#idk like maybe it gets to me more bc i've become The Thing that everybody just politely ignores.

[moe-broey]

Also just such a small thing but like. In the F!Lumera FBs when Henriette and Ashe are waiting on backup from Alfonse, and Alfonse is the only one she mentions by name. Like yeah I could be reading into that, maybe he's on his own, maybe it's just shorthand like "Eh they come in twos no need to mention them both it's unspoken/expected that if Alfonse is here, Sharena is close behind him" like. Idk idk that barely tracks for me actually cause personally unless if I'm speaking about a specific sister, I'm always saying "my sisters" or saying both of their names. And esp before getting their own places, the two of them v much felt like a set.

Idk idk just weird to me. I think we should blow her up with our minds

[nakanotamu]

Okay this is my I'm back update post I guess

I'm definitely going to change how I was using tumblr a little bit. Cohost was a great vibe and kind of opened my eyes to what was stressing me out on here outside of the like. Corporate stuff. I'm following too many people and have to cut back on accounts. I'm more interested in making longer posts and I don't really care any more that that's not tumblr's ~vibe~. What's new with me:

idr if I was on prog yet when I left but I was on prog and also stopped taking prog. I absolutely hated it it made me gain weight and grow hair in ways that were bad for my dysphoria and my anxiety got super bad. Did not remotely get the experience from it everybody else who posts about it seems to, 0/10 will never recommend

Stardom is maybe better than ever. Rossy leaving was a breath of fresh air and then after The Conversion a steady upward trend became a company that actually feels incredibly fresh and exciting and has been putting out banger after banger. I'm still only in March in my backlog but I follow what's current and haven't been this excited about wrestling in years.

I started following OZ Academy and in the next week or two I'm gonna start watching SenJo. SenJo has Mika Iwata and has been working closely with Stardom lately so with them becoming more accessible on Wrestle Universe I'm happy to give them a try. OZ seemed for a long time like the closest to my tastes after Stardom so I arbitrarily decided to actually start watching this year once I saw Unagi had shown up there. I've got a post in me about how OZ is actually the closest thing to "joshi DDT" out there.

I never actually started following Marigold. I think they have a fantastic roster but I hate Rossy so much and the stories - or lack thereof - they're doing there just make it wildly disinteresting to me. If Utami & Kouki ever start making out in the ring or even if they ever start doing an ounce of god damn drama I might still begrudgingly check them out one day but I'm not holding my breath right now.

I started playing Fallen London again & finally got back into Final Fantasy XIV in a big way. I found out about plugins! I think people should openly talk about plugins more. I was totally sick of tab targetting rotation based combat, to the point I couldn't play the game any more, but I found combat plugins to help with that and it turns out that was literally the only problem I had with it so I'm having a fantastic time again, more into the game than I've been since Heavensward.

So, yeah, hi. I might make a Bluesky at some point or something idk but for now I'm here again. Tumblr is draconian so ig I'll use my nsfw for that content again when it's relevant. I will probably be even weirder about wrestling on main bc I truly don't care any more but other than that これからもよろしくお願いします

[sayakxmi]

[Magi reread] Night 66: Holy Palace's Aladdin

It almost feels weird to return to Aladdin right now

Weird thingies

Idk, just that giant head is kinda silly

Also, damn, Aladdin's wobbly legs

Nvm, they aren't Schehe's clones. But it still confuses me a little, cuz I feel like it's sort of implied later on that they are? But I might be misremembering thing - I'll comment on it when I get to the Magnostadt Arc. For now it's just a bit ?? Like, it's a real possibility Ohtaka didn't plan that far ahead yet.

You look really sad about it for a guy who nearly murdered him in blind rage

Ok, to be fair, I can imagine him feeling bad about it after calming down. Still, weird choice to want to explain Alma Torran to Judar instead of, idk, Yunan for example. I feel like it would have made the whole dying-and-coming-back-over-and-over-again a little more bearable. To actually know the point of that. Bc when Aladdin and Yunan talk, Yunan admits that Ugo'd never explained anything, and in that form (the blob, probably) form he couldn't ask. So. That fucking sucked.

Anyway. Giving Solomon's Wisdom to Judar? Really? I think you're putting too much faith in that guy.

F

I... forgot that's what happened. I remembered they were the same guy, but that magic turning into one? Tbh, cool.

Pretty!

Hello there, characters nobody cares about, least of all Ohtaka

Don't worry, grls, I've got u.

Look at this annoyed Alibaba, lmao

F A T E

I mean, I jest, but it's pretty cool. Fate is one of Magi's main themes, that for sure, and to have it explained the way it is, I think it really works.

Black Sun

Honestly, I just love it being explained like that. Things becoming inverted, distorted.

Idk man, there's not much I think I can say about it. The explanation is solid on its own, and it's pretty damn cool.

Tho later Ohtaka will come and try to convince us that maybe falling isn't so bad after, yeah, sure, all these brainwashed people are a good proof of that...

That's... yeah. I was thinking about it lately, cuz I was thinking about the Kou Empire Arc.

