#like he’s sooooo so yummy. cant get over it actually

[pinkmirth]

what a mannnnnn

[beesmygod]

BLOODBORNE LORE Q+A PART 1: SETTING

*BLOCK "long post/" or "bloodborne" to banish these from your dash!!

my friend shawn has finished his run of bloodborne recently which i was SOOOO excited for and throughout the process he indulged whatever is wrong with me by asking me lore questions. he has now finished his quest and i can answer all his remaining questions in this post, which is also peppered with his commentary on his experience (good, funny). as always i write these posts to try to be entertaining to ppl familiar with bloodborne and ppl who are fandom rubberneckers. i understand you. i long to cater to you as one of you. come with me on this bloodborne adventure...[holds out a hand covered in some kind of weird grey shit]

he has many good questions and i have too many words so this must be broken up into so, so many posts. even then these are going to be so long and make me look totally insane. dont like it? keep scrolling bitch im reloading my flintlock pistol. your ass is grass in 1-3 minutes.

ALL OF THIS IS MY PERSONAL INTERPRETATION AND NOT!!! FACT!!!! I ENCOURAGE YOU TO COME UP WITH YOUR OWN READING OF THE TEXT BASED ON YOUR OWN EVIDENCE AND WHATNOT

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THE HUNTER ASKS:

[sooooo smartly] i dont know.

the moon in bloodborne is one of the weirdest seemingly deliberate inconsistencies throughout the game. it has a bunch of bizarre qualities including the fact that it's a physical object that gets loaded in and its not part of a skybox that just gets switched during cutscenes. despite the inherent terror of the blood moon taking up so much space in our collective brains, it only appears in yharnam, the cathedral ward and yahar'gul. ive seen a lot of theories about why cainhurst or byrgenwerth have regular moons, but i think the more likely answer is that the blood moon is only affecting yharnam. these are also the only places where the tentacled amygdalas or, as they're known internally, "false gods" can be found.

these things

THE HUNTER ASKS:

eileen knows too! she knows about dreaming ("No more dreams for me. This is my last chance.") AND the doll. ("You still have dreams? Tell the little doll I said hello"). both were kicked out of the dream because they no longer hunt beasts, thus breaking their contracts. djura protects them and eileen hunts hunters.

at the start of the game you "sign a contract" with the blood minister and get a yummy yharnam blood infusion that gives you access to the dream. presumably, all hunters do or did this to join the hunt and the doll's dialog ("Over time, countless hunters have visited this dream.") reveals that the hunter's dream was once host to many hunters. they likely all dreamed before going mad.

THE HUNTER ASKS:

yeah check this out: if you line your brain with eyes, you have insight. get it. eh? ehhhh??

the witch of hemwick is PROBABLY not wearing eyeballs...fresh ones at least. pebbles are calcified eyes that have hardened due to whatever force causes blood to calcify in bloodborne world (leading to blood shards, blood gems, etc). VERY RARELY will they drop an actual eye, which the item description reveals was taken "quickly" before death or immediately after.

eyes are used exclusively to access the hintertomb chalice, which is of interest to the church because it appears to be where they get their church slaves from (more on this later). BUT the women of hemwick do more than eyeballs. they create bone marrow ash by burning corpses and. hmm. well.

you're right. there's no beasts here. there's no beasts where there's incense in the game, like the parts of the labyrinth that the church has explored (evidenced by the architecture and censures that resemble those in the cathedral ward) or entrances to upper cathedral ward/forbidden woods. a few characters mention that they're running out of it or that it's masking scents. its the reason why the suspicious beggar has to stand outside oedon chapel lol. he cant deal with the stinky anti-wolf smoke

you know where else there's no beasts? yahar'gul. and the only incense is found in the cells where they keep their meat for experiments. but there is an unexplained burning corpse or two in the middle of town.

if you break incense pots, they're full of bones. O_O oh shit i just noticed something lol: eileen's mask says "The beak contains incense to mask scents of blood and beast." YUCK!

the witches are not really educated and do not seem to partake in blood ministration as they are missing any bestial traits. it seems like they are "for hire" and work for both byrgenwerth and the healing church supplying parts from the graves they "maintain".

