#i think sans just really hates british people

[xxfabulashxx]

I have decided that Tumblr Sexyperson HQ is a physical building. Here's some crap I made up about it

Because Sans and Cecil both won tournaments they are now presidents of the HQ, below them is the Sexyman Council (Onceler, Warden, Tony, Bill, Black Hat, Alastor

Members get free therapy because most of them need it, also sometimes they Google themselves and are traumatised

Because of how many members are scientists there's a lab area where they can do experiments and talk nerd shit, some members that use this floor are: Dr Eggman, Jimbotnik, Dr Doofenshmirtz and Flurg

There's also clown and skeleton hang out areas because of how many there are, the skeleton area was designed by Jack Skellington so is very Halloween themed, the clown area is very colourful, has lots of balloons and a ball pit which may or may not have something hiding in there

Some who use the skeleton area are: Sans, Papyrus, Jack Skellington, Lewis Pepper, The Phantom, Itward and the Grim Reaper

Some who use the clown area are: Pennywise, Jevil, Dimentio, Fizzarolli, Ronald McDonald, Buggy and Moon (Sun doesn't like going in cus he's scared of everyone so the room is mostly kept in the dark)

There is a bar and restaurant floor which is also used for parties, any member can get on stage and perform by singing, dancing or doing a comedy routine (Bittergiggle has been banned because every time he tells a joke and no one laughs he has a mental breakdown)

For the ones who either don't have a home or do but it's shit, membership also offers living quarters which are basically small apartments (the more popular they are they bigger and nicer their rooms are) some people who live in the building are: Onceler, Bendy, Spamton, Jevil, Warren (tho he probably lives in a closet)

Sans and Cecil don't decide who's a member and who get's kicked out, it's up to the fans. Sans and Cecil get to decide things to do with the building and events

Alastor refuses to appear at any fan meet n greets because he hates his fans

Baldi and Purple Guy are best friends cus they both really fuckin hate kids

Ban Ban is a member for some reason but he doesn't visit a lot due to the fact no one likes him

Bendy follows Alastor around like a lost puppy because he thinks he's cool (Charlie thinks he's adorable)

Dancing Banana hosts quiz shows where sexymen compete, it's very popular, he also hosts interviews

Sun and Papyrus get along very well and hang out a lot, Sans always stays close by incase the lights go out because Moon is a bitch

Dimentio takes full advantage on how strong Jevil is and has mind controlled him several times, Jevil does not remember any of it other than suddenly appearing in a different location feeling dazed

Duck thinks he's the best sexyman, Sans just goes along with it, he doesn't care enough to argue

Red Guy is like a royal British guard as in people like to do weird shit in front of him to get him to react…no one has gotten one yet

Itward is the Dad friend to everyone, he's good at comforting and lends an ear for venting

The Phantom speaks perfect English but he often pretends he only knows French so he can avoid people

King Dice will sometimes co-host Dancing Bananas shows unless he's busy

Zim, Peepers and Marvin will fight constantly and once they enter a room people will start to leave

Mettaton hates how both Sans and Spamton are so much more popular than him since one is lazy and the other lives in the trash (and has tiny legs)

Onceler and Warden are best friends and share one brain cell (their friendship is similar to Arin and Dans from Game Grumps)

Papi will often bring Popee with him which no one is happy with because he is very explosive (literally) except Moon he encourages the chaos and has pretty much adopted him

Everyone has collectively made a rule that no one may upset Papyrus, anyone who does is shunned and excluded

There is an ongoing war between Ronald McDonald and Colonel Sanders where they both try to put up the most ads for their food places

Sans has a fancy penthouse apartment he only uses for naps, there's toys in it for when Frisk is over as well

Even after everything that happened, Jevil is still good with kids and won't hurt them, one time he found Frisk sitting alone as Sans was in a meeting so he played with them and showed them magic tricks until it was done

Every so often Shrignold will show up and ship everyone with everyone, no one likes him and Tony will have to search the whole building to catch him and kick him out

Larry sees everyone's dreams, he has seen some shit and isn't sure whether Spamton or Jevil have the weirder ones

Slenderman is like a sim, he will walk over to people and join their conversations although he doesn't speak, he just stands there menacingly

The Smiler is there sometimes, no one knows why but they've just accepted it, the people at Alton Towers are still trying to figure out why is keeps disappearing tho

The Onceler has been woken up on several occasions in the early hours of the morning because Spamton and Jevil decided to have a competition on who can make the most noise and keep the other awake (their rooms are right next to each other)

Jevil and Popee are an awful combination, they have lit many fires, Fizzarolli is afraid

The Warden in in charge of security, he has placed cameras everywhere

As part of the agreement when they were taking Jevil he is not allowed to leave the building on his own and has to wear an ankle monitor which will also shock him if he tries to leave

When Tony first arrived he made sure every room has a clock so everyone always knows the time

[imqueerandadeer]

Not so small rant about assimilation

Okay quick disclaimer, all if not most of this rant will be about MY experiences as a white passing asian person (with some commentary from my non mixed friend), and remember my experiences don't speak for the whole asian american community (although I will admit there are some similarities between what I have experienced and what other people like me have experienced) because asian people are not a monolith!! This rant is also mainly centered around being asian american and being forced to assmilate but I think most of it applies to other cases of assimilation.

Okay with that out of the way lets start with some context about myself and my life.

Hi, I'm Oliver or Cupid and I'm half thai but white passing. My mom immigrated here with her parents in the 1970's when she was around three. My mom grew up in the valley (or the San Fernando valley) in the 80's and 90's when asian hate and racism was a lot more prevalent than it is now. She was one of the only asian kids at her Christan school. I remember her telling me there was this boy who made fun of her for having an accent when she didn't have one (my mom is fluent in both English and Thai) the same guy (I think) also made a racist comment about two Chinese pandas and connected it to my mom somehow idk she told me this a while ago.

My mom only spoke thai at home with her parents and because she was the oldest child and she was fluent in both Thai and English she had to translate everything for her parents. She only knows thai because she had to speak it at home and because she doesn't use it anywhere else, she married my dad (a white guy) and had me (I am only fluent in english) she didn't see the use in teaching me thai. She also barely knows anything about thai culture because her parents just refused to tell her because they wanted to assimilate and be "real americans."

This stops me from knowing anything about my culture or language, I had to google thai mythology. I had to google my own cultures mythology. Thats just depressing. This also just makes me feel more isolated from my own community than I already am because I'm white passing.

From a very young age I've always sensed that I don't fit in with other asian kids or fit in at all with other asian people and the community as a whole. It feels like I'm not asian enough to call myself asian american, theres always an asterisk of hey I'm also white passing so I'm not really aisan. Which mind you isn’t true but doesn't stop me from feeling like that in general.

It's so hard trying to keep your culture alive when you know nothing about it, I want to talk about being thai, I want to talk about my mythology, and I want to know more than 4 words in thai. All thats keeping me from that is assimilation and a false promise of "if you try hard of enough to fit in you will," the american dream was never a thing and it actively hurts people like me. people who want to know about their culture but can't because is stuck under years of oppression and trauma that our grandparents and parents just won't work through.

And now over to my friend @pansgoobernonsense for it's comments on just asian hate as a whole and some of its experiences with how normalized it is:

"So this one time my mom was at the DMV I believe and some lady yelled at her to go back to China since her English was bad and that encouraged her to learn more English, but her English still isn’t that good (it’s understandable but not grammatically correct sometimes) and she used to get bullied for it and was self conscious

my dad was raised in Hong Kong when it was a British colony and when he went to America for boarding school a kid physically attacked him, called him a slur, and tried to hit him over the head with a snowboard because he was Asian

I was raised in a very sheltered Chinese environment (bilingual school and all that jazz), but as a kid I always wanted to be that white it girl, to the point where I would lie and say I was bipoc 💀 lowkey funny asf

I’ve also been called slurs before and have been told by my parents to avoid talking about being Chinese so I wouldn’t get hate crimed when I went to middle school (public middle school) thankfully that didn’t happen but someone said konichiwa to me once so… erm"

Wow this was longer than expected mb sorry if this made zero sense/jumps around a lot I tried to make it coherent as possible (and have the spelling and grammar correct) but it's 1 am for me and I'm already shit at articulating my thoughts and sleep depravation does not help

[crimeronan]

On the "Empress Luz acting scary with The Blights snippet" for some reason In my head as I was reading it, part of me was imagining Luz's accent sounding more like Belos when she's being intimidating and it's just now rattling around inside my head and won't leave.

IDK how malleable accents are, (I moved from the UK to Australia when I was like, 9 and I still sound painfully english) and at what stage these things naturally develop. But unless Belos was actively 'correcting' how she spoke... (the thought of which is its own potential bag of horror ) I imagine her normal speaking voice still being broadly as it was in canon.