Maybe that entire becoming more powerful god than the other guy then that guy becoming more powerful than you and then you becoming more powerful than him... etc didn't come out of nowhere here, bc Hakuryuu's falling feels kind of like that. Abra is fallen, so she works against fate, so she fucked up the fate for Hakuryuu, who then proceeded to, idk, +2 to that by also falling, and, since he's not returning things to the actual fate's course, he just makes even bigger of a mess... Which is ironic as fuck. He tried to destroy Al-Thamen by literally doing what they wanted to - sowing more chaos and disasters all around, which at worst could have led the world to an end (given Judar could cause Il Illah to descend, apparently). Idk man, put some make up on to the clown music, you fucking moron.

Like, don't get me wrong, I like Hakuryuu for the most part, but Jesus Fuck he's an idiot. This is why he's constantly painted as immature. Because he fucking is immature. He never thinks things through, has no patience to speak of once he snaps, and ends up just making everything worse for everybody and himself, and wakes up with a hand in the pot, because turns out he has no idea how to handle the aftermath of his stupidass choices, because he was too busy fucking up people's minds to consider what happens after the war.

Ok rant over.

Foreshadowing

(soon) RIP Alibaba

Honestly, that's such a cool moment.

It kind of looks cute

Idk man, awesome moment all around. The fact that all of these blobs are helping him up is really cute, too

That crying Aladdin : (

Also, not gonna lie, this feels like the theme of this arc, among other things. And I'll definitely talk about it more. It's about losing the people you love, but at the same time meeting new ones, too. Of course they won't replace them, but the point is simply you're not alone.

;;;

Honestly, it just looks aweosme

[derangedthots]

I'm really curious about your writing process and everything ctf, got a million questions but most of them you probably can't answer because spoilers 😅.

If that's OK, I wanted to ask some more general, behind-the-scenes things? (if not just ignore them)

Like, who out of the truly secondary (as in, they don't appear that much/aren't that central to the plot) characters you like/enjoy writing the most/least and why?, what scenes came easily vs which ones were a pain to get just right? , is there anything/anyone that's been flying under readers' radars but will be "a surprise tool for later"? , when it comes to reader reaction, is there anything in particular you didn't expect or that you thought may happen but didn't?

And finally, when writing about the Tullys (Kermit, Elmo, Oscar, Grover...), have you ever been overcome by the mental image and ensuing hilarity of everyone else as human and them as Muppets? (I had the realization midscene and got the giggles BAD 🤔😲😳🤭😂)

hi darling🥰💕

i'm always getting such fantastic questions from you guys and don't worry, i can actually answer all of these ones haha

out of the truly secondary characters, it's hard to choose a fav when it comes to writing them. it's good that you narrowed down which ones you meant by secondary bc i love almost all of my ocs but it just so happens a lot of them also reoccur and play important parts LOL. if i had to choose someone tho...maybe matilda? she just gives such matronly but no-nonsense vibes and i have nothing but respect for that personality type. not to mention, i feel like with any building/home/estate, the kitchens are always one of the places where everybody knows something. it's where the food gets made which already gives very "this is the heart of the place" vibes but also lots of ppl pass through there, which means there is always tea (both literally and metaphorically). matilda's fun to write bc she's aptly positioned to receive a lot of information, while also being highly responsible and respected for her job (srsly never EVER mess with the cooking staff anywhere), and idk i just like that abt her lol. i realize i haven't written much of her yet but hopefully that'll change soon. also who knows, my answer for fav secondary character to write might very well change as we go along (i did say this was a difficult choice haha)😅🤷🏻‍♀️

as for least favorite? bors. it's bors. no real spoilers but yeah, you'll find out why

what scenes came easily? is it bad if i say none😭 i think almost every scene i've written has been jam-packed with detail/characterization which means very little relaxation while writing for me lol. oh actually, on second thought, i think any scene with vermax? just bc he never actually says anything and his interactions with jace are all pretty straightforward. LMAO that's not a v interesting answer but it's the best one i have for you rn😂😂

as for what scenes were the hardest/took the most pains to get just right, i'd have to say the really emotional ones just bc whew - jace's emotions are really quite heavy and i want to convey how he processes (or doesn't process) them as authentically as possible. his scene with daemon in the dragonpit took me forever and i was constantly switching back and forth btwn writing that scene and other ones bc i needed the brain break

weirdly enough, i'd say any scenes between jacemond themselves are both easier and more difficult? they're in a weird liminal space. on one hand, they flow quickly bc i love writing them, they ARE our romantic leads after all lol, the origin and main impetus for why i'm writing the story (besides fixing what hotd broke), but also their scenes together are always charged so i have to do a lot of thinking while i'm working on them

my only advice for now regarding something that's been flying under the readers' radars but will become a special little mousekatool (god how american of me) for later in the story is:

just like jace, you should keep your eyes open and pay attention to the shadows👥

if we're going off what i've read in the comments/seen in my asks, i will admit i was surprised no one mentioned jace's relationship to rhaenys in terms of how he learned to braid from her. then again, i'm just very soft abt the idea of baby jace getting his little fingies caught in her hair and then jace practicing on his siblings+parents after they moved to dragonstone. but honestly i'm just endlessly thankful for all the responses and continued interest regardless🥹💕💕

the tullys tho. omg the tullys. i'm so glad you brought this up bc i absolutely had to hold back my laughter while writing their scenes i'm sorry but george is a comedian for naming them after muppets😭😭 i know he ran out of ideas for names but sir? the muppets? really? i'm over here trying to picture two charming young men with red hair for kermit and oscar and instead have to physically fight back images of a stuffed green frog puppet and a green whatever-oscar-is in a trashcan💀 little benjicott blackwood sparring with two muppets i'm wheezing babes😂😭

[incarnateirony]

Hey Aaron, I was wondering if you would be comfortable sharing whether you have felt more dysphoria or euphoria? The reason I ask is because there's a guy that I followed before they knew that they were trans. He mentioned that they never felt super dysphoric about there body but instead felt incredibly euphoric once they started to transition.

