#latin letters are badass

[pickaletter]

I, ي, or И

Personal opinion:

I is kinda mid. It needs more pizazz. But in an English perspective, I is a very important word we use everyday so I has that atleast.

И is frigging cool. Looks like a very badass symbol to me.

What I like the most is ي. It has the shape of a cute duck and it's very adorable. I might be a bit biased since I live in an Arab speaking country(I am an expat tho) and some of the coolest people I met were Arab.

[the-cpu-system]

Got mad at Atlas CEO being named Atlas in the borderlands movie so here's my semi-cohesive naming guide/analysis to Borderlands :3

No character should be named after Greek mythology as that's reserved for planets and companies and structures (Athena is an outlier here, and I think it's just because her deep corporate ties kinda allow a Greek goddess name to make sense with her)

Female characters are often named something you're not gonna find on a baby name list, and tend to come from spiritual roots and/or biblical names (the sirens from 1 to 2 have biblical names, Angels being a species in the bible and not a specific person). They have a distinctly "steampunk" sounding trend (Tannis, Felicity, Tyreen, Gaige, Fiona). The names seem to definitely not be baby name list material, and a little more unqiue. As the games have gone on, they're losing their name vibes, "Ava" doesn't really work as a borderlands name, but whatever. A lot of the names have latin origin.

Male names vary because lot of male characters seem to go by their last names, so I can't really give much on that. The male names are kinda basic. A few characters seem to follow with name meanings, like Jack/John, his name's meanings directly correlate with his character. A lot of the male names are more "badass" than the women's are and fall more on that side than the steampunk side. I think male names more just fit the vibe of the character than go off specific? It's hard to tell. Some names are puns and the others are just like that. But they're all more of a badass apocalyptic theme it seems.

Robots are mainly, if not always, spelled with letters in their names. Exceptions are LB and Gortys idk why

Generally I've seen though, Hyperion affiliated people seem to have a lot more "fancy/smooth/richer" names if that makes sense? Hugo Vasquez, Rhys, Yvette, Vaughn, Gladstone, Tassiter.. all very like. Higher class sounding names if that makes sense. They aren't as "dirty" as names like Torgue, Moxxi, Ellie, Scooter, etc etc

Also Presequel liked getting really kind of. Unique and futuristic with names, too, thats a thing I found. Like Zarpedon

Ofc I'm not telling anyone what to name their oc! You do you! This is just me rambling about name consistencies I've seen throughout the franchise and being a huge nerd. :3!

[comicavalcade]

Submariner Summer 28

Saludos mi gente, welcome to #SubmarinerSummer read through part 28, with Tales To Astonish #94: Helpless, At The Hands Of Dragorr! Namor getting manhandled right on the cover, too. And I'll say right now hold on to your bags and boards, people, this is a wild and long one

Title page has Namor holding the Council of War he promised last ish; surfacers pushing on Atlantis in general and Namor in particular too many times and Namor feels its time to act; the Warlords no surprise agree. Atlantean warlords are always ready for war against the surface.

Notes on the creative team: Lee is officially editor with Thomas on scripts, and we have THEE OG Bill Everett back on art. IMPERIUS REX! Also, not sure I mentioned him before but Simek is great on lettering, I dig his onomatopoeias, especially when he has them cross or break panels

At any rate, it falls on Dorma to warn about the consequences of war with the surface, that it might doom Atlantis. Which Namor himself said back when facing Krang and Attuma. So what gives? Well, Dorma asks Vashti, who has an interesting insight. And, a solo moment with Namor gives another

So, Namor has to prove to Atlanteans he's willing to fight for them so they don't turn on him. And he feels he has to humble the surface or they'll keep coming. Both are rather tragic in and of themselves. A third reason is likely proving to *himself* he doesn't have divided loyalties, as he wondered just that last issue:

But back to this ish, a strange message comes through, and Dorma delivers it to Namor. A dictator wants to conquer the world with Namor? Stealing from Dr Doom's playbook. Dorma warns its a trap, but Namor goes anyway. It is, of course, a trap, laid by...the Gnome?

Anyway, when Namor arrives, they catch him in their trap; at first Namor bides his time, but when they move him to meet the dictator Dragorr he busts loose. Unfortunately, their advanced weapons are enough to affect even Namor, and he comes before him anyway

This dude is Class A creep. Anyway, he has caught Namor first and foremost to use against local rebels opposing him. The rebels soon attack, and Namor is dispatched to take care of them. Namor wonders why he's being used. Against normal weapons, though, Namor is unstoppable

Namor gets his answer of why him; his presence breaks the rebel's spirits. Being away from the ocean starts to drain his strength as usual, but Dragorr's super-science rays reenergize him and pull him back to the castle. He remains defiant against Dragorr, though

In Atlantis, Dorma hears that Namor is helping Dragorr, which sounds off to her. So, she has herself a badass fashion moment and sets off to rescue her prince in distress. Once there she gets the rebels to help her and-we're told Dorma knows Spanish! ¡Chévere! And then she rescues Namor! 🤩

Dorma and Namor then encounter Dragorr himself, but the dictator isn't what he appears; a little speed and strength by Namor, a little water by Dorma, and the jig is up; there is no Dragorr! It was the Gnome in a robot all along!

Weird

The Gnome tries to jump out of a window, but he's caught in a net, angry they didn't let him unalive himself? Yikes. The rebels are grateful to Namor, but he's not having it from surfacers anymore after being used as a tool (not that he was before), though Dorma tries to calm him. With that, they depart for Atlantis.

So a lot of weird Silver Age mad science going on, a fake "Latin-American" dictator of a fictional Latin-American country plot, sort of with a bit of supervillain switcheroo, ending with attempted self-harm, and Namor now angrier than ever.

But wow, need *that* Dorma more often!

That's all we get for now, though. We'll have to see what the story has in store for Namor and Dorma NEXT in Tales to Astonish #95: The POWER Of The Plunderer!

[kentmac]

The Fall of Constantinople in the style of Dave Attell (Part Deux)

So, here's the deal, folks. Emperor Constantine XI realizes real quick that Mehmed has some shady motives. So, he's like, "Hey, Western Europe, can you lend a hand?" But guess what? Centuries of beef between the East and West churches are about to bite them in the ass. See, back in 1054, there was this whole excommunication situation. Then, about 200 years later, the Pope in Rome is all about reuniting with the Eastern church. They even had a union agreement in 1274, and some emperors joined the Latin Church. But hold up, the Byzantines weren't all on board with this, especially the Orthodox peeps in Constantinople.

The Greeks and Italians had some deep-rooted hatred going on, thanks to past massacres and sackings. Long story short, the attempted union failed, ticking off Pope Nicholas V and the Roman church crew. Just when you need their help.

Alright, so in the summer of 1452, right around the time when the Ottomans were getting real close, Constantine decided to write a letter to the Pope, promising to get on board with the whole union thing. The Byzantines were really hoping the Pope would have some serious sway over the Western kings and princes, but as it turns out, that wasn't exactly the case. Those Western rulers weren't too keen on giving the Pope more control, plus they were dealing with their own messes like the Hundred Years' War and the Reconquista.

So, in typical Mediterranean family feud fashion, shit was going down in Venice and Constantinople. The Senate was all like "let's send a fleet to help out Constantinople," but they waited too damn long and by the time they got their act together, it was too late. And to make matters worse, some Italians who swore to defend Constantinople dipped out as soon as Giustiniani showed up. Plus, Constantine was trying to make nice with the Sultan, but instead his ambassador got his ass executed. It was a big ol' mess, man.

So Emperor Constantine XI was like, "Oh snap, we gotta defend against those Turkish ships!" So he came up with this crazy chain thing that floated on logs at the mouth of the harbour, so no Turkish boat could get in. And he's not messing around this time, because the Fourth Crusade already busted through their land defences by breaching the Golden Horn Wall. But wait, there's more - he also beefed up the Land Wall with a serious moat and outer walls with towers every 45-55 metres. That Blachernae wall is the real MVP though, Constantine wanted to make sure that one was extra fortified. Check out this photo …

Yo, so everything is going to be nice and safe for Constantine, right? Well … The defenders of Constantinople were straight-up outnumbered by the Ottomans. We're talking like 7,000 defenders versus 50,000 to 80,000 Ottoman soldiers. And that's not even including the 5,000 to 10,000 Janissaries and the elite infantry corps they had. And don't even get me started on the cannons, man. It was a David vs. Goliath situation, but with way more soldiers and way less slingshots.

Mehmed built a badass fleet of 110 ships to attack Constantinople from the sea. They had all kinds of ships - big galleys, smaller galleys, rowing boats, and horse-transports. But the real showstopper was this Hungarian dude named Orban who built a massive cannon called "Basilica" that could launch a 270 kg stone ball over a mile. Orban was quite the little mercenary. Orban tried to sell his services to the Byzantines but they couldn't afford him, so he went to Mehmed who gave him all the money and resources he needed to build the cannon, but turns out it had some issues, like taking forever to reload and collapsing after six weeks. Some people dispute the whole collapsing part, though. Crazy stuff, man.

[lacrimosathedark]

Does Deadpool Collect Kids?

Here I am in Spideypool Hell, which results in me looking at the closest people to both of them. I sort of grew up with Spider-Man (video games, cartoons, and movies long before I ever touched a comic) so of course I’m looking at Deadpool first. Who doesn’t love new information? Treading old ground is boring!

(Also Spiderverse shit is confusing. So. Many. Spiders.)

And I came to the realization that Wade’s kind of...surrounded by kids.

Of course he has a kid (multiversely he has a few) but he’s close with more than just that kid.

So here is what I think of as Wade Wilson’s Pseudo-Family aka Kids Who Put Up With His Shit. Be prepared for way too many pictures.

Eleanor Camacho

This adorable baby is Ellie. She’s eight-ish years old (maybe nine or ten now? comic book time is weird) and currently Wade’s only canon child in main continuity. Her whole situation is a bit complicated, but Wade loves her more than anything in the world. And actually, she was a lowkey fan of Deadpool before she knew he was her dad. She loves her dad and she even goes behind her foster mom’s back to try to get him to visit, said foster mom being SHIELD Agent Emily Preston. Wade has forgotten she exists (again) to protect her (AGAIN) but she watches news reports about him and actually interfered with a killing mission he had in a theme park her class happened to have a field trip to.

She’s a baby Spideypool shipper too.

Ellie is Wade’s weak spot, and he only tells people about her if he trusts them. The ones that come to mind are people he likes, namely Shiklah, Spidey, and Rogue, as well as two kids further down on this list. Wolverine and Captain America know too, but because they were part of the mission where he found out about her. Super Soldier team-up.