THE HUNTER ASKS:

it seems like they did once at some point in history and had to give up due to a combination of no more room to bury people and something going wrong with the corpses of yharnamites (more later!).

we know a little bit about yharnam funeral customs by way of eileen's crowfeather set which states that yharnam's treatment of burying the dead is considered a taboo and shameful act by outside cultures which leave their dead to "sky burials", a type of funeral ritual where the corpse is left for birds (like the fat ass crows in this game) to pick clean. those birds are eating so good lately.

perhaps the reason why underground burial is considered distasteful is due to the fact that the great ones were once buried underground by the pthumerians. the graves in the forbidden woods (including the forbidden grave) are, according to the art book, tombstones for great ones.

here are some ways we know yharnamites deal with corpses:

cremate them for profit

bury them

exhuming them for profit

just leave 'em there

lock them in caskets and run before they come back

experiment on them

chuck them in a hole and forget about 'em

fake iosefka does the last one. someone (her?) exhumed a grave near her clinic that was absolutely packed with corpses and they dug deep enough to find an entrance to the hintertomb. the player must enter the hintertomb through a chalice ritual, but this locations is either THE or one of the ways that the hintertomb was discovered.

the hintertomb is described as an auxiliary wing of the pthumerian labyrinth filled with "unceremonious" tombs. hemwick witches can be found here, likely looking for some fresh product to move. its where various people and organizations dump their trash. you can find piles of dead pigs, fake iosefka's failed experiments, some church giants left to die (presumably, they did not originate from there as they are already belled), and some other crap.

how do we know this is the entrance to the hintertomb? first, there's the amount of tomb mold blooming here. it explicitly grows only in the old labyrinth

second, they both share an environmental hazard unique only to them (and the nightmare frontier, whatever. IN THE REAL WORLD): POISON SWAMPS as a consequence of the decaying great one corpses.

i forgot the question. i think my point was that there are now so many bodies they're running out of things to do with them and its starting to be a problem. they are both taking things out of the labyrinth and throwing things in. yharnamites have a general disrespect for cultures and customs and it's really biting them in the ass

oh wait i remember. i was tying this back into the part about where the church gets their slaves from. all the church attendants and giants are pthumerians. the primary difference between them and their labyrinth counterparts are the lack of open slack jaw. and the fact the church pthumerians drop blue elixir.

Dubious liquid medicine used in strange experiments conducted by high ministers of the Healing Church. A type of anesthetic that numbs the brain.

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the next part will also be...MORE ABOUT THE SETTING. until next time (later today)

[kenjiyabuki]

dmd ftr ep 5 shenanigans: surprise, bitch. i bet you thought you'd seen the last of me

when this episode was nearing the end, it felt bittersweet as i got attached to watching these boys weekly and upcoming series will probably gonna take forever to come out (i am sure they will keep on being active by doing dances on tiktok and selling products on lives etc but i find those contents very tedious, i like my actors acting more). i was wishing for this not to be the end and then, to my surprise, BAMMMM a preview for another episode started playing!!!! but then it was still bittersweet bc it was revealed that they will be singing and dancing throughout the whole episode...

like many other BL fans, there is nothing that turns me off faster than BL boys singing. personally, more than the boys' voices, its the songs themselves i find unbearable to listen to. to my dismay, Thai BL industry loves generic pop and slow ballads, two genres i cant stand listening to. anyhow, i enjoyed the fuck out of My School President, songs and all, so i am open to surprises!!! in fact i am begging to be proven wrong!! and i am glad that they seem to be choosing the winners based on their skills, not by vote or smth else!!!

now back to the episode::::

How Well Do You Know Your Bro challenge was kinda boring because questions were not that riveting but i thoroughly enjoyed Thomas being put down about not getting to play w Kong. i will comeback to that Tee & Kong situation soon.

finally KengNamping won and they got to have some lil old✨💫💞The Special Friendship Time💕💫 ✨. is this what we are calling having a heart to heart on a pseudo-date with your potential work partner nowadays???? during their Special Friendship Time, i was busy taking hundred of screenshots of Namping because he looked so damn good in his fit!!!!!!!!!

pink lipgloss, Celine shades, rainbow mesh sweater, bracelets, Adidas Samba OGs.... cmonnnn

it was sooooo sweet to see them openly talk about their lives and dreams. they had such a progress across these 5 episodes!!! they were finally open about how they want to work together but also things they need to better in order to do so. i cant help but just love their blushing and awkward demeanor!!! it somehow works in their favour.

