#i used to be really into the turkish ones

[angelwishess]

1, 9, 10, and 18 for Kyra for that get to know your TWST OC ask thing!

Hi anon! Thank you for the ask! 💗

Questions for the TWST oc ask game here!

Club: Which club does your twst OC join and why? Is there anything memorable about the club fair day/their first day at the club? Which clubmate is their favorite?

Kyra is in the Equestrain Club!! Shes an animal lover through and through, and she couldnt pass up the chance to join!!! Her horse, Lady, was a noble gal. Extremely well trained and haughty, but she fell into a depression after an incident with her former handler.

Ever since Lady refused to run, often just staring into the wall of her stable. Kyra decided to try and take this challenge on, determined to get Lady back up on her feet and running like a horse should be !

Kyra was very gentle with Lady, and it was a slow process, but it was all worth it. Because slowly, Lady was acting like a proper horse again! Even more so as Kyra taught her how to misbehave and have fun galloping around again. You can bet you’ll find Kyra and Lady racing around as fast as they can, jumping around and having fun. Though its probably a safety hazard— nothing can really stop either of them from doing what they want. So! You can bet Kyra sneaks out Lady from time to time to go for a little run.

Lady adores Kyra, too! Super protective of her and… a man hater. Yeah.

As for club members, the one she gets along with the most is Silver! Though they’re very different, they get along really well! And bond during club hours :3

Name: What does your twst OC's name mean? Why does Rook/Floyd call them [insert nickname]?

OOOH IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE !!!!!

Depending on what language you check, it has different meanings, but every one of them suit her perfectly.

In Greek, the origin language for her name, it means “Queen”, “Ruler”, “Lord” or “Lady”; yet in Japanese it can mean “Glittering” or “Shiny”.

“Sun”, “Far-Sighted” and “Throne” in Persian, “Beam of Light” in Sanskrit, “Leader Of The People”, “Beloved”, “The One People Look To” in Russian, and “Beloved”, “Precious”, “Valuable” in Turkish.

As for her nicknames, I actually talked about why Floyd’s nickname for her is “Sea Angel” here!

As for Rook’s nicknames, he has two! Of course theres “Trickster”, but theres also “Princesse de la Lumière” , or “Princess of Light”! Kyra is very shiny, and she notably brings love and light along with her wherever she goes <3 (he also comments on how her beauty is ‘blinding’… yeah idk either but Kyra is flattered WHAHAHA)

Subject: What is your twst OC's best subject? Worst? Do they study with another whom excels at the same subject? Do they ask anyone for help with the subject they are bad at?

Answered this question here!~

Backstory: Tell me anything about your twst OC's backstory. Their childhood, their parents, their siblings etc. Does their backstory affect how they are as a character now and how they interact with the cast?

Kyra had a very lonely childhood. Never allowed to leave the castle she grew up in, alienated from the rest of her family and everyone else, seen as something ‘inhuman’. Her entire life, perfection was expected of her, it was an obligation. She was meant to be seen, never heard. A figurehead, someone who’s worth has always only been for her status and her beauty.

Coming to NRC, shes struggled a LOT with social cues. While back at home she knew how to handle many of the nobles and royals she interacted with, most of the time she never actually had to speak, seeing as she was expected not to.

Now… she basically cant shut up. There are some jokes that she doesn’t get either, and there are times where she takes things a little too seriously. She just… isnt used to interacting with other people as herself , and it takes her a long time to get used to it.

It definetly affects her relationship with some of the cast and how they develop in the storyline, which is why she values the people that accept her nonetheless so very much.

[cantfightmoonlight]

Me either. Onu yeni gördüm. iyi görünüyordu (I just saw her, she looked good)- She stopped herself mind thought the second the conversation drifted to Aspen's sisters, or more specifically, one sister in question. Her thoughts quickly switched to Turkish to prevent herself from thinking anything she might regret. I don't know. I don't even have sisters. Cousins. Cousins I have. Do you have any cousins? Though... yeah. I'm not sure? I used to think I knew what to say, but I never really was a good therapist, Her nose dipped even lower in defeat, only to perk up slightly at the mention of the leg. Sitting up, she leaned forward, only for her eyes to widen in horror. Did it actually up and walk away? I guess we can at least tell Ben where it was. But, do you think an animal might have gotten it or... someone else?

