#reine rambles

[thislittlecowcanfly]

[sitting in a rocking chair while watching my grandchildren] they’ll never know the happiness i felt while watching Free! Iwatobi swim club season 1 episode 12

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

how about that uhhhhh Fantasy Julie. she gets her sword <3 no one can take it from her <3

rambles:

SIKE you get an extra, lower quality doodle

SIKE AGAIN here's the rambles

yeah... i caved and gave her a tail... I'm Not Sorry! it's cute! i wanted to stick with her sorta flower motif - it's stronger in her princess look, since I imagine that when she was part of the royals she was very blatantly flower power based. it was her Thing!

but a Julie free of her noble shackles... she deserves her big sword. like yeah, she has flower magic, but who needs it when she has a Giant Blade??? on the royalty vein, and if we're classifying "rainbow monster" as a species, i feel like horn size/curve would be a status symbol of some kind. maybe Julie would have kept her horns filed short. but if she ran away from that life... longer horns! i like to imagine that they'll keep growing until she has a pair of Extra Weapons attached to her head! curved forward like mammoth tusks maybe!

i imagine that like Frank, she goes with minimal armor - range of movement over protection, yk? some scale mail over her front, a thick leather flower over her chest w/ scalloped leather pauldrons, wrist armor and metal knuckles! i'd think that the faux-suspenders include a back sheath for her sword... i wish i'd thought of that Before i finished the little ref! i don't feel like going back and editing!

i imagine that she was forced to cut her hair when it got caught in something (a gelatinous cube, mayhaps). it didn't look good! don't let anime and Mulan fool you! cutting your own hair with a blade will not look nice! but someone - Eddie, probably, he's good with scissors i'd assume - cleaned it up for her. and hey, it didn't look bad! plus, Julie probably liked being able to just tuck up her long strands into her hat when she's feeling a bit more like a Julius than a Julie!

it's been a fun challenge transforming their canon outfits into a similar variation with fantasy flavoring and twists! i want them to suit the setting but still maintain Themselves! Julie's was tough i gotta admit. i was messing around with the princess look and the fighter look side-by-side. it worked better when i sat back and thought "fighter Julie is Julie unrestrained. that version would be more aligned with her canon look"

i wanted her princess form to look Restrained! she has to be a ~delicate flower~, a noble woman, pristine and poised and very much a princess. soft colors, poofy clothing, bright white gloves that are not to be sullied. carefully bundled up hair! jewelry! that dress must be Heavy and hard to move in! her tail must be so cramped under there!

but Julie Unleashed? violent pinks! rose gold accents! short skirt so that she can sprint and Kick! fun boots that she can be active in and delight in watching them get dirty! her hair is free to whip in the wind and get caught in things! fun straps and Deadly Accessories! a sword that she stole from the royal armory on her way out the window! she has forearm wraps both to match Frank and to support her wrists!

[bookshelf-in-progress]

No matter how many times it happens, I'm always shocked by how reliably all my problems with any given story are solved by making it shorter. If I go into a story with the idea that it'll be long, that I should use as much detail as I want to craft a full-length and fully-fleshed-out story instead of a short one, it always turns into this rambling, meandering, soulless thing that's no fun to read, and I get tangled up in so many flimsy, sprawling layers of character and worldbuilding that the plot becomes unworkable.

The minute I tell myself, "Let's make this as short as possible," the problems fall away, I find the heart of the story again, the pacing is brisk, scenes get multiple purposes, the world feels deeper because I'm implying things that spark the reader's imagination rather than trying to put every threadbare, boring detail on the page. Every time. You'd think I'd have learned by now.

[united-federation-of-trek]

why has tumblr been sleeping on miniminuteman. y’all would love him

[etirabys]

god help me I'm making a kinkmeme on dreamwidth

[nem0-nee]

Statement of Lorreine Delos Santos, regarding a haunting dream from when she was younger. Statement given ██th of May, 20██.

Statement begins.

Reine, The Keen Eye

An intern providing information for various organizations, mainly to The Usher Foundation. Under the alias Khl0ros, they keep an eye on various websites, often on the lookout for distasteful individuals to terrorize and expose.

[ READ MORE for additional info ]

[ TRIVIA ]

aka shit I couldn't fit in

They're currently a 3rd year majoring BS in Statistics (nerdd /j)

In terms of personality, they're an INTJ.

Her DND alignment is Chaotic Neutral.

Surprisingly, they're really bad with technology. Shutting down your computer? Nahh just let it go on sleep mode!

They heavily dislike the head of The Magnus Insitute, going as far as referring to him as "Eliass Bitchard." When asked why, she refuses to elaborate.

She has at least one account running on every social media platform out there.

Their favorite site to use for "info gathering" is Facebook, since privacy doesn't exist in Zuckerberger's domain /j

Blackmailing is their specialty! They love seeing the look on people’s faces when she cites entries of their search history.

Reine loves to sleep, but that's frequently disturbed by her friend... who's an avatar of The Vast. He pulls a prank on her by making her feel like she's falling in her sleep,

Her left eye may or may not be missing...

[ BONUS DOODLES + FULL ILLUST ]

[ END OF ENTRY #074 ]

[untimelyambition]

so obsessed with the end of cinderella’s castle when they finally let bryce charles riff her fucking lungs out hatchet town style

[hikayunas]

Hikaru being reduced down to nothing but "horse" jokes by the wider fandom -- instead of treated as a proper character to be examined and taken seriously -- is something that's stuck with me for a while. It's ironic, if a bit sad in its irony, once you think about it for a moment or two.