Also what's with the uptick of weird asks? Maybe start to reply to them in emojis they may be able to understand better.

Here's the fun thing: I didn't realize I had dysphoria because nobody could ever be clear about what dysphoria was, and with the media narrative, despite fleeting thoughts in life, I looked in the mirror like, yep, that's my face, I don't hate it. That sure is some kind of face. Solid 6/10 it's an ok face.

It took some major changes in my life to actually reconnect with sensations and stuff I had run from.

There's a thing about the transmasc community. There's like, the stereotype of the suddenly horny as hell trans man, and it's yet again one of those "Stereotypes exist for a reason" things. It happened before me, it happened to me, and it's happened to friends after me. A lot of us vaguely identify in the ace spectrum a long time because we shoved our impacted boners down so hard and often walled off from sexual engagements that brought up thoughts from different angles and so on. (To clarify bc this is tumblr, I'm not saying "all ace ppl are actually trans", just that it's sorta an umbrella a lot of us hide under while also often starting at they/them because culturally internalized misandry makes us go ME??? GUY??? NAWWWWWWWWW.)

Euphoria IDK if I'd consider it that. I mean, sure, nice, you're gendering me that right, I appreciate that, but I'm still a ways out on being where I want visually. I've reached more Anomaly status where not everybody guesses the same or stares weirdly or avoids pronouns. I'm now "That one" at my regular corner store. The local weed peddler got into a fight with other peeps locally about what gender they all think I am. I'm a walking androgyne. So IDK? Not really?

But I find a lot of "I don't have dysphoria" becomes [gets nuked by a sudden boner we haven't effectively firewalled out] MAN DOWN MAN DOWN. shecallsmecrustdaddy

The lack of discussion of this forwardly due to the increasing creep of conservative sex-badism creeping into liberal spaces just kinda obscures this for a lot of us. To the point supposed allies not only once cornered me in a femme mosh pit of justifying how I understand male perspective, but while demanding to know What Men Think Of Attractive Women like taking a mallet to the source of all dysphoria WHILE setting up the Man Bad acme trap for me.

I had a very Not Fun valentines day this year despite my valentine pitch itself going swimmingly, thanks Allies(TM).

No seriously I will die mad about the events of February 14 2023, and frankly, this supposed community was so insufferable during that period, I almost chose to do so promptly.

But that goes to say, any positive feeling of gendering is a far more passive form than the electrocution directly to my spinal pierogi when the phantom boner button is getting slammed.

I don't know, maybe there's other less... neurological? forms of dysphoria. I don't know. Ever since opening up and fully accepting what's going on internally with me both mentally and physiologically, the joke buzzer effect is diminished and just replaced with the horns, it's like the mental internal electrocution was there to try to tame it out of reaching my conscious mind. I do not know how to describe it, it isn't as dramatic as a full blown real electrocution (I've also survived one of those) but I mean the. I don't know. The neural shock of dissonance being sharp and making things fuzzy.

So I don't deal with that shit as much anymore either, but I dont think I'd be like, omg, over the moon about being the 1,000th trans man to overcompensate and grow a werewolf beard? Like half of it is accepting my body is half transitioning in that direction anyway, I'm growing a goatee pre-T, so??? IDK??? I just keep on living as me, just less pelvic sparklers shooting rockets up my spine to offline my brain these days.

My form of dysphoria is/was like my own brain trying to do its own gay conversion therapy shocks in the background until my sex drive was totally buried. Even without T, the second THAT bullshit was unpacked my life got better. But I lived with it so long I just marked it under Shit I Considered Normal Cuz I Didnt Hate My Face Or Whatever. Any external modifications I make is a mix of leaning into what my body is doing anyway on the intersex spectrum while just minimizing confusion and conflicts on why I literally Cannot Think Like The Other Girls. And not in the "teehee im not like the other girls" way. There are just. There's primitive and basal shit that people would clutch pearls about, from sexual, social and psychological. I'm not about to go into Male Brain Vs Female Brain because it's not that fuckin straightforward but like. It's just a thing. I was literally on T and androgens in utero because of my mom. It fundamentally adjusted my development. Me living my whole life with teen-boy testosterone they tried to bury under estrogen and made me obese with certainly has its effect on the brains neuroplasticity and that's what I can say about that.

