#it's not that I like her. but I also don't...dislike her

[grimmbane]

Yeah, I went the opposite way in my fic. In my fic, there's werewolves, vampires, and humans all over Piltover and Zaun, the main difference is how they're treated. Piltover oppresses werewolves and vampires heavily while Zaun is very open and accepting of werewolves and vampires considering their founding.

I would have made Mel a werewolf in my fic since Ambessa is one, but per the lore of my AU, due to the influence of the Arcane/magic in her, she's a human. I decided that werewolves are more magic based than vampires ofc and i guess slightly different than the Arcane magic so the werewolf magic cannot enact on the Arcane so Mel never becomes a werewolf.

Which is also why Piltover seems more hostile to werewolves as Piltover distrusts/dislikes magic so werewolves are seen as more of a threat than vampires

I'll go more into my lore below the cut. It's still a wip and subject to change.

A lot ofwerewolves in Piltover usually work as Enforcers. It's framed as one of the few jobs actively accepting werewolves, especially during pre-independance Zaun as Piltover is highly prejudiced against werewolves and vampires. But vampire traits are easier to hide than werewolf traits.

So werewolves tend to have difficulty finding jobs due to the full moon transformations. (However, vampires tend to get worse PR) Most of Piltover's werewolf enforcers are assigned to Zaun because of Zaun's werewolf (and vampire) population and the amount of unregistered werewolves. Piltovan werewolves are required to wear collars while in wolf for, and there are a lot of restrictions against shifting in public/being in wolf or half-form. Werewolves are typically shown less mercy in the courts. Very few if any houses have werewolves, the exception being House Talis and probably others I don't know about, but most werewolves are not of Houses, especially not noble.

Piltovan werewolves, however, tend to see themselves as above Zaunite werewolves and tend to see them as feral and violent.

The dissolving of Piltover's Underground werewolf Enforcers unit is actually what causes the rise in Piltover's growing underground and that underground's animosity towards Zaun which we see in "Champion" eventually leads to the invention of "Glimmer" as a Shimmer knockoff and attempt to incite hostilities as part of the agreement between Zaun and Piltover is that Shimmer would not be allowed to be distributed in Piltover.

Vampires are typically more hidden in Piltover and more hush hush, even more fractured than the vampire factions of Piltover before Silco unified them, a step to helping them rebel. However Piltovan laws make it extremely difficult for vampires to get blood because blood parlours are illegal, forcing more Piltovan vampires to buy from Zaun's blood parlours or outright move to Zaun. Most vampires that do live in Piltover are either rich enough or have humans close enough to them to get blood from.

Rations between werewolves and vampires are even worse in Piltover than in Zaun, even worse than how things had been before Silco and Vander rose to power. As they both see each other as rivals and with envy as they believe the other to have things "better" but their both getting the short end of the sticks

Most of Piltover's upperclass and elite are still solidly human. There may be a few vampire and werewolf Houses but tend to be lower class and rarely get any marriage prospects out of fear/distrust.

And in the first chapter of "Champion", we see how many beliefs the humans have about werewolves and vampires that are plainly untrue/lies and also like seeing "Zaunite Vampires" and "Piltovan Vampires" are practically viewed as separate species

There's also the "Piltover has no ides of the existence of hybrids" and Viktor goes to some lengths to pass as a vampire (noting there wasn’t a "hybrid" option on the paperwork) as he's a hybrid but with more vampire traits.

The Arcane fandom loves a vampire/werewolf dynamic but sometimes it’s so obvious the only thought going into it is “rich = vampire, poor = werewolf”

What do you MEAN you think Mel wolf-metaphor, inherited violence Medarda would be the VAMPIRE??? I’m going to die

[dunmeshistash]

ive always wondered if milsiril's overprotectiveness of kabru was less because of infantilisation (although she def like all elves has that problem) and more so out of guilt. she was a captain of the canaries during the Utaya incident I believe and she witnessed what happened and she couldn't stop it. and she left the canaries because of it and took in the kid who was the Only survivor, raised him in extreme comfort so he'd never see the horrors again and didn't want him anywhere near the dungeons! like i think learning self defense for defenses sake would have made her hesitant but she would have obliged but because it was specifically for the dungeons she was so against it. also like he must have had a rough few years dealing with that trauma as well which doubled her protectiveness

I believe it's a mixture of both, I don't think you can really take away the guilt (actually unsure if that's the best word to describe it) nor the race relations from how Milsiril sees Kabru.

I am the Milsiril apologist ™ but the fact she see's Kabru as a child even now is a big part of their relationship, she's a mother that can't grow up (both for being an elf and for her own issues) and that has to cope with her children outgrowing her fast

Putting a read more cause as usual when it's about Milsiril I talk too much

We can see in every way Milsiril acts that she sees Kabru at most as a toddler during his time with her, she's hand feeding him, has him in a room full of toys and talks about him like he's a cute baby.

I think people are too mean about this side of Milsiril tbh. I think it makes her interesting and it's clear (to me at least) that she does her best to provide for her children even if she doesn't truly understands them. Even in that first interaction with Kabru where she's trying to hand feed him they were *already* training with swords beforehand.

Milsiril also talks to Kabru in a way that kinda seems to expect him to understand more than what a small child would like we can see in the AB extra

So her infantilization doesn't extend to underestimating him at least, rather I think that's how she shows affection (which is still bad 😭)

Anyway, about her trauma with the dungeon and guilt (or maybe shame? Fear?), I do think that was one of the motivations for her to take Kabru in as I said in this post (beware I am a Milsiril apologist and I am VERY biased in seeing her in a more positive light, doesn't mean it's true) but I think that side of her manifests in her sudden switches from crybaby mom to ruthless master

Milsiril is very emotionally unstable from what we can see, she's really trying to convince Kabru not to go into dungeons and when tears don't work she switches into training him so hard he'll give up on his own. I've seen people call this her "true colors" or say she was using "crocodile tears" but in my opnion both the tears and the threat are genuine, I don't think it's a planned switch but rather the fact she's unstable to begin with, both the crybaby mom and the scary swords master are her true self.

