#reineyday

[findafight]

i apologize in advance for the loooooong ask lol (and no pressure about replying if u dont wanna haha) but i saw ur post in the billy hargrove tag and thought it was an interesting character analysis! im a billy fan but im inclined to agree with most of what u said, and i think it's also interesting to compare him and max to zuko and azula. one thing i wanted to comment on tho is when u said "He's also just a racist asshole that has all the means to not be one and doesn't use them or ever feel bad about it."

i just wanted to offer an argument for that point, bc we see that billy's been abused since he was a kid and watched his mom be abused before him, and we also see neil throw slurs at billy, so it's not farfetched to believe his dad spouted racist shit around him too. he also still lives with his dad, and we see in their argument before billy goes to fetch max that billy's safety at home can depend largely on agreeing with and repeating what his dad says.

seeing as how his mom left, how susan doesnt stick up for him (doesnt she even avert her eyes when neil backs him up against his wall?), and how other older women seem to objectify and sexualize him, it also seems like he doesnt have any other adult support in his life--especially not at home where he's supposed to be safe. i would say all of that points to him not having *any* means at all to not be racist, esp considering that his safety might depend on whether or not his dad hears the wrong thing about who he (and max, since his dad seems to put the onus of her actions onto billy's shoulders) might be hanging out with.

he's not in an environment to recognize that racism is bad, and in fact i think it's an environment that teaches him by implicit threat that being racist might actually be something that could help him feel safe, if only bc it means his dad wont have one more thing to come after him about. what means does he have to stop being racist, when he doesnt seem to have external adult support? why would he feel bad about being racist when that mindset might offer him some form of safety? considering all that, i think it's actually surprising he doesnt throw any slurs at lucas (im not applauding this, just observing), esp when put together with how billy himself gets called the f-slur by his father. the importance of words and what you choose to say and what not to say, etc etc.

obviously racism is bad, and im not arguing against his actions *being* racist, i just think that saying he has the means to not be racist isnt entirely accurate. it would be like saying azula has the means to be a good sister but she doesnt use them or ever feel bad about it. that would be an unfair statement when considering how both she and zuko were raised to be pitted against each other, and she had something more to lose by being seen as the more powerful/superior/better sibling by their father. furthermore, the only kind adults in her life have left her with her father for various reasons (her mother & iroh). i dont think she had the means to be a better sister/person, nor would she ever have the need to feel bad about it, because she wasnt raised to look for the means or question why she would want them, if she even knew they existed. the same can be said about billy & his racism. i dont think he could even *start* to have those means, let alone use them, until he starts properly healing in a place he feels safe.

idk, just something to think about i guess. i hope this doesnt come off rude, this is meant as genuine discussion. 😅 people tend to look at billy's scene with lucas, pronounce him racist, and call it a day without considering the context he grew up in, and the fact that racism doesnt come from nowhere--it is always, always something you learn. billy literally says this to max: "i'm older than you, and something you *learn* is that there are a certain type of people in this world that you stay away from." sure he mightve just picked up racism from school or society or something, but with the context of his father at home and how aggressive billy gets with lucas in a similar way to how his dad just got aggressive with him, it makes you wonder how billy might have *really* learned that lesson.

anyways, i dont think he has the means to stop being racist all of a sudden, all by himself, and it seems unfair to blame him (from a narrative standpoint; lucas & his friends, however, have every right to go off lol) for something he cant necessarily choose to improve in his life when he's still living with his bigoted abuser. we dont know if he ever feels bad about it or not--we never see it on-screen but things between him and max certainly change enough for her to try desperately to save him in s3 where she's still (sorta-kinda) dating lucas, so i assume there was some kind of calm-down there, plus billy and max's relationship got to a point where max grieved him *so hard* she got targeted by vecna--but he definitely doesnt really have the means to choose not to be racist. i dont think he thinks he *can* choose this, nevermind discussing whether or not he could and chooses not to.

that being said, i do agree about how he didnt really have a proper redemption arc, or any chance at healing at all. sorry again for the long ask; im sending it cuz im genuinely interested in a good faith discussion. you said you didnt necessarily like billy but found his relationship with max interesting, and you said so on a post about healing & redemption. ive always found that billy's healing & redemption are intrinsically tied to his upbringing and his abuse at home, and i find that his racism is an extension of that in a way people dont acknowledge when making their broader points--instead saying that either the people who sympathize with his home life are excusing the racism, or the people who are naysaying his racism are excusing the abuse. theyre tied together, and i found that most of your post looked at billy fairly except for that one point about his racism being something he can choose--like his racism is something separate from his home life--so i thought id just. give it a genuine go. 😅 anyways, hope ur havin a good day!

