#mega thanks to internet friends

[dannyriccsupremacy]

now that we don't talk | CL16

| charles leclerc x fem!exgf!reader smau

| summary : charles doesn't do enough to keep his girlfriend and when the internet finds out, they are less than happy.

| faceclaim : christina nadin

| part one here ! part three here !

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youruser i was so shocked i dropped my @sacreskin out of the bathtub

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user shes had such a glow up since the break up

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user charles, bby, why are you in the likes?

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yourbff this is the cream she dropped on the floor outside the bathtub

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user i will go broke spending all my money on them.

yn was getting ready to go to dinner with her bff, when she heard a sudden knok at the door. glancing at the time, she assumed it was her bff, who was just extremely early- probably to get ready together. they pounded on the door again, becoming impatient.

"yeah, coming. calm your farm!" yn called, making her way to the door.

she wasn't looking at the door as she opened it, trying to dig through her makeup bag to find her beauty blender. as they walked through the door, yn actually glanced up at them, "charlie? what are you doing here?"

he continued walking through the hallway, taking in yn's new home, "you just let me in."

she followed behind him, ditching her makeup bag, "i wouldn't have if i knew it was you!"

"oh come on, yn, we both know you would have." charles stopped in her kitchen and turned around to face her.

"i wouldn't of." yn stood her ground.

they stared at each other for a moment, before yn began moving, stopping behind charles and putting both of her hands straight into her back. charles stumbled forward, and turned around, staring at yn with an unbelieving look on his face.

"what was that for?" he exclaimed.

"get out!" yn replied, pointing towards her door.

"i'm not leaving until we talk." charles stood his ground, this time ready for her shove, not moving.

"fine. you have like five minutes. i have plans." yn gave in, pulling out one of her kitchen stools to sit on.

charles followed suit, pulling out the stool next to hers and turning to face her, "i'm sorry."

yn laughed, almost spitting in charles' face.

"i am. i miss the old ways. i miss you. what can we do to fix us?" charles asked, sincerity in his eyes.

"nothing, charlie. there is no 'us' anymore." yn softly replied.

"surely there is something we can do?" charles pleaded, debating whether he should literally get on his hands and knees and beg.

"no charles. we're done-" charles began to speak, cutting her off, by she silenced him with a look, "look, i called my mum and the first thing she said was that 'it was for the best'. i have to remind myself that, the more i gave, you'd want me less. i can't be your friend. it's just better, now that we don't talk."

"you don't mean that." charles muttered, lowering his eyes to his fidgeting hands.

"i do. i don't have to pretend that i want to be on a mega yacht, with important men, who think important thoughts. i'm on my way back to my dignity." yn argued, her voice pulling charles' eyes up to hers.

"yn, i will do anything to fix it. i'm so sorry. it's all my fault. yn, please." charles begged.

"you know i had to tell your friends, the ones we shared dinners and long weekends with?" yn asked, "i had to pretend it was platonic, but we'd just ended."

"yn, i'm willing to do anything to get you back again. just give me one more chance." charles pleaded.

"no. charlie. it's best now that we don't talk." yn raised from her seat and grabbed his hand, which he immediately latched onto. she easily led him away from her kitchen and to her door, leaving him standing in her hallway, but not before planting a kiss on his cheek.

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"he said what?!" your best friend exclaimed, her eyes bascially buldging out of her head.

"what. an. asshole." julia, a girl in the club bathroom added in.

yn and her bff had sat in the club bathroom for the past hour, relaying the story of her afternoon to her bff and the other three women who had sat there to help the pair shit talk charles.

"i think i would've punched him in the face, honestly." chloe scoffed.

"how did he even get your new address?" amelia asked, "is he stalking you?"

yn pondered for a moment, "i think pierre probably gave it to him. but enough about me and my shitty ex. why are you three crying in the club bathroom?"

"the guy i'm talking to right now, he is so not over his ex and he is just like, leading me along." amelia answered, slightly shrugging.

"what is with men and being assholes?" yn shook her head, "you deserve so much better. dump him!"

"he's so hot though!" amelia rebutted.

"hot guys are usually the worst ones." chloe said, earning nods of agreement from the rest of the group.

"you're better than this." your bff assured amelia, placing a comforting hand on her arm. amelia gave a small smile, one that didn't meet her eyes, and nodded.

"come on. let's just get drunk and forget about all the asshole men in this world. in this stupid little tiny country." yn stated, jumping off the counter and clasping her hands.

"unless they buy us drinks." julia added.

"unless they buy us drinks." yn reaffirmed

authors note thank you guys for so much love on my first post, it's actually mad! also thank you for everyone who requested a part 2. idk if this is very good and its not very long, but here we are! also if you want to be tagged please leave a comment!

[mewkwota]

Kid Ica- sorry, Pit.

Oh neat. Finally we end this long session with this sweet boy. :>

Send Me a Character

And I will tell you my:

First impression I am one of the millions of people who only knew Pit from Smash. When Brawl's reveal trailer showed its face on Youtube, I recognized every single character. Every single one. Including Snake, especially Snake. But when I saw this kid I thought he was Roy for a second because of the sunset lighting on the Halberd. It took me a couple of seconds to register the name that popped up as someone I briefly saw in Melee. I think Mr. Sakurai knew what he was doing here.

Pit is, like, one of my most favorite characters. His design and character hit about all the right spots for me on my mental checklist. I had a huge thing for angels has a cringy tween, plus he had brown hair in this look which I preferred more, and the outfit certainly does say "this one can kick butt". Also ooh that weapon, how versatile!

But yeah, it was bad. I had an OC who I paired with Pit. And also who wouldn't wanna try on that look (I never did, but the wings would do, and the many times I'd spin sticks like he did his bow, bwaghh).

Even with all that, there was so little to him. I'd scrape around the Internet looking for whatever I could about the kid. And that's where I learned what Captain N was. So you can thank/blame Pit for getting me into Castlevania and (even more into Classic) Mega Man.

With whatever I could gather, along with Uprising's release, I had a reasonable idea as to who Pit was. He's cheery, adorable, and selfless. And I feel some of the other layers to his character that I've picked up also stem from his background as an overlooked retro character. I've discussed this aspect in a comic between him and Sora's addition to Smash. I can tell Mr. Sakurai wanted to give Pit something he didn't quite have, and I chose to translate this as the kiddo having quite the journey in making himself known. Very little by little, until that point in Smash where we know him now.

