#i think they're like 17 and 7 here btw not that it matters

[toughbunnyforever]

child menace vs. well of patience

de-age quirk scenarios are always so funny bc little kacchan's such a brat lol

[kris-mage-fics]

(Oooh we love an equal opportunity shipper and I didn’t know about the rest!) Shery Tallys Chase and Red x Kyrah and 6,7,14,26 and 29 for whatever pairing you want to answer for whatever question 👀

This gets long and there are some alpha build spoilers for #29 so I put at the end. Also, here are some answers about Kyrahlise's relationships with Blade, and with Tallys. (Romance Asks, which btw, if you want to ask any feel free to do so even though I reblogged ages ago. I promise it won't take me five months to answer, lol!)

6. Who is the big spoon? Big spoon: Tallys Little spoon: Shery They switch: Chase and Red, though I think they're both the big spoon more often than Kyrah

7. Favorite date activity? Shery: snuggling under a blanket and reading together, going to cozy tea rooms and cafes, taking crafty classes together

Red: picnics, star-gazing, trips to museums, infodumping to each other

14. Is there anything they associate with each other? Shery → Kyrahlise: room cat, bright smiles, drawings, fresh baked bread, letters and notes with little doodles, paint stained hands Kyrahlise → Shery: sweets (especially cake), morning, roses, racy novels, afternoon tea, floral scents

Chase → Kyrahlise: books, her perfume, rose gold and amethyst, the sound of a pencil on paper, painted flowers, linen sheets, sunshine (that’s his own damn fault tbh) Kyrahlise → Chase: her sun medallion, pretty daggers, open windows, fancy scarves, rings, midnight

(Red don't get one because he associates too. many. things. with his ex-girlfriend, and I haven't spent enough time with Tallys to know what she'd associate with Kyrahlise. Though I can say that Kyrah has a pattern of associating certain times of day with people, like Red is sunset, and Tallys is early morning.)

26. How important is the romance in your OC’s overall story?

No matter who Kyrahlise is with, the romance is important to her overall story. It helps her realize people do actually care about her as a person. Which is something she’s struggled to fully believe since her 13th birthday. She’d actually made a lot of progress on that during her time at the Circle. But the 9/10 years since she left set her back quite a bit.

Also Kyrahlise starts to unpack the idea that she’s a walking time bomb. She told the Shepherds the truth about her past in Chapter 3, and none of them treated her like a threat. Then someone falls in love with her knowing her role in Vale’s disappearance, and the god-like power she wields? There are only two conclusions she can draw. One: they are all suicidal idiots to not be scared of her. Two: She isn’t the existential danger she’s believed herself to be for 16/17 years. Since the first can’t reasonably be applied to everyone in the Shepherds, she has to start to let go of this belief. The fact that someone loves her is the final crack in the foundation of this idea, allowing her to clear away the pieces. 

Something I’ve mentioned before, though I don’t recall where, is that Kyrahlise is very determined to stay alive because she needs to keep the memories of Vale. This butts up against her bad habit of underestimating how much danger she is in, thus making her appear reckless. She also has a rather self-sacrificing nature. As you can imagine, this creates a strange cocktail of things going on in her head. Since joining the Shepherds, her terrible risk assessment, as well as her borderline reckless heroism, has really come to the fore. And she can justify these things as “doing her job”.

Once fully in a romance, she starts to be a little more careful. The thought of upsetting the person she loves by getting hurt when it could’ve been prevented is enough to give her pause. Though I do think this happens fastest if she’s with Blade, because he’s so protective of her (and would be the main thing they fight about). It would happen second fastest with Shery and Red since they are both worriers, and she feels guilty adding to that worry. But it does happen no matter who she’s with, just the speed and details change.

Not that Kyrah, or anyone, needs romance to learn these things. She’s just dense when it comes to what she means to people, platonically or romantically. She doesn’t put more value in romantic relationships, but she’s never been in love before (sorry Circle era Red, lol). The newness of this type of love makes it all the more raw and forces her to examine these beliefs faster.

29. What are your favorite moments that happen between them? (Spoilers for the alpha build below, so if you haven't played beyond the public demo feel free to skip this.)

Shery: In Chapter 8 during the first trial when you talk to everyone, you can heal Shery’s ankle, and the romance version of that scene had me kicking my feet and twirling my hair! The sweet longing looks, the touch of gentle sexual tension! Sometimes I just go back and reread that scene because I love it so much!

Tallys: I love how in Chapter 8 MC can comfort her! She’s so calm and in control of herself most of the time, that it’s really nice to be able to be there for her when she needs it. I like seeing a different side of her. Also, it amuses me that it turns into a make-out session, but that’s very Tallys!

Chase: Okay, the bed sharing scene in Chapter 7 where you can push the beds together with Chase absolutely destroys me! I honestly cried the first time I read it! He’s so sweet and tender, and clearly already head over heels for MC. But MC feels like they can’t trust that side of him. 

Red: Gods, it’s hard to pick! Is it his second day off with the awkward encounter at lunch? Or in Chapter 5 when he doesn’t want MC to know he got propositioned? Or that conversation in Chapter 7 where he’s trying to suss out if MC is into him, and then the kids interrupt?

[glitternightingale]

Weird Questions for Writers (because writers are weird)

Taken from this list

As I said, this is just me comprising the asks so that I remember which ones I've already answered!

