#like i havent been doing that much but im also going from doing nothing soooo lmao

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pls i need to provide updates

[doyouevenshipbr0]

10 strongest earthbenders

i did this with waterbenders a little while ago and while i dont feel AS passionately about earthbending as i do waterbending, i still wanna give my thoughts bc i love atla and i love yapping duhhhh

rules: not including avatars and not including anything from yangchen or kiyoshi (havent read those) and honestlyyyyyy i cant think of a character from the comics in general that would make this list but im not gonna include ppl we meet in the comics either bc to be so honest 1 i havent read the lok comics and 2 i have only read the atla comics once and i read them as they came out so it was years ago. STRICTLY GOING OFF THE SHOWS!

realizing i def shouldve made this list right after my most recent lok rewatch (its been a couple months atp)

ANYWAYS lets go

honorable mentions: tbh the only one i wanna say here is the dai li. they probably could be like number 8/9 but idrk how to rank a whole group of ppl? but the way they use earthbending is super cool. in general, im realizing there are not nearly as many overwhelming earthbending forces as there are in waterbending? so this list starts a little shaky.

10. xin fu/master yu- so like. not sure what to say/how i would even differentiate. they are both masters. duh. we didn’t see much of them but we know they are easily outclassed by the rest of this list soooo… sorry! moving on

9. general fong- alright u might be wondering “who is this” so its the guy in the episode where they try to force aang into the avatar state in the beginning of book 2 to try and make him fight the firelord sooner. literally nothing of interest to note EXCEPT when he does that super baller move where he makes katara sink into the earth?!?!!?!?! logistically i dont think this makes much sense bc how tf did she not get crushed and i think this method would make earthbending kinda super broken lmfao so they literally only ever used it this one time (from what i remember) but it is suchhhh a cool move and it is SCARY! so props to this guy for being the only earthbender we see do this super sick move!

8. wei and wing- HEAR ME OUT!!!!!! they are soooo much more useful than u remember them being. they always are holding their own with their mom and aunt and all the other amazing earthbenders around them. theyre nothing super spectacular and are not given much time to shine since theyre such minor characters, but if u pay attention to the screen time they do have, they are really really good. the fact that they can earthbend so easily alongside their mom and keep up with her is really all u need to know. they WILL pull up!!!!!!!

7. bolin- so like. its tricky right bc he is THEE earth bender in the legend of korra but honestly he really is not THAT great. obviously he is great and that’s why he makes this list but yknow what i mean. he has lavabending!!!!!! which is super sick. he also has tonsssss of raw strength and agility which is probably his biggest strength. but honestly i think what keeps him low is his lack of skill, finesse, and honestly meaningful fight scenes that go in his favor. feels like his character maybe suffers from a littttttle bit of being sidelined bending wise bc he was SUCH the comedic relief. its almost like the writers didnt have time to make him a super fleshed out earthbender because they were too busy trying to make him funny?? idk im rambling but bolin is just a tricky one. still amazing! just not as amazing as the rest of the list.

6. lin- dont fight me istg. i can FULLY admit that my biases are coming into play here but im still gonna defend my point. here are the facts: i kind of cant stand lin and i LOVE su yin. i do understand that realistically, the fact that lin is the chief of police and has dedicated pretty much her entire life to it would make her crazy strong, and it does! shes the chief of republic city police for a reason. she has a fuck ton of combat experience which helps her to be as strong as she is. i just cannot, in good faith, have her any higher. from what i have seen from numbers 5-1, they seem better than lin.

5. su yin- ah su yin. i love su yin. and if im being logical, lin would be a stronger earthbender because she has (from what we know) farrrrrrrrrrr more direct combat experience. but if im being honest, when i look at them earthbend, su yin’s earthbending looks better. its more interesting, she looks like she uses more skill, shes more creative, she seems more resourceful, and she seems more adaptable as well. she killed p’li!!! also she was kicking lin’s ass in their 1 v 1 but it feels wrong to count that bc lin was like on her deathbed lmfao. still, although lin seems like she has more experience and probably a greater battle IQ, su yin just seems better. maybe its the bias! (it def is)

4. ghazan- lava bending. he is the best at it. just everyone in the red lotus is scary strong. i rly dont need to tell u why he’s this high. it is so obvious.

3. bumi- mf took back omashu all by himselffffff. i feel like bumi is by far the earthbender we see across both shows that has the most raw strength. hes also wise and shit!!! absolute beast. i know a handful of people think hes number 1, and i know MOST people think hes at least number 2, but he’s just not in my opinion. obviously still one of the best of the best.

2. kuvira- i just. wow. i feel like on my most recent rewatch i realllllyyyyyy saw how EXCELLENT of an earthbender she is. like ok first of all yes she was the villain of this season so she was definitely going to be strong but she is literally just beating the shit out of everyone for the entire season. like no one, not even korra until the last couple eps, can even compete on the same playing field. (i know korra was dealing with a lot of personal beef but STILL). the amount of skill and precision and effectiveness she has is the best we see in earthbending in legend of korra. she genuinely seems like she isnt even giving it her all in most of her fights and she is still just mopping the floor with everyone. she was a dictator for a reason ok like who is beating my girl?!?!?!? (other than thee mother of all of earthbending ofc).

1. toph- i mean. i dont want to even explain. no earthbender has a better connection, understanding, and natural ability with earth like toph. her bending is an extension of herself to the very fullest. invented metalbending. cultivated metalbending into the martial art it is today. was (kind of) a self taught master by 12. and the stuff that she DID learn she learned when she was practically a toddler from the original benders, the badger moles. i feel like some people try to argue her spot bc she isnt always as flashy as other earthbenders (bumi, ghazan, kuvira) but she is by FAR the most effective. and not just in a day to day basis, but in fights too. hence why shes the strongest. i dont think many would argue this position but yeah. GOAT.