I'm not surprised if people also saw this like an "ugly swan" path.

Impression now I may be focusing more on his friends now, but Pit holds a very-very special place in my heart. Especially now that Uprising is a thing, and I have actually grown a li~ttle sour towards it.

I know some of the humor in that game can be itty witty silly banter, but sometimes the jokes at Pit's expense can get a little, uhh, old. I get it, he's a brainless chicken who only thinks about food whatever.

It isn't like he can't be a competent character and still be silly, but sometimes the general fanbase can conflate one side. A lot. Because it's funny, sure I understand. Even I like to give Pit his silly moments, but I'd hope it's seen as him being allowed to let loose with his friends, who don't see him as someone lesser-- despite being very prolific representatives in their homelands.

This part of Pit is such an interesting thing to explore. Pit is the captain of a goddess' army. I don't think it matters the size of the army themselves, as everything is dependent on the decisions of their leader. And he's quite skilled with a variety of weapons now that Uprising has implemented that to his person.

There are so many impressive little things that Pit can call his own, but then why would he still feel inferior. Maybe it's because that's how he grew up. I can see it in the context of his place as a random retro character, but also as "that tiny angel who can't fly". (And maybe also the near-constant belittling he gets from the ones above). So as much as he's shown to be so positive, there are definitely moments where those weaknesses are seen or implied.

Long story short, it's the little things here-n-there that I like about him. It also makes for interesting prompts to write about.

Favorite moment Am I able to pick one? Uhh, Pit randomly singing at the start of that one chapter is always gonna be cute. He does a lot of cute things. ^^;

Idea for a story Something about Pit and Rock's relationship in Captain N clicks with me. On the outside it doesn't seem like much aside from "the two little kids hanging around each other", but perhaps that's just me picking at the words they say while mixing in the biases I already have. As a result, I see it that Rock follows after Pit in everything, but Pit also views Rock highly. They both found something in each other.

See this super ancient comic about it here.

One comic I had simmering for decades was looking at the between the two's connection after the events of Captain N and reuniting in Smash 4. It would have been in Pit's perspective and done through several letters-- that he needed help writing.

Unpopular opinion I don't know what is unpopular.

I'm not a part of the KI fandom. I am a part of the Pit fandom, wah.

Favorite relationship *Shoves Captain N in your face once again*

Favorite headcanon Pit is concerningly humble. He has a lot of little talents up his sleeve, a lot of which were picked up with the various part-time things he'd volunteer to do, but he doesn't really make a big deal of them. Some were simply picked up from the duties he was expected to do, or of course, they're just things he can do (so why is that really important).

[tanoraqui]

Dungeon Meshi Liveblog: I'm gonna punch the winged lion in the face istg

(Again, reminder that this is all retroactive and/or reread. Original timestamps [about half the screenshots/comments] are 3:57-4:14am, last week.)

I dunno, I think it seems like a nice young creature that could be my friend!!

Seriously though: love love love that the first desire it heard was literal hunger, that the first thing it did was feed itself to a creature as food (Laios energy!) (and get pooped out, and so become part of the world!), that the first thing it ate was literal hunger.

"I learned that in this world, things that were consumed ceased to exist."

It's so neat how this applies to everything in this world - physical food, souls tied to bodies which are eaten, and insubstantial desires.

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I just like these little creatures with the eyes.

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it looks so sad...

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fucking LOVE the implication that the different races are just descended from people who wished for different things for "their" people. Yet another #WorldbuildingWin

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I just like these guys! They're neat!

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Genuinely sad that they never even briefly sealed the lion into the Dungeon Gourmet Guide. That would've been so funny and appropriate. For is it not Laios's spellbook, the superficial guide to everything he desires!

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YET AGAIN I LOVE THIS BOY'S STRATEGERIES. He's very..."ruthless" isn't quite the right word, though it's not wrong either. "Unflinching", perhaps. He sees what needs to be done and he does it, even at grievous, grieving cost to himself first, his allies only if he can't avoid it.

Also, obviously: gotta love the relationship between a guy and the cat he trusts to kill him if necessary.

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[clambering up onto a standard internet soapbox] Thoughts are not crimes, you anti sonofabitch!

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THE BITTER IRONY THAT THIS IS EXACTLY HOW LAIOS HAS TO LIVE THE REST OF HIS LIFE, THANKS TO HIS DUTIES AS KING AND THIS FUCKER'S CURSE. (Though, to be fair, as noted earlier, all dungeon lords' final wishes seem to be 'Fuck The Guy That Did This To Me', so it's only fair - and narratively juicy! - that the demon's is, too.)

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Wnged Lion:

Kabru, 20 minutes ago:

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[Radiohead voice] 'Cuz he's a creep...he's a weirdo... What the hell is he doing here? This is just vore, now...

Also, eyes!

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Get you a cat like this!!

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I do not fucking approve of this.

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Extreme unsettlingness aside, this is truly so funny and I can't WAIT to see it animated, and moreover voice-acted. The Laios voice and some body language, but also it's teh Winged Lion, but ALSO the Winged Lion has maintained somewhat of a persona of benevolent, gracious wisdom, whereas demon!Laios has 'slightly charming fuckboy about to Spring Break party in Florida' vibes.

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Get that Kabru-ass big-eyed earnestness off my son's FACE you FREAK!

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The fucking JUMPSCARE of this, I'm cackling. Mithrun's vibes remain impeccable. Bizarre! But impeccable.

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THAT"S NO NIGHTMARE! THAT'S A TRIPLE-HEADED MEGA-SUPER FIRE-AND-ICE-BREATHING HELLA-HYDRAMERA WHATSIT, aka MY BELOVED SON THE KING OF MONSTERS! I'm no more concerned than when he jumped in front of Lycion wearing a giant mushroom and holding Kensuke! I know a friend when I see one!

[drdemonprince]

This is prompted by your most recent substack about fame, because my point is extremely tangential, I'm putting it here.

It's interesting to have seen the internet go through many stages. From the newsgroups/BBS era, to internet forums, to blogs, to social media, and how the respective environments shaped things.