Now, onto the mess that is my writing routine:

1. What font do you write in? Do you actually care or is that just the default setting?

2. If you had to give up your keyboard and write your stories exclusively by hand, could you do it? If you already write everything by hand, a) are you a wizard and b) pen or pencil?

3. What is your writing ritual and why is it cursed?

My writing ritual is to obsess over an idea for weeks, thinking I haven't thought it out well enough, and when I do want to write the fic/next chapter I avoid it for the majority of the day. It gets late and I get tired but feel like I haven't been productive. That's when the first word garble appears!

4. What’s a word that makes you go absolutely feral?

"Apprehensive"

5. Do you have any writing superstitions? What are they and why are they 100% true?

Hmm, my superstition is (not only when it comes to writing but just about anything I create) that when I'm proud of something I've made it's probably mediocre for everyone else. Surprisingly, my "best" is usually my "Meh...", so I try to avoid feeling overly confident! (But it also helps to sketch everyone's favorite prophet before I start a new project--)

6. What is your darkest fear about writing?

7. What is your deepest joy about writing?

8. If you had to write an entire story without either action or dialogue, which would you choose and how would it go?

I would choose to write a story without dialogue. Because, and here it becomes sneaky, I could say just as much through interior monologue or describing the characters' facial expressions and body language. (Or even write 10k of exposition)

9. Do you believe in ghosts? This isn’t about writing I just wanna know

No, I do not. My opinion changes, however, when it gets dark and something's lurking behind the door, ready to fry me with lasers.

10. Has a piece of writing ever “haunted” you? Has your own writing haunted you? What does that mean to you?

WIPs haunt me. They're like incomplete circles and I can't start something new without them being finished. (That's why I don't like writing multi-chapter fics. The needed commitment is just super big.)

11. Do you believe in the old advice to “kill your darlings?” Are you a ruthless darling assassin? What happens to the darlings you murder? Do you have a darling graveyard? Do you grieve?

12. If a genie offered you three writing wishes, what would they be? Btw if you wish for more wishes the genie turns all your current WIPs into Lorem Ipsum, I don’t make the rules

Wish 1: AO3 doesn't destroy my format when I import text from Google Docs.

Wish 2: Writing comments on other people's works comes more easily to me.

Wish 3: Just... everything I write is enjoyable(?)

13. What is a subject matter that is incredibly difficult for you to write about? What is easy?

14. Do you lend your books to people? Are people scared to borrow books from you? Do you know exactly where all your “lost” books are and which specific friend from school you haven’t seen in twelve years still possesses them? Will you ever get them back?

15. Do you write in the margins of your books? Dog-ear your pages? Read in the bath? Why or why not? Do you judge people who do these things? Can we still be friends?

*cringes at the thought* Nope, I like my books clean and basically unused (so that I can make some profit if I decide to sell them later). It's a different topic if the text is digital, though. The pens that come with most tablets hafta be used!

16. What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever used as a bookmark?

I've made this Harry Potter wand out of wood, hot glue, and sparkly stones once. It served its purpose to weigh down the book pages but then it slid off and broke. Oh, well.

17. Talk to me about the minutiae of your current WIP. Tell me about the lore, the history, the detail, the things that won’t make it in the text.

18. Choose a passage from your writing. Tell me about the backstory of this moment. How you came up with it, how it changed from start to end. Spicy addition: Questioner provides the passage.

"Ah-ha! Here it is!" he exclaimed, holding the mysterious object aloft between his bony fingers. 

The young girl squinted at the colorfully-striped cone, only realizing it was a party hat when Tío Bruno managed to attach it to the donkey's forehead. 

She squealed in amazement as she saw the picture-perfect mythical animal blinking at her in all its radiant glory. However, this did not erase all the dreadful thoughts she had."

Right, so, I do watch Encanto quite often and there are always new things to discover. Then, while I was standing in front of the mirror, trying to make my eyebrows look symmetrical, I connected the party hats Osvaldo gave to Mirabel (in the "Not-Special Special" Basket) with the scene where Luisa's jumping over pink clouds with her unicorn donkeys. Party hats look like cones and cones look like unicorn horns-- Dumb, I know. But know who else would have these dumb ideas? Bruno.

19. Tell me a story about your writing journey. When did you start? Why did you start? Were there bumps along the way? Where are you now and where are you going?

20. If a witch offered you the choice between eternal happiness with your one true love and the ability to finally finish, perfect, and publish your dearest, darlingest, most precious WIP in exactly the way you’ve always imagined it — which would you choose? You can’t have both sorry, life’s a bitch

21. Could you ever quit writing? Do you ever wish you could? Why or why not?

22. How organized are you with your writing? Describe to me your organization method, if it exists. What tools do you use? Notebooks? Binders? Apps? The Cloud?

23. Describe the physical environment in which you write. Be as detailed as possible. Tell me what’s around you as you work. Paint me a picture.

24. How much prep work do you put into your stories? What does that look like for you? Do you enjoy this part or do you just want to get on with it?

25. What is a weird, hyper-specific detail you know about one of your characters that is completely irrelevant to the story?

26. How do you get into your character’s head? How do you get out? Do you ever regret going in there in the first place?

27. Who is the most stressful character you’ve ever written? Why?

Aside from the fact that writing anyone ever is pretty stressful, I'd say it's Félix (Encanto). I couldn't pin down his personality at first without it seeming ooc and picturing his role in the Madrigals' dynamics.