Mostly because the thought hadn't occurred to me when reading most of the au and Hunter sounds just as american as the rest of of the isles, (sans Terra Snapdragon) but he wasn't really Belos' favorite now was he and probably got enough early instruction from non-Belos people to shape how he spoke. So I imagine aside from maybe the odd weirdly British pronunciation on some terms (ie Lef-tenant v Lou-tenant when referring to the rank, minor things like that, maybe the odd vowel here and there) they just sound like they did in canon.

But now here's the thought I can't shake. When Luz is being authoritative, and especially when she's using fear like in that snippet, as a tool Belos taught her how to use, even as she's trying her best to use it to be better than he was, she can't help but subconsciously sound like him. Application of force, threatening with force of law like that isn't in her nature, but she's been taught it by Belos and can do it well even if in almost all cases she hates the thought of it now, something so associated with him but also an indispensable part of "being The Empress".

Specifically in that scene I can imagine her normal speaking voice coming through for a moment as she talks about how biased she is and how much she hates The Blight all that anger is completely her own, genuine and honest, there is nothing of Belos in it...

Then her voice goes right back to BBC english when she mentions how that bias is legally irrelevant and she's right back into threatening absolute monarch mode.

you know what?? this is honestly spot-on for how i heard her in my head while i was writing it. the accent was definitely still american but there's a chipper, professional Icy Cheerleader quality to it that's all belos. luz having adopted his precise cadence and genial demeanor because it's the most effective way she knows how to be scary... Yeah That's The Stuff

and tbh it's entirely possible for her accent to slip into something more british. i know that i unconsciously mirror people's accents in conversation & am constantly worried that when i'm with my southern friends or irish friends or latine friends that they're gonna think i'm making fun of them when it's like. no i Promise this is just how i talk. probably another autism thing but i don't actually know if accent mirroring IS a common thing so.... mysteries!

regardless.... i can bestow a bit of this upon luz. between drawing on her memories of belos AND matching odalia's Smarmy Corporate Smugness, i think there's Easily some british in there. if hunter is in the room, he's definitely running mental numbers on the likelihood that luz will suddenly hear herself & Freeze Completely.

[onlyplatonicirl]

i have so many error hcs because he is the silliest billiest guy to ever exist

this is more so just a hc i have about like every glitched skeledude and that is they function a lot similar to like computers/robots if you get what i mean? like they are very strict about their logic and any deviation can cause them to break down, i.e. crash and reboot

since they can peer into the code they can also use it to their advantage, whip out a command terminal and ask it all the questions youve ever wanted too such as why is my ex wifeboy such an annoying bitch?

error is a glitch he lives outside the code, code is often translated in binary, if he lives outside that he is then nonbinary, although i like to think he throws the idea of gender completely out the window, agender error real and true

he can speak both english, spanish and french, spanish because he felt he needed to watch his novellas in the og language (subs not dubs) to properly understand them, and french because he was paranoid ink was insulting him to his fave whenever he spoke in french in front of him

my guy has no senses, his eyesight, more like eyeshite, taste? nope, bro eats tin cans for breakfast, hearing? also poor, try having a million people screaming in your head day in day out, common sense? certainly not

he does however have a heightened tactile sense, all errors/glitches do, in a meta sense i suppose you could say his hurtbox is slightly too big because he'll flinch and pull away if you get a bit too close to him

on that note, autism, all skeletons originate from sans and that man is autistic

he will burn anything containing he doesnt like so if you wanna get him some nice clothes for his birthday, which he does not at all recall the day it was (he choose 4/04 because it was funny), you better make sure it isnt crush velvet or sherpa

he gets very easily overstumulated because hes spent years in the antivoid which is a blank white void that is always silent and nothing ever changes, i swear to god cq this man is so autistic was this intentional??

needs glasses, refuses to wear them

cant really feel temperature differences, he'll rock his stylish socks and sandals in -10°C (im sorry im british)

a lot of his old memories from his life before he became a glitch are gone, or are incredibly fuzzy, it also doesnt help that he's lived for so long since that there are plenty of more memories he can pull from, so for error a lot of things are new to him, the first time ink showed him a bath bro was flabbergasted, stayed in there for 6 hours didnt even care the water was cold

he had a cat but yknow the anitvoid is uhhh a big open, endlessly infinite void of white nothingness so he kinda lost it, he cried for 7 weeks straight and still does everytime hes reminded

error starts with negative friendship points with everyone, doesnt matter if youve done nothing untoward him, he hates your guts

as much as he hates to admit it, hes picked up a lot of inks traits, and he tries desperately to do the opposite of everything ink does because god no he cant be like him hes annoying and weird and silly and kinda funny and cute?

i like error 😐👍

ALL OF THESE ARE SO REAL AND TRUE AND A LOT OF THESE ALIGN WITH MY OWN HEADCANONS!!!!

BUT THE CAT ONE...... OUGH...... AUGH........... THATS SO SAD................ waAAAAAAAAAA

[yallemagne]

Thanks to the last ask I'm now imagining a US adaptation of Dracula where everyone is American except for Quincey who charms Lucy with an Aussie accent. (I'm not sure if VH stays Dutch or also go American)

The last ask.

There was actually a podcast set in 2014 where Dracula is moving to San Francisco instead: The Dracula Files by StoryForge Productions. Don't know if it was ever finished? It's supposed to be three seasons, but I can only find the first season. Quincey is still Texan in it but doesn't really have an accent? And Van Helsing doesn't appear in the first season.

I was in dread at the start of the sentence that you were going to say Quincey was British, and I would have been like "Absolutely not" iojegrpja. I swear I'm not Anglophobic, it's just that it would just be that one guy from Love Actually, and I would hate that. Aussie is definitely a good way to go. Though... probably not during the same time period, because Australia didn't really have its cool Outback reputation then...

Hmm. What is the American equivalent of the Dutch-English dynamic... Maybe Van Helsing is still Dutch, but he's Belgian lol. But like logistically, it would have to be a nearby country, but America is...

HOLY SHIT DRACULA WOULD NOT WORK IN AMERICA. BITCH WE HAVE NO INFRASTRUCTURE OIJRPGE. Okay, but New York City and other big cities would have trains/subways, I suppose.

Okay okay okay, maybe instead of fucking off back to his home whenever he needs to do research Van Helsing can just go to a public library iojpegr. Maybe even a local one so people don't have to die simply because he had to pop over and ask his friend Arminius a few questions in the middle of the night.

I'm thinking too much about this. I would recommend The Dracula Files if you aren't bothered by it being unfinished. Jonathan's whole section is amazing. But there is a lot of whispering that suddenly escalates to screaming, so it's not a pleasant auditory experience. Especially in the medical logs-- Renfield gets very loud while John is whispering.

[winderlylandchime]

1/2 Hello, I’m finally getting around to sending you the Out of the Box review. I’m a bit late even tho this all happened on Wednesday(i think) but that’s due to the fact that afterwards we continued to watch B99 and during the ep found out about Andre passing away. So in true brother fashion, doctor check ups got postponed due to family emergency and he has been in mourning since. Also sorry this is so long:

I legit just sat him in front of the interview and pressed play. So I didn’t even give him the chance to be ready for it. These are just some of the highlights because he was watching so quietly, you’d think Gale would be able to hear him if he was too loud: ‘Bria- wait no, not Brian. But Brian suits him. Fuck it, look it’s my pretty boy but all grown up! WITH GLASSES!’ Not even a minute in and he paused it and went ‘he looks like he’d rather be waterboarded than be here in front of a camera’

Here is where I forgot that his sexuality gets brought up in the first two minutes where the interviewer says “playing gay characters particularly for non gay actors” and he loudly went ‘NON GAY?’ And looked at me in shock and confusion. But then the topic immediately goes to Gale’s upbringing so he actually thought the interviewer was talking about other actors and not Gale…*gale mentions that he grew up pentecostal* ‘he grew up in a CULT? (I swear i only looked at him) *points to me* its all a cult one way or the other. Especially if you go to church 5 times a week.’ And then after a minute of silence he went ‘from a cult to fake fucking guys on tv *raises his soda* my man!’