Anyway! I think both guilt and infantilization are intertwined in her love towards Kabru, I've said this before but she's a flawed caretaker in a world where she does not have the resources to become a better one. She's traumatized she's depressed and she's an elf, but she's the only one (that we know) willing to at least *try* to treat the people she cares for the correct way. If it wasn't for Milsiril Kabru would have been raised by elves like Rin was (and we know that went very bad, they traumatized her), and Mithrun might not have received the proper rehab he needed to go back into the canaries (He might have managed but we see Milsiril put in the effort to help him cope besides being the one to tell him about Utaya)

That is all to say: Milsiril is still flawed!! It's part of what I love about her, and it's the reason so many people dislike her too. I'm saying this cause sometimes when I go on my Milsiril rants I get asks putting down Kabru to raise her up and that's like, very uncomfortable lmao. Even if she did her best he still was the one that to deal with all of her shortfallings while being raised and he's still the one responsible for getting to where he is, she just made is easier than it could have been.

Disclaimer as is usual for my Milsiril posts: I'm a Milsiril fan, my interpretations of her are very charitable because I often see people being way too uncharitable about her. Please read the original material and make up your own interpretation, this posts only contain what I think it's relevant for my point not an objective view of the whole. I've also already made several posts about her and I don't want to keep repeating myself so if you think I glossed over something important that's probably why.

Edit: thinking more about it, maybe rather than feeling guilty herself she might blame "elves" as a whole for the failure in Utaya, it does say she left it "in disgust". It's not that clear how she feels about it.

I still think it's shared trauma though, I don't think it's possible for Milsiril to not have been affected by what happened there and I think it's part of why she doesn't want Kabru to go to dungeons again. But her way to cope is to turn away from it (and blaming "elves" might be part of how she copes) while Kabru's is to face it so it doesn't happen again

[miwiheroes]

i've literally had a discovery while writing a fic that Mike is very inconsistent in how he views 'being cool' or being one of the popular kids. like, i'm trying to figure out how Will would view Mike in this sense, like would he think Mike would want to be popular or not?

one the one hand, Mike has said EXPLICITLY 'has it ever occurred to you that we don't want to be popular?'

but then there's this part of his character that constantly tries to seem cooler than he actually is (wearing the clothes in the airport to fit in a cali, saying 'do i look cool?' to el in SBP, the whole of S3). Also Finn has stated twice that Mike just wants to be 'as normal as possible' and a 'normal teenager'. Which goes against his dislike of popular kids.

then i realised he only really wants to seem normal in front of el or when he's in her presence. when he's not with her, he seems different. it's like, built into the show atp this isn't just a theory or based on external evidence omg

[kykyonthemoon]

7 Days the mini-series

About this series: ✈️

Day 05: Sunshower

I was used to just him and me, always together. However, as we grew older, our own worlds expanded, and more people came.

I didn't think about it until one day.

That day, I headed to Caleb's school after class. We went to school and returned home together day by day. There was going to be a volleyball tournament between high schools in the district, so he often had to stay after class to practice. I chose a good spot in the grandstand, and finding him among the players on the field was not a problem to me at all.

Whether it was studying or playing sports, I loved seeing him putting all his mind into it. Occasionally, he would glance towards the stands, then smile when he saw me there. When he scored, I wouldn’t hesitate to stand up and scream: “YAYYY!!! CALEB YOU'RE SO COOL!!!” And every time, his teammates would constantly make fun of him till his ears turned crimson.  While in the stands, the girls in the upper grades would glance and me and whispered:

“Who is that girl?”

“I don’t know. She must be crazy about Caleb…”

“Who wouldn’t like him? Caleb is so handsome, and kind!”

“OMG!!! He’s staring at us!!!”

A few seats ahead of me, the females began to conceal their faces and laugh among themselves. I had no idea why my stomach felt uneasy. I sat down and remained silent throughout the practice that day.

Of course, Caleb didn't understand what upset me so much. Even I could not know what it was. I was too young to start dating, yet old enough to acknowledge the most beautiful emotions of my youth were blossoming. Every afternoon, I waited for Caleb at the sports court before we came home together. And every afternoon, I caught him surrounded by so many other girls.

There was no doubt how popular he was at school. I should be happy for him, since he was everyone's favorite. Yet why could I not get rid of this uncomfortable feeling in my heart? Was it because I was used to being the only one by his side? Was it because I disliked the idea of sharing him with anyone else?

That day, after his practice, I saw Caleb talking to a classmate. She was proposing that they take a stroll home together, it seemed. My fists clenched, head bowed, I walked away. There was a tint of soreness on my nose.

After a while, I heard Caleb calling my name. My feet didn't stop, they wanted to go even faster. He caught up with me and took hold of my wrist.

"Pip-squeak? You didn't wait for me today?"

His naïve expression infuriated me even more. I pulled my hand away from him and replied:

"Go home with her."

Every step I made now vented the path that had done nothing wrong. Caleb casually strolled beside me and said:

"Who? Is there anyone else other than the two of us?"

He took notice of my silence, then pulled my hand to stop me. “Come on. Tell me, what have I done wrong?”

