#poor woowoo

[kaa-05n2]

[buried-l0cket]

Don’t have good photos of our cosplays yet but I designed magical girl vashwood for my roommate and I to cosplay to comic con and I kinda love them so here’s the design sketches.

[wolfholz]

wolfwood baby im so fucking sorry you deserved better😭

[nexadarling]

The fact that there are cigarettes in Trigun implies the existence of tobacco farms. And like.... i have some follow up questions.

Mostly how fucking expensive are those things, because like it's gotta be a Plant assisted farm right?? We only see greenery 1-2 times depending on which Trigun version you're in. So farms and shit probably aren't too common? Unless it's more of a greenhouse situation. I mean, they obviously have flour cause they have donuts, so maybe i'm over thinking it.

It just seems like anything that comes from a plant (of our variety, not of energy source variety) would be incredibly expensive on a desert planet.

SO HOW THE FUCK DOES WOOWOO AFFORD HIS SMOKING ADDICTION?????

[koropukgoro]

the second art on that post has a deeply like. Long ass story build up to it that I cannot summarize at all it was born from scenario rambling but it is Tender, and a small soft exchange of gentle forgiveness… that is true…

[ilikeflowersandstuff]

Most painfuls things in the universe in no particular order:

- stepping on Lego

- a cat walking straight past you instead of stopping for some pets

- childbirth

- Nicholas D. Wolfwood saying: "It would seem that I am no longer qualified to hold you guys."

[thebuttsmcgee]

btw, quite literally like off the heels of, I just bought a wraith molly plush woo!!!

Unfortunate that the bundle wasn't available but I understand, plus I'm just excited for it in general so yeayeayea!!!

[livio-the-doublefang]

"You know he's hot and bothered when he started cursing in Spanish. Heh~"

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

The boring part of Jason's parents thing- if his dad's white, maybe he looked at Shiva and went "I could just take after my dad", wouldn't be the only biracial kid to look more like one parent than the other.

The other side is someone could write a social history of Asian-ness in the US in the assumptions about how characters can be criminals in fanfic, anti-asian racism definitely used to include more "sinister Chinese street gangs"

god okay so the thing about the sinister Chinese street gangs is that they are ALL OVER Batman comics, which have a NASTY and very deep streak of orientalism that spans from spooky woowoo East Asian mysticism whenever Batman needs to learn new martial arts to whatever the fuck Ra's al Ghul has going on to Gotham's persistent Chinese street gangs, and of course Jason's (acquitted) potential mother Lady Shiva herself.

the Chinese gangsters were particularly prominent around the time Jason was Robin (and well after); it's not a stretch at all to imagine him growing up in a rough part of town with his white stepmother Catherine and Chinese or mixed father Willis, a proposal which is arguably much more in line with established facts about Jason than headcanoning him as Black or Latino for Some Reason that definitely has nothing to do with him being poor and angry and being a drug dealer sometimes.

[drunkelreporter]

Too bad for Wolfwood that Roberto is so damn observant. He catches the flush out of the corner of his eyes and would absolutely have kept teasing him if Astarion hadn't deflected. As it is, he's busy giving the elf a narrow eyed look for that grope when he knows where both of his hands are. What the hell?

"I can do both at once," he huffs but relaxes back with a smirk at Wolfwood that fades into a smile.

"It's nice, having somewhere it's mostly safe to feel like this. I don't have to worry about the next bandit raid running through and shooting our house full of holes." Just killer moss and trauma, but that didn't last overly long in the grand scheme of things. One day, Astarion would be able to recover from that, or it would scab over like most trauma tends to. They were working on it.

"So, guess you'll have to figure out what you're gonna do, huh? The funds they give you will last for a while, but not forever."

Wolfwood is thankful that gaze flicks away as he feels his neck suddenly burn at the tone, of hearing his first name. The continued purr, the wink, it almost breaks the poor pup, but instead he manages a soft scoff.

"Careful, tiger." It's Astarion who cuts in, offering mercy as he shivers against his boyfriend. "Keep that tone of voice up and I'll be begging for a litter. We came to get to know one another, not be perverts." despite this, he giggles, the feeling of fingers groping Roberto's ass despite both arms being draped over his shoulders.