28. Who is the most delightful character you’ve ever written? Why?

29. Where do you draw your inspiration? What do you do when the inspiration well runs dry?

30. Talk to me about the role dreams play in your writing life. Have you ever used material from your dreams in your writing? Have you ever written in a dream? Did you remember it when you woke up?

31. Write a short love letter to your readers.

32. What is a line from a poem/novel/fanfic etc that you return to from time and time again? How did you find it? What does it mean to you?

33. Do you practice any other art besides writing? Does that art ever tie into your writing, or is it entirely separate?

34. Thoughts on the Oxford comma, Go:

35. What’s your favorite writing rule to smash into smithereens?

36. They say to Write What You Know. Setting aside for a moment the fact that this is terrible advice…what do you Know?

37. If you were to be remembered only by the words you’ve put on the page, what would future historians think of you?

38. What is something about your writing process YOU think is Really Weird? If you are comfortable, please share. If you’re not comfortable, what do you think cats say about us?

39. What keeps you writing when you feel like giving up?

40. Please share a poem with me, I need it.

(Don't judge me for this one lmao.)

The glass is dark, your reflection green

What do you feel when you fall on your spleen?

Is it pain? Is it greed?

Or are you-- freed?

[hazeday]

Previous reblog I'm not done talking about it actually. The thing at the end really bothers me n I checked and op is 17 so I'm not trying to have like, a serious debate with someone 7 years younger than me, that feels inappropriate. So I'm making my own post about it and like, again this isn't me trying to "own" op or anything I just like. Yeah ofc gay people want to "feel as powerful as cishets" that's the point. That's the point of equality that's what that means. Like I understand what the message here was meant to be but like arguing that someone who experiences homophobia making fun of someone conflating the trauma of that experience with being made fun of (probably almost exclusively online btw) with being bullied for talking about having multiple partners is trying to become their oppressors in doing so is an insane argument and one that I think personally is homophobic. Like that completely undermines the criticism that has been put forward about the polyam community from any gay person as "you're acting like your oppressors " I can't wrap my brain around that.

And another thing like the criticisms towards the polyam community are almost *always* valid and again this is coming from a polyam person. Because so much of the criticism is based AROUND polyam people claiming that experiencing negativity based on their relationship status (as in, having multiple partners) is the same as homophobia. Because it's not. I think it's also REALLY inappropriate to compare biphobia within the gay community to "aphobia" and "polyamphobia" or whatever because again these two things are modifiers in relationships, and not what define the relationship, they are not orientations. (you could argue that the lack of sexual attraction is an orientation but even if that's the case the experiences of being asexual vs being gay/bi are so wildly different and there is not *any* contest to argue about oppression between these two groups but I'm getting ahead of myself).

Whereas biphobia coming from gay ppl is rooted in internalized homophobia, and othering of our own members of our own community based on honestly a lot of misogynistic rhetoric (as everything ever when it comes down to LGBT shit no matter how micro the identity), the main issue that LGBT people take with ace/polyam people is *always* a claim to oppression on the same level or experiencing the complexities of relationships in an extremely similar way which is just blatantly false and insulting to history and a culture of people. You cannot claim *anything* to be the same as homo/biphobia. Because we have a term for the and it's homo/biphobia.

ANOTHER THING!!! Polyamory, as in having multiple partners, is SOOOO interconnected with gay culture like. Literally MOST people you'll meet who identify as polyam or participate in polyam relationship are LGBT. Because our movement has always been about free love and specifically empowering love that goes against what our oppressors tell us is the only way to love. And gay people fucking know that lol are you kidding me like a gay person telling someone they're weird for making claims to experiencing something similar to homophobia by being made fun of for being polyam is a crazy claim because that gay person probably DOES participate in polyam relationships or at the very LEAST is a lot more physically/emotionally affectionate with their friends because that's just gay culture. We make fun of people like that because they're comparing someone online saying they're ugly to being hate crimed. Because that's funny. And I'll die on that hill and I'll go kiss the multiple gay people I live with on the mouth afterwards. My god.

Anyway sorry holy shit I just like. Use your fucking brains y'all stop subdiving and subdiving and subdiving. Our enemy is our oppressors and our goal is autonomy in relationships and aphobia/making fun of polyam people based on those specific facets of their identity is not the same as homo/biphobia and anyone who says otherwise should be made fun of.

This goes without saying that this is double as true for cishets like. The audacity for op to weirdly imply there aren't cishet polyam people lmao hello. Yes you should make fun of those people. It has nothing to do with them having multiple partners it has to do with them being cishet and if being hetero/cisphobic makes me a gay person who just "wants to feel as powerful as homophobes" then brother call me a homophohe.

[mowu-moment]

i feel controversial & i care too much, so here's my des rocs complete tierlist

ranked list & reasoning (ish) under the cut

1. WAYNE: hoholy shit wayne. can hardly put into words how explosive this one is to me. the intro sets a Whole Mood before swiftly (& cleanly) smacking it down into an Absolute Banger and i don't use the term lightly. very hard not to scream along with it. only detriment is that wayne the person is kinda an ass in the mmc video but that's no qualm

2. POS: basically the same thing as wayne (oh both have great lyrics btw, this one more so), only gets points knocked for being 2 minutes long and having 30 seconds of that being intro & outro. go danny give us nothing

3. WHY WHY WHY: there's a theme among my top picks--they're all hard-hitting w/ killer guitar. the lyrics are absolute batshit in a good way, but the chorus is a lil flat & i feel like in general it just needed a touch more spice to score the top spot. or maybe it's just seniority & it'll have a coup a few months out idk

4. DEAD RINGER: similar killer guitar & lyrics but this one is Groovy as Hell. don't particularly like his singing in this one & it's too repetitive if i'm feeling grumpy but there's something so magic about after the bridge. top 10 songs to twirl a flag to

5. NOTHING PERSONAL: the minute long outro irks me & it's a little bit empty but plays into that well. groovy, great lyrics, the Sexiest Guitar Solo of the lot, the screaming's a minus but it does have an emotion there. not entirely sure what one but it's there.