Gale says he can’t really talk about his brother ‘me with you…but not for whatever reason he has which b-t-w *sings it out* shaaaaady, i just think people won’t care about the baby our parents found on a bus stop.’ He was just staring at the screen and then whispered ‘he’s pretty. How long ago was this filmed? I really fuck with the glasses. But a bit of a beard would be nice on him like in Criminal Minds (at this point im gonna give him your new fic to read since he’s obsessed with the beard/glasses) Gale says he went to San Francisco ‘i went to San Fran once, i did end up there cause I got lost though *long pause while he continues to watch* some very nice homeless people live there.. like my boy Ronny, i miss him’ They mention QAF ‘AH OKAY SHUT UP! Now we’re talking important stuff! Spill the secrets! Who hated who? Who fucked who? Who we still don’t like?’ *he actually scooted closer to the computer screen* (Gale mentions Aiden Gillen/UK qaf) ‘Aiden Gillen? The dude from king Arthur with the hot guy from Sons of Anarchy? Wait *pauses the video* there is a BRITISH version of it? Why?’ (Literally seconds later Gale mentions an ex girlfriend and he hits pause and stares at me) ‘girl….friend? Does he mean that like a girl thats a friend? Or like….they did kisses and stuff? Was he experimenting? You know what? We all have our moments, it’s okay’ Gale says that he has no personal knowledge about how it is to be a gay man and apparently my brother has decided to go full denial for some reason bc he lifts his soda and goes ‘ahhhh, yes, bisexuality’ and then just lifted his cast like a fist while sitting back. Gale mentions that he got blackout drunk before starting to film and he goes ‘i like him. I love him but i also like him. Two different things. I want to hang out with him in a non creepy way, i swear I’m capable of it but also if i had to date him id be down’ Gale is asked if Randy knew he was straight: *hits pause* ‘straight? STRAIGHT?! AS IN HETERO?! LIKE ME? STRAIGHT? LIKE…like..STRAIGHT?! *looks at me in disbelief and whispers* straight? STRAIGHT?! *gets up and immediately sits down* straight? Like he likes women? Like as in like huuuh?’ He then just stared into the screen with paused Gale on it and then whispered to himself ‘straight’ then he rubbed his whole entire face with his hand and then looked at me and went ‘oh this changes so fucking much. I have to alert my boys…and my girls…fuck what is mom gonna say to this? I feel….lied to. Not by him. But by you! *takes a deep breath* its okay..its cool..straight. Just like me….i think..Oh fuck’ Then he sat back on the couch, covered his face with his cast and after like 5ish minutes went ‘soooooo, i guess him and blondie fucking flies out the window, huh? Boy, i was way off with that one, huh’ I need you to know that trying not to laugh during all this was the biggest challenge in life. When I described this to our cousin, she compared it to the Bone scene with Holt and she was pretty spot on. Gale is now talking about working with Randy: ‘He IS extremely talented! (Gale mentions they have similar taste in stuff) *looks at me* do you think he listens to Lil Nas X as well? Please tell me they’re still friends. I need to know if they hang out. Or at least hung out. I got scared cause theres so little bts moments of them but they hung out all the time. I mean i could tell they were friends duuuh’ This is a moment i never even caught but when talking about Sharon, i think Gale messes up Vic/Jack names and my brother goes ‘who the fuck is Jack? Did i miss something or is my very pretty boy forgetful?’ The interviewer starts bringing up the prom scene and he says the he wants to talk about something that for viewers was the most difficult to watch and my brother goes ‘ahh yes, the proposal’ (interview says Brian going to prom) ‘oh yeah, that was also tragic’ ‘we need to watch the prom episode later. They were friends! He cared about him!’ A few minutes later the interviewer says “before we leave babylon” ‘lets NOT leave it. I left it once and it fucked me up for life’

Welcome back dear sweet anon and brother anon!

Are you watching B99 for the first time? I have a friend who’s watching right now for the first time. Either way, so very sad about Andre’s untimely passing. I’ve been devastated and rewatching my fave Captain Holt episodes.

I love your brother calling pentecostal being in a cult. I’m not going to disagree.

“There’s a British version? Why?” Does your brother know that the “British version” is actually the OG version?

His denial about Gale being straight is HILARIOUS. He’s twisting everything like people do for gay people “girl friend… like a friend who’s a girl” and “ahh yes bisexuality.”

And then “straight. Just like me….i think” DID GALE AWAKEN SOMETHING IN YOUR BROTHER?

STRAIGHT!

Captain Hold BONE is so absolutely the correct response to this both timely and accurate.

Here’s the thing. If you’ve listened to the Call Me By Your Shame or any of the subsequent episodes where Randy discusses the artist, you absolutely over to over enunciate LITTLE NAS X the way Randy does. I don’t know about Gale listening to LITTLE NAS X but I think they both listened to Bjork while filming.

“something that for viewers was the most difficult to watch and my brother goes ‘ahh yes, the proposal’ (the interview says Brian going to prom) ‘oh yeah that was also tragic’ CERTIFIED ICONIC. The proposal was hard to watch (for my prince) and also tragic for many reasons. But, yes, Brother Anon most people would say prom.

he looks like he would rather be waterboarded than be here in front of the camera. WELL if that doesn’t sum up Gale, I don’t know what does.

I’m glad your brother is here for glasses and beard. I have always said he has good taste.

[galacticrambler]

Immigration to the United States is a tricky thing, because American politicians historically have hated non-white immigrants. Born in the USA: The Story of Immigration and Belonging sheds light on the centuries of hatred and the ever-changing definition of “white” in politics.

Lawrence Goldstone manages to weave a tale from slavery through the Chinese Exclusion to San Francisco trying to ban Japanese people to European Jews being denied entry at the beginning of World War III to Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Act passing.

A few years ago I read One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965 from Jia Lynn Yang which goes into a lot more detail surrounding the events in that time frame. That’s a great look into but just what laws were passing but also who were passing them. It’s a great companion piece to this if you want to go more in depth into the subject

I remember 20 years ago when the movie Gangs of New York came out. I was in high school at the time and wasn’t fully able to grasp the whole racism from one group of white people against another group of white people.

As I grew older, it made a lot more sense as I learned more about history and events. “Whites” in America only consisted of northern Europeans and British. Then, they expanded to include the Irish. Then, they expanded to include southern Europeans. Then, they expanded to include eastern Europeans.

All in search of keeping out the “other”.

It didn’t matter whether that was eastern Asians (Chinese and Japanese), southern Asian (Indians), Middle Eastern, Africans (except they lived their white South Africans), or people from Central and South America.

The art from James Otis Smith is played well with the story, letting you feel the emotion on the page.

I really liked this book, and I think more people should check it out. If you have a kid in middle or high school, it’s a fantastic book for them to learn more about America’s racism in an easily digestible format.

Thank you Netgalley and First Second Books for sending this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own.

[coochiequeens]

I already posted one story about Irish citizens and foreign surrogacy

https://gcn.ie/conference-surrogacy-egg-donation-same-sex-parents/

Now there will be a conference to help gay men exploit more women

Ahead of the Growing Families conference on September 16, which will explore the current situation of surrogacy and egg donations for parents in Ireland, the organisation’s Global Expert on Surrogacy, Sam Everingham, discusses what attendees can expect from the event.

Mark Davidson and his partner Damian’s journey to parenthood began at a Growing Families conference back in 2016. They connected with a Californian agency in LA and by August 2016 were matched with a US surrogate. A month later, they completed their IVF and transferred their first embryo in February 2017. It worked.

Fast forward four years and they engaged in a second journey. With less available funds, this time they switched to Canada, and worked with the country’s largest agency. Within just six months, in April 2022, they were matched with yoga teacher Meghan Kolodka from Sun Peaks, British Colombia, a first-time surrogate who loved their video profile.

With their remaining embryos still in California, Meghan agreed to travel to San Diego for embryo transfer. With young children of her own, Meghan had committed to no more than two transfers, so the pressure was on.

Again they were lucky. A month after Meghan’s first embryo transfer in September 2022, it was clear there was a growing baby. In early July this year, they welcomed a son Hudson.

With experience of both the US and Canada, Mark will share what he and Damian learned at Growing Families Dublin conference on September 16, 2023. But it’s not all about us as parents. Their surrogate Meghan, along with three others (two from Ireland) will also share what they look for in intended parents.

Tracy Horan is a Dublin-based solicitor who has been assisting gay Irish singles and couples to navigate surrogacy for 15 years. In those early days, India was a popular destination, then Thailand. When both these closed, Tracy noticed an increased interest in the well-regulated destinations of Canada and the US. Closer to home, another – unregulated – destination, Northern Cyprus has more recently become popular with many of her gay clients.

“We have had many many babies born over there,” she says. “The system is really working. In regard to legal support, it’s a well-oiled machine”.

Legal advice remains essential says Tracy, “Particularly if you are thinking of going to a country that is not one of the very well-known ones”.

“Every journey is different. There is always some kink. We are dealing with babies, humans and biology. You don’t know what’s going to happen.”

A lot turns on the attitude of the intended parents, how positive they are,” Tracy advises. “You have to be relaxed about it and prepared for the knocks if they come.”

Tracy will also be speaking on September 16. With Ireland about to legislate for domestic surrogacy, the event will also give airtime to how these arrangements work in practice.

Tracy predicts domestic surrogacy is going to be hugely popular. “I’ve done a number of domestic surrogacy cases in Ireland already, so it’s not a new thing, it has been going on.”