[lorethebookworm]

There are soooo many good animatics, Gigi is def one of the best animators out there, when it comes to overall storytelling for Epic for multiple reasons I absulutley LOVE WolfieTheWitche's designs of Odysseus though, its probably my favorite because wolfies animatics are realllyyy emotionally expressive theres also still a handful of other animators, several (most of them ) of which have by now also been hired by Jorge now for offical animatics for the livestreams I actually do highly recommend animatics because they do give a lot of context to the story than the songs themselves sometimes (eg. polites :"), the baby getting dropped etc) while the artists often do take some creative liberties a lot of them do try to combine offical statements from Jorge with whats known about ancient greece and homers odysee to make it into reallyy amazing animatics, and bc i cant resist im going to send you two playlists ive made, one has my personal favorite animatics of each song so far, so that it becomes kind of a movie to watch, and another playlist with p much every full-version animatic ive found from epic so you can check out some more if you want! ive started creating a playlist for animatic snippets but i havent gotten far with it yet https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8aJtnq6T7SnUazf_B9STh5a56HLnm989 Animatics "Movie" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8aJtnq6T7SlN1S56Q-Q3kcqwCYsR55Gv All full version animatics i could find so far the only song we dont have a full version animatic by now is Different Beast but Im hoping we'll get one sooon 👉👈 no pressure to watch any of that ofc, but i do recommend them! (it hurts even more that way)

So what I'm hearing is that you are offering me an Epic movie? Like it's nothing ? And you're telling me "no pressure to watch it" ? GIRL I'LL WATCH THE SHIT OUT OF IT THANK YOU SO MUCH AKKSKSKSJJS

I might end up screaming about the animatics in your asks. I might not. I recommend sleeping with one eye open bestie love youu <3 <3

[bi-mirandalawson]

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thoughts beneath the cut

crochawk: they trust each other. and they fully understand what that means for each other. they dance around each other for so so so long before finally finally finally colliding in a way they cant take back. they dont want to take it back.

croc and mihawk are both a little charmed by how successful buggy is while also being so pathetic. obviously he has something going for him ! they're determined to find out what it is. mihawk's feelings also come with a side of shanks' complications that really just amplifies the feeling of 'there is Something about him. What Is It.'

buggy. he sure has feelings about them. he does feel a little trapped in their current set up, but also. i want to think his dream speech was on purpose ? he knows the power he holds over his people, and uses it to his advantage.

idk i like toxic yaoi so im like. okay with it if the power dynamics aren't totally equal bc croc and mihawk could kill him in an instant. i like that they feel like they have to stoop to his level or whatever.

mishanks is like. i dont even know. i havent thought about it a lot, and there is still SOOO MUCH we dont know about mihawk and shanks' backstories. but even just the basic 'they were rivals and now they're in a sort of limbo' is fun.

shuggy is. they are Entwined. they've been together from the beginning, they know each other better than anyone else, and nothing will ever change that. shanks is soooo in love with buggy and buggy is. avoiding thinking about it. he thinks there's too much bad blood between them (too many times he felt hurt or left behind) (and too many things he said that he can't take back)

doflamingo is there bc i do like him and croc to have a bit of a complicated past. either they fucked once, or had a short fling. either way it was when they were much younger. doffy never really put it behind him, but im not sure that he actually Cares for crocodile in any real way. crocodile has no respect for him At All, and would kill him if provoked.

almost put dragon on here bc i do like dragodile but i havent thought about it enough to have a preferred dynamic/history for them. i am partial to a very short, very sweet romance, that couldn't go anywhere bc dragon had other priorities and crocodile wouldn't have let him on anyway. also like the idea of them reuniting now and having Something.

[szif]

tagged by @noelashe thank you sooo soo much for it i love tag games :)

last song i heard: fodder for the elder gods by creature feature atm of writing this. been listening to creature feature way more cuz of like, you know, farsang, and they make halloween songs so i swear before this ive been listening to the ones about being reanimated and spirits and stuff like that.

fav color: baby pink for suuuure. i also love yellow + i love it on items but the color itself? baby pink. soooo sooo pleasing to the eyes. i feel like one of those prisoners. like you know how they kept painting like those walls pink cuz like it made them calm or something? and it turned out to be false i think? but its like something true to me i guess.

last watched series: no way i dont remember anything. im like a movie girl i havent watched series . umm . okay ! i havent watched anything since succession ended ! yeah, thats my last one. i really liked that though

spicy/sweet/savoury: i love spicy, tolerate sweet and absolutely despise savoury. i like spicy & salty stuff only when it comes to like these sorts of categories like i genuinely cannot be caught with the other 2 "s"es.

relationship status: alone as always have been. but hey maybe even if not a girlfriend i might get a friend this year. would be quite the achievement wouldnt it

last thing i googled: "sims 4 writer career" because i needed to know what skills are needed for it. its writing + logic unless you go for the journalist route which is writing + charisma.

last thing i read: this compilation of franz kafka's diaries + letters published in ummm.... 1983? its real fun actually ive been getting reading reccs from the guy himself + its just real interesting to see what he was thinking and stuff like that.

current obsession: uh, i dont think i have any. like, genuinely. um, been wanting to watch a few movies here and there and being excited for it, but anything concrete that would be "obsessive" ... nothing. im as empty as a ceramic plate

something im looking forward to: finally eating solid food after crashing my insides into bits :') its fine im just regelated to baby food for a while now and now im aching for like, soup, you know? like i want it. well, soup is not the most "solid" food but the most heartwarming one like i think it would fix me.

i tag @vagonca-rigo + @heart-on-left + @manicpixieautism + @vy2gumi + @handinvampirichand + @opanchu its not an obligation tho i got no gun over anybody for this T-T but also if anybody wants to do it and is not on here just lie that i totally tagged you ill 100% vouch for you

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as someone whos played ffxiv for almost 8 years now i gotta say its SO exciting to see youve started playing. i really enjoy seeing you talking about trc and kurofai (unfortunately i know absolutely nothing about xmen so it goes right over my head) and so im excited to see any thoughts you have about the ffxiv story and characters!

