#like he has a lot superficial stuff he is concerned about
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hcnnibal · 9 days ago
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and what qualities does a1 fear having assigned to him?
a1 thinks about what people are thinking about him all the time so the list is quite long:
-uneducated and/or dumb
-poor
-unattractive/undesirable/unpopular
-behind on trends
-weird/unpleasant/out of place
-his authority not being recognized
-incompetent/inexperienced
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prince-liest · 2 months ago
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velvette marketing spells and potions as part of her brand actually makes me wonder if THAT would end up being a bone alastor has to pick with her- we haven't seen a whole lot of her magic, mainly advertisements, but it all seems to be very much Pop Culture Witchcraft stuff, which she then sells to the masses.
alastor might take offense to her in the same way he takes offense to vox: she's entirely superficial, taking something that SHOULD be an art and deeply personal and being a total sellout by attempting to profit off of it. there's also the inherent dichotomy of Pop Culture Witchcraft being largely rooted in cultural appropriation versus Alastor's vodou magic being derived from, you know, his cultural heritage and a religion he actively practiced while alive.
My understanding is that as far as actual theorizing about canon is concerned, Alastor is no longer supposed to be an actual practitioner of vodou and more rather just...vaguely and nonspecifically "occult," a decision that Vivziepop made due to it being pointed out to her that vodou is a closed religion that she probably shouldn't be fucking around with.
THAT SAID, the original inspiration for him is still very obvious and the changes made are superficial at best (though the associations are also superficial, pff). I doubt this is what's going to be canon in this specific way, but it would absolutely make sense in fanon. I suspect he would still be easier on withholding judgment of her to a certain extent, but the combination of just, like, totally throwing appropriate treatment of magic out the window and also her association with Vox and following in his footsteps probably really does it for him.
His perspective of Velvette in general is something I'm looking forward to learning more about because it's seemed like much of his animosity towards Vox is for being a sellout, but Velvette's particular choice of art (fashion) is pretty culturally linked to public trends. Plus, where Vox is an opportunistic trend-follower... she's more of a trend-setter, which I think Alastor would respect.
If she didn't have shit taste in partners.
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lime-bloods · 6 months ago
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i would LOVE a post on that. i have been thinking extensively about pitch romance and how deeply, cruelly toxic it is and how quadrants are in general. a lot of stuff is based in karkat's pov on it (and karkat is like. sooo biased love the guy to death but he is SO BIASED!!!) but sometimes it's in the narration and the existence of auspisticism & the fact that quadrants potentially existed on beforus trips me up as well...
this is a great question! and I suppose "the beginning" is probably the best place to start for a post about this, after all.
it's important to be aware that when we think of Beforus as a planet that is "good", this is not necessarily because it is wholly good by our own standards or even by the author's standards, but because it is good within Homestuck's philosophy, that the "good" is that which is "true" or "real", rather than what is "true" necessarily being good. to put this in another way - which I've only just recently begun to fully understand myself - Beforus being free of Lord English's corruption doesn't mean it's free of problems, just that it's problems are "real" problems, as opposed to fictional problems; they're reflective of problems we have on Earth.
pivotally, Beforus still has systems of gendered oppression, and in that sense it's clear how the intrinsically gendered violence of Alternia's quadrants would find their own place in Beforan society. it's just that in this context, these dynamics arise as part of complex sociological phenomena over thousands of years and aren't put in place solely for a specific purpose by an omnipotent time god, and as such won't necessarily manifest themselves in the exact same ways, or necessarily be "as bad". as with so many things in Homestuck, it's the idea at the core of the concept that's most important; kismesissitude and matespritship on Beforus should be recognisably the same idea as the quadrants on Alternia, just as they are recognisably the same "quadrants" practised by cherubs and humans, despite all of these arising from vastly different and largely disconnected cultural contexts.
the tendency for the same ideas to reliably bubble up to the surface again and again in different contexts is a central law of Homestuck's metaphysics: in the words of the reliable Doc Scratch, "there is essentially nothing new in paradox space." and it's relevant that Scratch is the one to relate this truism, because therein lies a crucial different in connotation between "storyteller" and "narrator"; it is not a narrator's job to invent new ideas, but rather to spin their own interpretation of what has already happened. this is why Scratch's ancestor stories are "troll fanfction"; he's writing an AU of characters who already lived on Beforus. we can only assume that, in the same vein, in "creating" Alternia's quadrants Scratch merely took those parts of Beforus that were convenient to his vision and amplified them to be all-important. (alchemy, as described by 9th century author Jabir ibn Hayyan, was the transmutation of one material into another by manipulating qualities that already existed within all matter, pushing some into the background and pulling others into the fore.)
it's easy to think of auspisticism, meanwhile, as unique among the quadrants in that it superficially seems to provide a service that is beneficial to all involved, and certainly towards Act 6 a lot of the children seem very interested in interpreting it this way. but in the narrative context in which it's introduced to us, I think it's clearly much more about control. as far as the ashen quadrant is concerned, what happens to the participants themselves is inconsequential; a successful ashen quadrant merely upholds the social idea of monogamy by stemming "widespread black infidelity." which is on its own a patently absurd idea: fidelity enforced by the race who practice punishable-by-death polygamy in order to mix all of their genes together in a single pool?! yes, it makes sense within the context of a nonsensically complicated alien reproductive process, but the nonsensical complicatedness of it all is entirely the point; the quadrants are designed to intersect in ways that not even the trolls themselves could ever fully understand. just as it's often impossible for a troll to distinguish between feelings that are platonic, pale or red, when Eridan attempts to "spark a rivalry wit)( [Sollux] to get [Feferi] to auspisticize [...] and pull us out of our quadrant" it's "t)(e oldest and lamest trick in t)(e book" precisely because it's the quadrant working exactly as intended! all of the quadrants serve to make relationships messier under the guise of making them more structured because messy relationships make for a great story, which is Alternia's fundamental purpose.
I think the Karkat point is worthy of another post deconstructing all the quadrants more broadly, because a lot of different things have been said about it already and it's worth getting into, but straightforwardly I think it must be understood that Karkat and "the narration" have fundamentally the same bias; the narrative wants us to take Alternia seriously because Alternia as a machine is a construction of the narrative for the purposes of the narrative, and Karkat wants us to take Alternia seriously because he's a massive stooge who has made his whole life's purpose out of buying into that narrative.
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deafeninggalaxycandy · 10 days ago
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✨️CLYDE DONOVAN HEADCANONS✨️
trigger warning: mentions of a dead parent, slight mention of drugs, general fuckboy activities
• Clyde Sterling Donovan
• He/Him
• Born on April 10th 2003
• 5'11"
• "Straight" (Closeted bisexual)
• Unironically says brainrot terms like "rizz" and "what the sigma"
• Clyde became a lot closer to Tolkien since he was the main one to show genuine empathy- and concern over his mother dying. He was also one of the first kids to say that it wasn't Clyde's fault (even though it sort of was but letting a child believe that he killed his mom is pretty fucked up).
• After his mom died, Clyde became very uncomfortable around toilets and bathrooms in general. The emerge of skibidi toilet made him break down in tears and the trauma came flooding back. He genuinely does blame himself for her death and was sent to counseling by his dad for it. He's slowly getting better but he never stops thinking that it was his fault. He's always like insanely careful about putting down the toilet seat now and starts freaking out if he sees it up in anyone's house.
• Clyde isn't really a crybaby but he doesn't like talking about his feelings and the compressed emotion just comes out randomly in tears. Even when he's not sad. He genuinely cries over things that are important to him, like his relationship to Bebe, or his mom dying. Other times, it's other small stuff that just tips him over the edge after these things are already on his mind. The entire month of May makes him sob and he refuses to leave his bed (it��s the month of Mother's Day and the month of his mom's birthday)
• Swears up and down he's 6 feet tall, he'll fight anybody who says he's 5'11"
• Genuinely in love with Tolkien but absolutely will not admit it. He doesn't even think he's bisexual.
• He did like Bebe at first because she was a pretty girl showing interest in him but eventually realized they didn't have much in common and were only together for superficial reasons. Bebe just liked having someone who'd give her anything she wanted and Clyde liked having a popular blonde girl on his arm. Neither of them had any real love or respect for each other.
• Once they got to the age where they could have sex, Clyde began cheating on her with some other girls in class. He genuinely saw nothing wrong with it since the relationship wasn't real in the first place. He was actually surprised when Bebe was mad about it. After she left though, he sank into a depression. He didn’t like her per se but he did miss her presence. And just being able to say he has a girlfriend. He felt like a failure for losing someone as popular and pretty as Bebe. Also she was the only one willing to actually date him, not just sleep around.
• Ever since the breakup, he's been trying to get her back by giving her free shoes. Like not even a discount anymore, just giving her any shoes she wants from his dad's store. He also briefly had issues with Kyle and even tried to fight him for supposedly "stealing his girl".
• Anyways back to Tolkien. He actually wants him, because Tolkien really cares about Clyde's issues and interests instead of just mocking him. He actually has a level of respect for Clyde and Clyde has not only respect for, but admiration for him. He's genuinely in awe of how collected and well-balanced Tolkien is in compared to literally everyone else he knows.
