#obv not trying gatekeep but like

[jadelemonadee]

what do you MEAN other people yap about seabury and request art of him i thought that was my thing 😞😞😞/hj

[spider-man-2o99]

“why are you always only ever talking about, like, spider-man 2099’s childhood and mental health issues instead of posting panels of him Biting People” uh. because... spider-man 2099 the comic book... also does this.?

[stealingpotatoes]

askposting except its just one ask that was 924 words long

which i think is internet-jesus getting me back for the obscenely long ao3 comments i leave LOL

(also for the sake of my own screenshots im not. putting the whole paragraphs of text in but i did read them!!!)

@thedynamicworm thank u!!! ur idea of them meeting on coruscant is fun but leia doesn't sneak away on any missions!! she may have her father's inability to follow orders, but she knows where to draw the line and draws it pretty solidly at "things that will get me killed and/or grounded for a year". she sticks to tatooine and rebellion bases and the few planets her family takes her to for jedi training or little trips!

the closest she gets to meeting luke before age 15 is thru force dreams and the like

gaslight girlboss gatekeeping! Padme is VERY quiet about Luke's birth for the first few months (is just on Naboo w her family) and 1. pretends Luke was the result of a secret Naboo husband and 2. manages to hide when his birthday is so it looks a Bit Less Suspect. the handmaidens create this insane papertrail so convincing that Palps, had he not known otherwise, probs would've fallen for loll.

so deep down he does sorta know that Luke's Anakin's son, however comma he can't prove it for shit and Padmé never lets him get close enough to try prove it loll. + he can't rlly openly act against such a popular senator so theyre essentially fighting a shadow cold war

Luke meets Rex (eventually)!!! the closest there ever would be to codywan would be Obi-wan wistfully staring at his commander like he's in a period drama remembering before remembering he's not a hussy and thats forbidden lol. cody's just up to his canon shit unfortunately ):

same as canon, being a spiteful bastard, yelling kenOOOBIIII, and blinding dilfs <3

again same as canon (or potes-brand-canon) lolll she's out there vibing w quinlan!!!

they meet after the reunion when Padmé and Luke are staying on a rebel base w the Skywalkers and the Ghost fam visits! Ezra obvs goes to see his bestie Leia and she's like EZRA I HAVE A BROTHER NOW MEET MY BROTHER HIS NAME IS LUKE ISN'T IT COOL I HAVE A BROTHER and with a very fifteen-year-old twinge of worry that he's going to be replaced, Ezra goes to meet Luke. and the twinge of worry is replaced with a twinge of "oh no i'm gay" bc wow ok. he's cute. are people allowed to be this cute??

Luke's first opinion is "wow this guy's cool! and he has um... very uh... mm facial structure" the former of which is definitely ruined when Ezra does some stupid shit like 3/4 of a backflip and eats shit on the hangar floor

[hoverboards-and-dragons]

We know a lot about how Michael's PTSD affects him but what about the other Archangels?

Basically everyone is handling it better than him, they never had his codependency, weren't as involved in the visceral parts and aren't trying to convince themselves he's dead and thus aren't making more grief for themselves just to repress it.

He's just the estranged brother to the rest, even the still real pissy ones see him at least every couple centuries for awkward diplomatic reasons, Zadkiel and Lucifer hang out semi-regularly.

(Expect for Michael, they haven't seen each other since the Fall, but this post isn't about him)

They aren't unaffected obv, but its sutler and more about his absence than the event itself, and the looming threat now hanging over their heads.

However there is a narrative representation of this change I think you'd be interested in! The Original Sin brought suffering and evil into creation, as the pillars of reality they risked their grip of their domains slipping out of control.

They had to reflect all of what creation was, absorb a bit of the blow, swallow the consequences of Lucifer's mistake. Become worse for it.

The changes sunk in bone deep, they struggle to imagine the time before they thought like they do now. But they do remember, being different once, it haunts a lot of them, some the deeper anger they harbour for Lucifer, is from that whole psychological horror.