In regard to Ireland’s new legally sanctioned domestic surrogacy model, Tracy just hopes that professional screening protocols are introduced.

“Vetting of surrogates, making sure they’re looked after, making sure they’re psychologically prepared to carry a baby.

“What I would hate to see is…a situation where anybody could become a surrogate. You just don’t know how these people are going to react. In other countries (eg the US) there’s a protocol before you become a surrogate. I would hope that we have something similar in Ireland.”

In relation to international surrogacy, Tracy thinks the recommendations from the Oireachtas Committee are likely to be adopted by government, but there remain many questions.

“I would hope that the legislation will allow intended parents a structure that is easier…and faster for them to get declaration of parentage, particularly for the mother”.

At the Growing Families surrogacy and egg donation conference in September, a Senator from the recent Oireachtas Committee will share her perspectives on the Committee’s recent recommendations and how they may play out.

There is talk that the changes may come into effect quite suddenly. Tracy predicts that October or November this year is the likely timing.

Meanwhile, the event on September 16 is a unique chance to not only meet professionals offering well-regulated programs but to hear from parents who have recently created families in Canada, the US, North Cyprus and Argentina as well as the surrogates who helped them.

In a fast-changing environment, this is a must-attend event to learn about the reality of both domestic and offshore donor and surrogacy options to build a family.

Tickets for the Growing Families surrogacy and egg donation conference are just €30 which includes lunch, afternoon tea and networking drinks. Check out the full program and tickets here

[weaselbeaselpants]

Complaining abt tumblrsexymen being all the 'same'-ish conventionally attractive white/white coded character is a valid critique+nitpick if ever I saw one. It's still amazes me that Sans won the tumblreman hunger games considering he's both of skeleton decent and not a beanpole. Believe me, I love tumblr sexymen and that there are just WAY too many white and/or white coded guys in there. Diversity is important. Considering how many of them are also some scale of dangerous ppl which is then excused away by fans because of course it is, it is concerning how many Notzis get the "but he's complex"-treatment just because they're 'pretty. However, that's where my takes as a reallyreally white person end.

Yeah this is about Hunter in the Owl House.

As Belos is my actual fav (in a hate-fuck way) character, I'm gonna get it out of the way that yes ppl are 100% into Philbelos because he's a scary looming British blonde man and yeah his fans are way too apologetic of him because Mathew Rhys' voice and those designs are top-notch. Cynically, ppl are into Belos because they can't accept a passively nice white guy could be the same as a Trump supporter; realistically, a lot of us are also fascinated by how awful and why he is the way he is which is where are dumb headcanons come from.

With Hunter, I think half of the problem comes from the show prioritizing wrapping up the lore and backstory of the Wittebros as neatly as they could before it ends. Like it or not, Hunter is tied to the backstory of the villain and an important connection between the main kid cast and Belos directly thru him. Half of the discovers and unearthing of just how bad Belos is is done in relation to Hunter/Caleb/the grimwalkers. Like them or not (you don't have to, it's not law requiring you to enjoy the problematic blonde clone) Hunter is important to the story of the Owl House. I really don't think we'd have this problem if we'd have more time for the series to wrap up, or at least half the time Amphibia had for it's final season. While the story+lore is important, I think equally important to that is our main character and her friends. We do get that- mind you, but it isn't as focal to the story as the Wittebro shit even tho it's emotionally important. It's also why we focused more on King in the end of s2 - his story and how he befriends the Collector is integral to how the show's gonna end...and all of that comes at the cost of Luz and friends' having both angst and their own centric, full realized plotlines.

^^^All that I just said is only one half of a full conversation and that conversation is worth being had -- the one about how much (intentional or not) focus there are on the white guyyz who are straight vs the BIPOC cast of lesbians. The thing is I'd prefer to have that convo with a BIPOC TOH fan themselves, not through a white ally echoing that complaint to justify their own hatred of Hunter.

This is a thing some white allies do: they hear a complaint from a person of color abt wanting more diversity and rep, abt feeling like people only care because it's a white character - and, if that ally happens to have any unrelated beef with said diversity-lacking thing, they hammer down on this being the "ACTUAL PROBLEM" w the character. They use someone else's valid take or criticism and treat it like they're own. In the case of one particular anti-Hunter person, it also comes with the accusatory shit ppl do abt sexymen that's REALLY uncalled for and kinda fugged up:

"You only like him because he's a white kid and you're also a white kid You wouldn't care if that trauma happened to him if he were BIPOC"

No. I could care abt him if he were another race. Also BIPOC ppl are allowed identify w white characters as much as white ppl are allowed to identify w BIPOC characters.

"The trauma written for him is manipulative and people are projecting too much of their own trauma onto him"

yeah that kinda happens when you got abused characters- abused people will see themselves regardless of how alike they actually are....um....that's none of your business???

"He's not actually a good character he's just a sad character"

yeah again ppl like sad characters. I know what you mean, ppl are so into characters being 'sad and quiet' they forget that the character also has to be well written to earn everyone's unabashed love (see also: Evan Hansen) but...isn't that just a matter of opinion then? Like, what's the big deal if this emotional trauma arc got me and I personally really liked it. Prioritized or not, like I'm suggesting, it's important to the story and I and other people thought it was handled well.

"You only care abt him because he's a pretty boy."

ok well I don't think much would change abt him if he were, fe, a girl instead. Maybe I haven't spent enough time w the Hunterstans as much as I have the Belos stans but from what I've seen, a lot of the complaints abt wanting to see more of Gus and Willow and Luz at all stems from those same fans also liking those characters and wanting them to have the same attention given to them by the show as Hunter and Amity have. In other words- a lot of Hunter fans also want more for the rest of the cast....maybe it's not fair to treat them like they're ur enemy for daring to like the plot specific character?

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All of this to say: if you aren't a BIPOC person with the genuine complaint that Owl House has become too Hunter-centric at the cost of it's characters of color....please stop using other ppl's experiences to justify your hatred. There's truth in there but that's not your argument to square in on just because you want amo to use against the blonde bisch getting in the way of the witch and lesbians you 'came here to see'. Just be real with how you came here to see that and be an actual ally and reblog the legit arguments to be made by BIPOC fans. That's the other half of the conversation, try not to talk over it-

k that's all.

[formenis]

hi!! i was wondering if i could get an L x gn!reader where L is working so much and hasn't been paying attention to s/o much and so one day, s/o is really tired from staying up all night because they were thinking about him and so they get upset (almost like a little kid lol) and start crying and they go to his office and sit in his lap while crying into him? this is so specific i'm sorry but i feel like L would adore his s/o behaving like a little child sometimes. thank you! have a good day <3

Hello there, Anon-san. I'm terribly sorry for the delay, I'm super busy right now. 😥

However, I always manage to find time to write. I hope you like it. Have a wonderful day you too 🧡

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TITLE: REASONING ABILITIES

pairing: L x gn!reader

TW: none

When the Kira case started, on 2003, the famous detective L and an -apparently- simple and “undistinguished” detective from a local police department were already a couple.

Nobody knew how they met, how they ended up together, how they kept their relationship strong. Watari was the only one aware of those details. So, in case he would die, L and Y/N’s secrets will die with him. For some people that could be unfair or sad but L -and Watari too- knew it was better that way.

To have a relationship with L could be very stressful sometimes. He was a talented and well-known detective, a truly genius of his job (but barely a hobby for him). Y/N knew the risks about that job: he was loved from many but, at the same time, hated by others. And Y/N was afraid of those “others”. However, Watari was doing an amazing job protecting his boy.

When not working, L spent all his free time with Y/N. Reading, writing poems for each other, discussing about old cases or -more in general- having deeper conversations. Going out with him was out of question most of the time and L always apologized about it.

«I offer my most sincere apologizes, Y/N» he said marking his British accent and intertwining his fingers with theirs. Despite the pale colour, his skin was warm and soft.

Y/N sadly smiled. «Don’t worry, Lawly. I understand» they replied squeezing gently his hand. After observing their face for a minute, his lineaments relaxed and smiled back.

Those were the things that made L fell for Y/N: their patience and understanding. Being the partner of the greatest detective in the world wasn’t easy and -sometimes- L himself wasn’t easy to put up with. So, he was immensely grateful to have Y/N by his side.

The Kira case just began. Watari found a nice hotel room at Tokyo. It was the third time Watari made L and Y/N change hotel for safety reasons. They didn’t mind it that much but it was being a while since they spent some time with L. Or even…saw him.

«But Watari-»

The old caretaker raised a hand to hush them. «Please Y/N, try to understand. This case is really important for him and he is eager to solve it»

«But I-» Y/N stopped mid-sentence, they sensed tears wetting their E/C eyes. «I miss him»

«I’m sure he misses you too, Y/N»

As a result, Y/N tried to distract themselves by visiting the city or going to shopping (they even found a new favourite dish, F/D). Y/N tried their best to fill the day with different activities.