The radiant smile on his lips forced me into the situation where I failed to keep my poker face. I pouted and gave him an unkind cheek squeeze, saying:

“Stop smiling.”

“On't ou ike it en I ile?" (Don't you like it when I smile?)

Caleb said as I rubbed his cheeks to let out my sulking though he did not do anything wrong. That very moment, it began to rain, even though the golden sun was still shining brightly.

“Oh, a sunshower?…”

“This is also known as fox rain. Legend has it that when it’s both sunny and raining, it’s the time for the fox to welcome his bride. But our Gran said that this type of weather indicates a quarrel between the Sun God and the Rain God.” Caleb explained and turned to face me. “It seems that you are mad at me too, pip-squeak. I'm not sure what I did wrong, but... could you kindly forgive me??”

I didn’t answer right away, yet the smile on my lips gave him the answer. I held his hand in mine and we continued walking on the long path.

“Caleb… Will you… date someone else in the future?”

“Huh? Dating? Why are you curious about it?”

“Well… I was just thinking… When I grow up a little more and you’re not with anyone, I… I will be your date... Is that alright?”

Our hand squeezed, he grinned, as bright as the sun and the rainbow in the rain in front of our path home.

[captain-kit-adventuress]

Jo even has a whole arc (in the 1994 movie, and I don't remember if it's in the book or not, I haven't read it in ages), where almost exactly this happens. She's publishing sensationalist literature and making enough of a living that she's got extra to send back home, and her acquaintance Frederich Bhaer (later the aforementioned "funny" husband) is chiding her like, "This is the shit you wanna write? Vampires and all that crap? You're so talented, you should be writing from life, from your heart, there's nothing in here of the woman I know" and she's rightfully offended, like, "I know it's not the most intellectual of work but it will buy a new coat for Beth, who will be very grateful for it," and kind of storms off (again, rightfully). This is an allusion to Alcott's own situation, because Jo implies--and Frederich would have understood--that she has to provide Beth with a new coat because Mr March and Marmee could not.

(There's also a way to read that scene as a comment on patriarchy and what a woman is "supposed" to write, but that's for another time.)

This is the reverse of what Alcott wanted to do, but the comment is the same regardless. Writers have always written for readers because readers are the ones who pay for stories. Back then it was often via newspaper subscriptions and now it's via individual works. How many famous authors also famously disliked their most popular creations? But they didn't stop writing them, even if they tried, because the readers loved them so much and ultimately, that's where the money and therefore the people willing to publish it are. (And it's not just print writing, Tchaikovsky loathed The Nutcracker because he thought it was utterly banal commercial crap.)

It is not some great travesty that writers have to write for readers and that their work is at least partly commercial. The travesty lies in that we are forced to write things that don't interest us for subsistence; not enjoyment or leisure, but the meanest basics. As usual, it's because humans have chosen and now perpetuate the greedily ridiculous idea of survival based on artificial scarcity and not allowing that people have a right to live well simply because they are alive, and that we have to "justify" our art by how many people want to put that survival in danger, however slightly, to obtain it.

I feel like we really lost something when we started looking at writing as a reader-centric product meant to appeal to the desires of a specific audience rather than a writer-centric approach of someone writes whatever particular thing particular compels them/whatever weird thing the demons in their head want to talk about, and people out there who are also compelled, and/or relate, find that writing. A lot of discussions of writing really center around what readers want rather than a writer's exploration. Sometimes as a reader I don't know what I want. I click on a fic or pick up a book I'm not sure about but that looks interesting, and I love it. Reading what I expect to get is it's own joy, but we always need to expand our horizons and not get mad at creators for not always writing what we want/expect.

[rancidslime]

Magic as Metaphor: Witch Hat Atelier

I've seen a few people describer the magic of Witch Hat Atelier as being "like coding", which irritates me. One, I confess to a personal dislike of "coding" magic systems. I think they're overplayed and they strip the emotional component from magic in favor of making something easily wikiable. It's the kind of fictional magic that I think most appeals to what I will unfairly and derisively refer to as Reddit fantasy fans, the kind of people who seriously engage in powerscaling arguments at length. It also just exhausts me by virtue of its adjacency to Silicon Valley mythmaking about the unique genius of programmers and how they're the visionaries building us a better future. But, you know, that's an unfair emotional response.

The BIGGER reason for my dislike, of course, is I think that's an incredibly shallow interpretation that barely engages with what the text is very obviously communicating. Magic in Witch Hat Atelier is art.

The language surrounding magic in Witch Hat is consistently the language of artwork, specifically illustration. Magic is considered "beyond the reach" of people with vision and motor issues. The word most consistently used to refer to the act of casting magic is "drawing". Magic in this series is a very obvious analogue to making illustrations. (Imagine! A mangaka might be doing what a bunch of former programmer novelists did using her OWN area of expertise and internal conflicts with art as inspiration! I'm sorry, I know I'm being snide and that's not helpful, I'm just so exasperated by this interpretation, because it feels to me like such a demonstration of how people routinely devalue and diminish the skills of artists even when they don't mean to.)

Being a good witch requires being to retain knowledge on a wide variety of symbols, consistently make the correct marks, and have the whimsy and ingenuity to come up with new, helpful, or beautiful magic. In other words, having an expansive visual library, being a good draftsman, and having a unique artistic voice.

Coco and her friends are quite young and lack the finer technical skills of their superiors, but their inventiveness and youth are consistently pointed at as strengths. When they impress Beldaruit, it's not through an act of extreme technical proficiency, it's by making something simple and beautiful with the skills they have. One of Agott's biggest triumphs in the series right now is her knowing the curtain leech sigil off the top of her head, because she loves decorative magic and obscure magical minutiae! Even though it's not "useful" for "marketable" in ways other magic is!