In the early days, it's very much a group thing, some people became Big Name posters, pseudonymous, but still a group thing. The blog era was more personal, but still something made by someone who's just a person, even if not literally pseudonymous. Also, still text based, a lot of it even often. Social media changed that, with it's focus on follower counts on one hand and to snippets of text (twitter) or images (insta), and even though it's social media-ness is debatable, video (insta, youtube). The semi-anonymous nature however, was completely lost by now.

The doing it because you enjoyed it, or whatever, also recedes into the background because this is where monetization really takes off. The deleterious effects of the interaction between monetization and follower counts (notability) need no introduction, but painting with broad strokes, make something appeal as broad as possible deepens the flattening effect a medium like video already has, the visual aspects often being more important than the messages. It also has a much higher barrier to entry. Spinning up your own blog is cheap, text takes only a tiny amount data. Video is not. It's expensive to make (especially if you want slick videos), expensive to serve, so it's predisposed to big, single platforms that can leverage economies of scale.

The natural result is that you have a few people with big audiences, instead of many people with small audiences. If audiences is even the right word for that. If I'm talking about say, some TV show on my blog, and someone responds, it's a fairly equal conversation. More between peers, of sorts, just two people talking about something they share. As opposed to a Youtuber who makes a video about it with 100,000s of viewers. Because there are so many fewer voices, you lose the breadth of conversation too, narrowing to a small range of popular topics, and the distinction between You, and You as Your Brand gets eroded.

It's kinda notable in the autism sphere. Blogs where people talk about their experiences, how they dealt or didn't deal with things, have fallen off. Twitter came and went, and now there's Youtube and insta, where everything gets simplified down to a few slides or a 10 minute video about only the most basic aspects. Which is just... sad. I wouldn't have known that autistic burnout is a Thing many people struggle with if not for a blog post a friend came across and shared one day.

There was a comment from someone, a while ago, about how they used to have ASMR videos on, until they were able to get out into nature, and their desire for those videos completely disappeared. We're all very deprived. Of social contact, foremost. The pandemic poured gasoline on an already smoldering fire I feel. Latching onto someone 'famous' in a surrogate of social contact & context, like that person with their ASMR videos, feels like an understandable (though not good) outcome of that, which brings with it very regrettable excesses.

I think this is all pretty much a correct analysis, thank you! Though I would qualify that we have shifted away from the period of the Youtube mega content creator a social media ecosystem of intimate-seeming connections with smaller influencers, these days. Think of your Twitch streamers with a dedicated base of like 50-200 viewers per stream (and a Discord and a Patreon that supports them), the fitness Instagrams that sell meal plans online, the tarot witches and activist influencers offering one on one sessions, etc. Those communities can be more niche, but they still offer the illusion of a connection -- and if anything, that illusion is more strong because the creator is a "micro" famous person, and can take time to interact closely with fans here and there. We might already be heading out of that period of social media, though, especially with the disintegration of Twitter and the slow death of Meta's apps, too. I don't know what comes next but I hope we are due for a reappraisal of all of this, and the norms surrounding it.

[soapdispensersalesman]

Thank you all for the love on the Mega Man Battle Network memes, I enjoy making those <3

Outside of making memes I also enjoy making music. I made this album earlier this year that sounds like you're floating through the cyberscapes of the internet, which was actually heavily influenced by Mega Man Battle Network actually, check it out :)

Also available on streaming platforms

Thanks again for all the love, excited to bring you more Mega Man Battle Network memes in the future :U

[miniimapp]

jealousy hcs for 4town⭐️?

pls and thank uu

Gen ;; Kinda-Angst-if-You-Squint-Hard-Enough+ Fluff - Headcanons

Warnings ;; Jealousy (it's insanely mild lmao)

Proofread + Edited ;; falalala

Auth. Note ;; Only took me like 12 decades to finish this.. my bad.

As I said in my A-Z headcanons for each member I don't think they get jealous easily as they trust their partner but emotions happen sometimes yk

For each of these the context is they just came back from a world tour without you and want to spend time catching up,, hcs will differ from here

Enjoy !! <3

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Aaron T - Koala Mode Activated

Ordinarily T doesn't feel jealous

His biggest competitor for your attention would probably be the internet, or cute animals, or cute animals on the internet, so he's never felt that threatened

Every now and again though ??

Something just makes his hair stand on end

T doesn't like feeling jealous in any capacity

So how does he deal with it ??

By literally smothering himself in your love

No actually though

You though he was clingy before ??

Mans is a whole ass koala from here on out

You are the tree

This is your life now

Welcome and get used to it

T had only recently gotten back from the band's biggest tour yet

Amazing experience, 10/10 he assures you, but what he really wants now is to relax with you until you both become a part of the furniture

It's a little bit hard to do that when you're at a friends house and he's at home

T's happy that you're having a good time but not now when you're supposed to be relaxing in your pajamas, watching shitty horror movies with him

Does he feel like a bit of an asshole ?? Yeah.. but he misses you..

And well,, he'd hoped you'd missed him too..

So when you text him asking him to come pick you up ?? Mans is breaking that speed limit like its a god damn challenge

Ain't no such worry as tickets when hugs are on the line,, yknow ??

The moment, and I meant the moment, T sees you ??

Octopus

Immediately

You know those mukbang videos with the live squid (poor babies TT^TT) ??

They're actually doing and impression of T,, not the other way around

The more you know..

So whether its slight, harmless jealously or T's genuinely upset ??

Octopus

Ain't no way anyone can even try it on you if T's wrapped around you like a second skin..

Jesse - Height Has Its Advantages

Look man,, Jesse's tall as shit there ain't no way he doesn't use that fully to his advantage

Like,, you're just living life, getting flirted with like the mega chad you are or whateva

Suddenly there's this huge shadow over your shoulder and your conversation partner has suddenly decided to take up running..

Weird..

If you look over to Jesse he'll start with the innocent whistling act whilst refusing to look at you

Look man,, when you have legs long enough that people confuse them for stilts why tf wouldn't you use them for intimidation purposes ??