To be entirely blunt about this, long long ago I was a horny whore, I fisted my way across half the continental US. But then I settled down with a wifey who kept claiming I was being Too Man, complaining I move Like A Man, asking why I move Like A Man, implying it was too aggressive or hurt her despite *no* signs of that in the moments or calls to stop beyond the good old tap-out five orgasms in that you stop, like. That fucks with you, and you start realizing something is different about you, and you just don't want to think about sex anymore because omg too man and might hurt them but most of all she doesn't think about it like I do, it must not just be a lesbian thing? She never stopped to consider the effects that had on why our bed went cold, and sure as shit she wasn't gonna initiate. Because again, casually making me the husband both in social convo and between the sheets. That was on me. Even when we rekindled our relationship guess who was giving and guess who was taking. Never clicked. No accountability. Just pompoms on to an easier fight to struggle with, further ahead on the road for her to benefit from, never recognizing her culpability in psychologically fucking me over, while I mutter out the window quietly after trying to talk about phantom boners as an idea she dismisses while plotting to throw me out. So that part was always there. I just put my dick in the box so deep I zapped it out of my brain until I forgot why I got zapped any time intimacy came up, or why I wanted to shut down. And I find, while stories aren't necessarily identical, a LOT of suddenly horny trans guys uproot some similar trauma before--yeah.

Also said ex wife's behavior is why it's so offensive she keeps stealing my shit. I have made sure she will be haunted for life over her Rumpocky Pagan shit. Bitch that's mine as much as Crustdaddy is, and you keep your hands off that name, because that's mine and hers, not yours, and you have no respect for anything. Or stealing my self insert hermes patron character designs for herself, and so on. Like maam you're stealing my trans struggles of over a decade as your branding post-divorce, go die in a lemon-fueled fire. Not my fault you lost the best shit you ever had and keep pining after it and trying to re-enact it.

[lesbianjackies]

ever after high/monster high unpopular opinions

yeah idk i'm bored and in an eah/mh mood. deal with it (ily)

i prefer eah to mh. i'm sorry, i grew up with eah, and though Now i can really appreciate mh, i will always like eah more. tbh i think the story is a bit deeper and honestly better oops

i don't like toralei all that much. this one i'm scared about bc i know everybody Loves Her, but i just. idk. i don't Dislike her or anything i've just never liked her nearly as much as the other characters. and i don't love her design very much, it just doesn't appeal to my personal aesthetic taste. she feels like a meaner, less aesthetically pleasing version of kitty cheshire to me (yes i know toralei came first but still)

now i do dislike frankie. i think she's super boring i'm sorry i don't hate her or anything but. idk she annoys me. i like her design tho

i like cupid's character in eah. maybe it's just because i grew up with ever after high and i'm biased but i don't think she's terrible in eah. i get the argument that they kinda reduced her character to a dexter simp and that she's more passive and yada yada but... number one she was in a whole different and entirely new world. it makes sense for her to be more passive and shy and stuff because she's in this new world that's totally different and that has a Lot more rules than the monster high universe. and also the fact that her personality kinda becomes dexter is kinda... realistic? like it's not Healthy don't get me wrong but like. a lot of people will become really obsessed with somebody they're attracted to and it can be normal for a lot of people to turn their crush into their personality. i think had the show gone on we would've seen cupid branch out more and get over dexter and become the cupid we knew and loved in monster high- we just didn't get enough time with her in the land of ever after. also i like her design in eah i like her mh design more but i think the ever after one is really cute!! also i think her personality's kind of adorable in ever after high.

i think some of the mh reboot dolls look really cool. like don't get me wrong the swimsuit ones and the family ones and a lot of the others are So Bad but a lot of them i really like!! i can't think of any examples and don't have to energy to look them up but i went through all of the monster high dolls with my bsf the other day and i remember liking a good amount of the reboots.

apple x raven makes me so uncomfy. my mom pointed out to me that raven's dad being the good king implies that her father is snow white's dad and that just makes me feel very icky about rapple. bc that means they are related. blood related. that means raven is snow white's half sister. and therefore apple's aunt. discosting.

i like lagoona!! a lot!!! i get that she doesn't have Much personality but idk. i think she's sweet and i really really love her and her design. fuck gil tho

raven annoys me tbh. i don't hate her or anything but she just kinda irritates me and i don't like her voice very much. sorry erin fitzgerald

i don't like darabella. i think it's boring ok there's no spice no flavor i don't like it!! i Get that she makes him a better person i Get it it makes Sense but No. i like daring x lizzie aha. i think the reason i prefer dizzie is because #1: spice and #2: with darabella rosabella makes daring a better person but he does absolutely nothing for her. like he does nothing to break her out of her shell or make her think of herself more or smth like that it's completely one-sided. with dizzie (and cerise x daring, which i also like but not as much as dizzie) you see daring sacrifice himself for lizzie's sake and you see lizzie soften around him. it's mutually beneficial and very, very cute. i love them.

alrighty!! hope these were enjoyable, and don't feel bad if you disagree with me (also don't send me hate over it bc that's not cool!!) it's my personal opinion and the things i say mean absolutely nothing y'all i'm a fucking idiot. love u