Hi! So you've got some good points and in that post I didn't really touch on his racism more than the other things because that would be, to me, one of the things easiest for Billy to begin to rectify. Saying he has all the means wasn't correct though because he doesn't, and unlearning bigotry is not an easy thing, especially without support, but not an impossible thing. People can and do change their perspectives or beliefs even in environments where it is punished.

Reading your thoughts I think you are right in that it likely very much is linked to his abuse, in the way his father treats him and Susan's non-action. Him telling max that "you learn" s also interesting and I think does show that Neil encouraged racism and bigotry in general. The only positive interactions with older women he has is grown women sexualizing him, which is unfortunately never examined further in the show, and the only man we only see him interact with is Neil. So. He obviously doesn't have adult support in his life, we don't see him with any teachers but there's only so much they can do too.

However having adult support isn't fully necessary for him to realize his actions were wrong. I think I was sort of looking at how Max has also been in that house with Neil and Billy, and that Billy often does, like you said, emulate Neil or act as an extension of him possibly for his own safety, leading to his abuse of Max and his seeking of power and control in other areas while max pushes against that.

From the flashbacks in S3 showing Billy and max meeting, they look significantly younger, I'd say max was likely eight or so? And Billy about twelve. So Max has been in this situation for possibly about four to six years (considering she consistently calls him her brother, implying she is used to him as her brother not her mom's BF's son), and while we don't know how her mother treated her or allowed her to be treated, it would not be far to say that Max could have also acted and believed the same things as Billy as a form of self preservation like him. But she doesn't? And it could be that her bio dad still influenced her when they were in California, or that Susan did put more effort into protecting Max, or Max's own experiences at school enforcing that Neil was wrong. Idk.

For me, Max threatening Billy into not coming near her friends again could have been a point where he took a long hard look at himself and reevaluated what he was doing. Even without support he could go through that realization, and attempt to be better. He could have realized that max was not his enemy but in fact another frightened and abused kid. That could have been his gateway into breaking the cycle of abuse with max, and we don't see that. Very unfortunate.

And you're right! We don't know what happened between them during the interim of S2/3. For the most part, and I haven't rewatched billy s3 scenes in a while, he seems relatively the same as the start of s2 though. I don't think we ever see them interact until the sauna test and by then Billy is flayed and out of control. So we do not see if any repairs to their relationship were made, or if billy did work to change. I think if he did, the show would have tried to show us that his and Max's relationship was better, even if it was still rocky and that Billy clearly still had some issues(like those with older women). But it did not, and so we are left to assume he didn't change all that much between seasons.

Max has a lot of conflicting feelings for Billy, because she is scared of him but also sees him as her brother. She wants to have a brother she can rely on but doesn't. I don't think her desperately not wanting Billy to be a mind flayer puppet indicates their relationship was better, but that Max does care for him either way. He's her brother, whether or not they get along, and she does not want him to be involved or being manipulated.

When he dies, and max feels guilt for it, I sort of have the opposite interpretation as you. I see her immense guilt and grief from it stemming from the fact that Billy had abused Max, and at some point she likely wished he was gone, out of her life, possibly dead. Because she was a scared abused child. And when he died trying to save her all those feelings of guilt for wishing she never had to see him again compounded with a possible sense of relief that she wouldn't, because now he was gone.

I also think she wanted a positive relationship with him. She wanted to have a brother she could trust, who she didn't want to wish away. So her confusion and relief and guilt for his death are what leave her vulnerable to vecna.

To just touch on billy not saying a slur to Lucas, I am pretty sure it was in the script at some point before being pulled. Possibly because Caleb was young and I thiiiiink it was during the scene he shoves Lucas into the wall, so someone realized doing that combined with calling him a racial slur maybe traumatic especially for a child actor and they cut it.

[conartisthaiji]

hey hey! sorry youre sick, i hope you feel better! sending u good vibes and healing 🙏✨️💞

THANK YOUUUUU i am feeling better today actually!

[ihni]

HI i love seeing all ur billy content on my dash all the time! ive been wondering this for ages so i just thought id ask to confirm: are you thei on ao3? :0 sometimes i think you are and then i compliment ur fics in my tags but then i see comments on other fics under the user inhi on my way to the comment box and im like, "wait are they different" so... i thought id just... ask 😅😅 i hope u dont mind. thanks!!!

Oh hey, what a lovely message to get, thank you! <3 And to answer your question; yes. I am Thei on AO3, as well. Thei is for fics (I was very shy about my writing in the beginning and didn't want to use my ordinary ihni account), and ihni is for rhymes and doodles (and most of the commenting, since it's the account I'm logged into most, when I read). Thank you for asking, and for being so nice!