I mean,, it's just friendly flirting

At least to you it is,, and Jesse knows that

Hey,, he partakes in a fair bit of it himself so that not the issue

No,, it's the other person taking it seriously

And Jesse isn't about to scrap some rando behind some building

But he will become the very essence of the standing man emoji

That's his only line of defence

Kinda pathetic ngl because if the subject of intimidation is ready to throw hands.. well.. Jesse's fucked

But most of the time, if not all, the height scares those serious flirters away

Mans is literally giving spooky stilts lmaoo

Like spooky spoon but spooky stilts.. don't think anyone will get that but I think it's funny lmao

Anyways but like he'll literally watch you watch the flirter run away with their tail between their legs and then just give the silliest "Are you feeling wooed ??" type look

Dumbass

Aaron Z - It's Home Time

Z's a simple man

He's also a tired,, he just got back from a tour..

There's just literally no need to play mental gymnastics

The quickest way to get from point A to point B is a straight ass line so why tf would he go in a circle,, ya feel ??

Talking around things is tiring and ends in arguments that lead nowhere

What's the point,, yknow ??

If Z's not feeling it,, he's gonna tell you

You guys are out on a low-key date type thing

And since Z feels too jetlagged to function, you've organised it just to his tastes

A small tea shop where you two can just talk and relax

It's literally perfect

If only the waiter would stop staring you down like a carnival prize they really want to win

Yeah,, Z isn't a fan of that look

He especially isn't a fan of when the waiter takes it upon himself to hand you their number alongside your drink

Mans has seen good customer service..

This shit ain't it..

So Z taps the table to get your attentions and simply asks to leave

Simple

Once you agree,, Z goes up to pay and you both skedaddle on out of there

But not before Z sneaks in a small, teeny tiny complaint about the work ethic of some the staff

After all, he'd never want such a fine establishment to gain a reputation

It's all for the good of the company

And if Z sticks his tongue at them as you both leave, well there's certainly no evidence

Robaire - Smiling on the Outside, Plotting a Murder On the Inside

The definition of unsubtle, yknow ??

Like,, Robaire will just flirt with you until the cause of his jealousy just disappears

Pet names,, light touches,, complete eye contact with you to the point of ignoring everyone and everything else

That's the strategy

And if that ain't working ??

Prepare to be wooed,, he's coming in hot,, okay ??

You thought he was flirting before ?? Man is flirting aggressively now lmao

No,, literally prepare yourself, you're not ready

Robaire isn't playing games,, he will proceed to make out with you right here, right now if that is what it comes to

Ro just wanted some down time with you after touring for however long

And he refuses to let your unbearably clingy friend ruin your time together

He will, however, ruin their time with you

Hey man,, he's the partner,, he has right of way lmao

Ro's simply not vibing with the way your friend is clutching onto your arm

Almost as if they've been away on a world tour for lord knows how many months

Huh...

Funny that..

So I mean,, if you don't mind getting attacked with affection Ro's definitely your guy lmao

Mans thinks he's slick too..

Comes over and just aggressively flirts with you, all the while he's sending death glares at his nemesis

Please be advised that Ro is currently going through Google maps in his mind to figure out the perfect place to hide the body

He's so silly goofy like that

Tae Young - Aggressively Passive

Tae is the type of make fun of stereotypically jealous people and mock them then immediately get all sulky the moment their partner interacts with someone else

It's a glorious thing to witness every single time

Truly

Literally Tae will laugh at some dude trying to intimidate other guys but will turn the puppy eyes on you as soon as your attention is elsewhere

And to the stealer of your attention ??

Only the pettiest of exchanges are deserved

Tae will go out of his way to make them uncomfortable around him

He will put on the sweetest, most upbeat persona and proceed to shit on and backhand compliment this poor person with the biggest smile on his face

You'd feel bad if it wasn't kinda funny to witness lmao

And it is !!

It's really funny to just watch people get overwhelmed with the mixed signals that are Tae

Yknow ??

Like,, the sweet persona is so good that people believe that he's being super nice until they actually listen to the words falling from his lips

AND THIS CAN TAKE SO LONG

People have had full ass conversations, finished them and only realised laying in bed at home that Tae was fucking with them

IT'S SO GOOD

Definitely feels super proud of himself after every encounter

Like,, fuck yeah he just showed them who's boss

He did not, in fact, show them who's boss - they think he's the sweetest thing since apple strudel

Oh well, at least they're not stealing you away anymore 🤷‍♀️

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[nymphrasis]

It really makes me happy that people have been kind and patient towards me ;w;. Honestly, it just puts a smile on my face and I feel incredibly grateful! I try my best to keep on trucking, both in the virtual space and irl >w<. I am slower with art as of late, which I hope to get out of that stump because I would love to finish up my art queues to work on both the ask blogs and do a art raffle, as a sort of thank you! Speaking of art, I really would love to try to work on gift art for other friends ;w;. I do a good amount for the same friends but I feel I should show my gratitude to others too! I even want to do fanart of smaller creators characters, to show that they are appreciated and I want them to continue doing their best with their works >w<!!! Oh and uh... Something I still want to try someday is being a gaming Youtuber! It was something younger me always wanted to do but never had the proper resources, nor editing knowledge at the time ;//w//;. I still don't have knowledge towards video editing but I do know there are tutorials to help with that! Heck, I even made a chibi PNGTuber model of my updated Persona, although she isn't done just yet qwp. Here is the design tho!

I, uh... Want to do this thing, not all the time but here and there sometimes, where Youtubers back in the day do shout outs ;//u//;. Because I would love to give others recognition! Will I have the numbers? I don't know really. Admittedly me wanting to be a Youtuber is just to do this for fun and to help kick me out of my shell, to get comfortable socializing with other people ;w;. I use to be a mega social butterfly but now I struggle to do that ^ ^". It's why I am doing my best to kick myself open. Twitch streams really help me open up a little, tbh ;;w;;! I really would love to do more of that. I, uh, havent done it for months tho. It is moreso because of two things, tho the first one is major to me. One is computer. While I did got the issue repaired, I am still paranoid that it would shut on and off on me again during streams ( It has happened several times months ago ). It's why I plan to get a new computer instead ( I'll need to do a lot of art to achieve that, considering that most of my money is spent for irl care of myself, like food and internet ;w; ). Another is family. I have noticed that they would try to come in more and more without knocking, or respecting that I am preoccupied with something ^ ^". Youtubing feels easier for the time being because at least I could pause recording here and there, in case family tries to interrupt again ;;w;;.