so funny how keng is admittedly a hard to crack introvert but sometimes his awkward bluntness somehow leads to UNBEARABLY cute moments. like i was climbing up the wall when they were having their final discussion on the bench and keng was being like "who else would i be talking" OR "can we get this over with" while looking Namping in the eye LMAOOO and Namping cant help but just giggle... just some yummy novice fanservice <3

back at the house, Thomas getting jealous over TeeTee & Kong having a talk was funny to me because the it was kinda one of the most obviously produced/edited scenes of this show. i am not going to blame them, maybe they were worried about the show being too conflict free. honestly, i did actually expect Tee to ask Kong to be his partner because nothing gets past me just like Thomas::

we know in all boys sent postcards to each other episode 1 but the show didnt reveal who sent which. well actually, Domundi X account shared a picture of the postcards and (if you have too much free time like me) you can pair the cards w info given by boys themselves in that episode;

another brilliant investigative work i've done in collabration w Paint. also peep Namping's cute duck drawing. honestly what this man cant do???

so hey, Tee sent his postcard to Kong!!! so while folks were on social media making fun of Thomas being overly possessive, my dude was actually onto something!!! his radar was going off and he had to settle the matter!!! i get him, he is like "i''m already an established actor and have a fanbase, just let me get my man so we can maximize our joint slay and leave" and he is so right.........

since the first episode, everyone was tickled by how this show is working like a dating show, me included. but after seeing this comment and similar ones made me think further:

if you think about it, they kinda WILL date??? not on some delulu shit, think about it: they will be shipped, will do fanservice & skinship, spend most of their time together, travel together, co-habit if its required, not just work together but also will be required to take care and trust and depend on each other, FOR at least a couple years if it works out. they will be stimulating "dating", even out of a tv series. being branded pair is a long term job that requires a lot of trust and compatibility. they are also rookies in the industry, so of course they are taking it seriously and discussing their future like choosing a romantic partner.

so, while i felt really sad for Latte as he seemed really worried while trying to look chill about everything, i am glad TeeTee and First chose to not rushing into a pair just to win the show and were honest about still needing time to hone their craft and building chemistry. and i'm not opposed to TleFirst but i still want to see LatteFirst in LUAT as the side couple. i enjoyed them in the pilot trailer and think their roles is going to fit them well. i also dont want to see an actor lose a job for a ship, cmon...

Gems broke my little heart again ahhhh. TBH, Tle clocked his tea when he said Gems should be more confident in himself. its not easy to do so in front of an audience and i'm sure the industry feels like horse race but i hope Gems will be more sure of his abilities in the future and finally have his moment.

on a bigger twist, KengNamping & ThomasKong were the finalist couples!!!

honestly, i have NO IDEA which couple i want to see win. mostly because both pairings give off very different vibes to me. for me, my choice would depend on the plot of this supposed new series, but i dont even know what it is even about.

i was thinking what kind of series i would like to see them in. when i think of ThomasKong, i can see them pulling off a fun and youthful series like My School President, Kieta Hatsukoi or I Will Knock You. w KengNamping, they would look good in a period series like I Feel You Linger in the Air or To Sir, With Love, even though Domundi has already LUAT (which will hopefully come out in this century). i just want to see them in something angsty but also incredibly romantic. should the unimaginable occur and someone from Mandee Works is reading this, feel free to steal ideas!

i am excited for next week, i will be glad no matter the outcome. cant wait to see the crazy stage putfits!!!!

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE EPISODE

keng's pink socks, same colour as the namping's blushing cheeks hehe

teetee threatening to drown thomas lmaoooo 🤨im telling yall thomas was onto something w his suspicions, tee is praying on thomaskong's downfall!!

thomas finally being called out for laying it on thick because enough is enough!!!

lattefirst bickering about meat...

idk this is a translation thing or not but gems getting brother-zoned gagged me

keng's glasses taking a dip in the water. you lose some, you win some. his glasses are gone but at least he now has a partner. thank god it wasnt the celine sunglasses...

yes king!!!!!!!!!!