"You're lucky I don't like intruding on a happy couple." Wolfwood took the grace from the vampire with a soft huff, relaxing back as the leering falls into something oddly sweet for a man who usually looked either feral or constipated.

"I'm genuinely glad, Roberto. After everything, you deserve to be a love sick fool." He sips his drink then, Astarion's light giggles diffusing the air.

It was getting all kinds of confusing for his inexperienced brain anyways.

[omgthatdress]

actually i’m so sorry for the princess’ kids. like being royal must suck enough already but with those parents ???? poor things

okay, here's the full story: Märtha Louise has always been fucking kooky. Like for real if she weren't a princess she'd be a cult leader. She claims to be clairvoyant and in 2007 started her own school to teach alternative medicine (you know, shit that's not medicine at all). She lost the title of "Royal Highness" in 2002 and she's not a member of the royal house and had no public role.

HOWEVER, she was previously married to a man named Ari Behn, who was an artsy sad sack who was pretty respected as a writer but derided as an amateur when it came to his visual art. The two divorced in 2017, and then in 2019, he died by suicide. Genuinely fucking tragic.

So OBVIOUSLY there's trauma there. Like if her woowoo beliefs already had her believing in shaman types, the trauma of her husband's death had to have left her super susceptible to the right charismatic charlatan who tells her everything she wants to hear and gives her all the validation she's willing to ignore a million red flags for.

Honestly it kind of sounds like something a lot of families are dealing with: a loved one gets swept up into Q-Anon/Trump cult bullshit (the woo to Q pipeline is REAL) and you don't really know how to deal with it because the situation is fucking awful but you still love the person in spite of everything.

Or at least that's me projecting all my bullshit into the situation and how I'd be pitching it as a screenplay. Netflix HMU.

The whole mess has actually seriously damaged the reputation of the Norwegian royal family and along with calls for her to lose her title of "princess" it's created a pretty big movement calling for the abolition of the monarchy.

Which is surprising because the Norwegian monarchy is actually fairly low-key. King Harald is good at being genial and non-political and they're mostly involved in promoting Norwegian cultural stuff, which kinda seems like how you should do a monarchy, if you're gonna do one.

But then again it just underlines how inherently fucked up the institution of a monarchy is to begin with.

Anyway have you figured out already that monarchy as a metaphor for generational trauma is my absolute favorite trope and I absolutely lose my fucking shit whenever I see it playing out in public?

[bcolfanfic]

need more about the bucks' baby micah, headcanons or blurb i want more!!! (please, and when you have time ofc)

for ref

doing this in headcan0ns list form bc im tired from the time zone switch back to the states

the bucks do, as reffed in that blurb, turn the car around from going to wisconisn to go back to wyoming. end up having to get a hotel somewhere for the night so they don't drive more or less 20 hours roundtrip themselves into an early grave. but yeah.

swing josie by gale's sister’s house on the way back to sheridan. don't explain all the details but have to give her *some* explanation when they go from headed them to wisconsin to now suddenly back in wyoming.

maybe don't explain that this baby is her biological sibling right away but just. say that someone they know needs help with their baby, and that they gotta go back because they don't want him to be in the hospital by himself. pretty word salady but they're exhausted and she's five so. it is what is for the time being.

get to the hospital and get scrubbed in to down to the nicu with natalie to go see him. john's head still feels like his head is still in in spin-mode to the extent that he's not really processing everything fully.

but gale sees that itty bitty baby in his little nicu incubator with a little tube in his nose and is just. distraught.

has to sit down after a minute because its making his chest hurt. he just can't fathom how little he is and how he's in *danger* and how connected he already feels to him.

he gets reallll "woowoo" about the fact that he finally brought up wanting another kid to john all of 20 minutes before they got the call about him. feels like he somehow already intrinsically knew about him before he actually knew.

so kinda the reverse of how it was with josie- gale instantly feels bonded to him and john has a little bit of a harder time.

loves him so much already, is worried sick with all the preemie health stuff he's got going on. its just hard to process how fast everything is happening. if him and gale had sat down and decided to go the infant adoption route that'd be one thing.

