#people have all these damn opinions but don’t wanna do it themselves

[decaffeinatedpartymuggoop]

“Draw Percy with black hair” “Book accurate Annabeth” pick up a pencil and do it yourself.

[zvtara-was-never-canon]

https://www.tumblr.com/xabura/752028677741608960/bryke-confirming-that-katara-loves-aang-like-a?source=share

What do you think of this? Apparently Bryke themselves said Katara loves Aang like a babysitter or brother. I don’t understand it? This is coming from the actual creators of the show even though I never got that vibe from Kataang despite what the ZKs say. Does that mean they were right?

If Bryke had said "Ozai is not abusive, he is just strict" it would not suddenly erase the canonical proof of abuse that is literally burned into Zuko's face. Yang can say he didn't write Zuko to be an abusive piece of shit in the comics, but I saw him literally throwing Azula in a place that, by Yang's own admission, only made her condition worse.

I saw Katara get jealous when other girls were paying attention to him as early as episode four of the first damn season, and then ten episodes later looking intrigued and even happy at the possibility that maybe they are fated to get married when they're older.

I've seen her blushing next to him like she did with Jet and Haru. I saw her doing a romantic dance with him. I saw her wanting to kiss him and then getting offended when he said he didn't want to kiss her.

If I saw a babysitter doing that to a child, I'd call the freaking cops. And if Katara had done any of that stuff with Sokka, Nickelodeon would not have let Avatar air (I'm still surprised the bedroom scene in The Awakening didn't get scrapped or at least severely altered).

And speaking of Sokka, I never saw Katara teasing Aang in a sisterly way like she did with Sokka, and with Zuko. I never saw Aang say that, when he thinks of "mother", he thinks "Katara" like Sokka does.

Instead I saw Aang and Katara hanging out, and him reminding her, IN THE FIRST EPISODE, that she was ALSO a kid. And then Katara immediately got attached to him because, in her own words, he had brought FUN back to the vilage.

(And before someone inevitably brings up her dressing up as his mom in "The Headband" - she also dressed up as Sokka's heavily pregnant wife. Read into it if you want, but be consistent. You can't cherry-pick one aspect of the scene and ignore the entire context).

They're children. They're peers. They're friends. Maybe Bryke wanted to add a "But she's also the mom/older sister/babysitter" aspect to it, but if that really is the case, then they fucking failed at it in an absurd way.

Like, if you want her to be "the babysitter" make her baby him, not treat him as an equal even when she's in the role of Sifu with him as the student.

Now, if Zutarians want to use this word of God moment as undeniable proof that Kataang is "weird", fine by me. I'll disagree because I actually DO like "weird" ships and Katang didn't interest me for the longest time exactly because it LACKED any weirdness, but whatever.

But if they expected that shut down differing opinions, once again, they gotta be consistent: Bryke also said that Zutara is toxic, would have no future, and that characters don't like each other like that.

If they want to have the right to disagree with them on that, they can't turn around and say "But you gotta take their word as law when it validates half my point!"

Either everyone is free to agree to disagree, even if they're disagreeing with the creators of the show, or no one is. Either everyone can engage in Death Of The Author when they genuinely think the intention doesn't match the text, or no one can.

If they wanna disagree with Bryke on the anti-zutara thing, but agree with them on the babysitter thing, fine. But they don't get to act all shocked when people do the reverse and pretend it's somehow hypocritical of us to do the same thing THEY are doing.

(Also it's very funny of zutarians to constantly cry "Male gaze" because "Oh, it's just young boy having a crush on an older girl" like they aren't CONSTANTLY using "What girl goes for the younger guy instead of the older one?" as an argument for their ship. Funny how fantasies and tropes are only bad when it's not THEIR fantasy or prefered trope)

[mini-jiminie]

No because again, leaving room for doubt is erasure and does invalidate them. They are literally out there showing us themselves in the show and you are still casting doubtful opinions about them. Are you insane? As another blogger said it’s like having your cake and eating it too. I don’t care if you’ve been here since 2017 or the year zero, doesn’t make a difference to the fact you’re invalidating them for your own benefit.

It’s not about being right or wrong, it’s just appreciating them as they are, respecting them. You’re answering asks about theories which have no valid basis, touting your opinion as fact, and it’s not. You don’t know they have been in other relationships, there is no evidence whatsoever, you’re believing a grainy video above everything Jikook have ever done, and that is homophobic, no matter what you say. You need to check yourself there. They literally spend the later half of 2023 travelling together and then enlisting and therefore there was no distance. They spent lives talking about each other, hugged like crazy at Hobi’s enlistment, went to Yoongis concert, they saw each other, so you think they made the decision for the show and enlistment in a vacuum? Grow up. You are the very definition of an insecure jkk, because you’ve also just said about JK being bi and with a women, that’s literally a paradox, bc he’s not going to leave Jimin if he loves him, for a women just bc you said it’s safer (again homophobic) and I’m sorry but that is so obvious, he’s obsessed) Jimin didn’t write letter for just anyone and get just anyone to sing on it, that shit meant something.

These men obviously have something incredibly special going on with each other, no matter your view point, or the aroace person or mine. Whatever we say or whatever our opinion has no mind to that.

They not only enlisted together but made this show for us to enjoy and all you keep doing is shitting on it, offering nothing more than doubt. You should truly be ashamed.

Suck my fucking dick omfg.

Yes, Jikook are gonna announce their very gay relationship through mf Disney+.

I’m only ashamed of the fact that I have to share this space with such shallow minded imbeciles such as yourself.

I’ve been replying to ‘controversial asks’ because, people like you are not the self proclaimed leaders of the tumblr Jikook space like you wanna believe you are.

You sound like a fucking cultist, did you know?

People can share their opinions whether you agree or not. Plus, bold of you to claim that I’m stating my opinion as fact when you are damn well doing the same thing.

Please touch some grass. Being so obsessed with two people who could give less of a rat’s shit about you is unhealthy.

[abundancewithher]

3 de agusto de 2024

hey stars and hearts! Mimi here and I didn’t post these past couple days because my mom went to the hospital and I was more so worried about her health. she slowly but surely getting better and I pray that she has a quick recovery to get back to her normalcy.

yesterday I had a couple of thoughts that I felt were downloads today once I thought back on them. as we all know, I do slang chicken minis, and hashbrowns in the mornings, from 6 to 2. while I like my job, I don’t want to work there anymore and I don’t want to continue to convince myself that I do. it’s only been a month since i started.

by this point, it was between 7 AM and 9 AM and my feet were hurting me so bad to the point they were going numb. I was walking back from taking orders outside to walk inside the building and I was thinking “I can’t do this any longer, I can’t keep standing on my feet for eight hours and only getting a 30 minute break. I deserve more than that.”

The second thought I had, I was back outside, taking orders. by this time, it was about an hour or two before I was getting ready to go home. I just received the ordertaking tablet and my coworker was setting up the fan for me so that I don’t go hot and pass out at work.

It was really, really hot! and I said “oh damn, I’m standing directly in the sun I don’t wanna burn up!” my coworker, who I suspect has a crush on me because he’s much nicer to me than anyone else, offers to get the sunscreen for me and he does.

but then again I could be thinking too much into it, he could just be really nice. but I am also very intuitive and I know how people act around me, especially when they show interest. no I don’t think it’s my beauty in particular, while I do think I’m beautiful, that’s a given. I would hope anyone thinks that about themselves and if you don’t, it’s time to change your mindset! but I really think it’s my energy.

just past a few months alone. I’ve been told by people that I know that they crave me, they need to hear my opinion, I bring light and peace to them, I’m a breath of fresh air for them. so I thought, if others think of me in that way, why can’t I think about myself that way? so I did, i believed it to be true. i’m getting emotional while I’m typing this lol.

but back to the conversation I was having with my coworker, he comes back with the sunscreen and I think I ended up saying “now I’m shining” but I really think my coworker was the one that said it. but he goes “yes, well, more than you already are.” and of course, this confirms that he does have a crush on me that and I am a shining star. today i felt I am meant to do more than this.