However, nothing…nothing could replace L’s presence. Every chair, every bed, every couch would be emptier without him. They missed his touch, his voice, the sweet smell of his shirts, the softness of his black hair…his eyes on them. Everything.

They even started to wait for him in bed. Y/N thought that if they couldn’t see him at work…at least when he had to sleep. However, that moment never came.

On the other hand, there was L. This new serial killer, as known as “Kira”, caught his attention since the very beginning. He was a real danger for humanity and L had to do justice as soon as possible. If Kira found out Y/N’s identity…that will be the death of him. He couldn’t bear a world without Y/N…he didn’t want to come back at the life before them.

So, he started to focus more and more on the Kira case, analysing victim after victim, tape after tape. He barely left the armchair Watari brought him. L missed Y/N so much…the loneliness was heavier since he met them. But he also realized that he had to bring Kira to justice. L hoped Y/N would understand…one more time.

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.

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It was late night. A late and rainy night to be more precise. Y/N was observing it from the window of their room. Once again, the other half of their queen-sized bed was empty.

Y/N’s thought started to wander around old memories. Of all the time they spent together with L, the time at the Wammy’s House…even when they helped him in some particular investigation.

However, as time passed, Y/N started to cry. At first, it was a sad cry but then, after few minutes, they started to toss and turn in the bedsheets...upset and frustrated. In a short time, the bed was completely undone. They looked like a fussy child but they couldn’t care less.

After throwing a poor pillow on the floor, Y/N took a decision: if L wasn’t going to see them, they will do it. Still in their F/C PJs, Y/N stomped from their room to L’s one (that used as “office”). They didn’t care if other guests saw them with those clothes…Y/N was determined to achieve their goal.

With the passepartout that Watari gave them, Y/N entered L’s suite. Due to the tears that wet their eyes, Y/N couldn’t see a sleepy task-force in the room too. But even though they could see them, L’s partner didn’t care.

When they entered the luxurious suite, L didn’t flinch. He was so focused on the tapes in front of him that he didn’t hear them spread the door. Only Watari turned towards them.

Still with wet eyes, Y/N walked towards L, with legs pressed against his chest and an ice-cream in one hand, and put down his legs in order to sit on his lap. As they did so, L snapped back in the real world.

The greatest detective in the world felt a weight on his legs and something wet his white shirt. He looked down and noticed Y/N’s figure crying desperately on him.

«Y/A…»

Their sobs started to become louder and louder, all the stress and loneliness gathered during those weeks was pouring out in that moment.

L passed his unfinished ice cream to Watari and hugged Y/N as tenderly as he could and yet tightly. He hid the face in the sockets of Y/N’s neck, smelling the wonderful scent of their skin; feeling their breathe against his chest and, despite they were crying, Y/N’s voice too was…so relieving for him. L was reunited with his Y/N…finally.

«I apologise, Y/A…my sweet and little Y/A» the black-haired detective started to caress their hair trying to comfort them. L secretly loved when his partner acted like a small child…a smiled adorned his pale face.

As minutes passed, Y/N felt calm again; sure, the nose was stuffy now but who cared. «I missed you» Y/N said rubbing away the remaining tears.

«I missed you too»

In that position, sitting with his legs down, he didn’t mind if his reasoning abilities dropped 40%.

[aspoonfuloffiction]

Seeing a lot of this:

(And this is before the Netflix tie in covers will be available mass market in the States when I can only assume Avon Books and Julia Quinn will profit even more off of POC bodies)

So if you find yourself in a situation where you’re looking for romance novels that feel Bridgerton-esq with actual South Asian representation after watching Bridgerton don’t reach for The Viscount Who Loved Me, try these:

The Marriage Game Series-Sara Desai. Contemporary Romance. Centers around a family in San Francisco. Very Julia Quinn tropey rom com vibes. My favorite is The Dating Plan, wherein the heroine enters a fake relationship with her brother’s best friend—if this sounds familiar it’s because it is.

Betting on a Duke’s Heart-Royaline Sing. Historical Romance. Set in Victorian England and follows an Indian British heroine with an affinity for horses and her enemies to lovers romance with a hero with a past that makes him hate love…listen no one has ever accused the romance genre of being original. The book also weaves in the Mahabarat story of Nala and Damayanti which I thought was really cool.

The Rajes-Sonali Dev. Contemporary Romance. A modern retelling of Jane Austen’s works but with an Indian American family at the center. Book one is called Pride Prejudice and other Flavors (gender swapped Darcy and Elizabeth archetypes! subverts a lot of P&P tropes actually) My favorite though is Recipe for Persuasion…however I also think Persuasion is my favorite Austen novels she’s adapted so your results may vary.

Two States- Chetan Bhagat. Contemporary Romance. This book was actually published in India. The author is pretty well known amongst Indian audiences. But book was written in English originally so definitely followable by non Indian audiences. The story is semi autobiographical and followed a relationship between a South Indian woman (Tamilian! Like both Simone and Charithra) and a North Indian man and the cultural differences that brings. There’s also a movie adaptation.

Those Pricey Thakur Girls-Anuja Chauhan. I actually don’t super recommend this series, especially to western audiences in the way I would recommend the ones above but in a funny Bridgerton connection that makes me laugh and thusly worth mentioning-this series follows a family of sisters that are also named in alphabetical order. Though I think they read more like the Bennets than Bridgertons.

There are other HRs with South Asian characters but literally all of them are written by white people and I really wanted to highlight South Asian authors but they do exist if you want to read them just know that they’re probably not the best representation of Desi culture

[power-chords]

When did you and Eddie Vedder first meet?

I met him in 1993, I remember it very well. I was at the Berkeley Community Centre, doing my solo show Psychoderelict. And it was a good night, that night. There were some good nights and some bad nights on that tour. But that was a good night. And Eddie was in the audience. I recognised him standing up in his sort of German military jacket. And he stood up through the show, while a lot of people were sitting down, so he was very visible. I remember him looking a bit lost.

Anyway, after the gig, I had about 30 visitors, because San Francisco is a place where I spent a lot of time over the years. And my manager Bill Curbishley said, “Before you see your guests, I want you to meet this young guy, Eddie Vedder, who’s the singer in Pearl Jam.” And I said, “OK.”

So he walked in and sat down and we started to make small talk. And he said, “I fucking hate this. I just hate it. I don’t want to be famous. I don’t want to be in a band. I’m feeling like I just want to run away. I grew up on the beach in La Jolla surfing. And that’s really what I want to do for the rest of my life.” And he said, “I’ve heard that you’ve been through similar stuff” – because, 10 years before, I had left The Who.

I remember saying to him, “I’m afraid it’s too late.” And he said, “What do you mean?” And I said, “This isn’t like politics, you know, you don’t put yourself up for election, get your seat, fuck up the country and then retire. What you actually do is get railroaded. You just get grabbed and put on the stage, and told to keep doing what you’re doing until you’re allowed to stop. And you have absolutely no choice. You’ve been elected without standing. And you just might as well enjoy it, because it’s not going to go away.”

Anyway. We both sometimes speak about that conversation. And I think it did help him because I think it’s true. I think that’s what happens.

But with Eddie, I think the thing we have never talked about is his loyalty and his commitment to his band. Because he also wants to express himself as a solo artist and as a collaborator. And he’s a writer, he’s one of the key writers for Pearl Jam. So it must be overwhelming, but he stuck to it. He seems vigorous to this day. You know, he’s well past the kind of 34-year-old fuckwit that I became, when I was done dangling big record deals with The Who and playing stadiums and trying to do solo albums all at the same time. He seems to be managing really well [...]

Eddie loves The Who, but he also gets The Who. You can hear it in his Who cover versions or when he joins you on-stage. For instance, he does a version of Blue, Red And Grey [from The Who By Numbers] on the ukulele that really helped me rediscover the song. It must be gratifying to have someone really understand what it is you’ve been trying to do...

You’re absolutely right, but there’s another angle on that. When you have fans who are working musicians, and if there’s at least a 10 to 15 year gap, the relationship becomes respectful, and even exalting. I’ve been through it myself on occasions, when I’ve finally got to meet people like Little Richard or The Everly Brothers or Brian Wilson. But the punk movement in the UK changed things. It created a particularly British mechanism (chuckles), which is: ‘We love you, but you’re a complete and utter cunt! And we think everything that you did up until the point that we were born was really really great. But since we’ve been born, you’ve just turned into a big pile of rubbish.’ And this is you know, Britpop, it’s The Jam and it’s Oasis...