HEEHEEHEE. most of my ffxivposting has been in a thread on my twt priv, but after the recent botslaughter im gonna try and move it over here.

im at the beginning of stormblood. here are my thoughts:

as i said previously, in ARR i was very meh on alphinaud. i have a grudge against his ARR va (due to critical role), i was like "WHY are we starting a PARAMILITARY ORG", and i was kind of like hey. im playing a 6ft tall elf lady with a huge axe. you fancy little twerp dont boss me around. the end of ARR was soooo crazy and good though, really kicked the plot into gear for me, and those cutscenes were like WHOA!! OMG THE GUY FROM THE BEGINNING CUTSCENE... and in heavensward he became my little boy. because he basically reversed all the things i didnt really like about him. new VA. constant regret and shame about the crystal braves. and everyone was like awww hahaha youre a nice little boy. and he is. he is a boy. and he's polite. and he got a new outfit that covered his midriff, which i appreciated.

minfillia... im sorry. her VA was so insanely bad. and i never really DID anything with her that made me feel attached to her. she felt very bland and generic. i was like okay cool 👍 see ya. i also think her outfit was so blaaaahhhh like it gave me girl next door final fantasy character, NOT leader of an NGO, which would have been more appealing to me.

y'shtola: one of my mutuals is constantly posting her very cute WoL/yshtola fanart and i thought i would like a bit more than i presently do... i like her! i just feel like she hasnt gotten to do very much that isnt going "hmm.. aether." i think it's delightful that she shares a VA with sera from dragon age. bitches with bangs 4 lesbians

urianger: when i first saw urianger i was aghast. i was like. PEOPLE ARE HORNY FOR THAT THING? but now that ive seen more of his shb/edw outfit im like aha i see. you have gender. you're either like "do not perceiveth me" or "dripping with gold in a lightweight backless gown". i really enjoyed his undercover outfit with the WoD. i don't think he did anything wrong. he was like "yeah i did lie to everyone and help manipulate events to send minfilia to a different data center. i feel absolutely awful about it, i wish my trolley problem principles had not made me deceiveth thou all, i am a horrible villain, pray do not feel compelled to forgive me" and i was like nah youre good 👍 like she isnt DEAD. plus he always tried to help me a little bit when he could. i like his funny voice. i like how in ARR he was voiced by fenris dragonage. take those goggles and hood off again mx tism

tataru: if lalafells didn't look like that. i would be shipping my WoL with her. i think she is so cute and fun and a delight. she is a joy. my girl JUGGLES!!!!! she makes OUTFITS!!!!!!!!! she has A KETTLE WITH A FANCY NAME!!!!!!!!!! and she works so hard. im so glad she got to come with us to ishgard. she is my joy. my light...

thancred: i have heard tell that he really leaves behind his initial lothario characterization, and i really have not seen it in forever, which made ARR thancred perfectly fine to me. i was prepared for him to be much more egregious. i wish i knew him a bit better before he got possessed. i was like oh okay! yeah i guess i havent seen him in a while. which made me sad because i love possession storylines i think they are so juicy. his ponytail and rattee (like a ratstache but a goatee) are funny to me. thancred nakey images were funny. there was a moment towards the end of hvw when he came back and i talked to him in ishgard between convos with nobles and he said stuff that was very commiserating and i was like okay i have decided you and my WoL are complaining friends. sipping the haterade together. i think he's like 5'7". like with alphinaud, the character development in this game has really surprised me with how effective it feels. i look forward to seeing him grimly yet compassionately fail forward even more. and to be a single dad. aforementioned mutual (who i know through klapollo) is into thancred/urianger so im also looking forward to confining them into the yaoi compartment

cid: HE IS MY FRIEND :) i love how he's a short king. i like how he was simply like "fascism and imperialism are bad. i am going to go fight against it by building big airships :)" no qualms no struggle just knew what was right and went and did it. he's like a gay older coworker who you go out for drinks with sometimes and invites you to barbeques. i enjoy him and nero's turbodivorce saga.

alisaie: i completely forgot to do all the bahamut raids in ARR so when she showed up post-hvw i was like oh it's time for the girltwin! and she was like "oh we've worked together already :)" and i was like oh god. we only had one conversation. oops. so far i think she's a delight. i have heard that she's a bit of a lesbo. good for her. love that she gets a sword and she gets to be the mean one of the two twins. i cant wait for her little red jacket. looking forward to more >:)

krile: have not seen much of her so far but i LOVE how she has a cloak with cat ears, so cute. LOVE how she teases alphinaud. im like yes... shared character history... quite fun...

ysayle: I LOVE YOU DRAGON ELSAGARD I LOVE YOUUUUUU BIIIIIIIIITCH... I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU. i love her style. i love her political convictions. i love her gap moe with the moogles. i think my WoL had a crush on her. i think it's messed up that during the scene where the WoL and alphinaud are prying the eyes off of estinien, she touches alphinaud's hand. she should be touching MY HAND!!!!!!!!!!!! all love to haurchefaunt but I BONDED WITH HER.

estinien: i know many people like estinien. every time he spoke a word at ysayle i felt like a barking like her guard dog. DONT YOU SPEAK TO MY GIRL IN THAT TONE YOU BROODYBOY SMELLMAN. SHUT UP. i assume he softens up now that he is retired from All That. i thought his relationship with alphinaud was very sweet - i liked when he taught alphinaud how to gather firewood. i think my WoL only tolerates estinien because alphinaud is so attached.

haurchefant: i was still barely reading dialogue in ARR when he was introduced. so he showed up and was like OMG HI AGAIN BESTIE!!!!!! and i was like oh! that man! one of my friends is gaymarried to him so he's like my gay brother-in-law. i am a lesbian and my WoL is also a lesbian so we were hagging/tyking (dyke tyke) out with each other. the facial animation on the WoL when he croaks was astoundingly good. i call him horsey

aymeric: well he certainly is competent, principled, and nice. one of the more handsome elezen men in the game. i know he's implied playersexual so i really need him to stop inviting me to dinner because i have had conversations with dude friends like that before and it is so painfully awkward. i think it is great that he committed fratricide AND popecide. wahoo!

lyse: i really enjoyed yda. yknow. i thought she was such a fun cockney karate bimbo. i didn't know she was lyse. i've heard about lyse. and how she is conspicuously the only blonde blue-eyed ala mhigan. and how she is a source of some of the collar-tugging politics in stormblood. sigh. so. i am now burdened with her.