• Listens to Joey Valence and Brae, Beastie Boys, Eminem but specifically early 2000s Eminem (He screams along to "Kim" when he's alone).
• After being called fat for so long by his classmates (and them especially doubling down when Cartman was in the psych ward), Clyde took this pain and turned into a gym bro. He's actually in really good shape and has pretty good muscle definition. He slumped back into comfort eating in junior to senior year of high-school and some of his weight was gained back but he's not "fat" just a little bit chubby.
• Has a lot of energy and enthusiasm for most things. He's always excited to be doing something, especially with his friends. He's the main one who's always trying to get the others to get outside and do something fun.
• Got really into football as per his dad's advice so he could get more exercise and wasn't "bouncing off the walls" at home. He pours most if not all of his feelings into the game. It's like therapy to him and also why he didn't care for counseling. He already feels like he has it on the field.
• Drinks a LOT of energy drinks and 5-Hour Energy. He hates feeling slow, depressed or tired, he needs to be at 100% at all times. Once he's done crying over something, he'll literally force himself to drink a Redbull and play Usher to get over it.
• Says "no homo" any time he says or does anything remotely affectionate to another guy.
• Best friends with Tolkien, Cartman and Craig.
• Sleeps during class and drools on the desk.
• Ultimate third wheel to Tweek and Craig. He crashes almost all their dates until Craig shoves him away. He giggles like a schoolgirl when the two kiss and has a big ass yaoi poster of them. Tweek got really pissed at this and made him take it off his wall but he just keeps it in his drawer.
• Really, really, stubborn. When he has his mind set on something, he'll never fucking get over it and he will argue until he passes out. Then he wakes up, he'll start all over again.
• Clyde's dad had to work a lot more since his mom died, so he was alone at home mostly. He got through this because his older sister decided to start visiting home more. She moved out of South Park but she comes back every 2-3 weeks so Clyde won't be lonely. He really fucking misses his sister and gets incredibly excited when she comes back home. They became pretty close and she sort of filled that empty mom role for him.
• Sees Craig like a brother. He was his first friend and the first person to defend him in a fight. They bully each other a lot, and Craig is usually trying to keep him from doing something stupid. Or Clyde is playing dumbass pranks on him. (he filled his shoes with spray cheese once and received a black eye) Plus, they used to watch Red Racer together.
• Plays video games all the time. Mostly GTA and Call of Duty.
• Genuinely doesn't take Cartman seriously and thinks he's fucking hilarious. In his mind, nobody can unironically be that terrible, so he assumes everything Cartman says is just dark satire. Even when he's being racist, homophobic, antisemitic, etc.
• King of parties. Kenny started supplying him with alcohol and drugs and he had Tolkien let him use his house for throwing parties. He always gets super drunk and starts breakdancing and then falling on his face. He also suggested doing body shots and introduced that into the school, now everyone does it.
Ngl, I'm lowkey falling off with my hcs. Clyde has a lot of character that I need to unpack. When I'm finally free from work, I swear I'm doing a psychological analysis on all these guys.
If ur one of those guys who doesn't like my very popular portrayal of Clyde as a hyper emotional bisexual dudebro fuckboy im gonna tell u rn that I don't care :)
this is what came into my brain. deal with it. (and it definitely has nothing to do with the fact I was watching euphoria while thinking about clyde)
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My perfect man Tolkien is up next 💜
Drink water and stay safe it's cold as hell <3
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cal-daisies-and-briars · 14 days ago
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Hi!! Can’t believe ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️ is almost over, what a giant masterpiece it is.
At least we still have more long fics like 🔼🔼🔼🔼🔼 ⚖️⚖️⚖️⚖️⚖️ and 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲 to look forward to.
Some extra motivation for whichever chapter you’re prioritizing most now 🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁
And since you mentioned a secret fic, here’s some ❓❓❓❓❓ emojis to motivate you on that as well.
OH YAY FUN! Thank you!
Thank you for saying that about TWATYTK! It's been a journey with that one for sure.
15 for ⚡️:
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He pulls out of his own phone, snapping far too many photos of Brooke mushing her tiny portion into her face. Lots of it misses her mouth. Red and black icing smears over her cheeks and nose.
Buck pouts. “That’s the cutest thing I’ve ever seen.”
“Yay!” She cheers again. 
Chim returns to the room and pulls Maddie aside. His face looks serious. Buck notices Hen watching them. 
“What’s that about?” He asks her. 
“Uh… I’m not a hundred percent sure,” Hen admits. But Buck can tell there’s more to the story. 
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HELL YES for the long fics! These three and many more to come after them.
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Eddie drops his stuff in various places and flops down on the bed. The moment his head hits his pillow, his phone starts to buzz. It’s the vibration pattern he has specifically set for Shannon or Chris. One that says definitely pick up this call. Eddie sighs, sits back up, and reaches for his phone on the nightstand. Christopher’s name flashes across the screen. He’s Facetiming him from his computer. Eddie pulls himself together and answers the call.
“Hey, kiddo,” he says when he picks up. “How was your day?”
But he immediately sees that Christopher’s expression is not a happy one. Not at all.
“Whoa, hey,” Eddie frowns. “Chris, are you okay?”
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Point is, he’s sort of hesitant about this call. Though, somewhat relieved, regardless. A strange combination of feelings bouncing around his tired body.
When they arrive there, it’s clear whatever happened was a bit more complicated than they’d been expecting. It’s Hollywood Boulevard proper. Like, Walk of Fame. There seem to be three main women involved. The police have one in handcuffs, holding as she shrieks, trying to guide her towards the back of a cruiser. It looks like she’s been scratched with long nails, and had her hair pulled out. Another is screaming at her, being held back by an officer, who is trying to help her where she’s bleeding from several superficial looking puncture wounds. Like there was a very halfhearted attempt at stabbing. She’s also got some scratch marks. The third woman is on her hands and knees, puking. Puking directly on Arnold Schwarznegger’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star. Great. 
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“I don’t understand,” Eddie says, poking at the spot.
“Uh, neither do I,” Buck says, walking over to join him. “It was there earlier.”
“I saw,” Eddie confirms. “I… What changed in the past few hours?”
“I-I don’t know,” Buck says. “Adriana thought you expended too much energy to come back from Sweden. M-maybe you… Rested?”
“Maybe,” Eddie agrees. “I don’t feel rested.”
“So much for putting you in a pot and bringing you around,” Buck mumbles. Nervous mumbling.
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Ohhh for 🎁 I am prioritizing ⚖️ most, because I think I'm close to be able to start posting it.
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It’s worth nothing, as bad as the scene looks, Buck’s ability to see everyone’s auras is giving him some different information. For example, the most concerning aura belongs to the woman who has been hurt the most. The one with superficial stab wounds. She seems to have done the least injuring today, but perhaps not in the past. The woman puking isn’t far behind her. And the woman being pulled into the cop car, seems sort of neutral. Like she could go either way. Good or bad, depending on the day. Well, he dated a lovely reporter like that. Now that’s an aura he’s curious to see…
Buck and Eddie handle the woman with the stab wounds while Hen and Chim take the puking woman, checking for signs of a head wound or something else.
“THAT BITCH!” The woman is screaming in the police car’s direction. “THAT TOTAL FUCKING BITCH!”
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and for ❓ - I shall write 15 sentences! While I cannot share the whole thing, I will share the last sentence :)
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All for the good of the lie.
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caramelcleopatraa · 31 minutes ago
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ALL UP IN YOU MIND
word count: 870
x: ..... hey y'all (,,>﹏<,,) i'm back with sum short and sweet while I'm writing some other stuff. I hope you enjoy :) excuse any errors I didn't catch ~ Cleo
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You tried to act like it doesn’t bother you, but every time you see him, your sexual frustration rises. You were bound to explode at some point.
Your body was damn near vibrating. Restraint was your closest acquaintance recently. You sat there and watched him as he accepted business call after strenuous business call. You knew yourself. It was impossible to be in the same space as your husband and not be magnetized to him from the jump. It’s not like it was the only thing you noticed about him. The countless days of work that he’s put in, the stress that comes with maintaining good at his job, especially one that was so demanding like wrestling, and the physical work that has taken a toll on him is something that a lot of people can't handle. You understood what he had to do to even have these moments so that he can come home and relax… well, semi-relax, because those business calls just seemed to keep coming. You never wanted to seem superficial and at the very least, only concerned with sex. But… fuck, sometimes when you saw him relaxing and lounging around the house, taking a shower, or taking care of business. The simplest things were your biggest triggers. You couldn’t count on less than two hands how many times you had gotten hot and bothered over him being stern over the phone, when negotiations were rocky. Seeing him in such concentration just sent you into an enticing spiral that was fun at times, but excruciating in many other situations. Those times when he came home and he wanted nothing more than sleep, or the quiet days of solitude after energy draining events. You found yourself dealing with a puddle between your legs, leading to those suspicious long showers. 