But uh sorry for rambling ;;. I have so much I really want to do, to regain my confidence again and socialize with so many people like I have in the past! I really would love to create new friends and really need to try my darnest to properly socialize again ( Instead of hiding and only speaking with a small specific group because aaaaaa I havent fully quite gotten out of my shell yet. I am getting there and have been making slow but good progress! I hope to keep this up! ) Being a social butterfly again, become a Youtuber and Twitch streamer, successfully create my first game, create my own family, and just have a fun happy life! Really just want to vibe and make others happy >w<!

Thank you to those that have read this ;w; You guys and friends makes me feel appreciated and want to continue forward

[mariacallous]

Across nearly 30 videos, TikTokker @kiera.ln has gotten tens of millions of views. They started rolling in when she posted a clip of herself—in a silk robe, wearing sunglasses in bed—lip-syncing Donald Trump’s almost-infamous comments about Florida governor Ron DeSantis (whom he calls “Ron DeSanctimonious”) needing “a personality transplant.” That was in late September. The latest, posted Wednesday, is a lip sync of Trump on Fox News saying he would give himself “an A+.”

That most recent video felt like a full-circle moment. Trump’s “A+” comment came from an appearance on Fox and Friends in response to a question about how he handled the Covid-19 pandemic. The last person (give or take) to go mega-viral for lip-syncing the former president was Sarah Cooper, whose “How to Medical” video was a send-up of Trump’s suggestions that coronavirus be treated with disinfectant or UV light.

Released in April of 2020, Cooper’s TikTok went viral everywhere, from YouTube to X. They had nowhere else to go. It was the height of the Covid-19 lockdowns and everyone was stuck inside, doomscrolling for something to laugh at. She ended up getting an agent, a Netflix special, and a role in an off-Broadway play. She wrote three books, including a memoir she released last year. Cooper is the epitome of the viral TikTok star who parlayed her internet fame into a career.

@kiera.ln could do the same. But her videos, nearly all of which are titled “‘Trump Was Born to Be a Teenage Girl,” are lip syncs for a completely different era. The 2024 election cycle is all about being “brat”; Democrats are coming out and calling Trump “weird” now. Whereas Cooper’s videos felt like an attempt to fact-check the then-president by way of humor, @kiera.ln’s strategy of making him look like a Mean Girl goes straight to his insults. Four years ago, or even eight, Democrats—and those who support them on the internet—were loath to go that low. Calling his “nasty” comments nasty is now a frequent occurrence.

Comparing the former president to a teenage girl has a long history. Nylon did it in 2016 with Trump’s tweets, highlighting the perceived pettiness or immaturity in his comments. But even then there were those who pointed out it was almost unfair to teenage girls, who, in the opinion of one commenter, at least “have the chance of growing up and realizing just how terrible they've been.” Trump, at 78 years old, doesn’t have as much time left for emotional growth. Campaign emails from his presidential opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, suggest he’s “old and quite weird,” presumably having already reached his final form.

Over the summer, Charli XCX, whose album Brat launched an entire craze, tweeted “kamala IS brat” shortly after Harris announced she would be running for president. It shifted the course of the election and turned mudslinging slime green. In Charli’s estimation, to be brat is to be vulnerable and messy—and admit it. Mean girls aren’t brats, but brats know how to be honest about who they are. Brats will meet you on your internet turf and call you a clown while applying their own lipstick. Brats go on the Call Her Daddy podcast and say many women are “not aspiring to be humble.”

Election Day in the US is 18 days away. Then, presumably, Americans will know which meme, er, candidate won. Maybe @kiera.ln will leverage her viral TikToks into something new. Maybe she’ll find herself in 2026 looking back the way Cooper did last year, telling The New York Times amid her Off Broadway debut that she was thankful for the support she got for her Trump lip syncs, even if she feared being known as Trump Girl long after the meme was over, “even though I know that if I die right now, my obituary would have the name Donald Trump in it, which is not great, but what are you going to do?”

Following the Trump-Harris debate in September, Cooper released a new video, lip-syncing Trump’s performance. After it went up, she wrote in her newsletter that the decision was regrettable. “I truly feel like this may be my last one,” she wrote. A new TikTokker can come grab the torch.

[yssjj]

erasing meaning from gangnam style

Since we’re an Asian-interest magazine, I’m going to assume that you know what K-pop is, if you aren’t vaguely familiar with it. Living through the 2000s has been a very exciting time for Korean identities in the mainstream. One could sense the time dependence of my identity in the US; in elementary school, I mostly interfaced with the American joke wondering if I had come from the North or South, which failed to consider that all of my grandparents had come from the North, and would never see their family or friends again due to US intervention. But by high school, my fortunes had turned around! At this point, we were being accosted in Marshalls by well-meaning parents who wanted to ask us about BTS because their daughter looooved K-pop, which raised another question: how did they know we were Korean in a primarily Chinese community? 

But regardless of my personal bitterness, it’s important (to me) to consider how this happened. And it was a gradual change, to some extent, but really a large paradigm shift happened to change the visibility of the Korean identity in the US, around when I was in 6th grade. K-pop at this point had been what my other Korean friend and I watched on old YouTube during playdates for her to fangirl over, and for me to vaguely stare off into. It’s not like K-pop hadn’t had any international success, but it felt limited to the Korean-American diaspora and niche internet communities. “Gee” by Girls Generation is a song I would like to argue really first crossed the border into mainstream success, but I think that’s wishful thinking for an iconic song I happen to like (seriously, go watch it). 

I don’t think it would be a controversial statement to say that “Gangnam Style'' was a really big deal. Statistically speaking, it topped iTunes charts in 31 different countries, it was the first video with a billion views, and it’s still the 11th most watched video on YouTube. But I’m sure just mentioning it brought you back to whatever you were doing while I was arguing about how stupid Harry Styles and Call of Duty were (I wasn’t a particularly critical-thinking middle schooler). Gangnam style was all over the radio, blessing my 7 a.m. rides to school in my mom’s Corolla, and I’d climb back onto my main after-school activity of the desktop computer to see the thumbnail on YouTube before clicking away and watching two very large buff men put together a mega burger made out of bacon instead.