Raphael; Archangel of Life, Keeper of Balance, and Death

Raphael gained a callousness with little respect for those you refuse to accept the the cycle that they institute. They are patron of plague just as agriculture, of health and rot, bringer of life and death; and in the most patient understanding way they can put this, Get Over It. This is what balance means. There is no life that doesn't require the death of others, sometimes, between you and bacteria, its not your life that triumphs.

Their authority is honestly a more immediate threat than Michael's, who's iron grip is at least restricted to Heaven and the heavenborn culture we struggle to relate to. Raphael is the enforcer of our limits, its thanks to them we will not evade the walls of Heaven and Hell for long.

A cruel but natural evolution from Raphael's role as the flora that limited humanity in the Eden period. The cage transformed to be more suited for the free of will.

Uriel; Archangel of Stars, Keeper of Knowledge, and Hunger

Uriel's always had a strange blind spot, no more privy to His plan than any of their siblings. That gap turned into a clawing aching blackhole that refuses to be sated. They are the holder of His wisdom and yet they are denied this with no recourse. What good are they if they don't even know what the goal is.

This is appetite and ambition. Flame that continues to burn through whatever you feed it. This is the breadth knowledge that will always eclipse the amount you can know. This is the gaps in your memory. This is staring into the void of space and realizing you will never touch any of it. This is the expanse of time from before and after your little blip of existence that you will never be apart of.

Curiosity taut fraught by bitterness and desperation. A gatekeeper who themselves are not allowed to know what they guard. Is this penance? Uriel wonders, for failing their post in Eden, having to bare ignorance as defence after proving inadequate themselves.

Gabriel; Archangel of Progress, Keeper of Revelation, and Malice

Gabriel is at heart a paragon, they will do what is right no matter what. This also makes their mindset simple with little room for nuance. In the rise of sin came with it division, the categories of allies and enemies. While before there was only good, but its given way to an entirely black and white view of the world. They have no tolerance for those that threaten what is good.

They do not listen, nor will they feel guilt. They carry God's very word, what could you add? Nothing else matters. Cutting you down is what is right. It's a breeding ground for war and brutality, for anything is justified against an enemy. A hero does no wrong.

Quick and efficient to a fault, they leave people deemed unworthy behind. Never stopping long enough to second guess. Acting entirely on gut instinct that demands the purging of the undesirable. Sever every hitch and fib until all is plain uncomplicated truth.

A twisted nostalgia they drag behind as a they race forward to regain the simple glory of being Eden's protector, before there was deception, before they knew a brother's betrayal.

Jophiel; Archangel of Beauty, Keeper of Passion, and Bloodshed

Jophiel wears her heart on her sleeve, she experiences emotions and sensations at such an elevated intensity that they cannot be refused or repressed. Compelled in a thousand different ways to bring them into the world, if only to get them out of her. She paints, she dances, she sculpts, she cries. She learned that beauty meant a lot of things, can come from a lot of places.

Her manic episodes before could get a bit volatile. But after the range of emotional expression widened and deepened, once suffering was added to her spectrum her stability spiralled. These far extremes were not spared from magnetism. They could not be refused or repressed; now skin could break, could be broken, in rage, in despair, in desire - she had to get them out of her, she had to make them real.

Beauty means so many things. There is carnage in her wake.

Blood is such a gorgeous vivid hue, isn't it?

In the suffering of creation, darkest moments can forge the heights of art and culture. This is the quittance Jophiel offers her beloved nigh-masterpieces, she hopes it's still worth it, for both their sakes.

Zadkiel; Archangel of Grace, Keeper of Faith, and Tragedy

Zadkiel didn't have a role in creation, for reasons they still don't know. They once had hope that eventually they'd be able to leave their mark.

They never got the chance.

They don't why they were soaked in the same creation as their siblings, just to be made to rest eternally. Bearing the name Architect as nothing but a hollow title.

They keep their faith, they have nothing else to block out the thoughts of meaninglessness, of waste; that they have no reason for continuing to exist. They have no other reason to believe there's any point to them at all. Expect for faith, faith doesn't need proof, or trust. They clutch it tight in shaking hands, clasp together and close to their heart.

What good is faith without tribulation?

Futile sacrifice, pointless waste, useless potential, missed opportunity, crushing unbearable hopelessness.