Roman was the best package deal you could’ve ever wished for. A mature man that preferred communication over assumption, paired with the face and body of a god, spoiled the ever living hell out of you, always made sure you were taken care of. Mentally, physically, and sexually. It’s like second nature for him, and he already does so much for you. So you figured you could just deal with yourself when you got too excited. But it started happening so often, you had to tell him. You needed him. Bad. As much as you tried not to burden him with your newly discovered and frankly annoying sex drive, you knew what he could do, how he could make that provocative ache subside. You daydreamed for hours about how euphoric it would feel once he finally put his hands on you. It pays to be selfless, but you wanted him to yourself just for the weekend. All yours, with no distractions. Just you and him.
That’s the position you just put yourself in. Such a conflict of interest. You had wished sometimes when he had heard your moans from inside the bathroom, due to you stopping trying to be quiet, that he would strip down to nothing and join you. But you knew when duty called, it was hard for him to get distracted when he had his mind concentrated on what he was doing.
You had daydreamed what it would be like if you teased him while he was working until he reached his breaking point. How he would never rush you, but be so impatient to take of your silk robe and sit you in his chair while he kneeled before you and ate you out like it was his first time tasting you, hands roaming your legs and up your torso and eventually grabbing your throat with both hands, still eating your pussy until you experience dizzying bliss. And after that, how easy it is for his dick to slip inside of you with his hands still around your neck while telling you how needy you are, and how he can’t wait to fuck your needy pussy. He’d damn near forget that he’s on a business call, unmuting himself to make some lackadaisical excuse as to why he couldn’t stay on, still snatching your soul with his strokes and eye contact that served as a nonverbal command to not make a fucking sound until they hung up. Your eyes would roll as you felt yourself closer to cumming as you worked circles on your clit, listening to his words that made you moan just on their own. 
“Lemme see that beautiful face while you cum all over this dick.”
“You can take that dick baby, don’t tell me what you can’t take.”
“That pussy too damn good baby, got me addicted to you.”
You had blinked your eyes numerous times to bring you out of your daydream, rubbing your temple and letting out a heavy sigh. ”You okay over there baby?”
“How long until you're finished with your phone call?” He points to his phone, laying face down on the desk next to him. “Just got off.”
Your body moved on its own, walking over to him and sitting on top of him with no hesitation, massaging his shoulders softly. “Good, because I really want you daddy. I can’t wait any longer.”
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cazort · 4 months ago
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My wife has noticed this increasing trend of getting recommended Instagrams that purport to be about "women empowering women" and "promoting healthy relationships" and "improving mental health" and "feminism" and things like that, and then when you watch their videos, 100% of the videos are some woman filming her husband and then the woman who runs the channel is analyzing and blaming and shaming the man's behavior.
The first thing that jumps out at me is that these channels are based on filming your spouse and then publicly shaming them, as if that behavior right there weren't toxic in and of itself. There is always an assumption of bad faith in the analysis of the husband's words and actions, and a black-and-white analysis in which the woman is right and the man is wrong.
And they always make it about gender. They're like "this is a thing men do to women". And the frustrating thing is, a lot of the things being highlighted aren't even about gender.
Like last night I watched this one and the guy was being super passive-aggressive. It was very disrespectful, I and my wife agreed. But I've seen just as many women do the exact same thing; I've had it done to me even, and I've seen some of my friends' moms do it to their dads. In that video, it was a behavior that had nothing to do with gender socialization, but they were analyzing it as if it did. As someone who actually has delved deep into feminist theory and sociology, this stuff drives me batty. It gives feminism a bad name!
In some cases, the man is bringing up valid concerns and the video spins it around as a negative thing. For example this one guy was complaining about the wife signing up for an expensive activity, when the husband suggested he could create a similar experience for their kid for much cheaper. The woman running the channel then lambasted him for "spreading negativity". There was no dialogue, no attempt to listen to the husband or understand his perspective, compromise, or even acknowledge that he could perhaps have a valid concern. The whole video was made with the assumption that the husband was bad and wrong for merely voicing a concern. And from my perspective, it seemed that the husband was trying to encourage healthy financial management, whereas the wife was spending wastefully in ways that could create financial strain for the family.
Sometimes these videos combine valid concerns with invalid ones. For example, a man might communicate something in a less-than-fully-respectful way, but still raise valid concerns. In relationship conflict, most tense situations are like this. There are valid concerns, but strong emotions lead people to say or do some disrespectful things. But the woman running the channel fixates only on the negative or disrespect aspects of the man's behavior, and ignores the possibility that he might actually have valid concerns. This is such a harmful and dangerous example to set, because it tends to lead to conflict that escalates and issues that never get resolved. It often leads to emotional abuse, and often ends in divorce, sometimes after costly court battles and extensive trauma to children through the process. Everyone comes out traumatized.
These channels are very obviously anti-men. They masquerade as "feminist" or "women supporting women" but the women aren't supporting the women, they're just demonizing and attacking the men. They give women a superficial sense of solidarity but it's shallow because it is not based on actually lifting each other up, only around beating others (men) down. It honestly reminds me of the same way the Trump movement bonds around hating immigrants and how extremist movements in general bond around a shared "enemy" that gets demonized.
Some of these channels are a pipeline to other hate ideologies, which is unsurprising. They feed right into TERF (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminism) but they can also feed into other far-right ideologies as they tend to embrace a lot of negative social beliefs, like sex negativity (male desire is inherently bad and predatory), and right-wing social beliefs (men need to be the "provider" and their main value is an income earners, and are inherently bad at childcare) and hyper-consumerism (it's bad and wrong to express concern about how much something costs, just shut up and earn the money.) So although they masquerade as "progressive" they have a strong regressive effect.
The most frustrating and sad thing about these channels is that a lot of them have so many subscribers and so much attention and engagement on their videos. There is no debate. The only comments posted on the videos are fully in agreement, and there are tons and tons of them. I strongly suspect the channel creators censor the comments and block users who question the narrative.
I don't know what can be done about these channels other than to talk about them. It's creepy to me that, although my wife doesn't subscribe to any of them, she keeps getting recommendations for them. I sometimes would too. It is one of many factors that drove me off Instagram.
I want us to talk about these things though. If you have friends who subscribe to these channels or watch their videos, talk about it with them. Tell them some of the things I've told you. Share with them healthier ways of conflict resolution. Point out ways you disagree. Point out how it's incredibly suspicious that these channels don't have any disagreeing comments, that they must obviously be censored.
I refuse to let these ideas take hold in the people around me.
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thesquishypenguin · 6 months ago
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For general stuff, 6 9 and 12! >:))
tyty ily mwuah mwuah Ship Questions redux
KiloHertz (OC) x Maxime Le Mal (Cannon)
General - 6 - How do their personalities complement each other? How do they clash?
ooooo I'm finding this one a little tricky to think about!! Particularly because so much of kHz attitude is altered by her own choice! I think initially she she comes across as distant, disinterested, cold and judge-y. She's not at all interested in people generally speaking. KiloHertz is very..'strictly business' and doesn't tend to get close to people unless she takes a particular special interest in them, which is hard to achieve with her. But a lot of this is a learned or put-in-place façade that she's just settled into. She's very good at being persuasive, demanding and downright scary - She commands respect through power I think. I don't think Maxime would have that kind of sway on people or not in the same vein, I think he'd be 'nicer' about it. He's more of a charmer. Maxime is VERY much a people person, he's extremely outgoing and charismatic and I think he could wrap most people around his finger - at least superficially and in the moment. People seem to love him and gravitate towards him...(or..he simply inserts himself into their spaces!) These bitches do both be giving off the 'I'm better than You' vibe tho. kHz has a complex about being better than others and Maxime earned it through being 'everybody's favourite' So really they've got GREAT power couple vibes!
BOTH of these idiots are MASSIVE hot heads though. Which means they're also likely to be super fiery and stubborn towards each other when one of them starts getting mad about something-or-other. I think one of them also being in an irritable mood tends to make the other irritable. I can see them having a lot of bickering and spats over miscellaneous shit or when one of them says or does something that manages to tick the other off - but I like to think they both know they don't really mean it, and there's a lot of making up (and making out) afterwards when they've cooled off. Although it doesn't happen often, they know they've struck a nerve or gone too far when the other goes silent about it and starts avoiding them to avoid more conflict. That being said I think a lot of it isn't too serious and probably only happens on occasion - likely stemming from someone's bad day.
General - 9 - Who gets jealous easier?
This has GOT to be Maxime! I feel like kHz has the potential to be..but I also feel like she's dealt with and gotten over her crush on him once, and knowing how popular he is/was it's not really a concern of hers, she expects it. If he was the kind to obnoxiously flirt with other women or something perhaps, but if Maxime's in a social setting he spends half his time bragging about her. So she feel pretty secure with him to be honest, even if he is a socialite!
KiloHertz however is a little underhanded and will employ a little flirting if it gets her what she wants. not that it comes up really all that often. I think it's more that her work has the potential to take her away from him for hours. He'll get jealous that she's spending more time with her equipment and machinery than she is him. He'll get jealous if she's interacting with the roaches more than him ('Cute little bug?' No, No! That's him! He's the cutest bug here! Say sweet things to him!!) She often has to go visit clients which can take a long time to get things sorted out before she can come back to...then spend all her time doing work for said client. Maxime gets very pouty about not being doted on constantly. Why busy her hands with machinery when she can busy her hands with him!