raubahn: I LOVE RAUBAHNNNNNNNNNN I LOVE HIMMMM i love how he has a small adult son. i love how he is trying so hard. i love how he is so righteous and hardworking. the misery lolorito and ilberd put him through during hvw made me so mad on his behalf. when lolorito was like "oh, how we laughed at how upset you were!" i was like RAUBAHN. HE IS THE PERFECT HEIGHT FOR YOU TO JUST PUNT ACROSS THE TOWN SQUARE. PUNT HIM RAUBAHN. YOU DESERVE IT. and i love a one-armed king. kurogane swag

lucia: i think she is cool and fun. hahaha dont potentially be in love with aymeric queen youre so hot and cool and butch

matoya: SHE'S SO COOL. I LOVE HER DESIGN. HER VOICE ACTING. AND HER RUDENESS. AND OF COURSE THE FROGS

moenbryda: i thought she was so fun and cool. i was like cool!! new character!! big funny woman i love it!! and then near bluefog she dished about her childhood a little and i was like... is that a deathflag. and it was :(

okay thats all the npcs i can think to have anything to say about.

i was pleasantly surprised by the way that lalafells are not the lolibait/shotabait i had grimly prepared for them to be. they are just short funny guys for the most part. moving past that, i then got slammed into by the giant brick that says "BEAST TRIBES". i heard that the new writer has made their writing a lot better (apparently the alliance leaders acknowledge that they have been basically been doing genocide on these sentient beings, which is helping me push forward through stuff)! i do their quests really regularly because i like helping them out. i would really love to see someone with more expertise on the subject write about the presentation of indigenous peoples in ffxiv, because i think that there is a lot going on that is vital to critically inspect.

i have to go eat dinner now. but i will try to post more thoughts on here as i have them >:)

[bcnes]

GET TO KNOW ME MEME

NAME — august PRONOUNS — she/her, sometimes he/him SEXUALITY — lesbian SINGLE / TAKEN — taken for almost 8 years

THREE FACTS

— i grew up in a cult for like 16 years! in brighter news i also did ballet and softball for most of those years and got to go to a lot of regional / state championships and on dance tours which was really fun :) — i was a disney cast member when cov*d first hit the states and let me tell you that is one of those experiences you can't ever begin to explain to people — i went to college for game design. i dont hate myself to work in the game design industry

EXPERIENCE

HOW LONG — god since like. elementary school? 6th grade at the very least WHAT PLATFORMS — i started out on hyper-specific rp forums (like warrior cats 💀) and private threads with friends over gmail ims and oovoo and skype. eventually moved to dreamwidth, then twitter, and then finally here BEST EXPERIENCE — can i be honest. dreamwidth. i love the forum structure a lot when it comes to replies, liked how easy and unobtrusive it was to use icons, liked having soooo many sandbox games readily available and i fucking adored murdergames which were really really common over there. structure-wise nothing has ever come close for me. tumblr has had the best People on it by far, though. i met most of my friends on twitter rp and thats the absolute Only word of praise i can give that experience

MUSE TYPE

FEMALE OR MALE — i used to have a pretty even split but my roster has been leaning more primarily male as of late because i've fallen into a really specific musetype FLUFF , ANGST OR SMUT — i don’t write smut and of the other two i think i prefer angst because i love character growth and developing dynamics. but you always got to have a good stint of fluff in-between just for the sake of casual fun threads you know PLOTS OR MEMES — i love both but mostly do memes just because i'm bad at plotting but i DO really want to actually. try. to plot out some long-term shit...... eventually............... LONG OR SHORT REPLIES — my replies never stay short unfortunately BEST TIME TO WRITE — i work from home half the time and if i'm uninvolved in a meeting you'll catch me doing replies throughout the morning. i tend to not have much energy later at night and usually use my weekends for other shit ARE YOU LIKE YOUR MUSE(S) — it depends on the muse but i tend to write relatively hotheaded characters and i am, as we all know, an aries. there's some shared attitudes there

TAGGED BY — ellie *kisses on the mouth platonically* TAGGING — if we havent talked much before You Should Do This

[orcelito]

🎶✨️when u get this u have to put 5 songs u actually listen to, publish. Then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool)🎶✨️

(hope i don't bother you with this ask ! have a great day/night/whatever)

oh i listen to so so soooo many songs . uhm. i guess i'll choose some of my current favorites? oh maybe a favorite song from each of my favorite bands! ...of which there are definitely more than 5. but top 5 favs i guess???? or current 5 favs??? i dont think i can call these necessarily my Top 5 favs bc i have so many bands & artists i like at different times for different reasons BUT IF I HAD TO CHOOSE... ok this is going by band order i guess for current fixation but:

Sorrow - IAMX. ive been obsessively into IAMX recently to the extreme. for months. and i love soooooooo so many songs of theirs. but this song? Sorrow? it's the one that did it for me. I Come With Knives was the initial one that kicked this off, but going to Sorrow is what made me like "man i DESPERATELY need to listen to more of their music". NOT my very first IAMX song, that title belongs to Volatile Times, which ive known for like some ten years :p but only recently listened to more of their music and i have NOT looked back. as a bonus Sorrow reminds me a lot of ITNL Vash. perhaps part of the fixation on it lol

Nothing Personal - Des Rocs. picking a favorite song from him was nearly impossible bc im obsessed obsessed obsessed with his music. legit last year on my spotify wrapped all of my top 5 songs were his. OBSESSED. 'A Real Good Person In A Real Bad Place' is still undisputedly one of my fav albums EVER & the reason for that top 5 songs thing. but Nothing Personal is the first Des Rocs song i ever heard & what made me go "Oh my God???" & it still makes me lose my total shit when i listen to it lksdjflskjdf. honorary mention to Why Why Why, which was the other one i considered for him. also love that shit sooo much.

I Never Told You What I Do for a Living - My Chemical Romance. just so you know picking a single favorite song for MCR was near impossible. so much of their music makes me absolutely insane in the best of ways & picking just ONE?????? impossible. but i chose this one bc it's one that makes me EXTRA lose my shit anytime i listen to it. like fucking Belting it out. this one's The One. i can't give you special mentions for MCR bc there are too many. too fucking many. god i still love MCR so much

Armageddon - Blue Stahli. fucking love Blue Stahli's stuff, it's SOOO fun to listen to, & Armageddon probably really is my fav of theirs. i end up just jumping along to this song so much. it's a jumping song !!! so much fun to listen to !!!! also really paints a picture of me that a fav song of mine is just "Armageddon, come come and get it! Armageddon, baby!" the whole The Devil album is soooooooooo much fun & also an album i had a Mood for. back in uhh oct 2021 i wanna say. around there. special mentions for Takedown, Kill Me Every Time, and Power Outrage (this last one especially, OH MAN this also makes me lose my shit in the best of ways)