Also, here’s her in the future. She’s a badass.

I love her so much.

Warda Wilson

(Full disclosure, I did minor editing on this panel because this is the one image of her full body without her mask and they gave her pupils that she has in no other panels and it bothered me so I fixed it)

Wade’s daughter in the 2099 future with his ex-wife, succubus and monster queen Shiklah, and she goes by Deadpool. She had a vendetta against Wade at first for supposedly betraying Shiklah and held him captive. But Ellie rescued him, they cleared things up, and they work together as a family, all three of them, plus brain-ghost Preston.

Deathpool

Exclusive to the video game Marvel Strike Force, but she’s so neat I had to include her. Literally born from “the power of love” between Deadpool and Death, she takes over her mom’s job but is a total daddy’s girl; he trained her to wield weapons and be a quippy little shit, and until he was snapped by Thanos because he’s got issues, she’d visit him on occasion.

(She doesn’t have a canon “normal” name, but I like the name Evita Wilson. It rearranges the letter of the word “vitae” which is Latin for “life” and y’know irony. Plus Evita is the name of both a musical and a Madonna album and you cannot tell me Wade wouldn’t love that)

Itsy Bitsy

Not a friendly, but biologically his daughter (and Spidey’s) from Evil Science Shenanigans. Formerly Susan Mary, a play on “Mary Sue”. She calls both of them “daddy” and even wears a Spiderpool emblem shirt. She’s pretty extreme. Bloodthirsty. Wade actually had to stop Spidey from killing her because Peter was so scared of her and someone was messing with his head. He cut Wade’s head off to try to keep him from interfering. It was kinda nuts. Wade ended up doing what he thought was killing her to keep Spidey’s hands clean. She’s not gone though...

Master Matrix

Another Spideypool kid, no shit. A good one too! And a rare boy on this list! A robot of some type discovered by Richard and Mary Parker, so already hitting home for Peter. After a short villainous confusion after waking from stasis, he was basically taken under Spider-Man’s and Deadpool’s wings and called them both “Father”. The arc is literally officially titled “My Two Dads”. They act like his parent and it’s just *chefs kiss* It’s a whole thing. MM gives off weird vibes, but all in all, he just wants to help. He’s a good boy!

He even gets them to hug!

He then proceeds to send them on a bonding road trip with just...so much Spideypool. That’s where the “Why are you holding my hand?” “It helps me focus.” comes from. And so much fourth-wall breaking and writer interference. Spidey even plays along with Wade’s fourth-wall-breaking shenanigans even though he doesn’t believe it. It’s the best.

Now we move to ones who aren’t his kids!

Gwendolyne Poole

Gwenpool and Deadpool weren’t chummy at first; she didn’t read his book and thought he was too “lol memes”. But they actually got to be pretty friendly. They’re buddies now.

He helped Gwen when she was having an existential crisis and is currently the caretaker of her pet Jeff the Land Shark who is the cutest thing and I love him. He even dresses as Gwen once to make Jeff happy it’s adorable.

I also think he rocks Gwen’s look. He looks great.

Ellie Phimister

Everyone knows about Negasonic Teenage Warhead from the movies where they have that affectionate deadpan snark between them. When they first met, Wade’s group had been contracted to kidnap her. She evaded everyone else, but when met with Deadpool who literally tried to talk her into being kidnapped, she had a vision where he said he wouldn’t leave her behind, and she literally just surrenders.

When Wade finds out what is happening to his targets, he goes in to save her. She has a particular loyalty to Wade and sticks by him pretty much no matter what, but she gradually settles into that deadpan sarcasm.

She takes his nonsense with a straight face and doesn’t tolerate his bullshit. Or at least snarks right back at him.

She’s also one of the few who for sure know about the other Ellie, Eleanor, and looks out for her.

Gabrielle Kinney

A little unexpected, but adorable! Gabby Kinney, also known as Scout or Honey Badger, which is amazing. She don’t give a FUCK. She’s a clone of Laura Kinney, aka X-23 and Wolverine, who is another clone daughter of Logan/James/OG Wolverine. She and Wade bonded over their scars and they’re besties now.

There aren’t a whole lot of instances of Wade and Gabby together, but every SINGLE one is absolute gold. They’re so fucking CUTE. Prepare for so many panels.

Have you seen anything more precious? Best friends.

Evan Sabahnur

Formerly Kid Apocalypse, also known as Genesis. Long story, but pretty much explained in the above page. Wade in particular was determined to save him, as killing him didn’t sit right for some reason, and he was certain that despite everything, Evan was a good kid. When shit went down and Evan didn’t think he could return to the Academy, Wade took him in. Like, brought him to the home he bought across the street from Eleanor and the Prestons.

Wade even says he’ll never have a son, (this is before MM, but it’s funny cuz biologically and multiversely, he does only have daughters) but if he did he’d like him to be like Evan, which is hilarious to me. But that kinda makes what Wade says super sweet.

He also saves Ellie.

Haruka Hida

From Deadpool Samurai, she goes by Sakura-Spider and is a blatant Peter Parker rip-off. Literally she lives with her Aunt Mei and her Uncle Tsutomu which the kanji can also be read as Ben. No shit. The only real difference is the spider bit her on her face and it scarred, hence the spots under her eye. BUT she’s Deadpool’s partner in Japan and she’s super cute. Typical manga protag girl but what can you expect?

(Legit buy them they’re super fun and it’s worth it especially if you like manga it’s so dumb and I love it please buy it)

Neiro Aratabi

Another Deadpool: Samurai character. As said above, she’s an idol in Japan. She’s bonded to an amnesiac symbiote she calls Kage (in case you aren’t up on Japanese, it’s pronounce like “kah-gay” and it means shadow). They like chocolate. She doesn’t get a lot of screen time, but she’s happy being part of the team. She’s content as long as people think she’s cute, for, of course, over-dramatic very anime reasons.

That is ELEVEN CHILDREN. And I’m a newb, this might not even be all of the kids he’s close to!

For comparison, Bruce Wayne has SIX kids (Dick, Jason, Cass, Tim, Duke, and Damian). He has a few other pseudo-kids, Barbara Gordon, Stephanie Brown, and maybe Helena Bertinelli and Maps Mizoguchi, but like...dude.

I need everyone to know that Deadpool is good with kids.

[endlessly-cursed]

Golden Era- Jimena Gallardo

"𝙔𝙤𝙪'𝙧𝙚 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙨𝙪𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙗𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙙, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙖 𝙗𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙞𝙙𝙞𝙤𝙩."

Name: Jimena Rosalía Gallardo López del Carmen 

Nicknames: Mena, Rosa 

Birthdate: 20th of March, 1981 

Zodiac Sign: Aries 

Personality Type (MBTI): tbd 

Blood Status: Pureblood 

Nationality: Chilean, Guatemalan, British 

Physical Appearance

Hair: Black

Eyes: Black 

Height: 1.55m 

Weight: 58kg 

Body Type: Lithe 

Skin Tone: Bronze

Distinguishing Marks (scars, birthmarks, etc.): a birthmark on her hipbone 

Background

Jimena Rosalía Gallardo López del Carmen was born on the 20th of March, 1981 at St. Mungo’s hospital by Guillermo Gallardo Cuarón and Amalia López Santiago del Carmen. She had a happy childhood, for neither of her parents were Death Eaters and both of them were loving, nurturing and amazing parents to her and her younger sisters, Rocío and Almudena. She was homeschooled, taught all kinds of things, both muggle and magical until her Hogwarts letter came.

Hometown

The Finca Gallardo is a house that was once a mighty estate that fell upon the fall of ancient aristocracy. Her great-grandfather, Aurelio Gallardo, bought it to the government for 300.000 pounds and renovated it to the Chilean style of the time, though her grandfather and father had made some upgrades. The mansion is located in Gloucestershire, England, though she travelled often to Chile.

Family

Mother:  Amalia López Santiago del Carmen

Half-English, half-Guatemalan, she was from a prominent family in Guatemala that fled the conflicts in Latin America during the wave of communism and the intervention ahem unneccesary meddling of the USA, her family came to England for better chances, for she had always dreamed of coming to London and make her dreams come true. She was sorted into Slytherin and in her fifth year she started dating Guillermo Gallardo, fellow latino, and the two fell head over the heels, which led to them becoming parents at only 19. She was happy nevertheless and raised her daughters with love and kindness.

Father:  Guillermo Gallardo Cuarón

Chilean who fled the Militar Regime in 1973 to England for better chances, he came late into Hogwarts, when he was only 14, in his fourth year, being sorted into Gryffindor. He struggled quite a bit with the British accents, for he was used to the American, but could understand it thanks to his father, who had lived several years; he was living with his grandmother because his mother was sick with breast cancer at the time and the father needed to provide money all the way from England. The moment he met fellow latina Amalia, he was whipped: she was smart, incredibly gorgeous, resourceful and witty. The two of them dated the year later and their love for one another was such that at 19, he was already a father, but he was overjoyed nevertheless. Though his parents chided him for not having a son, he loved his little princesses more than anybody, and tried his best to be supportive in this far more liberal, easy-changed world.

Sister: Rocío Gallardo  

Jimena’s older sister, she looks up to her. She’s incredibly beautiful, confident, badass, takes great care of herself and has half of England behind her. She loves her dearly and she’s Jimena’s personal hero. 

Sister: Almudena Gallardo  

Her older sister, she loves her, but she’s overbearing, always the second mom of the family when mom’s not here. Though she always vents to her and asks for advice and help with homework, on Hogwarts halls she avoids her because she knows she’ll interrogate her. She’s protective of her though and has punched some bitches on her defence. 

Hogwarts

House: Slytherin 

Best Class: DADA 

Worst Class: History of Magic and Potions 

Boggart: Losing her freedom 

Riddikulus: She becomes a cowgirl 

Patronus: Tiger 

Patronus Memory: Dancing with her sisters and mother at a distant cousin’s wedding 

Mirror of Erised: Herself being free and with her sisters beside her 

Amortentia (what she smells like): Yves Saint Laurent perfume, white wine, vanilla gel, perfumed lipstick and Monster 

Amortentia (what she smells): tbd 

Career

11-18: Hogwarts student 

19-25: Hit Witch apprentice

25-55: Hit witch 

55-65: Desk job at Wizengamot

65+: Retiree

Personality & Attitude

Priorities: Her family, herself, her future and the safety of her loved ones 

Strengths: Brave, strong, cunning, highly ambitious and cunning 

Weaknesses: Stubborn, proud and reserved 

Stressed: Around idiots same when her loved ones are in danger and OWLs and NEWTs season 

Calm/Comforted: With her family and girls, eating mac n cheese and drinking white wine 

Favorites

Colors: green, blue, white, grey and pruple 

Weather: drizzle with a small sun 

Hobbies: Fashion, makeup, parties and music 

Fashion: She very versatile. She dresses similarly like either Rocío or Almudena, though she herself has had some very scandalous clothes and far more creative makeup than her sisters.