Misfortune Zadkiel carries with them, inescapable random meaningless tragedy. They pray the grace and kindness they bring is enough for you to find your peace despite your fickle woe; they pray you offer to others the same. ~

(Michael is the Archangel of Power(this title is almost never used, in favour of 'Highest of all Angels') and Keeper of Order and destruction if you're curious, he's not relevant because he was always intended for a post-sin world so never had this change, also because he deserves a goddamn break)

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Jophiel is the most viscerally aware, upset and scared of how she been changed and holds it hard against Lucifer, Raphael is on some level disturbed by how their entire attitude towards living things was restructured into a constant potential threat but has decided not to worry about it, its buried real deep down there, Uriel's trying real hard to distance themselves from their desperate need as something apart from them, which works until it doesn't and they're yelling at Lucifer or whoever out of crippling insecurity, Zadkiel is dealing with it like they deal with everything, reciting prayers until there isn't any room for bad thought, they love their big brother.

[pokimanifests]

How I Manifest

Hi lovlies!! Someone asked me to share my manifesting routine so here it is, i hope you will find it helpful ^-^ 𓆩♡𓆪 I have a routine for morning and night, I use the ''Routine'' app for my routines and i have been gatekeeping this app for so long because i really love it and i can get everything done with that. 𓆩♡𓆪My morning routine involves a lot of self-improvement, self-care etc habits inside of it, including visualisation, affirming, journaling. 𓆩♡𓆪VISUALISATION: I use the pinterest app for inspiration. I have lots of moodboards based on what i want to manifest, for example material things, 2024 goals, dresses and jewelries i would love to have, dream body, relationship goals etc. I give myself 10-15 mins to visualize what i would like. I do this both morning and night. 𓆩♡𓆪AFFIRMING: Before visualisation, i do affirming. I use the premium version of the ''I am'' app. I sometimes use the themes on the app, sometimes i use the photos i designed myself for my manifestations for the wallpaper. I wrote a lot of the affirmations myself but i use the ones in Tumblr and created some of them based on the subs i listen to. I do affirming two times in a day scheduled, other than that times i do it whenever it comes to my mind. Like if i have a fear, i just affirm otherwise. 𓆩♡𓆪JOURNALING:Okay, i do journaling for my affirmations just to relax my mind because i love to write. It is therapeutic for myself. I also write my scripts this way. I only do journaling when i feel like it in the night routine. 𓆩♡𓆪SUBLIMINALS:I use many many subs. I love silent subs the most because i can watch series, have breakfast or study while listening to them. I prefer them more than the other ones. I have a very spesific music taste so i do not enjoy most subliminal channels's musics. I can share a list of the subs i use if you guys want to, let me know ^-^ 𓆩♡𓆪ACTIVELY TRYING: I know we can manifest anything we want effortlessly but i do not enjoy sitting around and doing nothing about it. I really do love the feeling of accomplishment when i finish a 5 hour study session, 1h of Chloe Ting workout or cleaning around our house. So i also manifest to have more self-discipline. I love to make effort, but you do not have to. It is just how i prefer. Of course i do not want to make anything harder for myself to manifest obv. I am just putting into work, for example i love working out but suck at diets. I do my workouts and i manifest my diet to get healthier and better ^^ 𓆩♡𓆪TAKING BREAKS: When i feel like i am doing ''too much'' or trying so hard, i let go. I take a few days off from my routines. Because i do not want to block my energy. I assume, and i let go. 𓆩♡𓆪BELIEVING:BELIEVE IN YOURSELF. Trust the law, IT IS LITERALLY A LAW. Just, trust the process.

