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gaybellethorn · 6 months ago

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i started listening to the first shannon hale eah book on my walk earlier and it's so good. hale you mad bitch <3!!!!!!!

raven being a swiftie (taylor quick........obsessed) and apple being a directioner ("you don't know youre charming" in universe pointing to the real life charming family. CRAZY.)

apple keeping a basket of candy and coins at her bedroom balcony to throw down to her adoring masses PLEASEEEEE . all her kingdom management classes amassing to this she's so FUNNY.

relatedly, how frustrated she gets at the end of her first chapter that people are only gonna grade her on being a good snow white based on how pretty she is and not on how hard she's studying to be a good ruler. very very juicy very interesting characterisation very interesting take for a snow white character. but also. the chapter starts with her naming the dwarves by derogatory nicknames ("my name is frank," pouty said poutily) and the narrative itself superimposing her names onto them in the dialogue tags. SO FUCKING GOOD. APPLE YOU SILLY BITCH.

hale's distate for apple's dad bleeding into the description i looooove it. "keeping a hand on the hilt of his blade as if ready for battle at a moment's notice, but of course he had never been in battle. his only claim to fame was falling in love with a comatose woman in a glass coffin in the woods" damn hit him again for me!!!!!

BUT this coming from apple's pov???? EXQUISITE!!!!!! god that's so fucking INTERESTING and really doubles down on her looking up to her mam and wanting to be the best ruler she can be, because no one's gonna help her out later! i haven't gotten to apple interacting with daring yet, but that's gonna be such an interesting lens to read their relationship through as well if she considers his role in the story like. repulsive!

also just an interesting contrast to raven's relationship with her parents, where she loves her dad and wishes her mam wouldn't belittle him in their convo. oh sidebar there was a description like, raven's mam did love her, in her own way. hope was like a sticky syrup and raven wished she could drink it down just one more time. auggghhh ravennnn :( <33333

back to apple, i liked the little detail about snow having this squeaky high pitched voice, and apple musing that being stranded in the woods with the squirrels may have done a number on her. i think she gives a length of time there, either weeks or months? i hadn't considered that being part of the snow white legacy, that's interesting ! especially after thinkng of her dad as a useless bum ass nobody like 😭

looooove getting raven's introspection around her mam. the mirror scene at the start is so so good. ugh then when she's talking to apple and she notices how slouchy and unkempt she is next to her. and she tries standing properly but she knows she comes off as too tall, too gaunt comparatively. and then she reprimands herself like 'stop comparing yourself to her, that's probably how mom turned out the way she did' AUGH ? that being the first indicator that raven can understand how that path unfurls in front of her, how she could easily take those same steps. sooo juicy

also looove her relationship with baba yaga so far. it's really interesting that baba yaga is compared/contrasted to raven's mam, i wanna keep an eye on how that relationship develops

baba yaga using an actual spray bottle on raven when she starts voicing rebel thoughts PLEASE‼️ raven grumpily looking into the princess' advisor office (run by the white queen! cute detail) where theyre given tea and plush chairs and noticing that there isn't a spray bottle in sight. MWAH.

oh ! and the detail about it being maddie who asks raven point blank "if you weren't destined to be the evil queen, you would...?" as part of this wonderland word game that she doesn't think anything more of, but raven is left speechless because she's never been allowed to consider it before. really sweet moment between them! :)

im like an hour into this 6.5hr audiobook. the voice actor is doing a wonderful job, i really like her voices for raven and apple in particular so far. i definitely wanna keep going on it! i will listen to it on walks i think :^)

#ever after high #olb eah #cant remember my liveblog tag so lets do that #really really enjoying it im so glad to actually start reading it! been wanting to start it for agesss #also any quotes i give here are paraphrased lol #.txtpst

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q1ngqve · 9 months ago

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hello miss lan…. i am back to going crazy in your inbox!!!!

the aventurine & childe brainrot has been so terrible lately… i’ve been thinking…. imagine if those two ever met each other. first of all, RIP reader. stuck between two insanely possessive treacherous foxy men, who looooove teasing you and seeing you go mad? 😵‍💫

if they got along, you’re in for a ride. you bet they will both be all over you, teaching each other how to make you feel good!!! they would be touching you all over, every sensitive spot, laughing when you tensed up and/or whimpered.. if you started getting overstimulated or crying, they'd enjoy it even more, seeing how far they can push you and how much they can make u feel good until u lose ur mind!!!

on the off chance they didn’t, though… i don’t know if it’s worse. they’d definitely be glaring at each other, (jn fox AU their ears would be perked up), fighting over reader. they want you to tell them which ones better, which ones more skilled. aventurine is fingering you? then childe is going to mess with your nips so hard he'll leave bruises. needless to say, you’ll have passed out and they’ll still be fighting. they’re too similar to each other!! 😮‍💨

oh, and don’t get me started if foul legacy!childe and boss!aventurine got to you… lets just say, you’re not walking for the next week. better get used to being in bed (with them) ! ❤️

hope your exam goes well, you’ve got this!!! many kisses

-🎀 anon

you have me shaking in my boots i didn’t want to bring up aventurine & childe meeting because i was afraid people wouldn’t like it but now that you’ve brought it up … i will throw my aventurine & childe brainrots here too once in a while 🤭ྀིྀིྀིྀིྀི

they’d be so competitive?????? but i know they work really well together too because they’re pretty similar and are probably into the same kinks and shit (^^)ྀིྀིྀིྀིྀི their favorite thing about you is when you’re all sensitive and crying and shaking and begging them for more / to stop! you’re just so cute like that, being fucked out and pliant, all because of them!!!!!!!

#also an update on my #bike license #i just came back from it #now i gotta save up money to get one #and some gears 😮‍💨#🎀 anon!!!!!#hsr #honkai star rail #aventurine #genshin #genshin impact #childe

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hiddengnomes · 3 years ago

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NOT ANOTHER SIMBLR TAG

I know I’m SUPERRR late in some of these tag chains but I’m really bad at doing these on time or at all lool but BETTER LATE THAN NEVER!! Thank you so much for those who tagged me and thought of me ♥ @portpromise @cas-sims @plant-sim @simsnectar

rate from favorite to least favorite:

sims 3 > sims 2 > sims 4 > sims 1 i think?? sims 3 will ALWAYS be my favorite, i started playing it on PS3 and it was when i realized it was a PC game and started buying all the expansions. Before that is was sims 2 pets on PS2 and it was my life, I loved creating doggies and giving them hoodies and having them have babies!!! ah the nostalgia ♥

favorite expansion:

PETS!!! I love animals and sims 2 pets is how I began playing sims 2 obviously this is a fav of mines.

small pets or horses:

hmmmmmm horses??? maybe idk... haven’t played too much with either of these but the horses i think has more interactions sooo

favorite active career:

HONESTLY sims 4 active careers were really awesome, I liked having a shop and selling things or the doctor career wish sims 3 had those. For TS3 i think it would have to be the investigator career or stylist career :)

favorite LTW/Aspiration:

Hmmmmm I don’t think I have a fav yet, I've only ever finished maybe 3 LTW everrrr so ask me again in a couple of years :) (i said years cuz i’m still on gen3 of my legacy, i’m such a slow player)

whims, wishes or wants and fears:

Hmmmm i thinkkkkk wishes are cool, but having wants and fears is also cool too :)

favourite occult:

I looooove vampires, fairies and witches :D they are all so cute and fun to play with ♥

cowplants, bonehilda or social bunny:

COWPLANTS

favourite non-PC sims game:

OMG I don’t remember the names of these but there were sims games for PS2 that were bomb i think it was URBZ or something idk, another one was SIMANIMALS for DS it was cute.

favourite spin off game:

i think URBZ and CASTAWAY were definately a fav

how do you pick the names for your sims?

HAHAHA a lot of the time i keep randomizing until i find a cute name, or i’ll look up a list of names on google and pick the one that sounds nice :)

create a spouse or find them in game (townies):

BOTH! Depends on what I’m in the mood for that day lol

do you prefer following storytelling simblrs or gameplay simblrs?

i like story telling a lot, but there’s not enough time to read them :((((((( so i tend to stick to gameplay simblrs.

what year did you join simblr?

wew i think 2015???? i feel old now thanks

I tag anyone who wants to do this :D

#tag thing

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telehxhtrash · 4 years ago

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Wait okay okay just read your post about the symbolism of the Möbius strip and I was thinking... about what you hypothesised about Kurapika having ‘ties’ to the dark continent. 1) what were you thinking those ties may be...? If you had theories abt that? And 2) I had the brain blast that bc humans originated on the dc... what if... there are genetically Kurta people there... who also have scarlet eyes... and are like a branch off from pika’s Lukso clan. Oh my god.... thoughts?? :0

Hi !!!

That’s exactly my thoughts !! I’m pretty convinced that the Kurtas originated from the Dark Continent. I’m pretty sure this is the main reason why Kurapika is in this arc, so he can discover some new things about his clan.

I love the idea that the Kurtas originated from the DC and that Kurapika’s branch was just a minority who left the DC and I’d looooove for Kurapika to realize that he wasn’t the last of his clan at all. That there are still some of his people out here, alive and happy.

Buuuut knowing Togashi. I’m not sure. I feel like it could also be that the 128 members Pika’s clan were really the last survivors, having been driven away from the DC for one reason or another. It would mean that Pika could arrive on the DC, see some archeological remains of the Kurta clan and realize that this is where he comes from. And maybe, with the help of Ging, he could dedicate his life to restoring and protecting his culture’s legacy. Finding a healthy balance between living in the present and honoring his past.

But omg yes I’d absolutely adore it if it turns out that Pika was never the last of the Kurtas. I’m 99% sure that the Kurtas have ties to the Dark Continent for the sole fact that the mobius strip is on Pika’s traditional robe and knowing Togashi’s attention to detail it’s a huge foreshadow.

If you wanna add more thoughts to this please feel free to add more because I’m interested to hear your take on this matter too !!!

#ask

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narilgc · 5 years ago

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𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐃𝐈𝐃 𝐀 𝐁𝐀𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 . . . but i don’t regret the thing that i did !! hello all, i’ve been keeping this under wraps for the past few days but on a whim i’ve decided to bring on my second ( and last, i promise ) muse for the ride !! with that being said, it is jada here, max’s mun, but this time i’m presenting to you the wonderful im nari !! she was my initial idea before max, but i loved her too much to get rid of her !! i’m so excited for her to be here and i really hope she’s well received as well !! i’ve been slow on his acc for the past few days, and she’s the reason why, but now that i’ve gotten my life ( mostly ) together & things are running just fine again !! anyways, her profile’s here, and below you can find some general trivia on her as well as connection ideas !! oh, and like this to plot !

𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 :

from damyang, south korea !! a v small agricultural town & was born into humble beginnings - a seamstress for a mom, and her dad a farmer !! so she lived on a small farm when she was younger and was raised with pigs, cows, and goats as pets !

she helped around the farm her whole time she lived home, so she has a lot of life skills t & knows all about caring for animals and tending the farm !

they weren’t well off by any means - they had a small income to spread thin between all those people - but they made it work !! she never felt truly slighted as she knew their situation, in fact in her own way, she was spoiled in the best way she could be given their predicament.

raised in a household full of boys - she’s the youngest w a family of 6 loud, rowdy boys.

so in a way she’s more of a tomboy, used to roughhousing and all her sibling’s antics !! she’s also used to doing a lot of heavy lifting around the farm so has surprising strength for her size.

on the other hand, being the youngest & only daughter has upped the girliness !! she’s used to being babied so knows all about acting cute & her mom was always using her as an experiment for all her clothes !! was raised on handmade dresses her mom made in all sorts of intricate patterns & loved it !!

has been an actress in the making for a g e s !!! it all started when she was a really young kid, her mom would let her watch the tv in the tailor shop so she’d have something to do while her mom was at work !!

so there was this drama “a rolling hills romance” ( which i TOTALLY made up lmao !! ) that she absolutely loooved !! it was about a farm romance and was one of the only ones she saw that wasn’t taking place in the city !! it just got her in love with acting in general though, she’d eventually memorize scenes from all the dramas she’d watch and recite them out of the blue !!!

eventually it got her into theatre acting, which was her favorite !! she started watching broadway shows from abroad, memorizing the songs even though she didn’t always know what they were saying. but she just loooved the whole thing, and when she was in middle school she joined her school’s theatre department !

this is where the majority of her english skills came into play - she would memorize the lyrics, and though she didn’t really know what they were saying after a while she began to understand some words !! so while her pronunciation is pretty good from mimicking actors, she lacks the vocab to really use it !!

so she’s really hesitant to speak in english, because if people hear her speak they think she’s a lot more fluent than she is & it lands her in awkward situations !! so she mainly just ... doesn’t do that lol !!

i can’t believe i forgot this when i first wrote this !! this is a very vital part of her character omg !! her first “acting debut” if you could call it that was for a chocolate commercial when she was 8 !! basically she was in this christmas commercial for peppermint chocolates that got on tv and everyone in her town went crazy !! she like goes and delivers these chocolates while singing jingle bells and it’s wholesome and cute and swet !! it wasn’t that big at all lol but for their small town it was, and to them she’s a sort of small celebrity for it !! i’m sure some people might remember the commercial but notlike .... her yk ?? because that was her first and last role for a while lol !!

anyways !! she’s always been self-conscious of her looks - she felt like she wasn’t pretty enough, and limited her confidence. so at 16 she got 2 part-time jobs to begin saving up money, and at 17 she went to seoul to get a nose job & jaw reduction surgery.

and things seemed to be great after that !! she was confident, gaining more friends, but the real excitement came when her mom read online about an audition for legacy and jokingly asked if she wanted to do it.

legacy had never even be on her radar !! she had always heard her friends talk about them for idols, but she had never thought of them as a company that accepted actresses. upon reading though, she was hooked !! she begged her parents, and they originally rejected the idea because they thought it was one of her phases. however, after much persuasion, they allowed her to attend auditions !!

she never expected to get in, she wanted to do it more as an experience than anything. but to say it was a shock was an understatement !! but she was so so incredibly happy.

had a hard time adjusting initially - she was only 17, and almost right after getting there she had to spend her birthday alone since she hadn’t made any friends yet. and although she’s naturally outgoing, it was really hard for her to be social at first because she was surrounded by so many more people than she was used to !!

for the past few years nari’s been doing general idol training, though that’s about to change !! she’s significantly improved her dance skills ( which were nearly nonexistent prior to training ) & gotten a lot better at her singing !! but her heart’s still deep into acting, and she knows that she wants to do that as well as some modeling !

she still suffers a lot with her self confidence, and there’s a lot of pressure for her to do well ! in school, because she’s the first of her family to go to university, and as a trainee, because she’s risked so much for it & doesn’t want to disappoint since her family has v high expectations for her !

𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘 :

a little lovebug !! she’s literally so loving and accepting of everyone - definitely, someone you can come to talk out any issues, she listens & provides support, free of any judgement !! also v keen on skinship i apologize in advance

she’s come out of her shell a lot since she got to seoul, but she’s still a little shy if she doesn’t know you well or is put in a situation w a lot of people !! pls be patient with her ^^

like max, she’s got a lot of energy in that little body !! but she actually has adhd so a lot of it isn’t really by choice. it frustrates her a lot because it limits her focus & has the tendency to make her restless. it was worse when she was younger, but has gotten better as she’s gotten older and she takes medicine to keep everything in check.

she’s also got v low self-confidence, she’s never been satisfied with herself and constantly wants to get better !! despite the surgeries, she’s still got a lot of insecurities both physically and not, but keeps them bottled up a lot bc she doesn’t want to burden others !! ( i want to shake her !! ) bc of that, she takes both criticism & compliments very seriously, she’ll turn all red if someone gives her the smallest compliment but will also overanalyze & judge herself if she gets critiqued.

in fact her surgery’s almost made her more self-conscious, as she now feels that all the opportunities granted to her are because of her looks post-surgery. the worst insult she could get was she’s only succeeding because of her looks, because she’s worked so hard on her skills and she wants them to be what takes her forward, not something she had to pay to get.

despite that, she’s the true definition of a happy virus !! on the outside, she’s almost always smiling, and when all the other stuff doesn’t get in the way, she is on the inside too !! always trying to look on the optimistic side & give people a fresh perspective !

on that note she’s v childish, and sometimes she has to remind herself w younger trainees coming in she’s being seen as more of an example and needs to be ~serious~!!

the duality is real !! in performances, sad / angry scenes are actually her specialty, and right after she’ll just spring up and smile like what’s up guys !!! a lil creepy when she goes from sobbing to giggling so she’s learned to transition a little better lmao !!

she always wanted to be a youtuber, but never got the chance, and by the time she joined legacy she wasn’t allowed to have an account. so now she has these little vlogs she does to send her parents ! they’re mainly of her getting ready, hanging out with friends, and practicing ( all out of training hours, ofc ) so she can often be found seemingly talking to herself, even though she’s really recording videos !!

though being an idol wasn’t her initial dream, she adores the music. her love for the kpop genre has made the last few years more bearable, and girl crush concepts are her absolute favorite !! she’s been religiously keeping up w future dreams like she’s still just a fan back at home, and you’ll catch her humming all around the company building !!

in fact, prior to joining legacy, she had a fan blog for all her faves where she would provide commentary called ri raves !! it was ... a sight !!

she’s pansexual, and leaning towards girls !! it’s something she’s really shy about sharing bc of the fear of judgment, but if she tells you know you have all her trust !!

a little spoiled tbh !! she’s got the youngest child syndrome BAD, and since she was the only girl she’s used to things being done for her !! not in the bratty way, it’s just made her a little lazy and she loooooves attention and being doted on.

don’t let her appearance fool you though !! she’s got surprising strength ... strong woman do bong soon’s not her favorite show for no reason !!! all those years of defending herself from her brothers’ teasing had to come in handy, you know ?? we’ve got a black belt in hapkido here folks !!

definition of a theatre kid, starts bursting out into songs she loves out of nowhere omg it’s embarrassing ?? also overreacts about everything omg the world is on fire according to her !! she’s gotta faint dramatically !!!

she’s got the jeolla-do dialect, and prior to working on her standard dialect it was veeery prominent ! it makes her say a lot of words differently than someone from seoul might, and after realizing she was one of the only ones with it she’s been trying to make her speech sound more like standard korean nowadays.

she’s taken up sewing from her mom, and especially loves embroidery !! so she always loves upcycling & spicing her outfits up !!

definitely has a unique fashion sense because of it - in addition to that she’s very frugal, and favors thrifted clothing !! she’s got a mix of vintage, chic, and artsy style !

a rule follower !! veeery unlike max, she tends to stick to the rules out of fear of what will happen if she doesn’t, because she has way too much on the line to quit now !

𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 :

acting buddies ?? i know there aren’t too many, but even if that’s not your muse’s preferred career path, any muses who have a passion for theatre are welcomed as well !!

someone who unlike her, is v wild and lives on the crazier side !! she’s constantly going into a responsible panic when they’re around and they’re always trying to get her to loosen up !!

someone who co-stars in her little vlogs to her family !! hey, if you can’t be youtubers for real you might as well pretend, right ??

someone who made her adjustment to seoul easier as she transitioned from country to city life !! they’ve lived in seoul for a long time / their whole life and know all the best spots to show her !!

someone who’s clothing she likes to spice up, she’s always embroidering or adding pattern to their clothes to give their outfit a little flair !

someone who knows her past her happy side, who she’s got on speed dial whenever she’s feeling down and needs someone to talk to, and vice versa !!

someone who she came out too, be it on purpose or by accident, and it’s caused her to grow really attached to them bc it’s one of the most personal things about her !

a girl she’s got a crush on but is terrified to tell !!! like yes you’re pretty .... but these things are never easy !!! she’s gonna tell you .... eventually !!

and ofc - exes, flirtationships, summer loves, anything of the sort !

someone she lowkey fangirls over ?? she still hasn’t accepted the fact that she & the other trainees are kinda on the same level, someone she’s kind of became a fan of and can’t really function around them ??

by some crazy chance, this person has come across her old kpop fan blog at one time or another and won’t !!! let !!! her !!! live !!! it !!! down !!! will you accept her bribe and swear to never bring it up again ??? please ???

someone she doesn’t like ??? this is v rare but ... for one reason or another, she can’t stand them and transforms to a completely diff person around them !!

someone who made the mistake of teasing her a little too much or insulted her so much that she just straight-up tries to take them down !!! v unexpectedly !! bonus if it’s someone way out of her fighting capabilities !!

more ideas coming when i create an official plots page !!

#( nari & mun ! )#so late ... i apologize o.o #i will rb tomm !!#& i will be getting to all your lovely mssgs ty !!

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regencysims4 · 5 years ago

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1 9 and 48 for the history ask!

thank you so much for asking I am bored and delighted to answer!

1. historical role model?

this one.... I really have to think about. would have to be a feminist and an abolitionist, so maybe Sarah Grimke? sort of depends on how you define historical - Audre Lorde is the single most important person in shaping my worldview, but she was active through the 1980s. hard to pick, because I'm super left/progressive so most historical figures I just can’t abide politically. Artemisia Gentileschi was badass, but that’s art-historical specifically and I can’t paint lol. Sappho! that’s a good one! or Eleanor Roosevelt or Abigail Adams if you wanna go Americana on it. oh, also Emma Goldman, looooove her. pick one of those answers I guess hehe :)

9. favorite musical based on history?

not freaking h*milton, that’s for sure (I was friends with lots of band and theatre geeks in high school so I have heard enough l*n m*nuel m*randa for a lifetime tyvm). can I say Newsies just because I’m a huge fan of both labor movements and young christian bale? he was so hot in that movie. My actual answer is probably either Oklahoma (I Cain’t Say No! iconic!) or Ragtime.

48. Fuck, marry, kill: Elizabeth the First, Bonnie Parker, and Teddy Roosevelt?

great question choice. superb.

- kill Teddy Roosevelt, because I really don’t do sex/romance with men unless absolutely necessary (and it almost never is, god bless). sorry teddy! huge fan of your anti-trust and conservation work, great presidency dude.

- fuck Bonnie Parker. here’s my reasoning: 1. robbing banks is hot as fuck. 2. ........

- marry! Elizabeth! the first! an epic historical figure who was probably kinda gay anyway. just two gals, being rich and powerful together. sounds great. and maybe I could shape the legacy of one of the world’s most powerful empires to be less, y’know, imperialist and generally better! what a nice thought

#correspondence

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skyeedom · 6 years ago

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hi! i looooove your naruto art, and i was wondering if you had fic recs?