[ca-3]

hello! sorry if this ask is super out of the blue and weird but i found the kny sinblings zine (unbreakable) and i noticed you were one of the artists. i found the carrd and saw that the shipping was supposed to be a tentative feb 2023, and u can still order a digital zine, but it's almost august and there arent any production updates in the tumblr and the schedule doesnt seem updated? i was wondering if you knew what was going on? thanks and i hope youre having a good day!

Hi!! While I'm not on the mod team and I haven't been keeping a super close eye on production recently, I know for a fact that the Twitter has been updating.

I double checked and there was a production update 2 days ago, so I guess the team has been keeping their updates most active on the Twitter... I didn't know the tumblr here wasn't being updated at all, but I'm so sorry about the confusion that must have caused.

[rapha-reads]

hey thanks for the tag! im interested abt hearing more on "a prayer for a dance" if u wanna talk about it??? sounds like a cool title :))

You're welcome, my pleasure!

A Prayer For My Dance came to me after I watched the Bollywood movie Street Dancer 3, with Varun Dhawan and Shraddha Kapoor. I wasn't expecting a dance movie about an Indian team and their rival Pakistani team to hit me that hard, but when I finished it, I couldn't stop thinking about the main characters' stories and how much they're a perfect enemies-to-lovers trajectory. Got curious about their personal connection to dance, and how they met, and were they friends before being rivals, and how they went from hating each other's guts at the beginning of the movie to dating at the end, etc... You know me, I can never resist a good Romeo and Juliet scenario. I only have two paragraphs written, one at the beginning, one at the end, but here's a little peek.

The first time Sahej saw Inayat dancing, he was 16, and after years of training hard and begging pitifully, Inder had finally allowed him, D and Poddy to come to a street competition. After several rounds of warm up, Street Dancer had squared up against a new-comer group, called Free Spirit. The DJ had heated up the crowd, introducing the two teams as "an Indian versus Pakistani match for the history books!", and when the teams' supporters had started roaring and cheering, that's when he had seen her. She had been in the stands too, 16 and a good two heads smaller than him, her brown hair covered by a scarf that had half fallen on her shoulders. The same way he was staring up pridefully at his brother, she was gazing up at the leader of Free Spirit, a woman a few years older than his brother, her dark hair twisted in a thick braided rope hanging on her shoulder, her green eyes heavily lined in khol.

[amalasdraws]

26 & 30 for the specific artist asks please! :) hope ur havin a good one 🌻

Ahh thank you! I do! I hope you too! 26. What’s a piece that got a wildly different interpretation from what you intended Mhh tbh I'm not sure. I think mostly people are really good in catching the right emotions for my drawings. I think overall my art leaves room for interpretation, or rather for everyone to project their own memories and feelings onto them. I draw scenes, themes and feelings most are familiar with in one way or another, and they can see themselves in my art. Of course I do have specific stories for most of my scenes in mind that not everyone knows, but that's okay!

30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated Ohh also hard to say. There are some that really didn't do well note wise, but I got great feedback from peers and clients. Or there are pieces that did amazingly here but flopped on other sites, like Twitter, or vice versa. So this is really hard to say.

Weirdly Specific Artist Ask Game

[heavencasteel420]

hey! just dropping by to say i appreciate your opinions & approach re: talking about billy. im a billy fan, but i came across your billy v jonathan post on why u find "jonathan has joyce" to be an oversimplification and i just want to say i appreciate how you dont like billy (and think he has too much screen time haha) but youre not like, an anti about it. it was just refreshing to scroll through his tag and find someone who doesnt like him but is still approaching his character genuinely and from an analytical point of view, and had smthg to say that gave me pause. also i like that you're such a jonathan defender; im not in those circles much in the ST fandom but i feel like he's a great character that's really gotten the short end of the stick writing-wise in the latest season and it's just nice to come across someone sticking up for him so staunchly and analyzing the heck out of his character. anyways, just wanted to let you know, i guess. hope youre having a good day!

Thank you so much! Ultimately, I just don't think it's an issue if someone likes a character; there are so many reasons why and ways that a person can do that, and I can't presume to know them for all fans. And, yeah, I've seen Billy fans express offensive opinions, but that's not universal of nor exclusive to his fans. And I hope you're having a good day, too!

[crystallizedtwilight]

(sobbing) THIS. THIS EXACTLY !!