The pieces really didn’t come together until I was talking to my boyfriend about me thinking that my coworker has a crush on me. and then I ended up saying “of course he does. I like myself too, I’m such an amazing person.” and when I was saying that I felt it wasn’t conscious, I felt this came from my subconscious. by the time, I actually realize what I said my boyfriend tumbled over and laughter because he said it sounded conceited.

and of course, he knows me personally I’m not some conceited person so I didn’t take it personally, in all honesty it was hilarious! I have never consciously spoke that way about myself because usually I’m so convinced that I’m not this genuine person that people think I am. I realized at that moment that I had finally changed my subconscious for me to feel deserving of more.

for a while, I felt I was being fake, but in actuality, it was my new mindset fighting with my old mindset. I was going through a sense of impostor syndrome, but I am really proud that I said that even if it may sound conceited. when I said it, it felt genuine. It didn’t feel like anything i was combating how I felt in that moment, and that was very important to me. I am now my real self, no longer being a picture of niceness and that others can run over because of my past people pleasing tendencies.

it felt rewarding to say that genuinely. I finally feel I am in alignment to my manifestations now as I am becoming the person, I am meant to be to receive them. Slowly, but surely, I am still changing my mindset about money and my finances but I definitely feel this is the start. but I will talk about that in my next post, until then my loves,

ttylxoxo, mimi💋

p.s this is the notification i received as I was writing this at 7am!

[sparklecryptid]

hey moose you wanna share your thoughts on fontaine now that things have had time to settle? they should have brought more of Childe's nonsense, in my opinion. you?

Okay I do have thoughts about it but they’re all mainly character focused. And yeah, I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO SEE MORE OF CHILDE HOYO! I NEED MORE OF HIS LORE! I know you are saving that for Snezhnaya but COME ON. COME ON. THE WHALE THING. SKIRK! STOP DROPPING HINTS AT ME DAMN IT IM OUT HERE WITH THEORIES

Okay. So here’s some thoughts on the actual Fontaine characters.

(Save for the House of Hearth siblings. Because I haven’t done Fathers character quest yet.)

(Neuvillette)

You’re the heir to an Authority. You are born knowing that you should have this Authority and that it was robbed from you. You are born and you do not care for humans and their existence. What are they to you but ants living in a world that isn’t theirs? What are they but something you must deal with sooner or later! What are they but stepping stones?

(They are so much more than that. You are the Judge and Justice and you cannot grow attached to those you know you must cast aside one day.

You should not become attached to the humans.

But you do. You do! You learned to love them. You cherish them and their small lives and the echoes of themselves that fall like water into your hands. You learn to love them.

You love them so much you save them. They are yours now.

You think that is the greatest gift Focalors could have given you.)

(Furina)

You are an actress. You play a leading role in this tragic performance - it’s not a tragedy it cannot be a tragedy you trust that divine self you’ve splintered off from too much to believe it’s a tragedy. So you act and you play the part of a god. You act and lie and force yourself over the edge and pass your own limits again and again and again and you will do it until the prophecy is stopped. You will continue this farce until Fontaine is saved.

You have to. These are your people. This is your mission. You are alive to protect them. You are alive and living for this duty thrust upon you. You are the leading lady and the performance falls apart if you stop.

(You are human. You push yourself beyond mortal boundaries because you have to. You don’t have a choice. It’s your comfort or the destruction of the nation you love. It’s an easy choice.

Yet you are still human.

You should have never lived this long.)

(You break.

You rebuild yourself from the rubble.)

Anyway this is to say I very much did enjoy it! It was fun! It had lore and characters that I enjoyed and while I hate underwater combat it’s beautiful down there.

[theredpharaoah]

The misogyny always comes out. Vermithor was not wild and definitely tolerated people being near him. Rhaenyra the least courageous of all Targaryens? Be fucking serious. The fact that she, a woman, decided to push her claim to the iron throne when it was usurped by her male brother - her enemy having Vhagar and Dreamfyre - makes her one of the most courageous Targs of all. She wasn’t just fighting a war against The Greens, she was fighting a war against Westerosi culture. Who do they think is strong and courageous? Aegon the Sex Offender or the One-eyed baby? Maybe Sweet Helaena?(I just peeped this is a Greens subreddit. How do you read the books and end up a Green? Ppl wanna be different so bad. It’s okay to have common sense.)

Also, what is this narrative that the Dragons just kill anyone who enters their general vicinity? That makes no sense. The Valyrians domesticated dragons to have a disposition toward those with Valyrian blood. I mean Viserra had them damn boys in the dragon pit. The keepers intervened, but they were in the damn thing so I’m assuming there were dragons around. And Rhaena was clearly able to be around Balerion without issue. The dragons don’t seem to enjoy being overly bothered, and they don’t let anyone other than their riders or those with Valyrian blood ride them, but other than that they mind their business. Viserion, Drogon, and Rhaegal don’t randomly attack Dany’s attendants - Viserion even likes a couple of them. Even the wild ones aren’t going around killing people willy-nilly. Grey Ghost(my poor baby) was shy, Sheepstealer kept to herself, and The Cannibal ate baby dragons. The dragons that had riders would obviously be even more accepting of company; they’re constantly surrounded and “controlled” by the Dragonkeepers. Of course Rhaenyra, a Targaryen and a dragon rider would be able to control the dragons. Remember when Daemon flew Vhagar back? How would he have been able to do that if she just refused to listen to him? And what do they mean make it possible for the Dragonseeds to ride dragons? She can’t force the dragons to take riders they don’t want. Vermithor was Jahaerys’ dragon and we saw Daemon visit him too; maybe they’re visiting him for spiritual reasons? The Valyrian spirituality/religion has never been developed. Maybe they think Vermithor still has some aspect of Jahaerys in him and wants advice?

Furthermore, I think people are really attached to this Eragon idea of dragons and bonding. Based off of the material; the ONLY prerequisite to claiming a dragon is Targaryen blood. There doesn’t seem to be no “it’s the dragon who chooses the rider” mess or anything like that. The dragons don’t seem to attack Targaryens coming to claim them or even be around them. I mean Baelon lil bad ass bopped Balerion on the nose and he ain’t do anything. If they were as volatile as yall would like us to believe, Baelon would’ve been ashes or a snack. And when the Alyssa went to claim a dragon, the dragonkeepers had to convince her not to claim Balerion. And I’m assuming it was probably because they knew Jahaerys would be pissed if she claimed him, or they wanted to prevent an Aerea thing from happening again. But I have no doubt she could’ve claimed him. In my opinion, the only thing that holds back Targs from claiming dragons is themselves and their families. I think they’ve bought into this idea that dragons choose their riders. And I think a lot of that stems from Jahaerys’ reign.