"I have no fucking idea how he does it. I can barely keep up with what my sisters are doing." Granted, the Bishops liked to believe themselves to be built that way. As Elif crossed her paws, Aspen punched her hands on her hips. Every waking moment, she crawled closer to becoming one of the old maids who couldn't stand it when things were too loud, smelly, or infringing on her privacy. Not to mention how she was standing. Oh ... a belated realisation, that Elif's thought about privacy came through Aspen's head. "Yeah, I get it. Like, what do you even say about half of this shit?" It often made her speechless. Digging through the underbrush, she paused. "... but bingo, I think I just found where it was laying. Was." She made sure to be specific. It was an empty impression, but the scent resembled Ben's well enough.

[msue0027]

Doctor Who is a Brazilian Telenovela.

Let me elaborate. It's (almost) as long;

all that romance and family drama (ooh, there are so many examples but let's say: "oh no, they can't be together, because they're siblings and they don't know it!" vs Doctor having a snog with all the Ponds);

sometimes unclear cause and effect sequence (timey-wimey?);

characters that died and came back to life, multiple times;

no one really knows what's going on;

(that motif when someone returns, changed, a new man, new face, and is not recognized at first (timelord magic));

digging back old characters and other plot devices (not necessarily bad decision);

it's fucking dramatic;

et cetera.

[hailwestexas]

religious guiltyfying your character but it’s islam

[ladcies]

once a ballerina, safiye held a somewhat peculiar relationship over hew own body. although such improves through those last dew years, she remained careful around sweets and a regular at gym, ultimately safi relied on her physique to earn a living. vanity, often denied, would always be a priority as she did relish on feeling confident. " thats the saddest thing i've heard all day… that i cannot have delicious carrot cake " a pout lingered on red lips, slightly dramatic, given the bakery has a myriad of options. " do you have something with blueberries? " perhaps this could help them narrow it down.

" no, not really. the bouncers stopped her from trying anything against me or the other girls, but the yelling was very annoying… " such an incident, although rare, wasn't entirely strange for an exotic dancer. " im good, dont worry, the guy paid me before she could get there " safiye couldn't quite blame herself or the club for a cheating man, as long as he set a generous amount for them, it really wasn't none of her business. " that sounds so good! bet you're gonna run out of stock in an hour " baking was indeed an art, one she couldn't master. " at the chance this might sound odd. but would you take an order for an specific dessert? a turkish one, my granny used to do it, but sadly i did not inherit her ability. "

nicolas felt pride flaring up at the words. as a baker, he took it as a great success when a customer couldn't decide which one of the desserts they wanted to take home. "you can take more than one," he suggested like usual, all sincere smile and bright eyes. "the carrot cake is fresh out of the oven—no, not really," he let out a small chuckle at that, "it's still warm, that's what i'm saying. what kind of dessert do you like? maybe i can help pick one that suits your taste." "ouch." his face twisted into a grimace as the image of said occurrence entered his mind. he could imagine, to some extent, how stressful the situation might be. "yeah, absolutely agree. but she didn't do anything to you, right?" nicolas eyed her critically. "you're okay?" at her question, he merely shrugged his shoulders. "nothing interesting. i spent the whole weekend finishing up my christmas menu list." with a grin, he rubbed his hands together. "there's gonna be so much chocolate and rum. imagine the smell!"

[whywoulditho]

english (and almost every other european language tbh) has always been fucking weird to me because why the fuck would you need gender-specific names to like, body scent. why not just call them the same thing. what exactly is the difference between a perfume and a cologne?? or like, niece and nephew? i mean why go out of your way to invent two words that mean the same thing but one is only for men and the other is only for women? when they're quite literally the same thing???