Hello there! Thank you so much!

(I wasn’t sure what you’re specifically interested in: Kakashi-Naruto dynamics, Kakashi raising Naruto, those two individual characters or Naruto fanfiction in general? But I’ll try my best!)

Here are some fanfics in which I either loved Kakashi, Naruto or both. Lastly, some general Naruto fic recs.

Dinner with the Special Assassination and Tactical Squad by pentapus

Hatake Kakashi/Umino Iruka, 19k words, ANBU Kakashi; I love the ensemble writing, the world building, the characters, everything about this. “What if Kakashi wasn’t famous”

Genma held up a photo pinched between his first and second fingers. Iruka’s smile froze on his face. “What are you doing with this?”

Adoption by Defenestration; or, A Family Can Be A Fox Demon, Its Jinchuuriki, and Three Dozen Highly-Trained Assassins by elumish

Uzumaki Naruto & Yamato | Tenzou, 5k words

He will not be the ANBU who let the jinchuuriki plummet to his death out a fourth story window. Let that be another ANBU’s legacy.

Shrub Ninjas by elumish

Uzumaki Naruto & various ANBU “shrub ninjas”, 651 words

Naruto is five when he first notices the shrub ninjas.

What the Deep Sea is to a Puddle by LullabyKnell

Namikaze Minato & Hatake Kakashi & Uzumaki Naruto, 2k words

5+ AU Headcanons rambling (sort of) fic: Naruto + AU where Minato survives the sealing?

Last Orders by 100demons

Namikaze Minato & Hatake Kakashi, 837 words

Time is a funny thing, he thinks. For seven years, Kakashi lived in Minato’s shadow, bled for him, killed for him, fought for him. For fourteen years, Kakashi stood in front of Minato’s grave, remembering, aching, loving.

Kakashi drags his gaze up, the weight of twenty one years heavy on his chest, to meet his dead sensei’s eyes.

Speaking to Machines Who Listen Poorly by pentapus

Hatake Kakashi/Umino Iruka, 7k words, AU-Sci-Fi, again with the A+ world building.

Iruka didn’t know where he was or how he’d gotten here, but he knew Uchiha warships were very bad news. He resented the implication this stranger kept making that Iruka had done it to himself.

bloom where you are planted by blackkat

Hatake Kakashi/Ootsutsuki Asura, 1.5k words

Ashura stops to plant a few seeds and changes the course of destiny.

Similarities by sisaat

Uchiha Sasuke & Team 7, 1.6k words

Sasuke had been told before that he was a lot like Kakashi. He hadn’t believed it until he found himself reading Icha Icha Paradise in public.

a flower you’ve got to let grow by emlof

Hatake Kakashi/Yamato | Tenzou, 4k words

Even after years of training, Yamato sometimes loses control of his mokuton when he’s hit with a particularly strong or unexpected emotion. It’s not usually a problem – just a little embarrassing, maybe.

Combine that with Team 7’s overactive imaginations, though, and there are bound to be some… misunderstandings.

now by chai_lattes

Uchiha Sasuke/Uzumaki Naruto, Hatake Kakashi & Uchiha Sasuke, 1.5k words

“So, what are you going to do now?”Sasuke gets tea with his old teacher and thinks about his life now.

oh brother, by chai_lattes

Uchiha Sasuke/Uzumaki Naruto, 1.5k words

Naruto couldn’t tell you the first time he ever met Sasuke, it felt like the other boy had always been in his life. Sasuke’s older brother, however, was a different story. The first time he met Itachi, they were six, and from that moment on, Naruto was convinced that Sasuke’s big brother was the scariest person in the world. Or: Sasuke thinks it’s finally time to tell Itachi he and Naruto are dating. Naruto is terrified.

The Pre-Legendary Sannin vs. Paperwork by LullabyKnell

Sarutobi Hiruzen & Tsunade & Orochimaru & Jiraiya, 2k words

The part of being a jounin-sensei that no one talks about is having to handle genin paperwork. If Hiruzen had known that having genin would increase his piles of personal hell, then he would have jumped out the window before anyone could assign him any. Good god, goddamn preteens are the worst.

#fic rec #naruto #kakashi #fanfiction #sorry for the long wait #hopefully some are to your liking #reply

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rorykillmore · 5 years ago

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a special screenwriters question for u: break your characters down by what they want vs. what they need

tony i LOOOOOVE this question. okay.

siobhan wants her soul back. pretty succinct and obvious. on a more subconscious level, she also wants to prove her worth as a guardian and... prove herself in that regard. what siobhan needs is to be able to open herself up to vulnerability and love and for, ultimately, HER to come to the conclusion that all the progress she’s made MAKES her worthy. in true screenwriting fashion, i think an upcoming plot i’m doing with her will tie her wants and needs together pretty nicely.

camille wants to fix herself. she wants to mend her broken pieces and stop hurting (herself and others) and just... be normal. what camille needs is to accept that she may never totally be “fixed”, not the way she envisions it, but that she can heal, that the horrible things that happened to her are not her fault and are not the limits of her self-definition, and that she does not have to carry the weight of all of them forever.

nightcloud wants validation and acceptance, though she doesn’t necessarily want it from denny. she’s honestly... spent most of her time on denny feeling as though she doesn’t belong in either clan, feeling lost, not wanting to settle anywhere, just wanting to go home. so what nightcloud needs is to learn to... love and accept herself instead of feeling empty when she cannot get these things externally, and to be open to finding a new home on denny. not that it necessarily has to replace her old one, but... she just holds herself so apart from everyone, and it really doesn’t help her.

sly wants... well, to steal! to make a name for himself, to add to and improve upon his family’s legacy. he wants to be somebody his parents - and the rest of his ancestors - would be proud of. what sly needs is to temper the importance of his family legacy with the wilingness to learn from their past mistakes, to treat them with objectivity but with compassion, to stand on his own while still honoring all those coopers who came before him. and to be willing to make compromises, when necessary, for the people he loves (carmelita), even when they seem like hard ones.

what villanelle wants... well, she says it herself! fun job, cool flat, someone to watch movies with. stimulation, excitement, nice things, human connection, for all the pieces of her life to fit together in the perfect way so that she gets to have everything she wants without sacrificing too much! but what villanelle needs is... well, therapy.

no honestly i don’t even know where to START. villanelle needs... a lot of things. she’s come a long way on denny, but she still has a long way to go. she needs... to understand herself a little better, because she doesn’t really, and there’s only so much she can adjust or improve herself if she doesn’t really understand the core of herself to begin with. and in understanding herself, she needs to come to terms with the things she CAN and SHOULD change, and the things she... cannot, realistically, and how to come to terms with that and navigate her life and relationships accordingly. if she’ll never really fully have an empathetic conscience like other people, should she just learn how to pretend she does, or learn to make objective decisions disregarding both that and her own impulsiveness, or should she just say “fuck it!”? ah “what does villanelle need?” is a really complicated answer, this is just one example

laura wants... quite evidently, to be alive again. to have a second chance. to go back to the way things were before and... to fix them! but what laura needs is to acknowledge that there may not ever be any real going back. sometimes there isn’t. what she needs is to acknowledge all the things that made her screw up in the first place, and to learn and grow from them, and to move FORWARD, not back.

and catra... well, catra wants a lot of things that aren’t good for her. she wants revenge. destruction. she wants to make sure that she’s not alone in her pain, that other people feel it too. she wants to tear down adora, sometimes that feels like that’s ALL she wants anymore. what catra needs is to acknowledge the validity of her own pain and trauma without placing undue blame on others (especially adora), and to understand and genuinely believe that she is worth something while also simultaneously understanding the weight of her own mistakes and the people she’s hurt. what she needs is to realize how badly she’s sabotaged herself, and to start building herself back up again. what she needs... is to move on, but to never forget, and never make those same mistakes again.

#thanks tony this question was a personal attack in the best way #cuts dennys lvad wire #fizzlep0p

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bluetiefling · 7 years ago

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I’m back from seeing TLJ and I’ve written a super long rambling feelings post full of spoilers so here we go!

I’ll say I’m relieved because I wanted to love the Finn and Rose and Poe arcs and I was worried I wouldn’t based on things people were saying but I loooooved them. And those were my favorite parts of the film!

I’m so happy with how much Poe got fleshed out, and how much he’s grown at the end of the film. He’s so richly layered now as a character and they’re using Oscar as they should. He’s evolved so beautifully into a better and wiser leader, one who was too reckless at first and was later unwilling to risk his friends lives on a suicide run. AND HIS SCENES WITH LEIA I’M CRIES. They were so lovely! I can’t decide which was my favorite, maybe when he’s sadly holding her hand while she was comatose?? Or was it their scene on the transport shuttle idk! You just feel so strongly that he’s her legacy and the bond between them is so strong, and she’s so proud of him at the end. And re the Holdo stuff, people who were saying he was written as sexist?? I didn’t get that at all. His conflict with Holdo isn’t “oh she’s a woman who doesn’t know what she’s doing”. It’s because she was a stranger, and not Leia who he trusts wholly. It’s because she wasn’t explaining her intentions or divulging a plan, and what she was doing looked shady (plus lol she was kinda rude to him from their first meeting?). And I loved how that evolved and he was the one who realized immediately what her heroic, brave plan was going to be to save them. And the Poe/Finn/Rose OT3 is so real and I’m excited for 9 for this to be a quartet now that Rey’s fully in the Resistance with them. I’m actually sorta hopeful he and Rey might be a thing in 9? Like I always had a soft spot for that idea because Daisy and Oscar have great chemistry but never thought they’d go there - I was thinking it would be Finn/Rey (which it might still be but Finn/Rose is perfect and it would kinda break my heart if they dropped it). Rey and Poe’s official introduction at the end was very sweet and whatever happens I look forward to them interacting a lot, which they’re bound to in 9.

And Finn’s journey from reluctant hero to proud Rebel Scum and his darling relationship with Rose was beautiful to me!! They have this immediate kind of rapport and work so well as partners!! Even just after a day he’s so fond of and protective of her - the way he got super mad at DJ and demanded he give her back her medallion because he knows her so well already and what it means to her! His panic and worry for her at the end! Tenderly tucking her in and sitting vigil by her!! T__T And Rose god Rose! She’s so passionate in what she believes and brave! She’s probably the first SW character I really relate to honestly? Just her gumption and the way she counts herself out only to surprise herself by what she’s capable of - I find her so inspiring. And her and Finn constantly having each other’s back, and basically their relationship representing everything the Resistance and Rebellion of old stands for! God I was heavily spoiled and knew Finn survives but that moment where he’s doing the suicide run towards the canon, the way he closed his eyes and the music swelled... I was cryyyying. And then Rose saves him and he’s so upset that she’s hurt and doesn’t understand and she kisses him with the explosions in the background?? Godd!!!! !!! I noticed too that he had a parallel journey with Rey which was really powerful to me. They both sorta start off in the same place and then end in the same place, discovering their strengths and committing to being the heroes they were meant to be. I also adoredtheir reunion hug. And it was touching the ways they kept thinking of each other - Finn worrying she would follow the tracker to a trap, Rey trying to check in with him and wanting to make sure he got her message. Just! My dears and their beautiful bond!!