[notafunkiller]

Any one comes at my girl Flo over Annabelle I’m not holding back I saw the body shaming and I was livid these are the same people who talk about Annabelle as if she were nothing more than incubator to say what? That she’s the love of his life? Sorry no fans of a celebrity couple who actually can see how in love they are act like this lmao so that just shows they know that seb and Annabelle aren’t in love the constant rumors after pointing out how unhappy he looks with her compared to anyone else is pathetic. It’s one thing to like a celebrity couple but let’s be real they don’t even actually like her because if they did they would show up for her projects (I know someone will bring up how her movie went number one but the reviews don’t match the views 🤣) she’s been in the industry for about as long as Sebastian has and her only mark is the men she’s linked too which shippers show again they only like her because she’s linked to Sebastian shippers with how they act are also to blame for her kind of not being liked people see how they act because of her and it’s like oh these are her fans? She must act like that too. But they aren’t her fans they just like her so they self project their fantasies onto her she’s a self insert for them which is why when any argument is said about why Annabelle is liked they scream jealousy because they are the ones actually jealous of her but kiss her ass but you are right they show exactly what kind of people they are Margo and ale got the absolute worst hate because why? Sebastian was happy and showed they made him happy. He showed he was in love and now he’s distanced himself from his fandom which i completely understand why. Let them take this burn book to him. Shippers have went to extremes to try and prove Annabelle is the love of his life and when it ends they will not know what to do with themselves. The next girl I really send my sympathies to because the level of hate she will get will be so bad. Especially when she’s seen out with Sebastian and he makes it known he’s in love and happy which is the complete opposite of how he acts with Annabelle. Pr is always going to be in Hollywood. All singers and actors do it. While some looks more genuine like when Sebastian was papped taking flowers to daisy that was pr would have done it anyway? Yes that’s who he is. He’s a sweet guy which he’s known for but that instance was used for him and for Daisy because that was for her nomination for the golden globes I believe and I would also like to say bragging about a length of relationship doesn’t show commit and or how love a couple is and two years really isn’t that long tbh “it’s his longest relationship” and that means what exactly? All shipper’s arguments show is they have never been in a serious relationship tbh and don’t even get me started on how they have acted towards other fans and even leaking Sebastian’s damn address to prove a point this fan war over trying to prove Annabelle is important to him when he hasn’t even shown that is so gross I’m disgusted and ashamed to say I was ever part of this fandom

THIS!!! Gosh, this, thank you for writing this!

I have the same opinions and I wanna add that they say: longest relationship = serious as you said, but she was with pine for what? 5 years.

Also, he and his friends actually defended Ale and Margarita. So if he wanted to defend AW, he'd find an indirect way how.

I really feel like I am not alone & "paranoid" at all after reading your message.

[dekusleftsock]

I am begging you and every other MHA fan to raise your standards cause Kohei gave everyone a yuri couple only to immediately kill one off.

…how many times has horikoshi faked deaths in this series. Because it’s A LOT. Afo, allmight, izuku losing his arm, bakugou, touya, Ochako literally last chapter, like… the story isn’t done yet my dude.

BUT HEY IF YOU WANNA ACTUALLY CRITIQUE HORIKOSHIS WRITING THEN IM ALL FOR IT HAHA

So how do I think horikoshi has seriously failed mha… hmm…

1: her

Her entire character. Well, not entire character. She GOT a lot of screen time and development don’t get me wrong, especially later in the series, and yes I love the fact that bakugou and dekus relationship was more prioritized than Izuku and Ochakos, but does that mean he prioritized her character? No! Nope! NADDA! Ochako is repeatedly sidelined throughout the story, and is also somehow excluded from a lot of arcs that SERIOUSLY RELATE TO HER CHARACTER.

Imagine if ochako was a part of the stain arc at all. She joined for selfish reasons like iida, he has a blood quirk like toga (which could’ve EASILY been foreshadowing to her not being freaked out by blood like most people), could’ve been a great way to show some nuance to her character….

And yet… AND YET…

That brings me to mistake number 2: Shoto Todoroki

Do I think shoto’s character is written badly or wrong? No! Of course I don’t! The entirety of the todoroki storyline, especially with its connection to hawks and the dirty parts of heroics, is really really good! I think it’s one of the most well handled abusive families in all of fiction. It understands EVERYONE in the family, and horikoshi is still able to show so much character and development in just a few scenes, like Natsuo or Rei.

So what IS my problem?

The fact that Ochako, her story, her CHARACTER AS A WHOLE… becomes sidelined due to horikoshi’s choice to prioritize his character over her’s. Again, it’s a great story and I wish he could balance both of them in mha, but he COULDNT, and he made the choice to sacrifice a woman’s character over a man’s.

Though I will say, a note on how ochako could’ve been in the stain arc: toga as a concept was created later and for ochako specifically, so it does kind of make sense as to why she wasn’t involved. Plans change and writers change, their ideas for their characters and what direction they go will ALWAYS change, and sadly you can’t predict that you won’t change a character or it’s direction at any point. It sucks! But that’s how a lot of these really long manga’s go. They have to write and then draw it pretty fucking fast.

And tbh I don’t really know what id do in horikoshi’s shoes with ochako and shoto! But it is definitely a critique we can acknowledge. It would take some seriously extraordinary writing skills to be able to balance, what, 3 deuteragonists? Katsuki, Ochako, AND Todoroki? Especially since one of those characters has a very complex trauma storyline that involves like five other characters? I honestly wouldn’t know what to do in his shoes!

I just wish he had picked the woman out of the two of them, but I think everyone knows that his manga wouldn’t be half as popular were he to have made it focus on two guys and a girl, instead of three guys, one of which is conventionally attractive and has major main character energy.

Anyway number 3: the overhaul arc

Ugh I have such mixed opinions on this arc. On one hand it has some really interesting storylines… when they’re on their own.

From what I understand, horikoshi did this arc because he wanted to try his hands at a longer arc and he had never really done that before. And while it’s great and very obvious he learned things from this arc, it just… takes up so much god damn space and gives us absolutely nothing long term.

Like yeah it makes a few points, like how high schoolers shouldn’t be involved in all of this and kinda sets up the ending rn where the actual adult heroes are sacrificing themselves for the next generation (ex: the guy that I forget the name of who’s now bakugous heart, allmight for deku, midnight for Mina/all the other kids, Mount lady, Aizawa for deku and all the other kids, Mirko for bakugou, etc etc), where as villains sacrifice the next generation for THEMSELVES (ex: afo and shigaraki, overhaul and eri, the gun arm girl for deku, also afo for dabi, etc etc) which is really good to do!

It’s just. Yk. Done by basically every other arc.

AIZAWA REPEATEDLY SHOWS THIS, ALLMIGHT REPEATEDLY SHOWS THIS, ENDEAVOR REPEATEDLY SHOWS THIS. Like it’s the entirety of Mount ladies arc, learning to be a hero and sacrifice for the next generation. Sacrifice and the fact that we forget 1-A are high schoolers is constantly shoved down our fucking throats; we don’t need this arc that takes so god damn long, only adds more characters that aren’t that important, TAKES AWAY FROM YOUR MAIN CAST OTHER THAN DEKU AND ALLMIGHT, JUST for it to tell you explicitly that “kids shouldn’t be fighting the battles of the previous generation, but they have to”. It just. Ugh.

There’s so much time in that arc fucking WASTED on nighteye or mirio’s character. Do I think the big three are really interesting? Of course! The contrast between mirio to deku is fascinating! It really shows how much deku can’t become allmight.

But you know. We talked about that a season ago mha. Yk. When he learns to use kicks instead of punches. Or yk. Gran Torino’s entire arc surrounds that. Everything about deku is nothing like allmight. That’s the entirety of their characters together. It’s repeatedly shown to be dekus biggest insecurity. He’s not allmight. YOU DIDNY NEED THIS ARC TO TELL YOU THAT AGAIN.

It’s like, everything that matters in this arc has already been shouting at you throughout the entire show, and everything else is never really used again outside of a mention here or there. It’s REALLY CLEAR Horikoshi was just doing this arc to try doing a long arc, not thinking about the long term of said arc.

Hmmm what else is there to complain about…

Eh, I guess the fan service? Which is, yk, in every other shonen anime/manga out there. Sometimes with people far younger than anyone in mha.

Ugh it’s like people like you just want me to be screaming “horikoshi did this! Horikoshi did that!” Every five seconds. I read the manga, I’ve talked about these flaws before on my account. Sorry if I… enjoy the manga???? Wait… omg!

It’s almost like I’m an mha account and it says RIGHT HERE IN MY BIO! Crazy!

Like seriously, what was your point? You were mad at drawings on a screen and someone enjoying that story and just… wanted to make someone’s day worse?