6. LET ME LIVE / LET ME DIE: his first time being all over the goddamn place, history was made. amazing guitar, a little worse lyrics than 1-4 i'll admit, the intro Slays me both in a good and bad way. must be a joy to play live where he can just drag out that intro & bridge as long as feels right. at least i liked it in the digital concert like that. would actually kill me in a physical concert, imagine how much stomping gets going to that beat. bonus points for presumable cowbell

7. PIECES: for once not this high for the guitar & lyrics, they're both kinda basic. idk what's about this one but it just takes me to a separate dimension & i love it so much for that. really fills those earholes. also a bit of personal meaning, heard it for the first time on the day we moved into the house i'm currently split-custody-living in (is that tmi?) & the first music video of his i saw. man i love some spaghetti on the wall

8. SLO: basically the same as dead ringer, but knocked points for a kinda lame outro & the subject matter being a little less interesting to me. still lovely.

9. HANGING BY A THREAD: not my normal fare really & the way that the ends of the verses don't really fit in the pacing of them is bleh, but it's just so reminiscent of the songs my brother puts on whenever we hang out together that it just makes me all warm & fuzzy. it's also nicely put together which is something i'll have to start saying for. the later list.

10. SUICIDE ROMANTICS: this is where i start griping about head voice & higher pitches in general. don't like em so the pre-chorus is a lil annoying. also not my normal fare but it's tender & the ending is awe-striking. imo better live where he's loud on that last line before the final chorus. not enough to bump it up though. shoutouts to love and a smoking gun, i still am dying to hear that one

11. THE PAST HAS PASSED AWAY: my favorite lyrics out of the first 2 ep's. only thing wrong with it really is the bridge getting kinda repetitive. love that last chorus heehoo. same schpeel as the Banger Category

12. MMC: this one's lower than the rest of the Bangers for being pop punk which is something the radio has made me dislike, i guess. that trope with the guitar in the second half of the chorus just kills me so much. improves greatly during & after the bridge, love that lil ragtime piano. generally the same bit as before but i do love him doing something un-romance-related. yeah fuck the establishment!

13. THE DEVIL INSIDE: reminds me A Lot of the electronic-ish cassettes i've got from the early 90's but that's just me. this one will probably move up as i get more used to it, but only a little bit. the first part of the second verse makes me like. genuinely uncomfy? but the second part of it's fantastic. ending's ass though what happened to the instrumence. bonus points for using 'reverie' that's an SAT word (maybe). good singing but returning to the gripe at higher pitches, just a little bit though

14. THIS IS OUR LIFE: feels shockingly generic for a des rocs song tbh but there's nothing really wrong with that. adore the bridge. singing's alright. kinda miffed that he doesn't pronounce the 'f' in the second 'life' in the chorus, but it makes sense here. that sort of thing won't later so i'm bringing it up now. guitar's nothing spectacular but fits nicely into the song, probably one of the most cohesive of his (especially in recent history).

15. OUTTA MY MIND: really lives in the same space as slo and dead ringer do in my head (most likely the 'songs to twirl a flag to' zone), but this is by far the worst of the three for when i'm grumpy. just. Very repetitive. back to great lyrics here but it's kinda hard to pick them out (i've heard the song at least 100 times by now & i'm still missing a few lines). still groovin'

16. RUBY WITH THE SHARPEST LIES: what the fuck actually goes on in this song by the way? not the premise or whatever it's just. so all over the place. the verses are incredible but bringing in another vocalist just for one line kills me. bridge is really cool but that one part i don't remember where it is, the one that alternates basically nothing & an Electronic Piano Chord blaring at ya? ruins it. partially anyhow. also can someone tell the people on genius that it's 'carved it in my skin' not 'crawled down in my skin'

17. GIVE ME THE NIGHT: same repetitive issue as outta my mind but it's not groovy enough to save it, shame. feels like a trial run of all the wackshit stuff he's been doing recently, with the additional vocal bits at the end & the kinda weird lyrics. it still has a place in my heart don't get me wrong but it's just fallen in favor of stuff that Commits to banger or batshit (or actually pulls off both strongly, yyy). oh yeah nice guitar alright singing etc etc

18. USED TO THE DARKNESS: similar story to give me the night. i love it i do, but it's just lackluster nowadays. also remember that under-pronunciation thing i brought up in this is our life? this is where that comes back. rampant i tell you! that second verse he just doesn't finish the words & i hate it!

19. DON'T HURT ME: i honestly don't know why this one isn't in D. the chorus bit where he just cuts it short is irksome. the lyrics aren't anything special. i don't know what i like about it. but i can tell it does exactly what it set out to do if that makes sense. respect, respect. and using missile in an analogy, he's getting creative with the vocab

20. LIVING PROOF: kinda got a vendetta against this one i think? i don't know why i hate this one but i do. it's just kinda, blah. like the perfect sort of thing to nightcore up. sentiment's lovely & i do love the lyrics even if they aren't impressive but like. it bores me to an extent

21. TICK (LIVE): separating the version i heard in the digital concert just to give it some credit, this one was actually kinda nice. another one with a nice sentiment & what he was going for is great. no clue what the second part of the second verse has to do with any of this though. and it also begins our final group, the songs that just feel empty. like there's not nearly enough going on. this one's alright though i was just hoping the studio version would add some flair. you can see where that one is though.