Not that I had a global perspective of things at the time, but what was interesting about the virality of “Gangnam Style” is that it seemed to originate from completely different reasons across the US and its original target audience in Korea. I sensed this as one does through the American cultural hegemony, another middle schooler friend, who confided to me that it was great that Korea would be seen in such a positive light thanks to “Gangnam Style”. I wasn’t sure. I felt a little uneasy knowing that my cultural diplomat was PSY freaking out over a lady’s ass. 

“It’s awesome,” the guy who oversaw our after-school pick-up told me. 

“Did you know,” I said, pausing my round of Touhou 7 that I would bring in on a USB, “that it’s actually about capitalist critique?” I had learned this after Googling the lyrics because it felt a little rude to not know what a song in my own language meant. I wasn’t 100% sure what that meant, either, but they were words I knew went together according to Tumblr. 

The entire video, really, made me a little nervous. Who was I in the eyes of others at school? PSY? Who even was he?

I didn’t really want to be associated with this goofy Korean man who wasn’t very handsome. I wanted to be taken seriously.

We can chalk this up to the nervous identity crisis and desire for acceptance of any middle schooler, but this difference in understanding “Gangnam Style” wasn’t just personal, but a symptom of cultural differences. Not just cultural differences, but a refusal to translate or understand the spectacle of Korean messaging in the US. We can look at this with post-feminist theory as well as the pervasive use of ironic justification in the 2000s-2010s.

Background history

In Korea, PSY was already known for being a runaway success, starting as an underground artist who began to produce hit after hit, starting in 2001 with the success of his first full-length album because of his non-traditional styling (compared to the extremely polished and conventionally attractive looks of K-pop groups), use of comedic lyrics, as well as vulgar lyrics criticizing Korean society. So “Gangnam Style” wasn’t a far departure from that. 

The lyrics of “Gangnam Style” feature a guy who describes himself as “macho” and wants a girl who “looks quiet but parties hard when she goes to party,” or is “sexier covered up than a girl who is scantily dressed.” This narrator’s thoughts lean into the post-feminist sexism of the idea of a “girl who isn’t like other girls,” but PSY openly mocks the narrator’s preferences through the narrator’s parallel ideas on his own looks and perceived attractive features. This narrator brags that he also “can get crazy passionate” and “has bulging brains instead of bulging muscles.” While not necessarily as applicable in the Korean feminist scene during this time period, in the US this can be understood as the attempt to validate “alternative masculinities” that are not based on the traditions of physical power, but instead “intelligence” that became popular in the 2000s and 2010s. 

The hook, “Oppa Gangnam style,” can be understood as the narrator calling himself a cool guy from the Gangnam district, which can be thought of as posturing that you’re from a rich, high-culture district. The classical comparison is to Beverly Hills, but you can also think of people who brag about going to Harvard, being snotty about New York City, or so on. It mocks the idea of constructed masculinity through materialistic attempts at class mobility with commercial goods (the Mercedes car) and images of lifestyle (lounging at a “beach,” going to high-end spas) by showing these as tasteless, corny, and crass. “Gangnam Style” critiques the materialistic culture of Korean youths, who aspire to come off as rich and upper class through elegance and “taste.” But PSY lampoons this through an overtly corny music video that claims that he is portraying these “elegant” people who ultimately are chasing after masculine ideals of being considered attractive and meeting women who are feminine ideals in aesthetics. These men treat women like objects because they believe that they can achieve their masculinity through materialism and class.

But how many Americans know that “Gangnam Style” is a satirical critique of Korean materialism?

At the risk of being unfair, my two examples certainly didn’t know. Most other K-pop music videos have English captions, including the videos that were released before “Gangnam Style” caused a huge growth in interest in the genre. But “Gangnam Style,” 10 years after it’s been released, still has no translations on the video itself. Which seems strange since so much of the music video is guided by the lyrics. If the lyrics are lost on the American audience, where does the international appeal come from?

International Appeal

The answer is that the themes behind the lyrics were never part of the appeal. Most of the appeal comes from the music video. T-Pain tweeted, “words cannot even describe how amazing this video is...”, which is directly linked to the skyrocketing popularity of the video as news sites began to cover it. So the virality of “Gangnam Style” in the US must be studied through the lens of pleasure removed almost completely from the lyrics. Taking the music video at face value, then, we can get a different reading using post-feminist themes of irony, the choice of objectification, masculinities, as well as the construction of the consumer through advertising and sexuality.

The positive response to “Gangnam Style” has generally been attributed to the absurdist nature of the scenes in the video, as well as the dance itself. The Washington Post claimed that “'Gangnam Style' has made an extraordinarily stupid-looking dance move suddenly cool,” ignoring the fact that the dance was chosen to look stupid in the first place.

The Sydney Morning Herald claimed that the video “makes no sense at all to most Western eyes" and it "makes you wonder if you have accidentally taken someone else's medication."

The deliberate removal of meaning from the video is reminiscent of Adorno’s concept of the culture industry. The video loses the power of “psychology” over the “structure” of the music video. The Western viewers thus avoid the confrontation of culture in the music video by brushing the visual themes aside as “meaningless.” So it becomes “uncritical fun” and viewers can thus transcend the need to even know the lyrics. There is a racial aspect to this as well—the Korean-focused message is brushed aside since it “makes no sense at all” to a Westerner. So the minority Korean message is subjugated and destroyed, made invisible by mocking the silly Asian man doing his silly dance. In this way it becomes pleasurable to an audience that may otherwise be alienated by its themes.

Another way “Gangnam Style'' is understood in the US is through sexuality, as advertisements and other video forms have already created this sexualized “set of images.” It is likened to LMFAO, probably in reference to “Sexy and I Know It” for their satire of the grandstanding of masculinity. But LMFAO creates satire through the focus on male genitalia and body humor. The comparison of “Sexy and I Know It” can be understood by “Gangnam Style'' being seen as a video about a satire on male sexuality instead of consumerism, with American viewers focusing on the nudity and Noh Hongchul’s pelvic-thrusting dance. The latter dance is actually a trademark of Noh Hongchul’s comedy acts, but the American audience doesn’t know this, and thus interprets it in the language of images they are familiar with. As Sut Jhally puts it in “Advertising, Gender and Sex: What’s Wrong with a Little Objectification?”, the viewers are informed through the “system of images'' that are present in American society, and also happen to be obsessed with “gender and sexuality.” The one English lyric in the song is “Hey, sexy lady”—which adds to this perception and leads to a later ironic reading of other scenes where women are sexualized.

