants to LIVE. and in this world where the fates themselves are trying to control her, its like--yeah. maybe you do need a gods power to finally get like, at least a year of the life you want. the life you werent supposed to have. forever thinking about vera's one line in her chapter thats like 'of course the fates are losing power. because they'd never let someone like leo into my life.' YELLS. FOREVER.
also have we talked enough about minnie I THINK WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT MINNIE--
#chatter#son of sea foam#sosf#yeah fuck it im not scared veraposting in the main tags#unrelated to verapost but also i reread the end of ethans chapters and GOD. GOD.#everything happening to percy here is SO GOOD....like yes at the end of the day im rooting for vera and leo lol but percy....#the way estelle is the only one who can fight for him. the parallels drawn with zeus.#how he doesnt even realize killing lupa will betray jason.#dakota (i think lol) talking w ethan and that whole bit about how like...its the people who are loyal who betray you.#bc percy offers loyalty to so many people but at the end of the day he DOES have a list. and. well. evelyn is pretty high up there#and jason just. isnt.#LITERALLY MAKES ME KDJFGNJDFBGF#god. isnt there a sosf discord what if i was in there veraposting on the daily#tbf i dont usually join discords cause im bad at talking to people if they arent starting it#BUT THERE ARE SOME THINGS I WILL YELL ABOUT FOREVER. NO MATTER WHO WANTS OR DOESNT WANT TO HEAR IT#and vera is one of those things <3#anyways hi everyone who follows me for Anything Else i hope you enjoy the veraposting#you should read son of sea foam it changes you :3#and then send me asks about it :333 (<- joking but. what if)#vera love of my life
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I have so much animosity towards whoever made 'gut health' trendy, so much you can scarcely comprehend. Like as a proud IBS warrior I am just like always going to be prone to stomach issues and thus always going to have people giving unsolicited advice about it but like literally every "gut health" tip makes it infinitely worse and when you are like 'actual medical professionals have advised me to limit my fiber intake' they will not accept it.
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SAG-AFTRA is officially set to join the WGA in going on strike. No filming, premiere attendence or other promotion of any kind allowed.
I hope to see nothing but support for this decision.
#SAG-AFTRA#WGA#a shame the DGA isn't joining as well#not like their directors are gonna have a lot of work set out for them for the time being#this will have an interesting effect on the media landscape i'm sure#no more barbie premiere dresses#SDCC this year is gonna return to its more humble “nerds unite” roots at this point#i hope the wealthier writers and actors will support those that rely on the paychecks during the (continued) strike#actually i want a-list actors to step up in general#like why do like 5 people get paid a billion dollars for a few weeks of work per year#while their fellow working actors barely manage to book enough jobs to make their health insurance#IATSE should vote to strike again as well now that i think of it#they spend more time than anyone on set and get the least pay#doesn't seem fair#anyway#hopefully this will cause some positive changes in the industry#i don't want to see any complaints about the continued strikes affecting psych 4#i'll block your ass if you do
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frank. why
#rams garden adventures#frank. honey. back up#in case anyone worries about the pot size: its fine#succulents dont have very big root systems and dont like being in huge pots since they dry out slower#plus they usually prefer to be SLIGHTLY rootbound? i think it depends on the species though lol#cause some succulents have bigger root systems than others‚ like my bear paw!#i usually wait to re-pot them until their roots are poking out the holes of the pot they're in :)
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Day 140 | id in alt
Girl, please be more considerate of the horrors you make.
(Read right to left)
#dailykugisaki#jjk#kugisaki nobara#itadori yuji#fushiguro megumi#tokyo trio#gojo satoru#Playing a game of how many ways bucket can get away with not drawing Fushiguro#i dont want to draw him!!!#anyway i like to think about Kugisaki's technique a lot#Because its like the roots of a plant really#she forces her cursed energy into another being or object and causes it to rupture#hell i think she turns others cursed energy against them and its so funny#woe#diease and horror technique upon ye#she can absolutely manipulate it how she wants to so she can turn you inside out or into a flesh flower or something else#depends on her mood
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getting into ecology and environmental science and stuff sorta Sucks because. well. everything going on right now. the amount of times companies and such will take advantage of people's lack of understanding of these things to get away with some shitty stuff. I'm not immune to this either, but it is just Upsetting. To see people who have no idea what they're doing trying to "save the environment"
#I feel like a complete dork saying “oh yeah I want to get into ecology”#and my only career path given to me through that is. “save global warming”#which isn't BAD. Obviously#its just. kinda depressing that that's the only reason people can think of as to why I'd want to get into these fields#and also telling of the root causes of these sorta of things#textadactyl
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A casual note that as Liyue-native, as much as Yelan may be very well-traveled and thus may be familiar to various degrees with foreign cultures, they are still that to her: foreign. If we were to take Fontaine's inspiration of France to heart, it wouldn't surprise me if the common 'informal' greeting of the cheek kiss would be practiced there. Let it be known that if this were to ever be done to Yelan (and even the second, perhaps third, especially from each 'new' individual' as it would take some time getting used to), she'd likely show a semblance of confusion and retreat a little. Not out of uncertainty or insecurity, but simply out of confusion. It's important to remember that she is from Liyue, the nation that is firmly influenced and based on ancient China, and cultural differences are very much a thing. And while I still have much research to do on the social customs in both ancient and modern China (and taking these into account accordingly, just as Fontaine does not bear all customs and traditions from France and/or England by any means whatsoever), I am aware enough that this is not a custom that's shared between those countries.