It's not really a jealousy out of insecurity of their relationship, more just ..he wants all her attention for himself!! But I think Maxime*is* the more likely of the two to have insecurity issues based on my HCs, I think he worries about the relationship stagnating into nothing (again) - and he sorely hopes another villain wont catch her eye more than he currently does....
KiloHertz is only really likely to be jealous or worried if something actually happens, which isn't likely. If someone else starts flirting with Maxime however? You bet your ass she's pushing them aside ASAP.
General - 12 - Do they hide anything from each other, big or small?
I feel like kHz is the biggest culprit of this one. I don't really think Maxime hides much, if anything from her. I wanna say he's pretty open about what he's feeling or what's going on because he knows she'll soothe him and make it all better. Early/Pre-relationship maybe in the sense that he's hiding his body and reluctant to show it off, but not/nothing during the relationship. I don't think either of them hide anything in the malicious sense! There's no like 'bad secrets' or unmentionable things or anything. I think if Maxime is going to hide anything from her its probably things like gifts and little pleasant surprises he has in store for her :) kHz whole thing however is masking to be the 'best' version of herself possible, whether that's with her implant or without. She doesn't like appearing weak or stupid at all, so she's the one most likely to hide if she's having problems of any kind. Which she does and is, because her implant is a fickle thing. A lot of what she WOULD hide is relating to herself and her feelings and her health, because she's extremely stubborn about all of it; even if she knows Maxime worries or would be upset that she won't share her problems with him. (For references sake, I think she's rather fooled herself with the implant. Having it off or on doesn't really change who she is, but she seems pretty convinced she's inferior in all regards without it. And I think Maxime thinks she's absolutely crazy for having such thoughts and burdens she refuses to share with him...particularly when he's bared his own to her and she's made better for him..why would she not think he could or would do the same for her???)
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I've been following your Umineko readthrough and been interested in a lot of the ways of reading you're employing - I think you've had a lot of insight relatively early into the story. I'm also very drawn to the fannish taxonomic Mode Of Engagement that is classpecting, and wanted to question a little of your classpecting of George - one of the things about him that jumped out from very early on was the ways in which his superficial presentation as a Nice Guy belies the strongest inheritance of Ushiromiya Family Values among the cousins - he looks up to Hideyoshi and Kinzo as businessmen, he defends Rosa's parental rights over Maria, he has dynastic aspirations of his own through homemaking and going out to make his fortune. Given the western fascistic overtones of Kinzo's occult fascination, obsession with the image of western beauty in Beatrice, and the prioritisation of a regimented, patriarchal power structure maintained through violence and fear, this has implications for George's character - and the aspect most closely associated with the charismatic cult of personality in business and empire through homestuck strikes me as Life, not Space - see the condesce, see Jane-as-white-suburbanite in homestuck and of course see anything to do with Jane in postcanon.
that's interesting! i do think there are a lot of george/jane overlaps and i did entertain life!george for a while since a lot of his character shtick is Emulation Of Kinzo's Ideals (kinzo himself is definitely Life by every measurable metric) but the thing that gave me pause is that this version of george clearly isn't real and is a version of himself he struggles to maintain convincingly enough to give himself any real benefits. George The Adult, to use the frameworks from my writeups, is almost certainly a Life player but George The Adult is a paper-thin mask that has no connection to his inner self.
behind the mask we have George The Kid who is much more concerned with establishing his own selfhood/"empire" rather than merely inheriting the ushiromiya system. his primary interest when not playing the cringe heir part is in wooing shannon and a strange jealousy towards the idea that battler is more successful at establishing and forming relationships with he is. i think this bitterness and loneliness extends beyond the Life framework and has more in common with jade harley's Space-esque desperate isolation. in homestuck postcanon we see jade throw herself into forming unhealthy doomed relationships and families with both the davekat and yiffy situations. both george and jade want something that is truly and unconditionally their own more than anything else, even if this desire is expressed in radically different ways. that said, i can very easily see george ending up with a yiffy of his own if shannon had survived lol (failchild with a poor imitation of the ushiromiya ideal supplanted on them abandoned by george when it becomes apparent a lot of his relationship with shannon is an illusory farce).
so much of homestuck's classpect stuff is rooted in the conflict of people emulating the aspects of those they look up to even when they shouldn't (rose's void-esque affinity motivated in part by her relationship with roxy, dirk acting knight-like to emulate his bro, the Rage influence over all the trolls and their aspirations) and i think you can apply that framework to george. the Life stuff is there and is shaping him but less in the sense that this is speaking to Who He Is than it actually is speaking to Who He Thinks He Should Be. my current reading of george is Space (also works as a fun contrast to my read of battler as a Time player) but even if that's not true i do think he's something else wrapped up in a Life player's clothing.
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wetcatspellcaster · 1 year ago
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for the dvd meme, chapter 7 of pieces still stuck in your teeth, from where astarion says "i knew it" to "you returned to me. i knew you would." i've read that chapter like five times it's SO delightful, SUCH a fun narrative payoff too HAHA
Thank you for the ask, anon! I will copy and paste the text you're referring to under the keep reading tab, just so this doesn't end up being too long/I don't expose my IRL mutuals to the horniest part of my fic lol :')
So, here we are, at the horniest part of my fic :-)
In more serious commentary, this was one of the scenes I had from the very inception of this story - I knew that Astarion was going to have killed people to get Tav back to the Gate, and I knew he was going to reveal it at literally The Worst Possible moment. I really wanted to write a chapter that turned from horny to horror without warning, and this is the speech that I envisaged doing that work for me. As such, it went through many, many drafts!
I know I said this in comments at the time, but... when examining this chapter from Astarion's perspective? Why *wouldn't* he be this fucking cocky? He has no idea what's going on in Rose's mind or why she's agreed to go to his house so easily, and why she's gotten so close to him with complete disregard of the wider situation. So as far as he's concerned, he murdered a bunch of people (which was the only risk in his plan, he thinks) and she's still down to fuck only days later. Honestly, he doesn't even *need* the ego he has, to think this is a done deal.
I also said this a lot in comments, but as such, any respect he held out for her is just gone in this moment, and that's why he immediately plays his whole hand, because he doesn't see her as a worthy opponent in the slightest. I was leaning on what developers/writers said about how he loses respect for people who fall for the superficial sex appeal and endanger themselves because of it- if this is the means by which he can do them harm, then he feels they've sealed their own fate. In his eyes, this is exactly what Rose looks like in this moment (not knowing anything about her own hidden agenda).
I also think that, if you've romanticised the one thing you've lost and can never get back, and then suddenly it's there, and it's almost... too easy, then that also makes you disappointed and angry. Maybe part of the reason he says all this heinous stuff here to try and test the waters further, maybe even anger her so there's some spark of a challenge or a fight. Maybe he wanted to make everything a little more difficult for the both of them, just so it stays fun and interesting.
As I said in previous asks, I am not really a Dead Dove writer - I appreciate the girlies who are, but it's just not something I can do (I mean, I can't even write smut lmfao). So I wanted the violation and emotional impact of non-con without any of the graphic depictions of it... lots of people have said in comments that the moment he refuses to let her go is the moment he proves he's evil, and I certainly approve of this interpretation. But here, I was mostly just in thrall to the Yandere tag lmao. He can't imagine her protests being true bc he can't imagine a world where they aren't destined for each other. And also, in this case, a world where his seduction techniques (now so well honed, now nearly unstoppable, now the only thing people seem to want from him) do not work - especially on her.
As to some specifics about the section itself:
the phrase 'little love' is, I feel, single handedly responsible for any and all Ascended ending brainrot I have. Like COME ON. What a term of endearment! What a term of endearment to MAKE EVIL!!!!
'I was bored' got workshopped a lot as the 'foreshadowing' phrase, bc I really struggled to find something that was both vague but also had ambiguous meaning from the beginning. If the delivery is a little clunky here, that's why... I agonised over this for weeks lmao
'Every meal without savour' - cue Chapter Ten, when he gets really excited that Rosalie wants to drink hot chocolate with him, and briefly loses any composure bc the future he envisages is finally getting tested out.
"how you much used to hate slavers.” This is me still making digs at Grymforge, 4 months later. Fucking Grymforge.
"You yourself would've carved through that room like a righteous blade, my love." Look. I wrote this line. And I decided. It would work on me.
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"I knew it,” he repeated.
“I knew it was only a matter of distance," he muttered into her shoulder, almost to himself. He kissed the spot: she jumped at the touch, and he hummed approvingly. "I knew that the moment I got you here, darling heart, that this would be inevitable. A matter of days, Rosalie. That is all the time you could hold out on me, the longest you could bear to resist. You don’t want me to charm you? Fine. I don’t need glamour, to make you like this. Let us both know that this was all you, and only ever for me.”
She tensed up, and he soothed again, making a chiding sound. “Hush, now, don’t be prideful. Why fight this, little love? Why deny yourself? You're not very good at it. Isn’t it so much better, this way? Doesn’t it feel good?"
"I - what?" Rosalie said, fighting to clear her head as fear and desire warred within her thoughts.
Had he not caught her? Because if so, she had done what was needed. But now she was trapped - and each word that came out of Astarion's mouth was more sinuous and sinister than the last, coiling decadently around her.