The difference with Pearl Jam and I think also with Nirvana – who were also Who fans – is that they were able to kind of roll with it, I suppose, and live with it. You see it in a huge way in country & western music, in particular in America, and maybe in folk music, where the older artists are not just respected and lauded but also allowed to continue, not to just roll over and die. A lot of my midlife shit was about the idea that I too felt that I should roll over and die. And I think that is very much a British thing. That you mustn’t outstay your welcome. And you must also embrace new ideas. They call it neotericism. It’s when you value the new more than the old, whether or not the new or the old is better. With Eddie, there’s no question. He doesn’t feel he has to be embarrassed for being a Who fan.

[hnnyoongs]

akai shuichi headcanons

shuichi wears a beanie all the time because he's self conscious about hir hairline .... and I mean who can blame him? id be too

shuichi saw gin when he was visiting Japan in the 10 years ago flashback and was like ooh long hair is cool AND it'll piss ka-san off flash forward 5 years later when shuichi infiltrates the BO and is like fUck cool long hair dude is a psycho

shuichi cut his hair off when he heard akemi was killed by gin he kinda went into the whole mental breakdown mode and was like fuck this shit because he started growing his hair out cuz of gin and also akemi really liked his long hair

shuichi used to be a band kid when he lived in England and wanted to pursue a career in music (much to the chagrin of Mary) but after tsutomu disappeared he was like fuck that and stopped playing until he entered the BO

shuichi has a really bad memory about things that dont have to do anything with his job kinda like BBC's Sherlock but not as bad

shuichi used to find dead bodies when he was a kid just like shinichi but it wasn't as often maybe like a dead body once a year or something

shuichi named himself dai because that's what Mary actually wanted to name him when she was giving birth she was screaming die die die and tsutomu wasn't there yet so she was like aight die sounds like the japanese name dai the only reason shuichi wasn't named that was that tsutomu burst in and was like FUCK NO

shuichi was picked on when training for the FBI since compared to 6 foot jock white men shuichi was a 5 foot 7 asian with long hair and dressed like a teenage girl who frequented Starbucks in the toxic environment of the FBI for anyone who doesnt fit the mold shuichi had it cut out for him

shuichi showed signs of multiple mental illnesses but they were all difficult to pin down so he was never diagnosed with anything since he refused to talk at the FBI mandated therapy sessions

shuichi's type is someone who is kind but could wield a gun

he used to dislike kids but being around them as okiya has made SOME kids special in his heart

before tsutomu's disspeareance he taught shuichi how to hunt with a shotgun

shuichi lived off of sports drinks and bars whenever he was single since he couldn't rely on take out due to it being unhealthy which wouldn't help his FBI styled life

shuichi taught akemi simple self defense techniques but refuses to teach her how to shoot a gun saying he didn't want her hands to get dirty

shuichi and shukichi blackmail each other for favors by using the "ill tell ka-san you did that one thing that you blamed dad for when we were kids if u dont help me out"

scotch once told him that bourbon's type was a white milf (in reference to Elena who was white and was a mother) so shuichi was scared as fuck when rei met Mary's adult self for the first time

shuichi hates being compared to his mother but the truth is they're the most similar and they both started mimicking tsutomu after his disappearance

the only thing shuichi knew how to cook before meeting yukiko was plain white rice as that was the only thing tsutomu was able to teach him

shuichi mimics an American accent while talking in America or talking in English unless he's talking to his family or he's mentally shook up and his British accent slips out

he thinks in British accented English as well (idc if the animanga shows him thinking in japanese it makes no sense that western raised people like Jodie and camel think in japanese) but he does use some japanese like ka-san and when he's trying to get deep into his okiya persona

he tries very hard to keep the polite speech patterns of okiya Subaru since as akai shuichi he's very .. rude

shuichi's sniper skills were so good the fbi was willing to overlook his disrespect of authority and his tendency to do everything by himself without consulting everyone

shuichi slips into a British accent around James if he's feeling really comfortable

he felt bad about using shiho since she was only a year older than masumi and she hadn't done anything wrong so he vowed to get her and akemi out of the BO

he had a plan to get akemi and shiho out by convincing the higher ups to grant them immunity if they testified but akemi's death derailed the entire thing

he hates to admit it but his family is the most important thing to him he may not contact them that often but he's going to such lengths to bring his father back because he cares for his family so much

shuichi didnt really know what he wanted to do with his life once he took down his father's pursuers but after akemi and scotch he decided that if he solved his father's disappearance first he'd hunt down the BO next tho once learning that Haneda Koji’s death had something to do with the BO he's back at the thing where he doesn't know what to do with his life without revenge

he promised shukichi that he'd be the one to solve shukichi's death if what happened to Haneda kohji also happens to shukichi

he isn't a fan of dates in amusement parks but if it makes his partner happy and smile he'll have fun

dating Jodie was a quiet thing most likely from an attachment maybe due to a bad case or a loss of a mutual friend depending on the agency they might have been legally allowed to date each other but it is usually looked down upon I dont think they went out together often probably spending time together at home ... doing stuff

he identifies as bisexual it was normal to him in childhood since both Mary and tsutomu talked about their past relationships to their children he never told anyone due to the fact it would affect his FBI status since it was illegal in America shukichi and Mary know he's bi but shuichi has no idea Mary knows

akemi and shuichi would take strolls in parks go shopping and go to cafes

he's very self conscious about his height and whenever he goes to Japan it makes him feel good about himself since he's relatively tall there

Mary was the one who drilled japanese into his head not tsutomu

the last time shuichi talked to Mary was when he called her up to tell her to take masumi and leave Japan for Britain after masumi cornered him and scotch him and Mary had a whole argument and after that they stopped talking to each other, not that they talked to each other much in the first place

shuichi learned jee kun do by watching training videos from vhs tapes/cds/YouTube depending on when you consider detco taking place I personally believe conan shrinks in 2018 meaning that tsutomu disappeared in 2001 and shuichi used a mixture of tapes and cds to learn

shuichi can read people really well but has a hard time manipulating people by being nice he can use people by being a jackass very well but trying to be a normal person is hard for him

Yukiko and yusaku remind shuichi of his parents before tsutomu disappeared but like more upbeat

shuichi dislikes full body hugs

akemi and shiho were both anime and romance drama fans so he knows random things about the shows and uses that info to connect with the DB and especially haibara

he considered himself British first and foremost but when asked about whether he considers himself white or asian he'll always go with asian

he started smoking soon after his father disappeared since his father used to smoke and he needed to cope but didn't wanna fall into drugs like cocaine

smoking is heavily looked down upon in America and is seen as unprofessional which helped shuichi go undercover a bunch due to him being a heavy smoker

akemi would make him stop smoking around her and shiho saying that second hand smoking was dangerous and that shuichi who was smoking constantly was going to get lung cancer but he would tell her that he just couldn't stop smoking he did stop smoking around shiho and akemi tho going outside to do it instead

as okiya it makes him go wild because he desperately needs to smoke to cope but okiya cant smoke it doesnt fit his image so he smokes a shit ton at night during his nightly drives

shuichi forced himself not to smoke during his time visiting Japan when he met masumi because he knew Mary would get even more upset with him

shuichi was terrible driving American styled cars and he got so upset that he perfected his drive-in techiuque over the years just to spite the instructor that said he was barely passing

he likes to go on late night drives and speed on the high way because he's a thrill seeking idiot

he has no social media but he created on as okiya Subaru to keep an eye on haibara's higo stan account

he takes offense to the idea that he's stalking haibara he's just p r o t e c t i n g her

he wants shiho to be happy more than anything so he's an avid coai shipper and is exhausted in Conan's obliviousness

shuichi didnt tell shukichi he wasn't actually dead shukichi just walked up to okiya Subaru one day and was like shuuichi-ni-san right? shuichi has long stopped questioning shukichi's weird ways of knowing shit he shouldn't know

shuichi is a sherlockian but he's not like shinichi or hakuba in that he does not hate BBC's Sherlock and actually enjoys it a bit

one upside to shuichi living in America is that he gets to hoard guns because he's obsessed with them he thinks they're really cool it's like conan with Sherlock he starts yapping his mouth of about them

bourbon once dangled a gun on in front of a sleeping shuichi cuz he didnt believe scotch when he said that rye was obsessed with guns and started saying incorrect shit about the type of gun he was holding and shuichi just shot up and started berating him

shuichi hates that chianti is a killer because she's the only person who's as much as a gun fanatic as he is

he tends to steal Jodie's car a lot

he likes fucking with peoples heads it's very fun to him to watch them get all worked up

shuichi hasn't mourned his father yet because he doesnt believe his father’s dead

deep down he blames his father for his mother going slightly bonkers

he didnt want masumi to be a detective at first but now hes proud of her

he drinks a lot as okiya Subaru since he cant smoke as much

he's willing to go to hell if it means he can rip gin from limp to limp

he really hates gin yall I dont think I can convey how much he hates gin

[antiloreolympus]