22. IMAGINARY FRIENDS: also got a vendetta against pop. kinda hate the sentiment here (contrast!), the chorus just falls short of what the verses prime me for, head voice is rampant, and yet i still swing along to it. it's infectious props to him. love the outro though, monkey laugh and all.

23. MAYBE, I: another empty one, like it's a four-note progression what is that. love his singing in it, and the chorus parts do round it out, but like. eh? it doesn't even give me much to say.

24. BORN TO LOSE: another flop on the chorus! too smooth i say! and i absolutely Despise the pitch-shifting thing going on. not something i was expecting him to express so points there, lyrics are nothing fancy to my Literary Mind though. initially good singing but the chorus he's just sloppy over it. the instrumental is lovely but the vocals just throw it so hard into the bin which is a right shame. fuck that outro too i hate that gimmick

25. I KNOW: here's where the bad batshit comes in. singing is some of his worst imo, does the other-vocalist thing for that bridge, genre i'm not fond of, just a soup of Stuff I Don't Like. not one i'd kill someone over putting as #1 like i can see where it comes from but. mmmmmhhhh bad. cover does NOT help his case.

26. HVY MTL DRMR: empirically i should put this one higher. but the chorus flops so goddamn hard it deserves to be in the bottom of the barrel. the verses are lovely for what he was doing back then! but then just... nothing!

27. RABBIT HOLE: i was so excited for this name but it's just sad boi hours playlist curated by some corporation you hate. probably the most nothing of them all, genuinely where are the instruments. what happened. was this one just shoehorned in as the final track just to pump numbers up. and i swear he had some autotune or something which only makes his voice worse it's fantastic naturally. also that's not what a rabbit hole is! that's not the idiom! a rabbit hole is when you go on a wikipedia spiral from jennifer lopez to group theory! not when you just have a shitty night's sleep or whatever this is! i'm not just miffed i'm downright annoyed

28. TICK (STUDIO): what the fuck happened des. how did you release this. it sounds like a 3rd grader singing for the school talent show it's so out of rhythm. singing's honestly kinda bad & the instrumental has the same problems i talked about in the live version. the last chorus is fine, i guess, but no i don't forgive him for what he did to tick.

[dragynkeep]

Hello self proclaimed mathematician here!! I'm here to use basic math to try and clear up Adam's age. I did this math assuming that Adam was 23 when the black trailer takes place like Barbara and Areyn theorized. Since Ghira and Kali don't have confirmed ages I'm gonna assume that they had Blake in their late 20s like most parents these days, they will also be the same age because of their ages not being confirmed rip me. So basically if Ghira and Kali had Blake when they were 29. That means in volume 1 they are 46 years old. Which is very accurate as I am about to be 17 and my dad is 48 and I want this to be as accurate as possible. So in the recent volume Blake is 19 or about to be 20 depending on when her birthday is as its winter so her parents would be 48 or 49. If Adam did "kidnap" Blake when she was 12 and Adam is presumably 23 in the BT. We just subtract 7 years (Blake's current (19) age from 12) and Adam would've been 16 when that supposedly happened. I bet you're wondering "anon why did you mention ghira and kali possible age if we just calculated Adam's age" its because when we first see ghira and kali they definitely don't look like they've raised someone for 19 years. To me they looked kinda young I'd say about mid 30s. So if Ghira and kali are 35 when Blake is 17 and ghira knew Adam from his white fang days, This is supported by Adam's trailer, and in that trailer ghira looks very young so maybe he was in his late 20s in the video so going back to my original statement Adam is presumably 23 and Blake 17. They're 6 years apart. So if ghira is 28 in the Adam trailer that means Blake was 11 when the Adam trailer took place and if Adam is 6 years older he would be 17. I personally think Adam looks like a 17 year old so I'll say that's pretty accurate but Blake's age is around that age she was "kidnapped" at. But this was also around the time that Ghira was the white fang leader so if 17 year old Adam kidnapped 11 year old Blake why didn't Ghira stop it? Or kali for that matter? BUT if we assume that time progressed as usual (I read on reddit that Adam's trailer takes place 4 years before the black trailer It might be wrong but for the sake of my calculations let's assume its correct) that means that Adam would be 21 in the black trailer and Blake would be 15 and we know this isn't true because The admission age for Beacon is 17 and Blake's trailer takes place when she enrolls in Beacon. In conclusion Adam couldn't have been 23 like Barbara and arryn said because Blake would've been 15 when she tried to get into beacon so Adam isn't a pedophile Anyways I think we all can agree that if a 16 year old (me) can calculate people's ages from LITERALLY NOTHING then grown ass people should be able to make a decent timeline. Let me know if you think I missed anything so I can redo it. If you can't tell I really love math. Thanks for reading all this btw besties

Jesus, that's a lot of maths.

I respect that especially since I'm shit at Maths and I admit it.