[patriciaselina]

waccha and kouchan @ cosplay mania 2017

just as it says on the tin, originally a twitter thread!!! crossposted from my twitter!!! totally not in order!!! i was not taking notes!!!

→they went to jollibee and loved it. thought jolly spaghetti was nice and sweet and waccha said they put chickenjoy gravy over rice →they also had sinigang sa hipon! they also tried out fruits like philippine mangoes and bananas →their impression of PH before going here was that it was a southern hemisphere country, so rlly hot, also good yummy fruits →can i just knight waccha's translator cuz waccha spoke so so SOOOOO much, kept having to make himself stop to let his translator translate →when asked what theyd wanna be if seiyuu work was off the table, waccha said he always wanted to be seiyuu and couldnt think of ever being anything else, but when audience cried out he could be an idol, he rolled with it lol →audience also said kouchan could be an idol so he rolled with it but actually said he wanted to be a baker, cuz he loves eating bread →was asked what kinda otoge they'd wanna make, waccha: some kinda VR setup where u get to date seiyuu (?) and the main route is kouchan →kouchan went AHHH, ACTUALLY, thats kiiiinda like mine cuz i want ALL my charas to be played by hatano san ("all waccha") →personal note, we were standing cuz no VIP ticket but HOLY SHIT MOM WE WERE SO CLOSE, TOO CLOSE, THEY WERE SHINING SHIMMERING SPLENDID →waccha never rlly thought about how he decided on being seiyuu but he loves anime so much and ended up here →kouchan went along with a friend who said they should try out for seiyuu work together and he thought it was fun so here he is rn →kou: if i never became seiyuu, i wouldnt have ever been able to meet you all like this, and i'd have never been able to go to PH like this! →back to the otoge: waccha went weeeeell i wanna have it in a filipino setting, so like, at the very last scene the MC would be, like, all- →waccha, in The Voice: mahal kita (i love you) →then he goes, ah, but my MC is CV.kouchan, so wont you do the thing too? what thing? ah youre all alone at the beach, you turn to her, say- →kouchan, in The Voice: bababa? (y' going down?) (also he shimmies down into an air chair pose cuz he is extra) →waccha was all like WTF BOI WHAT KINDA ENDING IS THAT EVEN????? →kou and waccha had fun with the fact that "bababa ba?" "bababa" can be a full convo ("are u going down?" "i am going down") →also waccha points out that here "baba" also means "chin" and just like JP the same syllables, same word can mean lots of stuff →i was luckily close enough to see so i am around 40% sure that their surprise bday cake for kouchan was yema cake and now i want yema cake →waccha: the thing is, both kou and i used to play bball, so you know the time before u shoot is like 1sec right??? but in anime the ball FLOATS MID AIR and they talk the ENTIRE TIME →as his translator repeats this he holds a shooting pose in mid air and goes yeppppp it goes like that →kouchan: backwards snapback, checkered shirt, pants, jacket →waccha: black sweater, white shirt, pants (this seems to be a fave outfit) →they both kept on giving heart signs and nama kisses to audience it was unreal →signs they read out from the audience: "notice me kouchan" "notice me waccha" "pls wink" "sing pls" →waccha: i never had acting XP cuz i didnt wanna go to theater club - they went out on school ground screaming weird stuff - →i am TRYING to recall the exact phrase but it was rlly silly, he screamed it, and he made his translator go and scream it out loud too →waccha: and THAT was embarrassing, i never wanted to do it, but here i did it anyway, →kou: u even made her (the translator) do it →kou: now she's REALLY TRAUMATIZED waccha tantou translator: that was rlly embarrassing →they had kou and waccha play filipino/pinoy henyo! they had to guess words by asking us questions and all we could say are yes, no, maybe →waccha's word was jollibee: "wait is this food - its filipino? smth we ate here??? uhhhh sinigang??" (kou: NOO) →kouchan's word was cake: "what is this? some sweet thing?? do i eat it??" (waccha: YOU ALWAYS EAT IT U'VE BEEN EATING IT SINCE U WERE BORN) kouchan: BLUEBERRY CHEESECAKE waccha: BE LESS SPECIFIC →for waccha he finally realized it was jollibee cuz kou said it was a chain with many branches and waccha went DOES IT HAVE A MASCOT CHARA →asked about what was hard about being seiyuu, waccha went well, actually everything is hard, its like a wall of challenge upon challenge, but he'd wanted to be a seiyuu for so so sooooo long that not once did he ever think of giving up on his dream →for kou, he said that actually he and waccha were the same, and he knows he always looks like he's happy and grinning but in fact it's the fans' smiles that give him strength to carry on →this bears repeating SOMEONE GIVE WACCHA TANTOU TRANSLATOR A KNIGHTHOOD, VACATION LEAVE, A RAISE, A HUG,SHE'S SO TIRED WACCHA SAID TOO MUCH →waccha: we're always surprised that we have fans overseas! there's a lot of untranslateable stuff in JP works so we always wonder how overseas audiences would take them, so we're rlly happy rn! →in pinoy henyo we were screaming responses but accompanied it by literally going 🙆 for yes 🙅 for no and shrugging for maybe, and eventually the one of em who wasnt answering the question begun doing the same too LMAO it was cute →i think this wasnt translated onstage, but remember how one of the audience signs was "sing pls?" waccha went, uhh rlly?? just one would - be okay?? rlly?? well then what song should i sing?? birdsong?? OKAY ITS A PITY NO ONE PICKED UP ON THIS CUZ FOR ONE REASON one of waccha's official profile talents on 81pro website is "mimicking bird calls"! WHY DID NO ONE NOTICE WHY DIDNT U LET HIM DO THAT →kouchan voice めちゃめちゃmasarap is goddamned iconic i swear to god →waccha noticed @kujouheaven 's regality album and was happy they actually bought it!! he also said one of his ingame lines and talked about how playing him was, also kou talked about zool and said a ridic af line in his chara's voice (host: WTF U KNOW HE SAID HE FARTED RIGHT) →I REMEMBER NOW the line waccha did when he noticed the regality album was "trigger rlly is the best isn't it?" I CANT BELIEVE I HEARD THAT →they said that there's lots of auditions u take before u go to final audition for a role (waccha: just like the cosplay tournament here!) →they asked who in the audience wanted to try out being seiyuu and almost everyone raised their hands, and waccha goes and says, waccha: in the first event i ever went to, a pro seiyuu asked that question, and only one person raised their hand. and it was me. so i'm very very happy to see this kind of turnout. →general notes: kouchan was surprisingly quiet and kept looking to waccha, waccha was A GODDAMNED MOTORMOUTH, kept looking around and waving →when his translator was repeating one of his (rlly long) answers waccha kept miming walking with heavy steps it looked so funny i stg →WACCHA'S NAMA KISSES CAME WITH リップ音 HOW ARE WE ALL STILL ALIVE →kouchan: its important to have one big goal, like 'i wanna be a seiyuu', but its also important to better urself w/ small goals bit by bit →waccha, after another long speech: uhhh right ive gone for too long kou u can talk now kou: 👀 reaaaally. are you SURE