10 Anti LO Asks

1. Are death gods like a class lower than Olympian gods? Minthe says that Hades can buy all the suits in the world and still stink of death and Apollo refers to Thanatos as Poor Man’s Heremes and also reeks of death. Do they smell bad, or do people just hate them for existing? You’d think they’d be a little more fear controlling death/underworld

2. for the person saying "come on, persephone being a self insert isn't bad" completely misses the point.  As a young writer I used to have self inserts until I realized that my favoritism overshadowed the narrative and didn't allow for my characters to experience consequences or be in the wrong.  This is how creator's pets get made, and no one likes those because they ruin the story and take away attention from other (more interesting) characters!  (1/2) 

We are clearly seeing this in LO.  Persephone is essentially a perfect little goddess who keeps getting powers, is probably going to be revealed as one of the strongest goddesses, and her issues (sans the two giant ones we know what it is) almost never personally affect her.  No one gets angry at her in a meaningful way unless the narrative wants us to demonize them, and when they suddenly "see the light" and go to her side, they're rewarded!  THAT'S why persephone as a S.I is bad

3. Ok. I think Daphene and Thanatos are the best ship. I would read this story...also,Thanatos is the grim reaper...how metal would be if he take down LO Apollo and LO Hades? Yes, I'm aware this would be impossible in the.original myths but HEY why not? RS is not caring for the source material

4. RS’s writing is such a mess of contradictions between actuality and intent it’s hilarious: 1) Hades is supposed to be seen as a good guy yet is portrayed as a tyrant who somehow still manages to be a Gary Stu. 2) Persephone is simultaneously overpowered (fertility goddess powers) and powerless (is just a college kid) to the point where she’s viewed as a spoiled rich brat living consequence-free and destitute young woman left with no options but to marry to get out of trouble 

3) Artemis is supposed to represent a separatist feminist yet is depicted as foolish, British and out of the loop for humorous effect by the poss poor excuse of a comic which calls itself ‘a feminist feeling’. 4) The lack of time skips coupled with RS’s need to give HxP as many ‘cute’ moments as possible makes the comic’s progress feel slow for the reader when it’s actually progressing at breakneck speed if you go by the character’s timeframe. 

5) Wants to treat SA with nuance and sensitivity (RS almost manages to do it at first) but then uses Persephone’s rape as trauma porn, a means for pushing her closer to Hades while reminding the reader of his differences from Apollo and a means of furthering the side plots (Artemis’s descent into depressed confusion, Eros and Psyche’s romance, Hera’s quest to get the mains together).

5. i genuinely do not want to see whatever reason rachel thinks up to have zeus and demeter not like each other because it's either going to be a "shock" incest twist (unlikely) or it's going to be something akin to how she made apollo to persephone and maybe zeus stole her "fertility" and thats why she couldnt have persephone naturally and why demeter isnt a fertility goddess but persephone is. like no writing choice is good in this so i guess brace for the worst from her in this regard.

6. i honestly get sad looking at old LO art because not only is all the charm gone, but the colors also got way worse. hades used to be this subdued, rich dark blue with icy blue hair while persephone was a nice shade of pastel pink with magenta hair, but now theyre all one shade of neon. there used to be choices put into the art but now its just lazy. like hades looks like a blue highlighter, and persephone like her personality is only one nauseatingly bright shade and thats it 😞

7. i feel like if at least the writing in LO was good the art would excusable, you know what i mean? and the same can be said in reverse, but both are just so bad (or was never good to begin with) that it just seems inexcusable? like at least put effort into one, not half assing at best for both.

8. i mean for all we know bc thats how how psyche normally looks the braids are just a nymph disguise that basically pops away once shes human looking again. regardless the whole thing is nasty once you think about it and idk what we expected from a white woman to begin with. she thinks persephone revolving her whole world and being dependent on hades is feminist and making a canon bi god a r//pist is groundbreaking too like ....

9. lets add to the psyche is black-coded discourse: anyone want to mention how nasty it is she was literally sold off to a WHITE MAN for eros to save her from (ignoring the fact he proceeded to lie to her while having a sexual relationship), made her loving parents into abusive assholes, and psyche just happens to be the only character who is illiterate despite being a princess? the whole thing reeks of internalized racism on rachel's part, and her now giving her braids kinda makes it worse, tbh. 

-----FP Spoilers-----

10. Is it me? Or in the fast past episode were they showed one of the muses Polymnia (or Polyhymnia)  they mixed her with Clio??? Because Zeus calls her "the goddess/muse of history" but Polymnia is acutally the muse of hymns, CLIO is the muse of history, how did they get that wrong? Her name literally means "a lot of hymns"! And why is there a muse in this??? Even she says that she shouldn't be there because she doesn't work in anything similar to law, did Zeus really asked her to make a POEM in a TRAIAL??? For what exactly? Make Persephone look bad?

[bugsy-maria]

Look At The Fireworks (Sherlock x GN! Reader)

Anon Request: aaa first time requesting so here we go! can i request fluff with sherlock x gn!reader who is afraid of fireworks/loud noises? 4th of July is really fuckin me up rn

if not totally cool n I hope you have a lovely day/night :)

A/N: Ok, so the fear part might not be accurate because I love fireworks, but I tried by incorporating some things that one might do when scared by something sudden. so hopefully I did good!!!

I wake up in the hotel room that Sherlock and I had been staying in for the past three days. Let me catch you up. Mycroft got a job to do in the States, but he couldn't because, as he put it, "London is on my shoulders Sherlock, I don't have time to play games as you do." so he booked us a hotel and sent us off. John would have come but he couldn't find a sitter in time, which was code for, "I'm not leaving my child behind." so it's just been Sherlock and me.

Today is July 4th. a controversial holiday for some, but for most, it seemed that it was a day to grill and watch fireworks with the rest of the neighborhood. that's what I had been dreading this whole time. I hate fireworks, absolutely loath them. I hate any loud and sudden sound. thunder makes me shiver and jump straight out of my skin; a gunshot makes me scream and curl into myself, hiding my face while tears slowly make their way down my face; fireworks make me curl into a ball under a table and cry myself to sleep. these reactions are completely normal for me. it always has been, ever since I was a kid. but I never did tell Sherlock this, he wouldn't understand. he never really understand why people were scared of such inconvenient things.

I look over to the bed next to mine, it is Sherlock's bed, but it was empty. he had probably gotten a head start this morning and didn't even bother waking me up. I get everything that I needed to get done, done. I brush my teeth, wash my hair, straighten up the room and continue to research the San Pedro area. we were looking for a missing British citizen and a Welsh killer. mixed but it was our responsibility. so far we found the missing person, well not found as they don't know about us. you see we never actually met them, Sherlock decided that we'd use them as bait.

I jumped at the sound of the hotel door swinging open. and the sliding sound of the door closing slightly, not because of the person that was anything but silent, but because the door shuts like that automatically.

"Sherlock we are in a Hotel, please be quieter there might be someone sleeping," I spoke into the computer. my eyes not leaving the screen to see the person that just entered. he huffed in response and took the computer from under my fingertips. "That's fine, I wasn't using it anyway." I leaned back and watched him as he furiously typed away. "Did you find something?"

"The 'missing' person is going to the beach today, the only problem is that I don't know which one. so I'm seeing the close-by beaches in the area while also taking into consideration the fireworks tonight. the best view would be from White Point Beach as it is right around the corner from them. but the fireworks are going off at Cabrillo Beach, it's not too far of travel but it'll be packed because of the fireworks, meaning that there will be traffic and-"

"Okay, Sherlock I get it. so we are going to White Point?" I sat up, my elbows now resting on my knees.

"Yes." he closed the computer and stood up, probably to get changed into something not as heavy. I let out a sigh through my nose. I should be fine, the fireworks cant possibly make so much noise from 5.5 km away, right? I got up and changed out of my pajamas, which consist of an oversized shirt and shorts. I change into a pair of pants, a white sweater that is tucked into my pants, as well as a pair of white Reebok shoes. Sherlock stood at his bed, he had on his signature purple button-up and a pair of black slacks.

You might think that Sherlock is more dressed for the weather than I am, but it's going to get to 18 C and I get cold easily. Sherlock, on the other hand, is warm as all hell at all times.

"C'mon, let's get going. it's about a 2-hour drive."

"But it's only about 30km."

"Like I said, about 2 hours." and with that, we were off. the traffic was hell and I can never forget it. we made it to the beach and stayed along a cement wall behind the 'missing' person, we watched for any sort of suspicious activity from anyone around. we sat there for about an hour before the loud boom can and caused me to flinch. I saw Sherlock look at me in the corner of my eye, and from the look on his face, I knew what he was doing.