[sapphire374]

Soy Sol: Chapter 2 (Gossip that Spreads like Wildfire)

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Luna is stunned by what she's just witnessed. She'd never expect Matteo to be cozying up so close with a random girl, especially after everything they've been through together. Luna started having doubts and her fears just came rushing over her like a waterfall. She couldn't believe that he would do this, all because she was late

When Matteo sees that it was Luna who opened the door, he immediately got up ignoring Viviana, as if she wasn't there. "Luna, I've been looking everywhere for you. You promised you would be here for my last show and you know how important this is for me. Why were you late.... again? You even promised to watch the entire show this time." Luna just stood there, staring at Matteo. Her rambunctious thoughts were clouding her judgement. She doesn't want to think about it, yet she already is. What if Matteo is cheating on her?

Matteo's face quickly changed when he saw a depressed look on her very pale face. "Que to pasa mi amor? What's the matter my love?" Matteo asks Luna in a very worried tone. Luna shakes her head from a terrified trance. "No nothing, I just came to tell you how proud I am. The arena seemed packed with loads of people. Umm yeah and I also wanted to apologize for being late. Too late it seems." Luna tries to not think about what she noticed yet the random girl staying in the room isn't making Luna feel any better. "I'm sorry who are you?" Luna questions the girl sitting on the couch who seems to not feel bad for listening on their conversation.

"I'm Viviana Marcel. Some people like to call me a very famous actress and rising singer; but if I'm being modest, I've only been in like fifteen movies," Viviana brags to Luna, showing off. "Really. Well sorry I had to ask is just I've never seen you on TV or in anything," Luna says sincerely which brings an enraged frown onto Viviana's face. "Oh, would you look at the time, it's getting late. I don't want to arrive home late since I have a very important meeting at Laix tomorrow. You know the place where famous people work together. I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't know it since you're not, well a celebrity. Ciao Matteo, I'll talk to you later." Viviana leaves after giving a wink to Matteo.

Luna's depressed look still stays plastered on her face. That girl almost reminds her of a celebrity version of Daniela, and after everything was finally going great for her and Matteo. "Luna, your smile has disappeared all of a sudden and hasn't come back. Please tell me what's wrong. I'm always here for you," Matteo states to Luna, expressing his concern. Luna almost stutters when she says, "Matteo why is Viviana here? What were you doing with her?" Matteo instantly takes a sigh of relief because he originally thought something unpleasant happened to her. "Oh, Luna you don't have to worry about her. She's just a friend I met through Rafeal. It's okay." "Matteo what would've happened if I didn't arrive at that moment," Luna asks anxiously holding on to every word she said. Matteo hesitantly replies, "Nothing. Nothing at all."

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Next Morning

Simón and Ámbar's House

Simón wakes up in his Buenos Aires home at eight o'clock in the morning. He's surprised to notice Ámbar is not there beside him. He pulls the sheets to their new bed and marches to the kitchen. Ámbar is sitting in the dining table doing some paperwork while drinking a café con leche. This brings a large smile on his face seeing how hard of a worker his soon to be wife is. "Buenos días mi amor. Good morning my love," Simón declares to Ámbar which also brings a warm smile on her face. "So, how's the paperwork going?" Simón asks Ámbar. "Honestly, it's not looking too good. I don't know if we'll be able to keep the Jam and Roller for so long especially since Vidia is considering on selling it to this company who wants to remodel it as a club and bar. They're the ones with the highest bid and if nobody comes soon to place a higher offer... we may lost it," Ámbar reluctantly replies to Simón.

"I can't believe this. First the separation of the Roller Band, then the separation of the Roller team, and now this. The worst part is how can we even tell Luna about this? How can we tell the rest about this," Simon complains while he and Ámbar give each other worried glances. "I don't know how we should tell her but one thing I know for sure is that we need to tell her soon cause what if she finds out and thinks we were lying to her this whole time. The one thing I've learned from my previous mistakes is that lying does no good and the truth always ends up revealing itself... but we'll think about that later. Right now, let's eat some breakfast cause I have a meeting to get to. Whatever happens, we need to find a backup plan to work somewhere else while I study to become a lawyer."

As Ámbar gets up from her chair, she turns the TV on. The news channel announces, "This just in! Viviana has been spotted AGAIN being very close to Matteo Balsano, the infamous 'Quiero Verte Sonreir' artist, yesterday night at his last concert for his Alla Voy Tour. Could this mean that Matteo has a new girlfriend and broke up with Luna Valente!" Ámbar and Simón both turn their heads and look at each other, shocked by what they just saw on the news. "I can't believe it! I wonder what Luna must be thinking watching this. It's just that this doesn't even make sense. Matteo would never do such a thing to Luna and even so she would have told me by now," Simón states confusingly. Simón and Ámbar are both confused and concerned about what they have just witnessed.

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Nina's Apartment

Nina accidentally spills her coffee after hearing what she just saw on the news. Gastón hears the loud noises in the living room, so he runs quickly to Nina from the kitchen to help her. "Que paso, what happened? Are you okay Nina," Gaston asks while helping her clean the mess she made. Gastón arrived last night from his job being an engineer. The company he works at has multiple branches, so he tends to travel all around the globe to set up meetings and build all sorts of new gadgets. Nina had also arrived from Oxford after finishing the semester early. She only has one year left to graduate and can't wait to travel with Gastón as a professional writer.