#[ mini study. ] that which hides inside her… that constant calling; it is the blood of heroes which has been howling for 500 years.#[ i'm gonna try to do these more often. little tidbits like this that is. i don't need to write long metas about everything. ]#[ because ultimately that means that i take too much time and get much more finicky and often i can sum these things up. ]#[ but i was thinking about this yesterday. i'd assume it could be customary for something so inherently rooted in french culture... ]#[ to make its way into fontaine. ]#[ as much as not everything would. and i'm aware the cheek is not inherently /french/ (latin i think?) but it's so known for it. ]#[ because it's done all over the place. it's such a common thing within informal settings. you won't be greeted that way in businesses. ]#[ of course not. handshakes all around. but anywhere informal? 3 cheek kisses! and if lucky: 4. my family does 3. it drives me insane. ]#[ cause i had a thing with even numbers when little. ]#[ but hi yes! yelan is inherently liyuen; rooted in its culture and customs more than one realizes. ]#[ and so while she understands and will get used to practices in other nations-- they're not innate to her. ]#[ the lean-in for the cheek kiss would likely take her by immense surprise/confusion. ]
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I'm pretty sure my experiences haven't changed from when I last asserted my identity labels but my view kinda has I guess
#in the sense of. who cares about an orientation label if nothing ever really comes from it yknow.#it's fruitful yearning towards individuals my brain latches onto. that's the extent of it#there's no reciprocated dynamic that allows it to ever get to grow into sexuality#so like yeah I'm demi but 99.9% of the time sexuality just doesn't play into anything at all#and when it does it's brief blips that also don't go anywhere#and I have a pretty good idea of the pool of people I'm theoretically attracted to#but that also just. doesn't matter much once my brain latches onto someone and runs its tiring one sided course#and my gender is still accurate technically but I also have Nothing to say or think about it. it's all whatever#basically all the labels are still accurate it just means very little to me anymore.#it's weird cause it used to be an identity point right. of like hi! I'm [gender] [sexuality] and it's rooted in how you see yourself#and now if I think about how I would introduce myself. well. I wouldn't know but those elements aren't really on the radar to be honest#it comes into play so rarely that like. literally who cares#it's just wild cause people my age who I used to share online spaces with are still strongly debating over what it means to be x or y#and it just. doesn't matter to me anymore. I'm Anders and I like people out of my league generally speaking. hi etc#anyway musing rambling. it's okay if you feel different also#I guess those posts about how definitions matter less when you're older and more in irl spaces were right#bien rambles
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weird ask but what. do the arakawa family smell like. like what perfumes do they use/do they stink of cigarettes/etc.
arakawa = the scent of cigarette smoke and bourbon does well to equalize the profile of oud wood, not allowing the sweet smell to overpower his mysterious profile. whatever does seep through, you're more likely to catch the more woody, tangy notes- though people who stay around long enough recognize that sweet, nutmeg smell first
sawashiro = legally have to say he smells like a smokey leather couch cause of his 2019 outfit and for the occasional cig or two he'll have BUT as for colognes, definitely something akin to masato where it's more on the down-low as far as scent impressions go. unlike masato though, it's nothing superbly complex and isn't trying to invite anyone to stay and compliment the profile. besides the leather, theres a deep, earthy smell- but stay around long enough, and you might catch a speck of rose
ichiban = definitely tried to find a dupe for arakawa's cologne, though our boy's on a budget: cause'a that, he's got a preference for more woody colognes, wearing a sweet patchouli cologne that possesses an undertone of orange. luckily, the help of cigarette smoke and shea butter helps dilute the potency of his cologne
masato = definitely isn't shy about buying something pricey, and there's payoff for it. leans towards more extravagant fragrances, a castoreum and leather blend being his usual wear. his cologne isn't overly strong, yet it's present enough to make you want to linger to catch it. the only one on this list to not smell like smoke in the slightest
aoki = wears abundantly brighter and more inviting colognes. opposed to harsh, mysterious smells he'll wear the likes of cedarwood. there's still notes of leather to his profile, though. it's just barely masked by the cedar
mitsu = if we're talkin' the 90's, then nothing especially of note. doesn't care too much about colognes (or can even really afford anything especially nice), and he doesn't pay any real attention to deo and body/hair wash scents. legally has to smell a bit of cigarette smoke on account of hangin with people who smoke, but i couldnt tell you if he smokes himself or not. fast forward to 2019, something about him's telling me he'd wear some kind of aquatic cologne- like sage and sea salt..
#snap chats#asks i spend all morning on because i have more opinions about how people smell than any normal person should#I JUST GET TOO INTO IT WHEN IT COMES TO SMELLS AND COLOGNES i like thinking about what people smell like ☠️#its cause when i was a kid every time i hugged my dad id get fuckin smacked in the face with whatever cologne he was wearing#it's a comfort thing probably. that's the root of my cologne obsession see im self aware. i need help#anyway there's a jo malone joke to make here but i cant articulate it so just imagine i did#on that note though my mom loves jo malone. thats it thats the tag im not gonna act lke jo malone doesnt have great fragrances#ill be a hater bout anything else my mom likes (no i wont she also likes elephants) but malone's got my wallet#not PERSONALLY im still getting through a cologne my dad got me for christmas but yk. if i ever feel like burning my wallet then sure
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