[littlespoonevan]

man, seeing all this tw contents is really bringing back all the hurt, disappointment and noatalgia in me. i've largely avoided anything tw related ever since allison's death but i can't help but go through your tags and read your thoughts on it. mainly because they share my sentiment of the show ended up being a burnt heap of wasted potentials lol. rmb when the whole fandom agreed the sherriff's name was john? and all the theories about allison being controlled by the druid?

and all the speculations and headcanons surrounding stiles' polish name? well, that was fun i gotta admit. i know they fucked up but i what i got from one of the reunion gifs you reblogged is: melissa didn't end up with john?? if that's true then holy shit, how did they even screw up the one hetero ship EVERYBODY was rooting for lmao. sorry for springing this on you, but my only comfort post 3b is laughing at the trash pile that this show has become u.u

oh and i discovered this a while ago but your ao3 handle used to be my tumblr one (or maybe something along that line). i have long since deleted it, but yeah you would not have mistaken me for being anything but bitter over the treatment of allison argent just looking at that name. i was pleasantly surprised when i first found you through shameless fics haha.

ahaha i get you, bud. going back through my theories tag i was reminded of all the amazing ideas people came up with that never ended up happening :/ idk how or why we couldn’t have the more basic things either like the sheriff being called john or melissa/sheriff (when i watched the finale and saw melissa and chris together i was like????????????????? excuse me??????????) but yeah it’s a shame the quality went downhill. i’ll always treasure the first 3 seasons though :’)

and we must’ve been url twins on here then! bc allyasavedtheday was also my tumblr url for a v long time (can you believe i only deleted the sideblog i had with that url saved like a couple of weeks before i started rewatched sadjfh of course) i loved when crystal said that’d be the name of allison’s own show <3

[turbocao]

I don't think your "abstract" way of thinking is wrong in any way, it's just your way! I've heard of people doing that, maybe it's just less common ^ ^ I'm really curious as how it works, because I myself have this kind of ongoing monologue/conversation with myself from the moment i wake up, so I struggle to imagine something different from that

ive also heard stuff about how not everybody has an internal monologue! but it seems most people do, for most of the time, so that makes me feel... uneasy, like im not taking full advantage of this very human tool called language...

it also doesnt feel right bc i have a feeling i used to have more of an internal monologue when i was younger and then i lost it. but maybe im remembering things wrong?????? like, i can still relate when people talk about their internal monologue. i do have it sometimes, too, but most of the time i dont.

the way i think it's like, for example:

im thirsty, so i get this feeling of thirst in my head, then i picture myself getting up and grabbing my water bottle, then i get this feeling of lazyness because im laying down on the sofa and im so comfortable and i dont wanna get up... but its all feelings. at no point there is any sort of voice in my head going literally "oh i am thirsty, i should get up and grab some water" like, the feeling of being thirsty it's already there, it's like i dont need a voice to tell me ??????

do you have an internal voice in these kind of everyday situations?? it sounds exhausting to me, but it also does sound like the way it should be done. like, put some effort into your life instead of living on autopilot, will you? i really do feel like im not living up to my full intellectual potential when i think about my lack of an all-day internal monologue.

because i DO use words in my head when im dealing with more complicated things than simply being thirsty. when simply "feeling" things doesn't cut it, i switch to words, specially for abstract concepts. the words still sound very faint in my head in those cases, and it would still be hard for me to repeat out loud the words i just thought (?) (??? idk?) and if the thought is just too fucking hard to solve, i use words in an even more conscious way, like im reasoning with myself, and i hear the words in my head with more clarity.

so its not like my thinking is abstract 100% of the time or that im unable to think in words. i just automatically think in feelings unless i have to actually put effort into the thought. like, the more complex it is, the more "clear" the words become in my head. which is kind of funny, now that i think about it: the more abstract the concept, the least abstract my thinking process. hmm. either way... it is how it is, i guess.

[wri0thesley]

> So... your askbox is always open, yes? I just... look. I loved P3. And I've just been thinking a lot about a chivalrous mom friend that joins the crew and just... takes care of these dorks. Like Kakyoin was going crazy over that evol baby? Someone please put an arm and hold this boy and listen to him for a bit even if you don't believe him but make him cALM. Or Polnareff and his brash attitude? Tell him you care for his well being and show him how to keep your cool. Jotaro and his awkwar

“-awkward self? Gently nudge him to get out with y'all and buy him nice food and enjoy the quiet and your surroundings. Talk with Avdol and his homeland and his language and just - more Avdol??? idk?? Avdol is so cool. Joseph seems like that cool gramps that has a lot of wisdom but can be a perv but he’s ok and you actually have a lot of comic talk and his adventures and– story-teller, this dude. But really let me have a polite frend in that crew that puts themselves in front of dangerfor these dudes because they have a stand that protecs, they want to protec, and they believe they’ll be ok in the end - and even if they don’t get out of this - they can pave way for these guys and save someone - Holly, an innocent bystander - and know they did the right thing. Lemme have a pal that bursts into singing and fencing matches with Pol Pol, or someone who teaches Kak too about other cultures and languages - actually just lemme have this calm, motherly pal to go along with them.   and I ranted a lot and Idk what I was asking for in the first place. maybe just. protector frend in the crew…? and maybe hcs of who falls for ‘em or becomes besties??? idk man. i just want to protect the whole crew and let them have a bright future and happines. oh. and Iggy. let them have the doggo nap on their lap, bond with them through trial and error, defeating enemies. … phew. lot of ranting. i just want some slow burn ok. srry but ur a cool approachable person so i ranted 

MOM FRIEND HEADCANONS BENEATH THE CUT!!! (also i’ve been saving this ask bc i knew i’d have fun writing it, i love you friend!!!