Witch Hat isn't just about art by any means - it's also about academia, power, privilege, responsibility, and more. It's a rich text. But I confess to feeling frustrated by just how many people just skim over or outright miss what is, to me, a very core part of the series' identity!

[dollypopup]

so, there's been way too much infighting happening, and frankly a lot of disrespect in general in this fandom, and considering a lot of it is coming from either faceless anon blogs, burner accounts, or what I suspect are new people coming in to tumblr, here's the benefit of the doubt post:

how to tag: Luke, Nic, Polin, Colin, Lukola, Jakola, and Pen edition

tumblr is NOT like other social media platforms. cross tagging things that do not apply to your post generally just makes people upset. there's a very good reason for this: fandoms are communities, and for most people, tags are the community spaces. imagine you're going to the local library (for some people, your only library) and you're looking for a book on dinosaurs. you walk into the section and huh, strange, it's all about meteors? go to the front desk, has the dino section been changed? they take you back to the meteors. not what you're looking for. how about chickens? all well and good, but you want dinosaurs. okay, well, how about the ice age? no, you JUST want a book on dinosaurs. well, they say defensively, they're related. and what are you, anyway? the tag police?

well, first of all, ACAB, so jot that down real fast. but second of all, the outcome of this is that you leave without a book on dinosaurs. . .again. and again. and again.

at a certain point, you will either find that library useless, or you'll get upset.

so, here's the quick guide:

Nicola is in the picture or post? Awesome! Tag Nicola. No Luke? Don't tag Luke. It's just Nicola? Don't tag Polin, or Penelope, or Bridgerton, or Lukola, or whatever have you. It's just Nicola. Nicola and Jake? Tag Nicola and Jake. Tag Jakola. Done.

Nicola is there, but she's in Penelope costume. Cool! Tag Penelope. Tag Nicola. Bridgerton. Season 3. Shondaland. Sure, all justifiable. No Luke? No Luke tag. No Colin tag. No Colin? No Polin tag.

Pen and her and Colin's baby? Yes, tag Polin! No baby, just Pen? No baby, just Colin? Don't tag Polin.

Only Luke in the picture or post? Great! Tag Luke. No Nicola? Don't tag Nicola. Don't tag Lukola. Don't tag Bridgerton unless it pertains to Bridgerton. Don't tag Jakola.

The rule of thumb is- unless it is discussed or pictured, don't tag it. If it isn't there, leave it out of your tags. Otherwise, you're being kind of a jerk.

CAVEAT: If something or someone is discussed negatively. USUALLY, the courtesy is not to tag. Use an anti tag instead. Most people in a community do not go to that community to get dunked on. No, it's not discussion. Yes, it's rude. If you're talking about how much you hate apples? Just go to the anti apple tag. You get a community of people who also dislike apples, and if people DO like apples and go to that tag, they know what they're getting themselves into.

Basically, this is the 'don't get invited to a party and then shit in the pool' clause. Unless that party is a shitting in the pool party. In which case, have at it, and leave it in a tag that warns others

I think there would be a lot less issues in this fanbase if people just. . .stayed in their own lanes. This is where most of the tension is coming from. In the Polin days, it was from people making Pen/OC fics and tagging them Polin, obviously looking for eyes and attention from the larger tag, but ultimately upsetting people there for Polin, and now it's people tagging anything and anyONE that has to do with anything in the general cloud of Bridgerton (actors, love lives, etc.) all at once. Lukola and Jakola are different. Luke is not automatically Colin. Nicola in a picture does not warrant a Luke tag. If they're not there, leave them out of it.

Fandom is a community effort. Please have some respect for your fellow fan and tag accordingly. It's common courtesy, it's good practice, and it'll save a lot of headaches in the end.

[american-horror-whore]

what are your opinions on natalie? i feel like we haven't seen her and evan in a while.

woo, okay, so (long ramble under the cut)

To start off, as i’m aware they haven’t been seen together (relationship wise) since october, though they were spotted hanging out, as what was assumed by many, as friends + accompanied by someone else. As far as the fandom is aware, they didn’t spend Christmas, Thanksgiving, or New Year together, considering Nat was in Australia (her ex was assumed to be around the same area, as he made a post on his story near the same location but take that with a grain of salt since the story is no longer available) and Evan was assumed to be in St. Louis.

As far as my stance goes, i’m neutral on her. there’s some things i like about her, and some things I don’t like, which we’ll be talking about here. as of recent, i’ve heard on many accounts she’ll block anyone that asks about evan. she also turned off her comment section after an argument with a fan where she had called the bond between her and Evan, a ‘friendship’, which threw off many of us. Another account stated that back during the coachella ‘scandal’, she had her friends take a video of her and Evan (while he was assumed to be intoxicated, because well it’s a music festival) and send it off to Deuxmoi, which was then confirmed by them in a podcast, saying the video was sent in by someone in Natalie’s “inner circle”. That part was later cut out of the podcast episode after someone, most likely natalie, reached out to them. she also stated in the comment section argument that she was ‘traumatized’ from said incident, when there is in fact footage of her looking straight at the camera while being on top of him, and she still allows herself to be tagged in that video on instagram, not even attempting to remove it. i personally consider that extremely contradicting, but that’s just my opinion.