Did you expect me to heave over and be like “yes master anon! Toga is the worst written character in mha and horikoshi is a bad writer!” He’s a capable writer who understands his audience more than people give him credit for.

EVERY story has flaws. Every. Single. One. And because mha is literally everywhere and the fandom can get annoying because, it’s literally everywhere, I can understand getting annoyed sometimes. But you can’t sit here and expect me to solely focus on how bad horikoshi’s writing is because you’re mad at one thing. Toga SHOULD be selfless for ochako, sorry that it means thinking that she’s going to die???? What do you want from me?

I don’t have to “raise my standards” because horikoshi uses a lot of subtext and symbolism. I have other gay media I watch or read.

But like every single lgbtq movement that’s ever happened, it takes BABY STEPS. There aren’t many, if any, gay shonens out there, and if mha wants to be the first one it has to play by the rules. It has to make you think this is every other heterosexual shonen ever.

Shojo didn’t just become gay, it had to have shows like sailor moon censor a lesbian couple to be “cousins” so that other shows could exist. Madoka had to be at least semi subtle about its queer coding.

That whole meme where it shows one show saying “x show walked so that y show could run”, yeah that’s how every gay genre was made. Horror didn’t just become gay, it had to have community and relatability build up over the years, along with those new gay writers remembering where they came from, who paved the way.

My point being: I don’t give a shit if you think horikoshi is an awful writer who you think I can’t criticize. However I DO KNOW that if toga and ochako fully get together you’ll NEVER be able to avoid mha. And that thought makes me smile so much more than just the fact that they’re canon.

[quartenzoned]

Ghost Memories Remembered Upcoming Chapter Draft

Work in progress. This might be for chapter 21, but right now I'm actually not where to put this in the timeline. This is a flashback scene, by the way.

There might be some things I want to adjust, but we'll see. Feel free to give any advice.

Pico carefully walks closer and closer to Boyfriend’s dorm. He takes a deep breath, “You got this, you got this.” Pico psychs himself up, trying to kill his nervousness. He’s done this basically a thousand times, but despite it all, he just can’t bring himself to stop worrying at the start. “Just ask him, act natural, and then…” He clears his throat and stops talking to himself. He’d rather not look stupid in front of anyone if they show up out of nowhere.

Rasing his hand, Pico knocks on the door.

“Coming!” The familiar and calming voice of Boyfriend makes Pico stand up straighter than usual, and before he can worry about how he looks as well, BF yanks the door open and smiles incredibly widely. “Hey Pico!” Without a second to respond, Pico feels BF’s arms wrap around him. A smile grows on Pico’s face, as he hugs back. “What brings you to my dorm today?”

Relaxing in his presence, Pico smirks. “Just wanted to ask if you wanted to come with me. I found this cool place I thought you might wanna see.”

BF looks up at Pico, both suspicious and curious. “Oh really?” He pokes Pico’s chest, “Last time you said that, we literally went to a bar, and that didn’t go well at all.” Both of the boys recall what happened that night, with completely opposing opinions of it as well. “That fight lasted for like… ever.”

“Pft, first of all, it wasn’t a bar. It was a club,” Pico defends himself, while BF gives him a look, with a smile. “Not that kind of fucking club you dumbass! You know what I mean!” Boyfriend chuckles at his response. “Ugh, whatever Bee. You coming or not?”

“Of course, Pico. Just uh, how long are we gonna be there?”

Pico hesitates for a second, before answering the question “Not that long. Why are you asking?”

“No particular reason… I was only curious.”

Despite a strange feeling building up in his mind, Pico shrugs it off and takes his word. The two begin to walk away from the campus and out into the world. With Pico leading the way, they don’t get too distracted along the way and make it to the destination rather quickly.

With a small grin, Pico turns to BF and opens the door. Inside, music echoes through the building. “I’m sure you can guess what this place is, right?”

Immediately, Boyfriend gets excited and gaps. “Oh my gosh, no way!” He starts dashing towards the sound of music, and Pico quickly catches up to him before he loses sight of BF. Approaching the area, Boyfriend notices that there is a stage where people are singing, taking the spotlight as countless people watch. “How big is this place!?” He asks in awe, taken aback by the amount of things in this building.

Pico chuckles and puts a hand on BF’s shoulder. “Well, this is the main attraction, where you can either have your five seconds of fame, or five seconds of humiliation.” He points to the stage for emphasis, “Anyone can put themselves on the queue to go on the stage for free and sing a song for the audience, but most of the time it’s just embarrassing.” As he finishes explaining, Boyfriend immediately starts running to the stage in hopes to sing. “Damn, wait up Bee!” He chuckles and catches up to him before he can register.

At the side of the stage, a man stands guarding a door that presumably leads to the back area of the stage. “Are you here to enter the queue?” The man asks, as Boyfriend nods energetically. “Well, alright. You’re…” He looks at his clipboard and writes down something. “Tenth on the list.”

“What? Really? I wanna go now!” BF pouts, impatient.

“Sorry, you gotta wait your turn.” The man looks away, focusing on the stage. Boyfriend sighs and turns to Pico, frowning.

Seeing Boyfriend sad makes Pico glare at the man, but he shakes his head, not wanting to do anything rash. He decides to approach the guy in an attempt to bribe him. “Hey. You sure there ain’t any other way to get through quicker?” He asks, ready to do whatever so that Boyfriend can get on stage first.

The guard chuckles at Pico, and then comes up with a good idea. “Tell you what. If you want him to go on first, then I’ll gladly do it in one condition.” He brings out a pen, and taps on his clipboard. “Sing with him. If you two can give off the best show this month, then I’ll let it slide, hell I’ll give you two V.I.P access for all I care.”

Pico immediately flinches back, “Hell no! I… I don’t sing.” The man laughs in response, knowing full well he’d reject the offer. Boyfriend grabs Pico’s hand, and smiles at him. With a sigh, Pico turns back to the man with gritted teeth. “We’ll do it.”

“Thanks, Pico.” He doesn’t respond to BF’s words, but does pull him closer. They take a seat nearby and wait for the current performance to finish. The moment it does, the two quickly approach the guard for entry, before the original first person can. In the back, there is a bunch of equipment ready for use, alongside an area where they can choose a song that they’d want to sing.

[maximuswolf]

Why do (some) new pop artists say the dumbest shit in their songs these days? Or its all samples??

Why do (some) new pop artists say the dumbest shit in their songs these days? Or it’s all samples?? “Sometimes I feel like everybody is a sexy baby & im a monster on a hill” What the actual fuck Taylor lmfaoo a lot of her new music is lyrically just not good anymore. She’s a bit overrated. The whole concept of taste by Sabrina carpenter is stupid like Girl if she’s “tasting you” when she kisses him then you also tasted all his other exes before you so what are you getting at sweetie lol bitches love competing with each other these days & that one song where she says “I’m working late cause I’m a singer” this line makes me wanna scream not a fan of Sabrina at all. Have yet to hear a song I like by her…. & bebe rexha is another I can’t stand. Do people actually pay money to see some of these people live?? Call me a hater I could not care less lmao everyone has an opinion. Anyone who does like these people also has artists they dislike I just feel like no one writes an original song anymore. Every other song on the radio is a sample, & only a small handful of them are good. I suppose not all artists write their music so you can’t blame them but if it’s not the music it is the artists themselves, esp the women the way the show off their entire bodies & sexualize themselves. Then get mad when guys look or make comments like you don’t know DAMN well what you were doing… Actually gross. & im a young woman saying this so yeah. & don’t say “let’s see you write a good song” or some dumb shit cause I’m not the one out there trying to be a singer lolJUST RANTING Anyone have a line in a song they absolutely hate? 😂😂 Submitted October 10, 2024 at 07:54AM by TulipsAndTokes https://ift.tt/AItTrM3 via /r/Music

[orleans-jester]

“I am feeling pretty jolly,” Figaro admitted. Seeing their father was bittersweet but there was a lot of good to take away from that. He was watching over them. And he was proud. The ghosts of their Merry Men friends stuck around. There wasn’t much reason to not be jolly.