The Rey and Kylo scenes were not as overt as I was expecting too lmao. Like it’s so clear that so much of her impassioned reaction and decision to go and try turning him was rooted in a different place, not romantic feelings. He was guarded and awkward and petulant, when he wasn’t mocking her. He never wavers on his own position, there’s never an indication that he’s been moved by her point of view? More like he lets her think that she’s getting through to him all while having no intention of turning to the light. The only time a conversation got her vulnerable was when she was already in a bad place after facing the mirror cave, and she’s kinda flailing for a connection at this low point. And getting caught up in the idea that turning him would turn the tide of the war... it was more like she was trying to be what Luke was refusing to be. Building up to that she had been citing what Luke did for Vader and I think had this delusion that she can do the same thing. Hell she even says because Luke won’t come, then Kylo was the “last hope” and then the movie spells it out for you that this was the hard lesson for her to learn - he’s not the hope, she is. Yoda even spells it out too - failures are just as important as triumphs for learning and growing. It “didn’t go the way the way she thought” and that was a blow but it’s what made Rey realize who she’s meant to be, and that she is enough by herself. And lol frankly I think that means in 9 she’s destined to kill him. I don’t see this ending any other way.

I mean I’ve accepted it now about Kylo?? I thought they were telling a different story with him and thought he’d have a sympathetic backstory but what we got was... pretty weak (gonna go to my grave knowing Rey Solo would have been the superior backstory and superior narrative but anyways!). LF was saying all along that he’s on a inverse hero’s journey, that he’s “finding his place in villaindom”. And I guess I believe them now. I think if they do another movie about “wahh he’s conflicted” after 2 movies already of the same thing it’s just stale?? It’s actually more important now that he is fully purged of conflict and committed. The throne room ending was a complete inversion of ROTJ’s throne room ending, and he made his choice. Really the only way to go now with this is a build up to a final confrontation with Rey that ends in his death, which I think he’s going to welcome at that point. It’s like, I don’t think they need to redeem him anymore as part of showing “hope” always lives on or whatever. Since they’ve gone with Rey as a random person with no Skywalker lineage, it’s made fundamentally more powerful if they commit to this idea that hope isn’t represented by the Skywalkers anymore. Not when you’ve got other little Force sensitives springing up around the galaxy like the ending with the stable boy showed. And it’s at the point where Kylo’s gotten so many second chances and people placing blind faith in him, that you gotta ask when is enough enough. He’s taken out the big guy and he’s in charge now - he can end the war with a word. But he doesn’t. He’s screaming for his troops to assault the last of the Resistance with “no quarter”, knowing his mother is down there. And lol screaming for them to destroy the Millennium Falcon knowing Rey is in there and declaring to Luke he’s going to kill her and “all of it.” And literally trying to slice Luke in half I mean come on!! And now that he’s the Big Guy and unrepentant (as I mentioned he never even really tries to explain himself to Rey in their conversations, he thinks everything is justified because Luke, for one moment, didn’t give him the benefit of the doubt and gave him a frighten. Like??? And then he goes and murders the other students because that’s a totally rational reaction, and I guess the whole galaxy’s gotta pay for his emotional slights which are largely blown out of proportion. >.>)

Basically being a Skywalker isn’t the key to being important, or the last hope, as shown by Rey. And the little stable boy. Likewise being a Skywalker doesn’t entitle Kylo to endless second chances. I think Rey learned her lesson and there’s nothing more that can be said by him. She was naive in this film and she’s going into 9 centered and wiser, and having severed the “bridge” that Snoke had created between them as part of manipulating her. And I don’t see Kylo’s feelings about her as positive or altruistic - he doesn’t want to change for her, doesn’t even consider it, and doesn’t accept her rejection of him. I don’t even think he wants to know or accept the real “her” but rather the one he thinks can be molded into a mirror of him.

I enjoyed Rey’s dynamic with Luke overall, and only wish they didn’t make that scene where she attacks him so extra. I know it was born out of her frustrations and she’s been heavily manipulated by then but still hitting him when his back was turned wasn’t a great look lol. I’m proud of where she ends up though and her moment lifting the rocks and everyone coming outside and seeing her gave me chills. I’m just sooo looking forward now to her being In The Resistance. Two movies were about her finding her place and finally she’s here. And it breaks my heart that she won’t have more scenes with Leia. Just the one they had in the MF together was lovely.

And finally pretty much every Leia scene was the Most. I was close to tears for many of them, like her saving herself with the Force, and saying goodbye to Holdo. But the tears were flowing freely in her moment with Luke. They absolutely nailed that! It was better than anything I could’ve dreamed up myself. It was almost eerie, the finality of it, knowing Carrie is gone. It’s maybe because they filmed it as one o fLuke’s final moments alive. :’’( And Luke’s finale... akdsfk. That was everything to me too. I can’t say I’m ever going to be fully happy with the way LF has treated Han, Leia and Luke’s story... either putting them through so much pain or just bringing them down so low. I’ll always think there were different ways they could’ve handled their post ROTJ life. But there was so much about Luke’s story in this film that touched me and he went out like the icon he is. I’m fairly confident he’ll be seen again in 9 as a Force ghost too.

Okay I’ve rambled enough!!

#text post tag #1 #2 #3 #4 #tlj spoilers #star wars stuff #the last jedi #REALLY LOTS OF SPOILERS HERE

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phaniecastello-blog · 7 years ago

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Part of their world

((This was meant to be my PC2 but ended up being something different. If you read it I will love you forever!!

It contains Phanie’s reaction when she found out she was selected, more details about Loretta’s participation at @spencer-schreave’s selection and her opinion on the rest of the selected lol. And at the end there’s a little fight interaction with @victoria-seaberg. (Thank you so much for the RP, girl, I looooove yooouu) Hope you enjoy it, was fun for me to write it. ))

“…Selected” I muttered, with an unfinished nacho with guacamole on it, in one hand and staring at the TV, jaw dropped by the surprise. “Oddio! … They just said my name! I’m a selected!” I shouted this time. My voice echoing in the big living room. I dropped the mutilated nacho back in the plate and get up feeling so full of adrenaline and emotion that I would be able to run 10 miles if I would had wanted. I could hear more names being mentioned on the background, but I stopped watching and I run towards Camila when I saw her coming from the hallway, frightened by all my shouting. I hugged her tight.

“Cam, my name got picked for Prince’s Nate Selection!”. I broke the hug before I could strangle the poor woman.

“Congratulations, Miss!” She said squeezing my hands as a sign of support. She was smiling at me, but that smile faded after a few seconds of inner thinking. “… I guess that means you will leave us, right?” I could read the sadness in her face but there was something else.

Is that angst?

I gave her a frown face, confused; looking for a reason inside my head, until I founded it.

“Oh, don’t worry. I will make sure she treats you all, nicely… besides, she will be out almost every day; she’s busy, doing the new collection’s promos” Camila nodded and opened her mouth to speak when the house’s phone started ringing. She nodded again, this time as a petition to leave the room and ran towards the phone at the hallway.

As soon as she left the enormous grin showed on my face again, remembering my name being mentioned by Harvey Steve.

What if it was a mistake?!

The idea paralyzed me, momentarily.

Nah, the would have called by now or something.

The sound of subtle bells coming from my cellphone gave me chills. I checked the notification flipping on the smooth, white couch; a message from Lilith read on the screen in caps:

“THE STUPID PHONE DOESN’T STOP RINGING! I will send you all the interviews schedule for the next days… Oh, palace staff will visit you soon… Congratulations, btw”

Seems like the media was giving my assistant quite a time. I smirk, relieved that it wasn’t me, the one who had to deal with them, at least for now.

“Miss, your mother called, she said you get ready for a celebration dinner with her. She will be waiting at Faustino’s Restaurant”

“Received” I said as I run upstairs.

“Mmm… delicious as always” I muttered while I softly patted the corner of my mouth with the white cloth napkin. Noises of silverware clattering against plates and dinners were surrounding us “…so, the visit will be just to let me know the rules and the schedule of the departure day?” I asked Loretta over the arm of the waiter who was pouring more Champagne into her glass. He must be a new worker here, because his hands were shaking and he hadn’t realized that was the wrong side to serve the drink. Loretta was giving him an annoyed gaze, but she choose to ignore him and turned to face me.

“That’s right, just protocol” She answered with a carefree tone. “That day you’ll get to the airport and share the plane with a bunch of immature, exhilarated and most of all, unclassy, ladies” She exclaimed frowning with disgust. “You better know now, all of them will be unbearable; trying to get Nate’s attention all the time; giggling around, pretending to be ladies… ugh! It’s like I’m seeing it, again” I looked down, playing with the napkin on my lap, feeling uncomfortable. “And you will met Audrey, that little hypocrite, sh..”

“I think that’s enough, mom… I just wanted to know about the arrival. Besides, we had talked about not to express that way about the royals” I interrupted her, irritated, before she started to vent about how unfair was her elimination back at King’s Spencer selection. I had heard that story a thousand times before and it always include tons of negative adjectives for all the characters, except for her, of course.

She was always the victim in the story and I might had believed everything she said if I hadn’t read all the magazines concerning last selection, already. I documented myself buying old articles and watching old videos; everything was there! It seemed all you did in that competition was recorded or published somewhere and it would never being forgotten. Back then, I was horrified, embarrassed of all I read about Loretta. Several accidents happened to the girls caused by her, but she always made it look as an accident. They were also rumors of her seducing the guards to help her in several things. Like the rats that a few of the selected found in their closets. I wonder how they did to avoid the video cameras, because there was no recordings of that event.

That day I confronted her, crying out of disappointment. She didn’t deny the fact she wanted to eliminate her competition, but she also assure me not all of that was true.

“…the media always take advantage of some facts to lie and exaggerate things.”

She acknowledged. Since then she had been focused on her work and I hadn’t know about her doing anything like that to other people. Except for her temper and her judgments, she might had changed a lot.

“Yes, I know you like her, everyone loves the benevolent Queen, but that’s because no one knows her like I do.” She had raised her voice and the people of the next tables were starting to look in our direction, she probably noticed it, too because she changed the tone to continue. “… I just want you to be aware, bambolina, getting along with lower castes is not easy”

“Well, you will be glad to know, this time there are plenty of two’s in this competition; I was reading their names and basic information on my way here, it was all on the Illéa Illustrated web page.” I acknowledge sipping my glass of champagne. Her face reflected concerning for a short moment. I was tempted to mention that one of her favorite customers were selected, too; but I didn’t feel in the mood to talk about Victoria.

“You are my daughter, and that makes you the best, don’t worry” She reached for my hand over the table and patted it. I noticed she was saying all that to herself more than to me; and I wished I could tell her I was so much more than just her daughter. Even though, I loved her, I didn’t want to be just the shadow of the tree, most of all because that tree didn’t have the image I would wanted, but I gave her a big smile, instead. She glimpsed at her watch letting my hand go “We better go now, you have to be rested for tomorrow’s runway show”

The runway was a success, as always. The media and the guests loved every single design of the new collection, and I felt like a fish in water, I grew up in this events, modeling at every single runway of Castello’s House; and I was good at it, walking up there, made me feel like a princess and I really enjoyed doing it. Every time I worn a dress to model it I can’t help to thought about all the process it passed for: The sketches, choosing the correct colors and fabrics, sewing, adding details, until this moment. I wasn’t wearing just clothes, I was wearing a little piece of art. The negative part of this kind of the events was that most of the people participating in them didn’t seem to share the same thoughts as me. Most of the skinny, beautiful, ladies surrounding me didn’t even care for the clothes they were wearing, the only thing they cared about is looking good, became famous and get lots of money out of it, not to mention the guests. The males just wanting to admire the models and the females wanting to prove they had lots of money to buy all the collection, even if they didn’t even know the names of the fabrics or the time it took to sew every single gemstone in the right place of it. Those people never able to see beyond themselves. They said they loved fashion, but they didn’t know what fashion meant. What sad and empty lives. I thought while I clapped and smile leading the models at the end of the runway.