And this is it my lovlies, if you have any questions about anything, just ask me, i welcome all of you with virtual hugs!! ^-^

[lewisrises]

Ngl I was one of the anons who asked how you got to meet Lewis and was just curious but I find your response so weird?? Like how is it off for avg fans to be curious if there’s a hack to get better access without having money for paddock club. Like you could’ve won a contest, or found reasonable tickets w access etc so obvs ppl are gonna be curious. All you had to say is that managed to get access to a paddock pass. A lot of ppl get them from work or friends of friends. No need for snark or to justify you being a commoner like everyone else you weirdo

😭? i’m sorry to break it to you but the only weirdo here is you, an anonymous individual who assumed that a couple of tags that i literally prefaced by saying “this isn’t directed @ you” was in fact directed at you? whoever you are?? if you were one of the anons who actually asked me a normal question about my gp tix/experience/price (like the anon i did answer) then i literally already made it clear you were not in the same box of people that i Was actually talking about. that being people like this:

please could you remember that you can’t actually see my inbox? you did not see all the other anons i received assuming i ignored them and was trying to “gatekeep” information just bc i fell asleep at 1am on a sunday 😭 or the ones who use my ask games as lame attempts to figure out what my job is & how much i earn and how i apparently manage to go on 12 million holidays a year (😭???) just so they can talk shit ab made up scenarios over me in their servers and on their blogs, thinking i can’t see any of it bc they have me blocked. if anything i find it very weird that You, a completely anonymous individual with no identifying qualities amongst a sea of the hundreds of other asks i have sitting in my inbox rn, thought that you were unique, intriguing or special enough to be targeted specifically in 2 tags i made during my lunch break on a wednesday afternoon.

[grecoromanyaoi]

so I follow you (ie. I have not come from the callout post, wherever that is?) and I think it's the "people who are closeted not for safety reasons" that is getting people's hackles up. like, I know that I'm not the person you're making fun of wrt closet cases (I don't declare myself a weird transmisogynistic authority!) but not being able to pursue medical transition is a) complicated and b) raw so it's still difficult to see that post and *not* feel like I'm the person you're making fun of, if that makes sense? obviously do with that what you will, and I'm sorry people are being weird at you

like ig what ur saying but its honestly not even abt medical transitioning. its more abt socially transitioning in any capacity. if u dont transition in any way n nobody knows ur trans or even thinks ur trans u obv have different experiences w transphobia than out trans ppl (even stealth trans ppl have diff relationship than out trans ppl, but they mustve been out at some point right). n pointing that out isnt transphobia. n to have a guy that lives 99% of his life being perceived as a cis woman by one and all try and explain to me what facing discrimination as a trans person is like (for example, medical gatekeeping, which they dont experience, or being percieved as trans publicly, or having to face the legal shenanigans regarding sex change, etc.) is highly inappropriate bc thats my experience, not their. its like me as a white person of north african descent walking up to a visibly brown person w an ethnic name and trying to explain to them how theyre wrong abt the racism they face, actually, and i know better. and saying 'hey its kind of fucked up of u to say as a white person' isnt racist, just like this isnt transphobic.

[aberooski]

okay so i’m trying to get chazz to be my bestie in tag force right now but he’s being a major prick and won’t even talk to me. so obv i googled to see if i had to do something specific and

so first off this game is so biphobic for gatekeeping him for TWO MONTHS considering it starts on May 1, second off…

chazz leaving DA, going to north, and coming back is all stretched out over a MONTH?????? A MONTH????? maybe it’s because i haven’t seen s1 in a minute but that did NOT feel like a month. maybe a week at MOST.

(side note — do we know where DA is?? one of the NPCs said the island is the pacific ocean, which makes sense if it’s near japan, but. i don’t even know with this series anymore man 😭)

first of all, I agree, supremely fucked of the game to gatekeep him like that.

Secondly, excUSE ME????? A M O N T H ?????

Now I don't claim to know a goddamn thing about how time passes in this fuckin show but A MONTH??? I guess I can see that in the sense that he left, was gone for a while, I think it's like 11 episodes he's gone because he leaves during episode 13 and he arrives at North Academy in episode 24. But therin lies the question, is that chronological? Because the duel off between Bastion and Jaden happens before that and that's how they decide Jaden's representing them in the school duel and Sheppard comes to the conclusion they should use a first year student in the spirit of competition because he's been informed that North Academy is using a first year student, WHO IS CHAZZ. And like, we know from episode 24 that Chancellor Foster's plan to use Chazz was totally premeditated, like did he say they were using a first year student before he like fuckin shanghai'd and bogarted Chazz into North Academy or after? In which case, episode 24 would have happened chronologically before the duel off, and time has clearly passed between episode 24 and even just the cold open of episode 25, like the school duel was not the next fucking day after he got to NA like I highly doubt that.