"Did you hear what was on the news? Apparently, Matteo has been spotted multiple times with this girl named Viviana. News outlets think that he broke up with Luna and replaced her with Viviana. I just couldn't believe it. I was so shocked I accidentally tipped over my coffee. Sorry for the mess," Nina states to Gastón. "No pasa nada. It's okay, the stain easily comes off but going back to what happened with Matteo... is this true, en serio," Gastón wonders, hoping Nina would say a 'no, just kidding' but sadly that was not the case. "Well we don't know if he did break up with Luna but the pictures that they showed of him with Viviana look very real and very close." "Esto no puede ser. This can't be true. I'm going to call Matteo right away. We have to get to the bottom of this," Gastón vividly expresses his disbelief right before turning his head and seeing the TV screen, in which he noticed the girl that's with Matteo. He doesn't for sure know who she is, but that girl appears very familiar to him. Then, Gastón remembered who she is and quickly runs to go call Matteo. After Nina puts her mug inside the sink, she rushes to go call Luna as well.

*BTW: Thank you guys for the support you've been giving Soy Sol in the last chapter. I really do appreciate it and hope you guys like the rest :D *

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since the tweet gremlin (which btw i still don't like calling the anon that haha) asked so nicely...

here is colby's tweets from early 2017.

i don’t have proof that these are his tweets, but believe me, they are his.

if it’s bold and italicized, it’s someone's tweet to him.

if it’s in (), that’s just me commenting lol

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Jan. 1, 2017 - But I never thought I could feel this way at 19

Jan. 2 - Hahahah @/SamGolbach got me a mini fridge for my birthday so I don't have to leave my room for snacks

Jan. 5 - One of the greatest things I've learned: Just have FUN with life. It's not worth it to be sad all of the time.

Jan. 6 - Sam and I both slept passed our alarms WEEEEE

I haven't eaten all day cause of traveling and I'm STARTING TO SEE STARS.

Really want a valentine this year ..

Jan. 7 - Meeting people who support you > anything else

Jan. 12 - Me and my bed have a serious relationship. I can't be to far from it or I get withdrawals

Jan. 17 - " Woke up at 3am from a dream I had about you .. "

Jan. 18 - Everyone needs a mental break every once in a while

Jan. 19 - It's SO important to do what makes you happy. Even if it's against the "norm"

Jan. 21 - Feels like the same things happen over and over again every day.

Jan. 22 - I hope it's something worth the waiting

Jan. 24 - I love entertaining people and making them laugh .. but my main goal in life is changing the way someone thinks forever.

If you struggle with self-esteem like I do, just remember that YOU are the worst critic of yourself.

what you see/think negatively about yourself could be someone else's favorite part about you. keep your head up

Jan. 25 - Been feeling lost for the past couple days but now I'm back on track

Jan. 31 - Can't really rely on anyone out here. Just doing me and focusing on building my personal brand.

(i'm sorry... this is such a weird tweet lol i get what he's saying, but something about calling himself basically a brand is just... weird to me)

Seems like everything just falls through. My hopes rise up just to be brought back down based on what people promise/say.

Feb. 2 - My eyes will always have natural dark circles around them. No matter how much I sleep

Feb. 4 - Don't ya hate it when people say they're gunna do something .. then completely forget/just don't do it? Hahahah annoying.

I wonder if I'll ever be able to grow facial hair Hahah

I should go to a friends house and watch the super bowl.. Nah. I'll stay home alone instead and watch the puppy bowl

Feb. 6 - You know life is amazing when the only thing that truly gets under your skin is the little things that really shouldn't.

They won't be laughing later

Feb. 7 - Being honest with people is always the best. They will respect you so much more

Feb. 9 - I want to make it clear to you that success is not determined by lectures or 5 page essays or how many participation points you earn

.. But rather the passion you have for something. What you really love to do and what your heart wants. Do what makes YOU happy

... and I promise you that with effort pushed towards something you love you will find success. Maybe even greater success than a desk

Feb. 11 - " She's so simple yet confusing "

Music is my escape

Even if your friends don't understand, no matter what I'll always be your man

Feb. 13 - Never liked people who act like theyre all that. Being genuine and humble takes you far

It really sucks how the negative things are focused on SO much more than the positive.

Because of that I wanna say a genuine thank you to the people who don't leave hate and are nice! I notice you and really appreciate it:)

There's only so much immaturity I can handle in one day before I start to feel like I'm going insane

Feb. 14 - If you're single this Valentine's Day, here's my heart --> <3 Take it, it's yours

(...oh my god??? i'm crying WHERE IS THIS COLBY AT?? BRING HIM BACK)

Where's a DOG WHEN YOU NEED ONE

Feb. 15 - Life is literally all about having fun! Why else would we all be alive !?

Feb. 18 - Somebody who you can watch a marathon of The Maury Show w/ is a keeper.

"We are not a fandom... we are a family" What a powerful statement. I have the best fans in the world. Onward and upward.

Feb. 19 - 3:34 wide awake. Just want to feel tired.

Surround yourself w people who make you happy and lift you up

Feb. 20 - Ready for things to change up a bit.

Hard for me to open up and really make friends. I usually keep my circle pretty small.

Feb. 21 - This might sound crazy to some .. but I'm beginning to think everything in the world is connected in some way

Feb. 23 - Im not afraid to make mistakes anymore cause I know I'll just learn from them

My future is clear, mind is not

Feb. 24 - No matter how hard you think things are, I promise there's something worth living for ... it's out there

Arguing and drama really only makes things worse in my opinion. Talking things out civilly is key

Tonight I'll be sleepin in a new house

Feb. 26 - I heard a scary noise outside my room .. have to go check it out

well I guess it started raining outside .. it was the sound of water dripping out of a gutter .. THANK GOD

Feb. 27 - Pancakes make me happy. :)

Feb. 28 - You and you only on my mind

March 1 - I'm so happy there's going to be 2 doggies in our house

March 2 - Just looking for a friend I can go on crazy adventures with ..