Mr. Fear - SIAMES. in a dramatic tone change from the other choices, i really am quite fond of SIAMES's music. it's my chill music. & this song specifically is sooooooooo full of longing and wistfulness. it's the first one of theirs i listened to & it's so......... waaaaaaaaaaaaa.. special mention to Brothers, which i very nearly chose bc im obsessed with that song too, but Mr. Fear has had my heart in a chokehold since i first listened to it Years ago. had to answer that one.

uhm. there are 5! additional special mentions to Capricorn by Xan Griffin, Maniac by Stray Kids, and Lovesong by TXT, which are all individual songs i've had MASSIVE obsessions with in the past. the Repeat On End kinds of songs. im being a bad STAY by not including Stray Kids in the favorite bands list but i havent been listening to their music as much lately. feeling these top 5 much more rn

[lakemichigans]

howdy hey, i was wondering what your thoughts on the new hunger games movie were? you made a post saying you were gonna see it, so idk if im too early and you havent yet, but was curious your thoughts on it :)

i really really liked it!!! i just got back from seeing it with my friends and we all agreed it was better than both mockingjay movies in our opinions! i hadn't read the book yet (i know i know i'm kicking myself too) so i was really worried they were going to try to portray snow as the type of person who had good intentions but was corrupted by the system, which would have been aggravating to watch considering the sheer number of children snow will murder throughout his life. i wouldn't have been able to enjoy myself if i knew they were trying to make me feel sorry for snow. instead, they make it clear that he always had his own interests in mind, and although he's fully capable of love, loyalty, and morality (and occasionally does act with those characteristics in mind), he chose to follow a darker path. i absolutely love that writing decision!

when my friend and i realized that snow and lucy gray were flirting we turned to each other and said "are they seriously doing this??" but i was soooo impressed with how they handled the romance and especially with where their relationship was when the movie ended. i mean, i really should have had faith because suzanne collins has never let me down in the "nuanced and uniquely fucked up romance" category before 😌 i honestly think part three (after the arena) was my favorite even though the vibe shifts so harshly it almost feels like it becomes a psychological thriller. i'm just so so relieved they were able to show the inherent humanity in snow WITHOUT being like "see? both sides are bad! all people can be monsters given the right circumstances! the genocidal maniac feels bad about his actions, but what could he have done to stop it? :(" you know what i mean? the narrative allows you to feel snow's emotions without ever using them as an excuse. most of the time his feelings are not even a reasoning for his actions – even when he feels bad about something he's done, he makes no attempt to change. in fact he seems to accept that he's gone too far, so it'll be easier to bury his emotions down deep so he can do even worse shit without feeling bad about it. god it was just so INTERESTING

from a technical standpoint it was less impressive tbh, the cinematography was nothing special (not ugly, just okay). lucy gray's actress was good but she really shined in the subtle facial expressions (such as her growing distrust for snow) and when she was performing on stage, but not so much in emotional outbursts. snow's actor was the opposite, he reallyyy shined during high emotion.

i'm not entirely sure how i feel about viola davis' or peter dinklage's characters. we've seen how superficial, ableist, and classist the capitol is, so i find it odd that two of the most powerful people are visibly disabled. it just doesn't track with who the capitol is. but then again, it also seems that in the early days of the capitol, everything is MUCH less flashy and ostentatious; people are still stuck up and classist, but it's a far cry from the absolute spectacle that the capitol and the games would become 60 years later. compare tigris in this movie to who she becomes later and the shifting culture becomes super obvious:

so if they were trying to show that the people in the capitol used to treat disabled people as equals but no longer do, as a sign of their decreasing sense of humanity and community, then i think it was effective. but i'm not sure if that was the intention, i'll have to look into it more

ANYWAY IT WAS REALLY GOOD!!! i wrote all of this as soon as i got home so i haven't had time to sit with it or anything. i'll post more if i think of anything else!

[angeleccstasy]

HOLY SHIT THAT'S SO COOL???? I LOVE HOW WELL THOUGHT OUT THE STORYLINE IS IM SOOOO AHEHFHEHDHE I FR WANNA KNOW MORE (also i thought they'd kiss at the end but nevermind- im quite alright with mutual abuse too(

here are their designs this is pretty old as you can tell and i dont think the heights look accurate at all + a bunch of other nitpicks but wuteva :"]]

OHHHH IF ONLY THEYD KISS MAN, IF ONLY THEY WOULD :CC but tysm !!! gahhh that means !! a lot !!!! :"333 so uh yeah! i havent been able to fully draw prisoner and warden yet aside from a few unfinished sketches ANYWAYS lemme slow down a bit and talk abt some other stuff outside of themes and plot :0 so abt their designs, prisoner is 6'4 ft mixed but mostly of black descent, appears 25 yrs old, slim/skinny build hes actually a little underweight bcuz of how little he eats, short dark wavy slightly curly hair, has eyebags and some other facial imperfections around his body but other than that, since i based him off of serial killer archetypes, hes pretty conventionally attractive and has a pleasant voice and demeanor :]] warden is 6'3 also mixed but less so than prisoner and mostly of brown descent, appears 23 yrs old, slim/skinny build like prisoner but he eats a bit more so he looks less like skin and bones, short straight black hair, has a bit of acne due to long periods of exposure to the elements and such but again since hes also based off serial killer archetypes, hes also conventionally attractive and has a pleasant voice! SO off to where the story begins ohohhohhhh ill keep this short but. the warden and the prisoner have been going at it for nearly 2000 years, and what theyve been doing pretty much is that they run into each other every few weeks/months and they just! stab and shoot and fight to the death! :D smtimes this happens bcuz they yknow run into each other smtimes this happens bcuz prisoner tries to kill someone and warden, who likes to stalk him for long periods of time just to prevent this from happening, has to come into the rescue and fuck prisoners shit up and if theyre feeling especially vengeful they generally put each other thru smth awful .. hooray? but yeah! pretty much i started writing this story bcuz i was just fascinated by the idea of how far/extreme i could take the enemy-enemy dynamic in fiction and what i could do w/ that concept !! and then from there it evolved into an exploration of trauma and how it horrifically distorts and rewires the way 2 people view themselves and their actions and the world, leading them to manipulate and brutalize and torture each other, and letting the fact that youre a victim blind you from the fact that youre also an abusive person, and thats its not entirely the other persons fault but also your own :[ i think that the prisoner and the warden are fundamentally very different people, they just react to trauma the same way: they are very sensitive to it and they dont know how to handle it, they can only let the hurt eat them from the inside out and cause more hurt ..

and! if you dont mind me very pretentiously including this quote from house of leaves here adjusted slightly since i think it absolutely fits the way these 2 view each other:

I'm afraid. [He] is hungry. [He] is immortal. Worse, [he] knows nothing of whim.