Relationships

Significant Other/Love Interest: Jebron Perphyra @nicos-oc-hell​ 

Jebron and Jimena weren’t from the same year, but Jebron had heard of Jimena and her sisters and the trouble they usually brought, and Jimena had heard of him and his twin brother Sinncere. In fact, Jimena first met Sinncere, for both of them were rebels and troublemakers, giving the headmaster a headache, especially during 1997 & 1998, when Umbridge, Snape and her goons all invaded Hogwarts. 

With his help, she formed a secret resistance in Potter’s absence and always brought trouble to the new biased staff, and with the secret approval of McGonagall, who gave them tips and trained them alongside Flitwick. During that time, Jebron and Jimena saw each other more often and eventually fell in love, and even fought together in the Battle of Hogwarts. After that, their relationship was cemented and Jebron became another member of the family, jokingly called ‘the token male’. 

[More TBA] 

Friends: tbd 

Rivals: Death Eaters, blood supremacists 

Trivia

She loves makeup and has eight different eyeliners 

Her makeup style is very different from her sisters: while Rocío has a more discreet one and Almudena has a simple one of black eyeliner, big eyelashes and red lipstick, Jimena has a creative makeup, focused on her eyes, putting on glitter, stones, drawings, etc. Her mother says she paints her own paintings on her face, and she likes to go according to the dress code 

Her routine is not as exhaustive or laid-back as her sisters, but she likes to look neat, so she uses five hair products, two types of cream alonsgide deodorant, solar cream, special oil and facemasks. She always has a hairdo ready for the day. 

She’s an incredible gymnastic and she’s very elastic, which helped her many times. 

She also knows Jiu-Jitsu and has only used it when really necessary 

She also practises yoga with her mother and meditates twice a day... or else she’ll smack somebody 

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Don’t shut me out ~ N.Romanoff

Time for another angst/fluff oneshot I think so here you go :)

In which Natasha knows she has feelings for a certain woman on the team, but she knows that she can't and tries to ignore it, avoiding y/n like the plague. Y/N has had enough of being avoided by her and confronts her about it...things get complicated.

Prompts: "Yeah, well, I shut everybody out. Don't take it personally. It's just easier".

Warnings: none

Word count: roughly 1990

She had been trying to avoid her for the passed two weeks, going on missions for Fury, so she didn't have to be around the Avengers tower. But when she was, it was straight to her room that she had or even the training room if that woman was not there.

Y/n L/n, one of the most badass women who could control fire and bend it at her will, a woman she had known for only a few months since y/n was new to the team. In those few months, she had actually formed a friendship with the woman. And that went from one thing to another...The Black Widow started forming 'feelings' for her. It wasn't her fault, she's only human, but Y/n' beautiful h/c and absolutely gorgeous e/c orbs were always in her mind, especially that smile.

Natasha wasn't scared of these feelings per say, she just knew that it was wrong considering that this woman, this adorable, badass woman was a teammate of hers. Sure, she had a relationship with Clint (Hawkeye) but that was before they even joined the Avengers, all they are know is just partners and good friends.

So what made her think this could work out? Nothing, because it can't - that's just a known fact.

Continuosly avoiding her seemed like the better option, shutting out everybody on the team when she was around. Clint had tried to ask her a few times what was going on but like usual she was easily able to make sure he couldn't read her very well.

Walking down the hall to the kitchen of the Avengers tower, she spotted Y/n, Clint, Thor and Bruce. So as quick as she could she went to grab a drink and walked away, disappearing back down the hall to her room. Locking herself into the room. Who needs to be social anyway?

Y/n tried to say a simple 'hi' to her and she knew it. When she walked straight passed her and ignored her, she saw the hurt in her expression no matter how hard she tried to see it Natasha saw through her facade. But it wasn't just saddness, a hint of anger shown through.

Just when the redhead agent thought she could spend some time alone as per usual, somebody knocks on her door. But she doesn't answer it, she pretends as if she isn't there. They will go away eventually - probably, right?

Nope.

"Natasha, what's going on with you? You've been avoiding everyone for a while. I just wanted to know if you were okay." Y/n' soft voice was heard on the other side.

She heard the clear hurt in her voice which made the redhead feel guilt in her heart for what she had been doing, but that was for Y'n' own good. Nat waited for a good few seconds, not replying just to see if y/n had anything else to say.

Of course she did.

"Please Nat, we're all worried. I'm worried." And that just makes it all better does it? The redhead was feeling even more guilty now. She walked up to her door and put a hand on it, her forehead pressed up against it.

A heavy sigh left her lips, what was she supposed to tell her? That the reason she is the way she is because she likes her? No, that's not her. It's so out of her character to admit these things. Natasha never even had 'feelings' like this before, regardless of her past relationships.

Before she could even let her words come out, y/n spoke up once more "Don't shut me out", Oh god Natasha could hear how much she had hurt her, it's all coming out now. Y/n was usually good at keeping her emotions in check but right now in this moment, she couldn't.

"Yeah, well, I shut everybody out. Don't take it personally. It's just easier." Natasha replied, no hint of any real emotion, she just out right and blankly spoke the truth. The redhead was always blunt no matter what, her brutal honesty was an incredible trait and bad trait at times but it did the trick for her. She heard a sudden slam of a hand on the door. "Then stop, Nat! I get it, I've shut people out too, but trust me it isn't easier than telling somebody you trust what's wrong. It will eat you up inside, especially if it's about someone you see almost everyday. Let me in." y/n shouted but rather softly.

"Please, trust me." Y/n added softly. That's all she wanted from the redhead, to be trusted, to be let in. She already knew of her past that barrier was down but a new one was made up when Natasha started shutting out once more. Nat sighed heavily again, turning the lock on her door so the door could be opened. But the question is, will she open the door? And let the woman she is so madly in love with in?

Or does she want to continue shutting everybody out and risk losing her?

"Natasha, please." Y/n whispered just enough for Natasha to be able to hear through the closed door. The h/c avenger sighed, she was trying to be as paitient with the redhead as much as she could, honestly she would wait for her forever to open up if she had to but maybe right now wasn't a good time for it, maybe Natasha needed longer. "Take your time, just...please don't ignore me anymore, don't ignore any of us." Just as y/n was about to leave, Natasha door opened and she was pulled inside.

Both women looked at one another, never taking their eyes off each other. Their eyes perfectly trained on one another, before Nat sighed and looked away sitting on the end of her bed. Y/n joined her, and the two of them sat in silence.

One of them eventually had to break it but neither seemed like they wanted to, but y/n stepped in when she saw that Natasha could no longer hold her expressionless facade up when she was around her. "Nat, tell me what's wrong." It wasn't even a question now, more of a demand but in the nicest way possible with such a soft voice behind it. Frankly, the woman was clearly getting annoyed with her.

Again with the sighing, Nat tried to look directly at y/n and hold her gaze but all she could do was take small glances every now and then, taking out her beautiful red hair from the messy bun, trying to distract herself, this wasn't even going to work but it was worth a try, anyway.

Another moment of pure silence crept over the two women, Natasha was mentally preparing herself. All thoughts running around in her mind at once, something telling her to just tell her because she just couldn't 'lose' this woman, especially not right now...quite possibly not ever.

"I've been having these feelings, feelings I have honestly felt so strongly about even in my past relationships with men. I don't know how to comprehend them" Natasha started to explain, she probably worded it wrong but who cares? The wall she put up in her emotions was starting to crack and crumble on the ground once again ever since y/n became apart of the team...apart of her life. Remembering that entire month she pretended to 'hate' her when she was just being cautious, to getting to know her, sparring and kicking each others asses, to then even going out places together, and even missions. Those few times Natasha took y/n to her favourite coffee shop in New York.

God, why was this so hard?

"Okay, so first tell me what you're feeling." Y/n broke the silence, she wasn't so sure how to deal with either, none of them were very good with feelings and that much was obvious. "Seriously? Do I have to say it?" Natasha rolled her eyes, she really didn't want to say that four letter word that she never got used to. But y/n nodded, she had to say it either way. "Ugh fine".

"Любовь" She didn't want to say it in english, so she used her first language, russian. Hoping that y/n didn't understand a word she had just said, but the twist was she knew exactly what she meant.

"Love, right. You do realise I took russian, chinese, latin and spanish in high school right and continued them in college before being recruited to SHIELD?" y/n laughed. Natasha cured at herself quietly, thinking she got away with that. The redhead agent should've known that she was smarter then that. "So whose the man you like?" Wow what a way to assume things. Now, Natasha could just go with the fact that y/n had just called her love interest a 'man' and lie completely...but that wasn't the truth, besides she really does like her.

Natasha lightly chuckled at the h/c avengers last statement making her raise an eyebrow in question, not knowing why the redhead found that even remotely funny.

"Bold of you to assume it's a man." She laughed before going back to being all serious. "This was a mistake." Her mood changed so quickly that y/n didn't even have time to comprehend what the hell was happening. Natasha had grabbed her and walked her over to the closed door to basically kick her out...but before she could y/n got in front of the door.

"No, you have to trust me. Do you?" She asked.

Of course Natasha does, but she just doesn't know how to open up about this at all. The woman she loves is standing in front of her and this isn't easy, it never is. The agent simply nods her head staying quiet. "Just tell me about them, the way you know best." Tell her about them? How the fuck is she supposed to do that? It would be so much easier if she just showed her but what if she didn't like her back?

Oh fuck it.

Natasha wasted no more time, grabbing the back of y/n' neck with her hand and pulling her in for a kiss, not sure if this was the right move. Y/n was taken aback by the action but before she could even kiss Natasha back, the redhead pulled away regretting her decsion. "I am so sorry that was-"

"Shut up" Y/n spoke pulling Nat back into a kiss. They kised each other with such passion that Natasha backed y/n up against the door, trapping her between her and the door. Pulling away Nat smirked "don't tell me to shut up." She added.

Y/n laughed "when were you going to tell me?" She added, knowing full well what she meant Natasha kissed her for a good few seconds again.

"I wasn't but now I'm glad I did it through actions." Natasha replied with a small smile forming in her lips.

"Promise not to shut me out again, okay? Because I'm here for you, we all are."