"So bored,” Astarion murmured in a low voice, nosing along her collarbone, breathing her in. “Every day the same, every day interminable. Every meal without savour, every conversation dull, and I knew you were what's missing. I knew it. I knew all I had to do was lure you back to me. And you do so love to play hard to get, but it wasn’t exactly difficult, was it, my love-?”
Rosalie struggled to make sense of what he was saying. It wasn’t precisely a threat, but it wasn’t bedroom talk either. What did he mean by ‘bored’?
No, actually, Shadowheart had said, when Rosalie had asked how the Vampire Ascendent had responded to the murders. He gave a three word reply: ‘I was bored.’
“No, in fact, it was easy,” Astarion smirked into her skin. “You put up a good front, my darling. But here you are: with me. Where you’re supposed to be. Where you will stay. You will make everything better. All I needed to do was to make you come back to me, and finally, here you are.”
Rosalie froze up. Her mind began to whir, almost as if she couldn’t dare let herself think, to follow the logic too far to its horrible, inevitable conclusion…
"The party," she said, heart pounding. “Those people who died-”
She tried to pull against his hold on her hands, moving her body back as far back from his as it would go. But it was like pulling on iron shackles, and Astarion didn't budge, simply leaning in further into her space, her legs trapped on either side of his body, and the evidence of his reaction to her utterly impossible to avoid.
"All terrible, heinous people, I assure you," Astarion told her conversationally, kissing his way along her shoulder without any concern for her sudden resistance. "No one who deserves to be mourned: all wretches and ingrates, murderers and thieves and flesh peddlers and slavers - I remember, pet, how you much used to hate slavers.”
Rose tugged at her hands, again - he ran his thumbs over her knuckles, and pinned them down harder.
“You yourself would've carved through that room like a righteous blade, my love. But I did it, all for you. I invited them all there, and they all came, like the cattle they are. And then I slaughtered them for their crimes, and now they’ve served their purpose, for here you are again, with me, once more."
Astarion's mouth was still moving all over her skin, which had begun to crawl. He reached behind her back and undid the clasp of her bra as he narrated. He whispered the words against her, like her body was made for his secrets, and then kissed the flesh, open mouthed.
"Astarion," Rose said, "you need to stop - I need to think - you said you didn't do it for any reason-"
His hands came up to her arms, and tightened to bruising, holding her in place even as his thumbs stroked circles designed to soothe.
"Of course there was a reason. You said that if I killed people, you'd come back and stop me," he said, moving back and pressing his forehead against hers, silvery lashes blurring with the closeness of her vision. His breath ghosted across her still-damp mouth as he smiled with utter tranquillity. “But you didn't try to stop me, did you? Cornered in Ramazith, and you simply let me walk away. And now, here you are. You just… came back. You returned to me. I knew you would."
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ravenbloodshot · 2 years ago
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Lee Jong Suk (actor)....Red + Green Flags
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I see some substance abuse (likely alcohol). Party boy.
And I think he's kind of a liar, its just he's super bad it (A blind person could see through his fibs). He may have recognizable tell tale signs when he's lying (like he blushes easily, his ears get red, his eyes dart every which way and he starts sweating as if he's being running in a race).
He isn't the most secure man nor does he hold himself with high esteem (doesn't look after himself well).I'm seeing that it could be dangerous for him to be so care less with himself and especially his body. He can be easily used and discarded (especially for the industry he's in, people with money and power has used him and his body for whatever need they had of him) And he doesn't protect himself well, doesn't worry enough about his security especially when he's in the face of big money
He may not have good discernment and judgement of what's good for him and whats bad (especially when it comes to making money). Could be the type to promote scams and not even know it, but still he would remain at fault for his own ignorance
Not only does he not have good personal boundaries but he doesn't respect/acknowledge other people's boundaries. He can become quite pushy and controlling
He has a temper. Can become forceful, aggressive and out of control. The type to break things and throw stuff when mad
He doesn't care much for the art of acting or singing. He has no personal attachment or connection truly for acting, its a job that makes him money and that's all it is to him. He doesn't really care for his career outside of the paychecks that he receives
He's quite the broken man that has a lot of unresolved issues stemming from childhood trauma. He may cling onto those that have motherly and fatherly energy, sort of intruding on their boundaries.
He's very fake and superficial. May partake in publicity stunt marriages and relationships. Or just doing things to please the public and better his image instead of doing things from his heart
I don't think he's the smartest guy, he could have done poorly in school. Just school and learning in an educated environment wouldn't be for him
A bit stuck up and bougie
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He's a very devoted man to his spiritual beliefs and religion. He's the type to faithfully go to church or pray if he cannot. May finance any church or community he's a part of (could even be a neighborhood he grew up in that he takes care of and gives back to)
He gives good advice in regards to life concerns people may come to him about. He's the type to spew "everything happens for a reason" and just a lot of koombayah to those who come to him. And although his advice seems a bit airy and not very grounded, its still very optimistic and positive for those who need it so he can be very encouraging to others
He very sensual, seductive and naturally sexy. He doesn't have to try, its just how he is naturally. He's so feminine sexy and he could be a trendsetter (like any clothing that he wears get sold out, and his styles/looks trend often).
He knows what he's doing in the bedroom. Can bring his partners a lot of pleasure and euphoria. (Good muncher 😉)
He's a great communicator and story teller, grasping all the attention when he hangs with friends/co-workers with his stories. And the thing is he lives quite an Interesting life (whether good or bad) so he always has a story to tell or something to talk about (these stories may sound like lies but he has no reason to lie when it comes to this).
His life has been quite eventful and the adventure so anything he decides to share about his past would be juicy as hell
He may not be the type to follow whatever his company tells him to do but rather he prefers to do his own thing. (I would be quite surprised if he truly answers to a prominent CEO in whatever company he's in,somebody may act as the CEO but they don't control him. He actually seems like the type to be independent and not part of a company)
He has a very unique style to him, has his own swagger and way of carrying himself. Definitely has the bad boy charm to get whatever he wants(energy of a rockstar fuck boy with a million dollar smile that can get you to do the worst of things if he wished you to)
He's very clean and orderly, has good hygiene and keeps a clean house
He's quite funny and sarcastic, especially in his daily life.The type of person to be unknowingly hilarious and him so clueless at times makes him even funnier
He goes to therapy consistently
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duckprintspress · 2 years ago
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“Aim For The Heart” Creator Spotlight: Sage Mooreland
Happy Monday, everyone! We at Duck Prints Press (the fan-writer run indie Press that publishes the original work of fan creators!) celebrating coming off the first weekend of our stellar Kickstarter launch for Aim For The Heart: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Alexandre Dumas’s “The Three Musketeers” – 68% funded in four days! There’s a lot of campaign to go, though – we’re running through July 15th, 2023, and not only are we expecting to hit our initial goal of $8,000, we’re optimistic that, with your help (by backing, by signal boosting, by telling your friends about the campaign, etc.), we might even reach our first stretch goal of $12,000!
Every day between now and the end of the campaign, we’ll be focusing on another contributor. Today, let’s met author Sage Mooreland!
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Glass Hearts by Sage Mooreland
About the Author: Sage Mooreland (they/them) is a city-dwelling gremlin from Chicago. They are embarking on the adventure that is their 40s equipped with three amazing partners, one very ridiculous eighteen-year-old biological offspring, and a fleet of teenagers and twentysomethings that adopted them through work over the last several years. Sage put themselves through the torture of grad school, and now holds a Bachelor’s in English and a Master’s in English and Creative Writing – Fiction, to which they say, “Now I have expensive pieces of paper that make it seem like I know what I’m talking about.”
Sage has been writing since they were wee small, entering their first writing contest in fifth grade/at ten years old. In high school and college, they made small offerings to school literary magazines, and have done eighteen years of National Novel Writing Month. As their writing career grows, they hope to provide stories that are entertaining, caring, inclusive of all, and full of the stuff of which dreams are made.
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Athos leaned against the wall of the high rise across the street from his destination, trying to catch his breath. He was bleeding from too many places to count—many of the wounds were superficial, but a few were deep and concerning. He had to get them bandaged or he was going to be in serious trouble. Standing across the street from help would be a stupid place to bleed out, even if it would be vaguely satisfying to get blood all over the pavement of one of Chicago’s wealthiest neighborhoods.
He watched a while longer; the lights inside the house created a faint glow he could see even through closed blinds. The occasional shadow told him that someonewas home. He refused to consider that he was looking at a second ambush. They had to be there, safe and sound, or all of this had been for absolutely nothing. Athos took a deep breath. Standing here—well, leaning here—wasn’t getting him anywhere, and he’d watched long enough to be sure he hadn’t been followed. He forced himself upright and carefully crossed the street, climbed the stairs, and rang the bell.