“I think I’d make a sick Larry,” Figaro hummed as they careened the bus down the mountain road. “Hey Iorek, you wanna be Gary?”

The bear let out a sound that sounded half-whine, half yawn. Figaro looked over their shoulder at him.

“Mrs. Puff? You want to be Mrs goddamn Puff?” They said, with wide eyes. “Damn. I didn’t know you wanted to go for sex appeal. Let’s fuckin do it.”

They nodded, not having much of an opinion either way of whether Livvy was still going to be active in their lives or not. “Hey, she’s alive though, that’s something,” They said. Not a lot of people were these days. “So there’s a chance that you’ll be able to see her again.”

Looking on the bright side wasn’t always their forte but when it came to Will? Goddamn, they really wanted him to be happy. Even if it was with someone like Livvy. That girl had made him smile, while also being frustrating at the same time. Messy - but at least he was showing his teeth.

“You’re right about that, I miss meeting people,” Figaro said, eyes on the road, their voice actually being serious. “Nothing against our friends obviously but - yeah. Variety in the spice of life and we’re not getting that. I’m growing sick of paprika, I want some chile.”

They didn’t mean this romantically, obviously, but they were a social being. There was nothing shy about Figaro. They’d just pop in and make themselves at home, that’s how they made a lot of their friends. And either they gott rejected, or they were invited in as if they had always been there. Meeting Flotsam, as if they had been instant best friends the moment that they met. The high school cafeteria table where they sat, despite not really talking to Arthur and Lance, boom, as if they had been sitting together since kindergarden. And then inviting Willem over to live with them despite only having spoken for a couple of days. They tested that chemistry with a lot of people. And now there wasn’t anyone to pop up on.

Figaro agreed though. Willem did need a certain kind of chaos in his life. “Maybe she’ll surprise ya one day,” They offered. Granted, it seemed HIGHLY unlikely that Delta was ever going to invite in someone like Livvy, a human that didn’t offer that much to her at all. Not without killing her or something similar. But regardless. Stranger things have happened.

They chuckled as they heard Willem sing and joined in with the tune. “-in the closet, that’s Hansel, he’s a bit shy so don’t scream too much!”

They parked up by the playground and looked out the windshield at the building. This area didn’t get much upkeep in Feral. Willem was the only one who really ever came to it. Old blood - once a bright red but now a brick-brown, blended into the walls, and a few bodies still lay around, decomposing. Figaro grabbed the Dragon-Fruit Little Tree air freshener from the mirror and wrapped it around their wrist. “Man, I hate the smell of the dead in the morning,” They sighed.

The bodies didn’t smell too much. It was mostly just bones and a bit of ooze. Being left out in the elements like the sun and the rain definitely had their effects. But they took a big whiff of the air freshener before daring to step outside.

It was still dark, the sky only lightening slightly, as they approached the building. It seemed so desolate. It didn’t need the Frank and Delta treatment to be spooky. “Why am I getting REC vibes? Quarantine? I wish I had a machete.”

That’s when they spotted something glistening. “Oh hey, a dead cop. Oooooh, hey, a dead cop’s gun!” They said, going towards it and took it out of the corpse’s fingerbones. “Now we’re going Resident Evil, baby. Let’s go hang out with some cool dolls.”

He even obliged. "Oh person, my person. I love you, my person. Oh jolly person." He laughed as he watched Smalls literally bounce their way back to the bus because of course they would.

Maybe Willem wasn't completely disappointed either that he wasn't going to visit the dolls alone. It had always been an alone activity and it felt nice to get to share that. Maybe it wouldn't feel so sad this way? It always felt sad even though the dolls themselves made him happy. Willem liked their sappy side. It made him feel less alien like his feelings were out of place. He was going to soak it up while the mood was there.

"You and that SpongeBob." He laughed remembering some swimwear they once wore on vacation as he finished up rubbing baby wipes on his face. Good times. "Larry's all yours."

He kept looking up into the mirror worried he'd missed something but finally settled back into his seat for the ride. A casual glance up here or there would prove he still had it in his sort-slightly vain pirate head anyway.

"Okay cool...and riiiiiight." The memory actually made him laugh. "Me either." He was hardly on Livy's radar until he tried to be. He didn't even want to be at first.

So, he'd toss out a "turn here" and a "right" or "go left at the stop" off and on just in case Figaro wasn't sure along the way.

Still, in came a question that maybe he should have been ready for but wasn't.

"Nah. Not since I last mentioned...." His voice hung like he wanted to say more. It came out sadder than he meant for it to. He didn't mean to be so transparent.

It was a simple question with a simple answer. Sure. But it was easy to jump to the next questions. Did he want to hear from her? Did his tone answer that question without having to ask it of himself? Did he still know it was probably for the better? Yeah. Did he miss her anyway? Fuck yeah.

So, was he going to pirate up and admit it even though he didn't have to?

"Aye, I miss her. I really messed that one up, Smalls. I know she was a prat but fuck it all. Who's not?"

To ward off his uncomfortable feeling he looked in the mirror again and messed with his hair. Her prattiness just came so close to aligning so perfectly with his it was hard not to think about it when nothing else filled the void.

"Or maybe I'm just lonely? I don't know. Because there's just so many people in Feral to meet." He said sarcastically. "Prattiness is better than loneliness? I admit I was feeling pretty shitty till Geppetto showed up."

He was surrounded by personalities in Funkytown so obviously it was romantic connection, a heart string he longed for.

"Yes, I know we can leave now." He interjected as if cutting off the first obvious he could think of to his own argument. "But my dolls. My work. I don't know. I need- I need- I need a homebody who likes adventures too. Somebody who gets it. I still miss her chaos. I'm a person who needs a certain amount of chaos, Smalls."

He shrugged because he didn't know how to explain that was the one thing he couldn't quite get through to Livy not that Smalls even asked for any of this. Hell, he couldn't even manage to get it through Piper's head. No one took him seriously. Crazy he could handle. A shady past he could handle. He was down for colorful. Heck, that's what he wanted just not at the expense of his dolls. Someone had to just get it. Get Funkytown. How to find that person? He wasn't sure. Maybe they didn't exist. Maybe he wasn't meant to be taken seriously and that thought just broke his heart as they drove.

He pointed at a stop sign. "To the left."

He half laughed when he realized what he said and said it a couple more times like the song, "To the left, to the left." Then went- "No-no. Not left there. I was just singing." Then had to start laughing.

"It's that complex up there. The building sort of by the playground."

[pizzagranni]

back to tumblr, cause it was either this or blogger and I’m not even sure that still exists (fact check later).

I think I’m sick of all the upgrades. Bigger, better website, phone, car, life, etc.

I DON’T CARE.

I just want to share my real thoughts, unencumbered by everyone else’s opinions. I want real conversations about real life, and not all the bad shit either. All of it. The good, the bad, the messy, and the clean. But never too clean. I’m not that type of person, but I also don’t think it’s always honest.

This year has been weird. I’ve had so many thoughts, more dark than light, and I’ve finally gotten to a place again where I love that about myself. High school was actually one of my favorite pastimes because I didn’t care about others’ opinions enough to stop me from fully expressing myself.

I was creative. I was bold with my speech. I wrote boldly and shared it. I painted my thoughts and feelings and gave it away and people liked it.

But ya know, somewhere along the way I started to care too much and that basically put a cork in my creative flow. I had “friends” who took what I loved and turned it into profit for themselves. My sacred practices became tainted with bitterness and resentment. I had YEARS where I hated even the idea of painting because I had been burned so badly. That’s super shitty, by the way. To have something special to you become something for someone else’s gain. It hurts in a fiery way. Like the brushes would burn my fingers if I grabbed them.