[userblaney]

do Not read this im just so disgustingly overstimulated im going to crash out

that was the worst fireworks display i have EVER seen and im so fucking overstimulated and my brother is actually the worst fucking cunt ive ever had the displeasure of meeting and some how I am the only bilingual among my siblings. which isnt saying anything because they straight up dont even fucking talk except for when they are playing dress to impress next to my head when i try to do my homework since i have to share a room with them at eighteen .and i havent gad a productive conversation with them in genuinely 3 years and my mum is blaming ME. for the traffic because i broight up the idea of going to the fireworks display in the first place wirh friends but my uncle wanted to tag along and i might snap in a bit because i have not been not in host mode for a month now. these are my blood relatives nothing is gonna happen if i speak english in front of them or if i wear jeans instead of a traditional dress oh my fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk . i fucking hate my siblings ANDDDDDD MY SISTERS JUST COME INTO THE ROOM AND LEFT THE FUCKING DOOR OPEN AND WENT BACK DOWNSTAIRSSSSSS IM GOING TO THROW A BRICK AT HER HEAD. and i have so much fucking homework to do and i still need to write a cover letter because any "spare" (when im not in skl or outside. but im never outside bexause imnot fucking . ALLOWEDDDDDD) time that i have i have to be in the kitchen helping out because "that is my duty as a hostess" but my soblings havent lifted a FINGER and they are being praisdfor mediocrity. how the fuck do you want me to be a good student and a feminine person while treaatinf me like a fucking BITCH when i wear makeup and then also want me to ALWAYYYYYSSSSSS entertain my family and cook and clean for them AND my siblings . and you want me to get out of the jouse and get a job but you freak the fuck out when i actually attempt to do those things then you tell me i cant borrow money for a bus or taxi in the event where i actually do because i should have my own but you arent letting me and you keep all my bank statement and you read them and make me justify each purchase and. UGHHHHĤHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHi have a guy friend whos also bangladeshi brown and he said that he wouldnt wish being the eldest child And daughter in the bangla household on his worst enemy he was sooooo rigjt for that . and im not even a girl and the evil of jt . aka dysphoriais getting to me and eating me up but thats another issue . i fuvking hate my brother he doesnt attemp6 yo speak and my mum SCREAMED at me on the way home because i forgot the guy fawkes bullshit and i should tell my uncle the story of it in bangla but . idek it ib english . and then i told her that they arent mute . andthen shesaid . she doesnt expect them to know bangla they are too young . they are 14 and 10 or somthinf btw . at that age i had to take care of my siblings while we were home alone for weeks at a time and also take care of the house and cook for them because my parents were too busy having life threatening health problems or atte fing to those witj . that . and ive been sooòooooo nice about it . so nice about it . im nice to everyone even in school and online and at home but im literally going die and they are all calling me to eat the rice that . i made the Moment i got home from skl . along side the tea . wjen my fanily had just woken up and it was 12. and then they complain about the lack of time and MY laziness when i DARE to sleep in until 9am on a saturday 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 . yes i know my dad works with uber lare into the night and my uncle misses hisr jids and so does my grandma and my mum is struggling with her mum seeting such harsh expectations and balancing uni and i soumd like a brat but its doing by fucking head in my brain is soooo fucking tured. and i have mocks coming up and im not allowdd to tell my siblings to leave the room because theyll just tell my dad whow jll be mad at me . becasue i have no gokd qualities to excerise why am i even studying . im s ooooooo done bye

[margle]

heyy fellow crj stan here!!! i saw her live in 2019 and she was fantastic. whats ur fave song? its kind of silly but feels right and tiny little bows are my faves haha. oh maybe also bucket.

heyyy! ive been a fan since around emotion but i still havent heard her live im so jealous

cool choices! i rarely listen to kiss and tug of war so i dont listen to the last two very often. but ive been playing dedicated on repeat lately. thank you so much for giving me an excuse to talk about crj <3

my faves from each album that i regularly listen to:

emotion:

i mostly listen to emotion in one go without any skips. as a result i dont really have a favourite. but ive been listening to never get to hold you a lot recently because it feels like a bridge between the emotion era and her newer work.

emotion side b:

cry. it's simultaneously melodramatic and earnest in a way that only carly can do.

dedicated:

i'll be your girl. i love this song soooo much. the kinda ska inspired instrumentals + the darker subject matter make this such a unique song in her discography.

everything he needs. i love it when she gets silly. fun!! again, one of the most distinctive things about crj is how earnest she always sounds. also, i love the original shelley duvall version.

dedicated side b:

fake mona lisa. this could be my favourite crj song. i love the theme and lyrics. i prefer songs with more abstract lyrics that kind of wash over you. this track fits the bill perfectly and also is really fun to analyse. it is too short though!

now i dont hate california after all. this is a polarising song but i personally love it. i like quite maximalist pop with lots of texture - the watery sound effects are so cute. i love the theme and lyrics - the idea of falling in love with a place because you become besotted with someone. it feels refreshing - learning to become uncynical.

(summer love and this is what they say are also great)

the loneliest time:

sideways. cuuuuuute. crj makes music to smile to. the sparkly instrumentation and lyrics would sound cheesy from another artist but crj just puts her heart into everything.

bends. dreamy and smooth. music to listen to on your bed in complete darkness. again, pretty and abstract lyrics. (though i dont like the "blue eyes" line because it kind of pulls me out of the song)

western wind. same reasons as the one above. but this time it's music to listen to in a summer field at night. also i love the motif of california in her music.

so nice. one of the rare times you can use "saccharine" as a compliment. i have to be in the right mood for this one but it's just so delightful.