I was never ever one to dislike her from the start. I had a hopeful stance on her, but there’s been a few ‘fishy’ incidents with her, and i’ve been trying to dig up as much proof as possible. She seemed like a good-intentioned person, and I don't particularly hate her, but I do wish she wouldn't try these mind games with Evan's fandom, it's like a whole “where's waldo” situation in all of her stories and it's why i’ve been kind of fed up with her. she’d starting to irritate me and adding more things to the pile that make me like her less and less. she doesn't benefit my time at all, which is why i try not to dwell on her too much, but she can’t seem to escape my fyps and dashes. most of the aforementioned evidence was sadly lost after the original evan peters subreddit was privated. I’m currently in contact with a few of the original screenshot sharers to see if they still have them and I will edit this post one I gather the receipts. I’ve been very very open minded about her until these incidents came up, and i still try to be open minded, but it’s started to get a bit difficult. I understand this post might get some backlash, but at this point, it’s my blog, and people on the internet have no say in my actual life. anon, thank you for allowing me to talk about this subject. anyone else who has thoughts, feel free to interact. a respectful back-and-forth is always welcome !!

and to everyone else, consider this my resumé for a position as an official evan peters gossip blog, as well as being a writer 🖤

[jishyucks]

˗ˏˋWhile the World Sleeps — njmˎˊ˗

0. Profiles One !

— y/n.

Major: Nursing Likes: reading, writing, being delusional on purpose, sleeping Dislikes: renjun (im joking), the smell of weed, being wrong Hobbies: does daydreaming count?

y/n’s someone who thrives off of romanticizing every single part of her life, almost to the point where her friends don’t know if she’s joking about her delusions or not—though she obviously uses these delusions to get rid of boredom. works at Nookstore with jisung. roommates with karina and giselle. tends to act before she thinks. lacks sleep because she claims that she's a night owl. just wants life to be more exciting than it currently is.

— yu jimin.

Major: Nursing Likes: flowers, cafes, being helpful, self-care Dislikes: deadlines, bedrotting Hobbies: baking, pilates

y/n’s right hand (wo)man. the one she turns to first when everything seems to be going wrong. hates deadlines despite her type-a personality. y/n’s anchor as much as y/n is her’s. often the voice of reason, if not renjun. she just wants what’s best for her best friend, so she takes care of her in return for the joy she brings her. roommates with y/n and giselle. also has a bit of crazy in her, but it takes a bit to dig it out. best best friend you could have, according to the group.

— huang renjun.

Major: Industrial/Mechanical Engineering Likes: My friends, debating, that one hot pot restaurant near campus Dislikes: Group projects, stupid people Hobbies: Painting and drawing, meditating

practically deemed the only (real) brain cell of the group. although he and y/n always tease and pick at each other, it’s all out of love—she’s almost as close to renjun as she is to karina. loves to counter anything y/n talks about in hopes of making her brain work hard. secretly very loving but won’t admit it. isn't afraid to speak out. shares an apartment with chenle. busy with schoolwork (a little more than) half the time. so very close to losing his patience (his straws are scarce).

— uchinaga aeri.

Major: Nursing Likes: blind boxes, gossip, parties Dislikes: having FOMO & being out of the loop, men Hobbies: nothing, just whatever I feel like doing that day

you know that one friend you have who knows everyone? it’s giselle—though you never really find out until you actually go out of your way to ask her about them. has a ‘if i can do it, then why not?’ mindset. very outgoing, almost too outgoing in a group almost full of extroverted introverts. roommates with y/n and karina, but very rarely at home because she's out and about doing whatever it is giselles do (if not school).

— zhong chenle.

Major: Kinesiology Likes: basketball, stephen curry <3, talking, being a supportive friend Dislikes: homework questions with multiple parts, losing (boooooo) Hobbies: basketball, playing 2k? idk

you could argue that chenle is the most extroverted of the group alongside giselle. loves it when the gc is active and tries his best to be there to contribute to whatever is going on (even if he has no clue what’s going on). plays intramural bball at the gym with his friends and cohort when it’s off-season, and then plays for the team when the season starts. generally just a ball of sunshine. everyone loves him.

— park jisung.

Major: Dance, minor in psych Likes: my lucky hat, performing, dogs Dislikes: mean people, cooking Hobbies: practicing choreo, bedrotting

finds it hard to make good friends so he only has two or three close friends if you don’t count y/n and the group. loves working at Nookstore because it’s cozy and quiet. only recently joined the group but he’s happy to be included. easily swayed. can get a lil lost but everyone’s okay with redirecting him. always means well even if his actions don't quite translate that.

✮ — m.list — next.

an: and so it begins, the first set of profiles !! honestly, this was kinda fun to make.

[littleplantfreak]

Bofurin Parent Hcs 1

It's no surprise Nirei is a doting father. What is a surprise, is how into planning his daughter's birthday parties he is. From the moment she could pick out her own stuff, he's been keeping track of her likes and dislikes. He's also incredibly serious about participation. Even Sakura can't get away without wearing a tiara at the four year old's Princess themed birthday party, complete with live ponies and adorably mismatched tea sets. He's just as serious about his former bofurin member's children's preferences though, making him the perfect person to go to for gift ideas for any occasion. His intel usually comes from overhearing stuff during play dates and even his own children who've learned retaining information like that has its perks.

⏜︵⏜︵⏜ ୨ ♡ ୧ ⏜︵⏜︵⏜

Umemiya loves to sing, hum, whistle - you name it. Whether he's good is another question. Regardless, he's been singing to his kids since they were in the womb (or at least since they were adopted depending on the preference.) He has his toddlers singing in the car with him, their tiny hands waving to the music as they babble. He's the loudest at every birthday, belting out half decent notes as his kids giggle. When they get older and practice for a play, guess who's reading lines and dueting everything? You got it, this guy. Also voted most likely to do the craziest/messiest crafts and activities with his kids. He has no fear of the clean up. Sticky fingers? He's unfazed. There was a line drawn at one point that scissors had to be handled by adults only though, Umemiya's sudden bald spot on the back of his head making Kotoha nearly pass out laughing.