I always feared my thirties because I was so afraid of getting older and not knowing how the hell I’m supposed be function at that level. But now I near 32 and I’ve realized how much of a gift they are because they’ve set me free from the chains that my twenties put me in. I’m not saying that the whole of my twenties was bad, but they did a lot of damage. A lot of stock was put in people who never meant to stick around, never meant to build me up, just use me as a stepping stone. A door mat.

I’ve had a lot of lessons learned this past year (how weird is it that 2023 only has 3ish months left? Ugh), and I’m certainly still learning most of them (thank god), but hot damn. When they say drinking from the firehose, that’s exactly how I feel. An ocean’s worth of water coming out of my Nalgene.

But hey, I’m grateful. It means I’m alive and pursuing something more than this consumerism minded life I’m supposed to be living. By the way - fuck. that. shit. I could on and on about how this society is doing more damage than good, but I feel like a broken record. You don’t need the stuff they’re selling to you. You certainly won’t be happy with it, cause *news flash!*, there’s a new version coming out next week, month, year, whatever for ever and ever.

Back to the point…

I wanna get back to this. I wanna document like I used to because I wanna remember this. I want to slow down enough to experience my life. I want to prioritize the things that matter. Like my family and my friends that are like family. I want to host meals to remind people we were made for community. I want to create art that shows people how beautiful their souls are. I want to write words that speak life and question the status quo. I want to shift this god-forsaken paradigm.

This is only scratching the surface of all the thoughts I’ve held back for the last decade, but it’s coming. And if you want, you can read along and maybe we’ll have conversations about it. I’ll make you a cup of tea (or coffee, if that’s your thing) and we can just be in this space together.

So yea.

Until next time.

x Hannah

p.s. I’ll spell check when it matters. like when I write my book.

[the-cat-and-the-birdie]

Proship isn’t brand new, it’s a label that emerged ca 2016, TikTok wasn’t as popular as nach then and it was coined as a response to “anti shippers” who called themselves that FIRST

Before that the label didn’t exist. We had no need for it because not harassing people over fanwork or ship was the default stance (and mostly still is).

But this new weird culture of “everything I don’t like is immoral” caused people to be attacked, harassed, shamed, threatened, stalked online and in real life, some lost their job, some their life because they liked the wrong ship or fanfic and were isolated and called a sexual predator

I WISH I was just stupid online discourse, but it stopped being that the moment some loud and terrifying voices decided to help conservatives in criminalizing lgbtq+

Thats whats SOO crazy to me.

In 2016 I was graduating high school, and had been writing fanfic for half a decade, so I really lump it in with 'vine-tiktok' era but it really is a culmination of a lot of different internet cultures colliding really

like damn i remember when you could read the most heinous ass shit in fanfic and someone would be in the comments like 'you should torture the character next :) just a thought'

The rise of that culture is one of the reasons why I choose to not show my face online or rather in fandom and why I don't talk about my personal life here at all.

Tiktok really erodes that barrier ESPECIALLY having tiktoks of you outside where people can surmize your location

but that aside-

Hot Opinion but I like immoral things in fics.

It's a critical and cructial part of fiction, not all fiction, but a lot, and immoral situations and relationships can absolutely be presented as bad even when from the abuses POV (good yandere fics get this right)

even then, if you wanna write some off the wall shit, do it! honestly if you're guarding people from a whole sector of writing that actually enriches fanfic and original work because you're too chickenshit to write it yourself im just gonna assume you cant write for shit and your range is low but that's just me.

AND THEN THE POLITICAL OLYMPICS OF IT the uninformed analyzation of media and characters through skewed understandings of oppression and then using that to attack people in the weirdest ways AHHHH

In short: You mfing right!!!!!!

[hhhecates]

Okay, hear me out, I have this hc about inumaki that I need to share bc I like to make my thoughts everyone's problem,,,

What if inumaki knows sign language, he learnt it all by himself while growing up to be able to communicate with others (cause it's canon that amongst his family they communicate with their hearts, pliz i wanna cry). And well, he uses sign language mostly when he's out and about in his daily life cause man can't really be talking in onigiri ingredients to strangers. Thing is that with his friends, he doesn't really use it??? He's so so grateful that they manage to interpret what he means, it fills his heart with a new type of warmth when he literally speaks food but yūta nods along attentively, maki mostly rolls her eyes at his misplaced and quite sarcastic interjections (because you can feel the attitude coming from that tuna mayo sometimes), megumi never misses a beat and answers him right away and reader loves having conversations with him and ever so often asks inumaki his opinion on anything and everything and they just look at him with stars in their eyes as he rambles in ingredients.

Sometimes inumaki even relishes it, he likes leaving his friends hanging and arguing over what he says because he's just a fucking menace and he knows it.

But inumaki sometimes gets insecure, sometimes he does throw in a couple of signs hurriedly to make sure that he is understood, sometimes it's even mindlessly, signing his favourite words or the ones that he uses more often just because he is used to it. Some other times it can even be desperate, during fights against curses when he wished he could cry out his friends names but restrains himself because it's too dangerous, and then it's big, hurried and shaky motions, his hands trembling and eager to shout safety when his voice can't.

But inumaki never tells, never asks his friends to learn sign language for him, he doesn't want to burden them with that, so instead he limits his use of it around them as much as he can, because he knows they would pick up on it. He just knows by the way they always make sure never to speak over him or how they hush others whenever he does speak up.

What if reader notices anyways?? And it's not like the others don't care as much, they do, they really do. But maybe reader already knew a little sign language themselves, maybe they just like learning languages in general, maybe, just maybe, they find themselves looking at inumaki a little closer, a little more attentively.

And then reader decides to start learning sign language too. They watch videos, read articles, buy books (that they have to hide under their bed because inumaki is a nosy fucker with the people he's comfortable with, hell, I'm pretty sure reader has to erase their youtube history otherwise inumaki would quickly find out whenever they binge watch videos together). And at the beginning it's hard, it's so hard learning on their own, and it's hard also for them to restrain themselves from using it around inumaki, from asking him if they're signing correctly and wondering if inumaki could teach them all of his favourite words. But they manage to keep their mouth shut, to wait until they get better so that they are sure they could have an actual conversation without inumaki having to worry about using words too complex for reader to understand.

But then, it's yūta finding reader one afternoon while they're struggling, borderline crying, over compounding and reduplicating and sentence structure and it's all getting to their head so they're  f r u s t r a t e d. And yūta, like the absolute fucking sweetheart he is, he immediately offers to help them and ofc bby wants to learn too cause inumaki is his bestfriend too >:/

And please, I just know that these two would end up dragging the entirety of Jujutsu High in their plan and teach all of them sign language.

JUST IMAGINE, study nights in reader's dorm room, with snacks and energy drinks cause they gonna need them for sure, yūta and reader are teaching the others with like 12 different books strewn all over the floor, 3 different videos playing in the background and it's so damn chaotic. Megumi is probably a natural cause he already uses hands gesture to evoke his shikigami, so he can remember hand signs very easily and can do them so cleanly while like nobara and yuji be struggling and just yell at fushiguro cause "it's not fair" and "he has an advantage". Panda is there just to support them cause he can't really sign with his paws, but he just manages to instill more chaos by teasing and poking fun at Maki (poor girl has zero patience).

And gojo would 100% join them just to sprinkle more chaos and be the absolute menace that he is. (But lowkey he wants to learn too ofc).

And ofc, they're probably so outwardly secretive about it that inumaki notices it right away and he just has to be a nosy little shit about it (cause how dare they leave him out of it) so one night he quite literally bursts into reader's room only to find Maki and Itadori yelling over "how the fuck non-manual modifiers work" and Gojo and Nobara laughing their asses off and making jokes about their awful awful hand coordination, reader and Yūta are probably so fucking done, Panda is enjoying them freaking out like it's the last season of his favourite tv show.