Natasha knew that, but she couldn't make that promise, not now. Maybe if she was a different person she could but right now that wasn't going to happen. "Kiss me again?" Natasha replied.

Y/n couldn't say no to her, so she pulled her back in this time taking some control of the kiss until Natasha got comfortable and took over completely.

[ruffboijuliaburnsides]

As someone who also has ADHD, I wish I was cool enough in highschool to write my diary in Tengwar and code the dates in Shire Reckoning lmao. I understand you might feel like a total nerd for doing that, and you absolutely were, but in the coolest of ways.

oh anon, like.

ok first off: i absolutely know i was the coolest motherfucker for this. I had this parchment-paged leatherbound journal, I had an inkwell and a nibbed pen that I used as often as I could (hilariously I mostly only used runes when I only had a pencil on hand, it was such a weird specific thing), and it was EPIC.

It was also done not bc it was ~cool~ but because my sister was a nosy brat and my mom had a habit of going through my stuff, so if I was gonna keep a diary, I was keeping it in a format they couldn't easily read, bc neither of them would go through the effort of translating it BACK to the latin alphabet. (and even then, i spelled anything that had a particularly unintuitive spelling phonetically, so that's an extra layer of "wtf does this say?" if you weren't me.)

But like, I had VERY limited internet access at that point, and this was in the very early aughts and I did not know of any online tengwar charts or anything. And the ones in the appendices are set up like a LINGUIST would, by sound type, not in a straight "[symbol 1] is A, [symbol 2] is B, etc" situation.

So I, all of 15 years old, read and re-read and RE-FUCKIN-READ that section of the appendices until I had worked out, through a mix of educated guesses and trial and error, a chart that more or less was useable. And since then, I've found that but for like two letters that I transposed the sound of, and a couple letters that had different sounds between Quenya and Sindarin and I used the Quenya when the rest of my usage was Sindarin or whatever? I was p much accurate.

I was a goddamn badass and honestly even tho I've long since lost that journal, I should re-teach myself that...

[arianwells]

hey there!! just dropping in to say that its been a joy following you and i appreciate your content a lot!!

also for the rqg ask meme (i would point out the 4pm thing but you're aware of that) :

1. What is that one moment from the show that you will find yourself thinking back to, intermittently, for years to come?

11. Which raw-ass line will stick in your mind for years to come?

20. I’m a firm believer that everyone takes at least a little piece of every piece of media they consume away with them, to become a part of their lifestyle, or moral code, or even a part of themself. What will you take from Erasing the Line?

have a lovely day!!!

Ahhh thank you so much and right back at you! All your posts and art and comments always make genuinely smile. It’s been an honour! 

1. What is that one moment from the show that you will find yourself thinking back to, intermittently, for years to come?

Sasha’s letter broke my heart forever. It was a moment I hadn’t expected at all. And. It was so beautiful, hopeful and sad. Sasha, caring for all these lost children, Sasha, becoming the leader, Sasha, never forgetting her mates (you all speak Latin in my dreams). Ok. Crying again. 

2.  Which raw-ass line will stick in your mind for years to come?

“You will always be the man on the floor.” 

Azu, being the most badass being in the universe. 

3.  I’m a firm believer that everyone takes at least a little piece of every piece of media they consume away with them, to become a part of their lifestyle, or moral code, or even a part of themself. What will you take from Erasing the Line?

Sometimes you can't save the world but you can save a person. You can leave, change and come back and be better. Sometimes there are no good solutions for a problem and someone will get hurt, but we can only go forward. Hitpoints matter. 

[fortvscue]

╰  (  florence pugh. cisfemale. she/her. ) welcome back to hogwarts,  ALICE FORTESCUE ! you’re a SEVENTH year from GRYFFINDOR, right ? i’ve got your school file right here. it says you’re a TWENTY THREE year old PUREBLOOD, is that correct ? this file even has a personality entry, saying you’re ALTRUISTIC & STEADFAST as well as DOMINEERING & WELL-MEANING. is that why you’ve chosen to JOIN THE ORDER ? would you look at that ! it says here other students also describe you as : laughing so hard your stomach aches, the warmth of a palm pressed against your own, bandaids over day old scratches, a backbone like steel and leaving a faint smell of bubblegum wherever you go. how interesting. oh well, see you in class !

Gryffindor, Seventh yr. Former Sacred 28-er turned ice cream makers daughter, now Head Girl with a heart (mostly) of gold. Duelling Club professional, Herbology club afficionado and Seeker on the Quidditch team with a Snitch tattooed behind her left ear.

Was born a Fawley, the last of her line, the daughter of Andromache Travers, betrothed to Antioch Fawley, the only surviving son of the once great Fawley family. Her childhood was a happy one, though one that was still filled with the indoctrination of purist society, and she grew up unaware that the views her parents were raising her with weren’t the norm.

Her mother died when she was eight - vanishing sickness took hold quickly, but Dragonpox was what took her. Her father when she was ten - he hadn’t needed to work, he’d been left a fortune by family members who died too soon, but he decided to work anyway, and was caught in a collapsing Egyptian tomb. 

She was more or less adopted that same summer by Hugo Fortescue, a family friend who had been widowed in the same explosion that took Antioch (and, yes, her father was named after that Antioch. The Peverell one.) 

Suddenly she lost almost everything she had ever known. Yes, Hugo was a pureblood, though not a member of the Sacred 28 owing to him having immigrated from France only a few years earlier to be with his wife, but he was by no means wealthy. Or, perhaps, he was a lot more frugal than Alice was used to her family being.

Gone were the parties and little excursions to her friends houses, the fancy dresses and lessons on etiquette and what to expect from the Black’s and the Lestrange’s and the Rosier’s and Yaxley’s and Shacklebolt’s, the echoing halls of her manor of a home and the cold reality that while her parents loved her, they did not always treat her as such.

Living with Hugo - and her now adoptive older brother, Florean - was a learning curve that she hadn’t ever anticipated. She was suddenly faced with the reality that everything her parents had drilled into her, all of it was a lie. None of it was true. The innate kindness they’d tried to force out of her, the natural love of humanity and awe of muggles that they’d tried to burn out of her, that was true. What wasn’t was the lesson that they were superior that they had drilled into her head, that had been why she felt so out of place here, because their blood was pure.

She didn’t want to admit it, not then, but her childhood was tainted. It’s something she struggled with for a long time, hell, even now she struggles with it - that, really, she isn’t a Fortescue, even though that’s the name she totes, the name she is more than proud of - that her family, her blood, were people who hated anyone that was different. 

For all intents and purposes, Hugo and Florean were more like family than her parents ever were. They made time for her - Florean, even then, was her overprotective big brother - the one that would take a jinx to the chest for her, the one that would torment anyone who hurt her, the one who would wake up too early to learn how to braid her hair because Hugo was always too busy to do it. 

Despite all the unlearning she did - and still is doing, believe me, she knows she isn’t perfect, but she’s angrier than ever and learning more and more each day - she still remained close with several of her childhood friends. They’d come visit her in the ice cream parlour, and she’d sneak them a scoop or two before abandoning her post to run around Diagon Alley with her.

That started to change as she grew - as she became a teenager, and suddenly she was listening to muggle music, and watching muggle tv shows, following Florean out into muggle London for the first time, but certainly not the last. She started to lose friends when they couldn’t understand why she was abandoning them, when to her, she wasn’t. They were so important to her, some still are today, even if she isn’t proud of that, proud of being friends with people on both sides. 

When she got her letter to Hogwarts, a couple of years after being allowed her own wand - under Hugo’s strict supervision (okay, so it wasn’t necessarily always strict, but he said it was to anyone who dared ask him why she could sometimes be found waving her wand in the middle of the ice cream parlour in the middle of Diagon Alley), she knew exactly where she was meant to be.

She’d already gone through a “phase” of getting into skirmishes with people who, in her eyes, didn’t know how to treat people with respect. It’s something that’s definitely mellowed, though that instinct, that protective flare still hasn’t faded, not even now. It was obvious to any of the people who knew her, who knew her as a Fortescue, that she was going to be sorted into Gryffindor - nobody was less surprised than Alice when it barely took a second before she was swept off her feet.

Her fascination with muggle music and love of art only grew at Hogwarts - her natural ability with plants made certain Alice always found a home in the Greenhouses, and her wand’s natural inclining to defensive magic made it easy to thrive in Defence Against the Dark Arts. 

Trying out for Quidditch is a no brainer - she’s not so graceful on her feet on the ground, more often than not tripping and skinning her knees, Drooble’s gum bubble popped as she goes, but on a broom? She knows how to be graceful there, in the air, not quite so high as to be above the clouds, but high enough to be above their heads. She’s not meant to be trying out for the Seeker position - she thought maybe Chaser, or Beater, but Seeker was where she found herself, and where she’s stayed ever since.

Now she’s in her last year, she’s found that so much has changed. The world is on the verge of war, and Alice knows she’ll end up fighting - she wants to be an Auror, she has done since she was fifteen and met one in the ice cream parlour, looking for a lead. She just doesn’t know how far this will go - how far she’ll let herself go, how far they’ll all let themselves go. She only knows that she won’t ever back down.

- x -

middle name: marguerite. 

languages spoken: english, french, latin (duh). 

body modifications: five ear piercings. two tattoos. a golden snitch behind her left ear, one that moves and flaps it’s wings. a lion on her ribcage.

hobbies: photography, quidditch, herbology club, eating ice cream. being the most badass head girl hogwarts has ever seen. (in her own words, of course).

orientation: bisexual (and biromantic) af. let her have kissed girls and boys.

wand: yew wood and phoenix feather core. twelve inches. rigid. excellent for duelling, and by definition, defense against the dark arts and charms. (also with a dark and very fearsome reputation, she’s learned.)

boggart is herself turning into an inferi. that’s cool. totally not somehow a metaphor for how afraid she is of losing herself and her mind.

patronus: elephant.

amortentia: cinnamon being sprinkled across freshly baked cookies. her mother’s perfume. pink blossoms falling to the ground in the midday autumn breeze. pumpkin pasties, the way the hogwarts kitchens always make. seawater crashing against the coast. bouquets of tiger lily on the dinner table. firework sparks. droobles best blowing gum, bubblegum and blueberry mixing. water hitting tea. laundry, freshly done, just out of the dryer. woody cologne. 

birthday: october 9th, 7:54pm.

zodiac: libra sun.

egyptian zodiac: horus. 

positive traits: altruistic, steadfast, compassionate, loyal, personable, passionate.

negative traits: domineering, well-meaning, self sabotaging, messy, clumsy, closed off.

expanded aesthetic: laughing so hard your stomach aches, the warmth of a palm pressed against your own, bandaids over day old scratches, a backbone like steel and leaving a faint smell of bubblegum wherever you go, running hands through your hair, coffee with three sugars and no milk, eating ice cream for breakfast, leather jackets emblazoned with flowers, never letting your camera get dusty, potted plants on your window still, pressing kisses to people’s cheeks, standing by the sea as it crashes against the shore, sleepless nights buried in text books, wielding authority with a laugh and a smile.