When I arrived to the after runway party a bunch of journalists and cameras ran to surround me. They didn’t want to lose their opportunity to ask me about the new collection and most of all, the upcoming selection. I couldn’t hide my smile when they mention the last one.

“What does it feel to be a selected?, Which was your reaction when your name was mentioned on The Report? Are you excited to meet Prince Nathaniel?”

I managed to answer every question with sincerity. Everything was doing fine, until…

“Should the other selected be concerned any rats in their bedrooms? Are you going to be as entertain to watch as your mom was? Are you going to continue the Castello’s legacy?”

Why did they always had to ruin everything!? I continue smiling trying to break my way through the cameras with Pete’s help.

When we finally could enter to the party I found my assistant Lilith inside. “Having fun?” She asked sarcastically

I sighed “I’m having a blast! Can’t wait to travel to Angeles”

“Oh, btw, your mother invited Calgary’s Mayor to give a little speech about you in public” She said, reading everything on her tablet, which she always carried around, like it was like it was part of her body.

“What?! Here?” I asked surprised. These was the kind of things I had to be informed of, not the rest of the guest list that Loretta kept talking about all the way through the runway, that morning.

“Yeah, Loretta didn’t accept his offer to made you a party opened to all the citizens and commoners, as she called them, so, we are taking advantage of the media here to do this… maybe they will ask you to say some words for the people, I don’t know” She continued as if it wasn’t so simple to make a speech in front of everyone. This will be on TV and I didn’t have anything prepared!

There wasn’t much to do about it, so I just nodded and walked passed her towards the bar, feeling dizzy already. “Hi, Martini, please” I said to the efficient barman. As soon as I got my drink I start giving it small sips, looking at the people moving on the dancefloor. Suddenly I glimpse a tall, black haired girl wearing a dress that matched her hair, walking towards me. I turned around on my bench facing the shelves full of all kind of bottles of alcohol, hoping she didn’t come anywhere near me. I wasn’t in the mood to resist a fight to maintain a civilized conversation, as I always had to do with her.

There were two kind of people who approached me at parties, attractive men acting charming and flirtatious to assure a permanent job at House Castello and ladies pretending to be my friends to get the same. I have actualy take advantage of those to have some “friends” to talk to at parties. And finally, there were, the envious, pretentious, people who liked to play word games to annoy me and prove my patient. Victoria Seaberg was the master of those.

I was hardly praying for her to ignore me, when I felt some fingers playing with my hair.

“Hey Stephanie, I barely recognized you with all that hair” Victoria said in a mocking tone. I rolled my eyes wondering why God didn’t listened to my prayers and counting to ten to be ready to try my best to breathe slowly. After all that, I faced her.

“Hey! I barely recognize you sober” I greeted, smirking.

She gave me the fakest of her smiles “Oh, babe, don’t worry, I’ll teach you how to hold your liquor.”

I laughed at her offering. If I had problems with my drinking, she would be the last person I could get help from, not that she was an alcoholic, but I was sure I drinked much less than her. “I’m okay, but I will give you a call, in case I need a tutor” I sipped my Martini. “Hope you are enjoying the party” The last phrase was meant to be a goodbye, but apparently it didn’t seem like one.

“In fact I am. Your mom knows who to invite” She looked radiant, obviously this was his natural environment.

“Well… it’s not like we have a choice, we have to invite everyone who is involved in the campaign or might be interested in it.” I said sighing. That was actually true, but I said it for her to acknowledge, her presence was not so pleasant for me. I didn’t like me when I behave like that, but this kind of people manage to bring out the worst part of me. I wasn’t going to let her mock me.

Victoria chose to ignore my statement turning around to order a Mojito. I suspected it wasn’t the first one of the night. “How are you liking the party?” She asked.

“You know how much I love these parties, so I’m doing fine” I answered. I knew people thought I didn’t like to party, but it wasn’t that I didn’t like them, actually if I had real friends I would party with them all the time, but when you have Christmas everyday, suddenly Christmas becomes boring and monotonous.

“Everyone knows you’re quite the party animal” Victoria laughed.

“Yep, that’s me” I said sarcastically, proud of myself for being able to control my annoyance so far, despite her never ending provocations.

“Well if you want to become future queen, you’ll have to get used to social events” Her hand patting my shoulder as if she was a friend giving me advice.

My head starts hurting when I remembered she was a selected too, which meant I will be living under the same room as her, soon. “Ohh, I’m sure I will be surrounded by way more interested people then” I had tried hard to control myself, but she kept pushing me. I knew how to fight back, it was in my DNA, I was educated by Queen Bee. I covered my mouth mockingly and continued “Not that you are not interesting, in fact, I’m glad we are going to be there together” I smiled, but it was obvious I didn’t meant that.

She smiled back as a person about to show her best cards in a poker game. “I can’t wait to see what some etiquette lessons will do for you. Don’t forget to bring your notepad, it will help you remember the things you’ve learned once you are back home.” I fight back the urge to throw my drink on her sparkly black dress, but the last thing I needed was the press all over me, asking questions and comparing myself with my mom, again, but Victoria was openly attacking me this time.

Just go away, you are not like her, ignore those words…. Oh, wait, just one more thing…

“Awwe, you always concerned about me, thank you for your advice, I have one for you in return. Careful with those snacks, they can be tricky… and I heard from my mom that designers will be more strict with the weight fact, in the future” Victoria wasn’t a model by profession, but her popularity and beauty have made that some designers invited her to hit the runway just for publicity and she was obtaining good money out of it. I knew that suggesting she was gaining weight was going to drive her crazy, and it did; the prove was she got really mad this time, I could saw it in her colored, furious eyes. “Speaking of which, you will have to excuse me because I have to find Loretta” I put my glass on the bar and stood up to leave.

“Firstly. I don’t have a problem with snacking, I know how to contain myself. Secondly, I happen to do sports, maybe you should try it sometime. And lastly, there’s nothing you can do about a boring personality, which happens to be your case.” I should have known she wasn’t going to let me have the last word, but despite I still could hear her words, I didn’t care about them anymore.

I waved at her “Sorry, I can’t stay to chat, have a nice trip back home and see you in Angeles.” She said something but I couldn’t understand her words, I wasn’t close to her anymore and the music was loud. I walked away feeling satisfied for my job back there, but guilty because I behaved like one of them, and that was exactly what I had been running from all my life.

#Something between Challenges

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looked-like-an-american-singer · 7 years ago

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so @tayalongwithme wrote this taylor swift ask thingy but since i only get like two or three asks when i do that kinda thing i’m just gonna do all of them like a tag because i’m trying to effectivly procrastinate on writing that press release i’m supposed to be working on

taylor swift: how long have you been a ts fan?

that’s kinda hard to pinpoint. the first album i listened to and loooooved was fearless, but when i listened to it ‘speak now’ tour was going on i think. I was like 12 so 2011??? i became a really dedicated fan in the months leading up to REDs announcement and release

meredith: do you have any pets?

i have a hamster, her name is delphi and i adore her.

olivia: serious question - cats or dogs?

don’t make me choose, they’re both great!!! also, the obvious answer is hamsters, duh

1989: what time period should you have been born in?

ummm, right now works. the future was full of war and hatred and no electricity and wearing unconfortable hoop skirts and being valued as less that men and prejudice and racism and homophobia. the future sounds great but also how do i know it’s not going to all go downhill from here????? now’s good to me, thanks

red: what is your favorite season and why?

winter, because of hot chocolates and fireplaces and wearing two pairs of socks on top of each other and holiday cookies and the smell of fir needles and the excitement of the first snow and holding hands under gloves and christmas markets and special starbucks drinks and movie nights and skiing and sleeping in and snowball fights

speak now: say something you’ve been holding back

reputation is amazing and i’ve been listening to it non-stop, but it’s not her greatest record, i don’t get it, thats so obvious (ooooooops)

fearless: what are you most afraid of in life?

not succeeding, dying alone or with someone not worth me

reputation: what do you want your legacy in life to be?

that i made people happy

all too well: what’s your favorite taylor memory?

swiftmas for sure. i hope she revisits it at some point, that’s such a special thing she did for those people and i’m so happy they got to have that amazing experience they’ll never forget

last kiss: who/when was your last kiss?

dude, ages ago i’m desperate haha. probably during a game of ‘truth or dare’ in the summer or something, i’ve never had a kiss that meant anything

dear john: what’s hurting you right now?

everything is so overwhelming and i do so much and i seem to not be doing as good as i should be at any of it. i can’t wait to graduate but after imaging my future after it for my entire life i have no direction right now

ready for it: are you - in fact - ready for it?

i don’t know. i’ve never been ready for anything, but just doing it helps

gorgeous: besides taylor, who is the most gorgeous person you know?

can’t say ;)

look what you made me do: do you believe in karma?

no. i think there are too many terrible people that never got what they deserved and also the other way around

the last time: when is the last time you’ve genuinely laughed?

last night we had a trip to the zoo i planned with refugee kids and one of them, his name was Armin, I called him ‘SpiderArmin’ because he wore a spiderman hat wanted to fight the polar bear and insisted he could do it “because he had spider powers” and that was just so adorable and cracked me up

story of us: are you currently in love?

i’m in like

love story: do you believe in love at first sight? why/why not

no, because i think it’s shallow. i believe in attraction at first sight, but i want someone to love me for me, not my appearance or aura

the outside: are you currently feeling left out? why?

yes, because I really don’t like the grade i got into after my exchange year

change: what’s one thing you’d love to change?

ummm, any sort of injustice pleeeeeeease

haunted: any recurring nightmares? what are they?

not anymore. i used to have this trippy one where my kindergarten-friend was on a tree and throwing pears at me

come in with the rain: does the rain help you sleep?

yessssssss, cleanse me

enchanted: when’s the last time you danced around all alone?

like half an hour ago, to ‘I Did Something Bad’

mean: what would you say to the people who bullied you?

fuck u

long live: tell me the deepest reason or story of why taylor swift is so important to you

i really don’t know, i just kind of grew up with her and her music touches me in so many different ways and helped me through a lot and stuff

state of grace: where do you feel most at peace?

at the camp i’m a counsellor at and used to go as a camper to during breaks

22: when’s the last time you just let go and had fun?

last week, at the ‘counsellors thank you’ of my camp. maybe a little too much fun haha

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miuplays · 5 years ago

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Miu’s Games of the Decade

Hello all! Wishing you a Happy New Year wherever you are in the world! It’s already January 1st where I am, but I’m sure people are still counting down in other parts of the world. But anywho! I wanted to end the year with a celebration of some of my favorite games released this decade. The 2010’s have been an incredible year for video games, I think. With strides made in graphics, scale, and storytelling, I think this has been easily one of the most innovative eras on all fronts. I hope you enjoy this list of a few of my favorites, and hopefully some of your favorites are here as well! If not, make a list of your own and share it with me! I’d love to see some of your opinions.