(all three bonus tracks could make this list but i cant separate them)

the loveliest time:

shadow. this is one of her best songs. im in love with the lyrics. im in love with the instrumentation. if i could recommend anyone a crj song, it would probably be this one. thearchitectureofthisconnectionisyourreflectionisalwaysfollowingme...

kollage. crj makes music that feels like floating in the middle of a lake. i sound like a broken record but i just love the way she uses words. it feels so effortless. it doesnt feel like she has sat down and laboriously written them down - it feels like she is just speaking spontaneously. in a poetic but simple way. (Living with uncertainty like nothing really matters / Passed the future on my way to work / And found myself back in bed with you)

aeroplanes. this is like 3 songs in one. i like the off kilter beat.

weekend love. this song has a special place in my heart. i like the way the meaning of the song (about looking back at an affair), feels like it is looking back at the album and finding closure. it feels comfortingly mature (Got me so high but everybody comes down) (Alright, guess it was a past life / I haven't seen you around / But it's alright, I'm alright, ah / Soft light hits me on the high line / So go on fooling around / I'll be alright, I'm alright, ah)

[kin-the-muffin]

haha soooo many things happening rn and i feel like i have so much time to do nothing like i used to but when i take a step back sure i have less but i still have a lot but then i remember that theres homework im already ignoring in my classes and new friends to know and be known by and old friends to either dump cuz theyre toxic and i never realized or try in vain to keep ahold of a slipping relationship and im in my senior year now hahahaaaaa

vent below

i auditioned for my school’s musical and i finally got a speaking part and im also technically a lead and that rly cool but it also means im going to have to stay at school for twelve hours almost every day until the second week of march when the play ends

im in my school’s honor choir and its a zero hour so i have to wake up at unheavenly times to get there and sing for two and a half hours

i get to be in a rly big state choir too and thats coming up in february and i havent looked at the music yet and i cant get the remind to work and all the emails are so long-winded and badly-formatted and confusing

and my english class is nearly full of students so thats fun and my school has zero, count em, Z E R O good senior english teachers but im pretty sure i have the better of two devils and i had her last semester so i know her and she knows me but i also know the kinda bs shes gonna throw at us and i just have to hope that she wasnt lying when she said that this semester would be easier because we’re not working on senior papers this time (mine was about mental health in schools not that anyone asked lolll)

i also have the same government teacher as last semester which is both a blessing and a curse because i know what to expect but like none of it is good and he makes us do these stupid unnecessary tiny group projects and why tf cant i just work alone i only know one person in the class and his lectures are so pointless and please just let me take all the tests and be done with this heaven-forsaken class already

then im in studio art which is basically the highest level art class at my school and you have to get permission from an art teacher to be in one of their hours then you work on one huge independent project the whole semester and my art teacher knows i draw on my ipad and said i could make a comic so now i have to figure out what its about then i can hopefully start the ball rolling from there but i have too many ideas and not enough at the same time and none of them are developed enough to make a 22-page, fully edited-and-colored comic

and my choir director is so incredibly passive aggressive but not really on purpose, he just knows he has a rbf and so he overcompensates to make himself more friendly but then when his patience runs thin he yells and i wanna cry and die and quit high school and cry some more

and im trying so hard not to stress over college because i know im gonna take a gap year so i can think about it then but two of my sisters have offered their homes to me and i love them both so much and ive been thinking about just getting an apartment and a roommate but i have to tell them that because one of them is going to renovate their basement with my potential living there in mind and then i end up stressing about college anyways like what major and what minor and what school and what even is my endgoal???? i dont know?!?!??!?!! i dont know what i want to do with my life, not specifically! my biggest dream rn is to be an mc streamer and thats just cuz im back in my mcyt phase and the old pipe dream from my childhood has returned but i know it cant actually work out btu the dreamer in me says it can but i know it realistically has like a .000002% chance of actually happening

and thats all i have the energy to say rn

sorry for the rant

sorry for not posting

ty and goodnight

[0rph1x]

i did this last month so im gonna redo it just for fun bc im bored

ive been good!! not dealing with insane amounts of bullshit anymore and honestly ive been doing incredible now that i dont have to worry abt it

nope but i think itd be fun to start one, i just dont remember a lot of my dreams enough to write it down

my future. whats in store. just hoping that its good =]

i am now!! im done taking care of someone elses mental health now, so i can focus on making myself happy

the ppl i have now absolutely are, im doing a lot better

YES I HAVE. YES.

yeah!! i made bacon and eggs for breakfast, had some ramen for lunch, and leftovers from dinner last night

high school ap lit teacher <3 i would love to be an english teacher

UHH UHHHH the single eye emoji, its so much funnier than the double eyes

still dont know what this means skjafhdkjs idk

great question. green.

physically its my eyes, emotionally its my resilience

not atm i love my hair color

nope but id love to get both at some point

i dont have any yet =]

SPIDERMAN. SPIDERMAN. LOVE THAT SILLY.

still spiderman <33

UM. idk all my favorite guys are deeply troubled and have their own love interests already so i think im good

still tbh its andrew garfield just bc hes silly

talking abt my interests or my. mental illness. KJGHSKJGH

uhhhh idk tbh! i dont have a preference for any

in certain subjects! im rlly good at english and science and nothing else

its soooo bad it needs to be fixed thats why im gonna be a teacher

english for sure

UM. jupiters rllly pretty, and im an Earthy Guy <3

my black pants with the white stitching for sure

i dont wear makeup so idk

i have no idea. independence. kindness. family.

english fluently, and just a tiny little bit of french

i have no idea tbh i dont have one

any sort of alien life dude i love space

same as the previous answer

im not rlly sure tbh, ig in some cases it could be a thing

i dont think ive manifested anything im gonna be so real

absolutely, i think love is 100% real and its great

not atm

not unconditionally yet but i have made so much progress and im continuing to work on it

very specifically end of spring beginning of autumn

edgar allen poe just bc hes silly

THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2. coraline is a close second tho

i dont think so, it can be summoned up in my liked songs on spotify tho

atm its my bestie friend grey <3 hes a silly guy

my mom, but its my post and i make the rules so also my best friends

i do!! i havent in a while but i do!

literally anywhere i wanna travel wherever i can

what. idk what this means. yes.

that orangey red color in sunsets

not a shot

kind. loving. hesitant.

y e s all of my best friends, my irls and i will just sit there and talk for hours

uhhhhh im not rlly sure

none of that, im not religious at all

all of them theyre all so interesting

aghhhh its not going well i am worried for sure sjkdfasjdfh

a lot of things tbh. abandonment. ending up alone. big dogs with sharp teeth. the dark. loud cars. not being loved.