[makeste]

What are your favorite hero names?

oh man there are so many. I had to limit myself to a top twenty, and even that was rough. anyway so first off, a few runner ups because I couldn’t go without mentioning these:

Vlad King - to be clear, this isn’t actually one of my top hero names. but I’m mentioning it here because back when I was first reading the series, one of the fan scanlations -- either Fallen Angels or Mangastream, I forget which -- had originally translated his hero name as Brad King. which, to be frank, would have been one of the greatest hero names of ALL TIME. you can’t imagine my disappointment when I finally learned the truth. it still haunts me to this day.

Jack Mantis - this is Kamakiri (a.k.a. the guy from class 1-B who can grow knives out of his body)’s hero name. my question is, why the Jack. the mantis part, I get! that’s fairly obvious! but the “Jack” is forever a mystery to me. it just adds this little layer of intrigue.

Mr. Brave - this guy is one of the few good things to come from the Basement arc. don’t get me wrong, he is completely useless. but his name? absolutely legendary. this guy, with his power of ripping his own hair out and turning it into a sword (yes that’s his quirk), an ability that could be easily duplicated or bested by literally any jackass who just went out and bought their own damn sword, really thought to himself, “I am going to be the BEST MCFUCKING HERO THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN. I AM GOING TO NAME MYSELF... MISTER BRAVE.” and they let him, you guys. they let him.

anyway so now for the top twenty!

20. Can’t Stop Twinkling - this isn’t a name so much as it is poetry in three words. I still cannot believe that Aoyama went up to Midnight with a hero name that sounds more like the world’s greatest Dear Abby letter, and she actually let him keep it. I’m not 100% clear on how this all works, but I like to think this means that Aoyama’s fellow heroes have an actual legal obligation to call him this in battle. I don’t think we as a fandom and as a people really take enough time out of our lives to stop and be grateful for Aoyama’s existence.

19. Uravity - it’s a pun!! it’s so cute and I love it!! and it’s such a perfect name in that it just instantly sums up and defines her whole brand, bringing to mind both Ochako the person and Zero Gravity the quirk. honestly she is one of only a few kids whose hero name I never space out on. with a lot of the others I usually have to pause for a sec and be like “wait, what was their name again?” but never Ochako.

18. Present Mic - this would make a really great band name honestly. I just like it. I’m pretty sure Horikoshi was going for “present” as in the verb meaning “to perform”, like in “presentation”, but to tell the truth I always pronounce it like “present” as in “gift” or “the present time”, which doesn’t make any sense at all, but IT’S JUST WHAT MY BRAIN DECIDED TO DO. anyway.

17. Tsukuyomi - I know this name has its origins in Japanese mythology, but to be completely honest I’ve always just associated it with Itachi’s infamous genjutsu attack from Naruto. I just think it’s the gothest thing ever and absolutely perfect for Tokoyami lol.

16. All Might - there’s just something about this name that kind of makes me just want to pump my fists and go “YEAH!!” I really like the use of “might” as a noun rather than “mighty” as an adjective like you see in so many classic superhero names. it’s just so much cooler somehow. this name really does conjure up the image of the strongest guy in the universe.

15. Midnight - honestly I’m almost mad that this wound up being a hero name, because it would have made a perfect villain name. it’s dark and mysterious and sexy. it’s no wonder why Midnight chose it lol. anyway so my girl is a bit kinky, nothing wrong with that, and it’s also a perfect name for someone whose quirk puts other people to sleep. it’s just such spot-on branding, I love it.

14. Ingenium - fun fact, I had no idea what this meant when I first came across it because I don’t speak Latin! apparently it means “genius” or “talent.” which is a very good meaning for a hero name! but honestly the real reason I love it so much is because it’s Iida’s tribute to his brother, and I am just such a sucker for that kind of shit. damn you Iida siblings. quit giving me all these feels.

13. Shouto – yes, seriously. I know a lot of people hate this name, and it’s always getting flak for being bland and uncreative. but I honestly think it’s a perfect name for Shouto. firstly because Shouto himself is very much the opposite of flashy in a lot of ways. he’s not particularly animated or attention-seeking; he is a very calm, sort of still-waters-run-deep person, and I think the lack of a snappy brand name fits that personality. I’m even more delighted that it hasn’t remotely curbed his popularity at all (at this point I think the only kid hero with more in-universe fans out there is Momo, and even then it’s probably a close thing), and I think a big part of that is that people are drawn to his unpretentious nature, especially in comparison to a lot of the other heroes out there. but most of all, I like the name because of the simple yet powerful way it serves as a declaration that he is his own person. he’s not his father, and he’s more than just a Todoroki. he is himself; he is Shouto. anyway so yeah, to me this is a fantastic name with so much depth and meaning.

12. Battle Fist - this is Kendou’s hero name AND IT’S PERFECT. like, holy shit. what should we call the girl who goes around punching bad guys around all day with her giant hands. how about BATTLE FIST. there really isn’t much more to say about this one, honestly. its greatness speaks for itself.

11. Vantablack - imagine being such an enormous douchebag that word of your douchey exploits made it all the way over to some guy in Japan who spends 95% of his waking hours writing a manga and has almost no free time. fun fact, although Anish Kapoor is the only one licensed to use the color Vantablack, the name Vantablack is still owned by Surrey NanoSystems (a.k.a. the guys who actually invented it), and so I’m pretty sure they’re the ones who decide whether or not someone else gets to use it. I wonder if Kapoor is pissed about his color being referenced in a popular shounen manga. anyways, all of that speculation aside, it really is the perfect name for someone with Kuroiro’s quirk.

10. Endeavor - look, say what you will about Endeavor the person (although I’m personally a big fan of the way his redemption arc is being done and think he’s a fascinating character, albeit a very flawed one), but there’s no denying that Endeavor is a badass name. but what’s really great about it is how it so perfectly captures the admirable part of Endeavor, the one thing about him that’s actually worth praising. he never gives up. he’s always pushing, striving, struggling forward no matter how hopeless it seems. and that’s a worthy trait, and it says something about him that this is what he chose for his hero name. a name that has nothing to do with fire, nothing to do with his quirk, nothing even to do with his goal of becoming #1. it’s simply a name that means to make an effort; to try and achieve something. and I like that.

9. Sugarman - this IMO is easily the most overlooked and severely underrated hero name in the series. it’s a hidden gem. everyone always forgets about Satou just because his power of being a Strong Punching Guy doesn’t particularly stand out in a manga chock full of strong punching guys. but he is a badass and a great character, and honestly “eating candy makes me super strong” is possibly the single greatest quirk in the history of time and I am jealous. anyway, so this is a really straightforward name, but it’s really smooth and catchy somehow and so it’s one of my favorites.

8. Gale Force - this is Inasa’s hero name! it’s another one which is criminally underrated, much like Inasa himself. airbender powers are just so badass you guys. wind is so badass. this name is all hurricaney and tempesty and super cool and powerful-sounding. this is one of those names that I’m honestly surprised wasn’t already a mainstream superhero name. Marvel was all “nah, we’ll just go with ‘Storm’”, like come on you guys where is the creativity.

7. Red Riot - this name is a fucking grand slam. it’s alliterative! it’s catchy! it’s got the word “riot” in it! it’s an absolutely perfect name for a passionate guy whose quirk lends itself towards good old fashioned brawlin’ and head bashing. the fact that it’s got additional meaning as a tribute towards Kiri’s own personal hero is just the icing on the cake. this is another name that Marvel probably legit wishes they had thought of first. it’s easily the best hero name out of everyone in class 1-A imo.

6. Sir Nighteye - hilariously for the longest time it was not confirmed whether or not Nighteye actually had a real name (he does! but I’ve forgotten it lol), and so there was this lingering question, absurd as it was, of whether or not Nighteye’s parents, whoever they are, were descendants of some proud Nighteye clan, and whether they had really, actually named their child “Sir.” anyways though, I love this name. it’s super cool and mysterious and perfect for someone with future-seeing powers, and the “Sir” just makes even awesomer because it implies that the Queen really liked him or something.

5. Mt. Lady - this name is a stroke of genius. supersize-me powers are a dime a dozen, but the characters always have names like Giant Man or Giganta or Goliath. as far as I know, no other superhero characters have ever thought to name themselves after mountains, let alone to name themselves as if they WERE a mountain. like, she isn’t “mountain lady”; she’s “MOUNT Lady”, as if she were an actual tectonic peak. it really bothers me that I can’t adequately describe in words why I love this so much. I just do!! I think she should get an award.

4. Suneater - Tamaki is out here proving to everyone that your hero name doesn’t need to have jack shit fuckall to do with your actual quirk in order to be completely badass and iconic. sometimes I wonder what Tamaki does when people ask him “out of curiosity, why did you pick that name?”, which someone surely must have done at some point. he probably turns beet red and tries to dissolve into the background. but anyway, the general public does not need to know the meaning of his hero name in order for it to have meaning; we know what the meaning is, and that it’s his way of saying “I believe in myself because my friend believes in me”, and honestly that’s all that matters. I am still of the opinion that certain other people whose childhood friends held a lot of unwavering belief in and admiration towards them could do worse than going down this same hero name route, but we will see! anyways Suneater deserves all your respect.

3. Best Jeanist - I had so much love for this name from the start, and then I found out it was a real, actual award. for people who make good jeans, or are good at wearing jeans, or something. it’s run by the Japan Jeans Council, which is also a real and actual thing. but anyway, despite it not being as wholly original of a name as I thought, it’s still iconic, and I love that he went with something that was recognizable while still fitting his quirk, and which has the added implication that he is the motherfucking best, because he is. also, given that he probably chose this name while he was still in school, and that only public figures generally seem to be eligible for the award, this implies that he chose the name Best Jeanist first, and then went on to win the actual award eight years running. presumably because the JJC got very flustered and were all, “IT’S LITERALLY HIS NAME... WE HAVE TO GIVE IT TO HIM... WE HAVE TO”, and so they did. anyway so that was a goddamn power move on his part.