But without further ado, on to the countdown…

2010 – FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS

This game, for me, set the standard for what every RPG game should be. From its worldbuilding, to character interactions and on-the-nose commentary, to the way it expands the Fallout universe both mechanically and through storytelling. Of all the Fallout games, this is the one that left the biggest impact on me, and it’s the one I still reflect on to this day.

Honorable Mentions – Bayonetta, Red Dead Redemption, Mass Effect 2, Bioshock 2

2011 – DRAGON AGE II

So I looooove Dragon Age. It’s, in my opinion, one of the best RPG franchises ever made, and this game in particular is easily my favorite in the series. The writing is at its best, and every character is so loveable that I found myself playing it multiple times just so I could romance everybody. Despite some structural issues in the overall story, I still consider it to be one of the most memorable in the franchise, and I don’t regret a single hour put into this campaign.

Honorable Mentions – Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Dark Souls, Portal 2, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

2012 – DISHONORED

As RPG-heavy as this list is, I do wanna give some love to immersive sims. Another favorite genre of mine, and Dishonored is by and large one of the best. I found myself entangled in a number of sticky situations that I had to sleuth and stealth my way out of one too many times. Yet they somehow managed to make that the best part of the game. Player freedom and creativity are practically the foundation of this game, and it’s something that made this game not only an enjoyable and unique experience the first time around, but its replay value is through the roof. I do think that later installments in the series, as well as other immersive sim games like Prey, definitely improved upon this one in a lot of areas. But regardless, I still really enjoyed Dishonored, and I’m holding out hope for the future of the series.

Honorable Mentions – Sleeping Dogs, Mass Effect 3, Borderlands 2, The Walking Dead

2013 – THE LAST OF US

I’m sure you’re all surprised, but yes. The Last of Us is my GOTY for 2013, and possibly my favorite game of all time. Before playing this, I’ve never had a game put me in such a state of emotional duress for an extended period of time. Not even MGS3’s ending did what this game did to me. And even as I’m typing this, I realize that the technical aspects of this game—the graphics, mechanics, level design, etc.—aren’t what makes it stand out in my opinion. My favorite part of this game has to be the journey. The connection between Ellie and Joel (two characters so brilliantly portrayed by Ashley Johnson and Troy Baker). My love for these characters and my desire to see them succeed despite all of the hardships and challenging decisions they were faced with. That’s why I love this game. It is, for me, the most incredible storytelling experience I’ve ever had.

Honorable Mentions – Grand Theft Auto V, Tomb Raider, The Wolf Among Us, Injustice: Gods Among Us

2014 – BAYONETTA 2

The Queen has made it onto this list, and I have nothing but praise for the greatest hack n’ slash game ever made. Character design? Stellar. Combat system? Robust, intricate, and absolutely flaw-fucking-free. Improves upon its predecessor in every way imaginable and still remains as stylish and fun as ever? 100%.

If you haven’t played this game yet, please stop reading this and go play this game. It is… phenomenal.

Honorable Mentions – Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dark Souls II, Alien: Isolation, Tales from the Borderlands

2015 – THE WITCHER 3: WILD HUNT

What can I say about this game that hasn’t already been said, like, 9 million times…?

It’s legendary. Simply put. A flawless and unforgettable RPG experience that simply cannot be replicated. Also, I would die for Yennefer. And Ciri of Cintra is the love of my life.

Honorable Mentions – Bloodborne, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Life is Strange, Mortal Kombat X

2016 – HYPER LIGHT DRIFTER

The only indie game on this list, but its spot is well deserved. What has always set video games apart from other storytelling mediums is interactivity. Despite this, I feel like most games still rely on heavy dialogue and cinematic cutscenes in order to spin its narrative. Which is why I’m so appreciative of games like this, where art and exploration are key to understanding the world and the happenings around you. Hyper Light Drifter is a gorgeous game, with challenging combat and beautiful, stylish music and design that will have you feeling both nostalgic and mesmerized. Even in its quieter moments the game remains so rich and thoughtful, and even now it’s hard to decipher my feelings afterwards. A mixture of melancholy, delight, and solace. It’s a journey I thoroughly enjoyed taking.

Honorable Mentions – DOOM, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, Titanfall 2, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

2017 – HORIZON: ZERO DAWN

This year was a solid year for games, which made this decision insanely difficult… but after a lot of deliberating, I decided to go with my gut. Aloy stole my heart the moment she came on the screen. She’s an incredible leading lady who’s strong, determined, complicated, and layered in ways that both intrigued me and that I could relate to. But beyond just my crush on the game’s protagonist, the scope of this game is just… fantastic. The way they mixed post-apocalyptic tribalism with futuristic technology, the physics of every monster you encounter being so dynamic that every battle feels viscerally intense, even just the combat mechanics and how much effort was put into designing Aloy’s bow and her diversity of combat options, I’m just so!!!! In LOVE with this game!!!!!!!

Honorable Mentions –Tekken 7, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Butterfly Soup

2018 – GOD OF WAR

Yet another game that I’ve showered in so much praise that I don’t think there’s anything left for me to say about it anymore. This game is flawless for a number of reasons. Its meticulously crafted combat system, amazing graphics, beautiful character and game design, gorgeous score, and seamless transitions from action to story that make it feel like a film taken in one single camera shot are all key selling points. But what sold me on this game, and makes it my top pick for this year, was its compelling narrative. The story is one that’s very personal to me. I felt for them and their loss at the very start of the game. I resonated with Atreus and his struggles to connect with his father. And I understood Kratos’ inner battle with coming to terms with who he is and the things he’s done, and trying to be the father his son deserves. I related to these things, as they resembled all to closely the relationship I had with my own mom. God of War moved me in more ways than one, and I’m very thankful that this game exists. I felt like it was my own story being told on that screen as well.

Also… the boss fights are just so fucking fun.

Honorable Mentions – Spider-Man (PS4), Red Dead Redemption 2, Gris, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

2019 – RESIDENT EVIL 2: REMAKE

This may be a more controversial pick considering the amount of quality games that came out this year, and I know most of my viewers were probably expecting Control or The Outer Worlds to be here considering how much I hyped those games up. But in my defense, Resident Evil 2 was already one of my all-time favorite games, and this remake nothing short of a masterpiece. To me, it’s what every horror game should be. The atmosphere is dark yet engrossing. Every aspect of design, from sounds to levels to enemies, make this one of the scariest horror games I’ve ever played, all without relying on jumpscares, or grotesque imagery (although there’s plenty of that as well, it’s not what makes the experience so horrifying imo). It’s one of the most beautifully crafted survival horrors, while manages to improve upon the original while still remaining faithful to it. I consider it a masterclass in how to approach any remake. Capcom truly earned back my trust with this one.

Honorable Mentions – Control, Katana ZERO, The Outer Worlds, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

And so concludes the list! I hope you enjoyed reading, despite how lengthy it got. I wanted to get out as much praise as I could because every game listed here deserves it. I’m in love with every single one, including so many more that weren’t mentioned. It was truly an amazing decade for gamers and game developers alike, and I’m nothing but optimistic for the future.

See you all next year.

– ミウ。

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thinkingaboutgames · 7 years ago

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CLASSIC SYSTEMS: or...educational time machines? for closing the mechanical literacy gap? (random thoughts) So, personally...I LOVE these classic / mini systems, a la, NES and Snes Classic ...but I’m finding myself sad over the potentially limited release of them? Or, well...the idea that hardcore fans will get and benefit from them... (and sure, it’s been announced we’ll get more in production...and i’m not sad / worried over the idea that I MYSELF won’t get one...) BUT... ...what about the people who won’t ever get the chance to realize what it could expose them to?

(in part, because it won’t be “easy” to get these systems when available, and there’s no guarantee we’ll get legacy runs / repros in the future...which means SOME people might not ever get the chance to capitalize on them) As in... ...I feel kinda bummed the classic consoles won’t be the kinda thing that gets to / is meant to reach EVERYONE, and continue to be a place / practice kept up with...because, if they could, maybe they could... ...help showcase the classics to a younger gaming generation, which can open them up to to old school games / concepts / vocabulary / history? ...expose the general public to MORE kinds of games...OR games in general, as old school ones can be simpler, “retro-cool” now, and COULD BE the more accessible version of something that gets them into more modern / complex games? I mean...to me, what’s so exciting about these systems are their educational value They represent a reprinting of a slice of history! And I mean that with no exaggeration or hyperbole because games ARE an interesting media, in that... The nes / snes classics, to me...ARE a bit like, but not so much... ...the re-selling / packaging of an old book? (who’s words STILL exist elsewhere in the world, in some form, sure)

BUT...really, I think it’s more like art house / classic film theaters that work to bring back and show old movies in 35mm?

Which...yeah, now that i’m thinking about it...i love and get excited about personally...but, these theaters are still pretty niche, and haven’t changed the tastes of the movie going public, by and large, just by existing? i don’t think? So, yeah, maybe it’s kinda like getting blue ray copies of 70s movies and getting to re-enjoy / remember that the original Alien IS as good as it’s always been? But i DO think it’s a little more than that... ...as in, maybe it’s like bringing back and selling 10 movies, built into a betamax player? BUT think of it this way... The “video games” equivalent of this scenario is a world where the general population hasn’t seen or heard of The Godfather, Jaws, A Clockwork Orange, or Star Wars: A New Hope... ...as in, those movies never existed OFF of betamax ...so they don’t exist for most people / the media / academia? ...and SO...most people still think “movies” are nothing but The Transformers... ..and so the people who are into "that media” are disenfranchised accordingly aaaaand sure, this is kind of a silly scenario because...we’ve had emulators and the virtual console for a while... ...yeeeeeah, sure... BUT, to me, those are mostly meant for people who already know what exists, AND know that they are already into it THAT is what THIS really is to me... THE GENERAL PUBLIC getting something polished and pretty, with all the thought already being done for them

(as in, a product that is already telling you what games from that generation are phenomenal, whether you know about them or not) (...shout out to Kirby Dream Course...) and yeah...i’m a fanboy who...sincerely...DOES want more of what i KNOW already is good...but in a sleek, and pretty, and licensed package... (yup, still a child) BUT... ...I think, of late, I’ve been thinking of these consoles as an important system for GAMES in general as in, my biggest problem with the virtual console is the same beef I have with libraries... they’re huge and intimidating and that’s not me saying that we SHOULDN’T have large depositories / repositories for books and video games (holy SHIT we need games preserved...but...what does that look like? do i sign up and donate to my local game library? is that not gonna be as easy of an idea as with books, because books are simpler to operate / maintain / teach someone how to use in a manner that continues to preserve them?) bleh I’M JUST SAYING... I like and looooove the idea of a a “curated”, shipped and boxable, “console” ...cause it’s like an educational time machine ...but...damn, wait...aren’t ALL time machines educational? Probably, right? ...get on it Nintendo!!! ************************************************************** 9/31 THOUGHTS ADDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ..really not sure at all if i hit on everything i wanted to with this i’m also mainly SOOOOO curious about whether legacy systems could even be possible with anyone BUT nintendo (who owns their own IPs) ...i’d looooooooooooooove for the world to get a playstation classic, a ps2 classic, gamecube classic, xbox classic i mean...why would anyone BUT nintendo, who owns these properties / continues their franchises, have a vested interest in supporting the history / legacy of games? i mean...really, logistically...the industry is about forward no one OWES us a means to return but THIS is also really why i love / find games so fascinating ...i actually OWN all those old systems and my whole library still works... and i’m also the type of guy who STILL loves to find classics i never played on these “outdated” systems (played power stone for dreamcast and God Hand for ps2 and alan wake for xbox 360 late...i suggest we all play / learn from / LOVE with these) ..but even still for the younger and younger generations... will games be a medium that lives more in the present / modern mode? more than other mediums BECAUSE it’s technology dependent?? ...are people, years from now, going to have to read about Eternal Darkness:Sanity’s Requim (for the gamecube) in history books? And we’ll only have the chance to read about 90s / 200s, “disc era”, because computerss have stopped using ALL drives / physical media for 50 years?! ...aka, we’re gonna have to go back to relying on the oral tradition to share Viewtiful Joe with people :( :( :(

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kassandra, connor, edward

answered edward here! 😊

First impression

kassandra: loved loved LOOOOOVED her from the start! i saw a couple screenshots in a polygon review before i bought the game and thought she was just the prettiest damn jock i’d ever laid eyes on... and she still is. and from the very first line of the game (leonidas prologue notwithstanding) - the cyclops’ thugs yelling “HEY! SHITFACE!” to her while she’s just vibing on her roof - i was in looooooveeeee. her Scrappy Punk Energy is impeccable.

connor: i actually was kind of ambivalent towards him in the beginning! this was ofc coming off the way-too-long-and-boring haytham sequences, so although i was impatient to get to connor, i was also a little annoyed that there STILL seemed to be so much story before we could run around and be assassin-y. so although i liked him, it was hard not to be annoyed at the slow start of his story. i think it took until like sequence 5 or something for him to get a hidden blade. which, considering there’s only about 12 sequences in ac3, was kind of annoying.