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As I've said before, Kaji is a bit...protective with his kids. His child has a crush? He's got eyes and ears on the ground seeing what's up about this kid. One of those dads that hates new partners his kids bring home and doesn't do a thing to hide it. By the time he's older, he's pretty much kicked the lollipop habit to only needing them 50% of the time. Once his toddlers start asking for them, he buys the sugar-free kids kind, not wanting to give them cavities. Will eat the flavors his kids don't like, especially if they hand it to him. Hiragi's Kaji's chosen godfather and for good reason. When his teenagers get in a fight with their father, they go to Uncle Hiragi for advice, knowing he won't judge them and equally gives them perspective. Little do they know Kaji called him about the same thing a few hours before.

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For some reason I think Tsugeura would be a great girl dad. He embraces however girly they want to be while also letting them practice shoulderlock tackles on their stuffed animals. His kids end up having his confidence and persistence, making quite the whirlwind when they're all together. One of those you-can-hear-them-before-you-see-them families. This guy definitely ends up coaching at least one children's sports team - not even necessarily wrestling. Suo shudders to think the day might come where his child wants to play on the soccer team Tsuge coaches if only because he'll be forced to talk to Tsuge at least twice a week for hours at a time but really the team ends up being a great social and physical activity. He has a bad habit of tearing up when a kid gets so much as a scratch or bruise during games/matches though.

[verdantwyrm]

Bye not me seeing someone call Joetastic's New Year's Curlya vid "genuinely the worst thing to come out of this fandom." Bro, there are so much more worse things that have come out of this fandom. This person also said we shouldn't "normalize" Curlya when the Wrong Organ Twitter literally posted a crappy edit of Curly and Anya over a photo from a romance movie and has also retweeted art of the two that could be interpreted as ship art. Even worse, they said all this in the tags of a a Curlya post they reblogged. It's totally valid if people dislike this ship but I wish they would stop putting hate in the comments and reblogs of ship posts. Like just block and move on? What happened to fandom etiquette?

It's genuinely so sad, Joetastic is so talented so smart and so kind. I hated seeing how people responded to such a cute animation with such hostility, it wasn't fair. I hope he's doing better now, and you're right if you don't like the ship you can just look away... it genuinely doesn't even go against any of the "shipping rules" they're both adults and not related. so what's the big deal? "oh curly is her enabler" First of all no he isn't and second of all you bitches ship way worse stuff on the sidelines.

Overall it's just a childish argument, very silly and not at all needed.

[ronancecats]

ok you got me super curious. why don't you like steve?

This is gonna be a long one, so unbuckle your seatbelts, slam on the brakes, and do a front flip out of the windshield.

I'm going to break it down by season because that will help me get all my points down, and I don't want to leave anything out. Also, a little disclaimer: I do like Steve's writing, and I appreciate the way he's developed and the role he plays, but with that being said, I still don't like him as a character.

I'm going to try and explain each reason the best I can, but I low-key suck at that so I'm sorry if anything seems confusing.

SEASON 1:

season 1 is the season that is most self-explanatory of why I don't like him, I don't think anyone genuinely likes him in season 1.

-He literally slut shamed Nancy. Like...I don't care if he was only a teenager/had bad friends. He would've been 17 and old ENOUGH to understand the consequences of that and that it would hurt Nancy...that's why he did it in the first place.

-he was awful to Jonathan, and I'm not necessarily talking about the breaking camera thing, I'm talking about what he said to him before the fight. He called him queer (a slur back in the 80's), insulted his family, and insinuated that he had something to do with his little brother's disappearance.

-He pressured Nancy into sex. NO, HE DID NOT SA HER. It was consensual, but with that being said, something can still be consensual and enjoyed while having pressure on top of that. Also, he didn't stop Carol when she was mocking Nancy and making her uncomfortable; he was smug about it. But yes, I understand he was just a teenager then.

-He just, in general, didn't respect her boundaries at all and made Barb's disappearance about himself AT FIRST.

SEASON 2:

-He left Nancy, black out drunk, at a party. Yes, he was heartbroken, but he left her there and she was really lucky that Jonathan was there.

There's not much else in season 2 honestly. Mostly my feelings about him in s2 come from the first couple episodes when all he wanted was to make Nancy forget about her guilt and leaving her at the party. But yeah, I don't care about him in s2.

SEASON 3:

There's nothing necessarily bad about him in s3. I just hate how they made him this big character but then pushed Jonathan to the side, but that has nothing to do with his character. That's just a personal pet peeve I have with the duffers.

S3 was definitely his best season and the only one I can say I liked him in. They let him focus on his platonic relationships instead of making him chase after Nancy the whole time, and I like that. If they kept him like this for s4, I probably wouldn't dislike him as much as I do, but they just had to make him go back to that and it ruined him for me. Hopefully in s5 they'll let him be like his s3 self again.

SEASON 4:

-the six nugget speech. OH MY GOD BROTHER EUGH. I could make a whole essay about this, but long story short, it was completely unhinged and just shows he only wants Nancy for his dream, and he doesn't really care about her dreams in a romantic sense. He's in love with the idea of her, not her.

In conclusion, I only like Steve when they don't make his entire character revolve around Stancy and that dead relationship. Let Stancy die, I BEG OF YOU. It's better for Steve, Nancy, Jonathan, and literally everyone who watched the damn show without rose-colored glasses for Steve.

If they just let the love triangle die in s2, I can almost guarantee that I would like Steve more. But alas, they didn't and kept it around as if we don't already know how it's going to end.