(First Impressions)

Jotaro has a mother, and despite outward appearances he’s very fond of her. It will take him a little while to warm up to anyone who reminds him of her; he’s on this mission for her sake, so liking somebody so much like her will make his heart ache. What if it feels like he’s replacing her? On top of that, he ordinarily can’t stand being fussed over. Kakyoin is drawn to people who make others smile, and that’s one thing that this particular friend is good at. He feels warmed by their easy nature, but still, frightened. He has seen first-hand what DIO can do, and he fears that their friendly nature will put them at a disadvantage when it comes to battle.Joseph likes that this friend of Jotaro’s is polite and well-mannered, that they speak to him with a respect that he deserves! Jotaro gets a lot of pointed looks and comments about kids these days. The ways in which the friend reminds him of Holly are numerous, but unlike Jotaro these just bestir Joseph to want to take care of them and make sure they’re safe. Avdol’s profession means he reads people well; if their stand doesn’t tip him off that they’re a protector, the aura around them will. He’s calm and collected and, as one of the more serious and pragmatic of the crew, is glad to have them around because a healer will be useful. Polnareff starts off with flirting because that’s what he’s used to doing; but, spending time with them and realizing that they genuinely care about what they’re doing and believe in the SDC as a whole will make affection swell up in him. He’s on this mission for his sister - everyone but the motherly friend is here for someone, and Polnareff respects that 

(On the Road)- MomFriend (hereby referred to as m/f) notices that Jotaro is awkward around other people, that he hides his eyes behind his hat and seems at a loss for what to do when not fighting. It’s m/f who slides in beside him; after ascertaining that he does not do small talk, they walk in companionable silence and Jotaro is glad for the company. As time wears on, they make sure to include him when the group is bantering, to pull him along when they go out for food - Jotaro rolls his eyes and yare yare dazes, but he’s glad to be involved. When m/f holds up the camera to take a Polaroid of all of the boys together, he’s glad that in ten years he can look back on his memories with a smile. - In the case of ‘BABY STAND’, m/f is outnumbered when they try to convince people to at least listen to Kakyoin and try and figure out what he’s trying to say - it’s they who sit with him and apologize for the rash decision, and Kakyoin is comforted that even though m/f clearly doesn’t believe him, they’re willing to try. They smile and clap their hands in delight when he drops out a new piece of cultural information, and Kakyoin finds himself driven with desire to tell them more - when they match with facts of their own that Kakyoin didn’t know, he’s delighted. He wants to talk with them forever and work out all of their secrets. He’s never had friends before, but now he has a group of them, and he can’t remember a time in his life he’s ever felt less lonely. - Joseph loves to tell stories about his past; sometimes they are deeply boring ones about real estate, but sometimes they are genuinely interesting ones about the time he defeated a group of Aztec Gods or the time he saved himself and his rich uncle from plane hijackers - Jotaro has heard the stories before, a million times, but m/f is fascinated and Joseph is glad for the rapt attention. Yes, he has a tendency to flirt - with winks and risque jokes - but he’s doing it for the blush on m/f’s face and not for any real interest in betraying Suzie, and m/f can tell. They sometimes even flirt back just to see Joseph’s face, much to Jotaro’s abject horror. - Avdol is the quietest on the trip, preferring to speak only when necessary - m/f, when approaching him, is careful. They know the least about Avdol - he seems entirely self-possessed and dependent, but who knows what kind of temper he might be hiding? M/F, then, is delighted to find that Avdol’s serious demeanour hides someone who cracks jokes at the same pace as Joseph, even if his are many-layered. M/F begins to understand why Joseph and Avdol get along so well - and when m/f begins to ask questions about Avdol’s home, he’s only too quick to answer. He’s proud of his heritage, and of his little fortune-telling business, and as the others listen to the pride glowing in his voice they feel bad that they have never bothered asking. - It becomes clear to m/f that Polnareff is a goofball whose chivalrous demeanour can easily be derailed if one tells him a good enough joke, and it becomes somewhat of a game among the more fun-loving of the group (everyone aside from Jotaro) to see who can make him laugh at the most inopportune moments. When he puts on the radio and begins to bounce excitedly, m/f is so pleased to see him grin that they join in, much to Polnareff’s delight. He still flirts relentlessly with them, but m/f is now able to see that it’s just part of Polnareff’s charm - he barely even realizes he’s doing it, it’s so much second nature to him. When m/f heals him after a particularly harsh fight, he feels so grateful to them he almost cries. 