And it's honestly hilarious how quickly they fall silent in complete and utter horror at the sight of inumaki standing there.

And then they all kind of fumble around and try to greet inumaki and like introduce themselves or say something in sign language one by one bc that's what they had been preparing for, right?? And it's probably so messy but inumaki doesn't give a fuck and then, he just starts crying.

Prob they take it the wrong way too, and they all start panicking, but he is quick to try and reassure them, hands shaky by how overwhelmed he is, that warm feeling he had learnt to associate to his friends is back, but tenfold, and it makes his cheeks burn and a smile so big break on his face. And then he signs back "hi everyone, I'm Inumaki Toge".

[phoenixyfriend]

OKAY so on the topic of Star Wars takes wrt “character ends up in an A/B/O universe where they’re an omega, but they were previously a cis male in their canon”

@atagotiak and I had some Thoughts on discord

So, obviously, Anakin would make a good omega and he’s also incredibly murdery. Foregone conclusion that we're using him for this.

There is no preexisting Anakin in the Omegaverse. He shows up JUST as the war is starting. Canon timeline is in the third year of the war (he’s 22), but whatever dumped him into omegaverse also tossed him back a few years. No de-aging, just a bit of mismatched timeline stuff.

He's... really good at war, and clearly a Jedi, so the Temple just kind of goes "WELL OKAY THEN, SURE, YOU'RE IN, EVERYONE PRETEND HE'S BEEN HERE THE WHOLE TIME." The Jedi, by and large, don't care about omegaverse dynamics beyond 'what do you need, medically, to be happy and healthy' and 'what do you need to be aware of so you can be prepared for biases you encounter in the field?’

None of the civilian natborns (mainly politicians) want to put him on the field because of those biases. Anakin, being Anakin, is VERY blatantly an omega in scent, has never been on suppressants (because it wasn't a thing he fucking NEEDED), is incredibly emotional as a person, loves kids, etc.

Like, nobody wants an omega fighting a war anyway, but THIS one is like PINNACLE omega, and those awful Jedi are making him FIGHT just because he's good at stab!

The Jedi: Actually, it's because he's got several years of war experience that we don't, and he's a good tactician that works well with the clones-- Coruscant: You MONSTERS The Jedi: Look, we gave him the option to not stab and he looked absolutely devastated. Anakin, several days earlier: You don’t want me? I’m not good enough??? Jedi: Also he can beat up at least half the temple.

He doesn't know a damn thing about dynamics, but he DOES know that sometimes he's so horny he wants to stab HARDER. The clones are largely disinterested in their generals' dynamics because between mostly-Mando* trainers and no-dynamic Kaminoans, they only really care if a person can shoot.

* Mandalore approves of Fighty Omegas. As far as (traditional) Mandalore is concerned, you want an omega that will kill the threats to your children as well as you do.

Anakin: You know more about being an omega than I do. Rex: ...I'm an alpha. Anakin: Yeah. Let that one sink in a bit.

We have two options for Obi-Wan!

Omegaverse local Obi-Wan (beta) has never met this man before, and is very unnerved that the immediate default reaction Anakin has to his presence is releasing Family pheromones as if Obi-Wan is his DAD and like. This strange, too-tall man from another dimension has got absolutely NO control over what he projects in the Force OR in his dynamic.

Obi-Wan was ALSO transplanted from canon to omegaverse, and is also an omega, for contrast reasons. He is nice and friendly and and likes poetry and that sort of thing... but also he has the highest dismemberment count in the movies. Also he doesn’t prioritize romance.

We went with the second one because it's hilarious.

Someone watching them spar: Wow, omegas from that universe are terrifying.

As previously mentioned, now with some tweaking to account for both: Obi-Wan and Anakin just straight up don't exist until they drop headfirst into the council room, already covered in blood. (It's mostly not theirs.)

Nobody realizes either one is an omega until they "naturalize" to this dimension and Anakin goes into heat... and doesn't realize it, actually, because his primary symptom is heightened protectiveness and aggression. Everyone else with the right nose realizes, because the man has no control over his pheromone production, but Anakin? No. He just stabs. He’s angry and horny and he will cut someone.

Ahsoka has no reaction to human pheromones but basically everyone smells Anakin's "my child!" reaction to her, so... Cool. Have a padawan, we guess.

Anakin ends up sparring a lot with Aayla and Ahsoka, because only humans and near humans have dynamics, so these two don't REACT to the pheromones situation.

(Palpatine is a Kindly Old Beta who tries to treat Anakin the way he EXPECTS Anakin wants to be treated, which is. Not. Accurate.)

(Anakin hates it.)

I'm just so in love with "An omega can't fight." "You wanna fuckin' bet?"

There are plenty of omega Jedi, by the way, it's just... most of them can keep it relatively low-key instead of Anakin's jet-engine broadcast. Some, if they're known to be omega, probably take advantage of being underestimated, like Obi-Wan probably (and especially a version of Obi-Wan that was always an omega, unlike this version). They have a very different way of presenting themselves than Anakin, who's not subtle about being an omega and also not subtle about being all aggressive and stabby.

At one point, Anakin has to protect some Very Traditional Individuals who get all "Stay back, Omega, it's not safe!" and he's just... so tired of this shit. “You are squishy civilians and I'm a trained Jedi Knight and accomplished GAR General who's killed more people in one sitting than there are in this entire palace. Sit the fuck down and let me do my job.”

It starts making the rounds that Anakin insisted on fighting in person, and the rumors shift from "how dare the Jedi force an omega to fight" and over into things that are deeply hurtful in-universe in the vein of "broken omega" and some people try to say it to his face but like...

He didn't grow up here.

He doesn't care.

Say that to one of his friends and he's going to rip out your spleen, probably, but say it to him and he's just staring at you flatly and asking if that's a negative on getting away from the encroaching battle droids, sir?

"You're rather unpleasant for an omega, aren't you?" [deeply offensive] "I literally could not give less of a fuck about your opinion. Move."

It's not that there aren't omegas that act like Anakin, either, it's just that most of them aren't, you know, Jedi who regularly interact with the upper crust, or capable of his level of destruction. Unbeknownst to Anakin, everyone clocks him as Outer Rim based on his behavior, well before his accent gives him away, and certainly before he mentions he's from Tatooine, because Core Omegas Don't Act Like That.

Someone they meet in a more diplomatic setting says something decently passive-aggressive about how at least Obi-Wan acts more like how an Omega should. Then a battle breaks out for some reason, and... well. Anakin and Obi-Wan cause such a scandal by keeping score of kills in a battle, don’t you know?

Turns out sending Anakin to fight Ventress is great because she keeps expecting him to react a certain way but NO he's here to STAB.

I like the idea that Obi-Wan's favorite opponent these days is Grievous because the cyborg doesn't have a nose, and thus gives zero fucks about dynamics or heats. Dooku is a rich old man who has opinions heavily influenced by Sith Juice Making Him More of a Dick, and the Dathomiri can smell dynamics even if they don't have them, and so they have biases about those things. Meanwhile, Grievous is just there to Kill, and Obi-Wan genuinely appreciates the lack of commentary on his dynamic.

Dooku’s probably an alpha, or a beta who's used the whole "we are more level-headed" thing as one of several angles to keep himself the public face and supreme commander of the CIS.

On to more fluffy things that have less to do with political biases.

There's a lot of "I'm upset that my loved ones don't know me," but also please understand the appeal of Obi-Wan marching up to Quinlan like "Yes, hello, I understand you've been read in on the full situation behind myself and my former padawan. I was close friends with your alternate universe self, which I feel is necessary disclosure before I propose the following: Would you like to join me for my upcoming heat, as I have minimal experience with the dynamics situation and even fewer people I actually trust, and I believe I can put my faith in you to treat it as casually as necessary while still having control and respect for my person."