Anyway, I probably went into way more detail than you wanted me to, but oh well. I wanted to be honest.

[max-the-entertainer]

What the hell, I might as well do this too

1. Favourite Character: Leon Kuwata

2. Least Favourite Character: Makoto Naegi (I don't hate him, my thoughts on him *have* mellowed out a decent amount, but he's a Mary Sue and I'm just not particularly fond; also, it isn't his fault, but the harem shit turns me off)

3. Best Girl: Toko Fukawa (Honourable Mentions: Junko Enoshima, Mukuro Ikusaba, Sonia Nevermind, Sayaka Maizono)

4. Best Boy: Leon Kuwata (Honourable Mentions: Monokuma, yes, really, Mondo Owada, Byakuya Togami, Hajime Hinata, Rantaro Amami)

5. Favourite Protag: Tied between Kaede and Hajime

6. Favourite Antag: Junko Enoshima (Byakuya's my favourite of the three who are *considered* antagonists but I don't consider him a real antagonist, and I like Junko more)

7. OTP: Kuwaberg (Leon & Celeste)

8. BroTP: Naekuwagami (Makoto, Byakuya, & Leon: the Aqua Teen Hunger Force/Inbetweeners of Danganronpa) Honourable Mention: Kiriludenzono (Kyoko, Sayaka, and Celeste: same thing, but women)

9. NoTP: Naekusaba, Naeshima (Most ships with Makoto, honestly) There's no others I genuinely dislike, if I'm honest

10. Favourite Straight Ship: Kuwaberg (Leon & Celeste)

11. Favourite YAOI Ship: Kuwamami (Leon & Rantaro)

12. Favourite YURI Ship: Ngl, I don't have many, but I'm rather fond of Yumaga (Angie & Himiko) quite a bit

13. Favourite Game: I like them all, but probably SDR2

14. Favourite DR1 Character: Leon Kuwata

15. Favourite SDR2 Character: Ngl, I really fuck with Sonia Nevermind

16. Favourite DRV3 Character: Tied with Tsumugi Shirogane & Rantaro Amami

17. Character I'd burn in a hole: Hifumi, Teruteru, or Kazuichi. Honourable Mention: Makoto, I wouldn't burn him, but I *would* kick the shit out of him

18. Talent I'd want: Ultimate Martial Artist, Ultimate Musician, or Ultimate Programmer

19. Favourite Execution: Thousand Blows, I appreciate the dark tone and the mood it sets

20. Favourite Soundtrack: Depends on my mood, either "Climactic Re-Enactment", "Class Trial: Dawn", or "Miss. Monomi's Practice Lesson"

21. Character I would revive: If it *has* to be one, Leon, if I'm allowed multiple: Leon, Sayaka, Chihiro, Mondo, and Taka

22. Saddest Death: Either Leon, Taka, or Mondo

23. Favourite Minor Character: Don't know, to be perfectly honest

24. Character I wish was real: Sayaka Maizono, I'd probably enjoy her music and I'd love to see her in a beef

25. Weakest Character: Hiyoko, or if we're talking physically: yeah, probably still Hiyoko

26. Most Boring Character: I'm sorry, but it's gotta be Makoto, like I said: Mary Sue (or whatever the male equivalent's called)

27. Character with most development: I can't say objectively, but I'd probably go with either Fuyuhiko or Byakuya

28. Fashionable Character: Rantaro's got some kinda gift from Junko or something cus *fuck* his clothes are good

29. Strongest Character: Byakuya (Not my favourite, but I'll admit, he moved me a lot) Or if we're talking physically: Izuru

30. Character I'm similar to: Leon, kind of, I have ambition and I'm pretty smart, just lazy as fuck

30 day ronpa

I did this on tiktok but lost motivation so I'm doing this all at once.

Favourite character: Kiyotaka Ishimaru

Least favourite character: Hifumi Yamada (NOT JUST BECAUSE HE KILLED TAKA PLEASE DONT COME AT ME-)

Best girl: Sonia Nevermind, Sayaka Maizono.

Best Boy (other than Taka): Mondo Owada, Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu, Gundham Tanaka.

Favourite Protag: Hajime Hinata

Favourite Antagonist: Nagito Komaeda

OTP (One-True-Pairing/top ship): Ishimondo

BrOTP (platonically in love): Hinanami (hajimexchiaki) or makosaya (makotoxsayaka)

NOTP (I did these the wrong way around sorry lol): Despaircest (mukuroxjunko), anybody x junko, anybody x hifumi tbh.

Favourite straight ship: Sondam (soniaxgundham) or naegiri (makotoxkyoko) fuyupeko is 3rd lol.

Favourite gay ship (other than ishimondo): Komahina (hajimexnagito)

Favourite Yuri ship: sakuraoi (sakuraxaoi), soapies (mahiruxhiyoko)

Favourite Game: SDR2 (Danganronpa 2 goodbye despair)

Favourite THH charac.: Kiyotaka ishimaru, Mondo Owada, Aoi Asahina.

Favourite SDR2 character: Sonia Nevermind, fuyuhiko Kuzuryu, Gundham Tanaka, Akane Owari, Mikan Tsumiki (I LOVE SDR2 SM I COULDNT CHOOSE SORRY-)

Fave V3 Character: Gonta Gokuhara, Kaito Momota, Ryoma Hoshi (haven't played v3)

Charac I'd burn in a hole: Celeste for her trash motive, Hifumi probs, maybe Miu, I don't despise any character tbh. WAIT, MAHIRU. ID BURN MAHIRU-

Talent I'd want: Chiaki Nanami (ult. Gamer), Angie Yonaga (ult. Artist) Sayaka Maizono (Ultimate Pop Sensation/Idol Star.)