Tags: alcohol use (casual), alternate universe, be gay do crimes, blackmail, car chase, character injury (graphic descriptions), Chicago, established relationship, guns, hacker, m/m, m/m/m (past), modern, past tense, pov third person limited, reunion, teasing, undercover, united states of america, violence (non-graphic descriptions)
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whoreforharlow · 2 years ago
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We're "Roasting" him … Let's goooooooooooo!!! Fuck it, imma just say it, the man in insecure as hell. His whole alpha male "Personality" is so cringy and a turn off. It makes him look stupid and anything but confident. The lack of promo on his end for anything, screams 15 minutes of fame. Sometimes I wonder if he has anything else to give and it's sad, because I like his stuff, but he is concerned about superficial bullshit like what his friends think and "Optics". I don't know if anything he has done has truly been his own doing, it seems like he is always wanting validation from someone. Him having "The greats" on his last album was a huge mistake, because they made his head big, yet the peppa pig album scored higher than chtkmy. The no promo on this album was a huge mistake, never mind dropping it so randomly and out of nowhere. It seems like he has given up. As the other anon said, he only interacts with us when he wants something and even then it's a select few - time we discussed the favoritism in the fandom, and if anyone is gonna deny it, respectfully go and fuck yourself. It's time for him to figure it out and let go of his ego. He is not the hot shit he thinks he is, I am not saying he's bad, but he says one thing and his actions say another.
I miss the old jack, where he was known for his personality and he would engage with us and we felt connected. Now I don't even believe a word this man says, because he's pretentious as hell. He's playing some mind game, but I don't know with who. He's so easy to see through, yet in his interviews he tries to be mysterious and all this crap.
Ngl, the "we're roasting him? Let's gooooo" had me ctfu 🤣
I do miss the older goofy Jack. I am kinda confused by who he's presenting himself to be now, like what opinion does he want us to have of him, ya know? Like back when he was the internets boyfriend or the white boy of the month, we knew who he what his image was supposed to be. Now because he kinda drops off and pops back up every now and again, it's kinda know who he is.
Like I said, I'm kinda just into the Jack in my head more so than him as an artist. I did like WMCJ, but his promo interviews kinda left a lot to be desired as far as his personality. Like TWTAS Jack was honestly chefs kiss, and even leading up to CHTKMY he was interactive and giving the girlies what we wanted. He was charismatic and we got to see his personality. A year later and it's like we don't even know who he is anymore.
I'm still a fan of his because I do like his music, I listen to him probably everyday, but his older stuff mostly. I think because I can picture him in each album. But then I listen to Jackman and I just don't connect to it. Like to release something so "raw", I want to be able to connect the music to the artist, but I can't because this man gives us nothing to go off of.
Most of what he gives us is to troll us, nothing seems real with him. Like you said, he's playing mind games but with who exactly???? Like even with the alpha thing, I feel like it was to get a rise out people. Like I feel like everything he says is kinda to lead us astray from who he is. Like wanting to be mysterious and keep his privacy, but like we're not asking for his home address, we're asking for a selfie or something lol
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xxe123spiderfreakxx · 2 years ago
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FOR THREE. LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO
SHADOW AND ROUGE ARENT BESTIES ARE U FUCKIN KIDDIN ME (like he looked at her when she was frozen in time and he had like barely a reaction and my heart hurt UNGH)
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that being said i do live rouge's voice and seeing her get to play in the space with all the characters and act like a pal that still does crime obvs but isnt always this sexy kitten but is still flirty and hyper femme! <333
and i love rusty rose and thorn so much ;-; i think black rose has yet to super interest me but that would make sense that it's hard to keep up the anty for every iteration of the main group.
That being said, I wish we had an evil/deeply gray Rouge or Big iteration like with Nine, Rusty and Dread (tho Dread is kind of wasted potential /:). I liked that Prim was more about her survival at first and turned her back on Thorn and Sonic, but obvs time constraints.
Again I'm mainly cranky that a lot of the screen time this season was a bombardment of the Eggman family like I'm sorry...those are characters that work in short burts pls let the furries get more time I'm begging.
The stuff happening between Sonic vs. the alternates of everyone, Sonic vs. Shadow and Sonic vs. Nine specifically is so interesting and messy and I don't know why that took a backseat, ESPECIALLY SHADOW ALMOST ENTIRELY, for most of the season.
Like like like is this eggman prime or...? also as funny as that giant eggman at the end was, it was still like, in the moment for me, so irrevelant to the drama happening with Sonic and Nine that i was like laughing nervously?
like i wasn't super hyped or invested in that moment until sonic went into prime!sonic or whatever his new super form is with the purple eyes. like i was like oh there's really a big eggman right there huh?
hm.
like ik marketing will never leave eggman out but god damn it should sometimes. and I love eggman but im realizing how much he takes away when there's promising seeds and ideas happening that get shortened, cut or strangled by having to insert him in all the time.
Like the season ending so well is the build up to Sonic and Nine's relationship going up in flames and much more dramatic than Sonic fighting more Eggman robots. Like I'm sorry, he functions best as secondary to the mobians and his screen time really should reflect that.
Like, are u really throwing visual stimuli on screen for the old sonic folks and the baby ones and some quick cheap jokes about boomers and white liberal millenials? cuz why else is that fam eating up so much time??
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also when sonic did this so quick and ran i nearly pissed and shitted myself laughing that cut was righteous.
like grr!! there were good jokes and moments this season- if they focus on the stronger parts of season 2 for season 3 (and take as long as u want if it means it'll be good pls god fucking pay writers and artists well or i will literally wolf out and eat u alive) it'll be a kick ass season!
and ik it's probs treats for the sonadow fans and not a promise of a follow through on it but wow they were so fruity with each other this season i got embarrassed for them like ????? u guys are really acting like this and not thinking anyone knows what u are??? GAH
it almost tricked me for a second that something more could happen. but if shadow continues the amount of screen time he's had the last two seasons in the next season(s) then sonadow is the least of my concerns. probs wont be much of shadow at all, and that fucking sux cuz he's so cool in this show.
for the popularity of shadow in the fandom u would never know given the superficiality of his involvement in projects since his game flopped.
like prime and the sonic 3 movie gave me hope that would turn around but I'm like uh oh are they wiggling shadow at the doorway to get us in and shafting us once they got our cash? ugh.
being cynical sux but never again. voltron was my 9/11 fjxjjxxjdhdhhdhsj
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my thoughts (screenshotted from my tags on other posts djdndj) on season 2 of sonic prime bc i didn't realize how many thoughts i was having until i saw posts and im losing it
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If you don't mind me asking, what is the sexuality of these characters? I know there tends to be a lot of speculation, so I was wondering whether MXTX has confirmed. Now that I'm thinking about it, I wonder if there's a need to since it feels like her romance is subtextually laid out perfectly if you know how to read lol
So one of the things with MXTX is that her historical era characters don’t really seem concerned with actual sexuality in the same way that we in our modern era might think about it. The only characters who actually expresses identities one way or the other are Shen Qingqiu and Shang Qinghua, both of whom are transmigrators from modern day, one of whom is adamant at first about being straight until his own growing feelings are too powerful to be ignored any longer, and Mo Xuanyu who is less announcing it himself and more having it used to ruin his life.
I don’t particularly think that sexualities are needed to be stated in universe, the closest we ever get with Wei Wuxian is him joking about wondering if reincarnation makes him a cutsleeve. It just isn’t a worry for him in the way that some people think about it today. What matters more to him than whether he’s gay or bisexual or whatever is that he loves Lan Wangji and wants to be with him in any way Lan Wangji will have him. It isn’t an identity for him, it is just that when he fell in love, the person he fell for is a man. It’s almost a bit like how Clamp does romance; what matters is not so superficial as that but the very soul of the person they love. If one of wangxian were a woman, they would have still fallen for each other. Were there an age gap or they met at different times in their life, they would still fall for each other. They complete each other in an interesting way where they are still whole people without the other, but happier and more with each other.
What MXTX does that I really love though, is she makes people who are compatible for each other and saturates the story with their relationship. We can see the layers and layers of attraction in all ways, not just physical, but mental, emotional, social. They are complementary and balanced, of a shared strength of character at heart for all their outward differences. It feels much more to me like a romance than a lot of stuff I see, where they don’t just love each other, but like each other. Things are more fun, brighter, just better with the other around and it’s so sweet.
So to answer your question, only three characters that I can think of have an explicit sexuality stated, but honestly just looking at their romances and the ways they love who they love, can you really actually see them with someone else?
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Yuzuru Hanyū | boyfriend hc
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➝ NOTE hell yeah more yuzu writings ✊ thank you for your feedback on the alphabet post for him. we got the details down, now here we’re going for how the whole dynamic would be like, and just how passionate it is 🔥 enjoy!
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warnings. ⚠️ 18+, making out, sex mentions, femdom, pinning him, only brief switch!yuzu mention
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You’ll see both sides of him. Sexy, romantic horny mode or pure focus days where he can’t think about sex one bit. In that case, Yuzu even speaks formally with you a lot of times. The way he uses honorifics will always tell you what’s up, it’s professional time. Vice versa, if he teases like the cutie he is, and starts getting super clingy (you know which Yuzu mood I’m talking about), it’s for leisure and privacy.
There must be some kind of switch that’s flipped inside. Lovey-dovey homebody Yuzu and performer Yuzuru Hanyu will always be separate from one another despite being yet so deeply the same person. Yeah, you’re actually dating two boyfriends. To some extent, you get to see the man behind the mask, although he does show a lot of it in public more recently.