in that case he'd have a lot more time to work through his hurdles re: being scared of having a baby, of being responsible for someone's life from scratch etc etc. but here he only had the drive back from wisconsin.

calls his mom a lot. calls curt a lot. that helps.

lil guy doesn't have a name for the first week of his life lmao. they just call him buddy and baby boy and then john is sitting up w/ gale one night and asks if he's given any thought to his name.

they land on micah curtis. micah as a riff off of michael the archangel, and curtis after their best friend (:

curt cries when he finds out. sweet man.

john's mom comes out from wisconsin and when she's there at the hospital that's when both the bucks go to gale's sister's house and have to explain to josie- the best they can- the full details.

poor peanut is so conflicted about Everything. has been confused about not seeing either of her dads in the same room for almost two weeks. is excited about having a baby sibling- but confused about why if he's /her/ sibling from her mom why she can't see her mom.

just a lot of Big Feelings, which gale and john handle the best that they can. good dads <3

i think it finally really Clicks for john when micah is doing okay enough that theyre allowed to hold him. looks at that lil guy in his lil nicu baby beanie sleeping on his chest and just. yeah. big thats my son, i would do anything for you feelings.

john gets really into sitting by his lil incubator and reading to him. nice way to bond that isn't super overwhelming. makes gale heart happy to watch. his boyssss.

this is getting super long lmao so ill cut if off here. but i wove micah- and rachel and i have developed a looottt of lore about him as a teenager/young adult (specifically re: him and wyatt- helen's baby with nash/ev's step son). so feel free to come prompt me to yap more!

[fictionkinfessions]

[my] Ford Pines you are one no good son of a bitch.

I'm glad I never succeeded in bringing you back. I'm glad Mabel stopped me. In canon you could barely utter a thank you for me saving your life and couldn't even bite your tongue about my grammar at the end of the world. You let our parents throw me out and through out all the years of me being homeless and running from the law you never once reached out until YOU needed something. If I had been pushed through that STUPID portal that your STUPID boyfriend tricked your STUPID ASS into making, you would've destroyed the portal just to get rid of me for good, I just know it.

I was clumsy, rude, messy, but never malicious. You can't say that, can you, Ford. I NEVER wanted to hurt you, but you sure wanted to hurt me.

I tried to tell you what I'd been through, but you wouldn't even listen. You don't even deserve to know the details now, but I damn well know you wouldn't have survived if we switched roles.

You left me behind for your smarts, it was supposed to be us forever and that didn't mean ANYTHING to you. It meant everything to me. YOU ruined MY life. So I accidentally lost you your shot at your dream school that day, you literally still could have applied regularly through the mail, sixshit. But nooo poor pitiful Stanford had to go to the Second Best College. I WAS HOMELESS, FORD. You knew I wasn't that bright, that I didn't get the "smart" autism like you did, mom tried curing it with woowoo magic and essential oils, but what she really wanted was for me to just be like you.

I lived my whole life in your shadow, our parents never reached out, you never reached out. Shermie reached out, not that you'd care or approve.

I hope you got what you deserved staying on the other side of that portal.

x

[bonefall]

Oh, clanmew day! I translated the names of a few of my ClanGen cats that I'm fond of a while back :)

Boragestar - Palfshaipmashai (Borage is apparently also known as "starflower", so I translated it as palifuh-shai-ponma, purple-star-flower. "Shai" might be a bit too holy for the ordinary plant, but in this case it felt like it fit as I was doing a bloodline challenge and Borage was the daughter of the previous leader, and thus of a holy bloodline. Poor girl had to take over leadership of a rather brutal clan after her tyrant of a mother unexpectedly lost all her lives. she does not have the harsh temperament expected of her and things have not gotten better for her)

Chivenose - Palfpeskrchoop (I went for a physical description of Chive for my translation; palifuh-peske-kiyyr, purple clustered-flowers grass. She was Boragestar's sister, who was taken by twolegs early on in their apprenticeship. She didn't find her way back until a full year from when she was taken, she was pretty surprised to find her mother and brother Eaglepaw both dead and Borage in a leadership position she didn't want. I had no idea they were both named after plants with purple flowers until I went to make translations, it's such a cute coincidence and I'm so glad I found that out)