(Various)- It takes Iggy a while to warm up to them, as it does for him to warm up to any. He’s perturbed by how much m/f seems to like Polnareff, but he soon learns that m/f is a soft touch when it comes to anyone in their team, and he begins to slumber by their side and come barking at them when he runs out of chewing gum. He’s even more devoted to them after they heal his leg after the fight with Pet Shop - part of the reason he defends Polnareff so viciously and single-mindedly in the fight with Vanilla Ice is because he knows it will make m/f sad if he perishes. - If m/f lives, the most likely romantic link-up between any of the characters is Polnareff. He has no family, and during the time on the road he and m/f grow closer until the idea of being without them makes his heart hurt - m/f likes taking care of him, likes the goofy smile that blooms across his face whenever they tell him he’s handsome. They like how oblivious he seems when he’s being a dork. It’s a happy relationship. - They keep in contact with Joseph and Jotaro; Joseph excitedly invites them both to visit New York and meet Suzie. He doesn’t flirt quite so hard when they do - m/f can see why. Suzie is a formidable woman. 

(Extra)- In an AU in which everybody lives, it’s entirely likely that m/f could end up with Kakyoin. He’s reassured by their presence, likes the way their smile lights up the room, likes that they take care of him and everyone else. He thinks about spending the rest of his life travelling the world with them, soaking up knowledge and trading bits and pieces of trivia. He’s never had friends before, but with m/f he feels like he’s found another little piece of his soul. - Whatever happens, whoever it is that m/f ends up with, Iggy will want to follow them. Not just because they feed him gum and make a fuss of him (though that’s important to him too) - their presence calms him, and Iggy feels as though he’s had enough adventure in his life. He’d like to settle down and sleep in front of a fire. 

[tracelii]

okay but i've been thinking about the ama/scp au for a bit and what if one of the students eventually developed an immunity to the amnesiacs, bc they get sent to detention for so long?? and they start uncovering what's actually going on beyond the school walls and how they're being experimented on/observed/controlled/etc. so 1. who would this student be and 2. would they immediately tell anyone or try to keep it on the down low (i don't blame them bc the school would be heavily monitored)

Ok lets take this a couple of people at a time- more amixture of ideas rather than just an answer to ur question bc I need adistraction in my sucky life lm ao: so here are a lot of ‘what ifs’. ‘what ifthis person was the only person to find out about the scientist, studying them andthe other kids in the school? What would this person do???’

If Jared (incubus) found out, he’d have to keep it low. Atfirst he appears to want to bring it up to his mother, oddly enough--- but he figureshis friends are in trouble, and his mother would hate how they were treating her son. But he brings up ahypothetical situation to her and is shut the hell down for ‘being foolish’, sohe ends up keeping quiet about it, and half thinks maybe he should ‘charm’ someof the students into wising up to the scheme.

If Satch (familiar) found out, he’d keep quiet because hedoesn’t tend to ask people of help, and of course, he’d want to know all thefacts. Tbh he’d probably get caught trying to use his Library clearance to digup some real info on the school and the people behind it.

It would be very difficult for PBG or Ian (vampire) to findout about it since their detentions (and testing and such) specifically takeplace during the day since that’s when they’re at their weakest (and Ian cansleep though anything I swear to god). I don’t see them finding out unlesssomeone specifically told them or someone really fucked up and sent them to adetention that started at night.

Jeff (alien) wouldn’t initially understand why this was…wrong, so to say. He enjoys science and actually could probably be coerced intohelping out (under the guise of appeasing his science appitite) without reallygetting the morals of it, unless he sees his friends being hurt or mistreated.Though he was told they were made to forget for their safety, He would probablybecome a little suspicious after too long, and would feel bad (and not knowwhy) that he was hiding this secret from his friends. He just wants to learn,ok!!!

Caddy (phoenix) would be mad as h el l ofc but I mean,splashing him with too much water makes him sick, it wouldn’t be much to keephim silent. In fact, he doesn’t find out. He’s too weakened already, so itseasy to forget whats happened to him. He always comes back from detention witha cold and he fucking hates it.

Wallid (fukin cryptid) cannot be studied. Believe me they’vetried. He doesn’t remember either. Its in his nature to be super unpredictableand unobservable. No info avalible on the wallid ok. He probablyunintentionally just remembers all of a sudden like theyre all sitting at atable and hes just like ‘wait a second guys when you guys were sent todetention did they do some weird stuff like… idk, try to study on you and allthat junk’ and hb just fucking stare at him like wh a t

Jimmy (pooka/fae) is another unfortunate person to manipulatewhat with iron and stuff. The scientist are extracareful to keep jimmy’s detentions to a minimum and erase as much of his memoryof it as possible bc the second he catches on its cuuuuurses for everybody!

If Luke were to find out about it, he’d be oddly quiet aboutit. He’s a frustrated boy with an outside smile as it is, he doesn’t want totrouble anyone with stuff he doesn’t understand (because as a siren he doesn’t understanda lot). He usually comes back from detention sick as heck (as does Caddy) withhis voice hoarse and dehydrated as shit

With the continue were-bois, they would all handle it differently,if they were ‘the one to find out the big secret’ but eventually come clean toeach other first. Paul would blab right away and probably get one of his boiskidnapped/an extra long detention bc of it, Nick would be more reserved, butwould soon start to worry about his friends and tell them, and Josh would holdonto the secret the longest, and start working behind the scenes to keep hisother continue bois from getting detention.