[lauralivinglifeblog]

May has been a particularly good month for me. I have had so many good opportunities come my way ( I will share these on a later post) and I’ve been enjoying using more of my beauty product’s, reading, and tasting new things that have become new Holy Grail’s for me! So lets dive in shall we!

Huda Beauty Lash Glue

Pardon my language but Ardell you can frankly do ONE! When purchasing Huda’s eyelashes, I could see that the band that keeps the lashes together is were particularly thick and i knew for sure that my Ardell lash glue that I used at the time would not do the trick. Even with the thin lash bands I have on some of my eyelashes, its only a few matter of hours before I feel them puckering off my lids. When I saw the Huda lash glue was apparently one of the strongest lash glues on the market, had a fast acting formula and was firm, long lasting and even WATER-RESISTANT (I have the most watery eyes). I thought what a whole load of gobble. But the comment section was proving me wrong and the review were A+, so i decided to get it. Everything the lash glue describes itself to be is beyond and more. Applying a thin layer of the jet black colour on the lash band, it becomes tacky within a few seconds and i should warn you, that you should try and get your positioning right the first time round, because this glue hugs onto your lids like no mans business. it is not budging. please and i really mean PLEASE, do not attempt to take your lashes off without an oil based remover. When i did this the first time, I was practically in tears at how painful it was to remove. I have used it on Huda’s lashes and other lashes which are synthetic and mink and they work just the same. This is my new holy grail eye lash glue!