(The Team is in a fairly safe place to process stuff, but having sudden unexpected changes to your biology has gotta be a little traumatizing, on top of ending up in a universe where none of your friends know you and people have a whole host of unfamiliar forms of sexism to point at you.)

Obi-Wan, who wasn't quite touch-averse but was much more easily overwhelmed by physical contact than Anakin (who craved it), suddenly finds his body switching gears and insisting on cuddles with Trusted Loved Ones, which is.... mostly Anakin, on account of nobody else really knowing him yet. Also Ahsoka, who is aware that she's something of a replacement for her alt-universe self, but Anakin explained it as "I love you so much no matter which dimension I'm in or what you're like, and I'd like to get to know you the way I got know her."

(It's rather eloquent for Anakin. He got Obi-Wan to help him draft up the script for when he pitched taking on omegaverse Ahsoka as a padawan.)

Anakin gets a more intensely sexual heat than 'usual' at one point for Reasons (IDK it could be as innocuous as 'we got better food than the usual rations and my body is reacting to the higher fat content with the belief that it's safer to have a baby now'), which nobody takes a whole lot of notice of because they're in a WAR, and also this is only his fourth one so it's not like he's got a lot to compare it to... except then the predominantly alpha clones can't stop themselves from reacting to the pheromones, mostly by wandering past his door and asking if he needs anything, offering up alpha-scented blankets and stuff for the nest to soothe the hormones, bringing snacks and electrolyte drinks, and like, Anakin is flattered, really, but fuck off please.

(He got a warning from medical a few hours before it hit that it would be different, so he actually does have alpha-scented fabrics to help him out. Apparently that's a thing you can just ask friends for, so he asked Rex if he had anything on hand that he could spare. He now has one of Rex’s recently-used sheets and a bodyglove in the nest.)

(Anakin has no idea how to feel about the nesting instinct, but at least it’s warm.)

Tia asked "Oh hey, who has the scared and horny reaction to his carnage?" and like.

Listen. I'm not saying I've been low-key imagining this as Rex being a very subby alpha who's really into Anakin's whole Thing but...

At one point Anakin gets injured in a way that requires painkillers and he ends up whining to the point of almost crying about the fact that nobody is cuddling him right now in medbay and Kix just gives up and comms Ahsoka to come hug her weird older brother.

And Then There Is Purring.

That’s a Thing Now.

Rex ends up in the pile somehow. He came over to check on Things and ended up yanked in by half-asleep, half-high Anakin, who has a grip like an octopus and no impulse control and is purring like a pod motor while NUZZLING HIM.

There’s a lot of blackmail photos featuring Rex’s very intense blush as he’s cuddled by his commander (giggling at him) and general (clinging like a tooka and rubbing himself all over).

Anakin is deeply offended that ANYONE thinks he'd want to get pregnant by just any old person, NO he needs to fall in LOVE there needs to be EMOTIONAL DRAMA and if Padme won't have him (apparently she's in a relationship and no he's not BITTER) then he'll find someone else to have a whirlwind romance with!

People think Anakin's a slut because he can't control his pheromone production (he has NO practice and for health reasons he can't go on suppressants) so he always smells open and ready for flirtations, which Obi-Wan also has to a somewhat lesser degree (he's older so his body just naturally produces less), and then someone tries to cross a boundary and grabs his ass and ANYWAY Anakin has to now fill out an incident report for breaking a civilian's arm.

Again.

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Anon asked : Hey 💕 What are ur observations on rising signs?

Note : these are just my observations of the rising signs - won't resonate with everyone.

[ Aries rising ] - see I don’t know that many people who have Aries as their rising sign. But from what I have seen, I think they have this very look that makes them look like they are angry, even if they aren’t, this can also go for mars in 1st house.

[ Taurus rising ] - I think these people are the ones who are very like meek (??) Like they don’t wanna offend anyone or be a pushover. They also look very cute and they have this very athletic build to them. I have a real life friend who has a Taurus rising, and she is very stubborn, like a kid. And she always seems to look very like ‘naive’. Prominent shoulders are usually seen with this placement. Square or oblong face shapes.

[ Gemini rising ] - see I don’t know anyone who has a Gemini rising in real life, but from what I know, they seem to have very flirty and almost like this child-like wonder in their eyes. They seem to look very seductive even if they don’t do anything. I think they love wearing sunglasses, and they tend to be smooth af, like they know what to say at the right time, they also seem to be very magnetic especially if they have some cancer in their chart.

[ Cancer rising ] - they seem to look like they belong from a royal family, they have the most kissable lips, they seem to look very motherly even if they might not be that nuturing, they seem to like the old fashioned or vintage clothes, I think they like lipsticks that are pink. They might like dressing up in clothes that are simple and basic but yet chic.

[ Leo rising ] - their hair!! Damn! They have the best hair!! They have this look of mischief in their eyes, like they are very playful and romantic, they have this whole notion of saving the world, and they might do a lot of volunteer work. Usually well liked among people. Beautiful and attractive smiles. Little crackheads. They make mundane things fun and playful. Very confident about themselves.

[ Virgo rising ] - very analytical, they notice everything, they might be very blunt and critical, which pushes people away, they are no nonsense people, who have a sense of dignity within themselves. They are probably loners. Low-key seductive. They are amazing people to be friends with. After you get to know they are the most funniest people in the group. Low-key crackheads.

[ Libra rising ] - they are the sweetest people, they are probably the ones who overuse emojis in their texts, sometimes it becomes very cringey, they smile a lot, who are very unproblematic. They are also very elegant and flirty, they flirt with their eyes, very charming people, I think they probably like a lot of pastel colours. They are also very good with words. People seem to genuinely like them.

[ Scorpio rising ] - Ok, its hard to get a reaction out of them, at the maximum, they will just give a nod as a reaction, they have very defined collar bones, they seem to be very flexible as well, they are also very athletic or good at sports, it seems like- even if they don’t work out that much, they seem very fit and healthy. They don’t smile a lot, if they do, it comes off more like a smirk. They are very good at reading people and they only interact with people who they think are good and trustworthy. They seem very strategic, like they are plotting a revenge against people, they seem evil and devilish.

[ Sagittarius rising ] - they are the loudest people in the place, happy go lucky people, they seem very egoistic though 🤔 they are the clowns of the group, they one with a lot of friends, the one who is always surrounded with people, they have the brightest and the widest smile, they want to know everything, they are also very open-minded and accepting, they are very interested in spirituality.

[ Capricorn rising ] - they look like they are always serious, they look like they are always in between of a business deal “ yeah, yeah, buy Canada too ” but I think they look very experienced like, you probably don’t wanna mess up with them, same like Scorpio rising, they don’t give too much of a reaction to a situation, I think they probably have the habit of rolling their eyes.

[ Aquarius rising ] - they look ethereal! They don’t even look like a human 😳, they are very cold and detached but they don’t like interfering with other’s problems, they are very unproblematic, they like to do a lot of volunteering, they are also very open-minded, they almost are like nerds, but they are also very social, and they do academically great.

[ Pisces rising ] - one of my close real life friend has this placement and she is literal angel, who is very patient and calm with people, she is very social and friendly with people and other’s always seem to rely on her and trust her, she is also very open-minded and romantic…. She has opinions too but she doesn’t like to force it on people, she doesn’t like to confront, but she is very reliable and fun person and we get along very well, we are almost like siblings - we both are water risings so, she likes to sleep a lot and she always looks like she has just woken up. She has a very calm, soothing and sweet voice. Doesn't wanna come off as Rude. She is lazy and really slow when it comes to work. Always in her own imaginary world. Loves anime. Looks beautiful and has a lot of admirers. – She is the only one having a boyfriend in our friends group. Do you all hear that? Get me a scorpio boyfriend someone! 😭

So that's all I guess?