That shouldn’t frighten you — it actually means he takes both skating and his relationship very seriously. Yuzu wants to make this work day by day instead of slacking off with anything. No doing one at expense of the other. Less sacrifices, more deliberation. That’s a green flag right there.
He couldn’t bear to become a half-assing athlete as much as he can’t bear to be a lazy boyfriend, especially when it comes to romantic stuff, not just sexually speaking. Same standards, get ready. We know that he always does the dishes, and he multitasks, every free second he has between drying off the plates he’ll spend kissing you. 
If he winks too much or you get the hots from his subtle (...and yet highly worshipping) tongue magic, you might as well take the cloth and plate from his hands. To put it aside, and pin him by those little wrists. Back all against the fridge or whatever cupboard is stable enough. That small gasp is gonna make you even more turned on and ready to make out.
I’m telling you, the way this can escalate. Yuzu is always down for kisses and prone to experiment. But first and foremost, expect him to be on fucking fire. His lips are ripe and full of ideas, he’s naughty, he’s all keen. Never underestimate how ardent Yuzu becomes once the body is concerned. Every kiss tells you he really means it and how much he wants to hold you close, and that losing you in any way would be terrifying to him. He’s attached, you’ll be able to feel it.  
It never gets too messy or stays anywhere near superficial, sloppiness is not his style. Too impersonal. No acting showy here, either. Yuzu thinks that the deeper the kiss, the greater the love and he’s right about that, no reason to pull some tricks like in the movies.  
Even the more shallow lip-on-lip brushing moments at the beginning hit home, next thing you know you’re basically entangled. Putting his heart into it always makes the difference, nobody has indulged you this way. It’s like you’re kissing a fairy, he’s so small and so delicate, but don’t underestimate how much he gets into it.
You’ll both go raw and desperate, and slow just to make the adrenaline even more intense. That’s the whole secret. Why go fast? The motto is, gotta enjoy it and feel the suspense. Yuzuru is far too pliant to be brutal, being crude with you turns him off. Like seriously. He puts all his strength into jumps where it belongs.
Imagine him choking you out or pushing your face into the sheets mindlessly yanking your hair calling you every degrading name in the book with a firm voice — yeah. That just doesn’t work. Which goes for wildly slobbering porn kisses as well, nothing artful in there for a prince such as him. 
“Not classy...” is Yuzu’s verdict, and what to even add, he’s the expert. It’s gotta be bottom lip on bottom lip, just the trembles and tension behind it. He’s shaky as hell, and on edge as hell, so in the moment, this is gonna be good. Think about pressing yourself against this nervous lil’ puddle until he whines.
The sheer attention and focus is where it’s at. He responds so deliberately to you like he’s full of zest and an unsurprising grace, the wandering hands and kissing goes on and on pretty much automatically, finding the most delicate spots. Dishes be damned, you’ll end up on top of him sooner or later and get that dirty talk and giggles going. 
All the intensity, this stuff will leave both of you in shock. While the first kisses were more probing and fleeting and very concerned about finding out how you react, it’s almost too hot to handle the more you collect experience together. This relationship definitely ages like fine wine.
As we know, Yuzuru is a beast and admitted genius when it comes to training his body new movements, at one point the shyness melts, the guard drops. He’s less self-conscious. You won’t hold back when you feel it, too. These are cherished moments where vulnerability doesn’t matter, just responding to each other.
What to say, what to do — he will get so jittery. No need, you just go for another hungry round, after all that’s the easiest way to make a convo. You’re proper with him, not hard but coming on strong for sure. He needs to know what exactly you think about him, all the things you wanna convey, and he gets it.
Figure skating is all about the technique these days, but Yuzu is from the old school. Interpreting feelings with one’s body is at the heart of what he so perfectly does. Making out and making love is no exception, he’s hard-wired that way, the talent doesn’t just extend toward the ice. He’s pretty intuitive with these things.
Kissing him all the time at home, yes it’s so thorough, but also full of relief and loosening up. How much he can let go leaves him all giddy which you’re endeared to see. Sometimes, he’s teary as well. Lot of heartfelt overwhelm, you take long breathing pauses on days where you’re particularly craving or emotional together. 
Sex while kissing, necks and foreheads covered in sweat, you can’t even imagine how sweeping this is going to be. It’s gonna be all bucking hips and heavy pants and even deeper kisses that have you burning up. 
‘Affectionate’ is not enough, it has to be insatiable, with the right kind of atmosphere. Piano music during sex is all I’m saying. And you know for a fact how that shit goes completely raw and feral with every beat enunciated. Dramatic all the way, and it’s gonna be time for crazy twitching orgasms when the music peaks.
Lovestruck he is, Yuzu will always get all engrossed. He’s extremely motivated to make you feel good, but also wants to prove a point to you. He desires you so strongly, the way he moves his mouth is so vigorous and carnal. As a contrast, his body pressed against you — delicate and lightly embracing, reverential, far from being just luscious. Soft touch, ravenous kiss. That’s a very erotic combo.
You’ll be all spoiled by how sensual he is. No brief and chaste little pecks here, it’s gonna be more French than the Eiffel tower up in here. Yuzu might smile cutely during the day when you pat his head casually, but in the evening it’s gonna be steamy. “No, I’m not sexy at all ahah” once again has been exposed as a blatant lie. Yuzuru kisses like he lands the Quad Lutz.
He owns being an eternal try-hard by nature. Yuzuru has envied so many couples for years, he’ll make sure to make it count now that he’s with you. Even the most innocent occasions he’ll use to send some signals. Chances are he’ll use the Pooh plush to kiss you indirectly, or makes large eyes backstage until he’s all grinding over your lap in a storage room, lips locked for literal minutes, holding both hands. 
At this point, all the coaches know not to search for him when he is seemingly lost. Yuzu doesn’t like to be interrupted even during the smallest gestures of love towards you, he gets all cranky otherwise. 
Sometimes, you might think that he wanted to get to know you and made so much effort to get noticed like he was trying to go for gold. As in, he was treating it like his career. The reverse is true, Yuzuru is most definitely the trophy boyfriend and ballet-postured arm candy in this dynamic. How could he not be, look at him, he’s amazing. 
The reason why Yuzu hustled so much to be in your heart (as if he would ever have to even try) is because he’s afraid of not being good enough. Once a perfectionist, always a perfectionist, and he’s aware it’s always making things tougher but also increases the chance of pushing the limits. Imagine Yuzuru being all lackluster and sleazy about dating — not gonna happen.
That Yuzu is a trophy boyfriend doesn’t mean you’re the only one smitten. This is a guy who reviews and creates his own skating costumes, detail by detail, his tailor says he basically is the designer taking most work off her shoulders. Let that sink in. Yuzuru has a certain eye and very particular taste. Of course he adores you, you’re the baddest to him.
Unstoppable overachiever he is, expect him to put quite some efforts into all the courting. And his own wardrobe, no compromises. Date night, he dons a suit, the hair is slicked back. Athough the nervousness is coming through, doing things properly is top priority, whatever he figures that one out to be. His interpretation almost always goes the extra mile.
That doesn’t mean he is overbearing or robotic in any way. Yuzuru is a heartfelt person who easily cries in your arms over many a thing that touched him. He knows how to present and sometimes even shield himself due to his profession but he is genuine nonetheless. The guard is down in your company.
Yuzuru is highly observant and a people reader, he also asks many questions and has a curious puppy-like nature. You’ll find yourself immersed in endless conversations and both of you opening up to each other. Chemistry and your initiative is so important, he doesn’t want to treat this like he’s talking down.
Philosophically first: Sexually later. Four words to live by. Remember, he’s a dang Sagittarius, archer in the house. Hell, even his name translates to bowstring, so you know what’s up.
These people wanna know about your mentality and your appearance at the same time, not one without the other. A certain attitude is as sexy to them as someone’s body. Yuzu likes both talking and sex as something equally fun. You might chat a lot at the rink and at the same time wind in the sheets endlessly at home. 
How delicious that is, his hand tucked at your side when you take a walk, just below the ribcage. And just like that, his hands placed right above your waist when he’s penetrating you from behind. It’s as romantic or as ambiguous as you want him to make it. 
Because picture that, he can be so lightly tracing when giving it to you so good and making you wet, or be so provocative brushing his palm over your shoulder while the two of you skate, rink staff is going to gasp out loud. Yes, he can make the most everyday touches feel sultry and the most intimate contact be completely effortless.
Yuzuru is the master of giving gestures a certain twist to them with such subtle differences. Nobody else could express it like that. When you wrap your hands around his waist, the feeling of admiring and wanting his body is always clear and the same. Whereas when he touches you, it can have a new meaning each time. 
“She’s tired, I’ll comfort her,” he’ll think one time, “Her hair looks so soft today, she often asks me to touch it,” the other. And a third time, he thinks about how hard you came last Sunday night past 11 when he dedicated two full hours of pleasing you all over, and a touch makes him relive those seconds for a little moment of thrill in daily life. 
Especially knowing what his hands did just hours ago makes him feel all naughty. The same goes for your own hands, Yuzuru goes crazy with the thought of what they can do to him but also beams and melts at you doing the cheesiest things. Linking fingers, the thumb stroking.