"Stop deducting me." I continued to scope out the beach. another boom. then another. and another. and with every sound, I jumped out of my skin, but after I jumped I acted like everything was normal but my eyes were filling with tears. then a mother boom, but this one was different as it was much louder almost as if it was right next to me. so I screamed and hid my face in my fists while curling into myself. tears now falling from my eyes and down my cheeks. then another boom in the distance came, causing me to flinch again.

at this point I was too scared to act like everything was normal, I didn't even care that Sherlock was looking at me. tears kept falling down my cheeks at a speed normal for this type of situation. I felt an arm wrap around me and pull me into a warm surface. my fists dropped from my face a bit, just enough to see what happened. my head was pressed up against Sherlock's chest. his heartbeat filling my right ear. his left-hand pets my hair in a calming motion. another boom causes my fists to remain in their original position.

"Sorry, I'm not that good at this." I hear him say from above me. "I've never been good at comforting people." I remained silent. not because I agreed with him but because I physically couldn't speak. his hand moves from my hair to my exposed ear, covering it as another firework is set off. I focus on the beating in his chest while tears fall down my fire-red face. the steady rhythm calms me down.

I feel his hand slip from my ear and his pull away from me slowly. "Come on, let's go. they left." I look up t him, my hands no longer covering my face. both of his hands quickly clasp over my ears and his lips kiss my forehead. my eyes flutter shut as I soak in the feeling of his affection surrounding me. it's not often that this happens.

"We should leave now before it gets too late."

[nobodiesheartlessshitblog45]

My headcanons For Gojo Satoru

This Dingus right here is a huge movie fan. Loves pretty much anything, the old classics black and white movies, foreign films, main stream movies and so bad that it’s good movies. He loves TV shows, he’s big Supernatural fanboy. Loves Dean  Winchester and strong shipper of Deancel, Walking Dead fan all the way. Both the comics, Tv show and games. (He only played the first season and balled his eyes out for a weeks, and refuses to play rest of the games) Dose have a soft spot of horror movies, Like The Screams, Halloween, The Saw  franchise, classic monster movies of course. Gotta respect the classics.

His favorite movies of all time are  Beetlejuice (Satoru’s roll model) Corpse Bride, Frankenweenie, Edward scissors hand The Princess Bride , all the old George Romero zombie movies, again classic monster movies, The Lord Of The Rings and Hobbit  franchise. He’s a big Bruce Campbell fan, and loves, loves all the Evil Dead movies and show. Loves Deadpool and has a huge man crush Ran Reynolds. Loves all Marvel Movies. Big Spider Man fanboy.

His favorite Disney movies are Princess and the frog, disney’s Atlantis, Tangrled, 101 Dalmatians, Emperors new groove, Hercules, Toy Story, but he can’t watch the 3rd because he will cry for ours.

He wasn’t a sorcerer, he would have loved to be an actor or  film Director.

Dose play videos games, Pretty much played all the telltale games, Loves Red Dead redemption games The second one is his favorite, and loves Arthur Morgan. He’s only played Season 1 of the Walking Dead and still not over Lee’s death. Loves Stardew Valley, Pokemon and Animal Crossing.

Our boy loves his sweets, but hates eating his veggies. Trying to get this grown ass man to eat veggies is like a small fish trying fight a great white shark. It’s fight everyone is going to lose.

His favorite Tv shows’s are the Walking Dead, Game of Throwns, The Office both American and British, Big Big Doctor Who fan, loves the 10th Doctor (David Tennen is his boy) Watched Pokémon Anime that has come out the years, knows the lore like that back of his hand.

This man loves to crossdress, love to wear fancy ballgown dress, sundress and  skirts. He can walk around in high heels with easy. He owns a lot high heels shoes.

Drinks a lot of coffee, 5-8 cups a day. Cannot stand the bitterness plane coffee. He adds 12 spoonful of sugar and milk to each cup. Hell is coffee isn’t really coffee pure sugar and milk or as Nanami dubs a cup of diabetes and tooth decay.

This man has the maturity of a 6 year old. He still think fart jokes are hilarious, it you say the word ‘booger’ this man child will start laughing uncontrollably, and he makes a lot dick jokes whenever he can and innuendos. He will even go into random empty classrooms and draw a lot of stupid doodles of random shit, like you would see in kids notebook if they were bored in class, and he draws lot of that penises. For some reason he draw dicks all over the chock bored. He’s been doing this since meddle and high school, he still thinks it funny. No body else dose. ... possibly Yuji.

He will out no where will start singing show toons. He just dose. Weather he’s in a meeting, doing a mission, teaching a class or singing in the shower, he will hum or sing out right of no where. Disney songs he knows by heart, themes of anime he’s into or watching. It helps him to relax... Or annoyed the shit of the others. 

He dose not care spots but he dose enjoy baseball.

Gojo Satour’s ideal s/o

This man is a huge tease and jokester. He need someone who can match or almost his Energy.  Humor is a very important thing to him, help deal with some shit that he had to go through. Someone with a good sence of humor is one attraction to him.

He’s a patien guy, and understands that it some people take getting out their shells, and he’s very excepting, but as long as you don’t try to kill or hurt is students things should be fine.

He is very overprotective lover. His s/o could very powerful sorcerer, capable of handling themselves in battle with curses or evil sorcerers, still doesn’t change that this man will worry and will step in if things will get hairy for liking. But al the same time of s/o a very strong sorcerer and knows how to care of themselves in n a battle it dose put Satoru’a mind at ease in away, still hate the idea of being away from his lover is something to them or they get hurt. If his s/o got badly injured or his s/o was about the brink of dying. HELL. HAVE. NO. FURY. TO. THIS. MAN’S. ANGER. He kill without think twice. No mercy, no secret changes, just death. He’ll rushed over to help his S/o and take them to Dr. Shoko, and will not leave until they are taken care and healed.

He’s his overprotective of his s/o and students so don’t fuck with any of them and no has to die. This man kill with thinking twice about it.

This man is loaded. As cash, and would give Yuji, Megumi and Nobara some money to enjoy themselves with. But this man dose love to spoil his s/o when he could. Somethings he will go overboard and his s/o tells him but it’s not necessarily to spend all this money on them. Which makes him love them even more because they not love him for his money. However Gojo being, well, Gojo will randomly get bouquets of flowers for his lovely s/o I will bring it to them randomly. It doesn’t matter if they’re teaching a class or and a very important meeting with Yaga-San, he’ll ust pop out of nowhere with a big goofy grin on his face and give his s/o the flowers kiss them and disappears, there is an awkward and annoying silence from from the students or the principal. And his s/o mildly embarrassed, but flattered shall go on as if nothing happened. And it becomes has become a running joke around in the school.

Hugs, Kissses and Cuddles are a must.  Again Satour doesn’t give a shit there is a meeting or A class being taught when this man wants affection, he’s going to get affection. He’ll come from behind and rest his head on his s/o’s chin on his s/o’s head. (Because the guy’s freakishly tall) And will just annoyin the shit out of then until he gets what he wants. Then he will leave them alone, maybe not. He’s Hot mess of chaotic energy after all. Plus he thinks it’s adorable When they get a little annoyed with him.

Being Married To Gojo Satoru or just have a  domestic life with him

This man never really saw himself getting married. It’s something that he was rather against for a while, until he meets his s/o. Nothings really changed in their relationship after they got married, did a few years and they just try to not have nowhere Most of everyone at the school cannot believe that someone would actually marry this maniac. Either his s/o is as as patient as a saint, just as bad shit crazy as Gojo Satour himself.

He dose everything in his power too make this work, and so dose his s/o. The two of them being power for sorcerers is basically a couple goal, The ultimate couple. At least Satour says. That being said working as a Jujutsu Sorcerer is both a mental, emotional and sometimes a physical strain on people. When things get too much for S/O, this man will stop what he’s doing, and will will be there his s/o, and his will be there for him when he the most. Having someone being there each is the most important thing in a relationships.

His clan was very against their relationship from the beginning. But Satour did not care, he loves who he loves so his clan/family can suck it.

His favorite nicknames for s/o are Sweetness, cutiepie, pumpkin, sugar, sweetheart, honeybuns and to get cringy Pookie. So weird one’s like Mochi cheeks, and beautiful or handsome. 

His favorite nickname that his s/o calls sweetie, honey, goofball, goober and  whackadoodle, knucklehead and dingus

When s/o are going away for a mission for a few a few days or few month, or Vice versa they would text, FaceTime pretty everyday. They talk about they day, and talk about the missions that had. Satour would have his students in the background who would say hello, and he and Yuji would make stupid jokes, and Nobara would laugh a bit and Megumi would roll his eyes in the background. And when his s/o get back from a mission this man is a very clingy little shit, he will hug the hell out his s/o when they get back. And would pout and whin if you have to a meeting or don’t have to see him. He’s a big a baby like that.

Over all this man is just big goofball, sure he’s annoying as fuck sometimes, but he dose cares about other’s. He’s a hot chaotic mess of a man, by God we love him for it.