no, but i cant wait to be the best and most free version of myself as i can be

just me tbh =]

educate if possible but at some point theres nothing u rlly can do

yeah!! i used to catch them a lot when i was a kid

i have yet to see mountains so beaches

rlly good <3 i love u chocolate

again garlic chicken I NEED TO POST THAT RECIPE DAMMIT I FORGOT

no, but it seems rlly interesting like its rlly cool

im not but it seems awesome

nope but ive been told that i look intimidating before ppl hear me speak

sweetheart??? i think???? at least i hope so, i love bein called sweetheart

forgetting is so much easier. i dont think u have to forgive anyone but moving on and progressing is important

i wanna buy my mom her own house one day so she can just live her own life without any worry

idk what that means but hopefully

what

yeah i have but that couldve just been dissociating instead

not rlly tbh i know id fuck it up

future, i have so much hope for my future

that like grungy aesthetic, thats what im trying to achieve

idk tbh but probably home person

calla lily, green apple, and thresher shark

yeah i have!! ive been whale watching which is so fun

im not sure, probably just compliment me out of nowhere

absolutely, i think strangers can be so incredibly nice

kinda both, it depends on the day/who im with

i dont rlly keep track, but my mom compliments me more than anyone

yeah! i always try to compliment at least one person a day

nebulas <3 stars <3 comets <3

mars it seems so fun

uhhhh anything lavender/vanilla scented

MOSS AGATE. YES.

i dont rlly have a favorite tbh

i mean i dont pass too well yet so i dont come off as a gay guy but online it seems really easy

im not sure! i think i have a healthy balance of both

nope but that would be interesting

i absolutely try to

literally any phase its so pretty all the time

my mom my mom i wanna take care of her the best way i can

i think so! theres probably more i could do but i think i do okay!

UM UM UM dark green i think

lavender or vanilla <33 its so nice

oh yeah i have a bunch that i keep in bed, i only sleep with two tho

"you owe the world your gifts, you just have to figure out how to use 'em" - uncle ben, tasm1

i sure hope its real but idk what i believe tbh

im not sure! i would love to be a shark tho thatd be fun to just swim around

OKAY IM DONE IM DONE. MUTUALS PLS DO THIS ITS SO FUN.

100 questions for whoever wants to ask themselves or answer:

How have you been ?

Do you have a dream journal?

If you could dream about something all your life what would it be ?

Are you taking care of your mental health?

Do the people in your life take good care you?

Have you left the toxic people in your life ?

Did you eat well today?

What's your dream job?

What's your favourite emoji?

Where do you want to astral travel ?

If you could see only one colour, which colour would it be ?

What is your favourite thing about yourself?

Would you like to colour your hair?

Do you have tattoos or piercings ?

What do your tattoos represent?

Who is your favourite fictional character?

Who is your favourite movie character?

If you could marry a fictional character who would it be ?

Who is your idol ?

What are your main niche's here on Tumblr?

What is your favourite astrological sign except yours and why ?

Are you good academically ?

What are your views on the education system?

What is your favourite subject ?

What is your favourite planet & element?

What's your favourite piece of clothing?

What's your favourite makeup product?

What are the main themes of your best life?

How many languages do you speak?

Who is your favourite historical figure?

What's your favourite unproved theory?

What's your favourite conspiracy theory?

Do you believe in law of attraction ?

What is the best thing you have manifested?

Do you believe in love ?

Are you in love with someone?

Do you love yourself unconditionally?

What's your favourite season?

Who is your favourite poet ?

What is your favourite movie ?

Can your life be summed up in a song/ movie?

Who is your favourite person on Tumblr?

Who is in your irl favourite person?

Do you write or make art?

Where do you wanna travel?

Do the flame coloured skies light your fire?

What is your favourite colour of the sky?

Do you know anything about your past life?

What do you think your soul is really like?

Is there someone you have deep talks with?

Who is your favourite deity?

Are you a religious , heathen or spiritual person?

What are the other cultures except yours that you admire ?

What are your views on ongoing world crisis right now ?

What do you fear ?

Would you be someone else if you could?

Who would you like to be ?

What would you like to do with racists and homophobes ?

Have you ever caught a butterfly?

Beaches or mountains?

Describe chocolate .

What do you like to eat the most?

Are you into spirituality?

What do you like about being spiritual the most?

Do you think you are intimidating?

Are you a sweetheart or a baddie ?

What do you find easy , forgive or forget ?

Something you really want to do for your parents .

Are you in your soul community right now ?

Are you a starseed ?

Did you ever have an OBE ?

Would you like to time travel?

If yes past or future?

What's your favourite aesthetic?

Are you a hippie or a home person ?

What's your favourite flower, fruit &animal?

Have you ever travelled in a boat?

What is the best thing a stranger has done for you ?

Do you believe in the kindness of strangers ?

Are you an introvert or an extrovert?

How often do you get compliments?

Do you generally compliment people ?

What's your favourite space entity?

If you could inhabitate one planet where would you choose?

What are your favourite essential oils ?

What are your favourite crystals?

What is your favourite tarot card ?

Do you find it easy to express your sexuality?

Are your right brained or left brained?

Have you tried third eye awakening ?

Do you usually channel your creativity?

What's your favourite phase of the moon?

Is there someone you would really like to do something for ?

Are you a charitable person?

If you could add one more colour to the rainbow what would it be ?

Which fragrance do you think represents you ?

Do you own stuff toys?

What is your favourite quote/poem of all times?

Do you believe in afterlife?

What do you want be reborn as ? What are your characteristics?

That's all have a great day ✨

[ko-eko-ev-go-ms]

Oh my god I just realized math wise I’ve lost 10 again but I’m only 2-3away from being at my lowest/less than it. Literally wtf how is that actually possible rn man it’s only been a few days wtf. Can’t tell if it’s a fluke bc of my habits the last few days/time Of weigh in or what, but I’m confused. Haven’t weighed in yet today but I assume since I did less yesterday it might have either gone back up or maybe it’s evened out???? Idk man I’m super confused

[squingy]

i really need to draw and experiment so i can have an actual portfolio but i simply cant do more than a traditional sketch </3