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Your nanowrimo pieces are soooo goooood they hit so hard fr fr. I’m especially LOVING today’s one with the owl & the collector even tho I don’t rlly know that much abt toh bc I haven’t watched it but I can tell that u LOVE IT & I can’t wait to learn more thru osmosis once the fic is poooosteeeed✨ (i WILL read it i PROMISE i SWEAR)

Anyways give us the thoughts, the tea, tell us how you make the words do that✨ anything u wanna give in regards to today’s bit!! We’re not picky!

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he he :3 im glad youre enjoying!! its been really fun to pick out my favorite bits even when usually those are the ones w/out context lol. look at my owl and weep boy. firefly <3

YOU WILL LEARN SO MUCH VIA OSMOSIS....literally now that im also doing something for s1 its like. why watch owl house we have owl house at home (the owl house at home is a 1 million word daemon au) (<- 1 mil is not a joke btw idk if it'll hit it but itll at least come very close. no idk why i did this.)

as for today! hmmm...

its truly so fun to write the collector. like im not joking about him being my favorite owl house character despite his maybe twenty total minutes of screentime, so its been such a JOY to expand his role in this series!!

bc like. god. actually i think i wrote a whole like. bit of flash fiction/prose poetry type thing for them a while ago. probably in my files somewhere. but just. youre an immortal eight year old. you are in these years where you need to interact with other people for your own mental stability and health. to figure out the whole Being A Person thing. and you are trapped for like, centuries. trapped away from everyone and everything and DUST, which, in universe, in literally connection personified. you're cut off from all of this.

and you are, let me say again, eight years old.

truly the collector is just. hes had everyone he ever cares about leave him--his siblings the other archivists left him behind not out of any sense of cruelty, really, but because caring about people just isnt really a thing they do. quite frankly they live so long they didnt even notice. theyre far-away stars. not far because they're mean. just because thats what stars do.

and then king's dad (who um. doesnt have a name <3 this is why the collector calls him 'the big bully' its literally bc i never gave him a name--) was an adult the collector actually trusted and looked up to (he meshed REALLY WELL into titan society until the archivists started Doing A Murder since titans are the only beings that match them in power and they have very very different ideas about dust). like ive said before the collector is owlbeastkin but before that they never had a super stable sense of identity--in another world where they stayed w/ the titans they wouldve ended up a titan.

and then king's dad just. trapped him in a tablet forever.

and like, to be fair to king's dad he was reacting out of fear and the best knowledge he had (he assumed the collector led the archivists to the titans, and like, he did, but its not like he knew he was doing that, and, you know, poor guy had seen a huge chuck of his fellow titans killed including babies and eggs of which he had an egg to consider), but it still TRAPPED THEM. and then he died and so did all the rest of the titans so nobody could free the collector even if they wanted to.

and then BELOS, who manipulated and lied to the collector for so long and was also literally his only friend after being alone forever, so like, of course the collector just blindly went along with whatever he said. he was gonna free them!! he listened to them when they talked about stardust which nobody else ever did! he had no idea what the fuck a witch was! he just liked being able to see the stardust sometimes, and belos brought him to places with a lot of stardust. to destroy it, but like--you know. it was THERE.

but all these people were just USING them, and they never really understand that until king comes around. and king's also a scared eight year old!! but like. king's also not wrong. the collector did aid belos in destroying the entire isles. like no joke belos SUCCEEDS here. like not long-term obvi this has a happy ending but at the point we're in at for the future? it doesnt matter that the draining spell failed. all the palistrom trees are dead. witch society Cannot come back from that even if they did end up beating the collector. theyre doomed.

anyways what was i saying. collector. right.

so like, then they meet firefly/grr-click-growl/wings-across-night/the owl beast (king of having so many names i love her <3) and shes like, the first person who cares for them and ISNT using them. even king is using them!! but firefly has seen Some Shit. she sees the collector as a hatchling who was kicked out of his nest and is doing her best to be some sort of stable figure for him, but she doesnt Not see the stuff he's done.

the collector took over the world bc he's scared--all he's ever known is being used and trapped so he doesnt exactly trust most people easily. firefly would Love to not be in this world anymore. shes also got a loyalty to eda and king and luzmari. and, like, cool motive, still trapping an entire society of people.

but like. shes the one who is here right now and nobody else is trying to help this kid.

but the collector just. hes just an eight year old. a very, very old eight year old. but he doesnt understand things like "you can make the wrong choices and still choose to do better later" and "im mad at what you did but that doesnt mean i dont care about you."