2. Gang Orca - first of all, if you are an orca man, then naming yourself after orcas is a pretty apt thing to do and I have to respect that. but then along comes the “gang” part, out of absolutely NOWHERE, and it absolutely SMASHES. like, this name comes up to you and it slaps you in the face. GANG ORCA. HE’S A BIG AGGRESSIVE DOLPHIN MAN AND HE’S NOT HERE TO FUCK AROUND. IS HE ACTUALLY IN A GANG?? WE DON’T KNOW. BUT HERE HE IS, READY TO YEET YOUR DELINQUENTS AND HUNT YOUR MOTHERFUCKING SEALS. this name fucks so hard it came within inches of the number one spot. he is a ruffian and a champ.

1. Eraserhead - last but not least, the guy who DIDN’T EVEN PICK HIS OWN NAME. his best friend had to do it for him, and out of love, came up with the SINGLE BEST HERO ALIAS IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND. first of all, this name sounds like a very funky and electronicy Thom Yorke song. second, it conjures up the image of a man with a big no. 2 pencil head, which could not possibly be further from the truth. it’s just so whiplashy in the best way possible. third, the very existence of this name is seriously a goddamn miracle. he could have been “Power-Stopping Man.” or “Sleeping Bag Man.” or “Scruffy Hero: Tired Man.” or just “Shouta”, but unlike Shouto there wouldn’t have been any actual meaning to it; it would have simply been a case of him not giving the slightest of fucks about coming up with a real name. but rather than any of these, thanks to the power of friendship we were blessed with the greatest hero name in recorded memory. this is one of the few kindnesses fate has ever bestowed upon Aizawa Shouta in his tragic, exhausting life, and I for one am eternally grateful.

anyway so that’s my list! sorry if I left out anyone’s favorites! but I think all of these are deserving of love. also if you want to see the single best thing Japan has ever come up with, please go visit best-jeans.com. they even have an instagram lulz.

[angel-of-death-2015]

🔥 What is an unpopular opinion you have on Resident Evil? Could be about the games or the movies.

The new movie is trash. That alone is enough 💀 A grown ass white man can have his shitty fanfic get turned into a movie? Then why hasn't anyone hired me? At least I give a shit about storytelling.

Overall? The series dipping away from the OG lore isn't working out. RE7 and RE8 almost have NOTHING to do with Umbrella. Umbrella is a whole afterthought in both games. The only things Umbrella-related is Chris Redfield showing up to clean up the mess at the very last minute and a little letter about Spencer we read for two seconds. There are other ideas we could've expanded on like Alex Wesker returning after she successfully possessed a kid at the end of Resident Evil Revelations 2. When it wasn't Wesker, Alex was the only kid outside of the siblings that was successful with keeping tabs with Spencer and fucking shit up behind the scenes. We could bring back Sherry, Jake, Sheva, and Carlos for a new game and throw in Christopher Cakes Redfield. This whole vampire/werewolf shtick and hardly any absured zombies is fucking stupid.

It's also so fucking white. The very few characters of color we have and all of them excluding Ada are hardly thought about. Sheva was fucking LUCKY to be the main female protagonist in her own game. But her story of being a survivor from Umbrella's tyranny on her country, her people, and all of Africa that caused her to get involved in several political scandals just to LIVE due to constant manipulation from both ends (in Kijuju and in America right before she was guilted into joining the BSAA) was drowned out and turned into a wild goose chase for Chris to find Jill after seeing one mere pic of her that could easily be photoshopped. And Sheva was constantly erased from the covers of HER GAME THAT SHE'S THE STAR IN by both the fans and Capcom. She was replaced by Jill Valentine, who was just a SIDE CHARACTER that only has less than twenty-minutes of screentime in the entire game that doesn't include the DLC. Hell, even with Carlos Oliveira in the Resident Evil 3 Remake. He's constantly stripped of his personality and dumbed down to be dumb as hell by white fans who only see him as a stupid hot Latin lover lap dog for Jill. Carlos has wit and is intelligent. He's not a fucking himbo that solely exists to worship a white woman for white fans to get off to.

And speaking of Jill, she's a full fucking white woman. She is not half-Japanese. Full fucking stop. People only hung onto the ONE LITTLE TIDBIT that her mom was supposedly Japanese in the very first or second game she starred in just to be racist to Hannah John-Kamen, the mixed black actress that portrayed Jill in the recent movie Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. Racist fans were PISSED that a black woman got the role of their sassy white badass #567677 so they used that severely outdated "fact" that doesn't mean shit just to be assholes about Hannah. Because if Jill being half-Japanese was really important, then why the fuck has NO ONE created such outrage about Jill being casted and modeled after monoracial white women for every single game, movie, or other forms of media for twenty-five years? I'm so fucking serious. Even in Resident Evil 5 with the files you have to find about Jill that's written by Wesker, Jill's race and nationality is "Caucasian" in black and white. Not mixed. Not half-Japanese. Not half-Asian. Jill Valentine is not half-Japanese. She is a full white woman. The people who only cling to that one "fact" about her that has never been consistent and enacted on by the writers and developers of the games for twenty years are die-hard OG fans that aren't pressed about it because they forgot or don't care because it's obsolete or racist fans that used it to harass a black woman for earning the role in the movie that IS JUST A SHITTY FANFIC THAT IS NOT A COMPLETE FAITHFUL ADAPTION TO THE FRANCHISE. Because if Jill's heritage was really important, we would've actually seen ANYTHING about it be implemented into the games. Carlos Oliveira's heritage is important because you KNOW and SEE that he's a brown Latin American. Sheva Alomar's heritage is important because you KNOW and SEE that she's a black woman who was born in the city/country of Kijuju in Africa and how Umbrella has experimented on her people. Stop the cap about Jill. She is a white woman and a lot of white fans were bold as hell to turn her into a white feminist and be able to enact their gross racist fantasies on Carlos with her.

[realcube]

YOU GOT: YŪ NISHINOYA 

matchup for @scftfairyking

‘I use glasses (LMAO BC IM BLIND). I'm an Aries , im bi and a ENFP.’

♡ it would be bold to assume that nishinoya has a ‘thing’ for glasses just bc he liked kiyoko and kiyoko wore glasses but it also wouldn’t be insanely far-fetched as his type isn’t really elaborated on. either way, he’d definitely find your glasses charming - like sometimes he’d steal them from you if you ever set them down and he’d hold them above his head like ‘if you want them back, you have to go out with me ( •̀ .̫ •́ )✧’  except his plan goes to shit bc you’re like 6 inches taller than him so you just snatch them from his hands lol

♡ HE’S AN ARIES TOO! i’m no horoscope expert but that seems compatible to me

♡ a google search claims that nishinoya is an ESFP but that is only a headcanon bc he does seem very similar to an ENFP 

♡ either way though, there is only one letter between you two; N (Intuition) and S (sensing preference) - which means you prefer to look at the greater picture when trying to solve a problem while noya tends to take a step-by-step, factual approach (which is arguable)

♡ that doesn’t really seem to hold too much value in a relationship though; especially considering how similar you both are despite that. you are both extroverted, energetic, chaotic, somewhat unpredictable but you both possess the capacity to be serious when you need to 

♡ that is power couple vibes tbh- like you are probably the fuel to noya’s flame- while others are telling him not to get a buzz cut bc he’ll regret it, you’re cheering him on 

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‘I usually am pretty shy when I first meet someone, but when I start to get comfortable enough, I tend to be really chaotic and fun to be around with. I'm pretty loud and very open but only with my closest friends, and I tend to be a really sarcastic sometimes. My love languages are physical touch and words of affirmation.’

♡ noya would not mind if you were shy at first, as long as you weren’t uncomfortable. bc he’s persistent and lil gremlin stalker man so considering that he’s gonna sit next to you in class, try sit next to you at lunch and offer to walk you home, you’ll probably get used to him pretty quickly

♡ going off the assumption that you and noya are gonna get close very fast, he thrives off your chaotic energy and matches it. he likes to turn everything into a competition and before y’all actually start dating, he flirts with you in the most cursed ways possible- like he send you (tw/ choking) this image at 3AM with the caption ‘this could be us 😩’

♡ he deals with your sarcasm pretty well- he just pretends like you are being serious and rolls with it >:) 

♡ ex. he tries to throw a piece of popcorn in the air and catch it in his mouth but he misses and he lands on the couch. ‘wow, noya, that was so cool.’ you murmured monotonously and he just whipped his head around to show you his smug smirk, ‘i know!’  

♡ he shows his love through gift-giving and physical touch but he prefers to receive affection through your love languages; physical touch and words of affirmation.

♡ like he was asking for your hand and marriage after you called his rolling thunder ‘badass’

♡ also i’ve said this before and i’ll say it again; noya likes to find rocks on the ground that remind him of you so whenever he takes you on dates, the first thing he does is show you all the rocks he collected while explaining why each one is similar to you

♡ ‘ok so look at this one, it has little brown specs on it and it’s the exact same color as your eyes! look!’ then he’ll hold the rock up next to your face and take a picture so he can show you the comparison while you just stand there like 🤠

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'Some of my hobbies are: skating, swimming, reading, writing, listening to music, learning new languages, gaming and watching movies.’

♡ omg 🥺 skating dates with noya- if you mean ice-skating/roller blading, i can imagine him being somewhat of a natural so when he first steps into the rink, you’ll probably have to hold his hands to guide him for a bit until he finds his balance but then - in the blink of an eye - he’s suddenly doing advanced tricks, skating elegantly and rapidly

♡ but if you mean skateboarding, then he demands that you teach him how to do random tricks he’s heard of in his video games and half of them you’ve never even heard of; ‘(y/n)! please teach me how to do a 360-ollie-back-flapjack-bananasplit-kick!!’ ‘noya, i don’t think that’s a real thing.’

♡  he loves swimming with you! he’s no professional but he can frontstroke really fast. so he likes to race with you and have competitions to see who can hold the breath the longest underwater

♡ pfft i firmly believe that the only book noya has ever read for pleasure was the diary of a wimpy kid series when he was like 8 - but if you read to him, he’d really like that 👉👈

♡ he likes to listen to music too- like while he is cleaning, studying, exercising etc and if you make him a playlist, he will literally forever be in your debt 🙏 he makes you playlists too but he mostly listens to latin music, rap, r&b and random songs he found on tiktok so that’ll be what his playlists consists of 

♡ FKDAGHR post-timeskip he travels so ofc he likes to learn new languages too so you both do lil duolingo sessions together where you just sit on the app and test each other on your vocabs- and sometimes he’ll just ask you random house questions in a foreign language for a challenge 

♡ you just hear his voice echo through the house like ‘OU EST LE LAIT?!’