Jirard (dragon) wouldn’t quite understand, but if thescientists caught on that he knew, they would hold all of his friends againsthim, leaving him quite the moral dilemma wondering if he could ever tell anyoneelse. He would treat his friends, or especially any student who recently haddetention, super nicely and make themcookies and try to cheer them up though no one knows why. Of course Jirard justends up running himself ragged taking care of others, and even offers to thescientist for them to just take him instead of watching his friends like this(they don’t take that offer, but he wholeheartedly offers it)

Shane (muse) ofc wouldn’t say a damn thing but he’d be sour as fuck and everyone wouldknow it. There would be no relaxing aura about him, and no inspiration drawnfrom him. He’d wall himself up even more if he knew about the scientist. Beinga muse, his detentions usually deprive him of things that inspire him likenature, and a loving environment, so even if he doesn’t find out about thescientist, his detentions put him in a mood that lasts several days.

With Jon (harpy) he probably wouldn’t find out much, butwhenever he comes back from detention, his wings are very sore (as he hasn’t flown)and Jacques isn’t allowed to come with him (which don’t separate this bird andhis bird ok) so he’s usually sullen until he can see Jacques again.  

[sayakxmi]

[Magi reread] Night 38: Junkyard Street

Bro, my heart is not ready.

Alibaba just says that, yeah, Cassim's the real leader of the Fog Troupe, but it seems like he'd always wanted Alibaba to lead... Nah, he didn't. He wanted Alibaba to be bright & catch attention, and to control him from the shadows, probably.

Bro, I'm so sad. Look at him grinning.

Honestly, back to smart Alibaba, the whole tunnel thing. Thinking outside the box and all that.

I love them, but also shoutout to that kid on bottom-right stealing the flag while these two are busy fighting.

AGH

: (

Literally all of this is sad, and then there's Alibaba being jealous abt his mom being stolen, lmao. Also, man he's so casual about death here, just, yea, idk what happened, maybe he ran, maybe he killed himself, who knows.

Not that he desevred anything better, but still. Death must've been such a common occurrence in the slums.

Agh. Look at them. Alibaba's living his best life, Anise is always smiling, Mariam is so happy, and Cassim's so awkward it's all so precious. Also, I suddenly remembered that Cassim propsed to Anise like 3 times, lmao. But UGH they were a FAMILY

So, I guess Alibaba watched it happen?

But also, agh, look at Cassim's expression ;_;

Other than that, I'm thinking again abt Aibaba doing something similar for Aladdin in his introduction chapter, like, I wish we knew more about Anise. How much of Alibaba came from her?

Like, bro, what's there to say, I'm just sitting here, being sad. Also, do you guys think Alibaba might have some trauma related to illnesses? I usually hc that he does, I mean, the slums in general, but also literally his mom, his father, then as he finds out, Mariam... Everybody in his family died out of illness, except for Cassim, who'd killed himself. Jesus.

Everybody's moms are dead, except for that one who should be dead.

UGHHHH

Honestly, pretty cool that they were helped out.

Ugh, baby.

And that goddamn horn gets me.

: (

No, but seriously. He later gets mad at Alibaba for not doing all that stuff... Alibaba was willing to do, except Cassim told him no. Like, bro, you're sending him mixed signals.

Alibaba: Can I help steal?

Cassim: No

Cassim, some time later, angry: You live such a proper life, you never steal, you never-

Alibaba's hair looks so messy, Cassim's self-loathing hits pretty hard, but here I'll offer you something somewhat silly.

Like, it's better in the anime, cuz Cassim says "you should live a respectable life like your mother", which Alibaba very much could have taken as "have you considered becoming a prostitute?" And I just find it kinda funny.

Why must you hurt me that way

Also, Cassim looks like he hadn't slept well in days. Probably exactly what happened, tbh.

I wonder why.

Merry Crisis

And I've always liked that choice to have Rashid be just a faceless silhouette from Alibaba's perspective here. Father is for emotional distance, lmao.

He wanted Cassim to tell him to stay : ( But no one ever tells him to stay : (

Ugh, I am being destroyed by this chapter again.

1 - BRO YOU LITERALLY TOLD HIM NOT TO and 2 -

AGH

;_;

It's both sad and silly at the same time.

Also, it's now that I realize that he probably has a black eye, that's why he looks like that.

Man, this makes so sad. And also. FATHER IS FOR EMOTIONAL DISTANCE

Like, Rashid was a shit father. A pretty good king, a good mentor, but a shit father. He just kind of. Wasn't there. For any of his sons. According to SnB he left the first two for their mother to care for, then was disappointed they didn't turn out how he wanted them to. And you also get the impression that he started searching for Alibaba bc he gave up on these two. Which is shitty for them, and shitty for Alibaba. He had his life turned upside down, because Rashid was too busy playing around in other nations & teaching the one kid that wasn't his, than actually making sure his country has proper heirs.

Like, don't get me wrong, I actually like Rashid, all of these things make him interesting, but a good parent award is definitely not for him.

sordboy

Sth I keep on forgetting is that Alibaba never liked swordplay.

He didn't hate economy in practice, tho. And didn't hate reading, too, especially the stories about Dungeons.

Progress!

Weird fate shit.