he just sees someone upset with him. just sees another person who used him and doesnt care and is going to leave bc everyone leaves him and in a world where EVERY SINGLE PERSON comes in pairs, hes the only one who stands alone.

basically tl;dr: collector my beloved <3

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hiii delfi! good morning! your past abt the US and its shitty geography were the first thing i read today and uhh i'm not very informed on US geography so that was a lesson and a half lmao

anywayy u said u wanted to hear more country shenanigans so let me provide u with some bullshit that germany has to offer!

as far as shitty geography goes, we don't have too much going on because we're not that big. we have 16 states ("Bundesländer") in total, 3 of which are "Stadtstaaten" (=city-states) which basically means that they are both a state and the state's capital at once (those three are Hamburg, Bremen, and Berlin - yes, Berlin as in the capital of Germany). One thing that is kind of similar to the US and their north/south/west/whatever states is that we have three states that are called Sachsen (Saxony), Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony), and Sachsen-Anhalt (Saxony-Anhalt). I can't tell you why they're all called Sachsen, they just are. We also have a state called Saarland which is (jokingly) the Alabama of Germany. No idea where that joke came from but everybody likes to make fun of Saarland.

One thing that I personally find hilarious is that we have cities with the same names, too. My favourite example is Frankfurt. There's one Frankfurt that is a huge city, incredibly important, I believe the headquarters of the European Central Bank as well as a lot of other banks are situated in Frankfurt. But officially we call this gigantic important city "Frankfurt am Main" (Main is a river that Frankfurt is next to, "Frankfurt next to the Main") as to not offend some town with 10 times less inhabitants that also happens to be called Frankfurt (Frankfurt an der Oder, another river). We don't add the name of the state to specify the town like the US does, we take the nearest river or sometimes the administrative districts it's in (Haag in Oberbayern, for example, which is "Haag in Upper Bavaria").

Okay useless geography lesson over, now for the funnier bits! (idk why i even put all the geography here ooof sorry)

The most well known fuckery is probably the "Bielefeldverschwörung" (Bielefeld conspiracy). Basically, all of Germany has collectively decided that the city Bielefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia does not exist. Anything that might prove us wrong is simply the work of aliens. It's basically a meme that the entire country accepted as fact. Bielefeld does not exist. (The origin is that some college students in the 90's had a running gag about Bielefeld not being real and it caught on on the internet. The plan was to prove the conspiracy theories, no matter how outlandish they are, can and will be defended even if they are blatantly wrong. It's hilarious imo)

Another thing is the Sprachbarriere (language barrier? is that a thing?). Every state has a different dialect and even the districts have different dialects sometimes. Some of the dialects aren't that unintelligible but then there are others where you think you suddenly entered a different country because you simply don't understand anything. Yes technically, we all speak German. But the only actual universal language is hochdeutsch (=high german, which really doesn't mean anything other than "normal german").

There are so many dialects!

Personally, I'm from the south of Germany. Rural Upper Bavaria (Oberbayern) to be exact. Here, people speak oberbayrisch and it's sometimes impossible to understand - even for me, someone who has lived here all their life but doesn't speak it (because my parents aren't from here and don't speak it either).

There are other notorious dialects, like the Berliner Schnauze (can't think of a literal translation other than "Berlin snout" rn, it's basically just the dialect in Berlin), which might seem pretty rude and harsh to non-Berlin folks, but it's not meant to be rude.

Another example is Plattdeutsch ("flat german"?) which is spoken in the north. I don't know much about it but it sounds funny.

Then there is sächsisch. My favourite dialect of them all because i can imitate it and it's so funny. It's spoken in Saxony.

Another one that I like a lot is schwäbisch (=swabian). It's spoken in Baden Württemberg, particularly in central and southern Württemberg. It's pretty nuanced with several versions and it's almost impossible to understand tbh. Most of my family is from the Swabian Alb, so technically i should be able to understand it but oh boy do i have difficulties!

There are a lot more that i'm not talking about here tho because i don't know them!

With all those regional differences in language there are also some differences in what we call certain things and we WILL fight over those.

An example are bread rolls. You see, in Bavaria we call them "Semmel", in Baden-Württemberg we call them "Weckle" (i think that's how it's spelled but i'm not sure), in Thuringia we call them "Brötchen" (that's what i call them too), and in Berlin they're "Schrippen". I know I probably didn't mention all the versions but these are the ones i know. We fight about that. Daily. My family is a fun mix of Baden-Württemberg, Thuringia, and Bavaria, so everyday we argue about whether it's Brötchen, Semmeln, or Weckle. Nobody wins. (Brötchen are superior tho. Fight Me.)