So of course there is no closed captioning—PSY understands the appeal for American audiences includes taking the lyrics as nonsensical and meaningless.

Another distinctly American reading occurs for the objectification of women, notably the yoga lady image that became the icon of “Gangnam Style.” With the context of the lyrics, it’s clear that this is a direct critique of the sleazy nature that comes from commodifying women. The women present in the music video are also traditionally beautiful, with the woman who seems to be interested in PSY in the music video being an idol herself. Without the context of the lyrics that deconstruct the delusion of a romantic, classy lifestyle where women only have value from being traditionally beautiful, however, this scene is transformed into the post-feminist “irony” that Rosalind Gill talks about in her paper “Postfeminist Media Culture.” American viewers thus participate in the sexualization of these women by the constructed “silliness” of the music video. By making “Gangnam Style” absurdist and bereft of meaning, PSY’s yoga lady scene is seen as “funny” and “subversive” towards sexism, even though the original critique is on materialism and commodification.

The real absurdity is the American response to “Gangnam Style” as a force to “understand Korea” in the US by Obama, and even as a way to hail world peace by the UN.

Even Noam Chomsky was part of an MIT parody of “Gangnam Style,” partaking in “mindless fun.” I felt a little disturbed at the time that this might be the image of Korea constructed for the American mind as actual interest in the culture was swept away by the exaltation of the video as nonsensical and meaningless. As a 6th grader, this wasn’t how I framed it to myself, but the way the Western viewpoint became dominant over the original meanings of the video signaled to me that my Korean experience would become destroyed and overwritten by the white, American viewpoint. The post-feminist mindset also created a post-racial mindset where irony was used to mock other cultures, setting a white gaze in media much like the male gaze asserted by Laura Mulvey in “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” That’s why so many TV shows were able to partake in blackface (like The Office and 30 Rock, just to name a few) and take pleasure in unashamed racial violence—to the white gaze, it is funny, because the original meaning of racial violence can be stripped away.

 

References

Gill, Rosalind. “Postfeminist Sexual Culture.” The Routledge Companion to Media &amp; Gender, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203066911.ch54.

Horkheimer, Max, et al. Dialectic of Enlightenment. Stanford University Press, 2020.

Jhally, Sut. “Advertising, Gender and Sex: What's Wrong with a Little Objectification?” (1989).

Mulvey, Laura. Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. 1999.

[graffitiplanet]

End of year sappy post!

Hi y’all, I started this sideblog on May 29 of this year, and in that time I have met a lot of really cool people who like the same music that I do! I am truly grateful for all the mutuals I’ve made, and all the people who show up in my notes regularly.

I really enjoy the funny memes and inside references that come out of bandom, but you really only see that stuff for huge mega-popular bands. I think bandom should include more than just the emo trinity and related acts. There’s not much fan content for smaller independent/alternative bands. When I first got into Joywave I looked around the internet desperately for any sort of fanbase and came up empty handed… But, as a very wise man once said,

“Be the change you swish to see in the world.” -Daniel Joywave

I’ve been making joywave shitposts since 2019 but didn’t really have a place to put them. Well, since then I have found the Joywave discord server, which is possibly the largest congregation of lactose-intolerant neurodivergent acespec transgender millennials with IBS on the planet. I also rejoined tumblr last year on a whim and discovered that the joywave tag was not completely devoid of all whimsy like on other platforms *cough instagram*.

I didn’t want random people’s selfies at concerts and the same tour posters reposted a million times! God damnit I wanted to see people be batshit insane about the music I’m batshit insane about!! Of course tumblr would be the place to find that shit.

See you’re not gonna get this kinda quality content anywhere else.

I did not expect anyone would care about my shenanigans here, but it turns out there is always a niche community for everything somewhere out there. Running this blog has genuinely been a very important part of my life this year and I’m very glad to have made so many friends from it. Thanks for being part of my 2023!

-Cookie

[ahiddenpath]

Spoons

One of my closest friends is far wiser than me, but I am wise enough to know when I should listen, even when what she tells me is difficult to hear. Especially when it's difficult to hear, maybe.

I'm going to share what she told me today with you, if you're interested.

I'm burnt out. Mega ultra super duper burnt out. I told my friend that I spent today, Saturday, one of my few and precious days off, in a haze of nothingness. I slept for 9.5 hr last night and somehow woke up, drank a coffee, and went back to sleep for another 1.5 hr?!?!?! I proceeded to do some light cleaning, followed by dicking around on the internet (aka nothing). At some point, realizing that this is depressive behavior, I contacted my friend for advice and explained what was going on.

We talked about burn out. I have diagnosed anxiety, and the same friend (who is autistic) has gently broached to me that I am also likely autistic. I have not been tested yet- there's part of me that is loathe to admit having another thing going on (I joked to my friend that I'm out of condition/status slots, but I don't think she was impressed, lmao!). So far, I'm trying not to worry about the possible autism, but instead put my energy towards managing my stimulation issues. My stimulation threshold is very low, and I especially struggle with audio stimulation, to the point where I can lose the ability to interpret sound under some conditions (I hear it just fine, but I can't process it). I've been carrying my loop earplugs everywhere.

(By the way, the earplugs are lowkey lifechanging and I'm highkey mad about it. The anxiety wasn't enough?!?!! I've got other shit going on?? WHAT DO YOU MEAN I COULD HAVE BEEN MANAGING WHATEVER THE HELL AUDIO CONDITION I HAVE MY WHOLE LIFE WITH A PAIR OF EARPLUGS!?!?!?! God damn it! Etc, etc.)

So, I was talking about how stressful my biotech job is, but also pointing out that I do work a 40 hour week. Lots of people work a lot more than that. I should be managing. Right? My friend said, "Darling, everyone has a certain number of spoons. You have anxiety and possibly autism. That means you are minus spoons compared to someone without those, and there are people with fewer spoons than you, too. Now. Walk me through how you felt when your coworker assigned you work and asked for updates on that work before you even received the proteins to work on."

So, I told her how I felt. Panicked. How can I do the work without the proteins to work on? Angry! HOW CAN I DO THE WORK WITHOUT THE PROTEINS TO WORK ON! Stress, stress, stress. And you know what my friend said?