♡ obviously he games too- and whenever you play first-person shooters with him and some random guy in the lobby tries to hit on you, he goes feral. like you’ll never see more protective than when he is in a COD lobby with you 

♡ movie nights with noya? movie nights with noya. y’all watch everything from sharknado to star wars like he’ll literally watch anything as an excuse to spend time with you :3 when it’s his turn to choose, he picks either a comedy (bc he loves hearing your laugh 🥺) or a horror (because if you get scared, he wraps you in his arms like ‘don’t worry babe, i’ll protect you ( •̀ ω •́ )✧’)

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‘My favorite food is carrot cake and i dislike snowstorms or anything that has to do with storms ^^’

♡ his favourite food is gari gari kun which i think is a sort of icelolly so i hc that he has a sweet tooth- also he has the third largest appetite in haikyuu!! so i’ll bet my teppanyaki grill on the fact that nishinoya likes carrot cake too!

♡ speaking of which, i bet he takes you out for dates at dessert places rather than restaurants bc sharing a plate of chocolate waffles is way more romantic than eating separate dishes with a lame ass candle in the middle 🙄 

♡ ok i imagine that nishinoya is fine with storms considering his signature move is literally called ‘rolling thunder’ but he’d be such a sweetheart if there was a storm while you were round at his house; like he’d hold you in his arms and refuse to let go until the storm was over and he’d blare your favourite songs on his speaker to drown out the sounds outside 

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for @scftfairyking​: ok so when i read your request literally the first person i thought of was nishinoya- especially bc y’all have matching zodiac signs :o like that’s soulmate energy

[moonlit-ocs]

OC Bio: Marvel (MCU)

Name: Danielle Fury

Name Meaning: Danielle: the Hebrew female variant of the male name Daniel, meaning "God is my judge" in the Hebrew language. The name appears in the Bible, where Daniel survives a night in a den of lions.

Nickname(s): CC, Dani, Fury, Fury Jr., Tiny Thor, Angsty Teen, Blueberry, Coraline, Zappy, Agent, MCR Phase but make it deadly, “She scares me”

Alias(es): Circut

Occupation: Avenger, Agent of SHIELD (formerly)

Alignment: ESTJ-A/Chaotic Good

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Bisexual

Age/Birthday: 17/18 (as of 2018)/September 4, 2000, Adoption Day: May 9, 2005

Height: 5’6”

Hair Color/Type/Length: Blue (formerly brown), Wavy, Shoulder

Eye Color: Brown

Body Markings: Gunshot wound in left arm, experimentation scars,

Family: Nick Fury (Adoptive Father), Maria Hill (Godmother), Avengers, Nora Palmer (Bio Mother), James Palmer (Bio Father)

Love Interest(s): N/A

Birthplace: Albany, NY

Languages: English, German, Russian, Spanish, French, Japanese, Latin

Skills/Powers: Electrokinesis: Create/Manipulate/Control electricity, immune to shock, superhuman stamina/strength/agility, expert combatant/marksman, trained spy, computer genius, brief bouts of flight,

Likes: leather jackets, quips, feeling badass, blue, fun hair, neon, target practice, being useful, flannel, chocolate milk, suckers/lollipops, being “overcharged,” music, calling Tony homophobic when he tells her “no,” blueberries, fruit, cookies

Dislikes: panic attacks, anxiety, being underestimated, outbursts, death, destruction,

Backstory: Danielle Fury (née Palmer) was the child of Nora and James Palmer, SHIELD agent and unaffiliated scientist respectively. Her mother died on a mission before Dani could talk, later finding out one of her mother’s mission teammates took her out on HYDRA’s orders.

Her father, struggling to care for his daughter on his lonesome, began bringing Dani to his lab despite direct orders not to. After losing his wife, he was adamant on having his daughter in his sights at all times, driving him incredibly mad due to his paranoia of losing what little he has left.

Unfortunately, this made Danielle a distraction, leaving Dr. Palmer’s work sloppy. Mistakes began to pile up and Danielle became more difficult to tame as she grew. It was only a matter of time before she got herself into trouble when the fatigued scientist carelessly left her alone.

The girl, being fascinated by her father’s work from a distance, found an opening to explore and when she did, she found that her little hands were quite clumsy. Clinking beakers with various rainbow hues together barely got her father’s attention, she grabbed a blue one and put it to her mouth. It wasn’t as sweet as the blue slushies she got at the gas station. It made her sick, but she feared her father’s reaction to sneaking around past her “play area,” so she continued sneaking around.

Yellow, triangular symbols got her attention next—that and the shiny lights behind him. If she could read anything longer that three letter words, she’d know it’d be dangerous to grab the machine, but the need to explore got the best of her. Her little hand wrapped and seized around the pole as she let out a scream to alert her father, who came racing to the rescue so fast he didn’t stop to think.

He took his daughter’s arm and the electrical current ran through her into him and killed him almost instantly. Danielle, on the other hand, was changing from within. What she ingested may have just saved her life, but her life would be changed forever.

She had not known much about her mother by this age—at least, not the truth. She didn’t know who Nick Fury was, but he knew her and was notified as soon as James Palmer was found. Fury and her mother, Nora, had a connection in SHIELD, him being a mentor to Danielle’s mom. He felt it to be his duty to take their child in. That, and he knew that her survival couldn’t have been so “miraculous.”

It wasn’t soon after Dani’s adoption that he discovered she had gained powers from this trauma, and who better to raise a super-powered kid than the guy that’s used to a little bit of crazy. Her powers were electricity-based with a plethora of uses that were unimaginable to her, but she’d work to figure out just what she could do with them. Lightning bolts, electricity manipulation, generation, control, you name it.

Dani spent the next few years being trained to use her powers and fight. Now, it was frowned upon to train a child as a living weapon, but he did it anyway and began to find a connection to her mother within SHIELD. And as she grew older, she grew wiser, learned what questions to ask and how to work as an agent and a spy, even earning her codename, Circut. Her adoptive father still treated her as a child to some extent, but fatherhood wasn’t exactly his strongsuit. She was grateful to him, nonetheless. After her biological father’s accident, things could have gotten a lot worse for her, but with Nick Fury, she knew she’d be safe. And eventually she’d grow strong enough to become one of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, an Avenger, out of necessity.

Faceclaim: Willow Shields

[setting-in-a-honeymoon]

@shark-myths tagged me to answer a bunch of deep questions, and let me start by telling you that I am flattered someone as cool as her thought to tag me, so thank you shark! If you guys want to, I tag @stereostatic @xylobones @justkindaconfused and @mmetacarpals.

1. Do you prefer writing with a black pen or a blue pen?

Black pen, hands down. It’s just cleaner, you know? It’s Crisp.

2. Would you prefer to live in the country or the city?

City. I live in Tennessee, and it’s pretty, but I don’t want to live here forever. I can, however, see myself coming back every once in a while to galavant among the kudzu and listen to the cicadas scream.

3. If you could learn a new skill what would it be?

I wish I had more cooking and baking skills. I used to cook with my mom a lot, but then I started getting *shudders* homework and I didn’t have as much time. I really should start cooking and baking with her again.

4. Do you drink your tea/coffee with sugar?

Yes. So much. And cream.

5. What was your favorite book as a child?

I...actually can’t remember if I had a favorite book? I loved the Magic Tree House series, and then in middle school I binge-read all seven of the Chronicles of Narnia, which I also loved, but all the favorite books I can think of now are books I read much more recently.

6. Do you prefer baths or showers?

Showers. I feel awkward in baths, cause I never fill them up enough, so then I’m just laying half-exposed in lukewarm water. I think if I ever have a deep claw foot tub I’ll try taking baths again and see how I feel. Plus, in the shower I can re-enact scenes from the music video for “All These Things that I’ve Done” by The Killers.

7. If you could be one mythical creature, what would it be?

Just one? There’s so many I would love to be: fae, nymph, mermaid, vampire, werewolf, etc.

8. Paper or electronic books?

Paper. I like making notes in books, and I think it adds character to see my own handwriting/squiggly lines on the pages. Even if my handwriting is atrocious. <3

9. What is your favorite item of clothing?

My MANIA tour jacket. It’s comfy and cozy but also badass and makes me feel powerful.

10. Do you like your name or would you like to change it?

Okay, so my full name is a little too Southern debutant for my liking, but everyone calls me Gracie, and I don’t mind that. I sometimes wish I had a slightly more ambiguous name, but nothing too different? Like “Gray” and “Grayson” have a certain appeal to me.

11. Who is a mentor to you?

Pete Wentz.

12. Would you like to be famous, and if so, what for?

Yes, but not like a huge celebrity. Intimate fandom type fan base. And I would LOVE to be a famous author. That’s my goal in life.

13. Are you a restless sleeper?

On occasion. Most of the time when I sleep, I sleep like the dead, but if my anxiety’s bad or I watched something scary that day then I’ll wake up a few times in the night.

14. Do you consider yourself a romantic person?

I think I have the potential to be. I definitely have my moments.

15. Which element best represents you?

I think earth?

16. Who do you want to be closer to?

Someone I used to be really close to, but we had a kind of an unspoken friend break-up and we drifted apart for a while. I want us to be closer friends again.

17. Do you miss someone at the moment?

My brother, who’s currently at my dad’s for the weekend.

18. Tell us about an early childhood memory?

My mom runs a lot, and when I was little she would take me with her and push me in a jogging stroller. The parks she ran in were always really nice, and sometimes she would run in the evening while fireflies were out. I would just sit in the stroller and listen to Rascal Flatts on a portable CD player, but those moments always feel very magical when I think about them.

19. What is the strangest thing you’ve eaten?

I ate popcorn off my school’s football field on a dare. Oh, and dandelions. 0/10, do not recommend- they’re nothing but grit.

20. What are you most thankful for?

Having family members that support me.

21. Do you like spicy food?

I can’t handle anything spicy. Even Chipotle makes my eyes water. :(

22. Have you ever met someone famous?

Nope.

23. Do you keep a diary or journal?

Yes! Most of my journals are poetry, I think, but I love the feeling of filling a notebook with my thoughts.

24. Do you prefer to use a pen or a pencil?

Pencil when I’m writing, because sometimes my letters come out wonky and I have to fix them Right Then, but if I’m annotating I use a pen because it looks better.

25. What is your star sign?

Virgo

26. Do you like your cereal soggy or crunchy?

Crunchy

27. What would you want your legacy to be?

That I was a smart, accomplished person who was fun to hang out with.

28. Do you like reading, what was the last book you read?

I do! The last book I read was The Best American Poetry of 2015.