The same thing happens for pancakes (Eierkuchen or Pfannkuchen) and another baked thing that I don't know the proper English name of. We call them Berliner, Krapfen, Pfannkuchen, Kreppel, Puffel, and probably so many other things lmao. Nobody ever wins but it's bound to start a fight.

Same thing goes for Nutella. German has three articles, a masculine one (der), a feminine one (die), and a neutral one (das). People will argue about the grammatical gender of Nutella. Personally I believe it's "das Nutella" and everything else is an atrocity.

Okay wow, I spent over an hour typing this up and it's probably so boring ahshasga i'm sorry delfi i didn't mean to dump all that on you!

omg yes thank you so much for taking the time to write all of this (an hour omfg), it was extremely interesting to read!!!!!!

okay so first things first, berlin is literally the best and i went only once but i honestly would love to move there, my only problem is: i have no clue how to speak/read german and from reading this it’s gonna be difficult even trying to learn (with all the different dialects) 

skdhaksdhs so many sachsens oh my god, also does literally every country have an alabama???????? ours is santiago del estero lol

the Frankfurt case is nice tho, bc yes it is the same name, but they did the thing i like which is “virginia but to the left”, but with rivers gkfhgfsdfghj

i am SO sorry germans but Bielefeldverschwörung looks like a keysmash ashgdhasgdhsjgdkjasd I'm so sorry, also Bielefeldverschwörung??? i know no Bielefeldverschwörung (am i doing this right?) 

having so many dialects is insane omg?? we have different accents here, not dialects. at least i’m not aware of argentina having different dialects, that’s mostly for argentina and other spanish speaking countries. for example in spain in they use coger in the to grab something meaning (i have been scrolling on my camera roll for about 15 minutes looking for the meme) (FOUND IT)

german is so nice to listen to, i actually listen to asmr zeitgeist’s german videos a lot because not understanding anything with the soft whispers make my brain go zzzzzzz 

thank you so much for sharing all of these amazing facts!!! had a blast reading everything!!!

[ghcstvalleychief]

So about today news of the global casting (💀) I have to say I'm not surprised ☁️ want to expand with more peoples and more projects with the company in the futur because when they announced the movie for mileapo it was clear to me it wasn't because they especially wanted a new project with them but because with the movie they'll have now a serie and a movie in their historic to show. Good for apo and mile bc that will benefit them obviously, especially Apo. I think from the the poster and trailer it's obvious he is the center of the movie. We will follow the story of apo's character and mile's character will obviously be part of that story but not his story y'know what I mean? Anyway not the point of my msg. Forget about everything the company lack of but the global casting call is so ridiculous.. why not do normal casting when you have a pitch for a new serie so that you know what talent you're looking for. That look more like a casting call for a band than anything else. They should stay a little company that learn to manage their artists instead of going big like that. I already heard a month ago of 2 actors who are rumored to joined ☁️ and I guess after today it may really come true. Not gonna lie I'm already tired of all the drama more peoples will bring to already a lot of crap. And they gonna shove them into our face with the boys and this is exactly the kind of things that make me tired of peoples more than interested. I think mileapo &

bible👷‍♂️ fans should prepare to the disbandment of the pair because they checked the bl serie and movie so next they are obviously gonna go not bl route, but I can see them pairing the female lead not with a new talent but with the man who obviously gonna make them tune in for the view and sucess of the show. Not gonna lie I don't see them choosing mile unless it's an obvious adult serie because mile is a grown up man and it show he can't pretend to be 25 years old, this is what I mean. Aand I don't think the news talent are gonna be 30 years old unless they look 20. I could see them going for apo because whatever we think about pond the man likes apo and apo like the dude and they like working together but with him being a lead from already kinnporsche and the movie I think he will think it better to give a chance to someone else and y'know what on that point I agree you can't make the lead the same man of all your projects of the company, it's weird and not fair for the others who don't have projects and apo should work with others directors. So I think bible could be a choice. But tbh it'd be me the role would go to jeff. Bible has his fanbase with 👷‍♂️ and it may be too soon for them and they could bring more bad sound than anything else. I know jeff is pair with barcode but the kid is... well a kid and it would be a good idea, also I think jeff deserve it. Ngl he is the only cast member I like other than mile and apo. He is a good guy and you give him material he can do good + we haven't seen him a lot in kinnporsche. Not that I don't like the others but I don't care about them that's the thing, and jeff has his own fanbase who isn't from kinnporsche.