But anyway, yeah, when he got to North Academy he could've spend a couple weeks there before the school duel or something, that would make that feel less insane a time jump aksksk but bro had me fucking shook for a second like how much of that month was him stranded in the middle of the ocean??????????? 😰 Hopefully not very long but my god I will not be able to rest 😭

(And I mean I don't think they ever say where it's at specifically in the anime, at least I know in the dub they don't to my recollection. I couldn't say if they do in the sub or not. Still gotta get around to my full show sun watchthrough but that's soo many subtitles man and I have a horrible attention span I'm too antsy and fidgety 😭 But on the first page in the manga it says the island is in the southern sea

which according to my google search research, is either the sea around Antarctica, decidedly NOT where the school is located, or the southern part of the Pacific, I.E. the South Pacific some great songs in that musical lol so I'd say Pacific Ocean is accurate lol)

[opiumvampire]

this might be an unpopular opinion bc its “gatekeeping” or whatever but I feel like goth clubs shouldnt let in people who aren’t dressed the part. not that they have to be decked out obviously, even just a band shirt counts, but EVERY TIME ive been approached by a creep with no sense of boundaries who cant take no for an answer they’re always just some dude in like blue jeans and a baseball cap who is obv just there to try to talk to goth girls and its like GO AWAYYYYY im going to KILL YOUUUUU

[taylor-on-your-dash]

wait in ur recent post what do you mean that the rest leaked from a group buy? What was the group buy?!

hiloy is a trader who had aotg, need and the rest of the songs that leaked in 2023. apparently he played aotg and need during a discord voice call and some of the people listening recorded them with their phones and leaked the snippets, which obv went viral. this prompts hiloy to try to sell the songs to someone, but he doesn't find anyone and in the meantime the snippets go more viral. so hiloy gives up and organises a groupbuy. the songs are aotg and drama queen and the cost is 2300 dollars. in the discord server there's so much drama and server is nuked like 3 times cause people got in just to report it. in the meantime someone else leaks the fw 2012 demo. the quota is reached in 2/3 days and the next day, once the actual money had been converted into bitcoins, he sends the songs. once the songs were posted the group buy realise that they were not HQ files and everybody turns on him. many participants ask hiloy to organise a second groupbuy for need and tiwycf but someone else, probably the same person who leaked fw 2012, leaks those as well. a few weeks later, hiloy leaks the fw tv demo cause he says it's useless to gatekeep now.

[yennefersbody]

Opinion on pretty Arya discourse

my darling baby im so sorry i didn’t get to this sooner 😭 i was half asleep when writing out my answer and i forgot to finish and post it. i didn’t really edit this so have fun with my little sleepy thoughts

my opinion on pretty arya discourse is that it’s exhausting lmao

on the one hand i don’t know why it matters if a 9 year old orphan is pretty or ugly like i don’t think that it’s the most important aspect of her storyline but then on the other hand the way ppl absolutely lose their minds if you suggest that arya is pretty is so crazy that i have to join the war on the side of pretty!Arya truthers. i see a lot of sansa fans in particular freak the fuck out about this and i have to wonder why? like do you feel that arya’s beauty may be a threat to sansa and somehow vicariously feel threatened by her beauty too? are you trying to gatekeep beauty??? it’s very weird. and i know some fans try to back it up in a feminist way by arguing that it’s bad to hypothesize on the looks of little girls but if they still insist on comparing sansa’s beautiful looks to catelyn’s beautiful looks how is that any different than arya fans comparing her to lyanna ? (this is off-topic but i think it’s so funny when neutrals or antis use popular arya/lyanna faceclaims for alayne stone like yeah obv anyone can fc olivia hussey as any character but is there not another brunette you could use???? are you so secretly obsessed with arya that you wish sansa looked like her lmao????)

oh also, i think it’s cringe when ppl who subscribe to the beautiful sansa ugly arya idea draw mixed race starks but draw only arya and jon as obv ppl of color. ppl will be like “look at our beautiful white-passing maiden sansa who has catelyn’s beauty and grace! and arya underfoot her dark-skinned troll of a sister!!!!”