Yes, Yuzuru is complicated in his love that way. He thinks about you so excessively, every contact has a certain significance and appreciation and he wants you to experience the complete nuance of it. 
And facial expressions, of which he has many. Sometimes the situation of the skinship doesn’t say it all but his eyes sure do. He can give you the nasty freak eyebrow while lacing up his boots, or the sparkly doe eyes in the kitchen when you made gyoza for him.
There has to be balance between public and personal. Oh well — More or less, since either of these Dr. Jekyll (good boy Yuzu, your sexy bf) and Mr. Hyde (dramatic Hanyu, gravity-defying ice prince) incarnations tend towards extremes. Actually, no surprise here.
You got yourself an all-or-nothing kinda guy. It’s something you have to observe up close first to fully grasp, timing is everything. As a couple, you spend a lot of weeks figuring out how to create a quality love life between skating events and a schedule that doesn’t kill your date night vibe vice versa.
It’s tricky at first, but pays off long-term. Yuzu is about the longevity. What works, works. If he puts the blade on the ice, he’s absorbed in that until he can relax. If he’s making love with you, he’s all carried away with that.
He’s as willing to adapt as you are in that regard, but no major sacrifices are made. Yuzuru is well aware that he’s about the best of both worlds, and needs both. He’s not bad at communicating it, either. He can talk logically but tends to speak his mind about his personal feelings very directly in the same vein.
When he needs some time to recover from a bad result and it takes up his mind, you’ll see it and hear it and gauge it in his body language. He apologizes for having to think and feel it through, but honestly? That’s healthier than suppressing or postponing it.
Yuzu does nag himself for making you wait, even when you might not necessarily perceive it as such. He knows that his position and career weigh heavy on him. Juggling two responsibilities is difficult, but also right up his alley because Yuzuru enjoys liability (exception — he’s one reckless motherfucker when it comes to choreography).
The thing is. You’ll never be dealing with lackluster nights and chore sex mornings. Yuzu comes home from competitions and tournaments sexually frustrated as hell, meeting you ready to jump on him yourself. That’s gonna be... olympic pair skating in the sheets.
As a couple, you don’t fuck because you feel you have to, you fuck because you’re actually, deeply craving it. And when Yuzu is needy and yearning, he’s at his best, you know him. Nobody’s begging here, you both want it damn bad, thank god Yuzu has a house and not a flat adjacent to any close neighbors.
You can watch a lot of NSFW with this guy. He looks embarrassed, but he enjoys it. 
He’s either down to fuck all night or goes through his routine all night, mentally as well as physically. Yes, making spins on your carpets. Then he wants to fuck all night the next day exactly because he preoccupied himself with his latest programme so much. Typical athlete.
He is intensely private. As a person innately, introvert Yuzu rise, and as someone who keeps relationships as inconspicuous as he can. Not in a controlling way. Yuzu doesn’t really like going out since it’s both not his character and comfort zone. People would be surprised to see you out and about together. You might be wildly known around town, but Yuzu is as withdrawn as ever.
Yuzu is the perfect mix of intelligence, mischief and sweetheart. He has a thousand moods and faces, and harbors an inner brat waiting to be unleashed. He’s the kind of naughty boy who will do a stunt on the ice just to have the resulting self-made snowflakes sprinkle in your direction.
Since Yuzuru is asthmatic, you often raise worries and look out for him despite knowing that he handles it on his own. You can’t help feeling he pushes too hard sometimes, and he knows. Yuzu appreciates the empathy, that he doesn’t want to concern you makes him realize he shouldn’t challenge himself too ridiculously, too. It’s the nature of his sport, but since he’s in his more advanced years he thinks about health more than ever.
Takes you to the rink when there’s nobody there to skate together as often as he can. He can’t afford cameras around ruining the fun, those are moments of being Yuzu out of the limelight. Quality one-on-one time is the most important. Although, even when there are 80 people skating around the ice, he’d only have eyes for you anyway.
He shows you the little and the important tricks to skate smoothly, you’re talking to the GOAT after all. You’ll be doing those step sequences side by side if you want to. Whatever you want to learn, he can give the pointers. Since Yuzu wants to coach skaters later in life, it’s good practice.
His instructions are always two steps ahead, so it’s good to have him tip your shoulders this way and arms in the right direction to make it practical. Which is very sexy. Ice rink PDA right there, making oh-so-private Hanyu a real touchy mentor. Yuzu being the epitome of gentle, he isn’t particularly strict, the only thing that matters to him is clean execution and you not getting hurt in some way.
Yuzu appreciates you being into skating so you have a passion topic to share (imagine Yuzu dating someone who doesn’t know what a quad axel is — impossible), but he doesn’t have heavy expectations for you to be like even a tenth as good as the average competitive skater to vibe with him. 
Long as you can skate rounds hand in hand and can twirl into an embrace, that’s all it needs. You find great fun in synchronizing your steps and Yuzu gathering up all his mental strength and best demeanor to finally introduce you to the almighty Pooh.
Now seriously, Yuzuru knows that any comparisons would be the height of unfairness. Skating perfectly is his job — enjoying that is yours. As you can see, the roles are distributed well.
It’s always lovely on the ice. Yuzu is born to do this, he said it himself, so sharing his favorite thing and playing around is just... that’s lust for life together.
As one would expect: Yuzu shows off. Big fucking time. When you are bustling around at the rink, he’ll skate two times better where his normal mode is already humanly impossible. He does the prettiest layback spins, twizzles, and jumps even higher than usual, fanning out his arms when he lands like ‘that’s right!’.
Nothing short of your jaw hanging on the floor is what he’s aiming for. Yuzu will show you what he got and that he’s the undefeated most beautiful ice man alive. He’s proud of being yours and shows his skills from their best side. As proclaimed he likes to entertain the whole world, but you in particular, it gives him such a boost, too.
Other men didn’t get the notice, but the animal kingdom already told us that the guy is in charge of doing the sparkly pretty peacock thing. Eye candy is his middle name, Yuzu thoroughly enjoys being gorgeous to you, it’s all he’s concerned with when you see him fly over the ice with his latest routines.
So, Yuzuru Hanyu is doing as god intended, sequins and splits mid-air, it’s one hell of a show. That he blossoms being watched I don’t have to explain, by virtue of his profession the praise kink is literally dripping off those purple pants of sin I’m telling you.
Obviously — somebody else squeezing themselves between the two of you or trying to be the center of attention awakens his natural competitive instinct. Guy might land a quintuple jump out of nowhere when he sees some rude layman skaters trying to flirt with you.
The jump landing will send supersonic vibrations through the ice that will open a cleft to the gates of hell which will then swallow up the annoying suitors. Yuzu will escort them inside personally if he has to. Nobody messes with his ice queen, jot that down.
He will be as daring as skating up to them real close with a furious braking maneuver because he shoots across the ice like a highspeed train, and boldly asks what they’re doing and who they are, and why they are teasing you. Hands in his hips, deep frown — he’s going angry twink mode and the rude guys are absolutely quaking in their boots.
Yes, you could reject them by yourself. But Yuzu thinks that if you’re already bothered, why would he stand there saying nothing watching you get even more uncomfortable. If he makes use of his status, the problem is solved in no time. Nothing against you, it’s simply more efficient and he is protective. Those guys will avoid you from then on.
The irony is: In public, like somewhere in a bar (unlikely that he’d ever hang out there but just for the argument’s sake), not in a million years would he muster the confidence to be so forward. He’d make a passive-aggressive bordering sharp comment under his breath and lower his brows, but that’s about it. He’d rather exit the situation asap even if he does feel a need to show the who’s who. Then again: No messy things.
The skates give him a lot of esteem, he’s in his own territory here. If it’s at the rink, that’s his realm, he feels responsibility to have things run well here, he’s got an eye on all clientele.
He knows it’s that one thing that sets him off, but he can’t help it. In his own words, he’s not a champion, he wants to be the challenger (translation: Yuzuru Hanyu is a brat).
So, in a way, other attractive guys being around makes him do his thing even more despite you not paying them any heed to begin with. How would you, Yuzuru is the best skater in history, and you’re madly in love, why would anyone else wow you that way. Your eyes are literally glued to how he moves them hips across the ice.
If another skater around even remotely looks like he’s trying to impress you, Yuzuru will do the famous ‘when I squint my eyes at you, you perish’ like what the hell are you trying to do there mate, I’m the one she has the pleasure looking at. He’s very sensitive to others killing your couple vibe, and you can tell that Yuzu is protective all the way for what you have.
Now, that scenario is less frequent than you bodyguarding him, though. Yuzuru gets a lot of excess attention thrown his way and people want a piece of him. You gotta be ready for the madness and stand quite firmly next to him.
Sometimes, you help him relax after a strenuous competition. His mind keeps on racing but his body clearly needs rest and nutrition, so what you’ll do is prepare a hot bubble bath and snacks for the two of you. Date night, surrounded by foam and food? Couldn’t be any cozier, and he couldn’t be any cuter either, looking like an angel surrounded by clouds. The heat of the water is perfect to unwind his muscles... and to ride him gently, evening sex before bed is the cherry on top.
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