[giurochedadomani]

@ellii0ttI @reineyday @reineydraws: hope this makes sense, my general knowledge of hockey is flimsy at best, my general knowledge of figure skating is non-existent, but my absolute favorite genre of fanfic to write is fake newspaper articles, the more salacious the better. Hope y'all enjoy it. Picture this getting published in whatever equivalent to Page Six /TMZ is there in the one piece world.

LOVE IS IN THE ICE. Olympic icon Dracule Mihawk goes on ice with Pirates' jersey after Akagami’s coming out sparks rumors of romance

LOGUETOWN (19).— Dracule Mihawk (43) appeared last night at the Loguetown Exhibition Gala with a Pirates’ jersey, a month after Akagami No Shanks’ (39) coming out sparked rumors of romance.

It appeared to be Akagami’s first jersey with the Pirates, from when the ice hockey legend was first drafted. Dracule proceeded to skate to the tune of Eye Of The Tiger, ending his routine with an axel that made the audience fear an accident, and that brought to mind Akagami’s career ending injury. 

Dracule has declined to make any comments, opting for skipping altogether the media after the exhibition gala. On his part, Akagami was seen at the VIP section alongside other past and present Pirates’ players, although it’s unclear whether or not he was present for Dracule’s routine. 

Monkey D. Luffy (19), Akagami’s protégé, posted a selfie sitting next to his mentor with the caption: ‘Power isn’t determined by your size, but by the size of your heart and dreams’. Fans believe that it references Akagami and Dracule’s relationship. The Pirates’ winger, Roronoa Zoro (21), has fueled the speculation ‘liking’ a Tiktok that breaks down the theory. 

The Pirates’ new captain came out shortly before Akagami did, telling Marineford reporter Rocky Port Koby (23) that he’s “pretty proud of who he is, which is not straight in any shape, way or form”. Akagami openly supported him, citing him as an inspiration when he came out through a message in ‘X’. 

Although the rumors about Akagami and Dracule’s relationship are not new —they have been linked on and off since the Olympic Games of 09, the first one in which they both competed— Akagami’s recent coming out has done nothing but fueling further the rumors of romance. 

Akagami and Dracule have been sighted together various times throughout the city during the past month, from the exclusive Baratie to the Thousand Sunny ice ring’s parking lot, and to Roronoa’s birthday party last week, a star studded event which gathered the biggest names in the ice hockey community. 

[andaniellight]

People I'd like to know better!

Tagged by: @reineyday WAAAH thank you Rei, truly, it's an honor!!! :D <3 <3 always love love love your art and I hope you won't ever run out of inspiration and motivation to make more!! 💖✨

Last song: Film A Moment - DVD Menu by TK From Ling Tosite Sigure is currently my writing ambience go-to because it's just... ✨ Vibe ✨😌

Favorite color: This specific shade of green -> Pantone / PMS 627 / #052e21 Hex Color Code (somehow my irl friends associate this color with me and, well, by somehow i mean i do have two (2) pieces of clothes in that color/close to that color that i often wear outside)

Last book: Still reading She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan because a couple of friends recommended The Radiant Emperor duology to me (one of them is @dykealloy and i am thoroughly enjoying it so far! The diction is very neat and to my taste so it's bearable despite just finishing Kuang's The Poppy War trilogy this early year lmao thank you so much for recommending me this!!!! <3 <3 <3)

Last movie: Transformers One (2024) because my dear friend @metalbenders-and-telepaths reblogged some interesting stuff 👀✨ i need to catch up with the wild robot tbh, heard tons of positive things about it :,)

Last TV show: At the moment I am currently juggling between The Fiery Priest 2 and Gangnam B-side 🤘🏼 🔥

Sweet/spicy/savory: Savory and then sweet and spicy being equal on the second place hahah

Relationship status:

Last thing I googled:

Please keep in mind that i'm a wRITER I'M A WRITER I'M A WRITER I'M A WRITER I'M A WRITER I'M A W

Current obsession:

Looking forward to: Uploading at least one or two more fic of my own on ao3 before this year ends SJDSKDFJSKDFJH

Lastly! (No pressure of course!) Tagging my amazingly dedicated swmd (snow white must die) friends @frouponical @zhivchik @existingingrey @kanronotatsu @mare-sanguis @thedevildeer @angeru-hatake @ikjun @thorneofacre

[spikyiwaizumi]

Ten people I'd like to know better!

tagged by: @robinticism and @reineyday , thank you guys 🫶

last song:

jane remover has taken over my brain . /I crashed the car I saw an angel and it watched me burn/ repeats in my head so often as well as /oh god, I’m so tired, of being young / she’s just. so fucking good one song of hers spawned a whole kryk au

favourite colour: I like dark purple :3

last book: on earth we’re briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong. jesus fucking christ. I kept sobbing on the train. I had to take BREAKS and one break lasted almost a year. loved it <3

last movie: twilight - new moon LMFAO watched it with my friends had a blast !!