tl;dr i think it’s ultimately ridiculous discourse but i do believe arya could be beautiful and find it odd that so many ppl get offended if you say this

[c0rpsedemon]

also the decora girlz line gets the romeo yotd2009 seal of approval if anyone was wondering. cepia has literally Never been on my radar b4 this and this is coming from a toy collector who does tend to lean towards the obscure (funnily enough my doll collection doesn't actually reflect this bc when most of it was acquired i couldn't afford expensive dolls more than once or twice a year (which a lot of the truly obscure dolls are) and i'm also an american girl collector so like. if i was getting an expensive doll i wanted her to be bigger than a barbie and thus i spent my jafra pullip licca and yue-sai wawa money on ag (obv two of those four are not like the others but in western doll-focused spaces i'd def say that licca and pullip are treated as 'oh that's the doll that beat out barbie in japan' or 'those are the ones w the wrists that break' instead of being actively collected and are basically equivalent to mga storytime princesses in terms of relevance despite being huge in their home country. jafra and yue-sai wawa you aren't arguing w me on no one knows them and i've actually been gatekeeping them both for a while bc i don't want to share them when i haven't even sunk my claws into them yet) but anyways my point is i do generally think i know my way around the non-mgattel (+ occasional jaks) lines but i only know abt these from cybr.grl's insta stories bc they used her as a consultant to more accurately represent decora fashion. and so obv i wanted to show up for decora girlz bc jfashion and western fashion dolls don't exactly have the best history but the fact that they're genuinely trying made me want to show up for them. i usually don't go for what i like to describe as mga face but i think the fact that they're meant to lean super into kawaii aesthetics helped me set that aside. my only critiques of them is that i got a 3 pack of the smaller blind box dolls w the rubber clothes as opposed to the taller more traditional fashion dolls w fabric clothes and 2/3 of my dolls had rooting issues although they were fairly minor, also irt to the stickers i get that that's a fun part for the kids but applying them stressed me out sm bc i wasn't sure they wouldn't fall off. i put them on as close as possible to how they were displayed in the promo images and one of my dolls was cat and she didn't just have stickers on her flat bangs, she had stickers in the curly part of her hair too and it just wasn't working out w those bc there was no way too fully connect them w/o having them positioned in an awkward way. also i don't think they thought the stands through irt luna as, while attaching at the neck is a good idea esp considering their proportions, luna has a bag meant to hang from her shoulder and there wasn't rlly enough room for both it and the stand between her shoulders and head. that said my nitpicks are all minor, i hope this line becomes a major success, and i plan on picking up the rest of it.

[kirklandsheartsecrets]

HCs for the brothers and dating their people?

uk brothers II headcanons II dating their people

northern Ireland

be ready to watch all of love island episodes im tellin' ya

dating someone from his people means you understand the tv reality context out there

talking shit about the people in it

looking for fun at their instagram and also talking shit about their account

mocking the way they talk or the character the production choose to give them

"do you think he really goes to the gym?"

"his ass does not come from eating out dear"

"why she got them big ass lips for ? For what purpose ?"

"sucking out a dolphin or something idk"

talking about how those kind of tv shows are really bad

still on the couch right on time to watch them

spread out on the couch like the most disgraceful creatures

wales

wants to know what's the best restaurants around

looks for deals and special social media guides

try something new every day

yeah yeah those cool concept restaurants, usually cheap but actually really good

hope your stomach is ready this man eats

gatekeeps the best spots with you and if tourists or too many people find out

which ends up in long queues then its not worth anymore

"overrated"

salty as hell about it, you guys have no chill

"man it was better before"

"the price has gone up huh ? they know they are popular so its not good anymore"

you two are stinky gatekeepers

secret spots secret spots secret spots for the best views

england

southbank book market in london

hmmmm i feel like he would take his s/o there if they are from his country

he is not cliché book worm no

but likes to find cool stuff

thrifting works with him

thrifiting in london is cool UNTIL-

he is like wales, if something becomes too popular and crowded he goes

"overrated"

and since his s/o and him are used to certain spots, if the price goes up just like the amount of people at specific time then no

thrifiting and south bank book market

you guys go at night

permament

+under waterloo bridge, so quick to get here

scotland

if his s/o is from scotland

he has someone to go watch football games then

man goes to every game he can

who's your favorite player?