I was wondering but I hope they aren't gonna use the world tour for them to do casting since they are doing a global casting ??? No because them announcing that before the tour dates has me 👀 talking abt that the thing RIGHT NOW that is urgent for ☁️ are the date for that tour.. who announed a tour 2 weeks before. Peoples travel they need to organize things. How is this hard to understand. By the way the send off is a bad idea. The hall where they doing this has 2000 places it's nothing for their fanbase did they forget the concert last time and now they're doing that free event where everyone can show up. It's dangerous and not safe with covid & monkeypox who started to spread in thailand like I'm so annoyed. Can they think for once. Yesterday I woke up annoyed with the send off event today it was the casting call pls make it stop.

I'm dying at your use of emojis! That made me laugh. Thank you for that, anon.

In the words of Mean Girls, stop trying to make fetch happen. Here's the thing, anon, and I've mentioned this vaguely on my Twitter. First things first, being attractive doesn't make a star. Charisma and personality matters too. I'm not throwing shade at anyone's fave when I say this and I hope some people don't take this the wrong way - but if your fave can't mingle and schmooze with regular people, important people, anyone, then they're going to fail. In this industry, you have to know how to talk to people. Being attractive will get you in the door but it won't get you the job. You have to be able to wow the right people. The people with Farger tapped Mile and Apo for their company well before the series even aired. That's what I mean when I say you still have to have a personality. They hadn't even seen the show yet, but the company wanted these two.

Being introverted is a thing, and I'm not knocking anyone for being introverted because you can't change that about yourself. However, that doesn't mean you can't learn how to talk to people. Being socially awkward doesn't really help you in the long run, because these companies and brands are looking for very specific things when it comes to who they're hiring to be the face of their brand. They're looking for attractive people, but they're also looking for charismatic people who can make consumers feel safe and comfortable. They're looking for people who are relatable and people who can actually talk to potential customers. If you're just standing there like this🧍‍♂️the whole time and you're not interacting with people, who's going to hire you? Who's going to look at you and say 'yeah, let's rehire the guy who could barely hold his own at this event?' If you're latching onto someone else because you're so incredibly socially awkward and shy that you're struggling to figure out what to do, you're not going to be successful in the long term.

So while I understand what you mean when you say that Pond & Co. may start steering the company towards an actor that 'looks younger,' it won't matter if said actor is standing in the corner with the deer in headlights look because they don't know how to mingle and talk to people. With the way things stand right now, you're going to find a lot of attractive people with little to no personalities and that's not good. I don't know much about Jeff honestly. I haven't really paid attention to anything he's done outside of this show, so I'll take your word for it. But I have seen ... other actors in this cast who have struggled at fan events. I mean, legit struggled and you could see him drowning. He could not hold his own at this particular event and it was actually painful to watch.

So, unless these new actors are able to completely blow us away with award winning acting, I need to see how they are outside of that. We need actors who can act, but we also need actors who can impress brands because that's where the money comes from. Especially when it comes to a company like BOC that's still incredibly new and hasn't proven they can turn a profit yet. They need all the brands and endorsements they can stand, because those brands are the ones sponsoring this world tour. They need to be able to impress both the brands and the fans. If they can't do either one, then how you can expect them to lead a series all on their own? The marketing and promotion alone would kill them, metaphorically of course.

Also, and here's where we're definitely going to disagree, anon - if they are moving away from BL-like dramas, then there's no need to hire 'younger looking' actors. You only need actors who 'look young' if you're still trying to tap into the BL drama industry because that's the whole shtick of BL dramas. But if you're continuing to move away from that kind of thing and are moving into a mature direction when it comes to dramas, then seeking out an actor that looks young won't really fit. Barcode is a kid and looks like a kid. He wasn't a good fit for this type of show; he would do well in a stereotypical BL drama, but this show was too mature for someone who looks that young. So not looking like a prepubescent boy works in your favor if you're trying to land roles in mature dramas.

TL; DR - being attractive and 'looking young' isn't enough to lead a series. When these actors are expected to do a promotional run for this potential new series, they still have to be able to appear likeable in interviews. Certain actors in this cast would not be able to handle leading a promotional run for a potential new series unless they're paired with another actor who is charismatic enough to pick up the slack. Otherwise, it's going to turn people off and no one's going to want to tune into the show. People tune in and watch these shows because of the actors. They tune in because they feel a kinship with the actors. If they don't feel that, they're not going to waste their time. The show's subject content could be hot garbage, but the audience will still tune in in spite of that because they enjoy the actors. Despite what BOC is trying to do, it's not working. We've seen that today with the lack of attention and interest in the events for the other cast members. BOC is horrible at betting on the right horse, and it usually blows up in their face. Every single time.