last tv show: the sopranos! watching it with my parents and rly enjoying it

sweet/spicy/savory: savoury…

relationship status: taken ✌🏻

last thing I googled: haikyuudle! lmao (I’m bad at it because I always start with Yaku who is nearly the worst character objectively to begin with)

current obsession: jane remover. oh my god her lyrics just roll around in my brain like a really REALLY large marble … she’s so good at saying phrases that evoke feelings and I love thinking and thinking about her lyrics … as well as that, the sheer WALL of sound in census designated songs? scratches my brain so nicely… she’s up there with haikyuu because like I listened to a reviewer praising her and I started tearing up because I was so elated !! . so of course I also think of kryk during it

looking forwards to: spending a lazy weekend with my gf in a hotel & also fucking off alone on a ferry next year for a week to work on TLK because I just need to be kept in a cabin for a while . alone. that will fix me

no pressure tag: @sophistired18 @yakkunmori @javasleuth @tetsuyaku @otakurooster907 @just-anotherrandomartist @cavewretch @bbagelbitch @heylanini @what-the-f-is-going-on (you’re not escaping)

[incalamity]

ten people i’d like to get to know better ✨

tagged by @reineyday thanks rei 🤍

last song: femininomenon by chappell roan

favorite color: green 🌲

last book: babel by rf kuang

last movie: thanksgiving (my review: it was an ok slasher movie lol)

last tv show: the good place (anyone else feeling the meaning of life in this hellsite tonight?)

sweet/spicy/savory: i love all of these but to rank them: savory, spicy, sweet

relationship status: single 🥳

last thing i googled duck duck go’d: define progeny (my recent search history is just me not knowing the definition of words btw)

current obsession: i’m in sort of a nebulous space right now. if anyone can suck me into some sort of obsessive state via recommendation, please implore me.

looking forward to: boba with friends tonight!

tagging the loveliest @demonio-fleurs @seths-rogens @hannahhbic @shrinewreck @judasofsuburbia @firenati0n @songofstrawhats @kenshisblog @enn0s @for-hunger & everyone who sees this (seriously if you want to do this, do it and tag me!!)

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: Kuroo and Yaku team up and play lasertag with a few olympic athletes and half a class of sixth graders. They do pretty all right.

Author: @reineyday

Note from submitter: Listen. LISTEN. Open your eyes and your heart to Kuroyaku

[incorrectbatfam]

who is most likely to believe the batkids (based on this post )

Tbh you can't beat these tags by @reineyday

[runayachi]

It's been eight months since Yaku became Spiderman, and he's been doing a pretty good job at the whole superhero thing lately. So of course, that's when Kuroo has to come in and ruin everything.

birthday gift for @reineyday! there is never enough kryk in the world <3

[16th-of-a-twigg]

wip wednesday !

Please share your last sentence or, if you don't have one, share a plot bunny or idea! (OR sketch for your artwork!) tagged by the absolute best bean @liberalk1tsch After another OHSHC rewatch last week, I found myself writing a snippet for my OHSHC fic "Forever Outnumbered" that has (like so many of my fics) been in the works for years. Have a father & son moment 🙃

“What's got you so down, lil one?” Tamaki hummed, focusing on the claw machine in an aloof manner, so as to not pressure the boy.  “I asked mum if I could have a pet.” “Oh?” Tamaki smiled, “and?” “She said I could have a pet rock…”  “Ack! What!?” Tamaki shook his head in disbelief. “A rock? What's wrong with a dog?” “That's what I said! I want a cool dog, not a dumb rock. But she said pet rocks don't cost money, don't need feeding or walking or going to the vet and don't bite -”  “Alright, alright” Tamaki interrupted, grinning, “leave this with me.” He flourished his hand around, “I'll ask her. No one can say no to this face.” “She can. And she did.” Koichi deadpanned.  Tamaki flinched, “Why you,” his beaming smile turned into a grimace. “Why do you gotta remind me all the time, lil one?”  “Because it's fun to make fun of adults and you're too easy.” He smirked.  Tamaki had forgotten all about the claw machine in lieu of making claws out of his own hands. “Oh when I get my hands on you-” and made to grab Koichi. Koichi dodged the grab and cackled, weaving around the arcade machines. 

No pressure, but I'll tag @reineyday, @imm0rtal-idi0t , @tansyuduri 💜💜