If he/she is loyal, keep them

March 3 - Everything has been so crazy and hectic this past week, but I love it !

March 4 - Hard for me to open up

I'll do anything to see you succeed if you're close to my heart

March 6 - I love @/ItsCoreyScherer cause he always shows me different music and then dances for my entertainment

March 7 - Never felt more inspired to be 100% me.. not caring anymore

People act like they know me and know what's going on in my life just based off of my social medias. It's crazy

March 12- I just don't care anymore.

March 14 - Crazy how much happier I become after surrounding myself with positive, fun people

Ever have those dreams that make you think really hard right when you wake up?

March 16 - Prove them wrong.

March 19 - Swam with dolphins today ... probably one of the coolest things I've ever done in my life.

One of my biggest weaknesses: I never trust anyone, it's rare when I do.

Never use another person to fill an empty feeling you have in yourself. Focus on improving YOU, and that feeling will go away

Those people calling you names now aren't gunna mean anything to you in a few years. Be yourself !

March 21 - You guys helped shape my entire future, so I swear I'll do my best to help shape yours

March 23 - I'm always afraid to start a series of a good show, I'll be in bed for the rest of eternity

March 26 - SPYRO THE DRAGON. That was my shit! Countless hours and energy put into that game

March 27 - It's been one of those "non-stop" days.. These are my favorite days to be alive.

"Don't worry if it could have, if it should have, it would have"

Sometimes I wonder why I try so hard. It feels like im putting all this extra weight on me for nothing.

March 29 - If you look into the Charles Manson documentaries it's scary as hell .. How could one person convince all those people? HEROIN

Give me 30 minutes to think by myself and I can become so inspired

I'm like the worst person when it comes to responding in group chats

March 31 - Staying humble is so important in a city like this

[enouemental]

Hi, I'm here in the middle of a crisis because of Spn, like always. I have a theory for the last episodes, let's go. We know that Jensen and Jared are already in Vancouver to shoot the last episodes, and have been in quarantine for the past week. There's no sign of Misha going there, instead we got a video of him saying that Cas' ending was very final and what he wanted (we also know that Misha has been saying for YEARS that he wants Castiel to die). 

 So this brings me to Dabb's comment in february. He said the last episodes were going to include some nice eps like Young sam and dean, and a Castiel centric episode, where we're gonna see the world "through the angel's eyes." Now, we know that it isn't episode 14 (which is the holiday ep), or ep 15 (the nymph one) or ep 16 (Young Sam and Dean.) Since Jensen said that ep 19 is the season's finale, and ep 20 is the show's finale, we can assume that leaves us with episoe 17 or 18. 

 Episode 17 is called Unity, and it has an interesting Cast. It includes Uriel, and a credited "fangirl angel", which could mean that if this is the Cas centric episode, we could get a flashback with Uriel and maybe an scene where this angel says they admire Cas. Cool, right? BUT, the cast also includes Chuck and Amara in IMBD.

We know that there's probably gonna be another sibling talk, but this is the last time Emily Swallow is credited in the show, which means she either fucks off, or CHuck kills her: and that implies there's gonna be a fight of somer sort. If this is all about Cas, don't you think something like this might distract from the character? Anyways, this makes me believe the Cas centric episode is gonna be Episode 18, Despair. 

 I dont know who this Spencer or Lily are, but that doesn’t matter. Here’s what does. Do you remember that episode where Bobby gets shot in season 7? The episode after that focuses on Bobby and his memories, we see Sam and Dean but very briefly, and the episode is basically a farewell to both the character and the actor. Do you follow? What if... something happens to Cas in episode 17, when Chuck and Amara fight; or maybe the Empty comes to collect, and so episode 18 Despair (and wtf is UP with that name jfc) is Cas' centric episode, because we see him say goodbye, maybe take a trip in his mind: you know, see the world through his eyes... 

 Only 2 episodes are left to film, which is why J2 is in vancouver. But not just them, Jake Abel is also there to shoot episode 19. Misha is not credited, and let me remind you: this ep is the season finale. They're not missing any cast member in IMBD, if they had time to credit a "newscaster". 

Ep 18 is the last time Misha is credited in the show. This means episode 18 was shot very closely to the lockdown in some countries, right? In march we had a con, here's a tweet from a fan: 

 That's the day the con happened, btw. March 8th. It may be episode 17 or 18, but given that production stopped in March 13 because of covid, and episodes normally take 7 to 8 days to shoot, it probably was episode 17. So, an emotional scene between Cas and Dean? Could it be Cas' death scene? 

 This is another comment from a fan (idk who wrote it, soz) Talking about a text Misha mentioned that Daneel sent him, and Both Jensen and Misha being emotional while talking about this scene... 

 So that last week of filming was from March 9th, right? That's done. Tha's why he isn't filming the last 2 episodes. He's done. This is so fucking frustrating, and listen, it isn't because they decided to kill Cas off, but because Misha gave so much of him to this show and this character, and it seems unfair that he won't be there to say goodbye when he is as important to the show as J2 are. They should've found a way to get Cas in the last episode, even if they did kill him off. Im so upset.