"I guarantee you that most of your colleagues would roll their eyes, give a cursory email response, and calmly go about their work day. You spent too many spoons on your panic, when you're already using a lot of spoons to do the work. And now, you're trying to spend MORE of your limited spoons fretting that you're less than for having fewer spoons than a neurotypical person/a person without mood disorders. The work itself only costs so many spoons. It's your reactions that cost more, and lead you to burnout."

Thanks, friend. Great talk. Love you, too.

Except that I actually do hear her and love her, and appreciate the hell out of her for telling me this. She moved the conversation along after this, probably because she hates doing therapy for people, and I know I got this much because she loves me so much. And also, she probably needs her spoons for other shit. She's got autism, man. It's not easy.

So anyway, I'm going to try to accept that I only have so many spoons, and also that I can't afford to waste them on feeling less than, and on my coworker's shenanigans. I'll try my best, but. It sure isn't easy, is it?

I would like to purchase some spoons, please, lmao!!!

[tobiasdrake]

You really have a gift for writing crossovers

Thank you, I appreciate that. I wouldn't really consider what I've done "writing", though, in the sense that I don't have the patience and energy to sit down and really translate my ideas into an actual story on paper. It takes a lot of passion and dedication to turn an idea into 500 pages of carefully structured art; More than I'm able to bring to any one project.

Relating characters in Thing to characters in another Thing is something I've done a lot of, though. I wanted to be a TV showrunner when I was a kid. I tried to put my ideas into novel form a few times because that was the only way I could see myself breaking into making fiction but my heart was never in literature; When I thought about my characters and story, it was often in terms of specific camera angles and dramatic cuts and stuff, which I struggled to translate to written words.

Since high school, I've had a series of original stories in the back of my mind that I've never been able to publish because they weren't conceived to be books. They were conceived to be TV shows.

But I also spent a lot of time playing in a playground of existing IPs as well. When I was young, me and some friends in internet spaces I occupied would kick around ideas for this mega-crossover plot I'd come up with called "Krisis".

It was a play on DC's "Crisis" type stories but spelled with a K the way Mortal Kombat does every C word, because the premise was basically Shao Kahn unchained from the rules of Mortal Kombat launching invasions into every realm in the multiverse - with an Avengers-esque team of heroes from all across video games and anime and stuff coming together to fight back.

And then dealing with various other plots from there in a multiverse now aware of its existence in relation to one another. This got so out of control that Misty from Pokemon eventually became Empress of Outworld to stabilize the region after Shao Kahn's death and turn it into a force for good. Which, looking back from an outside perspective, is fucking nuts and yet I still sometimes think back and fondly remember Empress Waterflower, long may she reign.

But none of it ever made it to print. It was just some friends kicking around ideas, and never became any more than that.

[violexides]

there is something genuinely healing that when i talk to people IRL about queer issues nobody seems to know what the fuck i'm referencing when i talk about internet exclusionist bullshit which is just. such a relief. thank God we're all normal and i can talk about being a mega lesbian and call myself a dyke but still mention that i experience some attraction to men and my friends can talk about being asexual with an extensive sex history and we call each other fags and dress hyperfemme but still go by he/him and make jokes about making out. and it's all cool! God! queer people <33

[wexhappyxfew]

💐🌷spread the love to the people you’re glad you’ve found in this corner of the internet 💐

AH! SHANNON! love you so much!

BLUUUUUU 😭😭😭😭😭 literally me right now to the ‘T’ seeing this!!!!! 🥹🫶✨blu always here like a ray of sunshine fr! LOVE YOU THANK YOUUUUUUUU!!!!! mega uno reverse right back at you friend! 🥹

[canidaedreams64]

☾ Introduction Time yippee ⋆⁺₊⋆

✩ salutations internet, i am silly bisexual transmasc genderqueer and objectum teenager edgar/eddie. i go by he/she pronouns. im mainly a fandom/oc artist that rarely animates and sometimes talks about stuff. im also irish-korean (white)

✩ i got too many interests but i say my top 5 would be touhou, homestuck, mega man, toontown and silhouette mirage. i have a bunch of other misc interests like model kits, cosplaying and collecting merch lol. i am critical of all of my interests!!!

✩ id recommend not following me for just one fandom since i frequently switch interests

✩ just a disclaimer but my art/blog may contain content such as eyestrain/flashing lights, blood/violence, guns, scopophobia, insects/arachnids, cigarettes/smoking and alcohol/drinking. i'll try my best to properly tag content but feel free to ask me to tag certain things if needed.

pr0shippers, nsfw and other typical dni criteria people will be exploded on sight. i also block certain fandoms but other than that just be nice

✩ my side blogs are:

@ask-the-netbots - toontown oc askblog (inactive)

@trs80s-usedcars - objectum sideblog (inactive)

@meatpresident - sparklecare sideblog

✩ i also happen to be on other webbed sites, so here they are:

twitter - rip

deviantart - no longer in use

toyhouse

artfight

newgrounds - inactive

myfigurecollection

bluesky

✩ i also have discord but im only sharing it with mutuals/friends(feel free to dm for it if youre a mutual lol)

⋆⁺₊⋆ ok thanks for reading baiiiiiiiiiiiii :^] ⋆⁺₊⋆

[lavender-long-stories]

I am having a great week!

LadySapphire leaving me a lovely thoughtful paragraph for each chapter of Memories on ff.net.

@nikandrros Leaving me mega reviews on Clouds AO3 and Death Wishes on ff.net and becoming my new best internet friend.

@kersu Making me heart stopping fan art for Wheels and letting me use part of it for the cover.

(╥﹏╥) (╥﹏╥) (╥﹏╥) (╥﹏╥) (╥﹏╥)

My heart is full, and my brain is on fire. You guys got me out of my writer's block, and I officially am a chapter ahead in all 5 stories. Hopefully, with this head start, I am hoping *fingers crossed* to consistently update once a week for most of the stories. I don't know what I was thinking about having 5 active stories at once, but no, you guys are making me want to open more. >.< (I will start a GaaHina behind-the-scenes promise and *maybe* a ShikaHina)

Thank you guys I can't stop smiling. (｡◕‿‿◕｡)

Stories mentioned below the cut.

Lavender Clouds ♥ Wheels ♥ Death Wishes ♥ Lavender Memories ♥

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