Impression now

kassandra: i still adore her, but for even more reasons! i will never not love the feisty misthios with the conflict deescalation skills of a molotov cocktail side of her, but equally i love her devotion to her family in the main storyline, her justified rage and love for her son in the legacy of the first blade dlc, and even her exhaustion but eventual commitment to her (awful, no-good, horrible) destiny in the fate of atlantis dlc. it’s a little difficult to characterize kassandra definitively, because i think her development/arc is far more loosely constructed than other assassin’s creed protagonists, but in general she is presented as somebody who is humorous and loving and cocky and formidable and charismatic, and doesn’t buckle under the weight of all the responsibility she has taken on, or that has been thrust upon her. she rises to every challenge thrown in her way and comes out of it more resilient and always with that sardonic twinkle in her eye and a smartass comment at the tip of her tongue.

connor: WE STAN A CHARACTER WHO NEVER LOSES HOPE EVEN IN THE FACE OF LOSING HIS MOTHER, HIS HOME, HIS BEST FRIEND, HIS FATHER, HIS PEOPLE, AND HIS MENTOR. WE STAN A CHARACTER WHO SURROUNDS HIMSELF WITH PEOPLE HE LOVES AND WHO LOVE HIM IN RETURN, WHO DOES EVERYTHING FOR OTHER PEOPLE OUT OF THE KINDNESS OF HIS HEART AND BECAUSE IT IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO, WHO DEFENDS THOSE WHO CAN’T DEFEND THEMSELVES. WE STAN A CHARACTER WHO, WHEN BETRAYED BY PEOPLE HE THOUGHT WERE ALLIES TO HIS CAUSE, SEVERS HIS TIES WITH THEM BUT RATHER THAN SUCCUMBING TO CYNICISM CONTINUES TO DO GOOD AND FIGHT FOR JUSTICE AND FREEDOM FOR EVERYONE. WE STAN A CHARACTER WHO IS ANGRY AND STUBBORN AND CONFRONTATIONAL AND BRUTALLY EFFICIENT AT TAKING DOWN HIS ENEMIES, BUT IS ALSO BLUNT AND HONEST AND SELFLESS AND KIND AND COMPASSIONATE AND UNWAVERINGLY LOYAL TO HIS LOVED ONES.

Favorite moment

kassandra: i can’t just choose one are you fucking kidding me they’re all so good she is so good she is perfect and has literally never done anything wrong ever in her life and we know this and we love her

but her monologue/voiceover to elpidios at the end of legacy of the first blade as she sends him away for his own protection always breaks my fucking heart so maybe let’s go with that 😭

connor: there are once again so many to choose from, but if i had to pick just one... i’m really feeling that haytham-washington-connor scene rn. where haytham exposes that washington was behind the shelling of connor’s village and the death of his mother - clearly with the goal of getting connor to turn on the revolutionaries and see the world for the twisted, cynical place that haytham sees it as (he even says as much in his journal in ac forsaken). but instead of taking the bait, connor responds in his own way: he shows that he is not blind to the fact that washington has been using him this whole time, but also that he knows that haytham is trying to do just the same thing to him now. he immediately recognizes that haytham was waiting to spring this information on him and calls him out on it, and reminds both haytham and washington that he is not stupid, that his loyalty is borne out of his sense of right and wrong rather than naivete, and that his people come first. his people ALWAYS come first.

and maybe i’m just a sucker for monologues but the ac forsaken monologue that was recorded but never added into the game for some unknown godforsaken bullshit reason was so so so fucking good and if it had been included in the game i am sure it would be my favorite. “FOR AT MY SIDE WALKS HOPE??????????? T H A T IS MY COMPROMISE???????????/” ✨🔥😲🌟🙌 ⁉ ⭐💯🙏‼😭👏😭🔥✨ BITCH WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!

Idea for a story

kassandra: i basically stuffed all my angsty kassandra ideas into one wip that i’m not sure if i’ll ever finish but love to daydream about. obviously endgame kassidas because, like, that’s my brand, but i also want to take the time to explore her relationship with natakas the way that ubisoft sure as shit fucking didn’t. it’s kind of an amphipolis fix-it and a legacy of the first blade fix-it all in one, if i can ever manage that. probably the most ambitious wip i’ve ever attempted. oh, and also she gets to raise her goddamn son and doesn’t get saddled with any of that keeper-of-memories bullshit. so in a way it’s just a fix-it for the entire goddamn game because kassandra deserved SO much better and i’ll never not be mad about it.

connor: in continuing the tradition of haytham leaving his journal for connor, i think it would be neat if connor kept a journal for io:nhiote. and i’ve rambled before about a connor sequel but you know what the more i talk about it the more i can maybe will it into existence. i think it would be neat if it was framed in a epistolic way where connor is preserving their family’s legacy as he discovers more and more about edward’s life, writing it all down for his daughter, similar to the way revelations was told through ezio’s letters to claudia. it would start in 1791 with connor traveling to the caribbean to aid the haitian brotherhood in the revolution, and it would take him all across the islands - to cuba, to new providence, to jamaica, to greater inagua. to all the places where edward had been. maybe there would be scraps of journals or message bottles with edward’s memories in them? and when the revolution has been won and connor has learned all he can about edward’s life, he travels to england to visit edward and tessa’s graves and to meet his last living relative: his aunt jenny. she’s old and dying at this point but she’s back at the kenway manor in queen anne’s square and after a little bit of trepidation (and maybe he shows her haytham’s journal or his hidden blade as proof that he’s not just some random dude) she lets him in. she tells him about her life and about haytham as a child, and the more she talks the more at peace she seems to be, and connor smiles and takes her hand and thanks her for letting him in, and she passes away quietly and painlessly. and the last thing he does in england before he heads back to his own family is visit his father’s childhood bedroom. he sees the same edward-ghost (like the altair-ghost at the beginning of acr) that he’s been following through animus-memory or eagle vision or whatever: only this time, it’s not some deep insight into assassin-ing or anything like that. all he sees is edward tucking haytham into bed on the night of his tenth birthday. UBISOFT FUCKING HIRE ME.

i also wouldn’t be opposed to a meet-cute type story for how connor meets his future wife, although it’s a story i would prefer someone else to write (to my exacting specifications ofc lol), rather than write it myself.

Unpopular opinion

kassandra: idk how popular/unpopular this is but i did find myself choosing a lot of the meaner dialogue options because although i think she does have a kind heart and feels genuine compassion for people, i think she is by nature a very blunt and often harsh person. i mentioned in the edward post that i think he and kass are kindred spirits, by which i mean i think they both have rough-and-tumble exteriors that they present to the world, and hold their loyalties and loved ones very close to their heart. they’re both exuberant and extroverted people who thrive as mercenaries but in their most vulnerable moments strive for something more long-lasting and stable and quiet. but where i think they differ is that kassandra is... just a little meaner/more abrasive?

connor: i don’t think i have any? i genuinely can’t think of any right now. connor is perfect and everyone knows it. nothing but respect to the king.

Favorite relationship

kassandra: romantically, obiviously it’s brasidas and/or roxana. i don’t think i need to go more into that. battle couples my beloveds 😍😘🥰

platonically, i of course love her relationship with her family. i would kill to have more endgame content with any surviving family members. i’d love a scene between kass and deimos and nikolaos, and a scene between kass and stentor and deimos. there is so much potential there and the game is so goddamn anticlimactic. and while i understand that some of that is because it’s already a long damn game and it’s difficult to program so many branching narratives and storylines and endings, i also... idk i just wish there was deeper relationship-building in the game

connor: i shipped him with miriam for a hot second until that french dude came along and swept her off her feet 😅 but mostly, as with edward, i don’t really him him romantically with anybody because i know he gets hitched later on in life and we don’t know anything about his wife. besides, there’s not a lot of hot singles in his area (rip). and he even says himself that he’s too busy to settle down just yet.

non-romantically, my favorite relationship/interaction is connor and haytham. they’re such a hot mess and i love it. i love how at odds they are ideologically, and yet despite the constant bickering and snapping at each other they still manage to work well enough together. and the fact that haytham can’t even define how he feels about the son he didn’t know he had and who seems to reject him at every turn, while connor continues to hold out hope that he can reconcile with his father.... but they’re both too goddamn stubborn to voice it... i should be angry with These Idiot Men for bottling up their feelings like this, but with these two, i get it. i get why they are the way they are, and i’m just here for the ride. they’re not passive-aggressive about it (well - haytham kinda is), they’re just aggressive. and i love that. the scene on the rooftop where haytham tells him “the only different - the only difference between myself and those you aid, is that i do not feign affection” is SO good. (i almost listed it as my favorite scene but i think i like the washington scene better bc it’s more indicative of connor’s character, whereas this one is more indicative of haytham’s)

Favorite headcanon

kassandra: can barely cook. it just wasn’t something myrrine taught her growing up, because as spartan nobles/royalty they probably had helots doing the cookiing (i think there’s at least one helot you see in one of the family flashback scenes), and she would have been way more interested in combat training with nikolaos anyway. and by the time she’s on kephallonia, i highly doubt markos would know how to cook much more than just the bare minimum for them to both survive. and she wouldn’t have access to the meats and spices that she probably grew up eating in sparta - just bread and cheeses, and fish if she can catch them. simple stuff that she can either prepare fairly easily, or that she can steal. essentially, my headcanon is that kassandra can prepare food just enough that she can feed herself (and eventually phoibe). but if you gave her like a chicken or a pig or some other animal and said “make it tasty” she would have no fucking clue what to do.

connor: i like to think that after achilles’ passing, he started taking in stray animals. the mansion is so big and lonely when it’s just him; he’s always lived in close quarters with other people, and as introverted as he is i think the solitude of the empty mansion is just way too fucking bleak. so obviously the solution is that he just starts bringing strays home. maybe it starts with an injured critter that he nurses back to health, or a dog or a cat that keeps following him around when he’s in boston/nyc. but much like how eivor eventually winds up with like 80 pets inside the longhouse, i like to imagine that at some point there’s like 3 dogs, and 2 cats that curl up in/around his bed at night, birds that repeatedly come and nest in the beams of the mansion roof year after year, deer that come by and nibble at the weeds/bushes by the cliffs, because connor may or may not go to great lengths to ensure that their favorite nibblin’ plants grow there year-round.