29. How do you show someone you love them?

Compliments, cuddles, and showing them things I think they would like.

30. Do you like ice in your drinks?

No. I don’t drink things very fast, so it would just become a gross, watered down mess.

31. What are you afraid of?

Breaking down and losing control.

32. What is your favorite scent?

Bonfire smoke

33. Do you address older people by their name or surname?

Depends on how I know them. If it’s like, a parent of a friend, I’ll say “Mrs./Mr. [insert first name].”

34. If money was not a factor, how would you live your life?

However felt right, I guess.

35. Do you prefer swimming in pools or the ocean?

Pools, I think. I don’t have to worry about being swept away by waves in a pool.

36. What would you do if you found $50 on the ground?

Put it in the bank.

37. Have you ever seen a shooting star?

Not that I can remember.

38. What is one thing you would want to teach your children?

Your worth isn’t measured by how productive you are or how strong you are. It’s okay to break down and take mental health days. Those messages weren’t engraved in me very well, and dealing with the repercussions isn’t fun.

39. If you had to have a tattoo, what would it be and where would you get it?

My brother’s birthday in Roman numerals on the back of my neck. I also know I want to get Orion tattooed on the inside of my bicep.

40. What can you hear now?

Bugs outside and my mom and her boyfriend talking downstairs.

41. Where do you feel the safest?

In my room, and the passenger seat of my best friend’s car.

42. What is one thing you want to overcome/conquer?

My anxiety

43. If you could travel back to any era, what would it be?

Either late 90s/early two thousands, or Ancient Greece. I want to join a cult of Artemis or Dionysus.

44. What is your most used emoji?

Crying laughing face

45. Describe your self using one word.

Chill.

46. What do you regret the most?

Not nourishing new friendships the way I should have.

47. Last movie you saw?

I think it might’ve been Jerry McGuire? I’m not sure. Time is a blur.

48. Last TV show you watched?

Grimm, a paranormal(?) detective show based on the Brothers Grimm fairytales.

49. Invent a word and it’s meaning.

I’m actually going to use this to geek out about Latin for a second. One of my favorite tricks in Latin is that you can add the suffix “ifer” to basically any noun to mean [noun]-bringer. Like melifer means honey-bringer, and noctifer means night-bringer. I don’t know why, but I love it.

This took a while, but it was super fun. Thanks again @shark-myths for tagging me! :)

[missmist93]

Top-4 Badass Female Rulers

Strong women in power more than once sparkled like bright stars on the canvas of history. Let's take a look at some of them that have left their mark on the history of Russia. 1. Princess Olga Our first officially known female ruler and the first Orthodox ruler. She’s a princess who ruled Kievan Rus from 945 to 960 as regent under her young son Svyatoslav, after the death of her husband, Prince Igor.  She was known as a proud, wise and brave woman. She signed several lucrative contracts with neighboring lands, laid the foundation for stone urban planning, streamlined tax collection and paid attention to the improvement of the lands under her control. There is a legend about how Olga outwitted the Byzantine king. He, marveling at her intelligence and beauty, wanted to marry Olga, but the princess rejected his claims, noting that it was not proper for Christians to marry pagans. It was then that the king and the patriarch baptized her. When the king again began to harass the princess, she pointed out that she was now his goddaughter, so he couldn’t marry her anyway.

But her cruel revenge for the death of her beloved husband is best known. In 945, Prince Igor died at the hands of the Slavic tribe of the Drevlyans after repeatedly collecting tribute from them. After the murder of Igor, the Drevlyans sent 20 "best husbands" to Olga, deciding to woo her to their prince Mal. Olga pretended to agree to the Drevlyans' proposal, and, allegedly in order to honor the ambassadors, ordered her subjects to solemnly carry them on boats to her palace. Meanwhile, a pit had already been dug in the courtyard, into which, by order of Olga, the ambassadors were thrown. In 946, Olga went out with an army on a campaign against the Drevlyans. According to Russian chronicles, after an unsuccessful siege during the summer, Olga burned the city of the Drevlyans, Iskorosten, with the help of birds, to whose feet she ordered to tie lighted tows with sulfur. Some of Iskorosten's defenders were killed, the rest obeyed. After the reprisal against the Drevlyans, Olga began to rule Russia until Svyatoslav came of age, but even after that she remained the de facto ruler, since her son spent most of his time on military campaigns and didn’t pay attention to managing the state.

2.  Marfa Boretskaya, also known as Martha the Mayoress Formally, Martha was never a ruler, but she had great influence as the widow of the Novgorod mayor Isaac Boretsky, and she was one of the leaders of the Novgorod opposition to Ivan III. In the Novgorod folk legends, Martha appears in the form of a strong and domineering ruler who firmly held her position no matter what. In the 15th century, autocracy spread across Russia, but the Novgorod principality remained a stronghold of democracy. Martha and her son, the Novgorod dignified mayor Dmitry, in 1471 advocated the withdrawal of Novgorod from dependence on Moscow. Martha was the informal leader of the boyar opposition to Moscow; she was supported by two more noble Novgorod widows. Martha, who possessed significant funds, negotiated with the Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland Casimir IV on the entry of Novgorod into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania on the basis of autonomy while preserving the political rights of Novgorod.

Upon learning of the negotiations on the annexation of Novgorod to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Grand Duke Ivan III declared war on the Novgorod Republic and defeated the army of Novgorod in the Battle of Shelonsk (1471). Martha’s son was executed as a political criminal. However, Novgorod's right to self-government in its internal affairs was retained. Martha, despite the death of her son and the actions of Ivan III, continued negotiations with Casimir, who promised her support. In 1478, during a new military campaign, Ivan III finally deprived the Novgorod lands of the privileges of self-government, extending the power of autocracy to them. The veche bell, which used to call the townspeople to meetings, as a symbol of Novgorod democracy, was taken to Moscow. Martha's lands were confiscated, she and her grandson Vasily were first brought to Moscow, and then sent to Nizhny Novgorod, where she was tonsured a nun under the name of Mary in the Conception (since 1814 - Holy Cross) monastery, where she died in 1503. 3. Princess Sophia Alekseevna Romanova Another strong woman with a tragic fate. Voltaire said about her: “She had a lot of intelligence, she wrote poetry, was a skilled writer and orator, she combined a pleasant appearance with lots of  talents; they were overshadowed only by her ambition".  She ruled as regent of Russia from 1682 to 1689, during the minority of her brother Ivan V and half-brother Peter I.  A daughter of tsar Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov and Maria Miloslavskaya, she lost her father during a period of violent feuds that broke out between relatives of her deceased mother and stepmother. According to the laws of that time, only a man could inherit the throne. Sophia had no rights to it, although she was an older sister. After the Streltsy revolt, in May 1682, the warring factions reached a compromise and chose two tsars, two half-brothers - Ivan V and Peter I. Sophia headed the government under both minor tsars.

Sophia achieved that her name was included in the official royal title "Great Sovereign and Grand Princess and Grand Duchess Sophia Alekseevna". A few years later, her image was minted on coins, and from 1686 she already called herself an autocrat and the next year she issued this title by a special decree. The policy of the reign of Princess Sophia in many ways contributed to the renewal of public life. Industry and trade began to develop noticeably. The country began to produce velvet and satin. The Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy was opened. International contacts are being established. Sophia began to reorganize the army according to the European model. Even the noble supporter of Peter I, Prince Kurakin, admitted: Sophia ruled “with all diligence and justice, so there was never such a wise government in the Russian state. And in the whole state during her reign great wealth flourished, commerce, and crafts, and science also multiplied... and the freedom of the people triumphed". But time passed, Prince Ivan died and Prince Peter grew up. Like Sophia, he actively advocated reforms for the good of the state, but Sophia flatly refused to cede the throne to her half-brother.

Sophia lost power while trying to eliminate Peter, who had already reached adulthood. In 1689, relations between Sophia and the boyar-noble group that supported Peter I escalated to the extreme. As a result, the party of Peter I won the final victory, and the royal biography of Sophia ended. All supporters of the princess lost their real power, her name was excluded from the royal title. Sophia herself was sent without tonsure to the Novodevichy nunnery in Moscow, where she copied church books and wrote a lot. During the Streltsy Uprising of 1698, Sophia repeated her attempt to gain power. In her letters to the streltsy, she asked to support her and oppose Peter I. The uprising was brutally suppressed. Sophia was tonsured as a nun and imprisoned in the nunnery forever.

The tragic story of his half-sister prompted Peter I to issue a decree on succession to the throne in 1722. The decree canceled the ancient custom of transferring the royal throne to direct descendants in the male line and provided for the appointment of an heir to the throne at the behest of the monarch. 4. Catherine II or Catherine The Great The 18th century in the Russian Empire was the heyday of the Russian "kingdom of women" - and the most beautiful flower in this garden was Empress Catherine the Great. The country's longest-ruling female leader (1762 – 1796). She came to power following a coup d'état that overthrew her husband, Peter III. Under her reign, Russia was revitalised; it grew larger and stronger, and was recognised as one of the great powers of Europe.

She wasn’t Russian in blood, but she became one in spirit. Sophia Frederica Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst converted to Orthodoxy and received the name Catherine, studied Russian language and Russian culture.  The Empress formulated the tasks facing the Russian monarch as follows: - to educate the nation to be governed; - to introduce good order in the state, to support society and make it comply with the laws; - to establish a good and accurate police force in the state; - contribute to the flourishing of the state and make it abundant; - to make the state formidable in itself and inspiring respect for its neighbors. Under Catherine, special attention was paid to the development of women's education, in 1764 the Smolny Institute for Noble Maidens and the Educational Society for Noble Maidens were opened. The Academy of Sciences has become one of the leading scientific bases in Europe. In the provinces there were orders of public charity. In Moscow and St. Petersburg there are orphanages for homeless children, where they received education and upbringing. The Widows Treasury was created to help widows. If we talk about the disadvantages of her rule, then they include favoritism, corruption and connivance with the nobility to the detriment of ordinary people and especially serfs.The ideas expressed by Diderot and Voltaire, of which she was an adherent in words, didn’t correspond to her internal politics. They defended the idea that every person is born free, and advocated the equality of all people and the elimination of medieval forms of exploitation and despotic forms of government. Contrary to these ideas, under Catherine there was a further deterioration in the situation of serfs, their exploitation intensified, inequality grew due to the granting of even greater privileges to the nobility. In general, historians characterize her policy as "pro-noble" and believe that despite the empress's frequent statements about her "vigilant concern for the welfare of all subjects", the concept of the common good in the era of Catherine was the same fiction as in general in Russia in the 18th century.