Hikaru being "the Horse" isn't just a gag thrown in for a cheap laugh -- "the Horse" is Hikaru's coping mechanism; how she dehumanizes herself, and creates a mental disconnect between herself and her identity as a Futatsugi magical girl -- as a weapon -- a tool -- to further Yuna's goals, for her use alone. Hikaru may not want to stain her hands for Promised Blood's goals, but if Yuna wills it, then Torayamachi's Horse certainly does -- "the Horse" will take as many lives as it can for Yuna, or die trying.

"The Horse" started off innocently enough; Yuna suggested it when she and Hikaru were both still fresh into the ranks of Futatsugi's magical girls. It was meant as nothing more than a nickname, inspired by Hikaru's ability to summon her army of smoke-puff soldiers -- Hikaru would be Yuna's Horse; her cavalry in the shadows to assist when called upon by their general.

But it did not stay that way. At least, not entirely. "The Horse" has certainly stuck around as Hikaru's playful nickname among Promised Blood's ranks -- but it runs much deeper than that; much deeper than Yuna ever intended for it to. For a nickname, it's incredibly personal to her -- she's quick to become offended when Juri makes a mocking play on it, calling her a "stupid mule" instead of the usual "Horse." And, constantly having the "Horse" title referenced in Promised Blood just reinforces the disconnect between Kirari Hikaru, Futatsugi citizen, and Torayamachi's Horse; pack animal, weapon, and tool for Kureha Yuna's use only. In Promised Blood, she is the Horse -- she is not Kirari Hikaru.

As far as coping mechanisms go, it's not as good as she believes it to be. It certainly does get her through the harder parts of magical girl life in Futatsugi, and later on, through the Kimochi wars as a member of Promised Blood, and it serves to connect her and help her bond with the other Promised Blood members -- but it is, by exact definition, dehumanization. Kirari Hikaru -- the Horse -- is not a person, she is not a human being; it is a pack animal, a weapon, a tool, for Kureha Yuna's use. Without Yuna, it is nothing.

Hikaru cheerfully agrees when Ao says that she really is an empty shell, grinning and chirping back without hesitation that as long as she's with Yuna, she's full. A horse needs its master; a weapon needs a general to wield it; a tool needs someone skilled to put it to use. Without someone to use them, they are useless. Without Yuna, the Horse is useless. If Yuna dies, the Horse -- and Hikaru, with it -- dies, too. Where Yuna goes, the Horse follows.

Every little thing that the Horse does is for Yuna. The Horse is not its own person; it's not a person at all. Yuna is Promised Blood's general, and a general needs her loyal horse. When all is said and done, Hikaru does not need to feel any guilt nor remorse for the blood on the Horse's saber, even if their sabers are one in the same. This is simply what the horse was meant to do. It was made to do this. The horse is not its own person; it's not a person at all. It is a pack animal, a weapon, a tool. Its decisions are not its own, and certainly not Hikaru's own.

...which is to say, boiling her character down to nothing but "horse" jokes is something that I think about a normal amount.

[dwelling-on-downtowns]

if I had the opportunity to go back in time to beat up any one historical figure, it would be henry ford.

at first thought, I figured it would be henry kissinger because you know. it’s henry kissinger. but I quickly decided against it, because in this hypothetical, everybody is being given this opportunity and any good leftist hates henry kissinger so the line to get a shot at him would be so fucking long and at that point why bother.

so I swung back too far and considered rob ford briefly, he’s less well-known and would have a much shorter line, but the scale of his damage is limited to the ripple effects of the what he did to toronto and I figure there’s enough people in toronto to deal with him. I’m not even from toronto. (similarly, new yorkers can take care of robert moses)

the happy medium is ultimately henry ford. there would probably still be a line but much more manageable than henry kissinger, and much more satisfying than rob ford.

[mammon-s]

I know a lot of people don’t like dom Luci and think that he is so in charge of all other aspects of his life he would want someone else to be in charge for once but like why not both??

[thislittlecowcanfly]

i’ve been seeing A LOT of hazbin hotel, helluva boss and the amazing digital circus on my dash lately and i think that’s a sign to finally start them

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

WAITTTT BOG YOU NEEEEED TO SEE THIS

CARNIVAL CARNIVAL CARNIVAL.

I was looking at asks in bed, sleepy as fuck, and i read this and now im Wide The Fuck Awake AHAHAHAHA-

[thetwilightroadtonightfall]

oh yeah feel free to go into my DT culture and Scala culture tags btw! I’m still slowly working on adding more but hopefully there’s some juicy and entertaining stuff in there already :)

[wp100]

wonder where khadgar's been :p

[united-federation-of-trek]

I hate when people come to class obviously and loudly sick. Coughs that sounds like you’re hacking something up from your lungs, constant sniffles, no mask… go home. Most profs will at least post the notes now, if not record their lectures. If you are desperate to keep up… you can do that from home for a few days.

But when sick, you should be a) resting and b) trying to prevent others from getting what you have. I hate that capitalism encourages people to act like everything is normal when they’re sick, you shouldn’t be focused on productivity when you’re sick…….. your body is fighting an infection…… that’s so much work…. sleep, drink fluids, eat at least a bit of food…… don’t go to class

[queenjunothegreat]

Guys, pour one out for this fucking pilot who has to just stand there half-affeccted by Charmspeak while Jason and Leo are blatantly flirting with one another. I'm sorry, ma'am, I didn't realize I was doing that to you when I was writing it. o7