Dustystripe - Fesgrryrrseek (I translated "Dusty" as "fes-grryrr", "dust-contains". More interesting is her (retroactively created gjkfgbjkdsf) dishonor title! She's a healer, but she had a litter of kits. She was lucky that Boragestar was in charge and also her friend, she managed to convince the clan to let her, her mate, and her kits remain, but Dusty got a dishonor title (probably from her former mentor Bluescar/Lubroyach, Borage's other parent, who was not very fond of her or Borage in general). The title was "Mwssepaseek" (poison-soil longstripe), translated as something like "Taintedstripe", trying to evoke a strip of earth that poisons whatever grows in it. Not only has she "poisoned" her own link to StarClan with her actions, her kits will be "poisoned" as well.)

Bellspeck - Rriirriulfbwoo (Bell - rrirri (mimicking the sound of a collar-bell) - small objects that make soft, high-pitched ringing sounds when moved. Technically not Clanmew but a loanword from Townmew or some equivalent as Bellspeck's mother was a former kittypet. Speck - Ulfbwoo - ulfaf-eeb-woowoo - single-strand-of-fur small spotting-pattern, single small spot. This one feels a bit scuffed but I couldn't figure out anything better lol)

Molefleck - Bosgoeebkark (I decided to lean into the definition of "fleck" as "very small bit of some material" instead of just "small marking(s)" since just "speck" was bad enough without having to make it distinct from marking-fleck. Pretty simple, just "eeb-kark". Her nickname was Bosgee :)

I am planning to do a scent expansion along with this BIG entry I'm going to be doing on "How Scent Works," including a ton of unique Clanmew words for various, important scents. So I'll give you two interesting smells that might work VERY nicely for Dustystripe if you'd like;

The dusty, stale smell of a long-abandoned burrow = Moese SPECIFICALLY one you can immediately tell has not been lived-in for a while. Any other scent in this burrow is muted and negligible, possibly only something you can pick up with your jacobson's organ (Fech, in Clanmew). Similar to the "dusty" smell of an attic.

Hot, dry scent of flammable kindle = Ksek ESPECIALLY important in WindClan, because if the gorse starts to smell like this, the conditions are very dangerous. Very dusty, dry brush would smell like this.

Moese could make a super interesting with that dishonor title in mind; the idea that she's gone back to being an abandoned (but safe) burrow, having moved on from her old mistakes.

And up next, chives! I'm gonna give you ALL OF THE ONIONS while we're at it!

All four of these plants are deadly to Clan cats. They're used universally as bad-insect repellents and good-insect pollinates, but just like mint, they have a serious reputation as being poison.

Some cats will also use them to hide their own scent, especially Rebels. Deerfoot was the pioneer of using garlic to mask the scent of himself and his cats as they sabotaged TigerClan from within.

This lead to there being a generic name for these plants; Aupeqi. From a contraction of Deerfoot's Essence (Augpwaio en Qim). This was something he picked up from Lizardstripe, who initially came up with it to hide that she'd been hanging out with cats of other Clans.

Ramsons (Allium ursinum) = Ssufpon Full, distinctive white flowers that grow in big, bursting clusters. A patch of ramsons can easily hide a patrol's worth of cats. Comes from scentmark + flower.

Angled Onion/Three-Cornered Leek (Allium triquetrum) = Oosk A delicate, drooping bell flower similar to a snowdrop, but much stinkier, especially when crushed. Comes from Bell + White. NOTE: this plant has many names, I've included leek and onion so you can choose to translate it at your discretion!

Wild Garlic (Allium vineale) = Fafhoo Comes from Fur + Clock, "clock" as in the mature, seedy, fluffy ball stage of a dandelion. Turns into a bizarre, smelly disco ball thing and ABSOLUTELY REEKS. Tends to poke through the leaf litter of a forest in "scrags" rather than "patches" like ramsons.

Chive (Allium schoenoprasum) = Sifaw Comes from Friend + Solitary Bee. A favorite of bees, but a repellent of other insects, with pretty purple flowers that remind Clan cats of a very stinky clover.