[mariathechosen1]

[moltage]

i've tried everything, different ways, different times, different places. i just can't seem to find my passion for writing back.

[deqdyke]

Cw: race, genocide denial, antiblackness

Just working through some thoughts after seeing the millionth annoying "Are x group white? Discuss" tweets.

Honestly I think like 90% of discourse around race and whiteness in leftist spaces could be solved by people saying "I don't know that history well enough". Like, people when they discuss race, have these competing internal desires to treat race as solely defined by current social standings, and also point to historical oppression as evidence. Neither works. If you go purely by current social standings, then we have absolutely nothing to build off of besides personal lived experiences. I've met Italians who have had old white people call them wops. Does that mean Italians aren't white? Are Polish people not white because of the existence of anti-polish sentiments? Are Russians not white because of how often they're portrayed as villains? Are Armenians white universally bc of the Kardashians?

But then if you base it entirely off history, then you have to accept that no Jewish person has ever attained whiteness. That race is a permanent and immutable aspect of someone's character - something that just... That's just racial ideology, same as it ever was.

The reality is whiteness is nebulous and difficult to pin down because it serves a social function. It needs to be fluid, but it needs to justify itself by appearing as if it's immutable. It also props up European nation-building myths. Like, if the question is "Are Italians white" the question should be "Well, who's an Italian?". Who's a Russian? I know Black Russians, and Black Ashkenazim. Is the understanding they're somehow less part of those groups due to their Blackness? Because I know they would take serious issue with that. Romans (as in, Italians from Rome) are a core part of the Western nation-building myth. You can't exclude them from whiteness without whiteness collapsing. But Sicilians were ruled by North African Muslims for hundreds of years - they're noticeably darker, and their culture is distinct. So Sicilians were denied whiteness, and they were used as a scapegoat for xenophobic sentiments during waves of Italian immigration. When they had sufficiently assimilated, then suddenly Sicilians were "Italians" and Italians are white, so Sicilians are white. So you've now managed to redefine whiteness across an era of immigration to build white unity and maintain a white supremacist majority.

White Fascism is self-destructive and suicidal because it maintains rigid immutable boundaries and requires constant expansion, which means eventually whiteness WILL be a minority. Liberalism upholds whiteness by redefining whiteness over time to maintain a White social majority. When whiteness needs to be mutable, there needs to be a population that can be used as the scapegoat. (Which is also why anti-Blackness is a core component of White supremacist racial ideology - it functions as a permanent fixed class to pivot other groups' whiteness around).

That's how it functions in America. But the rules of whiteness ARE mutable, and they change based on time and region. So the question of "Is x person white" really depends on time AND location, and how their identities exist in relation to nation-building myths. And it reaches a point where asking a question like "Are Armenians white?" or "Are Balkan Muslims white?" or "Are Jews white?" stops being useful, because the point shouldn't be to reify race, it should be to point out that people who fail to fit neatly within these national racial narratives are the best possible example to show how Whiteness contradicts itself. Is an Arab white? Is a Jew white? Is a North African white? It depends, when, where, and who are we talking about?

[ellcrys]

I saw more cats in my first 5 hours in Istanbul than I think I’ve seen all year

[theriverdalereviewer]

watching a turkish drama now and its just the right touch of fucking insane

[getting-messi]

YESTERDAY WAS GREAT!

[prentissluvr]

four hours straight of dancing difficult choreo then three hours of being bent over painting children's faces then almost an hour of cleaning up the event MY BACK HURTS SO MUCH

[medicinemane]

Man I hate tomatoes, but what I really hate is how people are like "hear you loud and clear" and then hand me tomato stuff

[molluskzone]

im thinking of changing isaacs last name, it IS used as a surname however im afraid that because it is also a first name that it will be confusing...

[crescentmp3]

hi i sent my dad a message asking him to buy me a copy of the book for myself. hope he'll say yes