Favourite execution: Mondo Owada (Cage of death) (NOT THE STORY BEHIND IT, BUT OMG BRUTAL) or Peko Pekoyama (The Ultimats swordswoman.)

Favourite soundtrack: All-Star-Apologies, (SDR2 VER.) Trapped By The Ocean Scent (I think this is a track but it might just be a chapter name sorry idk.)

A character I would revive: Ishimaru deserved to live. I thought his morals would get him through tbh-

Saddest Death: I can't decide, but Chihiro, Mondo, Taka, Peko, Gundham, Nekomaru.

Favourite Minor characters: CHUCK OWADA- (Mondos Dog)

Character I wish was real: Kiyotaka Ishimaru, Sayaka Maizono. (I'd study with Taka and stream Maizonos music.)

Weakest Character: Hiyoko saionji, Mahiru Koizumi.

Most boring character: Sato. She's not in the main games but wtf. Mahiru Koizumi, Sato, Yasuhiro Hagakure, Kirumi too.

Character with most development: FUYUHIKO KUZURYU OMG-

fashionable character: idc what y'all say id steal Leons fit in a heartbeat. (Leon Kuwata)

strongest character: Nekomaru Nidai, Sakura Ogami, Kenshiro (Sakuras opponent).

Character I'm similar to: Kiyotaka Ishimaru..... i Am biased but wtv :3

[egg2k16]

I feel like!!! Shiv was set up to be like her father, but then was relegated to becoming her mother

I think she intentionally set out to be like Logan, ambitious, power-hungry, a good businessman. That's why she was so hellbent on becoming president of the company, or at least holding some viable power as a co-CEO. This also explains some habits of hers, very easily abandoning n backstabbing her siblings bcus that's what Logan did to his children – he never really loved them, only caring in a duty-honoring facility, that made it easy for him to essentially leave them behind himself (Connor didn't see him for 3 yrs, he stopped Ken from becoming CEO during the gala, Shiv's politics getting in his way, always insulting Roman, etc)

Monkey see, monkey do, especially in the way that Shiv's always trying to prove herself to her family that she's capable. She's...not. She knows politics bcus that's what she decided to specialize in, but bcus of that, doesn't know how to maintain a poker face or a bluff, which is why every time she's tried to backstab her family for her own gain, it always backfires on her

I think one of her most important saving graces growing up, not being relegated totally to the shadows, being allowed to pursue politics (esp those contrarian to Logan's own personal political views), stems from the fact that she is Logan's only daughter. Daddy's little girl

She has so much tension w her mom I think bcus of it. Logan preferred Shiv over Caroline, n Caroline – we know she was always a bad mother, never really had it in her – but her specific jabs at Shiv were always so direct n open compared to her treatment of her sons, the sons she preferred (really, she preferred Roman). They always bite at each other over Shiv's childhood, n when Caroline notices she's pregnant, she makes snide remarks about Shiv being a mother. Tom wants a child w Shiv, but even he called her out on not being...the best option

Even pregnant, Shiv didn't stop chasing power, bcus she thinks she's deserving of that power, that it should all be hers hers hers. Daddy's special girl as the only thing she could've become in life, n she's trying so hard to prove herself as Siobhan Roy, as much Roy (n therefore, w as much capacity) as Kendall. Kendall, whose middle name is Logan. The presumed heir

Logan had at least five women in his life: 1st wife (Connor's mom), Caroline (2nd wife), Sally-Anne (secretary during Caroline's tenure), Marcia (3rd wife), Rhea (PGM CEO), Kerry (secretary during Marcia's tenure)

Shiv has had at least two affairs during her marriage w Tom: Nate (up to her wedding date) and Angel (one of Willa's actor friends)

She doesn't realize that Tom is solid, n would never actually go behind her back w someone else, even w a never fully defined hall pass of an open relationship. Lukas says he thinks, if things were different, he n Shiv would hook up. To Tom

Shiv uses her pregnancy as leverage against Tom, initially to get him to do what she wants during the election night/get him back on a shorter leash. (She later tries using it as leverage to keep him married to her, "finally falling in love with me"). She does everything she can to gain power, at least as Lukas' puppet leader in his proposed North American branch. But Lukas knows she doesn't have the knowledge necessary to act as a puppet, n trusts the role to Tom, known puppet doll

Bcus of Tom gaining power over Shiv, for the first time in his life, Shiv is relegated to the backseat. It's not the first time this has happened to her, but it's the first time that she understands it's a bit more permanent now. She's seemingly going to take the pregnancy to term. (And she's stated multiple times that she's gonna leave the baby alone, much like her own mother did). She's also apparently accepting her new role in life, as Tom's wife. She doesn't fully enjoy it, seeing as how she doesn't hold his hand, only lightly touching it

Shiv was set up to be the new Logan of the family, but Ken beat her to the punch. Unfortunately for Ken, n more or less thankfully for the family, Ken will never be allowed to be the new Logan of the family, bcus they are all destined to be losers, so long as they continue w the family n its ways

[akiacia]

multi-step shenanigans

[kithj]

some stories are written precisely to elicit strong emotions from the reader INCLUDING negative ones. some stories and characters are meant to be upsetting, they are meant to challenge you and make you uncomfortable!! when a story makes you feel Big Feelings sometimes you are meant to sit in those feelings and ask yourself why! fiction is a great space to explore these emotions in a safe environment. you, as the reader, are meant to think critically about the art you are enjoying and that includes asking yourself questions like why has the author presented their art in this way and what are they trying to tell me. and then you get to have fun picking it apart and figuring it out and deciding what, exactly, the art means to you.