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Women of Legal Tech: Kim Craig

The Legal Technology Resource Center’s Women of Legal Tech initiative is intended to encourage diversity and celebrate women in legal technology. This initiative launched in 2015 with a list of innovators and leaders in legal technology and with this year’s additions, that list now includes 100 talented and influential women leaders. Every Monday, we will be featuring a woman from our class of 2019. This week we have Kim Craig!

Kim Craig is the Co-Founder and Experience Designer at Bold Duck Studio. Find her on Twitter @kim_craig.

How did you become involved in legal tech?

I have to blame it on being deeply involved in my firm’s Word Perfect to Word conversion project; that was the tipping point and probably gives away my age! But it truly brought out some problem-solving skills I didn’t even know I had. This was at a time when roundtripping of Word documents became so corrupt they were blowing up on clients and causing huge frustration and embarrassment for the firm. I loooooved the challenge of stabilizing Word documents. The more corrupt, the better!

Eventually, I found myself standing at the front of a classroom filled with our lawyers trying to convince them why Word, doc automation, and other Word add ons would change their lives. Very challenging to say the least. Fast forward a few years and I found myself geeking out in the world of records management and conflicts. Seriously? Yes. My job was to modernize and centralize these paper-laden areas. It taught me early on the challenges of change management. Not everyone was thrilled to step away from their typewriters and put a mouse in their hand. But it wasn’t just about implementing shiny new tech. It required meeting them where they were, developing a sense of trust, and showing them the bigger picture so that I could bring them along on the journey. It was one of my earliest forays in leading organizational change and I loved it!

What projects have you been focused on recently?

Bold Duck Studio just completed a very cool project for a massive global firm. It entailed the creation of a digital maturity model for legal. Outside of legal, these types of efforts may not be so novel, but inside legal, wow, so many people get digital transformation and maturity wrong. It’s not just a “tech thing.” It’s not exclusively about upgrading your platforms for seamless integration. It requires a holistic analysis of not only digital but also analog interactions across your entire ecosystem and their interplay. Evolving an organization’s digital fluency requires analysis of the culture, people/talent, processes/workflow, and technology which creates the overall digital experience for both your clients and within the organization itself. I’m enthralled with these efforts and am still uncovering how emerging tech, process reengineering, designing thinking, and change management all play a significant role in digital transformation.

Is there a legal tech resource of any kind that you find yourself returning to or that was particularly formative for you?

While at Seyfarth, I led what was then the world’s largest and most mature legal project management team. We had an extranet like many other BigLaw firms, and on my early LPM projects I tested out the flexibility and nuances of its functionality. Eventually, my LPM team stretched our off-the-shelf product as far as was possible and found it constraining for our needs. Thus, almost a decade ago, we built our own proprietary client collaboration platform called SeyfarthLink. The LPMs, along with a team of legal solutions architects and developers, led by my former partner Andrew Baker, designed our new platform and it was unlike any other in the industry at that time. Through our efforts, this client-facing team increased adoption and use of technology by the legal practitioners, making it more practical and accessible to them. This effort and this team changed how legal extranets were imagined and utilized within the legal industry. But more importantly, it elevated the “business of law” professionals’ hierarchy, not only within our firm but as a recognized game changer and competitive advantage for our competitors as well.

Our expertise with the platform and understanding of business needs earned us a seat at the table side-by-side with partners at client pitches and meetings. Clients readily accepted and welcomed us into those discussions. It forever changed the dialogue between a service provider and consumer. We were able to shift the conversation away from “legal expertise” (which is table stakes) to how we were going to do the work—not just the substantive legal work but also how our LPMs and LSAs were going to help solve client challenges and needs. While some challenged us (internally and externally) saying, “It’s just an extranet and nothing more; get over it,” they weren’t in the room to see the impact on the profession and how client relationships were transformed. But I knew because I sat at that table hundreds of times. When I left Seyfarth in 2018, we had client portfolio sites for most of our client base with hundreds of unique client interactions per day. It was our way of doing business and engaging clients who expressed great delight at having access to such a platform and team.

Today there are similar platforms like SeyfarthLink, such as HighQ, that many law firms have licensed. But, many have not invested in the client-facing business talent to help bring forward these platforms, thus many sit on the shelf behind the walls of IT. I see many firms’ investment in these platforms barely being utilized for anything more than a document sharing repository. It’s maddening, but they don’t know what they don’t know, and we are trying to close the gap between the necessary talent that firms need to invest in to fully utilize the platform along with integrated features to meet client needs such as doc auto, data visualization, workflow, and so on. There’s a long way to go but for those firms that make the necessary people and tech investments, it can be a game changer.

What technology do you think lawyers could look at in a different way that would benefit society?

I have a bit of a spin on this response: process mapping! If lawyers would accept the fact that legal work is a process, albeit sometimes a very complex process with high variability, they would have the ability to reimagine their services. It can start by dissecting their work to make it more efficient; looking for waste to remove and efficiencies to be gained by making sure the right people are doing the right work—which can also mean replacing manual steps with technology solutions. It is also a great opportunity to improve quality and minimize risk by embedding templates, checklists, and guidelines into the process. But it’s not just about efficiency and streamlining. It’s about the effectiveness and ensuring that the outcomes and the client experience are what you intended.

I’ve led over 200 process mapping sessions in the legal arena and pulling together the people responsible for providing common services to a client has so many benefits. It becomes a knowledge sharing forum to develop best practices; it creates a common understanding of the interplay between the team; it reveals the friction points and negative experiences for the client and the service provider, and at the end of the day, if done expertly, it is a forum for authentic introspection, unfettered ideation, and immense pride in creating something together which drives adoption of the new approach and improvements. I’ve seen these process reengineering sessions break down legacy hierarchical systems and accelerate the adoption of technology solutions because we were singularly focused on improving the human experience of the client and the team.

What’s really cool is that I’ve led these types of sessions with several groups from legal aid organizations who don’t have unlimited resources (both people or tech), but by using what they had at their disposal, they tackled very emotionally challenging days to serve even more clients in need of their services. I’ve also had the privilege of teaching law school students the power of approaching legal services as a process to be scrutinized and improved upon. Exposing our future lawyers to this thinking and making them comfortable with this tool provides them with a mindset and skill that they can bring forward as they enter the workforce. Of course, we also taught them how to be a strong facilitator and overcome barriers which will be vital as they are met with confusion and resistance from the rank and file they join, but I am thrilled that we have empowered them and believe they will persevere and be the much-needed change.

What advice would you give to other women who want to get involved in legal tech?

Know your sh*t! There hasn’t been a tech class I taught, or a methodology that I preached, where I didn’t have the battle scars of wrestling with the application or core tenets of the methodology and techniques to show. I always make sure I have dealt with as many trials and tribulations of testing and applying how these approaches will work in the legal space before I stand up in front of anyone to lead or preach—whether it is project management, lean six sigma, scrum, and so on. Before adapting any of these for the legal industry, I made sure I learned, achieved certification, and then practiced them so that I could then translate and adopt what would resonate in legal. I think that has been extremely important because you will get challenged. And while there are going to be people that are more experienced and smarter, I know that I have invested the hard hours to develop the use cases and expertise that allow me to take these approaches and tools to drive adoption of technology or methods and lead change.

Plus, remember to always display confidence while also being humble and never ever lose your passion and curiosity.

Give a shout-out to another woman in legal tech who you admire or have learned something from!

So I’m going to go off-script on this response, too. As we’ve seen, there are more and more women planting flags in legal tech innovation and leadership. It is impressive to hear about all of the legal tech startups led by women. There really is a movement that is a force to be reckoned with. But I want to take this opportunity and give a shout out to a couple of individuals who I have seen firsthand have a direct impact on women in legal—my current business partner, Josh Kubicki, and former colleague, Andrew Baker. These two have worked tirelessly to introduce new ideas and concepts to the legal industry and through their efforts, they have encouraged and supported many women.

When Andrew and I led the Client Solutions Group at Seyfarth, we identified many women who we believed would provide immense value to the team and the firm. Andrew was quick to provide every opportunity for their professional development, nurturing and positioning them directly with clients and firm leadership as hardcore application developers, data analysts, legal project managers, or legal solution architects. He was vocal and active in helping break down barriers and perceptions regarding their abilities. While I don’t have the tech chops that he does, he was also a huge advocate for me as a partner and leader within the firm regarding my role and involvement in the design and adoption of our technology solutions. He ensured that I received recognition for my efforts and contributions when he could have solely reaped accolades bestowed on him by leadership who were sometimes oblivious to my behind the scenes efforts on these fronts. Andrew also spent countless hours exposing me to knowledge areas and best practices like good UI/UX, Tufte, A/B testing, and other topics that enriched my own understanding and capabilities in tech. Little did he know that he had created a worthy opponent. We would debate for hours, sometimes heatedly and with much passion, over the design, priorities, and strategy of our initiatives but never with malice, as we designed and drove our firm’s brand differentiation, leading some of the industry’s most progressive undertakings at that time. The legal arena should join me in applauding Andrew’s investment in his female colleagues and the talent that he inspires. I know he made me a better version of myself and what I bring to the table.

Second, I want to recognize my partner, Josh Kubicki for his ability and willingness to maintain an unbiased and pragmatic perspective when he engages with colleagues, peers, and direct reports of any gender. But, to the point of this response, I have seen firsthand the impact Josh has had on women in legal—tech and otherwise. His patience and selfless investment in the women of a large team we were both on was remarkable. Although he is a licensed lawyer, his demeanor and actions completely obliterate stereotypes of arrogance and egotism. As women, we so often let our insecurities and self-doubt get the best of us in this male-dominated industry, but Josh is able to see past that and instill certainty and conviction when others would perceive our behavior as weak and frail. He truly brings out the best in everyone he works with but has especially provided both professional and personal growth opportunities to the women he has mentored and partnered with throughout his career. Josh has some of the strongest core values that I have witnessed. His vast and successful experiences from working in law departments, law firms, advising legal startups, and being his own entrepreneur have provided opportunities so many and I am always impressed by the statements made when I encounter another woman on which he has made his impact. They never fail to expound his virtues and the deep impression he made on them which helped to foster their continuous growth and successes. I am extremely fortunate that Josh recognized my talents and skills and chose me as a business partner on this journey. He believes in me even when I sometimes doubt myself. His strength and confidence in my expertise and capabilities have given me a new level of self-assuredness that I would not otherwise possess. For that, I will always be grateful.

So I want to close by applauding Andrew and Josh for what they have done to encourage and promote women in legal tech and generally in their professions. We need more men like them who don’t judge, who don’t bend the rules and make it easier just because we’re women, and who will defend and sponsor our efforts because we have earned them. They have made a significant impact and difference to this humbled and proud 2019 Women of Legal Tech Honoree and for that, I thank them from the bottom of my heart, as I wouldn’t be where I am without them and I eagerly look forward to their continued efforts as allies to women in the legal profession.

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