AND. LASTLY.

Borage (Borago officinalis) = Shioo From Star + Bell. I am actually going to be banning this as an herb in my guides. It is INCREDIBLY toxic to cats, worse than the onions earlier. It irritates skin, causes liver damage, and absolutely destroys its victim.

There's actually a ton of plants in this family, including the famous Forget-Me-Not. But for now, here is the word for plain-and-simple borage!

[docholligay]

Yellowjackets S2E2: Lottie

Hello! This is about up to Season 2, Episode 2 of Yellowjackets, and ONLY that of Yellowjackets. I have not seen beyond this spot, at all, and know NOTHING about this show. Please do not spoil it for me.  Things that are spoilery in nature, for me, include: saying things like  “Just wait!!” confirming or denying anything I put forward, outside information about the cast interviews or creator statements, leading questions like “Do you think “blank moment” means anything?” etc. Remember  that Y’ALL HAVE SEEN THE SHOW AND I HAVE NOT. This informs the way you  talk about things relating to the show. Just be really careful is all  I’m asking. Also: If there is LITERALLY any stance I  could take on this show or character that would make you upset, please  just fucking block the tag

If you WOULD like to discuss the show and my takes on it, the Discord is right here! I don’t go there, so it’s a great place to get every emotion out.

Please thank @sailorsunspot and @moonlight-frittata for backing this odd way of doing a liveblog, and remember my tip jar is always open

Okay, so let’s start this off with my own honesty. I HATE Lottie. Lottie is pretty much everything I hate about a person, I hate her impractical, woowoo, honor your own heart, feel the rhythm cult leader bullshit. I want to note that is most defintiely informing my read of this situation. Despite all that, I ask you to pleas please please not attempt to inform me of nayhting or spoil me. Okay. 

I do not for one second believe that Lottie ended up fucking…accidentally killing Travis because of a BUTTON MALFUNCTION. I could go into how she could have lifted up his legs and put his feet on her shoulders to help keep him from FUCKING DYING, and ALSO how he didn’t actually need to be more than an inch off the ground, but this isn’t about what Lottie failed to think of in a moment of desperation, because I don’t believe in the moment of horror and desperation.  

Remember, when she’s weaving this splendid little tale, SHE IS WEAVING THIS SPLENDID LITTLE TALE. She is the framing device for what happened with Travis. She even sets the stage, with a bunch of candles in a dimly lit room, covered in soft furnishings, as if it were a sort of confessional, and she the priest, communicating the will of God. 

THis is a story, that she is telling to Nat, a woman who has proven she is willing to severely hurt someone, and who is deeply entangled with Travis. Why WOULDN’T she frame this in a way that a woman who is absolutely haunted by the choices she made in the woods would understand? Travis wanting to make it all make sense, Laura Lee showing up and horrifying Lottie*, a moment that had horrific consequences, Travis saying --a nd of course POOR Lottie would never say this unless directly asked--that Nat would just make things worse. This entire story is being cast with the sort of lens that Nat would relate to IMMEDIATELY. It has great fucking narrative flow. 

Lottie might believe her own bullshit, but I’m not sure I think she does. The show is tipping its hand to the fact that Lottie enjoys her position of power, the way she fucking corrects her little follower about her healing smoothie, and corrects Nat about the specific color they use (which in itself is something else--heliotrope is the answer to a riddle in Finnegan’s Wake, a very confusing novel altogether that requires a lot of patience and untangling, and I think there’s something in that but I can’t really get it set in my head right). She doesn’t wear heliotrope, she wears goldenrod, or whatever she would call it. Lottie thinks herself above the people she leads, and I think that was true even back in the cabin. Maybe Lottie can commune with something, but she’s ALSO a fucking grifter. I want all of it to be true. 

“Sharing is in session” eat my entire dick, CHARLOTTE. 

I mean in fairness, Nat doesn’t believe her either, and I do think that is a great impulse. 

*I concede it is intentionally played ambiguous whether or not this is a part of the story Lottie tells. I, obviously, think she does, but again, I’m admitting my anti-Lottie bias here. 

[ceilingstars]

The poor little Woowoo...