he probably has all the football merch possible

extras

and by this i mean supporters

if the scottish players are assigned in others clubs in europe

you guys are going to their club games

doesnt matter if this is the Juventus or FC Bayern Munchen

youre going together to watch them

of course shit on the other players or countries about their bad football club choices

you guys are trained to get the best spots to watch the games

not in the world cup ?

haha it doesnt matter books a flight to see England lose and support wales

Ireland

this weirdo wants to see the last ends of every train station in ireland

might take a year but

means a lot of time to talk with his s/o and actually show cool places they might not know of

i am not joking

taking a bus until the last stop to take it again on the other side

lots of naps

lots of discoveries

you can say now "i went through every bus/trains in ireland"

delays and cancels don't scare you anymore

this is strange i know but the hidden gems are worth

only irish people know their way through the transportation in ireland obv

do you talk a bit shit about the some cities ?

hmm yes. who wouldn't ? dublin overrated.

[coverteyes]

Escaflowne Voice Meme Part 1

Encouraged by @fayrinferno, here I am, six years late for @drkstars-art's Escaflowne Voice Meme. I'm a newer fan, though, so you'll have to forgive me. I'd love for anyone else new to this or the fandom to join in!

Introduce yourself! When did you first watch Escaflowne? What brought you into the fold? 

I'm afraid to answer because...gatekeeping, but here goes.

My husband watched it on Fox back in '96. He heard about the kickstarter and bought the Funimation Blu-ray set and forced me to watch it, quite against my will, in July 2020. I didn't start liking it until the episode Van pushes Merle's head down. Even then I didn't pay much attention until the moment Van catches Hitomi near the drag-energist mine, then I died hard and reawakened a new woman. (Wish I were joking. Totally not.)

I'm now familiar with both the original English and the Japanese dubs. I like them all.

Who is your favorite character and why? Was it love at first sight?  Has any of their qualities or quirks swayed you on characters in other series? 

I relate hard to Hitomi. I was a green-eyed, annoyingly energetic, average-looking, and very boy-crazy teenager. I ran in track, dabbled in tarot reading, and crushed on many a tall boy with blue eyes. I even had a crush on the cute, tall track star (more on that later).

So, that said, who's my favorite character?

Van, obviously. There's something I just get about him. Perhaps because I was raised by a very manly, very stoic man. He just resonates with me.

Which side are you on? What do you think happens Post-Hitomi when she leaves? Who do you think will be the next opposing power? 

I'm on Van's side. I hope he keeps Basram in check.

Least favorite plot point? Was there something you think should have changed? What do you think would have made it better. 

Varie. I loved her and her black-green hair and also hated how she totally emotionally ruined Hitomi, blaming her for all the bad things that happened to Van and Gaea. Hitomi's going to need years of therapy to undo the damage she did with one conversation. We want to know what's with that green energist that Van gets?

Also, in spite of the fact that the scene where Van catches Hitomi changed my whole heart, I do not, in fact, fangirl over his wings.

OTP? What kind of art and fiction would you like to see? What are some head canons you have for them? What is you NoTP

Van and Hitomi. All the SFW art and fiction. All the head canons. Every iteration. I love AUs the most. I've read almost all the complete AUs out there.

I'd love to see more Dryden and Millerna stuff. And Gaddess with any other lady in the series. Also, I would totally read Hitomi and Folken.

NoTP? Allen and anyone else. He's so EWWWW.

Anyone with Celena/Dilandau, unless it's an AU. You have to really convince me that they've had a lot of therapy before they're healthy enough to have a relationship.

Merle and Van, obvs.

Lastly, Hitomi and Amano.

Storytime. When I was 15, I was in track, I was in love with the popular track star, and I wanted him to be my first kiss. BUT when we got close enough for that, he had a super greasy face that grossed me out. Also, he rejected a gift I gave him.

What did I try to give him?

A stone pendant.