Huda Beauty Lashes in Samantha #7

There’s just something about lashes that completes a whole makeup look for me. If i do wear lashes, i feel so naked, but when i do have them on, I feel so badass! I always saw that the Samantha lashes were such a hit with lashes lovers, so I wanted to try them out myself. I love these lashes! They are layered with varying lengths, giving me such a sultry, feathered volume look.  They do not look heavy at all and are perfect for a daytime look. The Samantha lashes suit every eye shape, they do not have that ‘fake’ look and can be used up to 12 times. I salute you Huda!

Lancome Teint Idole Ultra 24 hour foundation in #13

On the hunt for the ultimate holy grail foundations, I have used and tested so many foundations over the years, that i forget about some of the good gems i have found along my foundation journey. Lancome Teint Idole is one of them. Giving me the flawless matte look perfect for the spring/ summer season, I cant for the life of me remember why I stopped using it. I cant guarantee the 24 hour hold it claims, but i can say that i wear this foundation all day  (11+ hours) with minimal touch up and it stays in tack. I am so impressed by Lancome as they really have broaden their colour spectrum for all skintones and currently with this foundation have 40 shades in stock.

Anastasia Beverley Hills Modern Renaissance Palette

To be fair this palette might as well be an all year round favourites. I honestly cant get over this palette. All of the colours i can work with, from warm mattes, shimmers and golds. I get excited every time I pick up this palette, and create the many different looks you can with it. Plus high 5 to me for being able to still keep the packaging relatively clean.

Bio Oil

I am constantly trying to find new holy grails for my skin care regimen and that doesn’t just include my face but my whole body too. My skin is really dry and I have to use two different creams just to keep my body moisturised. I came across Bio Oil and remember there being a hype about how good it was for dry skin, discolouration and scars, so I thought I would give it a go. Thus far I am loving it! I cant say it has cleared up any discoloration or scars as of yet, but it is definitely giving my skin a glow. I think oils might be a new regimen for me to include into my routine. My friend referred me to a website by New Directions Aromatics which have a range of Essential Oils that cater to many skin needs. Its definitely worth checking out.

Coqfighter Chicken & Beer

…. I literally don’t even know where to start with this review. OK… If you think you have had good fried chicken… YOU HAVEN’T had good fried chicken till you try Coqfighters chicken. When my partner came home shouting from the rooftops (literally) that he had just eaten the best fried chicken known to man, I had to see what all the kerfuffle was about check them out. Their twice-fried, vodka & sesame battered, Korean style wings with a house made sweet soy & garlic glaze and Korean hot sauce is TO.DIE.FOR! I initially ordered 7 of them and came back 3 HOURS later to order another 7! My palate has never tasted anything so good for such a long DAMN time. I am completely obsessed with them and the owners are sooooo lovely and welcoming. Currently in Croydon Box Park they are planning on opening another shop in Shoreditch Box Park. They also offer a delicious fried chicken burger, Corn Fritter, Bao Buns and some yummy sides including fries, smashed cucumbers with sesame oil and chilli and boneless chicken! What are you waiting for???

Pretty Little Liars

If you are a hardcore, 8 years, patiently waiting die hard fan like me, then you must be beyond excited for the final 10 episodes of Pretty Little Liars where we finally get to find out not only who Uber A is but we also get our many mind numbing questions answered over the many mystery’s that has unfolded on the show! I have followed PLL religiously since the show began and can not wait for it to end, but also secretly gutted that I will not get to see all 5 girls on the same show anymore. If you haven’t seen PLL (then what the hell have you actually been watching?) its basically an American mystery thriller TV Series about the lives of 4 girls whose group falls apart after the murder of their Leader Alison DiLaurentis. After one year of the alleged death, the girls reunite when they all start recieving menacing and thereatning messages from a mysetrious villian named ‘A’. They girls come together to try and work out who ‘A’ is and what exactly it is ‘A’ wants.

  What was you loving in the month of May?? 

    7 things I loved in May May has been a particularly good month for me. I have had so many good opportunities come my way ( I will share these on a later post) and I've been enjoying using more of my beauty product's, reading, and tasting new things that have become new Holy Grail's for me!