Here's part 2

[janokenmun]

honestly i dont get the "bi lesbian" discourse in particular. like obviously any and all exclusionism in the Be Yourself Regardless Of What Society Thinks community is dumb and stupid but that in particular i dont get

since like. to me (obv u dont have to agree), labels are meant to be *useful*, to convey information. the best labels make a useful statement that can be used to act in a more informed manner; "i have autism [gives information on potential behavioral patterns and needs]." "i am a straight man [gives information relevant to sexuality; both who you're attracted to, and gives information on whether the audience is likely to be attracted to you]." "this is a hill [this area of land rises above the nearby land]"

and to me, "bi lesbian" does that; it expresses a lot in a very concise and relatively intuitive phrase! to me (obv u dont have to agree) it expresses "i am (approximately) a woman who is attracted to both men and women, but ESPECIALLY (approximately) women". and that's useful information!

it also doesn't help that, like *any* attempt at categorization, there will be edge cases and fuzzy boundaries. the definitions between a lake, pond, pool, and reservoir are fuzzy. the distinction between a mountain and a hill is fuzzy. the distinction between a river, creek, stream, and brook are fuzzy. all of these have vague differences, like a river is generally considered to be bigger than a stream, but the cutoffs are inexact and subjective, because nature doesn't like categorization. human gender and sexuality is a lot like this, there is no objective cutoff, people are going to disagree on what exactly counts as what. and that's okay! you don't need to have the exact same definition of river vs stream, or hill vs mountain, or lesbian vs bisexual, because the boundaries are always going to be weird and subjective there; just don't try to force your definition on others and gatekeep things based on subjective cutoffs

[kendsleyauthor]

Do fans make edits of Micah and Xander? Man I've been thinking about that a lot like idk about you but the mere idea of a #micahtateedit along to the "Hey, Mickey!" Baby Tate version that was trending on tt alrd got me blushing through the screen LMFAOO

but like also if fans did make edits of them I feel like the Micah ones would obv be circling around way more, but then there's the Xander fandom, and I feel like they would highkey be more hardcore? Because Xander is like the "band member that doesnt get that much recognition but he's fine asl so there's a whole group of people trying to bring more attention onto him while simultaneously gatekeeping him"???

I feel like Micah would find it funny and not shut up about it and Xander would be flattered but like shrug it off (obv I don't know ur characters as well as you do hbdjhbsjfh but i love them sm and istg i cannot get this idea out of my head)

If fans make edits I would pay to see Everly and Grayson's reactions. Like the mixed emotions???

"okay ew, why tf are people making edits of my mans, whoever made this needs to put down the capcut and go back to doing their math hw", but then also (without admitting it out loud) be like "okay but he DOES look pretty good in that edit"

yeah i've just been thinking abt that a lot- 🫶🏻 🫶🏻

WHEN I SAY THIS CONCEPT HAS A CHOKEHOLD ON ME NOW-

All of this is so GREAT omfg. YES absolutely, there are many edits of these rockstars.

Micah would absolutely eat it up. He THRIVES on attention, and he'd obsess over the latest trends for his edits.

Xander would act indifferent, knowing this sort of thing comes with the territory. BUT as a former teen heart-throb (think former teen Disney Channel star vibes), he does get embarrassed and annoyed if any clips of his previous acting roles are ever used KSDLFJ. He does not like that time in his life to be brought up (unless a certain someone (Grayson) is the one to bring it up. I may be working on a short of this LOL.)

After chatting about it with @marydublinauthor, here's more Fun Facts.

Micah absolutely makes his own edits of himself too. Everly sees them and thinks they're weak. She makes even better ones that got tons of hits on a secret account.

In retaliation, he records her doing electrical work and just generally existing, and proceeds to make private edits. They laugh over homemade and fanmade edits together, and it gets very romantic and they make out.

There are ABSOLUTELY fanfics about them too. Everly thinks the Micah Tate x Xander Dalton smut is the absolute funniest thing ever. She reads those out loud to them in a sexy voice. She probably perches somewhere high where they can't reach her.

Micah loves it, Xander rolls his eyes, and Grayson blushes in the corner somewhere and pretends he's not hanging on to every word.

These fans are so unaware of the chaos they're causing this little found family lmao.